Why should we even care? Teenagers are labeled as the troublesome, incomprehensible group out of touch from reality and going through an identity crisis on a daily basis. They are often dismissed as the irrelevant and insignificant part of society.
Overlake School parents are helping to make a difference with buildOn — an international nonprofit organization that focuses on the power of service and education to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations.
With the motto “Celebrate the World at Overlake,” the Redmond school’s cultural fair lasted four hours on Oct. 18 and featured more than 20 different countries’ cultures.
Alyssa Strobele has built a Little Free Library in her Spiritbrook neighborhood in Redmond at 15115 N.E. 67th Place.
Redmond’s Berkleigh Rathbone is the recipient of the prestigious Gold Award, the highest honor in Girl Scouts. Although her original motivation to join Girl Scouts may have been to obtain the organization’s wristband being handed out in her elementary school, she is now a Lifetime Girl Scout, having been a part of Redmond’s Troop 41981 for the past nine years.
