Adams Elementary kids honor Joseph Skillings

Kids at Adams Elementary set out to fold 1,000 paper cranes tonight in honor of teacher Joseph Skillings, who continues his road to recovery at Harborview Medical Center. (Here’s the significance of the 1,000 paper cranes.) I stopped by the PTA meeting where the kids were folding and coloring, but I was nicely told that the news media was not allowed to attend. (My Ballard is the news media? We don’t know what to say.) Fortunately, Skillings’ friends and family are doing a terrific job updating his condition online. According to the latest entry in his journal, Skillings was able to walk to the hospital cafeteria for the first time. “He ordered food from the cook and ate quite a bit while he talked with friends. Getting away from his room made him really happy. He remembered again how much he missed his class and the other students at Adams,” explains the journal. As for the investigation into his attack, police have made no arrests to date. We’ll keep you updated.