On Friday, the Lake Washington PTSA Council honored nine individuals for their outstanding work with children and youth.
What began in 1976 in Bothell for Bob Lovett ended in Redmond earlier this week.
He started out as a firefighter with the Bothell Fire Department before moving to Redmond a few years later. Lovett, who became the Redmond fire in September 1990, stayed with the city until Tuesday, when he retired after a 35-year career.
“I had no inkling to go into fire service, but I was looking for a job,” Lovett said. “I was definitely thinking I might end up doing something else. I never thought it was a career.”
Swedish, a non-profit health provider, is hosting a free seminar at its Redmond campus, 18100 Union Hill Road, on Wednesday, Feb. 23 from 6-8 p.m., featuring heart healthy tips and advice.
Experts will talk about ways to prevent cardiovascular disease and how small changes in diet, exercise and lifestyle can dramatically reduce risk of a heart attack. Swedish will also offer free health screenings and heart-healthy appetizers.
The Metropolitan King County Council’s Government Accountability and Oversight Committee made history on Tuesday by holding its meeting both inside and outside Council Chambers through the use of Microsoft Live Meeting.
The Lake Washington School District (LWSD) and the Lake Washington Education Association (LWEA) agreed to postpone teacher contract negotiations until next year.Education Association (LWEA). This extension will extend the current contract to cover the 2011-12 school year. In January, members of the LWEA voted to approve the contract extension more than 96 percent.
Redmond residents won’t have to go far to get their Good To Go! passes for upcoming State Route 520 all-electronic tolls.
Throughout February and March, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is deploying mobile customer service centers to three different Redmond locations to help bring Good To Go! directly to Redmond drivers before toll collections begin on the SR 520 floating bridge this spring. The toll money will help pay for the construction of a new, safer bridge.
Eighth-grader Adrian Leary will represent Stella Schola Middle School at the regional spelling bee on March 1.
The Rose Hill Junior High Jazz Band performed at the Science Fiction Festival held at the Experience Music Project | Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (EMPSFM) in Seattle on Feb. 7.
Lake Washington High School senior Joseph Wu of Redmond was named one of two Washington state winners of the 2010 Siemens Award for Advanced Placement, a signature program of the Siemens Foundation administered by the College Board.
The final two shopping events for Assistance League of the Eastside’s Operation School Bell, will be Feb. 15 at the Fred Meyer in Redmond (17667 NE 76th St.) and Feb. 16 at the Fred Meyer in Bellevue (2041 148th NE).
A Redmond man faces first-degree malicious mischief charges after a road rage incident last October, when he allegedly threw his bicycle at a car after the driver honked at him.
The alleged combatants, bicyclist Chad Olson, 42, and driver Ben D. Han, 46, each gave Redmond police different accounts of the Oct. 16 confrontation, according to charging papers filed last Friday in King County Superior Court.
The Redmond Senior Center (RSC) First Friday Coffee Chat on March 4 from 10-11 a.m. will feature Patrick Hirsch, City of Redmond video communications manager.
Hirsch manages Redmond City Television (RCTV), the city’s two television cable channels. He develops original programming for the channels as well as many short videos for the city’s online magazine, efocusonredmond.com. Hirsch began the RCTV program for the city more than 14 years ago and has many entertaining stories to tell about how it grew into the award-winning department it is today.
Redmond residents will have to dig deeper into their pocketbooks when they recieve their 2011 King County property tax bills this week.
The good news is that assessed home values nudged up a bit in Redmond this year — a good sign compared to last year when property values plummeted. However, voter-approved levies and bonds will mean a tax hike of around 6 percent for Redmond homeowners, according to numbers released last week by the King County Assessor’s Office.
Last year, 124 candle fires causing over $4.5 million in damages were reported to the Office of State Fire Marshal by fire agencies across the state. That number has increased by 33 fires and almost twice the cost in damages from 2009, $2.3 million.
Before using candles to “set the mood” this Valentine’s Day, state residents should be aware that on average, 42 home candle fires are reported every day. Twenty percent of the fires, the candles were unattended or abandoned.
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.
From its humble beginning in 1936, Cadman Incorporated has gone from a company supplying concrete aggregates to local farmers, timber crews and the occasional road project to a well-known name in the industry.
Despite having grown to an international level, Cadman has maintained its strong ties to its Redmond roots. Cadman human resources supervisor Gwyn Hart said the company provided the concrete for many local projects such as the Nintendo and Microsoft Corporation campuses — adding that Cadman poured nearly all the concrete for the latter. This was largely due to the company’s location in town, which is not necessarily the case these days.
A 50-year-old man was arrested early Saturday morning at the downtown winter homeless shelter after he pulled out a knife and threatened to stab another man.
A temporary nighttime homeless shelter was set up at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse last month and Redmond police got a call at 1:22 a.m. about a confrontation between two men involving a knife in the front of the building at 8703 160th Ave. NE., according to Jim Bove, Redmond Police Department (RPD) spokesman.
Based on yesterday’s King County special election results, things are looking good for Lake Washington School District (LWSD). As of Tuesday night, the district’s Capital Projects Levy received a 59.33 percent yes vote and 40.67 percent no vote.
The City of Redmond and the Cascade Land Conservancy have partnered to sponsor a special work party on Saturday, March 5 at Hartman Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Crews have removed invasive plants and the area is now ready to plant native trees and shrubs to re-establish the healthy forest and mitigate carbon in the atmosphere.
Redmond Mayor John Marchione announced Monday that he joined mayors across the country in signing The U.S. Conference of Mayors Civility Accord, pledging his commitment to six principles of civility and exhibiting and encouraging personal qualities emblematic of civility.
The Accord was proposed by Tucson, Arizona Mayor Bob Walkup following the tragic shooting in his city and then presented to the nation’s mayors by the conference’s leadership at the start of the Mayors’ Winter Meeting, held January 19-21 in Washington, D.C.