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By Neil Pierson

Blackwell Elementary School held its first science fair Jan. 15, with 55 students participating. Here, second-grader Sophia Huang used a magnet and a battery to create an electric motor.

The Sammamish City Council will once again hold its annual retreat at the Suncadia Lodge near Cle Elum.

The retreat is scheduled for the evening of Jan. 22 through the afternoon of Jan. 24.

The council has held its retreat there for 10 years, Mayor Tom Vance said. The idea, he said, is to get legislators as well department heads away from cell phones and other distractions and allow everyone involved to concentrate on the issues at hand, namely those of the city government of Sammamish.

“This provides us the opportunity… to have a real discussion,” Vance said.

The cost of the retreat was

given as $15,000 by Tim Larson, head of communications for the city.

The meetings are open to the public, but if you were thinking of attending, you may have to find alternative accommodations or just come for a day. The Suncadia reservation line reports the lodge is largely out of rooms for the week ending Jan. 24, with virtually only a few penthouses remaining available. If you can find a single room, the cost is $209 per night for Jan. 22-23. Given cooperation by the weather, the drive is about an hour and a half to Suncadia, Vance said.

“We have had visitors in the past,” he said, adding he didn’t rule out any on this occasion and said all members of the See RETREAT, Page 2

Blackwell Elementary students Skyline stadium project moves closer to reality show off their scientific gifts

By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com Science is generally a small part of the curriculum at most elementary schools, so Blackwell Elementary School students took an outside-the-box approach to keep science in their lives.

Blackwell held its first familycentered science fair Jan. 15, with several presentation groups joining 55 student projects that filled the school’s multipurpose room and library.

Parents Andi Zahn and Sarah Breen led the committee that planned the event, and both have interests in science: Breen is a former middle-school sci-

ence teacher, and Zahn is a special-education teacher at nearby Mead Elementary School.

Mead does “a science fair in May, so I kind of begged, borrowed and stole some of the presenters that they had there, and kind of looked at their model,” Zahn explained.

Several groups provided hands-on educational lessons at the science fair, including the Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery; the Eastlake High School science national honors society; and Nature Vision, a Woodinville-based group that brings a wide variety of biology, geology and ecology lessons into classrooms.

Students who completed a project received a certificate of participation, and parent volunteers provided “compliment sheets” that stated what they liked about the project.

“We didn’t want to do competition — we wanted it to just be a real positive experience for the kids to just enjoy science and feel good,” Zahn said.

Breen acknowledged that science isn’t a big part of classroom lessons, but teachers are getting creative to keep students aware.

“I know the times I’ve been in the classroom, a lot of the materials they get a chance to read See SCIENCE, Page 3

By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com

The long-awaited Skyline High School stadium improvement plan may be closer to reality, after the Issaquah School Board received an update at its Jan. 14 meeting.

Steve Crawford, the Issaquah School District’s director of capital projects, told board members the bidding process for potential contractors on the stadium construction projects at both Skyline and Liberty high schools would open this week.

The Skyline project, budgeted at nearly $6.5 million, was approved by voters in

an April 2012 bond measure.

Since, members of the school’s football boosters club have criticized the project, saying school district officials aren’t interested in an alternate design that would have a concrete grandstand and increased storage space, and be more cost-effective.

Construction, scheduled to last a few months, has been delayed multiple times, including twice in the past year.

Skyline officials preferred waiting until the completion of the 2014 fall sports season, which nixed a plan to start construction last August.

Jake Kuper, the district’s

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The district submitted a land-use application last June, and city officials determined in September that there were inconsistencies in the proposal.

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The stadium’s design firm, Bassetti Architects, is still working with the school district to fix the inconsistencies, said Darci Donovan, the city’s permit center manager.

The school district must obtain the land-use permit before it can get a building permit. Crawford said his department will hire a contractor to build the grandstands, and then obtain the building permit based on their designs.

Stadium work should begin in mid-May, he said, and be done before the start

of the 2015-16 school year.

Kuper said the work requires more excavation than district officials originally thought. The new grandstand and bleachers, to be constructed on the west side of the existing field, will likely be made entirely of aluminum.

The district has drawn up an alternative bid design that includes a more durable concrete grandstand, as well as a cantilevered roof that would remove viewobstructing posts from the spectator areas. However, that design will likely be

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more expensive, and could exceed the $6,485,000 budget.

Liberty’s stadium project, which has a budget of nearly $4.9 million, wasn’t scheduled to start until the school’s modernization project was finished. That happened in October.

Sunny Hills update Crawford also spoke about the new Sunny Hills Elementary School design that has drawn opposition from some neighbors.

Sunny Hills, on Issaquah-Pine Lake Road, is set to receive a new building with $27 million in voter-approved funds. The construction timeline was moved ahead one year, and is now slated to begin this summer and be completed

Retreat From Page 1 public are welcome. He also said some visitors have come and simply spent a day with the council.

The first night of the retreat is essentially a dinner from 6-8 p.m. Vance described it as a chance for local leaders to “let their hair down.”

Once the heart of the retreat begins Jan. 23, Vance said every council member will have roughly 15 minutes to say where they want Sammamish to be in 15 years.

Overall, Vance said he expects discussions to revolve around fairly standard municipal topics: city services, infrastructure, finances and so on.

Other highlights from the retreat might include creation of a city work plan.

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The project has two designs that would meet the budget: One would house up to 800 students in 28 permanent classrooms and portables; the second would have an 890-student capacity with 32 permanent classrooms and portable classrooms.

Both plans are two-story designs, and are similar to the district’s most recent elementary-school projects at Briarwood, Creekside and Grand Ridge.

The existing Sunny Hills building will stay open while construction takes place on other portions of the property.

“It’s important for the community to understand that’s really not a very easy thing to do, and we’ve done it time and

time again with amazing results,” school board President Anne Moore said.

Neighbors have opposed the school’s design, saying they don’t like the idea of having a bus loop on 235th Place Southeast. Parents picking up and dropping off their children would enter the property through a separate entrance, near the roundabout that serves as the intersection of Southeast 32nd Way and Issaquah-Pine Lake Road.

“We want to separate the parent traffic from bus traffic,” Crawford said.

“That’s almost an imperative to maintain safety on the site.”

Crawford also said the design has pleased city officials, who didn’t want the main entrance too close to the roundabout.

City department heads will have a chance to voice their concerns or wishes for the future.

One specific topic Vance said would likely come up is discussions of how to make Sammamish more friendly or attractive and safe for city teens. He talked about a teen center at the new community center now under construction and other potential teen services that might be offered.

The full agenda for the retreat is on the city’s website, www.sammamish.us.

Click on “City Council” on the left side of the main page, and then click on “Meetings and agendas.”

“I had asked that this year we stay here,” said Council Ramiro Valderrama-Aramayo, regarding the retreat. He said having the event more local obviously would be more convenient for the public. Valderrama-

Aramayo said he found it ironic that Kirkland City Council has chosen to hold their retreat at a lodge in Sammamish.

Deputy Mayor Kathleen Huckabay said she has no reservations about holding council’s retreat out of the city. She said to her knowledge, only one retreat ever has been held locally, adding that there are a limited number of opportunities for the council and administration to hold extensive talks.

Having the meetings in Sammamish might dampen the process, Huckabay said.

She quickly added that the meetings are open to the public and the council has had visits from the public in the past.

“I very much look forward to it,” Huckabay said of the retreats, again saying they represent a real chance for council members and the administration to get to know one another.

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By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com

By Neil Pierson

Eastlake High School students Skye Aldrich (from left), Maddi Warnock and Jack O’Neil dip balloons in liquid nitrogen to make them brittle and breakable. The students are members of Eastlake’s science national honor society.

Science From Page 1 are actually science-based, or social-studies based, so they get a chance to incorporate that into the reading lesson,” she said.

A crew from Eastside Fire & Rescue visited the school early in the day for an egg-drop experiment. Fifth-grade teacher Nicole Weible was loaded into the basket and raised 40-50 feet into the air. She dropped various contraptions filled with eggs — some had parachutes, and others were wrapped in foam or toilet paper rolls.

The goal was to find the best ways to keep the eggs from cracking.

The school was buzzing with activity that night, with children proudly demonstrating their experiments to parents and fellow students.

Third-grader Brendan Lloyd used Hot Wheels cars to test a theory about velocity — the heavier

the car’s wheels, the faster gravity would push it downhill, he guessed. He determined his hypothesis was wrong, and that size was a crucial factor. Larger wheels made the cars faster.

Fourth-grader Eshan Rathi’s experiment, “Light Bending,” tested how light moves through transparent liquids. He used a refractive index to determine that honey causes light to move more slowly than vinegar, water and olive oil.

Organizers encouraged parents to get involved as guides or laboratory assistants. Creating an interactive group experience can be helpful in making science fun, Zahn said.

“A lot of times, what they’re doing at the elementary grades is they’re investigating something — ‘What would happen if you did this?’” she said.

“And the kids really have a lot of time exploring … and working with variables. They love it usually at school because it is a group activity.”

Lake Sammamish State Park, considered by many to have been long neglected financially by the state, will be annexed to the city of Issaquah as of Feb. 1.

The park may or may not be in line for some state funding for a new boat dock. But in any case, the park soon will have an executive director to aid with future rebuilding of the facility, said Chris Kovac, president of the community group the Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park.

The Friends will hire a director to help guide the organization and the park.

Jim Mackey, a member of the board of directors for the Friends group, said the organization hopes to have someone on board by mid-January. Kovac confirmed that is the goal, but said the search could go on longer to find the right person for the job.

That job, a part-time position, is being funded through grants from the cities of Issaquah and

Sammamish. Issaquah provided $25,000 in grant money, while Sammamish pitched in an additional $20,000, Kovac said.

At least in the case of Issaquah, the funds came from the same nonprofit organization grants that aid various community groups working in and around the city, according to Kovac.

The Friends group is a certified, nonprofit charity.

Kovac said he sees the director’s job lasting at least two years and said fundraising for both the park and the Friends will be a key part of the director’s duties. Kovac said he hopes there will come a day when the Friends can be self-supporting.

Mackey talked about the new director increasing visibility of the park through public relations efforts and working on increasing membership in the Friends group.

Project management, development of education programs, administrative and organizational tasks are listed as additional

duties in a job description.

That description mentions heavy utilization of social media. Further, the director will be the public voice for the Friends, handle speaking engagements, and respond to media requests and organizing events.

Kovac said one major event possibly coming to the park this summer could be a water sports expo. The history of some wakeboard and water ski companies are tied to the lake, a history Kovac said he was unaware of until

recently.

The most recent budget proposal made by the Issaquah administration did not include monies for the Friends, Issaquah City Council President Paul Winterstein said.

However, as the council did its budget deliberations, the group formally earned its nonprofit status.

At that point, the council elected to fund the group’s request.

“The council felt very strongly about the park in general,” Winterstein added.

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Editorial

Things to consider during city retreat As the Sammamish City Council heads off for its retreat at Suncadia Resort this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we have a few items we would like to make sure members have on their agenda and a few suggestions of items we’d like to add to the discussions they may not have considered.

Tree preservation plus reforestation is an important issue we know the council is considering and it’s important the council get the new ordinance created soon.

The community group Citizens for Sammamish has proposed the council grant residents the right to referendum and initiative petitions. About 85 percent of King County cities already have this right. The council hasn’t spent too much time discussing this so far and the retreat presents the perfect opportunity to consider it.

City leaders have done everything necessary to be in a position for Sammamish to annex Klahanie. It’s possible a public vote on annexation could take place as early as April and it’s expected to pass. This retreat is a good time to consider all the city of Sammamish needs to do prior to the annexation to be ready to deliver the services Klahanie residents will expect as citizens of Sammamish.

We applaud the city for considering fining the parents of underage drinkers within the city limits. But we would ask that you also consider attracting businesses that will give teenage kids living on the plateau something to do. Sure, trails and parks are available to kids, but a movie theater or a bowling/amusement center would fill a great void.

Question of the Week They say it takes two to three weeks to create a habit.

With that and New Year’s resolutions in mind, what’s the best resolution have you ever made and kept? Email your answers to editor@isspress.com. The responses will be published in future issues.

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On Further Review What would Dr. King think of today’s society?

By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com As I write this, it’s the morning of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, and with schools, banks, post offices and some businesses taking the day off, many people are home with their families.

The question that’s running through my head is, “What are we doing

today to honor Dr. King’s life?”

Hopefully, everyone took a few moments to remember the meaning of the holiday.

Maybe it meant saying a prayer for a man who led one of the most significant social changes in our country’s history. Maybe it meant talking to your children

about Dr. King’s accomplishments.

Maybe it meant watching a movie about the Civil Rights Movement, like “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “Remember the Titans.”

The past year, of course, has provided too many examples of the fact that Dr. King’s mission, nearly 47 years after his

death, has still not been fulfilled.

Sure, there has been plenty of progress that shouldn’t be overlooked.

We no longer segregate our buses, water fountains, swimming pools and restrooms. AfricanAmericans represent a large portion of society’s role models — from athletes and musicians to business leaders and

dents felt it was the most pressing issue with the second place of “more businesses” at a distant 16 percent.

One of the nation’s largest road builders, the HNTB stated in 2013 something transportation advocates have argued for many years: “We can’t build our way out of traffic congestion.” A large banner of this truism should be placed in every planner’s office in City Hall.

Remember, if you build it, they will come.

More roads bring more housing with more cars making traffic worse.

There is a better way and it requires a commitment to public transportation.

Recently, King County Metro cried wolf and eliminated a mere nine routes from its countywide service. The 927 was on that list, leaving Sammamish with no bus service during the day. We pay far more into the system than we receive in services, yet

our leadership has not seen it necessary to create a comprehensive public transportation plan to reduce the very problem that citizens complain the most about. The road construction lobby is very strong but it doesn’t have the answer.

I urge the city to take public transportation seriously. Create and execute a plan that supports travel within the city as well as getting on and off the plateau at all times of the day in addition to commuter services.

As one councilman told me in the past, “residents like their cars.” It should be obvious that as residents we also have to change our behavior, including being willing to ride a bus instead of driving.

Please contact the City Council and urge the members to include public transit as a strong part of their traffic reduction plan.

Michael J. O’Connell Sammamish

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Letters to the Editor Ticket increase will hopefully bring better behavior I was very happy to read that the City Council is finally prepared to address residential parking problems with a meaningful ticket increase from $20 to $71.

Careless parking is all too frequent in Sammamish, from extending into driveways, blocking mailboxes, parking on the wrong side of the street or parking too close to intersections. On certain streets in my neighborhood, sidewalk parking is the norm day in and day out.

This “anything goes” parking behavior has been present for the 10 years I’ve lived here (although the sidewalk parking has really taken off the past year or two), so I just assumed that the city did not place any priority on parking enforcement. The mention that

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just 139 parking tickets were written in 2013 (only 11 per month?) seems to support that, as does the insignificant $20 fine.

Hopefully the new $71 fine will spur some increased enforcement efforts, which will in turn lead to more thoughtful and proper parking behavior.

Jeanne Horvath Sammamish

City leaders must address traffic congestion, transit The annual city survey put traffic congestion as our highest priority issue just as it has for years. Quoting from the report, “Traffic congestion remained the mostdesired change, which it has been since 2008, but with more mentions this year and more distance between it and the #2 issue.” This year, 28 percent of the respon-

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King From Page 4 teachers. Our president is a black man.

But there’s no denying that minorities are in the midst of an uphill struggle.

For every two steps forward, there’s one step back.

It’s something that

Parking lot, trail access for Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park open The popular Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park now has more parking and better access, according to a King County Parks partnership project news release.

Work has been completed on the new 74-space parking lot at the corner of Southeast Duthie Hill Road and Southeast IssaquahFall City Road that will serve as the main access point for the mountain

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must be explained to our children, even if we’re white. My family happened to be at Seattle’s Westlake Center on Black Friday, and we passed by a large group who’d assembled to protest the Ferguson, Missouri, incident in which white police officer Darren Wilson wasn’t indicted for his involvement in the death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man.

Thankfully, we avoided the violence that happened in the vicinity — five people were arrested that day — but the protestors’ chants and actions led to some naturally curious questions from my two sons, ages 8 and 6.

My wife and I needed time to properly explain the situation, and later that day, we told them details without getting too graphic. Their response

bike park. The lot opened Jan. 17, and will be open daily from dawn to dusk, unless otherwise posted.

The lot includes spaces for two truck-and-trailer combinations, a drop-off zone and restrooms. A new, quarter-mile connector trail has also been built that links the new lot to park’s southern entrance on Southeast IssaquahFall City Road. The trail provides park users with a safe, dedicated path.

The project was completed for about $900,000, with funding from the 2014-19 King County Parks, Trails and Open Space Replacement

Levy, as well as a grant for $317,000 from the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program.

Duthie Hill Park, 27101 S.E. Duthie Hill Road, is recognized as one of the best mountain bike parks in the state. It opened in 2010.

Riders can choose from 6 miles of cross country bike trails, 2 miles of freeride trails with jumps and built features, a central clearing with a shelter, kids’ biking area, opportunities for skill building and more. Trail users range from children and first-time riders to expert mountain bikers.

was one of confusion: Why would a trusted police officer shoot someone who wasn’t posing a threat?

We didn’t have an answer for that. My wife astutely pointed out that the conversation would’ve been much different if we were black.

As I recall those events, and reflect upon Dr. King’s life, I become naturally curious about his response.

Maybe it’s an impossible question for my generation to answer. Dr. King, after all, died 11 years before I was born.

My best guess is that he’d have stuck to the same game plan that led him past angry mobs in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, and to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for his most famous speech.

He would’ve encour-

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aged us to come together, white and black, young and old, man and woman.

He would’ve promoted peaceful demonstrations surrounding the abuse of police authority. He would’ve decried the actions of protestors who chose to burn, loot and vandalize.

Dr. King’s actions live on, but we sure could use more people carrying them out these days.

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Rainier Beach tops Eastside Catholic, 64-51

By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com Late in the fourth quarter, Matisse Thybulle bar-

reled down the lane and momentarily had an open look at the basket.

Then the opening disappeared, and Thybulle was called for an offensive

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Eastside Catholic High School freshman guard Malik Putney (3), drives to the basket and scores two points, while being fouled by Rainier Beach sophomore guard Kahlil Shabazz during the second quarter.

foul after crashing into a pair of Rainier Beach defenders.

The moment was emblematic of a frustrating night for the Eastside Catholic High School boys basketball team, which lost, 64-51, to Rainier Beach on Jan. 13 in Seattle. It was a matchup of two Metro League heavyweights and the state’s top-ranked Class 3A programs.

No. 1 Rainier Beach (10-1) used a third-quarter spurt to build a comfortable lead following a tightly contested and lowscoring first half. Senior guard Dejounte Murray, a University of Washington recruit, scored 19 of his game-high 26 points in the second half to help the Vikings pull away.

Murray said his team played “soft” in the first half, when the secondranked Crusaders (10-2) took a couple brief leads and went to halftime down only two points, 25-23.

“We’re usually a firsthalf team,” said Murray, who averages 29 points per game. “I guess we had a bad half, but got it out of the way, so we finished out with the ‘W.’” Eastside Catholic was

working without one of its best players. Senior guard Mandrell Worthy, a 16-points-per-game scorer, was out with a high ankle sprain.

Worthy, who will play for Montana State University next year, is expected to return to action this week, Crusaders coach Bill Liley said, but his presence was sorely missed against Rainier Beach.

“We kind of boxed them tonight with one arm tied behind our back, and I feel pretty good about the fight,” Liley said. “I think we’ll be even more of a problem for them the next time that we play.”

The teams are very familiar with each other, having met four times last season. The Vikings won them all, but the scores got progressively closer, with Rainier Beach eking out a 47-45 win in the 3A championship game last March.

Rainier Beach bolted to an 8-0 lead in the opening minutes, but Eastside Catholic immediately responded with a 9-0 run that Thybulle punctuated with a steal and a dunk.

The game continued to seesaw back and forth

in the second quarter as the Vikings used their size advantage to create second chances, and the Crusaders got a boost from freshman point guard Malik Putney, who came off the bench to run the offense and score five points.

On the final play of the half, Thybulle made a tremendous block on Murray, his future teammate at Washington.

Murray said he doesn’t get distracted playing against opponents he knows well off the court.

Some of the Vikings and Crusaders play together on the same AAU squad.

“I just go play, because we’re not friends on the court,” he said.

Murray was outstanding in the second half, leading a 22-10 run that put Rainier Beach ahead, 47-33, with eight minutes left. The Vikings played at a frenetic pace, rattling the Crusaders’ youngsters and forcing several turnovers with full-court pressure.

Eastside Catholic got within eight points early in the fourth period after Morgan Clark hit a 3-pointer, and Thybulle sank a pair of free throws.

But Murray scored four straight points, includ-

ing a breakaway dunk, to restore momentum for the Vikings.

Thybulle ended up with 21 points, right at his season average, but struggled with his outside shot, hitting only one of 11 attempts from behind the arc.

“I think Matisse will tell you that this isn’t one of his best nights,” Liley said. “But our senior leader will definitely play better the next time, I’m sure.

And he didn’t play poorly tonight — he just shot poorly.”

Liley was also pleased with the play of Putney and 6-foot-3 forward Etan Collins, a pair of ninthgraders who got thrown into the fire because of Worthy’s absence.

“By the time we see (Rainier Beach) again, you’re going to see a different version of those two freshmen,” Liley said.

The teams won’t meet again in the regular season, but could be on a familiar collision course for the postseason.

“If we win and they win, we’ll see each other again,” Murray said. “But I’m not worrying about that right now. I’m taking it one game at a time, trying to get there.”

Wolves defeat Spartans in plateau swimming matchup

By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com High-school swimming is typically a sport in which age doesn’t matter much, and Eastlake High School’s Brandon Yue is proving freshmen can compete on the same stage as their older peers.

It only took Yue a few meets to earn two spots at February’s Class 4A state championships. He has recorded qualifying times in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200 individual medley, and with the Wolves headed to state in all three relay events, Yue is likely going to compete in the maximum four events as a ninth-grader.

After Eastlake defeated plateau rival Skyline, 10481, in a Class 4A KingCo

Conference meet Jan. 13 at Redmond Pool, Yue spoke humbly about his accomplishments.

“I’d like to credit the team — I think their support really helps me,” he said.

Yue didn’t attempt to lower his existing state-qualifying marks against Skyline.

In a move typical of stronger swimmers in late-season meets, he switched to different events.

He finished second in the 200 freestyle in 1 minute, 52.36 seconds, and was fifth in the 100 freestyle (51.75).

Both marks were good enough to qualify for the upcoming district meet.

He also helped the Wolves earn valuable team points in the 200 medley relay, which they won with a state-qualifying time of 1:43.22; and in the 200 free relay, where they placed sec-

By Greg Farrar

Eastlake High School freshman swimmer Alex Elizarov charges through the water in the 100-yard butterfly race for second place in a time of 56.72 seconds Jan. 13 against Skyline and Redmond. ond in 1:33.64.

Yue said his first season of high-school swimming has been enjoyable.

“I think the energy level is different,” he said, comparing it to his club swimming background. “I think there’s a lot more team spirit. It’s more individual in club, but in high school, it’s more like a team.”

Other Eastlake winners included junior Markus Zimmermann in the 200 free (1:50.80) and 500 free (5:06.09); sophomore Chirag Das in the 100 backstroke (58.74); freshman Nikita Polyakov in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.88); and junior diver Bryce Bussiere (190.10 points).

Skyline, meanwhile,

missed out on a team victory against Redmond by the slimmest of margins.

The dual-meet result hinged on the final event, the 400 freestyle relay, and the Mustangs edged the Spartans for first place by 12 one-hundredths of a second, giving them the points they needed for a 95-90 victory.

However, Skyline’s second-place time of 3:25.06 broke the state-qualifying standard, the icing on the cake after the team won the 200 free relay in a state time of 1:33.32.

Freshman William O’Daffer said the Spartans were “pleasantly surprised” about earning state times in both events in one day.

O’Daffer had a very small lead going into the anchor leg of the 400 free relay, and while he couldn’t quite hold on, he acknowledged

the excitement that encompassed the whole race.

“I was pretty nervous, just because all my teammates were around me, yelling and stuff,” he said. “But you just try to stay calm in that situation, because if you get too worked up, then you mess up.”

Skyline junior Ian Camal Sado won the 100 free in 51.26, and sophomore Jacob Leahy won the 50 free in 23.14, only 0.29 seconds away from the state standard.

Leahy said he has improved since last season.

“Last year on our ‘A’ relay, I was the only freshman, and I was with all seniors,” he said. “So, they really helped me last year getting through the season, and they taught me how to lead a group ... which will help me when I get older.”

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Police blotter Burglaries

• Persons unknown removed a window screen, and then slid open the window to gain entry to a home in the 2700 block of Southeast 30th Street. Reports did not say what was stolen during the incident, which was reported at about 7:30 a.m. Jan. 5.

• A second burglary was reported Jan. 6, when someone made off with sterling silver and stainless steel dinnerware sets from a home in the 2100 block of 219th Place.

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• A third incident took place Jan. 10 and was reported at about 10:50 a.m. Reports said guns were stolen during the incident that took place at the Bordeaux Condominiums on 240th Way Southeast.

Hit and run Police say a hit-andrun driver struck a youth, 13, riding a bicycle on Southeast 32nd Street at about 5 p.m. Jan. 5. The youth was not hurt, according to police reports. Reports contained no information on the vehicle involved.

Car theft A car, make and model not given, was reported stolen Jan. 6 at about 3 p.m. from the Bordeaux Condominiums on 240th Way Southeast. Reports contained no further details.

Theft Someone made off with a package of hair straightners from a display case in the HairMasters on Issaquah-Pine Lake Road.

The theft was reported Jan. 8 at about 3:15 p.m.

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