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
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
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 …
Order Out and Eat In
Editor’s note: I will update this list as often as I can, and include restaurants all over the neighborhood, not just on 45th St. I can’t be everywhere and also homeschool my kids, so please send me your info on restaurants near you! –Katy
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I checked out the restaurants on 45th St. to find out which are offering take-out and delivery. None are allowing customers to dine in. Almost all have you come in the front door to pick up, although some will bring it out to your car if you can park in front. Note that some of …
Revisions to bus routes in Wallingford?
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 3rd quarter of 2021 (July – September) at Brooklyn NE and NE 45th, Roosevelt NE and NE 65th, and Northgate. We’ll summarize it here …
Spanish Night in Wallingford
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…
Wallingford Community Senior Center Seeks New Executive Director
The Wallingford Community Senior Center (WCSC) has been in the Good Shepherd Center at 50th and Sunnyside ever since 1979. As a firm fixture in the Wallingford neighborhood, it has served both our seniors and the whole community with a mix of programs, social services, and as a meeting space for the community.
At first it was supported by a combination of Federal and local funding through Senior Services, but over time the politicians came up with less and less money. In 1993, Senior Services had to cut back what they could support, and several centers, including Wallingford, lost all …