Dear fellow Seattleites, Mayor Mike McGinn invites you to participate in the Youth and Families Initiative, a major initiative announced during his inaugural address. The children and families of our city are facing many difficult challenges.   As a community, we need to talk about what we want for our kids and how  [More]

Bitter Lake Community Center will host a Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, Feb. 28, from 9 a.m. – 12 noon. Proceeds will go toward program scholarships for low-income families.  The breakfast includes all-you-can-eat pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, juice and coffee. The cost is $5 for adults; $4 for youth; and children four and  [More]

Join noted Seattle actor Umeme, talented Seattle actress Josie Howell, and others as  Seattle Parks and Recreation celebrates Black History Month with a series of short performances highlighting the lives of African Americans the City has honored by naming parks after them. Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center will present eight performances in  [More]

The Seattle Board of Park Commissioners will hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 11, in the Park Board Room at 100 Dexter Ave. N, the Parks Administration Building at the corner of Dexter Ave. N and Denny Way. City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, who chairs the City Council Parks and  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation is pleased to announce the opening of the Seattle Japanese Garden for its 50th Anniversary Season.  The garden reopens on Sunday, February 14, 2010 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with public tours at noon and 2 p.m. and a Shinto/Buddhist Opening Blessing at 1 p.m. The garden  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation is storing equipment on the basketball courts at Rainier Community Center for a new lighting projecting on the playfield. It is anticipated that the courts will be open for use by Wednesday, February 15, 2010.   The lighting replacement project for the playfield will demolish the existing outmoded system  [More]

Gather at Magnuson Community Center, 7110 62nd Ave. NE, for the lunar year celebration of the Year of the Tiger. The celebration takes place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Friday, February 5.  Meet your neighbors and enjoy live music, dance, games, a tea room, food, a Chinese Lion Dance, and more.  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation invites the community to a public meeting for the Maple Leaf Reservoir Park project on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 from 6 – 8 p.m. at Olympic View Elementary, 504 NE 95th St.   At this meeting the project team will be available to answer questions, provide information on the  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation will host the second meeting for the new Georgetown Spray Park on February 9, 2010 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Building C of the Georgetown Campus of South Seattle Community College located at 6737 Corson Ave S.  The public is encouraged to come and provide input on  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation will begin invasive plant removal along the Burke Gilman Trail on Monday, February 1, 2010. The work will take place between Meridian Ave. N and Latona Ave. NE on the north end of Lake Union.  The Trail will remain open; however, Parks anticipates it may be narrow in  [More]