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With YoYo & CoCo now gracing 45th Street with taro frappes and frozen yogurt cubes, Wallingford is asserting itself as the frozen treats district of Seattle. Even as someone with no sweet tooth and a lactose-intolerant spouse, I still find this claim-to-fame far more exciting than the direction we are threatening to head of becoming the unofficial smoke shop district of Seattle, but that is a topic for another story... Today's 90 degree weather served as ample excuse to ruin my…

After a mid-summer closure to remodel, Yoroshiku will have a soft open today, August 17th as a ramen bar specializing in Ramen, Tsukemen, Zangi (Japanese Fried Chicken), and a few other fan favorite dishes.

The simple truth is that when it comes to non-profit service organizations in Wallingford, it is the volunteers that make it happen. None of these organizations collect enough money to let them just hire staff to provide the services that are so badly needed in our community. Today’s post continues a series of interviews with volunteers who make up the strong right arm of Wallingford service organizations. Jeremy Mason – Boy Scouts Jeremy learned the advantages of being a community volunteer…

Continuing on with our Dog Days of Summer Series (a title I just made up)…today we reminisce about the storied old Food Giant that operated where the Wallingford QFC is currently located.  Someone posted a couple of old black and white pics of the previous incarnation over on Facebook, which led me to think back on the dingy but beloved Food Giant grocery store that served most of the neighborhood (and I say “most”, because remember?  We used to have a…

We are in the proverbial dog days of summer.  All of the other editors are away. They left me with the keys to the shop, thinking that it will be slow, and what harm could he possibly do?  Well, it is slow here in the post-Seafair void.  And it’s feeling like many of you are away on vacation too, maybe with the rest of the Wallyhood editors. So now I’m wondering: Gee, why didn’t I get invited? But there does seem…

One of the area’s bigger summer benefit events, the Fred Hutch Obliteride, is taking place this coming weekend—Friday & Saturday, August 12th-13th—and will affect parts of Wallingford.  The fundraiser for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center includes just about all of Seattle’s favorite participatory activities:  walking/running, biking, and partying.  In the ten years of its existence, Obliteride has funded an impressive $36 million of research over ten years at Fred Hutch—so definitely a worthwhile and worthy activity to post on the calendar.…

For over 100 years, Seattle elected its nine councilmembers “at-large,” meaning each position on the council was voted on by the entire city. Then, in November 2013, voters in Seattle approved City Charter Amendment 19, creating seven city council districts, altering the way we elect our city councilmembers and how they represent us. Prior to Amendment 19, each person in the city was represented by all nine councilmembers, but beginning in 2015, each person in Seattle is now represented by only…