Wallingford, Seattle

Notes from the Playground – The Center of Our Universe

(This post begins a series from Sharon, who will be sharing stories from the Wallingford Playfield playground.) The first time we really noticed Wallingford Playfield was when I was pregnant with our son. We were taking our nightly hour-long walk, as many first-time expectant parents do, when we stumbled upon it. Sometime since our last tennis match there the play structure had been updated or perhaps even disassembled and replaced with a much newer model. We marveled at the multi-leveled towers,…

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4th Ave Block Party

A day late but not a dollar short, neighbors in the area of 4th Ave NE and 40th / 42nd St NE had a block party this past Sunday, gathering under the pavilion in the John Stanford School play area and enjoyed some of the finest paella this side of the Pyrenees. It was a great pleasure to meet the neighbors we had seen so many times in passing but had never had the opportunity to talk with. Thanks all who…

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Breast Cancer 3-Day in Wallingford

(This report is submitted by our Lower Wallingford Correspondent, Chris Witwer. Note, though, that this post was written on Saturday, prior to the Breast Cancer 3-Day walk's visit to Wallingford, but our lazy editor didn't notice it until Sunday, after the march had gone through, but still has good info about the event for those who caught it). The Breast Cancer 3-Day is an annual 60 mile walk designed to raise funds and heighten awareness for breast cancer.  It's also a…

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Wallingford Waterways

Back in February, we noted that there were efforts afoot to extend the excellent Center for Wooden Boats to the north shore of Lake Union (aka Wallingford). We played a bit of phone tag with the director and gradually dropped the thread of the story. Better late than never, we bring you good news of progress. The Friends of Northlake Wharf have been diligently planning, pleading and visioning to create a new public space that would include the CWB on Waterway…

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West Nile

We here at Wallyhood don't think we've been doing our fair bit to sew fear and panic in the quiet hamlet of Wallingford recently. Today, we shall right this wrong. For the past couple of weeks, the Wallyhoods have remarked on the large number of dead crows we've noticed around our neighborhood, four spotted in one day. Then, we saw this story, West Nile virus found in Seattle neighborhood, in the Seattle PI's Big Blog: The local health department says that…

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Welcome to Llingford

As we reported last week, the QFC remodel is underway and the iconic W A L L I N G F O R D sign came down last week (a day earlier than forecast) for safekeeping. Jack Bonney, who took the photo on the left, suggested "I suppose 'Llingford', the neighborhood's name circa 11am today, could have kind of a nordic flair to it, or perhaps be read as "ying-ford," if I remember how double 'L' works in Spanish." Thanks to…

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