What are the most pressing issues on the Eastside? And what can area leaders do to tackle them on a regional level? Those were the questions driving the first Eastside Futures conference, the latter of which was intended to challenge the government, business and nonprofit representatives in attendance to step away from what organizers described as narrow and siloed thinking.
Faced with another failure to pass a school construction bond, the Lake Washington School District will look at other options to handle school crowding.
When Margaret Schwender broke her ankle a few months ago, she couldn’t cook, clean or take care of other household chores that needed to be done. But rather than sit around and watch her post-injury to-do list grow, she utilized the Eastside Timebank to complete these normally easy tasks.
