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This is also posted at our partner site West Seattle Blog; we don’t make a habit out of crossposting verbatim (instead, we will link back and forth occasionally when warranted), but this is urgent – White Center Food Bank serves both areas – so here’s the note we just got from WCFB executive director Rick Jump:

Our numbers are up (way up) and donations are down. We are currently experiencing critical shortages of food which will begin to impact services in the next week or two. Our inventories are shrinking fast and we need almost all types of non-perishable food. Canned fruits and vegetables, soups, tuna, cereal, dry variety foods such as Hamburger Helper, Rice-a-Roni and Mac & Cheese are especially needed at this time.

A reminder from the fine folks at the White Center Food Bank:

The White Center Food Bank invites all community members to join together to minimize hunger through the 4th Annual Harvest Dinner and Auction, Saturday, October 18th at South Seattle Community College Brockey Center. Wonderful gifts, goods, getaways, and services have been donated for the silent and live auctions. Enrique Cerna, Executive Director of Production of KCTS 9, will emcee. Social hour begins at 5:30 pm, dinner at 7:00 pm, $60 per person, adults only please. Free parking available. Please call 206.726.2848 to reserve seats or send an e-mail to rick@whitecenterfoodbank.org

Personal voucher: I worked with Enrique years ago at KOMO TV, and have encountered him a few times since, including events he emceed; he’s got a great personality and a dry sense of humor. Sounds like an event not to be missed.

Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle is inviting area gardeners to bring extra vegetables/fruit to the West Seattle Farmers’ Market tomorrow for a fresh-food collection drive they’re calling “Share the Bounty” – the White Center Food Bank will get everything that’s gathered, says CHoSS. Here’s more info on the CHoSS website; if you haven’t been to the Farmers’ Market before, it’s in the West Seattle Junction, at 44th SW/Alaska (map), 10 am-2 pm tomorrow (and every Sunday, year-round).

UPDATED FROM ORIGINAL FRIDAY MORNING VERSION: MagnoliaVoice.com covered a Magnolia meeting Thursday night regarding the proposed jail site in Interbay. That site’s original report said that Burgess thought the Interbay and “South Seattle” sites were the most likely ones of the “final four” — since there is no “South Seattle” site, but rather two West Seattle sites (Highland Park Way SW/West Marginal Way and Myers Way South), we contacted the Magnolia Voice editor (a veteran journalist who I worked with for years in Seattle citywide media), who reported he’d said Myers Way (which she confirmed when we checked with her again just now). However, Councilmember Burgess left a comment on this post saying he had mentioned the “First Avenue South Bridge” site, and pointing to a post on his own blog from early August in which he said Interbay and “First Avenue South Bridge” were the sites most likely to meet the criteria. No site is identified as “First Avenue South Bridge” on the city list; the Highland Park Way SW/West Marginal Way site is the closest to that bridge. We have a message out to Councilmember Burgess to clarify that’s the one he describes as “First Avenue South Bridge.” and will update this again if/when we hear back. *Note that we have not amended the comment thread below, so it refers to the original version of this post, up through my response to Councilmember Burgess’s comment; anything after that would be responding to this updated post.* UPDATED SUNDAY AFTERNOON: Councilmember Burgess’ reply to our request for clarification of which site he meant:

Correct, the West Marginal site which is about 1.5 blocks off the southwest corner of the bridge. The site is partially owned by the city and partially owned by WSDOT which used it as a staging location when the bridge was repaired a few years back. I refer to it as the First Avenue South Bridge site because that helps people understand the geographic location better than the intersection.

Just posted at our partner site WSB because it’s happening at a West Seattle business: Art-glass apples on sale, with half the purchase price going straight to the White Center Food Bank. To see the story (including a photo of the art-glass apple), click here.