JET CITY MAVEN - VOL. 4, ISSUE 4, APRIL 2001

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Keep up the good work, writes veteran journalist

 (Editor's Note: the following letter was received from Trudy Weckworth, retired journalist who for several decades worked for the old Outlook and in recent years wrote the popular Hash crime column for both the Ballard News Tribune and the Seattle Press. She and her husband recently moved from their longtime home in Wallingford to the Ida Culver Home in Broadview.)

 Dear Susan and Clayton:

 When I received my Jet City Maven today, it had a little yellow sticker on it that said 'NOTIFY SENDER OF NEW ADDRESS,' so that's what I'm doing. Will you please change the address ... so I'll be sure to get my copy each month? I look forward to it, especially Stan Stapp's column, but on every page I find things of interest.

 We are now in an apartment at the Ida Culver Home Broadview. When I worked for the Seattle Public Schools as a secretary in the early 1930s, I was promoted to the Central Office, and took over as secretary in the Slide Library. In those days, that's all Visual Education was. Drawers and drawers of slides about travel, history, geography and I forget what else. The slides and a projector were loaned out to teachers to show to students. In the same office, Ida Culver presided over the Teachers' Auxiliary, which was established because in the 1930s the City hadn't yet figured out they could just go in the red if there wasn't money to pay debts, so banks and/or department stores discounted City workers' warrants.

 The Teachers' Auxiliary was created to loan money for a short period of time until the banks, etc., would cash the warrants at full value. Ida Culver was in charge of that! When I used to run errands for her, I never dreamed that over 60 years later I'd be living in an apartment in a retirement home named after her!

 Well, actually, I never dreamed I'd ever get to be elderly. Only other people did that. Keep up the good work. You put out such an interesting community newspaper. I love it!

 - TRUDY WECKWORTH,

 Broadview