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Thursday, December 17, 2015

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EFR’s new fire chief coming north from Arizona

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com The Eastside Fire & Rescue board made a conditional offer to Jeff Clark, chief of the city Fire, Health and Medical Department in Chandler, Ariz., to take over the fire department here as soon as Feb. 1.

“I’m excited,” the 47-year-old Clark said in a phone interview.

“It’s a big change.”

Issaquah district proposes new bell times

Sammamish City Councilman Bob Keller also said he was excited with the choice of Clark from among four finalists for the Jeff Clark chief’s position.

“He has a reputation of implementing new ideas,” Keller said, noting Clark was involved in various areas

of Chandler government. “Everybody just gave him glowing references.”

EFR serves both Issaquah and Sammamish, and Keller chairs the personnel committee that selected Clark.

Clark spent 25 years with the Chandler Fire, Health & Medical Department, the last seven as chief. He also served as chief for the Chandler County Island Fire District, which provides fire

far from what is now home?

Clark said he and wife Lori have visited the Seattle area many times. They decided at least a couple of years ago to move here, but they promised their two daughters they could finish high school in Chandler.

The two are now out of school, and when the opportunity with

and emergency medical service for islands within the municipal boundaries of Chandler.

In 2011, Clark began a threeyear stint as an assistant city manager, a job that included oversight of the city’s Neighborhood Services and Information Technology divisions. The added duties were a result of financial troubles experienced by the City of Chandler, Clark said Why did Clark try for a job so

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BRIGHTENING THE HANUKKAH HOLIDAY

By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com In response to parent and community requests for later start times, especially for high school students, the Issaquah School District last week released a preliminary proposal of changes to bell times.

District communications director L. Michelle said the district and school board had fielded a growing number of requests for change over the last couple years.

She said the call for change follows similar requests in Seattle and Bellevue school districts.

Michelle added this is not the first time bell times were re-examined.

“Issaquah looked at bell times 10 years ago but decided not to make any changes at that time,” she said.

This time around, Superintendent Ron Thiele directed his senior staff in September and October to study the issue, keeping in mind the following parameters: See TIMES, Page 3

Senior center leadership group denied city funding

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com In a series of unanimous votes Dec. 7, the City Council acted to fund senior services in the city but removed Issaquah Valley Seniors as the recipient of those funds.

Issaquah Valley Seniors is the name of the nonprofit entity currently running the Issaquah Valley Senior Center.

The council passed funding for senior services in Issaquah at the rate of $99,000 for 2016, the same amount those services received this year.

The center and its leaders have been under fire since at least April for alleged abuses of power, including banning two members via no trespassing orders handed out by Issaquah police.

Instead of funding the senior center as usual, Council President Paul Winterstein asked the city administration to come up with a “Plan B.” That plan essentially would mean replacing See CENTER,

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@isspress.com

Invited guest of honor Mayor Fred Butler lights the shamash, or ‘servant,’ candle on the menorah during the Hanukkah Wonderland party for children and families hosted by Chabad of the Central Cascades Dec. 10 at Blakely Hall in the Issaquah Highlands. The shamash candle was then used to light the others on what was the fifth day of the Jewish holiday. This year’s menorah, which in previous years children have decorated with Legos, jelly beans, doughnuts, glow bracelets and other fun things, was decorated with miniature marshmallows and candy sprinkles.

City planning business retention survey for 2016

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com City Hall wants to know how Issaquah’s businesses are performing.

Officials also want to come up with ways to take advantage of the city’s new designation as an innovation zone for sports medicine, said Keith Niven, Issaquah economic development director.

Niven announced the survey during a recent meeting of the City Council’s Services and Safety Committee.

Niven said Issaquah last surveyed its businesses four years ago. Though the new survey has not been formulated, Niven expects it will ask business owners a wide range of questions about topics such as total number of employees, whether the number

of employees has increased or decreased, and whether businesses are having problems finding qualified employees to hire.

Other questions will touch on relations with the city, permitting and similar issues. One particular subject might be about space needs. Niven said only about 3 percent of Issaquah’s retail space is available. While

that’s good from a vibrancy standpoint, it drives up prices and makes it more difficult for business owners to start or expand any enterprises.

Niven added the city is presently working with at least two businesses on space issues. As for the survey, he expects to see See SURVEY, Page 2

Sammamish family’s adoption of African brothers was a three-year journey

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com

When a reporter enters the Boyer household on Northeast 28th Place, the two young boys — Andre, 6, and his brother, Luke, 4 — are clearly excited.

They talk in a mix of French and English and grab hold of a leg and a hand or two.

Later, when asked direct questions, they are exactly like typical CONTRIBUTED young children with someone Just in time for the holidays, the Boyer family of Sammamish was able to they don’t know, offering onebring home their two adopted sons from the Democratic Republic of Congo. word answers at most. That’s Shown here, from the top, is daughter, Gabby, 7; mom and dad, Jennefer and OK. Not only are the brothers Page 2 Jason Boyer; Claire, 5, Luke, 4, and Andre, 6. youngsters, on this day, they had

been in the U.S. for all of about three weeks.

Jason and Jennefer Boyer adopted Andre and Luke from the Democratic Republic of Congo roughly three years ago. It took most of that time to get permission for the boys to leave their native county. That permission came in late November, and the pair joined sisters Gabby, 7, and Claire, 5, the Boyer’s biological children, as members of the Sammamish household.

Jason Boyer said his wife was See ADOPTION, Page 3

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2016 budget includes two new police officers

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com At their regular meeting Dec. 7, the City Council adopted a 2016 budget of $172 million, about $1.1 million more than requested by the administration.

Those figures include a 1 percent increase in property taxes requested by Mayor Fred Butler.

Washington cities are allowed to increase property taxes by one percent each year without a vote of the people. Council also included the 1 percent hike in last year’s budget.

When he introduced the

administration’s proposed budget in October, Butler said the tax increase won’t add much to city coffers in the short term. But he noted the dollars will add up over time.

The increase will raise about $77,000 in 2016. For a resident with a $470,000 home, Butler said the move would add $4.50 to that homeowner’s tax bill.

Here are some other highlights of the budget, according to Diane Marcotte, city finance director: 4Issaquah will hire two new full-time police officers along with two corrections officers to work at the city

jail. In October, Butler said officers were being pulled off other duties to work at the jail. Just prior to the council’s approval of the budget, Marcotte said the jail now is running at near capacity, with an average population of 65. A federal Community Oriented Policing Services grant will help pay the cost of the new officers.

4As previously announced, the council voted unanimously to add $90,000 to the funding for a new Issaquah skateboard park to be built in Tibbetts Valley Park.

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By Scott Stoddard sstoddard@isspress.com The bundled-up bandit has struck again — this time in North Bend.

At around 5:45 p.m.

Dec. 9, a man walked into a Bank of America branch in North Bend at 128 Bendigo Blvd. S. and demanded money.

Authorities described the man as Hispanic or

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4School start and end times for all grade levels must occur between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

4The tiered bus system must be kept intact.

4The change to the high school start time must be significant.

4The costs associated with changing to later start and end times must be fiscally responsible.

Michelle explained that the Issaquah School District’s tiered bus system, in which the same bus is used on multiple routes, saves the district money while covering its 110-squaremile boundaries.

“To drop off students all at the same time would require a larger fleet,” Michelle said. “The superintendent wanted to keep the financial impact low, yet make a real impact.”

Therefore, Thiele didn’t want just little adjustments, but true change to the schedule, Michelle said. That’s why the new proposed time would move back the start of day for high school students by more than 1 ½ hours.

However, Michelle said Thiele didn’t want to push

placing $300,000 into the city’s contingency fund.

“We would like to grow those dollars over the next several years,” Marcotte said.

4The council added $539,960 to the city’s $50.5 million general fund, which pays for most day-to-day city operations. The additional dollars came out of what was originally projected to be the 2016 year-ending general fund balance.

Among other items, the money will go towards City Hall’s implementation of a new computer software system; a review of Olde

Town standards, with updating as needed; and the hiring of a new parks maintenance worker.

In October, while Butler talked about spending $800,000 for paving around the city and additional dollars for specific road improvements, such as a widening project on East Lake Sammamish Parkway, he also announced the coming formation of a transportation advisory committee. Butler wants that committee to study a transportation funding question that could conceivably go on the ballot in November 2016.

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allocated $350,000 for the park, but spirited public supporters backed an alternative $500,000 design.

They launched a Go Fund Me page that has raised over $10,000. The page will stay active through the end of the month. Go to gofundme.com/skateissaquah.

4The council approved a total of $820,000 to fund street crossing improvements around the city.

Traffic safety became a major issue in Issaquah following the death of a 4-year-old boy following a traffic accident on Newport Way in June.

4The council approved

the end of the day past 4 p.m. because it would have an adverse effect on traffic and students getting to after-school jobs.

To implement any proposed changes for the next school year — Michelle said she couldn’t foresee any scenario in which bell times would take effect this school year — a decision needs to be made by March. To facilitate that decision, the administration is inviting the public to share their thoughts about the proposal by email at BellTime@issaquah.wednet.edu or online at issaquah.wednet. edu/news/ENews. Once the administration has the general pulse of the public, community meetings will be scheduled to facilitate further input.

Because any change to the bell times is operational, Michelle said the final decision — no change, change or change it later — would fall to the administration rather than the school board.

For more information on the sleep studies and school start times being cited by parents and community members who are requesting this adjustment, go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website at cdc.gov/ features/school-start-times.

it happen early in 2016.

In October, the city was designated by the state Department of Commerce as an Innovation Partnership Zone for sports medicine. Economic Development Manager Jen Davis-Hayes is serving as zone administrator.

“It’s in its infancy right now,” Davis-Hayes said of the innovation zone.

Marketing may be the

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the current leadership of the Issaquah Valley Senior Center with another entity.

Mayor Fred Butler seemed to think a quick resolution would be unlikely, but said the administration would try to come up with a plan for moving forward. Later in the week, Councilman Tola Marts set up a meeting of the council’s Service and Safety Committee for Dec. 15 in order to discuss the city’s next moves. That meeting happened after Press deadlines for this edition.

At a previous council session, Marts said he wants an explanation of

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caucasian. He is 5-foot-6 with a thin build and was wearing a black hooded jacket, sunglasses and latex gloves. He left the bank on foot with an undisclosed amount of money.

A similarly dressed man is being sought by authorities for bank robberies in Issaquah on Dec. 1 and Dec. 3. In those robberies, the man was described as being between 5-foot-10 and 6-feet tall.

Law enforcement officers from Issaquah, Bellevue and the King County Sheriff’s Office, along with King County’s Guardian One helicopter, assisted

the Snoqualmie Police Department in searching for the suspect. Authorities later determined that he had a vehicle nearby and fled the scene.

If you can provide information about the Issaquah robberies, contact Issaquah Police Det. Dustin Huberdeau via email at dustinh@ issaquahwa.gov or call 837-3288.

first step forward. DavisHayes talked about a new website that will launch soon, and advertisements in regional media.

Cities must apply to be named an innovation zone.

Davis-Hayes said when officials looked around for a business or facilities unique to Issaquah, they quickly hit on health care.

Davis-Hayes said they combined that with the many recreational activities around and came up with the idea of promoting sports medicine.

Davis-Hayes said City Hall looked at other possible

areas of specialization, such as information technology.

“Sports medicine just seemed like a natural,” Davis-Hayes said.

“Washington state’s vibrant innovation ecosystem is one of our strongest competitive advantages,” Brian Bonlender, state commerce director, said in an October news release.

“Creating supportive environments where clusters of dynamic ideas and resources can flourish helps grow economies and jobs in communities all across the state.”

In 2007, then-Gov. Chris Gregoire and the state Legislature created the Innovation Partnership Zones program to stimulate the growth of industry clusters and build regional economies.

The zones provide regions with a way to form partnerships between research entities, private-sector partners and workforce training to collaborate and develop commercially viable technologies.

Learn more about Innovation Partnership Zones at choosewashington.com.

the apparent split between the senior center and the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank before giving the center “a dime.”

In the meantime, Winterstein said the city still is in talks with the senior center’s current leadership. He added he has been involved with those negotiations.

The city may be pushing a series of conditions set out by Butler a few months ago. Under Butler’s plan, the senior center would receive half of its funding for the year, with the rest contingent on the outcome of a performance audit to be completed by the city at a cost of $65,000.

The senior center’s executive director, Courtney Jaren, did not respond to a message left for her at the

senior center. With one exception, she has repeatedly declined to comment for stories on the controversy.

“We are elated. We think it’s great,” said Inez Petersen, speaking after the council’s most recent actions. Petersen is an attorney representing a group of seniors, including those banned from the center. Petersen said she still is working on a libel suit against Jaren and the center’s board of directors.

That libel suit — and much of the controversy around the center — stems mostly from a letter sent to center membership in June. That letter was signed by the center’s board of directors. In their own letter to two board members last month, Winterstein and Deputy

Council President Stacy Goodman described the board’s June missive as “full of anger, name-calling, and unsubstantiated and shocking allegations.”

Among other things, the letter from the center’s board of directors accuses unnamed parties of elder abuse.

“This is libel enough, but it is surpassed by your claim that this group ‘bullied a vulnerable senior to death,’ ” Petersen wrote to the board in September.

The city owns the senior center building but leases it to the center board for $1 a year. In 2015, city funding represented about 44 percent of the center’s total budget of $221,490, according to Warren Kagarise, city communications coordinator.

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Water and sewer district takes up rate increases

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com Area residents may see a 4.8 percent hike in water rates and a 3 percent increase in sewer rates if the Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District follows through with increases recommended in their 2016 budget.

The district board held

a public hearing on the increases and was scheduled to vote during a district meeting Dec. 14. That meeting took place after deadlines for this edition.

For 2016, in addition to standard operating, repair and replacement costs, the district hopes to fund a major water-meter replacement project along with seismic improvements

to water facilities over the next several years.

The district’s 4.8 percent increase would be distributed within the rate structure as a 5.5 percent change in the base water charge and a 4 percent change in the variable rate based on water consumption.

A single-family residential customer using from

350 cubic feet to 750 cubic feet of water per month would see a monthly increase ranging from $1.66 to $1.98 on their water bill.

The district bills its water and sewer customers every two months.

For sewer charges, the district’s proposal would increase the monthly sewer rate for a single-family residential customer by

97 cents, to $33.16 each month.

According to information supplied by the district, some of that increase would go toward $7.5 million in sewer capital improvement projects between 2016 and 2021.

With the rate increases, the district would not need to take on additional debt to fund projects through

2021.

The Sammamish Plateau district serves Sammamish, Issaquah and some unincorporated areas of King County. The district has an annual budget of $35 million and serves nearly 64,000 local residents.

Find more information on the rate hikes on the district’s financial page at spwsd.org/finance.asp.

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The Issaquah School District was selected as one of 425 districts in North America to make the College Board’s annual Advanced Placement District Honor Roll for increasing access to Advanced Placement course work while simultaneously maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on Advanced Placement exams.

To land on the honor roll, eligible districts must: 4Increase participation or access to AP by at least 4 percent in large districts, 6 percent in medium districts and 11 percent in small districts.

4Increase or maintain the percentage of exams taken by African-American, Latino and Native American students.

4Improve or maintain performance levels when comparing the 2015 percentage of students scoring a 3 or higher to the 2013 percentage, unless the district has already attained a performance level at which more than 70 percent of its AP students are scoring a 3 or higher.

Also, Gov. Jay Inslee recently praised the district for exceptional performance in signing up eligible students for the state’s College Bound Scholarship.

The governor described Issaquah as one of the bestperforming districts in the state.

The scholarship program offers college tuition toward the state’s post-secondary educational institutions to students who, because of financial restraints, may not otherwise have an opportunity to pursue their education after high school.

cle, Echo Glen Children’s Center and the Issaquah Garden Club.

To get involved with the garden in 2016, go to issaquahwa.gov/eatlocal.

Pedestrian Park remodel debut and caroling, too Mayor Fred Butler will cut the ribbon Dec. 17 to celebrate the remodel of Pedestrian Park at the northeast corner of Front Street North and Sunset Way West. The ceremony begins at 5:30, and Tokul Road will perform a selection of Celtic Christmas carols. At 6 p.m., caroling will take place at Issaquah’s historic railroad depot at 150 First Avenue Northeast.

15-unit Copper Ridge neighborhood under way

Presidio Residential Capital and Summit Homes of Washington recently broke ground on Copper Ridge, a 15-unit community on 4.59 acres at 24424 S.E. Issaquah-Fall City Road.

The first home sales are expected to close during December. The retail value of this project will exceed $11.7 million.

“Copper Ridge is ideally located in an area that consistently holds its value because Issaquah is one of the most desirable places to live in the Northwest,” said Tim Easter, vice-president of sales and marketing for Summit Homes of Washington. “Issaquah experiences some of the highest appreciation rates in King County, comparable to waterfront area on Puget Sound and Lake Washington.”

Copper Ridge features two- and three-story singlefamily detached homes on Garden makes 1,379- pound 40-foot sites that range from 2,800 to 3,300 square feet donation to food bank with four to five bedrooms, The Pickering Demontwo-and-a-half to three stration Garden recently baths and two- to three-car contributed 1,379 pounds garages. Several upgrade opof fresh food to the Istions will be available for the saquah Food and Clothing homes, which will be priced Bank. from the high $700,000s to Falaah Jones, garden the mid $800,000s. coordinator, spearheaded Presidio Residential Capithe efforts, which featured tal and Summit Homes of the assistance of more than Washington have partnered 100 volunteers and several on 10 projects with more visitors during the Issaquah than 300 units in WashingFarmers Market. ton.

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the driving force behind the adoptions. Both Jason, an orthopedic surgeon, and Jennefer have spent time working overseas.

A public health specialist, Jennefer worked in several African countries, including at an orphanage in Zimbabwe. AIDS was a huge problem.

“There was a graveyard there with all these little headstones that the kids could see,” Jennefer said.

“It was just a part of their lives.”

When she and her husband started thinking about adopting, Jennefer began looking into international adoption agencies. They met Andre and Luke through such an agency and adopted the boys in December 2012.

The Congo government recognized the adoption, Jennefer said, but wouldn’t allow the brothers to leave the country.

“We never found out why, exactly,” Jennefer adds, but said the family needed exit letters to take the boys out of the Congo.

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ter care, and the Boyers received regular updates on how they were doing.

Luke became extremely ill, and Jennefer said at one point his body had about half the blood he needed. A transfusion had to happen or Luke probably wasn’t going to live.

In February of this year, the Boyers made a decision. Jennefer was going to have to go to the Congo and care for Andre and Luke herself.

“It was awful, frankly,” Jason said of having his wife gone for what turned out to be nine months.

“It was not fun. It’s hard to have half your family half a world away and you can’t keep them safe.”

Jennefer quickly moved herself and the boys into an apartment in Kinshasa. Andre and Luke initially were not in good shape.

“They both had these huge malnutrition bellies that are gone now,” Jennefer said.

The politics of the situation weren’t exactly promising.

“It’s not the most stable place in the world,” Jason said. Jennefer said she was advised to stay in her apartment and did just that as much as possible.

“The worst part was not

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Jason Boyer holds his adopted son, Luke, who was seriously ill at a hospital in the Congo. knowing how long I was going to be there,” she said.

In the meantime, she Skyped with her husband and daughters as often as possible. In August, Jason took the girls to the Congo to meet their brothers.

In November, Jennefer finally received the needed paperwork allowing the boys to leave the country.

Just as she doesn’t really know why they were withheld, she doesn’t know why the exit letters suddenly appeared. She packed up and left the country as quickly as pos-

sible.

Jennefer said she especially wanted to thank U.S. Reps. Suzan DelBene, D-1, and Dave Reichert, R-8, for their help in writing letters and applying pressure on the Congo government.

Andre and Luke now attend a French-speaking school in Bellevue. Andre claims he doesn’t like it, though Jennefer insists he has said he does. They are slowly adjusting to life here and to their new family.

“It’s the little things they notice,” Jennefer said, things like escalators and water fountains.

Congo is a highly Christian nation, Jennefer said, so Andre and Luke know about the upcoming Christmas holiday. The Congo holiday is not as secularized as here, but Jennefer said the boys know who “Père Noël” — that’s French for Father Christmas — is. Not wanting them to have to meet Santa Claus in a crowded mall, Jason said he would be visiting the Boyer home in the near future.

Overall, Jason said having Andre and Luke home has been wonderful, if a bit noisy. “The house has definitely become a lot livelier,” Jason said.

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’m not exactly breaking news when I start this column by telling you that today’s media landscape has become remarkably crowded.

Online news organizations.

National and local television newscasts. National newspapers and magazines. Daily newspapers, both national and local.

They all want your attention, and they want it badly.

Heck, there’s even a second weekly newspaper in our town.

Few cities of 35,000 like Issaquah can boast such a luxury.

But no other outfit devotes more reporters and resources than we do when it comes to covering stories that are solely about Issaquah. You might

call our news report Issaquah-centric — to the extreme.

And there you have one of the reasons The Issaquah Press has SCOTT been around STODDARD for 116 years.

If what Press editor you’re reading in these 12 pages today have you craving even more local news, may I suggest you not only visit our website, issaquahpress.com, but also like us on Facebook at facebook.com/ issaquahpress.

We are posting more news than ever on our Facebook page, and we’re doing it seven days a week. We refuse to be limited by our once-a-week newspaper when it comes to reporting what’s happening in and around Issaquah.

Our goal is to write and post breaking stories as quickly as possible. News doesn’t have much of a shelf life. And although we very much want to be first with a story, we will never rush one onto the web just for the sake of beating the competition. All stories receive a careful edit before they are posted online.

Our increase in Facebook activity is a relatively new way of doing things here at the Press,

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omorrow I turn 47.

Yikes.

That’s just three short years away from the big five-oh and my first midlife crisis.

To avoid that sense of failure, I need to fill my social calendar now so I’ll have a few accomplishments to crow about when I hit that milestone.

I’ve stumbled across some lists on the Internet where people state the 50 things they want to do before they turn 50. So, in no particular order, here’s my list while trying to keep them limited to things in Issaquah.

1. Take a Close Encounter tour of the tiger habitat at Cougar Mountain Zoo. 2. Take an art class at artEAST. 3. Take a chocolate-making class at Boehm’s Candies & Chocolates.

4. Go jet skiing on Lake Sammamish.

5. Catch a fish from Pine Lake Park on opening day.

6. Eat a XXX burger all by myself.

7. Lose 50 pounds.

8. Now lighter, take a paragliding flight off Poo Poo Point without fear of breaking the rig.

9. Hike each of the Issaquah Alps.

10. Join an adult rock band at Kaleidoscope of Music.

11. Ride the Issaquah Trolley.

12. Join the men’s 35+ 4-on-4 basketball league.

13. Take a tai chi class at the community center.

14. Since the Elks closed, join the Eagles.

15. Go horseback riding.

16. Take a PCC cooking class.

17. Drink a glass of one of the most expensive local wines.

18. Run (saunter?) in the Salmon Days Run with the Fishes 5K. 19. Get a one-hour massage, anywhere.

20. Eat a full-course meal while watching a movie at the Issaquah Cinebarre.

21. Take a water-jet flight on Lake Sammamish with GoFly Water Aviation.

22. Safely land a mountain bike jump off a double black diamond ramp at Duthie Hill Park.

23. Convince someone at Village Theatre to let me try on some costumes.

24. Sign up to grow something fresh at the Issaquah Community Garden.

25. Create a glass ornament at artbyfire.

26. Cut a real Christmas

tree from Enchanted Winds or Trinity tree farms.

27. Join a 35+ softball league.

28. Go to dive-in DAVID movie night HAYES at Julius Boehm Pool.

Press reporter 29. Take some dance lessons at the Rockin’ Horse Dance Barn.

30. Win a poker tournament at the Snoqualmie Casino.

31. Break 100 at the Golf Club at Newcastle.

32. Take a basic AR-15 firing lesson at the Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club.

33. Bump into someone famous at an Issaquah restaurant without spilling my beer on them.

34. See how much more comfortable a $7,500 mattress at Sleep Train is over a $1,000 mattress.

35. Sit in the front row of an IMAX movie blockbuster at Regal Cinemas in the Issaquah Highlands.

36. Photo bomb someone taking a selfie at a public event in Issaquah that actually gets posted online.

37. Take my Fiat to an Italian car show at the XXX. 38. Ride along on a rally with the Thundering Angels.

39. Watch at least one musical act from every stage at Salmon Days.

40. Renew my wedding vows at a ceremony at Pickering Barn.

41. Buy my wife some freshcut flowers from the Issaquah Farmers Market.

42. See if the guys at Fischer Meats will teach me how to butcher a steak or filet a fish.

43. Shoot a black-powder muzzle rifle with the Cascade Mountain Men. 44. Go kayaking with my wife and her friend on Lake Sammamish.

45. Tweet something that goes viral from my new Issaquah Press account.

46. Gear up with the Washington Fencing Academy.

47. Convince my coworkers to try a group outing of broomball at Sno-King Ice Arena.

48. Take an Issaquah Citizens’ Police Academy course.

49. Go on a Float Snoqualmie excursion.

50. Make another list of 50 things to do before I turn 100.

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We also post news content to Facebook that we can’t share with you in the pages of the newspaper, like our Dec. 9 video of a raging Snoqualmie Falls, swollen after a stretch of seemingly never-ending rain that caused flooding upriver.

That video has been viewed more than 2,600 times by those who found it in their Facebook news feed via the Press. I don’t think I’m being presumptuous when I say that readers were captivated by that 10-second clip of the thunderous falls.

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50 local things I’d like to do before age 50

and readers have been overwhelmingly positive about the change.

What will you get for the effort of liking us on Facebook? Last week, we averaged about eight Facebook posts per day on weekdays, up from our previous rate of two a day. Those posts came in all varieties, from a link to our story about Eastside Fire & Rescue’s new fire chief to a simple alert that Issaquah-Hobart Road had reopened after a daylong closure.

Our social-media expert, Christina Corrales-Toy, is a tireless wrangler of our news reporting, making sure our very best content reaches our Facebook audience in a timely manner.

Government

Education

City’s skate park decisions aren’t making sense

We’re swooning over the Issaquah School District

As a resident who lives a block from the community center, I was glad when a new location was found for the skate park. The trail and surrounding areas have been aggregating spots for high school students, cigarettes and trash. The park has gained a reputation as a location for underage drinking and drug use.

Then I read the article in the Dec. 3 edition. Allow me to summarize my takeaways: 1. The City Council voted 6-1 in favor of the $510,000 budget allocation to build a new park, which was originally only budgeted for $350,000.

2. The city received a grant from the county for $75,000, which made the total funding available $425,000.

3. They were “bombarded” with support for a more expensive park worth $510,000.

4. Residents tried to raise money to fill that gap — including a Go Fund Me page which raised $10,000, which made $435,000 available out of $510,000.

5. The city now plans to keep the existing skate park intact to save $50,000, which means they now only have a gap of $25,000 ($435,000 subtracted from $460,000).

At the same time: 1. The Anderson Family farmhouse was torn down 2. The $250,000 that was set aside for help moving it is now available to restore historic locations in Issaquah.

Seriously? How can one read the article and not be incredibly angry. A decision was made to move the park based on a variety of factors. In order to solve a budget gap created because of the increase in cost, a decision was made to save $50,000 by not removing the very skate park that was needing to be replaced — even though removal work had already started.

At the same time, a historic building was torn down, which cost money, and a chunk of money is now lying around to help restore historic structures. Does Theresa Stoppard really think the skate park is a historic structure?

In the fall, the two of us and several hundred other parents attended what will hopefully be the first of many parent education nights, organized as a joint effort between parents and the school district. The subject was introduction to the U.S. school system, and Issaquah schools in particular. As part of the parent group that helped put this up, we did not know quite what to expect, but the turnout and the excitement exceeded every hope we had, and really brought home what an important and timely initiative this is.

Issaquah has grown tremendously over the years we have lived here, and a good portion of that growth are families that have moved here from far away, who might speak another language at home and come from rather different school traditions.

It is imperative that all of these kids and their families get a good start to their school careers, whatever age they may be. The smoother the transition, the better the attachment between school and home, and the better outcome for all, U.S. passport holders and aliens alike.

A parent education night like the one in the fall builds community, puts faces to the resources that are already in place and provides a forum for new growth.

If English is not your first language, picking up the phone can be hard, but attending a meeting is doable. Getting your questions answered, including those you did not know you needed to ask, is empowering – and you can pass that right on to your kid.

It is the kind of initiative that we wish had been in place when our families arrived. And we love that it is happening now.

Responsible writing would demand that you get the facts.

These you would have if you had talked to Courtney Jaren. She would have explained the events that have taken place at the senior center requiring the center to take the actions it has. You should be supporting the senior center, not investigating it.

I realize there isn’t much chance of you printing this letter, but it may help establish your credibility.

Helen Smart Issaquah

Editor’s note: Our reporter on these stories, Tom Corrigan, has repeatedly sought comment from Courtney Jaren. With one exception, Jaren has declined to speak with Corrigan.

Immigration

Maybe Rep. Rodne is on to something State Rep. Jay Rodne is quite right to be concerned. We have the example of a son of a Palestinian refugee family who spent time in Egypt and subsequently was executed by the authorities for subversion. There appears to be plenty of his followers in our area.

Carl Schwartz Sammamish

Civil rights

Dear protesters: Police officers are not the villains

Who stands up for the rights of law enforcement?

Where are the “protesters” when 99 law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty this year? Don’t police and deputy lives matter?

Where are the “protesters” when the government allowed the lawlessness to go on for days Lotte Torgersen and Lucy Zou in Ferguson and Baltimore?

Issaquah Where are the “protesters” when the police officer was made Journalism the scapegoat for the Ferguson debacle? Was the deceased trying to kill the police officer? He did hit him in the face and try to grab the officer’s gun. Why has Stop sending me The Issaquah the government made the police Press. I no longer care to read it officer the villain? due to the one-sided, half-truth “Protesters,” where are you? articles you have been presentJohn P. Brooke John Birrell-Levine ing regarding the senior center Issaquah Issaquah and Courtney Jaren, the director.

Fed up with newspaper’s coverage of senior center

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BRIEFLY

Apply now for state Senate page program Students between the ages of 14 and 16 are invited to participate in the state Legislature’s Senate page program, where each year hundreds of students from throughout the state get a firsthand look at how the legislative process works.

“The page program is an incredible educational opportunity and a great chance to learn from other students from different

Chief from page 1

EFR happened along, Clark said he jumped at the chance.

While he has visited the Northwest, Clark said he was not overly familiar with the areas served by EFR and studied the area as part of his preparation for applying for the chief’s position.

Still, Clark said he assumes he has a lot to learn.

“That’s an exciting part of it,” he added.

Keller said Clark’s appointment was conditional on further background investigations and successful negotiation of an employment contract. The new chief will earn $154,000 to $180,000 annually, accord-

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parts of the state,” said Sen. Steve Litzow, chairman of the Senate Early Learning and K-12 Education Committee. “Being able to participate directly in the legislative process can inspire our state’s future leaders.”

Students spend one week in Olympia, where they attend page school, hear directly from state lawmakers and other officials, and assist with proceedings on the Senate floor during debate and voting.

Interested students living in the 41st District, which includes Bellevue, Beaux Arts, Issaquah, Mercer Island, Newcastle, Renton and Sammamish, are encouraged to apply by submitting an application to Sen. Litzow’s office for 2016’s 60-day legislative session that begins January 11.

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ing to information previously released by EFR. Clark replaces long-time Chief Lee Soptich, who led the department for 15 years. Soptich’s last day on the job was Nov. 30. With the help of a California consultancy, EFR launched a national search for a new chief. A total of 24 people applied for the position.

The consultancy cut that number down to 12.

Keller and the personnel committee picked four finalists, including one local applicant. EFR flew the other finalists to Issaquah, where they all underwent extensive interviewing by three panels: the personnel committee, a technical committee and an administrative committee.

Keller said members included fire chiefs from other area departments, two city

administrators, one police chief, a union representative and numerous others. In the end, the personnel committee’s vote for Clark was unanimous.

Keller said the choice of Clark was not an easy one.

All of the finalists were impressive, Keller said, adding that he feels the quality of the candidates reflects the quality of EFR. In November, the EFR board selected Greg Tryon as interim chief, a role he assumed on Dec. 1. Tryon was the only local candidate to make to the group of four finalists.

EFR operates in the cities of Issaquah, Sammamish and North Bend, along with two fire districts encompassing a total of about 190 square miles and a population of over 130,000.

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Drop off fluorescent light bulbs for recycling Recology CleanScapes is participating in LightRecycle Washington’s recycling event through Dec. 31.

Individuals and businesses are invited to recycle fluorescent lights

at no charge by dropping them off at more than 220 LightRecycle collection sites, including Issaquah’s Recology CleanScapes at 317 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Suite 22.

Education center accepts Toys for Tots donations The Best in Class Education Center is accepting contributions of education-

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The public is invited to drop off educational toys, appropriate for all age groups from kindergarten through 12th grade, at their Issaquah location, 1505 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Suite No. 6. Donations will be accepted during normal business hours: 4-8 p.m. Thursday and 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

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Circle of Love fundraiser benefits zoo The inaugural Circle of Love Fundraiser, which benefits Cougar Mountain Zoo, is now underway. Donations, which are 100 percent tax-deductible, go directly to fund the Zoological Society of Washington and Cougar Mountain Zoo. Donors will get a chance to receive the 2015 Circle of Love pendant. One donor will be selected as the recipient of this year’s Circle of Love half-carat diamond and gold necklace, sponsored by Marlow’s Fine Jewelry. The drawing will be at 3 p.m. Dec. 23, the final day of the Issaquah Reindeer Festival. To learn more, go to cougarmountainzoo.org.

Volunteers inspire Merry Christmas Issaquah spirit

By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@isspress.com The Issaquah Community Services office is hidden in a backroom at the East Sunset Way fire station.

Walk through the dining room that normally hosts free meals for the homeless and knock on the door.

A friendly ICS volunteer appears and ushers clients into the office. As the door closes, an invisible wall blocks judgment, persecution and negativity from entering.

What remains is a welcoming atmosphere, where the only goal is to help an Issaquah family in need.

“ICS really takes you as you are and doesn’t judge you for it,” Giovanni, a recent ICS client, said. Giovan-

ni’s last name is omitted to protect his privacy, ICS offers emergency financial aid to residents of the Issaquah School District in the form of utility payments, rent assistance and other miscellaneous contributions.

Last year, ICS helped 193 families avoid eviction and kept the utilities on for another 184, said Lori Birrell, ICS board president.

“Many ICS families are working, but raising a family on minimum wage doesn’t quite pay the bills,” Birrell said. “An unanticipated expense can immediately change the client’s situation from bad to worse.”

Issaquah Community Services is maintained by a group of volunteer citizens looking to give back to their

community, Birrell said.

It’s rewarding to see a client’s face when the organization is able to help, she added. But it’s also emotionally draining to see these families at their worst.

“We are getting families coming that are so desperate, they have completely exhausted everything,” Birrell said.

The families that approach ICS are often days away from eviction or weeks away from living without utilities.

When things look so bleak, it’s hard to ask for help, Giovanni admitted.

“But they help you out in such a caring manner that you don’t feel lesser when you go there,” he said.

Merry Christmas Is-

saquah is ICS’ most important fundraiser all year.

Organizers set a $100,000 goal for 2015.

The fundraiser — spearheaded by The Issaquah Press since 1981 — set a record for the number of donors last year with 294, collecting more than $80,000.

ICS receives about 500 requests for emergency aid each year. The organization has an annual budget of about $130,000. About 65 percent of that funding comes from the annual Merry Christmas Issaquah campaign.

Nearly every penny goes to ICS, thanks to its allvolunteer staff. The Merry Christmas Issaquah fund has raised more than $950,000 since its inception.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ISSAQUAH TRACKER Goal: $100,000 To date: $28,850 Donors: Peggy and Mike Kanaga, Carol Cooper in memory of Brenda Woodworth, Michael and Marcia Delabarre, Diane Wood, Neal and Sue Jensen, John M. Ulrich and Casey, Doug and Gail Stewart, Valerie Moore, Gretchen Galer, Virginia A. Miller in memory of Marinell Schmidt, Donald and Nancy Cumming on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Weedman and Paige, Jill Ravenscraft, Leo Finnegan, Ann Crabtree, Christine Wilkinson, Brendan, Millie and Andrea Vierra in memory of John and Mary Vierra, Carla and Steven Hoffman, Joyce L. Johnson, Dick and Margo Campbell, Rob Ranf, Spirit of Peace UCC, John and Joyce Arnold and Joseph and Mary Podorsek

GET INVOLVED 4Make a tax-deductible donation to Issaquah Community Services.

The organization is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Send donations to Issaquah Community Services, P.O. Box 669, Issaquah, WA 98027.

4You can also donate to the cause using PayPal on the ICS website, issaquahcommunityservices.org.

4The names of donors — but not amounts — are published in The Press unless anonymity is requested. Call ICS at 837-3125 for more information.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Chinese restaurant has new name, same quality food Restaurant reviews are a regular feature of The Issaquah Press. Reviewers visit restaurants unannounced and pay in full for their meals.

By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com

Photos by Greg Farrar/ gfarrar@isspress.com

A grateful Bev Mitchell (left) cries as she says so long to Destiny, a pit bull mix, who was adopted during Pawsitive Alliance’s Holiday Hoedown pet adoption event Dec. 12 at Pickering Barn. Destiny is hugged by Dolan Davis, 8, while mom Brandy looks on as the family, from Auburn, welcomes the dog to their family. Mitchell is a vice president of Yakima Valley Pet Rescue and fostered Destiny for five months after she was found emaciated in an abandoned shed by workers on the Yakima Indian Reservation. Destiny’s teeth were filed flat and she had wounds that indicated she may have been used as a ‘bait dog’ to train dogs used in illegal dogfighting.

PAWSITIVELY ADOPTABLE

Cascade Garden was a longtime tenant in the Meadows Shopping Center, offering a popular menu of Chinese food standards.

Recently, ownership changed hands and the restaurant has a new name: Szechuan Chef.

But don’t fret over the provincial name change.

While offering authentic Szechuan food, renowned for its bold flavors and the use of the Sichuan pepper, Szechuan Chef still features a huge menu of staples other regional Chinese cuisine.

On this trip, three of us chose a different protein selection from a variety of preparations

SZECHUAN CHEF 41580 N.W. Gilman Blvd., 4Meadows Shopping Center 391-6090 for reservations szechuanchef.us/issaquah. html 4Lunch: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday – Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday – Sunday 4Dinner: 3-9:30 pm.

Saturday – Thursday; 3-10 p.m. Friday – Saturday 4Lunch combos: $7.99$9.99

to best get the overall flavor of Szechuan Chef.

The lunch combination, which ranges in price from $7.99-$9.99, comes with the standard choice of egg-flower or hot-andsour soup, fried rice and an appetizer-sized fried spring roll.

The first order was twice-cooked pork, Szechuan style. It indeed was a bold preparation, acSee CHEF, Page 8

Above: Dash, a Jack Russell terrier staying at Sunny Sky’s Animal Rescue in Puyallup, is clothed for the holidays at the dog adoption event while on the lookout for a family to take him home. Pawsitive Alliance said more than 650 people visited the event and 86 dogs and cats found new homes.

Above right: Felix Diego receives attention from a visitor as volunteer Erin Welch of Issaquah displays him for the Purrfect Pals cat shelter in Arlington, which offers ongoing adoptions at the Issaquah Petco.

Right: Katie Carter, a certified small animal massage practitioner and owner of Paws & Heal in Woodinville, rubs and comforts a dog that is up for adoption.

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Let’s Go!

Santa comes to town early Dec. 19 when he visits The Writer’s Cottage in Gilman Village.

Bring your camera to take pictures. There will be caroling and more from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The cottate is located at 317 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Suite No. 8. To learn more, call 392-6802.

7•Thursday, December 17, 2015 UPCOMING EVENTS Volunteers Needed for Issaquah Meals Program at community center, a Catholic Community Services program that serves a hot dinner to those in need, 5 days a week, we serve an average of 800 people a month, or 40 people each week day, we need volunteers to assist at all levels, email adriab@ccsww.org or griffinc@ccsww.org or call 425679-0342 for more info Master Chorus Eastside is holding auditions for tenors and basses for the remainder of its 2015/2016 season. All interested singers must have choral experience and basic music reading ability. For an audition appointment please call the Master Chorus Eastside office at 425-392-8446. More information on the Chorus can be found on the web at masterchoruseastside.org

FRIDAY DEC. 18

Preschool in Issaquah to serenade seniors with Christmas carols, 1:30-2 p.m., Spiritwood At Pine Lake, 3607 228th Ave. S.E.

unteer/trail-work-parties

A Toast to the Lord, a faithbased Toastmasters club, 7-8:30 p.m., Eastside Fire & Rescue Station No. 83, 3425 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road S.E., 427-9682, orator@live.com

Story Time with Mrs. Claus, 9-11:15 a.m., Barre 3, 1451 Highlands Drive N.E., 4270977 Photography Club, 10:30 a.m., Blakely Hall, 2550 N.E. Park Drive, 507-1107 Tea and Chocolate Pairing, ages 10 and older, 10-11:30 a.m., Experience Tea, 195 Front St. N., $25, 206-406-9838

Mod Men, 7:30 p.m., Vino Bella, 99 Front St. N., 391-1424

The Davanos, 8 p.m., Pogacha, 120 N.W. Gilman Blvd., no cover, 392-5550

SUNDAY DEC. 20 Tiger Mountain Chirico Trail Work Party, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., details and registration at wta.org/volunteer/trail-workparties

Santa at Gilman Village, bring your camera to take pictures, caroling and more, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., The Writer’s Cottage, 317 N.W. Gilman Blvd. 3926802 Pine Lake Holiday Bazar, 1-4 p.m., Spiritwood at Pine Lake, 3607 228th Ave. S.E., 313-9100

Play and Learn Chinese, 10:30 a.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430

Taylor Mountain Upper Elk Ridge Trails Work Party, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., details and registration at wta.org/volunteer/trail-work-parties

CCC East Hike, easy, 6 miles, up to 700-foot elevation gain, 9 a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org

Sammamish Presbyterian MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), meets the first and third Monday, mothers of children (birth to kindergarten) are welcome to join, 466-7345

SATURDAY DEC. 19 Squak Mountain Hike, very strenuous, 11 miles, up to 3,700-foot elevation gain, 8 a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org

Taylor Mountain Work Party, Students at 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., details Evergreen Academy LAURA.PROOF.SR.CMYK and registration at wta.org/vol50.14439.THU.1210.2X5.LAM

Live Piano in the evening

by Fred Schactler, Cloud 9 Lounge at Mandarin Garden, 40 E. Sunset Way, 392-5678

Social Justice Book Group, 10 a.m., Bellewood Retirement Home, 3710 Providence Point Dr. SE, Issaquah, invasivesout@ hotmail.com

‘How is Christ our Savior?’ live online Q & A, 11 a.m., Christian Science Reading Room, 415 Rainier Blvd. N., 392-8140 Rotary Club of Issaquah, 12:15 p.m., Tibbetts Creek Manor, 750 Renton-Issaquah Road, issaquahrotary.org One-on-One Computer Help, 6 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430

The Rovin’ Fiddlers, 7-9 p.m., Issaquah Highlands Fire Station, 1280 N.E. Park Drive, rovinfiddlers.com The Toastmasters of Sammamish, 7:15-8:45 p.m., Mary, Queen of Peace Church, 1121 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, 392-0963 or meenakshisb@hotmail.com

WEDNESDAY DEC. 23 Taylor Mountain Upper Elk Ridge Trails Work Party, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., details and registration at wta.org/volunteer/trail-work-parties Kiwanis Club of Issaquah, noon, Gibson Hall, 105 Newport Way S.W., 891-7561 Citizenship Class, 3:30 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-5430 Jewish Juniors Club, 3:305:30 p.m., Chabad of Central Cascades, 24121 S.E. Black Nugget Road, 427-1654 Issaquah Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary, 7:30 p.m., 175 Front St. N., 392-6751

THURSDAY DEC. 24 Christmas Eve Live Nativity, 4-6 p.m. followed by Candelight Service at 6 p.m., Rivers Edge Church at Blakely Hall, 6 p.m., 2550 N.E. Park Drive, 507-1107

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR WONDERFUL DAUGHTER WENDY You are our Alice in Wonderland - we love you so much So on this special day we wanted to let you know hou much we love you And appreciate the wonder you bring to us every day of our lives.

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Tiger Mountain Hike, easy, 5 miles, up to 450-foot elevation gain, 9:30 a.m., meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S., issaquahalps.org

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TUESDAY DEC. 22

MONDAY DEC. 21

Kerry and the Keepers, 8 p.m., Pogacha, 120 N.W. Gilman Blvd., 392-5550

Book Club: ‘The Children Act’ by Ian McEwan, 6:30 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, 3925430

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O bituaries Jackie Marie Nyberg Jackie Nyberg passed peacefully on Dec. 2, 2015, at her home, surrounded by friends and family. Jackie had battled cancer for over a year before succumbing at the age of 88.

She was born on Sept.

14, 1927, to Pete and Beatrice Favini. She resided in Issaquah for her entire life, attended Issaquah High School and eventually married Ernest Nyberg in 1947.

They enjoyed 57 years of marriage prior to Ernie’s death in 2004.

She is survived by three children: Ronda Thompson of Cle Elum, John Nyberg and Ross Nyberg of Issaquah.

She is loved and will be missed by seven grand-

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children and six greatgrandchildren.

Jackie liked watching the Seattle Seahawks, playing cards, having dinner and visiting with her friends. In her younger years, she also enjoyed ceramics, bowling and knitting.

She participated in the Ladies Fireman Auxiliary for many years and was a member of the Issaquah Children’s Orthopedic Guild for 35 years.

Remembrances may be made to the Ronald McDonald House of Western Washington, 5000 40th Ave N.E., Seattle, WA 98102 or the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Friends are invited to share memories and sign the family’s online guest book at flintofts.com.

Bergsagel, Boser Judi and Carl Bergsagel of Mukilteo announce the engagement of their daughter Megan Bergsagel to Ryan Boser, both of Puyallup.

The couple plan to wed on March 2, 2016.

The future groom, the son of Anita and Michael Boser of Issaquah, is a 2007 graduate of Liberty High School. He earned a degree in engineering in 2012 from Western Washington University and works as a technical engineer at Toray Composites.

The bride-to-be is a 2008 graduate of Henry M. Jackson High School and has attended Whatcom College and Western Washington University.

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Skyline splits dual-meet matches with Bothell, Eastlake

By Neil Pierson npierson@isspress.com For Skyline High School wrestling coach Gus Kiss, the 2015-16 season is filled with questions as the Spartans try to integrate lots of young, raw talent.

Skyline started its quest to find answers when it opened the Class 4A KingCo Conference season Dec. 10 with a double dual in its home gym. After a 45-33 victory over the Bothell Cougars and a 42-37 loss to the Eastlake Wolves, Kiss was optimistic his wrestlers could find success over the course of the season.

“We’re a very young

By Greg Farrar/ gfarrar@isspress.com team. We have two seKenta Despe (top), Skyline High School freshman, controls Eastlake freshman Anakin MacArthur niors. We’re missing three during their 113-pound match. Despe won a 6-5 decision during their Dec. 10 wrestling match. varsity kids (tonight),” he

Hazen outpaces Liberty in the pool

By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@isspress.com Hazen High School was shrouded in darkness Dec. 10.

A wind-caused power outage canceled classes, but the lights were back on by 3 p.m., just in time for the school’s swim and dive team to host rival Liberty.

There was no shortage of electricity in the pool, where Hazen easily handled the Patriots in a nonconference matchup, 121-74.

Liberty won only three of the meet’s 12 events, and sophomore Jacob Hepp was responsible for two of those wins.

Hepp won the 200-yard freestyle in 2 minutes, 4.56 seconds, before clinching the 500 freestyle in 5:48.95.

The Patriots’ only other victory came in the 1-meter diving competition where Reid Parsons outpaced second-place Highlander Brian Nguyen by more than 20 points.

Hazen swimmers Derek Wei, Joey Perry and Sergio Licea-Montes each picked up two individual wins.

The Highlanders also swept the three relay events.

Liberty’s Will Wick finished second in two events. He came up just short in the 100 backstroke (1:03.87) and the 100 butterfly (57.91). The Patriots’ Andy Nguyen also finished second in the 100 breast-

said. “We’ll be fine come year’s end.”

Senior Adrian Abraham’s performance was one of the highlights of the night. The 170-pounder won his two matches impressively, pinning both Griffin Alvis of Bothell and Andrew Plummer of Eastlake in the first period.

Abraham felt motivated after what happened at Skyline’s Dec. 5 intrasquad scrimmage.

“I got beat and I really wasn’t expecting it,” he said. “I think it was because I didn’t come out ready to wrestle. So tonight, I was just coming out as fast as I could, as aggressive as I could. It paid off.”

Abraham started wrestling in sixth grade and

said he “fell in love with it right away.” He has an unorthodox approach to the offseason, saying he doesn’t do as much sportspecific training as his teammates, and instead practices wing chun kung fu, a martial art that spawned Bruce Lee’s jeet kune do style.

“I think (it) has helped me a lot with my balance and my handwork, footwork,” Abraham said.

Abraham’s goal is to reach the state tournament for the first time, and he’s in the process of dropping weight to compete in the 160-pound division. He started the season at 178 pounds and See WRESTLING, Page 10

MONTENEGRO’S MIGHT

stroke (1:10.81) All three of Liberty’s top relay teams had to settle for second against the Highlanders.

Hepp will be a key contributor for the Patriots this year. He got his feet wet in the Class 2A state meet last season, taking seventh in the consolation final of the 500-yard freestyle. His sister, Lauryn, helped the Liberty girls team win the last two state titles.

Liberty started the season 0-3, with previous losses to Skyline and Interlake.

P atriot R oundup Other Liberty notes 4The Liberty girls basketball team was off to a 2-1 start with wins over Renton and Lindbergh as of press time. Coach Carly Fromdahl is back for her second season at the helm.

The Patriots must look to rebuild this season after watching five key contributors graduate from last year’s playoff team. Junior Samantha Kelderman, a frequent presence since her freshmen year, brings the most experience.

4The Liberty boys basketball team was off to a 3-2 start as of press

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Above, Issaquah’s Amy ‘The Resurrection’ Montenegro lands a solid right on the jaw of Glena ‘Heartless’ Avila en route to winning by split decision to capture the vacant Super Fight League America strawweight championship in the main event of SFL 45 at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma on Dec. 12.

The bout rarely went to the mat and featured each fighter throwing and connecting on a barrage of punches. Montenegro (7-2) appeared as the 49-47, 48-47 winner on two judge’s scorecards with the third judge siding with Avila, 48-47. At left, Montenegro gives a post-fight interview, celebrating her win.

The video of the interview can be seen online at bit.ly/1Z8BHxw. After the interview, Montenegro flew to Las Vegas to try out for the reality show, ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’

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Shorthanded Issaquah edges Skyline

By Neil Pierson npierson@isspress.com

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

Liberty High School’s Reid Parsons dives head first in the 1-meter diving competition. Parsons took first place in the Dec. 10 meet against Hazen High School.

Issaquah’s depth was on display during its Dec. 10 victory over rival Skyline in a Class 4A KingCo Conference boys swimming and diving meet at Julius Boehm Pool.

The Eagles had a figurative arm tied behind their backs as two of their better swimmers, Jason Klein and Kyle Millis, didn’t compete.

Millis was out with the flu, while Klein was in Texas competing at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals.

Issaquah and Skyline are always hungry to beat each other, and the absences of Klein and Millis didn’t matter much in the end as the Eagles eked out a 93.589.5 victory.

One of the keys to victory was senior captain Alex Sun, who swam to a firstplace time of 1 minute, 5.45 seconds in the 100yard breaststroke.

Sun also swam the lead leg for the winning 200 free relay squad (1:33.32)

and picked up crucial points in the 200 medley relay and 100 butterfly, as the Eagles’ second- and third-place efforts were enough to offset Skyline wins in two of three relay events.

Sun was pleased with his result in the breaststroke, in which he held off friend and rival Ryan Kinnear of Skyline by 1.15 seconds.

He did it despite having only a few minutes to rest

after the 200 free relay.

“It’s an OK time,” Sun said. “I mean, it’s a dual meet and I was pretty tired from my past race, so I’m happy with it for today’s circumstance.”

Issaquah was without Klein, who finished among the top three in the state last season in the 100 backstroke and 200 individual medley, and Millis, who will likely factor into the team’s relay rotation.

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Alex Sun (left), Issaquah High School senior, leads Skyline junior Ryan Kinnear on the way to a victory in the 100-yard breaststroke Dec. 10 at Julius Boehm Pool.

“Issaquah has a tradition of doing really well at state in our relays, and we’ve broken the school records the past couple years,” Sun said. “I’m hoping to do it again.”

Issaquah sophomore Brandon Leu also starred in his team’s victory, winning the 100 freestyle (49.79) and the 200 IM in a state-qualifying time of 2:02.05.

Leu was seventh at the state meet as a freshman in the 200 free, and will look to help the Eagles replace the points they lost from graduated seniors Gabe Florsheim and Henry Pratt.

Junior diver Trey Gevers, a state qualifier last year, won his event against Skyline with 179.33 points, and Issaquah’s Graham Wrightson edged Skyline’s Brayton Gable by less than 1 second to win the 500 freestyle (5:19.29).

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Lauren Longo’s big night leads Issaquah past Woodinville

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is now at 165.

Losing weight is a more common tactic for wrestlers than bulking up, he explained.

“The strength-to-weight ratio is usually better when you drop weight,” Abraham said. “You usually have some fat to lose, unless you’re a really skinny guy and you’re trying to go up.”

In the Spartans’ victory over Bothell, they picked up a 5-0 decision from Raymond Kunold (160) and a first-period pin from Benjamin Kubicki (285).

Skyline freshman Kenta Despe (113) went late into the third period before pinning Bryce Ames. Four other Spartans won by forfeit.

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However, there were some solid wins in the contested matches, starting with Akash Yechuri’s 66-second pin of Cameron Knutsen at 152 pounds.

Despe went the full six minutes against Anakin MacArthur, coming from behind to earn a 6-5 decision. Paul Abboud (132) gradually pulled away from Andrew Budoff for an 11-2 major decision.

And Jacob Gehrett (138) ended the night with a first-period pin of Chris Hom. “Jacob was a regional qualifier for us last year,” Kiss said. “He has worked hard over the summer.

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worked harder on their individual game on our team than her,” Reid said.

Longo and sophomore Mariah VanHalm sparked the Eagles’ offense by hitting 6 of 11 tries from 3-point range. VanHalm notched 15 points, and senior Ellen MacNary added seven points and three rebounds, including a late offensive board that allowed Longo to hit two free throws and ice the result.

Issaquah led by as many as 17 points in the third quarter, but the Falcons came roaring back in the fourth quarter behind Emily Spencer and Gabby Whalen, getting within four points.

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time, including a big Class 3A/2A KingCo Conference win over Mercer Island Dec. 8. Junior Mikey

quarter, at the end of the game when things were getting tight like that, we would have a tendency to collapse,” Reid said. “But this year, the maturity and the experience really shined through, and we really pulled ourselves through.”

The teams struggled to hit shots early in the game, although Alexa Kelly came off the bench to sink two 3-pointers for the Falcons and forge an 11-11 tie after one quarter.

The shooting warmed up in the second quarter. VanHalm buried two 3-pointers and Issaquah point guard Tatum Dow hit a tough runner in the lane just before the buzzer, giving her team

a 33-26 halftime lead.

The Eagles continued to pour it on in the third quarter as Longo sank two treys, and a technical foul on Woodinville’s Regan Schenck helped them built their biggest lead of the night at 47-30.

The Falcons went on a 13-1 surge to start the fourth quarter, punctuated

by Whalen’s bank shot under the hoop, but VanHalm stopped the bleeding for the Eagles by hitting a stepback 3-pointer.

Issaquah played through some foul trouble – Longo and Dow each had four fouls for much of the final period – while Woodinville’s Schenck and Nikki Zaback were disqualified for pick-

ing up their fifth fouls.

Issaquah centered its defensive efforts on Whalen, a 5-10 junior, and held her to a season-low nine points on only seven field-goal attempts.

“Our focus was containing her, boxing out, keeping her out of the paint,” Longo said, “and we did a really good job. Our posts were great defenders. We had great help defense. We just played as a team. Team defense, that’s really what won us the game.”

Issaquah finished 16of-25 (64 percent) at the free-throw line, but was only 7-of-13 (54 percent) in the second half, something the team needs to improve upon, Reid said.

Walter had a game-high 21 points in the 72-69 victory. Liberty coach Omar Parker played for legendary coach Ed Pepple at Mercer Island and later became an assistant at his alma mater.

4The Liberty gymnastics team has a new

head coach. Jayme Roberts will lead the Patriots this season. The first of the Patriots’ only two home meets was canceled due to a water issue at the school Dec. 3 4The Liberty wrestling team lost big talents in graduated seniors Conner

Small and Romney Noel.

Small, a state champion, is now wrestling at Arizona State University. Coach Wright Noel’s team competed at the prestigious Battle at the Border tournament in Blaine last weekend.

Results were not available at press time.

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the whole way thanks to several strong swims, including a state-qualifying time in the 200 medley relay. Jacob Leahy, Kinnear, Ian Camal Sado and Will O’Daffer won the race in 1:42.69.

Kinnear turned in a firstplace time of 23.24 in the 50 free, only 0.79 seconds off the state cut in the second meet of the season.

“Today, I was going to try to grab the block and use my arms to push off, instead of just using my legs, so I think that’s what helped me a lot,” Kinnear said of his victory.

Kinnear, a junior, is competing despite not being at full health. He said a lingering shoulder injury has kept him out of club swimming lately, and he only began training two weeks ago.

“I’ve tried to have a good workout routine, eat healthy and that kind of stuff,” Kinnear said. “If I go too far, it hurts my shoulder more … so I’m just trying to focus on sprinting events and shorter events.”

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The Issaquah High School girls basketball team has had some talented scorers in recent years – Mandy Hill, Mackenzie Wieburg and Maddey Pflaumer come to mind – and senior guard Lauren Longo might be the next in line.

Longo had a game-high 24 points, added six rebounds and two steals, and led the Eagles to a 60-50 victory over the visiting Woodinville Falcons in a Class 4A KingCo Conference contest Dec. 9.

The 5-foot-7 senior guard is averaging 15.3 points over her first three games, and made several clutch

plays throughout the night as Issaquah improved to 2-1 overall, 1-1 in conference.

Longo said she worked hard during the offseason to improve her skills, especially her 3-point shooting, and focused on mental toughness against the Falcons (2-1, 2-1).

“I know Woodinville is a great team and we battled last year, and came out this year expecting a hard game,” she said. “I just did my best, played with my teammates. We played our game.”

Second-year Issaquah coach Nicole Reid praised Longo for making herself a better player.

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Anti-Islamic rhetoric shakes Snoqualmie’s Muslim families

By Lynn Thompson The Seattle Times Along the winding streets of their Snoqualmie Ridge neighborhood, families share summer barbecues and block parties, the local elementary school’s winter bazaar and the weekly drives to their kids’ soccer practices and gymnastics lessons.

But familiar suburban routines have been interrupted for the small Muslim community here by the intense, anti-Islamic rhetoric exploding both locally and nationally. On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the country because of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., and what his campaign said was the level of hatred toward Americans among large segments of the Muslim population.

The remarks came just two weeks after a Facebook post by state Rep. Jay Rodne, R-Snoqualmie, saying “Islam is incompatible with western civilization.”

In another, Rodne called Muslims “barbarians.”

For the Muslim families in Snoqualmie, the verbal attacks have felt personal, questioning both their loyalty and character, and also raising fears that their neighbors, whom they say have shown nothing but friendly acceptance, will instead treat them or their children with hostility or fear.

“I’m very disturbed, very apprehensive,” said Afshan Ijaz, a former petroleum engineer who moved here with her husband, a software engineer, in 2006. She’s originally from Pakistan. “When we hear this level of anti-Muslim hate we worry about the effect on our children and

families. This kind of talk is harmful for everyone.”

The national director of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Trump’s comments sounded “more like the leader of a lynch mob than a great nation like ours.”

Trump didn’t back down from his call for a ban on all Muslims entering the country, but rather made the rounds of morning TV talk shows Tuesday repeating his views.

Locally, the Washington state chapter of CAIR denounced the speech and said anti-Muslim rhetoric sends a harmful message to millions of Muslim kids “that they are somehow less than equal and that the American dream is not for them,” said Arsalan Bukhari, executive director.

He said that across the county, CAIR has received, on average, a new report of an anti-Muslim hate crime every day for the past year. Many of those incidents end up targeting people who aren’t Muslim at all, he said, but people who are perceived to be Muslim — East Indians, Sikhs, Middle Easterners of all religions and even some Latinos.

In February, Bukhari said, someone wrote “Get Out” on a Hindu temple in Bothell. A nearby middle school also was tagged with graffiti that said “Muslims get out.” Both were accompanied by a swastika.

Women and girls who wear headscarves, a visible symbol of their Muslim faith, are particularly vulnerable to attacks, including taunts, bullying and discrimination, Bukhari said.

“The way we talk about Muslims has real consequences to the lives of

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Afshan Ijaz wrote to her state legislator, Rep. Jay Rodne, after the Republican’s Facebook post slamming Islam. ‘I am a devout Muslim,’ she says. ‘I am also an American.’ women and families,” he said.

Rodne’s impact After Rep. Rodne’s remarks in November, the local CAIR office held a training session for Snoqualmie’s roughly 20 Muslim families, who were worried about the comments and wanted to know how to best respond.

Several wrote letters and invited Rodne to visit their small, storefront mosque on Center Street, and to meet with them so their state legislator could get to know their families and lives.

At Ijaz’s Snoqualmie Ridge home, there are drawings done by her young son, Adil, during his kindergarten class — one of pilgrim ships arriving in America and another of a tree covered with construction-paper autumn leaves. She said he sometimes insists on being called “Wilson,” as in Rus-

sell Wilson.

She said Rodne’s comments were particularly upsetting because he is supposed to represent the community and is looked up to as a leader.

“I am a devout Muslim,” said Ijaz. “I am also an American. I vote. I love my country. I believe in freedom of worship and expression. I volunteer at Hopelink, at the food bank, at tent city when it was here. My religion inspired that. I’d like to know which value he would find incompatible.”

Rodne hasn’t responded to his Muslim constituents’ requests for a meeting. A state legislative spokeswoman Monday said the representative has been inundated with requests for meetings of all kinds since his remarks were publicized and that, because of the holidays, he is not currently scheduling any.

A fellow elected official from the 5th District, Sen.

Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah, said Rodne’s anti-Muslim statements don’t reflect those of the majority of the district. He said that while there are many issues they agree on, Rodne’s view of Islam isn’t one of them.

“The Muslims in the district, they’re raising their kids, they’re an integral part of the community,” Mullet said.

A block away from Ijaz’s house, Hina Shakil, who holds an MBA from a Pakistani university, juggles caring for several neighborhood children and her own three kids in her home day care.

Shakil kept some of the materials from the training session with CAIR and quoted from them during an interview. The high number of Muslim-American women with college degrees. The number of American Muslims working in high-tech jobs in the region, as nurses, doctors and engineers. An estimat-

ed 20,000 serving in the U.S. military.

She and her husband were early members of the Snoqualmie Mosque. She said they wanted a place of worship closer than the large mosque in Redmond, a place to pray and to hold Quran classes for their children.

She said they invited their neighbors to the opening in 2011 so they could share their faith and hospitality. In exchange, some of her neighbors have invited her to their churches, to learn about their religions.

Her husband, Muhammad, came to the U.S. in 2000 and now works for Bellevue-based T-Mobile.

They moved to Snoqualmie in 2006, a time when Snoqualmie Ridge wasn’t fully developed, when there wasn’t a library or gas station, when they still saw bears as they put out their garbage cans at night.

“We love it here,” he said. “We have so many friends here. Muslim, not, black, white. There’s a lot of mutual respect.”

Monday, in their living room, the television news repeatedly played Trump’s speech. It was the first time, Hina Shakil said, that her two older children, ages 11 and 9, had heard hate speech directed at Muslims.

“They were upset. They believe this is their country, that they are Americans. They wanted to know why he would say that about us,” she said.

She noted that equal treatment of all people is a fundamental value in the Islamic faith, as well as in the U.S. Constitution.

“Instead of creating an environment of unity, these politicians are fostering an environment of hatred and discrimination.”

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BY ISSAQUAH CITY COUNCIL Following is a summary, by title, of ordinances passed by the Issaquah City Council on December 7, 2015 to be published in the Issaquah Press on December 17, 2015.

ORDINANCE NO. 2751 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2750 LEVYING THE GENERAL TAXES FOR THE CITY OF ISSAQUAH FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COM‑ MENCING JANUARY 1, 2016, ON ALL PROPERTY, BOTH REAL AND PERSONAL, IN SAID CITY WHICH IS SUBJECT TO TAXATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING SUFFI‑ CIENT REVENUE TO CARRY ON THE SERVICES OF SAID CITY FOR THE ENSUING YEAR AS RE‑ QUIRED BY LAW. ORDINANCE NO. 2752 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, ADOPTING THE FINAL BUDGET OF THE CITY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 2016.

ORDINANCE NO. 2753 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2727 AND ORDINANCE NO. 2742 FOR THE 2015 BUDGET AND AUTHO‑ RIZING THE FINANCE DIRECTOR TO MAKE THE NECESSARY AD‑ JUSTMENTS; AND APPROVING PRIOR EXPENDITURES. ORDINANCE NO. 2754 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, ADOPTING BY REFERENCE AMENDMENTS TO THE CENTRAL ISSAQUAH DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS INCLUDING CLARIFYING THE INTENT STATE‑ MENTS; CLARIFYING CERTAIN BUILDING HEIGHT MEASURE‑ MENTS; EXPANDING BUILDING FRONTAGE DEFINITION REQUIRE‑ MENTS TO ALL STREET TYPES; CLARIFYING MULTI‑TENANT CEN‑ TER PARKING RATIOS AND DEFI‑ NITION; CLARIFYING CIRCULA‑ TION FACILITY STANDARDS; CLARIFYING NONMOTORIZED FA‑ CILITY STANDARDS; CLARIFYING VIEWS AND VISTAS; REQUIRING MINIMUM DENSITY FOR RESIDEN‑ TIAL PROJECTS THAT CUR‑ RENTLY HAVE A REQUIRED FLOOR AREA RATIO; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, AND ESTAB‑ LISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Complete text of the ordinances is posted at City Hall, 130 E. Sunset and on the City’s website, is‑ saquahwa.gov/ordinances. Photo‑ copies are available upon request, for a fee, to the City Clerk’s Office (425‑837‑3000).

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