Back in January, we told you all about the super cool Geeks Who Drink Monday night trivia at Blue Star Cafe & Pub (4512 Stone Way N.), where teams compete against one another to claim the top geek spot of the night. Now, the Wallingford COMMUNITY Senior Center (WCSC) is looking for a few good "geeks" to come and join in the fun, and to help raise money for the Center. Geeks Who Drink is holding a special "Quiz for a…
Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS) is offering two new groups this fall designed especially for parents with two children. Both of these groups will meet at the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Room 326): Second Time Around is a parent support group for parents who have more than one child, including a new baby. Unlike the Little Peppers group below, they come to the group with just their new baby. The difference between the Second Time Around group…
Don't let the post-Labor Day-here-comes-the-dang-rainy-season blues keep you indoors just yet. The weather is fine this week, and Wednesday will be a great day to get out and rub elbows with neighbors because Wallingford has four - yes, four - separate events you can attend on Wednesday. Enjoy them all! Wallingford Farmers Market at Meridian Park. 3:30 pm - 7 pm. Curious as to what'll be available this week? Check out Zachary Lyons' "What's Fresh Now". (Psst. The market operates the rest…
This Wednesday at the Wallingford Community Council (7:00 - 9:00 pm, Good Shepherd Center, Room 202) we'll have Pamela from the Parks Department attending. I was fortunate to work with her and Ron from the Meridian School on the Meridian Playground renovation a few years back and she is being brought back to deal with maintenance issues. First, we're looking to have the Meridian Playground sculptor, Patrick Maher, replace the sculpture that had the arm ripped off a couple years ago.…
Bristol Bay is a long way from Wallingford, in southwest Alaska, but if you enjoy wild sockeye salmon and eating at Wallingford restaurants, you've got the motive and the opportunity to get involved in an important environmental issue. Bristol Bay produces the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery and one of the largest king salmon runs, with as many as 60 million sockeye returning every year, 40% of the global supply, but there's a threat looming: several mining companies have been eyeing the…
If you live near one of our three neighborhood public schools, you know what it's like--oh--between 7:45 – 9:30a.m., and again from 1:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.: The endless march of school buses picking up, dropping off, picking up, dropping off. This is a reminder that it all begins again next Wednesday (9/7).
Wallyhood is pleased to introduce a new writer and cartoonist, Shalini Miskelly. Shalini is a stay-at-home mom of two boys and a freelance writer. You can find more of her cartoons and writing at http://readingandchickens.blogspot.com or at http://twitter.com/booksnchickens. My husband and I moved to Wallingford in 2005 from a dark, soulless crevasse of humanity (also known as Sammamish). We realized from our time in the suburbs that we were more of a city family, and so bought the cheapest house we…