Following up on two successful community work parties earlier this summer, the Green Lake Elementary School Garden Club again invites the community to lend a hand at the school’s Olallie Native Garden. Green Lake Elementary parents are using funding from the City of Seattle’s Neighborhood Matching Fund to improve the existing garden by making it [...]

8:40 p.m. We just heard from My Green Lake reader Christina, who wrote with some scary news. At about 8 p.m. tonight (Thursday, August 26, 2010), Christina, who was walking at Green Lake Park, encountered some police.  They were looking for a missing boy. Cole, age four, was last seen riding a green bike. As [...]

Attention Green Lake parents: Children’s author Kathleen Hunter, who lives in Green Lake, is launching a series of blog posts about Green Lake businesses for you to share with your children. Kathleen authors two children’s blogs: Sleepy Bear Writes and Moosey Moose Writes. Yesterday, Sleepy Bear kicked off the series by visiting Mockingbird Books (7220 [...]

New dance classes for toddlers are coming to eXit SPACE School of Dance (414 NE 72nd St). Parents, grandparents, and other caregivers are invited to bring their toddlers (walking through 3-years-old) to the classes on Tuesdays or Thursdays, 10:00-10:55 a.m. This class is a fabulous way to play with your child, exploring movement and music [...]

Ed. note: The following post comes via Rebecca of Moms Alive, an amazing community resource for moms in the Seattle area.  Thanks, Rebecca! Two weeks ago, I saw a sign at the Green Lake Community Center (7201 E Green Lake Dr N) that they had applied an herbicide to the grass. I got a little [...]