Overlake Terrace, an assisted living and memory care community at 2956 152nd Ave. NE in Redmond, invites the public to upcoming fundraising events to battle’s Alzheimer’s disease and breast cancer.
The downtown Redmond branch of the United States Postal Service (USPS) will be moving to a new location, still in the downtown neighborhood, within approximately eight months, according to Ernie Swanson, communications expert in the Seattle office of the USPS.
“Nationwide, we are selling off small properties and consolidating our operations,” Swanson told the Redmond Reporter.
More than 1,000 churchgoers from Redmond’s Overlake Christian Church, Northshore Baptist Church in Bothell and other community churches and organizations will offer their help at elementary schools, private homes and other locations serving clients from agencies such as Hopelink and Vision House this weekend.
The second annual Community Serve Day on Saturday, Aug. 21 is aimed at empowering churchgoers and others to give back to their communities.
Volunteers will be at Einstein Elementary School, 18025 NE 116th St. in Redmond from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. during the Community Serve Day on Aug. 21. Other locations for service are in Kirkland, Kenmore and Shoreline. For hours, addresses or other details, visit www.communityserveday.org or call Josh McQueen at Overlake Christian Church at (425) 260-2780.
If there’s an anti-incumbent, electoral revolt going on in the United States this year, voters in the Evergreen State evidently aren’t interested in playing a part in it.
The police blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Redmond Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Redmond Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Redmond, which gets more than 500 calls (emergency and non-emergency) per week.
The City of Redmond is “making some good progress” on the repair project at the Redmond Pool at Hartman Park and hopes to reopen the pool sometime next month, according to Mark Hickok, Redmond’s Recreation Division assistant manager and pool repair project supervisor.
While national mean scores for college-bound students fell slightly this year, Lake Washington School District (LWSD) students scored higher on three of the four ACT tests (English, Reading and Science) and improved their average composite score. In addition, LWSD students continue to show significantly greater college readiness than state and national averages.
Donations are being collected for two community-centered fundraising drives to help pay medical bills for Chanel Cogan.
Eighteen-year-old Cogan, a June graduate of Redmond High School (RHS), has been hospitalized since July 31 when she fell 100 feet from a cliff while on a camping trip near Kachess Lake. She suffered numerous serious injuries in the hiking accident.
The Lake Washington School District (LWSD) announced three new acting principals, including two at Redmond schools, in a Wednesday press release.
Based on early primary elections returns, several local races are setting the stage for a tight battle in November.
As of Thursday morning, Republican candidate for state Senate from the 45th District and Redmond resident, Andy Hill, was beating incumbent Democrat and Kirkland resident Eric Oemig 51.20-48.68 percent.
Based on early primary elections returns, several local races are setting the stage for a tight battle in November.
As of Thursday morning, Republican candidate for state Senate from the 45th District and Redmond resident, Andy Hill, was beating incumbent Democrat and Kirkland resident Eric Oemig 51.20-48.68 percent.
Officially, Aug. 12, the day he talked with the Reporter, marked Redmond resident Eric Murray’s fourth day on the job as president of Cascadia Community College in Bothell.
Kirkland residents Dey Sanchez, 16, (left) and Oscar Velazco, 16, (right) watch as Edwin Alvarez, 15, falls off an inflatable tube during a watersports event, sponsored by the Lake Sammamish Water Ski Club (LSWSC) at Idylwood Park in Redmond on Monday.
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) maintenance crews will spend this weekend inspecting and making repairs to the aging State Route 520 floating bridge to make sure it will continue to carry traffic safely through winter weather.
While the bridge is closed, drivers should allow extra time to travel across or around Lake Washington during the work.
The annual weekend bridge closure starts at 11 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20, and the bridge will re-open by 5 a.m. Monday, Aug. 23.
From Aug. 16- Sept. 14, King County invites its residents outside the city of Seattle to submit their stories of how well they recycle, as part of the county’s first “Recycling Superstar” online contest.
The Redmond Police and Fire Departments are pleased to offer a free information session about three programs that make your community better prepared for emergencies and disasters.
The session takes place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 25 at the Redmond Police Department Training Room, 8701 160th Ave. NE.
Hundreds of people will put on their walking shoes and head to King County’s Marymoor Park in Redmond this Sunday, Aug. 15 in support of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and its second annual Walk for Wishes.
This family-friendly 5K walk will raise funds and awareness for the local chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
If you drove by the Redmond Target store at 17700 NE 76th St. on the morning of Aug. 10 and spotted a fleet of Redmond Police and Fire vehicles, rest assured it wasn’t due to a crisis.
The officers and firefighters, joined by other employees from the Cities of Redmond and Kirkland, were happy chaperones for young back-to-school shoppers at a special outreach event.
Wednesday, Aug. 11
Reports of gunshots: Redmond Police responded to a residential area, the 16200 block of Northeast 99th Street, after several people reported hearing multiple gunshots nearby. The neighborhood was canvassed, but no evidence of a crime was found.
Community members are invited to an Active Prayer Workshop from 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 15 at St. Jude Catholic Church, 10526 166th Ave. NE in Redmond. The workshop is free, although donations are welcome.
Sybil MacBeth, author of “Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God” and “Praying in Color Kids’ Edition,” as well as “Blessed Movements” founder Roy DeLeon, who wrote “Praying with the Body: Bringing the Psalms to Life,” will demonstrate how visual art and gentle movement for all mobilities can be used for spiritual expression.
The workshop was inspired by the theory of multiple intelligences, proposed by Dr. Howard Gardner, a psychologist from Harvard University.
“People don’t all learn the same way — we have multiple intelligences or learning styles such as linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial and kinesthetic,” said Mary Kellison, pastoral assistant and director of adult faith formation programs at St. Jude, www.st-jude-redmond.org/AdultFF/AFTOC.htm.
“Just as we have a natural preference toward particular learning styles, we also have a natural preference for particular prayer styles,” Kellison explained.
PRAYING IN COLOR
MacBeth, a former math teacher, said the idea for “Praying in Color” came to her eight years ago when several friends and family members were battling cancer.
“When I tried to pray for them, I lost my words,” said MacBeth. “I kept saying the same things over and over and over again — “Heal them, Lord,’ “Let them feel your love,’ ‘Please let Sue live to see her children graduate from high school.’ My words felt like mush in my mouth.”
Although she wasn’t an artist, MacBeth loved to doodle with colored markers and pens.
“One day when I was doodling on my back porch, I drew a shape and added lines, dots, squiggles and color,” said MacBeth. “Then I unconsciously wrote the name ‘Sue’ in the middle of the doodle. I continued to draw and focus on my sister-in-law Sue’s name. After five or 10 minutes, I realized I was praying for her. I wasn’t using words but I was spending time with her and releasing her into God’s care. It felt like God, Sue and I were sitting together, holding each other.”
She realized she didn’t need just words to pray, MacBeth noted: “Creating the drawing and taking time was the prayer.”
She added more doodles with the names of other people who needed help.
“The drawing came back to my mind throughout the day and when it did, I could pray for each person again — either with words or just by offering them into God’s care.”
When she’s drawing, said MacBeth, “my mind wanders less and I stay focused. It also helps me to settle down so I might actually be able to listen to God rather than just talk.”
Children love this way of praying, but so do adults, said MacBeth.
“The adults who come to my workshops are very open to a new way to pray — especially those who are fidgety and world-weary. … Their minds wandered less than when they were trying to come up with words.”
To learn more about “Praying in Color,” visit http://www.prayingincolor.com/
PRAYING WITH THE BODY
DeLeon is a certified yoga teacher who has learned to combine body movement and prayer.
In 2005, as an Oblate of St. Benedict, he represented his monastery, St. Placid Priory in Lacey, Wash., at the first World Congress of Oblates of St. Benedict in Rome.
“That’s where I saw the statue of St. Benedict dying, with two monks helping him raise his arms as he prayed his last. … When I saw St. Benedict included the body in his prayer as he was dying … Blessed Movements was conceived,” said DeLeon.
“It’s become my ministry then to spread the joy of praying with the whole being, body, mind, heart and soul,” DeLeon continued.
Could this type of prayer be useful for people who don’t feel close to God or creation in church, but by being outdoors, perhaps engaging in sports or recreation?
“Big question,” DeLeon replied. “I read somewhere that one reason people quit going to church is that they don’t find God — read: love, peace, joy, patience, goodness, beauty, truthfulness in church.”
DeLeon added that some people feel more connected to their neighbors at sporting events, festivals or a shopping mall.
“We all want to feel happiness and contentment,” said DeLeon. “Some people feel God’s presence while being still and quiet. Some by singing, by painting, by knitting, by reading, by dancing. God is in all of these activities if — big IF — we acknowledge and we are aware of that presence,” said DeLeon. “The activeness of praying with the body is a way to gather ourselves to the center. We tend to spread ourselves thin, wear many different hats, assume many roles in our daily activities, torn apart by the demands of the marketplace we call the world.”
He said most movements in his workshop are “yoga-like” but he asks participants to “listen to their body and their heart and move according to what that still, small voice says. … Ultimately, it needs to come from the heart in order for the prayer to be authentic and real.”
To learn more about Blessed Movements and “Praying with the Body,” visit http://blessedmovements.com/default.aspx
Community members are invited to an Active Prayer Workshop from 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 15 at St. Jude Catholic Church, 10526 166th Ave. NE in Redmond. The workshop is free, although donations are welcome.