Wallingford, Seattle

Mother’s Day Sale at the Snow Leopard Trust

Back in December, we told you about the cool little store run by the Snow Leopard Trust, a non-profit organization dedicated to community-based Snow Leopard conservation. The store is in the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Avenue North), in Suite #225 (which is located right where you walk in the front door at the GSC). Anyway, they're having a big sale tomorrow (Thursday, May 3), from 12:00PM - 7:00PM in honor of Mother's Day, and if you mention this post, you'll…

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Wallingford’s synchronized swimmers

Quick, when you think about synchronized swimming, what's the first thing that pops into your head? Is it Esther Williams in one of her classic water ballet films from the 50s, or do you think of an Olympic Synchronized Swimming event? Either way, they both capture synchronized swimming's beauty and grace, as well as the intensity. Wallingford is home to two teens who are a part of Seattle's Synchronized Swim Team (SST), the most competitive and successful synchronized team in the Pacific Northwest…

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GiveBIG tomorrow, Wallingford

Tomorrow (Wednesday, May 2) from midnight to midnight, you'll have a chance to donate to your favorite local nonprofits through The Seattle Foundation's second annual GiveBIG giving event, and we wouldn't be a true neighborhood news blog if we didn't mention two of our favorite Wallingford nonprofits that could use our support. FamilyWorks and the Wallingford Community Senior Center impact many lives each day and a gift on May 2nd to them will help continue important work of serving the community. What's GiveBIG? Glad you…

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Opt Out of Phone Books

Hey, you remember back in September, how we all filled out that form to tell the phone book companies to stop dumping phone books at our doorstep, because, you know, we've heard of Google? It worked! According to the Seattle Public Utilities department, 75,000 residents and businesses have opted out (more than one-fifth of all Seattle households and businesses), which in turn has stopped 420,000 unwanted deliveries of phone books, or roughly 375 tons of paper. If you figure 12 trees make about…

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What do you tell your kids?

We rolled down 45th Street today over I-5, pulled into the left-turn lane to head North and waited. From the backseat, Baby Z's three year-old voice piped up with one of those "why" questions you hear from three year-old all the time. This one ended up being a bit tough, though. "Daddy, what bus is that man waiting for? Where is he going?" Now, I got to give it to Baby Z that he understands bus stops sufficiently to know that…

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House of Julie

OK, look at the drawing on the left. Contemplative. Introspective. Restrained. Now, look at the video on the right. None of the above. Now, go see both of them, Monday night at the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center. Join Julie Cascioppo and friends, on Monday, April 30th, at 7:30pm when the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center will be transformed into "The House of Julie." This tribute to the golden age of television's variety shows is…

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Wallingford Center for Wooden Boats opens May 4

South Lake Union's Center for Wooden Boats will be cutting ribbon on their North Lake Union (Wallingford!) expansion next Friday, May 4th: The Center For Wooden Boats is pleased to announce we will formally open the new CWB North Lake Union Workshop & Warehouse on Friday, May 4, 2012 at 5:30pm.   We hope you’ll join us for the opening at the organization’s new second campus on Lake Union.  While the facility is land-based for now, over time we hope to build…

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