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City will appeal trail decision

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@sammamishreview.com After a roughly 20-minute executive session, the City Council voted late on the night of March 1 to appeal the city hearing examiner’s decision regarding the East Lake Sammamish Trail.

The city will appeal two parts of the decision, regarding a stop sign where the trail intersects with 206th Avenue Southeast as well as drainage issues, Mayor Don Gerend said.

See APPEAL, Page 5

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@sammamishreview.com

One of the features of the Sammamish Community and Aquatic Center is this leisure pool, including active water features, a whirlpool tub, a zero-depth entry ramp and a feature nicknamed the Lazy River. See more photos at sammamishreview.com.

CENTER OF ATTRACTION Community center getting into shape for grand opening April 30

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@sammamishreview.com While last-minute touches are being completed throughout the building, Sevda Baran, project manager for the city, said Sammamish has set April 30 as the day for the grand opening of the $33.8 million Sammamish Community and Aquatic Center.

The building has taken shape just behind City Hall and the city library on 228th Avenue Southeast.

As Baran and Anjali Myer, another city project manager, give a tour of the building, the center appears ready to open sometime sooner

than April 30. And indeed it might, the YMCA posted on the Sammamish Review’s Facebook page that the center will have a soft opening prior to April 30, though an exact date is not set.

Probably the most eyecatching features of the center are a “lazy river” pool and a roughly two-story water slide.

There is also a large swimming pool, two gymnasiums, exercise rooms with stateof-the-art equipment, locker rooms, meeting rooms, a kitchen and even two spaces for child care.

With a mild current to See CENTER, Page 5

Decision nears for fate of Mars Hill building

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@sammamishreview. com

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@sammamishreview.com

City of Sammamish Project Managers Anjali Myer (left) and Sevda Baran stand March 3 in the main entrance lobby for the new Community and Aquatic Center ECRWSS POSTAL CUSTOMER

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While expressing concern that he was being vague enough not to show the city’s hand, Sammamish City Manager Lyman Howard told city legislators he has seen some interest by outside parties in leasing the former Mars Hill Church building.

Lyman said council members Mayor Don Gerend, See DECISION, Page 3

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Council still has one more decision on ARCH funding

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@ sammamishreview.com Even after an hour or so of discussion, including an exhaustive presentation by an ARCH official, the City Council

debate over the city’s contribution to the nonprofit housing group may be far from done.

ARCH stands for “A Regional Coalition for Housing.” Every year, cities on the eastside of Seattle contribute to an

ARCH trust set up to fund low-income, affordable housing or similar projects, said Arthur Sullivan, ARCH program manager.

For sometimes confusing reasons, the 2016 Sammamish contribution to ARCH seems to have

become bogged down in politics. While the long discussion held during the March 1 City Council meeting settled some contribution questions, one is still seemingly on hold.

At the March 1 meeting, the council voted

unanimously to support a senior citizen housing project in Totem Lake with $5,000. Legislators also agreed to contribute a little more than $62,000 towards ARCH administration costs, including the services ARCH directly

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provides to the city on various housing issues.

During a phone interview, Sullivan later said the $5,000 was donated in 2015. At their recent session, the council merely was voting to approve the monies use for the Totem Lake project. The city has not approved any ARCH trust fund contribution for 2016. And there’s the rub.

Since the contribution first surfaced in the 2016 budget review in December, Deputy Mayor Ramiro ValderramaAramayo and others have questioned a steep increase in the trust fund contribution to $100,000.

At the March 1 council meeting, ValderramaAramayo said that debate has yet to come.

In December, Valderrama-Aramayo said officials need to know the value of donated land and related actions taken on behalf of ARCH. Along with Habitat for Humanity, Seattle-King County, ARCH is helping to build 10 cottages on 228th Avenue Southeast near Southeast Fourth Street.

Besides donating the land for the project, Valderrama-Aramayo said the city waived impact fees, which should have been at least $15,000 per home.

Mayor Don Gerend said the council had requested some further information on the value of in-kind contributions such as those given to the Habitat for Humanity project.

Gerend did not say if or when further contributions to ARCH might come before the council.

He did note that at one time the city’s donations regularly hit $100,000.

Both ValderramaAramayo and Sullivan noted that new City Manager Lyman Howard was a part of the ARCH executive board, though neither said that was the reason for the possible increase in funding.

Howard actually began his official tenure as Sammamish city manager on March 1, formally taking over for now retired City Manager Ben Yazici.

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All’s quiet at Tent City 4 after first month in Sammamish

Decision From Page 1 Deputy Mayor Ramiro Valderrama-Aramayo and Tom Odell have been conducting tours of the building, which sits on 228th Avenue Southeast, with interested parties.

While he would not reveal who the parties are, Howard did mention one is a higher education institution with a four-year program.

“I would say one of these is extremely interested,” Howard said.

The city also has heard from parties interested in short term leases of the building.

And, finally, Howard said a few parties have stepped forward looking to purchase the vacant building. Prices informally offered included the $6.1 million paid by the city last year.

Other potential offers were somewhat higher, Howard added.

Odell said he had been playing tour guide around the building, and at least one potential tenant had come back more than once, or would be in the near future.

“The whole thing is taking longer than we’d hoped it might,” he said.

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“It’s been pretty smooth,” Shively said.

“We haven’t heard any complaints.”

He added that camp leadership had expelled two persons from the camp. One man just was not adhering to the camp’s code of conduct, Shively said, though he didn’t have any details.

The other man was asked to leave because of a warrant for his arrest issued by Whatcom County officials. Church pastor, Rev. Kevin Duggan, said the warrant was for jay walking and was quite old. The man was allowed to spend one night at the camp, then escorted to a bus stop and asked to

leave the area the next day.

Tent City 4 requires all new residents to undergo a background check for warrants or sex offenses. Local police were apparently notified of the Whatcom County warrant. Whatcom officials said they were not interested in pursing the issue, according to

Duggan. He added the man was asked to leave anyway, in keeping with Tent City’s zero-tolerance policy.

“They really are impressing on people that they need a squeaky clean camp,” Shively said.

Camp leadership was not readily available for comment.

Howard’s report and the resulting long conversation about the future of the former church was a direct result of worries by some council members about how much hanging on to the building is costing the city.

The City Council unanimously voted to purchase the building last year with hopes of using it for some higher education function. The schools initially showing interest dropped out because of financial concerns.

Estimates on the building’s upkeep have ranged as wide as $30,000 a year to $266,000 per year. The latter number is supposed to represent upkeep on an operating building. The lower figure is the upkeep of a mothballed building, minus $20,000 given the city for rent of the Mars Hill parking lot by Microsoft.

“I’m very interested in doing something

sooner rather than later to stop the bleeding,” Councilman Tom Hornish said.

Councilwoman Christie Malchow said she’s not convinced the building is mothballed.

She noted council members have been taking potential tenants on guided tours and the city plans to use the building in some capacity for the upcoming Women’s PGA Championship to be held at the Sahalee Country Club in June.

Valderrama-Aramayo said he backed the purchase of the building one year ago this month, but at the time he suggested a motion that the city sell the building in one year if they could not find the higher education tenant they were most interested in.

That motion was not approved. ValderramaAramayo said now it seems to him, the city may be further away

than ever from finding a suitable use for the building. Some council members disagreed.

Councilman Bob Keller said a recent TV news report on Sammamish’s empty building was not accurate. He said the building seems full of potential to him. He objected to the characterization of the city as “bleeding” or “hemorrhaging” money for the up keep of Mars Hill.

At one point, Valderrama-Aramayo made a motion directing the city manager to seek out persons interested in short-term, five-year leases, giving Sammamish time to find educational institutions interested in the property. Some colleges indicated it might take five years for them to be in a financial position to take over the building.

In the end, the rest

of the council deemed Valderrama-Aramayo’s motion as potentially too restrictive. Gerend made a counter motion to suspend ValderramaAramayo’s idea until the next council session. In the meantime, Howard and others could continue to hunt for possible tenants.

The next council meeting is slated for 6:30 p.m. March 15 at City Hall.

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As the first month of residency for Tent City 4 arrived on March 6, there have been no reported incidents involving the residents of the homeless encampment.

Tent City 4 was set up

Feb. 6 at Mary, Queen of Peace Church on 228th Avenue for a 120-day stay.

Church officials meet with camp leadership at least once a week every Friday, said Rich Shively, parish administrator. He said there are about 32 persons living at the encampment presently.

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OPINION

MARCH 10, 2016

On Further Review

Social media has grown up as memory sharing goes online I’ve been here at The Sammamish Review for so long, covering the goings on in our fair city, there’s little I haven’t seen.

So imagine my surprise while surfing the Internet — looking for story ideas, of course — I stumbled across a corner of Facebook staked out by current and former citizens — You Know You Are From Issaquah…

Sammamish, take note — esentially, the site is just a gathering place to share memories or Issaquah’s days past.

It could easily be recreated for the growing plateau community as well.

Someone will post a photo and ask for comments. Others post reunion notices. Even old articles from the Issaquah Press find their way on the

page, drawing fond memories.

The site has 1,805 members, who check in to from near and David Hayes a far.

One of the site’s regulars is 1979 Issaquah High School graduate Mark Shinn. Now living in Newcastle working in promotional marketing, Shinn has traveled to 46 states and 30 countries.

“Everything is compared to Issaquah, my home town,” he said.

So he frequently returns to You Know You’re From Issaquah… to see what people are remembering any giving day.

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County King County Executive Dow Constantine, King County Chinook Building401 Fifth Ave.,

“My favorite posts are when people go on and tell stories from Issaquah, either from times I was there in the 60s to 80s and before,” Shinn said.

Also checking in, but from way up north is Erin Kirkland, a travel writer living and working in Anchorage, Alaska.

I grew up on Bush Street, where my parents and most of the same neighbors still live,” Kirkland wrote to me via email. “And it has been great to connect with the adults and kids (now adults) who lived, worked and played in our wonderful town.”

Kirkland said she is continually amazed by what she finds posted on to the page.

“Well, I’d say from a historical standpoint, it’s pretty amazing the depth of knowl-

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and Chris Fredrickson and my grandparents free and Mabel Abern. Then off to school I went. Life sure was different back then, great memories.

Life was so much simpler.”

Days later, the topic still hadn’t run its course. Tom Flintoff weighed in a full week later.

“I miss the 4th of July Fireworks display at Memorial Field every year put on by the community and the fire department. Everyone in town was there parked around the fence.

Do you remember the big freezer at the Grange Store - the big door getting in. I always worried that the door would not open when we were ready to leave. And the real Santa Clas - Bill Bergsma. And A I Garner dancing on the float in a dress for the 4th of July parade.”

So if you’re a longtime resident looking to catch up old friends or you’re a newbie looking to get better acquainted with your neighbors, check out You Know You Are From Issaquah.

edge on the page. The administrators do a masterful job of finding old newspaper articles, photos and other documents from Issaquah’s early days. As kids, I don’t think we truly appreciated the qualities of those early Issaquah settlers.”

To add to the discussion, I asked a few simple questions to steer the conversation and was surprised by the mountain slide of comments. I asked, stating first, Issaquah is one of the fastest growing cities in the state, but what do you miss the most from when it was little?

I received 251 responses, one after another, day after day. One response jus seemed to jar recollections or others, from the succinct — “Being the Issaquah Indians, with pride” from Melissa Thompson Krueger to the more detailed, such as from Tonya Mae Abern — “Triple XXX we meet up there for breakfast every morning after delivering the post intelligencer all night, my cousin’s Barb

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Appeal From Page 1 Deputy Mayor Ramiro ValderramaAramayo made the motion to appeal. The drainage appeal was approved 6-0. The stop sign issue passed 5-1, with Councilwoman Kathy Huckabay dissenting.

Councilmember Tom Hornish recused himself from both votes. Hornish lives near the trail.

“We worked hard with the city to solve many of the issues related to trail redevelopment within the county’s right of way and we are disappointed with the city’s decision to appeal the hearing examiner’s ruling, which we were not planning to appeal,” said Doug Williams, media relations coordinator for the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks.

The hearing examiner ruled on a number of specific issues, sometimes in favor of the city, sometimes in favor of the county. Williams added the city’s decision delays completion of the trail and adds to the cost.

“Our ultimate goal remains unchanged – to build a safe and enjoyable regional trail for the public’s use – and we feel confident in our design moving forward,” Williams said, adding that, ironically, it was 10 years ago this month

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that the county opened the 11-mile-long interim trail from Redmond to Issaquah.

The state Shorelines Hearing Board will hear the appeal. Gerend said he was unsure when city staff members would file any needed paperwork, but he assumed it would be done fairly quickly.

The appeal before Hearing Examiner John Galt was the result of an appeal by King County of the city’s conditional development permit given in conjunction with the county’s attempts to finish the southern portion of the ELST. In his ruling regarding the stop sign, Galt said safety issues led him to rule in favor of the county, which wants the stop sign to halt street traffic on 206th Avenue, not the trail. The city hoped the stop sign would favor street traffic.

In siding with the county, Gault wrote that vegetation and signage made it impossible for those using the trail to see in both directions on 206th.

As for the drainage questions, Galt ruled that Sammamish had no right to force the county to improve drainage along the trail beyond the level it was at prior to trail construction. ValderramaAramayo said the city has had problems with drainage on already-constructed segments of the trail.

“We’ve had drainage issues King County has exacerbated,” he said.

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Center From Page 1 move swimmers along, the “lazy river” pool snakes around on the first floor of the center and comes complete with what might be called water hazards: a waterfall and overhead buckets that are filled with water until they fill and tip over onto those below. The pool has what Myer calls a zero-depth entry so persons in wheelchairs as well as toddlers can access the pool on their own.

The top of the water slide is reached by stairs leading to the top of the wide-open, two-story pool room. The enclosed slide mostly runs outside the building.

“We saved so much space by putting it outside,” Baran said.

Riders will come to a stop in a splashdown trough to the side of the pool. The only requirement related to the slide is that riders must be at least 4 feet tall.

“Look around,” says Baran, with only a handful of people in the pool room. “It will never be this quiet again.”

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@sammamishreview.com

Workers install pavers March 3 at the main entrance to the Sammamish Community and Aquatic Center as all the loose ends still to be completed are taken care of before the April 30 grand opening.

The second pool is more traditional, not quite big enough to be a competition pool, but perfect for practices, said Baran. Planners talked about building a competition-sized pool, but that would have required more room for spectators as well as more parking and other features. Baran said the building design allows for the pool to grow into a competition pool if that is what is needed somewhere down the line.

The main entrance to the center faces City Hall, with a pathway built to satisfy ADA requirements. Another pathway leads up from the parking garage built partly into the hillside.

Baran refers to that entrance as the “hill

climb” and notes, with a 10 percent grade, it is not ADA certified. The trail includes a couple of wobbly bridges “just for fun,” Baran adds.

The main entrance takes you to the main lobby, with two meeting rooms off to the right. From the lobby, you can access men’s, women’s and individual locker rooms. There are about 400 lockers in the men’s and women’s rooms alone.

Directly ahead from the lobby is the first of several exercise rooms.

Banks of treadmills stand ready, along with stair-climbers and other equipment. Many come equipped with a video screen. If you get tired of looking at that screen, you can stare at the wide-open view

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out the large windows.

Myer agrees the room offers a great view.

“And the best part is, it’s going to stay that way,” she added. Even if the property next to the center gets developed, at most, only the tops of buildings should be visible.

Looking out the back of the center, on a clear day you can see the buildings of downtown Seattle and, from the right spot, downtown Bellevue.

The center features other exercise rooms with rows of stationary bikes or space for yoga classes. Baran points out the diagonal hallway outside the exercise rooms. Instead of building the rooms so as to get a straight hallway, planners deliberately built for a zigzagging hallway. That left room for benches that can be used by those finishing their workouts or just getting ready.

The city is building the community center, but day-to-day operations will be handled by the Sammamish YMCA. Go to blog.sammamishymca.org for more information, including how to join the YMCA.

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Leadership coach pens 18th book, but the first for the general public

By David Hayes dhayes@isspess.com Corporate leadership coach Ron Rael’s book “The Reluctant Leader: Own Your Responsibility With Courage” isn’t his first. Actually, it’s his 18th. But don’t run down to Barnes and Noble or shop Amazon for any of his other titles.

His initial expertise in the business world was a certified public accountant. When he left the profession as an industry and public accountant in 1992, he was still asked to provide training for accounting leaders.

“I wrote these books for that industry,” said the Sammamish resident. “So I wrote the book on leadership for the CPA, the leadership book for CFOs and other related skills for those types of leaders.”

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But the books were industry exclusives.

“So you can’t buy them at a bookstore or Amazon,” Rael said.

“This is first one I’ve made available to public.”

Rael started his own leadership coaching company, High Road Institute, in 1993, helping organizations craft a culture of leadership. He mostly works with “middle market” companies with between 100 and 5,000 employees, including Costco, Starbucks and

RadioShack.

“Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to help them,” Rael said of RadioShack, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year.

The biggest problem companies have, as Rael sees it, is they don’t spend any time training or developing leaders.

“We have what I call ‘just-in-time leadership’ where, boom! you’re a leader,” Rael said.

“You’re thrown in that situation without the knowledge and expertise, so you’re likely going to fail. So when you do, you get judged See AUTHOR, Page 7 Leadership coach Ron Rael, of Sammamish, recently released his first novel, ‘Reluctant Leader

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Author From Page 6 as a poor leader. It has nothing to do with your leadership ability — it’s your training.”

So for his latest book, Rael decided to go a different route than the technical filled tome of insider jargon. He’d follow the example of some of his favorite leadership books like “Who Moved My Cheese” and “The One Minute Manager” and use fiction.

“I found parables, stories within a story, just seem to tell more. Also it gets into the emotion piece, the drama. Real life is full of drama,” he said. “So I thought be a good way to get people to read it and to remember it.”

So Rael created a story revolving around a composite character based on people he’s known and worked with over the years. He chose to make the protagonist a female because she’d be able to embody both genders while allowing the more dramatic pieces to come through.

Rael also inserted himself into the tale.

“She needed someone to butt up against that wasn’t going to back down,” he said.

Through some feedback from a friend, Rael realized the story was initially too much about himself and not enough about his protagonist, Joslyn. He needed to get further into her head, not his own.

“I wanted to understand her struggle,’ Rael said. “She’s at the top of her game. She’s a highly paid CEO. She’s brought a company back from the brink of bankruptcy yet she’s about to be fired and can’t figure it out. Any of us would be struggling, asking, ‘What’s going on?’ ” He kept each chapter short enough to read through in 10- to 15-minute bursts, sprinkling his leadership concepts throughout.

Rael self-published through Amazon Tools and has received good feedback from industry insiders and friends since the book’s debut last July.

“They felt, ‘Wow, it’s more exciting than you

described. I couldn’t put it down.’ When people say that, then you’re telling a good story,” Rael said.

While the first “Reluctant Leader” book took three years to get to press, he’s already working on the next two in the series, one about accountability and the other on communication. Rael plans to anchor them with fictional tales as well.

Rael is also working on nonfiction “bathroom readers,” as he calls them, which contain small books that can be read with short, concise chapters, and is already halfway through another nonfiction guide on possibility thinking.

As a career coach, Rael knows he sound like he’s criticizing leaders. But he said what we all do on a daily basis, from providing good service through leadership skills or directing traffic at the scene of an accident, is what leadership is all about.

“It’s about what we do that has a lasting impact and a positive influence.”

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Photos by Paco Cruz

Teens so talented Clockwise, martial artists (from left) Kushagra Verma, Vinny Palaniappan and Ashwin Madhavan whisk their way through a routine during the Feb. 27 Sammamish Teen Talent Show. Annika Williams (left) and Ethan Cruz Talavera combined their vocal and guitar skills. Haley Lowry gracefully dances her way across the stage. Amanda Wyles (left) and Caroline O’Keefe are talent show alumni who returned to perform for the event’s third year.

Police blotter

Scrambled eggs

Two vehicles were vandalized Feb. 18.

Large scratches were left on both. The cars were parked in a driveway in the 2200 block of Northeast 18th Street.

A total of 23 vehicles were egged the night of Feb. 21. The cars were all parked on Klahanie Drive Southeast and Southeast Klahanie Boulevard. Reports did not mention any suspects or any reason for the attack.

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Police said they intervened in what they called a juvenile drinking party on Southeast 10th Street the night of Feb. 18. Reports did not indicate whether anyone was arrested or cited.

q A driver’s license and credit card are missing from an unlocked car parked Feb. 21 in the 2800 block of 241st Avenue Southeast. q An unknown suspect looked through a

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car parked Feb. 22 in the 1400 block of 222nd Place Northeast. The thief or thieves pried open a door lock to gain entry to the car, but nothing was reported missing. q A suspect or suspects tried to crack open a window to gain entry into a car parked Feb. 22 in the 4200 block of 243rd Avenue Southeast. While the window was cracked, no entrance to the car was made. q Unspecified items were snatched from a car parked in the 4500 block of 230 Way Southeast on Feb. 23.

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Suspicious circumstances An unknown white male was seen standing in front of the reporting party’s home on 227th Avenue Northeast and “staring intently at four packages of planting bulbs next to the house.”

The man then walked down the driveway, got into a car and drove off.

The incident happened 5:17 p.m. Feb. 23.

Car thefts q Police reports don’t have a lot of details, including the make of the car, but a vehicle

disappeared about 12:40 a.m. on Feb. 24 from the parking lot of The Knolls apartment building at 22626 Inglewood Drive.

The owner of the car told police a spare key is missing from his/her apartment. q A car of unknown make was stolen Feb. 25 from the Summerwalk Apartments on Klahanie Drive Southeast. The car was recovered in Renton before its owner even realized it was gone. The car suffered some minor damage.

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Hit and Run A hit-and-run accident took place just before the roundabout on East Lake Sammamish Parkway.

The suspect was driving a red Jeep Patriot and struck a white Cadillac. The Jeep sped off and no one was injured. The incident took place around 2:20 p.m. Feb. 27.

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The following students from Sammamish were named to dean’s lists and honor rolls for fall 2015, according to information provided to the Sammamish Review by the listed colleges and universities through March 1: q Cornell College: Jared Rowe q George Fox University: Sam Naluai q Georgia Institute of Technology: Sierra Copner q Gonzaga University: Kristina Boswell, Devyn Butenko, Morgan Fischer, Erica Horn, Rebekah Horne, Mary Jenkins, Kyle Lerch, Joseph McKay, Haley Mincin, Mollie Reams, Lauren Shade, Kelly Shea, Jonathan Teman, Carter Timm, Joseph Wage, Nicholas Bice, James Boyle, Jordan Boyle, Conner Brown, Caroline Cindric, Stephanie Clay, Tara Cristallo, Ian Edwards, Kelly Garrett, Todd Guse, Tyler Hamke, Alyssa Hawkinson, Julia Hormuth, Jordan Juranek, Donna

Kaczynski, Mikaela Kang, Shane Kovalsky, Tristana Leist, Madeline McGregor, Nathan McKorkle, Katherine Pratschner, Abigail Sicuro, Zach Steinberg, Travis Tran, Ashley Trunnell, Vicente Varas, Jordan Webber, John Wilcox, Molly Wilson. q Grove City College: Martin Lammers q Linfield College: Conner Floan q Montana State University: Ryan Caraway, Ryan Galloway, Elisabeth Rowley q Northwest Nazarene University: Stephanie Copenhaver q Pratt Institute: Jennifer Zhu q Rochester Institute of Technology: Madison Rose, Jiseon Lee, Camila Serrano q Rogers State University: Marlaina Trahant q St. Olaf College: Justin Pacholec q Seattle Pacific University: Christopher Bench, Chad Brown, Jory Giesa, Dustin Kress, Makenzie Schmid, Kayla Smith, Anne Spaulding q Tufts University: Shannon Ludeman, Mia

Richards q University of Idaho: Paul Russo, Erin Taylor, Linn Bartel q University of Kansas: Hallie Holton q University of Puget Sound: Ali O’Daffer q University of Rochester: Stephanie Busch q Washington State University: John William Armour; Kianna Miako Bertolino; Blaire Allen Brady; Jordan Taylor Browning; Rita Alejandra Calcagno; Madisen Leah Camp-Chimenti; John Thomas Castle; Ian Charles Christie; Lauren Annette Condell; Emily Anne Copeland; Morgan Brianne Coyle; Grant Mckinley Evans; Jared Ray Files; Lauren Yvonne Files; Kenzie Scotia Fleischman; Lisa Anne Gaviglio; Anna Joy Gleichman; Thomas Brian Hanan; Zachary Patrick Howard; Christina Wen-i Hsiao; Paige Elizabeth Kallander; Haley Michelle Kirk; James M. Lawler; Bryant Hugh MacWhirter; Daniel Ryan Parducci; Natalie Jane Payton; Thomas Peyton Pelluer; Abbey Marise Porter; Barrett Alexis Porter; Justin Robert

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Two students are on to national Reflections Elementary students Johanna Aslte of Margaret Mead and Joseph So of Grand Ridge are moving on to the PTSA’s national Reflections finals on April 30. They were among more than 1,100 submissions received at the recent state finals. This year’s theme was “Let Your Imagination Fly.” Here’s a complete list of how local students fared at the state level: Dance Choreography q Award of Merit — Ananya Ahuja, Samantha Smith Elementary School Film Production q Award of Merit — Rishit Khare, Pacific

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The performance is at 3 p.m. March 13 at the Bellevue Presbyterian Church, 1717 Bellevue Way N.E. The lineup includes Eric Whitacre’s “Cloudburst,” complete with bass drum and thunder sheet, David Brunner’s “Jabberwocky” and a new work by artistic director Dr. Linda Gingrich, set to the words of the old Scottish prayer that is our theme.

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Eastlake Wolves look for more goals

By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com Here’s a look at what to expect from the area’s boys soccer programs during the 2016 season, with the first games on tap March 11.

Eastlake Wolves Coach: Adam Gervis, 15th season Key games: March 25 vs. Redmond, April 11 vs. Skyline, April 19 at Inglemoor Gervis has had plenty of success in his long tenure with the Wolves, guiding them to four state-playoff appearance, including the 2011 championship.

But recent seasons have been lean and

Soccer previews Eastlake struggled to a 1-6-1 record in conference last season. Gervis said then the team wasn’t scoring enough goals and the record supports his claim – only five tallies in eight KingCo matches.

The coach thinks he has a plan in place to address the scoring drought. The Wolves have added senior Thiago Bandeira – a star tennis player – to their front line, and they’ve chosen to trim the varsity roster to 17 players, a significant drop.

“There was some disconnect with having so many last year,” Gervis said. “It’s all about play-

ing time, in reality.”

Veterans Connor Ahlquist, Anthony Humay and Veton Redzepi are also expected to contribute to the attack.

Star goalkeeper Jack Hornsby graduated, and there are two potential replacements in Chris Owen and Patrick Schneider. The Wolves still have a couple good leaders along the back line in Nathaniel Islip and Max Langston.

“I think the difference between this squad and the last squad is this is a completely interchangeable group, something I haven’t had in years,” Gervis said. “I can play pretty much any player at any position and he’ll be pretty darned good.”

Eastside Catholic Crusaders Coach: Scott Brayton, 15th season Key games: April 18 vs. Roosevelt, April 25 vs. Lakeside, April 27 at Ballard Eastside Catholic struggled to a 6-10-2 mark in 2015, but there reasons to believe the program can turn a corner and return to the Class 3A state playoffs for the first time since 2007.

Those reasons start with the Crusaders’ two newest collegiate recruits, forward Alex Beauchene (Western Washington) and goalkeeper Paul Lewis (Loyola Marymount).

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Matthew Richardson (right) plays in a 2015 soccer See SOCCER, Page 12 match between Skyline and Archbishop Murphy.

Eastlake Little League celebrates 25 years of fun

By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com A quarter century after it was founded, Eastlake Little League has grown into one of the plateau’s most popular organizations, and expects to have more than 700 players suiting up for the 2016 season.

As the world’s largest youth sports organization, stretching into more than 80 countries, Little League prides itself on giving children the type of experience big-leaguers get when they set foot in Dodger Stadium or Safeco Field.

Eastlake’s success – including its top-notch uniforms and wellmanicured fields – stems from the financial support it gets from the community, said Matt Fitzgibbons, the league’s vice president of baseball.

But the task of serving hundreds of families per year also requires a dedicated army of vol-

unteers, said ELL president Brian Carter, who not only oversees the league’s 22 board members but is also coaching a team of 8-year-olds this season.

“An average coach today, between now and the end of the season, will probably invest close to 300 hours volunteering their time to manage and coach kids, and it’s not just about baseball,” Carter said.

“That’s what blows me away and inspires me.”

Part of the league’s mission is to create quality young men and women with outstanding social and leadership skills. ELL recently started a program, “Be Kind,” designed to foster friendships among the children and positive interactions with adults.

“It’s really simple – the kids are rewarded for essentially doing kind acts toward teammates, coaches, parents, umpires,” said Ron Branch, who oversees the league’s marketing and promotional efforts,

and is the father and coach of an 8-year-old player.

Branch believes the “Be Kind” program is something that could help distinguish ELL from a dizzying array of youth sports options in the area.

“We got some feedback from moms … where it’s just more about community rather than your tee baller being an all-star player,” he said. “It’s kind of about getting together and sponsoring those good virtues in a child, and getting good habits.”

Carter, who grew up playing baseball and developed into a collegiate player at Colorado State University, said he initially got his two sons involved in Little League simply because he wanted to pass along the love of the game.

Over the past several years, he said, the league has come to mean much more than that.

“It’s about the community,” Carter said.

“It’s about seeing kids

develop as individuals as well as players. There’s a lot of great kids who have come through here and have done a lot of great things. But I think, ultimately, Little League is about the development of our youth as they grow and become young men.”

“I’ve made a lot of really good friendships through Eastlake Little League and they’re not going to go away once I stop coaching,” Fitzgibbons added.

The league’s recent on-field success has also helped enrollment grow. In 2013, Eastlake’s majors baseball team became just the 10th team in state history to advance to the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa. Fitzgibbons was an assistant coach on that team under manager Rob Chandler, and watched with amazement as his son, Nathan, and the other boys went through a few weeks of whirlwind activity, advancing through state,

regional and national tournaments.

They eventually placed third in the U.S. division at the World Series.

“The thing that Little League always tells you is, it’s something that nobody in the world can buy,” Fitzgibbons said.

“I’ll tell you firsthand that it’s everything it’s cracked up to be. It was incredible.

“The kids were absolutely giddy with the gear that they got, the places they got to see, the people they got to meet, the relationships they’ve built, the games they got to play.”

The team is still viewed as a source of inspiration in the community. Branch organized a get-together between some of the 2013 Little Leaguers – now freshmen and sophomores in high school – and players at Blackwell Elementary School.

“I kind of wanted to say, ‘Hey, guys, here’s three kids from your grade school that got

to play in the World Series,’” Branch said. “So there’s a chance if you aspire to do that.”

Eastlake’s softball program has had similar success that young girls can relate to. In 2013, the majors division all-stars (ages 11-12) advanced to regional play in southern California. Last summer, the junior all-stars (13-14) went to regionals in Arizona and the 9-10 all-stars won a state title.

Those accomplishments were due, in part, to the relationship between Eastlake High School’s fastpitch program and Steve Pollis, ELL’s former vice president of softball.

ELL’s teams trained on the high school diamond – an anomaly among District 9 programs – and helped with financial support when the school built a new indoor training facility last winter.

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25 years From Page 11 Eastlake High baseball program is a goal for officials like Carter, Fitzgibbons and Branch, although they noted it’s been difficult maintaining a connection there because the school has had three head coaches in the past three years.

“We’re off to a good start this year with the new coach, Frank Smith,” Carter said.

“We had a few of their boys come out to our parent night … and

we’re doing a huge promotional effort to kind of get a lot of our kids into their spring break camp.”

ELL officials have a long-term vision for keeping the organization running efficiently, but above all, Branch said, the kids should have smiles on their faces and a passion to play.

“It’s kind of like a rite of passage to play baseball when you’re 5 to 12,” he said. “To me, that’s what we should be about, is having a strong league and getting kids to turn out and come back every year.”

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Soccer From Page 11 lenge as five squads – Bainbridge, Ballard, Garfield, Lakeside and Roosevelt – reached state last year. The Crusaders gained some confidence, Brayton said, with a lateseason season charge that nearly saw them join that group.

The coach expects good things from several other returning players, including Matt Reiff, Andres O’Beirne-Serrano and Scott Lees, and named Benjamin Pederson as a newcomer to watch.

“Scoring more goals this year is what we need to improve on,” Brayton said.

Skyline Spartans Coach: Don Braman, 19th season Key games: March 26 at Puyallup, April 13 at Wenatchee, April 28 vs.

Issaquah The Spartans ended 2015 on a high note after three losses in KingCo 4A play dropped them to the No. 3 seed into the conference tournament.

There, they convincingly beat Woodinville, Redmond and regularseason champion Mount Si to reach the state playoffs, the sixth straight year the program accomplished the feat.

Skyline graduated several key players from that 10-4-4 squad – namely all-state defender Nick Morgan, and workhorse midfielders Nate Hardwick and Garrett Strawn – but were a relatively young group. The team has a good chance to extend its state-qualifying streak.

Senior Alex Appel is the likely No. 1 option at goalkeeper, and seniors Grant Holland and Fed Rubiolo are experienced defenders.

Senior Matthew Richardson, who notched one of the few hat tricks in school history last season, provides speed at striker and should get help in hold-up play from sophomore Sergio Palomino. But the keys to the attack belong to senior Luis Miller, whose footwork and creativity were a nightmare for many opponents last spring.