Holiday Lights Recycling

This holiday season there are several places to take your old holiday lights for recycling. Don't throw them in the trash - there are valuable metals in the wires which Here are some of the nearby places where you can take them: Ace Hardware stores –  Maple Leaf in Seattle and Magnolia (2420 32nd Ave W) stores Girl Scouts of Western Washington / Point Defiance Zoo program: Seattle Administrative Office at 601 Valley Street (just west of Aurora) Lowe’s home improvement…

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Bring Fiber to Wallingford

Gary Anderson wrote: In today's Seattle Times there is an article about Condointernet bringing high speed internet to selected neighborhoods starting in the Eastlake area.  This is an expansion into single family residences in addition to high density apartment and condominium buildings.  The prices are very competitive compared with any other service available in Seattle.  Their expansion plans are based on demand so it would help if interested people expressed their interest on thecondointernet.com web site.

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Pop-up Octopus

Liza Danger from The Octopus Bar (2109 N 45th St) writes: We wanted to invite Wallingford and friends to our first Holiday Pop up Craft shop this Sunday from 6-8 pm. All works will fit into a stocking and be under $20. Local Artists include: Nick Orban - Oil paintings, Mary Hannah - Hand crafted jewelry, Alex @tmapllc - wallets and bottle openers, Lem Bartley - Fancy Beta Fish and hand crafted tools and many more. Should be a great time! Come celebrate…

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Salut Bistro Opens Today

Joe Martin writes: Hello from the staff and management of Salut Bistro, we are your newest neighborhood restaurant located at 1715 N. 45th St (formerly Patty's Eggnest). We are pleased to announce our Grand Opening to the Wallingford neighborhood and all our friends, we will open our doors for lunch and dinner on Friday, December 12th, with lunch starting at 11am, until 3pm, our dinner starts at 5pm and will continue until 10pm. We will be opening our bar to the…

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Wallingford Development Map

Having a hard time keeping track of all the development going on up and down Stone Way, along 45th and elsewhere in Wallingford? Alison Hobbs pointed us towards this cool interactive map of development projects in Seattle, Seattle in Progress. According to a recent Geekwire article: The app is the brainchild of Ethan Phelps-Goodman, a former Facebook software engineer in Seattle who was also part of the team behind the Hack to End Homelessness... “Our goal is to use technology to increase civic…

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