Wallingford, Seattle

$20 for $10 at Paron’s Closet

The Green Lake Mom's Daily Deal is a Wallingford shop this week, Paron's Closet in Wallingford Center, purveyor of fine new and used children's clothing: Back-to-school shopping is a lot more fun when you are also saving big! With today’s deal, pay only $10 for $20 towards clothing, toys, and much more at Paron's Closet. Paron's Closet is a children's consignment boutique located in the Wallingford Center in Seattle, Washington. They consign & sell brand new & gently used children's clothing…

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Goonies at Gas Works

Next Sunday, August 19th, The World Is Fun, a local non-profit that encourages volunteerism, will be show The Goonies at Gas Works Park: The World is Fun (TWIF) is partnering with The Community Cinema Group and Seattle Department of Neighborhoods to present a free showing of The Goonies at Gasworks Park on Sunday, August 19, 2012 with activities kicking off at 6:30 p.m. and the movie beginning at sunset. Pre-movie events include fun-filled games and activities for all ages along with…

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Green Your Seattle Night Out

Hosting a Seattle Night Out party this Tuesday? Want to impress your "deep green" neighbors? Here are some suggestions to reduce waste at any event: Provide recycling bins for cans, bottles, cups, and other recyclable items. Do the same for food waste. Have a 5 gallon bucket or similar container lined with a biodegradable bag to give folks a clue that food waste goes in there. Use a very small garbage can for landfill-bound waste so guests aren't tempted to dump…

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Sharing (and Mapping) Fruit

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…

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Family Fun at Meridian Park

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…

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Tulip Season

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,…

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