The Terence Blanchard Quintet will headline the 2010 Bellevue Jazz Festival presented by First Tech Credit Union at the Theatre at Meydenbauer Center, June 3-6. Festival packages and individual tickets went on sale Thursday.

In addition to Blanchard, featured artists include: The Bad Plus, Pat Martino, Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes plus Sachal Vasandani Quartet Seattle and the Repertory Jazz Orchestra also featuring the Bellevue Jazz Festival Rising Stars.

The Terence Blanchard Quintet will headline the 2010 Bellevue Jazz Festival presented by First Tech Credit Union at the Theatre at Meydenbauer Center, June 3-6. Festival packages and individual tickets went on sale Thursday.

In addition to Blanchard, featured artists include: The Bad Plus, Pat Martino, Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes plus Sachal Vasandani Quartet Seattle and the Repertory Jazz Orchestra also featuring the Bellevue Jazz Festival Rising Stars.

Also, design work for new street in Bel-Red funded

At its study session on Monday, a majority of the City Council agreed to send a letter to Sound Transit updating its preference for the future East Link light rail route south of downtown. The route, called B7, runs parallel to Interstate 90 across the southern end of Mercer Slough Nature Park, then north along I-405 in the BNSF railroad right of way and 118th Avenue Southeast, east of Mercer Slough.

Worried about losing your home? Facing foreclosure? HUD-certified mortgage counselors and area lenders will offer guidance at a mortgage foreclosure prevention workshop at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue on Thursday, March 25.

Homeowners with loan modification packages already in process can receive assistance and submit missing documentation on Friday, March 26.

Hugh Jennings is an expert birdwatcher, tracking them in his backyard and at the Lake Hills Greenbelt for more than 20 years. Jennings is a "community treasure," featured in the March episode of the "It's Your City" television show now airing on channel 21.

Other stories include an interview with the Bellevue Arts Museum's new director of curatorial affairs and tips on how to live safely with cougars, coyotes and bears in the general neighborhood.

To help improve cardiac arrest survival in King County, the Bellevue and Kent police departments will participate in a two-year initiative that will equip patrol vehicles with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and dispatch them to cardiac arrest calls along with emergency medical responders.