Neighborhood Appreciation Day and Other Family Friendly Events

Are you one of the quiet minority silently loathing all the hoopla around Superbowl Sunday?  Good news! This weekend there are a plethora of non-football events going on in Seattle.

For those looking for some family-friendly fun, there are many activities happening at the Magnuson Community Center.  Tonight's Lunar New Year celebration, from 5-9pm, will be filled with live music, dance and games.  There will also be food from 5-7pm and the evening will finish up with an authentic Chinese Lion dance.

The Center is hosting a wetlands class and volunteer project on Saturday from 12pm to 2pm.  Participants will explore the Magnuson Wetlands while learning to transplant alder tree seedlings, as well as cut and install live stakes from willow and red-twig dogwood trees. To attend, meet at the South Wetlands entrance of Magnuson Park (off of 65th St.).

Also on Saturday is the warm-fuzzy inducing Neighborhood Appreciation Day being celebrated city-wide.  Magnuson Community Center will be showing Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with free popcorn, at 1:30pm. On the other side of NE Seattle, Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center will be making thank-you cards for neighbors.

In addition to the community center festivities, Seattle fire stations are holding open houses from 11am to 4pm.  Neighbors can stop by, meet their local firefighters and tour the facility. There are five stations within NE Seattle; to find the location closest to you, check here.