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Issaquah schools to bring forth $533.5 million bond

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By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com The Issaquah School District is asking voters to approve a $533.5 million bond sale that will appear on the April 26, 2016 ballot.

The Issaquah School Board unanimously approved the issue at its meeting Oct. 28 following months of discussion.

If approved, the money will go toward a fourth comprehensive high school at a cost of $120 million, along with the district’s sixth middle school with a price tag of $74 million.

The district also is hoping for two new elementary schools — numbers 16 and 17 — with price tags of $36.5 million and $38 million.

Property acquisition for those projects is expected to run $97 million.

The bond sale will add nothing to district property tax rates, according to information on the school website. However, as previous bonds and debt are paid off, tax rates will not go down.

At present, tax rates sit at about $4.10 per thousand in property valuation. With no new bond sale taking place, that figure begins to drop sharply over the next few years. By 2019, the figure dips to $3.50 by 2019. If voters approve the bond sale, taxes to pay off that See BOND, Page 2

City considers increases in recreation impact, facility fees

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com

By Greg Farrar

Top, Maple tree leaves turning bright red in the fall weather blow in the breeze Oct. 30 at Bellewood Retirement Living apartments in Sammamish. Bottom, autumn leaves cover the grass next to the playground as a mother brings her daughter to play on the swing at Bill Reams East Sammamish Park Oct. 30.

“Growth pays for growth,” is a phrase Sammamish City Council members repeated numerous times at their Oct. 20 meeting as they began to discuss significantly raising park impact fees.

If council moves ahead with the proposed plans, park impact payments would jump from $2,697 to $6,739 for a single-family home and from $1,558 to $4,362 for multi-family residences. The new rates would take effect in 2016.

Officials also are considering mostly slight increases in everyday park fees.

The city first instituted park and recreation impact fees in 2006, said Jessi Bon, parks and rec director. The city revisited the issue twice since then, but apparently made no major changes.

Cities only can use impact fees on projects that benefit new development, noted Bon, who added the city also must use all See FEES, Page 2

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Bond From Page 1 debt will keep the tax rate between approximately $4 and $4.10 through 2034.

At that point, if no new further school issues are passed between now and then, the rate drops precipitously in 2035 to about $2.40.

The chart on the district website last week showed rates for bonds of $518.5 million and $432.5 million, as well as the board-approved issue.

The $432.5 million bond was an option considered and rejected by a Bond Committee.

The committee actually approved a $518.5 million issue, but the Issaquah School Board decided to follow the recommendation of Superintendent Ron Thiele, said L. Michelle, district spokeswoman.

“The superintendent wanted to build in some additional capacity for inflation,” Michelle said.

At the board meeting

Oct. 28, Thiele said the complete build out of 14 projects that would be funded by the bond would take several years. Michelle said the additional bond dollars did not hike tax rates more than a slight amount.

Besides four new buildings, some of the planned projects include a $71 million rebuild of Pine Lake Middle School. An upgrade of Beaver Lake Middle School would run a mere $8.5 million. Five existing elementary schools would be revamped at a cost of $9 million or $7 million each. The central administration building would get a revamp and expansion with a price tag of $7.5 million.

The bond proceeds also would fund $6 million in portable classrooms, $6 million for project management and a $12 million reserve or contingency fund.

Michelle declined to talk about the potential location of any of the new schools, even to say whether they would sit in Issaquah or Sammamish.

The schools will go where

there is demand, she said, but to identify a specific area would be to invite land price hikes or get the district into a race with developers.

The district is going to continue experiencing growth of about 300 to 400 students every year for the foreseeable future, which creates the need for expanding district buildings, Thiele said at the Oct. 28 board meeting. The board is trying to plan not only for additional students, but also to make room for all-day kindergarten and statemandated smaller class sizes, said Issaquah School Board President Anne Moore.

The argument for the bond sale is simple, added Board member Suzanne Weaver. The district needs new schools and more classrooms, she said.

“It’s pretty straight forward,” Weaver added.

For more information, visit the school website at www.issaquah.wednet. edu. Click on the “2016 School Bond” link at the right-hand top of the home page.

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Fees From Page 1 fees within 10 years of their collection.

The problem lies internally, said Mayor Tom Vance, noting the city has not taken a serious look at the issue in a long time. At the same time, he said Sammamish owes it to new homeowners to soften the blow as much as possible.

To do that, the City Council looked at a couple of methods for collecting fees. The state mandates that cities allow new homeowners to use a deferred option, allowing impact fees to be paid through escrow accounts. That rule takes affect next year.

The city also will likely will offer homebuyers an exception to the raised rates if they can show an executed

purchase order or some other proof of purchase prior to the date of whatever ordinance council ultimately adopts.

Several council members said this seems only fair, and Councilwoman Nancy Whitten requested to know how many people would be in a position to use the exception.

A final, so-called “phased-in” option would put the new fees in place a little at a time over the coming months. But there seemed to be little support for that idea.

Regarding everyday park fees, most increases were much more modest than those proposed for the impact fees.

For example, the city charges $56 an hour for youth teams to use one of its artificial turf fields.

The proposed increase ups that to $60. For adults looking to use turf fields, the current

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“With an official motto of ‘Building Community Together,’ the city of Sammamish in King County, Washington, is as friendly as it gets,” BussinessInsider.com wrote. “The unemployment rate is a low five percent, the median household income is $143,919, and, according to Forbes, the city’s crime rate is approximately 90

rate of $81.50 would go to $90. For natural fields, the proposal is to increase fees for kids from $15.50 to $17 and for adults from $25.50 to $30.

The council also is discussing changing fees for picnic shelters and facilities like Beaver Lake Lodge. The Sammamish Parks and Recreation Commission is making the initial suggestions.

In a letter to the council discussing the proposed fees, commission Chairman Hank Klein said some city facilities, like Beaver Lake Lodge, are underutilized. The commission recommends lower fees in such cases. For a weekend event, residents using the lodge currently pay $178 per hour. The proposal drops that to $140.

The council conducted a first reading of the legislation, and are scheduled to revisit the topics in November.

percent lower than the national average.”

To be considered, suburbs needed to have populations between 5,000 and 100,000 and be within 25 miles of the nearest metropolitan area. Other important factors included commute times, median household income, poverty and crime rates, public school ratings and housing affordability.

“Sammamish continues to be mentioned on all these lists,” Deputy City Manager Lyman Howard said in a statement. “We’ve been described as being among the safest, the friendliest and the best places to live all across the country. Not bad for a community that elected its first City Council just 16 years ago.”

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District to seek public input on school start times The Issaquah School Board wants the public’s help in deciding whether or not any changes in starting and stopping times for the local school day are desirable.

They also need to determine if changes are feasible.

“There certainly is a lot of energy around it,” said Superintendent Ron Thiele at an Issaquah School Board meeting Oct. 28.

Thiele added that if the board wants to put changes in place for the 2016-

Police blotter Shoplifter busted, sort of At 8:40 a.m. Oct. 20, police responded to a report of a shoplifter leaving the Safeway store, 630 228th Ave. N.E., in his car within the last five minutes. Officers tracked down the suspect’s van, but Safeway declined prosecution. The suspect was given a no-trespassing order at the store.

Theft

Someone swiped some power landscaping tools from the back of a professional landscaper’s truck parked just off Lake Sammamish Parkway around 11:30 a.m. Oct. 22.

A cable was securing the tools to the truck, but was ripped away along with the tools.

rate the various comments using a star system. The public is asked to consider the comments in terms of their importance or the voters’ belief in those comments.

The actual start/stop time survey will take place in January, Thiele said.

He added he is hoping for high levels of participation in order to gain a clear picture of the thoughts of the community.

“It’s been an issue, really for the last year,” said L. Michelle, district spokeswoman. Several surrounding districts have discussed, or are in the

process of discussing, later start times, she added.

The main argument is that school starts too early, especially for teenagers, who may simply need more sleep. Michelle talked about disrupting natural rhythms.

At the recent board meeting, one mother, joined by her daughters, talked about how one was home-schooled, while the other catches a bus at 7:05 a.m. every weekday. That daughter gets up as late possible, about 6:40 a.m.

More importantly, that daughter is often grumpy and just not herself, her

mother said. The daughter regained her balance, so to speak, during a vacation, when she was able to sleep as much as she wanted and needed.

The mother noted the second daughter sleeps later daily and generally seems in better health, both physically and mentally.

Still, the student population’s possible need for sleep can’t be the only consideration, Thiele said.

There are numerous operational questions. School start and stop times can have huge effects on traffic, for example.

And Thiele noted the question really is one of starting and ending the school day. By law, schools have to offer so many hours of instruction. If the school day starts later, it also must end later.

“What are the implications operationally?”

Michelle asked later. “How do we run our buses?”

Those questions and others need to be answered prior to any decision being made, she added.

“We’ll be working on all this pretty quickly,” Michelle said.

Theft from cars

but thieves smashed a rear window to gain access to a car parked in the 4600 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway about 10:30 a.m. Oct. 24. q A duffel bag disappeared from a car parked in the 23000 of Southeast 48th Street at about 11 a.m.

Oct. 24. Thieves smashed a window to gain entry. q Someone witnessed whoever smashed out the window of a car parked in the 4500 block of 230th Way Southeast at about 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24. The suspect was described as a white male, possibly sporting a beard. He was driving a dark-colored Dodge Charger.

Fourth St. The total amount of money missing was given as $17,500. The incident was reported Oct. 16.

coins that had been tossed there. Officers escorted the suspect home.

Northeast. Police found the suspect screaming on the side of the roadway, unable to answer any questions.

The incident took place at about 10 p.m. Oct. 22.

q The only thing missing was an empty cloth bag when persons unknown broke out a window to gain entry into a car parked on East Lake Sammamish Drive.

The incident was reported at about noon Oct. 22. q A GPS device was taken after thieves rifled through the contents of a car parked in the 1800 block of 251st Place Southeast at about 9:45 a.m. Oct. 24. The car had been left unlocked. q Thieves broke a rear window out of a car parked in the 21000 block of Southeast 28th Street at about 10 a.m. Oct. 24. They snatched a backpack after gaining access to the car. q Another unlocked car was prowled in the 23200 block of Southeast 34th Place around 10:20 a.m. Oct. 24. At least two backpacks were taken. q Nothing was taken,

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With that in mind, Thiele announced the district will conduct a survey of residents to be completed by consultants Thoughtexchange.

The district is planning a dry run of the Thoughtexchange process next month.

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Liquor violation Police stopped a male juvenile, 17, who was apparently drunk in Beaver Lake Park, 2526 244th Ave. S.E. He was intoxicated enough that police called emergency medical services to the scene. The boy was later released to his parents.

The incident happened at 11 p.m. Oct. 16.

Public drunkenness, again At about 8:30 a.m. Oct. 20, police said an intoxicated person walked into the fountain in front of the Sammamish Café on Northeast Eighth Street and began collecting the

Mental complaints The reporting party said the suspect stared at her through the door of her home near the intersection of Northeast 28th Street and 224th Avenue

Sammamish Review publishes names of those charged with felony crimes. Information comes directly from local police reports.

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Lake Washington schools look for LINKS volunteers

By Nanci Wehr and Shannon Parthemer Lake Washington School District “Helping at school made retirement easier and more fun for me,” said LINKS volunteer Phyllis Platz. “And I love working with little kids and helping them learn. It is wonderful to see their progress between September and June! Just working with 5 and 6 year olds renews your outlook on life!”

You don’t have to be retired to make a huge impact in the life of a student. Just one hour a week of your time can make a difference for a struggling student. Have some time to spare? Consider becoming a

LINKS Volunteer in the Lake Washington School District.

With the school year well underway, school staff have started making requests for volunteers to share their time and talents with students in schools across the district. Are you ready to help?

Here are some of the opportunities available through the LINKS program: q Become an academic mentor: Academic mentors are carefully matched with a student at the elementary, middle or high school level. This volunteer opportunity takes place during the school day. The timeframe can vary from 30 minutes to an hour. Core classes are often the

subjects students need extra help with and include math, reading, writing and science. q Become a Lunch Buddy: Lunch buddies are matched with a student and they meet one day each week during the student’s lunch hour. Volunteers bring their own lunch and meet the student in a designated area.

Most schools have fun games the volunteer and student can play together. They talk, laugh and have fun. Volunteers often share that it’s the best day of their week. q Become a classroom helper: Classroom helpers usually assist in one classroom and help with several students each week.

Volunteer opportunities vary

depending on the needs of the students. The most common subject areas include reading, writing, math and science.

Volunteers work closely with school staff to determine how their personal strengths can best be used in the classroom to benefit students. q Become a tutor: Tutors provide academic support to one student or a group of students, typically focusing on one subject. This volunteer opportunity is held during school hours or during an after school study program in an assigned area.

Volunteers are needed throughout Kirkland, Redmond and Sammamish to help in classrooms and provide valuable sup-

port to teachers and their students. Teachers and counselors submit requests for volunteers to support students in kindergarten through high school academically and socially.

Most volunteer opportunities are 45-60 minutes per week.

Volunteers are asked to commit to their assignment through the end of the school year. Make a difference in a school near you by becoming a LINKS volunteer!

To learn more about LINKS volunteer opportunities, visit the LINKS page on the Lake Washington School District website, lwsd.org. To register for an upcoming volunteer orientation, email Nanci Wehr at nwehr@ lwsd.org or call 936-1410.

Letters to the Editor Skyline class of 2016 is special in its own right I just have to write you and tell how “special” Skyline High School kids are to the specialneeds kids there. I have a 17-year-old senior who goes to Skyline, and just today we found out that the Associated Student Body has elected her and another senior student with special needs to court at Homecoming.

It means so much to me and my family to have her honored this way, and she lit up like a candle when she found out. What the ASB kids did was very touching and today, in a world that is so uncertain and filled with bad news, I thought I’d share this great news that these kids did at Skyline.

They don’t know it, but they just made a child’s

dream. They made her feel special and with all that she will miss in life, like driving a car, getting married, having children, work, etc., this is very touching to us.

So I wanted to reach out and congratulate the Class of 2016 for always being there for Abbey, and for being so kind to her and all the special-needs kids.

They are truly a great class and deserve to be honored.

Thanks for listening.

I can’t type anymore as my keyboard is filled with tears!

Jeff Powers Sammamish

Sammamish Homeowners support the trail I am rebutting Jan Bird’s comment in the Oct. 15 issue. Ms. Bird, while protected by the First Amendment of the U.S.

Constitution, misstates the intent of Sammamish Homeowners (SHO) and its president, Tom Hornish, with respect to the East Lake Sammamish Trail.

One only has to Google “Sammamish Homeowners” to see SHO’s intent. The following is from the SHO website: “Before we get into the details, we want to again clarify that nowhere in any of our legal efforts do we dispute King County’s rights to construct and operate a hiking and biking trail. What we are fighting is King County’s claim of outright ownership of the corridor and where they can put the trail.”

SHO is appealing the trail permit in the south segment because there are 39 parcels for which the railroad failed to obtain easements; the railroad just laid tracks. This does

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not prevent a trail across these properties, but does restrict the trail to the location and width used by the railroad.

King County knows this. The records proving lack of ownership or easement have been obtained from King County. In King County’s plan for this section, the trail deviates from what was used by the railroad, both in location and width. Keeping the trail on the rail bed preserves trees and other vegetation necessary for the environment, and obeys the terms and conditions of the rails-to-trails act.

Getting back to the First Amendment, Tom Hornish will never silence public testimony before the council as Tom Vance did in June 2014 at a council meeting attended by many unhappy people living next to the north segment of the trail.

At the beginning of

public comment, Vance asked people to save meeting time by not repeating comments made by another person. Then, when a speaker asked for people who agreed with him to raise a small flag, Vance said that would not be permitted. Vance not only contradicted himself, but also deprived citizens of their free, respectful speech.

George Toskey Sammamish Homeowners treasurer

All human beings matter and deserve respect I just want to say I am not transgender, however, I stand for their rights and the rights of all others.

I read the article in the Sammamish Review and was outraged, to say the least, when I saw this, and I quote, “I do not want to

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be showering with someone like that,” said one Sammamish resident in a call to the Sammamish Review. “I certainly don’t want my children or grandchildren exposed to that.”

Typical response I would only expect out of the average Sammamish resident. Seriously? I must say “that” is a human being with feelings and blood and a heart. So in dealing with this on a case-by-case basis, I’m ashamed of you, David Mayer. From my perspective, I believe all lives matter and deserve the same respect.

If this person who said these things doesn’t like it, then she can take herself to another facility. I’ve been a resident of Sammamish for 10-plus years and believe me, not by choice. If I had it any

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Sammamish woman who killed husband, son-in-law in DUI crash sentenced to six years A Sammamish woman who killed her husband and son-in-law after mixing wine and sleeping pills and crashing her Jeep through her lakefront home was sentenced Oct. 30 to six years in prison.

Carol Fedigan, 69, pleaded guilty July 30 to two counts of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, DUI and reckless endangerment. The state

Letters From Page 4 other way I would move away but unfortunately I’m stuck for the time being.

I think what needs to be taught here is a lesson to all in tolerance.

Julia A. Wallinger Sammamish

and defense had previously agreed to jointly recommend that Fedigan be sentenced to six years in prison.

Fedigan was also ordered to serve 18 months of community custody following her release from prison.

Fedigan was having dinner with her husband, daughter and son-in-law at their home on Lake Sammamish on May 16, 2014, when she decided to move her Jeep into her driveway from where it was

parked across the lane from the house, charging papers say. The other adults remained seated in the dining room.

She took her nearly 3-year-old grandson with her, seating him on her lap behind the wheel of her new Jeep, according to the charges. Neither was wearing a seat belt.

The Jeep plowed through the house, smashed over the dinner table and continued through the house’s rear

windows, over a covered patio, down some stairs to a deck and through a railing, with the front end of the Jeep coming to rest in Lake Sammamish, the charges say.

Fedigan’s husband, David Walker, 70, died at the scene. Her son-in-law Sean Berry, 41, died at Harborview Medical Center two days later, according to the charges.

Her daughter, Megan Berry, 34, suffered facial fractures, a collapsed lung

and other injuries, the charges say.

Fedigan and her grandson were not injured, according to charging papers.

Fedigan was released on $100,000 bail while she awaited sentencing. She was ordered not to drink alcohol and was required to wear a transdermal alcohol-sensing device that measures alcohol content in perspiration, according to court records.

She was booked into

the King County Jail in October after her alcoholsensing device detected alcohol beginning at noon on Oct. 5, with consumption continuing through Oct. 6, court records say.

Her blood alcohol content peaked at 0.16, twice the legal limit of 0.08, according to the records.

It’s 2015 – time to grow up

heard so far are the voices of people who have no idea what it is like to live as I do.

Let me first address the resident who doesn’t want to shower with “someone like that.” We exist everywhere, and we are contributing members of this community. It is attitudes like this that keep us from being visible. Transgender people are routinely mur-

dered worldwide, and this kind of ignorance and intolerance is a breeding ground for violence.

If you don’t want to shower with a trans person, that’s fine. No one is making you. But you don’t get to decide who gets to take a shower.

And your obsession with other people’s genitals is kind of creepy, by the way.

As for the policy itself – if transgender people are sequestered into private facilities, I think that brings whether or not they are truly welcome at the Y into question.

Separate is inherently unequal. To keep transgender people separate is not equal treatment. To dictate which bathroom they can use is unequal treatment.

Some people don’t want

to shower with gay, lesbian, bisexual or pansexual people. Does this mean we should cater to that ignorance? What about people who don’t want to shower with people of color?

We just want to be able to take a shower and pee.

Leave us alone. We’re not hurting anyone.

It’s 2015. Grow up.

Christina Finley Sammamish

I was ashamed by this week’s Sammamish Review, in particular the article about the YMCA and its policy regarding transgender people.

I would like to offer my voice: I am transgender, so I do think that my voice should have significant weight because all I have

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short, there was no way Von Bargen could miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Von Bargen said that was when the real, epic journey began, as the couple proceeded to “hike, boat, hitchhike, train, bus and drive home from California” in time for her to catch a flight to Washington D.C. and participate in the awards ceremony.

The ceremony in the nation’s capital was the culmination of a process that began in November 2012 when Von Bargen’s former principal, Lisa Hechtman, nominated her for the award. For six months, Von Bargen worked on an extensive application packet that included essays, videos of her teaching, and letters of recommendation.

She received word in late summer 2013 that she was a Washington state finalist. And then, nothing. Nearly two years later, Von Bargen had almost given up on hearing any news.

It was the day she and her husband were

set to begin their hike in California that the letter arrived: Von Bargen had been selected as the Washington state winner in science teaching. But there was no word as to when the ceremony would take place.

Von Bargen made it to Washington, D.C., and had an opportunity to talk with teachers from all over their country and learn about their school systems.

After these conversations, she said she “was often left with a sense of gratitude for teaching in Issaquah. It is wonderful to live and work in a community in which parents and students value education. My biggest sense of gratitude was for my teaching colleagues. Our schools are filled with teachers and staff who care very deeply about student learning and are willing to go above and beyond to do what is best for our kids.”

President Obama greeted the group in the White House after the award ceremony and, Von Bargen

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said, joked that “the water glasses we’d been drinking out of were all being saved so that the government could clone us.”

The President spoke about the impact a teacher makes on students, and referenced his own daughters learning math and science, noting that students need STEM subjects, not only so they can get a job, but so they can understand their world.

After taking a group photograph, each of the award winners had an opportunity to shake hands with Obama and introduce themselves. Von Bargen reported that she received some extra attention when she slipped slightly on the wooden floor. The President reached out to make sure she was OK and joked that he could run and get crutches for her if she needed them.

“Conspiracy theorists will claim I slipped on purpose for the extra 15 seconds of attention,” Von Bargen said, “but I assure you that it was unintentional.”

The school is making a difference this year by recycling their lunchtime waste with TerraCycle, a leader in the collection and repurposing of hardto-recycle post-consumer waste.

Cascade Ridge students have already collected 1,257 empty applesauce pouches this year. Since signing up for the TerraCycle recycling

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Issaquah School District officials stated they are proud of all their teachers and thrilled that one of their own has received recognition for excellence in teaching at the national level. The district strives to be supportive of professional growth, and values teamwork and collaboration.

Von Bargen sums it up this way: “I work with teachers who encourage me to reflect on my practice and who challenge me to be a better instructor, and I am very grateful for them.

“I must also thank my husband, Curtis, and the Skyline staff who have been extraordinarily supportive of the time and dedication I have for teaching. Curtis doesn’t blink an eye when I tell him I need to work long nights or weekends. I know I wouldn’t have been nationally recognized had he and my teaching colleagues not been so supportive.”

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One hundred and ten miles into a “lifetime bucket list” backpacking trip on the John Muir Trail with her husband, Von Bargen, a teacher at Skyline High School,

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Calendar of Events Friday, Nov. 6 Young Toddler Story Time, 10:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Social with music by Emmy Puraner, 3 p.m., Spiritwood at Pine Lake, 3607 228th Ave. S.E., 3139100

Saturday, Nov. 7 Holiday Bazaar, over 70 local artisans and crafters, proceeds benefit Eastlake PTSA, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Eastlake High School, 400 228th Ave. N.E., eastlakeholidaybazaar@gmail.com Volunteer at Lower Commons Park, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Lower Sammamish Commons, 550 222nd Place S.E., 2950500 Russian Story Time: Privet!, 11 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Skyline Junior Dance Team Creation, for Beaver and Pine Lake middle schoolers, 12:15 p.m. Saturdays through March, info at www.sky-

422,000 fluorescent lights recycled so far in new program More than 422,000 mercury-containing fluorescent lights were collected for recycling in the first six months of 2015, according to LightRecycle Washington, the not-forprofit organization that runs the recycling program on behalf of light manufacturers.

Individuals and businesses can recycle lights at no charge by dropping them off at more than 220 LightRecycle collection sites throughout the state, including many hardware stores, solid waste drop-off sites and municipal offices.

Recology CleanScapes, 317 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Issaquah, participates in the program. Find more locations at LightRecycle. org; enter your ZIP code or city.

The LightRecycle program was developed in response to a 2010 state law requiring fluorescent bulbs and other lights that contain mercury to be recycled. The amount of mercury, a toxic heavy metal, contained in a typical fluorescent tube or

linedanceteam.com Make Your Own YouTube Channel: Vlogging 101 Workshop, ages 12 and older, 1 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., please register, 392-3130 Theater of Possibility Special Arts Sammamish, rehearsing social skills through acting and improve, 1 p.m., Bellewood Retirement Center, 3710 Providence Point S.E., free and open to the public, 295-0500

Sunday, Nov. 8 Pine Lake Covenant Church ministry for children with special needs, 10:45 a.m., 1715 228th Ave. S.E., call 3928636 Study Zone, free drop-in homework help for grades K-12, 3-5 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church youth groups, for children in sixth through eighth grade, and ninth compact fluorescent light is very small — far below the amount found in a household thermometer.

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Sundays, 391-1178, ext.

129 Young Professionals, mid-20s to mid-30s professionals meet and enjoy fellowship, single or married welcome, 6:30 p.m., Eastridge Church, 24205 S.E. Issaquah-Fall City Road, 681-6736 or email marianne.giberson@gmail. com

Monday, Nov. 9 Hello English, Intermediate ESL Class, 11:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Study Zone, free drop-in homework help for grades K-12, 6-8 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Tuesday, Nov. 10 Play and Learn Chinese, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Teen Think Tank, 2-6 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Study Zone, free release mercury vapor, so it’s important to keep fluorescent and other such lights out of the garbage and curbside recycling bins.

november 5, 2015 drop-in homework help for grades K-12, 6-8 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Sammamish Youth Writing Club, ages 10-14, 7 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Talk Time, an English conversation group, 7-8:30 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Wednesday, Nov. 11 All government buildings and libraries will be closed in observance of Veteran’s Day. Sammamish Plateau Community Bible Study, open to all women and their children, 9:30 a.m., Faith United Methodist Church, 3924 IssaquahPine Lake Road S.E., email deannacbs@outlook.com Caring for someone with memory loss? Do you need information and support? Join the Alzheimer’s Association Family Caregiver Support Groups for the greater eastside, 1:30-3:30 p.m. second Wednesdays, Bellevue Family YMCA,

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Thursday, Nov. 12 ‘Hello English,’ beginning ESL class, 10:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Teen Think Tank, 2 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Klahanie Transition Committee meeting, 6:30-10 p.m., City Hall, 801 228th Ave. S.E., 295-0579 Eastside Genealogical Society monthly meeting, Kay Wilson will explain the uses of WIKI Tree, 7 p.m., Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Ave N.E., Bellevue, www.rootsweb.ancestry. com/~wakcegs Grief Share Support Group, 7-8:30 p.m., Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 N.E.

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CareClinic takes the ‘ouch’ out of flu shots

Roxie Ann Strackbein

Roxie Ann Strackbein, 66, of Sammamish, died Oct. 26, 2015, in Washington, D.C. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6 at Crossroads Bible Church, in Bellevue. Her full obituary and online guestbook is available www.flintofts.com.

Group Health and Bartell Drugs are helping “take the owie out” of getting a flu shot by offering a sweet treat at CareClinic locations.

All patients who get a flu shot at a CareClinic location will receive a free healthy fruit bar. The clinics will offer the promotion through Nov. 8, or while supplies last.

Due to a manufacturing issue, FluMist, a nasal spray flu vaccine, is not available at most locations. That should not stop you from protecting yourself, even if it means getting a flu shot, experts say.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials have said the efficacy of this year’s flu shot strain is expected to be more effective than last year.

CareClinic is a walkin clinic open to anyone regardless of insurance carrier. The clinics are based in five Bartell Drugs locations and are staffed

by Group Health boardcertified clinicians. The Sammamish one is at 526 228th Ave. N.E.

Eastlake High School students get financial reality check at BECU event Eastlake High School sophomore Ashley Croshaw has “a greater appreciation for my parents because I now realize how much stuff they have to pay for.”

She called the Financial Reality Fair, hosted by Boeing Employees Credit Union workers, eyeopening and said, “It gave me a glimpse into real life and actually how much it

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Local BECU employees used their “Closed For Good” day off work on Oct. 20 to host the Financial Reality Fair at Eastlake. About 100 students in related classes took part in this event.

Students received a packet that contained a worksheet. On the worksheet, each student was given a job with a realistic yearly salary and a total monthly take-home amount.

Students then visited different booths, staffed by BECU employees, representing the different costs people incur each month, such as housing, transportation and food.

Students went to each of the booths to learn different costs and determined their monthly budget, which included

reserving some of their monthly income in a savings account. Each student then met with a BECU employee who served as a financial counselor and reviewed their budget. In some cases, they helped the student to set a more realistic budget given their hypothetical monthly income.

“This event was a reality check for many students,” said Eastlake teacher Brittanie Petersen, who worked with BECU to bring the event to the school.

“The different stations really helped me see how quickly everything adds up and how people can easily convince you to buy things you don’t need,” Eastlake senior Megan Barney said. “Talking to the financial advisors was very helpful. They helped

me learn to manage my monthly payments and helped me prioritize my payments.”

Many of the BECU volunteers agreed. More than one said they wished they had participated in a similar activity when they were in high school.

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By Greg Farrar

Jake Pendergast (21), Skyline High School senior wide receiver, is congratulated by teammate Danny Sinatro after scoring on a 68-yard catch-and-run play during the first quarter against Eastlake Oct. 30.

Second-half surge fuels Skyline football victory over Eastlake

By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com Much of the Skyline Spartans’ defensive success results from their ability to force turnovers, but those game-changing plays weren’t happening in last week’s regular-season finale at Eastlake High School.

Skyline went to intermission with a 16-14 lead, one of the closest first halves of the Spartans’ season, and they hadn’t collected any turnovers, something defensive coordinator Ryan Thorsen preaches as a key statistic.

That changed in the second half as Skyline recovered three Eastlake fumbles, turned them into 21 points and pulled away for a 37-21 win to finish the Class 4A KingCo Conference football season with an 8-0 record.

Skyline opens the playoffs at home at 7 p.m. Nov. 6 against the Beamer Titans, and is looking to return to the state playoffs after a year’s absence thanks to its highpowered offense and ball-hawking defense.

“Coach Thorsen has done a tremendous job of really focusing on taking the ball away and celebrating turnovers,” Skyline head coach Mat Taylor said. “We actually talk about that statistic every Monday – we talk about the turnover ratio, and going into the game, we were doing well.”

Eastlake got the ball to open the

By Greg Farrar

Parker Lester (29), Eastlake High School junior wide receiver, gets the ball inside the pylon for a touchdown on a 29-yard catch in the second quarter from quarterback Mark Whitley as Skyline’s Colin Huber defends on the play. second half, and it took only 90 seconds for Skyline to get it back as the Spartans recovered a Daniel Bradley fumble at the Wolves’ 28-yard line.

The visitors scored five plays later as quarterback Blake Gregory rolled to his right and found Colin Huber in the back of the end zone for an 8-yard touchdown, upping the lead to 23-14.

Early in the fourth quarter, Wolves quarterback Mark Whitley coughed up the ball and Huber fell on it near midfield. That set up

Huber’s second score, a 20-yard TD reception that made it 30-14 with about 9 minutes remaining.

The Wolves’ next series looked promising, but Skyline linebacker PJ Cox ripped the ball from Bradley and ran untouched for an 87-yard TD. Eastlake scored late on a 24-yard Whitley run, but the damage had been done, and the Spartans ran out the clock through the legs of See FOOTBALL, Page 10

When the Bothell Cougars scored an equalizing goal just five minutes before halftime, it could’ve taken the momentum away from the Eastlake Wolves, who were in charge of the match up to that point.

Instead, Bothell’s goal served as a wake-up call to the Wolves, who went on to claim their first playoff victory under head coach Marc Wilson.

After the Cougars tied the score at 1-1 in the 35th minute, Eastlake got a 37th-minute goal from Vicky Sartorio, then dominated the second half for a 4-1 victory in Class 4A KingCo Conference girls soccer playoff action Oct. 29 at Eastlake High School.

Fourth-seeded Eastlake (10-2-4) eliminated No. 5 Bothell from the postseason, and advanced to another knockout-round game Nov. 2 against third-seeded Inglemoor, results that came too late for publication.

The Wolves were shorthanded, playing without three of their captains. Central defender Megan McCaughey and midfielder Erika Jung were injured, and outside defender Clare Suter was away on a college visit.

It didn’t matter much as Eastlake piled on the pressure in the second half, salting away the result on goals See SOCCER, Page 10

Roundup: Eastlake volleyball reaches KingCo title match After winning only one of eight conference matches, the Eastlake High School volleyball team was the eighth and final seed into the Class 4A KingCo Conference tournament that started Oct. 31.

The Wolves turned a lot of heads, however, defeating top-seeded Newport and fourth-seeded Skyline in a pair of five-set matches. Eastlake earned a spot in the Nov. 3 tournament title game against Inglemoor, which happened after press time. The winner earned the top seed to the state tournament. q Also at the KingCo tourney, Skyline opened with a 3-0 win over Issaquah, and was slated to face Bothell in an elimination match Nov. 3 after press time. The second- and third-place teams from KingCo play Greater St. Helens League opponents Nov. 7 for the right to play at state. q At the Class 3A Metro League, Eastside Catholic advanced to district play as the third-placer finisher.

The Crusaders swept Ingraham and Garfield before losing 3-0 to tournament champion Holy Names.

They bounced back with a five-set win over Bishop Blanchet on Oct. 31. Their next opponent wasn’t finalized at press time, but the match will be at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at Lakeside High School in Seattle.

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ing in second place at the District 1/2 championships, held Oct. 31 at Lake Sammamish State Park.

Nathan Pixler won the boys’ title in 16 minutes, 9.87 seconds, helping the Wolves score 125 points to finish behind champion Issaquah (112). Pia Richards was third in the girls’ race (18:50.27) as Eastlake’s 102 points were only eight behind champion Mount Si. q Skyline’s boys and girls each finished fifth, falling just short of the top-four placement required for a state qualification. Makennan Hurd (20th, 16:50.88) was the top boy and Maizy Brewer (fifth, 19:05.29) was the top girl for the Spartans.

from Maddie Robinson and Brooke Chandler.

Wilson said his players have developed strong chemistry over the course of the season.

“I wouldn’t say the buy-in was always there early on, but I think the buy-in is there now,” he said. “They know that they can trust the next one up and that’s a very powerful thing with high-school women.”

Senior forward Anna Craig said the team’s veterans are inspiring everyone toward a higher level of play.

“It’s just been a really positive environment, and everyone has wanted to come out to practice and enjoy their time here,” Craig said. “There’s been a really good aspect of bonding and our team is really close.”

Eastlake goalkeeper Natalie LaTurner made a reactionary save on a second-minute corner kick, keeping Bothell from an early lead.

Craig opened the scoring in the 22nd minute,

Skyline swimmers take second at KingCo meet Skyline scored 662 points, good for second place behind champion Mercer Island (695) at the combined Class 4A/3A/2A KingCo girls swimming championships, held Oct. 30-31 at Newport High School in Bellevue.

Skyline freshman Christina Bradley won a pair of individual events, taking the 200-yard freestyle in 1 minute, 55.05 seconds and the 500 freestyle in 5:10.53.

The Spartans earned a total of five individual titles as senior Kathy Lin captured the 50 free (24.43), freshman Sarah DiMeco won the 100 backstroke (58.37) and freshman Lauren Sayles won the 100 breaststroke (1:08.87).

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“We struggled in the first half, but we went in at halftime, made some adjustments and we exploited their weaknesses,” Huber said.

With rain pelting the field at the start, both teams went to their ground games to make

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Anna Craig (9), Eastlake High School senior forward, shoots the ball past Bothell defender Meghan Tveit for the Wolves’ first goal of the game in a 4-1 victory Oct. 29 over the Cougars. taking a pass from Caroline Kolb, spinning around a defender and finishing a low shot inside the right post.

Bothell tied it when Makenzie Knowles launched a free kick inside the penalty area, where the ball was deflected and looped over LaTurner’s head.

That set off some endto-end action as Kolb crossed the ball from the left corner to a wide-open

Sartorio, who finished from a few yards out for a 2-1 Eastlake lead.

Bothell nearly had a second goal shortly thereafter, but LaTurner made a diving stop to deny Madison Hommer.

Eastlake midfielders Lauren Jensen, Kinsey Kolar and Robinson locked up the middle of the field in the second half, where the Cougars repeatedly had their passes stolen.

“Maddie Robinson

was fantastic in the middle of the field and kind of negated what Meghan (Tveit) is able to do for Bothell,” Wilson explained. “She’s a dynamic player and by kind of taking her out of her element defensively, it limits what Bothell can do.”

Robinson also scored a spectacular goal, launching a shot from more than 30 yards out that found its way under the crossbar in

the 60th minute.

Chandler, the Wolves’ left back, finished off the scoring in the 75th with a sparkling run from the midfield stripe, tucking away her shot low to the far post.

“We have been trying to do a lot of wide attacking out to our wing space,” Chandler said, “so that’s kind of my role, is getting up and down the wing, then back and making sure I defend.”

things happen, and they were largely effective.

Skyline chewed up more than five minutes on its opening series, but Jack Crane missed a 36-yard field goal. The Spartans then forced a three-andout from Eastlake, and Gregory connected with Jake Pendergast on a 68-yard catch-and-run, the first of four scores through the air for the senior quarterback.

The Wolves responded quickly, going 80 yards in six plays, with Whitley weaving his way through

the middle for a 27-yard TD. Eastlake had a solid rushing attack as Bradley carried 25 times for 144 yards, and Whitley added 122 yards on 15 tries. But their three second-half turnovers proved costly.

The Wolves (5-3 KingCo) knew they would likely need to beat Skyline to reach the playoffs, and were eliminated after Woodinville defeated Newport. Head coach Don Bartel said his team gave a great effort.

“When you look at the

fumbles, you look at guys that are trying their hardest to make something happen for their team,” he said.

Along with a large group of seniors, Whitley played his last game in an Eastlake uniform, and was a big reason why the Wolves nearly reached the postseason under Bartel for a third straight year.

“There are kids that come along once in a while that just make your jaw drop, and they just earn everything,” said Bartel, noting Whitley’s

transition from receiver.

“Here we are, three years later, and there was a point in the season where we thought Mark might be the best (quarterback in the conference) because nobody can run and throw like he can.”

The Spartans will look to rewrite the script from last season, when they lost in double overtime to Skyview in the districtplayoff round.

“It’s a new team, new group of guys,” Huber said. “The past is the past.

Last year is last year.”

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SAMMAMISH REVIEW

King County tackles complicated project to control water flow out of Lake Sammamish

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com

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The project may be some 10 years away from completion, said Doug Williams, a spokesman for the King County Department of Parks and Natural Resources.

But the effects are being felt from what one observer called deferred maintenance during a stakeholder advisory committee Oct. 14.

Technically known as the Willowmoor Floodplain Restoration Project, the work involves restoring and redesigning the floodplain and Lake Sammamish weir meant to control flooding from the lake into surrounding areas.

The floodplain is choked with vegetation and trees, and therefore, water just doesn’t flow properly, said Sammamish resident and local activist Jim Mackey, a member of the stakeholder advisory committee.

He has seen firsthand, he said, the effects of the backed-up flood control system. Lake docks end up under water, disappearing in November and not coming back until May or so,

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“It’s a complicated project. We’ve got a lot of conditions to take into account.”

— Doug Williams County spokesman Mackey said. At other times, boats can end up floating four feet below the docks.

“The lake just isn’t draining properly,” he added.

That has implications for property owners ringing the lake and for boaters, Mackey said. Big storms can raise the lake several feet. Zoning and land-use rules around the lake often are based on high-water marks, which Mackey said keep changing.

The flood control project, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, dates back to the mid-1960s, according to a King County website on the potential rebuilding project.

The floodplain covers almost 14 miles from Lake Sammamish to Lake Washington. The project essentially lowers the bottom of the Sammamish River by more than six feet.

The transition zone is a key component of

the project and consists of what is basically a ramp near the Lake Sammamish outlet, connecting the old river channel to the deepened river channel downstream.

When Lake Sammamish is at moderate levels, the lake overflow is contained in a 30-foot-wide, lowflow channel running down the center of the transition zone. Willow buffers line both banks.

When the lake is at higher levels, the overflow can fill the entire width of the transition zone.

At the upstream end of the transition zone, a concrete weir controls lake outflow, in theory keeping Lake Sammamish at appropriate levels. A notch in the weir allows for fish passage as well as travel by small boats, such as kayaks and canoes.

Besides what Mackey called the deferred maintenance in the transition zone, Bear Creek in Redmond is also causing higher lake levels. Mackey said the fully-restored creek can now dump up to three times as much water into Lake Sammamish.

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Baha’is clean up parkway

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On Oct. 26, the Baha’is of Sammamish once again cleaned up a 1.3-mile stretch on East Lake Sammamish Pkwy Southeast that they have adopted for the past 12 years.

The annual event is one way the Baha’is serve the local community. Four members of the Sammamish Baha’i community, pictured below, participated in Saturday’s event: From left, Kate Bradley, Saeed Zamani, Sudipta Young and Benjamin Young.

Service projects like this is one of the many teachings of Baha’u’llah, the manifestation and profit founder of the Baha’i Faith, as a way to serve the community and mankind.

The Baha’i Faith is the youngest of the world’s independent monotheistic religions and one of the fastest-growing religions in the United States. Baha’is view the world’s major religions as part of a single, progressive process through which God reveals his will to humanity. Baha’i beliefs include the oneness of humanity, equality of men and women, and the eradication of all forms of prejudice, the harmony of science and religion and universal education. To learn more about the Baha’i Faith in Sammamish, please visit www.sammamishbahais.org.

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Graduates The following Sammamish residents graduated in September from Boston University: Sana Nagar, Bachelor of Arts, computer science; and Kevin Wickersham, Master of Science, biomedical crisis management. q David Teddy, an Eastlake High School grad-

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Community news uate from Sammamish, recently graduated from the Sacramento Campus of Universal Technical Institute, a provider of post-secondary education in automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine technicians. q The following Sammamish residents graduated from

Washington State University in the 2015 summer semester: Andre Gomez, Bachelor of Science, computer science; Jenna Hayden, Bachelor of Arts, digital technology and culture; Christopher Lehman, Bachelor of Arts, business administration; Jocelynne Lo, bachelor of Arts, communication;

Lacey Young, a 2014 graduate of Skyline High School and the daughter of Diane and Rob Young of Issaquah, earned a $400 Dorcas Keach Northey Scholarship from the University of Montana School of Journalism.

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Water From Page 11 Another problem is water temperature control to help local salmon.

Warm water is death to salmon and the county has come up with a couple of ways to cool water in the transition zone.

Mackey said one idea is to split the overflow into two channels, pumping cooler groundwater into one channel to benefit fish. There seems to be some question just how practical that idea might be.

Mackey said while he gladly served on the advisory committee, he’s not sure the county actually paid attention.

“The train is going forward, you can comment, but here is what we’re going to build,” Mackey said in describing the county’s approach.

Williams said the next step is turning information gathered from the advisory committee into a report for the King County Flood Control District. That’s likely to take three months or so.

The project cost will run between $8.1 million to $9.8 million, depending on what design option is selected.

“It’s a complicated project,” Williams said.

“We’ve got a lot of conditions to take into account.”

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of Arts, history; Evan Yock, Jocelynne Lo, Bachelor of Science, psychology; Laura Bachelor of Science, architectural studies.

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