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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2012
Caring Cabin prepares for grand opening
New high school or elementary?
New senior assisted living looks to raise bar twatanabe@bothell-reporter.com
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year and a half ago, the mother-in-law of Anne Beale Yancey, a Bothell resident, passed away from congestive heart failure. Yancey’s father-in-law had ended up taking care of her, after choosing not to relocate her to a residential adult family home because there was no place that she felt comfortable.
“She had lived in a residential environment her whole life,” said Yancey on her mother-in-law’s wishes to stay at home. “It was extremely taxing on him.” That experience inspired Yancey, who had cared for an ailing aunt as a teenager, to open up the Caring Cabin, located on two pristine acres in Bothell. The 4000 square-foot [ more CABIN page 3 ]
Denuski leads the way for children’s play in Kenmore ered the aging playground equipment didn’t meet Special to the Reporter current building codes. The On sunny evenings and district wanted to remove the summer days, a steady old equipment, but lacked stream of families and the funds to replace it with children of all ages walk to new equipment. and from the Unless playground the PTA at Kenmore could fund Elementary and build School. new play Four equipment, years ago, Kenmore Kenmore ElemenElementary tary would almost bebecome came a space a school without a without a place to play. playground. It began PTA when vanmember Stadals damaged Stacey Denuski helps assemble cey Denuski the main play play equipment at Kenmore signed up structure at Elementary. COURTESY PHOTO to lead the the school in Kenmore 2008. Elementary Playground When Northshore School Renovation Committee in District employees came out 2009. [ more PLAY page 7 ] to investigate, they discovBY LAURIE SPERRY
Canyon Creek Elementary in Bothell has a larger attendance than three of the six Northshore School District junior high schools at 772 students. LEANNA ALBRECHT, Courtesy of the Northshore School District
Northshore School District weighing options to address overcrowding BY MATT PHELPS mphelps@bothell-reporter.com
The recession had a big impact on development in northeast Bothell. Permits were taken out, plans were drawn up and land was cleared in many areas around Canyon Creek and Canyon Park in 2008. Then nothing but silence as capital dried up and home sales plummeted. But the area is now recovering at an exponential rate. As of spring 2011, the Northshore School District (NSD) predicted more than 3,300 new housing units in various stages of completion. And with development comes
more students to already the NSD, including Bothell overcrowded schools. and Kenmore residents. “We have this area of the Francois said that he district that has understands the very high growth,” district has to said Northshore demonstrate the School District Suneed, but that perintendent Larry might be the easy Francois. “And we part. have schools that Canyon Creek are well beyond Elementary’s atLarry Francois capacity.” tendance is larger The district than three of “We have this area the district’s is looking at of the district putting up a six junior high that has very high schools. It was bond measure in February 2014 to growth and we have built to accombuild a new ele- schools that are well modate 550 kids beyond capacity.” and currently mentary or high Larry Francois school to deal has 772. The with the issue. If district has run passed, it would out of room for mean higher property portables on the Crystal taxes for all residents in Springs Elementary School
site and Fernwood and Kokanee elementaries will exceed 700 students during the next couple years. Overall, the area, including Skyview Elementary, has 200 more kids enrolled in 2012 than in 2011. The district is looking at adding more portables where it is possible, limiting attendance waivers and relocating programs to conserve space in the overcrowded areas of northeast Bothell, but NSD officials are running out of ideas. “When all the other options have been exhausted [ more SCHOOLS page 5 ]
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