Wallingford, Seattle

Adopt-A-Tree to Decorate on 45th

As mentioned in an earlier post, the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce will be donating food to FamilyWorks this holiday season in lieu of spending money on decorating the trees along 45th Street in Wallingford. So - families, friends, clubs,  schools - here's your chance to decorate a tree or two or more for the holidays! There are 25 trees on N. 45th between Sunnyside and Stone Way that need festive, weather-resistant decorations. As an adopter, you will be responsible for collecting…

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Green Lake Christmas Tree Sale

With Thanksgiving in the past, it's now not totally repugnant to acknowledge that the holidays are coming up. Indeed, folks are in full prep mode, so Kara M of the Green Lake Elementary School PTA's reminder that you can do your shopping locally is well timed: The Greenlake Elementary School's 27th Annual Christmas Tree Sale is going on NOW! This tree sale is a fundraiser to benefit the school PTA programs. Hours are weekends: 9-8 Saturdays, 10-7 Sundays and weekday evenings 4-8…

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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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