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By Lillian O’Rorke

When the Skyline High School Orchestra started this year it was short nine cellos. The arsenal for Issaquah Middle School band for years included a baritone saxophone from 1925. Instead of being in a museum, it was played until its medal decayed beyond the point of repair.

“They’re all over the district of course — instruments that have either been around a long time or have seen rough decades. It’s been an ongoing problem for a long time,” said Doug Longman who teachers orchestra at both Skyline and Issaquah high schools. “We are not even provid-ing all the instruments that kids are playing.”

Larger instruments like cel-los, tubas and bass clarinets are hard for students to carry back and forth from home, where they practice, to school, where they take band or orchestra. They’re

also expensive to rent, if they can be rented at all.

To help students in their musi-cal endeavor, the ideal solution is for those larger instruments to be provided in class. But that is easier said than done.

“The life of the tuba or the bari sax is not an easy one,” said Longman. “And it’s getting more expensive to fix them.”

Longman and music depart-ments in middle schools and high schools across the district are about to get a long overdue boost.

The Issaquah Schools Foundation is launching a $100,000 per year dedicated fine arts fund for local secondary schools, through which various programs will come up for fund-ing on a three year cycle.

“I think in each department — whether its fine arts, or music or drama – everybody has a story about how this will benefit their program,” said the founda-tion’s Executive Director, Robin

Callahan. “The arts cannot be overlooked. They are important for student achievement and suc-cess in school.”

The district is still hammering out some of the details and com-piling a list of different needs. Those needs, said Jerry Miller, director of instruction support curriculum, include everything from a new theater lighting sys-tem to $500 to fix a kiln.

One thing that is for sure though, is that instruments will be in the first round of funding, which is set to happen in May.

Repairing and replacing old, large instruments has been an issue for the district for at least the last 13 years that Miller has worked here, he said.

“We had this big old Tuba that was held together with duct tape, chimes held together with a coat hanger,” said Miller. “People have been making due and making due.”

So last spring he worked with

the music departments to put together a request for a $50,000 grant from foundation.

“They realized that $50,000 once would just be a band aid,” said Miller about the foundation deciding to turn that one-time grant into an annual donation. “We were just blown away. It’s typical of the foundation - they see a need and they really put themselves behind it. This was just beyond our wildest dreams that we could meet the needs of band and all the other arts as well.”

The original request, explained Callahan, prompted a lot of discussion among the foun-dation’s committee and board members about the desire to not just support band and orchestra but to support all arts in schools, like vocal, drama, fine and visual arts.

“If we wanted to make it meaningful, then it needed to be larger than $50,000 a year,”

she said. “We believe it will have a large impact because the arts are so used to doing quite a bit with not so much. They’ve been making their dollar stretch for so many years.”

The funding for this endeavor and other programs that the foun-dation pays for, like after school homework labs, comes from the organizations two annual fund-raisers, one of which is going on right now.

The “All In For Kids” cam-paign began in August and con-cludes next week when 300 high school students will set out on a calling campaign to raise their goal of $330,000. Phones will ring Nov. 13 and 15.

Families that have already donated will be taken off the call list.

To learn more about the Issaquah Schools Foundation and the fund-raising campaign, visit www.isfdn.org or call 425-391-8557.

Issaquah Schools Foundation set to tune up band

By Lillian O’Rorke

There were few dry eyes Nov. 4 at Eastlake High School when 19 people said goodbye to their long hair and donated it to the American Cancer Society.

Hosted by local Girl Scout troops from Inglewood Middle School, Mead Elementary and Smith Elementary, the group of donors varied just as much as the color of their ponytails.

Cooper Williams, 11, has been growing out his hair for the last two years. Come cutting time,

he let his brother and his sister, as well as his best friend take a whack.

After it was all said and done, Cooper, with his new buzz cut, said his head was cold.

“It’s a lot different now that I have it all gone,” he said, rubbing his scalp where his long locks used to be. “But it’s hair and it will grow back and then I’m prob-ably just going to do this again.”

Cooper went first to kick off the event and before long 18 pairs of scissors were snapping away at ponytails. Hailey Kraus,

9, was happy to cut the hair of her best friend, Presley Scholz. Kristy Iacono let her children do the cutting.

For Kim Buckmaster, it had

been 30 to 40 years since she had thought about going short.

“It’s always been below my waist,” she said, explaining that she was compelled to make the change after her niece was diagnosed with breast cancer in August.

“She called one morning and said that she was crying because all her hair fell out and she woke up with this pile of hair on her bed,” said Buckmaster. “So I thought ‘this is time.’”

Beautiful Lengths events are part of a campaign to collect hair

to make wigs that are distributed to cancer patients at no cost. To donate, hair must be at least eight inches long, have less than 5 percent gray and can’t have been colored with permanent hair dye or bleach.

Allison Grassi, who leads two of the Girl Scout troops respon-sible for the event, said she still needs another half inch before she can donate her own hair. Grassie expects her ponytail will be long enough for the next

Photos by Lillian O’RorkeAfter two years of growing his hair out, 11-year-old Cooper Williams let his friends and family take a whack at his locks. Above, his sister Ella watches as their brother Jaxon makes the first cut.

Community goes to great lengths for cancer patients

See HAIR, Page 7

“But it’s hair and it will grow back and then I’m probably just going to do

this again.”– Cooper Williams,

Hair donor –

By Lillian O’Rorke

In typical Skyline Spartans fashion, the first quarter of Nov. 3 state playoff game was awash in touchdowns, leading the Spartans to a 59-17 win over the Puyallup Vikings.

On its first drive, the Skyline football team scored with a touch-down by Nate Gibson. Puyallup quickly answered back with a touchdown of their own and for two-and-a-half minutes of the game it looked like the Spartans may have met their match.

But just as quickly as the Vikings, who entered the playoffs with a 4-6 overall record, rose up to stand nose-to-nose with Skyline, the Spartans sprang ahead. This time Max Browne ran in the touchdown.

The defending state champi-ons were off, never to be caught again. Before the quarter’s end, Browne, Nic Sblendorio and Andrew Giese each put a touch-down on the board for a score of

35-7.“Our coaches do a great job of

preparing us week in and week out, and we study film and watch what their defence is doing,” said senior wide receiver Matt Sinatro. “And with Max as our quarterback and a couple great receivers out there, it’s pretty easy to get going quick.”

Late in the second quarter, Sinatro cut up the right sideline, breaking three tackles to make a 38-yard touchdown.

“I just saw the opening,” he said after the game. “Andrew Giese, one of our better block-ers, was up field — and I just saw endzone and got in good.”

Skyline continued in the third quarter with two more touch-downs from senior wide receiver Austin Bui. With the score at 52-14 the clock began to wind down, not stopping between plays. Spartan defence held back the Vikings, only allowing a field goal for the rest of the game.

“Going from Bothell, which was a mainly run team, to Puyallup, which is mainly a pass team, we had to just adjust to that and play a little differently, but

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By Lillian O’Rorke

Peter Kimble and Henry Jarvis are best friends.

They are also cousins and have spent most of their lives living less than a mile from each other on the same farm property on the plateau.

“It was always nice,” said Kimble. “No matter what I was going through he was always there.”

For as long as either one of them can remember they’ve played sports together. Always on the same team, they work well together, rarely quarreling.

For Jarvis, one of the only times he can remember being mad at his cousin was when they were young and playing a family baseball game.

Kimble was up at bat and Jarvis was the catcher. Kimble took a swing and accidentally hit Jarvis square in the face. With a goose egg over his eye, Jarvis fumed at Kimble for two days. And then, just like that, his anger dissipated.

He now looks back on the inci-dent with humor.

“We just have a lot of memo-ries growing up together,” said Jarvis. “We’ve always been on the same sports teams and done ski lessons together – everything you

can think of.”So when Kimble, a big Huskies

fan, joined the football team at Eastside Catholic School, Jarvis did too.

Now, four years later, the two helped lead the Eastside Catholic

Crusaders through a perfect 9-0 season and eventually the Metro 3A League title – a combination the team hasn’t achieved since 1993.

The Crusaders pushed ahead Nov. 3 in the state qualify-

ing round when they beat Meadowdale 27-13.

“I love those two kids,” said their head coach Jeremy Thielbahr. “They do everything together. They come here and work hard. They work their tails

off all summer. These are guys that show up every single day and play great football.”

Jarvis, a junior running back, leads the team in rushing and has already scored seven touchdowns for the Crusaders this year, including two in the first half of the Oct. 26 league championship game.

“He has been a juggernaut in terms of making plays and touch-downs,” said Thielbahr.

But he’s not one to brag. Jarvis is just happy to be a part of the team and is excited to see how far the Crusaders can go in the state playoffs, which they entered as their district’s No. 1 seed.

“That feels pretty good,” said Jarvis. “I owe a lot of credit to our offensive line and quarterback…and the defense for getting us the ball back. It’s definitely not all me out there.”

Kimble, a senior captain, is the only one on the team to play both offense and defense.

“I think I play best when I’m playing both ways,” said Kimble. “I like to be in the game, not watching from the sidelines and thinking too much about it.”

A “ball hawk on defense,” as Thielbahr calls him, Kimble has also proven to be an asset on the

Photo by Corie GoodloeHenry Jarvis, left, and Peter Kimble are family, neighbors and teammates.

Cousins are leaders as Eastside football makes title run

See EASTSIDE, Page 13

Photo by Jim NicholsonMax Browne scrambles for a short gain.

Skyline blows past Puyallup in 59-17 playoff victoryMax Browne sets state record for completions

See SKYLINE, Page 13