Go West!: Support Your Community

Photo by Joe Kunzler from our Flickr pool.

These things happened West Seattle this week:

• As you have probably figured out, the Alaskan Way Viaduct reopened with a slower speed limit and demolished, former viaduct parts adding to the scenery.


• The neighborhood got all decked out for Halloween. Their houses, too!


• A West Seattle woman is essentially launching a hire-me marketing campaign in an attempt to get a job with the Mariners' marketing department.


• Middle Eastern joint Mawadda Cafe opened in the Junction.


• More details on the 60-something suspects in a string of bank robberies, including one in West Seattle where one was allegedly wearing a Hillary Clinton mask, have been released.


• West Seattle Elementary got a brand new library, courtesy of Target.


• Metro has begun taking input on proposed changes to West Seattle service.


• Stockbox, the pop-up grocery in Delridge, was featured on the New York Times' small business blog!


• If Seattle's $60 car tab fee passes, it could mean road improvements on California Avenue a mile south of the Junction.

Coming Up:

• Petco's new location opens tomorrow.


• Sunday morning, the West Seattle Eagles Aerie is hosting a brunch to benefit the family of Ed Kingston, a community member who died suddenly last month.


• The Feedback Lounge is hosting a fundraiser for longtime community member Jan Seeley, who has fibrillary glomerulonephritis and is waiting for a kidney transplant, on Sunday afternoon.


• Big meetings coming up concerning changes to Metro service to West Seattle: November 9 and November 17.


• 80s Flashback Adult Prom raises money for the Chief Sealth International High School Class of 2012 on November 19.


• Holiday business is starting -- the Christmas light show Helmstetler Family Christmas Spectacular is November 26 at 7 p.m.