Jillian Roels, Miss Redmond Teen USA 2011, has founded a nonprofit organization called Spark Your Heart as way to a lend a helping hand to others.
The idea for Spark Your Heart came more than a year ago, when Roels, a junior at Redmond High School, encountered a homeless man off a freeway exit and decided to make a difference in his life. She brought him lunches, snacks, sometimes her money and eventually got out of the car and asked him about his story and for him to provide a list of needs.
The Washington First Responder Will Clinic recently helped police officers in Redmond with estate-planning documents.
The clinic, a program of the Washington State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, was held at the Redmond Police Department and was offered free of charge to Redmond police officers and their spouses or state-registered domestic partners.
The City of Redmond has released its sixth-annual Redmond Community Indicators report.
The Redmond Youth Partnership Advisory Committee (RYPAC) presents No Child Wet Behind.
Redmond residents Madison and Samantha Podlucky uncorked brilliant performances at the recent Region 2 Championships held in Pullman, which included gymnasts from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Hawaii and Alaska.
Attention Redmond residents, there’s an easy and effective way for you to help reduce the rising epidemic of prescription drug abuse, while keeping Mother Nature clean and green.
The second National Drug Take Back Day will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at various locations on the Eastside as well as elsewhere in the nation. The event is what its name implies: Officials will be on hand to accept unwanted and unused prescription drugs for proper disposal. The drugs can be dropped off anonymously at one of the designated locations and there will be no questions asked.
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.
Support of education, parks, and environment, regardless of one’s position on these issues, are mutually exclusive to the issue of red-light cameras. What evidence exists to suggest that people who tax themselves for public education will also support red-light cameras? What evidence is there that a supporter of public safety through use of such cameras is a supporter of parks and open space, environment, or trip reduction? Those connections appear arbitrary.
I am writing in response to the article in the April 22 Redmond Reporter regarding the ongoing wetlands project at Dickinson/Explorer School.
It is a great program, but you forgot to mention one of the driving forces behind it — Laura Kleppe. Laura organizes the volunteers and assignments for each of the Dickinson/Explorer classes when they spend their period in the wetlands and fits this in with her overall vision for the wetlands. This week she is taking a week off from her landscaping business to work with each of the classes coming through, starting with an introduction on sustainability and how our little patch of wetlands and our daily habits really affects the entire Puget Sound region. And she has been doing this for years.
On May 21, the City of Redmond Parks and Recreation Department is offering a Mother Daughter Tea from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, 16600 N.E. 80th St.
On May 6, the Cadman Building Materials Store in Redmond will be hosting a decorative concrete seminar open to contractors, architects, designers and homeowners.
The Seattle Flute Society will perform a benefit concert for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami at the Redmond United Methodist Church Sunday at 4 p.m.
From noon to 2 p.m. on Friday May 6, New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber will be at Ben Franklin Crafts and Frames at 15756 Redmond Way in Redmond.
For the second year in a row, Hancock’s Bakery in Redmond was crowned the food drive champion of Hopelink’s second annual March Can Madness competition.
The top-ranked Redmond baseball team suffered its second 4A Kingco league loss of the season, 4-3, as Skyline starter Travis Snider pitched a complete-game win, holding the potent Mustangs to only four hits.
Looking for a place to sip tea and eat savory sweets while watching the first Royal Wedding in three decades?
Then check out Neville’s at The British Pantry in downtown Redmond on Friday, when the much-anticipated Royal Wedding of Prince William Windsor and middle-class commoner Kate Middelton will be viewed every way possible by millions of people across the world.
On May 6, classic rock lovers will have an entire evening to rock out to their favorite hits from the 1980s at the Rockathon finals at the Old Redmond Firehouse at 16510 N.E. 79th St.
Playing at home in the Overlake School fieldhouse, the Owls took care of Bush 4-1 in an 1A Emerald City League girls’ tennis matchup on Monday afternoon.
A new preschool opening in Redmond will show kids they can be active, learn and have fun at the same time.
Emerald City Preschool, set to open in September and run through June, will offer an extra dose of physical activity and education; in fact, it will be housed in Redmond’s Emerald City Gymnastics Academy.
King County sewer rates will likely stay the same for 2012, if the King County Metropolitan Council adopts a recent proposal by County Executive Dow Constantine.