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25TH YEAR, NO. 40

THE PLATEAU’S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED NEWSPAPER

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016

SAMMAMISH

SPARTAN STAMPEDE

REVIEW

Skyline’s Isaiah Shim scores four TDs in 31-7 romp over Mount Si Page 8

Sammamish man warns of owl attacks BY CHRISTINA CORRALES-TOY AND LIZZ GIORDANO ccorrales-toy@ sammamishreview.com lgiordano@sammamishreview.com Sammamish resident Darian Davis is an early bird. He is content to wake up

every day before the crack of dawn and embark on a jog through his community east of Skyline and Eastside Catholic. But his routine was interrupted recently when an owl hit him on the head at about 4:45 a.m. Sept. 23, along Southeast Eighth Street at the

point where it becomes 244th Avenue Southeast. “It got me pretty good,” Davis said, and he has the talon marks to prove it. Davis didn’t notice any bleeding when it first happened, but when he went home to check in the mirror,

he found about six to eight red puncture marks adorning his head. He was running along the west side sidewalk when it happened and caught a brief glimpse of the bird’s shadow immediately before the attack. He instinctively ducked down,

but it didn’t soften the blow. “As soon as I ducked, it hit my head pretty hard and with talons,” he said. Strange enough, it’s not the first time the 49-year-old resident has had a run in with SEE OWLS, PAGE 5

Amazon to launch Eastside bus service BY ÁNGEL GONZÁLEZ The Seattle Times

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A 9-foot blue heron sculpture that will spray water at the push of a button is installed and ready to be opened to the public along with the rest of the playground features at Lake Sammamish State Park.

Playground ceremony is Oct. 15 BY CHRISTINA CORRALES-TOY ccorrales-toy@ sammamishreview.com Lake Sammamish State Park’s new $1.1 million playground is ready for its debut. Community members are invited to celebrate the grand opening of the all-accessible playground located steps away from Sunset Beach at 11 a.m. Oct. 15.

The first 50 children ages 4-10 will receive commemorative scissors to mark the occasion and help cut the ribbon. The all-accessible playground will include a zip line, a climbing net, outdoor chimes, educational panels, swings and slides. The playground’s target age-range is 2-12. A 9-foot blue heron sculpture that acts as a water feature is the playground’s marquee

installation. One slice of the walkway surrounding the playground is adorned with mosaic-like glasswork that resembles a splash of water

flowing from one side to the other. The glasswork was done all SEE PLAYGROUND, PAGE 5

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Amazon.com is about to start an experimental bus service connecting Eastside commuters to its Seattle campus, a move that comes as the city seeks to adapt to the tech juggernaut’s breakneck growth. The move, first reported by tech news site GeekWire, is detailed in a website that depicts routes from Redmond, Issaquah and Bellevue to the South Lake Union area. All fulland part-time employees, and their dogs, are eligible to use the service, the site says. It seems to follow the spirit of Microsoft’s Connector, which helps far-flung employees commute to Redmond and other Microsoft campuses. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Google also deploys its own fleet of shuttles. Amazon, in an email, confirmed that it was starting SEE BUS, PAGE 5

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