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Kenmore Heritage Society officers:

Elmer Skold, President
Ed Straw, Vice-president
Jeanie McBee, Secretary
Annette Eaton, Treasurer

Board of Trustees:

Jeanie Bower, Char Crawford, Jo Ann Evans, Gary Jang, Don Ivanhoe, Mathew Martin, Maureen O'Neill

Membership Chair:

Priscilla Droge 


KENMORE HERITAGE SOCIETY
PO BOX 82027
Kenmore, Washington, USA 98028-0027


A nonprofit organization - Celebrating and Recording Kenmore's History - Founded 1998


GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
Kenmore Community Club
73rd Avenue NE at NE 175th Street


EVENTS


Wednesday,  February 6th, 2013, 7pm:
Annual McMaster Heritage Award

13th annual founder's Day Celebration held at 7:00 PM at the
Kenmore Community Club, 7304 N E 175th Street, Kenmore.

Wednaeday, March 6th, 2013, 7pm
Rob Karlinsey, Kenmore City Manager will discuss current plans for the development of downtown Kenmore.

Wednaeday, April 13th, 2013, 7pm
The American Civil War, 1861-1865, and the Territory of Washington.


Twelfth Annual Founder's Day Celebration
Presentation of the McMaster Heritage Award was given to  the third woman, and the youngest person ever to receive the McMaster Award. Staci Adman was honored at on Wednesday, February 12th, 2012.
Staci Adman
Staci’s list of volunteer activities is long, and includes the Kenmore Downtown Task Force, Kenmore Good Old Days celebrations, Arts of Kenmore, PTA executive boards in Kenmore schools, both Kenmore City Hall and Northshore Headquarters Fire Station public art committees plus many more. Please click HERE to view a slideshow of the presentation. (Photos by Mathew Martin)

Prior award recipients are listed below.


PREVIOUS McMASTER HERITAGE AWARDS

2011: L.G. "Bud" Eaton
2010: Dick Taylor
2009: Dave Maehren
2008: Priscilla Droge
2007: Jo Ann Evans
2006: Roland Lindstrom
2005: Tom Traeger
2004: Richard Ramsey
2003: LeRoy Anenson
2002: Ralph Swanson


EAGLE INN PHOTOS

Philip Krebs has submitted 26 photos of Kenmore restaurant Eagle Inn, which later became the Porterhouse, at the current location of a Starbuck's cafe on Bothell Way. Click here to view these photos. Page 4 of our 2005 Newsletter has a very fascinating historical article about the Krebs family and the Eagle Inn.

Photo submitted by Kenmore resident Steve Prestek
200th
                        Street in the 1950s, click to view large image.
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Shown is an old picture I scanned that was hanging on an older Kenmore resident's wall. The road is 200th at the 6100 block, The small shed in the field is actually still there (in a field) but the house and flat garage have been replaced by a yellow split level. Looking at the cars, this was probably shot around 1957 or '59. I believe that these buildings were the remnants of a truck farm operated by a Japanese gentleman that was interned in WWII. The people shown in the photo purchased the property sometime after WWII. The area across the street from the house used to be called "The Goat Farm". The small creek is now gone. The photo was taken from a Navy helicopter by John Yeaman.

I have a higher resolution scan of this if you are interested.

Steve Prestek




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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE for Fall, 2012

Greetings from the Kenmore Heritage Society. You will notice that this Fall Newsletter includes an enclosure — a ballot with a list of nominees for the positions of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. Their term of service is for the calendar year 2013. There are nominations, also, for three of the seven trustees, all of whom serve alternative two year terms. Election for officers and trustees will take place at our November 7 Harvest Celebration meeting. The three trustees elected will serve for 2013-14, to December 31, 2014.  Seasonal pies with toppings will be served at 7pm prior to the meeting.
      
Also, within this newsletter is a nomination form for the annual McMaster Heritage Award, given each year to someone who has provided exemplary service to the City of Kenmore. Completed forms are due by December 15, 2012, and can be mailed to our P O Box 82027 or returned to any Board member. 
 
Another special notice is an announcement (on page 8 of the Fall 2012 Newsletter) of our Harvest Celebration meeting on November 7 at 7 pm.  The program will include historic pictures of Kenmore, resulting from the digitization project funded by the sale of our book and by the grant from 4Culture. Special thanks go to Bud and Annette Eaton, Jo Ann Evans, and Matt Martin for their work on this project.
     
I look forward to seeing you all at one or more of our upcoming meetings. 
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Best regards,
Elmer Skold,
President.   



THE KENMORE HISTORY PATH

CLICK HERE FOR A SLIDE PRESENTATION ABOUT THE KENMORE HISTORY PATH INTERPRETIVE SIGN PROJECT ... This is a large file, it may take a few minutes to load!

  Kenmore
                        History Path

The KENMORE HISTORY PATH Dedication
was held Saturday, October 11, 2008 at Log Boom Park in Kenmore
The Kenmore History Path features a number of panels depicting significant events in Kenmore's history.

4
                      Culture

awarded a $7500 grant for the Kenmore History Walk at Logboom Park . The grant application was written by project co-chairs Tom and Bobbi Traeger and committee members Char Crawford, Fran Owen and Elmer Skold. The grant supplements funds already committed by the City of Kenmore and the Kenmore Heritage Society toward the project.



"KENMORE BY THE LAKE, A Community History"
a great gift!

Award-winning Books are for sale at $25 per copy at the Kenmore City Hall, Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, and Ostrom's Drug and Gift in Kenmore.

CLICK HERE to view and print the brochure and order form for Kenmore's new History Book, Kenmore By The Lake, A Community History. ( Acrobat Reader needs to be on your computer for this. Your computer may already have it; if not, you can download and install it from here, at no cost.)
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Awards for our History Book

NATIONAL AWARD FOR KENMORE
The Kenmore Heritage Society has received a prestigious Certificate of Commendation for its book Kenmore by the Lake: A Community History from the American Association for State and Local History in September. The Kenmore Heritage Society is a young organization in a new city, but it has produced a publication that is an outstanding contribution to our region's historical record, and a model for other young community heritage organizations. Click on this image to view large.




AWARD OF PUBLICATION EXCELLENCE
The Washington Museum Association Excellence committee has chosen the book Kenmore by the Lake, A Community History as a recipient of the Award of Publication Excellence. Research for the book was funded in part by a Special Projects Grant from Heritage 4Culture.