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2022 ELECTION
Fitch to
be next
mayor of
Redmond
Rec center bond passes, levy fails
BY NICK ROSENBERGER
Redmond Spokesman
Updated unofficial results in the 2022 election
were released Nov. 16, with little change from pre-
vious unofficial election tallies.
Election numbers will be not
be officially certified until De-
cember.
Ed Fitch, who was mayor
from 1998-2002, won the race
for Redmond mayor with a to-
tal of 5,026 votes. Ben Schim-
Fitch
moller came in second with
4,739 votes while Jay Patrick
finished the election with 4,543 votes. Charles
Webster Baer ended with 224 votes.
In the Redmond city council election, results
also stayed mostly the same with the top three
candidates earning seats. Cat Zwicker came in
first with 8,384 votes followed by Kathryn Os-
borne with 7,618 and John Nielsen with 7,545
total votes. Bill Trumble, with 6,023 votes, and
Branegan J. Dixon, with 4,857 votes, will not be
joining city council next year.
See Mayor / A9
HISTORY
Image provided by NeighborImpact
Volunteers line up to give out turkeys and other Thanksgiving food to the Redmond community on Nov. 19 at Redmond High School.
TURKEY TIME
NeighborImpact distributes 2,400 Thanksgiving meals
BY NICK ROSENBERGER • Redmond Spokesman
D
espite oppressive, dark clouds and freezing mist that left trees covered in white and the parking lot slick as oil, the
volunteers worked with smiles as hundreds of cars lined up to receive Thanksgiving supplies on Nov. 17 at Redmond
High School.
From the moment the NeighborIm-
pact Mobile Food Pantry opened its ser-
vice at 3 p.m. until it closed at 4:30 p.m., cars
wrapped around the parking lot to receive
Thanksgiving supplies including turkey, stuff-
Flashback
Redmond students find fossils, A10
ing, mashed potatoes, gravy, canned green
beans, pumpkin puree and rolls. All were of-
fered at no cost.
According to Jordan Reeher, program spe-
cialist at NeighborImpact, the showing was
Safe parking in East Redmond. A4
See Meals / A9
Redmond Smokehouse ready for Thanksgiving
BY NICK ROSENBERGER
Redmond Spokesman
LOCAL
New site
nearly double what they expected — espe-
cially with the ice and cold.
“This is our busiest location,” Reeher said.
“And I think this is our busiest day yet.”
Nick Rosenberger/Spokesman
A customer peruses the Redmond Smokehouse’s retail offerings at 353 SE Rail-
road Blvd. on Nov. 18 in Redmond.
A knife sunk deep into a red slab
of meat in the Redmond Smoke-
house.
With quick, strong, accurate slices
the piece was cut into chunks of
scarlet and white. A carve down the
side, a jab deep into muscle, a chop
of fat. Flip. Bury knife deep. Slide
down. Separate muscle. Repeat.
Every day, the Redmond Smoke-
house churns out rows of marbled
beef steaks, pork chops, smoked
turkeys, bacon, flavored sausages,
pepperoni and jerky in an old-fash-
ioned butcher shop that dates back
to the 1940s.
For customers and employees,
the store has some of the best meat
available and is a connection to
family and to the past.
“It’s just the way they process
their meats,” said Sharry Runge,
a customer who regularly shops
at the smokehouse. “They have a
great history, the right seasonings,
compared to a lot of the slaughter-
houses.”
Runge and her husband were the
general contractors who helped re-
model the smokehouse around 25
years ago, she said, and mentioned
that the shop has been a part of
Redmond’s history.
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