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Standing in front of Washington Cathedral are: Back, from left: Wanderson Godoi, Rich Skinner, Doug Sutten and Rey Diaz. Front, from left: Linda Skinner, Debi Raines and Jeanne Sutten. SAMANTHA PAK, Redmond Reporter
Cathedral community set to embrace its future SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
Although the future of Washington Cathedral in Redmond is still up in the air, members of the church community are not too worried. The church’s property at 12300 Woodinville-Redmond Road N.E. was recently put on the market after leaders spent more than a year in negotiations with lenders. While Washington Cathedral’s buildings and property are up for sale, Rey Diaz, Washington Cathedral’s lead pastor, stressed that they are not selling the church. “The church is the people,” he said. “We’re going to be strong…We feel that God still has a plan for us.”
Redmond’s Lyle Burns claps to the music while walking in the cancer survivors’ lap at the Relay for Life of Redmond/Kirkland’s event to benefit the American Cancer Society last Saturday at Redmond High. ANDY NYSTROM, Redmond Reporter
Relayers hit the track to fight cancer ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@redmond-reporter.com
The calm atmosphere changed dramatically when Bree Casey asked people to unleash a barrage of noise for a full minute. “Scare cancer. Let them know we’re not going to stop until it’s gone,” Casey, 18, told the crowd from the speakers’ podium at the start of the Relay for Life 24-
Seniors are on board with shuttle-bus plan ANDY NYSTROM
HIT BY THE RECESSION
Diaz said the sale comes after the church tried to refinance its mortgage on the property, which includes the main church and the smaller chapel. Washington Cathedral had started a building plan on its property with projections based on growth. Diaz said they initially had a lot of momentum and “things were going great,” but the projections made in 2006 ended up being too low and then the recession hit. [ more CATHEDRAL page 7 ]
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Redmond City Council members received a visit from 10 people from the Redmond Senior Center with transportation on their minds at Tuesday night’s meeting. With senior center advisory committee members Roger Trepanier and Paul Lester taking the
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hour event last Saturday at Redmond High. Screaming and clapping ensued among the 33-team, 320-person crowd from the Redmond and Kirkland areas. The event kicked off at noon on Saturday and ran through 8 a.m. on Sunday. At press time, the group had raised $94,670.69 for the American Cancer Society. Casey, a Redmond resident, not only spoke at the [ more RELAY page 8 ]
roles as spokesman at the podium, they presented a formal resolution asking the city to support a downtown shuttle bus service that would benefit seniors and other residents. According to their plan, the route would start and end at the Redmond Senior Center and visit all the major Redmond destinations, including shopping areas,
hospitals and parks. Hours could be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and cost $2 a day or $20 per month, Lester told council. Two buses running continuously could carry 14 people at a time. “We want Redmond to be the instigator and start-up of this (circuitous) system,” Lester said. [ more COUNCIL page 3]
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Positive thoughts abound despite church’s near-$15 million debt and having to put its 15.5-acre property up for sale