Too late for for this weekend's sunny Sunday, Seattle's wading pools, including Wallingford Park's, open this coming Wednesday, June 29th. It's a three-day-a-week pool (Wednesday through Friday) noon - 7 pm. But, Seattle being Seattle (and not, say, Phoenix), it doesn't always make sense to fill the pools: We will plan to open the wading pools on sunny days when the temperature is forecast to be 70 degrees or higher. On most days we will fill them half full, which is…
Diane Gordon writes that the Wallingford Family Parade on July 9th is seeking volunteers to make it happen: Wallingford Family Parade on July 9th ! We need YOU! Volunteers Needed! We need your help to put up signs before the parade and help on parade day. If you can help, please email [email protected]. High School students will earn community service credit! Be in the parade! Calling all kids and parents! Register on the day of the parade, come to the muster site at N…
Lincoln High is getting a $19M update. An earlier version of this story mentioned that that part of this would involve changing the parking lot into a playfield (which would have a pretty big impact on the surrounding neighborhood), but I got a few notes that this was in error. Rachel wrote: I just wanted to correct some of the information you posted about the proposed athletic field at Lincoln High School. I was on the design committee as a community…
Vaxxed: From Coverup to Catastrophe, the anti-vaccination film directed by the discredited anti-vaccine activist Andrew Wakefield, will be showing all this week at the Guild 45th in Wallingford. Wakefield made headlines back in 1998 when he published a paper in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet demonstrating a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism. In 2010, the article was retracted by the Lancet in the light of evidence that Wakefield had fabricated data for his article and that he had…
My article that was posted on May 26, 2016 entitled "Wait a Minute - Raw Sewage in Lake Union?" received quite a few interesting and insightful comments and additional questions. Apparently one of the readers of that article was Andy Ryan who is the Media Relations Coordinator for the Seattle Public Utilities and Andy was kind enough to provide us with some answers to the questions that were raised in the article and in some of the comments. So I have…
The effect of the upzone to urban villages that HALA proposes is clear as we have already seen it happen in Ballard. Older homes and apartments will be shredded and displace thousands, driving out current residents and turning neighborhoods into unlivable construction zones as the transformation takes place. Further, all the new people that move in will swamp our already overloaded transportation systems and schools, driving up property taxes as we try to catch up and further damaging housing affordability and…
Just saw this pop up on the Wallingford / Fremont Community Facebook page: I just received a text from that there is an armed person near Wallingford Park. Anyone know anything about this? and this response: We were just there for our last day of school gathering. People started shouting about an armed person on the field, so I grabbed my kids and left. Lichton Springs was having a field day. I didn't see anything, so I can't confirm. We left…