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Cheers Bellevue! We're back, helping you stay up to date with what's happening. Let's take on the day together! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • What a sale of The Bellevue Collection could mean for Bellevue
  • How a low-profile Bellevue foundation is funding local education and services
  • Meet the Bellevue teen whose AI music project won global acclaim

Also on today's calendar: Issaquah Goes Apples and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why do some birds fly south for the winter? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 62 and low of 43 degrees.
  • Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 63, low: 49.
  • Wednesday: A passing morning shower, with a high of 64 and low of 49 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Freeman's Legacy Sets High Bar for Potential Buyers of The Bellevue Collection (newsbreak.com) — A possible sale of The Bellevue Collection, the 51-acre retail, office, hotel, and residential hub in downtown Bellevue, could reshape the city's economic heart and tax base. Kemper Development is courting only buyers who will preserve and expand its community role, while emphasizing the complex's outsized contribution to Bellevue's tax revenues and long-term growth potential.
   

• Rita & Herbert Rosen Family Foundation (insidephilanthropy.com) — A Bellevue-based family foundation is quietly channeling significant funding to Jewish organizations and education programs, including grants to Bellevue College Foundation and other local schools. With typical awards between $5,000 and $50,000, the Rita & Herbert Rosen Family Foundation invites proposals by mail, offering a potential funding source for nonprofits serving Bellevue and the wider Washington community.
   

• Meet five young scientists shaping the future on International Day of the Girl (societyforscience.org) — Bellevue's own Anusha Arora has earned top honors at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for an AI-powered music therapy platform, spotlighting local STEM talent on a global stage. Her work, celebrated on International Day of the Girl, underscores how representation in science helps more girls from communities like Bellevue see themselves shaping future technologies and solutions.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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  • Community Van offers flexible, affordable group transportation (redmond-reporter.com)
  • Microsoft Corporation $MSFT Shares Newly Bought by TPG Financial Advisors LLC (defenseworld.net)
  • Effortful Eyelid Opening With Enhanced Mechanoreceptor Stretch in the Superior Tarsal Muscle Accelerates Inferred Microsaccade Frequency and Velocity, Exacerbating Reflexive Frequent Blinking: A Report of Two Cases (cureus.com)

Ok Bellevue! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do some birds fly south for the winter?" — Because it's too far to walk..! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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