For those folks who aren’t in the habit of following discussions in our forums, I thought I should highlight a discussion that recently took place in our Crime and Safety forum about some possible car breaks that may have taken place by activating or emulating the owner’s key fob – essentially effecting an electronic entry, a break-in without the break.

On November 19, wallingfordsince89 wrote:

We truly believe our car was locked, but even so it was broken into overnight. It looks like the thief might have used some kind of technology to get our keys inside the house to …

Back in the good ‘ole summertime, there were no issues or problems with sitting outdoors. The skies were clear, and the air was warm. Restaurants and bars set their tables along sidewalk spaces and in back patios which can be built by companies like Costimates, and we dined and drank to our hearts’ content. Yes, I remember it well.

But now, November has come, and winter is not far away. Most of those sidewalk tables have been packed away, and the back patios sit deserted waiting for summer to come. But some neighborhood businesses are pushing back against the …

Tiare writes:

Wallingford Presbyterian Church had a break in last Monday morning. Thieves stole a safe from Stone Soup Theatre, one of our tenants. We are grateful to our neighbor across the street, who saw something suspicious and called the police. Let’s be good neighbors and keep an eye out.

We all know that crime happens in our neighborhood, and unfortunately, the church and Stone Soup have become another statistic in the Seattle PD’s database.

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article comparing crime rates in Wallingford with other neighborhoods. This analysis was based upon the Micro Community Policing …

Back in July, the city opened the Micro Community Policing Plans website offering citizens a far more detailed look than was available previously into how criminal activities were distributed across neighborhoods and what specific crimes were being committed. This website breaks crimes down into 8 major categories (4 categories of crimes against persons and 4 of crimes against property) and 68 subcategories which include, for example, 8 different types of theft. The data goes back to 2008, and is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet for those wishing to perform their own analysis. For those not so inclined, tools provided by …

As we all know, the views in Seattle can be spectacular, and some people will go to great lengths to create them or preserve them. Trees, even those on public land, can be cut down – as in this case in West Seattle back in March. (Here’s a very recent update to that story.) Some have even resorted to poisoning trees, as occurred along the Burke Gilman trail back in 2008. And there are a host of strictly legal means to contain rampant construction, some of which are reported on in a recent article in the Time’s Pacific Northwest Magazine.…

Many of you will probably recall small, short-lived “parklets” springing up seasonally in Seattle the past few years. These are part of an international event called Parking Day, and we’ve posted about it here on Wallyhood when the program first started in 2014 and again last year.

This year, the city is expanding the event to two days, hence: PARK(ing) Day Plus+! Any person or group is invited to create a pop-up park, but a free permit is required. Applications are due August 5.

From the notice we received from SDOT:

Each year in September, people, businesses, and organizations …

Looking for something fun to do with the kids tonight? Calvary Wallingford is sponsoring a free showing of Disney’s Inside Out at 8pm at the Wallingford Playfield.

The synopsis, from IMDB:

After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

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