Unincorporated King County residents can receive grants for community projects
August 7, 2012
King County leaders announced the latest step in the effort to remake outreach from county government to unincorporated-area residents — $60,000 in grants to accomplish community projects.
The program is meant to encourage more people in rural and unincorporated areas to become more engaged in the surrounding community. The county made the grants available for projects such as concerts, festivals, newsletters, training, signage and more.
Hop Jack’s offers fresh take on regional cuisine
August 7, 2012
A friend who’s originally from Tennessee laments missing one of her favorite staples of Southern cuisine — biscuits and gravy.
Imagine, then, her surprise to discover the answer to her Jonesing for homemade Southern cuisine could be found in a Klahanie neighborhood pub — Hop Jack’s.
With five locations in the Puget Sound region, Hop Jack’s is on the cusp of being a chain, but it still retains that neighborhood feel, catering to the middle-class looking for a place to meet after a hard day’s work.
Fundraising by foot, from Spokane to Issaquah
July 31, 2012
Arlene Carter, Providence Marianwood Foundation executive director (left) photographs Johann Neethling and his daughter Maria Henderson as they break the finish-line tape and are showered with confetti thrown by staffing coordinator Amy Lewis (right), after their cross-state fundraising walk. By Greg Farrar
Dozens of staff members and residents of Providence Marianwood cheered for Chaplain Johann Neethling as he crossed the finish line July 25 after a more than 300-mile walk from Spokane.
Strike does not affect Issaquah garbage service
July 31, 2012
Issaquah garbage service remained unaffected as Waste Management recycling and yard waste truck drivers went on strike July 25.
Waste Management used to provide garbage and recycling service for most Issaquah customers, but the city switched to CleanScapes on July 1.
Allied Waste — a local name for national company Republic Services — hauls garbage in South Cove and Greenwood Point neighborhoods along Lake Sammamish. Allied Waste also handles garbage service in unincorporated King County communities, such as Klahanie, Mirrormont and Preston.
Services for customers in King and Snohomish counties stopped after Teamsters went on strike over wage and benefits issues.
In October, City Council members selected Seattle-based CleanScapes to haul Issaquah garbage from July 2012 until June 2019 — a $3.8-million-per-year contract.
Issaquah garbage service is unaffected by Waste Management strike
July 27, 2012
NEW — 8 a.m. July 27, 2012
Issaquah garbage service is unaffected as Waste Management recycling and yard waste truck drivers remained on strike.
Waste Management used to provide garbage and recycling service for most Issaquah customers, but the city switched to CleanScapes on July 1.
Allied Waste — a local name for national company Republic Services — hauls garbage in South Cove and Greenwood Point neighborhoods along Lake Sammamish. Allied Waste also handles garbage service in unincorporated King County communities, such as Klahanie, Mirrormont and Preston.
Services for customers in King and Snohomish counties stopped Wednesday after Teamsters went on strike against over wage and benefits issues.
King County Executive Dow Constantine and the mayors of Kirkland, Redmond, Renton and Seattle called on Waste Management and Teamsters Local 117 representatives to return to the bargaining table.
King County carves up rural communities into service areas
July 24, 2012
King County could carve unincorporated neighborhoods — including Four Creeks and Klahanie just outside Issaquah — into community service areas, if a plan proposed July 19 is put into action.
The proposal is the latest in a yearslong effort to change the way county government and unincorporated communities interact. King County Executive Dow Constantine characterized the effort as a reform measure to ease access to government for residents in rural and unincorporated areas.
Providence Marianwood chaplain walks across state for fundraiser
July 24, 2012
The chaplain at the Providence Marianwood assisted-care facility, Klahanie resident Johann Neethling, embarked July 18 on a 300-mile trek from Spokane to Seattle — on foot.
Motivated by a desire to maintain and improve fitness after surviving a heart attack, Neethling is also using the walk as a fundraiser to benefit the residents and staffers at Providence Marianwood.
King County carves unincorporated communities into service areas
July 20, 2012
NEW — 9 a.m. July 20, 2012
King County could carve unincorporated neighborhoods — including Four Creeks and Klahanie just outside Issaquah — into community service areas, if a plan proposed Thursday is put into action.
The proposal is the latest in a yearslong effort to change the way county government and unincorporated communities interact. King County Executive Dow Constantine characterized the effort as a reform measure to ease access to government for residents in rural and unincorporated areas.
“These new community service areas will provide a vehicle and a point of contact for residents to talk to county staff about the things they care about, like public health and public safety,” he said in a statement.
In a companion proposal, Constantine also introduced legislation to change the relationship among the county and the unincorporated area councils, a group of citizen-led boards responsible for relations between unincorporated area residents and the county government based in Seattle.
Issaquah chaplain walks from Spokane to Seattle
July 18, 2012
NEW — 10:30 a.m. July 18, 2012
The chaplain at the Providence Marianwood assisted-care facility, Klahanie resident Johann Neethling, embarked Wednesday on a 300-mile trek from Spokane to Seattle — on foot.
Motivated by a desire to maintain and improve fitness after surviving a heart attack, Neethling is also using the walk as a fundraiser to benefit the residents and staff at Providence Marianwood.
Neethling, 65, started the journey at Providence St. Joseph Care Center in Spokane early Wednesday and plans to arrive at Providence Marianwood in Issaquah on the afternoon of July 25.
The route across the Evergreen State traverses verdant farmland and rugged scablands, fruit orchards and the Cascades.
Offer input about May Valley fire station at open house
July 17, 2012
Residents can learn about a fire station planned for May Valley at a July 19 open house hosted by Fire District 10.
The district is the Eastside Fire & Rescue partner serving residents in Klahanie, May Valley, Mirrormont, Preston and Tiger Mountain in the Issaquah area, plus Carnation in rural King County.
Plans call for EFR crews from Fire Station 78, at 16135 S.E. 113th Place near Renton, to relocate to a modern facility at a more central location at Southeast May Valley Road and 207th Avenue Southeast after construction is complete.
Construction on the May Valley station could start next year.
The open house is at 7 p.m. at EFR headquarters, 175 Newport Way N.W. Participants can offer input and ask district commissioners questions about the project.
In April, district officials completed the process to issue $5.5 million in construction bonds to build the fire station and complete other projects throughout the district.
The district encompasses about 130 square miles and about 28,000 people.
In February, 64 percent of voters in the district approved a bond measure to generate the construction dollars.
