Monthly Archives: March 2011

Weekend in Wallingford

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Here are a few tips to help you enjoy your weekend right here in our own neighborhood: Both City Cellars in the heart of Wallingford and Wine World down by I-5 have wine tastings on Friday. City Cellars will feature wines from Reininger Winery, specializing "in crafting elegant and finely structured red wines from hand-harvested, ultra premium grapes" while Wine World will have a set of South Seattle wineries on tap (do you say "on tap" about wines? Probably not.) Wayne Horvitz…

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Wallingford for Gardening

Jane C. spotted Wallingford on This Old House's Best Old House Neighborhoods 2011: Gardening list, and it's a pretty little Wallingford they paint: Colorful kites flying and kids rolling down grassy hills are common sights in south Wallingford's Gas Works Park, a 19-acre green space populated by early-20th-century coal gasification structures—decommissioned, rust-colored symbols of Seattle's industrial revolution. Wallingford is a walkable neighborhood with access to Seattle's Burke-Gilman Trail, a 14-mile path for cyclists, joggers, and skaters. A farmers' market, an independent…

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Blowfish in the Wind

Something fishy this way comes, at least if you're down in lower Wallingford tonight. Smell that stench?  It's not your compost bin. Have you ever seen that television show, Deadliest Catch?  Sometimes the freezers break or the engine fails or some other mishap occurs and the fish die while the boat is still at sea.  Then the captain has to dock the boat so it can be fixed.  Landlubbers hate that.  Fishermen hate it more, of course. Chris C, who works…

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What in the Wallingford

Yes, it's time again for our weekly contest (music please), What in the Wallingford, in which you, the reader, guess where in Wallingford a photo was taken, winning fabulous prizes along the way. Now, you may have noticed that we didn't run the contest last week. Frankly, we were a bit disheartened by how easily our photos are being guessed. Several hours is the best stumpery we've managed. Two weeks ago, we thought we had one far off the beaten path,…

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Wallyhood Forums Round-Up

Want to spread the word or have something to share with the neighborhood?  Check out the forums section of Wallyhood for announcements, referrals, questions, and of course Wallingford neighborhood gossip!  Here are some highlights: The Panhandling discussion continues as several of our readers have reported an SUV trying to scam individuals into giving them gas money or money for their children.  Maybe someone will obtain the license plate number and report the information--be on alert Wallyhood! Need a good place to donate…

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‘S Wonderful. ‘S Marvelous. ‘S Wellegant.

The good folks at B.F. Day's PTSA are throwing the school's biggest fundraiser of the year, Swellegant, this Saturday night, March 5, at Fremont Arts Abbey (4272 Fremont Avenue North), from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm.  Tickets are $40 in advance, $50 at the door, and covers dinner plus two drink tickets.  The evening includes cocktails, Hors d'ouevres, live music, a silent auction, plus a "Golden Raffle". In years past, they've auctioned off some awesome items like vacations to Ireland, Buddy…

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4th of July fireworks will go on

One Reel announced that they have secured 80% of the required funding to produce the Family 4th at Lake Union, and as such, the show will go on this year.  Businesses such as Allstate Insurance, Adobe, Smith Brothers Farms, Underdog Sports, along with many private contributors, added to the donations by Microsoft and Starbucks totaling $400,000.  One Reel is still trying to secure the remaining $100,000, but has every intention to move forward. “We had planned to secure our budgetary goal…

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