information from the Morgan Junction Festival

The 10th anniversary of the Morgan Junction Community Festival produced by the Morgan Community Association (MoCA) will be celebrated on June 20th, starting at 10:30 am and ending at 6:00 pm. This year’s festival will feature several special events in addition to the “Bite” and “Bark” of Morgan, live music, children’s entertainment and activities, commercial vendor and community informational booths, and food trucks. The festival takes place in Morgan Junction Park and blocked off streets/parking lots near the park.

Special events:
District 1 City Council “Candidate Corral.” We’ve arranged for each candidate to have a table in a central gathering area, the Beveridge Place Pub parking lot, where you can sit and have one-on-one time with each candidate. You can visit with as many or as few as you like. Don’t have anything to ask in particular? Hang around and listen in and we’re sure you’ll want to join the conversation. All the candidates have indicated they will be at the Corral (we hope they won’t have last minute schedule changes!). The candidates will be at tables between 1:00 and 2:30-3:00 pm, just to talk with YOU.

A first for the Festival! The Seattle Police Mounted Patrol will visit in the afternoon, targeting between 12:30 and 4:00. If you’ve never chatted with mounted patrol personnel or a patrol horse, it’s a real treat!

Also at 12:30 Salty's at Alki Chef Doug Taylor whose efforts in Las Vegas to develop sustainable food supplies and more really launched that effort there, will talk about doing the same thing here. He's an expert chef and a proponent of the Locavore and Farm to Table movement. Don't miss his talk!

Of great local literary interest, a dozen West Seattle authors will hold readings and sell their books at the “Writer’s Realm” booth in the Zeeks/Feedback Lounge parking lot vendor area starting at 10:30. The schedule of the day’s readings is at the link above. The Seattle Public Library will participate in the festival by having an information booth promoting its summer reading programs.