A Secret History of O.O. Denny Park By Donald Mackey The sky was blue over the lake, with a nice ripple, that Sunday afternoon last winter. Donald Mackey and his wife Dianne were enjoying the rare sunny day, walking along the slope of the hill, past the railroad ties. Near the bridge over the mouth of O.O. Denny Creek, he lingered by the water’s edge, taking in the woodsy scent of the stream where he had so often fished for trout as a kid. When his parents and grandparents went visiting on...

Status – Spring 2011 Washington State’s Growth Management Act mandates Kirkland to annex Finn Hill (including Holmes Point), northern Juanita and Kingsgate before 2012. This could very well occur sometime in the next few years. It would increase Kirkland’s population by 44,860 (77%), from 34,300 to 79,160. The Finn Hill population is 12,600. Kirkland commissioned a study of the cost of annexation (see “Kirkland’s Cost Study” in the Contents panel to the left for the Executive Summary of this...

Interested citizens have met twice to discuss formation of a formal neighborhood association to work with the City of Kirkland following annexation in sharing viewpoints on a broad range of issues. Denny Creek Neighborhood Alliance has been active in seeking participants for the past eight months with email communications soliciting interest, an April newsletter mailed to 4700 Finn Hill households inviting readers to its general meeting at which the topic of a neighborhood group was...