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The All Fools Day Parade features an array of two-legged and four-legged entries dressed to impress.

It’s time to dust off the winter blahs and get ready to usher in the spring with Celebrate Woodinville on March 29th.

Come one, come all to this festive event, which gets rolling with the famous Pancake Breakfast, brought to you by the men and women who know how to handle themselves around fire. The folks from Woodinville Fire and Life Safety will be flipping some fine flapjacks to get your day started on a tasty note.

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Artistic sketch of the mural proposed for the Carol Edwards Center

There seems to be considerable enthusiasm on the Woodinville City Council for a mural project introduced at the March 11 council meeting.

Artist Abraham Mong is one of four members of the muralist group Matamuros. Other members include Zachary Bohnenkamp, Jill Rothenberger and Kevin Sullivan. Each is from a different part of the country; each has a different artistic style. Yet all work together, as Mong puts it, “noncompetitively to create public art that corresponds to the community.” They’ve worked together since August 2006 and the Woodinville mural project represents the biggest project the group has ever done.

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Rebecca Dufek made it all the way to the top of the Columbia Tower last year for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. On Sunday she took her sister with her for this year’s Big Climb. Incredible views await those who succeed.

Climbing Seattle’s skyscraper for cancer research

Every morning, the ritual starts from the top. Eye drops first, then a moment to collect herself before getting out of bed. When she does, it’s slow going, reaching out for bookcases, furniture and door frames to stay upright on the long trek to the bathroom.

Officials from Broadstripe, Duvall’s cable service provider, were back at the March 13 City Council meeting, as promised, with a follow-up report to the February 28 council meeting, (when local residents and business owners showed up in numbers to complain about Broadstripe’s Internet, cable and phone service).

They received a slightly warmer reception this time round. Mayor Will Ibershof noted that the company’s officials had been very responsive to the city and individuals’ concerns since the meeting, stating that Broadstripe had “a strong desire to fix things.”

Rick Clark, Broadstripe’s VP Government Relations, did acknowledge, however, that, “We still have a tremendous amount of work to do,” and reviewed some of the findings and changes made over the past couple of weeks.

The road to bringing a new library to Duvall has had its ups and downs the past few years but the City Council’s approval of a rezone application on March 13 means the project is finally underway. The city planning commission had recommended the approval after a public hearing on March 6.

Lara Thomas of the city planning department presented information to the council on the proposed rezone of approximately 20 acres on Big Rock Road, just east of Safeway Plaza and kitty-corner to the site of the future Lake Washington Technical College (LWTC) campus. The rezone of Duvall Urban Village area, she explained, would basically change the use from commercial to mixed use and is both permitted and consistent with Duvall’s most recent 20-year Comprehensive Plan and land use map. She added that it was really just an amendment.