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Education Hill residents face financial issues from flooding SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
Paula Parks and her husband have been living in their Education Hill home since 1995. Living toward the top of the hill in the 9200 block of 166th Place Northeast,
the last thing they thought they’d be dealing with was flooding. But that is exactly what they and a couple of their neighbors are dealing with currently.
ALL OF A SUDDEN
For Parks, it began a few weeks ago when water
began rushing into her 94-year-old mother-in-law’s downstairs bedroom from the closet like a faucet. The water flooded the bedroom and seeped through to the entire floor. Parks said they put everything up on cinderblocks and used a shopvac to suck up as much
water as they could. They worked for two days and one night, but it was rushing in too quickly for them to keep up with the flow. “All we could do was get things up (off the ground),” she said. As a result of the flooding, Parks’ mother-in-law,
her pregnant daughter and 2-year-old granddaughter have all been displaced from their bedrooms downstairs. In addition, Parks said they had to tear up all the flooring and remove the damaged plasterboard. In the 20 years that they have lived in that house,
Parks said they have never had any sort of water runoff issues except some minor runoff during the winter months. Which is why their current problems have caught them by surprise. “It just shocked everybody,” Parks said. [ more FLOODING page 7 ]
People speak out about Blast off for Aerojet Rocketdyne preserving historic Nokomis building SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
As the process continues to knock down the old Nokomis building at 16210 N.E. 80th St. in Redmond to make way for a new development, people have been voicing their concerns about seeing the early 1930s building go. At last week’s City Council meeting on March 3, a few people spoke during the public comments portion of the evening to share their thoughts on the topic. In addition, the city received three appeals from community members regarding the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) determination for the site. One of those appeals was regarding parking, said Gary Lee, a senior planner for the City of Redmond. He said the appellant said there is not enough parking planned for the site, although the
developer provided a parking analysis stating that the planned number of spots — 0.3 per unit, as opposed to the required 0.5 spots per unit — will be adequate. The other two appeals the city received, Lee said, challenged the historic nature of the old Nokomis building and the appellants would like to see the building preserved. Steven Fischer, a planning manager for the City of Redmond, said the next step in the process is for the city to review and approve the developer’s land-use permit. He said there will be an opportunity to appeal this decision, as well. After that, Fischer said the city will hold a consolidated appeal meeting — which will include the SEPA appellants as well as anyone who may appeal the land-use permit. A date has not been set for the meeting yet as the [ more NOKOMIS page 5 ]
From left: Jennifer McCormick of Aerojet Rocketdyne, Larry Price of Lockheed Martin and Kim Wierenga of Aerojet Rocketdyne are involved in the Orion project that is working to get people into deep space. SAMANTHA PAK, Redmond Reporter
Workers on Redmond campus play major role in launching people into deep space with Orion mission SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
On Dec. 5, 2014, NASA took one step closer toward human exploration in deep space, thanks in part to
Aerojet Rocketdyne in Redmond. Aerojet Rocketdyne — an aerospace and defense company that provides propulsion and energetics to the space, missile defense and strategic systems (among other
things) — provided propulsion for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). On Tuesday, Larry Price with Lockheed Martin, the company that built the Orion spacecraft’s command module, visited Aerojet Rocketdyne in Redmond to thank those involved in the Orion Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) mission. [ more ROCKET page 6 ]
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