For media inquiries, please contact:
Melanie Wimmenauer
Senior Director of Communications
Voice: (206) 436-2223
Cell: (206) 427-7181
TTY: (206) 324-1388
mwimmenauer@seattlelh.org

Featured Articles on The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc.:

• Made in the Northwest: Inland Northwest Lighthouse (KXLY 4 News) (5/23/2013)
• The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. to expand North Side Manufacturing Facility (03/14/2013)
• More Than a Workplace (Association of Washington Business) (03/2013)
• Win Win Partnerships (Opportunity Magazine) (08/2012)
• Listening to All Users Helps Us Design Sidewalks for All (SDOT Blog) (1/10/2012)
• City Council backs ‘complete streets’ rules (Spokesman Review) (12/20/2011)
• Defense Contracting in Washington Since 9/11 (KUOW) (9/9/2011)
• Disabled Americans, Wounded Warriors Key in Reducing FLC Backlog (Navy.mil) (8/3/2011)
• Local Nonprofit a Guiding Light for People who are Blind (Komonews.com) (6/30/2011)
• Lighthouse for the Blind, FISC San Diego Open New Supply Center (Navy.mil) (3/8/2011)
• The Lighthouse for the Blind’s Kirk Adams on Seattle Voices (Take 21 Seattle Channel) (11/12/2011)
• Lighthouse Employee Vying for National Employee of the Year Award (GSI Blog) (10/4/2010)
• Navy Contract Offers Employment to Blind, Disabled Americans (Navy.mil) (9/14/2010)
• Murray Meets with Aerospace Interests (Spokesman.com) (8/13/2010)
• Inland Northwest Lighthouse Director Ready to Make Agency Shine (Spokesman.com) (8/2/2010)
• Okuma & Gosiger Named Supplier of the Year by NAEPB (PRWeb) (7/14/2010)
• Lighthouse Awarded 2010 Manufacturer of the Year (Seattle Business) (6/2010)
• Manufacturing Monday: Inland Northwest Lighthouse (KXLY Spokane) (6/28/2010)
• The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. completes Taproot Foundation’s Service Grant (5/11/2010)
• Boeing: Tanker Would Mean 11,000 Jobs in Washington (Seattle PI Blog) (5/10/2010)
• Boeing Suppliers Talk Tanker with Cantwell (Seattle PI Blog) (4/9/2010)
• Thanks for Lighthouse Support (Spokane Journal of Business) (2/13/2009)
• Vision-Impaired Workers Hired Locally [mp3] (Spokane Public Radio) (9/25/2008)
• Lighthouse opens in Spokane, hires many sightless employees (Spokesman Review) (9/19/2008)
• Factory staffed with some unlikely employees (KXLY Spokane) (9/17/2008)
• Lighthouse offers jobs for blind, partially blind (Spokesman Review) (7/27/2008)
• Seattle’s Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc., describes exciting expansion Word | PDF (Logan Magazine) (4/10/2008)
• Blind CEO a Lighthouse first (The Seattle Times) (1/24/2008)
• Few realize Lighthouse is manufacturing plant (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) (12/11/2007)
• Longtime Lighthouse president to step down (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Lighthouse president-elect steps into his new job one quarter at a time (Puget Sound Business Journal)

The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. People in the News

• Spokane Spin Brings Goalball to Town (Spokesman-Review) (07/28/2011)
• Goalball Inspires Blind Devotion Among Athletes (Seattle Times) (3/10/2011)
• Blind Since Birth, Kathy Martinez Fights for Disability Community (Diversity, Inc.) (6/8/2010)
• AFB Career Connect: President-elect, Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind (American Foundation for the Blind)
• Seattle Lighthouse Board Member Jens Jorgensen Wins Prestigious Bernard M. Gordon Award (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Keeping Deaf Fans Rockin’: Interpreter Joanna Ball (Seattle Times)
• Lighthouse Employee Deng Kong Judges “Touching Art” Exhibit for Blind People (Seattle Times)

The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. in Non-Profit and Business News

• The List: Top Puget Sound Nonprofit Organizations (Puget Sound Business Journal)
• Opportunity Magazine Summer 2011 (PDF) (National Industries for the Blind)
• Robotics Help Manufacturing Operations: A Robotic Cell for the Blind (Control Engineering)
• Opportunity Magazine Fall 2010 (PDF) (National Industries for the Blind)
• No Acceptable Level of Accidents — an article of Lighthouse Safety (Northwest Public Health)
• Adapting And Advancing (Modern Machine Shop Online)
• Lighthouse Helps in Supporting the Cause (Washington CEO Magazine) [pdf]
• National Industries for the Blind Lead the Way (Washington Business Journal)
• Businesses show faith, hire visually impaired (Puget Sound Business Journal)

The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. Programs in the News

• Clear Creek Trail Center of Exploration for Deaf-Blind Walkers (Kitsap Sun, 09/01/2011)
• Event for Deaf-Blind a Global Favorite (Kitsap Sun via Spokesman.com, 09/04/2010)
• Unlikely Cyclists Circle Lake Symington (Kitsap Sun, 09/02/2010)
• Braille for Sighted Students (National Federation of the Blind’s Future Reflections)
• Rerouting the Darkness: Nicole Brodeur’s take on tunnel closures affect on blind employees at the Lighthouse (Seattle Times, 09/15/2005)
• Heidi Zimmer’s Adventure at Seabeck Deaf-Blind Retreat

The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. History

• Lighthouse for the Blind (HistoryLink.org)

Ethel L. Dupar’s Fragrant Garden in the News

• Blind in Seattle Take Strolls in (Nearly) Secret Garden (KPLU, 9/16/2011)
• Fragrant Gardens (Ecoyards Blog)
• A Garden Cool to the Touch (Seattle Times)
• Uncommon Scents (MSN City Guide)
• Garden Therapy (Caring Today)

See us in news not listed above? Please contact Marketing and Communications Manager Robert Hanna at 206-436-2149 or email rhanna@seattlelh.org.