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Local Events

Mark your calendar for summer festivals

Cotton candy vendors sell their wares at the 2011 Beacon Hill Festival. Photo by Wendi Dunlap/Beacon Hill Blog.

Early warning! Mark your calendar for a couple of the Hill’s major summer events.

On June 2, the Jefferson Community Center is hosting the 20th Annual Beacon Hill Festival, with entertainment, local food, carnival games, bounce toys, and a silent auction. Proceeds of the event will go to support programs and scholarships offered at the center. All ages are welcome.

Vendors, non-profits, schools, and others: for booth information, contact Doreen Deaver at 206-684-7481 or doreen.deaver@seattle.gov. Registration deadline for vendors is May 4.

On July 21, festival fun comes to South Beacon Hill with the Taste of Van Asselt. There will be food, live music, arts and crafts, face painting, and a 3-on-3 basketball tournament.

Event organizers are are looking for local restaurants to participate in this event
as vendors to sell their unique culture foods. Jewelry and craft artists are welcome to sell handmade jewelry and crafts as well. All vendors will be required to have a City of Seattle business license. Musicians are also sought to perform. For more information,
call 206-386-1921.

Local Events

Eggs for the hunting at local community centers

Photo by makelessnoise via Flickr/Creative Commons.
This weekend brings several egg hunt events at Beacon Hill and nearby community centers.

At Jefferson Community Center (3801 Beacon Ave. S.), Friday, April 6 at 8 p.m., there is a Teen Flashlight Egg Hunt for those 12 and older. The event is free, but bring a flashlight and a bag. Meet at the community center gym at 8 sharp. The hunt will be outdoors.

Saturday, April 7, is the Spring Egg Hunt and Pancake Breakfast. Breakfast will be served from 9-11 a.m., and the Egg Hunt starts at 10 a.m. sharp. The Egg Hunt is free, but breakfast is not: $4 for pancakes, $5 for pancakes and sausage, or $6 for pancakes, sausage and eggs.

The Van Asselt Community Center is also holding a Spring Egg Hunt and Pancake Breakfast Saturday from 10-11:30 a.m. The egg hunt for kids aged 2-8 is free and starts at 10 sharp, and the pancake breakfast will follow the egg hunt. The breakfast is $3 per person for all-you-can-eat pancakes with syrup, butter, and juice.

Down the hill, both the International District/Chinatown and Rainier community center are also holding free egg hunts Saturday morning at 10 a.m. (April 7) for kids under 11. The International District/Chinatown Community Center is located at 719 8th Ave. S. The Rainier Community Center is at 4600 38th Ave. S.

Education, Local Events

Cleveland PTSA invites you to fundraising auction

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Aerial photo of Cleveland High School in 2001, courtesy of Seattle Municipal Archives.

The Cleveland High School PTSA invites everyone to help raise $10,000 by participating in the Cleveland High School Red and White Night Soaring Eagles Auction, Saturday, April 28, from 5:30-9 p.m. at Brockey Center on the South Seattle Community College Campus (6000 16th Ave. S.W.).

You can be part of this fundraising event in several ways: by buying a ticket to attend, by donating an item for the silent or live auction, or by donating cash directly. To buy tickets or donate, go to this website and follow the steps there.

Volunteers are also welcome. To volunteer, contact Heather Graves (hmchavez4@gmail.com).

Arts, Local Events

Hot jazz and a swinging barn dance coming to ROCKiT’s Folk Club

Photo by Michelle Tribe via Creative Commons/Flickr.
The ROCKiT Community Arts Tuesday Folk Club is holding its last Tuesday show this coming Tuesday, March 27. Have no fear, the folk is not going away — instead, it’s moving to First Sundays, with the first show just a few days later on April 1. No foolin’.

Tuesday’s show features the Chicago 7, playing jazz of the 1920s and ’30s. According to their website, the group, organized by trombonist Marc Smason, is “a salute to, and extension of, the polyphonic early hot jazz styles of New Orleans, Chicago and New York.” Here’s an audio clip: “More Than You Know.”

The show will open with a performance by Washington Middle School Alternative Strings. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the cover charge is $5 for adults, free for kids.

The following Sunday the Folk Club debuts on Sunday nights with a Garden House barn dance featuruing fiddler Tony Mates and caller Charmaine Slaven. Cover for this one is $7 for adults, and free for kids. Doors will open at 6 p.m.

Both shows are, as always, in the Garden House, 2336 15th Ave. S.

Clean and Green, Local Events

Jefferson Park solar shelters celebrate grand opening

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Illustration by Stephanie Bower; image courtesy of Seattle City Light.

All are invited to come out to Jefferson Park on Wednesday, March 21 from 9:30 a.m. until noon to be among the first to see the new Community Solar picnic shelters at the Park. Local dignitaries and representatives of Silicon Energy, the company who manufactured the solar modules that make up the roofs of the shelters, will be on hand to celebrate the grand opening. The Jefferson Park project is estimated to produce 24,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per year, enough to operate 3 households.

In the Community Solar program, Seattle City Light customers have the opportunity to enroll in the program as founding members by purchasing “units” of solar power for $600 each. Members then receive credits to their electric bill, using the power generated by their portion of the project. See more about it here. Members will also have their names included on the shelters: “artistically inscribed on colored metal bands surrounding the structure support columns,” according to City Light.

Wednesday’s weather forecast currently calls for rain, so the solar part of the project might not get too much of a workout. The shelter part ought to come in handy, though.

Arts, Education, Local Events

Kimball Art Walk comes to Beacon Avenue 3/22

The first annual Kimball Art Walk is next Thursday, March 22 from 3 – 6 p.m. Beacon Hill businesses will display artwork by Kimball Elementary School students, and there will also be performances by the Kimball Elementary Ukulele Band, bead-making demonstrations, and more.

The art walk starts at Victrola Coffee and will continue to El Quetzal, Hello Bicycle, Bar Del Corso and beyond on Beacon Avenue South. Each site will host examples of Kimball kids exploring science, social studies, history, etc. through the arts.

Victrola Coffee is located at 3215 Beacon Ave. S.

Local Events

Occupy Beacon Hill to picket Chase Bank in Othello today

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Activists have formed a local group, Occupy Beacon Hill, which will be picketing Chase Bank in the Othello neighborhood today at 4 p.m. as part of a national Occupy protest action against Chase.

March 13 was chosen for the date of the protest as it is Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s birthday, as well as the court date for the “Chase 5”: members of Occupy Seattle who chained themselves inside the Broadway Chase branch and were arrested.

Occupy Beacon Hill will protest the Chase branch located at 7100 Martin Luther King Junior Way South, between Myrtle and Othello, next to Othello Station. For more information, call 206-203-2125.

Local Events

Save the date: Egg hunts and pancakes at the Jefferson Community Center

Photo by makelessnoise via Flickr/Creative Commons.
Mark your calendar—Jefferson Community Center has some eggy events coming up next month.

On Friday, April 6 at 8 p.m., the community center hosts a Teen Flashlight Egg Hunt for those 12 and older. The event is free, but bring a flashlight and a bag. Meet at the community center gym at 8 sharp. The hunt will be outdoors.

The next morning, Saturday, April 7, is the Spring Egg Hunt and Pancake Breakfast. Breakfast will be served from 9-11 a.m., and the Egg Hunt starts at 10 a.m. sharp. The Egg Hunt is free, but breakfast is not: $4 for pancakes, $5 for pancakes and sausage, or $6 for pancakes, sausage and eggs.

Jefferson Community Center is located at 3801 Beacon Ave. S.

Arts, Education, Local Events, Volunteering and Giving

Family films, music, and auction to benefit Rainier Valley Co-op Preschool

Click to see a larger copy of the event flyer.
Rainier Valley Cooperative Preschool, located in the Beacon Hill Lutheran Church building on South Forest Street, is hosting a movie matinee, music party, and auction fundraiser on Saturday, March 24 from 10 a.m. until noon. The event will take place at the Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill (1515 12th Avenue). All proceeds go to support this community preschool.

The day will include two showings of Touch My Heart: Gentle Films on the Big Screen, a collection of film shorts from this year’s Children’s Film Festival, live music by Eli Rosenblatt, and a silent auction. Highlights of the auction will include desserts of the month, a handmade quilt, single-malt scotch whiskey tasting, landscape architectural consultation, bike tuneups, a watercolor and ink portrait commission of your child, a birthday party for 15 at Southgate Roller Rink, gift cards to local businesses, and a guided mushroom identification walk.

Tickets are $6 in advance, and $8 at the door. You can buy tickets for a 10:00 a.m. movie showing with the auction afterward, or for the 10:30 auction with a movie showing afterward at 11:30. The auction will run from 10:30-11:15. Please bring cash or checks for your tickets, concessions, and the silent auction.

For information about tickets, contact: rvcpmovies@gmail.com.

Food and Drink, Local Events

Enjoy sukiyaki at Blaine Memorial United Methodist on Saturday

Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church, located on 24th Avenue South near Kimball Elementary School, is having their annual sukiyaki dinner this Saturday, March 3. The event will benefit Julia’s Place at Madrona Grace Presbyterian, an overnight shelter for homeless families.

There will be both sit-down and take-out food available. The take-out availability (cooked and uncooked) starts at 2 p.m. and runs until 5 p.m., and sit-down dining will be open from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. Tickets for the event are $12 for adults and $8 for children 11 and under.

For further information, please contact the church at (206) 723-1536. Blaine Memorial United Methodist is located at 3001 24th Ave. S.