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Budget plan includes property tax hike
Fright night football
By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com
Sammamish officials are looking to increase general fund expenses by about 3 percent over the next two years, and a 1 percent property tax hike would help support that plan. The City Council discussed a preliminary budget proposal Oct. 21, and while it made several minor changes to City Manager Ben Yazici’s plan, the estimated 2015-16 budget of $132.8 million looks relatively intact. Adoption of the budget and property tax increase are expected at the council’s Nov. 18 meeting. State law allows cities to increase property taxes up On the web to 1 percent each year, but Sammamish hasn’t imposed an Read the 2015 city of increase since 2008. The proposal Sammamish budget proposal would generate an additional at www.sammamish.us/files/ $460,000 over the next two years, document/13480.pdf. increasing the city’s property-tax revenue to $46 million. The preliminary budget looks to increase general-fund expenses to $75.6 million in the next biennium, an increase of $4.6 million, or 2.9 percent. Much of that increase would go toward public works projects, legal and administrative services, and parks and recreation offerings. Budget figures show Sammamish has the lowest per capita revenues and expenses of any Eastside city. In 2012, the city collected $651 per person and spent $449 per person, significantly lower totals than Mercer Island, Issaquah, Redmond, Bellevue and Kirkland. Compared to the same cities, Sammamish also has a lot fewer employees to serve its residents. The city employs 1.6 people per 1,000 residents, and would need to hire another 75 full-time employees to match the next-lowest city on the list, Kirkland (3.1 per 1,000). At the Oct. 21 meeting, the council deliberated over a list of budget issues. City officials compiled a 49-item list of council suggestions over the past few months, and 31 of those suggestions were included in Yazici’s preliminary budget proposal that was released in early September. One of the more contentious topics was a plan to hire a community services coordinator. The half-time employee would be a liaison to schools, neighboring jurisdictions and a wide array of service groups. Councilwoman Nancy Whitten said she couldn’t support the position’s creation without knowing more about the job description. She believed the city might be better off increasing grants to outside agencies that specialize in specific community-service tasks. “This position gives me heartburn, frankly,” Whitten said. “I could be very positively in favor of it, but I don’t understand it.” On a 5-2 vote, the council amended the original plan, choosing to set aside money but delay hiring someone until it forms a common vision on the job description. Councilman Tom Odell and Deputy Mayor Kathleen Huckabay were opposed. There was also disagreement over a plan to spend $4,000 to join the King County Cities Climate Change Coalition. The council eventually approved the idea, 6-1, with Councilman Ramiro Valderrama providing the lone opposition. Valderrama noted the city is already paying $88,000 a year to the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, an organization that deals with many of the same issues surrounding sustainability and climate change. Yazici noted the fee is a state-mandated expense, but Valderrama felt many residents wouldn’t care, adding that people have complained in past years about the number of membership fees the city has purchased. Odell, who is leading discussion on climate-change issues this month at a National League of Cities meeting, said the membership is beneficial. See BUDGET, Page 3
Photos by Greg Farrar
The Halloween night football game between Eastlake and Skyline high schools brought out plenty of fun and frightful costumed students. Above, Skyline cheerleaders look at a photo of themselves taken by team photographer Jim Nicholson before the game. Right, three Eastlake fans coordinated a Spider-Man vibe in the Wolves’ bleachers.
SLIDESHOW See more photos from the Eastlake-Skyline football game at www.sammamishreview.com.
Lake trail design nearing completion King County Parks announced Oct. 22 that the designs for a segment of the East Lake Sammamish Trail are 60 percent complete. The 1.2-mile South Sammamish Segment A, from Southeast 43rd Way to Southeast 33rd Street, is scheduled to start construction in the late spring of 2015. Tree removal strategies are a major part of the trail segment’s design. Metal tags have been placed on “significant trees” through the trail corridor, which stretches for 11 miles between Redmond and Issaquah.
Professional arborists have completed an assessment of 194 significant trees along the trail segment. Coniferous trees with a diameter of at least 8 inches, and deciduous trees with a diameter of at least 12 inches, are determined to be “significant” in Sammamish city codes. “Building a wider trail that is safer and more accessible to people of all ages and abilities does require removing some trees,” a county parks news release stated. Of the 194 trees in the assessment, 70 will be removed. An additional 51 trees will be monitored, and will be saved if they
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KJ Eames goes through hell and back to write first novel By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com
It wasn’t all sunshine and daisies for KJ Eames in her first attempt to become a published author, and she’s starkly honest about what truly drove her down that path. Eames, 21, graduated from Eastlake High School in 2012, in the midst of what she calls “an emotionally abusive and manipulative relationship.” It took her another year to physically remove herself from the situation, and the better part of the past year was spent in psychological recovery, a process that included the penning of her first novel, “The Hellstrider Cycle: Diviner.” Eames said she has been immersed in visual arts and writing since a young age, and her mother Amy, who owns a bookstore on Whidbey Island, helped inspire those interests. But it took a vacation — and some spontaneous thoughts — for her to dream up Dominic, James and Gabriel, the three protagonists of “Diviner.” “I was in Hawaii, actually, and these characters
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that are in this book now wandered into my head and kind of turned my whole life upside down,” Eames said last week from her Sammamish home. “I kind of learned how to pick myself up after that.” She was moved to reread Dante’s classic, “The Divine Comedy,” which formed the basis of her own work. “Through that story, I kind of saw my own: Dante walking through the inferno and going through hell, and being able to emerge as strong again,” Eames said. “Diviner” includes several aspects of religious mythology — something Eames has long been fascinated with — and borrows from “The Divine Comedy” in its use of wicked souls known as “shades.” Eames imagines a race of humans — the Diviners — born with entirely pure souls. Dominic is one of the Diviners, and chooses to travel to hell in order to prove himself worthy of fighting demons. The story starts in the present day and eventually skips ahead 10 years, when Dominic and James are battling shades in a quasigladiator environment at
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the Roman Colosseum. Eames said she found
the story’s evolution a bit surprising — not only did
she write from a male perspective, but Dominic is homosexual. “I’m very passionate about diversity in novels,” she said, noting that a previous job at Barnes & Noble led her to believe there wasn’t enough differentiation in books for young adults and fantasy aficionados. Another aspect of Eames’ storyline came from “The Divine Comedy” through Dante’s depiction of Judas, Brutus and Cassius in the clutches of Satan. “There’s a prophecy that one of those betrayers will break out of Hell and cause havoc on Earth, and that happens,” Eames said. “Dominic and James are the only two that can stop it.” The third protagonist, Gabriel, enters the story as the head of an MI6like embassy for diviners. The embassy has a somewhat dark history, Eames explained, and “they’re not exactly as pure and clean as they seem.” The current hit TV show “Supernatural” also proved to be a worthy source of inspiration for Eames’ novel. “If people can take Greek mythology and kind of
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KJ Eames, a 2012 graduate of Eastlake High School, recently published her first novel, “The Hellstrider Cycle: Diviner,” the first of a planned four-book series.
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make it into a big pop-culture thing, then why can’t we do that with Christian mythology?” she asked. “I never understood why there was such a stigma, and it was so untouchable, so I kind of wanted to break through that like ‘Supernatural’ did.” Eames is planning to write three more novels in the “Hellstrider Cycle” series, and is in the process of drafting the sequel to “Diviner.” The novel is available online through Outskirts Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Ingram Content Group. Visitors to her mother’s Langley bookstore, Through the Reading Glass, can purchase copies there. Eames hopes to encourage readers in their own lives by breaking free from popular choices, and by eliminating the idea that people should stay in relationships out of need, rather than desire. “Everything in the book is a choice, and I want people to see that everything they do is a choice,” Eames said. “There are no ties that keep them down … and you can always, always decide what you want and follow that.”
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Budget From Page 1 “This is a relatively cheap ticket to a seat at the table for discussion, of how things are going to evolve in King County and the Puget Sound region as a whole,” Odell said. Among its 18 suggestions that didn’t make it into the preliminary budget, the council voted to pay $403,000 to extend a pathway bordering Southeast 24th Street. The preliminary budget had set aside $850,000 for nonmotorized transportation projects that are exclusively under council control. The pathway extension increases the total set-aside to $1.25 million. The pathway currently runs along 24th between
224th and 212th avenues, and will be extended to 200th Avenue Southeast. Huckabay said it will provide additional safety for pedestrians. The council approved the plan 6-1, with Whitten opposing. She said there’s a long list of similar projects on the table, and the council hasn’t deliberated on them in a fair manner. “Giving this one a priority, out of context, when we have the competing needs in the community, I think just isn’t desirable,” Whitten said.
Sammamish Symphony seeks outstanding youth musicians The Sammamish Symphony Orchestra presents its 2015 Youth Concerto Competition to recognize outstanding young musicians. Awards will be presented to the top three applicants — $600 and a performance as featured soloist with the Sammamish Symphony Orchestra for first place, $300 for second
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November 5, 2014 place and $100 for third place. Applicants must be 19 and younger by the date of the concert, June 7, 2015. The contest is open to all orchestral instruments in woodwinds, brass, strings, harp, piano, classical guitar and voice. To perform at the competition, fill out an application and mail it with a CD, résumé and $30 entrance fee by Dec. 19 to Sammamish Symphony Orchestra, Youth Concerto Competition, Care of: Renee Kuehn, P.O. Box 1173, Issaquah, WA 98027. Get a complete list of eligibility require-
ments or learn more by contacting Kuehn at 868-3664 or info@ SammamishSymphony.org, or go to www.sammamishsymphony.org.
Transportation projects moving forward in east King County Transportation projects in east King County were green-lighted by the Puget Sound Regional Council’s Executive Board on Oct. 30, including improvements to East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast
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and the East Lake Sammamish Trail. The projects are included in the 2015-18 Regional Transportation Improvement Program, which contains 253 projects worth $4.8 billion that are scheduled to happen around the region within the next three years. Earmarked for the local projects were: • $2.4 million for East Lake Sammamish Parkway improvements. • $750,000 for East Lake Sammamish Trail improvements. Learn more about each project on the council’s online Project Map at http://bit.ly/13pgcAX.
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Honor veterans for their service, sacrifices It’s that time of year again, time to celebrate and remember veterans at ceremonies across the area. But the men and women who served or died in military service to their country should be remembered and honored all year. Members of our military are still fighting and dying in remote areas all around the world. Here are ways you can keep the spirit of Veterans Day going: Visit a cemetery and pause to honor those who served while you walk through the graves. Veterans’ graves are fairly easy to spot. Say thanks to a living veteran. Let him or her know that military job he or she did or is doing is appreciated. Visit a living veteran. Local homes like Bellewood Retirement Living, Providence Marianwood and Spiritwood at Pine Lake have veterans there who would likely be grateful for a visit and a chance to talk about their service. Contribute money to your local Veterans of Foreign Wars. The organization purchases flags for funerals of veterans and performs numerous service projects during the year that help and honor veterans. Your local VFW chapter also sponsors a Boy Scout troop and Cub Scout pack, funds veterans relief (providing scooters and other things veterans need that they can’t afford), attends events at the VA hospital and helps with Honor Flight, which takes World War II veterans to see the memorial in Washington, D.C. Send checks to VFW Post #3436, P.O. Box 18, Issaquah, WA 98027. About 16 million Americans served during WWII, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Sadly, an estimated 640 World War II veterans die each day. That’s one reason the Honor Flight Network takes World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit the National WWII Memorial. The memorial opened to the public on April 29, 2004, after an 11-year effort and 65 years after the war. Honor Flight trips are free for veterans. The organization is focusing on World War II and terminally ill veterans. Help by making a tax-deductible donation at www.honorflight.org/donate-now. To get a real idea of some of the price paid by these brave men and women, check out the project The Fallen 9000 at http://thefallen9000.info. The photos there are amazing and give you some real perspective of just one battle. Will Rogers said, “We can’t all be heroes. Some of us have to stand on the curb and clap as they go by.” Please be there on the curb.
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Letters to the Editor Citizens’ role in government is important It is time for the Sammamish City Council and its executive staff at City Hall to do its “homework” on the source of government power. The Washington State Constitution, which when enacted in 1889 actually gave more protections to the rights of citizens than even the federal Constitution did, is very clear on this. The first principle set down in the Washington Constitution is its source of authority. Individual citizens are endowed with inherent freedoms that can be acknowledged by the state, but neither be neither conferred nor exterminated by the state. As the opening section of our state constitution declares: “All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights (Art. I, Sec. 1).” The constitution, then, is a delegation of authority from the state’s sovereigns — the citizens — to the separate branches of government. This document serves to limit the branches of government, rather than conferring unlimited power on elected officials. Contrary to a statement from one of Sammamish’s longserving council members that “Our job isn’t to let residents make the decisions,” citizens have a key role in determining the laws and policies of their own community. State Supreme Court Chief
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Justice Barbara Madsen recognized that when she said, “Other provisions guaranteeing the right to initiative, referendum and recall of public officials also bear witness to the reformist roots of our founding document.” Among the cities of Issaquah, Redmond, Bellevue, Mercer Island and Sammamish only our city has not acknowledged in local law these citizen rights of initiative, referendum and recall. I hope this was simply an oversight on our city’s founding leaders, but the time is past due for our council to recognize that the citizens’ role in ensuring good government is as important as theirs. Mary Jo Kahler Sammamish
Fix our broken tax system Whether it relates to underfunding our educational and transportation systems, or to irresponsible oil industry tax breaks, it is clear that our tax system is out of synch with both our needs and fairness to taxpayers. While our state Legislature and local governments argue over spending priorities, waste and other budget issues, there is one critical fact that is rarely discussed. Washington state has the most regressive tax system in the nation — the lower your income, the higher percentage of it you pay in state and local taxes. To be economically fair, taxes should generally burden people and corporations in line with their ability to pay. Tax systems are complex, but for the sake of discussion,
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let’s consider a tax rate of 5 percent from all revenue sources. A family earning $20,000 a year would pay $1,000 in taxes and one earning $2 million would pay $100,000. In our state, however, families earning the lowest 20 percent of income pay 17 percent in taxes while those in the top 1 percent pay only 2.8 percent. The rate decline is linear, with the brackets in between these end points paying proportionally less for greater earnings. The family earning $20,000 pays $3,400 in taxes, a huge portion of their income compared to the $56,000 that the family earning $2 million pays. I am a fiscal conservative and feel strongly that our state and local governments need to provide services efficiently. I am also
socially and economically conscious, and am equally emphatic that we need to deliver those services necessary to offer real opportunities for all families and businesses and to support broad-based social and economic health. This requires money, and we need to fix our tax system that makes it even more difficult for poorer families and smaller businesses to move up the ladder while generously rewarding high earners and corporations that can and should pay more. Regardless of whom we send to Olympia in this election, I urge you to insist that our representatives enact a tax system that works for everyone, and not just the more fortunate in our state. Michael J. O’Connell Sammamish
Poll of the week What was the toughest decision for you to make on the Nov. 4 election ballot? A) Public safety vs. gun rights (state initiatives 591 and 594) B) K-12 education funding (state Initiative 1351) C) Dave Reichert vs. Jason Ritchie (U.S. Congress) D) Roger Goodman vs. Joel Hussey (state Representative) Vote at www.sammamishreview.com.
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Skyline routs Eastlake, secures home playoff game By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com
Head coach Mat Taylor preached resiliency to his Skyline High School football players after they suffered a 56-0 blowout loss Oct. 17 at the hands of topranked Bothell. The Spartans proved they had thick skin in the next two games. They rolled past Inglemoor on Oct. 24, and then walloped rival Eastlake, 40-10, Oct. 31 to clinch second place in the KingCo Conference and a home playoff game this week. “After Week 7, we just said it was going to have to be a thing of the past,” Taylor said. “This is the best possible outcome we could’ve had after losing to Bothell.” Skyline (6-3) hosts the Skyview Storm from Vancouver in the district playoffs at 7 p.m. Nov. 7, and a victory would mean an eighth consecutive trip to the Class 4A state playoffs. Eastlake (6-3) earned KingCo’s No. 4 seed to the district round, and travels to Sparks Stadium in Puyallup to play the Emerald Ridge Jaguars at 7 p.m. Nov. 7.
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Skyline High School wide receiver Elijah Nichols outruns Eastlake defensive back Ivan Jimenez to haul in a 41-yard scoring pass from quarterback Blake Gregory, scoring the opening points for the Spartans in their 40-10 win Oct. 31. The Spartans led 21-7 at halftime, and gradually pulled away in the second half thanks to big plays on both sides of the ball. Eastlake took the secondhalf kickoff and drove 72 yards on seven plays, most of it coming on running back Justin McOmber’s 53-yard catch and run. But the Spartans’ defense held, and the Wolves elected not to go for the touchdown on fourth-and-goal inside the 1-yard line. Zach
Howard’s 17-yard field goal cut Skyline’s lead to 21-10. The Spartans used the defensive stand to close the game on a 19-0 surge. On the ensuing drive, Skyline got a pair of key third-down conversions. On third-and-13, quarterback Blake Gregory hit Elijah Nichols for 20 yards. Joe Bretl then came up with a 27-yard catch on thirdand-6. Running back Rashaad Boddie eventually capped
the drive with a 4-yard touchdown run — his third score of the night — to give Skyline a 28-10 lead. Skyline’s defense came through again, intercepting Eastlake quarterback Blue Thomas on consecutive throws in the third quarter. Chandler Wong’s pick led to a 35-yard field goal from Jack Crane, and Bradley Kim’s pick set up a 25-yard field goal that increased the lead to 34-10 with nine minutes left.
Danny Sinatro’s 31-yard punt return led to Wong’s 10-yard TD run, cementing the result with 6:27 to play. Thomas was harassed throughout the game and never got going, finishing 7-for-20 for 139 yards, one touchdown and four interceptions. Linebacker Taven Erpenbach got the first interception, and the Spartans immediately turned it into points midway through the first quarter. Gregory found Nichols streaking down the left sideline for a 41-yard TD, a play that was the start to the wide receiver’s big night. “We knew it before we came out of the huddle,” Nichols said of the play. “Blake threw a great pass and I caught it.” Nichols got behind the Wolves’ defense on the next series, too, hauling in a 49-yard bomb. Boddie scored from 3 yards out, and Skyline had a 14-0 lead early in the second period. Taylor said his coaching staff challenged Nichols to improve his play, and the 6-foot-1, 205-pound senior responded. He caught six passes for 123 yards. “We kind of went with the hot hand, and he was,”
Eastlake doubles duo wins KingCo tennis title By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com
Getting comfortable with a doubles partner can take a lot of time, but Eastlake High School tennis players Aashray Anand and Thiago Bandeira showed it can be done quickly. Anand and Bandeira were singles players for the Wolves this fall, but Bandeira elected not to enter last week’s Class 4A KingCo Conference tournament alone. The junior — at the discretion of coach Bud Peterson — chose to partner with Anand, a senior, and the decision proved to be a smart one. Bandeira and Anand won the KingCo title Nov. 1 at Skyline High School, polishing off an impres-
sive four-match streak with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Newport’s Payton Namba and Travis Kayahara. They will now have several months to rest and train together before the state tournament in May. They were sharp in their opening win, a 6-0, 6-0 dissection of Skyline’s Mitchell Hansen and Alex Lok. “I thought it was very smooth,” Bandeira remarked. “We don’t usually play doubles together during the season, so this is our first real time playing doubles, and I think we stood up to the test. … It’s only going to get harder as the tournament advances.” The opposition may have been more difficult, but the Eastlake partners didn’t let up. They dis-
patched Inglemoor’s Tobin Hansen and Ryan Chin in the quarterfinals (6-2, 6-1) and ousted Newport’s Derek Huang and Alex Namba — third-place finishers at last season’s state tourney — in the semifinals (6-4, 6-1). Anand said he had very little time to train with Bandeira. They had a few practice matches against Eastlake teammates, and one exhibition match in a nonleague event prior to the KingCo tourney. Still, there were reasons to believe the pairing would be successful. “I think Thiago is naturally a really good serveand-volley player, so he’s already pretty comfortable at the net,” Anand said. “And then, combined with my lefty serve, it’s a pretty
By Neil Pierson
Eastlake High School’s Aashray Anand squares up for a shot during the KingCo Conference boys tennis tournament Oct. 29. Anand and partner Thiago Bandeira went on to win the tourney title and secure a spot at the state championships. powerful combination for doubles.” They didn’t lose a game in their opening match against Skyline’s Hansen and Lok, but felt they hadn’t played their best.
“I think I was making too many mistakes, and overall we probably could’ve been a little bit smoother in our play,” Anand said. Justin Zhong and Parker
Taylor said. “We’re pretty deep at wide receiver. We have seven or eight kids we think can start on any given week.” Eastlake’s only touchdown came two minutes later as McOmber led a six-play, 53-yard drive. McOmber gained 43 yards on a shovel pass, and Thomas hit Mark Whitley for a 7-yard TD to close the gap to 14-7. McOmber had a solid game, catching three passes for 106 yards and carrying 14 times for 64 yards. But Skyline had an answer. Boddie restored the two-score lead before halftime, taking a short pass from Gregory and barreling through multiple tacklers on his way to a 59-yard score. Gregory was 16-for25 for 249 yards and two scores, and Nichols said it was nice to see the Spartans capitalize on a strong game plan against a familiar foe. Eastlake coaches Don Bartel and Kyle Snell previously worked at Skyline under Taylor. “We installed a ton of new plays,” Nichols said of the Spartans’ week of preparation. “Everything fell together tonight and it was perfect.” Matias were Skyline’s top doubles duo all season, and they reached the KingCo quarterfinals, where they dropped a 6-2, 6-2 decision to Newport’s Namba and Kayahara. However, they also won two matches, including a 6-4, 6-2 decision over Eastlake’s Jerry Shen and Townsend Rowland. The match featured several long rallies and overhead chances, which Matias believed he and Zhong could’ve done better with. “We had a couple exchanges there where there would be three or four overheads, and we just need a find a way to put it away on the first one,” Matias said. Zhong said the win exemplified some of the work they’ve done together. “I felt like we did well — we had good teamwork overall, we were able to adapt to situations and adjust our play to match what we needed to do,” he said.
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Friends of Youth to host breakfast for mental-health support By Christina Corrales-Toy newcastle@isspress.com
As the MarysvillePilchuck High School shooting rocked communities across the state, Issaquah School District Superintendent Ron Thiele sent a message to parents. In it, Thiele expressed his condolences to the victim’s families and provided insight into how the district prepares for the rare possibility of a local school shooting. He mentioned activeshooter trainings for staff and students, improving situational awareness and the need for mental health services. “Last year, we began a partnership with Swedish Hospital to provide mental health counseling in our high schools,” Thiele wrote. “Additionally, we work with Friends of Youth
to provide mental health and drug and alcohol counseling.” Friends of Youth currently supports onsite chemical dependency professionals at each high school and a part time mental health therapist for one elementary school. “The intent is to make sure that young people and their families have their behavioral needs met,” Friends of Youth CEO and President Terry Pottmeyer said. Steady behavioral health is an important necessity of a healthy childhood and a smooth transition to adulthood, Pottmeyer said. Her nonprofit organization’s goal is to offer such support, giving kids a chance to “grow up as happy, healthy, well-educated young people.” “Part of that is an exemplary education, which happens in school, but in
Community news • Derek Hallgrimson, of Sammamish, graduated from Western Washington University on June 14 with an international business major and economics minor. • Odette Nsengimana, a senior at Lake Washington High School, is a semifinalist in the 51st annual National Achievement Scholarship Program. The program is part of the National Merit
Scholarship Corp. Nsengimana now competes for one of approximately 800 Achievement Scholarship awards, worth about $2.5 million, being offered next spring. • Jieon Lee and Jiseon Lee, of Sammamish, have enrolled at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, in Rochester, New York.
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funds to also partner with us and provide some of that financial support, but as the funding became more difficult for districts, they cut back on this because they needed to have the funds to go into other portions of the educational school day,” she said. One fundraising solution that Friends of Youth employs is a charity breakfast. In its second year, the breakfasts offered in three different school district communities raise behavioral health awareness and “raise funds to ensure that those services are available as much as possible within the school day,” Pottmeyer said. Attendees can give and hear from students who benefit from the onsite counseling services at three separate breakfasts in the Issaquah, Riverview
and Snoqualmie Valley school districts. The Issaquah one, the Rise and Thrive Breakfast, is from 7:30-8:30 a.m. Nov. 12 at Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W. State Rep. Jay Rodne will emcee. Participants are encouraged to pre-register in advance, though all will be welcomed on the day of the event. The breakfast is free, though donations are suggested. “We would like to do as much as we can,” Pottmeyer said. “This breakfast allows us to say to the community, ‘We think this is important, and if you agree, let’s join together and do what we can to bring these services back into schools.’” Friends of Youth has been helping young people in challenging circumstances get their lives back on track since 1951.
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POLICE BLOTTER Tongs used to shatter window
domestic violence/malicious mischief.
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place. Police believed the two cases may be related.
Driver crashes car over embankment
Police went to a home in the 1700 block of 233rd Place Northeast Oct. 13 after a caller said a suspicious person showed up on her doorstep and asked if she had any scrap metal. The woman called police because there have been some recent burglaries in the neighborhood. The subject was described as a black male, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, and wearing a green cap. He was driving a green Toyota truck. Less than an hour later, police responded to an alarm two blocks away, where a burglary took
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Officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Louis Thompson Road shortly before midnight Oct. 12 after a caller reported hearing screeching tires and a crash. Officers checked the area for several minutes before finding a vehicle at the bottom of a 15-foot embankment. Paramedics determined the woman driver was uninjured. They smelled intoxicants on her. The woman refused to submit to a Breathalyzer, and was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence.
Police were dispatched to a home in the 19600 block of Southeast 24th Way Oct. 12 in response to a domestic violence call. A man told dispatchers his girlfriend was breaking windows. Police made contact with the girlfriend and multiple witnesses. Officers reported an “overwhelming” scent of intoxicants coming from the woman, who admitted to breaking a window with a set of wood-and-metal barbecue tongs. The woman was arrested and charged with third-degree
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Police responded to an audible alarm at a home in the 2700 block of 232nd Place Southeast Oct. 14. Officers found a broken window next to the door, and were able gain entry and check the home. The homeowner said nothing was missing. Police were able to collect fingerprints from the inside of the front door,
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Bikes stolen from locked garage Police were dispatched to a home in the 2100 block of 192nd Avenue Southeast Oct. 13 to deal See POLICE, Page 8
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with a reported burglary. A male resident said someone entered the garage and took two bicycles between 6 p.m. Oct. 12 and 11 a.m. Oct. 13. The garage was locked. None of the entrances showed signs of a forced entry, although there was a scuff on the rear of a vehicle in the garage. One bike is black with a yellow license plate, and the other has a grey-and-brown frame with a European registration sticker. The bikes have a combined value of $7,500.
Police stopped a vehicle in the 26800 block of Southeast Duthie Hill Road at about 2:15 a.m. Oct. 16. The car was swerving, and officers smelled intoxicants coming from the driver. The man declined to perform field sobriety tests, telling police that he lived right across the street, and he wanted to lock his vehicle and walk home. The man was transported to the Sammamish station, where he took two Breathalyzer tests, both above the legal limit of .08 percent. The man was charged with driv-
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School reports possible abuse Police investigated a claim of child abuse after an administrator at Inglewood Middle School told the school’s resource officer a father may have abused his student. Officers interviewed the man and his son. Both said there was a verbal disagreement and that physical contact was minimal, with no injuries. Police referred the case to Child Protective Services, but noted there was insufficient evidence to pursue a criminal investigation.
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