Wallingford, Seattle

The Wallingford Community Council meeting this past Wednesday did not have an agenda posted before hand, so attendance was light, although 2 city council candidates did attend. Kudos to Catherine Weatbrook and Michael Maddux for coming! Catherine Weatbrook is running against Mike O'Brien, who skipped the Wallingford debate in the last election cycle at the last possible second, with the excellent excuse that he needed to attend a fund raiser in Eastern Washington somewhere. More impartial reporting: The first topic was live-in campers on…

Stephen Fickenscher submitted the following: Last Wednesday Wallingford Toastmasters Club 252 had a retirement party for Dick Hendricks. Dick is 105 years old and a founding member of our club from back in 1960. The celebration was attended by 40 guests. Many of the current members and past members in attendance hadn't even been born when Dick started the Wallingford club, although one former member in attendance has known Dick his entire life and helped Dick get the club going back…

Editor's note: The events below have been added to the Wallyhood Calendar. Spring is a time for renewal - what do you want to re-commit to this April? At Wallingford Community Senior Center, find opportunities to enjoy music & dance, learn about resources that are available for you or just come together in community to find more joy! Check out these programs being offered in April: Jazz Standards Concert Enjoy a piano and vocal duo performing favorite jazz standards during lunch!…

(note: this is an April 1st post, which I can now freely say as it is no longer April 1st) I went to the Move Transportation Levy meeting at Roosevelt on Monday night. I had figured the levy would just amount to adding a couple crosswalks to the neighborhood and then focus all the real money on Northgate and other light rail stops, but the draft proposal currently includes funding for making 45th and 50th one way streets. SDOT is maintaining…

Paul Dorpat style "Now and Then" posts in Wallingford are easy. Just go to 45th or Stone, take a picture, then look at what Google Street View has for the same place. Here is the site of the new CVS that will be replacing what was Moon Temple, Tully's, and the Wallingford Neighborhood Office. The new store is supposed to keep the architectural look of the original building, so I assume the stonework at the top is just temporarily removed: There's…

The project proposing to prevent Tangletown cut throughs by blocking easy I-5 access from Tangletown received 90 comments, more than all the other NPSF projects put together. Justin wrote the following, which seemed to encapsulate the general tone of many of the comments: I live on NE 51st St at the corner of 5th NE, literally 50 feet from the proposed barriers. Yes, plenty of traffic “cheats” and cuts through the neighborhood rather than sit through the snarl that is the…

My hope is that the calendar will be of use to people that are sitting around with their coffee on Saturday morning wondering what to do with themselves or their kids. The calendar tab is now back in the Wallyhood menu and the calendar is up to date. I also cleaned up the page so it hopefully more legible and useful. So that you and I don’t forget the calendar is there, my plan is to have an article featuring events…