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THE ISSAQUAH PRESS

117th Year, No. 24

Issaquah sports medicine team clinches its 4th national championship

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TRUCKIN’ DOWN SUNSET

By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@isspress.com Issaquah High School teacher Todd Parsons isn’t subtle when describing the 90-minute, 300-question test his sports medicine students recently conquered. “They ask like med school, brain-bleeding sorts of questions,” he said. To put it simply, the gantlet of questions students must navigate is hard, but it’s even harder to emerge from the 300-school field with the nation’s top score. And to do it in four consecutive years, well, that’s a minor miracle. Issaquah High School clinched its fourth national title in the American Academic Competition Institute’s sports medicine championship last month. The online exam quizzes high school students on everything from first aid to complex medical terms that would make a medical student blush. “They’re not just college-level questions,” Parsons said. “The questions are to the point where it’s like, ‘OK, you’ve decided you’re going to be a doctor and you might have already decided you’re going to become a specialist in the head or face area.’” The amount of preparation that goes into such a test is dizzying, Parsons said, and for the most part, the students take it upon themselves to delve into the study

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Council sends speed camera expansion back to committee Some want new revenue from increase in tickets to be earmarked for pedestrian safety projects By Scott Stoddard sstoddard@isspress.com

Issaquah’s plan to expand its speed camera system hit a speed bump. Questions raised by several City Council members last week resulted in the speed camera agenda bill being sent back to the council’s Safety and Services Committee for a makeover. “I’m thinking this needs more work,” Councilwoman Eileen Barber said. The city’s administration wants to increase the number of speed camera systems from one to three, adding cameras to school zones at Issaquah Valley Elementary School on the 500 block of Newport Way Northwest and Grand Ridge Elementary School on the 1700 block of Northeast Park Drive. The plan advanced out of the Safety and Services Committee on May 9, but it received a cool reception from some members of the City Council at the group’s June 6 meeting. The vote to send it back to committee See CAMERAS, Page 3

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Man killed in head-on collision south of Issaquah

Stuart Miller

Tent City 4 has temporarily returned to a spot near the High Point Way exit along Interstate 90.

By Sarah Jarvis The Seattle Times A close friend describes Michael Brooks as a natural magnet for people. Todd Miller said he spent every working weekday of the past four years with 53-year-old Brooks, a Maple Valley resident who was killed in a head-on collision near Issaquah on June 7. The two ran a Microsoft corporate dining facility in Redmond while both raised young families. Miller said Brooks, a husband and father of two, touched the lives of hundreds of people with his passion and warmth. “You can imagine being at a company the size of Microsoft — we had a lot of people there,” he said. “Mike was a big impact on a lot of people that came across his path.” King County sheriff’s investigators said a 27-year-old man was driving erratically and veered over the median on Issaquah-Hobart Road before colliding with a car driven by Brooks. The man, who is from Tacoma, was booked into the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent for investigation of vehicular homicide, and was released pending a toxicology report. Dan Donohoe, spokesman for King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, said state law mandates See COLLISION, Page 12

Tent City 4 representative: ‘Issaquah has been good to us’ By Stuart Miller For The Issaquah Press

Scott Stoddard / sstoddard@isspress.com

A collision between two semis on State Route 18 near the exit to Issaquah-Hobart Road caused a reroute of highway traffic through downtown Issaquah on June 8. Eastbound Sunset Way was clogged with truck traffic for much of the afternoon, resulting in a worse-than-usual commute. Washington State Patrol detectives are asking witnesses of the accident on SR 18 who may have pertinent information to contact Detective Russ Haake at (425) 401-7717.

Tent City 4 is expected to stay at its new temporary home off Interstate 90’s High Point Way exit for about 20 more days while it waits for a land-use permit to go through. The group left Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Sammamish on June 4 after a 120-day stay there. The permit for its next 90-day home at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue is still in the review process. The group’s 23-person encampment at High Point Way lacks many of the comforts it had at MQP Church, resident and bookkeeper Trey Nuzum said. The residents had electricity at their old spot, whereas now they rely on gasoline-powered generators for any electrical needs. They had showers before, but now must make a long trip into Issaquah to get one. It takes about an hour and 15 minutes to walk into Issaquah from the encampment, Nuzum said. Many camp residents make the walk, or take a bus that comes every two to two-and-a-half hours, to get to the nearest shower at the Issaquah Community Center. See TENT

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