100 year-old bell has a new home at Redmond High thanks to Scout Logan John

Ceremony for 100 year old Clise Family Bell planned for April 18
at Redmond High School .  The bell weighs 1100 pounds.  

Installation ceremony for the Clise "touchdown" bell at Redmond High is planned for Redmond's 100 year Anniversary on April 18.

History:  Anna Clise was the founder of Seattle Children's Hospital and owned Marymoor. She donated the land for the city's oldest park, Anderson Park. Anna commissioned the bell in 1912. 

By Amy John, Redmond resident
March 18, 2012

On Wednesday, April 18th at 2:00 at the Redmond High School football field there will be a Ceremony marking the completion of the new home for the 100 year old Clise Family Redmond Bell.  My son, Logan John, planned this project for his Eagle Scout leadership project.

Some notables at the event will be the Mayor, who will briefly speak, and Mr. Al Clise, the great grandson of Anna Clise, who commissioned this bell.  Anna Clise was the founder of Seattle Children's and owned Marymoor. She donated the land that is now Anderson Park. The Historical Society is also going to speak to give a history of the bell.

The Redmond High football boosters contacted our Troop 612 about this project. The bell had been sitting over by the fence on the ground since the football field was replaced years ago. It's new home is by the outside fence near the new concession stand, just outside the track closest to the road (104th). If you ride by that way, take a look over and you'll see it, and hear it at games!  Read More >>

8th Annual Cub Scout Derby at Redmond Town Center

Come have fun with us at the Sammamish Trails District Pinewood Derby!

Saturday May 5th, 2012

Racing starts at 11:00am

Northwest Scouters is pleased to sponsor the 8th Annual Sammamish Trails District Pinewood Derby races. Everyone had an outstanding time at last year's event and this year we are set to have very exciting and fun filled day for the Cub Scouts and their families. Come join us and watch the racing action!

Redmond Town Center will host this year's races. RTC is located in Redmond, WA, just east of intersection of 166th Ave. NE and Cleveland Street.  Read More >>

Sammamish Trails District announce newest Eagle Scouts from Redmond, Sammamish and Woodinville

June 4, 2011

The Sammamish Trails District of Boy Scouts of America is proud to announce our newest Eagle Scouts. To earn the Eagle rank, a scout must complete a minimum of 21 merit badges demonstrating community service, leadership, and scouting values. Please join us in congratulating the following scouts in their remarkable achievement in earning the Eagle Scout rank.

Sammamish Trails Residence Troop

Griffin Conrad Chatterley Redmond Redmond Troop 550
Spiro Dimitri Diliani Woodinville Redmond Troop 591
Joseph Primo Domingo Redmond Redmond Troop 575
Connor Scott Everson Woodinville Redmond Troop 591
James Warren Salmon Sammamish Sammamish Troop 500
Samuel Reid Haruo Watanabe Redmond Redmond Troop 577

For more information about Boy Scouts contact the Sammamish Trails District Chair, Wally Kempe at 425-445-2564.

By Paige Norman

80 Rose Hill area parents and youth turn out for the Hartman weed-pull!

See the long, brown, linear band of dirt where the weeds were pulled?

Correction:  I've been advised a large group of workers at this event was not reported.  My apologies. Laura Svancarek informs me she set up extra credit for Ms. Marsh's Honors Bio-Chem classes at Redmond High and they accounted for the large influx of youth volunteers.  Laura is a Land Steward and reports she and another Hartman Land Steward, Alvin Loong ran the event.   Laura and Alvin are Juniors at Redmond High.  Laura reports, "We walked among the volunteers and helped them with individual questions regarding plant identification and what they should be doing, and were continually finding new places for the volunteers to work as they removed the blackberries from each area."  Thank you, Laura.  10/05/2010    

Saturday was a beautiful day to work in the forest!  A large group of volunteers from the Rose Hill area spent 3+ hours on Saturday pulling weeds in the Hartman Greenbelt on 176th Ave. NE.   The neighbors across the street were obviously smiling.  Some may have pitched in.      

The turn-out was huge.  Over 80 volunteers showed up for this Cascade Conservancy "GreenRedmond" event.  Many were from Kirkland.   Students from Rose Hill J.H.were out in force, earning school credit for their work.  But, perhaps the largest contingent of  "urban foresters" were scouts from two Kirkland LDS wards.  Jim Balkman greeted the workers while Jeff Burnham, President of the Kirkland LDS Stake (six wards) pitched in - literally!   Some weed piles were almost five feet tall. 

A hard-working maintenance supervisor from the City of Redmond appeared to be running the whole show.  The Land Steward couldn't make it that day, and Councilmember Myers infamous bicycle and clippers were not to be seen.   But, the volunteers did just fine!  

Report and Photo by Yoder

8th-Grader Stephen Patterson wins Eagle Scout Rank

Stephen Patterson of the Boys Scout’s Sammamish District Troop 509 recently received his Eagle Scout award at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor held at Beaver Lake Lodge in Sammamish. In attendance were over 45 friends, neighbors, family and fellow scouts.

Stephen has been actively involved in scouting since he was 8 years old and quickly worked his way through the various scouting ranks earning 21 merit badges to date and has accumulated over 23 nights of camping – he is currently serving as his troop’s Senior Patrol Leader. His Eagle Project was coordinated with the City of Sammamish to reclaim and restore an area along the Illahee Trail in Sammamish with new trees, shrubs and mulch.

Stephen is currently in 8th grade attending Inglewood Jr. High School. His interests are aviation, model building, music, camping, and helping his younger brother, Joseph, an 11 yr. old scout, to become an Eagle Scout.

Congratulations to Stephen and all those who have helped him along the way in achieve this monumental goal in his life.  For more information about Scouting, please see the Chief Seattle Council website at http://www.seattlebsa.org/ .

Submitted by Paige Norman
Pictured are Mike Patterson, Scoutmaster and Stephen Patterson, New Eagle Scout

100 Year Scouting Service Campaign Teams Up with GreenRedmond

Eagle Scout Leader Tracy (left photo) and Volunteer Land Steward Doug Schmidt (right photo) teach scouts how to plant trees.   This work party was a 100 Year Anniversary Scouting Service event.   

The weather was extremely cooperative as more than 35 boy scouts, scout leaders, fathers and some siblings gathered at Hartman Park to finish the project which had been started a week earlier. The youth were members from packs, troops, teams or crews from units 612 and 613 which meet at the LDS stake center adjacent to Hartman Park and troop, team and crew 597 from the Novelty Hill neighborhood. Although the weather was cool and crisp when they gathered at 8:00 am, the sun was soon shining down on them as they continued the process of eradicating the invasive blackberry bushes that had overtaken the area they been assigned to clean up. The youth and adults learned a very valuable lesson from GreenRedmond volunteer Doug Schmidt, the supervisor of the project. Doug instructed them that it was not enough to simply cut down the stalks and remove the roots. Even the smallest pieces of green stock needed to be removed from the area. If any were left lying on the ground, they could root out and start a new blackberry plant.

Once all the insidious plants were eradicated and a thorough sweep of the area was completed, removing any trace of the invasive plants, new trees were carefully planted throughout the section. In just a few hours, a section of the park which had been overgrown with blackberries had been transformed. Stepping back and looking at the results of their efforts, the volunteers realized there is a significant amount of work required before all of Hartman Park looks like the small area they had worked on. But for now, there was some satisfaction as they admired the transformation that just a few hours of volunteer labor was able to perform.
 
By Bruce Salmon, Volunteer for Boy Scouts of America and LDS Church
Photos by Salmon

Redmond Scouts reforest Hartman woodlands in celebration of 100 years of Scouting

Redmond Scouts prepared Hartman woodlands for reforesting in celebration of 100 years of Scouting.  Redmond Boy Scouts from units 597, 612 and 613, sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spent the morning of Saturday,  February 28th clearing invasive ground foliage from the bicycle trail south of Hartman park to prepare for reforesting the park. The scouts dug up and pulled blackberry bushes, removed ivy and cleaned up garbage to commemorate. This is one of 100 service projects planned by scouts in the Chief Seattle Council in 2010 to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of BSA. For more information on the 100th anniversary of scouting go to http://scouting.org/100years.

Top photo:  Spencer (left), Forest Steward Doug Schmidt (center) and Charlie holding blackberry root (right).

Middle photo:  Forest Stewards Doug Schmidt and Bob Yoder

Bottom photo:  Thirty scouts put in 60 hours of restoration work.  Two troops were from the local "Hartman building" and one was from the Novelty Hill LDS Church

By Nate Niederhausern, Scout Communications, LDS
Photos by Niederhausern
Nate is a long-time reader & FB friend. 

THANKS TO THE SCOUTS AND DADS FROM TROOPS 597, 612, 613!!   Special thanks to Paige Norman for informing us of the "100 years of Service Program."   And thanks to the GreenRedmond Partnership of  Citizen volunteers, City workers, and Cascade Conservancy administrators.   

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GreenRedmond be having an orientation for prospective new volunteer Forest Stewards on Saturday, March 13th.  Join our team of  dedicated volunteer Stewards and learn how you can adopt your own restoration project!  Email greenredmond@cascadeland.org  for more information.

To register and learn more:  http://www.cascadeland.org/stewardship/green-cities/green-redmond-partnership/Forest%20Steward%20Program

Local Boys Scouts invite you to nominate community service projects.

“To celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, the Chief Seattle Council invites YOU to nominate community service projects. The Boy Scouts have long been known for their service to others and we look forward to living up to our oath of helping others at all times. Please submit your request at our website: https://viecommunication.wufoo.com/forms/tell-us-how-the-boy-scouts-can-help-you/”

Earlier this year, the Scouts responded to several citizen requests to restore a section of the Sammamish River bank and install "no dump" buttons on street stormwater drains.  The Scouts are sincere!  Send them your application request today!  by

Paige Norman