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FEBRUARY 16, 2022
VOL. 103, NO. 7
A meaningful expedition
Seattle man to scale African peak to raise awareness about kidney donations
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Photo courtesy Bobby McLaughlin Former Magnolia resident and kidney donor Bobby McLaughlin, second from right, stands with seven other climbers on Bear Peak in Colorado, Jan. 15. The climb was a practice run for their expedition climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, in March. experience.” Beginning a new journey McLaughlin’s started his journey to kidney donation and Mount Kilimanjaro accidentally in 2016 after he fractured his wrist in a bad bike crash. He didn’t know that accident would
change his life. “There’s a lot of times in life where things happen where we might not realize the chain of events of things unfolding, and I didn’t realize at the time, so it went from a really bad bike crash to the best one ever,” McLaughlin said.
He said all he remembers after his breaking his wrist McLaughlin is the immense pain. The injury was so severe that it required surgery to repair. When he came out of surgery, the surgeon informed him his injury was worse
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Owner of new Queen Anne establishment hopes to give neighborhood residents the ‘bar they deserve’ By Laura Marie Rivera Contributing writer
Brian Claudio Smith is the force behind Queen Anne’s newest restaurant Bar Miriam. He is the owner/operator of Baker’s in Sunset Hill and is branching out to Queen Anne with the goal of “bringing the neighborhood the bar they deserve.” Bar Miriam opened Feb. 2 with a local crowd, and Smith is looking forward to welcoming more people from the neighborhood and beyond. Queen Anne was one of the first places Smith lived in Seattle, and he said he has been eyeing the perfect corner at Third and McGraw for as long as he can remember. Smith said he loves that the people and traffic all pass through the intersection and that
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Seattle resident Bobby McLaughlin has had previous invitations to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, but something always led him to turn them down. Until now. In March, the former Magnolia resident and 21 other kidney donors, all members of Kidney Donor Athletes, will scale Africa’s highest peak as part of the organization’s mission to raise awareness of the importance of kidney donations and demonstrate that being a kidney donor does not mean giving up adventures. “It’s ironic or not ironic, I’ve turned down other opportunities to climb Kilimanjaro because it didn’t quite fit with the timing for my life, and I’m actually really grateful now that this will be my first to do it this way,” McLaughlin said. “No offense to my friends who invited me before, but this will be a powerful, powerful
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Bar Miriam
307 W. McGraw St. Hours: 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday 4 p.m. to midnight Friday-Saturday www.barmiriam.com it has a “unique” energy that is separate from Queen Anne Avenue. Bar Miriam is a 21+ bar and restaurant that features cocktails and natural wines. Smith said he hopes it will become the local haunt that all the neighbors will want to frequent. Once upon a time, audiences could have seen Smith at Seattle Shakespeare Company. He followed a girl who would later
Photo by Thor Radford Bar Miriam chef Cody Westerfield stands behind the bar at Bar Miriam, 307 W. McGraw St. in Queen Anne. Bar Miriam, a SEE MIRIAM, PAGE 5 21 and older bar and restaurant opened Feb. 2.
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