Wallingford, Seattle

Wallingford Community Center, you ask? What Wallingford Community Center? Indeed! Phinney Ridge has its amazing Phinney Neighborhood Center, Ballard has a community Center, Laurelhurst has a community center. In fact, it seems like all the cool kids have a community center. What about Wallingford? Well, it seems our turn may be up. There is a belief among the Wallingford leadership that the city may be finding a spot in its budget to help Wallingford create a neighborhood community center. If so,…

A number of people have e-mailed, noting hopefully that there appears to be construction activity going on at the Festering Pit™ on the corner of 40th and Stone Way. Sorry folks, as previously mentioned, the development company is doing some maintenance on the site, like shoring up the eastern retaining wall, but that's it, pending funding.

I'm feeling a bit shaken. Baby Z and I were walking back from the Wurst Festival about an hour ago, marveling at how packed Wallingford, when I looked across the street and saw a woman lying in the middle of the road, just off 45th on Sunnyside, outside the Erotic Bakery. We ran over (or hopped, my ACL is torn and running isn't possible, baby Z's stroller serves as my walker) and arrived at the same moment as a man from…