Of course, with fruit trees you really want to prune correctly so that you encourage fruit production and reduce the chances of introducing disease. Which makes it lucky that the fine folks at FECO (the Freeway Estates Community Orchard) are offering a workshop this weekend on pruning young fruit trees. Ruth supplies us with the details:
Young Fruit Tree …
FamilyWorks Food Bank and Resource Center’s new volunteer coordinator, Elizabeth Ralston, (a mom of two herself) has frequently heard from other parents about the difficulty of finding volunteer work suitable for children. To fill this need, FamilyWorks has launched a “third Saturday” family volunteering program that connects families with projects that will benefit FamilyWorks customers. Email Elizabeth to join her email list and be alerted to future volunteer opportunities.
This month’s project is a food drive at the Wallingford QFC on February 15th. Since children have short attention spans, each shift is only one hour long. FamilyWorks needs six people …
Every couple of years we post about proposed cuts to Metro bus service and how those cuts will impact Wallingford. The last round of proposed cuts had the ever popular Route 26 slated for shuttering, which resulted in numerous vocal transit riders (my family included) barraging beleaguered Metro staff people at their “open house” sessions at QFC. Thankfully Route 26 was saved from the chopping block. Lower Wallingford in particular breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Knowing that this time of year is when the folks at Metro usually start talking about budget cuts and major service reductions, I have …
B.F. Day Elementary is offering parent visitations/tours from 9:30-10:30 am on Thursdays January 23rd and February 13th. No RSVP is required, but you are requested to check-in at the office upon arrival. These will be the only tours.
On January 23rd B.F. Day will also be hosting an Open House and Family Night Dinner from 6:00-7:30 pm. Children are …
If you don’t have plans to watch the Big Game on Saturday but you’d still like to experience the thrill of watching athletic people caper through the mud, head to Meridian Park for the Sound & Fury Morris Dancers’ Annual Apple Wassail.
At 2:30 pm on Saturday, Morris dancers from Seattle and Portland will bring a bit of English holiday cheer to Wallingford with traditional dance, song and a blessing of the apple trees. Apple trees are sacred to Morris dancers because they provide the fruit from which cider is made. Morris dancers need few excuses to dance, sing and …
Our recent and prolonged cold snap made me wish there was more I could do to help folks who sleep outside or those who can’t afford to heat their homes to a comfortable temperature. I talked with Jake Weber and Elizabeth Ralston at FamilyWorks, our neighborhood food bank and resource center, for advice about how to help in meaningful ways.
If you’re the sort of person who likes to have something on hand to give to people sleeping out in the elements, Elizabeth recommends practical cold weather items: socks, hand warmers, blankets, gloves/mittens, hats, coats and cups of soup. Bus …
Back in October, we reported the sad story of 26-year-old Jowanna Gooden’s body being found along the Burke-Gilman trail. Last week, Seattle Police Department detectives arrested the suspected murderer, 32-year-old Renton resident Uriel “Duane” Boyd. He was in part tracked down because he answered a cell phone call from the 4000 block of Bagley Avenue on the night of the murder.
SPD reports that Jowanna’s murder was not random and that they believe she knew her killer.
Boyd was booked on murder charges as well as drug charges. He has been previously convicted of drug offences as well as burglary, …
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