Last Updated July 12, 2010

Featured Lighthouse Articles:

• Okuma & Gosiger Named Supplier of the Year by NAEPB (PRWeb) (7/14/2010)
• 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 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)
• Building a beacon for the blind (Building) (4/1/2008)
• 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)
• A Different Kind of Vision: Kirk Adams (Everett Herald)

Seattle Lighthouse People in the News

• 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)
• Ken and Annie Sting, Members of Our Deaf-Blind Program, Have a Hands On Adventure in Hawaii (Star Bulletin)
• Lighthouse Employee Deng Kong Judges “Touching Art” Exhibit for Blind People (Seattle Times)
• Nancy Lopez-Swaney finds home & camaraderie at Lighthouse for the Blind (Queen Anne News)
• Seattle Lighthouse Board Member Becky Petersen, on Overcoming Obstacles (NurseWeek)
• Ballard Man Helps the Blind: O & M Specialist David Miller (Ballard News-Tribune)

Seattle Lighthouse in Non-Profit and Business News

• No Acceptable Level of Accidents -- an article of Lighthouse Safety (Northwest Public Health)
• Supply warehouse helps airmen, blind employees (Northwest Airlifter)
• Seattle Lighthouse Machine Shop Featured in Article on Tooling University (Production Machining)
• 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)
• NPR Radio Feature on Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind (KPLU - NPR)

Seattle Lighthouse Programs in the News

• 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)
• Finding confidence, friendship at a yearly retreat (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• Heidi Zimmer's Adventure at Seabeck Deaf-Blind Retreat

Seattle Lighthouse History

• Lighthouse for the Blind (HistoryLink.org)
• Rudolph Emanuel Elmer (NWclassifieds)

Ethel L. Dupar's Fragrant Garden in the News

• Fragrant Gardens (Ecoyards Blog)
• A Garden Cool to the Touch (Seattle Times)
• Uncommon Scents (MSN City Guide)
• Garden Therapy (Caring Today)

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