We are now in the home stretch of Waste Management's "Think Green Reuse and Recycling Challenge" which has viciously pitted neighborhood against neighborhood in an attempt to get us all to reduce our "waste" lines. As of late January, Wallingford, as part of the "Friday North" group along with part of Greenlake, was ranked 8th out of 10 in the city in terms of outright waste reduction. Yikes! We are not doing so well at reducing our waste in this part…
Every year, John Stanford International and McDonald International Elementary face the daunting task of raising funds to cover the cost of placing full-time language immersion Instructional Assistants (IA's) in every classroom. The IA's are native Spanish or Japanese speakers who help to provide each classroom with a lower-student-teacher ratio. What's more, having an IA in the classroom enables students to hear conversations in Spanish or Japanese, providing a higher rate of language acquisition. On the school's PTA website, McDonald Elementary explains…
Courtney, who works out of the Keller Williams Greater Seattle office here in Wallingford, wrote to tell us about a free course on short sales being offered this Thursday: The course will be taught by my boss, Troy Anderson, managing broker of Team Troy and Kevin Hummel from McFerran and Burns, who manage the cheapest etf platform UK has currently. I thought some of the residents of Wallingford may either be in a situation where a short sale could be right…
Setting out to climb only one mountain in a lifetime may be just fine for some, but not for Ryan Tuttle. During his first "Climb for Cancer" last year, the Wallingford resident got to watch the sun rise from the top of Mt. Rainier, and raised nearly 10k for breast cancer research. The experience was so alluring, he wants to do it again; only this time, he's chosen Mt. Baker and has asked 9 of his friends to join him. The…
OK, quick Internet lingo lesson: Everyone knows what "NSFW" means, right? Not Safe For Work, as in, "if you work in an open workspace and are concerned what your those around you think you're doing with your time online, don't click on this link." So, anyhoo, this Saturday, March 30, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Comics Dungeon (which recently moved across the street to 45th and 4th Ave NE, next door to Kate's Pub) will be hosting models from the SuicideGirls, an…
The Jae Kim Taekwon-Do Institute (across from Bartell's and next to Harold's Lamps) is offering a once-yearly free self-defense class for women this Thursday, March 28th. Knowledge is Power when it comes to self defense. Join us for our women’s Self defense class and learn the strategies and gain the knowledge to arm yourself against a possible attack! Our women’s only (appropriate for ages 12 and older) class will cover the crime process, strategies for self Defense and Self defense Techniques.…
One of the things I love about Wallingford is how there's a little bit of artist in all of us. Even, apparently, the mailman. Nancy Merrill tipped me off that Mel Campos, the mailman for the 98105 chunk of Wallingford stretching from the water up to 45th Street around Thackeray* has been making kinetic sculpture out of objects he finds along his route and throughout his days. Mel, a native of the Philippines, has been delivering mail in the 98105 for…