The Happy Valley Grange, 19720 NE 50th St., Redmond, will host an informational program at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5. Community members are invited to learn more about the Grange’s service projects, history, future and fun events.
On Wednesday, Sept. 29, 100 percent of the ticket sales for Ride the Ducks of Seattle will be donated directly to the Redmond-based Starlight Children’s Foundation of Washington.
Redmond resident Leona Locke uses a long roller to paint the high walls of a preschool classroom during the Friday (Sept. 24) Day of Caring cleanup at Encompass, a children’s services organization headquartered in North Bend.
Kevin Haistings, a 45th district legislative candidate who is running against incumbent Rep. Roger Goodman (D), will host a roundtable discussion with Port Commissioner Bill Bryant tonight at 7 at the North Kirkland Community Center, 12421 103rd Avenue NE in Kirkland.
As part of the City of Redmond’s effort to rewrite its zoning code, the city will host its final drop-in Open Office Event from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7 in the Trestle Room on the first floor of Redmond City Hall, 15670 NE 85th St. The purpose of rewriting the city’s zoning code is to improve the clarity, conciseness and predictability of the code for all users.
Redmond-based Áegis Living, a national leader in senior living and assisted living communities, announced Sept. 24 that it has created Áegis Performance Management as a new division. Its goal is to bring the knowledge and expertise of the parent company to the broader marketplace through fee-for-service management and consulting.
Áegis Living has decided to get involved in managing third-party assets because of three major changes in the marketplace.
In the past few terms, Washington state’s leadership has shown a lack of fiscal responsibility. We need new energy and talent in the legislative system that isn’t embedded in partisan politics.
Gregg Bennett is not a career politician; he is an upstanding member of the community who has made a living helping businesses become more profitable by remaining keenly focused on fiscal responsibility. It is experience that our state desperately needs.
As my two children grow up and go through the Lake Washington School District in Sammamish, I get more troubled by the day. In junior high, everything is done on computers, textbooks are now obsolete and Internet programs grade homework.
Why do career politicians think that the voters buy negative advertising?
Recently I saw a TV spot that attacked Andy Hill for being a “politician” that has a hidden agenda that can’t be trusted. Andy Hill is a first-time candidate for State Senate in the 45th district. He doesn’t hide his agenda. He’s all about creating jobs, getting the spending under control and fixing our schools.
In his mailings, Sen. Rodney Tom likes to talk about how he has fought against raising taxes. What he doesn’t like to talk about is his role in making higher taxes both easier and necessary.
King County Metro Transit is ready to roll out the first of its six RapidRide lines, along with other new bus routes, and schedule and routing adjustments. All are part of Metro’s fall service change that begins Saturday, Oct. 2.
SecondStory Repertory (SSR), the professional theater at Redmond Town Center, presents “The Turn of the Screw,” written by Jeffrey Hatcher and adapted from the 19th century Henry James novella, Oct. 1-23.
“The Turn of the Screw” is a gothic ghost story in which a governess is hired to take care of two children at a county manor. That’s when strange things begin to happen.
On Sept. 22, the King County Department of Transportation (KCDOT) was honored by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission for its work in improving the safety of two county roadways — Northeast Novelty Hill Road near Redmond and Southeast Lake Holm Road near Auburn.
Swedish is seeking digital images of artwork or photos by children or young adults, ages 5-18, who live in the Redmond area, to be turned into long-lasting pieces of art for the new Swedish facility being built on Union Hill Road in Redmond.
Members of Evergreen A’s Model ‘A’ Club celebrated International Model ‘A’ Ford Day on Saturday, Sept. 18.
Redmond residents George and Ila Sage led the vintage auto tour in their 1929 Roadster Model A pickup.
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 Crossfire Select BU-16 O’Melia team, containing many players from Redmond, won the Puyallup Valley Kickoff Championship defeating the PSC…
Brigitte Tennis (far right) eighth grade teacher and headmistress at Stella Schola Middle School in Redmond, was a guest on “The Martha Stewart Show” today, as a winner of the “Jones New York in the Classroom” contest for teachers. An encore presentation of the show will air at 5 p.m. Eastern (8 p.m. Pacific time) tonight on The Hallmark Channel.
The Redmond High School boys’ tennis team had no trouble against Ballard High on Tuesday afternoon, winning the 4A Kingco match, 6-1.
The Bellevue Downtown Association (BDA), in partnership with Sound Publishing, Inc., will play host to a 2010 Candidates Forum for the 48th Legislative District from 8:30-9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13 at Bellevue City Hall, 450 110th Ave NE, in downtown Bellevue.