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FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014
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City officials, residents discuss Recreation Buildings Master Plan At the City of Redmond, one of the main goals for staff and officials is to make the city a place where people want to live, work and play. And on Wednesday night, members of the community showed how important the latter is for them as they filled the City Hall Bytes Café for a community conversation about Redmond’s Recreation Buildings Master Plan project. The master plan looks at the future of Redmond’s
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In the last few weeks, the Redmond Police Department (RPD) has received a high volume of calls for fraud — many of which involved false tax reports filed under the victims’ names. Mike Dowd, spokesperson for the RPD, said these cases are likely the result of a recent data breach at Seattle’s Catholic Archdiocese, adding that they are not sure why there are so many people from Redmond who have fallen victim. Since these reports involve tax fraud, Dowd said RPD is not investigating the cases. Instead, they are
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four recreation buildings: the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center, Old Firehouse Teen Center (OFH), Redmond Senior Center (RSC) and Redmond Pool at Hartman Park. “The Recreation Buildings Master Plan reflects what we have heard from the community to date about the types of recreation amenities they would like to see in Redmond,” said Redmond Mayor John Marchione. Katie Anderson, parks and recreation deputy [ more PLAN page 5 ]
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gathering the cases as they come in and forwarding them to IRS investigators in Seattle. He said calling the police is just to get the ball rolling before the IRS takes over the cases. Dowd said if people have fallen victim, they can fill out IRS Form 14039, which is for identity theft. This is for individuals who have already experienced fraud that has affected their tax records or if they have experienced a compromise of their personal identifying information, even if no identity theft has occurred yet. This form could be found at www.irs. gov/Forms-&-Pubs. [ more FRAUD page 5 ]
Ted and Karen Madison were recently presented with a special edition of “The Velveteen Rabbit,” a book that holds a special place in their hearts, from Amara. They were foster parents to 76 children, one of which is pictured with their two children. SAMANTHA PAK, Redmond Reporter
Redmond Ridge couple cared for 76 children, receives award SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
From changing diapers and school runs to driving lessons and graduation days, there are many different moments for parents to be part of during their children’s lives. For Karen Madison, her favorite part is the first few months when they are still newborns. It was this love of taking care of newborn babies that led her and her husband Ted Madison to become foster parents in 1972. They did it for about 16 years and during that time, the couple — who currently live in Trilogy on Redmond Ridge but spent
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32 years living in Issaquah — took care of 76 children. The Madisons’ stint as foster parents began a few years after they adopted their daughter and son through Medina Children’s Service (MCS), which is now called Amara. Since Karen and Ted were still licensed as foster parents, they contacted MCS to let the organization know they wanted to be foster parents. “It was kind of my idea,” Karen said. “I always wanted to have an orphanage.” As a foster-to-adopt nonprofit organization, Amara — which began in 1921 as an orphanage — serves children from infancy to the age of 18 and focuses on finding permanent homes for children in foster care. For their part, the Madisons provided temporary, receiving care for children until they would be placed into their permanent homes.
“They did this 76 times,” said Molly von Mitschke Collande, director of communications for Amara. “They took care of 76 children.” This was in addition to their own two children. Because of this commitment to serving and taking care of children, Amara honored Karen and Ted at its annual fundraising luncheon at the beginning of the month with its Stella Mae Carmichael Award.
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The award is named for a woman who served as a foster parent for hundreds of children. Von Mitschke Collande said Carmichael always empowered the children in her care, never letting them pity themselves or see themselves as victims. The award was created in 2008 by one of Carmichael’s former charges as a way [ more MADISONS page 5 ]
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