The morning crime beat saw some action this morning.  Most of the street facing windows at Slave to the Needle (403 45th St) were smashed sometime over night.  The broken windows were smashed out of the panes with more damage than just a stray rock tossed through a window.

I saw several of their staff cleaning up the debris early this morning.  They said nothing appeared to be stolen.  It appeared to be just random violence.  There was also one smashed window across the street at the building that houses the new KinderCare.

The Slave to the Needle staff were …

Rebecca Fogarty, a program coordinator for the Village, sent us the following notice:

PNA Village Breakfast & Q&A

Thursday, October 10th, 9:30-11:30 AM

The PNA Village is officially expanding to Wallingford and Fremont! This program makes it easier for people to stay in their own homes as they grow older by connecting members with volunteers for transportation, minor home repairs, social connections, gardening, and much more! To learn about the village, they will be hosting a breakfast and Q&A at the Wallingford Senior Center. Current Village members and volunteers will provide breakfast and will host a fun and interactive group …

The City of Seattle and Puget Sound Energy continue to put our taxes and fees to use. There is construction going on all over the neighborhood.  The City of Seattle in pursuit of the big multi-modal project that has been ongoing for awhile now.   PSE is working on its natural gas project.   From the city’s weekly notice:

Here’s what you can expect for the upcoming week of construction: 

Work hours:

Crews to typically work Monday – Friday, from 7 AM to 7 PM

Closures and detours: 

Lane closures near work zones to accommodate construction activities; our crews will maintain one…

Every year I assume the Farmer’s Market closes for the season on Labor Day. Every year I am wrong. So if you feared you missed the last Farmer’s Market, you are in luck.

The final week for the Farmer’s Market is September 25th. Thanks so Kelli Diann Billips, the operations manager for the Seattle Farmers Market Association, for confirming the date.

The job of this post was done with the headline, but to add a little more content to justify clicking the link, here is an interesting passage from the Vendor manual:

SFMA requires all prepared food vendors to contain, …

The turtle joined the butterfly as two of the more conspicuous examples of intersection art. There is also the recent addition of the crosswalk art work near McDonald Elementary. These are great additions to the neighborhood, but they need upkeep.

A neighbor alerted us to a great community event tomorrow at 9am to repaint the turtle:

We’re holding another party to repaint Wallingford’s Bubbles the Turtle this Sunday, July 28!  Bubbles is the street mural at N 41st St and Interlake Ave N, and it’s definitely ready for a fresh coat of paint.  Anyone is welcome to help starting around …

The swallows to Capistrano. Naked Cyclists in Fremont. The wading pool at Wallingford play field. These are ways we mark the passing of time and the cycles of the seasons.

Enjoy the summer, but only enjoy the wading pool Wed-Fri, noon to 7pm through August 16th. In those off hours, you can enjoy the new play structure.…

The Nisqually Quake shook Seattle in 2001 cracking the Aurora viaduct. Eighteen years later we have a tunnel. It has been a wild ride over those years with many different visions of Seattle coming and going. This morning the tunnel opens for traffic. For the first few months there is no tolling. Tolling is expected to begin in summer 2019.

The tunnel is several miles south of the neighborhood, but not far enough south to insulate us from its impact. Aurora Avenue was closed for the past few weeks in the stretch that the tunnel will replace. I definitely experienced …