The gazebo in Marina Park is host to summer concerts and ... families and many of the 50 or so city parks include playgrounds often teeming with laughing children. In 2022, Money magazine ranked ...

Recess Monkey performing at Marina Park in Kirkland”Wow there are 90 million bazillion gazillion skadillion kids here!” observes Katie, the nine-year-old, one of three kids who I am baby-sitting.

Dean plans to use the children’s creative ponderings to design a new playground at Kirkland’s Woodlands Park. “This won’t be something out of a catalog,” Dean said. “This will be ...