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Unfortunately, we’ve had to cancel our summer picnic this year. We’re disappointed but we’re hopeful we’ll be back next year with a great community event! We are excited to announce the return of the Wedgwood Community Picnic! Since 2016, the picnic hasbecome a family-friendly event for neighbors to get together and celebrate local music, food and fun for an afternoon. Our mission is to build community by bringing neighbors, businesses, community leaders and non profits from Wedgwood and NE Seattle together. We need your help. Our fundraising goal for this year’s picnic is $6,000. As a sponsor your contribution helps Read More …

This is a guest post written by Wedgwood resident Bernedette Haskins. As a Seattle voter and Wedgwood resident I find that the new tree ordinance does not go far enough in protecting healthy mature trees that humans NEED for survival. Humans feel and are better when we are around trees. Studies reveal the positive impacts of greenery and tree canopy on our physical and mental health (American Psychological Association, 2019). Nationally, we are losing urban and community tree canopy, one study estimated approximately 36 million trees per year (Nowak & Greenfield, 2018). The 2021 Seattle Tree Canopy assessment found that Read More …

June 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pmWedgwood Community Church 8201 30th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98115 The Rainbow City Marching Band’s parade season kicks off with our traditional Wedgwood Neighborhood Parade followed by an Ice Cream Social sponsored by Wedgwood Community Church. Join your neighbors to come out and hear us play and then follow us around as we parade through the neighborhood. The parade ends at Wedgwood Community Church which hosts a community ice-cream social following the parade. It’s fun for the whole family and a highlight to the kids every year. Come join us! See all the details here.

Come join your neighbors for some food, fun, and local music on Saturday September 10th from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Anthony’s Finn, Thai-U-Up, and BlackStar Kebab will be there serving food. Sweet Wheels will serve up their delicious ice cream sandwiches starting at 5:00. Music will be provided by the Honkytonk Sweethearts at 3:15 and Johnny 7 and the Black Crabs at 5:00. Hunter Tree Farm7744 35th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115 See you there!

The Wedgwood Community Picnic needs your help! We’re looking for a few volunteers to help with this fun event. If you’re interested please fill out this very short form (https://bit.ly/wcp-volunteer) and we’ll be in touch. Come out, meet your neighbors, and volunteer at the Wedgwood Community Picnic.

The Wedgwood Community Council invites you to join us at the 5th annual Wedgwood Community Picnic! The picnic will take place on Saturday, September 10th, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Keep an eye out here and on our social media for more details. If you’re interested in volunteering or would like to have your business or organization represented at the picnic contact us at picnic2022@wedgwoodcc.org. This awesome event is only possible because of the great community of businesses we have. We’d like to give a HUGE thanks to Blue Poppy Floral for being a Premier Sponsor this year. If Read More …

Miss HomeStreet will be in the HomeStreet Bank parking lot in Wedgwood this Thursday August 4th from 2:30 to 4:30. Come down to see the boat, get some free goodies, and meet Championship driver (and rocket engineer!) Jimmy Shane. Jimmy and Miss HomeStreet will be racing in the HomeStreet Bank Cup 8/5 – 8/7. HomeStreet Bank – Wedgwood8200 35th Ave NE Seattle, Washington 98115

We are excited to announce the return of the Wedgwood Community Picnic! Since 2016, the picnic hasbecome a family-friendly event for neighbors to get together and celebrate local music, food and fun for an afternoon. Our mission is to build community by bringing neighbors, businesses, community leaders and non profits from Wedgwood and NE Seattle together. We need your help. Our fundraising goal for this year’s picnic is $6,000. As a sponsor your contribution helps our volunteer team fund the infrastructure, permits, equipment and other material to put on this great community event. This is a great way to connect. Read More …

This is a guest post from Bernedette H. In the Spring, Summer and Fall months while riding my bike or walking around the Wedgwood neighborhood I love to see what people are growing in their gardens.  My husband and I have lived here for over 15 years and it’s been great to see so many of our neighbors install garden boxes and plant all kinds of crops.  I love seeing what people are growing! I’ve never really paid attention to our neighborhood fruit trees, other than to avoid getting hit by falling fruit or riding my bike around the fruit Read More …