[Note: The Ballard Library cooling center hours have been updated.]

The Weather Service has called an “excessive heat watch” and is predicting temperatures over 90 degrees starting Saturday and a high of 100 degrees on Monday, continuing too high all through the week. What can you do if the heat is getting to you? Here are some official “cooling off” places that will be open and air conditioned where you can retreat.

The Northgate Community Center will be open Saturday and Sunday from 2pm to 8pm. The Metro #26 bus runs along 40th and up Latona directly to …

The Seattle Parks Department is moving ahead with a plan to replace the Green Lake Community Center and Evans Pool. In these days of social distancing they can’t hold the community meetings for input that would normally be a part of the Seattle Process. So they have posted a survey to their website to gather the opinions of neighbors.  (Follow the instructions to the “Online Open House.”) It can be quick, with just a few questions to answer, or you can take your time filling up the open comment boxes. This is our community center, so Wallingford needs to weigh …

Lids over freeways have become rather the norm around Seattle. The 520 bridge lid on Mercer Island is quite long and a shorter one is being built in the Montlake neighborhood. The Washington Department of Transportation has endorsed the idea of lids over I-5 and a study is currently underway studying a lid that would stretch from Denny Way to Madison St. We should be getting the report soon, but so far we have word that a lid is technically feasible, from an engineering standpoint. Several community meetings have been held on what should be located on that lid, with …

Michael Ruby submitted this post about the bus route changes in the neighborhood.  It is a thorough summary with useful information and a few of his own opinions included.  Be sure to complete the linked survey to have your own opinions heard.

Metro has begun planning for the changes that will be made to all of the bus routes through Wallingford when the North Link lightrail stations open in the 3^rd quarter of 2021 (July – September) at Brooklyn NE and NE 45^th, Roosevelt NE and NE 65^th, and Northgate. We’ll summarize it here …

The Wallingford Community Senior Center will serve up a big Paella Dinner on Saturday, July 23 at the Senior Center. The City has significantly reduced funding to the Senior Center, so they are responding by asking you to come together with the rest of the Wallingford community to enjoy dinner and help raise some money for the Center so it can continue operation.

Tickets are $75 each. Go to anightinspain.brownpapertickets.com to make your reservation. Thank you for your support…