Columbia Citizens

Live locally. Consult your community calendar.

• evening book group (Wed),
• Crime Prevention Council (Wed),
• Big Night Out (Wed),
• Library events (Thu, Fri),
• C-City Runners (Sat, Tue),
• an event at Curves (Sat),
• CC Business Association (Tue),
• and Citizens post more events all the time!

In the calendar, you can click through to each event's online information. If a local event is missing, please send a Citizen's alert.

Starting Friday, March 7: No Country for Old Men

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Starting Friday, March 14: Horton Hears a Who!

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• Columbia Branch's Book Group meets on the first Wednesday of the month. The Group will be discussing War Trash by Ha Jin. Next month's book will be The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu. You can pick up a copy of each month's book group book by asking at the librarian's desk.
• Mark your calendar for First Thursday Family Night — Thursday, March 6 from 6:30-7:30pm. We'll share a few short stories and have craft and literacy activities for kids from birth to about 12. Play with the doll house, play games, make signs, create paper flowers, collages and maybe do some origami — regular or Pokemon (We've known teenagers and adults to enjoy the stories and crafts too!)
• Storytime is on hiatus for the month of March as Miss Nancy conducts Global Reading Challenges with 4th and 5th graders in four local public schools. Storytimes will resume on Friday, April 4th at 10:30am.
• Play and Learn will meet all through the month of March from 11:30am to 1pm on Fridays. We invite children from birth to age 5 to attend with their parents or other caregivers. It is free and it's fun! Come for all or part of the session.

• Wed — Seattle Channel, Big Night Out, 8pm, $10 adv/door
• Wed — Live Music by Chris Wise in Lounge, 9pm, no cover
• Fri — Columbia City Cabaret with Tamara The Trapeze Lady, 8pm, 21+ only, $20 adv/$25 door
• Fri — The Comedy Shop, 10:30pm, $10 adv/door
• Fri — Infinity's Neo-Soul Lounge 8:30pm
• Fri — The Marquis 1000 10pm, in Lounge, no cover
• Sat — Live Music w/John Bishop Group in Lounge, 9pm, no cover
• Tue — Live Music by Gabe Mintz in Lounge, 8pm, no cover

• adv = brownpapertickets.com

As we gear up for BeatWalk's 13th season, there are some issues we need to look at and make decisions about. I would love to have your input, whether you've ever been to a BeatWalk or not. The survey is short, and I would really appreciate your taking a couple minutes to fill it out. The survey is only up from now until Sunday, March 9.

Take the survey to help shape the future of this community event.

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Columbia City in the blogossiphere

• Who needs the moving van? Do it by bike!
• Smarter Neighbors tips its hat to our neighborhood plan.
• Columbia City hosts meetup for Seattle Transit Blogophiles.
• Talk of the town: the Taco Truck Time Trial
• Ladybug Circus experiences an afternoon's immersion in Columbia City — and leaves with some great photos.
• Red White and Food visits La Medusa and salutes.
• And in other neighborhood wikis, South Park's got a new one.

Columbia Citizen posts

• Citizens mull plans for the Columbia Plaza site.
• change and Columbia City's commercial core
• Columbia City chickens
• Citizens clarify what's happening with school choice.
• You're invited to a kickoff party for a new Hanford watchdog group.
• Beatwalk needs your input.
• A Hillman City dog fight
• An opening reception at Viscosity

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