Laura Vecsey is a former sports columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Baltimore Sun. She has lived in Seattle since 1994, which does not qualify her as a resident, according to unwritten rules of local citizenship. She lives in Magnolia, studies at the University of Washington and is the Local Content Director in Seattle for Examiner.com.

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Tom Reeder: Tidiest Man in Seattle

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April 24, 10:04 AM

by Laura Vecsey, Seattle People Examiner

In my continuing quest to chronicle the "quintessential" Seattle-ite, I would like to hold up my neighbor, Tom Reeder, as Exhibit A. T

here are newcomer Seattle-ites who have flocked here from faraway lands. And then there are the natives.

Tom is a native, proud of it, apt to spend weekends wearing a Husky Rose Bowl sweatshirt under his blue coveralls. Here we have Tom pictured next to his vintage Mustang, which he keeps pristinely waxed and safe in a garage so devoid of dirt, one could eat off the cement floor.

Tom was born and raised in Magnolia, a strangely suburban westerly nook of Seattle where roots are deep. It is probably one of the most sedate and stable of Seattle neighborhoods, and it is here that Tom Reeder has flourished.

Tom has lived in the same house since he was born. His parents are both, sadly, deceased, and Tom took over the family house on Condon Way years ago. Every morning, Tom heads off to work the 5:30 a.m. shift at Kerry Foods. Tom mixes spices. Sometimes he brings us cinnamon sugar. We wish he'd bring us saffron, since it costs a million dollars an ounce. But beggars can't be choosers.

Point is: Tom's a great great dad, husband and a great neighbor who keeps his Magnolia estate-let unnaturally neat and tidy. His kids think he's a little obsessive-compulsive. Maybe they're right. But Tom's a Seattle original. A clean one.

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