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CHS Pics | Caring for Capitol Hill just wants to clean up Cal Anderson Park

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With reporting by Alex Garland

You might forgive Seattle residents circa 2023 for being a little skeptical. Some community efforts in the city reek of politics and preying on the city’s least fortunate to make the case for crackdowns and arrests.

But Caring for Capitol Hill is no Safe Seattle or any of the other groups in the city that have emerged from the pandemic mixing public safety activism with volunteer efforts.

Sunday, CHS found volunteers with the loosely organized Caring for Capitol Hill group working with neighbors and a few representatives from nearby businesses and buildings to clean up the area around Nagle Place and Cal Anderson Park. Continue reading →

Yeah, the Capitol Hill rogue crosswalk was cool but have you tried joining the Seattle Street Fixers to help keep city’s places to walk and bike clear?

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Priest, Cipoletti, and Hoster

In need of clipping along E Madison

On Sunday’s cold but sunny morning, eight Seattle residents met on an E Madison sidewalk and began unpacking their bikes and buckets full of tools from home or borrowed from the Capitol Hill Tool Library.

The goal of the Seattle Street Fixers, a small but growing crew of volunteers who meet up via a Google Group and Twitter account, is to take on projects to make the city safer for everybody like clearing pedestrian space and bike lanes from overgrowth of plants, roots, leaves, and debris.

Over the weekend, the group made its mark on Capitol Hill but there are projects it could help with across the city where the Seattle Department of Transportation and other departments either can’t keep up or have other priorities.

Conrad Cipoletti, walks, takes transit, and bikes in Seattle. “Whether it’s leaves in a bike lane or not being able to walk across the sidewalk, it’s nice to be proactive and do something about it,” Cipoletti said. “I enjoy volunteering and seeing an immediate difference.” Continue reading →

SDOT seeks volunteer advisors to ‘help shape the future of transportation’ in Seattle

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(Image: SDOT)

Would you like to help the city sort out its transportation future all while volunteering your time for no pay only to have your input captured in a slide deck as it is slowly eroded by the Seattle process?

You optimistic types should check out this call to arms from the Seattle Department of Transportation as it looks to fill the citizen ranks of several key advisory boards:

Volunteer Opportunity
Are you passionate about transportation issues facing Seattle? Do you want to help shape the future of transportation in the city? 
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has openings for volunteer community members for the following advisory boards and committees: Continue reading →

The 2018 Special Olympics are coming to Capitol Hill

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Seattle University will be a key venue this summer as the Special Olympics come to the 12th Ave campus.

The school is slated to help host the 50th Anniversary of the Special Olympic Games. In July, more than 4,000 athletes will participate in 14 different sports throughout the Seattle region, including basketball and soccer events at Seattle U’s Championship Field and Connolly Complex.

“People probably underestimate the capabilities people with intellectual disability have –- that perceived gap really isn’t there. You will find within the intellectual disability community, there are more things alike than different,” said Jaymelina Esmele, a Special Olympics representative.

2018 Special Olympics Venues in Seattle

  • Seattle University: Basketball, Soccer
  • University of Washington: Basketball, Bocce, Flag Football
  • Seattle Pacific University: Gymnastics

Intellectual disability is the most common developmental disability and includes Fragile X
Syndrome, Down Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,
Apert Syndrome and others.

In one of the largest sporting events in Washington with an estimated 70,000 spectators, volunteer opportunities are plenty. Event and ongoing volunteer needs include data entry, sport coaching, and family support coordinators. The Special Olympics website lists events by area for anyone who wants to get involved. Seattle has over 10,000 volunteers lined up for the games but according to executive director Jayme Powers there is still a big need for medical professionals. Volunteers who work in the medical profession and therapeutic professions such as yoga are needed to assist athletes from the sideline as part of the program’s athlete health services. Continue reading →