Nancy Christian’s first day driving a Northshore school bus didn’t go as planned.
“I had 60 Kokanee (Elementary) children on board that day,” she recalls.
She turned the corner from 240th Street Southeast onto 35th Avenue Southeast, allowing herself and the big yellow bus ample room to make the corner. However, the car sitting on 35th decided to pull forward a wee bit, thus throwing off Nancy’s calculations. The right rear tire of the bus fell into the ditch, the ditch she so desperately wanted to avoid, throwing the bus into a lean.

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There’s a peacefulness looking out over the wetlands from the shared campus of Cascadia Community College and the University of Washington, Bothell (see page 9 for photo).

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The cozy house nestled among the trees, azaleas and rhododendrons of Rhododendron Park is home to Kenmore’s Senior Center.

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A couple of swimmers jump into the deep end calling, “Watch out!” Some climb down the ladder and many take the staircase at the shallow end of the pool. No matter how they enter, the Northshore YMCA pool is filled on Tuesday and Thursday mornings … for that matter, every morning! It’s 9 a.m. and time for swim exercise class under the leadership of Mary Mussman.

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Twenty-one years ago, office manager Robbi Pennington met a lost looking soul in the parking lot of Canyon Creek Elementary, and with a warm smile asked, “Can I help you?”

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I still recall the University of Washington freshman orientation keynote speech of five years ago, given by Professor David Salesin, where he urged students to exercise, socialize and intellectualize on a daily basis. If the message was good for the students, it was also good for their parents, I thought. I’ve tried to use his advice ever since.

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Sporting a blue shirt with the BHS insignia, Bothell High School Principal Bob Stewart sits at his desk amidst papers and books in a cramped portable on campus. Bob knows it’s short term and, come November, will move into new digs. Not only will Bob, Co-Principal Heather Miller and the administrative staff move, but also 1,650 students are in for a big treat. How big?

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