Hey Wallingford: Tuesday, August 5th is Seattle Night Out! Time to get your block planning. In case you missed it previous years, at over 1,400 events across the city, folks come out of their doors to spend a evening with their neighbors. Streets are blocked off, lawn chairs are dragged out front, card tables are set up on sidewalks and lawns, kids play, chit is chatted, gossip is passed, potato salad is forked, and wine is paper cupped. For the last…
Still looking for ways to fill your teen's time this summer. Sharon Rodgers asked us to post this: 2014 Roosevelt HS Volleyball Camp July 28-31, 2014 - 9am-4pm; $195 (Roosevelt HS Gym) For girls and boys entering 4th-9th grades - all skill levels welcome! Fun and fast-moving! Led by Roosevelt High School coaching staff assisted by Roosevelt HS Varsity and JV players Join us - go to volleyball.rhssports.org/summer-camp/ to register! Questions? Contact Coach LaMar Hurd at [email protected] Idle hands do the devil's work.
Looks like the Mack Urban development project at 45th and Interlake is underway:
Folks, this weather, this weather we're having right now, is why we put up with Seattle weather the other nine months of the year. I swear, I spend all winter thinking to myself "as soon as the weather comes around, I'm going to be outside getting stuff done", then the weather turns all sunny and beautiful and I say to myself "no way am I going to waste a beautiful day like this working, I'll get stuff done when the rains come".…
The awesomely name Arrow De Groot writes: July 5th has become the day "scaredy cats" show up in our neighborhood. This year the friendliest black cat hid out here and is now being very persistent in re-homing itself here. I'm not sure of the gender but there are a coupla nicks out of an ear, a tell tale ring where a collar used to be, and pretty fearless when it comes to dogs. Missing a cat? Our neighborhood is between 45th…
A few intrepid eyes have noticed that the storefront vacated by the Night Light nail salon (which moved to the corner of 45th and Thackeray, into the spot that was vacated by Comics Dungeon, which moved across the street to take over part of Petosa's Accordions) has a "Sweet Side" sign in it, along with some balloons. Kara Burfeind confirms that she'll be moving her SweetSide bakery, now located just north of Gas Works Park, up to to 254 N 45th…
City Fruit, a Seattle nonprofit that harvests local fruit from private and public fruit trees, is now in Wallingford - and offers a new, creative way to get involved with our mission. The City Fruit Ambassador Program is a year long opportunity to use your skills, passions, and contacts to be the voice and face of City Fruit in Wallingford. For example, say you really want to help with the volunteer fruit harvests in your neighborhood. Besides just helping pick the…