Northshore Fire District Battalion Chief Tim Osgood lives in Woodinville and is an elected commissioner of the Woodinville fire and…
Pegging a description of 21 Acres is hard to do. But it suddenly has become much more than a concept, covering many precious and farmable acres at the north end of the soil rich Sammamish Valley.
Karen Ann Olson Forys would be very pleased to learn of the selection of recipients of the first memorial scholarships to be issued in her name this year — the silver anniversary of the Northshore Scholarship Foundation.
The Big Brothers program was 4 years old, and it would be 11 more years before women had the right to vote. Wilbur and Orville Wright had convinced the U.S. Army a year earlier that their newly invented airplane could stay aloft for more than an hour.
As if public schools in our area were not feeling enough of a budget crunch for the foreseeable future, the subject is on the table in the Lake Washington School District to shift from three-year to four-year high schools in that district.
As they ponder committing Bothell residents and businesses to a $21 million purchase of school-district property in downtown Bothell for commercial development, our city mothers and fathers might consider the value of preserving an important greenbelt on the western slopes of the North Creek Valley, west of Interstate 405.
Each morning when I head out to the driveway to pick up the morning newspapers, I can’t help but wonder how much longer they will continue to arrive. The P-I is up for sale with no buyer in sight. The Times continues to lay off employees and may be terminal, as well.
Our Bothell and Kenmore communities lost three prominent personalities over the past extended holiday period — Dick Truly, Jack Crawford and Lowell Haynes. The Reporter’s columns have paid tribute to all three.
Here’s a great way to usher in the holidays for Northshore’s kids of all ages. The 18th annual Rotary Santa Breakfast, sponsored by the Northshore Rotary Club and the Woodinville Rotary Club, will be held Dec. 13 at Northshore Junior High.
The prospect of a staggering state-budget deficit to exceed $4 billion doesn’t bode well for high-school seniors looking forward to exploring a college education. Education and human services, in general, are likely to bear the brunt of cost saving (call that slashing) measures the state legislature must weigh beginning in January.
Under the auspices of a new nonprofit, “The Music Project,” vocalists from the Secondary Academy for Success (SAS) will perform next month at the Children’s Hospital “Festival of Trees” fund-raising celebration in Seattle.
Let’s talk safety, generosity, energy and human service dollars.
Cascadia Community College received a grant recently that is designed to promote and expand “service learning” on campus. Cascadia could certainly do well to look to the service-learning model of professor Martha Groom next door at the co-located University of Washington, Bothell.
Marine Corps lieutenant Meagan Reed, Bothell High grad of 2002, received the Bothell High Alumni Association scholarship that year with plans to enter Whitman College. What followed makes me dizzy just trying to absorb all of her many accomplishments over such a few years. Meagan “can’t wait until our first reunion,” she wrote to association president Chuck Kaysner, class of 1963.
Since these truly feel to be the dog days of August, I’ll take another swing at a collection of “Sub Blurbs” by covering several topics.
A wide cross-section of Bothell’s citizenry told elected city officials last week just how much they love the Park at Bothell Landing — just as it is. In fact, they declared emphatic support for expanding the urban park as a treasured public, open space not to be frittered away to surface parking lots and huge, out-of-scale public structures.
Hard to believe there ever was a time when retail stores didn’t open their doors on Sundays until noon in respect for families whose Sunday mornings were reserved for church.
Residents and visitors to the Northshore communities have enjoyed an abundance of festive, public events to welcome July and what surely has finally become summer.
I have a pair of suggestions for summer reading — one authored locally, the other by a national figure with global perspective.
University of Washington, Bothell supporters of the international Village Volunteers efforts to provide means for safe, filtered water in the villages of Kenya met recently to assess their fund-raising plans for the balance of 2008.
The student and community interest in the project stemmed from a class led by professor Martha Groom in which students explored humanitarian needs in Kenya.
