Enrollment grows after changes at Bellevue nonprofit music school - 2004-01-30
Casino gambling and the economic decline have struck a few sour notes at Music Works Northwest in Bellevue in recent years. After almost 3 decades of counting on $1 million in annual bingo proceeds to keep the budget balanced, the nonprofit school began seeing shortfalls in 2001 as gaming proceeds dropped.
That wasn't the only off-key note at the school that has been offering music classes and private lessons to nearly 1,000 children and adults at a time since the mid-1980s.
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