The Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) has scheduled some activities in the latter part of the month geared toward older members of the community. WCSC is located at the Good Shepherd Center, in the heart of Wallingford.

 

1. Civic Coffee with Age Friendly Seattle, January 24

Age-Friendly Seattle hosts monthly Civic Coffee events in a partnership with The Seattle Public Library. These are opportunities for older adults to gather and learn about a topic from local experts. The topic of this event will be alternative therapies, art therapy and music therapy.

This is a free event.

Date:  Wednesday, January 24th…

Attention Wallyhood writers, aspiring writers, potential editors, and interested community members! The current Wallyhood editorial staff (Jack, Megan, Julie, and Gary) invites you to a meetup with us on Tuesday, February 13^th, 7 p.m., at the venerable Wallingford restaurant, the Blue Star Café & Pub (4512 Stone Way N.). In addition to some old-fashioned engagement, we’ll be brainstorming story ideas and looking for writers willing to take them on.

Wallyhood remains an all-volunteer operation, so we depend on the support of our community to keep our journalistic juggernaut moving forward. We would like to hear your ideas …

This message comes to us from Camille, a parent / Board Member at KapKa Cooperative School, up the street from the Woodland Park Zoo.

We wanted to share with your readers that KapKa is hosting a few more school tours in January and February and an Open House on Saturday, January 20th, 2024.

KapKa Cooperative School was established in 1989 and provides an exceptional progressive, integrative education for children from Kindergarten through 5th Grade. KapKa was founded by local community members, and making and keeping community is part of what makes KapKa special. We have a strong focus on environmental …

Those of you who use the light rail out of the U District or UW stations to travel north or south should prepare for a month of disruptions and curtailed service. Didn’t this just happen last summer? some might ask. Why yes, a disembodied digital voice might answer. But now, according to the Times, Sound Transit workers will be correcting a 1/8” gap between light rail wheels and track width along a 500’ span of track in the heart of the currently modest system (Seattle has a long tradition of poor transit track planning, as some will recall that the…

Snow! Just that word is enough to send waves of ecstatic joy to children, worry to working parents, and panic to those who must drive in Seattle snow. It’s not that we can’t drive in snow, it’s simply that we are a city full of roads with unplowed hills and very narrow side streets. (Check out the delightful YouTube clip of a compilation of cars out of control during a snow event in Seattle.) Combine the forecast of snow with our complete inability to actually predict if the snow event will really happen, due to our crazy convergence zones, and…

As a gesture to bring in more business while giving back to a community that has embraced them for over two decades, Night Light Nails is running a special:

When customers buy a gift card, they will receive value greater than they pay:

Pay $30 get $45 Pay $40 get $55 Pay $50 get $80 Pay $100 get $140

Night Light Nails sits on the corner of NE 45^th Street and Thackery.

With its seafoam paint, you would never know that this unassuming nail salon has weathered nearly two decades of challenges and success, embodying the resilience and unwavering …