Last call! There are only four spots left for this Saturday's Wallyhood Food Swap. There really is limited room, so if you plan to come, please RSVP now to reserve a spot. Here's what we told you about it when we first announced it a few weeks back: Do you cook, bake, can, jar, grow, distill, brew, shepherd or summon? Do you, perhaps, cook, bake, can, etc. too much? Interested in swapping some of what you got for some of what someone…
Spring is here, or that's what they tell us anyway. So it's time to clean up this little 'hood. Time to beautify it for all those lovely evening walks we'll enjoy this summer. Time to remove the trash in hopes that taggers will move on to other locales. Time for the neighborhood to reconvene and catch up with one another. Whatever your incentive is, it's time to clean up. Wallingford Chamber of Commerce Vice President Greg Martin of Oom Yung Doe sent us…
Spoiler Alert! I'm going to tell you who won the Food Network donut challenge. So beware if you haven't seen it yet! Helen told us last week that Mighty-O and Top Pot donuts would compete in the first ever Food Network donut challenge. Well, they have. And Wallingford has yet another winning Food Network chef. That's right! Sara Beth Russert is the nation's first donut champ! Congratulations, Sara Beth! Actually, I don't know if Sara Beth calls herself a chef. She's…
We are lucky to have so many late winter and early spring bloomers in the Northwest. I've had a request to identify some of the flowers popping out, so here we go: There are lots of great big mature Camellia shrubs blooming. They've been used in landscapes for a long time and Wallingford's older homes have a number of really large ones Vinca minor (periwinkle) is widely sold and used as a groundcover, but it is becoming invasive and is on…
Seattle on Screen, a "curated selection of Seattle-centric web video", picked up this interesting interview with Richard Haag, the landscape designer responsible for Wallingford's own Gas Works Park. It's well worth the watch. Who knew there was a holy family in our midst?
Back in January, we told you about the "Day On" day at John Stanford, where students and their families spent Martin Luther King, Jr. day cleaning up their school and such. On that day, the students also hosted a shoe drive, in partnership with Redeeming Soles, a nonprofit organization that provides footwear to the underprivileged and homeless living in Seattle. The shoe drive at John Stanford continues, and if you have a decent pair of shoes (no holes, clean laces, etc.)…
We've all committed to staying indoors this weekend, right? Well check this out. Lisa Bunts, Volunteer Coordinator for Skate Like Girl, dropped us this tip today: I volunteer for a small, grassroots non-profit organization called Skate Like A Girl. We run a program called Girls in Space at Innerspace Skate Park about two times a month. The program focuses on teaching girls as well as their fathers, mothers, brothers, and friends. It's a very family oriented skate clinic and we'd like…