Good morning. It's going to be a beautiful day, and you need to get outside! OK, what are you going to do? How about checking out Tilth's Annual Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour, a self-guided, cross-city tour of your neighbor's backyards, featuring their fine fowl and the elaborate edifices built for them. It's happening today, Saturday, August 3 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tickets ($5 - $15) and maps can be picked up at the Good Shepherd Center, where…
This weekend the Wallingford Library is hosting a Teen Scavenger Hunt. This Sunday, August 4, bring your friends to the Wallingford Library for a super fun time! Teams will be sent out into the community seeking to capture photo images from a scavenger hunt list. The first team to complete the list, or the team that gathers the most photos in the allotted time, will win prizes! Teens are to bring their own digital camera or phone capable of taking up…
Last week, I invited the District 4 (that's us, Wallingford!) Seattle City Council candidates to share their positions on two topics that have been impacting our community: homelessness and crime. On Sunday I tried to run the answers I received on one of the topics, but bungled the posting terribly, posting the right answers to the wrong questions, trying to fix it but still making mistakes. Sorry about that. In the hopes of sorting it all out, I'm going to post…
(Updated: I asked the candidates several questions, and posted the answer to the wrong question for all the candidates. I have corrected it below.) I invited all candidates running for the District 4 Seattle City Council seat to share their thoughts on the crisis around homelessness that our city is facing, and offered to reprint their answers here. I heard back from Alex Pedersen, Emily Myers and Cathy Tuttle, who's answers I share here. (Reminder: Ballots must be in by Tuesday,…
The turtle joined the butterfly as two of the more conspicuous examples of intersection art. There is also the recent addition of the crosswalk art work near McDonald Elementary. These are great additions to the neighborhood, but they need upkeep. A neighbor alerted us to a great community event tomorrow at 9am to repaint the turtle: We’re holding another party to repaint Wallingford’s Bubbles the Turtle this Sunday, July 28! Bubbles is the street mural at N 41st St and Interlake Ave N, and…
Seattle's Department of Transportation will be holding an open house this Thursday, July 25th from 6 - 8 pm at the Wallingford Senior Center (in the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N #140) to discuss utility, drainage, curb and sidewalk repairs scheduled for N. 50th St. Work is scheduled to begin as early as Monday, July 29th. As early as the week of July 29, you can expect: Crews to typically work 5 days a week, from 7 AM to…
(Ed note: This history originally appeared on Rob's local history blog, Ba-kground. If you're interested in Seattle history or old clocks, it's worth a read, as is his book, Lost Seattle. Rob graciously allowed us to repost this here.) Below is a lookup table for name changes from the 1870s to the present day in neighborhoods north of Lake Union in Seattle: Brooklyn (west U District); Latona; Wallingford (originally Edgewater); Fremont; part of north Queen Anne; and part of eastern Ballard.…