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Unfortunately, what we’ve learned over the past few years is that it is “when” not “if” you will face a new and very stressful change in your world. For Seattle the most frequent problem will be smoke from forest wildfires. Then there’s various reasons we could locally lose power or water service at out homes. And, of course, a major earthquake is overdue. We are now hearing that the shallow Seattle fault may be even more destructive here than the Cascadia…

  Come join the Wallingford Community Council to learn about the connection between the Wallingford neighborhood and Lake Union, along with past and present efforts to preserve our many public access points to Lake Union. Lake Union is a pre-existing natural lake formed by Vashon Glacier during the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. Once inhabited by the Duwamish people, today it has a functioning ecosystem with some of the most diverse traffic – from boating/kayaking and boat houses, to…

Wallyhood heard from Deborah Barnes with the Wallingford Community Senior Center announcing a summer event for members and the community: Summer Kickoff Picnic, Thursday, June 8th from 12:00 until 2:00 pm. Summer is almost here and it’s time to welcome the sun! Let’s meet for lunch in the pavilion on the west side of the Good Shepherd Center and enjoy the sunshine, good food and good music. The picnic lunch is $5.00 for members of the Wallingford Community Senior Center and…

Historic Wallingford is teaming up with Wallingford’s own Feliks Banel to do a once-a-month live radio broadcast this summer at the neighborhood Farmers Market in Meridian Park. Historic Wallingford is teaming up with Wallingford’s own Feliks Banel to do a once-a-month live radio broadcast this summer at the neighborhood Farmers Market in Meridian Park. Called The Wallingford Local, the show will be broadcast live on SPACE 101.1 FM, a people-powered, arts-focused community radio station, the last Wednesday of the month beginning…

This post comes to us from Tara Katz, Director of the Fremont Community School.  In a world full of large corporate daycare centers, it is rare for small, independent centers to open these days. It is even rarer to find a childcare center gently nestled into one of Wallingford's 100-year-old homes. Almost five years ago Fremont Community School (FCS), a small nonprofit preschool, was able to purchase a wonderful house located in lower Wallingford, kitty-corner to The Bouldering Project on N…

The U District Street Fair  has been with us for 50 years and keeps getting better each year. Just a short walk over I-5 to University Way NE, south of NE 50th St to NE 41st St. It is this coming Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 21 from 11 am to 6 pm. This year expect more than 175 artist and craft vendors stretching all along U Way, some you’ll be glad to see back again this year and some…

Some of you may have heard about the controversial cherry trees down by the Pike Place Market that stirred a larger conversation about the fate of trees in the city. Wallyhood was recently contacted by Sandy Shettler, a local resident with a strong interest in urban trees and preserving those that remain. She and Kersti Muul, an urban conservation specialist and arborist, sent us the following sad article on the demise of two venerable old oak trees that had shaded the…