Like other little boys, 5-year- old Arthur Davis Conroy loves to swim, jump on his trampoline and watch Charlie Brown videos. He works hard at school and has a loving mother, father and older sister. But Arthur is also unlike other children. Arthur was 2 years old when he was diagnosed with autism, a neuro-developmental disorder that impacts social interactions and communication skills. o help shoulder the cost of Arthur's care, family and friends formed the Friends of Arthur organization shortly after his diagnosis.
The following are selected reports from the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described.
The art of finding a job and the act of applying for unemployment are two of the most distinctive transformations I have seen in the last 50 years. A good friend, out of work in the tech field, called me awhile back and asked my opinion on his professionally composed resume. He handed it to me with a little more than normal care asking, "Are your hands dirty?" Passing the clean-hand test, I felt the texture of the satin-finish, medium-bond paper and noted the Verdana bold font. It seemed it was money well-spent.
Oh, woe is me. The windows at 41st Avenue East and East Madison Street are empty - the latest casualty of our economics. The door is devoid of notices of Harry Potter's most recent adventure, and the door is locked. I peek in and see knocked-down shelves, greeting-card racks now empty of greeting cards and not a book in sight
It's not the end of the world, but it's a real shame.As Roberta Cole's column in Closing the Gap in this edition points out, the loss of a community bookstore is personal. When Madison Park Books closed its doors last month, a point of light disappeared from the neighborhood. It was the classic bookshop: A tree-shaded, triangular, brick building draped with vines. The compact space, which opened as Madison Park Books in 1987, was like a mirror reflecting the community's tastes.
Southwest Airlines may provide low-cost travel to its passengers, but its proposal to relocate its terminal to Boeing Field will cost Seattle neighborhoods and businesses immeasurably. The Dallas-based airline says it considers its impact on its airports' residential neighbors, yet it proposes to pay only $130 million, and that's for its own terminal, parking garage and accommodations for its own airport traffic
Washington Scholars, Montessori Program at Martin Luther King, McGilvira reading honors, featured writers at Madrona, young scholars at East Central Seattle.
atricia Overy has been teaching since 1957. Twenty years ago, she decided to "start a little school and have some fun." Thus, The Valley School was born, on the corner of 30th Avenue East and East Thomas Street. With 18 children initially in the nursery school, Overy said she had no grand vision of what it would become, but she knew she wanted the children to be treated with respect. The Valley School began to grow - in enrollment and campus size. In 1995, it began admitting children up to the fifth grade. The school now accommodates about 100 students every year.
Madison Valley trio's comedic retelling of 'Hamlet' returns to the mainstage.The Elsinore Diaries," a comedic retelling of Shakespeare's greatest work, plays in Olympia and Seattle in August after a two-year hiatus from the stage.
Comparing multimillion-dollor mansions to starter homes is like comparing apples to oranges. From multimillion-dollar mansions to starter houses, there is something available at nearly every price range. It just depends on where you look. "Right now, the most expensive homes in the area are in the Washington Park and Denny-Blaine neighborhoods," Lincoln Thompson, of the Landmark Group, said. "But the whole area is changing; momentum has shifted. The commercial development along the Madison [Street] corridor, for example, is transforming Madison Valley into a more upscale neighborhood."
Columnist bids farewellThe last few years writing the Food for Thought column have been wonderful, but now it's time to say goodbye, dear readers. Since I moved from Madison Valley to the great little 'burb of Marysville, it hasn't seemed quite the same to me. You need a columnist who is there and part of your lovely community - as I was (happily) for several years. I enjoyed being the roving reporter: Visiting with local restaurant owners and other culinary experts taught me many things I would never have known otherwise. Thanks to all of you for the pleasure of your company and, as our French foodies would say, au revoir, my friends! -Kathryn HackJoyce Hosea has brought a touch of Europe to Leschi with her new specialty cheese and sandwich shop, Cheese Platters. Located on the west side of Lakeside Avenue facing Lake Washington, the shop is difficult to miss.
It was a Saturday night movie with friends, but it was far from the typical weekend entertainment.Instead, members of several Seattle-area organizations had a specific purpose in mind when they came together to screen "Trollywood" last weekend at Keystone Congregational Church in Wallingford."It's a way to raise awareness of the homeless situation in Seattle," said Peggy Hotes, a member of Seattle Women in Black and Capitol Hill Neighbors for Peace and Justice. Hotes helped organize the screening as a benefit for Tent Cities 3 and 4, the Seattle-area homeless camps.
Drinking a cup of coffee and going to the dentist are usually two different activities. However, for a patient of Phinney Ridge's Espresso Dental, coffee and dental work coincide. Espresso Dental was started by a dentist in 1991 as a place where patients could receive dental work, drink coffee and receive a massage. Dr. Connie Manuel bought the practice, at 6725 Greenwood Ave. N., in 1996 and has been there ever since.
I'm not one to recommend a website. I love computers, and the World Wide Web (I'm an information junkie), but I'm surrounded - in both friends and family - by computer illiterates.I know that people prefer to pore over the fliers, brochures and pamphlets that lay strewn across counters by conscientious business owners here in Fremont. I'm just joking, of course. I may not be the only person who regularly picks through these offerings, but I know they get overlooked in the hectic rush of modern life.
Southwest Airlines wants you to think they have a corporate heart as big as Mount Rainier. Recently, America's most successful airline plopped its senior vice president Ron Ricks down at Boeing Field for a press conference concerning its desire to shift operations from Sea-Tac to the historic Duwamish River valley airport. Ricks told the crowd the airline wanted to build its own eight-gate terminal and accompanying seven-level parking garage across the tarmac from its airplane supplier's main stomping ground. The estimated $130 million bill would be on them, Ricks assured. "Christmas in July for King County, Seattle and Puget Sound," he crowed.It's a present all right, but not for the people of King County.