West Seattle, Washington
28 Thursday
One week from today, it’s the sixth annual West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day – this year, 200 sales big and small, all over the peninsula. We promised we’d have the map available by now, and we’re making good on that – you can see the Google Map version, with all 200 sites, by going here. In our experience, the Google Map has never printed too well, though, so we always make a printable version, with a segmented map, and the individual sale “ads” organized #1-#200 – that’s not ready yet, but we’ll link it here when it’s done, as well as on the West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day website and Facebook page. Meantime, you can see each full “ad” by clicking each sale’s number icon on the Google Map. We’ve made the list and more than checked it twice, to borrow a phrase, but if you are a seller and you can’t find your sale, please let us know as soon as possible (garagesale@westseattleblog.com) so we can check into it. Again, this is just a sneak peek – the sales don’t start till 9 am next Saturday (May 8). P.S. Feel free to share this link with friends and relatives all over the region – with 200 sales (including multi-family, block, organization, school, nonprofit BIG sales), there’s plenty of shopping for folks beyond the peninsula to come join “local” shoppers that day too.
From partner site White Center Now: A public pool closed last fall because of King County Parks’ budget crunch reopened today as the beneficiary of a private-public partnership, and King County Executive Dow Constantine was there to help cut the ribbon, along with other elected officials and a big contingent of pool users, including the young swimmers heard cheering in the clip. The former Evergreen Pool is now the Evergreen Community Aquatic Center, operated by the WhiteWater Aquatics swimming organization. More video in the story published earlier today at WCN; the pool has public swims six days a week, and you can see its schedule here.
(Photo by John Smersh)
Something different for your Saturday night – a jewelry trunk show and artist reception. It’s just getting under way at longtime WSB sponsor Click! Design That Fits in the Admiral District – above, that’s Click! co-owner Frances Smersh, a jewelry designer herself, with Dawn Benedetto of poppi jewelry, in the spotlight tonight. Benedetto describes her creations as “a line of jewelry that doesn’t take life too seriously.” She’s come all the way from the East Coast to meet West Seattle jewelry fans – she’ll be at Click! till 8 tonight (more about the event on their website).
Two events happening now till 5 pm in The Junction: First, the West Seattle Rock Club (WSB sponsor) is in the midst of its popular annual Rock and Gem Show. Admiring rock/gem/mineral samples is just a small part of the FREE fun – there are demonstrations (like the one in our photo above), and vendors with unique jewelry:
Prize drawings too. And if you absolutely can’t get there today – or if you’ve been, and want to go back! – the West Seattle Rock and Gem Show continues tomorrow too, 10 am-5 pm, Masonic Hall at 40th and Edmunds. Meantime, a few blocks northwest in The Junction, happening right now:
Flowers await young May Basket-makers at CAPERS, which also is hosting a trunk show of Alizah Olivas‘ jewelry till 5 pm. CAPERS’ Lisa Myers shared the flower photo. (That’s the first of two jewelry trunk shows in West Seattle today/tonight – stand by for news of the next one, coming up!)
We stopped by West Seattle Montessori School (WSB sponsor) to check out the plant sale, continuing till 2 pm, and wound up with a photo of the bake sale! (Added later – a peek inside their greenhouse:)
Also just picked up another event we didn’t know about till it turned up on Twitter – today is Free Comic Book Day nationwide, and Arcane Comics in West Seattle is among the participants.
First (if you haven’t already seen the mention on our FB page), happy anniversary to Zippy’s Giant Burgers in Highland Park. Zippy’s posted a note in the WSB Forums to commemorate the fact they opened their doors two years ago today, to an enthusiastic reception that we hear continues to this day. Second – Michele at West Seattle Thriftway says bacon cheeseburgers are on the menu for another benefit barbecue today, out in front of the store (and hey! the sun just came out!) – starting at 11 am, $7 for burger/chips/soda to benefit the breast-cancer-fighting Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Today’s highlights start with the 44th Annual Rock and Gem Show, “Gems in Bloom,” presented by the West Seattle Rock Club (WSB sponsor), 10 am-5 pm (tomorrow too) at the Masonic Hall, 40th/Edmunds. While rocks, mineral specimens, fossils, gemstones, crystals and more will be on display, it’s an active show too, with demonstrations, a chance for kids to make a “gem tree,” and items for sale. Best part: FREE. … As usual, many local parks/greenspaces have work parties (listed on the Green Seattle Partnership website), but the biggest work party today will be the Pigeon Point Neighborhood Council membership and neighbors in action for their Spring Clean, including the staircase from Charlestown/19th to East Marginal Way (as well as what you see on Jim Sander‘s creation at left), starting 9 am (volunteers welcome!) … Peak season starts today for Washington State Ferries, which means a price change on some routes … Two more WSB sponsors have big events today: West Seattle Montessori School has a fundraising Plant Sale for the first time this year, with a Master Gardener on hand to answer questions and a lot more, all detailed on the school’s website, 9 am-2 pm … And it’s Trunk Show day at Click! Design That Fits, for poppi jewelry, including a 5-8 pm artist reception with poppi’s Dawn Benedetto – full details on the Click! site – Facebook invite here … Several yard/garage (and other) sales are posted in the WSB Forums‘ Freebies/Deals/Sales/Etc. section, where it’s free to list sales of all types (including businesses’ special events and deals) – find them here … In White Center, Evergreen Aquatic Center is rededicated at 10:30 followed by a free community swim till 1 … More on the WSB Events calendar!
The Hall at Fauntleroy was filled with hundreds of West Seattle Food Bank supporters Friday night, for the food bank’s annual benefit “Instruments of Change.” Among those we saw – Pablo Lambinicio (left) from the Delridge Neighborhoods District Council and Ron Angeles from the Delridge District Neighborhood Services Center:
Besides enjoying a catered banquet by Tuxedos and Tennis Shoes Catering and inspiration from speaker Robert V. Taylor, the crowd heard world music by the Miho and Diego Duo:
WSB is proud to have been among the sponsors of the event – the full list is here, along with other event details from “Instruments of Change.” You can find out how to help the West Seattle Food Bank and the thousands it serves by going here.
Editor’s note: West Seattle writer Jen Boyer, who publishes Heligirl.com (one of the 100+ sites whose latest links are on the WSB Blogs page), is covering today’s “Deadliest Catch“ fan convention; we’re publishing her coverage for interested fans. First: The Friday night memorial for “Captain Phil” Harris, who died last February (and had visited West Seattle to promote his coffee brand back in 2008).
(Captain Phil’s son Jake, preparing to throw a flower into the water in memory of his dad)
Story and photos by Jen Boyer
Reporting for West Seattle Blog
Hundreds of fans, fellow fishermen, friends and family of “Deadliest Catch” Captain Phil Harris came together Friday night at Pier 91 to pay tribute to the salty crab captain that Discovery Producer Paul Gasek called “a teddy bear with that ink thing going on.”
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