At Tuesday evening’s City Council meeting, the city of Bothell received special recognition from the Washington State Auditor’s Office for achieving 10 consecutive years with no audit findings. Washington State law requires cities to be audited annually. Audit procedures are performed to determine whether the city complied with state laws and regulations and its own policies and procedures.
Each year, the Kenmore Arts Show gives artists the opportunity to shine. Allied Waste Services supported the show as a 2011 Business Contributor, and sponsored a special award for artists who repurposed at least 70 percent of the materials used to create their entries.
This year, the company’s donation created a new award category called “Recycling is Beautiful.”
A group of 40 University of Washington, Bothell alumni, students, faculty and friends spent several hours maintaining a section of the Sammamish River Trail in Bothell on Sept. 17.
In partnership with city of Bothell staff, the university group removed invasive Himalayan blackberry from a 100-meter stretch of land along the popular regional trail between Blyth Park and 102nd Avenue Northeast in Bothell. The volunteers then replanted the area with native rose, Pacific ninebark and red-osier dogwood.
Friends of St. Edward State Park far and near, old and young, gathered Sept. 9 to honor Kenmore’s ladies of history, Betty Watson and Jo Ann Evans, and to dedicate three interpretive signs, honoring the people who made St. Edward’s Seminary a place worthy of the National Register of Historic Places.
Canyon Park Junior High ninth-grader Srishti Mathur was honored at the Evergreen State Fair by Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon and Allied Waste Services for her essay about renewable energy and sustainable living practices.
Students were invited by Reardon and Allied Waste Services to write about the steps they could take to improve renewable energy and sustainability practices in Washington and discuss the growing need to be environmentally friendly. Divided into two age categories, six winners were chosen and invited to opening-day ceremonies at the fair last month. Mathur won the middle-school division of the competition.
Alieu Diaw encountered an entirely different culture and language when he moved to Bothell from Gambia, Africa, in the spring of 2010 after being separated from his mother for eight years. The Crystal Springs student was selected to attend the summer Northshore YMCA English Language Learners (ELL) Enrichment Day Camp and has participated for the past two summers.
“It’s fun,” said Alieu. “You learn a lot and improve your skills for school.” Alieu enjoyed going on the field trips, learning new things and making new friends. The camp has helped him improve his English language skills, learn about his environment and American culture, develop friendships and have a different outlook on how things work in this country.
In many ways Isaiah Caplan is your typical teenager. And, in many ways he is not. As part of his school’s business-development culminating project, Caplan, 15, from Orting decided to form a mock nonprofit and sell concessions to raise money for the Northshore Wranglers Special Recreation Program.
Cascadia Community College recently graduated the largest number of students in its history. So, what’s on the minds of today’s college students? Corruption, traffic and zombies. Well, kind of.
The end of spring quarter also marked the wrap up of a weeklong writing, acting and video production workshop in which students explored a range of surprisingly meaty topics.
One short film focuses on asserting personal ethics in a corrupt workplace. Another film uses traffic as a metaphor for a struggling relationship. A third tackles the issue of how the consumer-generated content on the Web contributes to distorted ideas, as it follows two brothers who are making plans to flee a zombie invasion.
Have Fulbright, will travel.
Kenmore native and political science major Thomas Elliott (class of 2011) is one of three Whittier College (California) students who have been awarded the prestigious award to travel overseas for a 10-month time period to conduct research and/or teach English.
University of Portland students Kenny King — a Bothell Cedar Park Christian graduate — and Kurt Berning have raised more than $20,000 for education in Cambodia. King and Berning are the founders of Global Alliance for Developing Education (Global ADE), an innovative nonprofit that is dedicated to building education in developing countries. The money was raised at a gala event on April 20, which featured a gourmet meal and an auction of items donated by community partners and University of Portland students.
John Schmied, a seventh-grade science teacher at Skyview Junior High, has been awarded the 2011 Richard C. Bartlett Environmental Education Award for his outstanding teachings on the importance of being an environmentally-responsible citizen.
The Bartlett award, made possible by Baxter International Inc., is given annually by the National Environmental Education Foundation and recognizes teachers who inspire their students and peers in environmental studies. The award is given during National Teacher Appreciation Week, May 2-6. Schmied will receive a $5,000 award.
What started as a conversation between two classmates in 2009 blossomed into the Northshore Wall of Honor last year and now the deadline is approaching for nominations for the 2011 class of inductees.
The nomination deadline for the Wall of Honor at Pop Keeney Stadium is March 31 and the selection committee will meet in April. Nominees must be graduates of Northshore School District high schools (Bothell, Inglemoor, Woodinville and Secondary Academy for Success) who have been out of high school for at least 15 years and former district employees who have been retired five years.
Many people have heard of or read Homer’s classic tale “Odyssey,” but imagine bringing this story to the stage using Dr. Seuss rhyme. That’s what playwright Don Zolidis did when he wrote and published “The SeussOdyssey” a few years ago.
Cedar Park Christian defeated rival Life Christian, 60-34, in a 1A Nisqually League football contest Sept. 25 to move to…
The city of Bothell has hired Erin Leonhart as its new director for the Public Works Department. She will start…
Bastyr University’s new Student Village recently won the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification, becoming the first student-housing project in the country of any scale to receive the highest green-building classification.
The Northshore Schools Foundation recently announced the appointment of Carmin Dalziel as executive director.
Dalziel, a native of Bothell and a Northshore School District alumnus, brings extensive leadership and years of professional experience working with youth and family programs.
Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Jay Inslee announced a new Department of Energy grant of $30 million for Belleuve-based Ramgen…
Child Passenger Safety Week is Sept. 19-25 and the Northshore Fire Department is urging parents and caregivers to make sure…
For a healthy and safe school year, every parent’s back-to-school checklist should include making sure children are up-to-date in their…
