Council approves new annexation - Sammamish Review

January, 13, 2010 

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Council approves 

new annexation 

By J.B. Wogan 

In spite of some initial heartburn, 

the City Council opted to 

go ahead with annexing the 

Marivaux neighborhood. 

The council voted 7-0 in 

favor of sending the annexation 

request to King County’s 

Boundary Review Board. 

Marivaux, sometimes called 

Ravenhill, is about 6.46 acres on 

the east side of Sammamish 

with 21 lots and about 64 people. 

Community Development 

Director Kamuron Gurol has 

projected that the neighbor- 

See ANNEX, Page 2 

Photo by J.B. Wogan 

The new City Council was sworn in Jan. 5. From left are Mark Cross, Nancy Whitten, Don Gerend, 

Michele Petitti, Tom Odell, John Curley and John James. 

Two more years: Don Gerend 

retained as Sammamish mayor 

By J.B. Wogan 

In an uncontested 7-0 vote, the 

City Council appointed 

Councilman Don Gerend to be 

Sammamish mayor for another 

term. 

Gerend was the only person to 

volunteer himself for the position. 

He was mayor in 2009, 

2004, and for one week in 2003. 

He has been on the council since 

1999 and is the only remaining 

member of the original City 

Council. 

Gerend, 69, works part time in 

real estate asset and property 

management. He is a former 

rocket scientist for Boeing and a 

former professor of astronomy 

and physics at Seattle University. 

For the first time in city history, 

the council appointed a twoyear 

term mayor. The council 

had been out of compliance with 

state law since the city incorporated 

in 1999. Troy Romero was 

mayor in 2000 and 2001, but both 

were one-year appointments. 

Gerend’s term ends Dec. 31, 2011. 

The appointment of deputy 

mayor was only slightly more 

contentious. 

Councilman Tom Odell nominated 

Councilwoman Nancy 

Whitten for the position. The 

council voted 6-1 in favor of 

Whitten, with Councilman John 

James dissenting. Whitten has 

never served as mayor or deputy 

mayor, in spite of being on the 

council for six years. 

Council members serve oneyear 

terms as deputy mayors, in 

keeping with the council’s intention 

to provide leadership opportunities 

to everyone. 

James said he voted against 

Whitten because he thought 

becoming deputy mayor would 

position her for a chance at 

mayor. 

“I’m just letting Nancy know 

in a subtle way that I’m hoping 

she’s not the person I’m rooting 

for (to become mayor),” James said. 

Before being nominated to her 

new leadership status, Whitten 

asked City Attorney Bruce 

Disend what would happen if a 

mayor left office early. Would a 

deputy mayor take over for the 

remainder of the previous 

mayor’s term or for a full twoyear 

term 

Disend said the council had 

the power to decide what would 

be proper protocol in replacing a 

mayor in mid-term. He added 

that normally, “the person who 

fills that position, fills the 

remainder of the term.” 

Later in the evening, 

Councilmen John Curley and 

John James both joked about 

what Whitten’s question implied 

— that Gerend’s health might be 

in question. Gerend laughed and 

shrugged off the teasing. Gerend 

gave no indication that he intended 

to leave office early. 

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. 

Contributed 

Yanina makes brownies, which became a favorite breakfast 

food during her stay in America. 

Family helps children 

from Chernobyl 

By J.B. Wogan 

When the Rileys picked up 

12-year-old Yanina from Sea- 

Tac airport, she was skinny, 

pale in complexion, deadly 

serious and only spoke in 

Belarusan. This is what Jen 

Riley, the matriarch of Yanina’s 

host family in Sammamish, 

remembers of that summer 

day in 2008. 

“We did a lot of hand signals,” 

Jen said. 

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Annex 

Continued from Page 1 

File Photo 

Virginia Kuhn stands in front of the Freed House, a rallying point 

for historic preservation activists in Sammamish. 

Heritage Society sees 

a chance to renew 

By J.B. Wogan 

The first meeting was modest 

in size and the first agenda was 

small in scope, but that didn’t 

seem to matter to Virginia Kuhn. 

“It’s kind of a rebirth now,” 

said Kuhn, copresident 

of 

the 

Sammamish 

Heritage 

Society. The 

society is a 

nonprofit 

group that 

works to preserve 

and celebrate Sammamish 

history. Last year Kuhn and copresident 

Helen Baxter made 

impassioned pleas to the City 

Council not to cut funding for the 

Freed House, a historic farmstead 

home on 212th Avenue 

“It’s kind of a rebirth 

now.” 

– Virginia Kuhn, 

Sammamish Historical 

Society – 

Southeast. After learning that the 

relocation and rehabilitation of 

the house would cost more than 

$730,000, the council decided to 

leave it in limbo. 

Kuhn said the society, which 

had dwindled to a handful of 

part-time volunteers, 

was discouraged 

and 

burnt out after 

the Freed 

House decision. 

But in 

December the 

council gave 

the society a 

break — it offered to find $5,000 

in the city’s budget to fund historic 

preservation efforts. 

Riding a new wave of momentum, 

the society held its first 

See HERITAGE, Page 5 

hood would join Sammamish 

by March or April. 

During his presentation, 

Gurol pulled up a map on the 

council chamber projector 

that showed the long horizontal 

strip of houses as a nook 

nestled between the eastern 

edge of the city and Soaring 

Eagle Park. 

“You would guess it was 

already a part of the city the 

way it’s laid out there,” he 

observed. 

Gurol informed the council 

Oct. 20, 2009 that the neighborhood 

was likely to cost 

Sammamish $4,000 annually. 

Councilman John James 

was taken aback and asked if 

the council had ever annexed 

a neighborhood at a net negative 

before. 

The council passed its first 

two annexations in 2009, 

increasing in size by 117.7 

acres and in population by 390 

residents. In both cases, the 

added property tax revenue 

outweighed the cost of providing 

services to the area. 

Odell said he was afraid of 

setting a precedent by annexing 

the Marivaux neighborhood 

at a net negative and 

being cornered into accepting 

bigger neighborhoods at bigger 

financial losses in the future. 

“I’m a little concerned that 

we don’t get ourselves partially 

pregnant here by an action 

we may want to think about,” 

Odell said. 

Charlie Goodrich, a resident 

of Northeast Second 

Street, cautioned against 

annexing the neighborhood. 

“It’s an investment and an 

Map by Dona Mokin 

The new neighborhood is known both as Marivaux and 

Ravenhill. 

investment should be a positive 

business case,” he said. 

Councilwoman Michele Petitti 

wasn’t fazed by 

the concerns 

raised by 

James, Odell 

and Goodrich. 

“At this 

point, we’ve 

talked about 

this three 

times. I’m comfortable 

taking 

them into the city. It’s a small 

area,” Petitti said. “They’re part of 

the city and I think we want to 

bring them in.” 

Councilwoman Nancy Whitten 

agreed with Petitti, calling the 

$4,000 cost “insignificant.” 

“You would guess it was 

already a part of the city 

the way it’s laid out 

there.” 

– Kamuron Gurol, 

Development director – 

this,” he said. 

Councilman John Curley 

appealed to residents’ business 

sense. He said the city would 

eventually collect 

taxes when 

homes turned 

over in the 

neighborhood. 

“I think we’ll 

do well when 

they sell their 

homes. I think 

we should go 

ahead with 






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SAMMAMISH REVIEW January, 13, 2010 • 3 

Council supports school districts’ bond and levies 

By J.B. Wogan 

The City Council passed two resolutions 

Jan. 5 endorsing a set of levies and 

one bond being proposed by the Issaquah 

and Lake Washington school districts for 

the Feb. 9 special election. 

Councilman John Curley argued that 

passing the levies and bond would directly 

benefit Sammamish residents’ property 

values. 

“If you don’t have a child in a school, 

but you’re a homeowner, this is an investment 

in your property,” he said. “It’s just 

smart. Even if you don’t have a child, 

please vote for the levy.” 

Councilman Mark Cross pointed out 

that endorsing the districts’ bond and 

levies was one of the few ways the council 

could influence education policy in 

Sammamish. He added that the city’s 

school districts are a major factor in 

attracting new residents to the area. 

“People move here because of the 

school districts,” he said. 

City Manager Ben Yazici, who does not 

have a vote on the council, indicated that 

he was in favor of the resolutions, too. 

“When the levies fail, when the quality 

of education drops, communities pay,” he 

said. 

The council endorsed the three 

Issaquah School District levies 7-0. 

The Lake Washington School District 

has two levies and one bond on the 

February ballot. 

The council endorsed the Lake 

Washington School District bond and 

See BOND, Page 5 

Children 


A photo documenting the 

occasion shows Yanina in front of 

baggage claim, clutching a teddy 

bear and forcing a toothless 

smile. 

Two months later, Yanina was 

the girl who loved chocolate 

brownies for breakfast and ate 

fresh fruit without complaint. 

She was tan, rosy-cheeked, outgoing 

and still only spoke in 

Belarusan. 

“It was so hard to send her 

home,” Jen said. 

Yanina hails from the Gomel 

region of Belarus and while she 

wasn’t alive in 1986 when an 

explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear 

power station expelled more 

than eight tons of radioactive 

material into the atmosphere, she 

lives amid its aftermath. Basic 

food products such as milk are 

said to be radioactive and a slate 

of typical edibles are off-limits to 

children like Yanina, according to 

Jen Riley. 

“They’re always in fear,” Jen 

said. 

During her time living in 

Sammamish, Yanina visited the 

Oregon coast, her first time seeing 

ocean. She flew kites, went 

horseback riding, roasted s’mores 

and road bicycles. By the end of 

her stay, she was part of the family, 

along with the Rileys’ two 

daughters, two golden retrievers 

and one cat. 

Two years later Jen Riley is 

trying to rally more host families 

to give children like Yanina a 

chance to live outside her native 

country for a while. The hosting 

is conducted through an organization 

called For the Children of 

the World, a Washington-based 

nonprofit that provides humanitarian 

aid to the victims of the 

Chernobyl disaster. 

The program has about 25 

children from the Ukraine looking 

for host families in 2009, but 

only about 12 families have volunteered 

thus far, according to 

Mike Hlavaty-LaPosa, president 

of For the Children of the World. 

In the past the program had 

about 65 host families for about 

85 children, he said. 

The program is transitioning 

from hosting children from 

Belarus to children from the 

Ukraine. The mission is still the 

same though: Provide a health 

respite for youths living in the 

radiation-rich lands near 

Chernobyl. Children are scheduled 

to stay from late June 

through the first week in August. 

Hlavaty-LaPosa, who has hosted 

two children from Belarus, 

said there isn’t a prescribed 

health improvement plan during 

the children’s stay, but rough 

gauges show that the program 

works. The children often start 

out with a higher incidence of 

cavities and are smaller in height 

and weight than their American 

counterparts, he said. 

Babara Houplin Garcia, a 

board member with For the 

Children of the World, has hosted 

seven times and has observed 

some of the same health 

improvements. 

“Really, the fresh air these kids 

get from staying here helps flush 

out their system,” she said. Many 

of her children arrived solemn, 

languid, and with thyroid problems; 

by the end of their stays, 

they were happier and more 

energetic, she said. 

Jen Riley said Yanina was 

more social and relaxed by the 

end of her time in Sammamish. 

Yanina also gained about 10 

pounds. 

The cost of hosting is about 

$1,500, which covers travel 

expenses and the child’s visa. 

In addition to footing that initial 

bill, prospective host families 

Spent over 18 hours choosing 

the crib she’ll use for about 3 years 

should be ready to be flexible and 

affectionate, according to 

Hlavaty-LaPosa. 

“You have to have the desire 

and the ability to treat the child 

just like one of your own kids,” 

he said. 

The organization is looking for 

host families to step forward by 

mid-February at the latest. To 

inquire about hosting, e-mail 

Janet Hlavaty-LaPosa at 

jlhl@aol.com, or go to www.forworldschildren.org. 






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OPINION 


Review editorial 

Drop developer talks 

until market is ready 

A group of property owners led by John Galvin 

has asked for a change to the just finished Town 

Center plan and threatens to re-open debate about 

density in Town Center. 

City leaders should take a deep breath before 

starting the discussion, and then drop it. 

Mayor Don Gerend suggested that more density 

in Town Center might be the way to go because that 

seems to be what developers want right now. He 

fears the Town Center Plan as written will sit on a 

shelf gathering dust. 

There is no reason to change a plan that took 

years to develop (and already rejected Galvin’s proposal) 

not long after its adoption. 

Changing a Comprehensive Plan to suit the 

desires of a developer is bad urban planning. The 

city shouldn’t reject the proposal outright either, but 

now is not the time. 

Comprehensive Plans can take decades to be 

built. The empty storefronts and houses that dot the 

landscape are a testament to what happens when 

development occurs too rapidly. In normal times — 

which these are not — development comes slowly 

and in steps. 

Someday builders will see a way to make a profit 

by putting up an office building, bringing that part of 

the Town Center plan into reality. A few years later, 

condos will be the hot commodity, and then the new 

condo residents will demand services and retail. 

Eventually, the entire plan is complete — but not 

until the market is ready. In the end, Sammamish 

residents get the city they envisioned and developers 

will get their profits. 

The mistake comes in trying to rush the process. 

When city leaders adjust a plan to suit the whims of 

the real estate market just to get something started, 

the plan is in danger of falling apart. The carefully 

constructed process that balanced state-mandated 

development, community concerns and environmental 

regulations is in danger of spinning out of 

control. 

Eleven years ago, Sammamish residents voted to 

incorporate in order to wrest control of run-amuck 

development from a far away county government. 

We don’t think they did that just to end up handing 

that control over to the developer du jour. 

Poll of the week 

How should the state close the budget gap 

A) Cut spending, no matter what it means to services. 

B) We cut too much last year. It’s time for a tax hike. 

C) A combination of cuts and taxes. 

D) Go to a different state and try to hit the lottery. 

To vote, visit www.SammamishReview.com. 

Sammamish Forum 

Town Center 

change needed 

Years ago, in pursuit of their 

retirement dream, many people purchased 

land site unseen in Florida. 

The sales pitch painted a picture of 

a community with beautiful streets, 

parks, and all the amenities of the 

good life. 

However, when people visited 

Florida they discovered their land 

was in the middle of a swamp. 

An inquiry at the local county 

office revealed that the county 

had no plan to build the infrastructure 

needed to develop their 

land. 

Perhaps, in 20 to 30 years, the 

swamp might be drained, roads 

built, utilities extended, but by 

then, most landowners would be 

dead. 

The Sammamish Town Center 

Plan is a Florida land scam. The 

plan locates the majority of development 

west of 228th in “the middle of 

a Florida swamp” where no infrastructure 

exists. 

Sammamish has no money to 

develop the necessary infrastructure 

and developers can’t do it either. 

Perhaps, in 20 to 30 years, roads will 

be built and utilities extended and 

development made possible. 

East of 228th, disregarding common 

sense and smart growth principles, 

the Town Center Plan allocates 

insufficient development to areas 

where infrastructure exists and 

development is possible. 

Simply stated, the Town Center 

Plan prevents development by making 

it economically impossible. 

Landowners in the southeast 

quadrant of the Town Center, 

between Eastside Catholic and 

Skyline High Schools, have assembled 

20 acres. 

Currently, this 20 acres has five 

old homes and millions of dollars of 

under-utilized infrastructure. 

At considerable cost, landowners 

hired planners, engineers, environmental 

experts and market 

researchers to put together an economically 

realistic and environmentally 

responsible plan that motivates 

developers to invest and build a 

pedestrian friendly, mixed-use 

development with open space, 

trails, and affordable housing. 

Checkout www.sammamishtowncenter.com 

Contrary to newspaper 

reports, the SE Quadrant Plan 

does not request an increase of 

commercial development 

beyond what is planned for the 

Town Center. 

Our proposal requests that commercial 

square footage be allocated 

to where infrastructure exists, 

land assembled and development 

is possible now, not 20 or 30 years 

from now. 

Without changes the Town 

Center Plan is a $2 million taxpayer 

investment in a Florida land 

scam. 

John Galvin 

The writer is one of the property 

owners in the southeast quadrant. 

Leave the park for 

Klahanie 

The attempt by the city of 

Sammamish to annex Klahanie 

Park is very much a land grabbing 

effort on their part at the 

expense of the residents of the 

community that immediately 

surrounds the park. Some 

items of concern: 

◆ Klahanie Park is a neighborhood 

park, conceived and built as 

an “open space” and bordered by 

homes and living space. 

A sports complex park as 

the one Sammamish is 

rumored to want to develop 

should never be placed in such 

a location because it is 

extremely disruptive to the 

local community (noise, light 

pollution, traffic, etc). 

◆ “Upgrading” the current park 

to the rumored one with artificial 

turf, night lighting, locked fences, 

bleachers, controlled access, fees, 

a thru road, etc. is no upgrade at 

all. 

It is a disservice to the local 

community. 

◆ The 64-acre park (mostly 

pristine wetland containing the 

10,000 year old Queens Bog) is not 

located within Sammamish. 

◆ Klahanie Park was built by 

Klahanie’s developer (including 

grass fields, restrooms, parking, 

and trails) and given to King 

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County in good faith. 

◆ Sammamish planned to build a 

similar sports facility at Beaver Lake 

Park but they scaled it back after 

resident objected. They are now 

attempting to “export” the problem 

to Klahanie. 

◆ Sammamish’s suggestion that a 

Parks Commission position be made 

available to a non-resident has a hollow 

sound. 

This would provide no assurance 

that we would be heard or fairly represented. 

◆ It would be appropriate for the 

park to be annexed together with 

the community that surrounds it, to 

the city we ultimately become a part 

of (hopefully Issaquah), where we 

would have meaningful representation. 

◆ There are clearly other means 

to finance Klahanie Park operations 

until such time. King County is shuttering 

no parks in 2010 and 

Sammamish is not coming to the 

rescue! 

We are pleased to continue sharing 

this open space with all who 

come to the park, but the 10,000 

King County residents of Klahanie 

will be ill-served by Sammamish’s 

plans to build and control a one 

dimensional sports complex within 

our community. 

David Crowther 

Issaquah 

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levies 6-0, with Councilman Tom 

Odell recusing himself because 

his wife works as a teacher in the 

district. 

King County Elections is 

scheduled to mail out voter pamphlets 

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Heritage 


monthly meeting at the Pine 

Lake Community Center Jan. 6. 

Kuhn said the group discussed 

fundraising, business sponsorships, 

creating a Sammamish history 

calendar and selling copies 

of archived photos at the 

Sammamish Farmers Market. 

Kuhn said she would like to 

see the society put together a 

book with archived photos and 

information of landmarks in 

Sammamish, but the idea hasn’t 

gained traction yet. 

The first concrete objective 

for the society will be organizing 

its archived historic objects and 

photos, she said. 

The society is scheduled to 

meet again at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at 

the Pine Lake Community 

Center. For more information 

about the society, go to 

www.iinet.com/~shs/. Contact 

the society at sammamishheritage@msn.com. 





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Both school districts seek levy funds for operations 

Lake Washington School District 

seeks $217.9 million for educational 

programs and operations levy 

By Ari Cetron 

Lake Washington voters will 

have a chance to decide on two 

levies and one bond measure 

on the Feb. 9 ballot. 

The largest item is the educational 

programs and operations 

levy, which would raise 

an estimated $217.9 million 

over four years, beginning in 

2011. 

This would renew an existing 

levy that pays for approximately 

19 percent of the Lake 

Washington district’s budget. 

It pays for the purchase of 

new textbooks, teacher training 

and student activities. 

It also helps fund time for 

teacher planning, safety and 

security and transportation. 

The levy amount, according 

to district officials, is the equivalent 

of 612 teachers in the first 

of the levy’s four years. 

“EP&O is absolutely critical 

to our survival,” Kimball said at 

an Oct. 7 community input session 

at Eastlake High School. “If 

this is not renewed, then the 

cuts … would be five times 

what we experienced last year.” 

The Lake Washington 

Schools opted not to take 

advantage of a possible change 

at the state that could allow 

them to ask voters for even 

more money. 

State officials are considering 

increasing the amount that 

local districts can tax through a 

local levy. 

But district officials chose 

not to incorporate the amount 

into this levy for fear that the 

amount would be too high for 

voters to stomach. 

“If that does happen, we 

would go back to our public,” 

said Kathryn Reith, spokeswoman 

for the Lake Washington 

School District. 

The other levy on the ballot 

is an $83 million Capital 

Projects levy. 

The district is also proposing 

a $234 million bond. 

If approved, all three measures, 

plus existing bonds 

would mean homeowners will 

see a tax rate of $3.13 per 

$1,000 of assessed value starting 

in 2011, for the school portion 

of their tax bill. 

This translates to a roughly 

$170 increase over 2010 taxes. 

Ballots for the Feb. 9 election 

are expected to reach homes 

Jan. 19. 

School funding 101 

School bonds and levies allow a district 

to tax a fixed dollar amount annually. 

The amount districts collect in these 

taxes does not change based on changes 

to property values — the tax rate 

changes. 

If property values go up, the district 

doesn’t get more money — the tax rate 

goes down. 

Conversely, if values go down, the 

tax rate goes up. 

The amount people pay stays roughly 

the same. 

Bond: Bonds are sold to buy land, 

build or renovate schools. Typically, 

bonds are paid back via property taxes 

over a 20-year spread. 

Levy: A levy is a two- or four-year 

tax assessment to cover specific operating 

costs not funded by the state. 

On the Web 

◆ Levy information for the Issaquah 

School District is at 

www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/levy 

for the Lake Washington schools, visit 

www.lwsd.org/News/Levy-and-Bond- 

Information/Pages/default.aspx. 

◆ Volunteers for Issaquah Schools: 

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Schools: www.vote4lwsdkids.org 

Why not state funds 

The state’s paramount duty is to 

fund education. However, districts 

aren’t funded adequately to support 

education, according to research. 

To help provide all that is necessary 

in a students’ education, like 

technology — which is not included 

in the state’s definition of education 

— the state allows districts 

to ask communities to increase 

their taxes via levies. 

Issaquah School District asks for 

$172.5 million for mainteinance 

and operations levy 

By Chantelle Lusebrink 

Issaquah School District 

has three levy requests 

before voters Feb. 9, each a 

replacement levy that would 

supplement the schools’ 

budget with more than $214 

million by 2014 if voters 

approve it. 

A $172.5 million maintenance 

and operations levy is 

the largest. 

The others are a $1.7 

million transportation 

levy and a $40.4 million 

technology and critical 

repairs levy. 

For taxpayers, the total 

estimated tax for all three 

levies and the remainder 

of the 2006 construction 

bond next year would be 

$4.81 per $1,000 of 

assessed valuation beginning 

in 2011. 

The maintenance and 

operations levy covers the 

state’s shortfall for special 

education, teacher salaries, 

highly capable learners, 

English language learners, 

Advanced Placement and 

honors courses, extracurricular 

activities and fuel for 

buses. 

“The maintenance and 

operations levy is the only 

way the state allows the 

local community to directly 

contribute to the operating 

budget of the school district,” 

said Sara Niegowski, 

district communications 

director. “Without the M&O 

levy, we would see a 20 percent 

decrease in our operating 

budget. That means 

everything that goes into the 

classroom, that means 

salary, that means everything 

that goes directly into 

the day-to-day operations 

budget.” 

Broken down, the 

money taxpayers give the 

district through the levy 

equals 360 teachers or 

425 positions for custodians, 

bus drivers and educational 

assistants. 

The $172.5 million 

maintenance and operations 

levy request is an 

increase from the district’s 

original proposal of 

$155.5 million. 

School board members 

approved the increase Dec. 9 

in anticipation of the 

Legislature’s possible 

approval of an increase in 

the school levy lid, the 

amount allowed by law. 

If the Legislature doesn’t 

approve a levy lid lift, district 

officials will only collect 

the original $155.5 million 

requested. 

Reach reporter Chantelle 

Lusebrink at 392-6434, ext. 

241, or 

clusebrink@isspress.com. 

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County seeks input 

on wood rule 

The King County Department 

of Natural Resources and Parks is 

seeking comment on a proposed 

rule which would govern the way 

they place large wooden objects 

in rivers. The County Council 

last year adopted an ordinance 

directing the department to consider 

recreational safety when 

placing large wooden objects in 

an effort to enhance wildlife 

habitat. The proposed rule would 

govern the way the department 

will fulfill that directive and also 

how to accept public comment 

on such projects. 

To review the proposal, visit 

www.kingcounty.gov/environment/watersheds/general-informa- 

tion/large-wood.aspx. 

The department will hold a 

public hearing in Issaquah from 

10 a.m.-noon Jan. 25 at the 

Library Services Center 960 

Newport Way in Issaquah. It will 

hold another hearing from 6-8 

p.m. Jan. 28 at the Mercer View 

Community Center, 8236 S.E. 

24th St., Mercer Island. 

E-mail written comments to 

cathy.jimenez@kingcounty.gov 

by 5 p.m. Feb. 19. 

After considering public comments, 

the rule can be made official 

by the department director. 

Comment on state 

transportation plan 

State Department of 

Transportation officials want residents’ 

comments about a key 

state transportation plan. 

Officials will update the State 

Management Plan — approved in 

March 2008 — to apply several 

technical corrections and program 

amendments. Review the 

draft plan on the Web at 

www.wsdot.wa.gov/transit. 

See COMMENT, Page 10 

wheel 

and 

motor


Late applicants 

don’t get review 

By J.B. Wogan 

People who applied late for 

seats on Sammamish’s citizen 

advisory boards won’t get interviews 

this year. 

Positions for 2010 were open 

for the Arts and Planning commissions. 

The council has yet to 

interview and select new commissioners. 

Both are volunteer 

bodies that offer recommendations 

to the City Council. The 

Arts Commission organizes art 

events and recommends civic art 

purchases. The Planning 

Commission deals with land-use 

policy and regulation. The deadline 

for applying was Oct. 30, 

2009. 

Two men, John James and 

John Murphy, applied more than 

two months late for the Planning 

Commission. James, the former 

president of the Sammamish 

Chamber of Commerce and currently 

a parks commissioner, 

applied Jan. 5. Murphy, a former 

deputy fire chief with Eastside 

Fire & Rescue, applied Jan. 4. 

At its Jan. 5 meeting, the 

council voted 5-2 against considering 

late applicants. Councilman 

John James (different from the 

applicant John James) and 

Mayor Don Gerend were the dissenting 

votes. 

“I think if people are interested 

in volunteering for the commissions, 

I’m willing to listen to 

them,” Gerend said. 

Councilwoman Nancy Whitten 

said she would be fine considering 

the late applicants, but then 

the city would have to allow 

other people to apply and set a 

new deadline, too. 

City Attorney Bruce Disend’s 

counsel was similar to Whitten’s. 

“If council wishes to consider 

late filings, then so be it. I would 

ask that you establish some criteria 

for accepting late applications,” 

Disend said. “In the 

absence of any rules, you have a 

fairly arbitrary process.” 

Councilman Tom Odell said 

that in his experience at Boeing, 

deadlines were deadlines. 

“There is a point where you 

have to cut it off,” he said. “There 

will be a next time for these people.” 

In a later interview, the applicant 

John James said he knew it 

was a long shot. 

He added that he waited until 

after the deadline to apply for the 

Planning Commission because he 

didn’t think he could handle two 

commission posts at once. But 

after encouraging conversations 

at a dinner with other commissioners 

and council members in 

December, he reconsidered. 

Chamber has a new president 

By J.B. Wogan 

Local business owners have a 

new appointed leader: Karla 

Benson. 

Benson became president of 

the Sammamish Chamber of 

Commerce Jan. 1. Presidents 

serve one-year terms and preside 

over the chamber’s Board 

of Directors. She is the 10th 

president in the chamber’s history. 

Benson works as a sales representative 

for Don’s Group 

Attire, a custom-embroidery and 

screen-printing company based 

out of the Georgetown neighborhood 

in Seattle. She works out 

of her home in Sammamish, 

near the Inglewood Hill Road 

roundabout. Her three children, 

all adults and college graduates, 

attended Eastlake High School 

before leaving the plateau. 

Deb Sogge, executive director 

of the chamber, said Benson has 

been part of the chamber for 

more than five years. 

“She certainly knows our history 

and our background. She 

helped create our chamber, so 

this is great,” Sogge said. 

Benson said the chamber’s 

board would meet in February 

to establish concrete goals for 

2010, but two priorities would be 

to increase membership and to 

find a permanent headquarters. 

Sogge said the chamber has 

235 member businesses and saw 

a 39.9 percent increase in 2009. 





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EFR partners meet to try to work out differences 

By J.B. Wogan 

What began with promises to 

tell the truth, even if that truth 

was ugly or hurtful, ended with a 

hug. 

Sammamish Mayor Don 

Gerend spontaneously rose from 

his seat and embraced Eastside 

Fire & Rescue Chief Lee Soptich, 

provoking applause from a 

packed room in Issaquah’s 

Gibson Hall Jan. 9. 

The hug came after almost 

eight hours of talks with stakeholders 

in EFR. The sometimes 

tense conversations revolved 

around a few key issues: the job 

stability and morale of local firefighters, 

the tone and honesty of 

communication between elected 

officials, and the budgetary practices 

of EFR. 

The agency’s primary duty is 

to provide emergency medical 

response and fire protection to 

Sammamish, Issaquah, North 

Bend, Carnation, Preston, May 

Valley, Tiger Mountain and 

Wilderness Rim. 

Nothing about the way firefighters 

operate on a day-to-day 

basis was subject to debate or 

criticism. 

Instead, elected representatives 

from three cities and two 

King County fire districts met to 

mend the way they behave and 

communicate, and to determine 

whether the partnership should 

continue in its current form. 

The city of Sammamish, 

which is considering pulling out 

of EFR, was at the forefront of 

the discussion. 

Ron Pedee, chairman of the 

EFR Board of Directors, said it 

was essential to know whether 

Sammamish intended to leave 

the fire agency. 

Scott Percival, vice president 

of the firefighters’ labor union, 

added that firefighters in 

Sammamish were concerned 

about the repeated talk of layoffs 

in recent years. The constant 

threat of losing one’s job was 

affecting firefighter morale, he 

said. 

But Sammamish wasn’t 

blamed for all of EFR’s problems. 

“I’m hearing that Sammamish 

is the only one unhappy about 

the funding model. I don’t 

believe that’s really true,” said 

North Bend Mayor Ken Hearing. 

“I don’t believe anyone is really 

happy with the funding model.” 

Board members from the various 

EFR cities presented specific 

ideas about how they would like 

to see the agency evolve. 

Their comments were condensed 

into a list of items with 

loose deadlines for early 2010. 

Some of the highlights included: 

u Re-examine and more clearly 

define what it means to be a 

board member and partner of 

EFR. 

◆ Make public documents like 

archived budgets and EFR’s interlocal 

agreement accessible 

online. 

◆ Review the current funding 

formula and other funding methods 

proposed in past years. 

◆ Keep EFR apprised of all 

annexation proposals. 

◆ Establish an a time at EFR’s 

monthly meetings for board 

members to raise new questions 

or concerns. 

To avoid scheduling conflicts, 

the EFR board has also decided to 

move its meetings to 4 p.m. on 

the second Thursday of every 

month. Meetings are open to the 

public and take place at 175 

Newport Way NW in Issaquah. To 

read the minutes of a recent 

meeting, go to www.eastsidefirerescue.org/About_Us/EF&R%20Bo 

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Comment 


The state Department of 

Transportation receives Federal 

Transportation Administration 

grant dollars, and the state agency 

is required to create and maintain 

a State Management Plan. 

The plan describes state policies 

and procedures for administering 

several federal programs, including 

a program to transport seniors 

and people with disabilities. 

Comments must be received 

by March 1. Submit comments 

via e-mail to Financial and 

Grants Specialist Linda Howell at 

howell@wsdot.wa.gov, or by mail 

to: Linda Howell, Financial and 

Grants Specialist, Public, 

Transportation Division, P.O. Box 

47387, Olympia, WA 98504-7387. 

After state officials consider all 

comments, make final edits and 

federal officials approve the document, 

the final plan will be 

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posted on the DOT Web site. 

Issaquah man enters 

U.S. Senate race 

Issaquah businessman Chris 

Widener has entered the race for 

the Republican nomination to 

challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. 

Patty Murray in November. 

Widener announced his intention 

to seek the GOP nomination 

Jan. 5. He cited concerns about 

the national debt and what he 

described as the role Murray, a 

Democrat, played “in the federal 

government’s runaway spending 

and spiraling budget deficits.” 

“The debt we’ve incurred during 

Patty Murray’s 17 years in the 

Senate is historic and unsustainable,” 

Widener said in a campaign 

news release. 

The candidate plans to launch 

the campaign Jan. 23 with events 

in Seattle and Pullman. 

Widener wrote a popular motivational 

book titled “The Angel 

Inside.” 

He also founded Positively 

Republican, touted as the largest 

GOP group on Facebook with 

more than 162,000 members 

nationwide. 

Former Washington Redskins 

tight end Clint Didier entered the 

race for the Republican nomination 

Jan. 4. Several other GOP 

candidates are also vying for the 

chance to unseat Murray. 

Murray, first elected in 1992 

and re-elected since, holds the 

No. 4 spot in the Senate leadership. 

Nominate state 

employees for award 

The state Productivity Board 

wants residents and state workers 

to recognize public employees 

who go the extra mile. 

Every year, the Extra Mile 

Award is awarded to individuals 

or groups of public employees 

who surpass expectations for 

exemplary public service by 

demonstrating at least one of the 

following attributes: 

◆ Create an innovative solution 

to a problem or challenge. 

◆ Improve efficiency. 

◆ Exhibit visionary thinking. 

◆ Overcome great odds or disadvantages. 

◆ Demonstrate personal valor. 

“Washington has many state 

employees who go beyond the 

call of duty in performing their 

jobs,” Secretary of State Sam 

Reed, the chairman of the state 

Productivity Board, said in a 

news release. “This is an excellent 

opportunity to honor exceptional 

state employees for the 

service they provide.” 

The awards will be given out 

as a part of Public Service 

Recognition Week, a national 

event celebrated during the first 

week of May. Call 360-704-5203 to 

learn more about the Extra Mile 

Award. 

Download a nomination form 

at www.secstate.wa.gov/productivityboard/. 

Submit nominations by 

5 p.m. Feb. 19. 

Send nomination forms by 

mail to: The Productivity Board, 

P.O. Box 40244, Olympia, WA 

98504-0244. Fax forms to 360-704- 

7830 or e-mail nominations to 

innovate@secstate.wa.gov. 

Access driving 

records online 


Licensing redesigned the agency 

Web site — www.dol.wa.gov — to 

make the portal easier for customers 

to find and use online service 

options. 

The new site, unveiled last 

week, includes a new way for 

drivers to buy a copy of their 

driving records. Each year, more 

than 200,000 Washington drivers 

purchase copies of their driving 

record. 

Driving records show a history 

of violations, convictions, collisions, 

and departmental actions 

incurred by a driver. Several versions 

can be purchased depending 

on the reason a person needs 

his or her record. 

The system allows drivers to 

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COMMUNITY 


Thousands come to opening 

ceremony for new library 

By Christopher Huber 

“Everyone’s trying to adjust to 

the huge amounts of crowds in 

here,” said site manager Robbin 

Gaebler. “I think it’s an indication 

of, we’re going to be really busy.” 

As hordes of people flooded 

the library, perusing the approximately 

106,600 books and other 

See LIBRARY, Page 13 

On the Web 

Visit 

www.SammamishReview.com 

for a video of the opening day 

festivities. 

Photo by Christopher Huber 

Sammamish resident Andrew Qabar searches through shelves of 

books in the fiction section. 

Families and community 

members started surrounding the 

library, located next to City Hall, 

about 30 minutes before the ribbon-cutting 

ceremony began. 

Mayor Don Gerend, King County 

Library System director Bill 

Ptacek and others spoke of the 

building’s necessary place in the 

community fabric. And just as 

children, and some of their parents, 

were getting antsy to head 

inside, they cut the ribbon and 

opened the library for all. 

By some accounts an estimated 

1,000 people gathered at the 

new Sammamish Library the 

morning of Jan. 9 to commemorate 

the facility’s grand opening. 

But regardless of the number, the 

place was packed. 


Librarian Diana Ray helps Sammamish residents Steve and Ellie 

Pelton check out some books. 

New technology can show mechanics of a golf swing 


John Unck settles into his 

stance, relaxes a bit then rests his 

iron on the turf behind the golf 

ball. He’s wearing a black vest 

and belt strapped tightly around 

his shoulders and waist, each 

covered in motion censors. One 

also sits attached to his left-hand 

glove. 

“Three…two…one,” counts 

instructor Mark Roberts as he 

clicks a button at the computer 

station. The longtime 

Sammamish resident winds up, 

swings and the ball flies — mostly 

straight — into the mat 15 feet 

away. 

Almost instantaneously, a 

dozen or so red and green graphs, 

percentages and seemingly arbitrary 

numbers pop up on the flat 

screen television mounted to the 

wall. Roberts and Unck review 

the details and determine Unck’s 

left knee is the root of his problem 

— it collapses on the backswing 

and throws off his followthrough. 

Two video cameras capture 

the swing, too, and they 

eventually compare Unck’s swing 

side-by-side on the screen with 

pro golfer Fred Funk. 

“This helps me because I’m a 

pictoral person,” Unck said. “That 

(image) doesn’t go away.” 

It’s all a part of a new video 

and 3D motion analysis technology 

offered in Sammamish at Golf 

USA’s indoor instructional studio. 

The store is one of only a few 

places in Washington to offer 3D 

motion analysis aided instruction, 

said general manager Jason 

Schaefer. 

The new technology may be 

useful, said Chris Lungo, golf pro 

at the Plateau Club, but practicing 

indoors means that some 

important aspects of training are 

missing. In particular, Lungo said 

golfers will miss out on watching 

how the ball flies over a distance. 

“I think that ball flight is really 

important. I don’t think hitting 

into a net with video is maybe 

the best way to learn,” Lungo 

said. 

He did see some real value in 

it, however. He said he’s familiar 

with the technology and figures it 

will only help area golfers 

improve their game. 

“I would think more technology 

helps. It helps the student and 

See GOLF, Page 13 


Golf pro Mark Roberts, left, observes as 30-year Sammamish resident John Unck finishes a swing 

during a lesson with the K-Vest technology at the Sammamish Golf USA Jan. 6.


Obituary 

James Patrick 

Marolich 

James Patrick Marolich, of 

Sammamish, died Dec. 28, 2009. 

He was 63. 

Marolich was born Sept. 26, 

1946 in Seattle. He graduated 

from Ingraham High School and 

studied communications at the 

University of Washington. 

On Nov. 11, 1984, he married 

Megan Ables in Port Townsend. 

He served on the Board of 

Seattle Chamber of Commerce 

Leadership Tomorrow for many 

years while working at Bank of 

America. 

He was also involved in 

Toastmasters and the associate 

volunteer committee. 

In his spare time, he spent 

time with his family and participated 

in his children’s athletic 

activities. 

He also spent time at the family 

cabin in eastern Washington. 

He loved working in his yard and 

enjoyed spending time with family 

and friends. 

His family will remember him 

as an extraordinary husband, 

father and friend. They remember 

him as thoughtful, caring, 

warm, inclusive with a good 

sense of humor and a gentle, purposeful 

way. 

He is survived by Megan, his 

wife of 25 years, his son, Jack, 

and daughter, Anne, of 

Sammamish. 

Donations in his memory can 

be made to Swedish Visiting 

Nurses Services/Hospice 

Palliative Care, 5701 Sixth Ave. S, 

Suite 404, Seattle, WA 98108. 

Golf 


helps the teacher,” Lungo said. “It 

definitely helps to learn visually.” 

Unck is one of the first students 

to try the new program, 

which Roberts and Schaefer said 

adds a whole new element of 

understanding to learning the 

fundamentals of a golf swing. 

Schaefer said the lack of 

resources in this area prompted 

him to bring the technology to 

his store. 

“I got tired of directing 

(clients) to other places to go,” he 

said. 

The wireless K-Vest is 

designed to help golfers improve 

their game through visual, kinesthetic 

and verbal (from the 

instructor) feedback. It measures 

a golfer’s flexibility and range of 

motion in the torso, hips and 

arms. 

After each session, Roberts e- 

mails Unck the lesson feedback 

and data, along with still images 

Laine Elizabeth Buechler 

Laine Elizabeth 

Buechler born 

Laine Elizabeth Buechler 

was born Oct. 20, 2009. She 

weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces 

and was 21 inches long. 

Her father is Jayson 

Buechler, a 2000 graduate of 

the University of Washington 

who works at U.S. Bank in 

Bellevue. Her mother is 

Amanda Buechler, also a 2000 

graduate of the University of 

Washington who works in the 

Lake Washington School 

District. The couple has lived 

in Sammamish for nearly 

seven years. 

Her grandparents are Jim 

and Cindee Good of Gig 

Harbor and Ann and Gary 

Buechler of Kirkland. Living 

great-grandparents are 

Clementine Jester Fogg of 

Bellevue and Milton Ernest 

Carlson of Ceder Rapids, 

Iowa. 

Moscarets make 

donation 

Ken and Liz Moscaret, 

founders of Athletes For Kids, 

have given the organization 

$30,000. The organization, 

which started in 2002 at 

Skyline High School, pairs 

taken from the video, to apply to 

his game on the course. 

Yet, with all of the technology, 

to help correct Unck’s collapsing 

knee tendency, Roberts employs 

a low-tech method. 

He has Unck hold a yellow 

smiley face ball between his 

knees as he swings. He takes it 

away and Unck tries a couple of 

swings on video. They see at 

least some difference in the K- 

Vest data and charts. 

“John can see his improvement 

here; tangible proof of a 

lasting improvement,” Roberts 

said. 

Unck said he doesn’t harbor 

aspirations of going pro, he just 

wants to get good enough at golf 

to not want to break his clubs in 

half out on the course. 

“I could feel improvement, 

obviously. That’s what it’s all 

about for me,” Unck said near the 

end of his second lesson with the 

vest. “I can feel the progress.” 

Reporter Christopher Huber can 

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

chuber@isspress.com. 

high school athletes with 

younger children with disabilities. 

There are about 70 trained 

athletes from six area schools 

working as mentors in the program. 

Molly Luce and Kenny Steele 

Kenny Steele and 

Molly Luce wed 

Kenny K Steele and Molly K 

Luce were married Oct. 10, 2009 

at Clise Mansion in Marymoor 

Park. 

Luce, daughter of Chuck and 

Judy Luce of Sammamish, is a 

1998 graduate of Eastlake High 

School. The groom, son of Penny 

Steele of Sammamish and Kevin 

Steele of Ronald is a 2001 graduate 

of Eastlake. 

The maid of honor was Marlo 

Chapman and the bridesmaids 

were Sarah Luce and Jordana 

Kidd. The best man was Eric 

Brickley and the groomsmen 

were Shawn Kidd and Andrew 

Berg. The couple honeymooned 

in Maui, Hawaii and reside in 

Bothell. 

Library 


media, the jazzy sounds of 

musical group Corey Dansereau 

and His Hot Four filled the air. 

Magician Jeff Evans and Lolo 

the Clown also entertained children 

and their parents. 

Within a few minutes, people 

hurried to the checkout desks 

cradling stacks of books. Some 

lingered and enjoyed refreshments 

at the Friends of the 

Sammamish Library booth, 

while others took in the blue 

skies and clear view of Seattle. 

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Tyler Kurz and NicholeNadalin 

Nichole Nadalin, Tyler 

Kurz engaged 

Nichole Nadalin and Tyler 

Kurz, both of Sammamish, are 

engaged. 

Kurz, son of Brenda and Rick, 

is a 2006 graduate of Eastlake 

High School and is scheduled to 

graduate from the University of 

Washington with a bachelor’s 

degree in civil engineering in 

June. 

Nadalin, daughter of Carol and 

David, is a also 2006 graduate of 

Eastlake High School and is 

scheduled to graduate from 

Western Washington University 

with a bachelor’s degree in communication 

and a bachelor’s 

degree in psychology this June. 

The wedding is planned for 

August, 2010 in Sammamish. 

response of the community to 

the opening of the new 

Sammamish Library,” Ptacek 

said as he mingled. “I’ve never 

seen so many people at an 

opening of a library.” 

Sammamish has traditionally 

had the second-busiest (per 

capita) library in the system, 

next to the one at Crossroads, 

Gaebler said. She added that 

more Klahanie and Issaquah 

Highlands residents may use 

the Samammish Library more, 

now that it’s a mile closer to 

Issaquah. 

“We’ve always been really 

busy. Well, now we have more 

square feet and we’ll probably 

be just as busy,” she said. 

Stephen Patterson shows off 

some of the work he organized. 

Stephen Patterson 

completes Eagle Scout 

project 

Stephen Patterson, 13, completed 

his Eagle Scout Project on 

Nov. 14, 2009. He planned and 

coordinated his project with the 

city of Sammamish to landscape 

and plant 16 trees and shrubs as 

well as remove weeds and lay 

down new mulch around all of 

the plantings on the Illahee Trail 

on the Sammamish Plateau. He 

organized and led 30 volunteers 

who together spent 78 hours of 

volunteer service to help Stephen 

complete his project. Stephen is a 

member of Boy Scout Troop 509. 

To earn the Eagle rank, a scout 

must complete a minimum of 21 

merit badges. 

The sun came out a little 

more as the event stretched into 

mid-day. The rays glistened off 

the bookshelves and lit up the 

rest of the already bright facility. 

The huge windows help create 

a homey, friendly ambience, 

especially with the fireplace 

warming all the cozy 

readers. 

“This just shows what a great 

place the library is going to be,” 

Ptacek said. “It’s more of a people 

place than it is a place for 

books. In a lot of ways it’s the 

living room for the community.” 

Reporter Christopher Huber 

can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 

242, or chuber@isspress.com.

SCHOOLS 


Eastside Catholic develops its business sense 


Eastside Catholic sophomore DECA student Kristina Boswell (left) makes change for senior Jackson 

Boyle, front, right, junior A.J. Rehn, and senior Alex McKelvey Jan. 6 at the school’s Spirit Store. 


For many of Eastside 

Catholic’s DECA marketing club 

students, the most influential 

guest speaker they’ve heard this 

school year was Marc Barros, of 

Coutour HD. The University of 

Washington graduate taught them 

the power of taking a little idea 

and turning it into a successful 

business through marketing. 

In 2003, Barros and friend, 

Jason Green, both avid skiers, got 

third place in a UW business-plan 

competition for their idea about a 

helmet camera for extreme 

sports enthusiasts. They earned 

enough prize money to rent a 

warehouse and eventually built 

their first cameras, the Twenty20 

Helmet Camera. Now, the cameras 

sell around the world. 

The school’s DECA program is 

in its first year and students are 

beginning to see the real-world 

impact of business plans and 

marketing strategies. They’re taking 

the new ideas and skills to 

their first competition Jan. 13 in 

Bellevue. 

“I like the opportunity to learn 

about a subject that I will most 

likely pursue at higher education,” 

said senior Andrew 

Villenueve. 

More than 185,000 high school 

students participate in 5,000 

chapters in the United States, 

Canada, Germany, Mexico, 

Puerto Rico and Guam, according 

to the DECA Web site. The program 

is based on marketing, 

management and entrepreneurship 

curriculum and helps students 

network and gain realworld 

experience in business 

from an early age, as well as 

develop leadership skills and 

serve the community. 

The organization holds annual 

conferences and competitions, 

where they can practice their 

skills and build their college or 

career resumes. But in class they 

also work with local businesses to 

develop tangible business or marketing 

plans. 

“The guest speakers helped a 

lot,” Boswell said. 

The DECA Student Store is 

another way the youth learn to 

manage money and run a small 

business. Paired with the school’s 

See DECA, Page 15 

Students are rocket 

scientists in training 


Sammamish schools have 

more reasons to commend their 

science and math programs these 

days. 

The Museum of Flight’s 

Washington Aerospace Scholars 

recently announced that eight 

students — five from Eastlake 

and three from Skyline — were 

accepted into the first round of 

the program. The 11-session 

study and testing round prepares 

the students for the ultimate goal 

of getting a spot in the summer 

residency. 

Eastlake students Timothy 

Jugovic, Felix Humay, Rasan 

Cherala, Ethan Chan and Amit 

Burstein and Skyline’s James 

Richardson, Dominique 

Porcincula and Justin Hall are 

among approximately 240 students 

around Washington to 

make it into the initial stage of 

the Aerospace Scholars program. 

“I wanted it pretty bad, 

because I thought it would be a 

pretty cool experience,” said Hall, 

a junior. “I worked pretty hard on 

the application.” 

For the next couple of months, 

the youth will be studying and 

testing with a Web-based, NASAdesigned 

distance-learning curriculum, 

according to a program 

press release. The curriculum 

covers topics like the history of 

spaceflight and analyzes evidence 

supporting the theory of 

life on Mars. 

“They’re taking the stuff that’s 

in a typical science class and 

they’re applying it,” said Liz 

Sirjani, an Eastlake teacher and 

grader for the program applications. 

“It is so incredible. It is one 

of the best things, because it is 

hands on. It’s amazing things that 

you don’t get everyday at school.” 

For their online lessons, scholars 

must write essays, compute 

space-related math problems and 

design graphics that illustrate 

their ideas, according to the 

Museum of Flight. 

Hall, who takes IB math and 

physics at Skyline, said the bi-weekly 

reading and quizzes are difficult, on 

top of regular homework, but they 

get to learn about making a space 

rover, the space shuttle’s engines and 

NASA’s first missions. 

See ROCKET, Page 15 

Graphic by Amit Burstein 

During the first round of Washington Aerospace Scholars testing, Eastlake’s Amit Burstein 

designed this example of a 21st century crew exploration vehicle.


Eastlake to kickoff fundraising 

for this year’s Relay for Life 

By Morgan Conover 

Well, it is officially that time of 

the year again! (And no I’m not 

talking about the winter formal.) 

As of Wednesday, Jan. 13, the 

Relay for Life fundraising season 

will officially begin! 

Wednesday is the official 

beginning of fundraising for the 

teams representing Eastlake’s 

Relay for Life chapter. 

For those of you who may not 

know, Relay for Life is a fundraiser 

that benefits the American 

Cancer Society. 

During the event, at least one 

representative from each team 

walks around the track for 24 

hours, following the mentality 

that cancer doesn’t sleep, so for 

one night neither will we. 

Last year, Eastlake alone 

raised approximately $82,000, 

and this year we would love to 

exceed that number. 

School 

scoop 

Morgan 

Conover 

Eastlake High 

School 

Kickoff is a great opportunity 

for new and returning team captains 

to come and register their 

teams, and to learn all the exciting 

details about this year’s relay! 

“Kickoff is one of the best 

recruitment opportunities all 

year, it allows us to talk face to 

face with team captains and really 

get everyone excited about the 

event,” said Adam Hawkins, one 

of the co-chairmen of the event. 

At kickoff, anyone who is 

interested or planning on making 

a team will receive info about 

future relay events and meetings, 

awesome fundraising ideas, and a 

chance to hang out with other 

people who are equally as dedicated 

to supporting this great 

cause! 

If you are interested in either 

making a team or joining a team 

and can’t make it to this event 

feel free to check out the 

Eastlake Relay Website, www.eastlakerelay.org 

or on our Facebook 

group page under 2010 Relay for 

Life of Eastlake. 

DECA 


Spirit Store, the DECA Student 

Store, which opened Jan. 4, 

offers snacks and goodies not 

available in the lunchroom, said 

sophomore Kristina Boswell. 

“This is kind of like our startup 

company for DECA,” Boswell 

said as she tended the store 

counter during lunch period 

Jan. 6. “I look forward to see 

how the store skyrockets.” 

Teacher Ronda Patrick 

brought the idea of starting a 

DECA program at Eastside 

Catholic to the administration 

in the 2008-2009 school year. 

Her degree is in marketing education, 

and she had taught 

DECA in the Lake Washington 

School District. 

“Getting the green light needed 

some consideration, but I 

was ready to go,” she said. 

Like at Eastlake and Skyline, 

the class is accredited as an 

elective. About 22 students 

signed up for Eastside Catholic’s 

first-year program. But she 

expects growth next year. 

“(I like) the flexibility to 

learn my own way and solve 

problems my own way,” senior 

Robert Pfluger said of his DECA 

experience. “It’s really good 

because it’s the only class at 

Eastside Catholic that is real 

life. The skills transfer directly 

to out of college.” 

At the Jan. 13 competition, 

students compete in individual 

and group events based on skills 

used in the workplace: effective 

communication, ability to solve 

problems and make decisions, 

as well as working as a team 

leader or team member. 

Patrick said she has pushed 

each student to participate in 

the individual and group projects 

for this week’s competition. 

And they’ve responded. 

“They’re choosing what 

they’re interested in,” Patrick 

said. “The kids really see the 

value.” 

‘The Shadow Box’ 

now at Skyline 

The Skyline drama team 

opens its performance of the 

1977 Tony Award and Pulitzer 

Prize winning “The Shadow Box” 

7 p.m. Jan. 13 at the school’s 

Lyceum Theatre. The production, 

which director James 

Henderson advises is for adults, 

starts at 7 p.m. each night Jan. 

13-16. 

Tickets cost $8 at the door and 

students and senior citizens get 

in for $6, Henderson said. 

“It’s one of my all-time favorite 

shows,” he said. 

The cast of nine students 

enact a sad but ultimately uplifting 

story about three terminally 

ill cancer patients living in hospice 

care in cottages near a hospital. 

Patients Joe (Steven Shuken), 

Brian (Ehrik Aldana) and Felicity 

(Meghan McNeley) are interviewed 

about the process of 

dying. The interviewer remains 

unseen throughout the play. 

Actor Michael Cristofer wrote 

the play, which debuted March 

31, 1977 on Broadway. 

“It’s some of the best writing 

of an American playwright in 

recent years,” Henderson said.” It 

sort of poses questions that I 

think we all ask.” 

Henderson said although it 

sounds like a depressing topic, in 

the end, viewers will find it is the 

opposite. 

Rocket 


Phase one of the Aerospace 

Scholars program began at the 

end of December and cumulative 

weekly test scores determine 

a student’s spot in the 

summer residency. If accepted 

to the residency, the students 

will work together and with 

NASA experts and former astronauts 

to plan a mission to Mars. 

“I’m really excited to just get 

into the summer program,” Hall 

said. 

Washington Aerospace 

Scholars began in 2006 and saw 

its first graduating class in 2007, 

said Melissa Edwards, program 

administrator. She said it was 

formed in response to a growing 

20-year trend of waning enrollment 

in the science, technology, 

engineering and mathematics 

fields. 

It’s based on the 10-year-old 

Texas Aerospace Scholars program 

and is funded by the 

Washington Aerospace Scholars 

Foundation. 

Students attend free of 

charge, according to the organization’s 

Web site. 

Three students, Skyline’s 

David Pedroni and Taylor Chin 

and Eastlake’s Erick Lo were 

among approximately 150 students 

from around the state 

who participated in the 2009 

summer residency. Program 

officials selected them out of 

the 260 applicants who had 

completed the months-long testing 

period in fall 2008. 

“Even though it’s only the 

fourth year, we’ve seen pretty 

good success,” Edwards said last 

September. 

To apply, a student must be a 

Washington high school junior 

and maintain a 3.0 grade-point 

average. 

Download an application for 

2010-2011 at www.museumofflight.org/washingtonaerospacescholars. 



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Events 

The Issaquah branch of the 

American Association of 

University Women will hear a 

presentation from Connie 

Fletcher, former member of the 

Issaquah School Board and now a 

member of the state Board of 

Education, about new high 

school graduation requirements. 

The presentation is scheduled for 

10 a.m. Jan. 16 at Gibson Hall, 

105 Newport Way S.W. in 

Issaquah. 

The Evergreen 

Philharmonic, an honors 

orchestra made up of high school 

musicians from the Issaquah 

School District, will perform 

“Swinging in Vienna” at 7 p.m. 

Jan. 17 at the Issaquah 

Community Center. The semiformal 

event will include dancing 

and a dessert bar. The cost is $25 

for an individual or $40 for a couple. 

World Religion Day is set for 

2-4 p.m. Jan. 17 at sammamish 

City Hall. The event will feature 

representatives from the Jewish, 

Christian, Hindu, Muslim and 

Baha’i faiths coming together to 

share their religions. For more 

information, visit www.worldreligionday.org. 

Music for Children’s. The 

Mary Helen Hickman Guild is 

holding a fundraiser to benefit 

the Uncompensated Care Fund at 

Seattle Children’s. The show is 

from 6-10 p.m. Feb. 7 at Bake’s 

Place in Providence Point. The 

cost is $75. For tickets call 

Meribeth Holic at 557-3721. 

Bill Ptacek, director of the 

King County Library System, 

will speak about the proposed 

property tax levy that will be on 

the Feb. 9 ballot during the 

Sammamish Kiwanis meeting at 

7 a.m. Jan. 20 at Sammamish 

Hills Lutheran Church. 


Revenue is hosting a free workshop 

for new small business owners 

where participants will learn 

about the various taxes and 

reports required by the state. The 

seminar is scheduled for 1-4 p.m. 

Jan. 21 at Bellevue City Hall, 450 

110th Ave. NE, Room 1E-113 in 

Bellevue. To register, visit 

www.dor.wa.gov or call 489-1723. 

Eastside Women of Vision is 

hosting a seminar to examine 

how extreme poverty and injustice 

impact the lives of women 

and girls from 12:30-2:30 p.m. 

Jan. 14, 21 and 28 at Sammamish 

Presbyterian Church. RSVP to 

eastsidewov@hotmail.com. 

There will be a suggested donation 

for materials. 

The city of Sammamish is 

partnering with Faith in Action to 

help residents celebrate Martin 

Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 18, by 

helping local senior citizens in 

need. Volunteer jobs will last 

from two to six hours depending 

on the number who sign up. 

Volunteers should be 14 or older. 

To sign up e-mail 

dsanders@ci.sammamish.wa.us 

or call 295-0556. 

Potential Eagle Scouts who 

wish to do a project with the city 

of Sammamish should attend an 

informational meeting at 4 p.m. 

Jan. 19 at City Hall. The meeting 

is mandatory for anyone who 

wants to do a project with the 

city. For more information, contact 

Dawn Sanders at 295-0556 or 

dsanders@ci.sammamish.wa.us. 

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. 

The Bellevue Arts Museum 

has announced a call for entries 

for the 2010 Artsfair. The juried 

show, limited to 325 exhibitors, 

accepts hand-made, skillful art 

across a variety of media. The 

application deadline is Jan. 29, 

2010. The fee is $40. For more 

information, visit www.bellevuearts.org. 

The Jewish Federation of 

Greater Seattle is hosting their 

annual outreach and fundraising 

event for Jewish women, Dare to 

Dream at Connections 2010 from 

10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 31 at the 

Book of the month 

The Sammamish Book Group will discuss “The Post- 

American World” by Fareed Zakaria at 7 p.m. Jan. 20 at the 

Sammamish Library. 

Hyatt Regency in Bellevue. The 

event costs $60 for the brunch, 

but higher levels of participation 

are available. For more information, 

visit 

www.JewishInSeattle.org/women. 

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. 

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. Jan. 21, Feb. 4 and 

18, March 4 and 18 and April 1 

and 5 at the Fern Life Center, 710 

Fifth Ave. in Issaquah. 

Parenting adolescents class. 

Julie Metzger will offer parents 

tips on the latest research on parenting 

adolescents, blended with 

Christian theology. The course is 

most relevant to the parents of 

fifth-12th graders. Session will be 

from 7-8:30 p.m. Jan. 19 (just for 

fathers), 7-8:30 p.m. Jan. 25 (just 

for mothers) and 7-8:30 p.m. Feb. 

1 for both parents at Sammamish 

Presbyterian Church. Cost is $10, 

payable at the first session. 

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 

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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 forwomen, 

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 

Guided tours of the new 

library are available at 2 and 3 

p.m. Jan. 16, 17, 23, 24, 30 and 31 

at and 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. from 

Jan 11-15. 

Tales and tours for children, 

a welcome to the new library for 

children ages 2-6, are scheduled 

for 7 p.m. Jan. 25 and at 10 and 

11 a.m. Jan. 13, 20 and 27. 

The Brian Waite Band will 

bring their family-friendly act to 

the library at 1 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 

16. Free tickets will be available 

at the new library beginning Jan. 11. 

Create a comic book. David 

Lasky shows you how to design 

characters for a mini-comic book 

in a 90 minute workshop at 2 

p.m. Jan. 23 

Spend the Winter with a 

good book with librarian Nancy 

Pearl who will offer suggestions 

across various literary and nonfiction 

genres at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 31. 

Talk time provides conversation 

practice for adults who want 

to improve their language skills. 

Talk time starts at 7 p.m. Jan. 19 

and 26. 

“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. 

Mother daughter book club 

will meet at 7 p.m. Jan. 27. This 

month they will be reading, 

“Savvy” by Ingrid Law. 

Volunteers needed 

Evergreen Healthcare is 

seeking volunteers to help serve 

patients throughout King County. 

Volunteers, who will be assigned 

to help people in their own 

neighborhoods, provide companionship, 

run errands, do light 

household work, or give a break 

to 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@solid-ground.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. 

Volunteer Chore Services 

links volunteers with seniors or 

individuals who are disabled and 

are living on a limited income. 

Call 284-2240. 

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. 

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Eastlake drops double dual 

Wolves see 

some bright 

spots in spite of 

losses 


When Eastlake’s Max 

Boucher stepped onto the mat to 

face Cody Botten of Mount Si 

Jan. 7, the pressure was on. He 

knew a pin would win it for the 

team and a points decision 

would at least tie the match at 

26. What he didn’t know was 

that Botten had come off a particularly 

confident week of practice 

and was ready to get a personal 

best. 

Botten did, pinning Boucher 

in 1 minute, 50 seconds in the 

125-pound bout to seal the dualmeet 

victory for the Wildcats. 

“That kid’s a lot stronger than 

me,” Boucher said as he waited 

to face Issaquah in the Eastlake 

gym. “He basically just had a 

strong grip.” 

It was Botten’s fastest pin of 

the season, he said after the 

match. 

“I felt like I came out strong 

and just wanted it more,” Botten 

said. “I felt some pressure.” 

Eastlake lost to Mount Si 32- 

24 in the Wildcats’ only match of 

the night. The Wolves fell to 

Issaquah in its second dual meet 

of the evening, 69-18. And 

Issaquah also beat Skyline 44-33 

in its first match at Eastlake. 

Eastlake coach Riley Cornet 

was a little disappointed with 

the close loss. 

“The little things come up big 

there,” he said after the Mount 

Si match. 

Eastlake held its own 

throughout the match, though. 

In the 103-pound bout, 

Eastlake’s Chris Dallas beat Billy 

Beach 12-10 and Jordan Wiley 

beat Bruce Stuart 4-1 in the 130- 

pound match. 

At 145, Eastlake’s Cole 

Neves topped Conor Klupar 

6-3; at 152, Ryan Green beat 

Connor Deutsch 12-9; Trevor 

McKinnon beat Mount Si’s 

Lee Amador 17-10 at the 160- 


Eastlake wrestler Zach Leavitt, top, puts Issaquah’s David White 

in a headlock during their 140-pound bout. White pinned 

Leavitt in 4 minutes, 26 seconds. 


Eastlake’s Jordan Wiley throws Mount Si’s Bruce Stuart during 

the 130-pound bout Jan. 7. Wiley won 4-1 

pound level and Cameron 

Coyer outscored Zack Storm 

6-3 in the 189-pound bout. 

Brad Leinweber, of Eastlake, 

pinned John Farmer in 1:19 

in the 215-pound match. 

But the Wildcats pushed back 

just enough with crucial pins in 

the 135- and 171-pound matches, 

adding to Botten’s match-ending 

pin. At 135, Ben Larson pinned 

Kyle Smith, of Eastlake, in 1:05 

and Shane Dixon pinned 

Eastlake’s Clay Monahan in 

2:45. 

“We executed the moves we 

went over,” Botten said after the 

match. 

Trey Botten (140) beat 

Eastlake’s Shay Fuentes by technical 

fall 22-5 in three rounds. 

“It was definitely exciting to 

finish with a pin. It boiled down 

to the last two weight classes,” 

said Mount Si coach Tony 

Schlotfeldt. “We had to dig deep 

to pull the win off.” 

Eastlake had a tough match 

against Issaquah. The Eagles 

pinned Eastlake wrestlers in 

nine of its 10 winning decisions 

and won 69-18. 

See WRESTLE, Page 19 


Skyline’s Bryan Cikatz barrels in for a layup against Redmond’s 

Brandon Smart in the second quarter. 

Skyline basketball 

trounces Redmond 


The Skyline boys basketball 

team came into its match-up with 

Redmond confident it would win, 

but knowing the Mustangs could 

surprise them. 

Redmond is better than its 2-3 

league and 3-6 overall record 

showed going into the Jan. 8 

game at Skyline, said Spartans’ 

senior Cory Hutsen and coach J. 

Jay Davis. 

Skyline came off a successful 

winter break, having won the 

Sam Barlow Trail Classic in 

Gresham, Ore. in December. But 

that didn’t mean the 7-1 Spartans 

could take Redmond lightly. 

Skyline stuck to its guns, sealing 

its defensive game and limiting 

the Mustangs’ leading scorer, 

sophomore forward Jason 

Harrington, to just nine points. 

It beat Redmond 60-37 to 

go 4-1 in league play and 8-1 

overall. 

“We were definitely confident, 

but, I mean, Redmond’s 

record doesn’t show how really 

good they are,” Hutsen said 

after the game. “Redmond’s 

well coached and they’re 

always going to bring it. So 

we just had to not take it 

lightly and work hard.” 

Both teams moved the ball 

well offensively, but Skyline’s 

defense was the key to the game, 

a point of pride for the team, 

Davis said. 

“I think it’s a byproduct of 

what we emphasize each day in 

practice. Not to give you a bunch 

of clichés, but we truly believe 

it’s the one constant we can bring 

every night to a contest,” he said. 

“Our players take a great deal of 

pride in playing defense and we 

feel it’s helped us win games this 

season against some very good 

offensive teams.” 

Skyline came out strong down 

low in the first quarter. Hutsen 

See BASKETBALL, Page 19


Basketball 



Mount Si's Trey Botten grabs Eastlake's Shay Fuentes during their 

140-pound bout Jan. 7. Botten won by technical fall 22-5. 

Wrestle 


“I’m real happy with my 

entire lineup,” said Issaquah 

coach Kirk Hyatt. “The kids just 

really decided to really come out 

more aggressive than they have 

been.” 

Eastlake’s Leinweber did find 

victory that night, though. He 

pinned Issaquah’s Matt Solusod 

in 2 minutes flat. 

The Skyline Spartans also had 

a tough time with Issaquah. 

Despite the Eagles ceding 24 

points in forfeits, Skyline lost 44- 

33. 

Max Tickman (103) beat 

Skyline’s Justin Manipis 9-0, Jo 

Tono (112) lost to Issaquah’s Ty 

Morton, getting pinned at 3:30, 

and Issaquah’s Andrew Ramirez 

(130) pinned Tyler White in 1:25. 

In the 135-pound category, 

Issaquah’s Jordan Tanner pinned 

Ryan Anderson in 2 minutes and 

David White (140) pinned Ben 

Rah in 3:57. 

Skyline’s Jordan McCaslin 

lost to Joseph Tonnemaker 9- 

0, Taylor Evans (152) pinned 

Skyline’s Ian Crouch in 3:40 

and Danny Christianson, 171, 

of Skyline fell to Tyler Volk 

in 1:50. 

Skyline’s Ryan Adamson beat 

Alex Stevens in the 189-pound 

match. 

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had eight points in the first to 

give the Spartans a 14-6 lead 

into the second. 

Redmond managed to score 

just 14 points in the first half 

and Skyline led by 17 at the 

break. 

Statistically a somewhat 

stronger first-half team this 

season, Skyline slowed down a 

bit in the second half. 

It got a little sloppy on 

defense as the Mustang 

offense worked the ball to the 

inside a bit and made up some 

ground. 

“We just went away from 

what worked for a little bit. 

But then we re-established,” 

Hutsen said. “We were getting 

a lot of points inside, and if we 

didn’t take the first shot that 

we got, we could get anything 

that we wanted.” 

Hutsen finished with a 

game-high 20 points. 

Senior Austin Weige had six 

points and eight rebounds and 

senior Mikey Smith had four 

points and five rebounds. 

Bryan Cikatz finished with 

12 points. 

Redmond’s Andrew Squires 

had 11 points and Josh Bircher 

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Scoreboard 

Boys basketball 

Friday, Jan. 8 

Garfield 76, Eastlake 74 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Eastlake 19 15 14 26 74 

Garfield 24 19 13 20 76 

Eastlake scoring: Michael Russo, 31; Dillon 

Pericin, 14; Colin Nelson, 10; Conner Iraola, 9; 

Ryan Sikma, 4. 

Nathan Hale 63, Eastside Catholic 51 

1 2 3 4 Final 

East. Catholic 7 11 12 21 51 

Nathan Hale 14 6 23 20 63 

EC scoring: Nile Kramer, 15; Jake Springfield, 

15; Joey Schreiber, 12; Hunter Clements, 4; 

Chevelle Walker, 3. 

Tuesday, Jan. 5 

Eastlake 71, Bothell 55 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Bothell 7 20 20 8 55 

Eastlake 21 18 15 17 71 

Eastlake scoring: Conner Iraola, 26; Dillon 

Pericin, 12; Colin Nelson, 8; Michael Russo, 7; 

Anas Elkugia, 6. 

Eastside Catholic 66, West Seattle 49 

1 2 3 4 Final 

West Seattle 15 13 9 12 49 


EC scoring: Jake Springfield, 22; Joey Schreiber, 

16; Hunter Clements, 8; Nile Kramer, 8; Jonathan 

Callans, 6. 

Skyline 54, Lake Washington 53 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Lk. Wash. 13 12 19 9 53 

Skyline 11 20 11 12 54 

Skyline Scoring: Cory Hutsen, 16; Kasen 

Williams, 14; Connor Gacek, 12; Miles Edwards, 8; 

Will Parker, 2; Austin Weige, 2. 

Girls basketball 

Friday, Jan. 8 

Garfield 63, Eastlake 46 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Eastlake 14 3 14 15 46 

Garfield 17 19 20 7 63 

Eastlake scoring: Kendra Morrison, 15; Alyssa 

Charlston, 8; Sam Naluai, 6; Abby Carlson, 4; 

Mercedes Bass, 3; Annie Borges, 3. 

Nathan Hale 42, Eastside Catholic 33 

1 2 3 4 Final 


Nathan Hale 8 2 19 13 46 

EC scoring: Shannon Graves, 9; Sarah Hill, 8; 

Michaela O’Rourke, 8; Shelby Newell, 4; Lauren 

Johnson, 2; Morgan Kramer, 2. 

Redmond 46, Skyline 39 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Skyline 6 8 14 11 39 

Redmond 15 9 11 11 46 

Skyline scoring: Kassia Fortier, 14; Rachel Shim, 

8; Haley Smith, 7; Morgan Farrar, 5; Amy Ziegler, 

3. 

Wednesday, Jan. 6 

Eastlake 76, Bothell 26 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Bothell 8 11 4 3 26 

Eastlake 26 21 11 18 76 

Eastlake scoring: Kendra Morrison, 17; Alyssa 

Charlston, 15; Mercedes Bass, 12; Katy Ainslie, 10; 

Annie Borges, 6. 


1 2 3 4 Final 

West Seattle 9 13 7 11 40 


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

16; Lauren Johnson, 111; Shannon Graves, 6; 

Morgan Kramer, 3. 

Skyline 64, Lake Washington 47 

1 2 3 4 Final 

Lk. Wash. 12 8 9 18 47 

Skyline 14 15 17 18 64 

Skyline scoring: Rachel Shim, 16; Kassia Fortier, 

9; Allie Wyszynski, 8; Morgan Farrar, 7; Christy 

Cofano, 6; Haley Smith, 6; Amy Ziegler, 6. 

Wrestling 

Wednesday, Jan. 6 

Skyline 52, Redmond 21 

103 – Justin Manipis, S, pinned Justin Abe in 

5:49; 112 – Cathrine Kelly, R, def. Jo Tono 5-3; 

119 – Jared Weaver, S, def. Abraham Herrera 12- 

8; 

125 – Collin Erhet, S, pinned James Carney in 

3:01; 130 – Tyler White, S, pinned Curtis 

Adolphson in 3:40; 135 – Austin Kalina, R, pinned 

Ryan Anderson, R, in 5:00; 140 – Ben Reh, S, def. 

Brandon Long 3-2 in OT; 

145 – Jordon McCaslin, S, pinned Allan 

Vanderwalker in :31; 152 – Ian Crouch, S, won by 

forfeit; 160 – Danny Christianson, S, pinned James 

Larson in 2:58; 

171 – Simon Simov, R, won by forfeit; 189 – 

Joe Glass, R, Ind. Def. over Ryan Adamson; 215 – 

Anthony DeMatteo, S, def. Tyler Black by major 

decision 11-1; Heavyweight – Damen Moffitt, S, 

won by forfeit. 

Boys swimming 

Newport 110, Skyline 70 

200 medley relay — Skyline (Ashton Powell, 

Alex Marber, David Jett, Mitch Kim) 1:49.48. 200 

free — Ben Allen, N, 1:47.58*. 200 IM — Dehlan 

Gwo, N, 2:07.29. 50 free — Sebastian Bury, N, 

22.94. 

100 fly — Gwo, N, 55.99. 100 free — Sebastian 

Bury, N, 50.62. 500 free — Allen, N, 4:53.86. 200 

free relay — Newport (Bury, Nicholas Weiss, 

Gwo, Allen) 1:32.04*. 

100 back — Jett, S, 59.66. 100 breast — 

Andrew McGinnis, N, 1:11.46. 400 free relay — 

Newport (Bury, Gwo, Weiss, Allen) 3:30.71. 

Garfield 117, Skyline 68 

200 medley relay — Garfield (Reid Walker, 

Andrew Nemeth, Gary Kuo, Michael Snyder) 

1:47.14. 200 free — Walker, G, 1:47.13*. 200 IM 

— Nemeth, G, 2:02.14. 50 free — Hu, G, 23.30. 

Diving — Max Ogryzko, G, 100.80. 

100 fly — Kuo, G, 58.77. 100 free — Snyder, 

G, 52.27. 

500 free — Walker, G, 4:50.31*. 200 free relay 

— Garfield (Austin Prince, Chris Swanson, Kit 

Wesselhoeft, Grag Harper) 1:59.41. 100 back — 

Jett, S, 59.66. 

100 breast — Nemeth, G, 1:03.32. 400 free 

relay — Garfield (Hu, Layzer, Fulton, Walker) 

3:35.51. 

Co-ed swimming 

Eastside Catholic 138, Chief Sealth 

106, West Seattle 76 

Girls team scores: Chief Sealth 68, 


200 medley relay — Eastside Catholic 

(Hitchings, Whiteman, Rehn, Laris) 2:13.78. 200 

free — Hastings, CS, 2:25.15. 200 IM — 

Whiteman, EC, 2:36.10. 50 free — Frey, WS, 

26.51. 100 fly — not contested. 100 free — 

Nichols, CS, 1:15.03. 

500 free — Hastings, CS, 6:20.99. 200 free 

relay — Chief Sealth (Sauer, Boyd, Morro, Phillips) 

2:02.66. 100 back — Boyd, CS, 1:17.52. 100 breast 

— Kiel, CS, 1:23.65. 

400 free relay — Chief Sealth (Hastings, Moro, 

Sauer, Soria) 4:37.91. 

Boys team scores: Eastside Catholic 

83, Chief Sealth 38, West Seattle 34 

200 medley relay — Eastside Catholic 

(Hallowell, Maham, Leist, Walgamott) 1:54.13. 200 

free — Leist, EC, 2:11.19. 200 IM — Hallowell, EC, 

2:03.66*. 50 free — Jorgenson, CS, 26.85. 100 fly 

— Mahan, EC, 1:02.35. 

100 free — Hallowell, EC, 52.00. 500 free — 

Henry, CS, 7:03.98. 

200 free relay — Eastside Catholic (Hallowell, 

Dees, Mahan, Leist) 1:42.30. 100 back — 

McCornish, WS, 58.15. 100 breast — Asatiani, 

WS, 

1:13.01. 400 free relay — West Seattle 

(Asatiani, Jacobso, Nark, McCann) 4:23.07. 

*4A state qualifying time. 

Gymnastics 

Thursday, Jan. 7 

Redmond 162.2, Skyline 149.3 

All-around — 1, Akari Matsumoto, R, 34.9; 2, 

Amy Bearman, S, 33.85; 3, Ally Garcia, R, 33.7. 

Bars — 1, Matsumoto, R, 8.3; 2, Cristal Spinrad, R, 

7.7; 3, Bearman, S, 7.4. 

Beam — 1, Matsumoto, R, 8.85; 2, Ally Garcia, 

R, 8.5; 3, Bearman, S, 8.45. Floor — 1, (tie) 

Bearman, S, and Garcia, R, 9.6; 3, Matsumoto, R, 

9.35. 

Vault — 1, (tie) Matsumoto, R, Bearman, S, and 

Garcia, S, 8.4. 

Skyline 149.3, Liberty 146.15 

All-around — 1, Amy Bearman, S, 33.85; 2, 

Cortney Schirman, L, 31.1; 3, Hannah Bergman, L, 

30.6. Bars — 1, Bearman, S, 7.4; 2, (tie) Rachel 

Blyth, S, and Suzanne Scharlock, S, 6.4. Beam — 1, 

Bearman, S, 8.45; 2, Hannah Bergam, L, 8.0; 3, 

Morgan McCombs, S, 7.4. 

Floor — 1, (tie) Bearman, S, and Schirman, L, 

9.6; 3, Blyth, S, 8.6. Vault — 1, Schirman, L, 8.5; 2, 

Bearman, S, 8.4; 3, Blyth, S, 8.2. 

Mount Si 159.22, Eastlake 116.5 

All-around — 1, Georgia Reynolds, MS, 36.2; 2, 

Kennedy Richmond, MS, 33.05; 3, Maggen Wolk, E, 

30.4. Bars — 1, Reynolds, MS, 9.5; 2, Bianca Barr, 

E, 7.0; 3, Wolk, E, 6.8. 

Beam — 1, K. Richmond, MS, 9.25; 2, Reynolds, 

MS, 9.15; 3, Rachel Karavias, MS, 8.35. Floor — 1, 

K. Richmond, MS, 9.2; 2, Reynolds, MS, 8.65; 3, 

Hannah Richmond, MS, 8.15. 

Vault — 1, Reynolds, MS, 8.9; 2, K. Richmond, 

MS, 8.4; 3, Karavias, MS, 8.35. 

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Blotter 

Talking to God 

Police responded to a call at 

2:06 a.m. Jan. 2 about a 17-yearold 

boy whose father was concerned 

about his behavior. The 

father said his son had been on a 

three-day drug binge, was seeing 

things and talking to himself. 

Somebody had driven the boy 

home and said the boy had been 

lying in the middle of the road. 

When police asked the boy why 

he had been lying in the road, he 

said he was talking to God. Two 

officers detained the boy and 

sent him to Overlake Medical 

Center for a mental evaluation. 

Lost wireless router 

A man from the 20600 block of 

Northeast Fifth Place called 

police to report that someone 

stole his wireless router from his 

front porch. The incident 

occurred between 11 p.m. Dec. 30 

and 9 a.m. Dec. 31. The man said 

the router was worth $100. 

Burned out headlight 

leads to DUI 

A 20-year-old Issaquah boy 

was driving around with a 

burned out headlight, but that 

ended up being the least of his 

worries. Police arrested him at 

11:38 p.m. Dec. 30 for possession 

of marijuana, for illegal possession 

and consumption of alcohol 

by a minor and for driving under 

the influence of liquor or drugs. 

The boy was driving east along 

Southeast Issaquah-Fall City Road 

when police stopped him. 

The alcoholic odor on his 

breath gave an officer pause, and 

soon two officers found an 18- 

pack of beer, an empty beer bottle, 

and a brand new beer bong in 

the car. Police also found a plastic 

bag with what they suspect to be 

marijuana. Police impounded his 

car, took a breath sample at the 

Sammamish Police Station and 

booked him into the Issaquah Jail. 

He won’t know how 

to talk to Santa 

A man from the 3300 block of 

203rd Place Northeast called to 

report that two books delivered to 

his front porch were missing. He 

said he left his mail on his front 

porch, which included “How to 

Talk to Santa” and “iPhone: The 

Missing Manual.” He left them 

out between noon and 4:30 p.m. 

Dec. 29. He said the books were 

worth $60 combined. 

New Year’s Eve pranks 

Police responded to a woman’s 

call about eggs and firecrackers 

being thrown at her home. The 

incident occurred between 9 p.m. 

and 11:30 p.m. Dec. 31. The 

woman told police she heard fireworks 

going off by her front 

porch. When she came outside, 

she saw a group of juveniles running 

away. The next morning, 

she contacted her neighbor, 

whose daughter had invited 

friends over for New Year’s Eve. 

The neighbor provided names of 

the children and some others 

who showed up, uninvited. The 

woman told police she was not 

interested in pursuing charges 

against the children. 

Tone it down 

A man called police about a 

drunken, rowdy party occurring 

in his neighbor’s house. The 

house in question was a brick 

rambler on 212th Court 

Southeast. The man said that he 

believed under-aged drinking was 

going on at the house and 

thought the tenants had broken 

his cedar fence on another occasion. 

He asked that the police tell 

the tenants to “tone it down.” 

The officer went over, spoke 

with the tenant, a 19-year-old, 

and reminded him that drinking 

under 21 was illegal and that he 

should make sure his friends do 

not drink and drive. 

Open garage burglary 

Police responded to a burglary 

call on the 22100 block of 

Northeast 26th Place where a 

man said someone stole his cell 

phone, iPod, driver’s license and 

credit cards. The incident 

occurred between midnight and 3 

a.m. Dec. 26. He said he left his 

garage open and his car 

unlocked. The suspect left a 

checkbook, computer and other 

items of value in the car undisturbed. 

The phone’s last known location, 

according to its GPS tracking 

device, was on the 200 block of 

Coho Lane in Redmond. When 

police visited the area, they could 

not find anyone who knew anything 

about the phone. The man 

said it was possible that the 

phone is turned off and the 

Redmond location was the last 

place it was still on. Police have 

no further leads at this time. 

Take away my voice 

Police responded to a call 

about phone threats to a woman 

on Northeast 30th Court. The 

woman said a man from her 

Chinese Community Council had 

threatened to take away her voice 

and kill her during a phone call 

at 6 p.m. Dec. 20. 

Conflict between the two arose 

when the suspect tried to take 

donated money set aside for a 

Chinese holiday and use it for a 

council dinner instead. The 

woman told him he could not use 

the money for personal purposes. 

The woman told police she did 

not want to assist in prosecuting 

the man, but said she wanted the 

case documented. 

Reckless driving 

Police cited a 17-year-old driver 

for reckless driving and 

obstructing an officer and gave 

him a speeding ticket Jan. 2. The 

incident occurred on Southeast 

28th Street at 2:36 p.m. The 

patrolling officer said her radar 

gun showed the driver going 56 

mph in a 25 mph zone. After the 

officer turned on her emergency 

lights, the car drove off and 

turned onto Southeast 30th 

Street. He did not stop his car 

until two officers blocked him in. 

The officer wrote that he disregarded 

that there were pedestrians 

walking on the sidewalk 

while he was speeding on slick 

roads; she also noted that he 

refused to pull over when she 

activated her emergency lights. 

Items in the Police Blotter come 

from Sammamish Police reports. 

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