Queen Anne News 05-04-22

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VOL. 103, NO. 17

QA rodent control program advancing after early success

Suzanne Vétillart, who runs her family’s company, Boma Jewelry, arranges jewelry that will be on display at a hosting an AAPI pop-up event featuring several local businesses from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the business showroom, 41 Dravus St. in Queen Anne.

By Jessica Keller

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A rodent abatement program that used nonlethal means to reduce the rat population at the future 21Boston development site in Queen Anne was so successful organizers are ready to expand it into other areas. Ever since a snowy owl fans named Yuki showed up in Queen Anne in the fall of 2020, Tanea Stephens, Queen Anne wildlife activist and Raptors are the Solution Seattle chapter director, has tried to educate people and the businesses in Queen Anne about the dangers of using poison bait traps

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Local jewelry store makes people, ethics a continued focus By Laura Marie Rivera Contributing writer

A Queen Anne jewelry company founded on the principles of people and ethics has expanded that mission even further in the last couple of years. Last summer, Boma Jewelry moved its headquarters to 41 Dravus St., near the Fremont Bridge. This family-owned business was founded in 1981 by Boon and Chieko Chaya, who focused on the triple bottom line: people, planet and profits. They built their own factory in Thailand that would, in turn, support and build their community of artisan jewelers. At the highest production levels, they employed hundreds of workers and sold

their jewelry at retailers like Nordstrom, American Eagle and Target. In time, the Boma owners decided they preferred a smaller operation so they could more easily control the quality for which they had become known. Today, the Boma Jewelry operation is modeled like a family and led by Chaya’s daughter, Suzanne Vétillart. Vétillart lives in Queen Anne with her four children and her husband, Étienne. She was born and raised in Bellevue and spent some of her formative years studying architecture at Columbia University in New York City. In 2009, she moved to Thailand to be closer to some of her extended family, and that is when she started

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