Wallingford, Seattle

Hailey writes: Wallingford Landscape Makeover Saturday, August 9th, 9 am – noon  Meet at the northeast side of Aurora & N 46th intersection, 915 N 46th St. Seattle, WA, RSVP here Join the Seattle Tree Ambassadors for a neighborhood work party to clean up the 46th Ave & Aurora bus stop and staircase and give it a new look! We’ll be pulling weeds, picking up garbage, and mulching to make the area safer and more pleasant for transit users and pedestrians. Please join your neighbors, meet new friends,…

Here's a bit of culture for your Thursday night: On Thursday August 7, San Francisco Bay Area based composer/musician Jesse Olsen Bay will perform his new song cycle Makings, as part of the Wayward Music Series at the Good Shepherd Center’s Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle. Makings is an original song cycle, based on unpublished writings by Bay’s grandmother, legendary author/activist Tillie Olsen. The album was released in July, and Bay is currently touring the West Coast. For…

Mark Woodward, Pastor at the Seattle First Church of the Nazerene, writes: After 7.5 years serving the community, Mosaic Coffeehouse is taking some time off to reassess how to serve our community. Mosaic is closed for the month of August and as of this time has no set date to reopen. We will keep you posted as a plan develops. We thank the community for supporting this experiment in our neighborhood as Seattle First Church of the Nazarene looked for ways…

Hey folks, ready to return Wallingford to its pre-civilization sylvan roots? You can't, that horse has left the barn. BUT, you can add back a little bit of forest goodness. Trees for Neighborhoods is a City of Seattle program that gives free trees to Seattle residents looking to green up their garden. Options range from large native conifers to small deciduous trees appropriate for planting under power lines and along the street. Favorites this year include Douglas fir, black tupelo, and incense cedar.  …

Greetings, Wallingford! My name is Anna, and I work with United Way of King County on their One Million Meals Campaign. The goal of this campaign is to serve one million free summertime meals to kids and teens in King County. Of the approximately 99,000 kids in the county who qualify for free and reduced lunch during the school year, only one in seven accesses free meals during the Summer. Volunteers served 490,000 meals last Summer, and, this year, we want…

Thanks to all the great Seattle Night Out parties that welcomed Zev and I! We had a ball playing in bouncy houses and drinking mojitos (we didn't both do both, obviously), firing water balloon catapults, biking down driveways, and enjoying rabbit paella washed down with cthulhu elixir. It was a great opportunity to meet so many people who live in the neighborhood, and to hear what's on people's minds. Not surprisingly, there was concern over the car prowls and packages disappearing from…