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117th Year, No. 38

School district adjusts to growing pains By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com Superintendent Ron Thiele confirmed at the Sept. 14 School Board meeting that Issaquah continues to be one of the fastestgrowing districts in the state. “We are at an all-time high in enrollment,” Thiele said. The school district added 450 new full-time students, putting the total above 23,300. The biggest change was about 1,130 total bodies, full- and part-time, mostly coming from kindergarten students who were previously half-day but are now in full-day classes. The average size of the district’s elementary school is 622 students, while middle schools are averaging 960. The three

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Expert: Data suggests PFOS from fire headquarters contaminated city wells By Lizz Giordano lgiordano@isspress.com After weekly testing of one production well and three monitoring wells through the end of June and into July, the City of Issaquah is still searching for the source of the perfluorooctane sulfonate contamination of the Lower Issaquah Valley Aquifer. During the latest round of testing, the chemical known commonly as PFOS was also discovered in soil samples taken from Eastside Fire & Rescue’s headquarters at 175 Newport Way Northwest. The chemical has

available at this point suggests that 175 Newport Way NW (EFR) is a source of the PFOS detected in Gilman Well No. 4, Monitoring Well No. 3, and Monitoring Well No. 5,” according to a Sept. 15 report by Geosyntec. EFR Deputy Chief Richard Burke said a signature test has not been done to determine if the PFOS found in the soil samples found at EFR is the same found in the groundwater. PFOS is known to cause liver damage and birth defects in lab animals. Research

EDITOR’S NOTE To make contaminant levels easier to compare against federal guidelines, The Issaquah Press is changing the way we report those amounts. In the past, we have used parts per billion as our measurement standard. From this point forward, we will report levels using parts per trillion. For example: The EPA lifetime advisory level for PFOS and PFOA combined is 0.07 parts per billion. Our stories will now refer to that level as 70 parts per trillion. also been detected in Issaquah’s Gilman Wells No. 4 and No. 5 and in monitoring wells to the west and south of the Gilman wells’ pumphouse. According to documents from

Geosyntec Consultants, hired by the city to determine the source of the PFOS, a 2002 tanker truck fire on Interstate 90 is not a source of PFOS found in Gilman Well No. 4. “However, the data

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HERE COME THE EAGLES

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City reschedules meeting expected to draw crowd of project opponents The Issaquah Press A Sept. 21 Development Commission meeting which was supposed to include a public hearing on the controversial Issaquah Apartments project was rescheduled last week by the city. The city sent an email Sept. 15 noting that the original Sept. 21 meeting had been canceled. The meeting is now scheduled for 7 p.m. on Sept. 28 at the City Council chambers, City Hall South, 135 E. Sunset Way. A larger-than-usual crowd was expected to attend the meeting and speak against the project. After The Issaquah Press published a story about the development in its Aug. 18 edition, social media and local online message boards lit up with local residents’ outcry. Multiple commenters stressed that as many people as possible should go to the meeting See MEETING, Page 3

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Issaquah High takes the field prior to its Sept. 16 football game against Inglemoor at Gary Moore Stadium. The Eagles defeated the Vikings 40-7 for their first win of 2016.

Senior center leaders, city officials at loggerheads By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com The future of the Issaquah Valley Senior Center is in question, according to recent correspondence between the city and the center’s board of directors. The senior center’s October monthly letter announced that Executive Director Courtney Jaren resigned Aug. 31. A reason

was not given. “We are determined to continue as long as we are able to operate our Senior Center with all the social and health care services we currently offer,” the board of directors wrote in the newsletter. Jaren’s resignation was confirmed in a Sept. 2 letter from IVSC Board Vice President Carmen Llewellyn to the city. The letter also did not state a reason.

Multiple calls to Jaren were met with responses of “no comment.” Left without an official representative for IVSC, Mayor Fred Butler has tried to set up a meeting with center board members as detailed in three letters dated Sept. 1, Sept. 2 and Sept. 9. In the Sept. 2 letter, Llewellyn refused the city’s offer, stating “since the City refused all funding

to the Center, we have no obligation to meet with your team.” The City of Issaquah pulled $99,000 in funding to IVSC in February in the wake of allegations two former members were banned for alleged elder abuse. The persons who were banned have refused to comment further, See CENTER, Page 11

Bond project focuses on calming speeds and increasing safety The stretch of Newport Way Northwest from State Route 900 to Southeast 54th Street would receive a sidewalk, a shared-use path, bike lanes and a center turn lane as part of the transportation bond. Scott Stoddard sstoddard@ isspress.com

By Lizz Giordano lgiordano@isspress.com More than 500 new housing units are in the pipeline along Newport Way Northwest between Southeast 54th Street and State Route 900, bringing more cars to the once-bucolic road. Newport Way was originally a rural road built for speed, but now speeds need to be mitigated, said City of Issaquah Transportation Manager Kurt Seeman. “It is not a very pleasant place to not be in a car,” he said.

If voters approve a $50 million transportation bond in November, the city plans to turn the stretch of Newport into a parkway. The project includes a center turn lane that would accommodate turning vehicles at some spots and be landscaped at others, bike lanes on both sides and a sidewalk on the south side. Also planned is a sharedused path on the north side that would be part of the Mountains to See NEWPORT, Page 3

VOTE 2016 This story is the third in a four-part series highlighting each of the transportation projects that make up the $50 million bond on the Nov. 8 ballot. Read previous coverage online at issaquahpress. com.

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FRONT AND SUNSET

Displaced by house fire, she’s rebuilding life from scratch

Ranzulla Segar as she tries to start her life again from scratch, go online to gofundme. com/2j6akgyk. “I’m alive and I can rebuild,” Ranzulla Segar said. “But I just don’t know where to begin.”

magine losing everything you own in the blink of an eye. Imagine the helplessness you’d feel. The desperation. The fright. Imagine watching helplessly as not just cherished mementos disappear, but also the basics of everyday life: clothes to wear, a chair for sitting, a washcloth and towel for showering. Kolene Ranzulla Segar isn’t imagining that scenario. She’s living it. For 16 years, Ranzulla Segar has rented a modest home at the corner of Issaquah-Pine Lake Road and Issaquah-Fall City Road. On Sept. 8, in the darkness of 2 a.m., the house burned from the inside out. Ranzulla Segar did not have renter’s insurance. As the fire quickly spread, she made sure a downstairs tenant made it out safely. And then she watched everything she owned become a pile of ashes. She was left with little more than the clothes she was wearing.

“Now I’m homeless,” she said. “I mean, where do you start?” Immediately after the fire, Ranzulla Segar received a $300 debit card from the Red Cross for food and lodging. Anyone who has paid for a motel room lately can figure out how long that lasted. To make matters worse, Ranzulla Segar is between jobs. Homeless, unemployed and no belongings — can there be a worse trifecta of misfortune? “It’s hard to look for work when you don’t have an address,” she said, “and it’s hard to get a place when you don’t have an income.” Ranzulla Segar needs a financial lifeline. She has set up

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Kolene Ranzulla Segar rented the house at the corner of Issaquah-Pine Lake Road and Issaquah-Fall City Road for 16 years. A fire in the early morning hours of Sept. 8 destroyed all of her belongings and left her homeless.

a GoFundMe account with the hopes of raising $5,000. As of Sept. 18, only $120 had been donated. She wrote on the site, “What I am hoping for is ... to raise enough money to find a home with a couple months’ advance in rent to give me a chance to get a paycheck or two under my belt.” If you would like to assist

alternate members, there are nine men and zero women. That’s unfortunate. All members of the commission, by the way, are appointed by the mayor and subject to confirmation by the City Council.

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Two Issaquah district high schools were named among the state’s top dozen recently by U.S. News & World Report. Liberty High was 11th and Issaquah High was 12th. The U.S. News formula for the rankings included reading and math proficiency on state tests, graduation rates and participation/passage rates in Advanced Placement courses. Aviation High School in Tukwila was declared No. 1 in the state.

We strive to be law-abiding citizens down here at Issaquah Press global headquarters. But that doesn’t always make everyone happy. You haven’t seen fury until you drive the speed limit on East Lake Sammamish Parkway. The outraged faces in your rear-view mirror will either terrify or amuse you.

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The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that in 2015, 51 percent of Issaquah’s population was female. The City of Issaquah’s Development Commission is currently 100 percent male. Counting both regular and

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Lisa Stubenrauch has been named the National Nurse Administrator of the Year by the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration. Stubenrauch is the administrator at Issaquah Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Front Street South. Send your tips, complaints, praise and bad poetry to frontandsunset@isspress.com.

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high schools’ average is skewed as Liberty has just 1,200 students while Skyline and Issaquah have more than 2,200 each. To accommodate the growing student population, Sunny Hills Elementary and Issaquah Middle School opened the school year with new buildings. The growing pains are most felt at the new megacampus of Issaquah middle and high schools. The middle school building was built in the high school’s old upper parking lot. Neil Lasher, Issaquah High’s security officer, issues student parking passes. “There are 236 parking spots now. We lost 182 from the middle school site last year. It’s tough,” he said. With such a large reduction in available student parking spaces, Lasher said the school district emphasized carpooling. “With as many people as we have here, we try to get the least amount of vehicles we can. So there were about 114 carpool spots given with 252 students in those

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A shortage of lockers at Issaquah Middle School prompted a search for students willing to volunteer to share lockers with another person. spots,” he said. “We thought that was pretty good. That was the most carpool passes we’ve handed out, at least in the last three years.” With priority given to carpools, the remainder of the parking passes went next to seniors. Lasher said no passes were left to give juniors driving alone. Overflow parking has become a problem for surrounding neighborhoods, Lasher said. Evans Street has been reconfigured to accommodate about 60 diagonal parking slots. Problems arose on neighboring streets. “Now that kids are parking like knuckleheads on Fourth in the neighborhood there, they’ve chopped some of that parking away, too. Rightfully so,” Lasher said. W I S P

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“They’re parking in people’s yards, smoking, throwing stuff in their yards, trash. Blocking mailboxes so residents can’t get mail. Just plain disrespect.” Because his jurisdiction ends at the school property, Lasher said he can’t enforce incorrect parking in nearby neighborhoods. However, he can take complaints, run the plates in his database and find the student driver to tell them to move. With the combined adjacent parking lots of the middle and high schools, Lasher said he’s had to assist in flagging traffic to help expedite emptying the lots. “The first week of school, it was such a mess,” Lasher said. “Things are getting better. Getting this parking lot cleared in about 15 minutes, where the first week or so it was 45-50 minutes.” Unexpected problems from extra students were experienced inside the new middle school as well. Principal Seth Adams confirmed there were not enough lockers to go around to every student.

“That took us by surprise when they got here. We counted and wow, we don’t have enough,” Adams said. “So we asked, ‘Who wants to step up and share a locker?’ More than enough stepped up. So we had a lottery of volunteers to solve our problem and made it a win-win situation.” Otherwise, Adams said the school is plenty big to accommodate all the students new to campus, including those who were moved out of Pacific Cascade Middle School due to boundary changes. With 37 classrooms and the gyms, Adams said Issaquah Middle has 41 total indoor teaching spaces. “Everyone loves it. They’re candid about doing little tweaks, sure. But everyone recognizes this is a vast improvement over the previous space,” he said. Adams added Issaquah Middle School can’t fit too many more as the district’s population continues to grow, but “at the end of the day, it’ll fit 200 more and we could still run a school. I’m pretty happy with the numbers.” Thiele concurred about going forward accommodating expected growth of 1.5 to 2 percent a year. “Like I tell folks, I’m not nearly as terrified of the growth as I was before April 26 (when the school bond passed), because we have a plan, and we’re working toward that plan right now,” he said. “I’m optimistic about how we’re going to house our students. And we’re going to get those average numbers down, too.”

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RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS Inspections were performed Sept. 5-11 by Public Health, Seattle and King County. A food establishment inspection is only a snapshot of the operation during a limited time. 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

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and voice their opposition to both the development and the direction of Issaquah’s growth as a whole. A letter to the editor published in the Sept. 8 edition of the newspaper called on concerned citizens to “flood the meeting.” The Issaquah Apartments project would be a five-story, 110-unit building at 955 Seventh Ave. NW, one block south of the 344-unit Atlas apartments complex. Critics say the development would overwhelm the neighborhood with traffic that current surface streets are incapable of handling.

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This rendering depicts changes to Newport Way Northwest between State Route 900 and Southeast 54th that would be made if the $50 million transportation bond passes in November.

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Sound Greenway path. The city is also planning to add safety improvements and traffic-controlling features to the road, but exactly what those will be or at what intersections is dependent on future development along the road. The developer of the Gateway Apartments plans to install a roundabout at Northwest Pacific Elm Drive. Currently, the road has a sidewalk on the north side of the street, bike lanes on either side and no center turn lane. The project, one of four in the $50 million transportation bond on the Nov. 8 ballot, is estimated to cost $7 million. Last September, after a 4-year-old boy was killed crossing Newport Way and Northwest Oakcrest with his mother in June, the City Council voted to reduce the speed limit along the road to 30 mph from 40 mph. Citing the dangerous blind curves for pedestrians and bikers, some residents wanted more done, such as adding turn lanes and stop signs at intersections. Longtime Newport Way safety advocate Mary Lynch wants the project but doesn’t plan on voting to approve the bond because she doesn’t think there was enough public input about the design. “It’s been promised. We need it.” Lynch said about the project. “It’s our only way into the city.” Lynch said even with the reduced speed limits, she hasn’t seen any decrease in speeds from passing cars. But she doesn’t want to wait another 25 years to get a safe road. According to Deputy City Administrator Emily Moon, if the transportation bond passes, the Providence Point intersection signalization project is first on the list to begin, followed by the Newport project from Maple to Sunset. No decision has been made to what project would be third or fourth in line, and Lynch is afraid Newport Way between 54th and SR 900 will be last. She also said the city is not looking at the entire corridor when designing the project. At least one neighborhood, frustrated its longawaited safety project didn’t even make the bond’s project list, feels forgotten. Tiffany Endres said South Cove, located on the south end of Lake Sammamish, was promised sidewalks back when it was annexed in 2006. The neighborhood continues to wait.

A grassroots campaign against the transportation bond launched a website last week encouraging residents to vote no in November. According to the site, notrafficbond.com, “This bond doesn’t offer tangible traffic flow relief, which along with growth, were the top two issues citizens identified in the city’s 2015 survey.” Cory Christensen, a member of the “con” committee for the bond, announced the launch of the website. Christensen said Bryan Weinstein, another member of the “con” committee, was also part of the group that launched the site. The site is sponsored by a group called “Eyes on Issaquah,” which is registered with the state Public Disclosure Commission. According to state documents, they have raised more than $600. “We are not against them finishing and addressing traffic problems,” Christensen said, “We just don’t agree with the way they are doing it.” Christensen said the public process is broken, and he wants the city to be more transparent when making decisions. Barak Rosenbloom, the spokesperson for the “pro” committee for the bond, agreed with many points the Eyes on Issaquah group made on its site. He said many of these projects should already have been built. “But the reality is they weren’t, they need to be done and this is how we get them done,” Rosenbloom said about the transportation bond. He said there is no Plan B if the bond does not pass, because a bond is the only way these projects will get funded and built. The money is not in the city’s regular operating budget. “This bond is about our streets,” Rosenbloom said. “Safe streets for our community.” Rosenbloom and Keith Watts, also a member of the “pro” committee, are part of a recently launched group named OneIssaquah. Rosenbloom described the organization as a nonprofit advocacy group. It has a website at oneissaquah.org. The group has registered with the state Public Disclosure Commission and according to state documents no money has been raised. Rosenbloom said the group has received in-kind contributions. — Lizz Giordano Unlike the bond’s Providence Point signalization project, also promised since annexation to area residents, that is part of the bond’s project list. A resident of the neighborhood since 1980, Endres said the City Council is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to traffic. She said many of her neighbors don’t support the transportation bond because it doesn’t benefit South Cove residents. Currently, bikers on Lake Sammamish Parkway, the main road that connects South Cove to the rest of the city, share the car lane or ride in the shoulder. Dedicated bikes lanes do exist on some parts of the road. No sidewalks exist on either side of the road and in some places only a waist high concrete barrier with a chain

link fence separates pedestrians from Interstate 90. “When we were annexed to Issaquah, part of the deal is they were going to put in sidewalks,” said Joanna Buehler, a South Cove resident since 1979. “Now they are asking us to cough up all this money.” She said the Newport project is to accommodate the 400 new units coming to Gateway Apartments along the road. “The city is asking current taxpayers to foot the bill for all this new development,” Buehler said. “Yes, the work needs to be done, but we have been taxed and taxed, and yet our needs keep being pushed to the back burner,” Endres said. “While the developers are benefiting from the infrastructure that we (residents) have are already paid for.”

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GUEST COLUMN

We can do better than transportation bond and ST3 By Joshua Schaer

his November, two ballot measures will seek your approval to raise taxes for local roads and regional light rail. As the former chair of the Issaquah Council Infrastructure Committee, I encourage you to vote “no” on both, and send a message that we need a stronger plan. The city recommends work on Newport from Maple to Sunset ($26 million), Sunset Way ($10.5 million), Newport west of 900 ($7 million) and the Providence Point intersection ($5.8 milion). While safety and non-motorized considerations are important, this is not the best combination of roads needing your tax dollars for immediate attention. What about fixing the 900 gridlock stretching from Gilman

to Costco? Or the “Target T-bone” intersection? Or the mess exiting at Front Street? Notably, the survey presented to the city’s task force showed Joshua Schaer support for a new I-90 crossing at 75 percent, improving Target/Trader Joe’s access (just $5 million) at 72 percent, and an alternative link between Gilman and Front at 70 percent. Yet the package contains none of those. During 2014-15, the council prioritized projects such as Northwest Sammamish Road, intersections near Rainier and Gilman, a freeway overcrossing, and Issaquah-Pine Lake Road. I’ll spare you the details, but each ranked better than what the city

now wants you to fund. By contrast, Maple to Sunset was 17th, Newport west of 900 was 28th, and Providence Point was 50th, all scheduled beyond 2021, so dollars weren’t pursued. Our priorities have radically changed in a short time! And when are the projects on the ballot supposed to improve traffic anyway? Sunset is labeled as just a “conceptual study.” Of course, we can’t assume the current local package might reduce congestion at all with an Issaquah “active projects” list 20 pages long. Interestingly, the recommendations are near major developments that will make commutes worse: new housing along 43rd, apartments on Sunset, plus “Gateway” off Newport (400 residences) and likely more coming to that same area. According to the city’s analysis, a business license fee could have raised $21 million

alone, without voter approval. Instead, you are being asked to suffer the cost of rapid growth. Any help from the ballot measure would be short-lived. Further, the $50 million bond charges homeowners approximately $165/year over 25 years on a $500,000 property. By adding Sound Transit’s request to also increase your property tax, plus raise the sales tax and car tab price, you have a huge household expense with a minimal return. Issaquah won’t see light rail until 2041 (with a trip across I-90 requiring a transfer in Bellevue), while Sammamish receives nothing. It’s like getting to watch the region eat dinner for 25 years — plus pay their bill — and only then might we have a meal, too. I like light rail, but the Eastside shouldn’t be forced to keep subsidizing Seattle’s transit. Sub-areas

covering their own portion of system improvements would make more sense. Use your Sound Transit vote to show that our communities were denied prompt service when other rail segments got moved up in time — but not the one to Issaquah. We know traffic is the top concern among residents. However, voting “no” doesn’t mean supporting the status quo, nor does it mean rejecting every proposed project as unworthy. Let’s insist on modifications to deliver action on the right package in the right amount of time. Take a stand against the false ideas that “we may not get another chance” and “this is the best we can do.” We can do better. Joshua Schaer served on the Issaquah City Council from 20082015.

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TO THE EDITOR Growth

Now that we’ve hit brakes on development, let’s get it right

Thanks to the City Council for approving the six-month moratorium on new development. The council’s concerns are focused on the failures of developers to meet the affordable housing and mixed-use goals described in the Central Issaquah Plan. But disconnects with the CIP in two other key areas are provoking the most outrage: transportation and design. We know that new developments are typically assessed transportation impact fees to offset the effects of new drivers. These mitigations, if they happen at all, are realized long after development is complete. Issaquah’s transportation options can’t adequately support the traffic volumes we have now, much less absorb the stresses from new development. Let’s maintain the moratorium until a realistic transportation plan is approved that addresses volumes before they become gridlock. We have design standards for Central Issaquah that are written to preserve the city’s character, but is it possible to imagine an example more antithetical to the character of Issaquah than the monstrosity on Gilman? Let’s maintain the moratorium until we have an architectural review board to evaluate all new development proposals against the CIP and the design standards. The Puget Sound Regional Council’s designation of Central Issaquah’s Urban Core as a “Regional Growth Center” makes us eligible to apply for federal, state and regional grants. The tradeoff requires us to meet growth targets for urban density. If we can’t successfully address the problems with affordable housing, transportation and ugliness, we should also use the space of the moratorium to reevaluate this deal. The CIP includes estimates of 6,670 new living units in the city between 2015 and 2035. In other words, the three new developments recently described in The Issaquah Press represent fewer than 10 percent of the new residences we can expect in Central Issaquah over the next 19 years. Let’s drop back and get this right before the damage to the Issaquah we know and love is irreparable.

Richard Sanford Issaquah

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digressing here, back to my area. I am very saddened this is taking place! I have lived here on Dogwood Street for almost 20 years and have enjoyed this green space. I have witnessed the changes to where I say to myself, “OK, OK,” but now it’s time to speak! My big question to all: Is this really necessary, or — forgive me for saying — could it be the mindset that we have all this money, so let’s use it. Within I’d say 50 yards or less, there is parking at the school facility and adjacent ballfields, not to mention more across the creek in the other park area, which will both be connected by a bridge. Please, is there not enough blacktop? Also, isn’t there this socalled push to encourage people out of thier cars? I treasure this area of green and tranquility — what it is, what it used to be and the moments spent with or without the dog. I implore you, plead with you, to reconsider this decision. Look at it objectively and ask: Is it really necessary? I may be up to gathering signatures just because I feel this is so unnecessary. And I imagine many feel the same way.

Parking lot at Cybil-Madeline Green isn’t really necessary To fellow citizens and whom it may concern, this in regards to Confluence Park, specifically the Cybil-Madeline Green area. The word “green” can be considered ironic, just for my reason of contact. Yes, I know it’s late in the process. I just learned of the plans a couple of weeks ago through a notice in the mail for a parking lot in the mentioned area. I was distraught then, but only now more so when I’m walking my dog. I notice the cedar railing is gone, the doggie bag station is gone, and then it really hits me! Blacktop parking lot going up, and who knows what else with that. Yes, I’m concerned! I walk around the city seeing countless lots, various sizes, many small, being filled, crammed in with mega-housing units. What’s wrong with single-family housing units, by the way? But I may be

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Juvenile tirade belonged on a different page of the paper I go along with the Mayor Butler request for “no applause” in at least one respect: Apply it for the major, headlined, multicolumn article on the second page of my favorite and historically great newspaper! The juvenile tirade would have been totally and enjoyably appropriate as a cute and concise “Letter to the Editor” on Page 4.

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this measure was premature but did not want to go against others who want to push this forward. Why? Don’t let them try to sneak this one by us during this the very important presidential election. I encourage you to look at the situation carefully, attend council meetings and let your voices be heard. I for one will vote no in November on this misguided traffic improvement bond issue as it is currently written.

The nightmare on Northwest Juniper will be frightful sight Coming soon ... you won’t be able to avoid this one ... all will be affected ... buckle up and be prepared to wait ... this can’t be missed ... you won’t be able to escape the Nightmare on Northwest Juniper ... it’s scary. The upcoming traffic bond issue misses this important road, where there are no bike lanes, not enough crosswalks and problems at both ends in regards to exiting to Newport Way and Gilman Boulevard. Easy affordable solutions have been presented and ignored! Vote no in November against the huge $50 million bond measure which excludes too many important roads. The upcoming Transportation Improvement Projects would be more democratic if it were presented to the voters a la carte. Let us decide which projects are important. The City Council wants to bundle these projects together. Don’t let them do this to us. Speak out. One councilmember thought

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If you don’t like Concerts on the Green, then stay home I was shocked, appalled and dismayed to read the critique of the music at the final Concert on the Green and the “lackey” who is responsible for booking the bands. You complained that white bands played music by black composers. Are you also saying that black bands cannot play music composed by white people? I don’t get it. Everyone loved the Afrodisaics and the dance area was filled from the first song to the last. Everyone else had a wonderful time. I love the Concerts on the Green series; they are the highlight of my summer in Issaquah. Music is music, just like love is love. Don’t make a means test out of a beautiful thing. By the way, that “lackey” is David Harris who works very hard to bring us the best quality music. I think he does an excellent job for our community and if you can’t appreciate his music choices, then please stay home.

Congratulations, Robin Kelley

ith the next Salmon Days Festival so near I can smell the Kiwanis salmon barbecue smoke, I’d just like to add my two cents to the many expressions of congratulations going to Robin Kelley as she trades in her stewardship of the annual weekend of wonderment for the reins of Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery as its executive director. Greg Hi Robin! Farrar My first memory of Press photographer you is frozen in a black-and-white 1997 photograph of you at Boehm’s Candies Chocolate Carnival wearing an animal balloon twisted into the shape of a fish on your head that your co-worker Jolene Jang made. Even then your infectious love of Salmon Days started to rub off on me! Every year during festival weekend the one place I was most likely to find you has been at the Field of Fun jut soaking up the happiness of youngsters having so many tons of fun riding ponies or playing field games. You seeing kids full of joy is I think what has given you the biggest reward for all the long months of hard work. And even though it has been a LOT of hard work, I just love you for how happy you are, how happy you make other people feel and how you have this ability to make hard work for everyone involved into a rewarding and uplifting accomplishment. With all the help at your side you’ve made Salmon Days a better-coordinated, more entertaining and more family-friendly event each and every October, for example with the shuttle buses and the carnival rides. And it has always been a family affair for you, your husband Oscar, your son and your late

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More than two dozen Issaquah School District seniors are semifinalists in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These students from Issaquah, Liberty and Skyline high schools are now eligible to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million that will be offered next spring. About 1.6 million juniors entered the scholarship by taking the Preliminary SAT Issaquah History Museums last year. The nationwide Greg Spranger stands in front of the Gilman Town pool of semifinalists repreless than one percent Hall in May 1983. Spranger was instrumental in the sents of U.S. high school seniors. renovation of the town hall on Andrews Street, as Issaquah: Sidney Chan, Aawell as the restoration of Issaquah’s railroad depot. shika Jhawar, Christopher Park, Romil Sirohi, Sophie History Snapshot is a partnership between The Issaquah Press and Wang, Spencer Young and the Issaquah History Museums. Learn more about upcoming events Christopher Yuen. Liberty: Amanda Elmore, at the museum at issaquahhistory.org Nicole Leung and Evan McLean. Skyline: Ishaan Bhimani, Alex Camai, David Cao, Jennifer DeJong, Austin Dodd, Paari Gopal, Kunal Gupta, Sidney Hershey, Adil Islam, Christina Nguyen, Ishira Fred Lehmkuhl Parikh, Gayathri Raj, Kaley Retired Major Fred Eugene Lehmkuhl, of Fayetteville, Romero, Beverly Shih, N.C., and a veteran of the Army, passed away Saturday, Jared Stever, Clara Too, EuSeptember 10, 2016 at the age of 82. He is survived by his gene Tou and Kevin Zhu. wife, Audrey W. Lehmkuhl of the home; daughters, Arlene Golds and husband Howard of Riverside, Calif., Gayle Schraub and husband John of Redmond, Wash., Gerri Householder and husband Chris of Mooresville, N.C., and Randi Householder of Mooresville, N.C.; a sister, Pauline “Paula” Hudson of Great Falls, Mont.; 12 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, in St. John’s Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, N.C. with Revs. Robert Alves and Kathy Pfleider officiating. Meet Miley, Services entrusted to Rogers and Breece Funeral Home, a 1-year-old pit 500 Ramsey St., Fayetteville, NC 28301. bull terrier mix. She is sweet, and once she L. Jane Carr warms up to you Miley November 8, 1918 – August 23, 2016 she will not stop Born Luella Jane Weber to Henry Goessgiving you kisses and hugs. She ler Weber and Luella Blackmore Wheeler is very smart, playful and enthuin Duluth, Minnesota. Graduated with a siastic with her love for people. B.S. from the University of Minnesota. She Miley has kicked her condition, worked in Georgia, Florida and Louisiana, Steroid-Responsive Meningitisand also spent some time at the PasArteritis (SRMA Meningitis), in teur Institute in France. Joined the Navy L. Jane Carr the butt. It does not restrict her Waves during World War II, climbing the from being active and going on ranks to Lieutenant. Met and married Dr. Ralph W. Carr walks. Miley takes daily medicawhile working in Alaska. They raised a family of seven in tion which veterinarians are hopeKetchikan, Alaska. The family relocated to Columbia, Mis- ful she will no longer need in a souri, for a short time before she and Dr. Carr retired to few years. Newport, Oregon. Jane’s last years were spent in Issaquah, Washington. A heartfelt thank you to the Pine Lake Adult Meet Oliver Family Home for their tender care in her final days. She is and Pip, 1-yearsurvived by her seven children, Betsy Carr, San Francisco, old orange cats Calif.; Alansa Bates (Leonard) Seattle, Wash.; Bruce Carr, who love life and Juneau, Alaska.; Susan Carr, Ketchikan, Alaska.; Patti Fel- playtime. These ton (Roger) Sammamish, Wash.; Barbara Hoiland (John) mischievous boys Seattle, Wash., and Jennifer Tao (Yuki) Sammamish, Oliver adore head pets, Wash., eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. and if you can A celebration of her life will be held October 8th, 2-4 p.m. manage to ignore at Our Place at Providence Point in Issaquah, Washington. them, they will She will be interred in Ketchikan, Alaska. For a full obitu- flirt and reach a ary, please visit flintofts.com. paw out to get your attention. Robert Burns Gage II They are a bondPip ed pair, so we are Robert Burns Gage II, 88, of Issaquah, Wash., departed searching for a home where they this life peacefully on August 24, 2016. He was born Sept. can stay together. 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Opportunities abound to see migrating salmon

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

The Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery’s Aug. 29 announcement was so grand, it required all caps. “IT’S OFFICIAL: THE FIRST

FISH WAS SEEN!” the Facebook post read, welcoming the start of what is known as Salmon SEEson in King County. The season’s first chinook was spotted at 1:17 p.m. Aug. 28 in Issaquah Creek, according to FISH. It represented the beginning

of what will become fish-filled waters at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery in the coming months. Salmon are returning to streams and rivers around Puget Sound. Watch for these natural beauties at the viewing sites around the watersheds as they make their

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The cast of “Pump Boys and Dinettes” (from left): Tony Award winner Levi Kreis, Sylvie Davidson, Michael Feldman, Sara Porkalob, James Reif (background), Joshua Carter and Olivia D. Hamilton.

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Village Theatre’s latest musical will get your blood pumping By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com

Imagine if Garth Brooks gathered some of those friends from low places and starred in a variety show for the stage. That’s the closest description of the experience you’ll get watching Village Theatre’s latest musical extravaganza, “Pump Boys and Dinettes.” There is almost no plot in this musical review reminiscent of 1970s and ’80s variety shows starring Sonny and Cher or Donny and Marie Osmond. It’s just a bunch of friends singing about life in the small town of Route 57 — a town so small it was named after the nearest highway. But fear not, there is a truck-

load of fun to be had here where audience participation is encouraged. You know you’re in for a different experience when, to reinforce the diner setting, the scent of bacon is actually pumped throughout the theater before the proceedings begin. And whereas executive producer Robb Hunt usually welcomes the audience and thanks the show’s sponsors, Joshua Carter took on those duties, while in character as Jim, the head pump boy. It’s Village Theatre veteran Carter (“Trails,” “Fiddler on the Roof”) who resembles Garth Brooks and has gathered some very talented friends who make up the band. There’s L.M. on piano, played by award-winning actor Levi Kreis, easily slipping into a variation of the Jerry Lee Lewis role that won him a Tony in “Million Dollar Quartet.”

IF YOU GO Village Theatre presents ‘Pump Boys and Dinettes’ Francis J. Gaudette Theatre 303 Front St. N. Tickets are $35-$70 392-2202 or bit.ly/2c0OIZ0 Channeling her best inner Tanya Tucker is Sylvie Davidson, making her Village Theatre debut as Prudie Cupp. Also making her debut for local audiences is Sara Porkalob, whose sassiness in the role of Rhetta Cupp is reminiscent of Gretchen Wilson, famous for “Redneck Woman.” Then there’s Michael Feldman, last seen in Village Theatre’s “Xanadu!” looking like a member of One Direction who wandered over from the set of “Grease.” Filling out the band are Olivia

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