Bothell/Kenmore Reporter, September 02, 2011

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COMMUNITY | Second annual Senior Citizens’ Day is on the way [5]

ENTERTAINMENT | Bothell Music Festival will plug in Saturday at Country Village. [Page 3]

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All fired up for football season

Clockwise from top, Bothell High players hit it up during tackling drills; Inglemoor High coach Frank Naish barks out an offensive formation; Cedar Park’s Josh Ionesi runs the ball. See pages 9-12 for a football preview. PHOTOS BY ANDY NYSTROM (RIGHT) AND TIM WATANABE, Bothell-Kenmore Reporter

Picture perfect: Kenmore store gives camera to kid BY ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@bothell-reporter.com

Christian Curby could see that 16-year-old Mavius had an eye for shooting solid photos. Mavius (last name withheld for privacy reasons) started out using the pointand-shoot camera available at Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission’s Hope Place — a recovery program serving homeless women and their children — where he resides with his mother and siblings. Hope Place Assistant Director Curby pointed

Mavius toward ‘We’ve got to get Sharon Thomas, this kid a camera,’” the mission’s said Rich Alpublic-relations verdes, Kenmore manager, and Camera assistant asked if he could floor manager. intern with her So, on Aug. 18, and hone his phoMavius, Curby tography skills. and Thomas “I saw potendrove to Kential in him,” said more Camera, Thomas, who where the young sent an email to photographer Kenmore Camera, Mavius and his new received a $300 camera. asking if they used Canon Rebel. could donate a Alverdes said that professional digital Kenmore Camera camera to Mavius. often donates cameras to “I got the email, and said, [ more CAMERA page 2 ]

Google is set to move into Bothell BY ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@bothell-reporter.com

Google the city of Bothell and you’ll find the Internet company’s newest location. “We’ve relocated a group of employees from our Kirkland office to a nearby facility,” a Google spokesperson said. Last month, the company released news that it plans to move into a facility at the Schnitzer North Creek Technology Campus and could employ 840 workers. Google’s spokesperson said the company couldn’t yet divulge a timeframe as to when it would move into its new location. Google also has campuses in Kirkland and Fremont, which employ more than

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850 workers, and the company is presently hiring for its new office. When reached by phone on Monday, a Schnitzer North Creek employee said the company didn’t wish to comment on the Google move. According to Bothell Mayor Mark Lamb, “We are working hard to bring jobs and opportunity to Bothell and make our city an example of innovative policies that work in both good times and bad. Google is one of fastest growing companies in the world. Its decision to join so many firstrate companies here in Bothell is confirmation that our strategy for economic development is working.” He added that businesses prefer to [ more GOOGLE page 2 ]


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