Laugh Your Goddass Off

The Goddess Festival, the daylong music event that debuted last year at Meridian Park will be returning this year with some adjustments and perhaps lessons learned to Lower Woodland Park on August 25th. Tomorrow night, there's a fundraiser comedy show for the event. Tara Shuttleworth, the event organizer, writes: Coming up THIS FRIDAY THE 13th!  Babette's Events Presents our Second Annual "Laugh Your Goddass Off" Comedy Show at CMA Gallery and Performance Space in Wallingford.  Starring Michael Stegner, Cait Parks, Andy…

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Surprise Party at Wading Pool

What's better than a wading pool on a hot summer day? If you're under the age of 10, it's probably a bounce house with ice cream next to a wading pool on a hot summer day. Ask.com is continuing to shower favors on dear little Wallingford and our wading pool. Earlier this year, they donated money to keep the wading pool open on Saturdays, and tomorrow, they'll be throwing a free party at said wading pool from noon to 3 pm.…

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Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour

Summer has finally deigned to grace us with her warmth and, if you're like me, you're looking to make some garden in improvements. Maybe you're even thinking of jumping on the urban farm craze that's sweeping the nation like a pet rock spinning a hula hoop. If so, your day of inspiration has arrived in the form of Seattle Tilth's annual Chicken Coop and Urban Farm Tour, this Saturday, July 14 from 10 am - 4 pm. Seattle Tilth’s Chicken Coop & Urban Farm…

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Free Slurpee

Kelley wrote: Just strolled around the corner to the 7/11 on 1st and 50th to get a Slurpee and the manager asked me to (through you) remind the 'hood that they'll be giving away free small Slurpees to the public on 7/11 (next Weds) from 11am - 7pm. Because remember, nothing washes down the kale, collard greens and mizuna you'll pick up at the Wallingford Farmers Market  at the Good Shepherd Center (Wednesday, 3:30 - 7:00 pm) like a Fanta Blue Raspberry…

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Cups of Kindness

From what Wallyhood readers have shared this week, there were plenty of examples of visitors to our neighborhood not being their best selves during the Fourth of July celebrations. Fortunately, some of our smaller residents were inspired to acts of kindness on the Fourth. Which makes me, for one, proud to be a Wallingfordian. Wallingford residents Sebastian, age 8, and Sofi, age 5, hosted their fourth annual fundraiser for the Whale Museum at Friday Harbor on the afternoon of the 4th,…

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Register to Vote (for our Library’s Sake!)

As she returned home from a busy day of registering people to vote, my neighbor Connie clued me into a surprising factoid: Updating your address falls into the category of “registering to vote” and there is a deadline for this before the upcoming primary election. In fact, it is this Monday, July 9th (If you want to receive a mail-in ballot. Should you miss this deadline, there are ways around it but they all involve talking to county elections people and…

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