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April 27, 2011

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By Laura Geggel

Seventy-five kokanee fryswam in a small camping cool-er by Laughing Jacobs Creek,unaware they were surroundedby federal, state, county andcity administrators, as well asconcerned citizens — all peopleintent on helping the nativesalmon survive in the wild.

The Issaquah SalmonHatchery teamed up with the

Lake Sammamish KokaneeWork Group and dignitariesfrom the city all the way to thefederal level for the secondannual kokanee fry release atHans Jensen Park on April 18.

Last year, the group releasedthe kokanee at Ebright Creek inSammamish, and next year therelease will be celebrated atLewis Creek in Issaquah. Photo by Greg Farrar

Kokanee salmon fry wait in a cooler to be released into LaughingJacobs Creek.

Kokanee salmonreleased into creek

See KOKANEE, Page 3

By Caleb Heeringa

The Sammamish City Councilpassed an ordinance April 18 thatwill allow the city to condemn,and eventually obtain, a strip ofprivate property in front of thecity’s soon-to-be-opened teenrecreation center.

The 7,355square feet ofproperty inquestion isneeded for thecity to install asecond drive-way for vehi-cles to accessthe Boys andGirls Club facil-ity. Currently, the only drivewayinto the former King CountyLibrary building’s parking lot isfrom 228th Avenue near theintersection with Inglewood HillRoad, making left turns into andout of the facility impossible.

The property in question cur-rently contains some landscapingand a sign for The Knolls at

Inglewood Hill apartment com-plex. Sammamish Parks DirectorJessi Richardson said the city hasbeen trying to reach a settlementwith CMS Companies, whichowns the apartment complex, off-and-on for about a year. The cityhired a property appraiser whoput the value of the land at

$110,000, butthe city has yetto receive acounter offer.

“The cityhas had anongoing dia-logue with theproperty own-ers and thatcontinues

today,” City Attorney BruceDisend told the council. “I’m wellaware of the council’s hesitanceto use their condemnation power– I can assure you that this willonly be implemented if all elsefails.”

CMS representatives say they

Council OK’s takingland for driveway

See DRIVEWAY, Page 2

“I’m well aware of thecouncil’s hesitance to

use their condemnationpower.”

– Bruce Disend, City attorney –

By Caleb Heeringa

This fall, Sammamish resi-dents will finally have publicaccess to the lake the city isnamed after.

The City Council got anupdate on Sammamish LandingPark at its April 18 meeting whileapproving a $45,000 contract forredesign work on the park’s twodocks.

The update also stirred upsome grumbling from citizensand at least two council memberswho worried that the city wasn’tgetting enough bang for its buckin the $650,000 park project.

“It’s an awful lot of money –I’d hate to build something andhave a small amount of peopleusing it,” Councilman JohnCurley said, shortly before votingagainst the approval of the dockdesign money. “What are there –74 sunny days in the Seattle areaall year? So we’re talking about40 days when people can be inthe water?”

The city plans to construct anentry plaza, picnic shelters andportable toilets and improve thetrail system and access to a seriesof “pocket beaches” along thewater. It’s a bare-bones versionof the master plan for the park,approved last July, which callsfor 400-foot sand beach, 36-stallparking lot on the other side ofEast Lake Sammamish Parkway,permanent restrooms and a kioskthat could be used to rent canoesand kayaks.

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are willing to sell the land to thecity, but the property in questionis collateral for a loan on theproperty, so the company has toget permission from their lenderbefore selling the strip of land.

Though several council mem-bers said they were hesitant touse eminent domain, all agreedthat getting better access to theBoys and Girls Club was key tothe project’s success. City staffhopes to finish the driveway bythe time the building opens tothe public this fall.

“The portion of the parcelowned by the complex has nogreat functional use … It isn’t likewe’re taking half of a home orsomething,” CouncilwomanNancy Whitten said. “Safety is an

overwhelming factor in this deci-sion. (Getting in and out of) thelibrary site is dangerous – so dan-gerous I was almost scared toacquire it in the first place.”

Disend told the council thatcondemnation requires two courthearings.

During the first the judge willrule whether there is enoughpublic benefit to warrant the cityacquiring the land, somethingDisend called “pretty much aforegone conclusion.”

During the second the judgewill likely hear from appraisershired by both sides and thendecide how much money CMS isentitled to for the property.

City Manager Ben Yazici saidhe was hopeful that the citycould reach agreement with thecompany to begin constructionthis summer while the details ofthe condemnation are still beingworked out.

DrivewayContinued from Page 1

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Commission invites artists fromSammamish and the surroundingarea to submit their applicationto participate in the fifth annualSammamish Art Fair. The eventfeatures local fine artists, as wellas a variety of family and chil-dren’s activities. In addition, itwill feature live entertainment.

The art fair has grown to be a

standout annual event, due to itbeing a juried show.

Artists selected to the art fairdo not have to pay booth fees ora commission, but will beassigned a committee to helporganize the event.

For more information and todownload the application form,visit www.sammamishartfair.word-press.com. The application dead-line is May 15. The event runs 10a.m.-5 p.m. Oct 8 and 9 atSammamish City Hall.

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“This fry release is a criticalpart of our kokanee recovery andrestoration efforts,” David St.John, Department of NaturalResources government relationsadministrator, said.

He outlined the group’s goals:preventing kokanee extinctionand restoring a diverse andnative habitat for the salmon.

“In our last run there wasprobably 100 fish, so we’re at lownumbers, extremely low num-bers,” St. John said.

A normal run for kokanee usu-ally extends into the hundreds orthousands, he said in a laterphone interview.

Mayor Don Gerend commend-ed the hatchery’s program,reminding his audience of a mudslide in the Ebright Creek basinin March that “muddied thewaters and perhaps washed outsome of the redds,” he said, refer-ring to the kokanee’s nests.

By having the hatchery raiseand release kokanee — the land-locked cousin of the sockeyesalmon — the fish have a secondchance at survival.

Darin Combs, IssaquahSalmon Hatchery manager,explained how the spawning pro-jects worked. The hatchery foundadult fish in three local creeks —Ebright, Laughing Jacobs andLewis — and brought them tospawn at the hatchery Nov. 17. Inorder to imprint the young koka-nee, the hatchery used waterfrom each fish’s native creek.

Darigold sold water to fourcities — Issaquah, Sammamish,Bellevue and Redmond — sohatchery staff could thermallymark the 14,500 kokanee fortracking purposes.

When the kokanee eggshatched early, the hatchery keptthem incubated, giving themmore time to grow in size andstrength.

“They’ve grown tremendous-ly,” Combs said. “They’ve tripledin size.”

Jessica Leguizamon, a 10-year-

old from Bellevue, came to theceremony with her family andreleased two of the small fry intothe creek.

“It feels really good to help anendangered species,” she said.“Now I know there’s at least twomore fish in the water.”

High praise and hard workIssaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger

called salmon “iconic” in thePacific Northwest.

“We know that the disruptionof small tributaries to these othersmall streams is something thatis very damaging to them, sowe’re working very hard collec-tively as communities to makesure that we can keep these fishfrom going extinct,” she said.

King County Executive DowConstantine said the hatchery’sspawning program was pivotal tohelping the kokanee survive, butsaid it was not a long-termanswer.

“It is not the substitute forhabitat protection and recovery,but it’s an essential step,” he said.

The Lake Sammamish

Kokanee Work Group is workingto help the kokanee thrive intheir native waters. Since 2007,watershed residents and repre-sentatives from King County, theWashington Department of Fishand Wildlife and the U.S. Fishand Wildlife Service, the cities ofSammamish, Issaquah, Bellevueand Redmond, Trout Unlimitedand kokanee recovery advocateswork together to help the fish.

The work group counts thenumber of kokanee and surveystheir spawning grounds. As aresult of their work, King Countyhas developed plans to replace aculvert on Zaccuse Creek whereit flows underneath the East LakeSammamish Trail, an obstaclethat prevents kokanee fromswimming past it.

In other good news, the coun-ty recently acquired about 100acres in the Issaquah Creek head-waters and within the TaylorMountain Forest for habitatrestoration. Although no kokaneelive in Issaquah Creek currently,the restoration project may bringthem back.

These projects will not onlyhelp the kokanee, but also otherfish, wildlife, and the people wholive near creeks, streams or LakeSammamish.

“Healthy forests, healthystreams, healthy lakes are thingsthat we all want for ourselves andour children,” Constantine said.“They are essential to our qualityof life.”

Supporting another successfulrun of kokanee means a lot notonly to local citizen groups, suchas Friends of Pine Lake, but alsoto American Indians. MattBaerwalde, of the SnoqualmieTribe, said his people relied onthe kokanee run for sustenance,historically.

“The intertwined histories ofthe little red fish of LakeSammamish and the SnoqualmieTribe go back an awfully longtime, and some could argue thatthere are some certain parallelsin those histories,” he said.

Reach reporter Laura Geggel at392-6434, ext. 241, or [email protected].

KokaneeContinued from Page 1

an estimated $6.6 million pricetag that didn’t sit well with someon the council and in the public.Councilmembers Tom Odell andJohn James voted against theplan at the time.

Parks Director JessiRichardson said the first phasewas a modest investment by thecity – just enough to get it openand safe for the public. Once peo-ple get onto the property and seethe park’s potential, Richardsonsaid, the city can decide whetherthe rest of the amenities areworthwhile.

“When I started working onthis three years ago I was a skep-tic myself,” Ricahrdson told thecouncil. “What we have here isone of the most beautiful areas in

the city with a lot of potential.”The park, which stretches for

6.3 acres along the lake at thenorthern tip of the city, wrapsaround the East LakeSammamish Trail. Much of thearea was owned by the city ofRedmond, which in 2008 gavetheir land to Sammamish withthe agreement that the citywould turn it into a park.

By a 4-2 vote, with Curley andOdell dissenting, the councilapproved spending $45,000 of the$650,000 for the project on struc-tural redesign of the park’s twodocks, which flood during thewinter and are in disrepair andnot safe for public use. The newdocks would be designed to float,thus still being useable duringperiods of high water on the lake.The city plans to have separateand distinct areas for swimming,boating and fishing. Richardsonsaid the docks likely wouldn’t be

built and open to the public untilsummer 2012.

Aside from the park’s cost, thesticking point for many has beenthe access issue. There is somestreet parking on 187th Avenue,near the north end of the park,

but otherwise park users aregoing to have to do some walkingor biking. From 187th,Richardson estimated that it is ahalf-mile to the park’s beaches.Curley asked Richardson if that

was so far that residents mightnot bother, with much easieraccess at Lake Sammamish StatePark at the south end of the lake.

“If I’m a resident with a couplekids and I have the schlep themto the beach, I’m going for theday and not just for an hour,”Richardson said. “When (thetrails) are paved, I think it’s goingto get busy there. I think you’regoing to see people with strollersand wagons. On a hot summerday when you park at Pine LakePark right now, you’re parkingacross the street at the elemen-tary school – you’re walkingalmost the same distance.”

During public comment, sev-eral residents, including mem-bers of Citizens for Sammamish,spoke out against the project,saying it was too much money tospend during a recession whenthe city is still considering spend-ing tens of millions of dollars on

a community center.“The funds you guys get are

not monopoly money,”Sammamish resident Megan Geesaid. “We spent our blood, sweatand tears to get you this taxmoney … I don’t see the rush tospend money on this park – let’sget the community center fig-ured out first.”

Most on the council remainedconfident that it was a worth-while project that would finallyprovide some public access to thelake in city limits.

“It is a wonderful, minimalistapproach to a park that hitssomething that is a need,”Councilwoman Nancy Whittensaid. “We don’t have a public(waterfront) park in Sammamish.It’s like having money in thebank and not getting interest orhaving inventory on the shelf notgetting used … It’s going to be ajewel to the city.”

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“I think it’s going to getbusy there. I thinkyou’re going to see

people with strollers andwagons.”

– Jessi Richardson, Parks director –

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OPINIONReview editorial

Stormwater guidelines:boring but important

There is a rule of inverse proportions that is gen-erally true in government: The more boring some-thing is, the more important.

That certainly seems to be the case with proposedchanges to the way the city handles stormwater reg-ulations. The regulations govern generally howmuch water can leave a property after a rainstormand how quickly. The rules are arcane and can seemconfusing to the uninitiated, but whatever the coun-cil decides will matter.

Do you or your children like swimming inSammamish lakes? Do you think there’s a chanceyou might want to expand your house, build a sportcourt or widen your driveway a bit? Then this willmatter.

The general gist of the proposal is that for resi-dents on properties of 1 acre or smaller — most ofthe residents in Sammamish — an older, less restric-tive set of water standards would apply. Larger prop-erties would need to abide by more recent, morestringent requirements.

There are trade-offs here, and no easy answers.Stricter standards mean, in the long view, thestreams and lakes surrounding and criss-crossingSammamish could get cleaner. The cost, however,could be thousands of added dollars for residentslooking to expand their homes to study the waywater leaves their land, then, possibly, a few thou-sand more to reduce the impacts.

Of course, the environmentally conscious andneighborly thing is to reduce impacts on lakes andadjacent properties. But is it reasonable to add thou-sands of dollars in costs to someone who just wantsto increase their home’s size by a smidgen or put ina shed?

To date, there have been a handful of citizensinvolved in this process. We commend them on theirengagement and study of a sticky, unglamorousissue. The rest of the population needs to pay atten-tion, too.

Don’t wait to study up on the stormwater rulesuntil you are sick of swimming in dirty water, orhave to wade through piles of red tape just to lay alittle bit of pavement in your yard.

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Focus on what matters

The controversy over the applica-tion by a Muslim mosque for a park-ing lot on Southeast 20th Street hasunfortunate elements to it, but onthe merits, there is substance to theconcerns.

Traffic is probably the least of theissues, because it will be spreadthroughout the day. The environ-mental impact of a 40-stall parkinglot to highly sensitive Pine Lake isthe key issue. I should think the costof handling runoff would be a deter-rent to the mosque.

The land use of a religious institu-tion in a residential neighborhood isanother legitimate concern.

But in response to Dana Hutson’sletter of April 20 “betting” that if themosque was a Christian church, thecity wouldn’t consider the requestand it is doing so “in the name of tol-erance” is factually incorrect.

Years ago, the Evergreen Churchproposed locating on a residentialarea on the north side of Pine Lake.

The city moved to process thispermit. Because of the large size ofthe membership, the church and theparking lot, residents on the northside of the lake were understandablyupset and tried to block it.

Only when a different churchthat owned land on 228th Avenuefailed financially and did a land dealwith Evergreen did this churchlocate on 228th, and the north sidePine Lake residents “dodged the bul-let.”

The real issue is the allowed useof a religious institution in residen-tial zoning. It’s not the nature of thereligion.

Scott HamiltonThe writer is a former member of

the Sammamish Planning Commission

The Bible is violent, too

I’d like to respond to Ed Roberts’letter in the Sammamish Review ofApril 13. He talks about the violentpassages in the Koran and notes, “Iknow all Muslims don’t believe thatbut their Koran does.”

That’s true, but we could say thesame about Christianity: allChristians don’t support the vio-lence, but their Bible does.

The Old Testament unambigu-ously supports genocide (1 Samuel15:3, Judges 21:10), violence(Numbers 31:15-18, Deut. 22:20-21), and slavery (1 Kings 9:20-21,Leviticus 25:44-46, Joshua 9). Readthose passages for the unpleasantdetails.

In fact, the Southern BaptistConvention broke away to becomea separate denomination in 1845because it was in favor of slavery— and had the Bible verses tooverwhelmingly back up that posi-tion.

What’s the conclusion? I thinkit’s that religions can originatewith violence but that their adher-ents can improve out of it. Let’sjudge individuals by their actions,not by their religion.

Bob SeidenstickerSammamish

Pipeline

discussion overdueIt is about time: The

Sammamish City Council had arecent study session on theNorthwest Pipeline operated byWilliams Co. The potential dan-gers of the pipeline were dis-cussed.

What I heard during the CityCouncil’s study session does notmatch my experience.Representatives of the pipelinesaid that every resident withinsome 660 feet on either side of thepipeline are receiving notificationson an annual basis. Really?

They announced that a letter toresidents was on its way datedApril 20, 2011. Well, I have livedwithin 500 feet of the pipeline forfive years and I had not receivedany communication from theWilliams Company until I contact-ed Grant Jensen, manager of theRedmond office.

He responded by hand-deliver-ing the leaflets, and promised toinvestigate why the official notifi-cation letters are not reaching usresidents here in the Illahee neigh-borhood. I was pleased withJensen's concern.

I also perused the companywebsite and found no informationabout the 36-inch pipe that was

installed in my neighborhood in2006.

In fact, the company websitedoes not mention any 36-inch pipesat all.

There are a couple of future con-struction plans near the pipelinenear my neighborhood of Illahee inSammamish and I hope all the engi-neers in these projects are informedabout the presence of the pipeline.There are several schools near thepipeline, especially SmithElementary School and InglewoodJunior High School, and I know thechildren and staff at theses schoolsare not aware of the proximity of thepipeline.

Many people are walking thetrails along the gas pipeline,unaware. All people near thepipeline should be trained to knowwhat to look for in case of a pipeleak or pipe break: If you noticedead plants, smell of gas, or a loudhiss, for example, call 911 immedi-ately and evacuate the area!

Katja MaySammamish

Don’t do two

stormwater manualsIn presenting the city’s proposed

bifurcated stormwater rules, EricLaFrance seems to be between a

Poll of the weekWill you go to Sammamish Landing Park? A) Absolutely. I’d love a chance to swim in the lake.B) No. Not a beach person.C) No. I can’t figure out how to get there.D) I will once the parking lot opens in a few years.

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rock and a hard place. I suspecthe knows from his own experi-ence that how we handlestormwater has real conse-quences for the health of ourenvironment.

Yet the city seems moreinterested in keeping thingshappy at the permit desk thanensuring that we have highstorm-water standards.

Repeatedly, LaFrance admit-ted that so much is difficult toquantify; that the city hasn’tactually mapped all its drainage

basins; that the cumulativeeffect of the new rules would behard to gauge.

Under that scenario, we needthe best scientific storm-waterstandards.

I agree with Jan Klier andMahbubal Islam’s minority opin-ion from the PlanningCommission: Bifurcating thestormwater code is a bad idea. Iwon’t repeat what they said, butwould urge you read it online. Iwould add that larger develop-ments — more than an acre —would be held to 2009 stormwa-ter standards.

But subsequent revisions andremodels, by individuallandowners, could revert to 1998

standards, and serious futurepotential consequences.

The city suggests engineeringcosts might run $3,000 to $6,000for small lots.

Let’s keep in mind that a sin-gle acre could yield four single-family houses.

With average home prices atabout $600,000, spending lessthan 1 percent to make sure thatstorm water is properly handledwould seem a small price topay.

Mark Cross and NancyWhitten’s concerns should beshared by the rest of theCouncil.

As Cross said, “We’re talkingabout more water coming off

their sites and …onto publicproperty or a neighbor’s proper-ty.”

Even a small failure of adrainage system on my lot, or aneighbor’s lot, can cause realand sometimes expensive dam-age.

We aren’t Issaquah. We aren’tRedmond. In the difficult terrainwe have in Sammamish, weneed to have the highest, beststandards.

To do otherwise is just pennywise and pound foolish.

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County Executive

recommends against

sewer rate hikeKing County Executive Dow

Constantine called for keepingmonthly sewer rates stable for2012 under a proposal sent to theCounty Council last week.

The executive called for cus-tomers served by the county’sclean-water utility to continue topay the current wholesale rate of$36.10 per month.

The rate covers the cost to col-lect and treat wastewater from 34local sewer utilities, includingSammamish.

Issaquah collects wastewaterfrom more than 4,800 residencesand businesses. The city does notoperate a treatment plant.Instead, the city pays the countyto send wastewater to the SouthTreatment Plant in Renton.

The county adopted the exist-ing sewer rate last year in orderto pay the long-term bonds usedto finance Brightwater, a $1.8 bil-lion treatment plant under con-struction near Woodinville.

Under Constantine’s proposal,the capacity charge for newsewer hookups is due to increaseby 3 percent as planned, from$50.45 per month in 2011 to$51.95 per month next year.

The capacity charge on newcustomers provides funding forsystem upgrades and expansionsneeded to accommodate growth.

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Sun shines on Eggstravaganza

Children scramble to collect Easter Eggs during the Easter Eggstravaganza event April 23 at theSammamish Family YMCA. The Y and Sammamish Kiwanis stuffed approximately 8,000 eggs for theevent.

Natalie, right, in pink, and Bryn Macfarlan, of Issaquah, posefor a picture with the Easter bunny as other parents wait withtheir children during the YMCA Easter Eggstravaganza April 23.

Martin and Aria Turney, of Renton, catch a piece of candy at thefishing game at the Sammamish Family YMCA April 23.

Fisher Black, 3, eagerly waits for the Easter egg hunt to begin.

A girl looks to her parents while sitting in thedriver’s seat of an Eastside Fire & Rescue fireengine from Station 83.

Children brought their own baskets to help them scoop up eggs.

Photos by Christopher Huber

Hundreds of families from Sammamish and thesurrounding area descended on the SammamishFamily YMCA April 23 to partake in the EasterEggstravaganza festivities. Volunteers from the Yand the Sammamish Kiwanis club stuffed approxi-mately 8,000 plastic Easter eggs for the multipleegg hunts during the annual event, according toorganizers.

Besides the egg hunt, organizers had games, afire truck and a visit from the Easter bunny.


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By Caleb Heeringa

In deciding whether to keepolder and less-restrictivestormwater regulations for devel-opments less than an acre in size,some City Council membershave found themselves frustratedby the lack of quantifiable infor-mation they have to go on.

“I’d like an analysis, apartfrom costs – I want to know, interms of outcomes, what theimpact will be with and without(the newer regulations on small-er developments),”Councilwoman Nancy Whittensaid at an April 18 council meet-ing.

It’s a frustration Whittenshares with Sammamish environ-mentalists like Erica Tiliacos, for-mer chairwoman of the city’splanning commission, and IleneStahl, president of Friends ofPine Lake. Concerned that thecouncil isn’t getting the wholestory from city staff bent on

putting property owners’ fiscalhealth above that ofSammamish’s streams and lakes,the two have offered to inviteenvironmental scientists to testi-fy to the council on the value ofadopting the newer, stricter stan-dards for all development in thecity, regardless of size.

“If everything we were doingwas keeping the water clean thenwe wouldn’t have to be updating(stormwater) manuals and com-ing up with new regulations andfiguring out who can build andwho can’t build,” Tiliacos saidduring public comments at theApril 12 council meeting. “We’retrying to clean up the PugetSound and this is where it starts –it all starts here.”

Tiliacos and Stahl’s offer wastaken up by Whitten, who askedCity Manager Ben Yazici to findtime for the presentation. Yazicisaid he would schedule it duringan upcoming study session.

Senior stormwater program

engineer Eric LaFrance, who is incharge of making developerscomply with the regulations andhas advocated for keeping olderregulations for small develop-ments in the city, argued that it’snot as simple as “the old manualisn’t working.” A large portion ofdevelopment in Sammamishoccurred in the 1970s and 1980s,when stormwater regulation waseither lax or non-existent. Unlessthose properties undergo redevel-opment or expansion, they don’thave to meet the stricter stan-dards.

“Tonight we could decide topass the most stringent rules inAmerica and tomorrow we wouldwake up and the streams will bethe same as they are today,”LaFrance said. “It’s not what sortof (stormwater plan) you have,it’s what the development hap-pens under.”

The newer standards the cityis adopting were written for KingCounty in 2009 and require that

Council will decide how to manage stormwater runoffany development in the cityassume that their land was forest-ed prior to development. Waterthat comes off that property mustnot leave at any quicker of a ratethan it would have when treesruled the land.

Under the ordinance the coun-cil is considering, developmentsthat disturb less than an acre,including many single-familyhomes built by private develop-ers, could stick to the older 1998manual, which requires that nomore water leave the propertythan in 1979 – the year of KingCounty’s first set of regulations.Property owners with aerial pho-tographs or other evidence thatthe land was pasture or otherwiseclear of trees before that datecould meet a lower standard,potentially saving them money.

Using the 2009 manual forsmaller developments wouldoften mean the owner of anempty lot who wishes to build asingle-family home would haveto spend $3,000 to $6,000 on acertified engineers report on thestormwater impacts of theirdevelopment and perhaps thou-sands more depending on thecharacteristics of their property.

Yazici said city records showthat since 2008, 326 of the 380development permits approvedby the city were more than anacre and would be subject to themore stringent standards any-ways. He and LaFrance arguedthat keeping stricter standards forsmaller “mom and pop” develop-

ments would cause unnecessaryfrustrations for property ownersunaccustomed to dealing withenvironmental regulations. Manyproperties in the city are alreadysubject to stricter regulationsthrough the city’s critical areasand shoreline ordinancesbecause they are near wetlands,lakes or streams.

“I feel like, in this time espe-cially, we don’t want to overbur-den people here in Sammamish,”LaFrance told the council at April12 meeting.

Tiliacos said keeping thenewest standards, based on themost up-to-date science, is neces-sary to make up for the decadesworth of development that didnot address stormwater run-off,leading to the current state ofSammamish waterways andPuget Sound.

Washington State Departmentof Ecology studies in 2008 showhigh levels of fecal coliform andlow levels of oxygen in LakeSammamish, Pine Lake Creek,Laughing Jacobs Creek andEbright Creek, according to thecity’s storm water manual.Ebright and Laughing Jacobs areboth historically spawning areasfor Lake Sammamish’s Kokaneesalmon, which number fewerthan 1,000 and are under consid-eration to be named a federalendangered species.

Tiliacos said this year’s salmonruns may be even lower than in

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Graduating from high schoolwith sufficient math credits justgot easier. Gov. Chris Gregoireapproved a bill that would allowstudents in the 2013 and 2014graduating classes to pass onlyone mathematics end-of-courseexam instead of two.

The state House ofRepresentatives passed the legis-lation in a 96-1 vote on March 4.State Senators passed a compan-ion bill in a 47-0 vote on March29. Gregoire signed it into lawApril 11.

State Superintendent RandyDorn had championed the legis-lation.

“Plain and simple, this is a winfor fairness,” Dorn said. “In atough legislative year, this is onelaw that directly impacts the livesof students in a positive manner.I’m pleased that state legislatorsand the governor did the rightthing for students.”

Eventually, the math sectionof the High School Proficiency

Exam — which is administered tosophomores — will be phasedout, and two end-of-courseexams, in algebra and geometry,will take its place.

Most Washington sophomorestake geometry and will take thegeometry end-of-course examthis spring. Under current law,they would also be required totake the Algebra I exam — acourse most students take duringtheir freshman year.

If Gregoire signs the bill, thesecond end-of-course exam willno longer be needed for studentsin the classes of 2013 and 2014.

Current eighth-graders — theclass of 2015 — will be the firststudents required to pass twoend-of-state exams. Most of thosestudents will take algebra I inninth grade, meaning they takethe end-of-course exam in thesame year they took the course.

“This whole issue for me hasbeen about fairness,” Dorn saidin a statement. “End of course

Governor approves bill thatshould streamline math testing

should mean end of course. Thisis a big win for students that weall worked together and foundthe right solution.”

Students in the classes of 2011and 2012 are not affected by thisbill. Those students can still passone state math exam or earn twocredits of math after their sopho-more year to meet the math grad-uation requirement.

Water and sewer

district to present

water planThe Sammamish Plateau

Water and Sewer District will pre-sent the 2010 WaterComprehensive Plan to thePublic at 6 p.m. May 9 at the dis-trict offices, 1510 228th Ave. S.E.

The draft plan is available

online atwww.sammplat.wa.org/2010com-prehensivewater.asp or at theSammamish, Issaquah andRedmond libraries.

Interested residents may com-ment in writing to Jay Krauss,general manager of the sewer dis-trict. The comment period isexpected to last through the May9 meeting. The board might con-sider the plan May 16.


years past after a massive land-slide the weekend of March 26moved mud and debris into theheadwaters of Ebright Creek.Though the official causeremains under investigation,Community DevelopmentDirector Kamuron Gurol told thecity council April 5 that waterrun-off from a house above theslide area was routed onto a steepslope. Gurol said the home wasbuilt when the area was still KingCounty and likely wouldn’t havebeen allowed under the city’scurrent regulations.

“Everybody’s developmentimpacts the next person,”Tiliacos said. “We’re not startingfrom a clean slate – we’re playingcatch up … We don’t want todigress because we’re just goingto have to catch up again.”

The council is scheduled toconsider the stormwater regula-tions at their May 3 meeting.

Reporter Caleb Heeringa can bereached at 392-6434. ext. 247, [email protected]. To com-ment on this story, visitwww.SammamishReview.com.

WaterContinued from Page 8

City will write off

bad debtsSammamish will write off a

handful of outstanding developerdebts from its accounting books,though the city may still sendsome of them to collections.

The city council approved aresolution April 18 authorizingthe removal of about $113,000worth of debts, some dating backto 2007, that haven’t been paid bydevelopers.

Finance Director LymanHoward said most of the debtsrange from several hundred toseveral thousand dollars and thecity has made repeated attemptsto collect them by lowering theprice owed or negociating a pay-ment plan.

Many are owed in connectionwith development projects thatfell through following the burst ofthe housing bubble and ensuingrecession, Howard told the coun-cil. The city may still send someof the larger debts to collectionsagencies.

The resolution also gives CityManager Ben Yazici authority towrite off uncollectable debts

$10,000 or less in the future.The council unanimously

approved the resolution as part oftheir consent agenda.

Sound Transit

upgrades website for

ridersSound Transit has launched

the website to improve com-mutes for bus and train ridersthroughout the region.

The address is the same —www.soundtransit.org — but theagency upgraded the features. Inaddition to a clean, intuitivedesign, the website includes abetter trip planner and interac-tive maps featuring more infor-mation about transit connectionsand the locations of stations,stops and parking. The transitagency also made schedules easi-er to read.

Other improvements to thetrip planner include the ability toinput start and end points of atransit trip and see multipleoptions on interactive maps.

The site also features a guidefor new riders plus the ability to

sign up for email and text mes-sage service alerts.

Online food worker

class now available in

eight languagesKing County residents work-

ing in the food industry can nowearn their required state foodworker card online.

The class and test are offeredin eight languages — English,Spanish, Korean, Russian,Mandarin, Cantonese,Vietnamese, Cambodian andclosed caption.

After completing the class andpassing the test, students canprint the food worker card forimmediate use.

Those interested in the $10class and test should go towww.foodworkercard.wa.gov, login and select “King County” to getstarted. Most users take aboutone hour to complete the courseand test.

The new online food workerclass is an addition to the in-per-son classes that train about55,000 people in King County

annually. The online class is made avail-

able to food workers in KingCounty thanks to a partnershipwith the Tacoma-Pierce CountyHealth Department, which builtand maintains the site.

‘Share Your

Washington’ and earn

travel prizesWashington State Tourism is

asking Washingtonians to invitefriends and family members tovisit the Evergreen Green as partof the Share Your Washingtonpromotion.

Running through June 15,Share Your Washington encour-ages people to send invitations.In the process, participants alsoautomatically enter a sweep-stakes for the chance to win tripsfrom Alaska Airlines.

Entering is simple.Washingtonians can visit theShare Your Washington website,www.shareyourwashington.com, tosend electronic postcards tofriends. No limit exists for thenumber of times residents can

enter. The more friends and fam-ily they invite, the more chancesthey have to win the grand prize.

The grand-prize packageincludes unlimited air travelwithin Washington on AlaskaAirlines/Horizon Air numberedflights for the winner and com-panion for a whole year, fromJuly 2011 to June 2012, and a pairof round-trip coach tickets fortwo people anywhere AlaskaAirlines flies.

Share Your Washington is alsoon Facebook. Washington StateTourism is encouraging people touse the hashtag #ShareYourWA todiscuss the promotion on Twitter.

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Medical emergencyPolice were called to the 1300

block of 224th Place Northeastafter a witness saw a 61-year-oldSammamish man collapse justafter noon April 17. The witnesscould not find a pulse on theman and began performing CPR.

An off-duty Mercer Islandpolice officer who was in the areacame and took over shortly after.The man had no identificationbut had a cell phone. Policereached the man’s wife with thephone and notified her that herhusband was being transported toOverlake Hospital. The man’scondition is unknown.

Fishy threat

A Sammamish woman calledpolice April 16 after finding a bag

full of goldfish in her drivewaynext to a threatening note appar-ently directed at her 17-year-oldson.

The note, written in whatappeared to be juvenile orteenagedfemale handwriting,read “I hope you die in a day justlike these fish.” The son toldpolice he couldn’t rememberbreaking any hearts recently.Police documented the incidentfor future reference.

Smash and grab

A resident on the 20400 blockof Northeast 37th Way had theirwallet stolen from their carbetween noon and 3 p.m. April16. The thief broke the front pas-senger window of the vehicle andtook the wallet, which containedabout $100 cash. Police have nosuspects.

It’s over

Police were called to break upa verbal argument between awoman and her boyfriend the

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evening of April 11. The womantold police that the man had beenstaying in her apartment but wasno longer welcome.

She told police that the manhad been pawning her posses-sions for money to spend on alco-hol. Police advised the intoxicat-ed man that he was no longerwelcome at the woman’s home.

The man agreed and said hewould spend the night in hisvehicle, parked nearby. Policestayed on scene afterwards toensure that he did not drive hisvehicle in his intoxicated state.

Unwelcome guest

A Sammamish woman calledpolice after a male acquaintanceappeared at her door April 6 anddrunkenly threatened to have herchild taken away.

The man, whose son is friendswith the woman’s son, refusedrepeated requests to leave herproperty, the woman told police.The man finally did leave but notbefore threatening to “take her to

Supreme Court” to have her childtaken from her for an undis-closed reason. Police documentedthe incident for future reference.

DUI

A 19-year-old Sammamishman was arrested for drivingunder the influence of alcohol asa minor in the early morninghours April 5. An officer wit-nessed the man do a “rollingstop” at a stop sign and drive 45mph in a 30 mph zone.

He was pulled over near thecorner of Southeast 24th Streetand 205th Avenue Southeast andperformed poorly on field sobri-ety tests. He was arrested andtaken to the police station, wherehe blew a .05 on a breath test.Though .08 is the legal limit fordriving, a person under the ageof 21 can be arrested for drivingwith any alcohol in their system.

The man told police he hadconsumed three Keystone beersseveral hours before and that hewas on probation for a prior

minor in possession charge. Theman was dropped off at hisfather’s house.

Stolen license plates

A resident of the MadisonApartments had their licenseplates stolen off their vehicleovernight April 14. Police haveno suspects.

Open doorsPolice found an open garage

door on a home on the 22600block of Southeast 4th Street justafter 2 a.m. April 15. The officerknocked on the door and wokethe homeowner up and advisedthem to close their doors at nightif they did not wish to be burglar-ized.

Shouldn’t be driving

A 32-year-old Redmond manwas cited for driving with a sus-

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Most readers of great fictionhave asked themselves at somepoint, “Where on earth did theauthor come up with that idea?”And so it is with local writerGlenn Gordon’s gripping new sus-pense novel Brother’s Keeper,published in the Kindle Store atAmazon.com two months ago.

The set-up goes something likethis: When five of Seattle’s home-less are brutally murdered inElliott Bay Park on the waterfrontnorth of downtown, police mistak-enly identify one victim as localsecurity expert Mack Fraser.

No one is more surprised atthis determination than Mackhimself, but his surprise turnstragic with the realization that thedead man is his identical twinbrother – a sibling unknown tohim until that very moment. Andso begins this protagonist’s ill-advised and wickedly dangerouspursuit of answers, a twisted anddelightful path guaranteed to keepthe pages turning and the bedside lampon for just one more chapter. Okay,maybe two.

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Well, Gordon did. A true Sammamishnative, the author graduated from thatnamesake high school in Bellevue in1974, and in turn from the UW with adegree in English and a teaching certifi-

cate. He left the area for classroom jobsin Westport and Wenatchee, but returnedin 1985 and settled on the Plateau, thelast dozen years just down the hill behindSkyline High School. His daughters,Meghan and Kylene, graduated fromEastlake HS in 2000 and 2002.

Oh, and as for this book’s uniquepremise, author Gordon attributes it to hisown 1992 revelation that he and his threebrothers had an older sister named Karen,given up for adoption by their motherwhile she was a young college student.

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Morgan Thomas DentMorgan Thomas Dent was called

home to gloryon Friday, April8, 2011. He wasborn Nov. 13,1987, to Callieand MichaelDent.

He attendedSkyline HighSchool andgraduated in2006. He laterattended collegein CaliforniaandWashington.

Morgan was a gentle, loving and kindsoul who will be sorely missed. He lovedlife! He loved the outdoors, especiallythe beach and the mountains. He was anavid hiker, camper and snowboarder.

He leaves behind to mourn but alsocherish the beautiful time they had withhim, his parents Callie and Michael; hispaternal grandparents John and EdithDent; and his maternal grandmotherShirlene Eikner. Morgan’s maternalgrandfather, Fred Eikner, preceded himin death. Morgan will also be missed bya host or aunts, uncles, cousins andfriends.

True to Morgan’s love of the outdoors,an informal memorial service is plannedfor 5:30 p.m. April 28 at the OlympicSculpture Park.

In lieu of flowers, please consider adonation to The Rotary Boys and GirlsClub of Seattle, 201 19th Ave., Seattle,WA 98122, attn: Derek Smith.

Daphne Dodd Price Nys

Jan. 12, 1962 to April 8, 2011, 49 yearsof age

Daphne graduated from IssaquahHigh School in 1980 and attendedWestern Washington University. Shemoved to Melbourne, Australia in 1992where she married and later divorced.Daphne resided the remainder of her

life in Australia. She enjoyed cooking forand visiting with friends and was afriend in the true sense of the word. Shewas kind, loving, generous, a good listen-er, and had friends wherever she went.Daphne loved home decoration/interiordesign, camping, gardening, antiques,photography, animals, fast cars and herfamily.

She had a mechanical mind and couldfigure out and understand how complexthings worked. She truly enjoyed work-ing with the special needs people sheserved who loved and trusted her. Shewas extremely good with them and atadvocating for them. She is survived by

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Anna May (Engquist) Smith

Anna was born May 7, 1919 in Seattle.She woke in heaven on April 6, 2011.

Earl Smith, her husband of 61 years,preceded her in death.

She attended Eastgate BibleFellowship and Emmanuel bible Churchfor many years.

She is survived by her three children:Jackie Seymour, of Sammamish, KarenBrown, of Selah, and Bob Smith, ofSeattle; six grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

An open house to celebrate her lifewill be from 12:30-3 p.m. May 6 atEmmanuel Bible Church, 503 N. 50th St.,Seattle.

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Ruben Soleis may be justanother transplant who fell inlove with the Eastside, but histrio of Mexican restaurantsmake him an integral part ofthe Sammamish community.

Ruben grew up in Cuautla,Mexico, a small town nearPuerto Vallarta. He migratedhere in 1978 and went to workin restaurants. He worked thekitchen, waited on tables,mixed drinks at the bar andhelped out in every way hecould to learn the restaurantbusiness.

Ruben worked long hoursand saved his money. At only24 years old, he went into part-nership with two others toopen La Costa on GilmanBoulevard in Issaquah. Thatwas in 1985.

Nearly 20 years later andRuben is now the sole owner ofLa Costa, in addition to LaCasita at Pine Lake ShoppingCenter and Rancho Grande atSammamish HighlandsShopping Center.

La Casita opened in 1992, and RanchoGrande opened in 2001.

Ruben says he’s been “pretty lucky.”He also credits dedicated staff. Some ofthe wait staff have worked at his restau-rants for 10-15 years and one chef hasbeen there nearly 20 years.

Just as regular are some of his cus-tomers who come back for the salsa, chipsand tacos — prepared daily with freshingredients — and south of the borderfavorites. A popular dinner choice is thesizzling steak, chicken or shrimp fajitas,but of course you’ll find enchiladas, carneasada, burritos, chile relleno and otherfavorites.

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Kids are always welcome for familydinners. (Ruben has five of his own.) Thechildren’s menu has six choices, all only$3.95.

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COMMUNITY14 • April 27, 2011 SAMMAMISH REVIEW

By Christopher Huber

A working father in Ghanacould use that old bike youhaven’t ridden in ages. So couldhis wife, son or daughter, for thatmatter. A functioning bike couldmean the difference betweenmaking it to work or school ontime, or at all.

With that in mind, theSammamish-based ARASFoundation is holding its annualbike collection May 7 atSammamish City Hall. WhileARAS is collecting bikes fromaround the Seattle area leadingup to the Sammamish event, resi-dents with spare or used bikescan donate them from 9 a.m. to 1p.m. that day, said Mary Trask,who runs the ARAS Foundation.

“Every year we’ve had morethan 500 bikes,” she said. “We’refortunate that they’ve (the city)allowed us to use their parkinglot for that day,” Trask said.

While ARAS runs the eventwith help from about 100 volun-teers, the Village Bicycle Project,of Seattle, provides the 40-footshipping container and ships thecargo to Ghana.

Mary Trask said she and herhusband, the foundation’sfounder Bob Trask, got involvedwith the Village Bicycle Projectsix years ago after seeking a

place to donate their own usedbike. She didn’t just want tothrow it in a junk heap.

“The next year we thought,‘we should do this on a biggerscale,’” Mary Trask said.

She said the event tends todraw youth interested in physicalactivity and working with tools.As the bikes pour into the drop-off point, volunteers and a fewbike experts disassemble parts

that stick out from the frame tooptimize space in the container.

“It’s a really fun project forfamilies,” Mary Trask said.“Without their support, we neverwould get a whole container full.

It’s a real community effort.”Mary Trask said they need vol-

unteers to help from 8:30 a.m. to4 p.m. The Village Bike Projectnot only ships the bikes, but oncein Ghana, workers train thebikes’ recipients in how to main-tain them, said operations direc-tor Meg Watson. The organizationcollects bikes from around thecountry, but noted Sammamishbikes tend to be pretty nice.

“One of the great things aboutthe Sammamish bikes is they’regreat quality,” she said.

The foundation’s programswill also benefit from proceedsfrom the April 30 Crest neighbor-hood garage sale, which runs 9a.m.-2 p.m including 22309 N.E.31st St.. About 15 families plan toopen their garages for the annualgarage sale.

Jan Bromberg, who live in theCrest neighborhood and has vol-unteered with the ARASFoundation, said she and her hus-band, John, enthusiasticallyoffered up their home to sellitems to benefit the foundation in2010. This is the second year theywill provide a sale venue forARAS. It was a no-brainer deci-sion to help out, she said.

“Once you have volunteeredwith ARAS and seen what they’ve

Photo by Debi AyersHundreds of bicycles lay on the ground in front of Sammamish City Hall before being loaded intoa 40-foot container during the 2010 ARAS Foundation bicycle drive.

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For a while after being diag-nosed with gluten (wheat) intol-erance in 2006, Debra Gibbons, ofSammamish, would bring herown special food to parties. Sheremembered one time in particu-lar, when she arrived with anempty stomach and without anygluten-free snacks. Among thesmorgasbord of food and drinksavailable to friends, all she couldeat was the celery, she said.

“There’s wheat hidden inalmost everything,” Gibbons saidabout how people allergic togluten or living with celiac dis-ease have to watch everythingthey eat, risking severe muscle ordigestive discomfort if they don’t.

“I can’t just come home andjust open a box of crackers,” shesaid. “You kind of get hopelesswhen there’s a lot of things youcan’t have.”

But just when she thought she

would have to settle for a blanddiet for the rest of her life, long-time neighbor, Lynn Peterson,figured out how to make gluten-free food taste good. Petersonherself had experienced years ofthe painful symptoms and hadspent another few years tirelesslyexperimenting to find easyrecipes to share with othersstruggling to maintain a healthygluten-free diet.

“I want you to want my cup-cakes, not go, ‘oh they’re gluten-free?’” Lynn Peterson said.

While gluten-intolerance isbecoming more diagnosedaround the nation, celiac diseaseis a more acute form of it, affect-ing up to 1 in every 133Americans, according to theGluten Intolerance Group ofNorth America. Celiac disease isa digestive condition triggered byconsumption of the proteingluten, which is primarily foundin bread, pasta, cookies, pizzacrust and many other foods con-taining wheat, barley or rye,according to the Mayo Clinic.

Peterson’s solution for flavor-ful wheat-free cooking and bak-ing has invigorated the drudgery

of dull diets for hundreds of peo-ple around the world, she andher husband, Bryon Petersonsaid. Since starting her gluten-

free website in summer of 2010,Lynn Peterson has attracted read-ers from all 50 states and frommore than 70 countries. She has

received commentary fromprominent Seattle-area food writ-

Photos by Christopher HuberLynne Peterson poses in her Sammamish kitchen with a variety of her tasty freshly made gluten-free dishes.

No wheat allowedSammamishwoman developedgluten-free recipes

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aching, abdominal discomfortand overall fatigue. Upon learn-ing she had a gluten intolerance,she made the diet switch, cook-ing and baking new things forher family. Most of the recipes

didn’t go over well.“I thought it would be simple,

just exchange rice flour for theflour,” Lynn Peterson said. “Myrecipes turned out horrible. Mykids did not want to be eating the

food. They were complainingabout it; I was frustrated, and theneighbor kids didn’t like the foodeither, so they were like, ‘whathappened to your old recipes?Make your old recipes.’”

The Petersons had to let go ofsome of their favorite types ofdinners, like pizza or otherItalian food dishes.

But once they ate Lynn’s cus-tom-made gluten-free concoc-tions, like the lemon pancakesand the hazelnut orange teacakes, they were convinced itwould lead them to eat healthier,and like it.

“It really has opened up a newworld to us, said Bryon Peterson.“It’s been an exciting transitionfor me.

Lynn Peterson seemed partic-ularly proud of convincing herson and his fiancé to go with thegluten-free cake for their wed-ding, rather than traditionaloptions. When she announcedthe idea, her son resisted, shesaid. So the family set up a“blind” taste test with one of thenumerous cakes being gluten-free.

“I am very happy to tell youthat the gluten-free came outnumber one. (At the wedding)people came back for thirds.”


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Bob Trask founded theARAS Foundation, whichstands for Acceptance,Respect, Affection andSupport, in 1979. It workswith various local and interna-tional nonprofit organizationsto fight poverty, promote liter-acy volunteer programs andtrain leaders.

The Trasks moved toSammamish in 1993 andfound the community was fullof opportunities, both for vol-unteers to serve and for resi-dents to be served, Mary Trasksaid.

“I found we always had alot of wonderful volunteers,”she said. “We try investing inwhat other organizationsneeds are… and we try sup-port them. It’s not a big orga-nization, but we do really bigwork.”

The foundation partnerswith organizations likeSammamish-based Chris ElliotFund, Faith In Action and theBoys & Girls Club. Residentslike Jan Bromberg, who havevolunteered for ARAS beforecommended the Trasks andfellow ARAS organizers Steveand Cindy VanWambeck fortheir years of dedication to thecommunity.

“It’s an incredible organiza-tion,” she said. “(Mary) will doeverything for anybody.”

Contact Mary Trask to vlun-teer for the May 7 bike collec-tion at [email protected].

Reporter Christopher Hubercan be reached at 392-6434, ext.242, or [email protected].

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“It opened things up for me. Itmade eating a pleasure again,”Gibbons said.

Lynn Peterson perfected agluten-free-beer-based bread thatbakes in less than one-third thetime of conventional breads, ahigh-fiber hazelnut waffle madewith three types of non-wheatflour, and even a chocolate lavacake that Gibbons raves about.

“She’s giving people options sothey don’t have to live a life ofdrudgery,” Gibbons said.

The “quest,” as Lynn Petersoncalls it, to find tasty alternativesto traditional gluten-free recipesinvolved plenty of frustration andtoiling to find the right combina-tions of flours and hard-to-findingredients.

“I was beyond miserable,” shesaid.

Formerly a professional cookand baker, Lynn Peterson wasused to making anything shewanted and enjoying it. Shestruggled for years to even figureout what caused her severe

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Alexa Fukui to marryAlexa Fukui, daughter of

Sammamish residents Mitsuruand JoAnn Fukui, is engaged tomarry Brian Trapp, of Hermiston,Ore.

Fukui, a Kirkland resident,graduated from BellevueChristian School in 2002 and

Philadelphia University in 2007.She is an architect at MilbrandtAssociates. Trapp is a 2002 gradu-ate of Hermiston high School anda 2007 graduate of the Universityof Idaho. He is an architect atFraser & Fogle Architects.

The couple plans a May 30,2011 wedding at BethanyCommunity Church in Seattle.

Krista Gustafson on

dean’s listKrista Gustafson, of

Sammamish, was named to thepresident’s honor roll atOkalahoma City University forthe fall 2010 semester. To qualify,students must maintain a GPA ofat least 3.9.

Kristin Nikaitani on

honor rollKristin N. Nikaitani, of

Sammamish, was named to thehonor roll at Oregon StateUniversity for the winter term.She is a freshman majoring inmerchandising management. Sheearned straight-A’s for the term.

Lindsey Chun on

dean’s listLindsey Chun, of Sammamish,

was named to the dean’s list atCal Poly for the winter quarter.The 2007 Skyline grad is studyingindustrial engineering. To quali-fy, students need a GPA of 3.5 orhigher.

Monica Zender on

president’s listMonica Zender, of

Sammamish, was named to thepresident’s list at GonzagaUniversity for the fall 2010semester. To qualify, studentsmust achieve a GPA of 3.7 or higher.

Laura Woodward

gets scholarshipLaura Woodward, of

Sammamish, was awarded anIngatian Leaders Scholarship atGonzaga University. The scholar-ship recognizes leadership quali-ties, academic merit and commu-nity service. It is worth $20,000over four years.

Alexa Fukui and Brian Trapp

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During one of its qualifyinglaunches for the national rock-etry competition, the Skylinephysics club members got a littlenervous. It was one of only threeflights that could count towardtheir entry into the TeamAmerica Rocketry Challenge.The rocket, carrying an egg as itspayload, looked a little precari-ous hanging more than 700 feetin the air — like it was falling toofast.

“We were concerned,” saidsenior James Richardson, Skylinephysics club president. “It wasn’tcoming down as we planned.”

But the flight ended safely,with egg intact. The student-designed rocket stayed up fornearly 40 seconds and theparachute did its job.

Turns out the team’s rocketflew high enough, for longenough to qualify for the nationalcompetition. The eight memberswill fly to The Plains, Va. May 14to participate as one of just 100teams.

Skyline is the only physicsclub in the state and qualified outof 607 teams to attempt the rock-et challenge.

This is the third time Skyline’sclub has gone to nationals, saidBecky Fowler, a Skyline physicsteacher and the club’s advisor.The group attended last in 2005and placed 22nd overall, she said.She attributed the 2011 success tobetter focus among the group

and a passionate mentor. “We lucked out with one par-

ent of a student being a rocketeerhimself,” said Becky Fowler, aSkyline physics teacher and theclub’s advisor.

The contest challenges partici-pants to design and build a rocketthat will climb to 750 feet andstay aloft for about 40 seconds.Fully equipped, the rocketweighs about 730 grams andmust use a 15-inch parachute tosafely recover the rocket back toearth. The trick will be to notbreak the egg inside thenosecone.

“Before you build anything,you have to have a good design,”Richardson said. “It has to be con-sistent.”

To keep the egg intact, theSkyline students wrapped it inTempurpedic bed foam — onwhich they drew a control panel.It was the group’s way of insert-ing a little humor into an other-wise serious physics project.

“I like the way they worktogether,” said David Walp, anavid rocketeer and the club’smentor.

Walp provides the group withvarying insights for things suchas how much power a certainengine will generate to how tosand the epoxy that fastens thestabilizing fins to the fuselage.

“Without a good mentor,you’re kind of in trouble,”Richardson said.

The team was able to conduct16 launches from February to

early April, which seemed to beenough to work out any kinksand log three strong qualifyingflights, the members said. Thekey to a successful launch season— and to making it to nationals— was getting out on the fieldearly, team members said.Skyline’s physics club tests itsrockets at 60 Acres Park inRedmond.

“This year’s design has a moreconsistent performance,” Fowlersaid.

Each of the 100 competingteams only gets one chance,within a one-hour window, at thenational rocketry challenge, soall systems must be “go.” Shelooked forward to the club possi-bly making the final, launch-offround at nationals.

“We’re hoping to get a secondlaunch.”

While the students waited forsome sealant to dry on the back-up rocket body, they thoughtabout what makes them keepcoming to physics club and to bepart of the rocket challenge.

“It’s like more hands-on thananything we do in school,” saidsenior Ben Huang.

Photo by Christopher HuberSkyline physics club members James Richardson, left, Ben Huang and Adam Bolen figure out whatneeds to be done to the club’s back-up rocket while preparing April 20 for a national launch con-test.

Skyline’s physics club gets off the ground, literally


Change is coming toInglewood Junior High andschool staff are planning for it.

With a flood of sixth-gradersenrolling and as many ninth-graders leaving in fall 2012 aspart of the Lake WashingtonSchool District’s grade reconfigu-ration, leaders at Sammamish’sonly junior high recently gaveparents an idea of how their tran-sition plan is progressing.

The district will move to agrades kindergarten-through-fiveelementary school, grades six-through-eight middle school andfour-year high school system. Inthe current system elementaryschool runs through sixth grade,junior high is grades seventhrough nine and high schoolstarts in 10th grade.

“It is a substantial challenge tomake all the changes we need tomake,” said Tim Patterson, prin-cipal at Inglewood.

While the grade shift willaffect all levels of the system,including moving teachers andadministrators and even buildingprojects, the junior highs will seemovement on both ends, wel-coming sixth graders and sayinggoodbye to ninth graders. Thechange in structure seeks to alle-viate overcrowding in elementaryschools like Smith and Mead, butalso to consolidate the highschool experience to one four-year building, according to thedistrict.

At an April 12 meeting withmore than 200 parents and com-munity members, Pattersonexplained what InglewoodMiddle School would look like.He highlighted what the sixth-grade year would look like.

In a junior high model, stu-dents emulate a mostly high-school-style schedule in allgrades. In middle school, sixth-graders will see more teachersthan they did in elementary

school, but will see just three dif-ferent teachers in their core sub-jects (language arts/social stud-ies, math/science and enrich-ment/elective classes), Pattersonsaid. They will see a fourth teach-er for physical education.Additionally, the new studentswill be broken up into “houses” of120 peers. Each student willspend most of every day in class-es with the same 30 students, butthe final two periods of the daywill be with other peers. The goalis to slowly introduce the sixth-graders to a new type of scheduleand atmosphere.

“This is something that I thinkis unique to Inglewood,”Patterson said. “The seventh-grade year largely remainsunchanged here at Inglewood.”

And that raised some concernsamong parents about their futureseventh graders (current fifthgraders) not receiving enoughattention during the transition.

Amy Hernandez, whose fifth-

grade son will start seventh gradein fall 2012, said she appreciatedthe meeting to discuss progresswith the switch. But, there arestill plenty of questions. In thecurrent 7-8-9-configuration, twoexperienced classes can mentorthe one incoming class.

“I do have lot of concerns,”Hernandez said. “Inglewood issuch a large school, so you’regoing to have two classes of kidswho are brand new to that schooland one class that will be able toact as mentors and leaders.”

Patterson noted a general anxi-ety from parents about releasingtheir student to middle school.Regardless of a grade reconfigura-tion, it’s a new stage for the stu-dents and takes some getting used to.

“We are really trying to findways to reduce anxiety and makesure every child is known well bythe staff,” Patterson said. “Westrategically want to make surekids love coming to InglewoodMiddle School. It makes every-

thing easier.”Although questions linger,

Hernandez, who also has a sev-enth- and 11th-grader, commend-ed the Inglewood staff for devel-oping what seems like a workableplan so far.

“I think they have a reallygood start on their plan. There’sstill a lot of work to be done fortheir planning committee. Butthey have good ideas,”Hernandez said. “I would like tosee more of a plan and idea onthese seventh-graders. How arethey going to be able to help them?”

Patterson said he welcomesparent questions and feedbackabout the grade-shift process.Contact him [email protected] or sendfeedback to the district [email protected].

“Inglewood is really workinghard to be proactive,” he said.“Sometimes a really good ques-tion can bring really good infointo my view.”

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There’s nothing in springtimesports quite like three straightnon-rainy days. And for theSkyline girls tennis team, threedry days meant three matches ina row to make up for the plethoraof postponements.

Although the Spartans are in arebuilding year, the squadshowed some promise by win-ning its third match in as manydays April 21 in Sammamish.

After beating Redmond April19 and Eastlake April 20, it beatBothell 7-0 to improve to 5-2.

“It wasn’t the hardest match,but it was a lot of fun,” saidsenior No. 1 doubles player MollyKnutson after the match. “It wasan enjoyable match.”

Knutson and doubles partnerAlyson Opitz beat Bothell’sColleen Byrne and MorganMilner in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2.

Kristin Park, in Skyline’s No. 1singles spot, beat Rebeka You 6-0,6-1.

The key for Skyline was toadapt to Bothell’s lob-style play,said players and coach BettinaGehle.

Instead of zinging targetedshots at Skyline opponents,Bothell players, in nearly everymatch, slowed down the pacewith high, lobbed shots.

“They were all prepared for it,”Gehle said. “That was the mostimportant thing.”

While Spartans like KnutsonPhoto by Christopher Huber

Skyline senior Molly Knutson returns the ball with a forehand in the second set of doubles playagainst Bothell April 21.

Skyline girls tennisbests Bothell 7-0


If the Skyline girls golf teamlearned anything from playing atSahalee Country Club, it’s thatyou have to keep your drivesstraight and practice a littlelonger on the putting greenbefore the match.

“It’s like you’re hitting the golfball down a highway,” saidSkylne coach Erik Hansen. “Ifyou don’t keep it straight youfind yourself in trouble.”

Not all of the girls learned thatthe hard way, but the coursenotorious for frustrating unaccus-tomed golfers took just enoughaway from the visiting team topreserve another victory forEastlake.

“This was a very difficultcourse,” said Skyline sophomoreBryalynn Vowels. “They definite-ly have home course advantage.”

The Eastlake Wolves girls golfteam took charge once again atits home course to beat theSkyline Spartans 272 strokes to289. Eastlake improved to 8-1 andSkyline went to 3-3 with threematches left before the KingCotournament.

“They’re a very good team,”said Vowels. “We knew that wewere going up against some-thing.”

Eastlake’s Megan Wotherspoonagain took first, shooting a 43 onthe par-36 East 9 course. Vowels,Skyline’s No. 1 golfer, finishedfourth overall with a final tally of

56 strokes. “Megan has been very consis-

tent,” said Eastlake head coachPat Bangasser. “I expect her to getdown to a 38 this year becauseshe can.”

Following Wotherspoon’s 43,teammate Jamie Midkiff came insecond with a 52 and Skyline’sShirley Chung finished with a 54.Eastlake’s Taylor Finlon andSkyline’s Kacy Cunningham eachshot a 58 to tie for fifth place.

“Every time you go out to playgolf it’s a different story,”Bangasser said.

Vowels provided an exampleof how Sahalee can take the windout of a golfer’s sails quickly. Shecompleted a solid bogey on thepar-4 first hole and was workingwell through two. But a bad lieunder a tree from her drive onthe third led to an eight-strokehole, she said.

“I didn’t do my best, but was apretty difficult course,” Vowelssaid.

Skyline may not have won,but head coach Erik Hansenseemed overall happy with whathe saw in the girls’ performanceat Sahalee, a course the formerEastlake assistant knows quite abit about.

Most of the young Spartanteam had not played Sahalee, buta good portion of them continuedto lower their season-averagescore, he said.

“I think Sahalee can be a littlePhoto by Christopher HuberSkyline’s Bryalynn Vowels tees off on the third hole of Sahalee’sEast 9 course April 21.

Eastlake golfers top Skyline, continue winning streak

Photo by Christopher HuberEastlake’s Megan Wotherspoon putts on the fourth-hole greenon the East 9 course at Sahalee April 21. She took first place witha 43-stroke performance.

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and Opitz were eager to play ata more lively pace, they’ll takethe win.

“It was a baseline game forsure,” Knutson said. “I hate play-ing against lobs.”

Knutson and Opitz took con-trol from the beginning. In thefirst set, the girls went up 3-0and easily won 6-0.

Byrne and Milner gave theSkyline pair trouble partwaythrough the second set, forcingshots into the net and bringingthe score to 5-2. Knutson andOpitz settled back down to takethe set 6-2.

“Hopefully we’re on a goodwinning streak,” Knutson said.“We’re on a roll.”

Opitz noted that simple mis-takes like under-hitting a volleyinto the net happen less whenthey face a stronger team likeNewport or Garfield.

“We always play a lot betteragainst better teams,” Opitzsaid.

Helping Skyline round out itsshutout, Laura Parsons beat AriaSamora 6-1, 6-3 in the No. 2 sin-gles match.

“She’s a really good fighter,”Gehle said during the match.

Jinny Choi defeated Bothell’sLinda Vinitnantharat 6-0, 6-1and Kianna Bertolino beat EricaTakano 6-0, 6-2.

In addition to Knutsonand Opitz’s win in the No. 1doubles match, Sonja Ye andKasumi Maeda beat AlinaEspinoza and Tammy Tarhini6-3, 6-3.

Skyline’s SonjanaGalgalikas and Rachel Kimended the match on a win-ning note for the Spartans

when they beat Gracen Ruboand Sadie Rath 6-1, 7-5.

Just as the players looktoward the KingCo and districtcompetition, they and Gehleseem happy with where theteam is.

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Photo by Christopher HuberSkyline senior Molly Knutson serves the ball in the second setagainst Bothell in the No. 1 doubles match April 21 at Skyline.

intimidating,” Hansen said. “Iwas pretty pleased with it.”

While on a six-match winningstreak, Eastlake looks to cruisethrough Garfield andWoodinville before facing power-house Redmond May 5.

“We’re hoping our scores drop10 to 20 percent in the next cou-

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BaseballSSaattuurrddaayy,, AApprriill 2233Eastlake 3, Sedro-Woolley 2

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H ESed.-Woolley 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 1Eastlake 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 3Eastlake batting: Josh Barokas, 2-for-4, RBI, SB;

Jonathan Cook, 1-for-1, R; Casey Fithian, 1-for-2,RBI, 2 R.

Eastlake pitching: Nick Kassuba (W)WWeeddnneessddaayy,, AApprriill 2200Garfield 3, Eastlake 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H EEastlake 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0Garfield 0 0 0 0 0 3 x 3 5 2Eastlake pitching: Josh Barokas (L).Bothell 8, Skyline 0

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H ESkyline 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1Bothell 0 0 6 2 0 0 x 8 8 1Skyline pitching: Matt Lunde (L).

SoftballWWeeddnneessddaayy,, AApprriill 2200Eastlake 2, Ballard 1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H EEastlake 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 8 1Ballard 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1Eastlake batting: Sophie Pallenscar, 2-for-4, RBI;

Kathryne Staudinger, 2-for-4.Eastlake pitching: Pallenscar (W), 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R,

1 ER, 16 K, 4 BB.Eastlake 9, Bothell 0

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H EBothell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4Eastlake 0 0 3 3 3 0 x 9 10 0Eastlake batting: Sammi Stavig, 2-for-3, 2 RBI, 2 R.Eastlake pitching: Nicole Guptil (W), 5 IP, 1 H,

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R H EWoodinville 13 12 0Skyline 2 7 3Skyline pitching: Charlotte Zhao (L).

Boys soccerTThhuurrssddaayy,, AApprriill 2211Skyline 3, Bothell 2Scoring summary: Pedro Miola, S, (Braxton

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WWeeddnneessddaayy,, AApprriill 2200Skyline 3, Ballard 1Scoring summary: Michael Stoddard, S, (Cole

Calabro assist) 6:00; Brent Campbell, B, (unassist-ed) 47:00; Jason Twaddle, S, (Evan Kamber assist)54:00; Travis Strawn, S, (Jake Bechtel assist) 73:00.

TTuueessddaayy,, AApprriill 1199Eastlake 4, Issaquah 0Scoring summary: Sean Klauer, E, (unassisted)

25:00; Madison Heck, E, (unassisted) 32:00; JamesGee, E, (Sean Klauer assist) 37:00; Sam Langston,E, (Sean Klauer assist) 52:00.

Shutout: Zack Wile, E.

Track and fieldTThhuurrssddaayy,, AApprriill 2211Boys Bothell, Sammamish, SkylineShot put — Brendan Peterson, B, 45-03.25.

Discus — Greg Williams, B, 131-03. Javelin —Braden Foley, B, 169-05. High jump — JordanCoutts, S, 5-04.00. Long jump — Jordan Coutts, S,18-05.00. Triple jump — Justin Wimmer, B, 37-09.00. Pole vault — Blake Rowe, B, 11-06.00. 110hurdles — Riley Herrera, S, 16.60. 300 hurdles —

Camden McKone, B, 43.20. 100 — Luke Proulx, B,10.90. 200 — Nick Anthony, B, 23.00. 400 —Chayce Sather, B, 51.40. 800 — Kyle Branch, S,2:04.00. 1,600 — Kyle Branch, S, 4:32.35. 3,200 —Ryan Rixon, S, 10:43.00. 400 relay — Bothell(Proulx, Anthony, McIntyre, Allen) 43.50. 1,600relay — Skyline (Millett, Uselman, Branch, O-Connell) 3:47.70.

Eastlake, Newport, InglemoorShot put — Gino Bresolin, E, 44-08.25. Discus

— Bresolin, E, 136-10. Javelin — Kyle Petty, I, 141-09. High jump — Sean Mukai, I, 6-00. Long jump— David Wilson, I, 20-07.75. Triple jump —Spencer Grubb, N, 39-11. Pole vault — ShamusMukai, I, 12-06. 110 hurdles — Louis Jachim, N,16.0 seconds. 300 hurdles — Louis Jachim, N, 42.7seconds. 100 — David Wilson, I, 11.4 seconds.200 —Liam Doyle, E, 22.9 seconds. 400 — BrianMoran, I, 52.7 seconds. 800 — Stephen Strozyk, N,2:04.2. 1,600 — Grant Stein, N, 4:45.6. 3,200 —Colin O’Neil, I, 9:37.6. 400 relay — Eastlake, 45.0seconds. 1,600 relay — Newport, 3:39.1.

GGiirrllss Bothell, Sammamish, SkylineShot put — Haley Ziegler, S, 29-03.75. Discus

— Elena Frerker, S, 88-10. Javelin — Haley Ziegler,S, 116-08. High jump — Lindsay Coutts, S, 4-08.00.Long jump — Lindsay Coutts, S, 15-11.50. Triplejump — Marissa Fortier, S, 30-09.50. Pole vault —Kelsey meyer, B, 9-00. 100 hurdles — Elise Willey,B, 18.00. 300 hurdles — Ashley Richardson, S,57.40. 100 — Darian Littlejohn, B, 13.40. 200 —Alexis Daughterty, S, 28.70. 400 — Maddi Hutson,S, 1:03.90. 800 — Liz Green, S, 2:41.50. 1,600 —Haley Smith, S, 5:26.95. 3,200 — Caitlin McIlwain,S, 12:01.3. 400 relay — Sammamish (Brown, Griff,Sturtevant, Flores) 59.20. 800 relay — Bothell(Campbell, Schueren, Hadley, Howe) 1:48.00. 1,600relay — Skyline (Bretl, Hutson, Dalzell, Steele).

Eastlake Newport, InglemoorShot put — Charcel Wafer, N, 31-04. Discus

— Emily K. Anderson, I, 73-05. Javelin — KaraReichenbach, N, 99-07. High jump — KristineWong, N, 5-00. Long jump — Wong, N, 15-04.Triple jump — Wong, N, 32-06. Pole vault —Ashley Wong, I, 7-06. 100 hurdles — Becca Berge,I, 15.3 seconds. 300 hurdles — Berge, 47.2 sec-onds. 100 — Lauren Files, E, 12.8 seconds. 200 —Erin Allen, I, 26.2 seconds. 400 — HaleyO’Connor, E, 59.0 seconds. 800 — AlisaPoplawski, I, 2:24.9. 1,600 — Morgan O’Connor, E,5:22.8. 3,200 — Tansey Lystad, I, 10:48.9. 400relay — Inglemoor, 50.5 seconds. 800 relay —Inglemoor, 1:49.5 1,600 relay — Inglemoor, 4:11.6.

Girls tennisTThhuurrssddaayy,, AApprriill 2211Newport 7, Eastlake 0Singles: Angela Chen, N, beat Hannah

Thornsburg, 6-0, 6-0; Amie Vo, N, beat Kelly Song,6-0, 6-1; Rixing Xu, N, beat Beth Rheinberger, 6-1,6-0; Renata Lunanaw, N, beat Nina Kondza, 6-0, 6-1.

Doubles: Jane Choi-Emily Chen, N, beat SaraMarien-Lilia Rodriguez, 6-2, 6-0; Faith Mach-AaliceChu, N, beat Neha Singh-Makenzie Scmid, 6-2, 6-2;Allison Lee-Crystal Shen, N, beat Teresa Wu-Wendy Yeung, 6-3, 6-3.

TTuueessddaayy,, AApprriill 1199Skyline 5, Redmond 3Singles: Sarah Du, R, beat Kristen Park, 6-0, 6-0;

Raluca Infrim, R, beat Laura Parsons, 4-6, 6-3, 6-0;Jinny Choi, S, beat Sophia Xu, 7-6 (4) , 6-2; KiannaBertolino, S, beat Dana Simmons, 6-4, 6-0.

Doubles: Alyson Opitz-Molly Knutson, S, beatMeg Holtzinger-Jeneal Carter, 6-3, 6-7(3); SonjaYe-Kasami Maeola, S, beat Marissa Craig-SaraBoye, 6-2, 6-2; Sonjana Gulgaliksr-Rachel Kim, S,beat Amanda Lin-Priya Ganesan, 3-6, 6-1, 10-5;Anna Alsin-Dana Simmons, R, beat Allison Tomb-Jessica Journeycake, 6-1, 4-6, 10-8.

Girls golfAAtt SSaahhaalleeee GGCC ((ppaarr 3366))Team scores: Eastlake 278, Inglemoor 299.Individuals: 1, Megan Wotherspoon, E, 44

strokes; 2, Jamie Midkiff, E, 51; 3, RebeccaPriestley, E, 54; 4, Ellie Tillotson, I, 55; 5, KylieOwen, E, 57.

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Chamber of Commerce from11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. May 24 at BakesPlace.

Open Up and Say Ha, a hourof funny stories for children ages3 and older and their parents willbe at 4 p.m. May 25 at theSammamish Library.

Interested in chickens? Abrief overview of backyard poul-

try farming will be held at 7 p.m.May 25 at the SammamishLibrary.

Want to help create a trailsystem at Evans Creek park?The city is looking for corporateor other organizations, as well asindividuals, to help build the trailsystem, and a group of trail stew-ards to help lead teams of volun-teers. Contact Dawn Sanders [email protected].

Health

A mobile mammographyfacility will be available forSammamish residents. Themobile facility features the sameequipment used at EvergreenHospital, but you do not need tobe an Evergreen patient to usethe facility.

It is available from 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Wednesdays at theEvergreen Primary Care Center,22850 Northeast Eighth Street.For an appointment, call 899-2831.

Religious/spiritual

The marriage course,designed to help couples stregn-then their relationships will beheld Tuesday evenings throughJune 7 at Pine Lake CovenantChurch. visit www.plcc.org/mar-riage.

Mary, Queen of Peace youthgroups are for children in sixth-eighth grade and ninth-12thgrades. Meetings are at 6:30 p.m.Sundays. Call the church at 391-1178, ext. 129.

Faith United MethodistChurch offers “Faith Cafe” forwomen of all ages. The café fea-tures drop-in coffee time, scrap-booking/stamping, mom & babyplaygroup, quilting/knitting andwalking group. There will also be

EventsThe musical “Once on This

Island” will be performed atEastside Catholic at 7 pm. April28, 29 and 30 and at 6 p.m. May 1at the school’s athletic pavilion.Tickets are $10 for studentsunder 18 with ID and $15 foradults. Space is limited.

The Redmond Associationof Spoken Word will host a read-ing by David Lloyd Whited fromhis new manuscript “Olde ManCoyote Goes to Towne.” The read-ing, which will include an openmic session, is from 7-9 p.m.April 29 at the Old SchoolhouseCommunity Center in Redmond.

Give blood. A communityblood drive is scheduled for 9a.m.-3 p.m. May 2 at City Hall.

Want to pretend to be a dis-aster victim? SammamishCitizen Corps is seeking actors toportray disaster victims in anupcoming disaster responsetraining. The drill is scheduledfor 5:30-9 p.m. May 3. For moreinformation, [email protected].

The Sammamish Chamberof Commerce will host a womenin business conference “FindingYour Personal Brand” with speak-er Tammy Redmon from noon-4:30 p.m. May 3 at the PlateauClub. Tickets are $45-$55. Visitwww.SammamishChamber.org.

Pine Lake Garden Club willhold its annual plant sale featur-ing plants, baked goods and trea-sures from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 7 atSammamish PresbyterianChurch.

Bikes for Africa. The ARASFoundation is holding their annu-al drive to collect 500 bikes byMay 7 to ship to Ghana.

Volunteers are needed on May 7to prepare the bikes for shipping.Bikes can be dropped off from 3-5p.m. April 27 and May 4 atEastside Catholic. Other donationtimes are possible. Contact MaryTrask [email protected].

PROVAIL and the PacificNorthwest Insurance Councilwill hold a dinner and silent auc-tion to benefit adults and chil-dren with disabilities starting at4:30 p.m. May 9 at SahaleeCountry Club. Tickets are $50. Topurchase tickets, email SarahSteinberg at [email protected].

Want to start a business?Learn resources available fromthe Small BusinessAdministration and the steps instarting a business at 2 p.m. May10 at the Sammamish Library.

Sustainable Redmond andEastside Timebank will presentthe film “Fixing the Future” at6:30 p.m. May 10 at the RedmondLibrary.

The Sammamish Chamberwill present a lunch and legisla-tive session wrap up with Reps.Jay Rodne and Glenn Anderson,and Mayor Don Gerend from11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. May 19 at thePlateau Club. Cost $25-$30. Visitwww.SammamishChamber.org.

Children’s band “The NotIts!” will perform at 11 a.m. and1 p.m. May 21 at the SammamishLibrary. No tickets are required,but seating is limited.

Meet Stephanie Mills, authorof “On Gandhi’s Path: BobSwann’s Work for Peace andCommunity Economics” at 7p.m. May 23 at the SammamishLibrary.

Doug Hoselton a manage-

ment expert and comedian willpresent a lunch and workshopcalled “Why Salespeople Fail”sponsored by the Sammamish

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Carey Thornton of Seattle Tilth will teach about how togrow veggies in containers at 7 p.m. April 27 at theSammamish Library.

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one-off classes, studies andthemed days. 9:30 a.m.Wednesdays. Call Jo Lucas at 837-1948.

Healing Prayer Service. Ifyou have a physical, emotionalor spiritual challenge or if youdesire to make space for God in apeaceful setting, attend theMissio Lux Healing PrayerService the fourth Tuesday ofevery month at 7 p.m. at PineLake Covenant Church, 1715228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish.Become a healing prayer minis-ter by joining either weekly ses-sions from 9:30-11:30 a.m.Fridays. Email [email protected] or call 890-3913.

The Social Justice BookGroup meets at 1 p.m. the thirdMonday of each month inSammamish. Email [email protected] for informa-tion on the current book beingdiscussed and location.

Celebrate Recovery, a Christ-centered program offering sup-port and a path to freedom,meets every Monday, 7-9 p.m. atPine Lake Covenant Church,1715 228th Ave. S.E. For moreinfo, go to www.missiolux.org, orcall 392-8636.

A men’s study group usingparticipant guides from CelebrateRecovery will strive to work onhurts, hang-ups or habits peoplehave been denying or surrender-ing to from 7-8:30 p.m. Feb. 23 atPine Lake Covenant [email protected].

Griefshare, a support groupfor those who have lost a lovedone is from 7-9 p.m. Thursdaynights at SammamishPresbyterian Church.

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denominational, prayer supportgroup for moms to get togetherand pray for children andschools. For more information,call Jan Domek, Issaquah SchoolDistrict representative, at 681-6770, or Kelly Wotherspoon, LakeWashington School District repre-sentative, at 392-2291, or visitwww.MomsInTouch.org.

Pine Lake Covenant Churchoffers a ministry for childrenwith special needs at 10:30 a.m.Sundays. Call 392-8636.

“Caffeine for the Soul,” afree Judaic and Torah class forwomen, is from 1-1:45 p.m. everyTuesday at Caffé Ladro inIssaquah Highlands ShoppingCenter. Contact Chabad of theCentral Cascades at 427-1654.

Free Hebrew classes areoffered through Chabad of theCentral Cascades. Call 427-1654.

Kabalat Shabbat is offered inthe Chabad house at the IssaquahHighlands at 7 p.m. Fridays. Newmembers and guests are wel-come. Call 427-1654.

Learn to read and speakSamskritam at the VedicCultural Center. To register, visitwww.vedicculturalcenter.org.

Community Bible Study,open to all women, meetsThursday mornings. To registerfor the current class, or for moreinformation, visit www.redmondcbs.org.

Bhajan Bliss. Join musiciansand singers to learn traditionaldevotional bhajan, and how tomake vegetarian pizzas andsamosas from 7:30-9 p.m. Fridaysat the Vedic Cultural Center.

Library events

Talk Time, for adults whowant to improve their Englishskills, is scheduled for 6 p.m.May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31.

Swaddler Story Time, forchildren aged birth-9 monthswith an adult, is scheduled for 11a.m. April 28, May 5 and 12.

Waddler Story Time, for chil-dren aged 9-24 months with anadult, is scheduled for 10 and 11a.m. April 29 May 6 and 13.

Hindi Story Time, for chil-dren 3 and older with an adult at4 p.m. April 28, May 5 and 12.

Toddler Story Time, for chil-dren 2-3 with an adult, is sched-uled for 10 and 11 a.m. April 27,May 4 and 11.

Musik Nest, for toddlers, isscheduled for 7 p.m. May 4.

Spanish Story Time, for chil-dren 3 and older with an adult, isscheduled for 11 a.m. April 30,May 7 and 14.

Preschool Story Time, forages 3-6 with an adult, are sched-uled for 1 p.m. April 29, May 6and 13 and 10 a.m. April 28, May

5 and 12.Pajama Story Time, for ages

2-6 with an adult, is scheduled for7 p.m. May 2 and 9.

Lounge and Listen to thelibrarian read teen-oriented booksamples and short stories whilelounging and munching snacksamidst flickering lanterns at 4p.m. May 4.

The Mother Daughter BookClub, for girls ages 10-13 andtheir mothers, will discuss “TheSearch for WondLa” by TonyDiTerlizzi at 3 p.m. May 21.

Hello English! Learn Englishin a structured environment. Forintermediate students at 10 a.m.May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31. Forbeginning students at 7 p.m. May5, 12, 19 and 26.

The teen writers’ group isscheduled to meet at 3:30 p.m.May 17.

The Sammamish BookGroup will read “People of theBook” by Geraldine Brooks anddiscuss the book at 7 p.m. May 18.

Classes

Beyond Baby Blues, a drop-

in postpartum depression sup-port group, meets from 12:30-1:30p.m. Thursdays at New ParentsServices, 11911 N.E. First St., No.300, in Bellevue. Participantsmust call to confirm 450-0332,ext. 3.

Sammamish PresbyterianChurch is hosting a series of dif-ferent fitness classes,Wednesdays and Fridays 6:30-7:30 a.m., Tuesdays andThursdays 8:30-9:30 a.m. Formore information, contact BillieDonahue at 785-2880. Classes arefree and no registration isrequired.

The Issaquah SammamishInterfaith Coalition is hostingEnglish Language Classes at 6p.m. Wednesdays at Pine LakeCovenant Church.

To submit items for theCommunity Calendar, contact theeditor at 392-6434, ext. 233.Information may be e-mailed [email protected] or mailed tothe Sammamish Review, P.O. Box1328, Issaquah, WA 98027.

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pended license April 14. Theman was pulled over near thecorner of Southeast 8th Streetand 228th Avenue Southeast justbefore 2:30 p.m. for missing abrake light.

During the stop, the officerlearned that the man’s licensewas suspended for failing to payan outstanding ticket. The manwas allowed to drive away fromthe scene with two new tickets toadd to his collection.

Vehicle prowls

A resident on the 2600 blockof East Lake SammamishParkway had a laptop and back-pack full of other items stolenfrom their vehicle in the earlymorning hours April 13. Thethief broke the passenger sidewindow of the vehicle and tookthe items.

Around the same time a resi-dent on the 800 block of EastLake Sammamish Parkway had a

car window broke and a briefcasecontaining $1,500 cash stolen.Police have no suspects.

Mom finds pot

A 16-year-old Sammamishteen got a talking to from policeafter his mother found somemarijuana and two pipes in hisroom April 12. Police told theteen that they wouldn’t chargehim with marijuana possession ifhe stayed out of trouble for ayear.

The teen agreed and said hewould be seeing a counselorabout making better choices inlife. Police seized the drugs andparaphernalia for destruction.

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suspended licenseA 43-year-old Seattle woman

was cited for driving with a sus-pended license after beingstopped for driving 15 mph underthe posted speed limit on 228thAvenue April 12.

Asked why she was moving ata snail’s pace, the woman told theofficer that she had bad brakes

and her speedometer was notworking. The officer then discov-ered that the woman’s licensehad been suspended due tounpaid tickets. She was cited forthe suspended license as well asnot having valid insurance.

Cracked window

A resident on the 2400 blockof 200th Avenue Southeast founda large crack in their front win-dow April 11. The resident calledpolice because they believed itmay have been vandalized bysomeone with a paintball gun.Police interviewed neighbors, butno one saw anyone using paint-ball guns in the area.

Burglary

A house sitter apparentlyinterrupted a burglary on the21800 block of Southeast 38thPlace the afternoon of April 1.The son of the homeowner waschecking up on his parents’home while they were on vaca-tion and arrived to see a figurerun across the back deck of thehome.

The son then heard someonecrashing through the woodedarea behind the home. Thehomeowner believes that the cul-prit may have been a person thatthey hired off of Craigslist to dosome home repairs. They toldpolice that the repairman knewthe homeowners were going tobe out of town. The case remainsunder investigation.

Costly soda pop

A 17-year-old Sammamishteen was trespassed fromSafeway after allegedly stealing aMountain Dew April 13.

Store staff told police they didnot wish to prosecute for thetheft, but wanted to ensure thatthe teen could not return to thestore.

Mysterious open door

A resident on the 1800 blockof 248th Place Southeast calledpolice after waking up to findtheir garage door open April 14.The residents’ home security sys-tem company had called thenight before to report that the

home’s silent alarm was going off.The resident checked the

home but found all the doorsclosed and nothing out of placeand went back to bed.

The next morning the garagedoor was open, which promptedthe resident to call police. Thehomeowner could not determinewhether anything was missingfrom the home. The case remainsunder investigation.

Broken light

A resident on the 23200 blockof Southeast 24th Street reportedthat someone had smashed themotion light on her shedovernight April 7.

Reaction to

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He had taken a new medica-tion prescribed by his doctorshortly before the symptomsbegan. Medics evaluated the manand advised that he did not needto go to the hospital, but shouldgo home and rest and consult hisdoctor about getting a new medi-cation.

Missing camera

A teacher at Skyline HighSchool reported April 11 that ablue Canon digital camera had

gone missing from her desk overspring break. Police reviewedsurveillance video but wereunable to identify any suspects.The case remains under investi-gation.

DUI

A 40-year-old Sammamishwoman was arrested for drivingunder the influence at around1:45 a.m. April 10. An officerpulled the woman over near thecorner of Southeast 32nd Streetand East Beaver Lake RoadSoutheast after catching herspeeding.

The woman reported havinghad “two beers” at Snoqualmie

Casino and had bloodshot eyesand slurry speech. The womanperformed poorly on field sobri-ety tests and was arrested. At thepolice station she took a breathtest that showed an estimatedblood alcohol level of .14. Shewas driven home by police.

Missing by choice

A 22-year-old Sammamishman was reported missing by hisparents April 4 but later toldpolice he was fine and didn’twant to talk to his parents.

The parents had called policeconvinced that their son wasbeing held against his will overdrug-related issues. Police took

note of the issue but do notbelieve a crime had occurred.

Violation

of court orderA 40-year-old Seattle man was

arrested April 10 after allegedlybreaking a restraining order byattending his son’s lacrosse practice.

The man’s ex-wife and themother of the teen called policeafter seeing the man in thestands at the practice, though shehad a restraining order againstthe man expressly forbidding himfrom being within 1,000 feet ofhis son’s school. Police are sug-gesting that prosecutors chargethe man with violating the

restraining order.

Random knife

A resident found a Farberwaresteak knife stuck in the groundnear the entrance to the AspenGrove neighborhood April 6.

Police documented the scenebut could find no sign that theknife had been used in a crime.They removed the knife andplaced it into evidence.

Driving with a

suspended licensePolice cited a 35-year-old


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Sammamish man for driving witha suspended license and noinsurance just before 3 a.m. April6. Police doing routine checks oflicense plates in the QFC parkinglot discovered that the man had asuspended license.

They followed him home andcited him.

Bank fraud

A Sammamish woman report-ed April 5 that three of her creditcards had been used for threeseparate $2,000 purchases at theBellevue Apple Store.

The woman had possession ofher cards and was unsure howsomeone could have gottenaccess to the numbers, thoughshe suspected that someone mayhave taken her purse from hercar and copied down the infor-mation several days prior. Policehave no suspects.

DUI

A 39-year-old Sammamishman was arrested on suspicion ofdriving under the influence afterbeing pulled over on the 2800block of East Lake SammmamishParkway Northeast just before 2a.m. April 8.

An officer spotted the mandriving 42 mph in a 35 mph zoneand drifting over the center line.A check of the man’s recordrevealed that he also had a felonywarrant for forging prescriptions.

The man performed poorly onfield sobriety tests and blew a .16on a portable breath test – aboutdouble the legal limit for driving.He was booked into King CountyJail.

Open doors

Police found a garage dooropen at a home on the 22900block of Northeast 14th Street ataround 10 a.m. April 8. The offi-cer found no one home and apiece of wood in front of thegarage door sensor, preventing itfrom closing.

As the officer was inspectingthe scene, the homeownerarrived home and was advised tokeep their doors closed whilethey were gone.

Items in the Police Blotter comefrom Sammamish Police reports.


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