Senior citizens

Matt Mason, our roving photographer, snapped some shots of this last weekend's final Wallingford Senior Center Pancake Breakfast. His photos and write-up are below: Today was the last Sunday Pancake Breakfast at the Wallingford Senior Center. Located inside the Good Shepherd Center, the Senior Center will be closing its doors this Friday, after thirty years of service to local seniors and to the greater community of Wallingford and North Seattle. The monthly Sunday Pancake Breakfast has been a staple of the…

As we all are painfully aware, the Wallingford Senior Center is closing effective November 1st (see our earlier story for the details). But it's not closed yet, and that means that the Last Sunday of the Month Pancake Breakfast is on for this Sunday. Kathleen Byrnes, the Center's director, writes: The Wallingford Community Senior Center would like to bring 30 years of service to the community to a close with our best (and likely last) pancake breakfast.  Bring family, friends, and…

The Wallingford Senior Center, housed in the Good Shepherd Center, will be closing its doors effective November 1st. King 5 reports: The 1,500 seniors served at Wallingford Senior Center will have to find somewhere else to play bridge, share a meal or learn computers. [...]"It is a priority but we have many competing priorities like police, fire, and other human services," he said.Wallingford closes November 1, leaving seven other senior centers city-wide."I Just felt like crying, I still feel like I'm…