Hey Seattle!

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have started to think about the new year!

In today’s edition of the Seattle Scoop:

• Celebrate NYE at the Space Needle’s largest celebration ever with fireworks and drone show

• Local bakery named one of the best bakeries in America by NYT

• Plunge into New Year’s in Lake Washington 🥶 

-Edwin

Events

New Year’s At The Needle

The annual broadcast of the celebrating new years at Space Needle returns! This year there will be 500 drones with images from the entire west coast since this year the Space Needle New Year’s event will be broadcasted to Seattle, Portland and San Diego. The live broadcast begins at 11:30pm and the drone/pyrotechnic show starts at 11:53pm sharp.

My family and I have gone in person for the past few years and it’s great to see the pyrotechnics up close. If you decide to go in person, bundle up because it gets COLD close to midnight. Learn more about the event here.

Seattle Children’s Museum Noon Year’s Eve Ball

Dress up for this family friendly event that takes place Dec 31 at 12 noon & 2pm at the Seattle Children’s Museum. While there, see the new year’s ball drop and “explore engineering marvels as you paint 3D spherical structures, construct and play in interactive large-scale ball pits, design and test pom-pom launching catapults, build marble runs, and more!” Get tickets here.

Snow White & The Three Dwarves

Taking a break from New Year’s celebrations, The Fremont Players, a non-profit community theatre group, are performing a British Panto - Snow White & The Three Dwarves through Jan 5th. Panto “is a very stylized form of theatre with stock characters and scenes. Stories are based loosely on traditional fairy tales, but there's always enough saucy humor and contemporary references to entertain the whole family“ (Fremont Players). Get your tickets here.

Polar Bear Plunge

The free annual Polar Bear plunge returns this year on January 1st at Noon at at Matthews Beach Park. Plunge into Lake Washington to celebrate the New Year! Those who get up to their neck in the water will receive a “Commemorative Badge of Courage“. Find more information about the event here, brrr! 🥶

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Community News

Saint Bread Praised By the New York Times

Hidden between Portage Bay and the UW medical center, Saint Bread has been named one of the nation’s best bakeries by the New York Times. They specifically call out the cinnamon-Okinawan sugar toast and the egg and cheese sandwich, which can be ordered with Hawaiian bread or Japanese melonpan. On a personal note, if you haven’t visited, I would highly recommend doing so! I love their cookies and even though they are a bit out of the way, it’s definitely worth the trip.

Nana’s Southern Kitchen Gives Away 1,400+ Meals on Christmas

Nana’s Southern Kitchen in Kent gave away over 1,400 hot meals on Christmas Day which has become a Kent tradition. This is the fifth consecutive year the restaurant has been giving free meals on Christmas. While this is not Seattle, we didn’t want this good deed close by to go unnoticed 🙂 (source)

Civil News

Museum Passes Temporarily Put on Hold

The Museum Pass program which offered free admission into 13 participating museums will be paused on December 31st. Current reserved passes will be honored, but pass holders will no longer be able to create new reservations after the 31st. As reported by the Seattle Times, the reason for this cancelation is due to the underlying pass vendor “discontinuing their service on short notice.” Seattle Public Library spokesperson Elisa Murray says the library should be able to switch to a new vendor by the end of January.

If you haven’t heard of this pass before, make sure to get one when they’re available again to visit the amazing museums in our city for free!

Sports

• 🏈 Seahawks won against the Bears last Thursday 6-3.

• 🏒 Kraken: 5-4 win against the Canucks on Saturday. Utah vs. Kraken results were not available during the writing of this edition

Upcoming games this week:

• Seahawks vs. Rams on Sunday the 5th.

• Kraken vs. Canucks on Thursday the 2nd and Kraken vs Oilers on Saturday the 4th

Thank you for reading the Seattle Scoop! I’ll see you next week! 😄 

Edwin Nino Delgado - Publisher

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