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Help shape the neighborhood center vision! Join your Georgetown neighbors Tuesday, May 21 at Tinte Cellars for a community workshop to provide feedback and ideas about a potential neighborhood center in Georgetown. The City of Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment (OSE) has partnered with MAKERS architecture and urban design, Environmental Works, and the local Georgetown community to develop a building design program for a potential new, community-owned and operated neighborhood center in Georgetown. The project is funded by the Green New Deal for Seattle. OSE has convened the Neighborhood Center Visioning Group (NCVG), a collection of local residents who live and/or work in Georgetown, to help guide the effort. The NCVG includes representatives from the Georgetown Community Council, Equinox Studios, Georgetown Youth Council, and Georgetown Business Association. When: Tuesday, May 21st, 6-8 p.m. Location: Tinte Cellars, 5951 Airport Wy S, Seattle, WA 98108 All ages are welcome and food/drinks will be available. RSVP here. Learn more

Georgetown residents will have the chance to share feedback and concerns with the Seattle Mayor and other City leaders on Tuesday, May 14th during a public safety forum held in South Park. Mayor Bruce Harrell is holding five public forums in the neighborhoods of East, South, North, West, and Southwest Seattle to discuss public safety and public health solutions for creating a safer Seattle and to hear directly from community members. The Southwest (District 1) hearing, which includes the Georgetown neighborhood, is taking place next week. Attendees must RSVP ahead of time and should arrive by 5:30pm. Details below: Tuesday, May 14 6:00 - 7:30pm (attendees must arrive by 5:30pm) Concord International School gymnasium in South Park 723 South Concord Street RSVP here, and note that space may be limited. Spanish interpretation will be available. Mayor Harrell at a public safety forum held at Garfield High School on April 30th. El alcalde Harrell ha anunciado cinco foros comunitarios sobre seguridad pública y el foro del suroeste en D1 será: Jueves 14 de mayo 6:00-7:30PM Escuela Internacional Concord en South Park 723 South Concord Street Debes registrarte a continuación y llegar antes de las 5:30 p.m.

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is accepting requests to add planters to the Georgetown Healthy Street that runs from S. Eddy to S. Willow along Flora & Carleton. Interested neighbors can sign up to replace the standard concrete sign base with planters. Sign up here by May 12th: https://forms.office.com/g/qYBjXGZM6q Above: Map of the Georgetown Healthy Street. What are planters? For permanent Healthy Street locations, neighbors can elect to replace the concrete sign base with planters. SDOT will install planters at Healthy Street intersections based on the requests received (see diagram and image below). Neighbors who request planters are responsible for maintaining the planter after installation. For more information about adopting planters and planter maintenance, visit Healthy Street Planters. Left: Diagram showing the possible placement locations for planters at each Healthy Street intersection. Planters would be placed at the blue dots, if requested by neighbors. Right: Planter sign bases on the Greenwood Healthy Street.

Registration for the 2024 Georgetown Super 8 film festival is open now through May 31! Find information and register to participate here. Georgetown Super 8 is dedicated to the creation and sharing of amateur super 8 films to foster inclusive dialogue, ensuring a diversity of community voices can define, document, and tell the story of the neighborhood.

On a dry and sunny Wednesday morning (May 1, 10:09 am) a man riding a small vintage motorcycle on S Findlay at First Ave S collided with a dump truck and died at the scene. The truck driver was tested for drugs and deemed not impaired, and was not arrested. The Seattle Police Department Traffic Collision Investigation Squad is now working to determine the cause of the deadly accident. This is the same intersection where a woman walking was hit and killed by a driver in September of last year. Despite Seattle's stated commitment to Vision Zero, a program that aims to eliminate traffic deaths in the city completely by 2030, the rate of vehicle-involved fatalities has increased in the city over the last five years. Seattle Department of Transportation's recent iterative improvements to arterials, like adding “no turn on red” signals and restriping crosswalks, seem ineffective at best and mostly performative.

Join the GCC and help clean up the neighborhood as part of the One Seattle Day of Service! Details below: Saturday, May 18 10:00am - 1:00pm Meet at the Old Georgetown City Hall (6200 13th Ave S) to receive supplies and get assigned your clean up area! Register here for the "Georgetown Community Council Street Beautification Event" and provide your tee shirt size! Photo from 2023 neighborhood cleanup.

Did you know there are over 40,000 jobs in the Duwamish Valley, and at last count, only 93 are held by Duwamish Valley residents? Let's change that! You're invited to the Duwamish River Community Coalition's Duwamish Valley Job Fair!

The Georgetown Steam Plant is excited to announce our first-ever Science Fair! This year's theme is grounded in SHTEAM (Science, History, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics), with a spotlight on circular economy, creative reuse, and the built environment. We're looking for grand experiments, proof of concept, data visualization, artistic flair-ups, optical illusions, and everything in between. So dust off your lab coats and get your hands dirty. Let’s explore the world of SHTEAM together. We can't wait to see what you're working on! Application deadline: August 15 Event dates: September 21 & 22, 2024 Location: The Georgetown Steam Plant (6605 13th Ave S) To learn more about the Science Fair, and to submit your project, please visit www.georgetownsteamplant.org for more information. If you would like to visit the Steam Plant it is open to the public every second Saturday from 10:00am - 2:00pm.

The Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center (4705 W Marginal Way SW) will be hosting a spring Native art market on Saturday April 27th and Sunday April 28th, from 10am to 5pm!

Time to dust off your bicycles and get them ready for summertime joy rides. BikeWorks' free and sliding-scale bicycle repair van will be at the Georgetown Playfield on six consecutive Friday afternoons this summer, starting June 7 from 3-6 pm.

Bloom Bistro, a bagel shop and hangout with a small selection of groceries inside, opened on Friday at 6601 Carleton Ave South and continues a tradition of locally made goods and grocery essentials in the historic Carleton Avenue Grocery Building. Home to Carleton Grocery for more than 100 years, and later Deep Sea Sugar & Salt cake shop, the building is an important community hub and Bloom Bistro intends to carry that tradition forward. A previous iteration of Bloom Bistro was beloved for breakfast and brunch in White Center, but it closed during the pandemic, and the owners pivoted to operating pop-ups around the city including bagel breakfasts at Good Voyage in South Park. Bloom owner and visionary Marisa Figueroa told the Gazette that she and her wife spent part of the pandemic perfecting a bagel recipe. They baked on Saturday mornings and distributed extras to friends and neighbors, who soon formed a long waiting list. When asked what the special ingredient is in her very chewy, slightly sour bagels, Figueroa said simply, "Love." The Bloom crew starts baking at 4 am each day, and because the dough needs 12 hours to rest, once the day's bagels are sold out, they're gone. Besides the bagels, almost everything else at Bloom is also made by hand, including a variety of schmears (dairy and vegan) and turkey sausage for breakfast sandwiches. Figueroa's signature bagel is a rosemary and sea salt beauty that's fantastic with caramelized onion cream cheese, which costs $5. Customers will also find an assortment of ice cream, coffee, milk, and other essentials in a small pantry and cold cases that will expand over time. Dogs are welcome (treats at the counter!) and the vibe on opening day was cheerful excitement from neighbors who have been waiting since January for Bloom to open. "What an exciting morning," one exclaimed with genuine glee to a young child in her care. Bloom Bistro's spring hours: Wed-Fri 7-7; Sat 8-5; Sun 8-3. Please also note that Bloom Bistro is not accepting cash payments at this time (cards only).

Councilmember Rob Saka's office, District 1, is coordinating with the Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) to sponsor a community outreach and information session on the draft Comprehensive Plan. Details below: Wednesday, May 1 6:00 - 7:30pm Georgetown Steam Plant (6605 13th Ave S) The session will be mainly informational, and will focus on the "growth strategy/zoning" portion of the Plan. It is intended for Georgetown residents and businesses to provide input and ask questions. Interested participants are encouraged to review the Plan documents in advance; comments can be emailed to OneSeattleCompPlan@seattle.gov. Anyone unable to attend in-person can participate in a virtual city-wide meeting on Thurs, May 2nd at 6pm.