Wallingford, Seattle

Last month Waste Management announced the winners of the Think Green Recycling Challenge. The Wallingford Community Council, sponsor of the neighborhood volunteer effort, was awarded a recycled (of course) trophy and the rights to award $3,333 to local non-profits. Carter and Emily, 5th and 2nd graders from John Stanford International School, received the award on behalf of the Community Council. The students were active in Recycling Challenge outreach efforts which took place each month from October 2012 to March 2013. Emily…

In response to our recent post that the medical marijuana dispensary at 45th and Corliss, Truly Helpful Collective, had closed, but that we weren't sure why, Rhysling posted a link to this Slog article, which gives some background: Eleven medical marijuana dispensaries in Seattle received letters from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday, ordering them to shut down within 30 days or risk having their properties seized. Details on the Seattle dispensaries targeted by the DEA come from Kiro: They all received letters…

Lots of shops offer "buy one, get one free" deals. Ho hum. Yawn. Zaw, however, has a lovely, community minded spin on it: We often get inspired by our customers, like when one of our favorite regulars at Zaw called us to arrange for a pizza and bottle of wine to be delivered to their neighbor... just because! Well, that little gesture tickled our fancy and hit on a lot of the values all of us working at 'zaw adhere to…

Got some work that needs doing around the house? Wallyhood welcomes a new sponsor, just in time to get some help working through that summer job jar: At the Millionair Club Charity, we’re rebuilding the lives of unemployed men and women in our community by offering day labor jobs to help them restore their confidence, earn some cash and build their résumés. Typical jobs we fill include housework, yard work, landscaping projects, window washing, painting, handyman chores and moving help. You can change…

As a bunch of you noticed, we had some slight technical difficulties here at Wallyhood this last week. We upgraded one of the components of the site, which apparently broke the RSS feed that creates the daily email version of the stories that go out. For about a week, everyone who visited the web site was enjoying Wallyhood, and everyone who was waiting for their daily email was not. We got it fixed, and sent out the backlog of stories that…

Earlier this week, Andrew wrote: I just walked past the mmj coop on Corliss and it looks like they're out of business. All the signs are gone. We dropped a line to the Truly Helpful Cooperative, the marijuana dispensary he's talking about, for more details but didn't hear back. We'll be curious to see how the city's many dispensaries fare once a medical prescription is no longer required to buy pot at a store later this year. On a related note,…