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And, "whatta you been up to?
The following "Northshore Citizen" column appeared in the Bothell/Kenmore Reporter newspaper edition of May 5, 2004.
When bumping into friends or acquaintances, and after the familiar
“Hi, how are you?” inquiry, how often to you follow that with
“whatta-ya-been-up-to lately”? Well, some times you actually find
out. For instance:
Yes, that’s the Bothell Peter Lance whose homes were
ablaze near Monroe and in the news last month. Fire officials suspect
the unfinished houses were targets of eco-terrorists upset over the land
development project Peter has been working on for some time. Two houses
under construction were torched. His was not the only site where it
appeared arsonists were at work.
Then, Ernie Moore had gone to the Northshore Fire
Department headquarters in Kenmore to obtain a special, probably
first-ever fire permit for a special occasion at his Kenmore Episcopal
Church of the Redeemer. He wanted to be careful not to run afoul of
regulations by lighting 95 candles Sunday on the birthday cake of fellow
parishioner Doris Flournoy. The permit document revealed that the
folks at the Northshore department have a bit of a sense of humor, too.
The permit included a handwritten addendum of best wishes.
Isabel and Preston Scheid continue to be mainstays
at the Bothell American Legion post as well as in their regular visits
to the Veteran’s Hospital in Seattle. And, they even have time to pull
a weekly Wednesday shift alongside Gracy Karp and others at the
Butterfly Thrift Store in Bothell, helping raise money for grants to
those in need of help paying their utility bills and rent. When our Northshore
Citizen published every Wednesday years back, we could often count
on a comment from Isabel about what we missed in that particular
week’s edition.
Isabel chairs the annual essay contest at the post and again this year
worked with Mrs. Coyne’s fifth grade class at Lockwood elementary to
come up with a number of entries entitled “Every Heart Beats True for
the Red, White and Blue – Old Glory.” Judged best was that of Sarah
Valenzuela, who wrote: “I love being free here in America. I have
a best friend who is Asian and I know if we lived back when people were
separated from other races, we would not be friends, we would not even
know each other. So, I am glad that we can have any kind of friend we
want whether it’s Hispanic, Asian, Black or White.”
Placing second at Lockwood was Zachary Chase Simmonds with Jerry
Molina and Samantha Miller tied for third. Their essays will
be entered in regional American Legion competition.
Part of the second-ever Cascadia Community College induction ceremonies
for the Phi Theta Kappa chapter of the international honor society was
Bothell High School’s Carolina Cartier.
As a student in the “running start” program at Cascadia,
Carolina will receive her high school diploma in June along with an AIS
degree certificate from Cascadia – and doing it with flying academic
colors, being in the top five per cent of her class at the college. She
plans to attend New York University (NYU).
Various members of the Kiwanis Club of Northshore told about the
academic scholarships the club will be awarding at the May 27
recognition breakfast to be staged by the Northshore Scholarship
Foundation. The club has named its $1000 scholarships at Inglemoor High
School as a tribute to former principal Si Siverson (a Kiwanian)
and at Bothell High School in recognition of Kiwanian Al Haynes’
service as principal at both Bothell (he’s a grad there) and Inglemoor
high schools. The Foundation will award a total of 80 scholarships this
spring, with a total value of nearly $110,000. It’s the 20th
year of scholarship grants with the funds derived from endowments
established as family memorials and by contributions from community
organizations.
English Hill resident Roy Williams commented in passing that he
recently received two patent approvals on high-level work he is doing at
Microsoft to put the whammy on Internet SPAM. His attempt to explain was
far too technical for me to comprehend, but I am rooting for his future
success in that arena.
Sad news and good news on the military front. Bob Sherman of
Kenmore reported that his grandson, Marine corporal Billy Hampton
was being flown to medical care in California. The 2001 graduate of
Woodinville High School took shrapnel from a suicide bomber in Iraq,
where Billy was stationed as a ground infantryman. Mother Roberta
Sherman was en route to be with him.
Rebecca McLean
will graduate from Inglemoor High School and on July 1 report to the
U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, one of 200 women cadets
entering the academy. More than 13,000 women applied with grade point
averages of 3.9 or better. Her dad, retired colonel Ken McLean served
more than 25 years in the Air Force and accompanied Rebecca to an
orientation session in Colorado before she decided to accept the
appointment from Congressman Jay Inslee. Proud mom Donna McLean mentioned
that Rebecca’s goal might be to have her dad in a position where he
would have to address her as “m’am”. That tells me Rebecca plans
to advance to no less than a general’s rank.
Norma Stoutenburg
and other key backers of the new performing arts theater project at
Bothell High School were more than pleased that the 65 persons attending
a gala kickoff to a $2.5 million capital campaign pledged $172,000
towards the project. The
event was held at the Monte Villa Center in the North Creek Valley. The
theater and instruction complex is due to be under construction when
school lets out late June this year and be up and running in the winter
of 2005.
Oh, who was it who said “names make news”? Indeed, everyone does
have an important story to relate.
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