Back in January, I mentioned that we’re always open arms to folks from the neighborhood who would like to contribute stories to this neighborhood news and community site. If you’d like to come talk about it with us, we’ll be at the Blue Star (4512 Stone Way N) tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb 7th, starting at 6:30 pm in the back room. Come by, have a drink on me, meet the editors and share your ideas for stories, plus get a glimpse of what’s to come.

As a bonus for anyone willing to write for us, we’ll have these attractive mugs ready …

On Sunday, February 11 at 11:30 a.m., Holocaust survivor Steve Adler will be speaking at the Wallingford United Methodist Church (2115 N 42nd St), and the public is welcome:

“Justice is, for me, the crucial issue, the fulcrum about which my story turns. It is the issue that connects my account of Germany to today’s realities.” -Steve Adler
This special program features Holocaust survivor Steve Adler telling his personal story of survival.

Steve was born in Berlin, Germany in 1930 to a middle-class, Jewish family. At age seven, anti-Jewish laws forced Steve to leave his neighborhood school and enter a …

I spoke to someone from the city at Tuesday’s city-wide open house on MHA at Hamilton Middle School on Tuesday night about Nickelsville, which was originally scheduled to move to Wallingford in November.

I was told that the move has been delayed while Seattle City Light, the property owner, worked through some issues, but they turned off the gas on the property earlier this week and plan to begin demolition of the existing structure in anticipation of Nickelsville’s move tomorrow, Friday, February 2nd. She told me that Nickelsville residents are raring and ready to move, including the tiny houses, and …

Found this gem of an event on the Seattle Burning Man Facebook page. Set your alarm for early!

Please join us in Gas Works park in Seattle on Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 at 4:45 AM to sing Total Eclipse of the Heart karaoke style for the 76 minutes that the eclipse is, in fact, total.

Note that this edition is not in Cal Anderson park largely because of Gentrification. Future editions of the Total Eclipse of the Heart singalong that occur at times extremely early in the AM will be held at other parks.

If you want to bring along …

We’re all on tenterhooks, what with North Korea, Donald Trump, and the Hawaiian Alert, so that BOOM that rattled windows rattled hearts across Wallingford, as well.

If I’m reading the LightningMaps.org website correctly, though, it was just a very, very close lightning strike, centered close to the QFC (but sounding like it was in my backyard over by the John Stanford School). The rain intensified noticeably a minute or so after, which I’ve noticed is common with big lightning strikes. Maybe it’s shaking the drops from the sky.

Nothing to see here, move along.…

The Wallingford Community Senior Center is hosting a free screening of the film “Speaking of Dying” this Tuesday, January 23rd from 6:30 – 8:00 pm. They’re inviting local seniors and their adult children to attend:

As we creep up on the ninth (!) anniversary of this little town square on the Web, I’d like to repeat my oft-repeated invitation to the whole neighborhood to participate. I’ve struggled over the years to come up with quite the metaphor for what we’re trying to build here (backyard fence over which news and opinion is passed, coffeehouse without the coffee), but the goal is consistent: provide a forum for conversation within the neighborhood to build the bonds of community.

And there are lots of ways to do that: you can, of course, join in the comment threads or …