Here’s the story in brief: Wallyhood has donated 100% of our profits to the Wallingford-based FamilyWorks Food Bank and Family Resource Center for years. At this year’s annual fundraising dinner, they had a little contest: each person donated $10 to participate, and chose heads or tails. They flipped a …

This past week, LIHI posted the following notice on the gates:

The Seattle Human Services Department has notified us that the Northlake Village contract will not be renewed for 2020. To allow time to transition this City of Seattle-owned property back to City Light by December 31, 2019, all the tiny houses and village grounds need to be vacated by December 9, …

In a letter addressed to Sharon Lee, the executive director of the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI, the city-recognized managers of the village), and delivered to the village and the Northlake Community Advisory Council (on which I serve), Adrienne Easter, Manager of Homeless Investments for the City of Seattle Human Services Department (HSD), wrote that the “The City of Seattle will not be renewing the …

Grab your little goblins and ghouls and head to Wallingford Center for a fun-filled evening of trick-or-treating. Visit all 12 of the center businesses for a trick or treat. Take your photo with one of our custom back drops! October 31st from …

If you haven’t already bought your goodies, I’d like to delicately suggest this article on Cocoa’s child laborers to you. If you can’t make it past the Washington Post’s paywall, I’ll summarize: despite pledges made almost two decades ago, Mars, Nestlé and Hershey still buy the cocoa for their chocolate from farms that use child labor.

One reason is that nearly 20 years after pledging to eradicate child labor, chocolate companies still …

I stopped in a couple days before the closing and chatted with the owner, Rob Salvino, and offered to write a post before it closed, so people could come in and get their last loaf, but he gently waved me off, gesturing to the almost empty shelves and the steady stream of people already coming through to clean him out. “Please don’t, we already don’t have enough.”

I asked him …

The gears of change will grind up another couple of single family homes and churn out another townhouse / rowhouse combination along 50th. If you would like to chat with someone in person about the project, there are drop-in hours today, Monday September 30th from 5:00 – 6:00 pm (sorry for the short notice!) onsite at 1925 N 50th St, just across from Meridian Park.

According the project’s description,

Blackwood Builders Group and JW Architects are collaborating to design the redevelopment of 1925 N 50^th Street. When it’s complete, the new homes will be 3 stories tall and will …