On Friday, Sept. 18, the candidates for mayor of Seattle, Seattle City Attorney, and two Seattle City Council races will answer questions and debate one another on issues of concern to people with disabilities.

The forum is co-sponsored by the Alliance of People with Disabilities, the Resident Action Council of SHA, the Committee to Establish a Seattle Disabilities Commission and other groups. The event is from 5:30 p.m. to about 7:30 p.m. in the Center Park Community Room at 2121 26th Ave. S.

Location and transit: The Seattle Housing Authority's Center Park building--one of the state's first to be designed specifically to accommodate people with disabilities--is located across Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, from the Amy Yee Tennis Center. It is six blocks from the Mt. Baker LINK light rail station, and is served by Metro routes 4, 7, 8, 9 42, 48.

Parking: Those with state disability parking permits are encouraged to use the Seattle Housing Authority’s Center Park visitor lot (just north of the meeting room and just off MLK Way) or the lot just south of the building, one story below and reachable by elevator or inclined pathway.

Others arriving by car are asked to park off the Center Park site. Other options: curb parking on-street, or spaces that have been set aside for us by cooperating organizations at the south end of the alley between 24th and 25th (provided by the 2100 24th Ave. S. Building); and the American Red Cross lot at 1911 25th Ave. S. There is also a large parking lot at the Amy Yee Tennis Center (2000 MLK Way S.).

For more information, contact Julian Wheeler at (206) 522-9495, or e-mail julianwheeler@hotmail.com. Questions can also be submitted or posed at the event. American Sign Language interpretation will be provided.