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Climber shares tale of surviving Everest avalanche By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com Dennis Broadwell has been traveling to Nepal for more than 20 years, not only leading climbers up some of the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains, but giving back to one of the world’s poorest countries through humanitarian missions. Now, Broadwell is starting his own fundraising effort in the wake of the April 25 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people, and the resulting avalanche on Mount Everest, where he was stationed, which killed at least 19 climbers. His project, The Himalayan Outreach Project, is attempting to raise money for Nepalese citizens whose homes, businesses
On the Web Learn more about The Himalayan Outreach Project at www.thehimalayanoutreachproject.org. and schools were destroyed in the 7.8-magnitude quake. The 43-year-old Broadwell and his clients, Brad Paskewitz and Ben Breckheimer, were at Everest Base Camp when the quake struck, sending tons of snow and ice down the Pumori Face and Khumbu Icefall before destroying much of the southside base camp. Here is Broadwell’s story of what happened before, during and after the disaster:
Preparing for the summit Everything was good early in the expedition. When we first got to base camp, there was a disproportionate amount of snow than normal, so that kind of set back all of the teams. There was also a memorial event for the climbers that had died last year in an avalanche on the Khumbu Icefall. That was April 18. We didn’t start going up toward Camp 2 (21,000 feet elevation) until a few days later. We’d done a lot of training in the lower part of the icefall area. We spent 10 to 12 days there training before starting the actual climb. Eventually, we went up to Camp 1 (at 20,000 feet), going See EVEREST, Page 6
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Dennis Broadwell stands at a climbing camp decorated with Tibetan prayer flags and a U.S. flag at a Tibetan rock cairn on a lower slope of Mount Everest on April 10, before the April 25 earthquake. See more photos from the climbing trip at www.sammamishreview.com.
Police looking for armed robber Luncheon raises Sammamish Police still are investigating an armed robbery that took place April 27 at Andre’s Dry Cleaning, 3310 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway. A man entered the open shop a few minutes before 9 a.m., threatened the person manning the store counter and asked for money, according to police reports. He also asked
Rays of Hope in the Relay for Life Skyline High School juniors on the Neon Rays of Hope team pose with their appropriate pink camping tents, for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life held May 9 and 10 at Issaquah High School. There were 11 students on the team that raised more than $2,800, in an annual effort with about 100 teams of districtwide public and private school students that has in past years raised more than $200,000. By Greg Farrar
about surveillance equipment, took the money and forced the shop worker into the back of the store before fleeing. The suspect was described as a thin, short, Asian male, possibly in his mid-30s, said Sgt. Stan Seo, King County Sheriff’s Office media relations officer. Seo said police canvassed the area, but did not locate
the man. Seo would not say how much money was taken from the store, but Sammamish Police Sgt. Tony Garza estimated the amount at about $100. Seo said that thankfully no one was hurt in the robbery. The incident likely will be turned over to the county’s Major Crimes Unit, he added.
$617,000 to benefit students and schools Almost 900 community members attended the Issaquah Schools Foundation’s 17th annual Nourish Every Mind Luncheon on May 14 at the Issaquah Community Center and donated $617,000 for local schools. The program featured several students and educators who spoke passionately about the foundation’s impact on education. Ashton Herrild described how the foundation’s Healthy Youth Initiative helped him redefine himself in his recovery from drug addiction and find his calling as a filmmaker. Through the Influence the Choice video contest, a program of the Healthy Youth Initiative’s Drug Free Community Coalition, Ashton has produced several videos aimed at reducing youth substance abuse. “The only thing worse than being lost is not being looked for,” Ashton said. “Because of people like you, youth in our community are learning that it doesn’t matter how hard you fall. What matters is how you get up, and where you go from there.”
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Candidate filing week sets up city council races
The race for three Sammamish City Council spots is on. King County candidate filing week closed May 15, setting up races for all three term-expiring seats. With just two challengers for each spot, a primary is unnecessary, but it does ensure voters will have choices come Election Day Nov. 4. Sammamish City Councilwoman Nancy Whitten is the only incumbent who decided against filing for re-election. Christie Malchow and former City Councilman Mark Cross each filed to run for Whitten’s Position No. 2. Sammamish Parks and Recreation Commissioner Hank Klein will challenge incumbent Councilman Ramiro ValderramaAramayo for Position No. 4. Finally, Tom Hornish is set to challenge incumbent Mayor Tom Vance for Position No. 6. The spot previously had a
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third challenger, Arul Menezes, but he withdrew before the May 18 deadline. Each Issaquah School Board challenger will run unopposed. Incumbents Suzanne Weaver and Anne Moore each filed for re-election without any challengers. Sammamish resident Harlan Gallinger was the only one to file for Brian Deagle’s spot on the board. Deagle announced earlier he would not seek re-election. There are three Lake Washington School District School Board terms set to expire at the end of the year. Eric Laliberte will challenge incumbent board President Jackie Pendergrass for Director District No. 1; Rob Tepper is set to challenge incumbent board member Chris Carlson for Director District No. 2; and incumbent Siri Bliesner will run unopposed. View a full list of candidate filings at www. kingcounty.gov/elections.
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Now that the vote overwhelmingly in favor of the annexation of Klahanie and some surrounding neighborhoods has been finalized, the next step is Sammamish City Council action to formally request the annexation. According to final numbers from King County elections, the annexation question passed 2,467 to 400, or 86 percent to 13.9 percent. On another front, city voters indicated they want the powers of initiative and referendum. The final tally for that issue from the April 28 ballot is 3,830 to 3,076, 55 percent to
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44.5 percent. A resolution or ordinance asking the county to approve the annexation will be in front of the council as soon as possible, Mayor Tom Vance said. A May 19 council session was scheduled, after Sammamish Review’s deadline. In talking about the coming annexation, Vance said much work to come will be in the hands of the administration. City Manager Ben Yazici said there are numerous issues Sammamish needs to work out with the county including inventories of Klahanie-area infrastructures and parks. And the city and county still need to decide if there are any
capital improvement funds that should now come to Sammamish. If everything falls into place, Vance said Sammamish could have the annexation completed by August. If so, Klahanie-area residents would enjoy reduced property taxes in 2015. If the annexation does not happen by August, new rates would not take effect until 2016. The initiative and referendum question is in the hands of the City Council. The vote was a nonbinding advisory question and the council is under no obligation to follow the voters’ lead. The council would need to pass resolutions to create the power of ini-
tiative and referendum locally. In basic terms, initiatives allow voters to put specific questions directly on the ballot, effectively bypassing legislators. Referendum questions also are put before voters and are used to halt or repeal legislation adopted by local lawmakers. While the council is not bound to follow the outcome of the public vote, several council members seem likely to support the needed legislation. “That’s a seven-member council decision,” Vance said. He also said the initiative/referendum issue already is set for a council discussion at a June 9 work session.
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Community center moves ahead with few glitches By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com The fact the $33.8 million Sammamish Community and Aquatic Center is being built on time and perhaps even a little under budget were probably two of the more notable bits of information to come up as the Sammamish City Council recently received an update on the progress of the project. The total construction contract for the project is $28 million, said Jessi Bon, city parks and recreation director. The city set aside a 5 percent contingency amounting to $1.4 million. Design and related costs equaled $4.4 million, including an additional $1.4 million in contingency dollars. But of the total $2.8 million in contingency money, Bon said contractors have used only approximately $200,000 even though the project is roughly 53 percent complete. For a project the size of the community center this far into construction, she added, you would normally
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Construction last month of the leisure pool at the Sammamish Community and Aquatic Center was going on at a brisk pace. The other will be a lap and diving pool. expect to see much more use of contingency money. The contingency funds that have been used were primarily to deal with unsuitable soils on the project site. Bon said that was expected and similar issues
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may arise as work progresses. Still, she said the city should be very happy with the use of the contingency funds so far. The groundbreaking for the center was in June 2014, with the first foundation laid in mid-
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July. A large underground storm water vault was among the first features constructed. The center eventually will have two pools. Bon quipped the storm water vault would hold more volume than both pools combined.
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She then hedged her bet. “I’m probably telling a story there, but its big,” Bon said of the vault. Various other amenities are going into the center as planned, said Anjali Myer, parks and recreation manager. For example, pool construction should finish this spring. A north access road will go in this summer, along with construction of new parking. The overall project should be substantially complete by the end of December. In addition to the two pools, the center will include a gymnasium, community and exercise rooms, and an indoor jogging track. “We have a lot of windows on the jogging track,” Myer said. In PowerPoint slides, she also pointed out a platform that makes up the base of a water slide for one of the pools. The King County YMCA is a partner in the project. It is expected to pay $5 million toward construction costs. The Y would then furnish and operate the facility.
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Freedom isn’t free; thank a veteran for it
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Freedom is not free. The cost is men’s and women’s lives. And blood and guts. And arms and legs. And hearing and sight. And brains and other organs. Men and women have given their lives and paid in many other ways for this country’s freedom since it began. There is a war going on right now. And some of the men and women who are fighting it were in elementary school when it began. Think about that. A lot of people think of Memorial Day as a three-day holiday that includes a day off from work. But how many of those people think about those who have paid for those freedoms? Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day, and it was to be a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States of America. More than two-dozen cities and towns claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. While Waterloo, New York, was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day, according to www. usmemorialday.org. Regardless of the exact date or location of its origins, one thing is clear — Memorial Day was born out of the Civil War and a desire to honor the dead. It was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11. “The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land,” he proclaimed. The date of Decoration Day, as he called it, was chosen because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle. On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, and 5,000 participants decorated the graves of the 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried there. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890, it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring its dead on separate days until after World War I, when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war. Memorial Day now observed in almost every state on the last Monday in May with Congressional passage of the National Holiday Act of 1971. So, while you’re grilling or camping or just lounging around the house, take a moment to remember those who should never be forgotten. And while you’re at it, thank a living veteran for his or her service, too.
Letters to the Editor Work together on development, growth
I’m frustrated at what seems to have become a major trend — homeowners’ associations appealing new subdivisions with what seems a knee-jerk reaction to change. This is an un-neighborly “not in my back yard” attitude that is hard to understand from associations that benefited from city standards to allow their creation. We aren’t experiencing some radical change from development, but a steady controlled and well-managed process over the past 20 years. The reason we all live here is someone developed our homes. We’re lucky to have such highquality developers in this market. I have been watching these appeals come and go and I have to ask: Who really wins? As far
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as I can tell, it is the attorneys. There just isn’t an upside to these appeals. We decided to become a city so we could control our destiny but that also means we agreed we would grow in an urban fashion. Sure I get frustrated with traffic and how full our schools have become but I believe we have to live with our eyes open. If we want to protect parks and forestlands, then we need to also understand and accept urban growth. And what if we stopped fighting the Growth Management Act we agreed to in becoming a city and instead embrace it and make it work for our community? Why do HOA groups keep repeating the same mistakes? They fight developers, spend tons of money on lawyers and get some brief delay out of all that cost, effort and frustration. In the end, our city keeps developing as we all agreed it would do under our GMA plan-
ning and zoning. What if we all worked with the City Council to spend the money the city gets from development on priorities we all agree on? What if we talked to developers when they start applications and sincerely tried to solve issues, even pooling our resources to create better parks and coordinate services, or support schools, rather than waiting and fighting development we essentially already agreed to. What if? Why not? Better than the current path. Douglas R. Gregory Sammamish
Top 10 reasons to remove the barricade 1. Northeast 42nd Street is a public street and all citizens have a right to use the street. 2. The barricade pro-
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It would have been too good to be true if Ben had cited another major endeavor to complete before he leaves; that of bringing to life the development of the phantom town center. Ben may have worked hard for some residents of the city, but he has been completely dismissive of the plight of the property owners in the sub-area of the planned town center. He, along with the council, have turned a deaf ear to all appeals from property owners, such as myself, to revise the town center plan so that it is financially feasible for developers to take a serious interest in it. The property owners have been caught in a spider’s web for years. The only thing we are asking is that the plan be revised so that property owners can sell their lands at fair market value, in accord with the rezone that took effect in January 2011. The time is way past due for the city to fulfill its responsibility to all of its residents, to restore our private property rights. Valerie Spiegler Sammamish
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Twin brothers earn Eagle Scout award
Lucas and Ryan Tjom, 16, of Boy Scout Troop 636, were honored at a special Eagle Scout ceremony May 16 at Community Church of Joy in Sammamish. To earn Scouting’s highest award, Lucas earned 32 merit badges, served in a variety of leadership roles including patrol leader, assistant patrol leader and librarian. He also completed a major community service project, installing light poles at his church, Community Church of Joy. Ryan earned 33 merit badges, served in a variety of leadership roles including senior patrol leader, patrol leader, assistant patrol leader, historian and quartermaster. He also completed a major com-
Letters From Page 4 posal was considered and rejected by the hearing examiner and traffic studies contracted for King County and by the city of Sammamish. 3. The street connection was required by the plat approval of the Old Mill Point development. 4. The barricade diverts 1,420 cars per day, according to the city traffic study. The diverted traffic cuts through the Timberline neighborhood along a detour route that ranges between two miles and three miles. The distance of the barricaded street is one
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munity service project, installing wheel stops at his church, Community Church of Joy. Combined, the brothers raised more than $15,000 to complete the two Eagle projects. They started their Scouting adventure as Tiger Cubs in first grade, and then bridged in to Boy Scouts when they joined Troop 636 five years ago.
With Troop 636, they already attended two high adventure camps, Philmont, an 85-mile hike in Northeast New Mexico; Seabase, sailing in the Florida Keys; and this summer they will go to Northern Tier, an 80-mile canoe trip through Minnesota and Canada. The brothers are sophomores at Skyline High School.
mile. In round numbers, this adds a half-million to 1 million vehicle miles of travel per year due to the longer detour route. 5. Removal of the barricade will reduce congestion and reduce the risk of accidents with fewer overall miles of driving. 6. Everyone in Sammamish who travels the Sahalee Way/state Route 202 route is negatively affected by this barricaded street, even if they never travel on Northeast 42nd Street. One million miles of travel are added to this segment of the route each year resulting in increased congestion caused by the unnecessary barricade detour traffic that now must travel this route segment.
7. The added extra miles of travel depletes nonrenewable natural resources like gasoline, and causes air pollution and other potentially negative environmental effects. 8. The barricade was intended to be temporary until the SR 202 improvements were completed and the barricade is no longer needed. 9. The city (engineers) approved the final plat and accepted the dedication of the streets and all other subdivision improvements without conditions. 10. The street is currently being used safely by some citizens; it is also safe enough for all citizens’ use. Greg Reynolds Sammamish
The publication dates of the Issaquah Press Inc. newspapers — The Issaquah Press, Sammamish Review and SnoValley Star — have changed. The Press and the Review, which currently come out on Wednesdays, will be delivered on Thursdays. The Star, which currently comes out on Thursdays, will be delivered on Fridays. Deadlines for letters
to the editor, community news and calendar items for all three weekly newspapers will remain at noon Friday. The classified advertising and camera-ready advertising deadline for The Press and the Review will move to 11 a.m. Mondays. The classified advertising and camera-ready advertising deadline for the Star will move to 11 a.m. Tuesdays.
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Obituary Neil Coulombe Neil Brian Coulombe, of Sammamish, loving father to Bill and Katharine, passed away on May 8, 2015. A funeral service was May 9, 2015, at Good Samaritan Episcopal Church in Sammamish. Please view photos and share memories at www. flintofts.com. — Flintoft’s Funeral Home, 392-6444
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Everest From Page 1 through the icefall with other groups. Everybody did really well, and we made pretty good time. Then we took a rest day and went up to Camp 2, and everyone was feeling good about the team at that point. But it was still a long road ahead of us. You have to do multiple rotations up and down the mountain to get acclimatized to the altitude. The next day was April 25. We got up in the morning to find mist and snow in the air. We descended back through the icefall, and everything was going smooth.
of rainy and misty, so I didn’t really have an idea of how much debris was actually falling. Immediately, I told Brad, “Run! Get up on the hill!” He ran to a different hill, and I ran to the back side of the hill that I was on. I’m not sure, but I think he yelled out, “We’re going to die.” And that was definitely the thought that was going through my head. It was kind of this moment where you kind of realize, “This is the end. This is how I’m going to die.” This thing was massive. I got on the leeward slope of the hill, and all this ice and snow went over my head. It took a little while for it to clear. It was a lot less than I thought it would be, and I knew I was safe at one point. I got up, and there was so much debris floating around in the air that it almost looked like an ash cloud that you would’ve seen on 9/11.
‘The earth started shaking’ I got back to base camp, went into my tent, took off my crampons and got a drink. Brad was just a few minutes behind me, and Ben was about 15 minutes back. But I’d seen him Finding survivors come down from the iceIt took a while to fall with his Sherpa guide, understand the gravity of so we knew he was safe. the situation. And luckily, I was in the dining we were on the northern tent with Brad and all of side of base camp, on the sudden the earth started edge of this thing, so our shaking. I had been in tents didn’t get knocked the Nisqually quake (a down. We were in a good 6.8-magnitude temblor position, and we didn’t that struck Western comprehend that other Washington in February people’s tents would’ve 2001). I kind of knew what gotten knocked down was going on right away. I right away. told Brad, “Get up and get My clients were pretty out of the tent.” tired from descending the We went outside, icefall, so we settled in and we heard rocks and and I turned on the radio. mini-avalanches falling I heard that some of the all around. I wanted to lower camps really needed get to higher ground, so I help. So on and FOR off for the walked up a rocky hill on rest of the day, we were the glacier. A few seconds involved in rescuing othlater, Brad yelled at me — ers and going down to a “Look!” triage station. I turned around and My Sherpa went down looked over my shoulder, the mountain and told and that’s when I saw this me, “There’s a lot of peohuge cloud of debris, prob- ple down there, but there’s ably 200 or 300 feet high, nothing you can do.” I coming down. It was think was trying JOINkind THE NEWdon’t ISSAQUAH FC he SOCCER PROGRAM
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Above, Dennis Broadwell (center), Mountain Gurus owner and climbing guide, holds a flag with clients Brad Paskewitz (left) and Ben Breckheimer on April 24. At right, Sherpas and Mountain Gurus guides and clients spend April 22 on the lower part of the Khumbu Icefall training for a Mount Everest summit attempt that never took place because of the Tibet earthquake. happened in the country — 8,000 people dead. I launched The Himalayan Outreach Project, which was something I was thinking about doing before. Every year, I do charity climbs on Mount Rainier and other places, so I was thinking about raising funds to help my friends in Nepal, maybe send their kids to school. A lot of it will just come down to how much money we can actually raise. Nepal has been a big part of my life, and I know a lot of people there. Out of this tragedy, hopefully, people will want to go trek and climb there in the future because, really, the only path forward for Nepal is if they can get tourists back. It’s their
only real ability to earn money. I’d probably go back next year. This is a big shock. I mean, nobody expects something like this to happen. You expect some deaths on the mountain, and that can happen for various reasons. It could be people who take too much risk and push it way too hard. Those types of events are more explainable. I had no aspirations of staying on the mountain. I kind of knew within a few hours that our expedition would be over. I kind of saw the gravity, but it took my clients a day or two to
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Youth orchestra hosts free concert on June 7 The Sammamish Youth Chamber Orchestra will present its spring concert at 7 p.m. June 7 at the Sammamish EX3 Teen Center, 825 228th Ave. N.E. The orchestra, under the leadership of conductor and director Karen Islip, a is newly formed group of local student musicians. The group’s goal is to add an exciting dimension to the music education members receive within their school’s orchestra programs. The spring concert is free to attend. Learn more at www.sammamishyouthmusic.com.
Sammamish named among country’s 100 safest cities SafeWise, a communityfocused security organization, listed Sammamish at No. 59 on its “100 Safest Cities in America” report in April. To compile the report, SafeWise analyzed 2013 crime data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The cities on the list had to have a population of at least 10,000 people. Sammamish had a violent crime rate of 0.22 per 1,000 residents, and a proper crime rate of 5.52 per 1,000 residents. “This Seattle suburb consistently ranks high among national publications like Forbes and CNN Money as a desirable place to settle down,” the SafeWise report stated. “The Eastside Security Forum is just one example of how police and local businesses collaborate, sharing information and specialized training that lead to better safety strategies.” See the full list of safe cities at www.safewise.com/ safest-cities-america.
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Mark Eggen, owner of the local restaurant chain Hop Jacks, was named Washington’s 2015 Entrepreneurial Success award winner at the U.S. Small Business Administration’s awards gala in Seattle on April 30. Hop Jacks has nine locations in the state, including one in Klahanie, and has plans to expand. The chain was judged in multiple categories, including product innovation, services offered, responses to adversity and
contributions to community-oriented projects. “Mark Eggen took an idea and within five years turned it into a multichain restaurant,” SBA district director Nancy Porzio said in a news release. “This is what Small Business Week is all about — celebrating achievements and showcasing entrepreneurial spirit.” Eggen said Hop Jacks has a Good Neighbor Fund, which sets aside 25 cents from every beer sold. The fund raised more than $50,000 last year that went back into local communities.
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Police blotter Thankfully, no injuries Police said no one was hurt when a car struck an 8-year-old boy on Trossachs Boulevard Southeast at the intersection of Southeast Belvedere Way at about 4:30 p.m. May 3. Reports did not readily offer any details and do not men-
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Larceny An iPhone 6 was stolen after being left on the sidelines during practice on an athletic field at Eastside Catholic School at 8:10 a.m. May 5.
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Down for the count After an altercation with his wife and both of her parents, police arrested a man at a home in the 300 block of 227th Lane Northeast for three counts of fourth-degree assault at about 6:30 p.m. May 3. Police said the man shoved his wife down some stairs.
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ment / Appeal Period. Date/Time of Public Hearing:No hearing will be scheduled. Other Permits Associated With the Proposal:The project requires and H.‑ P.A., Right of Way, and clear and grade permits Existing Environmental Documents on File:SEPA DNS issued on 02.24.14(SDT2013‑00112); original SEPA Checklist dated 03.11.13; New SEPA Checklist dated 04.27.2015; Wetland and Stream De‑ lineation by Watershed Co. dated 10.23.14; Technical Memorandum by Watershed Co. dated 02.26.15; and Geotech Report by Kleinfelder, dated 05.06.15. SEPA Procedures:WAC 197‑11‑625 – Addenda – Procedures (1)An addendum shall clearly iden‑ tify the proposal for which it is writ‑ ten and the environmental document it adds to or modifies. (2)An agency is not required to pre‑ pare a draft addendum. (3)An addendum for a DEIS shall be circulated to recipients of the initial EEIS under WAC 197‑11‑455. (4)If an addendum to a final EIS is prepared prior to any agency deci‑ sion on a proposal, the addendum shall be circulated to the recipients of the final EIS (FEIS). (5)Agencies are encouraged to circu‑ late addenda to interested persons. Unless otherwise provided in these rules, however, agencies are not required to circulate an addendum. Staff Member Assigned:Rob Gar‑ wood, Senior Planner Responsible Official:Evan Maxim,Se‑ nior Planner, Community Develop‑ ment Date of Issuance:May 18, 2015 Distribution List:Dept. of Ecology; Muckleshoot Tribe; Puyallup Tribe; Snoqualmie Tribe; Sammamish Li‑ brary; Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer District; Issaquah School Dis‑ trict, KCDDES, City of Issaquah, Wash.OAHP, Wash DNR, Wash Fish and Wildlife.
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Calendar of Events Upcoming Events Sound Rowers Boat Races, for all humanpowered crafts, 6- and 13-mile lengths, 9:15 a.m. May 30, Lake Sammamish State Park, Discover Pass required, $10 to $15, soundrowers.org HUB Session and Debriefing, 9:30 a.m. May 30, drill meetings at local HUBS with 10:30 a.m. debriefing session at Fire Station 82, 1851 228th Ave. N.E. Block Watch training with Deputy Erik Wolff, 7:30 p.m. June 1, Lodge at Beaver Lake, 25201 S.E. 24th St., email questions to Mary Lou Wolfe at mlswolfe@comcast.net
Thursday, May 21 ‘Moments: Art In Response to Time and Place,’ artist exhibit by Amanda Devine open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. through July 10, City Hall at Sammamish Commons, 801 228th Ave. S.E., 2950597
Hello English: Beginning ESL Class, 10:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 SCC Luncheon with Michael Buschmohle, ‘Handle Complaints, Say No and Keep Customers!’ 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m., Plateau Club, 25625 E. Plateau Drive, www.sammamishchamber. org Teen Think Tank, after school study space, 2-5 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, 3923130 Planning Commission meeting, 6:30-8:30 p.m., City Hall at Sammamish Commons, 801 228th Ave. S.E., 2950585 STARS: The Art of Supporting Early Brain Development, 6:30 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, 3923130 Grief Share Support Group, 7-8:30 p.m., Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 N.E. Inglewood Hill Road
Friday, May 22 Young Toddler Story Time, 10:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130
Social Hour with music by Ron Herring, 3-4 p.m., Spiritwood at Pine Lake, 3607 228th Ave. S.E., 313-9100 Sing Along Family Story Time, Word Play and Noise Makers Concert, 4 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130
Saturday, May 23 Soaring Eagle Evergreen Trail Run, 5-, 10-, 13-, 26.2-mile and 50K options, 7 a.m., Soaring Eagle Park, 269 259th Ave. N.E., $27 to $53, www.evergreentrailruns.com Chinese Story Times: Ni-Hao!, 10 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Arabic Story Times: Ahlan!, 11 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Using Your Gifts: Learn to Love Your eReader, 11 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130
Sunday, May 24 Pine Lake Covenant Church ministry for children with special needs, 10:45 a.m., 1715 228th Ave. S.E., call 3928636
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SAMMAMISH REVIEW Young Professionals, mid-20s to mid-30s professionals meet and enjoy fellowship, single or married welcome, 6:30 p.m., Eastridge Church, 24205 S.E. Issaquah-Fall City Road, 681-6736 or email marianne.giberson@ gmail.com Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church youth groups, for children in sixth through eighth grade, and ninth through 12th grades, Mass at 5 p.m., dinner and then meetings at 6:30 p.m. Sundays, 391-1178, ext. 129
Monday, May 25 All libraries and city buildings closed in observance of Memorial Day.
Tuesday, May 26 Play and Learn Chinese, ages 2-5, 10:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 3923130 Teen Think Tank, after school study space, 2-5 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, 3923130 Study Zone, grades K-12, free drop in homework help, 4-8 p.m.,
Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Sammamish Youth Writing Club, 7 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130
Wednesday, May 27 Sammamish Farmers Market, 4-8 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 30, Sammamish Commons, 801 228th Ave. S.E., www.sammamishfarmersmarket.org Sammamish Plateau Community Bible Study, open to all women and their children, 9:30 a.m., Faith United Methodist Church, 3924 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road S.E., email juliegusecbs@ gmail.com Teen Think Tank, after school study space, 1:30-5 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, 3923130 Study Zone, grades K-12, free drop in homework help, 6-8 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 ‘Fresh and Fermented’ with local author Julie O’Brien, learn to make your own sauerkraut, 7 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, 3923130 Wednesday night
youth group; games, worship and fun for students in grades six through 12; 7-9 p.m., Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 N.E. Inglewood Hill Road Focus on Faith, Mothers of Preschoolers; make friends, share stories and grow spiritually while your children are in childcare; multiple groups in Sammamish — usually twice a month at 9:30 a.m. Thursdays at Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church, 1121 228th Ave. S.E; 9:15 a.m. Wednesdays at Pine Lake Covenant Church, 1715 228th Ave. S.E.; 9:15 a.m. Fridays beginning Sept. 26 at Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 N.E. Inglewood Hill Road; www.mops.org Moms in Prayer International, replace your anxiety with peace and hope, pray with other moms for your children and their schools, www. momsinprayer.org, Linda Yee at lindaryee@comcast.net Learn to read and speak Samskritam, Vedic Cultural Center, 1420 228th Ave. S.E., www. vedicculturalcenter.org Email items for the calendar to newsclerk@isspress.com by noon Friday.
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Crusaders overcome losses to reach state 3A baseball tourney By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com In the span of four hitters, the tapestry that Eastside Catholic High School was weaving unraveled. With a 1-0 lead to start the sixth inning, Eastside Catholic saw O’Dea load the bases on two singles and a walk. Then, Jacob Hirsh crushed the ball over the right-field fence for a grand slam, the key blow in a 5-1 victory for the Fighting Irish in the semifinals of the Class 3A Metro League baseball tournament at Seattle’s Steve Cox Memorial Field on May 12. The Crusaders (20-3) saw a chance for a state tournament berth slipping away, with two of their three losses at the hands of the Irish (17-7). “It’s tough, and this one is going to sting right now,” EC coach Kyle Larsen said, “but like I just told the guys, we’ve got to let it go and move on. “Everything we want
to accomplish is still in front of us, and we’ve just got to regroup, come back tomorrow and play well.” The Crusaders did that, beating Garfield, 4-2, on May 13 to advance to state. They’ll play Central Kitsap in the opening round at 1 p.m. May 23 at Yelm High School. A win would pit them against either Kelso or O’Dea in the quarterfinals later that day. The final four is May 29-30 at Gesa Stadium in Pasco. EC had won 10 games in a row dating back to a 6-1 loss at O’Dea on April 8. The Crusaders got on the scoreboard first in the rematch, with third baseman Marcus McCannal hitting a third-inning triple and coming home on second baseman Jackson Brodman’s sacrifice fly. EC starting pitcher Colton Maholvich made the lead stand up through five innings. He allowed five hits and one walk while striking out four. But two of the hits — singles from Garrett Grandlund and Rex Stephan to start the
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Relief pitcher Taylor Wright, Eastside Catholic High School junior, stands stoically on the mound after giving up a grand slam in the sixth inning to O’Dea’s Jacob Hirsh (left, heading home). The Crusaders lost the Metro League tournament game, 5-1.
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Julia Lioubarski and Jasmine Ye are going back to the place they wanted to be all season. The Skyline High School doubles team qualified for the Class 4A state girls tennis tournament, placing second at the KingCo Conference tournament May 11-15 at Skyline. It’s the second consecutive year Lioubarski and Ye have reached state, and they are aiming to improve upon their eighth-place finish last season. The state tourney will be May 29-30 in Richland. The duo earned the trip with a victory over Newport’s Lilly Hou and Kari Nasu, bouncing back after a three-set defeat to Newport’s Simran Ravichandran and Teagan
Mach in the championship match (6-3, 6-7, 6-4). The accomplishment is more remarkable because of the pair’s lack of court time together. Skyline head coach Bettina Gehle said they played together in only two regular-season conference matches, and neither was against a particularly difficult opponent. “Now, they’re getting challenged here in the KingCo tournament,” Gehle said during their May 14 semifinal match against Newport’s Hou and Nasu, which Skyline also won (6-4, 7-5). The coach noted they spent a lot more time practicing together a year ago en route to the eighthplace finish at state, and the vital skill of communication tends to break down after so much time apart. See TENNIS, Page 10
Wright. Up stepped Hirsh, who took Wright’s 1-1 offering over the fence, giving See BASEBALL, Page 10
Issaquah rallies to beat Eastlake, 7-4 By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com Some teams might have pushed the panic button after blowing a four-run lead, but the Issaquah High School fastpitch team just shrugged and kept on smiling. After host Eastlake put up a four-run fifth inning to tie the score, the Eagles responded with three runs in the top of sixth and held on for a 7-4 victory in the regular-season finale of Class 4A KingCo Conference play on May 14. Eastlake’s big rally, which erased a 4-0 deficit, seemed to barely create a ripple in the Issaquah dugout.
“On our team, we know someone is going to come through,” head coach Ron Hatlen said. “Where we are in the lineup makes no difference. They’re going to respond, and that’s what we’ve been doing all year.” Issaquah (17-3 overall, 13-3 conference) had already sewn up the second seed to the KingCo tournament, but the Eagles weren’t about to hand sixth-seeded Eastlake (8-12, 7-9) a victory in the final home game for the Wolves’ five seniors. The Wolves sustained a big blow when top pitcher Julie Graf left the game in the second inning. Head coach Stephanie Fox said Graf injured the
bicep on her right throwing arm, and her status for upcoming games was uncertain. The Eagles immediately jumped on Graf’s replacement, Sophia Robinson, using three walks and an error to take a 1-0 lead. Their bats got going in the third inning as Tia Hedman and Danya Vilhelmsen produced RBI singles to push the lead to 4-0. Issaquah pitcher Winter Ridgeway retired the first 12 hitters she faced, but her perfect game disappeared as Regan Hines singled to start the Wolves’ fifth. An offensive barrage followed as Georgia Robinson and Sophia Robinson singled for a pair of runs. With two
outs, Olivia Palenscar tied the score, lining a twostrike pitch into left field. Outside of the one big inning, however, Eastlake didn’t have much luck at the plate. Issaquah turned two double plays, and snared several other balls that could’ve easily been hits. “We hit the ball hard right at people a lot,” Fox said. “We were hitting it hard, we were just hitting it in all the wrong spots.” “We play championship defense,” Hatlen said of the Eagles, noting that they use a stopwatch on defensive drills to improve their speed. Ground balls to an infielder should make it to the first-base bag in 2.7 See FASTPITCH, Page 10
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Gina Marxen, Eastlake High School freshman, serves to Issaquah senior Lucy Huffman during a 6-3, 6-4 quarterfinal win May 14 in the KingCo Conference 4A tennis tournament.
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Baseball From Page 9 the Irish a 4-1 lead in the blink of an eye. “He just left it up a little bit … and (Hirsh) put a good swing on it,” Larsen said. “That’s baseball. It happens. They put a couple good at-bats together, and a guy hit a ball out of the yard, and before you know it, you’re down.” EC’s offense didn’t put much together against O’Dea’s Josh Tucker, who
Fastpitch From Page 0 seconds or less. “Give Eastlake credit — that one inning, they hit the ball hard,” he added. “They hit the holes. It wasn’t like we gave them anything. And that happens. But it’s how you respond, and we’ve been like that all year long. They just know they’re going to come back.” The Eagles’ sixth inning started with Vilhelmsen’s bloop single to right field. Michelle
threw a complete-game two-hitter. He walked two and struck out three, and also got some stellar defensive plays that took away hits. “He pitched a great game,” Larsen said of Tucker. “He kept us off balance. We just kind of couldn’t get it going. It seemed like, once we got something rolling, he made a good pitch and got out of it. “We had chances to score,” the coach added. “We hit a bunch of balls hard, it was right at guys, and they made good plays.”
O’Dea added an insurance run in the seventh inning as Stephan smoked a double down the left-field line to score Grandlund from first base. The Crusaders made four errors, and while three of them didn’t lead to runs, they may have been signs that emotions got the best of the team. “I told them, ‘Hey, we’ve got to take a deep breath, slow this thing down a little bit,’ and they did,” Larsen said. “They regrouped. They played well. They just didn’t get the hits that we needed today.”
Fowler followed with a one-out double, and Tatum Dow’s single put Issaquah ahead, 5-4. Third baseman Justi Johnson then delivered a two-run single to left, making it 7-4, and chasing Sophia Robinson from the circle in favor of Kira Smith. “I’d really been getting in my head, thinking before I’d gone up to bat,” Johnson said of her earlier plate appearances. “And that time, I really went up there and was like, ‘OK, my goal this atbat is touch the ball, put it in play, do something for my team.’” Eastlake feels good
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Tennis From Page 9 “Jasmine was always mentally good, but both have matured,” Gehle said. “They know that they belong here. I think that is the biggest step of it.” Skyline’s Kendall Brown and Allison Kim also competed at the KingCo event. They won their first match over Bothell’s Sea-Eun Lee and Karen Yang (6-0, 6-0) but were eliminated by Newport’s Hou and Nasu (7-5, 6-4). In singles play, Skyline’s Kelsey Zhong beat Mount Si’s Regan Baltasar (6-1, 6-2) before being ousted by Newport’s Vivian Glozman (6-0, 6-0), who went on to take the KingCo title and is among the favorites to win the state crown. “She will be back, and she’s very talented,” Gehle said of Zhong, a freshman. “I think she can definitely be the future of our team.” Skyline’s Ali Brazier lost her first match to Issaquah’s Ellen MacNary (7-6, 6-1). Eastlake roundup Gina Marxen is already known as a standout basketball player for Eastlake, but the freshman proved she has multisport talents, too. Marxen reached the semifinals of the KingCo tournament before running into Newport’s Glozman, who mowed her down, 6-0, 6-0. Marxen had another chance to reach state as the No. 2 seed, but dropped a 6-2, 6-4 decision to Woodinville’s Moriah Austin. Still, there were a lot of good things that hap-
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Jasmine Ye (left), Skyline senior, and teammate junior Julia Lioubarski, battle for a 6-3, 6-4 doubles win over Issaquah junior Inyoung You and senior Emma Gavin May 14. pened to Marxen during the rain-lengthened event, including an impressive quarterfinal win over Issaquah senior Lucy Huffman (6-3, 6-4). “I think I was able to move my opponent a lot and stay in the point, but she had some really great shots, so it got really tiring really fast,” Marxen said. Marxen said the Wolves have a very balanced team in terms of abilities, and their competitive practices have pushed everyone to new heights. Before next season, she hopes to improve her game further. “Just being more consistent and hitting harder, but that’ll grow with some time, getting stronger,” she said. Sophomore Kayla Lee and junior Nicole Yen only began playing doubles a week before the KingCo tourney, but they showed they could be a dominant force in 2016 as they advanced to the semifinals. Their three-set win over Newport’s Erica Hsia and Sara Park was a gutsy one, as they rallied to win 5-7,
7-5, 6-2. “It feels really good. We really fought for our own dreams,” Lee said. “We really wanted that second set, and once we got that second set, we just kept on going.” Lee and Yen closed the tournament with consecutive losses to Newport’s Ravichandran and Mach (6-0, 6-4), and Newport’s Hou and Nasu (0-6, 6-3, 6-2). “This year, I’ve been working on more consistency, and I’ve also gotten a new racket, which helps a lot with both consistency and power,” Yen said. “But changing from the singles game to the doubles game really had an impact on how we play, and how we have to play individually and together.” Eastlake’s Allison Tran and Nicole Knutson were quickly eliminated, losing their first match to Issaquah’s Inyoung You and Emma Gavin (6-2, 6-1). In singles, Eastlake’s Michelle Knutson defeated Mount Si’s Hannah Jones (6-0, 6-1) and lost to Woodinville’s Austin (6-2, 6-0).
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Skyline baseball advances to state for first time since 2010 The Skyline High School baseball team is headed back to the Class 4A state tournament for the first time in five seasons. The Spartans advanced to state by winning four consecutive elimination games at the KingCo Conference tournament. They capped the run with a 7-3 victory over Woodinville — on the Falcons’ home field — and open state play at 10 a.m. May 23 against the Snohomish Panthers. The game will take place at Everett Memorial Stadium, and the winner advances to the quarterfinal round later that day against either Skyview or South Kitsap. Skyline (12-9 overall) sustained a 4-3 loss in nine innings against Bothell to open the conference tournament May 9. But the Spartans slowly clawed
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