'Tis the season for giving, even if it's a set of hotel soaps you brought home from your last trip. Salon Metro (1714 N. 45th) is collecting toiletries the Orion Center and Youth Care Transitional Living Program to benefit the homeless and those in need. Here's a few ideas for items on their wish list: The shelter requests unopened shampoo, conditioner. straighteners, curlers, razors, plus soap for faces and bodies. Full size or travel size from your last hotel trip is…
The combination of rain and holiday lights going up always prompts me to think about our homeless neighbors. With weather as wet as it has been lately, I don’t last more than 10 minutes outside before I am chilled to the bone. I can’t imagine sleeping outside in the cold and wet weather, or spending my days with the damp settling into every joint. I’ve worked in human services, so I know I am not alone! Many charitable souls think about…
Save the date, folks: The Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) invites you to "Celebrate One Wallingford" on Thursday, December 13, from 5:30-8:00pm. Last year's celebration was a fun-filled evening with carolers, cookies, and holiday entertainment brought to you by neighbors young and old. Here's what the folks at the WCSC have to say about this year's event: It’s that time of year again for festive gatherings with family, friends and neighbors! The Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) is…
With Thanksgiving in the past, it's now not totally repugnant to acknowledge that the holidays are coming up. Indeed, folks are in full prep mode, so Kara M of the Green Lake Elementary School PTA's reminder that you can do your shopping locally is well timed: The Greenlake Elementary School's 27th Annual Christmas Tree Sale is going on NOW! This tree sale is a fundraiser to benefit the school PTA programs. Hours are weekends: 9-8 Saturdays, 10-7 Sundays and weekday evenings 4-8…
Colleen Kurke wrote to tell us that the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce will be cleaning up the streets and tree pits along 45th St. later in the week, in preparation for the holiday, and the rainy/wet season. But rather than covering expenses for putting up lights along 45th during the holiday season, the Chamber has decided instead to place emphasis on donating food to the FamilyWorks Food Bank. Still, though, it might be nice to have some sort of decoration along…
If you're a beekeeper, you might be interested in an upcoming meeting, hosted by fellow Wallingford beekeepers: Get to know the beekeepers in the Wallingford Neighborhood! Learn from what everyone else is doing. Aspiring beekeepers who haven’t quite taken the plunge yet? You’re also very welcome! Open to surrounding neighborhoods as well. Topics for Discussion: How'd the honey harvest go? How are your bees? Swarm control methods. Pest control & responsibilities Others POTLUCK - light snacks OK RSVP: Kevin: [email protected], or Rick: [email protected],…
I may have inadvertently started a tradition on behalf of the Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) last year, when I announced on Wallyhood that they were holding a "Snowman Pancake" breakfast, complete with...you guessed it...snowman-shaped pancakes. Alas, the WCSC was planning on serving up traditional, round pancakes, and not snowmen-shaped pancakes; but upon reading my misnomer, the resourceful group at the WCSC rose to the challenge and wouldn't you know it...when my family and I showed up that Sunday, they had…