Off the air, Bob was a dedicated mentor, philanthropist, and champion of local artists and causes—leaving an indelible mark on the region’s entertainment and media community.

“A Tribute to Bob Rivers” invites friends, family, and fans to come together for an unforgettable evening celebrating his life, legacy, and love of music. The event will feature live performances by Spike and the Impalers, Heart x Heart, comedian Andrew Rivers, The Bob Rivers Show personalities, and several special surprise guests—all honoring Bob’s enduring passion for creativity, laughter, and community.

Hosted by Bob’s broadcasting colleagues and close friends, the evening promises a heartfelt mix of nostalgia, humor, and celebration.

All proceeds will support the Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank and the Summer Stars Foundation—two organizations that reflect the generosity and community spirit that defined Bob’s life.

By attending, fans will not only celebrate Bob’s extraordinary legacy but also continue his mission of giving back to the community he so loved.

Event Details
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Doors Open: 6:30 PM
Snoqualmie Casino Ballroom
Must be 21 or older to attend

More Information & Tickets here:
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Free and accessible parking available

Location:
Marymoor Park
6046 W Lake Sammamish Pkwy NE, Redmond, WA 98052

This annual event brings the community together to raise funds and awareness in the fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. The funds raised through the walk support local programs and services for individuals and families affected by ALS, including education, support groups, access to care, and advocacy initiatives.

Why Your Participation Matters
Every step taken during the Walk to Defeat ALS helps drive innovation toward treatments and ultimately a cure. Participation directly impacts people living with ALS in the local community, providing hope, resources, and support where it’s needed most.

Fundraising & Donations
Contributions to the walk fund both local programs and global, cutting-edge ALS research. Supporters can:

• Search for a participant to support
• Search by Walk Team for a participant to support
• Make a general gift to the Seattle Walk

Your support makes a tangible difference in the fight against ALS, helping families and advancing research toward a future free from the disease.

Join us at Marymoor Park on October 11 and take part in a walk that unites the community, honors those affected by ALS, and pushes forward the mission to defeat this devastating disease.

For more information and to register or donate, visit Walk to Defeat ALS Seattle.

After the event, participants are invited to celebrate together with great food, drinks, and a live raffle—all while supporting a powerful cause.

Every dollar raised benefits Northwest Hope & Healing, which provides immediate financial assistance to local women and men undergoing breast cancer treatment—no paperwork, no waiting. With 1 in 8 women facing breast cancer in their lifetime and Washington having the highest rate in the country (over 4,000 new diagnoses each year), your support truly makes a difference.

Click here to register and learn more!

A Full House for Habitat: Casino Gala
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2025
Time: Doors open at 5:45 PM
Location: Rialto Ballroom, Suncadia Resort
Tickets: $125 for one | $225 for two
Get ready to roll the dice for a great cause! A Full House for Habitat: Casino Gala is an evening of excitement, entertainment, and generosity. Guests will enjoy casino-style games, delicious food and drinks, live music, and an electrifying live auction—all set in the elegant Rialto Ballroom.

Live Auction Highlights:
• All-inclusive Mexico getaway for two (airfare included)
• Dave Matthews Band VIP concert package
• Exclusive Seahawks sideline tickets
• And much more!

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With tickets going fast, now’s the time to secure your spot at one of the most anticipated charity galas in the region. Your night of fun directly supports building homes—and hope—for families across Kittitas County.

15th Annual Give & Golf Tournament
Date: Monday, June 30, 2025
Time:
• Registration: 8:00 AM
• Shotgun Start: Prospector Course at 10:30 AM (sold out), Rope Rider Course at 11:00 AM
Location: Suncadia Resort – Prospector & Rope Rider Golf Courses
Team Registration: $700 (4-person scramble)
Tee off for a cause at the 15th Annual Give & Golf Tournament, where friendly competition meets community impact. This popular event features 18 holes of golf, lunch, on-course games, contests, and a post-round reception.
Each team registration includes green fees, a golf cart, lunch, and two drink tickets per player. While Prospector Course is already sold out, limited space remains for the Rope Rider Course—act fast to grab one of the last 9 team slots!

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Why Attend?
Both events are more than just fun—they’re a chance to change lives. Every dollar raised supports Habitat for Humanity’s mission to provide safe, affordable housing for hardworking families in Kittitas County.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the impact. Join us for a weekend of giving, games, and golf!

Do you know a nonprofit serving our heroes that could use additional funding? For more than 75 years, Global Credit Union has been committed to our military communities—with 24/7/365 U.S.-based live support, affordable financial services, and employee volunteerism and aid to organizations that back our military and their families. Global is your local credit union, wherever you are in the world.

Submit a deserving organization in your community for their chance to win a $1,000 donation!

Click here for official contest rules.

Congratulations to our 2024 Invest In Our Veterans Recipients:

Hosted by Matt Lorch and Christine DeCastro, this unforgettable event brings together community, compassion, and color to honor those impacted by cancer. Get ready for a day filled with moving stories, dazzling fashion, and meaningful moments of giving.

This milestone celebration will be brighter and bolder than ever—don’t miss your chance to be part of it!

Date: Sunday, August 17th, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: Columbia Collective
14030 NE 145th St, Woodinville, WA 98072

Ticket and program details can be found below:

More information here

Together, let’s bring hope and healing to life—in color.

Treehouse is committed to investing in young people throughout their childhood, education and transition to young adulthood. This is done by providing access to resources, consistent support, and a community that believes in young people’s ability to shape their own future. Currently, crucial funding that is vital to this mission is at risk.

Big dreams need strong roots. Support from each community in Washington state helps Treehouse provide the educational resources, career mentorship, and stability youth in foster care need to need to grow, flourish, and reach for new heights. When we show up for youth in foster care, we help them thrive!

Learn more and donate here today to support opportunities for youth in foster care.

Champions 2025

Champions 2025 is Treehouse’s Annual Fundraising event that welcomes our community to celebrate the youth we serve and raise critical funds to fuel our work! For information about the event and how to register, click here.

Why Should You Donate?

You care about seeing youth in foster care succeed in school and beyond. You believe in sustaining Washington state’s leading organization dedicated to ensuring that every young person has the educational opportunities they need to thrive.

How You Can Help

Your contributions are critical to the success of our work. This year’s fundraising campaign aims to secure vital funds to expand programs, advocate for impactful policies, and provide direct support to over 6,000 young people. Together, we can ensure that youth impacted by foster care have the chance to dream without limits.

Where You Can Donate

Donate now here.

Raise your glass – and your paddle – to help fund vital support for those in need.

The event takes place at the historic Maryhill Winery at the Hollywood Schoolhouse in Woodinville and will feature tastings from several renowned local wineries.

Your ticket will give you access to this unforgettable event and allow you to come back for additional tastings at multiple wineries.

Get your tickets today at nwhopeandhealing.org

When: Saturday, February 1st, 2025  

Time: 3:00PM – 6:00PM  

Where: Maryhill Winery at the Hollywood Schoolhouse | 14810 NE 145th St,  Woodinville, WA 98072

On Wednesday, December 11th KIRO Newsradio will have 13 hours of stories, guests and reasons to give to Treehouse this holiday season. So tune in December 11^th and in the days to come with more information!

What your support means:  While we all share the joy of the holidays with loved ones, many kids in foster care are facing the season without their parents, brothers, and sisters. The Treehouse Holiday Magic program helps make the holidays brighter for children and youth in foster care and helps provide support for additional Treehouse programs and services provided throughout the year.

To donate and view our auction packages, click here.

The Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference attracts top-notch speakers with expertise that includes lessons learned from recent worldwide events like earthquakes, work place violence, current hazards research, contingency planning, school preparedness, technology, media interactions, and public health issues. Speakers and exhibitors provide cutting-edge information on subjects such as business continuity planning, school safety, public health preparedness, homeland security, and public information.

Why You Should Attend

Successful management of emergencies can only be accomplished through effective and pre-established partnerships. This conference offers you the opportunity to develop those relationships; gain the necessary information to develop your response, recovery, and mitigation plans; create your preparedness messaging to those you serve; and gain valuable insight into lessons learned and established best practices. This is the largest and most successful regional emergency management preparedness conference in the Pacific Northwest—attracting attendees from:

• Emergency Management
• Safety Professionals
• Law Enforcement
• Fire Services
• EMS
• Business sector
• Schools
• Universities
• Public Health
• Utilities
• Public Works
• Non-profit Sector
• Economic Development
• Local and Federal Government
• Volunteers
• Hospitals
• and all that are tasked with emergency management planning

For more information, please contact us at  360.867.8806 or info@piepc.org.

PIEPC is an all-volunteer and a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization. If you support the conference’s mission of building stronger emergency management partnerships through collaboration, continuous education, and encouragement of those entering the field, be a part of PIEPC. Visit www.piepc.org to learn more about how you can offer a tax-deductible donation to the conference, apply to join the conference committee, become a volunteer, and attend the conference in coming years.

KIRO Newsradio’s 35th Annual Holiday Magic campaign to support foster kids has arrived.

Colleen O’Brien got an inside look at the Treehouse Store.

Treehouse is a non-profit that works to give opportunities and support to children in the foster care system. The Treehouse Holiday Magic program helps make the holidays brighter for children and youth in foster care and provides support for additional Treehouse programs and services throughout the year.

Treehouse headquarters is located just south of Interstate 90 off Rainier Avenue, and it’s where foster youth can come up to three times a year and get up to 20 items every visit. This program is especially important when a child gets moved to a new foster home and can’t bring their items with them.

Victoria Kutasz is the Program Director for Resources and Operations at Treehouse and spoke to Colleen about how rewarding the experience of supporting youth in foster care is.

“It’s amazing, it’s my favorite part of my job is coming down and seeing families come in and youth getting to pick things out. Do a little fashion show in the dressing rooms, and find things that really make them happy and let them express themselves and it’s just a really magical space,” Kutasz said.

Made even more magical by the fact that in 2016, Nordstrom’s design team came in and revamped the space. You may have heard it called the “warehouse,” but this is just like any other boutique shopping experience and then some – with mountains of toys, books, decor, and more.

The space serves approximately 8,000 youth in foster care in our state at any given time.

“Every year we have tons of folks who are new to our program. This is the first time they are getting a gift or a warm coat from us. And we have families who have been using these services for 20-30 years as they have new kids come into their home,” Kutasz said.

And it’s about more than just getting stuff, Victoria says this is about giving foster kids an experience they might not otherwise get.

“It’s really important to us to be a confidence-building program. To be giving kids things that will be meaningful to them, that is going to make them feel like they fit in with their peers, [so] they’re excited to go back to school in January and talk about the amazing gifts they got for the holidays. We want to make sure this is a program that feels, like I said, like any other shopping experience for our kids. It’s all the things you’d see if you go shopping anywhere else,” Kutasz explained.

It’s in this space – the Treehouse Store – that dreams for these kids come true, and Victoria recalls one of her favorite recent visits, from a 5-year-old foster youth.

“I was here in the store just a couple of weeks ago and I checked in a caregiver and the youth who was in her care. Her fifth birthday was coming up, it was on a Friday, and her birthday was Monday. She picked out her helmet, and she picked out her bike – she got to choose between the pink bike and the purple bike – and was riding it in circles through the front of the store and her face just lit up. That’s why I’m here. That’s why I do this work,” Kutasz said.

Colleen took a thorough walk throughout the store and they might do a better job at carrying items youth love than some of the big box stores today. They have Star Wars lego sets, name-brand clothing, book sets from popular series, bikes, art, crafts, and clothing galore for infants to older teens, and it’s your donations and support that keep the Treehouse Store going.

“We have continued to see our demand for our services across our state go up as we come out of the pandemic, and people are coming out of their shells – coming back into the community,” Kutasz said. “We continue to see requests for items from the store increase every month. So, we’re expecting really high demand and we appreciate all of the support we can get from the community to make sure our families can get what they need.”

Visit MyNorthwest.com/holidaymagic to learn more. You can also donate to Treehouse ahead of our Holiday Magic event, the week of December 5.

More stories about holiday magic:

Foster kids get help with navigating the troubling times of high school

Former foster kid works to connect other foster kids with job resources

Holiday Magic makes a difference for children in need

Ross: Donating to Treehouse a great way to spread Holiday Magic

Listen to Seattle’s Morning News with Dave Ross and Colleen O’Brien weekday mornings from 5 – 9 a.m. on KIRO Newsradio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.

But Treehouse’s educational advocates are trying to turn the tide.

Doug and Laura Adamson said they “didn’t know what they didn’t know” when they became foster parents.  They knew they had love in their hearts, an empty bedroom, and the desire to help children find a stable road to the future.

They were open to helping children of any age, but they found older kids and teenagers were a perfect fit.

“There are an awful lot of foster parents who line right up to help out with the newborns and help out with the younger children, but there’s a significant need for those who are older kids, especially the teenagers,” Doug Adamson said.

More Holiday Magic from Micki Gamez: Former foster kid works to connect other foster kids with job resources

But teenagers come with extra challenges, especially when it comes to school. And that’s where Treehouse helped the couple understand those challenges and keep their 17-year-old foster child on track.

“They helped us navigate the high school,” Doug Adamson said. “They had a special person who had worked within this existing school system and an educational specialist that spoke the school district’s language.”

A plan was then tailored to keep this child on the path to success.

Donations to Treehouse help the agency provide these educational advocates, who, along with the foster family, keep the children focused on what’s possible and that they can succeed in life.

Laura Adamson said that personal advocacy was essential in their child’s development.

“The educational specialist met with him once a week,” she said. “She was a trusted person, not the caregiver, not the parent, not a teacher. She was someone he really liked, and he could confide in her if he chose to.”

Trusting that educational advocate helped this young man navigate school, both academically and socially, and kept his eyes on the future.

“He was able to apply for their driver’s (education) program, and they helped pay for the car insurance,” Laura Adamson said. “They bought him a cell phone and paid for the cell phone plan, so those were two big expenses.”

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Expenses that many foster parents can’t provide but are key to a child about to age out or “launch” into adulthood.

All you need to look for when considering a donation to Treehouse is success, and for Doug Adamson, this is the epitome of success.

“Their knowledge and their expertise and their desire to help this child was fantastic,” he said. “Thanks in part to them, this kid was the first in four generations to graduate from high school.”

That’s what Treehouse and loving foster parents can do, but only with your help.

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Brewer said she had fallen behind in school, wasn’t motivated with life and had no direction. Her social worker, referred her to Treehouse, a Seattle-based nonprofit servicing foster care kids for 35 years.

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“I got into the (Graduation Success) program, and I got a lovely coach who just was amazing,” Brewer said.

With the motivation of that coach, whose name is Kevin Burke, Brewer reached new milestones she’d never attained before.

“I got my GED. In two weeks, got my first full-time job and started working,” Brewer said.

Brewer added Burke was a pillar in her life. He inspired her and motivated her to keep going.

“I went on to Launch Success (at Treehouse). I was in the Launch Success program until (the age of) 21. I had finished my associates around the same time, and I told my coach at the time, ‘I think I’m going to apply for a job (at Treehouse) as a joke. Maybe I’ll get some good feedback on how to get my career where I want it to be,'” Brewer said. “An hour later, I got a call saying I got the job. And I was like, ‘Well, what now?'”

She described how Treehouse was a safe haven and felt as though the adults were safe, too.

“They believed in me and cared about me and my future, and instilled me with confidence and belief in myself that inspired me to be able to get where I am now,” Brewer said.

Brewer said Treehouse helped with groceries, provided a life coach, offered parenting advice and so much more.

“You know, it’s all-encompassing, and … it’s amazing,” she said.

Brewer praised Treehouse for other work they do, noting the organization supplied various necessary items to help her care for her son.

“I’m so passionate about it. I mean, there’s a Treehouse store, which is a resource that I utilized a lot for my son and myself, but mainly for my son, as I got older. They provided Christmas gifts for my son, they provided everything that they would provide for me for him, diapers, seasonal, appropriate clothing, toys, educational books,” Brewer said. “Like even things for me that benefited him such as help to get my vital documents help with my car insurance so that I know we’re driving safely.”

The one person who made the biggest impact on Brewer’s life is her manager, Jesse.

“I feel like he has just been a shining light that guides me through not only my job, but my education,” Brewer said. “He has this belief in my potential beyond what I even do. And it is just the biggest source of inspiration that I have. He embodies our program, and it extends beyond a workplace as an environment.”

Without community support, Treehouse can’t provide these services that make a difference in foster kids’ lives. Your donation goes a long way.

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It began when Carrie Krueger was having lunch with her KIRO 7 colleagues. Krueger had just produced a series of stories on foster care and she noticed the children, placed with families, usually brought very little with them.

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“It sort of struck me that the kids didn’t have anything of their own. A lot of them came in with just a paper bag or small backpack, but just really had nothing of their own,” Krueger said.

With the holidays approaching, Krueger and her KIRO coworkers wanted to do something to benefit the community.

“We were like, what if we let people buy holiday gifts for foster children. That’s how it started,” she said.

The idea was to have community members gather the gifts that children requested. The kids filled out a form asking for one item they wanted, and one they needed.

“They were handwritten. I’m talking about pre Internet, pre computers,” she said, “so we had these stacks of letters that were in the children’s own handwriting,” she said. “It’s emotional. It’s emotional when you see in a kids own handwriting what they want and what they need.”

And the requests were not extravagant.

“I struck me at the time that the kids were very humble in what they asked for,” Krueger said. “They weren’t putting together giant wish lists but they were often asking for things that were pretty basic, like warm socks.”

Children in foster care often said a jacket of their own was what they needed. What they wanted was usually a bicycle, and the community responded.

“People were walking in and they were dropping things (off) and that beautiful lobby was filled with stuff,” she said noting that one year the KRIO lobby was filled with bicycles.

She says what makes Holiday Magic so successful, is that when we think about children in foster care, we realize they may have left a difficult situation and brought little with them.

“And so I think it just kinds of triggers something in us. A sense of our own good fortune in terms of the lives that we are lucky enough to be in, and a sense of wanting to make it better for others,” Krueger said

Looking back Krueger said that is was the “most meaningful thing for me when I reflect on it is that this really did just start as an idea.”

“It wasn’t sophisticated and we didn’t have big corporate backing or anything like that. We just had an idea about a way to make a difference,” Krueger said.

And it’s made a difference… for 35 years.

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