A note from Nickelsville:
Using overwhelming force, over 80 armed officers of the Valley Civil Dispute Unit (aka the Port of Seattle Police and Partners) took back Terminal 107 Park for the Port of Seattle yesterday afternoon. All Nickelodeons were expelled, much property was seized, and 12 Nickelodeons arrested.

As the camp was being destroyed Interim Nickelodeon Staff - on leave from her usual employ - called St. Andrews Episcopal Church Rector, the Reverend Peter Strimer, to report the expulsion and arrests. On behalf of Nickelsville, she requested sanctuary for our community. In the great Christian tradition of the Episcopal Community, it was granted.

For one week the heart and head of Nickelsville will be located at St.
Andrews Episcopal Church at 111 NE 80th (north of Greenlake and just west of I-5). No future home - permament or temporary - has been found beyond that time.

Over the week the scattered Nickelodeons will come back together, meeting regularly at 6:00 PM at their present home. Some will sleep there, others will wait until the tents come out - where we know not - next Wednesday.

Blankets, food, money and tents are desperately needed now. Please do not bring other things to St Andrews, as there is no storage. All those - excepting the Port of Seattle Stooge who crossed 'Civil Disturbance Unit' Police Lines in one last effort to break the resolve of the Nickelsville 12 - are welcome to the initial 'External Business' part of the Nightly 6 PM Meetings.

Nickelsville lives because it is a remarkable community of good people who have an honorable goal and great friends. If you were there yesterday, or if you have stood with us at some other time, thank you for being a friend.

More to come soon.

My brother-in-law is sort of an Episcoal big wig and he's heavily into missions work. Okay with you if I pass your updates along to him? His parish tends to be quite generous. (Parish may be an incorrect usage; I'm not very Hugh Church.)

pass away sir...the more folks that know, the better.

fill in us unenlightend Brinkites on what this is about, therefore allowing us/me to make comments and restir this hornests nest.
82 year olds being arrested by anonymous po-lice is just too good to pass over lightly. I'm sure I have an opinion, I just don't know what it is yet.

OK I apologize for my laziness, finally found the original Nicklesville article in your archives.
Since most parks are only used by people that don't keep thier own yard clean so they can party there, most parks begain to look like these scumbags yards, or they are used, as you say, for meetings among sex cruisers or druggies. I have no problem with a clean camp-in by the homeless. Although I think they would be better off out in the countryside away from po-lice that no real crime to deal with. But I suppose they need to be near the city for medical care, access to food etc. Statistics show most homeless are drug or alcohol addicts or recovered addicts with some mental damage and this will always make it tough to get these people off the streets. In the mean time people with good intentions try to help and the rest of us try to gingerly step around them so we don't get any on us.