This past week has seen temperatures climb above 90 degrees on consecutive days in Wayland and northeast Allegan County. The Leighton and Wayland Fire Departments offered up their facilities for cooling stations and Leighton was caught spraying elementary students at Paris Ridge. Regardless, it was a keen grasp of the obvious to observe that the ever-popular splash pad opened this year in time to provide youngsters and their parents a refreshing respite from some unusually hot weather in May.