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Thursday, July 14, 2016

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County OKs funds to join city on Issaquah-Hobart Road study

By Lizz Giordano For The Issaquah Press

Photos by Scott Stoddard / sstoddard@isspress.com

Art Wright, 86, pulls weeds along the railroad tracks that run next to the Rainier Trail near the Issaquah Valley Trolley barn downtown. He works four or five hours a day cleaning up the area, with a midday break for lunch at the senior center.

This 86-year-old’s labor of love benefits us all — in spades Long-retired landscaper determined to beautify a slice of downtown

By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com Those walking along the Rainier Trail parallel to the railroad tracks heading north from the Depot Museum may have recently noticed a lone figure toiling away at the landscaping.

Armed with steel rakes and hand-held weeding tools is Art Wright. When the long-since-retired 86-year-old landscaper kept seeing untended areas along the walkway, he decided to take matters into his own, albeit carpaltunnel-riddled, hands.

“They say old gardeners never die, they just spade away. I made that one up,” Wright said, taking time to chat while weeding the trees near Northeast Dogwood.

Although Wright has been a resident of Issaquah since 1985, this is the first time he’s volunteered his services unbidden.

“This is the first time I’ve done this,” Wright said while scraping the muck out between the sidewalk’s contraction joints.

“What started it were dandelions growing right next to the sidewalk. And on the other side was a nice looking grass. I finally got sick of it.”

Spend enough time talking to retired landscaper Art Wright and chances are he’ll recite one of his favorite poems — perhaps a selection from Rudyard Kipling.

So he loaded up some tools from his own container garden from his home behind Friends of Youth. A garden, he’ll tell you, which has amid its beautiful foliage area a Korean fir and a Bosnian pine, native to the Mediterranean.

“I got that at a nursery in Medina,” Wright said. “Cost me 65 bucks. I charged it because I just had to have it.”

Wright was first spotted

raking the rocks smooth along the tracks. The last project he completed was around a nearby telephone pole, hauling off the debris to his own recycling bin back home.

Wright ignores numerous ailments from a fall that tore both rotator cuffs and dislocated a finger. He suits up in layered and

Trace amount of PFOS discovered in Sammamish Plateau Water well

By Scott Stoddard sstoddard@isspress.com A trace amount of the potentially hazardous chemical plaguing Issaquah’s Gilman Well No. 4 has been detected in a Sammamish Plateau Water production well 1,800 feet to the east.

The water district announced July 8 that PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate) was found in its Well 7 at a level significantly below what the Environmental Protection Agency

considers unsafe.

Sammamish Plateau Water General Manager Jay Krauss stressed the district’s drinking water was safe to consume.

“We have a history of being extremely protective of our customers’ water,” Krauss said in a press release. “Any potential threat is taken seriously and acted upon immediately. In this case, our own tests See PFOS, Page 2

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King County has committed to partnering with the City of Issaquah to fund a comprehensive transportation and traffic study along Issaquah-Hobart Road to relieve regional traffic congestion.

The City Council will vote at its Aug. 1 meeting whether to authorize funding for the joint analysis of the road from State Route 18 to Gilman Boulevard. The study is estimated to cost $175,000 and the county has agreed to pay half. The city will be responsible for the other half and any excess amount that exceeds the expected price.

“As many Issaquah drivers experience on a daily basis, traffic from Issaquah-Hobart Road creates local congestion, especially along Front Street and Newport Way Northwest,” Autumn Monahan, assistant

to Issaquah’s city administrator, said in an email. “This study is the next step needed to working on solutions at a regional level.”

According to Public Works Engineering Director Sheldon Lynne, the study is necessary to move Issaquah-Hobart Road improvements up on the county’s Department of Transportation’s project list. Lynne said the project wasn’t even on the county’s radar screen before the city initiated the study.

Lynne said cars are often stuck in heavy traffic along IssaquahHobart Road from May Valley Road to Interstate 90, roughly four miles.

“Traffic backs up all the way into town affecting our local streets,” Lynne said. “We are trying to resolve some of the issues of traffic for the city.”

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Council poised to add $49.5 million traffic bond to ballot

By Lizz Giordano For The Issaquah Press If Issaquah’s $49.5 million traffic bond does come before voters in November it could face steep competition from the massive $54 billion Sound Transit 3 ballot measure already on the ballot.

During its June 20 meeting, the City Council voted to draft a traffic bond with four projects: n Newport Way Northwest from Northwest Maple Street to West Sunset Way. n Newport Way Northwest from Southeast 54th Street to State Route 900. n Providence Point intersection signalization. n East Sunset Way from Sixth Avenue Southeast to First Avenue Southeast.

The city’s Traffic Task Force originally recommended nine proj-

ects for the City Council to consider as a way to help relieve traffic congestion.

Former Issaquah mayor and Traffic Task Force member Rowan Hinds called the pared-down list of projects reasonable.

“The whole list was way too much,” Hinds said. “We would never have convinced people to pass it.”

City Council President Stacy Goodman called both ST3 and the potential traffic bond very important to residents.

Voters must ask themselves if they are willing to help pay for a project to make transportation a little better in Issaquah, Goodman said.

Traffic Task Force member Barak Rosenbloom said the council made the right decision by choosSee TRAFFIC, Page 2

MAKE WAY FOR THE WEED EATERS A herd of goats passes a lineup of onlookers as it moves on to its next job in the Issaquah Highlands.

Approximately 360 goats from the companies Rent-A-Ruminant and Healing Hooves are spending about three-and-a-half weeks chomping down vegetation on the slopes of the Issaquah Highlands.

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show that Well 7 has minute amounts of PFCs and Well 9 had no detectable PFCs. Water from both are completely safe.

If any of our tests showed otherwise, we’d switch production to other wells or the regional supply to protect the public.

We have a flexible supply system and can change water source if needed.”

According to test results provided to The Issaquah Press by the water district, PFOS was detected at .019 parts per billion in Well 7 water collected June 15. The EPA’s lifetime health advisory level for PFOS and another perfluorinated chemical, PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) is a combined .07 parts per billion.

The PFOS level in Well 7 is so low that if it was being reported to the EPA under the agency’s 2013-2015 Third Unregulated Contaminants Monitoring Rule — the program in which Issaquah discovered its PFOS contamination — it would be considered a non-detection.

Sammamish Plateau Water’s Well 7 is approximately 1,800 feet east of Issaquah’s Gilman Well No. 4.

Sammamish Plateau Water’s leaders decided at their July 5 board meeting to hire consultants to study groundwater movement and develop monitoring and testing programs in an effort to learn whether PFOS from Gilman Well No. 4 is migrating towards Well 7.

“It’s always been our policy to get out ahead of a potential threat before it becomes

a problem,” Scott Jonas, the district’s operations manager, said in the press release.

The water district first discovered PFOS was present in the vicinity of Well 7 in May, when a test of water from a monitoring well approximately 45 feet from Well 7 showed a PFOS level of .019 parts per billion.

The sampling of water from monitoring well 7.3 was conducted by a consultant hired by the City of Issaquah as part of the evaluation of PFC contamination of Gilman Well No. 4. Sammamish Plateau Water agreed to the test of well 7.3 but had no involvement in the sampling process. The results prompted the water district to conduct tests on its nearby production wells, Well 7 and Well 9.

“A production well is what we use to actually draw the water to supply the system,” Krauss said. “Monitoring wells are in separate casings and have smaller diameters.

They’re used to surveil condi-

tions before they can impact the production wells.”

The Well 7 pumphouse is at 6503 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway SE, alongside the North Fork of Issaquah Creek.

Well 7 was drilled in 1984 and is one of 11 operational wells in Sammamish Plateau Water’s Plateau Zone service area, which as of 2009 provided water to more than 16,000 service connections. Three of those 11 wells — Wells 7, 8 and 9 — are on the Issaquah Valley floor.

Jonas said both monitoring well 7.3 and Well 7 draw water from the aquifer at a depth of 70 to 100 feet, the same depth from which Gilman Well No. 4 draws water.

PFOS is known to cause liver damage and birth defects in lab animals. Research on its effects on humans is still evolving. However, the EPA saw fit in May to reduce its advisory level for PFOS from 0.2 parts per billion to a combined 0.07 parts per billion for PFOS and PFOA.

the goal of convincing residents to vote yes in November.

Rosenbloom, who was at the first meeting, said the group is brainstorming on from page 1 ways to get information to ing projects that will have the residents and gather support. highest impact on safety and Councilmember Tola Marts mobility, and were unlikely to said it’s important for the be funded in any other way council to give residents a than a bond measure. good reason to support the He pointed to Providence measure if it is to pass in Point as a project that is crucial. November.

Rosenbloom said other “We took a careful scalpel projects could be funded to this proposal,” Marts said. by developers rather than “Four (projects) is not going taxpayers. One example he to be enough to fix traffic.” gave was the Maple Street He said the council might Northwest intersection ask residents to consider between Trader Joe’s and another bond in the near Target, where many residents future. But at this time the often get stuck. council chose projects they Before the City Council believe would have the has even approved the bond highest impact on safety and measure for the ballot, a mobility. group has already met with Hinds is still disappointed

eight years after the city failed to build a bypass between the Interstate 90-Sunset Way interchange and Issaquah-Hobart Road that was supposed to relieve traffic in downtown Issaquah.

“In not building the bypass, the failure was not having a Plan B,” Goodman said during the June 20 meeting.

She said once again the council doesn’t have a Plan B if the bond fails to pass.

“I can’t imagine after all that hard work by the task force and all the community engagement we had so far, that we would now delay the opportunity to now do something,” Goodman said.

The City Council plans to finance the bond through an excess property tax levy and vote on the final package during its July 18 meeting.

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If the council approves the funding, Lynne expects the study to begin later this year, taking three to six months to complete.

According to King County documents, the study will include a “detail analysis of the corridor and intersection utilizing traffic modeling software and developing a list of short term and long term solutions to mitigate the collisions and congestion.”

Lynne said the study will identify the causes of congestion along the road but it is unlikely the road will expand from its current size of one lane on each side, calling that too expensive. Instead, roundabouts or signals will most likely be used to control traffic.

To Issaquah resident Matthew Feldman, there are just too many cars on the road. He said the city is using Band-Aids to fix the traffic problems. His suggestion is to widen the road.

“Any small improvement will become quickly moot with all the residential construction,” Feldman said. “All the proposals aren’t touching the root cause.”

King County resident Craig Anderson currently uses the road a couple times a week, but that will soon increase after he moves to his new house just outside Hobart.

“So I’ll be on it daily or finding a way to avoid it,” he said. He plans to check the traffic each morning before he commutes to his job near the West Seattle Bridge.

Anderson is frustrated with the lack of any longterm plan to fix traffic congestion.

“By the time they decide to build and the time it takes to build, most traffic projects are already over capacity once done,” Anderson said.

“I’d like to see them come up with a solution that still has traffic moving 10 years from now. Not just what works best in 2016.”

Anderson and Feldman both said traffic congestion have changed their shopping habits — they avoid downtown Issaquah.

“I love the butcher in downtown, but I know unless I go early in the day, like on a day off, it’s going to be atrocious,” Anderson said. “After work? No chance. We’ll avoid the downtown area and go to other parts of Issaquah or Renton.”

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a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools,” Wright recited.

“I think that’s cool,” he added. “I heard it from a guy, college-educated. Told it to me and I memorized it.”

Another poem that keeps him motivated is one Wright memorized from a Hallmark card: “If you’d have a mind at peace, A heart that cannot harden, Go find a door that opens Issaquah History Museums wide, Upon a lovely garden.”

The Casey Jones Special excursion train — running “I saw that back in the from Seattle to North Bend — rolls into Issaquah David Hayes / dhayes@isspress.com ’80s in the Hallmark shop in parallel to Rainier Boulevard (left) in December 1956.

Issaquah. I learned a lesson Art Wright pulls weeds near a tree along Front Street North in downtown Issaquah. from that,” Wright said.

The train is heading south and is about to diagonally After he’s finished weedcross Front Street. The train was powered by Northern he said, scraping away the wife died years ago from lung ing and edging near DogPacific locomotive No. 1372. excess edgings left behind by cancer, hinting at what keeps wood, Wright figures there city landscapers. “They don’t him going. still plenty to keep him busy History Snapshot is a partnership between The Issaquah Press and have the time to do this. They “She smoked like a chimin the days to come, includthe Issaquah History Museums. Learn more about upcoming events probably need two more ney,” he said. “I don’t smoke. ing checking with the city from page 1 at the museum at issaquahhistory.org people.”

Don’t drink or gamble or any if he can use the spray he weathered gardening clothes, Wright “works” two or of that stuff. I do like poetry buys at The Grange to kill complete with dusty, heavythree hours at a time, break- and quotations. I got a book weeds. duty knee pads. ing for lunch at the senior with over 20,000 (quotations) “There’s a stretch on the Name: “I will get down on my center. He’s amazed by some in there.” other side of the path,” he 16701/ knees some, but not any volunteers who serve lunch Wright also has a book of said pointing back south more than I have to,” he said there who’re in their 90s. poetry by Rudyard Kipling. along the railroad tracks.

Nault while pulling weeds encir“You wouldn’t believe One of Wright’s favorites is “But it’s asphalt. It’s harder to Jewelers cling a tree. the energy they’ve got. It’s Kipling’s “Glory of the Garedge than concrete. So we’ll Wright figures the probamazing. I can’t get over it. I den.” see.”

Width: lem is the city doesn’t have couldn’t keep up with them,” Wright also memorized his But why does he toil away 20p9 enough employees that make he said. favorite quote from another anonymously? more than a quick upkeep After lunch, Wright will re- Kipling book.

“Hopefully people will see Depth: 2 pass along the walking trail. turn to his “job” for a couple “If you can bear to hear the this,” he said. “Either way, in “They don’t have the more hours. truth you’ve spoken, I get the satisfaction out of budget to do the fine points,” Now single, Wright said his Twisted by knaves to make making it look good.”

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Readers should look at more than one inspection (view inspection reports online at theeastside.news/ inspections) to get a better idea of the overall operation.

Red violations: High-risk factors are improper practices or procedures identified as the most prevalent

contributing factors of foodborne illness or injury. One red critical violation equals an unsatisfactory inspection.

County environmental health specialists work with operators to make sure these violations are corrected before they leave the establishment.

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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

Since we can’t use fireworks responsibly, it’s time to take them away

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eing a dog owner completely changes your perspective on the annual barrage of fireworks that takes place before, during and after the Fourth of July.

My family’s Australian shepherd, Max, is like most dogs — he’s absolutely terrified of fireworks.

It doesn’t matter if they’re low rumbles in the distance or big booms right next door. The noise sets off a frenzied barking fit.

Max’s problems with fireworks have only intensified my own. I used to really enjoy the Independence Day tradition of a small, safe and sane neighborhood display.

Everyone seemed eager to light off a batch in the street, call it good after half an hour, clean up and go to sleep.

Times have changed.

When we bought our home in Kent last year, we immediately ran into conflict with the city’s tolerance of fireworks. You can’t use them at parks or schools, but we live right next to a private, HOA-managed playground that’s a magnet for trouble.

It was fine that a few dozen people showed up to fire off what must have been thousands of dollars of pyrotechnics. What wasn’t OK was their drunken, belligerent behavior when we asked them to leave at 11 p.m., the city’s cutoff time.

Not only did many refuse to

leave, they also refused to clean up.

The next morning, my neighbor and I spent a couple hours picking up boxes of NEIL spent shells PIERSON and sweeping up debris. I Press reporter found remnants of the celebration in my yard for the next six months.

My oldest son, 8 at the time, helped out with the clean-up efforts and even he knew what had happened was flat-out wrong.

Fast forward to this year and we were more prepared. Kent has instituted a fireworks ban, but it won’t take effect until 2017. We expected the same bunch of slobs to return, so we didn’t bother sticking around. We celebrated at someone else’s home.

And what did we find as we returned home around 11:30 p.m.?

More people either ignorant of or willfully violating the noise ordinance. Some claimed to be HOA members, as if that justified the behavior. If you live there, wouldn’t you have more respect for your neighbors and their right to peace and quiet?

The HOA, thankfully, hired a clean-up crew, but as many residents argued, wouldn’t it have been a wiser use of money to hire a security guard and keep people from lighting off fireworks in the first place? It’s a private park and we can manage it as we wish.

Issaquah and Sammamish are among the cities around King County who’ve said no thanks to fireworks sales and usage. I’m grateful I’ll soon live in a place that’s doing the same.

It’s too bad it has come to this.

Personally, I think the rules as written, with a legal discharge time of 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. July 4, is reasonable. The public should be able to use fireworks during that time, a relatively short period for pet owners to have to calm their animals.

But there are far too many people who abuse the rules.

Consequently, they’ve ruined it for everyone else. Lying in bed on the night of July 7 — yes, three days later — someone nearby set off several loud explosions and Max began barking.

Anybody who can so brazenly disregard the feelings of those around them simply doesn’t deserve the privilege of using fireworks.

Email reporter Neil Pierson at npierson@isspress.com.

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TO THE EDITOR Transportation

Criticism of Sound Transit 3 ignores the larger picture Scott Stoddard’s recent column concerning Sound Transit 3 focuses on the price and lead time of this massive regional transportation project — the former indisputably hefty, the latter undeniably long.

But it is disappointing that the lens applied to gauging the worthiness of this endeavor is so narrow — one could say “provincial.” Suggesting that anyone not planning to set roots in Issaquah for the next several decades has little to no incentive to vote for ST3 perpetuates the small thinking that has contributed to our current local traffic travails.

Not long ago, Mr. Stoddard encouraged us to “think big” in this regard; ST3 seems to be just the kind of visionary thinking lacking in many of our local officials.

The Puget Sound area can expect nearly a million additional residents by 2040. We’re fortunate to live in a beautiful environment with a thriving economy; regularly gridlocked freeways and roads will not prevent the continued influx of people seeking a better quality of life.

If our economy and population are to grow sustainably, if we are serious about trying to preserve what makes this part of the country so attractive, then it’s vital that we invest in infrastructure that will move people and goods throughout our region more efficiently. The extension of rail service to more regional employment and residential centers, and the expansion and improvement of bus rapid-transit not held hostage to deteriorating HOV traffic flows are crucial elements of this effort.

This can’t be only about our personal mobility. I hope skeptics of ST3 will widen their lens beyond

individual impact and consider the larger role we all play in building a regional transportation network that will move us, our children, our employees and the bulk of our state’s economic output faster and cleaner in the future.

Kayleen Norris Issaquah

Public safety

Fireworks are an annoyance where they’re legal, too Re: Fireworks in unincorporated King County neighborhoods Just because something isn’t “illegal” according to the law, does that make it “all right?”

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walking dogs, mountain bikers, a couple of horseback riders, joggers, a nature photographer, kids’ day camps for field sports and mountain biking, a graduation party, swimmers and picnickers. And this was on a weekday!

Our parks, open spaces, and greenbelts are resources that can never be replaced. They are available to us because people had the foresight to set them aside for future generations. My ride made me wonder what legacy of parks and open space we will be leaving for our next several generations. Our parks are amazing resources and treasures. Please use them, cherish them and help preserve them. And ponder what will be your addition to this great legacy.

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Note to Junior’s parents: He As newspaper gets thinner, was a Fourth of July nightmare is it really worth the money?

Now that the din of illegal fireworks is over and most of the resulting trash has been cleaned up by other people, I would like the parents of the boy driving the white Audi with the red stripe, license number AUB 8378, to keep your kid at home next year. Street-lit fireworks are bad enough, but when Junior goes into the forest and lights off multiple fireworks — some of which went into Issaquah Creek — it has moved from annoying to dangerous.

Also, hitting freeway speeds as he accelerated through the busy neighborhood is equally dangerous.

If you would like the photo I took of Junior and the car as he swerved at me while leaving, you are welcome to it.

Fred Nystrom

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Our local parks, an amazing resource, should be treasured

What an amazing legacy of parks and open space we have around us. Last week, in a two-and-a-halfhour period, I rode my bike to and through six local parks: Grand Ridge Park, Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park, Soaring Eagle Park, Beaver Lake Park, Pine Lake Park and Ebright Creek Park. Along the way, I saw families hiking, people

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Story about senior center didn’t dig deep enough

The Press has done a good job following through with our well water contamination problems over several months with long, detailed stories. Likewise, the many issues related to the Providence Heights property have received thorough and frequent coverage. We have not seen this same continuing and thorough coverage about problems with the Issaquah Valley Senior Center.

Last week’s story got only part way into the most critical issues.

The free lease for the building is very clear: insurance is required, they must operate an actual senior center and they cannot use the facility for religious worship or for partisan political purposes. The city is giving them free use of a very valuable taxpayer-owned building with a bond debt we need to keep paying through 2021, and is pro-

viding electricity, gas, water, sewer and stormwater services for free.

As well as janitorial services and building and grounds maintenance.

If the center gets sued and they have no insurance, taxpayers could be on the hook for all the legal fees and settlement costs that could result from center negligence. What level of service should be provided for the senior community for a city our size to say an organization is providing a “senior center?” Much smaller communities are offering more programs to more seniors than our center is offering, and in no way is the city investment in building and related costs repaid by the minimal senior services now provided.

The center is renting the building to a church, generating “unrelated business income” in violation of the lease. Perhaps other churches will ask the city to illegally pay their utility and other building costs?

Last week’s article made no mention of the fact that certain seniors are not allowed to join the center and participate in certain activities at the center. Much more serious is that two members have been “no trespassed” from the center for pursuing their legal right to review the financial records of the IRS 501(c) 3 charitable group they belong to. Why was civic leader David Waggoner not interviewed for this story or community volunteer extraordinaire Regina Poirier not interviewed for this story?

Taxpayers of Issaquah are being ripped off, but more importantly our senior community is being underserved as this embarrassing fiasco continues. A pool table, a van and computers have been liquidated. Will we still call it a “senior center” when it is down to four chairs and a card table?

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Rooney’s two-hitter powers Lakeside past Kennewick The July 7 game between Lakeside Recovery’s Senior American Legion team and the Kennewick Outlaws wasn’t the prettiest display of baseball, but Lakeside pulled away because of its ability to capitalize on mistakes.

In a contest played on a saturated field, the teams combined for six errors, 12 walks and five hit batters.

Many of the miscues took place in the bottom of the fifth inning, when Lakeside scored seven runs on just two hits, cementing a 10-2, mercy rule-shortened win over the Outlaws during the Brandy Pugh Memorial Classic at Bellevue’s Bannerwood Park.

Lakeside (32-9) has hosted the Pugh tournament annually since 1977 and finished 3-2 this year, also defeating Hilander Dental (6-1) and the Seattle Stars (3-1) over the

first five days. They failed to advance to the championship round, which took place July 11 after press deadline.

Lakeside pitcher Jack Rooney, a Skyline High School senior-to-be, wasn’t completely sharp against the Outlaws. He hit one batter and walked four, but worked out of multiple jams thanks to good fastball control.

The righthander allowed only two hits and one earned run in five innings of work.

“Guys were just putting it in play and the players out there were helping me out, getting outs,” Rooney said. “I’ve got a good defense behind me, so when they’re in play, it’s pretty much an out.”

Lakeside left fielder Will Langan made two difficult catches in the top of the first inning to deny Kennewick, and his team went ahead in the bottom half when Luke Watanabe walked and moved to second on Todd Reese’s

from Lakeside third baseman Justin Buckner accounted for the other run.

Sinatro was largely responsible for putting Lakeside ahead again in the fourth. He coaxed a one-out walk from Austin Bergdahl, stole second and third bases, and scored on Watanabe’s groundout.

Bergdahl struggled with his control through four innings and fell apart in the fifth, plunking three batters. Infield singles from Alec Cordova and Sinatro made it a 7-2 game.

Vinny Guinasso’s bases-loaded Greg Farrar / gfarrar@isspress.com walk forced in a run and the Lakeside Recovery’s Luke Watanabe, pictured in a June 28 game game ended on a throwing error that brought home against Chaffey, was a key part of his team’s victory over the Watanabe and Reese.

Kennewick Outlaws on July 7. Watanabe scored twice and had an Rooney missed much of RBI as Lakeside defeated the Outlaws 10-2 at the Brandy Pugh his sophomore season with Memorial Classic.

Skyline and Lakeside due to bloop single. gave Lakeside a 2-0 lead after an ulnar nerve injury in his Watanabe scored when he two innings, but Kennewick pitching elbow. But he worked stole third base and Outlaws fought back to tie the score his way back into Skyline’s rocatcher Brayden Collier sailed in the top of the third. TJ Rea tation as a junior and picked a throw into left field. doubled and scored on an up the win in May’s Class 4A Danny Sinatro’s RBI double infield grounder, and an error title game against Kentwood.

“That’s like a once-in-alifetime opportunity to get into the state championship and win it, obviously,” said Rooney, who said he didn’t expect to start the final game.

Rooney has an 0.88 ERA in 40 innings with Lakeside this summer.

Lakeside plays at the Red Devil Classic in Centralia from July 14-17 and will head to the Senior American Legion state tournament in Yakima from July 23-28.

Last year, the program advanced past state to the Northwest regional tournament.

Solid pitching, led by aces AJ Block of Newport and Jack Dellinger of Issaquah, has typically given Lakeside a chance to win on any given day.

“We’ve got some good pitching – we’ve got great pitching, actually – and our hitters are really good,” Rooney said.

“When our pitchers do good that usually means our hitting is going to do good.”

Issaquah 9/10 all-stars can’t recover after Sammamish jumps to big early lead

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By Neil Pierson npierson@isspress.com The Sammamish Little League all-stars needed a spark and they got it early in their July 6 game against Issaquah.

Agassi Owen’s two-run home run was the start of a big offensive day for Sammamish’s 9/10 all-stars, who nearly coughed up a sevenrun lead before holding off Issaquah, 11-7, in an elimination contest at the District 9 baseball tournament on Mercer Island.

Sammamish kept its season alive and advanced to play Bellevue Thunderbird at 6 p.m. Thursday in another win-or-go-home game at the South Mercer Playfields.

“Just a lot of heart,” Sammamish manager John Steinbach said of his team.

“We saw a bench that beat the other team’s bench and our boys did what they were supposed to do. The bats woke up and it started off with (Owen).”

In the first inning, leadoff batter Nate Fischer reached base on an error and Owen caught hold of a pitch from Issaquah’s Colin Fraser, sending it over the 225-foot marker in left field.

Carter DuBreuil tripled and scored on Trevor Steinbach’s groundout, putting Sammamish ahead 3-0 after one, and they never trailed.

“It just hit the sweet spot on my bat, and it was just a high pop fly and it went over,” said Owen, a stocky third baseman who said he has hit several homers this season, but prefers to focus on making solid contact.

Sammamish upped the lead to 7-0, plating four runs on four hits and two errors in the second inning. Aidan Gerth had an RBI single and

Issaquah High School product Mitchell Morimoto will join the University of Arizona baseball team in 2017.

Morimoto, who comes to Arizona as a utility player, had a standout season for Mesa Community College as a sophomore. He earned a 2016 NJCAA Marucci Elite Hitter Award thanks to his .463 batting average, and he was named to the NJCAA National Team, featuring the country’s best two-year college players.

“Mitchell is an incredibly athletic player who has had a terrific two-year career at Mesa Junior College,” Arizona coach Jay Johnson said in a news release. “He is an accomplished hitter and will help us immediately in 2017. We could not be more excited to have him. He will fit in perfectly for us on offense and defense here at Arizona.”

At Issaquah, Morimoto was a two-time all-state selection and also first-team All-KingCo. As a senior, he hit .362 with five home runs and 23 RBIs. Morimoto, who has two years of eligibility remaining, will join Arizona’s 16-man recruiting class for 2017. He joins an Arizona team that lost to Coastal Carolina University in this year’s College World Series final.

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Issaquah’s Wyatt Hess, right, and McKay Reynolds (2) receive congratulations after returning to the bench against Sammamish.

DuBreuil walked with the bases loaded.

But Issaquah began chipping away in the third, getting on the board through Zach Dietiker’s double to deep left and McKay Reynolds’ two-out infield single.

That set the stage for a five-run fourth that cut the margin to one. Dietiker had a two-run double, Reynolds singled for his second RBI of the night and Keaton Kauzlarich also had a runscoring single. “(McKay) is one of our top hitters, by far,” Issaquah manager Jason Ramsey said. “The kid is a little kid, he packs a lot of punch, and Zach (Dietiker) is a big kid who packs a lot of punch.

Those two boys, all tournament long, they’ve been doing it for us.”

Issaquah had the momentum but Sammamish immediately regained it in the bottom of the fourth.

Andrew Stephens and Jaxon Menold each had RBI singles to increase the lead to 10-6.

Ryan Tobler pitched four innings for Sammamish and survived Issaquah’s big push to get the win. He stayed on the mound to start the sixth, but after two batters reached base, Grimmer came on in relief for the last three outs.

“He just comes up, throws strikes,” John Steinbach said of Tobler. “We don’t want to walk them. We want them to hit if they’re going to hit and he throws strikes, keeps it low in the zone. He did a great job.”

Issaquah picked up district tournament victories over Redmond North and Sno-

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“When we played Snoqualmie Valley on Monday at 9 a.m., we scored 18 runs and we had 16 hits,” Ramsey noted. “We’re a hitting team.

When the bats are alive, we really do well, but we just had a slow start today.”

Ramsey was also quick to

compliment Sammamish, which was able to slow Issaquah’s hot-hitting offense with some strong off-speed pitches. They also made some key defensive plays to thwart Issaquah and got the big hit they needed from Owen.

“That shot over the fence was humongous,” Ramsey said.

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Spinach and mushroom smothered chicken Ingredients n 4 chicken breast (halved, skinless, boneless) n 1 bunch fresh spinach n 1½ cups baby bella mushrooms (thick sliced) n 1 shallot (chopped) n 2-3 cloves garlic (chopped) n 2 tablespoons cashews (chopped) n 1½ teaspoons olive oil n 1½ teaspoons lemon pepper n 4 slices Muenster cheese

Directions 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

2. Place mushrooms and chopped garlic on a sheet tray. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.

Roast mushrooms for 15-20 minutes.

3. In a skillet over mediumhigh heat add oil. Sauté spinach, shallot, additional garlic, and cashews until spinach has wilted. Add in roasted mushrooms and mix to incorporate. Set aside.

4. Season chicken breasts with lemon pepper and grill for 4-5 minutes per side (or until fully cooked). Top each breast half with slice of Muenster cheese, then place under the broiler until cheese bubbles.

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