Wallingford, Seattle

Interesting bits from the Community Council meeting with Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith... Neighborhood plan: The council endorsed a small and simple grant application for a Wallingford Neighborhood Plan Update. The goals will be to update our 15 year old neighborhood plan and to include new community inputs. Meridian School and the Good Shepherd Center: The council unanimously voted that community representatives on the Good Shepherd advisory board should support existing leasing guidelines and oppose granting Meridian School additional space in the…

(Wallyhood is honored to welcome Paul Dorpat, author, observer, prankster and Wallingford's official unofficial historian, as an occasional contributor. In addition to his regular column for the Seattle Times, he writes his own Seattle history blog at http://pauldorpat.com/.) Here is a candid record of one of the saddest moments in Wallyhood's Pop History. It was, as far as I know, unannounced.  They just did it! The photograph was taken by itinerant Frank Shaw from the top of the nearly new "Toxic…

First person to leave a comment on this post gets two free tickets to the Sounders for tomorrow, Sunday July 11th, 7:30 pm. We attended a joint Wallingford - Fremont Chamber of Commerce Meeting last month, dropped our card in the hat and, thanks very much to Seattle Bank, walked out with the tickets. The trick, in case you're wondering, is to crimp your card slightly. Makes it much more likely to be drawn.

Stacy writes: I was on my porch last evening (south of 40th, on Meridian) when I heard a rustling in my neighbor's tree.  I looked up in time to see a small raptor wing its way across my yard, right at eye level, maybe 10 feet away.  I think it was some kind of hawk or falcon, but I don't know much about bird identification.  It was around a foot long, from beak to tail.   I got the impression it…

Hot and thirsty? Get yourself to Sunnyside and 42nd, where Grady and Whitney are selling salvation, one cup at a time Thanks for the photo, Michelle!