Wallingford, Seattle

Got some work that needs doing around the house? Wallyhood welcomes a new sponsor, just in time to get some help working through that summer job jar: At the Millionair Club Charity, we’re rebuilding the lives of unemployed men and women in our community by offering day labor jobs to help them restore their confidence, earn some cash and build their résumés. Typical jobs we fill include housework, yard work, landscaping projects, window washing, painting, handyman chores and moving help. You can change…

As a bunch of you noticed, we had some slight technical difficulties here at Wallyhood this last week. We upgraded one of the components of the site, which apparently broke the RSS feed that creates the daily email version of the stories that go out. For about a week, everyone who visited the web site was enjoying Wallyhood, and everyone who was waiting for their daily email was not. We got it fixed, and sent out the backlog of stories that…

Earlier this week, Andrew wrote: I just walked past the mmj coop on Corliss and it looks like they're out of business. All the signs are gone. We dropped a line to the Truly Helpful Cooperative, the marijuana dispensary he's talking about, for more details but didn't hear back. We'll be curious to see how the city's many dispensaries fare once a medical prescription is no longer required to buy pot at a store later this year. On a related note,…

While at Gasworks Park, I recently watched in amazement as an average-looking guy inverted himself and proceeded to do handstand push-ups. Several of them. Which I can tell you is 100% more than I could do without ending up in a neck brace. I suspect I might not be the only person in Wallingford whose muscles could use some beefing up. Which might be why theLAB Strength and Conditioning recently opened a new fitness studio at 36th and Interlake. TheLab owner Lindsey wrote:…