Well-connected Republicans gathered last Wednesday morning for a presidential campaign fundraiser at the Hunts Point estate of a wealthy donor and meeting with the candidate’s spouses, Cindy McCain and Todd Palin.
The Bellevue City Council members last week launched the first in a series of study sessions to examine proposed long-range changes to the Bel-Red area. If approved early next year as anticipated, the plan would be the largest rezone in the city’s history and dramatically transform the area’s landscape.
When Managing Investment Parter Dan Ivanoff of Schnitzer West, LLC purchased the property surrounding Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center in 2000, he never envisioned his final project would be eight years in the making.
His patience paid off.
The last week of September is when the garden takes on an autumn look, so this is a good week to put together a fall pocket garden or island bed.
“Gallery Flowalk” Exhibition: 6-9 p.m. Oct. 2; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 3; noon-5 p.m. Oct. 4. Ikebana flower arrangements will be displayed in the many galleries of participating art merchants in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle. Presented by Mercer Island Branch of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, Japanese Flower Arranging. Cost: Free. 206-282-9770 or www.misogetsu.org.
What a difference a year can make.
That cliché essentially sums up what Sammamish 9-year-old Alicia Seidel and her family have been through since last August, when she was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
The Bellevue Arts Museum will take a trip back in time as it hosts “A Masquerade” fashion show at 6 p.m. Sept. 27. The fashion show will benefit student programs at the International Academy of Design and Technology in Seattle.
Taking center stage this week, we address how to consolidate those numerous and unwieldy e-mail accounts and, on a lighter note, present where to creatively assemble your summer memories online.
A flock of geese flew overhead during the a ceremony to officially recognize the completion of a $96 million project on State Route 202, as if to emphasize the 16-acre wetland included in the package.
If you ask Bellevue Mayor Grant Degginger, it is not the weather that will bring people to this economically viable region — it will be the capacity to move around.
Third-grader Weston Kennedy sat attentively during a recent assembly at Open Window School in Bellevue, listening to astronaut Jim Voss and cosmonaut Anatoli Artsebarsky share about their time spent in outer space.
When Newport High School senior, Matt Eschbach first stepped off the plane in Jamaica, he walked out of his comfort zone and into a life-changing experience.
Five Bellevue students have been named to the Central Washington University summer honor roll. They are: Kirsten Clements Cowles, Luke Adam Johnson, Kristen Jane Anderson, Larry Kuo, and Joshua Richard Baugh.
A reliable, friendly Nature Center host/hostess is needed at the visitor’s center at Lewis Creek Park, 5808 Lakemont Blvd. in Bellevue. Duties include greeting visitors, leading tours and light administrative duties. Hours are flexible. A love of nature is preferred.
The Bellevue-based Foundation For the Future has selected genome research pioneer Dr. J. Craig Venter as the 2008 winner of the Kistler Prize. The prize is awarded annually for original work that significantly increases knowledge and understanding of the relationship between the human genome and society.
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Robert E. Milam,
Matthew Rosales of Newcastle has received the Darrell M. Putman Scholarship Award in Geology at Colorado College’s annual Academic Honors Convocation.
Hideko Tamura Snider was just 10 years old, playing at home just over a mile from downtown Hiroshima, when an atomic bomb destroyed her residence, her family and almost everything else around her.
