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Seattle launches Storefront Repair Fund to battle busted glass — UPDATE

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Scratched windows, tagged walls, busted glass — some say it is the cost of doing business on Capitol Hill and across Seattle. Now, the city is launching a $2 million Seattle Storefront Repair Fund powered by federal dollars to help small business owners deal with vandalism and damage.

Details of the new grant program were being announced Tuesday by Mayor Bruce Harrell and Councilmember Sara Nelson in the University District. The program will leverage nearly $2 million dollars of federal funding “to repair or reimburse damage to small business storefronts,” a City Hall announcement reads.

UPDATE: The Harrell administration tells CHS the new fund will cover glass and windows but not graffiti — “this fund does not cover costs for graffiti removal, however with existing funding and partnerships OED continues to support businesses who need assistance with graffiti removal.”
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Officials condemn, Graffiti Rangers wipe away vandalism targeting Capitol Hill’s Jewish Family Service

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City officials are condemning graffiti targeting Capitol Hill’s Jewish Family Service.

The large, spray painted message appeared across from the JFS offices after a Seattle Times op-ed on the rise in anti-Semitic hate from its CEO and just days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“As I wrote to one friend, Jews are a remnant of a remnant. The entire state of Israel is smaller than Lake Michigan. I cannot visit my family in Eastern Europe. The graves are not there any longer, let alone the people,” Rabbi Will Berkovitz wrote in the January 21st essay. “It makes me wonder if the non-Jewish community understands how personal these attacks are for some of us. The fear is real. The violence is real. And the silence speaks volumes.”

Police are investigating the vandalism on the E Madison at 16th Ave 7-11 that was first reported on Sunday, January 30th and believed to target Berkovitz and JFS. Temple De Hirsch Sinai is also just up the street from the location. Continue reading →

‘They were children’ — Seattle’s St. James Cathedral vandalized over ‘residential school’ graves

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Friday morning’s vandalism echoed messages painted on Catholic churches like this Saskatchewan cathedral

Seattle’s St. James Cathedral on First Hill was vandalized Friday morning in property damage echoing a wave of protest following the discover of hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Canada’s Saskatchewan province.

According to police, the 9th Ave Seattle cathedral’s large bronze door was found early Friday covered in red paint that read, “How could you? They were children,” vandalism causing “thousands of dollars” in damage and “consistent with what the church is seeing at several churches in Canada.”

Late last month, the doors of a Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Saskatoon were splattered with red paint after the Cowessess First Nation announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the former school. Earlier this year, remains of 215 children were found near the former Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia. Continue reading →

Welcome to Capitalist Hill: This studio apartment available

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Jason shares the latest Capitol Hill street art commentary on the state of the neighborhood, above. He found it on 12th Ave though we’re sure it also appears at several other nearby locations. It makes a companion piece to this witty wheatpaste poster in the blocked-off doorway of the classic old building at 11th and Pine destined to become not another new apartment project but offices. CHS has been sent notes about the doorway art all summer but had hoped to wait to post it after we found out more about what happened to the young woman that called the doorway home in recent months. We haven’t been able to track her down. But here’s the painful poster anyhow. As we’ve noted before, Capitol Hill seems to die a lot. It’s true. And we get some funny art out of it. Again and again.