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January 25, 2012 Locally owned 50 cents

Region hit with 4-part storm, snow, ice, rain, wind Residents lose power, hunker down for almost a week

By Caleb Heeringa

It was supposed to be a oneday snowstorm. People were supposed to be able to just hunker down for Wednesday an then head back about their business Thursday.

Instead, Sammamish and the region was hit with a slowmotion storm that started as snow before becoming ice, then rain, then wind.

At one point, more than 15,000 Puget Sound Energy customers in Sammamish and nearby were without power — about three-fourths of the city.

Schools were closed and several of Sammamish’s gas stations, which require electricity to pump gas, were as well. Safeway, QFC and Ace Hardware managed to stay open despite having lost power by are running on generators.

Gov. Chris Gregoire declared a state of emergency for Western Photo by Christopher Huber

See STORM, Page 3

Snow blankets a home and surrounding woods, creating a serene landscape on the shores of Beaver Lake Jan. 19.

EFR concerned dispatch problems could hurt service Fire agency considers dropping out of regional fire, police dispatch group

By Caleb Heeringa

A botched software upgrade at NORCOM, a regional fire and police dispatching agency, has Eastside Fire & Rescue officials considering leaving the regional partnership less than three years

after its formation.

NORCOM, a Bellevue-based consortium of cities and fire districts that coordinates emergency response for 14 fire districts and five police departments from Shoreline to North Bend, went live in September with New

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World – an integrated software system aimed at combining dispatching, record-keeping and GPS technology for both police and fire units. The software replaced TriTech, an older system that had been used by the fire districts in NORCOM. But the new software, which had already been delayed by more than a year, was taken offline after just 16 days. EFR staff complained that the new

system often crashed and did not dispatch the nearest unit to every call.

“For the safety of the public and for first responders we had to get back onto a system that was stable,” said Sheryl Mullen, public information officer for NORCOM. The agency, working with New World officials, has set to ironing out the kinks, but has yet to provide fire officials with a

Yard debris drop off Sammamish residents may drop off storm debris (tree branches and organic material only) this weekend. The city will open two drop off sites from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 28 and 29 at Beaver Lake Park, near the ballfields, and East Lake Sammamish Park. There is no limit to the amount of debris. Free.

timeline on when they expect the system to be operational. Given the long delays already experienced, Chief Lee Soptich, EFR’s representative on NORCOM’s governing board, is skeptical.

“My confidence level is zero that they’re going to be able to turn anything around,” Soptich said.

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Legislature considers allowing voter registration at 16 Early registration would still leave voting age at 18

By Maida Suljevic WNPA Olympia News Bureau

They may not qualify to attend an R-rated movie, but soon 16-year-olds in Washington State could register to vote.

Register? Yes. Actually vote? No. That civic privilege starts at age 18.

A bill to extend advanced voter registration to 16 year olds has been introduced in the legislature this session and the House Committee on State Government and Tribal Affairs met Jan. 12 to listen to public testimony on the proposal.

No one in the affected age group offered comments at the hearing. While the proposal is hoped to increase participation among youth, some Sammamish

teens question the value.

“Personally, I don’t think it would affect the likelihood of an 18-year-old voting because there is not different motivations to vote when your 16, compared to when you are 18,” said Sean McDonald, 1n 18-year-old Eastlake student. “If someone is too lazy to vote when they are 18, I don’t think having the option to register while 16 would make a difference.”

The proposed bill (HB2205) is co-sponsored by 37 House members, a mixture from both parties, and states that a person who is at least 16, and who is a U.S. citizen, would be able to register to vote.

However, that registration would not be recorded in the statewide voter database until the registrant turns 18. The database is an official list of Washington’s registered voters and is maintained by the Secretary of State’s office.

According to the bill (a companion measure dealing with the issue has been introduced in the Senate, SB6128), when registrants

reach 18 they would receive a number one way that people regconfirmation notice allowing ister is through the motor-voter them to vote. program when they get their The bill driver’s gives the license. This Get involved Secretary of is not availVoter Registration Form: State the able to most authority to http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/osos/en/ young votPreviousElections/Documents/VRF_ decide how ers and as a web.pdf to impleresult that ment the population early voter has very low See the bill registration registration process.

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by Congress in 1993. That act Rep. Andy Billig (D–Spokane) requires states to offer voter regis one of the bill’s sponsors. He istration at departments of licenssaid, “The main goal of the legising when drivers apply for or lation is to provide equal access renew their license. Voters may to voter registration. Right now also register at the Department of the young voters do not have the Social and Health Services, at same access to voter registration local schools, libraries and other that other registrants have. The government offices. Registration

is also available online at the Secretary of State’s website or the form may be downloaded from the website and mailed to registrant’s county elections office.

Katie Blinn, co-director of elections with the Secretary of State’s office, opposes the bill. She believes the legislation places additional costly burdens on her office, including funding for reprogramming of registration software, changes to the registration applications and translation costs.

According to Blinn there are various methods to register to vote, and some of the programs do not accept the information of people who are younger than 17.

Those systems would need to be reprogrammed.

During the hearing, Blinn addressed the need for possible programming changes at other departments that interact with the voter database, such as the Department of Licensing (DOL), See VOTE, Page 6

Many Sammamish lawmakers support gay marriage State Sen. Andy Hill (R-45) has yet to announce his position

By Caleb Heeringa

State Sen. Andy Hill says he remains undecided on the issue of gay marriage though two of his Republican counterparts on the Eastside have thrown their support behind a measure that would grant homosexuals the right to marry.

Hill represents the northern edge of Sammamish, and after the redistricting process is complete in November is poised to

represent the northern half of the city.

Sen. Cheryl Pflug, who currently represents most of Sammamish as part of the 5th Legislative District, and Sen. Steve Litzow, who represents the 41st District, which will cover the south end of the city in November, have both come out in support of Senate Bill 6239.

The measure redefines marriage as a civil contract between “two people” rather than “a man and a

woman.”

That makes them the only two Republican state senators currently supporting the measure.

An informal Jan. 11 tally by the Associated Press put the measure within three votes of passing the Senate, with nine senators undecided. Two more legislators have made public statements in favor of the measure since then.

Hill, a Republican who represents the 45th District, said in an interview that he remains on the fence. He said he is discussing the issue with constituents.

“It’s a really big deal to a lot of people on both sides of the issue,” Hill said.

Hill said he was particularly concerned that the bill’s redefinition of marriage would mean religious institutions might be sued for refusing to marry two homosexuals.

“I want to make sure there are protections for religious institutions in there,” he said. “What existing protections do we have?”

As written, the bill states: “No official of any religious denomination or nonprofit institution authorized to solemnize marriages may be required to solemnize any marriage in violation of his or her right to free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States

Constitution or by the Washington state Constitution.”

As of Jan. 23, 25 senators had announced that they plan to support the bill, enough to guarantee its passage. Once the bill is approved by both houses of the Legislature, it will become law without a statewide vote. Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) is also in support of the measure. If passed, the bill would be subject to a referendum to overturn it, if opponents of gay marriage can muster the support to place it on the ballot.

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City continues ban on marijuana gardens Councilman proposes supporting downgrade of marijuana’s classification in federal law

By Caleb Heeringa

The Sammamish City Council extended a ban on collective medical marijuana gardens for six months at their Jan. 17 meeting, though the council is considering throwing its support behind Gov. Chris Gregoire’s efforts to lobby the federal government on the matter.

At the meeting, Councilman Don Gerend proposed that the council authorize the city manager to sign a letter in support of Gregoire, who in November asked the Drug Enforcement Agency to reclassify marijuana as a so-called Schedule II drug that has medicinal purposes. Federal law currently calls marijuana a Schedule I drug, without medicinal value and on par with heroin and L.S.D. Washington State, which passed a medical marijuana initiative in 1998, has found itself in a bit of a gray area with the federal government on the matter.

Cities around the state have gone on divergent paths, with some

Free preschool classes to be offered The Issaquah School District is offering a chance for parents of preschool-aged children to enroll their youngsters in Early Childhood Education classes at no cost to the families.

The district is looking for typically developing youngsters to be part of Early Education classes that serve children with special needs at Apollo, Discovery and Sunset elementary schools.

Each classroom may have up to 12 children with special needs along with three typically devel-

(like Issaquah) setting up licensing and zoning regulations for dispensaries and others (like Sammamish) instituting emergency moratoriums out of fear that city employees could be held liable under federal law for approving the gardens.

Gerend, citing a recent Gallup poll that saw 50 percent of Americans in favor of outright legalization of the drug, said the Governor deserved city leaders’ support in making the federal government come to Washington State on the matter rather than the other way around.

The council was reticent to agree to authorize the letter that night, but resolved to discuss the matter at future meetings.

“I’m hopeful that I can get the rest of the council on board,” Gerend said.

The moratorium forbids collective gardens in the city for six more months.

City staff say the measure is a precaution and that no one has applied for a garden in city limits. oping peers – who will pay no cost to participate in the preschool program.

Research shows that such combined learning opportunities benefit both special-needs and typically developing children.

Students must be at least 3 years old by April 15 to participate.

Any interested parent can pick up an application and get more information at the main offices of any of the three elementary schools involved.

Applications are due Feb. 10; peer volunteer screening is scheduled for Feb. 15.

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Washington, and city officials declared one for Sammamish.

The city offered City Hall as an emergency warming shelter Jan. 19 offering it until midnight, for people to stay warm and charge electronic devices (see Page 8) but did not have the staff to keep it open overnight, Mayor Tom Odell said.

It reopened the next morning.

Downed trees and sheets of ice closed several roads around the city. East Lake Sammamish Parkway was closed at 212th Avenue – also known as Snake Hill Road – due to a fallen tree.

Snake Hill Road itself was also closed.

Sammamish Public Works Director Laura Philpot said most of the city’s main thoroughfares – including 228th Avenue and Issaquah-Pine Lake Road – are in relatively good shape, having received lots of sand and deicer

throughout the week. The city has all six of their snow plows out around the clock, with crews working 12-hour shifts.

Crews have been able to move on to some of the lower-priority arterials like Inglewood Hill Road and Southeast Eighth Street today.

Drivers are likely on their own inside neighborhoods, though.

“We just don’t have the bodies or trucks to move beyond the major roads,” Philpot said.

Odell advised residents to exercise patience and wait for temperatures to thaw.

“The best thing to do is stay where you are and ride this thing out,” Odell said Jan. 19.

Odell said PSE crews believe one of the main power transmission lines east of town had been damaged, cutting power to a large swath of the city.

Many children were able to make the most of the weather.

Days off from school and a few inches of snow turned countless slopes into sledding hills.

Then Friday, moist air high up and freezing temperatures

near the ground led to precipitation falling that starts as rain and freezes before hitting the ground, coating roadways and trees with a layer of ice.

In the wee hours Friday morning, that freezing rain changed over to normal rain, changing the snow and ice into slush.

But many, still without power at home or the workplace, kept indoors.

Friday night, weather-weary residents were treated to the grand finale, a windstorm. Trees and power lines, still caked with snow and ice, came down across the region. In some cases, knocking out power that had been restored only a few hours earlier.

By Saturday, while wind gusts, some as high as 31 mph continued, the worst was over.

PSE reported fewer than 1,000 customers were still without power.

Editor Ari Cetron contributed to this story. Reach reporter Caleb Heeringa at 392-6434, ext. 247 or chheringa@isspress.com.

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Review editorial Help local businesses recover from storm “Support your local business” takes on new meaning when the city becomes a frozen wasteland for three days.

While homeowners were struggling to stay warm without power, business owners were wringing their hands over the lost business. Some managed to use generator power to stay open, providing homebound residents with necessities — a true community service.

Restaurants were particularly hard hit as food went to waste without refrigeration. Employees, too, suffered the loss of wages. It was life interrupted, not a fun week.

This week we can try to make it a bit better for each other.

Tip your waiter or other service provider just a little extra. Be sure any purchases you make are done locally to help businesses recoup the lost revenue, and to thank them and their workers for braving the storm to help.

Don’t forget to say thank you to those who are helping out. Offer a cup of coffee to the utility workers repairing lines or clearing trees. Let them know they are appreciated.

This is Sammamish, where neighbors help neighbors. With the usual thoughtfulness for the other guy, we’ll be just fine.

City on top of storm Kudos to Sammamish leaders for staying on top of the storm. The city’s website kept resident up to date on traffic problems and other concerns.

Officials opened City Hall during the worst of it, offering residents a warm place to relax — and charge their phones — when almost the entire plateau went dark from power outages.

Then, anticipating the need, generated by high winds, they quickly put together a yard debris drop off this weekend.

Good job, Sammamish, for keeping people safe during the storm, and helping residents deal with the aftermath.

Poll of the week How did you spend you snow week?

A) Working from home when the power was on.

B) Sledding and drinking hot cocoa.

C) Freaked out that a tree might fall on my house.

D) Going stir crazy.

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Sammamish Forum City should encourage walking

Religious political bullying

As I rode the bus in to work this week (leaving my car safely ensconced in my driveway), I was pleased to hear the bus driver praise the city of Sammamish for its snow response.

According to the driver, Sammamish is one of the best communities in the area for keeping the roads driveable during winter weather.

However, when my husband and I ventured out on foot Wednesday morning, we found pedestrian travel to be quite a different story.

Most sidewalks, even those in and around the Highlands Shopping Center area, had not been cleared.

Travel was difficult, especially for me. I have advanced arthritis in both hips, which can make walking painful under the best of circumstances. On uneven ground, the pain can be excruciating.

Even in good weather, Sammamish doesn’t really encourage walking. Sidewalks around my neighborhood are ill-tended.

Landscaping intrudes, and cars and RVs can often be found parked on them.

Yards are allowed to drain onto them, creating wet patches that are moss-covered in summer and become treacherous ice slicks when temperatures drop below freezing.

That is, where sidewalks exist at all.

On my street, which leads down to a supposed “walking school” (Margaret Mead), there is no sidewalk — only a striped shoulder which usually serves as a parking strip.

Walking is great exercise, even for those of us with disabilities. The more I walk, the better I feel.

But when I have to dodge around vehicles, under low-hanging branches, and even around garbage and recycling bins (on garbage days, the sidewalks become a slalom course of bins), I get angry and discouraged.

Sammamish should be doing more to encourage people to walk, not shoveling the snow off driveways and streets onto the sidewalks.

Recently John Berg challenged me to provide specifics on my political positions. Though nothing I say will likely sway him, the dialogue provides a launching point for healthy, public conversation.

Here is a position for your consideration … Religious organizations should not bully or intimidate politicians and mislead voters into supporting their worldview.

This behavior should be condemned in no uncertain terms. I am speaking about the organizations themselves and not their members’ rights as citizens to vote their consciences and to contribute to the candidates of their choice.

The Washington State Legislature is considering a gay marriage bill this session. A majority of citizens both here and in the nation support marriage equality.

Loving, dedicated couples should be able to marry regardless of their genetically determined sexual orientation.

The Mormon Church does not want this to happen. Their front group, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) will be running a $250,000 campaign in our state to defeat re-election of any Republican legislator who votes for marriage equality.

No religious group should force their will on others via the political process — we do not live in a theocracy. The proposed legislation would not require any religious group to perform these marriages and it will have no effect on their ability to worship as they see fit.

The Mormon Church is particularly egregious because they felt very similar pressure from others during their ‘polygamy’ period through the turn of the 20th century – ‘do unto others’ comes to mind. Also, Mormons believe in polygamy in heaven, and have made it clear that gays cannot participate in these eternal marriages — hence another reason for their objection to marriage equality.

I urge you to stand up to political bullying and intimidation by

Catherine Rollosson Halbhuber Sammamish

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the Mormon Church and NOM. Active Mormons represent 1.8 percent of our population – a tiny fraction. As good a people as many of them are, I don’t want this Utah church dictating how we in Washington State live. Please join me in exposing their tactics and in supporting our fair-minded legislative body. Learn more at http://hrc.org/nomexposed/section/rel igious-ties.

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We should choose A recent letter writer (John Burg) derided Michael O’Connell’s sound statement that, “We should decide who we want to be as a people.”

At the time the Constitution was written, slavery was allowed, women could not vote, men had to own property to vote and the list goes on and on of changes that have been made by Americans deciding who we want to be as a people.

Today, we continue making these important decisions, with the ability to do so coming from the Constitution. So, yes, we should decide who we want to be as a people.

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Report: King County homicides, suicides decline

By Warren Kagarise

cides in 2009.)

“Every death we review King County experienced the receives our fullest respect and fewest homicides — 59 — in a attention,” Dr. Richard Harruff, decade last year, and suicides chief medical examiner, said in a declined after a spike in 2009. statement. “We work to investiThe information comes from gate and resolve the manner and the King County cause of death as Medical quickly as possiOn the Web Examiner’s ble, and in the Office. In the Read the 2010 annual most scientific agency’s annual report on local deaths from and professional report, officials the King County Medical manner so grievanalyze suspiExaminer’s Office at ing loved ones cious, sudden, www.kingcounty.gov/health/ can find some unexpected and examiner. solace.” violent deaths Overall, King in King County, County experiplus trends in drug overdose enced fewer homicides, suicides, deaths, homicides and traffic accidental deaths and deaths fatalities. from natural causes last year The medical examiner’s office than in 2009. assumed jurisdiction in 2,060 The report includes only deaths — 953 natural deaths, 593 deaths under medical examiner’s accidental deaths, 232 suicides, office jurisdiction. The agency 150 traffic deaths, 59 homicides released the 2010 report Dec. 19. and 73 deaths due to undeterThe deaths investigated by the mined causes. (Officials investimedical examiner’s office also gated 253 suicides and 63 homimade 156 organ transplants pos-

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sible last year.

Firearms ranked as the most frequent instrument of death in homicides and suicides.

Though drug overdoses declined from 2009 to 2010, overdoses still caused more than onethird of all accidental deaths investigated by the agency.

Officials also recorded a substantial decrease in methadone- and oxycodone-related deaths from 2009 to 2010.

Investigators said methadone contributed to 77 deaths last year, compared to 129 in 2009. The drug ranked as the primary cause of death in 67 deaths from last year, compared to 85 in 2009.

Oxycodone contributed to 77

deaths last year, compared to 105 in 2009.

Following a decline from 2008 to 2009, traffic deaths increased last year to 150 from 141 during the previous year.

The most common cause of accidental death: falls. The medical examiner’s office said most of the accidental deaths due to falls involved people age 70 and older.

Public Health – Seattle & King County’s Emergency Medical Services Division and local fire departments work to prevent falls in the home and enroll elderly adults in a fall prevention program.

“Understanding how and why people died in King County

allows us to target our public health efforts to prevent early deaths,” Dr. David Fleming, Public Health – Seattle & King County director and health officer, said in a statement. “Take traffic fatalities, for example. We know that alcohol and drug impairment, speed and not wearing seatbelts contribute to traffic fatalities. So we work with partners throughout King County to help alleviate those causes and hopefully save lives.”

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ed to pass the House. Rep. Rep. Glenn Anderson (R-5) also recently threw his support behind gay marriage.

Anderson, who is running for Lieutenant Governor in November, called homosexuality a “normal, if much less frequent, genetic expression of human biology” and.said he did not foresee religious institutions being legally forced to perform gay marriages against their belief systems.

“In my view, civil same-sex marriage does not undermine the right of individuals to freely choose association with religious organizations that seek to encour-

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the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), the voter registration database, county voter registration systems, translation and printing costs for the registration forms, the DOL electronic form, and the DSHS electronic form.

Program Director of Washington Bus, Toby Crittenden, spoke in favor of the legislation.

Washington Bus is a volunteer-driven youth organization that works to increase democratic participation by registering voters, recruiting volunteers, hosting events and supporting young, progressive candidates.

“It is sort of the first taste of civic life for young people when they go to the Department of Licensing for their driver’s license, and if you’re 18 or older, you register to vote,” said Crittenden. “It’s the exact same operation if you’re a 16-yearold. You have the opportunity to actually take that step. What it does is set you up for the rest of your life as a voter, as a civically engaged adult.”

Though proponents argued that voter registration is the cornerstone of democracy, many opponents felt the problem in the legislation isn’t philosophical, but operational.

Chelan County Auditor Skip Moore spoke on behalf of the Washington Association of County Auditors in opposition to the bill. Moore cited mechanical issues with the legislation.

age traditional marriage values with which they agree,” Anderson said in a press release. “Neither does it obstruct the ability to practice the values of religious marriage, either individually or with like-minded persons.”

King County Councilmen Reagan Dunn (R) and Bob Ferguson (D) both of whom are running for Attorney General in November both support the measure.

A group of major employers, including Microsoft (Hill’s former employer), Vulcan, Nike, RealNetworks, Group Health Cooperative and Concur also announced their support for the measure.

Reach Reporter Caleb Heeringa at cheeringa@isspress.com or 392-6434, ext.

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“We’ve talked about young voters and their movement,” said Moore during the public hearing. “They move after they graduate from high school. In that unique time frame between the end of the school year and the fall general election, that’s when they move ... They disappear on us, but when we’re working on registration that was set up two years prior, that we’ve held off to the side and that has not been updated, suddenly we come to a November election and we’re trying to contact these young voters and we don’t know where they’re at.”

Billig doesn’t believe the proposed legislation would create such a problem.

“It’s an issue in our current system because we have a focus on registering people right now when they’re 18, which is generally when they’re a senior in high school. There’s some mobility after people turn 18,” said Billig. “This bill doesn’t affect that. This is about registering people when they’re 16 or 17.”

Billig expressed optimism that the bill will pass through the legislative process.

He maintains the bill has bipartisan support including fellow sponsor Rep. Hans Zeiger (R–Puyallup). If it were to pass, the bill would become effective 90 days after the session adjourns.

The cost of implementing the proposal remains unknown. The legislature would have to appropriate funding if it approves the measure.

Sammamish Review intern David Rollins contributed to this story. To comment on this story, visit www.SammamishReview.com.

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City Council makes appointments to Planning Commission, other boards Sammamish has a host of new faces on its advisory boards.

The City Council made the appointments at their Jan. 17 meeting.

On the Sammamish Planning Commission, current commissioner Mahbubul Islam, a manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was reappointed to the commission. Ryan Kohlmann, a former planner for the city of Issaquah and the Yarrow Bay development near Black Diamond, was appointed to the second open position, taking the place of current commissioner Jan Klier.

The Arts Commission will have five new faces: Anne Schaefer, Lin Garretson, Claradell Shedd, Max Montrey and Mary Lynn Vance.

Current commissioners Bharath Sankaranarayan and

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Daphne Robinson were also reappointed.

Three current commissioners, Krist Morritt, Mary Doerrer and Hank Klein, were reappointed to the Parks and Recreation Commission. Brad Conner, a firsttime commissioner, will take the fourth open spot.

Bruce Morgan, Collin Clark, Frank Blau, Tyler Easley and Robert Brady were appointed to the Beaver Lake Management Board, which monitors the lake’s water quality and educates watershed residents on environmental issues.

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Storm brings snowbound residents together at City Hall

By Christopher Huber

three-fourth of the city – had lost power, according to the compaJosh Wang was excited to prac- ny’s website at 7:21 p.m. Jan. 19. tice his driving skills in the snow So, those who could get to City and ice Jan. 19. So once the Hall enjoyed heat, light refreshstorm had knocked out power to ments and electricity to charge his family’s home in north their phones, computers and Sammamish, the 16-year-old devices.

Eastlake student’s mother let him “I think this is a really great drive them all to City Hall. thing City Hall does,” said Wang got his parents and sibMichele Bryant, who drove from lings there safely around midday her Windsor Greens home to and they spent the rest of the charge her electronics. day, into the By early evening, warm“I think this is a really Jan. 20, power ing up, playing had been great thing City Hall games and restored to working on most of does.” their computSammamish.

– Michele Bryant, ers with their While some Resident – extended famisat and ly and about a perused the dozen others in web in the the City Council chambers. council members’ seats up front, City Hall opened at about 10 Bryant, her niece Michelle a.m. Thursday in its first time as Bryant, and a friend, sat at a an emergency warming shelter, round table covered with elecsaid city manager Ben Yazici. At tronics. Between the three of one point, about 35 Sammamish them, they had brought nine residents gathered in the dimly devices to charge. lit facility, which ran on back-up The atmosphere was calm and generators. Residents came and quiet. A group of children played left until midnight. games on the floor, others just sat “I’m glad we did (open),” and talked, while most were Yazici said. glued to their computer screens.

At the height of the winter ice City employees took calls and storm, more than 15,100 Puget maintained the coffee and snacks Sound Energy customers in the table for visitors.

Sammamish area — more than Of the nearly 20 residents

Photo by Christopher Huber

The Chen and Wang families hunker down at a table in the Sammamish City Council chambers Jan. 19 as they and fellow residents take advantage of the facility’s heat and light refreshments for those who lost power in the ice storm. More than 15,000 Puget Sound Energy customers in the Sammamish area lost power. hanging out at City Hall at 7:30 p.m., most had come simply to charge electronics. The Bryants, Wangs and Chens didn’t seem too

worried about it being too cold at home — they just wanted to have something to do, so came to the open City Hall.

Yazici noted the challenge of getting word out about being See SHELTER, Page 9

Readers find beauty and fun in the snow and ice

Photo by Jane Hartway

Some early blooming flowers in Jane Hartway’s garden were encased in ice, along with the rest of Sammamish, Jan. 20.

Photo by Michelle Bryant

Trystan Ford, 1, and Jack, a 7-year-old Italian greyhound, take to a sled in the Windsor Greens neighborhood Jan. 19.

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named to the honor roll for the fall 2011 semester. Emma Hannigan was named to the president’s honor roll after achieving a 4.0 GPA. Kristine Leo, Keegan McBride and James Nielsen are on the dean’s honor roll, meaning they had a GPA of 3.5 or higher.

Aaron Bowen and Carrie Gibson

Carrie Gibson to marry Aaron Bowen Carrie Gibson, of Sammamish, is engaged to Aaron Bowen, of Issaquah. The bride to be, a 2006 Eastlake graduate, is the daughter of Jim and Kathleen Gibson.

She graduated from Whitworth University in 2010 with a bachelor of arts in marketing and a minor in sociology. She works at Balance Financial as an inside sales and marketing associate.

The future groom, a 2005 graduate of Skyline, is the son of Bob and Janice Bowen. He is a 2009 graduate of Whitworth with a bachelor of arts in mass communication and a minor in leadership studies. He is a school specialist with Public Consulting Group.

They plan to be married Aug. 25 at Hidden Meadows in Snohomish.

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Melody Dossey on dean’s list Melody Dossey, of Sammamish, Was named to the dean’s honor list for the fall quarter of 2011 at Eastern Washington University.

Heather Wrenn earns scholarship Heather Wrenn, of Sammamish, received a $2,000 U.S. Bank minority scholarship at Western Washington University.

The scholarship is awarded to five undergraduates in the College of Business and Economics who must also be a member of an ethnic minority group and demonstrate strong academic merit and potential.

Wrenn is a senior majoring in psychology and business administration. She hopes to work in human resources and continue in school to earn a master of business administration.

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A family’s smartphones and devices charge on a table in the City Council chambers Jan. 19 as residents stay warm and work and play on their computers. City Hall was open until midnight for anyone who lost power in the storm. They enjoyed coffee and snacks, too.

open after everyone had lost power. City employees announced the service on AM 540 radio, put an alert on the city website, posted fliers at the grocery stores in town and contacted 24 adult care homes, he said.

With residents using the council chambers all day, city officials set up the emergency operations center in a back room to keep tabs on clean-up efforts and such.

“So far, it’s been very positive,” Yazici said. “Everybody seems to be very grateful.”

By nightfall Jan. 19, temperatures had fallen back into the high 20s and nearly an inch of fresh snow had made side roads like Beaver Lake Drive difficult to negotiate for small cars.

City road crews and regular, albeit light, traffic kept major arterials like 228th Avenue Southeast and Issaquah-Fall City Road usable.

As the snow and ice gave way to rain Jan. 20, fallen trees and limbs continued to litter yards and impede traffic along various streets.

Ice-coated branches bent to the ground in some areas near the Beaver Lake Preserve, some grazing the tops of cars.

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Back to the old way NORCOM has reverted back to the TriTech system, but incompatibilities between the old software and the new computers installed in the EFR units in preparation for the upgrade has left EFR with a less effective dispatching system, Deputy Chief Wes Collins said in an interview.

Most glaring is the loss of the so-called “automatic vehicle locator” function, which allows the dispatcher to see the location of a fire truck or aid unit that is on its way back from a call. If a potentially life-threatening call came in near that unit’s route, the dispatcher would not be able to tell, Collins said.

Instead of sending the unit that was already on the road, they would likely dispatch a different unit from the nearest station. Collins said it’s not out of the question that this could mean a two or three minute delay for that first unit to get on scene.

Collins added that the old servers that underpin the TriTech system are “nearing the end of their life cycles” and could be a threat to crash.

“We’re stuck in three years ago as far as functionality,” Collins said. “These may not sound like real big issues … but they could cause delays that we don’t want.”

EFR officials say some of the issues stem from the fact that NORCOM is serving as a test case for New World. The company is widely known for its police dispatching software, but had to produce a special version of software for NORCOM since the agency dealt with so many different jurisdictions and dispatches both police and fire departments.

Sammamish Police dispatch through the King County Sheriff’s Office and are not a part of NORCOM. Soptich expressed his frustration with the process at a Jan. 12

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Other reactions

Bellevue, Clyde Hill, Kirkland, Medina and Mercer Island police departments, Bellevue Fire Department, Bothell Fire Department, Duvall Fire District 45, Eastside Fire & Rescue, Fall City Fire District 27, Kirkland Fire Department, Mercer Island Fire Department, Northshore Fire Department, Redmond Fire Department, Shoreline Fire Department, Skykomish Fire Department, Snoqualmie Fire Department, Snoqualmie Pass Fire & Rescue (Fire District 51), Woodinville Fire & Rescue EFR Board of Directors meeting, saying that things had gotten bad enough that he had reached out to the Seattle Fire Department and the Kent-based Valley Communications Center, which dispatches for fire agencies in Renton, Auburn and Maple Valley to ask if they had the capacity to add EFR to their systems. Soptich said officials at Valley Communications Center indicated that it may be two years before they could take on more partners. Even in a best case scenario, switching dispatch centers would be a six-month ordeal, he warned.

Soptich said the lack of a time frame for getting the fire dispatch system working is worrying. The agency is hoping to have the police dispatch system ready by the end of the month, but can make no guarantees for fire officials.

Mullen noted that EFR representatives had been in favor of a different vendor for dispatching software from the beginning of discussions in 2007. She said she wasn’t surprised to hear that Soptich and the rest of the EFR administration had been looking at other dispatch options, but said the agency is confident that an integrated New World system is possible, despite the delays.

“Chief Soptich needs to do what is in the best interest of (EFR),” she said. “I think we’re providing him with a good service and I think in a lot of ways he would agree … We think New World is going be working at some point.”

Other models have their own problems EFR Fire Marshal Bud Backer pointed out in an interview that switching dispatch centers would be a trade off. Fire agencies typically band together to do dispatching because it makes it easier to dispatch “mutual aid” – units from neighboring districts that respond to calls just outside their boundaries. If EFR were to go to a different agency for their dispatching but Redmond stayed with NORCOM, it would require one dispatch center to pick up the phone and call another in order for Redmond units to respond to Sammamish. These cross-border calls for assistance often happen in cases of house fires or major events.

“You’d think (communication between dispatch centers) would be quicker than you picking up the phone and calling 911, but it isn’t always,” Backer said.

Backer said the New World dispatching system was not to blame for the response to the Aug. 24 fire in Sahalee that destroyed a home and nearly took the life of its elderly resident, since the switch to the new software wasn’t until several weeks later. EFR fire trucks responded to the home within the agency’s response time standards, but officials blamed “communication failures” between EFR units and NORCOM dispatchers for the delay in getting a paramedic to the scene to treat the resident of the home, who was suffering from smoke inhala-

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Not all of NORCOM’s partners share EFR Chief Lee Soptich’s pessimism about the project. Mark Chubb, interim fire chief at Woodinville Fire & Rescue, said such a large software overhaul is bound to have some sticking points.

“We’re not at the point where we don’t believe that NORCOM can’t solve the issues that have arisen,” Chubb said. “We’re confident that the NORCOM leadership has a handle on the problem.

There’s been some issues – some of which have been the responsibility of (New World), some of which have been the responsibility of NORCOM and some of which have arisen from customer expectations.”

By customer expectations, Chubb said some of the partners may need to scale back what they expect the program to do.

Chubb, who was not around when NORCOM elected to go with the integrated police and fire system, said he was surprised by the scope of the project when he arrived on the job. tion and burns.

Soptich reported that other members of NORCOM’s governing board, which includes fire chiefs and officials from member cities like Bellevue and Kirkland, had encouraged him to be patient with the process and discouraged him from talking to other dispatch centers. Soptich said the board was afraid of the prospect of litigation between the agency and New World if the project falls apart.

Patience runs thin EFR board members shared Soptich’s exasperation with the whole process.

“I’ve had quite a few dealings with some pretty lousy vendors,

Chubb said a single software system that efficiently manages dispatching and record keeping for police and fire agencies spanning nearly 1,400 square miles is “almost unprecedented.” He said two separate systems for police and fire is more common at police and fire dispatch centers like NORCOM and would likely be a Plan B if New World doesn’t work out.

Chubb said the earlier delays coupled with the recent failed launch has EFR “exercising an excess of caution” but that a New World system that meets some but not all of the earlier expectations was still possible.

Redmond Fire Chief Kevin Donnelly said he was hopeful that New World could become operational, though he noted that Redmond is not an official partner in NORCOM and is only contracted with the agency through 2014, at which time the department would be surveying its options for dispatch.

“I’m hopeful this is something that can get solved, because the regional dispatch model is something that we support,” Donnelly said. but never anything like this,” said Dee Williams, North Bend’s representative on the EFR board. “(NORCOM) is concerned about litigation with (New World) – I could care less about litigation with (New World). If we’re not careful we’ll have litigation with our customers.”

EFR Board Chairman Ron Pedee applauded Soptich for being proactive about the issue while NORCOM’s other partners refused to confront the reality – that the software wasn’t going to work.

“They’re doing a Kabuki dance for their elected boards instead of telling the truth,” Pedee said.

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“This is a train wreck – let’s not get hurt in it.”

EFR officials said they supported such a large undertaking because the idealized efficiency of an integrated police and fire system was appealing to many of the elected officials and city managers that sit on the agency’s governing board. A police officer on an integrated system would be able to quickly bring up a neighboring jurisdiction’s information on a suspect and a fire unit

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“Everybody wanted NORCOM to succeed, so everybody joined in on this,” Collins said. “But I think that for some agencies this ending scenario seemed obvious.”

Sammamish Mayor Tom Odell, one of the city’s representatives on the EFR board, said at the Jan. 12 meeting that the lack of a plan from NORCOM and New World officials was the last straw.

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A discussion of the history, ethics and literature of Japanese internment during World War II, led by Professor Robert Keller, is at 7 p.m. Jan.25 at the Sammamish Library.

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Issaquah School Board 7 p.m. at district headquarters, 565 N.W. Holly St. in Issaquah Jan. 26 City Council retreat at Suncadia Resort through Jan. 28.

Open to the public.

A parent education night teaching parents how to instill resiliency in their children, focused on parents of children ages 3-10, is set for 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church.

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Get an ebook reader for a present? Learn how to download library books to it during a demonstration at 1 p.m. Jan. 28 and Feb. 11 at the Sammamish Library.

Christa McAuliffe Elementary School is hosting a used book rodeo with books, puzzles, games and DVDs on sale from noon-3 p.m.

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Feb. 1 and 2 and from 9 a.m.-noon Feb. 3 at the school.

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Eastlake High School’s Relay for Life kickoff event is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Sammamish EX 3 Teen Center. Relay for Life is a fundraiser to support cancer research which will happen in May. Register by calling 868-9544.

Proceeds will benefit the PTA.

7 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Sammamish Library.

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Want to help save native Creative Kids Preschool is host- plants? King County is seeking volunteers to help ing a workshop on emotional clear a property near coaching, developed by John Redmond and then Gottman, to help parents learn to transport the native guide their children through life’s plants to the county’s ups and downs. It is scheduled holding facility in Duthie Hill for 6:30-8 p.m. Feb. 1 at Good Park. The event is set for Feb. Samaritan Episcopal Church.

4. Volunteers who dig up plants for the county from 9 a.m.-noon can dig plants for themselves from noon-2 p.m.

Volunteers are also needed to pot the dug up plants from 14:30 p.m. at Duthie Hill Park.

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focus on faith Divorce Recovery, for those going through a separation or divorce is set for a weekly class, from 7-9 p.m. Feb. 14- April 24 at Pine Lake Covenant Church.

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Financial Peace University, a class that teaches people how to achieve financial goals by eliminating debt, saving for the future and giving, is scheduled for 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursdays Jan 19-April 12 at Pine Lake Covenant Church.

Wednesday night youth group will have games, worship and fun for students in grades six-12 from 7-8:30 p.m.

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A Toast to the Lord, a faithbased Toastmasters club, meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. every Friday at the Fire Station No. 83 on Issaquah – Pine Lake Road. They offer job interviewing skill development for those seeking employment or a career change; motivational and inspirational speaking training. Call 427-9682 or email orator@live.com.

Mary, Queen of Peace youth groups are for children in sixtheighth grade and ninth-12th grades. Meetings are at 6:30 p.m.

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Police secured the drugs for disposal and advised the two to walk to their nearby homes.

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Stolen passport A resident on the 24700 block of Northeast Third Place reported that a FedEx package containing a newly issued passport had been stolen from their front porch sometime between 10 a.m. and 7:50 p.m. Jan. 11. Police have no suspects.

Pot stop A 19-year-old Sammamish woman and 21-year-old Issaquah man were caught in possession of marijuana and a glass pipe in a car on the 1800 block of 225th Place Northeast at around 8 p.m.

Jan. 11.

Police approached the vehicle after a neighbor complained that the occupants were smoking marijuana inside.

The pair admitted to possessing marijuana and turned over a bag containing 3.5 grams of the

A resident at the Knolls at Inglewood Hill apartment complex reported that someone had stolen the motor off of his boat that was parked at the complex.

The motor went missing sometime between Dec. 24 and Jan. 3. Police have no suspects.

DUI A 23-year-old Redmond man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after being pulled over on the 4400 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway at around 2 a.m. Jan. 4.

The man was pulled over because his vehicle had expired tabs. The man told the officer he had been at The Joker Pub in Issaquah and had drank “a few beers.”

The man performed poorly on field sobriety tests and blew a .15 on a breath test, over the .08 legal limit for driving.

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His vehicle was impounded and he was driven to his apartment in Redmond.

Another copper theft The copper top was stolen off of a stone statue marking the entrance to the Timberline Ridge neighborhood overnight Jan. 3.

Police have no suspects.

DUI A 19-year-old Sammamish resident was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after being pulled over near the corner of Northeast 17th Street and 211th Way Northeast at around 12:20 a.m. Jan. 7.

The man, who was clocked driving 47 mph in a 35 zone, smelled of alcohol and marijuana and admitted to having just come from a party at a friend’s house.

The officer could smell the odor of unburned marijuana in the vehicle, but the man produced a doctor’s note authorizing him to possess the drug.

The man blew a .06 on a portable breath test. He was arrested on suspicion of DUI and released several hours later.

Rude awakening A resident on the 1200 block of 235th Place Northeast reported that someone had thrown a rock through her bedroom window at around 4:20 a.m. Jan. 8.

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of fourth-degree assault after allegedly slapping her husband and hitting him with a broom and shoe.

Police responded to the couple’s home the evening of Jan. 7 after the husband called police.

The husband reported that the two had been in argument over the woman’s drinking when the woman attacked him.

The man had bruises and scratches left from the attack.

The woman was arrested and booked into Issaquah Jail.

A 37-year-old Sammamish woman was arrested on suspicion

Mailbox baseball

Open door An officer on patrol found a garage door open at a home on the 1400 block of 271st Place Southeast at around 1:30 a.m.

Jan. 9.

The occupants did not answer the door, so police left them a door hanger reminding them to close their doors at night.

A resident on the 2800 block of East Beaver Lake Drive reported that someone had knocked over his mailbox overnight Jan. 9.

Several other mailboxes along the roadway also suffered damage, leading police to believe they had been targeted by someone leaning out the window of a moving vehicle. Police have no suspects.

Example: $750. Couple (with minor children, including trust for children)

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Drugs found

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Staff at Skyline High School turned in a pill bottle containing Adderall and over-the-counter pain killers that had been found in a classroom Jan. 11.

Staff could not identify to whom the drugs belonged and turned them over to police for disposal.

Vandalism

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A resident on the 2400 block of 267th Court Southeast reported that someone had destroyed several decorative lights in front of their home on Jan. 10 or Jan. 11. Police have no suspects.

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Items in the Police Blotter come from Sammamish Police Reports.

SAMMAMISH REVIEW

January 25, 2012 • 15 FREE ADS FOR

141-Childcare

142-Services

146-Health & Fitness

BOUNCIN’ BUCKAROOS DAYCARE

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personal items under $250

Classifieds

Great, small, licensed, inhome daycare offering parttime care for your little ones, ages 1-5. A nurturing, fun, safe place to play, learn & grow in Klahanie on the Issaquah-Sammamish Plateau.

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To place your ad call 425-392-6434 Deadline: Monday Noon

44-Business Opportunity

63-Items for Sale/Trade

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134-Help Wanted ADVERTISING SALES REP The Issaquah Press, Inc. seeks a motivated, outgoing person for outside sales for our four community newspapers with a focus on Newcastle News. Territory includes Newcastle, Renton, Factoria, Eastgate and portions of Bellevue. If you have sales experience, motivation and a passion for great customer serv-

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TO ADVERTISE CALL 392-6434 Ext. 222

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210-Public Notices

210-Public Notices 02-2310 LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF SAMMAMISH NOTICE OF ORDINANCE PASSED Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Sammamish adopted the following ordinance at the January 17, 2012 Regular Meeting.

Copies of this document are available and will be mailed upon request of the office of the City Clerk, 801 228th Ave-

An Interim Ordinance Of The City Of Sammamish, Washington, Extending A Moratorium On The Establishment Of Collective Gardens; Defining “Collective Gardens;” And Establishing An Effective Date.

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January 25, 2012

SAMMAMISH REVIEW

Scenes from a storm

Photo by Christopher Huber

Icicles cling to the eaves of a Sammamish home.

Photo by Christopher Huber

Residents help police clear debris on Southeast 43rd Street.

2012 Outlook Seating is limited, so call now: 425-507-9004 www.fisettefinancial.com Today, we confront the aftershocks of a tectonic shift in the global economy that led to the near-collapse of the financial markets in 2008. Weʼre operating in what some have called “The New Normal,” and many of the old investment approaches no longer apply.

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We invite you and a guest to join us for a brunch presentation discussing Michael & Ericaʼs Economic, Market and Political Outlook.

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Blood supply drops 70 percent due to wintry conditions Puget Sound Blood Center issued a call for blood and platelet donations after donations plummeted 70 percent due to the snowstorm and icy road conditions that stymied donors.

The winter weather caused the cancellation of dozens of blood drives. The total loss of donations is expected to reach more than 2,000 units. Officials said the drop-off is the largest weather-related impact experienced by the Puget Sound Blood Center in many years.

“It takes about 900 donors per day to maintain a sufficient blood supply, but on Wednesday fewer than 150 donors were able to give,” Dr. James P. AuBuchon, Puget Sound Blood Center president and CEO, said in a state-

ment issued Jan. 19.

The center is seeking to rebuild the blood supply in the days ahead.

“As soon as our donors are able to travel safely, we urge them to attend one of our centers or blood drives,” AuBuchon said. ”We’re asking them to make a special effort between now and Jan. 31 to donate and replenish the blood supply.”

The center has a special need for O-negative blood donors — universal donors. O-negative blood can be transfused to patients with any other blood type.

“All donors provide a life-saving gift, but O-negative donors are fewer in number and especially important,” AuBuchon added.

Find information about locations and times to give blood from the Puget Sound Blood Center, www.psbc.org. People can donate at 11 donor centers in Western Washington, or check for community blood drives closer to home. Call 1-800-398-7888 to schedule a donation appointment.

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