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25TH YEAR, NO. 19

THE PLATEAU’S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED NEWSPAPER

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016

SAMMAMISH

SEASON’S OVER

REVIEW Plucking Pine Lake’s invasive crayfish

Eastlake’s baseball campaign ends with 9-1 loss to Bothell Page 10

PERFECT DAY FOR PADDLING

BY DAVID HAYES dhayes@sammamishreview.com

Dwayne Lamb and his wife have quite the built-in conversation starter when they invite friends and family to their dock on the shores of Pine Lake. They trap crayfish. “Sometimes I’ll empty the trap while they’re there and it becomes quite the conversation piece,” Lamb said. But what is so fascinating about crayfish? How about the fact most of the crayfish trapped by Lamb — and about 70 other households SEE CRAYFISH, PAGE 7

Police: Teen’s knifepoint robbery story was a hoax

GREG FARRAR | gfarrar@sammamishreview.com

A family walks past some paddle boards on Sunset Beach at Lake Sammamish State Park. The ‘Sammamish’ model paddle board in the middle is made by one of the 60 paddle sports businesses represented at the festival, the Stand On Liquid company of Bend, Ore. View more photos from the event on Page 6 and online at sammamishreview.com.

Preservation group: Providence Heights campus ‘most-endangered’

BY CHRISTINA CORRALES-TOY

BY SCOTT STODDARD

ccorrales-toy@sammamishreview.com

sstoddard@sammamishreview.com

A Sammamish 14-yearold boy’s story about being robbed at knifepoint on May 3 was apparently a hoax, authorities say. Police, K-9 units and the King County Sheriff’s Office’s Guardian One helicopter descended on the Klahanie area Tuesday night to look for a suspect who had reportedly cut the teen’s arm and stole $20. The search turned up empty. “It was all made up,” said King County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jason Houck. “None of it happened.”

The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation on April 25 named Issaquah’s Providence Heights divinity school campus — including its centerpiece chapel — as one of the state’s seven mostendangered properties. The entire campus, including its architecturally significant midcentury modern chapel, would be razed and replaced with approximately 140 single-family homes if a developer’s preliminary plat filed with the city is approved. The City of Issaquah’s Development Services

SEE HOAX, PAGE 3

Department announced May 3 that a public comment period regarding the preliminary plat has been extended to 5 p.m. May 17. Written comments can be sent by email to the city’s project planner, Mike Martin, at mikem@ issaquahwa.gov. The campus chapel features 14 33-foot-tall sculptured stained-glass windows by French master artist Gabriel

Loire, who died in 1996. Loire’s work appears in religious venues around the world. Poised to purchase the property from a megachurch, Bellevue developer Brixton Homes LLC last month filed additional plans with the city for the subdivision, which has been named Madison Pointe. A key figure in the development is George Reece, who is not only the manag-

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ing partner of Brixton Homes but also was a high-ranking official in Kirkland-based The City Church, which through a limited liability company is the current legal owner of the property, according to King County records. Reece has served as vice president and later as treasurer of City Ministries, a SEE CAMPUS, PAGE 5

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