UW Farm Tour
Our residents went to visit the cherry blossoms at the University of Washington and received a tour of UW Farm at Mercer Court last week! Thanks to UW Farm staff for the tour and the chance to learn about the history of the land, some organic farming practices, and how the produce is used. Our seniors left with some sprouts to plant in their own gardens! 🥬☀️🌱
Wilderness Inner-City Leadership Development (WILD) Youth Summer Camp
🌲 Just wrapped up an amazing USDA Forest Service Overnight Camping Trip!
🌌 We had the best time camping under the stars, roasting S‘mores by the campfire, and lending a hand with trail maintenance to help future hikers. We all enjoyed the stunning scenery pretty much! Every moment was filled with adventure and the beauty of nature.
Photos by: Nora Hong
Seattle's karaoke hotspot Bush Garden looks to late 2024 reopening, new future
Exciting news about Bush Garden opening at Uncle Bob’s Place later this year! Follow the link in our bio to learn more.
KUOW – Seattle’s karaoke hotspot Bush Garden looks to late 2024 reopening, new future
Washington State Medal of Valor ceremony awarded to Donnie Chin
“Donnie watched over us for nearly 50 years. He saved hundreds of lives and made the world a better place. He was humble and thought that he was just doing his job. Donnie ultimately gave his life protecting our community. He was our hero, our brother, our friend. He was a hero, but not for how he died but how he lived.” (Connie Magorty, February 21, 2024)
Donnie Chin was awarded the Washington State Medal of Valor at a ceremony in the Washington State Capitol Building on Wednesday morning –A bittersweet and emotional gathering to honor and remember our beloved CID guardian angel and hero, Donnie Chin. Thanks to Donnie’s sister, Connie, for helping everyone understand who Donnie was and what he meant to our CID community. And thanks to Washington State Representative, Sharon Tomiko Santos, for nominating him.
Clean Water, Sustainable Building, Green Jobs Symposium & Career Fair
Clean Water, Sustainable Building, Green Jobs Symposium & Career Fair
Hands-On Demonstrations | Breakout Sessions | Networking | Resume Help
March 6, 2024
4-7 pm
South Seattle College – Georgetown Campus
6737 Corson Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98108
You are invited to meet in-demand employers in the fields of clean water, sustainable building, and green jobs! Attend and participate in hands-on demonstrations, break-out sessions, networking, resume help, and other skill-building activities. This event is free and open to the public, including people in all stages of careers and education.
Job Seekers: RSVP with this QR code or click here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VM8KH5J
Sponsored by King County Wastewater Treatment Division and South Seattle College – Georgetown Campus / Sustainable Building and Science Technology program.
PDF of the flier: https://sustainablebuildingscience.technology/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/01/Final_Green-Jobs-Symposium-and-Job-Fair.pdf
JPG of the flier: https://sustainablebuildingscience.technology/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2024/01/Final_Green-Jobs-Symposium-and-Job-Fair-scaled.jpg
Exhibit Application/Interest: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R8NNYPS
2023 Gift Drive! ~ Thank you donors, supporters, volunteers, CID and InterIm CDA
The Chinatown International District is one of the most impoverished communities in Seattle. InterIm CDA serves many of the neighborhood’s low-income, immigrant, refugee, Asian, and Pacific Islander residents through all our community-building programs and services. To further provide emotional and material support, InterIm initiated an end-of-the-year gift drive for our clients and community residents.
InterIm CDA and CID residents would like to thank our supporters for the many thoughtful gifts we received. We initially hoped to get 200 gifts for our gift drive; however, with our supporters’ help, we could provide 441 clients and residents with gifts. We would also like to thank the score of volunteers who helped to organize our holiday party and wrap, transport, and hand out gifts.
The gifts embraced and provided cheer for many of the recipients. We are grateful for those who participated in this effort to make the holiday season and New Year good for our community.
We want to thank the following companies and individuals for providing gifts to this project:
- Marpac Construction
- Enterprise Community
- Gates Foundation’s Gates Asians in Philanthropy Employee Resource Group
- Expedia Group Volunteers in partnership with Asian Community at Expedia
- Starbucks Pan-Asian Partner Network
- ProvidenceSwedish
- Sound Transit
- King County Metro Transit
- Walsh Construction Company
- Site Workshop
- International District Emergency Center
- Mai and Rob Ketcherside
- Elaine Ikoma Ko
- Leslie Morishita
- Teresa Woo
- Elaine Ishihara
- Family of Carl and Marie Ooka
- Mercedes Luna
- Ann Kawasaki Romero
- Liana Woo
- Vivian Chan
- Valerie Pang
- Sharon Tomiko Santos
- Ken Daffon
- Anca Boldan
- Lynette Seigafo
- Sarah Mac
- Peter Kim
- Jilian Carlo (for Jaysen and Qilian)
- Anhkhoa Lam (for Alfred)
- Gary Lee
- Erin Shigaki
- Cindy Domingo
- Erin Demmon
- Sharon Maeda
- Delight Roberts and Ethan Im
- And several anonymous folks
Caption: On December 10th and 11th, InterIm Community Development Association and volunteers delivered gifts to Chinatown International District Residents.
Photos of the 47th annual pig roast in the Danny Woo Garden in July 2023
Thank you to all who joined us at the annual pig roast last month! And huge thanks to those who provided financial support and donated food and time, including our pig roast sponsor Enterprise Community Partners, our gardeners and community members, Tai Tung, Fort St. George, Uwajimaya, and Starbucks. And very big thank you to our garden staff, KaeLi Deng and Kathryn Tehl for all their work on the event!
47th Annual Pig Roast Volunteer Recruitment
47th Annual Pig Roast: July 21 and 22
Summertime’s in the air – and in the CID! Which means the pig roast is coming up! Join us on July 21 and 22 for the 47th annual pig roast. Volunteer registration for the pig roast is now live; see shifts here. We roast the pig all night long Friday into Saturday morning will be in need of help all 24 hours. Contact volunteer@interimcda.org for more information. And come one come all for the Friday community gathering with food and drinks and enjoying the garden. We can’t wait to see you and catch up with you all!
Special thanks to Enterprise Community Housing for their support of the pig roast!
Connecting with Community Dinner
Join InterIm CDA for an evening to connect with our community. Please come share a delicious multi-course meal with new and old friends hearing stories of activism in the CID
Hi, friends! Well, it’s been a while (three years!), but the time has finally come for us to get together in person, share food together and be with one another. We can’t wait to see you. InterIm CDA’s annual community dinner is a chance for us to catch up, learn about Uncle Bob’s Place and other things InterIm CDA has been doing and to celebrate our strong history of activism in the community. We’ll keep the stage program short and the social time long since we know we’ve all got a lot of catching up to do with one another!
Joyale Seafood Restaurant: 900 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98104
Date: Friday, November 3, 2023
Time: 5:00 PM
Tickets: $100 (check back for ticket sales link later this spring)
RSVP by October 16, 2023 to Lynette Seigafo at lseigafo@interimcda.org