Last month's post about the orchard pruning class resulted in lots of inquiries about what to do with a bumper crop of fruit. We are lucky that local options exist: City Fruit and Solid Ground's Community Fruit Tree Harvest (CFTH) work with other organizations throughout the city to harvest fruit and to make sure it gets into the hands of hungry people. The easiest and most direct action to take with your surplus fruit is to harvest it yourself and drop it off…
Next Sunday, August 12, Plus One Foundation will be hosting the second annual Family Fun Field Day from 12:00PM - 3:00PM at Meridian Park to raise funds for children with neurological disorders. It'll be a fun day for families to play field games and chances to win prizes donated by local businesses. From Plus One: Plus One Foundation is an all volunteer nonprofit funding participation in non-medical activities that build muscle strength and feed the soul helping people with neurological disorders…
How does a gardener from Wallingford get herself involved in a missing person case steeped in mystery, murder, and international intrigue? The answer lies within Bharti Kirchner's latest novel, Tulip Season, the first in a series of Mitra Basu Mysteries. Mitra Basu is a 29 year-old Calcutta-born, Wallingford-based landscape designer who discovers that her dearest friend, Kareena Sinha, has gone missing. As she tries to get to the bottom of Kareena's mysterious disappearance, she discovers a lot of things about herself,…
KIRO-TV has the scoop. Waste Management "is telling residential and commercial customers to put out their bins if Thursday is their regular collection day."
Last year, when Grace and her sister and mom read Nicole Brodeur’s piece in the Seattle Times, “For some kids, cuts at nonprofit mean fewer meals”, it spurred an idea: “The article got my sister and I thinking, and decided with some friends to organize a food drive,” Grace wrote to me in an email. “We put up posters around the neighborhood and gave out over 100 flyers. We want everyone to participate in this food drive.” The food drive was such a…
Your trees may soon be accessorized. Nancy Merrill (the driving force behind hundreds of parking strip trees throughout Wallingford) writes: IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD STEET TREE PLANTING PROJECT presents Art Installation: SUMMER IN THE CITY, 2012 To celebrate the urban curbside forest created by successive tree plantings 1991-2011 (by permit: Right Tree/Right Place with trees provided by Seattle City Light, Department of Neighborhoods, Department of Transportation, donations), selected project street trees will receive “tree necklaces” crafted by local tree stewards…
From the Waste Management website this evening: Waste Management and Teamsters Local 117 have reached a tentative agreement on a new 6-year contract. Teamster leadership and the bargaining committee will fully recommend that members approve the new contract at the ratification vote scheduled for 9:00am on Thursday, August 2, 2012 at the Union Hall in Tukwila. Garbage drivers will return to work in the morning and begin servicing their regular Thursday collection routes. However, due to the timing of the ratification…