All of us -- as parents, as
children, and as fellow members of our Seattle and Washington and American
neighborhood -- grieve over the terrible, very recent accident involving a
motor vehicle hitting pedestrians on a street in North Seattle.
Two people were killed, and two
others were very critically injured. They were innocent pedestrians, minding their own business and simply crossing a road not far from our
community's Eckstein Middle School. Though we don't know for
sure, as the police investigation is ongoing, it does look as if the
driver was severely impaired by
alcohol or other drugs.
In the very neighborhood of this awful tragedy, Representative
Gerry Pollet will host the latest in his series of Traveling Town Halls
Saturday morning, March 30, from 10 to noon.
The Town Hall will happen at Top Pot Donuts, 6855 35th
Avenue Northeast (between 68th Street and 70th Street). Rep. Pollet and constituents will talk
about proposals for stronger DUI laws, of course, as well as other
issues. As we endure the aftershock of yet another grievous
heartbreak, perhaps coming together in this way, as a community, can be a small
step, a little fragment of help toward a healing.
