The Woodmark Hotel, Yacht Club & Spa invites guests to Holiday Tea with Santa from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4….
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Jack Frost nipping at your nose? It’s that time of year again to ring in the holidays with a selection of seasonal delights from Kirkland Choral Society.
The Evergreen Hospital Auxiliary will host its annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, Dec….
Tennis Outreach Programs (TOPs), a Redmond-based non-profit organization, is hosting a free All-star Tennis Benefit Party from 6-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 at the Nordstrom Tennis Center.
Wearing a Marines sweatshirt, Char Pierce pulls at the bronze metal bracelets on her wrist as she sits at a table in the Bridle Trails Tully’s on a recent afternoon.
One of the bracelets reads “Sgt. Ian Pierce, 2003-2004” – her son’s first deployment to Iraq when he was just 19 years old. One shows the date of Ian’s second deployment to Iraq in 2005-2006, while another black bracelet “Always in our Hearts” references one of Ian’s good friends, Sammamish High School graduate Eric Ward, who was killed in action on Feb. 21.
The bracelets remind Pier how long her son has fought in the war in Iraq and now Afghanistan, where the staff sergeant is currently in charge of about 150 soldiers at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan.
In fact, war has affected Pierce since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 – also the very day Ian marched into the recruiter’s office after school to sign up for the Marines Reserves the day after he turned 18. And instead of going to his commencement at Lake Washington High School that June, he went to boot camp in San Diego to launch his military career.
Haunted House Come walk through the Kirkland Boys & Girls Club Haunted house from 7-11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29. All…
Peanut Mozzarella is also known as “B.J. Pee Wee, Nutter, Heebee Jeebees.” He passed away in 2001.
There are hundreds of others: Max “Booger-butt,” Boozer, Ottis, Sam the “love bug” and even Johnny Depp.
The beautiful, hand-painted tiles on the wall greet visitors as they step into the office of Dr. Wendy Bernstein, also known as the Critter Doctor. Each one is dedicated to someone’s beloved pet.
The tiles represent donations to the Critter Doctor Trust Fund, set up by Bernstein in 2004 to provide care for ailing pets whose owners can’t afford their care. Once they’re healthy, Bernstein helps find them good homes.
Extraordinary donations have come through the doors at Eastside Community Aid Thrift Shop – including a live horse that sold for $350.
But a stack of Civil War letters dropped off in a heap of household items topped the list for the most historically significant donation the volunteer-run shop has ever received.
Helen Keller Elementary students looked up and cheered at a police helicopter that performed a fly-over above the school parking lot on Oct. 7.
The gathering of students, teachers and community members wearing red then parted to make way for a parade of law enforcement vehicles to kick off Red Ribbon Week. The event honors the work of Enrique (Kiki) Camarena, a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) who was killed by drug traffickers in 1985.
Former Postal Express owner Steve Bergan has moved a lot of packages through Kirkland over the years. But the young…
Highlands neighborhood resident Karen Story was recently recognized with the Urban Forestry Stewardship Award by the Washington Community Forestry Council…
The Eastside Business Association announced winners for the 4th Annual Taste of the Town. Over $2,500 was raised for the…
Following their 2009-10 blockbuster performances attended by thousands in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Kirkland’s favorite Beatles cover band, Crème Tangerine,
Award-winning artist and philanthropist John Legend will discuss his philanthropic work and inspire all with his music at Hopelink’s annual “Reaching Out” benefit luncheon on Monday, Oct. 18.
National Merit Scholarship Corp. officials recently announced the approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 56th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The…
Laughs Comedy Spot in Kirkland welcomes the hilarious Jake Johannsen on Oct. 1-2. A self-confessed raconteur of weird stories, it’s no wonder that Johannsen is one of David Letterman’s favorite comics.
It was almost 100 years ago that Helen Denny willed her husband’s Lake Washington estate to the City of Seattle to become a public park named in memory of him, Orion O. Denny.