West Seattle Crime Watch: Solstice Park vandalism

Just uphill from the P-Patch pilfering we reported here last night, there’s trouble at Solstice Park (formerly Lincoln Park Annex): Pam from Nerd’s Eye View reports “the markers (there) are COVERED with tagging … it’s not just a paint-over deal, these are carved stone markers.” Pam says police told her it had to be reported by the victim – in this case the Seattle Parks Department – so she called the department’s maintenance hotline (206-684-7250) to alert them.

4 Replies to "West Seattle Crime Watch: Solstice Park vandalism"

  • pam July 21, 2008 (8:54 pm)

    The parks department did tell me they’d file a maint. request, but that’s all I learned from my call.

    The sight of it made me really sad – solstice park is one of my absolute favorite west seattle places.

  • Under_Achiever July 22, 2008 (6:05 am)

    The history of Solstice Park in an interesting one. It was designed and constructed from money not supplied by the city. The short story is that a small neighborhood group of folks living along 44th Ave joined together to raise funds, hire an architect, present plans to the city, invest much sweat equity, etc. City of Seattle was NOT all that cooperative in the efforts to create Solstice Park.

    The vandalism was from 4 campers who stayed in the park a few nights last week. I picked up beer cans, food wrappers, empty spray paint cans, all while they snoozed away one morning. They eventually moved along, but the damage was done.

    Who’s up for a graffitti cleaning party?

  • pam July 22, 2008 (10:55 am)

    I’m in, Under Acheiver. You can reach me through Nerd’s Eye View (dot) com.

  • cleverblognameTBD July 22, 2008 (10:51 pm)

    Under_Achiever – where did you get your history? The outlook, P-Patch and the Lincoln Park Annex Master Plan (later renamed by the city as Solstice Park) was an Early Implementation Fund project lead by the Morgan Community Association (MoCA) and the overlook and trail were funded with Neighborhood Planning Early Implementation funds and Pro-Parks Levy money. The 44th Ave SW “Vegetative Management” group took responsibility for the native restoration of the woodlands on the east side of the site, next to the stairs, but did not get the overlook built or get the P-Patch built, that was all done by the volunteers associated with MoCA

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