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Rosa Parks student wants to cure cancer — and be president Prakriti Shukla and her classmates visit Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
Rosa Parks fifth-grader Prakriti Shukla works on spooling strawberry DNA at the Fred Hutchinson Research Center in Seattle during a field trip with her class. Courtesy of Nylkahlid Jungmayer
Three years ago, students from Rosa Parks Elementary School on Redmond Ridge performed a play for and in honor of a fellow student who had been diagnosed with leukemia. As a second-grader, Prakriti Shukla participated in that performance. She knew the boy — who was in kindergarten at the time — and his family as they lived in the same neighborhood. “It really affected him and his family,” she said about the boy’s illness. “It affected the
whole school.” The experience affected Prakriti as well, and it has stuck with her all these years. Now in the fifth grade, the 10-year-old has chosen blood and brain cancer as the topics of a year-long research project for her pull-out Quest class at Elizabeth Blackwell Elementary School in Sammamish. “I chose cancer because a lot of people have cancer and I wanted to help them,” she said.
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Ritu Gupta, Prakriti’s mother, had not realized how much their young neighbor — who fought and won his battle with cancer — and his illness had affected her daughter until Prakriti asked Gupta for stamps one day in November 2013. [ more HUTCH page 6]
Cleveland Streetscape Volunteers make a difference on MLK Day project is on the way ANDY NYSTROM
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Construction for the City of Redmond’s Cleveland Streetscape project is set to start in early February. The project is part of the city’s effort to turn downtown Redmond into an urban neighborhood. Project manager Lisa Singer said it is also the final step before Cleveland Street and Redmond Way are converted into two-way streets. To prepare for the upcoming construction, the City of Redmond hosted
an open house last night in the Red160 Apartments lobby on Cleveland Street. The purpose of the open house was to share the city’s downtown vision and how Cleveland Street will transform into downtown Redmond’s new “main street.” Also included in the evening’s program were updates on the Downtown Park Master Plan, arts and cultural programming and new parking options as they are helping to shape the future of Redmond’s downtown neighborhood. [ more STREET page 6 ]
CITY NEWS
As Redmond City Council member Hank Myers gazed into one corner of Westside Park on Monday morning, he had a look of pride in his eyes. In that section of the local park, 36 student and adult volunteers worked away and cleared out heaps of leaves and branches to spruce up the area. Myers deemed Green Redmond Partnership’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service a success. “What I think that really has been great is the general service concept: going out and serving your community in whatever way you can,” said Myers, echoing King Jr.’s famous quote, “Life’s most persis-
Seda Terek participates in Green Redmond Partnership’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Monday morning by helping spruce up Westside Park in Redmond. ANDY NYSTROM, Redmond Reporter tent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’” Added Redmond resident Glenn Eades, one of the forest stewards: “This is a great day and we’re get-
ting a lot done. It’s a huge turnout. I think people really like to get out and do something useful.” Myers feels it’s gratifying to witness the Green Redmond Partnership and
Forterra programs grow dramatically over the last several years. They no longer produce just four or five park service events a year; they now get out into the community 11 months out of the year. “It’s made a big difference in our parks,” Myers said. King Jr. changed Myers’ life in the 1960s and he calls the leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement the greatest American of the 20th century. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn. “I was raised in the (Bay Area) of California and I didn’t realize this in high school, but I had friends whose families had been [ more MLK page 3 ]
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