White Center community rallies to help businesses victimized by fire

By Patrick Robinson

The fire that swept through at least five businesses in White Center and damaged others on the morning of July 5, destroyed not only businesses but the people who worked there. But it’s a resilient community and on July 6 as the owners were still assessing the damage, they proved it.

The fire started, Lumberyard Bar co-owner Nathan Adams said, when an electrical connection in the basement, sparked after the power came back on, sometime in the evening of the 4th of July. He and partner Michale Farrar were amazingly enough upbeat despite the total destruction of what was the only LGBQT bar in White Center. “I’ll probably get really mad in a couple of weeks but right now there’s so much to do,” Adams said. Things like making sure mail gets redirected and bills still get paid. But higher on the list is looking for a new location. The damage is so severe inside that essentially nothing can be salvaged. “We’d like to find another spot…

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