PubliCalendar: Recycling Day and a Pro-Choice Soiree
Today's picks for civic nerds.
For Friday
Calling All Batteries
Clear out your desk drawers and bring your old batteries to Westlake Park for Call2Recycle's battery recycling event this Friday. In an effort to reduce toxic waste from discarded batteries, Mayor Mike McGinn proclaimed the first Battery Recycling Day last year. This year, John Curley of Evening Magazine will challenge recyclers to "tip the scale", or, deposit more batteries than their body weight.
Battery Recycling Day, Fri, June 28,10:00am - 2:00pm, Westlake Park, 401 Pine Street, free.
Image: prochoicewashington.org
For Thursday
Cheers to Choice
NARAL Pro-Choice Washington is shaking things up at this year's Power of Choice Awards: Instead of the usual sit-down dinner, this year's event will be a swanky cocktail soiree, held in the century-old Dome Room ballroom at the top of the Arctic Club Hotel. This year's Power of Choice award winner is former Gov. Christine Gregoire; the keynote speaker is New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Walker, the biracial, feminist author of Black White and Jewish and Baby Love, among other books.
Power of Choice Awards & Cocktail Soiree, Thurs, June 27, 6-8:30pm, The Arctic Club, Dome Room 700 3rd Ave, $50 and up
For Wednesday
Mayoral Candidate Forum
Join the City Neighborhood Council—a neighborhood group that tends to represent single-family homeowners and opponents of density— and all nine mayoral candidates at City Hall for the group's 2013 mayoral forum, co-sponsored by city council member Jean Godden and moderated by former Department of Neighborhoods head (and hero to neighborhood activists) Jim Diers.
City Neighborhood Council Mayoral Candidate Forum, Wed, June 26, 6-8pm, City Hall, Bertha Knight Landes Room, 600 4th Ave, free
Re-Working the Waterfront
Learn the latest on plans for the redesigned downtown waterfront at this interactive update hosted by Waterfront Seattle. Tonight's event will focus on street design and local waterfront transit options.
Waterfront Seattle: Street & Transit Update, Wed, June 26, 5:30-7:30pm, Washington State Convention Center, Room 3A, 800 Convention Pl, free.
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