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And the Anne Frank Memorial? When the story broke, this immediately happened:
And then this:
And this, along with tens of thousands of dollars in donations from all over:
As for the “Small Business Saturday” protests? That was a difficult one. A local jeweler, a Twitter friend, posted this.
He got quite a bit of local media attention for it, sort of became the spokesperson for the small businesses in downtown Boise, taking a stand on their behalf. Unfortunately, that attention brought this:
It’s not clear whether the break-in was political, in response to his sign, or just opportunistic when someone discovered that there was a jewelry store in a sort of tucked-away location or both. The guitar and a family clock, of no value to anyone but him, were the hardest losses for Mike. In addition to being a jeweler, Mike’s a musician, and that guitar was really special to him and pretty much irreplaceable.
The word got out all over the community, through Twitter and Facebook, though prospects seemed pretty dim. The videotape of the burglary from an in-store camera didn’t reveal much about the masked (ironically) burglar and the fingerprints haven’t been processed yet. But then:
Richard Mussler-Wright, by the way, is the development director for Ballet Idaho, in addition to being a very good egg. The guitar, Mike says, took a bit of a beating being left out in below-freezing temperatures for a couple of nights, but will be repaired. And the tweaker who ended up with it is likely to crack to Boise police about who he got the guitar from, making it slightly likelier that the clock, his Stetson and his “1 large stuffed penguin toy with slogan pins that is holding a miniature quilt” might just not be gone forever.
So out of this total dumpster fire of a year, in which social media as usual poured on the fuel, it also created some good. Even in Idaho. Sharing these stories, sharing the idea that perhaps there remains hope because there are more of us than there are of them—even in Idaho—is worth it. Because we’re not alone. We are looking out for each other, even online. That’s a thought to carry into what is going to be another really hard year, but one that at least has the light of hope in it.
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