DishCrawl: Wanderlust in Wallingford

Hey foodies, up for a little adventure this week? Dishcrawl is coming to Wallingford this Wednesday. Julia writes: I'm writing to let you know about an awesome event I'll be hosting in Wallingford on Wednesday, June 26th at 7:00pm. Dishcrawl was founded on the idea of putting the community feeling back into neighborhoods, bring good people together or great food. In the past three years this company has taken off all over America and in parts of Canada. In one night we'll…

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Scarecrow Party

Longtime Wallyhood sponsor and final line of defense against the Netflixification of the movie world Scarecrow Video is hosting a party tonight, Saturday June 22 starting at 8 pm. Jen explains: Since Scarecrow Video opened in 1988, our mission has been to unite people with film. The execution so far has been pretty simple: Have all the movies, TV shows, and other random things anyone would want to watch, all under one roof. It’s also about the connection you get having…

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Help Harvest Fruit Trees

Mariah at Lettuce Link wrote to tell us that we're approaching harvest season and that the community fruit trees will soon be ripe for picking. They're looking for volunteers to help harvest the fruit so that they can donate it to local food banks. Here's the skinny: Harvest Fruit for Donation! The Community Fruit Tree Harvest, a program of Lettuce Link at Solid Ground, serves our community by gleaning fresh fruit from backyard trees to donate to food banks and free…

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Honk! Fest West

This weekend, June 21 – 23, is Honk Fest West, the annual conclave of community street bands from across the nation, and Saturday, June 22nd they'll be taking to the streets at the Fremont Solstice Parade, beginning at 3:00PM, before traveling on to Gas Works Park for an afternoon of musical revelry until 8 p.m. What exactly is HONK! you ask? Well, we're glad you asked and all too happy to provide the answer (thanks to the HONK! website, or course) : HONK!…

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Make Some New Kinder-Friends

Intrepid play date organizer Joe, father of one current BF Day student and a soon-to-be kindergartner, wrote to invite all incoming BF Day kindergartners to meet for some play time this summer: It would be great if our kiddos could get together this summer to get to know each other before the big "K." How about we give the kiddos some play time on Thursday, June 27th, from 10:30 until 12:30 or whenever. Let's meet at the B.F. Day lower playground…

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Wallingford House Car Wash

The folks at Wallingford House want to wash your car tomorrow! Bring it to the old 7-11 parking lot (4612 Stone Way N, where Zaw and Bill the Butcher are located), and help raise money for an upcoming camping trip for Wallingford House program participants. Wallingford House is a program that empowers adults recovering from a mental illness to achieve their vocational and personal goals. When? Wednesday, June 19th from 2-5:30pm Where? 7-11 parking lot, 4612 Stone Way N Why? To raise money for an upcoming camping trip…

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Is Chabela’s Closed?

Update 4:23PM: We received a note from Groupon telling us that they have, in fact, confirmed with Chabela's that they are closed. Nick from Groupon writes: We confirmed that the merchant has in fact closed. Anyone who has an outstanding Groupon voucher can contact us at www.groupon.com/support for a return. And further, with regard to Groupon, Nick adds: Also, I would take issue with the first commenter. More than 500,000 merchants have featured deals on Groupon, including Seattle-based Starbucks. Plus, our re-feature rate…

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