“My wish for 2017 is nation-wide legalization of marijuana for all adults and all patients, regardless of age, with doctor prescription. I would like to see affordable housing for everybody, and all our money shifted from the freeways to rail, and all the freeways to become toll roads.” — Boe Oddisey, local scarf dancer
Vermillion hosted the annual get togeher
Stars were used for voting on top issues for Capitol Hill
Vermillion’s vintage video games reflecting the holiday splendor
“I have three wishes for 2017. The first one is to have the city finally pass an ordinance to establish a renters’ commission. The second would be a safe injection site in our neighborhood. And third would just be that we could improve our membership, and bring in more folks that are often left out of these conversations around how we’re shaping neighborhood and our city.” — Zachary DeWolf, CHCC President, addressing attendees
By Lisa Hagen Glynn
We stopped through Thursday night’s Capitol Hill Community Council Winter Open House to ask the neighborhood’s most involved people about their holiday wishes. Here is what we heard. You can click to read all the wishes. Happy almost 2017.
“For this neighborhood, for this city, I would really like to see us continue to move toward more affordable housing especially. I can afford to live here because I have a good job, but just walking to work every day, you see so many people…I definitely want to support all of the avenues and options for affordable housing.” — Mark Nakagawa, Capitol Hill resident
“I would like a more organized community, a stronger voice for renters, as we are 80% of Capitol Hill. I think it’s very important that we push those initiatives, and racial and social justice are near and dear to my heart as well.” — Natalie Curtis, Vice President of CHCC
“A successful hip replacement surgery.” — Carmelita Logerwell, with companion Libby
“That intersex people have the Stonewall that we finally deserve, and that we intersex people finally be included in the LGBTQ community, which we currently are not.” —- Laura Ingalls-Wilder, local resident
“For the Capitol Hill neighborhood, for District 3, for Seattle, for our state, for our nation, for the entire world, I wish that 2017 will be a mind-blowing year of mass peaceful radical protests that put a left agenda on the political map of the world, as opposed to a right-wing and corporate agenda. I wish that we were able to take this energy in America and build towards a new progressive united independent party for the 99%, so that we can finally deliver a blow to the strangle-hold between corporate Democrats and right-wing Republicans—who, although have differences between them, serve the same corporate masters—which is why we are in this situation. So let’s fight together.” — Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council member
