What’s ahead for your West Seattle Wednesday

(Thanks to Colin Bishop for the photo from a tree near Alki Avenue – click for larger view)

What’s up for the rest of your Wednesday, from the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar:

FITNESS ROOM DEDICATION: As previewed here last night, the Southwest Pool Fitness Room – one decade in the making! – has a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5 pm, with gifts for attendees and discounted swims afterward. (2801 SW Thistle)

RV ‘SAFE LOT’ AT HIGHLAND PARK ACTION COMMITTEE: 7 pm at the Highland Park Improvement Club, HPAC has questions for city reps including Deputy Mayor Hyeok Kim and City Councilmember Lisa Herbold regarding the “safe lot” for RV/vehicle residents that the city plans at West Marginal Way SW and Highland Park Way SW. See the questions on the agenda posted here. (12th SW and SW Holden)

‘RAISING LILLY LEDBETTER’: Tonight at the monthly Poetrybridge reading/community-microphone event at C & P Coffee Company (WSB sponsor), selections from this new anthology will be read by four women, three of whom contributed to it. Read all about it here. 7 pm. (5612 California SW)

BASKETBALL SHOWDOWN: 7:30 pm at West Seattle High School, it’s the biggest game in the region tonight – the undefeated WSHS girls-varsity team facing undefeated Bishop Blanchet. (3000 California SW)

TRIVIA: Wednesdays bring the big weekly games at Talarico’s Pizza in The Junction, hosted by Phil Tavel, 8:30 pm; details in our calendar listing.

YOU’LL FIND MORE … on our complete calendar.

westseattledood January 27, 2016 (9:37 am)

In the next few weeks, if one is lucky, you might see aerial mating displays with the eagles around the city. They are often observable around the ferry side of Lincoln Park’s promenade. Really spectacular to witness eagle courtship displays which span across the sky – talons locking, spiral flight patterns and vocalizations, etc. There is another pair (I think it is different than the pair in the photograph) which hunts off Jack Block Park and has a nest in the greenbelt on Harbor Ave by Salty’s. They tend to use the light pole in the park by the stairs to the viewing pier as a perch year round, so look up and you might see them eating their catch of sole or salmon up there. Hope people are able to capture some of these mating rituals on video for their amazing displays. It is one of the greatest gifts of observing nature here in West Seattle. But remember to be respectful of distance from these glorious protected animals whose shoreline we share as they nest and lay their eggs.

Birdwatcher January 27, 2016 (1:11 pm)

The RV Safe Lot committee has a list of good questions to consider. One question that I have not seen anybody ask yet involves environmental concerns for the nearby wetlands. Is there any concern or plans for old broken down RVs that are most likely leaking oil and fluids? The heavy concentration of RVs in one spot so close to the wetlands could leak fluids and rain runoff carry them into the environment.