When I was a kid, one of my uncles was a minister. A minister who traveled with marionettes, spreading the gospel through singing, dancing puppets. No, I'm not kidding. It was a lot of fun. And now I know why I love The Sound of Music so much. Anyway, speaking of fun with puppets (minus the gospel in this case), the annual Puppet Show Fundraiser at FamilyWorks is upon us! Saturday May 14th 3:30-5pm. Drew Derby, King County Librarian and Puppeteer…
King and Snohomish County PEPS (the Program for Early Parent Support) offers a series of talks for parents, with the majority of them here in Wallingford at the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Avenue North). Their upcoming talk, scheduled for this Wednesday night, May 11, from 7-9pm is "Avoiding Toxic Chemicals and Creating a Safe Environment During Pregnancy and in the Home". Erika Schreder, staff scientist for the Washington Toxics Coalition and Windy Gossett, Baby Planner for Itsabelly, will provide information…
Wallyhood welcomes Reed Painting of Wallingford, specializing in residential repainting and light commercial work, as our newest sponsor. You've probably seen their paint around: they donated the paint used in the new Art Walk mural on the side of Bottleworks, and about once a year, they offer to go around the neighborhood picking up and recycling those old, half-used cans of paint you've got tucked away in your basement. REED Painting was founded seven years ago in a house at 39th &…
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…
Thus far, we have received exactly zero correct responses to last week's What in the Wallingford contest. We have wonderful prizes to choose from from our sponsors, Smash Wine Bar, Scarecrow Video, Green Cleaning Seattle and Murphy's Pub. And really, nobody recognizes the? We'll give you until mid-week, then we'll reveal the answer. Visit last week's What in the Wallingford contest page to take your guess.
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…