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Change of Venue for Community Council Tomorrow

The April Wallingford Community Council board meeting will be held in the Wallingford Community Senior Center tomorrow evening, April 7th, 7:00-9:00 PM. The Good Shepherd Center is such a happening place that we got bumped from our usual venue (Room 202) so this is a chance to celebrate the revitalization of the Community Senior Center! Thank you WCSC for hosting this month. The agenda includes: 7:05 – Woodland Park Bowling Club 7:15 – 45th Street Viaduct Replacement Project – Summer 2010 7:30…

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Introducing, Mad Fiber

Many of you have been curious as to what has become of the now empty bakery down at the Essential Baking Company building. Back in the first week of February the production packed up all their bread making ingredients and shipped their ovens down to Georgetown in south Seattle. Sadly, dumpster diving went with them. The bakery was an empty and eerie place; the hustle and bustle of hundreds of workers was gone and the drop of a pin echoed off…

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Break Out Your Dancin’ Shoes

The Latin dance community in Seattle is a large and fast growing scene. You are able to dance, usually with a live band, almost every night of the week somewhere. Wallingford now has three of those night right in the center of our neighborhood. Babalu features Latin Mambo Night on Wednesday. Featuring live music by Cambalache a nine piece high energy Salsa band covering several styles from Salsa to Bachata to Mambo. Some of the best dancers in Seattle come out…

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Espresso Paintings at Irwin’s!

Okay, check these out.  Was at Irwin's today enjoying an enormous cinnamon roll with my daughter.  We looked up at the wall next to us and noticed some paintings in suspiciously familiar brown tints. Yes, these are paintings done in espresso.  Two are copies of Van Goghs (did he drink a lot of coffee?) and one is an original composition.  Wow, makes you wonder with so much of the stuff around, what else could we do with it?  If you got…

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Mail Theft

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OK, we've got a little confession. You want to know the real reason we don't want to write about crime on this blog? It's because our mom reads Wallyhood every day, and she worries about us! We write some little thing about car prowl and we've got fliers for The Club in our mailbox; someone gets their camera swiped from their counter and suddenly we've got deadbolt catalogs stacked on our kitchen table. That said, we must stay vigilant. Michelle writes…

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Please, Drive Your Car Regularly

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Carrie writes: I wanted to give you the heads up about parking tickets and infractions in our little neighborhood. My fiance and I live on 43rd & Stone, have 2 cars, and always park on the street. Because we both work downtown, we either carpool or take public transportation. This past week we noticed a few orange stickers on the windshields of cars parked in that area. On Thursday, my fiance's car (and the one we drive less frequently) had one…

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Wallingford Talks!

If you haven’t spent time poking around the Wallyhood Forums, you should. Head on up the the page there, that’s right – just next to the home button, and click! Our community is chatting a fair bit – here are some recent highlights: People Living in Vehicles:  Want to know the Seattle regs about what vehicles can park where? This conversation has been going on for 2 months! Dogs on the Playfield: This is great – a long conversation about dogs,…

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