Newer residents who have not experienced our ArtWalk may wonder what the fuss is about. Twelve years ago, a Leschi CC Board member came up with the idea that we should recognize our local artists and show off our local businesses at the same time by an event that put the two together. Kim Murillo was a photographer in her free time and knew how hard it is to find a venue for one’s work. Several of us felt this was an idea worth pursuing and gathered at monthly meetings at BluWater to plan something we had never done before. Ann Conroy was a Leschi business owner at that time and she stepped forward to be one of Kim’s assistants. Our first ArtWalk was in June, but we received many disappointed comments as it interfered with June activities: weddings, high school and college graduations and the ongoing summer art shows across the region. We moved the event to September after Labor Day and after the first day of school. Families were back in town, and we attracted more vendors as the usual slate of regional art events was dwindling. We have had many repeat vendors including our candy man, Lanier’s Fine Candies. One taste compelled you to part with your credit card number to purchase gifts for others and a secret stash of your own to satisfy those chocolate cravings. The artwork ranges from pottery to handmade jewelry, graphic art, photography, handmade clothing, leather purses and beautiful wooden bowls. And let’s not forget food products! We have had barbecue sauces and homemade preserves as well as chocolates and cotton candy. We have music throughout the event. Our favorite Brazilian jazz band is coming back this year. Our first year, we had a Marimba band, and that hypnotic music seems to pull folks out of their houses and down the hill to see what’s happening. Marimba bands are harder to find these days! There are many pieces to putting this together from permits to small tasks on the day of the event. Seattle’s Special Events office handles the permit for the booths along the business side of the street on the east and Parks permits use of Leschi Park where we put the stage and children’s activities. Seattle Parks will give us equipment from the stage to the many tables, chairs and canopies for the vendors. Parks crew sets it up in the morning at 9am and comes back at 4pm to take it down and cart it away. We usually have a few tables in the park, and we have our own canopies (6) for those tables. We do need help setting those up in the morning. We need some young folks to pass out the water to vendors and pick up recycling and trash throughout the day. Community service hours are given to students who come forward to help! If you have a few hours to give, sign up for a task! NEXT ARTWALK MEETING IS MAY 12 AT 3PM. AT BLUWATER! ~Diane Snell SUBMIT YOUR STAR NOMINATIONS BY MAY 1OTH

After our April presentation on redistricting, The Board met to look at the choices and decided that our long history with the Central District should be the primary decision-making factor. Our relationship with the Central District goes back to the time the Leschi Community Council was formed and has continued over the years. This is the letter we sent to the Commission: To: Redistricting Commission REDISTRICTING SEATTLE’S DISTRICT 3 Redistricting map Draft 1 has the least drastic effect on the Leschi community which has a long history with the Central District. The Leschi community Council was formed in 1958 by black activist, Powell Barnett, who sought to improve the schools and address redlining. Leschi neighbors started a branch of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) here, a group that actively worked on exposing the real estate redlining practices and to end discrimination in hiring practices.(“Seattle in Black and White” by Bettylou Valentine, Joan Singler, Jean C. Durning, Martha (Maid) J. Adams) Leschi has historical ties to another Central District black activist, Florasina Ware. She worked tirelessly to improve the programs at local schools, brought Meals on Wheels to the seniors in the area and organized a group of citizens to head to the other Washington for the Poor People’s Campaign. In 1982, the Seattle Parks Department dedicated a small neighborhood park in her name. This park at 28th and Jackson fell into disrepair and the Leschi Community under the guidance of our Parks Chair, John Barber, raised half a million dollars to completely renovate this park, adding safe playground equipment and a half basketball court. Leschi has worked with other communities in the Central District to bring jazz back to Jackson St. Our monthly community programs have often celebrated some aspect of the Central District history and current projects. We have had Paul de Barros talk about his book “Jackson Street After Hours” and more recently, Wyking Garret talking about the plans for Africatown at 23rd and Union to celebrate the heritage of the black influence on the Central District. Our monthly publication, Leschi News, is now in its 39th year. Our Art Critic frequently reviews the local artists at WaNa Nari and has covered the James Washington Jr. house and its artist in residence program. The Leschi News was the first to sound the alarm about black sculptor, James Washington, Jr’s Fountain of Triumph and its fate once the Bangasser property at 23rd and Union was sold to a developer. The arts group at the James Washington Jr. house took up the challenge and oversaw the move and renovation of the fountain which is now installed at the southwest corner of 24th and Union. Moving Leschi to another district would be divisive; we cherish our links to the Central District and have supported programs such as the Seattle Music Partners which gave young students a chance to learn an instrument and compete for spots in Middle School music programs. The Leschi Community Council has long supported programs at Leschi School, an integrated elementary school that serves many Central District youngsters as well as Leschi’s own children. A current Board member, Lawrence Pitre, is a talented artist who was born in the Leschi/Central Area and has a series of paintings, called “We Are One” which celebrates the history and diversity of the Central District. Lawrence is also the President of the Central Area Chamber of Commerce whose mission is to guide, inspire and enhance the economic, cultural, educational, and recreational opportunities within the Central Area for its businesses and community members including the Leschi Area. We ask you to consider the history of the communities in the Central District when making this decision. Establishing new relationships is always difficult and slow. We hope to continue and strengthen our ties to the Central District. Sincerely, Leschi Community Council Board We urge Leschi residents to look at the Draft maps and respond to the Commission with your comments and your preference. If you no longer have the April Leschi News, you can access it on our website. Access the website by Googling Leschi News or Leschi Community Council; both will work. You will see choices at the top; select Our Council and the drop-down menu will give you the option of choosing archives. Or better yet, sometimes Google gives you an Archives option. Study the article on redistricting; this column has comments on what the maps actually do. Send your comments to: Redistricting Commission, 600 4th Avenue, 4th Floor, Seattle, WA , 98104 if you are mailing a letter or send an email to Elsa.Batres-Boni@seattle.gov . ~Diane Snell

Is there a star near you? The Leschi Community Council Board is now accepting applications for our annual Leschi Stars. Applications must be submitted by May 6 to be considered; winners will be presented with the prestigious star at our June meeting. Instructions: Once a year we honor our Leschi Stars, those folks or groups who have made a big difference in Leschi. EXAMPLE OF AN INDIVIDUAL: Henrietta Price who has been a crossing guard at Leschi Elementary School for more than two decades and encourages the children to do their best as she safely guides them across the street. GROUP EXAMPLE: Keller Williams staff who sent 60 folks to Leschi Park to weed, mulch, prune for their day of community service. Send us your answers to the following: • Your nominee’s name and contact information. • Tell us why this person is a STAR! Be specific. • How do these activities enrich life in Leschi? • Your name and contact information. Send an email to leschinews@comcast.net, or mail to LCC: 140 Lakeside Ave, Suite A, #2, Seattle 98122

“Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water” runs until May 30, 2022; in other words, go right away! Seattle Art Museum , 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101; 206.654.3100, Hours: 10am–5pm, Wednesday–Sunday Tickets: Adult $29.99, Senior (65+) $27.99, Military (with ID) $27.99, Student (with ID) $19.99, Teen (15-18) $19.99, Child (14 and under) Free Last month I introduced you to “Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water” at the Seattle Art Museum including almost one hundred art works from all over the globe in textiles, embroidery, ceramics, painting, photography, video, and much more. It encompasses mythology, ritual, law, and science fiction. I was able to discuss only five of the ten themes of the exhibition in April. So now I will touch on the second five themes: “Future Waters Through the Eyes of Women and Children” has some of the most provocative imagery in the exhibition. Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s video “The Boat People” imagines a future world in which children collect the detritus of what we have left behind and create rituals with them. Also, in this segment a still and a film by Ethiopian Aida Muluneh, reenacts the process of getting water for survival in Dallol, northern Ethiopia, one of the hottest and driest places on Earth. As Muluneh explained: “While travelling across Ethiopia for my work, I often encounter streams of women traveling on foot and carrying heavy burdens of water… women spend a great deal of time fetching water for the household.” “Where Water is Law in Northern Australia” highlights four works on found aluminum by well-known aboriginal artists, a dramatic departure from traditional eucalyptus, also included nearby. The abstract patterns refer to law, ritual, myth, ancestral power, clan designs, and, of course, the patterns of water. “Sea Creatures that are Honored and Endangered” includes a bronze turtle called Dadu Minaral (turtle), 2007 by Dennis Nona from the Torres Straits. Here it is impaled on poles, referring to an historic initiation rite, but today the Torres Straits indigenous peoples are pioneering ecological partnerships to preserve this huge marine ecosystem. “Tragic Memories of Global Trade” features a dramatic re-installation of Marita Dingus’s intense homage to the slave trade— 200 Women of African Descent and 400 Men of African Descent . The artist created each headless body over year and a half as a meditation on the atrocities of slavery. The work has been reinstalled to correspond to the diagram of The Brooks, a slave ship on the late 18th century. “Mythic Vision from Water’s Creation to Regulation” includes Raghu Rai’s two haunting images of flute players playing on the banks of the Ganges at Viranasi, the site of cremation rituals. “Desecration of Our Troubled Waters” features another Indian River, the Yamuna. It surrounds Delhi, but is entirely blocked from view. We see the artist Atul Bhalla immersing his head gradually in the toxic waters. John Feodorov’s Desecration no. 2 , represents pipelines spilling pollution on native lands. Master Weaver Tyra Preston created special white Navaho rugs for the artist on which he painted with some trepidation, given the rugs’ powerful importance as metaphor of land and culture. “We are Changing the Tide: Community Power for Environmental Justice” through Feb 19, 2023. Wing Luke Museum, 719 S. King St. 98104, 206.623.5124, Hours: Thurs.-Sun 10-5pm Tickets: Adult $17.00, Senior (62+) $15.00, Student (with ID) $12.50, Youth 5-12 $10.00 To see more resistance to degradation, go to “We are Changing the Tide: Community Power for Environmental Justice” at the Wing Museum. As they explain: “Communities of color exist at ground zero in the fight for environmental justice. These communities, especially those of Black, Indigenous, and migrant populations worldwide, bear the highest burden from the negative effects of climate change, pollution, environmental degradation, and exploitative industries.” The display includes photographs, videos, and texts featuring activists saving the ecosystems in which we all live. We heard from the Oahu Water Protectors in Hawaii protesting against the US Navy Base at Pearl Harbor spilling massive pollution into the sea. Locally, Maria Batayoli called attention to the poor air quality on Beacon Hill in Seattle leading to 40,000 cases of respiratory illness from fine particles and the fact that expanded flights at SeaTac will increase the noise as well as the pollution. Also nearby are members of the Quinault nation resisting flooding. These are people who are truly making a difference. The exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum also raises up people who are resisting climate crises. You will see that most clearly if you scan the QR codes in the exhibition. The short videos tell us of the resistance by people such as Toya LaRuby Frazier. Climate crisis is real as we read in the newspaper every day. I am so glad that museums and artists and activists are collectively addressing it. Spend time with these two shows, and get involved in some way yourself, even if it is only to avoid plastic packaging as much as possible. Try to do three actions each day. ~Susan Platt, PhD www.artandpoliticsnow.com

John Barber, Chair of Parks and Greenspace assessed our parks and the need for maintenance. The following letter was approved by the LCC Board to send to the Parks Department. It is printed here with the response from Parks printed in italics and bold. 1. Repair the Frink Park waterfall and deck. The waterfall has broken down and no longer responds to the original function of this historically important feature of the park boulevard system envisioned by the Olmsted Brothers. John Charles Olmsted designed the waterfall, and the Parks Department followed through almost a hundred years ago with building it by hand labor. The pedestrian deck over the waterfall was installed in 2001 as part of the half-mile trail system provided at community-incentive to encourage equity in enjoyment of the natural area. A large Neighborhood Development Grant was utilized. Trail safety is an element of need for this repair. This work will fall under our MPD Strategy “Restoring Trails and Improving Access to Open Space” depending on funding levels and we will keep in touch with the status. 2. Support development of a landscaping plan of Leschi Park that includes groundcover, shrubs and trees, considers installation of a picnic shelter, and revises path system. A plan to replace the great trees of this park has special urgency because several elms, an English crab apple, a noble fir, and two Garry oaks are among the trees that have perished in the last few years and were not replaced; some of the remaining conifers are now showing signs of stress. Also, there is much interest in constructing a picnic shelter in honor of Steve Shulman who was a long-time supporter of community interests and well known as the Leschi Mart's owner. We need to respond to tree replacements and will get you a schedule. We will have to figure out a way to fund a broader landscape plan and this seems very appropriate for an NMF grant. 3. Complete the construction of the breakwater/public access platform at the South Leschi moorage. The breakwater was fully funded several years ago by City Council. It was the chief promise to the community by the Parks Department as part of the community process of providing the public-private management of the Leschi moorages. We are in for permitting with the ACE (Army Corps of Engineers) and extending our contract with Reid Middleton. I don’t think we will see construction until 2023. 4. Provide vegetation maintenance for the waterfront edge of Leschi Park and of south Madrona Park. Two years ago, a poorly executed machine mowing of the landscaping in Madrona Park between the North Leschi Moorage and the parking lot for Madrona Beach shredded shrubs and ground cover that had been installed ten years earlier by Parks. Also, complaints about the proliferation of weeds along the shore area next to the South Leschi Moorage were ignored. The weeds are getting out of hand. Grounds maintenance is ramping up hiring after being down 80 staff. We will get traction on this work in the summer. 5. Provide adequate maintenance support of the natural area of Frink Park and upper Leschi Park. These areas are losing ground with invasive plant control. The Green Seattle Initiative has withdrawn much of the maintenance resources for controlling invasive growth in Frink Park and upper Leschi Park. The invasives are winning, threatening the past success of two decades of volunteer and Natural Areas Crew work. Please do not let the condition of these natural areas go backwards. I am waiting to hear back from Lisa Ciecko on this question; but I would love to meet you out there sometime! 6. Flo Ware Park is a heavily used Central Area playground which serves a broadly diversified neighborhood. It needs a middle-sized tree to replace the glorious catalpa tree the was destroyed a few years ago by a windstorm. I will work with our urban forestry work group to make this happen w/in a couple of months. 7. Powell Barnett Park, located across MLK Jr. Drive from the Central Area, provides a regional playground with state-of-the-art play equipment and basketball courts with professional quality surfacing. Please continue the use of the wading pond in Powell Barnett Park and keep on schedule with renewing the bark in the playground and surfacing of the professional quality surface of the basketball courts. We keep a watchful eye on this facility. The wading program at Powell Barnett will resume this year on 6/25. Letter by John Barber and responses by Andy Sheffer, Parks

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 7pm Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join us for our annual meeting! Meet the Board and hear what is planned for the coming year. Now that things are opening up, we plan to resume some of our usual activities and begin some new projects. Learn about the changes to the website and how you can become more connected to events. Please join us online via Zoom: Go to https://zoom.us/join Meeting ID: 849 6085 7891 Passcode: 030649 If you can only join us by phone dial +1 (253) 215 8782 and enter the meeting ID and passcode above at the prompt.

Saturday April 23, 9am–noon Meet your neighbors for a LCC Earth Day Project from 9 to noon on Saturday, April 23! We will meet at the intersection of S Norman Street (stairwell) and 32nd Ave S. Bring gloves, garden tools, brooms and water. We will be working to clear one of Leschi’s Stairwells—on Norman Street between 32 and 33. Questions? Karen Daubert at 206.310.1792 or John Barber at 206.324.1548.

A garden has been developed on land donated by Kay Bullitt to celebrate the memory of Cass Turnbull. Cass started Plant Amnesty, a non-profit group dedicated to educating the public about pruning trees and shrubs correctly. Cass believed that one could prune trees to frame a spectacular view with no need to cut down or to top trees. She presented a humorous slide show/lecture at one of our community meetings years ago and showed her disdain for topiary where gardeners try to contort a tree or shrub into a shape unknown in nature. She gave talks at the annual Flower and Garden Show and wrote books on pruning. Her Guide to Pruning 3rd Edition is still available in print and for Kindle. I had been trying to schedule another meeting with her, but her board meeting (Plant Amnesty) clashed with our 1st Wednesday meetings. It was shortly after our last conversation that the news came out that she had died suddenly while vacationing in Hawaii. She was a delightful speaker and endlessly creative in her efforts to educate the public. We quote from her obituary: “From the beginning, she used humor and creativity to draw people close enough to hear her message. She published photos of distressing gardens in the "Ugly Yard Contest” and she made refrigerator magnets with photos of comical pruning disasters. Always willing to be silly, she dressed as Father Weedo Sarducci to hear plant confessions of gardeners and landscapers.” (Published by The Seattle Times on Feb. 5, 2017) We should visit this lovely hillside garden and remember this innovative woman. ~Diane Snell

Most La Niñas and El Niños peak in December or early January. In fact, El Niño was first called “El Niño de Navidad” (translated from Spanish to “the Christ Child”) by Peruvian fisherman in the 1600s due to its tendency to peak right around Christmas. Like most El Niños and La Niñas, the 2021–2022 La Niña peaked around Christmas and declined through late January and early February, but it unexpectedly and significantly re-strengthened in late February/early March as the Walker Circulation–the atmospheric circulation in the Tropical Pacific that drives the evolution of El Niño and La Niña–intensified. Our La Niña has since resumed a slow weakening trend, but because we are now starting from a cooler baseline, it will take longer than initially forecast for the tropical Pacific to return to Neutral conditions. The official forecast from the Climate Prediction Center is for La Niña conditions to continue into the Northern Hemisphere summer (53% chance during June–August 2022), with a 40–50% chance of La Niña or ENSO-neutral after. For the Pacific Northwest, La Niña has a similar impact during the spring as it does during the winter, with odds slightly favoring cooler and wetter-than-average weather compared to normal due to enhanced troughing in the Northeast Pacific. However, spring in the Pacific Northwest is, in many ways, just a calmer, warmer, and less depressing version of winter. Spring doesn't have any common weather features that are *notably* distinct from winter, so it’s only natural that La Niña would impact the winter and spring climates in a similar fashion. Other parts of the country have far more pronounced seasonal swings in climate, and as a result, La Niñas have different impacts to climate depending on the time of year they occur in. For example, La Niñas often bring more tornadoes to the US during the spring than Neutral or El Niño years due to the tendency for La Niñas to create a more robust storm track from the Southern Plains northeast to the Ohio River Valley. In the spring, systems that develop along this storm track tap into increasingly warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico to create thunderstorms, and the wind shear at different levels of the atmosphere between the southerly winds at the surface from the Gulf of Mexico and the westerly jet stream aloft causes these thunderstorms to rotate, occasionally spawning tornadoes in the process. Right now, most forecasts show us transitioning back to a “Neutral” phase next winter, but long-range forecasts are generally quite poor this time of the year, as the atmosphere is in flux due to the change in seasons. By June, we should have a clearer idea of what next winter may hold. A third consecutive La Niña would not be unprecedented, but it is unlikely – since 1950, we’ve only had two instances of “three-peat” La Niña winters, and both occurred after major El Niño events (our current string of La Niñas did not). In the meantime, our odds favor a cool and cloudy spring, so be sure to get out and enjoy the sunshine when it makes an appearance! ~Charlie Phillips Charlie Phillips is a Madrona native and lifelong weather geek who now works at Puget Sound Energy as an energy trader, making sure there is enough energy to keep the lights on! Check out his weather blog at weathertogether.net.

After delays caused by Covid, Seward Park has now determined to celebrate the new Torii gate at a neighborhood gathering on April 2 at 1pm. Participants include Representative Sharon Tomiko Santos and Wild Isle author Paul Talbert. Enjoy performances by the School of Taiko Washington, Diamonds Drill Team and Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon & Lion Dance Association. ~Seward Park Chickadee Chatter EDITOR’S NOTE: We realize that regulations on tree cutting are not always easy to find and it is difficult to know if homeowners are new to Leschi and unaware of the seriousness which we place on both our trees and our parks, The Board is taking steps to alleviate some of the difficulty by using our website to display critical information and to develop a welcome letter to new residents that directs homeowners to the website material.

Seattle Art Museum 1300 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101; 206.654.3100 Hours: 10am–5pm, Wednesday–Sunday “Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water” runs from March 18–May 30, 2022. Free admission April 7 for First Thursday. During the pandemic, three curators at the Seattle Art Museum, working remotely, created “Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water,” an intense exhibition drawn entirely from the museum’s own collections and local collectors. On the theme of water and our threatened planet, they choose 74 artists from 17 countries and seven Native American tribes. The exhibition presents the many moods of water: mesmerizing and relaxing, overwhelming and terrifying, nourishing and toxic. The curators, Pamela McClusky, Curator of African and Oceanic Art, Barbara Brotherton, Curator of Native American Art, and Natalia Di Pietrantonio, newly appointed as Assistant Curator of South Asian Art, working in collaboration with community advisors, created themes that refer to water as necessary to life, as pleasure, as law, as mythic and as desecrated. By educating us, they hope to rouse us to action. For me, it brought to mind a book by my naturalist father, Rutherford Platt, Water, the Wonder of Life (1971) which was part of an earlier environmental awakening. Ken Workman, a direct descendant of Chief Seattle, welcomes us in the Lushootseed language in a video. He stands on the shores of his tribal home, the Duwamish River, the river of plenty before white colonizers arrived, and now a Superfund site and industrial wasteland. After Workman’s greeting we look up to see Carolina Caycedo’s fifty-foot banner that charts the change in a river from healthy to polluted, signaling the theme of the exhibition in one dramatic statement. Nearby Caycedo’s video “A Gente Rio: We River” 2016 brings us the voices of the people living on the Paranà River in Brazil as they explain their traditional ways and the devastating impact of the Itaipu Dam. But these people have also protested. They know exactly why the dam was built: the result of corporate impunity. Hanging nearby is a hammerhead shark, constructed of fish nets and steel. We can look right into the eyes of its hammer shaped head. The Ghost Net Collective on the Erub islands (Northeast of Australia) underscore the lethal presence of the fishing nets in the sea with these sculptures. The point out the irony that Australians consider these sharks as a threat, whereas their culture holds them sacred. We now enter the exhibition itself and the themes begin. “Rains that Flood and Hypnotize” Rain sustains us, but it also overwhelms and kills. Raghubir Singh’s photograph of four women huddled together in a monsoon downpour, speaks to the welcome rains of India. But another work in the indigenous Mithila style by artist Amrita Das graphically depicts the effects of the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka as people’s villages are entirely wiped out. “Rivers and Canoe Journeys That Sustain Life” In the Northwest the return of the indigenous Canoe Journey, when Tribes travel the ancestral sea routes of their cultures has revived many tribal cultures. On the journey to a host tribe, the canoes make ceremonial stops. Twice I have been lucky to be visiting a Native community as it formally welcomed participants with music, dance, and shared food. Three dramatic videos by Tracy Rector celebrate these journeys, and their partner, indigenous resistance. “Oceans with Bodies Like Our Own” Seeing global nomad artist Paulo Nazareth’s lying on a beach suggests the peace that we all experience, lulled by the sound of the sea. But he is only briefly resting on his year long journey walking barefoot from Brazil to New York. “Pools of Pleasure and Reverence” The dramatic image of Kurtal by Australian aboriginal artist Ngilpirr Spider Snell represents a spirit snake who “lives in a sacred waterhole called a jila. This desert spring is the only reliable source of water in all seasons . . . Kurtal is the moral protector of the right to use it and the land around it. …” Such deep connections to land and water appear repeatedly in aboriginal art. “Patterns of Water” Japanese artist Ogata Korin evokes the rolling sea in his large golden screen painting Waves . In stark contrast, Claude Zervas’ fluorescent outline of the Nootsack River glows in a dark corner. The artist has spent years next to this river and watched it degrade as it was dammed. So that is just a taste of this extraordinary exhibition. I have been twice and will go many more times. Next month, I will address the other five themes. I will also discuss “We Are Changing the Tide,” an exhibition at the Wing Luke Museum, created entirely by a community team, about climate change and the grass roots activists who are resisting it. * The title of this article is the theme of the ongoing native protests against corporate pipelines that continue to destroy native land and water. ~Susan Platt, PhD www.artandpoliticsnow.com

Meet your neighbors for a LCC Earth Day Project from 9 to noon on Saturday, April 23, 2022! We will meet at the intersection of S Norman Street (stairwell) and 32nd Ave S. Bring gloves, garden tools, brooms and water. We will be working to clear one of Leschi’s stairwells—on Norman Street between 32 and 33. Questions? Karen Daubert at 206.310.1792 or John Barber at 206.324.1548.