Bothell Council creates time capsule to mark centennial

Speaking at a City Council meeting April 14, Bothell Mayor Mark Lamb noted the 100th anniversary of the city’s incorporation coincided with the founding of the NAACP and Abe Lincoln’s birthday.

While the city held its public celebration of Bothell’s centennial April 18, city leaders marked the day Bothell formally became a city - April 14, 1909 - with a luncheon and, later, placing items commemorating the city’s centennial into a time capsule.

At that evening’s City Council session, each local legislator placed an item in the capsule to be opened in 2059. The capsule will be stored in a spot near the front of the Bothell police headquarters.

Lamb placed in the first item, a proclamation honoring the city on the occasion of its centennial.

Councilwoman and Deputy Mayor Sandy Guinn dropped in the next bit of memorabilia, appropriately enough, a copy of “Bothell: Then and Now,” a pictorial history of the city put together by the Landmark Preservation Board.

Other items that went into the time capsule include a city recreation calendar, banners from the University of Washington-Bothell and Cascadia Community College, along with memory books from the years the Bothell High School Cougars made the state football playoffs. Another item saved for posterity was the city’s master plan on CD.