Wallingford, Seattle

Like Nepal, and unlike California, we live in a tectonic plate crumple zone. Here are 3 maps that zoom into our neighborhood, showing the risks. At a broad level, California and Oregon are shoving us into Canada: That crumple action means you can expect one of 3 types of earthquakes here. The most frequent and least serious type are like the 2001 Nisqually quake- deep underground with movement that will knock over brick chimneys, topple TV's, and maybe collapse aging viaducts or…

Lucie Campbell and Greg Lewis wrote the following in the hope you can help them with a new playground at JSIS as part of the neighborhood matching fund process: The south Wallyhood playground at JSIS serves 460 children every day and also is a popular playground for the surrounding neighborhood. Community members and parents are kicking off a project to replace the nearly 20-year-old play equipment. Just for fun we wanted to share a few "old" photos from the playground - maybe you remember…

Wallingford Community Senior Center is chock full of fun, informative and health-related programming in May! It all kicks off with our Spring Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, May 3rd - All ages welcome! Bring your friends & family for a hearty breakfast to support programs at WCSC. Learn some Spring Cleaning techniques at the "Less Stuff: More Possibilities" workshop on May 6th, attend the many health-related presentations we're offering this month and participate in an exclusive dance class with the world-renowned Pilobolus Dance Troupe…

The Wallyhood Calendar is updated with these events and more: From 10 AM to 1 PM this Saturday is a gardening party at the Good Shepherd Center. Tara Macdonald wrote this up for Wallyhood: Historic Seattle would like to invite you to visit the Good Shepherd Center gardens. For nearly 40 years the grounds around the Good Shepherd Center have been extensively maintained and developed to create a welcoming, serene, and interesting place for both center visitors and the community to enjoy. For those who have witnessed…

Cass Turnbull hopes you can help her save a beloved house: I hope someone who is reading this is the person, or maybe knows the person,  who can save the house and garden at 4625 Eastern Ave North. It’s important. It’s keeping me up at night thinking that a developer is going to raze the garden, chop down her Heritage Trees and bulldoze that wonderful house--the likes of which will never be made again in Seattle—in order to build two or three…