If you’re attending the Wurst Fest this Saturday, and you’re feeling the need to walk off some of those calories, Luminata, a fall tradition here, returns to Green Lake from 7-10pm. Starting at the Aqua Theater, Luminata is sponsored by the Fremont Arts Council, the same organization that brings us the Solstice Parade in the summer. The event is a lantern procession around Green Lake:

We begin our celebration with a ceremony at the Aqua Theater at the south shores of Green Lake. Everyone is invited to bring lanterns, glowing umbrellas, luminous costumes, or other beaming creations to parade around …

“Nickelsville came about in response to the sweeps of encampments ordered by former Mayor Greg Nickels [2002 – 2010]. After six months of  organizing Nickelsville set up on an unused piece of city owned land on West Marginal Way on September 22, 2008. That afternoon the encampment was posted with notifications that it would be swept.  Five days later several dozen homeless people and their allies were arrested.  Nickelsville immediately set up on an adjacent state owned parking lot. Governor Gregoire allowed Nickelsville to remain long enough to find a new location. ”
– Nickelsville History

It’s been ten years …

The Great Wallingford Wurst Festival – Friday, Sept. 21 4-10pm, Saturday, Sept. 22 10am – 10pm

This event likely needs little introduction, as the signs blanket the neighborhood. The Wurst Fest is celebrating its 35th year. The event is a fund raiser for St. Benedict Catholic School, a K-8 school located next door to St. Benedict Catholic Church. The event draws upwards of 10,000 people to the neighborhood as a fundraiser for a school with 215 students. Would that all fundraisers generate that kind of multiple.

The Great Wallingford Wurst Festival is an “Octoberfest” style end-of-summer celebration that takes place …

Round about this time of year, when all the fruits and vegetables that have survived our dry Seattle summer are coming ripe, folks strolling the neighborhood start looking gazing at the cornucopia around us with wonder…and maybe a bit of hunger.

Every year, for example, I pass this apple tree on NE 42nd Street and cry a little bit over the waste: whoever owns it never harvests, and the apples end up rotting on the ground.

So what’s the etiquette? Are we allowed to pick fruit and vegetables grown in the “devil’s strip” (which is technically owned by the city, …

[Editor Note: After initial posting, a member of the Navigation Team reached out to us with comment.  These comments are included at the end of the post unedited.]

On Wednesday, September 5, the Wallingford Community Council  hosted the City of Seattle’s Homeless Navigation Team for a discussion on the homeless issue, unsanctioned camping, illegal camping, potential solutions to the homeless problem and a question and answer session.

We learned that the Navigation Team consists of only four field coordinators, eight police officers trained to perform outreach, eight contractor outreach workers, one outreach coordinator who is a mental health expert …