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A Publication of the Phinney Neighborhood The Review Association Inside This Issue Sip, Savor & Shop 3 PNA Wine Taste's 30th year Let loose this spring! 4 Holi Festival of Colors brings fun and community Don't Stop Believin' PNA's 80s themed auction & 4 awesome 40th birthday bash Walk The BIG One 6 PhinneyWood Art Walk turns 25

Greenwood TrueValue Hardware's roots reach back to 1948. Today, it's owned by Willow Yoder (right) Plan summer & fall 8 and her husband James. Photo of Willow by North American Retail Hardware Association. It's time for kids' camps and fall enrollments Grow your garden A spring guide-at-a-glance 9 Legacy businesses connect Tent City 3 Church hosts sanctioned 11 our past with our present homeless camp

Bill Stamey agrees. He shares care of and they take care of our Meet your local By Connie McDougall ownership of the venerable Ken’s customers.” 12 In February 2019, snow and frigid business owners Market on Greenwood Avenue, as It’s all about the personal touch, temperatures slammed Seattle for well as Fremont’s Marketime store, says Bill. “There’s a social aspect Plus business updates more than a week and people were 13 and credits his neighbors for their to Ken’s Market. People drop in to desperate for de-icing products. continued success. “The community chat. We have relationships with our Greenwood Hardware still had a Senior highlights supports us. And we support the neighbors.” 14 supply, and soon enough, polite lines Greenwood Senior Center community.” Paying attention to what those of buyers wound from the front of bustles with activities for These two legacy businesses are neighbors want is another reason for the store all the way to the back and adults of all ages 17 among a handful of mom-and-pops on their longevity. around again. Phinney Ridge and Greenwood that “There are things at Ken’s you “I still have PTSD from that storm,” go back decades in neighborhoods can’t get at Costco,” says Bill. “Our Sharing knowledge laughs Willow Yoder, general manager 18 undergoing rapid change. deli is popular, especially handmade Greenwood nonprofit of the store for 15 years and most Ken’s Market dates back to 1955 sandwiches.” In high demand is a sends books to prisoners recently, a proud co-owner along with and is currently co-owned by the sons turkey breast sandwich on rosemary husband, James. of patriarch Ken Giles and Bill, who bread from local icon Essential Bakery. Give of yourself “I knew I’d have to stay overnight at 19 married into the grocery dynasty. “We pay attention to trends,” adds Volunteer opportunities the store, so I brought a sleeping bag Greenwood Hardware tracks its Willow, saying that the neighborhood and slept there.” origins all the way back to 1948. is building vertically, mostly condos Learn and grow Predictably, big crowds showed up 20 Both businesses have been able to and apartments that have no yards. Spring class schedule in the morning seeking shovels, sleds remain competitive in an era of big- “So we make sure we have the kind and of course, bags of ice melt. “We box stores and online shopping. of housewares they would need, plus had a two-bag limit and asked people 22 “Those are a concern but they can’t indoor gardening supplies and house to just take one if they could so more give the kind of customer service that plants.” Celebrate youth art people could get some, and most 23 we do,” says Willow at Greenwood Phinney Center Gallery people did take just one. But that’s how Hardware. “Our staff is well taken Continued on page 10 Greenwood is. The people are great.” The Review Spring 2020 - Vol. 33, No. 2 Published quarterly by the Phinney Neighborhood Association Director's Corner 6532 Phinney Ave N Seattle, WA 98103 Phone: 206.783.2244 Web: phinneycenter.org two kids. One is a sophomore at It’s been two months leading Circulation: 21,000 this phenomenal organization, Western Washington University, the and I have been spending my time other is a junior in high school. Publisher: Dar'Nesha Weary deeply listening and learning about Dar'Nesha Weary, Here at PNA, I’m looking forward Editor: Ana Maria King everything and everyone. PNA Executive to finding different ways to reach the Copy Editing: Emily Mack I believe to connect as a community, Director community and seeing our doors open we need to learn about each other as for our new neighbors. Proofreading: Ann Bowden, people, so I’d love to tell you more I love learning all about the history Susie Hutchins about myself. Most recently, I worked at the of our great buildings and celebrating Desktop Publishing: Ana I started my career at the Boys and YMCA of Greater Seattle, beginning as the wonderful things we’ve done here. Maria King, Georgette Semroc Girls Club, the North Seattle branch. I the Dale Turner Branch Membership I don’t want to change a whole lot Contributing Writers: began as a volunteer in college before Engagement Director and ending as of things, but going forward I want to see how we can expand our reach. R. Bauermeister, A. Bowden, becoming Program Director. I did a lot the Program Executive of Membership, A. Burnett, M. Campbell, I love that people are reaching of after school programming and also overseeing membership engagement L. Chow, P. Freeman, out and want to meet! Join me at my worked at the licensed childcare sites. operations of 14 branches. C. Kaplan, C. Mack, When I left there, I dabbled in the I was born and raised in Seattle, community coffee hours this spring C. McDougall, C. Paine, corporate sector to try something and I currently live in Edmonds. When (see page 5) or send me an email at K. Rava, E. Strange, D. Weary new, and I just could not find the I got married, my husband Erwin and [email protected]. (It right fit for me. I have this love for I lived in Greenwood, which was really may take a couple days to get back to Ad Sales: Stephanie Horvath community and filling gaps and needs. awesome. When we started having you, but I do get though my messages!) 206.783.2244, phinneycenter.org/ review/advertise Doing that type of work drives me. kids, we moved further north. I have Let’s go have coffee!

The Review • Spring 2020 • Page 1 About The Review newspaper About PNA Founded in 1980 by community The Review is published by Phinney Neighborhood Association members, the mission of the Phinney (PNA) four times per year. It includes articles of interest to Neighborhood Association (PNA) is Northwest Seattle—particularly Phinney and Greenwood, to build, engage, and support our What does Phinney Neighborhood updates on local businesses, as well as events, programs, diverse community through programs, Association do for YOU? and classes at the Phinney Center and Greenwood Senior services, and activities that connect Center. The Review is mailed directly to PNA members and neighbors and foster civic engagement all residents in Phinney/Greenwood. It's also available at the in Northwest Seattle. This includes... CONNECT & ENGAGE Phinney Center, the Greenwood Senior Center, local libraries, Meet and mingle at events, and online at phinneycenter.org/review. Events and community gatherings groups, and volunteer Events ranging from beer tastes and opportunities. Get support and book swaps to holiday celebrations camaraderie with programs at the Greenwood Senior Center and PNA Village. Classes and activities Classes and groups for all ages on a wide range of subjects and interests LEARN Room rentals Take a class at the Phinney The space you need for all types of Center or Greenwood Senior events and gatherings Center, join one of four preschool co-ops Greenwood Senior Center or Whittier Kids licensed childcare or Services and support for seniors, preschool, or check out a book group. plus activities and classes adults of all ages can enjoy PNA Village BORROW Helping older residents stay in their As a PNA Member, get access homes and community as they age to the Tool Library and borrow Phinney Farmers Market instead of buy. Plus, get free Fresh, local produce and goods each heirloom seeds at the King County summer in partnership with Seattle Seed Library, open to all. Neighborhood Farmers Markets Hot Meal Program GATHER Nutritious meals in a welcoming Rent space for all types of Become a PNA Member! setting, three times each week get-togethers, from meetings You can also join online at phinneycenter.org/membership Tool Lending Library and classes to parties and reunions. The tools you need to get the job  New Member  Renewal done right, plus referrals, classes, and  Donation (already a member) the monthly Fixers' Collective meetup SAVE Looking for a great gift? King County Seed Library As a PNA Member, get discounts A PNA Membership truly opens the door to our community! A library of heirloom varieties to on events, classes, copies, and Visit phinneycenter.org/gift to give the gift of community. complete your garden faxes. Plus, get free notary service. Community Woodshop Name(s) Learn woodworking in a class or use What does Phinney Neighborhood the space for your own project Association do for your COMMUNITY? Address Preschool Co-ops Four parent-run preschools, including events City State Zip Spanish and Japanese language 68 bilingual programs & classes at Phinney Center Telephone: Home Cell Whittier Kids Play-based preschool, and licensed before- and after-school care, and 10,000+ Email(s) summer camps at Whittier Elementary attendees PNA membership is tax deductible! PNA Business Group Indicate your level of support; write in the amount in the Supporting, networking, and promoting local businesses 29,986 appropriate space.

 Individual $40-$99  Household $70-$99 Phinney Center Gallery visits to the Phinney Farmers Rotating works by local artists Market each season, with our  PNA Funder $100 and up  Pay what you can partnership with Seattle Volunteer program For Village and Business membership, go to Neighborhood Farmers Markets Connecting interests with rewarding phinneycenter.org/membership or call 206.783.2244 opportunities  Enclosed is a check (payable to PNA) for $______.  Please charge $______to  Visa  MC  AmEx Stay up-to-date 16,000 Would you like to know what's  free meals served to Pay credit card fees (3.5%) going on with events, classes, job those in need each year opportunities, and programs? Account # ______Exp. Date: ______• Subscribe to email news: phinneycenter.org/signup Signature: ______Security Code: ____ • Visit our events and class calendar: 559 phinneycenter.org/calendar kids enrolled in preschool COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES: • Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ PNA monthly newsletter: co-ops and licensed childcare phinneyneighborhoodassociation  E-mail (default)  Mail  Both  None • Add us to your Instagram feed: PNA event update e-mails (~2x/month):  Yes  No @phinneyneighborhoodassociation For auto-renew by credit card, visit phinneycenter.org/membership or call 206.783.2244 • Follow us on Twitter: 3,162 @PNA_Updates Mail completed form to: SP 20 older adults connect though activities, social services, and memory-loss PNA Or join online at 6532 Phinney Ave N phinneycenter.org/membership Get involved! programs at our Greenwood Senior Seattle, WA 98103 Volunteering is a great way to get to Center; or age in their own homes know your neighbors, do something Call 206.783.2244 or with the help of PNA Village. Questions? good, meet people, and have fun. email [email protected] Visit phinneycenter.org/volunteer or see page 19 for current opportunities, PNA MEMBERSHIP is an investment both at PNA and in the community. in creating a thriving community. We turn strangers into neighbors, Learn more at phinneycenter.org. and neighbors into community. phinneycenter.org

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Visit phinneycenter.org/events for online listings

LOCATIONS Phinney Center (PC) 6532 Phinney Ave N, 98103 206.783.2244 [email protected]

Greenwood Senior Center (GSC) 525 N 85th St, 98103 20 6.297.0875 [email protected]

For more events See "Senior Highlights" on pages 14-17 for events for seniors and adults of all ages.

Holiday closure Monday, May 25 for Memorial Day

Costume up and come down to the biggest neighborhood party of the year—the PNA Auction on April 25. This year's 1980s theme birthday bash celebrates the PNA turning 40 years old. Photo from last year's auction by Chris Maykut

3/7 – Saturday The PNA Fix It Café 2/29 – Saturday 11 am–2 pm. Green Lake Library, 7364 East Green Lake Dr N. Free, donations accepted. 30th Annual PNA Wine Taste Join fixers from the PNA Tool Library to repair your broken tools, gadgets or 7:30-10 pm. PC Blue Building. electronics! Instead of throwing away your broken items, bring them in to the $25/PNA members, $30/general public, $10/designated driver. Fix-It Café for a chance at another life. Meet neighbors and friends while sipping coffee as we collaboratively explore the lost art of fixing. You can’t break what’s already broken, so it’s worth a try! Brought to you by The Seattle Public Library and the Phinney Neighborhood Association Tool Library Fixers. Questions? Call 206.783.2244 x 48.

3/8 – Sunday PNA's 40th Birthday Party Ice Cream Social 4-6 pm. PC Blue Building, Rm 7. Free. Celebrate 40 years of building community with an event that was once a traditional PNA event—an ice cream social. This "updated" version will feature premium Bluebird Ice Cream, toppings galore, beer floats, music from Tangletown String Band, and maybe even birthday cake. Thanks to Bluebird for sponsoring our celebration!

3/13 – Friday Phinney Center Gallery Opening: Up and Coming Artists 7-9 pm. PC Blue Building, Upper Level. Free. Celebrate our youth artists! Come see works (available for purchase!) by artists Photo by Rand Peterson 25 years and younger. Juried by artists and teachers Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins and Kathryn “Kappy” Trigg. Enjoy refreshments, art, and live music. Art will be on display through April 17. Learn more at phinneycenter.org/arts. Sip, savor, and shop! Treat yourself to an evening of good Washington wines, good food, and good friends. Enjoy tastes 3/21 – Saturday from Seattle urban wineries, and of course, wineries from Eastern Washington and Woodinville. Phinney Neighborhood Preschool Co-op's Visit the wine store at the event and purchase wines from smaller Spring Gently Used Kids' Gear Sale wineries and vineyards whose wine is not readily available in Seattle. 9 am-1 pm. PC Brick Building, Community Hall. Free. Proceeds from the wine store benefit the programs and activities of Mark your calendars! This popular event offers great deals on gently used the PNA. clothing, shoes, toys, books, strollers, bedding, furniture, safety equipment, Admission to the Wine Taste includes ten tastes of wine, elegant sports gear, car seats, swimwear, maternity wear, and so much more. Grab a tote hors d’oeuvres, and music. Come celebrate Washington wines with and line up early for the very best selection. friends, neighbors, and fellow wine enthusiasts! Enter the doors after noon and enjoy 50 percent discounts on many items. If To see the line-up of wineries and wines and to buy tickets, go to you love finding deals, this is event is for you. Admission and parking is free. Find phinneycenter.org/wine. Thank you to our sponsor, Ballard Market! ‘PNPC Kids Sale’ on Facebook to get the latest info on the sale. Are you cleaning out the closets? Consider donating your gently-used children’s clothing, toys, or gear for the PNPC sale. All proceeds help support the preschool co-op. Donations must be made by March 13 to be included in this sale. Email [email protected] for more information.

The Review • Spring 2020 • Page 3 3/21 – Saturday PNA Village Volunteer Training 3/28 – Saturday 10-12 pm. GSC. Free. Would you like to help your neighbors remain in their homes and stay active Holi Festival of Colors in their community as they age? PNA Village volunteers help in and around the 1-3 pm. PC Lower Parking Lot. $10 in advance; $12 on-site; home, offer rides, and provide social interaction. To attend a Village volunteer children 5 & under free. A "pay what you can" option is available. training, call 206.789.1217 or email [email protected]. Other training dates: Wednesday, 4/22, 10-12 pm; Saturday, 5/16, 10 am-12 pm.

4/2 – Thursday Reuben’s Brews' Thank You Thursday, benefitting the PNA 3-9 pm. Reuben’s Brews - The Brewtap, 800 NW 46th St. Free. Join us for Thank You Thursday and sample from the 24 scrumptious beers on tap at Reuben’s Brews. $1 of every pint sold will be donated to the PNA!

4/3 – Friday Neighbor Potluck and PNA Orientation 5:30-7:30 pm. PC Blue Building, Rm 6. Potluck starts 5:30, Orientation starts 6:30. Free. Photo by Rand Peterson Come meet some neighbors and share a yummy potluck dinner while enjoying the beautiful view from the Phinney Center. Whether you're a new member or Join us again this year to celebrate Holi—a traditional Indian festival of have been a member for decades, this is a great opportunity to learn what’s going color that is a joyous celebration of spring, connection, and the triumph on at the PNA and how you can get more involved. Bring a dish or drink to share, of good over evil. We’ll have singing, dancing, and of course, a fabulous if you can. Kids welcome. Short presentation at 6:30 pm, followed by Q&A. RSVP color fight, where people chase each other around throwing handfuls of is helpful but not required - contact Chardell at [email protected] or colored powder. 206.783.2244. We’ll also have Indian food by the Roll Pod and chai from the Chai Lady available for purchase. Started by a community member in 2018, the PNA Holi celebration 4/17 – Friday welcomes folks of all cultures, backgrounds, and ages. Bloodworks Northwest Spring Blood Drive Bring cash and dress for mess; we’ll see you rain or shine! Each ticket 1-7 pm. Phinney Center Blue Building. (Note: closed from 3-4 pm) comes with two color packets and the chance to buy more on site. Your donation can save up to three lives! Schedule an appointment online at Tickets and info at phinneycenter.org/holi.Pre-purchase recommended! schedule.bloodworksnw.org or just drop in.

4/18 – Saturday Ballard Preschool Co-op's 4/25 – Saturday Gently Used Kids’ Gear Sale PNA Auction: Don’t Stop Believin’ 9 am-1 pm. PC Brick Building, Community Hall. Free. 5 pm. PC Blue Building and Tent. $75/person, $100/patron. BPC's popular sale promises fantastic deals on high quality, gently used clothing, toys, shoes, strollers, gear, maternity wear, and more! Arrive early for the best selection and bring plenty of shopping bags! Strollers must be parked at the door. 25% percent of proceeds directly support the Ballard Preschool Co-op. Have stuff your kids have outgrown? You don't have to be a BPC family to sell at the sale! Contact [email protected] for more information and visit facebook.com/bpcgus for sale updates.

5/8 & 9 – Friday & Saturday The BIG One PhinneyWood Art Walk 6-9 pm Friday, 12-5 pm Saturday. Phinney-Greenwood Aves. Free. Celebrate 25 years of art in the ‘hood! See article page 6 for details.

5/8 – Friday Phinney Center Gallery Opening: Photo by Walter Tuai

Northwest Fine Arts Competition Totally righteous people agree, you should attend the PNA’s annual 7-9 pm. PC Blue Building, Upper Level. Free. auction! During the PhinneyWood BIG One Art Walk, view beautiful works by PNW We turn 40 this year, so celebrate with us at our “born in 1980” artists. Art will be on display through June 13. birthday bash! Channel your inner Goth, nerd, headbanger, valley girl, jock, preppie, or yuppie. Whatever your style, get out your Aqua 5/19—Tuesday Net and gear up to chill with your friends and neighbors in support Tea, Treats & PNA Orientation at the of programs for children, seniors, low income people, and the entire community. Greenwood Senior Center Win awesome items and experiences at the silent and live auctions, 1:30-2:30 pm. GSC. Free. and take your chances in our raffles and games. Chow down at our Did you know that the PNA offers a tool library, free notary services, and bodacious buffet (with plenty of vegetarian and vegan options, no duh) several book clubs in addition to the amazing programming at the GSC? Come followed by totally tubular desserts during the live auction dessert meet some neighbors, learn what's going on at the PNA, and how you can get dash. This year we are psyched to welcome our rad new Auctioneer, involved. Located in the GSC East Room (downstairs), 525 N 85th St. Your RSVP is Emma Jay Byfield. helpful, but not required: [email protected] or 206.783.2244. Visit phinneycenter.org/auction to purchase individual or couple tickets, or reserve a full table for you and your friends. Have a sweet item or experience you’d like to contribute? We are currently seeking donations for the silent and live auctions (deadline SAVE THE DATES is March 25). Popular items include getaways, gift certificates to local businesses, unique experiences that cannot be purchased, one-of-a- Fri, 6/5 Farmers Market Opening Day kind items, or event tickets. Use your imagination! Sat, 6/6 Pride Rainbow Hop Want to help as a volunteer? Jobs available before, during, and Sat, 6/6 PCPE's Family Fiesta after the event ranging from making centerpieces, to greeting guests, Sat, 6/13 PhinneyWood Garage Sale Day or cleaning up. Sat, 6/27 Car Show Pancake Breakfast Visit phinneycenter.org/auction to donate, get tickets, or sign up 7/10-7/26 2006 Gumshoe 5k Updated Version to volunteer. Sat, 7/18 Summer Beer Taste Questions? Email [email protected] or call Mary at Wed, 7/22 Greenwood Seafair Parade 206.783.2244. Tues, 7/28 Beers for Good at Populuxe Brewing Big time thanks to our sponsors: HomeStreet Bank, Greenwood Sat, 8/15 Bite of PhinneyWood Hardware, Woodland Park Zoo, Jamie Flaxman Real Estate, Celine 8/7-8/21 Gumshoe 5K - final ear!y Refreshing beverages Patisserie, Columbia Bank, SHKS Architects, Swansons Nursery, Jan Fri, 8/14 Farmers Market Happy Hour abound at Summer Beer Gray and Kerry Fowler, and Ron and Robyn Lewis. Taste. Photo by A.M. King

Page 4 • The Review • Spring 2020 Ongoing events & groups Coffee & Chat with Dar'Nesha, PNA's New Executive Director Spanish Language Conversation Group Every Monday. 6-8 pm. PC Blue Building. $25/month. First night free! Advanced 6-7 pm, intermediate 7-8 pm. See pg. 20 in class schedule.

People's Think Tank Mondays, 10-11:30 am. Couth Buzzard, 8310 Greenwood Ave N. Free. Discuss the question: “How can we create a new culture that moves from every person for themselves to we’re all in this together?" We will explore the role each of us can play. For more info, contact Cecile Andrews at [email protected].

Conversation & News of the Day (3 groups) Tuesdays, 10:30 am-12 pm. HomeStreet Bank, 7307 Greenwood. Thursdays (2 groups) 9:30-10:30 am & 10:30 am-11:30 am Couth Buzzard, 8310 Greenwood Ave N. Free. Come with a news clipping that you want to discuss, or just come and join in with others. For more info, contact Cecile Andrews at [email protected]. Come meet our new Executive Director, Dar’Nesha Weary, over a cup of coffee at the Phinney Center or the Greenwood Senior Center. Understanding Happiness She’s looking forward to getting to know you—our community Wednesdays, 10 am. HomeStreet Bank, 7307 Greenwood members, hear about your experiences with the PNA, and explore with There is excellent research on the subject of happiness. In this group, explore you ways to deepen our impact. No need to RSVP; just show up! how to act on this research, and create happier lives. Led By Cecile Andrews. Monday, March 9, 7-8 pm – Phinney Center, Room 3 Wednesday, March 11, 7-8 pm – Phinney Center, Room 5 Wednesday, March 18, 2:30-3:30 pm – Greenwood Senior Center Phinney Friends Crochet Friday, March 20, 7-8 pm – Phinney Center, Room 5 Every Thursday. 10 am-12 pm. PC Blue Building. Free. Tuesday, March 24, 1-2 pm – Phinney Center, Room 1 Tuesday, April 14, 2-3 pm – Greenwood Senior Center Bridge Group Wednesday, April 15, 2:30-3:30 pm – Greenwood Senior Center Fridays, 7 pm. PC Blue Building, Room 2. Free. All are welcome at this self-run group.

Emerald City Contra Dancing Fridays, 7:30-10 pm. (beginners' workshop at 7 pm). Seattle Folklore Society Concerts PC Brick Building. $9, public/$8, SFS & PNA members & seniors/$5 students/Free for 16 and under. seattledance.org/contra/emeraldcity A community-oriented type of folk dancing; join in with or without a partner.

Community Study Group Saturdays, 10-11 am. Couth Buzzard, 8310 Greenwood Ave N One of the most important things we can do for our health and well being is to have a sense of community and connection. Come together to study community, what kinds of community you want, and how to build it. Led by Cecile Andrews, author of several books which focus on community: [email protected].

PNA Fixers' Collective 1st Wednesdays. 6-8 pm. Greenwood Hardware. Free. You can’t break what’s already broken! BYO broken gadget or small appliance, and come for the fun while getting help taking it apart and putting it back together, and hopefully fixing it in the process. Kids welcome. phinneycenter.org/tools/fixers/.

Seattle Song Circle 2nd Sundays. 7-10 pm. GSC. Free. Mary Flower's supple honey-and-whiskey voice provides the perfect Join folks who enjoy getting together to sing. No expertise required, but melodic accompaniment to each song’s story. ability to stay in key is nice. Mainly folksongs. For info, contact Bruce Baker, Photo courtesy of Mary Flower. 425.998.6134, [email protected].

Saturday concerts begin at 7:30 pm, and Sunday concerts begin at 7 pm, unless otherwise noted. Concerts are held in the Phinney Center ArtUp PhinneyWood Art Walk Community Hall in the lower brick building. Advance tickets go on sale 2nd Fridays. 6-9 pm. Phinney-Greenwood Aves. Free. 60 days before each show and are available through Brown Paper Info and maps at artupphinneywood.com. Coordinated by the PhinneyWood Tickets or at prior SFS shows. See seafolklore.org for more info. Ticket Arts Council. prices vary, but there is always a discount for SFS and PNA members, seniors, students, and youth. Sprouts and Seniors 4th Fridays. 10-11 am. GSC. Free. Mar 7: Local Songwriter Showcase - Carolyn Cruso, Stephanie Anne Join us to promote the benefits of intergenerational interaction at the Sprouts Johnson, Debbie Miller & Seniors Play Group for older adults and children from birth to preschool age with Mar 8 Lilla Spelmanslag benefit (Sunday) their caregivers. The Senior Center will have toys, books, and puzzles, but caregivers Mar 14: Downtown Mountain Boys - exciting and accomplished are encouraged to bring along favorite toys and books for children to share with bluegrass NW favorites the seniors during the play group. For questions or to RSVP: 206.297.0875. Mar 21: Mary Flower - Blues & ragtime from one of the masters Mar 22 Missy Raines Quartet - Iconic Bluegrass instrumentalist & songwriter (Sunday) Bingo Karaoke Mar 28: Todalo Shakers - vintage jug-band party blues, old-time rags Usually last Fridays. 7-10 pm. GSC. Feb. 28, Mar. 27, Apr. 17, May 29 and more! $10/PNA Members, $17/Public + $5 gambling fee. Apr 4: The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc - Epic Fiddle from Norway, Sweden, Advance tickets available for an additional cost. & the Shetland Isles Karaoke, bingo, and beer—good times for folks age 21+. Details, sale dates, Apr 5 Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer - Grammy award-winning multi- and tickets at phinneycenter.org/bingo. instrumentalists / singers (Sunday) Apr 11: Alice Wallace, with Xander Hitzig (fiddle) - Beautiful fresh Book Clubs voice in Country & Americana All are welcome! Visit phinneycenter.org/bookclub for book lists. Apr 18: Miles & Karina - Live accompaniment to a vintage silent film! PNA Book Club Apr 26 Trio Brasileiro - internationally acclaimed choro ensemble (Sunday) 2nd Wednesdays. 7-8:30 pm. May 2: Gerry O’Connor - Direct from Ireland! Trad Irish fiddle, with PC Blue Building. Free. Richard Mandel on guitar Third Wednesday Book Club (formerly 2nd Tuesday) May 9: - Engaging indie Celtic folk-rock duo House of Hamill 3rd Wednesdays, 7:30-8:30 pm. May 16: Matthew Byrne - Traditional Singer, Storyteller, & Guitarist PC Blue Building. Free. from Newfoundland For community meetings, visit phinneycenter.org/groups

The Review • Spring 2020 • Page 5 Art Walk turns 25 Breaking White Silence Celebrate Seattle's first neighborhood Breaking White Silence, a project of the Phinney Neighborhood Association, is designed to educate white people on the structures and art walk on May 8 & 9 patterns of racism—and raise our consciousness about our own socialized by Ann Bowden patterns—by forming free, facilitated study groups to read and discuss The BIG One, PhinneyWood’s Dr. Robin DiAngelo’s What Does it Mean to Be White?: Developing White annual art walk, turns 25 this year! Racial Literacy (Revised Edition). Celebrate 25 years of art in the ‘hood Dr. DiAngelo is a race and social justice educator and author of the on Friday, May 8, from 6-9 pm and 2018 New York Times best-selling book White Fragility. Her work has Saturday, May 9, from noon to 5 pm. been featured at the Seattle Public Library and in NPR, Slate, and The Sign-ups have just begun but The New Yorker. To learn more, visit robindiangelo.com. BIG One is expected to feature art in 70-80 businesses in the Phinney- Introduction to Breaking White Silence Greenwood neighborhood. Sat. April 11, 11 am-12:30 pm What’s your favorite kind of art? The Greenwood Public Library, Community Room BIG One typically includes photography, 8016 Greenwood Ave. N sculpture, collage, oils, watercolors, Discover what it means to be white and the ramifications of remaining prints, glass, metal and fiber art, silent in the face of injustice. A focus on project’s history and core ceramics and mixed media. understandings of racism. Includes interactive conversation as well as And of course there will be info and Q&A. All are welcome; no need to RSVP. entertainment! Over the years, this hugely popular event has turned into a neighborhood party with Breaking White Silence Study Groups musical performances in participating Pre-registration required – space is limited businesses and churches, street The study groups are geared to adults of all ages. Middle school and performers, chalk art and activities for Award-winning designer Robynne high school students are also welcome. Although all are encouraged to children. Raye created all 25 Art Walk posters, purchase the book, there are some available to borrow. In the spirit of the art walk theme of starting from year one. Tuesdays: April 14-May 12, 1:30-3:30 pm “Art Up, Chow Down,” restaurants and Originally a stand-alone annual Location to be arranged. Facilitated by Chava Monastersky pubs are encouraged to participate as event, The BIG One is now the Questions & register: [email protected] well by offering music or menu specials. centerpiece of the monthly Art To celebrate the 25th anniversary, Up PhinneyWood art walks, held Tuesdays: April 14-May 12, 7 to 8:45 pm. organizers are also planning a the second Friday of each month, Greenwood Senior Center. Facilitated by Paul Finley and Jenny Gardon retrospective show of art walk posters with approximately 30 businesses Questions & register: [email protected] through the years, all 25 of which were participating regularly. Art Up created by Robynne Raye, co-founder of PhinneyWood is organized by Breaking White Silence Facilitator Training Modern Dog Design (moderndog.com). the PhinneyWood Arts Council, Training session for those considering facilitating a public or private Robynne is an award-winning an all-volunteer organization, in study group of any size. If possible, please attend April 11 primer session. graphic design artist and counts collaboration with the Phinney Please RSVP (details below) and read Facilitator’s Toolkit beforehand: posters, packaging and identity Neighborhood Association. phinneycenter.org/breaking-white-silence-project. The session will be projects as some of her favorite work. For additional information, check interactive and requires Toolkit knowledge and familiarity with history Details for the retrospective are still artupphinneywood.com or the art and some core understandings about racism. being worked out so stay tuned. walk’s Facebook page: facebook.com/ Sunday, May 3, 2-4 pm Art Walk maps and information on ArtUpPhinneywood/. participating venues will be available Greenwood Public Library, Community Room online at ArtUpPhinneyWood.com, on Business owners: It’s not too 8016 Greenwood Ave. N the PhinneyCenter’s website and at late to sign up for The BIG One. participating businesses the week of Registration information is online at the event. artupphinneywood.com. Get ready to shop & sell mcgrawsdirect2ucarpet.com Save the date for Garage Sale Day WOOL “Get rid of clutter and you may just Flea Market. Increase foot traffic by find that it was blocking the door registering your sale with the PNA. Your CARPET you’ve been looking for.” location and a few words about your —Katrina Mayer goods will be listed on the official map, BY APPOINTMENT Available 7 AM to 7 PM which is published in both mobile/ On Saturday, June 13, hundreds seven days a week interactive form, as well as in print. of Seattleites will gather for the The cost to register a sale is $20 for call or text PhinneyWood Garage Sale Day, looking PNA members, $25 for non-members. 206-783-2662 for a good deal and “buried” treasure. Flea market spaces are $30 for 155 N. 78th St. If you love a deal, and enjoy meeting members, $35 for non-members. Serving our community since 1978 fellow treasure hunters, put the date Registration opens on Monday, on your calendar! March 9. 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Page 6 • The Review • Spring 2020 Phinney Farmers Market Your summer support sustains farmers all year long

DAVERN SAFE & LOCK Professional Master Locksmiths Locks & Deadbolts · Keys Re-keying · Safes Master key systems Locks opened Larry from Alvarez Organic Farms is always smiling while selling Safe combos changed vegetables each Friday at the Phinney Farmers Market. COMPLETE LOCK INSTALLATION Photo by Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Markets RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL Shop Hours By Corinne Monaco and Sarah Schu among our farmers, make it to market M-F 8:30 am - 5:00 pm We were so impressed by every week, Seattle rain or shine! Phinney Farmers Market supporters Like our farmers and food growers, 206-789-8920 in 2019! Each week, an average the Neighborhood Farmers Market 6510 1/2 Phinney Ave. N. of 1,400 shoppers supported 30 organization is busy planning and Seattle, WA 98103 small businesses. During the 17- preparing for another bountiful year Serving our community since 1986 week season, you put an average of at the Phinney Farmers Market. In $27,000 in the hands of Washington the off season, we review vendor farmers, ethical ranchers, and local applications, refine market policy and food artisans each week. Phinney operations, and schedule cooking Farmers Market had a record sales demonstrations and events. day of $32,727, kudos! In our ongoing mission to constant- Your support of Washington ly improve the market, we also take farmers during the summer and time to read customer and vendor autumn market months helps them feedback. The 2020 season brings plan, prepare, seed and sow during one important change: the market the winter and spring season. Your will now run from 3 -7 pm. This time support allows vendors to refine change is in line with shopper requests their business plans, spend time on and habits. Another bonus? Our hard- marketing efforts, repair equipment, working vendors can rest earlier in and build new infrastructure. anticipation of Saturday morning mar- Tonnemaker Valley Farm was able kets and they don’t have to pack up in to erect a new greenhouse for their the dark during late summer. expanding vegetable production. Your favorite summer Fridays are Chubby Bunny Farm purchased just over the horizon, and we can’t a new compact tractor for tilling wait to show you, our wonderful under their high tunnels. Your neighbors, what our vendors have consistent support also helped Sea been up to during the off season. Wolf Bakery commission a beautiful There will be plenty of returning KING COUNTY custom market display tower from a favorites and new faces to welcome, SEED LENDING LIBRARY local carpenter, enabling one small and with them new products and business to support another. When varieties. Our popular market passport Located at the you shop at your local farmers market, program will be back for the kids, with PNA Tool Library your dollar doesn’t just go toward opportunities to sample various fruits Borrow seeds to plant something that loaf of bread or head of lettuce, and veggies each week. new in your garden...return seeds it ripples through the local economy, We are also planning events when the plant matures strengthening Washington’s small galore. The brilliant food writer and HOURS: businesses. photographer, Naomi Tomky, will Wednesdays, 3-6:30 pm Imagine the impact of your host a cooking demo on opening day Fridays, 5-7 pm shopping habits if you spent an featuring a seafood recipe from The Saturdays, 9 am-2 pm additional $5 during each market visit Pacific Northwest Cookbook. Seattle 6532 Phinney Ave. N. or, better yet, introduced a friend to Cucina will also be back in July to teach (Lower brick building, your favorite chore of the week: the your littles how to make crepes with entrance on Dayton) 206.783.2244 Phinney Friday night farmers market. fresh market berries. Look forward We’re happy to remind you that each to coloring contests, Cherry Pit Spit, Learn more at kingcoseed.org market visit truly matters. While we Zucchini Races, Applelooza, and much had an average of 1,400 shoppers more this coming year. each week, some days fewer than 900 Mark your calendar for the opening people visited the market. In order celebration of Phinney Farmers to keep the cheery veggie vibes high Market on June 5 at 3 pm.

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The Review • Spring 2020 • Page 7 Kids' Corner

Students in Ballard Preschool Co-op's 3-5's class love exploring nature. Photo by Laura Powell Don't 'fall' behind Enrollments for 2020-2021 school year Whittier Kids Preschool Located at Whittier Elementary, our play-based preschool program for 3-5 year olds focuses on dynamic curriculum that fosters creativity, instills a love for learning, builds social skills, and raises awareness of the community. We invite you to come learn more about our Preschool program! Upcoming Preschool tours are on March 11 and April 8 at 8:30 am. Email whittierkids@phinneycenter. org to sign up for a tour or to get more information, or visit phinneycenter.org/ whittierkids/preschool.

Whittier Kids summer campers enjoy field trips in the great weather! Whittier Kids Before and After School Program Photo by Jesse Botello Whittier Kids offers quality before- and after-school care for Kindergarten- 5th graders on-site at Whittier Elementary. 2020-21 open enrollment for new families is on April 7. Learn more about our program and enrollment process Vacation recreation online at phinneycenter.org/whittierkids/sa_enrollment. Summer programs for fun and learning Phinney Neighborhood Preschool Co-op (PNPC) PNPC is a vibrant, community-based cooperative preschool that fosters the social, emotional, physical, and mental development of young children through Whittier Kids Summer Camps play-based, structured learning in a nurturing and connected community. As K-5th grade a cooperative (or “co-op”) preschool, each classroom is led by a teacher and Join us for a summer full of engaging weekly themes, activities, and field trips! supported by a parent educator, with parents serving as co-teachers. PNPC fosters PNA's Whittier Kids Summer Camps are located at Whittier Elementary and are community between parents and children through enhanced opportunities for open to all children entering kindergarten through 5th grade. Whittier Kids offers sensory, artistic, and musical exploration, field trips, and outdoor play. Contact weekly camps from June 23-August 28, 9 am-3 pm with optional before and after the Registrar at [email protected] or visit phinneycenter.org/pnpc for care also available. Learn new skills, explore new friendships, and give your child additional information. a chance to grow and learn in a safe, fun environment. Each week will be full of activities specific to each age group, field trips, and plenty of exploration! 2020 camp themes include “Animal Planet,” “Art of the Matter,” “Time Travelers,” Ballard Preschool Co-op Now enrolling for the 2020-2021 school year! Create, nurture, encourage, and more. Full camp details and registration will be available March 9 online at provide, and foster a sense of community, support, and belonging for all those phinneycenter.org/whittierkids. Children do not have to be Whittier students to involved in the preschool. We offer a part-time structured cooperative program attend. Questions? Call 206.782.2508 or email [email protected]. for children from birth through pre-K. On-site sibling care is usually available for children not participating in class while their parent is working in the classroom PCPE Spanish Summer Camp for a reasonable hourly fee. Contact the Registrar at [email protected] for Age 2-5 years information about our school. More information on class hours and tuition can Phinney Cooperativa Preescolar en Español, PNA’s Spanish Cooperative be found at phinneycenter.org/bpc. Preschool, still has openings in its Spanish Summer camp for children ages 2 to 5 years old. The children will explore the outdoors in local parks (Maple Leaf and Golden Gardens), participate in play-based activities, and reinforce their Spanish. Phinney Cooperativa Preescolar en Español (PCPE) Do you have a 0 to 5-year-old who speaks or is learning Spanish at home? Are The summer camp will take place during the months of July and August in the you interested in a cooperative preschool experience? Would your family like to mornings, and families will be able to sign up for the weeks that they’re interested be a part of a strong bilingual community? If yes, check out PCPE, Seattle’s only in. True to the cooperative nature of the school, Spanish-speaking caregivers will Spanish-language cooperative preschool and a program of the PNA, which has be required to volunteer a portion of the time. Weeks run each Tuesday through has a limited number of openings for the 2020-21 school year. PCPE provides a Thursday starting July 7 and ending August 13. Camp time is 9 am-12 pm. Cost is play-based learning environment, encouraging, and supporting the whole child $115/week. Register at pcpeseattle.org/news. Questions? Email inscripciones@ and his/her development process, as well as a strong community of bilingual pcpeseattle.org. families from many diverse Latino cultures. To learn more and register for our Bebes (0-1 year old), Chicos (1-2 year old), Medianos (2-3 year old), Grandes PNPC Dragon Room Summer Program (3-4 year old), and Pre-K (4-5 year old) classes, visit pcpeseattle.org or email Ages 2 and up [email protected]. Phinney Neighborhood Preschool Co-op's Dragon Room Summer Program offers a rich selection of camps for preschoolers and elementary-aged children held in PNPC's enchanted Dragon Room at the Phinney Center. Programs are open to both PNPC families and community members. Visit phinneycenter.org/ pnpc/summerprogram for details and registration. Information will be posted as we finalize our summer schedule. *Note that ALL camps are hosted by outside vendors, who are not affiliated with PNPC.

YMCA Discovery Camp at the Phinney Center K-5th grade Learning AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS CO-SPONSORED WITH THE PHINNEY Create, learn, and play all summer long at YMCA Discovery Camp! Y staff doesn’t stop NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION create hands-on, structured, enrichment activities in art, science, storytelling, when the bell rings! sports, and outdoor play. Each week's theme is woven into the day's games, field trips, and fun. Your camper will make new friends and develop skills in a small group setting. Camps run for 10 weeks from 7 am-6 pm and each will include [email protected] two field trips along with onsite learning opportunities available. Come spend 206 524 1400 your Summer with the Y! For more information and to register, visit seattleymca.org/ university-family-ymca/summer-camps/discovery-camp or call 206.524.1400. ykids.org/uni

Page 8 • The Review • Spring 2020 APRIL FULL MOON: “Grass Moon”, “Hare Moon” FLOWER: Daisy and Sweet Pea 1. Keep grass mowed to 2”-3” (recommended). Mow twice monthly or as needed. 2. Prune evergreen shrubs and conifers. Prune forsythia once it’s done flowering. 3. Add 3” - 4“ layer of mulch to garden beds, trees, and shrubs (mid-March - early April). 4. Locate and remove any Morning Glory before they get started. 5. Wash windows. (Pro tip: use ordinary liquid dish soap and water, squeegee, and remove residual gunk, smudges, etc. on PNA's gardener Eddie Strange has cared for the Phinney Center and glass windows with super fine: grade 0000 steel wool.) Greenwood Senior Center grounds for more than five years. Read 6. Swap out storm windows for screens. more articles on gardening and yard maintenance on his blog at 7. Good time to prune sarcococca, hebe, heather, boxwood hearthandhomeherald.wordpress.com. (March - April). “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the 8. In the vegetable garden, plant: lettuce, spinach, and other shade.” ~Charles Dickens (from “Great Expectations”) greens, root vegetables, onions, chives. Sow (late April): basil, For many home owners and aspiring gardeners, laying out a game plan watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, pumpkin, squash. for regular garden care and upkeep can feel like a daunting task. Knowing 9. Finish planning your larger outdoor projects, to begin starting just when to plant, prune, fertilize, etc. also has a huge effect on the overall next month, in order to make the most of the coming drier, health, success, and yield of your garden. So where to begin?! Here is a warmer weather and longer daylight hours. general Home and Garden Maintenance Guide to help you get oriented in 10. Plant summer blooming bulbs (lilies, dahlias, gladiolas, the basic flow through each season. begonias, etc.) this month. Final frost date is, generally, in mid-March. This guide was developed for the Pacific Northwest Hardiness Zones 7 – 9. GOOD LUCK! MAY FULL MOON: “Planter’s Moon” FLOWER: Lily of the Valley and Hawthorn GENERAL MONTHLY TO-DO’s for SPRING 1. Pinch back/“dead-head” and clean up spent early blooms MARCH (rhododendrons, azaleas, etc.) and annuals. FULL MOON: “Crow Moon”, “Seed Moon” 2. Tend to roses. Watch for blackspot, mildew, aphids, etc. For FLOWER: Daffodil perfect, healthy, insect-repelling, more disease resistant roses, plant with chives (onion and/or garlic), giant allium, onions. And 1. Add organic fertilizers to deciduous trees and shrubs. they look great together! 2. Once passed final frost date (mid-March), it’s time to address winter 3. Rake in/“cycle” grass clippings back into lawn. Add excess damage to lawns. Rake in 0.5 – 1” mulch, overseed, and apply organic clippings into compost bins. fertilizers, amendments. Weed, thatch, and aerate, as needed. 4. Good time to prune rhododendrons, azaleas, camellia, pieris 3. Get the jump on weeds before they seed. japonica, winter daphnes, weigela. 4. Good time to plant seasonal annuals, perennials, biennials, bulbs, 5. In the vegetable garden, plant (mid-May): tomatoes, squash, and tubers. peppers, cucumber, pumpkin. Sow: corn, beans, potatoes, kale, 5. Fertilize, rotate, mist, water and pinch back old growth of indoor plants. beets, squash. 6. Prune and fertilize roses. Add 3” layer of mulch to rose beds. 6. Break out the hoses and sprinklers! Establish and begin your 7. Wrap up pruning of flowering, deciduous, and fruit trees. watering regime. Tip: for stronger, more drought and disease 8. Scrub slippery steps and walkways with bleach water and/or resistant plants and lawn, the golden rule of watering is to “water pressure wash. more, less often” (every three days or as needed), rather than 9. Summer flowering perennials can be divided and transplanted early “less, more often.” The first encourages deeper root growth, this month (daisies, daylilies, hostas, iris, phlox, etc.). while the latter encourages roots to remain closer to the surface, 10. Stir ompostc bins. where more vulnerable. 11. Get vegetable garden beds prepped and ready! Plant: asparagus, 7. Start any larger outdoor projects. Remember, later summer strawberries, artichoke, onions, garlic, peas, cabbage, potato, months can be especially dry and dusty, should that prove a thyme, mint, rosemary, sage, oregano, parsley. Sow (in ground): factor with your type of project (painting, stains, etc). radish, spinach, arugula, chard, fennel, cauliflower, turnips, spinach. 8. Wrap up any big planting installs (perennials, etc.) early this Seed starts (indoors): tomatoes, eggplant, pepper, sunflower, celery, month. cucumber, squash NEED TOOLS? The PNA Tool Library carries a large selection of tools you'll need this spring, such as pruning shears, an edger, a push spreader, a dethatcher, an arbor saw, an aerator, a pole trimmer, an extendable pruner, a rototiller, and many more. The Tool Library is a benefit for PNA Members. Visit phinneycenter.org/tools to learn more and search the online inventory. Hours are Wednesdays 3- 6:30 pm, Fridays 5-7 pm, and Saturdays 9 am-2 pm. Also don’t forget that the PNA Tool Library houses the King County Seed Library. Stop in during Tool Library Hours to get free seeds for your garden—you don't have to be a PNA Member to use the Seed Library.

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The Review • Spring 2020 • Page 9 Legacy Business, continued from page 1

The hardware store also reflects the They offer free space on their reader Forty years ago, ethos of the neighborhood, offering boards to promote events; donate eco-friendly products and services. money to the Association, community community began here “We were green before it was a thing,” groups and schools; plus offer items Willow says, “way ahead of the curve for PNA’s fundraising auction. How neighbors created the Phinney on that.” They give local kids their first jobs. Both Greenwood Hardware It’s the kind of bond that’s hard to Neighborhood Association and Ken’s Market are major, long- break, even in the age of Amazon. As This year, the Phinney Neighborhood time supporters of the Phinney Bill notes, “The thing is, we are just Association turns 40. To find out its Neighborhood Association (PNA) as part of this neighborhood.” origin story, we reached out to founding well as the surrounding community. And here to stay. Executive Director Ed Medeiros. Below is a condensed version of his account. To read the full version with more details, visit the website at: phinneycenter.org/ about/history/founding. By Ed Medieros Back in 1978, the Phinney Ridge neighborhood, defined then as the blocks between 65th and 75th from Aurora to 3rd Avenue NW, was a low to moderate income community composed primarily of seniors on fixed incomes. That demographic made the area eligible for a $200,000 Community Development Block Grant. The Phinney Center in 1982. Traditionally, block grant funded projects were one-time physical infrastructure improvements, such the vote included home-sharing for as crosswalks, traffic signals, or seniors and a senior van transportation street trees, and were administered service, a preschool co-op, a food through city departments. Phinney buying co-op, a recycling center, a Ridge’s block grant broke that mold community greenhouse and street Founder Ken Giles mother, Genevieve, shops at the and instead became the spark that trees, a storm window weatherization original store's butcher counter in the late 1950s. created the Phinney Neighborhood program and, most importantly -- and Association. the top priority -- a community center. How that happened is a testament DCD continued to be concerned, to the strength and resolve of the uncertain that the community actually neighborhood’s residents who worked needed a community center and together to determine community worried, as well, about who would needs and priorities and create oversee the administration of the programs to address them. It wasn’t grant. an easy process, however. To address those concerns, To determine how the grant community members set about would be used, the Phinney Ridge creating a non-profit and establishing Community Council worked with Marc a track record. By 1980, the Phinney Krandel, a Community Developer with Neighborhood Association (PNA) was the city’s Department of Community incorporated and received federal Development (DCD), to identify the top non-profit status. The first order of priority issues in the neighborhood. business was applying for a $20,000 Marc held visioning sessions at then grant from Seattle City Light to provide John B. Allen Elementary School, but storm windows to low income seniors, also went door-to-door talking with with the help of neighborhood residents and inviting them to block volunteers. meetings to talk about their concerns In the meantime, DCD conducted and to brainstorm key issues facing the a community center feasibility study community. that, not surprisingly, discovered that Older, long term residents worried the Phinney area needed a community about rising costs of energy, food, center. property taxes and home maintenance. With a green light on developing a Many were also concerned about community center, the PNA began to getting around when they could no work with the Seattle School District longer drive. Newer, younger residents to manage one of the 20 schools being worried about the lack of early closed at that time. In June of 1981, the childhood education and trees. For John B. Allen Elementary School was most residents, there was a general closed and re-opened in September as desire to connect with neighbors and the Phinney Neighborhood Center. to bring the community together. The PNA’s relationship with the Priorities developed from the School District lasted for the next block meetings and led to task 28 years—first as managers of the forces. Each explored one of the top facilities, then as lessees. In 2009, issues that had emerged through the the PNA purchased the John B. Allen visioning process, recruiting additional school properties. neighbors, researching the topic and Currently known as the Phinney developing a project proposal to be Center, it has become one of the most presented to the community. unique and celebrated community After researching program ideas, centers in all of Seattle. the steering committee presented a All contract obligations with DCD proposal to the city that would use all were completed by 1984. The PNA of the grant funds for the development was then able to expand its service of a community center that would area and today membership in the house, develop and administer the PNA is open to everyone. other program recommendations. The Phinney Neighborhood DCD rejected the proposal and Association is a truly grassroots suggested that each program area be organization that has grown over the broken out and assigned a dollar value. past 40 years to become a community Community members were given institution. $200,000 in scrip that they used to Today, it manages programs at “vote” for their top priorities. six sites in northwest Seattle and A “voter’s pamphlet” outlined 13 continues to respond to community proposals. Projects were prioritized needs as they arise. The PNA has based on the number of votes each earned the right to say, “community proposal received. The results of begins here.”

Page 10 • The Review • Spring 2020 Addressing homelessness Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church welcomes Tent City 3

Sleeping on a pallet under a freeway bridge was his wake-up call. He completed rehab and heard from a buddy about Tent City 3. He signed up, went through the screening process and was accepted into the program. Kevin has been with Tent City 3 since August 2019 and says, “Now I can sleep at night with both eyes closed and not worry about my safety.” Kevin believes that Tent City 3 saved his life. He was surprised by how well run the encampment is and how dedicated the other tenants were to upholding the rules, kicking out anyone that wasn’t adhering to them. Kevin was also relieved by how friendly the PhinneyWood neighbors Photo by Karla Rava have been towards them. When the camp first arrived, many visitors by Karla Rava outside of the campgrounds and pick dropped in, offering baked goods and Washington State has the fifth up trash or litter in the surrounding supplies. highest homeless population in neighborhood. Around the Christmas holiday, the the nation; currently there are Patrick explains, “Unlike other tenants were receiving 3-4 visitors approximately 21,577 people living illegal tent encampments around the a day with donations in hand. The in transitional housing, emergency city, Tent City 3 is accountable to rules church also gifted them each a holiday shelters, and unsheltered settings (see and regulates appropriate behavior gift card. graphic, below). According to The U.S. within the camp at all times.” Despite being in difficult circum- Department Of Housing And Urban Patrick believes hosting Tent City 3 stances, Kevin is grateful for the abun- Development, the homeless crisis elevates the community, as opposed dance of generosity and feels he had a continues to grow. Many wonder what to bringing it down, as some critics good Christmas. can be done. have argued on civic platforms like the Kevin’s message to all is “not to Patrick Meagher, Minister of popular app, Nextdoor. judge a book by its cover, but try to Outreach at the Phinney Ridge Lutheran According to Patrick, “It enables the get to know them before making an Church, has not turned a blind eye to church and the community to begin a opinion, because homelessness can the hardships of being homeless. He conversation about homelessness and happen to anyone.” has invited Tent City 3, a sanctioned make a positive impact.” Furthermore, He is hoping to get the surgeries homeless camp by King County, to he argues, “It’s a great use of the he needs in order to correct his reside on the front lawn of his parish. property and hosting allows the disabilities. And once completely back Tent City 3 was founded by the church to live out their values of being on his feet again, he’s hoping to return Need a space for your next county’s largest shelter network understanding and supportive of to school and complete his degree in meeting or event? and partnered organizations, Seattle people in need.” Environmental Science. Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE) The church is currently hosting The 2019 Annual Homeless Rent the Sunset Hill Clubhouse! and Women's Housing, Equality and 25 tenants from December 7, 2019 Assessment Report to Congress The beautiful clubhouse rents Enhancement League (WHEEL). SHARE through March 7, 2020. It is providing from the US Department of Housing by the hour and includes a and WHEEL are grassroots non-profits tenants with electricity, rather than and Urban Development (HUD) kitchen, tables, and chairs... that have been around for nearly 30 having them use their own generators, found 567,715 people experienced everything you need! years. Their mission is “to eradicate to help with noise control. The tenants homelessness nationwide: 2.7 percent phinneycenter.org/rentals homelessness, educate the community, have heaters and access to a food tent, increase from the 2018 assessment, and empower homeless people.” visit urban rest-stops for showers and where 552,830 people were reported Tent City 3 typically stays at a site for laundry facilities, and are invited to homeless. three to four months and then moves join the church for Wednesday night Shortly after this report was made on to the next location. Members are supper and to sleep inside the church public, HUD announced in a press completely self-sufficient and do not during inclement weather. release on January 14, 2020, that exploit or rely on any resources from Kevin is a 50 -year-old man currently nearly $2.2 billion in grants will go their site hosts. living at Tent City 3. He and his daughter to 6,593 local homeless assistance There are tents for individuals, moved to Washington from Montana programs across the country. With couples, and families with children. in 2014 in pursuit of a better life, but increased government funding and They adhere to a thorough code after a nearly fatal car accident, Kevin continued community support, we are of conduct; drugs and alcohol are was left disabled and unable to resume steps closer to ending homelessness. prohibited. Everyone helps with working as a truck driver. For more information about Tent running the camp, including 24-hour Kevin fell on hard times and his life City 3 or to donate, visit their website security patrols and daily clean-up. began to spiral. He developed a drug ad- at sharewheel.org They also help with clean-up efforts diction and eventually lost everything. SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS Estimates of People Experiencing Homelessness, by State FROM BALLARD MARKET. WA ME, 2,106 21,577 Bring them to the PNA. MT ND VT,1,089 1,357 557 OR MN NH,1,396 1% of the total will be donated to 15,876 7,977 MA, 18,471 ID SD WI NY our senior center programs. 2,315 WY 995 4,538 MI 92,091 RI,1,055 8,575 548 PA CT, 3,033 Since 1999, your receipts have brought in over $50,000. IA 8,862 NV NE 2,315 IL OH 13,199 NJ, 7,169 2,365 10,119 IN 10,345 DE, 921 UT MD, 6,561 THANK YOU! 2,798 CO 5,471 WV VA 9,619 KS 1,397 DC,6,521 CA MO KY 5,783 2,381 6,179 4,079 151,278 NC,9,314 Number of People Experiencing TN,7,467 AZ OK AR Homelessness per 10,000 People NM 3,944 SC 10,007 3,241 2,717 4,172 MS AL GA Less than 10 1,184 3,261 10–24 TX 10,443 25–49 AK 25,848 LA 1,907 2,941 FL 28,328 L L

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The Review • Spring 2020 • Page 11 Meet Your Local Business Owners By Karla Rava

Sheri Newbold. Photo by Sheila Addleman

live-work-play. Greenwood. live-work-play.net The Seattle real estate market is experiencing a boom in new development, Craig Holt. Photo by Karla Rava but what if you like your current home and just need help sprucing it up? Sprucing up happens to be Sheri Newbold’s specialty. As the proprietor of live-work-play, Sheri is an industry hybrid with over 20 years’ experience in both architecture Atlas Coffee Importers. 201 N 85th St. atlascoffee.com and interior design. It’s common knowledge that France and Italy vie for being the wine capitals Shag carpeting may be out but sustainability is always in, according to Sheri, of the world, but when it comes to coffee, the tug of war is between New York who steers homeowners toward eco-friendly materials whenever possible in her City and Seattle. Craig Holt, coffee expert and owner of Atlas Coffee Importers, is designs. As a pro tip, she highly recommends installing more insulation than code a seasoned professional with over 20 years’ experience in the biz. He travels all requires to help with energy efficiency. over the world to procure product, foster partnerships with growers, and match Aside from her clients requesting clever ways to accommodate their furry coffees to buyers. He’s one of the reasons Seattle has a plethora of amazing family members, like a cabinet to conceal the litter box or act as a sleeping nook, coffee, and may just help our city win the fight over NYC. she also gets a lot of requests for more flexibility. Sheri says, “A nice way for “It’s fun to work in the coffee business, because people have strong feelings people to increase flexibility over time is to plan for aging in place.” about their morning cup of Joe,” says Craig. He runs a green, sustainable There are more options available for homeowners to generate income on business, but also educates buyers and industry enthusiasts. At the Atlas Coffee their property, like turning the basement into a rental or homestay, or building a Lab, classes are conducted in accordance with the Specialty Coffee Association detached accessory dwelling unit (DADU). Sheri says, “The City of Seattle recently (SCA) standards. They don’t offer tours to the general public, but do hold public passed updates to the land-use codes, making it easier to build them.” cuppings every few months. For homeowners to learn more, she offers introductory seminars on creating Craig also judges coffee competitions. In one competition, he sampled 60 DADUs at the Phinney Center and Seattle Public Library. For more info on her types of coffees in one day, with three passes. He described the experience as DADU classes or to see her amazing before and after images, visit her website stressful because he wanted to honor everyone’s work. As for the coffee intake, and blog. in his words he ended up “pretty spun out on caffeine.” Information on upcoming cuppings can be found on their website; don’t forget to ask Craig for the “rosebud.” Your neighborhood toy store! Open 9 am every day!

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Page 12 • The Review • Spring 2020 Karuna Long. Photo by Kingmon Creative Bob Tate. Photo by Karla Rava

Oliver’s Twist. 6822 Greenwood Ave N. oliverstwistseattle.com Seattle Knife Sharpening & Supply. 7421 Greenwood Ave N. Open since 2006, Oliver’s Twist is a haven for locals to enjoy a cocktail without seattleknifesharpening.com having to trek all the way downtown. It’s become a neighborhood favorite known Ever walked by or drove past a knife shop and thought, wow, that must be where for having tasty small bites and handcrafted libations named after Dickensian the pros go? Well you are correct! Bob Tate, owner of Seattle Knife Sharpening characters. & Supply, has over 20 years of industry experience and went from being a chef In recent years there have been some noticeable changes to this classic to a knife distributor and sharpener. When asked, “why this particular niche?” cocktail bar. The weekly menu has expanded to include entrees like handmade he simply responded, “I enjoy working hard and having a great social interaction pasta, kids are welcome until 9 pm, and Tuesday nights buzz with live jazz music. with customers.” This is all thanks to the vision of new owner Karuna Long, a former bartender and The busiest time of year is the holidays, especially around Thanksgiving. The longtime friend of the original owners Sarah Hughes-Giles and Dan Braun. process of knife sharpening is usually between six and seven steps per knife, Karuna acquired Oliver’s Twist in the summer of 2017 and has preserved many but the turnaround is rather quick. Bob does all the blade work himself using of the staples locals have come to love and enjoy, while adding his own flavor and state-of-the-art equipment. All customers are welcomed, not only the pros—90 identity. percent of his clients are home cooks and the rest industry folks. Although Karuna’s parents had hoped he’d pursue a career in math or science, Bob also carries a wide selection of knives and recommends German or as many Asian families do, this UCLA alumnus has always been drawn to the Japanese brands, as they are some of the best and also his top sellers. restaurant industry. Karuna has worked in hospitality for over ten years and with The shop itself is a bit of a museum with really cool antique machinery, but this new venture has received his family’s full support and enthusiasm. also butcher block stations stocked with ample carrots. That way you can sample So what’s next for Oliver’s Twist? Karuna says many exciting new ventures are products before purchasing them. When it comes to buying knives or extending in the pipeline. He purchased a piano and plans to do the occasional sit-in with their lifespan, this is something that simply can’t be done online. So the next the jazz band. He’s also planning more pop-up dinners featuring his mother’s time you are passing by Seattle Knife Sharpening & Supply, stop in! Cambodian cooking since the first few were hugely successful.

Business Moves & Changes Welcome New PNA Business Members! • SSA Acoustics, which specializes in architectural & engineering • Activ8 - activ8-coworking-space.business.site acoustics, vibration analysis, industrial noise, and audio-visual design, • The Art of Alzheimer's - theartofalzheimers.org has moved into a space in 7409 Greenwood Ave N. • ComForCare of Seattle-Bellevue - comforcare.com/washington/ bellevue-seattle-north.html • Greenfab has closed down and the Roots & Wings Foundation has • Emerald City Senior Living - emeraldcityseniorliving.com moved into their space at 6701 Greenwood Ave N, in the former • Greenhouse Nail Spa - greenhousenailspa.com Francine Seders Gallery. • Greenwood Art Collective - facebook.com/GreenwoodCollective • Activ8, a co-working and community space, has opened above Chef • Inherent Knowledge - mineyourknowledge.com King at 101 N 85th St #203. • Luso Food & Wine - www.lusoseattle.com • Press Then Press - pressthenpress.com • Works Progress, a co-working space at 115 N 85th St, has moved to • Progressive Tech - progressivetech.com the Maple Leaf neighborhood. • RidgeWood Bottle and Tap - ridgewoodbottleandtap.com • Sushi Naomi at 8576 Greenwood Ave N has closed, and a new Chinese- • Roots & Wings Foundation - rootsandwingsfoundation.org Vietnamese restaurant named Green Tree has taken its place. • SSA Acoustics - ssaacoustics.com • The Pocket Theater at 8312 Greenwood Ave N had its last show in Learn about PNA Business Membership: Visit phinneycenter.org/business, December, and the space is being added on to Emerald City Karate. or contact Chris Maykut at [email protected], 206.783.2244. • The old A-1 Piano space at 7020 Greenwood Ave N and outbuilding at 7006 Greenwood have been demolished to make way for seven town homes and a small five-story apartment with retail in the base. A-1 Piano has opened its new showroom at 14210 NE 20th St. Suite B in Bellevue. • Babyface Skincare & Spa has moved from 7107 Greenwood Ave N across the street to Ceres Salon at 7102 Greenwood Ave N. • The Whitney L. Anderson Art Gallery has opened at 143 N. 85th St #100, across from Fred Meyer. • 3R Technology, a new e-waste recycler and electronics shop, has opened at 9801 Aurora Ave N. • Lagetta Pasta & Pub has taken over the former Olde 99 Pub location (7305 Aurora Ave N) next to Beth’s Cafe. • The Cookie Counter, our neighborhood vegan ice creamery, has announced it will be closing its doors on February 29. • The Taproot Theatre has announced that Scott Nolte will retire from his role as Producing Artistic Director effective December 31, 2020. Nolte will remain in his current role until that time.

Know of a business move or change? Contact Chris Maykut at [email protected] or 206.783.2244

The Review • Spring 2020 • Page 13 Senior Highlights Adults of all ages welcome Events & Activities

First Friday Film Series 1st Fridays, Apr 3, May 1. 1 pm. GSC. Free. April: The Green Book (2018) The story of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South, and his working-class Italian-American driver. May: Stanley and Iris (1990) A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.

AARP Tax Help at GSC Thursdays through Apr 9, 9 am-4 pm. GSC, Free. Once you have compiled all the necessary paperwork to complete your return, call 206.297.0875 to schedule an appointment with the AARP volunteer tax preparers. While this service is free, donations to the GSC are appreciated.

PADS for Parkinson’s: Exploring the neighborhood (with sweet treats!) during Training Dogs in Disease Detection a recent Bakery Crawl. Photo by Ariel Burnett Friday, Feb 28, 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. PADs is the first program of its kind in North America to train dogs to detect Parkinson's Disease. Today, PADs has 14 star bio-detection dogs in the program, all with an accuracy (sensitivity rating) of 90% or greater in their ability to detect this debilitating disease. Program Director Lisa Holt will come talk about her Trips & Outings ground-breaking organization, how the dogs are trained, how these dogs are helping scientists with their research, why early detection is so important, and how you can help. RSVP: 206.297.0875. Please note that all trips are made taking public transportation and traveling on pedestrian-friendly city streets. Every effort is made to make the Movie and Discussion: trips accessible, but participants need to be able to walk or wheel in an urban environment, typically up to a half mile per increment. If you have accessibility On Her Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie needs that will prevent you from doing so, please contact us ahead of time. Friday, Mar 6. 1-3 pm. GSC. Free. Trips need five participants minimum to happen, and are restricted to 10 Barbie, the most popular doll ever created, is a toy, a fashion icon and a participants maximum for reasons of safety. Please call to reserve your space problematic cultural archetype. This telling documentary features historical ahead of time. Trip times can be subject to change based on bus schedules or footage, gives access to Barbie's biggest reinvention, and examines over 60 years other transportation changes. of women through the lens of an 11 1/2 inch plastic doll. Following the movie, Cecily Kaplan will lead participants in a discussion exploring the issues raised in this thought-provoking film. RSVP: 206.297.0875. Seattle Asian Art Museum Trip Tuesday, Mar. 31, 10:00 am–2 pm. Meet at the GSC. $13 senior Common Foot Problems admission, bring bus fare and money for lunch. Wednesday, Mar 11. 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. Let’s visit the newly remodeled and reopened Asian Art Museum! We’ll take Board-certified podiatrist, foot & ankle specialist, Dr. Kirk Alexander from the bus to Volunteer Park, and see re-imagined and new collections featuring PacMed, will be on-site to talk about common foot problems – specifically both the ancient and contemporary art of Asia. Lunch in the neighborhood to bunions and hammer toes. Up to 60 percent of older adults have a foot disorder, follow. Register: 206.297.0875. which can limit their ability to get around or hamper their quality of life. Talking to a podiatrist can help to keep you healthy, active, and mobile. RSVP: B. Fuller’s Tea Emporium Visit and Tasting 206.297.0875. Tuesday, Apr. 28, 9:30 am-1 pm. Meet at the GSC. Free, bring bus fare and money for lunch. Spring Cleaning for ADHD We will travel to the “Center of the Universe” (AKA Fremont) for a special educational tasting experience at the fantastic B. Fuller’s Mortar & Pestle Tea (and Other Creative Individuals) House. A cool opportunity to learn from a tea expert in this fun and unique Friday, Mar 13. 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. store. Register: 206.297.0875. Catherine Mutti-Driscoll, PhD, is a Certified ADHD Coach and owner of Seattle ADHD Coaching LLC. In this talk, Catherine will discuss the executive functioning challenges that can make cleaning and organizing more challenging for people Seattle Japanese Garden Trip with ADHD. She will share her own story about getting diagnosed with ADHD Tuesday, May 19, 9:30 am–2 pm. Meet at the GSC. $4 admission + $4 and how she has since worked to address her challenges with cleaning and tour, bring bus fare and money for lunch. organization in the home. Finally, she will share some helpful strategies and Let’s visit this 3.5 acre urban sanctuary and one of the most highly-regarded resources that can give you ideas for how you might refresh your cleaning Japanese-style gardens in North America. We’ll bus to the outskirts of the routine this spring! RSVP: 206.297.0875. Arboretum and then venture into the park in time for a private guided tour of the garden. Lots of walking, so dress appropriately and wear good shoes. Lunch to follow. Register: 206.297.0875. Greenwood Senior Center A program of PNA Phone: 206.297.0875 Heron Chick Birthday Party at Commodore Park 525 N. 85th St. Office Hours: M-F 8:30-4:30 Saturday, May 30. Meet at 12 pm at the picnic table in Commodore Park Seattle, WA 98103 Web: phinneycenter.org/gsc (3330 W Commodore Way). Free. Celebrate the arrival of the many blue heron chicks that have been born in Commodore Park with Michael Marsh, Heron Monitor with Heron Habitat HOLIDAY CLOSURE Helpers. Using telescopes, observe Great Blue Herons in several nests as they Monday, May 25 for Memorial Day protect their territory, incubate eggs, feed hatchlings, and fly in search of food. Talk to naturalists and enjoy birthday treats! Wear comfortable shoes that can get a little muddy, if necessary. Free parking available in a small lot behind the park on W Commodore Way. There is also a City of Seattle metered parking lot For classes: See pages 20-22 or at the Ballard Locks main entrance (short walk across the Locks to the park). visit phinneycenter.org/gsc/classes Register: 206.297.0875.

Page 14 • The Review • Spring 2020 Events & Activities Writing Workshops from our Poetry Group Tales of a Female Nomad Free workshops and writing sessions offered by members of the Greenwood Tuesday, Mar 24, 2:30 pm. GSC. Free. Poets. Open to anyone interested in learning more about the challenges and Meet Rita Golden Gelman, author of Tales of a Female Nomad. In 1986, at pleasures of writing poems. Register for sessions: 206.297.0875. the age of 48 and on the verge of divorce, Rita sold her possessions and left an Bringing Lives to Life in Writing elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of travelling the world, connecting with Tues, Mar 17, 10:30 am-12 pm. GSC. Free. people in cultures all over the globe. Rita will discuss her life and encourage us Adults of all ages welcome Writers of all genres employ memory, either overtly or covertly, in fragments all to dust off our dreams. Rita has written two adult books and more than 70 or in long sweeps of recollection. We will explore what Honor Moore calls “the children’s books. Today, at 82-years-old, she lives with her daughter, son-in-law, mercurial nature of memory”—from life experiences, journal entries, family and grand-dog in Seattle. RSVP: 206.297.0875. history, and our reflections thereon— to transform memory into a resource that we can break into, interrogate, embellish, assemble, and re-assemble. The Strategies for Natural Sleep writing we create may be poetry or prose. This workshop is sponsored, in part, Wednesday, Apr 8, 1-2 pm. GSC. $5 suggested donation. by 4Culture. Instructor Carolyne Wright is a teacher, a Pushcart Prize winner, In this interactive session, educational psychologist Diane Gillespie, PhD, will and an author of nine poetry books. review new research and cognitive behavior strategies that have been shown What’s It Like? How to Use Metaphors to Enrich Your Poems to increase natural sleep. She will review some technologies users have found Tuesday, Mar 31, 10:30 am-12 pm. GSC. Free. helpful, but engage primarily in discussions with participants about mindfulness This session will explain how metaphors make everything you write more practices and imaginative thought patterns (images, metaphors, and stories) that interesting by drawing good comparisons. Don’t worry if you don’t have a can lead the sleepless into/back to sleep. RSVP: 206.297.0875. poem. We’ll look at expert examples to understand how metaphors and similes work, and then use a prompt to practice. Instructor Sharon Cumberland is Seattle Walk Report Book Talk professor emeritus of English and Poetry at Seattle University. Wednesday, Apr 15, 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month during April Instagram sensation Susanna Ryan, AKA Seattle Walk Report, lovingly and All Year Long illustrates the charming and quirky people, places, and things that define Seattle's Tuesday, Apr 7, 10:30 am-12 pm. GSC. Free. neighborhoods. Her warm and thoughtful takes on her hometown were recently We will review community and online poetry offerings. Bring a favorite poem published in Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association bestselling book, Seattle to share. Suggestions will be given how to use poetry to enrich the lives of Walk Report: An Illustrated Walking Tour through 23 Seattle Neighborhoods. others as well as how to use the poetry of others as a jumping off point to write Susanna will visit us to talk about her comic, her process, and the thousands of your own. Instructor Mary Ellen Talley is a retired speech-language pathologist miles that she has walked since beginning this project. RSVP: 206.297.0875. and a local poet whose poems and poetry book reviews have been widely published. Medical Marijuana and Seniors: Talk and Q&A In The Dreamtime Monday, Apr 20, 11 am-12 pm. GSC. Free. Tuesday, Apr 21, 10:30-12 pm. GSC. Free. Dr. Katrina Iiams-Hauser discuss medicinal uses for marijuana, with an emphasis Aboriginal Creation myths suggest that the world was sung into existence. on senior care. Get your questions answered about how marijuana relates to a The world is created by words. We will explore different approaches to poetry variety of ailments, therapy methods, interactions, and whether it is a good fit for by reading poems by a variety of poets who speak to this idea. Discussion to you. Dr. Iiams-Hauser is a Washington-licensed naturopathic physician and graduate follow. Instructor Tom Brush is a winner of the Blue Lynx Prize and has published of Bastyr University. She practices in Fife, WA at Qwibil, a specialty, medical over 100 poems and a few stories. Register: 206.297.0875. cannabis-focused clinic owned by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. RSVP: 206.297.0875. Persona Poems Tuesday, May 5, 10:30 am-12 pm. GSC. Free. Classic movies with Scarecrow Video: Instead of writing poetry about what you know, write about what you’re The Bandwagon (1953) not. Persona poems allow you to put on a mask and pretend to be something Tuesday, Apr 21, 2:30 pm. GSC. Free. or someone else: a mosquito, a musical instrument, your grandmother, or the Scarecrow Video, a local nonprofit film organization dedicated to championing the man muttering to himself on the bus. Instructor Rick Swann is a former librarian role of film arts in community, cultural, and civic life, presents a classic movie every and author of the children’s book Our School Garden! that was awarded the quarter at the GSC! The Bandwagon is a musical comedy about a pretentious artistic Growing Good Kids Book Award from the American Horticultural Society. director who is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition. Translating Poetry to English Beautifully choreographed dance scenes starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Tuesday, May 19, 10:30 am-12 pm. GSC. Free. To all foreign language speakers and poets: a one-hour class on procedures Mood and Food and content of bringing out the beauty of poetry of other countries to English Wednesday, Apr 22, 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. speakers. Demonstration with an example or two on from outside/inward and Registered dietitian Christy Goff will highlight the connection between what we inside/outward (from structure, sound and end rhyme to meaning; or start eat and how we feel. Learn about specific food recommendations that can partner with meaning and work outward toward technique issues). Instructor Marianne with additional treatments for depression and anxiety. RSVP: 206.297.0875. Weltmann is a native German speaker and maintains a private vocal studio. Ceramic Tile Making PAWS Wildlife Rehabilitation Thursday, Apr 23 & May 7, 1-3 pm. GSC. $20. Wednesday, Mar 18, 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. This workshop is designed to give you a hands-on experience creating a tile for Wildlife Release Program Manager Jeff Brown will discuss the different work your home or garden. This two-day workshop includes materials, demonstrations, done to treat local orphaned and injured wildlife at the PAWS Wildlife Center in and creating! No prior experience needed. Curtis Yu is the owner and artist at his Lynnwood, WA. RSVP: 206.297.0875. ceramic studio, Yu Tang Ceramics, which offers classes for all ages and abilities. His work can be found a his studio and at the Ballard Farmer's Market every Sunday. Coffee and Chats with PNA Executive Registration required: 206.297.0875. Director Dar’Nesha Weary Wednesday, Mar 18, 2:30 pm; Tuesday, Apr 14, 2 pm; Woodland Park Zoo Wildlife Conservation and Wednesday, Apr 15, 2:30 pm. GSC. Free. Program Talk The Phinney Neighborhood Association has a new executive director! Get Friday, Apr 24, 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. to know Dar’Nesha at these informal chats, where you can ask her questions Bobbi Miller, Manager of Woodland Park Zoo’s Wildlife Conservation Division and express your opinions about the GSC and the PNA. Refreshments provided. will visit us to talk about the zoo’s involvement in conservation programs, both RSVP: 206.297.0875. locally and internationally. Learn how you can help and to see some great animal photos. Bring your questions as well. RSVP: 206.297.0875. Mason Bee Basics Friday, Mar 20, 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. Abe and Esther: An Alzheimer’s Story Western Washington's blue orchard mason bee is a pollinating powerhouse! Saturday, Apr 25, 2-4 pm. GSC. $10 suggested donation. Learn more about this friendly, native, hiveless, solitary (adorable) bee— Esther and Abe will be at the Greenwood Senior Center for a staged reading. including bee basics, the mason bee life cycle, housing, and care, as well as a This play by Seattle writer Lyn Coffin features veteran actors Jean LeBlon as list of bee-friendly plants for your yard. Raising mason bees is a great family Abe and Lyn as Esther. The drama is based on Esther Helfgott’s book, Dear learning activity with a minimal investment of time and your plants will thank Alzheimer’s. It describes the experience of an Alzheimer's progression from a you. Go bees! RSVP: 206.297.0875. spouse's point of view, and gives you a look into the lives of a loving couple as they negotiate the decline of one partner. Lyn is the author of over thirty books; ESML Programs Spring Benefit Concert her plays have been performed internationally; her novella, Tinder, and her Saturday, Mar 21, 2-4 pm. GSC. $10 suggested donation. novel, The Aftermath, will be published in 2020. Esther is the author of Dear The OK Chorale and the GSC’s own All Present Song Circle (an ESML-friendly Alzheimer’s and Listening to Mozart: Poems of Alzheimer's and many other community choir) will be singing a collection of spring favorites. All proceeds works. After the play there will be a discussion and Q&A, and Esther will read a will benefit our early stage memory loss programs. RSVP: 206.297.0875. few of her poems. RSVP: 206.297.0875.

The Review • Spring 2020 • Page 15 Events & Activities, continued Ongoing Groups

For more information, call the Greenwood Senior Center at 206.297.0875. All Humanities Washington Talk: Storm Warning groups held at GSC unless otherwise noted. Wednesday, May 6, 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. Local broadcaster and historian Feliks Banel explores our region’s darkest weather days and most infamous storms. With archival photos, radio, and TV Sprouts and Seniors clips, Banel takes us back in time to hear stories of those who survived some 4th Friday each month, Feb 28, Mar 27, Apr 24. 10-11:30 am. Free. of the worst Pacific Northwest weather in recorded history. Feliks Banel is a Join us to promote the mutual benefits of intergenerational interaction in writer and producer, and serves as editor of COLUMBIA, the quarterly magazine our community! Children from birth to preschool age with their caregivers are of the Washington State Historical Society. He has been a host and contributor encouraged to join. We will have some toys, books, and puzzles available, but for KIRO Radio on matters of Northwest history and culture for many years; caregivers can bring along favorites for children to share with the seniors. For he created the history series This NOT Just In for KUOW Public Radio; and he questions or to RSVP: 206.297.0875. produces documentaries for the Seattle Channel. RSVP: 206.297.0875. Book & Discussion Groups Parkour for Seniors Greenwood Poets 2 Friday, May 15, 1-2:30 pm. GSC. Free. 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 1:30-3:30 pm. Free. Parkour is a playful movement discipline where you get to re-live playing Greenwood Poets was established in 2003 and evolved into what is now an like a kid on a playground! Instructors from Parkour Visions will bring in an enthusiastic group of writers whose main interest is in critiquing each other’s indoor playset safe for adults, and the class will explore through and around poetry. If you are at least 55 and would be able to commit to bi-monthly the obstacles. Parkour increases one's awareness of their environment and also attendance, we invite you to come observe a session. strengthens the body, it helps adults learn to "fall better" by impacting their instincts when they find themselves in an unexpected situation. There will be Current Global Events Forum lots of low impact movement that will teach comfort being close to the ground, 2nd Tuesday each month, Mar 10, Apr 14, May 12. 12:45-2 pm. Free. and movement in all directions. Parkour is all about progression, so it can be A monthly study group intended to explore a more in-depth perspective modified to each individual's strength, flexibility, and ability. Come play with us on specific regions, crises, and people throughout the world. Prior research and learn some fun group games that make fitness feel as fun as playing on a requested; one suggested article will be available at the GSC front desk for each playground! Register: 206.297.0875. topic (or email [email protected] for link). Additional articles, maps, and other citations encouraged. Please RSVP: 206.297.0875. Downton Abbey Movie & High Tea March: The Future of Palestine Wednesday, May 20, 1-3 pm. GSC. Free. With the end of the “two-state solution” seeming all but inevitable, what Join us for a very British afternoon of scandals, class differences, beautiful does the future of Palestine look like? How did it get to be this way in the first costumes and romance; accompanied by tea and treats. RSVP: 206.297.0875. place? Is there any real way forward, and is it possible for democracy to exist if millions rule over other millions? April: The Changing Face of Turkey Dispatch Health Presentation Turkey is uniquely positioned in its region – both geographically and Wednesday, May 27, 1-2 pm. GSC. Free. culturally between Asia and Europe. Historically diverse and secular, it has Valerie Roe from Dispatch Health will talk about her company’s healthcare possessed shifting loyalties and policies in relation to its many neighbors. With delivery service; how it works, how it is covered, and how you can avoid costly unrest in the region and under current President Recep Erdogan, Turkey has and difficult emergency room visits. Bring your questions. RSVP: 206.297.0875. been positioning itself as a global power. What effects will this have? May: Global Migration Services for Seniors Environmental changes, poverty, exploitation, lack of opportunity, war and other violence have led to what seems like unprecedented levels of worldwide For appointments or registration, call the GSC at 206.297.0875. All services at migration. Is there really more migration than there has been in the past, or is it GSC unless otherwise noted. just perception? How are these movements changing individuals and societies? Minor Computer Repair German Language Conversation Group By appointment only. Free. Fridays, 10:30 am-12 pm. Free. A volunteer will troubleshoot your computer problems, and will fix what Hallo! Haben Sie Lust Deutsch zu sprechen? Join us at the Greenwood Senior issues he or she can. Call for availability. Center every Friday morning. Everyone, any age, any level of ability to speak German is welcome. Financial Services 2nd Wednesday of each month, beginning at 1:30 pm. Book Discussion Group Free 30 minute consultation. 1st Tuesday each month, Mar 3, Apr 7, May 5. 12:30-2:30 pm. Free Kylle Bernethy, a financial services professional, is available for 30-minute Expect in-depth discussions about interesting and challenging literature. We do not one-on-one appointments. Registered Representative of and offering securities have copies to lend, but only choose readily available books, currently in paperback. through Foresters Equity Services, Inc. Member FINRA/SIPC. Please have read book if attending. Call 206.297.0875 for upcoming titles. Foot Care Women’s Friendship Group 2nd & 4th Friday & 3rd Monday of each month, 9 am-3 pm. 2nd Wednesday of each month, 11 am-12 pm, Free. $33/members, $37/public. *Note new prices* Explore our aging in an open and personal way. For women only. Haircuts Games & Crafts 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month, 1-4 pm. $15. Pinochle Mondays, 8:30 am-12 pm. Double Deck, $1 each session. Legal Assistance Mondays, 12:30-4 pm. Single Deck, $2 each session. 3rd Thursday of each month, 1-2:30 pm. Free. Pinochle players wanted! Join us for either or both sessions and enjoy one of Sign up for a 30-minute appointment with attorney Clifton Johnson to discuss America’s favorite strategy card games. All levels welcome! your legal concerns. Scrabble Senior Rights Assistance Mondays and Thursdays, 10 am-3 pm. Free. Times vary, by appointment only. Free, donations welcome. If you love Scrabble, join us! This is a fun, informal group who will happily Have questions regarding estate planning, decision making, or healthcare? welcome Scrabble players of all ages. Expect to play by standard Scrabble rules, Jerry Keating offers 50-minute appointments. Call in advance. as described on the box. Meal Programs American Mah Jongg Tuesdays, 2:15-4:30 pm. Free. Beginners welcome. For further information, email [email protected]. GSC Daily Lunch Program Monday-Friday, Noon. $5 suggested donation for diners 60 and over, Senior Stitchers and $10 fixed cost for 59 and younger. Tuesdays, 1-3 pm. Free. Enjoy delicious scratch-made meals five days a week, as part of a thriving Informal stitching group to work on your knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and county-wide community of diners. Enjoy tasty and nutritious fare at an amazingly other stitching projects. Bring your own supplies and projects. low cost for people 60 and over! Monthly menus available at the GSC front desk. Knitting Group Aurora Commons Meal 1st, 2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 10 am-12 pm. The GSC partners with nearby Aurora Commons to help provide a monthly All knitters welcome to join this friendly group of yarn aficionados. Bring your free meal program. To volunteer, call Cecily Kaplan at 206.297.0875. own supplies.

Page 16 • The Review • Spring 2020 Early Stage Memory Loss Special Offerings Carin’s Corner

Greenwood Senior Center Social Services

Carin Mack, MSW, provides individual counseling at GSC on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Memory Loss Program Coordinator Katie Freeman leads the Gathering Place in a weekly discussion. Photo by Margarita Burnett-Thomas To make an appointment, email All programs are held at the GSC, 525 N 85th St, unless otherwise noted. For Carin directly at details, call the GSC at 206.297.0875. [email protected] or call 206.230.0166. Momentia Talent Share Saturday, Apr 18, 2-4 pm. Free. Carin also facilitates Celebrate the strengths and gifts of our community members living with the following free dementia. All talents are welcome—song, music, poetry, skits, dance. Solo, or support groups. together as a family, with a friend or with a group. Artwork and photography are Donations to the GSC Carin Mack, Social Worker also displayed. The annual talent show is an opportunity to be creative, have for Carin’s services are some fun and let your talents shine. Sponsored with Seattle Parks and Recreation appreciated. Life Long Recreation. Questions: 206.297.0875.

The Alzheimer’s Café at Stage Door Café Stage Door Café, 208 N 85th St. (Next to Taproot Theatre) 2nd Mondays, Mar 9, Apr 13, May 11, 1-2:30 pm. Free + your café order. Adult Daughters Caring for their Mothers This Café provides an opportunity for people living with Alzheimer’s disease Address mother-daughter relationship issues which are unique to this caregiving role. This group is open to all women who are or other dementias and their care partners to get out and socialize in a safe involved in providing support for their mothers in their homes, in environment. Paid parking is available in the neighborhood. Call Carin to learn facilities or long distance. Facilitated by Carin Mack, MSW, and Jane more: 206.230.0166. B.G. Tornatore, Ph. D. Meets at the GSC the 1st Wednesday of each month. Mar 4, Apr 1, May 6. 4-5:30 pm. Re-Ignite the Mind with Improvisation and Play Taproot Theatre, 212 N 85th St. Advanced Dementia Spousal Caregiver 2nd Mondays, Mar 9, Apr 13, May 11, 2:30-3:30 pm. Support Group (Following Alzheimer’s Café – Same location). $10 drop-in fee. Support and resources for spousal caregivers of those with Join your favorite Taproot Improv actors for an hour of stimulating theater fun advanced dementia, either at home or in a facility. 3rd Wednesday that activates the brain as well as the funny bone. This class is perfect for people of each month. Mar 18, Apr 15, May 20. 1-3 pm. with ESML as it is all about creative engagement in the present. For more info contact Pam Nolte: [email protected]. Parkinson’s Spouses Provides education, resources, and coping skills to family members Gentle Zumba and caregivers of those living with Parkinson’s disease. Meets at GSC Mondays, 11 am-12 pm. $15/5 class pass. the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Mar 17, Apr 21, May 19. 1-2:30 pm. Gentle Zumba is a memory loss-inclusive dance party that is designed for low- impact fun! Come in comfortable clothes and shoes, bring water, and be prepared Early Stage Memory Loss to have fun. Drop-ins and adults of all ages welcome. 206.297.0875. For those diagnosed with mild memory loss issues. Support group meets 1st Tuesday of each month to discuss coping, communication, All Present: a Song Circle and other areas of concern. Screening with Carin required before Thursdays, Apr 9 – May 28. 10:30 am–12 pm. participation. Call 206.230.0166 for details. 1st Tuesday of the $40 PNA members/ $60 Public month. Mar 3, Apr 7, May 5. 10:30 am-noon. A chorus for people with memory loss, and community members who love to sing. Song sheets will be provided. Register at 206.297.0875. ESML Caregiver Support Group: Spouses Monthly group for any spouse who is a caregiver of someone with The Gathering Place early stage memory loss. Meets at GSC on the 3rd Tuesday of each Tuesdays or Thursdays, 1-4 pm. month. New participants must contact Carin for details. Mar 17, Apr $40/session – some scholarships available. 21, May 19. 10:30 am-12 pm. The Gathering Place is an early stage memory loss program for people living with Alzheimer’s, Mild Cognitive Impairment or other kinds of diagnosed memory Mid-Stage Memory Loss Caregiver disorders that impact their daily living. This program fosters a strong sense of Support Group: Spouses community while providing cognitive stimulation, exercise, cultural enrichment, Monthly group for any spouse who is a caregiver of someone with and discussion. The Gathering Place runs on a quarter system but new members mid stage memory loss. Meets at GSC on the 4th Tuesday of each can be added throughout the year. There is no drop-in availability. Pre-screening is month. New participants must contact Carin for schedule details. required. Call Carin Mack, MSW with any questions or to make an appointment. Mar 24, Apr 28, May 26. 10:30 am-12 pm. Other Support Groups Living Alone After the age of 65, many older adults are living alone. New challenges and issues can arise that we may be uncertain how to United We Care Kinship Group handle. Come to share experiences and thoughts. Meets at GSC on 3rd Fridays, Ongoing, 10 am-12 pm. Free. 1st & 3rd Wednesdays. Mar 4 & 18, Apr 1 & 15, May 6 & 20. 11 am- We are a community of peers who are raising grandchildren and relatives. Our noon. mission is about making connections by providing support, resources, education, recreation, family events, inviting guest speakers, doing creative activities, and Senior Parents of Adult Children with making friends. We are a safe space in which to commiserate, laugh, cry, learn Mental Illness from one another, be in solidarity, and have fun! RSVP: 206.297.0875. Explores resources, education and coping skills related to mental illness, alcohol and addiction problems. Meets at GSC on 2nd Hoarding Support Group Tuesdays. Mar 10, Apr 14, May 12. 10 am-noon. 3rd Tuesdays, Ongoing, 6-7 pm or 7-8 pm. Free. Support for loved ones affected by hoarders from 6-7 pm, followed by a support group for those who are struggling to overcome their own hoarding behaviors from 7-8 pm. RSVP is suggested but not required: thehoardingproject.org.

The Review • Spring 2020 • Page 17 Volunteer Spotlight Honoring individuality Highlighting the important work of A “humor” connection Books To Prisoners by LeAnne Chow Six years ago, Bob Davis was looking for a way to connect to his new Seattle neighborhood. He had learned about volunteering at an early age from his mom, and had served on a board for the local YMCA back in Upstate New York. Bob thought finding a new organization to serve would be a good way to better understand his new place of residence. Bob's skills were many—an interest in people and desire to help them, a knack for smart phones, and a great Bob Davis graces the Greenwood sense of humor. Senior Center with his great smile. He signed on to be a weekly Volunteers celebrate the re-opening of Books to Prisoners in Photo by Ariel Burnett receptionist at the Greenwood Senior the new location in Greenwood. Photo by Andy Chan Center (GSC), and then realized he had by Rylan Bauermeister more skills to share. He soon added you recognize the individuality of the Most people know where their another role as a smart phone mentor. person in prison,” Andy said. “Many nearest library is. Libraries provide us of the people who write in have been “Boy, did I make the right choice with access to the newest bestsellers, [in picking the Phinney Neighborhood alienated, or disowned. We remind classic novels, newspapers, magazines, people that they are human beings, Association/GSC]. From day one, movies—truly, an unlimited selection worthy of human interaction.” this organization has been beyond of entertainment and educational At the time of the interview, Books welcoming. Paid and volunteer staff options. We have the world at our To Prisoners had over 2,000 letters are always ready with a friendly smile, fingertips; the question is, do we take waiting to be processed. It could take needed hug, and an amazingly diverse it for granted? months, given the restrictions of labor set of program offerings,” he said. When we consider going to jail, and funding, but every letter receives Senior Programs Director Cecily losing access to books isn’t usually personalized attention, and a book. The Kaplan enthused, “We are so very what leaps to mind. It is, however, a organization honors each person’s right lucky to have Bob Davis here in his natural consequence of incarceration. to self-determination by delivering not multiple roles as friendly and capable Prison libraries are underfunded, what they think a prisoner needs, but weekly receptionist, extraordinary understocked, and may not provide what that person is asking for. computer mentor, and in support of the resources prisoners want or need. As it turns out, what they want is our upcoming new men’s group. He Whether studying for the SATs, reading knowledge. Andy remarked that the brings such positive energy to all his a biography, or enjoying a thriller, access most in-demand item is paperback volunteer jobs and makes everyone to books allows incarcerated people dictionaries, with a heavy demand feel welcomed and included.” the capacity to better themselves in the for GED, SAT, and ACT supplementals, Cassie McFadden, GSC Office way they want or need. alongside texts on heritage and Manager, agrees, “His knowledge of Books To Prisoners, a nonprofit identity. What’s more, once these which recently made its home in GSC resources and programming, as books are sent out they are not Greenwood, aims to correct the issue. well as his kind and approachable expected to be returned. To hear Andy Nestled next to Versatile Arts, Books attitude make him an invaluable tell it, the greatest victory is when a To Prisoners inhabits a cramped space, resource at the Center. Additionally, book ends up passed around until it stacked floor to ceiling with books and literally falls to pieces. his sense of humor brings joy to those filing cabinets. Tables are strewn with around him and contributes to a fun So what can we do to support this mailing scales, and packing paper; a new non-profit initiative? and happy atmosphere for everyone single administrative computer sits There are three things, Andy here.” aglow upon a small desk. says. The first two are easy enough: Even with hundreds of volunteer Andy Chan met with us to speak people and money. The third is a hours already recorded with the about the group. He described little more nebulous: they specifically PNA, Bob has no intention of slowing himself as a volunteer, although he need people who are willing to take down. “The humor I find in the has had many different roles over the responsibility and step up in times of everyday happenings at [the GSC] years (including president). need to fill gaps. If you are interested keeps me coming back. To paraphrase For Books To Prisoners, he says, in providing any of these elements, the old Art Linkletter show, “seniors “The mission statement is in the their website (bookstoprisoners.net) say the darndest things”. Each week name.” Books To Prisoners aims to is an excellent resource for figuring brings new stories to be added to my provide…well, books to prisoners. But out how to get involved. collection.” what makes them special is the unique Organizations like Books To To those considering a volunteer method in which they carry out the Prisoners help us all—a community position, Bob encourages, “Volunteer! process. Instead of sending boxes bridge to our incarcerated population, It is a small step everyone can take to of books to prisons, incarcerated reaching out to send care, help, and move us all toward a world where love individuals are encouraged to write in knowledge. By supporting them, we drives out hate.” and outline their specific needs. give voice to the concept that we all Thank you, Bob Davis, for connecting “There’s a recognition among deserve the opportunity to better your humor with ours. us that by doing an individual kind ourselves. It says that no matter what, of process rather than delivering a and no matter where, an individual’s bunch of books to a prison library, right to learn is sacrosanct.

Page 18 • The Review • Spring 2020 Create a Dementia-Friendly Communi- and tools. Saturdays, between 8:30 am ty Join the PNA’s trail-blazing efforts to and 2:30 pm. 6-month commitment create a dementia-friendly community. requested. Safety training and shop Our volunteer Team Members help de- orientation provided. velop, staff, and support programming Volunteer designed to support participants with Technology Early Stage Memory Loss (ESML). Activ- One-on-One Tech Mentors. Use ities include a support group, the Gath- your mad skillz to teach seniors and Help wanted at the PNA ering Place (a weekly class designed others how to use their smart phones, to build on strengths and engage the tablets, and laptops. Flexible schedule,

We love our volunteers! mind and body), and a chorus. Activi- 6-month commitment requested. To sign up or learn more, visit phinneycenter.org/volunteer or contact LeAnne ties generally happen between 10 am Great for high school students looking at [email protected], or 206.783.2244 (unless otherwise specified). and 5 pm during the work week and for an ongoing position. Thank you for your interest! Team Members are expected to attend Sound System Support. Volunteers GSC = Greenwood Senior Center, 525 N 85th St, Seattle WA 98103 some of them. Ideal candidates have Locations: with experience using a Mixing Board PC = Phinney Center, 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle WA 98103 some experience working with seniors preferred to help set up, staff our sound or an interest in working with people equipment during events. Upcoming Event with ESML. Background check required, Volunteer Opportunities yearlong commitment requested. PNA 40th Birthday Party / Ice Cream Pantry Manager. Receive, sort and Marketing & Outreach organize food donations. Rotate Help wanted in Social, Mar 8, 3-7 pm, PC. Set up, serve Make Music, 3/13, 5/8 for 1 to 3 inventory, and redistribute food as up scoops & clean up. Shifts online. hours between 6 and 9 pm. Are you the community requested. 1-2 hours per week, 1 a musician who would like to share Holi Festival of Colors. March 28, 10 volunteer each at GSC and St John’s. am-5 pm, PC. Set up, event support & your music with others? pollyf@ Volunteer at Little Bit to transform clean up. Get free entry & two packets Board & Committees phinneycenter.org. the lives of people with disabilities! of colored powder. Shifts online. “Welcome Wagon” volunteers to Horse experience is NOT required. Art Committee Members needed to Learn more: littlebit.org/volunteer Don’t Stop Believin’ Auction is April help plan and execute quarterly art deliver Welcome Neighbor Packets to 25, PC. Prep, set up, baking beautiful shows. Occasional evening meetings our new neighbors. Flexible schedule. Become a Reading Partner – make & delicious desserts, during auction, to plan shows, hang quarterly art Table Companion at the Hot Meal a lifelong impact on a child with and clean-up at our 1980s-themed shows, staff art show openings, and Program. Build community at our literacy tutoring in Seattle schools! event. Event volunteers get free entry. more. [email protected]. meals by sharing a meal with diners readingpartners.org/volunteer. Shifts online mid-March. and provide a caring and listening ear. Create handmade cards, assemble Garden & Landscape PhinneyWood Art Walk (The BIG One!). Potentially share information about & deliver photo gifts and more with May 8-9. Distribute and pick up Weekly Waterer. You pick the day resources. 1-2 hrs/visit, min 2 visits/ Soulumination. amy@soulumination. A-Board style signs to businesses along water and harvest our veggie garden, mo. Ideally, 1-year commitment. org or 206.297.0885. the Phinney-Greenwood corridor. we provide the hose & water. Pair up Required 1 hour training. Volunteer with LLS at the Big Climb [email protected]. with another volunteer and you can Put Up Posters at local businesses on 3/22/20 at the Columbia Center. alternate weeks! About 1 hour/week, Pride Rainbow Hop. June 6, 10 am-2 pm, and community buildings (like the https://www.llsform.org/0510FS01/ June through September. PhinneyWood businesses. Photograph libraries) in Greenwood-Phinney to form79/index.html the colorful festivities, distribute Vegetable Garden Work Parties. Help help promote our upcoming events Become a National Service champion materials or other event support. rebuild our raised garden beds, plant and classes. A great opportunity for by serving on United Way of King and harvest. 2 hours, once/month, students and young children with Garage Sale Day & Plant Exchange. County’s AmeriCorps team. https:// April through October. their parents. Flexible schedule. June 13, 7 am-3 pm, PC. Help set up www.uwkc.org/about-us/careers/ the PNA flea market, check sellers in, Groundswork Gurus. Help pretty up and Photographer. Have an eye for americorps/. staff plant exchange area, or help out maintain the handful of small gardens at photographic moments and a camera Seeking teen volunteers for Camps at the tool sale at the Tool Library. the GSC and Phinney Center campus, to capture our events? Must be able for Curious Minds with Pacific Science including the Heart of Phinney Park. to send us the pics in a timely fashion. Recurring Events Center. pacsci.org/camps/science- Also, a great opportunity for groups. Writers Wanted. Seeking writers with educators-in-training/ Art Show Openings, PC, 6-9 pm, 3/13, journalism experience to write articles 5/8 Handiwork & Maintenance American Diabetes Association for The Review newspaper and writers seeks volunteers to help on day of Tool Librarian. Help sort and fix our Bingo Karaoke support, GSC, on 3/27, with a more colloquial style for our blogs. Tour de Cure event on Sat., May 2nd. growing collection of community tools 4/17, 5/29, 6/26; [email protected]. and give advice on DIY projects with Office & Admin GSC Luncheon support, GSC, 11:30 the Tool Library. ***GSC Weekly Receptionist. Greet Seattle ReCreative seeks volunteers to am-1:30 pm on 3/17, 5/8 sort, organize and price donated arts Fix Broken Gadgets. Help community and interact with seniors of all ages materials at our Greenwood location. Hang Art, PC, 6:30-8:30 pm on 3/11, members repair (or attempt to repair) & backgrounds; 4 hours weekly, [email protected] 5/6 their broken possessions. 6-month commitment is requested. Dig in and join EarthCorps' weekly Mailing Parties, PC on 3/25, 4/22, Handy with a Hammer? Perform basic ***Research Assistant for the Neigh- volunteer events to help the forests 5/20 home repairs and maintenance for borhood Busybody. Help us figure out in our parks thrive! earthcorps.org/ Village Volunteer Trainings, GSC, 10 seniors living in their homes. village@ the goings-on in the ‘hood by dialing volunteer. am to noon on 3/21, 4/22, 5/16, 6/18 phinneycenter.org. into the S-DOT Twitter feed, the (online) police blotter, and more, to be published Volunteer at the QFC Girls on the Run Volunteer with your friends! Groups on the PhinneyWood.com blog. 5K on Sun, May 17 to empower girls Greatest Needs of volunteers are needed for work to achieve their goals. www.girlsrun. (See *** below for more details) parties – help scrub down the kitchen, Mailing Parties Help label our monthly org/5K. • Experienced Seniors: help local paint the classroom, clean up a senior’s newsletter with a fun & social group. kids learn how to build community, yard, and more! Can accommodate One Tuesday or Wednesday/month, Work with youth at Loyal Heights once a month groups up to 20 volunteers, with at 1-3 pm. Community Center special events. • GSC Weekly Receptionist, 4 hours/ least 6 weeks’ notice. Great for service learning hours. Ron Teach & Mentor week Brown: (206)684-4052 or ronald. Kids & Seniors • Research Assistant for the Neigh- Share your talents. We are [email protected]. borhood Busybody (us, the PNA)! ***Experienced Seniors Needed for seeking volunteer instructors at the Help the Ballard Food Bank give our Adopt-a-Grand program. Help local Greenwood Senior Center (GSC), Tool food and other resources to 1,400 Ongoing Opportunities kiddos learn how to communicate and Library (TL) and Community Wood locals every week. Shifts Mon-Thurs. interact with adults outside their family Shop (CWS). Ballardfoodbank.org, Volunteer@ Bake & Prepare Meals and typical circles. Amazing opportuni- • GSC: classes occur during the ballardfoodbank.org. ty to build community between seniors GSC Weekly Lunch Helper. Food business day, can be a single Support live music with Seattle and families with young children. 1 service volunteers needed to prepare, class or a series. Potential topics Folklore Society! Lots of opportunities. visit/month. Flexible dates and activi- serve, and clean up with the GSC’s include: outdoor photography, Jennifer: [email protected], ties, one year commitment and Village lunch program. Weekly, 10 am-1 pm. making sushi, playing the ukulele, seafolklore.org, 206 923 8923. Greatest needs on Tues & Wed. membership requested. or American Sign Language. The National Nordic Museum is Provide local rides for seniors. Your • TL: classes for 10 to 30 adults looking for volunteers for programs Help at the Hot Meal Program. own vehicle and insurance required. in a classroom. Potential topics and daily roles! Nordic heritage Prepare and serve food on Mondays, Especially in need of drivers available include: basic homeowner skill not required! nordicmuseum.org/ 1:30-7 pm, at the GSC and Tuesdays, during the work day and/or ok with 1-7 pm, and Wednesdays, 9 am-1:30 topics and DIY classes. wellhome@ volunteer dogs in your vehicle. Email village@ phinneycenter.org pm, at St. John Lutheran Church in phinneycenter.org. Equine Aid Horse and Donkey Rescue Phinney. • CWS: flexible time & dates. in Monroe seeks volunteers. Work Senior Companion Support. Members with animals or not, no experience Treat Makers. Provide delicious, home- and guests in attendance at the senior Wood Shop Steward. Supervise shop necessary, must be 16+. info@ made baked goods for GSC memory center or in PNA Village members’ users during open hours with a focus equineaid.org, 360.282.6667. loss classes, events,and bake sales. homes. [email protected]. on safety and correct use of equipment

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Spring 2020 Class Schedule

Infant/Child/Adult CPR Retirement Planning 101 Class Information & Registration Ken Norris, Retired Firefighter Elizabeth Gray and Noemi Chaparro, Class locations: Greenwood Senior Center (GSC): 525 N 85th St. Seattle, WA 98103 Fri, Mar 27, Apr 17 or May 15, Securian Advisors NW Phinney Center (PC): 6532 Phinney Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98103 7-8:30pm Wed, Mar 18. 4-5:30pm Fees: Class fees vary and are listed in each class description. PC Blue Building, Room 6 GSC, Free To register: Call the number, email, or visit the website in the class listing. Pre-registration $15 PNA member, $20 Public Register: 206.297.0875 is required for all PNA-sponsored classes unless otherwise noted. Classes will be canceled Register: phinneycenter.org/classes Retiring soon or already there? How to for low enrollment, so register early to make sure the class runs. or call 206.783.2244 make your money last? Will you have In this class, students will learn infant, enough to enjoy your golden years? PNA Class Cancellations & Refunds: We refund tuition if we cancel a class, or if you cancel your registration at least seven days before class. See cancellation policy at child, and adult CPR, as well as how to Do you want to provide for the kids phinneycenter.org/refund-policy. help a choking infant, child, or adult. It’s and grandkids? These are some of the a great class for new or expecting parents, questions we’ll discuss in this seminar. PLEASE NOTE: Many classes at the Phinney Center or Greenwood Senior Center are BE PREPARED teachers, or anyone who works with kids. Whether you have a lot, or not so much, offered by individuals or organizations who rent space and are not affiliated with the PNA. Information for some of these classes can be found in this class schedule. While Certificates will be issued at the end of learn some tips and strategies for giving we do our best to ensure the accuracy of these listings, the PNA is not responsible for class. Ken Norris is a 27-year veteran yourself more peace of mind about your errors in class listings that are not PNA-sponsored. Not all instructors who rent space of the Seattle Fire Department and has finances. choose to have their classes listed in this schedule. taught CPR for 25 years. Note: This is not a certification course. COMPUTERS & Self-Defense 101 For TECHNOLOGY ARTS & CRAFTS BE PREPARED Women Joanne Factor, Strategic Living LLC Apple Mentoring Tue, Mar 24-Apr 28, 6:30-8:30pm GSC, $5 PNA Member, $7.50 Public Collage For Wellbeing AARP Smart Driver Course PC Brick Building, Room 35 Individual sessions by appointment Ruthie Neilson Corine Olson, AARP $199/6 weeks Register: 206.297.0875 Fri, Apr 10, 9am-12pm Ages 55 & up Register: strategicliving.org/classes- Got a Mac laptop, iPad, or iPhone and GSC, Free Thu & Fri, Mar 19 & 20, Apr 16 & 17, item/self-defense-101-6-week-course/ want some help figuring out how to use Register: 206.297.0875 May 21 & 22. 9:30am-2:30pm Recognize assailant ploys and manipula- it? Get help with your specific questions Access your own inherent wisdom and GSC, $15 AARP Member, $20 Public tions, and how to thwart them. Practice or learn about some of the features and guidance. You will tap into your intuitive Register: 206.297.0875 releases from common grabs, and decisive applications. Schedule an hour-long side, then create a mixed-media collage Come and join this informative class in strikes to vital targets. Use your voice and appointment for one-on-one help. Par- that reveals your inner wisdom. You will “smart” driving. This course has been sci- body language with impact. Identify the ticipants must bring Apple device and have the opportunity to journal about and entifically proven to reduce driving errors, signs that will let you defuse, de-escalate, appropriate power cord. share your creation with others. Collage and is approved by insurance companies or evade before an assault ever happens. is a powerful medium for self-expression for a safe-driving discount upon comple- [email protected] Cell Phone Mentoring that is accessible to all of us—no artistic tion. Bring your AARP card or member GSC, $3 PNA Member, $5 Public experience needed! number with you on the first day. Self-Defense 101 For By appointment Women Register: 206.297.0875 Would you like to understand your cell Intuitive Poetry Art Babysitter Training Joanne Factor, Strategic Living LLC phone better? Whether you just want to Peg Cheng & Marcus Donner Ken Norris, Retired Firefighter Tue, May 26-Jun 30, 6:30-8:30pm add a contact to your flip phone, or want Wed, May 13, 2-4pm Sat, Apr 18, 12:30pm-4:30pm PC Brick Building, Room 35 to figure out how to use your smart phone GSC, $10 PC Blue Building, Room 6 $199/6 weeks efficiently, help is available. Remember, Register: 206.297.0875 $45 PNA member, $55 Public Register: strategicliving.org/classes- it’s only useful if you use it! Please come In this workshop, you will learn step-by- Register: phinneycenter.org/classes item/self-defense-101-6-week-course/ prepared with any passwords, and bring step from artist-storytellers Peg Cheng or call 206.783.2244 Recognize assailant ploys and manipula- your device charged and operational with and Marcus Donner how to create po- Gain the knowledge and skills to be a tions, and how to thwart them. Practice cell service. etry art using vintage flash cards, found safe, confident babysitter. Learn about releases from common grabs, and decisive text, colorful inks, post-it notes, postage infant and childcare, age appropriate toys, strikes to vital targets. Use your voice and stamps, and your intuition. Your finished safety, and injury prevention, and how to body language with impact. Identify the Computer Support art piece will be matted and ready to signs that will let you defuse, de-escalate, handle emergencies. Find out what par- For Seniors frame. All materials provided. No experi- or evade before an assault ever happens. ents expect, and practice hands-on skills. Various weekly hours, Ongoing ence necessary! [email protected]. Includes in-depth coverage of First Aid, GSC, $5 suggested donation Infant/Child CPR, and how to be safe at Register: 206.297.0875 Watercolor & Drawing home alone while sitting. Ages 11 and up. Calling all seniors! Are you having prob- Susan Schneider lems using your computer or programs Wed, Ongoing and not sure how to find the answers? Sign 10am-12pm Age Discrimination and up for an hour-long session and receive GSC, $15 PNA Member, $18 Public personalized help. Volunteer computer Register: 206.297.0875 Finding a Job mentors will work with you to improve George Strang Students may work in watercolor, acrylic, your skills. Bring your own laptop, or use Thu, Apr 23. 6-7:30pm charcoal, or colored pencil. Bring art sup- one of our Windows lab computers. By GSC, Free. plies. Newsprint and charcoal provided. appointment only. Two-hour drop-in class for all skill levels. Register: 206.297.0875 Do you need to find a job? Are you con- Instructor Susan Schneider is a profes- cerned about how age discrimination sional artist and experienced teacher. CPR/ First Aid/ DANCE & might affect you? Age discrimination is Beginners welcome in this friendly, re- HIV Certification real and more common than many real- THEATER laxed class. Ken Norris, Retired Firefighter ize. It can affect people of all ages but Sat, Mar 28, Apr 18, May 16, 9am- there are ways to mitigate it. Come to this Argentine Tango 12:30pm workshop and learn what you can do to Beginner Level Class PC Blue Building, Room 6 reduce the impact of age discrimination Tony Fan & Ilana Rubin $35 PNA member, $45 Public on your job search and in your job. Tue, Jul 7-Aug 25, 7-8:15pm Register: phinneycenter.org/classes GSC, Greenwood Room or call 206.783.2244 $95/ 8 week session Can you provide first aid in Register: [email protected] emergencies, locate and take care of Learn to dance the authentic Argentine Watercolor Painting injuries, help a choking infant or child, Tango in a fun and easy way! Have two Glen Oberg and stop cardiac arrest? Learn first aid, left feet, and have never danced before? Wed, Ongoing, 1-4pm infant, child, and adult CPR, HIV and No problem! Come, have fun, and make GSC, $15 PNA Member, $18 Public bloodborne pathogens, with a focus new friends. Partner not required to Register: 206.297.0875 on injury prevention and safety. Meets join this class. Classes run in eight-week Join a great group and learn to paint. Some L/I WISHA-WAC safety standards. sessions. For detailed information, visit experience is necessary. Bring your own Certificates issued at end of class. Bring our website at www.seattletango.com supplies. Fee due for each class. a sack lunch. or phone: 206-781-9553.

Page 20 • The Review • Spring 2020 Beginning Adult Fresh Air Boot Camp Seattle Martial Arts Yoga For Osteoporosis And Modern Dance All levels welcome! TaeKwon Do, HwaRang Do Osteoarthritis American Dance Institute Tue, Thu, & Fri, 6am Mon, Wed, Ongoing, 6-7pm Connie Fisher Thu, 4/2-6/25, 6-7:15pm PC Blue Building Parking Lot PC Brick Building, Room 32 Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30am PC Blue Building, Room 7, $264 or Brick Building Community Hall $75/month GSC, $5 PNA Member, $6 Public Register: americandanceinstitute.com $99 a month for unlimited Register: at class Register: 206.297.0875 Start with a simple, effective warm-up Register: seattlefreshairfitness.com Two different styles of comprehensive Yoga for your bones and joints! Come to build strength and stimulate core con- Workout in the great outdoors with an traditional Korean martial arts. Emphasis enjoy an hour of poses adapted to your nections and body awareness. Followed awesome group of people to get your on fitness, fun, practical martial arts, and needs and abilities. We practice standing, by phrase work focusing on directional day started out right! Bring dumbbells self-defense. Free trial class. Beginners seated, and supine exercises. The class, and weight changes, rhythm, and Laban and a mat, and we will use all the stairs, welcome. Instructors are Aaron Logue taught by Certified Yoga Therapist Connie Fundamentals (time, space, effort, etc.). benches, and hills PNA has to offer! We and Aaron Kahn. Adults and teens ages Fisher, ends in a relaxing meditation. All Don’t know what this means - we’ll teach head inside for rainy days and get our 13 and up. www.seattlemartialarts.com are welcome. you! Additional classes available at our sweat on in the Community Hall. Try us out for more information. 80th and Greenwood studio. for a free week first. We also have classes Zumba Gold at Golden Gardens that are included in Symmetrical Yang Style Penny Fuller your membership! Taijiquan Mon, Wed, Fri, Ongoing, 8:45-9:45am Dennis Sharp GSC, $3 per class Beginning Adult Ballet Gentle Chair Yoga Thu, Apr 9-Jun 11, 7-9pm Zumba Gold is a dance party that is de- American Dance Institute Julie Hsu, RYT 500 Blue Building, Room 5 signed to meet the needs of seniors and Thu, 4/2-6/25, 7:15-8:30pm Phinney Ridge Yoga $200/ 10 weeks, $20 drop-in those new to working out. It has many PC Blue Building, room 7, $264 Mon, 12-1pm, Ongoing Register 206.605.8907 health benefits, is easy to follow, and is Register: americandanceinstitute.com Brick Building, SE corner [email protected] low impact. Come in comfortable clothes Our Ballet classes include barre, center, $65/5 class card; $110/10 class card Taijiquan (Tai Chi) is an internal martial and shoes, bring water, and be prepared stretching, adagio, and allegro work. We Register: phinneyridgeyoga.com art system for personal development, and to have fun. Drop-ins and adults of all focus on clean execution and a physical Learn simple, effective yoga practices self-defense. The gentle-flowing- peaceful ages welcome. and intellectual understanding of how and from a chair, and in a noncompetitive and movements of Tai Chi strengthen the body, why each movement is executed. With supportive community. Move through mind, and spirit. Experience increased Zumba Gold Toning our exclusive teaching methods, you will your day with less pain and more ease. vitality, and mental focus. This class is Penny Fuller progress further, more quickly and safely. Experience more energy and mental calm. suitable for people of most age groups Mon, Wed, Fri, Ongoing 8:15-8:45am, Additional classes available our at 80th See measurable results in strength and and abilities. GSC, $2 per class and Greenwood studio. flexibility. Diverse abilities and ages are Tailored for active older adults, who want welcome. Class cards are good for three Tai Chi Chih: Simple to focus on muscle conditioning and light Line & Circle Folkdancing months. Exercises for Health & weight activity, Zumba Gold Toning blends Pat McMonagle Longevity low-intensity strength training with a fun Fri, Ongoing, 11am-12pm Gentle Yoga Dennis Sharp party atmosphere. Come for just Toning, GSC, $8 PNA Member, $10 Public Connie Fisher Tue, Apr 7-May 26, 7-8pm or stay for the aerobic Zumba Gold class Register: 206.297.0875 Mon & Thu, Ongoing, 10-11am PC Blue Building, Room 5 immediately following. Dress comfortably Join line & circle dances from cultures in PC Brick Building, Room 32 $95/ 8 weeks, $15 drop-in. and bring water. Drop-ins and adults of the Balkans & Eastern Mediterranean. $10 per session Register: continuinged.northseattle.edu/ all ages welcome. Villagers enjoyed these dances since, the Register: [email protected] movement Iliad suggests, Homer’s time. The rough or just show up Easy to learn exercises with all the same HOME & edges wore off centuries ago, leaving Come enjoy an hour of gentle yoga poses great health benefits as Taijiquan. Tai Chi adapted to your needs and abilities. We GARDEN excellent ways to strengthen balance, Chih is a complete low impact aerobic practice standing, seated, and supine rhythm & fitness for all. Appropriate for system that relieves stress, improves exercises. The class, taught by Certified home schoolers, too. respiration, increases circulation, and Backyard Cottages For Fun Yoga Therapist Connie Fisher, and Certi- enhances coordination. & Profit fied Yoga Instructor Bill Litwin, ends in Bruce Parker & Stefan Hansmire WEPA Dance! a relaxing meditation or Yoga Nidra. All Thu, Apr 23, 7pm-9pm Maria Rico are welcome. Tai Chi Chuan & Qigong Sat, Ongoing, 3-4:30pm Frank Deering PC Blue Building, Room 3 Wed, Mar 18-May 6, 6-7pm $20/PNA Member, $30/Public $128/8-wks; single class $20 Gentle Zumba Register: [email protected] PC Blue Building, Room 2 Register: phinneycenter.org/classes Penny Fuller 206-902-8679 $80/8 weeks or call 206.783.2244 Mon, Ongoing 11am-12pm, GSC, Dance and learn the basics of Folclor Register: 206.851.3267 Backyard cottages can be used for many $15/5 class punch card Learn the art of meditation through things including housing a family member Colombiano. Colombia is culturally a A great workout for someone with balance very heterogeneous country, also its movement, Tai Chi Chuan, and Qigong. In or as a short term rental. Join Bruce Parker issues, sore knees, or hip problems. Non from Microhouse and Stefan Hansmire dance culture is amazingly varied. Learn this class, we use a series of slow relaxed weight-bearing and easy to move at your from Stefan Hansmire Builds to learn what the basics of Cumbia, Currulao, Mapale, movements to improve posture, balance, own pace with fun music. Encouraging is possible and how to establish a realistic Chirimia and Bambuco. No experience health, and a sense of well-being. What instructor and a supportive environment. budget for your cottage. or partner required. Nos vemos pronto! you will learn in the class will help bring Dress comfortably and bring water. Adults about a reduction in the level of stress in of all ages welcome. your daily life. All levels welcome! DADU! Creating A Backyard FITNESS, HEALTH Cottage & WELLNESS Kundalini Yoga & Meditation Tai Chi: Moving Meditation Sheri Newbold, Live Work Play Sada Simran Larry Spangler Thu, May 14, 7-9pm Wed, ongoing, 7-9pm Tue, Thu, Ongoing, 9-10am PC Blue Building, Room 6 Bellydancercise PC Brick Building, Room 31 Starting Tue, Apr 7 GSC, $10 $15 PNA member, $25 Public $18 drop-in, class passes available Register: 206.297.0875 Register: phinneycenter.org/classes Beginning: 7-8pm I n f o r m a ti o n : w w w . g u r u g a y a t r i . o r g Intermediate/Advance: 7:45pm-9pm Come have fun! Build strength, balance, or call 206.783.2244 Kundalini Yoga is a dynamic, powerful tool Thinking of creating a backyard cottage? $110 8 weeks and agility with the centuries-old practices designed to give you a deep experience Learn the why, what, where, and how PC Blue Building, Room 2 of Tai Chi and Qigong. Experience deep of yourself. This style of Yoga incorporates of building a DADU (detached accessory Register: 206.632.2416 breathing, slow flowing movement, and the use of breath, movement, posture, dwelling unit). Find out more about the Low impact, FUN, total body conditioning! meditation to maximize longevity and deep relaxation, Gong Healing, and DADU land-use code changes that passed Superior core workout! Strengthens and improve quality of life. Suitable for all meditation. Kundalini Yoga increases your recently. We will be able to look at a few coordinates muscle groups in the trunk, ability levels. physical vitality, mental calm, and inner of your examples as time permits. Bring spine, and arms. Helps prevent and allevi- peace. There are no levels in Kundalini your address, property dimensions, and ate lower back problems. Improves pos- Yoga; everyone is welcome. if possible, your sewer card. ture and flexibility. Instruction includes Yoga For All Levels tummy undulations, finger cymbals, Egyp- Powerful Tools For Home Buyers Seminar tian hip movements, and lots of giggles! Caregivers D’vorah Kost Thu, Ongoing, 2:30-3:50pm 2nd Sat, Mar 14, Apr 4, May 9, Jun 13 www.bellydancingbyzaphara.com Carin Mack, MSW & GSC, $5 PNA Member, $6 Public 10-11am Denise Malm, MSW Register: 206.297.0875 PC Blue Building, Room 3 Thu, Apr 2-May 7, 9:30am-12pm Easy Exercise Improve your posture, flexibility, and Free Gerry Joyce GSC, Free balance! This eclectic Viniyoga class Register: 206-414-5400 or Mon, Wed, Fri, Ongoing, 10-11am Register: 206.297.0875 incorporates modern dance, Pilates, www.weisbarth.com/rsvp GSC, $1 suggested donation This six-week evidence-based course is for Looking for your ‘Forever Home’? Learn Feldenkrais, and free-form movement. Register: 206.297.0875 family caregivers. The curriculum provides how to avoid the pitfalls in the home buy- Improve flexibility, relaxation, and balance Health benefits for all in this popular and tools and strategies to better handle the ing process so that you can get the most in standing, chair, kneeling and lying down low-key ongoing class. Gain strength and challenges of caregiving. Registration home for your money. Join host Doron poses. Instructor has 35 years of move- flexibility among friendly people. What required. Class limit of 13 participants. Weisbarth and his team of experts to a fun way to keep moving! All skill levels The Caregiver Helpbook will be available ment education. Wear loose clothing; learn the inside secrets to making your welcome. for purchase. bring a blanket and water bottle. dream home come true.

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Home Sellers Seminar Practique Inglés: Talk Time 2nd Sat, Mar 14, Apr 4, May 9, Jun 13 Los lunes, 10:30am al mediodía LITERATURE 11am-12pm GSC, Gratis & WRITING PARENTING PC Blue Building, Room 3 Para inscribirse, al 206.297.0875 Free (se habla inglés) o venga Advanced Writing: Baby Peppers Register: 206-414-5400 or Register: 206.297.0875 Character & Scene Thu, Apr 9-Jun 18 www.weisbarth.com/rsvp Este grupo se reúne para usar el inglés y Scott Driscoll PC Blue Building, Room 5 Discover the five-step system to selling conectar con comunidad en un ambiente Tue, Mar 31-Jun 2, 7-9:30pm Register: peps.org/programs your home fast, for top dollar, and with positivo y relajado. Todos son bienveni- PC Blue Building, Room 3 We offer Flexible Pricing on all groups. the least amount of hassle. Join host dos. Este grupo se reúne todos los lunes. $490/10 week session Financial Assistance also available. Doron Weisbarth and his team of experts Venga cuando pueda. Register: [email protected] Baby Peppers PEPS groups are gatherings to learn the inside secrets to making the This is for writers who want to focus on for one parent and their baby, aged 5-12 most from the sale of your home. learning to better recognize and control months, with the same parent attend- voice and style. The class will also look at ing each week. Group participants meet language at the level of word, sentence, weekly to share parenting highs and KIDS CAMPS Spanish Conversation I & II and paragraph with an eye for achieving lows, have discussions on a variety of Ritha Espin de White exactitude. Email instructor for syllabus parenting topics, and learn about babies’ Camp TechWise Mon, Ongoing, No Class May 25 and to register. development, all led by a trained facilita- Ages 7-17 Advanced: 6-7pm, tor. Register today to secure your spot! Mon-Fri, Jul 27-31 or Aug 3-7, 8:30am- Intermediate: 7-8pm 5:30pm PC Blue Building, Teacher’s Lounge MUSIC Brick Building, Community Hall $25/month PERSONAL GROWTH Starting at $470 Register: 206.783.2244 or at the door & PHILOSOPHY Usted habla Español? Need a place to Chickadee Music Together Register: camptechwise.com Mixed-Age Classes: Birth-4 yrs Project-based program offers game de- practice? Join us on Monday evenings as STEM College Application/ we converse in Spanish. Facilitated by a Spring Session: Apr 7-Jun 16 sign, video, digital, and music. Campers PC Blue Building, Room 5 Admission Seminar can jump into cutting-edge topics such native speaker. Not sure which group to $220/10 weeks Dr. Mark Hofer as Unity and Unreal Game Dev., virtual join? Come to either group and try it out. Register: chickadeemusic.com Thu, Mar 5, 7-8:30pm reality, 3-D animation, app development, First meeting is FREE! Children’s natural ability and love of music PC Blue Building, Room 6 programming, Linux, and sports and develop as they sing, move, and explore Free games to balance the day with some Spanish Grammar Class instruments with parents/caregivers in a Do you know a teen who wants to pursue outside fun. [email protected] Octavio Fernandez fun, relaxed atmosphere. Tuition includes STEM in college? Many students pursue Tue, Ongoing, 4-5pm professionally recorded song collection STEM majors for the wrong reasons and Young Engineers Summer GSC, By donation and songbook for music-making at home, are often unaware of the specific skills/ Camp This focused class is intended for in- and ten weekly classes. Music Together experiences to cultivate to be competitive Grade K-5 (2019-20) dividuals who want to learn or review is a research-based program loved by for college admission, internships, and Mon-Fri, Jul 6-Aug 28, 9am-4pm Spanish grammar. Our facilitator creates families around the world. jobs. Dr. Hofer will outline simple but PC Blue Building, Room 2 an environment in which learners of all critical skills, experiences, and character $440 weekly (early reg discount language ability levels can feel successful. Community Chorus traits that STEM schools and industries available) Donations gladly accepted. Maggie McClellan, Director are looking for. Register: seattlecity.e2youngengineers. Thu, Apr 2–Jun 18, 7:30-9pm com/enrollment-summer-2020/ Spanish for Beginners, PC Brick Building, Community Hall College Application/ Young Engineers Camps program is opening Level 1 [email protected] Admission Seminar its doors to anyone who loves to experience, Join this no audition, a cappella chorus Teresa Ramón Dr. Mark Hofer to experiment, but especially to enjoy Lego and let your heart sing! Learn songs from Fri, Mar 20-May 1, 5-6:30pm Wed, May 6, 7-8:30pm construction, an experiential and challeng- many different cultures, experience a PC Blue Building, Room 6 PC Blue Building, Room 6 ing learning, with games and scientific ex- dynamic group process, and grow musi- $189/8 weeks + $40 textbook fee Free periments that visualize natural phenomena cally in a non-threatening atmosphere of Register: phinneycenter.org/classes Dr. Hofer helps students find, get admitted and the forces acting around them. carefully planned rehearsals culminating or call 206.783.2244 to, and graduate from colleges and uni- Learn Spanish in a relaxed environment, in fun and festive performance. Going strong since 1998! versities that best serve their academic, FOR PNA-SPONSORED and start using the language from day social, financial, and personal needs. He SUMMER CAMPS, one. Class is taught by an experienced guides students and their families through SEE PAGE 8 native Spanish-speaking teacher who will Little Explorers Music the application and admissions process to 6-weeks to 3-years-old, with adult encourage and guide students to have a identify the best colleges, while maintain- Sun, Feb 23-Jun 14, 9-10am or meaningful learning experience. Required ing a focus on graduating with as little іHola! 10:15-11:15am ongoing enrollment LANGUAGE textbook: Como Se Dice 8th or 10th Edi- debt as possible. tion, Ana Jarvis. (used copies, $40 online). PC Brick Building, Room 35 CULTURE & TRAVEL Register: [email protected] Spanish for Beginners, Suzuki Method-based music and move- ¡Aventuras! Spanish Class ment classes. Our curriculum develops PETS For Learners Of All Levels Level 2 fundamental music, language, social and Octavio Fernandez Teresa Ramón motor skills. We play instruments, sing, Mon, Ongoing, 4-6pm Sat, Apr 4-May 23, 10:30am-12pm dance and have a blast. The multi-age, It’s A Puppy’s Life! Puppy GSC, By donation PC Blue Building, Room TBA group environment lets students learn Classes Spanish language learners of all ability levels $189/8 weeks + $40 textbook fee from one another. And, class is a great Beginning Tue, Feb 18, 11am-12pm & are welcome. Our facilitator creates an en- Register: phinneycenter.org/classes time for parents and children to learn Thu, Feb 20, 1-2pm Rolling admission vironment in which learners of all language or call 206.783.2244 and play together. Learn more: PC Brick Building, Community Hall ability levels can feel successful. Participants Advance your Spanish skills from Level littleexplorersmusic.com. Starting at $30/class rolling admission are invited to join this special group where 1, build your confidence in speaking and Register: SharpDogsSeattle.com learning happens through both actively listening, and learn vocabulary in dialogue The OK Chorale The perfect puppy class for puppies 7-16 engaging and simply being immersed in that reflects a wide variety of situations Elena Louise Richmond, Director weeks old! Fun, informative classes that the language. Donations gladly accepted. such as describing people, planning activi- Wed, Apr 1-May 20, 7-8:30pm will make you laugh! Learn basic training ties, and ordering meals. Speak and write PC Blue Building, Room 7 and how to live with a puppy. There will Beginning & Intermediate sentences using present tense. Required $125/8 sessions, 2 performances be Q&A time while your puppies relax. Spanish textbook: Como Se Dice 8th or 10th Edi- Register: [email protected] Enjoy playtime and activities to build a Octavio Fernandez tion, Ana Jarvis. (used copies, $40 online). elenalouiserichmond.com sound dog. Thu, Ongoing, 4-5pm We are a community of folks who love to GSC, By donation Spanish for Beginners, sing with others in four-part harmony: folk, This focused class is intended for beginning popular, Beatles, classical, holiday, Irish, YOUTH to intermediate Spanish students. Our fa- Level 3 Broadway. No auditions. Rehearsals are cilitator creates an environment in which Teresa Ramón fun and no one gets hurt. Spring Quarter Fri, May 8-Jun 12, 5-7pm learners of all language ability levels can we sing at the Northwest Folk Life Festival. Girls On The Run feel successful. Donations gladly accepted. PC Blue Building, Room 6 $189/6 weeks + $40 textbook fee Girls on the Run of Puget Sound Register: phinneycenter.org/classes Mon & Wed, Mar 2-May 18, 4:30-6pm Practice English: Talk Time or call 206.783.2244 PC Brick Building, Room 31 Mon, Ongoing, 10:30am-12pm Continue your learning journey and be Register: gotrpugetsound.org/Register-Now GSC, Free able to communicate in Spanish at a high Girls on the Run is a girl empowerment Register: 206.297.0875 beginner level. Enhance your listening, program that teaches girls important life For all new English speakers, this group skills while creatively integrating running provides an opportunity to practice speaking, and reading skills and build vocabulary in a wide variety of situations and walking. This program is 10-weeks English conversation in an informal and long and is for 3rd-6th grade students friendly group. Meet other people who such as vacation travel, running errands, that identify as female. The program cul- need to learn to express themselves easily and shopping for groceries. Required minates in a celebratory, non-competitive with a new language. All ages and people textbook: Como Se Dice 8th or 10th Edi- 5K (3.1 miles). from all over the world are invited. tion, Ana Jarvis. (used copies, $40 online).

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Serenity, digital print, by Fern Dragon, age 14, selected for the Up and Coming Artists exhibit.

Upcoming art shows Up and Coming Artists Show dates: March 11- April 17 . Opening Reception: Friday, March 13, 7-9 pm Celebrate our youth artists! Enjoy work from artists 25 years old and younger, juried by artists and teachers Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins and Kathryn “Kappy” Trigg.

Northwest Fine Arts Competition Show dates: May 8-June 15 . Opening Reception: Friday, May 10, 7-9 pm. View art from 20-30 Pacific Northwest artists, curated by a jury. Meet the artists at the opening reception, taking place during The BIG One PhinneyWood Art Walk. INDIGOLD INSURANCE Call for artists! All members of the community are invited to submit their art to the Phinney Center Gallery's 2020 NW Fine Arts Competition. Jurors will select art by Pacific Leading you through the Medicare maze Northwest artists to be displayed in the Phinney Center Gallery from May 6-June 13, with the opening reception on Friday, May 8, during the PhinneyWood Art with expertise, guidance, and advocacy! Walk: The BIG One. The artist selected as Jurors’ Choice will have all of their submitted works in the show, their work featured on promotional materials, and an article in The Review. Submissions will be open March 11-29 at phinneycenter.org/arts. Artists Jennifer Swami . 206-261-2244 . [email protected] will be notified by April 6. And an early warning: The PNA Member and Volunteer Show submissions open May 13! Pieces may not be larger than 3 feet, 6 inches wide and/or 6 feet tall, and must PNA TOOL LIBRARY weigh less than 15 pounds. We can only accept 2D media, given the constraints of our gallery. Got projects? Why not borrow? Inventory online at phinneycenter.org/tools HOURS: Wednesdays 3-6:30 pm; SAVE THE DATE! Fridays 5-7 pm; Saturdays 9 am-2 pm SAT, JUNE 13, 2020 • 9AM TO 2PM LOCATION: 6615 Dayton Ave N 27TH ANNUAL MEET WITH US

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