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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In case you were wondering what’s up with the old Mejari Fusion place next door to Murphy’s…our friends at City Cellars shared this pic of the liquor license application for a Greek restaurant to be run by a familiar name in Seattle: Kostas Opa, Inc.  Old timers (as we fossilized relics from the Age of Dinosaurs like to call you youngsters) in the area might recall a restaurant that operated for 20 years in the heart of Fremont called Costas Opa, or the current longtime U District establishment, Costas on the Ave. The recently filed business license information lists the …

We have learned that a suit by Wallyhood of the Seattle Times is imminent and may come in the next few days to weeks. At issue are a number of “methods and practices” unique to the blog that have been copied by the Times without apparent license or attribution.

When asked to summarize the issues, editor Megan Dulgar Okabayashi pointed to the most serious transgression by the Times. “We tend to end every sentence with a period, and then that is followed by a space. Our readers look for that. And I love that about us. But if you look …