Dear ‘Hauntlake’ Neighbors:

We want to thank everyone for their contributions in making Trick or Treat Street a safe and fun Halloween experience for our Montlake community. We pride ourselves in having created many memories for folks over the past seventeen years. Many ‘now young adults’ have shared a favorite scenario from years past. It’s a delight to hear their stories.

We also very much appreciate your support for our annual food drive for Chicken Soup. Over the many years we’ve donated several thousand pounds of food and monies.

As much joy and neighborhood support that Halloween brings us, we want to make some changes. We were exhausted by the time everything was over, packed up and put away. We’re not sure why it was more tiring and stressful. Perhaps it’s just the fact we are getting older. Maybe other unrelated life stressors were contributing. Maybe it’s the crazy times in which we live. Most likely a combination of all the above.

Another factor prompting the need for change is that for us Trick or Treat Street has gotten big, maybe even too big and we fear it will get bigger. We prepared 800 goodie bags this past year and we ran short. We could have done with another 30 or 40. Our inner ‘little kids’ revel in the notion that ‘more is better’. We want to rein them in.

In all honesty we don’t really know what the change looks like other than we want to do less. Trick or Treat Street is magical. We don’t want to give that up. It’s just time for us to scale back.

So this letter is a heads up. We will be making some major changes this year. Also, since we are still in recovery mode, we’ve decided not to do our annual egg hunt this Easter. We don’t know what that means for future egg hunts but at present we’re taking a break.

We want to thank you in advance for understanding our desire to implement what we’ve coined ‘Halloween Lite’ here at Trick or Treat House. Please help us get the word out. Let friends and family know of our change. You can direct folks to www.trickortreathouse.com.

We would also appreciate someone coming forward to do the block party permitting process that allows us to close the street for Halloween night during trick or treat. The Harry Potter House does that end of the street. We need someone to file the permit for this end.

We do plan to continue with the food drive.

Thanks everyone,

James & Don

(aka: Phil Angeez & Skull)

Thank you to the entire Montlake community for another successful Montlake Community Club fundraiser. Our Light Up The Night event, to help pay for the business district’s holiday lights, was incredibly well attended, even with the big game on. Of course, our night would not have been the success it was without the generous support of Cafe Lago. A huge thank you also goes out to the following local business owners who donated goods and services for our amazing raffle baskets: Glam & Tonics Aveda Salon, Cafe Lago, Mr Johnson’s Antiques, Montlake Blvd Market, Jem’s Jewelry, Coven Salon, Purr Cocktail Lounge, and Edward Jones. An enormous thanks as well to MCC board member Darcy LaBelle for serving as chairperson of this event.

If you weren’t able to attend Sunday night’s event, but would like to support the holiday lights lighting up the Montlake business corridor, please click on the DONATE button to the right and note in the comment field that your donation is benefiting the holiday lights.

Thank you for your support.

With lots of volunteers, and even some unexpected sunshine, the East Gateway Park at 24th and Boyer has been put to bed for the winter.  Thanks to everyone for their hard work!

Please join the Montlake Community Club for our annual Light Up The Night community fundraiser this Sunday 12/3, 5-9pm. The evening will include great food, complimentary Prosecco and cider, and an amazing gift basket raffle – all to benefit the cost of lighting up the Montlake Business District during our wet, dreary winter. These gift baskets are beautifully packaged and ready to enjoy, or gift!

No. 1 DINE in Montlake $100 certificate to Cafe Lago, $50 certificate to Purr, $25 gift card to Fuel. Thank you Cafe Lago, Purr Cocktail Lounge, Fuel.

No. 2 BEAUTY in Montlake De-stress this holiday with Aveda’s full line of stress-fix products and caribbean therapy candle. Thank you Glam & Tonics

No. 3 GROOM in Montlake Look and feel your best with a bottle of whiskey and Aveda’s Rosemary Mint grooming products. Thank you Glam & Tonics

No. 4 HOST in Montlake Stock your cellar with a case of wine, your pantry with Seattle Fuel beans, and don a pair of custom earrings at your next party! Thank you Montlake Blvd. Market and Jem’s Jewelry

No. 5 ANTIQUE in Montlake Create a beautiful vignette with this antique alabaster urn at the center. Thank you Mr. Johnson’s Antiques

No. 6 INVEST in Montlake Invest in Montlake and yourself with this $50.00 gift certificate to Glam & Tonics. Thank you Allan Murray, Edward Jones

Tables are still available for this wonderful evening of festive community fun! Cafe Lago is generously donating 10% of their evening’s proceeds to the MCC, so if you haven’t made your reservation, now’s the time! Please call Cafe Lago at 206-329-8005 or visit www.cafelago.com to make reservations.

If you are unable to attend Sunday’s event, but wish to buy tickets for these amazing gift baskets, you may purchase raffle tickets up until noon Sunday for $2/ticket by using the DONATE button found in the right column of this site – montlake.net. Make your donation and include your name, phone number and email along with a notation of which basket(s) you would like your raffle tickets to be used for. MCC will send you a copy of your ticket numbers. Thank you for your support!

Greetings! Spread some holiday cheer by donating a toy to the Montlake Community Center Toy Drive during 12/11-12/15.

Check out our new Kids Cooking Class and Hatha Flow Yoga!

If you have any questions, or want to learn about other programs, please contact us. Thank you.