That’s right – curb cuts. You know – the modifications to sidewalks to make it easier to get from the sidewalk, down the curb, across the street and back up on the sidewalk? When nicely done, they look like this: It looks like Wallingford is getting a few more, on Thackery Ave N and NE 44th. (Actually – these are ADA ramps – but everyone calls them curb cuts!) I used to think they were for folks with mobility challenges, but…
GCP writes: Did you hear about the bus accident at 45th & I think Latona (whichever is northbound) today around 5:30ish? Not sure the time exactly because I didn't look, but my husband, daughter, and I were just leaving Comics Dungeon when we hear the unmistakeable sound of a car accident. We walked outside and looked to our left and saw the 26 Express in the middle of the intersection with its bike rack broken off and on the ground. Further…
Man, is this neighborhood a happening place or what?? After you hit the Art Walk this evening, swing on by the Good Shepherd Center (room 202) for a little spirited community culture. The monthly meeting of the Wallingford Community Council will be happening from 7:00-9:00 PM. This month’s agenda features: Reports and announcements on ongoing projects like the McDonald School Playground Discussion about the vision of the future for the Good Shepherd Center Wallingford Community Senior Center update and some news…
Oasis Art Gallery, the hood's affordable stop for exceptional art is hosting a new exhibit; Life Manifested. This exhibit runs through July 25th and focuses on five different artists that portray unique perspectives of how life manifests in our world: Lynne Auld presents a Focus on Paris Life; Tomoko Briggs portrays Otherworldly Habitats and Communities; David Harrison beautifully depicts Impressions of Madrona Trees; Ryan O'Keefe expresses the Elements of Movement; Arturo Torres shows us Doorways to Cultural Discovery. Tonight during the…
Bush beans, cucumbers, sunflowers and IEEE 1394 cables. It must be springtime! Now, before you start singing "one of these things is not like the other", turn your attention to Barb's mail, reminding us of the John Stanford School's spring plant sale and electronics drive this Saturday, May 8th starting at 10 am: Come and help John Stanford International School support its sister school in Mexico.The JSIS Kindergartners have been growing starts from the Seed Savers Exchange, a non-profit organization that…
It's time, once again, for our weekly stroll through Wallyhood where we recap some of the more popular discussions in our Forums section and highlight some of our livelier reader comments. This week in Wallyhood: We've taken a tour through a well-loved Foursquare house on Densmore complete with its own firing range of yore; Voiced concerns over one neighbor's tenant-to-car ratio; All hailed at the return of the Bull; Opined the pros and cons of keeping the Wallyhood Nightlife Calendar; and…
Lower Wallingford's Institute for Systems Biology took over Fremont's Waiting for the Interurban Tuesday, hanging inflatable DNA strands and giving the would-be passengers some light reading to pass the time: copies of a recently published Science journal article about ISB's work sequencing the genome of a family of four. Read about it here. Or better yet -- go see ISB founder Leroy Hood present "Genomics 101" at Town Hall Wednesday evening, 5/5 . Tickets are $5 through Brown Paper Tickets. Hood…