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EFR board tabs new chief from Chandler, Arizona By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@sammamishreview.com The Eastside Fire & Rescue board made a conditional offer to Jeff Clark, chief of the city Fire, Health and Medical Department in Chandler, Ariz., to take over the fire department here as soon as Feb. 1. “I’m excited,” the 47-yearold Clark said in a phone interview. “It’s a big change.” Sammamish City Councilman Bob Keller also said he was excited with the
choice of Clark from Clark spent 25 years among four finalists for with the Chandler the chief’s position. Fire, Health & Medical “He has a reputation Department, the last of implementing new seven as chief. He also ideas,” Keller said, notserved as chief for the ing Clark was involved Chandler County Island in various areas of Fire District, which Chandler government. provides fire and emerJeff Clark “Everybody just gave gency medical service him glowing referfor islands within the ences.” municipal boundaries EFR serves both Issaquah of Chandler. and Sammamish, and Keller In 2011, Clark began a chairs the personnel committee three-year stint as an assisthat selected Clark. tant city manager, a job that
included oversight of the city’s Neighborhood Services and Information Technology divisions. The added duties were a result of financial troubles experienced by the City of Chandler, Clark said Why did Clark try for a job so far from what is now home? Clark said he and wife Lori have visited the Seattle area many times. They decided at least a couple of years ago to move here, but they promised their two daughters they could finish high school in Chandler.
Sammamish family spends three years adopting African brothers Just in time for the holidays, the Boyer family of Sammamish was able to bring their two adopted sons from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Shown here, from the top, is daughter, Gabby, 7; mom and dad, Jennefer and Jason Boyer; Claire, 5, Luke, 4, and Andre, 6.
By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@sammamishreview.com When a reporter enters the Boyer household on Northeast 28th Place in Sammamish, the two young boys — Andre, 6, and his brother, Luke, 4 — are clearly excited. They talk in a mix of French and English and grab hold of a leg and a hand or two. Later, when asked direct questions, they are exactly like typical young children with someone they don’t know, offering one-word answers at most. That’s OK. Not only are the brothers youngsters, on this day, they had been in the U.S. for all of about three weeks. Jason and Jennifer Boyer adopted Andre and Luke from the Democratic Republic of Congo roughly three years ago. It took most of that time to get permission for the boys to leave their native county. That permission came in late November, and the pair joined sisters Gabby, 7, and Claire, 5, the Boyer’s biological children, as members of the Sammamish household. Jason Boyer said his wife was the driving force behind the adoptions. Both Jason, an orthopedic surgeon, and Jennefer have spent time working overseas. A public health specialist, Jennefer worked
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in several African countries, including at an orphanage in Zimbabwe. AIDS was a huge problem. “There was a graveyard there with all these little headstones that the kids could see,” Jennefer said. “It was just a part of their lives.” When she and her husband started thinking about adopting, Jennefer began looking into international adoption agencies. They met Andre and Luke through such an agency and adopted the boys in December 2012. The Congo
government recognized the adoption, Jennefer said, but wouldn’t allow the brothers to leave the country. “We never found out why, exactly,” Jennefer adds, but said the family needed exit letters to take the boys out of the
Congo. While they waited, Andre and Luke lived in foster care, and the Boyers received regular updates on how they were doing. Luke became extremely See ADOPTION, Page 3
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The two are now out of school, and when the opportunity with EFR happened along, Clark said he jumped at the chance. While he has visited the Northwest, Clark said he was not overly familiar with the areas served by EFR and studied the area as part of his preparation for applying for the chief’s position. Still, Clark said he assumes he has a lot to learn. “That’s an exciting part of it,” he added. See CHIEF, Page 2
Resident hopes for return of swiped lights By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@sammamishreview.com 5.
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The thief or thieves made off with white lights and, more importantly, some mint-colored lights from the large Christmas display Lisa Pfeifer Parkinson said has been in front of her home at 2509 227th Place N.E. every year for 25 years or so. Parkinson is not overly worried about the white lights; those can be replaced. With regard to the mint-colored lights, though, Parkinson feels she is probably out of luck. A second theft that happened the night of Dec. 9 — sometime between 9:30 p.m. and midnight —was even more troublesome. A rare recumbent deer disappeared along with some homemade flowers and leaves. The deer is probably irreplaceable. The flowers are undoubtedly one-of-a-kind, hand-made See LIGHTS, Page 2
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Chief From Page 1 Keller said Clark’s appointment was conditional on further background investigations and successful negotiation of an employment contract. The new chief will earn $154,000 to $180,000 annually, according to information previously released by EFR. Clark replaces longtime Chief Lee Soptich, who led the department for 15 years. Soptich’s last day on the job was
Nov. 30. With the help of a California consultancy, EFR launched a national search for a new chief. A total of 24 people applied for the position. The consultancy cut that number down to 12. Keller and the personnel committee picked four finalists, including one local applicant. EFR flew the other finalists to Issaquah, where they all underwent extensive interviewing by three panels: the personnel committee, a technical committee and an administrative committee. Keller said members included fire chiefs from
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other area departments, two city administrators, one police chief, a union representative and numerous others. In the end, the personnel committee’s vote for Clark was unanimous. Keller said the choice of Clark was not an easy one. All of the finalists were impressive, Keller said, adding that he feels the quality of the candidates reflects the quality of EFR. In November, the EFR board selected Greg Tryon as interim chief, a role he assumed on Dec. 1. Tryon was the only local candidate to make to the group of four finalists. EFR operates in the cities of Issaquah, Sammamish and North Bend, along with two fire districts encompassing a total of about 190 square miles and a population of over 130,000.
Lights From Page 1 by Lisa Parkinson’s husband, Dave, prior to his death at age 57. Dave Parkinson died from colon cancer four years ago in November. It was Dave who started the tradition of putting up the large Christmas display. “The lights were such a joy in his life,” Lisa Parkinson said. “And the whole thing just kept getting bigger and bigger.” When her husband died, Lisa said she kept putting up the lights each year in his honor. Dave Parkinson used
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in a crowded mall, Jason said he would be visiting the Boyer home in the near future. Overall, Jason said having Andre and Luke home has been wonderful, if a bit noisy. “The house has definitely become a lot livelier,” Jason said. legislative process works. Students spend one week in Olympia, where they attend page school, hear directly from state lawmakers and other officials, and assist with proceedings on the Senate floor during debate and voting. Interested students living in the 41st District, which includes
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needed paperwork allowing the boys to leave the country. Just as she doesn’t really know why they were withheld, she doesn’t know why the exit letters suddenly appeared. She packed up and left the country as quickly as possible. Jennefer said she especially wanted to thank U.S. Reps. Suzan DelBene, D-1, and Dave Reichert, R-8, for their help in writing letters and applying pressure on the Congo government. Andre and Luke now attend a French-speaking school in Bellevue. Andre claims he doesn’t like it, though Jennefer insists he has said he does. They are slowly adjusting to life here and to their new family. “It’s the little things they notice,” Jennefer said, things like escalators and water fountains. Congo is a highly Christian nation,
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ill, and Jennefer said at one point his body had about half the blood he needed. A transfusion had to happen or Luke probably wasn’t going to live. In February of this year, the Boyers made a decision. Jennefer was going to have to go to the Congo and care for Andre and Luke herself. “It was awful, frankly,” Jason said of having his wife gone for what turned out to be nine months. “It was not fun. It’s hard to have half your family half a world away and you can’t keep them safe.” Jennefer quickly moved herself and the boys into an apartment in Kinshasa. Andre and Luke initially were not in good shape. “They both had these huge malnutrition bellies that are gone now,” Jennefer said. The politics of the situation weren’t exactly promising. “It’s not the most stable place in the world,” Jason said. Jennefer said she was advised to stay in her apartment and did just that as much as possible. “The worst part was not knowing how long I was going to be there,” she said. In the meantime, she Skyped with her husband and daughters as often as possible. In August, Jason took the girls to the Congo to meet their brothers. In November, Jennefer finally received the
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I’m not exactly breaking news when I start this column by telling you that today’s media landscape has become remarkably crowded. Online news organizations. National and local newscasts. National newspapers and magazines. Daily newspapers, both national and local. They all want your attention, and they want it badly. But no other outfit is committed as the Review to covering the stories that are most important to the citizens of Sammamish. Look no further than the Gridiron Classic for proof. With two Sammamish schools playing for state football championScott ships, we knew our readers would be Stoddard hungry for in-depth coverage. And we devoted four members of our news staff on Dec. 4 and 5 to cover Eastside Catholic and Skyline as the played in Tacoma, producing a deep report unmatched by any other media outlet. We tweeted more than 60 times before, during and after the game from the Sammamish Review account (twitter.com/sammamishreview), and those tweets were rich with photos and video from the field. Reporter Neil Pierson added dozens of more tweets from his account (twitter.com/sammamish_neil) each night from the press box. Meanwhile, on Facebook, we were posting updates throughout each game, providing readers with photos that were exclusive to that platform. Pierson and photographer Greg Farrar worked into the night after each game to make sure their stories and images were on our website in time for online readers to see when they woke up the next morning. Our coverage was part of the newsroom’s greater emphasis on connecting with readers through social media. We are posting more news than ever on our Facebook page. We refuse to be limited by our once-aweek newspaper when it comes to reporting on what’s happening in and around Sammamish. The goal in our newsroom is to write and post breaking stories as quickly as possible. News doesn’t have much of a shelf life. And although we very much want to be first with a story, we will never rush one See STODDARD, Page 5
Tomorrow I turn 47. Yikes. That’s just three short years away from the big five-oh and my first midlife crisis. To avoid that David sense of failure, Hayes I need to fill my social calendar now so I’ll have a few accomplishments to crow about when I hit that milestone. I’ve stumbled across some lists on the Internet where people state the
50 things they want to do before they turn 50. So, in no particular order, here’s my list while trying to keep them limited to things in Issaquah. Take a Close Encounter tour of the tiger habitat at Cougar Mountain Zoo. Take an art class at artEAST. Take a chocolatemaking class at Boehm’s Candies & Chocolates.
Go jet skiing on Lake Sammamish. Catch a fish from Pine Lake Park on opening day. Eat a XXX burger all by myself. Lose 50 pounds. Now lighter, take a paragliding flight off Poo Poo Point without fear of breaking the rig. Hike each of the Issaquah Alps. Join an adult rock band at Kaleidoscope of Music. Ride the Issaquah Trolley.
Join the men’s 35+ 4-on-4 basketball league. Take a tai chi class at the community center. Since the Elks closed, join the Eagles. Go horseback riding. Take a PCC cooking class. Drink a glass of one of the most expensive local wines. Run (saunter?) in the Salmon Days Run with the Fishes 5K. Get a one-hour masSee HAYES, Page 5
Letter to the Editor Mars Hill property a perfect place for higher education opportunity It is very unfortunate that three colleges have backed out from the offer that the City Council of Sammamish has made.
It would have been nice for our community to have a college located close to our high school. The only interest of the City Council was to use the church to serve as a higher-education purpose which could benefit our community. The Mars Hill site has 22 acres of land, 31,000 square feet of building
and 330 parking spaces, which demonstrates the church could serve as a place for a college to be sited on. Hopefully, the City Council will find a college interested in the Mars Hill site before selling it or putting the church up for lease. Frankie Navarro Sammamish
Guest Column K-12 education budget gets a big boost This year a ing currently bipartisan coalition underway. of state legislators Since 2013, worked together to education spendprovide an historic ing has increased investment in our by $4.5 billion state’s K-12 educaand state spendtion system, boosting per student ing school spending has increased 33 Sen. by $1.3 billion, an percent. For 30 Andy Hill increase of $1,237 years education per student. It was the was not a budget priority, largest education budget but over the past few years, increase in state history and we’ve seen what a dramatic continues the major turnchange is possible across around in education spend- the spectrum of education
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when we work together to make it our priority. In fact, this dramatic change made national news when we passed the first college tuition reduction in the nation this year. The question I’m hearing from parents is what these new investments mean for their children’s schools. In other words, what are we buying with all this new money? First, we are filling in gaps created by decades
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onto the web just for the sake of beating the competition. All stories receive a careful edit before they are posted online. Our social-media expert, Christina Corrales-Toy, is a tireless wrangler of our news report, making sure our very best content reaches our Facebook audience in a timely manner. That increase in Facebook activity is a relatively new way of doing things here at the Review, and readers have been overwhelmingly positive about the change. Our paper may arrive at your home one time a week, but we are putting great work online for our loyal readers each and every day. Thank you very much for reading the Sammamish Review. Contact Scott Stoddard at sstoddard@sammamishreview.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @scottstoddard.
sage, anywhere. Eat a full-course meal while watching a movie at the Issaquah Cinebarre. Take a water-jet flight on Lake Sammamish with GoFly Water Aviation. Safely land a mountain bike jump off a double black diamond ramp at Duthie Hill Park. Convince someone at Village Theatre to let me try on some costumes. Sign up to grow
Hill From Page 4 Washington’s record on education. That meant major investments in reducing class sizes in kindergarten through third grade classrooms where research says it’s most effective, nearly doubling support for high poverty students, reforming bilingual education and providing salary increases and improved health benefits for teachers. Achieving these results required the support of a broad, bipartisan coalition. Parents, teachers,
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something fresh at the Issaquah Community Garden. Create a glass ornament at artbyfire. Cut a real Christmas tree from Enchanted Winds or Trinity tree farms. Join a 35+ softball league. Go to dive-in movie night at Julius Boehm Pool. Take some dance lessons at the Rockin’ Horse Dance Barn. Win a poker tournament at the Snoqualmie Casino. Break 100 at the Golf
Club at Newcastle. Take a basic AR-15 firing lesson at the Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club. Bump into someone famous at an Issaquah restaurant without spilling my beer on them. See how much more comfortable a $7,500 mattress at Sleep Train is over a $1,000 mattress. Sit in the front row of an IMAX movie blockbuster at Regal Cinemas in the Issaquah Highlands. Photo bomb someone taking a selfie at a public event in Issaquah that actually gets posted online.
Take my Fiat to an Italian car show at the XXX. Ride along on a rally with Thundering Angels. Watch at least one musical act from every stage at Salmon Days. Renew my wedding vows at a ceremony at Pickering Barn. Buy my wife some fresh-cut flowers from the Issaquah Farmers Market. See if the guys at Fischer Meats will teach me how to butcher a steak or filet a fish. Shoot a black-powder muzzle rifle with the Cascade Mountain Men.
Go kayaking with my wife and her friend on Lake Sammamish. Tweet something that goes viral from my new Issaquah Press account. Gear up with the Washington Fencing Academy. Convince my coworkers to try a group outing of broomball at Sno-King Ice Arena. Take an Issaquah Citizens’ Police Academy course. Go on a Float Snoqualmie excursion. Make another list of 50 things to do before I turn 100.
advocates, and legislators came together to agree on directing this major investment in schools, passing the Legislature by landslide margins in both the Senate and House. We began this year with many budget challenges but Republicans and Democrats came together on education, agreeing on many of the results you see listed here, even before the final budget agreement was reached. This huge improvement toward fully funding education came in addition to historic expansion of early learning access and quality. Research shows that high quality early learning pays major dividends through-
out a student’s education and life. This led us to pass the Early Start Act which improves the quality of early childhood education while rapidly expanding early learning opportunities in the budget by 85 percent. Our focus on education did not end in high school, but addressed the full spectrum of education from preschool through college. We are now a nationally recognized leader because our budget actually reduced the cost of college for our state’s students. After decades of skyrocketing tuition rates, we successfully fought for and passed a significant reduction of college tuition.
Students at our major research universities such as UW will see tuition drop by 15 percent. Regional colleges such as WWU will drop tuition by 20 percent. Community colleges will drop tuition by 5 percent. Once again, these were bipartisan victories that will fundamentally alter Washington’s trajectory for education. Rather than seeing new state investments go two-to-one toward programs other than education, we are now on course for the opposite: education spending is rapidly rising at a rate of two-to-one over non-education spending. These monumental investments were made possible by the economy
roaring back to life in the Puget Sound Region, providing $3.2 billion more in revenue than the previous budget – a 9 percent increase. As other parts of the state struggle to recover, we made sure that all of our education investments put the highestneed school districts first to ensure equal and fair education advancement across the state. Thirty years of neglect will not be undone in just one or two budgets, but if the progress we’ve made working together is any indication, we are set for a major transformation of education across the spectrum, from preschool through college.
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Spartabot smart Skyline High School robotics club molding students in challenging, competitive environment By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com The robotics club at Skyline High School has come a long way in the seven years since it built its first robot in the garage of one of its mentors. The club, known as the Spartabots, has competed for the past four years in the state’s annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, but didn’t earn accolades until 2014. That year, the team advanced through two district competitions and qualified for a regional meet with schools from Washington and Oregon. This year, the Spartabots are pushing for similar success. They have 45 registered members who’ve spent the past two months designing seven mobile robots that play a game of quasi-tennis – spitting out balls, collecting them and repeating the process. Students learn a wide variety of skills to
serve them in college and beyond: They use Solidworks, a computeraided design and engineering software program; construct intricate hardware systems; and market themselves through social media and meetings with middle-school clubs and potential sponsors. Skyline teacher Cameron Parker is the club’s main adviser, but students also glean knowledge from several workingworld professionals – Dave Levin, Kelley Lee, Mark Wilson, Daniel Kunkul and Haichen Cheng. Levin, a former Boeing employee, has an industrial engineering and software background. He worked on the P8-A Poseidon, an aircraft designed for maritime patrol duties such as anti-submarine and antisurface warfare. “I’ve been a lifelong designer,” Levin said. “I like to build things.” Many students worked over the summer to build the robots’ drive bases, See ROBOTICS, Page 7
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sacrificing their Sundays to make it happen. One drive base has wheels that steer like a car, Levin said, while the other has treads similar to a tank. In the past, the club used aluminum to build the robots’ skeletons, but it chose to use plywood this year in an effort to reduce costs. Since October, teams have put hundreds of hours into their projects, which will help prepare them for the FIRST Robotics Competition that begins Jan. 9. The details of that competition, though, differ greatly from year to year, and the Spartabots will have only six weeks to design and build a robot for the specified task. If they do well enough at two district events against Puget Sound-area schools, including neighboring teams at Liberty, Issaquah and Eastlake, they’ll advance to a regional competition April 6-9 in Portland, Ore. The Spartabots held an internal competition Dec. 11 as part of their preparation. Lucas Tjom, a Skyline junior who is the club’s director of engineering, said it’s an exciting time. Tjom got interested in robotics through the FIRST Lego League, which helps students ages 9-14 build working robots with Lego blocks. He also had an older friend who told him about the Spartabots.
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Students watch as they operate the Team 3 and Team 1 robots they designed and built for a joust with one another after school Dec. 11 in the Skyline High School commons. Now Tjom is a project manager of sorts, overseeing his peers and helping them problem-solve as they build. What he’s learning now will likely help him in the future. “I personally like aeronautics, so I want to go into designing and building airplanes and stuff like that,” he said. When they enter competitions, the Spartabots look to build friendly relationships with their opponents. “The idea is, we want to share information across teams, and so everybody gets better and is learning,” Levin said. “The competition is really a sideline. … We call it ‘coopertition,’ so you compete but you cooperate as well.” “FIRST is all about gracious professionalism,” Tjom added. Robotics and engineering tend
to be male-dominated professions, and the Spartabots are working on changing that. They have a handful of girls in the club, including senior Shelby Sullivan. Sullivan hopes to attend Gonzaga University and study some type of engineering, hopes to stay involved with robotics, and plans to be a FIRST mentor with younger children. “With girls and engineering, it’s very minimal, and I want to get that up,” she said. “Girls don’t understand that they have the ability to do what boys can do in engineering. “And it’s like they’re very timid because they’re in a club with all these boys, and they feel like they’re not meant to be in the club, but really, they do have a place.”
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Waste hauler files legal action against Sammamish over collection contract By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@sammamishreview.com Waste Management of Kirkland has won a restraining order preventing the city from signing a long-term waste collection contract with competitor Republic Services. The Republic contract was on the agenda of the Dec. 2 council meeting and was likely headed for approval, but Waste Management launched its court action that same day
and council was forced to put the issue on hold. The case was filed in King County Superior Court and currently is assigned to Judge Mary Roberts. A hearing is tentatively set for Dec. 22, though some scheduling conflicts may move that back, said Robin Freedman, communications manager for Waste Management, in an email. Sammamish City Hall is seeking several improvements to waste collections throughout the city, such
“We are only asking that our bid by considered by City Council and not be rejected, as the city staff has recommended.” — Robin Freedman Waste Management spokesman as increasing the number of recycling collections. If a new pact is reached, one company — for the first time — will service all of Sammamish, excluding the Klahanie annexation area that becomes part of the
city Jan. 1. The city received two responses to its request for proposals, one from Republic Services for $714,664 and another from Waste Management for $540,488. On the sur-
face, Waste Management submitted the best bid, but city staffers said the devil is in the details. In the end, the city rejected Waste Management’s bid as nonresponsive. “We listened to what the council wanted,” John Chelminiak, Waste Management senior manager, told the council Dec. 2. Chelminiak said he regretted the company had to go to court to try to force the city to consider their bid. He added Waste
Management’s bid was low enough that it effectively provided the city with a free year of service when compared with the Republic bid. The Waste Management bid would save local residents and businesses roughly $6 million over the life of the contract, Freedman said. “We are requesting to have our bid reinstated for a full and fair evaluation,” Freedman added. “We are only asking that our bid See LAWSUIT, Page 10
After more than a decade, Nancy Whitten retires from council By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@sammamishreview.com Councilman Don Gerend read what he called doggerel, defined as “comic verse of irregular rhythm” or “bad poetry.” Gerend’s doggerel included remarks on “large doses of sarcasm,” commentaries about “ugly buildings” approved by the city and, on other occasions, showing “developers no mercy.” The poetry was all in honor
of the “the hard hittin’ Nancy Whitten,” who attended her last City Council meeting (at least as a member of the council) on Dec. 8. Nancy Whitten spent Whitten 12 years as a local legislator before deciding to retire. “It’s been my pleasure,” she said. “I think we’ve accomplished
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a lot.” Whitten said Sammamish has come a long way since its incorporation, which happened in 1999. There will be two new faces on the council when they next convene in 2016. Whitten said those new faces and the accompanying new thoughts should be welcomed. Praised over and over for her environmental stances, Whitten said she hopes that issue stays in the forefront of city activi-
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ties. Deputy Mayor Kathy Huckabay was among those who praised Whitten’s environmental commitment. She also said Whitten was always careful to pay attention to detail. “We have not always been on the same side of the ledger, but that’s healthy,” added Councilman Tom Odell. “Our city owes you a debt of gratitude,” said Councilman Ramiro Valderrama-Aramayo,
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Calendar of Events Upcoming events Master Chorus Eastside is holding auditions for tenors and basses for the remainder of its 2015/2016 season. All interested singers must have choral experience and basic music reading ability. For an audition appointment please call the Master Chorus Eastside office at 425-392-8446. More information on the Chorus can be found on the web at masterchoruseastside.org Volunteering at Lower Commons Park, 9 a.m. to noon, 550 222nd Place S.E., sign up at www. sammamish.us/events Providence Marianwood, assist with group activities, dining room host/hostess, befriend a resident, clerical support or staff the Gift Nook, 391-2897 or email andrea.abercrombie@providence.org Volunteers are needed for LINKS, a community support group to fill the growing number of volunteer needs throughout Lake Washington School District; learn more at www.lwsd.org/links; register for an upcoming volunteer orientation by emailing Nanci Wehr at nwehr@lwsd.org or call 936-1410 First Mondays – Citizens for Sammamish meeting, 7 p.m., Fire Station #82, 185 228th Ave. N.E., citizensforsammamish.com Second Tuesdays – 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, 14230 Bel-Red Road, Bellevue, contact Ruth Hansing, 206-232-2537 LifeHouse Ministries Prayer Service, for those desiring to experience God’s love through worship, prayer and healing. We meet the fourth Tuesday of each month (except Nov. & Dec. are on the 3rd Tuesday) at Pine Lake Covenant Church. Email Muffie at merrymartha@live.com Sammamish Walks, Soaring Eagle Park, 10 a.m. to noon, 26015 E. Main Drive, 295-0500 Thursdays — Grief Share Support Group, 7-8:30 p.m., Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 N.E. Inglewood Hill Road
Friday, Dec. 18 Gingerbread Book Character Contest, all month long, enter to win a Starbucks gift card, for teens, Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130 Social with music by Jim and Beth Wulff, 3 p.m., Spiritwood at Pine Lake, 3607 228th Ave. S.E., 313-9100 Sammamish Youth Board meeting, 6 p.m., EX3 Teen Boys and Girls Club Recreation and Teen Center, 825 228th Ave. N.E., 295-0584
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Sunday, Dec. 20 Pine Lake Covenant Church ministry for children with special needs, 10:45 a.m., 1715 228th Ave. S.E., call 3928636 Auspicious Talks, Vaastu inspired homes, home tech and automation, paperless process and northwest India architectural style, free mango lassi, 2:30 p.m., City Hall, 801 228th Ave. S.E., 295-0579 Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church youth groups, for children in sixth through eighth grade, and ninth through 12th grades, Mass at 5 p.m., dinner and then meetings at 6:30 p.m. Sundays, 3911178, ext. 129
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Monday, Dec. 21 Hello English, Intermediate ESL Class, 11:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130
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By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@ sammamishreview.com Area residents may see a 4.8 percent hike in water rates and a 3 percent increase in sewer rates if the Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District follows through with increases recommended in their 2016 budget. The district board held a public hearing on the increases and was sched-
distributed within the rate structure as a 5.5 percent change in the base water charge and a 4 percent change in the variable rate based on water consumption. A single-family residential customer using from 350 cubic feet to 750 cubic feet of water per month would see a monthly increase ranging from $1.66 to $1.98 on their water bill. The district bills its water and sewer custom-
ers every two months. For sewer charges, the district’s proposal would increase the monthly sewer rate for a singlefamily residential customer by 97 cents, to $33.16 each month. According to information supplied by the district, some of that increase would go toward $7.5 million in sewer capital improvement projects between 2016 and 2021. With the rate increases, the district
would not need to take on additional debt to fund projects through 2021. The Sammamish Plateau district serves Sammamish, Issaquah and some unincorporated areas of King County. The district has an annual budget of $35 million and serves nearly 64,000 local residents. Find more information on the rate hikes on the district’s financial page at spwsd.org/finance.asp.
Council to rethink two financial matters Largely at the urging of Councilman Ramiro Valderrama-Aramayo, the City Council voted unanimously during a special meeting Dec. 8 to rethink a major increase in the city’s contribution to ARCH, a Regional Coalition for Housing. The council also is set to revisit $4.5 million set aside for the rebuilding of Southeast Fourth Street in the revamped 2016 budget. Earlier this month, the council approved the one-year update of Sammamish’s biennial budget. That budget raised the contribution to ARCH from $10,000 to $100,000 and
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channeled the additional might be spent, as well as dollars into the Southeast further information on Fourth Street project. the city’s other donations In the case of the ARCH to date. Councilwoman contribution, ValderramaNancy Whitten also said Aramayo said officials need the council needed more to know the value of donat- information. ed land and related actions ARCH Program Manager taken on behalf of ARCH. Arthur Sullivan possibly Along with Habitat for is slated to give that preHumanity Seattle-King sentation in February. County, ARCH is helping Valderrama-Aramayo went build 10 cottages on 228th out of his way to emphaAvenue Southeast near size neither he nor Whitten Southeast 20th Street. oppose a donation to Besides donating the ARCH. land for the project, “All of the council supValderrama-Aramayo said ports the concept of ARCH the city waived impact fees, and what they are doing,” which should have been at he said, adding, in his opinleast $15,000 per home. ion, the council just needs Valderrama-Aramayo a better understanding of said it was his understandhow the extra money might ing the council would be spent. receive a presentation on Regarding Southeast how the additionalLAURA.PROOF.SR.CMYK dollars Fourth Street, following 50.14439.THU.1210.2X5.LAM
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the Dec. 8 special meeting, Valderrama-Aramayo said the city seemed to be heading down the same path it recently took regarding the rebuilding of Sahalee Way. The council was criticized — and reversed course — on the Sahalee Way project for essentially approving designs for the street prior to reviewing public opinion on the project. Regarding Southeast Fourth, Valderrama-Aramayo said officials had penciled that project in for 2017 and never even discussed moving it forward to 2016. Developers broke ground over the summer on two long discussed Town Center developments. Rising at the corner of 228th Avenue and Southeast Fourth Street, the Village will boast 115,000 square feet of commercial and residential space, including a new Metropolitan Market. Deputy Mayor Kathy Huckabay said with that
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project on its way, city officials decided to move up the rebuilding of Southeast Fourth. Speaking following the Dec. 8 council session, Valderrama-Aramayo said he understood the city wanted to issue a contract, or at least release a request for proposals, by April 2016. He said that apparently was to be done without council or public input. Valderrama-Aramayo estimated the total project cost at between $14 and $20 million. “There’s just a lot of questions pending,” he said. Funding will be helped by a $4 million federal grant won by the city and funneled through the state’s Transportation Improvement Board, according to interim Public Works Director John Cunningham. Huckabay said the council would take up the street project early next year.
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uled to vote during a district meeting Dec. 14. That meeting took place after deadlines for this edition. For 2016, in addition to standard operating, repair and replacement costs, the district hopes to fund a major watermeter replacement project along with seismic improvements to water facilities over the next several years. The district’s 4.8 percent increase would be
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Anti-Islamic rhetoric shakes Muslim families middle school also was tagged with graffiti that said “Muslims get out.” Both were accompanied by a swastika. Women and girls who wear headscarves, a visible symbol of their Muslim faith, are particularly vulnerable to attacks, including taunts, bullying and discrimination, Bukhari said. “The way we talk about Muslims has real consequences to the lives of women and families,” he said.
By Lynn Thompson The Seattle Times Along the winding streets of their Snoqualmie Ridge neighborhood, families share summer barbecues and block parties, the local elementary school’s winter bazaar and the weekly drives to their kids’ soccer practices and gymnastics lessons. But familiar suburban routines have been interrupted for the small Muslim community here by the intense, anti-Islamic rhetoric exploding both locally and nationally. On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the country because of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., and what his campaign said was the level of hatred toward Americans among large segments of the Muslim population. The remarks came just two weeks after a Facebook post by state Rep. Jay Rodne, R-Snoqualmie, saying “Islam is incompatible with western civilization.” In another, Rodne called Muslims “barbarians.” For the Muslim families in Snoqualmie, the verbal attacks have felt personal, questioning both their loyalty and character, and also raising fears that their neighbors, whom they say have shown nothing but friendly acceptance, will instead treat
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Afshan Ijaz wrote to her state legislator, Rep. Jay Rodne, after the Republican’s Facebook post slamming Islam. “I am a devout Muslim,” she says. “I am also an American.” them or their children with hostility or fear. “I’m very disturbed, very apprehensive,” said Afshan Ijaz, a former petroleum engineer who moved here with her husband, a software engineer, in 2006. She’s originally from Pakistan. “When we hear this level of anti-Muslim hate we worry about the effect on our children and families. This kind of talk is harmful for everyone.” The national director of CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Trump’s comments sounded “more like the leader of a lynch
mob than a great nation like ours.” Trump didn’t back down from his call for a ban on all Muslims entering the country, but rather made the rounds of morning TV talk shows Tuesday repeating his views. Locally, the Washington state chapter of CAIR denounced the speech and said anti-Muslim rhetoric sends a harmful message to millions of Muslim kids “that they are somehow less than equal and that the American dream is not for them,” said Arsalan Bukhari, executive director. He said that across the county, CAIR has received,
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on average, a new report of an anti-Muslim hate crime every day for the past year. Many of those incidents end up targeting people who aren’t Muslim at all, he said, but people who are perceived to be Muslim — East Indians, Sikhs, Middle Easterners of all religions and even some Latinos. In February, Bukhari said, someone wrote “Get Out” on a Hindu temple in Bothell. A nearby
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After Rep. Rodne’s remarks in November, the local CAIR office held a training session for Snoqualmie’s roughly 20 Muslim families, who were worried about the comments and wanted to know how to best respond. Several wrote letters and invited Rodne to visit their small, storefront mosque on Center Street, and to meet with them so their state legislator could get to know their families and lives. At Ijaz’s Snoqualmie Ridge home, there are drawings done by her young son, Adil, during his kindergarten class
— one of pilgrim ships arriving in America and another of a tree covered with construction-paper autumn leaves. She said he sometimes insists on being called “Wilson,” as in Russell Wilson. She said Rodne’s comments were particularly upsetting because he is supposed to represent the community and is looked up to as a leader. “I am a devout Muslim,” said Ijaz. “I am also an American. I vote. I love my country. I believe in freedom of worship and expression. I volunteer at Hopelink, at the food bank, at tent city when it was here. My religion inspired that. I’d like to know which value he would find incompatible.” Rodne hasn’t responded to his Muslim constituents’ requests for a meeting. A state legislative spokeswoman Monday said the representative has been inundated with requests for meetings of all kinds since his remarks were publicized and that, because of the holidays, he is not currently scheduling any. A fellow elected official from the 5th District, Sen.
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Willowmoor restoration efforts receive $200K grant The state Salmon Recovery Funding Board and the Puget Sound Partnership on Dec. 9
awarded a $200,000 grant to King County for designing the restoration of the Willowmoor floodplain along the Sammamish River at the north end of Lake Sammamish. The restoration will reconnect the river to up
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Education center accepting donations for Toys for Tots
Circle of Love fundraiser benefits zoo
Productions of “A Christmas Survival Guide” cancelled
The Best in Class Education Center is accepting contributions of educational toys to deliver to Toys for Tots. The public is invited to drop off educational toys, appropriate for all age groups from kindergarten through 12th grade, at their Issaquah location, 1505 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Suite No. 6. Donations will be accepted during normal business hours: 4-8 p.m. Thursday and 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The inaugural Circle of Love Fundraiser, which benefits Cougar Mountain Zoo, is now underway. Donations, which are 100 percent tax-deductible, go directly to fund the Zoological Society of Washington and Cougar Mountain Zoo. One donor will be selected as the recipient of this year’s Circle of Love half-carat diamond and gold necklace, sponsored by Marlow’s Fine Jewelry. The drawing will be at 3 p.m. Dec. 23.
The Sammamish Arts Commission has announced that due to circumstances beyond its control, it is canceling production of “A Christmas Survival Guide.” Performances were slated for Dec. 18-19 at Pine Lake Covenant Church. In a press release, the arts commission promised further theater productions in 2016.
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Car prowls
q A purse was taken after someone smashed out a side window in a car parked Nov. 27 in the 3000 block of 230th Place Northeast. q An unknown person broke two windows in a car parked Nov. 27 in the 2300 block of Northeast 29th Street. They removed a speaker box.
Snatch and run An unknown person grabbed a purse out of a shopping cart in the QFC store on 228th Avenue Southeast. The theft happened at 5 p.m. on Nov. 20.
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Cub Scout Pack 682, based at Challenger and Endeavour elementary schools, had the honor of presenting the colors at the Seattle Thunderbirds’ hockey game Dec. 5 at the ShoWare Center in Kent. The pack earned the reward after selling more game tickets than other competing Scout packs. The boys also got to view the Stanley Cup, which was there to help celebrate the 1915 Seattle Metropolitans, the first American team to win the cup. The Thunderbirds wore retro jerseys in honor of the Metropolitans.
A man described by police as highly intoxicated struck his wife with an open hand, causing redness and swelling on the bridge of her nose and around her left eye. The man was arrested and charged with fourthdegree assault. The incident was reported about 3:30 p.m. Dec. 1 in a home on 230th Lane Southeast.
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From Page 11 Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah, said Rodne’s anti-Muslim statements don’t reflect those of the majority of the district. He said that while there are many issues they agree on, Rodne’s view of Islam isn’t one of them. “The Muslims in the district, they’re raising their kids, they’re an integral part of the community,” Mullet said. A block away from Ijaz’s house, Hina Shakil,
were early members of the Snoqualmie Mosque. She said they wanted a place of worship closer than the large mosque in Redmond, a place to pray and to hold Quran classes for their children. She said they invited their neighbors to the opening in 2011 so they could share their faith and hospitality. In exchange, some of her neighbors have invited her to their churches, to learn about their religions. Her husband, Muhammad, came to the U.S. in 2000 and now works for Bellevue-based
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who holds an MBA from a Pakistani university, juggles caring for several neighborhood children and her own three kids in her home day care. Shakil kept some of the materials from the training session with CAIR and quoted from them during an interview. The high number of MuslimAmerican women with college degrees. The number of American Muslims working in high-tech jobs in the region, as nurses, doctors and engineers. An estimated 20,000 serving in the U.S. military. She and her husband
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Someone not identified in initial police reports found two .22 caliber bullets on the floor between two classrooms at Creekside Elementary School, 20777 S.E. 16th St. Reports say it is unknown how the bullets got there and contained few other details.
Burglary Suspects smashed out two double-pane sliding glass doors to gain entry into a home in the 500 block of 208th Avenue Northeast. They ransacked the three-story home, making off with some costume jewelry. The suspects set off an alarm at the home and police responded, but the suspects were apparently gone when police arrived. The incident occurred at 8:10 p.m. on Dec. 1.
Car theft Persons unknown made off with an unlocked car with the keys left in the ignition from a driveway in the 300 block of 277th Place Southeast. The make and model were not readily available. The theft was reported at 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 2.
67 in a 40 Police say they clocked a suspect moving at 67 mph in a 40 mph zone on 228th Avenue Southeast at 1:38 a.m. Dec. 3. The driver was stopped and ultimately charged with DUI.
A Grinch strikes Someone unknown stole three light projectors from the front yard of a home in the 2300 block of Southeast Eighth Street. The theft was reported at around 9 a.m. Dec. 4. Sammamish Review publishes names of those charged with felony crimes. Information comes directly from local police reports.
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New-look EC boys pick up first win under Brent Merritt By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com The identity of the Eastside Catholic boys basketball team is vastly different from past years, but the second game of the 201516 season proved the Crusaders are still capable of beating quality opponents. Sophomore guard Brock Mackenzie led three double-digit scorers with 17 points, and the Crusaders held off a late charge from the visiting Lakeside Lions for a 59-56 victory in a Class 3A Metro League matchup Dec. 8.
It was the first victory for the program under coach Brent Merritt, who replaced Bill Liley in the offseason after serving as an assistant on Garfield High School’s state title-winning teams of 2014 and ’15. The Crusaders opened the Merritt era six days earlier with a loss at Shorecrest – a game in which they were missing four players – but evened their record with a hard-fought victory over Lakeside (1-1). “We need to be full strength to win basketball games,” Merritt said. “It’s always great to get this
first one off our chest, and the guys worked hard (against) a team that, I told them before the game, is better than us.” That statement served its purpose. The Crusaders gave up the first seven points of the night, but rallied for a halftime lead and were up by as many as 11 in the second half. “When he said that, it just kind of pumped us up a little bit … and we wanted to start the game off with intensity,” Mackenzie said. The victory didn’t come easily as Lakeside senior guard
Isiah Brown, a Northwestern University signee, scorched the nets for 37 points, following up on a 38-point performance in a season-opening win over Ballard. “We didn’t do a good job of defending him, but my guy, Griffin Pierce, he made some good stops at the end that helped us win the game,” Mackenzie said. Lakeside’s Max Knight vaulted his team to an early 7-0 lead as EC turned over the ball on five of its first six possessions. But Mackenzie and Noah Springborn sank 3-pointers to get the
Crusaders within 13-10 after one quarter. EC went on a 13-0 run in the second quarter and led 27-25 at the break. Lakeside had trouble solving pressure defense, committing several turnovers that led to transition points for the Crusaders. Hayden Dahlstrom, a 6-foot10 senior, scored all six of his points in the third quarter, and Mackenzie drilled a step-back 3-pointer for EC’s first doubledigit lead. See CRUSADERS, Page 16
Shorthanded Issaquah edges Skyline swimmers By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com Issaquah’s depth was on display during its Dec. 10 victory over rival Skyline in a Class 4A KingCo Conference boys swimming and diving meet at Julius Boehm Pool. The Eagles had a figurative arm tied behind their backs as two of their better swimmers, Jason Klein and Kyle Millis, didn’t compete. Millis was out with the flu, while Klein was in Texas competing at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals. Issaquah and Skyline are always hungry to beat each other, and the absences of Klein and Millis didn’t matter much in the end as the Eagles eked out a 93.5-89.5 victory. One of the keys to victory was senior captain Alex Sun, who swam to a first-place time of 1 minute, 5.45 seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke. Sun also swam the lead leg for the winning 200 free relay squad (1:33.32), and picked up crucial points in the 200 medley relay and 100 butterfly, as the Eagles’ second- and third-place efforts were enough to offset Skyline wins in two of three relay events. Sun was pleased with his result in the breaststroke, in which he held off friend and rival Ryan Kinnear of Skyline by 1.15 seconds. He did it despite having only a few minutes to rest after the 200 free relay. “It’s an OK time,” Sun said. “I mean, it’s a dual meet and I was pretty tired from my past race, so I’m happy with it for today’s circumstance.” Issaquah was without Klein, who finished among the top three in the state last season in the 100 backstroke and 200 individual medley, and Millis, who will likely factor into the team’s relay rotation. “Issaquah has a tradition of doing really well at state in our relays, and we’ve broken the school records the past couple years,” Sun said. “I’m hoping to do it again.” Issaquah sophomore Brandon Leu also starred in his team’s victory, winning the 100 freestyle (49.79) and the 200 IM in a state-qualifying time of 2:02.05. Leu was seventh at the state meet as a freshman in the 200 free, and will look to help the Eagles replace the points they lost from graduated seniors Gabe Florsheim and Henry Pratt. Junior diver Trey Gevers, a state qualifier last year, won his event against Skyline with 179.33 points, and Issaquah’s Graham Wrightson edged Skyline’s Brayton See SWIM, Page 15
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Martin Miller (top), Eastlake High Cchool junior, pins Skyline sophomore Steven Muhlestein to end their 126-pound match at the Dec. 10 wrestling match won by the Wolves, 42-37.
Eastlake, Skyline open KingCo wrestling season with positives By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com Martin Miller is looking to take the next step in his wrestling career. The Eastlake High School junior has twice qualified for the Mat Classic state championships, but has yet to earn a medal as a top-eight finisher. He’s hoping that changes come February, and he’ll be looking to accomplish it under a new coach as Jake Crawford took the reins of the Eastlake program in October. Miller got off to a good start this season as the Wolves won both ends of a Class 4A KingCo Conference
double dual, Dec. 10 at Skyline High School. Eastlake earned a 49-21 victory over the Inglemoor Vikings and followed up with a 42-37 win over Skyline. After winning a decision against an Inglemoor opponent, Miller needed only 20 seconds to pin Skyline’s Steven Muhlestein at 126 pounds. “My first match was three rounds. I think it was 14-6, which was OK,” said Miller, who plans to drop to the 120pound division. “My last match was pretty quick, though. I got in there, he put his hands on me, and I took him down.” Crawford, 23, is coaching high-
school athletes for the first time. He graduated in 2014 from Western Washington, where he competed and coached for the Vikings’ club program. Crawford is looking to Eastlake veterans like Miller, Jacob Kaufman and William Galarpe to help with leadership this season. And he hopes to push Miller onto the podium at state, while crediting former Wolves coach Dexter Beckstead for molding the young man into what he is today. “I can bring in some techniques that are a little bit more advanced that maybe (Miller) hasn’t seen before,” See WRESTLING, Page 15
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Ryan Kinnear, Skyline High School junior, comes up for a rare breath while winning his 50-yard freestyle sprin during the Spartans’ Dec. 10 meet against Issaquah.
Swim From Page 14 Gable by less than 1 second to win the 500 freestyle (5:19.29). Skyline was in contention for the team victory the whole way thanks to several strong swims, including a state-qualifying time in the 200 medley relay. Jacob Leahy, Kinnear, Ian Camal Sado and Will O’Daffer won the race in 1:42.69. Kinnear turned in a firstplace time of 23.24 in the 50 free, only 0.79 seconds off the state cut in the second meet of the season. “Today, I was going to try to grab the block and use my arms to push off, instead of just using my
legs, so I think that’s what helped me a lot,” Kinnear said of his victory. Kinnear, a junior, is competing despite not being at full health. He said a lingering shoulder injury has kept him out of club swimming lately, and he only began training two weeks ago. “I’ve tried to have a good workout routine, eat healthy and that kind of stuff,” Kinnear said. “If I go too far, it hurts my shoulder more … so I’m just trying to focus on sprinting events and shorter events.” Skyline’s other winners against Issaquah included Joseph Spaniac in the 200 freestyle (1:52.67); O’Daffer in the 100 butterfly (54.98) and 100 backstroke (57.57); and the 400 free relay team of O’Daffer, Spaniac, Rehaan Bhimani and Leahy (3:32.28).
Crawford said. “With Martin, it’s the top 5 percent, the top 3 percent that we need to beat now. He can beat 90 percent of the guys that he steps out on the mat with.” Skyline forfeited four matches to help the Wolves to a five-point win. But Eastlake also earned 12 team points as Matt Budoff (285) pinned Benjamin Kubicki in 33 seconds, and Joshua Sims (120) pinned Cole Turner in 59 seconds. Crawford praised his assistant coach, Erik Nelson, for instilling fundamentals in a large group of freshmen who came from Inglewood Middle School. Crawford wants his athletes to master fundamentals, just as he is eager to master the basics of coaching. “That’s the thing that’s so great about the sport of wrestling, is it’s a really humbling sport,” he said. “There’s always somebody tougher. There’s always somebody better out there that you can learn from.” Skyline coach Gus Kiss has a lot of questions entering the 2015-16 season. The Spartans began answering them during the first double dual, and while they dropped the deci-
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Kenta Despe (top), Skyline High School freshman, controls Eastlake freshman Anakin MacArthur during their 113-pound match. Despe won a 6-5 decision during their Dec. 10 wrestling match. sion to Eastlake, they also picked up a 45-33 win over Bothell. “We’re a very young team; we have two seniors. We’re missing three varsity kids (tonight),” Kiss said. “We’ll be fine come year’s end.” Senior Adrian Abraham was one of the highlights of the night. The 170-pounder won both of his matches impressively, pinning both Griffin Alvis of Bothell and Andrew Plummer of Eastlake in the first period. Abraham felt motivated after what happened at Skyline’s Dec. 5 intrasquad scrimmage. “I got beat and I really
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wasn’t expecting it,” he said. “I think it was because I didn’t come out ready to wrestle. So tonight, I was just coming out as fast as I could, as aggressive as I could. It paid off.” In the Spartans’ victory over Bothell, they picked up a 5-0 decision from Raymond Kunold (160) and a first-period pin from Kubicki (285). Skyline freshman Kenta Despe (113) went late into the third period before pinning Bryce Ames. Four other Spartans won by forfeit. Skyline picked up some solid wins against Eastlake, too, starting with Akash
Yechuri’s 66-second pin of Cameron Knutsen at 152 pounds. Despe went the full six minutes against Anakin MacArthur, coming from behind to earn a 6-5 decision. Paul Abboud (132) gradually pulled away from Andrew Budoff for an 11-2 major decision. And Jacob Gehrett (138) ended the night with a first-period pin of Chris Hom. “Jacob was a regional qualifier for us last year,” Kiss said. “He has worked hard over the summer. He has gone to a couple camps. He’s a senior too … so we’re optimistic. It’s still early but, again, we’ll see how it goes.”
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Iain McLaughlin and Malik Putney, who finished with 14 and 12 points, respectively, helped the Crusaders finish off the win despite 11 fourth-quarter points from Brown. The Lions had a chance to tie or go ahead in the final 20 seconds, but Pierce stole the ball from Brown and McLaughlin made a pair of free throws for a 59-55 lead. Putney and Mackenzie, who came off the bench as freshmen for a squad that finished third at the state tournament, are now serving in starring roles. Hunter Bryant, a 6-3 junior football standout, figures to aid the team upon his arrival, but didn’t play against Lakeside after missing practice due to an illness. Mackenzie’s 17-point effort, which included three 3-pointers, is indicative of what Merritt expects of the sophomore. “He’s a killer – you’ve got to kick him out of the gym,” the coach said. “He’s made for this. He’s been waiting for his turn for a long time. Last year, he thought he was ready to play.” “It’s cool being a leader on this team now; I’m proud of my guys,” Mackenzie added. “We played really well as a team today, and if we continue to do that, we’re going to shock some people this year.” EC’s boys basketball program is ineligible for postseason play this season. Metro League officials voted in May for a one-year postseason ban due to unspecified administrative issues. Sea-King District 2 and Washington Interscholastic Activities Association board members upheld the penalty.
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