Heart attacks will happen, a fact recognized by the Bellevue Fire Department. So instead of spending Heart Week 2014, their annual education campaign on cardiac issues, discussing well-tread prevention measures, they changed tactics to discuss what to do after The Big One has already commenced.
On April 4, senior students gathered in Andrew Ivy’s classroom put aside their usual global curriculum to look closer to home — two miles north toward the site of the coming Spring District. Wright Runstad & Co. President Greg Johnson dropped in to explain the vision of the mixed-use commercial and residential project, as well as the process of making such a large-scale project happen. Later he would take the class on a tour of the 36-acre site itself.
More than 10 years ago, Erik Griffin dropped his day job, choosing to treat comedy like the career he wanted it to become. He made his television debut on Showtime’s “The Payaso Comedy Slam” and, since then, has appeared regularly on television in stand-up appearances and side roles in scripted shows. He is now perhaps best known for his role on Comedy Central’s Workaholics as Montez Walker, the high-strung sexually adventurous coworker of Blake, Adam and ‘Ders.
On Monday, the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks announced its list of performers for the 2014 Marymoor Park concert series.
Joel Nix, cofounder of the nonprofit Connecting Borders Foundation, will travel to the Rio Blanco by way of Iquitos, Peru to raise money for aid projects while asking donors to take away his Western comforts in a jungle survival course. Nix seeks $10,000 through crowdfunding site IndieGoGo for educational materials for locals in the Peruvian Amazon, educational computer systems for projects in Uganda and at home in Washington state, and support for an orphanage in Peru.
The Festival will feature nearly 400 pianists, violinists, violists, cellists, woodwind performers and vocalists competing in more than 430 judged competitions.
At Tuesday night’s school board meeting, a teacher and PTSA president urged the board to reconsider expansion of Woodridge Elementary and maintain a home for the Jing Mei dual language school, respectively.
A musician originally from Bellevue is helping to pioneer “jank” music, a mellow guitar-driven subgenre of pop music with strong connections to yoga.
“The Tutor” makes a knowing switcheroo in the service of a complex meditation on the nature of exploitation in art — and, in a broader sense, a story about selfish people learning how to give as much as they take in their relationships.
After school students collected wetland samples for the third week of the eight-week Environmental Pathways after school program, educating middle schoolers in environmental science. The pilot was created by the Pacific Science Center, which operates facilities on the city-owned park, as a scaled-down version of the existing high school Environmental Science and Technology Practicum. The goal of both programs is to introduce students to the potential of careers in environmental science.
YES’s resources were more needed than ever in the face of rising incidences of homelessness and abuse of drugs such as alcohol, methamphetamine and heroin, Director Patti Skelton-McGougan said in her opening statements. And more adults between the ages of 18 and 21 were seeking treatment for substance abuse, she said.
Dr. David Nelson, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Overlake Hospital Medical Center, will be on hand to provide information.
Purchase of 12011 N.E. First St. — adjacent to the district’s office — would allow the district to move administrative services out of the Wilburton Instructional Service Center in order to make Wilburton available for future campus expansion, Superintendent Tim Mills said.
Bellevue High alumnus Chuck Armstrong is one half of Charles, a Seattle sketch comedy duo who have gained a following at home and on the road for their cerebral and absurd brand of humor. When Charles takes the stage in their signature button-down shirts and ties, audiences may see a marketing executive mistakenly pitching smaller jungle cats to Jaguar Motors, or Santa Claus falling into a debate about race relations in America after confusing two minority children on the same block.
Interlake student Kuu Sakuragi will play the part of “real boy” Pinocchio, the human being the puppet wishes to become, in the upcoming installment of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Family Matinee series.
Bellevue police apprehended four suspects connected to a Newport Hills residential burglary Thursday afternoon.
Senior year is a busy time for college-bound high school students. After months of picking schools, touring campuses, sending applications, waiting patiently for “the big envelope” and laboring over a final decision, there’s still the small matter of payment. One Newport High School student hopes to use the spirit of entrepreneurship and her love of baking to write her tuition checks come fall.
Students and families of Phantom Lake Elementary celebrated the school’s 120th anniversary Feb. 28.
While some students her age might be more apt to follow the careers of Marshawn Lynch or Russell Wilson, Newport senior Fiona Lee has her eyes on Pierre Hermé.
The Boys & Girls Club of Bellevue Teen Center commemorated the opening of its music room Wednesday with a visit from Seattle Sounders Lamar Neagle, Andy Rose and Brad Evans.