Neighborhood News: Is It a Beautiful Day in Your Neighborhood?
The Columbian › February 26, 2004
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Mister Rogers would be proud of Seattle's Neighbor Appreciation Day. In 1995, Phinney Ridge neighborhood resident Judith Wood decided to make her children's world a better place by emphasizing the positive.
"I was very discouraged to read about various feuds and rifts between neighbors," she wrote in the January issue of Seattle's Neighborhood News publication. "I had a preschooler and twin babies at home and I didn't want to be faced with a world of negativity. I needed to look on the bright side."See the full content of this document
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Neighborhood News: Is It a Beautiful Day in Your Neighborhood?
That bright side, she realized, was the friendly, helpful people who lived on her block. Wood hand-delivered a letter to then-Mayor Norm Rice proposing a special day to honor the friendships and projects that help lift the whole city. Rice liked the idea and supported it with a proclamation and a ...
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