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Inglemoor's Dan Nwaelele Last one to get away? It is
increasingly apparent that the Seattle-area’s best prep basketball
stars are no longer leaving the area to play for Lute Olson at the
University of Arizona or Mike Whatshisname at perennial powerhouse Duke
University. Nor are they lured to such college basketball schools as
Kansas, North Carolina or UCLA.
Not, at least since a promising KingCo Conference prospect Dan
Nwaelele of Inglemoor’s high school Vikings took a career-driven flyer
when he accepted an appointment to the Air Force Academy. Now a
third-year cadet (junior) at the Colorado school, Dan was in Seattle
earlier this month to showcase his talents as a member of a scrappy,
disciplined Falcons team that made it to the championship game of the
Black Coaches Association tournament at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in
Seattle.
In the semi-final game against a favored Miami University team,
Dan dropped in a pair of free throws to clinch a surprise victory and
put the Falcons in the championship game against the University of
Washington Huskies. In the title game, Dan launched a pair of
three-point howitzers to keep the game close and confidently nailed all
four of his free throws.
His proud parents and a host of Air Force followers attended the
three-game event where Dan’s mom proudly waved a stuffed Falcon during
the many standing, first-half ovations as the Falcons gave the Huskies a
real test of aggressive, patterned basketball.
The Huskies are having better luck holding local talent with
principled head coach Lorenzo Romar at the helm. The tournament program
roster for the Huskies listed UW players from Stanwood, Issaquah, Mercer
Island, Seattle and Snohomish. A gifted recruiter, Romar has begun to
stem the exodus of the region’s best prospects. Seconding that point is Bothell’s Marv Harshman,
who at 86, took in all the tournament games as you would expect a former
U of W basketball coach to do – particularly when one of “his own”
(Romar) was being saluted as the association’s coach of the year. Marv
recruited and coached Lorenzo, now 47. Librarians
clustered
There will be some familiar faces missing at the Kenmore and
Bothell libraries come December 1. In a major management overhaul, the
King County Library System is installing a “clustered managing
system” that will affect assistant manager Rob Bowman of the Bothell
regional library and long-time, popular head librarian Colleen Brazil of
the Kenmore and Lake Forest Park libraries. Rob will move to
Redmond-Kirkland-Kingsgate and Colleen has been reassigned to the
Shoreline-Richmond Beach cluster.
Bothell manager Denise Bugallo will have additional managerial
responsibilities at Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with these three
libraries now under the cluster concept. Bothell resident Laura Boyes
manages the Woodinville and Duvall branches and will add Skykomish
library to her duties. End
Zone Bud
Yes, that was none other than Bothell’s Carlton
L. (Bud) Ericksen on the field at Husky Stadium this fall, honored
during the USC game as a legend of University of Washington football.
Bud played in the late 1930s and even had a run at professional
football. Bud holds 49-yard-line seats for Washington’s home games.
The Bothell native son was a long-time auto dealer, served as
Bothell’s mayor and was an honored member of the Royal Order of
Bothell Vikings in the 1960s when this band of Bothell boosters promoted
such delicacies as the world’s longest hot dog and the world’s
largest apple pie. Bud now lives with his daughter Edie, in Woodinville.
He’s a regular in the pool at the Northshore YMCA where daughter Susie
is employed full-time in child care services.
When the University athletic department wheeled Bud onto the
gridiron to be saluted as a true legend of a once proud and mighty
football juggernaut, it was one of the few times during this dreadful
season that a Husky had found the end zone.
(Okay, so I’m still smarting from the Huskies first victory
this season – an upset over my overmatched University of Idaho alma
mater although the Vandals graduate 69 per cent of the school’s
student athletes). Theater
preview
The Northshore Performing Arts Foundation continues to progress
systematically to its grand opening date in 2006. Dedicated supporter
Norma Stoutenburg reports that a preview performance is being lined up
for December 4 to showcase the new theater on the Bothell High School
campus. In addition, her Northshore Rotary Club and Banner Bank combined
to provide $17,500 toward the purchase of the theater’s sound and
recording system. The funds were presented at a gala fund-raiser this
past Saturday. The formal opening is next February. Scholarships
posted
Program coordinator Joanne Harkonen reports the Internet posting of scholarships available to more than 75 Northshore graduating seniors of 2006. She notes that the application form for these grants will be found only on the Northshore Scholarship Foundation’s website at www.ns-scholarship.org
Hugo
and Mayor-for-Life Terry Jarvis (425) 482-4076
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