Wallingford, Seattle

As part of our ongoing series around community building and preparedness skill training, we are hosting our quarterly preparedness potluck breakfast: Block Party 101 This Saturday, June 25th Wallingford Community Senior Center 9:00-Noon. Forget the gloom and doom associated with the whole subject of emergency preparedness. The first and most important aspect of a prepared and resilient community is that we get to know our neighbors. What better way to do that than with the annual Night Out Against Crime block…

Now that summer's upon us (in theory, at least) the Wallingford Wee Set can look forward to a little splash time at the Wallingford Wading Pool. Opening day is Wednesday, June 29, and the season runs through Friday, August 19. The wading pool will run on a limited schedule again this year, only on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from noon until 7pm. If you're disappointed in these limited hours and hoping for a little more water time, Wallingford Community Council member…

You know them by the distinctive orange flags peeping over the top; you've probably used them a few times yourself, and your neighbors have been raving about them. I'm talking about the crosswalk buckets and flag stations that are installed in a few troublesome intersections throughout Wallingford; and it looks like we'll be getting some more stations soon. Hurrah! Wallingford Community Council vice president Jon deLeeuw let us know that the WCC has funds to install and maintain 17 new crosswalk…

Happy solstice, Wallingford! Want to know the best place to enjoy it? Sure, sure, you're an old Wallingford hand, you know all about the sundial on top of Kite Hill at Gas Works, right? Well, unless you're a sundial nerd, you guarantee you we've got something new to impress your friends with. The sundial was created in 1978 by local artists Chuck Greening and Kim Lazare and features beautiful wrought natural imagery as well as embedded rocks, shells, marbles and other…

There's about two to three months every year where everyone in Seattle turns their neighbor and says "this is why I live here". You wouldn't know it from this past weekend, but it's getting to be that time. The days are long, flowers are in bloom, the air is warm, and everybody is just dying to get out and enjoy it. We think of it as "front stoop weather": the time of year when you can pass a day just sitting out…