City of Hope 5K Walk

To the right is our team that participated in the City of Hope 5K Walk, where the proceeds went to fund breast cancer research. We are a group of Bell-Anderson and Assoc. employees and family members who do not want to see breast cancer destroy any more lives. We had a great time walking and being encouraged by all the survivors that attended the event. It was a truly amazing experience.

Team Pink Ladies (and a few men) would like to thank everyone who donated and participated. Our team raised over $1,300.00 to help find a cure for breast cancer!!! As mentioned in a previous posting, the top donor will be awarded a basket of goodies. The top donor this year is Vickie Gaskill, owner of Bell-Anderson and Associates. Thank you Vickie for your generous donations!

Next year, we hope to plan earlier and get an even larger team and more funds donated to help fight against breast cancer. Once again, thank you for all of your contributions; without you we would not have been able to have such great success!

Kent will set up sandbag stations should flooding occur this winter

This is from the Kent Reporter Website (http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/ken/news/59753052.html)

By STEVE HUNTER

Kent city workers plan to set up as many as five sandbag stations at sites on the East Hill and West Hill, where residents will be able to fill sandbags for free to take to their property.

The stations would be set up as soon as four or five days before a predicted heavy rain.

The sites include the old Panther Lake Elementary School, 20831 108th Ave. S.E.; the Fred Meyer store, 10201 S.E. 240th St.; Meadow Ridge Elementary School, 27710 108th Ave S.E.; Mill Creek Earthworks Park, 742 E. Titus St.; and Grandview Park, 3600 S. 228th St., in SeaTac.

City workers plan to give residents tips on how to fill sandbags at public meetings on flood preparation on Oct. 3 (9-11 a.m.) and Oct. 8 (6-8 p.m.) at the ShoWare Center.

Doing Our Part for the Environment

Beginning January 1st, 2010 Bell-Anderson will work toward becoming a “paperless” management company. We are confident that this will provide many benefits to our owners, tenants, homeowners, the environment, and also to Bell-Anderson. One of the biggest changes you will experience is a complete switch to digital methods of viewing statements. Not only will you be e-mailed statements for easy electronic filing at home, but we are hoping that very soon, owners in our Residential department will be able to access copies of their statements online as well (a capability which the board of directors in our Associations department has had for some time)! We are excited about this switch, as it not only means a decrease in the office supplies we consume, but faster access to information as we are no longer digging through paper files.

We appreciate your patience during this transition. It is fairly time-consuming to get all of our records onto the computer, but we are already seeing some major improvements, so bear with us!

We are also pleased to announce that we are fairly close to launching a new website. The idea for our new site is to enhance the online capabilities we already possess, and provide more online resources for our associations, owners and tenants. Thank you in advance for your patience, and we hope you are as excited as we are for the year to come!