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A PUBLICATION OF THE PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDAT

Under the Cart toState of the ArtBy Mary Kollar , Market Foundation Volunteer

Hanna is wearing a yellow toile tutu under her parka. With the help o her riendsshe has draped Rachel the Piggy Bank’s porcine girth with a piggy tutu in pink.Ten the group photo with teacher and riends and it is IME O PARY!

“May I come?,” I ask.

“Sure. It’s a birthday party,” responded the preschooler. “We are 30 years old today! … And I’m our anda HALF .” Hanna runs o to the open door o the Pike Market Child Care and Preschool, which is

celebrating its 30th birthday. Hanna is one o the over 50 children who arrive each day or school, andmore than 2,000 alumnae who have moved rom humble beginnings to the wide, welcoming world.

For those o us who relish sepia photos o a 1910 Pike Place Market composed o armer’s carts—produce laden and pulled by horses—we can pause to wonder where the armer’s amily was. Telittle ones were oen under the cart, avoiding heavy rain, but seated on slick cobblestones where they made dolls out o butternut squash.

More than 30 years ago, the Pike Market community took notice o children clinging to mothers andathers who worked in the many stalls in the market. Why couldn’t these children accompany their

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INSIDE2 Lillian's Corner

3 The difference you make

4 Care for the Market

SPRING 2013

1982 Pike Market Child Care & Presc& Market volunteers raise $60Kthe playground

1983 Foster Grandparents start workithe classrooms

1984 Sliding ee scale implemented bincome & amily size

Receives 1st Market Foundation or $10,000

1986

One o the frst programs in WAaccredited by National AssociatEducation o Young Children

1991 Part o Worthy Wage movementCare Teachers, creating proessistandards including ull benefts

2011 Completes $1.5 million renovatioexpansion project. Space is desiserve babies in the uture.

2012 Family Services Coordinator hirincrease support or amilies

Ellen Greene Scholarship Fund to provide support to amilies in

PRESCHOOLTIMELINE



I recently met Rosie, one o our Market producerswho told me tales o what it was like to growup in Pike Place Market in the 1960s. With naptime in banana boxes under the arm tables andhide-n-go-seek in the Market’s DownUnder,Rosie and her riends were part o the everydayabric o the Market.

In 1982, members o the Market communityresolved to nd a better option or both the youngchildren and their parents who too oten had tochoose between quitting their jobs and taking theirkids along. Then a new mom, Rosie was relieved to

have a place or her young daughter to learn andplay, while she managed her produce stand.

Today, Pike Market Child Care & Preschoolcelebrates 30 years o high quality child careaccessible to all amilies, regardless o income.The incredible diversity o our city is refectedin the children in every classroom—you’ll nd thekids o our Market merchants playing alongside thechildren o amilies who live and work throughoutdowntown Seattle. Over the years, the MarketFoundation is proud to have provided nearly $2.5million in tuition assistance to low-income amiliesat Pike Market Preschool.

The interconnectedness o our Market community

can also be seen in the everyday workings o thePreschool: resh, whole oods served at every mealand our senior Market residents volunteering asreaders and helpers in the classrooms. On anygiven day at the Market you’ll nd these childrenlearning the names o ruits, veggies and our arm-ers and paying a visit to our Market piggy banks—Rachel and Billie.

Nearly 3,000 children are graduates o Pike MarketPreschool, their bright utures nurtured by ourMarket community. I want to personally invite youto witness some o the incredible stories o the chil-dren, amilies and seniors whose lives were oreverchanged by the support o our Market community.Join me on Tuesday, March 12 at noon or the Care

or the Market Luncheon (more ino on page 4).

I look orward to meeting you or lunch,

Lillian Hochstein

Executive Director

parents to work but also arrive at a sae, nurturing location nearby? Humble beginnings inone-room classroom above the Pike Market Bakery have grown to a state-o–the-art acilityPike Market Preschool.

Preschool director Ilene Stark leads us through the spacious multi-room child care center. Roinants and toddlers with size appropriate bathrooms have toilet seats shaped like daisies. Awhere children learn art as an extension o their identity, classrooms or pre-K children who g

help each other build a puzzle or to write a story. Tere is a cozy reading nook with child-sizand bookshelves neatly lined with colorul books. A ew steps up take us to a kitchen om Dwould admire. December, the seasoned che and nutritionist, pulls rom the rerigerator a sbirthday cake, a carrot cake iced to snow-bank white perection.

In addition to a beautiul carrot cake with cream cheeseDecember has also made both a gluten-ree and a vegor those with special diets. Every child has a healthyPike Market Child Care, where breakast, lunch and asnack provide 70% o a child’s daily nutritional needs, aprocessed oods and sugar and with whole grain, and rand vegetable ingredients.

Tis birthday party is not about WHAT we celebrate, buwe celebrate. Who includes the children, their parents,

the Board and many volunteers. Tere are Foster Grandwho arrive daily to provide extra love and attention andthe children. Some have been coming each day or overand at party’s end each will receive an award.

Tank you to our Pike Market community or all o the precious birthday gis we’ve been opeday or 30 years—seeing our children learn and grow! Mothers and athers, most making a livnear poverty level, have brought their children to this special place where seeds are planted grow rom the western sun that pours into the expansive windows o the sunlit Pike Market Cand Preschool.

Here, have a big slice o birthday cake.

C orne r

PRESCHOOL rom ront

This birthday party is not about WHATwe celebrate, but

WHO we celebrate. Who includes thechildren, theirparents, teachers,the Board andmany volunteers.

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Meet Aimee and her 2-year-old son Nasir to hear how they ound saety, condence and comat Pike Market Child Care & Preschool. This story and more at the Care or the Market LuncMarch 12. RSVP now at www.pikeplacemarketfoundation.org



Te banners that were proudly hung with colorul lights across Pike Place this holiday season represent$8,870 in donations rom our market merchants! Tese unds go directly back into our community serviceshere 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

Thank you to our Market community!

A FEAST g THE SEASONTank you to all o our donors who made fnancial gis this holiday season.We want you to know the tremendous impact your gis made:

Holiday Banners

Pike Market Food Bank

distributed 44,940 lbs of groceries

to low-income families.

Pike Market Senior Center served

5,458 meals to low-income and

homeless seniors and hand-delivered

92 meals to home-bound seniors.

5,458 44,940 lbsD YOUNOW?

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Johnny and Rick deliver groceries rom Pike Market Food Bank tohome-bound seniors with a smile

Bertschi SchoolThis 2nd grader sells moustaches onthe crat line at the Pike Place “Mock”Market in her classroom at BertschiSchool. These students created amarketplace complete withhandmade crats, local produce,live buskers, Rachel the PiggyBank replicas and even aacilities team to keep the placeclean! All o the proceeds romthe day totaling $753.54were donated to the PikePlace Market Foundation.Thank you 2nd gradersand teachers!

hanks to the generosity o huno donors all o the holiday wishgranted rom our giving trees atPike Place Market. Neatly wrapcolorul paper and decorative b397 Giving Tree gits were othis holiday season by low-incochildren, seniors and residents Market community.

Thank you to the following gro

who collected donations:1521 • Chase • Homestreet BankPortico Group • Charlie’s ProducCOSTCO • WA Real Estate HoldWindermere Services Company

And a special thank you to our

businesses who collected donDeLaurenti Specialty Food & WiLocal Color • Perennial Tea Roo Rotary Grocery • Totem Smokeh

“. . . our younger childre

experienced Santa visitius on Christmas day andolder child was able toexperience what Iexperienced—overwhelmappreciation for peoplecaring for us who do noteven know us. Words areinadequate, but Thank Y

—One Mom who receiverom the Giving Tree



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our low-income neighbors who work,

learn and live in and around the

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Market you love remain a thriving,

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