Quickie reminder: this Sunday, from noon to 5 pm is the Pirates and Pipsqueaks festival in the lot behind Solid Ground. Trophy Cupcakes will be giving out cupcakes to all the kids who participate in the Cupcake Walk, and there will be Dunk the Pirate, a Pirate Bounce House, Walk the Plank, Pirate Whiffle Ball, Ducks in the Pond, Balloon Darts, and Bottle Ring Toss among other niceties. All proceeds will benefit services for homeless children at Broadview Shelter and Transitional Housing, a program of Solid Ground.
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you’ve gotta go to enter the raffle! it includes gift certificates and prizes from Bizzarro Italian Cafe, Hawaiian Breeze restaurant, Not A Number Cards & Gifts, Izilla Toys, Sock Monster, Lolalu Design and WAY more!
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other stuff there includes a booth for Sock Monster & Not A Number, and the Not A Number Music Stage. (NAN’s a big sponsor too)
a huge thanks to other cool Wallingford businesses who donated food for volunteers and helped in other ways: Selena’s Guadalajara, QFC, Bartell’s, Dick’s, Wallingford Pizza House, TuttaBella, and more.
from event sponsor Wallingford Chamber of Commerce
This was so much fun! Thanks, W’hood, for the heads-up, and many thanks to everyone who put it all together. It was a really fun, (mostly) free way to spend an afternoon with a little girl who’s teething molars — she loved it, and we were relieved to get out of the house for a bit.