One BCC baseball player has been named to the all-NWAACC team, and three others have been named to the All Northern Region Second Team.
Bellevue Golfer Richard Lee, a graduate of Newport High School, won his second consecutive NWAACC Individual Championship May 18-19, helping BCC to a second place team finish. Lee also was named to the All-Region team.
With a 9-1 record, the BCC Men’s Golf team ran away with the Northern Region Championship in 2008, and sophomore standout Lee was singled out as an All-Region performer.
Eight students at Newport High School won the high school division of the annual Ski to Sea race last weekend that goes from Mt. Baker to the bay in Bellingham.
Competing as the Neon Knights, the boys won the division in 6:56.56.7, beating the second place team by nine minutes and placing 86th out of 445 teams.
The awards rolled in for the BCC softball team, following their sterling 42-6 season.
Topping the list, sophomores Erica Addison and Dawn Norcross, as well as freshman Korri Heideman were all named to the 2008 Louisville Slugger/NFCA NWAACC All-American team.
Mary Krombholz of Cincinnati, Ohio will present a program on “Identifying German Parian Dolls” at 1 p.m. today at the Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art in Bellevue. The program will accompany the museum’s exhibit “Pale By Comparison: Untinted Bisque Dolls.”
Sarah Craven won first place in a photo contest for Sammamish High School students sponsored by Omega Photo.
Registration is underway for the first ever Kitten Kindergarten training class in the state. Offered by the Seattle Humane Society, the class is open to kittens between the ages of 8-20 weeks. The course will provide structured socialization and basic training, such as teaching “sit” and “come.”
Bellevue’s Kindering Center, the Eastside center for infants and children with special needs, has been named one of Washington’s Best 100 Companies to Work For by Washington CEO Magazine.
Interlake High School music students place high in the Washington State Solo and Ensemble Contest at Central Washington University in Ellensburg on April 26.
Motorists may see lane closures because of two projects on I-405 in Bellevue next week.
From June 2-5, during the night and early morning hours, crews may close a lane on southbound I-405 between Southeast Eighth Street and Coal Creek Parkway for electrical work. Crews may also close the following ramps: (continued)
Five Bellevue residents received degrees recently from the University of Portland. They include:
Audrey Bennett, of Bellevue, recently was elected Washington State PTA Region 2 Director, which supports PTAs in Bellevue, Mercer Island, Issaquah, Lake Washington, Riverview, and Snoqualmie Valley school districts in eastern King County.
The political season begins in ernest on Monday, June 2 as candidates begin filing for elective office. The in-person filing period ends on Friday, June 6 at 5 p.m. Online filing ends an hour earlier.
Bellevue-area residents can apply for one of two openings on the King County Civil Rights Commission. Five positions are open, including District 6, represented by Councilmember Jane Hague (whose district includes Bellevue, Mercer Island, Redmond and Kirkland) and District 9 represented by Councilmember Reagan Dunn (whose district includes Bellevue, Maple Valley, Renton, Newcastle, Covington, and Kent).
Amid a national housing climate that has caused a reduction in housing demand in many areas, Bellevue is bucking the storm.
Boaters are being warned that area lakes – especially Lake Washington – could be extremely hazardous for the near future.
Interstate 405 has seen its share of congestion relief work in recent years, including two projects now under construction in Bellevue.
On Tuesday, officials with the state Department of Transportation briefed Bellevue City Council members on progress and previewe of what lies ahead.
I helped a friend and his wife load their stuff into a big U-Haul some days ago. They were moving to Southern California. Some people think a move from this part of the world to that part is sort of like trading a gentle scalp massage for a whack on the head with a garden rake. That’s a bit of an exaggeration. A small shovel would be more like it.
Bellevue David DeCastro had fans worried when he sent the shot put 58 feet, 9 3/4 inches to win the event at the state meet in Pasco last weekend. The shot landed barely a foot from where people were standing outside the protective fence at the 60-foot mark.