The Seattle Seahawks won the 2013 NFL Kick Hunger Challenge for the area’s hungry families.
Seven local players and one coach earned Washington State Soccer Coaches Association honors for their performances during the 2012 fall girls season.
The following Redmond students made the Seattle Pacific University 2012 autumn quarter Dean’s List. Students on the Dean’s List have completed at least 12 credits and attained a 3.50 or higher grade-point average.
Overlake Alumnae Panhellenic will sponsor a College Sorority Information Forum at 7 p.m. on March 5 at the Redmond Library, Meeting Room 1, 15990 N.E. 85th St. The forum is free and registration is not required.
Dr. Christina Lee is now seeing patients at the Overlake Redmond Urgent Care clinic. She completed medical school at Ross University School of Medicine in New Brunswick, NJ, and was a resident at Deaconess Family Medicine in Evansville, Ind. Lee speaks English and Korean and has a special interest in urgent care cases.
With local governments across the state struggling with budget woes, 45th District Rep. Larry Springer, D-Kirkland, is pushing a new set of bipartisan bills designed to streamline local government operations.
Collin Cottom will present a Free Youth Baseball Camp for his Eagle Scout project from 9 a.m. to noon on March 9 at Hartman Park Field 6, 17300 N.E. 104th St., Redmond.
A fund-raising event for Miss Washington USA Cassandra Searles of Redmond will take place at 1 p.m. on Feb. 9 at 910 8th Ave. in Seattle. The event — to raise funds for Searles to attend the Miss USA competition in the spring — will include a silent auction for jewelry and a photo-shoot session. Tickets will be $8 presale and $12 at the door. For tickets, contact Taylor at (360) 731-5054 or taylor-nicole@live.com.
King County Executive Dow Constantine today signed an executive order directing Public Health — Seattle & King County to develop innovative, data-driven local strategies for preventing gun violence in King County.
King County has reached its goal of getting half of the energy it needs for operations from renewable energy sources, said King County Executive Dow Constantine today in his 2013 State of the County address.
This month, the Lake Washington College Foundation established the Ralph L. Jones Memorial Endowment, creating two new annual $3,000 scholarships for students.
Steve Nelson, owner of Stephen L. Nelson, CPAs and Business Consultants in Redmond, has recently made the decision to provide his employees with full tuition reimbursement for Western Governors University (WGU) Washington.
Brendan Kennedy, president and CEO of Privateer Holdings and president of Leafly, will be speaking at the Redmond Rotary’s weekly meeting at 1 p.m. on Thursday at the Redmond Marriott Town Center, 7401 164th Ave. N.E.
The police blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical roundup 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.
“Amaluna” is under way.
The Cirque du Soleil show opened last night and will run through March 24 at Marymoor Park.
Tickets may be purchased at cirquedusoleil.com/amaluna or in person at the Cirque du Soleil box office, located inside the Big Top’s entrance tent. (Regular box office hours are from two hours prior to showtime to 30 minutes after the beginning of the show on show days.)
Some in our state are having an OMG moment because Sens. Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon — both DEMOCRATS — have sided with Republicans to take control of the state Senate.
Since 1993, about 2,250 new housing units have been built in downtown Redmond.
From 3-4:30 p.m. on Feb. 9, the Redmond Library at 15990 N.E. 85th in Redmond will be holding Education Under Fire, A Documentary and Conversation.
It seems to me that a perfect location for a new post office would have been the former Larry’s/Top Foods building. Lots of parking and access to the back for large postal trucks.
What are we, and society, teaching our kids? Does character matter anymore? What is a person’s word worth these days? What are our youth learning from so-called ‘role models’?