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117th Year, No. 14

Thursday, April 7, 2016

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City leaders throw support behind light rail plan

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com While the administration in Issaquah is sold on the Sound Transit 3 package, which could ultimately bring light rail to the city, leaders in neighboring Sammamish aren’t so enthusiastic.

“I am thrilled that Sound Transit’s draft ST3 package includes several significant projects for the Eastside, including light rail to Issaquah and Redmond and bus rapid transit service on I-405,” said Issaquah Mayor Fred Butler in an email.

Butler has served on the board

of Sound Transit since 2003 and last year chaired the board’s capital committee.

Issaquah City Council President Stacy Goodman described light rail as a “key component” of the urban-style growth plan in Central Issaquah, plans the city has promoted for years.

But the draft package benefits some towns while leaving others, such as Sammamish, sitting on the side of the road, said Sammamish Councilwoman Kathy Huckabay, a member of the Eastside Transportation Partnership. Huckabay said many people believed levies in

place for ST2 would go away. They will not.

“It is a big package and it’s going to take a very long time, and in the meantime, we’re all going to be sitting in traffic,” Huckabay said.

In total, ST3 calls for $50 billion in new projects and services, funded by $27 billion in new tax collections that could run through 2041, along with existing taxes, long-term debt and federal grants.

If approved as written, ST3associated property taxes would See LIGHT

The proposed Bellevue-to-Central Issaquah light rail line would be 9 miles long and would include a total of three stations: Central Issaquah, Richards Road (Factoria) and Eastgate. A provisional station is possible in the vicinity of Lakemont.

RAIL, Page 2

Sound Transit

City asks council for $1 million more to tackle contaminated well

By Scott Stoddard sstoddard@isspress.com The city administration was planning to ask the City Council on April 4 to authorize expenditures totaling $1.08 million as part of its effort to remedy the contamination of Gilman Well No. 4.

According to the text of an agenda bill to be considered by the council at its Monday meeting, the money will be used to: design and construct necessary improvements to support equipment that would remove perfluorinated compounds The City Council meeting referred from Well to in this story was held after The No. 4’s water; Issaquah Press went to press. further study Please go online to issaquahpress. the aquifer; and com for the latest updates on this study long-term story. strategies for maintaining water quality and supply.

Similar to its request two weeks ago for $150,000 to secure filtering equipment for Gilman Well No. 4, the administration is asking the council to immediately approve the expenditures and not send them to the Infrastructure Committee for additional review.

The money would come from two sources: $580,000 from the Water Utility Capital Fund and $508,000 from the Water Operating Fund.

Also at Monday’s meeting, city staff members and consultants were to present an overview of the Well No. 4 issue and the initial analysis that has been conducted. A hydrogeologic assessment by Geosyntec Consultants says that further evaluation of aquifer conditions is needed to determine the source and volume of the major contaminant in Well No. 4, perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS. However, the summary said taking Gilman Well No. 4 offline and continuing to pump water from Well No. 5 “increases the likelihood that PFOS could migrate from the shallow aquifer to Well 5.”

In July 2013, a test of water drawn from Gil-

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Contributed

Skyline High graduate Alicia Kim, center, volunteered last year to help build a free high school in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.

‘COMPASSION CAN HELP US OUT’ Skyline graduate helps build a free high school in Nicaragua

By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com For most casual television viewers, actor Misha Collins is just the co-star of the syndicated show “Supernatural.”

But for true fans like Skyline High School graduate Alicia Kim, Collins, who plays an angel on the show, is a true inspiration in real life. Kim, speaking by phone from Seoul, South Korea, said she was drawn to the good work being done by the nonprofit Collins

founded, Random Acts.

“One thing about Misha, he’s been through experiences in personal life that have given him a lot of empathy,” Kim said. “He could have subdued his faith in others.

Instead, he’s using his celebrity to galvanize others. It’s something that I really respect about him.”

Kim is no stranger herself in offering her free time in the aid of others. While at Skyline, she was lieutenant governor of the Key Club and got involved feeding the homeless, adopted a road and

mentored younger students. When she moved on after graduation in 2008 to attend Dartmouth College, Kim joined several mentoring groups and volunteered at health clinics in preparation for dental school.

But it was through friends that she first heard about Collins’ philanthropy when his organization Random Acts built an orphanage in Haiti after 2011.

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See WELL, Page 2

City’s 2nd marijuana license going to man convicted of murder

By Scott Stoddard sstoddard@isspress.com and Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com The company picked by the state Liquor and Cannabis Board to receive Issaquah’s second retail marijuana license is currently owned by a man who pleaded guilty in 1993 to murdering his wife and was sentenced to 13½ years in prison.

George James Garrett, who changed his name from George Dalton Gehrett in 2011, killed Stephanie Rooks Gehrett just after

she had served him divorce papers and a restraining order on Oct. 15, 1993. He dumped her body into deep waters near the family’s summer cabin on Hood Canal.

Garrett is the father of Cliff Gehrett, the general manager of Issaquah’s first licensed retail marijuana outlet, Issaquah Cannabis Company. Gehrett was 7 when his mother was murdered.

Garrett was initially sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison in January 1994 for the seconddegree murder conviction, but that sentence was reduced on appeal to 13½ years. News coverage of

his sentencing said Garrett gave “a pained apology” and called himself a good man who performed a horrible crime.

Garrett is listed in state records as the registered agent and governing person of Green Grotto LLC, which is line to receive the license for a retail marijuana operation at 230 NE Juniper St., No. 101A. The store would be in the same building as the store his son manages.

On the Secretary of State’s registry of corporations, Garrett’s name

The building at 230 NE Juniper St. houses Issaquah’s first retail marijuana store, Issaqauh Cannabis Company, on its second floor.

Green Grotto LLC is in line to receive the city’s second retail license and plans to open a shop on the ground floor.

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Issaquah man gets eight years for taking explicit photos of minors

Well

or wells there as needed.

The projected costs for this option: $5.16 million in 2016 and $192,000 annually from page 1 thereafter.

4Combine the water man Well No. 4 showed a from Wells No. 4 and 5 with detection of PFOS that was water from Risdon Well three times higher than the No. 1 and Risdon Well No. Environmental Protection 2 and treat it at a single Agency’s provisional health centralized location. The advisory level. projected costs for this opGregory Mark Molley, 54, Issaquah’s water at the tion: $8.03 million in 2016 of Issaquah, was sentenced tap has always met federal and $898,000 annually after March 29 to eight years safety regulations. that. in prison and 15 years A report dated March An assessment of the waof supervised release for 29 from representatives ter quality in the HDR report receipt of images of minors of HDR, a company that noted that the city’s groundengaged describes itself as spewater supply “is of very in sexucializing in “engineering, high quality and contains no ally explicit architecture, environmental detectable concentrations conduct. and construction services,” of most of the inorganic, Molley advised the city on what organic and synthetic compleaded consultants saw as the best pounds that are regulated guilty path forward in dealing with by the EPA and Department in U.S. Gilman Well No. 4, both of Health for drinking water.

District short-term and long-term.

However, the groundwater Gregory Molley Court on The report’s preferred does contain some constituDec. 18, 2015, admitting he short-term recommendaents that are very close to used hidden cameras to film tion is in step with what or exceeding drinking water Scott Stoddard / sstoddard@isspress.com children in the bathroom the city administration has regulatory limits or advisory Sampson the pug says hello during the All Jeep Meet on April 3 at Triple XXX Root Beer Drive-In. The and bedrooms of his home, already initiated — install goals. These constituents according to the U.S. Attor- meet was organized by Blackout Jeep Club, which is led by the club’s president, Philip Benson of a temporary treatment are PFOS, arsenic and manney’s Office for the Western Issaquah. For more photos from all of this year’s Triple XXX shows, visit eastofseattle.news/classiccars. facility at Gilman Well No. 4 ganese.”

District of Washington. to remove PFOS and other PFOS has been detected When U.S. District Judge perfluorinated compounds as high as 0.6 parts per bilJohn Coughenour sentenced before they reach the water lion in Well No. 4; the EPA’s Molley, he reminded him distribution system. The provisional health advisory that his conduct was devasreport estimated 2016 costs is 0.2 parts per billion. tating to the victims of his for this option at $658,000 Arsenic was detected as crimes.

Each week in The Issaquah Press, we thank those who renew their subscriptions and $336,000 annually after high as 9.9 parts per billion to Issaquah Press Group newspapers or subscribe for the first time.

The King County Sheriff’s that. in Well No. 5 in 2007; the We are very grateful for your support of community journalism.

Office and the U.S. Secret The HDR report narrowed EPA’s regulatory limit is 10 Service teamed up to inthe long-term options down parts per billion. vestigate Molley’s case. The to two: In a 2009 report, HDR John Barry Robert Carrico Luther Franklin Karen Martinsen investigation and prosecu4Abandon both Wells listed a manganese level of Margaret Bonaccio Debra Collins Gail Lee Givan Jean Nye tion were part of a Justice No. 4 and 5, relocate water 90 parts per billion in Well Rickey Botts Irene Davis Thomas Hayden Kate Stenberg Department initiative, rights to the city’s Well No. No. 5; the EPA’s regulatory Teresa Bretl Robert Dunlap David Howland Cecil Urlich Project Safe Childhood.

6 site and drill a new well limit is 50 parts per billion.

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Light rail

hit Issaquah until 2041, a quarter century from now.

Goodman acknowledged that’s a long time to wait. from page 1 “But if it’s not included in ST3, light rail to Issaquah amount to $25 per $100,000 is 50 years away, if ever,” of assessed valuation. Drivers she said. “And if light rail to would pay a motor vehicle Issaquah was not included excise tax of $80 per $10,000 in ST3, that money would be of a vehicle’s value each year. spent in another part of the As for the plan itself, light region.” rail is the key component.

As leaders and residents “The debate over light rail alike wait for the possible aris over,” said Sound Transit rival of light rail in Issaquah, it CEO Peter Rogoff. “We are will arrive next door relatively building a system north, quickly. The $2.8 billion East south, east and west.”

Link plan will place light rail The full network would from Seattle to Bellevue folconsist of 108 miles of track. lowing Interstate 90. Even the “Along with building light East Link won’t appear until rail to Central Issaquah, the 2023. And some leaders in 25-year draft plan includes Sammamish are already calla new parking facility for Ising foul regarding those plans. saquah,” Butler said. “Riders At present, riders can jump could travel from downtown on a bus and go directly to Bellevue to Central Issaquah downtown Seattle, said Samin 17 minutes. Trains would mamish Deputy Mayor Ramiro run every six minutes in peak Valderrama-Aramayo. Once commute hours.” light rail reaches Bellevue, But light rail service won’t riders will need to switch from a bus to the train. And, like ANSWER TO #5332 Huckabay, Valderrama-AraR O N F L O WH I M T mayo is not thrilled with the Name: 14761/House

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overall ST3 package, saying it’s going to cost Sammamish taxpayers a considerable investment for what seems to be little if any return.

According to numbers Valderrama-Aramayo said were supplied by the city of Sammamish, ST2 costs the average Sammamish homeowner, with property valued at $700,000, $362 annually.

ST3 will add $546, making the total transit support for many Sammamish homeowners $872 a year. ValderramaAramayo said he is already hearing from residents who wonder why they should support an expensive ST3 plan that provides next to nothing for Sammamish.

Sound Transit estimates the average new taxes equate to $392. That is in addition to Sound Transit taxes voters approved in 1996 and 2008 and that amount to $330 per average household.

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Station in Bellevue to Central Issaquah, which is consistent with the city’s Central Issaquah Plan.

The project would include an elevated Central Issaquah Transit Station, south of Interstate 90, with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge over the freeway. Trains would travel from Central Issaquah to the I-90 median via elevated tracks. From there, trains would continue on to Bellevue via ground level and elevated tracks.

Some other features of the local light rail plan include: 4Approximately nine miles of new at-grade and elevated light rail. Signals and gates to be placed at all at-grade crossings.

4In addition to Central Issaquah, another elevated station would be built at Factoria. An additional station might appear in the Lakemont neighborhood that is split between Bellevue and Issaquah.

4The service is projected to attract 11,000 to 15,000 riders a day as of 2040.

Sound Transit gives $1.7

billion in 2014 dollars as the cost of connecting Issaquah to light rail. Although the rail is expected to follow mostly existing right-of-ways, the final dollars include $177 million for property acquisition and permits.

Butler noted that before light rail reaches the city, ST3 would bring more bus service to town, which will connect with ST2 light rail projects in Bellevue and Mercer Island as well as a new bus network on I-405.

“This proposal includes a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bring light rail to Issaquah,” Butler said.

Goodman noted the plan as presented is not final and encouraged residents to make their thoughts known to the county. Residents can get more information at issaqahwa.gov/ST3. You also can take an online survey at soundtransit3.org/survey. The deadline to take the survey is April 29.

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County clamping down on Tiger Mountain commute shortcut Morning commuters who try to dodge the crawling pace into downtown on Issaquah-Hobart Road by taking Southeast Tiger Mountain Road will soon be out of luck.

King County has decided

emphasis until violations are reduced. Periodic enforcement will follow, the county says.

The county says during the highly congested commute northbound from state Highway 18 to downtown

Issaquah, approximately 800 drivers every day try to skip ahead of the slow going on Issaquah-Hobart Road by turning right onto Tiger Mountain Road and then rejoining Issaquah-Hobart further north. As these vehicles

rejoin traffic on IssaquahHobart, the county says, they are increasing congestion on other roads that connect at that intersection.

Funding does not exist to expand the capacity of Issaquah-Hobart Road, the

SONGS OF HOPE AND LOVE

Volunteer

Discovery custodian wins King County award

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So when Random Acts launched a Nicaragua campaign last year to build a free school in San Juan del Sur, Kim had to become a part of the effort.

“Free high school exists because secondary education isn’t free there,” Kim said.

“So those living in impoverished communities can’t attend high school.”

She added the free school in San Juan del Sur was at risk of losing its accreditation because it didn’t have its own campus. Instead, it was borrowing space from a local elementary.

To earn a spot on the 25-member volunteer team, Kim had to raise $5,000 in donations. It would be the first time she volunteered for a construction project.

She arrived in San Juan del Sur last November to help construct a two-story building that would be able to accommodate 300 students, the first of many buildings for the free school campus.

Working with about 10 to 15 local contractors, Kim was tasked with everything from cutting tile and digging to welding and erecting pillars.

“I was essentially on every part of the assembly line,” she said.

In her 10 days in San Juan del Sur, Kim was taken by the dichotomy of the tourist town.

“It’s one of those places where you see all these restaurants, see North Americans and Europeans on vacations, and just 10 minutes away, right in the middle of the local community you see all this poverty,” Kim said.

But it was during her 10-day stay that she had an epiphany. In September, her father had a stroke and she found herself committed to aiding his long recovery.

“I was in a difficult state personally. This trip was very special because I was able to connect with individuals who put value in serving others. They felt compassion is something that can carry us through difficult times,” Kim said. “Instead of getting stuck with a feeling of losing faith in the world just because you’re in difficult times, I saw compassion can help us out.”

Kim said that while she saw both worlds, she didn’t really have time to participate in the “touristy” activities. She instead wanted to stay committed within the local community and help without being prescriptive.

“Random Acts did a lot of research in the area to gauge best what the community needed,” she said.

Kim has since returned home, enrolled in Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in pursuit of her dental degree with the ultimate goal of becoming an oral surgeon. She is juggling her own philanthropy efforts with family responsibilities.

She followed her parents to Seoul where her father is enrolled at a hospital renowned for its stroke rehabilitation program.

Kim said she so enjoyed her experience at San Juan del Sur, she’s already fund raising for a return trip in July.

“I was able to meet two friends on the trip and we’ve since become best friends,” Kim said. “The connections we make, makes me really want to go back.”

Wil Chromey, Discovery Elementary’s head custodian, won a 2016 King County Earth Heroes at School Award.

In addition to all of his job responsibilities, Chromey successfully piloted a paper towel Wil Chromey project that has diverted all of the paper towels used at school out of the landfills and into the compost bin this year.

He also initiated and orgaGreg Farrar / gfarrar@isspress.com nized the new real silverware Lively singing with dancing was the centerpiece of the Watoto Children’s Choir’s ‘Oh What Love’ perprogram for the school’s hot formance March 30 at Eastridge Church in Issaquah. The choir is wrapping up a seven-month tour of lunch customers, limiting the Norway and the United States. The organization Watoto helps raise orphaned and vulnerable children amount of plastic forks and and women in Africa by providing living quarters, physical and medical care and education. spoons at the school.

Each year, schools nominate employees who positive-

Police to use Issaquah High School for training exercises The Issaquah Police Department will make use of the Issaquah High School campus during spring break.

The department will work on SWAT training exercises from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

April 12, according to Diego Zanella, the school’s resource officer.

Issaquah’s SWAT team is a multi-agency entity, Zanella said. It is officially called the Coalition of Small Police Agencies-Special Operation Team.

“We appreciate the services provided by our local police department, and are happy to provide them the

use of our campus as part of their training program,” Issaquah High School said in an email to parents.

Those that have events scheduled at Issaquah High School that day should proceed normally, the school said. Issaquah’s spring break is April 11-15.

county says, and expansion of Tiger Mountain Road is infeasible even if funding were available.

The county says it is continuing to work to maximize traffic flow on the existing road network.

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to restrict right turns from Issaquah-Hobart onto Tiger Mountain Road between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. and is installing a “no right turn” sign at the intersection. Sheriff’s deputies will enforce the new restrictions, with major

ly impact the environment.

Chromey will receive his award at a May reception.

Chamber, Salmon Days pick up awards

The Greater Issaquah Chamber of Commerce puts on some of the best events in the state, according to the Washington Festivals & Events Association.

The chamber earned several Summit Awards, recognizing excellence in quality programming, at the association’s conference March 13-15 in Olympia.

Salmon Days received six awards, including the Grand Summit Award for Best Overall.

The annual festival also earned a Gold Award for Best Website.

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OPINION

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EDITORIAL CHARLES HORTON GENERAL MANAGER SCOTT STODDARD EDITOR l

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Issaquah school bond deserves voter support

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recent public hearing at City Hall Northwest on the Issaquah School District’s proposed construction and maintenance bond attracted exactly one speaker: a member of the Issaquah School Board, who spoke in favor of the $533 million question that is going before voters this month.

It’s apparent the district has a good thing going. It seems as if every time the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction releases new education statistics, Issaquah shines. Chronic absenteeism? Among the lowest in the state. Graduation rates? Among the highest. One local housing development under construction trumpeted the “renowned Issaquah School District” in its promotional materials.

And those housing developments are the reason property taxes would not rise if voters approve the bond. Issaquah’s explosive growth, adding more and more residents to the tax base, means the district can ask citizens for half a billion dollars and still keep the tax rate at or below the current $4.14 per $1,000 of assessed property value. That’s $2,070 if your home is valued at $500,000.

All those new residents are bringing new students with them. The district says it has grown by more than 2,000 students in the past four years and expects to add between 1,500 and 2,000 students in the next five. Hence, the need for school construction.

The bond would pay for a new high school, the district’s fourth, at a budgeted cost of $120 million, according to the district. A new middle school, the district’s sixth, is projected to cost $74 million. A rebuild of Pine Lake Middle School will run $71 million. Two new elementary schools are expected to cost a combined $74 million. And land acquisition for the four brand-new schools is budgeted at $97 million.

In addition, six existing elementary schools would be remodeled and modernized at a projected cost of $7 million to $9 million each.

If the bond fails, taxes would drop, but not significantly.

According to statistics provided by the district, by 2019, the tax rate would decline to about $3.50 per $1,000 of assessed property value, or $1,750 on a $500,000 home.

Is that reduction of less than $300 annually in taxes worth overcrowded schools and outdated facilities?

Vote yes on the Issaquah School District bond April 26.

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TO THE EDITOR Traffic

Latest projects exclude South Lake Sammamish I would like to thank Mayor Butler and the City Council for once again forgetting about / ignoring the residents of South Lake Sammamish in their newest round of traffic “improvements.” This is really nothing new to us here.

As an island stuck between the state park and Bellevue, we are often overlooked by many departments of the city. Several thousand people live in the neighborhoods (Greenwood Point, South Cove, Meerwood, Sammamish Beach Club, among others) that make up South Lake Sammamish. I did not live here at the time, but I do have some knowledge that a few years back, the area incorporated with Issaquah, thus providing what I can imagine is several millions in tax dollars to the city. At the time, the hope was services, including traffic / transportation, would be addressed by the city rather than county. Well, here we are all these years later and there is no sidewalk, and only a limited shoulder between the area and the state park, or next available sidewalk. At times, it’s maybe 2 feet wide, and forget about using it the day before, of, and after garbage collection, because the cans force walkers, runners and riders out into the street.

Our kids cannot even safely walk or ride their bikes to Sunset Elementary, a school less than 1 mile away, because again, no sidewalk or barrier exists for much of it. To make it worse, when we get to that school, we are greeted with a beautiful, newly constructed path and sidewalk that Bellevue just finished. But hey, at least they are spending $9 million so I can park in Olde Town after it takes me 45 minutes to drive down Front Street.

Jason Houck

Greenwood Point

Environment

In defense of the push for aquifer designation Mr. Brock’s letter (March 31) demands a response.

I didn’t forget the agenda bills he mentions. Rather, I was the motivation behind both of them. Mr. Brock correctly quotes AB 5891 and accuses me of omitting it from my letter, but my letter addressed the actions of the administration as they fulfilled their responsibility from it.

Bureaucrats know how to exploit the wiggle room, and in this case, the administration actively supported the EPA consultant, (Jonathan Kopolas of Cadmas Group) in finding a reason for disapproval of the designation.

Agenda Bill 5279 (2005) was initiated following the

work of a joint Ground Water Protection Committee effort. I was a member of that committee. My notes on that Agenda Bill follow: “02/07/05 — The motion is to confirm previous Council Policy not to seek a Sole Source Aquifer Designation for the LIVA. I disapprove because: “Does failure to act constitute Policy? Policy requires a majority vote of this Council and there is no record of such a vote so there is no Council Policy.

“The ‘Issaquah Creek Valley Groundwater Management Plan,’ the ‘Issaquah Creek Basin and Non-point Action Plan,’ and the ‘Lower Issaquah Creek Valley Wellhead Protection Plan’ were never formally adopted as Policy.

“The ‘Resource Action Plan,’ Exhibit B contains reference to a strategy for seeking the Sole Source Aquifer Designation.

“At least at the moment we seem to have no formal Policy regarding our drinking water.”

The citizens can decide if our drinking water is adequately protected.

Hank Thomas

Issaquah Editor’s note: The letter writer is a former Issaquah City Councilman

Politics

Trump’s popularity is indeed dumbfounding Tom Corrigan’s column about Trump was right on.

This seems to be showing something about our society and who votes, and it is not tied to a political philosophy. In a democratic system, the most important ingredient is an educated society. We need to teach critical thinking skills, political systems and economics, which I think are lacking in our educational system.

I also thought Trump would fall in popularity earlier in the campaign and I can’t help but think this fall is still coming, as it is “dumbfounding.”

Two things I would like to point out in this article, though, is the jab that any opposition to Obama is racially motivated. The left seems to be blind to the fact that some of us may have legitimate reasons for our opposition to this president. The press also seems to be blind to the corrupt actions of Hillary Clinton in her drive for power. Power seems to be a common goal of both Trump and Hillary, and shows blind followings.

Greg Larson

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Nothing beats firing up your own grill

f it’s springtime, it must be barbecue season.

Hardcore barbecuers don’t have a season — their passion for everything ’cue propels them throughout the year, winter be damned.

I’ve moved into the enthusiast category. So when I heard this past weekend was going to be sunny and in the 60s, I had to brush off the old Weber and fire it.

Of course, I innocently told my wife, “I want to barbecue this weekend. Go ahead and invite some friends over.”

I should have better defined “some.”

My picturesque vision of a quiet ode to spring became a major cookout with 11 guests. Oh, and did I mention, they all brought their pugs? Thirteen in all, including ours.

Sigh.

So, on Saturday morning I made an emergency supply run to Costco for a bit of one-stop shopping. I never knew so many other desperate souls descend upon Costco as soon as the doors open at 9:30 a.m.

Had I more time, I would have dropped by Fischer Meats. One of these days, I’m going to take them up on one of their multiple meat packages.

When barbecuing for a large crowd, I always like to offer two proteins and one vegetable. I whipped through Costco and grabbed a 24-pack

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of thighs and drumsticks, and a big package of tri-tip. Then I ran through the fresh produce cooler and picked up corn on the cob, conveniently DAVID shucked.

Now, my HAYES barbecuing Press reporter skills are only as good as the recipe I’m using.

My go-to for chicken is a CocaCola brine — Coke, liquid smoke, Worcestershire and hot sauce, plus salt and pepper. Easy peasy.

The original recipe called for the chicken to be deep fried after brining for four hours. But I discovered it worked on the grill, as well.

The corn and tri-tip were chopped up into more manageable sizes and both covered in olive oil, salt and pepper.

Since I inherited a smaller grill from my brother-in-law, I fired up both Webers. If you’re going to serve a small army at your gathering, I highly recommend more than one fire pit.

Just don’t put them too close together and burn your belly, like I did last time.

Now, while I’ve been perfecting my brisket technique, chicken remains my nemesis. Like most amateurs,

the flare-ups get me every time. The trick, or so I’ve read, is to keep them moving, turning them over a lot so they don’t become briquettes themselves. And add the barbecue sauce after the chicken is almost done so the sugar doesn’t caramelize too quickly and burn. Luckily, only the skin became blackened. Even more luckily, everyone still loved it (the brine really saturates the meat and makes it quite tasty) and one guest, bless his heart, said he loves his chicken that blackened and crispy.

The roasted corn (same technique, keep turning so it doesn’t burn and become popcorn) is then tossed with parmesan cheese and basil.

I actually got the grills cleared by the time everyone arrived. I hate standing over the barbecue while everyone has begun partying. Add in all the sides the guests brought, and we had enough food to feed a small village.

So, while Issaquah has some great barbecue joints, nothing quite beats firing up your own grill.

I also have to admit, stroking my ego by complimenting my burgeoning skills actually keeps me trying to do even better next time.

And remember, charcoal tastes better than gas.

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RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS Inspections were performed March 22-27 by Public Health, Seattle and King County. A food establishment inspection is only a snapshot of the operation during a limited time.

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OBITUARIES

Robert K. Waitt was born to Charles K. and Willa Waitt in Seattle on April 25, 1931. He attended Robert Waitt Queen Anne High School and Washington State College, where he met his future wife, Diane Dallam. He served in the United States Marine Corp, and upon discharge attended Gonzaga Law School where he earned a J.D. in 1957.

While in law school, he and Diane had two children, Mark and Julie. Bob remained active in his sup-

dation in memory of Robert K. Waitt, 3800 Fettler Park Drive, Ste. 104, Dumfries, VA 22025 or the VA Puget Sound Fisher House (fisherhousevaps.org).

Military services will be held at Hillside Cemetery followed by a Celebration of Life at Sahalee Country Club.

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Lynn Jones. The two were married in 1968 and were happily married for 48 years, living most of their lives together in Issaquah except for their first three years in Boise, Idaho. It was during those three years that their son, Michael, was born in 1971 and their daughter, Jana, followed in 1973.

Brent was a proud Husky, having graduated from the University of Washington in 1971 with a Bachelor Brent West Decker of Arts in Business AdBrent West Decker, much ministration. Following loved husband, dad and graduation he worked for grandpa, died on Tuesday, Touche Ross Accounting in March 15, 2016. He was 74 Boise before returning to years of age.

Washington. He returned Brent was born in Ogden, to accept a position as the Utah on April 23, 1941, the controller of Beef and Brew second of five children to Restaurants and eventually Rex and Bernice Decker. He opened his own accounting grew up in Wyoming and firm in Issaquah in 1982, Idaho, eventually landing Brent West Decker and in Salt Lake City where he Associates. He was also a graduated from Olympus member of the Issaquah High School in 1959.

Rotary, Chamber of ComIn 1966, with an oppormerce, and the morning tunity to work at Boeing, Kiwanis. Brent retired and Brent moved to Washington sold his business in 2010 state. It is here that he met A complete obituary the woman that would soon, about Brent can be found at become his wife, Patricia flintofts.com.

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port of Gonzaga Law School where he served on the Born on Board of Regents. Following March 31, graduation from law school, 1961 in Bob and Diane moved to Wichita, Issaquah, where Bob served Kan., Jane his community for over 20 passed away years as the judge of the peacefully Issaquah District Court. Bob in her home practiced law in Seattle, on Feb. 19, specializing in defense of inJane Newby 2016. Jane surance companies and their enjoyed life with wife Lynn insureds with his firm Waitt, of 23 years, loved deeply her Johnson and Martens. family and friends, was a Anyone who knew Bob gifted massage therapist for knew of his love for golf, 22 years and an Army vetboating and travel. For the eran. Her heart was as big as past 30 years Bob and Diane the ocean touching so many spent the colder months of lives. Her smile and laughter the year in their home in lit up the room. She never let LaQuinta, Calif., where they life’s journey defeat her but spent many wonderful days grew stronger reaching out with their family and friends. to help anyone in need. Jane Bob is survived by his wife was talented in many ways, of 62 years, Diane, his son, loved the outdoors, a hard Mark, daughter and sonworker, great cook and loved in-law, Julie and Tim Reid, get togethers with family and grandsons Mark, Christopher friends. What a difference (Nicole) and Mitchell, and she made in our lives, she great grandchildren, Wyatt will be missed! and Charlotte.

A life celebration will take We will miss Bob’s presplace at 4:30 p.m. April 29 at ence, quick wit and sense of the Maplewood Golf Course humor. in Renton.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Marine Corp Heritage FounRobert K. Waitt

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Andrew Larsen

Andrew Larsen (left) and his friend, John Yeager, spent 10 days in the Middle East to create a documentary.

Lakemont ‘peacemaker’ has faith harmony in Middle East is inevitable

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ues I’ve ever experienced,” Little said.

But his victory in the super G wasn’t a foregone conclusion.

Little’s age class went first. Then all the others had their runs before results were final.

“It was a long, nail-biting wait.

I had to watch and wait on that one,” he said.

But when they posted his time at number one?

“I had a big grin. There’s some really great folks in my age class, who’ve got great knowledge in the sport. It’s an honor to be running with them,” he said.

When Little finished the downhill, there were fewer racers to follow. So he knew he held a second place and needed a little to wait for it to be official.

“I was very happy about that,” he said.

Of the 125 men competing in the masters’ finals, Little finished

Perhaps unfortunately, there aren’t too many people who answer the question, “What do you?” quite the way Andrew Larsen does.

“My full-time job is peacemaking,” he says with all seriousness.

A resident of the Lakemont neighborhood, a photographer and former pastor of a Bellevue church, Larsen and friend John Yeager spent 10 days in and around the Holy Land in the Middle East at the end of 2014. The result is a documentary, “Blessed are the Peacemakers: One Man’s Journey to the Heart of Palestine.”

While he normally works in public relations for Aegis of Issaquah, Yeager served as a producer and, probably more importantly, videographer for the documentary.

Larsen said he has been to the Middle East several times previously, but this was Yeager’s first experience there.

“Some of my first trips there were just out of curiosity,” Larsen said. He spent three months living in the Middle East in 2011. Additionally, he’s traveled around a lot, taking pictures.

“I get around a little bit,” he said during a phone interview. At the time, Larsen was on his way to New England, where he was slated to show his documentary.

Both Larsen and Yeager said one key thing about the movie is that they talked with everyday people, not politicians or leaders.

“The basis of the documentary is really the common people,” Larsen said, adding the closest they got to anyone “official” was a few soldiers and some activists.

While he is positive that peace ultimately will reach the Middle East, for now, Larsen admits that prospects seem dim.

“Right now, there’s not much hope for peace,” he said.

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Contributed

Rand Little won the Super G and finished second in the downhill at the U.S. Skiing and Snowboarding Alpine Masters National Championships last month.

ALPINE MASTER

65-year-old Sammamish man wins two skiing medals at national championships

By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com Knut Olberg, at age 72, is an eight-time world champion masters level skier and coach of the masters training program at Alpental north of Snoqualmie Pass.

But he’d rather talk about his protégé and fellow Sammamish resident, 65-year-old Rand Little.

“He’s the nicest guy in the world and very eager to learn,” Olberg said of Little. “He’s made tremendous progress since he’s trained with us.”

Little’s eight years under Olberg’s tutelage culminated with a first place win in the Super G and second place in the downhill at the U.S. Skiing and Snowboarding Alpine Masters National Championships March 14-19 in Big Sky, Mont.

It was Little’s second-ever entry in the national event.

“It was just really fun,” Little said. “I’m really grateful I can still do this at my age. I enjoy it. It

helps give me an impetus to stay in shape.”

Little said he’s actually skied recreationally since he was 4, but was never in a position to race.

After being away from the region for a better part of decade, Little got into the sport vicariously through his son, Jess, who got into racing for USSA. “When you follow USSA skiers, you’re like their Sherpa,” Little said.

Little caught the competitive bug himself about eight years ago. Olberg said the masters ski program starts at age 30 and goes up by five-year increments in age categories. They compete in regional races, qualifying for Northwest and Western championships before making it to nationals.

Little competes in all four events — slalom, giant slalom, super G and the downhill.

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“He’s made such great progress in the last eight years,” Olberg said.

Little said he enjoys competing in all four events, but especially looks forward to the super G and downhill.

“It’s rare that you get to ski really fast,” he said, pointing toward the impressive staging at Big Sky. “It takes a controlled, well-manicured course. I go faster than I ever could here.”

Olberg calls Little a very good skier, who’s very curious and interested in improving his performance.

Last year at nationals, Little said he only finished in the middle of the pack in Sun Valley, Idaho.

This year, perhaps the venue inspired a better performance on his part.

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Issaquah PTSA Council Golden Acorn: Laila Collins, Kim Weiss Outstanding Advocate: Dawn Peschek Outstanding Service Award: lna Ghangurde Apollo Elementary Golden Acorn: Laurelle Graves, Maricel Paulino, Brandee Shillito Outstanding Advocate: Christi LoeMalone, Kimberly Nocco Cascade Ridge Elementary Golden Acorn: Khristie Tobler, Ripal Shah, Kelly Huber Outstanding Advocate: Dan Miller, Michele Brady Challenger Elementary Golden Acorn: Jennifer McCommon, Shannon DeHart, Rachelle Roberts Clark Elementary Golden Acorn: Sandra Puliezi, Madeleine Erhardt, Scott and Kandice Carlson Cougar Ridge Elementary Golden Acorn: Jodi Freudenberger, Betzy Jones, Karishma Lal, Melanie Parry Outstanding Advocate: Mark Mobilia Creekside Elementary Golden Acorn: Kristine Chen, Sarah Edwards, Jessica Miller, Trish Parsonson, Karen Rajtar, Christine Watson Discovery Elementary Golden Acorn: Sarah Manningsmith Outstanding Advocate: Wil Cromey Endeavor Elementary Golden Acorn: Cherstin Aageson, Kelly Grace, Rory Mullen, Julie O’Brien, Kathy Pelham, Lynn Taylor Outstanding Advocate: Karen Harmon Grand Ridge Elementary Golden Acorn: Angela Bizarri, Alicia Spinner, Ann Taylor Outstanding Advocate: Carrie Mount Issaquah Valley Elementary Golden Acorn: Amy Cancelosi, Violet Estrin, Margarita Leas, My-Trang Robinson Maple Hills Elementary Golden Acorn: Dawn Carr Outstanding Advocate: Susan Cherry Honorary Lifetime Member: Dawn Peschek Newcastle Elementary Golden Acorn: Yvette Blauvelt, Stina Fluegge, Eileen Rubenstein Sunny Hills Elementary Golden Acorn: Karen Loff, Ayana Meissner Outstanding Advocate: Kym Clayton Sunset Elementary Golden Acorn: Becca Bishop, Becky Foster, Kim Clark, Kari Mattson Beaver Lake Middle Golden Acorn: Pam Gross, Rob Tyrrell, Ganga Pingili, Lauri Kinnan lssaquah Middle Golden Acorn: Kristin Brennock, Becky Gordon, Leah Gibson, Tara Moe Maywood Middle Golden Acorn: Shelly Russell, Dawn Peschek Pacific Cascade Middle Golden Acorn: Jen Davis, Pauline Yourechuk Outstanding Advocate: Lida Buckner Pine Lake Middle Golden Acorn: Tami Devita Issaquah High Golden Acorn: Diane Burdette, Becky Gordon, Onti Rosen, Valerie Yanni Outstanding Advocate: Dea Burnett Liberty High Golden Acorn: Kim Weiss, Tina White Skyline High Golden Acorn: Leslie Miniken, Kirsten Juenke, Katie Reeves Outstanding Advocate: Donna Hood, Alicia Veevaert

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Resource/Special Ed department. Activities include football, rugby, ROTC and Elks Club, goals in coaching or as personal trainer.

Chosen for his personal and academic success and growth, volunteering, and the example his kind and compassionate character sets for others.

Pre-Vocational department. Chosen for his kind, dedicated and hardworking nature. In his four years at IHS he has done copy deliveries to teachers, recycling, shredding, sorting, cafeteria cleaning, working at the Food Bank and at Front Street Market.

Pre-Vocational department.

Interests include basketball, baseball, bowling. Affiliations include Special Olympics and Miracle League.

Hardworking, happy and kind, up for each new challenge. Worked at the food bank, recycled and shredded papers for teachers and much more.

Physical Education department. Active in hunting, fishing and camping. Eagle Scout candidate. Worked 2½ years at Fischer Meats.

A model PE student, motivates others with his attitude and hard work.

Goals include environmental science degree and Fish & Wildlife game warden.

Liberty High School

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Physical Education department. National Merit Scholar semifinalist, AP Scholar Award, 4.0 GPA. Youth Theater Northwest, Comedy Sports Seattle.

Shows great leadership in the classroom, cooperation, willing to accept new challenges and puts in extra work and effort.

The Rotary Club of Issaquah names local students of the month. Students are nominated for the honor by department heads at their respective schools.

Peace

Andrew Larsen (left) says, “Right now, there’s not much hope for peace” in the Middle East.

class citizens and peace probably won’t happen until the political climate changes.

Yeager doesn’t think the curfrom page 6 rent system can be sustained over the long term.

Both he and Yeager added As for Larsen, he will head that was a theme that ran back to the Middle East as through many of the conversome point. sations they had with both “I’m committed to some Arabs and Israelis. Many beof the relationships I have lieve peace is possible, if not there,” he said.

Andrew Larsen inevitable — but not now.

“It’s all very personal for “There’s a little bit of a Andy,” Yeager said. “I really somber feeling right now,” checkpoint outside a mosque not a lot of “peace makers.” fore it gets better.” believe there ought to be Larsen said. having tea. The military was Larsen said a problem for Still, Larsen is nothing if more people in the world Yeager talked about riding attempting to limit the num- many of the common people not optimistic. like him.” a bus that stopped by Israeli bers of people entering the on either side is that they “That wall in Berlin did Go to tinyurl.com/gmztroops. Any Palestinians had mosque. Words grew angry, don’t see many peace advocome down,” he notes.

3w6s to see clips of Larsen’s to exit the bus and show then loud and ultimately cates among their leaders.

Larsen said there are com- documentary. The film is their papers before reboard- soldiers used tear gas to “They don’t really see any- mon people on the Israeli to be shown April 24 at the ing. disperse the crowd. Yeager one advocating for peace… side who see the plight of the Pine Lake Covenant Church, “It’s just a reminder of and Larsen were caught There’s different ways to Palestinians and are sympa- 1715 228th Ave. SE, Samwho’s in charge,” he said. in the middle. Still, Yeager spin that, but it seems like thetic. He added Palestinians mamish. Go to plcc.org for Yeager said several Arabs said he used to work as a it’s going to get worse beoften are treated as second- details. talked a lot about needing news reporter in Seattle. He patience, not only on buses, added he felt more in danger but also at checkpoints or during the World Trade Name: 15768/ just walking down the street Organization riots in Seattle and being stopped. in 1999.

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Issaquah History Museums

Generations of Issaquah residents experienced the railroad as a childhood backdrop. Mischievous memories of hopping a train to the beach or greasing the rails abound. Pictured from left to right are Kevin Horn, Gwynn Finney, Pammy McLoughlin and Kurt Horn, who wave at a passing freight train in 1967.

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Issaquah High senior wins first place at brass festival Issaquah High senior Gregory Ketron took first place at the Northwest Brass Festival Youth Competition on March 5.

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Brass players from all over the Seattle region performed at the contest held at Seattle Pacific University.

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One-on-One Computer Help, 1-3 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 West Sunset Way, 392-5430 Fun and Games Friday, ages 6-12, 3-4:30 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. SE, 392-3130 Manga Night, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Museo Art Academy, 300 N.E. Gilman Blvd. suite 100, $29, $10 buddy discount available, 391-0244 Triple Treat, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella, 99 Front St. N., 391-1424 Village Theatre presents “My Heart is the Drum,” 8 p.m., Francis Gaudette Theatre, 303 Front St. N., tickets are $36$68 at 392-2202 or bit.ly/210M31l Fade to Black, 8-11 p.m., 21 and older, $5 cover charge, Pogacha, 120 NW Gilman Blvd., 392-5550

SATURDAY, APRIL 9 Squak Mountain Trail Runs: marathon/50K 8 a.m., half marathon 9 a.m., 12K 9:30 a.m., check-in starts at 7 a.m., evergreentrailruns.com/4-09-squakmountain-trail-run Teneriffe Falls Hike, 8 a.m., moderate, 7 miles, 1,950-foot gain, meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., 516-5200 Lewis Creek Woof Walk, bring your dog, 10 a.m. to noon, moderate, 350-foot gain, pre-register at 452-4195 Lowe’s Build & Grow Clinic, ages 3 and up build a bird feeder, 10-11 a.m., 1625 11th Ave. N.W., free, 391-3355 Spanish Story Times, ages 3 and

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Spartans edge Wolves, stay unbeaten in KingCo 4A BASEBALL SKYLINE 3 EASTLAKE 2

By Neil Pierson npierson@isspress.com For a team that reached the Class 4A state quarterfinals a year ago and has aspirations of doing it again, a 3-0 start to conference play isn’t a reason to get overly excited.

That’s not to say the Skyline baseball team isn’t enjoying its strong start to the 2016 season, which carried into a 3-2 victory at plateau rival Eastlake on March 30.

But the Spartans know they’re a long way from their ultimate goals and being one of two undefeated teams in KingCo Conference action doesn’t carry much weight.

“It’s nothing, really, because it’s the regular season,” said junior outfielder Dax Kringle. “It’s good for us right now.”

Kringle made crucial plays with his bat and glove for Skyline (5-1 overall, 3-0 KingCo), which needed time to solve Eastlake starting pitcher Elliot Carney.

Carney hurled a one-hit shutout through four innings and had a 1-0 lead, but that disappeared in the span of three at-bats in the fifth.

Danny Sinatro hit a ground-rule double into the right-field gap and Connor Knutson laced Carney’s next pitch for an RBI single to tie the score. That brought Kringle to the plate.

Carney left a 3-1 curveball over the middle of the plate – “a big mistake,” Eastlake coach Frank Smith said – and Kringle deposited it onto the warning track in left field for the go-ahead double.

“I’m just trying to get runs in,” Kringle said. “Knutson did a great job when Danny got on. That was really the moral of the story – when people were getting on, we were executing.”

Skyline pushed its lead to 3-1 in the sixth when No. 9 hitter Riley Gill came through with a two-out, two-strike double inside the left-field line to score Kyle Strash.

It turned out to be the winning run as Eastlake (3-5, 0-4) got to Skyline pitcher Jack Simpson in the bottom of the seventh. Reid Pierzchalski’s RBI single made it a 3-2 game with two outs and Bryce Bussiere’s single to left could’ve tied the score.

Kringle, the left fielder, got to the ball quickly and made a good throw home, keeping Pierzchalski at third base. Simpson then struck out pinch hitter Alec Gomez to end the game.

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Issaquah senior Kimmy Lum sizes up a volley from Redmond freshman Jina Kwon during their marathon fourth-seeded tennis match March 31. Lum won, 6-7 (6-8), 7-5, 6-2.

Eagles dig deep for win over Redmond GIRLS TENNIS ISSAQUAH 5 REDMOND 2

By Neil Pierson npierson@isspress.com At first glance, Issaquah’s 5-2 victory over Redmond in a Class 4A KingCo Conference girls tennis match might not look exceptionally tough.

Take a look at the details from individual matches, though, and it’s evident the Eagles had to deplete their physical and mental reserves to fend off the visiting Mustangs.

Issaquah evened its record at 3-3 overall, 1-1 in KingCo, coming from behind to win a pair of three-set matches and outlasting opponents through many long rallies.

Issaquah’s Kimmy Lum epitomized her team’s steely mentality in her No. 4 singles match. She and Redmond’s Jina Kwon were among the first players on the courts, but were the last to leave in what Eagles coach Christy McGraw called a “marathon match” of more than three hours. Lum prevailed, 6-7 (6-8), 7-5, 6-2.

Issaquah’s No. 3 doubles team,

Karen Juhn and Julia Pickering, also had to fight back after losing the first set to Michelle Ang and Patrice Liu. They got stronger as the match wore on, winning 4-6, 6-2, 6-0.

No. 1 singles player Ellen MacNary faced adversity against Marin Bando. The Issaquah senior took the first set fairly easily, 6-3, but struggles with her service turned the rest of the match into a grind. MacNary finally closed out the match in a second-set tiebreaker, 7-5.

“I was not getting a lot of first serves in, which was really tactically unhelpful since my second serve is not very good,” MacNary said.

MacNary and Bando kept each other pinned to the baseline much of the time, creating many long rallies that proved to be physically demanding.

“It definitely was a running match … You just have to stay in and stay focused,” MacNary said.

“I think my basketball background probably helped out with the conditioning.”

“She has a lot of mental strength to pull through,” McGraw said of MacNary. “She’s very calm under pressure and that’s what was needed in a

match like that.”

The Issaquah program has new leadership this year under McGraw, a Sammamish resident who has daughters attending Skyline High School. She has played for many years in adult leagues, but is coaching for the first time.

McGraw and her girls are still in process of getting to know each other, and the coach said it helps that Issaquah has 10 returning varsity players.

“They’re a pretty tight bunch on and off the court, so that part has been really exciting,” McGraw said. “They do a lot of team bonding and I think they just really have each other’s back in this sport, and that really lends itself to success on the court because they have so much support from each other.”

No. 2 singles player Carly Ruggles had a similar match to MacNary’s. After cruising early, 6-0, she had to outlast Ramya Kunapalli to win the second set, 7-5.

“They had rallies that were, like, 30 shots long, and she can hang in as long as it takes to win the point because of that stamina she has,” McGraw said of Ruggles.

The Eagles’ easiest match of the day was likely at No. 1

doubles, where Inyoung You and Jessica Zhu earned a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Meg Leonard and Natalie Boesen.

Redmond’s wins came at No. 2 doubles, where Allie Hanson and Katie Brewer defeated Pera Tran and Maddie Verburg (6-4, 6-1), and at No. 3 singles, where Jessie Liu beat Colleen Ball. Liu won the first set, 6-1, and Ball had to retire early in the second set when she began having an asthma attack, something she hadn’t experienced in a long time, McGraw said.

“It really scared her and her chest was really tight,” the coach said, “and I can’t let a player go on like that. That’s not a risk I want to take.”

Ball was filling in for Nathalie Aps, the team’s regular No. 3 single, who injured her knee two days earlier in a 5-2 loss to Newport.

Issaquah has depth and versatility on its roster – MacNary said she’s willing to switch from singles play when the postseason begins in May. “I might go for doubles because it may be less competitive,” she said, “but we’ll see, just depending on who I play and how I do against all the singles players.”

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Talented Liberty girls tennis team is off to a fast start

By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@isspress.com Mike Salokas walked the perimeter of the new Liberty High School tennis courts with a smile on the first day of April.

The sun was out, the sounds of tennis filled the air and the Liberty girls team was off to a 5-0 start that would become 6-0 by the end of the day.

“It’s just awesome to be around this,” the proud Liberty tennis coach said as he watched his girls sweep Bothell on April 1.

It’s the best start by a Liberty tennis team — boys or girls — in Salokas’ decade-long career at the school.

The longtime coach said he wouldn’t be surprised if the undefeated mark is the best in program history.

Salokas credits the team’s early success to several factors, but it starts with a slate of singles players that has the talent to match up with almost anyone in the league.

Three weeks into the season, Sienna Rice, Jyotsna Kuramkote, Luciana Sobrino and Grace Lee had yet to lose a match.

Sobrino, a freshman, is the newcomer with a lot of talent, Salokas said. He already has her slotted as the Patriots’ No. 1 singles player.

Rice, the team’s captain, is the No. 2 singles player.

“I think 2 singles is a great place for her,” Salokas said. “You don’t get the pressure of being No. 1, so

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Liberty freshman Luciana Sobrino hits the ball back to Bothell junior Sea-Un Lee during their No. 1-seeded singles tennis match April 1. Sobrino shut out Lee, 6-0, 6-0. she can just go out and play her game.”

Kuramkote, the only player with state experience, slides in at No. 3. She brings experience, maturity and composure after qualifying for the Class 2A state tennis tourna-

ment last year, Salokas said.

Lee rounds out Liberty’s strong singles group at No. 4.

“She is just so consistent,” Salokas said. “And she’s my No. 4 singles player? We’re very lucky.”

The doubles side is still a work

in progress, Salokas said, but he’s seeing improvement every week Liberty swept all three doubles matches for the first time this season in the Patriots’ win over Bothell. The teams of Cheyenne Rice and Catherine La, Christina

La and Jenny Dang, and Grace Phan and Danni Messina all won in straight sets on April 1.

The Patriots are beating teams big and small. They’ve defeated Class 4A schools such as Redmond and Bothell, and fellow 2A school Sammamish.

Rival coaches have been impressed with Liberty so far, Salokas said.

“They agree that my top four singles are really solid,” he said.

Liberty had 53 girls try out for tennis this year, an astronomical number for a program that usually expects half that, Salokas said.

It likely coincides with the Patriots’ first season on the school’s new courts. The tennis teams were relocated to Issaquah’s Tibbetts Valley Park during the school’s construction.

“Apparently, a lot of girls wanted to play, but they didn’t want to have to drive to Tibbetts every day,” he said.

New courts, early success and a high turnout are key factors in what Salokas described as a new attitude permeating through the program.

His girls know that something special is brewing, and it’s motivating them to work harder than ever, he said.

“I almost have to kick these girls off the court every day and that’s just an awesome thing,” Salokas said.

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from page 209-NOTICES 210-Public Notices Public Notice 16‑4054 1404‑WLD Issaquah Townhomes, LLC is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, 1404‑WLD Issaquah Town‑ homes is located at 775 4th Avenue NW in Issaquah, King County. This project involves .5 acres of soil dis‑ turbance for construction activities.

Stormwater will be discharged to on‑ site rain garden facilities which dis‑ charge to an offsite storm system.

Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State De‑ partment of Ecology regarding this application, or interested in Ecology’‑ s action on this application, may no‑ tify Ecology in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publica‑ tion of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest according to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173‑201A‑ 320. Comments can be submitted to: Department of Ecology, Attn: Water Quality Program, Construction Stormwater’ P.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504‑7696.

Published in the Issaquah Press on March 24, 2016 PUBLIC NOTICE 16‑4059 Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING for Proposed Preston Ridge Trust Land Transfer 02‑091709 and Preston Ridge Inter‑ Trust Exchange 86‑093873 at 6:00 p.m., Thursday, April 21, 2016 Preston Community Center 8625 310th Ave SE Preston, WA 98050 The purpose of this hearing is to provide information and receive testimony on the proposed Preston Ridge Trust Land Transfer and the Preston Ridge Inter‑Trust Exchange. The Board of Natural Resources will receive a summary of the Preston Ridge testimony regarding the transfer and inter‑trust exchange at a regularly scheduled meeting. The Preston Ridge Inter‑ Trust Exchange is solely an exchange of trust designations. If approved, the exchange will change the trust designations for the properties shown below. If approved by the Board of Natural Resources at a regularly scheduled meeting, the newly designated Common School Trust property will transfer to King County Parks as authorized by the 2015‑2017 Trust Land Transfer legislation. The newly designated State Forest Land Trust parcel will remain in state ownership and DNR will continue to manage it for the benefit of this trust beneficiary.

The proposed transfer affects portions of the following described land: Section 30, Township 24 North, Range 7 East, W.M., King County, Washington, ± 35 acres.

The proposed exchange affects portions of the following described lands: Common School Trust to State Fo re st L a n d Tru st: Se cti o n 5 , Township 21 North, Range 8 East, W.M., King County, Washington, ±78 acres State Forest Land Trust to Common School Trust: Section 30, Township 24 North, Range 7 East, W.M., King County, Washington, ±35 acres.

To view maps, see the website listed below or call to receive maps by mail.

Comments on the proposed transfer and inter‑trust exchange may be given by personal testimony or in writing at the April 21, 2016 public hearing, or submitted by mail or email. Written testimony must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 6, 2016. Mail written comments to DNR, Preston Ridge Inter‑Trust Exchange, Attn: Bob Winslow, PO Box 47014, Olympia, WA 98504‑ 7014, or email Exchanges@dnr.wa.‑ gov . For additional information, call Project Manager Bob Winslow by phone at 360‑902‑1622 or visit www.‑ dnr.wa.gov, Programs and Services/Product Sales and Leasing/Exchanges and Purchasing/Land Exchanges.

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After an inquiry by The Issaquah Press regarding the murder conviction, Garrett offered to sit down for an in-person interview at the newspaper’s office. But two hours before the interview was supposed to take place, Garrett’s attorney emailed the newspaper and said she had advised Garrett to cancel the interview.

Her email also stated “a sale of the business to a new owner is currently underway and, at the completion of that sale, George won’t have any ownership or involvement in the LLC. Consequently, by the time the store is licensed and ready to open, Green Grotto will be owned and operated entirely by a new operator.”

The attorney’s email prompted one state official to say: “They can’t do that.”

Becky Smith, the director of licensing and regulations for the state Liquor and Cannabis Board, said, “If there’s somebody in the licensing process, we don’t allow anyone to get off that license. We make everyone who is going through that process to finish that process.

“It sounds like they’re trying to get him off the business without letting us know,” Smith said.

Background checks are performed on applicants for marijuana retail licenses, said Brian Smith, communications director for the state Liquor and Cannabis Board, and applicants with criminal convictions can qualify if 10 years have passed from the applicant’s conviction date.

Garrett told an Issaquah Press reporter during a telephone interview his name is George James Garrett. Court records in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, show George Dalton Gehrett changed his legal name to George James Garrett in 2011.

While it might seem odd to put two marijuana stores at the same address, city officials have said that through zoning, they deliberately limited the locations available to potential

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A public notice is attached to the door leading the ground floor offices at 230 NE Juniper St. The building houses Issaquah’s first retail marijuana store, Issaquah Cannabis company, on the second floor. Green Grotto LLC is in line to receive the city’s second retail license and plans to open a shop on the ground floor.

At the same time it handed out new licenses, the state also put medical marijuana retailers out of business as of July 1.

Beginning on that date, all marijuana stores will need a retail license. Currently, medical marijuana stores operate largely unregulated, according to Mikhail Carpenter, a spokesman for the Liquor and Cannabis Board. Existing retail stores will be able to get a certificate allowing them to serve medical marijuana customers.

In Issaquah, at least two medical marijuana stores will need to close

by July 1. They are the Greenlink Collective at 160 NW Gilman Blvd., and the Tranquility Holistic Center, 1730 Newport Way NW. Green Grotto was not the only entity to apply for the second Issaquah license. Representatives of at least one of Issaquah’s existing medical marijuana stores said they intended to try for the license and the state website listed yet another potential license holder.

Carpenter said licenses were handed out on a competitive basis.

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marijuana stores. In any case, there may be reason to believe there is enough business to go around.

The Issaquah Cannabis Company apparently did business totaling $5.5 million, according to a website operated by Dab Software, from its opening in January 2015 through February of this year. It paid just over $2 million in excise taxes to the state.

The Issaquah Cannabis Company reached a monthly high of $638,553 in December. Cliff Gehrett said in a January interview its marijuana goods were popular Christmas gift.

The Liquor and Cannabis Board controls the number of retail marijuana licenses available statewide and in any given area. When marijuana became legal, Issaquah was allotted one retail marijuana license.

The state granted Issaquah a second retail marijuana license in December.

Statewide, the cannabis board issued 222 new licenses to ensure access to marijuana for medical patients, Liquor and Cannabis Board Director Rick Garza said in a December announcement.

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