For those of you who didn’t make the rounds in the neighborhood, we wanted to share that Halloween is alive and well in Wallingford. More trick-or-treaters roamed the streets and more residents handed out candy. While some brave Wallyhood dwellers encouraged the old fashioned door-bell ringing of years past, others maintained the innovative delivery mechanisms born of the pandemic, like the candy cannon, the candy tube and the candy zipline.

       

 

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An event hosted by Historic Seattle:

Join us in person on Thursday, October 14th for our 7th Annual Heirloom Apple Event! 

Occupants of Wallingford’s Good Shepherd Center have been caring for an urban orchard of apple trees for over 100 years. In celebration of this year’s harvest, we are trying something new – a sitdown tasting experience of the unique heirloom apple varieties from this year’s harvest facilitated by Tara Macdonald, our incredible Good Shepherd Center Lead Gardener!

Interested in trying some pretty darn delicious ciders this fall? Same! We partnered with our friends at Press Then Press again and …

We hope you were able to attend the neighborhood candidate forum last week (catch the recording here). Ballots are headed to you next week. Here is another opportunity to hear from our mayoral candidates hosted by a nearby group:

Roosevelt Alumni for Racial Equity (RARE) is hosting something a little different – a free online discussion session with just Seattle’s mayoral candidates Bruce Harrell and Lorena Gonzalez on October 11th at 7pm focusing primarily on the candidates’ views on racial equity and opportunities in Seattle. Each candidate will be given 40 minutes. A Q&A session will follow with questions submitted …

Wallingford Community Council joins 15 other neighborhood associations in hosting a General Election Candidate Forum on Sunday, October 3rd at 6:00PM. Hear from the following candidates:

Mayor
Bruce Harrell
Lorena Gonzalez

City Council Position 8
Teresa Mosqueda
Kenneth Wilson

City Council Position 9
Nikkita Oliver
Sara Nelson

Zoom link to join (no registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85390205667

 

Sponsoring organizations:

Seattle Fair Growth Beacon Hill Council Central Area Neighborhood District Council Cherry Hill Community Council Green Lake Community Council Madison-Miller Park Community Group Magnolia Community Council Morgan Community Association Phinney Ridge Community Council Ravenna-Bryant Community Association Seattle Displacement Coalition South Park…

I was headed out of town to a family wedding and stopped in the Pacific Northwest Shop (Wallingford Ave, south of 45th street) to pick up a few local specialties to share. Much to my delight, I discovered not one, but several Wallyhood merch items! A chic wooden ornament, a big coffee mug and a charming sticker with the happy statement: “I heart Wallyhood”. Pictured below is also a sticker with the more traditional “Wallingford.” All made, of course, by Northwest artisans and companies.

The store manager, Matt, said there is a t-shirt in the works too.

Time to represent …

Since our post a couple weeks back, there’s been a lot of activity around the closed W Green Lake Way N issue. I was about to post a lengthy update including the city’s response to our blog post, the mayor’s interest in “connecting the parks” through a permanent road closure, and Councilmember’s Strauss’ consistent advocacy for reopening the road immediately with a plan to create a two-way protected bike lane.

Instead I’m pleased to share with you the following update from the Seattle Department of Transportation/Keep Moving Streets team about the plan to reopen the road this fall. 

Thanks to …

The City of Seattle is considering the permanent closure to vehicles of the road (see image below) that connects Green Lake and Wallingford with Phinney Ridge and Greenwood. However, there has not been any community outreach on this decision. Residents who have experienced the negative effects of this road closure have started a petition to reopen the road and invite all impacted to consider signing it.   

The street was originally closed to automobile traffic as part of the construction on Green Lake Way and eventually the closure become part of the city’s “Stay Healthy Streets” initiative during the Covid-19 restrictions. …