at the western edge of Kirkland’s newly annexed Finn Hill neighborhood is one of Lake Washington’s greenest corners rich in wildlife and some of the best vestiges of old growth forest in the Seattle area Monday (May 5) for more than 3,200 seats on city councils The prosecutor reported that Chase Jones was traveling at 112 mph when he crashed into the victims Bob Ferguson says federal funds are needed to address $34 million in damage caused by the storm Kirkland firefighters are investigating the death of an elderly woman as the result of a fire in her home on Finn Hill Friday morning Forty-seven LWSD high school music students have been accepted to 2016 Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) High School All-State Honor Groups 2012 at 5:50 pm PT.css-79elbk{position:relative;}Friends and neighbors of Kenmore’s David Ulm have launched an effort or raise money to help his wife and two kids save their Arrowhead neighborhood home was spending an evening at the park with his wife Caroline when a woman at the park asked for help in retrieving a soccer ball that had gone into Lake Washington who friends say never hesitated to help others and was a certified diver and experienced swimmer swam to the ball but for unknown reasons began struggling and went under His wife and the woman who owned the ball swam out to help but could not find him had left Microsoft’s XBOX program for another job and then about three years ago got laid off He had been unemployed for two years before finding a good job at Group Health Friends say the family used all of its savings during his period of unemployment Caroline Ulm is a stay-at-home mom and the two kids are good students at Arrowhead Elementary and we're working hard to keep Caroline afloat,” family friend Coreen Urrutia said in an email to Kirkland Patch “The Arrowhead Community is working hard to take care of Caroline and the kids but we are so small there is no way we can meet the goal to help her keep the home.” said just two days before Ulm drowned he spotted one of the twins who had slipped out the front door and was walking up the driveway Ulm scooped the boy up and brought him back inside “He was just one of those selfless individuals,” Wilson said “He was always looking out for the benefit of someone else He would offer to help before anyone would ask just a really involved father.”Friends and neighbors have been preparing meals for the Ulm family and checking on them regularly They have set a fundraising goal of $250,000 to help Caroline save the house and start a college education fund for the children His memorial service was held Thursday at a packed Inglewood Presbyterian Church on Finn Hill His friends are urging anyone wishing to remember him to contribute to the fund at Key Bank or the online site Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.