Mountlake Terrace resident Forrest Reda will run the New York City Marathon to raise liver transplant awareness after donating a portion of his own. Reda will be running the marathon on Sunday, Nov. 5. He will be raising money for New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) as a member of the hospital’s Team Rehab, which Reda credits…
When former bobsled Olympian Devon Harris was a teenager in Kingston, Jamaica, he played soccer bare-footed during gym class. Even though it was his favorite sport, he could not represent his school because he did not own a pair of soccer cleats. “So I know what it’s like to be not clothed properly,” Harris said…
Kermet Apio has many fond memories of growing up in Honolulu, one being the many rides he would get to school from his police officer father. In lieu of conversation, the only sounds on those car rides came from an eight-track player and four eight-track tapes, one recorded by the legendary Motown group The Temptations….
Diana White is known for the roles she has played over the years as a community leader and public servant. These include her years of service on the Edmonds School Board and her work with the Teachers of Color Foundation. But she is perhaps best known for her connection with, and advocacy, for our region’s…
After more than a decade and a half as the face, heart, soul and brains of the Edmonds Center for the Arts (ECA), Executive Director Joe Mclalwain announced earlier this year that he will be leaving the performing arts center – and the Pacific Northwest. His destination: Austin, Texas — another vibrant arts community where…
Most Sunday mornings you will find Jaden Kelly helping out in the nursery room of Brookview Church where parents drop off their newborns, infants and toddlers before heading off to the church sanctuary for worship. While the serenity of the nursery room can occasionally be disrupted with the sound of a fussy or crying baby,…
I was at the grocery store. As I rounded corner, I was in a collision course with a shopping cart being pushed by an older lady. She swerved and said, “Don’t worry, my cat won’t hit you.” She held up her purse, which had a cat design on it. I complimented her on her choice…
The odds for winning the top prize in the Washington State Lottery’s Lotto drawings is 1 in 6.99 million, a possibility that some say is greatly improbable. The odds of seeing two Mountlake Terrace High School graduates appear together in a television commercial about that same state lottery may seem just as far-fetched. But those…
Betty Lou Deebach Fussner Gaeng Longtime local historian Betty Lou Gaeng died Monday, April 17 at age 96 in Anchorage, Alaska. Until very recently, Gaeng was writing “Looking Back” columns for the My Neighborhood News Network family of publications — My Edmonds News, MLTnews and Lynnwood Today. The column focused both on Gaeng’s memories and her…
Edmonds is half a world away from Turkey, but right now, they inhabit the same space in the heart of 48-year-old Mehmet Solak. Even as he goes about his business here, restoring and repairing intricate handmade rugs, he thinks of family and friends back home. His hometown, Sultanhani, is far enough away from Turkey’s recent…
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Veteran journalist Bob Throndsen died unexpectedly at his Edmonds home Saturday, Feb. 4. He was 75 years old. I met Bob for the first time in late February 2020, just before the COVID pandemic took hold. He expressed an interest in writing for My Edmonds News and I was thrilled to welcome such an experienced…
We’re proud to introduce a new reporter and photographer to the My Neighborhood News Network team: Jasmine Contreras-Lewis. While she grew up in Mesa, Arizona, Contreras-Lewis has lived in Edmonds for five years. She graduated from Shoreline Community College, where she wrote for and managed the student newspaper, The Ebbtide. Contreras-Lewis loves the arts and…
One thousand dogs and cats, Russian rockets, no power and bitter cold. Those are some of the challenges that face Edmonds resident Dan Fine and his volunteer team working feverishly to vaccinate animals against a feared rabies outbreak in war-torn Ukraine. The Russian border is just 30 miles from Kharkiv, where Fine and his team…
The City of Mountlake Terrace Monday honored longtime resident Kathleen Jackson with a proclamation in honor of her 100th birthday, which is this Saturday, Oct. 22. Mildred Kathleen Campbell Jackson was born in Denver, Colorado Oct. 22, 1922. She grew up on a goat farm north of Bothell, then moved to Mountlake Terrace in 1951….
Snohomish PUD employees Bill Greenfield and Tommy O’Brien received the Governor’s Lifesaving Award during the annual Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Conference in Tacoma earlier this week. The Governor’s Lifesaving Award is given annually to Washington workers who have gone above and beyond in saving a life while on the job. Greenfield and O’Brien were…
Call it passion – determination – love. All that — and more — have an Edmonds man back in the war in Ukraine, trying to save injured and abandoned animals. Dan Fine had one goal: To help save displaced and lost animals caught in the fighting. This trip, his second, took him into Ukraine, into…
He’s going back. This time into the war zone – in Ukraine – to help save more abandoned pets. Edmonds resident Dan Fine is going back, though friends have told him: “I don’t know why you’re doing this… I don’t get it.” Fine and fellow Edmonds resident Tana Axtelle spent the month of April in…
Recent Mountlake Terrace High School graduate Hope Ambachew took home second place in the women’s javelin event with a throw of 31.13 meters last weekend at the USATF Pacific Northwest Association Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships in Tacoma. Ambachew now advances to the USATF Region 13 Championships July 7-10 at Hanford High School in…
Justine Locke’s unique career path has seen her advance from Edmonds School District support staff to an administrative leadership position. “I’ve always wanted to teach, I just, my life took a little detour for a little while,” she said. Locke started her career in education several years ago as a “lunch lady” in the Mukilteo…
The Foundation for Edmonds School District is hosting the Emily Hood Memorial Scholarship in honor of the 2020 Edmonds-Woodway High School student who died Feb. 28 from inoperable brain cancer. Described as “a treasured daughter, sister and friend,” Emily was a proud member of the Edmonds-Woodway Warriors girls wrestling team. Despite her diagnosis and prognosis, she…
Years ago, retired Edmonds School District Superintendent Nick Brossoit thought he might write a book. So, he squirreled away stories about growing up, about his mentors, about his 30-plus years as a teacher and ultimately superintendent. Brossoit has finally published that book. However, it would not be about all those things, but rather how the…
A Lynnwood man playing the slot machine at Tulalip Resort Casino won the casino’s largest-ever jackpot — nearly $2.4 million — early Sunday morning. Jose Lopez, a self-employed painter, won the $2,369,748.95 payout shortly after midnight on March 20, eclipsing the resort casino’s previous jackpot record of $1,101,976.12. The jackpot is the largest known slot machine…
A.J. Werfelmann, 51, recently retired after 25 years of serving as a reserve officer with the Mountlake Terrace Police Department. The Marysville resident works full-time as a senior operations manager for retail with Brookfield Properties, and he also volunteered on weekends as a reserve police officer. Werfelmann said he first developed an interest in working…
Why did the comedian perform bits from his bedroom? Because he was Zooming in on the humor. Professional comedian and longtime host of Edmonds Comedy Night, Kermet Apio recently discussed challenges he has faced with writing and developing new material during the COVID-19 pandemic. Apio is a past winner of the Seattle Comedy Competition and…
About to embark on the last year of his four-year term as Snohomish County Prosecutor, Edmonds resident Adam Cornell announced in November that he does not plan to seek reelection to the seat he has occupied since running unopposed in 2018, leaving the field wide open. (Edmonds resident and current Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jason Cummings…
