Election Day, Hope Lutheran kindergarten info night, more for your West Seattle Tuesday

(Photo by Rosalie Miller – South Seattle College Arboretum)

Here’s what’s happening for the rest of today/tonight, mostly from the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar:

VOTE! One more reminder, it’s Election Day, and that means voting ends and vote-counting begins. The King County Elections dropboxes close at 8 pm sharp, and if you’re dropping your ballot in USPS mail, do it by afternoon, because it must have today’s postmarked. Tonight’s first and only round of results will be announced around 8:15 pm.

CHESS CLUB: Tuesdays 1:30-3 pm at the Senior Center of West Seattle (4217 SW Oregon). All levels welcome. (Questions? Email conwell@conwelld.net.)

DEMONSTRATION FOR BLACK LIVES: Long-running weekly sign-waving demonstration continues at 16th/Holden. 5-6 pm. Signs available if you don’t have your own.

LEARN ASL: Free class, 6 pm at West Seattle Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (4001 44th SW) – info’s in our calendar listing.

SCRABBLE NIGHT: 6-10 pm, you can play Scrabble at The Missing Piece (9456 35th SW).

FREE TRACK RUN WITH DEMO: Meet at West Seattle Runner (2743 California SW; WSB sponsor) for this free weekly run at 6:15 pm. Special this week: “New Balance Demo Track Night: Come for our regularly scheduled group run and demo a pair of the new New Balance 1080v13!! This is a great chance to try something out on a run without having to make a purchase. Be prepared, this shoe is a cushy crowd fave!” Questions? lori@westseattlerunner.com

KINDERGARTEN INFO NIGHT @ HOPE LUTHERAN SCHOOL: 6:30 pm, come talk about kindergarten readiness and what Hope Lutheran School (WSB sponsor) offers – registration link is in our calendar listing. (4456 42nd SW)

WEST SEATTLE TOASTMASTERS 832: “Improve your public speaking, communication, and leadership skills” with West Seattle Toastmasters 832 – online meeting at 6:30 pm – our calendar listing has the registration info.

THE CLAY CAULDRON: 6:30-9 pm “girls’ night” at pottery studio The Clay Cauldron (5214 Delridge Way SW), sign up in advance or drop in to work on your project(s).

SING! Singers have an open invitation to join the Seattle Metropolitan Singers – “all treble voices welcome” – just show up for one of their rehearsals, Tuesdays 7-9 pm at Senior Center of West Seattle (4217 SW Oregon).

TRIVIA X 4: Four places to play Tuesday nights – 7 pm at Ounces (3803 Delridge Way SW), free and hosted by Beat the Geek Trivia; 7 pm at Zeeks Pizza West Seattle (6459 California SW), hosted by Geeks Who Drink; 7 pm at Admiral Pub (2306 California SW); also, 7:30 and 8:30 pm Sporcle Pub Quiz at The Lodge (4209 SW Alaska).

BELLE OF THE BALLS BINGO: Play bingo with Cookie Couture at The Skylark (3803 Delridge Way SW), 8 pm. Free, all ages!

You can look ahead any time via our event calendar – if you have something to add to it, please email the info to westseattleblog@gmail.com – thank you!

Derek November 7, 2023 (12:15 pm)

Vote for Costa and Mosqueda!

Alki dad November 7, 2023 (12:27 pm)

Complete opposite of me
anonyme November 7, 2023 (12:51 pm)

Uh, nope.
K November 7, 2023 (12:59 pm)

And vote yes on Prop 1!
Dr Wu November 7, 2023 (1:15 pm)

No thank you.
Danimal November 7, 2023 (1:17 pm)

No. Vote for Saka and Sofia Aragon. Huge hard no on Mosqueda as well. Can’t believe this even needs to be said.
- No to Saka November 7, 2023 (2:19 pm)
  
  Have you spoken to him? I wouldn’t trust him to run a bath. Regardless of his politics.
- shotinthefoot November 7, 2023 (3:11 pm)
  
  No maga money in my local politics, hard no. No on Saka for that very reason. Hard no.
  - Danimal November 7, 2023 (4:57 pm)
    
    The reason there’s Republican backing for Saka is because people are sick of the soft-on-crime, look-the-other-way, shhhh-let-it-happen, ultra-progressive Democrats that keep running and we keep electing. They want change. They want someone who is more moderate. No Republican MAGA Conservative is going to win on the West Side, but I for one want a firmly moderate Democrat to start being the voting trend here. Sometimes politics isn’t nice. It takes holding people accountable for their actions, while being willing to help them until they show that they are taking advantage of the system. And I think calling everybody who is moderate Republican or moderate Democrat “MAGA” is insulting and disingenuous at best. No, I am not MAGA, and not Trump, and not even Republican.
    - Luke November 7, 2023 (7:01 pm)
      
      Well said Danimal
  - Jethro Marx November 7, 2023 (6:00 pm)
    
    I believe this is an absolute canard, but tell us more: do you believe the candidate to be aligned with President Trump, or do you believe that the money donated to political action committees or whatever by some random donor is enough to poison the well/tree and we should base our vote on that regardless of the candidate’s actual views?
Anne November 7, 2023 (3:30 pm)

I want change not more of the same so that’s a big NO-
- k November 7, 2023 (3:51 pm)
  
  This! Vote Costa if you want change! Saka is just another city crony who will bring you more of the same failed policies that have caused crime to jump up under Harrell.

Kadoo November 7, 2023 (12:47 pm)

I’ve contacted Costa’s campaign director this is in violation of state law he said he’d move it but hasn’t.

Electioneering at voting center or ballot drop location by election officers forbidden.

Any election officer who does any electioneering at a voting center or ballot drop location during the voting period that begins eighteen days before and ends the day of a special election, general election, or primary is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction must be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and pay the costs of prosecution.

Danimal November 7, 2023 (1:18 pm)

I saw that this morning! It set my hackles up for sure, but I didn’t know it was illegal. Someone should simply remove it from sight – behind a dumpster or something.
Josh November 7, 2023 (2:12 pm)

How do you know Goodman and his ilk didn’t put that sign up?
WestSeattleBadtakes November 7, 2023 (3:18 pm)

You folks are shameless, truly.
- Danimal November 7, 2023 (4:59 pm)
  
  You know what’s shameless? Setting a voter-influencing sign less than 15 yards from the major West Seattle voting box. I was struck by it immediately when I neared the drop box in my car. If Costa or her reps had a hand in this, it’s way way way outside the line.
  - WestSeattleBadTakes November 7, 2023 (6:24 pm)
    
    I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $5.
Jethro Marx November 7, 2023 (6:09 pm)

He said he’d move it because it was their sign or because it had his candidate’s name on it? It seems like the kind of thing someone unfamiliar with election laws would do rather than a campaign manager. Also is it a stolen SDOT barricade poorly repurposed? I can’t really see either candidate being into that.