Wallingford, Seattle

Wallingford Preparedness Week: Are you ready?

We’ve all been watching the devastation in Haiti and just yesterday the second crippling snowstorm that has paralyzed the Mid-Atlantic region and most of the Eastern seaboard.  I wonder how many of us have been thinking about getting an emergency kit set aside. You know, some water and food, maybe stash a crank flashlight and first aid kit with it. For the past couple of years, Sustainable Wallingford and the Wallingford Community Council, in partnership with the Seattle Office of Emergency…

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Between The Sheets! (in the Library)

Got your attention, didn’t I?  Well, this will be fun, though not quite as fun as the title. Almost every book we read in our house (and, let me tell you, we are voracious readers) comes from the library to which we make a generous annual contribution - and so should YOU!.  We visit daily - so the reduction in hours was a shock and  it inspired me to put together this tribute to the underappreciated Wallingford branch library: Your Helpful…

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Alterations and Reweaving Illness?

Back in January, we noted that a note had gone up at the Alterations and Reweaving Center on 45th that it was closed due to illness. Commenters noted that Phyllis Brown, now in her 80's, has been at it a long time and were worried that she wasn't doing well. Holly dropped us a note the other day asking for an update: I came across your posting online regarding Phyllis Brown while I was searching for a way to contact her business.…

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February Community Council Notes

(Welcome Wallingford Neighborhood Council President Mary Heim to these pages. She will be contributing directly to Wallyhood, including both notes from the Council meetings, like this, and other thoughts and issues as she pleases.) The monthly Wallingford Community Council, WCC, board meeting was held Wednesday February 3rd at the Good Shepherd Center. A small but committed group of community members were present to talk about some pretty serious issues facing Wallingford and Seattle as a whole. As with most community issues,…

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Linda Waterfall and the “Keep Wallingford Dull” Society

(Wallyhood welcomes our newest contributing writer, Patrick Shaw) My wife and I moved to Wallingford in August. As we were moving in, I had a flashback to hearing Linda Waterfall in concert at Seattle University. Her guitar player made a joke about moving to Wallingford and having to join the Keep Wallingford Dull Society, and as my wife and I were unpacking, I had a bad moment: It couldn’t be true, could it? Could Wallingford really be dull? (Turns out –…

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Amores Perros

There was a comment to my last Playground post “Hold it or run,” sent in by a Wallingford Mom that made me laugh and cringe at the same time: Today at the Wallingford park, a little girl stepped in dog doo, then went down the slide making a dog poo streak all the way down. Before I noticed, my daughter was on the slide and had it all on her hands and clothes! There is nothing more gross… Generally, I find…

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