The ringing of school bells tells us kids are back in class.
It also should tell drivers to slow down.
Bryan Myrick’s Aug. 26 column is right to the point concerning bicyclists and the way they behave on the street.
Bryan Myrick’s Aug. 26 column on the need for cyclists to pay a “user-specific fee for the privilege to roll on the street” because they “need to participate more directly in financing of the roads they enjoy using” is ridiculous.
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.
REDMOND HIGH SCHOOL
• Head Coach: Chris Zimmerman, 6th season
• Last Year: 10-0, 4A Kingco champions, 7th at 4A state tournament
• 2011 turnout numbers: 14
Kim Hantz has yet to find a doctor that can put a name to the gastrointestinal problems she has lived with the past two and a half years.
Throughout this time, the 39-year-old Seattle resident has endured numerous invasive surgeries. Each week, she visits a clinic to have blood drawn and her portacath re-accessed. She also hooks herself up to an IV for 12 hours every day so her body can receive sufficient nutrients.
Despite these medical procedures, she signed up for a triathlon in August of last year, but her doctor ordered her to back down from the race.
She decided to try again this year, only to have to withdraw a second time.
Her health problems may have hindered her in the past, but Hantz is determined to cross the finish line of the Project Athena Race Series on Oct. 1 at Marymoor Park.
Redmond Select will soon be hosting tryouts for girls entering grades 5-8 to develop skills and play basketball in a competitive environment. Tryouts will be held on Monday, Sept. 12 in the Redmond High School gym, with 5th and 6th grades going from 6-7:30 p.m. and 7th and 8th grades from 7:30-9 p.m.
The Redmond Saturday Market will shine the spotlight on kids as part of Kid’s Day this Saturday.
Last Saturday, Redmond-based DigiPen welcomed more than 1,200 people from all over state and some from as far away as Vancouver, B.C. and Norway to its first DigiPen Day.
Rotary Club of Redmond, a key partner in the renovation of a 1938 Anderson Park shelter, hosted a ribbon cutting last Thursday to celebrate the repaired historic shelter.
Last year’s End of Course (EOC) exams for Lake Washington School District (LWSD) have shown increases in most grades and most subjects.
Redmond Police will be doing extra enforcement in and around school zones to make sure children and citizens get off to a safe start this academic year.
Microsoft Corp. is matching cash contributions of $100 for each alumnus who volunteers at a King County Day of Caring activity on Sept. 16.
Orange Blossom Society, a social hub and enrichment center for families, will celebrate its two-year anniversary with an open house on Sept. 15 from 4 to 6:30 p.m.
The next First Friday Coffee Chat at the Redmond Senior Center at 8703 160th Ave. N.E. will be Sept. 2 and feature Jim Bove, community outreach facilitator for the Redmond Police Department.
As a walker of the Redmond streets, I can attest to the need to hold red-light runners accountable.
How pleasant it is to find the Redmond Reporter in my driveway every Friday. As a longtime Redmond resident, I’ve watched the demise of various newspapers and missed reading our local news after the Eastside Journal stopped publishing.
The presence of bicycles on streets and highways on the Eastside has become just another fact of life, and rarely is a new road built (or an old one resurfaced) anywhere in King County that does not have either a shared bicycle-automobile lane or a bike-only lane.
With even more forced integration of the roadspace barreling down the pike, now is the time for state and local government officials to deal with the elephant in the room: how to ensure that cyclists using our public roads are responsible and are paying their fair share.
Head Coach: Jeff Chandler, 2nd season
Last year: 4-5, 0-4 in 4A Kingco Crest Division
2009 turnout numbers: 68
Redmond-based DigiPen Institute of Technology is opening its doors to the community on Saturday as part of DigiPen Day.