Redmond hasn’t really been known as a “college town.”
School starts Sept. 2 for the 20,000 students in the Lake Washington School District (LWSD), serving Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish and a small part of Woodinville.
Relatively new LWSD Superintendent Dr. Chip Kimball, who replaced Don Saul in early 2007, knows he has challenging work cut out for him in the 2008-09 school year. Yet he’s excited about the steady march toward the district’s strategic goal of Vision 2020.
For generations of youngsters, a PBJ and a glass of milk constituted a simple, satisfying lunch or after-school snack. But for growing numbers of children, ingesting either or both of those foods could trigger a medical emergency.
Twenty-five years is a long time to stay at the same company — and still look forward to each new work day.
All the world’s a stage for Thomas Moore, a Redmond High School (RHS) junior who has a prominent role in Seattle Children’s Theatre’s (SCT) upcoming teen production of “Urinetown, The Musical.”
With resources such as great city parks, the Old Fire House Teen Center and the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, it’s not surprising that Redmond’s been named one of the nation’s 100 best communities for youth, by the America’s Promise Alliance, two years in a row.
Outside on the morning of July 30, the skies were grey and gloomy. Inside at Paint Away! — at Redmond Town Center — it mattered not, as a group of young day campers contentedly worked on colorful creations such as a “mug shot” mug (a mug with a photo of a family member) and a faux license plate with their name on it.
Redmond High School (RHS) had the first solar electric system of any school in King County. Since 2005, the six solar panels at RHS have created enough electricity to power about 60 homes for one day.
Parts of the Eastside could soon seem like the Wild, Wild West because of King County budget cuts that will significantly affect law enforcement.
It often takes personal time, money and a responsible attitude to properly dispose of — and/or recycle — the various and sundry “stuff” that accumulates in our homes and offices. Batteries and electronics are especially tricky. You can’t just fling them into the trash.
The 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing begin August 8 — and it’s not just the athletes who are stoked.
Accents et Cetera in downtown Redmond has been named one of King County’s “Best Workplaces for Recycling.”
Sharon Aller, spokesperson for King County Solid Waste’s recycling and environmental services department, explained why the recognition program exists: “Businesses have been recycling paper, cardboard, metals and many of the basics that we all recycle everyday.
Barcelino, which calls itself “The Pacific Northwest’s premier Men’s Clothier,” is celebrating a grand re-opening this weekend, at its new location in Redmond Town Center (RTC).
“Our generation will go to space,” guest speaker Dr. Bradley C. Edwards told the audience at the opening of the Space Elevator Conference, held July 18-20 at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond.
Edwards, a world-renowned physicist and entrepreneur, literally “wrote the book” on The Space Elevator, a radical new way to access outer space without chemical rocket technology.
Cartooniversity Camp was in full swing at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center (ORSCC) July 14-18 and will repeat at Redmond’s Farrel-McWhirter Park Aug. 18-22, as well as Bellevue’s Kelsey Creek Farm Aug. 25-29.
The Redmond Regional Library’s second “One Book, One Redmond, One Summer” reading campaign is underway. The intent is to get as many Redmond teens and adults as possible to read and discuss the same book — and to have them participate in meetings with the author and illustrator in early fall.
On July 4, at the ripe, old age of 103, Redmond resident and influential community volunteer Audrey Gorlick passed away at the Evergreen Hospice in Kirkland.
On Wednesday, July 23, a lucky engaged couple will find out that they’ve won the $50,000 Washington Dream Wedding Giveaway sponsored by the Redmond-based Pacific Northwest Bridal Web site (www.PacificNWBridal.com).
Darcy Burner is back in the driver’s seat — moving on with her life and her Democratic campaign for Congress, after a July 1 fire destroyed her home near Ames Lake and almost all of her family’s possessions.
Being your own boss is a common fantasy. Yet “fear of the unknown” keeps many prospective business owners from taking the plunge, according to Ron Norton, a Redmond resident and business coach for The Entrepreneur’s Source, a Connecticut-based company with the motto “Your success is our only business.”
