The Redmond Historical Society has an opening for a volunteer board member.
This past holiday season, Redmond’s Cub Scout Pack 581 has seen to it that at least one platoon of soldiers in Afghanistan did not go without a few presents.
The City of Redmond invites you to provide feedback on the draft design for the Redmond Central Connector at a community meeting on Thursday, Jan. 27 from 6:30-8:30pm at Redmond City Hall, 15670 NE 85th Street.
The Redmond Senior Center (RSC) First Friday Coffee Chat on Feb. 4 from 10-11 a.m. will feature Teresa Kluver, Parks Operations Supervisor.
Kulver supervises the crews that maintain the flowers and shrubs in Redmond, is an arborist and an avid gardener on her own time. She will be on-hand to discuss the city’s parks operations and answer questions about gardens in general.
King County voters will begin receiving their Special Election ballots and voters’ pamphlets this week. Only voters in districts with measures up for election will receive ballots, which will be mailed tomorrow. Printed voters’ pamphlets will be distributed only to voters in districts that requested a pamphlet. This election, voters’ pamphlets will be provided for the Lake Washington and Vashon Island School District measures. Voters in these districts will receive the pamphlets in the same envelope as their ballot.
With the ceremonial cutting of a gas hose, a new era in Redmond began.
With energy advocates, local officials and Redmond High School environmental students in attendance, the first Level II charging stations for electric vehicles opened today at Redmond City Hall.
Also on hand to address the audience was U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, a longtime environmental advocate, a member of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and founder of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC).
Diagnosed with lung cancer in March of 2009, first-year Sen. Andy Hill faced a grim future — and with each stage of treatment, the prognosis only got worse.
The cancer started in his left lung, but spread to the right one. Surgery would do no good because the cancer had already spread to the lymph nodes. Doctors could only tell Hill to wait and see if the chemotherapy and radiation would improve his condition.
Staring at the possibility of death, the 47-year-old Redmond resident never wavered. Instead, he only worked harder to find a solution.
“I wasn’t getting the best of news from the very start, but at the same time I felt like it wasn’t my time,” said Hill, a husband and father of three who never smoked in his life and lived a healthy, active lifestyle. “I felt like I was going to beat it. I kept thinking I have to find that silver bullet that will take care of it and I kept very positive.”
In October of 2009, he was approved by a clinical trial in Denver to use a drug called crizotinib, a white pill which is part of a new arsenal of “targeted” cancer therapies. Hill and his wife, Molly, call the pill “a miracle.”
The pill was developed over the past decade to keep tumors in check by blocking the production of proteins that make cancer grow. In other words, instead of attacking all proteins, like chemotherapy, which scorches the whole body, crizotinib, just eliminates the cancer-spreading proteins, creating no side effects and a stronger, healthier body.
Since he started taking the pill in October 2009, the cancer tumor continually subsided and the chest scans since February 2010 show no cancer at all. He is not cured from cancer, but he has regained his strength and is doing things, such as jogging, hiking and skiing, he once thought he would never do again.
“I call it a huge miracle,” Molly said. “We are just incredibly lucky. I knew we could do it.”
Every other month, Hill travels to Denver to get a chest scan to make sure the cancer has not reappeared. So far, so good.
Armed with a can-do attitude and plenty of family support from his wife, daughters Katie, 14 and Allie, 12 and his son, Charlie, 10, Andy, a retired Microsoft software designer, remains cancer free.
“We never thought once that he wouldn’t beat it,” Molly said. “We kept thinking we were going to get through 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 public is invited to join the City of Redmond at the groundbreaking ceremony for Fire Station 17 in North Redmond on Thursday, Jan. 27 at 10 a.m.
Ron Gibson has only been on the job for seven months, but he is already proving to be a very hands-on chief of police.
Since moving from Colorado Springs, Colo. to Redmond, Gibson has been working closely with other city departments as well as other police departments and agencies outside of Redmond. Coming from an agency with nearly 700 officers to Redmond, which has 83 commissioned officers, he said he definitely realizes the importance of partnering with others in the area to ensure his department is doing a comprehensive job.
Gov. Christine Gregoire, again citing the state’s fiscal crisis, targeted employee pension and health care costs for major spending cuts as she outlined for legislastors Tuesday in her State-of-the-State address the difficult budget they must balance during the legislative session this year.
With 600 new students entering classrooms this fall, the Lake Washington School District (LWSD) student population is on the rise.
District officials expect growth to continue at a rate of roughly 450 students per year, which will include more than 800 additional high school students by fall of 2012.
Gov. Christine Gregoire announced her plan to change the Washington state ferry system by creating a Puget Sound Regional Ferry District and eliminating the existing Washington State Ferries portion of WSDOT.
Speed “was definitely a factor” in the cause of a traffic accident that killed a 23-year-old Redmond man early Sunday morning after he crashed into a wooded ravine, according to Redmond police.
The King County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as Ever Ramirez, who died from injuries to the head and torso, according to death investigators, after his 2000 gray four-door Acura slammed into a tree. The Medical Examiner’s Office said the his death was “accidental.”
Icy road conditions caused a Lake Washington School District (LWSD) bus to crash into a Puget Sound Energy transformer Monday morning on a hill in the Overlake neighborhood.
There were three students on the bus and no one was injured, according to Kathryn Reith, communications director for LWSD. The bus was on it way to Audubon Elementry School when it hit some ice, slide off the road and hit a transformer at 4720 164th Pl NE at around 8:15 a.m.
Kindergarten registration for Lake Washington School District begins Feb. 3.
Parents in Redmond with children who will be 5 years old on or before Aug. 31, 2011 can register their son or daughter at their neighborhood Lake Washington School District (LWSD) school from 1-7 p.m. on that first day.
Mountain bikers will be taking on the muddy terrain on the north Eastside for the Jan. 15 Stinky Weather Poker Run (also known as Stinky Spoke), to raise money for people with disabilities.
A woman was robbed inside of her car, possibly at gunpoint, on Thursday Dec. 30 as Redmond police continue to search for the suspects.
Icy shock waves jolted approximately 30 brave souls New Year’s Day morning as Redmond Police Department (RPD) employees and residents ran into the frigid Lake Sammamish waters at Idylwood Park, raising nearly $6,000 for Special Olympics Washington.
An aspiring fireman and beloved “big-time father,” David “Moose” Thompson could light up the room with his humor and made a living out of helping others — of all ages.
Less than two years ago, Thompson, along with his wife, Lilly Reasor, and four children moved to Redmond from Colorado “looking for a fresh start,” according to Thompson’s good friend Josh Funkhouser, who still lives in Colorado.
“I talked to him on New Year’s Eve,” Funkhouser said. “They sounded good and happy.”
Just hours after talking to Funkhouser on the phone, Thompson and his four boys — ranging in age from 2 to 12 — died in a fire that quickly raged through the Sammamish Ridge Apartments, at 14820 Redmond Way, where he and his family lived.