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LOCALLY OWNED, PERSONALIZED MEDICINE FOR YOUR PET 8542 1ST AVE NW Phinney Neighborhood Association • 6532 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103 • 206.783.2244 • phinneycenter.org Summer 2019 A Publication of the Phinney Neighborhood The Review Association Farm fresh Fridays are back! Phinney Farmers Market opens June 7 Inside This Issue Beerstock! by Corine Monaco, Seattle cultivated mushrooms of all varieties. Peace out with summer brews 4 Neighborhood Farmers Markets You will also see many returning With just a few short weeks to favorites like Alvarez Organic Farms, Summer of reading go, the countdown to the Phinney Tonnemaker Family Orchards, and 7 Farmers Market has officially begun! Veraci Pizza. Check out library programs Your favorite Friday night activity When you shop at the Phinney returns on June 7. In our 13th year, Farmers Market, you are benefitting a 52 walks we’re still bringing you some of the lot more than your fridge and pantry. Explore Seattle in a new way 8 best bites, ingredients, and treats You support family farms across Washington has to offer. Washington who are responsible Alice Ball Park What better way to celebrate your stewards of the land and environment. Don't miss the opening! 10 family and community than over You can be sure you are feeding delicious local food? Treat yourself nothing but the most healthful, high- and your loved ones to fresh fruit (or quality ingredients to your friends and Shiny & bright fruity ice-cream), while dancing to live family—and it doesn’t stop there. Cruise in for the 14 music, and perusing the market stalls. The Phinney Farmers Market is proud Greenwood Car Show Be sure to take the opportunity to work with food access programs like 15 to meet your local farmers, who love Fresh Bucks, WIC, and Helping Harvest, what they do almost as much as you ensuring that everyone has access to Meet your local love what they grow. And as you rush the best food in the state. 16 over to the market, don’t forget your We are delighted to partner with business owners Plus business updates shopping list! the PNA and neighboring businesses 17 We are excited to welcome some to help sustain our vibrant, family- new faces to the market this season: friendly community. Spoon Full Farm will be bringing So come grab a bunch of kale or a Greenwood 18 incredible Eastern Washington produce, bunch of pastries! We can’t wait to Seafair Parade ferments, and ethically-raised beef, and see you there Fridays, 3:30-7:30 pm, Celebrate 70 years 19 Terra Vita Mushrooms will have locally June 7- Sept. 27. Photo by Redstone Pictures Senior highlights Greenwood Senior Center 21 Director's corner: A fond farewell offers activities & services for adults of all ages 25 With extraordinary gratitude and A true test of community happens quite a bit of sadness, and after almost when disaster strikes. In 2016, a ten years as the Executive Director horrific gas explosion in Greenwood Give of yourself 26 of this fantastic organization, I have left 12 people homeless, 30 employees Volunteer opportunities decided to step down in early October. jobless, and 53 business owners 27 On a sunny and warm day in my Lee Harper, impacted, including three businesses 20s, I participated in my first PNA PNA Executive that were outright destroyed. event: Garage Sale Day. As I happily Director The PNA stepped in to lead the Learn and grow 28 wandered among sale booths community response and recovery Summer class schedule & kids' camps and kids’ lemonade stands, I was accessible entrances to both buildings, from the impacts of the explosion; overwhelmed with the kindness, the and do some much needed capital $330,000 was raised and distributed 30 smiles, and the community I saw. repairs, including seismic work. We to those affected, and King County Arts Corner It is seared in my memory as one are so grateful for the support of our Executive Dow Constantine chose NW Fine Arts winner and 31 of my favorite days ever and it still is generous community! to honor the PNA with his Award for PNA Member & Volunteer Show my favorite PNA “holiday” each year! Phinney Cooperativa Preescolar en Community Resilience. (For years, the couch we found graced Español (PCPE), a Spanish immersion Again, we were overwhelmed and our front porch.) preschool co-op, opened its doors in humbled by the generosity of our The Review I thought “working at PNA would community. 2010, and it has been wonderful to Summer 2019 - Vol. 32, No. 3 be a dream job!” as its mission to see the growth of this program, now I am stepping down from my role Published quarterly by the build community resonated so deeply serving 55 families each school year. In here, but the work continues. Phinney Neighborhood Association with me. We have been working with the City 2002, Tampopo, a Japanese language 6532 Phinney Ave N on transferring the Greenwood Senior Fifteen years later, in 2010, immersion preschool program, joined Seattle, WA 98103 founding Executive Director Ed the PNA. Center property to PNA for more than 206.783.2244 Medeiros retired, and I was delighted In 2013, our nationally-recognized eight years, and I am hopeful that the phinneycenter.org and honored to be selected as the Memory Loss Program received the transfer will happen before I leave the next Executive Director. Honoring Our Elders, Light a Fire Award organization. If not, I am confident Circulation: 20,000 I was welcomed so warmly, and from Seattle Met,an incredible honor. that the next leader will be able to Publisher: Lee Harper have felt deeply embraced and And the PNA Village, a program close the deal so we can get to work Editor: Ana Maria King appreciated by this community. enabling people to stay in their on the many structural improvements Over the past nine years, it has been homes and communities as they that have long been needed including, Copy editor: Emily Mack a privilege to lead the PNA, and to age, launched in 2012 and now has incredibly, making the building fully Proofreaders: Ann Bowden, work alongside so many of you—staff, hundreds of members and volunteers. accessible for the more than 3,000 Susie Hutchins board, members, and volunteers, all Leveraging our position in the seniors, their families, and caregivers Ana passionately committed to community. community, we formed the PNA who use it every year (a 240 percent Desktop publishers: Maria King, Ruthie MacDonald Together, we have had some Business Group in 2012 after the increase in nine years!). remarkable successes over the years. Greenwood-Phinney Chamber closed, I won’t be leaving my position Contributing writers: They are too many to list, but here are to connect, support and promote until October. This gives our strong, R. Bauermeister, A. Berlow, a few: businesses in the Phinney/Greenwood committed Board of Directors enough A. Burnett, L. Chow, K. Dillin, Legislating for property exemptions area. We are 265 members strong. time to find the right leader to take on P. Freeman, J. Gangler, for the Phinney Center, and for senior And we recently took over the new challenges and opportunities. E. Grayson, K. Kozel, L. Harper, centers around the state, which meant PhinneyWood.com blog, a "news and In the meantime, have a wonderful C. Mack, C. Maykut, hundreds of thousands of dollars happenings" blog for the Phinney summer, and thank you for making E. Moehring, C. McDougall, redirected towards our mission to Ridge and Greenwood neighborhoods. these last ten years so rewarding! I am C. Monaco, M. Veitenhans build community, and these savings Check it out at phinneywood.com. so grateful for my time here, and am Cover Photo: Redstone Pictures will continue in perpetuity. And on June 8, during Garage Sale excited to see what the next ten years Ruthie MacDonald Together, the community raised Day, we will have a sneak peek for of PNA look like! Ad Sales: 206.783.2244, phinneycenter.org/ almost $7 million to purchase the the public into the Community Wood Hope to sip lemonade with you at review/advertise Phinney Center, add elevators and Shop, our newest program. Garage Sale Day on June 8! The Review • Summer 2019 • Page 1 About The Review 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.