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February 17, 2010 

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Lake Washington 

bond likely to fail 

Levies in both school districts pass 

By Ari Cetron 

Although winning a solid 

majority, the Lake Washington 

School District’s proposed $234 

million bond issue seems headed 

for failure. 

As of Feb. 12, the bond had 

received 55.6 percent of the vote. 

As a bond measure, it needs to 

win 60 percent to pass. 

Across King County there 

were 31 school levy votes and 

three bond measures proposed. 

Lake Washington’s bond is the 

only one that seems poised to 

fail. Some mail-in ballots are still 

being counted. Results will not be 

final and official until Feb. 24. 

The Lake Washington School 

Board will need time to absorb all 

of the returns before deciding 

what to do next, said Doug 

Eglington, a Sammamish resident 

and school board member. 

Money from the bond was 

See LEVY, Page 2 

Photo by J.B. Wogan 

Max Patashnik (right) has a relaxed rapport with her boss, state Rep. Roger Goodman (D-45). 

Sammamish’s native daughter 

learns ins and outs of Olympia 

By J.B. Wogan 

Max Patashnik’s default 

expression is still a smile, she is 

still warm, still committed to 

making a difference in 

strangers’ lives. Before taking a 

job in politics, she wanted to 

become a school counselor or 

maybe a social worker, and 

those fields still interest her. But 

she has to admit — working in 

the state’s capitol has made her 

a little more cynical. 

“It doesn’t necessarily matter 

how good or bad a bill is,” she 

said. 

Sometimes, bills die because 

their sponsors lack influence or 

because politicians haven’t 

learned enough about the issue 

to support it, she said. 

The 23-year-old Eastlake 

High School graduate is working 

as a legislative assistant to state 

Rep. Roger Goodman (D-45). 

Goodman represents precincts 

on the north end of 

Sammamish, along with 

Redmond and Kirkland. 

In the past few months, 

Patashnik has had a front row 

seat in witnessing Goodman’s 

efforts to change public policy 

on drunk driving, domestic violence, 

early learning programs 

and the legalization of marijuana. 

She calls it the “perfect first 

job out of college.” During the 

legislative session, Patashnik is 

sharing a rental house with senate 

interns and another legislative 

assistant. She wakes up at 7 

a.m. every morning, listens to 

the local broadcast of National 

Public Radio as she gets ready 

for work, and downs a cup of 

coffee. Her morning ritual of listening 

to the radio is important, 

she said, because it’s her only 

opportunity to hear about the 

world outside the Olympia bubble. 

Patashnik’s job entails combing 

through 200-300 e-mails per 

day for Goodman, returning 

phone calls to constituents, 

See PATASHNIK, Page 3 

Council will open 

committee meetings 

By J.B. Wogan 

City officials say City Council 

committee meetings will be open 

to the public. 

Mayor Don Gerend, addressing 

the issue at the end of a Feb. 

9 council meeting, said the meetings 

would be open. 

“We used to have council committees. 

We 

always held 

them open to 

the public,” 

Gerend said. 

“The intent is 

for them to be 

open again.” 

During the council’s retreat in 

Cle Elum Jan. 21-23, the council 

decided to form two three-person 

committees, one focused on public 

safety and the other on 

finance issues. 

After the retreat, Deputy 

Mayor Nancy Whitten and 

Councilman Tom Odell both said 

“The intent is for them 

to be open again.” 

– Don Gerend, 

Mayor – 

that the council intended to close 

committee meetings. Whitten’s 

recollection of the council direction 

was slightly different from 

Odell’s in that she said the council 

intended to close the public 

safety committee meetings, but 

not the finance meetings. 

What exactly the council 

decided at the Cle Elum retreat, 

if anything, 

wasn’t clear, 

even after the 

city published 

retreat notes 

Feb. 1. Four 

council members, 

Deputy 

City Manager Pete Butkus and 

Communications Director Tim 

Larson each had different interpretations 

of what happened. 

The city’s retreat notes give 

broad descriptions of discussions, 

without attributing statements to 

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2 • February 17, 2010 SAMMAMISH REVIEW 

Man accused of embezzling thousands from youth teams 

League officials 

scrambling to fill 

budget gap 

By J.B. Wogan 

Sammamish Police have 

arrested a man, saying he embezzled 

$21,371 from a local baseball 

Little League. 

Because the King County 

Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has 

not yet charged the suspect, the 

Sammamish Review is not naming 

him. 

According to a police report, 

board members from the Spartan 

Baseball Club told police that a 

parent abused his position as 

treasurer and stole from the nonprofit 

baseball league. 

They told police that the suspect, 

as treasurer, had a debit 

card and checkbook from the 

league’s bank account, which is 

how he made unauthorized withdrawals 

and purchases. 

The police report states that a 

board member noticed in 

January thousands of dollars 

missing from the league’s bank 

account. Board members told 

police that the suspect began 

withdrawing money from the 

league’s account as early as Oct. 

6, 2009 and continued through 

Jan. 11. 

They added that when they 

confronted the suspect, he admitted 

to stealing the money, 

resigned from his position as 

treasurer and promised to reimburse 

the league by Jan. 31. 

He went so far as to sign a letter 

saying that he would pay back 

the money, according to the 

police report. 

When he didn’t deposit the 

money by that date, the board 

members went to police. 

Detective Steve Perry, of the 

Sammamish Police Department, 

said police began investigating 

the case Feb. 2. Eight days later, 

they arrested the suspect for 

theft in the first degree and 

booked him into the King County 

Jail. 

Records from the King County 

“It started to become 

clear to us at that time 

that he didn’t intend to 

pay the money back.” 

– Rob Rosemont, 

League president – 

Jail show that he was released 

Feb. 11 on the condition that he 

promised to show up to a future 

court date. 

He did not have to post any 

bail. 

Perry said police have confiscated 

the suspect’s computers 

and are examining them for evidence. 

He added that he expected to 

send the case to the King County 

Prosecutor’s Office the week of 

Feb. 15. 

Rob Rosemont, president of 

the Spartan Baseball Club, said 

the club is a select Little League 

that formed in August 2009. 

It claims 11 teams with about 

130 players between the ages of 8 

and 13 years old. 

In the fall, they practiced at 

Skyline High School, Pine Lake 

Park and Beaver Lake Park. 

Rosemont said the league’s 

board members received a letter 

from the suspect Jan. 24 with an 

invoice outlining $12,000 worth 

of services the suspect said he 

had provided to the club. 

The letter also disputed roughly 

$8,700 worth of charges that 

the suspect argued were for the 

league. The letter concluded that 

the suspect only owed the league 

about $630. 

“It started to become clear to 

us at that time that he didn’t 

intend to pay the money back,” 

Rosemont said. 

Rosemont said the missing 

$21,371 accounts for about 35 

percent of the league’s budget. 

This summer the league’s 11 

teams are scheduled to compete 

in four tournaments each. While 

the board had already purchased 

the team’s equipment, they had 

not purchased uniforms or paid 

fees for entering the tournaments. 

“We have some extra work in 

front of us,” Rosemont said. 

The suspect did not respond to 

a request for comment. 

Reporter J.B. Wogan can be 

reached at 392-6434, ext. 247, or 

jbwogan@isspress.com. To comment 

on this story, visit 

www.SammamishReview.com. 

Levy 

Continued from Page 1 

necessary for the schools to 

expand high schools throughout 

the district — including Eastlake 

— as part of the district’s planned 

move to a four-year high school 

program. 

The bond was also to have 

funded construction of two new 

elementary schools, an expansion 

of the Environmental and 

Adventure School (a choice 

school) and a major renovation of 

Juanita High School. 

These new facilities were to 

have helped house an expected 

1,200 new students in the district 

by 2014. 

Eglington said the board has 

not yet had discussion about 

what to do in the event of a bond 

failure and whether or not voters 

will see another bond request soon. 

“We’ve got some discretion 

about how we time it,” Eglington 

said. “If things start to perk up in 

the economy, we’ll look at it.” 

He was heartened, however, 

by voters approving both levy 

measures in the Lake Washington 

district. 

A Capital Projects levy will 

raise from $18 million to $23.7 

million each year over the next 

four years. 

The measure seems set to 

pass. As of Feb. 12, it was ahead 

by an 59-41 margin. 

The district’s bread-and butter 

levy, the Educational Programs 

and Operations Levy will raise 

$217.9 million over four years. 

That levy pays for about 19 percent 

of the district’s operating 

expenses. 

It funds basics like teacher 

salaries and textbooks. As of Feb. 

12, the vote on that is 62-38. 

“It just demonstrates that people 

are supportive,” Eglington 

said. “There’s really good support 

for what we do.” 

Issaquah voters pass levies 

Issaquah district levy supporters 

gathered Tuesday night to 

await early results. 

As the numbers appeared on 

the King County Elections Web 

site just after 8 p.m., sighs of 

relief, high fives and victory cries 

erupted from partygoers. 

Voters in the Issaquah School 

District approved all three levy 

requests on the Feb. 9 ballot. 

“I think this bodes well for our 

community because they know 

the value and importance of education,” 

said Issaquah district 

Superintendent Steve 

Rasmussen. 

The $172.5 million 

Maintenance and Operations 

Levy, which accounts for about 

20 percent of the Issaquah district’s 

budget, seems set to pass, 

as of Feb. 12 it was ahead 66-34. 

That levy will last four years. 

It will be used for teacher 

salaries, extracurricular activities, 

funding for gifted, advanced 

placement and honors courses, 

and other basic services. 

The Capital Levy, another 

four-year levy, will collect $32.9 

million. 

That will be used to purchase 

technology, such as computers, 

software and white boards, and to 

make major repairs to buildings 

across the school district. It was 

ahead 61-39 Feb. 12. 

The one-year bus levy for $1.7 

million was ahead 66-34 Feb. 12. 

The money from that levy will 

help the district purchase 41 

school buses by 2014. 

Editor Ari Cetron can be 


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Correction 

The Feb. 10 story “City 

considers extra parking near 

library” had an incorrect 

cost estimate for a proposed 

parking lot. The city doesn’t 

have a cost estimate for the 

lot. 

The city has estimated 

that coming up with a broad 

design for the lot, plus producing 

a technical information 

report, will cost 

$30,000. 

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any council members. The 

notes do not mention 

whether committee meetings 

would be closed or open. 

Butkus and Larson said 

they thought the meetings 

would be open to the public 

and that they hadn’t ever 

been closed in the past. 

However, the decision is up to 

the council. 

In later interviews with 

Gerend and Odell, they said 

Odell misunderstood the 

council’s position about closing 

the meetings. 

Odell said he didn’t know 

how the miscommunication 

happened. He said he now 

realizes that the discussion 

was incomplete at the end of 

the retreat and a consensus 

had not been reached. 

He added that the council 

had discussed closing the 

meetings in the context of giving 

the council and other 

experts a chance to talk more 

freely and delve more deeply 

into issues. 

Gerend said he thought 

confusion might have arisen 

from the council deciding to 

limit the committees to three 

council members. 

If the committee doesn’t 

have a four-member quorum 

and doesn’t act on behalf of 

the council, they are legally 

permitted to close the meetings. 






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Max Patashnik, a graduate of Eastlake High School, sometimes visits the state House of 

Representatives’ chamber for their early morning prayers. 

Patashnik 


politicians, the media and lobbyists, 

and planning Goodman’s 

schedule. 

Patashnik is extremely organized, 

Goodman said. 

“She’s two or three steps ahead 

of me,” he said. 

The two have a relaxed rapport. 

Goodman cracked a joked 

about the sagging banana plant in 

his office and lamented his bad 

luck in getting cold weather during 

his recent trip to Florida. 

Patashnik teased him about being 

occasionally late to the house 

floor. 

“I think how much you work 

and how stressed you are is 

directly proportional to how 

stressed your boss is,” she said. 

“I’m really, really lucky to have 

Roger as a boss.” 

Goodman said he welcomes a 

dialogue with Patashnik and said 

she even shifted his position on 

an issue. Patashnik argued that 

bills introduced this session in 

the state house and senate regulating 

tanning facilities had 

merit. 

“I now share her concern on 

the safety of tanning beds,” he 

said. 

Goodman also allows 

Patashnik to speak on his behalf 

to constituents, though he has 

cautioned her not to get into 

debates with people. Patashnik 

said she’s learned that people like 

to know that someone is listening 

to them. 

Those who know Patashnik 

well aren’t surprised she’s 

excelling at her current job. Her 

mother, Jennifer Sims, points out 

that Patashnik spent much of her 

young life in public service, volunteering 

through Evergreen 

Hospital Medical Center. In college, 

she also volunteered with a 

middle school girl scouts program. 

Patashnik’s people skills lend 

themselves to politics and her 

current work in the legislature, 

according to Mark Conliffe, one 

of her professors at Willamette 

University. 

“She was respectful and caring 

of her other classmates but also 

energetic in jumping and taking 

the conversation in an interesting 

and productive way,” he said. 

He added that she was particularly 

interested in other people, 

in their culture and how their 

lives differed from her own. 

“I think she respects people 

and their time and their concerns. 

In general, I think she 

would be a good person to field 

things for him,” Sims said. 

Sometimes listening skills 

aren’t enough, and phone calls 

still end in disagreements, 

Patashnik said. 

She recalled a recent phone 

call where a disgruntled resident 

complained that Goodman 

should not have supported a bill 

suspending an initiative passed 

by voters. The caller opined that 

it was undemocratic for the legislature 

to go against voters’ will. 

She explained why Goodman 

supported suspending the initiative, 

but the caller wasn’t convinced. 

He said he would be voting 

against Goodman in 

November. 

The conversation dovetails 

into one of Patashnik’s biggest 

frustrations about the current 

political climate. With the 

impending $2.6 billion budget 

deficit, legislators are caught in a 

catch-22 situation where they 

can’t possibly please their voters. 

“People say that government is 

too big and that we should cut 

back, but then they say they 

want government to solve all 

their problems,” she said. 



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OPINION 


Review editorial 

State budget challenges 

both sides of the aisle 

In a perfect world, the Republicans would be right. The 

Democratic-controlled Legislature is on the verge of relaxing 

a voter-approved referendum that requires a twothirds 

majority to raise taxes. 

The House version of the bill would return the twothirds 

majority requirement in July 2011. We like that. 

Republicans, reliably opposed to most tax hikes, argue 

that the Democrats are subverting the will of the people. 

They’re right, up to a point. 

Republicans argue that before suspending the initiative, 

Democrats should attempt to propose a tax hike that 

wins that two-thirds majority. 

Democrats already enjoy a huge majority and would 

only need to sway four representatives and two senators 

to achieve the threshold. 

We agree they should try, but the attempt would be a 

fool’s errand. When voters approved the measure mandating 

the two-thirds threshold, we imagine they thought legislators 

would be reasonable and actually consider a proposal 

on its merits. Instead, both parties simply adhere to 

an entrenched ideology that makes compromise impossible. 

No matter what tax increase the Democrats propose, 

Republicans will predictably be in lockstep opposition to 

it. This lack of willingness to compromise is what forces 

the Democrats hand. 

The Democrats are doing what they must in an emergency 

situation. The need to fill a $2.8 billion hole in the 

budget while keeping up education, public safety, social 

services, prisons and justice, highway repairs and more — 

without bankrupting the state — does make this a near 

crisis. It will be up to each of us as citizens to perk up our 

watchdog ears to ensure that any tax increases are appropriate 

and as limited as possible. 

The Democrats may be willing to step up and do the 

nasty deed of raising taxes, but they will be walking a 

tightrope with the voters who will remember that those 

taxes had better be minimal and have a legitimate need 

and purpose. 

Democrats, of course, also suffer from ideological problems. 

Their unwillingness to open state employee’s union 

contracts that provide pay increases leaves a bitter taste 

if/when the legislators propose a tax hike. 

The voters are watching. The state budget will surely 

set the tone for the fall elections. 

Poll of the week 

Have you given up on snow this winter 

A) Yes. I already planted my garden. 

B) Not yet. We’re due for something. 

C) I just got back from the mid-Atlantic. We should count 

our blessingss 

To vote, visit www.SammamishReview.com. 

Sammamish Forum 

In praise of 

roundabouts 

There have been a lot of letters 

and comments on these pages about 

roundabouts. 

The latest opinion letter, written 

by Frank Bloom (Roundabouts are 

Silly, February 3, 2010), was at least 

entertaining to read and generated a 

genuine chuckle from me. 

I’ll just come out and say it. I’d 

like to see even more roundabouts 

in Sammamish. 

I applaud the City Council and 

our traffic engineers for having the 

vision and yes, courage, to put 

roundabouts in the city even as 

unpopular as they are to some. 

The first roundabout in 

Sammamish is the one at Inglewood 

Hill Road at 216th Avenue. Building 

it was a radical idea at the time. 

For those of us who dropped our 

children off at Mead Elementary and 

then went down 216th to eventually 

turn right on Inglewood, it was a 

godsend! 

We were no longer held up for 

some timid fool wanting a 200 yard 

gap between cars to turn left. 

Returning was even better. 

I didn’t have to wait for a break in 

oncoming traffic to turn left on 

216th from Inglewood. I simply 

merged into the roundabout and 

exited to the right at 216th. It was 

splendid and ever so simple. 

Tuesday night, as I was driving 

my daughter to soccer practice, four 

or five drivers including me got 

stopped at the light at Issaquah-Pine 

Lake Road where Klahanie 

Boulevard intersects. 

We stopped and waited while a 

lone car turned left from Klahanie 

Boulevard. Imagine that as a roundabout 

where we could all just merely 

slow down and merge while continuing 

on our way without having 

to stop. 

There is a straightforward question 

that you naysayers to roundabouts 

need to answer. Do you like 

being told what to do No 

Then roundabouts are for you! 

Stoplights tell you when to go and 

tell you when to stop. 

Roundabouts challenge you to 

think and make decisions. You can’t 

be a drone while going through a 

roundabout. 

Maybe that is why so many fear 

and fight what is proving to be a 

superior traffic mover. 

Published every Wednesday by 

Issaquah Press Inc. 

Chuck Suter 

Sammamish 

Save the Freed House 

I have lived on the plateau 

since 1966. I can’t say I am happy 

with some of the improvements 

that have been made since they 

made the city of Sammamish. 

I don’t understand why 

progress has to eliminate any trace 

of history relating to a certain 

area. 

Our children are deprived of 

knowing their city history, which 

to me is very important. There 

was a one-room schoolhouse 

(which should have been preserved) 

where Safeway sits now. 

Why can’t the old be intertwined 

with the new so everyone can 

enjoy our memories and make 

some new ones for the children 

today 

One of my daughter’s school 

friend’s relatives lived in the Freed 

House, and she spent a lot of time 

with her there. It was such a treat 

to be able to enjoy such an older 

home and visualize how it was in 

the olden days. 

We watched as they made that 

movie “Act of Love.” So, why isn’t 

it worth preserving 

We moved to Pine Lake area 

relocating from Spokane and lived 

on Pine Lake for 11 years. 

There was only one local little 

store (which was renamed 

Sadlier’s Market after Joe Sadlier 

took it over, shortly after we 

moved here) where we were able 

to buy milk, bread and some other 

incidentals. 

We had four children still at 

home when we made the move. 

They were ecstatic to be living on 

a lake in the country and able to 

have such freedom and no safety 

worries and could walk to school 

also. 

Pine Lake Park was known as 

French’s LaPine Resort and our 

children enjoyed many wonderful 

hours and picnics there besides 

learning to swim and making 

many new friends. 

All departments can be reached at 392-6434 

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Add $15 outside King County / $20 outside state 

The way the building, etc. is continuing 

at this time, we will be just 

like any other city – nothing to reminisce 

about, all traces of history will 

be gone, and why 

Children have a skate park, a new 

library, and maybe a teen center 

too; so how about some local history 

Beverly Belshaw 


The religion of atheism 

Michael O’Connell wrote in the 

Feb. 10 issue of Review; that atheism 

is not a religion and encouraged a 

vast majority of Americans to 

respect his non-religion, patriotic as 

he may be. 

To begin with, atheism was 

declared a religion by the Seventh 

Federal Court of Appeals, August 23, 

2005, citing the 1961 case of Torcaso 

v. Watkins, which called ‘secular 

humanism’ a religion. 

As for the words ‘under God’; in 

1954, President Eisenhower was 

attending Lincoln’s historic church 

in New York, as was typical to do on 

the nearest Sunday corresponding 

with Lincoln’s birthday. 

Pastor George MacPherson 

Docherty was giving a sermon on 

the Gettysburg Address entitled “A 

See FORUM, Page 6 

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Out-of-town retreats are okay 

By Tim Larson 

After absorbing the 

Sammamish Review’s critical 

analysis of last month’s City 

Council retreat in Cle Elum, I 

imagine most readers, like me, 

felt pretty unsettled. The Feb. 9 

editorial, titled “New council 

team, bad beginnings, “ suggested 

that the city had damaged its 

credibility by doing more than 

“team building” 

at the twoday 

retreat. 

That’s a 

head scratcher. 

Sammamish, 

like Bellevue 

and many 

other cities, 

Tim Larson 

has always 

done more 

than “team 

building” at these retreats. City 

staffers provide background 

information on a broad range of 

topics, council members share 

ideas and inclinations, and the 

city manager gets a sense of 

direction that allows for a more 

efficient use of staff. 

As a former reporter, I understand 

and support the state’s 

Open Public Meetings Act. 

Transparency keeps things honest 

and builds public confidence. 

But it does have its limitations. 

That’s why the law allows closed 

door sessions on personnel, litigation, 

real estate, and a limited 

number of other topics. 

And there’s another problem, 

at a very human level, with the 

TV cameras in the council chamber: 

The council never gets to let 

its hair down. 

That’s why, in many cities, the 

newspapers, residents and councils 

have entered into what feels 

like a benign compromise with 

the Open Meetings Act. 

It goes like this: Once a year, 

the councils have a public meeting, 

legally noticed, that is held 

far enough away that reporters 

and residents have an excuse not 

to attend. 

It meets the letter of the law, 

and the councils get their onetime 

retreat. All parties get to 

“think out loud” a bit, without 

worrying that a stray thought — 

perhaps silly in hindsight — may 

end up in a newspaper. Frank 

opinions are exchanged. And 

everyone returns to the glare of 

the TV lights renewed and 

refreshed. 

In the half-dozen retreats I’ve 

attended since I became the 

city’s communication manager, 

this once-a-year opportunity to 

speak unguardedly has produced 

creative ideas, interpersonal 

insights, and, yes, some excellent 

team building results. 

At the end of this year’s 

retreat, as we loaded our cars for 

the ride home, I chatted briefly 

with several other staffers. The 

consensus: This most recent 

retreat was the best one ever. 

That’s why it was so odd to see 

the “bad beginnings” headline. 

That negative perspective was 

sparked, in part, by the notion 

that a pair of new council committees 

were going to close their 

meetings to the public. Despite 

some mixed signals that apparently 

came out of the city, there 

are no plans to close any meetings. 

Our committee meetings have 

always been open in the past, 

and will remain so in the future. 

Transparency has served 

Sammamish well. There are no 

plans to abandon that tradition. 

The writer is the communications 

director for the city of 

Sammamish. 

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The nominees are 

Nominees for the 2010 

SAMMI awards were 

announced. The awards are 

given to people who live 

and work in Sammamish 

and represent the best of 

the city. This year’s awards 

ceremony is scheduled for 

7:30 p.m. March 13 at Mary, 

Queen of Peace church. 

Event organizers have 

announced this year’s finalists. 

Arts: Barbara Jirsa, Lynn 

Roberson, Adam Gross and 

Karen Abel 

Business: Gail Stacy 

Michelman, Jana Williams, 

Kelly Jenson, Scott Moore 

Courage: Kristin and 

Brendon Lynch 

Learning Promotion: 

Caroline Friesen, Leslie 

Spero, David McGibney, Liz 

Sirjani and Mike Martucci 

Trevor Price: Megan 

Nazarino, Sonya Ahuja and 

Chirag Vedullapalli 

Teen spirit: Sarah 

Pancottine, Jamie Eide, 

Emily Baer, Emily Dickson, 

Danielle Dales and Lindsay 

Mannion 

Unsung Hero: Jon 

Bromberg, Janell Faletto, 

Dick Gram, Edie and Dave 

Herb 

Youth Advocate: Athena 

Angelis, Karen Skoog, Kathi 

Eide, Corinne Immel and 

Curtis Madden 

Spirit of Sammamish: 

Steve VanWambeck, 

Caroline Brown, Angela 

Kennedy and Marty Budzius 

For more information, 

visit 

www.SammiAwards.org. 

Public meetings 

Feb. 17 

Sammamish Youth Board meeting, 

6 p.m. at City Hall 

Feb. 20 

45th District legislators — Reps. 

Roger Goodman (D) and Larry 

Springer (D) and Sen. Eric Oemig (D) 

— will hold a town hall meeting from 

10:30 a.m.-noon at Kirkland City Hall 

Feb. 22 

Sammamish Arts Commission, 

6:30 p.m.at City Hall 

Parks Plan update neighborhood 

meeting 6:30 p.m. at Discovery 

Elementary 

Feb. 23 


meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Sunny Hills 

Elementary 

Feb. 25 


meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Cascade Ridge 

Elementary 

Eastside Catholic 

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New Birth of Freedom,” declaring 

the nation’s might is not in 

its swords and arms but in its 

spirit and higher purpose. 

Here, Docherty oppugned the 

idea our pledge could be said of 

any nation on earth, continuing 

“there was something missing in 

the pledge, and that which was 

missing was the characteristic 

and definitive factor of the 

American way of life.” 

Then words spoken ninetyyears 

earlier by President 

Lincoln were uttered declaring 

that “under God” were the defining 

words that set the United 

States apart from other nations. 

Immediately following, the 

United States Congress passed 

legislation to amend the pledge 

by adding the words “under 

God,” which President 

Eisenhower proudly signed into 

law on Flag Day, June 14, 1954. 

The First Amendment to the 

U.S. Constitution states, 

“Congress shall make no law 

respecting an establishment of 

religion, or prohibiting the free 

exercise thereof,” while the Civil 

Rights act of 1964 prohibits discrimination 

of religion. 

With this, recent polls have 

shown only 4 percent, some say 

as high as 15 percent, of 

Americans practice the religion 

of atheism, while 80 percent 

believe in a monotheistic God, 

and others believe in pluralistic 

gods. 

May I kindly ask, why is it 

then that all atheists want everyone 

else to practice their religion 

when the congressionally 

added words ‘under God’ are 

uttered during the pledge, these 

words, greatly meaningful to 80 

percent, or more, of Americans 

who do proudly support and 

defend America, and its way of 

life 

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Eastside Catholic School students and staff held a special assembly 

and procession Feb. 10 to honor the memory of Molly 

Hightower, who died in the Haiti earthquake while working with 

orphans. Her family is connected to the Eastside Catholic community. 

The school collected approximately 5,000 shoes to send 

to Haiti. 

“It truly is not enough just to know – just to be smart; just to 

achieve good grades; just to get the right answers on tests,” said 

high school principal Greg Marsh. “We must use that knowledge 

in a way that serves others; we must act; we must do; we must 

respond to the needs of our world.” 

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City gets 

greener 

By J.B. Wogan 

The City Council supported 

green policy measures with two 

votes at its Feb. 2 meeting. 

The council voted 6-0 in favor 

of accepting $87,859 for its recycling 

program, with 

Councilwoman Michele Petitti 

absent. The city received grant 

money from King County and 

the state Department of Ecology 

to promote recycling and the 

management of local hazardous 

waste. 

The city contracts out to 

Seattle-based Olympic 

Environmental Resources to 

oversee three residential recycling 

collection events, one business 

recycling collection event 

and a distribution program of 

rain barrels and compost bins. No 

city funds are involved in running 

the city’s recycling efforts. 

The council also approved a 

$25,000 contract with O’Brien & 

Company, also of Seattle, to 

develop a local sustainability 

strategy, funded by a federal 

stimulus grant. 

The consultant will assist in 

publishing a strategy with goals 

and benchmarks. The strategy 

would focus on ways to make 

Sammamish sustainable in terms 

of its natural environment and 

economy, according to a report 

from the Community 

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While the council voted 6-0 in 

Robert, a King County Sheriff’s Officer, was 

struck by a car traveling approx. 50 mph. 

His bravery cost him serious injuries to his legs 

and shoulders. 

After Harborview, he was fortunate to 

experience the superb skills of 

Dr. Michael Sailer at Proliance Orthopaedics. 

Robert followed Dr. Sailer’s orders and came to 

Issaquah Nursing for intensive rehab. 

“Everyone was available to help me 

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favor of the contract, the 

approval came with caveats. 

Councilman Tom Odell questioned 

whether the city really 

needed to contract out for sustainability 

planning. 

“I’m wondering what the consultant 

will do that cannot be 

done in house or perhaps with 

the help of citizens,” he said. 

Councilman John Curley 

voiced a concern about using federal 

stimulus dollars for anything. 

He said he didn’t like the 

idea of spending money today 

that would create debt for his 

children in the future. 

Councilman John James 

asked that the city use a competitive 

bidding process for any similar 

contracts in the future. He 

said he thought the city might be 

able to save some money by 

using that approach. 

Councilwoman Nancy Whitten 

said she supported the effort 

because it helped Sammamish 

get away from an oil-based economy. 

Councilman Mark Cross 

added that sustainability planning 

would be an opportunity to 

take a broad view of the patchwork 

of environmentally-friendly 

civic initiatives, from managing 

rainwater drainage to promoting 

walkability to minimizing energy 

consumption. 






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to Web site 

Following up on goals set in 

January, Eastside Fire & 

Rescue is in the process of 

uploading public records to its 

Web site. 

Debbie Gober-Beneze, 

EFR’s executive administrative 

assistant, said five years’ 

worth of board meeting minutes 

are now on the Web site. 

Residents can now read how 

their elected officials voted on 

fire protection policy issues 

dating back to 2004. 

Leadership within EFR met 

in January to talk about the 

future of the agency. One goal 

that came out of the meeting 

was improved transparency 

and accessibility of public 

records. 

EFR provides emergency 

medical response and fire protection 

to local residents in 

Sammamish, Issaquah, North 

Bend, Carnation, Preston, May 

Valley, Tiger Mountain and 

Wilderness Rim. 

Gober-Beneze said she is 

working on uploading some of 

the agency’s core documents, 

in addition to the meeting 

minutes. One is the “standard 

of cover,” which outlines the 

fire protection agency’s expectations 

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Senate Bill 6696, E2SSB 6696 

Providing education reform E2SSB 6696 creates 

an accountability framework for the state’s education 

system. E2SSB 6696 would require the 

Superintendent of Public Instruction to enact an 

accountability system for school districts where 

persistently low-achieving schools are located. 

Additionally the act establishes a four-level rating 

system to evaluate teachers and principals, which 

includes measurements of effectiveness in such 

areas as, student achievement, teaching practices 

and fostering a safe learning environment. The bill 

also provides standards for encouraging innovation 

in science and mathematics, expands professional 

preparation options and requires the 

Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt core 

standards that are universal for state education 

achievement. E2SSB 6696 passed the Senate by a 

vote of 41 to 5. 

5th District 

Sen. Cheryl Pflug (R) Excused 

45th District 

Sen Eric Oemig (D) Yes 

Senate Bill 6345, SSB 6345 

Use of wireless communications while driving 

SSB 6345 passed the Senate by a vote of 33 to 15 

making it a primary offense to use a hand held cell 

phone while driving. Currently under state law, the 

use of a hand held cell phone is considered a secondary 

offense. SSB 6345 would cause a user of 

hand held cell device to be ticketed without committing 

any other traffic infraction. In addition, this 

bill prohibits a person with an instructional permit 

or intermediate license from using cell phones, 

including the use of hands-free devices, while operating 

a vehicle. The bill does provide exemptions 

for use during an emergency and by public servants. 

SSB 6345. 

5th District 

Sen. Cheryl Pflug (R) No 

45th District 

Sen. Eric Oemig (D) Yes 

House Bill 1956, ESHB 1956 

To allow homeless encampments ESHB 1956, 

which passed the House by a vote of 57 to 39, 

would allow churches broad authority to provide 

shelter or housing for homeless persons on property 

owned or controlled by the church. ESHB 

1956 also prohibits a county, city, or town from 

enacting an ordinance or regulation that unreasonably 

interferes with the decisions or actions of a 

church regarding the location of housing or shelter 

for homeless persons on property the church 

owns or controls. The act also clarifies that housing 

of homeless persons on church property cannot 

be prohibited based upon the property’s proximity 

to a school or day care center. 

5th District 

Rep. Glenn Anderson (R) No 

Rep. Jay Rodne (R) 

No 

45th District 

Rep. Roger Goodman (D) Yes 

Rep. Larry Springer (D) Yes 

Senate Bill 6130, ESSB 6130 

Suspending provisions of voter approved I-960 

ESSB 6130 would temporarily repeal provisions of 

the voter approved initiative 960 until after July 1, 

2011. The provisions that are being repealed 

include; public notice and cost projections for bills 

which raise taxes or increase fees, the requirement 

to have a two-thirds majority vote to raise taxes 

by the Legislature and the requirement to have a 

tax advisory vote for any tax increase not referred 

to voters or otherwise blocked from public vote. 

ESSB 6130 also includes an emergency clause 

which would prevent this act from being challenged 

through voter referendum. ESSB 6130 

passed the Senate by a vote of 26 to 22. 

5th District 


45th District 

Sen. Eric Oemig (D) Yes 

Senate Bill 6688, SSB 6688 

Filling vacancies for nonpartisan elective office 

SSB 6688, which passed the Senate by a vote of 37 

to 12, provides that for any vacancy occurring in a 

nonpartisan county elective office, the nonpartisan 

executive or chair of the council shall nominate 

three persons as candidates to fill the vacancy. The 

nominees must be from the same district as the 

county officer whose office was vacated. A majority 

of the county legislative authority members 

must agree upon the appointment of the candidate 

within 30 days of the vacancy or the Governor will 

be authorized to fill the vacancy. The Governor 

would be required to choose from the list of nominees 

and will have 15 days to render a decision. 

SSB 6688 is now before the House for additional 

consideration. 

5th District 


45th District 

Sen Eric Oemig (D) Yes 

SOURCE: WashingtonVotes.org, a free, nonpartisan 

Web site to find plain-English explanations of bills and 

a record of each legislator’s votes. 

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Judge: state must determine 

new way to fund education 

By Chantelle Lusebrink 

In a Feb. 4 decision, King 

County Superior Court Judge 

John Erlick ruled the state isn’t 

living up to its obligation to 

education under its constitution. 

“Thirty years have passed 

since our State Supreme Court 

directed the State to provide 

stable and dependable funding 

for basic education,” he said. 

“The State has made progress 

toward this Constitutional obligation, 

but remains out of compliance. 

State funding is not 

ample, it is not stable and it is 

not dependable.” 

The ruling was handed down 

in McCleary vs. Washington 

State, or what is commonly 

referred to as the Network for 

Excellence in Washington 

Schools lawsuit. That lawsuit 

was brought by a coalition of 

parents and funded in part by 

several school districts that 

sued based on the state constitution. 

Issaquah did not put in funding 

to support the lawsuit. It 

helped finance a special education 

funding lawsuit against the 

state, instead. That suit is 

undergoing appeal at the state 

Supreme Court. 

Under the state constitution, 

the Legislature’s “paramount 

duty” is to fully fund education. 

In his ruling, Erlick ordered 

the Legislature determine the 

full cost of giving basic education 

to every student in the 

state and figure out a more stable 

funding mechanism to 

ensure the money is there to 

provide it. 

“The judgment affirms what 

we have known and felt for 

“State funding is not 

ample, it is not stable 

and it is not 

dependable.” 

– John Erlick, 

Superior court judge – 

years—the state’s public education 

funding system is not 

coherent, and it does not 

include many elements necessary 

for students to receive a 

basic education in today’s modern 

global economy,” District 

Communications Director Sara 

Niegowski wrote in an e-mail. 

“In Issaquah, we rank 282 out 

of 295 districts in per pupil 

funding – we especially need 

an education finance system 

that is not able to arbitrarily 

advantage or disadvantage certain 

districts; and we certainly 

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need a system that covers that 

actual basics in ‘basic education.’” 

However, Erlick didn’t specify 

how or when the Legislature 

should decide how to carry out 

the orders, but said the state 

must show “real and measurable 

progress,” he wrote. 

Right now, the state’s 

Legislature is busy working to 

draft and implement plans for a 

new early learning, kindergarten 

through 12th grade and higher 

education strategies, with new 

funding sources by 2018 as outlined 

in House Bill 2261, which 

passed last year. It also expanded 

the definition of basic education 

to include new items like technology. 

“This could potentially light a 

fire under the feet of lawmakers 

who are currently studying what 

an ideal funding system would 

look like,” Niegowski wrote. “As it 

stands now, there is no definitive 

timeline or mandates for any 

changes.” 

The state could appeal Erlick’s 

decision. 

However, several local state 

legislators, including Rep. Glenn 

Anderson, R-5, Rep. Judy 

Clibborn, D-41 and Rep. Marcie 

Maxwell, D-41 — and at least 30 

others — have signed a letter asking 

Gov. Chris Gregoire and state 

Attorney General Rob Mackenna 

not to appeal the decision. 

“The Legislature is not giving 

schools the money they need to 

provide the quality of education 

we want. The court has rather 

bluntly reminded us that we are 

required under our state’s constitution 

to make the education of 

our children our number one priority,” 

the Feb. 5 letter said. “We 

hope that the savings from not 

pursuing the appeal process will 

be applied and focused on efforts 

to solve our state’s education 

financing problem.” 

Reach reporter Chantelle 

Lusebrink at 392-6434, ext. 241 or 

clusebrink@isspress.com. To comment 


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Council to look at major Town Center increase 

By J.B. Wogan 

One thing is clear: A group of 

property owners in the southeast 

part of Town Center want to 

build more than they are currently 

allowed. 

Under the current cityapproved 

plan, property owners 

in that area would be allowed to 

develop 90,000 square feet of 

commercial space and 235 residential 

units. The proposal asks 

for an additional 210,000 square 

feet of commercial space and an 

additional 45 residential units. 

But their request for increased 

space has even the property owners 

themselves confused about 

how they want to go about getting 

that extra density. 

The City Council reviewed the 

development proposal Feb. 16, 

after the Review’s deadline. 

The language in the proposal 

requests for an increase in 

allowed density in the area called 

the southeast quadrant generally 

just north of Sammamish Hills 

Lutheran Church and east of 

228th Avenue. The proposal also 

seems to recommend density 

increases across the whole of 

Town Center. 

The Town Center area is about 

240 acres including City Hall and 

the Sammamish Commons, 

anchored by 228th Avenue and 

Southeast 4th Street. In the past, 

the council said the whole of 

Town Center would have no 

more than 2,000 residential units 

and no more than 600,000 square 

feet of commercial space. 

Kaete Kyncl, John and Petra 

Hansen, John and Baharudin 

Galvin, Robert and Cindy Houot, 

Christopher and Holly Moffatt, 

and Richard Birgh filed a group 

application Sept. 24, 2009 asking 

Courtesy BCRA 

The proposed development would need much more density 

than its currently allowed. In this drawing, 228th Avenue is on 

the left. North is at the bottom of the picture. 

for the ability to develop at a 

higher density. 

BCRA, an architecture and 

engineering firm with offices in 

Seattle, is representing the group. 

Whistle blower Scott 

Hamilton, a former member of 

the Planning Commission, has 

called attention to language in 

the BCRA proposal that addresses 

the need for density increases in 

parts of the Town Center not 

owned by the BCRA landowners 

group. 

In an e-mail to city staff 

involved with the Town Center, 

Hamilton warns that “It seems 

that the ‘fine print’ (so to speak) 

in the docket request has been 

overlooked by everyone in and 

out of the city.” 

John Galvin, a vocal property 

owner in the group, says 

Hamilton has misinterpreted the 

document and no one in his 

group is requesting a density 

increase outside of their property. 

Staff at the city aren’t sure 

what the truth is. In a previous 

report to the council, staff 

informed the council that the 

proposal includes a request for a 

density increase within the 

southeast quadrant and an observation 

“that the other quadrants 

within the Town Center could 

benefit from a density increase.” 

The staff recommendation in 

December was for the council to 

agree to review the BCRA request 

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in greater detail and then decide 

whether to approve it. 

The proposal states “generally 

the proposed change is to 

increase the residential and commercial 

density of all the properties 

(within the Sammamish 

Town Center) from that proposed 

by the City of Sammamish in the 

adopted Town Center Plan.” 

The proposal also says “the 

current total 600,000 square foot 

cap on office and retail needs to 

be adjusted. The solution is to 

increase the overall allowance for 

commercial square footage in the 

Town Center to a point that 

would allow for a proportionate 

increase within the SE Quadrant.” 

Community Development 

Director Kamuron Gurol said the 

proposal, taken at face value, 

seems to say that the council 

should approve density increases 

in both the southeast quadrant 

and other areas of the Town 

Center. 

But in talking with the 

landowners in person, their 

intention becomes less clear, 

Gurol said. 

Gareth Roe, director of landuse 

planning for BCRA, confirmed 

that the proposal was 

intended to encourage the council 

to add density throughout the 

Town Center. 

“It doesn’t mean that whole 

thing’s going to be paved over 

and it’s going to look like downtown 

Bellevue,” Roe qualified. 

“It’s going to be scaled appropriately.” 

As for how much extra density 

is needed in the other quadrants, 

Roe didn’t say. He said factors 

like topography and the market 

would drive that number. 

Roe said the group doesn’t 

believe there is enough allowed 

density in the current Town 

Center plan to entice developers 

and make the center a reality. 

Gurol said there are other 

ambiguities regarding the proposal. 

“I think the other part that 

seems unclear — if it is just the 

southeast — are they asking for 

the totals to be raised, or are they 

asking for the totals to stay the 

same and you simply re-allocate” 

Gurol said. 

Galvin said Gurol’s questions 

are better directed to the council. 

Galvin said the BCRA proposal 

simply informs the council that 

one group of landowners has 

plans ready to go and needs more 

density than what is currently 

allowed — whether that means 

raising the overall commercial 

density cap or redistributing 

what’s allowed is up to the council. 

“It’s not for us to dictate,” 

Galvin said. “We’re not in a position 

to address that. Not at all.” 






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quickly firefighters are supposed 

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performance report on how often 

firefighters met those expectations 

will also be available. 

Gober-Beneze is also uploading 

the interlocal agreement, the 

agency’s governing documents, 

which outline everything from 

who the partners are in EFR to 

how partners fund the agency. 

These new updates follow a 

complete revamping of EFR’s 

Web site and the creation of both 

an EFR Twitter account and EFR 

Facebook group, all of which happened 

in 2009. 

The agency also publishes an 

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Library levy passes 

A levy lid lift requested by the 

King County Library System led 

in returns released Feb. 12 with 

51 percent approval. 

Proposition 1 asked King 

County voters to increase the 

property tax rate to 50 cents per 

$1,000 in assessed value in 2011. 

A homeowner with a $400,000 

home will pay $32 more next 

year if voters approved the measure. 

City seeking parks 

input 

What do you want to see 

change about the city’s parks 

You’ll have 10 chances to tell city 

officials this spring. 

The city of Sammamish is 

hosting a listening tour entitled 

“Have a say in how we 

play.” 

The first one is scheduled 

from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 22 

at Discovery Elementary School. 

Listening tour nights will take 

place in February and up through 

March 18. 

Collecting public input is the 

first part of an effort by the Parks 

and Recreation Department to 

overhaul the city’s six-year open 

space plan. 

Spent over 18 hours choosing 

the crib she’ll use for about 3 years 

The plan includes a list for all 

major parks projects. 

Parks Director Jessi 

Richardson said the city would 

conduct a telephone survey after 

collecting input from residents at 

the meetings. 

Richardson’s staff is scheduled 

to present the results from the 

listening tour and survey to the 

Parks Commission and City 

Council at a joint meeting April 

19. 

The council will have final 

approval over what plan is 

adopted. The council’s three 

advisory boards, the Arts, 

Planning and Parks commissions, 

will also weigh in on 

the plan. 

All listening tour meetings, 

save for one, are scheduled for 

6:30-8 p.m. 

For a complete list of dates 

and locations visit ci.sammamish.wa.gov 

and follow the 

calendar link in the bottom left. 

EFR changes 

meeting dates 

and times 

Eastside Fire & Rescue has 

announced new dates and times 

for its public meetings. 

The EFR Board of Directors 

Spent under 3 minutes choosing the paint 

that will surround her for about 18 years 

passed a resolution Feb. 11 cementing the 

scheduling changes. 

The fire protection agency provides 

emergency medical response and fire protection 

to local residents in Sammamish, 

Issaquah, North Bend, Carnation, Preston, 

May Valley, Tiger Mountain and 

Wilderness Rim. 

The board’s regional and personnel subcommittee 

is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. on the 

first Monday of each month. 

The board itself is scheduled to meet at 

4 p.m. on the second Thursday of each 

month. 

The board’s finance and operations subcommittee 

is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. on the 

third Tuesday of each month. 

All three are open public meetings at EFR’s 

headquarters at 175 Newport Way Northwest in 

Issaquah. 

Issaquah school boundaries 

changing 

With Issaquah School District boundaries 

changing for the 2010-11 school year, school district 

officials are asking you to verify your student’s 

enrollment early. 

Families can verify their student’s enrollment 

by going to the district Web site: 

www.issaquah.wednet.edu/schools/2010/Default. 

aspx. 

Once there, you can view the history and 

policies surrounding the boundary changes by 

clicking on “Find your school for 2010.” 

Follow the steps to verify your student’s 

enrollment, including checking your address, 

inputting your student’s grade for next year and 

verifying your “School/Transportation 

Information.” 

If all the information is correct, you’ll 

receive information from your child’s school. If 

it isn’t correct, contact your school’s registrar 

for further help. 

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Wife arrested for 

domestic violence 

Police visited the home of a Sammamish couple 

regarding a domestic violence call. The alleged incident 

took place at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 6 when the couple, 

while visiting the Bellevue Square Mall, started fighting. 

After interviewing the husband, wife and their 

daughter, police determined that the wife was the primary 

aggressor. 

The wife was the one who called police and 

claimed to have a broken finger from being thrown to 

the ground. But both the husband and daughter 

agreed that the wife had slapped a phone out of the 

husband’s hand. The husband said his wife had an 

addiction to Xanax and marijuana, and he was seeking 

advice about the addiction when she knocked the 

phone from his hand. 

Medics splinted her injured finger, but she would 

not allow them to fully inspect it. The reporting officer 

noted that she was bending the finger and interlocking 

it with other fingers without difficulty. The 

officer also observed that she claimed to have 

scratches on her arms and neck, but none were 

apparent. 

Messing with son’s mail 

Police visited a woman from 203rd Avenue about a 

mail problem. The woman said that someone had 

opened up a letter addressed to her from a law firm 

in New York. The letter was mailed Feb. 2 and 

arrived, apparently cut open, at 3 p.m. Feb. 5. 

The letter concerned her 7-year-old son and 

included his Social Security number and bank 

account number. She said the bank account information 

is no longer valid, but she is concerned about 

someone opening another account in her son’s name. 

Thief steals from CPR instructor 

A CPR instructor from East Lake Sammamish 

Parkway Southeast told police he’s missing a suitcase 

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that had two inflatable manikins 

and three instructional CPR 

DVDs. The instructor said someone 

stole the suitcase after he finished 

his CPR class at Sahalee 

Country Club at noon Feb. 3. 

He said he left the suitcase 

unattended while moving supplies 

from the classroom to his 

truck, but he doesn’t know when 

exactly the suitcase disappeared. 

He said he discovered the suitcase 

missing the following day. 

Police have no suspect information. 

Charged for hotel 

visit without the visit 

A woman called police to 

report that someone charged 

$5,690 to her credit card for staying 

at the Hilton in Seattle from 

Dec. 8 to Dec. 21 2009. She discovered 

the charge while reviewing 

her bank statements Feb. 2. 

She said her bank is reviewing 

the charge, as is the hotel. The 

woman is still in possession of 

the card, but has cancelled the 

card number. 

Drunk driver nearly 

hits police officer 

An intoxicated driver almost 

hit an occupied police officer’s 

car in the early morning hours of 

Feb. 1. Police arrested the 28- 

year-old man, citing him with 

driving under the influence of 

alcohol and with reckless driving. 

The driver caught the officer’s 

attention by edging so far over 

into the oncoming lane of traffic 

that the officer thought their 

driver’s side mirrors might collide. 

They were driving in opposite 

directions along Northeast 

Inglewood Hill Road, near 216th 

Avenue Northeast. 

The officer turned around and 

pulled the driver over. The officer 

smelled the overpowering 

odor of intoxicants from inside 

the car and saw two bottles of 

vodka on the passenger side 

floor. One bottle was open, but 

had about 6 ounces left. The 

other was capped, but appeared 

to be empty. 

The driver admitted to drinking 

and said he was just trying to 

get home. The zipper of his pants 

was down and his upper left pant 

leg was wet. He agreed to voluntary 

field sobriety tests and, in 

the words of the reporting officer, 

“performed horribly.” 

Police impounded the vehicle 

and brought him back to the 

Sammamish Police Station. After 

speaking with a lawyer, the driver 

refused to give a breath sample. 

Nonetheless, the officer 

guessed that the driver was 

drunk enough to blow a 0.2 

breathalyzer reading, exceeding 

the Issaquah Jail’s blood alcohol 

admission level, so police booked 

him into the King County Jail. 

Forged checks 

Employees from the 

Sammamish Wells Fargo bank say 

someone tried to cash a forged 

check Feb. 4. 

A bank teller said a Hispanic 

man came into the bank and 

tried to cash a suspicious-looking 

check. The teller said the check 

appeared to have been tampered 

with so that the recipient and 

monetary amount were changed. 

The man gave the teller his driver’s 

license and credit card, 

which had names matching the 

name of the recipient on the 

check. When the teller tried to 

process the check, it came back 

with an error. After checking 

with her supervisor, they called 

the police. The teller tried to stall 

the man. He, in turn, looked as if 

he received a text message and 

left the building. 

Police now have the man’s 

driver’s license, credit card and 

forged check as evidence. 

Stop contacting her 

Police cited a man for violating 

court orders banning him 

from contacting a woman. In the 

first instance, the man sent her a 

text message Feb. 1. The next day 

he called her, but left no message. 

The King County District 

Court in Issaquah placed a 

restraining order on the man, 

banning him from all forms of 

communication with the woman 

until their next court hearing 

Feb. 11. 

Police contacted the man and 

explained to him why they were 

citing him for violating a protection 

order. 

Boy caught stealing 

Employees at the Sammamish 

QFC caught a 14-year-old boy 

stealing candy at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 2. 

They saw him stuff candy in his 

pocket. When confronted, the 

boy initially said he planned on 

paying for the candy, but then 

admitted that he was going to 

steal it. 

The QFC declined to assist in 

prosecuting the boy, but did 

impose a trespass. He signed a 

letter acknowledging that he is 

not allowed to return to the store 

for one year. 

Police then transported the 

boy back home. 

Beer thief 

An employee from the 

Sammamish QFC called police to 

report that someone stole beer 

from the grocery store. At 10:14 

p.m. Feb. 1, a white man in his 

20s, about 5-foot-8, with a scruffy 

goatee, light-colored shirt and 

blue jeans, stole an 18-pack of 

Coors Light, priced at $18.99. The 

employee said that QFC would 

be willing to assist in prosecuting 

the suspect. 

Gate breaker 

A woman who lives on the 

23600 block of Southeast 32nd 

Way called police to report that 

someone broke the lock to her 

gate. The incident occurred 

between 5 p.m. Jan. 30 and 11:30 

a.m. Jan. 31. She said it appeared 

that someone had broken the 

lock to access the greenbelt 

behind the gate. The lock itself 

was worth about $142. 

Missing golf clubs 

A man from the 21400 block of 

Southeast 37th Street called 

police to report that someone 

stole his golf bag and golf clubs 

from his car. The car was 

unlocked and parked by his residence. 

He said the bag and 15 

missing clubs were worth $1,615 

altogether. 

Facebook nightmare 

Police have asked Facebook to 

disable an account that had been 

usurped by an unknown suspect 

and used for malicious purposes. 

A 16-year-old girl and her mother 

told police that someone gained 

access to her account, changed 

her password and started sending 

mean messages and lewd images 

to people on her friend list. The 

fraudulent activity on her 

account started happening Dec. 

20, 2010 and continued through 

Feb. 4. 

Police noted that the person 

who took over her account 

appears to know her and the 

details of her life. Both the girl 

and her mother have tried 

repeatedly to shut down the 

account without success, they 

said. 

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from Sammamish Police reports. 

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94 years and 

going strong 

Edward Baker has lived on 

the plateau for 9 decades 

By Christopher Huber 

To this day, Sammamish resident 

Edward Baker is terrified of 

bears. He has been ever since 

World War II, when he was a 

maintenance worker at the Four 

Seasons Resort on Beaver Lake. 

The local black bears would hang 

out at the garbage dump near the 

present site of Beaver Lake Park 

and scare him, said his live-in 

caretaker Mary Austin. 

Baker, who has lived on the 

same property between Pine 

Lake and Beaver Lake for about 

94 years, turned 100 Feb. 17. 

“To live to be 100 is unique 

enough,” said Jim Austin, Mary’s 

son, who has lived with Baker all 

of his 26 years. “He’s a type-A 

personality, so he’s driven.” 

Although Baker, who is developmentally 

delayed, doesn’t like 

to specify dates and numbers 

from his life, he remembers a lot 

that’s happened since his family 

moved to the plateau around 

1915. An avid woodsman, Baker 

grew up in a time when 

Sammamish was all forest. As a 

young adult, living on what was 

Elm Gate Farm, Baker looked up 

to the loggers who worked in the 

area over the years, Austin said. 

“I like it here because it has a 

lot of nice timber,” Baker said as 

he sat down for his daily mug of 

root beer Feb. 9. 

The Austins said they think 

Edward Baker saws some wood in the 1970’s. 

Baker’s longevity comes from 

good genes, but also staying 

active and not having any bad 

habits. 

“It’s obviously good genes,” 

Mary Austin said. 

He has spent much of his life 

running the farm and selling 

chopped wood. And other than 

being confined to a wheelchair 

for the past few years, Baker 

remains alert and in pretty good 

shape for a centenarian, Mary 

Austin said. Baker used to sell 

Contributed 

cords of wood for $8. 

“He was extremely strong,” 

Jim Austin said. “He could saw 

way more than my dad or I 

could.” 

See BAKER, Page 13 

Sammamish girl is a finalist for 

Boys & Girls club youth award 


As a little girl, Madeleine Tobe 

used to set up a schoolhouse in 

her family’s garage and teach 

children from around her neighborhood. 

She’s not sure if they learned 

anything substantive, the 

Sammamish resident said in a 

speech Feb. 8 at Benaroya Hall in 

Seattle. But it fed her knack for 

working with peers and children. 

Tobe, a sophomore at Eastside 

Catholic High School, was recognized 

as the 

Redmond/Sammamish Boys & 

Girls Club Youth of the Year. She 

was one of 11 youth recognized at 

the King County Youth of the 

Year Luncheon. She said she was 

completely surprised when she 

was asked to represent the local 

club late last fall. 

“(I thought) ‘amazing,’” Tobe 

said. “I did not expect it at all. I’m 

honored the club would pick me.” 

The winner, Jasmin 

Velazquez, of Wallingford, moves 

on to the state and potentially the 

regional and national levels. Tobe 

and the others each received a 

$500 educational scholarship, 

according to the Boys & Girls 

Club. 

“This speaks to who she is,” 

said Betsy Bolton, Madeleine’s 

mother. “She connects with little 

kids and they look up to her.” 

Tobe joined the organization in 

2007 after Bolton encouraged her 

to give back to the community 

and volunteer with children, 

Tobe said. She also wanted to fulfill 

some of her community service 

credits at Eastside Catholic. 

She began working one day a 

week in the after-school “Drop- 

In” program, organizing games, 

serving snacks and acting as a 

counselor for the younger children. 

“I love being around kids that 

are so happy all the time,” Tobe 

said. “It sounded fun because I’ve 

always loved kids.” 

Tobe and Bolton said 

Madeleine plans to continue her 

work with the Boys & Girls Club. 

Madeleine said she recently finished 

the Counselor In Training 

program and is set to be a summer 

camp counselor. 

“She is just as reliable as a staff 

person,” said Andrew Hise, Teen 

Director at the 

Redmond/Sammamish club. “Self 

directed. She’s so confident and 

poised for a person her age,” 

Choosing Tobe for local Youth 

of the Year was a no-brainer, Hise 

said. He approached her about it 

last fall on a day when she was 

struggling with the commitment, 

juggling many other activities. 

“(I said) it’s gotta be her,” Hise 

said. 

Even at age 16, Tobe has 

become “a tremendous role 

model” for the children, including 

some young teens, many of 

whom come from difficult home 

situations, Hise said. 

“She embodies the club mission 

statement,” he said. 

Tobe and her family said she 

has learned a lot since she began 

volunteering more than two 

years ago. People underestimate 

the power of doing little things 

for people, like playing a game or 

simply taking the time to listen. 

The little things are a big deal, 

she said. 

“It’s never too late to make a 

difference,” Tobe said. 

Photo by Christopher Huber 

Sammamish teen Madeleine Tobe speaks to a crowd of about 

300 parents, youth advocates and Boys & Girls Club board members.


Sammamish starts developing 

The second in a two-part series 

about Sammamish in the 1960s. 

By Phil Dougherty 

Last week, old icons — resorts 

and farms — closed as development 

began. 

But even as some old icons 

disappeared during the ‘60s, new 

ones arose. One was the High 

Lonesome Ranch, located just 

east of 244th Avenue Northeast, 

about a quarter mile south of 

Northeast Eighth Street. 

In 1960, Chris Klineburger 

bought the 50 acres that became 

the ranch, and within a year or 

so had built a “frontier town” to 

provide people with an authentic 

western experience. 

There was a saloon there, as 

well as a bunkhouse, a working 

blacksmith shop, and horse 

rentals, where people just could 

rent a horse and explore the 

countryside. 

And there was plenty to 

explore. In 1965, Klineburger 

established the High Lonesome 

Riders club, and its members 

often took long horseback rides 

through the wooded paradise that 

was then the plateau. 

In the 1960s, 228th Avenue 

Northeast ended at the intersection 

of Inglewood Hill Road, but 

that wasn’t a problem for the riders 

who were looking to go north 

through the area where Sahalee 

Way is today. 

Explains Klineburger, “There 

was a dirt road that went up the 

hill [north from Inglewood Hill 

Road] to an old Boy Scout camp. 

There was nothing left of the 

camp but a clearing. There was a 

See CAMP, Page 14 

Photo courtesy Sammamish Heritage Society 

By the 1960s, the Inglewood Grammar School had been abandoned. 

Baker 


Baker has always taken his 

building interest seriously. In 

1981 he won a trip to Reno for 

building a six-foot-9-inch model 

of the Smith Tower out of Lincoln 

Logs, Mary Austin said. He 

switched to Legos in 1982 and 

argues that he maintains one of 

the largest collections around. 

He’s always been a hobbyist, Jim 

Austin said. 

The Austins and friends are 

taking Baker to Lego Land in 

Carlsbad California, for two days, 

to celebrate his 100th birthday, 


Baker was born Feb. 17, 1910 

in south Seattle to Minnie and 

Earl Baker. According to a brief 

biography from Mary Austin, 

family from Missouri attribute 

Baker’s developmental delay to a 

bad fever he had as an infant. 

Contributed 

Edward Baker and his family visit Mount Rainer in the 1930’s. 

As the Seattle School District 

refused to educate him, Baker’s 

mother, a teacher, had the family 

move to the plateau, where they 

settled on the 33-acre Elm Gate 

Farm. Baker’s father, Earl, was a 

realtor and in the retail dairy 

business. They raised dairy cows, 

poultry, chickens, potatoes and 

other vegetables, Mary Austin 

said. 

Baker attended school at the 

two-room schoolhouse, located at 

the current site of Discovery 

Elementary, until first grade, 

when they would no longer teach 

him. Minnie Baker homeschooled 

him, teaching him basic 

reading and writing and focusing 

intently on phonics, Mary Austin 

said. Baker still sounds out the 

headlines of the Issaquah Press 

and Sammamish Review each 

week. 

For much of his life, Baker 

lived on his own. Various caretakers 

spent only a couple of hours 

each day at the house. He spent 

most of his time sawing logs and 

working around the property, 


She said she and her husband 

began taking care of Baker 31 

years ago, when she was right 

out of nursing school. His mother 

had died about three years prior 

and Ed needed a new caretaker. 

She said Baker is a relentless, 

focused, hardworking person. 

When his motor skills were better, 

he carved windmills like 

there was no tomorrow. 

“I swear, the farm was about 

ready to lift off in a windstorm 

with all those windmills going,” 

Mary Austin said. He knows how 

to get me to supply him with the 

parts he needs. He is driven.” 

He also loves to be on the go. 

“The weekend comes and he 

always asks, ‘what are we going 

to do today’” she said. “He’s 

always hoping it is warm and dry 

enough for a garage sale where 

there is always the potential they 

might be selling Legos.” 

As part of the Austin family 

for 31 years, Baker has taught 

them a lot, Jim Austin said. 

“I don’t know how other people 

raise kids without an Ed,” 


As a child, Jim Austin and 

Baker played with Legos and 

other games. But Baker was 

always a good role model. 

“Ed … was an excellent model 

of patience and kindness,” Jim 

Austin said. 

Reporter Christopher Huber can 

be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242, or 

chuber@isspress.com. Comment on 

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horse trail from the camp that 

dropped down to the Redmond- 

Fall City Road — it might have 

been an old logging road. 

We’d ride down that road to 

the Redmond-Fall City Road and 

ride into Redmond that way. We 

didn’t like taking 244th [then the 

northern access route to the 

plateau] because we had to ride 

on the [main] road all the way.” 

Back at the intersection of 

Inglewood Hill Road and 228th 

Avenue 

Northeast, the 

old Inglewood 

Grammar 

School, built in 

the first half of 

the 1890s, 

stood on the 

northeast corner, 

roughly 

where the 76 station is today. 

Long since abandoned by the 

‘60s, the old schoolhouse survived 

through the decade and 

into the next, a silent sentinel to 

a far earlier time, before it eventually 

collapsed sometime 

around the mid-‘70s. 

There was a small mink farm 

behind the old schoolhouse (on 

Northeast Eighth Street) for a 

period of time that probably 

included the early ‘60s, but little 

else is presently known about it. 

Up until the late 1960s, most 

of the plateau’s development had 

been on its southern half, with 

the exception of the area on and 

near Weber’s Point, which had 

been home to the small community 

of Sammamish in the early 

twentieth century. But by the 

‘60s there was only a wide scattering 

of farms north of 

Inglewood Hill Road and N.E. 8th 

“It was just a neat place 

to grow up. It couldn’t 

have been more fun.” 

– Mark Powell, 

Grew up on Pine Lake – 

Street; most of the area was just 

woods. 

So it was a bit of a surprise 

when, in 1967, it was announced 

that a 27-hole golf course and 

development named Sahalee 

would be built in a forested area 

on the northern end of the 

plateau. 

The first 18 holes opened in 

August 1969, while construction 

of the rest of the course stretched 

into 1970. But even as the decade 

ended, most of the development 

in Sahalee centered around the 

golf course. 

Some houses had been built, 

but further development was 

coming to a 

screeching halt 

that would last 

for several 

years thanks to 

the Boeing 

Bust. 

Along Lake 

Sammamish, 

near today’s 

Southeast 33rd Street, the 

Monohon mill was still operating, 

though it was a shadow 

of the large operation it had 

been in the early decades of 

the century. 

Farther south, near the southern 

end of today’s Sammamish 

city limits, was Alexander’s Beach 

Resort. 

In existence since 1917 and 

long a favorite for many 

Eastsiders (and some Seattleites), 

the resort remained a big draw 

through the 1960s. 

Visitors to the resort after the 

Alexander / Ek family sold the 

property in 1966 suggest that it 

wasn’t quite the same. 

And there was another significant 

development on the plateau 

in the 1960s. 

In 1961, the Providence 

Heights College of Sister 

Formation opened on the southern 

end of the plateau at 4221 

228th Ave. S.E. Yes, that’s actually 

in Issaquah, but just barely — 

you can walk across 228th 

Avenue from the entrance to the 

old campus and be in 

Sammamish. It merits a mention 

here because of its impact on 

Sammamish; this college and its 

successor, Trinity Lutheran 

College, provided a number of 

jobs for plateau area residents 

over the next half century. 

The college offered liberal arts 

degrees to women training to 

become nuns. It opened in June 

1961, and “most people were very 

enthused with 

it,” recalls Jane 

Forbes, who in 

the 1960s lived 

on 212th 

Avenue 

Southeast near 

Barker’s Store. 

But the college 

was profoundly 

affected by 

the social 

changes of 

the ‘60s, and 

closed before 

the decade ended. A 1968 

article in the Spokane Daily 

Chronicle announcing the 

closing probably explains it 

best: 

“The college became obsolete 

after the second Vatican council 

recommended sisters in training 

remain in contact with society. It 

was built when the emphasis for 

sisters-to-be was on a strong educational 

program coupled with 

withdrawal from the secular 

world.” 

The college closed in June 

1969 and served as a conference 

center for nearly a decade. 

In 1978, the Lutheran Bible 

Institute (later Trinity Lutheran 

College) purchased the site and 

“We always knew we 

couldn’t stay rural 

because we were too 

close to Seattle. But it’s 

so interesting to see how 

things have developed. I 

just can’t believe it.” 

– Jane Forbes, 

Resident – 

also agreed to dedicate a portion 

of the property to senior housing, 

which led to the development of 

Issaquah’s Providence Point. 

Trinity Lutheran College stayed 

until 2008, and today the location 

is home to the City Church. 

Still more rural than urban as 

the decade ended (the plateau’s 

population in 1969 was less than 

5,000), Sammamish in the ‘60s is 

remembered with great fondness 

by practically everyone I’ve 

talked to who was here, then. 

Granted that good memories 

look even better with time, and 

Sammamish is still a wonderful 

place to live. 

But there 

was a closer, 

more familiar 

feeling here 

then that isn’t 

here now. 

Patty Gorman 

explains, 

“Overall it was 

very rural and 

laid back. It 

wasn’t the 

speed people 

go today.” 

Gary 

Lachance adds, “Everybody kind 

of knew everybody. It was more 

like a family atmosphere.” 

Mark Powell, who was a youth 

growing up on Pine Lake in the 

mid and late 1960s, sums it up 

this way: “It was just a neat place 

to grow up. It couldn’t have been 

more fun.” 

Yet in the ‘60s change was 

edging onto the plateau, and 

most recognized that bigger 

change would eventually follow. 

Says Jane Forbes, “We always 

knew we couldn’t stay rural 

because we were too close to 

Seattle. But it’s so interesting to 

see how things have developed. I 

just can’t believe it.” 

Great Waves to play 

at EMP Sound Off 

The Great Waves, a 

Sammamish band made up of 

Skyline and Eastside Catholic 

graduates, made it into the 

Experience Music Project’s 

2010 Sound Off!, Battle of the 

Underage Bands contest, said 

member Ryan Sprute. 

The band will perform against 

three other Washington bands in 

the third semi-final round Feb. 27 

at EMP in Seattle. They have a 

chance to advance to the finals 

March 6. 

If the band wins, it will 

play at Bumbershoot 2010 and 

receive various audio and 

recording gear, according to 

the event Web site. 

Tickets cost $10 for the 

general public, $7 for students 

or EMP and Science Fiction 

Museum members. Doors 

open at 7 p.m. and shows 

start at 8 p.m. Purchase tickets 

at the EMP box office or 

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makes dean’s list 

Nigel McClug, of 

Sammamish, was named to 

the dean’s list at Gonzaga 

University for the fall 2009 

semester. Students needed a 

GPA of 3.7 or higher to qualify. 

Shane Manciagli on 

dean’s list 

Shane Manciagli, of 

Sammamish, has been named 

to the dean’s list at 

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the fall 2009 semester. To 

qualify, students must 

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Kyle Englund-Krieger, who had 

a cameraman hiding in the 

bushes to capture the 

moment, kneels to propose to 

Dominique Bastine. 

Dominique Bastine 

engaged 

Dominique Fleury Bastine, of 

Sammamish, is engaged to Kyle 

Englund-Krieger of 

Hummelstown, Penn. 

Bastine, a 2006 graduate of 

Eastlake High School, is the 

daughter of Wilfrid and Sally 

Bastine. 

The groom, a 2006 graduate of 

Hampton High School in Allison 

Park, Penn. is the son of Mark 

and Kris Englund-Krieger. 

Both the bride and groom are 

midshipmen at the U.S. Naval 

Academy. 

Bastine’s degree, expected in 

May, will be in oceanography; 

Englund-Krieger’s degree, also in 

May, will be in physics. 

The couple plans a June wedding 

in Woodinville. 

Jaime Cantwell 

performed in 

Sleeping Beauty 

Sammamish 11-year-old 

Jaime Cantwell appeared in 

another Pacific Northwest 

Ballet production, according 

to her mother, Stephanie 

Cantwell. 

The Alcott Elementary 

fifth-grader danced in the 

Nutcracker with a handful of 

other Sammamish residents 

in December, but was also 

chosen to perform in the 

Sleeping Beauty production. 

It ran Feb. 4-14 at McCaw 

Hall in Seattle. Jaime 

Cantwell was part of the 

Garland Dance during Act I. 

She has been dancing at 

the Pacific Northwest Dance 

School since she was 5, 

Stephanie Cantwell said. 

This is Jaime’s third production 

with PNB, as she also 

performed in the 2008 

Nutcracker. 

Western announces 

honor roll 

The following Sammamish 

residents have been named to the 

honor roll at Western Washington 

University. 

Michelle Kumi Breen, 

Renata Bruxel, Christian 

Richard Casolary, Jenna Lee 

Creighton, Liisa Marlene 

Geyer, Andrew Lee Gray, 

Christine Alexandra Hay, 

Angela Michelle Heinrich, 

Katie Lynn LaLonde, 

Alexandra Kimberly Leale, 

Jon T. Matsuo, Eric Douglas 

Pohl, Wesleigh Robin 

Richardson, Kari Lynn 

Thompson, Alyssa Kirsten 

Unwin, Robin Angelique Van 

Wageningen and Jaime Weiss 

Wilson. 

Graham Dyer 

graduates 

Graham Michael Dyer, of 

Sammamish, graduated from the 

University of Wyoming after the 

fall 2009 semester. 

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Discovery students strive to protect killdeer 


Students flitted around teacher 

Tasha Kirby’s fourth-grade classroom 

on a mission Feb. 10. A 

deadline was looming and they 

were motivated to complete the 

final piece of a class portfolio 

detailing their months-long 

efforts to protect a local bird habitat. 

Some groups arranged photos 

on a page and others compiled 

information in a brochure. 

The Discovery Elementary 

fourth-graders recently completed 

their research and implementation 

project for the Disney 

Planet Challenge, a nationwide 

environmental education and 

stewardship competition. 

The students developed ways 

to protect the killdeer bird in the 

wetlands behind the school. 

The wetlands area is on 

Issaquah School District property. 

“The killdeer is a really important 

part of the ecosystem,” said 

student Nikita Larichev. 

The students worked to 

improve the birds’ ground-level 

nesting sites by building sturdy 

nest boxes and posting signs to 

keep off-leash dogs out. They 

even solicited members of the 

Sammamish City Council to support 

their Adopt-a-Wetland program. 

“My favorite part is the ‘Adopta-Wetland’ 

program,” said 

Matthew Cindric. “It’s cool 

because we have someone to 

keep cleaning it up for us (once 

we leave).” 

To start the project, the students 

identified an environmental 

issue in Sammamish and 

brainstormed ways to fix or help 

it. They documented it all themselves, 

from start to finish, Kirby 

said. 

She just helped them narrow 

the topic from eight to the ultimate 

one, protecting the killdeer 

nesting habitat. 

They worked with the district 

maintenance team to create 

signs, place garbage cans along 

the trail and build the nest boxes, 

Kirby said. 

“It’s got a lot of parts,” Kirby 

said as she cut paper for students. 

“I think the impact is big.” 

See KILLDEER, Page 17 

Photo by Christopher Huber 

Carter Culver, right, and Borna Hafezi read through their brochure on protecting the killdeer nesting 

habitat. 

Shirt sales help central Asians afford a year of school 

By Chantelle Lusebrink 

Students at the Pacific Cascade 

Freshman Campus are changing 

the lives of their peers with education 

worldwide, one shirt at a 

time. 

For $12 each, the students are 

selling shirts that will send a student 

in Afghanistan or Pakistan 

to school for a year through the 

Central Asia Institute. 

“We’re learning every day, and 

sometimes we take that for granted,” 

student Anais Gentilhomme 

said. “We want to help others 

learn.” 

Students began selling their 

shirts for two weeks as part of a 

culminating World Studies 

Service Learning project. 

“Students spend the year 

learning about world cultures, as 

well as the problems facing people 

around the world. This is an 

opportunity for them to have a 

positive impact on the people 

they learn about,” teacher Jessica 

Heaton wrote in an e-mail. “The 

purpose of Service Learning is for 

students to identify and meet a 

specific need in the community 

and to learn new skills in the process.” 

The students took on the 

project after completing a 

unit about the Middle East, 

during which they learned 

The cutline information goes here. 

about its cultural, political 

and religious history. 

After completing their unit, 

students researched different 

Photo by Greg Farrar 

problems in the region and nonprofit 

organizations that help aid 

in resolving them. 

By combining their ideas, students 

decided to sell shirts to 

help pay school tuition for children 

near Afghanistan and 

Pakistan, student Jane McNicoll 

said. 

Their project is one inspired 

by the book “Three Cups of Tea: 

One Man’s Mission to Promote 

Peace, One School At A Time,” by 

Greg Mortenson, student Michael 

Lee said. 

In the book, Mortenson 

recounts his failed attempt to 

climb Pakistan’s K2 Mountain, 

according to the Central Asia 

Institute’s Web site. 

The failed climb led him to 

learn about the remote mountain 

cultures along the country’s border 

shared with Afghanistan and 

help bring education facilities to 

the children there. 

After successfully starting the 

first school, Mortenson went on 

to co-found the Central Asia 

Institute, which has since established 

dozens of schools in the 

area and promotes education for 

women. 

“The vote was pretty much 

unanimous. Their goal is to help 

teens like us get a future, an education, 

a life that has hope for 

them,” student Adam Karren 

wrote in an e-mail. “This will 

allow kids to mingle with others, 

developing relationships with 

people they wouldn’t have met 

otherwise, as well as grant them 

a means to learn, by which they 

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Killdeer 


The Disney Planet Challenge 

launched nationwide this 

school year after being 

offered in California, Florida, 

the Cayman Islands and Hong 

Kong, according to the program’s 

Web site. 

It’s a project-based program 

that is meant to inspire environmental 

stewardship, Kirby said. 

“It opened up opportunities 

that had never been opportunities 

before,” Kirby said. 

“Everything we did was their 

idea.” 

Discovery principal Tera Coyle 

was impressed with the project, 

especially the fact that the fourthgraders 

have spurred the school 

district and even Sammamish 

City Council to action. 

“The project they’ve done has 

allowed them to use their educational 

skills for a real-life problem,” 

Coyle said. “The kids have 

been very excited about the project 

and it’s very motivating for 

them to see action.” 

The Discovery fourthgraders’ 

wetlands project 

portfolio will compete with 

other fourth- through sixthgrade 

classes throughout the 

United States. 

They have a chance to win a 

trip to Disneyland Resort in May, 

according to the Web site. 

Kirby’s fourth-graders must 

turn in their portfolio by Feb. 26 

and await the project’s judgment 

in the contest. 

But those interested in joining 

the students’ Adopt-a-Wetland 

program may contact Kirby at 

kirbyt@issaquah.wednet.edu or 

call 837-4082. 

Reporter Christopher Huber can 

be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242, or 

chuber@isspress.com. Comment on 

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can change their town or city or 

wherever they may be.” 

“We have a civic responsibility 

to help people everywhere,” student 

Khalil Somahi said. “It is 

something we should do, help 

others. We should help educate 

them and help them, because it 

will be a chain reaction. The 

more they know, the better it will 

be.” 

“Their choice to create T-shirts 

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their local community about a 

global problem as well as to raise 

money,” Heaton wrote. “I think 

that shows how thoughtful this 

group of students is about enacting 

long-term change.” 

By the end of the first week, 

the students sold nearly 100 

shirts, but want to encourage the 

community to help out. 

“We’d love to get as many sales 

as possible,” student Sarah 

Elderkin said. 

“For $12, you get a really cool 

shirt,” McNicoll said. “But it pays 

for a student to go to school for 

an entire year.” 

Reporter Chantelle Lusebrink 

can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 

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Sammamish skier chases dream in the Olympics 

By Warren Kagarise 

The dream stretched back to 

childhood, when Yina Moe-Lange 

strapped on a pair of skis and 

took to the slopes. Through the 

years and countless downhill 

runs, she honed her skill with a 

singular goal in mind: competing 

in the Winter Olympics. 

Moe-Lange, 16, assumed she 

might be too young to compete 

when the Olympics opened in 

Vancouver, British Columbia, and 

skiers competed in alpine events 

about four hours from 

Sammamish, where she and her 

family moved in 2005. 

The premier skiers — like, say, 

Lindsey Vonn — reach peak ability 

in their 20s, so Moe-Lange 

trained with the 2014 Winter 

Olympics in mind. About a 

month ago, however, she 

received word from Denmark: 

Moe-Lange, a Danish citizen, had 

been selected to compete in the 

games, then just a few weeks distant. 

The dream to compete in the 

Winter Olympics turned to reality 

ahead of schedule. 

Moe-Lange donned a red-andblack 

uniform Feb. 12 to march 

alongside other Danish athletes 

during the opening ceremony. 

The skier will race in the giant 

Yina Moe-Lange, of Sammamish, will compete for the Danish team in the Olympics. 

slalom and slalom events Feb. 24 

and 26. 

“I feel pretty excited; I don’t 

know what to expect,” Moe-Lange 

said during a phone interview 

from Mammoth Mountain Ski 


Area in California, days after the 

Danish team selected her. 

Experts do not consider Moe- 

Lange — among the youngest 

Olympians at the games — to be 

a medal contender, but the competition 

will ready her for next 

Winter Olympics in Sochi, 

Russia. Still, the decision surprised 

her and her father, Danny 

Lange, a Microsoft employee. 

“She had a dream and she’s 

fulfilling it at 16,” he said. 

Lange worked not to raise 

expectations for Moe-Lange, his 

oldest daughter. Although she 

had endured years of intense 

training, the announcement from 

the Danish team “came out of the 

blue,” Lange said. 

The former Skyline High 

School student started skiing at 

age 3 in Japan, where her family 

lived and her mother, Eva 

Jacobsen, worked as a diplomat. 

The family moved to California 

when Moe-Lange was 4, after her 

father accepted a job in Silicon 

Valley. Family ski trips to Lake 

Tahoe turned into regular outings. 

A coach noticed Moe-Lange 

when the skier was young, and 

encouraged her parents to enroll 

her in a ski team. Moe-Lange 

won her first race when she was 

8. The experience stoked her 

dream to someday compete in 

See SKIER, Page 19 


Eastlake’s Bainca Barr performs on the beam Feb. 13. 

No gymnasts 

go to state 

Skyline and Eastlake each sent 

a pair of athletes to the 4A Sea- 

King district meet Feb. 13. But 

neither will see their gymnasts 

compete at state. 

Neither Bianca Barr nor 

Maggen Wolk, of Eastlake, placed 

at the meet, but Eastlake coach 

Beth Chapin said they showed 

improvement over 2009. 

Barr scored an 8.2 on vault, a 

7.65 on bars and 7.6 on beam. 

Wolk scored a 7.8 on vault and 

7.65 on bars. 

Skyline’s Morgan McCombs 

scored a 7.6 on her beam routine 

and Shelby Miller finished with a 

6.55 on bars. 

“Morgan McCombs finished 

her high school career with a 

great beam routine,” Skyline 

coach Debbie Gliner said in an e- 

mail to the Review. “Shelby 

Miller had one of her best bar 

routines of the year and stuck a 

new dismount that she added in 

this week.” 

Despite the difficult competition 

in 2010, Chapin and Gliner 

said they were impressed with 

the girls. 

“I was really proud of how 

they did,” Chapin said of Barr 

and Wolk. “Bianca made it on 

three events and she didn’t make 

it to districts last year.” 

Wrestlers go 

to next level 

Five wrestlers from Sammamish 

schools are headed to state after 

strong finishes at the regional 

meets Feb. 13. Skyline’s Danny 

Christianson (152 pounds) and 

Anthony DeMatteo (215 pounds) 

will vie for a top ranking Class 4A 

in Tacoma Feb. 19-20. Eastlake’s 

Trevor McKinnon (160 pounds) 

will join them and Eastside 

Catholic’s Jake Cowin (140 

pounds) and Anthony Roy (152 

pounds) will grapple at the Class 

3A Mat Classic the same days. 

DeMatteo faired best of the five 

at districts. He became the Region 

2 champion after beating 

Redmond’s Tyler Black 8-2 in the 

final round. Christianson placed 

fourth in districts after losing his 

final-round bout 4-3 to Graham- 

Kapowsin’s Dylan Evanger. 

Eastlake’s McKinnon also took 

fourth overall at regionals. He 

eluded a pin but lost 15-6 to Matt 

Dawley, of Graham-Kapowsin, in 

his final match. 

Cowin, an Eastside Catholic 

standout, had a tough championship 

match against Liberty’s 

Wright Noel. He lost 6-1 but took 

second in Region 1 Class 3A 

action. 

Roy nearly got third place, but 

lost 3-2 to O’Dea’s Athan Dumont. 

Roy still captured a spot at state 

with a fourth-place regional finish. 

Four plateau swimmers 

going to state 

Eastlake and Skyline are each 

sending two swimmers to the state 

4A meet in Federal Way Feb. 18-20. 

Eastside Catholic will also have 

swimmers at the state 3A competition. 

In a 2010 district meet that 

coaches said rivaled the speed and 

competition of 2009 Sea-King 4A 

District Championships, Eastlake 

placed sixth overall with 82 points 

and Skyline placed eighth with 72 

points. Inglemoor won the team 

title with 274 points. 

“Six of 12 for team that only 

won two dual meets in the year, 

that’s pretty good,” said Eastlake 

head coach Andy Hay. “I thought 

we had the best relays that we 

could possibly have.” 

But it wasn’t the relays that got 

either school to state. Eastlake’s 

Zach Alleva ensured a state birth 

in the 200-yard individual medley 

when he took third, swimming it 

in 2 minutes, 6.26 seconds. He also 

placed third in the 100-yard breaststroke, 

finishing in 1:04.23. Ryker 

Oldenberg will compete at state in 

the 100-yard butterfly after swimming 

the event in a third-place 

time of 57.56 seconds Feb. 13 at 

See SWIM, Page 19


Swim 


Juanita High School. 

Skyline’s Alex Palumbo and 

David Jett also will compete in 

Federal Way. Palumbo earned a 

spot in the 200- and 500-yard 

freestyle events after placing 

fourth and third, respectively. He 

swam the 200 free in 1:52.38 and 

the 500 free in 4:52.49. 

Jett placed fourth in the 100- 

yard freestyle with a time of 

51.29 seconds. 

Eastside Catholic’s Ethan 

Hallowell won the 100- and 200- 

yard freestyle races in 46.68 seconds 

and 1:42.68 respectively at 

Mary Wayte Pool on Mercer 

Island. He helped the Crusaders 

place eighth overall (58 points) at 

the Sea-King 3A District 

Championships. 

Lindsay Elston named 

Player of the Year 

Eastlake’s Lindsay Elston is 

Washington’s 2009 Gatorade Girls 

Soccer Player of the Year, according 

to a Feb. 11 ESPN RISE 

announcement. The standout 

soccer player, who committed to 

play for Washington in the fall, is 

among 22 players from 21 states 

and Washington, D.C. named 

across the United States. 

She is the second consecutive 

Eastlake student so honored. 

Elston, a 5-foot-8 senior midfielder 

at Eastlake, scored seven 

goals and seven assists in 2009. 

She helped the Wolves earn a 14- 

5-1 record. 

The award highlights players’ 

athletic prowess, but also recognizes 

their high academic standards, 

the press release said. 

Elston maintained a 3.87 GPA. 

This year marks the 25th 

anniversary of the award. Elston 

will be further evaluated for 

consideration to represent her 

sport as the national player of 

the year, according to Gatorade’s 

Player of the Year Web site. 

These top 12 national winners 

will then be scrutinized further, 

when Gatorade and ESPN RISE 

name one male and one female 

athlete Player of the Year. 

KingCo rejects 

Eastside Catholic 

Eastside Catholic High School 

will stay in the Metro League, 

for now, according to the 

school’s athletic director Lance 

Gatter. 

KingCo high school principals 

and athletic directors voted Feb. 

9 to deny Eastside Catholic’s 

application to transfer from the 

Metro 3A Conference to the 

KingCo 3A Conference. It needed 

80 percent “yes” votes out of 

the 38 total voters to make the 

move. 

Conference officials refused 

to release the final tally, but 

Terry Agnew, president of the 

KingCo Athletic Association and 

athletic director at Woodinville, 

said approval wasn’t far off. 

“I can tell you it was close,” 

Agnew said. 

Gatter seemed disappointed, 

but optimistic about the 

Crusaders someday competing 

in KingCo. The school still 

needs to develop and build its 

tennis courts and baseball fields, 

for example, he said. 

“We’ll keep pluggin’ away at 

that,” Gatter said. “This is our 

permanent home. We’re in the 

heart of KingCo Conference and 

we ultimately feel that that’s 

going to be best fit for us.” 

Daily Senior Open 

tickets now on sale 

The United States Golf 

Association announced Feb. 9 

that tickets for daily events at 

the 2010 U.S. Senior Open at 

Sahalee are now on sale. 

Tickets are available for both 

practice- and championshipround 

play, according to a USGA 

press release. Prices range from 

$20 per day for practice rounds 

(Monday-Wednesday) to $45 per 

day for championship rounds on 

Thursday through Sunday. 

Prices include parking and shuttle 

service to the main gate. 

In addition to the daily tickets 

now available, other packages 

remain available, including the 

Fore Pack ($135), the 

Championship Weekly ticket 

($150) and the Trophy Club 

Weekly ticket ($250), the press 

release said. 

Purchase tickets online at 

www.2010ussenioropen.com. 

Scoreboard 

Boys Basketball 

Friday, Feb. 12 

Redmond 59, Eastlake 55 

1 2 3 4 OT1 Final 

Redmond15 21 2 13 8 59 

Eastlake 15 20 14 2 4 55 

Eastlake Scoring: Michael Russo, 22; Dillon 

Pericin, 10; Connor Iraola, 8; Abdu Elkugia, 7; Kyle 

Hansen, 6. 

Skyline 56, Issaquah 48 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Issaquah 6 18 9 15 48 

Skyline 15 11 14 16 56 

Skylien Scoring: Cory Hutsen, 29; Miles 

Edwards, 8; Will Parker, 6; Austin Weige, 5; 

Connor Gacek, 4; Kasen Williams, 4. 

Thursday, Feb. 11 

Eastside Catholic 48, Bishop Blanchet 47 

1 2 3 4 Final 

E. Catholic 7 19 10 12 48 

Blanchet 6 14 15 12 47 

EC Scoring: Joey Schneider, 15; Jake Springfield, 

15; Nile Kramer, 11; Jack McCarthy, 5; Hunter 

Clements, 2. 

Tuesday, Feb. 9 

Garfield 91, Eastlake 80 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Garfield 15 18 33 25 91 

Eastlake 19 15 29 17 80 

Eastlake Scoring: Kyle Hansen, 22; Michael 

Russo, 22; Dillon Pericin, 13; Connor Iraola, 10; 

Justin Lester, 8. 

Seattle Prep 53, Eastside Catholic 32 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Seattle Prep 8 9 25 11 53 

E. Catholic 7 4 10 11 32 

EC Scoring: Jake Springfield, 12; Nile Kramer, 

11; Joey Schreiber, 6; Luke Nelson, 3. 

Skyline 62, Redmond 33 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Skyline 12 13 19 18 62 

Redmond 7 3 6 17 33 

Skyline Scoring: Cory Hutsen, 11; Bryan Cikatz, 

9; Austin Weige, 8; Connor Gacek, 7; Will Parker, 

7. 

Girls Basketball 

Friday, Feb. 12 

Eastlake 58, Redmond 45 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Redmond 7 14 7 17 45 

Eastlake 19 12 11 16 58 

Eastlake Scoring: Alyssa Charlston, 23; Kendra 

Morrison, 12; Annie Borges, 6; Mercedes Bass, 4; 

Lauren Files, 4. 

Issaquah 62, Skyline 55 

1 2 3 4 OT1 Final 

Issaquah 12 10 9 13 18 62 

Skyline 10 4 16 14 11 55 

Skyline Scoring: Haley Smith, 19; Michelle Bretl, 

14; Kassia Fortier, 8; Allie Wyszynski, 7; Lindsey 

Nicholson, 3; Rachel Shim, 3. 

Thursday, Feb. 11 

Bishop Blanchet 53, Eastside Catholic 42 

1 2 3 4 Final 

E. Catholic 12 6 7 17 42 

Blanchet 17 8 12 16 53 

EC Scoring: Sarah Hill, 13; Michaela O’Rourke, 

12; Lauren Johnson, 4; Shelby Newell, 4; Carly 

Webster, 4. 

Wednesday, Feb. 10 

Eastlake 61, Garfield 58 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Garfield 15 9 19 15 58 

Eastlake 22 11 14 14 61 

Eastlake Scoring: Kendra Morrison, 22; Alyssa 

Charlston, 14; Lauren Files, 10; Katy Ainslie, 8; 

Annie Borges, 3. 

Seattle Prep 60, Eastside Catholic 32 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Seattle Prep 13 18 13 16 60 

E. Catholic 8 9 11 4 32 

EC Scoring: Michaela O’Rourke, 16; Sarah Hill, 

7; Lauren Johnson, 3; Alex Johnson, 3; Shannon 

Graves, 2; Megan Drews, 1. 

Redmond 47, Skyline 33 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Skyline 5 9 12 7 33 

Redmond 10 10 14 13 47 

Skyline Scoring: Kassia Fortier, 11; Haley Smith, 

9; Michelle Bretl, 8; Rachel Shim, 4; Christy 

Cofano, 1. 

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the Winter Olympics. 

“Very early on, she would ski 

in a very beautiful way,” Lange 

said. 

Moe-Lange attends a private 

school in Woodinville because 

the demands of training do not 

jibe with the public-school calendar, 

but she will serve as a captain 

for the Skyline cross-country 

team next fall. The skier has also 

run and volunteered as a coach 

with the Issaquah Gliders running 

club. 

Moe-Lange competes with 

Team Alpental Snoqualmie. The 

proximity to Snoqualmie Pass, 

and access to Interstate 90, led 

her family to move to 

Sammamish. 

Nowadays, Moe-Lange competes 

in dozens of events each 

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winter. Throughout December 

and January, she traveled 15,000 

miles to compete in 26 races 

across the United States and 

Canada. 

The competition schedule 

means Moe-Lange spends, 

maybe, a week at home each 

month during the winter. Despite 

the long separations, Lange and 

Jacobsen talk to their daughter 

every day when she travels. 

In the days before the opening 

ceremony, Moe-Lange settled in 

with the Danish team at the 

Olympic Village in Whistler, 

British Columbia — the site of the 

alpine skiing venue. Meanwhile, 

her family worked to score lastminute 

tickets to the Feb. 24 and 

26 skiing events. 

The family had no plans to 

attend the Winter Olympics. A 

coworker offered to help the family 

buy tickets. Acquaintances 

offered a condo as a place for the 

family to stay during the competition. 

“I would normally avoid the 

circus,” Lange said. 

When she takes to the slopes 

at the Winter Olympics, the 

course will be familiar terrain: 

Moe-Lange has raced in Whistler 

before. Although a medal seems 

unlikely, she hopes to place in 

the top 30 during the first run of 

the giant slalom. 

After the Olympics close in 

late February, Moe-Lange will 

start training for the next games 

in Sochi, the Black Sea resort set 

to host the 2014 competition. 

Then the skier will resume her 

off-season routine. For the next 

week, however, she plans to 

savor the experience in Whistler. 

“This has always been a childhood 

dream,” she said. “I didn’t 

know that it would ever happen.” 

Reach reporter Warren Kagarise 

at 392-6434, ext. 234, or wkagarise@isspress.com. 

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Calendar 


Events 

Eastlake High School will 

hold its annual drama club silent 

auction at 6 p.m. Feb. 19 at the 

school. The club will auction off 

items from local retailers. After 

the auction, Eastlake’s improv 

team will put on a free show. 

See the lacrosse version of 

the Apple Cup. University of 

Washington and Washington State 

University lacrosse teams will 

face off at 7 p.m. Feb. 20 at 

Eastside Catholic High School. 

The game will go on, rain or 

shine. 

The P.E.O. Founder’s Day 

Celebration, sponsored by 

Eastside Reciprocity, will be held 

at 10 a.m. Feb. 27 at St. Thomas 

Episcopal Church in Medina. For 

more information and to make a 

reservation, call Lee 

McCoullough at 391-6036 by Feb. 

13. 

Sammamish City 

Councilman John Curley will 

speak to the Sammamish Kiwanis 

during their meeting at 7 a.m. 

Feb. 17 at Sammamish Hills 

Lutheran Church. 

Hope on the Hill Guild will 

hold a fundraiser for Seattle 

Children’s in conjunction with 

Zeke’s Pizza in the Issaquah highlands. 

From 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Feb. 

23, 20 percent of sales will go 

toward uncompensated care at 

the hospital. Customers should 

mention Hope on the Hill Guild. 

Scott Hamilton, former 

member of the Sammamish 

Planning Commission and a wellknown 

aerospace industry analyst 

will speak about the condition 

of the aerospace industry at 

the Sammamish Kiwanis meeting, 

7 a.m. March 3 at 

Sammamish Hills Lutheran 

Church. 

Issaquah Paddle Sports will 

offer kayak tours along the shore 

of Lake Sammamish and up a 

portion of Issaquah Creek. A 

state park ranger will be on hand 

to present an on-the-water program 

about the great blue heron. 

Tours run from 9 a.m.- noon and 

1:30-4:30 p.m. March 7 and 27. 

There is a registration fee of $5 

per person and kayak rentals of 

$10 for a single person and $15 

for a two-person. Pre-registration 

is required. For more information, 

or to register, call 206-527- 

1825. 

Teen late night. the second 

Friday of each month is teen 

night at the 

Redmond/Sammamish Boys and 

Girls Clubs. The club has a DJ, 

dancing, games, Xbox and Wii, 

movies, food and more. An ASB 

or ID card is required for admittance. 

The fee is $6. E-mail 

ahise@positiveplace.org or call 

250-4786 for more information. 

Eastlake High School is 

seeking vendors for its spring 

craft bazaar. The event, to raise 

money for an electronic reader 

Defend yourself 

A self-defense class for women will be held at 7 p.m. 

Feb. 18 at the Sammamish Library. 

board at the school, is scheduled 

for 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. March 20 

at Eastlake. For information 

about becoming a vendor, e-mail 

Liz Sirjani at esirjani@lwsd.org. 

Health 

A class about relief from 

spine pain will discuss surgical 

and non-surgical approaches 

from 6:30-8 p.m. Feb. 22 at 

Overlake Medical Center 

Issaquah, 5708 East Lake 

Sammamish Parkway S.E. Free. 

Pre-registration is required. Call 

688-5269 or visit 

www.OverlakeHospital.org/classes. 

Success with Heart Failure, 

a class to help people and their 

loved ones, after being diagnosed 

with heart disease, is scheduled 

for 1 p.m. March 2 and 9 and 

May 4 and 11 at Evergreen 

Hospital Medical Center. Classes 

cover disease management skills, 

discuss medications and teach 

about low-sodium cooking. 

Individuals may register for one 

or both classes. The cost is $5 per 

class. To register, call 899-3000 or 

visit www.evergreenhospital.org. 

A class dealing with neck 

and shoulder pain is scheduled 

for 6:30-8 p.m. March 9 at 

Overlake Medical Center 

Issaquah, 5708 East Lake 

Sammamish Parkway S.E. Free. 

Pre-registration is required. Call 

688-5269 or visit 

www.OverlakeHospital.org/classes. 

Religious/spiritual 

Sufi meditation class will 

teach meditation, breathing practices 

and prayer in order to seek 

an inner spiritual message from 

7:30-9:30 p.m. Feb. 18, March 4 

and 18 and April 1 and 5 at the 

Fern Life Center, 710 Fifth Ave. in 

Issaquah. 

Ash Wednesday services will 

be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 at 

Sammamish Presbyterian 

Church. 

Divorce recovery, a seminar 

for those going through a divorce 

or trying to move on after a 

divorce is scheduled for Tuesday 

evenings through April 27. 

Childcare by pre-registration 

only. To register call 392-8636 or 

visit www.plcc.org. 

Faith United Methodist 

Church offers “Faith Cafe” for 

women of all ages. The café features 

drop-in coffee time, scrapbooking/stamping, 

mom & baby 

playgroup, quilting/knitting and 

walking group. There will also be 

one-off classes, studies and 

themed days. 9:30 a.m. 

Wednesdays. Call Jo Lucas 837- 

1948. 

Healing Prayer Service. If 

you have a physical, emotional 

or spiritual challenge or if you 

desire to make space for God in a 

peaceful setting, attend the 

Missio Lux Healing Prayer 

Service the fourth Tuesday of 

every month at 7 p.m. at Pine 

Lake Covenant Church, 1715 

228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish. 

The Social Justice Book 

Group meets at 1 p.m. the third 

Monday of each month in 

Sammamish. E-mail shlcministries@yahoo.com 

for information 

on the current book being 

discussed and location. 

Celebrate Recovery, a Christcentered 

program offering support 

and a path to freedom, 

meets every Monday, 7-9 p.m. at 

Pine Lake Covenant Church, 

1715 228th Ave. S.E. For more 

info, go to www.missiolux.org, or 

call 392-8636. 

Griefshare, a support group 

for those who have lost a loved 

one is from 7-9 p.m. Thursday 

nights at Sammamish 

Presbyterian Church. 

Moms In Touch is an interdenominational, 

prayer support 

group for moms to get together 

and pray for children and 

schools. For more information, 

call Jan Domek, Issaquah School 

District representative, at 681- 

6770, or Kelly Wotherspoon, Lake 

Washington School District representative, 

at 392-2291, or visit 

www.MomsInTouch.org. 

Pine Lake Covenant Church 

offers a ministry for children 

with special needs at 10:30 a.m. 

Sundays. Call 392-8636. 

“Caffeine for the Soul,” a 

free Judaic and Torah class for 

women, is from 1-1:45 p.m. every 

Tuesday at Caffé Ladro in 

Issaquah Highlands Shopping 

Center. Contact Chabad of the 

Central Cascades at 427-1654. 

Free Hebrew classes are 

offered through Chabad of the 

Central Cascades. Call 427-1654. 

Kabalat Shabbat is offered in 

the Chabad house at the Issaquah 

Highlands at 7 p.m. Fridays. New 

members and guests are welcome. 

Call 427-1654. 

Learn to read and speak 

Samskritam from 4-6 p.m. at the 

Vedic Cultural Center. To register, 

visit vedicculturalcenter.org. 

Community Bible Study, 

open to all women, meets 

Thursday mornings. To register 

for the current class, or for more 

information, call Nancy Carr at 

868-1630. 

Bhajan Bliss. Join musicians 

and singers to learn traditional 

devotional bhajan, and how to 

make vegetarian pizzas and 

samosas from 7:30-9 p.m. Fridays 

at the Vedic Cultural Center. 

Classes 

Sammamish Presbyterian 

Church is hosting a series of different 

fitness classes, 

Wednesdays and Fridays 6:30- 

7:30 a.m., Tuesdays and 

Thursdays 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 

Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-3 p.m. 

For more information, contact 

Billie Donahue at 785-2880. 

Classes are free and no registration 

is required. 

The Issaquah Sammamish 

Interfaith Coalition is hosting 

English Language Classes at 6 

p.m. Wednesdays at Pine Lake 

Covenant Church. 

Library activities 

Wombat Stew will feature 

Charlie Williams, the Noise Guy, 

performing a puppet show based 

on Marcia Vaughan’s books at 1 

and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 20. 

Hello English! an ESL class 

for beginners is at 10 a.m. 

Tuesdays. 

Talk Time provides conversation 

practice for adults who want 

to improve their language skills. 

Talk Time starts at 7 p.m. Feb. 23. 

Toddler Story Time for ages 

2-3 features fun stories, puppets, 

movement and music. Toddler 

Story Time starts at 10 a.m. Feb. 

17 and 24. 

Preschool Story Time, for 

children ages 3-6, with adult, will 

meet at 10 a.m. Feb. 18 and 25. 

Baby Story Time, for children 

ages 6-12 months, with adult, will 

meet at 11 a.m. Feb. 18 and 25. 

Young Toddler Story Time 

for children age 1-2 years will 

meet at 10 and 11 a.m. Feb. 19 

and 26. 

Preschool Story Time – storybook 

science for children ages 

3-6 with an adult is set for 1 p.m. 

Feb. 19 and 26. Siblings are welcome 

Spanish Story Time, ages 3 

and older with adult, is for 

Spanish speaking families, and 

those who want to learn Spanish 

as a second language. Spanish 

Story Time will meet at 10:30 

a.m. Feb. 20 and 27. Registration 

is not required. 

Pajama Story Time, for ages 

2-6, with adult, will start at 7 p.m. 

Feb. 22. Come in your pajamas 

and enjoy stories, signs, puppets, 

movement and music. Space is 

limited. 

The Sammamish Book 

Group will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 

17 at the Sammamish Library. 

Mother daughter book club 

will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 24. This 

month they will be reading, 

“Each Little Bird That Sings” by 

Debbie Wiles. 

“Move Over Wizards! Make 

Room for Steampunk!” from 7- 

8:30 p.m. Feb. 17. Steampunk 

began with authors Jules Verne 

and H.G. Wells, and now it is 

found in children’s literature, 

graphic novels, magazines, 

movies and fashion. 

Volunteers needed 

This is the year of road 

clean-ups, according to the city 

of Sammamish. The city is beginning 

to coordinate litter cleanups 

on major streets. Sign up 

with an organization, business, 

family or group of friends. Pick a 

date and the city will find a road. 

To sign up e-mail 

dsanders@ci.sammamish.wa.us 

or call 295-0556. 

Evergreen Healthcare is 

seeking volunteers to help serve 

patients throughout King County. 

Volunteers, who will be assigned 

to help people in their own 

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ionship, run errands, do light 

household work, or give a break 

to primary caregivers. Volunteers 

will be supported by hospital 

staff. For more information, call 

899-1040 or visit www.evergreenhealthcare.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 John Stilz at 206- 

694-6747 or johns@solidground.org. 

Eastside Bluebills is a Boeing 

retiree volunteer organization 

that strives to provide opportunities 

for retirees to help others in 

need and to assist charitable and 

nonprofit organizations. Eastside 

Bluebills meet every third 

Wednesday of the month at the 

Bellevue Regional Library from 

10 a.m.-noon. Call 235-3847. 

LINKS, Looking Into the 

Needs of Kids in Schools, 

places community volunteers in 

the schools of the Lake 

Washington School District. 

Opportunities include tutoring, 

classroom assistance and lunch 

buddy. Just one hour a week can 

make a difference in a child’s life. 

For more information, e-mail 

links@lwsd.org or visit 

www.linksvolunteer.org. 

Eastside Baby Corner needs 

volunteers to sort incoming donations 

of clothing and toys and 

prepare items for distribution. Go 

to www.babycorner.org. 

Volunteers are needed to 

visit homebound patrons with 

the King County Library System’s 

Traveling Library Center program. 

Volunteers must be at least 

18 years old and have reliable 

transportation. Call Susan 

LaFantasie at 369-3235. 

Sammamish Citizen Corps 

holds a refresher/advanced training 

class for CERTs on the fourth 

Wednesday of each month from 

7-9 p.m. at Station 82. E-mail 

sammamishcitizencorps@hotmail.com. 

Sammamish Citizen Corps 

Council needs volunteers experienced 

in marketing, Web design, 

building & management, fundraising, 

grant writing, volunteer 

coordination, and recruitment. 

For more information e-mail 

sammamishcitizencorps@hotmail.com 

or join 7-8 p.m. first 

Wednesday of every month at 

Station 82. 

Volunteer drivers are needed 

for the Senior Services 

Volunteer Transportation 

Program. Flexible hours, mileage, 

parking reimbursement and supplemental 

liability insurance are 

offered. Call 206-448-5740. 

Guide Dogs for the Blind 

Eager Eye Guide Pups Club 

needs volunteers to raise puppies 

for use as guide dogs for the 

blind. For information, call Sandy 

at 644-7421. 

Volunteer Chore Services 

links volunteers with seniors or 

individuals who are disabled and 

are living on a limited income. 

Call 284-2240. 

Clubs, groups 

A support group for caregivers 

of people with 

Alzheimer’s meets in Issaquah. 

The group is designed to let caregivers 

gain emotional support, 

learn and share their experiences. 

The free group meets 

from 6-7:30 p.m. the second 

Thursday of each month at Faith 

United Methodist Church, 3924 

Issaquah Pine Lake Road S.E. Call 

313-7364. 

The Rotary Club of 

Sammamish meets every 

Thursday at 7:15 a.m. at the 

Bellewood Retirement 

Apartments, 3710 Providence 

Point Drive S.E. Visit www.sammamishrotary.org. 

The Sammamish Fit Club, a 

club looking to improve the 

health of the community, meets 

from 7:30-8 p.m. Wednesdays. For 

location and more information, 

call Trish at 206-605-0679 or send 

an e-mail to whyweight@comcast.net. 

Cascade Republican 

Women’s Club meets at 11:30 

a.m. the third Wednesday of the 

month at the Plateau Club, 25625 

E. Plateau Drive. Call 788-2028. 

Sammamish Plateau Parent 

Networking Group meets normally 

the last Monday of the 

month at Sahalee Fire Station 

#82, 1851 228th Ave. N.E. Call 

868-2111. 

Redmond Toddler Group, a 

parent-child program with art, 

music, play and parent education 

has openings in pre-toddler, toddler 

and family classes. Call 869- 

5605 or visit www.redmondtoddler.org. 

Moms Club of the 

Sammamish Plateau has activities 

including weekly, age specific 

playgroups and monthly meetings, 

coffee mornings, mom’s 

nights out, craft club and local 

area outings. Visit www.momsclubsammamish.org 

or call 836 

5015. 

Tax Tips 

From the professionals 

Electronically filing and using direct deposit 

for your tax return significantly increases 

how quickly taxpayers have access to their 

refund. Generally, e-filers can have their 

refund deposited directly into their 

accounts within a few days, compared to 

the weeks it takes to receive a mailed check. 

Most tax professionals can help your e-file 

and can show you how to split your refund 

and deposit it into three separate accounts. 

For example, you could deposit part in your 

checking account, part in your savings 

account and part directly into a taxadvantaged 

IRA account. 

Foster Parent Support 

Group meets the last Thursday 

of each month from 6-8 p.m. at 

Mary, Queen of Peace Parish, 

1121 228th Ave. S.E. Earn your 

training/foster parent hours. 

Refreshments and child care are 

provided. Call 206-719-8764. 

The Eastside Welcome Club 

meets the first Wednesday of the 

month at 10 a.m. in members’ 

homes and on various days of the 

month for other activities and 

outings. 

People who are new to the 

area and want to meet new people 

and join in different interest 

and social groups, can call Terri 

at 641-8341. 

Sammamish Kiwanis meets 

every Wednesday at 7 a.m. at 

Sammamish Hills Lutheran 

Church, 22818 S.E. Eighth St. 

Visit www.sammamishkiwanis.org. 

Toastmasters of Sammamish 

meet from 7:15–8:45 p.m. every 

Tuesday at Mary, Queen of Peace 

Parish, 1121 228th Ave. S.E. Call 

373-6311 or e-mail davidlloydhall@live.com. 

The General Federation of 

Women’s Clubs local chapter, 

Cascade Woman’s Club, meets at 

7 p.m. the second Wednesday of 

each month in members’ homes. 

Membership is open to all 

women who would like to be a 

part of one of the oldest and 

largest women’s organizations 

whose members are dedicated to 

community improvement 

through volunteer service. Call 

898-8603. 

Sammamish Garden Club 

meets the second Tuesday of the 

month at 9:30 a.m. in the homes 

of members. Visitors and new 

members are always welcome. 

Call Cathy at 836-0421 or e-mail 

CathyWebst@aol.com. 

The Pine Lake Garden Club 

meets the second Wednesday of 

the month, plus occasional meetings 

for workshops and taking 

local field trips together. Their 

yearly plant sale is a fundraiser 

for “green-related” projects and 

charities. Call 836-7810. 

To submit items for the 

Community Calendar, contact the 

editor at 392-6434, ext. 233. 

Information may be e-mailed to 

samrev@isspress.com or mailed to 

the Sammamish Review, P.O. Box 

1328, Issaquah, WA 98027. 

Items must be received by the 

Wednesday before publication. 

February Special 

Two Weeks of Classes For 

Includes a FREE Uniform. 

Sign up for any program in February 

and we will waive the registration fee 

a $130 value! Not valid with any other offers.

22 • FebrUAry 17, 2010 

SAMMAMISH REVIEW 

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210-Legal Notices 

02-1785 LEGAL NOTICE 

CITY OF SAMMAMISH 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC 

HEARING 

CITY OF SAMMAMISH CITY 

COUNCIL 

Proposed Changes to 

Sammamish Municipal Code 

(SMC) 

Notice is hereby given under 

SMC 24.25.160 that the City of 

Sammamish City Council will 

hold a public hearing regarding 

proposed changes to the 

Sammamish Municipal Code. 

SUMMARY of AMEND- 

MENTS: SMC 21A.25 governs 

the setbacks, allowed 

modifications to setbacks, and 

provides for some projections 

into required setbacks. The 

proposed code amendment 

will allow additional flexibility 

for the Director of Community 

Development to administratively 

allow for reduction of 

street and interior setbacks. 

The administrative adjustment 

of setbacks would allow subdivisions 

that are not otherwise 

vested to the current setbacks, 

to take advantage of the City’s 

recently adopted interior setbacks. 

HEARING SCHEDULE: The 

City of Sammamish City Council 

will hold a Public Hearing 

on February 16, 2010, as part 

of the regular meeting beginning 

at the City of Sammamish 

City Hall, located at 801 - 

228th Ave. SE, Sammamish. 

The Public Hearing will be 

continued to March 2, 2010. 

DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: 

A copy of the draft amendments 

may be obtained by visiting 

the City’s website at 

www.ci.sammamish.wa.us or 

by contacting City of Sammamish, 

contact name and 

address listed below. 

CITY CONTACT AND PUB- 

LIC COMMENTS SUBMIT- 

TED TO: Evan Maxim, Community 

Development, Sammamish 

City Hall, 801-228th 

Ave SE, Sammamish, WA 

98075, phone: (425) 295- 

0523, email: emaxim@ci.sammamish.wa.us. 

Published in Sammamish 

Review on 2/17/10 

210-Legal Notices 

02-1786 LEGAL NOTICE 

CITY OF SAMMAMISH 

NOTICE OF APPLICATION 

Short Plat Vacation 

Tosti 2-lot Short Plat 

Vacation - PLN2010-00002 

Project Description: The applicant 

is proposing to vacate 

a previously recorded 2-lot 

short plat for residential development. 

The subject site is 

currently developed with one 

single family home. The property 

is zoned R-8. 

The applicant (Jim Tosti) is requesting 

vacation of a 2-lot 

short plat recorded 01/30/03 to 

resolve issues with the water 

and sewer district prior to completing 

development of the 

preliminary plat that was approved 

on the same property 

4/18/08 for a 30-lot subdivision 

(PLN2006-00088). Following a 

review to confirm that a complete 

application had been received, 

the City issued a letter 

of completion on February 9, 

2010. On February 16, 2010, 

the City issued this Notice of 

Application by the following 

means: mailed notice to property 

owners within 500 feet of 

the subject site, a sign posted 

on the subject site, and by 

placing a legal notice in the local 

newspaper. 

Applicant: Jim Tosti, Windward 

Real Estate Services 

Public Comment Period: 

February 16, 2010 through 

HOME 

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425-591-6568 

Interior/Exterior 

Commercial/Residential 

Lic#WILSOQH963NB 

Washington State Construction 

Contractor law requires that 

all advertisers for construction 

related services include the 

contractor registration number. 

Landscape Design, 

Construction 

& Maintenance 

Irrigation • Drainage • Lighting 

Rockery • Patios and Walkways 

Dozer and Loader Work 

Trenching & Spreading 

Grading & Land Clearing 

Excavating! 

All Green 

Landscaping 

FREE ESTIMATES 

425.413.8433 

March 9, 2010 

Project Location: 4617 Issaquah-Pine 

Lake Road, Sammamish 

Tax Parcel Numbers: 

1524069088 & 1524069040 

Existing Documents: Site 

Plan (indicating lot lines to be 

removed) by Group Four Inc. 

dated 01/08/10. 

Other Permits Included: N/A 

SEPA Review: Based on the 

submitted application and 

available information, this application 

is exempt from SEPA 

under Part Nine-Categorical 

Exemptions WAC 197-11- 

800(6)(a). 

Staff Member Assigned: 

Mona Davis, Senior Planner, 

206.818.8545 

Licensed & Insured • Lic#ALLGRGL9645JA 

Lic#ALLGRGL9645JA 

(425) 295-0529 

mdavis@ci.sammamish.wa.us 

Interested persons are invited 

to submit written comments 

pertaining to the application 

determination no later than 

5:00 p.m. on the last day of 

the comment period identified 

above at Sammamish City 

Hall. Inquiries regarding the 

application, comment period, 

decision and appeal process, 

as well as requests to view 

documents pertinent to the 

proposal, may be made at the 

City of Sammamish, 801 – 

228th Avenue SE, Sammamish, 

Washington 98075 (Tel: 

425.295.0500) during normal 

business hours Monday 

through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 

5:00 p.m. 

Note: Mediation of disputes is 

available pursuant to SMC 

20.20. Requests for mediation 

should be made as soon as it 

is determined the disputed issue(s) 

cannot be resolved by 

direct negotiation. Please 

contact the Department of 

Community Development for 

additional information on the 

Land Use Mediation Program. 

Published in Sammamish 

Review on 2/17/10 

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Expires 4/30/10 

Jonathan Levey, DDS 

Family & Cosmetic Dentistry and Preventative Care 

Pine Lake Dental Medical Center 

22725 S.E. 29th Street • Bldg. B Sammamish 

www.jonathanlevey.com 

(425) 391-5511 

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Klahanie Center Veterinary Hospital 

4582 Klahanie Drive SE Issaquah, WA 98029 • (425) 392-3110

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