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Your Busy Weekend in Northeast Seattle: September 13-19

September 11, 2014 by Leave a Comment

High of 79 for Saturday, 83 for Sunday.  This is the summer that never ends…it just goes on and on, my friend…

Go, fight, win: The Huskies play the Fighting Illini this afternoon (1 PM kickoff). Watch out for the traffic after, friends. Especially the residential street speeders!

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SATURDAY, September 13

  • Get your car washed, fight cancer.
    • 4th Annual Light the Night Car Wash to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, NE 70th Street and Sand Point Way NE (across from Magnuson Park), 8 AM-2 PM. Donations accepted.

SUNDAY, September 14

  • Party in the watershed.
    • Thornton Creek Alliance 20th Anniversary Celebration and Concert, Cromwell Park (18030 Meridian Avenue N in Shoreline), 1-4 PM.  Meet at the headwaters for a concert in the park.  Music by the Thornton Creek Band.  Bring a blanket and a picnic — ice cream and cake provided!  Children’s activities, meet your neighbors, learn about restoration efforts, meet community partners.

MONDAY, September 15

  • Get fit, for free! (For one week, anyway.)

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Anything else to add? Garage sale? Fundraiser? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll add it to the post!

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Your Busy Weekend in Northeast Seattle: September 6-7

September 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment

Summer returns for the weekend! The forecast calls for low 80s with sun, sun, and more sun.

SATURDAY, September 6

  •  Pick up some goodies at a neighborhood block sale. 
  • Add more loot to your Saturday thrifting at another multi-family yard sale. 
    • Five-family yard sale at 5712 30th Ave NE, 9 AM-5 PM. Items include antiques, collectibles, artwork, home décor, and children’s items. 
  • Shop some native and wildlife-friendly plants at the Seattle Audubon Fall Plant Sale.
    • Seattle Audubon Nature Center (8050 35th Ave NE), 10:00 AM-4:00 PM. Plants from local growers and nurseries such as Botanica, Discovery Gardens, Fairmeadow Nursery, Madrona Gardens, and Tadpole Haven Native Plants. FREE. 
  • Enjoy a show of Dahlias at Seattle Dahlia Society‘s 57th Annual Show. 
    • Lake City Community Center (12531 28th Ave NE), 12:30-5 PM. FREE.

SUNDAY, September 7

  • Adopt-a-pet at the University Village. 
    • MaxMobile, Seattle Humane Society’s mobile adoption and education center, parked outside Ravenna Gardens. Cats, dogs, and critters available for on-the-spot adoption. 11 AM-3 PM.
  • Dahlia Show continues at Seattle Dahlia Society‘s 57th Annual Show.
    • Lake City Community Center (12531 28th Ave NE), 11 AM-4 PM. FREE.

Anything else to add? Garage sale? Fundraiser? Lemonade stand? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll add it to the post!

Want to promote an upcoming NE Seattle weekend happening? Email us ahead of time, or use our online comment form to tell us about it.

We publish these Busy Weekend posts at noon on Thursdays.

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Public School First Day of Class Eve power outages (UPDATES)

September 2, 2014 by 1 Comment

If your VCR is blinking “12:00” when you get home tonight, this is why:

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Around 3:30 this afternoon, Seattle City Light customers along NE 75th Street from Roosevelt to View Ridge lost power. About 3700 customers were affected, with the cause listed as “Tree” on the city’s power outage page.

Then, about an hour later (after partial restoration to the earlier affected area), a large wedge-shaped swath north of about NE 80th Street between Lake City Way NE and Lake Washington also lost power. About 8,600 customers are affected in this area, with many traffic signals on Lake City Way and other arterials out.

Seattle City Light has crews dispatched and estimates the time of restoration to be 7:20 PM. Cause for this second, larger outage is also listed as “Tree.”

An online weather station in the Bryant neighborhood registered four gusts of wind above 20 mph after 2 PM. The barometer continues to fall as well, so we may be in for more blustery weather.

UPDATE (5:43 PM): Seattle City Light saying on twitter that many customers should start seeing power back in the next 45 minutes.

UPDATE (10:08 PM): A brief yet heavy rain around 6: 20 PM knocked out power to another small group of homes. SCL saying at this time that approximately 482 customers are still without power. Estimated restoration time for this group — 34th to 46th Avenues NE on the west and east, and NE 110th to 97th Streets north and south — is after midnight, possibly 2 AM.

Filed Under: Northeast Seattle, Power Outage, Seattle City Light, Traffic, Updates