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FRIDAY, October 21, 2011
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Students, instructor get election fever BY ANDY NYSTROM
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anystrom@bothell-reporter.com
While Cascadia Community College students are hitting the books in their classrooms, a group of Kenmore and Bothell people are hitting the sidewalks, putting up their campaign signs and talking to voters about the upcoming general election. On a recent Thursday evening, 10 of Erin Richards’ students in her Cascadia state and local politics course ventured into downtown Bothell and listened intently to the candidates’ messages at a forum in the City Council chambers. “State and local government is what has a much more direct and immediate impact on our everyday life,” said Richards, who lived in Kenmore for two years before moving to Bremerton. “I wanted to encourage (my students) this year to take advantage of an opportunity that’s just down the road, since so many of them do live here in the Bothell area.” Richards added that even those students who don’t live in Bothell can still get caught up in local politics because city officials could be making rules and regulations that affect Bothell’s Cascadia campus, which it shares with the University of Washington, Bothell. Both students — who received extra credit — and instructor — who added to her arsenal of classroom topics — had an eye-opening experience at the forum. “It was enlightening to me to hear about some of the issues. I’ve always wondered what was going on down with the Bothell Landing, and the fact that that seems to have been stalled for so long in terms of the construction,” said Richards, adding that she learned of some environmental issues (protection of forests
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and streams), as well, and hopes the new McMenamins can serve as a meeting place for Cascadia faculty members. Bothell High alum Jergen Nyhammer, 21, plans to vote for the first time in the general election after attending the forum and delving into the world of politics in Richards’ class. “I found it very interesting because I have grown up in Bothell all my life,” Nyhammer said of the forum. “It brought up a lot of issues I wasn’t aware of — (restoring native plants and improving aquatic habitat at) Horse Creek, a new city hall and Google moving into North Creek.” Nyhammer added that he enjoyed watching the candidates go from serious to cracking a joke or two in order to give people a brief break from tackling the weighty issues. For Bothell resident Maya Olsen, 18, she took advanced-placement government and politics classes at Inglemoor High last year, and now she’s hooked on Richards’ class. She planned on registering to vote last week, so Olsen may soon be filling out a general-election ballot. After watching the Bothell candidates express themselves at the [ more ELECTION page 10]
Trinh guards Cassi Teel during an pickup UltimateUltimate-Frisbee afternoon Jesse Frisbee game Oct. 13 on the University of Washington, Bothell/ Cascadia Community College shared campus. Eric Chan is in the background, hoping Teel passes the Frisbee to him. Trinh and Chan are UW-Bothell students and Teel attends classes at Cascadia. ANDY NYSTROM, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter
New Bothell Safeway is set for Veterans Day opening STAFF REPORT
Safeway officials plan to celebrate Veterans Day and a grand-opening in Bothell at the same time this year. At noon Nov. 11, Safeway’s Lakeside at Canyon Park site — on the southwest corner of Bothell Everett Highway and 240th Street Southeast — is
set to open, according to Sara Osborne, Safeway’s manager of public/government affairs. Safeway is in the process of planning a Veterans Day event, as well, she said. Property Development Centers (PDC) broke ground the first week in March on approximately 13 acres of land that will feature a
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150,000-square-foot shopping center, 50,000-squarefoot Safeway and six shop buildings with approximately 40,000 square feet of retail space. Osborne noted that a Burger King, KeyBank and Uncle Peteza’s shop probably won’t open at Lakeside until 2012.