One of the area’s bigger summer benefit events, the Fred Hutch Obliteride, is taking place this coming weekend—Friday & Saturday, August 12^th-13^th—and will affect parts of Wallingford.  The fundraiser for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center includes just about all of Seattle’s favorite participatory activities:  walking/running, biking, and partying.  In the ten years of its existence, Obliteride has funded an impressive $36 million of research over ten years at Fred Hutch—so definitely a worthwhile and worthy activity to post on the calendar.

That’s all well and good, you might be thinking. Hooray for them.  But what about …

(Editor’s note:  Here’s another post by our resident wine maven, Jenn Shernoff)

What happened to The Bounty? It seems like just yesterday (a mere couple of months ago) we were promoting a launch and community event at the Bounty, and just like that it closed down and reopened. At the intersection of Stone Way and 45th, the reopened establishment is now Kdessert. The sudden shift in ownership took many locals by surprise, and the recent reopening is a welcome relief to the Wallingford community.

The new owner, Gina, said Kdessert will serve a variety of Asian style drinks and food. …

In East Wallingford, we are (mostly) accustomed to hearing a lot of typically urban sounds:  the ever-present roar of the Ship Canal Bridge; the booming clanks of garbage, recycling, and yard waste pickup; the metallic buzz of sawzall tools as thieves steal your catalytic converter.  But this morning, I heard some unfamiliar sounds. It was hammering, and what sounded like the “plink” of aluminum baseball bats at a high school game.  I live across the street from the John Stanford International School (JSIS), and there were two men installing equipment with a lot of wires and other gear.  Mostly, I…

Back in March, Wallyhood published an article about Mahamed Mohamud, a FamilyWorks and Wallingford Boys & Girls Club volunteer who tragically drowned last summer in Green Lake (Seattle Times article, Kiro 7 article).  Earlier this year, Mahamed’s mother, who still is an employee at FamilyWorks, worked with Lincoln High School staff, the Alliance for Education, and a group of community members to establish a scholarship in Mahamed’s name for graduating seniors at Lincoln.  Kirby Lochner, Communications Coordinator at FamilyWorks, passed this description to us:

We are excited to announce a new scholarship for Lincoln High School seniors in celebration of …

This is purely a coincidence, I think.  But almost immediately after one of Wallyhood’s loose cannon editors included a snarky joke about the Route 44 bus line in an article that was mostly unrelated to it, we heard from Darrell Bulmer, communications/outreach lead for the city’s Route 44 upgrade project.  For the record:  Darrell lives in the neighborhood AND rides the 44 bus.

Darrell graciously overlooked (mostly) my previous snide jest, and wanted to update Wallingford about the Route 44 corridor work that is just now beginning to take place.  The kickoff is likely one that will trigger at least …