Seattle City Buzz

The Pike Place Market is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year…August 17th to be exact.

To celebrate their centennial year the market is reviving the Pigs on Parade event featuring 100 new fiberglass porcine beauties.

The parade starts at 10:00 AM on June 2nd at Westlake Center and will makes its way to the Pike Place Market to kick-off the Market Foundation Street Festival. The festival hours are 10:00 am - 7:00 pm on Saturday and 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on Sunday.

After the festival, the pigs will make its way to sidewalk locations throughout downtown Seattle where they’ll enjoy the sunny summer days.

Pike Place Market Tidbits

• Founded August 17, 1907
• 10 million people visit the market annually
• Washington’s #1 tourist attraction
• 240 street performers known as “buskers”
• Fresh fruit & veggies available 362 days per year

Cat & kitten season is now upon us and the Seattle Animal Shelter is looking for cat foster parents. The next cat foster orientation will be on Saturday, June 2nd at noon at the Seattle Animal Shelter. The address is 2061 15th Ave W (corner of 15th and W. Armory Way).

If you can’t make that one, the next orientation will be on June 12th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at the Shelter.

Click here for more info.

Just saw this tidbit on the Citizen Rain blog. Washington ranks as on the of the most kinkiest states. Interesting…

One of the things I look forward to on Sunday mornings is checking out the 2nd to the last page of the Sunday Seattle Times Pacific Northwest magazine. Called “Then and Now”, they juxtapose a vintage and current image of a location or building in Seattle. It’s a great little snippet about Seattle’s past. Here’s an online version.

A new blog just started called Vintage Seattle. Though it doesn’t necessarily compare then & now images, it does focus on vintage images, mostly from postcards and other sources of a time long passed. It’s a great idea and I’m sure I’ll be stopping by often.

Citizen Rain is the latest entrant to Seattle blog aggregation. The difference is this one is maintained by King5, Seattle’s NBC affiliate, thus providing a potentially large viewership source for many local blogs.

The blogs are segmented into several categories which includes news, sports, scene, music, outdoors, real estate and politics. So far over 100 local blogs are featured.

The Seattle Animal Shelter’s Furry 5K Fun Walk and Run is scheduled for June 10th at Seward Park. This is a great event as furry four-legged friends can join in the fun.

The walk and run starts at 10 AM and benefits the Help The Animal Fund, the shelter’s primary source of funds to cover veterinary care for sick, injured and abused animals that come to the shelter. Over the past 12 months, the fund paid over $300,000 in veterinary care.

You can register online at www.Furry5K.com with a $25 registration fee.