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)
Garfield Community Center is offering a variety of Summer Activity Camps this 2018 from sports to STEM camps. We are very excited to be offering these new camps and hope you are to! Please call the Community Center for more information. 206-684-4788.
Join us for a colorful Valentine Heart Themed Pop-Up Shop at FUEL Coffee, featuring Montlake Artist James W. Sutherland.
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.
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!
The Montlake Community Club will be raffling off amazing gift baskets at our annual Light Up The Night fundraiser this Sunday to help cover the costs of the Holiday Lights lighting up the Montlake Business District. These gift baskets are beautifully packaged and ready to enjoy, or gift!
Online registration for the Montlake 5K Turkey Trot and Kids Run will end today at 5pm. Runners can still sign up on the day of the race, but prices increase to $40 (5K) and $20 (kids run).
Please join the Montlake Community Club for a fun night at Cafe Lago. To help underwrite the costs of the holiday lights now lighting up the night in our Montlake Business District, Cafe Lago is hosting an evening of great food and wine, incredible raffle items (donated by our fabulous Montlake shops and businesses), and a festive community gathering. As a special thank you, Cafe Lago will be serving a complimentary glass of Prosecco and hot cider, and is graciously donating 10% of the evening’s proceeds to help underwrite the lights.
