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Klahanie annexation continues heading for voters to decide

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com The city of Sammamish has moved one step closer to a public vote on the annexation of the Klahanie area.

The city filed a Notice of Intent on Dec. 8 with the King County Boundary Review Board.

While leaders expect to hold an election on the annexation in April, no vote can take place until the review board approves the notice. The board has 45 days from Dec. 8 to do so.

Among the things the notice contains are a fiscal impact statement and a study of the local services provided in the annexation area, said Emily Arteche, city senior planner.

“I’m excited about this,” Mayor Tom Vance said.

He added the annexation would be good for both Sammamish and Klahanie, with the latter gaining lower taxes and better local services.

Officials also will be able to plan better for growth and road improvements, Vance said.

For example, the city will take a look at what Vance called commuter corridors, specifically Issaquah-Pine Lake and Issaquah-Fall City roads. He said improving those roadways would benefit Issaquah as well.

If annexed by Sammamish, Klahanie residents still would receive fire service from Eastside Fire & Rescue, Arteche said.

Water and sewer service would remain with the Sammamish Plateau Sewer and Water District. Trash collection would not change.

As for police services, Sammamish contracts with the King County Sheriff’s Office.

The sheriff’s office also serves the Klahanie neighborhood, as it presently is an unincorporated part of King County. Essentially, the sheriff’s office would continue to serve Klahanie, but under the sheriff’s contract with Sammamish.

Nevertheless, Arteche said Klahanie residents should experience faster police response times because officers will be on local duty and not have to respond from outside the immediate area.

State law pretty much spells out the next steps in the annexation process, said Lenora Blauman, executive secretary for the boundary review board.

The board must hold a public meeting on the annexation.

That meeting is planned for 7 p.m. Jan. 8 in the board’s normal meeting location, Bellevue See KLAHANIE, Page 3

Gingerbread artists

Photos by Neil Pierson

Blackwell Elementary School students (above) look at gingerbread creations made by their classmates, including a ship built by fourth-grader Delaney Sutton, during the school’s third gingerbread contest Dec. 19. First-grader Jay Baxter’s gingerbread creation (right) showed off his love for the Seattle Seahawks. The following students received the most votes at their grade level: Katrina Oestman, Walter Steinbok, Zoe Jankowiak, Alexander Walker, Adam Brandt, Jay Baxter, Trey Joyce, Liya Porat, Uri Porat, Anna Kotler, Mehek Mathur, Ella Hamilton, Sam Fletcher, Delaney Sutton, Daniel Sanders, Alex Balt, Haiden Hodges, Claire Murawski, Lauren Ritchie and Mackenzie Hunkins.

Two-car crash closes Woman pleads not guilty after being charged in May car crash Duthie Hill Road Duthie Hill Road was closed for about two hours Dec. 18 after a head-on collision.

Both drivers involved in the crash were sent to hospitals with serious but not life-threatening injuries, according to a Sammamish police officer at the scene.

A Subaru Outback was heading eastbound toward Fall City when the driver began to lose control, overcorrected and was unable to avoid colliding with a Honda Accord.

The Subaru driver was sent to Overlake Hospital, while the Honda driver was taken to Harborview Medical Center. Both drivers were females from Redmond.

The accident occurred at 12:15 p.m. All lanes of Duthie Hill Road were closed between Issaquah-Beaver Lake Road and Trossachs Boulevard.

A Sammamish woman accused of crashing her Jeep through her home and killing her husband and son-in-law after mixing wine with Ambien pleaded not guilty Dec. 18 in Seattle to vehicular homicide charges.

Carol Fedigan, 68, had her nearly 3-year-old grandson on her lap during the crash that also injured her daughter.

Fedigan also pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular assault and reckless endangerment.

If convicted, Fedigan could face 10 to 13 years in prison.

Charging documents said she had been drinking wine at dinner and had taken the prescription sleep aid Ambien before trying to move her SUV at her waterfront home on Lake Sammamish in May. She accelerated instead of braking and the Jeep plowed through the house, smashed over the dinner table, 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 said.

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December 24, 2014

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Eastlake alum travels the world telling stories, helping children

By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com Casey Walker wasn’t sure what to do with the bachelor’s degree in English she earned four years ago, but a lot of prayer and perseverance have led her to something she calls “the dream job of all dream jobs.”

Walker is a Sammamish native and a product of Lake Washington schools, having graduated from Eastlake High School in 2006. She stayed close to home for her undergraduate work at the University of Washington, but knew in her heart there was a deeper calling than working the usual 9-to-5 job.

She combined her love for film with her writing expertise, and in April 2013, she connected with the Eloy Project, a six-member documentary team that travels worldwide to tell the stories of orphans.

The project is a branch of a larger advocacy group, A Voice for the Voiceless, a media training program that is combating issues like AIDS, sex trafficking and poverty in countries around the globe.

Eloy, meaning “chosen” in Spanish, is working on a full-length documentary that follows three orphans in different countries. The

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Many orphaned children in Third World countries have spent time with Sammamish native Casey Walker and her team with the Eloy Project.

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Eastlake High School alum Casey Walker (left), is the screenwriter for the Eloy Project, a six-member team that is traveling the world and making a documentary film about orphans. The film is tenatively scheduled for release next fall. crew has already been to India, where they’re featuring a teenage street dweller, and they’re planning to go to Asia and South America in 2015 with the goal of a late-fall 2015 film release and tour.

Walker, who serves as the screenwriter, said the team has been working with experts to determine the best solutions for orphans.

She said Western culture holds a widely accepted view that children shouldn’t live in, but that doesn’t always translate to other parts of the world.

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Even in “good orphanages,” where children are well-fed and educated, the environment can be detrimental to a child’s development, Walker said.

“Even if they’re not a young child … we’re beginning to see a whole host of problems stemming from behavioral to just vulnerability,” she said. “So when they graduate out of their orphanage … criminality, prostitution and suicide are huge.”

In the team’s previous travels through Africa, Eastern Europe and the

Middle East, they determined poverty to be the top reason for mothers voluntarily giving up their children. It seemed logical to then begin promoting a different model of charitable giving, Walker said.

“There’s a lot more money going into orphanages, but the money can basically go a lot farther if you put it into family care — helping a family get on their feet or helping a parent go through counseling that they need,” she said. “It’s a lot cheaper than food and education and boarding and

clothing, and all the regulations that go with running an orphanage.”

Before filming, the team identified a key for imparting their message — let the children speak.

“Experts can talk until they’re blue in the face … but really it’s the child who has the final say of where they want to be and how they’re cared for,” Walker said.

The Eloy Project’s goal isn’t to have people stop giving money to orphanages, but to transition into a more effective care model.

Financially and emotionally, children do better when they’re part of a traditional or nontraditional family, she added.

The five traveling team members are Christians and come from diverse backgrounds. Walker and another woman are from the Seattle area, while the others grew up in Canada, England and Central America.

That diversity has merged as they’ve gotten to know

each other on deeper levels, Walker said. They’ve been through plenty of harrowing times — surrounded by panicked Israeli crowds as missiles flew overhead; followed by strangers in Nairobi, Kenya; and stranded on a Turkish freeway at 2 a.m.

“You need such a strong team to be lasting through such ordeals,” Walker said.

“I think what I’ve learned from my team is patient endurance.”

The team is accepting donations for its remaining costs, which include filming abroad, editing and distribution to a nationwide audience. Walker said they wouldn’t have gotten this far without the help of many generous people.

Walker is doing a job others might find difficult, but it’s something she finds vital because of the lasting legacy it could leave on future generations.

“Life is too short to not give it a shot,” she said of her job. “I think I would always regret it if I hadn’t.”

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Council takes up issue of initiatives, referendums

Klahanie From Page 1

By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com

Fire Station 9, 12412 S.E. Newcastle Way. One important note, according to Blauman: The meeting is a public meeting, not a public hearing. The public is welcome to attend, but there will be no opportunity for public comment. The public may submit written testimony to the board.

Until the review board takes action, annexation opponents still have time to block or at least slow the issue’s march to the ballot. Residents or other interested parties would need to collect the signatures of 5 percent of Klahanie’s registered voters to invoke jurisdiction and force a public hearing on the annexation.

Any government body also has the right to invoke jurisdiction and force a hearing. As cities move forward with annexations, they often invoke jurisdiction themselves, just to ensure there is a public hearing, Blauman said. In this instance, she added, Sammamish officials have indicated they will not seek a public hearing because they believe those interested in the annexation have had plenty of opportunity to express their opinions.

There were some rumblings about a group of residents attempting to invoke jurisdiction, according to Blauman, who added there has been no evidence to suggest an organized effort is underway.

“I think it’s unlikely jurisdiction will be invoked in this instance,” Blauman said.

There are several reasons the Sammamish City Council might want to consider granting residents the right to mount initiative or referendum questions.

One is to provide residents with direct, not representative democracy.

With some limits, initiatives and referendums allow residents to bypass legislators and put questions directly in front of voters.

But there are also reasons why the council might not want to grant initiative and referendum rights, said attorney Kim Pratt, from Kenyon Disend, the law firm that represents the city.

At a work session Dec. 9, Pratt said voter-initiated ballot questions can be poorly written and hard to enforce, can result in unfunded mandates and that the process can allow special interest groups undue influence.

The Sammamish City Council is taking up the issue of granting initiative and referendum rights

largely at the urging of the grassroots group Citizens for Sammamish. The group’s Harry Shedd told council members it often seems as if local legislators only represent the people every four years. Initiatives and referendums grant voters the right to raise issues on their own, he said.

The initiative process allows residents, if they collect signatures of enough registered voters, to put questions regarding specific issues directly on the ballot.

Again, if enough signatures are collected, referendums allow voters the opportunity to repeal legislation adopted by local lawmakers.

Pratt said of 191 code cities in Washington, 50 grant such rights.

“Code cities” operate according to states codes; they do not have a city charter setting up a local authority. Pratt named Kirkland, Kennewick and Auburn as larger codes cities that do not grant initiative and referendum rights. She said Sammamish is the sixth largest city in the state with-

Obituary Paul D. Johnson Paul D. Johnson, 71, of Sammamish, died Dec. 12, 2014.

Born Dec. 15, 1942. Beloved husband of Cynthia “Cindy” Johnson; father of Denise (Tyron) Long and Paul (Aimee) Johnson; grandfather of Jason, Trevor, Brandon and Cindy Long, Zachary and Meghan Johnson, and Alex and Joel Kreider; brother of

David, Bill, Sue, Dan and Mary.

out such rights.

With both referendums and initiatives, there are limits as to what types of issues can be put before voters. For initiatives, administrative actions and council resolutions are out of bounds as is any right given by the state specifically to local governments.

That last prohibition seems to be an important one for City Councilwoman Kathleen Huckabay.

In October, the City Council prohibited recreational marijuana businesses from locating in Sammamish.

Huckabay wanted to know if residents could place a measure allowing such businesses on the ballot by way of initiative or referendum. Pratt said she believes the state gave cities direct control of marijuana businesses, so a voter-backed ballot issue on the question isn’t possible.

According to Pratt, there are several types of legislation voters cannot revoke through a referendum. Voters cannot act to repeal taxes or virtually any ordinance appropriating

Preceded in death by his daughter Donna.

Funeral Mass was held Friday, Dec. 19, 2014, at Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Sammamish. Interment followed at Upper Hillside Cemetery, Issaquah.

Arrangements were

by Flintoft’s Issaquah Funeral Home. Friends may view photos and sign the online guest book at www.flintofts. com.

money. Ordinances establishing or approving collective bargaining agreements or compensation for city workers are off the table as well. Although Pratt did not say so in her presentation to council, Shedd later said the same list applies to initiative measures.

Once signatures are gathered and reviewed, residents still have time to stop questions from reaching the ballot. Opponents are given 30 days to gather counter signatures and prevent ballot issues from going forward.

There was some disagreement about how many signatures would be needed to stop issues, but the number is generally 10 percent of the city’s registered voters, Pratt and Shedd said.

On one other front, Pratt said normally legislation becomes effective five days

after adoption by the City Council. If a piece of legislation is subject to referendum, that legislation would not become effective for 30 days, giving residents the opportunity to mount a referendum action potentially repealing that legislation.

Talking about a few other general rules for initiatives and referendums, Pratt said to the best of her knowledge, the council cannot grant initiative rights without also granting referendum rights, or vice versa. Once adopted by voters, the council cannot amend legislation adopted by way of initiative; a public vote would be needed to alter any such measure.

No council member came out for or against the idea of initiatives or referendums. Basically, they asked Pratt to return with more information.

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December 24, 2014

OPINION

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Councilman was right to question process

In 1897, Dr. Philip O’Hanlon was asked by his then-8year-old daughter Virginia whether Santa Claus really existed.

O’Hanlon suggested she write to The Sun, a prominent New York City newspaper at the time.

Virginia’s letter became the introduction to an editorial in The Sun, and is reprinted here. Merry Christmas one and all!

Dear Editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon 115 W. Ninety-Fifth St.

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.

Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world, which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and lives forever.

A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church

As follow up to your Dec. 10 story, “Councilman again takes issue with attorney contract,” I would like to commend Ramiro Valderrama for questioning the process and actions surrounding the contract with the city’s legal counsel.

I am disappointed that other council members rebuked Ramiro’s statements and questions regarding the rubber-stamping of rate increases for the city law firm.

“Frankly I am tired of it,” one councilman said.

As a voter, business owner and resident of Sammamish, I am certainly not “tired of it.” What I like to see is fiscal responsibility and wise use of our hard earned wages that are paid in taxes to provide services for our city.

The current national average for private industry annual pay raises is about 1.5 percent. We are offering 2.3 percent. We are also treating him as an employee if employees with the city also received, exactly, 2.3 percent.

Most vendors with the city must compete for the business by submitting bids. While this is not prudent every year for a legal service, it should be done occasionally.

I understand the value we receive in legal services and would like those that serve the city paid fairly, but I expect the process in how we determine vendors and how much we pay them to be fis-

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Ramiro was asking all the right questions.

Woody Hertzog Sammamish

Residents need a place to voice their feelings What has happened to the letters section? Sammamish residents used to have a venue to voice their opinions and now it is more often than not the contact information for federal, state and local government. We have them...enough. When is the space going to be given back to the readers?

In reference to the issue of the Sammamish residents being granted/”allowed” the legal process of initiatives and referendums - the recent editorial in the Review voiced a very valid point to the City Council as well as resident Christi Malchow. One must ask the question: Why would the City Council object to the idea of giving more power to the people who vote for them?

Last but not least, after a survey of only 400 residents of Sammamish, the results tallied claim that “most” of the residents are happy with the direction of the city. According to the private contractor, “based on Sammamish’s population, the number of people interviewed is statistically valid.” Really? What about the other thousands of residents? I sure hope it didn’t cost much tax money to find out that “most” of 400 people in Sammamish are happy. I am one of those more than 30-year residents where the satisfaction drops significantly....but no one asked me.

Claudia Haunreiter Sammamish Editor’s note: We run “Share your views,” contact information for local legislators, when we don’t have enough letters to fill the space we have on this page. We encourage you to write about your opinion regarding topics in your city, both good and bad.

Share your views Citizens can make a difference by contacting their elected representatives.

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Mayor Tom Vance: tvance@sammamish.us Deputy Mayor Kathleen Huckabay: khuckabay@sammamish. us

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December 24, 2014

SAMMAMISH REVIEW

Skyline boys dominate fourth quarter, beat Newport

By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com With a 44-38 deficit heading into the fourth quarter, the Skyline Spartans needed to make some game-changing plays, and they did it by going back to their original game plan.

“One of our keys is offensive rebounds, both us preventing them and then us getting them,” coach Bill McIntyre said.

“At that point, going into the fourth quarter, I’m not sure we even had an offensive rebound. It was a good time to click in and start doing some of the things that we practice.”

The Spartans turned the game around by playing hard-nosed defense and collecting secondshot opportunities, and they earned their first win of the season, 56-49, over the visiting Newport Knights Dec. 16 in Class 4A KingCo Conference boys basketball action.

Braden Ahlemeyer, a 6-foot-5 junior forward, keyed the comeback effort with some scrappy plays under the basket. He worked tirelessly at both ends of the floor and finished with 12 points.

“He’s relentless on the boards, and he kept balls alive for us in the fourth quarter,” McIntyre said.

Ahlemeyer said it felt great to help the Spartans even their record at 1-1 in

the conference and recover from a 65-62 defeat at Inglemoor 11 days earlier.

He helped keep Newport’s Calvin Throckmorton, a 6-7 senior, from dominating the game down low with his bruising physical nature.

“I like a good challenge like that,” Ahlemeyer said of facing Throckmorton.

“He’s a good player. He’s going to Oregon next year for football. He’s very strong, but I like handling guys like that.”

Newport (2-1 overall, 1-1 KingCo) seemed to have the game in hand with eight minutes to play. The Knights kept momentum on their side as Throckmorton scored 15 points inside the paint and guard Jake Higgins added 10 points on jump shots and drives to the basket.

They led by as many as nine points in the first half before the Spartans closed the gap to 31-28 on Blake Gregory’s pull-up 15-footer at the buzzer.

Skyline then took a 36-33 lead midway through the third quarter on John Farrar’s only bucket of the game, but Newport responded with an 11-2 run.

Skyline senior guard Robert Biegaj led all scorers with 20 points, 14 of them in the first half.

Drew Stender and Logan Wanamaker combined for 17 points, 11 coming in

the second half.

Having a long break helped the Spartans — their Dec. 9 game against Bothell was pushed back to Jan. 24 after the Cougars reached the state football title game and wanted to reschedule to rest some of their players for basketball season.

“We had a lot of prep time and we had a lot of rest before this game, so we just got our minds right and watched a lot of film on Newport,” Ahlemeyer said. “We just came into this game knowing what we were going to do, and we had a game plan, so it was good.”

“In a lot of ways, it sort of became almost a first-game scenario for us again,” McIntyre added.

“But I’m proud of how they played, obviously.

They got down, and got down again, and just kept battling, and they made plays.”

The fourth quarter was a thing of beauty for the Spartans as they overcame some foul trouble and outscored the Knights 19-5.

“I’d like to see us do that for all four quarters — the game might not be so close,” McIntyre mused.

Skyline travels to San Diego, California, for a three-day holiday tournament after Christmas, and returns to KingCo Conference play Jan. 3 at Mount Si.

By Greg Farrar

Skyline High School junior forward Braden Ahlemeyer battles three Newport players, including Ryan Kingma (right), for an offensive rebound Dec. 16 during the heated fourth quarter of the Spartans’ 57-49 win over the Knights.

Eastlake swims to more state times, win over Juanita

By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com It has been a red-hot start to the season for the Eastlake High School boys, who have recorded seven state-qualifying times in their first three swim meets.

The Wolves added to the haul Dec. 16 during a 109-76 nonleague victory over the Juanita Rebels at Redmond Pool.

Freshman Brandon Yue qualified for February’s Class 4A state championships in the 100-yard breaststroke. His winning time of 1 minute, 1.90 seconds broke the standard by less than one second.

Eastlake had already started the season impressively with

all three relay teams earning state berths in the season’s first two meets. On top of that, Yue earned a state time in the 200 individual medley (2:03.17) and senior Jackson Berman did it in the 200 freestyle (1:48.88) and 500 freestyle (4:46.60).

It’s the kind of start that shows the program is still in good shape, even though the Edward Kim era has ended. Last winter, Kim became only the second male swimmer in state history to capture eight individual titles, and he’s now competing at Harvard University.

Markus Zimmermann, a junior who is on the cusp of some statequalifying times, said Eastlake’s bumper crop of ninth-graders has

helped the team reload. Many of them compete year round for the Bellevue Club Swim Team.

“Knowing them personally, it really helps for motivation and stuff,” Zimmermann said.

“They’re really strong swimmers, and we have put together really great relays.

“And overall, since we also have different strong suits … it really puts a well-rounded team together, which helps us win meets like this.”

Zimmermann is closing in on the state standards in the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly. He won both events against Juanita — the former in 1:51.82 and the latter in 57.12 seconds.

He’s been working on creating

a mix of speed and endurance in the 200 free, and he said his coach with the Bellevue club said he “really thinks the 200 free is my best event right now.”

With his strokes gradually improving, Zimmermann is looking to hone techniques that can also shave off a few precious seconds.

“I’ve been trying to work on my head position and my turns into the wall, and I felt I really did well on those today,” he said. “And also trying to go out really fast, and I think I accomplished all that.”

Eastlake won 10 of 12 events against Juanita, including all three relays.

In the 200 medley relay, the

Wolves didn’t match their previous best time, but cruised to the win in 1:46.61 behind Berman, Yue, senior Ryan Caraway and freshman Nikita Polyakov.

Berman, Caraway, Polyakov and Zimmermann won the 200 free relay in 1:36.74. Sophomore John Xie teamed with Polyakov, Zimmermann and Yue to cap the day with a win in the 400 free relay (3:32.63).

Berman won a pair of events against Juanita. He finished the 200 IM in 2:07.02, less than four seconds shy of the state standard. His time of 52.48 in the 100 free was also enough to win, although his season-best is 50.62, about half a second short of a state berth.

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POLICE BLOTTER Stolen

A generator and a pump were stolen Dec. 8 from a construction site in the 1900 block of 228th Avenue Southeast.

The incident was reported at 8 a.m. that morning.

Thefts from cars • An MP3 player was stolen when someone smashed out the window of a car parked Dec. 8 in the 3000 block of 230th Lane Southeast. The theft was reported at 9:19 a.m.

• A bag containing various tools was taken from a van parked Dec. 8 in the lot of an apartment complex on Northeast Inglewood.

The thieves broke out a window to gain access in the incident that was reported at 11 a.m.

Home burglary Police say unknown suspects broke a window and unlocked the deadbolt on the door of a home on 243rd Place Southeast. The master bedroom was ransacked, with jewelry, electronics and checks among the items stolen. The burglary happened Dec. 8.

The time of the burglary was not listed, but the incident was reported at about 4 p.m.

A real Grinch Residents at a home in the 3800 block of 204th Avenue Southeast said someone came into their front yard three nights in a row and snipped out chunks of wire from between the lights of their Christmas display. The vandalism was reported to police Dec. 8.

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