Wallingford, Seattle

Shop Local on Small Business Saturday

Forget Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and shop this Saturday without leaving Wallingford. The third annual "Small Business Saturday" is happening this Saturday, November 24. And if you want to save $25 while you shop on Saturday, American Express card members who enroll their cards in the Small Business Saturday program will receive a $25 credit on their statement when they use the enrolled card on a single purchase of $25 or more from a participating small business. You can learn more…

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Turkey Out

Don’t want to cook for Thanksgiving? I don’t blame you, and I do have a little piece of good news if you were planning on having a Thanksgiving meal out: Chutney’s Bistro in Wallingford Center will be serving a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner buffet with all the trimmings, from 11:00am until 8:00pm. I’m told, too, that guests may also order from Chutney’s regular menu. For more information, call Chutney’s at (206) 634-1000. After phoning some neighborhood restaurants (Blue Star Cafe, Ivar’s Salmon House, Joule, Tilth,…

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Power Out in Fremont

Update 2:59PM: Reader Shelly sent us the following Tweet: Traffic signals out at intersection of n 45th & Stone Way in Wallingford. Not good. Busy intersection. We just received this note from Seattle City Light: Seattle City Light crews are working to restore power to more than 4,000 customers affected by an outage in North Queen Anne, Discovery Park, and Fremont. The outage appears to be caused by a tree falling into lines. Restoration is expected at 5 p.m. Sounds like…

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A Tough Nut to Crack

Fruit tree steward, neighborhood recycling guru, and overall swell neighbor, Barb Burrill, shared a recent adventure in the Wallingford urban orchard: A couple of weeks ago while walking home from my son's school, I noticed a bunch of lime-like fruits lying on the ground and sidewalk beneath a huge tree. Some had split open and looked like what might be black walnuts. I remember finding a funny-looking nut shell when I was a child and learning from my mom that it…

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Cooking for Compost at Thanksgiving

"Cooking for Compost?" Sounds like what happens when no one likes what I make for dinner. Maybe a better description is  "No Waste Recipes." Whatever the name, they'll help you have a more sustainable Thanksgiving feast. Prepare holiday dishes from fresh ingredients, without single-use packaging, where food waste can be used in other food or composted. This should be easy as pie in Seattle, where nearly all food scraps can go in the food and yard waste bin (the main exception…

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Thanksgiving Questions

It's a sneaky Thanksgiving this year: the fourth Thursday in the month, as always, but not the last Thursday in the month. It crept right up on us! So much so that we haven't done our homework and so we turn to you, Wallingford, to do your homework for us. We promise to share the answers with all. So, we have two questions for you, Wallingford: What's your recommendation for the best place to spend it, should you wish to spend…

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Festival of Hope at Keystone Church

Are you ready to do some holiday shopping? No? Well, here’s something close to home and a fun way to get you in the mood: Keystone Church (5019 Keystone Place N.) is holding its 34th annual Festival of Hope — an alternative Christmas fair this Saturday and Sunday (November 17 and 18). You can browse, have a deli lunch, maybe some pumpkin pie, and feel good knowing that the fair is a non-profit event, and the money you spend will support…

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