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  Here's your reminder that this weekend is the Fremont Fair and Solstice Parade, and Mother Nature has blessed us with a gorgeous weekend to enjoy it with. The Solstice Parade kicks off at NW 39th St and Leary Way NW at 1 pm on Saturday with the famous Naked Bicycle ride (captured in quirkiness by local filmmaker Dan McComb in Beyond Naked), and then tumbles, struts and thumps through Fremont to Gas Works Park. Watch for "Baby Z", now in his seventh…

These are desperate times for those fleeing their home countries for safety and freedom. In the face of the stunning injustices the president's government has been inflicting on those in need, many of us are wondering what can one person do. Despite the walls going up (literal or figurative), there are still organizations working to welcome newly arrived refugees into our community. World Relief Seattle is one such non-profit, and I've had the pleasure of providing temporary housing to a number of…

Growing up, my family was not particularly religious. I learned Hebrew from a private tutor, alongside the children of a couple family friends, but only stepped foot in a synagogue once or twice throughout my childhood. My family was part of a group of similarly-minded Jewish families that would gather in a church basement on high holidays and celebrate together, sans rabbi, children chasing each other down the thinly carpeted halls and across the linoleum floors. My bar mitzvah was held…

Matt from the Pacific Northwest Shop (4411 Wallingford Ave N, a Wallyhood sponsor) writes: Summer doesn’t officially start for another few weeks, but the Pacific Northwest Shop will begin celebrating early with their Second Saturdays of Summer event kicking off this weekend. Select groups of local makers will be coming to the shop each second Saturday in June (9th), July (14th), and August (11th) from 11 am to 3pm. They'll showcase their work and chat with customers. The event this Saturday, June 9th, will feature Joe…

40th, 50th, and Green Lake Way north of 50th are all to be repaved next year, which includes a full redesign of the streets that is happening now. Current plans swap out parking lanes for bike lanes, with protected bike lanes added to 40th and a cycle track added to Green Lake Way. In the Green Lake Way cycle track both directions of bike traffic will be on the lake side of the street. The transition between the cycle track and…

City Fruit is a Seattle non profit that promotes the cultivation of urban fruit to build strong communities.  They saw the abundance of fruit trees in the city, and how little of the fruit was consumed.   They have done great work to solve that problem.  Last year they harvested 34,000 pounds of fruit with 19,000 of it going meal programs and food banks.  One tree in Wallyhood’s own Meridian Park generated 490 pounds of fruit. To do that great work,…