Thinking of buying a new mattress or bed-related items? You may want to consider holding off a bit to benefit our local high school:

Day: Sunday, April 30 Time: 10am to 5pm Place: Lincoln High School, 4400 Interlake Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103

We received the message below from the performing arts folks at Lincoln:

Lincoln Performing Arts is holding their first mattress fundraiser on Sunday, April 30th, from 10am to 5pm at Lincoln High School to raise money for programs. More than 400 students—or fully a quarter of all 1,670 Lincoln students—participate in award-winning performing arts at the school.…

Erupting on the walkway of the Troll park in Fremont are new concrete mushrooms, embedded in the lush forest of what was once a homeless encampment.

Now it is part of the new Troll Forest, built above the east side of the Fremont troll.

The mushroom lantern sculptures are the latest park enhancements, built by noted sculptor Haiying Wu, who also built the firefighters memorial in Pioneer Square. Wu has been hired to build a statue of Nisqually leader Billy Frank Jr, which will appear in the National Statuary Hall in Washington D.C. (replacing the Marcus Whitman statue) and also …

On Saturday, April 22^nd from 10am-1pm the Wallingford community will have the opportunity to help clean up the neighborhood at two locations. This activity is part of the City of Seattle Adopt A Street program. The Wallingford effort was initiated by Colleen Kurke and her organization Street Keepers inspired by cleanup efforts she has led in the past when involved with the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce.

Colleen will be joined by assistants, Rhonda Bush from Historic Wallingford, and Ted Hunter from the Wallingford Community Council and appreciate sponsorship from these organizations for this event. Thanks to community businesses …

Wallingford small businesses invite the community to sip and shop

Thursday, April 20th from 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Stop by to check out Wallyhood local businesses, enjoy a beverage or snack and hang out! If this event is a hit, these shops hope to repeat this the third Thursday of each month and have more local businesses join in!

Participating Small Businesses:

Bottle Works 

Cedarhouse Flowers

City Cellars

Pacific Northwest Shop

Peti

Wally Pets

206 Burger Company

If you are a Wallingford based small business with interest in participating, contact Parnel (parnel@cedarhouseflowers) or Matt ([email protected])…

Seattle Historical Theater Project invites the public to a free production of Friends Across the Wires — April 16th 3:00p.m. at Wallingford United Methodist Church, 2115 N. 42nd St., Seattle

Friends Across the Wires explores the impact of the Japanese American incarceration during WWII through the lens of young people in Seattle. The play follows best friends Kiyoko and Peggy, students at Seattle’s Broadway High School, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor through the end of Kiyoko’s incarceration at Minidoka. Based on first-person accounts, interviews, and additional primary source research, the play offers an intimate exploration of friendship while examining …

Join us with the Wallyhood Vlog as local realtor Tyson Baty interviews the owners and operators of popular Wallingford institutions. On today’s episode we check-in with Paul Brown, the man who holds the dog treats behind the counter at Wally Pets on Wallingford Ave N.

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