Today/tonight: School chat, astronaut speech, candidates in HP

SCHOOL CHAT: This morning, for the first time since the start of the new school year, West Seattle’s school-board rep Steve Sundquist invites anyone and everyone interested in talking about education to join him at Uptown Espresso in The Junction (map), 9 am, for a coffee-hour chat.

ASTRONAUT SPEECH: Continuing his local appearances, West Seattle-raised astronaut Capt. Gregory Johnson speaks tonight at Museum of Flight (7 pm; map).

CANDIDATES IN HIGHLAND PARK: Many of the people who want your vote for Seattle Mayor, City Council and Port Commission will appear before the Highland Park Action Committee at 7 pm tonight, HP Improvement Club building (map).

CANDIDATE IN HIGH POINT: Before participating in that forum, mayoral hopeful Mike McGinn plans a “town hall” get-together at High Point Library (map), 4:30 pm.

CHEESE! Metropolitan Market launches a special two-week cheese celebration today; full details here.

That’s not all – more events tonight (including Cub Scout recruiting at OLG, 7 pm), on the WSB West Seattle-wide Events calendar.

Chris Weinmann September 23, 2009 (7:46 am)

Regarding Sundquist’s chat: one of the biggest problems I am having with Seattle Public Schools so far (I’m a parent of kindergartner at LaFayette) is the poor accommodations for households where both parents work. Setting a chat to discuss schools at “coffee hour” seems to me like more of the same. Boo.

WSB September 23, 2009 (8:37 am)

I’m sure he’d be interested in that feedback – his contact info is here:
http://www.sundquist4schools.com/contact.html
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Meantime, if you missed the mention here when it was announced last week, Superintendent Dr. Maria Goodloe-Johnson will be here next week for what’s billed as a “coffee hour” though it IS in the evening:
6:50-8 pm, High Point Community Center, Tuesday 9/29 – TR

brittany September 23, 2009 (11:32 am)

maybe steve should check the new school start times as well. even people who don’t work are dropping their kids off at 9:20 these days. one might think mr sundquist isn’t paying attention!