Balconies and windows needed for holiday monkeys

by | Oct 19, 2015

Last year, 200 lighted monkeys hung around in local businesses and public spaces like the library as a way to promote our neighborhood business district. Even more monkeys are planned for this year.

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Businesses and community members can “foster” a monkey from Thanksgiving through New Year’s for just $25. The first 75 household sponsors will receive a pair of tickets to Woodland Park Zoo’s WildLights preview night on Nov. 24.

New this year, community members living along Phinney-Greenwood avenues from North 59th to 87th streets or on 85th Street can hang a monkey in their window or from their upper balcony if it faces Phinney Avenue, Greenwood Avenue, or 85th Street.

The Phinney Neighborhood Association Business Group dreamed up the monkeys as a way to tie in with WildLights, to draw even more visitors to the neighborhood and generate funds to maintain the monkeys and support other community activities, from the GloCone lighting to Summer Streets.

If you’d like to foster a monkey, all you need is $25, a guardrail to which a monkey can be attached with plastic ties, and an electrical receptacle – monkeys stay lit 24/7 but each draws less than two watts of power. In return, you’ll receive two complimentary tickets to the zoo’s WildLights preview on Monday, November 23.

Interested? Please email [email protected] or call 206.783.2244.

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