Yom HaShoah in Oly

Yom HaShoah starts tonight, a solemn time of Holocaust remembrance.

In other news, on Tuesday night my adopted town's city council may vote to adopt Rafah, the Gaza town where Olympia native Rachel Corrie died, as our new sister city. From the Olympian:

Olympia looks at Rafah for sister city

It seems that no potential Israeli sister city is invited.

In still other news, we're back from Idaho only to come home to swastikas in Lotus Land. Also from the Olympian:

No motive given for suspect's racist graffiti

Residents find hate messages sprayed on cars, mailboxes

Update 4/18/07: while the Olympia City Council may have said no to Rafah ties, there's always the sister city relationship between Dayton and Pyongyang.