Before any more time elapses – the rest of our notes from the Delridge Neighborhoods District Council meeting last night (first report here, including an explanation of DNDC) – with events and initiatives we’re betting you’ll want to know about:

FOOD: A leftover from City Council President Richard Conlin‘s presentation — another new city health/sustainability campaign that you might consider “think global, eat local” — the Local Food Action Initiative, facilitating better availability of fresh, locally grown food, through Farmers’ Markets, P-Patches, and other programs. Conlin says this program will really ramp up next month, with proposals introduced in committee April 8, public comment taken at a meeting April 16, and a potential committee vote April 22. In the midst of this, one of America’s best-known advocates for healthy, sustainable food, Frances Moore Lappe — author of “Diet for a Small Planet” — will be in Seattle on April 11 for midday and evening events (more info on Conlin’s webpage).

CELEBRATION #1: April 11 is also the day that Derek Birnie of Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association says Freedom Church (35th/Roxbury, the former Safeway site) will host a community celebration in honor of its purchase of the site. DNDA and the church are working together in hopes of developing it into a “Village of Hope” (more in the DNDA newsletter) with not only the church HQ but also some housing and social services offices.

CELEBRATION #2: South Park is technically out of the Delridge Council’s area, but it is a West Seattle neighbor, and toward that end Adrian Moroles from Sea Mar wanted to invite the community to the celebration of Parque Cesar Chavez, 6 pm April 17. In tandem with this, Moroles says, his organization plans to launch a campaign to rename Cloverdale Street “Cesar Chavez Parkway” — stretching at least through South Park all the way to the Rainier Valley, where he says it would be a great tribute to two social-justice leaders to have an intersection where Cesar Chavez meets MLK. (Asked if they might propose renaming the stretch of Cloverdale that goes through West Seattle, Moroles said that was less likely, but not entirely out of the picture, at least to 35th SW.)

WINE: South Seattle Community College‘s Spring Barrel Tasting is coming up tomorrow, 4-7 pm, and Saturday 11 am-3 pm. SSCC’s Wine Academy has two new releases — ’07 Riesling and Rose’.

ART: That’ll be part of Delridge Day on May 31st at Youngstown Arts Center — DNDA’s Birnie says Delridge Day will be held concurrently with the Youngstown artists’ open house.