You can sign up for the public team, or start your own team of friends and colleagues. Team sizes range from 5 to 250+ members. After an afternoon of doing good, volunteers are invited to meet up at Seattle Center for the after party hosted by Seattle Works.

Bevin Wong of Seattle Works says “Last year, 81% of participants said they were inspired to do more in the community as a result of Seattle Works Day. It may just be one day, but it does make an impact – and you can be part of that!” Seattle Works is still accepting teams and individual volunteers. Please visit www.seattleworks.com/signup or contact Bevin Wong (206.324.0808 x6 or bevin@seattleworks.org) to get involved!

Fremont Abbey Community Work Party

9a – 1p, Fremont Abbey (4272 Fremont Ave N)

Help clean and organize inside the building, and bring your gardening gloves for some weeding/gardening outside the Abbey. Afterwards, the work party will head over to Pecado Bueno for lunch.

Open to all, bring cleaning equipment or just show up!

Solstice Parade-Prep, Float Move & Clean

Noon – 4p, Powerhouse (3940 Fremont Ave N)

Donate your time and hands to help move the float bodies for the 2012 Solstice Parade from storage to the parade studio.

Fremont Rotary Shred-it Event

1p – 4p, corner of Evanston and N 34th (by the Red Door)

Bring your personal documents that need to be shredded- give a small donation to Rotary and watch all those old tax documents go away!!

The Healing Reign Music Benefit & Auction

Phoenix and Purple have made an undeniable impact on the streets of Seattle where the victims of crime know they have someone looking out for them. Now victims of domestic violence can count on Seattle’s Superheroes as well. (This event will…) raise funds and give resources to victims of abuse. Purple Reign, a survivor of domestic violence, has launched the first and largest campaign of its kind among costumed activists through her non-profit The Purple Reign Campaign. All of the funds raised in the current campaign are being donated to Northwest Family Life, a local non-profit that for over twenty years, has been providing education programs, advocacy, counseling and treatment for people whose lives have been impacted by domestic violence.

7p, Nectar Lounge (412 N 36th St) Ghost Town Riot and more, $7, 21+

From SDOT:

Bicyclists will be detoured during sidewalk closures. Bicyclists may use the Fremont Bridge or may cross the ship canal at the Ballard Locks. (The sidewalks are too narrow to accommodate bicycle traffic in two directions on the same sidewalk.)

Last year, SDOT painted the Ballard Bridge approaches (the raised roadways at each end of the bridge). This year SDOT is painting the bascule part of the bridge, which is the portion of the bridge that opens and closes for marine traffic. SDOT’s annual bridge painting program provides for the periodic painting of each of the city’s 20 structural steel bridges. The painting helps protect the steel surfaces on the bridges from corrosion and other weather deterioration.

The Fremont Siphon pipelines, which are located beneath the Lake Washington Ship Canal in a concrete tunnel west of the Fremont Bridge, are almost 100 years old and at the end of their service life. The project is now in early design, with construction expected to start around mid-2014. King County also operates the Ballard and Montlake Siphons, which also run beneath the Ship Canal and convey wastewater from North Seattle to the West Point Treatment Plant in Discovery Park.

For more information about the Fremont Siphon Replacement Project, click here.

*ST Express routes included are: 540, 542, 545, 550, 554, 555, 556 and 560.

Park for free in Crawford, Ross, and Dravus parking lots. The theater is wheelchair accessible.

Greenwood Physical Therapy, which opened in 2003, is expanding to Fremont, inside Bria Pilates, at 101 W. Nickerson St. Suite 110. The Fremont location opens on May 15.

Physical therapists Rosie Tkaczuk, DPT, and Danielle Bergstedt, DPT, OCS, will staff the new clinic.

Both physical therapists have extensive training in Pilates and use Pilates to stay fit themselves.

“We have clients who are interested in participating in Pilates-based exercise programs. Some are limited by pain, or are hesitant to participate in traditional Pilates because of a pre-existing medical condition. We feel physical therapists are best suited to bridge the gap between traditional physical therapy and Pilates,” said owner Michael Osaki, PT. “Pilates based-PT is great for people of all ages who need advanced core strengthening, including gymnasts, dancers, pre and postpartum clients, and anyone who hasn’t had results with traditional physical therapy. Our clinic at this location is unique in that it is located within a Pilates studio, so our clients and physical therapists will have access to a studio full of specialized Pilates equipment.”

The Greenwood clinic is at 8750 Greenwood Ave. N.

Additionally, Metro has sent out the following:

Tuesday’s May Day activities in and around downtown Seattle are changing rapidly and expected to cause traffic and transit service disruptions and delays until after the evening rush hour. During this event, it is expected that all traffic – including transit service – could be affected by minor to possibly significant delays and disruptions on local surface streets, as well as in the downtown Transit Tunnel, nearby freeways, and areas outside of the downtown core. There are no pre-planned bus reroutes during this event, however bus riders are encouraged to be aware of conditions and use caution in their immediate area; watch media reports; board or exit buses south of S Jackson St or north of Pike and Pine streets, use transit service in the downtown Transit Tunnel or change travel plans to avoid the affected area. It is not possible to predict specific schedule, route or bus stop impacts, and conditions are changing rapidly.

During this afternoon’s peak travel time, Metro will provide updates via its ‘Eye on Your Metro Commute’ blog and kcmetrobus on Twitter. Transit Alerts may be sent, depending on the nature of a significant impact, but may not be used for frequent updates.

Additionally, due to many factors, schedule or service disruptions in one area can cause delays in other areas. Metro’s primary concern is to operate safely at all times. As long as it is safe to do, Metro makes every effort to operate service according to regular routes and schedules. Routes and schedules may change based on situations beyond Metro’s control.

Your patience is appreciated during events that disrupt service. Visit Metro’s online Trip Planner to find out how to get to and from events and locations. The Trip Planner uses scheduled service information and does not reflect service revisions due to events, construction, traffic or weather.

As part of its commitment to making our schools and community safer, Seattle Public Schools is partnering with the Nick of Time Foundation to host free youth heart screenings on Wednesday, May 2, at Roosevelt High School. All students between the ages of 14-24 years are eligible for a screening, regardless of enrollment status. According to the American Heart Association, one in every 350 young people has an undetected heart condition. The best way to detect these conditions is through a heart screening using an ECG (electrical test) and Echocardiograms (ultrasound) of the heart. The test is painless and takes about 25 minutes. Athletes especially are encouraged to sign up for a cardiac screening.

More information, including forms and instructions, is available online at www.nickoftimefoundation.org. To pre-register your child for a screening, email appt@nickoftimefoundation.org.

Nick of Time Foundation- FREE Youth Heart Screening

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

1410 NE 66th St.
Seattle, WA 98115

For appointments, please contact: Ms. Johnson at the Roosevelt High School counselor’s office. Phone: (206) 252-4827. Email: lljohnson1@seattleschools.org