Wallingford, Seattle

Saturday morning, when I walked down North 34th street for fancy coffee, I noticed something odd. The street was clean! The sidewalk was completely free of litter. Everything looked scrubbed and ready for tourists summertime.   North 34th street looked just as good as North 45th did after the Wallingford Community Council's Spring Clean last month. Did I miss a community clean up event in lower Wallingford? No, I did not. Avtech employees are responsible.  I spotted a few of them with…

Hey, remember phone books? Those huge, alphabetical tomes that listed the telephone number of everybody in a particular area, one-by-one. And then there were "yellow pages" (so called because of the color the paper used) that were business listings indexed by business type. Yeah, kids, that's the way they did it before the Internet. What, they still deliver phone books? Seriously? To people who don't even want them? And businesses actually pay to have advertisements in the yellow pages when they…

Wallingford Walks are back!  And the first one, the Spring Garden Walk, is scheduled for Saturday, May 14. At the Spring Garden Walk, you'll learn horticulture tips from master gardener Laura Watson while viewing some of Wallingford's best flower and vegetable gardens.   As in years past, meet at the Tully's Coffee at N. 45th & Meridian Avenue N. at 11am.  Free!  Rain or shine, all are welcome.  The tour is a moderate, 45 minute walking tour.   The rest of…