Bob Bridge, 60, has been in the automobile industry 40 years. He has owned Bob Bridge Toyota Scion since 1981. He bought the company after the beginning of a series of Boeing employment cuts.
The 2008 Citizen of the Year Norma Cugini has deep roots in Renton.
Her great-grandfather, Thomas Rowe, came to Renton from Cornwall, England, in 1903 or 1904. He worked in Renton’s coal mines. The grandparents of Cugini’s husband Alex came to Renton in 1900 from Italy. His grandfather worked in a brick-making factory. Norma and Alex were both born in Renton. They met at Renton High, married and moved to their home on Renton Hill, where they’ve lived 53 years.
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Heart disease runs in the family for Craig Riggs of Renton. His father and mother both died from heart attacks, his father at 59 and his mother at 61. His brother has had five angioplasties (heart-repair surgeries).
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Much has changed since Mike Weisz joined Renton Police Department in 1989. Speeding excuses aren’t among those changes.
With 100 congregation members, St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church was on life support in 1980. That’s when Kirby Unti, now 56, became pastor. Twenty-eight years later, the Highlands church on Edmonds Avenue has more than 1,000 members. Programs have expanded from Sunday services and the occasional mid-week activity to seven days a week.
Bernice Hoggard was “born to be a senior center director,” says Shawn Daly, who worked for her for five years before he took over her job at the Renton Senior Center.
It was a day in the 1960s and Phillip Levine was sitting in his car in downtown Seattle waiting for the light to change. Pedestrians crossed in front of his car from both sides of the street, gliding in that smooth walking style people have.
Growing up, David Nelson could see Hazen High School from his neighborhood. So, why, he wondered back in the mid-1990s, would he go across town to school, at Renton High.
Valley Medical Center was less than 400,000 square feet when Rich Roodman became CEO on Jan. 1, 1983. The non-profit public hospital on South 43rd Street will grow to 1.6 million square feet when the new emergency department tower opens in late 2009 or early 2010.
In 1985, Louis Fote Jr. was a sixth grader at Lakeridge Elementary School and had nowhere to play. Playgrounds were too far from his north Renton home. His overprotective parents didn’t help. So he collected more than 100 student signatures, pleaded his case at a year’s worth of City Council and Parks Board meetings, (fighting ornery adults along the way) and got his playground built, at downtown Renton’s Jones Park, between the Cedar River and Wells and Main avenues.
You don’t have to be a Nobel Prize winner or a reformed mass murderer to write an autobiography. You can be an ordinary Renton resident who wants to share her life with family.
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Greenfresh Market co-owner and wine steward David L. Allen was looking for a local, signature wine for under $10. He came up with a blend called “Greenfresh Market Renton Red.”
Washington state has the one of highest occurrences of multiple sclerosis, or MS, in the nation. An estimated 3,000 to 6,000 people are affected by MS in King County, according to Merrill Ringold, executive director of the Multiple Sclerosis Association of King County.
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The Renton Reporter today concludes its presentation of a six-course meal prepared by student chefs at Renton Technical College for…
