Join your neighbors for an Earth Day Clean Up on Saturday, April 19th. Starting at 10 am, volunteers will gather at the southeast corner of N 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue N (across from QFC near Cascadia Pharmacy). Supplies, such as trash grabbers, gloves, trash bags, and safety vests will be available to help you safely beautify our neighborhood. The bi-annual clean up event is sponsored by the Wallingford Community Council, Historic Wallingford, and the City of Seattle’s Adopt-a-Street program. This is a family-friendly event, and kids are welcome. The organizers, Will and Mike will be able to plan for …
Get Ready for Gardening Season 2025 – Part I

The gardening season for 2025 is upon us. The last frost day for Wallingford (zone 9a) is past, so it is time to roll up your sleeves and start tilling. April is the perfect time to start seeds indoors, or venture out to a plant sale event. The sooner you get started, the longer your growing season will be. To help with your summer gardening, there are two amazing plant sales taking place in the neighborhood in the coming weeks.
The first one, organized by Freeway Estates Community Orchards (FECO), will be on Sunday, April 13th, from 1-4 PM…
Mexican Food Truck Adds Flavor to 45th and Thackeray

Wallingford has a new contender for the best burrito in town, and it’s not where you might expect. Nestled into the corner of a Shell gas station parking lot at NE 45th Street and Thackeray Place NE, Taqueria Juarez is serving up some seriously delicious Mexican fare. Even with Chipotle setting up shop in the former Taco Time space just up the street, this food truck is proving that a great meal doesn’t have to come from a national chain, or even a brick and mortar restaurant.
The menu at Taqueria Juarez is impressive, offering everything from tacos to quesadillas …
Fremont’s Hidden Gem: Urban Earth Nursery

Madison, Operations Lead from Urban Earth Nursery, located at 1051 N 35th Street near Stone Way, recently approached Wallyhood about writing a post on their local nursery. I have known they’ve been in the neighborhood for many years, but, like I suspect many other of their potential customers, had no idea what this local nursery had to offer. In fact, I learned a nursery has been at this location since 1998, under various names and ownership.
Madison was especially keen to get the word out to “Wallingfordians” that there are gardening resources right in our backyard, especially for apartment/small-space gardeners, …
Good Shepherd Center to be Razed and Rebuilt
During a wide-ranging news conference at Murphy’s Pub in Wallingford, Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the sale of the iconic Good Shepherd Center to the Chinese-German real estate joint venture Char Siu Polka. The historic building, once a Catholic home for wayward girls, will be redeveloped into a 2000-unit luxury residence complex for wayward tech workers, to be called Amazon Homes at the Good Shepherd. The current children’s playground will be turned into a residents-only off-leash dog park, while the Good Shepherd P-Patch will be “reverted” back into 24-hr. pickleball courts (the site originally was the location of tennis courts for …
Lincoln High School Performing Arts Mattress Fundraiser this Sunday, March 30th

You may have seen the signs around the neighborhood: Mattress Fundraiser @ Lincoln High School. Performing Arts at Lincoln (PAL), is conducting their third annual mattress sale fundraiser is this Sunday, March 30th, from 10 am to 5 pm in the Lincoln High School gym, entrance on Woodlawn Avenue near N 44th Street. If you are in the market for a new mattress, come check out what they have to offer!
The PAL organization supports all music and dramatic art programs at Lincoln: band, orchestra, choir and drama. Their goal “is to make sure every student has the opportunity …
April Antics at WCSC

All events are at, or meet up at, the Wallingford Community Senior Center, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue N, Suite 140 (lower level of the Good Shepherd Center).
Notary Party
Tuesday, April 1
3:00 to 6:00 pm
Have you been working on your will, advanced directive, or other legal documents you’d like to get notarized? Come join us for a Notary Party! We’ll have no-cost notary services available between 3pm and 6pm, no appointment necessary. Bring your completed but unsigned documents with a notary section and a valid ID. If your documents need witnesses, we will have at least two on …