PNA in the News
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KUOW: What’s that big yellow box perched on Phinney Ridge?
By Katherine Banwell. It's canary yellow, the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, and weighs nearly three tons. Located on a tower near Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, it's one of the biggest air raid sirens ever built. It's silent now, but from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, the siren went off every Wednesday at noon. It was loud enough to be heard a mile and half away. The students at the John B. Allen elementary school right next door — today the Phinney Neighborhood Association — would scramble under their desks, cover their heads and practice their ‘duck and cover’ techniques....
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Real Change: Burritos without Borders
Community member David Baum pilots a project to bring fresh, handmade burritos to encampments, with the help and infrastructure of the PNA's Hot Meal Program. The effort made the front page of Real Change News! "Members of the Phinney Neighborhood Association stuff tortillas with beans, cheese and kindness, then deliver them to encampments..." by Ashley Archibald, Nov 21, 2018....
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The Seattle Times: How my neighborhood’s scrappy annual crafts fair became a seasonal tradition
"In a sea of corporate holiday celebrations, community-oriented crafts fairs like the Phinney Neighborhood Association's Winter Festival, running 38 years strong, can bring us down to earth." By Megan Burbank. Seattle Times travel and outdoors editor. If you live on Phinney Ridge, you know the heart of the neighborhood isn’t one of its manifold coffee shops or yoga studios, but the hulking light-blue building at North 67th Street and Phinney Avenue North that, along with an auxiliary brick building to the east, houses the Phinney Neighborhood Association (PNA)....
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Q13 Fox: “Changemaker: Seattle woman helps lead effort, providing solutions for those with dementia”
Q13 Fox's Changemaker Series features Marigrace Becker, of the Memory and Brain Wellness Center at the University of Washington, whose vision of the Momentia movement has changed countless lives of those living with dementias and memory loss and their families. The piece also spotlights the Gathering Place program at the Greenwood Senior Center, as an example of how the Momenta movement makes an impact. ...
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KUOW: Seattle mayoral forum: ‘I’m going to alienate somebody with my answer’
By Kim Malcolm, David Hyde & Amy Radil. Former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan and urbanist Cary Moon have some really sharp differences. Take their feelings on Beecher's cheese and the Eagles, for instance. They met for a mayor's candidate forum at the Phinney Neighborhood Association hosted by KUOW reporters David Hyde and Amy Radil....
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King 5 Evening: A library for tools in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge
By Jim Denver. At Phinney Neighborhood Association's Tool Library, every tool can be borrowed just like a book from the library. It's a haven for handymen who know what they're doing... and a warehouse of whatchamacallits for those who don't. Whatever your skill level, you can get the job done at the Phinney Neighborhood Association's Tool Library. "How many tools we have -- that's a tough one," said tool librarian Todd Schwayder. "Two to three-thousand tools."...
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Real Change: Seattle transfers property to community organizations
by Ashley Archibald. "The city of Seattle is preparing to pare down its real estate portfolio with a series of land transfers that could benefit nonprofits that serve Seattle’s most vulnerable residents. The Department of Finance and Administrative Services (FAS) initiated a process in August that would allow the Phinney Neighborhood Association (PNA) to take control of the building that houses the Greenwood Senior Center. "...
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KOMO News: Eric’s Heroes: This one’s for the ‘Fixers’
by Eric Johnson– We all know someone who’s just good at fixing things. They’re the ones you call in the middle of the night when your toilet floods, or when […]...
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Seattle Times: Blast-shaken Greenwood Bouncing Back Stronger
Some of the last businesses that closed due to the March 9 blast, which leveled two buildings and damaged dozens more, have reopened. The neighborhood celebrated the recovery effort on […]...
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Seattle Times: In Greenwood explosion’s wake, artists paint murals on damaged businesses
Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, celebrated for its eateries and art, resembled a war zone with piles of debris and plywood over storefronts after the explosion in March that leveled two buildings […]...
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