West Seattle Monday: Green schools; public safety; traffic alerts…

Took the photo at Anchor Park one sunny morning last week … now it’s at least handy for daydreaming during our soggy Monday morning. (“Clearing” on Wednesday, according to the newest forecast – just in time for the official arrival of summer and West Seattle Solstice Sunset Watch!) Looking ahead to the rest of today and tonight:

TRAFFIC ALERTS: Spokane Street Viaduct eastbound lanes and one westbound lane are scheduled to be closed 10 pm-5 am, along with additional surface-street closures overnight in SODO (detailed here). Today’s also the first of two days during which daytime bike-trail work near the “low bridge” is under way – explained here. Closures/changes for the rest of the week (through Saturday’s northbound Viaduct/99 closure for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon) are listed here.

GREEN SCHOOLS: Teachers, students, administrators, and parents – as well as other interested community members – are invited to tonight’s Sustainable West Seattle forum, 6 pm at Denny International Middle School (2601 SW Kenyon) to talk about environmental education/efforts happening now, and plans and hopes for the future.

DELRIDGE PRODUCE COOPERATIVE’S SUMMER PLANS: Everyone’s invited to DPC‘s monthly meeting, 6:30 pm at the Delridge Library, to hear about plans for a summer produce stand, their recent fundraising Trivia Night at Skylark (and what’s next), plus the DPC business plan as they look ahead to a permanent storefront in the future DESC development. Prospective volunteers especially welcome to come check out the group.

PUBLIC SAFETY – A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: Not in West Seattle but a topic affecting us all. And the announcement comes from West Seattleite Susie Tennant of Town Hall Seattle:

Town Hall Seattle staff, members, and board are deeply shaken and disturbed by the events that took place so close to our offices on May 30th. The other shooting the same day, previous incidents in May, and earlier in the year have caused us great concern. Like all of Seattle, we are trying to process the situation and wonder what we as a community can do to address it. As an institution whose purpose is to create a safe place for the expression of ideas, and which has hosted community conversations on topics including education, Occupy Seattle, artist space, the environment, and more, we can think of no more appropriate response than to gather as a community for a constructive conversation about these events which affect us all. A group of city leaders and citizens — including Mayor Mike McGinn, Seattle Police Chief John Diaz, Councilmember Bruce Harrell, Mariko Lockhart, director of Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative, Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat, and others — will discuss issues of public safety, gun safety, mental illness, gangs, and how a community not only stays safe, but heals itself after such tragedies.

7:30 tonight, free with reservation at brownpapertickets.com. Town Hall is at 1119 8th Ave. downtown.

DJ NIGHT AT WEST 5: Monday night means the “Flat Earth Society” at West 5 in The Junction, with guest DJs and fab vinyl. Tonight, Rosemary Otero of Light in the Attic Records is scheduled, 9 pm.

And there’s more! Check out the calendar.

5 Replies to "West Seattle Monday: Green schools; public safety; traffic alerts..."

  • westseattlecodger June 18, 2012 (8:51 am)

    I’m interested in the public safety situation especially about gun handling. Although it happened outside West Seattle I’m curious about the disappearance of any stories relating to the shooting of a woman in a car in a Jack in the Box in the north end of town. No word on her condition, nothing about who the shooter is, no fanfare and calls for charges. Why? According to early reports the shooter was in the back seat, “Playing with his handgun”. Where’s the outrage here?

    • WSB June 18, 2012 (9:07 am)

      Codger, I’m sorry to say I’m not finding any followups beyond three days ago via Google News. If it was in our part of town, we’d have done our best to follow up. I’m afraid the appearance of police declaring it “accidental” sent the citywide-media pack rolling in another direction. – TR

  • westseattlecodger June 18, 2012 (9:45 am)

    Thank you for trying. Accidental? No moron who is, “Playing with a gun”, should be allowed to slide. How is this any more, “Accidental”, than some of the other shootings? The facts and the people involved dropping off the news makes me curious as well as suspicious.

  • happy June 18, 2012 (10:04 am)

    Green schools? Talk to Ms. Nall at Arbor Heights Elementary– she is the amazing
    “Queen of Green!”

  • Town Hall Seattle June 18, 2012 (3:24 pm)

    Coger, That’s exactly the kind of question we are hoping will be put forth to our panel tonight at Town Hall. If you can’t be here in person, please consider submitting a question via Town Hall Seattle’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/events/381131238610978/), tweet it with the hash tag #safeseattle, or email it to contact@seattlechannel.org. Thank you!

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