Local watering hole, Russell’s Tavern celebrates 10 years in Wallingford! If you can snag a seat at the bar, Russell’s is the perfect place to meet a friend or to read a few chapters of a book while engaging in chatter with friendly bartenders and neighbors. The experience is enhanced further with an order of pickled vegetables or sardines with sweet piquillo pepper . This month, Russell’s will celebrate their 10th anniversary with oysters, bubbles, cocktails and tunes, which sounds even sweeter.  The party starts at 4:00pm on Saturday, March 23rd. Pop on to North 41st Street and Stone Way …

Game Crafters Camp: Play, Create, Compete.  April 8th-12th If you are a parent wondering how you will make it through Spring Break without care for your Kindergartener – 5th grader, Latona School Associates, an after school program located in John Stanford International School (JSIS) is accepting kids for spring break camp, even if they don’t go to JSIS.

Tim Sullivan, Director of Latona School Associates writes: Join us for an exhilarating week packed with creativity and fun as we delve into the world of game creation and play. Play at rekisteröimättömät nettikasinot for a quick and easy sign-up process. …

Tuesday, March 19th, Wallingford’s clammiest restaurant celebrates what would be the 119th birthday of it’s founder, Ivar Haglund (or flounder, as they say) with a buy one entrée, get the second for $1.19. Stop on in and let things get extra fishy!

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Let’s Keep Wallingford Livable and Fun

Public art enriches our lives without us even knowing it and becomes part of our experiences, says sculptor Toby Mendez. Wallingford is full of outdoor art—from the whimsical mosaics of the Boys and Girls Club to the Animal Storm sculpture outside Wallingford Center, to the eye-catching murals found throughout the North 45th Street business district.

With this as inspiration, a collaborative neighborhood group, Wallingford Beautification, is working on plans to add to Wallingford’s artistic landscape, to enhance visual interest, and raise community pride in Wallingford.

Two surveys are being offered by this group to …

Come to the Wallingford Community Senior Center – 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. Suite 140- Monday thru Friday, open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, for a variety of games and activities: board games, fitness classes, knitting, play reading, creative mending, monthly outings and more! All activities take place at WCSC, and outings will depart from there as well. Proof of COVID-19 vaccine within the last 18 months is required to participate at WCSC. Hope to see you soon! For more information visit our website or call 206.461.7825

At the end of this month, we have a couple special events:

Tuesday, …

By now, most of you have noticed that Wallyhood does not have a sports desk—and a good portion of you think that is just great, and maybe it’s a reason why you’ve stuck around for as long as you have. But as a diehard baseball fan in a pathetically beleaguered baseball city, I was both surprised and delighted to hear a piece on KNKX by my favorite radio host, Kirsten Kendrick. It features a pitcher on last year’s state 3A champion Lincoln High School baseball team, Bjorn Johnson. Unlike most such stories, it focuses on the journey of Bjorn …

Many parents know the trials of finding summer camps to provide care for young kids. Parent text threads explode reminding each other to be hovering over the mouse on your computer refreshing at exactly 6pm when registration for this camp or that opens up. Stress and guilt and great expense follow.

Just outside of Wallingford, the UW Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences Lab (I-LABS) is now looking for native English speaking kids ages 4-5 to participate in a Free Language Camp as part of their research into the benefits of dual language exposure. The Language Camp Research Study located …