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Safe Kids featured at Woodside event

Woodside Elementary School staff and families will host a program titled Safe Kids, Inc. at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23 at the school.

The program features nationally recognized safety experts sharing tips and information about how parents can teach their children about personal safety.

Topics include how to avoid unsafe situations, detect danger signs, get help, get out of uncomfortable situations and staying safe. Free childcare will be provided by YMCA staff.

For more information, visit www.safetykidsclub.com or call Kathryn Lee at 425-402-6679.

Northshore students honored

Fourteen Northshore School District students were recently named National Merit Finalists. From Inglemoor High School: Caley Anderson, Katherine Bayles, Christopher Blair, Elisabeth Calhoon, Jonathan Dethloff, Benjamin Fidler, Chenxing Han, Ian Jacobs, Ashley Keilman and Bo Wang. From Woodinville High School: Taryn Gilbert, Diana Husmann, Issac Nelson-King and Stephen Timm. These students will now compete for 7,000 National Merit Scholarships to be awarded this spring.

UWB eldercare workshop

The University of Washington, Bothell will host an eldercare workshop from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. March 6.

Topics include assessing needs and understanding service choices, costs, financing and legal issues. The workshop also addresses family stresses and burdens on care givers.

Cost is $65 per person. For more information e-mail eldersuw@u.washington.edu, or call 206-543-8600. Registration deadline is Friday, Feb. 27.

Ceremony set for new ATM building

Staff, students and families of Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy High School will gather at the official dedication and blessing of their new building, Grace Hall. Mass will take place at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13 in the school gymnasium with the blessing and dedication ceremony immediately following.

Grace Hall is the second major permanent building on the school campus. It includes three new classrooms, a student center and basement storage area. Grace Hall was named after the mother and deceased daughter of longtime Board of Trustees member Fred Hines, Jr.

Student earns ‘first chair’ honor

Cedar Park Christian School freshman and Mill Creek resident Stephen Zirschky II recently was selected to represent his school in the All Northwest High School Honors Band at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma on Jan. 10.

Music students from all over the Northwest participated in the honors band program. Zirschky plays the alto sax and following an audition by all the Sax players at the event, he was selected to be “First Chair” for the Concert Band sax players when performing that evening in the Eastvold Auditorium at Pacific Lutheran University.