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THE ISSAQUAH SALMON HATCHERY AT 75

By Warren KagariseIssaquah Press reporter

The humble buildings along a downtown street and the simple bridge across Issaquah Creek do not call out for attention, but the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery is iconic nonetheless — so icon-ic, the hatchery and the salmon raised in manmade ponds serve as symbols for Issaquah and the region.

The hatchery opened along the creek 75 years ago, and to cel-ebrate the milestone, citizens, environmentalists and lead-ers gathered at the site April 22, Earth Day, to reflect on the changes the unassuming hatch-ery unleashed on Issaquah.

“The salmon is an icon to more than just Issaquah — it’s an icon for the Northwest,” King County Deputy Executive Fred Jarrett said at the anniversary celebra-tion. “The greatest gift that it’s given us is the ability to focus, to begin to improve the quality of the water and the habitat so

that we can retain that icon. This facility is incredibly important in making that happen.”

The hatchery is more than a birthplace for chinook and coho salmon, officials said. The facility also defines the community.

“We always hear that salmon need cold, clean water,” said Sara LaBorde, special assistant to the

director at the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. “Salmon need hard work, good decisions and effective funding. We have to keep watersheds intact, restore habitat, responsibly manage this place, harvest these hatchery fish — and all of those combine together to build strong, naturally reproducing salmon.”

‘Hatchery brought back the salmon’

The celebration on a sun-drenched Sunday afternoon attracted guests to feed trout, dissect a salmon and release salmon fry into the creek.

Beyond the activities, speakers used the occasion to highlight environmental priorities.

“It is fitting that we celebrate” hatchery history “on Earth Day, a time when we can pause and reflect on man’s impact to our planet,” Issaquah Councilwoman Eileen Barber said.

The events at the hatchery occurred on the 42nd Earth Day

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By GreG Farrar

Vicki Hahn (above, left), FISH master docent, uses hatchery sculptures Gillda and Finley to explain how salmon spawn for Lika Clark, 9, her brother Peter Ginter, 13, and their mother Jessica Ginter. Below, FISH docent Don McWhirter boasts a Think Salmon pin on his baseball cap April 22 during the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery’s 75th anniversary celebration.


The city administrator for Prosser, a wine coun-try destina-tion in Eastern Washington, is the next No. 3 official at Issaquah City Hall

C h a r l i e Bush, 37, is due to start as the deputy city administrator June 1, as officials reorganize depart-ments and attempt to streamline city operations. Plans call for the deputy city administrator to over-see development and planning functions.

“I’m really looking forward to coming in and hitting the ground running, and working with every-body,” he said April 23. “I see this as a tremendously exciting pro-fessional opportunity. I really am interested in the opportunities that Issaquah presents at this stage in its history.”

Mayor Ava Frisinger announced the appointment April 18.

Bush joined Prosser City Hall as city administrator in 2008, after a long municipal government career in Washington and Arizona.

In 2011, Prosser earned the Municipal Excellence Award for Community Service — a top honor from the Association of Washington Cities — and earned a spot on the 100 Best Communities for Young People from the America’s Promise Alliance, a national partnership dedi-cated to improving children’s lives.

Bush also led the completion of several capital projects in Prosser, a Benton County city of about 5,700 people. The aging Prosser Aquatic Center and municipal

By Tom Corrigan

Issaquah School District voters overwhelmingly approved a $219 million bond to fund construction and renovation projects on cam-puses across the district.

In the April 17 special election, 70 percent of voters — encom-passing more than 15,000 yes votes of out more than 22,000 ballots cast — approved the mea-sure. (The measure needed to receive a 60 percent yes vote from a minimum turnout of 12,229 vot-ers.)

Despite the passage of the bond, local homeowners will pay less in property taxes to the schools than they do now because a previous bond issue is set to expire this year.

The retirement of the earlier bond will drop the local tax rate from $4.85 per $1,000 of assessed property value to $4.05. Passage of the new bond would put the rate at $4.42.

Compared to present rates, a homeowner with a home valued at $500,000, property taxes will drop by $215 annually, said Jake Kuper, district chief of finance and operations.

King County Elections is sched-uled to certify the election results April 27.

Continuing renovation at Liberty High School is a priority as school district officials continue planning to carry out the capital improvements projects outlined in the bond measure.

Steve Crawford, district direc-tor of capital projects, said setting priorities and construction sched-ules is the initial step. Phase 2 reconstruction at Liberty is likely to be at the top of the district’s to-do list, he added.

The bond measure attracted broad support from community and government leaders. City Council members in Issaquah and Sammamish endorsed the propos-al. So did the Issaquah Chamber

of Commerce.Phase 2 at Liberty could include

revamping the commons, relo-cating and modernizing facilities for the culinary arts program, and reworking some classrooms. Plans also call for an auxiliary gym and renovation of the locker rooms.

The existing roof, outside of the modernization areas, would be repaired or replaced.

Discussing Phase 2 prior to the election, Liberty Principal Mike DeLetis called a targeted area of the campus as “the bunker” because the classrooms there lack windows.

The total cost for Phase 2 of Liberty’s remodeling is estimated at $39.7 million, not including $4.8 million for rebuilding the outdoor stadium.

The pace of the sale of construc-tion bonds influences the schedule for coming capital improvement work, Crawford said.

Besides the work at Liberty and the new athletic fields, the capital improvement package includes the rebuilding and relocation of Clark Elementary, Issaquah Middle and Tiger Mountain Community High schools at a cost of $108.6 million.

Sunny Hills Elementary School also would be rebuilt for $27.1 million.

District officials and bond sup-porters repeatedly have pointed out the buildings are the oldest in the district.

The capital improvement list

Mayor hires Prosser official as deputy city administrator

Charlie Bush


King County Executive Dow Constantine proposed a 10 percent increase in regional sewer rates for 2013-14, or about $4 more per month for the average residential customer.

The county charges the rate to 34 cities and sewer districts, including Issaquah, to carry and treat wastewater. So, Issaquah and other contracted entities pass on the increased cost to consum-ers.

The proposed increase requires approval from the King County Council.

Contractual obligations require the council to adopt the 2013-14 sewer rate by June 30. Constantine sent the proposal to council mem-bers April 19.

The council decided against a sewer rate hike last year. Members

Voters easily approve $219 million school bond

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Former Mayor Herb Herrington, a genteel Texan and the chief executive as Issaquah started a long metamorphosis from a one-stoplight town to a commercial hub, died April 13.

Herrington, 83, served as mayor from 1974-81, before the Eastside population boom reshaped Issaquah from a former coal-min-ing and logging settlement into a center for high-tech and service industries. Later city leaders cred-ited Herrington for creating a City Hall culture more responsive to citizens’ concerns.

“One of the things I learned from him is that you can disagree without being disagreeable,” for-mer Mayor Rowan Hinds said.

Compassion also defined Herrington’s legacy. In 1977, the then-mayor spearheaded

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Citizens can dig deep into the 2012 municipal budget.

Officials posted the budget online April 9. Read it at www.ci.issaquah.wa.us/Page.asp?NavID=2761.

The budget is the fruition of a long process to establish priorities.

In October, Mayor Ava Frisinger sent to the City Council a $32 mil-lion general fund budget — dollars to fund police and fire services, community development and plan-ning, parks and recreation, and municipal government.

Then, per standard procedure, council members adjusted the bud-get to add projects and shift spend-ing to other priorities. Overall, coun-cil members’ changes amounted to $4.1 million.

The total city budget — including dollars for capital expenses and from other accounts — is $85.7 million.

The council is expected to approve a series of adjustments to the budget to implement a reorga-nization of City Hall departments and functions.

Through February, leaders reduced the Planning and Public Works Engineering workforces through layoffs and a severance program. Officials also left vacant positions unfilled.

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Catching a legacyCatching a legacy

ON THE WEBSee a slideshow of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery’s 75th anniversary celebration at www.issaquahpress.com.

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Independence Day revelers eager to see the rockets’ red glare in the Issaquah sky must wait at least another year, after City Council members decided against funding a holiday fireworks display.

Councilman Mark Mullet, owner of Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop and Zeeks Pizza in the Issaquah Highlands, offered to fund a July 3 fireworks display at Tibbetts Valley Park. The proposal fizzled April 16 after other council mem-bers raised questions about bud-get, calendar and space limita-tions.

Instead, in a split decision, the council agreed to explore other sites and options for a 2013 fire-works display. Mullet and Council President Tola Marts cast votes against the legislation, and sup-ported a plan presented to council members to produce a fireworks display this year.

Mullet offered to donate $30,650 to fund a fireworks display, but the support costs to the city — esti-mated at $44,905 — dwarfed the proposed gift.

“I would love to be able to pay to bring one here,” he said before the 4-2 decision to explore a fireworks display for next summer. “I wasn’t trying to cause any difficulty. I wasn’t trying to make it tense or challenging. I was trying to pay for everything under the sun that I thought would be third-party costs.”

Other council members offered support for Mullet’s proposal, but did not support the plan due to the estimated cost.

“I am 110 percent supportive of the idea, and it really pains me to take the vote that I’m going to take,” Councilwoman Stacy Goodman said.

The council did not set aside dollars in the 2012 municipal budget to fund administrative

and cleanup costs for a fire-works display. Officials intend to seek additional sponsors and vendors for a 2013 event to offset expenses.

Officials balked at the costs to staff the event — estimated at $10,000 for city Parks & Recreation Department employees; $4,000 for Eastside Fire & Rescue; and $1,300 for police — and transform Tibbetts Valley Park into a view-ing area.

The estimated tab included $2,000 for canopies, chairs and tables; $2,000 for security fenc-ing; $1,500 for portable toilets; and $500 for portable hand-wash-ing stations — not to mention $2,000 to transport and board horses from nearby property, and to have a veterinarian examine the animals. (The noise from a fireworks display could spook the horses.)

Timing influences decisionThe limited space at Tibbetts

Valley Park is suitable for a small-scale fireworks display and another location, say, Lake Sammamish State Park, should receive consideration for 2013, officials said.

Timing — 78 days separated the April 16 council decision and July 3 — also influenced the council decision. Officials said the turn-around could overextend city staff-ers and offer a limited timeframe to recruit volunteers.

“Mark, I commend you for the idea,” Councilman Fred Butler said. “I wish you would have been a little bit earlier.”

Mullet’s colleagues said the dis-

cussion is more suited for autumn budget deliberations.

“I hope that those of us that would like to go forward, I hope that our votes help move this pro-cess forward and that if we don’t do it for 2012, that we go early and hard for doing it for next year,” Marts said.

The donation offered Mullet a chance to show appreciation to the community and, perhaps, boost business.

Mullet attributed a lifelong affin-ity for Ivar’s fish and chips to the annual fireworks display the seafood restaurant chain used to sponsor in Seattle.

“That’s for me where the idea came from,” he said.

In the public discussion before the decision, council members did not address the thorny issues inherent in the issue.

Mullet, a Democrat, is a state Senate candidate for the seat held by incumbent Republican Cheryl Pflug.

The fireworks display offered a chance for Mullet to build good-will among 5th Legislative District voters a month before the Aug. 7 primary election.

The situation also presented a rare opportunity for city priorities and a council member’s business interests to intersect.

Mullet asked for advice from City Attorney Wayne Tanaka before joining the council decision on the issue.

“I think going forward, if we do it, I think the whole goal was to make it so that it was not a strain on the city’s budget. That was the whole intent of this process,” Mullet said. “Our challenge is to find a way to really minimize the amount of city staff to do a fire-works show.”

Warren Kagarise: 392-6434, ext. 234, or [email protected]. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

Fireworks proposal fizzles as City Council aims for 2013 display

ON THE WEBSee a complete estimated cost break-down of a Tibbetts Valley Park fireworks display at www.issaquahpress.com.

Citizens can comment on plastic bag ban April 30

In a push to collect more input on a proposal to outlaw plastic bags at Issaquah businesses, the City Council scheduled another opportunity for the public to com-ment on the proposed ban.

In the meantime, citizens can complete a survey and submit comments about the legislation at the municipal website, www.ci.issaquah.wa.us.

Citizens can comment on the pro-posed ban at a meeting and public hearing at 7 p.m. April 30. The council is not expected to reach a decision on the legislation then.

The council meets in the Council

Chambers at City Hall South, 135 E. Sunset Way.

Supporters said a plastic bag ban could reduce landfill waste and marine pollution. Opponents said the legislation could lead to lost plastics manufacturing jobs in the region.

The local proposal is similar to ordinances in Seattle, Bellingham, Edmonds and Mukilteo.

Bellevue College seeks input about Issaquah campus

Bellevue College plans to gather public input as proposals coalesce for a planned satellite campus in the Issaquah Highlands — a long-term goal for city and college leaders.

Citizens can offer comments and ideas at a public forum at 6 p.m. May 1 at Blakely Hall, 2550 N.E. Park Drive.

The college scheduled the forum to learn what citizens want for potential course offerings, cam-pus planning, building design and more.

The forum is the latest phase in a plan to engage stakeholders — nearby residents, current and potential students, elected repre-sentatives and government officials — in the planning process.

Officials plan to construct a single building in the highlands for the initial phase and then add space in the years ahead, as resources and demand increase.

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A 30-member task force unani-mously agreed to recommend that new school sitings in King County be done in urban areas and rural towns, not in areas designated as rural.

King County officials announced the decision April 11.

“These are thoughtful recom-mendations that will help deliver educational excellence for our children without sacrificing the environment of our rural areas,” said King County Executive Dow Constantine in a press release.

According to the county, the School Siting Task Force evalu-ated an inventory of 18 rural properties owned by eight school districts in King County.

The county lists one such property owned by the Issaquah School District along Southeast May Valley Road. County infor-mation does not provide an exact address.

According to the task force report, the parcel sits between

Squak Mountain to the north and Cedar Hills Regional Landfill to the south. The report describes the site as having conservation value and recommends the school district work with county officials as well as leaders in Issaquah and Renton to find urban loca-tions for any future expansion needs.

The property is listed as encom-passing just over 79 acres with an assessed value of $1.4 million.

The county described all 18 properties as “straddling” the Urban Growth Boundary, estab-lished under state law with the idea of safeguarding rural areas and preventing urban sprawl. The county states the lands were purchased by the school districts involved with an eye toward future growth.

In the case of the Issaquah district property, the task force report states the property does not immediately border an Urban Growth Boundary. It also states the area has no sewers.

Besides the Issaquah district,

other districts involved include Northshore, Lake Washington, Snoqualmie, Kent and Tahoma.

“The questions of whether schools should continue to be sited in rural areas has been unresolved for more than a decade,” said Louise Miller, task force chairwoman and a former King County Council member. “I’m happy to have been part of its solution.”

“It’s been a productive and col-laborative process,” said Chip Kimball, superintendent of the Lake Washington School District. “We’re pleased to have King County and the cities as partners in supporting academic achieve-ment.”

According to the county, the task force looked at a wide range of technical information in developing its recommenda-tions, including perceived public health benefits connected with placing schools closer to homes so that students can walk or bike to school.

“Children can do better if they

can walk to a neighborhood school rather being bused to a remote site in the rural area,” said rural area resident John Chaney, a task force member. “I’m pleased the task force was able to take a comprehensive look at our land use planning and develop solutions that will be lasting.”

Formation of the task force stems from an agreement between King County, Seattle, Bellevue, and the Suburban Cities Association in November to exam-ine the question of whether sewer lines should be extended into rural areas.

The next step appears to be for Constantine to review the task force recommendations and pro-pose new countywide planning policies.

The County Council will have the final say on any new rules, possi-bly in September.

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By Steve Sheehan

Bear trapped

A state Department of Fish and Wildlife ranger has tranquilized a bear in the Overdale Park neighbor-

hood, put a tag in its ear and then hauled it off to the mountains. Overdale was part of the 1 1/2-year-old

female bear’s foraging area. A trap was brought to the neighborhood April 20 and by April 22 the bear was

in it. However, Steve Sheehan said the ranger told him that he took a bear out of North Bend last year that

was back within a week. He also said there are 40 to 50 bears on the Sammamish Plateau.

By Tom Corrigan

Last year, in connection with the Issaquah PTSA Council, the Issaquah Schools Foundation raised about $438,000 to help with the purchase and implementation of a new science curriculum at ele-mentary schools in the Issaquah School District.

The curriculum included text-books and other related materials aimed at students in kindergarten through grade five.

After a retreat of foundation administrators and a meeting with the Issaquah School Board, the foundation does not have any sin-gle, large-scale goal for this year, Executive Director Robin Callahan said.

Instead of concentrating on fun-draising for one major effort, the foundation hopes to spread itself into various areas. One focus area will be the district’s stated goal of ensuring all third-graders are reading at grade level.

“This idea of reading by third grade has informed us in a couple of ways,” Callahan said. “We know that is one area we can target our

resources.”The foundation never has

really looked at early educa-tion in the past, she added. Pre-kindergarten intervention will now be one possible focus of the foundation.

The foundation also will con-tinue its support of leveled librar-ies in the schools. The foundation has been providing books for the schools, books that aren’t neces-sarily at grade level. The idea is to encourage reading among students who might not be able to read at grade level.

Still, overall, Callahan again said there will not be one big push behind a singular goal, such as the science curriculum. The foundation has not yet adopted its next budget, so Callahan said no plans are finalized at this point. She did mention several efforts the foundation is likely to focus on, in addition to early literacy.

Those areas include working with local dentists to provide den-tal care for underserved students. The foundation may begin helping supply musical instruments to sec-

ondary school students. Finally, the foundation will expand its efforts to get refurbished iPads into the hands of special-needs students. The foundation ran a pilot program with the iPads this year.

During a meeting with the school board, Callahan and other foundation leaders talked briefly with school leaders about mea-surable effects of the new science curriculum. The schools have performance indicators in place that can determine the impact of the new curriculum, board President Chad Magendanz noted.

They are the same indicators he said the district uses to track the overall “health” of the dis-trict, presumably the district scores the board put in place last year. Board members seemed confident they eventually will be able to tell what effect the new curriculum had on science learn-ing in the district. The conversa-tion led directly into a discussion of the district’s current academic goals, especially third-grade lit-eracy.

Regarding the early litera-cy goal, Superintendent Steve Rasmussen said district literacy had sort of flat-lined. The literacy level is fairly high, he said, but isn’t improving while other aca-demic areas have seen student improvement, he said.

The foundation will continue its support of programs it has helped fund in the past, such as robotics teams at every middle and high school in the district, Callahan said. The group might branch out into other related areas of science and technology.


ON THE WEBLearn more about the Issaquah Schools Foundation and its upcoming fundraisers at www.issaquahschoolsfounda- tion.org.

Foundation broadens 2012 scope to fund more, smaller projectsNew school materials are available for public review

The Issaquah School District’s Instructional Materials Committee has recommended board adoption of the instruc-tional materials Elementary Literacy: Phonics Curriculum For Grades K-2.

The materials are available for public review through May 4 in the lobby of the Issaquah School District administration office, 565 N.W. Holly Street. Public comment forms will also be available.

Firefighter, Olympic champion Amy Tryon dies at age 42

A former firefighter from Eastside Fire & Rescue who also was a well-known equestrian, died April 12 at her home in Duvall at age 42.

Tryon began her public service as a volunteer firefighter at Pine Lake Station 81 in 1992. Two years later, she was hired as a

career firefighter when the area was still under the jurisdiction of King County Fire Protection District 10. In 2006, Tryon retired from the fire department to devote herself completely to riding.

Tryon won a bronze medal in a team event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She also represented the United States team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

“Although Amy was intensely shy, her evident joy in the world was brought out in the presence of animals,” her family wrote on Tryon’s website, www.team- tryon.com. “She was fiercely determined and focused. Nothing was insurmountable or preor-dained to her. She just wanted to see if she could…”

The cause of death has not been released. Her husband Greg Tryon is a deputy chief at EFR. Services were held April 20 in Duvall. The family asked that any remembrance go to your local humane society.

Nothing says spring like multiple days of sunshine in a row and the explosion of brilliant yellow dan-delion blooms.

Whether or not spring cleaning is on your to-do list, now is a good time to add emptying

your medicine cabinet of expired, unused and unwanted prescriptions, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins and dietary supplements.

The Issaquah Police Department is hosting a one-day drop off April 28, National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The service is free and anonymous — no questions asked.

Last year, law enforcement officials in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington collected 21,500 pounds of unused pharmaceuticals that homeowners didn’t quite know what to do with. These included everything from antibiotics, pain killers, sleep aids, blood pressure medicines and anything else the doctor prescribed. Many were outdated.

Three out of five teens are reporting that prescription pain pills are easy to get from their parents’ medicine cabi-nets, and that they’re surpassing marijuana as a teen’s drug of choice. Prescription drugs are also prime bait for drug users willing to turn criminal to get them.

And then there are the innocent. Every year, there are 60,000 kids younger than age 5 who unintentionally take a medicine or overdose on it — and 95 percent of those were children who got the pills or liquids when an adult was not watching.

Pill collections will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Issaquah Police Department at 130 E. Sunset Way. Put the Drug Take Back Day on your spring cleaning list.

Spring clean the medicine chest, too

School construction, maintenance bond

Issaquah residents care for the school district’s youths

Volunteers for Issaquah Schools wants to thank the Issaquah School District community for pass-ing the maintenance and construction bond.

Each community has its own set of priori-ties. This community demonstrated that educa-tion is a top priority by approving the mainte-nance and construction bond during challenging economic times with a 70 percent yes vote.

We are honored to live in and be a part of a community that holds the education of its youth as a high priority. Your investment in our youth will pay off for years to come. Thank you again for investing in our youth and reaffirming the deep commitment this community has to education.

Lesley AustinVIS Board

Bond vote will ensure students have safe, high-quality schools

A huge thank you to the Issaquah School District voters for resoundingly passing the construction and maintenance bond last week!

It makes me extremely proud to serve in a community that values education and the fu-ture of its children so much — you are unparal-leled in this state and nation. Because of you, we will be able to meet our critical construction and repair needs for the next eight years, en-suring students are learning in safe, high-quali-ty schools equipped for 21st-century learning.

My commitment is to be the best steward possible for these dollars, completing projects on time and on — or under — budget, protecting our top credit rating, and remaining transparent throughout the construction process (look for a

webpage soon that will track our progress).My sincerest appreciation also goes to Vol-

unteers for Issaquah Schools. These volunteer community members — hundreds of them! — dedicated themselves to spreading informa-tion about the bond measure so voters could make an informed choice. For some, it was a full-time job; for others, they gave one or two hours when they could, honking and waving, or simply placing a bus magnet on their ve-hicle. Regardless, each and every one of them made a tremendous difference!

Dr. Steve Rasmussen, superintendentIssaquah School District

Thank you to all who supported the bondAs a former Issaquah School District par-

ent and longtime district employee, I want to thank everyone who championed the bond. From the hardworking, dedicated committee members, to the volunteers waving signs on many corners in the district to the tremendous support of the voters, the passing of this bond benefits everyone in our district!

Issaquah is truly a special place to live because of the quality in the district’s educa-tion, and the support and appreciation of our community. Thank you, one and all!

Mardi NystromIssaquah

Small-town charm

Good customer service is alive and wellSmall towns are noted for good customer

service. Issaquah is no exception. Walking through the doors of various local retailers, I’m usually greeted with warm hellos and wel-

coming smiles. Of course being a regular helps to establish lasting relationships. A gift for gab and a propensity to hug (I’m Hawaiian, after all) also serve me well.

I’m particularly sensitive to how businesses handle consumers, having serviced customers myself during career stints in health insurance, retail and travel, both here on the mainland and in Hawaii. While “taking care of business” is still the order of the day, there’s been a resurgence in customer care. Thank goodness! We’re in desperate need of a positive note given the cho-rus of negativity swirling around us.

There’s no doubt we all have our favorite businesses, as evidenced in the annual call by The Issaquah Press for citizens to vote for “The Best of Issaquah.” It’s difficult to name just a few but the staff at The Cat Clinic deserve recognition for their efforts on behalf of their feline patients, and for the education they provide their often clueless owners. I’ve managed to walk a tightrope in caring for three cats with special needs. The clinic staff members are like friends providing me a safe-ty net and camaraderie. We share pet stories that bring lumps to our throats or smiles to our lips. Belly laughs are also commonplace.

Big box stores are often faulted for their lack of good customer service. Contrary to this popular myth, a recent need for light switches found my husband in the excellent care of Dave at Home Depot. When my hus-band retires, his newfound knowledge might encourage him to seek part-time employment alongside his bud. Prepare yourself, Dave.

In life, things go in and out of fashion. Good customer service is never out of style. An East Coast farmers market said it best. “Rule No. 1 — The customer is always right. Rule No. 2 — When in doubt, refer to Rule No. 1.”

Millie VierraIssaquah

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I’m seated in the waiting room of Issaquah’s Midas Muffler and Brake Shop as Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” drifts through

speakers overhead, but I don’t have to wait long.

The Midas man steps in through the door holding a sec-tion of rusty muffler from my 1995 Kia Sephia.

Before he even gets a word out, I know. Our 10-year run together is over.

Midas man, bless his heart, lets me down easy. It’ll cost $600 to $900 to fix, more than the car is worth.

I’ll explain my situation. I’ve been scrimping and saving for a down payment — $50 dollars here, $25 there — for a new car for nearly two years. I have $2,000 saved. Paying to fix the Kia (affectionately pronounced by her pet name “ki-uh” for years) now just doesn’t make financial sense.

Midas man understands and gives me the encouragement I desperately need. He wishes me the best of luck, jokingly offering the muffler for my mantle as a memento of our time together.

Among friends, the Kia is somewhat of an institution. Indeed, several people sent me text and Facebook messages offering condolences when they learned of her ultimate demise.

Neither of her back doors opened from the outside. Her gas cap didn’t close. Her emer-gency brake stopped braking for anything eons ago.

Don’t tell the Puget Sound, but she had fairly steady oil leak. The trunk’s water-tight seal was, well, far from it. The dash had been slashed open after I asked my father to increase the Kia’s defogging capabilities my sophomore year of high school. Her CD player that my parents installed as a gift for my 16th birthday was ripped out and stolen two years ago, never to be replaced. I don’t remember the

last time she graced a car wash’s pres-ence.

Even the Kia emblem on the front bumper had faded to black.

But none of that ever re-ally mattered, because, as my first car — pur-chased for $1,000 while I was in ninth grade —she was never just a car to me. She created, as any teenager with their first set of wheels will tell you, an ultimate freedom.

Everywhere I’ve gone since she first came into my life — more than 71,000 miles ago — she’s taken me.

She provided the backdrop to my first kiss.

She’s where I loaded my gear for our most epic camping adventures, including the time I took her on my senior sneak in high school (James Taylor guiding us along the entire way) and she bottomed out several times on the way in. Foolishly, I thought she’d never make it back out and we’d die there in that isolated Island Park camp-ing spot together, but she pulled through.

She’s transported me through some of my life’s biggest mile-stones: taking me to my first job, getting me to my high school graduation and dropping me off the day I got my bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho.

She’s played the soundtracks of my life, survived hitting a suicidal deer on U.S. Highway 95 and slowly but surely gotten me home in some of the worst blizzards I’ve seen, including an ill-fated trip from Coeur d’Alene to Moscow,

Long and winding roadcomes to a sad end

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Being a senior citizen and being retired I cannot see the need for better fields as op-posed to matters that have an impact on our children’s education.

We keep spending more money on capital improvements but our education continues to suffer and be rated less than other countries with less investing in education. Our taxes keep increasing and bonds keep passing, so I as many others will have to move out of King County and Issaquah since we are on fixed income.

It is not right for one to own his own home but still have to move because real estate taxes and bonds will push us out.

Rolf Bernhard

Proposed plastic bag banActually, I was at the previous meeting, as a

representative of a plastic bag manufacturer, and we, too, were speaking about reducing landfill waste and marine pollution. The media continu-ously misrepresents the plastic industry’s position on bag bans. Sure, local and domestic jobs would be lost and those jobs would be shipped overseas so we can get our heavyweight plastic reusable bags, but the main point we continually try to make is that bag bans do nothing to decrease solid waste or plastic pollution in the oceans.

Environment Washington and People for Puget Sound, the main pushers of bag legisla-tion in the state, have yet to cite a single scien-tific study or report that demonstrates that bag bans reduce landfill waste or marine pollution. It follows no logic whatsoever to think that it would. Retail checkout bags make up less than

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Idaho, with pileups so deep I could feel the snow scraping her underbody. (I literally kissed her hood when we got home.)

After trading her in for a measly $300 on a 2008 Honda Fit last week, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t tear up when I handed over her key to the car salesman.

She’s never been just the car that’s taken me from point A to B. Instead, she’s facilitated all the important rides in my life, and all the growth, progress and changes that come along with that.

I couldn’t have asked her for more.

Enjoy the ride in Car Heaven, little Kia. You’ve earned it.

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1 percent of all landfill volume, and most people reuse them for garbage, or recycle them. The environmentalist suggestion to replace those secondary uses? Buy packaged bags!

Every ban or bag fee in the world has resulted in higher waste going to landfills, and higher prices for consumers. Yet the only statistic that gets re-ported is how we’re using fewer plastic checkout bags. If there’s a ban, of course there are fewer!

People for Puget Sound talks about microplastics in the ocean, but most microplastics come from cosmetics, launder-ing synthetic fabrics and indus-trial abrasives, not from plastic bags. The Port Townsend Marine Science Center did beach sampling to identify and count the small pieces of plas-tic on Puget Sound beaches. They found that plastic film (of which plastic bags were only one type of) was the least com-mon type of plastic found. The logic of eliminating the smallest contributor to litter will elimi-nate all litter is ridiculous.

Ken Holmes

sewer system received major over-hauls. Aquatic Center and munici-pal sewer system received major overhauls.

The outgoing Prosser city admin-istrator also serves as president of the Washington City/County Management Association.

Before accepting the position in Prosser, Bush served as assistant to the city manager and intergov-ernmental management analyst in

Bellevue. The experience in a neighboring

city led to a deeper understanding of regional agreements and organi-zations, he said.

Before the stint on the Eastside, Bush held positions in the Phoenix and Glendale, Ariz., municipal governments.

In Issaquah, Bush is expected to earn between $124,584 to $158,998 per year, plus benefits.

Bush is the most high-profile hire at City Hall since Frisinger tapped City Administrator Bob Harrison — a former Wyoming, Ohio, city manager — for the No. 2 spot in municipal government in

September 2010.The previous deputy city admin-

istrator, Joe Meneghini, retired in August 2011 after more than a decade of service.

Bush bested candidates from cit-ies in Washington and the West for the post. Frisinger and Harrison, municipal department chiefs and a panel of community leaders, inter-viewed the candidates.

“We are excited to welcome Charlie to our team here at City Hall,” Frisinger said in a state-ment. “His depth of experience, proven leadership and excellent communication skills will be a wonderful asset to Issaquah.”

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also includes a lot of maintenance and renovation work at a vast majority of district schools.

During the bond campaign, district plans for athletic field improvements attracted attention. Each district middle school is in line to receive artificial turf fields

and rubberized running tracks.The schools likely will be done

one or two at a time, Crawford said.

Issaquah Schools Foundation Executive Director Robin Callahan said she has been surprised repeatedly by the generosity and commitment of local residents to education.

For some time after initial results were released, Superintendent Steve Rasmussen was handing out certificates, plants and other small

gifts to bond supporters, especial-ly various representatives of the Volunteers for Issaquah Schools, the community group that ran the bond campaign.

Lesley Austin, co-chairwoman of the pro-bond campaign, said the voting shows residents have faith in the schools.

“It shows a high level of confi-dence in the district,” she said.


last increased the sewer rate in June 2010.

In addition to the increase for residential customers, the legis-lation also calls for the capac-ity charge for sewer hookups to increase from $51.95 to $53.50 per month. The charge for cus-

tomers entering the system pro-vides funding for system upgrades and expansions needed to accom-modate growth.

Constantine said the county Wastewater Treatment Division saved almost $2 million by operat-ing more efficiently.

Officials said a large portion of the proposed rate increase is devot-ed to repaying money for projects built in the past decade, including the $1.8 billion Brightwater treat-ment plant near Woodinville.

Issaquah does not operate a treatment plant. Instead, the city pays the county to send wastewa-ter to the South Treatment Plant in Renton.

The county provides sewer facilities to serve more than 1.5 million people spread across a 420-square-mile area.


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April 25Issaquah School Board7 p.m.Issaquah School District Administration Building565 N.W. Holly St.

Cedar Hills Regional Landfill community meetingAgenda: landfill project update, Bio Energy Washington facility update7 p.m.King County Library Service Center

PublIc meeTIngsO 960 Newport Way N.W.

April 26Cable TV Commission6 p.m.Coho Room, City Hall130 E. Sunset Way

Planning Policy Commission6:30 p.m.Council Chambers, City Hall South135 E. Sunset Way

April 30City Council special meetingAgenda: proposed plastic bag ban pub-lic hearing

7 p.m.Council Chambers, City Hall South135 E. Sunset Way

May 1Urban Village Development CommissionAgenda: Grand Ridge Plaza site devel-opment permit public hearing7 p.m.Council Chambers, City Hall South135 E. Sunset Way

River & Streams Board7 p.m.Pickering Room, City Hall Northwest1775 12th Ave. N.W.

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King County health offi-cials identified the first case of extremely drug-resistant tuber-culosis in 2011, and officials said TB continues to pose a health threat.

Public Health – Seattle & King County released the data March 22 to mark World TB Day, March 24. In 2011, officials identified more than 100 cases of active TB countywide.

King County’s active TB rate is consistently among the high-

est in the country. Officials said the high rate reflects the global nature of the disease. Of the 116 people suffering from TB, 88 percent had immigrated to the United States.

Though TB is curable, extreme-ly drug-resistant TB does not respond to most antibiotics and is exceedingly costly and difficult to treat.

The person suffering from extremely drug-resistant TB recently lived in King County, but received the diagnosis overseas. Local public health officials joined national and international health organiza-tions to identify and evaluate close contacts of the person to ensure the disease did not spread.

Officials did not identify any additional cases of extremely drug-resistant TB as a result of the investigation.

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Community Enterprises of Issaquah, a predecessor to AtWork! — a nonprofit organiza-tion dedicated to skills training and job placement for disabled people.

The former mayor, a Boeing aeronautical engineer, retired from the aircraft manufacturer and relocated from Issaquah to Port Townsend in 1988. Alongside wife Jean, he transformed a cen-tury-old house into the Baker House Bed & Breakfast, a popu-lar destination for the next 19 years.

Herrington died after contract-ing pneumonia. The former mayor suffered a stroke in the 1990s, and battled dementia for years.

In addition to wife Jean Herrington, Herb Herrington is survived by sons David and Jerry, daughters Bonnie and Patty, and four grandchildren.

Born in Timpson, Texas, Herrington earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas and later worked in Boeing facili-ties throughout the Puget Sound region.

Herrington joined the city Planning Commission in 1958, just as the board started assembling the inaugural Comprehensive Plan, a long-term blueprint for growth — a still-distant issue. In 1967, voters elevated the Squak Mountain resident to the City Council.

Herrington, who ascended to the top spot at City Hall in 1974, was a fiscal conservative dedicat-ed to courtesy and respect in gov-ernment. Throughout the stints as planning commissioner, coun-cilman and mayor, Herrington balanced City Hall and Boeing duties.

“I don’t know how the man did it,” Jean Herrington said April 23. “I couldn’t go with that little sleep, but he did. Some of those meetings ran right until 12 or 12:30 in the morning.”

I s s a q u a h claimed only 4,700 residents in 1974 — the city was still rural enough for deer to poke around the Salmon Days Festival grounds.

“The town was transi-tioning from a

working small town to becoming more of a bedroom community — and that was one of the concerns that people had,” current Mayor Ava Frisinger said. “Boeing engi-neers were moving in and chang-ing the character of our commu-nity.”

Future plans for the Issaquah Skyport — a center for skydiv-ing, gliding and hot air balloon-ing — also dominated discussion as Herrington’s tenure came to a close. Developers later turned the airstrip into the Pickering Place complex, despite objections from environmentalists.

“For the mayor, it was a very trying time,” Hinds said.

Former Mayor A.J. Culver credited Herrington for a transformation at City Hall.

Herrington hired sharp candi-dates for critical roles, including City Administrator Leon Kos, the No. 2 official in municipal gov-ernment for 33 years. City Clerk Linda Ruehle also served in the administration.

Culver served on the council alongside Herrington and, in 1981, succeeded Herrington as mayor.

“There was money in the bank,” Culver said April 23. “Linda Ruehle used to say, ‘Herb made us turn in our short pencils to get a new one, and he saved all of that money, and A.J. came in and spent it all.’”


WHAT TO KNOWA memorial service for former Issaquah Mayor Herb Herrington is at 1 p.m. April 28 at First Presbyterian Church, 1111 Franklin St., Port Townsend. The family suggests contributions to a charity of the donor’s choice.

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‘GiveBIG’ to local nonprofit organizations May 2

The Seattle Foundation is stag-ing a day of charitable giving in King County — and people can do-nate to numerous Issaquah-based organizations and groups serving local residents.

The foundation’s GiveBIG fundraising is a daylong event May 2.

GiveBIG invites people to make donations to almost 1,000 nonprofit organizations, includ-ing the Issaquah Schools Foun-dation, Village Theatre, Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatch-ery, Habitat for Humanity of East King County, Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, YWCA of Seattle-King-Snohomish and the Together Center.

Each donation made to the more than 1,300 nonprofit organizations profiled on The Seattle Foundation’s website between midnight and midnight receives a pro-rated por-tion of the matching funds, or “stretch,” pool. The amount of the “stretch” depends on the size of the stretch pool and how much is raised in total dona-tions on GiveBIG day

Find a complete list of partici-pating organizations and donation information at The Seattle Foun-dation’s website, www.seattle-foundation.org.

April 30 is King County property tax deadline

The deadline for King County residents to pay or postmark prop-erty tax bills is April 30.

Officials said property values declined in almost every area in King County last year, although property tax collection in the county is up 1.71 percent from last year.

The county uses assessed prop-erty valuations established during the previous year to determine property taxes.

Homeowners can pay property taxes online or by check, cash or credit card in person at King County Treasury Operations, Room 600, 500 Fourth Ave., Seattle. Or use the secure pay-ment system at www.kingcounty.gov/propertytax.

Taxpayers can make payments by check at a Community Service Center. Sammamish City Hall, 801 228th Ave. S.E., hosts a center.

The statement is sent to the lender if a property owner relies on a mortgage company to pay the bill. However, the taxpayer is responsible for the bill to be paid in a timely manner.

The county also offers prop-erty tax-relief programs, including breaks for seniors. Call the King County Assessor’s Office at 206-296-3920.

Washington earns national good-government awards

Washington ranks near the top as a leader in government accessi-bility and transparency in a series of separate reports released in recent weeks.

The nonprofit, nonparti-san Center for Public Integrity ranked the Evergreen State as No. 3 in the nation as a leader of integrity and govern-ment transparency. The report card is based on 330 separate benchmarks, including internal auditing, ethics enforcement and open communication.

Washington received a B in a report card issued by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The accompanying report noted the state’s improvement in the past year to improve online access to public spending data.

In a report from the Sunshine Review, the state government Web portal Access Washington, www.access.wa.gov, earned a per-fect score and the Sunny Award for the best government website.

“It is imperative that we con-tinue to build trust and embrace open communication across all governmental bodies,” Gov. Chris Gregoire said in a statement. “Our citizens depend on and expect transparency in their government, continuing to meet these expecta-tions is a top priority.”

Leaders call for increased access to regional transit card

King County Council mem-bers requested increased access to regional transit by expanding the One Regional Card for All, or ORCA smart card, in a unanimous decision March 26.

The council called for mass transit officials to analyze options to lead to a broader distribution and increased use of ORCA.

Before the program launched in 2009, King County sold transit fare through numerous retail stores. Through ORCA, the network lim-ited to the Internet and direct distribution facilities. King County Metro Transit then received com-plaints about the reduction in pur-chase locations.

ORCA is a collaboration among the transit systems in King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties.

“ORCA cards have proven to be a fast and easy way to for local riders to pay for their transit fares,” council Vice Chairwoman Jane Hague said in a statement. “However, we need to find a way to expand access to these cards. Studies have shown that if you make paying for transit easy, more riders will use it.”

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The “damn dam” — a con-crete gauntlet for migrating fish upstream from the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery — is due for replacement next year, after state legislators scraped together funding for the $4 million proj-ect.

Plans call for crews to demol-ish the aging dam and add boul-der weirs in Issaquah Creek.

The project, a long-held pri-ority for local and state lead-ers and environmentalists, could start as soon as next spring. The $4 million appropriation in a lean budget surprised hatchery supporters.

“We had been struggling for years in the belief that state funding, because it was scarce, wasn’t going to happen in an amount big enough to do the project,” Mayor Ava Frisinger said April 22, after state and city officials announced the appropriation at a 75th anni-versary celebration for the hatchery.

Frisinger also serves as Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery president.

Built in the 1930s and over-hauled in the 1960s, the dam acts as a barrier for salmon and other fish to about 11 miles of Issaquah Creek and tributary habitat upstream. Councilwoman Eileen Barber, a longtime FISH member, referred to the struc-ture as the “damn dam” — a headache for environmentalists and salmon.

The shelf-like apron on the dam blocks adult salmon attempting to migrate upstream to spawn. The fish, marooned on the structure, die in large num-

bers on the dam each year.“The design that has been done

replicates the natural setting and provides wonderful access for fish to go at least 10 more miles upstream,” Frisinger said.

Doug Hatfield, hatchery oper-ations manager for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife region encompassing Issaquah, said the agency needs to acquire permits from multiple agencies before the project can start, although plans call for work to start as early as next spring.

Sara LaBorde, special assistant to the director at the Department of Fish and Wildlife, credited FISH for spearheading the effort to replace the dam.

Supporters struggled for years to secure funds for the project, as the state stumbled through budget crises and earmarks — another potential source for dol-lars — came under scrutiny in Congress.

In the past, the city cobbled together state and federal grants to conduct the design and engineering phases. The city, Department of Fish and Wildlife, local agencies and FISH contrib-uted local match dollars.

“Most recently, we’ve made huge steps in the funding realm, and given this economy, that’s incredible,” LaBorde said at the April 22 event.

Plans also call for crews to replace the water-supply intake from the creek to the hatchery — another trouble spot.

In November 2006, almost 200,000 juvenile coho salmon died at the hatchery after leaves clogged the intake, cutting water flow to the hatchery and causing the dissolved-oxygen content to fall too low for the number of fish in the pond.

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Local residents (right) on a hike April 22 with FISH docent Grace Reamer visit the 1930s-era Issaquah Creek dam.

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The nursery was founded in 1999 by owner Nels Melgaard, a former organic produce farmer. He has put together a team of customer service and landscape specialists that share a passion for plants.

Go ahead, ask them anything. Between them they

can discuss garden soil conditions, watering needs, weather impacts, solutions to pesky slugs, insect and fungus blight — all while helping you select the best flowering trees, shrubs and plants to keep your own garden blooming all summer long.

The nursery also has organic plants and seeds for customers interested in growing their own pro-duce. And the nursery encourages local gardeners to “Plant a Row for the Hungry,” to provide fresh vegetables for the food bank.

Everything for an edible landscape can be found at The Nursery at Mount Si including a good selec-tion of fruit trees and berries, and the organic compost to give your veggies and fruits a jump start. Check their website for dates of free workshops on sustainable and organic gardening.

Visit the nursery at 42328 S.E. 108th in North Bend, open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Meet the crew, from left, Jose, Beto, Nels, Christine and Chris. Christi Bishop is not pictured.

Spring brings a bounty of garden color to Nursery at Mount Si Highlands Physical Therapy,

located in The Shops at Is-saquah Highlands, is commit-ted to providing services that improve the total health of their patients in a fun, energetic envi-ronment.

“Our goal at Highlands Physical Therapy is to be your first stop for any and all health issues and concerns,” says Erick Harada, DPT and Clinic Director. “To start, we can schedule a free injury screening to determine if physical therapy is the best option for you. If not, we can rec-ommend an appropriate provider and help plan for your next step towards recovery.”

Highlands Physical Therapy offers a wide array of services, including post-surgical therapy, sport-specific rehabilitation, gait analysis, manual therapy, functional strengthening and free injury screenings.

Beginning in May, Highlands Physical Therapy will offer a program for community cyclists called BikeFit, designed to ac-commodate commuters, recre-ational and competitive cyclists. BikeFit will include a biomechan-

ical and physical evaluation of the body as well as the body-to-bike interface to provide muscular ef-ficiency, increased comfort, pre-vent overuse injuries and improve times on a race course.

For both recreational and avid runners, there’s the Run Club, which includes pre-run stretch-ing, a topic of the week and a two-to-four mile run, depending on ability. Run Club meets Mon-day evenings at 6:15 and Satur-day mornings at 8.

In addition to physical therapy and group athletic activities, Highlands Physical Therapy of-fers personal training (through SoundBodyFitness), athletic train-ing, nutritional counseling, yoga and Pilates.

The staff at Highlands Physi-cal Therapy prides themselves on a personal attention to detail, whether it is scheduling or de-veloping a plan of care unique to each individual. They understand the value of spending one-on-one time with each patient and continue to build on their patient knowledge and therapy expertise.

Former patient Brandon A. raves about his experience at

Highlands Physical Therapy. “Thanks a lot, Erick and Jana!

I went from hardly being able to walk to fully recovered in two months! I really appreciate what you guys have done for me.”

Highlands Physical Therapy is dedicated to community involvement through member-ship in the Greater Issaquah Chamber of Commerce and participation in both Highlands Days and the annual Health and Safety Fair.

Call 425-686-7654 to schedule an appointment, or visit www.irgpt.com to learn more.

Erick Harada, physical therapist, running and bike fit specialist, assists patient Brandon Akers with strengthening exercises to return to his favorite sporting activities.

Highlands Physical Therapy is first stop for health concerns

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Wobservance. Problems elsewhere in the United States and closer to Issaquah started to change resi-dents’ behavior.

“In 1970, our country was in the middle of an environmen-tal crisis,” Issaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger said.

In a “Silent Spring” moment tailored for the local area, Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery Executive Director Jane Kuechle noted the damage to Issaquah Creek after decades of coal-mining and logging in the watershed. Logs sent downstream scoured silt from the creek bed. Tailings, or left-overs from coal-mining, polluted the water.

Then, in the years after the hatchery opened, salmon started to return in stronger numbers.

“There essentially weren’t any viable salmon in the stream, so the hatchery really brought back the salmon to Issaquah Creek,” she said in a separate interview.

In 1936, Works Progress Administration crews started to build the hatchery complex on a former city park and opened the following year. The public works projects completed by the agen-cy offered jobs amid the Great Depression.

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WHAT IS FRIENDS OF THE ISSAQUAH SALMON HATCHERY?Friends of the Issaquah Salmon

Hatchery, or FISH, formed in the early 1990s as state officials eyed the hatchery for closure.

The nonprofit organization is dedicated to the preservation of the historic hatchery. Through edu-cational programs in school class-rooms and at the hatchery, FISH educates the community about the salmon lifecycle and inspires stewardship of the Puget Sound watershed.

FISH also salvaged the Salmon in the Classroom program for schools in the Issaquah School District after the state scuttled funding for the program amid 2010 budget cuts.

Former Issaquah Mayor Rowan Hinds formulated the acronym for the organization en route to Olympia to lobby officials to preserve the hatchery.

“I’ve always liked acronyms, par-ticularly if they have a meaning,” he said. “I always felt that if the acronym can kind of match what the organization was, you had a lot bet-ter feeling for the organization.”

WHAT WAS THE WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION?The federal agency responsible for

constructing the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery in 1936-37 stemmed from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal initiatives.

The jobs program — the larg-est New Deal agency — completed public works projects across the United States. In addition to the hatchery, Works Progress Administration Crews built Issaquah sewer lines and a community center

in Preston.Elsewhere in Washington, agency

crews constructed the massive Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River.

GREETINGS FROM OLYMPIAGov. Chris Gregoire congratulated

city and environmental leaders as the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery cel-ebrated 75 years.

“Fish hatcheries across the state play a critical role in preserving our native salmon stocks and protect-ing both environmental health and recreation,” she said in response to questions from The Issaquah Press. “For the past 75 years, the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery — the only state hatchery in a major metropolitan area — has been providing fish for commercial and recreational fisher-ies. The Issaquah Salmon Hatchery also plays an active role in the recovery of wild salmon stocks. In recent years, the hatchery has become the site of a significant effort to restore Lake Sammamish kokanee, which have seen a dra-matic decline in recent years.

“The Issaquah Salmon Hatchery’s role as an educational center may be its most lasting contribution to the region and the state as a whole. Each year, approximately 350,000 visitors — many of them students — tour the facility and learn about this important resource and salmon’s role in our state’s history. That hands-on learning has informed and inspired generations of Washingtonians, and people from around the world, about the benefits of maintaining healthy salmon populations.

“I congratulate the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery on this milestone and thank the community for sup-porting it over the years.”

“The hatchery came from a time when people were desperate for jobs,” Frisinger said in a sepa-rate interview. “The economy was in horrible, horrible shape. This gave them an opportunity to do something that allowed them to continue to live and have shel-ter and food, and a sense of self respect.”

Before the hatchery restored the historic Issaquah Creek salmon runs, even the construction project changed the community.

“Just the fact that it was built here, the choice to construct this thing had an impact on the commu-nity,” Issaquah History Museums Executive Director Maniez said in a separate interview.

‘Issaquah hatchery is the linchpin’The hatchery started opera-

tions in 1937. The original salmon stocks for the hatchery originated in the Green River. Early hatchery crews spawned chinook, coho and steelhead salmon.

The hatchery concentrates on chinook and coho nowadays, and serves a key role in a program to restore the dwindling Lake Sammamish kokanee salmon pop-ulation.

“The Issaquah hatchery is the linchpin in the supplementation program. If that hatchery was not located where it is, we would have a much harder job in running a supplementation program,” Hans Berge, a county environmental scientist and a Lake Sammamish kokanee expert, said in a recent interview. “They’ve bent over backwards to accommodate kokanee.”

The hatchery confronted a grim future, too, in the early 1990s. State leaders eyed the hatchery for closure amid a budget crisis. Issaquah leaders and residents rallied to preserve the structure.

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife continues to oper-ate the hatchery. The city-owned hatchery land is leased to the state for 99 years.

FISH formed in 1994 to lead tours during the autumn salmon runs, and spearheads educational programs in school classrooms and at the facility — the most-visited state-run hatchery.

“The hatchery brought back the salmon and the salmon are what you identify with Issaquah,” Kuechle said.


“The Issaquah hatchery is the linchpin in the supplementa-tion program. If that hatchery was not located where it is, we would have a much harder job in running a supplementa-tion program. They’ve bent over backwards to accommo-date kokanee.”— Hans BergeLake Sammamish kokanee expert


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120120IssaquahYEARS OF

Issaquah turns 120 years old on April 29.The rough-and-tumble community defined by coal-

mining, farming and logging in 1892 is a bedroom community and services hub on the Eastside in 2012.

Milestones from the last 120 years show Issaquah’s evolution.

1892Issaquah is founded as Gilman. The city is named for railroad baron Daniel Hunt Gilman.

1893The postmaster called for mail sent to Gilman to be addressed to Olney, Wash., to avoid confusion between Gilman and Gilmer, another city in the state.

1895Townsfolk start calling the frontier town Issaquah, or “the sound of water birds” in the language of the American Indians native to the region.

1899State lawmakers approve official name change from Gilman to Issaquah.

1900Wilbur W. Sylvester founds the Bank of Issaquah in a clap-board building.

1909The precur-sor to Darigold, Northwestern Milk Condensing Co., starts operations.

1910The imposing Bank of Issaquah opens downtown. (The building remains in use as Museo Art Academy.)

Fischer’s Market, a butcher shop, opens. (Fischer Meats is still in busi-ness along Front Street North.)

The first concrete sidewalk is poured in Issaquah.

1911The first class gradu-ates from Issaquah High School — Mary Gibson, Olive (Gibson) Bayh and Mabel (Ek) Brady. The first men gradu-ated from the school in 1916.

The first car is shipped to Issaquah by rail and later assembled.

1913Issaquah Theatre opens. (Village Theatre later occu-pied the space and rebuilt the structure in 2010-11.)

1914World War I starts in Europe, but the United States does not enter the conflict until April 1917.

1918Issaquah residents Peter Erickson, a U.S. Army private, and Carl Albert Larson, a U.S. Army corporal, die in France. Erickson perishes Aug. 10 and Larson perishes Oct. 9.

World War I ends Nov. 11.

1920Grand Ridge Mine ceases coal-mining operations.

1922Railroad passenger service to Issaquah is discontinued.

1923Issaquah Round-up is held to celebrate the Fourth of July. (The annual celebra-tion returns until at least 1931.)

1924Issaquah hosts Washington’s largest-ever Ku Klux Klan rally — attract-ing 13,000 attend-ees — near the mod-ern-day Issaquah Transit Center site.

1925Fire destroys Bratnober Lumber Co. — as well as a hotel, railroad depot, a post office and 50 company houses — along Lake Sammamish.

1928Leaders pass a city ordinance requiring all sidewalks to be made from concrete.

1936City residents cel-ebrate inaugural Labor Day festivities.

1937Issaquah Salmon Hatchery opens as a Works Progress Administration proj-ect.

1939World War II starts as Nazi Germany invades Poland.

1940Lake Washington Floating Bridge opens, connect-ing the Eastside to Seattle as never before.

1941Japanese forces attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, prompting the United States’ entry into World War II.

1945By the time the war ends, Issaquah loses 13 residents in military service.

World War II ends after U.S. forces drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Japan surrenders.

1949A magnitude-7.0 earthquake centered near Olympia rattles Issaquah and the Puget Sound region, causing more than $25 million in damage.

Issaquah dedicates a memorial to World War I and World War II veterans who lost their lives.

1951Chocolatier and former Olympian Julius Boehm opens Boehms Candies.

1957Nike Ajax missile site — a Cold War deterrent to nuclear attack — comes online atop Cougar Mountain.

1958Issaquah Chamber of Commerce offers Lake Sammamish State Park as pos-sible Seattle World’s Fair site.

Issaquah Train Depot closes.

1961Issaquah Skyport — a center for sky-diving, gliding and hot air ballooning — is leased and the Seattle Sky Sports Club is founded.

1964U.S. military deacti-vates Nike Ajax mis-sile site atop Cougar Mountain.

1965A magnitude-6.5 earthquake, cen-tered the near the epicenter of the 1949 temblor, shakes the region, causing about $12.5 million in damage.

1968The modern Triple XXX Rootbeer Drive-in opens. (The iconic drive-in remains open at the same location nowadays.)

1970Salmon Days Festival starts, replacing the earlier Labor Day celebra-tion.

The stately Gibson House, home of former Mayor W.E. Gibson, is razed, leading preserva-tionists to focus on the remaining historic structures in Issaquah.

1972Issaquah Historical Society forms.

Developers start sav-ing and relocating historic structures to form the Gilman Village shopping center.

1975Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy abducts Janice Ott and Denise Naslund from Lake Sammamish State Park.

Issaquah railroad trestle is dismantled as crews construct Interstate 90.

1979Village Theatre opens in the old Issaquah Theatre and presents “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

Issaquah Alps Trails Club forms, spear-heading environmen-tal preservation of Cougar, Squak and Tiger mountains.

1983Issaquah Historical Society members encourage city to purchase and restore Issaquah Train Depot.

1987Issaquah Skyport closes, setting off a fierce debate about how to use the open space in the future.

1990Issaquah Creek floods repeatedly, causing significant damage to surround-ing businesses and homes.

Issaquah Farmers Market debuts downtown. (The mar-ket later relocated to the Pickering Farm site.)

1991Issaquah Alps Trails Club mem-bers march from Snoqualmie Pass to Seattle to advocate for a greenbelt along Interstate 90.

Planning starts for a Port Blakely Communities urban village on Grand Ridge.

1992Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, a nonprofit group dedicated to pre-serving open space along Interstate 90, is formed.

1994Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery forms after state considers closure of historic hatchery.

1996Issaquah Creek floods, leading to changes in city flood policies and efforts to reduce flood risks.

Costco completes relocation of corpo-rate headquarters from Kirkland to Issaquah.

Construction starts on Grand Ridge urban village, called the Issaquah Highlands.

1998Residents settle into homes in the Issaquah Highlands.

By Warren Kagarise and Christina Lords

1999Leaders approve a development agree-ment to build a Cougar Mountain urban village.

2000Modern City Hall and Issaquah Police Department building opens along East Sunset Way.

2001A magnitude-6.8 earthquake rattles the region for 45 seconds.

Residents start to move into homes in the Cougar Mountain urban village, Talus.

The $8.2 million, 15,000-square-foot Issaquah Library opens along West Sunset Way.

Issaquah Valley Trolley starts inau-gural run along long-unused down-town tracks. (The restoration process continues to bring the trolley back on a permanent basis.)

2006Floods drench the region and cause Issaquah Creek to overflow into sur-rounding land.

2008City Council mem-bers pull the plug on the Southeast Bypass, a proposed roadway across Tiger Mountain.

2009Issaquah and Tibbetts creeks flood, causing about $1 million in dam-age.

Reconstruction starts on Issaquah High School.

2010Issaquah surpasses 30,000 residents in the 2010 Census.

Rebuilt Issaquah High School opens to students.

2011Swedish/Issaquah, the first new hospi-tal on the Eastside since the 1970s, opens to patients.

2012Issaquah celebrates 120 years.

sible Seattle World’s

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to form the Gilman Village shopping center.

Telegram to Issaquah resident Minnie Wilson from World War I soldier Jake Schomberg.

Skydivers jump from a plane above the Issaquah Skyport.

Issaquah coal miners take a break in a local mine.

King Salmon greets Salmon Days Festival revelers.

Issaquah Highlands homes under construction in August 2005

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Events

The Sammamish/Issaquah MoveOn.Org House Group hosts a political demonstration, Ac-tion for the American Dream, from 3:30-5 p.m. April 26 at the corner of 148th Avenue and Northeast 40th Street in Bellevue. Bring signs to help capture the attention of the traffic leaving the Microsoft campus. Email [email protected].

The Issaquah Farmers Mar-ket, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 28, Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W. Go to www.issaquahfarm-ersmarket.org or call 837-3311.

The Downtown Issaquah Spring Clean Up is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 28. Meet at the Hail-stone Feed Store, 232 Front St. N.

Friends of the Issaquah Library Spring Book Sale — 5:30-7 p.m. April 27 preview sale for Friends members; general sale is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 28; bargain sale is from 1-5 p.m. April 29

Hobby and Volunteer Expo, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 28, Picker-ing Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W.

The Issaquah Business Build-ers host a visitors day, open to all professionals not currently represented by members, from 7:30-9 p.m. May 3 at the Interna-tional House of Pancakes, 1433 N.W. Sammamish Road. Register at www.issaquahnetworking.com or call 241-7306.

FundraisersMuseo Art Academy pres-

ents its annual student benefit exhibition, “Art With Heart,” through June 30 with an open-ing reception from 6:30-8 p.m. May 4 at 111 Front St. N. Go to www.museoartacademy.com.

YouthDistrictwide Middle School

Dance, for ages 11-14, 7-10

p.m. April 27, Issaquah Com-munity Center, $5 dress, dress code strictly enforced, photo ID required, parent volunteers needed, 837-3317

VolunteersLocal non-profit organiza-

tions and artists wishing to apply for booths at the Issa-quah Salmon Days Festival need to apply online at www.salmondays.org before May 1. The festival is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 6-7. Learn more by calling 392-0661 or emailing [email protected].

The Mountains to Sound Greenway needs volunteers from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the following events. Sign up at www.mtsgreenway.org or call 206-812-0122. 4April 28 — Invasive plant

removal at Three Forks Natural Area4April 29 — Invasive plant

removal at Pickering ReachDowntown Issaquah Associa-

tion needs volunteers for its 11th annual Downtown Issaquah ArtWalk Season Kickoff. Shifts are from 4-6 p.m. and from 6-8:30 p.m. April 27 Contact Karen Donovan at [email protected] or 391-1112.

Encompass needs volunteers for its spring fundraiser, SipFest, on May 18 at Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W. Volunteers must be 21 or older. Sign up by contacting Michelle McCor-mick at 888-2777, ext. 1212, or [email protected].

ClassesHarlem Globetrotters host

a Summer Skills Clinic, for ages 6-14, at 24 Hour Fitness, from 8:30-11:30 a.m. and 2-5 p.m. July 18-19 at 5712 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway. Register by April 30 for a discount offer of

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Helping ‘Unmask the Need’

Unmask the Need, the Kiwanis Club of Issaquah’s 35th annual community benefit auction with fund-an-item part-ner AtWork!, is from 6-9 p.m. April 28 at the Hilton Garden Inn Issaquah, 1800 N.W. Gilman Blvd. Learn more or pur-chase tickets at www.issaquahkiwanis.org/auction.htm.

$49. After April 30, registration is $59. Register at www.harlem-globetrotters.com.

New York Life presents the free educational seminar “The ABCs of Life Insurance,” at 6:30 p.m. April 26 at the YWCA Family Village, 930 N.E. High St. RSVP to Ridge McCoy at 206-718-1697 or [email protected].

AAA Driver Improvement Program, presented by Ameri-can Driving Services, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 28, Timber Ridge At Talus, 100 Timber Ridge Way N.W., $16. Pre-registration advised. Call 206-243-3564.

ArtEAST offers the following workshops at its Art Center, 95 Front St. N., unless otherwise noted. Go to www.arteast.org or call 996-8553.4Salon Thursday Artist Talk:

Jacqui Beck presents “Creativity in Art and Life” 6:30-8:30 p.m. April 264Art Critique Group, 6-9 p.m.

May 15, $75 (bring three or four pieces of work to be critiqued)4“Mud Pies: Clay Play for

Parents and Children,” for ages 6 and older, 2-4 p.m. May 2 and 16, $10 per participant4“Introduction to Silver Fus-

ing,” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 3, $854“Art for the Soul,” 9:30 a.m.

to noon, May 4 and 18, $18 per session4“Visual Journaling: Level

One,” 6:30-8:30 p.m., Tuesdays May 8-29, $1104Beginning Flameworking

Workshops: “Boro Stir Sticks and Plant Stakes,” 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 8, $75

Issaquah LibraryThe following events take

place at the Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way. Call 392-5430. The library will be closed May 28 for Memorial Day holiday.

Opera Preview: “Madam Butterfly,” by Giacomo Puccini, for adults, 7 p.m. May 1

“Bailando!” a performance of traditional and original Latin music for all ages, 7 p.m. May 3

Issaquah Art Walk Teen Zone: Manga, 5 p.m. May 4

eBooks 101: eReaders and Digital Downloads, for ages 13 and up, 10 a.m. May 5

Sammamish LibraryThe following events take

place at the Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E. The library will be closed May 28 for Memorial Day holiday.

“Medicare Made Clear,” for adults, 7 p.m. May 2

Mother Daughter Book Club, for daughters 10-13 and their mothers, discusses “Also Known As Harper,” by Ann Haywood Leal, 11 a.m. May 5

“Civil War Quilts,” for adults and teens, 7 p.m. May 9

“How to Start A Business,” for adults, 1:30 p.m. May 11

“Seven Secrets for Great College Essays: Dump the Stress and Write for Admis-sion,” for teens and adults, 11 a.m. May 12

Teen Writers Group, for teens, 3:30 p.m. May 157

SeniorsIssaquah Valley Senior

Center is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday at 75 N.E. Creek Way. The following activities are open to people 55 and older. Call 392-2381.

The following day trips are offered through April:4Meet the Author: Dr. Lor-

raine McConaghy, McDonald’s Bookstore, 9:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 25, $9/$114Hoodsport Winery, 9:30

Lovable Lucy is a gorgeous 1-year-old Labrador retriever mix. This smart girl knows “sit” and “stay,” and is good on leash. Lucy is an active girl but has a mellow side, too. She has a very warm personality and is waiting to meet you with a tail-wagging “hello.”

Pets of the Week

Meet charming Chester, a 4-year-old gray-and-white male kitty with black smudg-es on his nose and luminous green eyes. He enjoys climb-ing up a cat tree and looking out the window to see what’s going on outside. He would be happiest as an only cat.

These pets may already have been adopted by the time you see these photos. If you’re interested in adopting these or other animals, contact the Humane Society for Seattle/King County at 641-0080, go to www.seattlehumane.org or email [email protected]. All adopted animals go home spayed/neutered, microchipped and vaccinated, with 30 days of free pet health insurance and a certificate for an examination by a King County vet-erinarian. The Seattle Humane Society is now open from noon to 6 p.m. seven days a week.

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Rowan and Barbara Hinds celebrate 50th anniversary

Apparently they were no fools to marry on April 1, 1962!

Rowan and Barbara met at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., in 1960. Rowan was in the Army Reserve Of-ficers Training Corps, and upon graduation in 1962, he was commissioned a second lieuten-ant and they got married. Their honeymoon was a cross-country trip to Augusta, Ga., where he attended basic officer’s school at Fort Gordon.

After more schooling at Fort Monmouth, N.J., Rowan was sent to France, where Barb joined him a few months later. They spent one year in France followed by two years in Germa-ny before returning to Corval-lis, where Rowan obtained his master’s degree.

In 1967, they moved to Longview when Rowan took a position with Northern Pacific Railway Timberlands (now Plum Creek Timber), and Barbara concentrated on building their first home and raising their tod-dler with a second on the way.

In 1970, Rowan took a job with Weyerhaeuser Co. in Longview and in 1971 they transferred to Issaquah, where they started building their sec-ond home. And soon their third daughter was born.

They raised their three girls in Issaquah schools, where Barbara served as a dedicated volunteer for more than 21 years in classrooms and administra-tion at Issaquah Valley and Clark elementary schools, Issaquah Junior High School and then Issaquah High School. Barbara was also a founding member of the church quilting club, leader for Camp Fire Girls for more than a decade and volunteer for numerous community activities along the way.

She returned to work full time in bookkeeping in 1987 while still managing children and the household. Rowan retired from Weyerhaeuser in 1996, and Barbara followed in 1999. They still live in the same home they

built in Issaquah in 1972, and they are thrilled to have their grandchildren living next door. (They have three daughters, one son-in-law, one son-in-law-to-be and two grandchildren.)

Rowan and Barbara have been involved in the Issaquah commu-nity during their 41 years here. Rowan was appointed to the Issaquah City Council in 1979; he served 10 years before being elected mayor in 1989. Subse-quently, he served as mayor of Issaquah from 1990-1997.

Rowan and Barbara continue to be active volunteers at the Issaquah Valley Senior Center, Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank, Issaquah History Museums, King County Library System, and many other community and civic organizations in and around Issaquah.

Rowan and Barbara also enjoy travelling the world in their retirement. They have toured ev-ery continent, including Antarc-tica, and have travelled not only by trains, planes and automo-biles, but also by boats, camels and elephants! To celebrate their 50 years together, they are revisiting France, where they enjoyed much of their first year of married life.

The secret of their 50-year success seems to be mutual sup-port of individual interests, while maintaining significant common goals and activities, with a little adventure mixed in. They truly know how to experience the world, and give back to their community.

Rowan and Barbara — con-gratulations on 50 years togeth-er and thank you for all you do for all of us!

Rowan and Barbara Hinds

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Lisa Van Cise and Joel Mathieson

Van Cise, MathiesonLisa Van Cise and Joel Mathie-

son, both of Shoreline, recently announced their engagement to be married in May in Seattle.

The bride-to-be, the daughter of Shari and Rick Van Cise, of Issaquah, is a 2000 graduate of Skyline High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in communi-cations in 2004 from Washing-ton State University. She is the weather anchor at King 5 TV.

The future groom, the son of Anne Devine, of Niantic, Conn., is a 1998 graduate of East Lyme High School. He earned a Bach-elor of Arts in graphic communi-cations in 2006 from Rhode Island College. He is a broadcast engi-neer at Fisher Communications.

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Who’s neWsOIssaquah resident honored

Lisa Whatley, of Issaquah, was recently awarded the Nancy Danoff, MD, Spirit of Service Award at the Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington’s annual awards presentation in Lacey.

The award recognizes individu-als who promote, protect and sup-port breastfeeding as a vital part of the health and development of children and families.

Whatley is a registered nurse and International Board Certified lactation consultant at Evergreen Healthcare, in Kirkland, and is also a private practice lactation consultant providing home visits in the community.

Whatley also chaired the Seattle-King County Breastfeeding Coalition for five years.

Learn more about the Breast-feeding Coalition of Washington and past award recipients at www.breastfeedingwa.org.

Issaquah Trophy & Awards honors SAMBICA

Issaquah Trophy & Awards has selected SAMBICA as its recipient for its Awards for a Cause pro-gram during the second quarter of 2012.

Issaquah Trophy & Awards selects a recipient each quarter and donates a portion of its sales to that nonprofit organization.

SAMBICA offers youth summer camps and retreat ministries, providing resident camps, day camps and the high school lead-ership program ELITE during the summer months. More than 2,000 children attend SAM-BICA’s summer programs each year.

Learn more about SAMBICA at www.sambica.com. See the trophies and awards that will ben-efit SAMBICA at www.issaquah-trophy.com/awardsforacause-products.

Lisa Whatley

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By Lillian TuckerIssaquah Press reporter

Ever wonder what makes someone an addict and how to prevent your child from becom-ing one? The Issaquah Drug Free Community Coalition has and it is hosting a community forum to discuss the answers.

“Drug Use and Our Kids,” will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. May 2 at Clark Elementary School where a presentation about the neurological and developmental aspects of drug use and abuse will be followed by a community discussion about the perceptions and realities of local youths’ alcohol and drug use.

“We want to really raise awareness. A lot of the time par-ents are unaware of the extent of youth drug use,” said Jerry Blackburn, a chemical depen-dency professional and faculty member in the Chemical Depen-dency Counseling program at Bellevue College, who will give the presentation.

Blackburn, a recovering ad-dict himself, has been a chemi-cal dependency counselor for 16 years.

“We want to reduce myths and provide information,” he said.

The event is part of the coali-tion’s efforts to combat alcohol and drug use in Issaquah. Cre-ated by the Issaquah Commu-nity Network, the coalition has been meeting bimonthly since September. Executive Director

Barbara de Michele said she was shocked when the state’s 2010 Healthy Youth Survey found that 17 percent of Issaquah twelfth graders polled admitted to heavy drinking, which was defined has drinking six or more days in the

last month or binge drinking two or more days in the last two weeks. The state’s average was 16 percent.

“We are significantly above the state’s average,” she said. “Heavy drinking means we have

some kids drinking every day.”But the event is not just for

parents of teens, organizers said. The event is free and open to anyone interested in joining the discussion. Free child care will be available on site. Learn more

at www.issaquahcommunitynet-work.com.

Lillian Tucker: 392-6434, ext. 242, or [email protected]. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

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Doreen BernertBeloved wife,

mother and grandmother Doreen Bernert passed away April 1, 2012, in Apache-Junction, Ariz.

Doreen graduated from Issaquah High School in 1951. Doreen adored her family; she was a fabulous cook, an amazing painter and had many hobbies, including gardening and play-ing the organ. She spent the last 12 years in Arizona and Eastern Washington following the sun and golfing.

She was an amazing woman. She will always be remembered by her contagious laugh and kind-ness.

Doreen is survived by her husband of 60 years, Lawrence; children Thomas (Rita) and Diana (Richard Ohashi); 10 grandchil-dren; and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents Thomas and Bertha; son Gary; and brother Eric Kamm.

A memorial service will be held at Willows Run Golf Course on Saturday, June 16 at 11 a.m.

Friends are invited to view photos, write memories, and view directions and information at the family’s online guest book at grandmasmemorial.weebly.com. If you plan to attend, please reply by email to [email protected].

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OBonnie Eugene ‘Gene’ Johnson Jr.

Bonnie Eugene “Gene” Johnson Jr., of Issaquah, died March 29, 2012. He was 86.

A memorial service was April 15 at University House.

Gene was born July 5, 1925, in Santa Clara, Cuba, to Anna and Bonnie Sr. He was raised in New Orleans, and received a Bachelor

of Science in electrical engineer-ing at Tulane University.

He was a World War II United States Navy veteran.

He married Myrtle on May 5, 1956, in Seattle.

Gene is survived by his wife Myrt; sons Michael (Lisa and Ri-ley), Craig (Carolyn) and Andrew Johnson (Nadia Patrone).

Make memorial donations at www.alzwa.org.

The annual Issaquah Hobby and Volunteer Expo, sponsored by the Issaquah Parks & Recre-ation Department, is set for April 28 at Pickering Barn and fea-tures nonprofit clubs, community service organizations and similar groups.

Any such organization serv-ing Issaquah is invited to put up a table, said Cathy Jones, city recreation coordinator.

Participating clubs or organi-zations can seek to recruit new members, volunteers or both.

Jones described the event as especially aimed at newcomers to the Issaquah area, newly retired persons or teens looking for new ways to gain community service hours.

There are usually about 40 community groups represented, though Jones admitted the num-bers are a bit of shy of that so far this year. Still, some groups that plan to attend include The Sierra Club, Girl Scouts of America, MEOW Cat Rescue, the Issaquah Alps Trail Club, Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery and the Issaquah Women’s Club. One of the more unusual might be the Cascade Treasure Club, which Jones said is aimed at metal detector enthusiasts.

“We get a really large vari-ety,” she added, referring to the

types of clubs and organizations involved.

The city estimates about 1,000 people came through the expo last year. Being part of the farm-ers market is great for the expo, Jones said.

“That’s a nice venue for us with a nice crowd already coming through,” she said.

The expo is held inside Picker-ing Barn. Each group involved is asked to have some type of

activity planned so the event does not become a collection of tables covered with brochures.

“The Issaquah Women’s Club has had a booth at the expo for at least 10 years,” said the group’s Deborah Bader. “We look forward to this event every year as an opportunity to let visitors know who we are and what we’re all about.”

The group’s current vice presi-dent, Sandy Cobel, first visited

the expo in 2003. At the time, she was looking for a way for her mom, who had just moved to Issa-quah, to connect with her new community. Cobel said she would never forget the warmth and enthusiasm of those in the club’s booth. She and her mother joined and have been active members ever since.

Long-time club member Valerie Armitage said she believes very strongly in the value of participat-ing in the expo as a “way for us to show our strength as a social and community organization.”

The Hobby and Volunteer Expo is free and open to all ages. Inter-ested nonprofit clubs can contact Jones at [email protected] to reserve space at the event.

IF YOU GOHobby and Volunteer Expo4Sponsored by Issaquah Parks & Recreation49 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 284Pickering Barn (part of that week’s farmers market)41730 10th Ave. N.W.4Free and open to the public

Hobby and volunteer expo returns for 14th year

By GreG Farrar

Shirley Slaughter, of Issaquah, a member of Issaquah Quilters, sits in front of a quilt by Linda Smith, while meeting visitors during the 2009 Hobby and Volunteer Expo at Pickering Barn.

Forum opens community conversation about drug use and children

By Erica Thompson

Alex Foley, junior baseball player for Eastside Catholic High School, was named WIAA male state athlete of the week for April 1-7.

With an earned-run average of 0.88 and 23 strikeouts in 16 innings pitched, he led his 3A team to three victories against O’Dea, Skyline and Chief Sealth high schools.

“It’s a real honor, I really didn’t expect it,” said Foley, an Issaquah resident who was recognized for his outstanding performance both as a pitcher and batter. “I haven’t really been thinking about anything but helping the team (and) get-ting some wins.”

Foley also aided his team in the batter’s box with seven RBIs and a slugging percentage of .588. The WIAA athletes of the week are elected from nomina-tions by school athletic direc-tors.

“Alex is a true competitor,” Eastside Catholic baseball coach Kyle Larsen wrote in an email. “He competes every time he takes the field, whether that is on the mound or at the plate, and his teammates feed off of that.”

The team is second to only Seattle Prep, which remains un-defeated, in the Metro-Mountain Conference standings.

“I’m really excited about the start that the team and Alex are off to,” Larsen said. “It can be tough to have a new coach come in and have everything change from the year before, but these guys haven’t missed a beat and are really buying in to what we are trying to do this year.”

The team boasts an 8-4 overall record.

“I think we have really good chemistry,” Foley said. “A lot

of people were doubting us this year, but I think we are turning a lot of heads and surprising a lot of people.”

Foley’s love for the game started at a young age, when he began playing T-ball 12 years ago.

“He’s such a good kid and it’s nice to see him be recognized for his effort and for the work ethic he’s put into his baseball career,” said Rhonda Bunker,

Foley’s mother. “I’m proud of him not only as a baseball player but the human being that he’s become.”

Foley said he hopes to con-tinue to play baseball in college while studying business and economics, and get drafted soon after.

“Alex has a great chance to go as far as he wants in the game,” Larsen said. “He’s an athletic left-hander that has the right mentality and love for the game.”

Bunker has similar expecta-tions for her son’s future.

“My hope … is that he’s happy, that he’s grounded and he’s doing what he enjoys,” she said. “Whether that’s baseball or something else, I just want him to be happy. I’m his mom.”

Larsen said he does not do anything specific to make his athletes stand out, but that with

the right mix of talent and will to work hard they stand out on their own.

“I just try to push all the guys to play to the best of their abilities,” Larsen said. “And make sure they know that this is a team game, and they owe it to their teammates and their school to play as hard as they can day in and day out.”

And that is exactly what Foley has done.

“I feel like I am a leader and I just have a special love for the game,” Foley said. “I’m never bored with it, I’m always looking forward to practice and I just like being around the guys. It’s a lot of fun.”

Erica Thompson a student in the University of Washington Department of Communication News Laboratory. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

By Dallas Cross It is wild

rhododendron time and that means it is time to bring out your long casting rods and plan a white sturgeon fishing outing.

Washington State has stur-geon prowling its entire coast line and they make forays into many bays and rivers, including those in the Puget Sound area. However, the home rivers for sturgeon runs are predominantly the Chehalis and Columbia. Sturgeon have also been spotted in Lake Washington, and I have seen a photo of a dead sturgeon taken next to the Is-saquah boat launch docks in Lake Sammamish.

Almost all Washington waters are open for catch and release of sturgeon. To keep sturgeon caught in the lower Columbia River the fish length must be 41 inches minimum to 54 inches maximum, as measured from snout to the fork in the tail. In the Chehalis River the keeper slot is from 38 inches to 54 inches.

Seasons to retain sturgeon vary on different reaches of the Colum-bia River system. The next season for the Ilwaco area on the lower Columbia River is May 12 through July 8. On the Chehalis River, sturgeon may be kept during other open game fish or salmon seasons. The retention limit for all catch areas is one per day.

Sturgeon feed in fresh water, usually seeking bait such as river-run smelt that have died off and are rolling along the bottom. They also eat crustaceans, and are fond of lampreys and their larvae bur-rowed into river bottoms. It was most probably lamprey larvae I imitated while fishing with night crawlers in the Snake River dur-ing my early adult years.

After my discharge from the Army, my wife, daughter and I became a student-family attend-ing the University of Idaho. To enhance our impoverished larder, Dad suggested we fish for stur-geon below an Idaho Power dam on the Snake River near Hager-man. I gathered an amply supply of night crawlers for bait from our flooded lawn. The next evening Dad and I loaded the car and set off to fish at night.

After parking across the river from the fishing site, we had to climb up a steel ladder and walk across the dam walkway with our gear. Below the dam the plan was to cast out about 60 yards to have the bait rest just below a sandbar where fish, maimed and killed after passing through the turbine blades, were sought by the scav-enging sturgeon.

We settled down by a shore fire to play checkers, awaiting the tinkle of small brass bells fastened to the tips of the rods. Dad’s bell tinkled several times from squaw-fish bites, but mine remained unusually silent. To check wheth-er I had bait I reeled in after a half-hour and discovered that a large river clam had my bait and hook encapsulated inside its shell. To get revenge I shelled and hooked the clam body on the large hook with night crawlers dan-gling down. I cast the assemblage, resembling an octopus, back into the sandbar hole.

Shortly afterwards my bell rang noisily and I was onto a big stur-geon. After fighting it for 45 min-utes while running up and down the bank, I turned the pole over to Dad who did a 15-minute stint. I finally grabbed the fish by the tail and dragged it onto shore with both of us whooping it up, for it mea-sured 7 feet and a half-inch long. Then, there were no size restric-tions so we departed for the dam with me carrying the 132-pound fish across my shoulders.

The dam keeper took pity and allowed us to carry the fish through the dam interior, past the noisy hydro-electric generators to

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A Pacific Northwest tradition returns next month to King Coun-ty’s Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park: The 10th-annual SCOTT Cougar Mountain Trail Running Series.

The series gets under way May 12 with a 5-mile run – the first of five races on various stretches of Cougar Mountain’s scenic, 36-mile trail network. Runs of eight, 10, 13.1 and a final race of 31

miles (with an option to run a 20-mile race instead) are scheduled in the following months.

Produced by Northwest Trail Runs and the Seattle Running Club, the race series not only introduces hundreds of people to Cougar Mountain’s 36 miles of fantastic trails, but it also ben-efits King County Parks.

Volunteer work groups from the trail-running community spend an average of 150 hours each year doing trail restoration work, including improving trail surface conditions, invasive weed removal and picking up trash.

Such work has contributed to Cougar Mountain’s status as one

of the nation’s best trail-running locations, according to Runners World magazine.

“Our longstanding partnership creates a fantastic race series for the running community, and greatly benefits all parks visitors with a cleaner and more enjoyable environment,” said King County Parks Director Kevin Brown.

“Cougar Mountain is practically synonymous with trail running,” said Eric Bone, the trail running series director and SRC mem-ber. “The park’s large size, prox-imity to the metropolitan area, variety of terrain and extensive trail network make it an unparal-leled recreation venue.”

In addition to volunteer labor performed by SRC members, $15 from each racer’s individ-ual event fee goes toward King County Parks maintenance and improvements. This support has exceeded $80,000 since the race series’ inception.

2012 races4Race 1 – 5 miles: Saturday,

May 12 – $35 preregistered, $45 at race4Race 2 – 8 miles: Saturday,

June 16 – $35 preregistered, $45 at race4Race 3 – 10 miles: Saturday,

July 7 – $35 preregistered, $45 at race

4Race 4 – 13.1 miles: Satur-day, Aug. 11 – $40 preregistered, $50 at race4Race 5 - 50 kilometers or

20 miles: Sunday, Oct. 28 – 50k $62 preregistered, $75 at race; 20-mile $47 preregistered, $60 at race4Series package for races 1-4

(no 50K): $120 Register in advance at any of

three North Face stores: Down-town Seattle, University Village or Bellevue Square. Day-of-race registration and start will be at the Sky Country trailhead off 166th Way Southeast.

Learn more or pre-register on-line at http://nwtrailruns.com/.

Trail run series returns to Cougar MountainAnnual event

benefits county parks

By Lillian TuckerIssaquah Press reporter

While it was not a winning day for Skyline High School’s girls golf team, or the weather, last week it was a victory for Layla Hiramoto.

Ignoring the rain that poured down on her and everyone else playing the 2,731-yard course at the Bear Creek Country Club in Woodinville April 19, Hiramoto shot a 53. With an improvement of six shots, the No. 5 varsity golf-er earned her season best and the top score of the day for Skyline.

“It took a lot of mental tough-ness to play well in that weather,” Skyline’s head coach Erik Hanson said. “She got it done. She looked beyond the weather and didn’t make excuses.”

Hanson was thrilled. Hiramoto had been struggling with her putting, he said, so much that in one match she used two different putters.

“For me, as a coach, I am always happy to see a kid work to improve their weakness,” he said.

For the rest of the Spartans it was not a day of personal bests. Instead, several players struggled in the wetness and ended the

Skyline finds silver

lining in loss to Redmond

Contributed

Alex Foley, of Issaquah, pitches during a stretch of baseball games earlier this month for Eastside Catholic High School that garnered him a statewide honor from the WIAA.

Crusader named state athlete of the week

See GOLF, Page B5

Tiger Mountain State Forest mountain bike trails open

The state Department of Natural Resources opened Tiger Mountain State Forest mountain bike trails for the season April 14.

The opening includes the Iver-son Railroad Grade, Northwest Timber and Preston Railroad Grade trails. The routes offer popular mountain biking opportu-nities for riders from Issaquah and the Central Puget Sound area.

Though the trails opened for the season, road closures could affect recreation opportunities on Tiger Mountain.

On weekdays in April, crews plan to install culverts. The instal-lation could prompt closures on the Main Tiger Mountain #4000 forest road and cause delays for outdoors enthusiasts using the road. Come mid-summer, crews plan to install a vehicle bridge on the West Side #1000 forest road. Officials said the project should require the closure of Iverson Rail-road Trail for a few days.

Due to a heavy winter snowpack, the planned mountain bike trail in the East Tiger Mountain area is not likely to open until mid-summer. The state agency and the nonprofit Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance collaborated on the East Tiger Summit Trail project. Completion depends on volunteer labor.

The agency offers volunteer op-portunities at Tiger Mountain and other state lands. Learn more at www.dnr.wa.gov/RecreationEdu-cation/Topics/OtherRecreationIn-formation/Pages/dnr_volunteer_program_recreation.aspx.

Reined in by rain

Sidney Hopper, Liberty High School freshman, pitches to a Bellevue batter during the first inning as Alyssa Wash, freshman second baseman, looks on. The game was called at the end of the

inning on account of rain April 19.

by Matt Carstens

Eastside Catholic pitcher Alex Foley

has 0.88 ERA, 23 strikeouts

“It’s a real honor, I really didn’t expect it. I haven’t really been thinking about anything but helping the team (and) getting some wins.”— Alex FoleyEastside Catholic High School pitcher

See STURGEON, Page B5

Prep boys baseball KingCo Conference 4A Crest Division

League Season W L W LSkyline 8 2 8 8Redmond 7 4 9 5Issaquah 5 6 8 7Newport 5 6 10 6Eastlake 4 7 5 8 Crown Division League Season W L W LBothell 7 4 9 6 Inglemoor 7 4 11 3Woodinville 7 4 10 4Ballard 5 6 7 6Garfield 4 7 7 9Roosevelet 1 10 3 11 April 16 games Roosevelt 16, Franklin 6 April 17 games Woodinville 3, Issaquah 1 Skyline 6, Bothell 4 Garfield 7, Eastlake 3 Newport 2, Roosevelt 1 Redmond 4, Inglemoor 3 April 19 games Ballard 14, Garfield 2 Issaquah 6, Newport 0 April 20 games Redmond 1, Eastlake 0 Bothell 2, Roosevelt 1 Inglemoor 7, Woodinville 3 Woodinville 3, Issaquah 1 Woodinville 011 000 1 – 3 4 1 Issaquah 010 000 0 – 1 0 3W: Marty Luckenbach;L: Ethan Kalin; 2B: Caleb

Hamilton.

Issaquah 6, Newport 0 Issaquah 030 003 0 – 6 3 0 Newport 000 000 0 – 0 2 1W: Brandon Mahovlich; HR: Andrew Kemmerer, Nik

Sutherland. Skyline 6, Bothell 4 Bothell 012 010 0 – 4 4 0 Skyline 010 005 x – 6 8 3W: Matt Lunde; L: Brady Mickelson; 2B: Matt

Sinatro (2), Mark Woods; HR: Zach Anderson.Skyline highlights: Matt Sinatro 3-4, 3 RBI, 2 2B;

Connor Reinersten 2-3, RBI.

KingCo Conference 3A/2A League Season W L W LLake Washington 8 1 12 3 Bellevue 7 2 9 6Mount Si 6 2 10 3Interlake 4 5 8 6Mercer Island 3 5 6 7Juanita 3 6 4 10Liberty 3 6 3 11Sammamish 1 8 2 10 April 16 games Liberty 12, Juanita 8 Mount Si 7, Interlake 2 Bellevue 6, Lake Washington 5 April 17 games Mercer Island 3, Sammamish 0 April 18 games Bellevue 2, Mount Si 1 Liberty 12, Interlake 3 Mercer Island 9, Juanita 5 Lake Washington 9, Sammamish 5 April 20 games Juanita 9, Sammamish 0 Lake Washington 6, Liberty 0

Liberty 12, Juanita 8 Juanita 002 015 0 – 8 11 4 Liberty 812 100 X – 12 16 0Liberty highlights: Loren Archibald 3-4, 3 RBI.

Liberty 12, Interlake 3 Interlake 120 000 0 – 3 5 5 Liberty 014 214 x – 12 13 0W: Izak Styskal; L: Henry Lin; 2B: Loren Archibald,

Jalen Mano, Ben Wessel, Joey Button, Sam Finfer; HR: Loren Archibald.

Lake Washington 6, Liberty 0 Lake Washington 200 202 0 – 6 10 0 Liberty 000 000 0 – 0 3 1W: Zach Johnson; L: Ben Wessel; 2B: Theo

Alexander, Ben Wessel.

Prep boys soccer KingCo Conference 4A League Season W L T Pts W L TInglemoor 5 2 1 16 5 7 1Issaquah 5 2 0 15 8 2 3 Newport 5 2 0 15 8 4 0Roosevelt 5 2 0 15 9 2 1Skyline 5 2 0 15 8 3 0 Woodinville 4 2 2 14 6 3 2Redmond 3 4 0 9 6 5 0Eastlake 2 6 0 6 4 7 0Garfield 1 4 1 4 2 4 3Bothell 1 5 0 3 3 6 0

Ballard 0 5 2 2 1 8 4 April 17 games Issaquah 6, Eastlake 1 Newport 5, Redmond 2 April 20 games Skyline 1, Eastlake 0 Ballard 4, Renton 0

Issaquah 6, Eastlake 1 Eastlake 1 0 – 1 Issaquah 3 3 – 1Issaquah goals: Alex Shane (Drew Tacher) 11:00;

Akash Ramachandran (Alex Shane) 31:00; Alex Shane (un) 45:00; Drew Tacher (Josh Zhou) 55:00; Alex Shane (David Perez) 72:00; Dyllon Nguyen (Alex Shane) 8:00.

Issaquah 1, Redmond 0 Redmond 0 0 – 0 Issaquah 0 1 – 1Issaquah goals: Akash Ramachandran (Alex Spady)

59:00.Shutout: Evan King. Skyline 1, Eastlake 0 Skyline 1 0 – 1 Eastlake 0 0 – 0Skyline goals: Jason Twaddle (un) 35:00.Shutout: Zach Anselmi, Ben Morgan.

KingCo Conference 3A/2A League Season W L T Pts W L TMercer Island 7 1 2 23 9 1 2 Mount Si 7 2 1 22 8 2 2 Liberty 6 3 1 19 6 4 2Interlake 5 5 0 15 7 5 0Juanita 5 5 0 15 6 6 0 Sammamish 4 5 1 13 6 5 1Bellevue 3 6 1 10 3 7 1Lake Washington 0 10 0 0 0 10 1 April 17 games Mount Si 4, Sammamish 3 Interlake 2, Lake Washington 1 Liberty 3, Bellevue 0 Mercer Island 6, Juanita 1 April 19 games Mount Si 3, Lake Washington 0 April 20 games Juanita 2, Bellevue 0 Sammamish 2, Liberty 1 Mercer Island 6, Interlake 0

Liberty 3, Bellevue 0 Bellevue 0 0 – 0 Liberty 2 1 – 0Liberty goals: Oliver Janders (Josh Johnson) 10:00;

Own goal; Jared Bales (Zach Lentini) 69:00.Shutout: Nate Mak.

Sammamish 2, Liberty 1 Sammamish 2 0 – 2 Liberty 0 1 – 1Liberty goals: Joe Dapper (un) 79:00.

Prep softballKingCo Conference 4A Crest Division

League Season W L W LNewport 6 0 10 1Issaquah 2 2 3 2Skyline 3 4 4 7Redmond 1 4 2 5Eastlake 0 5 3 6 Crown Division League Season W L W LWoodinville 6 0 11 0 Ballard 5 1 7 1Bothell 4 2 8 3Inglemoor 4 3 7 5Roosevelt 1 6 2 7Garfield 0 6 0 7 April 16 games Bothell 10, Eastlake 9 Woodinville 1, Skyline 0 April 17 games Ballard 14, Skyline 2 Newport 11, Roosevelt 1 Woodinville 12, Redmond 2 April 18 games Skyline 7, Eastlake 2 April 13 games Woodinville 4, Juanita 0

Woodinville 1, Skyline 0 Skyline 000 000 0 – 0 1 0 Woodinville 000 000 1 – 1 4 1W: Maddie Schreyer; L: Winter Ridgeway; 2B:

Maddie Schreyer.

Ballard 14, Skyline 2W: Andrea Jewett; L: Winter Ridgeway; 2B: Andrea

Jewett (2); 3B: Tia Hedman, Charlotte Zhao.

Skyline 7, Eastlake 2 Eastlake 020 000 0 – 2 3 3 Skyline 202 201 x – 7 12 4W: Winter Ridgeway; L: Alanna Martinez; 2B: Jessica

Rubideaux.Skyline highlights: Riley Davidson 3-3, 3 RBI; Winter

Ridgeway 2-3, 2 RBI.

KingCo Conference 3A/2A

League Season W L W LJuanita 8 0 11 1Mount Si 8 1 11 2Lake Washington 7 3 10 5Liberty 5 4 6 7Bellevue 4 5 5 7 Interlake 3 5 5 6Mercer Island 1 9 3 9Sammamish 0 8 0 10 April 16 games Mercer Island 12, Hazen 2 April 17 games Liberty 18, Mercer Island 4 Juanita 8, Bellevue 1 Mount Si 11, Lake Washington 5 Interlake 19, Sammamish 2 April 18 games Juanita 16, Liberty 3 April 19 games Lake Washington 16, Mercer Island 0 April 20 games Mercer Island 7, Sammamish 1

Liberty 18, Mercer Island 4 Mercer Island 000 3 1 – 4 3 5 Liberty 142 11 x – 18 13 3W: Sidney Hopper; 2B: Sidney Hopper, Liza Van

Kamp.

Juanita 16, Liberty 3 Juanita 045 34 – 16 16 0 Liberty 001 02 – 3 5 3W: Allison Rhodes; L: Amber Smith; 2B: Keana

Miller, Taylor Welk.

Liberty 4, Selah 2 Liberty 100 001 02 – 4 11 2 Selah 101 000 00 – 2 3 2W: Sidney Hopper.

Prep boys lacrosseWashington Lacross AssociationDivision IApril 16 games Issaquah 14, Lake Washington 3 Issaquah 0 4 4 6 - 14 Lake Washington 1 2 0 0 - 3Statistics: Matt O’Neill, IS, 4 goals; Ben Director, IS,

4 goals; Austin Ritchie, IS, 2 goals; Alex Cizewski, IS, 1 goal; Zach Fritz, IS, 1 goal; jack Corscadden, IS, 1 goal; Duncan Hamilton, IS, 1 goal; O’Neil Hughes, IS, 3 saves; Brady Hahn, IS, 4 saves; Jason McLean, LW, 1 goal; Tyler Watkins, LW, 1 goal; Cody Bernstein, LW, 1 goal: Jonah Friedl, LW, 24 saves.

SportS calendarOAdult sports Issaquah Alps Trail Club4April 27, 10 a.m. Cooger Mountain Dog Hike. DOGS WELCOME. Bring leash, water, scoop supplies. Leader’s Choice, Easy to moderate hike 3-5 Miles, 400- to 800-foot gain. Contact Jean Lanz at 206-322-0990.4April 29, 9 a.m. Chasing the Snow, Segment One Hike. Help us chase the snow away along the Mountains to Sound Greenway. This week we travel from Newcastle Beach Park to the Issaquah Trails Center via Coal Creek Trail, Cougar Mountain, Squak Mountain. 14.9 miles, 2550-foot gain. Contact George Potter 516-5200.Tennis4Tennis and friends — Issaquah Parks program for people 50 and older at Tibbetts Valley Tennis Courts. Daily sessions from 9 a.m. to noon. Call 369-8332.Volleyball4Coed league — Issaquah Parks coed league for ages 18 and older is regis-tering teams for its spring league. Call 837-3341.Youth sports/activities Flag rugby4Issaquah Parks offers flag rugby for ages 7-14 from April 16 to May 21 Mondays, 4:30-5:45 p.m. at Issaquah Valley Elementary School. The activity is coed and noncontact. Register at www.IssaquahParks.net.Fencing4Issaquah Parks offers fencing for ages 8-12 March 27 to June 5 Tuesdays from 7:15-8:15 p.m. at Endeavor Elementary School. Class is taught by Washington Fencing Academy. No experience is needed to take class. Call 837-3300.Bowling4Issaquah Parks offers bowling for people with disabilities, ages 13 and older, from 6-9 p.m. Wednesdays March 14 to May 2 at the Adventure Bowl in Snoqualmie. Call 837-3300.Soccer4The Issaquah Soccer Club’s registration for tryouts is now open for Arsenal and Gunners teams. Registration for U6-U18 recreation is open April 1 to May 31 for the fall 2012 season. Go to www.issaquah-soccerclub.org.Wrestling4June 25-27, Commuter Wrestling Camp at Skyline High School. Sammie Henson, assistant head wrestling coach at the University of Oklahoma, will be the featured coach. The camp is for

wrestlers grades six through 12. Learn more or register for the camp at www.sammiehenson.com. Other details are also available at www.skylinewrestling.com/hensonwrestlingcamp.htm.

High School sports Baseball4April 25: Liberty at Mount Si, 4 p.m.; Skyline at Eastlake, 4 p.m.; April 27: Redmond at Issaquah, 3:45 p.m.; Liberty at Mercer Island (Island Crest), 6 p.m.; Newport at Skyline, 3:45 p.m.; April 30: Issaquah at Skyline, 3:45 p.m.; Sammamish at Liberty, 4:30 p.m.; Issaquah at Skyline, 3:45 p.m.; May 2: Liberty at Juanita (Lee Johnson Field), 4 p.m.Fastpitch softball4April 25: Woodinville at Issaquah, 4:30 p.m.; Inglemoor at Skyline, 4 p.m.; April 26: Sammamish at Liberty, 4:30 p.m.; April 27: Issaquah at Ballard (Lower Woodland), 4 p.m.; Issaquah at Skyline, 4 p.m.; April 30: Issaquah at Skyline, 4 p.m.; May 1: Lake Washington at Liberty, 4:30 p.m.; May 2: Issaquah at Newport, 4:30 p.m.; Skyline at Eastlake, 4 p.m.Girls Golf4 April 25: Liberty at Sammamish (Bellevue Municipal GC), 3 p.m.; April 30: Skyline at Issaquah (Snoqualmie Falls GC), 3 p.m.; May 1: Lake Washington at Liberty (Maplewood GC), 2:56 p.m.; May 2: Ballard at Skyline (Plateau GC), 3 p.m.Boys Soccer4April 27: Issaquah at Garfield, 7:30 p.m.; Liberty at Juanita, 7:30 p.m.; May 1: Bothell at Issaquah, 7:30 p.m.; Liberty at Mercer Island, 7:30 p.m.; Woodinville at Skyline, 7:30 p.m.Girls tennis4May 1: Roosevelt at Issaquah, 3:45 p.m.; Mount Si at Liberty, 3:45 p.m.; Skyline at Ballard (Lower Woodland), 3:45 p.m.Track and Field4April 26: Ballard, Redmond at Issaquah, 4 p.m.; Liberty at Lake Washington, 4 p.m.; Garfield at Skyline, 4 p.m.; April 28: Issaquah at Tomahawk Classic (Marysville-Pilchuck); Liberty girls at Lake Washington Invitational, Liberty boys at Shoreline Invitational.Boys lacrosse4April 27: Issaquah at Bainbridge, 7:30 p.m.; April 28: O.E.S. at Issaquah, 3 p.m.; April 30: Curtis at Issaquah, 8 p.m.; May 1: Stadium at Skyline, 8 p.m.; May 2: Mount Si at Liberty, 7 p.m.

April 18 games Skyline 12, Tahoma 5Statistics: Jack Pruitt, S, 5 goals, 1 assist, 5 ground

balls; Charlie Kurtenbach, S, 3 goals, 1 ground balls; Cannon Gardner, S, 2 goals, 1 assist; Ryan Benz, S, 1 goal, 3 ground balls; Tristan Miller, S, 1 goal; Spencer Noonan, S, 6 ground balls; Kyle Kuberski, S, 11 saves.

April 20 games Issaquah 17, Mukilteo 2 Issaquah 5 8 3 1 - 17 Mukilteo 1 0 1 0 - 2Statistics: Ben Director, Iss, 5 goals, 3 assists, 8

points, 2 ground balls; Derek DeYoung, Iss, 2 goals, 1 assist, 3 points, 2 ground balls; Chris Egland, Iss, 1 goal 1 point; Zach Fritz, Iss, 1 goal, 2 assists, 3 points, 1 ground ball; Duncan Hamilton, Iss, 2 goals, 2 points, 6 ground balls; Matt O’Neill, Iss, 2 goals, 2 assists, 4 points, 1 ground ball; Julian Ritchie, Iss, 4 goals, 4 points, 2 ground balls.

Division IIApril 17 games Edmonds 7, Liberty 6 OT Edmonds 3 1 2 0 1 - 7 Liberty 0 1 3 2 0 - 6Statistics: Josh Rutz, E, 3 goals, 6 ground balls; Kris

Delaney, E, 2 goals, 3 ground balls; Jordan Tindall, E, 1 goal, 2 assists, 5 ground balls; Aric Bolinger, E, 11 saves; Colin Ross, L, 3 goals, 1 assists, 3 ground balls; Peter Disney, L, 2 goals, 1 ground ball; Collin Larson, L, 1 goal, 1 ground ball; Roland Deex, L, 9 saves.

Prep girls tennisKingCo 4AApril 18 matchesIssaquah 6, Eastlake 1Singles — Katie park, E, beat Dayna Bennett, 6-1,

6-3; Kristin Cheung, I, beat Beth Rheinberger, 6-2, 6-2; Regina Darahovaski, I, beat Nina Kondza, 6-0, 6-2; Jenny Thompson, I, beat Neha Singh, 6-1, 6-0.

Doubles — Sam Garrard-Kelsey Wilson, I, beat McKenzie Schmid-Lilia Rodriguez, 6-2, 6-0; Halle Gordon-Rachel Gonchar, I, beat Courtney Tusler-Wendie Yeung, 6-2, 6-2; Molly Shade-Sabrina Barnett, I, beat Brenna Drummond-Shannon Keough, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3.

Prep girls golf

KingCo 4AApril 17 matches Issaquah 226, Newport 253 Medalist: Mersadie Tallman.Issaquah scores: Mersadie Tallman 35, Elin Skaardal

46, Jenny Lee 47.

Prep boys track & field

KingCo 4A leaders

100 meters4. Kyle Farmer (Iss) 11.24c Jorrell Dorsey (Iss) 11.24c7. Drew Matthews (Sky) 11.44c 200 meters4. Drew Matthews (Sky) 22.74c

6. Jorrell Dorsey (Iss) 23.04c Kyle Farmer (Iss) 23.04c 400 meters2. Drew Matthews (Sky) 49.35a4. Jamon Rogers (Sky) 50.54c 800 meters1. Jamon Rogers (Sky) 1:55.14a9. Grant Uselman (Sky) 2:02.02a 1600 meters3. Keegan Symmes (Sky) 4:27.005. Jamon Rogers (Sky) 4:30.90 3200 meters2. Keegan Symmes (Sky) 9:33.49a 110 meter hurdles - 39”3. Riley Herrera (Sky) 15.74c 300 meter hurdles - 36”9. Riley Herrera (Sky) 44.49c 4x100 relay5. Skyline 44.70a 4x400 relay3. Skyline 3:30.506. Issaquah 3:35.40 Shot put - 12lb8. Bryan Lee (Sky) 41’ 8.50 Discus - 1.6kg4. Bryan Lee (Sky) 136’ 3.005. Garret Corlis (Sky) 133’ 9.008. Jon DeVita (Sky) 122’ 8.00 Javelin - 800g2. Alex Ziebart (Sky) 169’ 9.008. Garret Corlis (Sky) 150’ 1.50 Pole Vault3. Andrew Larsen (Iss) 11’ 6.00 Bob Varney (Iss) 11’ 6.00 Long Jump1. Jorrell Dorsey (Iss) 21’ 4.00 Triple Jump2. Jorrell Dorsey (Iss) 43’ 1.007. Ryan Fukuda (Iss) 39’ 2.00

Prep girls track & field

KingCo 4A leaders’

100 meters2. Gabrielle Gevers (Iss) 12.74c10. McKenna Hogan (Iss) 13.34.c 200 meters4. Gabrielle Gevers (Iss) 26.64c7. Kaylie Greninger (Sky) 26.94c8. Maddi Hutson (Sky) 27.04c10. Dorie Dalzaell (Sky) 27.13a 400 meters1. Alexis Daugherty (Sky) 59.34c4. Kaylie Greninger (Sky) 60.19a9. Juliana da Cruz (Iss) 61.34c 800 meters5. Alexis Daugherty (Sky) 2:21.34a6. Maria Volodkevich (Sky) 2:21.60 1600 meters8. Maria Volodkevich (Sky) 5:24.00 3200 meters4. Samantha Krahling (Sky) 11:24.83a9. Maria Volodkevich (Sky) 11:50.8010. Kathryn Steele (Sky) 11:52.24 100 meter hurdles - 33”

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match several strokes ahead of where they usually play. The final team score of 289 was good news for Redmond’s girls varsity team, which totaled 228 strokes to con-tinue its 10-year winning streak.

“It was not my best,” said Brya Vowels, who holds the varsity No. 1 spot for Skyline. She shot a 61 that day. “Bear Creek is always a hard course, and the weather we were dealing with is not ideal. If you’ve played there a bunch then you get the hang of it, but Red-mond’s team is really good about telling us about the tricky spots.”

Much like Skyline’s home course at The Plateau Club, the holes at Bear Creek are isolated, bordered with homes and haz-ards, which leaves little room for error. Courses like Skyline’s and Redmond’s, with their unexpected challenges, give the home team an advantage. But Hanson said he also was pleased at how gener-ous Redmond’s players were with warnings about hazards to avoid.

“It is kind of neat that your opposing players are telling you

about where you should be,” Han-son said. “Eastlake, Redmond and Skyline all have really wonderful courses … We are totally lucky.”

One thing about Bear Creek that did play to Vowels’ strengths was long greens. Usually, she said, her weakest part is her short game. But as her strokes to get to the green increased, her short game compensated.

“I was able to do a bump-and-run chip where the balls run more, which I know my coach was happy I used because we’ve been working on it,” Vowels said. “It was fun. I definitely like the challenge. I would love to go back and play it again, now that I know what I’m up against.”

Skyline’s Shirley Chung finished with a 57; Melanie Busch shot a 58; and Emma Farno finished with a 61. Reaching three greens in regulation, Marie Guenette broke 60 for the third time in a row with her finish of 58.

Skyline is set to take on rival Issaquah at 3 p.m. April 30 at Snoqualmie Golf Course.

Lillian Tucker: 392-6434, ext. 242, or [email protected]. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

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Skyline High School senior Shirley Chung concentrates on chipping onto the green rather than the constant drizzle that plagued the April 19 match against Redmond.

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the other side of the river. There, we attempted to load the fish onto or into the car.

Dad had just purchased a new Peugeot compact because he fig-ured he could get better mileage on his job. It was so small and streamlined that there was no way we could tie the fish on the hood or top, nor even put in the trunk. We ended up stuffing the fish through a rear window into the tiny back seat with about 2 feet of shark-like tail sticking out.

The drive home was through the dark, sagebrush desert near Bliss Idaho and just after the bars at the truck stop had closed. Driving slowly because of the open window, we were passed by several cars and trucks.

Every vehicle slowed down for the occupants to take a second look. On one occasion, the driver slammed on his brakes, abruptly pulled over to the shoulder and turned out his lights; having just seen a huge shark being ferried across the desert in an alien vehicle. This was obviously to him an illusion induced by over-imbibing.

Whether eaten or traded for beef with the married rancher-students, the sturgeon was paramount in our getting through school that year.

Because of that memory, and the continued delight in eating this delicious fish, I look forward to casting my trussed up smelt into the Columbia River in mid May.

Reach Dallas Cross at [email protected] or www.fishjournal.org. View previous articles and comment on this column at www.issaquahpress.com.

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From “keep out” signs swing-ing on our childhood bedroom doors to setting passcodes on our smart phones, personal privacy has always been regarded as something sacred.

While technological advances and judicial decisions further integrate privacy as one of our fundamental rights, it faces poten-tial threats from the very devices and social networks that demand privacy.

Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook allow us to keep connected with relative ease and convenience. There’s no better way to get updates on homework, events and everyone’s spring break adventures than logging on to your preferred site; our lives are represented by timelines and tweets.

It can seem harmless, posting about the amazing ice cream you just had at the Ben and Jerry’s close to your house, or sharing your location when you head to Lincoln Cinemas to see “The Hunger Games.” And for the most part, it is. The likelihood of someone with malicious intent perusing your profile is slim, but

updating statuses constantly or divulging per-sonal information on one of these social media sites can undermine any efforts toward privacy.

“Using Face-book definitely makes us more susceptible to having our information out there,” Issaquah High School senior Kaileen Dougherty said. “It’s easier for people to get info about us, and it is kind of scary because it is so easily acces-sible.”

Preventing unwanted visi-tors to your profile is as easy as a quick revision of the privacy settings and can insulate you from strangers browsing your interests and favorite places to hang out on Friday nights. The best way to protect yourself and your privacy, without having to sacrifice the use of Facebook and other sites, is to make sure your privacy settings are set as high

as possible. Tumblr, a newer site that has

seen an increase in widespread use, is a medium which simulta-neously acts as a blog, a forum to share videos and photos, and an online diary. It is not neces-sary to share your name, which potentially allows for complete anonymity.

Nevertheless, posting intimate details online, regardless of whether your name is immedi-ately attached, still allows for the information to be viewed by third parties. Tumblr is used for its privacy aspect, but how private is something that is shared on the

worldwide Web?“I think it’s a personal choice,”

Dougherty said, “But in the end, you don’t want technology to become an extension of yourself, because then nothing is really ever private.”

4 Movie: ‘The Avengers’

Set to come to the big screen May 4, The Avengers brings the S.H.I.E.L.D. agency to life. With a collection of Marvel’s biggest heroes: Iron Man, The Hulk, Cap-tain America, Thor, Hawkeye and Black Widow all led by Nick Fury to save the world from the evil Loki. A movie with the star power of Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson can’t be missed by any action movie fan. Like with all Marvel movies, this should be a roller coaster ride that may be only worth it on the big screen, so get some of your comic nerd friends and go see the movie.

4 Music: ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ By Nicki Minaj “Roman Reloaded” came out with a bang —Nicki Minaj’s album debuted as Billboard’s No. 1 album. This latest album released by hair-color-changing fanatic Minaj is fol-lowing up her debut album, “Pink Friday.” Minaj’s vibrant album includes a flurry of appearances from other artists and is headlined by her single, “Starships.” This CD will keep your car pumping for a bit — but only before we get sick of her new hairdo.

4Theater: ‘Metamorphoses’ Issaquah High School Play

Issaquah High School’s drama department will be performing the Broadway-acclaimed “Meta-morphoses” show May 17-19 at 7:30 each night at the Issaquah High School theater.

TheHot List

Eastside Catholic High School

“I’m really private with my Facebook set-tings, and try to be careful with what I post and stuff.”

Michael Abraham,junior

“I try not to post too much personal info online.”

Nalani Saito,junior

Issaquah High School

“I don’t friend people I don’t know, I make sure my pictures and statuses are set so only my friends can see them, and I think about what I post.”

Alex Hanson,junior

“I double check everything to make sure it won’t ever come back to me in a negative way. Nothing is ever really private and nothing can ever really be permanently deleted, so I am cautious about who may be looking.”

Liberty High School“On Face-

book, I never add friends I don’t know personally, and I will occasion-ally go through my friends list to delete people I don’t want to know my busi-ness.”

Dana Sanders,senior

“I use the privacy settings on Facebook and come up with extremely ridiculous passwords for everything.

Emma Hewitt,senior

Skyline High School“I assure my

Internet privacy by censoring what I post on social media and where I am tagged. Yet I understand that none of what I put online is truly safe, so anything I post, I make sure I wouldn’t mind it getting out to the public.”

“I keep my name and profile picture on social media visible to everyone just in case someone I meet outside of school with no mutual friends wants to send me a friend request. But other than that, I don’t keep any other information visible to the public. Everything else is only visible to people on my friends list.”

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April 17 marked the second annual AMP Night at Issaquah High School, spon-sored by the Issaquah Junior Class Council.

AMP Night — a showcase of art, music and poetry — was a great example of Issaquah’s support for each unique student. More than 100 students from com-pletely different social groups came together to perform and celebrate one another’s talents. Some students chose to perform a beloved song, oth-ers chose to recite an original poem and there was even a student who sang opera in a different language.

“AMP night is a great way for us to express our passion for music and get other people ex-cited about music,” said Khalil Somani, a member of the group in the finale performance.

In the finale of the show, Somani’s group performed the Black Eyed Peas song, “Where is the Love?” Ironically, the performers as well as the audi-ence had a sense that the love was being shared around the theater.

“Issaquah is proud of our tal-ent, and we hope new students will participate in AMP Night next year,” Associated Student Body member Jarred Ha said.

The latest production from the Liberty High School Patriot Players, “Little Shop of Hor-rors,” opened April 20. The musical is about a florist shop on Skid Row, and its most peculiar plant.

Senior Tuck-er Goodman plays florist assistant Seymour, who’s in love with Audrey, a role being shared by seniors Pamela Edmonds and Sierra Hunt. When Seymour stumbles upon a carnivorous talking plant (that he names Audrey II), chaos ensues.

Senior Sheady Manning provides the voice of Audrey II, while other actors take on roles as puppeteers, controlling the monstrous plant’s onstage pres-ence, and bringing an interest-ing dimension to the character. This gargantuan puppet will be sure to turn heads, and will un-doubtedly add a unique aspect to the production.

“The show is really funny and shows everyone’s talents in unique ways,” junior Molly Costello said. “I also think that this show is easier for the audi-ence to understand and relate to.”

The show, which will play for two weekends, until May 5, will be the last major Liberty produc-tion before the Patriot Players move into their new performing arts center next fall.

Come April 28, 25 Skyline High School DECA students will be ready to com-pete at the 2012 International Career Develop-ment Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Skyline DECA chap-ter has been known for its excellent performance at com-petitions in the past, and this year was no exception. Skyline had 32 students qualify for the conference, an impressive sta-tistic that followed the chapter’s notable performance at area, where 95 papers qualified for state and 50 students double-qualified.

“I’m excited about ICDC be-cause it’s a chance to compete against the best people on pa-pers we’ve been working on all year,” Anna Rizkalla, co-presi-dent of Skyline DECA, said.

The conference will be a culmination of the efforts of students who have made it to state and now nationals.

Co-president Jessie Dart is also proud of the Skyline DECA chapter.

“It has been a truly rewarding experience competing at ICDC in the past,” she said. “I am extremely excited for this year. Skyline DECA has worked so hard this year and I predict all of their hard work will pay off in this international competition!”

Three years ago, the word “DECA” meant nothing to the students of Eastside Catho-lic High School.

Distributive Education Clubs of America is an association of students who study business and marketing, and partici-pate in several competitions throughout the school year. Despite being only three years old, Eastside’s DECA chapter has come a long way since its beginning.

The inaugural class had one student qualify for the pres-tigious International Career Development Conference. Last year, three students qualified for the conference and this year, seven of ECHS’s 40 members qualified for the conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. A first-place win in the Community Service written event and third- and fifth-place finishes in the Sports and Entertainment Marketing individual event are just a few of the successes that students earned while competing.

Additionally, nearly all of the chapter’s members qualified for the Washington State Com-petition. Ronda Patrick, ECHS’s DECA adviser and recent SAMMI award winner, attri-butes her students’ success to hard work, passion and hours of practice.

Iman BaghaiIssaquah

High School

Activities heat up with the arrival of springIssaquah shines at AMP Night

program

Veronica AustinLiberty High

School

Last play in old theater is ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

Skyline DECA heads to nationals

Katie SutherlandEastside Catholic

High School

Eastside DECA celebrates its

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From “keep out” signs swing-ing on our childhood bedroom doors to setting passcodes on our smart phones, personal privacy has always been regarded as something sacred.

While technological advances and judicial decisions further integrate privacy as one of our fundamental rights, it faces poten-tial threats from the very devices and social networks that demand privacy.

Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook allow us to keep connected with relative ease and convenience. There’s no better way to get updates on homework, events and everyone’s spring break adventures than logging on to your preferred site; our lives are represented by timelines and tweets.

It can seem harmless, posting about the amazing ice cream you just had at the Ben and Jerry’s close to your house, or sharing your location when you head to Lincoln Cinemas to see “The Hunger Games.” And for the most part, it is. The likelihood of someone with malicious intent perusing your profile is slim, but

updating statuses constantly or divulging per-sonal information on one of these social media sites can undermine any efforts toward privacy.

“Using Face-book definitely makes us more susceptible to having our information out there,” Issaquah High School senior Kaileen Dougherty said. “It’s easier for people to get info about us, and it is kind of scary because it is so easily acces-sible.”

Preventing unwanted visi-tors to your profile is as easy as a quick revision of the privacy settings and can insulate you from strangers browsing your interests and favorite places to hang out on Friday nights. The best way to protect yourself and your privacy, without having to sacrifice the use of Facebook and other sites, is to make sure your privacy settings are set as high

as possible. Tumblr, a newer site that has

seen an increase in widespread use, is a medium which simulta-neously acts as a blog, a forum to share videos and photos, and an online diary. It is not neces-sary to share your name, which potentially allows for complete anonymity.

Nevertheless, posting intimate details online, regardless of whether your name is immedi-ately attached, still allows for the information to be viewed by third parties. Tumblr is used for its privacy aspect, but how private is something that is shared on the

worldwide Web?“I think it’s a personal choice,”

Dougherty said, “But in the end, you don’t want technology to become an extension of yourself, because then nothing is really ever private.”

4 Movie: ‘The Avengers’

Set to come to the big screen May 4, The Avengers brings the S.H.I.E.L.D. agency to life. With a collection of Marvel’s biggest heroes: Iron Man, The Hulk, Cap-tain America, Thor, Hawkeye and Black Widow all led by Nick Fury to save the world from the evil Loki. A movie with the star power of Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson can’t be missed by any action movie fan. Like with all Marvel movies, this should be a roller coaster ride that may be only worth it on the big screen, so get some of your comic nerd friends and go see the movie.

4 Music: ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ By Nicki Minaj “Roman Reloaded” came out with a bang —Nicki Minaj’s album debuted as Billboard’s No. 1 album. This latest album released by hair-color-changing fanatic Minaj is fol-lowing up her debut album, “Pink Friday.” Minaj’s vibrant album includes a flurry of appearances from other artists and is headlined by her single, “Starships.” This CD will keep your car pumping for a bit — but only before we get sick of her new hairdo.

4Theater: ‘Metamorphoses’ Issaquah High School Play

Issaquah High School’s drama department will be performing the Broadway-acclaimed “Meta-morphoses” show May 17-19 at 7:30 each night at the Issaquah High School theater.

TheHot List

Eastside Catholic High School

“I’m really private with my Facebook set-tings, and try to be careful with what I post and stuff.”

Michael Abraham,junior

“I try not to post too much personal info online.”

Nalani Saito,junior

Issaquah High School

“I don’t friend people I don’t know, I make sure my pictures and statuses are set so only my friends can see them, and I think about what I post.”

Alex Hanson,junior

“I double check everything to make sure it won’t ever come back to me in a negative way. Nothing is ever really private and nothing can ever really be permanently deleted, so I am cautious about who may be looking.”

Liberty High School“On Face-

book, I never add friends I don’t know personally, and I will occasion-ally go through my friends list to delete people I don’t want to know my busi-ness.”

Dana Sanders,senior

“I use the privacy settings on Facebook and come up with extremely ridiculous passwords for everything.

Emma Hewitt,senior

Skyline High School“I assure my

Internet privacy by censoring what I post on social media and where I am tagged. Yet I understand that none of what I put online is truly safe, so anything I post, I make sure I wouldn’t mind it getting out to the public.”

“I keep my name and profile picture on social media visible to everyone just in case someone I meet outside of school with no mutual friends wants to send me a friend request. But other than that, I don’t keep any other information visible to the public. Everything else is only visible to people on my friends list.”

TALK TO USEmail story ideas to

[email protected]. Like The Beat on Facebook. Follow

@issaquahbeat on Twitter.

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Teen TalkO

April 17 marked the second annual AMP Night at Issaquah High School, spon-sored by the Issaquah Junior Class Council.

AMP Night — a showcase of art, music and poetry — was a great example of Issaquah’s support for each unique student. More than 100 students from com-pletely different social groups came together to perform and celebrate one another’s talents. Some students chose to perform a beloved song, oth-ers chose to recite an original poem and there was even a student who sang opera in a different language.

“AMP night is a great way for us to express our passion for music and get other people ex-cited about music,” said Khalil Somani, a member of the group in the finale performance.

In the finale of the show, Somani’s group performed the Black Eyed Peas song, “Where is the Love?” Ironically, the performers as well as the audi-ence had a sense that the love was being shared around the theater.

“Issaquah is proud of our tal-ent, and we hope new students will participate in AMP Night next year,” Associated Student Body member Jarred Ha said.

The latest production from the Liberty High School Patriot Players, “Little Shop of Hor-rors,” opened April 20. The musical is about a florist shop on Skid Row, and its most peculiar plant.

Senior Tuck-er Goodman plays florist assistant Seymour, who’s in love with Audrey, a role being shared by seniors Pamela Edmonds and Sierra Hunt. When Seymour stumbles upon a carnivorous talking plant (that he names Audrey II), chaos ensues.

Senior Sheady Manning provides the voice of Audrey II, while other actors take on roles as puppeteers, controlling the monstrous plant’s onstage pres-ence, and bringing an interest-ing dimension to the character. This gargantuan puppet will be sure to turn heads, and will un-doubtedly add a unique aspect to the production.

“The show is really funny and shows everyone’s talents in unique ways,” junior Molly Costello said. “I also think that this show is easier for the audi-ence to understand and relate to.”

The show, which will play for two weekends, until May 5, will be the last major Liberty produc-tion before the Patriot Players move into their new performing arts center next fall.

Come April 28, 25 Skyline High School DECA students will be ready to com-pete at the 2012 International Career Develop-ment Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Skyline DECA chap-ter has been known for its excellent performance at com-petitions in the past, and this year was no exception. Skyline had 32 students qualify for the conference, an impressive sta-tistic that followed the chapter’s notable performance at area, where 95 papers qualified for state and 50 students double-qualified.

“I’m excited about ICDC be-cause it’s a chance to compete against the best people on pa-pers we’ve been working on all year,” Anna Rizkalla, co-presi-dent of Skyline DECA, said.

The conference will be a culmination of the efforts of students who have made it to state and now nationals.

Co-president Jessie Dart is also proud of the Skyline DECA chapter.

“It has been a truly rewarding experience competing at ICDC in the past,” she said. “I am extremely excited for this year. Skyline DECA has worked so hard this year and I predict all of their hard work will pay off in this international competition!”

Three years ago, the word “DECA” meant nothing to the students of Eastside Catho-lic High School.

Distributive Education Clubs of America is an association of students who study business and marketing, and partici-pate in several competitions throughout the school year. Despite being only three years old, Eastside’s DECA chapter has come a long way since its beginning.

The inaugural class had one student qualify for the pres-tigious International Career Development Conference. Last year, three students qualified for the conference and this year, seven of ECHS’s 40 members qualified for the conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. A first-place win in the Community Service written event and third- and fifth-place finishes in the Sports and Entertainment Marketing individual event are just a few of the successes that students earned while competing.

Additionally, nearly all of the chapter’s members qualified for the Washington State Com-petition. Ronda Patrick, ECHS’s DECA adviser and recent SAMMI award winner, attri-butes her students’ success to hard work, passion and hours of practice.

Iman BaghaiIssaquah

High School

Activities heat up with the arrival of springIssaquah shines at AMP Night

program

Veronica AustinLiberty High

School

Last play in old theater is ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

Skyline DECA heads to nationals

Katie SutherlandEastside Catholic

High School

Eastside DECA celebrates its

third year

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02‑2368 LEGAL NOTICE

CITY OF ISSAQUAHNOTICE OF PUBLIC

HEARINGUrban Village Development

Commission

The Urban Village Develop‑ ment Commission (UVDC) will hold a Public Hearing at 7:‑ 00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1st at Council Chambers lo‑ cated at 135 East Sunset Way. At this Public Hearing, the Commission will take pub‑ lic input on the Issaquah High‑ lands, Site Development Per‑ mit Application for the Grand Ridge Plaza project.

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and will be forwarded to the UVDC for consideration. The decision, once rendered, is appealable.

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02‑2370 LEGAL NOTICE

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Sealed bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the office of Eastside Fire & Res‑ cue at 1:15 p.m. on May 10, 2012.

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Stink, stank, stunk

A garbage can was stolen from the 19800 block of Southeast 29th Street early April 1.

All that glittersJewelry was stolen from a resi-

dence in the 3300 block of 263rd Avenue Southeast before April 2. The estimated loss is $8,000.

Easy riderA California woman, who is a

former Sammamish resident, said someone purchased and regis-tered a car in her name before April 3.

PennilessCash, a garage door opener,

iPod and keys to a mailbox were stolen from a vehicle parked in the 1000 block of 169th Avenue Southeast early April 5.

LostA GPS unit was stolen from a

vehicle parked in the 900 block of 270th Court Southeast early April 5.

UnsocialA resident in the 200 block of

First Avenue Northeast said some-one fraudulently used his or her daughter’s Social Security number before 11:51 a.m. April 5.

Cellblock tangoPolice arrested a 31-year-old

Issaquah man, who is an inmate at the Issaquah Jail, for mali-cious mischief for scratching a cell window at the jail, 130 E. Sunset Way, before 4:38 p.m. April 4. The estimated loss is $400.

AssaultPolice arrested a 32-year-old

Snoqualmie man for assault in the 100 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard at 6:36 p.m. April 5.

Something stinksPolice responded to suspicious

activity in the 1500 block of 24th Avenue Northeast after a caller said someone smeared feces on his or her dog before 7:30 p.m. April 5.

Butt outA resident in the 500 block of

225th Lane Northeast told po-lice she suspected somebody of sneaking onto her ground-floor patio and emptying her ashtray before April 6. She told police she often smokes on the patio, and on several occasions has found the ashtray emptied of ash and cigarette butts.

RV, victimizedItems were stolen from a recre-

ational vehicle parked in the 200 block of Newport Way Southeast before 1:45 a.m. April 6.

ArrestPolice arrested a 31-year-old

man for domestic violence for the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office in the 22800 block of Southeast Black Nugget Road at 1:14 p.m. April 6.

Buried treasureStaffers at Skyline High School,

1122 228th Ave. S.E., unearthed a cooler full of 11 cans of Bud Light in a wooded area east of the school April 6. The cooler ap-peared to have been in the woods for more than a year, and the dates on the bottom of the cans read 2009.

CutA saw, impact driver and drill

were stolen from a vehicle parked in the 5600 block of 230th Avenue Southeast before 5:04 p.m. April 6. The estimated loss is $490.

AssaultPolice arrested a juvenile male

for assault in the 2100 block of Newport Way Northwest at 5:31 p.m. April 6.

DrugsPolice cited and released a

23-year-old Issaquah woman for possession of marijuana in the 5600 block of East Lake Sam-mamish Parkway Southeast at 11:03 p.m. April 6.

Credit crisisA resident in the 1500 block of

24th Avenue Northeast said his or her credit card had been used to make fraudulent purchases before 11:42 a.m. April 7. The estimated loss is $293.

Hacked

A laptop computer was stolen from the 2300 block of 251st Street Southeast before April 7.

Domestic violencePolice arrested a 35-year-old

Sammamish man on suspicion of domestic assault and interfering with the reporting of domestic violence April 7.

Family feudPolice responded to a man in

the 18100 block of Southeast 41st Place at 9:29 p.m. April 8 after he said his mother stole his hookah pipe. He lives with his mother, and she took it because she did not like the smell. Police said of-ficers could not force his mother to return the hookah pipe.

ArrestPolice arrested a 37-year-old

Fall City woman on a warrant in the 100 block of Front Street North at 1:52 a.m. April 9.

So boardWooden boards were stolen from

the 600 block of Rainier Boulevard North before 1:30 p.m. April 9. The estimated loss is $1,000.

Drugs

Police arrested a 28-year-old Carnation man for possession of heroin, possession of drug parapher-nalia and possession of a dangerous weapon in the 100 block of Front Street North at 5:34 p.m. April 9.

DefacedPolice discovered graffiti on a

storage unit and transformers in the 500 block of Newport Way Northwest at 8:56 a.m. April 10.

The Press publishes names of those arrest-ed for DUI and those charged with felony crimes. Information comes directly from local police reports.

Eastside Fire & Rescue reports for March 284At 12:22 p.m. April 6,

personnel from five units from Station 71 responded to a report of smoke at a residence in the 400 block of Newport Way Northwest, only to dis-cover it was just gas or steam.4At 11:29 a.m. April 7,

personnel from two units from Station 72 aided a pe-destrian injured by a motor vehicle in the 5700 block of East Lake Sammamish Park-way Southeast.4At 6:06 p.m. April 10,

personnel from a unit from Station 81 extinguished a brush fire in the 21200 block of Southeast 42nd Place.4At 7:18 and 8:04 p.m.

April 10, personnel from units from Station 71 re-sponded to an unauthorized burning in the 8500 block of 312th Place Southeast.4At 12:36 p.m. April 11,

personnel from two units from Station 72 provided medical assistance at a motor vehicle accident in the 100 block of Renton-Issaquah Road Southeast.4At 3:21 p.m. April 11,

personnel from five units from Station 71 responded to a motor vehicle accident in the 100 block of state Route 18. There were no injuries.4At 12:54 p.m. April 12,

personnel from three units from Station 73 responded to a motor vehicle accident in the 3900 block of Southeast Duthie Hill Road. There were no injuries.4At 7:22 p.m. April 13,

personnel from two units from Station 78 extinguished a fire in the 13600 block of 197th Avenue Southeast.4At 9:14 April 14, person-

nel from two units from Sta-tion 72 provided medical aid at a motor vehicle accident in the 17500 block of Issaquah-Hobart Road.4At 11:08 a.m. April 15,

personnel from two units from Station 81 provided medical assistance at a motor vehicle accident in the 100 block of Southeast 20th Street.4At 8:12 a.m. April 16,

personnel from four units from Station 71 rendered emergency aid at a motor vehicle accident in the 22200 block of westbound Interstate 90 west of Front Street.4At 2:13 p.m. April 19,

personnel from two units from Station 71 responded to an unauthorized burning in the 9000 block of 300th Place Southeast.

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By Tom Corrigan

Issaquah’s nonprofit art gallery, artEAST, presents its sixth annual 150 Feet of Art Auction and Fundraiser, launching April 27 and culminating May 12.

As in the past, artEAST literally has 150 feet of art for sale starting April 27, said Karen Abel, artEAST executive di-rector. The kick-off event is free and open to the public.

The gallery has put together 150 12-by-12 artworks, none costing more than $350, even if actually valued at more than that amount.

“There are some great bargains to be had,” Susan Walker, event chairwoman, said.

But there is one big difference between this show and previous auctions. For the first time, the show has a lead juror in Seattle artist Stephanie Hargrave.

Hargrave — who is trained in drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture and other media — is an instructor at artEAST and the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. She holds regular workshops in her West Seattle studio, and has her work show-ing in the Patricia Rovzar Gallery and the SAM Gallery in Seattle, the Circa Gallery in Minneapolis and at Anne Irwin Art in Atlanta.

“The quality of the art is better than in years past,” Walker said regarding the 150 Feet show.

The 150 Feet of art goes on display to the public at the art center recep-tion April 27. Silent bidding starts that evening. Bidders will be identified by a

registered number to compete for favor-ite pieces. Bids can be placed in person at artEAST.

A “Buy It Now” option allows you to instantly purchase the item of your choice, but it will be left on display for the remainder of the show. Available works also will be on display on the artEAST website, www.arteast.org.

Over the course of the show, the public is encouraged to vote for the People’s Choice Award for their favorite piece from the show opening through May 11. The winning artist will be recognized, along with a Jurors’ Choice recipient, at the final auction event.

That final auction is a ticketed event

May 12, again at artEAST. Though the bidding is silent, Walker said at least one auctioneer would be roaming the crowd adding to the atmosphere. Music also is planned.

Besides a lead juror, there is one more whimsical addition to the 150 Feet of Art show. In what Walker called a mystery box are several pieces of donated art. The estimated value was given as $4,000. Ac-cording to a press release, 11 artists have contributed to the contents of the colorful mystery box.

The online Mystery Box Book gives you a glimpse of the talents who con-tributed and some idea of what is inside. View it at www.blurb.com/

books/3077488. Raffle tickets for the mystery box are available at $20 each. Tickets can be purchased at artEAST and on its website at www.arteast.org. The drawing will happen at the culmi-nating event May 12. The winner does not need to be present.

The coming show is what Walker called sort of an “everyman’s” show, with the prices deliberately capped. A total of 27 committees helped put the event together.

The 150 Feet of Art show is one of two main fundraisers for the non-profit artEAST. The fundraising goal is $30,000, double last year’s goal of $15,000.

“We set ourselves a pretty big stan-dard,” Walker said.


By Tom CorriganIssaquah Press reporter

This is likely to be the only play put on by any high school where the actors have a good chance of being upstaged by a plant.

A very lively, talking, singing plant, but still a plant.

Liberty High School is presenting the musical spoof “Little Shop of Horrors” at the school starting April 27. There are five more shows through May 5.

For those who don’t know, “Little Shop” is based on the exceptionally cheesy, cult horror movie of the same name. At its center is a plant that feeds on human blood. In the musical, it’s all tongue in cheek, of course.

“It’s definitely been an experience,” said senior Sheady Manning-Bruce, 17, who actually plays the plant, Audrey II.

The plant is clearly evil, feeding on humans, Manning-Bruce said. But he felt he had to give Audrey II a personal-ity that reached beyond being merely evil. And at the same time, Manning-Bruce acknowledged he is playing a plant that greatly limits his movements. He also has to deal with all of the spe-cial effects that are going into creating Audrey II.

Normally, when putting on “Little Shop,” those producing the show will make use of the original stage design for Audrey II, said director and Liberty drama teacher Katherine Klekas.

Production companies can rent an Audrey II. But Klekas said that rent can run into thousands of dollars.

For the Liberty shows, volunteer Steve Canaga designed and created a whole

new Audrey II. Canaga no longer even has students at Liberty, but likes work-ing with the drama department enough that he continues to help out with shows, Klekas added.

According to Klekas, Canaga has been working for months with techni-cal director Jason Tribby, costumer Susan Canaga and a visiting artist from the Seattle Children’s Theater, Annett Mateo. The design for Liberty’s Audrey II is being kept under wraps. Manning-Bruce doesn’t say much except that there are a lot of puppeteers involved in bringing the plants limbs and vines to life. In publicity materials, Steve Canaga declined to explain how the puppet will work.

“What I will say is that you will not look at plants the same way in the fu-ture,” he said.

Klekas was happy to allow a reporter with a camera into a recent rehearsal. But she insisted the bits of Audrey II on stage not be photographed. She described the plant as the show’s “big reveal.”

Besides Manning-Bruce, the show’s other lead roles belong to senior Tucker Goodman, 18, as Seymour, the owner and keeper of Audrey II who gets seduced by the fame the plant eventually brings to him. In a bit of a switch from the norm, two actresses are playing the human Audrey, Sey-mour’s secret love interest for whom the plant is named.

Senior Pamela Edmonds, 17, and senior Sierra Hunt, 17, will alternate performances, each taking three turns as Audrey. For the remaining shows, the actresses will take a place in The

Ronettes, a female doo-wop group that acts as a sort of Greek Chorus for the show.

Goodman has been in every produc-tion done at Liberty since his freshman year. That’s about 12 or more shows, he estimated. He also has acted outside the school, last year winning the Fifth Avenue High School Musical Theater Award for Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role. After graduation, Goodman plans to continue acting — he’s heading to Seattle Pacific University to major in theater.

As for the two female leads, neither minds in the least sharing the role. Klekas took the unusual step of split-ting the performances because she said she had two outstanding candi-dates and just couldn’t choose between them. The Ronettes are onstage quite a bit, with several singing and dancing numbers. Both Hunt and Edmonds had to learn two big roles and do twice the rehearsing. But, predictably, neither had any reservations about the extra effort.

“Both parts are awesome, just differ-ent,” said Edmonds, who also plans to continue in theater beyond high school.

“It takes more focus,” Hunt said of

playing two big parts.She said each actress plays Audrey a

little differently. It’s a different show, Hunt said, depending on who is playing the female lead.

“It’s been a hugely challenging pro-cess,” Klekas concluded regarding the staging of “Little Shop.”

But she said she and others at the school have wanted to do the show for a while and decided now was the time.

“We had the opportunity and we just went for it,” Klekas said.


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W M A R C HArtEAST presents 150 Feet of Art Opening Reception, 6-9 p.m. at its Art Center, 95 Front St. N. The exhibit runs through May 12.

“Little Shop of Horrors,” Liberty High School, 16555 S.E. 136th St., Renton, 7:30 p.m. April 27-28, May 3-4, and 2:30 p.m. May 5, tickets (available at the door) are $10 for seniors, children under 12 and stu-dents with an ASB card, and $12 for adults

Fernando Ortega in concert benefits CareNet Pregnancy & Family Services, 7 p.m., Covenant Presbyterian Church, 22116 S.E. 51st Place, www.fernandoissaquah.com

James Howard Band, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella, 99 Front St. N., 391-1424

4 Outt 5 (80s & 90s rock), 7:30-9:30 p.m., Amante, 131 Front St. N., 313-9600

Fabulous Roof Shakers (R&B), 7:30-10 p.m., Amante

British Beats, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella

Ventura Highway Revisited, 8 p.m., Pogacha, 120 N.W.

Gilman Blvd., 392-5550

All Porsche Car Show, 8 a.m., Triple XXX Rootbeer Drive-in, 98 N.E. Gilman Blvd., 392-1266

Michael Powers (jazz), 7:30-9:30 p.m., Amante

M A YOpen Mic Night, 6:30 p.m. Field of Champions Sports Bar, 385 N.W. Gilman Blvd., 392-7111

Eric Madis, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella

11th annual Downtown Issaquah ArtWalk, 5-8 p.m., featuring artists in action in downtown locations, live music, the Poetry Machine, refresh-

ments and more. See a complete schedule at www.downtownissaquah.com.

Soul Motivation, 8 p.m., Pogacha

All ages rock concert, featuring musicians from the Kaleidoscope School of Music, 4:45-9:30 p.m., corner of Front Street and Sunset Way

Tony Mamon Group, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella

Vintage Travel Trailer & Motorhome Campout, 5 p.m., Triple XXX Rootbeer Drive-in

Mark Thallander, internationally acclaimed organist, 7 p.m. at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, 22116

S.E. 51st Place. A free-will offering will be taken to cover the cost of the concert.

@Five, 8 p.m., Pogacha

Village Theatre presents “The Producers” through July 1, Francis J. Gaudette Theater, 303 Front St. N., $22 to $62, 392-2202

Michael Gotz & Relay For Life Auction, 7-10 p.m., Vino Bella

The Core, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella

Troy Kline, 8 p.m., Pogacha

Seatown Rhythm and Blues, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella

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Pam Edmonds (left) is Audrey and Tucker Goodman is Seymour in Liberty High School’s production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors.’

Issaquah-based Costco sells $4 billion in produce, almost $2 billion in televi-sions, 55 million rotisserie chickens, 2.6 billion gallons of gasoline and 3 million pairs of eyeglasses each year.

The largest warehouse club chain on the planet is the subject of a CNBC docu-mentary, “The Costco Craze: Inside the Warehouse Giant,” scheduled to debut April 26.

Costco, as the largest employer in Issaquah, employs about 2,700 people in corporate offices and at the flagship warehouse in Pickering Place.

Carl Quintanilla examines how Costco expanded to 600 stores and $93 billion in annual sales by attracting affluent cus-

tomers and shoppers on a budget. The documentary also explores the “Costco Effect” — the tendency of Costco mem-bers to succumb to discounts and buy more than expected.

The documentary introduces viewers to 76-year-old Costco cofounder and former CEO Jim Sinegal. Quintanilla joins Sinegal on a marathon, multistore tour.

Craig Jelinek succeeded Sinegal as Costco CEO in January.

In Issaquah, a daily parade of anxious vendors trek to Costco headquarters to show off wares.

The company headquarters relocated from Kirkland to Issaquah in 1996 — hence the Kirkland Signature name on

store-brand products.CNBC follows the chain’s head toy

buyer through the intense process of nar-rowing down more than 1,000 toys to a handful.

Viewers also meet Costco wine buyer Annette Alvarez-Peters, a global force in the wine industry. Costco is the top importer of high-end French wines on the globe.

Though Costco sells a broad array of items — luxury purses, Swiss watches, dog food — the best-selling item is toilet paper. The warehouse giant sells more than 1 billion rolls each year, or enough to wrap around the Earth 1,200 times.

Youth musicians compete for your voteFour local musicians are competing in

the Classical KING FM 98.1 Young Art-ist Awards. They are Jay Grinols, Robert Yan, Jonathan Kok and Nile Canai. To help them in the competition, cast your vote at www.KING.org through April 27. On May 4, the grand-prize winner will win an evening on Northwest Focus LIVE as the featured guest.

The Young Artist Awards competition, now in its first year, encourages enjoy-ment and performance of classical music for regional young musicians as part of the Classical KING FM educational initiative, in partnership with Seattle Chamber Music Society.

IF YOU GO‘Little Shop of Horrors’4Liberty High School416655 S.E. 136th St., Renton47:30 p.m. April 27-28 and May 3-42:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. May 54Tickets at the door: $12 for adults; seniors and students are $10

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ArtEAST assembles 150 Feet of Art for auctionIF YOU GO

150 Feet of Art4artEAST Art Center495 Front St. N. 4Opening reception, from 6-9 p.m., April 274Free and open to the public4Closing reception, from 6-9 p.m., May 124Tickets are $15 each.4Purchase tickets or learn more at www.arteast.org or call 392-3191.

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Among the 12-by-12 originals in artEAST’s 150 Feet of Art are Mary Masterson’s ‘The Frog Prince’ and the watercolor ‘The Bird of Paradise,’ by Katalin Fazekas. Both will be available for auction through May 12.

WHAT TO KNOW‘The Costco Craze: Inside the Warehouse Giant’49 p.m. April 264CNBC4Find slideshows and other extras at www.costcocraze.cnbc.com. 4In 2010, The Issaquah Press stepped behind the scenes at Costco headquarters. Read the article at http://bit.ly/ahFg0r.

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