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Patty Murray visits Sammamish

By Caleb Heeringa

Sammamish city leaders had the ear of arguably one of the 12 most important people in the country for an hour Aug. 17.

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, on August recess, stopped by Sammamish City Hall to give her thoughts on the recent lastminute debt ceiling deal in Congress and her role as co-chair of a bipartisan “super-committee” of 12 representatives and senators tasked with cutting the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion over 10 years.

Though spending is a bit of a dirty word in Washington these days, the senior senator spent much of the meeting listening to the wish list of city officials and Sammamish Chamber of Commerce members.

Requests varied from federal grants for Town Center infras-

tructure, public transportation funding and Mayor Don Gerend’s seemingly dead on arrival request for a post office in Sammamish – a common complaint by Sammamish residents who tire of driving to Redmond or Issaquah.

The U.S. Postal Service is operating at a $8.5 billion annual loss, is poised to lay off up to a third of its work force and close hundreds of post offices around the country by 2015, but Murray was diplomatic.

“I’ve heard your request and it’s been passed on, but it’s a really challenging time,” Murray told the group.

Councilmembers praised Murray for her record of securing federal dollars for local projects, like the $813 million that is going to extend Sound Transit’s light See MURRAY, Page 3

Photo by Caleb Heeringa

Sen. Patty Murray (right) listens as Sammamish leaders relate their concerns on the federal budget and local issues. Mayor Don Gerend (left) and Councilwoman Michele Petitti (center) were among the attendees of the hour-long meeting with the senator.

Work on new park nears end

2 win in primary

By Caleb Heeringa

Valderrama, Wasnick to face off in November

As soon as October, Sammamish residents will be able get a taste of the plateau in its natural state.

Construction crews will spend September putting the finishing touches on Evans Creek Preserve, the newest addition to the city’s park system. Project Manager Kellye Hilde said users of the 179-acre park will be able to walk between varying types of ecological settings via two and a half miles of trails.

“It goes from woodlands to upland meadows to creeks and wetlands,” Hilde said. “The goal is get people through all different types of habitat.”

Hilde said the park is the product of an outpouring of support by the community – more than 6,000 volunteer

By Caleb Heeringa

Ramiro Valderrama cruised to a first round victory in the City Council primary Aug. 16 and will likely face political newcomer Jim Wasnick in the general elecContributed

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Volunteers work on one of the gravel trails at Evans Creek Preserve.

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Teen Center could be open by October $100,000 donation from Mary Pigott will help project

By Caleb Heeringa

Sammamish’s teen center is inching closer to reality.

Boys and Girls Club of King County officials are aiming for an early October opening for the 10,000 square foot facility, which will include a computer lab, performance stage, teaching kitchen and game Learn more space For more inforwith ping mation on the pong and teen center, visit: pool http://rs.positivetables. place.org/teencenThe center, ter.html located in the old King County Library building at the corner of 228th Avenue and Inglewood Hill Road, is owned by the city of Sammamish and is being leased to the Boys and Girls Club, which raised more than $1 million for its remodel.

Jane Ronngren, executive director for the Redmond and

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Construction crews work on what will be a stage in the Sammamish EX3 Teen and Recreation Center. The Boys and Girls Club hopes to have the center open by early October.

Sammamish branch, said having a full-fledged Sammamish facility

Conversation with the Candidate Why I’m running for City Council

By Tom Vance Why would anyone want to run for City Council?

The time commitment is substantial: the average city councilperson can spend up to 20 hours a week in activities, meetings, and study time. At that rate, the pay is barely above the minimum wage. To get the job, you need to put yourself, and your family, through a tough, stressful campaign. I know. I did all of that, two years ago.

Why am I running? Because Sammamish still has important issues to confront and challenges to overcome. Our population is growing, even in this tough economy.

How do we manage our growth, maintain and improve our infrastructure, while we preserve the qualities that brought us to Sammamish? Can we provide new public amenities for our many young families and growing population of seniors? As the economy improves, how do we make the Town Center grow new

business and provide new services?

Will we make sure our environmental protections are in place?

As a community, we’ve accomplished a lot. Sammamish is an award-winning, livable city. But in the face of inevitable change, we need a committed, effective, and thoughtful City Council.

For years I have volunteered in Sammamish. I was an advocate and a voice for the East Lake Sammamish Trail, sports fields, and a better library. I chaired the Parks Advisory Committee that started the conversation on many of our parks and recreation projects, including a community/aquatics center. I helped create the Town Center Plan, as Chair of our Planning Commission.

I will listen and work hard to preserve the qualities that brought us here, and to fulfill our vision of a family-friendly community.

These are just some of the issues that the City Council will face and I hope to discuss with you here, online, and in person in the next few weeks.

Let’s work together.

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has been in the works since she started working for the group in 1992.

“The economy has tanked on us twice since then,” Ronngren said. “But the dream is rapidly becoming reality.”

Though organizers had planned to include a fully functioning recording studio in the club, Jeremy Peck, resource development manager for the Boys and Girls Club, said the organization is holding off on

that part of the project for now due to the cost and a low level of interest in the studios installed in other clubs around the region.

But he said the center will have plenty to offer the budding musicians of Sammamish – including a stage for concerts and open mic nights and a deluxe sound system that can be used to record live perforSee TEEN, Page 5

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hours went into the park’s trail system, which includes a halfmile gravel loop and two more miles of side trails. Symetra Financial and Starbucks were among the corporate sponsors that contributed work crews, along with the Washington Trail Association and hundreds of local residents.

“The park really was community-built,” Hilde said.

The main loop includes a 375foot boardwalk that brings users through part of the park’s wetland, where they may get views of the birds, beavers and frogs that often Get call it home. involved Hilde said For more inforthe city mation and regular updates on is Evans Creek workPreserve, visit the ing on a series city’s web site at www.ci.samof edumamish.wa.us/dep cationartments/parksanal drec/projects/Evans plaques CreekPreserve.aspx. that will teach park users about the flora and fauna of the area. The Washington Native Plant Society is hoping to give guided tours in the park.

The park will also feature state-of-the-art toilet technology.

The city is paying $66,000 for a “waterless” restroom, which uses solar-powered ventilation to cut down on odors and remove the moisture from human waste. The toilet only has to be pumped once every two years, as compared to three times a year for the average pit toilet.

But getting to the park, which is located just north of city limits, will likely require driving for most Sammamish residents. The only current access to the park is a 10-stall parking lot off of Redmond-Fall City Road. A second phase of development calls for an additional 40 stalls to be added, though the city council has yet to fund that project.

“We’re going to get people down there first and see what the demand is like,” Hilde said.

The city is also working on possibly obtaining a parcel of land owned by King County on Sahalee Way near Northeast 36th Street that could be used as a second entrance point for the park.

The land overlooks the preserve and a trail down to the park would likely be steep.

But Hilde said she is confident that once the park opens it is going to be popular enough to overcome any access issues.

“It’s going to be really great,” she said. “I think people are going to find the park breathtaking.”

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City rated 15th best small town Election Continued from Page 1

By Caleb Heeringa

Good schools, natural beauty and close proximity to major employers were among the reasons cited by Money Magazine in ranking Sammamish as the 15th best “small town” in the country.

“If you’re looking for the Pacific Northwest ideal – snowcapped mountains and scenic lakes – Sammamish might be for you,” the magazine wrote about the city.

The magazine releases a list every two years based on a variety of metrics – from median incomes and home values, to crime levels to proximity to

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rail line from downtown Seattle through Capitol Hill to the University of Washington.

Deputy Mayor Tom Odell, a former Boeing executive, thanked the senator for her support of Boeing in recent military contracts.

Gerend and Odell emphasized how important the system of freeways in the area is to a commuting city like Sammamish and encouraged Murray to continue to push for funding of transportation projects on Interstate 90 and state Route 520.

“It’s hard to get back and forth (from the Eastside to Seattle),” Odell said. “I went to a ball game last night and it took me an hour to get across the lake.”

Murray also promised to have her staff look into whether Sammamish might qualify for grant money if they construct a potential community and aquatic center in a way that would allow it to be used as an emergency shelter following a natural disaster.

But with American markets volatile, Congressional approval ratings at microscopic levels and many experts fearing a doubledip recession, much of the meeting was spent discussing issues far larger than a Post Office or a freeway.

Congressional Republicans have been resolute in their opposition to Democratic plans to raise taxes on the wealthy or raise revenue by closing tax deductions; for their part, many Democrats have pledged to oppose any cuts to Social Security or Medicare. Asked about the prospect of finding

amenities. The list includes only towns with a population of fewer than 50,000 people – something Sammamish may soon no longer be able to claim. The city grew to 45,780 people in the 2010 census and continues to expand.

As far as Washington cities go, Sammamish was topped by only Mukilteo, which ranked ninth place. Newcastle placed 18th on the list. Louisville, Colo., just outside of Boulder, garnered the title of “best small town in America,” according to the magazine’s calculations.

Sammamish’s school’s test scores well outpaced the averages for the rest of the cities on the

magazine’s list, as did the air quality index and the amount of movie theaters, restaurants, libraries and bars within 15 miles. Sammamish also benefited from a miniscule crime rate – seven property crime incidents per 1,000 residents over a year compared to an average of 16 for the rest of the cities on the list.

The list also shows a higher than normal percentage of married and college-educated residents and a more racially diverse populace than the average city on the list.

But Sammamish residents do

compromise after months of seemingly intractable debate, Murray said she was optimistic and said that changes to entitlement programs had to be on the table during negotiations.

“The whole time I’ve been back (in Washington State) I’ve been talking with people and I’ve not had anyone say ‘Don’t touch mine,’ which is reassuring to me,” Murray said. “I’m not drawing any lines in the sand and I’m asking other committee members not to as well.”

And though she’s being tasked with cutting the deficit while being known as a senator who is skilled at bringing home federal dollars for local projects, Murray said she and the rest of the committee members shouldn’t be “pigeonholed” based on their earlier actions.

“I’m asking the American people and pundits to give us some room, so that we can really rise to this challenge we’ve been given,” Murray said.

Sammamish councilmembers encouraged Murray to push for more of a long-term debt solution than the temporary measure that

recently passed Congress, which punted most significant decisions to Murray’s committee.

Odell said he hoped Murray would push for the committee to find some solutions “on the revenue side of the equation” rather than just by cutting services.

Councilwoman Nancy Whitten said she hoped the committee would be able to make changes to Social Security without completely privatizing it – she suggested raising the cap on taxable wages for the program, which currently sits at around $106,000.

Before leaving for her next appointment with constituents, the senator thanked Sammamish’s representatives for giving her a sense of how federal policies are playing out in her district.

“You’re at the end of the road,” she said. “What we do, you absorb in your streets and in your communities.”

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As of Aug. 19, Valderrama had received 46 percent of the vote (2,856 votes). Wasnick holds a solid lead over local activist John Galvin – 28.1 (1748 votes) to 24.8 percent (1542 votes) for second place.

Under Washington state’s top-two primary system, the two candidates who get the most votes in the primary will face each other in the general election.

Valderrama said he was honored by the high vote totals and thanked his supporters for the work they’ve done in the campaign.

He said the campaign had been a lot of work thus far and would likely only get busier leading up to November’s general election.

“I don’t see the pace slackening,” Valderrama said. “We need to redouble our efforts between here and November and make sure we get this done.”

Wasnick said he was pleased with the amount of support he had received. Assuming he maintains his lead over Galvin, Wasnick said he looked forward to debating Valderrama on city issues.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to actually debate and discuss the issues,” Wasnick said. “It seems like (the primary) has been more about who could get out more of their supporters – I knew what I was up against.”

Galvin characterized the primary as “a majority of people voting for someone who is not Valderrama rather than voting for Valderrama” and said he wasn’t too concerned about whether it was he or Wasnick that moved on to the general election. He accused

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Veteran’s levy passes The other ballot measure in Sammamish, renewal of the King County Veteran’s and Human Services levy passed with a countywide tally of 67.5 percent of the vote. Homeowners will continue to pay a levy of 5 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, as they have since the levy started in 2005.

Sammamish-specific numbers be available once the election is certified at the end of the month.

Valderrama of being part of an “old guard” of city leaders.

Galvin said he made a conscious choice not to put out campaign signs or accept any donations for his campaign.

“People need to make the effort to find out what’s going on in the city … not just name recognition,” Galvin said. “I got 1,300 votes based on what I say and who I am rather than just by plastering signs all over town.”

King County elections will continue to count votes for the next few weeks, and release updated results at about 4:30 p.m. each business day through Aug. 30 at www.kingcounty.gov/ elections.

Turnout was light in Sammamish, typical of a primary election in an odd-numbered year, with only 19.4 percent of registered voters having mailed in a ballot as of the Wednesday tally.

The last time Sammamish had a primary in a City Council race, in 2007, turnout was 20.5 percent.

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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August 24, 2011

OPINION

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Compromise legislation worked; more needed

What is Sammamish?

Last week, government worked, and it was an amazing thing to behold.

The King County Council worked together to create bipartisan, compromise legislation to impose a $20 car tab fee to keep Metro bus service at its current level of service.

This is the way our elected leaders are supposed to work.

We in this state and region have become accustomed to holding a referendum on just about everything, sending every little tax to the voters. Fear of voters blaming state legislators and County Council members keeps them from making the tough decisions.

For all our throwing around of the word democracy, we don’t live in one. This is a republic. The citizens are supposed to elect leaders to actually lead.

Leaders are supposed to make grand decisions about what to do, and then do it. Don’t like what they did?

That’s what elections are for.

In this case, the County Council actually managed to pass the fee increase, using old-fashioned bipartisan compromise politics and a lot of creativity.

County Executive Dow Constantine (D) and County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert (a Republican in a nonpartisan office), both of whom represent Sammamish, and the rest of the council are to be congratulated. They showed that they are not mere ideologues but are willing to work for what they believe are in the best interests of their constituents and the county.

We were opposed to the $20 fee, and still are, but the compromises worked out in the deal — an end to the Seattle free ride area and free bus passes for everyone who pays the car tab fee — certainly improve the bill and make it better public policy.

And that’s really the whole idea. Bipartisan compromise leads to better policy pretty much every time.

We hope our state and federal officials are watching. Sure, in the grand scheme of things $20 to save some bus routes isn’t exactly as challenging as figuring out how to save Social Security. But working across the aisle to get something done is a lesson all politicians should model.

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C) I will be by the first day.

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From what it looks like, it is a suburb like Issaquah, or Redmond, supplying parks and nicely new painted bike trails. But the bikers ride down the middle of the road three abreast anyway. And the main drag, does it have businesses to support itself?

No, it has more churches and schools then any other city I have seen around here. Let’s look at the Issaquah Highlands, which has a huge doctors complex, a new hospital and businesses to support the city of Issaquah with more coming.

Then we have Redmond. They are building out to the sign that says leaving Redmond, and it is all businesses that have been put in long after Sammamish became a socalled city. Does Sammamish need a council and planning commission?

If so why?

All they do is sit up there in their monument they built called a city hall and listen to what the people say, but have never acted on any of the suggestions that I heard in 12 years of being incorporated.

Either un-incorporate or get rid of who you have running the city.

After all these years, let’s get business to come in here so we do not have to run to Issaquah or Redmond every time we need some pants or a shirt.

Urban Masset Sammamish

Out for a cause If Sammamish residents noticed hundreds of people out, dressed alike walking and running on a recent Saturday morning, it was due to the Amazing Race to Understand Autism. Justin McComber, 14, planned this event for his Eagle Scout project to benefit autism and create awareness for the exceptional people afflicted with autism, like his 17-year-old brother Gregory.

I, like many other people participating in this benefit admired the passion, effort, and maturity Justin displayed coordinating and leading this benefit.

Justin truly exemplifies the best of our younger generation and

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future leaders of our world.

My husband and I were so proud to be part of this as I am sure everyone else involved in this was. Thank you Justin and great job!

Robyn Lundberg Sammamish

Bad barricade removal On Southeast 32nd Street, at the top of the hill just east of the existing barricade, the city of Sammamish has placed curbs which will bring oncoming vehicles with zero sight distance, directly at each other with no room for error when the barricade is removed.

Poor job.

Lori Barnett Sammamish

Nothing wrong with Social Security We have heard much misinformation about Social Security lately. The biggest lie told by those who either don’t understand it or those who want to eliminate it is that Social Security has run out of money. It hasn’t.

Let me explain.

Employees and employers on behalf of their employees pay a percentage of each paycheck into the Social Security system. Selfemployed people also contribute.

We do this to provide income for retirees and disabled individuals.

Starting in 2010 the Social Security system paid more to beneficiaries than it received, and without changes will continue running a deficit. However even lacking any adjustments it can pay the same cost of living adjusted benefits until 2036. How is this possible?

Here comes the inconvenient truth. Over time, using its annual surpluses the Social Security Trust Fund purchased $2.6 trillion of US interest bearing securities backed by the ‘full-faith and credit of the United States of America’. Social Security has begun redeeming these securities to make up the

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2010 and future deficits. And that is the rub.

Essentially, the government has borrowed $2.6 trillion from our selffunded safety net to finance activities over the past decades – an obligation that must be repaid with tax revenues. Though the taxpayers are on the hook to repay the money, defaulting on this obligation would be as catastrophic as defaulting on our debt to China.

Congress needs to make reasonable adjustments to keep Social Security solvent as it has done before.

It also needs to look elsewhere such as Iraq and Afghanistan for budget cuts to offset its obligation to Social Security, thus allowing it to maintain its full-faith and credit standing with the American people.

Social Security is critical to many of us, our parents and will be for future generations. It is the sole source of income for millions. The great recession has decimated home values and savings putting a tremendous strain on the budgets of those on fixed incomes.

Government must protect Social Security for all of us and not use the budget as an excuse to destroy this critical financial safety net.

Michael J. O’Connell Sammamish

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spend more time in their cars than residents of the average city on the list. The magazine projects that the average Sammamish resident has a 30minute commute, compared to a 23 minute average. Seventeen percent of Sammamish drivers have a commute of 45 minutes or longer, according to the magazine.

Though still high ranking, Sammamish actually dropped on the list, from 12th place in 2009 and 11th in 2007. The editors cite the city’s current lack of community offerings, but acknowledge the Town Center plan, in their blurb on Sammamish.

“Sammamish still doesn’t have a real center where the community can gather,” the editors write. “But local officials are working on a new downtown with retail, recreation and town services.”

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“Whatever can be done on a stage that teens want to do, we can do it here,” Peck said.

The club will also feature a fully functioning kitchen. Peck said teens can take a cooking class that will teach them how to prepare a meal from beginning to end – from buying food at the grocery store to preparing it and serving it. Teens can bring the final product home to serve to their families.

A computer lab will also be used for technology classes and could be open to seniors and the rest of the community during the hours that teens are usually in school.

Ronngren said the city and club are planning on offering programming during the day for seniors and the community as a whole, though that may wait until later in 2012 once organizers get settled in the facility.

Peck said the agency expects to set user fees at around $120 for an annual pass – about $10 a month. The club offers a sliding scale for lower income families.

Despite the million dollars of donations collected so far, the agency still has a way to go when it comes to fundraising.

The center will need around $250,000 a year to break even on operating expenses and $3-3.5 million is needed for construction of the next phase of the project, a 7,000 square foot gym with a climbing wall next to the current building.

Ronngren said the gym will be used for the club’s sports programs, which currently operate out of school gyms.

But she said she’s excited at the prospect of offering more non-traditional sports such as a dodgeball league as well as possibly opening the facility up to adult leagues in the evenings.

“We can’t build it until we get the money raised,” she said.

“That depends on the community getting behind it.”

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Anyone interested in taking a tour of the facility during construction can show up at the center between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. every Wednesday. Long pants and close-toed shoes are required. Those that can’t make the Wednesday tours can schedule another time by contacting Jeremy Peck at jpeck@positiveplace.org or calling (425) 250-4786. financial boost from local resident Mary Pigott, who has pledged $100,000 over the next four years for the agency’s operating budget.

Though her children are now grown up, Pigott said she hoped the teen center would be safe entertainment for local teens “who don’t have (cars) but want to stretch their wings a bit” – something Pigott said the Plateau has lacked the entire time she’s

been here. Pigott recalls memories of the 1970s when kids rode horses to Sadler’s Country Store, where QFC is currently located.

“You could go there and eat penny candy and that was about it,” she said. “That was what the good kids did anyways.”

Pigott said that the teen center opening shouldn’t stop the city from building a community and aquatic center. She said a wealthy community of more than 45,000 needs more than just the teen center.

“There’s plenty of room for both,” Pigott said. “We’re not a little bunch of people up here anymore, there’s a lot of us up here and we could support a good diversity of service providers.”

Pigott said she thought about donating to the center anonymously but agreed to attach her name to the money in hopes that it would inspire others in the community to support the Boys and Girls Club “Instead of buying a new car every year, how about you invest that money into your community?” Pigott said.

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August 24, 2011 were seen piling into a black SUV and fleeing the scene shortly after.

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A Sammamish resident reported that his soon-to-be ex-wife had come to his home and broke two potted plants on his porch Aug. 8.

The man told police he wanted the incident documented but did not wish to pursue charges.

disoriented. Police arrived at the man’s home and found evidence that he had crashed his vehicle into a brick light fixture next to the driveway, but the man was not at home.

Police contacted the man’s family, who were able to locate him at the hospital, where he was visiting his sick wife. The man told his family that he had gotten up too quick at the vet’s office and felt dizzy but was otherwise fine.

High at school

Almost home

Police contacted a 20-year-old Sammamish man who admitted to being high while hanging out in the Mead Elementary parking lot at around 11:30 p.m. Aug. 10.

The man had an outstanding warrant for minor in possession from Blaine, Wash., but police could not arrest the man because the warrant was not extraditable to other jurisdictions. The man, who was hanging around his car with a female, told police he could not leave the property because he had recently smoked marijuana.

Police searched the man but were unable to locate any drugs or paraphernalia. They released him at the scene.

A 52-year-old Sammamish woman was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in her own driveway at around 10:30 p.m. Aug. 6.

An officer pulled the woman over on 211th Place Southeast near Southeast 8th Street after watching her drift into an oncoming lane of traffic and drive an estimated 45 mph in a 30 zone.

The woman smelled of alcohol and was argumentative with the officer, saying that she just wanted to go home and asking the officer why he was picking on her instead of catching the “people who drive 90 miles per hour” on her road.

The woman also insisted on going inside her home to contact her husband, who is a lawyer.

Police advised her that this would be considered interfering with a traffic stop and had to put her into handcuffs to prevent her from leaving her vehicle. She blew a .13 on a breath test, over the .08 limit for driving. She was released to her husband and will likely be facing a DUI charge.

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Watercraft theft A resident on the 100 block of East Lake Sammamish Shore Lane Northeast had a personal watercraft and trailer stolen from their home between 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Aug. 6.

The home is for sale and many people had recently toured the home and come by to purchase items in the home that are listed on Craigslist.

The personal watercraft is a blue and gray-colored Bombadier brand.

Family dispute Sammamish Police were called Aug. 7 to sort out a dispute between a mother and the adult daughter she was kicking out of the house. The altercation stemmed from a disagreement over the daughter allowing her boyfriend to stay the night at the home.

Both parties claimed the other had hit them during a pushing and shoving match after the daughter refused to leave the home, but neither showed signs of injury or wished to have the other prosecuted. Police stood by as the daughter gathered personal items and left the home without further incident.

Bitter partier A resident at The Knolls at Inglewood Hill apartments reported that someone broke their window with a beer bottle at around 10:30 p.m. Aug. 8.

The vandalism occurred shortly after the resident called police to break up a loud party in the swimming pool area, which is near the resident’s apartment.

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Drunk on the job A Sammamish man who is having his home remodeled reported Aug. 11 that someone had stolen several tools and four bottles of liquor and wine from his home.

The man and his contractor suspect three temporary workers that were hired to do work in the home, though all three denied having stolen the items. The case remains under investigation.

Welfare check Police were called to check on an elderly Sammamish man Aug. 12 after staff at a local veterinary office reported that he seemed

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The man was sure that he had locked the door, but found the items missing the next morning.

Police have no suspects.

Graffiti Police discovered initials and a picture drawn in black spray paint on a stop sign on the corner of Main Street and 214th Avenue Northeast. Police notified Public Works staff.

Melon throwing Someone damaged a neighborhood sign at the northwest corner of the Kempton Downs development by throwing watermelons. Police have no suspects. The homeowner’s association will pay for the $300 worth of damage.

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Police pulled the man over for having expired tabs on his car.

The man claimed he did not have his license and gave the officer conflicting information on his name and identity. Police eventually identified him through his social security number and discovered that his license was revoked and that he was required to have an ignition interlock on any vehicle he drives.

Police arrested the man and booked him into Issaquah Jail.

While at jail the man began acting strangely, which prompted jail officials to give him a breath test.

Though he had denied drinking earlier, the man admitted he had drank “a whole bottle of vodka” just before being pulled over by the officer.

The first breath test showed an estimated blood alcohol level of .25 and a second showed a level of .41 – a potentially deadly level.

The man was transported to the hospital for detox.

Ammo dump A Sammamish resident turned in some old gun ammunition for safe disposal Aug. 11. The ammo was 50 years old and designed for a Remington Luger 9mm.

Burglary A resident on the 3600 block of 212th Avenue Southeast had her and her son’s passports and citizenship documents stolen from the home she was renting.

The home’s alarm went off at around 11 a.m. Aug. 11. The alarm company notified the woman, who returned home to find the front door kicked open and a brief case containing the items gone.

No other items were missing from the home. The case remains under investigation.

Vehicle prowl A Sammamish resident had her wallet stolen from her vehicle as it was parked at Ebright Creek Park between 3 p.m. and 5 See BLOTTER, Page 22

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Language lessons School districts strive to keep foreign language courses available amid shrinking budgets

By Christopher Huber

programs around the Issaquah and Lake Washington school disOn almost an annual basis, tricts are facing challenges simiTammy Haldeman has had to lar to those in the arts and other teach two levels of Japanese lanelective programs. guage students during the same Even so, district officials said class period at Skyline High they know the benefits to studySchool. ing a foreign language early and Last school year, she had to have worked to provide options pick between teaching a split for students as early as eighth class of 44 students or make two grade. separate periods out of it.

In addition to in-house offerUltimately she had to keep the ings at Pine Lake and Beaver group together and teach two lev- Lake middle schools and els of Japanese, she said, because Inglewood Junior High School, one class would not be large some elementary school students enough to warin both disrant creating have “You are very limited in tricts another class options what you can pack in period. through PTAShe is able to sponsored during that six-hour make do, and it after-school day. It forces you to ends up worklanguage proing out alright, grams, too. prioritize.” she said, but “You are – Ron Thiele, the students in very limited in associate superintendent – those classes what you can lose out on the pack in during closer attention that six-hour they might otherwise receive in a day. It forces you to prioritize,” typical language class with one said Ron Thiele, Issaquah School level.

District’s associate superinten“You’re more like a facilitator dent. “Even if you had the stuof their learning with that,” dent interest; even if you could Haldeman said. “You have to get the teachers, you still have to have highly motivated kids in confront that issue, of ‘what am I those classes.” willing to stop offering.’ Those Haldeman’s situation isn’t become really dicey conversaunique. Teachers and school tions.” administrators have to use the Starting in middle school resources available. But due to Both school districts offer non-existent class-size-reduction accredited foreign language classfunding and teacher shortages in some languages, foreign language es starting in eighth grade.

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Eastlake High School ASB consists of (back row from left) secretary Kelly Cote, senior vice president Midori Ng, president Sharada Rayan, treasurer Sierra Nolan, junior vice president Kelsey Nyce, junior president Alaina Hartley. (Front row from left) senior secretary/treasurer Michael Gallagher, public relations officer Felipe Concha, senior class president Amanda Cotn, vice president Akaash Nanda, and junior secretary/treasurer Gabe Wattenbarger.

Inglewood students can take Spanish or French starting in eighth grade. Students at every Issaquah School District middle school can take Spanish, but only those at Issaquah Middle School and Maywood Middle School have an option for French, according to Sara Niegowski, the district’s communications director.

Stella Scholla, a Lake Washington magnet school, offers Latin coursework for seventhand eighth-graders. And in an effort to streamline graduation requirements for college entry standards, the Lake Washington School Board, at its June 20 meet-

ing, voted to require all students to take two years of one foreign language.

It’s the sixth district in the state to require two years and the seventh overall to institute a foreign language requirement (one district requires one year).

“We wanted to align our high school graduation requirements to ensure our students were prepared and eligible to enter college,” said Traci Pierce, Lake Washington’s deputy superintendent of instructional services.

In Sammamish schools, the new requirement will first apply to incoming Eastlake ninthgraders in fall of 2012, according

to Kathryn Reith, the district’s communications director.

Eastside Catholic Middle School offers Spanish starting in seventh grade. Once in high school, students there can take French or Spanish levels one through four, according to the school’s curriculum webpage.

Options in high school All students at Eastlake and Skyline have the option to take Spanish and French. Skyline also offers Japanese, and a group of students is working to get Mandarin Chinese added to the See LANGUAGE, Page 12

What parents need to know about immunizations State law requires a variety of immunizations for students prior to them entering school and while they are in the school system. In Issaquah, students may register for class, but may not attend school until all immunization requirements are met.

Students must be immunized against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, poliomyelitis, varicella (chickenpox), measles, rubella, mumps and hepatitis B. Immunization schedule Hepatitis B: Must have had three shots on or after 6 months of age. The series may not be completed in less than four months.

Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis: Kindergarten requirement is four shots by age 4; firstthough fifth-grade and eighththrough 12th-grade requirements are three shots after age 4.

Diphtheria and tetanus: Sixthand seventh-grade requirements are students need to get another immunization at age 11 or when it has been five years since their last one.

Polio: Students must have had at least three doses if the last shot was given after age 4. However, four doses are acceptable for students who had their last dose before age 4.

Measles, mumps and rubella: Two shots, with the first having

been on or after age 1 and the second at least one month after the first.

Varicella (chickenpox): Your child must be at least one year old to get his or her first shot.

The second shot is given between ages 4 and 6. This vaccine is required for all students entering sixth grade.

A seasonal flu vaccine is recommended for all children six months through 18 years.

Vaccinating children against the H1N1 (swine flu) virus is recommended.

Prior to entering school each year, parents or guardians must present a completed certificate of immunization status form.

Information requirements Your child’s immunization status form must indicate one of the following: • Full immunization has been completed.

• Your child is exempt from all vaccine immunizations.

• Your child has a combination of required immunizations and exemptions.

Parents can obtain a certificate of exemption signed by a health care provider. The certificate states that the parent is aware of benefits and risks concerning immunizations. A signed letter from a health care provider can be used in lieu of the certificate.

The law allows parents to claim a

religious exemption without the signature of a health care provider if they demonstrate membership to a religious body that does not believe in medical treatment.

• Your child has a conditional status that he or she has begun having or is continuing a schedule of immunizations.

The health agency or doctor you are receiving the immunizations from will indicate this on the card for you.

Exemptions from one or more vaccines can be granted for religious or personal reasons, upon written request from a child’s See IMMUNE, Page 9

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Tips to start the school year on the right track Back-to-school mayhem presents a number of challenges for parents. Each morning there are breakfasts to make, lunches to pack and extracurricular schedules to track — all while trying to get to work on time. So, how do you navigate the morning chaos and hold onto your sanity? With these helpful tips, you can make your back-toschool mornings easier: ◆ Stick to a strict bedtime schedule. According to the Mayo Clinic, school-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep each night. Making sure they are well rested will help avoid oversleeping and wasted time getting them out of bed each morning. ◆ Get prepared the night before. Pack all school bags as soon as homework is finished, and lay out school outfits prior to bedtime for the next day. This shortens the list of morning chores and adds a few extra minutes of rest.

Also, don't wait until early morning to pack a rushed lunch with little nutrition value. Preparing lunch the night before enables parents to pack food with nutrients and vitamins, not just potato chips and snack packs. For even better efficiency, plan lunches a week ahead. ◆ Find a quick and balanced breakfast option. Not many parents have time for eggs and pancakes each morning, but there are quick, quality alternatives. Stock up on cereals that are high in fiber, folic acid, iron, and vitamin C. ◆ Make a weekly calendar of activities. Organize each family member's schedule to make sure children are where they need to be at the correct times. Between extracurricular activities, like sports, clubs, study groups, jobs and friends, it can be a challenge to establish any sort of routine. Set up car pools in case some events overlap.

Input alerts in your phone, and set an alarm for each to avoid temporary mental lapses.

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parent or guardian. Exemptions may also be granted for medical reasons, at the request of and with the signature of a physician.

However, if an outbreak occurs at school, your child may be excluded from school by order of the health department during the outbreak if it is a disease he or she has not been immunized against.

Getting immunizations Private Schedule an appointment with your family physician or child’s pediatrician.

Public clinics Public Health — Seattle & King County: You must call 206-205-1681 to schedule an appointment at any of the county’s four clinics: Downtown Seattle, Renton, Columbia City or Federal Way. The Renton clinic is at 3001 N.E. Fourth St. Health Point, 16315 N.E. 87th St. Suite B-6, Redmond: You must call 882-1697 to schedule an appointment.

Health Point, 200 S. Second St., Renton: You must call 226-5536 for an appointment.

The cost of immunization visits is typically $20. In addition, there may be a service charge of $15 for each dose. For those with a limited income, office visits and service charges may be reduced. No one will be turned away for inability to pay.

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Construction projects in both districts will modernize schools

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Lake Washington district The big news in the Lake Washington district is the construction of a new science, technology engineering and math (STEM) secondary school.

The building is set to go up just north of Sammamish on state Route 202, near Alcott Elementary. The district is hipdeep in the permitting process, and expects to have the new building open in time for the 2012-2013 school year. ◆ An addition to Redmond High School will make the school 30,000 square feet bigger.

Construction began over the summer. ◆ Construction wrapped up at Lake Washington High School/Northstar Junior High, Finn Hill Junior High/Environmental and Adventure School and Muir Elementary. Students are expected to move back in this school year. ◆ Construction projects at Keller Elementary and Sandburg Elementary should be done by the start of the next school year. ◆ Projects at Rose Hill Junior High/Stella Schola Middle School, Bell and Rush elementaries and the International Community School are proceeding and should wrap up at various times in 2013.

Issaquah district ◆ Planners slated Maywood Middle School in Renton for a modernization and expansion project. According to the latest construction update from the district this month, Maywood’s old administration/commons area and counseling offices are gone, with construction of replacement facilities under way.

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Overall work is thought to continue through summer 2012. ◆ Work also continues on a modernization project at Challenger Elementary in Issaquah. The former library and staff lounge is gone with construction of the renovated facili-

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ties under way. The school’s parking lot and pick-up/drop-off area is about to be realigned. ◆ Issaquah High School was slated to receive a complete rebuilding at a cost of $94.9 million. Classroom and core areas were ready by fall 2010, with completion of the remaining work done by this fall.

Contractors presently are finishing up cleaning and working on final punch lists on the high school project. The school’s new performing arts center should be mostly up and running in time for the start of school, though See BUILDING, Page 13

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to already have started. Grading of new parking areas has begun. ◆ Also in Renton, Briarwood Elementary School was slated for a complete replacement. A new building is planned right next to the existing structure, Niegowski said.

The Briarwood project still is in its beginning stages, though the school’s former parking lot is now part of the construction zone. A new, temporary lot for staff and parents was built on the east side of the school.

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teach all subject areas well. One problem, among others, is not enough native Spanish (or anothContinued from Page 8 er foreign language) speakers at any one school.

“We looked into Spanish course offerings list. immersion a few years back,” Pierce noted the Lake Thiele said. “The problem I had Washington’s desire to offer as was, I understand the immersion, many choices as possible for stubut you need about half the kids dents. It becomes a matter of in the class (to) be Spanish speakstaffing the position, though. ing and half would be English “There is generalized interest speaking.” in Mandrin,” she said.

In order for an elementary The idea of offering foreign school to offer a sustainable lanlanguage instruction at the eleguage immersion program, it has mentary level has become a diffito fill a pipeline of teachers in cult area to address, Thiele said. each grade level.

Total immersion “I think there’s a reason not a While schools in Burlington lot of (school districts) do it. It’s and Seattle, as harder than well as many thinks.

There has to be a certain anyone others across For us, we’re amount of student the nation, still a relatively have waded homogenous interest. They’re not into the waters population,” he forced to take Japanese said. “It’s not of offering language immerthat we’re not class.” sion programs interested in – Ron Thiele, starting in the doing that. If Associate superintendent – first grade, he it’s something said Issaquah that we can considers it one make happen, of those great ideas that needs let’s do it.” more student and parent interest As principal of Issaquah combined with an abundance of Middle School in 2002, Thiele, bilingual, certified Washington who has a background in teachers who also know how to Mandrin studies, actually did

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Source: 2010 Annual Report from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Results from a questionnaire completed by 151,988 students and 2,294 foreign language educators. implement a Japanese language program for one period per day.

Within two years, they dropped the program due to lack of student interest.

“I could never get more than 17 kids per class,” Thiele said. “I just couldn’t keep the numbers.

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That has a lot to do with students seeking to fulfill college entrance requirements — neither the district nor the state requires students to complete foreign language coursework.

“It wouldn’t surprise me that it is (growing),” Thiele said. “As I recall over 90 percent (of students) meet the two-years of language requirement upon graduating.”

While school districts have to strike a balance between maintaining a variety of elective course offerings for middle and high schoolers, foreign language teachers have the freedom to organize language immersion trips or activities to help their students deepen their understanding and experience in the culture and language.

These are offered completely independent from the school and tend to happen whenever teachers can get enough students and parents committed to travel, teachers from Skyline and Issaquah said.

Haldeman estimated that roughly one group of Skyline students takes a trip or attends an immersion activity each year, See LANGUAGE, Page 13

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officials warn installation of a few items may have to await delivery before completion.

Outside the building, grinding and repaving was slated to begin on a widened Second Avenue the week of Aug. 15. Work is also proceeding on the school’s new athletic stadium. Turf is in place and workers are installing end zone letters and logos. ◆ Odds and ends: Portable classrooms are in place at Liberty, Apollo Elementary in Renton and Issaquah Valley Elementary in Issaquah. Portables also are on their way to Newcastle Elementary in Newcastle. In Issaquah, at Endeavour Elementary, workers are proceeding with replacing the roof and skylights.

Outside of schools, installation is set to begin shortly on new bus lifts for the district transportation center.

Editor Ari Cetron contributed to this story. Tom Corrigan: 392-6434, ext. 241, or tcorrigan@isspress.com. To comment on this story, visit www.SammamishReview.com

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She, like many, chooses to teach only in Japanese in her classes from second-year and up.

Continued from Page 12 “My advanced classes are not allowed to speak in English at whether that’s during winter all,” Haldeman said. break, spring break or over the While schools across the counsummer. try have proven that learning a “Usually I notice that kids’ second language earlier and interest peaks,” Haldeman said. through new methods leads to “It really solidifies their interest.” higher test results, among other Haldeman said she has taken things, a variety of factors continher students to Japan before, but ue to limit Issaquah and other they often opt districts in to attend the what they can “My advanced classes two-day fulloffer students. are not allowed to speak immersion In the end camp in Seattle. it’s all a big in English at all.”

They learn the balancing act, – Tammy Haldeman, ins and outs of Thiele said. the culture and “There’s Teacher – compete in educational speaking exervalue with cises. learning a foreign language,” “They get really excited about Thiele said. “But there’s also edudoing that,” she said. cational value in learning science Whether students take a trip or art.” or not, some teachers in the district supplement the traditional Reporter Christopher Huber can curriculum — standard verb conbe reached at 392-6434, ext. 242, or jugations and memorizing gramchuber@isspress.com. Comment on mar rules — with methods such this story at as Teaching Proficiency through www.SammamishReview.com.

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Haldeman said it is proven effective but, due to ever-increasing workload and requirements, it’s difficult to consistently incorporate into everyday instruction.

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2011 high school football schedule All games at 7 p.m.

SKYLINE SPARTANS Date Opponent Sept. 2 Liberty Sept. 9 Bellevue Sept. 16 at Lake Oswego, Ore. Sept. 23 at Issaquah Sept. 30 Redmond Oct. 7 at Newport Oct. 14 Henry M. Jackson Oct. 21 at Eastlake Oct. 28 Cross over Nov. 4 Playoffs

EASTLAKE WOLVES Date Opponent Sept. 2 at Central Kitsap Sept. 9 Snohomish Sept. 16 Roosevelt Sept. 23 at Redmond Sept. 30 at Newport Oct. 7 at Mariner Oct. 14 Issaquah Oct. 21 Skyline Oct. 28 Cross over Nov. 4 Playoffs

EASTSIDE CATHOLIC CRUSADERS Date Opponent Sept. 2 Cleveland Sept. 9 at Peninsula Sept. 16 Centennial Centaurs Sept. 23 at Seattle Prep Sept. 30 at Chief Sealth Oct. 7 O’Dea Oct. 14 Bishop Blanchet Oct. 20 at Bainbridge Oct. 28 Cross over Nov. 4 Playoffs

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School calendars for Issaquah and Lake Washington Issaquah School District 2011-12 Calendar Dates Aug. 30 — First day of school for students Sept. 5 — Labor Day (no school) Nov. 11 — Veterans Day (no school) Nov. 24-25 — Thanksgiving

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Essential information before they head back to school The first day of school is set for Aug. 30. Note the day is prior to Labor Day this year. For the bell time for your school, go to your school’s website or www.issaquah.wednet.edu/schools /belltimes.aspx.

Lake Washington’s first day back is Sept. 6. For bell times, visit your school’s website or www.lwsd.org/Parents/schoolhours.

Basic stats: The Issaquah School District has more than 17,000 students and covers a 110square mile area. The district includes 15 elementary schools, five middle schools and three comprehensive high schools.

There is also the alternative Tiger Mountain High School and the Echo Glen Children’s Center in Snoqualmie. The latter is part of the district but is Washington state’s juvenile detention facility.

With more than 24,500 students in 51 schools, Lake Washington covers 76 square miles, from Kirkland to Sammamish. It includes 31 elementary schools, 12 junior highs and eight high schools, eight of which are in Sammamish.

For Lake Washington, visit www.lwsd.org. It’s divided up into four sections at the top left for easy preliminary navigation. The “Schools” tab will lead you to each school’s individual website, and the “News” tab will help keep you up to date with recent district-wide developments. The three tabs at the top right, “For Parents,” “For Students,” and “For the Community,” offer navigation for more specific needs.

Verify enrollment: According to the district website, lime green enrollment verification postcards went out to elementary school families in July. Parents are asked to follow the instructions on the cards. You also can verify your children’s elementary school enrollment at www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/enrollment/elemverify.aspx.

Lake Washington also mails a postcard to registered students

District website: The main district web address for Issaquah is www.issaquah.wednet.edu. Look on the right side of the main page for links important for any given month. For example, “August Links” include “School bell times for 2011” and “Annual verification of elementary enrollment.” For August, the monthly links will take you to many of the direct links given in this column.

Look on the left side of the district’s Web page for links to coming events.

who qualify for transportation with information about the route they will ride. The district also offers parents a way to verify or find out what school and bus routes their student should attend and ride. Visit www.lwsd.org/Schools/School-andBus-Finder/Pages/default.aspx.

Family Access: A link to this website sits at the bottom right of the district main page. This site provides parents and students online access to student information, including test scores, attendance, class schedules and immunization records. Parents or students need a password to log in to Family Access. If you’ve forgotten your password, you can get a new one sent to the e-mail address on file with the district. If you have questions about Family Access logins, contact your middle school or high school registrar or your elementary school secre-

tary.

It’s the same for Lake Washington parents. For information on Parent Access, visit the Lake Washington main page, hover the mouse over the “For Parents” tab and click on “Parent Access” halfway down the dropdown menu. From that page, you can log in by clicking on the “Parent Access Login” at the right.

School supplies vary by building. You can find what your child needs on the website for each individual school.

If you don’t know the web address for your school, go to the main district site and use the link for your child’s school.

Bus routes: You can find your child’s bus route and schedule at www.issaquah.wednet.edu/family/transportation/elink.aspx. You will be redirected to E-Link 2011,

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SAMMAMISH REVIEW

The garbage miners Journey exposes hardships, hopes of poor in Peru

By Christopher Huber

Just minutes after I lay down on the sheet-covered queen-size mattress with a thick woolen blanket rolled up for a pillow, I cinched the bottom of my jacket, hoping it would keep the spiders out.

It was 9 p.m., Aug. 9. I tried to sleep. I only had until midnight, when we would head to the landfill to start working. As I dozed off, I thought I felt slight biting sensations marching around my waist and ankles. I figured it was all in my head — I was exhausted from working construction and speaking Spanish all day. And I was way out of my comfort zone, sleeping in a small, adobe brick room on the outskirts of Trujillo,

Peru, the country’s third largest city. Somewhat paranoid, I itched then squished the spot each time I felt it, just in case it really was a bug.

Outside, the ducks chattered as they huddled in darkness below, a donkey’s bray joined the chorus of a cool night, and my nostrils filled with the pungent scent of gritty earth, decaying animal carcasses and burning garbage.

With the garbage miners I had come to Trujillo on a mission trip with Inca Link International, an organization which partners with churches and youth groups to serve the youth of Latin America. We spent eight days constructing founda-

Photo by Christopher Huber

Stephanie Chihuaman Chacon, 7, of Los Milagros, Trujillo, Peru, takes a swig of soda from a bottle one of her family members had recently taken from the trash dump nearby. Her father, uncle and grandmother work in 12- to 16-hour shifts every day of the week to mine trash from the Trujillo landfill. While not desperate for food, Stephanie and her family members do not hesitate to drink out of bottles like this. Watchtowers from the local prison loom in the background.

tions for an orphanage and trade school in the rougher part of town. We also spent time with attention-starved children in a daycare and had visited the landfill to shake hands with the workers and offer fresh fruit for lunch.

I was with a group from Canada and California that stayed at Helping Hands, a Trujillo hostel established by missionaries from the Seattle area.

But this night I was sleeping at the “corral,” an outpost of sorts that Luis “Chichi” Chihuaman Valdiviezo and his family use for sorting trash, raising livestock and gathering with groups from Inca Link. Chichi, his brother, Jose Chihuaman Valdiviezo, and their mother sleep in this little room or in another loft before heading out each night to mine trash in the city dump.

I spent the night in that dump, following Jose and his fellow trash miners as they worked through the wee hours of the morning and into the day. I didn’t just get used to walking through slimy trash and watching out for sharp objects and scavenging dogs. I also caught a glimpse of how difficult life can be for people who don’t have other options.

I wasn’t trying to prove anything. In fact, when the director of Inca Link International, Lisa Merritt, asked me, days before, if I had made up my mind about doing it, I stuttered and tried to think up some excuse to not go through with it. It would have been perfectly reasonable to want to return to the relative comfort of the hostel with the rest of the group after a day of hard construction work at the orphanage site.

We had just spent an hour or so playing soccer and other games with children and their parents in the middle of a barren plot of land at the corral on the other side of the fence from the landfill. And as I fumbled with my words for a decent excuse, I looked over at Chichi, the plateau of trash behind him in the distance, and said to Lisa something like, “yeah, I think I should do it.” My mind was defeated by an overriding sense of the need to understand and to be humbled.

Ultimately, I wanted a glimpse of the brothers’ daily lives. I wanted to have a specific, jolting experience that might help me give a voice to the voiceless. I wanted to see if life in such a forgotten, invisible place like a

Photo by Christopher Huber

A girl rakes through trash the morning of Aug. 10 in Trujillo, Peru. She said she works with her brother to find materials to sell. garbage dump — you drive right past the prison to get to the landfill — was as dire or desperate as we North Americans might think it is.

It is. And it isn’t.

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All they know At midnight, Jose woke me up — I was still oblivious to the collection of bites covering my body — and we drove to the landfill in his two-seat, motorcycle-powered moto-taxi. About 50 people were already working when we arrived. Even at night, the scene is overwhelming. Following suggestions, I wore a cloth over my mouth and nose so I wouldn’t breathe in the toxic smoke or juicy stench of the trash.

Donkeys pull wooden carts up the hill to the dump site, as workers nap in front of garbage bonfires. The carts or moto-taxis park in a line about 100 feet from the newest trash piles. It’s sour, stale, and choking. I don’t want to know what I just stepped on.

About every half-hour another truck came. Jose waited for the newer, white trucks, because they brought more trash. The

workers — at night all you see is the glow of their headlamps and trash heaps at their feet — bunch around the back of the truck.

And as it pushes the waste out, the workers jab and rake the trash out with 8-foot poles that have two-pronged metal hooks attached to the end. The truck pulls away, they make a pile or two and each taps an area to mark his or her own spot.

Chichi, 31, and Jose, 28, have mined trash since they were both children. They were forced to find a source of income to support their mother and siblings when their father’s employer would not pay him or was late providing paychecks for work done far from the city. Jose only finished school through the fifth grade. Chichi didn’t pass his college-entrance exam, so he hit a dead end. For more than 20 years, they have spent 12-16 hours per day sorting through Trujillo’s garbage.

The brothers have a side business raising pigs for income, so they look for food scraps to use for feed. They also sort out recyclable materials to sell for a few cents per kilo. Plastic and paper fetch the best rate, but copper from electronics, cables, wires, and even auto parts, is also worth collecting.

By 8 a.m., Jose had collected enough material to deliver large See MINER, Page 17

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A trash miner walks over a heap of trash as a worker churns up old garbage at the Trujillo, Peru municipal landfill.

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sacks of food scraps and bundles of recyclables to the corral area, where his sister, Erika, and Chichi’s wife, Lorena, spent much of the day sorting it. Each day, someone picks up the materials, sells them and returns to the family with payment, Lorena said.

Contradictions It is dire, in the sense that the brothers and a couple hundred others spend their days picking through nasty garbage, most without gloves or air filter masks and worry about stepping on needles or getting sick.

But for Chichi and Jose, it’s all a quest to feed their families and make a way for themselves in a country where the rich are get-

ting richer off abundant natural resources and the poor are getting poorer. Development in cities like Lima is thriving.

Tourism booms in Cuzco and at Machu Picchu. But the education system is weak and many survive on less than $10 a day. The fact the brothers have a concretewalled home says they earn more than some people, but the floors are bare dirt.

Mining trash is all they know.

Chichi started working in the dump when he was 8. It is what their young children know, too, although they don’t actually work in the dump. The brothers live with their families about two miles from the landfill. But they spend most of their time, it seems, at the corral. It’s not uncommon to see any one of them take a swig of the soda from a bottle they found in the landfill the previous night.

In a sense, though, it is not

quite as dire or hopeless as welloff Americans might think. For Chichi and Jose, it’s a brotherhood, a community, a family.

Sure they’re dirty and their clothes smell like garbage. But they still goof around and find joy in the little things, like a shared meal or a game of soccer.

And at least when a wealthy Peruvian throws out their food scraps, someone else — or their pigs — will eat a little better that day.

Some said working in the dump is better than roaming the streets, scavenging for food in family trash cans out of desperation. The trash miners aren’t entirely desperate; they’re just

doing what they can to get along in life.

In the end, the toughest part for this gringo with a stable income, clean clothes and plenty of food on the dinner table back home was actually the moment that I got to press the “escape” button. I had spent a day and night with a tight-knit family earning a living on the edge of poverty by literally harvesting garbage. I ate with them, shook their hands, kissed their cheeks, played with their children, talked about life with them and walked through trash with them.

I got to have a taxi pick me up and take me back to the hostel, where I took a hot shower and a long nap. Chichi and Jose went back to the trash heaps and Lorena waited to collect the couple of dollars they’d get for the sacks of paper and plastic bottles.

Losing a few hours’ sleep and not worrying about a couple hundred bed bug bites was the least I could do.

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 dip in the lake Hundreds swim, bike, run in annual race

By Christopher Huber

A year ago, Ryan Mongan, 45, of Sammamish, would not have considered competing in the Beaver Lake Triathlon. He was nowhere close to ready for the quarter-mile swim, he said.

Swimming in open water freaked him out. He would panic and start swallowing water.

“Swimming’s my weak spot,” he said. “A year ago, I couldn’t swim.”

But months before the 2011 race, Mongan decided he would challenge his friend by entering.

Still scared of the swimming leg, Mongan, an experienced runner and cyclist, resolved to train in Lake Sammamish to get used to the dark, open water.

The work paid off. Although a bit slow on the swim portion, Mongan finished the 18th annual Beaver Lake Triathlon in 13th place overall, crossing the finish

line in 1 hour 17 minutes and 23 seconds.

He was among more than 260 participants in the annual swimbike-run race that takes triathletes in and around Beaver Lake.

About 60 Sammamish residents participated, according to the results website.

The late summer morning provided ideal conditions for some participants to go without wetsuits.

“Once on the bike, I mellowed out,” Mongan said. He made up the two-and-a-half minutes on the 13.8-mile bike ride that he lost on the swim leg. As he caught his breath at the finish line area, Mongan reflected on the particularly steep climb on the bike portion.

“The bike (leg) is unusual for a triathlon,” Mongan said. “If you go out there now, you’d see people in a world of hurt.”

Cody Novak, 27, of Kirkland, won the overall race. He finished in 1:11:48, just one second ahead of Ryker Lammers, of Kirkland.

The two raced neck-and-neck for the final three miles of the 4.3mile run, Novak said.

Photo by Christopher Huber

A triathlete sprints out of the water on his way to the bike leg of the 18th annual Beaver Lake Triathlon Aug. 20. Participants swam a quarter-mile, biked 13.8 miles and ran 4.3 miles.

“I thought my legs were gonna fall out from under me, Novak said after the race. “It was backand-forth the last 0.3 miles. We just started booking. That’s when you lose all sense of form.”

This was Novak’s first time competing in the Beaver Lake Triathlon, known as a sprint triathlon due to its shorter course length.

“That was the shortest swim

I’ve ever seen,” Novak said.

Other Sammamish residents performed well this year, too.

Matt Signoretty, 21, placed ninth See RACE, Page 19

Crusaders volleyball hopes to make another run at a title

By Christopher Huber

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The Eastside Catholic volleyball team celebrates winning the Metro League title last year after it beat Bishop Blanchet 3-0. The Crusaders return most of their key starters in 2011.

What the Eastside Catholic High School volleyball team lost in key starters from 2010, it may have made up for in its new coach.

The Crusaders lost standouts like outside hitter Cami Silverman to graduation in June, but the team picked up a coach with experience with the national champion University of Washington volleyball program.

An Edmonds native, Mike Bryant joins Eastside Catholic, the 2010 3A state runner up, after spending most of his coaching career at the college level. He most recently spent one season coaching at the University of Pittsburgh, where he guided the team back to the post-season conference tournament.

Possibly his most notable experience was as program director during the Huskies’ 2005 Division-1 national championship run. But Bryant also coached at Metro League rival Holy Names Academy, earning

numerous awards and accolades.

In the 2010 3A state final, Eastside Catholic lost 3-1 to Seattle Prep. But the Crusaders finished the season 19-3 overall and 11-1 in Metro League competition. On the way to state, the girls took the Metro and district titles.

From that team, Eastside Catholic brings back a solid core of seven seniors: Kameron McLain (outside hitter), Mandy Mahan (middle blocker), Lauren Rehn (outside hitter), Marlena Norwood (defensive specialist), Nicole Boswell (libero and defensive specialist), Jordan Gates (setter) and Danielle Leider (middle blocker and outside hitter).

In addition, Bryant noted three others in the rotation who will balance the attack this fall: early-career standout, junior outside hitter and setter Hannah Christie, junior middle blocker Sarah Hill and sophomore outside hitter Katherine Towslee.

McLain looks to be a dominant force for the Crusaders this season. The Division-1 prospect has

verbally committed to play for Boston College in 2012, Bryant said.

Before practices started, Bryant explained that the team will need to set goals and consistently meet them throughout the season. The girls will need to stay focused on their own tasks, he said, and work to create opportunities on the court.

“The Metro League is traditionally one of the toughest in the state and we know that it will take some very good volleyball to be successful against our league opponents,” Bryant said. “It will be important for us to use every opportunity to compete at a high level and improve on the things we do, and not become complacent or overlook any conference opponent.”

Games to watch: Holy Names at Eastside Catholic, 7 p.m., Sept. 19; (2010 state title game rematch) Seattle Prep at Eastside Catholic, 7 p.m., Sept. 21; Eastside Catholic at Bishop Blanchet, 7 p.m., Oct. 3.

SAMMAMISH REVIEW

Jake Heaps piles up the honors at BYU

By Bob Taylor

Jake Heaps, one of the most celebrated quarterbacks in Skyline High School history, is earning preseason attention at Brigham Young University.

Of course, accolades are nothing new for Heaps, who earned all-state and national honors during his Skyline days and led Skyline to three straight state championships.

Among his recent honors is being named to the 2011 Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award Watch List. One reason why Heaps is on the list is because of the sensational freshman season he had last fall for the Cougars.

Last season, the 6-foot-1, 205pound Heaps broke every freshman Brigham Young University quarterback record including wins, games started, passing yardage, completions and touchdowns. He started 10 games in 2010, completing 219 of 383 passes for 2,316 yards and 15 touchdowns.

This year’s list featured 38 of the nation’s top collegiate quarterbacks who were picked based on their performance last year and their expectations heading into the 2011 season. Heaps is one of eight sophomores on the list.

The field of candidates will be

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narrowed to 16 semifinals Oct. 24. The O’Brien Foundation and selection committee will announce three finalists Nov. 21 and the winner Dec. 8.

In addition to the O’Brien attention, Heaps is on the cover of the Athlon Sports College Football 2011 preseason football magazine. He shares the cover with Stanford’s Andrew Luck and Boise State’s Kellen Moore.

Heaps has come a long way in a year. He entered fall camp last year expecting to share the quarterback duties with Riley Nelson.

The two shared the position in BYU’s season-opening 23-17 victory against Washington.

When Nelson suffered a season-ending shoulder injury against Florida State Sept. 18, Heaps became the starter for the remainder of the season. He ended it with a record-setting MVP performance against the University of Texas-El Paso in the New Mexico Bowl. He was the first BYU freshman quarterback to start in a bowl game.

Heaps was selected to the College Football News Freshman All-American Team as an honorable mention.

Besides all of the football attention, the other big news in Heaps’ life came in late June this year when he married Brooke Shaw, whose father was a former BYU player.

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Eastside FC wins tournament

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The Eastside FC Girls ’98-Red team, with members from Sammamish, won the GU-13 Premier division of the 31st Annual Mustang Stampede Tournament Aug 8 in Danville, Calif. In all, they went 5-0-1 throughout the three-day tournament, scoring eight goals and allowing only one goal against. They defeated some of the top ranked teams in Region IV. The ’98-Red team beat Santa Rosa United Ice 1-0 in the finals after a clutch goal by Jojo Harber and assist by Natalie Weidenbach. Pictured are (top row left to right) Catie Buck, Katie Foster, Alexa Kirton (Sammamish), Natalie Weindenbach, Kaylene Pang, Molly Monroe (Sammamish), (bottom row) Cameron Tingey (Sammamish), Sophie Butterfield, Emma Martz, Jojo Harber, Zoe Milburn, Ellie Bryant, Bella Lundberg.

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overall with a time of 1:16:08 and Jonathan Church, 35, took 10th place with a time of 1:16:21.

Kerry Wate, 41, placed 33rd overall and fifth in his division with a time of 1:23:20. Calvin Mingione, 23, placed 46th overall and second in his division, finishing in 1:25:55. Tyler Kennedy, 23, took third in his division and 47th overall with a time of 1:26:00.

Collin Clark, 34, finished in 1:26:06 to take 48th and fourth in his division. And Bill Baker, 56, placed first in his division and 49th overall with a time of 1:26:11.

Haley Morin placed seventh overall among female racers and second in her division with a time of 1:27:21. Tammy Wales, 50, took first in her division and fifth among masters females with a time of 1:30:50.

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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Symphony pays tribute

August Concert in the Park summer concert series features “Soul Purpose” from 6:30-8 p.m. Aug. 25 at Pine Lake Park.

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Hindi Story Time, for children 3 and older with an adult, 4 p.m.

Sept 15, 22 and 29.

Toddler Story Time, for children 2-3 with an adult, 10 and 11 a.m.

Sept 14, 21 and 28.

Preschool Story Time, for children 3-6 with an adult, 10 a.m.

Sept 15, 22 and 29, and 1 p.m. Sept 16, 23 and 30.

Pajama Story Time, for children 2-6 with an adult, 7 p.m. Sept. 12, 19 and 26.

Musik Nest, for children 2-3 with an adult. Share songs, dance, rhythm and new ways to enjoy music with your toddler, 10:30 a.m.

Sept. 17.

Spanish Story Time, for children 3 and older with an adult, 6 p.m.

Sept. 13, 20 and 27.

Sammamish Symphony Orchestra members will accompany the Cantare Vocal Ensemble in a concert to honor the victims, survivors, and heroes of 9/11. Proceeds will benefit the 9/11 orphan fund. The concert will take place at 3 p.m. Sept. 11. at the Holy Rosary Church in West Seattle. Tickets are $25. Visit www.cantarecvocalensem-

from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 27.

Email volunteer coordinator Beverly Lee at volunteer@issaquahfish.org.

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Waddler Story Time, for children 9-24 months with an adult, 10 and 11 a.m. Sept 16, 23 and 30.

Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery is holding a new volunteer training program

ture Nate Weinstein, a Harry Potter impersonator, at noon Aug. 29 at Ebright Creek Park.

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Swaddler Story Time, for children birth-9 months with an adult, 11 a.m. Sept 15, 22 and 29.

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Friendly Earth, a non-profit recycling company, is teaming up with the Sammamish Presbyterian Church to kick off a community wide recycling event.

Volunteers will be collecting used, broken and unwanted appliances, as well as electronics and scrap metal from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Aug. 27 at Sammamish Presbyterian Church.

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Urban Poetics: A photography exhibit by Victoria Bjorklund will be on display at City Hall from Sept. 2-Oct. 4 at City Hall, and is viewable during normal business hours.

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The documentary file “Painted Life” the story of Henk Pander as seen through the lens of

his son, Jacob, will be shown at 1 p.m. Sept. 10 at City Hall.

Sammamish Walks will take a guided tour along walking trails of Beaver Lake Park with a photography focus from 10 a.m.noon Sept. 17. To register, visit www.ci.sammamish.wa.us.

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The Sammamish Farmer’s Market runs from 4-8 p.m. every Wednesday at City Hall.

Mother Daughter Book Club will discuss “Penny Dreadful” by Laurel Snyder, 1 p.m. Sept. 24.

Meet the Author: Meet Jez Alborough, the international children’s author-illustrator of over 30 picture books, at 6 p.m. on Sept. 29.

Stress Management and Relaxation Training for Teens will take place at 2 p.m. on Sept. 17.

Register at www.kcls.org/sammamish or call 425.392.3130.

The Teen Writers Group will meet at 3:30 p.m. on Sept 20.

Meet the Cartoonist: Meet local 16year-old cartoonist, Seth Campos, author of two comic book collections, “Welcome to Beeky Airlines” and “Real Bears Eat Takeout,” at 2 p.m. on Sept.

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Volunteer opportunities Sammamish Medical Reserve Corps is seeking retired medical and non-medical workers. meetings 6:30-8 p.m., the fourth Wednesday of the month at Eastside Fire & Rescue Station 82. Email MRC@sammamishcitizencorps.oeg.

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 Long-Term Care Ombudsman 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 206694-6827.

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 369-3235.

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.

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.

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Intermediate ESL Class, 10 a.m. Sept 27.

Beginner ESL Classes, 7 p.m. Sept 8, 15, 22 and 29.

Create a Web Site for Your Small Business.

Discover easy-to-use design tools that can build your small business web site at 6 p.m. on Sept 28.

How to Start a Business. Learn the resources that are available through the Small Business Administration, the steps in starting a business, how to write a business plan and how to do research at 2 p.m. on Sept 13.

Talk Time, conversation practice for adults who want to improve their English language skills, will take place at 12:30 p.m. on Sept 15, 22 and 29.

Growing Your Preschooler’s Brain, for parents and child care providers of children 1-5, will be

Poetry Workshop, a series of weekly workshops for anyone interested in poetry, will take place at 7 p.m. on Sept 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26 and Nov. 2.

The Sammamish Book Group will discuss “Kim” by Rudyard Kipling at 7 p.m. on Sept. 21.

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Lake Washington School District’s ACT scores rise Lake Washington School District scored better in all four categories of the ACT test last year even as average scores statewide fell.

The district’s average composite score rose by three-tenths to 25.6 while the statewide average fell to 22.8. The national average is 21.

Lake Washington students’ scores rose four-tenths of a point on English, Mathematics and Reading, as well as one-tenth in Science.

Lake Washington also continues to score well when it comes to college-ready graduates – 55

percent of its ACT test takers met all four college readiness benchmarks, compared to 35 percent of students statewide and 25 percent of students around the country, according to a district press release.

520 bridge to close this weekend State work crews will be constructing a fish passage culvert and doing other work to the 520 bridge this weekend. As a result, the bridge, all ramps, and the main line of state Route 520 will be closed from Montlake Boulevard in Seattle to I-405.

The road must be closed so crews can dig a deep trench across all lanes of traffic east of 84th Avenue Northeast.

SAMMAMISH REVIEW The closure is set to begin at 11 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26 and is expected to re-open by 5 a.m.

Monday, Aug. 29.

The state reccomends taking alternate routes, carpool or use transit.

Similar closures, part of the 520Eastside Transit and HOV Project, have occured in June and July.

The state Department of Transportation expects it will need several more weekend closures as the project continues.

The next closure is scheduled for some time in September, but the dates have not yet been announced.

For more details on this closure and the project, visit http://wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR52 0Bridge/WeekendClosures.htm.

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p.m. Aug. 11. The wallet contained $90 cash and was likely taken from an open sunroof.

More ammo disposal A Sammamish resident turned in a box of old shotgun shells to police for safe disposal Aug. 12.

DUI A 33-year-old Kirkland man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after being pulled over near the corner of Southeast 20th Street and 212th Avenue Southeast just before midnight Aug. 14. An officer clocked the man’s vehicle at 52 mph in a 35 zone.

The man performed poorly on field sobriety tests and blew a .08 during a breath test. Because the test was taken an hour after the arrest, the man may face a DUI charge since police believe he was over the legal limit while he was driving. The man was dropped off at a friend’s apartment nearby.

Aggressive Zumba A Sammamish resident called police Aug. 13 to report that his neighbor had been repeatedly dancing provocatively in front of his children.

The resident called to report the neighbor’s noisy music.

When police arrived the resident explained that he and his wife had had repeated disputes with the neighbor over her loud music and strange behavior. According to the police report, the resident reported that the neighbor, a woman in her 40s, often exercised outside.

Whenever the man or his children were outside, the woman would “skulk” along the property line wearing skimpy clothing and provocatively “bump and grind”

in the direction of the family.

The man said the woman had never exposed herself and that he did not want police to contact the woman because he was afraid that that would escalate the situation.

The man reported that the woman’s home is for sale and that he was hopeful that she would soon be moving away. As the officer was taking the report he noted that the woman was wearing pink bikini bottoms and a black sports bra doing lunges and stair steps up and down her front porch steps.

Police documented the incident but have no immediate plans to confront the woman about her exercise routine.

Sex offender registration Police were serving a warrant on the 24200 block of Southeast 24th Street when they discovered a 49-year-old living there who had apparently failed to register as a sex offender.

Records show the man has an outstanding warrant in Nevada for failure to register as a sex offender. He was transferred to Snoqualmie, where he has a separate outstanding misdemeanor warrant for failure to transfer the title of a vehicle.

Snoqualmie Police booked him into Issaquah Jail on that warrant. Police could find no record of the man having registered as a sex offender in Washington State and are investigating whether he took the proper steps to register here. The case remains under investigation.

Suicide attempt Police were called Aug. 12 after a Sammamish woman reportedly threatened to overdose on sleeping pills in a suicide attempt. The woman’s husband told police that he had to wrestle a bottle of pills away from her to stop her attempt.

The woman told police she

was having a bad day and that the family was going through financial hardships, but denied attempting suicide. Based on interviews with the rest of the family police had the woman involuntarily committed to the hospital for a mental health evaluation.

Burglary A resident on the 2400 block of East Beaver Lake Road had a Wii video game system stolen from their home Between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Aug. 12.

The home is for sale and police believe the suspect destroyed a real estate lock box to gain access to the home. Police were able to obtain some fingerprints from the home and the case remains under investigation.

Open door A resident on the 24500 block of Southeast 30th Street left their garage door open overnight Aug. 11 and discovered the next morning that someone had stolen their cell phone from their unlocked car.

Prescription forgery Police were called Aug. 11 after staff at the Safeway pharmacy suspected that someone had illegally picked up a Sammamish man’s Clonazepam prescription.

A white female, about 18 years old, came to the pharmacy and said she was there to pick up the man’s prescription, and successfully provided the man’s birthday, phone number and address.

The man came the next day to retrieve the prescription and was surprised to hear that it had already been picked up.

He told staff he had not given anyone else permission to pick up his medication. Police are reviewing surveillance footage.

Items in the Police Blotter come from Sammamish Police reports.

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NORTH BEND PROFESSIONAL office seeks a Full-Time Customer Service and a Sales Associate in a small office setting. If you are highly self-motivated, adaptable with ability to multi-task, a quick learner able to work independently and in a small team setting, this is an excellent opportunity for you!

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You will help clients develop advertising campaigns and annual plans, and communicate with our graphics department to develop the ads. You must have the ability to juggle many deadlines and details, have basic computer experience, good grammar skills, and thrive on your own success.

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210-Public Notices 02-2218 LEGAL NOTICE KING COUNTY DEPT. OF DEVELOPMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES NOTICE OF PERMIT APPLICATION 900 Oakesdale Ave SW, Renton, WA 98057-5212 REQUEST: FORMAL SUBDIVISION File: L11P0001 16th Sammamish Plat Applicant: CamWest Development Location: South side of NE 16th St, east of 244th Ave NE Sammamish Proposal: Subdivide 15.42 acres zoned R-4 into 62 lots for S/F detached dwellings w/tracts for drainage, recreation & critical areas Program Manager: Kim Claussen 206-296-7167 COMMENT PROCEDURES: Comments on the above file are now being accepted by King County DDES, at the address listed above.

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02-2221 LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF SAMMAMISH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CITY OF SAMMAMISH CITY COUNCIL Proposed Changes to Sammamish Municipal Code (SMC) WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FACLITIES Notice is hereby given that the

City of Sammamish City Council will hold a public hearing/deliberation meeting regarding Wireless Communication Facilities Development Regulations HEARING SCHEDULE: A public hearing/deliberation meeting will be held before City of Sammamish City Council on September 6, 2011 as part of the Regular Meeting beginning at 6:30 PM at the City Hall, Council Chambers, located at 801 228th Avenue SE Sammamish, WA 98075.

DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: A detailed description of the draft document may be obtained by visiting the City’s website at www.ci.sammamish.wa.us or by contacting City of Sammamish contact name and address listed below.

CITY CONTACT AND PUBLIC COMMENTS SUBMITTED TO: Emily Arteche, Senior Planner, Sammamish City Hall, 801, 228th Avenue NE, Sammamish, WA 98074, phone: (425) 295-0522.

In addition to the public hearing sessions, comments may be submitted via email To: earteche@ci.sammamish. wa.us or in writing to the Department of Community Development, 801 228th Avenue SE, Sammamish, WA 98075 and must be received not later than close of business on September 6, 2011.

Published in Sammamish Review on 8/24/11 02-2222 LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF SAMMAMISH PUBLIC HEARING Emergency Ordinance O2011-309 Adopting A Moratorium on The Establishment of Collective Gardens Notice is given that the City of Sammamish City Council will hold a public hearing as part of their regular meeting on September 6, 2011 beginning at 6:30 pm, for the purpose of accepting public comment regarding Emergency Ordinance O2011-309, An Interim Ordinance Of The City Of Sammamish, Washington, Adopting A Moratorium On The Establishment Of Collective Gardens; Defining “Collective Gardens;” Providing For A Public Hearing, Referring The Matter To The Planning Commission For Hearing And Review; And Establishing An Effective Date.

This ordinance was passed at the July 18, 2011 Regular Meeting.

The public hearing will be held in Council Chambers located at the Sammamish Commons, 801 228th Avenue SE, Sammamish, WA 98075.Copies of this ordinance are available upon request of the City Clerk and are also available on the City website at www.ci.sammamish.wa.us.

Anyone wishing to submit their comments in writing may do so by sending them to the attention of the City Clerk no later than 5:00 pm on September 6, 2011. Send all correspondence to City of Sammamish, 801 228th Avenue SE, Sammamish, WA 98075 or you may submit your comment via email to manderson@ci.sammamish.wa.us. Additional information relating to this public hearing may be obtained from the Office of the City Clerk, (425)295-0511.

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