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Festival Wrap-Up

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These past two weeks saw two music festivals in Wallingford's Meridian Park, the Wallingford Music Festival and The Goddess Festival. We thought it might be a good moment to ask the community for feedback on these, since both planners have talked about reprising the events next year. The two events had different goals, with the WMF seeking a lower-key, homier feeling next to the Goddess Festival's large, three-stage approach, but both drew relatively small crowds. Josh Sarro, the organizer of the…

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Pirates and Pipsqueaks

Ahoy there, me harties! Come join the SeaFair Pirates during the annual Pirates and Pipsqueaks carnival at the Solid Ground parking lot (1501 N. 45th St.) this Sunday, August 21, from 12pm - 5pm: Pirates and Pipsqueaks is an old fashioned carnival for kids of all ages. Enjoy a lovely summer afternoon with the Seafair Pirates. Vintage carnival games will include Dunk the Pirate, a Pirate Bounce House, Walk the Plank, Cupcake Walk, Pirate Whiffle Ball, Ducks in the Pond, Balloon…

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Diva Workshop

How's your diva-ness, Wallingford? Got enough? Or maybe you need a bit of a help to get down with your diva-tude? Help is on the way. Internationally known chanteuse and preeminent diva Julie Cascioppo will be sharing her divalicious self with aspiring divas in her 3 hour coaching session titled "Get in Touch With Your Diva-Ness" this Thursday, August 18th from 6 - 9:30 pm at the Good Shepherd Center's Chapel Performance Space (4649 Meridian Ave): GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR…

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Free Trees

Pssst...buddy, you wanna Asian pear Shinselki? How about a Paperbark Maple? Oh, I see what you got your eyes on, and you can't have it! That's a Reivers Purple beech, and she's my favorite, I wouldn't give her away to just anyone. You just anyone? If you got a hankering for free trees, head on over to the Seattle reLeaf web site, where the city is giving away trees to qualified homeowners: The Trees for Neighborhoods program helps Seattle residents plant…

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Neighborhood Bilingual Preschool: Zoom

If you're interested in sending your pre-schooler to a Spanish-immersion school in the neighborhood, in addition to Cometa Playschool (which we reported on back in June), Zoom Playschool has a Wallingford location with classes for children ages one through ten. Zoom owner Angelica Camargo reports that Zoom is a Spanish immersion program "that is presented in conjunction with a creative curriculum designed to stimulate intellectual curiosity, develop logical thought processes, support cognitive growth, enhance language opportunities and build phonological and written…

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Goddess Festival: Kid-Friendly, Adult Happy

Tomorrow is the second (and, if the organizers have their way, the larger) of the two Wallingford music festivals, The Goddess Festival.  It runs from 11 am to 10:00 pm on Saturday in Meridian Park and includes a line-up of music, comedy, vendors and other funness. Now, if you're like us, when you think "music festival", you think mud-spattered pits of drunken twenty-somethings, passing poorly rolled joints and water bottles filled with Gatorade and Everclear. What, that's not how you spent your…

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Last call for food drive

A few days ago, we told you about the food drive organized by some very thoughtful neighborhood teens. Grace and her friends busily collected donations from people's porches yesterday, but she wanted to let everyone know that people can still drop food donations in bags at these drop points over the next few days: 3727 Burke Ave N 3634 Woodlawn Ave N 3814 Densmore Ave N Here's a pic of the girls today with some of the neighborhood's donations.  

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