I was recently in the Seattle area visiting my daughter and grand children. When visiting I pick up my grand kids at Frank Love Elementary. Our first stop after a hard day at school is the little Ice Cream Shop a few blocks from the school on Meridian and 228th Street.
Good news from Washington: the President pledged to continue America’s robust pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria that inspires other donors and will help save millions of lives. It is the Global Fund that provides 151 countries with money for projects that battle these three pandemics while strengthening the local health care systems that carry them out. Also the House passed the Education for All Act that will help countries focus on providing sustainable programs to educate all children. With education comes higher earnings, lower birth rates, and less conflict in our world. Of course it still needs to pass the Senate, which is where our calls and letters can help. We can make a difference in keeping the good news coming from Washington.
For that type of job move to Seattle | Cartoon for Sept. 22 – Frank Shiers
Washington State is experiencing an age wave. People are living longer, particularly those 85 and older. In 25 years, adults aged 60 and older are projected to make up 25 percent of King County’s population.
Washington State University has 12 students from Bothell who earned undergraduate degrees during the summer 2016 semester.
Seattle Seahawks fined for violating offseason rules | Cartoon for Sept. 21 – Frank Shiers
We have the right to camp where we want… | Cartoon for Sept. 20 – Frank Shiers
Rare creatures around here | Cartoon for Sept. 16 – Frank Shiers
It’s an especially busy time at Bothell City Hall as we work to develop the 2017-2018 budget. Just as you work to manage your own household budget, we, too, must live within our means. As part of budget development, I asked the City Council to define their vision for Bothell. I also asked them to formulate strategies and values that would guide the City in reaching that vision in 20 years.
Across our nation, there are more than five million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease and more than 15 million are providing care.
It is so exciting and fun to be working for this city and being a part of what’s going on in Kenmore right now. The amazing new mural on 73rd Avenue is a game changer for that stretch of road — I’m told it’s the largest mural in King County. The two artists who created the mural are examples of what we call “citizen co-creators” and have really given their hearts and souls (and an unfathomable amount of hours) into this work of art. The mural is just one example of how Kenmore is on a relentless and incremental upward trajectory. One citizen recently told us, “Kenmore is no longer the eye of the storm, where nothing is going on and so much is going on around it. There’s a lot going on here now.”
The Roads of Bothell.
We’er working on it | Cartoon for Sept. 13 – Frank Shiers
I remember waking up on the morning of Sept. 11, 2011 being late for work. I didn’t turn on the TV because I didn’t have time. I let our dog out, got ready for work, and bolted out the door. At the time, I was the sports editor at the Whidbey News-Times in Oak Harbor, Wash. Tuesdays were deadline day at the paper and being late meant putting everything into a time crunch.
He’s skipping school | Letter for Sept. 8 – Frank Shiers
The sun is setting on the Mariners’ season | Cartoon for Sept. 6 – Frank Shiers
Bellevue football booster club files suit | Cartoon for Sept. 5 – Frank Shiers
We who live and breathe in Kenmore want to see that 1962 obsolete non-monitored, non-filtered no bag house hazard go… not get painted.
Are we celebrating air pollution. It will certainly look like it. I am all for public art. I find this particular project (Kenmore Beautification Project to paint silos in the industrial park on Kenmore’s waterfront) inappropriate and offensive. A slap in the face to all who experience, daily, the health consequences and who all who are suffering because of this industry and it irresponsible refusal to allow monitoring of the fumes and the air that it huffs and puffs into our lungs daily, in a residential city. Leave it as it is.
Dear Let’s Beautify This,