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In conjunction with the recent Find It, Fix It Community Walk that occurred in Wallingford on March 14th, the City of Seattle is offering a $5,000 grant to the Wallingford community for a limited period of time following the walk.  The grant is to "support community-led revitalization and beautification projects."  To encourage participation, the City recently extended the deadline for the grant to April 12th.  To find out more information or apply for the grant, click on this link.  Please contact…

This post was sent in by Greg Flood, chair of the Friends of Wallingford Playground: Greetings! Some more recent arrivals to the neighborhood may not realize that Wallingford Playfield was designed by community volunteers and funded through several matching fund grants from the Department of Neighborhoods. Over 300 families participated from 1998 through 2013, led by the steering committee of Friends of Wallingford Playfield (FoWP). Community residents contributed over $250,000 in funds and labor to help create what you see there…

Lots of changes coming to businesses in the neighborhood, both happy and sad. Good news first: Seattle Pops, a favorite of my children at the Wallingford farmers market, is opening a retail location this summer at the corner of 45th and Interlake. Heavy Restaurant Group (owners of Purple, Barrio, and Thackeray) are opening a Mexican restaurant across from Gas Works Park this summer. Read more about it on Seattle Met. After we ran an article on Kids on 45th back in…

Despite the early spring that crashed up from the south across the country this year, at least one vernal turn is delayed: the cherry blossoms. We're about 3 weeks later than usual, but on the verge of the burst. Michelle Ma writes in the UW Today that our cold winter has stalled them: Bloom timing varies each year and depends mostly on the amount of daylight and consistency of temperatures. If we have a stretch of days reaching over 50 degrees F,…

Wallyhooder Kimberly writes: Greetings, Wallyhood! My daughter and another Wallyhood resident will be performing in an adaptation of Handel’s Serse at the Good Shepherd Center this weekend. The main character, Serse, reminds me very much of a certain orange-skinned president. It’s eerie how relevant an eighteenth-century piece can seem! There are some amazingly talented young people singing, playing period instruments, dancing and acting. We would love to present it to our neighbors! Event details: Saturday, March 25, 2017 at the Good Shepherd Center…

Wallingford is a vibrant community, where people care about what they put in their bodies and how they impact their world. Following in this spirit of my community, I have come to learn the incredible health benefits from fresh, raw juice. Juicing offers many life-enhancing health benefits. This includes a faster, more efficient way to absorb immune-boosting nutrients naturally found in fruits and vegetables. It provides a way to access digestive enzymes typically locked away in the fiber matrix of whole fruits…