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Come check out the second annual Haunted Alley in Wallingford! This family-friendly event will take place from 5-8pm on October 30th and 31st (Halloween and the day before). There will be fun games and activities, including cornhole, a scavenger hunt, ring toss, a haunted tent walkthrough, and other carnival classics. The event is completely free but they will be accepting donations for FamilyWorks. Last year, they raised $5,000! Entrance on 52nd Street between Kirkwood Pl and Kensington. Make sure to stop…

It began as an ordinary day for Russell Ruhle, a driver for WM (formerly Waste Management), one of the city’s contractors for collecting trash, yard waste and recyclables. But then, as Ruhle maneuvered his truck up the 4000 block of Sunnyside, he noticed someone signaling to him from the sidewalk. It was mid-afternoon on Friday, October 14. It had been an ordinary day for Neal Stuber as well. While his wife, Carol, was out doing some shopping, Neal busied himself with…

The Wallingford Community Senior Center is looking for volunteers of all ages to help with their programs. This coming Saturday the Senior Center is having a Volunteer Fair to showcase a range of opportunities for your involvement. It will be setting up booths where you can learn about different tasks at the Senior Center you could help with. It's a great group of people to be working with and a great group of people you would be helping. There will be…

[Editor’s note: Since 2019, planning and work to improve transit time and safety along the route 44 corridor has been ongoing. The information below, regarding work to begin as early as next week, comes to us from Darrell Bulmer, Communications and Outreach Lead, at the Seattle Dept. of Transportation (SDOT). More information is available here.] Pedestrian Improvements in Wallingford As soon as next week, crews are expected to shift into the Wallingford area and begin sidewalk, curb ramp, and crosswalk work.…

The performance group Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre will bring their most recent production, Ruins of Memory: Women's Voices of the Holocaust, to the Wallingford United Methodist Church this coming Sunday. First, the details: Date: Sunday, October 23, 2022 Time: 3:00 pm Place: Wallingford United Methodist Church, 2115 N. 42nd St. Free-will donations at the door Ruins of Memory follows the stories of Jewish women during the Holocaust. From the WUMC website: This theatrical performance piece, adapted and directed by Laura…

Balo USA, a Wallingford-based nonprofit, is having its first in-person party Friday, October 21st from 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm at OmCulture to raise money in support of its school and programs in Kolkata, India. I spoke with founder and friend, Anne Leache, about this wonderful, grassroots organization. In 2005, Anne was volunteering with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity (which warrants a separate conversation and blog post!). There she met fellow volunteer, Elisabetta (Betta) Ravaioli, an Italian lawyer. The following year…

Post by Christine Deavel On September 26, 2022, my partner-in-all-things, John W. Marshall, and I closed on the sale of our building at 2414 N. 45th Street in Wallingford, a neighborhood where one or both of us has had a footprint since the 1970s. We bought what was a residential building in 1994 as a new home for our newly transformed bookstore, Open Books: A Poem Emporium. We were moving the store just a few blocks east from 1716 N. 45th,…