Highlights for the rest of your West Seattle Wednesday

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(Killdeer, photographed by Mark Wangerin)

From the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar and inbox for today/tonight:

FIRE TRAINING CONTINUES: The Seattle Fire training at 50th/Hudson continues daily through the end of the week – so you’ll see SFD vehicles and personnel there as well as smoke. Some area residents also are seeing brown water from the hydrant use. Here are our photos from Tuesday morning, when the training fires began.

ENTREPRENEUR MEETUP: Noon-1:15 pm at West Seattle Office Junction (WSB sponsor), the weekly coworking/home-office/etc. meetup is focused on local entrepreneurs. By the way, if the upcoming Viaduct closure has you giving new consideration to the concept of working without leaving the peninsula, check out WSOJ, West Seattle’s only coworking center. (6040 California SW)

VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY TEA TIME & CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP: 1-3 pm at Greenbridge Community Center; details in our calendar listing. (9800 8th SW)

EVERGREEN’S FUTURE: Also in White Center, – two meetings tonight related to the Evergreen Campus and the citizen campaign to change it back to Evergreen High School. A Highline School Board work session is planned at 5 pm regarding “small schools”; the community meeting follows at 6. Both are at Evergreen. (830 SW 116th)

‘THE HUNTING GROUND’: Film screening at 6 pm tonight in the Little Theater at Chief Sealth International High School, “The Hunting Ground.” April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and the film will be “followed by a Q & A, with sexual-assault nurse examiners, and representatives from the UW and Seattle University. … Campus sexual assault is a nationwide, pervasive problem. Young people have a 1 in 5 chance of experiencing sexual assault while a student at a university. “The Hunting Ground” is a well -regarded, powerful documentary examining this. … All are welcome. Please be advised that this can be a very sensitive topic, please use discretion for yourself and if you have children.” (2600 SW Thistle)

COED ULTIMATE FRISBEE: Everyone’s invited to the 6:30 pm pickup game at Fairmount Playfield. Rain cancels. (5400 Fauntleroy Way SW)

HIGHLAND PARK ACTION COMMITTEE: 7 pm tonight at Highland Park Improvement Club – here are the agenda points:

*SPD updates

*“Action Plan to Save Myers Parcels from Development — What does it mean for Highland Park?”

*Seattle Neighborhood Group – Crime Prevention Workshop – Vehicle Security: How to protect your car from crime. 

*Highland Park Elementary School Principal Chris Cronas of Highland Park Elementary is excited to partner with HPIC/HPAC. 

*Leslie Harris Seattle Public School Board Director District 6

*Highland Park Improvement Club Updates

*Saturday, April 30, 2016
 Highland Park Neighborhood Cleanup Day – 10 am – 2 pm 

(12th SW/SW Holden)

POEMS AND STORIES: Monthly Storybridge event at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor), 7 pm. Featured readers Carrie Gilstrap-Nettle and Arleen Williams. Plus, a community microphone! (5612 California SW)

SEE THE FULL LINEUP for today/tonight on our complete calendar – the events above are just SOME of the highlights!

5 Replies to "Highlights for the rest of your West Seattle Wednesday"

  • wetone April 27, 2016 (2:07 pm)

    Fire training at 50th & Hudson has created a very nasty brown water issue, once again for us and our neighbors living a couple blocks north of site.  Not happy ! Feel like sending city a bill for cleaning tub, toilet and sinks along with draining my new 5 day old water tank of sediment and adjust utility bill for extra water used to flush system …. don’t forget some bottled water also. Wouldn’t let the raccoons drink this crap. If anyone from city says it’s fine to drink send them over I want to see them do so.

    • WSB April 27, 2016 (2:10 pm)

      If you think they should compensate you, then call SPU, if you haven’t already. I asked them during some of our brown-water coverage whether that’s ever happened and they indicated it had.

  • Jeanie April 27, 2016 (3:28 pm)

    Love that bright-eyed beach birdie!

  • mark47n April 27, 2016 (3:32 pm)

    I’m down with SPU and/or the city paying for me having to flush my waterlines and water heater. They would bill the crap out of me if I had a water leak, why not bill them for the water to flush my system after they fill it with sediment?

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