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By Tom Corrigan

For Liberty High School, passage of the April 17 Issaquah School District bond would mean completion of the reconstruc-tion and modernization plan now under way thanks to a 2006 voter-approved bond.

At the same time, Apollo and Issaquah Valley elementary schools would receive sizable space additions, making room for 120 additional students at each building. Both schools would benefit from some much-needed maintenance, according to the principals of each school.

Outside of schools being rebuilt or transplanted, Liberty, Apollo and Issaquah Valley are the three individual school facil-ities that would receive the most attention in terms of dollar value should the district

win passage of its current bond proposal.

Liberty High School

Still under construction, Phase 1 of the Liberty project includes creation of a performing arts center similar to the still-new facility at Issaquah High School. The Liberty center is supposed to be finished this summer, according to Steve Crawford, district director of capital projects.

“That’s an exciting piece for us,” Liberty High Principal Mike DeLetis said.

The new facility will put his school’s performing arts

department front

and center, he added. While not an all-inclusive list, Phase II could include revamping Liberty’s commons, relo-cating and modernizing facilities for the school’s culinary arts program

and reworking some classroom spaces. Plans would add an auxiliary gym and modernize the school’s locker room.

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

At one point, DeLetis referred to one targeted portion of Liberty as “the bun-ker.” Classrooms there have no windows, he said. In regard to the commons area, DeLetis said it would become more open. The “L Café,” the retail outlet for Liberty’s culinary arts program, would be located off that commons, greatly increasing its

visibility. The bond proposal also calls for creation of TV labs and production and editing facilities. That might seem a frill to some, but not to DeLetis. He said media is now largely electronic, that the Web and video is a key portion of any print media operation, even a school newspaper. School announcements are often done via student-produced videos, he said.

The total cost for Phase II of Liberty’s remodeling is $39.7 million, not including $4.8 million for revamping the school’s football stadium.

Issaquah Valley Elementary School

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Photo by Caleb HeeringaTaking advantage of a window of good weather, Sammamish resident Kristen Miller gives her daughter Paige, 4, a push on the swings at Ebright Creek Park March 21.

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By Caleb Heeringa

Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District customers will likely see a significant increase in their bills under the district’s new rate structure.

The district’s board of commis-sioners unanimously approved the revamped rates at a March 19 public hearing. Commissioners hope the new method of charg-ing customers, which increases a customer’s fixed charges while decreasing charges for the amount of water a customer uses, will help stabilize the dis-trict’s finances from year to year and more accurately reflect the mostly static costs of providing water and sewer service. The new rates will go into effect in April.

“I know we’re in an era of declining government, but unfor-tunately water and sewer ser-vices are not like those provided by general government,” General Manager Jay Krauss said. “We can’t just shut down a park … to

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By Caleb Heeringa

Sammamish leaders got their first look March 19 at what will serve as a blueprint and refer-ence point for the future of the city’s parks.

The city’s Parks and Recreation Commission pre-sented the City Council with the 328-page PRO Plan – a product of months of work on behalf of city staff and commission members. The document takes stock of the city’s parks, examines what the city is missing and suggests pri-orities going forward.

“We want (Sammamish) to be a community, we don’t want this to just be a commuter town,” Parks Commissioner Steve Wright said at the meeting.

The Plan makes several sug-gestions to the council, which will have the final author-ity when it comes to spending

money on the development or acquisition of parks, including:

u Addressing the “geographic equity” of parks by looking into a park in the northeast corner of the city. Though the north end of the city has the newly opened Evans Creek Preserve and Sammamish Landing, which is due to open officially this sum-mer, residents along the north stretches of 244th Avenue don’t have many options for public parks they can walk to.

Neighbors in the area have encouraged the city to look into buying the so-called Mystic Lake Dairy property, a 44.5 acre property near Northeast 14thStreet, though City Manager Ben Yazici said the property had a price tag of over $7 million the last time the city inquired. King County land use records show

City Council will discuss how to spend on parks

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potential capital improvements, Issaquah Valley Elementary School’s Diane Holt is not exactly a fan of portable classrooms. The school has four portables, but that number is due to increase if the school does not receive what Holt described as a much-needed expansion.

For now, the school has room for 25 classes, including those being held in portables. But stu-dent enrollment is on the rise and Holt said she will need room for roughly 31 classes next year.

As for those portables, Holt does not like the isolation they create.

But even more impor-tantly in her mind is that students and staff mem-bers must go outside anytime they leave those outdoor classrooms, even to use the restroom. She also talked about the portables being horri-

bly inefficient in terms of energy use.

There are other problems at the school in addition to capac-ity issues, according to Holt. She talked about using buckets and wastebaskets in various spots around the school to catch water from a leaky roof.

“They patch it,” she said, “but the building is old.”

On another front, Issaquah Valley Elementary runs three lunch periods and each is filled to capacity even without any addi-tional students.

District plans call for the addi-tion of six new classrooms and

the conversion of an art room into a seventh, according to Holt. She noted the school would not be the recipient of a new gym or a new library.

Those facilities are sufficient, even with new students, and the bond committee that originally wrote the capital improvement plan recognized that fact, Holt said.

Overall, the price tag for improvements at Issaquah Valley Elementary is $8.5 million.

Apollo Elementary School

Like Holt, Apollo Principal

Susan Mundell would enjoy doing away with the portable classrooms at her school for essentially the same reasons cited by her Issaquah Valley Elementary School counterpart.

Apollo has six classes using portables. Mundell would like her school to have a more uni-fied feel, something she said just doesn’t seem possible with por-tables.

“There is a sense of isolation,” she said, her words echoing those of Holt. “I’d like to build a com-munity feeling.”

Mundell talked about students and staff members being forced

to walk outside to use restrooms or to reach the main building.

“Everyone wears coats around here,” she added.

As with Issaquah Valley Elementary, passage of the bond would mean far less use of porta-bles at Apollo and construction of six additional, indoor classrooms.

The school also would receive new restrooms and an expanded commons area.

The central office would be remodeled. Exterior walkways would be enclosed. Drainage would be added to the school’s outdoor play field.

When the rain is heavy, as it

was recently, Mundell said the field becomes little more than a mud pit and is totally unus-able.

Lastly, for Apollo, the bond proposal calls for new carpeting. Some might see the latter as at least a bit of a luxury. Mundell does not.

“Our carpet is really worn. You can see that it is in need of replacing,” she said, adding the new carpeting is supposed to be easier and cheaper to clean and maintain.

All in all, Apollo would receive some $7.2 million in attention if the bond issue passes.

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Find the complete list of the capital improvement projects pro-posed by the school dis-trict at www.issaquah.wednet.edu. Click on “April 2012 bond.”

Smaller projectsLess flashy maintenance proj-

ects are big part of the school bond issue

A significant portion of the proceeds from the $219 mil-lion bond sale would go toward seemingly mundane items, such as rebuilding playfields and replacing fire alarm panels. The proposed project list includes dozens of maintenance and upkeep items at schools around the district.

“We have an obligation to protect roughly $1.2 billion in assets,” Jake Kuper, district chief of finances and operations, said referring to the estimated value of the district’s 28 total buildings, including 24 schools.

One idea behind the mainte-nance portion of the bond plan is the argument that it will be much cheaper to fix problems now rather than down the road, when those problems only will have grown bigger.

“I think this is something everybody can understand,” said Lesley Austin, one of two co-chairwomen of the committee promoting the bond, said.

For example, homeowners know that if a roof leaks, you need to fix that leak or the problem is likely to get worse, the repair bill more expensive,

she said.“From a system wide per-

spective,” Kuper said, “contin-ued maintenance of our com-munity assets saves the taxpay-ers money in the long run, as neglected maintenance cycles can result in larger system fail-ures and costs in the future.”

Like Austin, Kuper said a slightly leaking roof, if neglect-ed, can lead to much bigger problems in the future. He said porous roofs can lead to water damage and the need for the repair or renovation of other parts of the building.

Officials talked about boilers failing at schools around the dis-trict. One recent boiler project cost the schools about $500,000, said Sara Niegowski, district director of communications. With tight budgets, the more dollars spent on maintenance-related work means fewer dol-lars spent directly on classrooms and education.

Several district officials noted school buildings get an incred-ible amount of use and take a huge amount of punishment. The cabinets in a school get as much use and take as much abuse in one year as home cabinets experience in about 10 years, Ron Thiele, associate superintendent, said.

In addition to playfields and

fire alarm panels, there are numerous other maintenance projects listed in the bond pack-age.

At Beaver Lake Middle School, plans call for upgrading the clock system in classrooms at a price of $75,000. Bond pas-sage also would mean replace-ment of flooring in the school’s commons for an additional $75,000. Finally, plans call for replacing the vinyl wall cover-ing and wainscoting in school corridors and adding a “tack-able” surface in those same cor-ridors.

At Endeavour Elementary School, a roof would be replaced, along with some repairs being done to skylight-ing at a cost of $525,000. Some flooring would be replaced in corridors and the school’s com-mons.

New carpeting would be placed in classrooms and offices. Endeavour also would see some realignment of its administrative offices in order to give officials a better view of the school’s entrance. Total cost of the Endeavour projects is $830,000.

Overall, 16 schools would receive maintenance attention if voters approve the bond sale. That number does not include schools that would be rebuilt or

receive major space additions.Besides the maintenance

projects at individual schools, the bond plan calls for numer-ous districtwide repairs or projects. Remodeling as needed to comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act would run $850,000. The district hopes to spend $2.1 million on installing electronic locks and card key access systems at all buildings.

An additional $2.6 million would be used for placing closed-circuit security cameras at all sites.

The bond project list places project management fees and pools of money, such as a con-struction reserve fund, under the heading of districtwide proj-ects. Subtracting those dollars, districtwide work would account for approximately $9.3 million of the total bond package.

The project list also includes $440,000 for replacing single-glazed windows and remodel-ing office areas at the school administration building. Finally, the district’s transportation cen-ter near Issaquah High School would receive $2.1 million in attention. Regrading and pav-ing certain areas would account for $775,000 of that total. A new access road would cost an addi-tional $1.3 million.

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cut costs.”The district covers most of

the city of Sammamish, aside from Sahalee and the surround-ing area, which is covered by Northeast Sammamish Sewer and Water District.

The district will charge single-family residences a flat rate - $50.34 in a bi-monthly billing period – for sewer service. That’s a 17 percent increase over what the average customer is paying now under the current volume-based rate, which varied based on the winter-time water use of each home. The sewer charge does not include the $72.20 bimonthly charge for wastewater treatment through King County.

Water customers will see a higher fixed charge - $46.04 in a bimonthly billing period – but lower charges for the volume of water they use. Higher-end users would see their bills go down under the new system – a home that uses 4,000 cubic feet (29,920 gallons) of water in a two-month period would pay $138.20 for compared to $147.59 before. But the rates mean larger bills for a single-family home that uses 1,400 cubic feet (10,472 gallons) every two months, which is a typical amount for a district cus-tomer. The average homeowner will pay $68.89 under the new rates, up from $63.50 before.

Though the district has increased water rates by between 7 and 12 percent every year since 2007, they’ve seen water revenues fluctuate by as much as $1.5 million from year to year during that period. Krauss attrib-uted that to two things. The first is decreased water use as more

and more households conserve by installing low-flow appliances. The second factor is the weather — summers that go from wet and cool one year to hot and dry the next, affecting the amount of rev-enue that comes from residents watering their lawns.

Despite the uncertainty in the revenue stream, the cost of installing and maintain-ing the pipes and pumps that move water and waste around the undulating hills of the Sammamish Plateau increases steadily with inflationary pres-sures. The commission has also set a policy goal of setting aside funds for the future replacement of its infrastructure in hopes that future generations won’t be left with the bill when pipes reach the end of their life.

Commissioner Robert Abbott attempted to explain the value of saving for the future to Joe Eickhoff, one of two district customers who showed up to the March 19 hearing on the rate increase. Abbott pointed to Eickhoff’s son, dutifully doing homework in the back of the room, as an example of future generations being spared by sav-

ing for times ahead.“Yeah, because his Dad is

going to go broke paying for it,” Eickhoff said to laughter from the commission.

Eickhoff said he moved to the Trossachs neighborhood from Nebraska in October and was “shocked” when he got his first water bill in Sammamish. He quizzed the commissioners on what sort of cost-cutting measures they had looked at before raising rates and encouraged them to compare themselves to water and sewer districts nationwide rather than in the immediate area.

“I see the signs when I drive up the big hills around here telling me to conserve … but I don’t have any incentive to do that (under the new rates),” Eickhoff said.

Commissioner Lloyd Warren pointed out that customers are still charged for every gallon of water they use and thus have an incentive to use less – just not as much of one as before. He said the commission felt that their rate structure up until now had been unfairly skewed to over-charge residences that use lots of water, whether that be for show-ers for large families or homes

with irrigation systems. Warren said the higher

charges for high-use customers were partly a reflection of the district’s lack of water as rapid development sucked up avail-able supplies in the 1990s and early 2000s. The district had a moratorium on development in place for many years due to the scarce supply. With the district’s connection to regional provider Cascade Water Alliance in recent years, the threat of running out of water during a dry spell is not as pressing.

“Because of the contracts that we have for water, we can pro-vide people with the service that they expect,” Warren said.

Krauss said in the last year or so the district has eliminated one full-time position in the finance department and a half-time posi-tion in administration in attempt to cut down on personnel costs. A second finance department posi-tion will not be refilled after an employee retires at the end of the year. Krauss said that the staffing reductions will save the district approximately $214,000 a year in wages and benefits going forward.

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Tolls are set to go up on 520 bridge

Sammamish drivers who com-mute into Seattle on the state Route 520 bridge will soon be paying just a bit more.

The first of four annual 2.5 percent increases in all toll rates will go into effect July 1, add-ing 9 cents to the peak rate of $3.50 and 3 cents onto the night-time rate of $1.10, according to a Washington State Department of Transportation press release. Tolls will go up for all times of day and for all methods of pay-ing.

The annual rise has been in the agency’s plans since the leg-islature passed the tolling plan last year. The tolls will bump up every year through 2015 before a larger 15 percent increase goes into effect in 2016. The Washington State Transportation Commission is tasked with deter-mining toll levels after that, as the state works to pay off con-struction bonds on the project. Tolls are expected to fund $1 billion of the $4.65 billion expan-sion project, which is scheduled to be completed by late 2014.

More people have been using the bridge than planners expected, according to the press release. Traffic has been 17 per-cent higher than expected and revenues 7 percent higher than forecast.

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OPINIONReview editorial

Controversial bonddeserves a yes vote

We wish the Issaquah School District had been more conservative in its request to fund the long list of items on the April 17 construction bond, but we get why it was not.

With another school bond ending its 20 years of tax collections, this is a good time to get a lot of catch up work done on our school facilities, while still giving taxpayers a couple hundred dollars’ reduction in property taxes next year (an estimated $215 drop on $500,000 assessed valuation home.)

Volunteers for Issaquah Schools, the group push-ing a yes vote, say this is the biggest campaign they’ve ever mounted.

It’s no wonder. With so many questions and a $219 million price tag, the proposed bond has raised a lot of eyebrows.

There are lots of questions voters are asking, as we did. Do the middle schools really need artificial turf fields? Does it really make sense to tear down Clark Elementary School? Does Tiger Mountain Community High School, population 80, really need to be relocated at a cost of $4 million? Isn’t $75,000 for clocks at Beaver Lake Middle School rather excessive? And so on.

First, recognize that the extensive repairs, remod-els, permanent classroom additions for 500 students, rebuilds of the five oldest schools, stadium upgrades, safety and energy-saving additions is so extensive that it will take eight years to get it all done — although taxpayers will be paying for the next 20 years.

Take into account that the district is still growing in student population and they have to go some-where, although new capacity is not the primary aim of this bond. Equality in school facilities will come closer to reality if these projects are com-pleted. Consider that the slower economy makes it a great time to get the best construction bids.

For many voters, this bond request is a stretch. But just like the committee of volunteers who stud-ied the issues and drafted the bond plan, we believe the facilities bond keeps our schools in tip-top shape and designed for changing educational needs.

Vote yes when your ballot arrives in the mail this week.

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Attorney contract should be bid

After reading last week’s arti-cle “Council Won’t Study Legal Services,” it was clear that the article should have been titled “Sammamish has a Closed-Door Policy on Bidding for Service Contracts.” Speaking on behalf of this policy is the City Manager, Ben Yazici, city staff, and of course the attorney himself (seems like a bit of a conflict of interest).

Since the city attorney works for the council, not at the whim of the city manager, this seemed entirely inappropriate. The fact that City Attorney Bruce Disend was present and commented on this contract not going to bid is also inappropriate. I have no argument with Disend and he may very well be the best candidate, but it is good business and should be policy, that all service contracts go out to bid every three to five years.

Councilman Ramiro Valderrama was the only council member who spoke out on this issue. Thank you, councilman, for your professional-ism in this matter. You are correct. Service contracts should go out for bid. This is nothing personal, just good business.

Karen MoranSammamish

Enforce the leash lawsHaving been attacked and bitten

by an off-leash dog while biking the East Lake Sammamish Trail, I read Kate Poaster’s March 14 letter to the editor with great interest.

I’ve been biking the area’s dedi-cated biking trails for years. I’ve encountered dogs off-leash on a regular basis, and I can’t count the number of times I’ve felt threatened by an unruly dog.

My observations in interacting with dog owners is that the vast majority are completely aware of the leash laws and, disturbingly, are making it clear that they have no intention of honoring the leash ordinances. The bottom line is that the owners are unlikely to be cited in any way for failing to honor the leash laws. I’ve been advised to con-

tact King County Animal Control regarding the leash violations; however, in most cases this is logistically problematic in that I am not able to obtain a dog own-er’s name or address.

Last week, I was attempting, once again, to bike the East Lake Sammamish Trail. I stopped at a public picnic area and was approached by a dog owner whose two dogs who were off-leash. One of the dogs approached me and began barking aggressively and relentlessly. The owner didn’t seem the least bit concerned about my safety.

If I dare to mention leash laws to these irresponsible dog own-ers, I am usually met with indif-ference, annoyance or, in some cases, hostility. I’m guessing that most of these dog owners have never been attacked and bitten by a dog.

We need to enforce the leash laws. If we don’t, the next victim might be a small child.

Barbara NatielloSammamish

School bond neededThere will be vote on April 17

on an issue that is of the high-est importance to all who live in the city of Sammamish as well as for everyone who lives in the Issaquah School District. The issue in question is the construc-tion and maintenance bond for the Issaquah schools. This is a replacement bond for an exist-ing Issaquah District school bond, which is expiring.

While it is true that if the bond were to not be replaced taxes would be reduced to $4.05/$1000 of assessed homeowner value from the current $4.85 (an 80 cent reduction), after approving the bond, taxes will still be lower by 43 cents/$1,000 from today’s level, thus still providing an overall tax decrease from current levels for all Issaquah School District home owners.

The funds generated by the replacement bond will go towards badly needed refurbishment and improvements for virtually every

district school in Sammamish (and the entire district). Many of the old-est schools and classrooms need substantial renovation to provide a competitive education for tomor-row’s workplace. Furthermore, improvements to sports facilities will improve both safety and allow significantly higher time availability for students and the community.

It is important to keep in mind that not only are top quality schools needed to enable the educational opportunities necessary for our young residents as they prepare for their careers but also that the qual-ity of the schools has a very positive financial impact on the community which is shared by all.

Good schools make for desirable communities and help to create and support high property values. This should be kept in mind even if you do not currently have children in class – it affects your home’s resale value! Major corporations direct relocating executives and other highly skilled people to those com-munities with excellent educational opportunities. Great schools are one of the most important things in keeping our city among the top places to live in the country.

I strongly urge your support for the levy April 17.

Tom OdellThe writer is mayor of the

city of Sammamish

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Ledbetter, longtime parks and recreation director for SeaTac municipal government, earned a supervisor seat on the board of the conservation district — the agency responsible for promot-ing sustainable use of natural resources, and providing infor-mation and technical assistance to landowners.

Landowners fund the district through a $10-per-parcel assess-ment fee.

In 2011, the district shifted to online elections in a push to boost turnout. King County Elections does not administer district elections. Instead, the district relied on Bellevue-based Election Trust and Scytl USA to coordinate the balloting.

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that Camwest Development had a pre-application meeting with the county about developing the parcel into a single-family home development in August 2011, but the county has yet to receive a formal proposal for the land.

Councilman Ramiro Valderrama questioned the com-mission’s assumption that every resident needed to have a city park within half of a mile, pointing out that more than 60 percent of respondents to the city’s parks sur-

vey in 2010 said they would walk a mile or more to get to a park.

u Looking into how much money is being spent on main-taining the city’s parks. The city has added nearly 200 acres of developed parkland since 2007 with the additions like Evans Creek Preserve and Sammamish

Landing, yet the city’s expendi-tures on parks maintenance have increased only incrementally during that period, according to the PRO Plan. The city went from spending $1.45 million on maintenance of 239 acres of park land in 2007 to $1.66 mil-lion on the maintenance of 442

acres. Calculated by maintenance money by acre, that’s a drop from $6,062 to $3,759.

In a later interview, Yazici said the city has not had to let grass go unmowed or left garbage cans overflowing yet, since much of the land added is of the low-main-tenance variety, like trails, rather

than sports fields or structures that need more attention. But he said the council may have to consid-er spending more on parks maintenance funding in the years ahead, especially if the city adds more

infrastructure and landscaped areas to its parks.

“It’s a credit to our staff that they’ve pushed themselves to the limit to find efficiencies and keep plugging along as we add park-land,” Yazici said.

The city has five full-time parks maintenance employees and 13 part-time or seasonal employees and contracts out for custodial services and turf main-tenance.

u Continuing to add more athletic fields to keep up with demand. The city is hoping that the conversion of Eastlake High School’s baseball field into multi-use synthetic turf, approved late last year, will mean more time for all sorts of sports teams. But it remains hard for youth and adult recreational teams to get time on the city’s turf fields, particularly during March, April, September and October.

The commission suggests the city continue to prioritize upgrading its existing fields to turf and adding lights when pos-sible, extending the hours during which the fields can be used. It also suggests considering an “indoor field house” that could be used all year round and late into the night.

u Moving forward with a com-munity and aquatic center pro-posal and putting it to a public vote. The council has spent little time discussing the community center in recent months after last summer’s feasibility study pro-duced a 98,000 square foot, $64 million facility on the Kellman property, behind the library. Yazici said the city has been in informal discussions with the YMCA about partnering on a facility, which could hopefully cut down on operating expenses, and is examining ways to address the parking situation without spending the estimated $15.9 million it would take to build a parking garage.

Several councilmembers sug-gested that the city reach some sort of conclusion on whether to move forward with a commu-nity center before approving the long-term plan for other parks expenditures in the coming years. The PRO Plan contains the commission’s suggestions, which includes a remodel of the swim-ming area at Beaver Lake Park, trails connecting Beaver Lake Park with Beaver Lake Preserve and Lower Commons Park with Southeast Eighth Street Park (the former Pigott property), as well as other yet-to-be-determined improvements to Southeast Eighth Street Park. The council

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Issaquah Sammamish Redmond Mercer Island Kirkland2011 Parks maintenance costs $1.77 million $1.53 million $4.9 million $1.96 million $3.59 millionTotal park acreage 1,680 460 1344 485 554Cost per acre $1,053 $3,319 $3,647 $44,049 $6,474


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alty during other months.“This year, we have a com-

bination of winter weather still in the forecast for much of the state,” Chris Christopher, direc-tor of maintenance operations, said in a statement. “With spring break and Easter right around the corner, we wanted to give driv-ers the chance to travel before having to take off their studded tires.”

The state transportation agen-cy recommends motorists head-ed into higher elevations carry chains and use approved traction tires year round.

Officials do not expect to extend the deadline beyond April 16.

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will be formalizing the future parks plans as part of their 2013 budget discussions this fall.

During the meeting, Valderrama and Councilman John Curley suggested the city do counts of the amount of people using a given park and use the results when considering which parks to improve and whether to open more parks.

“I’m all for parks, but I’d like some analysis of some sort,” Curley said. “I want to see how many people are using a park, how often they use them and

which parks they use … If we’re spending $1.6 million on (parks maintenance) every year, let’s get some hard numbers on this.”

Several councilmembers and commission members took issue with valuing parks based on the amount of people using them, pointing out that a large wooded area with a trail system would naturally have less use than a park with a baseball fields used by several sports teams a day.

“What you find valuable (about parks) might not be what another person finds valuable,”Councilman John James said. “I don’t think you can run parks like Disneyland, where if an attraction doesn’t get so many people boarding you have

to scrap it.”Curley clarified that the usage

numbers would be just one met-ric the city could use in deter-mining where to spend its parks money, but said it would be useful to know considering how much money the city spends on parks.

“The marketplace will be able to determine the value of (a park) by seeing how many people are going to it,” he said. “It troubles me when I drive by on sunny days and see no one using (a park.)”

The council is scheduled to adopt the PRO Plan during bud-get discussions this fall. Read the plan at www.ci.sammamish.wa.us/files/document/8691.pdf.

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By Caleb Heeringa

Smokers can puff away in Sammamish’s parks – at least for now.

During a March 13 study session, the City Council con-sidered a unanimous Parks and Recreation Commission recom-mendation that the city ban smoking in public parks.

The council was lukewarm in their support for the measure and sent it back to the commis-sion to consider something less drastic than an outright ban – like a polite request that attend-ees at public events in parks like the Fourth of July celebration and Summer Concerts in the Park go somewhere else to light up.

“It’s an unenforceable and close to ‘nanny state’ rule,” Councilman John Curley said. “We’re all going to pat ourselves on the back saying that this is good legislation, but it’s not nec-essarily based on real science.”

The policy would have pro-hibited the use of any tobacco in parks, including chewing

Council returns smoking ban for further study

tobacco. Several other nearby cities have passed similar bans in recent years, includ-ing Auburn, Shoreline and Snoqualmie.

The ordinance would not

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Domestic argumentSammamish Police were called

to sort out an argument between a Sammamish couple and their adult son March 16. According to the police report the son, who lives with his mother and stepfather to help attend to their medical needs, had been asked to move out because the couple said he routinely drank excessively.

Police advised the family that they could not remove the son from the home because no crime had been committed and that the matter would have to be taken up with the courts. The son gathered some items and left on his own volition that night anyway.

Song-o-gramA resident on the 5100 block of

189th Avenue Northeast reported that she was suspicious of some-one who came to her door at around 2:30 p.m. March 14.

The resident said the man, who appeared to be a door-to-door salesman, was “singing very loudly” and rang the resident’s doorbell and loudly knocked on the door. The resident pretended she was not home and watched the man move on to a neighbor’s home. She told police she was concerned that the man was cas-ing the area.

BurglaryA resident on the 2200 block

of Sahalee Drive West reported March 12 that someone had sto-len several pieces of jewelry and more than $600 cash from their home.

The occupants were out of town between March 2 and March 11 and returned home to find the items missing, though

there were no signs of forced entry to the home. The residents report that they suspect a former house cleaner who knew the code to enter the garage door. The case remains under investi-gation.

Boat theftA Sammamish resident report-

ed March 12 that someone had stolen his canoe from a commu-nity beach on Pine Lake some-time in the last two months. The resident searched Craigslist for canoes for sale when he realized the 17-foot Coleman Mariner was missing and found someone in Everett who was offering a very similar canoe for sale.

The resident called the num-ber on the Craigslist posting and got an address for where the boat is being stored. He told police he was going to check and verify whether it was his boat. The case remains under investigation.

Lost personPolice were able to reconnect

a lost man with his father March 11. A Sammamish resident called police that evening to report that the man, who suffers from men-tal illness, had knocked on his door and said he was lost and that his home was haunted.

Police arrived and identified the man and called his father, who had been out looking for him. The father reported that he was working on getting a GPS bracelet for the son that would help if he wanders off again.

Suicide attemptSammamish Police were called

after a local woman attempted suicide March 17. The woman’s mother called police after her daughter made suicidal com-ments.

Police arrived to find sev-eral red marks on her arm and a bloody knife in her bedroom. The woman also made suicidal

comments to police, who called an ambulance to transport her to the hospital for a mental health evaluation.

Suspicious salesmanA resident on the 800 block of

211th Place Southeast reported that a door-to-door salesman approached her in her garage at around 4 p.m. March 15.

The resident reported that the salesman changed his story, at first saying that he was sell-ing cleaning products and then saying he was raising money for inner-city youth.

Bank fraudA Sammamish resident report-

ed more than $450 in fraudulent charges to their bank account March 14. The resident still has their debit card and is unsure how their bank information could have been compromised.

MIPA 19-year-old Sammamish

man was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of minor in possession of alcohol and posses-sion of drug paraphernalia the evening of March 14. Police were called to the 100 block of 224th Avenue Southeast after neighbors reported a loud party.

They arrived to find multiple cars parked on the side of the road. They were then approached by the 19-year-old man, who appeared intoxicated. The man was holding a piece of paper and police asked what it was. The man then proceeded to read verbatim from the paper, which read, “Get a (expletive) warrant, then we’ll talk.”

Police pointed out that they did not need a warrant to arrest someone who was underage and showing signs of intoxication in a public street, and proceeded to do just that. The man briefly struggled when put into hand-cuffs and protested that he was

“performing civil disobedience,” according to the police report. Police searched the man and found a metal grinder, commonly used for grinding up marijuana.

The man was given a por-table breath test that revealed a blood alcohol level of .11. He was booked into Issaquah Jail.

TheftA resident on the 19800 block

of Southeast 29th Street reported that someone had taken a gold necklace from her bathroom Jan. 30 or Jan. 31.

The woman reported that the necklace had gone missing short-ly after a plumber had visited the home and that she suspected the plumber.

The plumbing company told the woman that their employee denied taking the necklace. The case remains under investigation.

Mental health issuePolice were called to a

Sammamish home March 12 after the residents reported that their adult son was possibly suffering from mental health issues.

The son had refused to eat for two days, was repeatedly lighting fires on the porch of the home and otherwise acting strange.

He was unresponsive to police and was transported to the hospital for a mental health

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Custodial issueA Sammamish resident called

police March 13 to report that her ex-husband had not returned their children according to the terms of the couple’s parenting plan. Police documented the incident and advised the woman to take the matter up with the court system.

Bank fraudA Sammamish resident

reported March 12 that someone had made fraudulent purchases with his credit card over the last week.

The resident was alerted to the fraud when he received a $1,300 video camera in the mail, though he had not purchased it. He then found evidence of sev-eral other purchases he hadn’t made. The resident is unsure how his information may have been compromised.

Suicide attemptPolice were called to a

Sammamish residence March 12 after a man in his 40s attempted suicide.

The man’s friend called police after she received a phone call from the man saying that he wanted to kill himself. She arrived to find the man with the car running inside a closed garage. The man also appeared to have ingested several prescrip-tion medications, half a bottle of vodka and marijuana. The man was transported to the hospital.

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Eastside Fire & Rescue’s Chief Lee Soptich says he is “optimistic” that NORCOM, a regional fire and police dispatching agency, can fix the problems with a software upgrade that has seen numerous delays and a failed launch.

That’s a big change from two months ago, when a frus-trated Soptich began contacting neighboring dispatch centers to see if they could take on EFR if the agency cut their ties with Bellevue-based NORCOM.

“I’m encouraged by the prog-ress we’ve seen recently,” he said.

Since then, Soptich said NORCOM has made lots of for-ward momentum on switching to New World, an integrated soft-ware system aimed at combining dispatching, record-keeping and GPS technology for both police and fire units. The upgraded soft-ware would help unify EFR units’ computer and records systems with those in neighboring juris-dictions.

Soptich said the upgraded sys-tem could make a big difference during a major structure fire, like a multi-agency response to a large commercial building like Costco in Issaquah or industrial operation like Darigold. During fire inspections, EFR officials take notes on aspects of the structure that could be hazard-ous to firefighters responding to a blaze and note the best ways in and out of a building. Right now those records are kept on paper in a binder and must be relayed via radio to units on their way to a fire; under the New World system any responding unit that is dispatched by NORCOM could bring up the information on the computer in their fire truck or ambulance.

“When it comes to Darigold, there are a lot of nasty things in there that could hurt a firefight-

er,” Soptich said.But New World’s planned

launch in September 2011, which had already been delayed by more than a year, did not go well. NORCOM switched back to TriTech, the previous dispatching system, after just 16 days because the system repeatedly crashed and did not always send the near-est unit to the nearest call.

Since then, EFR units have been operating with a less-than-ideal dispatching system. EFR had upgraded much of its com-puter hardware in preparation for the switch to New World and incompatibilities between the new computer system and TriTech, the old dispatching sys-tem, meant EFR was missing the “automatic vehicle locator” func-tion, which allows a dispatcher to see the location of a fire truck or aid unit that is in between calls. EFR officials worried that could mean that the nearest unit to a life-threatening call might not be the first one to respond.

NORCOM officials immedi-ately began working with New World to iron out the kinks in the system, but could not provide EFR officials with any estimates on how long it would be before the system was functional, prompting Soptich to tell his board that he had no confidence the problem could be fixed.

But Soptich said he’s been reassured in recent months. NORCOM’s board, made up of elected officials and staff from the participating agencies, spent more than $50,000 on a consul-tant to examine what went wrong with the launch. That consultant, California-based DELTAWRX, found NORCOM’s IT department understaffed and recommended that the agency hire a project manager to oversee the imple-mentation of New World and two more IT employees to maintain the system, according to board meeting minutes.

Problems with fire dispatch service may be diminishingThe additional hires are

expected to cost approximately $270,000, though those costs can be covered by the agency’s reserves and by using money from unfilled dispatcher posi-tions. Soptich said there are no indications that the reshuffling of jobs at the agency is going to increase their annual contribu-tion to the agency, which was about $587,000 in 2012.

NORCOM dispatches for five police departments and 14 fire districts stretching from Shoreline to North Bend.

Sammamish Police dispatch through the King County Sheriff’s Office.

And the New World technolo-gy has shown signs of promise in recent months. All of NORCOM’s police departments are now using it with no problems and New World officials have prom-ised to have fire departments on the system by the end of the year. In February NORCOM put fire departments on the system for two hours to test out recent changes – the system had 21 calls during that period without any

problems, according to meeting minutes.

Sheryl Mullen, NORCOM’s public information officer, said the forward momentum is prom-ising.

“We’re not ready to take the leap (onto New World) yet,” she said. “But it worked the way it was intended to work.”

New World is scheduled to make several upgrades to their software in the coming months and aims to have fire depart-ments using the system by the end of the year.

Councilman Tom Vance coun-tered that he’d like to see more information on the effects of sec-ond-hand smoke in an outdoor setting before dismissing the idea of a ban.

“I guess we can throw out the science just because Councilmember Curley says there is none,” Vance said. “I would like to know more about if the science is there or not.”

Several studies in recent years have measured levels of second-hand smoke in outdoor environments that are compa-rable to indoor environments, though most of those studies have measured outdoor patios at bars and restaurants and other locations where smokers con-gregate.

City Manager Ben Yazici said the idea for the ban stemmed from complaints city staff hear about smoking during large sum-

mer parks events. He said the commission envi-

sioned putting up no-smoking signs but was not proposing to have city staff or police enforce the ban.

“The policy is not going to be to send people out there with a shotgun and shoot smokers, but rather to put a sign out there that says, ‘This is not the place to be smoking,’” Yazici said.

Councilwoman Nancy Whitten, who noted that she used to smoke 15 years ago, said she might be supportive of banning smoking near playgrounds or other places where children con-gregate, but not throughout all of the city’s parks. She called a ban “Big Brother.”

“I find it ironic that we can ban smoking cigarettes, which is a legal activity, but we can’t ban guns, which are clearly hazard-ous to kids,” she said.


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Curley called the ordinance “ridiculous” and questioned the science behind the assumption that second-hand smoke levels outdoors were high enough to cause health problems.

He compared a ban on smok-ing to a ban on barbecuing in a park, since smoke from burned charcoal has been shown to con-

tain carcinogens.“There’s the old saying: ‘Your

right to swing your fist ends at my nose’ … You can do whatever

you want as long as it doesn’t have an adverse effect on my health,” Curley said. “The science just doesn’t back this up.”

“Passing Gas” During debate over the smoking ban

in Sammamish parks, Councilman John Curley questioned the Parks and Recreation Commission’s citation of the Environmental Protection Agency in their suggested resolu-tion.

The suggested language mentions that the EPA classifies second-hand smoke as a carcinogen that poses a risk to non-smokers.

“You’re citing the EPA, which wants

to regulate flatulence in cows and pigs,” Curley said.

Though the EPA does cite livestock flatulence as being responsible for about 28 percent of human-related emissions of methane, which contributes to global cli-mate change, the agency has never consid-ered regulating flatulence and has no plans to do so in the future, EPA spokesman Mark MacIntyre said in an email.

The rumor, which began making the rounds during Congressional debates over

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“Despite our tireless efforts to squash this rumor once and for all, it still pops up occasionally on blogs, list servs and bul-letin boards at supermarkets,” MacIntyre wrote. “The proponents of such ‘news’ can seldom remember exactly where or when they saw it, but this apparently does not diminish its, to borrow a phrase, ‘truthi-ness.’ ”

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that someone had set up a tarp and left a camp chair and sev-eral other items on her property March 9. Police took down the temporary shelter and collected the litter in the area. They are unsure whether someone was staying in the shelter or if neigh-borhood kids were responsible.

Bank fraudA Sammamish resident

reported that someone had spent nearly $1,000 on his credit card March 8.

The man reported that he suspected the employees at a car wash in Issaquah, who had acted suspiciously when handling his credit card earlier in the day. The case remains under investi-gation.

Vehicle prowlA resident on the 27200 block

of Southeast 12th Place reported that someone had stolen a cell phone and cell phone charger from his unlocked vehicle over-

night March 17.

Too good to be trueA Sammamish resident called

police after receiving a let-ter from the Internal Revenue Service indicating that she would be getting a tax refund of more than $8,000.

The resident told police that she gets her taxes done through an accounting firm and knows she was not due to get a refund.

The woman believes someone may have used her social secu-rity number to commit fraud.

Police advised her to take the matter up with the IRS and con-tact credit bureaus to ensure no other fraud had occurred.

Outstanding warrantsPolice arrested a Sammamish

teen who had outstanding war-rants the evening of March 12. An officer contacted the teen on the 24000 block of Northeast Eighth Street just before mid-night and discovered that he had outstanding warrants for alcohol offenses and truancy.

He was booked into King County Juvenile Detention.

Police found more than four grams of marijuana on the teen, who will likely face an additional charge of drug possession.

Counterfeit billAn employee at the Starbucks

near Eastlake High School turned over an apparently counterfeit $20 bill they had received the morning of March 9. Staff is unsure who paid with the bill. The case remains under investi-gation.

Items in the Police Blotter come from Sammamish Police reports.

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By Lillian Tucker

Just like the energy powder he created, Chris MacPherson is causing quite the buzz.

The Skyline 2010 graduate, along with his college buddy Andrew Linfoot, came up with a tasteless energy powder that adds boost to any liquid. So far the supplement has earned the two Purdue students a $10,000 award, national attention from Fox news and an investor for the new busi-ness.

And it all started with as a casual dorm-room conversation about caffeinated drinks, particu-larly the controversy caused by the popular alcoholic stimulant drink “Four Loco,” which has been banned in several states.

“People were buying up Four Loco and we were joking around about ‘why don’t they just put the energy pack on the side’,” said MacPherson, who added that soon after they realized they actually had come up with a good idea. “We were already big on energy drinks and knew which products on the market gave the biggest kicks.”

MacPherson, now a sopho-more in Purdue’s entrepreneur-ship program, and Linfoot quick-ly found that they could order all the ingredients that go into energy drinks over the Internet. Soon their dorm room became a test kitchen as the two tried out different ratios and measure-ment of ingredients like caffeine, taurine and guarana. It wasn’t

hard to find eager and willing guinea pigs on a college campus, said MacPherson. They tested the different energy concoctions on themselves and on friends until they came up with the right effect.

“Some of them had way too much energy - guys sprinted up and down the halls,” said MacPherson. “We realized it became a business when people came to us and asked for a batch of the stuff we had made the

other day.”MacPherson and Linfoot began

networking and spreading the word about their business idea until one day they got a bite – an investor had $50,000 and offered it to them to get the product out

there.Pure Kyk Energy powder

launched Feb. 8, MacPherson’s 20th birthday. To promote their creation, the two students turned to social media and offered free samples to friends of friends online. Word that they were giv-ing away free energy packs went viral via Twitter and within the first 14 hours the pair had 8,200 requests for samples. Pure Kyk Energy’s website was so over-loaded that it shut down and with a total inventory of only 50,000 MacPherson and Linfoot had to end the promotion. MacPherson estimates that 100 man-hours have already gone into filling all 8,200 sample orders. He even bribed his 12-year-old cousin to get in on the assembly line.

On Feb. 21, the two college students took second place at Purdue’s Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition and along with the honor were award-ed with $10,000.

“The student-led business concepts, both at the undergradu-ate and graduate levels, were among the most impressive and market-ready we have seen in this annual competition,” said Richard Cosier, Purdue’s Leeds Professor of Management, in a press release.

In order to devote themselves to their blossoming business MacPherson and Linfoot have become only part-time students. The pair pride themselves on

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ContributedChris MacPherson and business partner Andrew Linfoot pose with their $10,000 award after they earned second place in Purdue’s Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition for their new energy supplement.

Dorm-room recipe energizes entrepreneur‘s career

See ENERGY, Page 15

By Lillian Tucker and Warren Kagarise

The message from groups toiling to save a local fish species from extinc-tion is simple and stark: S.O.S., for Save Our Salmon.

Kokanee S.O.S. was the March 23 fundraiser organized by the Coho Cafe and Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery that raised nearly $10,000 to aid the diminishing Lake Sammamish kokanee salmon population. Money from the night will now be used to help pay for the emer-gency hatchery supplementation program that is working to restore the fish population.

“We are on the verge of losing the population,” said David St. John, Lake Sammamish Kokanee Work Group coordinator and chairman. “There is a range of things we are looking at and have to deal with. So as we try to make progress we need to also keep

our genetic stock.”In the program, experts deploy

along creek banks throughout the sea-son to collect fish in creeks near the lake. They then spawn the salmon at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery, where the eggs are tended until the tiny fry can be released into local creeks. Despite broad participation by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, King County and the state Department of Fish and

Wildlife the kokan-ee spawning pro-gram — considered as a stopgap mea-sure for kokanee survival — operates on a limited budget.

“This possible extinction is literally happening right in

our own backyard and if a commu-nity as educated and affluent as King County cannot turn this critical situa-tion around, then I’m not sure there is hope for any people to protect a dwin-dling and important resource,” said Heather VanDorn, the Coho Café man-ager who spearheaded the fundraiser.

The rally to save the fish intensi-fied in October after the kokanee were denied placement on the endangered species list. In short, the reasoning for this, said Federal Fish and Wildlife Service officials, is because similar kokanee thrive in other waterways around the country.

Kokanee are native to the Puget Sound and today are functionally extinct in most places except Lake Sammamish and Lake Whatcom, explained Hans Berge, who has stud-ied kokanee for over 13 years, wrote his masters of science thesis on the salmon and now works as a fisheries biologist for King County.

Kokanee and sockeye are actu-ally the same species. But unlike the sockeye, kokanee are the only salmon that spend their adult life in the lake’s fresh water and never venture to the ocean.

File photoA boy examines a cooler full of salmon fry about to be released in a Sammamish creek.

Community rallies to save salmon

“We are on the verge of losing the population.”

– David St. John, Lake Sammamish Kokanee

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doing it all themselves, from coding the website, to finding a manufacturer to learning graphic design. MacPherson said that if they ever run into a task they are unsure of they simply look it up online.

“You can achieve whatever you set your mind to,” he said. “It’s really cool, too, that Mark Zuckerberg was a sophomore when he started Facebook and three years later he is worth a bil-lion dollars. It kind of makes you think ‘hey, I can do that.’”

Pure Kyk is sold locally at Purdue and nationwide on Amazon.com. The pair are in the midst of distributing the prod-uct to neighboring campuses to better test the market before attempting to expand sales else-where.

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Furthermore, Sammamish kokanee differ from their Whatcom cousins because the two lakes are different with Sammamish waters being more shallow and productive, said Berge. Because of the lake’s access to the sound, Sammamish kokanee have evolved to have to deal with larger predators, he added. This may explain why Whatcom kokanee have been successfully transplanted in places like Lake Chelan, Lake Stevens as well as lakes in Utah and Colorado, but they didn’t make it in Lake Sammamish.

“They are a completely dif-ferent population. It’s similar to saying a Sacramento chinook is the same as a Copper River chi-nook,” said Berge, who disagrees with the Fed’s endangered spe-cies decision. “There is enough uniqueness there that I think it warrants more protections.”

In recent years, the number of kokanee in the late-fall and early-winter run has dwindled to fewer than 1,000 in some seasons. Scientists estimated the total 2010 run at 58 fish, includ-ing the 40 kokanee spawned at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery in a last-ditch effort to save the species.

They return to only a handful of creeks — Ebright, Laughing Jacobs, Pine Lake and Lewis — to spawn. On the genetic level, a kokanee’s uniqueness can be

pinpointed to one of those four creeks where they started out as a wee fry. Therefore an Ebright Creek fish is genetically differ-ent from a Lewis Creek fish.

“I was just amazed; the more I learned the more fascinat-ing it is,” said Ilene Stahl. She and her husband have lived in Sammamish for year and during that time have become

more and more dedicated to the kokanee cause. “If you have never seen these little fish you have to get out and see them. They are just beautiful.”

Along with assisting St. John and Berge in their environmen-tal efforts and volunteering every year to count salmon returning to the streams to spawn, Stahl also founded Friends of Pine Lake in 1998 and served as its president until last year.

“One of the reasons I formed Friends of Pine Lake was because I was interested in the environment and as the Sammamish Plateau was being developed very rapidly and trees were coming down, I saw the effects on the environment,” she said. “Everything affects the streams. The more we know the

more we realize that we make a greater impact than we think.”

Stahl also believes that in order for the spawning program to work more effort must be put in to protecting the kokanee’s habitat.

That includes, she said, incor-porating more natural solutions when building and also strength-ening regulations on storm water and development.

“You can’t blame it on ocean fisheries or tribal fisheries,” said Berge. “You can really only blame it on the things that effect Lake Sammamish and its tribu-taries.”

There are several items on the kokanee bucket list, like fix-ing the Lewis Creek culvert that runs under Interstate 90 so that salmon can travel up it to their spawning grounds. It’s a steep climb to get everything done but St. John said he does think the supplementation program is gaining traction.

“This salmon population is a unique and historical commu-nity asset, and it will live or die by the care of the community,” he said. “We’ve been successful with several early actions and want more people to share in new, bigger successes.”

More information can be found at www.savelakesamm.org.

Reporters Lillian Tucker and Warren Kagarise can be reached at 392-6434 or [email protected] and [email protected]. Comment at www.sammamish review.com.

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“If you have never seen these little fish you have to get out and see them. They are just beautiful.”

– Ilene Stahl, Environmental activist –

Jordan Partem bornJordan Aleksandr Partem

was born Oct. 1, 2011 to Alex Partem and Katie Buehler. He was 7 pounds, 13 ounces and 20 inches long. The family lives in Bellevue.

Katie Buehler is a 2006 Skyline graduate, and the daughter of James Buehler of Sammamish and Jan Buehler of Issaquah.

Alex Partem is a 2006 gradu-ate of Interlake and the son of Bogdan and Nataliya Partem of Bellevue.

The baby’s family includes aunts and uncles Rene Buehler, Poulsbo, Sherissa Buehler, Issaquah, Yulia Partem, Bellevue and Derek Armstrong, Bellevue.

His great-grandparents are Mariya Havryluyk of Bellevue and Florence Armstrong of Yakima.

UW dean’s listThe following Sammamish

students were named to the dean’s list at the University of Washington. To qualify, students needed to achieve a GPA of at 3.5 or higher. This is a partial list. More student’s names will be published in future weeks.

The University of Washington Dean’s List includes: Adam Albaum, Melissa Alleman, Nathan Anderson, Adrienne Antonsen, Melissa Arnold, Sohrob Aslamy, Jordan Atwood, Sarah Austin, Brandon Barron, Tyler Barron, Meaghan Beaulaurier, Jillian Perle, Jayit Biswas, Brandon Bond, Kevin Braun, Michelle Bretl, Chelsea Broomhead, Kristina Brown, Adam Brzycki, Dune Butler, Carly Cameron, Alexander Carey, Chase Carlin, Zhiyuan Chen, Rasan Cherala, Stephanie Chi, Anthony Cho, Michelle Choe, Abby Christensen, Julia Sang Chu, Seung

Chung, Christopher Clark, Kevin Clark, Gavin Cochran, Christina Corrales, Erin Cote, Grant Crauer, Alexander Cureton, Alexander Darling, Daniel Dawson, Samuel David Delaughter, Michael Christopher Devlin, Alice Donigan, Kristin Dorr, Benjamin Dulken, Christopher Michael, Matthew Ellis, Stephen Ellis, Leslie Elston, Elizabeth Erlandson, Sean Fagan, John Fancher, Christina Farno, Alexa Forster, Bradley Freeman, Kelly Freeman, Hannah Frenkel, Heather Gee, Elizabeth Geerdes, John Geil, Sarah Geyer, Holly Griffith, Simi Gupta, Megan Hachey, Alicia Halberg, Jessica Hamke, Daryl Hansen, Austin Hebert, Laura Hedeen, Jamie Helgeson, Ashton Stuart, James Donn, Chelsea Hewitt, Ashley Hogan, Chia Hu, Dane Huff, Dorris Y Hwang, Zoya Hyder, Michael Benjamin Iorga, Monica Renae Ittes, Faaizah Afreen Iyaz, Nicole Louise Jensen, Teresa Hanmei Jiang, Nicholas Welles Kamisar, Rachael Nicole Kennedy, Adiba Khan, Benjamin J Kim, Axel Ryan Kordel, Adam Michael Kuczynski, Zachary William Laturner, Christian Jeremiah Lawler, Kerry Elizabeth Lazarz, Sean Douglas Leake, Courtney Anne Lee, Joshua Seung Hoon Lee, Tinny Liang, Joey Lim, Natasha Lingenbrink, Allen Liu, Erick Lo, Wei-Ting Lu, Michael Lucas, Stephanie MacDonald, Nabil Manji, Nina Marien, Michael Martel, Gabrielle Martel-Rousseau, Andrew Marzano, Jessica Mathisen Jaymi Matsudaira.

By Lillian Tucker

The Rock Star Readers from Samantha Smith Elementary School have lived up to their name by becoming the Northern Region Champions in the Global Reading Challenge.

The team, comprised of fourth graders Abhi Mantha, Anirudh Iyer, Caroline Oei and Ilana Poznanski and fifth grad-ers Elaine Zheng, Boyoung Yang and Russell Carmichael, first won the school reading chal-lenge by besting six other teams of its peers and then took first in both the east and west divi-sions before beating Shoreline for the northern region title and advancing to the Grand Challenge on March 23, where they finished third.

“I feel really honored to be representing the school and the whole north region,” said Anirudh Iyer. “Actually the whole team was nervous…we were really surprised.”

The Global Reading Challenge is a contest put on by the King County library system and local public schools to engage students in a “Battle of the Books” style challenge. This is the third year

that Samantha Smith has taken part in the program.

Hanna Chang, the fourth-grade teacher of Ilana Poznanski said that the teach-ers try to make a big deal of the announcement of the chal-

lenge’s reading list, which is released on the first day of school. The list is made up of 10 books chosen by the county’s children librarians that fit a wide range of reading levels and appeal to the interests of young

readers. Teachers form teams that mix fourth and fifth graders and boys and girls from all read-ing levels. The students then read the books in class and on their own.

“I think it’s a great promo-

tion of reading,” said Chang. She read some of the books aloud to her class and said the chil-dren’s’ favorite was “Escaping the Giant Wave” by Peg Kehret. “Whenever a teacher does a read-aloud it really gets the kids excited about the book and have a common experience.” Everyone got excited wonder-ing what would happen next to the characters, she said, and explained that the stories pro-voke a lot of class discussions.

The Rock Star Readers also often got together during lunch and practiced.

“They didn’t know each other before the practices began and now seem to be fast friends,” said the team’s coach and the school librarian Barb Regan. “They argue, laugh and put their heads together to come up with the answers.” They even, she added, have developed hand signals so

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Photo by Seong YangRock Star Readers Anirudh Iyer, Abhi Mantha, Boyoung Yang, Caroline Oei, Russell Carmichael, Ilana Poznanski and Elaine Zheng celebrate their team’s accomplishments, which include win-ning the Northern Region Global Reading title from King County Libraries.

Smith’s Rock Star Readers rock battle of the books“I feel really honored to be representing the

school.”– Anirudh Iyer,

Student –

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By Lillian Tucker

From the wonderful world of pulleys to sweaty socks, the Discovery Elementary School’s science fair March 21 had some-thing for everyone. The elemen-tary students there were all tasked with posing a question, carrying out an experiment to find an answer and documenting the whole process to show off to their families, friends and teach-ers at the science fair.

Dora Versa, a fifth-grader, looked to her own feet to come up with her science project of fig-uring out which sock material is the most absorbent.

“Especially for me, I always get blisters on my feet. It’s because of sweat, my dad said,” explained Dora. “So, I wanted to find out which soaks up more.” To find the perfect sock, Dora and her friend put different socks in bowls of water, which repre-sented sweat. They then calculat-ed the amount of liquid that each sock absorbed and concluded that cotton stocks were best.

Erin Hiliker had always heard that dogs were color blind, but she still wondered if they pre-ferred certain colors to others so she devised a system to find out. Using her own dog, four of

her neighbors’ pooches, several different pieces of construction paper and lots of treats, Erin con-cluded that the dogs cared more about tasty morsels then the color of paper they came on.

Switching from living crea-tures to surface pressure Evan Sanders turned what he saw on YouTube into a science experi-ment.

The fifth-grader placed a bal-loon on beds of nails, each time changing the number of nails that pushed against the balloon’s sur-face. He originally hypothesized that the more nails he added the more likely it would be that the balloon would pop. But several experiments and many popped balloons later he learned the opposite was true.

“It was pretty fun just seeing if the balloon popped,” said Evan.

Second-grader Konik Mitra wanted to know if plants drank water too. To find out, he placed white flowers and celery in dif-ferent glasses of water with food-coloring in each. When the leaves and petals started to look like the color of the water, he knew that they did in fact soak up the water.

“Seeing the celery and the see-ing the color changing was the funnest,” said Konik.

Photo by Lillian TuckerEvan Sanders demonstrates his science experiment which shows that as the number of nails a balloon is pressed down upon increases, the chance of that balloon popping decreases.

Students find answers at Discovery’s science fair

so that that they don’t give any answers away to other teams.

“We all have to like put our heads in and thank about the answer and agree on one answer,” said team captain Boyoung Yang who prefers to be called Casey. “Doing this compe-tition kind of helped me. It chal-lenges us and it’s more fun. It’s like the tests we take at school but it’s a funner way and goes to different levels.”

When the competition first started everyone had to say their name out loud and she was a bit nervous, Casey said, but as time goes by she has gotten more comfortable speaking in front of large crowds.

Helping the students over-come their shy tendencies is something that both Regan and Chang said they noticed about the Global Reading Challenge.

Reporter Lillian Tucker can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242 or [email protected].


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Students have the first couple of months of the school year to read the 10 books on the reading list created by the King County Library System and to practice being quizzed by their teammates and family about trivia relating to the sto-ries. The students get to show off their knowledge and team work at the school challenge in February in which they com-pete against teams made up of their classmates and friends.

The challenge is comprised of several rounds of ques-tions relating to the books on the reading list. Teams get 30 seconds per question to work together to come up with an answer, which is written down and handed to the judges. The types of questions include true/false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank and open-ended.

The winner of the school competition advances to the district level. From there the first place team goes on to the regional challenge. The regional champions then go on to compete in the Grand Challenge on March 23.

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Several Sammamish area stu-dents earned high marks at the Washington State Parent Student Teacher Association Reflections contest.

More than 1,000 students com-peted at the state level for the cultural arts competition, which each year challenges students to create art that reflects a certain theme.

This year participants were asked to complete the sentence “Diversity means…”.

From Samantha Smith Elementary School Russell Carmichael received an award of merit for his film “Everyone

Welcome.” Also from Samantha Smith Zayanah Rasyamond got an award of merit in the lit-erature catagory for “Diversity Means Being Like a…Zarina Maidin &Rasyamond Raihan.”

Megan Freer from Beaver Lake Middle School was given a literature award of merit for “Friendship.”

Eastlake High School’s Ker Lee Yap was honored with an award of merit in the literature category for “Pardon Me.”

Niyathi Chakrapani from Skyline High School also received an award of merit in literature for “Definitions.”

ContributedSamantha Smith students Russell Carmichael, Zayanah Rasyamond and Mukil Shanmugan, each of whom was recognized for their Reflections entry, take a break from class for a group photo at the school.

Students honored for Reflections

To make it to the state level the students first com-peted against entries from within their own school in order to be considered for each school district’s competi-tion.

From the district contests they went on to compete against other students from all over the state. Eager stu-dents can get a head start on next year’s competi-tion, which will be centered around the theme “Magic of the Moment.”

Eastlake science gets a $2,000 boost

For the fourth year running the Eastlake High School sci-ence department has been given a $2,000 grant from Intermec Foundation March 8.

The money will be used to buy equipment for AP biology, AP chemistry and physics class-es as well as a new astronomy class that will be offered next

year.Those tools include four high-

power green laser pointers, a fog generator, fogger fluid and a 4-piece acrylic lens set – all for teaching optics and the reflection and refraction of light in physics classes, among others.

The grant will also help the school buy 2 Flinn OB 2090 elec-tronic balances for AP chemistry and AP biology and a spirometer for AP biology as well.

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By Lillian Tucker

With five returning starters from last year’s state team and several promising newcomers the Eastlake Wolves are already off to a bright softball season.

“We had a great team last year and we have a great core of girls back this year,” said head coach Natalie Hardin. Already the play-ers have put a lot of effort into improving their game as well as building up their team work, she added. “With all that put together we should be in the top of the KingCo this year...It sounds like some of the other teams are look-ing good too so it definitely won’t be easy. But it will be a challenge and it will be fun.”

In order to make up for game time lost to the month’s hectic weather, the Wolves embarked on a jam-packed week March 19-23 and came out on the other end having won three of their four non-conference games. Eastlake kicked the week off on March 19 with a 8-1 win over the Auburn Trojans.

Pitcher Sophie Palenscar bat-ted one over the fence in the third inning to start the Wolves off on a homerun spree. After she rounded home plate to the

cheers of the team and crowd, Elizabeth Tracy stepped up to bat and answered with her own homerun. Before the inning was over Lexi Jaeger, who plays shortstop and second base, knocked out a home run of her own to give the team a com-manding lead that the Trojans never closed in on.

“I definitely think we will be a team to watch if we keep improv-ing,” said Palenscar. “Each day you come out you have to play better than you played the day before.”

The junior pitched the whole game against Auburn for six strikes outs. At bat she went two for four and along with her homer, had one RBI.

In practice, Palenscar said she has been working to better her pitching location and move-ments, and did a lot of weight training in the off season.

“It was nice to know that the work I’ve put in off the field has finally paid off,” she said. “My teammates really help me out a lot. Without their support and the support of my coaches I couldn’t get through it...when I am on the mound they are always there to

Photo by Lillian TuckerJunior Sophie Palenscar pitched her first win of the season on March 19 against the Auburn Trojans.

Eastlake softball claims strong start with 3-1 preseason run

See SOFTBALL, Page 19

By Lillian Tucker

Whether you believe tennis is a mental game or all about the perfect stroke, the Skyline tennis team has proven they are good at both.

The season kicked off with a non-league match against Bellevue, which the Skyline Spartans dominated 7-0, despite it being split between two separate days because of rain.

“It was crazy,” said team cap-tain and senior Alyson Opitz. “It’s kind of weird getting back into it; a lot of us don’t play in the off season. We are a very new team and I was shocked at how well everybody was able to compose ourselves.”

She added that even though many of them are freshman and they were all told how challeng-ing Bellevue would be, that each of the Spartans stepped on to the court with confidence.

The match began March 19 with the four varsity singles play-

ers taking to the court under gray skies. Before the final score was called the rain came down and forced Skyline and Bellevue to postpone the rest of play until a dryer day.

With déjà vu, the singles faced their opponents again March 21 and picked up, point-for-point where they left off. In the varsity number one position Theresa Huang bested Bellevue’s Sabrina Tu 6-2, 6-2. Ali O’Daffer won No. 2 singles 6-1,6-3 and Jasime Ye, No. 4 singles, beat Tracy Monte 6-2, 6-1.

Laura Parsons returned March 21 to the intimidating position of having to win her first set of the day in order to not lose her No. 3 singles match. In the end she came out on top 7-5, 6-4.

Varsity No. 3 doubles Kasumi Maeda and Kianna Bertolino won their match 6-0, 6-2 while Sonya Ye and Jinny Choi were on their way to taking their No. 2 doubles

Skyline tennis team drives home a 7-0 win over Bellevue

Photo by Lillian TuckerSkyline’s Ali O’Daffer volleys against Bellevue’s Karen Park before winning the No. 2 singles match 6-1; 6-3.See TENNIS, Page 19

BaseballTuesday, March 20Eastlake 5, Redmond 1Eastlake 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 5 10 0Redmond 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1Eastlake batting: John Armour, 2 for 3, RBI, 2B;

Mason Pierchalski, 2 for 4, RBI; Michael Staudinger, 2 for 4, RBI

Eastlake pitching: Josh Barokas (W)Wednesday, March 21Eastside Catholic 9, Lakeside 1Eastside Catholic 1 3 3 0 2 0 0 9 11 2Lakeside 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 0Eastside Catholic batting: TJ Murphy, 3 for 3;

Jeff Kepple 1 for 3, 3 RBI; Alex Foley, 1 for 3, 2 RBIEastside Catholic pitching: Austin Soukup (W)Thursday, March 22KingCo 4ASkyline 4, Redmond 2Skyline 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 6 3 Redmond 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 Skyline batting: Brandon Fischer, 1 for 2, 2B;

Connor Gilchrist, 1 for 2, 2 RBI; Matt Sinatro, 2 for 4, RBI; Patrick Harrod, 1 for 2; Jim Sinatro, 1 for 3, 2B.

Skyline pitching: Matt Lund (W)Friday, March 23Juanita 8, Eastlake 1Eastlake 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 0Juanita 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 8 12 0

Girls golfMonday, March 19Snoqualmie Falls G.C. (par 36)Issaquah 236, Eastlake 254Individuals: 1, Mersadie Tallman, I, 34 strokes;

2, Jamie Midkiff, E, 38; 3, Elin Skaardal, I, 47; 4, Megan Wotherspoon, E, 49; 5, Katie Chun, I, 51

Tuesday, March 20Plateau GC (par 36)Newport 224, Skyline 282Individuals: 1, Marianne Li, N, 37 strokes; 2(tie),

Isabel Chien, N, Maddie Dietz, N, 44; 3, Hannah Christian, N, 49; 4, Bryalynn Vowels, S, 50.

Thursday, March 22Sahalle GC (par 36)Eastlake 268, Roosevelt 332Individuals: 1, Jamie Midkiff, E, 47 strokes; 2,

Megan Wotherspoon, E, 49; 3, Amulya Cherala, E, 55; 4, Abby Carlson, E, 56; 5, (tie) Kylie Owen, E, and Kelsey Maki, E, 61.

Thursday, March 22Plateau GC (par 36)Inglemoor 293, Skyline 298Individuals: 1, Ellie Tillotson, I, 50 strokes; 2,

Lisa Malloy, I, 52; T-3, Bryalynn Vowles, S, 59; T-3 Shirly Chung, 59; T-3, Layla Hiramoto, S, 59.

Boys SoccerTuesday, March 20Newport 1, Skyline 0Tuesday, March 20Redmond 3, Eastlake 2Eastlake scoring summary: Austin Aumell (Erik

Wictor assist), 70:00; Madison Heck 78:00Tuesday, March 20Eastside Catholic 1, Bishop Blanchet 0Scoring summary: Jacob Gai (Josh MacKenzie

assist), 77:00; Garrett deCilla, shutoutThursday, March 22Lakeside 2, Eastside Catholic 1Scoring summary: Jacob Gai (Spencer Spears

assist), 75:00Friday, March 23Skyline 3, Garfield 2Skyline scoring summary: Bradley Rustik (Cole

Calabro assist), 65:00; Sean McDonald (Evan Botsch assist), 71:00; Ryan Shim (Cole Calabro), 76:00

TennisTuesday, March 20Coed Metro LeagueBainbridge 11, Eastside Catholic 0Boys singles: Matt Alderson beat Michael

Merz, 6-0, 6-0; Jacob Christiensen beat Evan Gordon, 6-2, 6-1; Mark Schoener-Scott beat Brady Bononcini, 6-0, 6-0.

Girls singles: Kate Jameson beat Megan Bastian, 6-1, 6-3; Jordan Ferguson beat Nicolette Dworkin, 2-6, 6-2, 6-0; Meghan Hill beat Tracey Bakun, 7-6(2), 6-0.

Boys doubles: Keet Curtis-Ben DeVries beat Kenta Keleher-Michael Bilsborough, 6-0, 6-0; Jack Pendleton-Cooper Hayes beat Shota Keleher-Matt Bislborough, 6-1, 6-0.

Girls doubles: Sadie Dedon-Merce Chamness beat Whitney Sparks-Jordyn Mosher, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; Ashley Huffnagle-Margaux Henderson beat Julia Hormuth-McKenna Boit, 6-2, 6-1.

Mixed doubles: Emma Tallworthy-Michael Bock beat Molly Snorsky-Brett Alling, 6-3, 6-1.

Thursday, March 22Girls KingcoWoodinville 6, Eastlake 1Singles: Jenny Foote, W, beat Katy Park, 7-5,

4-6, 6-2; Cora Byers, W, beat Hannah Thornsburg, 7-5, 6-4; Erika Springer, W, beat Beth Rheinberger, 6-3, 7-6; Naveena Sathiyamoorthy, W, beat Neha Singh, 6-1, 6-1

Doubles: Nina Kondzal-Wendie Yueng, E, beat Geena Glen-Melissa Joseph, 1-6, 3-2(inj); Emily Chambers-Jeena Graham, W, beat Lilia Rodriguez-Makenzie Schmid, 6-0, 6-3; Caroline Miller-Rachel Lanter, W, beat Breanna Drummond-Shannon Keough, 6-3, 6-1.

Friday, March 23Girls KingCo 4AEastlake 5, Bothell 2Singles: Katy Park, E, beat Colleen Byre, 6-2,

6-1; Hannah Thornsburg, E, beat Erica Takano, 6-2, 6-2; Morgan Milner, B, beat Nina Kondza, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4; Neha Singh, E, beat Tammyu Tarhini, 6-4, 6-2.

Doubles: Linda Vinitnantharat-Rachel Wharf, B, beat Courtney Tusler-Wendie Yeung, 7-5, 6-3; Lilia Rodriguez-Makenzie Schmid, E, beat Sharon Akoto-Raven Anderson, 6-3, 6-0; Renna Drummond-Shannon Keough, E, beat Lauren Weldy-Amanda Ernster, 6-4, 6-0.

LacrosseMonday, March 19Boys Div 1Skyline 13, Lake Washington 10Scoring highlights: Brian Benz, S, 4 goals; Jack

Pruitt, S, 3 goals, 1 assist; Brian McMackin, S, 2 goals; Max Saffle, S, 2 goals, 3 assists; Tristan Miller, S, 1 goal, 1 assist; Michael Cowin, S, 3 assists; Kyle Kuberski, S, 12 saves; Cody Bernstein, LW, 4 goals, 1 assist; Ben Anderson, LW, 3 goals; Tyler Watkins, LW, 1 goal; Hank Schmale, LW, 1 goal; Coopr Ramstead, LW, 1 goal; Jonah Friedl, LW, 7 saves.

Tuesday, March 20Boys Div 1Eastside Catholic 15, Northshore 1Scoring highlights: Ross Komenda, EC, 4 goals,

3 assists; Colin MacIlvennie, EC, 3 goals, 2 assists; Jeff Foreman, EC, 2 goals; Drew Beggs, EC, 2 goals; Cameron Cronk, EC, 3 saves; Chandler Olsen, N, 1 goal; Jacob Cartwright, N, 2 ground balls; Jimmy Brejda, N, 2 ground balls; Alec Dyngen, N, 7 saves.

Wednesday, March 21Boys Div 1Skyline 11, Woodinville 9Scoring highlights: Brian Benz, S, 4 goals; Max

Saffle, S, 3 goals, 4 assists; Jack Pruitt, S, 2 goals, 3 assists; Ian Anderson, 1 goal; Tristan Miller, S, 1 goal; Kyle Kuberski, S, 10 saves; Jack Goldman, W, 4 goals, 1 assist; Daniel McKee, W, 3 goals; Ethan Vastbinder, W, 1 goal; Jesse Brown, W, 1 goal; Dalton Combs, W, 9 saves.

Thursday, March 22Boys Div 1Eastside Catholic 10, Curtis 2Scoring highlights: Colin MacIlvennie, EC, 5

goals, 3 assists, 3 ground balls; Ross Komenda, EC, 3 goals, 2 assists, 1 ground ball; Cameron Kronk, EC, 9 saves; Blake Voeller, C, 1 goal, 2 ground balls; Alex Larson, C, 1 goal; Zachary Budnick, C, 11 saves.

Friday, March 23Boys Div. 1Skyline 13, Palo Verde (Nev.) 12 OT(No scoring details)Friday, March 23Girls VarsityEastside Catholic 14, Mukilteo 6Scoring highlights: Tristana Leist, EC, 7 goals, 2

assist, 1 ground ball; Lauren Breynaert, EC, 5 goals, 1 assists, 1 ground balls, 4 draw controls; Grace Howland, EC, 1 goal, 4 ground balls, 4 draw con-trols; Valerie Vachris, EC, 1 goal; Justice Gilbert, EC, 10 saves; Sierra Shaw, M, 2 goals; Kammi Nigg, M, 2 goals; Michelle Bross, M, 1 goal; Danielle Morgan, M, 1 goal; Kennedy Newman, M, 6 saves.


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ContributedThe Spartan Baseball Club 10U Green team had a lot to smile about after winning the Early Spring Classic March 17-18. The young Spartans outscored their opponents 76-7 during the five tournament games in which they competed. That includes the shut-out title game against the Yakima Rebels, which the Spartans bested 12-0. Bottom row, from left: Marcus Chin, Kyler Boulware, Daniel Hirose, Luke Rohleder, Trevor Goo; middle row: Brandon Quinn, Josh Ruffner, Collin Brown, Cole Fontenelle, Alexander Brenner; top row: Coach Craig Brenner and Manager Ben Boulware.

Spartans win tournament

back me up.”Senior Jaeger went two for

three.New to the team, Tracy, a

sophomore went three for four with one double and one RBI to go with her homerun.

“She (Tracy) is one of those players that we can literally put anywhere on the field and she would dominate there,” said Hardin. “She is going to be awe-some for us this year.”

While last year’s high school graduation didn’t take a huge bite out of the team, a family move to Colorado did take away the Wolves starting catcher. Faced with a hole to fill, senior outfileder Maddie Napier volun-teered for the challenge. Since then Napier has been working with Eastlake’s catching coach and loving it, said Hardin.

“It’s just kind of her person-ality,” said Hardin. “She just is up for the challenge and wanted to give it a try.” This year Napier will be sharing the role of catcher with junior Zoe March, who also plays at first base, and new-comer Jessica Rubideaux, a sophomore who will also help out on the infield.

Hardin said Rubideaux’s batting will also be a team asset.

The Wolves went on March 20 to see each player score in 20-0 game against Eastside Catholic.

During the five-inning game Palenscar batted two for two, March hit one for two with a home run, Jaeger went three for four with a double and Rubideaux batted two for three with a double. Alanna Martinez, a sophomore, was the game’s winning pitcher.

The following day Eastlake played its closest game of the week and came out on top 8-7 over Kamiak.

Tracy went two for two with a double. The sophomore also racked up three stolen bases. Jaeger batted two for three with three RBIs and a double. Martinez pitched for her second win of the week.

The week’s winning streak ended March 23 when Eastlake fell to defending state champs Juanita 11-1. The Juanita Rebels had an overall record last year of 21-1 with the Wolves stepping up as the only team to best them in a 7-5 mid-season game.

Eastlake were set to play their first conference match of the season against Newport on March 26.

match when they won by default because of an injury. The No. 1 doubles match went to Opitz and her new partner, freshman Rachel Bear, with a 6-3, 6-1 score.

“She is a very strong player,” said Opitz about her new dou-bles partner. “If I would have been playing first doubles as a freshman, I think I would have had a heart attack.”

It’s not just Bear and Opitz that get along well. The team captain said that the relation-ships this year between all the players are the best she’s ever seen. This could be in part because of the work the coach-es are doing this year with the girls to improve the men-tal side of their game. Opitz said so far the team has spent about 12 hours learning how to stay in control out on the court, thinking positively and not beating themselves down when things don’ t go well.

“It sounds cheesy but it makes such a big difference when you can control your possessiveness on the court,” said Opitz. “Everybody went on the court with confidence and it was great.”

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TIMESAVERSWe are your eyes and ears at local government meetings.

Sammamish resi-dents Chris Moran and Aaron Kirby will be on the bill of a com-

edy show featuring Kermit Apio at 8:30 p.m. March 28 at Laughs Comedy Spot in Kirkland. Tickets are $10.

The Civil War in Washington Territory, this presentation will consider territorial atti-tudes toward race and slavery, agitation for northwest seces-sion, and federal suppression of freedom of the press, at 7 p.m. March 28 at the Sammamish Library.

Eliminate Chaos: The 10-Step Process to Organize Your Home & Life, in

this workshop, learn the steps to getting organized and leave feeling empowered to take action, at 7 p.m. March 29 at the Sammamish Library.

An Easter egg hunt sponsored by Re/Max Realty is scheduled from

11 a.m.-1 p.m. March 31 at Beaver Lake Park. The group is accepting food donations. The event will pro-ceed rain or shine.

Issaquah District Superintendent Steve Rasmussen will hold a series of coffees at high schools

around the dis-trict to discuss the district and education in gen-eral. The meeting at Skyline is set for 7:30 a.m. April 6.

Sammamish Family YMCA’s annual Easter Egg hunt will feature carnival booths, bounce

houses, a mini-golf course and egg hunts for toddlers and older children. A shuttle is available from Discovery Elementary School. The event is set for 10 a.m.-1 p.m. April 7.

Seniors Making Art, a free class about print-making will run from 10 a.m.-noon on Mondays

from April 9-May 21 at the Sammamish Teen Center.

To register, contact Allison Gubata at 295-0597 or [email protected].

A computer recy-cling event is being sponsored by the city of Sammamish. Bring

desktop computers and laptops, monitors (LCD & CRT’s) cell-phones, iPods, iPads, keyboards, mice, cables, speakers, print-ers, scanners, copiers and TVs. They will not accept DVD play-ers, old software, VCRs, CDs, microwaves, stereo equipment or appliances, Styrofoam, card-board and other packing materi-als. The event is from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 14 at City Hall.

Learn haiku during a nature

walk. Michael Dylan Welch, president of the Haiku Society of America, will join a guided nature walk and poetry writing session from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. April 14 at Beaver Lake Lodge.

Used book sale including children’s and adult’s books priced from 25 cents

- $1 and DVDs for $3 will run from 8-11 a.m. April 21 and 3-4 p.m. April 23 at Margaret Mead Elementary School.

The Sammamish Symphony will per-form “Requiem” by Verdi at 2 p.m. April

22 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle.

Tickets are $30. Visit www.SammamishSymphony.org.

The ARAS Foundation will hold its annual bike drive to benefit

Ghana, Africa, April 29 at City Hall. Bikes can be donated at City Hall from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. that day. The group also needs volunteers to help prepare the bikes for shipping from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. To volunteer or donate, contact Mary Trask at [email protected].

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March 28

Issaquah School Board meet-ing, 7 p.m. at district head-quarters, 565 N.W. Holly St. in Issaquah

April 3

Sammamish City Council meeting, 6:30 p.m. at City Hall

April 4

City Council office hour 5:30-6:30 p.m. at City Hall

Parks and Recreation Committee meeting at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall

April 5

Sammamish Planning Commission meeting at 6 p.m. at City Hall

April 10

City Council Study Session at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall

April 16

Lake Washington School Board worksession, at 5 p.m. fol-lowed by a business meeting at 7 p.m. at the L.E. Scarr Resource Center, located at 16250 N.E. 74th St., Redmond

April 17

Election Day for the Issaquah School District bond vote

April 25

Issaquah School Board meet-ing, 7 p.m. at district head-quarters, 565 N.W. Holly St. in Issaquah

Good Friday services — April 6

A community-wide Good Friday service, spon-sored by Sammamish area churches, is sched-uled for noon at Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church.

Sammamish Hills Lutheran, 4 and 7:30 p.m.

Pine Lake Covenant Church, 7 p.m.

Mars Hill Sammamish, 6:30 p.m.

Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 7 p.m.

Mary, Queen of Peace, 3 and 7 p.m.

Easter Services — April 8Pine Lake Covenant Church, 9 and 11 a.m.

Sammamish Hills Lutheran, traditional service 9 a.m., contemporary service 10:30 a.m.

Mars Hill Sammamish, 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m.

Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 8:15, 9:30 and 11 a.m.

Mary, Queen of Peace, 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.

Community Church of Joy, 10:45 a.m.

Spirit of Peace United Church of Christ, 9:30 a.m.

Foundation Baptist Church, 10:30 a.m.

Easter services

PassoverFirst seder, 7:30 p.m. April 6, second seder, 9 p.m. April 7 at the Chabad of the Central Cascades house. Fee $36 per adult, $25 per child, but options are available for those who lack funds. Pre-registration required, visit www.chabadissaquah.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/846234/jewish/Passover-in-Issaquah.htm.

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ers gain emotional support, learn and share their experiences 6:30-8 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at Faith United Methodist Church.

The Rotary Club of Sammamish meets every Thursday at 7:15 a.m. at the Bellewood, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E. Visit www.sam-mamishrotary.org.

Redmond Toddler Group, a parent-child program with art, music, play and parent educa-tion has openings in pre-toddler, toddler and family classes. Call 869-5605 or visit www.redmond-toddler.org.

Moms Club of the Sammamish Plateau has activi-ties including weekly, age spe-cific playgroups and monthly meetings, coffee mornings, mom’s nights out, craft club and

local area outings. Visit www.momsclubsammamish.org or call 836-5015.

Foster Parent Support Group meets the last Thursday of each month from 6-8 p.m. at Mary, Queen of Peace. Earn your training/foster parent hours. Refreshments and child care are provided. Call 206-719-8764.

Sammamish Kiwanis meets at 7 a.m. every Wednesday at Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church. Visit www.sammamish-kiwanis.org.

Toastmasters of Sammamish meet from 7:15–8:45 p.m. every Tuesday at Mary, Queen of Peace. Call 427-9682 or email [email protected].

The Cascade Woman’s Club, meets at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month in members’ homes. Membership in the volunteer service orga-nization is open to all women. Call 898-8603 or visit www.gfwc cascadewomansclub.org.


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The Sammamish Heritage Society meets from 7:30-9 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at the Pine Lake Community Club, 21333 S.E. 20th St. in Sammamish.

Sammamish Plateau Amateur Radio Club meets at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at Fire Station 83. The club is open to amateur radio operators and those inter-ested in the hobby.

Rotaract, a community ser-vice for young adults ages 18-30 sponsored by the Sammamish Rotary, meets twice a month. Email [email protected].

The La Leche League is committed to helping mothers breastfeed. They plan to meet on the second Wednesday of each month from 10 a.m.-noon at the Sammamish EX3 Teen Center, 825 228th Ave. N.E. Visit www.lllusa.org/web/SammamishWA.

Block Party Quilters meets at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at Mary, Queen of Peace Church. Visit www.bpquilters.org.

The Sammamish Citizen Corps, a volunteer group affiliated with the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, meets the first Wednesday of each month at Fire Station 82. Visit www.sam-mamishcitizencorps.org.

The Social Justice Book Group meets at 10 a.m. the third Monday of each month in Sammamish. Email [email protected].

A support group for caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s is where caregiv-

Visit residents in nurs-ing homes. Friend to Friend matches volunteers with resi-dents in Sammamish nursing homes and assisted living facili-ties. Volunteers are asked to visit residents a couple times a month for a year. Orientation will be provided. Background check required. Call 1-888-383-7818.

Evergreen Healthcareis seeking volunteers to help serve patients throughout King County. Volunteers, who will be assigned to help people in their own neighborhoods, provide companionship, run errands, do light household work, or give a break to prima-ry caregivers. Volunteers will be supported by hospital staff.

Call 899-1040 or visit www.ever-greenhealthcare.org/hospice.

The King County Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program needs certified long-term care ombudsman volunteers. After completing a four-day training program, visit with residents, take and resolve complaints and advocate for residents. Volunteers are asked to donate four hours a week and attend selected monthly meetings. Contact Cheryl Kakalia at 206-694-6827.

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HOME SERVICESobituary

Paul Norman SchraderPaul Norman Schrader, of

Issaquah, passed away Saturday, March 24, 2012.

Paul was born Dec. 7, 1949, in St. Louis, Mo., to Norman and Mary Louise Schrader. He was raised in Lakewood, Colo., where he graduated from Lakewood High School. He later graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State College in Denver.

Paul married Ellen Sue Rosenberg on Oct. 28, 1978, in Denver. Paul’s careers included employment with Continental and American Airlines, and The Seattle Times before he retired. Paul moved his family to Issaquah in 1988.

Paul had many hobbies and interests, but he especially enjoyed activities where he could spend time with his family, like coaching Little League and youth football.

Paul is survived by his beloved wife Ellen Schrader, of Issaquah; and four sons, Benjamin, of New York, N.Y., Matthew, of Issaquah, Zachary, of Sacramento, Calif., and Kyle, of Issaquah. He is also survived by his brother Thomas Schrader, of Arvada, Colo., and numerous relatives and friends.

A memorial service will begin at 11 a.m. Friday, March 30, 2012, at Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church, 1121 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish. His commit-tal will be held at Sunset Hills Memorial Park.

The family requests, in lieu of flowers, donations in Paul’s name to the American Cancer Society.

Arrangements are by Flintoft’s Issaquah Funeral Home, 392-6444.

Friends are invited to share memories, view photos and sign the family’s online guestbook at www.flintofts.com.

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SAVE THE DATE!

By Warren Kagarise

The state can continue to implement the Costco-backed ini-tiative to privatize liquor opera-tions, a judge ruled March 19.

Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Stephen Warning reversed a March 2 ruling and upheld Initiative 1183.

In the earlier ruling, Warning upheld most of I-1183, but decid-ed the measure violated a state rule prohibiting initiatives from addressing more than a single subject.

I-1183 included a section directing $10 million to public safety, in addition to the liquor-privatization language.

The attorneys for the state said the source of funds and the allocation of funds share a close

connection, so the section did not violate the single-subject rule.

Issaquah-based Costco — the largest employer in the city — led the push to pass I-1183 last year. Statewide, almost 60 percent of voters supported the liquor-privatization measure. I-1183 garnered lopsided support in the Sammamish area.

The measure requires state-run liquor stores to close and for the state to get out of the liquor business.

The measure also calls for the state to license private enterprises to sell and distrib-ute hard liquor, set license fees based on sales and regulate licensees.

I-1183 limits hard liquor sales to stores of at least 10,000 square feet.

Under the initiative, licensed and qualified businesses can start selling liquor June 1.

Senior Assistant Attorney General Mary Tennyson and Assistant Attorney General Bruce Turcott defended the ini-tiative.

“Washington voters said they supported privatizing liquor sales in our state and directing $10 mil-lion of the proceeds from those sales to enhanced public safety,” Attorney General Rob McKenna said in a statement. “Today’s court ruling allows the state to continue to work to implement their directive.”

Warren Kagarise: 392-6434, ext. 234, or [email protected]. To comment on this story, visit www.SammamishReview.com.

Judge upholds liquor initiative

King County Council endorses greenway heritage plan

King County Council mem-bers endorsed a plan March 19 to designate the greenbelt along Interstate 90 from Seattle to Ellensburg as a National Heritage Area.

In a unanimous decision, council members called on Congress to recognize the Mountains to Sound Greenway — a ribbon of conservation lands, recreation areas and suburban

cities interspersed among farms and forests — in a federal pro-gram for “nationally important” landscapes.

Councilman Reagan Dunn, prime sponsor of the motion, lauded the council for supporting the effort.

“The Mountains to Sound Greenway is truly one of the jew-els of the Pacific Northwest,” he said in a statement.

The designation from Congress is meant to highlight a unique feature or local history. The greenway could become the only National Heritage Area in

Washington.Though the National Park

Service handles oversight for her-itage areas, the lands differ from national parks.

The designation does not add lands, land-use restrictions or more regulatory authority inside the National Heritage Area.

“The Mountains to Sound Greenway has been a bold vision which has been masterfully exe-cuted,” council Vice Chairwoman Jane Hague said. “This area absolutely needs to be a national heritage site.”


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