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Fifth grade crosswalk guard receives top state honor

By Lillian Tucker

Photo by Lillian Tucker

Explaining where to place the cones, Luke Boyer, far left, helps to train the newest league of the safety patrol at Cascade Ridge Elementary.

“Good morning,” said Luke Boyer as he held out a florescent orange and yellow flag that reads “stop,” and smiles at those making their way across the street.

The fifth-grader is a member of Cascade Ridge Elementary School’s safety patrol and he takes it very serious.

Throughout the school year Boyer has come to school early and stayed late to help his fellow students safely cross the street. That dedication was recognized when he, along with 10 other children from around the state, was inducted into the AAA School Safety Patrol Hall of Fame May 4.

“It didn’t surprise me at all.

He greets everyone at the crosswalk with a huge smile…and he’s super safe,” said Amy Simpson, the parent of three Cascade Ridge students who frequently walks her children to school. “He’s a great kid.”

“I constantly get comments about how he greats the parents…It’s so nice to have young people with that type of enthusiasm when they are crossing at eight o’clock in the morning,”

said Paula Parks. A teaching assistant at the school, Parks oversees the safety patrol and the 50 fifth-graders that comprise it.

Students must be in fifth grade and are hand-selected by teachers to become crosswalk guards.

They then spend the year taking turns helping before and after school for one week a month.

“I tell them – the kids are in your hands,” said Parks. “Just having that responsibility makes them have some self worth and feel good to be in charge of something.”

“It’s important because kids need to get to school safely and it’s a big part of our community,” said Luke. “It feels good to cross kids and feel like you’re needed.”

Parks nominated Luke for the Safety Patrol Hall of Fame several months ago because of his dependability, positive attitude and constant wiliness to help her lead the other students, she said.

Jennifer Cook, of AAA Washington, said out of the state’s 800 student safety patrols about 30-50 students are nominated each year for the Hall of Fame.

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Sammamish woman helps to plan Race for the Cure

By Lillian Tucker

The Susan G. Komen Puget Sound Race for the Cure is coming to Seattle June 3 and several Sammamish residents will be there, including Lynda Weatherby.

The mother of two is co-chairing the event and has been working to bring it together for nearly a year. But Weatherby’s connection to the cause goes farther back than that. At age 36, with no family history of the disease, she was told she had breast cancer.

“You have that moment in the surgeon’s office when you think - are you talking to me, because there is no one else in the room,” said Weatherby. She had first noticed a problem a year and half before. When it didn’t go away, she went to her doctor who immediately ordered a mammogram.

“I assumed I would get one at 40. Luckily my doctor was totally on her toes,” said Weatherby.

Mammograms are one of the reasons she had devoted so much time volunteering to help put on the upcoming Race for the Cure. Last year’s event help raise money for Komen Puget Sound to fund more than 13,000 mammograms for low income women in

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Participants in a past Race for the Cure take a break near the International Fountain at the Seattle Center. the region. Out of those, according to the foundation, 209 women were diagnosed.

“I think those numbers are really telling,” said Weatherby.

“209 women last year might not

have found out in time. I hope they did find out in time.”

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Weatherby’s children have also gotten involved with the race.

Now teenagers, they were young children when their mother beat breast cancer.

“I seem to always find a way to volunteer somehow,” said Kyle Weatherby, a junior at Skyline High School. “The environment is really welcoming … on the actual race day, when everyone is working hard and celebrating as well as remembering those that have passed, it is a pretty powerful moment.”

During last year’s 5-kilometer run/walk more than 13,000 people, clad in pink, gathered at the Seattle Center and raised $1.6 million. But so far, this year’s race is shaping up a bit differently. A week-and-a-half before the fundraiser was set to kick off, registration was down by 36 percent.

“Probably, a lot of people have been on the fence, most likely because of the national decision affecting Planned Parenthood,” said Komen Puget Sound’s communications manager Jim Clune.

However, Clune said that the registration rate is on the rise.

“Two weeks ago it was 50 percent,” he said. “People are startSee RACE, Page 13

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SAMMAMISH REVIEW

Eastlake, Skyline athletes have big performances at state meet

By Sebastian Moraga

Photo by Greg Farrar

Drew Matthews, Skyline High School senior, takes the starting turn of his 400-meter race May 26 during the 4A state track and field championships in Tacoma.

Skyline High School runner Alex Daugherty surprised herself, finishing third in the girls 400-meter dash in 57.68 seconds.

“I wasn’t expecting to make it out of league,” she said, crediting her coach Greg Dalzell for helping her drop four seconds off her time. “I was running 61s this year, and I’m at 57 seconds now.”

Daugherty said she tried to leave it all on the track, so she would not regret anything later.

“It worked out well,” she said.

“I like third. Not as much as first, but I’m really happy.”

Junior Keegan Symmes finished 16th in the boys 3,200meter run with 9:50.05 minutes Freshman Sydne Tingey finished tied for eighth in the girls high jump.

“It was her first time at state and she cleared five feet,” said Spartan head coach Dawn Geiser, whose team finished tied for 17th among girls and 12th for boys.

The Skyline boys 4x400 relay team of Blake Young, Jamon Rogers, Trevon Clark and Drew Matthews finished second. Geiser had predicted the race to be close

““I like third. Not as much as first, but I’m really happy.”

– Alex Daugherty, Runner –

between the Spartans and the Federal Way Eagles.

Indeed, Federal Way took first place, with 3 minutes, 19.08 seconds. Skyline followed with 3 minutes, 20.85 seconds.

The girls 4x400 team of Kaylie Greninger, Maddi Hutson, Dorie Dalzell and Daugherty finished third in 3 minutes, 56.01 seconds, 2.2 seconds behind runner-up Issaquah. Geiser had predicted a top-five finish for her squad.

The girls 4x200 team of Dalzell, Daugherty, Maddi Hutson and Kaylie Greninger finished fifth with 1 minute, 45 seconds.

“We had a couple of bad handoffs,” Geiser said, “but we got on the podium.”

Matthews finished third in the 400-meter run with 48.4 seconds.

“This is a big improvement

from last year,” he said. “I took 12th last year in the 400.”

Even the ninth-place finish was an improvement.

Matthews entered the race as the 10th seed.

“I tried to run as relaxed as possible,” said Matthews, a soonto-be Kansas Jayhawk. “I had faith my training would let me run relaxed but fast. This is a good way to go out.”

For Eastlake, Senior Gino Bresolin took fourth in Shot Put with a toss of 55 feet 2.25 inches.

Bresolin threw the discus 149 feet, 9 inches, good enough for seventh.

Senior Ryan Lewis took fifth in the boys 100 with a time of 11.14.

Emily Dwyer finished seventh in the 3,200 with a time of 11:04.67. Lauren Files also had a seventh-place finish with a run of 46.14 seconds in the 300 meter hurdles.

Sophomore Anna Carskaden’s long jump of 16 feet, 2.25 inches was good enough for 15th.

Sebastian Moraga: 392-6434, ext. 221, or smoraga@snovalleystar.com. Comment at www.

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Eastlake and Skyline golfers medal at State Tournament

By Lillian Tucker

year in a row when he totaled two more strokes than Cornett in With Eastlake’s Li Wang taking the second round. Coming in secsecond and two others finishing ond, along with Weiss’s six place in the top 10, Sammamish had finish, put the Eastlake Wolves in a commanding presence at the third place overall - earning the state golf championships last school the bonze state medal. week.

The Skyline Spartans had their The boys competed in the own reason to celebrate each two-day 4A time Brain Washington Mogg used his “When (Brian Mogg) State Golf creativity and gets in trouble he doesn’t calm attitude Tournament over the cave; he forgets the shot to get himself 6,865 yards of a sticky that got him there and out of Hangman situation. tries something new,” Valley Golf “When he Course in gets in trouble – Michael Fleming, Spokane May he doesn’t Coach – 22-23. From 80 cave; he forgets of the state’s the shot that best golfers got him there Wang won second while his and tries something new,” said teammate Spencer Weiss took Mogg’s coach, Michael Fleming. sixth and Skyline’s Brian Mogg “It gets him out of some jams that emerged in third place. would definitely do a different On the first day of the tourguy in.” nament, Wang and eventual Mogg and other players ran state champion, Kyle Cornett of into more challenges then they Jackson High School, both hit 71 probably would have liked on the to finish one stroke under on the second day. The weather created par 72 course. Wang was nudged its own share of hazards May out of first place for the second 23, when it continually switched

Li Wang, of Eastlake, finished second in the state golf tournament. between raining and not. That meant the remaining 42 - who had shot an 82 or better the day before - returned to compete

against each other and slippery grips.

“They really had to focus… things were really down to the

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Events

Calendar All-American finale

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June 5 Sammamish City Council at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall June 6 City Council office hours at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall

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Grand opening and open house of the new King County Sheriff’s Office precinct at Sammamish City Hall from 1-3 p.m. June 8.

Parks and Recreation

The Sammamish Symphony will perform the final concert of their 20th anniversary season entitled, ‘American Classics’ at 2 p.m. June 10 at Eastlake High School.

For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit SammamishSymphony.org.

Volunteer opportunities 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. Call 1-888-383-7818.

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. Call 899-1040 or visit www.evergreenhealthcare. org/hospice.

The King County LongTerm Care Ombudsman

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June 4 Lake Washington School Board worksession, at 5:30 p.m. followed by a business meeting at 7 p.m. at the L.E. Scarr Resource Center, located at 16250 N.E. 74th St., Redmond

Learn to live with carnivores at a talk by Brian Kertson of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife who will discuss the behavior and ecology of cougars, bobcats, black bears, wolves and coyotes at 6 p.m. June 6 at the Sammamish Library.

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Friends of the Sammamish Library will hold their annual book sale from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

June 2 at the library.

Sammamish Teen Fest featuring music, food games and a skate competition is set for 1 p.m.

June 15 at Sammamish Commons.

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A seminar about new techniques in the treatment of colon cancer is at 7 p.m. May 30 at the Sammamish Library.

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Program needs certified long-term 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 Cheryl Kakalia at 206-694-6827.

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. 10 a.m.-noon, the third Wednesday of the month at the Bellevue Regional Library. 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. 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. Visit 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 3693235.

Sammamish Citizen Corps Council needs volunteers to help support the Community Emergency Response Team and other groups. Email 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.

Committee meeting at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall June 12 Sammamish City Council Study Session at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall June 13 Sammamish Youth Board meeting at 6 p.m. at City Hall Issaquah School Board meeting, 7 p.m. at district headquarters, 565 N.W. Holly St. in Issaquah

Focus on faith Grief Share Support Group meeting is from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday nights at Sammamish Presbyterian Church.

Wednesday night youth group will have games, worship and fun for students in grades six-12 from 7-8:30 p.m.

Wednesdays at Sammamish Presbyterian Church.

Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) allows mothers of young children time to make friends share stories and grow spiritually. The group generally meets twice a month on Thursday mornings at Mary, Queen of Peace Church. Visit www.mops.org.

A Toast to the Lord, a faith-based Toastmasters club, meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. every Friday at the Fire Station No. 83 on Issaquah–Pine Lake Road.

They offer job interviewing skill development for those seeking employment or a career change; motivational and inspirational speaking training. Call 427-9682 or email orator@live.com.

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. Drop-in coffee time, scrapbooking/stamping, mom and baby playgroup, quilting/knitting and walking group, classes, studies and themed days.

9:30 a.m. Wednesdays. Call Jo Lucas at 837-1948.

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

Moms in Touch International invites Christian moms and grandmas to replace their anxiety with peace and hope through prayer. Visit www. momsintouch.org. Contact Linda Yee at lindaryee@comcast.net.

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 Judaic and Torah class for women, is from 1-1:45 p.m.

Tuesdays at Caffé Ladro in Issaquah Highlands Shopping Center. Call Chabad of the Central Cascades 427-1654.