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Some Kenmore tidbits One can’t
help but follow how sharply divided this country has become over
virtually every potentially contentious issue. Look no further than
Kenmore where the board of directors of Inglewood Golf and Country Club
put a proposal to the golfing membership to assess members $7,000 each
and embark upon a major capital improvements program. The board asked
if the members wanted to build a new pro shop and to remodel the men’s
locker room along with some other items. The price tag was in the
neighborhood of $2 million-plus. The board
counted mail ballots of the 329 responding members and the first tally
was 164 to 165 against. A recount seemed only reasonable. The second and
yet a third count came up 165-164 in favor. Then, there is
nothing more contentious than the fight over card rooms and gambling
licenses in Kenmore. The issue reverberates through this fall’s
primary and general election ballots for city council. I was thumbing
through retiring councilman Jack Crawford’s informative “History of
Kenmore for Kids” the other day in hopes I’d find some inspiration
to tie the current battle to incidents facing leaders in the city’s
past. Alas, what
caught my eye in this most interesting booklet of Kenmore facts,
published in 1999, was this recollection of what Kenmore offered as
wholesome family fun in an earlier time: “On a Sunday
afternoon…buses loaded with families from Seattle would venture out to
the Kenmore area to picnic or to feast at a local restaurant. The beauty
of the area and the birds and animals of the sparsely settled community
made a trip to Kenmore an exciting and pleasant venture. There were no
traffic lights, and horses had the right-of-way.” It took two
elections for Kenmore residents to incorporate, the first attempt being
defeated in 1954. After a favorable vote a scant seven years ago, the
subject of card room licensing came hurtling across the centerline and
squarely into the lap of a divided city council. It posed a greater
challenge than in the first days after incorporation, when the first
council tackled such chores as community identity – picking the dahlia
as the official flower, the rhododendron as the official evergreen and
the blue heron as Kenmore’s official bird. I learned all
of this in Jack’s booklet, too. Remembering Lee
Family and friends of Lee
and Velma Blakely will gather Oct. 9 at the Kenmore
Community Club to remember the former Northshore school
superintendent and his wife. Both died this past summer, Lee at age 87.
The reception will be from 2 to 4 p.m. The family has
suggested memorials to the couple made to the Northshore Scholarship
Foundation, P.O. Box 173, Bothell WA 98041. A charter member of Kiwanis
Club of Northshore, Lee served as a Foundation trustee in the 1980s, was
school superintendent from 1973 to 1980, and was a long-time Moorlands
resident of Kenmore. New Director on board
Ed Parker joined the
Northshore Performing Arts Center Foundation earlier this month,
bringing a varied background in marketing to his new post as executive
director. Ed was with Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) in the
Canyon Park area for a number of years, prior to ATL’s purchase by
Philips. He succeeds Connie Shulman of Seattle who helped the Foundation
secure a $1 million grant for the theater. The organization he heads still has $800,000 to raise toward its share of the theater project in partnership with the Northshore School District. The Foundation has two important dates on the calendar – November 19 at Willows Lodge in Woodinville for a black tie gala to introduce the community to the type of performances planned for the theater, and February 18, 2006 and the grand opening of the theater.
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