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40-Seat Movie Theater in Old Redmond? Red Barn Fall Fest & Best Pumpkin Patch in Redmond? · Best of Redmond: Redmond Washington News, Events, Restaurants & Things to Do

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  Jennifer Davis: Welcome to the Best of Redmond.
• 0:03
  Jennifer Davis: I'm Jennifer Davis
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  Dan Schulz: And I'm Dan Schultz, and this is Redmond's twice weekly newsletter and podcast about all of the amazing things happening in Redmond in the next seven days.
• 0:15
  Dan Schulz: Gary Cooper's uncle's dairy farm has a pumpkin patch this weekend.
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  Dan Schulz: Gary Cooper's uncle started a dairy farm in Redmond in 1907, and this weekend you can take the kids there.
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  Dan Schulz: The Red Barn Farm's eighth annual Fall Festival runs this weekend on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM out on the east side of town off Redmond Fall City Road.
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  Dan Schulz: There's a pumpkin patch, a petting zoo, a barrel train and kids activities all around a 1925 barn that's now a King County landmark.
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  Dan Schulz: Tickets are $12 for adults, $20 for kids 1 to 17, and free for babies under 1.
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  Dan Schulz: Pumpkins and you-pick flowers cost extra.
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  Dan Schulz: Reservations are required.
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  Dan Schulz: The ticket link is in the show notes and in the newsletter
• 1:08
  Jennifer Davis: Redmond's new vet puts your dog's Polaroid on the wall.
• 1:13
  Jennifer Davis: Your dog or cat gets its picture on the wall just for showing up.
• 1:17
  Jennifer Davis: Chewy Vet Care just opened its first Washington clinic right here in Redmond on Redmond Way.
• 1:25
  Jennifer Davis: Staff will snap a Polaroid of every pet at check-in and post it in the waiting room, and a screen outside the exam room greets your pet by name Past the cute stuff, it's a full-service animal hospital with exams,
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  Jennifer Davis: dental care, X-rays, ultrasound, and surgery.
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  Jennifer Davis: It's open 8:00 to 6:00 every day except Wednesday.
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  Jennifer Davis: The booking link is in our show notes and in the newsletter
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  Dan Schulz: Oktoberfest karaoke for the 50-plus crowd.
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  Dan Schulz: Lederhosen optional.
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  Dan Schulz: You don't need lederhosen or a good singing voice for this one.
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  Dan Schulz: Tomorrow from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, the Redmond Senior and Community Center downtown is throwing Oktoberfest karaoke for the 50-plus crowd.
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  Dan Schulz: There'll be music, pretzels, games, and a microphone for anyone brave enough to grab it.
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  Dan Schulz: Cheering from your seat counts, too.
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  Dan Schulz: The city asks people to register ahead through its recreation site.
• 2:26
  Dan Schulz: The registration link is in the show notes and in the newsletter If you've got a hidden leak, the worst plan is grabbing a shovel and hoping.
• 2:34
  Dan Schulz: Here's Lincoln Spencer from Simply Leak Detection.
• 2:38
  Lincoln: You know, I mean, it just depends on where you wanna spend your time.
• 2:41
  Lincoln: Some people have more time than money, and they're happy to dig up their yard.
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  Lincoln: But I would say for most people, it's well worth the money to pay us to know exactly where to dig, saving a lot of time in digging and repair effort, but also just saving their landscape so they don't
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  Lincoln: have to put everything back together again.
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  Jennifer Davis: They mark the spot so you dig once instead of five times.
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  Jennifer Davis: Call 253-800-1412 or go to simplyleakdetection.com and tell them The Best of Redmond sent ya.
• 3:14
  Dan Schulz: Redmond will pay an artist $3,000 to design its crosswalks.
• 3:20
  Dan Schulz: Redmond wants an artist to design three of its crosswalks, and the job pays.
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  Dan Schulz: The city is looking for an artist or team to create matching designs for the crosswalks right next to Idlewood Park by Lake Sammamish.
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  Dan Schulz: City crews will install them next summer.
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  Dan Schulz: Get this, the $3,000 covers all three designs, and up to three finalists get $500 each to draft a concept.
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  Dan Schulz: Artists living anywhere in the US can apply, but finalists have to be present in person at City Hall the week of December 14th.
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  Dan Schulz: You apply with one document, a short statement, a resume, and samples of past work.
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  Dan Schulz: Applications close Sunday, October 25th at 11:00 PM Pacific.
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  Dan Schulz: The application link is in the show notes and also in our newsletter
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  Jennifer Davis: What does home look like?
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  Jennifer Davis: Fifty small artworks take a shot tomorrow.
• 4:19
  Jennifer Davis: Every piece in this art show is small, and every one of them asks the same question: What does home mean to you?
• 4:27
  Jennifer Davis: Tomorrow from six to eight, Valla Art Center downtown throws the opening reception for Small Wonders, a show of more than fifty small artworks about home.
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  Jennifer Davis: Think a familiar meal, a backyard, a favorite object.
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  Jennifer Davis: The reception is free and open to all ages with light refreshments.
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  Jennifer Davis: Can't make it on Friday?
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  Jennifer Davis: The show stays up through December thirteenth.
• 4:51
  Jennifer Davis: Details are in our show notes and in the newsletter.
• 4:55
  Dan Schulz: The Seattle Times has pulled this photo trick since 1982.
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  Dan Schulz: Now you can hear how on Wednesday.
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  Dan Schulz: For 44 years, The Seattle Times has run old photos next to new ones shot from the exact same spot.
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  Dan Schulz: I love it when they do that.
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  Dan Schulz: It's like one of my favorite things.
• 5:16
  Dan Schulz: On Wednesday, the two people who make that column now are coming to the Redmond Library downtown, gene Sherrod and Clay Eels will share the stories behind their columns with a few Eastside stops along the way and talk about
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  Dan Schulz: Paul Dorpat, who started it all back in 1982.
• 5:36
  Dan Schulz: The Redmond Historical Society is hosting from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in Meeting Room West.
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  Dan Schulz: It's free for members with a suggested $5 donation for everyone else.
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  Dan Schulz: Details, of course, are in our show notes and right there in the newsletter
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  Jennifer Davis: Okay, it's time for the Redmond History Minute, where we share a piece of history, a tidbit, or some trivia about life in and around Redmond.
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  Jennifer Davis: And today's trivia question is: the gardens at Willow Moore Farm, the land that's now Marymoor Park, were designed by the Olmsted Brothers.
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  Jennifer Davis: That's the same firm behind which other famous project?
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  Jennifer Davis: Was it A, the Golden Gate Bridge; B, Central Park in New York City; C, Disneyland; or D, the National Mall?
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  Jennifer Davis: And your time starts now.
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  Dan Schulz: Okay, well it's not Disneyland.
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  Dan Schulz: I know that.
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  Dan Schulz: Golden Gate Bridge, Central Park in New York City, the National Mall.
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  Dan Schulz: It wasn't the National Mall, I'm sure of that.
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  Dan Schulz: I'm not sure of anything, honestly.
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  Dan Schulz: I am just gonna guess and say it would be really cool if it was the Golden Gate Bridge.
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  Jennifer Davis: Is that your final ans
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  Dan Schulz: No, it is not.
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  Dan Schulz: Central Park in New York City.
• 6:51
  Dan Schulz: Final answer.
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  Jennifer Davis: Okay, well you're gonna be really glad you switched your answer because you're right.
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  Jennifer Davis: It's Central Park in New York City
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  Dan Schulz: Two in a row.
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  Dan Schulz: Again, Jennifer, I plead with you and the kids listening, give me my flowers
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  Jennifer Davis: James Cleese hired the Olmsted Brothers in 1908 to plan the plantings at Willowmore.
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  Jennifer Davis: The firm carried on the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, the man who designed Central Park.
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  Jennifer Davis: Their plan called for masses of flowering shrubs, formal gardens, and a tiled bird pond.
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  Jennifer Davis: Most of it never went in.
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  Jennifer Davis: The trees may have been started, but the shrubs never were there.
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  Jennifer Davis: Still, a Redmond dairy farm hired the most famous landscape firm in American history.
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  Jennifer Davis: It's not a bad flex for a farming village
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  Dan Schulz: Yeah, but it, uh, is a terrible flex on project management.
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  Dan Schulz: Why didn't all this stuff get put in?
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  Jennifer Davis: I don't know.
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  Jennifer Davis: I kind of wish it had been, but you know, still love Mary Moore the way it is
• 7:52
  Dan Schulz: We've got a special guest on the show today, April Roberts from the Lake Washington Transition Academy.
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  Dan Schulz: April, welcome to the Best of Redmond.
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  Dan Schulz: We're so happy that you joined us today.
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  April Roberts: Thank you so much for having me on.
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  April Roberts: I can't wait to share everything that's, so exciting with this program and what it has to offer to our awesome city of Redmond.
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  Dan Schulz: Tell us about the Lake Washington Transition Academy.
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  April Roberts: So our goal is we are working with students that come from the special ed department after they graduate from high school.
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  April Roberts: What my job is to instill with these students is to teach them life skills, teaching them how to be self-sufficient, go grocery shopping, budget their income.
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  April Roberts: Main one that we mainly focus is job skills.
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  April Roberts: So we're really teaching them that next step to adulthood and independence.
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  Dan Schulz: And what this is is, like, you're, you're, you're putting internships together with local businesses and these students, so it's, it's like a true win-win type of situation.
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  April Roberts: It is a true win-win situation because when we set up internships for our students, they're not necessarily A lot of our students are independent, and some of them aren't as independent and can go by themselves.
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  April Roberts: So they would have a teacher or instructor with them on the job sites coaching them through what the job duties might be.
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  April Roberts: And then as they get more and more comfortable with it, there's more or less and less of us doing the instruction.
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  April Roberts: So it's really awesome, 'cause it's also teaches them the accountability to be a great employee and what it takes to be accountable and be on time.
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  Jennifer Davis: They get to explore what they're interested in and try to find a job in that field?
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  April Roberts: That's kinda what we've been driving our program towards more.
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  April Roberts: We, we constantly ask our students what kinda job field that they would like to be in, and that helps me go out in the public and try to seek these out as much as possible.
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  Jennifer Davis: So tell us about some of the, the Redmond businesses that you've been working with so far.
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  April Roberts: So we have Victor's Coffee is one of our longest running internships that we have had for many, many years.
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  April Roberts: It's wonderful because it also teaches our students how to greet people appropriately.
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  April Roberts: A lot of our students have started there, and they want to get a job there when they're ready, which is amazing.
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  April Roberts: It's just a start.
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  April Roberts: Another wonderful business that we work with is Bella Vision.
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  April Roberts: We have students going in there and getting that feel of what it's like to be in a professional medical building.
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  April Roberts: One of our biggest ones that we really are really proud of as well is Botanical Gardens.
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  April Roberts: That's just helping those kids that want or students that really want to do landscaping or learn more about plants and how that can help in different ways in their life.
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  April Roberts: So- That's another great one.
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  April Roberts: Pagliacci's hired one of our students.
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  April Roberts: He's a two-year student, and he's a part-time employee at Pagliacci's.
• 10:41
  April Roberts: He is so proud of his count of how many Pagliacci boxes he's folded.
• 10:46
  April Roberts: Uh, I think he's close to 300.
• 10:48
  Dan Schulz: I hate to burst his bubble, but I have probably unfolded more Pagliacci boxes- than he has folded.
• 10:55
  Dan Schulz: Hate to say it.
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  April Roberts: Right.
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  April Roberts: Oh, and I hate to forget this wonderful business that's been giving us so much love is Toshi's Teriyaki down here in Redmond.
• 11:03
  April Roberts: They have h- been hosting so many multiple interns there over the years, and we really, really appreciate them so very much.
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  Jennifer Davis: Well, they sound like very dedicated students.
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  Jennifer Davis: So if a local business owner is listening right now- Yeah and wondering if this is for them, what does partnering with the Transition Academy actually look like for that business that might be interested?
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  Jennifer Davis: Like, what's their benefit for them?
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  April Roberts: So their benefit to them is some of the chores that they necessarily don't n- get to, let's say.
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  April Roberts: It's simply maybe one of them is refacing their shelves.
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  April Roberts: That's an easy task, right?
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  April Roberts: Or it's that admin stuff.
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  April Roberts: Oh my gosh, I'm gonna have to pay my employee to sit in the back and shred paper.
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  April Roberts: This is costing me time.
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  April Roberts: This is something our students can come in, and that's an easy task.
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  April Roberts: Something that they don't necessarily, might not realize, that by hiring our special needs students, they stay with you.
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  April Roberts: Their employment rate is staying with an employee for 95%.
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  April Roberts: They don't leave a job.
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  April Roberts: Once they get a job, they are staying.
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  April Roberts: And it's just really another way to give back to the community.
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  April Roberts: Show that you're fully inclusive.
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  April Roberts: I'm proud of helping this community of people that really deserve a chance and be seen.
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  April Roberts: Because they are so much more than just where we like to put them i- in a, in a box.
• 12:22
  April Roberts: They can do so many things, and I think that we underestimate this, this community of students.
• 12:27
  Dan Schulz: For the businesses that have done it, you guys are heroes.
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  Dan Schulz: Like, it is really great.
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  Dan Schulz: Yeah.
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  Dan Schulz: You are doing something really special for Redmond and for these young people, and you should just be applauded.
• 12:39
  Dan Schulz: If you had 60 seconds with a Redmond business owner, what would you want them to hear?
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  April Roberts: There was a time in your life when you started your business, and you were waiting for that one customer to give you that opportunity.
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  April Roberts: That's where our students are at.
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  April Roberts: They are eager and excited, and they are the most energetic, wanna do good, wanna show up every day for work.
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  April Roberts: And if I could have employees like that every day, I w- I would just be on cloud nine.
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  April Roberts: Because they're simply there getting paid and experience and showing themselves that I did this.
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  April Roberts: And it doesn't take much.
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  April Roberts: It just takes a yes and an opportunity to give that chance.
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  April Roberts: Like, you were given a chance.
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  Dan Schulz: Now, how do, how do people get ahold of you?
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  April Roberts: If you're interested, just send me an email over.
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  April Roberts: I can meet one-on-one with you and some of our other teammates and really dive in deep of, like, what your help is.
• 13:34
  Jennifer Davis: Yeah.
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  Jennifer Davis: What a cool program.
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  Jennifer Davis: It's so great when we can all succeed, you know?
• 13:38
  Jennifer Davis: I- Mm-hmm I didn't even know about the program.
• 13:40
  Jennifer Davis: This is wonderful to hear about.
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  Dan Schulz: Thank you for joining us, April.
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  Dan Schulz: We've been talking to April Roberts from the Lake Washington Transition Academy.
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  Dan Schulz: What a fantastic program.
• 13:49
  Dan Schulz: We're gonna have April's contact info in the show notes and in the newsletter, so make sure you check it out.
• 13:55
  Dan Schulz: Thank you so much, April, for being part of our show.
• 13:58
  April Roberts: Oh, thank you so much, you guys, for having me.
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  April Roberts: This has been such a delight to spread the word about our wonderful program and get more eyes on our community.
• 14:06
  Dan Schulz: Like, we gotta stop doing interviews during coffee and lunchtime 'cause- Now we're
• 14:10
  Jennifer Davis: hungry now.
• 14:11
  Dan Schulz: I'm starving.
• 14:12
  Dan Schulz: I want coffee.
• 14:13
  Dan Schulz: I want pizza.
• 14:14
  Dan Schulz: I want teriyaki.
• 14:23
  Dan Schulz: word is a neighborhood cinema is in very early talks for a space in Old Redmond.
• 14:29
  Dan Schulz: Now, we're not talking about one of these big megaplexes.
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  Dan Schulz: We're talking about something more intimate.
• 14:33
  Dan Schulz: Like, you know, think like 40 seats, handpicked films, craft cocktails, and no popcorn smell.
• 14:40
  Dan Schulz: But if I can, uh, put my vote in, like, uh, have some popcorn smell.
• 14:43
  Dan Schulz: Uh, you need a popcorn smell.
• 14:45
  Dan Schulz: The person behind it apparently ran a similar room in Portland for six years before moving up to the east side.
• 14:52
  Dan Schulz: Now, none of this is confirmed.
• 14:53
  Dan Schulz: We don't have a name, an address, or an opening date, so here's the question: What's the first movie you'd wanna see there?
• 15:01
  Dan Schulz: If you've got a guess or have heard something, head on over to our Facebook page at facebook.com/bestofredmond and drop it in the Redmond Rumor Mill Guesses post.
• 15:12
  Dan Schulz: And while you're there at our Facebook page, find the post called Your Picks and answer this question.
• 15:18
  Dan Schulz: We wanna know what you think the best pumpkin patch is
• 15:22
  Jennifer Davis: If you've enjoyed our podcast, you're gonna love the companion newsletter.
• 15:26
  Jennifer Davis: Find it at bestofredmond.com and we'll see you in the next one
• 15:31
  Dan Schulz: Or maybe before then, walking around Redmond