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Bellevue foundation donates $6 million to UW for Alzheimer’s research, medicine
Fire call leads to homicide case BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
Coal Creek Parkway improvements earn APWA Washington chapter’s environmental award
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University of Washington Medicine’s Dr. Thomas Grabowski, left, points out brain images affected with Alzheimer’s disease at the Integrated Brain Imaging Center. Tom Ellison, right, whose foundation donated $6 million to the university’s Alzheimer’s research center, toured the IBIC on March 27.
Tom Ellison lost three family members to disease BY BRANDON MACZ
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The Bellevue-based Ellison Foundation has made the largest donation for Alzheimer’s
disease research and treatment development in the University of Washington’s history, putting its research center $6 million closer to its $20 million goal. The donation is particularly sig-
nificant to foundation cofounder Tom Ellison, whose grandmother, father and later his uncle died from Alzheimer’s. The Ellison Foundation gave UW $5 million last year for stem cell research. SEE FOUNDATION, 4
The Bellevue Police Department is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found by firefighters in an Avalon Meydenbauer apartment unit Tuesday night as a homicide. Police report firefighters responded to an active sprinkler alarm at the Avalon Meydenbauer on the 10400 block of Northeast Second Street at 9:19 p.m. Tuesday night, evacuating the building. Firefighters found water damage in a fifth-floor unit, leading them to the sixth-floor unit above where the alarm originated. Inside, firefighters found a small fire and the body of a deceased woman, according to a BPD news release. Firefighters contacted police, who responded and determined the woman had injuries “consistent with homicidal violence,” according to the release. Bellevue detectives and arson investigators with the Bellevue Fire Department were on scene all Tuesday night and most of Wednesday. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office reported it would not be releasing any information regarding the homicide victim before the Reporter’s press deadline. More information will be provided online at bellevuereporter.com.
Bellevue native spearheading Philbrook House preservation effort BY BRANDON MACZ
Newport Knights senior wants to leave a lasting legacy in her final season
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Slated for demolition, Old Bellevue’s historic Philbrook House may be granted a reprieve if Nils Dickmann can gather city council support. The Philbrook House is a Victoria-era home built in the 1890s at 10133 Main Street that has been repurposed over the past 120 years and is listed on the city’s historic resources inventory. It began as a farmhouse and then a residence
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for Civil War veteran Alphonso Philbrook before becoming a restaurant in the 1920s, which was operated by Florence Carter and served whalers headquartered in Meydenbauer Bay. In the 1940s it was a plumbing store and then a bakery. It served as various antique businesses from the 70s to 90s. The Eastside Heritage Center called upon Bellevue residents to take up the charge and save the historic building from demolition last year, after the Gordon SEE PHILBROOK, 3
Brandon Macz, Bellevue Reporter
The Philbrook House is slated to be razed in downtown Bellevue for an office building.
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