Tomorrow (August 1) from 4pm to 7pm, Wally Pets Food & Supplies Owner, Paul "Brownie" Brown and his friends (including the four-legged, furry kind), will be celebrating his second year of owning the store, located at 4411-C Wallingford Avenue North. Everyone is welcome to stop by and enjoy appetizers and beverages, and he'll also have treats for his feline and canine fans. Here's the invite: I am turning two! Aloha Bra! – it’s a Hawaiian theme so dress in your best summer…
Wallyhood welcomes our newest sponsor, Fair Trade Winds, a family-owned marketplace for meaningful, handmade goods in Wallingford Center. We asked Emily of Fair Trade Winds to introduce herself: Fair Trade Winds is a family owned fair trade retail store, and has loved calling Wallingford home since we opened in September 2011 in the Wallingford Center. We are a marketplace for meaningful, handcrafted goods made by smaller artisan cooperatives from all corners of the globe. It has been a joy to meet…
Listen, if you're one of the people who enjoyed our "Tomatoes are for snacking. Help Yourself!" sidewalk-side tomato plant in past years, I've got bad news for you. Instead of the monster bushes we've enjoyed in past years, this year there are three of the scraggliest, gawkiest lame tomato plants that you ever laid eyes on. I'm not quite sure what I did wrong, although lack of sufficient fertilizer is my best guess. You can still help yourself, but there's not…
Should someone come to your front door asking you to buy magazine subscriptions to benefit the Boys and Girls Club, the club has issued the following statement: Boys & Girls Clubs of King County (BGCKC) has discovered that recent suspicious activity has been wrongly attributed to the organization. It had come to the youth development agency’s attention that some young men have approached homes in Greenwood/North Seattle and Queen Anne using the Boys & Girls Club name in their sales pitch.…
The Plus One Foundation (funding "activities and experiences that help on the path of rehabilitation, recovery or stabilization due to a neurological disorder") is hosting their 3rd Annual Family Fun Field Day on August 11th, noon to 3 pm at Meridian Park. Skye writes: It's fun for everyone at Family Fun Field Day 2013! Games, food, prizes, and giving to a great cause. Revenue from ticket sales goes directly to provide grants to children with neurological disorders that help with rehabilitation and…
Want to help out children in need of school supplies and books? Alphabet Soup Children's Books (1406 N. 45th St.) is participating in Project Cool for Back-To-School -- a program through the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness that aims to fill 1,300 backpacks this fall with school supplies, books, and toiletries and distribute them to homeless children. Alphabet Soup Children's Books' owner, Janet Cavallo, tells us how to participate: Purchase a book for donation to Project Cool for Back-to-School and…
Nina Chambers, down on 35th and Meridian, writes: Dear Wallingford Neighbors-- Please consider signing this Wallingford-specific petition! This is an issue for all Seattle neighborhoods right now. One Ballard resident has pointed out that they have had big box development that has adversely impacted the community in many ways, certainly traffic & parking & overshadowed sidewalks. We are trying to mitigate that in our own Wallingford neighborhood just one block north of GasWorks. We are looking for smart-density, not big-box density!…