West Seattle Farmers Market updates & Skillet surprise

(photos added just after 2 pm)

Out in The Junction for the West Seattle Farmers’ Market‘s 10th anniversary bash – huge crowd – but a couple things you might want to know if you haven’t been yet: The free berry mini-sundaes just ran out, after – according to the servers – they gave out about 600 in the first two hours of the market. There are unannounced freebies here and there – be sure to stop by the West Seattle Junction Association booth at the southwest entrance, where you’ll find free kids’ T-shirts (adults’ T-shirts with The Junction logo are $10) — Linda from Clementine was on duty when we stopped by:

And you can get your first look at the cool poster for West Seattle Outdoor Summer Movies on the Wall (co-sponsored by WSB):

We also discovered a surprise to the south – Skillet IS here in West Seattle today after all, though their schedule and Twitter feed said they’d be at the Sounders game:

The folks at the trailer told us it’s a mix-up (as was finally tweeted – though we tweeted the discovery first) – they got here and then found out they were supposed to be at the game, but it’s too late to pack up and move, so they’re here for the usual duration (till about 2). Westside Dermatology (WSB sponsor) parking lot. Also at the Market, the 34th District Democrats are at the northeast entrance, registering voters (if you need to change your address, you can do that at their table too) – just a month till primary ballots go out (in the photo, added later, Jackie and Helen) –

And much more is happening, including the Square 1 Books (WSB sponsor) tent sale near the 34th DDs (alley entrance by KeyBank):

That’s proprietor Gretchen and son Jasper. Also sighted, the Fauntleroy YMCA (WSB sponsor) Piecemakers selling raffle tickets for this quilt:

The Piecemakers meet Wednesdays at 1 pm; raffle proceeds will benefit Y kids’ programs and Fauntleroy Church – and you’ve got plenty of time to get a ticket, since the raffle’s not till November.

6 Replies to "West Seattle Farmers Market updates & Skillet surprise"

  • Mike June 28, 2009 (3:31 pm)

    I like many others is anxious to try the Skillet- but do not forget to frequent the local establishments that we have in West Seattle. The WSB is giving the Skillet weekly publicity.

  • WSB June 28, 2009 (5:18 pm)

    We answered this one a couple weeks ago. It’s not “publicity,” it’s news. And we report on all sorts of other local restaurant and business news as well. If we happen onto something unexpected – it’s news – which is what happened here. Their status wasn’t anywhere except in our events calendar till we drove up to go report on the Farmers’ Market and spotted the trailer in the Westside Dermatology parking lot. If we’d seen that and not mentioned it, we wouldn’t have been doing our job. We spotted other surprises while we were out and reported on those – like, free kids’ T-shirts at The Junction’s booth at the WSFM.
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    We invite any local business, restaurant or not, to send us its news – new menu? new chef? added a patio? moving locations? – editor@westseattleblog.com – and also (as the West Seattle Junction Association kindly shared for us in its recent newsletter) we offer local businesses the chance to post deals/sales and job openings FREE in the WSB Forum:
    https://westseattleblog.com/blog/forum
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    -TR

  • sam June 29, 2009 (8:17 am)

    Saturday- we were in columbia city for some Roy’s BBQ (yum!), and shopping- avoiding the mess of traffic. we stopped by skillet to see if they’d be in WS on Sunday- they were and so were we. didn’t have to wait for our food at all, though I think that was a bad thing.
    the poutine tasted good but was not hot AT ALL. it must have been sitting around.

    the burger was great !

  • Meghan June 29, 2009 (10:50 am)

    Skillet has great food, but in the past 2 weeks, one trailer has gone to the wrong location and another was closed for not having proper permits. I hope these are flukes and this isn’t indicative of their management.

  • Orin June 29, 2009 (10:57 am)

    I’m afraid I don’t see what the Skillet fuss is about… $9 fetishized cheeseburgers? Lots of places do that…

  • sam June 29, 2009 (1:08 pm)

    yes there are definitely lots of places to get good burgers, at a good price. we wanted to see what the fuss was about. and we split the burger and barely warm gravy-drenched fries between the two of us. if we’d been feeling rich and skinny, might have tried the gnocchi too. I do like that they have different items on the menu other weeks.

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