From last night’s Highland Park Action Committee meeting – news of a candidates’ forum in a nearby neighborhood, air-traffic-research updates, and the latest business spotlight – read on for the toplines:

CANDIDATES’ FORUM: Visitors from the neighbors-to-the-south North Highline Unincorporated Area Council announced NHUAC is having a candidates’ forum on October 21st – with both the King County Council District 8 candidates (State Sen. Joe McDermott and Diana Toledo) and the State House District 34 Position 2 candidates (Joe Fitzgibbon and Mike Heavey) on the bill. It’s at 6:30 pm 10/21 at Greenbridge (details on the NHUAC website).

PUTTING THE ‘ACTION’ BACK IN HIGHLAND PARK ACTION COMMITTEE: Chair Dan Mullins said that’s the goal, and toward that end, he gave the floor to Mike Shilley and Rudy Vincena – Mike is HPAC’s new representative to the Southwest District Council, and also works with Sound Alliance, which is starting to do energy audits in Southeast Seattle; Mike thinks it’s worth talking with Highland Park neighbors about whether they’d be interested. Rudy updated his ongoing project researching low-flying aircraft over Highland Park; he says that instead of Federal Aviation Administration personnel in Renton, he’s now dealing with the FAA in D.C., which is looking into the possibility of studying how low the aircraft are flying and whether it’s a safety hazard. There were suggestions of petitioning King County Executive Dow Constantine to get the county more involved (since that’s who runs Boeing Field, which is where the low-flying aircraft are headed).

BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: At every meeting, HPAC spotlights a local business, and this time around it was The Dreaming Dane Catering. Proprietor Sandy Anderson says her company has just marked its 1-year anniversary; their goal is to source their food as locally as possible – for example, she mentioned that their salmon dishes are all from fish caught by husband Jon. (More about The Dreaming Dane, here – including the tale of the cheesecake that “has been known to start fights”!)

Highland Park Action Committee meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month, 7 pm at Highland Park Improvement Club HQ – or come early for potluck mingling at 6:30 pm. You can keep up with HP between meetings through HPAC chair Dan Mullins’ blog-format website, The Highland Park Outlander.