Don't forget, the Wallyhood-sponsored auction isn't the only fundraiser for the Wallingford Senior Center. This Thursday November 19th from 6 - 8 pm, the Wallingford Chamber and Community Council are putting on a fundraiser with live music, a raffle, food and more, at the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Ave N):
(Update: New items have been added. The complete list of items can be seen in the sidebar of the blog or on this dedicated auction page). A huge thanks to the many businesses and individuals that have donated to our fundraiser auction to benefit the Wallingford Community Senior Center. As we've covered (Senior Center to Close, More Senior Center News, and A Call to Action), the Wallingford Senior Center, serving over 1,500 seniors in our community and beyond, has been forced…
We've been touched with the way so many have rallied around the Wallingford Community Senior Center. When you think that, forty, fifty or more years ago, many of the seniors it serves were fixing up the houses we're living in and sending their kids off to the schools we're now renovating, you can feel how each generation carries the community on, then passes the mantle to the next. We want to do our bit to thank them and care for them…
(Wallyhood welcomes a new contributor today, Erin Leach-Kemon) After 30 years, the Wallingford Senior Center was forced on Fri, Oct 30 to let go of its primary staff and to scale down its senior services to just a few remaining programs due to a continual lack of funds. A final decision on the Center's future is scheduled to be reached just before Thanksgiving. In an effort to raise money and to demonstrate the community's commitment to the Center, the Wallingford Chamber…
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 Seattle Times ran an article today on the impending closing of the Wallingford Senior Center that includes some more background on the situation. Apparently, the center, which was founded in 1979 and serves 1,500 people, is in arrears to the tune of $70,000. It's annual budget of $300,000 comes from a mix of public and private funding. Unfortunately, with the economy the way it is, the 40% they've traditionally raised from private donors has shrunk to 13%: "The senior center…