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The Bellevue School District has requested the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association conduct a fact-finding investigation into the Bellevue High School football program after months of allegations and penalties against the program. “Bellevue High School and the Bellevue School District take allegations such as those included in the Seattle Times article seriously. The Bellevue School District has requested that the WIAA conduct a fact-finding investigation,” the district said in a statement on Aug. 25. The district’s request is the first step to initiative a WIAA investigation, with the next steps being to hire a fact finder and work with the
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Above: Construction crews manuver the 7.5 foot wide, 50-60 ton concrete piece of roadway onto the new Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (520 Bridge) on Monday, Aug. 24. Below: Workers take photos of the installation. Interlake alumnus Trevor Lynn fights for quarterback spot on Eastside Bulldogs
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existing Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (commonly known as the 520 Bridge) has been the longest floating highway for the last 52 years, this new bridge will surpass it by 132 feet. “This is one of the key milestones of the floating bridge project,” he said. “Over the next few months, we’ll be pouring concrete for the road deck, doing electrical work– the smaller tasks that are part of getting this project done.” When it opens, the new 520 floating bridge will be composed of four general purpose lanes, two HOV lanes, a 14-foot-wide bicycle and pedestrian path, and a shoulder for disabled vehicles. Designed to be able to withstand wind speeds up to 89 miles per hour and resting 20 feet above the water level, it won’t be slave to closures due to high winds and waves like the existing 520
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Construction crews installed the last major section of the 520 bridge on Monday, Aug. 24, one of 776 precast, interlocking roadway deck sections that will comprise the new 7,710-footlong bridge, making it the longest floating highway in the world. Using a barge-mounted crane, crews lowered a 7.5 foot wide, 50 to 60 ton section of roadway into place, marking the end of what Greg Meadows, deputy construction manager for the Floating Bridge and Landings Project, called the last of the big tasks for the project. While the
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bridge. “The lower height of the other bridge is more of a typical design, but it would get shut down because of waves and it makes maintenance more difficult because you have to shut down traffic to do work,” said Denise Cieri, Washington State Department of Transportation deputy administrator for the SR 520
Seattle Children’s Hospital is working with the state health department and the Centers for Disease Control after it was revealed that the required procedures for cleaning and sterilizing surgical instruments at the hospital’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center were not always followed. “I understand that families will be concerned, and rightly so, but from a scientific perspective, the risk is low, which I hope that families find reassuring,” Seattle and King County Public Health official
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