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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 • Vol. 112, No. 42

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Tent City 4 needs help for Oct. 21 move to church

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter The parking lot at Community Church of Issaquah is due to transform into a campsite for up 100 adults Oct. 21 as Tent City 4 returns.

The camp is scheduled to remain on the site for 90 days through the

holiday season. Tent City 4 last settled at the Issaquah church in August 2007 and January 2010.

Organizers said the stagnant economy and tepid real estate market changed the camp’s composition since the initial Issaquah stay.

“The face of homelessness today is different from what it was in 2007,” said Elizabeth Maupin,

City could choose CleanScapes for garbage contract, dump Waste Management Officials seek hauler to serve most Issaquah neighborhoods

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter CleanScapes nudged out larger competitors and emerged as the No. 1 contender to haul Issaquah garbage due, in part, to offering curbside pickup for difficult-torecycle items, such as batteries and light bulbs.

The city is seeking a garbage hauler to serve most Issaquah neighborhoods.

Waste Management is the predominant hauler in the city, but the current contract between Issaquah and the Houston-based company expires in June.

Seattle-based CleanScapes came out as the top candidate after city officials evaluated offers from both companies and another collector, Allied Waste — a local name for national company Republic Services.

City officials said a $3.8-millionper-year CleanScapes contract could mean lower rates for Issaquah customers, plus increased customer service and recycling options. The contract requires City Council approval.

If the CleanScapes contract is approved, a residential customer putting a 32-gallon cart out for weekly curbside pickup could see rates decrease from $13.43 to $12.74 — a 5.1 percent drop.

CleanScapes also received points from evaluators for plans to offer

bear-resistant garbage containers to customers, additional curbside recycling options and a retail storefront in Issaquah.

CleanScapes CEO Chris Martin envisioned the storefront as “the Apple store for recycling and garbage, where people will be able to come in” for customer service and to drop off difficult-to-recycle items. Though CleanScapes plans to expand curbside recycling, some items must be dropped off at the storefront.

The proposal from CleanScapes also included a customer-service hotline and a designated customerservice line for Issaquah customers.

CleanScapes serves customers in Seattle, Shoreline, San Francisco and Portland, Ore. The discussion about the contract turned messy Oct. 11, as a rival company interested in the deal criticized the process and urged elected officials to scrutinize CleanScapes.

The other companies interested in the contract, however, claimed city officials discounted factors such as price and less possible impact on the environment. The planned merger between CleanScapes and San Franciscobased Recology also came up during the discussion.

“Our focus in this process is to provide the lowest-priced option for the businesses and for the residents of Issaquah,” Jeffry Borgida, Allied Waste general manager for Issaquah and other Eastside communities, told Council Utilities, Technology & Environment Committee members. “In the current economic times, in the current economic conditions, it is our position that that was the most imporSee GARBAGE, Page A2

Issaquah Sammamish Interfaith Coalition leader and a longtime Tent City 4 organizer.

The encampment could encounter more challenges as local and state budget crises deepen.

King County leaders said local agencies and organizations need funds to compensate for deep state cuts in recent years.

Meanwhile, organizations such as Tent City 4 supporter SHARE/WHEEL, a Seattle-based affordable housing and homeless advocacy group, face a greater need for services.

“People are choosing Tent City because they can’t get into housing, so there’s still a lot of need for low-cost housing and, for people in

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By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter The surgeon of the future is clad in gray plastic and operates using a quartet of spindly arms.

The brain in the surgeon of the future — a robot named for a legendary inventor — is a flesh-andblood physician at the controls.

The surgeon guides the robot amid procedures and, like a scene lifted from a sci-fi flick, guide tooltipped arms to cut infinitesimal incisions and perform tasks inside the confines of a human body.

Swedish Medical Center rolled out a da Vinci Surgical System unit to educate local schools’ robotics clubs as the Issaquah hospital prepares to open inpatient services Nov. 1.

Students scrambled for a chance to use miniscule pincers to peel a grape or perform simulated stitching. The acts simulated the precise motions used in da Vinciassisted procedures.

“It’s basically like a videogame for them,” Dr. Pamela Paley, a gynecologic oncologist trained to use the da Vinci robot, said Oct. 13 after students completed the grape-peeling activity.

Using a robot means a lessinvasive procedure, reduced blood loss and a speedier recovery for the patient.

“The trauma of surgery is much less,” Paley said.

Swedish/Issaquah hosted robotics clubs from Issaquah School District middle and high schools last week. Overall, more than 150 students headed to the hospital lobby to test the robot — a $2 million unit used for bariatric, gynecological, urological and other procedures.

Users peer inside a sleek control unit for a 3-D image of the incision sites. Throughout the activities, students’ disembodied voices

Libations from Oregon and Washington breweries and vineyards command attention from the counter at Starbucks, as unmistakable as the coffee mugs and roasted beans elsewhere in the store.

The redesigned and renovated Starbucks at the Meadows complex along Northwest Gilman Boulevard represents the latest step in a bold experiment to expand menu offerings — and the bottom line — by offering beer and wine alongside cappuccinos and lattes.

The store is among a handful in the United States — and the only Starbucks outside of Seattle and Portland, Ore. — to offer beer and

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help camp residents get to work.

“We’ve had no difficulty raising funds for the basics — utilities and that sort of thing,” she said. “The faith community came through in spades on that. Anything we have left over we’re going to dedicate,

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Michael Petkov, Swedish Medical Center robotics charge nurse, sets the arms on a da Vinci Surgical System robot to perform procedures on a dish of plastic pieces and a grape.

SWEDISH/ISSAQUAH OPEN HOUSE Swedish/Issaquah is scheduled to open inpatient services, including a childbirth center, Nov. 1.

Expectant parents can tour the childbirth center and participate in other activities at a public open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 23. Space for the event is limited. Learn more and register for the event at the Swedish/Issaquah website, www.swedish.org/issaquah.

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Local Starbucks is only suburban store to offer beer, wine

Rick Hartwigsen (left), from Dallas, and Lauren Forsythe, of Kirkland, drink wine at Starbucks in the Meadows Shopping Center on Northwest Gilman Boulevard.

Tent City, jobs that pay enough that they can save to get into housing,” Maupin added. “It’s really hard to find work when you don’t have an address.”

Most residents depart the encampment during the day and head to jobs. Maupin said organizers need donations to fund King County Metro Transit bus passes to

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wine. If the experiment in a suburban market is successful, the concept could expand to other cities.

The store started offering alcohol in afternoons and evenings late last month, after a monthslong project to remake the space.

The changes start at the menu and continue throughout the store.

The salvaged floor from a high school gymnasium is repurposed as a tabletop. The most prominent art piece is salmon-inspired, and neutral tones dominate.

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Ethan Milne, an Issaquah Middle School seventh-grader, watches the da Vinci robot in action.

King County to answer landfill questions at local meeting Residents from areas near the Cedar Hills Regional Landfill can offer feedback and receive updates at a public meeting soon.

The agency responsible for the landfill, the King County Solid Waste Division, is hosting a community meeting from 7-9 p.m.

Oct. 25 at the King County Library Service Center, 960 Newport Way N.W. Meeting attendees can learn about landfill operations, plus construction and environmental projects at the 920-acre facility.

Officials also plan to discuss the Bio Energy Washington landfill-gas-toenergy facility at the landfill site.

The facility prompted noise

complaints from nearby residents last year.

The landfill sprawls across unincorporated King County between Issaquah and Maple Valley.

King County officials started meeting Cedar Hills Regional Landfill neighbors more than 25 years ago to offer information and collect feedback.

The community meetings provide a forum for area residents and Solid Waste Division staff to discuss activities, conditions and problems related to the landfill.

Call 206-296-4490 or go to http://your.kingcounty.gov/solidwaste/facilities/cedar-hills-meetings.asp to learn more.

QUOTABLE “Your mind is just spinning the whole time. You’re sitting there in a business meeting and you just don’t care … It just changes your focus.”

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Safeway proposes Issaquah Highlands store City Council allows gas station for grocer, a key factor in decision

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By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter The plan to open a grocery store in the Issaquah Highlands — a still-unmet target from early goals for the community — reached a milestone in early October, as Safeway submitted a proposal for a store in the neighborhood.

Meanwhile, City Council members adjusted longstanding development rules to allow a gas station in the highlands — a critical factor in Safeway’s proposal to build the store.

In a unanimous decision, council members adjusted the agreement between the city and highlands developer Port Blakely Communities to allow a gas station in the neighborhood. The council also added rules to the development agreement to require a gas station to be built alongside a grocery store.

“Obviously, a lot of grocery stores have passed on the space in the last 10 years,” Councilman Mark Mullet, a highlands resident, said before the Oct. 3 decision. “I can see from a business standpoint how having the fueling station gives it that little extra incentive that makes it a more viable package.”

Safeway applied for a city permit on the same day a representative from the California-based chain addressed the council about the gas station issue.

The company is considering a parcel along Highlands Drive Northeast between Northeast Federal Drive to the north and Northeast Ellis Drive to the south.

John Shaw, consulting director of operations for Port Blakely, said the company needed the agreement adjusted to allow gas stations in order to conclude a grocery store deal.

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Safeway planners proposed a modern Issaquah Highlands store in a recent permit application to the city. we all know, Port Blakely has come close, but has not landed the grocery store,” he said during a hearing before the council decision. “In our recent conversations with grocers, we have realized that we’re unlikely to attract a grocer in the highlands if the grocer does not have the ability to offer gas.”

Safeway operates a store — sans gas station — in the Issaquah Commons shopping center along Northwest Gilman Boulevard.

Decision bolsters plan to add retail options Port Blakely executives said neighborhood residents, in a recent survey, ranked a grocery store and a gas station as the most sought-after amenities.

“In the modern world, grocers view the ability to sell gas just like they do the ability to sell bakery goods and meat,” Shaw told council members. “It’s part of the business.”

David Livingston, a national grocery consultant based in Wisconsin, said Safeway and other grocery chains tie gasoline sales to customer-loyalty programs and other offers.

“It certainly does complement the store, and I could see why they would want to do it,” he said.

“They’ve obviously found that it works for their business model, but it’s not absolutely necessary.

They may need it in that particular situation in order to get their sales forecast.”

In July, Port Blakely announced a deal to sell 14 acres for a proposed shopping center to Florida-

based Regency Centers. The deal calls for Regency Centers to purchase the land and build a 175,000-square-foot shopping center along Northeast High Street and Northeast Park Drive — a site once set aside for another retail destination called The High Streets.

If the transaction is completed, construction could start as early as next year.

The proposed Safeway and a planned Regal Cinemas theater could anchor a planned retail complex in the highlands — called Grand Ridge Plaza in recent promotional materials. (Port Blakely and Regal Cinemas announced the theater in August 2009.)

Jeff Parker, a Safeway real estate manager, said the grocery chain intends to open a store in the highlands.

“We are working with Regency to locate a store in the highlands,” he told council members. “We’re very excited for that opportunity.”

In the past, boutique grocers, including Central Market and Whole Foods Market, considered and decided against opening highlands stores. Safeway is the No. 2 grocery chain in the United States after Kroger.

“Safeway has always just been considered the average, plainvanilla grocery store,” Livingston said. “No matter how much they upgrade their stores — and so does everybody else — they’re still average, plain vanilla.”

Warren Kagarise: 392-6434, ext. 234, or wkagarise@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

tant factor in this process.

Generally speaking, we all basically do the same things. Some of us may have some different bells and whistles that we can talk about and highlight.”

Allied Waste hauls garbage in the Greenwood Point and South Cove neighborhoods under a separate contract. If officials chose Allied Waste instead, the company planned to unite the city under a single contract.

Questions arise about selection Allied Waste offered the lowest price — $3.5 million per year — although city evaluators dinged the company on customer service, sustainability and other criteria.

Waste Management rolled out a $3.9-million-per-year package and proposed creating a local facility as a place to park garbage trucks — a plan to reduce vehicle miles traveled and emissions.

Martin addressed the Recology merger in remarks to committee members — Council President John Traeger, and councilmen Mark Mullet and Joshua Schaer.

“CleanScapes is staying CleanScapes,” Martin said. “We will be a part of the Recology company, but we will maintain our name and our whole management team will be staying in place.”

The city formed a five-member review panel to study garbage haulers’ proposals. The team included Resource Conservation Office Manager David Fujimoto, city Public Works Operations and Emergency Management Director Bret Heath, and other officials.

In addition to sifting through the bulging documents submitted by the companies, evaluators interviewed representatives from

the candidates, conducted reference checks among client cities, and toured the companies’ local customer service centers, operations yards and recycling facilities.

Then, the evaluators ranked the companies in several areas, such as contract compliance, customer service and sustainability.

“All of those things were folded into the evaluation process that was conducted by the review committee,” Fujimoto said.

“Based on that information, the review committee members each scored each of the proposals separately.”

Mary Evans, Waste Management director of public sector services, questioned the selection process.

“There certainly has been a lot of process around this decisionmaking,” she told committee members. “The amount of transparency around that process is something that’s open to interpretation.”

The conservation office asked companies to submit prices in documents separate from the rest of the packages.

Candidates could receive up to 60 points for price and up to 40 points combined for all other factors.

CleanScapes received the highest total score — 93.1 out of the possible 100 points. Waste Management followed at 87.9 and Allied Waste received 83.5, despite receiving the maximum score for price.

“If you look at the final total score, there is a difference in the total tally of numbers, but if you go back and look at the scoring in individual categories, you’ll see that it’s quite close,” Fujimoto said. “There are a number of areas where, in particular, Waste Management and CleanScapes were very close.”

Council Utilities, Technology & Environment Committee members applauded the selection process.

“At the end of the day, I have a hard time second-guessing the process, because I feel like it was just well thought out and well done,” Mullet said.

Warren Kagarise: 392-6434, ext. 234, or wkagarise@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

KING COUNTY COUNCIL INCREASES GARBAGE RATES The cost for garbage pickup in Issaquah and elsewhere in King County is due to increase by about 80 cents per month next year.

King County Council members approved the rate increase last month as part of a long-term effort to upgrade the regional solid waste system.

Under the updated rate structure, the basic rate for commercial vehicles, such as garbage trucks, to dump trash at county facilities is $109 per ton. The current rate is $95 per ton.

Haulers pass along the rate increase to customers. So, the average customer putting out a single can for pickup can expect to pay about 80 cents more per month next year, although the exact increase depends on how haulers pass on the rate hike to consumers.

For people hauling loads to county transfer stations, the rate is due to increase to $17.49 per load from $15.31 per load.

Officials said proceeds from the fees should defray the costs to upgrade transfer stations, including the Factoria Transfer Station, the midpoint destination for Issaquah garbage.

Construction is due to start on a $77 million facility near the existing station in 2013.

The county Solid Waste Division serves haulers from Issaquah and 36 other cities.

Allied Waste and Waste Management handle garbage collection inside Issaquah city limits; Allied Waste serves unincorporated-area residents.

The county operates Cedar Hills Regional Landfill — the destination for garbage from across King County — on 920 acres between Issaquah and Maple Valley

State is tracking prescription pain medication purchases State health officials have started collecting information regarding purchases of prescription pain medication to crack down on a statewide overdose problem.

Officials rolled out the Washington State Prescription Monitoring Program in October to reduce abuse and promote safe prescription drug use. The program collects information on commonly abused medications.

Information from pharmacies and health care providers is collected and stored in a central database.

Starting in January, health care providers can view their patients’ prescription history dating back to the start of data collection.

The program also allows patients and law enforcement officials to view the prescription records.

Officials said physicians and pharmacists could use the data to intervene earlier to identify dangerous drug interactions, address misuse, recognize undermanaged pain or see the need for substanceabuse treatment.

The number of people dying from prescription pain medication overdoses is growing in Washington.

Overdose deaths involving prescription pain medications doubled from 2000 to 2010. Since 2006, deaths from unintentional drug overdoses have surpassed the number of deaths from automobile crashes.

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By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter Candidates for local and regional offices offered prescriptions for counteracting the ailing economy and educating a 21st-century workforce at a forum Oct. 13.

Organized by The Issaquah Press and moderated by Publisher Debbie Berto, the forum attracted candidates for City Council, Issaquah School Board and Port of Seattle Commission.

The candidates, gathered at the King County Library System headquarters in Issaquah, answered questions in 40-minute sections organized by office.

The forum occurred days before King County Elections mails ballots, and as many voters start to pay attention to the off-year election. Election Day is Nov. 8.

Though the majority of council seats is up for election, only a single seat is contested. In the lone contested race, challenger TJ Filley faces incumbent Councilman Joshua Schaer for the Position 4 seat.

Incumbent Councilman Fred Butler, appointed Councilwoman Stacy Goodman and candidate Paul Winterstein did not attract opponents for the other positions.

In a far-reaching discussion about municipal issues — transportation headaches, economic development, ongoing efforts to regulate a medical marijuana operations and more — Filley and Schaer stuck to usual themes from the campaign.

“I will continue to fight against unnecessary spending and live up to the reputation I’ve earned among my colleagues for always doing my homework on issues the council decides,” Schaer said.

Filley lambasted a $6.2 million pedestrian bridge across Interstate 90 completed using substantial federal and Sound Transit dollars. The connector — and link across the interstate at state Route 900 — is a major issue in the council race.

“People should not have to micromanage the City Council,” he said. “Congestion is and has been a major problem in Issaquah, and the people are sick and tired of hearing about transportation but seeing resources squandered without effective ROI on the projects that are presented.”

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tomers’ laptop computers and other gadgets.

Harry Klages, regional director for Starbucks stores from Black Diamond to Duvall, said company executives and employees expect feedback from customers about the revamp.

“Our customers, they’re not shy about sharing their opinions,” Starbucks spokeswoman Stacey Krum added as baristas, or partners in Starbucks lingo, plated snacks and poured wine behind the counter on a recent afternoon.

Starbucks also added a Clover brewing system — a subject of much discussion among local coffee aficionados. The stainless steel machine uses a vacuum process to produce a cup of coffee considered superior to a drip coffee maker.

The alcohol menu is focused on Pacific Northwest beers and wines. Observers said the concept is all but certain to expand if it’s successful at the Meadows store.

“I think it’s going to grow,” said Melody Overton, a Seattle blogger behind StarbucksMelody.com, a popular fan site. “If it works in Issaquah, they’ll find more places where it can go.”

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The plan to remake Central Issaquah — 915 acres in the business district along the interstate — in the decades ahead seeped into the candidates’ responses about attracting and retaining businesses.

“In the Central Issaquah Plan, there are certainly several good aspects, specifically dealing with the parts where the developers of Issaquah are going to have clear, consistent rules going forward on development,” Filley said. “They’ll be able to have easy-to-predict costs associated with their projects, but when it comes to things — such as parking and the redevelopment and what’s going to be businesses versus residential versus mixed-use — there, I believe, the Central Issaquah Plan does need a lot more study by the council” and community groups.

Candidates also addressed the perennial issue about commercial construction in the Issaquah Highlands. The latest proposal for the neighborhood calls for a Safeway and associated gas station, plus a Regal Cinemas theater.

“We need to look at revitalizing the city as a whole and, frankly, I’m a little disappointed in some of the plans that I’ve seen for the Issaquah Highlands,” Schaer said. “I don’t like the idea of having an inconsistent vision when we’re trying to change this impervious parking and these strip malls and these parking lots in the valley into employment

beer and wine to be at least 21.

Dan Geiman, a Starbucks analyst for Seattle brokerage firm McAdams Wright Ragen, said offering beer and wine makes sense for Seattle-based Starbucks.

“One of the things they’ve tried to do over the years is expand their day parts and expand sales in the afternoon and evening, and outside of the normal morning rush,” he said. “I think that this is potentially something that accomplishes that. I think it fits in well with their target consumer as well.”

The decision to serve alcohol also represents a gamble for the global coffee company, he added.

“They risk diluting their mes-

PORT OF SEATTLE CANDIDATES FOCUS ON JOBS Port of Seattle Commission candidates headed inland to Issaquah for a candidate forum Oct. 13.

The discussion for the candidates focused on the economy and the environment — major issues at the agency responsible for the Port of Seattle and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

In the nonpartisan commissioner races, Democrat Dean Willard, a Sammamish resident and onetime state House of Representatives candidate, faces Republican incumbent Bill Bryant.

Richard Pope is challenging incumbent Commissioner Gael Tarleton. Pope did not attend the Issaquah forum.

“At the Port of Seattle, we’re proving that we can rise to what I think is the challenge of time — to generate jobs while protecting the envicenters and retail centers. Yet in the highlands, we’ve got a different vision and a different tack. I don’t like that. I think we need to be consistent as a city about how we approach redevelopment.”

Schools’ achievement, budget defines discussion In the school board election, incumbents Brian Deagle and Suzanne Weaver face challengers in the nonpartisan races.

Deagle, a Sammamish resident, faces challenger Patrick Sansing, a Sammamish resident, for the Director District No. 3 seat.

Weaver, a Sammamish resident, faces Issaquah resident Brian Neville to retain the Director District No. 5 post.

Bellevue resident Anne Moore is running unopposed for outgoing board member Jan Colbrese’s post.

The questions during the forum’s school board portion focused on improving school experiences for students and maintaining a highachieving school district despite near-constant cuts from Olympia.

The incumbents, Deagle and Weaver, said Issaquah School District officials had trimmed unnecessary expenses, or “low-

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sage and what they’re trying to do,” Geiman continued. “I think part of their strategy over the last few years has been getting back to basics and getting rid of some of the clutter in the stores and honing their offerings a little bit — getting back to that coffee culture. This, arguably, is a little bit of a step away from that.”

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ronment,” Bryant said.

Despite a recent turnaround for a once scandal-plagued agency, Willard said more progress is needed to create jobs and clean up damage to the environment.

“There are too many people that work at the port that don’t have family-wage jobs,” he said. “Far too frequently, the environmental damage that’s caused by economic activities is borne by those who are least able to bear them.”

Tarleton, a respected voice on security, tackled a question about the balance between security and convenience at the bustling airport.

“We all want to rid ourselves of pat downs. We all want to get rid of the hassle of walking through a security system that feels like you’re a salmon swimming upstream. Then, suddenly you reach that choke point and you’ve got to climb that ladder and you hope you get to the other side,” she said. “I’m working on that.” hanging fruit” in Weaver’s description. Future cuts could impact students more acutely in the classroom.

“What it comes down to in the short term, it’s staff,” Deagle said.

“The largest expense for the district is teachers. In the short term, unfortunately, that’s the only lever we can pull. In the long term, it will be a different approach to serving the kids.”

Sansing said district leaders should instead consider trimming administrative costs if state legislators hand down additional cuts in the months ahead.

“That’s got to be the place that we continue to look first,” he said.

“I don’t want to look first toward the schoolroom.”

How to better serve students inside and outside of the classroom dominated the school board candidates’ discussion.

Neville said the district could do a better job to serve students uninterested in a traditional college education after high school.

“I think most parents, probably, in the Issaquah district probably expect their kids to go to college,” he said. “However, an area that I feel is somewhat lacking is the

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Candidates for positions on the Issaquah School Board laugh at a joke during a candidate forum Oct. 13 at the King County Library Service Center. vocational side as well as on the arts, potential viable alternatives to the college prep track.”

Neville’s opponent, Weaver, said district schools should focus more on “the students who don’t fit the mold in high school.”

“I think we have a greater number of kids who, I guess you could say they underachieve,” she said.

“They’re not achieving at their potential. They kind of fit in the traditional high school, but they need something more. They need more hands-on opportunities.

They need more things that will give them exposure to careers and other types of paths that they might take.”

In September, school board members delayed sending a proposed bond — a $219 million package to fund construction and upgrades at schools across the district — to the electorate from February to April.

Questions arose about using bond dollars to fund improvements to

stadiums at Issaquah, Liberty and Skyline high schools.

“I would say these are not Cadillac stadiums, but I’d say they’re also not Pintos,” Weaver said. “It’s important to spend a certain amount of money to build things well.”

Sansing said the stadiums at the high schools serve a key component in surrounding communities, because the facilities serve more than sports teams.

“I think that they are not only a school resource but a community resource,” he said. “There are many groups that use our stadiums, and I think that it’s important for them to be able to do so. I also think that the education that you receive outside of the classroom is just as important as the education you receive inside of the classroom.”

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he choice in Issaquah’s only contested City Council race is stark. Incumbent Joshua Schaer articulates a clear vision for the future. Schaer has fashioned a reputation as a councilman unwilling to yield just for the sake of another unanimous vote. Such independence is valuable for a council member and even better for the citizens he represents.

Schaer also brings a broad understanding of the tiny details of city policy — a critical factor for elected officials as the council delves into the Central Issaquah Plan, a medical marijuana ordinance and other hefty issues in the year ahead.

Schaer deserves credit for pushing the first-on-the-Eastside food-packaging ordinance to ban Styrofoam takeout containers. In his second term, however, he needs to lead the charge to increase compliance with the ordinance.

Challenger TJ Filley initially built a single-issue campaign around the pedestrian bridge across Interstate 90 at state Route 900. Though Filley deserves praise for attracting attention to the late and over-budget project, the continued focus on the now-completed bridge is counterproductive. Filley needs more local experience, while Schaer has earned a second term.

Return Deagle,Weaver to Issaquah School Board The Issaquah School Board is fortunate to have solid, professional, dedicated men and women willing to serve the district.

Brian Deagle and Suzanne Weaver, both incumbents, are still the best choice. Both have been board members through the tough economic times. While the budget for schools has fallen, student performance has not.

Deagle regularly makes his presence felt on the school board, asking the tough questions before casting a vote. In recent months, his probing of the proposed school bond over the course of three months led to some revisions and reduced costs. It’s the kind of challenge that citizens want to see in a representative.

Weaver has creative ideas for schools and is passionate about changes that will promote better education of our students. Her business background has been valuable to the board. She is an articulate, no-nonsense board member.

Challengers Pat Sansing and Brian Neville hold promise for future leadership roles in the school district, whether on the board or in another capacity. Their commitment seems genuine and we hope to see their involvement continue.

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Issaquah greets, embraces Tent City 4

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ent City 4 is due to return just in time for autumn chill and damp, but Issaquah — a community celebrated for a commitment to helping people in need — is certain to offer a warm embrace to the encampment.

The camp, a tarp-clad home to about 100 people, settled on the Community Church of Issaquah parking lot in August 2007 and again in January 2010.

Days after the camp settled in Issaquah for the most recent stint, camp residents extended a greeting to myself and another reporter for a night behind the Tent City 4 fence.

(The initial idea emerged as a way to introduce readers to camp residents and chronicle the experience on Twitter — a thennovel idea as The Issaquah Press started to experiment in the so-

cial media realm.)

The encampment provided shelter to about 80 people then.

Some shared stories eagerly. Others Warren needed some coaxing to open Kagarise up to a notePress reporter book-toting stranger.

Inside the encampment, interviewees said camp life offered a chance for stability.

Tent City 4 is a democracy. The residents elect a camp executive committee to run everyday affairs. Members vote to decide See CAMP, Page A5

Decision 2011

Vote TJ Filley to City Council Trying times are upon many in our community, and it is incumbent on us to vote for candidates who will work to create jobs and spend taxpayers’ money wisely and responsibly.

One such candidate is TJ Filley and I encourage you to elect him to the Issaquah City Council. Putting good people in office is more important this year than ever.

Please vote for TJ Filley.

Mary Schurman Issaquah

Re-elect Brian Deagle Ballots will soon arrive in our mailboxes and we will be asked to decide on a number of important local elections. At the same time, the Issaquah School District is facing an unprecedented reduction in state resources.

Voters have a clear choice when selecting the critical leadership needed to steward us through difficult budgetary decisions and protect the ISD’s excellent record on student achievement. Brian Deagle has served our schools admirably for the past five years and has earned another term on the Issaquah School Board.

Brian Deagle has actively participated on the board to ensure the success of all students in the district. He has worked with educators and administrators to create a clear vision for student success, implement long-range planning and establish systems of accountability. Brian’s support of the newly-created District Score Card, which tracks our school’s progress toward ISD initiatives, is one example of his engaged participation on and leadership of the board.

In addition to ensuring student achievement, Brian Deagle has worked with other school board members to uphold fiscal management of the district’s resources. ISD administrative

F ROM THE W EB Issaquah School District bond I agree that this school district bond is complex.

There are items that I would support and items I would not support. An all-or-nothing bond issue like this tells the community that the school board thinks they can run them over and that they will let them. They think they can scare the community into voting for it so that the things the community wants will get done but at the expense of doing things that the community may not want.

This is not a proper choice.

Why not separate this bond into two or three bonds? One for building reconstruction, one for sports-field improvements and one for renovat-

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Bring Suzanne Weaver back The Issaquah School District is facing the biggest financial crisis in its history. State funding has been cut repeatedly, to the tune of millions of dollars. For a district like Issaquah, receiving less state funding than most of the other districts in Washington, the cuts represent severe inroads into precious discretionary funds.

In meeting this challenge, we need leadership that fully understands the classroom impacts of board and superintendent decisions.

Suzanne Weaver is the leader we need.

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ing buildings? This would allow the different items to be supported or not. The Issaquah School Board also should provide a cogent explanation of why these things are needed at this time of economic trouble.

As currently presented, I am inclined to vote no.

Art McEntire

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Foundation. Her education and career in finance give her a special edge during these difficult times.

As a board member, Suzanne has demonstrated a strong work ethic and ability to find solutions. Most important, under her leadership the district has continued to meet its academic goals.

We already know that the governor is calling a special session for yet another round of state spending cuts. In these perilous times, we can’t afford inexperienced leadership. Please join me in re-electing Suzanne Weaver to the Issaquah School Board.

Barbara de Michele Issaquah

Initiative 1183 would result in the layoffs of 1,100 state employees I’ve seen a tremendous number of advertisements going on these past couple of months about the need to get the state out of the liquor selling business and its Prohibition Era-style controls it holds over liquor sales, although these controls don’t seem to make a dent in the number of drunken driving and other crimes against the public caused by the inebriated.

And yes, we don’t really know how much these statistics will climb when the public will have the access to purchase alcohol any time of the day, at any day of the week at a huge number of stores that will require an army of liquor inspectors to monitor but the state won’t be able to hire because of the impact of taking the business of selling liquor out of the state’s control will cut tremendously into the state’s coiffures at a time when our budget is most frail.

But the one thing I have not heard a word about is the impact that will take place when the state has to lay off 1,100 dedicated union See LETTERS, Page A5

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I-1125 ensures accountability, transparency in Olympia

By Tim Eyman

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lympia still doesn’t get it. Four times the voters have approved initiatives requiring a two-thirds vote to raise taxes and a majority vote to increase fees. Four times. Yet despite 1053’s 64 percent yes vote last year, Olympia repeatedly violated it. Initiative 1125 closes loopholes that were put in 1053.

I-1125 requires, again, that fee increases be decided by elected representatives of the people, not unelected bureaucrats at state agencies.

I-1125 ensures accountability and transparency.

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major decisions — such as the unanimous decision to allow reporters to crash the camp for a night.

Many residents had been turned out from jobs in the most dismal economy since the Great Depression. The camp demographics encompassed all ages, both genders and numerous races. Only children — a no-no under Tent City 4 rules — do not call the camp home.

Throughout the evening, I listened to horror stories about homeless-shelter bedbugs and heard about the challenge nearconstant Pacific Northwest rain poses to Tent City 4 residents.

Then, just after midnight, I climbed inside a borrowed sleeping bag, sidled up to a rice-filled pillow heated in the communal

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neighborhood to collect garbage?

Would fewer trips save resources?

I’ll feel confident that the city of Issaquah will make the right decision. My vote is for a company that does not waste resources but one that can manage and conserve.

DL Novak

Issaquah ‘animal hoarding’ Please consider me as a person that would adopt and love one of those wonderful babies as I would give it all the love and care the dog would need.

I live on Whidbey Island and

I-1125 requires transportation taxes only be used for transportation. Our state imposes one of the highest gas taxes in the nation, collecting billions every year. Before the government double-taxes us with burdensome tolls — forcing us to pay twice — I-1125 stops transportation revenue from being diverted to nontransportation purposes.

In the entire history of our state, tolls have always expired after a project is paid for.

Whether it was the original Interstate 90 bridge, the 520 bridge or the Hood Canal Bridge, there was no such thing as never-ending tolls — for nearly 100 years, once a project was paid for, the toll was taken off.

But in 2008, Olympia repealed that protection, creating for the first time tolls that will continue forever — once a toll is imposed, it will never go away.

That radical change in tolling policy was imposed with little to no public notice. I-1125 puts a bright spotlight on that radical change and gives the voters the

be decided by the elected representatives of the people, not six unelected bureaucrats handpicked by Gov. Chris Gregoire for an unaccountable Transportation Commission.

Politicians are seriously out of touch if they think citizens will accept auto-pilot, never-ending tolls without any accountability or transparency.

In these tough times, the idea of government taking thousands of dollars per year out of family budgets is really scary. People are hurting, and yet Olympia is nonetheless sneaking forward with “tolls” that are just taxes by another name. I-1125 stops them from violating the law.

Before this year’s session began, Gregoire said: “I’m not gonna let 1053 stand in the way of me moving forward for what I think is right.” Voters approved Initiative 1053 by a huge margin — don’t let Olympia get away with violating it. Vote yes (again).

Approve Initiative 1125.

Tim Eyman is one of the co-sponsors of “Son of 1053” I-1125. Call 493-9127 or go to www.voterswantmorechoices.com.

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PUBLIC MEETINGS Oct. 19 City Council 2012 budget workshop Agenda: municipal department budgets 6 p.m.

Cougar Room, City Hall 130 E. Sunset Way

Oct. 24 Park Board Agenda: Park Pointe update, mountain biking trails report, Heritage Trees 7 p.m.

Issaquah Trails House, 110 Bush St.

Oct. 25 Committee-of-the-Whole Council 6:30 p.m.

Council Chambers, City Hall South 135 E. Sunset Way Cedar Hills Regional Landfill community meeting Agenda: landfill project update, Bio Energy Washington facility update 7 p.m.

King County Library Service Center 960 Newport Way N.W.

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employees who are the clerks, assistant managers and managers of the current state liquor stores.

What effect will occur with their inability to pay sales tax on items that they used to be able to purchase but no longer can since they’ll be unemployed? How much will this mass layoff raise the state’s unemployment figures up to?

What do those employees, many of whom have worked for the state for decades, many who are single-family wage earners, many who are veterans, say to their families about their inability to provide a paycheck anymore just so their next-door neighbor will have the smallest of luxuries, the ability to buy their booze at any time of the day, any day of the week that they prefer?

No one has spoken a word about these Washingtonians who will be devastated by this initiative.

Hugh Jones Seattle

microwave.

Layered beneath the sleeping bag, blankets from the camp supply and a too-thin sweater, the January chill kept seeping inside to my skin.

Tent City 4 residents jokingly referred to the men’s communal tent as the Hilton. Though the camp lacks the niceties of a hotel, Tent City 4 offers amenities to residents — hot showers, Internet access and cable on a shared TV set up in a large tent.

The most critical amenity, however, is not tangible. Tent City 4 residents said Issaquah embraces the community unlike any other Eastside city.

The sense of community inside Tent City 4 — and in the Issaquah community pledging to help camp residents — is the most important feature the camp can offer.

Warren Kagarise: 392-6434, ext. 234, or wkagarise@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

moved up here eight years ago with my husband and I, and 12 Pomeranians, rescue dogs.

I couldn’t look any of them in the eye and say we are moving and you can’t go. We bought a house with acreage and the house is large.

I have rescued a Pom from a puppy mill before and all the dog’s teeth were all broken, that pup gave me the most love I can ever remember receiving and I know I have the patience to give to a pup that requires it. It took me 8 months to housebreak her but every moment we spent together was a labor of love. I had her one and a half years and the end of her life was coming near and she waited until I got up one morning so I could hold her and she died in my arms.

Pat Rhude

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chance to reinstate that basic protection. I-1125 prohibits never-ending tolls, requiring (again) that tolls expire once the project is paid for.

For months, we’ve been highlighting politicians’ efforts to take from struggling taxpayers billions of dollars of new money — using the term “tolls” but having those new charges function like taxes.

Tolls are fees paid by users of a specific project to pay for that project (requiring majority legislative approval) — taxes are imposed on anyone and spent on anything (requiring twothirds legislative approval).

Tolls aren’t taxes and I-1125 keeps it that way: I-1125 prohibits never-ending tolls, reinstating the 100year-old protection where tolls expire once its project is paid for.

I-1125 (like current law already requires) ensures that tolls be project-specific — tolls on one project cannot be diverted and spent somewhere else.

I-1125 (like last year’s I-1053 required before Olympia sidestepped it) re-requires that tolls

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WHERE THE CANDIDATES

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Before returning ballots to meet the Nov. 8 deadline, review where Issaquah City Council and Issaquah School Board candidates stand on important issues.

Council candidates Joshua Schaer and TJ Filley answered questions about numerous issues facing Issaquah in the years ahead. (Answers had to be 25 words or less.) Schaer is seeking another term on the seven-member council. Filley is focusing on transportation issues in the campaign.

Read more questions for the candidates, and their responses, at www.issaquahpress.com/category/election.

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I support holding committee and budget meetings in more convenient locations. I also visit neighborhoods to directly receive feedback from residents about important issues.

I’ve disagreed with decisions that aren’t right for Issaquah — for example, my colleagues shouldn’t have wasted resources designing roundabouts that data revealed as currently unnecessary.

HOW WILL YOU COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO HELP ENGAGE THEM IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS?

WHAT COUNCIL DECISION MADE IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS WOULD YOU CHANGE BECAUSE YOU DISAGREE WITH IT? WHY?

NAME AT LEAST TWO AREAS YOU COULD SUPPORT CUTTING FROM THE CITY BUDGET, IF NEEDED.

SHOULD THE COUNCIL RAISE THE PROPERTY TAX RATE TO INCREASE REVENUE OR ALLOW IT TO REMAIN AS-IS UNTIL THE ECONOMY IMPROVES? WHY?

WHAT IS THE SINGLE MOST URGENT INFRASTRUCTURE NEED FACING ISSAQUAH?

CITY LEADERS REACHED A MAJOR MILESTONE LAST YEAR

BY PRESERVING PARK POINTE. WHAT, SPECIFICALLY, SHOULD BE THE CITY’S NEXT CONSERVATION PRIORITIES?

WHAT ROLE SHOULD THE CITY PLAY IN CREATING A VIABLE PLAN FOR THE FUTURE OF LAKE SAMMAMISH STATE PARK?

SHOULD THE CITY PURSUE ANNEXING KLAHANIE AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS? WHY?

I plan on creating a webpage in a blog format for constituents to voice opinions on current issues.

The bicycle and pedestrian overpass would not have been approved until it was determined to be one of the top 10 priority projects in transportation.

I would implement zero-based budgeting, and performance budgeting methodologies to try to ensure that the taxpayer resources are being maximized.

Property taxes should not be raised. Families are struggling trying to make house payments on property where they owe more than the property is worth.

Congestion relief, especially south of Interstate 90. Front Street is a joke at rush hour, and Newport Way is in dire need of improvements.

We need Issaquah to be good stewards of taxpayer money, ensuring projects done are high-priority and accomplish cost-effective goals, and our tax base is stable.

Possibilities and Issaquah potentially acquiring it include discussions of limited commercial licenses to offset maintenance, to a development with a public marina and commercial development.

I have not researched this yet and as such I have no opinion.

TJ Filley

We need to reduce our rising benefit costs — they are unsustainable.

We should also reduce our reliance on consultants for projects city staff can handle.

The council hasn’t raised property taxes during my term. We’ll assess the possible economic benefits or harms when determining whether to continue this yearly trend.

A multimodal crossing over Interstate 90 would relieve congestion, provide a future rail hub and enhance connectivity. Discussions must start before redevelopment increases the difficulty.

Protecting our greenery and waterways. I’m disappointed by recent highlands clear-cutting, and dissolving our Stream Team. We must uphold being a Tree City USA.

We should determine if assumption — and making it free again — is financially realistic.

We must also improve ways to reach it by walking or biking.

Although I joined Issaquah through annexation, I don’t believe Klahanie is a sound long-term investment, given the cost of service expansion compared to tax-base benefits.

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Issaquah School Board candidates answered questions about issues facing the Issaquah School District. Answers had to be 25 words or less.

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District 3

Brian Deagle

Patrick Sansing

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District 5

Brian Neville

Suzanne Weaver

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE IDEA OF ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS AS SPELLED OUT BY THE FEDERAL NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT?

Good concept; measuring multiple subject areas for various student sub-groups (37 total measurements). A school, however, should not “fail” for missing only one of 37.

In Issaquah, test scores aren’t the best progress measurement.

School board must be more aggressive in pushing the district to innovate and improve beyond testing.

AYP measurements were not well-conceived as the requirement to continuously improve is especially difficult to attain in the highest performing districts (like Issaquah).

The stair-stepping of AYP goals has resulted in targets which will soon cause all schools to be “failing.” The punitive nature of AYP is counter-productive.

HOW IMPORTANT IS REQUIRED PASSAGE OF A STANDARDIZED SCIENCE OR BIOLOGY TEST FOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION? WHY?

It is critical that we ensure our children graduate fully capable in science, which I think is a proxy for critical thinking skills.

State requires science testing to graduate beginning 2015. Until then, focus on supporting good teachers and stringent grading.

Don’t neglect teaching creativity and soft skills.

Standardized testing for graduation requirements deserves scrutiny and should allow for some judgment at the school level, and science/biology is no exception.

It is important to ensure that students have mastered the state standards in science. I would prefer to see end-of-course exams for biology and chemistry.

IF FURTHER BUDGET CUTS ARE NEEDED, WHAT TOP TWO AREAS DO YOU RECOMMEND THE BOARD STUDY TO MAKE THOSE CUTS?

83 percent of the district’s operating budget is staff salaries and benefits. If we must make meaningful budget cuts we have to cut this item.

We need fresh thoughts on this, as current directors believe only teachers can be cut. Before that, study: reserves strategy, administration and school board expenses.

To fairly weigh in on where to cut, I would have to review full financials and consult directly with district staff before offering an opinion.

I recommend more exploration of online and blended learning opportunities that would reduce staffing requirements without impacting the quality of education in the classroom.

WHAT EXPERIENCE DO YOU BRING TO THE BOARD THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT?

I have five years of board experience, including one as president. I know how to drive the board to lead the district to achieve.

My career brings executive experience creating long-term strategies, managing $200 million budgets and implementing complex changes. Experience on school boards and as education lobbyist.

Ten years of management experience with a focus on critical/independent thinking, financial work with private schools and serving as a nonprofit board president.

Five years’ experience as an incumbent school board member, plus an MBA in finance and extensive board and treasurer experience in district PTSA and VIS.

SETTING ASIDE FUNDING ISSUES, WHAT SHOULD DISTRICT OFFICIALS BE ASKING OF STATE LEGISLATORS?

I cannot set aside funding when our state constitution says that “ample provision” for the education of children is the “paramount duty” of state government.

Continued support for changing teacher and principal pay scales and evaluations to include parent and student feedback. Ensure Quality Education Council continues to be supported.

Finding the right federal/state/local balance on accountability measures to maximize student achievement given the socio-economic realities of different district locations.

Many important education issues ultimately involve funding, but we should ask them not to lose sight of the education reform goals they set in ESHB2261.

WHAT CHANGE TO VOCATIONAL TRAINING SHOULD THE DISTRICT CONSIDER?

We should consider expanding programs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with a focus on practical applications; for example, healthcare, given new local hospitals.

We have huge potential in our community. More companies, individuals and groups can be counted on to work with students and improve vocational programs.

While the ISD (appropriately) encourages a college prep-based approach, I believe a more defined vocational (and arts) path should also be considered.

Coursework should involve more “hands-on” opportunities for students and more exposure to career paths via internships or professionals who volunteer their time.

HOW IMPORTANT IS ALL-DAY KINDERGARTEN FOR FUTURE EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS?

More important is kids showing up at kindergarten ready to learn.

Fortunately, the vast majority of our kids are ready; we focus on the rest.

Important to be available, but parents should decide what is right for their child. For most, but not all, it is important for future success.

All-day kindergarten is preferable, but not critical (based on my current experience and research) to long-term educational success.

Kindergarten is the foundation for future learning and is critically important for kids without preschool experience or whose families can’t read to them at home.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL BOARD IN THE DISTRICT’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TEACHERS’ UNION?

The board supports the relationship through policy, including contract negotiations.

The board listens to the union each meeting, and we jointly participate in community groups.

Fix the unnecessarily tense relationship now before it’s too late. Board should be seeking regular involvement, feedback and buy-in with IEA. Focus on common goals.

The school board should have regular and open communication with teacher union representatives and try to focus on coming to consensus around contentious areas.

The school board provides the financial parameters and community values to the district for contract bargaining, to ensure both a balanced budget and high-caliber teachers.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO LOWER THE DISTRICT’S DROPOUT RATE, OR IS IT LOW ENOUGH?

I am not satisfied with leaving any of our kids behind. At this point, the solutions are detailed and unique to the individual situation.

Achieve smaller class sizes in earlier grades for future success.

Our low dropout rate is due to families and demographics: not current school board actions.

Eliminating dropouts altogether should always be the goal, and this aspiration can be pursued by providing effective approaches to different learning styles.

We need to understand why students are leaving our system, both students who drop out and students who leave for private schools or Running Start.

Issaquah restaurant now caters Coho Café Catering is now available in Issaquah.

The Coho Café team will be catering events, including weddings, family reunions and business meetings. Coho Café Catering will also offer platters for pickup and boxed lunches for corporate events.

The catering menu is inspired by the bounty of the Pacific Northwest.

It includes simple, elegant and stylish fusion innovations.

Coho Café Catering can also help coordinate many details to create a event special. Its network includes local florists, photographers, bakeries, musicians, rental services and full-service event planners.

Go to www.cohocafe.com, www.facebook.com/cohocafe, www.twitter.com/TheCohoCafe or http://cohocafecatering.shutterfly.com.

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echoed from inside the unit.

Some features on the hightech system resembled the videogame consoles in students’ homes.

“These kids are so into a joystick,” Maywood Middle School science teacher Marla Crouch said. “The controls were two fingers and a thumb — like you put into a bowling ball — on each of the hands, plus the foot pedals. The kids that are used to any of the videogaming get this piece very quickly.”

The team from Maywood Middle School used the robot to place small rubber bands on multicolored nodules. The task required some dexterous maneuvers to complete.

“When you were looking through the monitor, you could see the different heights of these different pieces,” Crouch said. “That was just really cool for the kids.”

Michael Petkov, Swedish/ Issaquah robotics charge nurse, used cues from colorcoded lights on the arms to add and attach the proper instruments. The da Vinci is programmed to retain surgeons’ personal settings, too.

Issaquah Middle School science teacher Michaela Donahoe led students through a grapepeeling exercise.

Teams consider the task as practice for robots in FIRST Lego League competitions.

Teams use the multicolored bricks to create problem-solving robots.

“The creative thinking that goes into this is phenomenal, because they’re building something on the fly,” Crouch said. “At this age, they’re not inhibited by what they know can’t work. They are very much willing to try things and think out of the box.”

Issaquah Middle School eighth-grader Corbin Modica, 13, said robotics demand precision, especially as the team constructs and programs a robot.

“If you have one number or one variable wrong, the whole thing doesn’t work,” he said as a line of students inched toward the da Vinci control unit.

Teachers said the surgeon of the future offered some longlasting lessons to next-generation engineers and physicians.

“To give the kids this experience into these technologies does nothing but encourage them to continue in the technical, mechanical field,” Crouch said.

Meet statewide candidates at Eastside Candidate Forum Though the focus in the November election is on local races and statewide initiatives, voters can preview the candidates on the 2012 ballot at the Eastside Candidate Forum.

The forum is 9 a.m. Oct. 22 at The Golf Club at Newcastle, 15500 Six Penny Lane.

The candidates for governor — U.S. Rep Jay Inslee, a Democrat, and state Attorney General Rob McKenna, a Republican — plan to attend.

Citizens can also hear from the candidates vying to replace McKenna as the state’s top law enforcement officer, King County councilmen Reagan Dunn, a Republican, and Bob Ferguson, a Democrat. (Dunn represents Newcastle and rural areas south of Issaquah on the council.)

The event is not a debate.

Under the format, the candidates appear individually and can speak for up to 15 minutes.

The golf club, the Municipal League of King County and the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce partnered to produce the forum.

In the past, the Newcastle forum has hosted county, congressional and state candidates.

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Board member Brian Deagle sees ‘more work to do’ ahead

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter “I still think we have more work to do,” said Issaquah School Board member Brian Deagle regarding why he decided to seek re-election to the board seat he has held since late 2006.

On the November ballot, Deagle faces a challenge for his District 3 board seat from fellow Sammamish resident Patrick Sansing.

District 3 covers the north end of the school district including parts of Klahanie and parts of the portion of Sammamish included in the Issaquah School District.

Although candidates run for a specific geographic seat, voters district wide cast ballots for all Issaquah school board members. Members are elected to fouryear terms.

Deagle said his main goal is to give Issaquah school graduates assurances that they are prepared to enter the world, ready for whatever comes after high school.

“We have fallen short of that in a number of ways because of we are limited by our resources,” Deagle said.

He added finances dictate teacher availability, which in turn dictates and limits what classes the schools can offer.

In order to offer additional educational opportunities, Deagle proposed such measures as online learning which can “put more hours into the day” and isn’t as teacher intensive.

In addition to dealing with academic shortfalls caused by a tough financial climate, Deagle said the district could do a better job helping students reach their individual potential. In evaluating students, he thinks the schools might depend too much on standardized tests that he believes do not necessarily measure individual per-

formance or potential.

Deagle said that on paper, Issaquah school students seem to do pretty well academically. But he wondered out loud whether the district is lucky enough to have exceptional students, well-prepared for schools by their families, or whether the district is that good at educating.

“I think that’s a question we can do a better job of answering,” he said.

Deagle said he believes district money problems all go back to the failure of the state legislature to live up to its responsibilities. He said the state has never made education its priority as the state constitution requires.

Better state funding of education would put strains elsewhere in Washington’s budget, Deagle said, but added legislators have a duty to uphold the constitution. He also added that the Issaquah board is under pressure to keep the schools in good shape, that the public has high expectations of local schools.

As board President Jan Colbrese has decided not to run for re-election, Deagle said he would be the longest tenured board member remaining if he were reelected.

“When I came on the board, I was surprised by how much I didn’t know,” Deagle said. “I worked hard to fill in the blanks.”

Although he didn’t say so, if Deagle and board member Suzanne Weaver both earn reelection, Deagle would be the senior member of the board by a matter of months. Deagle was appointed to the board in October 2006, while Weaver was appointed in January 2007.

Visit Deagle’s election webpage at www.votedeagle.org.

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WHAT TO KNOW Brian Deagle Family: Married, two children Education: Law degree, University of Washington Current Job: Attorney, Microsoft Experience: Appointed to board Oct. 2006; elected Nov. 2007 Residence: Sammamish

Patrick Sansing Family: Married, two children Education: California State University, business administration Experience: PTSA, including executive committee, bond and levy committees Current Job: Technology manager, T-Mobile Residence: Sammamish

Tom Corrigan: 392-6434, ext. 241, or tcorrigan@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

Newcomer Patrick Sansing challenges for District 3 seat Opposing Issaquah School Board member Brian Deagle on the November ballot, Sammamish resident Patrick Sansing insists local schools are not in bad shape.

“I think we have good schools,” Sansing said. “But I think they are not good enough.

I really think we can do better.”

District 3 covers the north end of the school district including parts of Klahanie and parts of the portion of Sammamish included in the Issaquah School District.

Although board candidates run for a specific geographic seat, voters from across the district cast ballots for all Issaquah school board members. Members are elected to four-year terms.

Board members may request pay of $50 per meeting, but the current board has chosen not to accept that money, according to Sara Niegowski, district executive director of communications.

In terms of improving the schools, Sansing several times referred to officials needing to identify “the next big thing, the next big idea in education.” In many areas, Sansing believes a lack of ideas has led to a certain stagnation in the district.

For example, on 10th-grade, standardized-writing tests, Sansing said Issaquah district scores have remained high and very steady over the years.

“Our schools are good schools and will continue to be good schools, but let’s find that next thing that makes a difference, that leads to improvement,” he said.

Sansing admits he does not know what that next big thing might be, but said the school board needs to get ahead of the curve and act now.

Sansing also said Issaquah officials need to show more leadership in other areas. He

is highly critical of what he sees as the current board’s lack of long-term financial planning.

“We need to think strategically about the levels of funding and we need to project that out into the future,” he said.

The school board hammered out the final pieces of a capital improvement bond issue at their most recent meeting Sept.

28. Sansing has not come out against passage of the bond, but said officials must put the measure into a larger financial context.

“My view is at the same time a bond is proposed, communicate a long-term financial strategy,” Sansing said on his election Facebook page. “Think about the big picture and communicate when the next bond will be and about how much.”

Sansing further said school officials need to spell out their strategy to deal with likely cuts in state funding.

“We should make our decision with all the facts and future plans, not just on the merits of only this bond,” Sansing said.

Incumbent Deagle emphasized his experience, noting that if he is re-elected, he will be the senior member of the school board.

Deagle contends newcomers to the board have a steep learning curve, just as he did when he first joined. Sansing said he has a pretty good idea of what he might be getting himself into.

As a college student, Sansing served on a state education board in California. He said he was nominated by that state’s governor to continue serving after he graduated, but in the end wasn’t selected.

Visit Sansing’s election webpage at www.patricksansing.com.

Tom Corrigan: 392-6434, ext. 241, or tcorrigan@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

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first of all, to the bus ticket situation, so that while people are in Issaquah they have bus tickets to get to and from their jobs.”

The team responsible for Tent City 4 as the camp for homeless people prepares to relocate to Issaquah continues to line up donations and volunteers as the move approaches.

Tent City 4 is scheduled to relocate to the Squak Mountain church from Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue. Teams usually conduct the move on a Saturday, but organizers cannot relocate from the synagogue on the Sabbath, so the move shifted to a Friday.

Organizers hosted community meetings for Tent City 4 neighbors, although Maupin said many residents consider the encampment as routine.

“Some of the same questions come up at the community meetings,” she added.

The municipal Permit Center is also accustomed to Tent City 4 after the earlier stints in Issaquah.

Staffers prepared a special event permit for the encampment.

“I would say it went faster than the last special event permits because everybody knew what they were doing,” said Sandra Wirth, city permitting and licensing supervisor.

The most common questions from Tent City 4 neighbors address concerns about crime.

EFR to start charging fee for ambulance transport Eastside Fire & Rescue leaders agreed to start charging a $15 per mile fee for transporting patients to a hospital via ambulance.

The fee is in addition to the flat

HOW TO HELP Tent City 4 is due to return to Community Church of Issaquah, 205 Mountain Park Blvd. S.W., Oct. 21.

Organizers need help to relocate and stock the camp. Learn more at the Tent City 4 website, http://tentcity4.info.

Volunteer at Tent City 4 — Organizers need drivers to transport residents from Bellevue to Issaquah during the move starting at 7:30 a.m. and again from noon to late afternoon. Email Jan Bennett at janbennett@juno.com to learn more. The team also needs volunteers to unload trucks starting at about 8 a.m.

Prepare and serve a hot meal for residents — Local groups prepare dinner for up to 100 camp residents every day of the week. Check the meals calendar http://prem.calendars.net/tcmeals and then contact Steve Burk at 260-3824 or email TC4meals@gmail.com.

Donate handy packs for residents — Stock toothbrushes, razors, toiletries and other items (a book, for instance) in gift bags for donations.

Donate lunch supplies for a quick

meal — Most residents do not stay at the camp during the day, so leaving supplies, such as bread, fruit, meats or salads, is welcome for a to-go meal.

Donate other food supplies for the camp pantry — Deliver butter, coffee, cream, canned and packaged proteins, canned fruits and vegetables, seasonings and sugar to the camp at any time.

Donate tarps and camping supplies — Deliver batteries, blankets, flashlights, poles, ropes, sleeping bags and tents to the camp at any time.

Donate toiletries for residents — Tent City 4 dwellers always need toiletries, including hand sanitizer and feminine hygiene products.

Make a monetary donation or raise funds — Organizers spend more than $4,000 per month on bus passes, garbage, portable toilets and other camp necessities. Make checks out to “Community Church of Issaquah” and put “Tent City 4” on the memo line. Mail checks to the church. Contact Doug Hart at 3924125 or hart.douglas@comcast.net to learn more about funding needs.

The campsite features 24-hour security. Organizers conduct warrant and convicted sex offender checks on potential Tent City 4 residents. The camp bans offenders from the premises. Other rules prohibit alcohol, drugs and guns inside the encampment.

“Now, there are so many people who are familiar with Tent City 4 that it’s harder to get the public’s interest in doing educational events,” Maupin said. “It’s not like it isn’t needed, because there are new people in our community and things have changed.”

$650 fee for ambulance rides that EFR instituted in October 2010.

EFR officials estimate the fee should generate about $100,000 per year. Officials said the fee is comparable to other ambulance providers in the area.

For people with health insur-

ance, the insurer will typically cover the fee. EFR plans to ask for payment from people without insurance, but the agency typically does not pursue payments from people unable to pay, nor will it deny transportation to people unable to pay the fee.

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Interior designer Cindy Dornon (left) and Eve Ribary show off the interior of Urbanity, an Issaquah home décor store. Joining them center stage is Nike.

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By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter

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Mark and Leslie Gilbert, with son Trey, 4, now enjoy more family time in their ‘great room,’ created by opening up their kitchen space into the little-used living room.

South Cove couple make tired kitchen a keeper

By David Hayes Issaquah Press reporter With a growing family, Mark and Leslie Gilbert had a tough decision facing them and their two boys (ages 7 and 4) — abandon the home they love for a larger one or upgrade their current house?

“For me, it came down to the question, ‘Do we upgrade within the neighborhood to something with more square feet?” Mark said. “Or do we upgrade our home and reuse the square feet in a different way?”

Leslie looked at the problem from a different angle — what could they do if they stayed?

“We had a lot of floor space that was unused,” she said, adding she thought they could do something better with the flow through the kitchen to the unused formal dining and living room.

After weighing all of their options, they chose to stay in their home and upgrade the kitchen.

The renovation entailed knocking out an L-shaped wall and creating a “great room.” It would feature a central island in the opened-up kitchen that would face a more defined living and dining space, rather than separate rooms.

As a human resources manager, Leslie said she was used to preplanning, so she jumped right in on the project.

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At Issaquah’s Lowe’s, Assistant Store Manager Daniel Pena said essentially the same.

“The quickest thing to do in the area of home improvement is to paint,” Pena said.

Both also talked about not having to do an entire room, but instead applying some color to one wall or entranceway, creating an accent wall.

According to Pena, the current color trend is toward grays.

“But you can never go wrong with bright colors,” he added.

For example, red is perfect for sharpening up a room and it’s a color lots of people think of when they picture an accent wall.

By the way, if you’re not in the mood to paint, Pena said new curtains are a great way to add color to a room. He also talked a bit about wallpaper, which he said has undergone some changes over the years.

Most newer wallpaper is meant, he said, to add texture or a fabric feel to your walls. The instructions for hanging it have changed as well. There is no need to wet the pieces before they go up on your wall; just glue them in place. Pena did add one note of caution. Because of uneven surfaces, newer wallpaper isn’t always readily washable. If you have small children or otherwise have a wall that

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Another quick, easy way to change your surroundings is to rearrange those surroundings, Dornon said. In other words, move your accessories or your furniture.

“Lots of people have the tendency to puts things in one place and leave it there for years,” she added.

Lamps and lighting obviously are functional as well as decorative. Dornon said because of the lack of sunlight through much of the year in the Northwest, having the proper lighting in a room can be very important.

If you really feel as if you are in a rut, Dornon said bringing a professional decorator in for at least a consultation is money well spent.

She added that going with someone local, rather than hunting for a big name in Seattle, obviously will save you money.

For her design projects, Dornon said she is not attached to any one particular style. Instead, she likes to look at a room and see how it is used, coming up with individualized plans. Among other positives, Dornon believes such a plan can cut down on impulse purchases of things for the home, items that either don’t fit or are not needed.

Because of the sluggish economy, Dornon believes more people are redecorating or remodeling their homes instead of buying new homes. She urged at least one note of caution when it comes to large-scale remodels or additions, saying people sometimes don’t take fully into account how the space is going to be lived in, how it’s going to be used.

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Don’t get me wrong; I’m not moping around, crazy mad about the weather. Every little ray of sunshine and every little tinge of warmth have been appreciated to the max by me.

But still, I’m unable to come to grips with the big picture.

The issue of global climate change is huge, impacting much more than just gardening, making it hard to comprehend.

When pondering different subject matters for this column I looked at many fall activities, such as planting bulbs, appreciating dahlias or storing fruit. All paled by comparison to the nagging, overwhelming subject of global warming.

The receding glaciers, the issue of water supply, unbelievable tornadoes, debilitating droughts, and massive flooding all fit into the picture painted for us by scientists just a few years ago. It appears to be coming true and quickly.

In the past, what did people do when faced with uncertain change? Some of you remember the victory gardens of World War II. It seems to me that a good thing to do now is to be resourceful and self-reliant. This might be one of those times to put our concerns closest to home by planting an edible garden.

You will need good drainage and at least four hours of strong sunshine. Share what you grow with your neighbors. Someone with a big, sunny plot might grow corn. Another person with less exposure could grow potatoes and squash. Maybe someone has an ideal spot for tomatoes. Many different people could grow greens, carrots and radishes.

Know all of your neighbors, even the old ones, and the ones with the screaming kids and barking dogs. Every one of them will have something to share, whether it be baked goods, extra fruit from their

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corner Master gardening clinics are over for the year. You can still reach master gardeners through the Center for Urban Horticulture 206-685-5104 and online at www.kingcountymg.org.

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Plant that fall garden, and then do me a favor. Go out and get yourself some bulbs to plant this fall. Common ones are daffodils, iris, crocus, tulips and hyacinths. Plant them in welldrained soil and sunshine where you can see them from your window. Protect the tulip’s bulbs from squirrels with chicken wire baskets you can make up yourself.

If you do that now, come next spring you will be unsinkable.

Not even rain, snow, sleet or Jeff Renner will keep you down.

You will be up and focused on the thrill and hope you see in those early spring flowers. Just do it.

Jane Garrison is a local landscape architect and master gardener who gardens in glacial till on the plateau.

About 50,000 pounds of pumpkins dot the landscape as far as the eye can see.

There are oblong gourds with ample, flat surface areas for carving.

Others are rotund, boasting a sturdy stem and a thick, perfect shell.

Glenn Dutro, who has offered families a chance to pick their own pumpkins for the past three years at the u-pick pumpkin patch at the Trinity Tree Farm in Issaquah, wants something else out of his Halloween pumpkin entirely.

“The perfect pumpkin is all just a matter of personal preference,” he said. “Most people want a big, bright, beautiful thing. I want one with scars on it. I want it messed up and nasty.”

Ken Allison, a produce manager for PCC Natural Markets, said the perfect pumpkin is all in the eye of the beholder.

“It’s all in a person’s aesthetic judgment,” he said. “Typically, what I look for to carve or to sell is the stem to be attached still. That way you know it’s not knocked or kicked around. You want the pumpkin to feel firm so it won’t rot and collapse right away.”

Customers typically like their perfect pumpkin to be bright orange for dark fall days, Allison said.

Children usually go for a pumpkin as big as they can carry, while parents tend to be a little more conservative while picking out their perfect pumpkin, Dutro said.

Pumpkins at the u-pick patch range from hand-held mini pumpkins to whoppers weighing in at 45 pounds.

There’s only one determining factor to how long it takes to find a pumpkin, Dutro said.

“It all depends on the weather,” he said. “If it’s raining, they go to the first patch they see and they can be there five minutes. If the sun’s out, they’ll be here for hours.”

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Above, Glenn Dutro hoists a pumpkin on his shoulder in the u-pick pumpkin patch at the Trinity Tree Farm in Issaquah. At right, Tom Espersen weighs a pumpkin in at 17 pounds, which when priced at 55 cents a pound costs the customer $9.35 for the gourd.

Dutro and Allison agreed that if a customer is looking for the perfect baking pumpkin for holiday treats, a large jack-o’lantern type pumpkin is not the way to go.

“The first mistake people make is they pick too big of a pumpkin, which ends up making it a huge project when it doesn’t need to be,” Allison said. “What they need is a sugar pie pumpkin, which is about the size of a 16-inch softball. Do get a pumpkin for what you need.”

Sugar pie pumpkins are good alternatives for pies, soups, muffins and breads. They’re dense with fewer seeds and strings inside the gourd, he said.

The u-pick patch will host about 25 classes for school tours and also takes reservations for birthday parties.

Customers can go on a hayride or sit around a bonfire located on site. Concessions and a gift shop are available.

The patch is open from 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each week until Oct. 30.

“We really believe picking out a pumpkin can be a day-long event,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be

something you just throw in your shopping cart and call it good.”

Christina Lords: 392-6434, ext. 239, or newcastle@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

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Fall chemistry turns leaves from green to gold

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter The mercury dips, rain starts to fall more often and leaves metamorphose from a demure green to riotous colors.

Why? The change of color each autumn involves a complex chemical process as trees prepare for the coming winter.

Throughout the growing season, chlorophyll is produced constantly. Then, as autumn starts and nights turn longer, chlorophyll production slows and then stops. The process allows the other colors in a leaf’s palette — brilliant golds, oranges and reds — to appear.

“The other colors that you see when the green pigment goes away — because the chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll sort of die off as things get cold and things are going to go dormant for the year — those other colors are always there, they’re just masked by the green chlorophyll,” city Arborist Alan Haywood said.

The autumn weather conditions influence leaves’ color and intensity, too. The formula for vibrant fall displays: sun-splashed, warm days and cool, crisp nights in succession. The amount of moisture in soil also influences leaf colors.

“When we get sunny days and cold nights — sometimes even frost — that really triggers lots of good color,” Haywood said. “Often, we get our best color when we have that great September weather, that kind of Indian summer-type weather, where you get the warm days and you get the cold, clear nights.”

In the daytime, if the weather is sunny, leaves produce abundant sugars. The combination of sunlight and sugar production causes the leaf to produce anthocyanins — pigments responsible for reddish hues.

The amount of anthocyanins produced influences the color from year to year. The amount of carotenoids — pigments responsible for flame-tinted hues — is more consistent from year to year.

CHEMISTRY LESSON The color palette responsible for fiery leaf colors each fall results from a series of pigments contained in the leaf. The chemistry behind the autumn changeover is complex, but understanding some basics about photosynthesis and pigments is important.

Chlorophyll — Chlorophyll, as many folks remember from elementary school science, gives leaves a green hue and absorbs sunlight. The substance is necessary for photosynthesis — the process plants use to turn energy from the sun into food. In the spring and summer, chlorophyll masks the other pigments in a leaf.

Carotenoids — The same chemicals responsible for the distinctive oranges and yellows in bananas and carrots exist inside leaves. Chlorophyll, after cues from day length and temperature, starts to break down in the fall, revealing the carotenoids underneath.

Anthocyanins — The water-soluble substance responsible for the brilliant reds and purples in autumn leaves is produced in sugars in the leaf throughout the fall. Anthocyanins also lend a bright burst to apples and cranberries.

Sources: Issaquah City Arborist Alan Haywood, U.S. Forest Service

Magazine ranks bad ideas

WHY DO LEAVES FALL FROM TREES?

Every year Remodeling magazine gives its list of the worst ideas for remaking your home especially in light of resale value. Many people think large-scale remodels or additions will increase their property’s value. The magazine says that’s not always the case.

Here is the latest list of bad ideas.

A home office. Essentially, the magazine says that thanks to computers, home offices can be just about anywhere, including your neighborhood Starbucks.

Backup power generators. Just too much investment and too little return.

Sunrooms. Again, too much money and too little return.

Upscale master suite addition.

With costs topping out at $250,000 or so for top-of-the-line materials, sellers can expect to recover about half their rebuilding cost when selling their home.

5) Bathroom addition. The magazine says everyone wants another bathroom on occasion. But they also note the price for such is stiff: about $21,000 for lower end

In early autumn, in response to the shorter days and less intense sunlight, leaves start a shutdown process. In a gradual process, the veins carrying fluids into and out of the leaf start to close off as a cell layer forms at the base of the leaf. The clogged veins trap sugars in the leaf and promote anthocyanin production. The leaf is ready to fall from the tree after the seal is complete and the connecting tissue is severed.

Source: U.S. Forest Service

“The pigments — they’re a combination of, they’re already there and then there’s some formation that takes place in relation to the changes that are going on in the plant,” Haywood said.

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State updating weed permits The Washington Department of Ecology is in the process of updating a permit needed for the use of herbicides used to control weeds around or near water.

The permit requires that specific actions be taken to protect lakes, rivers, wetlands and marine waters when herbicides are used near those waterways. The permits help state and local governments manage noxious plants, such as spartina and loosestrife.

A different permit, the Aquatic Plant Algae Management Permit, covers the treatment of weeds actually within water.

Comments will be accepted until 5 p.m. Nov. 18.

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Smith helped map out a timetable for each phase of work, constantly updating the Gilberts regarding what came next.

Leslie said many of their decisions were based upon staying in the home, and choosing upgrades that are more personalized, rather than selecting changes that are just good enough to make the home attractive for resale.

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Leslie said they thought it would be done for them in time to start the renovation by January this year.

“But the permits weren’t done,” she said. “So we had to apply for expedited permits. We were then able to start on time, but we had to pay extra to do it.”

She advises others to start the permitting process sooner than they did, essentially as soon as you know you’re doing the project.

“A good rule of thumb,” Mark added, “is take the time you think you’ll need and multiply it by two.”

Mark, a director at Microsoft, points to the kitchen island as the room’s new hub of activity, from cooking prep he and his wife both love to a spot for the kids to do homework. He gives all of the credit of its success to his wife’s prior planning.

“Leslie channeled it in. She thought through where everything should be when you’re in the act of cooking or changing up where things should be when stored,” he said.

The new design closed off a space next to the kitchen — the former dining room — that now is used as an office space, handy since Leslie works from home about 20 to 30 hours a week.

Mark said with this phase of the renovation done, which came in under budget and quicker than planned, their next big project is

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ing about renewing specific rooms. For bathrooms, he suggested rather than going through a major remodel, try replacing fixtures such as faucets.

“This can save you a lot of money and make the sink and tub look new,” he said.

You might also think about adding a pre-built vanity.

Kitchens are another room people often want to make over with a major remodel. Pena said

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The Gilberts’ new kitchen design now has space for a pantry. to tackle the back yard with its ungainly deck with its empty — and unused — hot tub.

Now that they’re seasoned renovation veterans, Leslie had some simple advice for other homeowners looking to upgrade.

“Don’t be scared off by it,” she said. “When it’s done right, it’s helped make this house feel more like a home than it was before.”

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Pena also talked about painting or putting new covering or doors on your cabinets rather than building new ones. He suggested retiling a countertop instead of using expensive new marble or granite.

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Area youths are invited to job skills fair

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter

BY CHRISTOPHER HUBER

R. Joseph Scott conducts the Sammamish Symphony Orchestra during rehearsal Oct. 13 at the Eastlake High School band room.

From Russia with love Sammamish Symphony opens 20th season with music from Russia

By Christopher Huber Issaquah Press reporter To some classical music connoisseurs, Rimsky-Korskoff’s “Capriccio Espagnole”

will provide 15 minutes of harmonic bliss when the Sammamish Symphony Orchestra performs it this month.

“It’s 15 minutes of pure joy,” said Joseph Scott, the symphony’s longtime conductor

BY CHRISTOPHER HUBER

Concertmaster Dennis Helppie, of Sammamish, rehearses with the Sammamish Symphony Orchestra Oct. 13 at Eastlake High School.

and music director.

The orchestral piece features constant interplay between Concertmaster Dennis Helppie, of Sammamish, on violin, and the harpist and brass section. But it won’t be the only piece to look forward to at the symphony’s 2011 opening concert in Sammamish.

On Oct. 23, the symphony is rolling out the red carpet to celebrate its 20th year on the plateau. The group, which draws performers from 25 cities in King County, will perform “Russian Fireworks” at 2 p.m. at the Eastlake Performing Arts Center. The program will include a Rachmaninoff piano concerto, “Capriccio Espagnole, Op. 34” and Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture, Op. 49.”

“An organization needs to celebrate milestones,” Scott said. “It’s good to show off the orchestra and what we’re good at. It’s still not as much a household name as we would like it to be.”

As the 85 members warmed up for rehearsal in the Eastlake High School band room Oct. 13, Scott thought about why he chose the pieces he did. The orchestra grows and improves, and explores works that bring out the broadening sound of the strings section. The group has added 10 new strings players this year, he said.

Sammamish Symphony is challenging itself by taking on the Rachmaninoff concerto. Scott said the genius composer wrote the piece on a toneless model piano, imagining the notes in his head. Many consider “Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30”

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Oct. 23 — “Russian Fireworks” Dec. 10 and 11 — “Holiday Pops” Feb. 26 — “Mardi Gras” April 22 — “Verdi Requiem” (at Benaroya Hall, Seattle) June 10 — “American Classics” Learn more about the Sammamish Symphony Orchestra or buy tickets to the opening concert at www.sammamishsymphony.org.

to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

“It’s a tour de force,” Scott said.

As for the famous “1812 Overture,” Scott seemed excited about it rounding out an all-around challenging but grand opening concert. The overture’s cannon (percussion) booms, trumpet calls and smoothstringed scale will finish the performance dynamically.

“You can’t do anything any grander for a celebration concert,” Scott said.

The opening concert is one of five in the lineup for the 2011-2012 season and includes the “Verdi Requiem” concert April 22 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle.

Christopher Huber: 392-6434, ext. 242, or chuber@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

Using a $15,000 grant from the state Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Issaquah Community Network is planning its first Youth Job Skills Fair on Nov. 12.

The event is aimed mostly at first-time job seekers ages 16 to 24, said network Executive Director Barbara de Michele. Participants do not need to be enrolled in Issaquah public schools.

Several break-out sessions are planned, with topics ranging from how to conduct a job search to how to write a worthy résumé and how to keep your job once you’ve landed it.

Additionally, de Michele said, participants will be asked to make some choices from a list of career possibilities. They will then have the chance to meet with professionals working in IF YOU GO fields that Youth Job Skills interest them.

Fair The 10 a.m. to keynote 2 p.m. Nov. 12 speaker for Eastridge the day is Church, 24205 Houston S.E. Issaquah-Fall Kraft, a 22year-old City Road Northwest The event is free native who and open to the founded an organization public, but registration is required known as and already is RAKE (Random Acts of under way. Space Kindness, is limited to 200 Etc.) Accord- persons. Learn ing to the Issaquah Net- more or register at www.isfdn.org/yjsf. work website, Kraft worked with 10,000 students last year in schools across the country.

In terms of making the event happen, there was a bit of a scramble on the part of the network, said de Michele, who added the group didn’t have final confirmation of the grant award until June.

“There has been a really strong effort to get this up and running,” she said.

She further noted the grant money had to be used by the end of 2011, so local organizers had to work quickly.

“We think the day will be packed with information,” she said.

Normally, the state Division of Vocational Rehabilitation works with persons with special needs.

The Issaquah event is not aimed at special-needs persons, de Michele said, but they certainly are welcome.

The Issaquah Network has been around for about 20 years, according to de Michele, who also said its primary charge is to promote healthy youth and strong See JOBS, Page C3

Friend grows ’Stache for Cash for childhood buddy

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter Extreme highs and extreme lows.

Issaquah native Dan Stromberg has been through both. So, no doubt, has his wife of two years, Natalie Stromberg. And, quite probably, his best friend, David French.

For the couple especially, one big high arrived in February of this year when Natalie gave birth to the couple’s first child, Evangeline.

“She’s been a comfort to the both of us,” Natalie said.

Sadly, the Strombergs’ low point arrived about a month after Evangeline. At 29, Dan was diagnosed with late stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

“He’s my best friend, we’re basically like brothers,” said French, who added he felt he had to do something to help his buddy.

The answer came when he was surfing the Internet and noticed November is, depending on which website you visit, Mustache Month or Don’t Shave Your Mustache Month.

In any case, French got the idea to grow a mustache — his first — throughout this month and next and use it as a fundraising gimmick. ’Stache for Cash was born.

Through a website he set up, visitors can monitor French’s progress with his mustache, Dan’s progress with cancer and make monetary donations of any size to help Dan and his family.

“Having a baby and cancer at the same time isn’t cheap,” French said.

According to French, his growing his first mustache to help Dan is a bit ironic. Both said Dan used to have a pretty thick, handlebar mustache of his own. French also noted he is now engaged and was

scheduled to have some engagement photos done next month.

That photo session has been put on hold.

Living in Provo, Utah, the Strombergs were recently in Issaquah for Salmon Days and to visit with friends and family. For an interview, French, the couple and their daughter sat on a couch in Dan’s parents’ Issaquah home, the home in which he grew up.

French pointed across the street to where he grew up.

French and Dan figure they have known each other since they were about 10. They went to school together locally, and then headed off to Brigham Young University where they were college roommates. After college, French moved back to Issaquah.

Natalie said that at one point Dan had literally hundreds of tumors spread throughout his body.

He has been through one three-

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month round of chemotherapy and faces another when he returns home. Dan said that first round of chemo seemed to be effective and his doctors are optimistic at this point. He still must wear a mask outdoors and also has at least two large tumors remaining.

“I still have a potato next to my heart,” Dan said, laughing, not for the first or last time, as he talked about his illness.

For her part, Natalie noted that the mask is to prevent infection,

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David French (left) sits next to best friend Dan Stromberg, who was diagnosed with late stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma shortly after the birth of his daughter, Evangeline, who is sitting in the lap of mom, Natalie.

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Bach‘s famous “Toccata in D Minor.” The entire community is invited to this free event.

Fundraisers Life Enrichment Options presents “Harvesting Hope”, a fundraising luncheon hosted by John Curley, former host of Evening Magazine, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 20 at Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W. Learn more by calling 274-4003 or going to www.lifeenrichmentoptions.org.

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Zombies needed Join a horde of zombies as they dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at 2 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Shops at Issaquah Highlands, 3011 N.E. High St. Then at 6 p.m., the horde will participate in a worldwide effort to break the Guinness Book of World Records for largest simultaneous dance. The call for zombies is for ages 10 and older with rehearsals Saturdays at 10 a.m. at Blakely Hall, 2550 N.E. Park Drive. Email christy.g@ihcouncil.org or zumbawithcindy@gmail.com.

Events The Issaquah Business Builders hosts a visitors’ day from 7:30-9 a.m. Oct. 20 at the International House of Pancakes, 1433 N.W. Sammamish Road. IBB is an exclusive (only one member per profession) networking/referral group that meets the first and third Thursday at IHOP at 7:30 a.m. Visitors’ day is open to all professions not currently represented by members on their website at www.issaquahnetworking.com. Visitors can make reservations via the website or call 785-0984.

The eighth annual Nightmare at Beaver Lake, presented by Scare Productions and the Rotary Club of Sammamish, is Oct. 20-31. Family Scare times are from 7-7:45 p.m. and are $8 every night. Full Scare times are from 8-10 p.m. weeknights and are $12, and from 8-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and are $15.

The scares are closed Oct. 24-25.

Tickets are $1 off with a food donation. Proceeds benefit the Rotary Club of Sammamish. Free parking is at the park’s ballfield on 244th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 24th Street.

Meet the regional candidates for governor and attorney general at the Eastside Candidate Forum from 9-11:30 a.m.

Oct. 22 in the St. Andrew’s Ballroom at The Golf Club at Newcastle, 15500 Six Penny Lane. Rob McKenna and Jay Inslee, candidates for governor, along with Reagan Dunn and Bob Ferguson, candidates for attorney general, will speak at the free forum. The public is encouraged to RSVP to RSVP@NewcastleCC.com.

The Issaquah branch of the American Association of University Women welcomes to its general membership meeting guest speaker Mary Lou Sanelli, who will read and talk about her book “Mothers & Daughters: Breathe In, Breathe Out,” at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Eagle Room, 130 E. Sunset Way. The club will also collect new or gently used coats and shoes for the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank. Learn more by emailing issaquah@aauw-wa.org.

The Sammamish Kiwanis Ski & Sport Swap is Oct. 28 and 29 at Pine Lake Covenant Church, 1715 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish. Bring equipment to sell from 5:30-8 p.m. Oct. 28 and from 8-9 a.m. Oct. 29. Buy equipment from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 29.

The Green Halloween Festival is from noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 29

at the Shops at Issaquah Highlands. It features a haunted house, 4D mobile theater, carnival rides and games, pony rides, inflatables, food and music, and a lot of giveaways. Tickets are $1 each or $20 for four hours of unlimited festivities (food not included). Wear a costume and win a prize. Go to www.ihwebsite.com.

Trick or Treat safely from 4-6 p.m. Oct. 31 at Gilman Village, 317 N.W. Gilman Blvd.

The stores and restaurants will be decorated for the season and a “friendly” Frankenstein will be roaming throughout the village, with merchants giving out candy.

Call 392-6802 or go to www.gilmanvillage.com.

“Route 66: The Big Band Sound of the Swing Era,” presented by the Issaquah Women’s Foundation, is from 7-9 p.m.

Nov. 3 at the Vasa Park Ballroom, 3560 W. Lake Sammamish Parkway S.E. Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. Learn more or purchase tickets by calling Judy at 641-9442 or Mary at 868-5098, emailing IWFtickets@hotmail.com or going to www.issaquahwomensclub.org.

The Block Party Quilters Quilt Show, featuring the theme “Color Expressions,” is Nov. 11-13 at the Issaquah Community Center, 301 Rainier Blvd.

S. Award-winning quilter Colleen Wise, of Puyallup, will be the featured artist. There will also be 200 member-made quilts on display, a merchant mall, Kids Korner, a boutique, demonstrations and more. Suggested donations are $5 per person. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Learn more at www.bpquilters.org.

Religion Issaquah Christian Church welcomes the community to its grand opening service at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 23 at its new 6,500square-foot Worship Center at 10328 Issaquah-Hobart Road S.E. Child care is provided for all ages. Call 392-5848.

A live audio chat, “Do You Know Where You Are Going?” is at 11 a.m. Oct. 25 at the Christian Science Reading Room, 415 Rainier Blvd. N. Call 392-8140.

St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church presents its All Hallows’ Celebration at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 30, at 325 S.E. Darst St. Hear Sunday school children sing “November 1st is All Saints’ Day” and listen to J. S.

The Green Halloween Festival needs volunteers, ages 14 and older, from noon to 4 p.m.

Oct. 29 at the Shops at Issaquah Highlands, 3011 N.E. High St. Bring your own not-too-scary costume. Contact Christy at christy.g@ihcouncil.org or 5071107, ext. 1107.

The city of Sammamish needs volunteers for invasive plant removal on Illahee Trail from 9 a.m. to noon, Oct. 22, at Northeast Eighth Avenue and Southeast 35th Place. Volunteers 13 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Sign up by contacting the volunteer coordinator at 295-0556 or dsanders@ci.sammamish.wa.us.

Classes Evergreen Community Church sponsors the free Natural Yard Care by Design workshop “Designing an Edible Garden” from 7-9 p.m.

Oct. 25 at 20112 S.E. 152nd St., Renton. Register by calling 9882142 or emailing register@naturalyardcare.com.

ArtEAST offers the following workshops at 95 Front St. N. Go to www.arteast.org.

“Figure Drawing Open Studio” 10 a.m. to noon, Mondays, $65 “Relief Block Printing” 5:309:30 p.m. Oct. 19 and 26, $125 “Exploring Your Sketchbook” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 22-23, $175

M ILITARY

Issaquah grad completes Plebe Summer at academy Navy Midshipman Joseph Tom, son of Susan and Russell Tom, of Issaquah, joined more than 900 other freshmen who recently completed Plebe Summer while attending the United States Naval Academy.

Plebe Summer is the summer training program that is required of all freshmen coming into the U.S. Naval Academy. The six-week training developed Tom morally, mentally and physically. He was also instilled with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty.

Tom, is a 2011 graduate of Issaquah High School.

W HO ’ S N EWS Carson & Noel add Todd Wyatt as partner Carson & Noel recently announced that Todd Wyatt has joined the law firm as a partner.

Wyatt will continue to represent entities and indiTodd Wyatt viduals in banking, employment, and other business and commercial disputes.

C OLLEGE NEWS Local student graduates from Hebrew University Mandy Goldberg, of Issaquah, recently graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, in Jerusalem, Israel.

She received a master’s degree in public health.

Goldberg is a 2005 graduate of Issaquah High School and received a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Southern California in 2009.

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Students graduate from WSU

The following events take place at the Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way. Call 392-5430.

“Play & Learn Chinese,” for ages newborn to 5, 10:30 a.m.

Fridays “Computer Class: One-onone Assistance,” for teens and older, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Oct. 29 Teen Book Group, 3 p.m.

Oct. 20 “Digitize Me Photo Booth,” for teens, 2 p.m. Oct. 22 Book discussion: “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” and choose a classic, for adults, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26 SAT Practice Test, for teens, 1 p.m. Oct. 30, registration required “Talk Time: An English Conversation Class,” for adults, 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays

The following Washington State University Students have earned undergraduate degrees following the summer 2011 semester.

Issaquah: Lynnda Kilpatrick, Bachelor of Arts, anthropology; Richard Kilpatrick, Bachelor of Arts, communication; John McIlvaine, Bachelor of Arts, communication; and Michelle Pernack, Bachelor of Arts, communication Renton: Charlene Emory, Bachelor of Arts, communication; Rachelle Flynn, Bachelor of Arts, communication; Dillon Ford, Bachelor of Science, chemical engineering; Erin Fosler, Bachelor of Science, animal sciences; Michael Johnson, Bachelor of Arts, business administration; Mindy Johnson, Bachelor of Arts, social sciences; Jason Page, Bachelor of Arts, humanities; Cantlon Ryan, Bachelor of Arts, business administration; Paige Ryerson, Bachelor of Arts, social sciences; Michael Smith, Bachelor of Science, materials science and engineering; Graham Stream, Bachelor of Arts, sport management; Alissa Wakeley, Bachelor of Science, animal sciences; and Brianna Werre, Bachelor of Arts, communication Sammamish: Natalie Bohner, Bachelor of Arts, education; Erin Castro, Bachelor of Arts, criminal justice; Austin Clausius, Bachelor of Arts, communication; Evan Crow, Bachelor of Arts, social sciences; Kristi Goetz, Bachelor of Arts, human development, Cum Laude; Chris Ogden, Bachelor of Arts, history; Andrew Peterson, Bachelor of Arts, social sciences; and David Williams, Bachelor of Arts, English

Seniors Issaquah Valley Senior Center is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday to Friday at 75 N.E. Creek Way. The following activities are open to people 55 and older. Call 392-2381.

Halloween Dance, 5-7 p.m.

Oct. 28, $5 donation at the door, music by Fred Hopkins and the Studebakers The following day trips are offered through October: Tacoma Holiday Food & Gift Festival, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 19, $18/$20 Safeco Field Tour, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 26, $16/$18 Ladies’ lunch, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 31, $5/$7

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Cascade Republican Women’s Club: 11:30 a.m. third Wednesday, September through June, Sammamish Plateau Club, 25625 E. Plateau Drive, 861-7910 Eastside Chapter of Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG): 7-9 p.m. third Thursday, First United Methodist Church, 1934 108th Ave. N.E., Bellevue, 206-3257724, www.bellevue-pflag.org Eastside Camera Club: 7 p.m. third Thursday, St. Madeleine Sophie Catholic Church, 4400 130th Place S.E., Bellevue, www.eastsidecameraclub.com Issaquah Business Builders: 7:30 a.m. third Thursday, IHOP Restaurant, 1433 N.W. Sammamish Road, 206-852-8240 Issaquah Ham Radio Support Group: 7 p.m. fourth Monday at the Issaquah Police Station, 130 E. Sunset Way, talk-in at 146.56 MHz at 7 p.m., meeting at 7:30 p.m., www.qsl.net/w7bi Issaquah Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary: 7:30 p.m. fourth Wednesday, 175 Front St. N., 392-6751 Issaquah Emblem Club: 7 p.m. third Wednesday, Elks Lodge, 765 Rainier Blvd. N., 392-1400 Issaquah Guild of Children’s Hospital: 11 a.m. third Thursday, Elk’s Lodge, 765 Rainier Blvd. N., 427-0913 Issaquah Valley Grange: 7:30 p.m. fourth Monday, Issaquah Myrtle Mason Lodge Hall, 57 W. Sunset Way, 392-3013 Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS): 9:30-11:30 a.m. third Thursdays, Mary, Queen of Peace, 121 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, 391-3453.

Myrtle Masonic Lodge No. 108: 7:30 p.m. third Thursday, Lodge Hall, 57 W. Sunset Way, Secretary@MyrtleLodge108.org

Weekly A Toast to the Lord — a faith-based Toastmasters club: 7-8:30 p.m. Fridays, Eastside Fire & Rescue Station No. 83, 3425 Issaquah – Pine Lake Road S.E., 427-9682, orator@live.com American Association of University Women: meets once a month at various locations, 2718678, issaquah@aauw-wa.org Greater Issaquah Toastmasters Club No. 5433: 6:45 p.m.

Thursday, Bellewood Retirement Home, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E., issaquahtm@gmail.com Guide Dogs for the Blind: 6 p.m. some Sundays, Issaquah Police Station, Eagle Room, 6447421 Issaquah Alps Trail Club: www.issaquahalps.org Issaquah History Museums: 392-3500 or www.issaquahhis-

tory.org Issaquah Library: 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430 Issaquah Networkers: 7:308:30 a.m. every other Wednesday, IHOP restaurant, 1433 N.W. Sammamish Road, www.IssaquahNetworkers.com Jewish Juniors Club: 3:305:30 p.m. Wednesday, Chabad of Central Cascades, 24121 S.E. Black Nugget Road, 427-1654 Kiwanis Club of Issaquah: noon Wednesday, Gibson Hall, 105 Newport Way S.W., 8917561 MOMS Club of Sammamish Plateau: lindseymwalsh@gmail.com, www.momsclubsammamish.org or 836-5015 Moms In Touch: For more information on groups within the Issaquah School District, call Linda Yee at 985-1931 or lindaryee@comcast.net or go to www.MomsInTouch.org Providence Point Kiwanis: noon Friday, Bake’s Place, 4135 Providence Point Drive S.E., 4279060 or ferrinlauve@msn.com for $5 lunch reservations Rotary Club of Issaquah: 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Tibbetts Creek Manor, 750 Renton-Issaquah Road, www.issaquahrotary.org Rotary Club of Sammamish: 7:15 a.m. Thursday, Bellewood Retirement Home, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E., 444-2663 Rhythm and Reins Women’s Equestrian Drill Team: Sunday, Rock Meadow Equestrian Center, 20722 S.E. 34th St., Sammamish, 222-7100 or email Leemod@pobox.com Sammamish Kiwanis Club: 7 a.m. Thursday, Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church, 22818 S.E. Eighth, 392-8905 Sunset Highway Cruisers: three times during the year, five car shows with proceeds benefiting Life Enrichment Options, 392-1921 Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS): 7:45 a.m. Thursday, Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. S., 392-7866 or www.tops.org The Toastmasters of Sammamish: 7:15-8:45 p.m. Tuesdays, Mary, Queen of Peace Church, 1121 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, 392-0963 or meenakshisb@hotmail.com.

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Ernest Meier Jr.

O BITUARIES

Ernest Meier Jr., of Roslyn, died Sept. 25, 2011, in Seattle. He was 76.

A potluck service will be from noon to 4 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Upper Kittitas County Senior Center, 719 E. Third St., Cle Elum.

Ernie was born Sept. 8, 1935, in Custer, S.D., to Ernest and Elda Meier Sr. He moved to Washington with his family in 1941.

In 1954, Ernie graduated from Issaquah High School, where he lettered in both cross country and football. While he loved both sports, it was on the gridiron where Ernie excelled and he was subsequently offered a college scholarship.

His speed and agility earned him the nickname of “Crazy Legs” on the field.

Ernie served in the United States Navy for three years.

Ernie was an avid handyman and there was nothing he could not fix. Whether it was a car, an appliance or home remodeling, he could do it all. (Can’t was not in his vocabulary.) He loved the great

outdoors, exploring trails and back roads, and going across the country.

You would often find him in his truck, on a snowmobile or on an ATV. He loved to drive! He also loved playing cards.

Ernie also enjoyed playing golf, and in his later years you could find him on the links with his brothers Larry, Jerry and other close friends, chasing the little white ball.

Ernie leaves behind two brothers, Larry (Carol) Meier and Jerry (Pat) Meier; children Cherie (Dean) Dieckman, Ernie (Carmen) Meier, Becky (Jim) Dargitz, Tim Meier, Jessica Meier, Bridgette Brown and Shawna O’Flaherty; 18 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Preceding him in death were his parents Ernest & Elda Meier Sr. and his loving wife Susan Meier.

We always thought Dad would slow down in his older years so we could spend more time together, but that is not to be. All of our lives are richer for the time we had but we will all miss our father dearly.

John B. Pope Dec. 4, 1914 — Oct. 7, 2011 John Pope, age 96, died Oct. 7 at his home in Issaquah.

John was born Dec. 4, 1914, in Washington, D.C., and enjoyed his childhood there with John Pope summers spent on the family ranch in Montana. After his graduation from the University of Michigan, he left with his new wife, Dorothy Shappell, for a couple of years teaching and exploring in Bolivia and Peru. On their return to the United States they spent several years in Columbus, Ohio, before moving to Delaware, Ohio, in 1950 with their children Susan (Cotterell), Dan and Laura (Smith).

John worked for the Greif Bros Corp. as an industrial engineer designing their buildings throughout the U.S. for more than 50 years.

The family lived north of town,

where they enjoyed five acres of pear trees, outbuildings, gardens, chickens, ducks, cats, a dog and a well-used shuffleboard court.

John was active in the community with the Red Cross, the Elks Club and the Delaware School Board, among other things. While a member of the board, he oversaw the construction of Hayes High School. John relished games and competitions, playing handball at Ohio Wesleyan and bridge with his many friends, but his passion was golf. He knew every blade of grass at the Delaware Country Club and then later at Mill Creek Golf Course.

After the death of his wife Dorothy in 1962, John married Winnifred Carlisle, also a longtime resident of Delaware. In 2001, John and Winnie relocated to Washington, where John’s children resided. True to form, he spent many happy days playing golf and bridge.

Winnie preceded John in death.

He is survived by their combined families of five children, 15 grandchildren, and numerous great-grandchildren. A private burial service will be held in Stowe, Vt.

Carlene Schlemeier Carlene Schlemeier, of Sammamish, loving wife to Donald and abiding mother to Michael and Susan, passed away Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, at Overlake

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A celebration of her life will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, at Westminster Chapel in Carlene Schlemeier Bellevue.

Friends are invited to view photos, get directions and share memories in the family’s online guest book at www.flintofts.com.

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Hospital’s ‘friendly competition’ helps people in need

By Marissa Loew Scraps of colorful fabric cover Polly Weisbrod’s apartment, where she sews fleece quilts to donate to the homeless.

“The amount of fabric is slowly dwindling down as I’m putting quilts together,” she said.

Weisbrod works as a nurse in the neuroscience department at Swedish/Issaquah. The quilts are part of a hospitalwide competition.

The hospital, which opened to the public in July, is motivating its staff to improve the hospital system to benefit patients and help local communities through a friendly competition, called the Ambulatory Challenge. Begun in August, judges score the teams on several categories, including community service.

Members of the neuroscience team, called the Brainiacs, decided they would donate homemade blankets and hats, as well as business clothing and toiletries to local charities.

They are giving the blankets, hats and toiletries to the Seattle Union Gospel Mission Shelter and the clothing to a battered women’s shelter.

“I know it goes to a good place,” said Taylor Schupbach, a patient service representative, who has volunteered at the shelter.

“We thought about people who were homeless and people who just need something warm with the upcoming cold months,” said Cyleste Huynh, a patient service representative. “Blankets are more personal, something you can wrap around yourself, and (being) homemade (they) would help cheer a person up.”

Weisbrod volunteered to spearhead the quilt and tie-blanket project, and does all the quilt sewing.

“It was a little nerve-wracking

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that a simple cold could become something far more serious for Dan. How do you react when you find out your life is threatened by disease, especially so shortly after welcoming a new life into the world?

“Your mind is just spinning the whole time,” Dan said. Now on leave from his job, he added he at first tried to continue to work. “You’re sitting there in a business meeting and you just don’t care … It just changes your focus.”

“It’s like your life has just been brought to a screaming halt,” Natalie said.

“It’s pretty tough having something like that happen to Dan,” French said. “You think, ‘How did this happen? He’s such a good guy.’”

French admitted his fundraiser is a bit different.

“It seems like kind of a silly thing to do,” French said of his hirsute efforts. “So far though, it’s been fairly successful.”

PHOTOS BY MARISSA LOEW

Above, colorful blankets are being sewn by Polly Weisbrod, a nurse at Swedish/Issaquah. At right, Cyleste Huynh and Dr. Lily Jung Henson from wear beanie hats Henson's mom knitted.

bra fitting Oct. 25. They are also collecting headscarves, hats and gently used prostheses to donate to the American Cancer Society.

“Our goal is to bring all the resources the hospital offers to all members of the community, “Larison said about the Ambulatory Challenge, “and to be an integral part of the community for Issaquah.”

The winners of the challenge will get a monetary prize.

“A good little Christmas gift for the team,” said Huynh, who “whoops the team into shape,” according to Henson.

“Being the competitive human beings we are, we’re very hellbent on winning this Ambulatory Challenge,” Henson said. “And it’s all for a good cause ... in terms of helping the hospital grow and in terms of helping the community.”

“Who knows what’s going to happen in the future,” Huynh said. “But we’d definitely like to continue this.”

because I started a quilt when my son was born and I still haven’t finished it,” she said.

But she thought sewing was one thing she could contribute and she has already finished about 10 blankets in just three weeks.

“One night I was watching ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and thought, ‘I can’t believe I’m up at 10:50 still sewing,’” Weisbrod said.

She devotes about three hours of sewing every day, even when she is sick.

Each quilt is sewn using donated fabric from at least three people.

“It was nice to go back to the local community here in Issaquah … for donations to make blankets and put them back out to an area that’s not as fortunate as Issaquah,” Weisbrod said.

After she finishes a batch of quilts, she brings them into the office.

Dr. Lily Jung Henson, chief of staff and medical director for Neurology Services, is excited when

she sees the blankets for the first time and always exclaims, “Oh my gosh, oh my goodness!”

Henson’s mom, Anna Jung, knits the hats. Black and maroon beanies are stacked in paper bags on the office floor.

“Check these out! These are the coolest hats,” Henson said.

“I’d buy these,” Huynh exclaimed.

Since Henson does not sew or knit, she cleaned out her drawers and gave body- care products.

“I do a lot of traveling, so I do accumulate a lot of hotel toiletries,” she said. My team “is intent on making this work, so my job is just to help provide some of the supplies.”

The Brainiacs are currently in second place behind the Daymakers, the retail floor team.

Pamela Larison, wellness navigator at the Shops at Swedish, is ecstatic that her team is winning.

One of the many events the Daymakers are hosting is A Perfect Fit, where women receive a free

Marissa Loew is a student in the University of Washington Department of Communication News Laboratory.

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Annual Ski and Sport Swap is bigger and better

clude ample selection of ski and other sports gear.

While the event started as a way of trading mostly ski equipment, it has grown to include sports equipment of all sorts, from skis and snowboards to soccer and baseball equipment.

Community members are encouraged to donate their gently used gear for the swap. You can also swap your gear for credit to put toward other gear you pur-

chase at the Ski and Sport Swap.

But of course, donated items fetch 100 percent profit, the proceeds of which go toward the Kiwanis Children and Youth leadership mentoring projects.

The Ski and Sport Swap runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 29.

Bring items to donate between 5:30 and 8 p.m. Oct. 28 and between 8 and 9 the morning of the sale. Pine Lake Covenant Church is at 1715 228th Ave. S.E. in Sammamish.

such as bullying and sexual harassment.

Every year, the network awards its own grants to other local organizations. Last year, they passed out nine, with dollar amounts ranging from $200 to $2,000 for a total of $7,000. Primarily, the grants fund programs dealing with youth in one of four areas: substance abuse; homelessness; depression and suicide; or other adverse childhood expe-

riences.

For 2011, de Michele said she was happy to announce the group has the same amount of money to give away. In the current economic climate, she added the network felt lucky just to sustain its efforts.

Other local groups involved in the job skills fair include the Issaquah Chamber of Commerce, the Issaquah Schools Foundation and the Rotary Clubs of Issaquah and Sammamish.

Parents and their athletic children will have an opportunity to save a bunch of money on typically expensive sports equipment soon.

The Sammamish Kiwanis Club will hold its annual Ski and Sport Swap Oct. 29 at Pine Lake Covenant Church. Club members highlighted that the event continues to grow and in 2011 will in-

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families. Part of a larger network of similar groups in locations across Washington, over the years, they have specialized in youth suicide prevention programs and dealing with issues

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2011

Cross country teams tune up for league championship meets Issaquah School District teams wrapped up their regular seasons last week in a final tuneup for the Oct. 20 KingCo Conference Championship meets.

The Issaquah and Skyline high school teams will enter the KingCo 4A meet at Seattle’s Lincoln Park.

The boys varsity race starts at 2:45 p.m. and the girls varsity race is set for 3:15 p.m. The top eight teams and 40 individuals advance to a bi-district meet Oct. 29 at Lincoln Park.

Liberty High School competes in

the KingCo 3A meet at Lake Sammamish State Park. The girls varsity race begins at 2:45 p.m. and the boys varsity race starts at 3:15 p.m. The top four teams and 20 individuals advance to the SeaKing District 2 meet Oct. 27 at Lake Sammamish State Park.

Eagles finish second The Issaquah High School girls team concluded one of its best seasons Oct. 12 by placing second in a four-team KingCo 4A meet at Redmond’s Hartman Park.

Host Redmond won the meet with 31 points. Issaquah was second with 47 points, followed by Eastlake with 50 and Newport with 106. It was the first time Issaquah had defeated Eastlake since 1996.

Eastlake’s Anastasia Kosykh won the 5K race in 18 minutes, 53 seconds. Ellie Clawson was Issaquah’s top runner, placing fourth in 19:38.

Rachel Osgood, of Issaquah, was ninth and teammate Ellie Hendrickson came in 10th. Cayla Seligman was 13th and Abby Wilson

placed 14th to round out Issaquah’s top five runners.

Issaquah ended the regular season with a 9-1 record. The mark was Issaquah’s best since 2005.

In the boys meet, Redmond was first with 27 points. Eastlake took second with 45 points, followed by Newport with 81 and Issaquah with 101. Redmond’s Johnathan Stevens finished first in 16:23.

Tom Howe was Issaquah’s top runner, placing 12th in 17:26.

Liberty boys capture CC finale

Nick Knoblich and Aaron Bowe, finished first and second, respectively, Oct. 12, as they led the Liberty boys cross country team to victories against Mount Si and Mercer Island at Mount Si High School.

Liberty finished with 37 points to top Mount Si, which was second with 40 points. Mercer Island came in third with 47 points.

Knoblich finished first in 17:28.

Bowe was second in 17:30. Mason Goodman, of Liberty, also cracked the top 10 by placing ninth in

“There’s a lot of things we can do fundamentally, and I think this team has a lot of fight in it left. We’ll be able to make some noise down the road.”

— Chris Bennett Issaquah High School football coach

yard pass from Kalin to junior wide receiver Reed Peterson in the second quarter, the score was 24-10 at the half.

Eastlake linebacker Sean MacDonald would grab two interceptions of his own in the second half. Issaquah sophomore Derek Chapman would score the Eagles’ lone touchdown of the second half with 9:28 left in the third quarter.

Bennett said there’s plenty of Issaquah football to be played in the post season if the team can get back to basics and refocus its offense, which is still adjusting to player injuries.

“There’s a lot of things we can do fundamentally, and I think this team has a lot of fight in it left,” he said. “We’ll be able to make some noise down the road.”

Issaquah finishes regular season play against Newport (3-3) at home Oct. 21.

“Obviously, this is a tough loss.

We had some chances, and we didn’t make it happen tonight,” Issaquah sophomore Jack Gellatly said. “We’ll get back in the film room, study up and see what we did wrong. We’ll do our best to put this behind us and get after ‘em next week.”

Christina Lords: 392-6434, ext. 239, or newcastle@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

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Skyline pulls away from Jackson, 49-24

By Ron Newberry Special to The Seattle Times

BY CHRISTOPHER HUBER

Lianna Simms, Skyline junior defender, falls onto the back of Eastlake sophomore midfielder Emily Cushing after heading the ball during the second period.

Spartans deal Wolves first conference loss, win, 2-1 Jackie Wilson, Anna Deweirdt hookup for go-ahead goal

By Christopher Huber Issaquah Press reporter

BY GREG FARRAR

Reed Peterson (right), Issaquah junior wide receiver, spins away from Eastlake senior defensive back Colton Teglovic into the end zone for a late second-quarter touchdown on a 23-yard pass play.

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The Liberty High School football team fell out of a tie for second place in the KingCo Conference 3A/2A standings and possibly saw its state playoffs end Oct. 14 when the Patriots fell to visiting Mercer Island, 32-10.

Liberty entered the contest tied with Mercer Island and Mount Si for second place. With the loss the Patriots, 3-2 in the league, dropped to fourth place in the standings. Mercer Island and Mount Si, which defeated Juanita, 28-21, Oct. 14, remained tied for second place with 4-1 records.

Top-ranked Bellevue, 5-0, stayed in first place.

The top three teams in the league advance to the preliminary round of the state playoffs next month.

The Patriots knew they would have to play almost a perfect game to defeat 10th-ranked Mercer Island, which is having one of its best seasons in several years.

Liberty also hoped to contain Islander star quarterback Jeff Lindquist.

Eagles’ coach confident team will still make an impact in the post-season Plagued by interception trouble and a tough Eastlake Wolves’ defense and special teams, the Issaquah High School Eagles fell, 44-17, in KingCo 4A Conference play Oct. 14.

Eastlake, The Seattle Times’ No. 1 ranked 4A school in the state, handed the Eagles their second loss of the season.

“You just can’t give up four interceptions and give up two special teams touchdowns to a quality team,” Issaquah coach Chris Bennett said.

Bennett praised his team’s ability to run the ball, but said turnovers and two stellar Eastlake kickoff returns eradicated any sense of rhythm the Eagles’ offense was able to establish.

With 6:18 left in the first quarter, Eastlake senior Colton Teglovic intercepted and returned a pass for a touchdown from Issaquah senior quarterback Ethan Kalin.

“It was important,” Teglovic said of his first interception. “It got the team fired up, and we never looked back from there.”

Teglovic would go on to intercept another Kalin pass in the second quarter and added another touchdown after a 75-yard kickoff return to start the second half of the game.

They were his first two touchdowns on the season.

“It’s huge for our whole team morale,” he said. “When defense makes plays like that, it gets everybody going.”

Eastlake senior running back Ryan Lewis added two rushing touchdowns for the Wolves in the second quarter.

After a 35-yard field goal from Issaquah’s Alex Shane and a 23-

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Mercer Island drops Patriots to fourth place

Eastlake defense grabs four interceptions, beats Issaquah, 44-17

By Christina Lords Issaquah Press reporter

18:06. Hiron Redman was 11th and Jason Murray came in 14th for the Patriots, who ended the regular season with a 6-3 record.

In the girls meet, Liberty finished second to Mercer Island. The Islanders had 27 points and Liberty had 39 points. Mount Si was third with 70. Allie Wood was Liberty’s top placer, taking third in 20:15.

Amy Broska and Sarah Bliesner were sixth and seventh, respec-

Skyline High School’s Jackie Wilson floated a free kick perfectly into the scrum of players at the edge of the goal box.

Skyline junior forward Anna Deweirdt took it, saw the opening and fired the ball right past Eastlake goalkeeper Bryce Kennedy for the go-ahead goal in the 71st minute.

“I just know how Jackie kicks,” Deweirdt said after the Oct. 13 match at Eastlake High School.

Skyline dealt Eastlake its first KingCo Conference 4A girls soccer loss in a 2-1 victory. The Spartans entered this week in second place in the league at 60-1, behind Issaquah (6-0-2).

The Wolves fell to 2-1-4 in KingCo and 4-2-7 overall.

“We knew 23 (Wilson) delivers a great ball,” Eastlake coach Chuck Krieble said. “There were no surprises tonight.”

Deweirdt noted that she and Wilson work on shots like the winning one at practice often. Wilson feeds a well-aimed chip-shot from about 30 yards

BY CHRISTOPHER HUBER

Anna Deweirdt (right), Skyline junior forward, gets after the ball past Eastlake defender Madison Barr during the second half of their Oct. 13 soccer match. out and Deweirdt just seems to find it and time the hard shot on goal.

“I just knew she was going to be there,” Wilson said about watching her free kick land in just the See SOCCER, Page C5

Just when it looked like the momentum was turning, Skyline High School quarterback Max Browne wasn’t feeling it.

Jackson’s Trevor Hodge had just hit a 41-yard field goal in a string of 10 points for the Timberwolves, leaving host Skyline behind, 2421. Browne wasn’t fazed.

“Scared? No way,” Browne said.

“Every drive we got stopped, we were stopping ourselves. I knew Jackson would have to outscore us to beat us. I knew they would have a tough time doing that.”

Browne’s gut feeling was dead on. Skyline ran off 28 unanswered points in the second half to coast to a 49-24 nonleague victory Oct. 14 before a happy homecoming crowd at Skyline.

Browne, the state’s top junior quarterback prospect, put together a dazzling performance, completing 19 of 25 passes for 347 yards and six touchdowns.

Fourth-ranked Skyline (5-2) now readies itself for a KingCo Conference 4A Crest Division showdown with unbeaten, second-ranked Eastlake Oct. 21 at Eastlake.

“We tried to take this as the start of the playoffs,” Skyline senior lineman Ben Vavra said.

“From here on out, it’s playoff football. That’s how we tried to think of this game.”

Jackson (4-3) viewed it as an opportunity to make a statement, and for more than a half, the Timberwolves made one.

Senior quarterback Sam Brown put together some staggering numbers himself, completing 34 of 52 passes for 480 yards and a See SPARTANS, Page C5

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However, Lindquist, a future University of Washington player, passed for 303 yards and four touchdowns. Alex Wood also kicked two field goals, including a 51-yarder, for Mercer Island. The Islanders snapped a seven-game losing streak to Liberty, which last lost to the Islanders in 2003.

Liberty got on the scoreboard first when Josh Johnson booted a 32yard field goal in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Mercer Island’s Cameron Ogard intercepted a Liberty pass to set up an Islanders’ scoring drive. With 5:35 left in the quarter, Lindquist connected with Phil Frazier on a 46yard touchdown pass to put the Islanders ahead for good. Mercer Island added a second score with 12.1 seconds before halftime when Lindquist tossed a 11-yard touchdown pass to Brent Tsang.

In the third quarter, Lindquist connected on two touchdown passes, a 52-yarder to Nicky Sinclair and a 22-yarder to Connor Bernal.

Wood also kicked a 24-yard field goal as Mercer Island went up 29-3.

After Wood boomed his 51-yard field goal, Liberty put together a scoring drive that ended with quarterback Jordan West hitting Josh Gordon on a 68-yard touchdown pass.

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touchdown.

His favorite target was Andrew Dodd, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound senior who hauled in 12 catches for 263 yards.

“I was really happy with how our kids played,” Jackson coach Joel Vincent said. “We knew coming out here this is a tough place.

It’s not called Sparta for no reason.

“I just threw a challenge out to the kids. I said, ‘Hey, let’s go down and see if you can match them hit for hit and catch for catch and we’ll see what happens,’” he said.

“Our kids battled ... We physically got wore down. We play a lot more guys two ways than they do and we had some key injuries that just killed us down the stretch.”

In the second quarter, Jackson lineman Christian Enriquiez went down with what Vincent called a likely season-ending leg injury.

Jackson trailed 14-7 at the time, before tying the score on Trai Patrick’s 24-yard run on fourth down. Skyline answered but Jackson was able to tie the score at 21 when Patrick scored again from 2 yards with less than a second remaining in the first half.

But after the field goal, Skyline seized the momentum and never let it go. Skyline finished with 532 total yards; Jackson had 502.

Spartans wide receiver Taggart Krueger had five catches for 176 yards and two touchdowns.

Damian Greene led Skyline with 139 yards on 13 carries.

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Mount Si sweeps Liberty The Mount Si High School volleyball team swept host Liberty, 3-0, Oct. 3 in a KingCo Conference 3A/2A match. Mount Si won the games, 25-17, 25-19, 25-19.

Sarah McDonald had 13 kills and four aces to lead Mount Si. Aspen Winegar had nine aces to top Liberty.

Issaquah golfers top Skyline The top five Issaquah High School players, led by Weston Mui, shot in the 30s Oct. 3 as the Eagles defeated rival Skyline, 186-189, in a KingCo Conference 4A golf match at the Snoqualmie Falls Golf Course.

Mui shot a par 36 on Issaquah’s home course to share medalist honors with Skyline’s Brian Mogg and Kelly Sullivan.

Sid Raman, Bryan Jung and Brian Batt all shot 37s, and Fletcher Martin had a 39 to round out Issaquah’s top five scores. However, Taylor Swingle and Evan Ko also shot 39s.

Danny Baumer just missed the group with a 40.

“It’s been that way all season.

All the guys have been so close.

I have to pick six players for district and it will be really tough to pick our top players,” Issaquah coach Tom Bakamus said.

Austin Nutt, Geoffry Grembowski and Kyle Vann had 39s for Skyline.

“I knew the match was going to be close. I think it just came down to our familiarity with the course, and the depth of our team,” Bakamus said.

In KingCo 3A/2A competition, Liberty lost to Lake Washington, 194-207, at the Maplewood Golf Course. Roland Deex, of Liberty, was medalist with a 38.

On Oct. 6, Issaquah defeated Roosevelt, 191-203, at Seattle’s Jackson Park Golf Course. Alex Ciszewski led the Eagles with a 1over-par 37. Raman and Jung each shot 38s.

Skyline defeated Ballard, 198240, Oct. 6 at the Plateau Golf Course. Mogg was the medalist with a 1-under-par 35.

Liberty sinks Sammamish Elise Tinseth had two first places and swam on a winning relay Oct. 6 as the Liberty High School girls swimming team overpowered Sammamish, 110-73, in a KingCo Conference 3A/2A meet.

Tinseth won the 200-yard freestyle in 2 minutes, .88 seconds and captured the 100 butterfly in 1:04.22. She led off the Patriots’ winning 200 freestyle relay, which finished first in 1:52.18. Caitlin Duffner, Cecilia Nelson, and Mackenna Briggs were other members of the relay.

Duffner also won the 50 freestyle while Briggs was first in the 500 freestyle and Nelson took the 100 freestyle. Christina Sargent, of Liberty, was first in the diving.

Issaquah volleyball wins twice It took a while for the Issaquah High School volleyball team to get the knack of winning, but the Eagles captured a pair KingCo Conference 4A matches last week.

Issaquah won its second straight match Oct. 13 by defeating host Eastlake, 3-1. The Eagles dropped the first set, 25-19, but bounced back to win, 25-18, 2510, 25-18.

Sam Rogers led the Eagles with 21 kills and 10 digs. Lindsey Ferguson contributed 21 digs and Mckenzie Bostic had 42 assists.

Kirsten Fischer gave the Eagles a strong game up front with 14 kills and Leanne Scott had 10 digs.

On Oct. 11, Issaquah notched its first victory of the season when the Eagles swept visiting Redmond, 3-0. Issaquah won the games, 25-14, 25-14, 26-24.

This has been a rebuilding year for Issaquah, which saw almost its entire team graduate from last year’s squad that finished second in the 4A state tournament.

The Eagles got several solid performances in its match with Redmond. Rogers had a teamhigh 17 kills and three aces. Ferguson contributed 26 assists and

three aces. Cassie Elenes led the Eagles with seven aces and Fischer had a team-high eight kills.

Misty Siochi had seven kills and 10 digs, and Bostic had a teamhigh 34 assists.

Issaquah is 2-5 in league play and 2-7 for the season.

Skyline also won twice last week. The Spartans downed Inglemoor, 3-1, Oct. 13. Skyline won, 25-19, 25-9, 23-25, 25-14.

Freshman Chloe Epker had a solid all-around match for the Spartans with six kills, 14 digs and five aces. Alyssa Workman contributed 32 assists and 12 digs. Molly Mounsey had a teamhigh 13 kills and Kennedy Stoa had 19 digs.

Skyline improved its league record to 5-2 and stayed in third place. The Spartans are 9-2 overall.

On Oct. 11, Skyline topped Bothell, 3-1. The Spartans dropped the first set, 30-28, but bounced back to win, 25-20, 2520, 25-21. Maddie Magee paced Skyline with 26 kills, three blocks and 18 digs. Madison Stoa added eight kills, 46 assists and 11 digs.

Halle Erdahl also had 13 kills and five aces for Skyline.

Issaquah falls to Bothell Bothell spoiled the Issaquah High School girls swimming team’s final home meet of the season Oct. 4 when the Cougars prevailed, 96-90, at the Julius Boehm Pool.

Issaquah’s Stacy Maier had two first places. Maier, a junior, won the 50 freestyle in 25.85 seconds, just falling short of the standard for the state meet of 25.30. She also won the 100 freestyle in 1:00.09.

In addition, Maier swam as a member of two winning relay teams. Maier, Kayla Foremski, Gabrielle Gevers and Kayla Flaten made up Issaquah’s winning 200 freestyle relay team, which finished first in 1:45.75.

The same foursome composed the Eagles’ winning 400 freestyle relay team, which was clocked in 3:57.99.

Senior Kylie Lynch, swimming in her final home meet, won the 500 freestyle for the Eagles.

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right spot for her teammate forward.

Eastlake struck first in the 14th minute. Standout midfielder Kelsey Haberly took a one-touch pass from Marissa Katagiri, who had redirected a Kennedy goal kick at center-midfield. Haberly took the ball at about 30 yards out, dribbled past two Skyline defenders and shot across the goal left to right, landing the ball inside the right post past diving Skyline goalkeeper Tina Vargas.

“It was nice to get on top early,” Krieble said.

Skyline came back with the equalizer in the 22nd minute.

Jordan Branch, a Skyline sophomore midfielder, took a throw-in from junior defender Lianna Simms on the left sideline.

Branch controlled the ball, and knocked a shot into center-goal from 15 yards out past a diving Kennedy.

A recent JV call-up, Simms has given Skyline some help against pressing opponents.

“Lianna’s played great for us since she came up from JV,” Skyline coach Don Braman said.

The score was tied 1-1 at the

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tively, for Liberty. Megan Larson placed 11th and Aimee Christensen came in 12th to round out Liberty’s top five runners.

The Patriots ended the season with a 7-2 record.

Skyline girls finish first The Skyline girls finished first in a four-team KingCo 4A meet Oct. 12 at Lincoln Park.

Skyline had 41 points with Roosevelt a close second with 47 points. Garfield took third with 73 points and Ballard was last with 129.

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halftime break.

Eastlake controlled the tempo much of the game, but Skyline’s front line advanced often enough to get another legitimate chance.

Eastlake’s Kennedy got the crowd going with a diving save in the 42nd minute and Skyline’s Vargas also took away a near goal for the Wolves in the 48th minute.

The Spartans drew a foul, which set up the Wilson-toDeweirdt free-kick goal.

“Games with Eastlake are always competitive,” Braman said.

“They (Skyline) just needed to have faith in what was working for them. Tonight, the girls responded.”

Issaquah soccer edges Bothell Audrey Thomas, a junior midfielder, assisted on one goal and connected on a free kick Oct. 13 as Issaquah topped visiting Bothell, 2-1, in Gary Moore Stadium.

Deanna Dakar, who was assisted

by Thomas, put the Eagles ahead at the 50th minute.

Skyline hosted Issaquah Oct. 18 in a key conference battle.

Issaquah ran into a defensiveminded Eastlake team Oct. 11 as the teams fought to a 0-0 draw.

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Samantha Krahling was Skyline’s top runner, finishing third in 19:34. Kathryn Steele and Christina Smith also cracked the top 10 for Skyline. Steele was seventh and Smith was eighth.

Caitlin McIlwain was 11th and Haley Smith placed 12th to round out Skyline’s top five runners.

In the boys meet, Skyline took second, finishing just two points behind first-place Garfield. The Bulldogs had 38 points with Skyline second with 40. Roosevelt was third with 76 points and Ballard came in fourth with 88.

Skyline’s Keegan Symmes finished first in 15:44. Joey Nakao took seventh, Jay Bowlby placed ninth, Kevin Tidball was 11th and Brendan Long came in 12th for Skyline.

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Prep football

KingCo Conference 4A CREST DIVISION League Season W L W L PF PA Eastlake 3 0 7 0 301 86 Skyline 3 0 5 2 320 189 Issaquah 1 2 5 2 247 130 Newport 1 2 4 3 217 225 Redmond 0 4 0 7 91 331 CROWN DIVISION League Season W L W L PF PA Woodinville 4 0 7 0 269 45 Bothell 3 1 4 3 177 118 Inglemoor 2 2 4 3 160 136 Roosevelt 2 2 4 3 156 130 Ballard 1 3 3 4 158 206 Garfield 0 4 1 6 48 239 Oct. 21 Games Ballard at Bothell Skyline at Eastlake Newport at Issaquah Woodinville at Roosevelt Inglemoor at Garfield Redmond at Edmonds-Woodway (nl) Oct. 13 Game Roosevelt 28, Ballard at 19 Oct. 14 Games Eastlake 44, Issaquah 17 Bothell 42, Garfield 0 Newport 42, Redmond 24 Woodinville 38, Inglemoor 14 Skyline 49, Jackson 24 (nl) EASTLAKE 44, ISSAQUAH 17 Issaquah 3 7 7 0 – 17 Eastlake 14 10 13 7 – 44 First Quarter East – Colton Teslovic 37 interception return (John Kilburg kick) Iss – Alex Shane 35 FG East – Ryan Lewis 2 run (Kilburg kick) Second Quarter East – Lewis 12 run (Kilburg kick) Iss – Reed Peterson 23 pass from Ethan Kalin (Shane kick) East – Kilburg 34 FG Third Quarter East – Teslovic 75 kickoff return (Kilburg kick) Iss – Derek Chapman 49 pass from Kalin (Shane kick) East – Keegan Kemp 2 run (run failed) Fourth Quarter East – Aaron DiGenova 9 pass from Kemp (Kilburg kick) SKYLINE 49, JACKSON 24 Jackson 7 14 3 0 – 24 Skyline 14 7 14 14 – 49 First Quarter Sky – Eric Thies 5 pass from Max Browne (Sean McDonald kick) Sky – Taggart Krueger 55 pass from Browne (McDonald kick) Jack – Traivante Robinson 23 pass frOm Sam Brown (Trevor Hodge kick) Second Quarter Jack – Traishawn Patrick 24 run (Hodge kick) Sky – Krueger 4 pass from Browne (McDonald kick) Jack – Patrick 1 run (Hodge kick) Third Quarter Jack – Hodge 41 FG Sky – Trevor Barney 16 pass from Browne (McDonald kick) Sky – Nick Splendorio 14 pass from Browne (McDonald kick) Fourth Quarter Sky – Matt Sinatro 9 pass from Browne (McDonald kick) Sky – Damian Greene 10 run (McDonald kick)

4A State Poll

By The Seattle Times HOW TOP 10 FARED 1. Ferris (6-1) lost to Mead 35-14 2. Eastlake (7-0) d. Issaquah 44-17 3. Bellarmine Prep (7-0) d. Shelton 49-0 4. Skyline (5-2) d. Jackson 49-24 5. Chiawana (7-0) d. Davis 28-0 6. Olympia (7-0) d. Gig Harbor 27-3 7. Kentlake (7-0) d. Auburn 10-7 8. Federal Way (7-0) d. Rogers-Puyallup 49-17 9. Woodinville (7-0) d. Inglemoor 38-14 10. Lake Stevens (7-0) d. Marysville-Pilchuck 38-7

KingCo Conference 3A/2A League Season W L W L PF Bellevue 5 0 7 0 304 Mercer Island 4 1 5 2 271 Mount Si 4 1 5 2 162 Liberty 3 2 3 4 176 Interlake 2 3 2 5 193 Juanita 1 4 2 5 163 Sammamish 1 4 1 6 149 Lake Wash. 0 5 2 5 128 Oct. 21 Games Juanita at Lake Washington Interlake at Liberty Bellevue at Mount Si Sammamish at Mercer Island Oct. 14 Games Mount Si 28, Juanita 21 Mercer Island 32, Liberty 10 Bellevue 61, Sammamish 7 Interlake 58, Lake Washington 26

PA 107 155 135 161 224 181 316 261

MERCER ISLAND 32, LIBERTY 10 Mercer Island 0 14 15 3 – 32 Liberty 3 0 0 7 – 10 First Quarter Lib – Josh Johnson 32 FG Second Quarter MI – Phil Frazier 46 pass from Jeff Lindquist (Alex Wood kick) MI – Brent Tsang 11 pass from Lindquist (Wood kick) Third Quarter MI – Nicky Sinclair 52 pass from Lindquist (run failed) MI – Connor Bernal 22 pass from Lindquist (run failed) MI – Wood 24 FG Fourth Quarter MI – Wood 51 FG Lib – Josh Gordon 68 pass from Jordan West (Johnson kick) MOUNT SI 28, JUANITA 21 Mount Si 7 7 7 7 – 28 Juanita 0 7 0 14 – 21 First Quarter MS – Connor Deutsch 5 run (Cameron Vanwinkle kick) Second Quarter MS – Elijah Mayfield 12 run (Vanwinkle kicdk) Jua – Ty Griffith 27 pass from Riley Hilliker (Colton Blaisdell kick) Third Quarter MS – Hunter Malberg 90 interception return (Vanwinkle kick) Fourth Quarter Jua – Kendrick Murphy 65 punt return (Blaisdell kick) MS – Deutsch 18 run (Vanwinkle kick) Jua – Griffith 36 pass from Landyn Milburn (Blaisdell kick)

Metro League Oct. 14 Game EASTSIDE CATHOLIC 28, BISHOP BLANCHET 14 Bishop Blanchet 0 6 0 8 – 14 Eastside Catholic 0 3 22 3 – 28 Second Quarter EC – Danny Omiliak 19 FG BB – 11 pass (kick blocked) Third Quarter EC – Chevy Walker 3 run (Omiliak kick) EC – Elisha Paaga 57 run (Omiliak kick) EC – Trey Reynolds 5 run (Hayden Meier pass from Trey Reynolds) Fourth Quarter EC – Omiliak 28 FG BB – Peter Johnson 2 run (Johnson run)

3A State Poll

By The Seattle Times HOW TOP 10 FARED 1. Bellevue (7-0) d. Sammamish 61-7

2. Lakes (7-0) d. Enumclaw 69-0 3. O'Dea (7-0) d. Bainbridge 35-14 4. Kamiakin (7-0) d. Sunnyside 28-0 5. Meadowdale (7-0) d. Everett 35-0 6. Camas (6-1) d. Heritage 58-6 7. Peninsula (6-1) d. Auburn Mountainview 36-10 8. Seattle Prep (7-0) d. Rainier Beach 48-20 9. Oak Harbor (7-0) d. Shorecrest 42-21 10. Mercer Island (5-2) d. Liberty 32-10

Prep girls soccer KingCo Conference 4A League Season W L T Pts W L T Issaquah 6 0 2 20 8 3 2 Skyline 6 0 1 19 10 0 2 Woodinville 4 2 1 13 7 2 2 Redmond 4 2 1 13 5 4 3 Eastlake 2 1 4 10 4 2 7 Garfield 2 2 3 9 5 4 4 Bothell 2 4 1 7 4 6 1 Newport 2 5 1 7 4 7 2 Inglemoor 1 4 2 5 4 6 3 Roosevelt 1 5 1 4 2 8 3 Ballard 1 6 1 4 2 7 2 Oct. 13 Games Inglemoor 2, Roosevelt 0 Newport 2, Ballard 0 Skyline 2, Eastlake 1 Issaquah 2, Bothell 1 Woodinville 0, Garfield 0 Oct. 11 Games Ballard 1, Inglemoor 0 Eastlake 0, Issaquah 0 Redmond 2, Newport 1 Skyline 2, Garfield 1 Woodinville 3, Bothell 2

GF 31 30 20 16 13 16 12 26 14 14 10

GA 21 7 8 15 10 10 16 23 21 32 21

ISSAQUAH 2, BOTHELL 1 Bothell 0 1 – 1 Issaquah 0 2 – 2 Second half scoring: 1, Deanna Dakar (Iss, Audrey Thomas assist), 50:00; 2, Thomas (Iss), penalty kick; 3, Kenzie Bean (B, Ali Cundiff assist), 64:00.

ISSAQUAH 0, EASTLAKE 0 Issaquah 0 0 – 0 Eastlake 0 0 – 0 SKYLINE 2, GARFIELD 1 Garfield 0 1 – 1 Skyline 0 2 – 2 Second half scoring: 1, Sydne Tingey (Sky, Alexa Strom assist), 50:00; 2, Kelsey Billedo (G, Heather Kovar assist), 51:00; 3, Anna Deweirdt (Sky, Maddie Christ assist), 71:00.

SKYLINE 2, EASTLAKE 1 Skyline 1 1 – 2 Eastlake 1 0 – 1 First half scoring: 1, Kelsey Haberly (E, Maria Katagiri assist), 17:00; 2, Jordan Branch (Sky, Leann Sims assist), 19:00.

Second half scoring: 3, Anna Deweirdt (Sky, Jackie Wilson assist), 71:00.

KingCo Conference 3A/2A League Season W L T Pts W L T Liberty 10 0 0 30 11 1 0 Interlake 7 2 1 22 9 2 1 Lake Wash. 7 2 1 22 7 3 2 Mount Si 4 5 1 13 5 6 1 Bellevue 3 4 3 12 3 4 4 Mercer Island 2 7 1 7 2 9 1 Juanita 1 7 2 5 2 8 2 Sammamish 1 8 1 4 1 10 1 Oct. 13 Games Bellevue 2, Juanita 2 Interlake 4, Mercer Island 2 Mount Si 1, Lake Washington 1 Liberty 7, Sammamish 0 Oct. 11 Games Mount Si 4, Sammamish 2 Lake Washington 1, Interlake 0 Liberty 7, Bellevue 1 Mercer Island 4, Juanita 1

GF 47 38 20 19 15 12 14 5

GA 6 11 11 21 18 18 30 46

LIBERTY 7, BELLEVUE 1 Bellevue 1 0 – 1 Liberty 4 3 – 7 First half scoring: 1, Kali Youngdahl (Lib, Kailiana Johnson assist), 2:00; 2, Youngdahl (Lib, unassisted), 3:00; 3, Kiana Hafferty (Lib, Youngdahl assist), 23:00; 4, Shannon Daly (Lib, Hafferty assist), 33:00; 5, Bellevue, own goal.

Second half scoring: 6, Hafferty (Lib, Kimi Fry assist), 49:00; 7, Hafferty (Lib, unassisted), 70:00; 8, Fry (Lib), penalty kick.

LIBERTY 7, SAMMAMISH 0 Liberty 34–7 Sammamish 0 0 – 0 First half scoring: 1, Cassidy Nangle (Lib, Kailiana Johnson assist), 1:00; 2, Johnson (Lib), penalty kick; 3, Kendall Downing (Lib, Nicolle Marlow assist), 30:00.

Second half scoring: 4, Kali Youngdahl (Lib, Johnson assist), 42:00; 5, Nangle (Lib, unassisted), 48:00; 6, Johnson (Lib, Kiana Haffery assist), 50:00; 7, Marlow (Lib, Hafferty assist), 80:00.

MOUNT SI 1, LAKE WASHINGTON 0 Lake Washington 0 1 – 1 Mount Si 10–1 First half scoring: 1, Leah Corra (MS, Miranda Rawlings assist), 9:00.

Second half scoring: 2, Amy Johnson (LW, unassisted), 43:00.

MOUNT SI 4, SAMMAMISH 2 Mount Si 13–4 Sammamish 1 1 – 2 First half scoring: 1, Rachel Rock (Sam, Naza Hernandez assist), 8:00; 2, Laura Barnes (MS, Brittany Duncan assist), 26:00.

Second half scoring: 3, Miranda Rawlings (MS, unassisted), 41:00; 4, Madison Cooley (Sam, unassisted), 44:00; 5, Alyssa Proudfoot (MS, Leah Corra assist), 45:00; 6, Rawlings (MS, Claire Larson assist), 72:00.

Metro League Oct. 11 Game EASTSIDE CATHOLIC 3, BAINBRIDGE 2 Eastside Catholic 2 1 – 3 Bainbridge 20–2 First half scoring: 1, Natalie Vukic (B, unassisted), 29:00; 3, KK Standish (EC, unassisted), 30:00; 3, Vukic (B, unassisted), 31:00; 4, Standish (EC, unassisted), 44:00.

Second half scoring: 5, Standish (EC, unassisted), 57:00.

Prep volleyball KingCo Conference 4A League W L 7 0 6 1 5 2 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 2 5 2 6 0 7

Season W L 11 0 9 1 9 2 7 3 6 5 5 5 6 4 4 6 2 7 2 9 0 11

Roosevelt Newport Skyline Woodinville Garfield Bothell Ballard Eastlake Issaquah Inglemoor Redmond Oct. 13 Matches Bothell 3, Woodinville 2 (20-25, 25-18, 23-25, 2514, 15-13) Issaquah 3, Eastlake 1 (19-25, 25-18, 25-10, 25-18) Newport 3, Redmond 0 (25-17, 25-14, 25-21) Skyline 3, Inglemoor 1 (25-19, 25-9, 23-25, 25-14) Oct. 12 Match Roosevelt 3, Garfield 0 (25-16, 25-11, 25-13) Oct. 11 Matches Skyline 3, Bothell 1 (30-28, 25-20, 25-20, 25-21) Garfield 3, Ballard 1 (21-25, 25-14, 25-16, 25-10) Woodinville 3, Inglemoor 0 (25-12, 25-22, 25-23) Issaquah 3, Redmond 0 (25-15, 25-14, 26-24) Eastlake 3, Newport 2 (20-25, 25-9, 25-21, 23-25, 15-11) ISSAQUAH 3, REDMOND 0 Redmond 15 14 24 – 0 Issaquah 25 25 26 – 3 Issaquah statistics: Lindsey Ferguson 26 digs, 3

Adult sports

SPORTS CALENDAR

Issaquah Alps Trails Club

Oct. 23, 8:30 a.m., South Squak, 3 miles, 400-foot elevation gain. Call 2286118 ... Oct. 28, 10 a.m., Dogs Welcome Hike, 3-4 miles, 500-900-foot elevation gain. Call 206-909-1080 ...

Oct. 29, 9 a.m., Grand Ridge trails, 5 miles, 1,200-foot elevation gain. Call 206-232-7730 ... Oct. 30, 9 a.m., Cougar Mountain, 3 miles, 400-foot elevation gain. Call 882-3435.

Cascade Bicycle Club Oct. 20, 5:45 p.m., Cycle Tuesday, 25-35 miles from Gene Coulon Park in Renton. Call 985-6980 ... Oct. 21, 10 a.m., Summer Revisted, 45 miles from Marymoor Park parking lot. Ride includes challenging Issaquah-Fall City Road. Call 206-909-7742.

Pickle ball Issaquah Parks provides pickle ball at the community center from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 8-10 a.m. Saturdays. Rackets and nets are provided. Call 837-3000.

Basketball Issaquah Parks has noontime hoops for players 16 and older from noon to 2 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the community center. There are noontime hoops for players 40 and older from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 8:30-10:30 a.m.

Saturdays. There is also an open gym from 6-9 p.m. Tuesdays. Call 8373300.

Running Oct. 30, 8:30 a.m., Cougar Mountain 50K and 20-mile runs from Sky Country Trailhead. Register at www.databarevents.com/Cougar.asp.

Yoga Issaquah Parks provides yoga stretch classes from 8-9:15 a.m.

Tuesdays at the community center. Call 837-3300.

Tennis Issaquah Parks holds the Tennis and Friends program for players 50 and over at Tibbetts Valley Park. Call 369-8332.

Volleyball Issaquah Parks has an open gym for volleyball from 6-9 p.m. Mondays at the community center. Call 837-3300.

Youth sports/activities Soccer Issaquah Soccer Club is offering a winter development academy for players 7-8 years old. For more information, go to www.issaquahsoccerclub.org.

Swimming Issaquah Parks provides swimming lessons for all ages at the Julius Boehm Pool. Call 837-3350.

Basketball Issaquah Parks currently registering players for winter season. Registrations for the K-second grade must be done

by Nov. 28. Turnouts begin Dec. 3.

Registrations for third through fifth aces; Mckenzie Bostic 34 assists, Cassie Elenes 7 aces, Misty Siochi 7 kills, 10 digs; Sam Rogers 17 kills, 3 aces; Kirsten Fischer 8 kills.

ISSAQUAH 3, EASTLAKE 1 Issaquah 19 25 25 25 – 3 Eastlake 25 18 10 18 – 1 Issaquah statistics: Lindsey Ferguson 21 digs, Mckenzie Bostic 42 assists, Cassie Elenes 3 blocks, Misty Siochi 5 kills, Sam Rogers 21 kills, 10 digs; Leanne Scott 10 digs, Kirsten Fischer 14 kills.

SKYLINE 3, INGLEMOOR 1 Inglemoor 19 9 25 14 – 1 Skyline 25 25 23 25 – 3 Skyline statistics: Kennedy Stoa 19 digs, Halle Erdahl 8 kills, Molly Mounsey 13 kills, Alyssa Workman 32 assists, 12 digs; Chloe Epker 6 kills, 14 digs, 5 aces.

SKYLINE 3, BOTHELL 1 Skyline 28 25 25 25 – 3 Bothell 30 20 20 21 – 1 Skyline statistics: Madison Stoa 8 kills, 46 assists, 11 digs; Halle Erdahl 13 kills, 5 aces; Molly Mounsey 6 kills, Maddie Magee 26 kills, 3 blocks, 18 digs.

EASTLAKE 3, NEWPORT 2 Eastlake 20 25 25 23 15 – 3 Newport 25 9 21 25 11 – 2 Eastlake statistics: Sarah Pellicano 10 kills, 10 digs, 9 aces; Anna Gorman 14 kills, 12 digs, 6 aces; Zoe Escarda 6 kills, 3 blocks; Stephanie Clay 12 digs, Taylor Finlon 3 blocks, 34 assists.

KingCo Conference 3A/2A League W L 10 1 10 2 8 3 6 5 4 7 3 8 2 8 0 9

Season W L 13 4 10 3 10 3 6 5 4 8 3 9 2 9 0 10

Mount Si Mercer Island Interlake Juanita Lake Washington Bellevue Liberty Sammamish Oct. 12 Matches Lake Washington 3, Liberty 1 (22-25, 25-23, 25-21, 25-22) Mercer Island 3, Bellevue 1 (25-22, 22-25, 25-10, 25-14) Mount Si 3, Juanita 0 (25-17, 25-17, 25-22) Interlake 3, Sammamish 0 (25-19, 25-8, 25-5) Oct. 10 Matches Interlake 3, Mercer Island 1 (25-20, 27-25, 15-25, 25-23) Juanita 3, Bellevue 0 (25-16, 25-13, 25-16) Mount Si 3, Lake Washington 3 (21-25, 25-12, 2521, 25-13) MOUNT SI 3, JUANITA 0 Juanita 17 17 22 – 0 Mount Si 25 25 25 – 3 Mount Si statistics: Kailey Capelouto 10 digs, Lyndsay Carr 7 aces, Sarah McDonald 15 kills, Lauren Smith 27 assists.

MOUNT SI 3, LAKE WASHINGTON 1 Lake Washington 25 12 21 13 – 1 Mount Si 21 25 25 25 – 3 Mount Si statistics: Lyndsay Carr 16 kills, Sydney Leonard 10 assists, Sarah McDonald 14 kills, 5 aces; Lexie Read 6 aces, Lauren Smith 12 assists, Noelle Stockstad 15 assists.

Metro League Oct. 12 Match EASTSIDE CATHOLIC 3, SEATTLE PREP 2 Eastside Catholic 25 25 18 25 15 – 3 Seattle Prep 22 16 25 27 10 – 2

grade lead due Nov. 1. Turnouts begin Nov. 5. Middle school registrations due

by Nov. 21. Call 837-3300 or 8373388. Register at www.issaquahparks.net.

Basketball clinic Oct. 22, 1-4 p.m., Issaquah Parks holds a Quick Handle Fundamental Clinic for youngsters 6-14 at the community center. Call 369-2221, or go to www.quickhandle.com.

Self defense Issaquah Parks holds a Shaolin kung-fu self defense and fitness program for anyone 10 and up from 6-7 p.m. Mondays, starting Nov. 7.

Call 774-2787.

Cross country Issaquah Parks, through the Issaquah Gliders program, holds an extended cross country training session for elementary school and middle school students starting Nov. 2.

Training sessions are from 5-6 p.m. at Issaquah High School on Mondays and at Central Park on Wednesdays.

For further information, go to www.issaquahparks.net.

High school sports Football Oct. 21, 7 p.m.,Newport at Issaquah, Interlake at Liberty, Skyline at Eastlake.

Girls soccer Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m., Garfield at Issaquah, Liberty at Juanita, Skyline at Newport; Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m., Liberty at Mercer Island; Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., Interlake at Liberty, Inglemoor at Skyline.

Girls swimming Oct. 28-29, KingCo Conference championships. Oct. 28, 2 p.m., prelims at University of Washington; Oct. 29, 9:30 a.m., diving at Juanita High School, 3:45 p.m., finals at Mercer Island’s Mary Wayte Pool.

Volleyball Oct. 19, 7 p.m., Liberty at Mercer Island; Oct. 20, 7 p.m., Ballard at Issaquah, Skyline at Redmond; Oct. 25, 7 p.m., Newport at Issaquah, Skyline at Woodinville; Oct. 27, Oct. 29, KingCo Conference 3A Tournament at Sammamish High School; first session, Oct. 27, 5:30 p.m.; second session, Oct. 29, 3 p.m.

Cross country Oct. 20, KingCo Conference 4A Championships at Seattle’s Lincoln Park. Junior varsity girls race 2 p.m., varsity boys race 2:45 p.m., varsity girls race 3:15 p.m., junior varsity boys race 3:45 p.m. ... Oct. 20, KingCo Conference 3A Championships at Lake Sammamish State Park. Junior varsity girls race 2 p.m., varsity girls race 2:45 p.m., varsity boys race 3:15 p.m., junior varsity boys race 3:45 p.m.

Boys tennis Oct. 18-22, KingCo Conference tournament at Eastlake, Skyline and Mercer Island Country Club.

Eastside Catholic statistics: Nicole Boswell 12 digs, Hannah Christie 40 assists, Mandy Mahan 9 kills, 6 blocks; Kameron Mclain 33 kills, 11 digs; Marlena Norwood 25 digs, Lauren Rehn 13 digs, Katherine Towslee 11 kills.

Oct. 10 Match EASTSIDE CATHOLIC 3, HOLY NAMES 1 Eastside Catholic 21 25 25 25 – 3 Hoy Names 25 22 11 19 – 1 Eastside Catholic statistics: Nicole Boswell 17 digs, Hannah Christie 27 assists, Mandy Mahan 8 kills, Kameron Mclain 20 kills, Marlena Norwood 22 digs, Lauren Rehn 13 digs, Katherine Towslee 10 kills.

Prep boys cross country KingCo Conference 4A Oct. 12 Meets GARFIELD 38, SKYLINE 40, ROOSEVELT 76, BALLARD 88 At Lincoln Park, 5,000 meters Top finishers: 1, Keegan Symmes (Sky) 15:44; 2, Alex Bowns (Bal) 15:45; 3, Jamie Coughlin (Gar) 15:53; 4, Ryan Peterson (Gar) 16:10; 5, Adam Houston (Roos) 16:18; 6, Dylan Hayes (Gar) 16:20; 7, Joey Nakao (Sky) 16:40; 8, Galen Caldwell (Roos) 16:45; 9, Jay Bowlby (Sky) 16:46; 10, Cameron Stanish (Gar) 16:46; 11, Kevin Tidball (Sky) 16:47; 12, Brendan Long (Sky) 16:51; 13, Matt Rush (Bal) 16:51; 14, Grant Uselman (Sky) 16:53; 15, Jared Moore (Gar) 16:56; 16, Victor Bailly (Bal) 16:57; 17, Aaron Schlossman (Gar) 17:08; 18, Julian Garvue (Gar) 17:08; 19, Lynden Dowell (Roos) 17:12; 20, Sam Carpenter (Roos) 17:19.

Other Skyline runners: 21, Tennyson Hainsworth 17:22; 22, Hunter Weiffenbach 17:22; 23, Joseph DeMatteo 17:31; 28, Jamon Rogers 17:50; 29, Brandon Clark 17:55; 30, Jonah McVay 18:03; 42, Ryan Abrahamsen 18:49; 43, Drew Matthews 18:51; 45, Eric Tidball 18:59; 47, Agogliati Lorenzo 19:11.

REDMOND 27, EASTLAKE 45, NEWPORT 61, ISSAQUAH 101 At Hartman Park, Redmond, 5K Top finishers: 1, Johnathan Stevens (Red) 16:23; 2, Max Dunn (Red) 16:43; 3, Zach Kirwan (Red) 16:48; 4, Mark Milloy (East) 16:56; 5, Michael Flindt (East) 16:58; 6, Grant Stein (New) 17:01; 7, Christopher Chamberlain (New) 17:08; 8, Connor Dorsey (East) 17:10; 9, James Hamilton (New) 17:13; 10, Carter Aebi (Red) 17:20; 11, Harry Engel (Red) 17:23; 12, Tom Howe (Iss) 17:26; 13, Josh Caile (East) 17:37; 14, Billy Van Hoff (Red) 17:46; 15, Ethan Freed (East) 17:46; 16, Justin Suver (East) 17:58; 17, Matthew Gabel (New) 17:58; 18, Eric Keenan (Red) 17:59; 19, Adam Heninger (Iss) 18:00; 20, Dylan Cole (East) 18:03.

Other Issaquah, Eastlake runners: 22, Caleb Walin (Iss) 18:04; 23, Caleb Olson (East) 18:06; 24, Kyle Suver (East) 18:08; 26, Casey Kramer (East) 18:19; 29, Jack Corscadden (Iss) 18:26; 30, Keagan Moo (Iss) 18:28; 31, Patrick Violette (Iss) 18:29; 32, Hunter Sapienza (Iss) 18:29; 33, Andrew Larsen (Iss) 18:30; 34, Matthew Morrison (East) 18:33; 35, Jerdon Helgeson (Iss) 18:34; 36, Jack Ogilvie (Iss) 18:34; 38, Reece Bynum (East) 18:35; 40, Grant Flindt (East) 18:42; 41, Frank Menz (East) 18:46; 45, Nicholas Randolph (East) 18:54; 46, Shane Cornfield (East) 18:54; 48, Alex Kane (Iss) 19:07; 49, Dallas Beckwith (Iss) 19:07; 51, Logan Nash (East) 19:09; 52, Dustin Jessum (East) 19:12; 54, Dylan Pruitt (East) 19:12; 55, Joseph Fonte (East) 19:13; 58, Jack Lauzon (East) 19:27; 50, Sean Johnson (Iss) 19:34; 61, Nicholas Shuey (East) 19:36; 65, Daniel Steen (East) 19:39; 67, Danny Keogh (East) 19:50; 69, Kyle Whyte (East) 19:54; 70, Jack Herbst (Iss) 19:54; 72, Bryan Yue (Iss)

19:59; 77, Andrew Hartman (Iss) 20:20; 79, Austin Amaya (East) 20:23; 80, Kieran Caile (East) 20:23; 81, Brendan Courage (Iss) 20:26; 85, Zach Johnson (Iss) 20:33; 88, Ryan Martinez (East) 20:39; 90, Eric Xu (East) 20:42; 91, Caleb Platt (East) 20:42; 94, Henry Pratt (Iss) 20:44; 96, Jacob Brunette (Iss) 20:46; 100, Greg Lauer (East) 20:53; 101, Louden Ivey (Iss) 20:54.

KingCo Conference 3A/2A Oct. 12 Meet LIBERTY 37, MOUNT SI 40, MERCER ISLAND 47 At Mount Si Top finishers: 1, Nick Knoblich (Lib) 17:28; 2, Aaron Bowe (Lib) 17:30; 3, Brett Bottomley (MI) 17:49; 4, Ben Houldridge (Mount Si) 17:49; 5, Dominick Canady (Mount Si) 17:50; 6, Richard Carmichael (Mount Si) 17:52; 7, Joey Chiang (MI) 17:55; 8, Austin Scarff (MI) 18:01; 9, Mason Goodman (Lib) 18:06; 10, Daniel Meyer (MI) 18:07; 11, Hiron Redman (Lib) 18:17; 12, Tommy Kirby (Mount Si) 18:27; 13, Ryan Olson (Mount Si) 18:38; 14, Jason Murray (Lib) 18:43; 15, Trevor Sytsma (Lib) 18:44; 16, Spencer Ricks (Mount Si) 18:47; 17, Sam Egan (Mount Si) 18:48; 18, Collin Olson (Lib) 18:56; 19, Thomas Brown (MI) 19:01; 20, Nathan Gallatin (MI) 19:04.

Other Liberty, Mount Si runners: 22, Conor Wray (L) 19:20; 23, Taylor Malueg (L) 19:22; 25, Wyatt Johnson (L) 19:29; 28, Landon Storrud (MS) 19:41; 32, Sean Hecker (MS) 19:48; 33, Justin Klock (MS) 19:49; 34, Colby Bently (MS) 19:51; 36, Michael Shaw (L) 20:27; 37, Zach Chucka (L) 20:30; 38, Sam Isen (MS) 20:34; 41, Paul Nelson (MS) 21:17; 42, Nick Bliesner (L) 21:22; 45, Thomas Lowry (L) 21:33; 48, Shane Coate (L) 21:57; 53, Jacob Johnston (L) 22:09; 59, Quinton Cook (MS) 22:59; 60, Bailey Rosenberger (MS) 23:24; 61, Dean Sydnor (MS) 23:37; 62, Seth Houldridge (MS) 23:38; 63, Jordan Rawley (L) 23:41; 64, Aaron Robey (MS) 23:58; 65, Kevin Carter (MS) 24:42; 69, Jordan Engen (MS) 28:30; 71, Andrew Schmidt (MS) 28:35.

Prep girls cross country KingCo Conference 4A Oct. 12 Meets SKYLINE 41, ROOSEVELT 47, GARFIELD 73, BALLARD 129 At Lincoln Park Top finishers: 1, Natalie Sharp (Gar) 18:56; 2, Hannah Swanson (Roos) 19:27; 3, Samantha Krahling (Sky) 19:34; 4, Grace Hodge (Roos) 20:01; 5, Anna Mirenzi (Bal) 20:04; 6, Olivia Mancl (Roos) 20:04; 7, Kathryn Steele (Sky) 20:14; 8, Christina Smith (Sky) 20:20; 9, Raisah Vesteinsdottir (Gar) 20:22; 10, Kendall Jones (Gar) 20:27; 11, Caitlin McIlwain (Sky) 20:33; 12, Haley Smith (Sky) 20:37; 13, Elise Pletcher (Sky) 20:45; 14, Alyson Fromm (Bal) 20:48; 15, Claire Shearer (Roos) 21:01; 16, Kaylie Greninger (Sky) 21:06; 17, Mckenzie Deutsch (Sky) 21:07; 18, Camille Lagron (Sky) 21:07; 19, Tori Fuller (Sky) 21:09; 20, Mia Vanderwitt (Roos) 21:09.

Other Skyline runners: 23, Kayla Nancarrow 21:21; 28, Erin Bryar 21:29; 30, Maria Fuller 21:41; 35, Lucia Gruber 22:14; 36, Morgan Alverson 22:15; 39, Maddi Hutson 22:22; 46, Olga Esmeral 22:53; 50, Dori Dazell 23:07; 52, Kristina Helling 23:20; 56, Emily Blessington 23:37; 58, Kendall Spencer 23:58; 60, Alexandra Bedbury 23:59; 61, Coco Ferris 24:02; 68, Kaitlyn Oss 24:42; 72, Caroline Cindric 25:00; 73, Emma Strang 25:01; 89, Jordan Tingman 26:46; 91, Isabella Hanreiter 27:42; 93, Pooja Puvvadi 27:44; 98, Marieve Legault 28:54; 102, Niyathi Chakrapani 29:34; 103, Cassidy Ward 29:38.

REDMOND 31, ISSAQUAH 47, EASTLAKE 50, NEWPORT 106 At Hartman Park, Redmond, 5K race Top finishers: 1, Anatasia Kosykh (East) 18:53; 2, Megan LeGresley (Red) 18:58; 3, Kelsey Dunn (Red) 19:28; 4, Ellie Clawson (Iss) 19:38; 5, Nicole Stinnet (East) 19:39; 6, Holly Young (Red) 19:43; 7, Morgan O’Connor (East) 19:45; 8, Rachel Osgood (Iss) 19:54; 9, Mekenna Mossman (Red) 20:04; 10, Ellie Hendrickson (Iss) 20:14; 11, Allie Nichols (Red) 20:18; 12, Cayla Seligman (Iss) 20:21; 13, Abby Wilson (Iss) 20:26; 14, Michelle Altizer (New) 20:38; 15, Kate Wagner (Red) 20:39; 16, Lila Rice (Red) 20:43; 17, Allison Lee (New) 20:44; 18, Olivia Palenscar (East) 20:49; 19, Mandy Rusch (Red) 20:52; 20, Hannah Taylor (East) 21:01.

Other Issaquah, Eastlake runners: 23, Grace Johnson (East) 21;12; 25, Amanda Chalfant (Iss) 21:36; 26, Abby Irwin (Iss) 21:37; 27, Katrina LaTurner (East) 21:55; 34, Anna Carskadan (East) 22:11; 38, Nicole Rader (East) 22:14; 39, Devon Bortfeld (East) 22;14; 40, Hannah Heinonen (East) 22:16; 41, Hayley Alexander (Iss) 22:21; 44, Rachel Zigman (East) 22:44; 45, Nikita Siroha (Iss) 22;45; 46, Mei Mei Levy (East) 22:46; 47, Kathleen Adkins (Iss) 22:46; 50, Rachel Steinmetz (East) 22:56; 52, Madison Callan (Iss) 23:25; 58, Kaylee Hanson (East) 23:39; 59, Lindsay Yamane (Iss) 23:44; 61, Erin Burdette (Iss) 23:47; 65, Marlene Masterloo (East) 23:56; 67, Emilie Rousseau (East) 24:08; 68, Stephanie Yose (Iss) 24:10; 71, Annika Barnett (Iss) 24:13; 74, Veronica Hughes (East) 24:22; 75, Sam Salmon (Iss) 25:01; 76, Jasmine Shen (Iss) 25:06; 79, Amy Newfeld (East) 25:45; 81, Emilie James (Iss) 25:48; 84, Laura Tochko (Iss) 26:13; 85, Sierra Schulte (Iss) 26;20; 86, Tara Fassen (Iss) 26:36; 87, Maddie Bennett (Iss) 26:56; 88, Julian Hsu (Iss) 26:58; 89, Genevieve MacDonald (Iss) 27:01; 95, Emma Longo (Iss) 27:42; 98, Ami Li (Iss) 29:13.

KingCo Conference 3A/2A Oct. 12 Meet MERCER ISLAND 27, LIBERTY 39, MOUNT SI 70 At Mount Si Top finishers: 1, Katia Matora (MI) 19:30; 2, Bailey Scott (Mount Si) 20:13; 3, Allie Wood (Lib) 20:15; 4, Mikayla Davis (MI) 20:22; 5, Alida Scalzo (MI) 20:28; 6, Amy Broska (Lib) 20:31; 7, Sarah Bliesner (Lib) 20:54; 8, Laura Brindley (MI) 20:54; 9, Linden Elggren (MI) 21:06; 10, Lauren Knebel (MI) 21:15; 11, Megan Larson (Lib) 21:18; 12, Aimee Christensen (Lib) 21:19; 13, Megan Chucka (Lib) 21:24; 14, Angelina Belceto (Mount Si) 21:25; 15, Rachel Shaw (Lib) 21:33; 16, Mary Wingerson (MI) 22:13; 17, Jordan Raymond (Lib) 22:19; 18, Sydney Zeldes (MI) 22:30; 19, Rhianna Holmes (MI) 22:48; 20, Erin Rylands (Mount Si) 22:57.

Other Liberty, Mount Si runners: 21, Ashley Jackson (MS) 23:05; 24, Delaney Hollis (MS) 23:29; 25, Ella Thompson (MS) 23:44; 26, Madelynn Esteb (MS) 23:51; 27, Annie Shaw (MS) 24:01; 28, Hannah Matson (L) 24:09; 29, Sydney Hopper (L) 24:10; 30, Denise Blohowiak (L) 24:12; 31, Daniele Curley (MS) 24:14; 35, Madeleine Bezanson (MS) 25:09; 41, Mari Patis (MS) 26:07; 43, Stacy Christensen (L) 26:29; 44, Madison Smith (L) 26:48; 48, Stena Peterson (MS) 28:44; 49, Jordan Koellen (MS) 29:33; 50, Emily Olthouse (MS) 29:34.

State rankings

By Washington Coaches Class 4A: 1, Bellarmine Prep; 2, Eisenhower; 3, Redmond; 4, Henry Jackson; 5, Thomas Jefferson; 6, Tahoma; 7, Snohomish; 8, Eastlake; 9, Issaquah; 10, Central Valley.

Others: Union, Lewis & Clark, Skyline.

Prep boys golf KingCo Conference 4A DISTRICT 2 TOURNAMENT At Willows Run GC, par 72 Team scores: 1, Woodinville 53.25 points; 2, Eastlake 45.25; 3, Redmond 30.5; 4, Skyline 27.5; 5, Inglemoor 22.5; 6, Issaquah 22; 7, Ballard 15.75; 8, Newport 11.5; 9, Roosevelt 0.5.

Final scores: 1, Kyle Lindor (W) 73-73-146; 2, Cole Hublou (Ing) 76-74-150; 3, Lyle Rudnicki (W) 73-77150; 4, Kelley Sullivan (Sky) 79-73-152, Michael Day (Ballard) 78-74-152, Garrett Foss (W) 75-77-152; 7, Li Wang (East) 80-73-153, Spencer Weiss (East) 77-76153; 9, Kevin Zhao (New) 78-76-154, Jack Fisher (East) 76-78-154.

KINGCO 4 MEDALIST TOURNAMENT At Willows Run GC (Eagles Talon), par 72 Team scores: 1, Woodinville 388; 2, Redmond 390; 3, Eastlake 396; 4, Issaquah 401; 5, Skyline 410; 6, Newport 413; 7, Roosevelt 420; 8, Inglemoor 421; 9, Ballard 432; 10, Bothell 434; 11, Garfield 467.

Individual scores: 1, Lyle Rudnicki (Red) 73, Kyle Lindor (W) 73; 3, Oliver Rudnicki (Red) 74; 4, Garrett Foss (W) 75; 5, Jack Fisher (East) 76, Cole Hublou (Ing) 76; 7, Taylor Swingle (Iss) 77, Will Sharp (East) 77, Spencer Weiss (East) 77; 10, Max Carter (W) 78.

KingCo Conference 3A/2A MEDALIST TOURNAMENT At Willows Run (Coyote Crest), par 72 Individual scores: 1, Frank Garber (Juanita) 73; 2, Steve Hopkins (LW) 75; 3, Andrew Kennedy (Interlake) 77, Patrick Sato (Interlake) 77; 5, Sean Ballsmith (MS) 79, Mitchell Gardunia (MS) 79, Sam Fisher (Interlake) 79; 9, Radleigh Ang (Bellevue) 81; 10, Chandler Hawk

(Bellevue) 82, Sam Johnson (Bellevue) 72, Grant Cole (Interlake) 82, J.J. Schultz (LW) 82.

Prep girls swimming KingCo Conference 4A Oct. 7 Meet ROOSEVELT 111, ISSAQUAH 75 200 medley relay: 1, Roosevelt (Cassie Tallman, Johanna Brunner, Maddie Maider, Dorothy Anderson) 1:57.97; 2, Issaquah (Stacy Maier, Kayla Flaten, Kellie Langan, Gabrielle Gevers) 1:59.34. 200 freestyle: 1, Annie Galloway (Roos) 2:07.78; 3, Vyvian Luu (Iss) 2:31.65; 4, Miranda Hansen (Iss) 2:31.65. 200 individual medley: 1, Tallman (Roos) 2:15.86; 3, Flaten (Iss) 2:18.87; 5, Emma Wrightson (Iss) 2:39.52. 50 freestyle: 1, Maider (Roos) 27.25; 2, Kayla Foremski (Iss) 27.31; 3, Gevers (Iss) 27.58. Diving: 1, Kaley Rohring (Iss) 126.20; 2, Amanda Dumont (Iss) 123.96; 3, Rebecca Chinn (Iss) 95.75.

100 butterfly: 1, Maier (Iss) 1:04.16; 2, Langan (Iss) 1:07.52; 5, Gevers (Iss) 1:14.95. 100 freestyle: 1, Hannah Rosen (Roos) 59.67; 2, Foremski (Iss) 59.76; 3, Kylie Lynch (Iss) 1:02.26. 500 freestyle: 1, Maider (Roos) 5:24.30; 4, Sarah Mirahsani (Iss) 6:49.25; 5, Christine Rasquinha (Iss) 6:59.47. 200 freestyle relay: 1, Roosevelt (Anderson, Hannah Benson, Brunner, Tallman) 1:49.39; 2, Issaquah (Wrightson, Paige Chisholm, Kimberly Meacham, Foremski) 1:58.04. 100 backstroke: 1, Benson (Roos) 1:07.99; 2, Flaten (Iss) 1:09.84; 5, Lynch (Iss) 1:13.48. 100 breaststroke: 1, Tallman (Roos) 1:10.43; 3, Langan (Iss) 1:19.89; 5, Wrightson (Iss) 1:23.06.

400 freestyle relay: 1, Issaquah (Gevers, Maier, Foremski, Flaten) 3:56.26.

Oct. 14 Meet GARFIELD 96, ISSAQUAH 87 200 medley relay: 1, Issaquah (Kylie Lynch, Kayla Flaten, Gabrielle Gevers, Kayla Foremski) 2:05.23. 200 freestyle: 1, Kelsey Walter (G) 2:14.81. 200 individual medley: 1, Silke Bachhuber (G) 2:29.18. 50 freestyle: 1, Flaten (Iss) 26.36. Diving: 1, Caitlin Chambers (G) 235.80.

100 butterfly: 1, Helen Tang (G) 1:11.37. 100 freestyle: 1, Gevers (Iss) 1:00.32. 500 freestyle: 1, Flaten (Iss) 5:31.23. 200 freestyle relay: 1, Garfield (Jackie Monstream, Chambers, Sylvie Nemeth, Eloise Evans) 1:54.91. 100 backstroke: 1, Hallie Huffacker (G) 1:09.89. 100 breaststroke: 1, Emma Wrightson (Iss) 1:21.47. 400 freestyle relay: 1, Issaquah (Flaten, Lynch, Sarah Mirahsani, Foremski) 4:04.6.

Prep boys tennis KingCo Conference 4A Oct. 12 Matches SKYLINE 7, BOTHELL 0 Singles: Aman Manji (S) d. Kensa Kawamura 6-0, 60; Mitchell Johnson (S) d. Nelson Cooper 6-3, 6-3; Prithvi Ramkumar (S) d. Evan Lund 6-2, 6-0; Tim Wong (S) d. Adlai Nisseh 6-0, 6-1.

Doubles: Brayden Hansen-Alex Wu (S) d. Alec Barrett-Dane Lindell 6-2, 6-3; Inchul You-Nick Ziats (S) d. Galen Richards-Toby Dunkelberg 6-1, 6-0; Manuel Larrain-Griffin Johnson (S) d. Austin Porcincela-Paul Crane 6-0, 6-2.

EASTLAKE 4, GARFIELD 3 Single: Vicente Varas (E) d. Diego Alcara 6-3, 6-3; Mitch Loofburrow (E) d. Jared Storz 6-3, 6-0; Andrew Garland (E) d. Jack Peterson 6-2, 6-0; Marco Bornstein (G) d. Jon Lockwood 6-4, 6-3.

Doubles: Jacob Wall-Aaron Schecter (G) d. Santiago Varas-Tim Tan 6-4, 6-2; Fez Ulargui-Chris Lockwood (E) d. Pat Morgan-Andrew Schwartz 7-6, 6-0; Joe Fitzpatrick-Whit Searrens (G) d. Ryan Holmdahl-Evan Green 6-2, 6-3.

Oct. 13 Match SKYLINE 4, ISSAQUAH 3 Singles: Aman Manji (S) d. Evan Cheung 6-1, 6-2; Andrew Kim (Iss) d. Mitchell Johnson 6-2, 6-3; Richard Bennett (Iss) d. Prithvi Ramkumar 6-3, 6-2; Tim Wong (S) d. Andrew Okada 6-1, 6-3.

Doubles: Brayden Hansen-Alex Wu (S) d. John Brendel-Matt Gonn 6-4, 6-4; Inchul You-Nick Ziats (S) d.

Jeffrey Wong-David Park 6-4, 7-5; Brennan SmallwoodNick Baydal (Iss) d. Manuel Larrain-Griffin Johnson 6-1, 4-6, 6-1.

Oct. 14 Match EASTLAKE 6, INGLEMOOR 1 Singles – Vicente Varas (E) d. Ryan Pack 6-0, 6-0; Mitch Loofburrow (E) d. Scott Zhang 6-2, 6-0; Andrew Garland (E) d. Derek Wang 6-0, 6-3; Jon Lockwood (E) d. Nick Paulay 6-2, 6-1.

Doubles – Santiago Varas-Tim Tan (E) d. Zach Church-Jeff Chin 6-3, 6-3; Fez Ulargui-Chris Lockwood (E) d. Sam Maylor-Thomas Lancaster 6-1, 6-1; Chris Berger-Rahul Bachal (Ing) d. Adam James-Colin Hill 5-7, 7-5, 10-7.

KingCo Conference 3A/2A Oct. 13 Match MOUNT SI 4, LIBERTY 3 Singles: Josh Hamann (MS) d. Michael Payant 6-1, 6-1; Nate Popp (MS) d. Brandon Yan 7-5, 6-2; Azhar Khandehar (MS) d. Blake Reeve 6-4, 6-2; Brock Mullens (Lib) d. Jordan Koppa 6-0, 6-2.

Doubles: Justice Canley-Tyler Le (Lib) d. Alex PeaseJake Rouches 6-4, 6-3; Kevin McLaughlin-Matthew Griffin (MS) d. Jacob Lindstrom-Brian Linnenkamp 6-4, 6-2; Matthew Cao-Senn Kleiner (Lib) d Rhett HanleyJackson Foster 6-2, 2-6, 12-10.

Oct. 12 Match SAMMAMISH 7, MOUNT SI 0 Singles: Issac So (S) d. Josh Hamann 6-3, 6-0; Anthony Kao (S) d. Nate Popp 6-4, 6-4; Connor Church (S) d. Azhar Khandekar 6-2, 6-4; Erik Wang (S) d.

Jordan Koppa 6-1, 6-0.

Doubles: Ethan Romney-Kevin Monahan (S) d. Alex Pease-Jake Rouches 6-3, 6-3; Alvin Tran-Neima Rostami (S) d. Kevin McLaughlin-Matthew Griffin 6-0, 6-3; Jason Hubbard-Aaron Tam (S) d. Clint Christen-Van Magnan 61, 6-1.

Junior football Greater Eastside League ROOKIES DIVISION Skyline Green 20, Cedarcrest Black 6 Skyline Black 18, Inglemoor 12 Woodinville Black 26, Skyline White 13 Wolverines White 41, Issaquah Purple 14 Lake Washington 12, Issaquah Gold 7 Bothell White 50, Eastlake Red 39 Eastlake Black 26, Woodinville Green 0 Mount Si Red 34, Wolverines Gold 31 Mount Si White 18, Wolverines Blue 0 Mount Si Grey 19, Bellevue Bears 0 Newport 26, Five Star-Liberty 0 Bainbridge Island 19, Five Star-Hazen 7 CUBS DIVISION Issaquah Purple 32, Newport Gold 0 Issaquah Gold 28, Lake Washington White 0 Bothell Blue 31, Issaquah White 0 Bothell White 32, Eastlake White 13 Skyline Green 40, Cedarcrest Black 13 Inglemoor 20, Skyline Black 6 Eastlake Black 28, Skyline White 6 Five Star-Liberty 32, Eastlake Red 14 Bainbridge Island 7, Five Star-Hazen 6 Mount Si Red 42, Juanita 13 Wolverines Blue 25, Mount Si White 6 SOPHOMORES DIVISION Issaquah Purple 30, Lake Washington Purple 0 Issaquah White 30, Bothell Blue 2 Lake Washington White 7, Issaquah Gold 0 Skyline White 12, Eastlake Black 6 Skyline Black 18, Inglemoor Gold 0 Skyline Green 30, Bellevue Bears 0 Eastlake Red 32, Five Star Gold 20 Woodinville Black 38, Five Star White 6 Five Star Blue 28, Bainbridge Island 14 Juanita 38, Mount Si Red 12 Mount Si Grey 70, Eastlake White 40 Wolverines Blue 47, Mount Si White 18 JUNIOR VARSITY DIVISION Skyline Green 38, Inglemoor Black 8 Skyline Black 40, Inglemoor Gold 14 Mercer Island 41, Skyline White 18 Bothell White 22, Issaquah Purple 6 Lake Washington White 28, Issaquah Gold 14 Juanita 43, Eastlake Red 21 Woodinville Green 26, Five Star 0 Eastlake Black 32, Mount Si 8 VARSITY DIVISION Issaquah 54, Lake Washington 26 Wolverines 28, Skyline Green 12 Skyline White 37, Woodinville 6 Five Star-Liberty 34, Bainbridge Island 16 Bothell 32, Five Star-Hazen 0 Eastlake 38. Cedarcrest 10 Mount Si 48, Mercer Island 36

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PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED

Learning organically

BY TOM CORRIGAN

Third-graders Sophia Jones (left) and Petek Mertan help put together the newest creation to adorn a fence surrounding the school garden at Grand Ridge Elementary School.

The city of Issaquah, the Cascade Water Alliance, Seattle Tilth and Cedar Grove Composting were on hand at Issaquah Middle School Oct. 29 to help students and teachers mark the successful planting of an organic and sustainable garden. Above, Seattle Tilth’s Lisa Taylor talks to students about worm composting bins at Issaquah Middle School. Below, some students and staff enjoy the fruits of their labors.

Grand Ridge students are on the fence about art

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter

T

he day was overcast and windy, a pretty typical fall day in Issaquah.

But since there was no rain, when they came out for recess, some of the youngsters at Grand Ridge Elementary School in the Issaquah Highlands were nevertheless asked to help out in the school’s community garden.

No, since it’s October, they aren’t actually doing any planting. Instead, PTSA member and Grand Ridge garden coordinator Julie Hart has arranged another art project for her temporary charges.

“We’ve got nine months of gray,” Hart said referring to the local weather.

So while she does plan for some year-round gardening, for now she has come up with a way to add some color to the school garden even in the nastiest weather.

“We started out with a simple carrot design,” she said, pointing to the colorful carrot that adorns the chain link fence around the Grand Ridge garden.

With Hart and other volunteers helping out, students created the carrot out of colored flagging tape, tape such as you might find at a construction site. The tape was cut into strips, and then wrapped

BY TOM CORRIGAN

The carrot in the background was the first artwork to go up on the chain link fence surrounding the Grand Ridge school garden. around the fencing in the carrot pattern.

Hart said the project is a simple one, but it keeps Grand Ridge’s students involved with the garden.

A flower and a tomato have joined the carrot on the fence.

“It’s fun,” said Sophia Jones, 8, as she attached strips to the fence for the school’s newest creation, a leaf. She added she also has enjoyed working in the garden itself.

“It’s cool to watch stuff grow,”

she said.

“Anything they can do at the garden, they get excited about,” Hart said.

For her, the garden really seems to be the point, the artwork on the fence seemingly a kind of fun sideline.

Established four years ago, the garden currently contains 18 beds.

For the colder months, Hart intends to place what she called hoop houses over crops that can

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withstand a little cold, such as certain types of lettuce and bok choy. The hoop houses are basically homemade greenhouses consisting of plastic sheeting over a frame of PVC piping. Students also spend a lot of time weeding the garden year round.

Hart said her most recent harvest was just a few weeks ago.

Naturally, students helped gather in the bounty.

“It’s so funny watching all the kids try to grab as many vegetables as possible,” Hart said.

Students are allowed to take the gathered goods home with them.

Hart has been helping tend the Grand Ridge garden since its inception. She encourages teachers to incorporate it into their lesson plans, and uses cafeteria leftovers for composting.

“We just try to get the whole school involved as much as we can,” Hart said.

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Published in The Issaquah Press on 10/19/11 02-2253 LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF ISSAQUAH 2012 PRELIMINARY BUDGET ON FILE WITH CITY CLERK AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Notice is hereby given that the 2012 Preliminary Budget for the City of Issaquah has been filed with the City Clerk. Copies of said budget are available for review at City Hall (Finance Department and City Clerk’s Office), 130 East Sunset Way, and at the Issaquah King County Library, 10 West

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Proposed King County budget touts savings Residents call for human services support at local budget hearing

By Warren Kagarise and Christina Lords Issaquah Press reporters As the King County Council begins to listen to hours of public testimony at a series of budget hearings, one overall theme became clear at its Oct. 13 session — support human services now, before it’s too late.

Derek Franklin, a Sammamish resident and representative of the Alliance of Eastside Agencies, said the county must begin to formulate a dedicated and stable longterm funding source for human services, such as those aimed at protecting residents from homelessness, domestic violence and inadequate legal counsel.

“Although sometimes obscured by the high socioeconomic status of the Eastside, human service needs here are quite high,” he said during a public hearing at Pacific

Issaquah drive-in earns King County business honor The Triple XXX Rootbeer Drivein, Issaquah’s iconic destination for burgers and root beer floats, earned the Minority Small Business of the Year title in countywide competition Oct. 12.

The drive-in bested other businesses in the inaugural King County Executive’s Small Business Awards.

The honor is the latest for Triple XXX proprietor José Enciso Sr. The longtime drive-in owner received dual accolades in May, including Business Person of the Year, at the Issaquah Community Awards Luncheon. The city also inducted Enciso into the Issaquah Hall of Fame, the community’s highest honor.

Honorees received the King County awards during a Meydenbauer Center ceremony attended by almost 250 people from local chambers of commerce, cities and small business organizations.

King County Executive Dow Constantine, corporations and nonprofit organizations announced the Small Business Awards finalists Aug. 29. Organizers received more than 125 nomi-

Cascade Middle School near Issaquah. “We urge the budget committee to establish a long-term fix for the human services safety net. It’s been significantly dismantled over the years by budget cuts, and people … are beginning to fall through the cracks.”

King County Executive Dow Constantine’s 2012 budget proposal earned praise from County Council members for eschewing cuts to services in the general fund — elections, law enforcement and other basic government functions.

The overall budget proposal is $5.3 billion, including $648 million in the general fund.

Using $1 million from savings, Constantine proposed creating a fund for human services to invest in nonprofit organizations offering food for the needy, support for the homeless and more.

Steve Roberts, executive director for Congregations for the Homeless, echoed Franklin’s sentiments in increasing funding to services for the homeless on the Eastside.

He praised Constantine’s supplement that has been added for human services, but said more needs to be done to protect the most vulnerable residents of King County.

“As you know in these tough

economic times, unfortunately, as funding goes down, needs go up,” he said. “We really need to address the needs of the hungry and the homeless and the poor.

It’s really when we address those needs, we reflect our humanity.”

Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, Issaquah’s representative and a member of the council’s budget team, said the council hears and understands the human services message on a financial and personal level. The more opportunities the county has to keep people out of the justice system and prevent incarceration, the better, she said.

“We just got some information that says for every $1 you put into prevention, you save $60 on the back end,” she added. “We want families to stay together. Having somebody to be able to continue working and taking care of their family is really important.”

Constantine protected most services in the 2012 county budget, but called for reduced road maintenance on roads in unincorporated areas, including some near Issaquah.

Cost reductions elsewhere could not salvage funds for roads in rural and unincorporated areas.

In mid-September, Constantine proposed a plan to prioritize road maintenance, snow removal and

storm response on a tiered system to save money for the cashstrapped Road Services Division.

Streets on a lower tier — including Tiger Mountain Road Southeast, Southeast Klahanie Boulevard and sections of Southeast May Valley Road west of state Route 900 — could receive little or no snow or storm response, especially during major storms.

In recent years, annexations of unincorporated areas into nearby cities, lower property valuations and a dip in gas tax revenue caused the fund to drop 18 percent, from $128 million to $106 million.

Issaquah School Board member Chad Magendanz encouraged the council to review the proposed reduced road maintenance to make sure it doesn’t overlap with the school district’s snow removal routes.

“Right now, many of our snow routes are in your lowest served tier,” he said at the budget hearing. “Without any snow plow service, we’re going to have to cancel school.”

Officials projected a $20 million shortfall in the general fund for 2012, but Constantine said savings across the board prevented the expected deficit from materializing.

nations from 30 award partners — including the Issaquah Chamber of Commerce.

Issaquah-based Trans-NET Inc., a shipping company focused on Far East ports in Russia, received a nomination in the Exporting Small Business of the Year category.

Issaquah Chamber of Commerce and city officials nominated the local businesses for the honor.

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Rosellini swore Constantine into office as a state senator, and offered the county executive counsel in the ensuing years.

“His impact on Washington during a transformative period in our history cannot be underestimated. He was elected governor in 1956, helped the region step onto the world stage through the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, and drove construction of much of our major infrastructure,” Constantine said in a statement. “These were formative years for me, and I will always remember the governor fondly. Our responsibility is to preserve and renew his generation’s legacy.”

Sammamish, Issaquah and North Bend officials had balked at the extra cost. The Issaquah headquarters technically belongs to Fire District 10, although it is shared by all of the partners in EFR. Officials questioned paying for a remodel, and then possibly losing the use of the facility, because some EFR partners have made noise about leaving the partnership when it expires in 2014.

EFR staffers had proposed creating an amortization schedule to set how much each partner would be repaid if it left the agency.

Such a schedule, however, would require amending the agreement that underpins EFR, a time-consuming process that would require approval by the governing boards of each of the five partner jurisdictions.

At a Sept. 19 meeting, Wes Collins, EFR deputy chief of planning, proposed a $50,000 remodel — simply installing a new women’s bathroom on the second floor of the headquarters building.

Because the new proposal was relatively small, the EFR board agreed to pay for the remodel out of reserve funds, and not bother with changing EFR’s charter.

Local leaders commemorate late former governor Issaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger and King County Executive Dow Constantine offered tributes after 101-year-old former Gov. Albert D. Rosellini died Oct. 10.

Gov. Chris Gregoire called for flags at public buildings across the state to be lowered to halfstaff. Issaquah leaders lowered flags at City Hall and other municipal buildings.

Rosellini served as governor from 1957 to 1965.

“He was widely respected and regarded, I think, with affection amongst people,” Frisinger said.

“I saw a very long and full life.”

Frisinger met Rosellini at political functions and as Democrats gathered for state conventions

EFR scales back Issaquah headquarters remodel Eastside Fire &Rescue reduced the size of a proposed remodel, and the agency’s board unanimously approved the smaller proposal Sept. 19.

EFR staffers had initially proposed a $500,000 remodel of the facility to include expanding office space, adding storage and putting in a new women’s bathroom on the building’s second floor.

Credit crisis

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A man in the 900 block of Highwood Drive Southwest said his credit card information had been used to make fraudulent charges before 4:08 p.m. Sept. 28. The estimated loss is $505.

Halted Police arrested a 28-year-old Issaquah woman for driving with a suspended license in the 200 block of Southeast Bush Street at 4:15 p.m. Sept. 28.

Tickle the ivories Police responded to a possible runaway in the 1200 block of Northeast Park Drive at 9:22 p.m.

Sept. 28 after a girl left her piano lesson without telling anyone. She walked to Eastside Fire & Rescue Station 73 and said she was stressed out. Police resolved the incident.

Hot and fresh A supervisor at Papa John’s Pizza, 721 228th Ave. S.E., said money had gone missing from the store before Sept. 30. The manager suspected a recently fired employee. The estimated loss is $500.

Stopped Police cited and released a 58year-old Seattle woman for driving with a suspended license along East Lake Sammamish Parkway at 4:09 p.m. Sept. 29.

Drugs Police arrested juvenile males for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in the 600 block of Front Street South at 6:54 p.m. Sept. 29.

Hot and cold

Salmon daze

Police searched for a missing 6year-old girl during the Salmon Days Festival near Front Street North and Northwest Alder Place at 5:13 p.m. Oct. 2. Eastside Fire & Rescue personnel located the girl and returned her to her mother.

Stuck Police arrested a 25-year-old man for driving with a suspended license in the 100 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard at 8:26 p.m. Oct. 2.

Stripped Copper wire was stolen from a house under construction in the Glencoe development before Oct. 3.

Text trouble Police responded to a Sammamish woman Oct. 3 after her father received a text message from her ex-boyfriend. The woman has a no-contact order against the ex-boyfriend.

Juiced Electrical wires were damaged at a jobsite in the 3500 block of Northeast Harrison Street before 8:08 a.m. Oct. 3. The estimated loss is $400.

Defaced Police discovered graffiti in the 1600 block of Northwest Mall Street at 1:45 p.m. Oct. 3. The estimated cost to remove the graffiti is $100.

Pedal to the metal Police arrested a 31-year-old Snoqualmie woman for a traffic offense at Front Street and Sunset Way at 2:14 p.m. Oct. 3.

Police arrested a 22-year-old North Bend man for theft and criminal trespass after he ate ice cream at QFC, 2902 228th Ave. S.E., and left without paying at about 2:30 a.m. Sept. 30. The man attempted to give the employees a paper copy of his driver’s license “as collateral,” and then left the store.

Traffic trouble

Wireless Wire was stolen from a residence in the 3500 block of Northeast Harrison Drive before 8:31 a.m. Sept. 30. The estimated loss is $2,000.

Police arrested a 52-year-old Issaquah man on a warrant at about 11 a.m. Oct. 4. Police on patrol in the parking lot at QFC, 2902 228th Ave. S.E., ran the man’s license plate information as he headed into Starbucks.

All’s well that ends well

Deep in the heart of Texas

A Sammamish resident said he or she received a recorded call from a person claiming to be a Wells Fargo representative Sept.

30. The call claimed the customer’s card had been used for fraudulent purchases, although the person did not have a Wells Fargo card. The recording asked the customer to enter his or her credit card number.

A Sammamish resident called police after receiving a collection notice for a utility bill Oct. 6. The caller said the bill came from a power company in Texas, although he or she had never lived in the Lone Star State.

Check, please A Sammamish resident contacted police Sept. 30 after receiving a fraudulent check for a phone she sold on craigslist. She mailed the phone to a Washington, D.C., address before she realized the check was a fake.

Arrest Police arrested a 46-year-old Issaquah man on a warrant in the 100 block of East Sunset Way at 2:05 p.m. Oct. 1.

Driving under the influence Police arrested a 30-year-old Issaquah man for driving under the influence in the 300 block of Front Street North at 9:44 p.m. Oct. 1.

Toyota totaled A Toyota was stolen in the 4000 block of 212th Way Southeast and then crashed early Oct. 2. The vehicle destroyed a fire hydrant in the crash.

Arrest Police arrested a 45-year-old Fall City man on a warrant in the 400 block of Northeast Alder Street at 2:22 p.m. Oct. 2.

Domestic violence Police arrested a 36-year-old Sammamish man for fourth-degree assault after he slapped his wife during a dispute Oct. 2. The wife had abrasions on her face as she approached police. She said her husband had slapped her after they argued about the time she returned from a night out with friends. The husband told police he had pushed his wife, but had not slapped her.

Police arrested a 47-year-old Sammamish man for a traffic offense at Highlands Drive Northeast and Southeast Black Nugget Road at 4:39 p.m. Oct. 3.

Morning jolt

Deer-ly departed A Sammamish police officer euthanized a mortally injured deer in the 3500 block of Issaquah-Pine Lake Road S.E. at midnight Oct. 8.

Police said a passing vehicle had struck the deer.

Domestic violence Police arrested a 28-year-old Issaquah man for assault related to a domestic violence incident in the 1500 block of Northeast Hawthorne Square at 6:18 p.m.

Oct. 4.

Arrest Police arrested a 38-year-old Fall City man on a warrant in the 6400 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast at 6:57 p.m. Oct. 4.

Scrambled Police said high school students threw eggs and toilet paper on a home in the 27200 block of Southeast 27th Street. The homeowner said he found a garbage bag containing a receipt for eggs, toilet paper, hot dogs and Gatorade purchased at a nearby QFC.

Bump in the road Police arrested a 41-year-old Tukwila man for driving with a suspended license at East Lake Sammamish Parkway and Interstate 90 at 6:41 p.m. Oct. 5.

Swiped Items were stolen from a business in the 1100 block Northwest Gilman Boulevard before 10:48 a.m. Oct. 6. The estimated loss is $99.60.

The Press publishes names of people charged with felony crimes. Information comes directly from local police reports.

The Issaquah Press

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Village Theatre presents “Take Me America” through Oct. 23, 303 Front St. N., $22 to $62, available at the box office, 392-2202

Tom Grant, 7:45-10 p.m., Bake’s Place, 4135 Providence Point Drive, $25, 391-3335

The Cosmonauts with the Kiko Feitas and Tor Dietrichson Quartet, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella, 99 Front St. N., 391-1424 PT Cruisers Pumpkin Bash, 10 a.m., Triple XXX Rootbeer Drivein, 98 N.E. Gilman Blvd., 3921266 The Halyards, 7:45-10 p.m., Bake’s Place, $20

Sea-Town Rhythm and Blues Players, 7:3011:30 p.m., Vino Bella

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Sammamish Symphony Orchestra presents “Russian Fireworks,” 2 p.m., Eastlake Performing Arts Center, 400 228th Ave. N.E., Sammamish. Get tickets at www.sammamishsymphony.org or call 206-517-7777.

Second annual Blood, Sweat & Gears Blood Drive, noon, Triple XXX Rootbeer Drive-in Flamenco de Raiz, 6:45-9 p.m., Bake’s Place, $20

OPPORTUNITIES The Issaquah Singers seeks additional

members, especially male tenors, for its 2011-12 season. To try out, attend a rehearsal from 7-9 p.m. Thursdays at the Community Church of Issaquah, 205 Mountain Park Blvd.

S.W. Learn more, or let directors know you wish to attend, at www.issaquahsingers.com.

ArtEAST invites Greater Puget Sound clay

artists to participate in “Rhythm in Clay,” an art show running March 9 through April 14 in downtown Issaquah. Artists are asked to create works of clay art using tempo, symmetry, cycles, harmony, pattern and texture. The deadline to apply is Jan. 12. Apply and find participation instructions at http://arteast.org/ category/exhibit/current_calls.

CREEP SHOW Nightmare at Beaver Lake taps phobias for Halloween scares

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter Some people flinch at spiders. Others cower from needles. Clowns send others into a panic.

Nightmare at Beaver Lake taps into the most common phobias — and some not-so-common fears — to scare the estimated 10,000 people expected to embark on a fear-fueled trek through dense a Sammamish Plateau forest.

“It’s death. It’s needles. It’s the dark.

It’s spiders. It’s clowns,” said Norm Bottenberg, a Rotary Club of Sammamish past president and Nightmare at Beaver Lake volunteer.

The setup — not just a mere haunted house, but a forested trail and 8,000 square feet inside buildings and pavilions — is the largest Halloween haunt in the Puget Sound region and, perhaps, in the West.

“It’s a long, dark walk into the woods — with monsters,” Dana Young, Scare Productions secretary and a lead Nightmare at Beaver Lake organizer, added during a stroll through the uncompleted sets.

Scare Productions and the Rotary Club of Sammamish partner to produce the annual haunt. The community organization uses funds from admission fees for scholarships, polio eradication and other causes.

The path through the haunt meanders past a cemetery — home to hundreds of dead and, maybe, some undead denizens, too.

Nightmare at Beaver Lake includes a set based on the 1984 horror film “Children of the Corn” — a downtown street scene from fictional Gatlin, Neb. Elsewhere, attendees pass through a vortex on the way to the Nightmare at Beaver Lake finale. Oversized storyboards arranged in the forest outline common phobias. (Fact: the term for a

ArtEAST presents Artists in Action ArtEAST presents the latest in its Artists in Action series, “How Do They Do That?” from 6-9 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Up Front Gallery at the artEAST Art Center, 95 Front St. N. The program involves the following artists demonstrating their crafts: Peggy Braeutigam — pastels Steph Mader — etched and fused glass JoAnna Bell — bead weaving Judy Salas — feather paintings Pandy Savage McVay — fused glass Carol Ross — painting There will also be jazz music by guitarist Todd Fawcett and free refreshments.

Learn more at www.arteast.org.

TO SUBMIT AN ARTS CALENDAR ITEM: Call 392-6434, ext. 237, or newsclerk@isspress.com. Submit A&E story ideas to isspress@isspress.com.

PHOTOS BY GREG FARRAR

Above, Dana Young stands next to an optical illusion of a skull and a mirror that doubles the effect, in a scene that will be lighted by flickering strobe lights at Nightmare at Beaver Lake. At right, the fear of needles, or trypanophobia, is portrayed in the woods of Beaver Lake Park by actors and a rusty, decrepit dentist chair.

IF YOU GO Nightmare at Beaver Lake Oct. 20-23, 26-31 The family scare runs from 7-7:45 p.m. nightly. The full scare runs from 810 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, and from 8-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Tickets: $8 per person for a family scare, $12 for a full scare Sunday through Thursday, $15 for a full scare Friday and Saturday Bring a can of food to donate and a receive a $1 discount on tickets.

The event includes free parking and a free parking shuttle service from the parking area to the haunt. www.nightmareatbeaverlake.com C.J. Graham — Jason Voorhees in “Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI” — signs autographs and meets fans Oct. 28-29.

ON THE WEB See video of Nightmare at Beaver Lake at www.issaquahpress.com.

BY GREG FARRAR

Coffins and stacks of headstones wait in storage to be installed by volunteers throughout the scary scenes at Beaver Lake Park.

fear of needles is trypanophobia.)

The cast includes the usual vampires, werewolves and witches, plus some surprises designed to tap into attendees’ longstanding phobias.

Organizers said the material is akin to something from a slasher film — albeit a flick rated R. “It’s not sex, but it is blood,” Young said.

Organizers envision a jaunt through the haunt as a roller coaster, Young said.

So, some light moments come after scary scenes to allow attendees to readjust and prepare for the next fright.

“The idea of the haunt is to scare them on, not scare them back,” she added.

Organizers, however, hand out a Piss Your Pants Award to the actor responsible for causing a Nightmare at Beaver Lake attendee to lose bladder control. The incident occurs at least once per Halloween season.

“They almost always go, ‘Oh my God! I just peed myself!’” Young said.

The longtime Nightmare at Beaver Lake participant and Sammamish resident did not rule out other mishaps.

“There’s the hope every year that it will cause somebody to vomit,” Young added.

‘Friday the 13th’ ghoul to haunt festivities

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter Jason Voorhees stalks the forest on the Sammamish Plateau.

C.J. Graham — the title star in “Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI” — is due to appear Oct. 28-29 during Nightmare at Beaver Lake.

C.J. Graham “Most people, if you say the word Jason and ‘Friday the 13th,’ they may not know you personally, but they know the character,” he said in a recent interview. “I am blown away by the cult following that still exists.”

“Friday the 13th” Jason Voorhees producers selected the former nightclub owner in part due to his stature. Graham stands 6 feet, 3 inches tall.

“They felt very confident with my physical structure and my physical abilities that I’d been fine as a stunt man and doing the burns and all of the different stunts that came with it,” he said.

The actor researched the slasherfilm genre before accepting the 1986 role as a superhuman serial killer.

“I didn’t really know the series well until I was asked to come interview for the series,” Graham said. “I actually had to go back and do some review of my own to watch a couple of the prior films to make sure I understood the character that I was trying to portray.”

Graham received a call on a Saturday morning and, by Monday afternoon, reached the set in a tiny Georgia town about 40 miles from Atlanta.

The initial scene called for Graham to don a hockey mask and stalk to a mobile home on set.

“I remember the stunt coordinator telling me, ‘Just push out your laps and look as big as you can as you walk away from the camera,’” he recalled.

The script also called for Graham to dunk into a lake on the Covington, Ga., set — although producers did not mention the leeches and water moccasins.

Crews lit Graham on fire for burning scenes on a set in Los Angeles.

Nowadays, Graham manages the Thunder Valley Casino Resort near Sacramento, Calif., and appears at horror conventions.

“I always laugh. I say that I killed 17 people and never went to jail — kind of like it is in California,” Graham joked.

Warren Kagarise: 392-6434, ext. 234, or wkagarise@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

Two youthful maestros to perform in international piano competition IF YOU GO

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter

Seattle International Piano Competition Morning session, 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.; afternoon session, 2:30-6:30 p.m. Oct. 22; includes evening concert by 2010 collegiate gold medal winner Josh Wright Winners’ concerts, juror performances, master classes and lectures, Oct. 23 Benaroya Hall (master classes held elsewhere), 200 University St., Seattle Ticket prices vary by event.

Learn more at www.seattlepianocompetition.org/festival.

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ne is talkative, the other a little more quiet, but both are well spoken. They are roughly the same age and have the same ethnic background. They are friends, one getting a big smile on his face at the mention of the other’s name.

More importantly here, they attend the same piano school, the Chopin Academy of Music in Issaquah. They have the same teacher in Ivona Kaminska. They are also two of only eight finalists for their age group in the Seattle International Piano Competition to take place Oct. 22-23 at Benaroya Hall.

“I think I’m very lucky … It feels really exciting,” said Henry Gao, who just turned 10.

At 8, his friend Arthur Yan is following in the footsteps of older brother Robert, 11, who won a gold medal at the same competition in 2009.

Arthur and Henry will be competing in the 9 and under age category, as Henry was 9 when his audition tape won him a spot in the event.

Henry started playing at age 5. Mom Di Ding said her son didn’t take to the piano immediately.

“After several months, he progressed very fast,” she said.

“I could see from the beginning that he has exceptional talent,” Kaminska said.

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Arthur Yan, 8, sits in front of the piano at his home.

At one point, she added she’s very proud to have two of her students in a competition with entries from around the world.

All in all, eight countries will be represented at the competition.

Both Arthur and Henry have played at large venues, such as Benaroya and Meydenbauer Center, in the past. Henry said he’s always nervous before performing, but usually calms down once he starts playing.

“I like performing in front of people as

well as winning prizes,” Henry said, adding he loves the reaction he gets from audiences.

Arthur just started playing piano two years ago, a fact which mom Feng Xu said makes his getting into the Seattle competition even more special.

“I like playing,” Arthur said. “It’s a lot of fun.”

“He feels good when he’s on the stage,” Xu said.

Neither Henry’s nor Arthur’s parents are musicians themselves. Xu did say she

BY TOM CORRIGAN

Henry Gao, 10, practices at the keyboards in Issaquah’s Chopin Academy of Music. has a special love for music, saying it has a transcendence or spirituality to it.

“I believe music is a very important part of their education,” she added.

For her part, Kaminska certainly agrees. She said sports and athletes get plenty of attention in public schools, but the arts often seem to suffer from neglect.

“That’s what helps make us human is art,” Kaminska said.

Henry and Arthur seem dedicated to the piano, but they also love video games and

Henry said he enjoys playing basketball and doing magic tricks. He’s not shy about showing off a card trick.

For the future, neither boy is sure music will be his life’s work.

“I’m very proud of him,” Ding said of her son.

But she also said as Henry grows older, it will be up to him to decide what to do with his life.

Arthur said music might be in his future long term, but he just isn’t sure. For now, he hopes he can get into the Seattle International competition again next year.

“I can have the chance to get two gold medals,” he said.

Tom Corrigan: 392-6434, ext. 241, or tcorrigan@isspress.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.