Mike Ruby, Author at Wallyhood

Wallingford Senior Center has Reopened

Mike Ruby August 11, 2021 Comments are off

The Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC), located on the ground floor of the Good Shepherd Center, is restarting its programs and services for the community. The pandemic closure gave the opportunity to repaint and reorganize the space so it is even more welcoming now. Because of the emergence of the delta variation of the Corona-19 virus, WCSC is requiring everyone who visits the Center to show evidence that they are vaccinated. Face masks are optional, but highly recommended.

WCSC is open from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Being at the bottom of a large masonry building it …

Art/Crafts Supply Sale

Mike Ruby August 7, 2021 Comments are off

Perhaps you know the Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild for their marvelous sale of interesting crafts each year at Christmas. Well, this summer they are having a sale of the arts and crafts supplies you will need to make such wonderful things. We’re talking books, patterns, yarn, beads, threads and more. The sale will be on Saturday, August 21 from 9 am to 3 pm. PNNAG’s workshop is located on the ground floor of the Good Shepherd Center, room 120. (They can only accept cash and checks.) For more information about PNNAG, take a look at their website.…

Where in Wallingford? Treasure Hunt

Mike Ruby July 22, 2021 1 Comment

Historic Wallingford invites you to celebrate our business district’s “reopening” from the pandemic with a neighborhood treasure hunt. This fun, self-guided activity is a chance to get the whole family outside and explore Wallingford’s historical architecture and flourishes of art. So grab the kids and go for a walk along N 45th.

The treasure hunt leads you along N 45th, and sometimes just to the north or south, to solve clues and discover things about the history of Wallingford.

How It Works –

Pick up a treasure hunt map today at one of our five sponsor businesses: Wally Pets, 4411…

Yes, it is going to be hot. What to do.

Mike Ruby June 25, 2021 Comments are off

[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 …

Getting ready for The Big One

Mike Ruby May 24, 2021 Comments are off

Seattle’s Office of Emergency Management is presenting a series of webinars to detail how they will respond when a major earthquake comes our way. Note, we say WHEN, not IF. It’s coming, we just don’t know when. It’s overdue, which makes us even more nervous. Recent research says that a rupture of the Seattle Fault, that runs east-west under Harbor Island and Beacon Hill, is likely to be more damaging to Seattle than the much discussed Cascadia Subduction Fault that runs north-south off the west coast of Washington. The Seattle Fault is relatively shallow so the effects of even a …

Rebuilding the Green Lake Community Center

Mike Ruby May 9, 2020 6 Comments

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 …

Survey Underway for I-5 Lid Proposal

Mike Ruby May 7, 2020 18 Comments

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 …

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