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A Call to Action: The Senior Center Needs Your Support!

(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…

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Senior Center Pancake Breakfast Report

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…

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Last Chance for Pancakes

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…

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More Senior Center News

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…

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A Litany of Crime

We don't have any way to keep official count, but here's what we've heard of in the last week: Molly Moon's was robbed at gunpoint this past week. We don't have any more details of this, just heard it from two community leaders. Jon, who lives on 40th near I-5, twittered Saturday night: "Somebody broke in our back door. I am so done with this f***ing house" and "Nothing of mine was jacked, I don't think--and everyone is ok. But roomie…

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Senior Center to Close (Get Your Pancakes!)

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…

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