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2 Lillian's Corner 3 The difference you make 4 Care for the Market
SPRING 2013
A PUBLICATION OF THE PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION
Under the Cart to State of the Art
By Mary Kollar, Market Foundation Volunteer
PRESCHOOL TIMELINE
1982 1983 1984 1986 1991 2011
ike Market Child Care & Preschool opens P & Market volunteers raise $60K to build the playground Foster Grandparents start working in the classrooms liding fee scale implemented based on S income & family size Receives 1st Market Foundation grant for $10,000 ne of the first programs in WA state to be O accredited by National Association for the Education of Young Children art of Worthy Wage movement for Child P Care Teachers, creating professional work standards including full benefits ompletes $1.5 million renovation and C expansion project. Space is designed to serve babies in the future. amily Services Coordinator hired to F increase support for families Ellen Greene Scholarship Fund created to provide support to families in crisis
Hanna is wearing a yellow toile tutu under her parka. With the help of her friends she has draped Rachel the Piggy Banks porcine girth with a piggy tutu in pink. Then the group photo with teacher and friends and it is TIME TO PARTY!
May I come?, I ask. Sure. Its a birthday party, responded the preschooler. We are 30 years old today! And Im four and a HALF. Hanna runs off to the open door of the Pike Market Child Care and Preschool, which is celebrating its 30th birthday. Hanna is one of the over 50 children who arrive each day for school, and more than 2,000 alumnae who have moved from humble beginnings to the wide, welcoming world. For those of us who relish sepia photos of a 1910 Pike Place Market composed of farmers carts produce laden and pulled by horseswe can pause to wonder where the farmers family was. The little ones were often under the cart, avoiding heavy rain, but seated on slick cobblestones where they made dolls out of butternut squash. More than 30 years ago, the Pike Market community took notice of children clinging to mothers and fathers who worked in the many stalls in the market. Why couldnt these children accompany their
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2012
Lillian's
I recently met Rosie, one of our Market producers who told me tales of what it was like to grow up in Pike Place Market in the 1960s. With nap time in banana boxes under the farm tables and hide-n-go-seek in the Markets DownUnder, Rosie and her friends were part of the everyday fabric of the Market. In 1982, members of the Market community resolved to find a better option for both the young children and their parents who too often had to choose between quitting their jobs and taking their kids along. Then a new mom, Rosie was relieved to have a place for her young daughter to learn and play, while she managed her produce stand. Today, Pike Market Child Care & Preschool celebrates 30 years of high quality child care accessible to all families, regardless of income. The incredible diversity of our city is reflected in the children in every classroomyoull find the kids of our Market merchants playing alongside the children of families who live and work throughout downtown Seattle. Over the years, the Market Foundation is proud to have provided nearly $2.5 million in tuition assistance to low-income families at Pike Market Preschool. The interconnectedness of our Market community can also be seen in the everyday workings of the Preschool: fresh, whole foods served at every meal and our senior Market residents volunteering as readers and helpers in the classrooms. On any given day at the Market youll find these children learning the names of fruits, veggies and our farmers and paying a visit to our Market piggy banks Rachel and Billie. Nearly 3,000 children are graduates of Pike Market Preschool, their bright futures nurtured by our Market community. I want to personally invite you to witness some of the incredible stories of the children, families and seniors whose lives were forever changed by the support of our Market community. Join me on Tuesday, March 12 at noon for the Care for the Market Luncheon (more info on page 4). I look forward to meeting you for lunch,
Corner
Meet Aimee and her 2-year-old son Nasir to hear how they found safety, confidence and community at Pike Market Child Care & Preschool. This story and more at the Care for the Market Luncheon on March 12. RSVP now at www.pikeplacemarketfoundation.org
PRESCHOOL from front
parents to work but also arrive at a safe, nurturing location nearby? Humble beginnings in a one-room classroom above the Pike Market Bakery have grown to a state-ofthe-art facility at Pike Market Preschool. Preschool director Ilene Stark leads us through the spacious multi-room child care center. Rooms for infants and toddlers with size appropriate bathrooms have toilet seats shaped like daisies. Art rooms where children learn art as an extension of their identity, classrooms for pre-K children who gather to help each other build a puzzle or to write a story. There is a cozy reading nook with child-size couch and bookshelves neatly lined with colorful books. A few steps up take us to a kitchen Tom Douglas would admire. December, the seasoned chef and nutritionist, pulls from the refrigerator a sizeable birthday cake, a carrot cake iced to snow-bank white perfection.
This birthday party is not about WHAT we celebrate, but WHO we celebrate. Who includes the children, their parents, teachers, the Board and many volunteers.
In addition to a beautiful carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, December has also made both a gluten-free and a vegan cake, for those with special diets. Every child has a healthy diet at Pike Market Child Care, where breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack provide 70% of a childs daily nutritional needs, all without processed foods and sugar and with whole grain, and fresh fruit and vegetable ingredients. This birthday party is not about WHAT we celebrate, but WHO we celebrate. Who includes the children, their parents, teachers, the Board and many volunteers. There are Foster Grandparents who arrive daily to provide extra love and attention and read to the children. Some have been coming each day for over 15 years, and at partys end each will receive an award.
Lillian Hochstein Executive Director
Thank you to our Pike Market community for all of the precious birthday gifts weve been opening each day for 30 yearsseeing our children learn and grow! Mothers and fathers, most making a living at or near poverty level, have brought their children to this special place where seeds are planted and will grow from the western sun that pours into the expansive windows of the sunlit Pike Market Child Care and Preschool. Here, have a big slice of birthday cake.
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Bertschi School
This 2nd grader sells moustaches on the craft line at the Pike Place Mock Market in her classroom at Bertschi School. These students created a marketplace complete with handmade crafts, local produce, live buskers, Rachel the Piggy Bank replicas and even a facilities team to keep the place clean! All of the proceeds from the day totaling $753.54 were donated to the Pike Place Market Foundation. Thank you 2nd graders and teachers!
Johnny and Rick deliver groceries from Pike Market Food Bank to home-bound seniors with a smile
A FEAST g THE SEASON
Thank you to all of our donors who made financial gifts this holiday season. We want you to know the tremendous impact your gifts made:
DID YOU KNOW?
Pike Market Senior Centerserved 5,458 mealsto low-income and homeless seniors and hand-delivered 92 mealsto home-bound seniors.
5,458
44,940 lbs
Pike Market Food Bank distributed44,940 lbs of groceries to low-income families.
Holiday Banners
The banners that were proudly hung with colorful lights across Pike Place this holiday season represent $8,870 in donations from our market merchants! These funds go directly back into our community services here in the Market, including the Pike Market Preschool, Senior Center, Food Bank & Medical Clinic. These gifts combined are enough to fund: One-year scholarship for a low-income child at the Preschool 8,000 healthy meals at the Senior Center Healthcare subsidies for 435 low-income patients at the Medical Clinic Or 3,000 bags of groceries at the Food Bank
Thanks to the generosity of hundreds of donors all of the holiday wishes were granted from our giving trees at the Pike Place Market. Neatly wrapped in colorful paper and decorative bows, 397 Giving Tree gifts were opened this holiday season by low-income children, seniors and residents in our Market community.
. . . our younger children
experienced Santa visiting us on Christmas day and our older child was able to experience what I experiencedoverwhelming appreciation for people caring for us who do not even know us. Words are inadequate, but Thank YOU!
One Mom who received gifts from the Giving Tree Thank you to the following groups who collected donations: 1521 Chase Homestreet Bank Portico Group Charlies Produce COSTCO WA Real Estate Holdings Windermere Services Company
Thank you to our Market community!
And a special thank you to our Market businesses who collected donations: DeLaurenti Specialty Food & Wine Local Color Perennial Tea Roo Rotary Grocery Totem Smokehouse
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MARCH 12 @ NOON
Seattle Sheraton Hotel
Join us for lunch and our most inspiring event of the year to Care for the Market! All proceeds help us serve our low-income neighbors who work, learn and live in and around Pike Place Market.
TUESDAY
Friday, April 19 7-10 pm
Pike Place Market's Main Arcade
3.12.13
RSVP @ www.pikeplacemarketfoundation.org $150 suggested minimum donation
Featuring Speakers: Knute Berger Lillian Hochstein
Crosscut and Seattle Magazine columnist Executive Director of the Pike Place Market Foundation
Tickets: $25
www.pikeplacemarket.org
online at
And special guests from the Pike Place Market community
Thank you to our sponors:
ASI BECU Christ Our Hope Catholic Church Commerce Bank Pike Place Market PDA PMI Russell Investments Seattles Convention & Visitors Bureau Sterling Savings Bank Martin Smith, Inc. Nucor Steel
Pike Place Markets semi-annual celebration of delectable artisanal food, craft beer and wine from around the Pacific Northwest. Proceeds benefit the Pike Place Market Foundation.
Written by: Patricia Gray, Lillian Hochstein & Mary Kollar PhotographS BY: Timothy Aguero, Art Kuniyuki and Harriet McClain DESIGN BY: Causality
The Pike Place Market Foundation is the heart of the Market. By helping our low-income neighbors who work, learn and live in and around the Market, the Foundation helps the Market you love remain a thriving, caring community.
85 Pike Street Room 500 Seattle, WA 98101 206.682.7453 pikeplacemarketfoundation.org
