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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015
Food for thought Food Network star Alton Brown speaks at Hopelink’s Reaching Out Luncheon
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Come election season, the goal and mission of the League of Women Voters (LWV) is to educate voters on their local issues and candidates. It was with this mission in mind that members of the LWV of Seattle-King County organized and moderated last week’s debate between Redmond’s mayoral candidates — incumbent John Marchione and challenger Steve Fields — at Emerald Heights. “Our whole purpose is to educate,” said Ruth Werntz, who lives in the retirement community and has been a member of the league for about 50 years.
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Food Network host Alton Brown addresses the crowd about the importance of Hopelink at the organization’s Reaching Out Benefit Luncheon Monday in Bellevue. ANDY NYSTROM, Redmond Reporter with his aunts, grandmothers and mother, soaking up the familial, culinary atmosphere of voices and laughter and pots and pans clanking about. “I always liked being in the kitchen. Usually, ‘cause there was something good to lick. Let’s face
it, they’re fun places to be and tasty places to be,” said Brown, who noted that he got into cooking to attract girls in college. “I had a pathetic social life and I found that girls that would say ‘no’ when you asked them out, and you
SAMANTHA PAK
Following complaints from area residents — including Redmond Mayor John Marchione — King County staff are working on possible solutions to control noise levels at Marymoor Park during its summer concert series. As previously reported, there were two concerts — featuring Sublime with Rome — after which the city
received six complaints by email and the Redmond Police Department logged 14 complaints in its dispatch records. However, as Marymoor Park is in King County, the city does not have jurisdiction over what happens at the park. At Redmond City Council’s meeting on Oct. 6, King County Council member Jane Hague, who represents unincorporated areas near Redmond, and county parks and recreation division director Kevin Brown — as
Conforto headed to World Series with Mets
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League of Women Voters evaluate mayoral debate SAMANTHA PAK
ANDY NYSTROM
Alton Brown is a firm believer that home cooking can bring the philosophy of self-reliance from the notebook to the kitchen stove. “Cooking at home fixes almost everything,” Brown told a crowd of almost 1,800 strong at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center on Monday during Hopelink’s 20th Annual Reaching Out Luncheon to benefit the Redmond-based organization, which reached its goal of raising $1 million. The funds will provide food, shelter, family development, transportation and job readiness skills for homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities in north and east King County. “Cooking at home gives you better nutrition, far better cost per meal, it’s family building. Families that cook together often stay together. It gives you confidence, it creates community,” added the quirky, award-winning Food Network personality. Before the luncheon, Brown told the Reporter that as a child, he always hung around the kitchen
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well as concert promoter AEG Live — presented to council with their suggested resolutions. Hague said one of those suggestions was conducting an independent review of concert decibel levels. She said they could have someone onsite at “ground zero” during concerts so they can turn down the volume — then and there — if things get too loud. [ more NOISE page 11]
Michael Conforto
Redmond’s Michael Conforto is headed to another World Series. As a youngster, he competed in the Little League World Series with his Redmond North team; as a college athlete, his Oregon State University squad made the College World Series; and on Wednesday night, the New York Mets rookie and his teammates
The debate came about after Emerald Heights administrators approached Werntz and asked her to find someone within the league to moderate the debate. She said the retirement community has hosted candidates’ meetings in the past, so they thought holding a debate would be the perfect opportunity to inform Emerald Heights residents on the mayoral election. “We know that the people that live here vote,” Werntz said. She said about 300 people attended the debate, adding that she was “extremely pleased” to see people from throughout Redmond — not just residents from the [ more DEBATE page 11 ] punched their ticket to the Major League Baseball World Series. According to a Cut4 story, Conforto can become the third person in baseball history to make an appearance in all three World Series. On Wednesday, the Mets defeated the Chicago Cubs, 8-3, to sweep the National League Championship Series, and now they await the winner of the Kansas City Royals-Toronto Blue Jays American League Championship Series for their World Series opponent. The Royals lead the series, 3-2, and the teams will square off again tonight. Conforto — who has one home run in the postseason — played in 56 games in the regular season and hit .270 with nine home runs, 14 doubles and 26 RBIs. The World Series will start on Tuesday.