Wallingford, Seattle

Rick Turner writes: This Friday, Valentine’s Day, “Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies” we’ll be celebrating our 11th anniversary of showing social justice documentary films and hosting facilitated community discussions on a wide range of topics, every Friday evening. We are all-volunteer run and our venue is free and open to the public, so that anyone can attend (…donations kindly accepted).  Our first films were shown here in Wallingford on Valentine’s Day 2003. Typically, between 80 and 100 people attend each Friday evening, with attendance occasionally as…

Here's something you don't see every day: This Thursday, February 13th, Seattle will be treated to a different kind of Boat Parade. It won’t be like opening day where pleasure boats parade with decorations.  This parade will be made up of Seattle’s working boats; historic wooden fishing schooners; several more than 100 years old. The parade is part of a new exhibit at The Center for Wooden Boats about the boats and the men and women who still take them to the…

Curious what's been going on at Wallingford Playfield. Colleen Hacket, the Parks Operations Crew Chief dropped us a line with this tidbit: Hello, I am the maintenance supervisor for Seattle Parks and Recreation at Wallingford Playfield.  Last year Wallyhood ran a story on Wallingford Playfield field renovations and also discussed the heavy (and illegal) off-leash use here.  I want to let the community know that we just completed a turf renovation at Wallingford Playfield again this year. The whole field was…

There's another big development project coming to Wallingford, this one on 45th Street. You know those old houses between the Walgreen's and Smash?   Going to be gone. Going, going, gone. In their place? The project is the work of Mack Urban, a real estate and investment company based here in the Northwest.It's the successor to Harbor Properties, which built downtown's Harbor Steps (and also developed Stevens Pass and Mission Ridge ), but this latest incarnation of the company came after a partnering…