TODAY: Buy-Nothing Day Wallingford, Fremont and Green Lake (July 30)

In Wallingford TODAY (9am-3pm): A community garage sale style event, in which everything is free! Check out the Facebook Event for more details and scan the QR code below to see a map of registered sites! Per the facebook event: This event is being hosted by members of the Wallingford, Upper Fremont and Greenlake Buy Nothing groups, along with Fremont Freecycle. All items are free, but please don't take tables, sheets or tarps that are being used for display unless they…

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Night Out – Tuesday, August 2

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The last two years have isolated so many of us from our neighbors. Night Out is an excuse to invite the neighbors on your block to come together for an hour or so to visit and reconnect. Next Tuesday evening is the designated time. You can publicize your event with flyers to homes and posters on telephone poles. Some blocks do something simple. One or two families haul out a table and chairs in the front yard and visit with whichever…

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Great to meet you!

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We had a great time meeting all of you on Murphy's Wednesday night at the first "post"-pandemic Wallyhood Mix & Mingle. Wonderful to see familiar faces and meet new neighbors. We love knowing how people read the blog, what topics you like and hear new neighborhood stories. We were also happy to see avid blog reader and our own District 4 Councilmember, Alex Pedersen. Thanks for stopping, by Alex! Please keep the feedback and ideas coming!          …

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See you at Murphy’s TONIGHT (7/27)!

Looking forward to some good old neighborhood chatter TONIGHT! It's a hot one out there, Wallingford. All the reason to cool down with a beverage and some fresh conversation. Join the Wallyhood editors for a summer gathering on the back patio of Murphy's Pub from 6pm-8pm tonight!   We will spring for a few appetizers and pitchers of beer, so join us right at 6pm to get in on those.    

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Fruitful Connections at the Good Shepherd Center

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This post comes to us from John Klees, Marketing and Operations specialist with the Snow Leopard Trust, located in Good Shepherd Center.  After over a year of pandemic lockdowns and social distancing, I have vowed to never take our city’s parks and community spaces for granted. And a recent tour of Wallingford’s Good Shepherd Center and Meridian Playground further cemented this rejection of complacency. Throughout the tour our group was reminded that the existence of these parks, and specifically this beautiful…

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Wallyhood Mix & Mingle This Wednesday – Murphy’s Pub

We hope to see you there! 6pm-8pm -- Come share your neighborhood gossip, pester the writers with story ideas, consider writing a story or two yourself or jumping in as an editor! We can't wait to see the neighborhood for a mid-summer hang and maybe even some heated dialogue about RV parking and outdoor cats!

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Creatures of Wallyhood

The Coyotes eat the cats who eat the rats who eat the trash...but where do the crows fit in? Being top of the food chain, Wally-humans may not fear for our own safety when we see a legged or winged predator, but a quick glance at any of the neighborhood facebook groups reminds us that we have a lot of opinions on the growing number of coyote sightings in the neighborhood.  A heated debate has emerged on the topic of outdoor…

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