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New park at beach to open this fall

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By Caleb Heeringa

By Caleb Heeringa

This fall, Sammamish residents will finally have public access to the lake the city is named after.

The City Council got an update on Sammamish Landing Park at its April 18 meeting while approving a $45,000 contract for redesign work on the park’s two docks.

The update also stirred up some grumbling from citizens and at least two council members who worried that the city wasn’t getting enough bang for its buck in the $650,000 park project.

“It’s an awful lot of money – I’d hate to build something and have a small amount of people using it,” Councilman John Curley said, shortly before voting against the approval of the dock design money. “What are there – 74 sunny days in the Seattle area all year? So we’re talking about 40 days when people can be in the water?”

The city plans to construct an entry plaza, picnic shelters and portable toilets and improve the trail system and access to a series of “pocket beaches” along the water. It’s a bare-bones version of the master plan for the park, approved last July, which calls for 400-foot sand beach, 36-stall parking lot on the other side of East Lake Sammamish Parkway, permanent restrooms and a kiosk that could be used to rent canoes and kayaks.

That grander plan came with See LANDING, Page 3

Photo by Christopher Huber

Bhagrav Vasireddy, 6, announces an exciting find after opening an egg during the Eggstravaganza April 23 at the Sammamish Family YMCA. More photos Page 6.

Inglewood Hill apartment complex. Sammamish Parks Director The Sammamish City Council Jessi Richardson said the city has passed an ordinance April 18 that been trying to reach a settlement will allow the city to condemn, with CMS Companies, which and eventually obtain, a strip of owns the apartment complex, offprivate property in front of the and-on for about a year. The city city’s soon-to-be-opened teen hired a property appraiser who recreation center. put the value of the land at The 7,355 $110,000, but square feet of the city has yet “I’m well aware of the property in to receive a council’s hesitance to question is counter offer. use their condemnation needed for the “The city city to install a has had an power.” second driveongoing dia– Bruce Disend, way for vehilogue with the cles to access property ownCity attorney – the Boys and ers and that Girls Club facilcontinues ity. Currently, the only driveway today,” City Attorney Bruce into the former King County Disend told the council. “I’m well Library building’s parking lot is aware of the council’s hesitance from 228th Avenue near the to use their condemnation power intersection with Inglewood Hill – I can assure you that this will Road, making left turns into and only be implemented if all else out of the facility impossible. fails.”

The property in question curCMS representatives say they rently contains some landscaping See DRIVEWAY, Page 2 and a sign for The Knolls at

Kokanee salmon released into creek

By Laura Geggel

Seventy-five kokanee fry swam in a small camping cooler by Laughing Jacobs Creek, unaware they were surrounded by federal, state, county and city administrators, as well as concerned citizens — all people intent on helping the native salmon survive in the wild.

The Issaquah Salmon Hatchery teamed up with the

Lake Sammamish Kokanee Work Group and dignitaries from the city all the way to the federal level for the second annual kokanee fry release at Hans Jensen Park on April 18.

Last year, the group released the kokanee at Ebright Creek in Sammamish, and next year the release will be celebrated at Lewis Creek in Issaquah.

Photo by Greg Farrar

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Kokanee salmon fry wait in a cooler to be released into Laughing Jacobs Creek.

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Sammamish Art Fair needs artists The Sammamish Arts Commission invites artists from Sammamish and the surrounding area to submit their application to participate in the fifth annual Sammamish Art Fair. The event features local fine artists, as well as a variety of family and children’s activities. In addition, it will feature live entertainment.

The art fair has grown to be a

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are willing to sell the land to the city, but the property in question is collateral for a loan on the property, so the company has to get permission from their lender before selling the strip of land.

Though several council members said they were hesitant to use eminent domain, all agreed that getting better access to the Boys and Girls Club was key to the project’s success. City staff hopes to finish the driveway by the time the building opens to the public this fall.

“The portion of the parcel owned by the complex has no great functional use … It isn’t like we’re taking half of a home or something,” Councilwoman Nancy Whitten said. “Safety is an

standout annual event, due to it being a juried show.

Artists selected to the art fair do not have to pay booth fees or a commission, but will be assigned a committee to help organize the event.

For more information and to download the application form, visit www.sammamishartfair.wordpress.com. The application deadline is May 15. The event runs 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct 8 and 9 at Sammamish City Hall.

overwhelming factor in this decision. (Getting in and out of) the library site is dangerous – so dangerous I was almost scared to acquire it in the first place.”

Disend told the council that condemnation requires two court hearings.

During the first the judge will rule whether there is enough public benefit to warrant the city acquiring the land, something Disend called “pretty much a foregone conclusion.”

During the second the judge will likely hear from appraisers hired by both sides and then decide how much money CMS is entitled to for the property.

City Manager Ben Yazici said he was hopeful that the city could reach agreement with the company to begin construction this summer while the details of the condemnation are still being worked out.

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an estimated $6.6 million price tag that didn’t sit well with some on the council and in the public.

Councilmembers Tom Odell and John James voted against the plan at the time.

Parks Director Jessi Richardson said the first phase was a modest investment by the city – just enough to get it open and safe for the public. Once people get onto the property and see the park’s potential, Richardson said, the city can decide whether the rest of the amenities are worthwhile.

“When I started working on this three years ago I was a skeptic myself,” Ricahrdson told the council. “What we have here is one of the most beautiful areas in

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“This fry release is a critical part of our kokanee recovery and restoration efforts,” David St. John, Department of Natural Resources government relations administrator, said.

He outlined the group’s goals: preventing kokanee extinction and restoring a diverse and native habitat for the salmon.

“In our last run there was probably 100 fish, so we’re at low numbers, extremely low numbers,” St. John said.

A normal run for kokanee usually extends into the hundreds or thousands, he said in a later phone interview.

Mayor Don Gerend commended the hatchery’s program, reminding his audience of a mud slide in the Ebright Creek basin in March that “muddied the waters and perhaps washed out some of the redds,” he said, referring to the kokanee’s nests.

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the city with a lot of potential.”

The park, which stretches for 6.3 acres along the lake at the northern tip of the city, wraps around the East Lake Sammamish Trail. Much of the area was owned by the city of Redmond, which in 2008 gave their land to Sammamish with the agreement that the city would turn it into a park.

By a 4-2 vote, with Curley and Odell dissenting, the council approved spending $45,000 of the $650,000 for the project on structural redesign of the park’s two docks, which flood during the winter and are in disrepair and not safe for public use. The new docks would be designed to float, thus still being useable during periods of high water on the lake.

The city plans to have separate and distinct areas for swimming, boating and fishing. Richardson said the docks likely wouldn’t be

built and open to the public until summer 2012.

Aside from the park’s cost, the sticking point for many has been the access issue. There is some street parking on 187th Avenue, near the north end of the park,

By having the hatchery raise and release kokanee — the landlocked cousin of the sockeye salmon — the fish have a second chance at survival.

Darin Combs, Issaquah Salmon Hatchery manager, explained how the spawning projects worked. The hatchery found adult fish in three local creeks — Ebright, Laughing Jacobs and Lewis — and brought them to spawn at the hatchery Nov. 17. In order to imprint the young kokanee, the hatchery used water from each fish’s native creek.

Darigold sold water to four cities — Issaquah, Sammamish, Bellevue and Redmond — so hatchery staff could thermally mark the 14,500 kokanee for tracking purposes.

When the kokanee eggs hatched early, the hatchery kept them incubated, giving them more time to grow in size and strength.

“They’ve grown tremendously,” Combs said. “They’ve tripled in size.”

Jessica Leguizamon, a 10-year-

old from Bellevue, came to the ceremony with her family and released two of the small fry into the creek.

“It feels really good to help an endangered species,” she said.

“Now I know there’s at least two more fish in the water.”

“I think it’s going to get busy there. I think you’re going to see people with strollers and wagons.”

– Jessi Richardson, Parks director – but otherwise park users are going to have to do some walking or biking. From 187th, Richardson estimated that it is a half-mile to the park’s beaches.

Curley asked Richardson if that

High praise and hard work Issaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger called salmon “iconic” in the Pacific Northwest.

“We know that the disruption of small tributaries to these other small streams is something that is very damaging to them, so we’re working very hard collectively as communities to make sure that we can keep these fish from going extinct,” she said.

King County Executive Dow Constantine said the hatchery’s spawning program was pivotal to helping the kokanee survive, but said it was not a long-term answer.

“It is not the substitute for habitat protection and recovery, but it’s an essential step,” he said.

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was so far that residents might not bother, with much easier access at Lake Sammamish State Park at the south end of the lake.

“If I’m a resident with a couple kids and I have the schlep them to the beach, I’m going for the day and not just for an hour,” Richardson said. “When (the trails) are paved, I think it’s going to get busy there. I think you’re going to see people with strollers and wagons. On a hot summer day when you park at Pine Lake Park right now, you’re parking across the street at the elementary school – you’re walking almost the same distance.”

During public comment, several residents, including members of Citizens for Sammamish, spoke out against the project, saying it was too much money to spend during a recession when the city is still considering spending tens of millions of dollars on

a community center.

“The funds you guys get are not monopoly money,” Sammamish resident Megan Gee said. “We spent our blood, sweat and tears to get you this tax money … I don’t see the rush to spend money on this park – let’s get the community center figured out first.”

Most on the council remained confident that it was a worthwhile project that would finally provide some public access to the lake in city limits.

“It is a wonderful, minimalist approach to a park that hits something that is a need,” Councilwoman Nancy Whitten said. “We don’t have a public (waterfront) park in Sammamish.

It’s like having money in the bank and not getting interest or having inventory on the shelf not getting used … It’s going to be a jewel to the city.”

Kokanee Work Group is working to help the kokanee thrive in their native waters. Since 2007, watershed residents and representatives from King County, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the cities of Sammamish, Issaquah, Bellevue and Redmond, Trout Unlimited and kokanee recovery advocates work together to help the fish.

The work group counts the number of kokanee and surveys their spawning grounds. As a result of their work, King County has developed plans to replace a culvert on Zaccuse Creek where it flows underneath the East Lake Sammamish Trail, an obstacle that prevents kokanee from swimming past it.

In other good news, the county recently acquired about 100 acres in the Issaquah Creek headwaters and within the Taylor Mountain Forest for habitat restoration. Although no kokanee live in Issaquah Creek currently, the restoration project may bring them back.

These projects will not only help the kokanee, but also other fish, wildlife, and the people who live near creeks, streams or Lake Sammamish.

“Healthy forests, healthy streams, healthy lakes are things that we all want for ourselves and our children,” Constantine said.

“They are essential to our quality of life.”

Supporting another successful run of kokanee means a lot not only to local citizen groups, such as Friends of Pine Lake, but also to American Indians. Matt Baerwalde, of the Snoqualmie Tribe, said his people relied on the kokanee run for sustenance, historically.

“The intertwined histories of the little red fish of Lake Sammamish and the Snoqualmie Tribe go back an awfully long time, and some could argue that there are some certain parallels in those histories,” he said.

Reach reporter Laura Geggel at 392-6434, ext. 241, or lgeggel@isspress.com.

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OPINION Sammamish Forum Focus on what matters

Stormwater guidelines: boring but important There is a rule of inverse proportions that is generally true in government: The more boring something is, the more important.

That certainly seems to be the case with proposed changes to the way the city handles stormwater regulations. The regulations govern generally how much water can leave a property after a rainstorm and how quickly. The rules are arcane and can seem confusing to the uninitiated, but whatever the council decides will matter.

Do you or your children like swimming in Sammamish lakes? Do you think there’s a chance you might want to expand your house, build a sport court or widen your driveway a bit? Then this will matter.

The general gist of the proposal is that for residents on properties of 1 acre or smaller — most of the residents in Sammamish — an older, less restrictive set of water standards would apply. Larger properties would need to abide by more recent, more stringent requirements.

There are trade-offs here, and no easy answers.

Stricter standards mean, in the long view, the streams and lakes surrounding and criss-crossing Sammamish could get cleaner. The cost, however, could be thousands of added dollars for residents looking to expand their homes to study the way water leaves their land, then, possibly, a few thousand more to reduce the impacts.

Of course, the environmentally conscious and neighborly thing is to reduce impacts on lakes and adjacent properties. But is it reasonable to add thousands of dollars in costs to someone who just wants to increase their home’s size by a smidgen or put in a shed?

To date, there have been a handful of citizens involved in this process. We commend them on their engagement and study of a sticky, unglamorous issue. The rest of the population needs to pay attention, too.

Don’t wait to study up on the stormwater rules until you are sick of swimming in dirty water, or have to wade through piles of red tape just to lay a little bit of pavement in your yard.

Poll of the week Will you go to Sammamish Landing Park?

A) Absolutely. I’d love a chance to swim in the lake.

B) No. Not a beach person.

C) No. I can’t figure out how to get there.

D) I will once the parking lot opens in a few years.

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The controversy over the application by a Muslim mosque for a parking lot on Southeast 20th Street has unfortunate elements to it, but on the merits, there is substance to the concerns.

Traffic is probably the least of the issues, because it will be spread throughout the day. The environmental impact of a 40-stall parking lot to highly sensitive Pine Lake is the key issue. I should think the cost of handling runoff would be a deterrent to the mosque.

The land use of a religious institution in a residential neighborhood is another legitimate concern.

But in response to Dana Hutson’s letter of April 20 “betting” that if the mosque was a Christian church, the city wouldn’t consider the request and it is doing so “in the name of tolerance” is factually incorrect.

Years ago, the Evergreen Church proposed locating on a residential area on the north side of Pine Lake.

The city moved to process this permit. Because of the large size of the membership, the church and the parking lot, residents on the north side of the lake were understandably upset and tried to block it.

Only when a different church that owned land on 228th Avenue failed financially and did a land deal with Evergreen did this church locate on 228th, and the north side Pine Lake residents “dodged the bullet.”

The real issue is the allowed use of a religious institution in residential zoning. It’s not the nature of the religion.

Scott Hamilton The writer is a former member of the Sammamish Planning Commission

The Bible is violent, too I’d like to respond to Ed Roberts’ letter in the Sammamish Review of April 13. He talks about the violent passages in the Koran and notes, “I know all Muslims don’t believe that but their Koran does.”

That’s true, but we could say the same about Christianity: all Christians don’t support the violence, but their Bible does.

The Old Testament unambiguously supports genocide (1 Samuel 15:3, Judges 21:10), violence (Numbers 31:15-18, Deut. 22:2021), and slavery (1 Kings 9:20-21, Leviticus 25:44-46, Joshua 9). Read those passages for the unpleasant details.

In fact, the Southern Baptist Convention broke away to become a separate denomination in 1845 because it was in favor of slavery — and had the Bible verses to overwhelmingly back up that position.

What’s the conclusion? I think it’s that religions can originate with violence but that their adherents can improve out of it. Let’s judge individuals by their actions, not by their religion.

Bob Seidensticker Sammamish

Pipeline discussion overdue It is about time: The Sammamish City Council had a recent study session on the Northwest Pipeline operated by Williams Co. The potential dangers of the pipeline were discussed.

What I heard during the City Council’s study session does not match my experience.

Representatives of the pipeline said that every resident within some 660 feet on either side of the pipeline are receiving notifications on an annual basis. Really?

They announced that a letter to residents was on its way dated April 20, 2011. Well, I have lived within 500 feet of the pipeline for five years and I had not received any communication from the Williams Company until I contacted Grant Jensen, manager of the Redmond office.

He responded by hand-delivering the leaflets, and promised to investigate why the official notification letters are not reaching us residents here in the Illahee neighborhood. I was pleased with Jensen's concern.

I also perused the company website and found no information about the 36-inch pipe that was

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installed in my neighborhood in 2006.

In fact, the company website does not mention any 36-inch pipes at all.

There are a couple of future construction plans near the pipeline near my neighborhood of Illahee in Sammamish and I hope all the engineers in these projects are informed about the presence of the pipeline.

There are several schools near the pipeline, especially Smith Elementary School and Inglewood Junior High School, and I know the children and staff at theses schools are not aware of the proximity of the pipeline.

Many people are walking the trails along the gas pipeline, unaware. All people near the pipeline should be trained to know what to look for in case of a pipe leak or pipe break: If you notice dead plants, smell of gas, or a loud hiss, for example, call 911 immediately and evacuate the area!

Katja May Sammamish

Don’t do two stormwater manuals In presenting the city’s proposed bifurcated stormwater rules, Eric LaFrance seems to be between a See FORUM, Page 5

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County Executive recommends against sewer rate hike

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King County Executive Dow Constantine called for keeping monthly sewer rates stable for 2012 under a proposal sent to the County Council last week.

The executive called for customers served by the county’s clean-water utility to continue to pay the current wholesale rate of $36.10 per month.

The rate covers the cost to collect and treat wastewater from 34 local sewer utilities, including Sammamish.

Issaquah collects wastewater from more than 4,800 residences and businesses. The city does not operate a treatment plant.

Instead, the city pays the county to send wastewater to the South Treatment Plant in Renton.

The county adopted the existing sewer rate last year in order to pay the long-term bonds used to finance Brightwater, a $1.8 billion treatment plant under construction near Woodinville.

Under Constantine’s proposal, the capacity charge for new sewer hookups is due to increase by 3 percent as planned, from $50.45 per month in 2011 to $51.95 per month next year.

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rock and a hard place. I suspect he knows from his own experience that how we handle stormwater has real consequences for the health of our environment.

Yet the city seems more interested in keeping things happy at the permit desk than ensuring that we have high storm-water standards.

Repeatedly, LaFrance admitted that so much is difficult to quantify; that the city hasn’t actually mapped all its drainage

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basins; that the cumulative effect of the new rules would be hard to gauge.

Under that scenario, we need the best scientific storm-water standards.

I agree with Jan Klier and Mahbubal Islam’s minority opinion from the Planning Commission: Bifurcating the stormwater code is a bad idea. I won’t repeat what they said, but would urge you read it online. I would add that larger developments — more than an acre — would be held to 2009 stormwater standards.

But subsequent revisions and remodels, by individual landowners, could revert to 1998

standards, and serious future potential consequences.

The city suggests engineering costs might run $3,000 to $6,000 for small lots.

Let’s keep in mind that a single acre could yield four singlefamily houses.

With average home prices at about $600,000, spending less than 1 percent to make sure that storm water is properly handled would seem a small price to pay.

Mark Cross and Nancy Whitten’s concerns should be shared by the rest of the Council.

As Cross said, “We’re talking about more water coming off

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their sites and …onto public property or a neighbor’s property.”

Even a small failure of a drainage system on my lot, or a neighbor’s lot, can cause real and sometimes expensive damage.

We aren’t Issaquah. We aren’t Redmond. In the difficult terrain we have in Sammamish, we need to have the highest, best standards.

To do otherwise is just penny wise and pound foolish.

Tom Vance the wrter is former chairman of the Sammamish Planning Commission

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Sun shines on Eggstravaganza

Natalie, right, in pink, and Bryn Macfarlan, of Issaquah, pose for a picture with the Easter bunny as other parents wait with their children during the YMCA Easter Eggstravaganza April 23.

Children scramble to collect Easter Eggs during the Easter Eggstravaganza event April 23 at the Sammamish Family YMCA. The Y and Sammamish Kiwanis stuffed approximately 8,000 eggs for the event.

Hundreds of families from Sammamish and the surrounding area descended on the Sammamish Family YMCA April 23 to partake in the Easter Eggstravaganza festivities. Volunteers from the Y and the Sammamish Kiwanis club stuffed approximately 8,000 plastic Easter eggs for the multiple egg hunts during the annual event, according to organizers.

Besides the egg hunt, organizers had games, a fire truck and a visit from the Easter bunny.

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Martin and Aria Turney, of Renton, catch a piece of candy at the fishing game at the Sammamish Family YMCA April 23.

A girl looks to her parents while sitting in the driver’s seat of an Eastside Fire & Rescue fire engine from Station 83.

Fisher Black, 3, eagerly waits for the Easter egg hunt to begin.

Children brought their own baskets to help them scoop up eggs.

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Council will decide how to manage stormwater runoff

By Caleb Heeringa

In deciding whether to keep older and less-restrictive stormwater regulations for developments less than an acre in size, some City Council members have found themselves frustrated by the lack of quantifiable information they have to go on.

“I’d like an analysis, apart from costs – I want to know, in terms of outcomes, what the impact will be with and without (the newer regulations on smaller developments),” Councilwoman Nancy Whitten said at an April 18 council meeting.

It’s a frustration Whitten shares with Sammamish environmentalists like Erica Tiliacos, former chairwoman of the city’s planning commission, and Ilene Stahl, president of Friends of Pine Lake. Concerned that the council isn’t getting the whole story from city staff bent on

putting property owners’ fiscal health above that of Sammamish’s streams and lakes, the two have offered to invite environmental scientists to testify to the council on the value of adopting the newer, stricter standards for all development in the city, regardless of size.

“If everything we were doing was keeping the water clean then we wouldn’t have to be updating (stormwater) manuals and coming up with new regulations and figuring out who can build and who can’t build,” Tiliacos said during public comments at the April 12 council meeting. “We’re trying to clean up the Puget Sound and this is where it starts – it all starts here.”

Tiliacos and Stahl’s offer was taken up by Whitten, who asked City Manager Ben Yazici to find time for the presentation. Yazici said he would schedule it during an upcoming study session.

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engineer Eric LaFrance, who is in charge of making developers comply with the regulations and has advocated for keeping older regulations for small developments in the city, argued that it’s not as simple as “the old manual isn’t working.” A large portion of development in Sammamish occurred in the 1970s and 1980s, when stormwater regulation was either lax or non-existent. Unless those properties undergo redevelopment or expansion, they don’t have to meet the stricter standards.

“Tonight we could decide to pass the most stringent rules in America and tomorrow we would wake up and the streams will be the same as they are today,” LaFrance said. “It’s not what sort of (stormwater plan) you have, it’s what the development happens under.”

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any development in the city assume that their land was forested prior to development. Water that comes off that property must not leave at any quicker of a rate than it would have when trees ruled the land.

Under the ordinance the council is considering, developments that disturb less than an acre, including many single-family homes built by private developers, could stick to the older 1998 manual, which requires that no more water leave the property than in 1979 – the year of King County’s first set of regulations.

Property owners with aerial photographs or other evidence that the land was pasture or otherwise clear of trees before that date could meet a lower standard, potentially saving them money.

Using the 2009 manual for smaller developments would often mean the owner of an empty lot who wishes to build a single-family home would have to spend $3,000 to $6,000 on a certified engineers report on the stormwater impacts of their development and perhaps thousands more depending on the characteristics of their property.

Yazici said city records show that since 2008, 326 of the 380 development permits approved by the city were more than an acre and would be subject to the more stringent standards anyways. He and LaFrance argued that keeping stricter standards for smaller “mom and pop” develop-

ments would cause unnecessary frustrations for property owners unaccustomed to dealing with environmental regulations. Many properties in the city are already subject to stricter regulations through the city’s critical areas and shoreline ordinances because they are near wetlands, lakes or streams.

“I feel like, in this time especially, we don’t want to overburden people here in Sammamish,” LaFrance told the council at April 12 meeting.

Tiliacos said keeping the newest standards, based on the most up-to-date science, is necessary to make up for the decades worth of development that did not address stormwater run-off, leading to the current state of Sammamish waterways and Puget Sound.

Washington State Department of Ecology studies in 2008 show high levels of fecal coliform and low levels of oxygen in Lake Sammamish, Pine Lake Creek, Laughing Jacobs Creek and Ebright Creek, according to the city’s storm water manual.

Ebright and Laughing Jacobs are both historically spawning areas for Lake Sammamish’s Kokanee salmon, which number fewer than 1,000 and are under consideration to be named a federal endangered species.

Tiliacos said this year’s salmon runs may be even lower than in See WATER, Page 10

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Governor approves bill that should streamline math testing Graduating from high school with sufficient math credits just got easier. Gov. Chris Gregoire approved a bill that would allow students in the 2013 and 2014 graduating classes to pass only one mathematics end-of-course exam instead of two.

The state House of Representatives passed the legislation in a 96-1 vote on March 4.

State Senators passed a companion bill in a 47-0 vote on March 29. Gregoire signed it into law April 11.

State Superintendent Randy Dorn had championed the legislation.

“Plain and simple, this is a win for fairness,” Dorn said. “In a tough legislative year, this is one law that directly impacts the lives of students in a positive manner.

I’m pleased that state legislators and the governor did the right thing for students.”

Eventually, the math section of the High School Proficiency

Exam — which is administered to sophomores — will be phased out, and two end-of-course exams, in algebra and geometry, will take its place.

Most Washington sophomores take geometry and will take the geometry end-of-course exam this spring. Under current law, they would also be required to take the Algebra I exam — a course most students take during their freshman year.

If Gregoire signs the bill, the second end-of-course exam will no longer be needed for students in the classes of 2013 and 2014.

Current eighth-graders — the class of 2015 — will be the first students required to pass two end-of-state exams. Most of those students will take algebra I in ninth grade, meaning they take the end-of-course exam in the same year they took the course.

“This whole issue for me has been about fairness,” Dorn said in a statement. “End of course

Water and sewer district to present water plan

online at www.sammplat.wa.org/2010comprehensivewater.asp or at the Sammamish, Issaquah and Redmond libraries.

Interested residents may comment in writing to Jay Krauss, general manager of the sewer district. The comment period is expected to last through the May 9 meeting. The board might consider the plan May 16.

The Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District will present the 2010 Water Comprehensive Plan to the Public at 6 p.m. May 9 at the district offices, 1510 228th Ave. S.E. The draft plan is available

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Students in the classes of 2011 and 2012 are not affected by this bill. Those students can still pass one state math exam or earn two credits of math after their sophomore year to meet the math graduation requirement.

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City will write off bad debts Sammamish will write off a handful of outstanding developer debts from its accounting books, though the city may still send some of them to collections.

The city council approved a resolution April 18 authorizing the removal of about $113,000 worth of debts, some dating back to 2007, that haven’t been paid by developers.

Finance Director Lyman Howard said most of the debts range from several hundred to several thousand dollars and the city has made repeated attempts to collect them by lowering the price owed or negociating a payment plan.

Many are owed in connection with development projects that fell through following the burst of the housing bubble and ensuing recession, Howard told the council. The city may still send some of the larger debts to collections agencies.

The resolution also gives City Manager Ben Yazici authority to write off uncollectable debts

SAMMAMISH REVIEW $10,000 or less in the future.

The council unanimously approved the resolution as part of their consent agenda.

Sound Transit upgrades website for riders Sound Transit has launched the website to improve commutes for bus and train riders throughout the region.

The address is the same — www.soundtransit.org — but the agency upgraded the features. In addition to a clean, intuitive design, the website includes a better trip planner and interactive maps featuring more information about transit connections and the locations of stations, stops and parking. The transit agency also made schedules easier to read.

Other improvements to the trip planner include the ability to input start and end points of a transit trip and see multiple options on interactive maps.

The site also features a guide for new riders plus the ability to

sign up for email and text message service alerts.

Online food worker class now available in eight languages King County residents working in the food industry can now earn their required state food worker card online.

The class and test are offered in eight languages — English, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Cambodian and closed caption.

After completing the class and passing the test, students can print the food worker card for immediate use.

Those interested in the $10 class and test should go to www.foodworkercard.wa.gov, log in and select “King County” to get started. Most users take about one hour to complete the course and test.

The new online food worker class is an addition to the in-person classes that train about 55,000 people in King County

annually.

The online class is made available to food workers in King County thanks to a partnership with the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, which built and maintains the site.

‘Share Your Washington’ and earn travel prizes Washington State Tourism is asking Washingtonians to invite friends and family members to visit the Evergreen Green as part of the Share Your Washington promotion.

Running through June 15, Share Your Washington encourages people to send invitations.

In the process, participants also automatically enter a sweepstakes for the chance to win trips from Alaska Airlines.

Entering is simple.

Washingtonians can visit the Share Your Washington website, www.shareyourwashington.com, to send electronic postcards to friends. No limit exists for the number of times residents can

enter. The more friends and family they invite, the more chances they have to win the grand prize.

The grand-prize package includes unlimited air travel within Washington on Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air numbered flights for the winner and companion for a whole year, from July 2011 to June 2012, and a pair of round-trip coach tickets for two people anywhere Alaska Airlines flies.

Share Your Washington is also on Facebook. Washington State Tourism is encouraging people to use the hashtag #ShareYourWA to discuss the promotion on Twitter.

Send us your pictures Sammamish Review welcomes original photography contributions. We give priority to local content. Information about the photo and the photographer’s name are required.

The deadline is noon on the Friday before the publication.

Send photos to: Sammamish Review, P.O. Box 1328, Issaquah, WA 98027 or email to SamRev@isspress.com.

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years past after a massive landslide the weekend of March 26 moved mud and debris into the headwaters of Ebright Creek.

Though the official cause remains under investigation, Community Development Director Kamuron Gurol told the city council April 5 that water run-off from a house above the slide area was routed onto a steep slope. Gurol said the home was built when the area was still King County and likely wouldn’t have been allowed under the city’s current regulations.

“Everybody’s development impacts the next person,” Tiliacos said. “We’re not starting from a clean slate – we’re playing catch up … We don’t want to digress because we’re just going to have to catch up again.”

The council is scheduled to consider the stormwater regulations at their May 3 meeting.

Reporter Caleb Heeringa can be reached at 392-6434. ext. 247, or cheeringa@isspress.com. To comment on this story, visit www.SammamishReview.com.

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The man had no identification but had a cell phone. Police reached the man’s wife with the phone and notified her that her husband was being transported to Overlake Hospital. The man’s condition is unknown.

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full of goldfish in her driveway next to a threatening note apparently directed at her 17-year-old son.

The note, written in what appeared to be juvenile or teenagedfemale handwriting, read “I hope you die in a day just like these fish.” The son told police he couldn’t remember breaking any hearts recently.

Police documented the incident for future reference.

Smash and grab A resident on the 20400 block of Northeast 37th Way had their wallet stolen from their car between noon and 3 p.m. April 16. The thief broke the front passenger window of the vehicle and took the wallet, which contained about $100 cash. Police have no suspects.

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She told police that the man had been pawning her possessions for money to spend on alcohol. Police advised the intoxicated man that he was no longer welcome at the woman’s home.

The man agreed and said he would spend the night in his vehicle, parked nearby. Police stayed on scene afterwards to ensure that he did not drive his vehicle in his intoxicated state.

Unwelcome guest A Sammamish woman called police after a male acquaintance appeared at her door April 6 and drunkenly threatened to have her child taken away.

The man, whose son is friends with the woman’s son, refused repeated requests to leave her property, the woman told police.

The man finally did leave but not before threatening to “take her to

Supreme Court” to have her child taken from her for an undisclosed reason. Police documented the incident for future reference.

DUI A 19-year-old Sammamish man was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol as a minor in the early morning hours April 5. An officer witnessed the man do a “rolling stop” at a stop sign and drive 45 mph in a 30 mph zone.

He was pulled over near the corner of Southeast 24th Street and 205th Avenue Southeast and performed poorly on field sobriety tests. He was arrested and taken to the police station, where he blew a .05 on a breath test.

Though .08 is the legal limit for driving, a person under the age of 21 can be arrested for driving with any alcohol in their system.

The man told police he had consumed three Keystone beers several hours before and that he was on probation for a prior

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minor in possession charge. The man was dropped off at his father’s house.

Stolen license plates A resident of the Madison Apartments had their license plates stolen off their vehicle overnight April 14. Police have no suspects.

Open doors Police found an open garage door on a home on the 22600 block of Southeast 4th Street just after 2 a.m. April 15. The officer knocked on the door and woke the homeowner up and advised them to close their doors at night if they did not wish to be burglarized.

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April 27, 2011

Sammamish author releases Spring brings a bounty of color Seattle-based suspense thriller to the Nursery at Mount Si Most readers of great fiction have asked themselves at some point, “Where on earth did the author come up with that idea?”

And so it is with local writer Glenn Gordon’s gripping new suspense novel Brother’s Keeper, published in the Kindle Store at Amazon.com two months ago.

The set-up goes something like this: When five of Seattle’s homeless are brutally murdered in Elliott Bay Park on the waterfront north of downtown, police mistakenly identify one victim as local security expert Mack Fraser.

No one is more surprised at this determination than Mack himself, but his surprise turns tragic with the realization that the dead man is his identical twin brother – a sibling unknown to him until that very moment. And so begins this protagonist’s illadvised and wickedly dangerous Glenn dent pursuit of answers, a twisted and delightful path guaranteed to keep the pages turning and the bedside lamp on for just one more chapter. Okay, maybe two.

Long-time Northwest natives are sure to enjoy the story’s rich local atmosphere and will recognize Gordon as one who has lived and breathed this area for most of his life, and knows it like the back of his hand. Is the King County morgue really in the basement of Harborview Hospital?

Who knew?

Well, Gordon did. A true Sammamish native, the author graduated from that namesake high school in Bellevue in 1974, and in turn from the UW with a degree in English and a teaching certifi-

Gordon, author and Sammamish resicate. He left the area for classroom jobs in Westport and Wenatchee, but returned in 1985 and settled on the Plateau, the last dozen years just down the hill behind Skyline High School. His daughters, Meghan and Kylene, graduated from Eastlake HS in 2000 and 2002.

Oh, and as for this book’s unique premise, author Gordon attributes it to his own 1992 revelation that he and his three brothers had an older sister named Karen, given up for adoption by their mother while she was a young college student.

Gordon is currently working on the next Mack Fraser mystery, The Ferryman’s Wake.

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Nestled just below Mount Si in rural North Bend, the nursery is such a peaceful, natural setting that it is growing in popularity as an event and wedding venue. Here at the base of Mount Si is a mini Garden of Eden.

Pathways meander through the landscape and bedding plants. Cross the stream on the little wooden bridge to visit the gift shop with its pottery, art and home décor, or visit the six greenhouses.

The nursery’s resident cats and chickens reside along with neighboring cows.

The nursery was founded in 1999 by owner Nels Melgaard, a former organic produce farmer. He has put together a team of customer service and landscape specialists that share a passion for plants.

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Obituaries

Ruben Solis and his Mexican restaurants are part of the city Ruben Soleis may be just another transplant who fell in love with the Eastside, but his trio of Mexican restaurants make him an integral part of the Sammamish community.

Ruben grew up in Cuautla, Mexico, a small town near Puerto Vallarta. He migrated here in 1978 and went to work in restaurants. He worked the kitchen, waited on tables, mixed drinks at the bar and helped out in every way he could to learn the restaurant business.

Ruben worked long hours and saved his money. At only 24 years old, he went into partnership with two others to open La Costa on Gilman Boulevard in Issaquah. That was in 1985.

Nearly 20 years later and Ruben is now the sole owner of La Costa, in addition to La Casita at Pine Lake Shopping Ruben Soleis invites you to join him for lunch or Center and Rancho Grande at dinner soon!

Sammamish Highlands Shopping Center.

La Casita opened in 1992, and Rancho Ruben and his staff are a happy bunch Grande opened in 2001. and like to have fun with their customers.

Ruben says he’s been “pretty lucky.”

Any excuse for a celebration and the somHe also credits dedicated staff. Some of breros and rich baritone voices come out the wait staff have worked at his restaufor a song. rants for 10-15 years and one chef has Kids are always welcome for family been there nearly 20 years. dinners. (Ruben has five of his own.) The Just as regular are some of his cuschildren’s menu has six choices, all only tomers who come back for the salsa, chips $3.95. and tacos — prepared daily with fresh Happy hour is another reason to celeingredients — and south of the border brate. From 3:00 to 6:30 weekdays, choose favorites. A popular dinner choice is the your complimentary appetizer with your sizzling steak, chicken or shrimp fajitas, drink. And try one of their margaritas — but of course you’ll find enchiladas, carne in 11 flavors including mango, blackberry asada, burritos, chile relleno and other and peach. favorites.

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Morgan Thomas Dent Morgan Thomas Dent was called home to glory on Friday, April 8, 2011. He was born Nov. 13, 1987, to Callie and Michael Dent.

He attended Skyline High School and graduated in 2006. He later attended college Morgan Thomas in California Dent and Washington.

Morgan was a gentle, loving and kind soul who will be sorely missed. He loved life! He loved the outdoors, especially the beach and the mountains. He was an avid hiker, camper and snowboarder.

He leaves behind to mourn but also cherish the beautiful time they had with him, his parents Callie and Michael; his paternal grandparents John and Edith Dent; and his maternal grandmother Shirlene Eikner. Morgan’s maternal grandfather, Fred Eikner, preceded him in death. Morgan will also be missed by a host or aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

True to Morgan’s love of the outdoors, an informal memorial service is planned for 5:30 p.m. April 28 at the Olympic Sculpture Park.

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Daphne Dodd Price Nys Jan. 12, 1962 to April 8, 2011, 49 years of age Daphne graduated from Issaquah High School in 1980 and attended Western Washington University. She moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1992 where she married and later divorced.

Daphne resided the remainder of her

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life in Australia. She enjoyed cooking for and visiting with friends and was a friend in the true sense of the word. She was kind, loving, generous, a good listener, and had friends wherever she went.

Daphne loved home decoration/interior design, camping, gardening, antiques, photography, animals, fast cars and her family.

She had a mechanical mind and could figure out and understand how complex things worked. She truly enjoyed working with the special needs people she served who loved and trusted her. She was extremely good with them and at advocating for them. She is survived by her Mother: Judy M. Price of Tacoma; her Father: Albert R. Price of Olympia and her sister: Andrea E. Price of Kent.

Tests have not yet revealed a definitive cause of death, but it Daphne Dodd Price appears to be of Nys natural causes.

Those of us who loved Daphne are comforted to know she was found in her bed reading a book, which was one of her favorite past times. She is, and will always be, greatly missed by her family, friends and loved ones.

Anna May (Engquist) Smith Anna was born May 7, 1919 in Seattle.

She woke in heaven on April 6, 2011.

Earl Smith, her husband of 61 years, preceded her in death.

She attended Eastgate Bible Fellowship and Emmanuel bible Church for many years.

She is survived by her three children: Jackie Seymour, of Sammamish, Karen Brown, of Selah, and Bob Smith, of Seattle; six grandchildren; and 12 greatgrandchildren.

An open house to celebrate her life will be from 12:30-3 p.m. May 6 at Emmanuel Bible Church, 503 N. 50th St., Seattle.

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No wheat allowed Sammamish woman developed gluten-free recipes

By Christopher Huber

For a while after being diagnosed with gluten (wheat) intolerance in 2006, Debra Gibbons, of Sammamish, would bring her own special food to parties. She remembered one time in particular, when she arrived with an empty stomach and without any gluten-free snacks. Among the smorgasbord of food and drinks available to friends, all she could eat was the celery, she said.

“There’s wheat hidden in almost everything,” Gibbons said about how people allergic to gluten or living with celiac disease have to watch everything they eat, risking severe muscle or digestive discomfort if they don’t.

“I can’t just come home and just open a box of crackers,” she said. “You kind of get hopeless when there’s a lot of things you can’t have.”

But just when she thought she

would have to settle for a bland diet for the rest of her life, longtime neighbor, Lynn Peterson, figured out how to make glutenfree food taste good. Peterson herself had experienced years of the painful symptoms and had spent another few years tirelessly experimenting to find easy recipes to share with others struggling to maintain a healthy gluten-free diet.

“I want you to want my cupcakes, not go, ‘oh they’re glutenfree?’” Lynn Peterson said.

While gluten-intolerance is becoming more diagnosed around the nation, celiac disease is a more acute form of it, affecting up to 1 in every 133 Americans, according to the Gluten Intolerance Group of North America. Celiac disease is a digestive condition triggered by consumption of the protein gluten, which is primarily found in bread, pasta, cookies, pizza crust and many other foods containing wheat, barley or rye, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Peterson’s solution for flavorful wheat-free cooking and baking has invigorated the drudgery

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Lynne Peterson poses in her Sammamish kitchen with a variety of her tasty freshly made glutenfree dishes. of dull diets for hundreds of people around the world, she and her husband, Bryon Peterson said. Since starting her gluten-

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ARAS Foundation collecting bikes to donate to Ghana

By Christopher Huber

A working father in Ghana could use that old bike you haven’t ridden in ages. So could his wife, son or daughter, for that matter. A functioning bike could mean the difference between making it to work or school on time, or at all.

With that in mind, the Sammamish-based ARAS Foundation is holding its annual bike collection May 7 at Sammamish City Hall. While ARAS is collecting bikes from around the Seattle area leading up to the Sammamish event, residents with spare or used bikes can donate them from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. that day, said Mary Trask, who runs the ARAS Foundation.

“Every year we’ve had more than 500 bikes,” she said. “We’re fortunate that they’ve (the city) allowed us to use their parking lot for that day,” Trask said.

While ARAS runs the event with help from about 100 volunteers, the Village Bicycle Project, of Seattle, provides the 40-foot shipping container and ships the cargo to Ghana.

Mary Trask said she and her husband, the foundation’s founder Bob Trask, got involved with the Village Bicycle Project six years ago after seeking a

Photo by Debi Ayers

Hundreds of bicycles lay on the ground in front of Sammamish City Hall before being loaded into a 40-foot container during the 2010 ARAS Foundation bicycle drive. place to donate their own used bike. She didn’t just want to throw it in a junk heap.

“The next year we thought, ‘we should do this on a bigger scale,’” Mary Trask said.

She said the event tends to draw youth interested in physical activity and working with tools.

As the bikes pour into the dropoff point, volunteers and a few bike experts disassemble parts

that stick out from the frame to optimize space in the container.

“It’s a really fun project for families,” Mary Trask said.

“Without their support, we never would get a whole container full.

It’s a real community effort.”

Mary Trask said they need volunteers to help from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Village Bike Project not only ships the bikes, but once in Ghana, workers train the bikes’ recipients in how to maintain them, said operations director Meg Watson. The organization collects bikes from around the country, but noted Sammamish bikes tend to be pretty nice.

“One of the great things about the Sammamish bikes is they’re great quality,” she said.

The foundation’s programs will also benefit from proceeds from the April 30 Crest neighborhood garage sale, which runs 9 a.m.-2 p.m including 22309 N.E. 31st St.. About 15 families plan to open their garages for the annual garage sale.

Jan Bromberg, who live in the Crest neighborhood and has volunteered with the ARAS Foundation, said she and her husband, John, enthusiastically offered up their home to sell items to benefit the foundation in 2010. This is the second year they will provide a sale venue for ARAS. It was a no-brainer decision to help out, she said.

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Philadelphia University in 2007.

She is an architect at Milbrandt Associates. Trapp is a 2002 graduate of Hermiston high School and a 2007 graduate of the University of Idaho. He is an architect at Fraser & Fogle Architects.

The couple plans a May 30, 2011 wedding at Bethany Community Church in Seattle.

Kristin Nikaitani on honor roll

Monica Zender on president’s list

Kristin N. Nikaitani, of Sammamish, was named to the honor roll at Oregon State University for the winter term.

She is a freshman majoring in merchandising management. She earned straight-A’s for the term.

Monica Zender, of Sammamish, was named to the president’s list at Gonzaga University for the fall 2010 semester. To qualify, students must achieve a GPA of 3.7 or higher.

Krista Gustafson on dean’s list

Lindsey Chun on dean’s list

Krista Gustafson, of Sammamish, was named to the president’s honor roll at Okalahoma City University for the fall 2010 semester. To qualify, students must maintain a GPA of at least 3.9.

Lindsey Chun, of Sammamish, was named to the dean’s list at Cal Poly for the winter quarter.

The 2007 Skyline grad is studying industrial engineering. To qualify, students need a GPA of 3.5 or higher.

Alexa Fukui and Brian Trapp

Alexa Fukui to marry Alexa Fukui, daughter of Sammamish residents Mitsuru and JoAnn Fukui, is engaged to marry Brian Trapp, of Hermiston, Ore. Fukui, a Kirkland resident, graduated from Bellevue Christian School in 2002 and

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ers, as well as actress/writer Mariel Hemmingway.

“It opened things up for me. It made eating a pleasure again,” Gibbons said.

Lynn Peterson perfected a gluten-free-beer-based bread that bakes in less than one-third the time of conventional breads, a high-fiber hazelnut waffle made with three types of non-wheat flour, and even a chocolate lava cake that Gibbons raves about.

“She’s giving people options so they don’t have to live a life of drudgery,” Gibbons said.

The “quest,” as Lynn Peterson calls it, to find tasty alternatives to traditional gluten-free recipes involved plenty of frustration and toiling to find the right combinations of flours and hard-to-find ingredients.

“I was beyond miserable,” she said.

Formerly a professional cook and baker, Lynn Peterson was used to making anything she wanted and enjoying it. She struggled for years to even figure out what caused her severe

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“It really has opened up a new world to us, said Bryon Peterson.

“It’s been an exciting transition for me.

Lynn Peterson seemed particularly proud of convincing her son and his fiancé to go with the gluten-free cake for their wedding, rather than traditional options. When she announced the idea, her son resisted, she said. So the family set up a “blind” taste test with one of the numerous cakes being glutenfree.

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Bob Trask founded the ARAS Foundation, which stands for Acceptance, Respect, Affection and Support, in 1979. It works with various local and international nonprofit organizations to fight poverty, promote literacy volunteer programs and train leaders.

The Trasks moved to Sammamish in 1993 and found the community was full of opportunities, both for volunteers to serve and for residents to be served, Mary Trask said.

“I found we always had a lot of wonderful volunteers,” she said. “We try investing in what other organizations needs are… and we try support them. It’s not a big organization, but we do really big work.”

The foundation partners with organizations like Sammamish-based Chris Elliot Fund, Faith In Action and the Boys & Girls Club. Residents like Jan Bromberg, who have volunteered for ARAS before commended the Trasks and fellow ARAS organizers Steve and Cindy VanWambeck for their years of dedication to the community.

“It’s an incredible organization,” she said. “(Mary) will do everything for anybody.”

Contact Mary Trask to vlunteer for the May 7 bike collection at mary@arasfoundation.org.

Reporter Christopher Huber can be reached at 392-6434, ext.

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Skyline’s physics club gets off the ground, literally

By Christopher Huber

During one of its qualifying launches for the national rocketry competition, the Skyline physics club members got a little nervous. It was one of only three flights that could count toward their entry into the Team America Rocketry Challenge.

The rocket, carrying an egg as its payload, looked a little precarious hanging more than 700 feet in the air — like it was falling too fast.

“We were concerned,” said senior James Richardson, Skyline physics club president. “It wasn’t coming down as we planned.”

But the flight ended safely, with egg intact. The studentdesigned rocket stayed up for nearly 40 seconds and the parachute did its job.

Turns out the team’s rocket flew high enough, for long enough to qualify for the national competition. The eight members will fly to The Plains, Va. May 14 to participate as one of just 100 teams.

Skyline is the only physics club in the state and qualified out of 607 teams to attempt the rocket challenge.

This is the third time Skyline’s club has gone to nationals, said Becky Fowler, a Skyline physics teacher and the club’s advisor.

The group attended last in 2005 and placed 22nd overall, she said.

She attributed the 2011 success to better focus among the group

and a passionate mentor.

“We lucked out with one parent of a student being a rocketeer himself,” said Becky Fowler, a Skyline physics teacher and the club’s advisor.

The contest challenges participants to design and build a rocket that will climb to 750 feet and stay aloft for about 40 seconds.

Fully equipped, the rocket weighs about 730 grams and must use a 15-inch parachute to safely recover the rocket back to earth. The trick will be to not break the egg inside the nosecone.

“Before you build anything, you have to have a good design,” Richardson said. “It has to be consistent.”

To keep the egg intact, the Skyline students wrapped it in Tempurpedic bed foam — on which they drew a control panel.

It was the group’s way of inserting a little humor into an otherwise serious physics project.

“I like the way they work together,” said David Walp, an avid rocketeer and the club’s mentor.

Walp provides the group with varying insights for things such as how much power a certain engine will generate to how to sand the epoxy that fastens the stabilizing fins to the fuselage.

“Without a good mentor, you’re kind of in trouble,” Richardson said.

The team was able to conduct 16 launches from February to

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Skyline physics club members James Richardson, left, Ben Huang and Adam Bolen figure out what needs to be done to the club’s back-up rocket while preparing April 20 for a national launch contest. early April, which seemed to be enough to work out any kinks and log three strong qualifying flights, the members said. The key to a successful launch season — and to making it to nationals — was getting out on the field early, team members said.

Skyline’s physics club tests its rockets at 60 Acres Park in Redmond.

“This year’s design has a more consistent performance,” Fowler said.

Each of the 100 competing teams only gets one chance, within a one-hour window, at the national rocketry challenge, so all systems must be “go.” She looked forward to the club possibly making the final, launch-off round at nationals.

“We’re hoping to get a second launch.”

While the students waited for some sealant to dry on the backup rocket body, they thought about what makes them keep coming to physics club and to be part of the rocket challenge.

“It’s like more hands-on than anything we do in school,” said senior Ben Huang.

Inglewood families prepare for shift to middle school

By Christopher Huber

Change is coming to Inglewood Junior High and school staff are planning for it.

With a flood of sixth-graders enrolling and as many ninthgraders leaving in fall 2012 as part of the Lake Washington School District’s grade reconfiguration, leaders at Sammamish’s only junior high recently gave parents an idea of how their transition plan is progressing.

The district will move to a grades kindergarten-through-five elementary school, grades sixthrough-eight middle school and four-year high school system. In the current system elementary school runs through sixth grade, junior high is grades seven through nine and high school starts in 10th grade.

“It is a substantial challenge to make all the changes we need to make,” said Tim Patterson, principal at Inglewood.

While the grade shift will affect all levels of the system, including moving teachers and administrators and even building projects, the junior highs will see movement on both ends, welcoming sixth graders and saying goodbye to ninth graders. The change in structure seeks to alleviate overcrowding in elementary schools like Smith and Mead, but also to consolidate the high school experience to one fouryear building, according to the district.

At an April 12 meeting with more than 200 parents and community members, Patterson explained what Inglewood Middle School would look like.

He highlighted what the sixthgrade year would look like.

In a junior high model, students emulate a mostly highschool-style schedule in all grades. In middle school, sixthgraders will see more teachers than they did in elementary

school, but will see just three different teachers in their core subjects (language arts/social studies, math/science and enrichment/elective classes), Patterson said. They will see a fourth teacher for physical education.

Additionally, the new students will be broken up into “houses” of 120 peers. Each student will spend most of every day in classes with the same 30 students, but the final two periods of the day will be with other peers. The goal is to slowly introduce the sixthgraders to a new type of schedule and atmosphere.

“This is something that I think is unique to Inglewood,” Patterson said. “The seventhgrade year largely remains unchanged here at Inglewood.”

And that raised some concerns among parents about their future seventh graders (current fifth graders) not receiving enough attention during the transition.

Amy Hernandez, whose fifth-

grade son will start seventh grade in fall 2012, said she appreciated the meeting to discuss progress with the switch. But, there are still plenty of questions. In the current 7-8-9-configuration, two experienced classes can mentor the one incoming class.

“I do have lot of concerns,” Hernandez said. “Inglewood is such a large school, so you’re going to have two classes of kids who are brand new to that school and one class that will be able to act as mentors and leaders.”

Patterson noted a general anxiety from parents about releasing their student to middle school.

Regardless of a grade reconfiguration, it’s a new stage for the students and takes some getting used to.

“We are really trying to find ways to reduce anxiety and make sure every child is known well by the staff,” Patterson said. “We strategically want to make sure kids love coming to Inglewood Middle School. It makes every-

thing easier.”

Although questions linger, Hernandez, who also has a seventh- and 11th-grader, commended the Inglewood staff for developing what seems like a workable plan so far.

“I think they have a really good start on their plan. There’s still a lot of work to be done for their planning committee. But they have good ideas,” Hernandez said. “I would like to see more of a plan and idea on these seventh-graders. How are they going to be able to help them?”

Patterson said he welcomes parent questions and feedback about the grade-shift process.

Contact him at tpatterson@lwsd.org or send feedback to the district at gradeshift@lwsd.org.

“Inglewood is really working hard to be proactive,” he said.

“Sometimes a really good question can bring really good info into my view.”

SAMMAMISH REVIEW

Sammamish National Merit finalists win scholarships The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced April 20 that three Sammamish high schoolers received scholarships in the corporate-sponsored round.

Benjamin Huang and Praveen Puvvadi, of Skyline High School and Jeffrey McNerney, who attends Redmond High, each received a scholarship, according to a press release. They are among about 1,000 National Merit finalists in the United States who will receive a scholarship, which could range from $500 to $10,000 as a one-time or a

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four-year recurring award.

Huang wants to study business, according to the National Merit press release. Puvvadi hopes to go into computer science and business administration, and McNerney wants to study business administration.

Other Sammamish National Merit finalists still have a chance to win one of many other scholarships from the National Merit Corporation itself. Those winners will be announced in May.

McAuliffe students raise thousands in recent fundraisers Students and staff at Christa McAuliffe Elementary School

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In March, staff members spent part of an evening hanging out in the Sammamish McDonald’s garnering support for the Leukemia & Lymphonia Society, according to the PTA. They raised $1,746.22.

The restaurant donated 20 percent of food sales proceeds and all proceeds from cookie sales.

In mid-April, the students showed their enthusiasm for collecting coins and collected $1,334.44 worth in a week. The school also collected enough various supplies to fill an SUV, the PTA said.

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SAMMAMISH REVIEW

Skyline girls tennis bests Bothell 7-0

By Christopher Huber

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Skyline senior Molly Knutson returns the ball with a forehand in the second set of doubles play against Bothell April 21.

There’s nothing in springtime sports quite like three straight non-rainy days. And for the Skyline girls tennis team, three dry days meant three matches in a row to make up for the plethora of postponements.

Although the Spartans are in a rebuilding year, the squad showed some promise by winning its third match in as many days April 21 in Sammamish.

After beating Redmond April 19 and Eastlake April 20, it beat Bothell 7-0 to improve to 5-2.

“It wasn’t the hardest match, but it was a lot of fun,” said senior No. 1 doubles player Molly Knutson after the match. “It was an enjoyable match.”

Knutson and doubles partner Alyson Opitz beat Bothell’s Colleen Byrne and Morgan Milner in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2.

Kristin Park, in Skyline’s No. 1 singles spot, beat Rebeka You 6-0, 6-1.

The key for Skyline was to adapt to Bothell’s lob-style play, said players and coach Bettina Gehle.

Instead of zinging targeted shots at Skyline opponents, Bothell players, in nearly every match, slowed down the pace with high, lobbed shots.

“They were all prepared for it,” Gehle said. “That was the most important thing.”

While Spartans like Knutson See TENNIS, Page 19

Eastlake golfers top Skyline, continue winning streak

By Christopher Huber

If the Skyline girls golf team learned anything from playing at Sahalee Country Club, it’s that you have to keep your drives straight and practice a little longer on the putting green before the match.

“It’s like you’re hitting the golf ball down a highway,” said Skylne coach Erik Hansen. “If you don’t keep it straight you find yourself in trouble.”

Not all of the girls learned that the hard way, but the course notorious for frustrating unaccustomed golfers took just enough away from the visiting team to preserve another victory for Eastlake.

“This was a very difficult course,” said Skyline sophomore Bryalynn Vowels. “They definitely have home course advantage.”

The Eastlake Wolves girls golf team took charge once again at its home course to beat the Skyline Spartans 272 strokes to 289. Eastlake improved to 8-1 and Skyline went to 3-3 with three matches left before the KingCo tournament.

“They’re a very good team,” said Vowels. “We knew that we were going up against something.”

Eastlake’s Megan Wotherspoon again took first, shooting a 43 on the par-36 East 9 course. Vowels, Skyline’s No. 1 golfer, finished fourth overall with a final tally of

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Skyline’s Bryalynn Vowels tees off on the third hole of Sahalee’s East 9 course April 21.

56 strokes.

“Megan has been very consistent,” said Eastlake head coach Pat Bangasser. “I expect her to get down to a 38 this year because she can.”

Following Wotherspoon’s 43, teammate Jamie Midkiff came in second with a 52 and Skyline’s Shirley Chung finished with a 54.

Eastlake’s Taylor Finlon and Skyline’s Kacy Cunningham each shot a 58 to tie for fifth place.

“Every time you go out to play golf it’s a different story,” Bangasser said.

Vowels provided an example of how Sahalee can take the wind out of a golfer’s sails quickly. She completed a solid bogey on the par-4 first hole and was working well through two. But a bad lie under a tree from her drive on the third led to an eight-stroke hole, she said.

“I didn’t do my best, but was a pretty difficult course,” Vowels said.

Skyline may not have won, but head coach Erik Hansen seemed overall happy with what he saw in the girls’ performance at Sahalee, a course the former Eastlake assistant knows quite a bit about.

Most of the young Spartan team had not played Sahalee, but a good portion of them continued to lower their season-average score, he said.

“I think Sahalee can be a little See GOLF, Page 19

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Eastlake’s Megan Wotherspoon putts on the fourth-hole green on the East 9 course at Sahalee April 21. She took first place with a 43-stroke performance.

SAMMAMISH REVIEW

Scoreboard Baseball Saturday, April 23 Eastlake 3, Sedro-Woolley 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Sed.-Woolley 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 1 Eastlake 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 3 Eastlake batting: Josh Barokas, 2-for-4, RBI, SB; Jonathan Cook, 1-for-1, R; Casey Fithian, 1-for-2, RBI, 2 R. Eastlake pitching: Nick Kassuba (W) Wednesday, April 20 Garfield 3, Eastlake 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Eastlake 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 Garfield 0 0 0 0 0 3 x 3 5 2 Eastlake pitching: Josh Barokas (L).

Bothell 8, Skyline 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Skyline 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Bothell 0 0 6 2 0 0 x 8 8 1 Skyline pitching: Matt Lunde (L).

Softball Wednesday, April 20 Eastlake 2, Ballard 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Eastlake 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 8 1 Ballard 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1 Eastlake batting: Sophie Pallenscar, 2-for-4, RBI; Kathryne Staudinger, 2-for-4.

Eastlake pitching: Pallenscar (W), 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 16 K, 4 BB. Eastlake 9, Bothell 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E Bothell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 Eastlake 0 0 3 3 3 0 x 9 10 0 Eastlake batting: Sammi Stavig, 2-for-3, 2 RBI, 2 R. Eastlake pitching: Nicole Guptil (W), 5 IP, 1 H, 8 K, 3 BB. Woodinville 13, Skyline 2 R H E Woodinville 13 12 0 Skyline 2 7 3 Skyline pitching: Charlotte Zhao (L).

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Camden McKone, B, 43.20. 100 — Luke Proulx, B, 10.90. 200 — Nick Anthony, B, 23.00. 400 — Chayce Sather, B, 51.40. 800 — Kyle Branch, S, 2:04.00. 1,600 — Kyle Branch, S, 4:32.35. 3,200 — Ryan Rixon, S, 10:43.00. 400 relay — Bothell (Proulx, Anthony, McIntyre, Allen) 43.50. 1,600 relay — Skyline (Millett, Uselman, Branch, OConnell) 3:47.70.

Eastlake, Newport, Inglemoor Shot put — Gino Bresolin, E, 44-08.25. Discus — Bresolin, E, 136-10. Javelin — Kyle Petty, I, 14109. High jump — Sean Mukai, I, 6-00. Long jump — David Wilson, I, 20-07.75. Triple jump — Spencer Grubb, N, 39-11. Pole vault — Shamus Mukai, I, 12-06. 110 hurdles — Louis Jachim, N, 16.0 seconds. 300 hurdles — Louis Jachim, N, 42.7 seconds. 100 — David Wilson, I, 11.4 seconds.

200 —Liam Doyle, E, 22.9 seconds. 400 — Brian Moran, I, 52.7 seconds. 800 — Stephen Strozyk, N, 2:04.2. 1,600 — Grant Stein, N, 4:45.6. 3,200 — Colin O’Neil, I, 9:37.6. 400 relay — Eastlake, 45.0 seconds. 1,600 relay — Newport, 3:39.1.

Girls Bothell, Sammamish, Skyline Shot put — Haley Ziegler, S, 29-03.75. Discus — Elena Frerker, S, 88-10. Javelin — Haley Ziegler, S, 116-08. High jump — Lindsay Coutts, S, 4-08.00.

Long jump — Lindsay Coutts, S, 15-11.50. Triple jump — Marissa Fortier, S, 30-09.50. Pole vault — Kelsey meyer, B, 9-00. 100 hurdles — Elise Willey, B, 18.00. 300 hurdles — Ashley Richardson, S, 57.40. 100 — Darian Littlejohn, B, 13.40. 200 — Alexis Daughterty, S, 28.70. 400 — Maddi Hutson, S, 1:03.90. 800 — Liz Green, S, 2:41.50. 1,600 — Haley Smith, S, 5:26.95. 3,200 — Caitlin McIlwain, S, 12:01.3. 400 relay — Sammamish (Brown, Griff, Sturtevant, Flores) 59.20. 800 relay — Bothell (Campbell, Schueren, Hadley, Howe) 1:48.00. 1,600 relay — Skyline (Bretl, Hutson, Dalzell, Steele).

Eastlake Newport, Inglemoor Shot put — Charcel Wafer, N, 31-04. Discus — Emily K. Anderson, I, 73-05. Javelin — Kara Reichenbach, N, 99-07. High jump — Kristine Wong, N, 5-00. Long jump — Wong, N, 15-04.

Triple jump — Wong, N, 32-06. Pole vault — Ashley Wong, I, 7-06. 100 hurdles — Becca Berge, I, 15.3 seconds. 300 hurdles — Berge, 47.2 seconds. 100 — Lauren Files, E, 12.8 seconds. 200 — Erin Allen, I, 26.2 seconds. 400 — Haley O’Connor, E, 59.0 seconds. 800 — Alisa Poplawski, I, 2:24.9. 1,600 — Morgan O’Connor, E, 5:22.8. 3,200 — Tansey Lystad, I, 10:48.9. 400 relay — Inglemoor, 50.5 seconds. 800 relay — Inglemoor, 1:49.5 1,600 relay — Inglemoor, 4:11.6.

Boys soccer Thursday, April 21 Skyline 3, Bothell 2 Scoring summary: Pedro Miola, S, (Braxton Griffin assist) 4:00; Travis Strawn, S, (Kyle Olmstead assist) 15:00; Travis Strawn, S, (Cole Calabro assist) 33:00; Junior Loreto, B, (Mauricio Aguilar assist) 37:00; Mauricio Aguilar, B, (unassisted) 48:00.

Wednesday, April 20 Skyline 3, Ballard 1 Scoring summary: Michael Stoddard, S, (Cole Calabro assist) 6:00; Brent Campbell, B, (unassisted) 47:00; Jason Twaddle, S, (Evan Kamber assist) 54:00; Travis Strawn, S, (Jake Bechtel assist) 73:00.

Tuesday, April 19 Eastlake 4, Issaquah 0 Scoring summary: Sean Klauer, E, (unassisted) 25:00; Madison Heck, E, (unassisted) 32:00; James Gee, E, (Sean Klauer assist) 37:00; Sam Langston, E, (Sean Klauer assist) 52:00.

Shutout: Zack Wile, E.

Track and field Thursday, April 21 Boys Bothell, Sammamish, Skyline Shot put — Brendan Peterson, B, 45-03.25.

Discus — Greg Williams, B, 131-03. Javelin — Braden Foley, B, 169-05. High jump — Jordan Coutts, S, 5-04.00. Long jump — Jordan Coutts, S, 18-05.00. Triple jump — Justin Wimmer, B, 3709.00. Pole vault — Blake Rowe, B, 11-06.00. 110 hurdles — Riley Herrera, S, 16.60. 300 hurdles —

Girls tennis Thursday, April 21 Newport 7, Eastlake 0 Singles: Angela Chen, N, beat Hannah Thornsburg, 6-0, 6-0; Amie Vo, N, beat Kelly Song, 6-0, 6-1; Rixing Xu, N, beat Beth Rheinberger, 6-1, 6-0; Renata Lunanaw, N, beat Nina Kondza, 6-0, 6-1.

Doubles: Jane Choi-Emily Chen, N, beat Sara Marien-Lilia Rodriguez, 6-2, 6-0; Faith Mach-Aalice Chu, N, beat Neha Singh-Makenzie Scmid, 6-2, 6-2; Allison Lee-Crystal Shen, N, beat Teresa WuWendy Yeung, 6-3, 6-3.

Tuesday, April 19 Skyline 5, Redmond 3 Singles: Sarah Du, R, beat Kristen Park, 6-0, 6-0; Raluca Infrim, R, beat Laura Parsons, 4-6, 6-3, 6-0; Jinny Choi, S, beat Sophia Xu, 7-6 (4) , 6-2; Kianna Bertolino, S, beat Dana Simmons, 6-4, 6-0.

Doubles: Alyson Opitz-Molly Knutson, S, beat Meg Holtzinger-Jeneal Carter, 6-3, 6-7(3); Sonja Ye-Kasami Maeola, S, beat Marissa Craig-Sara Boye, 6-2, 6-2; Sonjana Gulgaliksr-Rachel Kim, S, beat Amanda Lin-Priya Ganesan, 3-6, 6-1, 10-5; Anna Alsin-Dana Simmons, R, beat Allison TombJessica Journeycake, 6-1, 4-6, 10-8.

Girls golf At Sahalee GC (par 36) Team scores: Eastlake 278, Inglemoor 299.

Individuals: 1, Megan Wotherspoon, E, 44 strokes; 2, Jamie Midkiff, E, 51; 3, Rebecca Priestley, E, 54; 4, Ellie Tillotson, I, 55; 5, Kylie Owen, E, 57.

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and Opitz were eager to play at a more lively pace, they’ll take the win.

“It was a baseline game for sure,” Knutson said. “I hate playing against lobs.”

Knutson and Opitz took control from the beginning. In the first set, the girls went up 3-0 and easily won 6-0.

Byrne and Milner gave the Skyline pair trouble partway through the second set, forcing shots into the net and bringing the score to 5-2. Knutson and Opitz settled back down to take the set 6-2.

“Hopefully we’re on a good winning streak,” Knutson said.

“We’re on a roll.”

Opitz noted that simple mistakes like under-hitting a volley into the net happen less when they face a stronger team like Newport or Garfield.

“We always play a lot better against better teams,” Opitz said.

Helping Skyline round out its shutout, Laura Parsons beat Aria Samora 6-1, 6-3 in the No. 2 singles match.

“She’s a really good fighter,” Gehle said during the match.

Jinny Choi defeated Bothell’s Linda Vinitnantharat 6-0, 6-1 and Kianna Bertolino beat Erica Takano 6-0, 6-2.

In addition to Knutson and Opitz’s win in the No. 1 doubles match, Sonja Ye and Kasumi Maeda beat Alina Espinoza and Tammy Tarhini 6-3, 6-3.

Skyline’s Sonjana Galgalikas and Rachel Kim ended the match on a winning note for the Spartans

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intimidating,” Hansen said. “I was pretty pleased with it.”

Photo by Christopher Huber

Skyline senior Molly Knutson serves the ball in the second set against Bothell in the No. 1 doubles match April 21 at Skyline. when they beat Gracen Rubo and Sadie Rath 6-1, 7-5.

Just as the players look toward the KingCo and district competition, they and Gehle seem happy with where the team is.

“It’s awesome. I think we are getting more confidence,” Gehle said.

While on a six-match winning streak, Eastlake looks to cruise through Garfield and Woodinville before facing powerhouse Redmond May 5.

“We’re hoping our scores drop 10 to 20 percent in the next cou-

ple of weeks,” Bangasser said.

Reporter Christopher Huber can be reached at 392-6434, ext.

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Events The musical “Once on This Island” will be performed at Eastside Catholic at 7 pm. April 28, 29 and 30 and at 6 p.m. May 1 at the school’s athletic pavilion.

Tickets are $10 for students under 18 with ID and $15 for adults. Space is limited.

The Redmond Association of Spoken Word will host a reading by David Lloyd Whited from his new manuscript “Olde Man Coyote Goes to Towne.” The reading, which will include an open mic session, is from 7-9 p.m.

April 29 at the Old Schoolhouse Community Center in Redmond.

Give blood. A community blood drive is scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 2 at City Hall.

Want to pretend to be a disaster victim? Sammamish Citizen Corps is seeking actors to portray disaster victims in an upcoming disaster response training. The drill is scheduled for 5:30-9 p.m. May 3. For more information, contact jan_bromberg@hotmail.com.

The Sammamish Chamber of Commerce will host a women in business conference “Finding Your Personal Brand” with speaker Tammy Redmon from noon4:30 p.m. May 3 at the Plateau Club. Tickets are $45-$55. Visit www.SammamishChamber.org.

Pine Lake Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale featuring plants, baked goods and treasures from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 7 at Sammamish Presbyterian Church.

Bikes for Africa. The ARAS Foundation is holding their annual drive to collect 500 bikes by May 7 to ship to Ghana.

Volunteers are needed on May 7 to prepare the bikes for shipping.

Bikes can be dropped off from 3-5 p.m. April 27 and May 4 at Eastside Catholic. Other donation times are possible. Contact Mary Trask at mary@arasfoundation.org.

PROVAIL and the Pacific Northwest Insurance Council will hold a dinner and silent auction to benefit adults and children with disabilities starting at 4:30 p.m. May 9 at Sahalee Country Club. Tickets are $50. To purchase tickets, email Sarah Steinberg at sarahs@provail.org.

Want to start a business?

Learn resources available from the Small Business Administration and the steps in starting a business at 2 p.m. May 10 at the Sammamish Library.

Sustainable Redmond and Eastside Timebank will present the film “Fixing the Future” at 6:30 p.m. May 10 at the Redmond Library.

The Sammamish Chamber will present a lunch and legislative session wrap up with Reps.

Jay Rodne and Glenn Anderson, and Mayor Don Gerend from 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m. May 19 at the Plateau Club. Cost $25-$30. Visit www.SammamishChamber.org.

Children’s band “The Not Its!” will perform at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. May 21 at the Sammamish Library. No tickets are required, but seating is limited.

Meet Stephanie Mills, author of “On Gandhi’s Path: Bob Swann’s Work for Peace and Community Economics” at 7 p.m. May 23 at the Sammamish Library.

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May 25 at the Sammamish Library.

Want to help create a trail system at Evans Creek park?

The city is looking for corporate or other organizations, as well as individuals, to help build the trail system, and a group of trail stewards to help lead teams of volunteers. Contact Dawn Sanders at dsanders@ci.sammamish.wa.us.

Health A mobile mammography facility will be available for Sammamish residents. The mobile facility features the same equipment used at Evergreen Hospital, but you do not need to be an Evergreen patient to use the facility.

It is available from 8:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Evergreen Primary Care Center, 22850 Northeast Eighth Street.

For an appointment, call 8992831.

Religious/spiritual

Carey Thornton of Seattle Tilth will teach about how to grow veggies in containers at 7 p.m. April 27 at the Sammamish Library. ment expert and comedian will present a lunch and workshop called “Why Salespeople Fail” sponsored by the Sammamish

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Open Up and Say Ha, a hour of funny stories for children ages 3 and older and their parents will be at 4 p.m. May 25 at the Sammamish Library.

Interested in chickens? A brief overview of backyard poul-

The marriage course, designed to help couples stregnthen their relationships will be held Tuesday evenings through June 7 at Pine Lake Covenant Church. visit www.plcc.org/marriage.

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

Sundays. Call the church at 3911178, ext. 129.

Faith United Methodist Church offers “Faith Cafe” for women of all ages. The café features drop-in coffee time, scrapbooking/stamping, mom & baby playgroup, quilting/knitting and walking group. There will also be See CALENDAR, Page 21

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one-off classes, studies and themed days. 9:30 a.m.

Wednesdays. Call Jo Lucas at 8371948.

Healing Prayer Service. If you have a physical, emotional or spiritual challenge or if you desire to make space for God in a peaceful setting, attend the Missio Lux Healing Prayer Service the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Pine Lake Covenant Church, 1715 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish.

Become a healing prayer minister by joining either weekly sessions from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Fridays. Email tamara@missiolux.org or call 890-3913.

The Social Justice Book Group meets at 1 p.m. the third Monday of each month in Sammamish. Email shlcministries@yahoo.com for information on the current book being discussed and location.

Celebrate Recovery, a Christcentered program offering support and a path to freedom, meets every Monday, 7-9 p.m. at Pine Lake Covenant Church, 1715 228th Ave. S.E. For more info, go to www.missiolux.org, or call 392-8636.

A men’s study group using participant guides from Celebrate Recovery will strive to work on hurts, hang-ups or habits people have been denying or surrendering to from 7-8:30 p.m. Feb. 23 at Pine Lake Covenant Church.

Email crontheplateau@gmail.com.

Griefshare, a support group for those who have lost a loved one is from 7-9 p.m. Thursday nights at Sammamish Presbyterian Church.

Moms In Touch is an inter-

denominational, prayer support group for moms to get together and pray for children and schools. For more information, call Jan Domek, Issaquah School District representative, at 6816770, or Kelly Wotherspoon, Lake Washington School District representative, at 392-2291, or visit www.MomsInTouch.org.

Pine Lake Covenant Church offers a ministry for children with special needs at 10:30 a.m.

Sundays. Call 392-8636.

“Caffeine for the Soul,” a free Judaic and Torah class for women, is from 1-1:45 p.m. every Tuesday at Caffé Ladro in Issaquah Highlands Shopping Center. Contact Chabad of the Central Cascades at 427-1654.

Free Hebrew classes are offered through Chabad of the Central Cascades. Call 427-1654.

Kabalat Shabbat is offered in the Chabad house at the Issaquah Highlands at 7 p.m. Fridays. New members and guests are welcome. Call 427-1654.

Learn to read and speak Samskritam at the Vedic Cultural Center. To register, visit www.vedicculturalcenter.org.

Community Bible Study, open to all women, meets Thursday mornings. To register for the current class, or for more information, visit www.redmondcbs.org.

April 27, 2011 • Bhajan Bliss. Join musicians and singers to learn traditional devotional bhajan, and how to make vegetarian pizzas and samosas from 7:30-9 p.m. Fridays at the Vedic Cultural Center.

Library events Talk Time, for adults who want to improve their English skills, is scheduled for 6 p.m.

May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31.

Swaddler Story Time, for children aged birth-9 months with an adult, is scheduled for 11 a.m. April 28, May 5 and 12.

Waddler Story Time, for children aged 9-24 months with an adult, is scheduled for 10 and 11 a.m. April 29 May 6 and 13.

Hindi Story Time, for children 3 and older with an adult at 4 p.m. April 28, May 5 and 12.

Toddler Story Time, for children 2-3 with an adult, is scheduled for 10 and 11 a.m. April 27, May 4 and 11.

Musik Nest, for toddlers, is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 4.

Spanish Story Time, for children 3 and older with an adult, is scheduled for 11 a.m. April 30, May 7 and 14.

Preschool Story Time, for ages 3-6 with an adult, are scheduled for 1 p.m. April 29, May 6 and 13 and 10 a.m. April 28, May

5 and 12.

Pajama Story Time, for ages 2-6 with an adult, is scheduled for 7 p.m. May 2 and 9.

Lounge and Listen to the librarian read teen-oriented book samples and short stories while lounging and munching snacks amidst flickering lanterns at 4 p.m. May 4.

The Mother Daughter Book Club, for girls ages 10-13 and their mothers, will discuss “The Search for WondLa” by Tony DiTerlizzi at 3 p.m. May 21.

Hello English! Learn English in a structured environment. For intermediate students at 10 a.m.

May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31. For beginning students at 7 p.m. May 5, 12, 19 and 26.

The teen writers’ group is scheduled to meet at 3:30 p.m.

May 17.

The Sammamish Book Group will read “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks and discuss the book at 7 p.m. May 18.

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Sammamish Presbyterian Church is hosting a series of different fitness classes, Wednesdays and Fridays 6:307:30 a.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30-9:30 a.m. For more information, contact Billie Donahue at 785-2880. Classes are free and no registration is required.

The Issaquah Sammamish Interfaith Coalition is hosting English Language Classes at 6 p.m. Wednesdays at Pine Lake Covenant Church.

To submit items for the Community Calendar, contact the editor at 392-6434, ext. 233.

Information may be e-mailed to samrev@isspress.com or mailed to the Sammamish Review, P.O. Box 1328, Issaquah, WA 98027.

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pended license April 14. The man was pulled over near the corner of Southeast 8th Street and 228th Avenue Southeast just before 2:30 p.m. for missing a brake light.

During the stop, the officer learned that the man’s license was suspended for failing to pay an outstanding ticket. The man was allowed to drive away from the scene with two new tickets to add to his collection.

Vehicle prowls A resident on the 2600 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway had a laptop and backpack full of other items stolen from their vehicle in the early morning hours April 13. The thief broke the passenger side window of the vehicle and took the items.

Around the same time a resident on the 800 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway had a

Mom finds pot A 16-year-old Sammamish teen got a talking to from police after his mother found some marijuana and two pipes in his room April 12. Police told the teen that they wouldn’t charge him with marijuana possession if he stayed out of trouble for a year.

The teen agreed and said he would be seeing a counselor about making better choices in life. Police seized the drugs and paraphernalia for destruction.

Driving with suspended license A 43-year-old Seattle woman was cited for driving with a suspended license after being stopped for driving 15 mph under the posted speed limit on 228th Avenue April 12.

Asked why she was moving at a snail’s pace, the woman told the officer that she had bad brakes

and her speedometer was not working. The officer then discovered that the woman’s license had been suspended due to unpaid tickets. She was cited for the suspended license as well as not having valid insurance.

Cracked window A resident on the 2400 block of 200th Avenue Southeast found a large crack in their front window April 11. The resident called police because they believed it may have been vandalized by someone with a paintball gun.

Police interviewed neighbors, but no one saw anyone using paintball guns in the area.

Burglary A house sitter apparently interrupted a burglary on the 21800 block of Southeast 38th Place the afternoon of April 1.

The son of the homeowner was checking up on his parents’ home while they were on vacation and arrived to see a figure run across the back deck of the home.

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A resident on the 23200 block of Southeast 24th Street reported that someone had smashed the motion light on her shed overnight April 7.

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Mysterious open door A resident on the 1800 block of 248th Place Southeast called police after waking up to find their garage door open April 14.

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He had taken a new medication prescribed by his doctor shortly before the symptoms began. Medics evaluated the man and advised that he did not need to go to the hospital, but should go home and rest and consult his doctor about getting a new medication.

Missing camera A teacher at Skyline High School reported April 11 that a blue Canon digital camera had

gone missing from her desk over spring break. Police reviewed surveillance video but were unable to identify any suspects.

The case remains under investigation.

DUI A 40-year-old Sammamish woman was arrested for driving under the influence at around 1:45 a.m. April 10. An officer pulled the woman over near the corner of Southeast 32nd Street and East Beaver Lake Road Southeast after catching her speeding.

The woman reported having had “two beers” at Snoqualmie

April 27, 2011 • Casino and had bloodshot eyes and slurry speech. The woman performed poorly on field sobriety tests and was arrested. At the police station she took a breath test that showed an estimated blood alcohol level of .14. She was driven home by police.

Missing by choice A 22-year-old Sammamish man was reported missing by his parents April 4 but later told police he was fine and didn’t want to talk to his parents.

The parents had called police convinced that their son was being held against his will over drug-related issues. Police took

note of the issue but do not believe a crime had occurred.

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A resident found a Farberware steak knife stuck in the ground near the entrance to the Aspen Grove neighborhood April 6.

Police documented the scene but could find no sign that the knife had been used in a crime.

They removed the knife and placed it into evidence.

A 40-year-old Seattle man was arrested April 10 after allegedly breaking a restraining order by attending his son’s lacrosse practice.

The man’s ex-wife and the mother of the teen called police after seeing the man in the stands at the practice, though she had a restraining order against the man expressly forbidding him from being within 1,000 feet of his son’s school. Police are suggesting that prosecutors charge the man with violating the

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Sammamish man for driving with a suspended license and no insurance just before 3 a.m. April 6. Police doing routine checks of license plates in the QFC parking lot discovered that the man had a suspended license.

They followed him home and cited him.

Bank fraud A Sammamish woman reported April 5 that three of her credit cards had been used for three separate $2,000 purchases at the Bellevue Apple Store.

The woman had possession of her cards and was unsure how someone could have gotten access to the numbers, though she suspected that someone may have taken her purse from her car and copied down the information several days prior. Police have no suspects.

DUI A 39-year-old Sammamish man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after being pulled over on the 2800 block of East Lake Sammmamish Parkway Northeast just before 2 a.m. April 8.

An officer spotted the man driving 42 mph in a 35 mph zone and drifting over the center line.

A check of the man’s record revealed that he also had a felony warrant for forging prescriptions.

The man performed poorly on field sobriety tests and blew a .16 on a portable breath test – about double the legal limit for driving.

He was booked into King County Jail.

Open doors Police found a garage door open at a home on the 22900 block of Northeast 14th Street at around 10 a.m. April 8. The officer found no one home and a piece of wood in front of the garage door sensor, preventing it from closing.

As the officer was inspecting the scene, the homeowner arrived home and was advised to keep their doors closed while they were gone.

Items in the Police Blotter come from Sammamish Police reports.