Wallyhood heard from Deborah Barnes with the Wallingford Community Senior Center announcing a summer event for members and the community:

Summer Kickoff Picnic, Thursday, June 8th from 12:00 until 2:00 pm.

Summer is almost here and it’s time to welcome the sun! Let’s meet for lunch in the pavilion on the west side of the Good
Shepherd Center and enjoy the sunshine, good food and good music. The picnic lunch is $5.00
for members of the Wallingford Community Senior Center and $7.00 for non-members.

See you there!

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Historic Wallingford is teaming up with Wallingford’s own Feliks Banel to do a once-a-month live radio broadcast this summer at the neighborhood Farmers Market in Meridian Park.

Historic Wallingford is teaming up with Wallingford’s own Feliks Banel to do a once-a-month live radio broadcast this summer at the neighborhood Farmers Market in Meridian Park. Called The Wallingford Local, the show will be broadcast live on SPACE 101.1 FM, a people-powered, arts-focused community radio station, the last Wednesday of the month beginning May 31 from 5-6 pm. It also will be available via livestream and podcast.

Many know Feliks from …

This post comes to us from Tara Katz, Director of the Fremont Community School. 

In a world full of large corporate daycare centers, it is rare for small, independent centers to open these days. It is even rarer to find a childcare center gently nestled into one of Wallingford’s 100-year-old homes. Almost five years ago Fremont Community School (FCS), a small nonprofit preschool, was able to purchase a wonderful house located in lower Wallingford, kitty-corner to The Bouldering Project on N 36 Street and Interlake. Despite the challenges of COVID and its impact on the renovation of the building, FCS …

The U District Street Fair  has been with us for 50 years and keeps getting better each year. Just a short walk over I-5 to University Way NE, south of NE 50th St to NE 41st St. It is this coming Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 21 from 11 am to 6 pm.

This year expect more than 175 artist and craft vendors stretching all along U Way, some you’ll be glad to see back again this year and some brand new. There will be entertainment at the Main Stage at NE 42nd St, starting with Taiko drummers at …

Some of you may have heard about the controversial cherry trees down by the Pike Place Market that stirred a larger conversation about the fate of trees in the city. Wallyhood was recently contacted by Sandy Shettler, a local resident with a strong interest in urban trees and preserving those that remain. She and Kersti Muul, an urban conservation specialist and arborist, sent us the following sad article on the demise of two venerable old oak trees that had shaded the western side of the Wallingford Post Office:

The two huge oaks that grace the entrance of Wallingford’s U.S. Post …

Few things assure me that summer is really coming to Seattle more than the return of the Wallingford Farmers Market! With the sun shining this week, I am ready — drooling as I conjure to mind the combination of ripe tomatoes and Oaxacan style cheese eaten while sprawled on a blanket in the grass. And neighbors, we don’t have to wait much longer!

The market returns to Meridian Park at the corner of Meridian Avenue N and N 50th Street on May 24th! This farmers market is recognized as one of the best in the state and promises to keep …

Every so often, magic reveals itself in this world.  You can catch it here and there, if you know how to look.

This is a story of theft and destruction, but it’s also the story of magic and of neighborly generosity right here in Wallingford.

Late last December, 16 year old Wallingford resident, Julia (@the_fairy_gardener on TikTok) was returning home from a family ski trip when she saw darkness in the place where twinkling lights usually surrounded her fairy garden. As she approached, Julia found strands of broken lights dangling from the trees. Moving in closer, she discovered that the …