We wanted to take a brief moment to thank the many fine sponsors that keep the lights on here at Wallyhood. In particular, we'd like to welcome to new sponsors: Full Slate: This cool Seattle-based company offers an on-line scheduling tool for small businesses: clients can book their appointments on-line based on your availability. Our friend Bevin Keely, the most amazing masseuse that's ever laid hands to our aching body, has been a client for some time now and raves. We've…
The folks over at Not a Number dropped the dime on a graffiti vandal last night. From their blog: While sitting in Wallingford Pizza House about 10:30PM last night, we noticed a stealthy figure climbing on the roof across the street. The figure had a can of spray paint and proceeded to graffitti the wall on the roof above Starbucks. We called 911 as we watched to report graffitti in progress. The figure climbed back off the roof walked away. About…
Nancy Merrill, the Lorax of Wallingford, asked us to post this reminder that it's time to make sure your young trees are getting enough water, kindly set to verse: Spring Forward, Bucket in Hand One fish, two fish Water street trees when you take out Your trash-ish. Five gallon-ish per trunk diameter inch Every week dear Wallyfish Rain or shine starting now. One block, your street My ave, their place Happy trees aren’t choked by sod. Some are high and some…
Vanessa Ho over at the Seattle P-I ran a story yesterday about the Festering Pits of Seattle (not titled as such, but perhaps it ought to be). Seems Wallingford is not alone in its despair over abandoned construction projects, and the city is considering legislation to encourage developers with stalled projects, such as we have at the corner of 40th and Stone Way, to do something more constructive while they wait. Should such an idea come to pass, we would like…
"Wallingford Walks" is a series of guided tours of various aspects of Wallingford. For example, one month, they toured solar-powered homes around the neighborhood and another they toured backyard chicken coops and bee hives (hosted by nous). Walks generally start from Tully's on a Saturday and rove around Wallingford for a couple of hours. Mike "Build a Wallingford Community Center or die trying" Ruby has organized the walks in years past, and has asked us to put out a call for…
Susan McCloskey, Principal of B.F. Day School, is one of three finalists picked from 18 Washington State elementary school principals nominated for National Distinguished Principal of the Year. This accolade is sponsored by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NEASP) in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education. McCloskey was chosen as one of three finalists out of 1008 public elementary schools in Washington State. On Tuesday, a panel from NAESP visited B.F. Day School to get a first-hand glimpse…
Spring break will soon be upon us (March 29 through April 2 for Seattle Schools, to be exact), and if you haven’t yet enrolled the kiddos in some sort of activity, you might want to check out the cool week-long sessions happening at Stone Soup Theatre. Sessions are on Monday-Friday of spring break week, from 9 to 3 p.m. Tiki Tiki Tembo Kids ages 5-8 can practice and perform in the Soup’s version of this classic. Final performance will be open…