Month: January 2018
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The Year in Review (and Trivia)
Saturday morning, about a hundred folks got up early to make their way to the Phinney Center Community Hall to enjoy Bill’s homemade pancakes, sip mimosas, look back on PNA’s year, and elect the 2018 Board of Directors at our Annual Meeting. Alex, our snappy Membership Manager, decided to make our 2017 retrospective an audience participation game show with some (not-so-trivial) PNA trivia. Didn't make it? You can still test your PNA smarts!...
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A Week of Gathering
by Cecile Andrews, community member, guest writer ... What an incredible week! The week of January 21-January 28 was amazing. I was so proud of our community! First it was a workshop I went to on the day after the big women’s march. ...
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Inspiring Greenwood girls
By Jeanne Higgins, Founder, Girls on the Run of Puget Sound...Girls on the Run is a nation-wide program that uses physical activity as a springboard to increase confidence and self-esteem. In starting the program in Seattle, I was on my own figuring out how to grow the program, hitting the streets hard; visiting representatives of community centers, schools—any venue that would give the program support. | needed to find people who had the spark, the determination, and a true dedication to girls and their futures. I found one of those special people thanks to a dog named Bruno. ...
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PNA Wins National Photo Contest for Dementia Friendly America
We are thrilled to have our entry chosen as the Grand Prize winner in Dementia Friendly America’s national photo contest. It’s an honor to take part in this important project, bringing awareness to dementia-friendly programs across the country!...
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Your input wanted! Survey to help older adults with life enjoyment
Our Greenwood Senior Center is partnering with researchers at the University of Washington who are interested in learning about the wellness and emotional needs of adults over 60, and we hope you will consider this opportunity to participate in this research. ...
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Business Spotlight: LEADprep
Leadership Preparatory Academy is a private school now in its fifth year at its Kirkland campus. Its newest location opened this fall inside the Pocket Theater; during the daytime, while […]...
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Business Spotlight: Green Bean Coffee House and Sanctuary Church
What do a church and a coffee shop have in common? In the case of the Green Bean and Sanctuary Church, two separate-but-symbiotic entities in the heart of Greenwood, the […]...
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Business Spotlight: First Light Farm
Jane and Don Reis have lived in the Greenwood neighborhood for nearly 40 years, and started dreaming of farming when they first got married. One day, on a drive in […]...
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PNA Village Connections Winter 2018
The PNA Village Winter Newsletter is here! Download Newsletter Here (pdf)...
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January 2018 Newsletter
See what's going on at the PNA this month: events, classes, news, announcements.......
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