Another, sadder bit of news we found on our weekend walks through Leschi. It appears that Triumph Multi-Sport went closed their doors in the last week.

According to their Facebook page, they’re closed for the season and are looking for a new location to lease. Commenters there are lamenting the move.

But with every change comes some opportunity. Leschi has some really good businesses in their two-block commercial strip. If there’s anything specific that you’d like to see, leave your votes in the comments below.

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We’re inside listening to the scanner, but it looks like a lovely, sunny day outside in Seattle’s East Precinct. Here’s our thrilling report on how some will take advantage of it:

We spotted this family on Lake Washington Boulevard yesterday, hauling their fall harvest of pumpkins with their pony-drawn carriage.

The mother told us they were on their way home after selling most of their pumpkins in Leschi.

Dear Friends and Neighbors:

I know I’m not going to make the news. I know no one is going to start an international rescue operation to help bring me home. I know most people will look at my picture and believe I’m not worth finding.

I’m just a garden stone. I cost less than $2.00 at Lowes.

But I have a home. Someone spent time and effort choosing me and installing me in a wall where I happily protected a garden and retained dirt and did my job to the best of my ability. I didn’t ask for much. I didn’t want for anything.

And then someone stole me and four of my friends. They stole me in the middle of the night. I’m somewhere now, probably dark and scared. Four of my friends are missing as well. Where are we? Can you help find us?

The worst part? Now whenever my owners walk, they see new stones replacing sections of their neighbors’ walls where perhaps other stones were stolen and replaced. Now, whenever my owners walk, they suspiciously eye a new paving installation made of many different-sized and different-shaped and different-colored retaining wall stones. Can they replace me with new stones? Will the new stones get taken as well?

My owners withstand the usual “disappearance” of items they’ve accidentally left outside over night. They know they’re paying one of the prices of living in the city. But I’ve always considered myself part of the property. What will disappear next? Trees? The front porch? What is safe?

Please help find me. Or, if you’ve also had part of your retaining wall stolen, please let me know so I won’t feel so alone.

MICHAEL POWERS

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Our friends at The Seattle Times have a moving update on the Clemmons family and how they’re still in limbo as the city decides whether they will cover the damages inflicted on the Clemmons’ Leschi home during the police hunt for their nephew Maurice Clemmons last November:

The windows are boarded up. The walls stripped down to studs, and the floors to exposed, scarred wood, at the city’s orders and expense. Everything that represented family and music, travels and tradition has been hauled off to a storage unit because of the tear-gas residue that settled on it that November night.

“I never imagined that this is what I was getting myself into,” Chrisceda Clemmons said as we stood inside her Leschi home recently. “And not just myself, but my family.”

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And yet, 10 months later, the family is still living in a rental home, waiting for their claim to be settled so they can rebuild not just their house, but their very lives.

“We’re nervous; we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Chrisceda Clemmons said. “The city could still choose not to do anything and then we would be homeless.

“We did the right thing by protecting the community, and we just want to be back,” she said. The Seattle City Council reviewed the family’s claim two weeks ago during a closed, executive session. The council is scheduled to meet again on the issue within the next month.

Happy October from the streets of Seattle’s East Precinct:

The Hamlin Robinson school is now all moved in and teaching kids in their new location in the old TT Minor building at 18th & Union. If you’re curious to learn more about the private school and its programs in language acquisition, this weekend is your big chance.

Hamlin Robinson is holding an open house on Sunday afternoon from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. You can stop by and meet the faculty and staff, as well as the parents and students who are a new part of the Central District community.

A couple of weeks ago CDNews Twitter friend LizWas let us know about a new mural that showed up in front of a home on 21st Avenue. 

We finally happened past there yesterday and got a photo:

I think we have one of the most creative groups of residents in the city.