Every couple of weeks, we thank the local businesses that have offered their support to Wallyhood: Find A Dog Walker: Despite it's name, this matchmaking service won't just help you find someone to keep Fido's legs stretched and healthy, they also help find pet sitters and the like. It's a nation-wide service, but founded and run out of our own 'hood. Fuerte Fitness: This is a both a small gym and personal training studio, right off the corner of 45th and…
A reader writes in regarding the wading pool at Wallingford Playfield: I was wondering if there was some sort of etiquette lesson you could provide regarding the wading pool? I feel a bit clueless. My baby recently became a toddler and we've been there several times now, and I can't help but feel that we are getting the cold shoulder and/or evil eye at times. Perhaps we are ignorantly breaking some code of wading pool conduct. Any help would be appreciated.…
Generally, we try to keep our stories about Wallingford and its people. This is mostly because we know that if we broadened it to "stuff around Wallingford" and "things Wallingford people might care about", we'd be overwhelmed with all the things to be written about, and the enormity of it would drive us under a pile of sweaters in the back of a dark closet, cooing and rocking ourselves to comfort. But, it's a slow news day, so we're going to…
We couldn't stand it. Every day, we'd be out, strolling around the neighborhood, and there they were: two trees full of the brightest golden plums you've ever seen. They ripened and ripened and eventually began to fall, big fat raindrop splashes of juicy plums, wasted windfall. We admit it: we wanted them! So this past Saturday, we got up our gumption and knocked on the door. Nobody was home, but we did notice a package waiting for pick-up, addressed to a…
As avid newswatchers know by now, KOMO (or their parent, Fisher Interactive) has entered the "hyperlocal" blogging fray with a suite of 43 neighborhood blogging sites around the greater Seattle area. There is, of course, a Wallingford version (although many of its stories appear to be copy-and-pasted over from other KOMO neighborhood blogs). We'd be lying if we said we didn't feel a bit threatened, a big media company like that, with all its resources, coming crashing into the little story-corner…
Today's chef demonstration at the Wallingford Farmer's Market should be interesting: it features Chef Wali Khairzada of Kabul Afghan Cuisine (4 pm at Wallingford Center). It's mid-August, so just crazy amounts of fruits and veggies are all coming ripe, there's no better time to stop by the market and stock up on the fresh: tomatoes, melons, beans, sweet corn, peppers, the list goes on. 3 - 6 pm today (Wednesday).
Kathleen Byrnes from the Wallingford Senior Center dropped us a note: We are trying to create some nice portraits of life here at the senior center to display at our upcoming fundraising event in October. Do you happen to know of any photographers in the area that might be up for stopping by for a few photo shoots in the next couple of weeks? It would required dropping by at pre-arranged times when we have specific programs here and taking photos.…