On Saturday, March 30th, a group of volunteers from Danforth in the Community headed down to the NW Harvest warehouse in Kent and helped package up 8,450 pounds of frozen vegetables which will be distributed to food banks across the state. This is enough to provide 6,500 meals for hungry families in our communities. Great work team!

For more information on how you can help NW Harvest in its mission to provide nutritious food to hungry people, please visit: www.nwharvest.org.

If you would like to join Danforth in the Community on an upcoming NW Harvest volunteer day, please email: vdanforth@comcast.net

Coldwell Banker Danforth in the Community is proud to have been one of the event sponsors for the Seattle-King County Habitat for Humanity “Stronger Together” Benefit Breakfast held on Wednesday, March 27th at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. This event was attended by over 1,000 people and raised $442,751 to help families in need attain healthy, affordable housing. For more information on Habitat for Humanity, please visit their website at: www.habitatskc.org
If you are interested in getting involved with Danforth in the Community on an upcoming build, please contact Valerie at: vdanforth@comcast.net

Thanks to the CB Danforth in the Community team for supporting the 5th annual Back to School Resource Fair in SeaTac!

This was our 2nd year sponsoring the event and boy was it a success, handing out around 1,200 backpacks!

The Back to School Resource Fair provides over 1,500 under-served children and youth with access to free backpacks/school supplies, haircuts, clothing, health information, dental care checks, early learning resources and other community resources. These help ensure the students are ready for their first day of school, immunizations, child ID cards, early learning and community resources as well as food, door prizes and fun things to do for children.

The event started Tuesday with a backpack stuffing at the Matt Griffen YMCA to get the backpacks ready to go. Tarilyn Christensen, Valerie Danforth, David Frasch, Julie Hiller, Elizabeth Phillips, Tom Rolph and Lisa Woods represented the CB Danforth team.

The Back to School Resource Fair was held this past Thursday at the Valley Ridge Park. Jim Brown, Dave Danforth, Maura Larson, Joyce Lowe, Nyla Nakano,
Eileen Quackenbush, Cathy VanDyke and Lisa Woods were there to help distribute backpacks to families in need.

More than 70 percent of students at these schools are on the free/reduced lunch program. A typical cost for the backpack and basic set of supplies range $25-$40. For families with multiple children these supplies can add up, and very often these families make the choice between food and rent/utilities, never having enough for the basics let alone school supplies. This event helps both the students and the families overall.

The Back to School Resource Fair was a success because our employees, their family members, and other businesses from the community gave their support to this event.

Take a look at the full List of the 2012 Sponsors:

• Angle Lake Neighborhood Church

• Bartell Drugs

• City of SeaTac Fire Fighters

• City of SeaTac

• Coldwell Banker

• Community Health Plan of Washington

• Exchange Club of Highline

• Foundation for Early Leaning

• Hairmasters

• HealthPoint

• Highline Athletic Club

• Highline Public Schools

• Highline Schools Foundation

• King County Library System

• Lutheran Community Services

• Molina Healthcare

• SeaTac Park.com

• SeaTac Rotary

• SeaTac YMCA

• SOAR

• Sound Transit

• Southcenter Pediatric Dentistry

• Swedish Medical Center

• Thrivent Financial

• World Vision

Thank you to everyone that helped out with this important event for the community!

Upcoming Events

We hope to see you at the first CB Danforth in the Community Golf Tourney on Friday, August 24th, 2012. The event will benefit our CB Danforth in the Community Fund so that we can support the Habitat for Humanity, Northwest Harvest and many other local charities.

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REALTORS(R) Nationwide Open House event is this weekend, April 28th and 29th! This open house showcase invites house hunters to obtain information about home ownership from expert REALTORS(R) in local neighborhoods. Several hundred homes that are currently listed for sale will be available for viewing Saturday and Sunday! Balloons are available at each of our offices for pick up.

The latest statistics are saying that this is the time to buy AND the time to sell a home. With interest rates still low and home prices going up. The inventory is limited but there are still really good deals out there.

New numbers are reported every day based on a job market that seems to be picking up, and new programs added by the federal government. What is happening in the Seattle area housing market or what is going on in your neighborhood isn’t a reflection of what is going on in the rest of the country.

In the Seattle area the recent consistencies in the housing market are making a positive pattern. Both buyers and sellers should be aware that this is a good time to make a move. The actual numbers of homes sold or listed in the Multiple Listing Service shows the statistics that are calculated over a significant period of time.

Great news for Seattle home sellers. Last year the housing market was balanced market (there weren’t any new homes listed and 3-6 months was a typical period for inventory to sell). That number has fallen below the three-month level making this a seller’s market for homes in most of the Puget Sound area. Multiple offers are becoming prevalent.

According to a report by the MLS published on March 5, …”within King County, pending sales were particularly robust in the Lake Forest Park/Kenmore neighborhoods (up 73 percent), Kent (up 61 percent), Burien/Normandy Park (up 58 percent) and central Seattle (up 56 percent). The northeast portion of Snohomish County also experienced strong sales (up 63 percent from a year ago).”

The new Coldwell Banker Real Estate TV commercials began airing this week and tonight they hit PRIME TIME during ABC’s hit show “Modern Family.”
Be sure to tune in!