Creating community and helping others

Magnolia woman’s e orts result in village

improvements

By Laura Marie Rivera

Queen Anne & Magnolia News editor

Magnolia’s Cheryl McQuiston has always been a social person, but it has taken her entire life to realize the full potential of this gi .

Since 2018, McQuiston has been the driving force of the Magnolia Village Beauti cation Project and was recognized in 2020 as the Person of the Year by the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce.

“I hadn’t known how much I a ected other people until this,” she said.

McQuiston was born and raised in Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood and attended Franklin High School. She remembers enjoying her Spanish classes and home economics, but what she really excelled at was socializing. Her ability to talk to anyone and make friends with everyone she met would become a very important skill for the career she had yet to discover.

It wasn’t until she and her husband moved to Magnolia and later enrolled their daughter at Our Lady of Fatima that she rst heard of event planning and raising money as a career. McQuiston remembers that the school was looking for someone to help with the annual auction and a

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