They dreamed big.
But Chuck and Elena Stowell never imagined things would snowball quite like they have.
Or in such magical fashion.
The Kent couple lost their only daughter, Carly, on April 12, 2007 of an acute cardiac arrhythmia. Just days away from her 15th birthday, Carly collapsed in a North Carolina hotel room while at a tournament with her select AAU basketball team, the Emerald City Legends.
In 1854, a cholera epidemic struck London, England. Thousands of people were dying and no one could determine the cause. Doctors were stumped as deathly ill adults and children filed into the overcrowded hospitals.
Amador Reyes AbrejeraAmador Reyes Abrejera of Kent, passed away July 20, 2008 at the age of 69, in the presence of his wife and daughters.… Continue reading
A biting sense of humor pulled her through.
Because during even the most difficult of times in what was supposed to be the finest volleyball season of her already strong prep career, Alison Fairchild always had that on which to fall back.
Even when she couldn’t fall back on the one thing she once unknowingly counted on the most: her left knee.
Adam Marsland has lived the life of a touring musician for many of his 36 years, and now the California-based, genre-jumping artist will make a stop in Kent.
• EVENT: 21st Annual Schuck’s Auto Supply NHRA Nationals, the 14th of 23 events on the NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series.
Gary Densham says one of the three biggest days of the year in Northwest – along with Seafair weekend – is when the NHRA comes to Pacific Raceways in Kent.
A few weeks ago I surveyed the major contenders be named for Barack Obama’s running mate and concluded that he will likely select a popular Governor in a swing state. Why a governor? Because anything associated with Washington, D.C. is toxic. President Bush’s popularity is in the 20s and the popular rating for Congress is 9 percent!
Carson and Tess Henley don’t need Simon Cowell or Paula Abdul to tell them they’re talented.
She’s only 2, but Super Dixie already is making her mark at Emerald Downs.
It wasn’t what the King County Jaguars had in mind for the third annual Cornucopia Bowl.
Kent Police were still looking Monday for a gunman in connection with the shooting death of a 17-year-old Renton boy. The youth reportedly was shot in the head during an argument among more than 20 young men Saturday evening at a fast-food restaurant on the 300 block of East Smith Street.
A 31-year-old caregiver pleaded not guilty July 2 in King County Superior Court, to charges of second-degree rape in connection with alleged attacks on a physically and mentally disabled woman at a Kent assisted-living facility.
The fall election cycle is fast approaching and King County Elections director Sherril Huff reminds voters of upcoming registration deadlines. Saturday, July 19 is the last day for mail in and online voter registrations and transfers for the August 19 Primary.
Elsie Marie WiseElsie Marie Wise passed peacefully of natural causes Sunday, July 13, 2008 at the Home Care facility in Kent, Washington. Elsie is survived… Continue reading
Leave it to our state’s major political parties to not know the meaning of “no.”
Quarterbacks become head coaches. Linemen become head coaches. Kickers?
They don’t usually become head coaches.
Mike Astley would love nothing more than to give that stereotype the boot.
Editor’s note: The following is a speech given by 2008 Kentridge High School graduate Todd Lane at the Rotary Club of Kent spring scholarship banquet based on the prompt, “My hopes for the future.” Lane was one of eight district students to be presented with a $3,000 scholarship at the event.
It’s more than 17,000 miles from Kent to the center of the upcoming Olympic games in Beijing, China.
But a community health initiative is attempting to make that distance seem a lot shorter for locals here.
Between now and the games’ opening ceremony Aug. 8, organizers of the Kent4Health initiative are inviting walkers, cyclists and runners to log their miles on a Web site, to have Kent go the distance to the games.
