Wallingford, Seattle

The Bizarre Bazaar, a local craft fair just in time for the gift-giving season, has an open call for vendors for their December show. The event features "amazing local craft fair full of spectacular finds" and is "place for unique and unforgettable gifts. We have brought together a wide range of local artist for this show. Everything from dapper fashion, Victorian designed jewelry, and other stunning fine art," explained organizer Isaac Cotec. That includes work by Alison Park Douglas (at right),…

Adriana from Fuerte Fitness writes: Will you please warn people in our hood about this guy that calls himself Mark the Bodyman. He carries a flyer and looks for people who have dents on their car and promises to fix them inexpensively. He promised he would fix my car for 250 plus materials but 300 later my car isn't finished. I saw him Monday approaching other peeps by Uptown expresso. And let me tell you, she knows about body work!

The Wallingford Community Senior Center is holding "Family Movie & Scarey Spaghetti night" tomorrow night, October 26 at 5:30 pm. The sign says "please register by October 23rd", but they sent me a day ago asking if I'd post over the next couple of days, so I'm assuming space is still available. Still, let them know you're coming.

The Meridian School holds its 30th Annual Fall Carnival this Saturday, October 26 from 1 - 4 pm at Meridian Park. Sarah writes: Everyone is welcome to attend this popular community event that features food, fun prizes, and dozens of indoor and outdoor games and activities for kids of all ages, including a haunted house, face painting, raffle, and more. A professional photographer will also be on-hand to take Halloween portraits. The carnival is free to attend, although there is a…

Just in time for filling out your ballots, the online stream of the city council and mayoral debate at Lincoln High School is now live online: The council debate went well but was missing O’Brien and Sawant, which hurt with the ability to do candidate comparisons. I'll be voting for Conlin and Shen because they bothered to show up and acquitted themselves well, while O'Brien thought a fundraiser was more important and Sawant ditched us at the last second to go…

Sharon (aka the Woodlawn Santa) asked us to pass this along: Hi everyone, This is Santa on Woodlawn. As some of you might know, my husband has been ill for the last few years. Thus my decorations have not been out in my yard. Fred passed away this year. The yard will be dark yet again this year...BUT, hopefully, will appear once again next year. At 68, I have not given up for 2014. I will be passing out treats for…