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Check out the Burke-Gilman Trail Orchard this Sunday

The neighborhood fruit trees are having a great year so far. They've produced bumper crops of cherries, yellow transparent apples, and are now into plums. Did you know there are 40 fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between the University Bridge and Northlake Place, west of Gas Works? Come and see a group of them on Sunday. City Fruit, a local non-profit which harvests fruit from private trees throughout the city, also takes care of fruit trees in 11 public Seattle…

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Do Good in the ‘Hood – Become a City Fruit Ambassador

City Fruit, a Seattle nonprofit that harvests local fruit from private and public fruit trees, is now in Wallingford - and offers a new, creative way to get involved with our mission. The City Fruit Ambassador Program is a year long opportunity to use your skills, passions, and contacts to be the voice and face of City Fruit in Wallingford. For example, say you really want to help with the volunteer fruit harvests in your neighborhood. Besides just helping pick the…

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Tomorrow: The Goddess Festival

This is your friendly neighborhood reminder that The Goddess Festival returns to Woodland Park tomorrow (Saturday, September 14) from noon to 10:00pm: From The Goddess Festival organizer, Tara Shuttleworth: “The Third Annual Goddess Festival will take place in Seattle’s Lower Woodland Park on September 14th, 2013 to bring together the community and create a unified inspirational heartbeat. Live music, local artists and vendors, performance workshops and a Kid Zone will demonstrate to festival-goers that through this heartbeat, we can heal and transform…

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Wallingford Wading Pool Opens Wednesday

Happy days are here again -- especially if you're a parent to kids who love the Wallingford Wading Pool. The season kicks-off next Wednesday (June 26) and runs Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 12:00pm to 7:00pm through August 18. The wading pool will only open if the temperatures reach 70, and you can phone the hotline anytime after 9:00am to find out 206-684-7796. If you’re new to the wading pool scene, take a minute to familiarize yourself with Seattle’s wading pool expectations: Children…

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Film Crew At Gas Works Park

A large film crew will be filming scenes for a television pilot at Gasworks Park on Monday, April 15. While most of the filming will take place at night, after the park is closed to the public, the crew will be setting up that afternoon, including on and around the observation platform. The crew is working with Seattle Parks and Recreation, as well as the Seattle Police Department, to ensure the safety of park visitors throughout the day, when vehicles will…

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Playfield repairs and a new dog park? There’s a grant for that.

Back in December, we posted about the Wallingford playfield closure, a post which spurred a lot of comments from concerned neighbors. In true Wallyhood fashion, most comments were civil, though the off-leash-dogs-at-the-park issue clearly does push our collective buttons. Reader and community leader Greg, who was the driving force behind the playfield and who still keeps a watchful eye over it, filled readers in on some the history of the park and the challenges posed by rain, cleats and paws: During…

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Field Closure at Wallingford Playfield

If playing ultimate Frisbee or soccer in the mud is part of your winter ritual, then you’ll need to head somewhere besides Wallingford Playfield this year. The Parks Department recently closed to field to allow turf rebuilding. And this year they mean it! They have erected fencing to render the field largely unusable. I guess they finally realized that Wallingford’s winter sports enthusiasts, dog owners and restless youth were not going to stay off the field simply because a sign politely…

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