On Sunday, the BeachHouse hosted the First Annual Spike & Dig Volleyball Tournament at Houghton Beach. The tournament winners were as follows: 1st Place Winners – Team Volleyball USA Grand Prize of $500 Cash & $100 in gifts cards to the BeachHouse 2nd Place Winners – Team Block Party $100 Cash & $100 in [...]
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Booksigning: Ari Weinzweig singing Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon at Metropolitan Market Friday, Aug. 27
Ari Weinzweig booksigning: Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon at Kirkland Metropolitan Market Friday, August 27, 5 -7 p.m. at the Culinary Kiosk Meet Zingerman’s Co-Owner & Founding Partner Ari Weinzweig on Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon, the first in-depth book on America’s favorite fat. Author Ari Weinzweig guides you on a personal tour of bacon’s long and [...]
Free Car Wash at Brown Bear on Thursday
Brown Bear Car Wash celebrates 53 rd anniversary with free car washes on Thursday, August 26 Over the last four years, the Seattle-based company has washed 78,760 cars during its annual “free car wash day” Note: This event does not include Kirkland’s Brown Bear Car Wash as it is a self-serve location. The Redmond Brown [...]
Junior League Softball World Series (photos)
What do Florida, Washington, Ontario, Puerto Rico, Texas, Indiana, Italy, California, Pennsylvania and Guam all have in common? They all had teams playing in the Junior League Softball World Series this last week at Everest Park, right here in Kirkland! What do great young athletes, screaming teenage girls, ESPN, swearing parents (from Indiana), hotdogs, sunshine, [...]
Final Week 2010 Summer Concert Series
It’s hard to believe that this is the last week of the 2010 Kirkland Summer Concert Series! Please join us for the grand final shows this week: Tuesday, August 24, 10-11am: Family Fun Day featuring Geoffrey Castle and other performers (http://www.geoffreycastle.com/) Thursday, August 26, 7-9pm: One Up Two Down, a Seattle jam band (http://oneuptwodownmusic.com/) Thanks [...]
The Cleanest Stretch of Interstate 405
Ford of Kirkland is a proud sponsor of the WSDOT Adopt-a-Highway Program. Company employees clean their section of Interstate 405 on a quarterly basis. Adopt-a-Highway is a roadside clean-up program to promote pride and local ownership in Washington. The Adopt-a-Highway program: Keeps the state clean Helps taxpayers save money Reminds people not to litter Did you [...]
Seattle Times | 1982 Story Retold
Those 12-year-old kids from Kirkland who won the 1982 Little League World Series are now 40 and about to get a fresh dose of fame. In fact, they are about to lock up a choice berth in sports archives for perpetuity. They are the subject of an ESPN “30 for 30″ documentary titled “Little Big [...]
Mansion Squatters claim 3 more Eastside homes
The Mansion Squatters have returned by claiming possession of 3 more homes in Kirkland and Bellevue. Several local news outlets have good coverage of this issue: Danny Westneat of the Seattle Times has a column in today’s paper on this issue in which he goes into depth on the Mansion Squatters. “It’s becoming exasperating,” said Capt. [...]