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Faith communities to unite for 9/11 remembrance BY PEYTON WHITELY pwhitely@kirklandreporter.com
The Kirkland Performance Center holds 402 people. “I hope it’s packed,” said the Rev. Marian Stewart of what her church and more than 10 others are planning Sunday. That’s a day of national commemoration, for one of the most apocalyptic events in American history, the 10th anniversary of 9/11. But those observances are national. What Stewart and others are trying to devise is a way to do something local, to find a way where people in their own community — in Kirkland — can physically remember those events of a decade ago. “That’s all I can do, is
Did you know? Minoru Yamasaki of Auburn designed the World Trade Center twin towers that were destroyed on 9/11? For the full story, visit www. kirklandreporter.com local,” said Stewart, minister of the Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church. This is the second year such an event has been held here. About 300 people came last year. “It’s a bigger tent,” she said. “We invited everyone.” Stewart said the concept, which is embracing a broad range of religions, from Lutherans and Mormons to [ more UNITE page 2 ]
Above, Patricia Anders and her son, Jasper, age 6, wait at Rose Hill Elementary School for the first day of classes on Tuesday. Below, George Cheruvathur, 11, handles crossing-guard duty at Rose Hill Elementary for his second year. PEYTON WHITELY, Kirkland Reporter
Bell rings for 24,000 New publisher begins at
The Lake Washington School District welcomed 24,000 students back for the 2011-2012 school year on Tuesday. The district has a $231 million annual budget.
BY PEYTON WHITELY
Kirkland Reporter
pwhitely@kirklandreporter.com
The newly-appointed publisher of the Kirkland Andrea Southern has Reporter will surely be busy begun work as publisher of guiding the three Sound the Kirkland Reporter. Publishing Inc. papers, and Southern succeeds she’s up to the task Mike Walter, who armed with extenwas the publisher for sive experience in the former Kirkland the newspaper and Courier and Kirkland advertising fields. Reporter since 2001. “I’m committed Southern will serve to supporting the as the regional Andrea Southern Kirkland commupublisher of the Kirknity with continland, Redmond and ued, quality, local Bothell/Kenmore Reporter coverage and involvement,” newspapers. Southern said. Originally from Jamaica, Josh O’Connor, vice presiSouthern is now getting a dent of East Sound Newstaste of the Kirkland life. [ more PUBLISHER page 2 ] BY REPORTER STAFF
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ries of “Where’s first grade?” echoed over hundreds of kids and their parents as they arrived for the first day of the school year Tuesday at places like Rose Hill Elementary School. “It won’t be like this after the first day,” said Margaret Franchuk, school employee and crossing guard. “They’re all excited the first day.” The excitement began showing up in an unusual way on the first day, with not only the school’s expected 417 students arriving early, but with their parents tagging along,
holding hands and giving last-minute hugs. “This is his first time here,” said Patricia Anders as she guided her son, Jasper, 6, to first grade, explaining that he’d been at a kindergarten last year with only five kids in the
class, so Rose Hill would be a big change. The kids and parents began arriving at the Rose Hill school, opened in 2006 at 8110 128th Ave. N.E. to replace a school that dated to 1954, before 8 a.m. When doors
opened at 8:30 a.m., hundreds of backpacks, and their owners, were lined up on the concrete outside, waiting to get to classes. Then it took only a few minutes to file inside, with some confusion, as dozens of parents and children headed for the office for last-minute assignments. By 8:40 a.m., groups of kids were sitting quietly in classes, the parents had left and another school year had begun, a process repeated for some 24,000 students throughout the Lake Washington School District, operating with a $231 million annual budget.
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