ConnectionsFALL 2016

SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION

Healthy People, Healthy Watershed: Bringing Little Brook Back to Life

Little Brook resident Muriel Lawty stands by the brook where it passes under NE 137th St.Photo by Sean Watts

continued next page

Muriel Lawty, a real estate agent and gardening enthusiast, has big dreams for her neighbor-

hood, a pocket of Seattle called Little Brook at the north edge of Lake City. “It’s like a wild rose

getting ready to bloom,” she says.

Five years ago, Lawty moved into a ground-floor apartment in Little Brook. It was one of the

few affordable places she could find that would also accommodate her planters of herbs and

the passionfruit vine that now dangles above her doorway. At first, she was discouraged by

the lack of green spaces and gathering spots where neighbors could get to know one another.

About 3,000 people live in this community, a dense cluster of

apartment buildings, public housing, and a few single-family

homes. Many are first-generation immigrants, and collectively

they speak more than a dozen languages. At the center is the

neighborhood’s only park, Little Brook Park.

Less than an acre in size, Little Brook Park had deteriorated into

a spot for drinking, drug-dealing, and other illegal activity. In

2009, the city launched a community outreach program that

included regular barbecues and outdoor movie nights at the

park. Parents started bringing kids to the park to play. These

days, you can find a dozen or more children there on any given

day, climbing monkey bars and slipping down slides. A program

run by United Way in collaboration with city, state, and federal

partners offers free lunches in the summer, and kids can join

games, face-painting, and other activities organized by AmeriCorps volunteers.

Still, one small park is not enough for a neighborhood with so many young children and few

other public spaces. Lawty sees possibilities for more parks and a more vibrant community.

At the back of Little Brook Park, beneath a cluster of alders and maples, flows the creek of

the same name. A tributary of Thornton Creek, Little Brook Creek passes behind apartment

buildings and under parking lots and crosses under Lake City Way. Although it is mostly

hidden from view, Lawty believes that this little stream holds great potential for connecting

neighbors with nature and each other.

Healthy People, Healthy Watershed (from front page)

The creek starts its journey underground in Shoreline and emerges beneath some cedar trees

near the northern boundary of Seattle. It travels partly through pipes and culverts. In places

where it runs above the surface, its banks are eroding. In winter, the creek sometimes floods

and dampens nearby apartment buildings.

But like the rest of the Thornton Creek watershed, Little Brook Creek still has “good bones,”

says Jonathan Frodge, a stormwater scientist with Seattle Public Utilities. He says cutthroat

trout probably still live in the stream’s upper reaches; in the 1990s, residents persuaded the

city to replace a culvert after they spotted salmon trying to migrate up the creek a couple miles

south of the Little Brook neighborhood. Frodge can recite a list of places where the city could

liberate the creek from pavement and expose it to the open air, make it less flood-prone, and

perhaps run bicycle trails or footpaths along the banks. A healthy creek could be a habitat

corridor not just for fish, but also birds and pollinating insects.

In February, Mayor Ed Murray announced an integrated planning approach for Lake

City involving all city departments and expanded community input. The Shared

Vision for Lake City will invest in parks and make the area more walkable.

The life of the creek and the vitality of the neighborhood are intertwined. “That’s

why we want to restore some of these natural areas, because if we do that, outcomes

for these kids are better,” says Mark Mendez, who leads a program for teens in Lake

City for Seattle Parks and Recreation and the citizen-run Thornton Creek Alliance.

For six weeks in the summer, the teens in the program explore the Thornton Creek

watershed, testing water quality, pulling invasive ivy and knotweed, and learning how

to preserve nature in the city. Many families in the area live below the poverty line.

“These are kids whose families have multiple barriers. If we can make it a little more

beautiful for them, raise their quality of life, that can have effects that we can’t even

imagine,” says Mendez.

Arah Reyes, a high school sophomore who lives in the Little Brook neighborhood,

says Mendez’s program gives her “somewhere to calm down and to look at nature.” When she

works on projects to fix up the watershed, “I feel like a better person,” she says. Mendez says

the teens in his program could help establish new parks, make educational signs, and restore

native plants along Little Brook Creek.

Ultimately, the transformation of the neighborhood and the creek will require the combined

energy of neighbors and the city. Lawty is already talking with property owners along the creek

about ways to take care of the watershed and has urged her landlord, George Hoder, to improve

and protect a section of stream that flows at the edge of his property, next to where Lawty has

planted a vegetable garden. Hoder has enrolled in the nonprofit Adopt-A-Stream program.

Lawty plans to form a citizens’ group focused on the creek, with help from the Seattle

Department of Neighborhoods. “We’ve got people who have come from all over the world

here and all walks of life,” she says. “What I would like to see is a neighborhood that can be an

example of how you bring people together.”

“These are kids whose families have multiple barriers. If we can make it a little more beautiful for them, raise their quality of life, that can have effects that we can’t even imagine.”

Open Space Opportunities Along Little Brook Creek

Jonathan Frodge of Seattle Public Utilities has identified several sites along Little Brook Creek where restoration, daylighting, and stewardship could significantly improve water quality. Most of the improvements would also beautify the neighborhood and allow increased public access. Seattle Parks Foundation hopes to work with the Little Brook community, Seattle Public Utilities, and other agencies to pursue some of these opportunities.

Headwaters of Little Brook Creek, where the channel is eroding

Abandoned lot that could be restored

Maintenance and restoration opportunity in a corner of Little Brook Park

Private property whose owner is interested in restoration and adding rain gardens

Private property that could be acquired and restored

Restoration opportunity on steep, eroding banks along a section of the creek

Culverted section of the creek running under an abandoned lot owned by Seattle Parks and Recreation that could be daylighted

Restoration opportunity at a pond where the creek emerges from under NE 125th St.

New Gateways into Pioneer Square

The Solution Lara Rose of Walker Macy says that historic photo-

graphs of Pioneer Square show a more inviting and

cohesive system of parks and plazas. “They were

less cluttered, less overgrown, and helped welcome

people into adjacent buildings,” she says. “We rec-

ommend restoring these conditions to allow the

essential character of each space to really sing.”

Walker Macy’s strategies include improving pedestrian

circulation and building entrances, thinning out

tree canopies to expose historic facades and let more

light hit the ground, active programming, movable

furnishings and spill-out space for restaurants and

cafes, integrated interpretive elements, and generally

brightening and enlivening each park with high-

quality materials and supplemental lighting.

“Pioneer Square’s parks and public spaces are an

incredible asset—it is time to acknowledge the ways

they contribute to the livelihood of our city’s oldest

historic district and invest in them,” says Rose.

In April 2016, the Walker Macy landscape architecture firm completed a design framework

for parks, plazas, and green connections in Pioneer Square. The Gateways Project, conceived

and commissioned by the Alliance for Pioneer Square, gracefully rethinks troubled urban

spaces. The plan dignifies and connects neglected places and marginalized user groups to a

larger whole, creating a vibrant and welcoming park system for everyone in the neighborhood.

The Problem “The neighborhood lacks cohesion in its parks and

public spaces,” says Carl Leighty of the Alliance for

Pioneer Square. “With so many hard edges, entrances

to the neighborhood feel uninviting and don’t convey

the true vibrancy of the community or its historic

assets. Many neighborhood parks suffer a general

sense of neglect, all having received different levels of

design interventions over the years. We are left with

a patchwork of half-fixes, unfinished projects, and

singular approaches that have resulted in uninviting

spaces all over the community.”

What’s more emblematic of an elementary school than the playground outside—a place for kids

to get out the wiggles on school days and a destination for families on weekends and during the

summer?

But at Beacon Hill International Elementary School (BHIS), a bilingual public elementary

school, the playground was a mess—condemned by the school district in April 2016 for safety

reasons and then hastily replaced with a surface of wood chips surrounded by blacktop.

“After some vandalism on the structure, our custodian

dealing with the cleanup saw how much the structure

was aging and brought it to our attention,” says Kam Yee,

a BHIS parent and member of the school’s playground

steering committee. Parents attempted to contact the

manufacturer of the play structure for repairs, but the

company had gone out of business. Then the structure’s

platform broke.

In less than a week, the entire play structure was removed

and students had no playground for the rest of the school

year. Seattle Public Schools had no funds to replace it,

but parents and students rallied, raising money online

and launching a communications blitz, which brought the project to the attention of Seattle

Parks Foundation.

“We had already raised about a third of what we’d need to replace the structure when Shava

Lawson of Seattle Parks Foundation contacted us,” says Eunice Lee, another playground

steering committee member. Lawson, a public school parent herself, had been involved in a

similar project at her daughter’s school, and she suggested that the steering committee consider

a partnership with Seattle Parks Foundation.

“We needed a nonprofit sponsor to qualify for the Seattle Neighborhoods grant,” says Lee.

“Seattle Parks Foundation had already done projects like this before, so they helped us get our

application in really fast.”

By July, the committee had won a $25,000 grant from the Seattle Department of

Neighborhoods. They also received a KaBOOM! grant to pay for design consultation, materi-

als, and installation help.

“Seattle Parks Foundation took a huge burden off of us and were instrumental in us starting off

right,” Yee says. “Their advocacy gave us a really good application, and our partnership helped

other funders see that we are really serious. Our group was way ahead of the game.”

The students will have a new playground by the end of October.

Students and Parents to the Rescue at Beacon Hill Elementary

Beacon Hill Elementary students are all smiles as they appeal to the public for a new playground.Photo by Bob Teplitsky

Community members weigh in on the future of Georgetown’s open spaces

To some Seattleites, Georgetown is the bars and

restaurants on Airport Way South or the colorful

enclave of homes bought years ago by artists with

more creativity than cash, all under the flight path of

planes landing at Boeing Field.

To Rosario Medina, Georgetown is home and family

history. It’s where her extended family got a toehold

in Seattle when they moved up here from Texas. The

house on Carleton Avenue that her great-uncle bought

in 1956 sheltered three generations of the family.

Medina is only 26, but she’s already seen a lot of

change in Georgetown, not all of it good. Georgetown

was a hard-working and sometimes gritty place from

its beginnings in the 1850s, but the neighborhood was

increasingly hemmed in as Seattle grew. Boeing Field

spread across Georgetown to the south. In the 1960s,

the construction of I-5 cut off the neighborhood from

Beacon Hill to the east. Arterials, heavy traffic, railway tracks, and industry sliced across the

north and west sides of the neighborhood, choking off pedestrian access.

Despite some successful community efforts to establish green spaces, such as the Hat ‘n’ Boots

playground at Oxbow Park, Georgetown still has few parks and continues to lose informal

green spaces. “There weren’t fences between the houses when I was growing up, and we

kids would just run from yard to yard like it was all one big yard,” Medina says. Now, many

deteriorating properties are being demolished to make way for townhouses and

condos. The original Medina family house was recently sold, with cousins and

grandparents moving to Renton or Auburn. Medina and her husband live with

her mother Maria on Flora Avenue; they are the last of the extended family in

Georgetown.

Like Medina, Kelly Welker feels that her neighborhood has been neglected.

“At some point, somebody basically told industry it could just do whatever it

wanted in Georgetown,” she says. “Residents have said for a long time that

things need to change.” Welker moved to Georgetown 11 years ago because

it was more affordable than other parts of Seattle. Now she is the parent of an

eight-year-old, and she worries that the neighborhood doesn’t have enough sidewalks, green

spaces, and public transportation to keep her son and other Georgetown kids active but safe.

Welker chairs the steering committee for the Georgetown Open Space Vision Framework,

which will determine community priorities for a greener, more open, and more connected

Toward a Safer, Healthier Georgetown

“There weren’t fences between the houses when I was growing up, and we kids would just run from yard to yard like it was all one big yard.”

Rosario Medina and her husband, Victor Facundo, at Gateway Park in Georgetown.

Kyle McCoy Goes the Distance for Parks

Kyle McCoy, who is racing across the world’s deserts.Photo courtesy of 4 Deserts

neighborhood. The committee had its first public meeting on June 14 and will publish the

framework in November. In the meantime, they have reached out to residents, businesses,

workers, and community groups using posters, displays, doorbelling, fliers, emails, social media,

focus groups, phone calling, and coffee meetings. “If there’s a means of communicating, it’s

been used,” says Welker.

The input gathered so far includes a wealth of well-informed ideas as well as specifics on

problem spots for pedestrians and 27 suggested sites for new or improved streetscapes,

connectivity, and parks. The list will be narrowed down through consultation with public

agencies and presented in the framework.

Imagine a morning run across snowfields and boulders, the

spikes of your shoes kicking up ice as you race past pen-

guins. Wait, penguins?!

“I’ll be running about six marathons—250 kilometers

(155 miles)—over six days in Antarctica,” says Seattle

Parks Foundation board member Kyle McCoy. McCoy is

an ultramarathoner whose next race will take him to the

frosty reaches of Antarctica. That’s where the penguins

come in. And that’s the final leg of McCoy’s final 4 Deserts

Ultramarathon. His previous races have taken him to

Chile, China, and Namibia.

McCoy hopes to finish in the top three, but his number-one

goal is to raise $100,000 for Seattle Parks Foundation. We

asked McCoy about what motivates him.

Why do you run?

I love to see the world, especially these extreme environ-

ments. I’m a systematic, daily regimen kind of person, and

when I have these goals on the horizon, I feel better. I’m at

my best when I’m running.

What’s your favorite training route in Seattle?

I love running a route that connects parks and green space

in the city. One route I take is from Queen Anne Hill

through Myrtle Edwards Park to the Magnolia waterfront,

then through Discovery Park to Ballard.

Why are you running for parks?

A person’s quality of life improves with access to parks. Most

cities are urbanizing at a rapid clip, and it’s important to look

at parks in a disciplined way, to preserve and connect them.

Follow Kyle’s adventure on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/seattleparksfoundation

Put a Lid on ItThe Lid I-5 campaign, an effort to cover segments of the I-5 freeway as a way to address

connectivity, open space, and affordable housing issues, is gaining momentum. Representing

a coalition of neighborhood groups, business leaders, and nonprofit

interests, Lid I-5 has the ultimate goal of covering as much of I-5 as

possible to create more livable and productive space and help meet

Seattle’s social and environmental needs.

We asked Liz Dunn, a Seattle developer and steering committee member

of Lid I-5, why she supports this idea.

Why should we lid I-5?

Creating new parks and public land over the Interstate 5 right-of-way

within Seattle is an idea whose time has come. The neighborhoods that

suffer most from the negative impacts of noise, pollution, and mobility

disconnection created by I-5, including downtown, are also those which

have the greatest deficit of public open space. This open space deficit will

worsen as more people continue to move into Seattle to live and work,

and as higher and higher land prices make purchasing and developing

public land more and more difficult. Building open spaces and other

public uses over Interstate 5 presents a compelling opportunity to help

solve these problems. I-5’s path crosses, and divides, many of our most

populous neighborhoods, including downtown, the International

District, Capitol Hill, Yesler Terrace, and the University District.

Why now?

Other cities around the country are proving that the benefits of freeway

lid projects vastly outweigh their costs. In Seattle, the freeway’s central

location creates an incredibly attractive opportunity, allowing it to extend

and knit together our network of other emerging open spaces, such as

the Central Waterfront and the Lake to Bay Trail, as well as the center

city neighborhoods currently bifurcated by I-5. The I-5 right-of-way is

publicly owned, and its redevelopment would not be subject to volatile

market conditions or reluctant sellers. Most compellingly, the cost of

building parks, affordable housing, amphitheaters, schools, and playfields

over the interstate could cost less than half of purchasing the equivalent

land in many locations. Parks over the interstate can become the

important spaces that heal the gash and blight caused by Interstate 5 and

be the anchor for rejoining communities that have suffered for decades

from I-5’s pollution, decay, and noise. Covering Interstate 5’s concrete,

asphalt, and exhaust with healthy landscapes can be an immeasurably

significant symbol in furthering our community’s vision of a greener and

more livable future.Sketches from a community design planning session: imagining the possibilities.

May We Help You?“100 Partners” initiative boosts support for community park projects

Community-led public space projects are emerging in

virtually every Seattle neighborhood—a reflection of our

city’s history of civic entrepreneurship as well as a shared sense

of urgency about responding to accelerating growth. This

local engagement has proved essential to the development

of thoughtfully designed and welcoming public spaces that

improve the health and well-being of all Seattle residents.

Seattle Parks Foundation currently serves as a fiscal sponsor

or agent for 57 such groups. Our goal is to be serving at 100

community groups by 2019 and to be responsive to needs

and new thinking that will arise from a strong network of

community leaders and volunteers.

We provide liability insurance, financial management and reporting services, donor

stewardship, communications and fundraising support, technical assistance, capital

campaign leadership, and special fund

management.

In 2017, Seattle Parks Foundation is

launching a Community Fund that will

help provide support for organizational

capacity to partner groups in

underserved parts of the city.

Are you part of a group that is trying to get something done in your neighborhood? Whether it’s public art, playgrounds, open spaces, innovative transportation or housing solutions, restoration, or any big vision for our public spaces, we want to hear from you.

Contact us today at 206.332.9900 or info@seattleparksfoundation.org, and

let’s work together to create an interconnected system of parks and public

spaces for all.

Roseann Barnhill and Hassan Djama Allelah of DIRT Corps assess tree and soil health before a tree giveaway event at Carlton Avenue Grocery in Georgetown.Photo by Fedora el Morro at tinyboxmedia.com

“You have been 100% engaged in the project from start to finish. You have fostered partnerships and promoted exchanges and dialogues within and between communities.”

—Virginia Korycki (Yesler Swamp)

“You have come with a suite of services that includes communications, best practices, and fundraising opportunities that would have been extremely difficult to pull together for our low-profile grassroots project.”

—Maia Segura (Detective Cookie Chess Park)

“Seattle Parks Foundation is a great resource for small grassroots organizations to navigate the public processes and access potential funding for improving open spaces.”

—Ching Chan (Hing Hay Park)

Parks Legacy Circle

Recognizing extraordinary donors whose estate plans include legacy gifts to Seattle Parks Foundation.

Anonymous (9)Sally BagshawThatcher BaileyKathy and Keith BieverLynn BurstenKaren DaubertAnn FaganBarbara Feasey Brian Giddens and

Steve RovigRoy HamrickMary Jayne and

Jay JonesPamela and Bob

McCabeSteven McCoy and

Larry HendersonBen StreissguthDan and Ann

StreissguthJean SundborgRick and Debbie

Zajicek

$100,000+

Anonymous Black Family Descendents of

Prentice Bloedel Daniels Real Estate Ketcham Family Laird Norton Company

LLC ▲▲

Merrill & Ring Nitze-Stagen &

Company Inc. Norcliffe

Foundation ▲▲

Nancy Nordhoff and Lynn Hayes ▲

Pine Street Group, LLC R.D. Merrill Company Satterberg FoundationDescendents of Sol

Simpson Unico Properties LLC Urban Visions Weyerhaeuser

Company $50,000+

Anonymous ▲▲

Bullitt Foundation ▲Tsuchino and Michael

Forrester Goodfellow Fund ▲Mary Jayne and Jay

Jones ▲▲

Juniper Foundation Martin-Fabert

Foundation Miller Johnson Family

Fund Peach Foundation ▲▲

Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation ▲▲

Raven Foundation

Martha M. Wyckoff and Jerry Tone ▲▲

Wyncote Foundation NW ▲▲

$25,000+

Anonymous ▲Bill & Melinda Gates

Foundation ▲▲

Ann and Bruce Blume ▲▲

Beatrice & T. William Booth ▲▲

Committee of 33 D.V. and Ida J.

McEachern Charitable Trust ▲

HerRay! Foundation Lee and Stuart Rolfe

Family Foundation Ellen Look and Tony

Cavalieri ▲Eleanor and Charlie

Nolan ▲▲

Peg and Rick Young Foundation

Seattle Foundation ▲▲

Seattle Garden Club ▲Tateuchi Foundation Barbara and Charlie

Wright ▲

$10,000+

Amazon ▲Anonymous (2) Betty Bottler ▲▲

Susan and Brad Brickman ▲

City of Seattle ▲Judith and Steven

Clifford ▲▲

Jody Foster and John Ryan ▲

Brian Giddens and Steve Rovig ▲▲

Jodi Green and Mike Halperin ▲▲

Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation ▲

Heather and Jim Hughes ▲▲

Lani and Larry Johnson ▲▲

Jim and Diana Judson Erin and Brad Kahn ▲▲

William P. Ketcham ▲Kirkpatrick Family

Foundation Linda Larson and

Gerry Johnson ▲▲

Carla and Don Lewis ▲▲

Carol Lewis and Tom Byers ▲▲

Barbara and Michael Malone ▲

Katie and Kyle McCoy ▲

Glen and Alison Milliman ▲

Moccasin Lake Foundation

Nesholm Family Foundation ▲▲

Nintendo of America Inc.

Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation ▲

Ordinary People Foundation ▲

PCC Natural Markets ▲Plumb Level & Square

Fund Kathie and Doug

Raff ▲▲

Richard Nelson Ryan Foundation ▲

Samis Land Company Seattle Tilth

Association Maryanne Tagney and

David Jones ▲▲

TEW Foundation Brad and Danielle

Tilden Lolly and David

Victor ▲Walker Family

Foundation ▲▲

Willowmoor Foundation ▲

Rick and Debbie Zajicek ▲

$5,000+

Molly and Marco Abbruzzese

Chap and Eve Alvord ▲▲

Thatcher Bailey ▲Bainum Family

Foundation Bank of America ▲Linda and Charles

Barbo Blanton Turner Ken Bounds and Linda

Gorton ▲▲

Allegra Calder and Gabriel Grant

Barbee and James Crutcher ▲▲

Betsey Curran and Jonathan King ▲

Deupree Family Foundation

eNotes.com, Inc. ▲▲

Goldman Sachs & Co. ▲

Roy Hamrick and Stephen Carstens ▲▲

Barb and Doug Herrington ▲

Celestia Higano and Jack Singer

Gretchen Hull ▲▲

Nancy Iannucci and Harvey Jones ▲

Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation

Marianne Kraus Franny and Casey

Mead ▲Yazmin Mehdi and

Liam Lavery ▲Microsoft ▲▲

John and Harriett Morton ▲▲

Tom Neir and Sally Otten

Tom and Erin Neubauer ▲

Jeannie and Bruce Nordstrom ▲

Pacifica Law Group

Pete and Pat Curran Family Fund

Beth and Chris Purcell ▲▲

QuoteWizard Raikes Foundation REI ▲▲

Schwab Charitable Seneca Group ▲Burke Stansbury and

Kristin Hanson Dan and Ann

Streissguth ▲▲

Robert and Katie Strong ▲

Myra Tanita and Peter Young ▲▲

Chris and David Towne ▲▲

Huong Vu and Bill Bozarth ▲

$2,500+

1910 Fairview Project Alki Elementary School Phoebe Andrew ▲▲

Jerry Arbes and Anne Knight ▲▲

Boeing ▲▲

Debbi and Paul Brainerd ▲▲

Brooks Sports Inc. Elizabeth Dunn Barbara Feasey and

Bill Bryant ▲▲

Fidelity Charitable Neal Friedman and

Jane Fellner Dr. Howard Frumkin

and Joanne Silberner

Robert Galvin Gary and Vicki

Glant ▲▲

Carole Grayson James L. Green Winifred and Peter

Hussey JJ Jacobi and

Erik Neumann ▲Kate Kingen Doris Koo and Edward

Chu Local Independent

Charities of America ▲

Pamela and Bob McCabe ▲▲

Lyn McCracken ▲Matthew Meltzer Miyake Family

Charitable Grants Bob and Constance

Moser O’Brien Investment

Company Pacific Continental

Bank ▲Judy Pigott ▲▲

Roberta Riley and Peter Mason ▲

Stuart and Lee Rolfe ▲▲

Jon and Judy Runstad ▲▲

Runstad Foundation Janice Sears and

Thomas Brown ▲Security Properties

Selander O’Brien Attorneys

Mary Sheehan Ron and Eva Sher ▲Patricia Solberg Starbucks Coffee

Company ▲Scott and Jennifer

Wyatt ▲Jane Zalutsky and

Mark Kantor $1,000+

Peter Ackroyd and Joan Alworth

Aegis Living Alaska Airlines Nancy Alvord ▲▲

Richard and Nancy Alvord ▲▲

American Endowment Foundation

Elizabeth Anderson Lyle and Betty

Appleford ▲▲

Brad and Linda Augustine

Azose Commercial Properties

Barbara Bailey Mark and Heather

Barbieri ▲Doug and Mary

Bayley ▲Thomas Bayley Bel-Air Garden Club Fraser and Deirdre

Black ▲▲

Tina Bullitt ▲▲

Sally Burkhart and Hugh Rubin

Shari J. Burns Connie Carlson, Fran &

Barb Cook, & Layne Cook Johnson

Kelly Clark William E. and Amy

Clise Sharon and Ken

Coleman ▲Stacey Crawshaw-

Lewis and Jeff Lewis

Dagmar and Robert Cronn

Allison Curd-Entzminger and Michael Entzminger

Eliza Davidson and Randy Urmston ▲▲

Leonora and Jesse Diller

Dorothy Lemelson Trust

Anjali D’Souza and Peter Meis

Andrea Dwyer and Kristi Lloyd

Ann Fagan ▲▲

Ellen Ferguson ▲▲

Jerry and Gunilla Finrow ▲▲

Mark Foltz Becky Frank Rickie J. Friedli/Giono Friends of Seattle’s

Olmsted Parks ▲▲

Noreen and Fritz Frink ▲▲

David Fukuhara

Carole Fuller and Evan Schwab ▲

Lisa Garbrick Katharyn Alvord

Gerlich ▲▲

Susan Glynn ▲Joan Gray and Harris

Hoffman ▲▲

Blake and Erika Grayson

Donald and Gayle Harris ▲▲

Jane Hedreen and David Thyer ▲

Constance Hellyer Jan Hendrickson Arlene Holtan Sara Hoppin ▲▲

Bill Horder ▲▲

C. David Hughbanks ▲▲

Kilroy Hughes Hunters Capital LLC Lucile and David

James James E & Constance

L Bell Foundation Japanese Cultural &

Community Center of WA

David M. Jenkins ▲Robert Jenkins Kaj Johansen John Y. and Reiko E.

Sato Foundation Trust

Theodore and Linda Johnson ▲▲

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Mary and Peter Kerr King & Oliason PLLC Wendy Koch Bernadette and Roland

Kumasaka Lakewood Seward

Park Community Club

Matt and Leslie Leber Sharon Lee ▲Tara Lee and Daniel

Hickey Greg and Corina

Linden ▲Phil and Karen

Lloyd ▲▲

Christina and James Lockwood ▲▲

Madrona Venture Group LLC

Stephen and Lori Markowitz ▲

Darrin Massena Thomas and Carolee

Mathers ▲▲

Anne and Rick Matsen ▲▲

Craig McKibben and Sarah Merner ▲▲

Robin and Craig Medin Janis Medley Sharon Meehan Sandy Melzer and

Ellen Evans ▲Hilary and Dan

Mohr ▲▲

Anna and Matthew Moore ▲

Malcolm and Phoebe Ann Moore ▲

William and Sally Neukom

Thank you! The following are current donors to Seattle Parks Foundation as of September 1, 2016.

5 years of giving ▲ 10 years of giving ▲▲

Janet Nickerson and Jay Moss

Norberg Family Foundation ▲▲

Roger Nyhus ▲▲

Karen O’Brien and Jeff Hall

Mary O’Brien Anthony Oliver Oregon Community

Foundation Andrea and Aaron

Ostrovsky Mark Ostrow Carol Ottenberg ▲Valerie Payne ▲▲

David Perlin and Mary Pembroke Perlin ▲▲

Jocelyn Phillips and Warren Bakken ▲▲

Kathleen Pierce ▲▲

Pike Place Market David and Lindsay

Price Darlene Pursley Patricia and Richard

Radeke ▲Brooks and Susie

Ragen ▲▲

Chip and Tina Ragen Merlin Rainwater ▲Ann Ramsay-Jenkins ▲Scott Redman ▲Kreg Reichstein Anthony Repanich and

Julie Florida Carrie Delaney

Rhodes ▲▲

Kathy and Chris Robertson ▲▲

Catherine Roosevelt and Caroline Maillard ▲

Jean and William Rosen

Helen Runstein ▲Cathy Sarkowsky ▲▲

Carl Schaber ▲Cleo Selandar Robert Shawcroft P.J. Sheehy Brad Shutzberg and

Kelly Herrington Langdon Simons ▲▲

Charles P. Sitkin ▲▲

Louise Sloneker-Maison

Sound Planning Meetings & Events

Starbucks Matching Gifts Program ▲

Stephanie Clifford Charitable Remainder Trust

Jane Stonecipher Benjamin and Andrea

Streissguth ▲Helen Stusser ▲Mr. John S. Teutsch

and Ms. Mary Foster ▲▲

Liza and Jay Turley Vanguard Charitable Todd Vogel and Karen

Hust ▲Jean Walkinshaw ▲▲

Ruth and Todd Warren ▲

Washington Women’s Foundation

Pam Weeks and Pamm Hanson ▲

Paul Weiden and Bev Linkletter ▲▲

Ted Weinberg Judith A. Whetzel ▲

Robert and Sara Wicklein

Frederick and Beverly Wiggs

Rosalind and Ron Williams

Windermere Corporation

Wittmann Cardinal Fund at The Seattle Foundation ▲

Steven and Mary Wood ▲▲

Barbara Wright and Dwight Gee ▲▲

Howard S. Wright III and Kate Janeway ▲▲

Ann Wyckoff ▲▲

Kathi Young Marcia Zech

$500+

Talis Abolins and Marla Steinhoff

Denis Adair ▲Dana Anderson and

Moses Garcia Juliet Anderson Virginia Anderson Joel and Sandy

Aslanian Allison Augustyn and

Mike Kollins Brad and Sally

Bagshaw ▲▲

Bruce Bailey and Heidi Barrett ▲

Anne and Geoffrey Barker

Ted and Heather Barker ▲

Barking Dog Alehouse Peter Barlow Mr. & Mrs. William M.

Black ▲▲

Blackrock Jabe Blumenthal and

Julie Edsforth Jeremy Bronson Jeff and Susan

Brotman Dorothy Bullitt ▲Barbara Calvo Michael Cannon Joni Cervenka ▲▲

Elaine Chang and Jon Brock

Charitable Adult Rides & Services, Inc.

Terry Cook Michael and Sheila

Cory ▲Keelin Curran and

Jack Brummet Karen Daubert and

Jared Smith ▲▲

Daphne Dejanikus and Julian Simon ▲

Barbara J. Dingfield ▲▲

Adam Dodge Lori Dugdale Vasiliki Dwyer Joe and Marsann Drew

Easterday Erin Fairley and Bill

Patz ▲▲

John Feit Sibyl Frankenburg and

Steven Kessel Fremont Brewing

Company Gary Fuller and Randy

Everett Joseph and Terri

Gaffney ▲Julie Gerrard ▲▲

Google Genna Gormley and

Ian Freed Debra and Kurt

Guenther Brie Gyncild ▲Paul and Barbara Haas Thomas Hall Michele and David

Hasson ▲Richard & Betty

Hedreen ▲▲

Anne Helmholz ▲▲

Jason Henry Michael and Julia

Herschensohn ▲Catherine Hillenbrand

and Joseph Hudson Carol and Will

Hodgman ▲Christopher Hoffman Lee Holcomb ▲Maggie Hooks Lewis Horowitz Kai Ichikawa and Brad

Davis Dr. Lewis Johnson ▲▲

Pam and Jack Jolley Maryann Jordan and

Joe McDonnell Heather Wynnia Kerr Kimball Elementary

PTSA Marianne and Wiley

Kitchell Phyllis Lamphere ▲▲

Landscape Agents ▲Christopher and Alida

Latham ▲▲

William Lawrence Robert Leach and

Catherine Otto ▲▲

Lex Lindsey and Lynn Manley ▲▲

Alex Loeb and Ethan Meginnes

Richard Lundeen Louisa and Scott

Malatos George and Beverly

Martin ▲▲

Peter and Yalonda Masundire

Melissa Milburn Beth and Samuel Miller Erin Miller Melissa Mixon Tammy Morales and

Harry Teicher John Mullan NBBJ ▲Emily Neff Nancy Neraas and

Mike King ▲Matthew and Tiffany

Nguyen Shannon Nichol Peter and Lisa Nitze Sheila Noonan and

Peter Hartley Paulo and Elsa

Nunes-Ueno Andy Oakley ▲Laurie O’Brien Joy Ordal ▲Robert E. Ordal ▲▲

Jennifer and Brad Ott Pinnacle Gardens

Foundation Andrew Price ▲▲

Joseph Puggelli Prem and Laurie

Radheshwar ▲Ragen and Associates,

LLC ▲Jeff Reibman David Reyes and

Stephen Hegg

Jean Alvord Rhodes ▲▲

Owen Richards Charles and Janice

Rohrmann Mike and Edith

Ruby ▲▲

Jennifer Sobieraj Sanin Saratoga Charitable

Foundation Joe Schneider David Seater Seattle Children’s

Hospital ▲Omar Shahine David Shema and

Virginia Tripp ▲

Michael Shiosaki and Ed Murray ▲▲

Brad Silverberg Aaron Smith and

Jonathan Starling ▲Social Venture

Partners Rose Southall ▲▲

Eric Taylor and Sheena Aebig ▲

Pamela and Ronald Taylor ▲

Catherine Thayer ▲Jack and Gayle

Thompson Sally Tsutsumoto and

Jan Harumi Gokami

Frank Tubridy and Gerrie Hashisaki ▲

Lucas Ventino Vios Cafe Catherine Walker and

David Fuqua James Walseth ▲Lee Warnecke and

Claire Gifford Watershed Pub &

Kitchen Steven Wayne Walter Weber Wechsler Foundation Sara and Jason

Weiland Jason Weill

Sally Bagshaw, Seattle City Councilmember

“I believe we need great public spaces that meet the needs of a growing city and are welcoming to all. I joined the Parks Legacy Circle because great parks equals great cities.”

Join Sally Bagshaw and name Seattle Parks Foundation in your will today.

The Parks Legacy Circle honors those who have included Seattle Parks Foundation in their will, life insurance policy, IRA, or other estate plans.

PARKS LEGACY CIRCLE

For more information, call Betsey Curran at

206.332.9900 x15 or go to:

seattleparksfoundation.org/givethroughyourwill

John and Sarah Weinberg

Wells Fargo ▲Gwen Wessels John Wott ▲

$250+

Julie Allen and Stephan Doll

Maxine and David Alloway

Katherine Alberg Anderson & Josh Anderson ▲▲

Sarah and Bob Alsdorf Gilia Angell and Aaron

Abrams Brian Arbogast Becca and Anthony

Aue ▲Cinnimin Avena Sybil Barney and Joel

Shepard ▲▲

Peter Baum and Mayumi Yagi ▲

Michelle Beebe Dana and Rena

Behar ▲John and Shari

Behnke ▲▲

Ruth Bell John and Carol

Belton ▲Teresa Bledsoe Jack and Maralyn

Blume ▲▲

Ros Bond and Jill Marsden ▲▲

Mark Brands Rear Admiral Herb

Bridge and Edie Hilliard ▲▲

Paul Buchanan Mary Jo and Patrick

Burns William and Christine

Campbell Canterbury Ale House Cassie Carroll Cedric and Christine

Chauvet ▲Linda Kent and James

Corson ▲Thomas Craig Cyrus Cryst and Ann

Merryfield ▲▲

Scott Cunningham Barbara and Jeff

Curran ▲Scott Daniels Juliette and David

Delfs ▲Frances DeMarco ▲Ren Dietel Lyndsay Downs and

Ed Lazowska Dan Drais and Jane

Mills ▲Ann Duncan Jim and Gaylee

Duncan ▲Pat and Susan

Dunn ▲▲

Pamela and Kenneth Eakes

David Enslow Expedia ▲Richard and Evelyn

Fairchild Tim Farrell Jessica Feldman Laura Fife Virginia and Lester

Filion ▲Fleet Feet Flying Squirrel Pizza

Janet and Doug Footh ▲▲

Christie and Eidon Franz

Diana Gale and Jerry Hillis ▲

Jo Anne Garbe Stanley Gartler ▲▲

Russell and Susan Goedde

Pam and Joshua Green III ▲▲

Greenwood Business Builder

Gregg’s Greenlake Cycle, Inc.

Phyllis Hatfield ▲▲

Franklin Hazlehurst Ray Heacox and

Cynthia Huffman ▲Ted and Carol Hegg Janet Heineck Megan Helmer Gloria Hennings ▲Caroline Higgins ▲Elizabeth Hubbard Jeff Hummel Laura Inveen and Bill

Shaw Steve Isaacson and

Carol Milne Debra Kelley Patricia Killam Anne Kimball ▲Diana Kincaid and

Matthew Perkins ▲Kinetic Sports Rehab Michael and Beret

Kischner ▲▲

Robin Knepper Bradley Kramer David LaSarte-MeeksJana Mohr Lone Sheila Lukehart and

Jim Brinkley ▲Maritime Pacific

Brewing Company Ellen Markman Brice and Bridgette

Maryman Matter/French Family Ryan McCorvie Marcie McHale Marina and Eric

McVittie Jane Meyerding ▲Bruce and Elizabeth

Miller ▲▲

Laura Miller Apurva Mishra and

Kashina Groves Shizuka Miyano ▲Tyler Moriguchi Motorola Solutions John Narver and

Roberta DeVore ▲▲

Neil Family Fund New Roots Organics

Inc. Peggy and Hal

Newsom ▲Rebecca Norlander

and James Allard Paul O’Brien Jennifer Ogden Aaron Pambianco Daniel Park Jamie Pedersen and

Eric Pederson ▲▲

Sandra Perkins and Jeffrey Ochsner ▲

Josh Piper Olivia Pi-Sunyer and

Andrew DeVore Pittsburgh History

& Landmarks Foundation

PlayCreation, Inc.

Sarah Pohlmann Brent Ponton-Welty Susan and Bill Potts Proletariat Pizza LLC Queen Anne Eye Clinic Cameron and Tori

Ragen ▲▲

Rainier Valley Historical Society

Razzi’s Pizzeria RealNetworks Paula Riggert ▲Debbie and Barrett

Rochefort ▲▲

David Rodgers ▲Gail Ann Rossi Kristin and Chris Ryan Jackie Saunders Barbara Schinzinger

and Jorge Garcia ▲Jeff and Julie

Schoenfeld ▲▲

William Schwartz ▲▲

Doris Schwinkendorf Michael Scott Steve Sheehy and

Davis Bergman Tucker Shouse Barb and Ron Sim Lee Smith Todd Smith David Smukowski Stan Sorscher Standard Insurance Co Carlyn Steiner Stephen Sullivan

Designs Faye Stephens Jean and Pierre

Sundborg ▲Tableau Foundation

Employee Engagement Fund

Roger and Gayle Terriere

Liz Thomas and Ron Roseman

Steven and Patricia Trainer ▲

John Trench Cathy Tuttle ▲Shanna and Ryan

Waite Colleen Walsh Shizue Wang Rogers and Julie Weed The Westy Sports &

Spirits Tom and Lyn White ▲▲

Whole Foods Market John Charles Williams

and Danielle Cuvillier

Lena Williams Larry and Susan

Winn ▲Christina and Philip

Wohlstetter ▲Dabney and Chris

Youtz Arthur P. Ziegler

$100+Audrey Aboulafia and

David Aboulafia ▲John Acosta Cheri Adams Dina Alhadeff Ken and Marleen

Alhadeff ▲Leonard and Gaylene

Altman Jihan Anderson and

Luke Deryckx Mary Jane and Gilbert

Anderson ▲▲

Nancy Anderson

Ruth Anderson and Scott Blaufeux ▲

Anonymous (3) ▲Robin Aronson Vicki Asakura Carolyn Auvil Jerry and Mary

Bach ▲▲

Marianne Bage Ross Baker ▲Yvonne and Walter

Banks Gregory Barnes Kesavulu Baskar Christopher and

Cynthia Bayley ▲▲

Charles Beames Garrison Belles Hope Belles Michelle Benetua Michelle Primley

Benton John Berdes Mearl Bergeson ▲▲

Elizabeth Berggren Bonnie Berk and Larry

Kessler Patricia Marcus and

Richard Berley ▲Marcus Berley Laura and Leon

Bernstein Stacy Birk-Risheim and

Jan Risheim Barry Blanton Lee and Bill Blume ▲▲

Karen Bohmke Scott Bonjukian Kimberly and Harvey

Bowen ▲▲

Mark Boyar Alan Breen Morry and Wanda

Browne ▲Donald Brubeck Fred and Jane Buckner Michael Burke Kate Burns Mark Busto and

Maureen Lee ▲Ellen Butzel Catherine Calvert Michael and Diana

Caplow Eric Carnell Amanda Carr Margaret Carr Doug Chapman Charity Gift

Certificates David and Lynne

Chelimer ▲▲

Pete and Merrily Chick ▲▲

Ashley Clark and Chris Manojlovic

Marianna Clark and Charles Schafer ▲

Michael Clevenger Karen Colbert Anita and Taylor

Collings ▲▲

Theodore and Patricia Collins ▲

Thelma Coney ▲▲

Ruth Conn ▲▲

Michael Conte Bob and Bev Corwin ▲Dawn Cotter and Mark

Del Beccaro ▲Cambria Cox Jeff Crandall Ms. Mary-Carter

Creech ▲Carolyn Crockett and

Bob Brooks ▲Crowley Associates

Regina and Greg Crumbaker

Cris Cyders Teresa Damaske ▲Barbara and Ted

Daniels Andrew and Katherine

Dannenberg Michael Davidson and

Gertrude Pacific Kate Day and Chris

Farnsworth ▲Anthony and Ann De

Rocco Robert Decker Jean Deguchi Leon Deturenne ▲Jennifer Devore Idalice Dickinson ▲▲

Mary Dickinson John H. Dise III Heather Dolin Jim and Barb

Donnette ▲▲

James Douglas and Sasha Harmon ▲▲

Axel and Gladys Drugge

Kathleen Drummey Nancy Dulaney Diane Dunbar and

Leonard Larson ▲Ruth Dunlop ▲Peter Dunwiddie Steve and Chris

Durrant Stephen Dwyer Eagle Rock Ventures

LLC Kris Edwards Suzanna Egolf Thomas and Sandra

Eichbaum Sarah and David

Eitelbach Ron Endlich Dean Ericksen James Erlewine David Eskenazi Ed Essey Laurine Fabrick Jim and Birte Falconer Gary Fallon and Leona

DeRocco Bill Farmer Frank Fay and Nicole

Provost ▲▲

James Fearn ▲Eric Feldman Barbara and Tim

Fielden ▲Prisclla Fitzhugh John Flinn and Bill

Hollands Timothy Fliss Laurie and Brian Flynn Evelyn Frassrand Kelly Frawley ▲Stanley and Cynthia

Freimuth ▲Stanley Fremont ▲Phyllis Friedman ▲Friends of Seward Park Mark Funke James Gale

and Virginia McDermott ▲

Faye and Gary Gallagher ▲

Barak Gaster Richard and Mary Beth

Gemperle Pat Gibbon and

Nalani Askov A. E. Gilbert Christina and Ian

Gilman Jonathan Glick

Eldan Goldenberg Elizabeth and Zagoroff

Goodfellow Nancy Goodno ▲Kim Gould and

Michelle Osborne Gould ▲

Marty Gould ▲▲

Allen and Carol Gown ▲

Ted Gross Elizabeth Hale Jeanne and Gerry Hall Susan Hamilton Marijane Hancock Faith Haney Ryan Harrison Cherie Hasson Jun and Alice

Hayakawa Susan and Benjamin

Hempstead ▲Highliner Public House Gregory Hill and

Elizabeth Campbell ▲▲

Hinterland Investments Jean Hobart ▲▲

Carol Hoerster Kate Hokanson Jennifer and Jon

Holder M.P. Holton Sarah Horth John Howell Sarah Hufbauer ▲Robert and Mary

Hunter Christine Hynes and

Mark Mumford Kichio and Roberta

Ishimitsu Nobuko Ishimitsu Eric Ishino and Ron

Shiley ▲Dawn Jacobson Julian and Katherine

Jiggins Amy and Ronald

Johnson ▲▲

Kristi Ann Jones John Kane and Jake

Weber ▲Hitesh Kanwathirtha Nazim Karmali Laura Kastner and

Philip Mease ▲Etsuko M. Kawaguchi Beth and William

Kawahara John and Brenda

Keating Olin and Judith

Keller ▲Kristin Kennell ▲David and Louise

Kessler ▲Serena Jean Ketcham Uday Khanna David Kimelman and

Karen Butner ▲▲

Jeff King Kelly King and Dave

BredeQuentin King and Glen

Kriekenbeck Sage Kitamorn Bob and Carolyn

Kitchell ▲▲

Virginia Kitchell ▲Pam Kliment ▲Dale Kodama Izaak and Rachel Koller Judy Koven Janet Kubota Henry Kuharic ▲Yu-Hang Kuo Edie Lackland ▲▲

Harriet LaMair Shava Lawson and

John Mangum ▲Laxdall Family ▲▲

Carolyn Leaver ▲Donna J. Leftwich Philip Leonard and

Star Leonard-Fleckman

Mary Jo Leonardson Jerrold and Renee

Leong Ann Lev and Kathleen

Morgan Marjorie Levar ▲▲

Linda Lewis ▲Penny Lewis ▲Betsey Lieberman and

Richard Groomer Tom Linde David Loffing and

Allison Hooper Julie and Tom

Lombardo Nancy Long Dr. Gregory Lopez Barbara and Robert

Ludwig Deborah and David

Lycette Valerie Lynch and

Putnam Barber ▲▲

Kathy Lynch Shawn MacDougall

and Laura Grow Theodora Mace May Macnab and

Alexandra Ornston George and Irene

Mano Douglas MacDonald Marination LLC Thomas and Cricket

Markl

Judsen Marquardt and Constance Niva ▲

Christine Marshall ▲▲

Jim Marshall ▲Don Martin ▲▲

Frank Martinez and Deborah Nimmons

Tsugio Matsui Brenda Matter and

Bruce Crowley Judith McBroom Zebedee McCall Maria McDaniel Carol and Bob

McDonald Annett McPherson Ann and Robin Melvin Maya Mendoza-

Exstrom Katherine and Eric

Merrifield ▲Angela Meyer ▲Anne Miller Carmen Miller ▲Leslie Miller and

Matthew Hendel Donald and Pamela

Mitchell Tracy Mitchell ▲Tamiko Miyano Jo and Peter

Momcilovich Kerry Mooney and

Susan Everett ▲Brad Moore John Morford ▲▲

Kenzo and Carol Moriguchi

Conor Morrison William Mortensen David Moseley and

Anne Fennessy ▲Manette Moses and

Dan Jayne Stephanie L. Murphy

Mutual Fish Company, INC

Pamela and Ted Myers Junior Nagaki and

Janice Nakamura JoAnne and Steven

Nakamura Terry Nakano Meigs Naylor Jim and Susan Neff ▲▲

Sue and David Nicol Kim Niino Craig and Deanna

Norsen ▲▲

Pamela Okano Nancy and Stephen

Olsen ▲Marty and Robin

Oppenheimer Sara Oshikawa-Clay Don Padelford and Sue

Livingstone Margaret Padelford ▲▲

Darryl Pahl and Lisa Ondrejcek

Adam Parast Marschel Paul Karen Pavlidis and

Sean Draine Ruth Pelz Michael and Susan

Peskura ▲Elizabeth Pfender and

Bill Clark ▲▲

Stephen Phillips Susan Pierce Page Pless Dinny Polson ▲▲

Karen Portzer Dewey Potter ▲▲

Neil Powers Brad and Caroline

Probst ▲Robert Prongray ▲

Megan and Greg Pursell ▲▲

P.Y. Sugamura Jr., & Co., P.S.

Charles B. Ragen and Chen Ragen

Amit Ranade and Jennifer Faubion

Cody Rank Murray and Wendy

Raskind ▲William and Theresa

Reed Lisa Richmond Gladys Rimbey Rudolf Risler Jonathan and

Elizabeth Roberts ▲Iain Robertson and

Hady De Jong ▲Sharon Rodgers Dr. Roger Roffman Sandra S. Rook ▲Kimerly Rorshach Lara Rose Donald and Jo Anne

Rosen ▲▲

Jude Rosenberg Gordon Rosenthall Sarah Ross-Viles Catherine Roth ▲Mark and Jen Roth John Rothschild and

Laura Vernum David Rudo ▲Jennifer Russell and

Read Handyside ▲Amy and Peter Sajer Karen and Masaharu

Sakata Elizabeth and Sophie

Sall Margaret Santolla ▲Tsutomu Sasaki and

Yoko Sasaki

Satori Software Frederick and Connie

Scheetz Barbara Schell Lynn Schnapp Eric and Tera Schreiber Carleen Schwartz Marianne Scruggs Tina Sederholm Allison Seidel ▲Dennis Shaw and Julie

Howe ▲Eiko and Poa Dean Eiji

Shibayama James and Grace

Shibayama Mitzi Shimabukuro Peter Shmock Leah and Eric Sieg Betina Simmons and

Ian Blaine Glen G. Simmons Site Workshop LLC Carol and Mark

Slosberg Christopher Smith Walter Smith and

Mary-Alice Pomputius

Maxine Snyder Claude and Susan

Soudah Christine Soverel Charles Sparling ▲Andrea Stanton Courtlandt Stanton Bernadette Starszak Lisa and Brent Sterritt Reinhard Stettler Diane Stevens ▲Ivan Storck Laurie Stusser-McNeil

and KC McNeil ▲▲

Jo Lynn Sullivan

Kathryn and Susan Suyama

Wayne and Natalie Suyenaga

Janet Syferd ▲Deborah Tahara Emiko Takahashi Mark and Catherine

Takisaki Reba Tam Tarragon LLC Samuel Taylor Calvin Tennis Mary Anne Thorbeck ▲Norm Tjaden ▲Victoria Tobin Eileen and Peter Tokita Sammy I. O. M. Uchida U.S. Charitable Gift

TrustJanice and Neill Urano Tjitske and Pieter Van

der Meulen ▲Allison Vasallo Jean VelDyke Alison Verney Paul Vonckx and

Zanny Milo ▲Christina Wagner Pat and Ed Wagner ▲▲

Marcia Wagoner John Walser Justine Way Martha Ways and Tim

Lee John Weeks and Jeana

Kimball ▲Reitha and Russell

Weeks ▲Robert Weeks and

Sally Shintaffer Vicki Weeks and David

Jones Wendy Weeks Michael Weidermann

Newlyweds Tiffany Vu and Matt Nguyen recently made a

gift to Seattle Parks Foundation in honor of their June 2016

nuptials. Rather than ask family and friends to donate in

their names, they made the gift themselves. “Parks are part

of who we feel we are as a couple,” says Vu. “We want parks

to be around for the rest of our lives together.”

Now living in California, Vu, 27, is completing her medical

residency at Loma Linda University, and Nguyen, 31, is a

programmer at Group Health Cooperative. Both grew up

in the Puget sound region and enjoyed parks as children.

When they met as adults, their love of parks was a shared

joy that has produced many happy memories. In particular,

Green Lake Park holds a special place in their hearts.

“Many of our first dates were there, just walking around the

lake, and we continue to go there to this day,” says Nguyen.

Vu and Nguyen return to Seattle as often as possible to

see family, and they still feel a strong connection to the

community despite their distance. And parks continue to

be a part of their lives as a couple. “We love to hang out,

walk, grab food for a picnic,” says Nguyen. “Most of the

time it is just the two of us.”

Falling in Love with Parks

Newlyweds Tiffany Vu and Matt Nguyen at North Passage Point Park between Lake Union and Portage Bay. Photo by Jordan Voth

Richard and Ann Roman Weiner ▲

Julie Weisbach Jacquinot and Bob

Weisenbach James and Donna

Weller ▲Ms. Joella Werlin Regan Wesley-

Kirschner Blake Westerdahl Maura Whalen

and Michael Rosenberger

Shawn Wheeler Peter and Anne

Marie Wick ▲David Wiemer ▲Daniel and Annie

Wilson Cindy Winegar Susan Winokur and

Paul Leach Glenn Withey and

Charles Price ▲Barry and Cora Wixey Peter Womble Doug and Susan

Woods ▲▲

Stephen Worth Frank and Irene

Wurden Joe Yabuki Rick Yoder Lanfang You Douglas R. Young Carol Ann Zebold Up to $99Gary and Robin

Ackerman ▲▲

Charles and Marylou Adams

Lillian Adamski-Thorpe Audra and Eric

Adelberger ▲Elinor Adman Jesús and Monica

Aguirre A.J. Alfieri-Crispin Amber and Carmine

Allison Amazon Smile Amgen Foundation ▲▲

Carole Sherry Anderson

Suzanne and William Anderson

E.W. Andrews III & Gretchen Hund ▲

Bryony Angell Anonymous (8) Gina and Timothy

Antsey Lynn Arends Vivian Ares John and Cheryl

Avery ▲▲

Azuma Gallery Karin Baer Kim Baldwin Paul Baldwin Walter and Christa

Barke ▲▲

Mark Barnard Michael and Abby

Barnett Robin Barr Hugh Barraclough Sasha Baylor Oliver Bazinet Adrieanna Beard Judith and Allen

Bentley Stephen Bentsen John Berg and Rob

Roth Ellis Bernau

Kathy and Keith Biever ▲

Betina Simmons Blaine Mark Blitzer ▲▲

Carolyn Blount Marjorie Boetter ▲▲

Sharon Boguch Marie Bolster ▲Jan Boot Gino Borland Steve Bowles Phillip Bozarth-Dreher Fumiko and Daniel

Bretzke Tony Bright and Jeff

Gregory Leslie Brown Lynn Bursten Roger and Heidi Bush Stephanie Cameron Patricia Campbell Luther and Frances

Carr Jennifer and Ken

Carter Adrienne Caver-Hall

▲▲

Carmen Cejudo Audrey and Philip

Chanen Mary Charles Lisa Chun and Josh

Brevoort Josie Clark Lisa Clark Michael Clements Laura Clenna Sara Coe Columbia City Bakery Lou and R Bruce

Colwell ▲▲

Megan and Edward Conklin

Kathleen Conner and Stephen Butler

Kay Louise Cook ▲Linda and John Creed Barbara Culbertson

Allen and Joe Leinonen

Kai Curtis Carolyn Dapper Gregory Davis Susan Davis Kristin DeLancey ▲▲

Beverly Denton Mary Diggs-Hobson

and Lee Hobson Melissa Dison Sally and Mark

Ditzler ▲Sydney Dobson Barbara Downward Paul Drachler Leslie Dresdner Janet Duecy Michael and Rosemary

Dunigan Kathleen Dunn Mark Durfee ▲Rebecca Durham and

Patrick McDonald Susan Dwyer-Shick Judy and Marshall

Eaton Robert Elleman Elizabeth and Stephen

Ellmann Andreas Enderlein Nikki English Gina Englund Emily Ericsen Kevin Fansler and

Richard Isaac Feet First Stephen Fesler Field Roast Annabelle Fitts

Ruth Flanders ▲Amy Fleetwood Anne Focke Amy and Barry

Fortier ▲Joanne Foster ▲Rebecca Fox and

Robert Heller Lanny French Etsuko Fujishima ▲Andrew Funk Franklin Furlong Robert Furlong Jay Gairson and

Celeste Gilman Julie Gardner Steven Gary and Elinor

Graham Genie and Paul

Gengler ▲▲

Deanna Getz Lynda Giddens ▲Rita Gill Kenneth Gillgren John and Tareyn

Gillilan Richard Gold and

Celeste Ericsson KC Golden Andy Gordon and

Margo Gordon David Gordon Michael Graham-

Squire and Sharon Lerman

Richard Greene ▲Joanna Grist and Jim

O’Donnell ▲Donald Guinee ▲▲

Warren Guykema Tamara Guyton Ann Haas Tom and Rosemary

Hackett ▲▲

Jennifer Hall Marga Rose Hancock Sally Hanft ▲Kathleen Hansen-Stine Julie Hanson-Heumann Rita and Noboru Hara Wier and Barbara

Harman Councilmember Bruce Harrell

Linda Harris Fred Hasegawa Timothy Haskins Amy Haugerud ▲▲

Naomi Hayashi Grover Haynes Charlotte Hellyer Dawn and Chris

Hemminger Kristi Hendrickson and

Dave Balaam Marlon Herrera Shelley Herrick Doug Hippe Michiko Hirata Katherine Hisert Samara Hoag and

Jeanne Dorn ▲▲

Ann Hobson and Roy Black ▲▲

Richard and Jeri Hodgin

Wesley Hodgson Ryan Hoffman The Holdcrofts Heather and Tyler

Hollenbeck John Hoyt Ellen Hui Humble Bundle Signe R. Hunter Patricia Hyland IBM ▲George Iftner

Tina Ireland John Irick Antonia Isarankura ▲J.A. Brennan

Associates, Pllc Charla Jaffee and

Martin Jaffee Charles Janeway Arlene and Thomas

Jermann JK Group B Michelle Johnson Jennifer Johnson Mary and Gifford

Jones Jimmy Kamada and

Shirley Miller Beth Kashner Carol and Walter

Kastrup Rose Kataoka Stuart Kaufman and

Sheryl Begoun Shirley and Gary

Kawasaki Bevin Keely Kathryn Keller and

Goldie Caughlan Lesa Keller Allegra Keys Deborah and Riley

Kidd Gene and Barbara

Kidder ▲▲

Elizabeth and Jason Kiker

Paul Knopf ▲▲

Thomas and Janet Kometani

Matthew Kortas Alexa and Abigail

Krafve Antje and Peter

Kretschmer Penelope Kriese Anne Kroeker and

Richard Leeds Daniel Kroll Jan and H.A Kumasaka Rebekka Kunder Kimmy Kunkle Patty Kuntz Monique Lada Anna and Julia Landa Mandy Landa Sierra Landholm Richard Lappin Westlee Latta Anson Laytner ▲Steve Lazen Michael Leaby Cosette LeCiel and

Harold McCrea Margaret Lemberg Rosemarie Lemoine Gehard and Eunice

Letzing Mark Levy and Marcia

Sohns Anne Lewis Jill Lightner Agnes Lim Nicholas Lim Alyson Littman ▲Kristen and Britten

Lohse Sharon London Edythe Bruce Lurie ▲▲

Lauri Lybeck Stacey MacDonald Macy’s, Inc. Suwako and James

Maeda Christopher Maines Makers Architecture &

Urban Design ▲Jeffrey Maki ▲Joseph Manson

Jacquelyn Marcella Markow Financial

Group Inc Cliff Marks ▲▲

Natasha Martin Mary Mason and

Thomas Whalen Takashi Matsui Daniel Mayberry Anna and Colin

McCartney Rachelle McCarty Steven McCoy and

Larry Henderson Reba and Cam

McIntyre Beverly McMullen William C. McQuinn Jr. Katherine McWilliams

and Curt Feig Meredith Corporation Alan Metayer ▲▲

Crystal Miller Mary Miller Rachel Miller Jacob Miner Marie Moffitt Isaac Mooers Hannah Morgan and

Owen Santos James and Jean

Morishima Sallie Morris Jennie Morrison Kate Morrison Wesley Moskal Allison Mountjoy Barbara Mugford Tui Mullein Andrea Murphy and

Kenneth Harder Naomi and Rodger

Murphy Catherine Murray Thomas Nash Joan E. Neville Sue Nevler Arleen Nomura Ann Norman Tom and Pat Norris Samantha Novak Maggie Nowakowska Mabel and Yoshitaka

Ogata Maxine Ogino John and Sharon

Okamoto Susan and Dennis

Okamoto Mark Okazaki William E. Oldehoff Allie Oosta Scot Orriss Tom Ostrom ▲Fionnuala O’Sullivan

and Randall Dill David and Sylvia Otani Tamlin and Thomas

Ott Ryan Packer Gordon Padelford Athena Pangan Allison Parker Mark Parker Mary H. Pease William Pease Ryan Pecha Peg and Rick Young

Foundation Shirley L. Peringer Louise Perlman John and Sue Perry Marie Peter Nora Peters Lauren Peterson Kate Pflaumer ▲▲

Gretchen Pickens

Kim and Christopher Pitre

Avery Pong Sabrina Pope Pricewaterhouse

Coopers Rainbow Natural

Remedies Rainier Investment

Management David Ralph ▲▲

Larry Rand Dagmar Randolph Sally Ray and

Katherine Ray English

Grace Reindel ▲▲

Kelly Rench Oswaldo Ribas and

Eugenia Chang ▲Ted Richardson Lexie Robbins ▲Meaghan Robbins Maria Robinson Junius Rochester ▲Celia Rodriguez Elizabeth Rosenthal ▲▲

Nita-Jo Rountree ▲Tomilyn Rupert Karen Russell Kim and Mike Ruthruff Helen Saito Rebecca Saldana and

David McGraw Len Salvador ▲Laura Sameshima and

Brian Ito Gordon and Jan

Sandison ▲▲

Joan Sandler ▲Shirley Savel Martin and Kathryn

Saxer David Schaefer and

Patricia Moriarty Michelle Scheff Paul Schmitz Sonya Louise

Schneider and Stuart Nagae

Carrie Schonwald Sally and Fritz

Schreder ▲▲

Richard Schroeter Katie Schubert Cheryl Scott Roger Scott and

Phyllis Tibbetts ▲Carolyn Searles and

James Goldman SeeYourImpact.org

(Anchor QEA) Robert Seko Jonathon Sharpe Mimi Sheridan ▲▲

Michi Shinohara and Nicholas Compton

Ronald Shure Patricia Siggs Fred Silverstein and

Eleanor Gerston ▲Mr. Cary Simmons Julia Sklar Charles Smith and

Eleanor Martinez Smith

Griffin Smith Matthew Smith Hugh and Joan

Sobottka ▲▲

Muriel G. Softli Sound Physical

Therapy Inc. Southeast Seattle

Crime Prevention Council

Nicole Southwell

David and Jannie Spain Ingrid and Don Sparrow Mark Spitzer Harry and Charlotte

Spizman ▲Evelyn Sroufe Mary K. Stair Margaret Steele Kimberly Steffensmeier Ron and Larilyn

Stenkamp ▲Elaine Stevens ▲Doug and Marcia

Stevenson ▲Claire Stimson Virginia Stout Karin Strand Susan Strauss and David

Lavitt Alison Stroll Steven and Karen Strong Lee Suitor George and Kim Suyama Katrina and Kevin Tabari Shireen Tabrizi Allan and Kayoko Terada Victoria Terao Max TeSoro Julia Thompson T-Mobile Nina Tomita-Kato and

Merwin Kato Alicia Toney Blake Trask Signa Treat ▲Lauren Tucker Tiffany Tudder Dan Turner The Urbanist Anna Uslontseva Kathleen VanDerAa John Vander Sluis Amelia Vasudevan Carolyn Walden ▲Ed Waldock and Melinda

Jodry ▲▲

Bruce Walker and Connie Walker

Caroline and Ian Wallace Carrie Wallace Karen West

Cheryl White Tim Whittome ▲Adrian Whorton Cathy Wickwire James and Mary Lou

Wickwire ▲Karen and Perry Wilkins Tandy Williams Steve Williamson and

Pramila Jayapal Micaela Willis and Clara

Ceramique Steve Wilson and Suzanne

Heidema ▲▲

Alex Woersching Wende Wood and Eric

Swanson ▲Alysha Yagoda Kaz Yasuda Nancy and Rob Yee John Yokohama and Diane

Yokohama Elaine and Pauline Yoshida Anya and Rafael Zimberoff Elizabeth Zimmerly Rob Zisette Brianne Zorn

Monthly DonorsRecognizing committed recurring donors

Denis AdairMarcus BerleySusan and Brad BrickmanPaul BuchananKelly FrawleyFranklin FurlongChris HarveyJeff HummelDiana Kincaid and Matthey

PerkinsShannon NicholAmit Ranade and Jennifer

FaubionAllison SeidelCharles Smith and Eleanor

Martinez SmithMax TeSoro

Public Support

City of SeattleEPAKing Conservation DistrictOffice of Economic

DevelopmentPort of SeattleSeattle Department of

NeighborhoodsSeattle Department of

TransportationSeattle Parks and

RecreationUnited Way of King

CountyUniversity of Washington

School of MedicineWallingford Community

Council

In-Kind Support

John BowdenCentral Co-opHearing, Speech, and

Deafness CenterHilliard’s BeerJune KuboAmy LaneLinda Larson and Gerry

JohnsonCarla and Don LewisOlson KundigPike Brewing CompanyAlison StrollUrban ArtworksJonathan Wiedemann

Honor GiftsSeattle Parks Foundation received gifts in honor of the following between January 1, 2015, and March 1, 2016.

Chris ApplefordJudy ArnoldDoug BaileyThatcher BaileyDennis BleserRolande Chesebro

Bobbie DavisDel DavisDiscovery ParkMichael DuffyPaige DunnFriends of Yesler Swamp

VolunteersSofie FriedmanPat HigginsMarriage of Donna and

Fred HofferJocelyn HorderWinky HusseyMary Hussman and Pat

GroomKichio IshimitsuCharles KovenEllen LookVince LyonMiles McClureKyle McCoyLois MeltzerErin MillerTobey PierceBrian SchaberCathy TuttleAllison VasalloDoug WalkerJim WeberRoberta WeeksAlexander WeilandJean WheelMary Jean WheelerTamu WiggsNickerson and Moss

Anniversary Dr. R.T. RavenholtJanet SchmidtVinod Mahasukhlal ShahJanet SnappAmara Doroshow SwevalCathy TuttleKrishna VenkateshDouglas WalkerJim WeberRoberta WeeksAlexander WeilandMary Jean WheelerChristian D. Youtz

Board of DirectorsPRESIDENT

Huong Vu

VICE PRESIDENT

Myra Tanita

SECRETARY

Jodi Green

TREASURER

Kyle McCoy

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Ross BakerBruce BlumeKen BoundsAllegra CalderSteve CliffordHoward FrumkinBrian GiddensGerry JohnsonBrad KahnGarrett KephartDoris KooCarla LewisCarol LewisMaya Mendoza-ExtromJohn NesholmCharles NolanPaulo Nunes-Ueno Beth PurcellDoug Raff*Chris TowneDavid VictorCharlie Wright

EX-OFFICIO

Jesús Aguirre

ADVISORY BOARD

Deirdre BlackBarbee Crutcher*Barbara Feasey*Hope GarrettC. David HughbanksGretchen HullBob RatliffeScott RedmanChris RogersStu RolfeMaggie WalkerSteve Wood*

* Founding board member

StaffThatcher BaileyMichelle BenetuaBetsey CurranRobert FurlongShava LawsonBritt LeErin MillerSean Watts

#GivingTuesday

A Global Day to Give Back

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Save the Date

Give Parks for All on #GivingTuesday

Photo by Brandon Rosenblum

NONPROFIT

ORGANIZATION

U.S. POSTAGE

PAID

SEATTLE, WA

PERMIT NO. 6933

105 South Main Street, #235Seattle, Washington 98104

seattleparksfoundation.org

ConnectionsSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION