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Senior center loses city funds, vows to stay open

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

City cuts amount of water it draws from PFOS-contaminated well

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com

By Scott Stoddard sstoddard@isspress.com

The nonprofit group that runs the Issaquah Valley Senior Center has lost its city funding, but its leaders say they will do everything they can to ensure the doors stay open.

“We intend to continue operation and providing senior services and hope to cover for this loss,” said Courtney Jaren, the center’s executive director. “We welcome support from our community to help us renew our financial sustainability.”

After months of controversy, the City Council on Feb. 1 voted to cut all municipal funding to the Issaquah Valley Seniors, which currently operates the city-owned center.

“The city will pay the IVS for services provided to seniors from Jan. 1, 2016 to Feb. 14, 2016,” said Mayor Fred Butler in a letter sent Feb. 4 to Craig Hansen, chairman of the center’s board of directors.

The center was in line for up to $99,000 in 2016. Butler said the total amount paid would be just over $9,000.

For 2015, funding from the city represented about 44 percent of the center’s $221,490 budget, according to Warren Kagarise, city communication coordinator.

IVS has a lease on the current home of the senior center at 75 N.E. Creek Way to 2022. Jaren said she does not believe there are grounds in the lease by which the city could evict the group. She pointed out that the senior center has more than 800 paid members and a total of 2,900 seniors in the center’s database. Jaren said the group of dissenters at the heart of the center’s problems number about a dozen.

That group of dissenters includes former board members, one of who was banned from the center via a no-trespassing order issued by city police. The group also includes at least one other former member similarly banned from the center. The use of the notrespassing orders did not seem to sit well with some members of the City Council, but Jaren pointed

Issaquah Mayor Fred Butler says the city is reducing the amount of water that is being pumped from a well that is contaminated with a potentially hazardous chemical.

At the Feb. 1 meeting of the Issaquah City Council, Butler said Gilman Well No. 4, which has

shown levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate that significantly exceed federal provisional health advisory guidelines, will be used “as little as possible without affecting the rest of our water system.”

The chemical, known by the abbreviation PFOS, has been detected in Gilman Well No. 4 at levels higher than Environmental Protection Agency’s advisory benchmark

in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The well was not tested for PFOS before 2013, and was first detected as the city particpated in an EPA-organized testing program for what the federal agency calls “emerging contaminants.”

Issaquah has continued to use water from Gilman Well No. 4, but it is blended with water from at least one other well to bring the

PFOS level below the EPA provisional health advisory level.

“Issaquah meets all EPA requirements for safe drinking water,” Butler said at the council meeting.

Public Works Engineering Director Sheldon Lynne said the output from Gilman Well No. 4 has been See WELL, Page 2

SOME ENCHANTED EVENING

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Waltzes and jazz music in the air and feet were flying on the hardwood floor as the annual ‘Swingin’ In Vienna’ concert was held Feb. 6 at the Issaquah High School Commons, featuring the district-wide high school Evergreen Philharmonic Orchestra and big band swing music performed by the Issaquah Jazz Band.

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Issaquah company impresses investors on ‘Shark Tank’ Tibbetts indoor A panel of self-made millionaires and billionaires liked what they saw in two former Army rangers.

Combat Flip Flops co-founders Matthew “Griff” Griffin, an Issaquah resident, and Donald Lee jumped into the “Shark Tank” and emerged with three new company investors.

The duo impressed in their Feb. 5 appearance on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” persuading Mark Cuban, Daymond John and Lori Greiner to collectively invest $300,000 in Combat Flip Flops’ mission to manufacture peace through trade and simultaneously create economic solutions for those affected by conflict.

“It’s awesome,” Griff said.

“We’re going to help a lot of people and do a lot of good things. We think Mark’s going to help us dominate the tech space where we want to be. Daymond’s going to help us with branding and Lori’s going to help with distribution.

It’s a dream team. We couldn’t be more excited.”

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Combat Flip Flops cofounders Donald Lee (left) and Matthew ‘Griff’ Griffin, an Issaquah resident, make their pitches to the Sharks on the ABC-TV show ‘Shark Tank.’

Three Sharks invested a total of $300,000 in exchange for 30 percent equity in the business.

By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@isspress.com

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com

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All of the Sharks seemed to resonate with Combat Flip Flops’ “Business, Not Bullets” pitch, but some were concerned that the company, with its footwear, clothing and jewelry enterprises, had its hands in too many items.

“There’s a bigger picture here,” Cuban said, commenting on the good the business does by creating its products in war-torn environments and supporting the people that live there.

In 2015, Combat Flip Flops’ sales

increased 150 percent over 2014 while the company donated over 60 years of school to Afghan girls and cleared 1,533 square meters of land mines in Laos, keeping kids and other villagers safer, according to a press release.

City officials say a deal that would have brought an indoor tennis facility to Tibbetts Valley Park has been ruled out-of-bounds.

For over a year, Kirkland-based Northwest High Performance Tennis has been negotiating with the city to create six indoor and three outdoor tennis courts at the site of the city’s four public courts. The building would have included a lobby, locker rooms, a concessions stand and similar amenities. The developer would have paid the construction costs of between $3.5 and $4 million, as well as pay the city a lease for the property.

“We decided to table it to a future date,” said Brian Berntsen, deputy director of Issaquah Parks See TENNIS, Page 2 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA

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Threatened chapel begins to attract attention from preservation groups

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Second step in Issaquah School District bell times survey is live The next step in the Issaquah School District’s three-tiered process of collecting community feedback about school bell times is now live.

In step two of the Thoughtexchange survey, users will view a selection of comments submitted from the first step and use stars to rate them.

Participants should add stars to the thoughts and comments that they like.

Even if you did not participate in the first step, you can still participate in this step, the district says.

If you did participate in the first step, you likely received an email with a link inviting you to start step two.

Those who didn’t can still participate by using this link:

issaquah.thoughtexchange. com/invitation.

This step must be completed by Sunday, Feb. 14 at 11 p.m.

Superintendent Ron Thiele directed his senior staff in September and October to study the issue, keeping in mind the following parameters: 4School start and end times for all grade levels must occur between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

4The tiered bus system must be kept intact.

4The change to the high school start time must be significant.

4The costs associated with changing to later start and end times must be fiscally responsible.

in the property has been directed towards the 14 33-foot tall stained-glass windows When The Issaquah Press in the chapel sitting at the ran stories in print and onheart of the campus. They line about possible redevelwere crafted by a renowned opment of what is commonly French glass artist, Gabriel known as The City Church Loire. property, the newspaper and But Mortensen said the its website were flooded with building’s architecture, comments from across the especially the arched roof, country, all hoping at least is worthy of attention on its parts of the existing buildings own. could be preserved.

“It’s certainly a dramaticThe possible demolition looking building,” she added. of the buildings even got the The entire campus was attention of Sammamish designed by Seattle architect City Councilwoman Kathy John Maloney, a significant Huckabay.

Scott Stoddard / sstoddard@isspress.com figure in the area, and an“Our church worshipped in The Providence Heights College chapel, built in 1961, would be other reason the chapel and the chapel for several years the surrounding property is demolished if plans for a 130-home subdivision are approved. and those beautiful stained worthy of attempts to save it. glass windows were an inspi“This is property that reration to us all,” she said in group’s Jennifer Mortensen Homes of Bellevue. While ally merits statewide attenan email. admitted they are playing a Brixton has not made any tion,” Mortensen said.

While the campus was last bit of catch-up regarding the formal application to the City She added her organizaused by Trinity Lutheran Col- chapel site. of Issaquah, the developer did tion has been in contact with lege, the buildings were built “We’re not sure really how undertake a preapplication other preservation groups, as a school and convent for the property got under our process with an eye towards including the King County the Catholic Sisters of Proviradar,” Mortensen said. She the construction of 130 Historic Preservation Prodence. Sister Judith Desmasaid the property is decidedly homes on the 40-acre site. gram. rais, now Provincial Superior worth saving.

The developer has applied The county preservation for the order, attended the Sitting at 4221 228th Ave. for and been awarded certifi- office only became aware school for five years, from S.E., the existing buildcates for water and sewage of the campus and possible 1962-1967. ings began life in 1961 as availability on the property, development plans when “It was a very good time Providence Heights College. said Jay Regenstreif of the contacted by Mortensen, for me,” she said. Desmarias The school was later sold to Sammamish Water Plateau said Todd Scott, a preservasaid the windows and the Trinity Lutheran College, also and Sewer District. The water tion architect for the county.

Stations of the Cross that known as the Lutheran Bible district’s board of directors He said Issaquah has an circle the inside of the chapel Institute of Seattle, which awarded the certification at a inter-local agreement with are worth saving. held classes in the campus Feb. 1 meeting. Gaining such the county to help manage a The chapel’s plight has buildings until selling the certification from the water landmark program. But Scott attracted the attention of property to Kirkland-based district is one of many preadded as of Feb. 2, no one advocacy groups such as The City Church in 2008. liminary steps in the develop- from the city had contacted the Washington Trust for The property is now under ment process, she added. his office regarding the camHistoric Preservation. The contract to be sold to Brixton Most of the outside interest pus property.

CORRECTION

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a regulated contaminant, in Gilman Well No. 5.

“Well 5 has some naturally occurring arsenic in it,” from page 1 Lynne said. “It falls below the regulatory limits that are reduced from 250 gallons set under the Safe Drinking per minute to 140 gallons per Water Act.” minute.

Councilmember Paul WinLynne said that no water terstein, who is chairman from Gilman Well No. 4 of the city’s Infrastructure leaves the pumphouse before Committee, said the public it is blended with water from will have a chance to hear Gilman Well No. 5, which a report from Bret Heath of produces 1,150 gallons per the Public Works department minute. at a future meeting of the “Certainly, Well 4 is the committee. smallest production amongst “I think it’s important the all of the wells, and we have council remains up to date, reduced it from it producing even if it’s a very bland status its own maximum,” Lynne update,” Winterstein said. said.

“But I believe the situation Water quality tests have is changing, so having Bret shown detections of arsenic, update us, and the opportu-

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nity for the public to listen to that, as well, I think is important.”

The Issaquah Press first reported Jan. 15 that PFOS levels in Gilman Well No. 4 had been detected at levels up to three times higher than the EPA’s provisional health advisory level. The city’s water users were not made aware of that fact until a January 2016 update on the city website, and the EPA said the city was not obligated to interpret the readings of emerging contaminants for water users.

Butler said the city is working closely with the EPA and the state Department of Health. He also said the city is “continuing testing.”

He added: “We have hired independent experts who

are currently assessing our system and will recommend some potential next steps soon.”

The city has said previously that, with the help of experts, it is trying to determine how PFOS entered Gilman Well No. 4.

According to a fact sheet from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, “In laboratory studies, animals exposed to levels of PFOS far above the US EPA’s provisional health advisories exhibited low birth weight and slow growth, increased liver weights and effects on thyroid hormones.

Some studies have suggested that PFOS may cause certain types of cancer, but the evidence is limited.”

formance Tennis did not respond to requests for comment.

The plan had little support from City Hall. The city Parks Board voted not to support the proposal and the City Council followed suit.

“I think we should have an indoor tennis facility in Issaquah and I’m not opposed to public/private partnership

in general,” said Councilman Tola Marts. “But this particular plan is not good.”

Marts’ Services and Safety Committee voted 2-1 against the proposal.

Problems mentioned in various quarters included parking and the fact Northwest High Performance Tennis wanted to serve alcohol in a public park.

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came less than a month after IVS agreed to numerous stipulations that the council put on municipal funding from page 1 for 2016. According to the agreement, either side could out other organizations back out of the pact, with or in Issaquah, such as the without cause. Butler said IVS The Issaquah Police community center, issue nohad submitted a new behavDepartment will make trespass orders. ior policy as required by that use of the Clark ElemenThe controversy at the cen- agreement, but in a Jan. 29 tary School campus during ter peaked in June when the letter to Hansen, Butler said second-winter break. center’s leadership sent out a the policy “did not meet conThe department will work six-page letter to members. tract requirements.” The City on emergency response The letter made allegations Council voted to cancel the training exercises from 10 of misconduct by unnamed contract three days later. a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 16, acpeople connected or forJaren said that, with a few cording to an email sent to merly with the center. Those exceptions, members of the Clark Elementary families. comments included a claim council have never visited the “We appreciate the serthat the group of unnamed center. vices provided by our local seniors “bullied a vulnerable “We believe we have done police department, and are senior to death.” nothing wrong,” Jaren said. happy to provide them the “We are not going to have “What we have done here is use of our campus as part bullying or elder abuse here what we believe was in the of their training program,” in the center… We want this best interest of everyone.” the email said. to be a sanctuary, a safe haAdministration officials During this time, the ven for older people to age in said they would be working Clark Elementary campus peace,” Jaren said last week. to find another means to help will be closed to outside The June letter is at the seniors locally. use. The campus should be center of a defamation suit “If IVS determines to disempty anyway since every- filed against Jaren and the continue its operations, or reone will be gone for second center’s board. duce services in our building winter break Feb. 15-19.

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GUEST COLUMN

They get right to the heart City dedicated to Issaquah’s seniors of Valentine’s Day

By Mayor Fred Butler

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alentine’s Day is Sunday. The most successful commercialization of a date, ever.

At least with Christmas, many people still celebrate the birth of Christ.

My wife and I refuse to participate in this overt corporate creation. (Golly, I sound like a Bernie Sanders voter.)

My token protest on Valentine’s Day is purchasing orchids instead of roses for my wife.

However, many have enjoyed the holiday set aside to recognize our love for our significant other.

I reached out to the burgeoning writers I wrote about last week to share their most treasured Valentine’s Day memory.

South Cove resident Mark Bowman has been married to his wife, Janet, for 45 years. He can’t remember in all that time not exchanging Valentine’s cards. He said it didn’t take long to replace sappy romantic cards with humorous ones, and that eventually carried over into gifts.

“One year, Janet received Ricco, a rubber rat with a very realistic tail,” Mark wrote via email to me. “I placed it in the kitchen cupboard with the tail hanging out. It was the cupboard where we keep the sugar bowl.

I heard Janet’s scream from the next room. It was great fun to open the cupboard door and see the relief on my wife’s face.

“Ricco is now a pet that accompanies us on all our car trips. Why, you ask? Because it reminds us of the fun we have with each other, whether it’s on Valentine’s Day or just any day we chose.”

Retired lawyer Dave Smith’s favorite memory wasn’t technically on Valentine’s Day, but it was so good that it’s close enough.

“Melody and I were in Hawaii, staying in Kapalua on the north end of Maui,” Smith wrote.

“We had just finished golfing. It was Feb. 8, and we were sitting outside at a restaurant on the golf course. We were leaving the next day and I said I had an early Valentine’s Day present that I wanted to give her. She said she wanted to wait until we got home

to exchange gifts.”

Smith said he is not a “date” driven guy. But he felt the time was right, the location was right, and it turns DAVID out, he was HAYES right.

Press reporter “I opened the box, handed it to her and dropped on one knee in a very crowded restaurant. The people around us heard me ask her to marry me and we got a nice round of applause. Her comment was ‘It’s about time,’ then she started crying,” Smith wrote.

“A good day (and night) was had by all. We’re still together and still very happy.”

There’s something to say about love by the longevity of a marriage or relationship. Take Kathleen Lawrence and her husband, Joe, still together after 44 years of marriage. Sometimes, the best memory does come from simple places.

“After the first several years of the romantic ones, Joe and I, too, began to send funny ones to each other. In some odd way, they mean more than the mushy ones now,” she wrote to me. “A couple of years ago I sent Joe a Valentine’s card with the boy dog driving a motor scooter, like a Vespa, and the girl dog holding on to him from behind. He was turning to look back at her, and she was smiling coquettishly at him.

They were both wearing helmets, which for someone reason I found particularly funny. Both dogs looked madly in love and had a look on their faces like they were of one heart and mind. Strangely, I thought they almost resembled us, too. On the card it showed two other animals driving scooters separately and looking angry. The sentiment on the card read ‘I’d rather share the ride with you.’

If you have been married for as many years as Joe and I, you know exactly what that means.”

And that encapsulates why we should celebrate Valentine’s Day.

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ssaquah is a great place to live, work, play, learn and visit. Together, these qualities also make our city a great place to retire.

As a community, we want to provide the best quality services possible to Issaquah’s seniors.

Recently, after many months of consideration, it was determined that the city should take a different direction, and that the $99,000 we dedicate to senior services could be better spent.

Issaquah is growing, and it is time for us to re-evaluate services.

Our senior population reflects our community as a whole — it’s a diverse group of people with different needs, interests and capabilities.

Today, Issaquah’s senior population includes more than 7,000 people — reflecting an increase of more than 5 percent since 2010.

However, in that same time period, the number of people 65 and older who have fallen below the poverty level in the preceding

Education

Changing bell times hinges on transportation With the current discussions and concerns about whether and how much to change the start times of our schools, and the comparison of Issaquah schools with other districts such as Seattle and Bellevue, the fact is that the Issaquah School District is almost unique in the state of Washington with its transportation complexity. My guess is this is what requires the hour difference in start times between the grade schools and high schools. Unless some way can be found around this problem, it will be either impossible, or extremely expensive, to implement the desired changes, regardless of how attractive or beneficial they may be for the students. I only hope Superintendent Thiele can find his magic potion.

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referrals for seniors.

We will continue to work with our community’s engaged and growing senior population to explore these new opportunities.

Our vision is for every senior in the Issaquah community to have access to community resources and services.

People of all ages are drawn to Issaquah for our natural beauty, outstanding quality of life, worldclass medical care and strong sense of community.

We have a great opportunity to serve our community’s seniors, whether they’re longtime residents or new arrivals.

Welcoming residents of many generations not only makes Issaquah more diverse, it enriches the fabric of our community and helps all of us, young and old, learn more about each other.

In the months ahead, I look forward to working with Issaquah’s seniors and our entire community to enhance the available services.

Contact Mayor Fred Butler at mayor@issaquahwa.gov.

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12 months has grown by 65 percent. In addition to economic insecurity, seniors living below the poverty line face more challenges Mayor Fred Butler to maintaining and improving their quality of life.

Moving forward, we are evaluating several possible options to best serve our community’s seniors, from partnering with other agencies to expanding our own programming. If the existing Issaquah Valley Senior Center, which currently offers programming from a city facility, decides to discontinue its operations, we are hopeful the organization will partner with us on a seamless transition.

As a city, we have a long history of supporting seniors through our nonprofit partners and with direct services, such as discounts for fitness classes and utilities. Through grants, we support meals, transportation assistance and service

Government

One bridge is plenty for Confluence Park Your story about the Park Board’s selection of a design for the Confluence Park pedestrian bridge missed a key detail. The board was only presented with one lone design option to “choose” from.

The board and the public had a number of questions and concerns.

The three biggest being the high cost of the $1.5 million design, the location of the bridge, and the absurd redundancy of the similar 12-foot-wide footbridge at the other end of the park along Holly Street that the mayor’s Traffic Task Force is considering including in the November 2016 transportation bond.

Last summer, $2.3 million was spent on restoration at the confluence of Issaquah Creek. This newfound freedom has caused significant bank erosion, because the creek has taken new unexpected pathways.

Now the Parks and Recreation Department wants to put a bridge in the middle of the restoration area that was just freed of the old rock armoring. However, if the creek continues adjusting and wandering, the proposed Confluence Park bridge could easily be

threatened.

The Parks and Recreation Department’s “solution?” They would simply re-armor the areas around it.

The Holly Street footbridge is part of a separate unfunded $4.55 million package. These two nearly identical footbridges are only about a football field away from each other, but the Holly bridge connects to schools and the citywide “Walk and Roll” trail system, while the funded Confluence Park bridge doesn’t.

It’s ridiculous that the city won’t combine the two bridges closer to Holly Street. One optimized bridge is a more responsible use of our scarce taxpayer dollars, environmentally more sound, and would make for a more attractive park — one not simply filled with bridges.

C.A. Christensen Issaquah

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Merry Christmas Issaquah organizers say, ‘Thank you’ Issaquah Community Services volunteers would like to extend a heartfelt thank you and sincere gratitude to the numerous donors who have made it possible, through the “Merry Christmas Issaquah” fund, to support those in our community who have fallen on hard times. Our volunteers have the privilege of administering donated funds to those in need. With the amount of $78,800 raised, we can continue to provide emergency assistance to the families and individuals that live in the Issaquah School District that cannot meet their basic needs from month to month. Having a roof over one’s head, running water, lights and a warm home can now be possible for our local families. We especially would like to recognize the hard-working team at The Issaquah Press, as they have been a major supporter of this service to our community since 1981. In total, they have helped us raise over $1.1 million since 1981. “Merry Christmas Issaquah” is our major fundraising event. Without the help of The Issaquah Press reaching out to the community, our ability to raise funds would be costly and time-consuming. With their help, we are able to focus all our volunteer time on serving the lessfortunate. We would like to especially thank Christina Corrales-Toy, the reporter who wrote, edited

and published the genuine stories shared by some of the families and individuals we helped. Through her writings, we were able to reach readers and spread the message for help. We look forward to a continued partnership with The Issaquah Press and are continually grateful for their help.

Lori Birrell

President, Issaquah Community Services

Public health

City’s handling of water well is unsatisfactory

I understand that although levels of PFCs are several times higher than acceptable for health in Well No. 4, it doesn’t seem to be considered a hazard by the authorities because water from this well is blended with water from other wells. That, however, does not feel like a satisfactory solution to this resident. Why should the city not take measures to purify the water in Well No. 4, since it is one of our primary sources of drinking water?

Fluorochemicals in our drinking water are significant enough to have caught the attention of the New York Times Magazine. Now, according to the most recent Issaquah Press article, the city is “hiring independent experts, who will assess our system and recommend some potential next steps.” How long does that take? It seems to be such a slow process. Do we have to become another Flint, Mich., before we take more accelerated action?

Barbara Extract Issaquah

Religion

Muslim open house was a wonderful experience

I attended the Muslim community open house in Snoqualmie on Jan. 30. They gave a wonderful and educational discussion on Islam to a packed room. The Q-and-A was graceful and answers were honest. I would suggest that as forums are presented around the area that you try to attend one.

And have reasonable questions; they are receptive. And it seems to be a great way to meet and greet your neighbors.

General manager CHARLES HORTON

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OBITUARY Micky Schroeder A graveside committal will take place Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, at 11 a.m. at the Lower Micky Schroeder Hillside Cemetery, Issaquah. All are welcome. Please see the Flintoft’s website at flintofts. com for the obituary.

PETS OF THE WEEK Meet Levi, a 10-year-old Pomeranian mix, who would love to be your best bud. He’s a happy boy who Levi loves everyone he meets, and would happily trade kisses and tail wags for a squeaky or a good ear or chin scratch. At the end of the day, he’s happy to snuggle up next to you until it’s time to play again. If you have room in your heart and home for Levi, he is in foster care and it’s easy to set up a time to meet him by contacting our Adoption Team.

Mae is an 8-year-old black and white cat who would like to show you her skills at lapsitting and bedMae snuggling. She knows she›s a good girl and would be happy to welcome you home after a long day and remind you what life is all about, letting the ones you love know that they are loved.

Please come to Seattle Humane to meet Mae and see if she’s the best friend you were hoping for.

She will have you signing those adoption papers in no time.

To adopt these or other animals, call the Humane Society for Seattle/King County at 641-0080 or go to seattlehumane.org. All animals are spayed/ neutered, microchipped and vaccinated, and come with 30 days of pet health insurance and a certificate for a vet exam.

Liberty High principal leaving for district position Liberty High School will be in the market for a new principal next year.

Principal Josh Almy announced that he has taken a position in the Issaquah School District’s administration.

Almy will be the district’s new executive director of middle school education beginning July 1.

“The last four years that I have served as principal at Liberty have been the most rewarding and enjoyable professional experiences of my career,” he said in an email to Liberty families.

“Thank you to the Patriot community, from the bottom of my heart, for being the most amazing and supportive group of parents a principal could ever ask for.”

Superintendent Ron Thiele is now asking Liberty families to offer feedback on what’s important to them in the new principal search.

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Feb. 12. Thiele said he would like to have a replacement named by mid-March.

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Tent City 4 receives permit, begins 120 days at Sammamish church

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According to police and others, the suspect was allegedly selling methamphetPermit in hand, the home- amines to other campers. less encampment known as During the December Tent City 4 was scheduled meeting, Tent City 4 leaderto move onto the grounds of ship said they had greatly Mary, Queen of Peace Feb. 5 tightened security at the for a 120-day stay. camp. Identified only as Up to 51 camp members Perry, one resident said will be allowed to stay at the repeatedly that every person church. living in Tent City 4 must On Feb. 5, Jeff Thomas, have a valid government ID. Sammamish community deThey are checked for active velopment director, said Tent warrants and sex offenses.

City 4 and the host church In the case of warrants, had met all conditions laid Perry and others said camp out in city code. leadership notifies police. No The city spell outs resex offenders are allowed in quirements for such things the camp. as sanitation, an adequate Perry and camp manager water supply and screening Sam Roberson also repeatfrom any abutting residencedly stressed what they said es. The church also had to is a zero-tolerance policy hold a public meeting, which regarding drugs and alcohol. it did Dec. 30 with about 30 Those moving into the camp people in attendance. are required to agree to a The meeting was a quiet code of conduct. Violators one with little opposition to can be banned.

Tent City expressed. Rev. The plan was to have Tent Kevin Duggan said the city City 4 start moving in about 8 seems to be following a pata.m. Feb. 6, said Rich Shively, tern regarding Tent City. parish administrator for The first time Tent City 4 Mary, Queen of Peace, with visits an area, there is plenty set up complete sometime of opposition, Duggan said. that evening.

“But fears diminish,” he The camp brings with it added. “People realize it’s a their own portable toilets, well-ordered operation.” shower facilities, a clothes This is Tent City 4’s second washer and dryer, even a stay at Mary, Queen of Peace. somewhat aging large screen The encampment was last TV. there in 2013, when it stayed Shively previously said for 90 days. that according to SamDuring that time, police re- mamish rules, after a 21sponded to 30 calls involving day comment period open the encampment, said Sam- to residents, the city and mamish Police Sgt. Frances the church needed to have Carlson. Camp leadership what he called a reconciliwas responsible for about ation meeting to work out half those calls, she added. any last-minute problems.

There were eight arrests, Shively said officials of the including one for domestic church and city were in violence. But a drug arrest agreement no such meeting got the most attention. was needed.

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Eastside Firefighters take on Climb For A Cure

entertainment by illusionist and mentalist G.G. Green and the appearance, and disap Eastside Firefighters is pearance, of Ariadne, the teaming up with the LeukeGreek goddess and wife of mia and Lymphoma Society Dionysus, god of wine. in the annual Climb for a Guests can enjoy a tasting Cure campaign. of 17 wines, five distilled An upcoming Issaquah spirits and bites from nine event is part of the fundrais- local restaurants. In addition ing push as they prepare to a silent auction, guests for the big event at Seattle’s can also purchase wines and Columbia Center on March spirits with no sales tax.

6. Firefighters will be climbTickets are $45 and can ing stair-stepping machines be purchased online at from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 20 issaquahrotary.org. You must at the Issaquah Safeway, 735 be 21 or older to attend.

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Proceeds from The Grape Over the last eight years, Escape benefit the Issaquah Eastside Firefighters have Rotary Foundation and the raised $254,157.

Rotary’s charitable work in The Scott Firefighter Stair- the community. climb raises money through sponsorships, individual and History museums host department fundraising and downtown history hike entry fees.

The event each year feaIssaquah History Mutures 1,800 firefighters from seums guide Doug Bristol more than 300 different fire will lead participants on a departments and brought walk through the history of in a record $1.97 million for Issaquah on Feb. 20 at 10 blood-cancer research and a.m. Advance registration patient services last year. is required. The walk will Firefighters climb 69 flights cover roughly 2 miles of of stairs — 1,311 steps — in level sidewalk and will last full gear to reach the Coabout two hours. lumbia Center’s observation Tickets are $7.50 to deck. $10. Order tickets online through Eventbrite at bit.ly/1nQqdBJ. Rotary celebrates 10th Walks are held rain or annual Grape Escape shine. Organizers recomThe Issaquah Rotary celmend that you bring water ebrates the 10th anniversary and snacks, and request of its signature fundraiser, that you leave animal comGrape Escape, from 6-9 p.m. panions at home.

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Along the road less traveled

The Greg Glassman Duo, featuring Glassman (left) and Tom Brooks, performs jazz standards at the Issaquah Library.

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A VINE TIME WAS HAD BY ALL

Soft-spoken Anita Feng is Zen master, poet, clay sculptor — and now, novelist

By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com

Downtown was abuzz during the first Wine Walk of 2016

Photos by Greg Farrar / gfarrar@isspress.com

Rachel Houck (right) holds up her ‘Happy Birthday’ wine glass, a gift from neighbor Jenny Juang (left), as they stop at ArtbyFire Feb. 5 during the first Downtown Issaquah Wine Walk of 2016. More than 200 people signed up to sample the work of nine winemakers, two chocolatiers and enjoy the music of Larry Murante, the Greg Glassman Duo and the Dave Card Trio at downtown businesses, the Issaquah Library and the Historic Depot Museum. Four more Wine Walks this year will be offered on the first Friday of each month through June 3.

Downtown Issaquah Wine Walk participants brave slick streets and windy weather as they go from business to business on Front Street to sample wine, food and music.

lished, award-winning poems, her second book, “Internal Strategies,” is the tale of her husband’s life growing up in mainland China.

“While it has distinct poems, it also has an overarching story, not only of his life but of the history of China,” Feng said.

Her first book, “Sadie & Mendel,” is based on family stories on her mother’s side. “The story itself is fictional, a young woman comes from Eastern Europe, early 1900s, Jewish, setting up life in Detroit,” Feng said.

The book would win the Backwaters Press Prize.

Feng said her voice and experiences are tucked underneath the narrative in both “Internal Strategies” and “Sadie & Mendel.”

And so it is with her third book, “Sid,” that Feng makes her first venture into writing a novel. Feng said that while it’s a departure from poetry, it’s still very lyrical.

“Sid” has three strains — the ancient version of Siddhartha, from 2,500 years ago, about a privileged man who was destined to become the Buddha; a contemporary version of the story in the form of a young man who grew up in a privileged household; and the story of a rabbit and crow that is interwoven throughout the book.

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As a Zen master, it’s easy to see Anita Feng’s connection to the teachings of Buddha.

Listening to Feng’s story, however, it would not be hard to come away with a sense she has more of a mystical connection to Robert Frost.

Having published her third book “Sid” last fall, Feng, 63, has loved writing since fifth grade, when she declared in her youthful exuberance her intentions to be a poet.

“There were no poets around, so I decided I would write a letter to Robert Frost and ask for his advice on how to be a poet,” Feng said. “Unfortunately, he’d died six months previously. I was heartbroken at that. However, I still loved Robert Frost.”

Years later, she was attending Brown University, where she’d applied to be near two of her big inspirations in the poetry world who were teaching there — Michael Harper and C.D. Wright. There, she met her future husband, Nick Feng.

“He’d just come out of China very recently, having survived the cultural revolution,” she said.

He’d been sent to Manchuria for forced labor in 40-below-zero weather and said one of the things that helped him survive was a stanza, which someone had translated from a poem, he kept on the side of his tent. As much as it kept him going, he never knew who had written it.

“When we first met, he knew I was into poetry, so he asked if I knew who wrote this poem,” Feng said. “He said it went something like this: ‘There were two roads that converged in a woods. I took the road less traveled.’ Robert Frost. So that’s how our relationship began.”

Her connection to Frost had yet to come full circle, but a few years ago she was telling that story about how she and her husband met to a friend.

“She said, ‘You know, a friend of ours is the executor of Robert Frost’s will.’ It just so happened to be the 50th anniversary of his death. So she told him the story and he used it on a radio broadcast as part of the anniversary,” Feng said.

Feng would follow through on her promise to pursue poetry. In addition to many individually pub-

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SATURDAY, FEB. 13 Grand Ridge Watertower Loop Trail Work Party, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., details and registration at wta.org/ volunteer/trail-work-parties Cougar Loop Hike, strenuous, 10.5 miles, up to 1,900-foot elevation gain,

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Need plans for Valentine’s Day? Vote for your favorite zoo couples during Woo at The Zoo Feb. 14 at Cougar Mountain Zoo. 8 a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org AARP Tax Help, 10 a.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430 Issaquah Alps Area Dog Hike, easy, 4 to 6 miles, up to 900-foot elevation gain, 10 a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org Yoga Club, Hatha yoga for new and experienced yogis alike, 10:30 a.m., Blakely Hall, 2550 N.E. Park Drive, 507-1107 ‘Crimes of the Heart,’ 2 and 8 p.m., Francis J. Gaudette Theatre, 303 Front St. N., $36 to $68, villagetheatre.org Issaquah Community Talent show, 3-5 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430 Father Daughter Valentine Dance, grades K-2 4-6 p.m., grades 3-5 7-9 p.m., Community Center, 301 Rainier Blvd. N., $20 adult resident, $24 adult

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also contains my experiences,” she said.

For example, there’s a son of a Harvard professor of linguistics. One of the things he’s subjected to as a child is a very large dictionary.

“Sid is asked the definition of sibilant,” Feng said. “He’s only 6 years old, so he has no idea. So his father says, ‘Look it up in the dictionary.’

That scene is based on my own experience. I grew up in a family of professors. There was a dictionary in our own home, and I dreaded it.”

Feng admits the pages of “Sid” are not filled with just her words. Interspersed is the art of her collaborator, Seattle artist Linda Davidson.

“We had a very rich exchange,” Feng said.

“Sometimes I would write something and she’d give a response to it and vice versa.

When I finished the whole book, she went through it, did hundreds of drawings to

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One Cougar Mountain Zoo animal couple will receive a special treat on Valentine’s Day. The public will decide who wins. Head to the zoo’s Facebook page to view pictures of the couples and vote: facebook.com/ cougarmountainzoo.

It’s all part of the festivities connected to “Woo at the Zoo,” a special zoo-hosted Valentine’s Day event.

Visitors will be able to enjoy a series of educational mini-lectures and animal enrichment demonstrations with a Valentine’s Day theme.

The event goes from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 14. at Cougar Mountain Zoo, 19525 S.E. 54th St.

Seattle Humane is sponsoring its first-ever “My Pet Loves Me Most” video contest.

There are two ways to enter a 10-second video: 4Post to the Seattle Humane Facebook page at facebook.com/seattlehumane.

4Email to marketing@ seattlehumane.org with a subject line of “Pet Video.”

The staff at Seattle Humane will select the video that depicts the maximum display of love. The winner’s pet will be featured on Seattle Humane’s Facebook and Twitter profile pages through the month of February. Entry deadline is midnight on Valentine’s Day.

she’s been a member of the Blue Heron Zen Community in Seattle. Feng said Zen Issaquah author Anita meditation helps bring order Feng will be a guest to a chaotic world. speaker about her book “I was living in Maine at “Sid” at the Search for the time when a friend inMeaning Book Festival, troduced me to meditation,” Saturday, Feb. 27 at Feng said. “The first time Seattle University.

I experienced it, I thought, Go to seattleu.edu/ ‘Wow, this is really a way to searchformeaning for be present and not miss my life, not miss any opportunimore details. ties for what’s going on.’ ” She stuck with it, studying many years under a Zen go in with the book to choose master before attaining the from. It made the process all full level of Zen master herthe more rich.” self in 2015.

As much as Feng has enFeng said Zen meditation joyed the writing process, life has common roots to yoga. has intervened between each Through a practice, through publication — each book took meditation, you achieve a 10 years to complete. presence of mind and relax“It’s not like that was the ation of body. only thing I was doing,” Feng “In particular, Zen meditasaid. “I had a whole other tion focuses on the mind. We career making sculptures, don’t normally realize how plus there was the writing much the mind is chattering and teaching.” away. It’s a huge distraction in In addition to writing terms to be present, to listen to poetry after earning a Master others what they’re saying.” of Fine Arts in poetry, Feng When not teaching a prachas been into Zen meditation tical curriculum on meditafor 40 years. Since coming tion, Feng can be found in to Issaquah 20 years ago, her home’s basement, where

she has set up her clay shop, creating Raku statues.

“Drawing on years of meditation, Raku is like a sculptural version of the book of Sid,” Feng said. “In ‘Sid,’ I was very interested in taking an ancient story and making it modern. With sculpture, I’m taking iconic, standard Buddha figures, and creatively translating that, also.”

As busy as she is, Feng doesn’t plan to wait another 10 years for her next novel.

She’s already steeped in crafting it.

“It is yet another entirely different book — a memoir,” Feng said. “ I had already started it a while ago, so it’s mostly done. This one won’t take 10 years.

“This is a memoir of my career within clay, but most of my career in clay was spent making musical instruments. So this is a memoir about making music instruments out of clay.”

She added the best link to find all of her works, published in ink or crafted in clay, is at her website, golden-wind.com.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 18 Grand Ridge Watertower Loop Trail Work Party, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., details and registration at wta.org/ volunteer/trail-work-parties Business University, The Issaquah Press Group will tell you how to monitor and improve your online reputation, Swedish Hospital Conference Center, 751 N.E. Blakely Drive, free for members, $25 nonmembers, issaquahchamber.com Computer Class: Microsoft Excel 2013, level 1, 6 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, preregister, 392-5430 Talk Time, an English Conversation Class, 6:30 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430 ‘Crimes of the Heart,’ 7:30 p.m., Francis J. Gaudette Theatre, 303 Front St. N., $36 to $68, villagetheatre.org

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Grand Ridge Watertower Loop Trail Work Party, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., details and registration at wta.org/ volunteer/trail-work-parties Winter Art Camp ‘Painting with the Masters,’ ages 5-8, 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday through Friday, artEAST Art Center, 95 Front St. N., daily price $30 members, $35 nonmembers, arteast.org Monkey and the Crocodile: an Asian Folktale Puppet Show, 11 a.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430 ‘Safe Travel,’ live online Q & A, 11 a.m., Christian Science Reading Room, 415 Rainier Blvd. N., 392-8140 ‘Zentangle Beyond Basics,’ noon to 2 p.m., artEAST Art Center, 95 Front St. N., $43 members, $48 nonmembers, arteast.org The Rovin’ Fiddlers, 7-9 p.m., Issaquah Valley Senior Center, 75 N.E.

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nonresident, $40 at door, 837-3300 Second Saturday Film Series: ‘For Pete’s Sake,’ 7 p.m., City Hall, 130 E. Sunset Way, 837-3000 Harmonious Funk, 7:30 p.m., Vino Bella, 99 Front St. N., 391-1424 Expertease, 8 p.m., Pogacha, 120 N.W. Gilman Blvd., $5 cover, 392-5550

All government buildings and libraries closed in observance of Presidents Day. ‘Figure Drawing Open Studio,’ short pose 9:30-11:30 a.m. and long pose noon to 2 p.m., artEAST Art Center, 95 Front St. N., $20 or $30 for both sessions, arteast.org Issaquah Alps Area Dog Hike, easy, 3 to 5 miles, up to 900-foot elevation gain, 10 a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org

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a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org Sweetheart Hike, join a Park Ranger for a walk and talk about animals pairs and more, 1 mile, 50-foot elevation gain, noon, Lewis Creek Visitor Center, 5808 Lakemont Blvd. S.E., 452-4195 ‘Crimes of the Heart,’ 2 and 7 p.m., Francis J. Gaudette Theatre, 303 Front St. N., $36 to $68, villagetheatre.org

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Issaquah sophomore Gunner Starren (top) is about to pin Redmond sophomore Jack Ellis in his 138-pound bout during the first round of the KingCo wrestling championship Feb. 6 at Skyline High School. Starren won two more rounds by pin and beat Henry Foster of Mount Si 9-3 in the final for the championship.

Issaquah wrestlers repeat as KingCo tournament champions

By Sam Kenyon skenyon@isspress.com The Issaquah Eagles wrestling team left the Class 4A KingCo Conference tournament as the champions for the second year in a row.

The team earned 209 points, ahead of the second-place team, the Mount Si Wildcats, who scored 186 during the Feb. 6-8 event at Skyline High School.

In addition to earning the title of KingCo tournament champions, the Eagles were also the league’s dual-meet champions, going 8-0 in their head-to-head matches this season.

Issaquah ended the tournament with four individual champions in their respective weight classes: Steven Solusod at 126 pounds, Gunner Starren at 138, Kai Hapke at 160 and Chance Gunter at 182.

The Eagles went 36-20, producing 11 top-five placers and five finalists. The top four wrestlers in each weight class advanced to the Feb. 13 regional tournament at Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma. The fifthplace finishers serve as alternates.

Issaquah’s other regional qualifiers included Kaleb Solusod (second, 145), Dean Pearson (third, 170), Daniel Quaranta (third, 182) and Terry Zaragoza (fourth, 220).

Chip Hoehl (126), Dakota Kutz (132) and Toby Lewis (195) will be alternates to the next round.

“We’re right on target, like we planned,” Issaquah head coach Kirk Hyatt said.

Hyatt won the conference’s Coach of the Year award and his assistant, Manny Brown, won Assistant Coach of the Year.

After winning last year’s KingCo tournament, Hyatt and his team

had high expectations for this season.

“Our goal this year was to win the league title and come in here and win the league tournament,” he said.

Skyline The Skyline Spartans hosted the KingCo tournament, although that wasn’t the original plan. The event was originally scheduled to take place at Juanita High School in Kirkland, but had to move to Skyline where the championship matches were finished on Feb. 6 and the consolation brackets played out on Feb. 8.

The Spartans handled the last-minute hosting duties well See WRESTLING, Page 9

Issaquah seniors Chip Hoehl (left) and Steve Solusod face each other in their 126-pound bout during the second round of the KingCo wrestling championship Feb. 6 at Skyline High School. Solusod beat his teammate by fall at 4:17 and won two more rounds during the day to claim the championship, with Hoehl winning in a consolation final for fifth.

Local swim coach to be inducted into Hall of Fame A local swim coach will be inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame this fall.

Ray Woods, a coach at Arena Sports/Issaquah Fitness, will join an elite group, according to a news release. Fewer than 100 coaches have received the honor since 1958.

“The Issaquah swimming com-

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munity is lucky to have such a seasoned and well-respected swim coach,” said Don Crowe, CEO of Arena Sports, which owns Issaquah Ray Woods Fitness. “The kids in our swimming program

don’t have to be elite athletes to take advantage of Coach Woods.

He brings a lifetime of coaching and teaching expertise that is unparalleled in our area. He has been a great mentor for all our swimming instructors and coaches.”

Woods currently oversees a competitive swimming program for children ages 6-12, but the

longtime coach has worked with athletes of all skill levels.

According to a news release, Woods helped swimmer Dana Schoenfield make the 1972 Olympic team. He also coached at the University of New Orleans, the University of Miami and the University of Texas.

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ing as a teenager in Long Beach, Calif., where he met Greta Andersen, a well-known Olympic gold and silver medalist. She took him under her wing and taught him to teach a learn-to-swim program.

Woods has been a coach at Arena Sports/Issaquah Fitness since 2011.

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SKYLINE GIRLS, ISSAQUAH BOYS WIN RIVALRY GAMES

Photos by Scott Stoddard / sstoddard@isspress.com

The Issaquah and Skyline basketball teams closed out their regular seasons with their Stinky Sneaker rivalry games at Issaquah High on Feb. 5.

The Skyline girls defeated the Eagles 59-55 behind 17 points from Kailey Kassuba and 14 from Jade Loville. Above left, Kassuba (21) battles Issaquah’s Lauren Longo (3) for a loose ball during the second half of the Spartans’ win. In the boys game, Issaquah cruised to a 51-38 victory.

Above right, Issaquah’s Trevon Ary-Turner heads for the basket past Skyline’s Braden Ahlemeyer during the first half of the Eagles’ win.

Issaquah’s boys opened KingCo tourney play Feb. 9 against Inglemoor while Skyline squared off against Bothell. On the girls side, Issaquah opened the conference tourney Feb. 10 against Woodinville and Skyline faced Eastlake. The tournaments began after The Issaquah Press’ deadline.

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Patriots sports teams begin postseason play

By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@isspress.com The Bellevue girls basketball team is one of the best in the nation, and the Wolverines showed it in a Feb. 3 win over Liberty.

Two Bellevue teammates combined to score more than the whole Liberty roster in the 82-28 victory.

The Wolverines’ Shelby Cansler had 19 and Anna Wilson, a Stanford-bound national basketball recruit and the younger sister of Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, had 18 points.

Despite the regularseason ending loss, the 7-13 Patriots head into its Class 2A bi-district tournament Christina Corrales-Toy / ccorrales-toy@isspress.com as the KingCo No. 1 seed, having bested Sammamish, Liberty’s Samantha Kelderman fights through traffic on her way to the hoop. the league’s only other 2A school, in its two meetings. The top six finishers in the ball team ended its regular two teams met again in the Liberty kicks off its playoff 16-team tournament will season run with a nonconfirst round of the district run at 7 p.m. Feb. 11. The advance to regionals. ference win over Tyee Feb. tournament. Liberty, the Patriots will host Tyee in 5.

KingCo No. 1 seed, hosted the first round. Subsequent The 75-52 win bodes Tyee Feb. 10, but results Boys face Tyee again rounds will be held at Foss well for the Patriots, since were not available at press and Curtis high schools.

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enough to walk away in third place with a score of 165.5. Skyline won 30 matches and lost 16, producing eight top-five placers and four finalists.

Freshman Kenta Despe won the championship match in the 113-pound weight class. At 106, Cole Turner finished second and Kona Bertolino finished third. Adrian Abraham and Matt Oss were runners-up at 152 and 195, respectively Scott Huff (132), Jacob Gehrett (138) and Ricky Dua (160) were third in their divisions. Paul Abboud (126) finished fourth.

Akash Yechuri (138) was fifth.

Skyline head coach Gus Kiss and his team are now focusing on the regional tournament, but with the offseason soon approaching, Kiss is working on a way to pack in more wrestling.

Working with Jake Crawford, the coach at neighboring Eastlake, Kiss is putting together the Sammamish Wrestling Club that would include wrestlers from several

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The Liberty wrestling team finished third at the Class 2A Seamount-KingCo sub-regional championship.

Liberty’s Sean Surowiec (132 pounds), Ethan Le (138), Carson Armstrong (160) and Cooper Antin (220) each finished second in their weight classes.

Cooper Murch (138), Juan Flores (145) and Jacob Lex (152) placed third; Kyle George (126), Joseph Jarmon (145) and Brendon Nguyen (195) finished fourth; Aiden Gage (106) and Andrew Ha (120) took fifth; and Mason Antin (132) and Skyler Roe (152) got sixth.

Liberty High School will

next host the Region 2 wrestling tournament. Class 2A teams from Seamount, KingCo and South Puget Sound leagues will compete.

Doors open at 9 a.m. Feb. 13. Finals should start at 3 p.m.

Gymnasts compete at KingCo championship

The Liberty gymnastics team took sixth place, out of seven teams, at the Class 2A/3A KingCo championship.

Kendall Boston was the Patriots’ top performer, earning third place in the vault and seventh in the floor routine.

Boys swim team prepares for districts The Liberty swim team will compete in the district swim meet at Hazen High School Feb. 12-13. State is the week after, Feb. 19-20 at the King County Aquatic Center.

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NOTICE OF ORDINANCES PASSED BY ISSAQUAH CITY COUNCIL Following is a summary, by title, of ordinances passed by the Issaquah City Council on February 1, 2016, to be published in the Issaquah Press on February 11, 2016.

ORDINANCE NO. 2758 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, AMENDING SECTION 3.11.060 OF THE ISSAQUAH MUNICIPAL CODE IN ORDER TO CODIFY AND UPDATE PROVISIONS REGARDING THE LODGING TAX ADVISORY COMMITTEE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. ORDINANCE NO. 2759 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, AMENDING CHAPTER 2.89 OF THE ISSAQUAH MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE ECONOMIC VITALITY COMMISSION; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

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The Italian interurban trolley that the Issaquah Valley Trolley group hoped to have trucked to an Oregon museum was biding its time along Rainier Boulevard North behind the Darigold plant last week. The trolley group was trying to find a freight specialist that could accomodate the 1930s-era machine. As a last resort, the group said, the trolley may have to be moved back alongside the Issaquah Valley Trolley barn, where it sat for more than a decade.

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No. 15-3-07847-3KNT Summons for Nonparental Custody Proceeding (SM) In re the Custody of: Isabella Noelle Sparks Child(ren), Marcia C Sparks Petitioner(s)and Tony Manzanares Respondent(s).

To: Tony Manzanares 1. An action has been started against you in the above court requesting that the petitioner be granted custody of the following children: Isabella Sparks Additional requests, if any, are stated in the petition, a copy of which is served upon you with this summons.

2. You must respond to this summons and petition by filing a written response with the clerk of the court and by serving a copy of your response on the person signing this summons.

3. Your written response to the summons and petition must be on form WPF CU 01.0300, Response to Nonparental Custody Petition. Information about how to get this form may be obtained by contacting the clerk of the court, by contacting the Administrative Office of the Courts at (360) 705-5328, or from the Internet at the Washington State Courts homepage: http://www.courts.wa.gov/forms 4. If you do not file and serve your written response within 20 days (60 days if you are served outside of the state of Washington) after the date this summons was served on you, exclusive of the date of service, the court may, without further notice to you, enter a default judgment against you ordering the relief requested in the petition. If you serve a notice of appearance on the undersigned person, you are entitled to notice before an order of default may be entered.

5. You may demand that the other party file this action with the court. If you do so, the demand must be in writing and must be served upon the person signing this summons. Within 14 days after you serve the demand, the other party must file this action with the court, or the service of this summons and petition will be void.

6. If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time. Copies of these papers have not been served upon your attorney.

7. One method of serving your written response and completed worksheets is to send them by certified mail with return receipt requested.

This summons is issued pursuant to Superior Court Civil Rule 4.1 of the state of Washington.

Laura Balbiani, Molly Carle and Lauren Christian have been selected to the 2016 Girl Scout Global Action team. The Issaquah Scouts will help spread awareness and take action to help overcome violence against women and girls.

The Global Action Team is a group girls in grades 9-12 who will spend a year researching violence against women. Through collaborations with local organizations and community members, Global Action Team members become advocates for women everywhere, and help educate and inspire others to do the same.

Balbiani said: “Increasing awareness of violence against women and girls is important because it’s essential for making advance-

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Two officers responded to the McDonald’s at 1305 N.W. Gilman Boulevard at 12:14 p.m. Jan. 29 to a report of an unwanted guest. They spoke with a man who had been there since 6 a.m. He said he was homeless and hadn’t eaten in a couple days. The officers purchased him lunch and gave him money for the bus. He left without incident.

Vehicle break-ins 4Someone broke into a vehicle in the 900 block of Northeast High Street sometime before 2 p.m. Jan. 30 and stole some tools. Total loss, including damage, was $200.

4At 3:04 p.m. Feb. 1, the owner of a 2004 Honda Accord reported that someone broke into the car in the 800 block of 5th Avenue Northwest and stole $2 in loose change.

4Someone stole $300 in cash from sometime before 2 p.m. Feb. 2 from a vehicle in the 19200 block of Southeast 45th Place.

4Someone entered an unlocked vehicle in the 300 block of Southeast Crystal Creek Circle sometime overnight Feb. 3 and stole $30 from the glove box.

4Sometime overnight Feb. 3, someone entered a Ford F150 in the 1500 block of Sycamore Drive Southeast and stole the keys to the owner’s Mini Cooper.

4Sometime before 3:21 p.m. Feb. 3, someone broke into a vehicle in the 300 block of Southeast Crystal Creek Circle and stole $560 in car parts and other miscellaneous items.

Vacuum and leaf blower?

At 4:34 a.m. Jan. 31, a resident in the 700 block of Mountain Park Boulevard reported a theft of shoes, vacuum and leaf blower. Total loss was valued at $310.

Dine and dash A 33-year-old Spokane man was arrested at 2:55 p.m. Jan. 31 for leaving a restaurant without paying the $59.03 bill in the 100 block of Front Street North.

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ments in our society. The more people know about the issue, the more opportunities can be provided for women and girls around the world.”

According to Carle, “It is extremely important to increase awareness of violence against females because we are equal to men. Violence against women and girls is one of the most overlooked forms of discrimination.”

Christian said: “Being a part of this team makes me feel like I’m making a difference in the world, even if it is just starting out with teaching middle-schoolers about a topic.”

Their culminating project is a Global Action Summit for girls in grades 6-8, where they teach the girls the importance of advocacy and global competency.

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Dated: 12-30-15 File original of your response with the clerk of the court at: REGIONAL JUSTICE CENTER 401 4th Ave. North, Room 2C Kent, WA 98032

Serve a copy of your response on: [X] Petitioner [You may list an address that is not your residential address where you agree to accept legal documents.

Any time this address changes while this action is pending, you must notify the opposing parties in writing and file an updated Confidential Information Form (WPF DRPSCU 09.0200) with the court clerk.] [ ] Petitioner’s Lawyer [Name] Marcia C Sparks [Address] 34234 18th Pl S. Federal Way, WA 98003

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4A 36-year-old Seattle woman was arrested at 4:35 p.m. Feb. 2 for fourth-degree assault in the 1800 block of 15th Place Northwest.

4A 26-year-old Mount Vernon man was arrested at 11:33 p.m. Feb. 2 for fourthdegree assault in the 100 block of East Sunset Way.

High-energy thief A 37-year-old Issaquah man was arrested at 7:06 p.m. Feb. 2 for attempting to steal an unknown number of energy drinks in the 100 block of East Sunset Way.

It’s a front yard, not a trash can

A resident in the 100 block of Northwest Dogwood Street reported at 1:02 p.m. Feb. 3 that sometime overnight someone dumped a deflated basketball, a broken child’s golf club and an artificial plant on her front yard. After asking what to do with the items, the officer advised the homeowner to throw them in her garbage can.

Read more reports online at issaquahpress.com.