Redmond teens will find frightful fun this October at the Old Fire House (OFH) Teen Center, 16510 NE 79th St. in downtown Redmond.
Teepa Snow, a leading expert on managing challenging behaviors in people with dementia, will present a free workshop, “Optimize Your Brain: What Each of Us Can Do for Ourselves,” from 9 a.m.-noon Friday, Oct. 22 at Aegis of Redmond, 7840 W. Lake Sammamish Parkway NE.
Senator Eric Oemig claims he represents the 45th legislative district’s values but he has spent four years wasting his time and our money attempting to impeach former president Bush and former vice president Cheney, unsuccessfully trying to tax a coal plant in Centralia and making it easier for felons to vote.
Our legislature needs to stop looking for quick fixes to our state’s economic problems and focus on ensuring success for the long term. We need to elect leaders who hold an unwavering commitment to a balanced budget and to our state’s education system.
I met Kevin Haistings a few years back and I am very glad that he decided to run for the State House.
Speedy freshman midfielder Jenay Brown scored twice as The Overlake School girls’ soccer team blanked University Prep, 2-0, in a home 1A Emerald City League matchup Tuesday night.
Lake Washington School District (LWSD) has started a public forum for discussing how to handle overcrowding in our schools.
Before we moved to Redmond, my family lived in a number of states due to military duty. Colorado Springs used a year-round school schedule to reduce overcrowding in its schools. In a nutshell, our school facilities sit idle for approximately 12 weeks during the summer break. Year-round scheduling utilizes that 12-week break by implementing multi-track schedules. So the facility can work year round, and handle an increase in student throughput.
I was so disheartened to see yet another political attack ad on the TV recently.
This ad attacked Andy Hill, who is running for State Senate in the 45th legislative district.
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.
With current economic challenges and predictions of a La Niña bringing a cold and wet winter, The Salvation Army Warm Home Fund has set a goal to collect $620,000 for the 2010-11 heating season to assist more than 4,000 households with their Puget Sound Energy (PSE) bill payments.
Employment Security Commissioner Karen Lee announced today that more than 1,000 different online Microsoft computer courses are now available for free to Washington residents who want to improve their work skills.
Men know their IPAs but they usually don’t know their PSA.
Redhook Ale Brewery, 14300 NE 145th St. in Woodinville, will host the Eastside’s first “Pints for Prostates” party at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8.
Redmond lyric tenor/baritone Kim Cooney will act the supporting role of Dr. Grimwig when Seattle Theatre Group presents a Lyric Opera Northwest production of “Oliver!” at the historic Moore Theatre in Seattle, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17.
Redmond High School student Zachary S. Leytus has been announced as one of 1,600 semifinalists in the 2011 National Achievement Scholarship Program today.
Another semifinalist from the Lake Washington School District is Cameron L. Boucaud from the International Community School in Kirkland.
On Saturday, Sept. 25, the Redmond Kiwanis Club, which supports a high school arm of Kiwanis, the Key Club at Redmond High School (RHS), teamed up with seven RHS Key Club members for an Adopt-A-Roadway Litter Control cleanup event on Northeast 116th Street, from Avondale Road to 172nd Avenue Northeast.
Redmond-based Physio-Control introduced its refurbished product program, “RELI,” today at EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Expo 2010.
Eastside Audubon has joined with Bill McKibbern and his 350.org Web site to raise awareness about global warming. Eastside Audubon will participate in a global work party from 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Oct. 9 at King County’s Marymoor Park in Redmond.
The Redmond Neighborhood Resource Council will present educational workshops for seniors and their adult children at the Redmond Senior Center, 8703 160th Ave. NE in downtown Redmond.
Redmond High senior runner Miles Hille placed second out of 137 athletes in the Varsity Division I 5K at Nike Pre-Nationals in Portland, Ore. last Saturday. Hille’s time of 16 minutes, 2.97 seconds was just 12 seconds off the pace set by Enterprise senior Domenic D’Acquis.
Redwood Theatre presents two fundraising events for its upcoming 2011 season.
“The Rat Pack Cabaret” runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Oct. 1-9. Redwood Theatre teams up with The Cabaret Laboratory, Jeannette d’Armand, Kelly Willis and Lola Productions to present a “Rat Pack” inspired evening of classic American standards, with music direction by Todd Hulet.