Patty and Joe have lived at 4059 Latona for 53 years, but are spending this holiday in Lynnwood as they sort through recovering from the Halloween fire. Here’s a photo from their house in a happier holiday season:

Patty and Joe wanted to offer this message to community in appreciation for Bette’s caroling fundraiser and to let the community know where their recovery is at:

For the last few weeks the cleaning company and I have been going through the house room by room to remove the items, some can be saved and cleaned, others can be cleaned but the …

Care about I-5 noise in lower Wallingford? Then it is important you attend this meeting on Wednesday night to show WSDOT you care:

7 PM to 8:15 PM at John Stanford International School (Latona) 241, 4057 5th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105. Room 320 (first classroom to the left of the main entrance)

Sharad reports for the community:

Concerned Wallingford residents have been trying to get WSDOT to do noise mitigation for the stretch of Wallingford that runs along I-5 where there is no sound mitigation (5th ave, from 45th street down). We’ve been working with WSDOT and the WA …

Buy! How about an HTC Envy or a Ford Exterminator or an Amazon Crap Box? Buy Buy Buy! Paris global warming talks and Grinchy fables about joyous singing without presents be damned, Christmas cheer is built on coal fueled crap from China.

Putting aside carbon waste, there’s also economic losses- Christmas destroys an estimated 13 billion dollars in value per year. It’s called “dead weight loss” when you convert cash to something less valuable than the cash. If people want a pasta maker they’ll buy a damn pasta maker.

On the flip side, do you really want to give a …

Sound Transit wrapped up their study of a light rail tunnel through Wallingford, 3.4 miles from Ballard to the U-District. The rail line as it is conceived would feature 3 new stops, in Wallingford, in Phinney, and Market Street. It would not continue past the U-District station already under construction, instead terminating there. At this time it is not being proposed in conjunction with a rail line from downtown to Ballard, but rather as a discrete project that would exist if the downtown to Ballard rail line did not exist.

Sound Transit estimates it will cost a little more than …

The U14B Woodland Panthers of SYSA Woodland Park Soccer are doing well and are off to the quarterfinals of the Washington State Rec Cup next weekend. I reached out to coach Ken Convery to write about his experiences with coaching, and he wrote this for us:

I coached with assistants Leo Machado, Erik Rucker and Gerald Lim following the “Play like a Champion” principles in coaching the U-14 boys Woodland Panthers to a District 1 championship. We used the PLAC coaching model from the University of Notre Dame that focuses on the development of the mind, body, and soul of …

Rick Turner is a 35 year Wallingford resident, retired architect, and Executive Director of the The Meaningful Movies Project. He wanted to specially get the word out on this Friday’s showing which will be in support of the Paris global warming talks:

This coming Friday Night, Dec 4^th at 7:00 PM, Meaningful Movies in Wallingford will be presenting the film ‘This Changes Everything’ and we hope you will join us at Keystone Congregation Church.  Following the film and joining us for our discussion will be Alec Connon from 350Seattle.org, who is the organizer for the Gates Divest Campaign; …

If you haven’t seen Wildlights at the zoo before, it’s worth it. Thanks to LED lights and programmable displays the light effects move around, like a salmon jumping down a stream or an eagle flying overhead. There’s also an open reptile house and hot food to warm up with, real reindeer, Santa, the carousel, and the chance to have a (fake) snowball fight in Zoomazium.

Scarecrow video is showing “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945) on Wed night at the WCSC in the Good Shepherd Center from 4 to 7 PM for free. The plot: A food writer who has lied about …