A student-led activity today at Kenmore Junior High had some parents shaking their heads and speaking out in disagreement.
Family, friends, music — and tons of support — what more could a young man ask for?
Austin Edge, 20, of Kenmore appeared to have the strength of many men as he greeted attendees with smiles, hugs and handshakes while helping run the show last Sunday night at a benefit concert for his dad, Doug, at the Seattle Drum School in North Seattle.
First things first — that’s Kasey Keller’s game.
The current Seattle Sounders FC goalkeeper enjoyed his stay at Cliff McCrath’s Northwest Soccer Camp so much that one summer he put the U.S. National Team on hold for a bit.
Mariel Hemingway may be a famous actress, author and model, but she’s essentially just one of us.
Meet Lorraine Minshull, or “The Flag Lady,” as neighbors call her.
Like the flags flying on the front porch of the family’s Bothell Waynita Way home, she generates a wave of enthusiasm when discussing just what’s going on out there.
Some things you can’t control, like one’s NCAA men’s championship basketball bracket. Inglemoor High grad Wil Bush picked Kansas to win the title (nope), and then began rooting for Syracuse and the University of Washington (two more negatives).
Mary Kay Derzay and Dee O’Donnell have never set foot in Ireland, but they can feel their ancestry in their hearts and souls.
Two games played, two losses and the season was over.
Cedar Park Christian ran up against a pair of 1A powerhouses last week at the state girls basketball tournament in Seattle Christian and Okanogan and headed back to Bothell two days earlier than planned.
It could happen anywhere — in our seemingly safe neighborhoods or welcoming downtown streets.
It’s safe to say that Staudacher family basketball games on their Bothell backyard full court are legendary.
Welcome back to state, Eagles.
Cedar Park Christian defeated Cascade Christian, 42-38, Thursday night at Mountlake Terrace High in the second round of 1A tri-districts and qualified for the state tournament for the first time in six years March 3-6 at the Yakima Sun Dome.
Life can be a gift, but also a battle.
Bothell High 2008 graduate Jaimeson Jones is currently experiencing the trip of a lifetime in Europe with his sister, cousin and girlfriend.
As Inglemoor High’s 200-yard medley relay foursome strode up to the starting blocks, it meant business. One guy swung his arms through the air while the others all had their game faces firmly intact.
It never hurts to have a rock-and-roller cranking up interest in a fund-raising campaign. In the 1980s, musicians banded together with USA for Africa, Band Aid and Hear N’ Aid (the last two for famine relief in Ethiopia), and recently, artists tuned into Hope for Haiti and recorded a new version of “We Are the World.”
On a Northshore note, enter Chris Walla, guitarist for the band Death Cab for Cutie.
It may have been Madelynn Weathers’ birthday, but she was the one doling out the presents.
In lieu of gifts for the Woodin Elementary fifth-grader, the 11-year-old asked her friends to donate money to the Haitian earthquake relief efforts through her dad’s Northshore Rotary Club.
Players were missing from both sides due to injuries, but the girls put on a full-bore performance that included everything needed in a classic basketball game. There was skill, aggression, drama and emotion throughout the four quarters of Inglemoor High’s 55-50 comeback victory over Bothell High Friday night.
A crowd-pleasing dunk, a smoothe 3-pointer and a flashy break-away layin.
That’s what it took to kickstart Inglemoor High’s second-half comeback and lead the Vikings into the victory column, 63-54, Friday afternoon against crosstown rival Bothell High.
With his 6-foot-7 frame, Krist Novoselic towered over the Northshore Rotary Club members last Thursday during their meeting at the Inglewood Country Club in Kenmore.
Kyle Komlodi turns to a few of his fellow Inglemoor High swimmers and offers with a cool, confident voice and intense eyes: “You gotta get nervous, you gotta get jittery.”
