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Thank you to everyone that came out across Licton Springs to meet with your neighbors and make 2018 another great success! Across the Licton Springs area, hundreds of neighbors got to know each other across over seven block parties.

Many community resources were shared at these block parties, including:

• Smart 911 - A way to add the information you want responders to know in case of an emergency before one happens.
• Alert Seattle - The official emergency notification system used by the City of Seattle to communicate with city residents during emergencies.
• Block Watch - Instructions on how to start an officially recognized neighborhood block watch.
• Emergency Event Calendar - Upcoming events that teach crucial skills needed in the case of an emergency.
• Emergency Hubs - A map of all the nearby emergency hubs to meet at after an emergency strikes.
• Licton Springs Community Calendar - A shared calendar for all the events happening across the Licton Springs area.

Here's to hoping the community connections made at Night Out continue to grow over the next year!

Reminder: TONIGHT all across Licton Springs and Seattle is Night Out! Come together with your neighbors for good food, activities, and conversation! Below is a map of all the publically listed night outs in the Licton Springs area:

If your direct area isn't getting together, the Densmore Block Watch Barbecue is open to the entire neighborhood and is holding its night out at Licton Spring Park.

Click here for a map of all the Night Out celebrations being held accross Seattle.

Did we miss your Night Out celebration? Let us know in a comment below!

Mineral Springs park has had a busy and successful month! See below for a summary of July's events and some ways to get involved this month.

Community Connection:

On July 3rd, the community around Mineral Springs park met to discuss future events and initiatives in the park. If you'd like to get involved, the next Seattle Parks community meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 14th from 6-7pm at Meridian Center for Health, room 110.

Disc Golf:

Did you know that the Mineral Springs Park is the only disc golf course in the city of Seattle? On July 12th, Seattle Parks department met with the disc golf community to discuss needed improvements to the disc golf course in Mineral Springs Park. Additionally, on July 17th, LoveLicton.com held its second "Learn to Disc Golf" event in partnership with the local disc golfers. The event was a resounding success! We will be holding our next beginner's disc golf event on Tuesday, August 21st from 6:30pm to 8pm.

Clean up:

On July 19th, the community came together for a Mineral Springs Park work party to help increase visibility in the park and clear tremendous amounts of brush and blackberries, primarily from the southeast corner along the walkway. You can really see the difference!

the next cleanup will be held on Thursday, August 16th from 5-7pm.

Celebrate:

On July 21st, the community, in partnership with Seattle Parks, held their first event - a free BBQ! Lawn games, live music, food, and neighborhood bonding! Lots of fun was had by all. Thanks to How Short for keeping us entertained with live jazz and our neighborhood volunteers who tended to the grills! Look out for our next event later this summer/early fall.

It's been amazing meeting so many wonderful people from the area and seeing the community come together around this Licton Spring's gem. Let's keep up the community engagement! Hope to see you at some of the upcoming events.

Starting this September the frequency of the E Line, in addition to many other regional bus lines, will be increased. This change is happening thanks to a partnership between Amazon, the City of Seattle, and King County Metro. This will be a particularly welcome addition over the next few years as the recent closure of the Convention Place Station reroutes our other popular bus line into downtown: the 41 - leading to possible delays until the light rail construction is complete.

This change will positively affect many as the E Line is Metro’s highest-ridership route with more than 17,000 weekday riders.

Whether you call it Licton Springs, North Green Lake, North College Park, or that magical portal in-between Green Lake, Greenwood, and the Northgate mall - we are all proud to call it home. And, apparently, according to a new report from Redfin, we are not the only ones who would like to do so. Licton Springs showed up on Redfin's report as the #1 most competitive neighborhood to buy into, in not only Seattle, but the entire United States.

We tied with ourselves (under the name North College Park, yep we are in the report twice) and 5 other neighborhoods including nearby Phinney Ridge for the spot. Having also received a property taxable value reassessment notice today, I'm not entirely sure it's a placement any of us were looking to achieve...