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Michele Hamilton-Lane, hosted by Northaven on March 22nd, “Muslims Among Us, From Prejudice to Understanding” with Hisham Fara- OUT NATIONAL NORTHAVEN NIGHT HOSTS Sarah Fisher Jerrod Vinson at our beautiful indoor garden! Luke Hillier Darlene Storti jallah, the past President of the Islamic Center of Washington and the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Idris Fred M. Utter Mosque just down the street from Northaven. Northaven residents and neighborhood guests engaged in a lively, thoughtful and enlightening evening of conversation. “Mr. Farajallah spoke with clarity and passion about the frus-

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NORTHAVEN 6:30 – 10:00 P.M. BOARD Lake City Presbyterian Church Event Center 3841 NE 123rd Street The annual Wellness Fair - great neighborhood turnout Employee Profile: Janet Salsbury and the most exhibitors ever. Janet joined Northaven in November as a Resident Service Coordinator. A HUD funded position she time shares with Susan Cramer. Born in L.A. and raised in Orange County she moved to Oregon in the 90s for college and has never left the northwest. Janet has an MSW from the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle with her husband and 14 year old daughter and has a passion for travel.

“I’m afraid it sounds trite but what gets me going every day is helping people”, she says. Janet helps members of our Northaven community navigate Medi- care, doctor appointments, and a myriad of worries. She becomes the “phone ears” for those who have hearing problems and facilitates a low vision support group. She has walked stairs with community members trying to exercise, con- nects them with resources and helps some with mental health care. Melding her undergrad degree in landscape architecture and her social work degree, she has organized a Garden Club and bubbles over in anticipation of gardening with community members as spring arrives.

Donate your Used Vehicle Resident Profile: Nancy Conner Sorbo (car, boat, truck, RV, motorcycle, snowmobile, motor-home,bus) Call 1 (877) CARS-4-US (227-7487) EXT 3210 Looking at a mountain climbing poster, Nancy said, “I climbed Olym- pus (in the Olympic Range) when I was 19.” Her family lived in Port You can now donate your car to help provide Angeles where her father, Conner, was a teacher of history and Eng- affordable housing at Northaven. lish. “It was during the war”, she says, “and we had to have blackout curtains on our windows”.

The family later moved to Seattle and Nancy went on to become a nurse, training at the old Cabrini Hospital.

Her brush with fame was that Wing Luke – Washington’s first Asian American to hold elected office - was her husband’s best friend and Virginia Swale, Jerri Kinard paint Tiles for the Northaven the best man at their wedding. Sixteen months after their marriage with Assisted Living. 4 month old twin boys, Nancy’s husband died. She became a full time mom, returning to nursing when the boys were 4 and could begin pre- Nancy Sorbo and son, Steve school and continued a 45 year career in nursing. She got focused on gerontology and worked at multiple senior living communities.

Nancy has lived at Northaven since May 2013 and loves the food. She has been a gardener all her life and main- tains one of the whisky barrel gardens along our walk way. Her special pleasure is the jugs of Arnold Palmer iced tea lemonade Steve, her son, brings her from Rite Aid.

Steve, is an Apple IT consultant and Nancy loves her iPad and they are grateful to the Employee Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound for the grant that funded the installation of Wi-Fi at Northaven.

She learned early to be thrifty and loves the Thursday bus trips to Bartell’s, The Dollar Store and the 145th Street Goodwill where she buys books. Still an avid reader, she once led a Great Books reading group.

She will turn 80 in July. Julie Steely, Susan Piper, Pam Abas and others visited the Kehinde Ann Robello (left) created a St Patrick’s Day feast. Wiley exhibit at SAM.