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🔦🍷 Business Spotlight: WeRise Wines in Belltown celebrates diversity by featuring wines from underrepresented winemakers, including people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ vintners. Founded by Jamila Conley, the bar offers curated flights, local snacks, and events like drag bingo and wine clubs – making every visit a celebration of community and connection: 2 new women-owned bars in Seattle — each excellent in its own way – The Seattle Times.
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🍰 The Pastry Project, a nonprofit located in Pioneer Square, provides free baking education and career training to youth and adults facing employment barriers. By combining hands-on culinary skills with mentorship and support, the program empowers participants to build confidence and opens pathways to sustainable careers in the food industry. Co-founders Heather Hodge and Emily Kim’s mission strengthens the community through opportunity and inclusion while creating delicious pastries: Breaking barriers: The Pastry Project provides free baking education – Puget Sound Business Journal.
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⚽ We’re getting a rare cross-border preview of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup this month! Vancouver and Seattle, the only geographically close host cities, are giving fans a chance to experience two stadiums, two fan cultures, and a scenic three-hour international trip – all in one week.
BC Place hosts the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday, August 23, followed by the Seattle Sounders at Lumen Field on Wednesday, August 27. As The Seattle Times notes, it’s a one-of-a-kind opportunity, with lively home matches on both sides of the border. Seattle’s, traditions, like the “March to the Match,” bustling pubs, and the electric Lumen Field atmosphere, will offer fans a taste of the energy the city will bring to the world stage next year.
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