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3:27 PM: Flash-mob-style synchronized present simply occurred at California/Alaska in the course of West Seattle Summer season Fest day two:

Jennifer Cepeda‘s health lessons have been wildly fashionable for a very long time. Jennifer tells us she’s been engaged on that since January!

Additionally massive this afternoon – fairly the gang for West Seattle’s personal THEM:

Right here’s the music lineup for the remainder of the day/night time:

3 pm – Rub (changing Emily Stranger)
4 pm – Johnny Nails
5 pm – Mark Pickerel & the Peyote
6 pm – Mala Suerte
7 pm – Chong the Nomad
8 pm – Battlestar Kalakala
9 pm – True Loves

And at 7 pm at Elliott Bay, Down North. Additionally occurring: come meet Seal Sitters right here within the Data Sales space. … Extra protection to return; the pageant continues till 8 pm tonight (music till 10)!

4 PM: Breaking climate information – it’s now partly sunny, after a largely overcast day. …. As you wander Summer season Fest, you’ll discover that the cubicles are a mixture – some honest/pageant stalwarts, but additionally some native companies whose shops/places of work are elsewhere in West Seattle, right here to introduce themselves to extra neighbors. Amongst them, a number of West Seattle sponsors – Camp Crockett is a house away from residence to your canine, with areas together with Delridge and Higher Morgan:

That’s Vanessa from Camp Crockett. We additionally stated hello to Ramone and Alice from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Actual Property Northwest, which serves West Seattle and neighborhood from places of work in Jefferson Sq.:

Nina is on the pageant for Canna Tradition Store, between The Junction and Morgan Junction:

Longtime WSB sponsor Click on! Design That Matches is having a sidewalk sale exterior its store at 4540 California SW – together with these West Seattle = Finest Seattle T-shirts in partnership with Alair (we reported beforehand on their intent)

The sidewalk show at Click on! additionally contains earrings, which together with the T-shirts are a part of a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Affiliation in honor of co-founder and artist Frances Smersh. … One other WSB sponsor with a particular function for Summer season Fest, Verity Credit score Union (4505 California SW) has a drawing you’ll be able to enter:

Not far north of us at California/Alaska, meantime, the trombone-playing busker is again for a second day …”

… as is what we might name the proselytizing busker. Although Summer season Fest planning has been beneath manner for months, there are all the time some surprises alongside the best way.

5:51 PM: Near time for dinner. Judging by what individuals are carrying, appears to be like like roasted corn and the light-bulb boba tea are extremely popular. Additionally of word, the solar went again into hiding and it’s a bit breezy, so you may want a sweater tonight. Competition upkeep is going on too – takes loads of behind-the-scenes assist to energy an occasion of this magnitude:

Right here on the Data Sales space, we now have information about greater than what’s occurring on the pageant – we now have a poster for the return of West Seattle Outside Motion pictures too – they begin subsequent week, 5 Saturday nights in a row:

There’s a change since first phrase of the collection – the July twenty third film will probably be at Camp Lengthy, then the following 4 at Hotwire Espresso’s courtyard (long-ago longtime residence of the collection) – see you subsequent Saturday! However first, extra protection to return!