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In response to the concerns about the bus shelter at 25th and Union (including my own eyewitness account of smoking and drinking yesterday at 6:15pm), I inquired with folks I know at Metro about this issue. Here is the response.
Mr. Elvis, Your request for assistance at the Metro bus shelter at 25/Union, has found it's way to my desk. I am the Operations Captain for the Metro Transit Police. I have asked our patrol deputies and plain clothes Deputies to spend time there as they can. We are a small but dedicated division and I'm certain that you will see a difference soon. I will also pass this information along to Seattle Police. Please let me know if I can assist you further, Lisa Captain Lisa Pepin Metro Transit Police King County Sheriff's Office 206-XXX-XXXX Now, I think a larger issue exists with respect to the actual design of the shelter (i.e...it's back faces the street, making it very hard to police), but this is a good first step.  (0 votes)
On Saturday, Sept. 13, join Feet First for a Central District Walk. Participants will meet at the Odessa Brown Clinic at 2101 E. Yesler at 10:30 AM. Please make a reservation by calling 206-652-2310 or emailing info@feetfirst.info by Sept. 10.
Feet First is a nonprofit organization advocate for walkable communities in the Puget Sound area: www.feetfirst.info Participation is free, but reservations are required. (0 votes)With the holiday weekend approaching, it's eerily quiet in CDNews World Headquarters today. Maybe it will be quiet on the cloudy streets of the East Precinct too:
11:08AM
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23rd & E. Cherry
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Narcotics Activity
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Several juveniles smoking drugs outside the community center. Black males, 14-16
11:13AM
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1500 27th Ave
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Dumping
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Caller reports a truck that is involved in illegal dumping. Blue 91 dodge pickup.
11:48AM
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301 Broadway E.
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Rousting
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WAMU would like 3 panhandlers removed from in front of their branch. 2 white males and unknown race female, all in dark clothing, one male with a hat
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Article in Thursday's P-I about escalating violence and an Urban League plan to fight it:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/376775_robert28xx.htm You might care to add some sane "Soundoff" comments before the usual throng of anonymous P-I commenters chime in with their racist views. 
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I heard about Armorcoat on this blog and have since obtained a quote for a large window (42" x 61") and a glass door (66" x 20"). To coat all the glass will cost me about $240 with Brower Tint and Graphics on the Eastside. Still waiting on a quote from Seattle Window Tinting.
Here's what the Armorcoat web site says about it: "To a thief, a broken window is an open door to the valuables locked inside. Your electronics, jewelry, merchandise and other costly possessions can all be gone in a matter of minutes after a criminal gains entry. Luckily, Armorcoat helps eliminate a burglar’s easiest access route - a broken window. By making a window more difficult to shatter and holding the broken glass firmly within the window frame after breaking, illegal access is much more difficult and less likely to occur." I included a picture of what happens when someone DOES try to break the Armorcoated glass. Sure, you end up with a broken window, but you keep Grandma's jewelry. The ONLY way an intruder could get into my house now... (1 votes)
My garage was broken into last night, and some power tools were stolen. Unfortunately, I hadn't yet written down the serial numbers. I'm just curious, are there any specific pawn shops or "sidewalk sales" where stolen items typically end up around here? It's a long shot, but I'd love to at least do some looking...
I'm at Marion and 22nd Ave. Stolen items (that I know of) are: Milwaukee cordless sawz-all in pretty worn condition. Had battery attached Dewalt corded angle grinder. Compressed air powered die grinder - chrome colored. Firestorm orbital hand sander - pretty much brand new. (1 votes)
From Seattle's East Precinct, Wednesday, August 27, 2008
10:03AM
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434 Broadway E
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Silent Hold-up Alarm
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Silent hold-up alarm triggered at Starbucks. Update: false alarm.
10:51AM
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23rd And Yelser
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Assault
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Man in a green Ford Taurus with Florida plates is assaulting a female passenger while driving. He has a butcher knife. Update: The couple stopped and entered a residence at 29th and Washington and police have made contact.
10:56AM
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23rd and James
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Disturbance
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Fight outside the pool resulting in one person down and unconscious. Several males assaulted a single male.
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Has anyone else noticed an increase in the drug activity in the bus shelter at 25th & E Union (on the north side of Union heading towards downtown)?
I called in to 911 at approx 6:55am to report about 6 to 8 people in the bus shelter dealing and smoking drugs. As they saw me calling the police, they started to scatter, but I was able to describe 3 of the suspects (see below). I should have used my cell phone camera to take pictures (maybe next time). Since they were starting to scatter, I got the impression from the 911 dispatcher that they were not going to send anyone to investigate...aargh!!! As much as I like the bus shelter, I would like Metro to remove it. I've lived in the neighborhood and taken this bus for over 12 years now. I'm sick and tired of the urine smelling, drug infested bus shelter that I've seen a multitude of people either dealing or doing drugs in and sometimes they are just completely passed out in the shelter. I would love to get these peoples pictures and just post them on the telephone... (0 votes)
This is separate from the Community Celebration later in the month. Despite the delays, the school should be ready for students by September 3.
Seattle Public Schools & Garfield High School cordially invite you to help dedicate the Renovated Garfield High School Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ceremony at 9:00 a.m. Assemble at 8:45 a.m. @ The Flag Pole For more information, please RSVP to Dick Lee at rjlee@seattleschools.org or 206-252-0476 by August 28th. (0 votes)
Another posting to a local listserve: Near 32nd and Cherry: .....They came in through an upper window, climbed onto the roof and came in.....
(3 votes)Christine Palmer of Historic Seattle in her weekly e-newsletter of the Historic Seattle organization (www.historicseattle.org) has posted a message from the National Park Services Cultural Resources office regarding a historically significant neighborhood house now for sale. According to Gretchen Luxenberg of the National Park Service "the George Washington Carmack House at 1522 E. Jefferson Street is for sale and being offered as a 4,800 square foot lot (no mention of the house) in a neighborhood that has already lost all its single family residences due to Swedish/Providence hospital construction." The house is the last home of Carmack whose gold strike is credited with setting off the Klondike Rush. Luxenberg writes that "the National Park Service has initiated a National Register nomination form for the property. ... The house will likely be demolished as it is surrounded by Swedish Hospital buildings and a parking garage. While it could make for a wonderful addition to Swedish's building inventory, they... (0 votes)
The next meeting of the S.U. Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) is Wednesday, August 27, 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on the S.U. Campus in the Student Center, Room 160, known as the LeRoux Room. (The Student Center is on James Way --- on the north side of the street.)
The agenda for this meeting includes discussion and public comments on the "preliminary Draft Environmental Impact Statement" (EIS). Public comments are important to help highlight areas of possible environmental impact which should be evaluated and for which alternatives should be considered. The proposed Major Institution Master Plan (MIMP) which is the subject of the EIS includes plans for an increase of the student, faculty and staff head count from the current 8,850 to approximately 11,300 over the next two decades. The MIMP would set standards for planned and potential development of over 2,000,000 square feet of new building. Near-term development on or near the east side of the campus would include renovation of the former Coca Cola Building,... (1 votes)The full report from Tuesday, August 26, 2008:
10:08AM
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1600 12th Ave
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Shoplifting
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A man tried steal a bottle of liquor, but the clerk was able to get it away from him before he ran off. This is conveniently located across from the precinct, so a couple of cops are going to walk out of the building and look for him. Back male, black baseball cap, blue sweatshirt. Update: In an example of how police cruisers can impede police work, an officer spotted the suspect at a bus stop on broadway, but by the time he turned his car around and went back, the suspect was gone.
11:29AM
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Broadway & E. Pine
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Assault
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A woman was hit in the head. No description of the suspect
11:29AM
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2601 E. Yesler Way
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Disturbance
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Two "quite intoxicated" females are trying to steal beer off of a truck
(1 votes)As we've mentioned before, Central District News is a beta testing site for the Neighborlogs software that we're building here at Instivate (is that enough brand names for ya?). Our goal is to make it easy for anyone to set up a similar site for their own neighborhood, with all the same features and tools that you see here. So far we've been in a private beta, and have brought other sites onto the platform slowly as we've worked to finish up the self-service advertising system and other core features. And with the end of the private beta period in sight, it was time to expand our team and bring on some new talent that can help drive the business side of things. So today we're very excited to announce that we've hired Justin Carder of Capitol Hill Seattle fame as our new VP of Business Development. As you may have noticed, he switched CHS to our platform back in May, and he was such a great beta tester and giving us so much great feedback, we basically had no other choice than to hire him so that we could take... (3 votes)
Someone wrote on one of the neighborhood listservs that there was an attempted break-in of her house on 27th near Union this morning around 10:30 am. There was an alarm system in place. The person said that she called 911 twice since that time, but as of 12:05 pm, no one has been able to come out to investigate. I hope police have come out since then, but I haven't yet seen them.
(1 votes)Where has our sunny August gone? Here's the scoop from the streets of the East Precinct:
8:50AM
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2400 E. Lake Washington Blvd.
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Theft
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A tenant says that his landlord came into his unit and took something
9:31AM
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4300 Brooklyn NE
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Robbery
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At a u-district WAMU. Suspect is a black male who left out of the south entrance
10:26AM
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Madison and Summit
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Disturbance
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Intoxicated transient making threats and harassing people at the bus stop.
(3 votes)I just found out about a very cool farming project that is being hatched by a group of community leaders here in the CD. It's called the Clean Greens Farm & Market Project, and it aims to get members of the African American community involved in organic farming and then bring the produce grown back to a new farmers market in the neighborhood to give people access to fresh, healthy produce all year round. The main organizers are the Rev. Robert Jeffrey from New Hope Baptist Church and the indefatigable Lottie Cross from the Black Dollar Task Force. They've raised a first round of money to lease a 22 acre farm over near Duvall and are hard at work to get the project off the ground. I took a trip out to the farm earlier today before the rain hit, where I was greeted by Taalib Sankofa and Brian Liggins. They're the first two farm apprentices in the project, and they've been working like crazy to get the first crop planted and growing for a harvest later in the fall. It seems like a big change for them. They're... (0 votes)
So here is a story in the P-I about a march.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/376261_violence24.html And (please ignore the trolls) a number of Sound Off comments that it would have been nice had the march been publicized. Respecting the fact that everyone is not on the web, this is not dis of CD News. Rather, the comments are a dis of the organizers and maybe the papers. I also wonder if there are ANY radio stations that are locally owned and doing ANY public service announcements. My first thought as a supporter of and contributor to many many groups: Why aren't groups collaborating and co-ordinating and supprting each other? Why do a group of folks who have something to say have no connections to groups and people who can get the word out? Glad folks got together in any case. Hey was this the weekend with 'no march for you'? (0 votes)All the news from Seattle's East Precinct:
10:18AM
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100 20th Ave E
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Family Disturbance
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An ex-boyfriend is on the property and refusing to leave
10:31AM
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500 28th Ave S.
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Dog Bite
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Medics are on the way to help a woman who was bitten by a dog. We're taking bets for the dog breed, with Pit Bull the odds-on favorite.
12:22PM
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825 Yesler Way
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Disturbance
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A transient male and female are outside arguing and pounding on the door of a home
(0 votes)Just saw a sign posted in the neighborhood on 29th and Alder about the death of a neighbor's beloved pet cat. The cat's vet said that a coyote killed it. So, keep your pets inside at night... (0 votes)
An email service group has been established for the CDNA group that has been meeting to revitalize what was once called the Central Area Neighborhood Association. Please check it or leave messages to become involved.
The email service e-mail is cdna@transdes.com - mail sent there anyone will go out to everyone on the list. 
(0 votes)We spent part of the morning here tuned in to the live stream of the city council's Land Use and Planning Committee, where the 23rd & Union rezone was a part of the agenda. The result should be good news for developer Jim Mueller and neighborhood supporters of the project, as it was approved on a vote of 2-0 and forwarded to the full council for consideration. Long time readers of the site know that it's been a long process for the project: design reviews, planning department recommendations, and a turn before the city's hearing examiner. Today was the second to the last step, where the rezone had to make it out of Councilmember Sally Clark's committee before going before the full council. Among the topics of discussion were the changes in height from 40 to 65 feet, a reduction in parking from the standard of 95 spaces down to 74, and the level of neighborhood support for the project which was described as 20 in support vs. 5 against. Councilmember Tim Burgess seemed especially supportive of the project,... (0 votes)It's another rare gray day in August. Let's see if the rain dampens the spirit of the East Precinct streets:
10:03AM
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900 Poplar Place S
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Suspicious Circumstance
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A man is walking around the area, looking in vehicles. White male, jeans
11:07AM
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300 9th Ave
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Suspicious Circumstance
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A parking officer saw a man break the back window of a vehicle, get in, and drive away to the south. Something led the parking officer to think that the man may have been the owner and was using an extreme measure to solve a keys-locked-in-the-car situation.
12:07PM
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300 29th Ave
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Keep the Peace
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Officers requested to be on hand as a man picks up his daughter according to a court order
(0 votes)We just received word from the King County Prosecutor's Office that a 15-year old juvenile, whose name we are withholding due to his age, has been charged with First Degree Assault and Illegal Possession of a Firearm in the shooting of a Judkins Park man last Thursday. Prosecutors will attempt to try the suspect as an adult. A hearing is scheduled for next Friday, August 29th, at 8:30 am at Juvenile Hall to consider that request. The charging documents contain several facts that weren't previously known:
(1 votes)It's a Wednesday in Seattle's East Precinct:
11:11AM
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1100 18th Ave
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Threat
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A man who had previously threatened to kill the complainant is now in his apartment, apparently having snuck in while the complainant was sleeping
11:45AM
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1120 E. Cherry
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Shoplifting
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A "cranky" shoplifter is detained in the Swedish Hospital gift shop for shoplifting. The crankyness is driven by the hour + wait for police to arrive and deal with her.
12:11PM
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1000 E. Boston
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Domestic Disturbance
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Male caller said his girlfriend was throwing things at him and yelling at him. He then hung up before providing additional info
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