The Wallingford Community Council invites you to an in-person Open House

Date: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 Time: 6-8PM Place: Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside, Ave. N., Room 202

Meet and reconnect with your neighbors and local government representatives and learn about the Wallingford Community Council, a 100% volunteer organization made up of residents of Wallingford. Celebrate with friends, enjoy dessert and participate in raffles with prizes from local Wallingford merchants.

Come and learn how the Wallingford Community Council has helped make the Wallingford community a better place to live.  Also come and learn the goals and objectives of the WCC …

The Wallingford Boys & Girls Club is holding a Halloween Hoopla on Saturday, October 29^th from 6-9pm.

The Hoopla is a community event with activities for the whole family!  There will be carnival games, a cake walk and 2 haunted houses (one for all ages and one for older youth). Concessions and a photo booth will be available as part of a Keystone fundraiser.   The event costs $1 to attend which will give you 5 game tickets or one visit to the scarier haunted house and will be held at the Club.…

Come check out the second annual Haunted Alley in Wallingford! This family-friendly event will take place from 5-8pm on October 30th and 31st (Halloween and the day before). There will be fun games and activities, including cornhole, a scavenger hunt, ring toss, a haunted tent walkthrough, and other carnival classics. The event is completely free but they will be accepting donations for FamilyWorks. Last year, they raised $5,000!

Entrance on 52nd Street between Kirkwood Pl and Kensington. Make sure to stop by!

They also have an instagram account this year! You can find that here: https://www.instagram.com/seattlehalloweenalley/

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It began as an ordinary day for Russell Ruhle, a driver for WM (formerly Waste Management), one of the city’s contractors for collecting trash, yard waste and recyclables. But then, as Ruhle maneuvered his truck up the 4000 block of Sunnyside, he noticed someone signaling to him from the sidewalk. It was mid-afternoon on Friday, October 14.

It had been an ordinary day for Neal Stuber as well. While his wife, Carol, was out doing some shopping, Neal busied himself with some yard work outside his home in the 4000 block of Sunnyside. As he went up the stairs to …

The Wallingford Community Senior Center is looking for volunteers of all ages to help with their programs. This coming Saturday the Senior Center is having a Volunteer Fair to showcase a range of opportunities for your involvement. It will be setting up booths where you can learn about different tasks at the Senior Center you could help with. It’s a great group of people to be working with and a great group of people you would be helping. There will be games and prizes, plus snacks.

The Volunteer Fair will be held on Saturday, October 29^th from 11 am …

[Editor’s note: Since 2019, planning and work to improve transit time and safety along the route 44 corridor has been ongoing. The information below, regarding work to begin as early as next week, comes to us from Darrell Bulmer, Communications and Outreach Lead, at the Seattle Dept. of Transportation (SDOT). More information is available here.]

Pedestrian Improvements in Wallingford

As soon as next week, crews are expected to shift into the Wallingford area and begin sidewalk, curb ramp, and crosswalk work. Work will begin on N 45th St between Interlake Ave N and Wallingford Ave N. This work includes:…

The performance group Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre will bring their most recent production, Ruins of Memory: Women’s Voices of the Holocaust, to the Wallingford United Methodist Church this coming Sunday.

First, the details:

Date: Sunday, October 23, 2022 Time: 3:00 pm Place: Wallingford United Methodist Church, 2115 N. 42nd St. Free-will donations at the door

Ruins of Memory follows the stories of Jewish women during the Holocaust. From the WUMC website:

This theatrical performance piece, adapted and directed by Laura Ferri, features inspiring selections of resistance and resilience from fiction, poetry, and oral histories by survivors and victims of …