Wallingford, Seattle

What Flavor is Wallyhood? You Decide!

What flavor is Wallingford? Lime "green" with just a hint of granola (though perhaps not as crunchy as Fremont)? Next month, Fainting Goat Gelato celebrates their one year anniversary here in Wallingford.  To mark the occasion, Wallyhood and Fainting Goat are teaming up to hold a contest in which readers can send in their ideas of what flavor gelato truly represents our neighborhood. Post your entry below, in the comments section, now through April 26. On Friday, April 30, we will…

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Not a Number against the ropes

Not a Number, Wallingford's longest-resident oddment shop, sounds like they're getting roughed up by the economy. We just saw this come across Twitter: Hey, we need your help to stay in business! If you like what we do for Wallingford come in! Or help find Number6 a job! Following the link back to their Number6.org blog, we find the following: As many of you may know, Number Six and the Head Cheese currently run a small brick and mortar gift shop…

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The Burke Gilman Gets Marked!

True confession: Back in the day when I lived on Capitol Hill and ran down to catch the Burke Gilman near Husky Stadium, I occasionally brought my bike and a small can of spray paint. See – GPS wasn’t really available, and if I REALLY wanted to know my distance, or to measure my progress week by week – I needed to know the distance from one mile to the next. Bike – check. Bike computer – check. Spray paint –…

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Say Hello to the Hamilton Hawks

Chris Carter is a busy guy—which makes sense, really, because he’s the principal of a very busy school.  Despite a nasty head cold, and the week-long school break, Chris took the time to meet with me and provide a first-hand glimpse of the happenings at Hamilton International Middle School. You know, despite how close I live to Hamilton, I honestly didn’t know a thing about the school.  My only experience with the school has been watching students cut across my yard to…

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Shenanigans be gone – Super Nanny Casting Call

Calling all wild childs! The casting director for Season 6 of the ABC show SuperNanny is looking for families, and she'll be in Washington this month. If you're interested in learning more about the show, want to "try out" or nominate another family (wouldn't it be strange - or feel free to insert your own adjective here - to be "nominated" for this?), contact Vanessa Ranko at VanessaRanko@ gmail.com. And if you're a SuperNanny newbie like me, here's a little snippet on what they're looking…

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The Anti-Capitalist Capitalist

Our own Kara Ceriello, president of the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce, got a nice write-up last week in Mother Jones, which covered the very well attended showing of Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story". The article included some interesting comments on the distinction between the little Chamber of Commerce that serves our 'hood and the big old U.S. Chamber of Commerce that serves the interests of big old corporations: You might say that the Wallingford Chamber and that other, slightly larger…

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