BOTHELL
Consultant Arnie Sugar of HWA Geo Science said that until “shockingly recently” a lot of what would now be considered industrial toxins simply were stored in the ground or just dumped into the ground.
According to Bothell Community Development Director Bill Wiselogle, there are two buildings planned for immediately west of the University of Washington, Bothell and Cascadia Community College campus, one lot removed from Beardslee Boulevard.
If Mary Pat Sigler’s denim purse could talk, it would tell quite a story.
If a movie were to be made, the title could be “The Mystery of the Traveling Purse.”
Either way, the carryall has logged some 395 miles alone over the last two months and is now safely back on Sigler’s shoulder.
Sigler, a Winthrop resident, lost her handbag near Marble Mountain Aug. 30. Mark Smith found it in the middle of the street near a 7-Eleven on Filbert Road in Bothell — some 180 miles away — two weeks ago.
Faced with the loss of approximately $150,000 in county funding, Lee Harper, director of the Northshore Senior Center, seems determined to remain optimistic.
At the still-young age of 28, Bothell’s Celeste Marion figures she has visited approximately 24 countries. After graduating from Bothell High, she and friends even spent some time backpacking around Europe.
Eventually, in 2004, Marion’s wanderings led her to Peru. Why Peru? The world traveler offers a pretty straight-forward explanation.
“I’d never been there before,” she said.
Now, after having spent nearly four years in the country off and on, Marion has teamed up with a native partner to help found “Manos Unidas,” or “United Hands,” a charitable school for special-education students in Cusco, Peru.
Cascadia Community College’s new recruitment brochure received the gold award at the recent Medallion Awards dinner hosted by District 7…
It’s safe to say that politics are on the minds of Secondary Academy for Success (SAS) students.
Last Thursday morning on a table in the Bothell school’s lounge, a newspaper was open to a page that beamed the headline, “A ‘hockey mom’ gets an expensive makeover.” The story focused on Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and the $150,000 her party spent on clothes for her and her family at Saks Fifth Avenue and Nieman Marcus.
While both Bothell and Kenmore voters have several state level races to decide, three local contests ended as soon as they began.
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The University of Washington, Bothell and Cascadia Community College will host speaker Nadinne Cruz Oct. 30.
As more students use computers, Web sites and cell phones, bullying has taken a step into the electronic age. Parents are invited to learn how to prevent their child from being a cyberbully or the victim of one in a free workshop from 7-9 p.m. Nov. 5 in Room 60 at the Northshore School District Administrative Center, 3330 Monte Villa Parkway, Bothell. No child care provided. Pre-registration required at www.nsd.org
Nearly 1,500 guests gathered at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center Oct. 20 to hear speakers, including actor/activist Edward James Olmos, Sen. Maria Cantwell and former Washington first lady Mona Locke, extol the virtues of the social-service agency Hopelink and to drive home the urgent message that the need to support Hopelink — which has a food bank in Bothell — is greater than ever.
Seeking her third term as a state representative, Democrat Maralyn Chase said what she sees as the two key issues in the local elections are undoubtedly intertwined.
Having spent 14 years on the Northshore School District Board of Directors prior to heading for Olympia in 1992, perhaps it’s not surprising that Democratic State Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, District 1, has made education a key issue during her current reelection campaign.
