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Marivaux neighborhood asks to join Sammamish By J.B. Wogan
About 6.46 acres on the east side of Sammamish might join the city within the year. Residents from the Marivaux neighborhood (referred to as Ravenhill in some city documents) have petitioned to annex into Sammamish. If the process goes smoothly, the 21 lots, and about 64 people, would become part of Sammamish by March 2010. Steven Johnson, one of the four residents to sign the first petition, said early signs indicate the annexation should go off without a hitch. Map by Dona Mokin “In discussions, everyone’s The neighborhood on the eastern edge of the city would add been for it,” Johnson said. “It’s about 64 new residents. kind of an easy deal.” Douglas Wiener, a next-door he supported the annexation, would want,” Wiener said. “I just neighbor of Johnson’s, didn’t too. sign the first petition, but said See ANNEX, Page 3 “It’s something I personally Photo by Christopher Huber
A festive Halloween display sits beneath the Sunny Hills Elementary reader board Oct. 26.
After 35 years, cop still has time to play By J.B. Wogan
Much to his surprise, a group of teenagers was waiting at the Seven years ago, a student student’s house to see the match. came down “I kind of from the walked into a On the Web bleachers durtrap,” Chapin ing an To see video of Stan Chapin as a said. “He was Eastlake basvelociraptor or Hannah Montana, good. He ketball game visit www.SammamishReview.com took the lead and chaland then I lenged Stan Chapin in pingpong. came back and then I finally beat Chapin, a Sammamish police offi- him.” cer, was working the game, but he agreed to play afterwards. See CHAPIN, Page 8
Council allows reader boards By J.B. Wogan
Ruth Weaver, a senior at Eastlake High School, waited for two hours on a school night for a chance to talk about electronic reader boards with the Sammamish City Council. Weaver has been in student government since ninth grade. “I’ve been in leadership in four years. I’ve been changing the reader board for four years. That has not been fun,” Weaver said, describing weekly efforts to change the school’s current sign by 228th Avenue and Northeast 4th Street. Weaver said students have to climb a ladder amid rain and wind for more than an hour at time. “It’s just an unpleasant expe-
rience, but it’s something that we do because we care about the community,” she said. Weaver was one of a handful of residents and school officials that spoke in favor of making an
“It’s something that we do because we care about the community,” – Ruth Weaver, Student – exception in the city’s sign code to allow high schools to have electronic reader boards. Administrators at Eastlake and Skyline high schools said electronic reader boards would
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save students class time, make changing the signs less dangerous, and provide an opportunity to advertise the school’s full range of weekly events, not just a football game or a weekend play. They got their wish. The City Council voted 6-0 in favor of a five-year pilot program that allows high schools on 228th Avenue to use electronic reader boards. (Councilwoman Kathy Huckabay was absent.) The signs can be 10 feet tall and up to 32 square feet in size with static messages that change once a minute. While the end vote was unan-
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