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THE ISSAQUAH PRESS

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 • Vol. 112, No. 46

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City hikes water rate 9 percent

City, neighbors dedicate forest to Maureen McCarry

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter Issaquah customers should start paying more for water soon, after city leaders increased rates to offset conservation-related declines in usage.

In a unanimous decision Nov. 7, City Council members OK’d a 9 percent increase in the municipal water rate. The average residential customer should pay about $3 more per month after the new water rate goes into effect Dec. 1.

“What we end up paying and the revenues that the city brings in are due to reductions in revenue and usage,” Councilman Joshua Schaer said before the decision. “I find it interestingly perverse that the more we conserve, the more we have to pay.”

The council, although reluctant to increase the rate, said the increase is essential to shore up funding for the municipal water utility. The city provides water to more than 6,500 businesses and homes.

“This will keep our water fund — maybe not as healthy as it could be — but certainly from dipping below zero,” Schaer said.

Officials initially proposed a 10 percent rate increase to replace aging pump stations and water mains, address increased operating costs related to increased charges from Cascade Water Alliance and provide debt service coverage required in bond agreements.

Council Utilities, Technology & Environment Committee members reduced the proposed increase to 9 percent.

Former councilwoman led effort to protect Squak Mountain woods

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter

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Maureen McCarry (right), a former councilwoman and Forest Rim resident, flashes a thumbs-up to city Parks Planner Margaret Macleod at the dedication ceremony for McCarry Woods on Nov. 12.

The thicket — all gold and green beneath a November sky the same color as chalk — adjacent to the Forest Rim neighborhood on Squak Mountain shares the name of a person instrumental in protecting the land for future generations.

Forest Rim neighbors and city leaders gathered on a cold morning Nov. 12 to dedicate McCarry Woods and honor the forest’s namesake, former City Councilwoman Maureen McCarry.

Before stepping down from the council last December, she led the effort to acquire and preserve 40 acres for wildlife habitat and trail access to nearby Squak Mountain State Park.

McCarry resigned from the council almost a year ago, as symptoms from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, progressed. The emotional ceremony — part block party, part ribbon-cutting — at the McCarry Woods entrance also served as a way for the former councilwoman to offer thanks to the community.

“Your many acts of kindness — many acts that you don’t even

realize, some just in the silence of your prayers or helping us around the house — have made the journey that we’re going through easier, and you’ve made this burden that we’ve endured lighter,” McCarry’s husband, Tom Knollmann, said in a brief speech to more than 100 people gathered in a Forest Rim street. “We’ll never be able to thank you, and we truly appreciate how you have chosen to accompany us on this travel.”

McCarry, bundled against the autumn chill in a thick coat and cap in a motorized wheelchair, greeted residents, and elected officials past and present, as organizers handed out hot cider and McCarry Woods Trail Mix to attendees.

“This honor means the world to Maureen, it means the world to me, and it’s an enduring symbol of the importance of community, the importance of neighborhoods and the importance of Issaquah in all of our lives,” Knollmann said.

Issaquah Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3436 representative Dave Waggoner presented to McCarry a flag flown at City Hall on the last day she served as a councilwoman — Dec. 20, 2010.

The city acquired the Squak Mountain forest in August 2007 as part of the Cougar-Squak Mountains Wildlife Corridor project. The mayor appointed a citizen See MCCARRY, Page A2

Ex-Issaquah insurance Voters re-elect Councilman Joshua Schaer INSIDE agent pleads guilty to swindling seniors

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter The former Issaquah insurance agent responsible for stealing more than $1 million from elderly clients to spend on clothing, online psychic advisers and more pleaded guilty Oct. 31.

Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim, 49, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of first-degree theft in King County Superior Court. Prosecutors reduced the number of charges from 21 as part of a plea deal.

The victims approved of the plea deal, said Ian Goodhew, deputy chief of staff for King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg. In some cases, victims’ family members agreed, because the victim had since died.

Prosecutors said JamrusKassim stole at least $1,052,088 between late 2007 and late 2009.

The seniors — ranging in age from 74 to 90 — made out checks to Jamrus-Kassim. The clients thought she intended to reinvest the money for them.

Instead, she funneled the money into a personal account for clothes, jewelry and a trip to Mexico.

Court records also show she made large payments to online

psychic advisers, including $20,000 to a psychic website in a single month.

Jamrus-Kassim returned $25,503 to a 90-year-old Renton woman after the woman complained to the Insurance Commissioner’s Office. The complaint and another alert prompted the state investigation.

Th authorities said JamrusKassim scammed five victims — people from Bellevue, Renton and Seattle — seniors ranging in age from 74 to 90.

Investigators from the state Insurance Commissioner’s Office and the Washington State Patrol arrested Jamrus-Kassim in March.

The search for the defendant started early March 15 in Issaquah. Jamrus-Kassim used to reside in the Issaquah Highlands, but moved to Kent before the arrest. Investigators later arrested her at a Starbucks in Factoria.

The house in Issaquah happened to be for sale at the time.

Jamrus-Kassim is due in King County Superior Court again Nov. 18 for sentencing.

Joshua Schaer, the only City Council member to face a challenger in a little-noticed campaign season, trounced opponent TJ Filley as the off-year election came to a close.

Incumbents scored leads in the initial election results released just after 8 p.m. Election Day, Nov. 8, eliminating the prospect of a long pause before a frontrunner emerged. Schaer, alongside incum-

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Officials blame ‘hiccup’ for ballot glitch. Page A2.

Washington voters back Costcosupported measure. Page A3.

bents on the Issaquah School Board and Port of Seattle

Commission, pulled ahead early.

Though voters decided on the majority of council seats, only Schaer attracted a challenger.

Incumbent Councilman Fred Butler, appointed Councilwoman Stacy Goodman and candidate Paul Winterstein cruised into office in the other council races. Terms for the triumphant candidates start in January.

Filley conceded the race not long after King County Elections released the results.

“Well, everyone, let’s continue to

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Veterans receive salute

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter

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

eat, drink and be merry,” he said to supporters at Billy Bob’s Burgers & BBQ. “It was a long, hard campaign and I appreciate everybody’s help.”

In the contested council race, Filley made the $6.7 million pedestrian bridge across Interstate 90 a major issue, because the city accepted federal funds to complete the connector.

“We used the bicycle and pedes-

A World War II Navy veteran, Paul Miller has been through his share of Veterans Day celebrations.

Not surprisingly, he still thinks those remembrances are important and worthwhile.

“We need to pay our respects and honor those who have served and … especially those who made that ultimate sacrifice,” he said following the 45-minute commemoration at the Issaquah Valley

Issaquah High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps members present a 21-gun salute to close the Veterans Day celebration at the Issaquah Valley Senior Center on Nov. 11. See a slideshow of photos at www.issaquahpress.com.

RAIN GAIN Last Week’s Rainfall: (through Nov. 14) 1.14 inches Total for November: 1.54 inches Total for 2011: 52.03 inches

SALMON COUNT Chinook: (through Nov. 14) — 1.75 million eggs, 2,800 trapped, 720 spawned and 1,014 allowed upstream Coho: 730,000 eggs, 2,500 trapped, 626 spawned and 342 allowed upstream Lake Sammamish kokanee 3,913 eggs, 16 trapped

QUOTABLE “It helps us in the long run. We need the green spaces to regenerate and replenish our own sense of self and sense of community.”

— Barbara Shelton Issaquah Environmental Council member, talking about the upcoming Cougar Mountain cleanup (See story, Page B1.)

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Computer ‘hiccup’ caused late ballots for local voters A2 • Wednesday, November 16, 2011

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter King County Elections officials attributed the cause for late ballots to more than 11,000 Eastside voters — including more than 900 in Issaquah and Sammamish — to a computer “hiccup” in the days before the office sent out ballots.

The elections office sent ballots to the impacted voters in late October, about a week after other voters received ballots in the mail.

Officials traced the delay to the glitch from late September.

The “hiccup” occurred Sept. 29, as staffers downloaded a database of registered voters into a file to send to K&H Election Services and the computer froze. The staffer rebooted the computer, and did not notice any problems after the download ended.

“For loss of a better word, a hic-

cup occurred where those 11,000 were skipped over,” Dale Hartman, IT service delivery manager for the elections office, told the King County Council in a meeting Nov. 7, a day before the deadline to return ballots.

Officials checked the information sent to the printer, Everett-based K&H Election Services, to ensure the elections office did not neglect to send information.

“We did not know that there was a portion they had not received, so that was an anomaly that was entirely new to us,” Elections Director Sherril Huff told council members.

The elections office sent out about 1.1 million ballots for the Nov. 8 election in mid-October.

Huff said officials also contacted the U.S. Postal Service to determine if the problem originated after the ballots entered the mail.

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The elections office received numerous calls from residents about missing ballots and, after correcting the problem, initiated robo-calls to the affected voters.

Huff said officials implemented steps to correct the potential for similar problems in future elections.

Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, Issaquah’s representative, raised concerns about the delay. So, too, did Councilwoman Jane Hague, another Eastside member.

“I was very concerned in the apparent absence of a redundancy,” Hague said. “We were waiting for voters to tell us that they hadn’t received their ballot, and I think that the accuracy and the validity of the system needs to be within Elections.”

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

Voters return school board incumbents

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter In the races for the two contested seats on the Issaquah School Board, the two incumbents outdistanced their general election opponents by similar margins.

“I’m glad to see the results the way they are,” board member Brian Deagle said shortly after initial vote totals were available last week.

As of Nov. 10, the latest election returns show Deagle leading challenger Patrick Sansing 10,157 to 5,378.

The other incumbent, Suzanne Weaver, was outpacing challenger Brian Neville 10,121 to 5,681.

Anne Moore will join the board in January; she ran unopposed for the seat to be vacated by board President Jan Colbrese.

Like Deagle, Weaver also expressed gratitude over the results.

“I’m obviously pleased,” Weaver

said, adding she was grateful Deagle will be returning to the board as well.

“I think we have a very good team,” she said, adding that Moore will be a good addition to the board.

“I’m grateful for all the support I received,” Sansing said.

He reiterated a contention made numerous times during the election, namely that Issaquah schools are good, but could be better. He then vowed to stay active within the schools in any way he can.

“I’m generally relatively pleased with the results,” Neville said, adding that’s especially the case as he ran a fairly low-key campaign.

He also noted there was no one burning issue that framed the board elections.

Neville said he ran mostly to provide Weaver some competition.

Like Sansing, Neville intends to stay involved with the schools and may be back before voters in coming years.

During the campaign, 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 we are limited by our resources,” he said.

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

Weaver praised the district for keeping students center stage in a time of massive financial distractions, but said leaders need to deal with those hurdles.

“It’s frustrating,” Weaver said.

“Every time we start to deal with an issue and make some headway, we suddenly have to figure a way to pay for it.”

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

BY GREG FARRAR

Joshua Schaer (right), calls his mother Nancy Schaer, of Redmond, to tell her about his lead in the Issaquah City Council race, as former councilman David Kappler chats with other election night partygoers at the Issaquah Brewhouse.

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trian overpass as an example of government spending money they do not have, on things that the public neither wants nor needs, and which does not solve the real problems that the public is facing, which in this case was congestion relief,” he said in a concession statement released Nov. 9.

Schaer, meanwhile, snacked on onion rings at the Issaquah Brewhouse on election night and laid out ideas for a second term.

On the council, the attorney spearheaded a food-packaging ordinance to require restaurateurs and other food sellers to use compostable and recyclable takeout containers and utensils.

“We need to get our compliance rate up,” he said. “We’re probably going to have to start issuing warnings. There are certain businesses — and I’m not going to name names — that are refusing

ELECTION BREAKDOWN City Council Joshua Schaer (incumbent) — 63.3 percent TJ Filley — 36.3 percent Issaquah School Board Suzanne Weaver (incumbent) — 63.8 percent Brian Neville — 35.8 percent Brian Deagle (incumbent) —

to comply, overtly refusing to comply.”

Throughout the campaign, the councilman knocked on about 1,000 doors as supporters — including Schaer’s 2007 opponent, Vincent Ippolito — fanned out across other neighborhoods.

Schaer credited Filley for scrutinizing how city leaders spent public dollars, but said the city needs to accept funds from outside sources in order to complete criti-

65.1 percent Patrick Sansing — 34.5 percent

Port of Seattle Commission Bill Bryant (incumbent) —

62 percent Dean Willard — 37.5 percent Gael Tarleton (incumbent) —

56.9 percent Richard Pope — 42.6 percent

Source: King County Elections

cal projects.

“I think it’s always good for people to be a watchdog about the use of dollars, wherever they come from,” Schaer said. “That’s something that we try very hard on the council to do. We try very hard to maintain a strong economic vitality in the community, manage our tax base and provide a high level of services.”

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

McCarry: ‘Thank you, Maureen’ for service FROM PAGE A1

committee in July to select a name for the property, and council members OK’d the McCarry Woods choice in August.

The celebration offered a chance for Forest Rim residents to honor a neighbor — and a strong advocate for the neighborhood. Residents in Forest Rim, the highest-elevation neighborhood on Squak Mountain, started planning for the dedication weeks ago. “‘We should do something,’” neighbor Carol Powers recalled after hearing the council’s decision to rename the forested tract for McCarry. So, more than 500 planning emails later, community members gathered for the celebration. Handmade signs reading, “Thank you 4 saving our woods” and “Thank you, Maureen,” lined neighborhood streets.

“Our neighborhood, I think, is one of a kind,” resident Cynthia Gotuzzo said.

The green sign at the McCarry Woods entrance, mounted on wooden posts, acts as a gateway from Sierra Court Southwest to the forest. Mayor Ava Frisinger, in remarks to the crowd, said the land is “rightfully named for” McCarry.

“It is a wonderful sign of preserving our environment,” Knollmann said. “This sign that means so much to Maureen also distinguishes the importance of this land.”

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

Correction A story headlined “The Ventures surf into Snoqualmie Casino” in the Nov. 9 edition incorrectly listed the year the band was named to the prestigious Order of the Rising Sun by the emperor of Japan. The band was honored in 2010.

Voters toast liquor U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert initiative, shut down honors Issaquah veterans The Issaquah Press

tolling measure

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter Statewide ballot initiatives garnered the most attention in a campaign season dominated by local races.

Costco-backed Initiative 1183, a ballot measure to loosen state liquor rules, passed Nov. 8, and liquor sales should start at the Issaquah-based warehouse giant and other retailers in June.

I-1183 calls for state-run liquor stores to close and for the state to get out of the liquor business. The measure also requires the state to license private enterprises to sell and distribute hard liquor, set license fees based on sales and regulate licensees.

Opponents said safety concerns remain about efforts to privatize the system and sell booze at more locations.

Costco, the largest employer in Issaquah, spent more than $20 million to promote the initiative.

Initiative 1125 — a measure to require the Legislature to approve tolls rather than the appointed state Transportation Commission — came up short on Election Day. King County voters rejected the measure, but I-1125 picked up support elsewhere in Washington.

King County Executive Dow Constantine declared victory against Initiative 1125, Tim Eyman’s tolling initiative, as the measure led by a narrow margin statewide Nov. 9.

“I-1125 was a stealth effort to stop light rail on I-90 and delay replacement of the 520 bridge,” Constantine said in a statement.

“I am grateful that so many voters saw through it and rejected it, and by an overwhelming margin in King County. Our voters, once again, said no to Tim Eyman.”

The other issues on the ballot did not attract as much attention as the liquor and tolling measures.

Washington voters approved Initiative 1163 — a measure sponsored by the Service Employees International Union to address homecare workers’ certi-

DECISION 2011 ON THE WEB Find complete election coverage and results at www.issaquahpress.com/category/election.

PORT OF SEATTLE INCUMBENTS SAIL AHEAD Port of Seattle Commission incumbents Bill Bryant and Gael Tarleton sailed to re-election Nov. 8.

Bryant trounced challenger Dean Willard, a Sammamish resident, and Tarleton defeated Richard Pope in a lopsided contest to remain on the nonpartisan commission.

The race hinged on the economy and the environment, and the role the Port of Seattle plays in relation to each issue. The commission is the agency responsible for the Port of Seattle and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

fication and training.

The electorate also approved the noncontroversial constitutional amendments on the ballot.

Senate Joint Resolution 8205 addresses a residency requirement for presidential voting outlined in the state Constitution.

The measure brings state law into synch with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Senate Joint Resolution 8206 called for the state “rainy day” reserve fund to require contribution of a portion of “extraordinary” revenue in the future.

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By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter The day before the United States paused to honor veterans, attention focused on the greatest generation and the sacrifices members made to fight and win World War II. The early Veterans Day observance in Issaquah included a visit from a congressman and a chance to share stories about the longago conflict.

Jack Yusen served aboard the USS Samuel B. Roberts amid World War II, until Japanese forces sunk the destroyer escort in the Battle of Leyte Gulf — the largest naval battle during World War II. Some sailors survived the attack only to bob in the sharkinfested Philippine Sea until rescuers arrived days later.

“We had no water, no medicines, no food,” Yusen said Nov. 10. “If one of the guys got bit by a shark, we’d push him away, because the blood made other sharks come. It was horrible. I was 18 years old, but we survived.”

U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert met Yusen and about 15 other veterans at University House Issaquah, a retirement facility, to pay tribute to veterans from World War II and other conflicts. In a brief speech, the congressman called on others to acknowledge veterans’ sacrifices and service. (The National World War II Museum estimates about 1,000 veterans of the conflict die each day.)

“We know that freedom is not free,” he said. “It’s not just those that have given their lives, those buddies and friends that you all lost in battle. It’s the memories that you carry around with you, too. It’s the sacrifices that you’ve made to be away from your families. You’ve come back, thank God, to your families, but you still carry those memories with you.”

Reichert, a former King County sheriff and Auburn Republican, met residents at University House Issaquah the day before Veterans Day. “We are all so proud of you and all very thankful for your service,” he said.

The veterans gathered in a meeting room at University House

BY GREG FARRAR

U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert (left) greets World War II veteran and University House Issaquah resident Eugene Klineburger on Nov. 10.

Issaquah served in World War II, plus the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.

Despite completing almostsuperhuman tasks amid the wars, Yusen and the other veterans remain humble about the era.

“We had a job to do and we did it, just like I told the congressman,” he said.

Reichert also called for people to cooperate, rather than point fingers, to solve modern-day challenges, much as the World War II generation did to defeat fascism.

“I know your generation didn’t grow up that way. My generation didn’t grow up that way,” Reichert said. “Take responsibility. Stand up and find solutions. Work together to bring the country

together.”

Unity is essential if the United States is to overcome 21st-century challenges, such as a tough economy at home and terrorism abroad, he added.

“When did we ever get to the point in this country where the Republicans think the Democrats don’t have good ideas and the Democrats think that the Republicans don’t have good ideas?” Reichert said. “That’s the wrong thinking. Republicans can’t always be right. Democrats can’t always be right. How do we move forward? We have to work together.”

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

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Senior Center on Veterans Day. The ceremony ended with a 21gun salute provided by the Issaquah High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps.

“Veterans do not take life for granted,” said veteran and Issaquah City Councilman Fred Butler, who presented the keynote talk during the event. “They know that duty and sacrifice are more than words.”

Butler said the country has a new breed of veterans in those returning from often multiple tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Too many veterans with real skills cannot find jobs in this economy,” he said.

He urged those listening to get to know those new veterans and help and hire them if possible.

Issaquah Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3436, led by David Waggoner, presented the Veterans Day event. For his part, Waggoner’s talk highlighted an Issaquah vet he believes deserves more attention then she has gotten so far.

Jayne Elizabeth Erickson is one of 19 local veterans who died while in the service and who are listed on the memorial just outside the senior center.

Killed at age 22 while training to be a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, Erickson is the only woman on the memorial.

According to Waggoner, Erickson died in April 1944 while trying to take off for what would have been her second solo flight. Her plane collided with another and Waggoner said Erickson never had a chance to eject from her plane.

After noting some big discrepancies in the treatment of female veterans at the time Erickson died, Waggoner said other WASPs actually had to take up a collection to send Erickson’s body back to Issaquah.

Though she had lived in Issaquah, Erickson was buried in Seattle with no flag on her coffin and no military honors. That apparent snub rankles Waggoner, who vowed the VFW would correct that mistake.

“We gotta make that right,” he said.

On another front, as has become customary, Waggoner and the VFW intend to supply the city with new flags for municipal flagpoles.

Waggoner said the city only needs to replace four of its flags this year, but promised the VFW would continue to ensure that, as long as there are U.S. military personnel serving in harm’s way, the city’s U.S. flags would “fly clean and bright.”

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OPINION

PRESS E DITORIAL

Commission could address economic vitality

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ome members of the City Council are determined to add a new Economic Vitality Commission to the citizen groups that advise the council on policies and programs.

It’s a great idea.

Other economic development initiatives have come about in the city or through the Issaquah Chamber of Commerce, but a failure to follow through has stymied past efforts. With committee members who were supposed to also do the work, the committees’ success was limited from the start and, as a result, good ideas were often left on the table.

A city commission will be an advisory role, not a roll-upyour-sleeves kind of role.

We anticipate that it will direct the city on ordinances that need to be revised to attract businesses here and retain existing businesses. It will also likely provide a voice on annual reviews of the city Comprehensive Plan, council goals, sign codes, permit processes and maybe even taxation issues.

Certainly, any future commissioners will be helping the mayor and council determine the job priorities for the economic development director — a position vacant since Dan Trimble departed for Burien, and a role that’s bound to transform as leaders reshuffle City Hall in the months ahead.

The mayor will make the appointments to the Economic Vitality Commission when the time comes. Who gets those appointments will be critical to the success of the commission in its early years.

The chamber of commerce should be represented, of course, but not by a staff member. Commission members should include someone from the tourism industry, plus representatives from retail, a home-based business, and light manufacturing or technology. A commercial real estate broker could provide a landlord’s perspective. Someone with a strong marketing background would also be helpful.

Nonprofit organizations should not be included in order to keep the commission focused strictly on entrepreneurial issues.

With that said, we hope the mayor will pick the very best of the applicants based on background and experience.

Bringing together the same old voices of business in Issaquah is not what’s important. A fresh perspective would be welcome, even if it means a steeper learning curve.

We applaud the City Council’s move to create an Economic Development Commission, but its success will be determined by careful direction.

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Election comes to yawn-inducing close

J

oshua Schaer promised a party to daughter Emily.

Only, the grownups gathered in a room at the Issaquah Brewhouse almost certainly did not meet the expectations of a 3-year-old girl.

The election night party Schaer put on at the downtown pub included a star-studded — for Issaquah, at least — guest list (City Council members past and present) and hors d’oeuvres aplenty. Bruschetta, anyone?

But, as far as parties go, the event seemed a little dull, boring even. The host, however, is not to blame.

Election Day in Issaquah, at least in the 2009 and 2011 cycles, morphed into a humdrum affair. Incumbents claim lopsided leads and challengers offer cordial congratulations. Repeat.

The lone burst of results from King County Elections came just after 8 p.m., as guests at the brewhouse channel-surfed to see if Issaquah results appeared in the Seattle TV stations’ tickers.

In a campaign season dominated by liquor and tolling, no local results appeared in the moments after the results dropped.

The run-up to the anticlimactic election night started in June, as the candidate-filing deadline passed, seemingly unnoticed by Warren most people.

Only TJ Filley Kagarise stepped into the Press reporter fray, in part to attract attention to the $6.7 million pedestrian bridge spanning Interstate 90 and built, for the most part, using dollars from outside sources.

No challengers materialized in races for a trio of council seats — and enough changes could reshape the way the city does business.

I understand potential candidates’ reluctance to face Fred Butler, a respected leader in Issaquah and the Puget Sound region. The longtime councilman is a safe bet, perhaps even unbeatSee CLOSE, Page A5

Rules of the road

Light rail

Drowsy driving can have serious effects on people’s lives

Mayor is misguided to support a project that will cause commuting chaos

Alice Ko’s “Not a zombie, just another sleepdeprived teenager” article in the schools news of the Nov. 2 issue is very timely. Nov. 6-12 was National Drowsy Driving Awareness Week sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation.

According to the latest National Sleep Foundation poll, 28 percent of Americans admit they get less than six hours of sleep a night on weekdays. Like the issue of drunken driving nearly 30 years ago, there must be a significant attitude shift in our state regarding the dangers of drowsy driving.

Drowsy driving is impaired driving. Drivers — especially our young, sleep-deprived teenagers — do not understand the seriousness of drowsy driving and the effect it has on their own and other people’s lives.

Our daughter Mora, a 2006 Issaquah High School graduate, was a passenger in a car traveling on the Blewett Pass highway just a month after graduation. Her friend who was driving the vehicle had stayed awake the entire night before and fell asleep at the wheel. Mora suffered multiple broken bones and a traumatic brain injury. Mora spent what was supposed to be her first year of college in the hospital learning how to do the basics (talking, walking, swallowing … the simple things) all over again.

This was five years ago and today Mora still has daily struggles with her brain injury. Her body from the waist down is held together with plates and screws. Mora has a positive attitude and is focused on success. She is a college student through the dis-Ability program at Western, and hopes to graduate in 2012.

And while Mora survived and is with us today, she has many unknowns in her future due to a drowsy driving crash that could have been prevented.

I invite you to read other testimonials and statistics at www.drowsydriving.org. And when you remind your young adult children about the dangers of drinking and driving, please also educate them about the dangers of driving while drowsy or fatigued. Their lives may depend on it.

Someone should ask Mayor Ava Frisinger why she is urging the Bellevue City Council to quickly approve the light rail pact. Approval means Sound Transit confiscation of the bridge center section in 2016, increasing congestion for any of her constituents who are cross-lake commuters.

When light rail service finally begins in 2021, the only access for Issaquah commuters will be the South Bellevue Park & Ride, the only significant parking along the entire route. They will find it difficult to access the park & ride in the morning and get back on the freeway in the afternoon. Late-arriving commuters will probably have difficulty finding parking even with planned increase in the park & ride. Not something to rush into.

Mary Beth Haggerty-Shaw Issaquah

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DownTown Issaquah Association is not doing its part keeping city clean Am I the only one who is concerned with the conspicuous increase in the amount of graffiti in Old Town lately? Or, more to the point, the dramatic increase in the response time to clean said graffiti?

In previous years, the executive director of the DownTown Issaquah Association took it upon himself to identify graffiti and other incidents in and around Front Street. He would make sure that the businesses were notified, and they had the resources available to address the problem promptly.

Lately, it seems that the DIA has lost sight of its original mission of looking out for, and helping the interests of businesses in Old Town.

While it is nice to put on events like Artwalk, Fenders on Front Street and Music on the Streets, these events are community-building events, and not the primary function of the DIA. The DIA was created to look out for the businesses of Old Town, as well as the community. If

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Issaquah is the only place I know that says you must go 20 mph while kids are inside their classrooms. Insanity. It is ludicrous and obviously simply a speed trap program. Well, Issaquah, good-bye. I used to drive out of my way to shop there. Hello, Maple Valley, where sane enforcement exists.

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City of Sammamish has decided arbitrarily what’s best for drivers I have noticed in the city of Sammamish that the carwash no longer offers the Armor All Tire Protection. It appears some government entity has determined in their "they know best attitude" and has now banned the use within the city by car washes. Mind you, I can still buy the product and apply it myself, so it will still be out there in unregulated usage.

As well, the city of Sammamish tells us that we cannot wash our cars in our own driveways, regardless if good products are used, because the rinsing will flow into the streams, even though our community's runoff actually goes to water retention ponds first. We cooperated and switched to the commercial car washes, but that was not good enough.

What has happened to the city? A once reasonable entity has now gone overboard. It is the typical new employee having to impose their ideals on everyone else because they know better and can. Regulation is helpful; banning is ridiculous. It is a war on the people of the city and that is disgusting.

It is time to say the heck with the city and start washing in our own driveways and using the products we choose. They have broken the sacred trust of reasonable behavior between the residents and the city with these excessive regulatory actions and I, for one, choose to fight it.

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G UEST C OLUMN All in for Kids campaign seeks to help students Tonight, tomorrow night, Friday night, and Saturday morning, Issaquah School District high school students will converge at the Issaquah School District Administration Building to perform a job so daunting it would frighten most adults.

They will call parents and supporters on behalf of the Issaquah Schools Foundation’s All in for Kids Annual Fund Campaign. We applaud their commitment and willingness to go “all in" in support of their education. We urge you to do the same.

It is no secret that education funding is dwindling. You need only to read the paper or listen to

the radio to hear the latest crisis.

That’s why the foundation’s All in for Kids Annual Fund Campaign is significant. It offers you the opportunity to become part of the solution.

The All in for Kids campaign donations fund districtwide investments that elevate the basic education provided by the state to the comprehensive education today’s students need to succeed in the global marketplace.

When you give to the All in for Kids campaign, you will endow students with the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills critical to current and emerging fields through support

of robotics clubs, computer and Web design classes and an updated, application-focused science curriculum. You will expand students’ capacity for innovation and creativity by funding music, literacy and art.

Your donation — whether it’s $5 or $500 — will equip teachers with tools to reach and inspire students of all learning styles and will offer assistance to all students through the VOICE Mentoring Program and free AfterSchool Homework Labs.

We are grateful to the nearly 1,200 families who have gone All In for Kids to the tune of $175,000. Our kids are counting on you to help reach the campaign’s $250,000 goal. Please answer your phone and donate when our students call. You’ll give our callers — and every Issaquah School District student — the gift of educational excellence today for personal and professional success tomorrow.

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Schools Foundation makes last pitch with annual phoneathon

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter Launched in late summer, the Issaquah Schools Foundation’s “All in for Kids” campaign is heading towards the finish line of its $250,000 goal and will launch its last big push Nov. 16, 17 and 19.

Those dates will mark the ISF’s annual phone drive.

Lynn Juniel, development manager for ISF, said the 2011 campaign benefiting the Issaquah School District had brought in about 68 percent of its financial goal, or roughly $170,000, as of Nov. 11.

In the past, campaigns have reached about 25 percent of the foundation’s target audience, namely district households. The organization will recalculate that figure at the end of the current campaign. Juniel added ISF set for itself some fairly high participation goals.

“We would love to reach 50 percent,” Juniel said, later noting both the Bellevue and Mercer Island school foundations have financial support from at least half of the families in their districts.

Regarding the overall campaign, Juniel and others said the annual fund campaign’s final numbers depend in no small part on the success of the phone bank.

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But, for the untested candidates in uncontested races, appointed Councilwoman Stacy Goodman and Councilman-elect Paul Winterstein, challenges could have better prepared the victors for office and, at least, fostered a deeper conversation about city issues.

The campaign seemed to proceed on cruise control. Only opponents Filley and Schaer needed to reach out to potential supporters.

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For the final leg of the campaign, the ISF, adult volunteers and student volunteers from district high and middle schools take over the district administration building.

Juniel and others said high school students man phone lines, calling local households and asking for donations. They also will use cell phones to complete calls. Middle school students sort of act as runners between the ISF staff and adult and student volunteers.

“What is funny is walking in and seeing a high school kid sitting at (Superintendent) Steve Rasmussen’s desk,” said ISF Executive Director Robin Callahan.

She added students have a bit of a race to see who grabs the superintendent’s spot.

Both Juniel and Callahan warned that, during the phonea-thon, residents might receive calls from numbers they don’t recognize, especially since students will be using cell phones.

They asked that residents answer the phone and be polite to students, even if there is no donation in the offing.

When they do get donations, Callahan said students can get very excited. Volunteers ring cowbells and otherwise let them know their efforts are appreciated.

Juniel said she hopes parents and residents realize any donation is welcome. She said her office recently received a $15 pledge from a single mother who stated in a note that was all she could afford. But Juniel applauded the mom for helping take charge of her child’s education.

“That’s what this campaign is really all about,” she said.

ISF supports a number of programs in the district, from classroom grants to after-school homework labs. Last spring, the foundation took in roughly $438,000 to help fund a new science curriculum – everything from textbooks to test tubes – for the district’s elementary schools.

Learn more at www.issaquahschoolsfoundation.org.

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

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter The still-struggling economy prompted the City Council to decline to increase the property tax rate for 2012.

In a Nov. 7 decision, council members decided against a possible increase and directed city staffers to prepare legislation to set the rate for next year. The council last increased the property tax rate in 2007 amid a stronger economy.

The unanimous decision is meant to hold the property tax rate at the 2008 level — $1.38 per $1,000 in assessed value. The council is poised to set the property tax rate at a Nov. 21 meeting.

The council adhered to a recommendation from Mayor Ava Frisinger not to increase the property tax rate for 2012.

“The fact that the council has not raised property tax for what — if this motion passes — for five years is a reflection of the fact that we understand that a lot of our citi-

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zens are having a lot of difficult times during the economic downturn,” Councilman Fred Butler said before the decision.

Instead, officials trimmed spending and reduced the size of city government to compensate for the decisions not to increase the property tax rate.

Roxanne Hagood, a representative from the municipal Finance Department, said sales tax revenue continues to increase from the nadir in 2009.

Overall, sales tax revenue encompasses 37 percent of the tax revenue collected by the city, followed by property tax revenue at 31 percent, utility tax revenue at 20 percent and business-and-occupation tax revenue at 11 percent.

“Basically, you’re having a lot of services in the city that are being paid for by people who come here to do business,” Councilman Mark Mullet said. “It really benefits the residents to continue to sustain that economic vitality.”

Overall, Issaquah homeowners pay, on average, about $11 in

property taxes per $1,000 in assessed value to the Issaquah School District, King County, and numerous state and regional districts. The school district receives the largest slice at more than 40 percent.

State law allows Issaquah and other local governments to increase the property tax rate 1 percent per year.

Washington voters approved a Tim Eyman-backed initiative in 2001 to institute the cap. Courts later declared the measure unconstitutional, but state legislators reinstated the 1 percent cap in 2007.

Leaders did not rule out future increases to the property tax rate, especially if state legislators cut aid to cities or inflation continues.

“It’s not a lot of money this year, but over time, the inflation can really eat you,” Council President John Traeger said.

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everyone has to water their yards.

Everyone who lives here knows that the last couple of summers, that hasn’t been the case.”

The council reduced the municipal water rate and added a utility tax in December 2009 — a dollarfor-dollar change meant as a costneutral solution for customers.

The decision followed a 2008 state Supreme Court ruling related to how cities pay for municipal fire hydrants. The ruling in Lane v.

Seattle identified hydrants as a general government service and not a utility.

“It really seems at odds with the idea of promoting water conservation and being good stewards of the environment to then tell people, ‘You’re doing such a great job, now we’re going to tack on more fees,’ but that’s, unfortunately, the way our water system works,” Schaer said.

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“It just seems a little counterintuitive but it’s really pretty simple: You’re paying for your water by volume,” Council President John Traeger said. “You take the whole year and you assume how many dollars for this much water that year, and every year it goes up and down and up and down, but the cost to run the system is the same every year.”

The council attributed the drop in usage to conservation and rainsoaked conditions common during La Niña.

“The result of the last couple years of the wet summers has basically eroded the operating cushion that’s in these water funds,” Councilman Mark Mullet said.

“Basically, the water funds get the majority of their funds in July and August because it doesn’t rain and

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By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter In a unanimous decision Nov. 9, King County Council members adopted a $5.2 billion budget for 2012 focused on basic human needs, such as food and shelter, and maintenance for aging roads in rural and unincorporated areas.

The total includes a $650 million general fund budget — dollars for elections, law enforcement and other basic government functions.

Leaders did not tap reserves for the 2012 spending plan.

“This stable and balanced budget is a product of a decadelong effort to respond to shrinking revenues by cutting costs while maintaining our high bond ratings through sound fiscal management,” Councilman Larry Phillips said.

The budget outlines a plan for some streets in rural and unincorporated areas near Issaquah to receive reduced maintenance and a lower priority for snow removal.

In turn, King County plans to shift attention to heavily traveled roads, such as Issaquah-Hobart Road Southeast.

Former HOA president is headed to trial The man accused of bilking more than $10,000 from a local homeowners association is due in court early next year.

Kennedy M. Mulwa, 27, faces a first-degree theft charge, because authorities said he stole money from the homeowners association in Sammamish Crown Condominiums, 4330 W. Lake Sammamish Parkway S.E. King County prosecutors said Mulwa, serving as the homeowners association president, transferred $11,370 from the homeowners association’s account to his business, Orwell Tours and Travel.

In January 2010, a homeowners association employee discovered a withdrawal from a reserve account. Other board members later confronted Mulwa about the withdrawal, but said he lacked the funds to replace the money in the homeowner association’s account. Instead, he did not return the money, prosecutors said.

Mulwa is due in King County Superior Court for a trial Jan. 4.

“How are we going to preserve what we have and keep it as safe as possible? My main thing that I heard was snow removal,” Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, Issaquah’s representative and a budget team member, said the day after the council adopted the budget. “We will have snowplows available to every single part of King County. Now, will they be there at the first snowflake? No. It will be prioritized by the most heavily traveled, but that makes sense.”

The council reorganized County Executive Dow Constantine’s budget proposal to address basic human needs.

“This budget responds to the most basic human needs of those struggling from the recession, as nearly 190,000 King County residents are now living below the federal poverty line,” Councilwoman Julia Patterson, budget team leader, said in a statement.

Rather than allocating human service funds through a request for proposal process, council members directed $1 million in onetime funds to local nonprofit organizations.

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address hunger. The council directed funds to YWCA of SeattleKing-Snohomish for homeless services and another equal share of the $1 million to the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence to assist domestic violence and sexual assault survivors.

“It makes a real difference in the lives of survivors,” Merril Cousin, King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence executive director, said the day after the council adopted the budget. “In dollar sense, it is a good chunk of money, but compared to the need, it doesn’t begin to address it.”

The council, acting a year after a sharp debate about the King County Sheriff’s Office, adopted a budget to preserve police and court services for 2012.

The spending plan increases the public defense budget to reduce the overall felony caseload maintained by the attorneys representing indigent defendants in the criminal justice system. The budget also preserves staffing levels in District Court and Superior Court, and restores a critical investigative child-find detective to advocate for

child safety in dangerous custody cases.

“This budget is stable but builds on cuts from prior years to our criminal justice system,” Issaquaharea Councilman Reagan Dunn said in a statement. “I am pleased that we have been able to restore storefront deputies and provide funding to fight gangs over the past year.”

The council usually adopts the annual county budget the Monday before Thanksgiving. Like last year, the council adopted the budget early.

“This quickened decisive action on the budget is without precedent, and it’s made possible by the partnership we have created with the council, our employees and our employee unions,” Constantine said in a statement. “Our practice of teamwork and respect is setting an example and building confidence across the region. As called for in our strategic plan, we are truly working together for one King County.”

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City seeks input on proposed rezone The process to transform about 80 acres in the decades ahead is due to continue Nov. 21.

City Council members plan to gather input from citizens about a proposed rezone of Rowley Properties-owned Hyla Crossing and Rowley Center from commercial land to urban village — a designation used to foster mixed-use construction in the Issaquah Highlands and Talus.

Such a zoning change means the Urban Village Development Commission — the panel responsible for overseeing development in the highlands and Talus — could also call shots on construction in Hyla Crossing and Rowley Center.

The council is hosting a public hearing on the proposal and a separate item to redevelop the properties into medium- to highdensity areas for businesses and

GET INVOLVED Hyla Crossing and Rowley Center proposed rezone public hearing 7:30 Nov. 21 Council Chambers, City Hall South, 135 E. Sunset Way Citizens can email comments about the proposal to rowleyda@ci.issaquah.wa.us or mail them to City of Issaquah, c/o MDRT, P.O. Box 1307, Issaquah, WA 98027.

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The hearing is the latest step in a decadeslong process to reshape Hyla Crossing and Rowley Center.

In the past year, planners out-

lined a broad proposal to turn acres of low-rise office buildings, automotive service centers and self-storage units on land near Interstate 90 and state Route 900 into pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods.

Rowley Properties and city planners embarked on a bold effort in April 2010 to redevelop Hyla Crossing and Rowley Center in Central Issaquah.

The effort also prompted questions about the potential impacts redevelopment could cause on traffic congestion, mountain vistas and the environment.

The city is in the midst of a parallel effort to define redevelopment in 915-acre Central Issaquah in the coming decades.

The agreement to redevelop the Rowley Properties land is seen as critical to the overall redevelopment push.

Local man joins Occupy Seattle protest

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter The ongoing demonstrations at Occupy Seattle and other Occupy Wall Street-inspired rallies launched a national discussion about economic and social equality.

The local demonstration also attracted Reece Allawatt, a Sammamish resident, Eastside Catholic High School alumnus and recent Gonzaga University graduate.

“It’s like the Constitution says.

It’s ‘we the people.’ We’re the ones who have the power,” he said. “If we don’t like the way that our representatives are representing us as a people, then we have the right to voice our dissent.”

In between LSAT preparation and part-time jobs, Allawatt joined the crowd at Occupy Seattle.

“Some of us Occupys have real jobs that we actually have to take part in,” he quipped.

The protest remained peaceful and Allawatt did not see any clashes between protesters and police officers.

“I’ve never taken part in any protests or anything before,” he said, but added he decided to join after learning more about the Federal Reserve.

The idea germinated as Allawatt started researching the 2012 presidential election. In the process, he read Texas congressman and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul’s “End the Fed” — a book arguing against the Federal Reserve.

“The media is trying to portray the movement as the liberals’ Tea Party, which is really sad because that’s not it at all,” he said.

Then, after seeing Occupy Wall Street unfold since midSeptember, Allawatt joined Occupy Seattle last month to raise awareness about “ending the Federal Reserve, ending corporate personhood and getting money out of politics.”

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OCCUPY MOVEMENT COMES TO SAMMAMISH The Occupy movement in New York, Seattle and other big cities is coming to Sammamish from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 19 at Inglewood Hill Road and 228th Avenue.

The group, comprised of middle-class citizens from a range of occupations, with diverse political views and at different stages of life, invites the citizens of Sammamish to join them in a peaceful, orderly Occupy Sammamish demonstration.

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from Westlake Park downtown to Seattle Central Community College on Capitol Hill late last month.)

“The money from Wall Street and the bankers gets funneled directly back into politics,” Allawatt said. “Everyone knows this. Everyone knows about lobbyists and corporations that can literally buy out whatever they want. It just feels so distant that we don’t really have any chance of making that change.”

The slogan, “We are the 99 percent,” nods to the difference in income growth between the wealthiest 1 percent and the rest of the population.

“What the 99 percent stands for to me is,” Allawatt said, is a chance to “help people and really make lasting change.”

The key to success for the Occupy Wall Street movement, he said, is strength in numbers.

“You can’t do it on your own, but the masses, the 99 percent, that’s how you make actual change,” Allawatt said.

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

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Local students cast ballots in statewide mock election

cent to 29 percent.

Statewide, 13,901 students participated in the process.

Middle School and Issaquah High School joined the mock election.

The librarian at Sunset Elementary even handed out “I Voted” stickers to students.

Older students voted for the same statewide measures as adults in the real election. Students in kindergarten through fifth grade received more age-appropriate measures.

Issaquah School District students endorsed the liquor privatization measure, Initiative 1183, 58 percent to 42 percent. Local students also backed the tolling measure, Initiative 1125, 60 percent to 40 percent, and the long-term care measure, Initiative 1163, 71 per-

Though most students in primary and secondary schools do not meet the minimum voting age, the under-18 crowd still participated in the November election — sort of.

Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed invited students in kindergarten to 12th grade to participate in the 2011 State Mock Election, a state-sponsored educational effort designed to establish voter participation later in life.

In the Issaquah School District, classes at Sunset and Sunny Hills elementary schools, Pine Lake

City updates some storm water rules for developers in valley City leaders have changed development rules for storm water in areas along the valley floor.

Under the revised code, developers do not need to build additional storm water detention ponds and facilities if removing impervious areas — such as buildings or pavement — is part of redevelopment. The earlier code required extra storm water detention for all redevelopment,

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so runoff matched predeveloped conditions.

City Council members acted after a consultant’s study determined the drainage systems in question — Tributary 0170, Pickering Ditch and East Lake Sammamish Tributary — remained stable and requiring additional storm water detention is not likely to benefit fish habitat.

The state Department of Ecology agreed, and allowed the city to make the exception.

Developers must still build storm water detention facilities for all impervious surfaces added in new construction. In addition, the requirements for storm water

treatment for water remain the same.

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State stocks hatchery-raised rainbow trout in Beaver Lake The state Department of Fish and Wildlife released about 2,300 Issaquah Salmon Hatchery-raised rainbow trout into Beaver Lake last week.

State Fishery Biologist Aaron Bosworth said Beaver Lake is best fished by small boat, although anglers also can find some success in fishing from shore.

Beaver Lake is among a group of Western Washington lowland lakes open to fishing year round. The

state prohibits internal-combustion boat engines on the lake. The state requires all anglers 15 and older to carry a valid fishing license to fish at Beaver Lake.

The daily bag limit is five fish — only two of the fish can exceed 15 inches in length — and bait anglers must keep the first five trout caught.

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Before giving thanks, give back at Turkey Trot

Information kiosks go up along regional greenway trails

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter

A new kiosk now in place at the Tiger Mountain trailhead can provide cellphone users with electronic information about the mountain trail, such as maps and how to spot local wildlife.

Amy Brockhaus, of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, said the kiosk was finished last week. Similar kiosks are going up at locations throughout the greenway at spots such as the Mount Si and Rattlesnake Mountain trailheads.

Brockhaus said one idea of the kiosks is to allow users of smart phones to take pictures of trail maps and use those maps later to navigate the surrounding area. A QR code in one corner of the kiosk directs web enabled phones to the Mountains to Sound Greenway website. The kiosks also contain what was described as a lot of site-specific information.

“It’s a lot of natural history that we’re trying to make available,” Brockhaus said.

Burn some calories before the feast at the Issaquah Turkey Trot, a Thanksgiving Day benefit for the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank.

Issaquah Turkey Trot organizer and Issaquah resident Heather Matthews said the morning run is a chance for residents to benefit the community on the holiday.

The inaugural Issaquah Turkey Trot started last year after some early morning snowfall, days WHAT TO KNOW after a sudden snowstorm Issaquah nailed the Turkey Trot Puget Sound Nov. 24 region.

8:30 a.m. — Matthews, then eight day-of registramonths pregtion and T-shirt nant, did not pick-up expect runners

9 a.m. — to head out race starts into the cold, The entry fee although 320 people had for adults and signed up for children older the run in the than 10 is $20. days before

The route Thanksgiving. starts and ends “I didn’t even at Pickering know if anybody was going Barn, 1730 to show up, 10th Ave N.W. and we actually Learn more had about 250 about the of them show up,” she said. “I Issaquah Turkey Trot, and find was shocked.”

The runners volunteer opporpushed ahead, tunities, at the and all but race website, some patches of snow melted www.issaquahfrom the course turkeytrot.org. in time for the 9 a.m. start.

The initial outing raised more than $4,600 — crucial funds as need for the food bank increases amid the holiday season.

The race lacks the traditional 5K trimmings — bibs, numbers, prizes and the like. Instead, aside from a small amount for overhead — T-shirts, permits, etc. — the donations go to the food bank. Organizers also collect clothing and nonperishable foods at the starting line on Thanksgiving.

“My audience is more the family — a more casual way to give back Thanksgiving morning,” Matthews said.

The upcoming race incorporates feedback from participants and includes numerous repeat runners from last Thanksgiving.

Matthews ran in the Seattle Turkey Trot in 2008 and 2009, a Thanksgiving Day run to benefit the Ballard Food Bank.

“The last year I went it was getting really big and crowded, and when I went there, I saw all of these people from our community that I knew,” Matthews said. “I thought, ‘I could start this in Issaquah and give to my own food bank.’”

The holiday run is geared for avid and casual runners alike. Organizers encourage participants to don Thanksgiving-themed costumes and accessories for the route along East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast and Northwest Sammamish Road.

“I am not a runner at all,” Matthews said. “The most I’ve ever run was the 5K at the Seattle Turkey Trot.”

Eastridge Pastor Steve Jamison (left) and Bert Urie, of the church’s board of elders, hand out items during last year’s Thanksgiving event.

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With the help of a University of Washington dental student, Issaquah dentist Theresa Cheng works on a Panamanian patient.

According to information released by the Greenway, different kiosks at different locations will tell about things like how a park was built on top of a freeway on Mercer Island. At Tiger Mountain, learn how state trust forest lands fund local governments and public schools. The kiosk at Rattlesnake Ledge will tell about the nation’s largest protected watershed.

Brockhaus said the eight kiosks were paid for with grants from the National Scenic Byways Program as well as a donation from Jim Ellis, the Greenway Trust founding president. Including engineering and design, the total cost was estimated at $244,500.

Besides those locations already mentioned, kiosks will be placed or are ready at Mercer Island Lid Park; Snoqualmie Point Park; Iron Horse State Park at Hyak; and in the historic center of Cle Elum.

Learn more at www.mtsgreenway.org.

Spreading cheer around the globe, one smile at a time

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Members of the University of Washington Dental Brigade pose during their trip to Panama in late August.

Local dentist joins Dental Brigade to Panama

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter Before she left Panama in August, Issaquah dentist Theresa Cheng had proof positive that medical trips to remote areas do some long-lasting good.

For the most part, Cheng said the 500 patients she saw in the rural Darien Province of Panama had extreme dental problems. There were two exceptions, two patients who apparently had learned the benefits of brushing and flossing during previous visits from visiting physicians.

“That was a surprise,” Cheng said, adding she was shocked at how much the two stood out from other patients.

Answering an emailed call for volunteers from a student at the

University of Washington, Cheng traveled to Panama for a week in late summer. Part of the larger Global Brigades organization, the U.W. Dental Brigade organized her trip.

Global Brigades promotes health and sustained healthy practices worldwide, recruiting college students and health care professionals for trips to medically underserved, farflung areas. Pre-dental student Austin Wessling founded the UW chapter and has led four trips, including the Panama excursion. He said each trip takes about a year of planning and he generally tries to recruit between 10 and 12 dental students along with two or three dentists.

Both Cheng and Wessling said their group spent some time in Panama City before heading out into the countryside and the difference was stark.

“Panama City has a Trump Tower,” Cheng said. “It’s very modern.”

Wessling said there were

sharp contrasts between the wealthy and the poor even in Panama City, adding there were obvious American influences in certain areas.

There was, of course, no tower in the rural area about a three-hour drive outside the city, which is where Cheng and her group set up their temporary dental office. They brought two dental chairs with them, but for the most part patients sat in normal chairs while being treated.

Those patients came, Cheng added, from hours away.

“The adults were very respectful,” she said. The children were, essentially, children.

“They had these big goofy smiles,” Cheng continued, adding her team was handing out stickers that one child put all over his face.

Cheng said with the help of the accompanying college students, the dentists on the trip saw patients in a sort of rapidfire succession over a four-day period.

“We took a 20-minute lunch break and that was about it,” she said.

By the end of a day of work, the college students were encouraging others to keep going.

“They didn’t want to turn anybody away,” Cheng said.

During the treatment sessions, Wessling said he served largely as a sort of organizer. Each student did one job for a few hours and then rotated to something else. Wessling admitted the treatment seemed a bit chaotic at times because of the large numbers of patients being seen and waiting. Cheng noted dentists worked without an X-ray machine or much else in the way of electrical equipment, such as suction machines.

“That was kind of a tough hurdle for me,” Cheng said, adding See DENTIST, Page B3

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This newly completed kiosk at the Tiger Mountain trailhead includes maps and a QR code that will direct smart phones to the website of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust.

Help clean, prepare Cougar Mountain with Issaquah Alps Trails Club

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter Cougar Mountain is due for a cleaning.

King County purchased 41 acres on Cougar Mountain almost a year ago, and to prepare the site for addition to a regional park, Issaquah Alps Trails Club members plan to clean up the land Nov. 19.

The effort is a rare cleanup event for the trails club. Members usually focus on trail maintenance projects.

“This property is really important and we figure it’s a good start,” said David Kappler, Issaquah Alps Trails Club president and a former Issaquah councilman. “We’ll build some more awareness of the actual potential for this property.”

The cleanup event is open to the public. Issaquah Environmental Council members plan to participate, too.

HOW TO HELP Issaquah Alps Trails Club Cougar Mountain cleanup 9 a.m. Nov. 19 Participants should meet at the Issaquah Transit Center, 1050 17th Ave. N.W. RSVP for additional directions to Trailwork Volunteer Coordinator Scott Semans at trailwork@issaquahalps.org or call 369-1725.

The land contained homeless encampments, and organizers need to remove discarded tarps and other refuse from the land as the initial step before crews can add trails and wetlands.

“It’s to clean it up before too See CLEANUP, Page B3

Eastridge Church plans traditional Thanksgiving turkey giveaway Issaquah’s Eastridge Church will have its annual giveaway of 1,000 turkeys and groceries Nov. 19.

Heather Retzlaff, executive assistant at the church, said the large-scale holiday charity event would be even bigger than in the past.

“This year we’ve also added a few new elements — free haircuts from licensed stylists who attend Eastridge, coats for children and adults, and Bibles,” Retzlaff said in a press release.

The giveaway will take place

while supplies last starting at 9 a.m. at the Eastridge churches in Issaquah and Seattle.

The Issaquah location is 24205 Issaquah-Fall City Road. The West Seattle Campus of Eastridge Church is at 4500 39th Ave. S.W. “The Thanksgiving season is a time we all naturally reflect on our lives and the good things that we’re experiencing, but it can also be a difficult time for families with limited resources,” Eastridge Lead Pastor Steve Jamison said. “We want to show

our community that Eastridge cares by providing a blessing this Thanksgiving to those who may be struggling to make ends meet.”

Jamison said this year marks the ninth year Eastridge has provided a turkey and a bag of groceries to families.

The dinner packages will be given out first-come, first-served, with no demonstration of need required to receive the assistance.

Learn more at www.eastridgetoday.com or call 270-6300.

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Early shopping The Vasa Park Christmas Craft Show, featuring more than 95 vendors, is from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 17-18 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 19 at Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W. Admission is free.

Events The Fraternal Order of Eagles, 175 Front St. N., is open daily at 11 a.m. to members. It is open to the public for steak night (6-8 p.m. every second Friday), prime rib night (6-8 p.m. every fourth Friday), poker tourneys (1:30 p.m. every second Saturday) and other special holiday and fundraising events. Call 392-6751. New members are always welcome.

Bellewood Senior Living hosts a VA Benefits Seminar, presented by Robert Elhard, at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E. Call 3912880 for reservations.

GriefShare is offering a “Surviving the Holiday” DVD seminar from 9:30 a.m. to noon Nov. 19 at Issaquah Christian Church, 10328 Issaquah-Hobart Road S.E. Register by calling 392-5848. Cost is $5 to cover materials.

Tunes and a Tale with Squirrel Butter, 7 p.m. Nov. 21, Sammamish Library meeting room, 825 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish The Issaquah Philharmonic will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21 at Faith United Methodist Church, 3924 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road.

The Fifth Annual evo “Barnstorm” Ski & Snowboard Blowout Sale is from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 21-27 at Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.E. Admission is free. Go to http://culture.evo.com/2010/11/ evos-2010-barnstorm-sale.

Emerald City Ringers present “Winter Wonderland” — a handbell concert for the holidays with full bell choir, plus bell ensembles, music for hammered dulcimer and more — at 4 p.m.

Nov. 27 at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. S. Suggested donations are $8 senior for students, $10 for adults, $5 per child and $25 per family. Refreshments will be served. Learn more by calling 392-4169.

The Overlake Alumnae Panhellenic annual scholarship luncheon is at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 8 at the Overlake Golf and Country Club, 8000 N.E. 16th St., Medina. This is its major fundraiser for the scholarships awarded each spring to college-bound Eastside girls. The cost of the event is $50 for bridge, with foursomes prearranged by attendees, and $45 for the luncheon only. Bridge players should arrive no earlier than 10 a.m. and bring their own cards and score pads. Make reservation by the deadline of Nov. 28 by calling 454-3769.

The Issaquah History Museums’ eighth annual Holiday Open House is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 3 at the Issaquah Train Depot, 150 First Ave. N.E. There will be a holiday craft fair, live music, refreshments and even a visit by Santa. Call 392-3500.

Dessert Theatre presents the

Taproot Theatre Co. production of “Christmas In Flight” at 7 p.m.

Dec. 9 at Foothills Baptist Church, 10120 Issaquah-Hobart Road S.E. Tickets are $8 each or $25 per family. Go to www.foothillschurch.net or call 392-5925.

Religion A live audio question-andanswer session entitled “Exploring the Bible’s Healing Message” is at 11 a.m. Nov. 22 at the Christian Science Reading Room, 415 Rainier Blvd. N. Call 392-8140.

St. Michael’s and All Angels Episcopal Church will host the annual Thanksgiving Eve Worship Service at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 23 at 325 S.E. Darst St. Participating churches include Community Church of Issaquah, Mountain Creek Christian Fellowship, St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church and Our Savior Lutheran Church. A reception will follow the service.

Fundraisers The Salvation Army and Bartell Drugs team up to bring holiday cheer to children in need during the “Toy ‘N’ Joy” drive through Dec. 11. Donate new, unwrapped gifts appropriate for children up to age 17 at all 58 Bartell Drugs locations, including the Issaquah store at 5700 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway S.E. They will be distributed to lowincome children and youths the week before Christmas through the Salvation Army’s toy warehouses. Learn more at www.bartelldrugs.com.

Sleep Country presents its Secret Santa Toy Drive for Foster Kids. Bring donations of new, unwrapped gifts to the Issaquah location at 730 N.W. Gilman Blvd. through Dec. 11. Go to www.sleepcountry.com.

AAA’s fourth annual Soap for Hope campaign collects unused and unopened toiletry items and distributes them to persons in need via local shelters, food banks and other charitable organizations. Donations may be dropped off at the AAA Issaquah office from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 405 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Suite 102, through the end of the year. New, full- and sample-sized toiletry items, such as soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, toothpaste and deodorant will be accepted. Go to www.aaawa.com/about/ newsroom/relations/soapforhope/ index.asp.

Volunteers Help the Cub Scouts of Pack 468 make blankets for sick babies and holiday cards for the volunteers who help them at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 at Maple Hills Elementary School, 15644 204th Ave. S.E., Renton. Learn more by contacting David Treece at 922-

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Nov. 17, YWCA Family Village Commons, 949 N.E. Ingram St., Issaquah Highlands “Making the Magic Last,” 6-8 p.m. Nov. 30 “Strengthening Families: The Big Transition to Middle School,” 5:30-8 p.m. Nov. 7 through Dec. 19 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 “Art for the Soul,” 9:30 a.m. to noon, every other Friday, $18 “Prose & Poetry & Ponderings Pub,” 6-9 p.m. Nov. 17, $10 donation “Treasure Jars,” 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 10 and 17, $90 “Painting with Natural Mediums,” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 19 and 20, $175 “Holiday Decorating,” 10:30 a.m. Nov. 16 and 19, Squak Mt. Greenhouses and Nursery, 7600 Renton-Issaquah Road S.E., free

Library 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 Book Discussion, for adults, “Unaccustomed Earth,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 16 Teen Book Group, 3 p.m. Nov. 17 Play & Learn Chinese, for ages newborn to 5 with adult, 10:30 a.m. Nov. 18 “Create a Web Site for Your Small Business,” for adults, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 22 Manga Club, 3 p.m. Nov. 28 “Talk Time: An English Conversation Class,” for adults, 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays Lunch Bunch Story Times, for ages 3-6 with an adult, noon Tuesdays Toddler Story Time, for ages 24-36 months, 10 a.m. Tuesdays and 11 a.m. Wednesdays Waddler Story Times, for ages 12 to 24 months with an adult, 10 and 11 a.m. Thursdays

Seniors The 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.

Heartworks, with Trudy James, presents “End of Life Planning,” at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 9.

Veterans/Thanksgiving swing dance, 3-5 p.m. Nov. 18, $5 donation at the door The following day trips are offered through November: Chehalis Veterans Museum — 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 16, $12/$14 “Rocky Mountain Express” Imax at Pacific Science Center — 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 23, $16/$18 KCTS 9 TV Tour — 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 28, $22/$24 Old Cannery Furniture Warehouse — 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 28, $8/$10 Leavenworth Town & Tree Lighting — 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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Meet Saturn! This 5-yearold Chihuahua mix has an out-of-this-world personality.

Saturn is remarkably calm and sweet — she’ll spend most of her day finding ways to nuzzle with you.

Lauren Carter and Matt Frugé Carter, Frugé Lauren Carter and Matt Frugé announce their engagement to be married Aug. 10, 2012, at Fort Worden in Port Townsend.

The bride-to-be is the daughter of Bill and Teri Carter. She was raised in Ferndale and is a 2005 graduate of Ferndale High School. Lauren went on to honor college at Washington State University, where she graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in environmental science.

She works as a sustainability consultant for McKinstry, in Seattle.

The future groom is the son of Dwight and Linda Frugé, of Issaquah. Matt graduated from Liberty High School in 2001. He also earned a Bachelor of Arts from WSU in 2007 in hospitality business management.

He is employed as an air/sea agent for Holland America, in Seattle.

W HO ’ S N EWS Pie auction raises nearly $15,000 for Compassion House The Compassion House Pie auction netted just under $15,000 for Compassion House.

Some pies went for hefty amounts, averaging just under $275 per pie.

Compassion House is transitional housing for families in need. Learn more at www.compassion-house.org.

Issaquah student helps UW win engineering prize David Zong, an Issaquah undergraduate student at the University of Washington majoring in bioengineering, was part of a team from the UW that comDavid Zong peted in the International Genetically Engineered Machine World Championship Competition last week, where 65 of the most competitive teams worldwide of undergraduate students convened at MIT to present their synthetic biology projects.

After deliberation, an international panel of judges awarded the UW the grand prize, the first time ever a team from the United States has won the award, topping MIT, Imperial College London and ZJU-China.

Zong’s group produced diesel fuel from sugar by engineering a novel biological system in bacterial cells.

Zong is a 2010 Skyline High School graduate.

Meet Cheese! This handsome 4-year-old orange tabby cat will start purring the moment he sees you. Cheese adores your attention and affection and he’s great at sharing his, too!

These pets may already have been adopted by the time you see these photos. If you’re interested in adopting these or other animals, contact the Humane Society for Seattle/King County at 641-0080, go to www.seattlehumane.org or email humane@seattlehumane.org. All adopted animals go home spayed/neutered, microchipped and vaccinated, with 30 days of free pet health insurance and a certificate for an examination by a King County veterinarian. The Seattle Humane Society is now open from noon to 6 p.m. seven days a week.

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Laura Stroh and Christopher Cassani were married Sept. 4, 2011, at St. Paul Parish in Cambridge, Mass.

A reception followed at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge.

The bride is the daughter of Rex and Lynne McCullough, of Issaquah, and Robert and Terry Stroh, of Lake Stevens.

Her maid of honor was Lindsey Chisholm and her bridesmaids were Laura Kingsbery, Rei Matsumoto, Kim Peters, Valerie Bowen and Alessandra McCoy. The bride is a 2002 graduate of Issaquah High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in international relations from Boston University in 2007 and a master’s degree in security studies from Georgetown University in 2009. She is a research scientist at Milcord LLC in Waltham, Mass., working for the Department of Defense.

The groom is the son of Richard and Mary Ellen Cassani, of Weymouth, Mass.

His best man was his brother, Richard Cassani, and his groomsmen were Nick Epstein, Daniel Mi-

Laura Stroh and Christopher Cassani randa, Alexander Lee, David Pendexter and Alejandro Goicouria.

The groom graduated from Xaverian Brothers High School, in Weymouth, in 2003. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in history and Spanish at Boston University in 2007 and is currently pursuing a Master’s of Business Administration at the University of Massachusetts. He works as an aid to the mayor of Quincy.

The couple honeymooned In San Francisco, Monterey and Napa Valley, Calif.

Alberts, Deaton Sarah Alberts, of Sammamish, and Christopher Deaton, of Bothell, were married Sept. 4, 2011, at Shilshole Bay Beach Club in Seattle.

The Rev. Jay Smith officiated.

The bride, daughter of Bruce and Debbie Alberts, of Sammamish, is a 2005 graduate of Skyline High School and a 2009 graduate of Gonzaga University.

Kari Alberts, sister of the bride, was the maid of honor.

Bridesmaids were Lauren Beckwith, Jen Cottrell, Megan Durkin and Kaitlyn Warter. Flower girls were Lucy and Keely O’Harra.

The groom is the son of Colleen O’Harra, of Bothell, and Scott and Lee Deaton, of Bartlett, Ill. He graduated in 2003 from Cedar Park Christian School and in 2007 from Whitworth University.

Ben Scannell was best man, and the groomsmen were Ben Norton, Sean Lambrecht, Travis

Sarah Alberts and Christopher Deaton O’Harra and Bennett Hornbostel.

After a honeymoon in Maui, Hawaii, the couple is at home in Bellevue.

Sarah works as a registered nurse in the emergency department at Valley Medical Center, in Renton, and Chris works at Provantage Software, in Kirkland.

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Brady William Westendorf Brian and Amy Westendorf welcomed son Brady William Westendorf to their Newcastle home Sept.

26, 2011.

Brady was born at Valley Medical Center, in Renton, weighing 8 pounds, 2 ounces and measuring 20.75 inches.

He joins brother Ian Thomas, 22 months.

Brady Westendorf

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Joseph Iwano

Issaquah resident Joseph Iwano passed away at age 91 on Oct. 28, 2011.

Born in the town of Hakalau, Joe grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii. As a child, he worked in sugar cane fields and the plantation store. His lifelong love of learning propelled him through Hilo High, the University of Hawaii and the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, from which he graduated in 1950.

After his residency at McGuire Hospital in Richmond, Va., and military service as a United States Army captain at Fort Campbell, Ky., he settled his family in Ohio, where he was a well-respected urologist, practicing in Alliance and Salem for 32 years.

In 1988, Joe retired and moved to Mercer Island with his wife, the former Molly Ito. They had been

married 46 years when Molly died in 1990. In 1993, he married Ann Lensrud, who survives him with his children Elizabeth, Ruth, Andrew, Amy and Elaine; six grandchildren; and his sister Kay. In 1997, Joe and Ann moved to Providence Point and in 2008 they moved to Timber Ridge.

Joe is remembered for the lives he improved as a physician, his delight in family and friends, and his passion for learning, travel and ice cream.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests remembrance donations to one of the following: NW Medical Teams International at www.medicalteams.org; the Alzheimer's Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090; or Mercer Island Methodist Church, 7070 S.E. 24th St., Mercer Island, WA 98040.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, at Mercer Island United Methodist Church.

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Rosemarie married James Olsen in 1969 and raised 13 children with him. She was a nurse, childcare provider and advocate of the less fortunate. She is survived by her two biological children, Tina Drumheller and Bill Warren, along with her foster daughter Alison Williams, as well as Gina Warren and Crystal Fauxbel (grandchildren James and Rosemarie raised together) along with six other grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.

A Catholic Mass will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Issaquah on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 10 a.m., with a reception on location and burial of Rosemarie and James Olsen's ashes at Hillside Cemetery in Issaquah.

Sunday Worship 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Sunday School for all ages 9:45 AM

Yes. Hearing aids come in a variety of styles and sizes. It used to be that the greater the hearing loss the larger the hearing aid, but now we are even finding some super-powered hearing aids that are small and discreet.

“Open technology” is a style that fits various degrees of hearing loss. The device hides behind the ear and a thin wire follows the contour of the ear. A small piece is inserted into the ear to direct the sound. Depending on hair and the size of your ear many of these devices are completely hidden.

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Gerald ‘Mac’ McDonald

Gerald Eugene “Mac” McDonald of Issaquah, passed away Nov. 5, 2011, surrounded by his family.

Gerald was born July 17, 1926, in Long Beach, Calif., Gerald McDonald to Carl and Martha McDonald. He was raised in Long Beach and attended Jordan High School, and took local community college courses.

Gerald married Irene “Toby” Starr on June 7, 1957, in Las Vegas. After 37 years of service working for McDonnell Douglas, Gerald retired as director of quality control. Gerald later spent two years in Shanghai, China, with his wife Toby, directing the assembly of the MD-11 jets. They moved to Issaquah on March 1, 2002.

He was a member of the American Legion and served as treasurer for two years at his local post in California. He was also a member of the Benevolent Order of

Elks for 50 years in Long Beach, Calif. His many hobbies included golfing and racing pigeons, and he also belonged to the American Contract Bridge League, where he was a Silver Life Master.

Throughout his life, Gerald had an unfailing sense of humor. Gerald is remembered by his family as a kind and loving family man.

He is survived by his wife of 54 years “Toby” McDonald, of Buffalo, N.Y.; daughters Linda Witt, of Redmond, Deborah McDonald, of Santee, Calif., and Marti Brewer, of Hemet, Calif.; his brother Herald “Hal” McDonald, of Oceanside, Calif.; a sister, Odelia Lowery, of Woodland Hills, Calif.; and his beloved grandchildren: Gene, Nikki, Zachary and Sarah; and great-grandchildren: Dylan, Cece, Taylor, Jake and Ronnell.

Gerald was preceded in death by his sister Norma Hurlbert.

A memorial service will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov 12, at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 22116 S.E. 51st Place, Issaquah.

Arrangements are by Flintoft’s Funeral Home 392-6444.

Friends are invited to view photos, share memories of Gerald and sign the family’s online guest book at www.flintofts.com.

Natalie Eileen Todd April 20, 1984 – Oct. 22, 2011 Daughter.

Sister. Aunt.

Friend.

Born in Bellevue, Natalie spent most of her life in Redmond and the Snoqualmie Valley.

Natalie is survived by Natalie Todd her mother Colleen Todd; her father and step-mother Richard and Marjorie Todd; her sisters Corrina Black, Jodie Barber and Nicki

McFadden; her brother Rich Todd; her step-sister and stepbrother Sabrina and Eythan Frost; one niece; and two nephews.

Natalie loved her family, friends and all her animals. She will always be remembered for her beautiful smile and laughter.

Memorial services will be held at Flintoft's Funeral Home in Issaquah on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution in Natalie’s name to Valley Animal Partners, www.valleyanimalpartners.com.

Full obituary is available at www.flintofts.com or visit the Natalie Todd Memorial page on Facebook.

Kiwanis Club hosts coat, shoe drive for Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank The Kiwanis Club of Issaquah is holding a coat and shoe drive throughout November.

The drive runs through Nov. 30 and donations benefit the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank.

Coats and shoes — in adult’s and children’s sizes — should

be clean, and new or gently used.

Donation sites include The Issaquah Press, 45 Front St. S.; the Issaquah Gilman branch of Key Bank, 405 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Suite A; and AtWork!

Issaquah Operations, 690 N.W. Juniper St.

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Patients wait outside a schoolhouse used as a makeshift dental clinic.

Dentist FROM PAGE B1

she treated a lot of gum disease and pulled a lot of teeth. Filling cavities proved difficult without the usual dentist office electronics. But Cheng added the visiting dentists put a lot of emphasis on prevention.

“Just pulling teeth is not going to be helpful in the long run,” Cheng said. “The idea be-

Clean up FROM PAGE B1

much of this trash gets more difficult to deal with,” Kappler said.

King County acquired the 41acre site near Issaquah to add to 3,115-acre Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park late last year. The deal closed Dec. 3, 2010.

The county used $1.55 million from the King County Parks expansion levy and the Conservation Futures open space program levy to purchase the land.

The county and city — plus the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, Cascade Land Conservancy and the Issaquah Alps Trails Club — long considered the land as a high priority for conservation.

“That was one of the areas we were leading hikes in, before the trails club was formally formed, to build awareness of it,” Kap-

hind the program is not just a Band Aid.” Cheng had nothing but compliments for Global Brigades, who she said had Panamanian natives, including a local dentist, helping out the group. Cheng said she has, in the past, helped with Tent City occupants and offered some reduced-fee care, mostly to veterans, in her Issaquah clinic. She did not rule out volunteering again with Global Brigades.

“I just think it’s a great program,” Cheng said.

pler said.

The city eyed the property for decades. In addition, a municipal trails plan completed in 1992 identified the parcel as a key piece in the regional trails network. The land is just beyond city limits.

If King County or Issaquah can acquire additional land, plans for the site call for a trailhead and a parking lot on county land near the 41-acre site — and close enough to walk from the Issaquah Transit Center along state Route 900.

The cleanup event is essential to prepare the land for future use, organizers said.

“It helps us in the long run,” Issaquah Environmental Council member Barbara Shelton said.

“We need the green spaces to regenerate and replenish our own sense of self and sense of community.”

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

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HEALTH

Gout: more than an arthritic flareup

By Quinn Eddy More than 8.3 million Americans are affected by gout.

A form of acute arthritis, gout occurs as a result of the body’s inflammatory reaction to needlelike crystals that form in joint fluid when there is an excess of uric acid in the fluid. Uric acid is a waste product of cell metabolism in the body.

Gout has been recognized and studied since the time of the ancient Egyptians. Hippocrates called gout the “un-walkable disease.” Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin all suffered from gout. In times when overindulgence and obesity was a rarity, gout was considered a disease of the rich and powerful and was frequently referred to as “the disease of kings.”

When these crystals appear in a joint, the joint and surrounding tissue become inflamed, leading to swelling and causing nerve endings in the area to become irritated, leading to intense pain. Occurring most commonly in the big

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toe, attacks are usually sudden and cause extreme and often debilitating pain. The pain is usually so excruciating that the sufferer cannot bear weight on the afflicted joint. The inflamed skin over the joint will appear red, shiny and dry.

‘As tender as an open wound’ Issaquah resident Brian Wall experienced his first gout flareup in his left big toe at age 38. Originally, he had thought he had sprained or broken his toe, but in a doctor’s examination he was found to have gout.

“It feels like a bunch of cut-up fish hooks in your joint,” Wall said.

“I’ve had it so bad I’ve had to wear slippers to work. It gets to be so sensitive it hurts to even put a piece of ice on it. It’s as tender as an open wound. I’ve had my chest cut open for surgery and that wasn’t as painful as one outbreak of gout.”

Wall’s gout has spread to the top his left foot and knee. When THINKSTOCK

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Gout, a form of acute arthritis, is a painful, inflammatory reaction in joints from fluid buildup that creates needlelike crystals.

State troopers urged motorists to wake up to the dangers of drowsy driving during Drowsy Driving Prevention Week.

In addition to drunken driving and distracted driving, drowsy driving can cause devastating effects on Washington roadways.

In 2010, drowsy driving caused 17 deaths and 74 seriously injured motorists in Washington. Estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicate drowsy driving results in 1,550 deaths, 71,000 injuries and more than 100,000 accidents nationwide each year.

“It always breaks my heart to hear that someone was killed or injured because a driver fell asleep at the wheel. These are totally preventable deaths and collisions,” Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste said in a statement.

Groups nationwide observed Drowsy Driving Prevention Week from Nov. 6-12.

The state patrol recommends specific steps to prevent drowsy driving and fall-asleep crashes: Get a good night’s sleep before hitting the road.

Do not be too rushed to arrive at your destination. Many drivers try to maximize a holiday weekend by driving at night or without stopping for breaks.

Use the buddy system. Avoid

ON THE WEB Learn more about drowsy driving prevention at the National Sleep Foundation’s Drowsy Driving Resource Center, www.drowsydriving.org.

driving alone for long distances. A buddy who remains awake for the journey can take a turn behind the wheel and help identify the warning signs of fatigue.

Take a break every 100 miles or two hours.

Take a nap. Find a safe place to take a 15- to 20-minute nap if you think you might fall asleep. Be cautious about excessive drowsiness after waking up.

Avoid alcohol and medications capable of causing drowsiness as a side effect.

Avoid driving at times when you might otherwise be asleep.

Troopers reminded motorists to know the warning signs of drowsy driving, such as heavy eyelids, difficulty keeping your head up, drifting from your lane, swerving, tailgating, hitting rumble strips, missing traffic signs and exits, and feeling irritable and restless.

S UPPORT GROUPS Eastside Alcoholics Anonymous hosts the following meetings. For more information, go to www.eastsideintergroup.org or call 454-9192:

Any Length: 8 a.m. Sundays,

Issaquah Valley Senior Center, 75 N.E. Creek Way Issaquah Smoke Free: 8:30 a.m. Sundays, Issaquah Community Hall, 180 E. Sunset Way One Step At a Time: 10 a.m.

Sundays and 7 p.m. Thursdays, 206-686-2927 Core Relations (men only): 6 p.m. Sundays, Issaquah Community Hall, 180 E. Sunset Way Sobriety Life Line: 7:30 p.m.

Sundays, Issaquah Valley Senior Center, 75 N.E. Creek Way Morning Buzz: 6:30 am. weekdays, Lakeside Milam, 98 N.E. Gilman Blvd. Suite 200 Issaquah Breakfast: 7 a.m. weekdays, Issaquah Community Hall, 180 E. Sunset Way Issaquah Breakfast (step study): 7 a.m. Saturdays, Issaquah Community Hall, 180 E. Sunset Way Joy of Living: noon Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and 4 p.m. Thursdays, IHOP Restaurant, 1433 N.W. Sammamish Road It’s In the Book (men only): 7 p.m. Mondays, 14919 IssaquahHobart Road 59 Minutes at Pine Lake: 8 p.m.

Mondays, Pine Lake Community Club, 21333 S.E. 20th St. A Resentment and a Coffee Pot: 7 p.m. Tuesdays, Preston Fire Hall, 8641 Preston-Fall City Road S.E. Book Bag Stag (men only): 7 p.m. Tuesdays, Issaquah Community Hall, 180 E. Sunset Way Issaquah Tuesday Night: 8 p.m.

Tuesdays, Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. S. Young Drunks (young people): 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. Sammamish by the Book: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church, 1121 228th Ave. S.E. Issaquah New Start: 5:30 p.m.

Thursdays, Community Baptist Church, 205 Mountain Park Blvd.

S.W. Sammamish Big Book Study (children): 6 p.m. Thursdays, Pine Lake Covenant Church, 1715 228th Ave. S.E., Room 104 Raging on the River: 7 p.m.

Thursdays, Preston Baptist Church, 31104 S.E. Eighth St. Issaquah Women (women only): 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Issaquah Valley Senior Center, 75 N.E. Creek Way Pine Lake Stag (men only): 8 p.m. Thursdays, Pine Lake Community Club, 21333 S.E. 20th St. Tiger Mountain Stag (men only): 8 p.m. Thursdays, Issaquah Community Hall, 180 E. Sunset Way Friday Night Firehouse Meeting: Issaquah Highlands Fire Station, 1289 N.E. Park Drive Search for Serenity (big book study): 8 p.m. Saturdays, Issaquah Senior Center, 75 N.E. Creek Way See SUPPORT, Page B5

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Gout FROM PAGE B4

experiencing an attack in his knee, Wall is crippled to the extent of needing crutches.

“Gout can certainly be dramatic when it hits, but it is one of the most gratifying conditions to treat because with available medicines it can be easily treated and with appropriate therapy, prevented from causing long-term damage,” said Dr. Philip Mease, director of rheumatology research at Swedish Medical Center. “It’s most often found in men, more often in lower extremity joints but can occur in other joints, such as the ankle, hand, wrist or elbow.”

Uric acid is found naturally in the blood stream and is formed as the body breaks down nutrients, mainly those containing purine. Purine is produced by the human body but is also found in high concentrations in certain foods, including organ meats, red meat, shellfish, dried peas and beans.

Even though gout is generally found in men age 45 or older, post-menopausal women bear nearly the same risk as men their age.

According to Mease, higher levels of uric acid exist in those who are obese, eat a poor diet, suffer from hypertension or experience poor kidney function.

“It’s people who live a rich lifestyle and indulge in less healthy diets of foods rich in purines, not adequately balanced by fruits, vegetables and grains,” Mease said.

If you have a family history of gout you may inherit gout ge-

Medication, diet can help Generally, the kidneys filter uric acid from the blood and excrete it in urine. Sometimes the body will produce more uric acid or the kidneys are less efficient filtering the substance from the blood. This results in a condition known as hyperuricemia.

When there are high levels of uric acid circulating in the blood, urate crystals may appear in joint fluid not unlike the sugar crystals that form around the lip of a syrup jar when the liquid portion of syrup dries, Mease said.

“The goal is to have the uric acid level below six milligrams per deciliter to avoid this crystallization phenomenon,” he said.

Being hyperuricemic doesn’t necessarily mean gout episodes will occur, but even if gout does not occur, very high uric aid levels can result in silent crystal deposition in the kidneys, contributing to impaired kidney function. Besides having a high uric acid level, certain traumatic events can bring on gout attacks, such as a major medical event like infection, surgery or the stress of hospitalization.

Even a stubbed toe or a heavy drinking binge can spur inflammation.

“It’s not unusual to see levels of seven to nine fairly routinely,” Mease said. “Not all people with levels this high have attacks, but with the higher levels comes an increased probability an attack will occur.”

An attack of gouty arthritis may go away in a week and disappear for months but over the course of time attacks may recur more frequently, last longer and affect more joints.

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Late-phase gout yields chronically painful, deforming and debilitating arthritis affecting many joints, and rocks of crystals known as tophi may develop near joints.

“Late-stage chronic gout can have a destructive effect on joints,” Mease said.

Anti-inflammatory medications such as ibuprofen should be taken at the first sign of a gout attack. Prescription medications that may be prescribed include prednisone or colchicine, both of which can also reduce inflammation and pain. If a patient has multiple attacks in one year, tophi or kidney stones, allopurinol or newer medicines such as febuxostat may be prescribed to decrease levels of uric acid in the blood in order to prevent recurrent attacks, formation of tophi and injury to the kidney.

“If these medications used to treat inflammation aren’t rapidly effective one can inject the joint with corticosteroids,” Mease said.

Corticosteroids give short-term pain relief and helps to reduce swelling and inflammation of the gouty joint.

Mease said gout is treatable and most physicians are well versed in the nuances of managing attacks.

“A good way to prevent gout is to eat a healthy, balanced diet and avoid obesity through regular exercise,” he said. “But if you are someone who is genetically programmed to have a high uric acid level despite excellent self care, the medicines we have available are highly effective and tolerated, so we should succeed in controlling the un-walkable disease.”

Quinn Eddy is a former Issaquah Press intern. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

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Angel Care-Breast Cancer Foundation: free emotional support to the newly diagnosed, enhancing emotional recovery while going through treatments, www.angelcarefoundation.org Bereavement Support Group: 7-8:30 p.m. second and fourth Mondays, Overlake Hospital, 688-5906 Family Caregivers Support Group: 3-4:30 p.m. second and fourth Thursdays, Overlake Senior Health Center, 1750 112th Ave. N.E., Suite A-101, Bellevue, 688-5807 Issaquah Parkinson’s Support Group: 1:30-3 p.m., second Monday, Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. S., 206230-0166 or 392-4169 Overeaters Anonymous: 10:30 a.m. Mondays, Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. S. Call 392-2488 or 761-2555. Childcare available upon request.

Parkinson’s Disease Support Group, 1:30 p.m. second Monday, Our Savior Lutheran Church library, 745 Front St. S., 206-9388298 Prostate Cancer Support Group: 7 p.m. third Tuesday, Lincoln Center, 555 116th Ave. N.E., Suite 125, Bellevue, 369-2552

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Swedish/Issaquah offers classes Swedish/Issaquah Medical Center, 751 N.E. Blakely Drive, offers the following classes (register or learn more about costs at www.swedish.org/Classes-andResources): “Baby Needs a Doctor” — 6:30 p.m. Nov. 16 “Postpartum Preparation — 6 p.m. Nov. 18 and Dec. 6 “Childbirth Preparation: 1-day Seminar” — 9 a.m. Nov. 20 Free birth center tour — 10:30 a.m. Nov. 20 “Newborn Preparation” — 9 a.m. Nov. 26 and 10 a.m. Dec. 10 “Coping with Confidence: Labor Coping Techniques” — 6 p.m. Nov. 29 Free birth center tour — 6 and

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7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 and 5 and 6:30 p.m. Dec. 2 “Infant Safety and CPR” — 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Dec. 3 and 6 p.m. Dec. 7 Free birth center tour — 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Dec. 4

Overlake Medical Center offers classes Overlake Medical Center offers the following classes at its Issaquah clinic, 5708 E. Lake Sammamish Pkwy. S.E. Register by calling 688-5259.

“Weight Loss Surgery Seminar” — 6 p.m. Nov. 22, free “Condensed Series Preparation for Childbirth & Newborn Care” — 9 a.m. Dec. 2 & 10, $95 per couple “You and Your New Baby” — 10 a.m. Nov. 14, $55

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

First round goes to Spartans, 27-17

By Bob Taylor Issaquah Press sports editor Skyline High School’s football team is renowned for always having an explosive offense. However, the Spartans also know that this time of the year a team had better be playing solid defense, especially if it has aspirations of playing for a state title in the Tacoma Dome.

And Skyline always has those aspirations.

The Spartans, coming up strong on defense, moved another step closer to the Tacoma Dome Nov. 12, when they defeated the Greater Spokane League Champion, 27-17, in a first-round game in Spokane’s Joe Albi Stadium.

With the victory Skyline, 8-3, hosts Central Valley, another Spokane-area team, at 1 p.m. Nov. 19 in a Class 4A state quarterfinal.

The winner of the game will meet either Union or Woodinville in the semifinals Nov. 26 in the Tacoma Dome. The semifinal winners play for the state title Dec. 3 in the Tacoma Dome.

Central Valley, 9-2, comes to Skyline riding a five-game winning streak. The Bears defeated de-

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fending 4A state champion Ferris, 23-7, Nov 12. Central Valley takes big pride in its defense. The Bears have five defensive players who earned all-league, first-team honors this season.

But Skyline’s defense, often overshadowed by the potent offense, had one of its best performances of the season against Mead.

The Spartans overcame the elements and Mead at Spokane. Skyline survived frigid temperatures and snow flurries.

The passing game was not hindered, as junior quarterback Max Browne completed 12 of 27 passes for 222 yards and three touchdowns.

Skyline also capitalized on Mead mistakes, two that came on kick returns.

The Spartans opened the second See FOOTBALL, Page B7

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Skyline records its best finish in school history

By Sandy Ringer Seattle Times staff reporter LACEY — Maddie Magee wanted more than memories.

The Skyline High School senior wanted a memento to commemorate a special volleyball season — for herself and her school.

She helped make sure the Spartans got one Nov. 12 as she led them to a trophy finish at the Class 4A state tournament at St. Martin's College.

Magee pounded 22 kills and added 10 digs to key a 3-1 victory against Kent-Meridian in the loserout match early Nov. 12. That assured Skyline of a volleyball trophy for only the second time in school history and a best-ever finish. The Spartans wound up sixth after losing the consolation final to Puyallup, 3-0. Skyline finished seventh in the 2000 3A tournament.

"We came here with something to prove, and I think we have — that we are a good team and that we bond at state," said Magee, who has signed a national letter of intent with the University of Oregon.

Skyline opened the tournament impressively Nov. 11 with a 3-2 victory against No.3 Bellarmine Prep. The Spartans lost the first

two sets, 28-26 and 25-20, but rallied to win the third set, 25-23.

Skyline won the fourth game, 2725, to force a tie-breaker. The Spartans won the tie-breaker, 1512. Magee had 22 kills and 19 digs to lead Skyline. Halle Erdahl and Kennedy Stoa played well up front, too. Erdahl had 14 kills and Stoa 10 kills. Madison Stoa contributed a strong all-around game with six kills, five blocks and 17 digs.

The Spartans lost their second match to Curtis, 3-1. Skyline won the first set, 25-16, but Curtis fought back to win the match, 2519, 25-23, 25-18. Madison Stoa had 44 assists, 11 digs and three aces and Magee 21 kills and 14 digs. Emily Harris contributed 17 digs and Erdahl 18 kills.

Skyline bounced back Nov. 12 to beat Kent-Meridian, 3-1. Skyline lost the first set, 25-13, to KentMeridian but recovered and won the next three games, 25-19, 2515, 25-19. Magee had 22 kills and 10 digs. Madison Stoa had 39 assists and Emily Owen 10 digs for the Spartans.

Newport was the only other KingCo Conference 4A team to receive a trophy. The Knights defeated Bellarmine Prep 3-1 to take seventh place.

The Skyline High School girls swim team, wearing Spartan towels designed by one of the team member’s moms, hoists the 4A state championship trophy for the third consecutive year Nov. 12 at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.

Three time’s a charm for Skyline Katie Kinnear leads Spartans to third straight girls swimming title

By Christopher Huber and Bob Taylor Issaquah Press reporters

BY GREG FARRAR

Katie Kinnear, Skyline High School senior, swims her winning 100-yard backstroke race during the state $A championship in a time of 54.6 seconds.

Eagles blanked, 4-0, to end soccer post season

Federal Way — Skyline High School senior Katie Kinnear didn’t have any specific goals in mind going into the state 4A swimming and diving finals Nov. 12 at the King County Aquatic Center. As long as she swam her best and did her part in the relays, things would probably go fine.

“I try not to think about the race too much,” she said about preparing for the high-stakes races.

Things went better than fine.

Kinnear won her fourth consecutive 100-yard butterfly title in 53.46 seconds, just .36 of a second off of the state-record time she set as a sophomore at East-

lake. She helped the Skyline Spartans win their third consecutive state team title, scoring 202 points, 55 points ahead of runner-up Stadium.

“I’m just thrilled. I cannot believe how they swam,” Skyline coach Susan Simpkins said.

“They performed better than we ever imagined.”

The Issaquah Eagles took fifth place with 119 points, relying on strong performances in the 200yard medley relay and the 200 free relay.

In the Class 3A championships, the Liberty Patriots earned a seventh-place finish with 114 points.

“The Issaquah School District can really be proud. We took fifth, Liberty was seventh and Skyline See SWIMMING, Page B7

Liberty takes out Chieftains, Seagulls to reach semifinals

By Christina Lords Issaquah Press reporter

By Matt Massey Special to The Seattle Times FEDERAL WAY — Jenny Hoefel and the third-ranked Todd Beamer High School girls soccer team were in high gear from the start and never let off the throttle.

Hoefel, a junior forward, supplied two goals as the Titans handed Issaquah a 4-0 defeat Nov. 9 at Federal Way Stadium in a first-round Class 4A girls soccer state tournament game.

The Titans looked unstoppable while applying pressure and attacking on offense.

"We like to go the whole game.

BY GREG FARRAR

See EAGLES, Page B7

Kiana Hafferty, Liberty High School junior forward, threatens to score again in the second period against Columbia River Nov. 9 after giving the Patriots the early lead in a 2-1 victory.

It has been a while but the Liberty High School girls soccer team has reached the Class 3A state semifinals again.

Liberty defeated Columbia River, 2-1, Nov. 9 in the first round of the state tournament, and then downed Everett, 2-0, Nov. 12 in the quarterfinals.

The Patriots, 17-1-0, meet Eastside Catholic at 4 p.m. Nov. 18 in the semifinals at Puyallup’s Sparks Stadium. Meadowdale and Seattle Prep meet in the other semifinal at 2 p.m. The winners play for the state title at 2 p.m. Nov. 19 and the losers meet at 10 a.m. to settle third and fourth place.

This is the fourth time Liberty has reached the semifinals. The last

time was in 2001, when the Patriots fell to West Valley of Yakima, 2-0.

Liberty also lost to Lakeside, 2-1, on a shootout in 2000, and fell to Highline, 2-1, on a shootout in 1998.

Each time the Patriots finished third in the tournament.

The KingCo Conference 3A/2A champions reached the Final Four thanks to its victory against visiting Everett.

Cassidy Nangle scored a pair of second-half goals for the Patriots.

Playing in a steady, soaking drizzle, Nangle, a University of Oklahoma recruit, took a cross from Kali Youngdahl in the 52nd minute and connected on a shot from five yards out. Nangle added an insurance goal 20 minutes later. She had 15 goals in the season.

In the victory against Columbia River, junior Kiana Hafferty gave

the Patriots a quick 1-0 spark less than a minute into the first half .

But even with the stellar start and eventual 2-1 win advancing them to the quarterfinal round of the 3A state tournament, Nangle, a senior player and co-captain of the team, said the game wasn’t without its imperfections.

“It’s definitely hard without having about a week and a half without a game,” she said. “I felt like in the first half we might have come out a little stagnant.”

Despite the aggressive pace set by the Chieftains throughout the first half, Liberty was able to maintain the 1-0 lead into halftime.

“They’re a good team. I wouldn’t take that away from them at all,” See PATRIOTS, Page B7

The Issaquah Press Soccer stars earn honors

Kate Deines and Kristin Maris, former standout soccer players for Issaquah High School, both have earned academic honors this fall for their respective college teams.

Deines, a senior midfielder for the University of Washington, was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII second team.

Deines has a 3.73 grade point average and is a communications major.

Maris, a sophomore at Western Washington University, was named to the Great Northwest

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 •

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Several former Issaquah School District football standouts had big performances in their Nov. 5 games.

Freshman quarterback Trey

Wheeler, a Liberty High School graduate, completed 20 of 28 passes for 266 yards and two touchdowns as he directed Simon Fraser University to a 35-24 victory against Central Washington.

It was one of his best games of the season.

Earlier this season, Wheeler hit 24 of 33 passes for 306 yards and three touchdowns when Simon Fraser defeated Dixie State, 6256, in a game that went through four overtimes.

Junior receiver Jake Knecht, a Skyline grad, tied a Willamette University receiving record when the

Bearcats defeated Lewis & Clark, 57-28. Knecht caught four touchdown passes to equal the school record. He finished the game with six catches for 199 yards.

Issaquah High School grad Taylor Wyman, a freshman running back, rushed for 48 yards on five carries and scored a touchdown on a 17-yard run for Willamette.

Strong safety Tait Stephens, a Skyline High School grad, had two tackles for the Willamette defense.

Freshman Evan Peterson, another Issaquah grad, caught three passes for 57 yards to help Linfield College defeat Whitworth, 42-38.

Skyline opened the game marching 80 yards on 14 plays with Damian Greene running the final two yards for a touchdown.

Mead countered with a 26-yard touchdown pass from Andy Wetzel to Danny Mattingly. A safety later in the quarter gave Mead a 9-7 lead.

Skyline regained the lead in the second quarter when Browne connected with Taggart Krueger on an 82-yard touchdown pass.

The Spartans, who missed the extra point, led 13-9 at halftime.

Browne’s touchdown pass to Gregory gave the Spartans an 11point lead, but Mead cut its deficit

to 20-17 with 10:49 left when Davian Barlow bolted 82 yards for a touchdown and Skyler Lookabill ran for the two-point conversion.

But before the quarter was over, Skyline answered when Browne hit Jack Valencia on a 37-yard touchdown pass to give the Spartans their final 10-point margin.

For most of the game, Skyline’s defense was able to keep Mead’s fly offense in check.

Central Valley is in the quarterfinals for the first time since 2008. The Bears won the state championship in 1997.

On offense, the Bears rely on the passing of quarterback Gaven

Deymarin, who has passed for 1,481 yards and 10 touchdowns this season, and running back Grayson Sykes. Both earned second-team All-Greater Spokane League honors. Tight end Anthony Brommer is the Bears’ leading receiver.

The Bears also have a standout kicker in Austin Rehkow, who has booted eight field goals this season.

However, it is defense where Central Valley has shined this season.

Defensive lineman Alex McClendon, linebackers Alex Jacot and Pat Williams, and defensive backs Ryan Leone and Dustin Dach all earned first-team honors this season.

Athletic Conference academic allstar team. She has a 3.78 grade point average and is a physical education major.

On Oct. 29 Maris scored both Western goals as the Vikings defeated Western Oregon, 2-0. She also had a goal when the Vikings defeated Saint Martin’s, 2-0, Oct. 27.

Big games for local grads

BY GREG FARRAR

Mackenna Briggs (left), Liberty High School freshman, is received with a hug by teammate Caitlin Duffner after winning the 100-yard backstroke 3A state championship Nov. 12 with a time of 58.62 seconds.

Swimming: Skyline had 10 qualify for state

FROM PAGE B6

half with a kickoff that the 10thranked Panthers (9-2) essentially stood around and watched bounce near their sideline. Skyline junior Peyton Pelluer alertly recovered the ball before sliding out of bounds, giving the Spartans possession at Mead's 24-yard line.

Three plays later, Browne hit receiver Mason Gregory wide open in the end zone from 11 yards as Skyline built a 20-9 lead.

FROM PAGE B6

first. Our district really has some amazing swimmers,” Issaquah coach Laura Halter said. “It is really amazing, considering we have just one pool to train in.”

Mercer Island maintained its dominance in the 3A meet, earning its third straight team title with 340 points.

Kinnear, bound for UCLA, also dropped a second from her previous personal best to win the 100 backstroke in 54.6, an automatic All-American time. Her butterfly time was also good enough for AllAmerican status. The two victories were the sixth and seventh individual titles in her amazing high school career.

“Just to drop at all was surprising,” Kinnear said. “They were both really exciting wins.”

Kinnear, who is training for the AT&T Winter Nationals Dec. 1-3 in Atlanta, was named the swimmer of the 4A meet.

Skyline boasts 85 swimmers, of which 10 qualified and swam at state. All 10 contributed points at the meet.

The Spartans added key points in winning the 200 medley relay and the 400 free relay. Kinnear anchored the 400 free relay team and was helped by Maria Volodkevich, Meghan O’Keefe and Stephanie Muñoz. The relay team finished in 3:32.87, an AllAmerican consideration time.

Snohomish took second in the event, just under four seconds behind.

In the 200 medley relay, Skyline finished first with an All-American consideration time of 1:47.22, just two seconds ahead of Mount Rainier. Sarah Elderkin, Andi Scarcello, Kinnear and Volodkevich composed the relay team.

O’Keefe had a fourth-place finish in the 100 butterfly with a time of 57.63 and finished ninth in the 500 freestyle in 5:12.39.

Munoz placed eighth in the 200 individual medley in 2:12.92. Skyline showed its depth in the event with junior Shanley Miller taking 10th in 2:1.06 and Elderkin placing 15th in 2:15.09.

Skyline led through most of the meet. However, Stadium won the 200 freestyle and moved into first place with 140 points. Skyline was second with 120 at the time. The Spartans reclaimed first place when Kinnear won the 100 backstroke and sophomore Krista Umezawa placed 14th. The Spartans stayed in front the rest of the meet.

Issaquah coach honored Halter was named Washington State Class 4A swimming coach of the year.

“I was very honored. It’s really neat when your colleagues appreciate you that much. I was really, really touched,” Halter said. “I work with an amazing group of coaches in my league and in the district. It is nice to know they respect your work.”

When Halter was presented with the award, parents from Skyline, Newport and Issaquah all cheered for her.

But Halter noted that the reason she was honored was because of her team.

“I could not have done it without my girls. That is the reason I was honored,” she said.

Halter said she was also very pleased with her team’s performance at state.

“Our girls swam amazingly well,” she said.

Although the Eagles had no first

Football

BY GREG FARRAR

Laura Halter, Issaquah coach, is filled with surprise and emotion as she is called forward to be honored with the state class 4A swimming coach of the year award. places, they did have several strong performances.

The 200 freestyle relay team placed second in a school record time of 1:39.36. Stacy Maier, Kayla Foremski, Gabrielle Gevers and Kayla Flaten composed the relay team. Maier and Flaten are juniors, and Gevers is a sophomore, which bodes well for next year.

Foremski is a senior. The old school record was set in 1990.

“What is really amazing is just two of those swimmers are yearround swimmers,” Halter said.

Maier and Flaten both swim year-round but Foremski plays lacrosse and Gevers competes in track in the spring.

The 200 medley relay team was third in 1:51.19. Maier, Flaten, junior Kellie Langan and Gevers composed the relay team.

Maier, a senior, was ecstatic about the relay times, especially the 200 free relay.

“We just felt like we were on top of the world,” she said. “We weren’t going to back down, weren’t going to get third.”

Flaten also had a second place in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:06.15. Inglemoor’s Sage Speak won the event in an AllAmerican consideration time of 1:04.31.

“Kayla had an amazing swim.

She was right there with Sage for most of the race. It was really a good swim for Kayla,” Halter said.

Maier was sixth in the 100 backstroke in 58.51 and seventh in the 100 freestyle in 53.59.

Flaten took eighth in the 100 freestyle in 53.75.

Briggs wins 100 backstroke Mackenna Briggs, who qualified for all eight individual events, won the 100 backstroke in 58.62 and took third in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:08.72.

Her 100 backstroke time was a personal best, but she knew Bainbridge sophomore Shayla Archer was gunning for her.

“Going into it I was really nervous,” Briggs said. “I just really wanted to do my best, and I was happy that I did.”

In addition to Briggs’ standout performance in the backstroke event, the Patriots set a school record in the 200 medley relay.

The relay team of Briggs, Elise Tinseth, Caitlin Duffner and Cecilia Nelson finished in 1:54.52, good enough for sixth place.

“Everybody was really happy because we had not got top-eight in relays in a really long time,” Briggs said.

Tinseth, a senior, placed sixth in the 200 individual medley (2:10.19) and fourth in the 100 breaststroke (1:07.82). She and Briggs helped Liberty place seventh in the 400 free relay (3:46.33).

The Patriots’ seventh-place finish in the team standings was also an all-time best for the program.

Christopher Huber: 392-6434, ext. 242, or chuber@isspress.com. Bob Taylor: 3926434, ext. 236, or bobtaylor@isspress.com.

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Eagles FROM PAGE B6

Especially me, I try to push myself the whole game and never stop," said Hoefel, who has 18 goals this season.

"We've brought all our talents together and play as a team and that makes us that much stronger.

"We just connected and kept that intensity up."

Issaquah, which entered the game as the KingCo Conference No. 2 team, finished 9-6-2. The Eagles reached the state playoffs for the seventh time in eight seasons.

The Titans peppered the Eagles with three good shots in the opening eight minutes and Hoefel broke through to give

Beamer a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute. Hoefel got free behind the Issaquah defense and faked right before shooting in the middle of the net on the breakaway chance.

Senior defender Autumn Talney converted a penalty kick with a low shot in the 36th minute for a 2-0 lead.

The penalty kick was set up when Breanna Strauss was fouled deep in the penalty area.

"We came out flat and I don't know why," Issaquah coach Tom Bunnell said.

"Playing against a good team and getting a penalty kick called that's not a penalty sucks a lot of the life out of you.

"When you've got a team like that, where they can keep running at you and if we're not going to pick up, they're going to finish. We missed chances to

get back into it," he said.

Hoefel scored her second goal of the night on a cross from Jenna Floyd for a 3-0 lead in the 56th minute.

Breanna Straus hammered an 18-yard shot into the left corner of the net in the 74th minute.

Senior goalkeeper Meghan Graf made six saves in her 12th shutout of the season for the Titans.

Issaquah nearly converted a corner kick in the 47th minute as the ball bounced around in front of the Beamer goal before a Titans defender cleared it off the back line.

Audrey Thomas, of Issaquah, broke away for a one-on-one with Graf, but shot straight into the arms of the keeper in the 56th minute.

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Patriots FROM PAGE B6

Nangle said. “But with the heart on this team, we got it done.”

Easton Kawawaki, a Chieftain sophomore, kicked a goal past Patriot keeper Macaire Ament four minutes into the second half.

“This team this year, out of all the years I’ve been in high school, there’s an energy,” Nangle said. “You can’t explain it. With that energy, I feel like we can come out and beat any team as long as we have it in our minds.”

Nangle, outpacing several Chieftain defenders, answered back with a game-winning goal for the Patriots.

“Any circumstance where you’re tied in a game like this, especially a playoff game, is going to be stressful,” she said. “But I saw the space and I took it. Luckily, I had the composure to get the goal.”

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The Issaquah Press

S COREBOARD

Prep football

KingCo Conference 4A CREST DIVISION League Season W L W L PF PA Eastlake* 4 0 10 1 412 135 Skyline 3 1 8 3 472 255 Issaquah 2 2 7 3 345 229 Newport 1 3 4 5 265 316 Redmond 0 4 0 9 117 394 CROWN DIVISION League Season W L W L PF PA Woodinville* 5 0 9 0 410 76 Bothell 4 1 6 4 298 184 Inglemoor 3 2 6 4 275 176 Roosevelt 2 3 4 5 170 206 Ballard 1 4 4 5 209 275 Garfield 0 5 1 8 69 316 *division champions Nov. 12 Games Skyline 27, Mead 17 Woodinville 37, Bethel 7 Eastlake 21, Federal Way 11 SKYLINE 27, MEAD 17 Skyline 7 6 14 0 – 27 Mead 9 0 8 0 – 17 First Quarter Sky – Damian Greene 2 run (Sean McDonald kick) Mead – Danny Mattingly 26 pass from Andy Wetzel (Marc David kick) Mead – safety, bad snap out of end zone Second Quarter Sky – Taggart Krueger 82 pass from Max Browne (kick failed)] Third Quarter Sky – Mason Gregory 19 pass from Browne (McDonald kick) Mead – Davian Barlow 82 run (Skyler Lookabill run) Sky – Jack Valencia 37 pass from Browne (McDonald kick) EASTLAKE 21, FEDERAL WAY 11 Eastlake 0 7 7 7 – 21 Federal Way 3 0 0 8 – 11 First Quarter FW – Koby Craig 35 FG Second Quarter East – Brian Quick 1 run (Ryan Kilburg kick) Third Quarter East – Danny Grotjahn 11 pass from Keegan Kemp (Kilburg kick) Fourth Quarter East – Ryan Lewis 2 run (Kilburg kick) FW – Chico McClatcher 59 pass from D’Londo Tucker (Tucker run)

Class 4A State Tournament First round Games Bellarmine Prep 42, Edmonds-Woodway 7 Skyline 27, Mead 17 Woodinville 37, Bethel 7 Eastlake 21, Federal Way 11 Lake Stevens 21, Olympia 17 Olympia vs. Lake Stevens Central Valley 23, Ferris 7 Skyview 34, Kentwood 7 Union 31, Kentlake 7 Quarterfinals Union at Woodinville, Nov.19 Central Valley at Skyline, 1 p.m., Nov. 19 Bellarmine Prep at Skyview Lake Stevens at Eastlake, 7 p.m., Nov. 19 Semifinals Nov. 26 at Tacoma Dome Championship Dec. 3 at Tacoma Dome

Adult sports

Issaquah Alps Trails Club

Prep girls soccer KingCo Conference 4A League Season W L T Pts W L T Skyline* 9 0 1 28 16 0 2 Issaquah 7 1 2 23 9 6 2 Redmond 5 4 1 16 8 7 3 Woodinville 4 4 2 14 7 4 3 Eastlake 3 2 5 14 7 3 8 Garfield 3 3 4 13 6 6 5 Roosevelt 4 5 1 13 5 8 3 Newport 3 6 1 10 5 9 2 Inglemoor 2 6 2 8 5 8 3 Bothell 2 6 2 8 4 8 2 Ballard 2 7 1 7 3 8 2 *regular season champion Nov. 8 Game Skyline 1, Kentridge 0 Nov. 9 Game Todd Beamer 4, Issaquah 0 Nov. 12 Game Skyline 1, Kentwood 0

GF 40 36 25 20 16 21 21 30 16 13 11

GA 8 32 24 11 12 19 34 25 25 19 22

SKYLINE 1, KENTWOOD 0 Kentwood 0 0 – 0 Skyline 1 0 – 1 First half scoring: 1, Jackie Wilson (S, penalty kick), 14:00.

Shutout: Tina Vargas.

SKYLINE 1, KENTRIDGE 0 Kentridge 0 0 – 0 Skyline 0 1 – 1 Second half scoring: 1, Rachel Shim (S, Sydne Tingey assist), 75:00.

Shutout: Tina Vargas.

TODD BEAMER 4, ISSAQUAH 0 Issaquah 00–0 Todd Beamer 2 2 – 4 First half scoring: 1, Jenny Hoefel (TB, unassisted), 11:00; 2, Autumn Talney (TB, penalty kick), 36:00.

Second half scoring: 3, Hoefel (TB, Jenna Floyd assist), 56:00; 4, Breanne Strauss (TB, unassisted), 74:00.

4A State Tournament First Round Games Bellarmine Prep 3, Puyallup 0 Gig Harbor 5, Edmonds-Woodway 1 Skyline 1, Kentridge 0 Todd Beamer 4, Issaquah 0 Tahoma 2, Gonzaga Prep 1 South Kitsap 2, Lake Stevens 0 Kentwood 2, Jackson 0 Central Valley 3, Mead 2 Quarterfinal Games Gig Harbor 1, Todd Beamer 0 Bellarmine Prep 2, South Kitsap 0 Tahoma 2, Central Valley 1 Skyline 1, Kentwood 0 Nov. 18 Semifinals At Sparks Stadium, Puyallup Skyline vs. Tahoma, 6 p.m.

Gig Harbor vs. Bellarmine Prep, 8 p.m.

Nov. 19 Finals At Sparks Stadium, Puyallup Third-fourth place game, noon Title Game, 4 p.m.

PA 127 202 207 315 238 244 412 303

Class 3A State Tournament First round Games Kennewick 39, Southridge 6 Kamiakin 28, Seattle Prep 14 Capital 47, Hazen 0 Meadowdale 20, Mercer Island 17 Camas 48, Kennedy Catholic 14 Bellevue 42, Eastside Catholic 0 O’Dea 17, Mount Si 3 Lakes 28, Mountain View 0 Nov. 18-19 Quarterfinals Bellevue at Lakes, Nov. 18 Kennewick at Kamiakin, Nov. 19 Meadowdale at Camas, Nov. 19 Capital at O’Dea, Nov. 19

2A State Tournament First Round Game Interlake 49, Franklin Pierce 41 Nov. 19 Quarterfinal Lynden at Interlake Semifinals Nov. 26 at Tacoma Dome Championship Dec. 2 at Tacoma Dome O’DEA 17, MOUNT SI 3 Mount Si 0 0 0 3 – 3 O’Dea 0 3 7 7 – 17 Second Quarter O’Dea – Bart Hardwick 32 FG Third Quarter O’Dea – Jayshawn Jordan 70 run (Bart Hardwick kick) Fourth Quarter MS – Cameron Vanwinkle 39 FG O’Dea – Josiah Lazarek 16 run (Hardwick kick) BELLEVUE 42, EASTSIDE CATHOLIC 0 Eastside Catholic 0 0 0 0 – 0 Bellevue 7 21 14 0 – 42 First Quarter Bel – Myles Jack 12 run (Mitch Johnson kick) Second Quarter Bel – John Nguyen 50 run (Johnson kick) Bel – Andy Boulware 6 run (Johnson kick)

League Season W L T Pts W L T Liberty* 14 0 0 42 17 1 0 Interlake 10 3 1 31 15 3 1 Lake Wash. 9 4 1 28 11 6 2 Mount Si 5 6 3 18 6 8 3 Bellevue 5 6 3 18 6 7 4 Mercer Island 3 9 2 11 3 12 2 Juanita 2 9 3 9 3 10 3 Sammamish 1 12 1 4 1 14 1 *league champion Nov. 9 Games Liberty 2, Columbia River 1 Interlake 2, Lakewood 0 Nov. 12 Games Liberty 2, Everett 0 Interlake 2, Fife 0

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Second half scoring: 1, Shelby Newell (EC, unassisted), 64:00.

2A State Tournament

KingCo Conference 3A/2A

KingCo Conference 3A/2A League Season W L W L PF Bellevue* 7 0 11 0 447 Mercer Island 6 1 8 3 396 Mount Si 5 2 7 4 226 Interlake 3 4 5 6 323 Liberty 3 4 4 6 253 Juanita 3 4 4 6 272 Sammamish 1 6 2 8 189 Lake Wash. 0 7 2 8 162 *League champion Nov. 12 Games Meadowdale 20, Mercer Island 17 O’Dea 17, Mount Si 3 Bellevue 42, Eastside Catholic 0 Interlake 49, Franklin Pierce 41

Bel – Jack 15 run (Johnson kick) Third Quarter Bel – Scott Whiting 19 pass from Tyler Hasty (Johnson kick) Bel – Boulware 32 run (Alexander Kruse kick)

SPORTS CALENDAR

GF 67 51 28 28 24 17 21 5

GA 10 20 16 30 27 27 39 57

LIBERTY 2, EVERETT 0 Everett 0 0 – 0 Liberty 0 2 – 2 Second half scoring: 1, Cassidy Nangle (L, Kali Youngdahl assist), 52:00; 2, Nangle (L, unassisted), 72:00.

Shutout: Macaire Ament.

LIBERTY 2, COLUMBIA RIVER 1 Columbia River 0 1 – 1 Liberty 1 1- 2 Liberty goals: Cassidy Nangle, Kianna Hafferty.

Columbia Rive goal: Easton Kawawaki.

3A State Tournament First round Game Mount Spokane 1, Kamiakin 0 Shorecrest 1, Camas 0 Eastside Catholic 1, Southridge 0 Seattle Prep 3, Timberline 0 Liberty 2, Columbia River 1 Bishop Blanchet 5, Kelso 1 Meadowdale 4, Bonney Lake 3 Everett 1, Decatur 0 Quarterfinals Eastside Catholic 3, Mount Spokane 1 Meadowdale 2, Bishop Blanchet 1 Liberty 2, Everett 0 Seattle Prep 2, Shorecrest 1 Nov. 18 Semifinals At Sparks Stadium, Puyallup Meadowdale vs. Seattle Prep, 2 p.m.

Liberty vs. Eastside Catholic, 4 p.m.

Nov. 19 Finals At Sparks Stadium, Puyallup Third-fourth game, 10 a.m.

Title Game, 2 p.m.

EASTSIDE CATHOLIC 3, MOUNT SPOKANE 1 Mount Spokane 0 1 – 1 Eastside Catholic 1 2 – 3 First half scoring: 1, Kelly Crow (EC, Malia Bachesta assist), 11:00.

Second half scoring: 2, K.K. Standish (EC, unassisted), 42:00; 3, Quinn Phillips (EC, penalty kick); 4, Alyssa Lloyd (MS, Sierra Bezdicek assist), 51:00.

EASTSIDE CATHOLIC 1, SOUTHRIDGE 0 Eastside Catholic 0 1 – 1 Southridge 00–0

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. Go to www.issaquahsoccerclub.org.

Swimming Issaquah Parks provides swimming lessons for all ages at the Julius Boehm Pool. Call 837-3350.

Little League Issaquah Little League registering players for 2012 baseball and softball teams. Go to www.issaquahlittleleague.org ... Sammamish Little League registering players for 2012 baseball, softball and Challenger teams. Register at www.Sammamishlittleleague.countmein.com.

Basketball Issaquah Parks is currently registering players for winter season.

Registrations for kindergarten through second grade must be done

by Nov. 28. Turnouts begin Dec. 3.

Middle school registrations are due

by Nov. 21. Call 837-3300 or 8373388. Register at www.issaquahparks.net.

High school sports Football Nov. 19, 1 p.m., Central Valley at Skyline, 4A state quarterfinal.

Girls soccer Nov. 18, 4 p.m., Eastside Catholic vs. Liberty, 3A state semifinal in Sparks Stadium, Puyallup; 6 p.m.

Skyline vs. Tahoma, 4A state semifinal, Sparks Stadium.

Owen 10 digs, Molly Mounsey 12 kills, 5 blocks; Maddie Magee 22 kills, 19 digs.

CURTIS 3, SKYLINE 1 Curtis 16 25 25 25 – 3 Skyline 25 19 23 18 – 1 Skyline statistics: Madison Stoa 44 assists, 11 digs, 3 aces; Emily Harris 17 digs, Halle Erdahl 18 kills, 4 aces; Emily Owen 16 digs, Maddie Magee 21 kills, 14 digs.

First Round Interlake 2, Lakewood 0 Quarterfinal Interlake 2, Fife 0 Nov. 18 Semifinals At Shoreline Stadium Interlake vs. Archbishop Murphy

Prep volleyball KingCo Conference 4A Final standings League W L Newport* 9 1 Roosevelt 9 1 Skyline 7 3 Woodinville 7 3 Bothell 6 4 Garfield 5 5 Eastlake 4 6 Issaquah 3 7 Ballard 3 7 Inglemoor 2 8 Redmond 0 10 *regular season champion

Mount Si statistics: Rachel Hayford 31 digs, Sarah McDonald 31 kills, 12 digs; Lauren Smith 41 assists, 13 digs.

Season W L 17 3 14 3 16 6 15 5 9 7 10 8 6 10 3 12 6 8 2 11 0 14

4A State Tournament At St. Martin’s College, Lacey Nov. 11 Matches Olympia 3, Newport 0 (25-20, 25-14, 25-15) Kent-Meridian 3, Woodinville 2 (14-25, 21-25, 2515, 27-25, 16-14) Skyline 3, Bellarmine Prep (28-26, 25-20, 23-25, 25-27, 15-12) Newport 3, Tahoma 0 (25-16, 25-17, 25-21) Woodinville 3, Kamiak 0 (27-25, 25-22, 25-20) Curtis 3, Skyline 1 (16-25, 25-19, 25-23, 25-18) Nov. 12 Matches Bellarmine Prep 3, Woodinville 0 (25-20, 25-15, 2520) Newport 3, Central Valley 1 (25-21, 16-25, 25-13, 25-22) Skyline 3, Kent-Meridian 1 (13-25, 25-19, 25-15, 25-19) Newport 3, Bellarmine Prep 1 (25-17, 23-25, 2521, 25-16) Puyallup 3, Skyline 0 (25-18, 30-28, 25-22) Final placings First-second place: Olympia 3, Kentwood 2 (25-16, 14-25, 25-19, 23-25, 15-13) Third-fourth place: Curtis 3, Jackson 2 (20-25, 2522, 17-25, 26-24, 15-12) Fifth-sixth place: Puyallup 3, Skyline 0 Seventh-eighth place: Newport 3, Bellarmine Prep 1 SKYLINE 3, KENT-MERIDIAN 1 Kent-Meridian 25 19 15 19 – 1 Skyline 13 25 25 25 – 3 Skyline statistics: Madison Stoa 39 assists, Emily Owen 10 digs, Molly Mounsey 5 blocks, Maddie Magee 22 kills, 10 digs.

SKYLINE 3, BELLARMINE PREP 2 Skyline 26 20 25 27 15 – 3 Bellarmine Prep 28 25 23 25 12 – 2 Skyline statistics: Madison Stoa 6 kills, 5 blocks, 17 digs; Kennedy Stoa 10 kills, Halle Erdahl 14 kills, Emily

All-tournament team MVP: Christie Colasurdo, sr., Olympia HITTERS Christie Colasurdo, Sr., Olympia Allie Schumacher, Sr., Puyallup Emmy Allen, Jr., Jackson Maddie Magee, Sr., Skyline Courtney Scwhan, So., Bellarmine Prep Shannon Wheeler, Sr., Newport Mikaela Ballou, Sr., Kentwood SETTERS Haley MacDonald, Jr., Jackson Kacie Seims, Sr., Kentwood LIBERO Caitlynn Gavranich, Sr., Curtis

KingCo Conference 3A/2A Final standings

Mount Si* Mercer Island Interlake Juanita Lake Washington Bellevue Liberty Sammamish

League W L 13 1 12 2 10 4 7 7 6 8 5 9 2 11 0 12

Season W L 23 7 15 9 14 9 7 8 8 12 5 11 3 15 1 13

3A State Tournament At St. Martin’s College, Lacey Nov. 11 Matches Eastside Catholic 3, Enumclaw 0 (25-23, 25-22, 25-16) Mount Si 3, Meadowdale 2 (12-25, 25-20, 25-19, 22-25, 15-12) Mount Spokane 3, Mount Si 1 (25-19, 25-23, 2125, 25-15) West Valley-Yakima 3, Mercer Island 1 (25-11, 2624, 20-25, 25-23) Glacier Peak 3, Mercer Island 3 (25-19, 26-24, 1525, 25-20) Eastside Catholic 3, Camas 2 (20-25, 17-25, 2522, 25-15, 16-14) Nov. 12 Matches Mount Si 3, Camas 1 Prairie 3, Mount Si 0 (25-21, 25-23, 25-20) Eastside Catholic 3, Mount Spokane 0 (25-22, 2725, 25-21) West Valley 3, Eastside Catholic 1 (25-20, 25-17, 21-25, 25-16) First-second: West Valley 3, Eastside Catholic 1 Third-fourth: Seattle Prep 3, Mount Spokane 1 (2515, 25-23, 21-25, 25-23) Fifth-sixth: Prairie 3, Mount Si 0 Seventh-eighth: Meadowdale 3, Timberline 0 (2512, 26-24, 25-17) MOUNT SI 3, MEADOWDALE 2 Mount Si 12 25 25 22 15 – 3 Meadowdale 25 20 19 25 12 – 2

EASTSIDE CATHOLIC 3, ENUMCLAW 0 Enumclaw 23 22 16 – 0 Eastside Catholic 25 25 25 – 3 Eastside Catholic statistics: Nicole Boswell 10 digs, Hannah Christie 29 assists, Kameron McLain 11 kills, 10 digs; Marlena Norwood 11 digs.

All-Tournament Team MVP: Morgan McDowell, Sr., West Valley (Yakima) HITTERS Kameron McLain, Sr., Eastside Catholic Olivia Magill, Sr., Seattle Prep Sarah McDonald, Sr., Mount Si Kennadie Clute, Jr., Mount Spokane Karlee Lubenow, Jr., Prairie SETTERS Tori Porter, Jr., Prairie Julia Nathe, Jr., West Valley (Yakima) LIBERO Linnea Phillips, Sr., West Valley (Yakima)

Prep girls swimming Class 4A State Championships At King County Aquatic Center Team scores: 1, Skyline 202; 2, Stadium 147; 3, Mount Rainier 123, Kentlake 123; 5, Issaquah 119; 6, Inglemoor 111; 7, Newport 110; 8, Richland 105; 9, Snohomish 102; 10, Cascade 95; 11, Kentridge 88; 12, Lake Stevens 83; 13, Union 82, Thomas Jefferson 82; 15, Roosevelt 80; 16, Jackson 76.5; 17, Bothell 65; 18, Wenatchee 63; 19, Tahoma 39; 20, Moses Lake 33.

Kent-Meridian 33; 22, Emerald Ridge 32.5; 23, Woodinville 31; 24, Monroe 30; 25, Eastlake 29; 26, Federal Way 27, Redmond 27; 28, Olympia 26; 29, Walla Walla 22; 30, Todd Beamer 21; 31, Garfield 20; 32, Central Kitsap 19; 33, Eisenhower 13; 34, Rogers 12; 35, Kamiak 11; 36, Gig Harbor 10; 37, South Kitsap 9, Marysville-Pilchuck 9; 39, Curtis 6; 40, Battle Ground 3, Kentwood 3.

Individual results (Top finishers, local and KingCo swimmers) 200 medley relay: A final, 1, Skyline (Sarah Elderkin, Andi Scarcello, Katie Kinnear, Maria Volodkevich) 1:47.22 (AA conn); 2, Mount Rainier (Megan Kawaguchi, Rachel Webster, Jackie Beal, Courtney Larson) 1:49.44; 3, Issaquah (Stacy Maier, Kayla Flaten, Kellie Langan, Gabrielle Gevers) 1:51.19; 4, Snohomish (Ella Brooks, Alexa Weyer, Madelene Baker, Shelby Garrison) 1:51.68; B final, 9, Newport (Lorea Gwo, Nina Dipboye, Monique Saysana, Sara Simpson) 1:52.26; 11, Roosevelt (Cassie Tallman, Johanna Brunner, Maddie Maider, Hanna Benson) 1:54.35; prelims, 19, Redmond (Allison Binkerd, Aly Davis, Catherine Love, Emily Smith) 1:59.79; 22, Inglemoor (Natalie Hoffman, Chloe Carr, Marine Behr, Lori VerMurlen) 2:03.82.

200 freestyle: A final, 1, Amber Cratsenberg (Jefferson) 1:50.01 (AA Con); 2, Felicity Cann (Stadium) 1:50.94 (AA Con); 3, Joanna Wu (Kent-Meridian) 1:51.06 (AA Con) 4, Kalena Lauren (Cascade) 1:52.88; 5, Mar Williamson (Bothell) 1:55.08; 6, Kayla Roberson (Inglemoor) 1:56.29; B final, 10 Maider (Roosevelt) 1:56.53; 14, Maggie Pana (Newport) 1:58.67; 16, Volodkevich (Skyline) 2:02.45; prelims, 17, Johanna Rayl (Woodinville) 2:02.18; 20, Lily Newton (Eastlake) 2:02.72.

200 individual medley: A final, 1, Lisa Bratton (Richland) 2:03.70 (AA Con); 2, Kawaguchi (Mount Rainier) 2:05.77; 3, Casey Penrose (Stadium) 2:06.72; 4, Davis (Redmond) 2:08.27; 5, Kara Beauchamp (Eastlake) 2:08.91; 8, Stephanie Munoz (Skyline) 2:12.92; B final, 10, Shanley Miller (Skyline) 2:12.06; 13, Benson (Roosevelt) 2:13.81; 15, Elderkin (Skyline) 2:15.09; prelims, 17, Krista Umezawa (Skyline) 2:16.37; 22, Brunner (Roosevelt) 2:20.72.

50 freestyle: A final, 1, Kenna Ramey (Federal Way) 23.62 (AA Con); 2, Emily Mohr (Kentridge) 24.00; 3, Hanna Bruggman (Wenatchee) 24.05; 4, Gwo (Newport) 24.29; 7, Tiffany Dang (Bothell) 24.68; B final, 12, Sage Speak (Inglemoor) 25.19; 16, Leann Yee (Inglemoor) 25:37; prelims, 19, Saysana (Newport) 25.35; 20, Gevers (Issaquah) 25.42.

Diving: 1, Caitlin Chambers (Garfield) 404.50; 2, Elzibeth Wiley (Todd Beamer) 356.75; 3, Rachel Roberts (Woodinville) 336.40; 4, Monica Church (Jefferson) 326.40; 9, Julie Tollifson (Woodinville) 289.25; 10, Marquesa Dixon (Bothell) 285.00; 11, Erika Kelso (Woodinville) 284.25; 15, Kaela Call (Eastlake) 266.85; prelims, Hattie Miller (Newport) 186.90; 22, Alex Shardelman (Woodinville) 102.75.

100 butterfly: A final, 1, Kinnear (Skyline) 53.46 (AA Auto); 2, Laurent (Cascade) 56.81; 3, Kaitlin Taylor (Jackson) 57.27; 4, Meghan O’Keefe (Skyline) 57.63; 6, Gwo (Newport) 57.86; 7, Davis (Redmond) 57.96; B final, 12, Munoz (Skyline) 59.67; prelims, 19, Benson (Roosevelt) 1:01.82; 21, Abby Magee (Skyline) 1:02.30.

100 freestyle: A final, 1, Cann (Stadium) 51.68; 2, Bruggman (Wenatchee) 52.08; 3, Alana Pries (Emerald Ridge) 52.87; 4, Emily Mohr (Kentridge) 52.95; 7, Maier (Issaquah) 53.59; 8, Flaten (Issaquah) 53.75; prelims, 18, Rayl (Woodinville) 55.39; 19, Yee (Inglemoor) 55.47.

500 freestyle: A final, 1, Cratsenberg (Jefferson) 4:57.55 (AA Con); 2, Joanna Wu (Kent-Meridian) 5:00.77; 3, Casey Penrose (Stadium) 5:04.53; 4, Williamson (Bothell) 5:05.05; 6, Beauchamp (Eastlake) 5:11.37; 7, Maider (Roosevelt) 5:11.96; B final, 9, O’Keefe (Skyline) 5:12.39; 10, Pana (Newport) 5:14.52; 13, Annie Galloway (Roosevelt) 5:27.20; prelims, 17, Michelle Francois (Newport) 5:30.75; 18, Behr (Inglemoor) 5:31.12; 20, Taylor Bingea (Woodinville) 5:34.47; 21, Newton (Eastlake) 5:41.23.

200 freestyle relay: A final, 1, Stadium (Sadie Treleven, Amber Longrie, Penrose, Cann) 1:38.78; 2, Issaquah (Maier, Kayla Foremski, Gevers, Flaten) 1:39.36; 3, Newport (Saysana, Pana, Cassie Burgess, Gwo) 1:39.86; 4, Kentridge (Emily Shonka, Bella Chilczuk, Flannery Allen, Mohr) 1:40.33; 5, Inglemoor (Yee, Behr, Roberson, Speak) 1:41.19; B final, 11, Roosevelt (Hannah Rosen, Tallman, Galloway, Benson) 1:43.60; 12, Skyline (Munoz, Jessie Dart, Miller, O’Keefe) 1:44.46; 13, Bothell (Kaiya Knight, Dang, Emily Anthony, Mariah Williamson) 1:44.62; prelims, 18, Eastlake (Beauchamp, JoJo Morlidge, Becca Fabian, Newton) 1:46.13; 21, Woodinville (Venalie Scheck, Olivia Ly, Kathryn Davidson, Rayl) 1:46.90.

100 backstroke: A final, 1, Kinnear (Skyline) 54.60 (AA Auto); 2, Kawaguchi (Mount Rainier) 55.65 (AA Auto); 3, E. Timm-Ballard (Walla Walla) 57.94; 4, Emily Tanasse (Kentlake) 58.42; 6, Maier (Issaquah) 58.51; B final, 9, Dang (Bothell) 59.90; 14, Umezawa (Skyline) 1:00.56; prelims, 19, Elderkin (Skyline) 1:01.33.

100 breaststroke: A final, 1, Speak (Inglemoor) 1:04.31 (AA Con); 2, Flaten (Issaquah) 1:06.15; 3, Roberson (Inglemoor) 1:07.81; 4, Andrea Young (Union) 1:07.89; 6, Scarcello (Skyline) 1:08.49; 7, Tallman (Roosevelt) 1:09.29; 8, Brunner (Roosevelt) 1:09.75; B final, 11, Miller (Skyline) 1:09.47; prelims, 18, Nina Dipboye (Newport) 1:12.02; 21, Dart (Skyline) 1:12.66.

400 freestyle relay: A final, 1, Skyline (Volodkevich, O’Keefe, Munoz, Kinnear) 3:32.87 (AA Con); 2, Snohomish (Shelby Garrison, Ella Brooks, Alexa Weyer, Madelene Baker) 3:36.40; 3, Kentlake (Kyndsal Phillips, Abby Swanson, Sarah Dougherty, Emily Tanasse) 3:37.22; 4, Lake Stevens (Madeline Summers, Lindsay

Vanderhoff, Felicity Speirs, Kelsey Fallstrom) 3:40.13; 5, Inglemoor (Yee, Behr, Roberson, Speak) 3:40.78; 8, Newport (Pana, Brooke Groesbeck, Simpson, Saysana) 3:42.71; prelims, 17, Roosevelt (Maider, Galloway, Rosen, Brunner) 3:51.50; 18, Eastlake (Beauchamp, Fabian, Erin Alleva, Newton) 3:52.01; 22, Redmond (Davis, Catherine Love, Allison Binkerd, Emily Smith) 3:53.74; 23, Issaquah (Foremski, Kylie Lynch, Emma Wrightson, Gevers) 3:57.28.

Class 3A State Championships At King County Aquatic Center Team scores: 1, Mercer Island 340; 2, Bainbridge 318; 3, Hanford 195; 4, Bellevue 150; 5, Holy Names 136; 6, Shorewood 129; 7, Liberty 114; 8, Hazen 103; 9, Kennedy Catholic 98; 10, Southridge 90; 11, West Valley (Yakima) 76; 12, Peninsula 66; 13, Glacier Peak 57; 14, Meadowdale 55; 15, Columbia River 51; 16, Camas 50; 17, Oak Harbor 47; 18, Juanita 42; 19, Lakeside 34; 20, Eastmont 27; 21, Lake Washington 24; 22, Mountain View 23; 23, Foss 16; 24, Capital 14, Kennewick 14; 26, Mountlake Terrace 12, Decatur 12; 28, Enumclaw 9, 29, Sunnyside 6; 30, Sammamish 4.5.

Individual results (Top finishers, local and KingCo swimmers) 200 medley relay: A final, 1, Bainbridge (Shayla Archer, Tess Harpur, Anna Peirano, Julia Griffiths) 1:49.16; 2, Mercer Island (Kira Godfred, Danielle Deiparine, Margaret Seaton, Christina Williamson) 1:52.09; 3, Holy Names (Lauren Anglin, Jessica Rivers, Sarah Ameny, Sydney Bishoff) 1:53.26; 4, Hazen (Talisa Wibmer, Kourtney Brunings, Kayla DiMicco, Taylor Gale) 1:53.55; 6, Liberty (Mackenna Briggs, Elise Tinseth, Caitlin Duffner, Cecilia Nelson) 1:54.52; B final, 12, Juanita (Anna Michel, Dominique Yoder, Tess Farley, Hanna Armstrong) 1:59.16; 15, Bellevue (Laine Goudy, Adrienne Wang, Naomi Ngo, Natalie Fontana) 1:59.88; prelims, 21, Sammamish (Lynden Kuwada, Sarah Baker, Riley Martin, Gillian Matthes) 2:03.87.

200 freestyle: A final, 1, Monica Bottelberghe (Columbia River) 1:50.55 (AA Con); 2, Addie Chambers (Lakeside) 1:54.85; 3, Rachel Schneider (Bellevue) 1:55.29; 4, Geneva Levy (Bainbridge) 1:55.93; 5, Alex Seidel (Mercer Island) 1:57.17; B final, 8, Leah Fisk (Mercer Island) 1:59.48; 9, Caitlin Cox (Mercer Island) 1:59.54; 11, Hanna Armstrong (Juanita) 2:00.16; 14, Angela Riggins (Mercer Island) 2:03.41; prelims, Amy LeBar (Hazen) 2:05.63; 20, Michel (Juanita) 2:09.36.

200 individual medley: A final, 1, Grace Wold (Mercer Island) 2:02.50 (AA Auto); 2, Kim Williams (Bellevue) 2:04.72 (AA Con); 3, Briggs (Liberty) 2:08.72;4, Shayla Archer (Bainbridge) 2:09.69; 6, Tinseth (Liberty) 2:10.90; B finals, 9, Deiparine (Mercer Island) 2:12.37; 13, Ngo (Bellevue) 2:14.48; 14, Madeline Larkin (Mercer Island) 2:15.74; 16, VeeVee Wang (Mercer Island) 2:17.50; prelims, 21, Wibmer (Hazen) 2:21.78; 22, Brunings (Hazen) 2:21.79.

50 freestyle: A final, 1, Anna Keane (Meadowdale) 23.50 (AA Con); 2, Stephanie Tixier (Hanford) 24.43; 3, Bishoff (Holy Names) 24.81; 6, Kucinski-Murphy (Lake Washington) 25.60; B final, 13, Williamson (Mercer Island) 25.89; 16, Jessica McKinney (Lake Washington) 26.21; prelims, 18, Andrea Hatsukami (Mercer Island) 26.10; 19, Lynden Kuwada (Sammamish) 26.11.

Diving: 1, Paige Greely (Kennedy) 404.00; 2, Meg Lindsay (Mercer Island) 381.30; 3, Ashley Knox (Kennedy) 380.30; 4, Libby Fogel (Peninsula) 359.00; 5, Sarah McCormick (Hazen) 358.10; 15, Olivia Cero (Mercer Island) 252.55; prelims, 18, Shay Sarda (Lake Washington) 176.40; 19, DiMicco (Hazen) 173.25; 21, Tori Meier (Lake Washington) 110.75; 22, Christina Sargent (Liberty) 108.75; 24, Darbie Dunn (Mount Si) 89.80.

100 butterfly: A final, 1, Wold (Mercer Island) 55.08 (AA Auto); 2, Harpur (Bainbridge) 56.39 (AA Con); 3, Stephanie Tixier (Hanford) 57.80; 4, Sarah Ameny (Holy Names) 59.68; 6, Ngo (Bellevue) 1:00.38; 8, Emily Olsen (Mercer Island) 1:01.05; B final, 13, Masami Cookson (Mercer Island) 1:03.31; 14, Seaton (Mercer Island) 1:03.68; prelims, 20, Hanna Schwinn (Eastside Catholic) 1:05.54; 21, Duffner (Liberty) 1:05.77.

100 freestyle: A final, 1, Anna Keane (Meadowdale) 50.62 (AA Con); 2, Bottelberghe (Columbia River) 51.16 (AA Con); 3, Melissa Merrill (Hanford) 52.84; 4, DiMicco (Hazen) 53.71; 5, Seidel (Mercer Island) 54.00; 8, Kira Godfred (Mercer Island) 55.44; B final, 13, Kristi Hoffman (Mercer Island) 56.20; 15, Williamson (Mercer Island) 56.45; prelims, 19, McKinney (Lake Washington) 56.85; 21, Amy LeBar (Hazen) 57.30.

500 freestyle: A final, 1, Sarah Grundman (Bainbridge) 5:04.25; 2, Addie Chambers (Lakeside) 5:04.61; 3, Schneider (Bellevue) 5:05.56;4, Levy (Bainbridge) 5:05.69; B final, 10, H. Armstrong (Juanita) 5:24.10; 13, Angela Riggins (Mercer Island) 5:27.48; 14, Lindsay White (Mercer Island) 5:29.09; 16, Cookson (Mercer Island) 5:40.49; prelims, 17, Madeline Chandless (Mercer Island) 5:36.62.

200 freestyle relay: A final, 1, Hanford (Linnea Peacock, Stephanie Tixier, Melissa Merrill, Lisa Tixier) 1:38.46; 2, Bainbridge (Harpur, Peirano, Julia Griffiths, Geneva Levy) 1:38.92; 3, Mercer Island (Seidel, Hatsukami, Williamson, Wold) 1:40.32; 4, Bellevue (Schneider, Natalie Fontana, Jamie Leitzke, Williams) 1:42.64; B final, 13, Juanita (Michel, Dominique Yoder, Farley, Armstrong) 1:46.66; 14, Lake Washington (Clare Kucinski-Murphy, Laura Chopp, Brooke Bonnell, McKinney) 1:46.70; 16, Hazen (Gale, Anna Collons, McCormick, LeBar) 1:49.84; prelims, 20, Sammamish (Kuwada, Olivia Mulholland-Salazar, Martin, Gillian Matthes) 1:51.45.

100 backstroke: A final, 1, Briggs (Liberty) 58.62; 2, Shayla Archer (Bainbridge) 59.05; 3, Ann Panebianco (Camas) 59.92; 4, Cox (Mercer Island) 1:00.11; 6, Godfred (Mercer Island) 1:00.59; 7, Larkin (Mercer Island) 1:00.94; 8, Farley (Juanita) 1:01.30; B final, 9, Wibmer (Hazen) 58.51; 12, Kuwada (Sammamish) 1:01.97; prelims, 17, Heather Chan (Mercer Island) 1:03.51; 19, Kucinski-Murphy (Lake Washington) 1:03.94.

100 breaststroke: A final, 1, Williams (Bellevue) 1:03.97 (AA Con); 2, Harpur (Bainbridge) 1:06.31; 3, Deiparine (Mercer Island) 1:07.79; 4, Tinseth (Liberty) 1:07.82; 5, Fisk (Mercer Island) 1:07.88; B final, 12, Brunings (Hazen) 1:10.19; 13, Wang (Mercer Island) 1:11.13; prelims, 19, Natalie Marques (Mercer Island) 1:12.76; 21, Adrienne Wang (Bellevue) 1:15.00.

400 freestyle relay: A final, 1, Hanford (L. Tixier, S. Tixier, Merrill, Peacock) 3:34.48; 2, Mercer Island (Seidel, Godfred, Deiparine, Wold) 3:35.10; 3, Bainbridge (Levy, Cameo Hlebasko, Kay Sterner, Grundman) 3:40.03; 4, Bellevue (Schneider, Ngo, Fontana, Williams) 3:40.19; 5, Hazen (LeBar, Brunings, Wibmer, DiMicco) 3:44.67; 7, Liberty (Briggs, Duffner, C. Nelson, Tinseth) 3:46.33; B final, 15, Lake Washington (McKinney, Alexa LeMaster, Chopp, Kucinski-Murphy) 3:58.47.

Junior football Greater Eastside League Nov. 11 title games CUBS DIVISION Mount Si Red 40, Mount Si White 12 SOPHOMORES DIVISION Mount Si Grey 32, Wolverines Blue 6 JUNIOR VARSITY DIVISION Wolverines Gold 29, Skyline Black 0 VARSITY DIVISION Wolverines 32, Five Star Liberty 6

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Hutch High provides the DNA for additional scientific learning

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter Hang Tran, a graduate student at the University of Washington and a volunteer at “Hutch High,” said the main point of the experiment she was overseeing was to extract DNA from the strawberry mush she and a handful of students from Tiger Mountain Community High School were creating.

Funded with grants from the Michael Miyauchi Foundation, Hutch High is the official name for the morning of scientific undertakings about 250 high school students took part in Nov. 10 at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Tran and the students first used detergent to break down the cells of the strawberries.

Ethanol was used to precipitate the DNA from the resulting solution. The technique is a basic one used for a wide variety of genetic work.

Of the Issaquah students, junior Jaimi Estalilla Shimomura, 15, probably had the quickest success with her berries. All of the students were allowed to take with them, in small containers, the strawberry DNA they extracted. One student joked he was going to use it to mutate blueberries.

Students come from all across the state to participate in Hutch High, according to Christi Ball Loso, media relations manager for the research center. For this year’s event, students came from as far as Eastern Washington. In some cases, the Miyauchi Foundation paid for those students to stay overnight in Seattle and covered their transportation costs.

A family foundation, the Miyauchi organization is named for a former Skyline High School student who died of an aggressive form of cancer at age 20.

Tiger Mountain science teacher Mitra Kindu said this was her first visit to Hutch High.

Teachers must apply for the program and, if their classes are accepted, they can bring only a handful of students.

Kindu said she chose Tiger Mountain’s attendees on the basis of their having passed certain science units and having a desire to learn about science. She added that when it comes to learning science, it’s important for students to have direct experiences outside the classroom, to see the theories put into action.

“And we need students to go into the sci-

BY TOM CORRIGAN

Neil Schmidt (left) and Phil Velozo, Tiger Mountain Community High School seniors, attempt to extract the DNA from strawberries during a science workshop at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. ences after high school,” Kindu said.

The Tiger Mountain students each received a handshake from the presenters at their second stop. Students were then invited to stick their hands under a special light that illuminated the lotion the presenters had passed on to them.

A researcher at Fred Hutchinson, Laura Sycuro said the point was to show just how many germs easily can be transmitted and how hard it can be to get rid of those germs — that all that advice you’ve heard about washing your hands is worth paying some attention.

Sycuro also talked about how the average person is covered in a couple of billion microbes representing about 1,000 species.

While she said washing your hands is still a sound practice, certain bacteria related skin maladies are becoming more and common in civilized countries. One reason might be the

removal of beneficial bacteria with the antiseptics present in many hygiene products.

Of the Tiger Mountain students spoken with, none were certain of a career in science, though senior Neil Schmidt, 18, didn’t rule it out. He admitted to an enjoyment of physics.

According to M.A. Bender, a physician and Fred Hutchinson researcher, one doesn’t necessarily have to plan a career in science.

Bender said he never intended to go into medicine or pediatrics or hematology. Now a researcher into sickle cell anemia, Bender said he has studied all those things and more, completing about 30 years in school. He added one great thing about going to school that long is that you get to study what you really want to study, not what someone tells you to study.

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

Arrival of fall meant onset of Homecoming Fever The leaves are changing and temperatures are dropping. Fall has descended upon our community. For the students of Skyline High School, the month of October was a bustling time to engage in all things Homecoming.

There were tons of opportunities for students to become in-

KIDS’ CROSSWORD! This week’s theme is “All business.”

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volved, all leading up to the Homecoming dance. One unique festivity was “Dancing with the Spartans” at the Homecoming assembly, where students from each grade paired up with teachers to create a fun dance competition.

Such activities haven’t always been present at Skyline; in fact, in earlier years, Homecoming season was much different.

Lisa Hechtman, current principal at Skyline High School, has been at the school since its opening in 1997.

“We used to have chariot races, and somewhere in there they turned into Homecoming floats,” she said. “Honestly, I kind of miss the chariots, because they were funny to watch.”

Hall Monitor Olga Rublinetska Skyline High School When asked about the Homecoming dance itself and its evolution over the years, Hechtman said that party buses weren’t as common in previous years, and there were more kids arriving separately.

“Within the last two years, I’ve noticed a lot of in-and-outs, with

students focusing more on traveling somewhere after the dance rather than being present at the actual dance,” she said.

She was perplexed by how limited the dancing at the dance was and how the students seemed to gravitate more toward pictures.

Nowadays, there seems to be more of a focus on activities before the dance and the after-party following the dance, rather than the actual dance itself.

There has been a definite evolution in Homecoming traditions over the years, and they will surely keep evolving in years to come. However, the question as to what triggers this shift in tradition in the first place is yet to be answered.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

PTA grant helps school repurpose space into popular reading room

By Christopher Huber Issaquah Press reporter If it weren’t for the “Marvin Redpost” series, a bunch of fourthgrade boys at Discovery Elementary School might not be so into reading this school year.

And if it weren’t for a staff member’s vision and nearly $30,000 from the PTA, the school might not even have that book series by Louis Sachar in its selection. Discovery opened its new literacy room this fall. It’s a “re-purposed” former art room and storage space that now offers nearly 1,000 different book sets at varying reading levels for the entire school population. The point is to expand options for teachers as they work with students, each of whom has a different focus or need in their reading development, teachers and staff members said. The school is on the leading edge of the Issaquah School District’s efforts to overhaul its reading curriculum.

“Now it’s become more purposeful,” said Chelsea Dziedzic, literacy support coach for Discovery and Challenger elementary schools. “Discovery and district teachers realized one-size-fits-all does not work and doesn’t foster a love of reading.”

The “Marvin Redpost” books were such a big deal to the boys because they previously read from a limited selection of kids’ books at their level, and many of those catered to girls’ interest, said Vickie Pruger and Dziedzic, who staff the new literacy room.

“Marvin Redpost” sparked their interest last spring as thirdgraders and as fourth-graders, and they seem to be more engaged in reading than ever before.

“They were really interested in reading,” said Pruger, a Discovery reading specialist and kindergarten teacher.

The room is a little smaller than a standard elementary school classroom but is organized to provide quick, easy access for teachers as they determine a suitable

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book to study with small groups of students. Labeled file boxes filled with sets of six books each line shelves and cupboards. They range from reading level “A” — kindergarten — to “Z” — eighth grade.

“This is a fabulous use of resources for teachers,” longtime first-grade teacher Patty Britt said.

“It’s so well organized. This helps us to do a better job.”

Dziedzic and Pruger, who developed the literacy room plan for a year, said the selection is a huge expansion from the ad-hoc collections most teachers maintained in their own classrooms. It helps teachers target more specific concepts, and at more varied difficulties, while teaching literacy.

Dziedzic and Pruger knew the program — it’s entirely supplemental to the district’s reading curriculum — would cost a lot. But when the PTA forecast a $15,000 budget surplus in the spring, members and teachers got together to raise another roughly $13,000 from the community to order the plethora of new reading materials, PTA president Debbie Evdemon said. As a whole, the Discovery staff signed on to use all of the PTA funds for that cause, rather than apply for individual classroom grants.

“We have a very generous community of parents,” Evdemon said.

“If children can’t read, they can’t understand science, math…”

Dziedzic and Britt seemed excited about the implications for Discovery students now and for future programs districtwide.

They are already seeing a positive change in students’ interest in reading, they said — something they hope students around the district will experience soon, too.

“Discovery saw a need before the district did,” Dziedzic said.

“When they find a high interest at their level, there’s nowhere they can go but up.”

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

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Eastside Fire & Rescue reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to waive minor informalities, and to accept the bid deemed to be in the best interest of Eastside Fire & Rescue and the Citizens residing therein, and it is not bound to accept the lowest bid submitted.

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ORDINANCE NO. 2627 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, AMENDING SECTIONS 13.24.110(C) OF THE ISSAQUAH MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO WATER RATES, AND ESTABLISHING DECEMBER 1, 2011 AS THE EFFECTIVE DATE.

Bids are to be submitted only on the form provided in the Bid Package. Bid documents can be downloaded from our website at www.eastsidefire-rescue.org. Bid documents can also be obtained at our Headquarters office located at 175 Newport Way NW, Issaquah, Washington. Bid packages shall be submitted at the office of Eastside Fire & Rescue in a sealed envelope marked: Sealed Bid for Uniform Clothing & Station Wear, along with the bid date and time of the bid opening. The Bid form shall contain all the information requested, or the bid may be rejected as unresponsive.

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210-Public Notices Issaquah Ordinance No. 1633 and the State Environmental Policy Act, Chapters 43.21[c] RCW and WAC 197-11-510, notice is hereby given that the City of Issaquah did, on November 16, 2011 issue a Determination of Nonsignificance for non-project amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map. Amendments include: annual updates to Capital Facilities/ Transportation Improvement Program, changing the land use designation and zoning on publicly acquired/owned parcels to Community Facilities, and updating the Transportation Element to reflect the updated Concurrency system adopted in 2010.

Project name/permit number: 2011 Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Map amendments - PLN11-00068 After review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file with the agency, the City of Issaquah has determined this proposal would not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment.

This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2). The lead agency will not act on this proposal for 14 days. Anyone wishing to comment may submit written comments between November 17, 2011 and November 30, 2011 and the Responsible Official will reconsider the DNS based on timely comments. Any person aggrieved by this determination may appeal by filing a Notice of Appeal with the City of Issaquah Permit Center between November 17, 2011 and November 30, 2011. Appellants should prepare specific factual objections. Copies of the environmental determination and other project application materials are available from the Issaquah Planning Department, 1775 12th Avenue NW.

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Police arrested an 18-year-old student at Liberty High School, 16655 S.E. 136th St., for bringing cookies laced with marijuana to school in his backpack Oct. 5. Police searched his backpack and discovered a 4-inch steel-bladed, spring-operated knife. School administrators expelled the student from school for violating Issaquah School District policy.

Supermarket sweep Police removed a man from a store in the 700 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard after he caused a disturbance at 10:32 a.m. Oct. 26. He later entered the store numerous times, despite directions from store employees.

Soup’s on Silverware was stolen in the 600 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard before 4:52 p.m. Oct. 26. The estimated loss is $1,000.

Drugs Police seized a small amount of marijuana from a 19-year-old Sammamish man riding a bicycle in the 2900 block of 222 Place Southeast at 1:45 a.m. Oct. 27.

The officer stopped the man because the bike did not have a headlight or taillight. Burglaries also occurred in the neighborhood not long before the incident. Police searched the man and located a pipe and marijuana. The officer seized the pot for destruction and released the man.

located the boat and trailer parked near Southeast 18th Street and 236th Avenue Southeast at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 29. Electronics had been stolen from the vessel.

No rest for the weary Police responded to suspicious activity at a business in the 500 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard at 1:33 p.m. Nov. 1 after a caller reported a man sleeping inside the establishment. Police escorted the man from the business.

A cellphone, iPod, wallet and cash were stolen in the 5700 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast before 10:41 p.m. Nov. 3.

Swiped Items were stolen from a Dodge parked in the 2500 block of Longmire Court Northeast before 6:12 a.m. Nov. 4.

Police arrested a 57-year-old Sammamish man for driving under the influence along IssaquahHobart Road Southeast at 10:35 p.m. Nov. 4.

Sunshine State of mind Police denied a woman entry into Tent City 4 at Community Church of Issaquah, 205 Mountain Park Blvd. S.W., at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 2 because she had a warrant. She said someone in Florida used her name, so police told her to contact authorities in Florida to resolve the problem.

Cash flow A wallet, credit cards, cash and keys were stolen in the 5700 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast before 8:57 p.m. Nov. 2.

Police discovered graffiti in the 100 block of First Avenue Southeast at 8:06 a.m. Nov. 3. The estimated cost to remove the graffiti is $75.

A boat and trailer were stolen in the 19900 block of Southeast 32nd Street early Oct. 28. Police

Hung up

Police responded to a possible drug problem in the 100 block of West Sunset Way at 1:01 p.m.

Nov. 2 after a caller reported a man smoking marijuana. The man had a card authorizing him to smoke medical marijuana, but police told him not to smoke in public.

Police arrested a 40-year-old Issaquah man on a warrant in the 5500 block of 231st Avenue Southeast at 7:29 a.m. Oct. 27.

Set sail

A steering column was damaged on a Toyota parked in the 600 block of Mount Fury Circle Southwest before 2:44 p.m. Nov. 3.

Driving under the influence

Defaced

Police arrested a 53-year-old Renton man for possession of drug paraphernalia in the 1300 block of Northwest Mall Street at 7:44 p.m. Oct. 27.

Unpowered steering

Up in smoke

Arrest

Drugs

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Pump up the volume A stereo was stolen from a Ford parked in the 23600 block of Southeast Summerhill Lane before 10:52 a.m. Nov. 3. The estimated loss is $300.

Dodged Items were stolen from a Dodge parked in the 1500 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard before 11:09 a.m. Nov. 3. The estimated loss is $600.

Unlicensed A license plate was stolen from a vehicle parked in the 1000 block of 17th Avenue Northwest before 9:32 a.m. Nov. 5.

Driving under the influence Police arrested a 49-year-old Issaquah man for driving under the influence in the 300 block of Front Street South at 12:47 a.m. Nov. 6.

Unlocked A lockbox was stolen in the 500 block of Southeast Evans Lane before 8:02 a.m. Nov. 7. The estimated loss is $500.

Key clue A key tag was burned in the 23100 block of Southeast Black Nugget Road before 8:28 a.m.

Nov. 7.

No parking A disabled parking placard was stolen from a vehicle parked in the 1300 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard before 4:05 p.m. Nov. 7.

Arrest Police arrested a 25-year-old Issaquah man on a warrant in the 6300 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast at 11:48 p.m. Nov. 7.

The Press publishes names of people charged with felony crimes. Information comes directly from local police reports.

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Police alert neighbors to sex offender address change King County Sheriff’s Office investigators said a sex offender changed addresses to a Tiger Mountain residence last Roy Winkle month.

Roy Francis Winkle, 49, relocated to the 25000 block of Tiger Mountain Road Southeast and reported the address change Oct. 12.

Winkle registered as a Level II sex offender after being convicted of two counts of thirddegree child rape in King County in 2007. Police said Level II sex offenders have a moderate risk of re-offending.

Police said he stands 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighs 205 pounds, has gray hair and green eyes.

Residents can search for Winkle and other registered sex offenders at the sheriff’s office sex offender website, www.kingcounty.gov/safety/ sheriff/SOSearch.aspx.

State warns customers about driver’s license scam State licensing officials urged residents to beware of a bogus website claiming to be the “official provider of Washington driver license forms.”

The website came to the state Department of Licensing’s attentions after customers came across the language and called the agency.

The website asks customers to pay $24.95, although the message is not clear about what the payment is for — but the payment does not renew a driver’s license.

“The only ‘official provider’ of Department of Licensing forms is the Department of Licensing, and they are free,” agency Director Alan Haight said in a statement.

Customers can ensure the website is legitimate by checking the URL. Official Department of Licensing sites include www.dol.wa.gov in the address.

Browsers on secure portions of the website, such as the driver’s license renewal section, display a padlock icon or a similar image, and a https:// as the prefix of the address, to denote the area is secure.

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Wings N Things, 7:309:30 p.m.

Wednesdays, Field of Champions, 385 N.W. Gilman Blvd., 392-7111

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Dubbed ‘New Retro,’ this acrylic on wood piece is one of numerous newer works to be displayed by Issaquah artist Oluf Nielsen.

King David Trio, with dinner and dancing, 6-8:30 p.m., Lake Sammamish Elks Lodge, 765 Rainier Blvd. N., $10, 392-1400

The Patriot Players present “Romeo & Juliet,” 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 17-19 and at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 19, $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, students with Associated Student Body card and children under 12, 837-4800

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Geoffrey Castle, 7:4510 p.m., Bake’s Place, 4135 Providence Point Drive S.E., $20, 391-3335 British Beats, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella, 99 Front St. N., 391-1424 Ben Fisher, 8-9:30 p.m., Lake Sammamish Elks Lodge, $5

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Peter Jamero Project, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella

Little Bill and the Bluenotes, 7:45-10 p.m., Bake’s Place, $20 Greta Matassa: “Lights Out of Darkness Tribute to Ray Charles,” 6:45-9 p.m., Bake’s Place, $20 The Issaquah Philharmonic performs a free concert at 7:30 p.m. at Faith United Methodist Church, 3924 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road.

Butch Harrison and Good Company, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella The Beneband, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella

BY JAY KOH/VILLAGE THEATRE

The company in ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ dances during a number set at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show on stage at Village Theatre.

‘Annie Get Your Gun’ nails the target

By Warren Kagarise Issaquah Press reporter “Annie Get Your Gun” is often all hat and no cattle.

Too many theaters trade on the musical’s good name, a storied pedigree and recognizable songs to produce shows set in a West more mild than wild. Not Village Theatre.

The rendition on stage in Issaquah through Dec. 31 is as gutsy and snappy as the title character, sharpshooter Annie Oakley. “Annie Get Your Gun” abounds in a coltish energy from the dance numbers and a hard-to-resist magnetism from the lead actors, Dane Stokinger as marksman Frank Butler and Vicki Noon, a former Elphaba in a national tour of “Wicked” and a Liberty High School alumna, in the title role.

Noon is incandescent as Oakley, a bumpkin pulled from backwoods obscurity for a spot in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show.

Throughout the musical, as Oakley evolves from simpleton to celebrity, Noon imparts depth and charm on a character too easy to shortchange. The change — “Pygmalion” on the prairie, perhaps — is the most compelling plot thread running through the classic musical.

The rendition on stage at Village Theatre uses a 1999 Broadway revival as a template — a smart decision, too, because Irving Berlin’s original musical from 1946 sounds a little too old-fashioned nowadays. The revival book strained some smarminess from the 1946 production and re-engineered the classic musical for the 21st century.

Noon, a Broadway-caliber actress in a

IF YOU GO ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ Village Theatre — Francis J. Gaudette Theatre 303 Front St. N. Through Dec. 31 Show times vary $22 to $62 392-2202 or www.villagetheatre.org

R EVIEW role forever linked to Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters, offers a fresh rendition and, alongside Stokinger, a genuine chemistry. Noon, too, relies on the Broadway revival as a guide. The chestnuts “I Got Lost in His Arms” and “Anything You Can Do” sound sharp, not cartoonish.

Stokinger last appeared on the Village Theatre stage as a boy-next-door-turnedexotic-dancer in “The Full Monty” to start the 2010-11 season. “Annie Get Your Gun” offers the talented actor more to do. Butler is a pompous cad, but Stokinger exposes just enough humanity to endear audiences to the character.

The cast includes some standout performers in addition to Noon and Stokinger.

Hugh Hastings is a fine Buffalo Bill Cody, a Kenny Rogers (or Colonel Sanders) look-alike leading the Wild West show. Josh Feinsilber is precocious as the

half pint Little Jake, Oakley’s little brother and assistant. Kathryn Van Meter is appealing — all bluster and sass — as Dolly Tate, the spinster assistant to Butler.

The stop-and-go romance between rival sharpshooters Butler and Oakley is told through a grab bag of musical styles and, blessedly, the cast is able to slip seamlessly from number to number.

The romp across the Great American Songbook is a turnaround from the turgid season opener, the original musical “Take Me America.” “Annie Get Your Gun” is a return to form for a theater recognized throughout the region for top-notch productions.

The opening night audience started to applaud before the opening number — “There’s No Business Like Show Business” — came to a close. Despite some technical hiccups — balloons did not pop on cue amid some shooting tricks — the same electricity thrummed throughout the show.

Though the focus is on Steve Tomkins’ and Kristin Culp’s spirited choreography and the Crayola-bright costumes, Bill Forrester created handsome and attention-worthy sets — a steamship anchored in New York Harbor and, through some perspectivestretching magic, a society gala near the climax. The dancing, as fancy as Oakley’s shooting, is used to communicate the Wild West show’s circus-esque atmosphere.

The can-do spirit and spectacle make for a difficult-to-resist offering for the holiday season. “Annie Get Your Gun” manages to complete some nifty tricks and nail the bull’s eye, much as the title character does throughout the show.

Local youths join the holiday fray against the Mouse King

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter All three are soldiers in the army of the “Nutcracker.”

Fourth-grader Serena Martin and fifthgrader Anna Park are both in the legendary figure’s infantry. Alyssa Collister, an eighthgrader, takes a place among the cavalry.

“It’s really fun to get the opportunity to be with your friends and with the company, and just be part of something you want to do,” said Alyssa, 13.

The three young Issaquah residents are all part of the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s latest production of the “Nutcracker,” which runs Nov. 25 through Dec. 27. The young dancers aren’t on stage for very long; Alyssa guessed about five minutes. But she and others said that’s not important.

“I just really like being in it,” said Serena, 9.

She added the girls are in an exciting part of the ballet, the battle between the Nutcracker and the evil Mouse King. As infantry members, both she and Anna carry wooden guns.

All three girls have been in the “Nutcracker” previously. For Serena, this is her third year.

“It’s still very exciting,” said Serena’s mom Gina Martin.

By all accounts, it’s also a lot of work, requiring a lot of commitment. While most young performers take part in about half of the planned shows, they and their parents sign a contract stating the performers will be available for all shows if needed.

They also agree to come to rehearsals and not just sort of disappear halfway through the production. The girls do not get paid for their work; they all are volunteers.

As the show dates get closer, ballet has become a five-night-a-week proposition for at least two of the girls. They spend two days in rehearsal for the “Nut-

PHOTOS BY GREG FARRAR

Alyssa Collister, Serena Martin and Anna Park (from left) rehearse ballet choreography Nov. 4 in Seattle with fellow cavalry and infantry members for the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s annual production of ‘Nutcracker.’ cracker” and the other three days in their regular ballet classes. Things really will get hectic the week of Thanksgiving, when Martin said certain rehearsals — including a dress rehearsal — become allday affairs. Neither the girls nor their parents seem to mind.

“Our daughter has the drive and passion to do it,” Lyndia Collister said.

Not incidentally, even beyond driving her daughter back and forth to rehearsals and so on, Gina Martin is personally familiar with the rigors of appearing in a professional production of the “Nutcracker.” As a youth, Martin herself took part in stagings of the ballet, appearing as a child in the party scene and as a toy.

In the case of all three Issaquah girls, each has been involved with ballet for a long time.

Serena started at age 3. Both Alyssa and Anna have been dancing for eight years.

Like the other two girls, Anna, 11, has been in the “Nutcracker,” previously, though mom Cynthia Park said her daughter hasn’t been able to do it every year, swapping the performance for family activities. Park said the “Nutcracker” requires a big commitment.

“Actually, I think it’s a good experience for her,” she added, referring to her daughter. She has insisted Anna stay up with other activities and her schoolwork.

“She’s taken it in stride,” Park said.

None of the girls confessed to any nervousness about appearing on stage. Last year, Serena performed in front of all her classmates when her class received tickets to the show. Even that wasn’t bothersome, she said, since performers can’t see the audience, apparently mostly because of lighting.

Park isn’t sure her daughter wants to be a dancer when she grows up. Serena

IF YOU GO Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Nutcracker” Nov. 25 to Dec. 27, Showtimes vary McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle Learn more and obtain tickets at www.pnb.org/Season/11-12/Nutcracker.

didn’t seem sure either, but she isn’t quitting any time soon. (She may get point shoes next year.) Alyssa has no doubt dance is something she wants to do for a long time.

“Her dream is to be a professional dancer,” Collister said. “We’ll see how far that goes.”

Local artists picked for Seattle exhibit

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter At least two Issaquah artists are among the more than 250 artisans selected to be part of the Fall Best of the Northwest Art Show set for SeatIF YOU GO tle’s waterfront Nov. 18-20.

Best of the Sponsored by the Northwest Art and Northwest Art AlFine Craft Show liance, now an offi 10 a.m. to 6 cial 501c3 charity, p.m. Nov. 18-19 the show is adver10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tised as the largest juried, indoor art Nov. 20 show in the Puget Pier 91 — Smith Sound, said Pamela Cove Cruise Rembold, Alliance Terminal, 2001 W executive director.

Garfield St., Seattle She said the fact $6 plus tax; that the show is juried means a lot to $8 at the door many artists. www.nwartalFor juried shows, liance.com artists must submit works and be selected for inclusion in the show by a panel of other artists and experts.

“We don’t have any stuff on a stick,” Rembold said.

To longtime Issaquah artist Oluf Nielsen, the fact that the show is juried simply means it attracts better-qualified, more accomplished artists.

Now 58, Nielson said he has been painting professionally since he was 25 and estimated he has sold roughly $3 million in works. He’s lived in Issaquah for 20 years, using a yurt — a domed structure with no support columns and a high ceiling — as his studio space.

Joining him in the Seattle show is local woodworker Geoff Carson, a member of the Art Alliance board of directors.

“I’m a one man shop,” Carson said, regarding his woodworking. “I make everything myself.”

Besides creating unique furniture, such as various types of tables, credenzas and video cabinets, Carson, who said he is self-taught, also creates handcrafted flyfishing products, such as fly boxes and landing nets.

According to his website, they are “products for the catching of trout.”

“I want to see a vibrant art community in the Puget Sound area that supports those trying to make a living at their craft,” Carson said, explaining his involvement with the Art Alliance.

Carson’s own career began in earnest in 2002 when he found himself unemployed for the first time in his life. He said he’d always had visions of making a living with his woodworking and decided to take a shot at it.

Both Nielsen and Carson talked extensively about the still new location for the Best of the Northwest Show.

Rembold said the show was formally held in the Exhibition Hall in Seattle Center. But Rembold said the event simply outgrew that space. So, directors moved the show to the two-yearold Smith Cove Cruise Terminal on Pier 91.

“It’s a wonderful space,” Carson said, talking about the view the terminal allows of Seattle’s waterfront.

Besides the work of hundreds of artists, the fall event will feature entertainment, a children’s table, live music and the products of 15 boutique Washington wineries. Rembold said the music would be upbeat and light, not string quartets sitting in a corner.

“It’s just a wonderful community event,” she said.

Learn more about Nielsen, who plans to feature new mixed media works during the coming show, at www.olufnielsen.com.

Learn more about Carson at www.carsonwoodworks.com.

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