At City Light, our goal is to offer green energy programs our customers, like you and your readers, want. And you can help us do that by joining and promoting the Community Energy Forum. The Forum is an online survey series that’s simple to use and takes only about 5 minutes to  [More]

This summer, Seattle Tilth will teach apartment and condominium dwellers how to grow vegetables and herbs in containers and how to compost food waste indoors or on balconies or patios. Great for beginning and experienced gardeners, these classes provide new ideas and troubleshoot site challenges. Seattle Tilth garden experts will show how  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation will hold sales of low cost life jackets one Saturday a month from May through September at Evans Pool, 7201 E. Green Lake Dr. N.  Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury and death among children ages 1 – 14.  Wearing a life jacket saves lives.  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation invites the community to the unveiling of an Alaskan tugboat propeller industrial sculpture.  This artwork is in tribute to the city’s maritime tradition and recently installed at North Passage Point Park. The dedication celebration for the new landmark, visible from the ship canal, is located at 600 NE  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation opens Lowery C. “Pop” Mounger Pool, one of its two outdoor pools, this weekend on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 1 p.m. for the summer season.  Mounger Pool is located in Magnolia, at 2535 32nd Ave. W, and is open daily until September 9, 2012. Mounger Pool is  [More]

Queen Anne Community Center will be closed on Friday, May 11, 2012 for maintenance upgrades related to the heating and electrical systems. The community center will open with the regular operating hours on Saturday, May 12 at 10 a.m. These upgrades replace the existing 60-year- old boiler with a new energy efficient  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation host meeting on acquisition site option Seattle Parks and Recreation invites the community to a public meeting on Monday, May 14, 2012 at Skyline at First Hill, 725 9th Ave.  Seattle Parks and Recreation will provide an update on its efforts to work with a real estate developer  [More]

Seattle Parks to remove fence, install landscaping at Madison Park North Beach After working with a group of Madison Park residents, and consistent with the recommendation of the Seattle Board of Park Commissioners, Seattle Parks and Recreation will move ahead with the removal of the fencing at Madison Park North Beach,  [More]

Seattle Parks and Recreation will modify the Jim Ellis Freeway Park fountains over the next month to comply with the Washington State Department of Ecology regulations. These fountains are currently winterized and after temporary modification each fountain will be turned on for the summer season.  Parks staff anticipates the work to be  [More]

The Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center (LHPAC) and its Artistic Director, Jacqueline Moscou, invite the community to attend a unique Zapateo (Afro-Peruvian stepping dance) workshop with master dancer and choreographer Luis Sandoval on May 10, 2012 at 7 p.m. at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center. This workshop is produced by eSe Teatro  [More]