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By Caleb Heeringa
An apparent accounting glitch by King County led to two Issaquah School District schools being charged $115,000 worth of stormwater fees from which they were supposed to be exempt. On May 16, after the Sammamish Review’s deadline, the Sammamish City Council will consider waiving the back charges, which were levied by the county on behalf of the city against Skyline High School and Cascade Ridge Elementary in 2009 and 2010. At a May 10 study session, the council appeared supportive of waiving the old fees. However, they were split on whether or not the city should continue to waive stormwater fees for schools, which contain large amounts of the impervious See SCHOOLS, Page 5
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Tyson Hardtke, 18 months, enjoys a cupcake as his mother, Tyrell Hardtke, holds it for him during Plateau Pink Day May 11 at Eastlake High School. For more about the event see Page 10.
2 announce run for City Council Tom Vance looks to fill Mark Cross’ seat
John Galvin will likely challenge Nancy Whitten
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By Caleb Heeringa
Former Planning Commission chairman and long-time Sammamish resident Tom Vance announced May 11 that he will run for a seat on the City Council in November’s election. Vance, a 59-year-old resident of the Heritage Hills neighborhood since 1994, said that if elected he Tom Vance intends to focus on preserving the environment and continuing to guide the city’s investments in roads, parks and open space. Having put in countless hours of unpaid time delving into complicated policy matters on the Planning Commission between 2008
John Galvin, a fixture in the audience at Sammamish City Council meetings and outspoken opponent of the city’s Town Center Plan, announced that he will run for a seat on the council this November. Galvin, a private-practice psychologist and consultant, said in a May 12 press release that he has yet to finalize which seat he would run for, but that he intends to run against Nancy Whitten, who is up for reelection this year. Whitten has yet to announce whether she will seek a third term. “Councilmember Whitten … will need to demonstrate to citizens that she has the energy, commitment and vision to justify a third term in office,” Galvin wrote in the press release. “After two terms, it is a rare person who can continue to be an engaged and energetic council member.” Galvin did not return phone
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Issaquah schools committee calls for a $229 million bond By Laura Geggel
Though far from complete, the nascent 2012 Issaquah School District bond has something for all of the district’s 24 schools, making the work-in-process price $228.6 million. The proposal includes remodeled or expanded schools for Apollo, Clark, Issaquah Valley
and Sunny Hills elementary schools, Issaquah Middle School, Liberty High School and Tiger Mountain Community High School. The proposed bond also shows several trends — switches from carpet to rubber flooring, three new artificial turf fields and two rain shields for outdoor play areas.
On the Web See the bond proposal online at www.issaquah.wednet.edu and click on “Bond feasibility and development committee.” For one of the larger changes, the bond proposal suggests that the district tear down Tiger
Mountain and Clark and move them to a remodeled Issaquah Middle School. The two schools would be close, but not connected, Associate Superintendent Ron Thiele said, with the Tiger move costing about $3.9 million and the Clark remodel costing about $19.5 million. In the meantime, the district would build a new, two-story
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Issaquah Middle School on Clark and Tiger’s old footprint, costing about $62.5 million. “This is the biggest project on the bond,” Thiele said. The five steps to a bond Every district bond goes through five steps, beginning
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Community center estimated to cost $64.4 million By Caleb Heeringa
The Kellman property, just west of the library, would be the best of three potential locations for a community and aquatic center, according to a majority of the 50 or so people who showed up to a May 9 feasibility study meeting. Consultants briefed attendees on the pros and cons of three potential community center sites identified by the city and showed computer illustrations outlining how a facility could be situated on each site. Aside from the Kellman property, the city has narrowed down potential community center sites to a 5.7-acre group of privately owned parcels off Southeast 4th Street, near what is envisioned as the densest part of Town Center development, and a 15.5-acre Lake Washington School Districtowned parcel in front of Eastside Catholic.
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with a springboard. For the proposed 2012 bond, the district tracked maintenance needs — such as roofing, carpets and paint needs — and created a list called the springboard. Second, the district formed a committee that added and removed items from the springboard. From April to March this year, a committee of parents, principals, students, business representatives, senior citizens and community members discussed each item on the springboard. In one instance, the committee voted to remove $4.42 million in new portable classrooms district administrators had added in case the state begins requiring full-day kindergarten. Given the current budget deficit of $5.1 billion, the committee decided that the state would probably not require full-day kindergarten,
People at the meeting identified the Kellman property as the best option, citing its proximity to Sammamish Commons and the library and the fact that the city already owns the land. But the decision was far from unanimous, with many residents worried that adding a 98,000 square foot facility with 300 or more parking spaces would create traffic gridlock. Others remarked that they were opposed to the whole project. The design at the Kellman property calls for a loop road from Southeast 8th Street, around City Hall and south around the library, as well as two traffic circles on 228th Avenue in front of Skyline High School. The plan calls for community rooms which would open to the Sammamish Commons area and two pools – an eight-lane competitive lap pool and a leisure pool – to the west, overlooking Lower Commons Park and possibly
some views toward Seattle. The project also calls for a day-care area, indoor playground, kitchen, a gym with an elevated track, a group exercise room, a weight room and a birthday/pool party room. The Kellman property also fared well when representatives from Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture, which is running the feasibility study for the city, gave the same presentation to the City Council and parks commission May 10. And though the designs being presented were “master plan” designs that included all the bells and whistles that citizens had asked for at earlier feasibility study meetings, some council members and parks commissioners balked at the price tags. The center could cost $64.4 million at the Kellman property and around $67.5 million (not counting land acquisition costs) at the other two sites. Councilwoman Nancy Whitten
said she was worried that a design that attempted to include everything the community wanted would prove far too expensive to build and maintain. “It’s too expensive – I’m not interested in any of it,” Whitten said. “I think the process is out of control; I think it’s a train with no engine going down hill accelerating more and more.” Craig Bouck, who is running the feasibility study, assured Whitten and the rest of the council that the city would have the final say on the scope of the project. At this point in the process, the feasibility study team is trying to show the maximum of what could fit on the potential sites, given the wish lists received from the public. Councilman Mark Cross said it might be wiser for the city to start with a dollar amount they find acceptable and then design to that rather than designing a deluxe version and whittling the
project down. “When I go to shop for a car I go with a number in mind,” Cross said. “Maybe Nancy would feel more comfortable if we said, ‘We have $30 million to spend – what can we get for $30 million,’ rather than going the other way.” Earlier meetings had included a projection of the cost to the average taxpayer depending on the costs of the facility, but the costs presented at the May 9 and May 10 meeting far outpaced the $20 to $50 million range envisioned in the past. According to the staff projections, the capital costs of a $60 million facility paid for entirely through a 20-year property tax bond would cost the owner of a $520,000 home about $281 a year or $23.41 a month. A $70 million facility would cost the same homeowner about $328 a year, or $27.33 a month. Earlier projec-
Associate Superintendent Ron voters’ approval and the taxpayThiele said. ers’ burden. In another instance, the comRasmussen will make a recommittee added a remodel of the mendation to the school board, Maple Hills Elementary School which will review the proposed office, costing a projected bond this summer during the $35,000. The remodel would give proposed bond’s fourth phase. By office staff a view of the front the fall, the school board will door, helping the school’s safety decide whether to put the bond monitoring. before voters, likely in February The committee unanimously or April of 2012. approved the bond proposal April In the fifth, and final, step, 26, allowing voters will the bond to have their Get involved move to its say. The Email thoughts or suggestions third phase: bond needs a the superinabout the proposed 2012 bond to supermajoribond2012@issaquah.wednet.edu tendent’s ty of 60 perreview. cent to pass. District Voters Superintendent Steve Rasmussen passed the most recent district attended all of the committee’s bond with a 68 percent approval meetings, and he will spend the rating in 2006 for a bond worth next month analyzing and possi$241.8 million. bly changing the proposal before The more the district can colhe presents it to the Issaquah lect in voter-approved bond School Board in June. money, the less it has to rely on Rasmussen, with a team of its general fund to pay for mainadministrators, will examine the tenance, Rasmussen said. Bond original springboard, the commit- money can only be used for tee’s proposal, the feasibility of school construction or repair. On
the other hand, the general fund pays for items including teacher salaries and school supplies. If the district does not have bond money, it will have to dip into its general fund to fix malfunctioning buildings. “We want to make sure we have quality schools for kids,” he said. No matter the state of the economy, parents and the community expect Issaquah to have high quality schools, programs and teachers, and the bond can help the district do that, he added.
unusable. Although an elementary school, Apollo was added to the list because few schools in the southern part of the district have a synthetic field, and the district wanted that community to have equal access to fields when school was not in session, Thiele said. The artificial fields will help finances in the long term, saving money on custodial work and maintenance, such as mowing, watering, fertilizing and aerating. The proposed bond also includes new rubber floors for areas in 10 schools across the district. The rubber — already installed at the new Issaquah High School — lasts longer than carpet, is quieter to walk on than vinyl and is easy to clean, Thiele said. The proposed bond would also improve Skyline’s athletic space. Now, the home side bleachers have no rain cover, and school staff have used rope to ensure the bleachers’ safety. With the bond, Skyline is slated to receive a rain cover for its home side seating, a larger press box, more bathrooms, concessions, weatherproof storage and the conversion of the home side bleachers to visitors’ seating, costing $6.8 million. The project would make Skyline on par with the other high schools, one of the missions of the bond. “There was a big discussion about equity,” Thiele said. “You should have equal facilities.”
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Items on the list Though still fluid, the committee’s bond proposal adds a number of renovations to the district. Apollo Elementary School and Beaver Lake, Maywood, Pacific Cascade and Pine Lake middle schools would each get a new artificial turf field, costing $1.3 million apiece. All of those schools have muddy fields in the winter, which make them temporarily
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Vance Mosque draws dozens of comments
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City staff expect to issue a decision on a proposed 40stall parking lot next to the Sammamish Muslim Association’s Southeast 20th Street mosque some time this summer. The city is in the process of putting together a series of questions for the association about the scope and impact of the project, Senior Planner Evan Maxim said. The city’s questions stem dozens of letters from neighbors concerned about the potential traffic and environmental impacts of the project. More than two-thirds of the letters were against the project, though numerous people wrote the city in support. The public comment period officially closed April 21. The Muslim Association operates out of a residential home north of Pine Lake they purchased in 2009. Due to a lack of space and city regulations they are only allowed to park eight cars on the property at a time and say they have had to send worshipers away when the spots were full. The lack of space prevents the association from hosting any larger events like community potlucks and prayers during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. Opponents of the project See MOSQUE, Page 9
and 2010, Vance said he’s eager to take a more active role in shaping the city in the coming years. “For the last several years I’ve been doing it for free,” Vance said. “I like doing it … you have to want to do it because you care about the city.” This will be Vance’s second attempt at running for a council seat. He ran for an open seat in 2009 and lost to current Councilman John Curley by a 5545 margin. He said he hopes to build on that campaign this time. “I worked really hard,” Vance said. “I went doorbelling at 3,000 houses. It was very disappointing to lose … I feel like this time I can do some things that I didn’t have time to do last time.” Though Vance has until the first week of June to officially file for office, he said that he is tentatively planning to run for the seat being vacated by Mark Cross, who announced last month that he would not seek a third term on the council. Cross, who supported Vance in his 2009 council bid, said he endorses Vance again this year. “(Tom) is a thoughtful person who I think can help shape the discussion on the big issues confronting Sammamish,” Cross wrote in an email. “Being on council can be about being just one of seven experienced voices, but it is also ... about being the adult in the room. Tom is all of that. I think the Planning Commission experience and his many years of service to this community have prepared him to provide leadership at the council level.” In at least one respect, Vance said he was hoping to make up for the loss of Cross on the council. He said he shares Cross’s commitment to protecting the environment and in an interview echoed some of Cross’s arguments on storm water and shore-
May 18, 2011 • 3 line regulations. work of the Planning The council is currently debat- Commission during his tenure, ing whether or not to allow including passing the Town developments that disturb less Center development regulations than an acre of land to meet and changes to the city’s code on older, less-stringent requirements cell phone towers. The regulafor handling storm water runoff tions passed by the council in than larger developments. City March set more explicit limits on staff has pressured the council to tower height near roadways and exempt smaller lots, saying that require more of the larger towers the newer standards would mean to apply for a permit that private developers would be requires a public hearing. forced to pay several thousand “We dodged a bullet (on cell dollars for storm water reports. phone towers),” Vance said. “We Given the environmental could have had these free-range degradation being seen in Lake big monsters all over the city – Sammamish I’m happy I and the Puget had some “I feel like this time I Sound as a input on that.” can do some things that whole, Vance Vance said said he supports I didn’t have time to do overall he’s maintaining the happy with last time.” stricter and the investnewer stanments the city – Tom Vance, dards for all has made in Candidate – properties in roads since the city, regardincorporating less of size. in 1999 – par“These are big, expensive proticularly the roundabout at jects,” Vance said. “(I don’t) think Inglewood Hill Road and East that this amount that is less than Lake Sammamish Parkway and 1 percent of the total cost of the the connection of the north and project is something to fight over. south ends of 244th Avenue. Especially when you are increHe said the barricades that mentally helping (the environblock a handful of roads around ment) … We’re all in this togeththe city should be looked at on a er.” case-by-case basis. Some will likeVance said he is supportive of ly have to stay up due to the high a potential community and cost of the necessary road aquatic center in Sammamish, improvements, he said. But the though he said he wants to make council should also be careful not sure the city isn’t going to get in to “over-compensate” with pedesover its head as far as capital or trian improvements on relatively operating costs of the facility. He little-used residential roads to said he supports a phased placate barricade neighbors, approach and enlisting the YMCA or another agency to run the facility after it is built. He said he rejects the idea that private health clubs are meeting the needs of Sammamish’s residents on fixed or low incomes. “We’ve got a lot of young families and senior citizens – they are not going to be able to afford to go to country clubs and private facilities,” Vance said. “But I don’t want to see a big increase in taxes.” Vance said he was proud of the
Vance said. “That’s always a tough decision, because you have people that are passionate about their neighborhood and want to protect what they’ve got,” Vance said. “Sometimes someone close to a barricade has one point of view and two blocks away they’ve got a different point of view … I want to be sensitive to safety issues and road safety.” Vance calls himself “semiretired” from the publishing and communications industry, though he still does consulting work from time to time. He was an executive at the Times Mirror Company, which owned newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and Baltimore Sun and other media companies. Times Mirror merged with the Tribune Co. in 2000, about the same time Vance retired to care for his wife Mary Lynn, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. The Vances have no children. Two City Council seats are open in November’s election after recent announcements by Cross and Councilwoman Michele Petitti that they would not seek reelection. Councilwoman Nancy Whitten is also up for reelection, but has yet to announce whether she will run again. The deadline to file for candidacy is June 10. 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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OPINION Sammamish Forum Letter was wrong
Paperless project is lesson for lawmakers Schools use lots of paper. It’s always been a given, but does it have to be? Skyline High School spent a week last month trying to cut down on its paper use. The school librarian, Elisabeth Bacon, is to be congratulated for even thinking of the idea. She is a great example of a public servant questioning the status quo. Her plan taught the students and faculty a lesson, and likely saved taxpayers a couple bucks along the way. The school saw a 60 percent reduction in paper use. To be sure, the results weren’t perfect. Some assignments were printed at home instead of at school. While that may have helped the district save some money, it didn’t do much for the trees. But the idea is worth exploring. Certainly no one could expect a school to be truly paperless, but students, teachers and staff can be more conscious of their choices. Never short the students what is needed, but there are other ways to approach lessons than running off dozens of copies. The drive also helped highlight a quirk in state law that shows a need for a bit more local control. While using less paper will save some tax dollars, money isn’t the only issue. Paper costs aren’t terribly high in terms of school district budgets. The environmental costs, however, can be problematic, and this is where state law works against good intentions. The state mandates that school districts accept the lowest bid on supplies. That sounds good on the surface, but in this case it effectively prohibits schools from choosing environmentally-correct recycled paper, since a ream of recycled costs more than one of “virgin” paper. Only when recycled paper becomes mainstream will technology catch up to make pricing more competitive. But schools and other government agencies aren’t permitted to make choices that match their values, even the very values they are teaching. Certainly taxpayers want the best value, but the state should allow localities more flexibility in choosing which products to buy.
Poll of the week How much would should the city pay for a community/aquatic center? A) Nothing. I don’t want one. B) $20 million C) $40 million D) $60 million E) $80 million F) Money is no object. Just build it. To vote, visit www.SammamishReview.com.
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The letter “No Place for a Parking Lot” appearing on 5/4/11 is both speculative and accusatory. “Because they are Muslim I…feel they are counting on the city to give them special treatment.” This statement is based on personal feeling (to quote) vs. facts. The Sammamish Muslim Association has submitted plans and permit work to meet city requirements like any other institution. The very title of a recent article in the Sammamish City Newsletter is: “Permit for Muslim prayer house gets standard review” (May 2011, Issue 107). That article also states: “Religious uses like the prayer house require a conditional use permit…and that’s what [the Mosque] has applied for.” “…there was no reason to rush to buy a place”…“the Sammamish Muslims went about it in a sneaky way. They bought a residential home knowing from the start they wanted special accommodations to build a 40-space parking lot.” We were able to purchase space at foreclosed pricing, a fiscally sound decision for any not-for-profit institution. In any case, every community is autonomous in deciding how best to serve its needs, within applicable regulatory framework. The association held a pre-application meeting with the city two months prior to purchasing our property. The city informed us that according to city code, schools, religious institutions, and community centers could coexist within residential areas zoned R-4. We have planned accordingly, including traffic studies; a parking lot; and associated drainage, to meet the city’s code requirements (subject to formal review). The city has also been collecting public feedback per due process. Arbitrarily labeling a community’s actions as “sneaky” hints at the same xenophobia as underlies the attacks being levied at the American Muslim community every day: be it hate groups picketing schools or people-of-faith escorted off airplanes. Even so, we have provided above a fact-based explanation of what we found to be a question of substance, vs. personal feeling, in
the original letter. Let us find it in our hearts to learn, not assume, about one another (contact: admins@sammamishmosque.com). We appreciate the Review’s efforts in surfacing fact-based, respectful dialogue concerning Sammamish. Sammamish Muslim Association Board
implementing the Town Center Vision. Nancy Whitten will be a perfect opponent. John Galvin is concerned with all of Sammamish. Nancy Whitten is only concerned with what happens on 228th in front of her driveway. John Galvin speaks the truth. As fellow council person Petitti says, “Whitten speaks out of both sides of her mouth.”
John Galvin is a bad candidate The news that John Galvin, of all people, is running for the City Council is laughable. Galvin has, for the past 10 years, repeatedly insulted the City Council, the city staff, city consultants and citizen volunteers on the Planning Advisory Board, the Town Center Committee, the Special Study Area Task Force, the Planning Commission, the Park Commission and just about everybody else he disagrees with. The city’s public records are filled with emails abusive to and about these same people, often making spurious allegations with no basis in fact. His demeanor is such that city police were called repeatedly to stand by at City Council meetings when Galvin appeared. Galvin decried “conflict-of-interest” over members of the Planning Commission concerning the Town Center, yet when he applied to be a member of the commission (and received zero votes in support from the council), he dismissed his own Town Center residency as no conflict of interest. The record is clear: Galvin has neither the character nor demeanor to be on the Sammamish City Council. Scott Hamilton The writer is a former member of the Sammamish Planning Commission
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surface that create stormwater headaches. “It appears that a majority of communities in this part of the county are collecting fees (from public schools),” said Deputy Mayor Tom Odell, who mentioned that he was not opposed to collecting the outstanding fees. “We have identified the need for additional (stormwater system development). Schools have a lot of impervious surfaces.” The county collects stormwater fees on properties in Sammamish and then routes that money back to the city for the building and maintenance of storm water infrastructure – ditches, culverts and retention ponds, for example. The city has discussed spending as much as $4 million in the coming years on a system of ditches and culverts to alleviate occasional flooding in the Tamarack and Inglewood neighborhoods. Residential lots are charged
$150 a year, while commercial lots like schools are charged more based on the amount of impervious surface on any given lot. The city collected about $3.5 million in 2010, Public Works Director Laura Philpot said. When the city incorporated in 1999 they retained an agreement between the county and the Lake Washington and Issaquah school districts. In exchange for waiving stormwater fees for schools, the schools agreed to teach children the nuts and bolts of stormwater issues – how rainfall washes pollution into local waterways, how that pollution can make its way to Puget Sound and how salmon and other flora and fauna can be effected, for example. Since part of the stormwater fund normally goes towards educating the public through flyers and other efforts, Philpot said the county and city thought the exemption was a good trade-off. “We made a determination that (students) were a demographic that we wanted to target,” Philpot said. Last year, Issaquah School District staff noticed that two of
May 18, 2011 • 5 their schools were being charged for stormwater fees anyway and they asked the city to waive the fees. Philpot said in an interview that city staff is currently working with the county to figure out why those two schools were charged while others were exempted. She said this requires
“It appears that a majority of communities in this part of the county are collecting fees (from public schools).” – Tom Odell, Councilman – going through archived records going back several years or more. She noted city records show that Skyline was charged their annual fee in 2008 and paid it. While public schools in unincorporated King County and Issaquah continue to be exempted from stormwater fees, a halfdozen or so neighboring cities,
including Redmond, Bellevue and Newcastle, do charge school districts. Philpot said it would require some on-site analysis of each school to determine exactly how much the school districts would be charged if the city removed the exemptions, but she estimated it could mean between $150,000 and $250,000 to Issaquah School District and $100,000 and $200,000 to the Lake Washington School District. Lake Washington School District spokeswoman Kathryn Reith said a first-year teacher in the district makes about $41,500 a year. With benefits added in, that teacher costs the district around $54,000, meaning the exempted stormwater fees are equivalent to between two and four teacher positions. Issaquah School District spokeswoman Sara Niegowski said the numbers are roughly similar in the Issaquah district, meaning roughly between three and five teachers there. In a strongly worded April 22 letter to Mayor Don Gerend and City Manager Ben Yazici,
Issaquah Superintendent Steve Rasmussen urged the city to write off the old debts and to keep the waiver in the coming years. “If there was an identified problem, the city should have notified the District at the time the waiver was requested,” Rasmussen said. “This was never done. The District taxpayers should not have to compensate for the City’s inaction.” The Sammamish City Council will be holding a joint meeting with the Issaquah School District from 6 to 8 p.m. May 25 at the district’s headquarters at 565 N.W. Holly St. in Issaquah. Both school districts are bracing for the potential of staff reductions, depending on how much education money is cut out of the upcoming state budget. The legislature is currently in special session to hammer out the details. 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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calls seeking comment on his candidacy. In the nine-page press release, Galvin calls for an economic development plan aimed at diversifying Sammamish’s economy. He says adding sales tax revenues would stabilize a city budget that he calls unsustainable due to its heavy reliance on property and real estate excise tax. Galvin said the city has not done enough to address the looming “crossover point” – the predicted time when the city’s reserves are exhausted by annual budgets that spend more than they take in. The city had projected that to occur in 2013, but recent low inflation and a 2011-2012 budget that cut staff and put off capital projects kicked the crossover point down the road to 2016 or later, according to city projections. “Current city council members are aware that a serious discussion of new taxes is needed, but due to their policy commitment to low taxes … city council members are reluctant to tell citizens that without new revenues the city will be in serious economic trouble,” Galvin wrote. Galvin’s solution is a “Sammamish Business Incubator Center, where local entrepreneurs can get support, jump start their enterprises, share experiences and demonstrate the vitality of our local community.” Galvin calls for providing more office and retail space, in hopes of capturing more of the money Sammamish citizens spend in Redmond or Issaquah.
SAMMAMISH REVIEW Galvin, who owns property in the Town Center area, has in the past spearheaded efforts to add or shift commercial and residential density in the project. After years of debate, the city finalized a plan to zone for 600,000 square feet of commercial square footage and 2,000 residential units. In January 2010, Galvin and a group of his neighbors petitioned the council to triple the amount of commercial development allowed on their properties. They said that the rest of Town Center lacked the infrastructure necessary to support the development envisioned and that if given the extra density he and his neighbors’ project could be the first to break ground – jumpstarting a project he sees as dead on arrival. The next month, on a 5-2 vote, the council refused to even consider the petition, saying it would dramatically alter a Town Center plan that had already been through hours and hours of citizen debate. During public comment at council meetings and in letters to the editor, Galvin has continued to argue that the city has shown favoritism to other Town Center landowners throughout the process and that developers will be scared away from the project due to the cost of necessary road and sewer improvements, particularly in the densest area off Southeast 4th Street. In his press release, Galvin calls Town Center the “saddest, most embarrassing affair in Sammamish’s decade as a city” and calls for either revising the plan or scrapping it altogether. Galvin calls for increasing the variety of housing types and retail space available in the city in order to cut down on the car trips people take on and off the
plateau, which contributes to global climate change. He says council members, staff and citizens “need to avoid ideological grandstanding and narrow selfinterests to work together to realistically address environmental and social issues.” Galvin says the city can’t afford the type of deluxe athletic and aquatic facility being envisioned in the current feasibility study. He says those sorts of features should be left to the private sector. Galvin says more community meeting and activity rooms are a worthy goal, but says even a smaller scale facility is “beyond the city’s ability to finance and operate.” He says the current discussion on the community and aquatic center is being used by the city as an excuse to implement a utility tax – long-mentioned by city staff and council members as a potential cure for the city’s reliance on property and other real estate taxes. Galvin also pledges to make the council more productive and calls for city staff to contribute more to the city’s policy and planning decisions. “We need an organizational climate that encourages factual debate,” Galvin wrote. “We don’t need staff who simply rubber stamp whatever views city council members promote.” Galvin says he would be a fresh face on a council that needs “new ideas, a new vision and new energy.” “Familiar faces, holding on to stagnant policies appointing the same people to committees, need to give way to people with a new outlook and the ability to adapt to a changing world,” Galvin wrote. Galvin is married and has a son who will graduate from Eastlake High School in June.
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tions also mentioned a utility tax as a way to generate revenue to offset that property tax hit. Despite the cost, many of the attendees at the May 9 meeting were optimistic that the facility could be a defining feature of the city and tie together the Town Center area. “I think that (Sammamish residents) are a little segregated and by ourselves,” Sammamish resident Carrie Aguirre said. “It would be nice to have something like this to bring us together more.” The meeting also marked what is perhaps the first instance when the city began to feel the impact of its own Town Center development regulations that it passed last year. Each design estimated parking lot costs at $10.8 million – nearly a quarter of the total building costs. The high price tag is in part due to the requirement that every project in Town Center have 80 percent of its parking in multi-story parking garages or buried underground. “We did that to ourselves,” Councilwoman Michele Petitti remarked during the conversation. Given the feedback from the council, public and planning commissioners, the feasibility study organizers plan to refine the designs and discuss the potential operating costs of the facility at a June 13 public meeting and June 14 presentation to the council and parks commission. Deputy mayor Tom Odell said the city might have to lower its standards a bit if it wanted a facility it could afford. “We have a situation where we have champagne taste and beer budget,” Odell said. “Maybe instead of a Cadillac, we need to look at how we can get down to the price of a Chevrolet or Volkswagen we can afford.”
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POlice Blotter Identity theft Police in the Los Angeles area informed a Sammamish man May 4 that someone had stolen his social security number and used it to cash a treasury check in his name. Police continue to investigate.
I smite thee A Sammamish woman called police May 2 to report that she had been threatened with a “biblical curse” by a man hired to fix her furnace. The woman told police that the man had come to her house and attempted to fix her furnace about 10 times over the course of the last five months, but was unsuccessful each time. While at the home, the woman said the man acted strangely, stomping around the home and throwing things inside in frustration. After multiple attempts failed, the woman called her contractor to complain that the furnace was still not working. The contractor hired a second specialist to look at the furnace. This person fixed the furnace after just one visit. This change of plans apparently angered the first repairman, who sent the woman an angry letter advising her that he was
SAMMAMISH REVIEW enacting a “biblical curse” upon her and that her debt was now “between her and God,” according to the police report. The woman told police she was concerned about the man’s state of mind. Police advised the woman on how to obtain a protection order through the courts.
Domestic violence A Sammamish man reported May 2 that his wife was highly intoxicated and had assaulted him. Police found the woman highly intoxicated but in denial over whether or not she had been drinking. The husband told police that the wife had hit him after he told her to stop drinking. The husband showed no signs of injury and did not wish to have the wife prosecuted for assault. Police defused the situation and gave the family information on alcohol treatment programs in the area.
Blank check A Sammamish man reported May 2 that two men who had delivered new appliances to his home had altered the $10 check he wrote them to say $1,000. The two delivery men told the man that they would only haul the appliances in the home for a tip. The man only had $10, but then wrote them a check for another $10, leaving the payee section blank. The man later checked his bank account to find that $1,000 had been deducted. Police are working with the appli-
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Not that kind of open house A resident on the 25700 block of Southeast 32nd Place reported May 2 that someone had stolen a small amount of cash and prescription medicine during an open house. The man, who is in the process of moving, told police he did not wish to have the thief prosecuted, but wanted the theft documented for statistical purposes. About 30 prescription pain killers and $4 went missing from the master bedroom of the home during a private showing two weeks prior. The man said he recalled one person being in the home without supervision, but could not offer a suspect description.
Missing tab A Sammamish woman reported May 2 that someone had stolen the license plate tabs off her car. The woman did not realize the tabs were missing until she took her vehicle in to have a tire fixed. She believes the tabs were stolen while the car sat at her house.
Gotta go A 19-year-old Issaquah man was cited for urinating in public and minor in possession of alcohol after an officer witnessed him urinate a wall in front of the QFC on 228th Avenue April 25. The officer was on patrol at around 11:30 p.m. when he saw the man urinate in front of the store. The man smelled of alcohol but denied having relieved himself in public, despite there being a fresh puddle of urine on the
ground. The officer took the man into custody before releasing him at the scene.
Shoplifting A 22-year-old Sammamish woman was cited for shoplifting after an employee at Bartell Drugs witnessed her walk out of the store with several items at around 11 a.m. April 30. The woman was stopped by security after leaving the store and was found with about $32 worth of make-up and deodorant that she hadn’t paid for. The woman told police that the incident was a mistake and she had taken the items by accident. Police are recommending she be charged with third-degree shoplifting.
Not drunk, but stupid A 21-year-old Sammamish woman was cited for negligent driving May 8 after an officer witnessed her driving 52 mph in a 35 mph zone and passing another vehicle on a double-yellow line. Police pulled the woman over on the 4400 block of Issaquah Pine Lake Road at around 1:30 a.m. Police smelled alcohol on the woman, who at first denied having drank that night. Police gave her a portable breath test, which revealed a blood alcohol level of .06, below the legal limit of .08. She then admitted to having drank alcohol at Beaver Lake about three hours earlier and said it had been “stupid” of her to speed and pass illegally. Police are advising she be charged with negligent driving.
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of 263rd Place opened their front door the evening of May 6 to find that two smoke bombs had been lit. The man ran out his back door and around the house in an attempt to find whoever had lit the fireworks, but could not locate anyone.
Bad stash A Sammamish resident reported May 7 that his 9-year-old daughter had found a bag containing a broken pipe and a baggie of marijuana in the greenbelt on the 23400 block of Southeast 31st Street. The resident told police that he believed the items belonged to teenagers who had been using drugs and alcohol in the woods recently. The bag containing the items has the marking of a Spartan helmet – the school mascot of Skyline High School. Police took the items for destruction. They have no suspects.
Missing ring A Sammamish couple contacted police May 6 after a diamond engagement ring went missing from their home. The couple said they had had several contractors doing work in their home over the last several months. About a week ago the couple realized that an engagement ring with multiple diamonds had gone missing from the master bathroom of the home. The ring is estimated to be worth more than $16,000. The residents provided police with the identity of one of the contractors that had been in the home. The man is also a suspect in an earlier theft from a home he had been working on. Police continue to investigate.
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Troopers confront slowpoke ‘left-lane campers’ State troopers cracked down last month on “left lane campers” — people clogging traffic by traveling too slowly in the left lane. Troopers stopped 223 motorists and issued 199 warnings during King County patrols. Washington State Patrol leaders conducted the exercise to educate drivers about the importance of the left-lane travel law. Under state law, slower traffic should travel in the right lane in order to keep traffic flowing in a safe and
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orderly fashion. Motorists violate the law if they remain continuously in the left lane and impede the flow of other traffic. (The left lane does not include high-occupancy vehicle, or carpool, lanes.) Slowpokes face a $124 fine if caught. Motorists stopped for continually driving in the left lane often frequently state, “I didn’t realize it was against the law.” Slow vehicles traveling in the left lane create unsafe conditions as other motorists grow frustrated and start to pass on the right side. The problem causes traffic congestion as motorists follow too closely to the slowmoving vehicle.
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have distributed flyers arguing that the added traffic from the project could be dangerous to pedestrians and harm the character of the neighborhood. A group called Friends of Southeast 20th Street has also hired a lawyer to advise them about the project, according to correspondence to the city obtained through a public disclosure request. Outlining the timeline of the permitting process, Maxim said that the association will be given several weeks to respond to the city’s questions. Once the city gets that response, the city will take three or four weeks to review the project, though the review could stretch longer if the city needs more information from the association. Once the
review is complete, a decision will be released in two or three weeks. After the city releases its decision on the parking lot, there will be a 21day public appeal period. If the decision is appealed it will go to the Hearing Examiner. Maxim estimated that a decision will come sometime between June and August. Reporter Caleb Heeringa can be reached at 392-6434. ext. 247, or cheeringa@isspress.com.
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the Shell gas station on the 2900 block of 228th Avenue May 6. The woman was paying inside the gas station at around 2:45 p.m. when a witness said that a white pick-up truck with no rear license plate had backed into her vehicle and driven away. The pick-up contained a lawn mower and other landscaping equipment. Police are consulting with the manager at the gas station to see if any surveillance cameras witnessed the incident.
Teens, bongs, beers Police found four teenagers in a vehicle parked at East Sammamish Park with beers and a marijuana smoking device May 5. The officer contacted the teens – including one Sammamish resident and three Kirkland residents – at around 10:15 p.m. After some questioning the teens handed over two Pabst Blue Ribbon tallboys and a 24 ounce Steel Reserve, as well as a green glass bong. None of the teens appeared to be under the influence, so they were released. The officer confiscated the party favors and disposed of them at Sammamish Police Department.
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Broken window A resident on the 21000 block of Northeast 42nd Street found the back window of their car broken May 5. The vehicle owner found the damage at about 6:50 p.m. No items were taken from the car. Police have no suspects.
Missing silverware A Sammamish resident in the process of selling her home reported May 5 that eight forks and eight knives had been taken from her home, along with a gold ring. The woman reported that she had had an appraiser and a moving company in her home over the last couple weeks. Police have no suspects.
Mail theft A resident on the 3300 block of 216th Place Southeast had a check and card stolen from her mailbox between 8:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. May 4. The resident reported that a friend had left the items in the mailbox, but they went missing. An empty envelope was found down the street. Police have no suspects.
Suicidal thoughts A Sammamish police officer transported a Sammamish man to the hospital for a mental health
evaluation after the man reported being depressed and having suicidal thoughts May 4. The man was transferred to police from a mental health line after admitting to thinking about suicide after learning that his estranged wife had been granted custody of the couple’s adopted daughter. Police called for a private ambulance to transport the man to the hospital, but no ambulances were available. The officer then elected to transport the man himself rather than leave him alone for the night.
Death investigation Police were called to investigate the death of a Sammamish woman May 4. The woman’s husband, who was in the process of divorce proceedings, arrived at the home and found his estranged wife unresponsive in bed and called 911. The husband told police that the woman, who was in her 50s, had been in declining health for many years due to cancer. He stated that she also had an alcohol problem and suffered from depression. She had also recently been laid off from her job. Police found several types of prescription drugs in the home, but no signs that the woman had taken any. There were no outward signs of a struggle or any foul play. Police turned the woman’s body over to the King County Medical Examiner, who will determine the cause of death. Items in the Police Blotter come from Sammamish Police reports.
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Skyline attempts to go a week without using paper By Christopher Huber
On average, Skyline High School uses roughly 50,000 sheets of paper per week – enough to stack 16.5 feet high. That translates into uprooting about six average sized trees. But for a week last month, the school tried something different. And for that week, the school’s printers and copiers were largely silent, as staff attempted to address large-scale paper use and go “paperless.” During the week of April 1822, Skyline as a whole used about 20,000 sheets, a 60 percent reduction from a typical school week, said the effort’s organizer, Librarian Elisabeth Bacon. “It was a challenge, of course,” said Kathi Eide, library assistant. “But it was cool.” After the “paperless” week ended, Bacon looked at how much the school had used and said she didn’t think the school was really saving much paper. Her pessimism was a little off, however. She monitored staff computer IP addresses to measure the use another week and saw paper use jump back up. “I did not think it was (a success), but staff did,” Bacon said. She got the idea to attempt a
By the numbers 22.8 million
$13,027.50
Sheets of white, 8.5x11 photocopy paper used by the Issaquah School District in the 2009-10 school year
Spent on paper per month in the Issaquah School District
$1,120
2.25 million
Spent on paper at Skyline per month
Sheets of paper used per month in the Issaquah School District
175,000-225,000
833
Sheets of paper used at Skyline per month
Height, in feet, of 2.25 million sheets of paper
50,000
270 Number of trees needed to make 2.25 million sheets of paper, assuming no recycled material.
$134,475 Spent on paper in the 2009-10 school year (including sales tax)
Sheets of paper, on average, used at Skyline in a week
16.5 Height, in feet, of 50,000 sheets of paper.
20,000 Estimated number of sheets of paper used during paperless week.
Sources: Issaquah School District, Conservatree “paperless” week at a technology committee meeting, she said. It was pretty simple: because their goal is to get people to use the technology available at school, why not save paper in the process?
“No one said no,” Bacon said. Since the relatively successful “paperless” week, Bacon said Skyline is looking at how to sustain the concept throughout a See PAPER, Page 11
Graphic by Dona Mokin
In a month, the Issaquah School District uses enough paper to make a stack 833 feet tall. It would be the second-tallest thing in Seattle.
Sammamish’s high schools spend a day in the pink By Christopher Huber
Photo by Christopher Huber
Eastlake students Jack Callahan, left, and Madison Heck play Twister with friends in the Eastlake gym at Plateau Pink Day May 11.
It didn’t matter that the rain had forced vendors and event goers inside for the second year in a row. The Eastlake drum line cheerfully welcomed students from Skyline, Eastside Catholic and Eastlake to the second annual Plateau Pink Day May 11 with a groovy beat. The event was organized entirely by students on the Trischool Council, a group of ASB officers from all three high schools in Sammamish and aimed to promote cancer awareness while providing a festive community event. The event raised money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, said students. “It’s a mix of awareness with a fundraising aspect,” said Adam Hawkins, an Eastlake student helper at the event. As the rain fell, students and school staff arrived in cars, rather than the planned walk down the hill from Skyline. But inside the Eastlake cafeteria and gym, par-
ticipants enjoyed cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, teriyaki and other scrumptious meals and goodies, as well as inflatable toys. Plateau Pink Day took just two months to plan this year, compared to most of the school year in 2010, student organizers said. That’s partly due to the process being streamlined for the student council. The Tri-school Council, with four or five leaders from each school, met once a week for close to two months to nail down logistics, which many said was the toughest part of planning an event that draws hundreds of people. “The biggest challenge was each school had a lot of things going on at the same time (as this event),” said Luke Janicki, of Eastside Catholic. Another challenge the event poses is each ASB team having to merge its style with the other two schools’ leadership, students and teachers said. It teaches them how to navigate school rules and See PINK, Page 11
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school year. Staff members are looking at how to adopt more “paperless” practices into everyday activities. The district will offer technology training before next fall, she said. And it is looking at a new language arts curriculum, which provides paperless excerpts for in-class teaching. “Sometimes, if you don’t force people to do something, they don’t really change,” Bacon said. “I know that some people are thinking about things differently.” Ultimately, the survey she conducted after the “paperless” week showed students and staff members significantly reduced their paper use and considered the effort successful. Since then, teachers have approached her and told her how they changed their printing and copying habits. While many teachers, on a day-to-day basis, will copy a handout for each of their 130 students to help a lesson, some have re-considered how they present concepts, ideas and assignments in class, said history teacher Connie Heldt. Given the constant integration of technology into everyday use for work both in class and at home, teachers like Heldt were able to use PowerPoint or other
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No recycled paper? When considering the purchase of supplies, such as paper, Washington state law requires school districts to purchase products from the “lowest responsible bidder.” Recycled paper costs more than unrecycled paper. Thus the Issaquah School District has no choice but to use so-called virgin paper (not recycled). According to Conservatree, a San Franciscobased group that advocates on behalf of environmentally-friendly paper products, the reasons are varied. In some cases, the added cost of removing ink from used paper can drive up the cost of turning it into the pulp used to make paper. Another factor is that industry has a more efficient, and less costly, model for bringing in a new tree to pulp than it does collecting, sorting and de-inking recycled paper. Also, many paper companies make their own virgin pulp but purchase recycled pulp on the market. Using inprograms to avoid printing handouts. They could also post assignment documents to their class website for students to download at home or simply use the document camera to display one sheet of paper on the screen. Heldt said she never used to think twice about running off whatever copies she needed, but the paperless week has made her re-examine that practice. “I think making copies was the most convenient path,” said Heldt, who has taught at Skyline since it opened in 1997.
house virgin pulp essentially cuts out a middleman and keeps manufacturing costs down. Those extra few dollars per ream of paper can add up, since the district buys paper by the truckload (840 cases/8,400 reams/4.2 million sheets), currently at a price of $27.16 per case. The district estimates it saves approximately $40,000 per school year by not purchasing recycled paper. In an effort to conserve paper, the school district has some policies in place to help reduce paper use. Staff members are encouraged to make double-sided copies, not print out emails and scan documents into electronic format to email them, according to the district’s purchasing department. The district also does not mail out lunch menus or employee paycheck stubs (they’re available on an online database), and employee insurance and benefit information is now sent electronically with links to websites. Source: Issaquah School District purchasing department.
“Paperless week changed me. I kind of grumbled about it at first. But I wasn’t giving a test, so it was not as bad.” She noticed her history students surprisingly didn’t complain about the printers being turned off or their assignments all being online. During the month prior, fliers hung on the walls throughout the school announcing “paperless” week. “They accepted it because I think they knew it was coming,” Heldt said. The nature of the week also
created a spirit of competition among the teachers to use less paper, so those who took the effort more seriously kept the “heavy-users” accountable, she said. “I think people were already deciding whether or not they’re going to go all in. Teachers, by nature, are very competitive, so when we saw who was making all the copies … they kept the competition going to do less use.” Nicole Min, a junior, said she mostly prints assignments at home and was not negatively
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the differences between the schools. “I think it’s easy to get in a little bubble,” said Karen Skoog, an Eastside Catholic teacher and leadership advisor. “All of a sudden, they have to coordinate (with other groups).” The 2011 ‘Pink Day” drew more people and featured more activities, organizers said, including laser tag in the west wing halls of the school. Leading up to the event, ASB groups sold pink T-shirts with each school’s logo ironed on. This year, the event fell in the middle of an overall awareness week, during which students at each school wore different colored clothing each day to show support for causes like Japan disaster relief, breast cancer awareness, suicide prevention, etc. The council primarily works together to plan Plateau Pink Day, but also represents a general partnership among the high schools throughout the school year. “I like how it involves everybody on the plateau,” said Eastlake sophomore Kelsey Nyce, a member of the council. “I personally love meeting new people.”
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affected by library printers being turned off. To her, the week of saving paper was worth it, especially since it got people thinking about how to reduce their everyday reliance on gobs of paper. She said some of her teachers had them submit papers or nightly assignments to TurnItIn.com. She did notice less paper being handed out in class, though, and her math teacher, Mrs. Williams, used her class website more that week. “I don’t think it was a bad thing,” Min said. “It wouldn’t be bad to have it again.” Reporter Christopher Huber can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242, or chuber@isspress.com. Comment on this story at www.SammamishReview.com.
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A family makes its contribution to wildlife habitat By Christopher Huber
Carlene Chmaj received an inches-thick bird identification book for Mother’s Day this year. And it’s the only book allowed at the family’s dinner table, said the six-year Sammamish resident. It’s not because she feels like breaking her own rule with the new gift. It’s because she, her husband and four children spend much of their mealtime watching the numerous varieties of finch, nuthatch, chickadee, sparrow and other birds flit around their tiny back yard in the Ilahee neighborhood. Although their lot is only 5,000 square feet, with the house covering most of it, the Chmaj property recently became a certified wildlife habitat through the National Wildlife Federation. One might assume a resident needs acres of space, a large garden or grand wooded area, but Chmaj insists it’s not nearly that complicated or out of reach. In fact, anyone with some time to cultivate a few specific elements of a garden or yard can create a natural buzz of life around their yard. “We love to sit at the dinner table and watch the birds,” Chmaj said. “It’s better than TV, definitely.” On March 4, Sammamish
How to create a wildlife-friendly garden ◆ Provide food – plant native herbs, shrubs and trees, or feeders. ◆ Supply water – bird baths, puddling areas, ponds or rain gardens. ◆ Create cover – native vegetation, thickets, shrubs, brush piles or dead trees ◆ Give wildlife a place to raise their young – similar to places for cover. ◆ Let your garden go green – reduce chemical use, compost, mulch or reduce turf grass in your yard. Source: National Wildlife Federation
Photo by Christopher Huber
Charlene Chmaj shows a suet feeder that attracts the local birds. became the 51st community in the United States and 12th in Washington certified as a wildlife habitat by the wildlife federation, according to the Sammamish Community Wildlife Habitat
Project. At the time of certification, 160 Sammamish residents, four farms, one church, eight schools, eight city parks and five sites of the Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District were
A top quilter visits Sammamish
Photo by Beth Calkins
Nationally renowned quilter Harriet Hargrave, left, speaks about one of her quilts, held by Sammamish resident Nancy Cluts, left of quilt, and Tamara Williams. About 100 people gathered with Block Party Quilters to hear Hargrave speak about the art of quilting May. 12 at Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church.
certified, according to the project, headed by Sammamish resident Elaine McEnery. Chmaj and the family’s nanny, Carol Sutton, spent the past two years or so building up a garden
Pine Lake Covenant needs supplies to fill 40-foot container for Romania Members of Pine Lake Covenant Church are collecting gently used warm shoes, clothing, school supplies and household goods to send to Romania, according to Susan Lee, the project’s leader. Once full, the 40-foot shipping container will head to Targu Ju in Southern Romania. The goal is to fill the container by June 8, Lee said. The project stems from a similar effort the church made 10 years ago, when it filled and sent a container full of similar goods to the Eastern European country. Lee said some of those items continue to be passed from family to family. While the project still needs plenty of item donations, it is seeking financial support to help cover the $11,000 cost of shipping — that’s about $1 per pound sent. A decade ago, it cost $3,000, Lee said. She said the church is doing the outreach project to support Romanian families who can’t
of fruits, vegetables, plants and herbs, they said. Through trial and error, they began incorporating elements that would attract birds specifically to the back patio area, including feeders, birdbaths and a few small trees. Sutton placed the feeders in a central part of the yard, which measures about 20 feet by 50 feet, to attract the plethora of resSee HABITAT, Page 13
afford even basic necessities, such as food, housing or heat, as well as to help children attend school — they need shoes to go to school. Visit www.plcc.org/pages/page.asp?page _id=152514 for more information or to donate.
Hoops of Hope event to benefit Seeds of Hope work in Africa Sammamish-based Seeds of Hope will be the recipient of this year’s Hoops of Hope event, said organizers. Area participants will shoot free throws at the Pine Lake Middle School gym May 20 to raise money for Seeds of Hope, an organization that partners with the Lost Boys of Sudan living in the United States. Through the partnership they care for and educate Sudanese orphans in Kenya, according to the event website. The event is sponsored by the PLMS PTA and runs 4-8:30 p.m. May 20. While the main focus is to See HOOPS, Page 13
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Obituary Peter Paul Piper Jr. Peter Paul Piper Jr. died peacefully at his home in Issaquah on May 10, 2011, at the age of 75. Born to Peter Paul Piper, Sr. and Edna (Cavanaugh) Piper on Jan. 4, 1936, Peter spent his childhood in the Tacoma area, attended Bellarmine High School and graduated from the University of Puget Sound. Peter married his wife and best friend, Lorraine, on June 7, 1969, in Spokane. Peter’s career in grocery brought them to the Issaquah Plateau in 1991, where he worked for the local QFC until his retirement in 2009. Peter loved his Issaquah home: He took great pride in keeping his garage extremely organized and welcoming, complete with table and chairs for neighbors to gather and visit. Aside from having the best lawn on the block, Peter will be remembered by his family as a dedicated, hardworking, loving husband, father and grandfather. Peter is survived by his beloved wife of 42 years, Lorraine Piper; his three children: Paula Shoemaker (Tom), of Lake Tapps, Peter “Paul” Piper III (Sandy), of Edgewood, and Christine Anderson (Larry), of Normandy Park; two step-daughters: Donna Doces and Besty Goodin, both of Issaquah; and his five grandchildren: Candace, Matthew, Jordan, Cathy and Chris. He was preceded in death by his sister Joni Fontana and stepson Jim Goodin. Peter will also be missed by countless loving neighbors and friends. A memorial Mass will begin at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 19, in the chapel of Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church, 1121 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish.
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The following Sammamish residents have been named to the dean’s list at the University of Washington for the Winter Quarter 2011. To qualify, students need a GPA of 3.5 or higher. This is a partial list, some students have been named in a previous issue. Samuel Carver Sheehan, freshman; Jonathan Shi, senior; Kevin William Shreve, senior; Ryan Singh, junior; Radu Ionut Smintina, sophomore; Andrea Haluptzok Smith, senior; Sean Paul Smolen, junior; Anirudh Srinivas, senior; Alexander Ryan Stanton, junior; Michael Thomas Stead, freshman; Lancy Mimi Tan, senior; Kirk
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ident birds to a spot directly in view of the dinner table. And they flock to the yard — Chmaj has identified 21 species of bird thus far — even if the family stands 10 feet from the feeders. “They’re used to us being out here. They recognize when we’re out here (versus strangers),” Sutton said. “We
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make family projects out of this.” Chmaj remembers one particular moment of amazement the family experienced thanks to the vibrant backyard habitat. Late last fall, a red tail hawk swooped down right in front of the dining room window. As the family watched in awe, the hawk captured and ate a pigeon in the yard — providing a vivid lesson on the natural food chain. “It was really cool,” Chmaj said.
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shoot hundreds or thousands of free throws, participants will enjoy a halftime appearance from former NBA player Swen Nater (Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs, L.A. Lakers), as well as a performance by Beaver Lake Middle School basketball phenom Jordan McCabe. McCabe has been featured on numerous national media shows, including The Ellen Show, and performed at the NBA’s All-Star weekend and the ESPN headquarters in Connecticut. Participants and their sup-
Chmaj said she decided to certify the family’s backyard because it would be a fun project, as well as a positive thing to incorporate into everyday life. “I’m totally into it,” Chmaj said. “It’s just very gratifying. I feel I contributed to a really important thing.” She encouraged others interested in making their yards more wildlife friendly. Not only will it come to life with colorful critters and playful birds or butterflies, but a garden yield can
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porters can enjoy prize drawings, purchase dinner or snacks, mingle with Nater, McCabe or Arok Garang, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. A 10-year-old boy started Hoops of Hope five years ago when he decided to shoot free throws to raise money for orphaned children in Africa. Now participants gather each year to support the cause. In five years, Hoops of Hope has raised more than $1 million, which provided a school, two medical clinics, medical care kits, mosquito nets and bicycles to remote regions of Zambia. Donate or learn more at www.firstgiving.com/hoopsofhope SOH.
add nutritious options at dinnertime, too. “It doesn’t take much; it’s not that expensive. It’s an enjoyable hobby,” Chmaj said. “You can do that with a little thought and not a lot of space. There’s nothing like taking that sweet pea and putting it on the supper table.” Reporter Christopher Huber can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242, or chuber@isspress.com. Comment on this story at www.SammamishReview.com.
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Eastlake soccer shuts out Skyline, wins KingCo By Christopher Huber
Controlling a defense is what Eastlake’s Michael Gallagher does. And creating scoring opportunities is what Sean Klauer and James Gee do. Together, the three Eastlake soccer standouts shut down the Skyline Spartans May 10. For the second match-up in a row, the Wolves shut out the third-ranked Spartans, this time 2-0 to take the KingCo 4A Championship. Eastlake hosts the opening round of the state tournament May 17. Skyline heads to state as the No. 2 seed from KingCo. “I hate losing to Eastlake,” said Skyline coach Don Braman. “We knew we’d be in for a fight tonight.” Senior forward Klauer scored both goals for Eastlake (10-3-2), with help both times from Gee. And defensively, Gallagher, a junior, took away most opportunities for Skyline (12-2-2), including the majority of advances from burly forward Braxton Griffin. “Klauer got his goals, that’s what he does. Gee gave him the ball, that’s what he does,” said Eastlake head coach Adam Gervis. “Gallagher is the best
defender I’ve ever seen. He’s a control freak.” Skyline’s defense took a lot of pressure early in the first half. Klauer and Gee led the Wolves’ attack and took advantage of a split-second opportunity in the 13th minute. The ball came into the box from about 20 yards out. Under pressure, Gee tapped it right, and from four yards, Klauer nudged it inside the right post, past Skyline goalkeeper Steven Pankiewicz. It happened quickly and Klauer said there wasn’t much to it. “It was just perfect,” he said. “It’s just adrenaline right there.” Pankiewicz pulled his weight for the Spartans. He saved two shots early on — first from Eastlake’s Mark Matula in the fourth minute and again in the eighth minute on a close call from Gee. The Skyline defense had trouble beating Eastlake to the ball and moving it up field. “They took advantage of opportunities when they were presented to them,” Braman said about Eastlake’s pressure throughout the first half. “We lacked decision-making at times.” Klauer put Eastlake up 2-0 in the 28th minute on a ricochet into the net. Pankiewicz saved a
Photo by Christopher Huber
Skyline and Eastlake players go up for the ball on a corner kick during the first half of the KingCo 4A title match May 10 at Eastlake High School. Eastlake won 2-0. shot from Gee, but Klauer tipped the deflected ball in past the right post.
Photo by Greg Farrar
Kasen Williams, Skyline senior, makes his winning triple-jump leap of 45 feet, 5 1/2 inches, during the KingCo track and field championships May 13 at Juanita High School.
“I saw the defender and just hit it in,” Klauer said. He attributed his energy for the game to the
building fan base at school and
Kasen Williams wins three events at KingCo
ish tied with Chief Sealth and ahead of Lakeside (12), West Seattle (10) and Ingraham (4). O’Dea won the meet with 121 points.
Skyline phenom Kasen Williams, despite dealing with a sore hamstring, won three titles at the KingCo 4A track meet May 11 and 13 at Juanita High School. The University of Washingtonbound senior won the 4A boys triple jump (45-05.5), high jump (5-10) and long jump (21-06.5) titles. Bothell easily won the overall boys title (142 points). Garfield placed second (98) and Skyline took third (74). Eastlake scored 30 points and placed ninth. Inglemoor and Redmond (109) tied for the 4A girls crown. Skyline tallied 101.5 points to place third and Eastlake placed sixth with 46.5 points. Eastlake senior Haley O'Connor won the 400 in 57.81. The top eight finishers in each 4A event advance to the two-day regional meet May 18 and 20 at Marysville-Pilchuck. The Eastside Catholic boys track and field team placed ninth overall at the Metro League Championships May 13 at Southwest Athletic Complex in Seattle. It scored 16 points to fin-
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Eastlake golfers take 3rd The Eastlake girls golf team took third place in the KingCo 4A golf tournament May 11 and 12 at Mount Si Golf Course. The Wolves scored 32.5 points, behind Redmond (87) and Newport (75) and ahead of Ballard (13.5). Skyline placed seventh with three points. Eastlake No. 1 golfer Megan Wotherspoon, a junior, finished with 165-stroke performance, which was good enough for third place overall. She shot a first-round 82 and a second-round 83 and finished behind Redmond’s Kelly Kennewick (156 strokes) and Newport’s Isabel Chien (155 strokes). Along with Wotherspoon, Eastlake’s Jamie Midkiff tied for seventh with three others after she shot a 178 (first-round 90, second-round 88). Wotherspoon was in fourth place after one round May 11, but managed to outplay Redmond’s Keira O’Hearn on day two.
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Softball finishes regular season Heading into the KingCo tournament, the Eastlake softball team kept its streak alive with two commanding shutouts May 12 and 13. First, it beat Newport 14-0 in five innings. The Wolves came out firing on all cylinders, scoring two in the first, five in the second and three in the third inning. The Knights held Eastlake scoreless in the fourth, but Eastlake tallied another four runs in the fifth to end the game early. Senior pitcher Nicole Guptil got the win and also went 3-for-4 at the plate. Photo by Christopher Huber
Skyline players form a wall and try to block an Eastlake free kick in the second half of the KingCo 4A title match May 10.
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the feeling of scoring a goal in front of a big crowd. “As a senior, it feels pretty good. When the crowd goes crazy when you score, it’s amazing.” While Eastlake fans hooted and hollered for the KingCo title
Eastside Catholic, baseball bows out, Skyline season ends The Eastside Catholic baseball squad bowed out earlier than some had expected in 2011. After securing the best record (17-5) in the Metro League going into the Metro tournament, met a quick end when it lost two straight games to Seattle Prep and Bishop Blanchet. It opened up the league tournament with a 3-0 win over Franklin May 9. The game was scoreless until Eastside Catholic struck in the fifth inning. It scored another two in the bottom of the seventh to secure the win. Taylor Hawes finished 1for-1 with a double and an RBI. Matt Wenzinger went 2-for-3 at the plate and Blake Gillespie got the win on the mound. May 11 was a different story. Eastside Catholic lost “a fantastic thriller” 4-3 to Seattle Prep, the eventual Metro champ, in extra innings, said head coach Kurt Boyd. Against Blanchet May 13, the Crusaders lost 7-5. They fell behind 6-0 in the first two and one-third innings, Boyd said. But fought back to make it 6-5 by the fifth — Braden Wolgamott contributed a 3-run home run in the fourth and Kyle Jaske hit a 2run home run in the fifth. Blake Gillespie helped Eastside Catholic shut down Blanchet from the third inning on, but after its two home runs, Eastside Catholic also couldn’t get anything going. The Skyline Spartans capped off its regular season with a 7-0
win, the team remained somewhat subdued, reveling in the win, but staying focused on its higher goal for the season. Gervis said the team set goals in training camp before the season began, the big one being to win state. “We set goals in camp and knocked them off one at a time,” he said. “They know they’ve got bigger fish to fry.”
loss to Redmond.
Boys soccer players win honors More than a dozen Sammamish boys earned AllKingCo 4A and All-Metro 3A honors in 2011. Among the most distinguished players in the league were Michael Gallagher (Eastlake junior defender), Cole Glover (Eastlake senior defender), Travis Strawn (Skyline senior midfielder), Braxton Griffin (Skyline senior forward) and Sean Klauer (Eastlake senior forward), who all made first team All-KingCo. Eastlake senior goalkeeper Zack Wile, Skyline senior midfielder Jake Bechtel, Eastlake senior midfielder Chris Discolo and Eastlake midfielders, sophomore Sam Langston and senior Sawyer Preston all made the second team. In addition, players from Skyline and Eastlake earned honorable mention: Gerard Galvin, James Gee, Mark Matula and Evan Yamada, of Eastlake, and Travis Burns, Kyle Olmstead, Steven Pankiewicz and Mikey Stoddard, of Skyline. From Eastside Catholic, Sammamish resident Bryce Bacic, a senior defender, earned a spot on the first team All-Metro Mountain Division. Fellow defenders, seniors Colin Floyd and Miles Lind made the second team, as did junior forward Spencer Spears and junior midfielder Joe Mancini. The Crusaders’ Garrett deCilla earned honorable mention.
She had two doubles, as did teammate Kathryne Staudinger, who went 2-for-4. Eastlake finished with 16 hits altogether and Newport committed five errors. On May 13, Eastlake shut out Issaquah 6-0 at Eastlake High School. The game was scoreless until Eastlake broke it open in the bottom of the fifth with three runs. It scored another three in the sixth. With commanding pitching from Guptil, the Wolves held the Eagles to just three hits, while Eastlake was efficient, scoring the six runs on just five hits. Stephanie Clay went 2-for-3 for the Wolves and teammate Lexi Jaeger hit a home run. Skyline closed out its regular
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season with an 11-6 loss to Redmond May 13 in Sammamish. The Mustangs got out to a 4-1 lead in the second. Despite Skyline tying the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the fourth, Redmond put the hammer down with six runs in the top of the fifth inning and never looked back. It tallied 11 runs on 11 hits and committed one error. Skyline had six runs on 10 hits and three errors. Charlotte Zhao recorded the loss on the mound for the Spartans. Skyline’s Lindsey Nicholson went 3-for-4 with four RBIs, a triple and a home run. She also scored a run.
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Events 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. Internet crimes and middle schoolers. Stefanie Thomas, victim advocate with the Seattle Police, will speak about issues surrounding middle school students online including social networking, sexting, cyber-bullying, gaming and virtual worlds. The program, sponsored by the Beaver Lake Middle School PTA is free. It is set for 7-9 p.m. May 24 at Beaver Lake Middle School. Contact Sarah Jakle at 391-6470. Doug Hoselton a management expert and comedian will present a lunch and workshop called “Why Salespeople Fail” sponsored by the Sammamish Chamber of Commerce from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. May 24 at Bake’s Place. 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 poultry farming will be held at 7 p.m. May 25 at the Sammamish Library. The Evergreen Philharmonic, the Issaquah School District’s orchestra made up of students from all three high schools, will perform a “Concerto Concert” at 7:30 p.m. June 1 and a “Season Finale Concert” at 7:30 p.m. June 4. Both will be at Skyline High School. The Sammamish Arts Commission presents “Web Designs,” a performance including music, nature and visual arts performed by Simple Measures and Gossamer. The show is set for 7:30 p.m. June 7 at Sammamish Presbyterian Church. Free. The Sammamish Symphony will perform its final show of the season, “Music of the Oscars” at 2 p.m. June 12 at Eastlake High School. Tickets are $16 for adults, $11 for seniors or students, $32 for families and free for children under 10. Available at the door or at www.ticketweb.com. A Summer Solstice Ceramic Arts Sale will be held from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. June 18 and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. June 19 at the Happy Valley Grange, 19720 N.E. 50th St. in Redmond.
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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. 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 899-2831.
Religious/spiritual The marriage course, designed to help couples strengthen 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 one-off classes, studies and themed days. 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays. Call Jo Lucas at 837-1948.
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. 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 information, visit 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 interdenominational, prayer support
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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. 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 24 and 31. 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 24 and 31. For beginning students at 7 p.m. May 19 and 26. The Sammamish Book Group will read “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks and discuss the book at 7 p.m. May 18.
Classes Beyond Baby Blues, a dropin postpartum depression support group, meets from 12:301:30 p.m. Thursdays at New Parents Services, 11911 N.E. First St., No. 300, in Bellevue. Participants must call to confirm 450-0332, ext. 3. Sammamish Presbyterian Church is hosting a series of different fitness classes, Wednesdays and Fridays 6:30-
7:30 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.
Volunteers needed Sammamish Medical Reserve Corps is seeking retired medical and non-medical workers. The group meets monthly from 6:30-8 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of the month at Eastside Fire & Rescue Station 82, in the Sahalee area. For information, contact MRC@sammamishcitizencorps.org. Visit residents in nursing homes. Friend to Friend matches volunteers with residents in Sammamish nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Volunteers are asked to visit residents a couple times a month for a year. Orientation will be provided. Background check required. For information, call 1-888-3837818. Northwest Center accepts donations of clothing and household items at “The Big Blue Truck” open at the Pine Lake QFC shopping center from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. seven days a week. Donations are tax deductible. For more information, visit www.bigbluetruck.org. Evergreen Healthcare is seeking volunteers to help serve patients throughout King County. Volunteers, who will be assigned to help people in their own neighborhoods, provide companionship, run errands, do light household work, or give a break to primary caregivers. Volunteers will be supported by hospital staff. For more information, call 899-1040 or visit www.evergreenhealthcare.org/hospice. The King County LongTerm Care Ombudsman Program needs certified longterm care ombudsman volunteers. After completing a four-day training program, visit with residents, take and resolve complaints and advocate for residents. Volunteers are asked to donate four hours a week and attend selected monthly meetings. Contact John Stilz at 206694-6747 or johns@solidground.org. Eastside Bluebills is a Boeing retiree volunteer organization that strives to provide opportunities for retirees to help others in need and to assist charitable and nonprofit organizations. Eastside Bluebills meet every third Wednesday of the month at the See CALENDAR, Page 17
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Bellevue Regional Library from 10 a.m.-noon. Call 235-3847. LINKS, Looking Into the Needs of Kids in Schools, places community volunteers in the schools of the Lake Washington School District. Opportunities include tutoring, classroom assistance and lunch buddy. Just one hour a week can make a difference in a child’s life. For more information, email links@lwsd.org or visit www.linksvolunteer.org. Eastside Baby Corner needs volunteers to sort incoming donations of clothing and toys and prepare items for distribution. Go to www.babycorner.org. Volunteers are needed to visit homebound patrons with the King County Library System’s Traveling Library Center program. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and have reliable transportation. Call Susan LaFantasie at 369-3235. Sammamish Citizen Corps Council needs volunteers to help support the Community Emergency Response Team and other groups. For more information e-mail info@sammamishcitizencorps.org, visit www.sammamishcitizencorps.org or attend the meeting from 7-8 p.m. first Wednesday of every month at Fire Station 82. Volunteer drivers are needed for the Senior Services Volunteer Transportation Program. Flexible hours, mileage, parking reimbursement and supplemental liability insurance are offered. Call 206-448-5740. Guide Dogs for the Blind Eager Eye Guide Pups Club needs volunteers to raise puppies for use as guide dogs for the blind. For information, call Sandy at 425-644-7421. Volunteer Chore Services links volunteers with seniors or
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individuals who are disabled and are living on a limited income. Call 425-284-2240.
Clubs, groups Rotaract, a community service for young adults ages 1830 sponsored by the Sammamish Rotary, meets twice a month. contact scott.brewer@sammamishrotary.org. The La Leche League is forming a new group in Sammamish. The organization is committed to helping mothers breastfeed. They plan to meet on the second Wednesday of each month from 10 a.m.-noon at Fire Station 83, near Sunny Hills Elementary. Block Party Quilters meets at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at Mary, Queen of Peace Church. Visit www.bpquilters.org. Sammamish Heritage Society meet at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month in the Pine Lake Community Center. Visit www.sammamishheritage.org. The Social Justice Book Group meets at 10 a.m. the third Monday of each month in Sammamish. Email hineswa@live.com for information on the current book being discussed and location. Teen late night. The second
Friday of each month is teen night at the Redmond/Sammamish Boys and Girls Clubs. The club has a DJ, dancing, games, Xbox and Wii, movies, food and more. An ASB or ID card is required for admittance. The fee is $6. Email ahise@positiveplace.org or call 250-4786 for more information. A support group for caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s meets in Issaquah. The group is designed to let caregivers gain emotional support, learn and share their experiences. The free group meets from 6:30-8 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at Faith United Methodist Church, 3924 Issaquah Pine Lake Road S.E. Call 617-1936. The Rotary Club of Sammamish meets every Thursday at 7:15 a.m. at the Bellewood Retirement Apartments, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E. Visit www.sammamishrotary.org. The Sammamish Fit Club, a club looking to improve the health of the community, meets from 7:30-8 p.m. Wednesdays. For location and more information, call Trish at 206-605-0679 or send an email to whyweight@comcast.net. Cascade Republican Women’s Club meets at 11:30
a.m. the third Wednesday of the month at the Plateau Club, 25625 E. Plateau Drive. Call 861-7910. Redmond Toddler Group, a parent-child program with art, music, play and parent education has openings in pre-toddler, toddler and family classes. Call 8695605 or visit www.redmondtoddler.org. Moms Club of the Sammamish Plateau has activities including weekly, age specific playgroups and monthly meetings, coffee mornings, mom’s nights out, craft club and local area outings. Visit www.momsclubsammamish.org or call 836-5015. Foster Parent Support Group meets the last Thursday of each month from 6-8 p.m. at Mary, Queen of Peace Parish, 1121 228th Ave. S.E. Earn your training/foster parent hours. Refreshments and child care are provided. Call 206-719-8764. The Eastside Welcome Club meets the first Wednesday of the month at 10 a.m. in members’ homes and on various days of the month for other activities and outings. People who are new to the area and want to meet new people and join in different interest and social groups, can call Sharon at 836-9224. Sammamish Kiwanis meets every Wednesday at 7 a.m. at Sammamish Hills Lutheran
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Church, 22818 S.E. Eighth St. Visit www.sammamishkiwanis.org. Toastmasters of Sammamish meet from 7:15–8:45 p.m. every Tuesday at Mary, Queen of Peace Parish, 1121 228th Ave. S.E. Call 427-9682 or e-mail davidlloydhall@live.com. The General Federation of Women’s Clubs local chapter, Cascade Woman’s Club, meets at 7 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month in members’ homes. Membership is open to all women who would like to be a part of one of the oldest and largest women’s organizations whose members are dedicated to community improvement through volunteer service. Call 898-8603 or visit www.gfwccascadewomansclub.org. Sammamish Garden Club meets the second Tuesday of the month at 9:30 a.m. in the homes of members. Visitors and new members are always welcome. Call Cathy at 836-0421 or email CathyWebst@aol.com. 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. Items must be received by the Wednesday before publication.
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210-Public Notices 02-2164 LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF SAMMAMISH Community Development Department Determination of NonSignificance (DNS) and Adoption of Existing Environmental Documents Description of proposal: The proposed ordinance will allow fundraising signs in specified areas, subject to design standards, and with requirements for removal following completion of the fundraising exercise. Proponent: City of Sammamish, Department of Community Development Location of proposal: The Municipal Code is applicable within the corporate boundaries of the City Lead agency: City of Sammamish, Department of Community Development The lead agency for this proposal has determined that it does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. An environmental impact statement (EIS) is not required under RCW 43.21C.030 (2)(c). This decision was made after review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file with the lead agency. This information is available to the public on request. This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2); the lead agency will not act on this proposal for 14 days from the date below. Comments must be submitted in writing and received by the deadline described below. Titles, Agency, Adoption Dates and Descriptions of documents being adopted: Sammamish Comprehensive Plan: Documents: Draft and Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statements for the City of Sammamish Comprehensive Plan. Lead Agency: City of Sammamish Department of Community Development. DEIS and FEIS Publication Dates: February 18, 2003 and September 5, 2003. Descriptions: These documents describe, on a programmatic level, the natural and built environmental features, functions, and values located in the City of Sammamish, and the impacts associated with the
210-Public Notices adoption of the Sammamish Comprehensive Plan. These documents discuss the need to foster a sense of community within the City. If the documents being adopted have been challenged (WAC 197-11-630), please describe: N/A The documents are available to be read at: City of Sammamish Department of Community Development 801 228th Ave SE Sammamish, WA 98075 425.295.0500 or on the web at: www.ci.sammamish.wa.us We have identified and adopted these documents as being appropriate for this proposal after independent review. In addition to the information in the SEPA environmental checklist including the nonproject action supplemental questions, and the SEPA nonproject review form, the documents listed above will help meet the environmental review needs for the current proposal and will accompany the proposal to the decision maker. Agency adopting the documents: City of Sammamish, Department of Community Development Date of issuance: May 16, 2011 Responsible official: Susan Cezar, Deputy Director Department of Community Development 801-228th Ave SE Sammamish, WA 98075 425.295.0500 Contact person: Evan Maxim, Senior Planner Department of Community Development 801-228th Ave SE Sammamish, WA 98075 425.295.0523 You may comment on this determination. Send comments to: SEPA Responsible Official City of Sammamish 801 - 228th Ave SE Sammamish, WA 98075 Deadline: Comments must be received at the address above by May 30, 2011 at 5PM per SMC 20.15.070. Published in Sammamish Review on 5/18/11
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Happy Mother’s Day
State wants shoreline changes By Caleb Heeringa
No-Needle No-Scalpel
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SWEDISH ISSAQUAH CAMPUS • SWEDISH GREENLAKE CLINIC EDMONDS VASECTOMY CLINIC
The state has requested that Sammamish make several potentially significant changes to the shoreline building regulations it spent years crafting. Last year, the city submitted its Shoreline Master Plan to the Washington State Department of
Ecology. The document regulates the sizes and types of development and land clearing that can happen near Pine and Beaver lakes as well as Lake Sammamish. The state must sign off on the document before it becomes law. On May 6 the Department of Ecology sent the city a letter out-
lining changes it requires before approving the plan, including: ◆ Removing exemptions that allow a homeowner to expand a home or other type of impervious surface that was built in a shoreline setback prior to the first shoreline regulations going into effect. ◆ Removing a rule that allows a homeowner to add an uncovered deck within 45 feet of a lake. ◆ Reducing the maximum size of docks allowed – from 600 square feet to 480 square feet for private docks and from 800 square feet to 700 square feet for shared docks. Community Development Director Kamuron Gurol said the City Council will decide in the coming weeks how to proceed. They can choose to accept the Ecology’s changes or suggest an alternative set of regulations to meet Ecology’s standards.
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