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BEST ’BURB PAGE 6 Sunset magazine names Issaquah a great place to live .

HEALTH

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Swedish/Issaquah builds a great reputation, one service at a time.

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When in doubt, take the direct route.

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Imagine what the central district will look like in 30 years. And what is the green necklace?

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Issaquah has a new sibling: sister city Savigny-le-Temple.

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Explore Issaquah High School, a mainstay through the years.

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WRITERS Dan Aznoff Peter Clark Christina Corrales-Toy Sherry Grindeland David Hayes

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Artist’s memory, and Issaquah’s history, live on in his many murals across the city.

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Issaquah voted Best ’burb When Sunset magazine went looking for the perfect place to launch a career, start a family or provide the most relaxing setting, it hit upon Issaquah as its top choice.

In the magazine’s recently penned 24 Best Places to Live and Work 2014 article, Issaquah won Best ’burb. The writers found the city defied suburban life stereotypes thanks to 1,700 acres of parkland, walkable neighborhoods, historic buildings and such urban amenities as indie coffee shops, wine bars and a Tony Award-winning theater in Village Theatre.

Even with a population of 32,633, Sunset magazine said locals told them Issaquah feels like a small town — or a vibrant city neighborhood. The writers were impressed the former coalmining town 22 miles southeast of Seattle managed to hold onto its distinctive character while growing exponentially. Rather than succumbing to typical suburban sprawl, town leaders decided to go urban, green-lighting the construction of compact, sustainably built communities on the east side of town.

However, Sunset magazine did find a few warts under Issaquah’s veneer. It found not everyone saw development as a good thing, and some neighborhoods remaining car-dependent and there is a distinct lack of a light rail to Seattle for commuters.

In the end, the magazine’s writers scored Issaquah a 26 out of 100 for walkability and a 9 out of 10 for its schools.

The magazine found Issaquah to be a good model for how a suburb can grow without losing its sense of place.

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Hospital builds a reputation in Issaquah

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eputation. The success of any institution or business relies heavily upon its ability to solidify its reputation within the community. Sell the best widget or provide the best service and the reputation will follow. Somewhere within the halls of the Swedish/Issaquah is a wall that is filling fast with the awards and accolades earned from its growing reputation as one of the best patient care facilities in the nation.

“I was pretty shocked and impressed that they’d have that kind of equipment. It’s the most newfangled thing ever. I feel a whole lot more confident in my treatments, long term, and less afraid of any side affects.”

Karen Morgan First patient in the US. to receive radiation therapy with the Elekta Automated Beam Gate therapy at Swedish/Issaquah

When the facility officially opened after the completion of Phase 1 on Nov. 1, 2011, it didn’t take long before its emergency room received a 2012 Summit Award for patient satisfaction.

Then, in December 2013, Swedish/Issaquah was named one of The Leapfrog Group’s Top Hospitals in the nation, providing the highest quality of patient care in a survey of more than 1,300 hospitals.

Karen Morgan is one of those patients impressed by her treatment at Swedish/Issaquah.

Diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer in early 2013, the 51-year-old Maple Valley resident had already gone through a full round of chemotherapy at a Swedish campus in Seattle when her oncologist presented her with an opportunity she couldn’t pass up — be the first patient in the United States to receive targeted radiation treatment with the new Elekta Automated Beam Gate therapy at its Issaquah campus.

The new device rotates around a stationary patient, delivering a more targeted beam of radiation, significantly reducing the exposure to nearby organs, like the heart and lungs.

“I was pretty shocked and impressed that they’d have that kind of equipment,” Morgan said.

“It’s the most newfangled thing ever. I feel a whole lot more confident in my treatments, long term, and less afraid of any side affects.”

What made Morgan’s stay at Swedish/Issaquah most memorable was the staff.

“The gals in the radiation center really go out of their way, to listen to you, to hold your hand while you’re crying your eyes out,” Morgan said. “You’re not just another box for them to check off a list.”

Swedish patients’ access to the latest in technology is nothing new to Issaquah. The center also features a daVinci Surgical System that uses robotic assisted arms to perform precision surgery on complex operations such as for lung cancer, colorectal cancer and others.

Many patients have also benefitted from Issaquah’s MAKOplasty

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Chuck Salmon, chief executive of Swedish/Issaquah (who recently retired and was replaced by Dr. Rayburn Lewis), said it was their goal to draw the best physicians to their new facility, be it from existing Swedish centers, or other facilities, especially those looking for a stepping-stone for opening a practice in east King County.

Dr. Jennifer Jaucian, an OB-GYN specialist, was attracted to the idea of working at, and growing with, a new facility. She transferred to Issaquah from Swedish’s First Hill facility.

“It was a great opportunity to start up a new hospital while still working under the Swedish umbrella,” Jaucian said.

Swedish officials knew they were filling a big demand by offering their services on the Eastside along the Interstate 90 corridor.

One of the busiest departments

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The da Vinci Surgical System robot captivates visitors on guided tours during a Swedish/Issaquah open house celebration.

since opening has been Jaucian’s.

In 2012, Swedish expanded its pregnancy and childbirth services by opening a Level II nursery in Issaquah. The babies followed — 973 were born in Swedish/Issaquah in 2012 and another 1,149 in 2013. Jaucian said the need at the

Swedish/Issaquah campus grew more quickly than expected. But they were able to keep up with the delivery department’s growing reputation.

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ing to travel so far to Seattle for care,” Jaucian said.

The hospital started with the 21 services they needed most in Phase 1, from allergy specialists to vascular surgery. They added another five specialties in Phase 2, including a pediatric inpatient unit and intensive care unit.

Salmon said most recently two additional specialists have been added in endocrinology bariatrics.

The next goal was to ensure the best care possible within each specialty.

Swedish/Issaquah has regularly received 95 percent or higher satisfaction in patient surveys.

However, Salmon shared a story that best illustrated its reputation among patients.

“We had a patient whose doctor told him to get to the emergency department. The patient interpreted that as getting the best care at the Swedish/Issaquah ER,” Salmon said. “But it turns out, he was on vacation at the time in Hawaii. He literally caught a plane back to the states to receive care here.”

In addition to offering the best in technological advances in

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Dr. Maria Holmes holds Liliana Yozelin, the first baby born at Swedish/Issaquah, as mother Zulma Gutierrez-Tiznado looks on, shortly after the Nov. 2, 2011, birth.

patient care, Salmon said Swedish took a bit of a risk, making the hospital’s interior a conscious design element that is a fairly new concept in health care.

“It’s almost a destination element making it more attractive,” Salmon said. “We want the public to think of the hospital as other than a place to get cured.”

Walk into the lobby of Swedish and visitors are greeted with a vast open space with a comfortable waiting area, retail stores and an upscale dining facility.

Morgan couldn’t help but be

impressed during her visits.

“It knocked me out. It was like no other hospital I’ve been to,” she said.

Salmon said the facility has become a destination for local groups to meet, such as Stroller Strides, whose members perform exercises built around their baby carriages.

To keep up with the growing demand, Salmon said plans are to go from 80 patient beds to 120 during a second phase of expansion and eventually make another 55 beds available by 2018. Plans also exist to expand on a 10-acre parcel adjacent to the current facility and open the additional space by 2016.

As Swedish/Issaquah’s expanding facilities grow, its reputation grows with it. Morgan said her mother and sister visited during her treatments at both the Seattle and Issaquah center, with the most lasting impression left here. She added her own recommendation is easy to make.

“If, God forbid, a family member falls ill, take them to Swedish/ Issaquah,” she said.

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Pride of a city

By Greg Farrar

Larry Kangas puts some finishing touches on ‘The Mill Street Logging Scene,’ a mural of turn-of-the-century Issaquah, painted in 1997 on the wall of the Sunset Alehouse at the Downtown Issaquah Plaza.

Artist’s memory lives on in his many murals

BY CHRISTINA CORRALES-TOY Oregon-based muralist Larry Kangas was a one-man show with a paintbrush.

He had the innate ability to tell the story of a community with paint, ladders, a large blank wall and an unrivaled imagination.

Kangas died of cancer Nov. 25, 2013, but his memory lives on in the more than 1,000 murals he crafted across the Pacific Northwest, a few of which grace Issaquah walls.

“Larry never had any children.

He was a great uncle for many kids, but he called his murals his kids, his legacy,” said Sandy Kangas,

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Larry Kangas (from left) and his wife Sandy gather with Dave Waggoner and Norb Ziegler in front of Kangas’ completed lobby aquarium mural Aug. 12, 2013, at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery. It was the last mural he painted before he died in December.

The giant mural on the side of the Darigold building on Front Street North is titled ‘A Century of Dairying in Issaquah.’

Larry Kangas, with the help of Evan Jones and Nichole Parsons, created the mural in 1995 using historical photographs of Pickering Barn and of early dairy businesses in town.

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Kangas’ murals are admired by city passers-by every day, whether they knew him or not.

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It wasn’t easy bringing the idea of murals to the city, according to former Issaquah Chamber of Commerce President Suzanne Suther.

Suther had to work with the city

administration to establish a mural policy and then craft an inventory of all eligible Issaquah walls. She had to learn about preservation, raise money for an artist and decide what part of the community’s vast history deserved artistic depiction.

The city settled on a wall of the Darigold plant as the first mural, in

By Greg Farrar

Larry Kangas’ multipanel mural covering a wall in the Issaquah Café on Northwest Gilman Boulevard shows fishing and picnicking on Issaquah Creek in the country-living past.

1995, and quickly began interviewing artists for the job of telling the story of Issaquah’s dairy-farming history.

Kangas’ willingness to learn about the city and get every detail right made him an easy choice, Suther said.

“He brought a great wealth of sensitivity to the community, as though he were living here,” she said. “He was very interested in having the outcome be the pride of the city.”

The result was a vast, physical tribute to a “century of dairying in Issaquah.” The artwork, completed

by Kangas and two other artists, is one of Sandy Kangas’ favorites, she said.

Dave Waggoner, a longtime Issaquah resident and Kangas’ friend, said he drives by the Darigold mural nearly every day, and it reminds him of what Issaquah used to be.

“The murals speak to me, especially that Darigold mural, because

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I was a little boy growing up on a farm and I saw that Darigold truck come out every day,” he said.

“When I look at that, it reminds me of the old Issaquah that I loved then and still love today.”

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Kangas returned to the city in 1996 when he was commissioned to transform a boring water tower at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery into a scenic depiction of the Issaquah Creek that flows through it.

It literally brings to life the salmon habitat, featuring the creek, its wildlife and the lifecycle of a salmon.

Norb Ziegler, a volunteer at the hatchery, estimates hundreds of thousands — between Salmon Days Festival attendees and the thousands of students that visit annually — have seen the mural.

“It’s really become a teaching tool for the community,” Ziegler said. “It picks up on our message that we need to keep the salmon coming home.”

In 1997, Kangas added a touch of history to a wall on East Sunset Way, across the street from what is now Issaquah City Hall. That piece honors Issaquah’s logging past.

“I can almost hold up a picture of my dad when he was really young, doing that logging, and it matches perfectly to the mural,” Waggoner said.

In 1999, Kangas adorned the inside walls of Issaquah Cafe with murals depicting Issaquah’s country-living past.

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“Those murals are a wonderful asset to the city in that they help us understand the history of our town, and they’re so beautifully done.”

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backdrop of the hatchery’s new aquarium.

The underwater scene of Issaquah Creek was one of Kangas’ last works before he died.

“Both of his murals at the hatchery are beautiful depictions of the natural habitat, and I think people really find that they learn a lot about salmon just by looking at his artwork,” said Jane Kuechle, executive director of the Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery.

Kangas and his artworks mean so much to the community that friends are working to organize an official “Larry Kangas Day” in the city to honor him.

“Those murals are a wonderful asset to the city in that they help

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Larry Kangas was commissioned to paint a water tower at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery in 1996.

us understand the history of our town, and they’re so beautifully done,” Ziegler said. “They tell the historical story of Issaquah.”

Waggoner agreed, adding that it’s nearly impossible to not feel something when looking at any of Kangas’ murals.

“He left that historical stamp on Issaquah and I think people who see the murals are just touched by them,” he said.

‘He loved what he did’

Issaquah would go on to hold a special place in Kangas’ heart, bringing him back again and again.

“He just really fell for Issaquah and its history,” Waggoner said.

History was always a subject of interest for the longtime artist, Sandy Kangas said — that’s why he loved so much creating pieces that depicted a community’s past.

“A lot of times, that’s all that’s left in a little community, is just the history,” she said.

Kangas received an art degree at the University of Massachusetts and also served as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force.

Where to go

By Greg Farrar

Evan Jones, of Issaquah, performs restoration work in 2013 on the Darigold building mural.

He started working on canvases straight out of art school, Sandy Kangas said. It wasn’t until he was asked to decorate the windows of a car dealership, in the 1980s, that he began working on large-scale murals.

Kangas was always a one-man crew, taking on big, physically demanding pieces without an assistant. He took pride in his work and the stamp he was leaving on communities, Sandy Kangas said.

“He loved what he did, and he lived it with passion and humor,” she said. “He didn’t let anything hold him back from doing what he loved.”

Larry Kangas’ memory will forever live on in these Issaquah murals: q Sunset Way — Located on the outside, street-facing wall of the Sunset Alehouse on East Sunset Way, across from Issaquah City Hall q Issaquah Salmon Hatchery — Located on the water tank and the hatchery’s aquarium at 150 W. Sunset Way q Issaquah Café — Located on the restaurant’s interior walls at 1580 N.W. Gilman Blvd. q Darigold — Located on the Darigold plant’s street-facing wall at 611 Front St. N.

On the web View Larry Kangas’ vast network of murals at www.muralz.com.

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Issaquah reimagined How will the central district look in 30 years?

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A 2002 aerial view shows Issaquah’s central district then. Now, city leaders are envisioning in the Central Issaquah Plan what the area would look like in 30 years.

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ince before the City Council passed the Central Issaquah Plan in late 2012, citizens have been wondering what the city will look like in 30 years.

“You’re standing in a great pedestrian area,” Issaquah Long Range Planner Trish Heinonen said, describing the average block according to the plan. “It will be very busy with walking people and people having lunch. And wherever you are standing, you can probably see a way to get to the green necklace.”

As a vision for how to cultivate a dense, urban space within the central area and redevelop the flat lots into sustainable, walkable parcels, the Central Issaquah Plan has remained vague Continued on Page 20

The green necklace: a gift to the city and the environment

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ore and more, people within the city are talking about the planned “green necklace.” It isn’t a gift of jewelry to citizens, but many see it as a gift to residents nonetheless.

The green necklace refers to a circle of parks and open spaces around the city, allowing easy pedestrian and bicycle access. It includes Lake Sammamish and the Issaquah Alps in the goal to surround the city and provide interconnected pathways between open spaces.

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Central district The visual: now

The visual: then

State Route 900 and Gilman looking east

Mall Street between state Route 900 and 12th Avenue

Corner of Northwest Maple Street and 12th Avenue

From Page 18 beyond the expressed desire to create a vivid environment with a “green necklace” of parks and open spaces around the city and an interlaced connection of walkways and bike paths to reach them.

Developers who build in the area will largely determine the future appearance of the long-term plan.

However, the City Council passed design standards for the Central Issaquah Plan in April 2012, which further cemented how the vision would take physical shape.

“The streets will be gathering spaces,” Senior Planner Christen Leeson said. “Sidewalks are wide, and there will be landscaping between sidewalks and the street to make people feel safe. Signage and lighting are just geared for promoting protection. They will also be covered for rain.”

Equipped with binders full of the plan’s history and the passed design standards, Heinonen and Leeson have been with the city through most of the time it took to take it from an idea to an established strategy. While they agreed it

would be the developers who truly would shape how the city would look in exact terms, they could give an outline for Issaquah’s future.

Essentially, planners and the City Council hope to create a vibrant, bustling central area where surface parking lots are replaced with mixed-use buildings, green space and pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods.

Heinonen stipulated that the city expects buildings to stand at least five stories high. The passed development standards imposed a maximum height limit of 125 feet or roughly 10 stories. Additionally, high-rise buildings taller than 10 stories must have a 110-foot separation between them in order to preserve views.

The planners expect a sharp increase in residential development for the area and hope that will impact Issaquah’s traffic woes.

“The big push for the plan was to get housing,” Heinonen said.

Through housing and creating more jobs from the increased retail space, the plan aims to transform Issaquah from a bedroom community into a denser, urban center.

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“There’s a flip with transportation problems. It’ll be safer and more alive.”

She said the geography of the land fell in line with that goal of promoting more local transportation.

“It’s the flattest area of our city,” Heinonen said. “If we’re going to get a bike-friendly place, this is the place to do it.”

Additionally, the average city block in the central area will maintain privacy for residential units.

“Housing will be a little more protective on the street level,” Heinonen said. “We tried to have more of an inviting, safe feeling.”

Leeson said the city strived to create a diverse mix of residential and retail in the area, which she saw in other parts of the city.

“We will let the market drive it and keep that housing balance,” she said. “Olde town does it right now.”

The design standards also limit parking and building appearances.

Planners wanted to ensure redevelopment would keep an aesthetic appeal to buildings.

“A maximum of 30 percent of a building can have parking on the front,” Leeson said. “You have to have a street trellis instead of looking at parking. Most of it has to be behind or under the building.”

The Central Issaquah Plan began in 2006 as a council goal. The city wanted to answer the question of how to adapt to continued population growth. The state’s Growth Management Act set firm boundary limits, stopping all sprawl, so Issaquah had to plan for the future.

“We knew the growth was coming and the state’s requiring it,” Heinonen said. “So, we figured we might as well be ready for it.”

She said the city gained inspiration from neighboring cities.

Redmond had begun strategizing years before Issaquah and received greater housing allotments from the county. It was the sort of economic growth and responsible planning Issaquah wanted for its future.

“All of a sudden, they started getting housing when no one else was getting housing,” Leeson said Continued on Page 23

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Though the idea has existed for decades, the Issaquah City Council expressly outlined a plan to create the network of open space in the Central Issaquah Plan, approved in December 2012.

“A green necklace linking community and neighborhood parks, riparian corridors, tree-lined streets, active and passive plazas, and other shared urban spaces, is fundamental to central Issaquah’s livability,” the plan reads. “Connectivity will be achieved by providing easy, safe and enjoyable pedestrian and vehicle connections to retail shopping, major public facilities, open space and other neighborhoods.”

Grants help with funding The city does not always have the money to afford such ventures, so it regularly applies for grants offered by the county and the state.

Still, McGill said Issaquah has leveraged many grants through the city’s established commitment.

“We’ve been very successful,” she said. “King County is very competitive, but there’s a greater chance if you’re adding to a system that’s already there. They’re seeing the city is committed holistically to the health of the ecosystem.”

McGill and Frisinger credited the late City Parks Planner Margaret Macleod for her exceptional skills in leveraging money to get county and state grants.

After building a long list of acquired properties and beginning to convert them into viable open spaces, the green necklace idea solidified.

“In the last four or five years, the term green necklace came along because we started acquiring more properties,” McGill said.

“Confluence Park is the biggest.”

It started with flood mitigation The idea did not start with such high ambitions. The plan was for the city to find willing sellers of land as a way to maintain flooding along Issaquah Creek.

“Long ago, in the 1970s, it was called the Issaquah Creek Basin Plan,” Parks & Recreation Director Anne McGill said. “Part of it was flood mitigation. It was a plan to get willing sellers out of the flood plain, and just have it as storm water areas and just do restoration on the bank of the Issaquah Creek.”

Former Mayor Ava Frisinger said it also revolved around conservation for some of Issaquah’s favorite seasonal residents.

“We wanted it to be very protective of the salmon habitat,” she said. “To the extent we could buy from willing sellers, we made a commitment to do just that.”

Since installing park space around the city has involved Issaquah purchasing properties from homeowners, the administration has developed a set system of how to handle transactions.

“We sit down with a map and identify a number of parcels,” McGill said. “We literally knock on their doors or call them up.”

She said city officials have dedicated themselves to creating mutually beneficial situations.

“We always work with willing sellers,” she said. “We never condemn.”

She said the city always pays a fair market value price determined

Last July, the city opened the park in the middle of the central area of Issaquah, on Northwest Holly Street and Rainier Boulevard South. City officials intend it to serve as a hub for interconnected bike and pedestrian trails, and a commitment to introducing open space into the swiftly urbanizing area.

“It just made sense,” McGill said.

“These places should be recreational areas where people want to walk or bike and see the creek.”

McGill pointed out that the green necklace would not consist of community parks only. The city will convert much of it into passive restoration areas to assist in the health of Issaquah Creek and neighboring environs.

“The open spaces are being used in so many different ways and not just by humans,” she said. “It’s layers of healthiness for fish, for frogs, for people. One thing benefits another.”

She had no doubt that present and future residents would appreciate the city’s work.

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Though much of the green necklace’s growth took place under Frisinger’s administration, she remained humble about her involvement.

“I view my role as one of support and encouragement,” she said, and credited the teamwork of the Parks & Recreation Department, the Development Services Department and Public Works Engineering.

“Those people formed a really integrated team. That’s a strong part of it. With our city, we’ve got common goals and everybody was on board.”

A long-term plan The Central Issaquah Plan, which aims to redevelop the valley floor into a much denser urban setting, describes the green necklace as an amenity to draw visitors and residents into the area.

Additionally, it proposes to make the city more environmentally

By Peter Clark

Anne McGill, Issaquah Parks & Recreation Department director, visits the future Phase 3 site of Confluence Park, in an area she hopes the city will name ‘Margaret’s Meadow’ in honor of late park planner Margaret Macleod.

conscious by replacing parking lots with open space.

Issaquah has long stated its commitment to protecting and enhancing the surrounding environment; residents have agreed.

In November, a $10 million park bond passed with 77 percent voter

approval. Listed uses for the money include $2 million for open space acquisitions and $900,000 to pursue the second phase of Confluence Park. Issaquah has followed that with applying for an additional $2 million from the state Legislature.

As the city continues to grow, particularly through the Central Issaquah Plan, Mayor Fred Butler said the green necklace would serve a necessary role in shaping Issaquah’s future.

“The green necklace is integral to the kind of density we’re looking for in Central Issaquah,” Butler said. “I’m excited we continue to acquire priorities that surround the area. My vision is to continue to look for those parcels that can complete the green necklace.”

The necklace itself, according to the Central Issaquah Plan, is a 30-year plan that hinges on many unknown factors, like property availability and city funds. Still, the city remains adamant about achieving the goal.

“This is making people’s lives better,” McGill said. “It has layers and layers of uses. It’s like we all end up benefitting.”

From Page 20 of Redmond. “We thought, ‘Wow, we wish we would have done this 10 or 15 years ago.’”

The city began a large public process to set guiding principles under which leaders could refine the vision. Heinonen said the city held big meetings and tried to incorporate as many perspectives as possible.

“We had property owners, business people, homeowners, environmentalists,” she said. “That really was great. We had all these factions sitting at the table.”

The city, with confirmation from residents, established guiding principles to turn the flat parcels and large parking lots into green, dense areas that gave easy pedestrian and bicycle access to the whole city.

The first official project under the design standards has entered a site development application to redevelop the corner of Seventh Avenue Northwest and Northwest Gilman Boulevard and the planners shared excitement.

“I’m thrilled at what they are doing,” Heinonen said about Lennar Multifamily Investors plans for three five-story buildings on the parcel, which would provide over 300 residential units. “The fact they are stepping up to do it, I think that’s great. We knew it would be a risk for the first developer.”

Under the Central Issaquah Plan, the Development Services Department will give a yearly update on how the city has followed the vision.

“We’re working on the first monitoring report right now,” Leeson said. “It will report what has been built, whether any park space was acquired any work force housing built.”

Above all, planners and city officials have stated the Central Issaquah Plan is a long range vision, which will take many years to realize. Also, the plan will change and adapt with public input and the monitoring reports. The Central Issaquah Plan will remain a driving force for the future of the city.

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Issaquah sets its sights on adding the French town of Savigny-le-Temple to its family of sister cities.

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Longtime Issaquah resident Joan Probala, a former member of Issaquah’s Sister Cities Commission, addresses dignitaries during a November 2009 trip to Sunndal, Norway, a sister city of Issaquah.

The city of Issaquah is expecting.

Like most new parents, city officials have a special glow in anticipation of the new arrival. Members of the City Council and Sister Cities Commission are anxiously waiting for a written proposal from the town of Savigny-le-Temple in France to establish a Sister City relationship.

The transatlantic courtship began last fall, when a delegation of students from the French town came to Issaquah during Salmon Days and were so impressed they requested their city reach out to establish an official relationship.

Leaders from the community 20 miles southeast of Paris have made plans to send another contingent of young people to the Northwest this summer.

“We will welcome them again,” City Clerk Tina Eggers said. “We welcome any guests that want to visit.”

A request for Sister City status has to be approved by the current mayor, the City Council and the Sister Cities Commission, Issaquah Mayor Fred Butler said. An applica-

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Minister Mohamed Saad El Alami, mayor of Chefchaouen (center), and former Issaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger (right) walk through the Moroccan city’s streets with other delegation members and a security detail in 2007.

tion is judged on the potential benefit to the residents and the culture in both communities.

The Sister City program in

Issaquah dates back to 1991 with a letter of understanding with the city of Sunndal, Norway. The Moroccan town of Chefchaouen

was added to Issaquah’s immediate family more than 12 years later, as the result of one young girl’s attempt to encourage understanding between the Islamic nation and the United States in the aftermath of 9/11. The Sister Cities Commission was established in 2007.

Iman Belali was only 12 when she launched an exchange program between her hometown of Issaquah and the community where her ancestors were raised in North Africa. According to her father, Mohamed Belali, the teenager withdrew more than $4,000 from her college fund to launch a nonprofit organization to provide school supplies for students in the Moroccan town. Butler said local agencies followed the young girl’s efforts by sending refurbished computers to elementary schools in Chefchaouen.

“The Sister Cities program was like opening a bridge with two-way traffic between North America and North Africa,” said Mohamed Belali, current chairman of Issaquah’s Sister Cities Commission.

Since 2004, the communities have sent exchange students across the Atlantic to live with host families and share their culture. The communities have also traded art that reflects the heritage of the respective regions.

The large blue door behind the bus shelter at Issaquah City Hall was a gift from Chefchaouen.

Butler said the door symbolizes friendship to all who enter. Artists and singers from Morocco have participated in numerous activities during Salmon Days, riding in the parade and serving as hosts of an Arabic-style tent.

Facebook friends Sister Cities Commissioner Othmane Rahmouni explained that the relationship between high school students and their host families does not end at the end of the school term. Many students have remained friends on Facebook, and some students from Morocco have returned to the United States to attend college. One Issaquah host family was invited to visit Chefchaouen for the wedding of the young woman who lived with

them while she attended Issaquah High School.

Butler said he has become friends on Facebook with his counterpart in Morocco, but admits he understands very little of what the other mayor posts on the social media site.

“Somehow, we find a way to communicate,” Butler said with a laugh. “The pictures really help.”

Issaquah business leaders tried to expand the relationship through economic cooperation with their Moroccan counterparts, according to Butler. But that never created any common ground that benefitted both cities. Instead, Butler said the Sister Cities program has evolved into a purely cultural exchange between the residents of each community.

The mayor was quick to point out that no public funds have been used to send exchange students or city officials on goodwill trips to any of Issaquah’s sister cities. The commission and various civic organizations have hosted fundraisers to cover airfare and cost of trips between Chefchaouen, Sunndal and Issaquah. Additional balances or costs were paid by the individual traveler, Butler said.

Local fundraisers have come in many shapes and sizes, including concerts at the community center, poker tournaments hosted by local service organizations and a trivia game night at a local pub.

The cultural bond between Issaquah and Sunndal lapsed for several years after it was first established. Former Sister Cities Commissioner Joan Probala tried to rekindle the relationship in 2009, when she made a side trip to the Norwegian city during a vacation to Scandinavia. Probala said she is disappointed her efforts failed to create the type of relationship she had envisioned between the two cities.

“My emails to the mayor and other officials in Sunndal apparently fell on deaf ears,” she said.

“Our City Council reached out as well, but without any tangible response.”

Probala said Issaquah welcomed two visitors from the city in Norway who passed through the Northwest while on vacation in the

United States, but nothing official has taken place for several years.

Nurturing relationship Iman Belali is now a 21-yearold student at the University of Washington, while her father continues to encourage the exchange of cultures 7,000 miles apart.

Mohamed Belali said he has seen the relationship between the cities blossom while he has served as the Sister Cities Commission chairman.

“Chefchaouen is where my daughter’s grandparents were born and raised. And that’s where she spent numerous summers, so it was only natural for Iman to want to bring her two worlds together,” he said. “Both cities are small towns that are inland and surrounded by mountains. The residents of both cities have an appreciation for nature. And most of all, both Issaquah and Chefchaouen are communities where people value a safe place to raise their families.”

Issaquah’s Sister Cities are each beautiful destinations with important natural attractions, Sister Cities Commissioner Simona Trakiyska said.

“People can grow up in places that are very different, but can share the same values as a community,” she said. “Thanks to our exchange program, our students have learned that people may look different on the outside, but inside we all want to live in an environment that is safe and teach our children the value of compassion and understanding for others.”

She went on to say the exchange program has helped change people’s perceptions of life in the United States. The lifestyle in Issaquah, she said, is nothing like the image many foreigners have of America from television and movies.

“The Sister Cities program has allowed residents of each city to appreciate that the more we know about each other, the more we have in common,” Belali said. “The color of your skin does not determine who you are as a person. We all value family and appreciate the beauty of nature.”

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town has seen its population surge as young families leave the urban lifestyle of the big city to settle in more rural communities to raise their families. The population of the French “commune” grew from 828 residents in 1968 to 27,000 in just three decades.

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Community Cornerstone Take look at the history of Issaquah High School

BY CHRISTINA CORRALES-TOY May 30, 1911, was a special occasion for Issaquah resident Mabel Ek. So special, in fact, that the moment called for a new outfit.

Ek arrived at Issaquah’s Baptist Church, near what is now the Darigold plant, wearing a new dress, knitted gloves and shoes specially ordered from Oregon.

City residents, of which there were only 500 at the time, arrived in droves to honor Ek and her classmates Mary and Olive Gibson.

After all, the three were about to make history, representing the very first graduating class of Issaquah High School.

The young women didn’t know it then, but they began a tradition that continues to this day, one that is perfectly summed up by the 1911 graduating class’ motto.

“Tonight we launch, where will we anchor?”

The scene, as described by Joe Peterson, a retired Issaquah High teacher, in his book, “Issaquah High School: A Social History of an American High School,” was just the initial chapter of a scholastic institution that has become a cornerstone of the Issaquah community.

“In small towns, high schools really are quite important. They are the social center, and its history usually reflects what’s going on locally and nationally,”

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Issaquah High School’s first graduates, class of 1911 members Mary Gibson, Olive Gibson and Mabel Ek (from left), have their senior photograph taken May 30, 1911. Mabel Ek Brady gave the photo to the museum.

Issaquah High School, 1910

Issaquah High School, 1915

The front of Issaquah High School is seen on the top of Schoolhouse Hill in a blackand-white snapshot from 1951.

The steps now lead up to the Julius Boehm Pool.

The picture is from the museum’s Harriet Fish Collection.

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Peterson said from his home in Ashland, Ore.

A school upon a hill

Ek and her classmates completed their schooling in a simple, two-story wood-frame structure where Issaquah Middle School is now located, Peterson said.

The area was known as “Schoolhouse Hill” since the building stood atop an incline looking down toward the main town. Issaquah was so rural, the school’s front yard needed a fence and turnstile to keep away livestock.

Increasing class sizes led to expansion when a 16-room brick building, complete with an assembly hall, was built next to the initial structure in 1916. As the building before it did, this one held all grades, from primary to secondary school.

“You started in the first grade down on the bottom floor, and you progressed up, until when you were in high school, you were on the top floor,” 1931 Issaquah High graduate Mary E. Lewis recalled in an Issaquah History Museums recorded oral

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The 1921 Issaquah High School women’s basketball team are (from left) May Wilkinson, Alix Sween, Erma Brown, Pearl Peck, Marie Chevalier, Alene O’Connor, Julia Erickson and Mildred Thompson.

history project.

During the period of 19161931, Issaquah High School encountered a multitude of firsts, Peterson said.

Students began traveling from classroom to classroom, learning from different specialized teachers throughout the day. The school also offered its first hot-lunch program. For just 2 ½ cents a day,

teens could partake in a cup of soup.

While kids today take classes such as engineering robotics and introduction to computer science, students back then took sewing and home economics.

Expansion came again when it was finally decided that the high school students needed their own separate facility in 1932. It was built

where the Julius Boehm Pool now stands, and where the concrete steps that led to its entrance still remain.

Issaquah High School wouldn’t get its own separate campus until 1963, where it is now located today.

Purple and gold

Issaquah High School represented a common identity shared among residents in the initial years, according to Erica Maniez, executive director of the Issaquah History Museums.

“It was the biggest communal point,” she said.

“You may or may not have been going to the same church as your next door neighbor, you may or may not have been working in the same place as your next door neighbor, but you knew your kids all went to the same high school.”

It helped that graduating classes were small through the first few decades, she added.

“At that time, everyone knew each other,” she said. “When you have 20, 30, 40 kids in your class, it’s hard not to know the names and families of your classmates.”

And if it was a fall Friday in Issaquah, you knew where those families and classmates were — watching the Issaquah High School football team compete.

As rabid as modern fans are for their Issaquah football team, their predecessors were even more so. For example, in the 1920s, the town nearly shut down when their boys played.

Merchants would lock their doors and accompany their customers to the game, Peterson said.

There were no “Friday night lights,” to play under at the time, Peterson said; the town couldn’t afford them. The athletes even played in hand-me-down uniforms.

In what may be a hard pill to swallow for Washington State University fans, those uniforms, acquired from the University of Washington, would go on to inspire the school’s purple and gold colors.

That prompted outrage from alumni and students, who staged a walkout in protest. It ultimately put to rest, though, decades of debate about the sensitivity of the mascot.

Students would return to school fall 2003, not as the Issaquah Indians, but as the Issaquah Eagles.

Indians or Eagles?

A community

For nearly 95 years, the high school athletic teams were known as the Issaquah Indians.

Until the early 1980s, the mascot was represented as a “cartoon-like caricature,” Peterson said. It was replaced with what activity coordinator at the time Gayle Nilson called a “more respectful symbol,” but it would hardly be the last time the mascot would be called into question.

Peterson, who retired from Issaquah in 1997, said he remembered controversy surrounding the mascot continued to boil in 1994.

The student body, community and alumni all voted at that time to keep the Indians moniker, which some had criticized as a demeaning symbol of Native Americans.

The issue arose again in 2002, when the Issaquah School Board voted unanimously to change the school’s mascot. The vote reflected the board’s intent to adopt a policy requiring mascots to be free of offensive imagery and connotations.

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The Issaquah High School graduating class of 1923 was (top row from left) Lewis Davis, Margaret Peyton Eskeridge, Irma Marie Bonomi, Susie Babick, Alvar Zingmark, (second row) Jay Holmes, Gerold Thompson, George Samppi, Henry Kinunne, (third row) Rainer Lundell, Ellsworth Pickering, John Pedro, George Clark, (bottom row) Lois Brown and Marie Lesher.

Whether the student body was known as the Indians or the Eagles, it is clear that the school has meant the world to those who roamed its halls, Maniez said.

“It’s interesting how much their time at Issaquah has formed a part of the alums’ identity,” she said. “I think that might be a small-town thing.”

Some families have called Issaquah High School home for generations. There are parents and grandparents who can all say they’ve donned the same purple and gold as their children or grandchildren.

While the classes are bigger, and commencement ceremonies no longer take place in small churches, Issaquah graduates will forever be connected to those three pioneers who made history in 1911.

“For some people who came of age here in the ‘50s or ‘60s, I think that’s sort of the rule of thumb about where you’re from,” Maniez said. “If you were really from Issaquah, you graduated from Issaquah High School.”

By Greg Farrar

Issaquah High School has been rebuilt once again. This view is the courtyard in August 2010, as classes were about to be held for the first time in the new building.

Issaquah today Anyone who graduated from Issaquah High School before 2010 would likely look on in awe at the sight of their new school.

After undergoing an extensive, $94.9 million renovation, starting with demolition of the old school in 2009, the new Issaquah High School looks sleek and modern.

The project, funded by a 2006 voter-approved bond, was split into two phases, with final construction completed in fall 2011.

A partial list of Phase I projects included 56 regular classrooms, improvements to the school stadium, a main gymnasium, an auxiliary gym, 12 science labs, a TV production studio and a cooking lab.

Phase II focused on arts facilities,

including the school’s Performing Arts Center. Phase II also encompassed a material science lab, a ceramics room, and a drawing and painting room.

The new school was dotted with environmental features, including a green roof and rain gardens.

Benches throughout the building were also repurposed with material taken from the old gym.

Issaquah High School teacher Joe Peterson spent almost three decades at the school, before retiring to Oregon in 1997. Peterson, who wrote and researched an extensive account about the school’s history, visited in 2013, and couldn’t believe the transformation.

“Issaquah High School has a beautiful setting amongst the trees and the hills, and the old high school never captured that,” he said. “The new high school really

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Modern mountain men prove their mettle shooting 1800’s-style muzzleloaders STORY BY SHERRY GRINDELAND F PHOTOS BY GREG FARRAR

Above, Rich Downs, of Kirkland, fires at a target during a monthly meeting of the Cascade Mountain Men at the Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club shooting range. Below, Darrell Kapaun, of Duvall, puts black powder, a cotton patch and a lead bullet on the muzzle of his replica full-stock Hawken 1840’s flintlock rifle and prepares to tamp it down to the touch hole.

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teve Baima struggled with his muzzleloader. An old-timer watched as Baima tried to get his handmade rifle to fire. Instead of the advice Baima expected, the old-timer told him a line he’s never forgotten.

“He said, ‘I hate to tell you this, but your scalp is already on the pole,’” Baima said.

That drove home to Baima that his new hobby — he had just started to learn how to make and shoot black-powder guns — once was a life-ordeath necessity. Originally, he said, muzzleloaders were needed for self-protection and to put food on the table.

Although today’s muzzleloaders, according to Cascade Mountain Men members, can still be as temperamental as they were back in the 1800s, shooting them is also just plain fun.

Where else, asked Harry Charowsky, of North Bend, can you dress up in comfortable period costumes and make your own toys — guns, powder horns, lead balls — hang out with like-minded folks and shoot, too?

And then, there’s the bringing-home-the bacon part.

The club, which celebrates its 50th anniversary

Harry Charowsky, of North Bend, dressed in character for the 1800-1860 trapper period, uses a spotting scope to check the accuracy of target after shooting with an 18401860 percussion cap mountain rifle.

this year, has traditional monthly meetings. But the fun part happens the third Sunday of each month, when members meet at the Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club range with their rifles. They shoot at paper targets of bear and deer. Winners go home with steaks. Those whose aim was off a bit get hamburger.

“We’re not shooting live game, but we can still put food on the table,” said Baima, club president. “Everyone who participates goes home with something.”

Back in the day…

The monthly shoots are also a chance to show off your newest “old” stuff.

At a recent shoot, the stuff included period outfits. Baima was dressed in a fringed buckskin outfit. He carried a powder horn and handmade knife. He also has a hand-carved club.

“Back in the day, you had one shot, and then had to go to plan B with a knife, a tomahawk or a club,” he said.

Back in the day means in the 1800s, before the advent of bullets and guns that fired multiple shots. These are the weapons early explorers and fur hunters carried as they wandered the western United States.

Like old-time mountain men featured in books and movies, at the recent shoot Bob Tresch and Ken Whitney wore blankets as coats. Convenient, one of them said, for both day wear and to cover up with at night.

Many of the members carry powder horns to store their black powder. Just as the handmade rifles vary in size and finish, so does the black powder.

Black powder, invented by the Chinese, was the standard means of propellant for a ball or a bullet — from flintlock days to early cartridge guns. Black powder is a combination of charcoal

Above, sitting on the ground with his legs spread and his rifle resting on a gun stand, a Cascade Mountain Man fires from his flintlock across the field to his target during the club’s monthly Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club shooting range meeting.

At left, this shooting kit holds bullets, cotton patches, percussion caps, and tools for cleaning touch holes and adjusting rifle parts.

Below left, small singleshot piles of black powder produce different burn power, depending on the mixture of charcoal, saltpeter and sometimes a touch of flour or cornmeal.

Bob Tresch, of Kent (left), Harry Charowsky, of North Bend, and Darrell Willson, of North Bend, compare holes in the targets from the last round of shooting, while the range is closed to swap them for fresh targets for the next round.

and saltpeter (potassium nitrate).

Some shooters add a touch of flour or cornmeal to their powder to increase its burn power.

Loading a muzzleloader follows the same basic pattern. First, powder is shaken into the barrel — the amount depends upon how big a bang you’re after and the caliber of the ball. Then, a small patch of material is jammed down on top of the powder. The material is cotton and usually soaked in oil or grease.

The shooter uses a rod to tamp everything tightly into the barrel.

Finally, a lead ball is loaded.

“Black powder fouls it a lot,” Baima said. “When you see someone shoot a black-powder gun, you sometimes see debris come out and burn, a flash.”

Club members often staff booths at community events — such as the annual hobby fair at Pickering Farm. Last summer, club members worked with Cub Scouts one weekend, teaching them how to start a fire without matches. They like sharing the history of the original mountain men and how hard everyone had to work.

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Continuing a tradition

The Cascade Mountain Men can share how difficult things were 150 years ago — just when it comes to making their equipment. Most members make their own guns. Darrell Kapaun, of Duvall, shoots a 50-caliber gun he made.

“I put 100 hours into my gun, but I’m pretty slow,” he said.

“One of the guys who founded this club could make a gun in 20 hours.”

They also make their own balls — something the original mountain men did, too. Finding sources for lead these days is difficult, members said.

That’s one reason they continue their club tradition of sponsoring the annual Muzzle Loading Arms and Pioneer Craft Show March 8-9 at Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe. There will be about 145 vendors featuring diverse period things such as leather craft, arts, costumes, spinning and weaving, and a lot of muzzle loaders and other old-style

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“I think of it as going to the WalMart of 1840,” Charowsky said.

Other muzzle loader club members from the Pacific Northwest — including some from as far away as Alaska, Canada, Montana, Idaho and Oregon — come to enjoy the exhibitions and pick up a few supplies.

Sometimes, they run into antigun people.

“Schools won’t touch anything firearms-related with a 10-foot pole,” Baima said. “But this is a historical group. We’re keeping old crafts alive and studying history.

“When I got involved in blackpowder guns, I had trouble hitting the target and making the rifle even fire. I don’t know how they survived in the 1700-1800s.”

Club members site several reasons for joining and sticking with the hobby.

Some call it a sport, some call it a hobby, and some cite preservation and interpretation of history as reasons to participate. Member Bob Pinell, of West Seattle, had an even better reason to be at the monthly shoot.

“It beats mowing the lawn,” he said.

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Students find joy and meaning in volunteering

BY NEIL PIERSON

Above, left, Taylor Woo, a junior at Liberty High School, helps a visitor at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Top right, Issaquah High School senior Robin Lustig volunteers with organizations like Friends of Youth, the Issaquah Community Network and the Drug Free Community Coalition. Above, right, Skyline High School senior Jonathan Yee helps fellow students through the school’s Key Club and Link Crew, and also works with Treehouse, an organization that supports foster children.

For Taylor Woo, a particular memory stands out from her time working at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Woo, a Liberty High School junior, serves as a volunteer patient care liaison at the hospital, one of the largest in the Northwest. One day, she was asked to speak with an 8-year-old boy who’d been in a car accident with his parents and younger sister.

The boy was responsive, but his sister lay in coma in an adjacent bed.

“You can hear the heart monitor just beeping to her heart, and it was so hard to see,” Woo said.

“It was sad how he couldn’t really

comprehend what was happening with his parents.

“The nurses and the doctors were doing as best as they can, and so that’s why they called one of the volunteers,” she added. “And I was lucky enough to be the person to go up there and talk to him, and just kind of get his mind off the whole situation that’s going on.”

Woo, who dreams of a career as a physical therapist or sports physician, has been volunteering every Saturday since the start of the school year.

She became interested in volunteering last summer when she visited with Seattle Children’s rep-

resentatives at an area science fair.

She wanted to work there, but was told the application process was “really competitive.” Harborview was recommended as an alternative, and Woo quickly applied and was accepted.

Woo’s duties include working at an information desk, discharging patients and going on “hospitality rounds,” such as visiting an intensive care unit to check on patients’ needs.

“A lot of them just want someone that’s not a doctor or a nurse talking to them,” she said. “I talk to them a lot, which is such a great opportunity.”

Volunteerism seems to be a growing activity among Issaquah School District secondary students.

Community service isn’t a graduation requirement, but many classes and extracurricular clubs at the district’s four high schools focus on it.

Issaquah High School senior Robin Lustig has multiple volunteer commitments, in addition to working two part-time jobs.

She serves as a student representative to the board of directors at Friends of Youth, a Kirklandbased support network for children in need. She’s a secretary for the Issaquah Community Network, a more hyper-local group that seeks to strengthen families through a variety of activities. And she works with an ICN sister board, the Drug Free Community Coalition, to reduce drug and alcohol usage among her peers.

Lustig referred to the school district’s 2012 Healthy Youth Survey that showed many students began using marijuana and alcohol in 10th grade.

“So, what we’re focusing on trying to do is … ‘What is the reasoning for that, and how can we stop it?’” she said. “And make people realize that even though people are using, most people are not using.

“I think that teenagers in Issaquah turn to drinking for a deeper reason than to just fit in, because although some kids drink in high school, it’s definitely not everyone,” she added.

Now in her third year with Friends of Youth, Lustig helps develop resources for kids dealing with myriad issues. Some might not have enough food at home.

Others might not feel safe because their parents fight.

With the Issaquah Community Network, she works on issues surrounding substance-abuse programs, job fairs and vocational training opportunities.

She gives, but she said she also gets something in return.

“I think people kind of need to have a little push to volunteer, which isn’t a bad thing,” Lustig said. “People get inspired in different ways. I like to volunteer because I like the reactions of different people when I find out that I’ve helped them.”

Lustig hasn’t chosen a college yet, but plans to study pre-law next year.

“I really hope I can continue with community service and leadership,” she said.

Jonathan Yee is well-known around Skyline High School for his outreach efforts. The senior serves on two school-based volunteer groups — Key Club and Link Crew — and helped organize a major donation project in December for Treehouse, a Seattle-based group that targets children in foster care.

Yee said he began volunteering several years ago. While at Pine Lake Middle School, he worked with teacher Curtis Betzler’s nonprofit organization that aids needy children in South Africa.

That transitioned into joining Key Club as a Skyline freshman, which works with the Kiwanis Club of Sammamish on various service projects. Last fall, he helped develop a food drive that ended up raising 900 pounds of items for the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank.

“I think, for me, volunteering is just a way to fit with people who take the same values as yourself,” Yee said.

As a Link Crew member, Yee helps ninth-graders successfully transition to the high-school environment. Two seniors are typically paired up with about 10 freshmen, and they work with together the entire year.

He often checks in with the freshmen in his group with text messages, and the seniors made care packages for their younger peers prior to finals week.

Yee plans to attend Seattle University next year, and he’s working on a Sullivan Leadership Award that pays for four years of tuition and living expense. The award is given to students with exceptional leadership and service qualities.

“We are targeting teen homelessness, and working in Key Club …

I think has really helped me know what I want to do in the future,” he said.

“We had a leadership day for finalists to come in, and hearing what other people had to say about service, I think, really opened my eyes to see what other people are doing around the world, not just in our small community itself.”

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A Deeper Well, Christian Discussion Group q 8 p.m. last Tuesday of the month q Sunset Ale House, 20 Front St. S. q 392-4169 q www.oslcissaquah.org/ christian-education q rdfletcher@oslcissaquah.org American Association of University Women q Meets monthly, dates/locations vary, September to June q grandma-jan-1@hotmail.com q www.aauw-issaquah.org American Rhododendron Society, Cascade Chapter q 7 p.m. second Tuesday of the month q Bellevue Presbyterian Church, 1717 Bellevue Way N.E. q 333-6178 q www.arscascade.org artEAST and Up Front Studio q 95 Front St. N. q 392-3191 q info@arteast.org q www.arteast.org Beaver Lake Community Club q info@beaverlake.org q www.beaverlake.org Cascade Republican Women’s Club q 11:30 a.m. third Wednesday of the month q Sammamish Plateau Club, 25625 E. Plateau Drive q 861-7910 q dakotalarue@comcast.net q www.wfrw.org Daughters of the American Revolution, Cascade Chapter q 10:30 a.m. second Tuesday of the month q Bellevue Red Lion Inn, 11211 Main St.

June Ann Hasabrooke shows off a holiday centerpiece she made at an Issaquah Garden Club workshop.

ISSAQUAH GARDEN CLUB With Christmas come and gone, don’t you wish you could fast track to spring? The Issaquah Garden Club is a green thumb’s ticket to hitchhiking right into the season of showers and blossoms. Hosted at Tibbetts Creek Manor, the Issaquah Garden Club offers a different event every second Wednesday of the month.

The eager participation of varied businesses — from garden design service Le Jardinet in Seattle to CARE, to Heifer Project International and Plant a Row for the Hungry — is what makes the Issaquah Garden Club a gardener’s dirt-y little secret. This nonprofit, all-

q 223-5392 q lanabeth@lanabethhorgen.com q http://on.fb.me/1dgKQ1j Eager Eye Guide Pups q 6 p.m. twice a month, Sundays q Issaquah Police Station Eagle Room, 130 E. Sunset Way

volunteer organization hosts flower shows, garage sales, educational workshops (about horticulture, conservation and landscaping), garden therapy (activities benefitting people with handicaps and/or people in institutions) and environmental awareness.

The annual $25 membership offers a monthly luncheon and membership with state and district garden clubs. q 10 a.m., second Wednesday, September through June q Tibbetts Creek Manor q 750 Renton-Issaquah Road q Info@issaquahgardenclub.org

q 206-409-1702 q sjbonsib@aol.com Eastside Genealogical Society q 7 p.m. second Thursday of the month, except July, August and December q Redmond Public Library,

15990 N.E. 85th Ave. q www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakcegs Eastside Interfaith Social Concerns Council q Noon second Tuesday of the month q St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 4228 Factoria Blvd. S.E. q 206-295-7803 q www.eiscc.net Eastside New Neighbors q 10 a.m. first Wednesday of the month q Meeting and event locations vary q 868-2851 q jobarboy@comcast.net q http://newcomersclub.com/wa.html Elks Lodge No. 1843 q 6:30 p.m. first and third Tuesday of the month q 765 Rainier Blvd. N. q 392-1400 q http://home.earthlink.net/ ~lk-samm-elks-1843 Friends of the Issaquah Library q 7 p.m. second Wednesday of the month q Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way q davewettstein@gmail.com q www.issyfriends.org Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery q 125 W. Sunset Way q 392-1118 q jane@issaquahfish.org q www.issaquahfish.org Friends of the Sammamish Library q 5:15 p.m. first Thursday of the month q Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. N.E. q 868-3057 q www.sammamishlibraryfriends.org Greater Issaquah Toastmasters q 6:45 p.m. Thursdays q Bellewood Retirement Community, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E. q issaquahtm@gmail.com q www.issaquahtm.org Hope on the Hill Guild q First Thursday of the month q info@hopeonthehillguild.org

Barry Mandin, of West Seattle, an Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club member for 30 years and NRA Life Member in 2012, aims his 308 Winchester rifle.

ISSAQUAH SPORTSMEN’S CLUB The Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club has been serving Issaquah sportsmen since 1920, with gun ranges, archery ranges, and hunter and bow-hunter education at its clubhouse.

The club gives awards at an annual banquet held by and for members ($80 per individual) rewarding largest elk, deer, salmon and steelhead. Awards for other legal big game, such as bears and cougars, are also sometimes given.

The Gun Range and Archery Range, off Front Street, offer public access with nonmember fees at $12/ day per adult and $3/day under 18

q www.hopeonthehillguild.org Issaquah Alps Trails Club q 392-3571 q www.issaquahalps.org Issaquah Business Builders q 7:30 a.m. first and third Thursday of the month q IHOP Restaurant, 1433 N.W. Sammamish Road q info@issaquahnetworking.com q www.issaquahnetworking.com Issaquah Community Network q 5:30 p.m. first Monday of the month q Hailstone Feed Store, 232 Front St. N. q 206-898-5210 q issaquahcommunitynetwork mindspring.com q www.issaquahcommunitynetwork.com

with adult.

The club takes an active role in supporting wildlife conservation (recently setting its sights on restocking Lake Sammamish), a commitment the club has as far back as the 1930s. q 7 p.m., first Monday of the month q 23600 S.E. Evans St. q Firing range hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and on Sunday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday q 392-3311 q RSO@issaquahsportsmensclub.com

Issaquah Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary q 7:30 p.m. second and third Wednesday of the month q 175 Front St. N. q www.foe3054.org Issaquah Emblem Club q 7 p.m. first and third Wednesday of the month, except December and January q Elks Lodge, 765 Rainier Blvd. N. q 392-1400 q http://home.earthlink net/~issaquah503 Issaquah Ham Radio Support Group q 7 p.m. fourth Monday of the month q Issaquah Police Station, 130 E. Sunset Way q Talk-in at 146.56 MHz at 7 p.m., meeting at 7:30 p.m. q www.w7bi.com

Issaquah History Museums q Become a docent at the Issaquah Depot or Gilman Town Hall q Gilman Town Hall, 165 S.E. Andrews St. q 392-3500 q info@issaquahhistory.org q www.issaquahhistory.org Issaquah Moms Group q Meeting and event locations vary q www.meetup.com/issy-moms-group Issaquah Networkers q 7:30 a.m. first and third Wednesday of the month q IHOP Restaurant, 1433 N.W. Sammamish Road q 427-0800 q mallard@realtyexecutives.com q www.issaquahnetworkers.com Issaquah Quilters q 10 a.m. to noon second and fourth Friday of the month q Issaquah Depot, 50 Rainier Blvd. N. q info@issaquahquilters.com q www.issaquahquilters.com Issaquah Valley Grange q 7:30 p.m. second and fourth Monday q Issaquah Myrtle Mason Lodge Hall, 57 W. Sunset Way q 392-3013 Issaquah Valley Senior Center q 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday q 75 N.E. Creek Way q 392-23281 q www.issaquahseniorcenter.org Issaquah Women’s Club q 9:30 a.m. first Thursday of the month q Tibbetts Creek Manor, 750 17th Ave. N.W. q 391-5961 or 898-8030 q issaquahwomensclub@gmail.com q www.issaquahwomensclub.org JudaiKids Hebrew School q 3:30 p.m. every Wednesday q Chabad of Central Cascades, 24121 S.E. Black Nugget Road q 427-1654 q www.chabadissaquah.com Kiwanis Club of Issaquah q Noon Wednesdays q Gibson Hall, 105 Newport Way S.W.

Volunteers remove invasive ivy plants from Second Avenue in downtown Issaquah during a an Evironmental Council sponsored work party.

ISSAQUAH ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL Interested in helping preserve Issaquah’s natural beauty while also meeting new friends? The Issaquah Environmental Council provides citizens with the opportunity to do both.

The council focuses on protecting and enhancing the environment, as well as Issaquah’s recreational and cultural resources, with the hope of creating long-term benefits for its citizens.

Through political advocacy, educational programs and environmental sustainability projects, the club advocates for the protection and redevelopment of Issaquah’s natural state.

Join members in their goal of protecting and enhancing Issaquah’s air, soil, water and fauna from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26. Participants will help remove debris and nonnative species from Pedestrian Park, the train depot, Veterans’ Memorial Field, the fish hatchery, community center and the food bank.

Check in at the Hailstone Feed Store, 232 Front St. N., at 9 a.m. q 392-4908 q issaquahaction@gmail.com q www.issaquahaction.org

q 392-4016 q info@issaquahkiwanis.org q www.issaquahkiwanis.org

q LLL.sammamish@gmail.com q www.lllofwa.org/la-lecheleague-sammamish

Kiwanis Club of Providence Point q Noon Fridays q Collin Hall, 4135-A Providence Point Drive S.E. q Guests are welcome, lunch $5 q 427-9060 q ferrinlauve@msn.com

Myrtle Masonic Lodge No. 108 q 7:30 p.m. third Thursday of the month q Myrtle Lodge, 57 W. Sunset Way q http://myrtlelodge108.org

Kiwanis Club of Sammamish q 7 a.m. Wednesdays q Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church, 22818 S.E. Eighth St. q www.sammamishkiwanis.org La Leche League q 10 a.m. second Wednesday of the month q Sammamish Boys & Girls Club Teen Center, 825 228th Ave. N.E. q 677-8209

MOMS Club of the Sammamish Plateau q Third Friday of the month q Pine Lake Covenant Church, 1715 228th Ave. S.E. q membership@momsclubsammamish.org q http://momsclubsammamish.org Moms in Prayer International q Times and dates vary q 369-2956 q lindaryee@comcast.net q www.momsinprayer.org

Optimist Club of Issaquah q 6-7 p.m. first Wednesday of the month (Shanghai Garden) q 5-7 p.m. third Tuesday at Issaquah Food Bank q getinvolved@optimists.org q http://issaquahoptimistclubblogspot.com Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays, Bellevue q 206-325-7724 q info@pflag-bellevue.org q www.pflag.org Puget Sound Smocking Guild q First Saturday, September through June q Mercer Island Community Center q 391-2581 q www.smocking.org REX (Religious Experience) for those with special needs q 1:30 p.m. first Sunday of the month q St. Joseph parish hall, 220 Mountain Park Blvd. S.W. q 392-5682 q finneganrm@aol.com q www.sjcissaquah.org (search for REX) Rotary Club of Issaquah q 12:15 p.m. Tuesdays q Tibbetts Creek Manor, 750 17th Ave. N.W. q 295-2258 q amodahl@ihmail.com q www.issaquahrotary.org Rotary Club of Sammamish q 7:15 a.m. Thursdays q Bellewood Apartments, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E. q Info@SammamishRotary.org q http://sammamishrotary.org Sammamish Garden Club q 9:30 a.m. second Tuesday of the month (in members’ homes) q 836-0421 q cathywebst@aol.com q www.elwd.org/about.aspx Sammamish Heritage Society q 7:30 p.m. second Wednesday of the month q Pine Lake Community Center, 21333 S.E. 20th St. q 260-9804 q sammamish.heritage@ hotmail.com

Susan Hass, of Sammamish (right), gets a close look at a so-called ‘Red Top’ agate from Red Top Mountain near Cle Elum, being shown off by Nancy Adelson, president of the Issaquah Valley Rock Club.

ISSAQUAH VALLEY ROCK CLUB Are you interested in the study of earth science? Do you enjoy learning about minerals, semi-precious gemstones and rocks? If so, this is the perfect club for you.

Come join rock-lovers of all ages for hands-on activities, field trips and rock shows galore. Guest speakers at meetings educate attendees while they participate in a vast array of activities. Members also discuss and plan upcoming field trips and workshops.

Children are encouraged to join in the fun. The club offers two junior

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programs aimed specifically at youths.

Rock Hounds is a program aimed at youths 10 and older, while Pebble Pubs serves younger children.

Participants of all ages are encouraged to bring a bragging rock to share with the club. Anyone who shares will be entered in a drawing and will have the chance to win some neat mineral surprises. q q q q

Last Friday of the month Issaquah Senior Center 75 N.E. Creek Way www.issaquahrockclub.org

q 8:30 a.m. Thursdays q Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. S. q 253-845-8693 q carlenegary@comcast.net q www.tops.org Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 3436 q 7 p.m. third Tuesday of the month q Issaquah Senior Center, 75 N.E. Creek Way q 837-9478 q www.vfw.org

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Fitness/Health Issaquah Jazzercise ...................... 425.985.9652 301 Rainier Blvd S., Issaquah jcls.jazzercise.com/facility/jazzercise-issaquahcommunity-center issaquahjazzercise@gmail.com

Horseback Riding Red Gate Farm Day Camp ............ 425.392.0111 Summer Camp Riding Lessons • Winter/Spring/Fall Sammamish Plateau www.redgatefarmdaycamp.com

Overlake Medical Center ............. 425.688.5488 Issaquah ....................................... 425.688.5777 5708 E. Lake Sammamish Pkwy. SE, Issaquah Overlake Med — We Think About You. Primary Care & Urgent Care Clinic www.overlakehospital.org/services/medical-clinics/

Flooring Great Floors ................................. 425.455.8332 12802 Bel-Red Road in Bellevue Serving Eastside Homeowners & Businesses m.wisecarver@greatfloors.com www.greatfloors.com

The Union Hill Ranch ................... 425.868.8097 Full Care Boarding & Lessons Specializing in Beginners 6-10 yrs Summer & Show Program www.theunionhillranch.com

Snoqualmie Valley Hospital 425.831.2300 9575 Ethan Wade Way SE, Snoqualmie Local Emergency Care. Professional & Personal Care www.svhdh.org

Hotels/Motels Holiday Inn .................................. 425.392.6421 1801 12th Ave NW, Issaquah www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/issaquah/ seaiq/hoteldetail

Virginia Mason Medical Center ... 425.557.8000 1100 NE Gilman Blvd, Issaquah Adult and family medicine. Same-day and Saturday appointments www.virginiamason.org/bodycfm?id=342&action= detail&ref=31

Insurance State Farm Insurance – Issaquah .. 425.391.7377 240 NW Gilman Blvd Ste 3, Issaquah www.kathyjohnsoninsurance.com

MEETING SPACES / BANQUET HALLS Historic Gibson Hall ........................425.831.2300 105 Newport Way SW, Issaquah Rental Hall 900+ sq ft with full www.kitchenwww.svhdh.org

Florists Countryside Floral & Garden ....... 425.392.0999 1420 NW Gilman Blvd, #1 Issaquah Weddings, funerals, fabulous designs! www.countrysidefloral.com Furnace Repair Dirk’s Heating .............................. 425.392.1937 Gas • Oil • Electric Service + Installation Serving the Eastside since 1966 Glass Eastside Mobile Auto Glass Inc. .. 425.391.7227 60 NW Gilman Blvd., Issaquah All Auto Glass Repair & Replacement Preferred Provider for ALL Insurance. www.eastsidemobileautoglass.com Issaquah Glass .............................. 425.392.5333 30200 SE 79th Street, #30, Issaquah 800.562.8292 (Exit 22 off I-90 at Preston Business Park) Professional glass replacement and repair.

Serving Issaquah since 1945 Hair Salons Acacia Hair Salon......................... 425.396.7036 7721 Center Blvd SE, Snoqualmie A full-service professional salon offering hair services and facial waxing. www.acaciahairsalon.com Home Health Care Hyatt Home Care Services ........... 206.851.5277 14205 SE 36th St., Ste. 100, Bellevue www.hyatthomecare.com care@hyatthomecare.com

Home Improvement Benjamin Moore Sammamish ..... 425.391.4964 610 228th Ave NE, Sammammish High quality products from Benjamin Moore and Sikkens. Expert product and color advice. mikebellevuepaint@gmail.com www.bellevuepaint.net MM Comfort Systems .................. 425.318.4900 18103 N.E. 68th, Redmond Heating, Air Conditioning, Water Heaters, Energy Audits and Indoor Air Quality. Celebrating 35 years of service. Comfort and Efficiency from Friendly Experts. www.mmcomfortsystems.com Pella Windows ............................. 425.455.5550 1038 - 116th Ave NE, Suite 330, Bellevue www.pella.com Reidt Way Doors .......................... 425.503.7353 Customer Satisfaction Reidt Way Doors understands that customer satisfaction start when we get your call.

No wasting valuable time waiting on us.

We’ll be there on time!

Our on-time record is second to none! www.reidtwaydoors.com

Jewelers Nault Jewelers ............................. 425.391.9270 1175 NW Gilman Blvd, Issaquah Best of Issaquah • 15 years!

Town & Country Square LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS Mike’s Hauling & Tractor Work ..... 425.681.3339 Excavating, grading, mowing Delivery of gravel, rock, topsoil, bark www.mikeshaulandtractor.com Your Garden Inc. ........................... 425.433.4693 Personalized Lawn & Garden Care Complete Landscape Services Full Service Maintenance Plans starting at $175/ month. Walkways, Pavers, Retaining Walls, Irrigation, Aeration/Thatching Maintenance, Outdoor Living Areas, Cleanups, Decks, Fencing www.yourgardeninc.com LIQUOR AND TOBACCO Capco Beverages .............................425.313.1817 1175 NW Gilman Blvd. Issaquah Liquor store featuring over 2,300 different liquors. Very large selection of scotch, bourbon, minis, liquors and wines from local distillers. capcobevisq@comcast.net www. capcobeverages.com

LUMBER Issaquah Cedar & Lumber ..............425.392.3631 5728 East Lake Sammamish Parkway S.E. One of a kind for more than a century! www.cedarexperts.com MEAT & SEAFOOD MARKETS Fischer Meats .............................. 425.391.1365 85 Front St. N, Issaquah .....................425.392.3131 Choice Meats and the Freshest Seafood! www.fischermeatsnw.com MEDICAL/HEALTH SERVICES Balance Physical Therapy Inc. .......425.391.6794 730 NW Gilman Blvd Ste C-108 Restore strength & balance to your body www.balancept.org Bellevue Ear Nose & Throat ...........425.454.3938 510 8th Ave NE #300 Issaquah, WA 98029 ENT physicians specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of general ear, nose and throat conditions. www.bellevueent.com

Pine Lake Community Club ........... 425.392.2313 Rent for Parties, Meetings, ................425.392.4041 Weddings & Receptions MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Henry Bischofberger ......................425.822.0717 Violins, LLC 5807 114th Ave NE, Kirkland Violin, viola, cello and bow sales in all price ranges, expert instrument restoration, appraisal and repair, and well-crafted, high quality rental instruments. henry@hkbviolins.com www.hkbviolins.com NEWSPAPERS Sammamish Review ..................... 425.392.6434 Founded in 1992 www.sammamishreview.com The Issaquah Press .........................425.392.6434 Founded in 1900 www.issaquahpress.com NUDIST PARKS Fraternity Snoqualmie ..... 425-392-NUDE (6833) Family Nudist Park 24050 SE 127th, Issaquah FS is a 40-acre family nudist park nestled on the side of Tiger Mountain three miles outside Issaquah, owned and run by its members since 1945. pr@fraternitysnoqualmie.com www.fraternitysnoqualmie.com NURSING FACILITIES Providence Marianwood ............. 425.391.2800 3725 Providence Point Dr. SE, Issaquah WA 98029 Offering skilled nursing and rehabilitation in a tranquil setting on the Sammamish Plateau.

PET SUPPLIES Civilized Nature Holistic ................425.868.3737 Pet Supplies 1527 Highlands Drive N.E., Suite 110 One-of-a-kind holistic pet supply store founded in 2002. talk@civilizednature.com www.civilizednature.com PHYSICAL THERAPY Peak Sports ................425.391.2427 Sammamish & Spine Physical Therapy...................................

425.653.7100 – Factoria www.peaksportsandspinept.com

Picture Framing Phoenix Art Restoration ............... 425.677.8789 & Custom Framing 317 NW Gilman Blvd #33, Issaquah Custom framing, fine art and object restoration.The only independent frame shop in the Issaquah area. ray@phoenixartrestoration.com www.phoenixartrestoration.com

Thai Ginger ...................... Factoria 425.641.4008 ...................... Redmond Town Center 425.558.4044 www.thaiginger.com

PLASTIC SURGEONS Lake Washington Facial Plastic .... 425.454.3938 Surgery and Skin Rejuvenation Center 510 8th Ave NE. Suite 300, Issaquah Providing the most advanced care in the Northwest for facial rejuvenation. www.lakewashingtonfacial.com

RETIREMENT LIVING Bellewood .......................................425.391.2880 3710 Providence Point Drive SE, Issaquah An independent-living community helping you maintain your independence for life. info@bellewood.com www.bellewood.com

PLUMBING Schuerman Plumbing .....................425.392.2850 Owned/Operated since 1979. Serving Issaquah,Bellevue,Sammamish, Snoqualmie Ridge.

Repair • Faucet • Sink • Water Heater • Remodel schuerman@comcast.net www.schuermanplumbing.com REAL ESTATE Susan H. Gerend CRS GRI ASP ......206.719.4663 Windermere Real Estate/East Inc. Certified Residential Specialist -Connected to the Pulse of Sammamish & Issaquah for over 32 years. www.susangerend.com Cindy Hamman, CRS .................... 425.442.4942 Remax/Integrity ........................... 206.631.1066 Managing Broker, Realtor 371 NE Gilman Blvd., Suite 160, Issaquah Specializing in Buyers and Sellers in the Issaquah/ Sammamish area. cindyhamman@remax.net www.hammanhomes.com REMODELING/HANDYMAN Shirey Handyman Services ............425.392.8301 230 NE Juniper St, Ste. 200, Issaquah Home maintenance, repairs & remodel www.shireyhandyman.com RESTAURANTS/BARS Tutta Bella Neapolitan ...................425.391.6838 Pizzaria – Issaquah 715 NW Gilman Blvd., Issaquah The Northwest’s first celebrated authentic Neapolitan pizzeria. www.tuttabella.com/issaquah Extreme Pizza .............................. 425.837.1700 660 Front Street North, Issaquah Pizza is only the half of it! Online ordering, indoor and outdoor seating. Dine-in, take-out or delivery. http://issaquah.extremepizza.com/zgrid/proc/site/ sitep.jsp Issaquah Café .................................425.391.9690 1580 NW Gilman Blvd., Issaquah (Meadows Shopping Center – next to QFC) Your families’ favorite comfort foods. www.cafesinc.com Montalcino Ristorante Italiano ..425.270.3677 15 NW Alder Place, Issaquah www.montalcinoristoranteitalino.talkspot.com/Home Sip Wine Bar & Restaurant ............425.369.1181 1084 NE Park Drive, Issaquah Fresh and vibrant selections, bold flavors and creative presentations. www.siprestaurant.com

The Sammamish Café ....................425.242.1350 22830 NE 8th Street, Sammamish Comfort food at its finest! www.cafesinc.com

Era Living University House ..........425.654.1485 22975 SE Black Nugget Road, Issaquah Perhaps Issaquah’s best kept secret. Senior living, beyond your expectations. www.eraliving.com Red Oak ...........................................425.888.7108 Quality Service • Quality Care Trained Staff • Spacious Apartments www.redoakresidence.com RV PARKS Issaquah Village RV Park ............. 425.392.9233 50 1st Ave NE, Issaquah 4 Star Rated. 60 full hookup sites. Clean friendly atmosphere. Approved by Big Rigs Best Bets – Reservations recommended.

SCHOOLS Chabad of Issaquah ..................... 425.427.1654 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd, Issaquah www.chabadissaquah.com Cougar Mountain Academy ..........425.641.2800 For Children with High Expectations Grades Pre-K-5 www.cougarmountainacademy.org Forest Ridge School .......................425.641.0700 of the Sacred Heart 4800 139th Ave SE, Bellevue All-girls, Catholic, private Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart has served the Puget Sound area since 1907. www.forestridge.org In The Beginning ................ 425.392.0123, ext. 3 Preschool 3924 Issaquah Pine Lake Road, Issaquah Nurturing and educating with Christian values from ages 20 months – 5 years old. inthebeginning@faithunited.org www.inthe beginningpreschool.org Sammamish Childrens’ School .....425.313.9000 207 228th Ave SE, Sammamish Nurturing children & enriching families www.sammamishschool.com

The Bear Creek School ..................425.898.1720 8905 208th Ave NE, Redmond A leader in classical education in the Pacific Northwest for grades Preschool – 12. www.tbcs.org The Overlake School ......................425.868.1000 20301 NE 108th Street, Redmond Rigorous college preparatory classes, extensive arts and athletics. www.overlake.org TLC Montessori ...............................425.868.1943 21512 NE 16th Steet, Sammamish Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, Before and After School Care and Summer Camp www.tlceducation.com SPORTING GOODS Superior Seconds ...........................425.654.4340 96 Front Street S, Issaquah We buy, sell, trade and consign quality used sporting and exercise equipment. www.superiorseconds.org SYNAGOGUE Chabad of the .............................. 425.427.1654 Central Cascades 24121 SE Black Nugget Road, Issaquah THEATRES Village Theatre ...............................425.392.2202 303 Front Street N, Issaquah Box Office Hours: Tue-Sat 11am-7pm www.villagetheatre.org/issaquah THRIFT SHOPS Forgotten Treasures Gifts ............. 425-391-8370 & Thrift Shoppe 1025 NW Gilman Blvd E, Suite 4B, Issaquah We sell quality gently used and new items for your home and life. www.forgottentreasureswa.com TUTORING Mathnasium of ...............................425.270.1054 Issaquah/Sammamish 4546 Klahanie Dr SE, Issaquah Nobody teaches math like we do! www.mathnasium.com/issaquah WINDOW AND GUTTER CLEANING GHB Window Cleaning ...................425.250.1044 Services Inc. 12356 Northup Way #112, Bellevue office@ghbwindows.com www.ghbwindowcleaning.com ZOOS Cougar Mountain Zoo ...................425.391.5508 19525 SE 54th off Newport Way Threatened and endangered species; unique teaching zoo. www.cougarmountainzoo.org

Sammamish Spanish Preschool ... 425.836.0212 22809 NE 25th Way, Sammamish ......425.898.7831 We love to teach and we teach with love. www.sammamishspanishpreschool.com Snoqualmie Springs School ..........425.392.1196 25237 SE Issaquah-Fall City Rd Pre-K – 2nd Grade Foundation Education www.snosprings.com - Paid Advertisement -

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