Wallingford, Seattle

Holiday Light Recycling

Keep those burned out, inefficient, or just plain tacky holiday lights out of the landfill. This holiday season there are a few options for recycling your old strings of lights near the 'hood: Whole Foods Markets:  all locations Maple Leaf Ace Hardware Girl Scouts of Western WA, collecting for Point Defiance Zoo:  601 Valley Street (just west of Aurora) When you donate holiday lights, remove all packaging, twist-ties and rubber bands. Place lights directly in the collection bin, with no bags…

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Holiday decorations along 45th St? You decide!

Colleen Kurke wrote to tell us that the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce will be cleaning up the streets and tree pits along 45th St. later in the week, in preparation for the holiday, and the rainy/wet season. But rather than covering expenses for putting up lights along 45th during the holiday season, the Chamber has decided instead to place emphasis on donating food to the FamilyWorks Food Bank. Still, though, it might be nice to have some sort of decoration along…

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Snowman Pancakes

I may have inadvertently started a tradition on behalf of the Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) last year, when I announced on Wallyhood that they were holding a "Snowman Pancake" breakfast, complete with...you guessed it...snowman-shaped pancakes. Alas, the WCSC was planning on serving up traditional, round pancakes, and not snowmen-shaped pancakes; but upon reading my misnomer, the resourceful group at the WCSC rose to the challenge and wouldn't you know it...when my family and I showed up that Sunday, they had…

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Now open: Yoroshiku

Yoroshiku, the new Japanese restaurant in the old Joule space (1913 N. 45th St.) is now open, and Wallingford resident Ann Ishimaru went there on Sunday night and wrote to tell us all about it. Full disclosure, the owners of Yoroshiku are Ann's downstairs neighbors. But Ann gets major street cred for being a 4th generation Japanese American whose been to Japan several times; Plus, her daughter is in the Japanese language program at John Stanford International, and she's eaten A LOT…

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Nomad Dinners Celebrates It Wet

While the recent elections have given us our own impending end of prohibition, just over the way in Fremont, they're gearing up to celebrate the 79th anniversary of the repeal of the 18th Amendment and alcohol prohibition in the United States: On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the U.S Constitution was ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment which prohibited intoxicating liquors in the US.  nomad.dinners is celebrating on December 5th, 2012 with prohibition-era cocktails created by guest bartenders from around Seattle, live music…

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Ken Jennings Comes to Wide World Books

Jeopardy! game show fans, this one's a cinch for you to answer: Hailing from Edmonds, Washington, this man won an unprecedented 74 Jeopardy! games in 2004 with winnings that totaled $2,520,700 -- an amazing streak which earned him a spot in The Guiness Book of World Records under "most cash won on a gameshow". He is a geocache enthusiast, and an author of a few books including Maphead: Charting the Wild, Weird World of Geography Wonks. If you answered, "Who is Ken Jennings?"…

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Wallyhood Honey Available

As we've done in past years, we're offering up a jar of the finest Wallingford-produced honey you've ever tasted to any and all who donate $50 or more to the Wallingford-based FamilyWorks. FamilyWorks, tucked next to the Wallingford library on 45th Street, is the best kind of charity, in my opinion: they not only provide direct, immediate assistance through their food bank to those in need, but they also provide education, such as parenting classes and playgroups to help people better…

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