Results tagged “buylocal”

The Capitol Hill Community Council just unveiled the "Capitol Hill Discount Dollar," a printable coupon that qualifies the bearer for a sweet 10 percent discount at over a dozen participating neighborhood businesses. South Lake Union has the "SLU Card" with varying local discounts available to anyone renting, leasing, or owning in a Vulcan-affiliated building, and Vulcan owns everything down there (right?) so it's almost like a neighborhood card. That does it, we're going on record: this is a trend we can fully support. Buy local, get to know your neighborhood businesses, strengthen your community, don't feel so alone in the world. Fantastic idea, and we'd like to see more businesses participating.

• Looks like the Rainier Valley Post has classifieds, now. We love seeing all the ways neighborhood blogs are connecting people to those around them, and introducing classifieds as a way of communicating about local resources is kind of brilliant in a year when jobs promise to be scarce and money scarcer.
• Seattlest MvB and CHSer JSeattle collaborated last night to bring you breaking (hah!) news about a fallen branch on a 15th Avenue power line. Photo included, for which we hear MvB sold the rights at $3, down from an initial bargaining price of $10,000.Capitol Hill wasn't the only neighborhood having problems with power. West Seattle Blog reports an overnight storm-related power outage about seven hours long at their HQ. Good thing they had stockpiled MacBook batteries!
• Irate commenters will be glad to hear that the City of Seattle jumped to use salt on the city's streets during the snowstorm last night. Seattle 911 has the details.