Colleen from Cutz sent us this note: Bring your dirty cars (not your dirty minds) to CUTZ Meridian (4515 Meridian Ave N) to be washed this Saturday from 11 - 2. It's a fundraiser for the volleyball team at Changes Bar and Grill, "The Cocktails"! All sevices at CUTZ will be 25% off that day! Now yes, she said "not your dirty minds", but Wallingford's only gay bar has a volleyball team named The Cocktails, and they're going to be getting…
The 30th Annual Seattle Peace Concerts conclude with a final concert at Gas Works Park this Sunday, 9/19, noon to 6pm. Free, but food bank donations are encouraged. As the Seattle Peace Concerts website puts it, “The concerts are non-political in nature (no speeches) and celebrate peace and the oneness of all people. AT PEACE.. not just trying to achieve it. THEY REALLY ARE PEACE CONCERTS!” Sunday’s musical line up includes: Don Glenn (Glenn, the Peace Concert guru himself, opens the…
The Wallingford Home Tour, originally slated for Saturday, October 3, has been canceled, according to Janet Stillman, Director of the Wallingford Neighborhood Office. The reason for the cancellation is that there aren't enough homes for the tour. This annual event provided the public with a chance to see many of the beautiful Craftsman Bungalows here in Wallingford. Proceeds of the Home Tour also supports the cost of running the neighborhood office.
Ah, the Wallingford Wurst Festival. What a grand old tradition. It is the best of times, it is the Wurst of times, you could say. This year, the Festival will be Friday, Sept. 17th, 4 PM - 10 PM and Saturday, Sept. 18th, 10 AM - 10 PM in the playground and building of St. Benedict School. They are in their 28th year of housing Festivals and no Wurst for wear. What's the Wurst that can happen? Food! Wursts of course! …
The recent announcement of SHARE's indoor homeless shelter coming to the Gift of Grace Church in Wallingford has left many in the local community with unanswered questions, even after the notification meeting SHARE held last Sunday. As Wallyhood reported earlier, the main areas of concern for meeting attendees centered around the insufficient notification process by the both the church and SHARE to the community, concern over the screening process for shelter residents, the impact to the preschool, and uncertainty regarding ongoing communications…
SHARE, Seattle Housing and Resource Effort, held a neighborhood notification meeting on Sunday at the Gift of Grace Lutheran Church (2102 North 40th Street). This SHARE indoor shelter will begin providing housing for a minimum of five and up to fifteen co-ed residents starting this Wednesday September 15th from 7pm to 7am, seven days a week. The shelter residents will occupy the second and third floors of the church and will be required to arrive and leave by the designated hours.…
Update and correction: the meeting will be held at ISB's administrative offices in Fremont (837 N. 34th Street) and NOT at the labs across from the transfer station. 837 N. 34th Street is the building near the Fremont Bridge, right behind the JP Patches statue. Hat tip to Allison. Seattle Public Utilities is holding its next stakeholder group workshop relating to the new North Transfer Station (NTS) on Tuesday, Sept. 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Institute for Systems…