CHS is built by you. Anybody can be part of the site to comment, publish articles, post pictures, create calendar events and more. You can participate with or without a CHS account — you can leave a comment without joining the site, for example — but being part of CHS gives you a lasting presence in your community news site and makes it easier for us to create an extremely open environment for everybody to be part of.
With all that as prelude, it’s exciting to announced that we just zoomed through a fun milestone. Please meet CHS member #1000:
Washington Ensemble Theater might not be the first type of neighbor you think of on Capitol Hill but the little theater (and Little Theater!) company is fitting from CHS’s POV. Our ideal community is a mix of the people who live, work and play on the Hill. Some of us — ahem, @jseattle — identify deeply with the organizations they help drive. So, on CHS, your neighbor just might be a fringe theater group.
For a look at the other 999 members of CHS — oops, 1,009, now — here’s our CHS member roster sorted in our favorite fashion: newest first! (We like old friends, too, but new friends are always exciting)
As for WET, you can swing by and congratulate them for their numerical, um, achievement and check out their new show. Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom plays through late October. While it sounds like it could be based on the CHS life story, it’s probably not. Here’s a review from The Sunbreak.
In the meantime, if you’d like to join the neighborhood, you can create a CHS account here.
Hurray! We’ll be at 10K before you know it :)
It feels like just yesterday we were celebrating 300 users :)
Congrats and welcome everyone!
Congratualtions to you and the 1000 plus people who value the vision!
I moved to Cap Hill in the spring, and one of my favorite things has been this blog. Previously, I lived out in the sticks (horse country) and barely knew my neighbors of 10+ years.
Reading about things at the ground level, so to speak, really helps a person feel more connected to the community and what goes on around them. And the fact that anyone can contribute really helps foster that sense of connection, as well as bringing in all kinds of interesting stories or viewpoints that might otherwise be overlooked. Keep up the great work!
Wow. Thanks for making my morning. Glad to have you part of the fun.