Milan Heger is a free man today.
Don’t bother giving Brian Colella’s mother a gift – it may end up going to someone else.
So before Brian came home recently to visit from Korea where he teaches English, he thought about what to get for his mother, Terry.
“It’s kind of a joke that there’s no point in trying to give my mom a gift because she’ll just take it and put it into the auction,” said Brian, 23. “I’m looking around like what would be a good auction item to bring home because I know that she would rather have that than have something for herself.”
Going through issue after issue of old Eastside Journal newspapers on microfiche at the Bellevue Library recently, it was refreshing to see how vibrant the Totem Lake Malls were when they broke ground in 1973.
After four years of the tradition in Canada, Phil Sorgen, corporate vice president at Microsoft Corp., enlisted the Kirkland Boys & Girls Club to help him create his holiday e-card.
Changes abound for Kirkland residents in 2011 – some exciting, some complicated.
The Loyalty Club at Lake Washington High School recently collected 500 bags of food and household items for Hopelink as part of its annual Holiday Baskets, a school-wide effort to help those in need. The school also raised $2,000.
While many restaurateurs develop a food concept before finding a site for a new restaurant, Ted Furst knows better.
The Reporter staff went out on two nights to find some of the best decorated holiday homes in Kirkland.
As a mother of three teenagers, I dedicated an entire weekend for buying Christmas gifts this year.
It was no easy task.
As roads in the Totem Lake neighborhood remained closed Monday after the weekend downpour, mudslides caused at least nine families to evacuate their homes on Goat Hill.
Does your home or a house on your block have a dazzling holiday light display that you would like the community to see? The Reporter is seeking addresses of luminous holiday homes to share with the community. Please e-mail the address or intersection to: letters@kirklandreporter.com
It was a Western-showdown scene – two men faced each other on a dusty street, nasty exchanges were made, followed by a deadly game of quick draw – only the confrontation happened at the intersection of Park Lane and Lake Street, right here in Kirkland.
Most people would help a fallen man on his feet and then go their separate ways, says Ruth Reynolds, a resident at Woodlands at Forbes Lake retirement community.
But not Cliff Smart.
More than 5,000 people flocked to downtown Kirkland for the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony at the Lake Street parking lot on Saturday.
The event, hosted by the Kirkland Downtown Association, included a bonfire, tasty treats and the lighting of Kirkland’s beautiful 30-foot tree. Kirkland Mayor Joan McBride led the crowd in song before the 30-foot tree was lit.
The new postmaster of the Kirkland Post Office, Kathy dela Cruz has earned the title through much hard work and dedication over the past 20-plus years.
But the initial launch of her postal career started with a little push from her dear old dad.
While many organizations are tightening belts in the midst of an economic downturn, King County Library Services (KCLS) is better off thanks to a voter-approved levy lid lift in February.
Every day when the sun sets and rises, Sgt. Leonid Milkin will look out at the Pacific Sunset Maples in his yard and think of his family, gone too soon.
Dozens of volunteers gathered at Milkin’s Kirkland home on Thursday to pay a tribute to the veteran whose wife,
Teachers used to show kids pictures of what tennis courts looked like – that’s how little Marceil Whitney’s students knew about tennis when she started her non-profit organization nearly nine years ago.
Since then, Tennis Outreach Programs (TOPs), which offers low-cost tennis classes to under-served and at-risk Eastside youth, has familiarized thousands of youth with the sport.
Sgt. Leonid Milkin’s home, where the soldier’s wife, two boys and sister-in-law were brutally murdered in July 2006.
Sentenced to death in
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.
