Wallyhood is pleased to introduce our special guest blogger and comedian, Barbara Sehr. When was the last time you thought about standing up in front of your neighbors and throwing out a punch line or two? There’s a word for that — a comedy open mic. Murphy’s Irish Pub, has become a proving ground for live comedy every Sunday evening at 8 pm. The home of Wallingford’s Irish spirit(s), hosted a gaggle of comedians in its very first regular comedy open…
While every cloud may have a silver lining, every dump must have a pretty patch of green. This adage rings particularly true if the dump happens to be in our neighborhood, which is why the Wallingford Community Council (WCC) is working with a landscape designer and a Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) facilitator to create some green spaces adjacent to the newly-redesigned North Transfer Station (see map below). Would you like to volunteer to help design the space? Sure, c'mon, why not!…
Jordan ran such an informative post on Lettuce Link last summer, it bears reposting since Lettuce Link is looking for volunteers again for this year's community fruit tree harvest. His post appears below, and I've amended the date for the volunteer orientation so that it is current in the text: The volunteer orientation meeting is next Thursday, July 21 from 6:30pm - 7:30pm at Solid Ground. If you've ever looked at all the lush fruit trees around our neighborhood and thought…
Heads up, Wallingford: Due to citywide budget cuts, all Seattle Public Library locations, including the Wallingford branch, will be closed from Monday, August 29 through Monday, September 5 (Labor Day). Regular Library hours will resume on Tuesday, September 6. This also means that the book drops will close on Saturday, August 27 and re-open Tuesday, September 6, when the branch opens at 1pm.
In a recent press release, commercial real estate firm Meriwether Partners announced that it acquired Wallingford Plaza -- the office building on the corner of Stone Way and N. 45th St. Part of the space, including the ground floor, has been leased to Walgreens: Wallingford Plaza is a 3-story, 30,554 square foot building with ground floor retail and two floors of office located at the corner of Stone Way North and North 45th Street in the heart of the Wallingford neighborhood…
Last week, we told you about Seattle Tilth's city-wide Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour. This week, we get to announce the Wallingford-centric "Birds, Bees, and Maybe a Goat." Cameron Miller, who is helping coordinate this year's Wallingford Walks, invites us all: This has been a very popular event where walkers visit several 'urban backyard farms' in the neighborhood. This guided walk will make stops at homes where the owners keep bees, chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, as well as grow fruit…
Fremont and Wallingford residents who live close to the empty Thunderbird Motel/Fremont Inn on Aurora received letters from Catholic Community Services (CCS) about a meeting they're holding tomorrow (Wednesday, 7/13) to discuss the site's future. The meeting starts at 6:30 pm at the Fremont Abbey (4272 Fremont Avenue N.) Before it was sold in 2010, the Aurora Avenue motel had a long history of being a "chronic nuisance". The CCS letter provides some insight into their proposed plans of low-income housing:…