This is the absolute last reminder (except for the one we plan to post on Sunday)!Wallyhood is sponsoring a Wallingford Photo Contest. Winner gets free printing and framing of their photo from Wallingford Photo Center and Frame Central, respectively. The deadline is this Sunday. Details in our original Wallyhood Photo Contest post.Now get snappin'!
In our dreams, we are lying on the deck of a gently rocking wooden sailboat. The only noises are the lap of the waves, the creak of the shifting hull, and an occasional call of a seabird.In our lives, we are lying on the couch, listening to I-5 and some guy in a souped up Honda with his bass turned up too loud.Maybe our lives will change if the tip we heard from Mary is right, and the Center for Wooden…
This is no ordinary "I found your leather jacket" post. Victoria writes:My husband and I were on a late night dog walk [on 36th Street near Ashworth Ave N and Carr Place N] last Friday morning when we encountered a car prowler getting out of our neighbor's vehicle. After we questioned what he was doing, he ran off, dropping a leather jacket. I suspect the leather jacket was taken from another vehicle and I would like to get it back to…
Phinneywood and King5 report that the monkey that escaped from the Woodland Park Zoo has been recaptured and returned to safety in the zoo.He jumped across the perimeter of the Tropical Rain Forest exhibit at approximately 10:40 this morning. Within the 45 minute incident, the 12-year-old monkey was tranquilized by the zoo’s animal management staff in the vicinity of the African Village exhibit at approximately 11:15 a.m. and then safely secured.Guests were immediately evacuated from the area and escorted to secured…
In response to our recent post about traffic accidents in Wallingford, Marc wrote in that, according to the book "Traffic", more pedestrian injuries occur at traffic lights than from jay-walkers. We thought it an interesting digression for fiercely anti-jay-walking Seattle and did some poking.First, we fear statistic commits the most frequent and misleading crime that popular press writers commit, omitting the base rate. In other words, it doesn't take into account the relative sizes of the populations from which the numbers…
Double trouble from The Stranger. First, Twitterer @yanokwa tweeted The Stranger's Letter of the Day, which reads, in part:It seems that with money, education, children, and having grown up the people of Wallingford have come to the conclusion that tipping is not something they want to do....Funny, I spent 3 years on the Hill as a barista, and had homeless tip, people looking like crackheads, people wanted by the law, students, alcoholics, hipsters, socially inept, hell, a mix of oddballs and…
Hey people, don't forget there's a photo contest on! Full details in the the original Wallyhood Photo Contest post, but the basic skinny is you should enter your photos of Wallingford to win free printing from Wallingford Photo, framing from Frame Central / Museum Quality Framing and the admiration and adoration of your neighbors.Don't be intimidated by Jeff Ng's gorgeous entry at right, "Apple Picking". Deadline for entry is this Sunday, Feb 22nd!