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No change to Issaquah bell times for 2016-17 By David Hayes dhayes@newcastle-news.com After nearly three months of weighing public input on a proposed change to school bell times, Superintendent Ron Thiele announced Monday the Issaquah School District would stand pat — for now.
In an open letter to the school district, Thiele said the community was unable to reach a consensus, for or against the change. As a result, the 201617 school year will start unchanged from this year. “Instead, I will work with our administrative team to develop
a new proposal for community consideration that moves us closer to the recommended start times for secondary students with less impact to the elementary schedule,” Thiele wrote. In the fall of 2015, the administration considered making changes to the schedule in the wake of studies by the American
Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that showed high school students performed better with additional hours of sleep. To accommodate a schedule that would aid teenagers’ sleep cycles, a proposal would have moved secondary school start times about 95 minutes later to 9
a.m., resulting in a 3:55 p.m. dismissal. The plan would also have moved all 15 elementary schools to a consistent 8 a.m. start time, with a 2:25 p.m. dismissal. Essentially, the proposal would have inverted the bell times between elementary and See TIMES, Page 12
City of Newcastle enacts moratorium in response to Energize Eastside By Lynn Thompson The Seattle Times
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Vera Risdon Middle School was supposed to open for the 2016-17 school year, but the Renton School District announced Feb. 11 the opening will be delayed a year.
Renton School District: Opening of new middle school delayed By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@newcastle-news.com
district officials are still working with the company to pinpoint the causes for the delay. Matheson mentioned a worker shortage in the The newly named Vera Risdon Middle School construction industry and the region’s wettest seais no longer on time. son on record as possible contributing factors. The Renton School District announced Feb. “We’re still trying to nail it down, but with a 11 that the Newcastle middle school would be large construction project like this, there could delayed by a year. It was scheduled to open fall be a lot of little things that shift the timeline just 2016. slightly,” he said. “We’re extremely disappointed. We know that That’s little consolation for disappointed parthere’s a need for that school,” said district spokes- ents scrambling for answers. man Randy Matheson. “They’ve given us no details. We want to hear Porter Brothers, the construction contractor, something tangible,” said Newcastle resident informed the district that it is unable to complete Connie Nap, who has children at McKnight the school as planned. Weeks after the announcement, Matheson said See DELAYED, Page 2
Puget Sound Energy chose the name “Energize Eastside” for its proposal to build 18 miles of new high-voltage power lines from Renton to Redmond, but the biggest jolt delivered so far has been to residents in five cities along the proposed route. The utility says it needs the new 230-kilovolt transmission lines to meet the growing energy needs of anticipated office towers, workers and residents. Officials project that energy demand could outstrip supply at peak periods by 2018, resulting in rolling blackouts, if the system’s capacity isn’t expanded. The new lines could be installed along the same corridor as the utility’s existing 115-kilovolt lines. But critics, including a citizens group that has retained its own energy expert and a land-use attorney, say the utility’s estimates of need are overblown. They wonder if new technologies and increased conservation might meet some of the coming demand for more power.
And they question the safety of installing hundreds of taller, metal poles above existing underground petroleum pipelines. “Safety is my biggest concern. They’re going to be digging around aging pipelines that run past three schools and several parks,” said Christina Aron-Sycz, a member of the group Coalition of Eastside Neighborhoods for Sensible Energy (CENSE). Two weeks ago, the city of Newcastle slapped a moratorium on permit applications for See ENERGIZE, Page 2
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Delayed From Page 1 Middle and Hazelwood Elementary. Disappointment and frustration were the words that came to mind when she first heard news of the delay, Nap said. Nap added that this isn’t just bad news for Newcastle residents; it affects the entire Renton community, where district middle schools are overcrowded, the very reason the Newcastle school is necessary. “This isn’t just about
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us,” she said. “This is alleviating congestion at every single school.” While construction of the school will continue, the delay means students and staff slated to move into the new school will stay in their current school through next school year. School boundaries will also remain the same through next year. The news came right after the district announced the school’s new name and days after the special election for its two funding measures, which easily passed, leading some parents and taxpayers to question the
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of the other scenarios it considered including housing the students at another location until the school was finished or opening it later in the 2016-17 school year. Those and other options were ruled out, though, and there is no chance the school will open on Aug. 31, 2016 as scheduled, according to the district website rentonschools.us/ Page/2403. “The district had to make a decision about the opening, or other alternatives, now, as we are currently solidifying student projection numbers by each grade level at every school and hiring teachers and support staff for all open positions for the coming school year,” the website said.
That’s not what Dalton, who saw the school as a “great hope” to make a giant improvement in Newcastle education, wants to hear. “I want to see them go all out to get this done on time. I don’t want to hear it can’t be done,” he said. “I don’t want any excuses, I want results.” Matheson said the district is equally disappointed, adding that it has never had to deal with something like this before. In the past decade, the district has torn down and rebuilt 14 schools and all of them opened on time, he said. “We’re certainly going to continue to work to make this a wonderful school once we do open it in 2017,” Matheson said.
concern as council members,” he said. “These people are talking with From Page 1 a lot of emotion about what will happen to their new transmission lines houses, their lives.” and radio towers to give Crispo, a retired engiits Planning Commission neer, said PSE made its time to review its utility energy-demand projeccodes. tions before starting Mayor Rich Crispo said neighborhood outreach he shares the concerns and a yearlong citizens of some of his constituadvisory group review. ents who worry about “When they started, the installation of 85- to they had already decided 100-foot metal poles next what their need was. We to high-pressure jet fuel wish they’d come to us lines on a 100-foot right earlier and made the case of way with houses along for it,” Crispo said. both sides. PSE officials say the “The safety of our resi- utility operates miles dents is our number one of natural-gas pipelines
along other corridors and has experience doing maintenance on and around them, as well as an excellent safety record. The petroleum pipeline that runs along much of the proposed EnergizeEastside route is run by Olympic Pipeline, which has made substantial safety upgrades since a devastating explosion in Bellingham killed three in 1999. A consultant hired by CENSE challenged the utility’s projections of 2.4 percent annual growth in energy demand in the coming years. Richard Lauckhart said other PSE
timing. “Isn’t that convenient timing, I say with a heavy dose of sarcasm,” said Newcastle resident Matt Dalton, whose son would have been a sixth grader at the new school next year. Matheson said the district learned about the news in late January/early February and used the time prior to the Feb. 10 school board meeting to do its “due diligence” in working with the company and researching solutions and alternatives. “We couldn’t find another solution other than remaining as we are,” Matheson said. On a new web page dedicated to answering questions about the middle school delay, the district outlined some
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Pair of Renton School District levies pass Voters said yes to the Renton School District’s two school levies. Both funding measures passed with more than 63 percent of the vote. The district only needed a 50 percent majority to pass the levies. The ballot included the district’s $160 million Replacement Educational Programs, Maintenance and Operations Levy and a $155.5 million capital levy that will fund a new elementary school and other school upgrades.
projections submitted to state and federal regulators for other purposes show growth of just .5 percent. By way of comparison, Seattle City Light puts its annual overall demand growth at 0.5 percent through 2024. The national average is 1 percent. “At 0.5 percent, they (PSE) won’t exceed their capacity to provide power with the current system until 2058,” said Lauckhart, a former vice president for power planning at what was Puget Sound Power and Light Company.
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Renton School District chooses name for new middle school By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@ newcastle-news.com The Renton School Board unanimously selected a name for Newcastle’s new middle school Feb. 10. Vera Risdon Middle School will sit on the exact spot where its namesake served many years as both principal Vera and teachRisdon er. Risdon’s name should be familiar to Hazelwood community members. The longtime Renton School District educator was the Hazelwood Elementary principal from 1986-1992. She most recently served as the district’s interim superintendent, after Mary Alice Heuschel left to take a position with Gov. Jay Inslee. “The Renton School District has been a very important part of my life for nearly a half-century,”
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Newcastle’s new middle school will be named after a longtime local educator. she said in 2013 after accepting the interim role. “It’s truly an honor and a privilege to serve Renton students, staff and community in this capacity.” Before retiring in 2013,
she had been an educator in the Renton School District for nearly 50 years: n Teacher in five different schools from 1966 to 1982 (Hazelwood, Campbell Hill, Benson Hill
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Superintendent (2013) Risdon’s contributions to the district were enough to persuade board members to name the school after a living person. During the naming process, the district said “the use of names of living persons will be avoided unless the circumstances warrant an exception.”
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Notes from Newcastle
A happy coincidence over a historic home
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ina Masoero went on a tiresome house hunt in 2001. The former Bellevue resident saw an estimated 64 houses before settling on a home in the “middle of nowhere” Newcastle. When she brought her dad Don Masoero over to look at the new digs, he noticed a little Christina Corraleswhite house Toy across the street. “That can’t be the Baima House, can it?” he asked. So he went over to examine the small, white plank house with blue-colored windowsills, and sure enough, it was a remnant from his past. Without knowing it, Gina Masoero purchased a home where, from every back window, she can see a family relic. She has a prime view of the historic Baima House, one of the oldest homes in King County and a reminder of Newcastle’s coal-mining history. As it happens, the Masoeros are cousins of the original Baima family that lived in the home. Pacific Coast Coal Co. House No. 75, or the Baima House as it is locally known, was built
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Gina Masoero (right) stands with her father Don on the back porch of the Newcastle home she bought in 2001. As a child, Don used to play in the woods of what is now his daughter’s backyard. in the 1870s and served as a homestead for miners and their families. Most of the company-owned homes were demolished in the 1920s, when the Pacific Coast Coal Co. dismantled Newcastle
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grants came to the home with five children, and would add two more, both born in the house. One of the two was John Baima, the main caretaker of the house through the 1970s. His daughter Vickie Baima Olson is an active part member of the Newcastle Historical Society. Don Masoero remembers visiting his Baima relatives as a child and wondering how a large family could live in such a small house. He would hunt in the area and play in the woods that now make up his daughter’s backyard. “We’d just run as kids,” he said. “The older folks, they’d all have their glass of wine and salami and us kids would be shooed out to go play.” Gina Masoero operates a salon in her home and clients can see the Baima House from the windows. She loves telling the story of the strange coincidence. “My dad was shocked. He didn’t even think it could be the house when he first saw it,” she said. There’s only one way to explain how his daughter unknowingly bought a home right next to a family landmark, Don Masoero said. “Fate, I guess.”
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King County Council approves funding for key trail link A key trail link connecting lower Lake Washington to King County’s Cougar Mountain Regional Wildlife Park is one step closer to reality. The Metropolitan King County Council agreed to use King County Conservation Futures Trust funds toward the purchase of the last key link in the May Creek Greenway system at its Feb. 22 meeting, according to a news release. “This project is the result of a long time dream of local residents,” said Council Vice Chair Reagan Dunn, who represents Renton and Newcastle. “A lot of hard work has gone into providing this recreational trail that not only helps to connect the City of Renton to
Cougar Mountain but also provides the chance for residents to appreciate and actively protect the surrounding natural environment.” The $450,000 award to the City of Renton for the May Creek Trail will go toward purchasing a 5.73-acre property along May Creek. The property is the last of a larger effort by the City of Renton, the City of Newcastle and King County to purchase
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Historical Society Local students hosts guest speaker are candidates for scholars program March 16 Author David B. Williams will speak at the Newcastle Library March 16. Williams will talk about his book “Too High & Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle’s Topography” and discuss how local citizen’s have altered the landscape with “unrivaled zeal.” He will specifically chat about the eastside of Lake Washington’s topography at the Newcastle Historical Society-hosted event. It starts at 7 p.m. March 16 at the Newcastle Library, 12901 Newcastle Way. Refreshments will be provided.
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Police blotter Just don’t do it
An intoxicated Mountlake Terrace man wearing a Mariners jacket, jeans and Nike shoes had trouble standing and answering police questions at the AM/PM, 6966 Coal Creek Parkway S.E., on Feb. 1. An officer called an ambulance for detox after determining the man was unable to care for himself.
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A worker was fired and trespassed from the construction site at 6918 116th Ave. S.E., after he got into a fist fight with a co-worker Feb. 3. The fired worker said the employee he reportedly punched several times had been “talking down to him.” The injured worker was transported to Valley Medical as a precaution.
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Two men got into an altercation Feb. 5 at HomeStreet Bank, 6949 Coal Creek Parkway, after one called the other a profanity for parking in two stalls.
Vehicle theft A 1998 Subaru Outback was stolen from the 7300 block of Coal Creek Parkway S.E. sometime between Feb. 12 and 15.
Rocky An unknown suspect used a rock to shatter a window of a home 11600 block of Southeast 89th Street in an attempt to burglarize it Feb. 19. The sus-
A $150 pen was among the items stolen from a car overnight in the 7900 block of 110th Avenue Southeast Feb. 20.
Locals interested in organizing a Newcastle Arts Council will host an informational meetPlant heist ing April 7. The group is gaugA resident in the 13300 ing community interest block of Southeast 79th Place reported Feb. 22 that for an arts council and an unknown suspect took seeking volunteers to a plant from the property’s make it happen. The meeting is at greenhouse. 7 p.m. April 7 at the Close your garage Newcastle Library, 12901 Newcastle Way. Contact Newcastle An unknown suspect Historical Society board entered an open garage door in the 11700 block of member and Friends of the Newcastle Library Southeast 80th Street and stole the homeowners’ car treasurer Malcolm keys, wallet, Surface Pro com- Lawrence at malcs64@ gmail.com. puter and the car Feb. 23.
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TSA PreCheck and pat-downs? Come fly with me By Pat Detmer
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he Sainted One and I fly enough to often be awarded TSA PreCheck approval, which means that we can keep our shoes and overcoats on as we pass through security. My sister, Susie, on the other hand, who flies Pat Detmer more than we do and paid dearly for official TSA pre-approval — driving all the way up to Anacortes at 8 a.m. in the morning to go through the process since the waiting time in Seattle was so long — often has her boarding pass spit out without the coveted TSA PreCheck logo on it, in spite of her efforts. Since we have the same last name, I secretly believe that the TSA screwed up and gave her immunity to me by mistake, but who am I to question the Transportation Security Administration?
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a little something so you don’t get carsick?”) I honestly believed that this TSA agent — a perfect stranger — was asking me if I had been prudent and nibbled on some toast and jam before I arrived. “What?” “Do you have something on your tummy?” she repeated. I briefly considered the preflight Bloody Mary that the Sainted One and I had just consumed in the airport bar and wondered if a lack of admission would send me to the TSA pokey. While I was considering this, she pointed at my pants. Well yes, in fact, I did have a little something on my tummy after all! Two zippered pockets in my new leggings that I had totally forgotten about. Nothing like a tummy pat-down from a slender twenty-something to start your trip off right! Note to self: Yoga pants. You can reach Pat Detmer — who has yet to spend a night in any pokey — at patdetmer@aol. com.
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Rounding up Liberty, Hazen winter seasons By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@newcastle-news.com
Timm, Lizzy Platin and Emily Komboukos did not make it to the second-day championship finals. Timm led the Highlanders in preliminary action, tying for 80th on the vault, 56th on the beam, 57th on the uneven bars and 75th in the all-around. Komboukos tied for 85th in the floor routine and 94th on the beam and Platin finished tied for 53rd on the beam.
The winter sports season officially came to a close for local teams on Feb. 27. That’s when both Liberty basketball teams closed the book on their seasons with losses in the Class 2A regional round. While this winter sports season was devoid of any state champions between Hazen and Liberty athletes, both schools had decent postseason performances.
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Hazen junior Tyson Mowrey (top) wrestles Mikael Failor of Southridge in the first round of the 120-pound weight class at the Class 3A state championships. finished third in the 200 freestyle consolation final, good for 11th overall (1:55.08). Hepp also finished 13th in the 500 freestyle (5:12.39). Wick placed 12th in the 200 individual medley (2:07.90). The Patriots’ score of 78 was good for 13th in the team rankings. Hazen: Senior Sergio Licea-Montes picked up the Highlanders’ only medal in the state’s Class 3A swim meet. Licea-Montes earned a third place medal in the 100yard butterfly (51.33). His teammate, fellow senior Derek Wei, placed 11th overall in the event (53.45). Licea-Montes also took second in the 200-yard freestyle consolation final, good
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for 10th overall (1:46.28). Wei added a 12th place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:02.04). Hazen’s 200-yard freestyle relay team placed 16th overall (1:34.81). The Highlanders’ score of 36 was good for 20th in the team rankings.
Wrestling Liberty: Freshman Carson Armstrong was the only member of his team at Mat Classic. He was a long shot to medal in the 2A 160-pound division, having wrestled at 145 all season before moving up two weight classes in the postseason. Armstrong lost by pin in his two state matches, falling to Selah’s Aaron Pimentel and
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Aberdeen’s Connor Horton. Hazen: The Highlanders sent two wrestlers to this year’s Mat Classic. Juniors Tyson Mowrey (120 pounds) and Mario Wesa (132 pounds) represented Hazen. Mowrey lost his openinground match to Southridge freshman Mikael Failor, before bouncing back to beat Auburn Mountainview’s Russell Hanson and stay alive another day. His tournament ended after losing to Sumner’s Marcus Peterson. Wesa lost his two state matches, falling to Nathan Hale’s Dominic Damon and Sumner’s Tucker Wooding.
Gymnastics Hazen: The Seamount League champions sent three to the state meet. Kirsten
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Liberty: The Patriots picked up two medals at the Class 2A state swimming and diving meet at Federal Way’s King County Aquatic Center Feb. 20. Sophomore Will Wick found the podium, earning sixth overall with a time of 55.14 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly final. The Patriots’ 200-yard freestyle relay team featuring Marty Klatt, Edward Kaiser, Matthew Malueg and Marek Pierepiekarz picked up the other medal, finishing eighth (1:35.89). Sophomore Reid Parsons finished 13th in the diving finals with 241.5 points. Though they didn’t make it to the podium, several Liberty swimmers participated in consolation finals. The Patriots’ 200-yard medley relay team finished 10th overall (1:49.56), while the 400-yard freestyle relay team took 12th (3:34.90). Sophomore Jacob Hepp
Liberty: The Liberty boys made history in its Class 2A West Central District basketball tournament. A year after the Patriots won the first district playoff game in program history, Liberty continued to enter uncharted territory, clinching its very first berth into a Class 2A state round of 16 regional game. After upsetting top-ranked River Ridge, Liberty made it to the district title game, where they lost to North Kitsap in a double overtime thriller. The Patriots’ season came to an end Feb. 27, after the boys fell to Lynden 57-51 in the regional playoff game at Renton High School. Hazen: Hazen’s season came to a close after losing two consecutive games in the Class 3A West Central/Southwest District tournament.
Girls basketball Liberty: The Liberty girls basketball team appeared in a regional playoff game for the second year in a row Feb. 27. See WINTER, Page 11
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Hazen hires former Issaquah football coach Roundup By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@ newcastle-news.com The Hazen High School football team will play in a new league, join a new classification and welcome a new football coach next season. Athletic Director Ed Crow announced that Chris Bennett is the Highlanders’ new football coach. Bennett spent the past two years as a University of Puget Sound assistant, where he coached defensive backs and special teams. He previously spent six years as the Issaquah High School football coach, before the school surprisingly parted ways with him in 2014. In 2008, he led the Eagles to the state title game, where they lost to rival Skyline. Bennett also previously served as head coach at Sammamish High School. Bennett takes over
From Page 10 But the Patriots again came one win away from playing at the Yakima Valley SunDome after losing to Lynden 67-39. Hazen: After winning its first game, but losing its second, Hazen had an uphill climb to advance
to regionals from the Class 3A West Central/ Southwest District tournament. Hazen won its first loser-out game, but fell to Columbia River Feb. 18, ending what was a history-making season for the Highlanders. The girls won their very first Seamount League title in the school’s last season in the conference.
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Chris Bennett, former Issaquah High School head football coach, talks to Issaquah players after a 2013 practice. Bennett is the new Hazen football coach. a Hazen squad that went 3-7 while a member of the Seamount League this season. The Highlanders are moving up to Class 4A and joining the 16-team North Puget Sound League this fall. “As we make the
move to the NPSL, we are excited to have found a coach with a successful background like coach Bennett,” Crow said in a news release. “We realize that next season will be a step up in competition and are confident that coach Bennett is the
right coach to build our program to the point of being successful year in and year out.” Bennett is a graduate of Bellevue’s Newport High School. He replaces David Kilpatrick-White, who was at Hazen for two years.
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