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Community mourns beloved rooster McNugget

By Christina Corrales-Toy newcastle@isspress.com

By Greg Farrar

A sculpted image of a rooster from Bernard Garbuskuk, of Boehm’s Candies, stands as a permanent gift beside McNugget’s former home, which was transformed by mourners into a memorial at the Your Espresso stand in the 600 block of Front Street North.

Hearts are heavy and tears are flowing in Issaquah, where the community’s beloved resident rooster McNugget was killed April 28.

Shannon Taylor was walking home the evening of April 27 when she saw a dog run toward the Staples parking lot, where McNugget lived. Minutes later, the dog ran back, this time with the rooster in its mouth.

Taylor tried chasing after the dog, but wasn’t successful. Neighbors later found the rooster’s body and plan to respectfully bury it in an undisclosed location.

“It all just happened so fast,” Taylor said.

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Council Position 6 also expires this year, but incumbent and Council President Paul Winterstein has not announced whether he will run again.

Sutton plans a campaign kickoff event 6-7:30 p.m. May 7 at the Hailstone Feed Store, 232 Front Street North.

Besides the Human Services Commission, Sutton also holds an appointment to Issaquah’s Sister Cities Commission. She further has served as a board member for the nonpartisan King County Conservation Voters since 2010.

Other activities include working with the Center for Women and See CANDIDATE, Page 9

Get Granny on Fallon Movement starts to get Newcastle resident on ‘The Tonight Show’

By Christina Corrales-Toy newcastle@isspress.com

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Newcastle resident Italene Gaddis had a dream.

The 90-year-old musician, author extraordinaire wanted to join Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show” and sing her mother a song.

Almost 30 years after that dream was born, it’s still that, a dream. But if Gaddis and her supporters at KING-5 TV have their way, that fantasy will become reality sooner than later.

“You know, some things you try to do, they don’t happen right away,” Gaddis said from her Newcastle home April 23. “It don’t mean it’s not going to be, it just means it’s not time.”

KING 5 and reporter Lori Matsukawa started a campaign April 22 to try and get Gaddis an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

The local NBC affiliate, the same network that carries Fallon’s show, is asking everyone to use the hashtag #GetGrannyonFallon on

social media to show their support for the singing granny.

Enhanced by her charming Southern drawl, the poet, musician and songwriter captivates with her quick wit and sunny disposition. She’s an endless source of encouraging words, uplifting songs and positive affirmations.

She currently shares her inspirational songs and poems at senior centers and retirement homes around the area.

Still performing nearly every day, with autoharp in tow, the 90-year-old is hoping only to spread a message of peace, love and happiness.

“I try to encourage people.

That’s really why I do what I do,” she said. “To encourage someone, well, that’s the greatest gift you can give next to love.”

Gaddis’ songs span a variety of topics, including more reflective pieces that delve into personal life experiences, as well as lighter pieces, such as one that tackles Puget Sound-area car traffic.

While Gaddis effortlessly inspires those around her, a symbol of the woman that motivates her — the one she wanted to sing to — sits delicately in her hair for all to see.

She credits much of her work to her mother, Sarah Elizabeth, who “raised her the right way.”

Gaddis always dons a single flower in her hair as a tribute.

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learned how to open the motionactivated Staples doors, and tried to seek shelter inside whenever it began to rain.

“He was beautiful,” Teninty said. “He just glimmered.”

He could be grumpy, as many community members noted, but that was just a part of his charm.

If you were in a wheelchair or a dog, you had to be on high alert, said Tad Williams, who lives just next door to the parking lot.

Williams remembers having to “run interference” whenever anyone got too close. McNugget would give people warning, though, if an attack was imminent, Williams said.

You’d know it was coming, See MCNUGGET, Page 2

ALL FIRED UP

Another resident announces candidacy for City Council A third resident has thrown her name into play for one of three expiring Issaquah City Council seats.

Jennifer Sutton, a commissioner on the Human Services Commission, has stated her intention to run for council Position 2.

“I am committed to Issaquah, and am running because I believe in forging strong connections with Issaquah residents, in advocating for our community and in leadership as a public service,” Sutton said.

That seat is held by Councilwoman Nina Milligan, who is not running for re-election.

Councilman Joshua Schaer also has announced his plan to step down at the end of the year.

Schaer currently holds council

2002, McNugget escaped from the nearby Issaquah Grange Supply and found a home in the Staples parking lot. Neighbors and employees of the espresso stand in the lot adopted the rooster, named him and cared for him.

As news began to spread of McNugget’s fate, it was often Your Espresso stand owner Michelle Schneider that had to deliver the bad news to customers and the rooster’s frequent visitors.

“I just can’t believe it,” she said. “He’s an icon. It’s a nightmare, really.”

McNugget was more than a rooster, he was a part of the community, said Irene Teninty, a former Staples employee who frequently took pictures of him.

She marveled at how he

By Greg Farrar

Increase Zimmerman, 3, with his mom Jennifer, is thoroughly excited to be helped on with child-sized firefighter bunker gear by volunteer Eastside Fire & Rescue firefighter Allyson Green (right) during a community open house May 2 at Fire Station 72 on Northwest Maple Street. Children and their families toured Engine 72 and Ladder 72, plus the living, kitchen and exercise quarters.

By Greg Farrar

Eastside Fire & Rescue Deputy Chief Bud Backer, Capt. Steve Westlake and firefighter Antony Xczar (from left to right) stand at attention with retired state and American flags during a ceremony at the Fire Station 72 flagpole as Boy Scouts from Troop 709 prepare to hoist new flags donated by troop sponsor VFW Albert Larson Post No. 3436. See a slideshow of the station’s event at www.issaquahpress.com.

Issaquah Relay For Life is May 9-10

By Christina Corrales-Toy newcastle@isspress.com More than 750 people will descend on Issaquah High School this weekend to take up arms against a nasty, unforgiving foe.

The fight against cancer comes to Issaquah on May 9-10 in the form of Relay For Life, an American Cancer Society fundraiser that backs the nonprofit’s mission to create a world without the disease.

In Relay events, participants form teams and raise money for important research dedicated to finding cancer causes and cures.

“Cancer touches everyone, and this is our way of fighting back,” event chairwoman Stacy Strickland said.

With the idea that cancer never sleeps, teams will camp overnight on the Issaquah High School football field, and take turns walking the track throughout the night.

The event is fun — activities and entertainment keep the mostly youth-oriented crowd occupied through the weekend, Strickland said. But it’s also

extremely reflective, hopeful and respectful of the men, women and children who fought, and continue to fight, the disease.

That is evident right away with the event’s Survivor’s Lap. Before any teams take to the track, they will line the perimeter and cheer as cancer survivors and their caregivers officially open the Relay with the first loop around the path.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate, and it shows as survivors young and old, big and small stand at the starting line, Strickland said. Some received their diagnosis decades ago, while other might have learned only months ago.

“It shows that while we haven’t cured cancer, we at least have gotten treatments to a place where people can have a really healthy, great quality of life,” Strickland said.

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he said, when the feisty rooster would “start to work himself up like a berserker.” He’d hop on one leg, spin a few times and work up steam to go on the attack.

“It was the cutest thing in a way,” Williams fondly recalled. “He wouldn’t attack me because he knows me. I just had to get in between him and his target.”

McNugget was also a little vain. He couldn’t help but take long looks at that attractive rooster staring back at him in the chrome hubcaps of parked cars.

Customers often had to shoo him away just so they could move their cars.

The rooster was so popular that he inspired his own brand of “chicken tourism,” Williams said. Whenever a TV news channel did a story on him, people would flock to the parking lot just to look for him.

“We’d get what we were calling chicken tourists,” he said. “You can just tell because the family would just pull up in the middle of the parking lot looking lost, get out looking around, trying to figure out where he was. It was a little adventure for people, I think, to find him after seeing him on the news.”

McNugget’s small house perched beside the espresso stand became a sort of shrine as visitors steadily came to pay their respects last week.

People left messages, photos, even a life-sized rooster statue at the site.

The outpour of grief was so great that the community has decided to hold

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The Press is launching a campaign to purchase a plaque or other permanent memorial remembering him and to publish a scrapbook of photos and memories of the bird.

Any funds raised over our goal will go to Best Friends Animal Society, which helps animals (including roosters) in many ways all over the world. The group’s goal is to Save Them All. Donate to this campaign at www.crowdrise.com/ rememberingmcnugget.

Email your memories and photos to editor@isspress. com so we can publish them in the scrapbook. a public memorial for the rooster.

Fans of the beloved resident rooster are invited to share photos and memories of their popular feathered friend from 6-8 p.m.

May 8 at his home near the Your Espresso stand, 618 Front St. N. The memorial is openhouse style, meaning mourners can drop by at any time during the twohour period. Organizers stressed it will be an informal affair where people can come together to share stories about McNugget.

“He needs to be remembered. He survived odds that people don’t survive,” said Dana Zuber, one of the

memorial organizers at a May 1 planning meeting.

There was often controversy about McNugget’s place in the parking lot. In 2009, a group of citizens was blocked from moving him to a warmer environment.

“Had he been anywhere else, he wouldn’t have had the long and happy life that he had,” Zuber said, mentioning all the community members that came to feed and care for him. “He led a great life.”

McNugget wasn’t young, Williams said, adding that the community was sort of bracing themselves for this reality. He lived a good life, though, filled with visitors, yummy worms and adoration.

“He was like a 112-yearold man in chicken years,” Williams said. “It doesn’t make it any easier, but he had an incredible run.”

Community members have expressed a widerange of emotions upon hearing about McNugget’s death. Some are angry, some surprised, but all are sad. Others have gone so far as to call animal control over the incident.

Neighbors know the dog that killed McNugget and its owner. The dog was under the care of a sitter while its owner was out of town, Taylor said.

The dog owner is heartbroken over the incident, she said.

“Those of us who know the owners, you don’t like to see your friends in pain,” Williams said. “It’s kind of a double whammy for them.”

While some are angry, most just see it as a very tragic accident, Schneider said.

“It’s really hard,” she said. “We’re all going to miss him.”

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May 9. Survivors are encouraged to register for the lap at www.issaquahrelayforlife.org to ensure they get a T-shirt, but there will also be sign ups there on the day of the event.

The opening lap, in particular, serves as a draw for community members who aren’t part of a team to attend Relay For Life.

And that’s an important aspect of the event; you don’t have to be a Relay team participant to come, cheer on survivors and join the fight; anyone is welcome, Strickland said.

“The most people who visit our event, that’s when they come, that early afternoon piece of it.

That’s when we also have the most activities going on,” she said.

Some of those activities include a silent auction — featuring home decor items, beauty products and more — and Mother’s Day gift drawings.

One of the more popular attractions is the Eastside Fire & Rescue ladder rides. The truck will be onsite from 2-4 p.m.

Saturday, giving people rides to the very top of the ladder. That comes with a suggested donation of $10 per person.

Issaquah’s Relay For Life is unique in that about 75 percent of the teams are made up of young people. The event draws large participation from Issaquah School District students, especially from Issaquah and Skyline high schools, Strickland said.

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“They’re having fun, and they’re learning to fight back,” she said of the students. “Cancer’s touched them, too, unfortunately, but I think it’s nice they have a way to fight back.”

When night falls, Relay’s most poignant event — the luminaria ceremony — captivates all who attend.

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Everyone observes a moment of silence for those lost, before an Issaquah High School choir sings as people walk the track and look at the luminarias.

“I would say it’s almost more sad than anything else,” Strickland said of the ceremony. “It’s weird that you would say come to a sad event, but I think it just touches you and makes you realize that people have gone through these challenges.

“And even though everybody’s experience with cancer is unique, it’s something that pretty much everybody there has in common at some level, whether they experienced cancer themselves, or have been alongside somebody else going through it.”

The luminaria ceremony, almost universally participants’ favorite part of Relay, also inspires a great sense of community, Strickland said.

“All these people next to me, I don’t have to say anything, but I know what they’re feeling, and I know what they’re sensing and thinking during that ceremony,” she said.

Relay’s other major evening event is the Midnight Mile. Anyone can register for the chance to run, or walk, a mile at midnight. It costs $20 and comes with a Midnight Mile T-shirt.

Register online at www. issaquahrelayforlife.org or on the day of the event.

As of press time, 75 teams and 721 participants raised more than $135,100 for the American Cancer Society. The Issaquah Relay’s fiscal year goal is $300,000, Strickland said.

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Q uote of the week “He was beautiful. He just glimmered.”

— Irene Teninty, a former Staples employee who frequently took pictures of McNugget the rooster

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n the past 10 years at The Issaquah Press, one topic has received the most website comments, the most letters to the editor and the most phone calls.

The police shootout with a gunman at Clark Elementary School? Elections? Annexations? Plastic bag ban? Growth? Development? Traffic?

Maybe unbelievably, it was none of the above.

The topic was a little black rooster who lived in a store parking lot on one of the main streets in our fair city.

He went by various names, depending on who you were talking to — Dickey (Dickie), Blackie (Blackey), McNugget.

Last week, after living in the Staples parking lot off Front Street North for more than 12 years, he was killed by a dog that had gotten out.

As word got out, people started showing up at the little house that he often slept in there by the side of the street.

Some brought flowers, some brought gifts, some brought only themselves, some brought others. Some were young and some were old. There were people who seemed to have a lot of money and people who seemed to have little. There were singles, couples and families, and even the mayor.

Some took photos and others just stayed and talked with the steady stream of people who came and went.

But all of them shared a common thing on this day. And the next. And the next.

In these days of layoffs and riots and government troubles and all types of unrest, people need something to believe in and care about, even if it’s a simple rooster that belonged to no one and yet belonged to everyone.

Because people have asked for a memorial and some type of scrapbook, The Issaquah Press has started a fund to raise money for those things. Any leftover monies will go to Best Friends Animal Society, which helps animals around the world.

Donate to the fund at www.crowdrise.com/rememberingmcnugget.

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Air travel is for the birds

raveling is one of my favorite things to do, and I’m surely not alone in feeling this way, but going away to a foreign city or a secluded beach resort would be a lot more enjoyable if it weren’t for those pesky airports.

Unfortunately, we haven’t invented a more efficient mode of transportation, like those rocket ships scifi master Robert Heinlein envisioned. And even if we had, they would certainly fall under the governance of everyone’s favorite bureaucracy — the Transportation Security Administration.

Sure, the TSA has its slipups like any other governmental body, but from what I’ve personally witnessed, they mostly deserve praise. They’ve got a tough job. It can’t be much fun. And yet, I can’t recall a single TSA agent I’ve encountered lately who wasn’t doing his or her job with at least a modicum of dignity and respect for the people they were dealing with.

They’re a necessary evil in this screwed-up society of ours where you can’t go a week without hearing about some sort of security breach — whackos jumping the White House fence, bomb threats at the local mall or kids bringing guns to school because they’ve got parents who refuse to teach firearm safety and/or refuse to lock up their weapons.

Remember the pre-9/11 days when it was OK to meet your friend at the gate? When you weren’t bombarded with the “See Something, Say Something” billboards? When we didn’t have to pay 20 bucks to check a bag on a 90-minute flight?

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is, all the romance and allure of air travel is gone. Forever. It’s a relief when you reach your final destination, but no one actually enjoys Neil the process of Pierson getting there.

Press reporter The time spent dealing with the minutiae of security, hordes of fellow passengers and airlines that sell “perks” for jacked-up prices mean you’re gritting your teeth the entire way.

Maybe John Madden, the famed football commentator, had it right by traversing the country in a bus.

My wife’s birthday present to me this year was spectacular. She knows I’m a longtime Chicago Blackhawks fan, and we’ve missed Chicago’s recent trips to Vancouver, British Columbia, so she organized a two-night stay in Denver so I could attend a professional hockey game — Blackhawks vs. Colorado Avalanche — for the first time.

Our time in Denver was fantastic. There was the fried chicken and top-notch oldfashioned at Society Sports & Spirits, beer pong at Hayter’s and one of the nicest pedicab drivers you could ever hope to find. And the city was swarming with Chicagoans — along with tons of red-clad Blackhawks fans, the Cubs were visiting the Rockies for the opening weekend of baseball season.

I’d definitely go back, but I’d consider a nice long road trip to get there instead.

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T o the E ditor State park funding

Preserve new dock funding at Lake Sammamish State Park Wonderful new docks in the Lake Sammamish State Park Master Plan won a $1 million Boating Facilities Grant but they will lose this without matching legislative funding. This is included in the governor’s and Senate budget proposals, but is not in the House budget.

Today, boaters access the park by landing on the beach, getting wet and sinking into the mud.

This year, beach and swim area improvements will completely cut-off boat access to the beach.

The new docks will improve access to both the park and to boats for people with disabilities, those with advancing age, and improve safety for children and everyone who doesn’t want to jump into the water. The docks will be shared by swimmers, kayaks, canoes, paddleboards, fishermen, and everyone who visits the park and wants to walk out on the water.

The Lake Sammamish waterfront is what makes this urban park unique in the state. Improving access to this park opens up recreation opportunities on boats and on shore. With the new bathhouse concession stand, these docks make the park a destination for events and an opportunity for boaters to come ashore for a picnic lunch or ice cream.

Providing docks so all boaters can continue to access the recreation area is both fair and

important to the park’s economic I am pleased Bill Ramos has viability. Please ensure we do not decided to run, will vote for him lose our $1 million in matching and encourage everyone else to funding for a wonderful facility for vote for him as well. all at one of the most important Lee Woods urban parks in the state. Take two Issaquah minutes to call the Washington Legislative hotline 1-800-562Cartoon 6000 toll free Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to leave your message of support.

Jim Mackey, board member

Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park

City Council

Vote for Bill Ramos, a transportation expert Bill Ramos is running for the Issaquah City Council. This is a good thing. His election will be of great benefit to the city. I have known Bill Ramos for more than 20 years and know him to be an honorable person and a hard worker.

He has chaired the Human Services Commission and served on the Economic Vitality and Planning and Policy Commissions. Further, Ramos has supported the Leukemia Society for 20 years by raising money each year via the run up the Columbia Tower. Bill is also an expert in transportation and runs his own firm specializing in that area.

Ramos lives within blocks of the heart of our city and therefore endures our traffic problems on a daily basis. With the city’s focus now turning to traffic movement, we need someone on the council with his skill set.

H ome C ountry Being a hands-on supervisor can be a good thing Doc saw Dewey the other day, supervising as Windy Wilson unloaded a dump truck of manure into a huge bin on a vacant lot.

“I’ll go persecute some more, Dewey,” Windy said, and drove off toward the feedlot.

Well, Doc had to ask.

“It’s simple, Doc,” said Dewey, the pharaoh of fertilizer. “We needed more product, and the feedlot needed a lot more cleaning, so the company bought that dump truck and a skip loader, and Windy’s driving it for me.”

Dewey Decker can’t handle machinery. We all know that, and finally, so does Dewey. He’s the most accident-prone guy in the valley. He once got his dad’s pickup truck stuck in a mud hole … during a drought. And no one but Dewey could herd a cow into the top of a tree.

So when his lady love, Emily Stickles (she of the magnificent cheekbones and kind heart) became acting chief financial officer of Dewey’s manure-shoveling business, things started to pop.

“The company” not only owned

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Law enforcement is a noble profession

The Opinion page cartoon (Pay to Play Cop Training) in your April 29 edition was extremely offensive to me. It certainly was published with poor timing.

Seems to be “open season” on the police right now.

It is my belief that law enforcement in this country is a noble profession. I can’t think of any other job that asks a person to put himself or herself in the middle of every human condition, from a deranged shooter on the loose to a family argument, and then be expected to fix it.

My suggestion to critics of the police is to sign on. Seriously, start law enforcement classes and make whatever change you think is necessary from the inside. Another suggestion for critics of the police is that the next time you have your house robbed, your car crashed into, your dog gets lost or your crazy neighbor starts threatening to shoot you, don’t call the cops.

Take care of it yourself.

Diane Gilliam Issaquah

that had fallen outside the bin, and expertly tossed it in.

Then he grinned at Doc, sheepishly. “Got to keep my hand in, Doc. You know.”

the dump truck and skip loader, Slim but also has a tank on a trailer Randles with a sprayer on the back for “cow pasture tea,” or liquid fertilizer. Then, there are the fishing worms … oh yes, genuine red Listen to Home Country the podcast: wigglers … now sold in every bait music, laughter and more, at www. shop in the county. And special doublewidenetwork.com/index.php/ bags of worm castings sold at a MusicStarWorldwide/detail/home_country. higher price than regular fertilizer, for indoor plants.

This large bin on Something on your mind about your Dewey’s leased vacant lot, Doc discovered, city? Tell us about it. Send an email about would soon be full of how you feel to editor@isspress.com. The raw product and then Issaquah Press welcomes comments to the thousands of red wigeditor about any subject, although priority glers who would then will be given to those that address local transmogrify the product issues. We may edit them for length, clarity into worm castings while or inappropriate content. multiplying and making Your thoughts should be no more than 300 fishermen ecstatic from words, but can be just a paragraph or two. coast to coast… well, Include your phone number (only for verificafrom here to the next tion purposes, so it won’t be published). county, anyway.

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State Parks offers three ‘free’ days in late spring The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission will offer three “free days” this month and next.

Visitors will not need to display a Discover Pass for day-use visits to state parks on May 10, a springtime free day; June 6, in

recognition of National Trails Day; and June 13, National Get Outdoors Day. Free days are in keeping with legislation that created the Discover Pass, a $30 annual or $10 one-day permit required for vehicle access to recreation lands managed by Washington State Parks, the Washington Department of Fish &

Wildlife and the Department of Natural Resources.

The Discover Pass legislation provided that State Parks could designate up to 12 “free days” each year when the pass would not be required to visit state parks. Discover Pass is required on WDFW and DNR Lands on State Parks free days.

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Any person having a claim against the Decedent that arose before the Decedent’s death must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attor‑ ney at the address stated below a copy of the claim, and filing the origi‑ nal of the claim with the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of: 1) thirty days after the Per‑ sonal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or 2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim will be forever barred, except as otherwise pro‑ vided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060.

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Personal Representative:GRACE MILLAY OTT Attorney for Personal Representa‑ tive:Seanna M. Bodholt Randall | Danskin P.S. Address for Mailing or Service:601 W. Riverside Ave., Ste. 1500 Spokane WA 99201 DATED this 22nd day of April, 2015.

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In the superior court of the State of Washington for the county of King Irvin N. Harris, Plaintiff, vs. No. 15‑2‑07992‑1 Alton Pearce, as an individual and as administrator of the estate of Bet‑ flany L. Pearce, deceased, and the heirs of Alton Pearce, Defendants.

The State of Washington to the said (naming the defendant or defen‑ dants to be served by publication): You are hereby summoned to ap‑ pear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this sum‑ mons, to wit, within sixty days after the 29th day of April, 2015, and de‑ fend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff Irvin N. Har‑ ris, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff, John A. Long, at his office below stated; and in case of your fail‑ ure so to do, judgment will be ren‑ dered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. This is an action to Quiet Title for real property.

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22525 SE 64th Pl, Ste 262 Issaquah, WA 98027 King County SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHING‑ TON COUNTY OF KING In re the Marriage of: FRANCISCO A. CASTILLOS,Petitioner, and ISABELLA CASTILLOS,Respondent.

NO. 10‑3‑01437‑7 SEA SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION To the Respondent: 1.The petitioner has started an ac‑ tion in the above court requesting modification of a maintenance order and a request for attorney fees, other professional fees, and costs.

2.You must respond to this sum‑ mons by serving a copy of your writ‑ ten response on the person signing this summons and by filing the origi‑ nal with the clerk of the court. If you do not serve your written response within 60 days after the date of the first publication of this summons (60 days after the 29th day of April, 2015), the court may enter an order of default against you, and the court may, without further notice to you, enter a decree and approve or pro‑ vide for other relief requested in this summons.

3. Your written response to the sum‑ mons and petition must be on form WPF DRPSCU 06.0300, Response to Petition for Modification of Child Support, modified for modification of maintenance.

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 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.

5.One method of serving a copy of your response on the petitioner is to send it by certified mail with return receipt requested.

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Eastside Baby Corner selected as recipient of national grant Issaquah-based nonprofit Eastside Baby Corner has been selected as one of 61 national recipients of the inaugural Funds for Change grant awarded by the National Diaper Bank Network.

“The Funds for Change grants are designed to enhance the sustainability or capacity of individual diaper banks to address diaper need in their respective communities,” Alison Weir, director of programs at the National Diaper Bank Network, said in a news release.

The funds will be used to help purchase some of the 800,000 diapers the organization distributes each year, according to Eastside Baby Corner Executive Director Renee Zimmerman.

Adventure Kids Playcare goes outdoors for Spring Festival

FARM FRESH

By greg farrar

‘Squeak’ Bradley, of Kent, the artisan of Repurposed Creations, puts price tags on his ironwork garden art, including this dragonfly, made out of old farm, lumber, mining and automotive implements.

By greg farrar

SLIDESHOW See more photos from the Farmers Market at www. issaquahpress.com.

A warm sunrise (above left) lights up Pickering Barn and the yellow Pappardelle’s Pasta van as vendors return like the swallows of San Juan Capistrano for a new year at the Issaquah Farmers Market, which will greet visitors and customers every Saturday through Sept. 26.

Alma Madrigal and Jose Meraz (above right), employees of Bautista Farms in Sunnyside, set out apples as vendors arrive at Pickering Barn May 2 to prepare for the year’s first Issaquah Farmers Market, which is celebrating its 25th summer in operation.

School celebrates local heroes

By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com Sixth-grader Anna Chisholm had never before volunteered for community service, but she said she enjoyed the time she spent helping homeless residents in Seattle earlier this year.

“I feel so sad for people that don’t have the opportunities that I have,” said Chisholm, who packed and delivered supplies, and prepared breakfast for homeless adults and teens, alongside members of her select basketball team.

Chisholm wasn’t alone among her peers at Pine Lake Middle School.

Many had their eyes opened to the plights of others for the first time this year because of a school requirement. All sixth-graders, through their language arts and social studies classes, have to complete a community service project, and then write about the impact it had on them and the people they helped.

Sixth-grade teachers Eric Ensey, Angie Hardy, Chris Hill, Jill Knutson, Chris Miske and Lauren Roon, and eighth-grade teacher Anne Kiemle, organized the assignments, which culminated April 22 with the school’s Heropalooza event. There, each of the roughly 300 students spent 30 minutes after school discussing their projects, all of which were displayed on large poster boards.

“We let the kids choose the area that they would like to work in, and

By neil pierson

Mustafa Miyaziwala, a sixth-grade student at Pine Lake Middle School, tells others about his community service project at the school’s Heropalooza event April 21. Miyaziwala and others formed Snacks for Slavery, which used a bake sale to raise $386 for the International Justice Mission. their goal was 10 hours,” Knutson said. “Lots of kids do more, and lots of kids continue on through the spring, so this doesn’t mean it’s the end.

“But we have 300 kids, everybody doing at least 10 hours, so at least a minimum of 3,000 hours worth of service in our local area.”

The list of organizations the students chose from were wideranging — cancer support groups, military-oriented groups such as Wounded Warriors, food and clothing banks, and more. One student,

Knutson said, spent time doing chores for a disabled neighbor.

Mustafa Miyaziwala and others raised $386 through their bake-sale project, Snacks for Slavery. The profits went to the International Justice Mission, an organization Miyaziwala said he liked because it helps combat slavery in his native country of India.

Along with helping the homeless, Chisholm spent time at Rosebud River Ranch in Snoqualmie.

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By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com Five years ago, when Ed and Nicole Mecum opened Adventure Kids Playcare, they hosted a grand-opening festival to introduce themselves to the community.

But a funny thing happened.

“It was so much fun, we decided to have a festival day every year,” Ed Mecum said.

Now celebrating its sixth year, the Spring Festival has grown larger than ever. The festival encompasses two acres of free activities between Bed, Bath and Beyond and Tutta Bella in the Issaquah Commons Shopping Center.

And other local businesses are clamoring to be a part of the activities, Mecum said.

For example, new this year will be a live macaw display presented by the Cougar Mountain Zoo. Eastside Fire & Rescue and the Issaquah Police Department will be on hand with trucks and displays, and answering questions. Other vendors adding their presence include Costco, Banic Chiropractic, Learning Rx, Timberlake Church and Hot Yoga Experience.

“We’re always opening up to our customers a chance to present their businesses’ customer care needs,” Mecum said. “The festival is just a great way to be in front of the Issaquah family.”

Last year, the festival drew a few thousand attendees, Mecum added.

His goal is top 5,000 this year. To entice newcomers, they’ve planned several family entertainment activities, including bouncy houses, hamster ball races,

IF YOU GO Spring Festival 2015 410 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 9 4Issaquah Commons Shopping Center, between Tutta Bella and Bed, Bath and Beyond interactive booths from festival sponsors, chair massages, ice cream and more.

Also new this year will be a food drive for the Issaquah Food & Clothing bank, which is in need of nonperishable food items.

“Actually, they need a lot of things,” Mecum said.

“Going into summer, people tend to donate less than at Christmas time, so they need a lot of everything.”

Specifically, he added the food bank is in most need of canned tuna, chicken, fruit and healthy soups, as well as toiletries, cleaning supplies and diapers.

Mecum said perhaps the best part about the free festival is it’s open to the entire community, not just their clientele.

“It’s just a fun day for kids,” Mecum said. “It’s our version of community day.”

Adventure Kids Playcare is essentially a drop-in childcare center where parents can leave their children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years, hourly for a quick coffee or all day. To keep the kids active, Mecum said they offer a little of everything, from an indoor playground with a slide to video games and arts and crafts.

He added the festival will go on, rain or shine, as long as conditions remain safe.

Trolley starts running May 9 The Issaquah Valley Trolley will begin its 2015 season with a celebration of mothers.

The trolley will go into operation May 9. The next day, Mother’s Day, the first 50 moms to ride will receive a flower, compliments of Michael Johnson.

Johnson is a long-time IVT volunteer and operator of a massage practice in Issaquah for 20 years.

The trolley will operate Saturdays and Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., weather permitting, through the end of Sep-

tember. Passengers board at the Issaquah Depot Museum, 78 First Ave. N.E. Boarding passes can be purchased at the ticket window in the waiting room. The fare is $5 per person, which includes the trolley ride plus admission to the Depot Museum and the Gilman Town Hall Museum. Children 5 and younger and members of the Issaquah History Museums ride free.

Learn more about the trolley at www.issaquahhistory.org/issaquahvalley-trolley.

Grand Ridge students take green challenge to next level

By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com The message written on the playground in colorful chalk got right to the point: “Aphids are pests. Ladybugs eat aphids.”

That was one of the main lessons Grand Ridge Elementary School students took away from their Earth Day activities April 22. With the help of volunteers from the Issaquah Highlands Community Association, the students released about 18,000 ladybugs into the school’s Grizzly Patch Garden and neighboring landscape.

Russ Ayers, the association’s landscape manager, said the idea was simply an expansion of what the community already does to control the pest population.

“We have a certain aphid population here that’s irritating, but you don’t want to spray for it,” he said. “Generally, when you use an insecticide against a pest such as aphids … it’s toxic to

everything that comes in contact with that target area for days or weeks later.”

Aphids, or plant lice, can suck the sap from a variety of plant species, and they can transmit viruses that harm plants.

Ayers said killing aphids with a traditional insecticide doesn’t work well, because they typically return to prominence before any of their natural enemies do.

Ladybugs, however, serve as a nontoxic deterrent. So the association ordered them in bulk from an insectary in Medford, Oregon, placed them in plastic cups, and let about 750 youngsters release them.

“We’ll monitor it to see how successful it is,” Ayers said. “We expect it to be fairly successful, but there are other beneficial insects we can add to the mix.”

The event put smiles on children’s faces as they removed the lids and furiously shook the bugs loose. But it also had a more tangible benefit — Grand Ridge achieved Level 4 status from

the King County Green Schools Program.

It’s an elite distinction – nearby Endeavour Elementary became the first Level 4 school in March — and it completes a process that, for Grand Ridge, began in September 2010. The first three levels of the program involve waste reduction, recycling, energy and water conservation, and pollution prevention efforts.

Level 4 is for “sustaining green schools” that maintain those practices and involve the entire student body in an additional act from a list of best practices.

The school formed its own Green Team in March under the guidance of second-grade teacher Megan Reiser and thirdgrade teacher Rene DeTolla.

“Basically, we’ve gotten together before school for the last five Tuesdays and talked about ways to make our school a better place,” Reiser said.

In preparation for Earth Day, students created posters and flyers about the ladybug release,

By Neil pierson

Joon Chang, a volunteer with the Issaquah Highlands Community Association, helps students Natalie Burch (left) and Mai Murakami release ladybugs into the Grand Ridge Elementary School garden during and Earth Day event April 22. and a waste-free lunch challenge involving all Issaquah schools.

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Celebrate Mother’s Day with the Spring Electric Vehicle Show. The 1972 Datsun conversion White Zombie, one of the fastest street-legal electric cars on the planet, with a 0-60 time of 1.8 seconds, and less than 11 seconds in the quarter-mile, will be on display along with many others. Charging stations available along with a raffle at 1 p.m. to raise money for Charge for Change; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Triple XXX Rootbeer Drive-in, 98 N.E. Gilman Blvd., www.triplexrootbeer.com.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Cemetery Board meeting, 6:30 p.m., City Hall, 130 E. Sunset Way, 837-3000

Historic Pub Crawl, food, drinks and colorful local history, 7-9 p.m. May 14, downtown Issaquah, $45, limited tickets available, www.downtownissaquah.com Concerto Concert, 7-9 p.m. May 16, Issaquah High School, 700 Second Ave. S.E., www.evergreenphil.org Spring Fusion, a Sister Cities Celebration, jazz, wine, beer and appetizers, 7 p.m. May 15, Blakely Hall, 2550 N.E. Park Drive, $30, proceeds benefit cultural exchange programs, springfusion.brownpapertickets.com Kids Bike Rodeo, geocaching treasure hunts, safety checks, helmet fittings and more, 9 a.m. to noon May 17, Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W., 837-3321

THURSDAY MAY 7 Issaquah Women’s Club, guests welcome, meet people, have fun and help others, includes refreshments, speaker and meeting, 9:30 a.m., Tibbetts Creek Manor, 750 17th Ave. N.W., www. issaquahwomensclub.org Super Salmon Sleuths, preschoolers learn about the life cycle of fish, ages 3 to 6, 9:30-11 a.m., Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery, 125 W. Sunset Way, $12/ child, sibling discount available, 392-1118

‘Salish Sea Marine Survival Project’ with Jacques White, 6:30 p.m., Watershed Science Center, Issaquah Salmon Hatchery, 125 W. Sunset Way, 392-1118, free but donations accepted

FRIDAY, MAY 8 Issaquah Garden Club Plant Sale, Bake Sale and Art Sale, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 16023 252nd Ave. S.E., www.issaquahgardenclub.org Train Depot Museum, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday through Sunday, visit the vintage caboose and railroad cars, tours available by appointment, 78 First Ave. N.E., $2/adults, $1/children, www.issaquahhistory.org/ issaquah-depot The community center will close at 2 p.m. today.

Northwest Paddling Festival, demos, races and paddleboard jousting, 2-7 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

May 9, free, $7 for demos all day, Ake Sammamish State Park, 2000 N.W. Sammamish Road, northwestpaddlingfestival.com Friends of the Issaquah Library Spring Member Preview Book Sale, 5:30-7 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430

Council Land and Shore Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m., City Hall South, 135 E. Sunset Way, 837-3000

Wine Club, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Blakely Hall, 2550 N.E. Park Drive, email Diane at danielsondd@yahoo.com

Discipline Beyond Punishment, learn to use discipline as a teaching tool with Encompass Community Education Manager Kerry Beymer, 5:30-7 p.m., Virginia Mason Clinic, 100 N.E. Gilman Blvd., free, register at goencompassnw.org

Groove Kitchen, 8 p.m., Pogacha, 120 N.W. Gilman Blvd., $5, 392-5550 Live music, 9 p.m., $5, Rolling Log Tavern, 50 E. Sunset Way, 392-2964

SATURDAY, MAY 9 Farmers market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine, Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W. Granite Lakes Hike, strenuous, 11 miles, up to 2,400-foot elevation gain, 9 a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org Northwest Paddling Festival, demos, races and paddleboard jousting, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., free, $7 for demos all day, Ake Sammamish State Park, 2000 N.W. Sammamish Road, northwestpaddlingfestival.com Saturday Morning Trail Run, meets weekly for a 3- to 5-mile run on Tiger or Squak mountains, 9 a.m. Uphill Running, 100 Front St. S., Suite A, 391-2430 Annual All Breed and Household Pet Cat Show, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., community center, 301 Rainier Blvd. S., 837-3000 Issaquah Area Dog Hike, 10 a.m., 5 to 8 miles, up to 1,200-foot elevation gain, 9 a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org Issaquah Garden Club Plant Sale, Bake Sale and Art Sale, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 16023 252nd Ave. S.E., www. issaquahgardenclub.org Sixth annual Spring Festival, sponsored by Adventure Kids, bounce houses, treats, games and food drive for the Issaquah Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 775 N.W. Gilman Blvd., 3915358 Sixth annual Treehouse Equipment Drive, donate gently used baseball equipment to those in need, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Dodd Field, 565 N.W. Holly St., josheastern@yahoo.com Friends of the Issaquah Library Spring Book Sale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way,

392-5430 Show and Tell Event with Joan Gordon, of Pacific N.W. Life Stories, public invited to share stories, 1-2:30 p.m., Bellewood Apartments, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E., RSVP by emailing pacificnwlifestories@gmail.com Relay for Life of Issaquah, noon May 9 to 8 a.m. May 10, Issaquah High School, 700 Second Ave. S.E., www. issaquahrelayforlife.org ‘Paint by Wine,’ make your own original piece of art, 6-8 p.m., artEAST Art Center, 95 Front St. N., $22/members, $27/nonmembers, arteast.org Second Saturday Film Series: ‘Tony Rome,’ 7 p.m., City Hall, 130 E. Sunset Way, 837-3000 National Music Week Concert featuring local student and teacher performances, scholarship fundraising event, 7:30 p.m., free but donations accepted, Newport Covenant Church, 12800 Coal Creek Parkway S.E., Bellevue, 747-0515 Seatown Rhythm and Blues, 7:30 p.m., Vino Bella, 99 Front St. N., 391-1424 Kerry and the Keepers, 8 p.m., Pogacha, 120 N.W. Gilman Blvd., $5 cover, 392-5550 Karaoke, 9 p.m., Rolling Log Tavern, 50 E. Sunset Way, 3922964

SUNDAY, MAY 10 Lake Tradition Plateau Hike, very easy, 4 miles, up to 500foot elevation gain, 10 a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org Friends of the Issaquah Library Spring Book Sale, 1-5 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430

MONDAY, MAY 11 Vietnamese Story Time, ages

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TUESDAY, MAY 12 Developmental Screenings with Encompass, ages 3 months to 5 years, 9:3011:30 a.m., Blakely Hall, 2550 N.E. Park Drive, free, 888-3347 ‘Satisfaction: What Does Your Spiritual Identity Have to Do with It?,’ live online Q & A, 11 a.m., Christian Science Reading Room, 415 Rainier Blvd. N., 392-8140 Council Services and Safety Committee meeting, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 130 E. Sunset Way, 837-3000 Sing Along with Charlie Hope, 11 a.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430 Tuesday Night Run, meets weekly for a 1.5-mile casual run, 6 p.m., Uphill Running, 100

Front St. S., Suite A, 391-2430 The Rovin’ Fiddlers, 7-9 p.m., Issaquah Highlands Fire Station, 1280 N.E. Park Drive, www.rovinfiddlers.com Sister Cities Commission meeting, 7 p.m., City Hall, 130 E. Sunset Way, 837-3000 Second Hand Newz, Fleetwood Mac tribute band, 7:30 p.m., Amante, 131 Front St. N., $3, call for reservations, 313-9600 Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Gaslamp Bar & Grill, 1315 N.W. Mall St., 392-4547

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Mary Karaniewski

Rhoda Snow

Betty Jo Wiggins

Rhoda Grace Snow, of Issaquah, loving mother to Edward and James, passed May 1, 2015. She was 98.

A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 9, at Flintoft’s Funeral Home, 392-6444.

Please view photos, get directions and share memories in the family’s guest book at www.flintofts.com.

The family of Betty Jo Wiggins — her daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren would like to thank her friends and the community for their comfort and support, the contributions to her memorial reception and the generous donations to Children’s Hospital.

Betty’s legacy of giving back continues because of your kindness and it is truly appreciated.

Hazel Rupe Goodall Fulp, age 88, of Issaquah, passed away April 28 in Bellevue.

Survivors include daughter Connye Scheda, son Bob Rupe; six step children.

A graveside service was held at Lower Hillside Cemetery on May 4, 2015.

Please sign the family’s on-line guest book at www. flintofts.com.

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Mary Regina Karaniewski, of Issaquah, loving mother of Marcellina, Gwendolyn and Mathew passed Tuesday, April 14, 2015, at home.

A funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 9, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Issaquah.

Please view photos, get directions and share memories at www.flintofts.com.

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Prizes were given to the schools that generated the least amount of waste per student.

“I think this has been a great help, increasing the awareness in the classrooms with our students,” Reiser said. “… I think everybody knew today was a big day to help our Earth and make it a better place.”

Green Team members excitedly helped their fellow students by passing out the ladybug cups.

“I didn’t know that ladybugs helped the plants,” second-grader Zan Rizvi said. “I just thought they

By Neil Pierson

Megan Reiser, a second-grade teacher at Grand Ridge Elementary School, helps student Hina Mansoor drop ladybugs onto plants at the school’s garden during April 22 Earth Day festivities. were some random bugs.”

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Meet Syris, a 12-yearsyoung, male grey-andwhite DSH fellow. Syris Syris is a curious and spry guy ready to move on and meet his new family. He is a diabetic controlled by diet and insulin but that doesn’t slow him down. He’s currently exploring the Annex area of the Seattle Humane Society soaking up all the love and attention he can get.

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fourth-grader Quinn Ryan, who noted the school has “waste watchers” to monitor proper recycling habits during lunch, and uses a wind turbine to generate some of its electricity.

The Issaquah Highlands prides itself on being an environmentally conscious community. Ayers said they use microscopic nematodes to get rid of crane fly larvae, which can damage lawns; redirect rain water for irrigation purposes; and even utilize 400 goats for vegetation control every summer.

He said school officials were very receptive when he approached them about the Earth Day activity.

“The school just lit up.

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Heroes from page 6

“They have so many horses that they need someone to help,” she said.

Kaia Larsen and her friend Alex Gray started a drive for supplies that they called Hygiene for Homeless. They gathered items like toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, deodorant and cotton swabs, and then brought them to a local tent city.

“I think it was really a good opportunity, because I don’t think people know,” Larsen said. “They just think the homeless people did something to get themselves there, but really, they are human, too, and they deserve to have the same cleanness and same opportunities that we do.

“And I think … if they’re nice and clean, it’ll help them get a job, maybe sooner than if they come

not clean. I just hope it helps them get more opportunities.”

The projects, which began in November, tied into Pine Lake’s social studies and language arts curriculum. In class, students learned about Greek mythology and its extensive use of heroes.

“We talk about the ‘unlikely hero,’” Knutson said, “so you are an unlikely hero, but you can be like a Greek god because you’re changing the world.”

Knutson said she witnessed many examples — commonly, it happened at the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank or Eastside Baby Corner — where students had a “wow” moment because they were startled by what they learned.

“To think that a family doesn’t have enough food, or diapers for their baby, and they live maybe in our neighborhood, it was overwhelming to some kids,” she said. “… And every single student says, ‘Aren’t I lucky? We all have so much.’”

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Mount Si secured its third win of the spring with a 14-5 boys prep lacrosse defeat of Liberty, April 29 at Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie.

Behind the five goals and two assists of Benjamin Lomas, the Wildcats shut out Liberty in the first half while putting up six goals of their own. In the third, both squads netted three goals before Mount Si broke away with five goals in the fourth quarter.

Liberty is 1-9-0 on the season.

Skyline alums sign with NFL teams

By Christina Corrales-Toy newcastle@isspress.com Two Skyline High School football stars are headed to the National Football League.

While wide receiver Kasen Williams and quarterback Jake Heaps didn’t hear their names called during the NFL draft, both will reportedly get shots as undrafted free agents.

Williams, a 2011 Skyline graduate, signed with the Cincinnati Bengals, while Heaps, a 2009 Skyline graduate, will head to the New York Jets.

“Can’t wait for the opportunity!!” Heaps tweeted after word spread of his destination.

It was University of Miami head coach Al Golden that broke the Kasen Williams news about his quarterback, tweeting, “Congrats to Jake Heaps on signing with the Jets!!”

Heaps finished his college career as a backup at the University of Miami, after stops at both Brigham Young University and the University of Kansas.

Jake Heaps The Skyline star was considered one of the nation’s top high-school quarterbacks in the class of 2009, after leading the Spartans to three state titles. He initially signed with BYU and graduated early to join the team for spring practices.

His best collegiate year came in his true-freshman season with the Cougars.

In 2010, Heaps started 10 of the team’s 13 games, and proceeded to set every BYU freshman quarterback record, including passing yards, touchdowns and wins.

That year, he also won the New Mexico Bowl Offensive MVP Award and College Football News named him a Freshman All-America Team Honorable Mention.

He played in nine games his sophomore year and decided to transfer after losing his starting job. Heaps elected to join the Kansas Jayhawks, led by head coach Charlie Weis, who had previously attempted to recruit the quarterback to Notre Dame while Heaps was still in high school.

After sitting out a year due to transfer rules, Heaps started nine games for the Jayhawks in 2013. Following the season, he was named to the Academic All-Big 12 Second Team and earned Kansas’ Don Fambrough Leadership Award.

Heaps finished his college career with Miami, appearing in just three games.

Williams followed in his father Aaron’s footsteps, electing to continue his football career at the University of Washington.

The Skyline wide receiver also led the Spartans to three state championships, including the one he earned alongside Heaps as freshman phenom pass catcher in 2007.

Williams was considered one of the nation’s top receivers when he graduated in 2011. He was named the Parade All-American National Player of the Year, MaxPrep.com’s National Athlete of the Year and earned The Seattle Times’ male athlete of the year three years in a row, among a host of other honors.

He saw game action as soon as he suited up for Steve Sarkisian’s Huskies as a freshman in 2011. He had 36 receptions for 427 yards and six touchdowns that year.

Williams’ production nearly doubled the next year, as he collected 878 yards on 77 receptions and six scores as a sophomore. He had 421 yards on 29 receptions through eight games in 2013, before a serious lower leg/foot injury cut his season short.

The injury, coupled with the adversity of a coaching change and inconsistent Husky quarterback play, made for a difficult senior campaign for Williams. He had just 189 yards and two touchdowns.

Williams confirmed his Cincinnati signing on Instagram, posting a photo of receiver gloves with the Bengals logo.

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Mikey Callan, Issaquah High School captain and senior midfielder, exults after his goal in the 25th minute as Skyline keeper Bryce Escobar lies sprawled on the pitch and Nick Morgan looks at the ball in the net.

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In the end, it didn’t matter that Issaquah High School’s goal was under siege for much of the second half, or that Skyline piled up a 20-6 advantage in shots.

When Issaquah midfielder Mikey Callan pounced on a loose ball in the box and scored in the 25th minute, the Eagles had all the offense they needed to beat the visiting Spartans, 1-0, in Class 4A KingCo Conference boys soccer action on May 1 at Gary Moore Stadium.

Callan, one of 13 seniors playing their final regular-season home game, put himself in perfect position for the game’s only goal.

After surviving an early onslaught from the Spartans’ attack, the Eagles scored when they sent a long pass toward Skyline’s penalty area. The ball deflected off a head and onto the right foot of a hustling Callan, who slotted it low past goalkeeper Bryce Escobar.

“I read the play early, and I knew where the ball was going to go, and I knew I had to beat my guy there,” Callan said.

“It looked like he had a good idea of what was going to happen,” Issaquah coach Kyle Tatro said of the play. “He anticipated well and he finished well. It was a good play by him.”

The win was important for Issaquah from a rivalry standpoint, and it also gave the Eagles (4-4 KingCo, 12 points) homefield advantage in the first round of the KingCo playoffs. They clinched the No. 4 seed, and they’ll host fifth-seeded Redmond at 7 p.m. May 7.

Skyline (5-3, 15 points) didn’t lose ground with the loss. The Spartans had already sewn up third place, and host sixth-seeded Woodinville at 7 p.m. May 7.

Still, it was a tough loss to swallow for Spartans coach Don Braman and his players, who felt they created enough chances to win the game.

“We had a lot of the run of play, and I really liked how we played early in the game,” Braman said. “I don’t know how we create more chances than that early in the game, because we had five, six in the first 20 minutes.”

Skyline’s first good chance came in the ninth minute, when Sergio Palomino took a sharp-angle shot that Issaquah goalkeeper Dylan Dieringer saved. The ball skittered across the goal mouth to Matthew Richardson, who couldn’t keep his

Sergio Palomino (right), Skyline High School freshman midfielder, won’t be denied in pursuit of the ball during the first period as Issaquah senior defender Liam Bruno slides in with his leg to try for a block.

chance on frame.

After Callan’s goal, the Spartans nearly equalized in the 30th minute off Nate Hardwick’s long free kick. The ball found Nick Morgan, whose close-range shot was saved, and Neel Baxi shot wide on the rebound attempt.

Issaquah nearly had a second goal just before halftime as Escobar failed to control an Adrian Diaz cross, but the Eagles were unable to get to the loose ball with the goalkeeper stranded on the turf.

Issaquah’s defense was sharp for the bulk of the second half, but Skyline created several late chances. Daniel Luis Miller had an open look from 10 yards that was blocked at the last instant, and later, the Eagles made a couple of desperate clearances as the ball bounced dangerously around the box.

Tatro, the Eagles’ second-year coach, said his team has tried to play with the same mentality as last season, when it won the program’s first KingCo tournament title.

“It’s kind of been our goal the whole time to be hard-nosed defensively and then nick goals when we can,” he said. “That’s what we’re trying to pride ourselves on. It hasn’t quite worked out for us this season, but when it mattered, we pulled it out.”

Naturally, the Spartans felt unlucky about the result.

“We had the ball in the box, and it was pinging around, and anything could happen,” Braman said. “That happened five, six times near the end of the game, and we had some really well-hit balls that just ran into bodies.

“And it seems like that’s the luck we’re getting right now. This is a cruel game sometimes, and I hope all our cruelty is used up now. We’re on to the playoffs, and it’s win to move on.”

Skyline and Issaquah must win three consecutive games to reach the state playoffs. Regular-season champion Mount Si or second-place Inglemoor will claim one of KingCo’s two state berths in the May 11 tournament title game.

Liberty roundup: Two Patriots get hat tricks in Bellevue win

By Christina Corrales-Toy newcastle@isspress.com The score didn’t seem real.

The email from Liberty head coach Darren Tremblay earned a deserved double take, after it noted that his boys soccer squad defeated Bellevue, 11-0, May 1.

Sure, the Wolverines are in the midst of a brutal season, having failed to pick up a league win, so far. But 11-0 just seemed mindblowing.

Yet there it was in perfect detail, the notes outlining every Patriot score.

Tyler Jensen started the on-

slaught with an unassisted goal just 4 minutes into the game.

Ethan Diaz scored just three minutes later, and then he scored another one not 15 minutes later.

Jensen and Diaz each earned a hat trick, scoring three goals each.

Griffin Lockhart and Michael Duvall each had two goals and Noah Anderson rounded out the rest of the scoring with one goal.

It represented Bellevue’s biggest loss of the season. The only other one that came close was a 7-1 loss to Interlake April 21.

Liberty’s season is coming to a close. The Patriots play their final regular season game 7:30 p.m.

May 7 at Liberty High School.

Playoffs begin soon after with the District 2/3 2A boys soccer tournament.

Fastpitch team continues to cruise Liberty pitcher Sydney Hopper is taking no prisoners as she leads her fastpitch team into the postseason.

Hopper put up another gem of a performance May 1 in the Patriots’ 2-0 win over Interlake. She held the Saints scoreless, giving up just three hits, striking out 14 and walking one.

As of press time, the Patriots held third place in the KingCo 3A/2A Conference, with an 11-4 league record. Liberty hosts Juanita in the final regular season game at 4:30 p.m. May 8.

Liberty’s postseason will begin May 22 in the District 2/3 2A softball tournament.

Postseason baseball to begin Liberty hosted Redmond to wrap up its regular season May 4. Results were not available at press time.

The 7-12 Patriots, sitting second to last in the KingCo 3A/2A

Conference standings, will now delve directly into the postseason.

The only KingCo team with a worse record than the Patriots’ is fellow 2A school Sammamish, meaning the Patriots will receive the KingCo No. 1 seed into the 2015 District 2/3 2A baseball tournament.

Liberty High School will get a chance to host some first round games May 9. If the Patriots manage to win at least one game that day, they will move on to the next round games, most of which are held at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds.

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They will ensure job seekers benefit from WorkSource services and ultimately are matched with employers seeking their particular skills.

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