News from our neighbor, Dance Fremont… 

Dance Fremont needs your help! Since 1996, Dance Fremont has been a part of our
community at 4015 Stone Way N. While their permanent studio is being renovated,
they’ve moved to a temporary location at 8420 Greenwood Ave N.

Dance Fremont is working hard to inspire a lifelong love of dance in each student in an
inclusive atmosphere full of joy and creativity. They’re in danger of not being able to
provide meaningful scholarships to students with financial need. With an important goal
of $30,000 by Giving Tuesday, Dance Fremont is rallying our community …

Historic Seattle, the city’s top preservation advocacy and education organization, has awarded Historic Wallingford its 2023 Community Advocacy Award!

Each year, Historic Seattle hosts the Preservation Celebration to support its mission to save meaningful places that foster lively communities. At the event, honorees are also recognized with awards for their achievements in historic preservation in categories such as Best Preservation Project or Outstanding Stewardship.

Here’s what they had to say about our neighborhood champion:

Historic Wallingford has been instrumental in creating a historic district, organizing walking tours, hosting educational events, and advocating for the protection of historic buildings and …

We posted The End of Wallyhood? on September 20, 2023 and received responses from many of you imploring us to keep the blog alive and a number of RSVPs to our meeting next week. Thank you! We are glad to know the blog has been a meaningful part of your Wallingford community experience. We are also grateful for the suggestions for change and ideas for improvement.

Now, back to those RSVPs…without your help, we cannot create a new vision and carry it forward. Without more writers and creators, we cannot keep it alive. As a reminder, none of us four …

Have you ever thought of writing a post for the Wallyhood blog? Or, maybe you have had an idea and wanted to get the word out to the community? Or, perhaps you have questions about strange happenings in the neighborhood that you’d like to see investigated?

Why are we asking these questions?

We editors feel we are at a critical juncture and are debating if the blog should continue. If you glance over the past several months of stories, you will see that the vast majority of stories have been written by a very small number of writers – primarily …

3 Days Away: The Great Wallingford Wurst Festival! 16 bands, 14 vendors with booths, TVs in the beer garden (ages 21+) showing the UW and WSU football games on Saturday morning, games, fun, and the return of the used book room! Friday, September 15, 2022, 4 p.m. – 10 p.m. and Saturday, September 16, 2022, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

The Wurst Festival is a community event, hosted by St. Benedict School, to raise money for our school by bringing together the school’s families and the surrounding neighborhoods, for a fun, entertaining fall festival. 

The vision for the festival …

As summer winds down so too does Historic Wallingford’s self-guided summertime activity Exploring Wallingford. The organization teamed up with four neighborhood sponsor businesses to offer this exploration of the neighborhood. The public is invited to pick up a free brochure through September 15 at these locations:  

Verity Credit Union – 4545 Stone Way N Cedarhouse Flowers – 1621 N 45th St. Yazdi – Wallingford Center, 1815 N 45th St. Slave to the Needle Tattoo – 403 NE 45th St. 

The rich, colorful brochure highlights 18 natural, historical, and artistic points of interest on Wallingford Hill between 40th and …