(Added 10:12 am – photo from Sealth as the celebration begins outside the main entrance)
Two more notes about big events today in West Seattle: Both Chief Sealth International High School and Swedish Automotive are inviting you to come celebrate their shiny new digs – Sealth, as you know, has just gone through two years of renovations (with some new additions, like the Galleria that’ll be shared with the new adjacent Denny International Middle School campus when Denny opens next year), while Swedish has just built a brand-new location a few blocks south of its longtime site (here’s our recent sneak-preview tour). Sealth welcomes parents/guardians of students starting at 9:30 am, and everybody’s welcome starting at 10 am, continuing till noon (2600 SW Thistle; map). And noon is when the party starts at Swedish Automotive, 7901 35th SW (map), continuing till 4.