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Sen. Hill legislation seeks changes to Interstate 405 toll lanes

BY LAVENDRICK SMITH WNPA Olympia Bureau

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awmakers say they intend to find immediate solutions to motorists’ frustration and anger over the Interstate 405 express toll lanes, which opened in September.

Senate Bill 6152 would authorize the Washington State Department of

Transportation to operate only one express toll lane in each direction on I-405.

Currently the agency operates two express toll lanes from Bellevue to Bothell in both directions, in addition to a single express toll lane running in both directions from Bothell to Lynnwood.

I-405 extends from I-5 at Tukwila to the south along the east side of Lake Washington, reconnecting to I-5

just north of Lynnwood.

Bill sponsor Sen. Andy Hill, R-Redmond, and Rep. Mark Harmsworth, R-Mill Creek, who has a companion bill in the House, said Thursday thousands of constituents in their districts have complained of traffic congestion and high toll rates since the express toll lanes opened.

Harmsworth said congestion increased on I-405

when just three non-toll, tolls. It takes just a little general-purpose lanes were step back to give us some left open. He called relief so that we can the legislation a first start looking at this step toward mitigatproblem.” ing the effects of the David Hablewitz, new lanes. with Stop405Tolls, “It’s a moderate an organization approach,” he said with support from at a hearing on the 28,000 people who Sen. Andy Hill bill in the Senate oppose the express Transportation toll lanes, said he’d Committee on Jan. 14. “It like to see a bill that redoesn’t do away with the moves the tolls completely,

calling the toll program an improper way to collect revenue.

“Charging a fee to drive on a road does nothing to increase its capacity,” Hablewitz said.

Not everyone is against the express lanes, including some commuters. Duncan Milloy, a Mill Creek resident, said he travels I-405 frequently in the HOV [ more TOLLS page 7 ]

Low, moderate income residents feeling housing squeeze in east King Skyrocketing real estate prices, low wages to blame

ARCH. Currently, there are only 60,500 housing units planned, according to the data.

ARCH is an organization which was created in

BY AARON KUNKLER 1992 through an inter-local akunkler@bothell-reporter.com agreement between East King County cities to adHousing in King County dress affordable housing is in high demand and concerns. The organizalow to moderate income tion works with the cities residents are feeling the to preserve and expand crunch. affordable housing, but East King County, with real estate costs nearly stretching from Kenmore to Issaquah to Bellevue, has doubling since its inception, and funding commitseen a dramatic increase in ments from cities holding living costs during the steady and falling well past decade, accordbelow inflation, it is ing to 2015 data struggling to meet EASTSIDE from A Regional the area’s housing Coalition for Housneeds, particularly ing (ARCH). This for low income resiincrease is due largedents. ly to an increase in those “It takes so much to get looking for housing, as from the market all the the area emerges from the way down to low income,” Great Recession, a housing ARCH director Arthur deficit and stagnant wages Sullivan said. “To get to low for many working people. income, it’s always needed During the past three direct assistance.” decades, East King County The organization uses has gone from having three main routes to a surplus of housing to encourage the creation of employing a workforce aff ordable housing. that requires 25 percent The first is trying to cremore housing than is ate diversity through the available. The situation is private sector where cities only expected to get worse zone to allow more flexibilover the next 20 years with ity in the creation of multithe addition of a projected family housing, including 133,000 jobs, requiring apartments, duplexes and some 95,000 additional

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Woodinville resident Jennifer Dixon owns Rocket Fizz in downtown Kirkland and hopes its retro feel and assortment of in-house soda pop will keep patrons coming back for more. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter

Rocket Fizz brings retro feel to downtown Kirkland

BY TJ MARTINELL

tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com

A fond memory from Jennifer Dixon’s youth is visiting the general store near her grandparents’ place in Pennsylvania. Her grandfather would take her there to get candy.

“He (Grandpa) was a candy guy,” she said. “My parents were more of the

‘eat all the fruit you like’ type.”

Now, Dixon has come full circle with the opening of Rocket Fizz, a soda and candy store, in downtown Kirkland. The store held its grand opening last week.

Dixon first got the idea of opening up a Rocket Fizz store, her first busi-

ness, early last year after seeing the co-founders featured on the TV show Undercover Boss. First opened in Camarillo, Calif. in February 2009, the store concept was created by Ryan Morgan and Robert (“Rob”) Powells.

“Something about it was appealing to me,” she said.

“It was the visual aspect to

it. The old time retro feel. I really liked the demeanor and personality of the cofounders.”

A trip to Portland to visit stores there later cemented her desire to open one in the Seattle area, which got off the ground following training in California. While others [ more CANDY page 13 ]

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Kirkland hosts Pokémon tourney

Kirkland car dealer agrees to pay fines for misleading advertising

BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com

Rairdon’s Dodge Chrysler Jeep of Kirkland has agreed to pay $74,435 stemming from allegations that it sent out promotional mailers resembling official recall notices. The car dealer was accused of sending 7,025 mailers that looked very similar to the form used by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recall notifications, but were in fact promotional materials.

The car dealer was accused of sending 7,025 mailers that looked very similar to the form used by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recall notifications, but were in fact promotional materials. The mailers mentioned possible recalls and offered to purchase vehicles, but according to state officials it did not clearly disclose that the offer to buy was independent from any recall notification. State officials

BY ASHLEY MCCUEN

Special to the Reporter

The Kirkland Teen Union Building was the site of the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) City Championship this past Saturday where 67 participants of all ages came to compete.

The teen center was abuzz, as players aged eight up to their late 50s checked in, shuffled their Pokémon card decks and sat across from their opponent at three long rows of plastic tables.

Jim and Susan Lambkee, of Kent, arrived at the youth center at 9:30 a.m. to set up for a day of tournaments.

Throughout the year, they organize several Pokémon TCG Tournaments.

This tournament was comprised of three levels of players – 13 juniors (ages 11 and under), 13 seniors (ages 12-15), and 41 masters (ages 16 and over). During the first round, the computer matched the players by age

Sixty-seven players turned up for the Pokémon City Championships in Kirkland. ASHLEY MCCUEN, Special to the Reporter level. From there on out, opponents were matched according to wins and losses.

After a busy hour of registering, it was around 11:15 a.m. when Lambkee announced that round one could begin. With that, the players went into quiet concentration, while parents and judges hovered above.

Throughout the games the players worked to earn Championship Points with the goal of increasing their chances to be invited to the World Championships later this year in San Francisco.

After six rounds for masters and five rounds for juniors and seniors, the playoff rounds took place.

Victors emerged as they won the best two-out-of-three in match play. After nearly nine hours, the last group finished at about 8:30 p.m.

As it was the last weekend

of City Championships, this tournament had a great turn-out, with participants traveling from all over Washington State, several from Canada and one family from California.

The card game, which came to North America in 1999, has become more than a simple fad as many first thought it to be.

“It starts out as a family thing,” said Jim Lambkee, speaking of his daughter who first got him into the game.

His daughter, Mindy Lambkee, first started playing the game 17 years ago. She went on to play for eight years and even won the junior division of the Pokémon World Championship in 2002 at age 10.

Now his daughter has moved on, yet Lambkee still finds himself enjoying the hobby and community he

found in the game.

After Saturday’s tournament, many of the participants and families will move on to pursue the Pokémon State and Regional Championships.

Miranda Wisniach of Bellevue has been taking her two sons, ages 8 and 10, to Pokémon city tournaments every weekend for the past two months. Continuing on to other championships and eventually the World Championship is the boys’ goal.

“It’s definitely our favorite activity,” the boys explain.

Wisniach and her husband even join in the game. “It’s something they can do together,” Wisniach adds with a smile.

More information on upcoming tournaments can be found at www. pokemon.com.

like Attorney General Bob Ferguson Ferguson alleged that this misled a substantial number of consumers in violation of the state Consumer Protection Act. The car dealership will pay $35,125 in civil penalties and $39,210 in costs and fees.

“I will not tolerate a business driving sales by using scare tactics to dupe consumers into thinking their car has a safety problem,” Ferguson said. “Advertising needs to be clear and honest. When ads mislead consumers, my office will take action to hold violators accountable.”

Phone calls by the Reporter to Rairdon’s seeking comment were not returned.

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Two New York trips and one big win for Kirkland resident

BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com

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f cities are urban jungles, consider men like Kirkland resident Jon Ramirez an urban Tarzan.

Last month, Ramirez took first place at the New York City Men’s Health Urbanathlon, a race that blends running with obstacles found in urban environments.

A trainer at Elite Fitness in Bellevue, Ramirez first started competing in the Urbanathlon around seven years ago, which he said he did on a whim. Although he’s never considered himself a runner, the addition of urban structures throughout the 12-mile course full of buses, monkey bars and graffiti-covered walls was enough to get him hooked.

“I liked these obstacles and these particular races.

And then they would have something, a wall you would have to climb over,” he said. “I was able to do that quite successfully and then of course get back into running. It was definitely breaking up the monotony. Just having that break up of some kind of obstacle definitely made it more entertaining and certainly added to the challenge.”

“When I came back I went to my bosses and I said ‘We need to do this.’”

Every year from then on they would take clients to Chicago, where the event is normally held, but not before training six months in advance.

“We build a gradual running base and we attempt to train as best we can and incorporate any obstacle stuff as we can,” he said. “I’ve gone as far as building a few hurdles and whatnot and put them around town when we go running.”

This year, however, they ran into a snag, first when the event was moved from Chicago to New York City.

“We were thinking, ‘We’re going to fly across the country, we’ll do all the same training and see how it goes,’” he said.

It was then they ran into another setback when the New York Mets played the Chicago Cubs

Kirkland resident Jon Ramirez, left, won the New York City Men’s Health Urbanathlon. CONTRIBUTED in the World Series. had learned from past Whereas in Chicago competitions not to race the race had them run with the runners but to through Soldier Field, the run strategically.

New York route would “The first year I have them run through definitely saw what I was City Field, where the lacking and I definitely World Series was taking figured out what I needed place. As a result, the to practice,” he said. “I race was postponed for a had a definite race stratemonth. gy, a race plan and I try to “We had already have a race plan anytime booked tickets and hotels I go into any particular and restaurants, not to race I’m doing.” mention all the training,” Soon, he had passed all he said. “Money of the other parhad been spent, “We were side-by- ticipants, except so we still went side for the entirety for one. to New York “We were of the race. Every but they didn’t side-by-side step was just right have the race. next to each other. for the entirety We made the of the race,” he I counted five or six most of it and said. “Every step did little fitness times when we kind was just right activities unique of touched elbows.” next to each

Jon Ramirez to the New York other. I counted area.” five or six times However, when we kind of Ramirez couldn’t shake touched elbows.” the urge to compete in the Still, he said, he was Urbanathlon, and when determined not to chase they returned home from after him. the trip he decided he had “I did not want to run to return. according to how the “I waited a few days others were running,” he until I got back home, said. “I just followed just went on a practice run what my watch said.” and that’s when I decided At the end, the other I was going to do it,” he man managed to stay ahead said. of Ramirez and crossed When he got to New the finish line about ten York City for the second seconds before him. time, he found the course The thing was, the man much more technical with had started in the first more sudden turns that wave before Ramirez, impacted running speeds. which meant he had actuRunning with the second ally finished 50 seconds wave, Ramirez said he sooner and won.

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What is the economic benefit of buses on CKC vs. 405?

I am a resident of Kirkland and I do not support bus rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor.

There are many safety concerns with buses on the CKC: It is near many parks and schools; It’s used by many school kids; and It connects neighborhoods and has a lot of pedestrian cross traffic.

I will oppose ST3 if it includes transit on the CKC. In addition, I would be interested in an economic cost benefit analysis comparing the use of 405 vs. the CKC as well as the results of the an environmental impact study comparing rapid transit on the CKC vs. utilizing 405.

Tyler Platte, Kirkland

Support transit on the trail, we are going to need it A million more people will live in the region in 25 years, and you can bet that Kirkland will get more than its fair share of them. Our freeways are already jammed, and high capacity transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor (CKC), with extensive feeder buses, will provide a critical alternative to being stuck in traffic.

My wife and I purchased our Houghton home next to the CKC in the ‘60s. The CKC was part of a private rail corridor then, and thanks to visionary planning, it is part of a regional public corridor now. While some property owners have expressed concerns, transit use of the corridor should not be a surprise to anyone.

The city has done a great job of building and advertising the interim trail, and no one wants to lose it. However, there is room for transit and a first-class trail, and Sound Transit (the transit provider) would be expected to provide both.

While actual construction would likely not start for many years, the Sound Transit plan to be voted on next fall (ST3), provides a unique opportunity to lock in the funding. For our city’s future we need to take the long view, learn about the options, provide constructive feedback, and enthusiastically support development of the CKC and a regional ST3.

sit to get around in our city and our region.

The old rail line was purchased with this intent.

I’d like to see people consider the greater good of all residents, not just the few who’s property values are benefitting from a nearby trail.

I plan to support the Council in their CKC efforts and give input such as choosing transit that is quieter and less polluting.

I’m ready to see this great corridor become even better.

Susan Vossler, Kirkland

Keep the trail as is, don’t add to our hectic lifestyle

I do not support bus or rail rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor (CKC).

I use the trail to commute via bike.

While located in Woodinville, I use the trial to Parkplace and back, and found it a great benefit to my health.

Dave Russell, Kirkland I have since purchased a home in Kirkland off of 112th and continue to use this for a means of self-transportation.

This was one of the reason for my purchase as I am now able to ride bikes with my daughter to the The Cross Kirkland Corridor is a gift to the Google campus and enjoy the park there. public.

My daughter plays and watches a lot of elecWe all use it to walk, ride our strollers, run, bike tronics; and this was the very few outdoor activiand walk our dogs.

You have done so much to improve the trail and ties I can enjoy with my daughter while getting exercise. it is perfect to enjoy for the public.

My wife also runs on the CKC. Living in KirkBuses just don’t belong on our trail. land has been great; and having the city life Therefore, I do not support bus rapid tran[takes] a little getting used to; with all the sit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor. and limited outdoor activities.

There are many safety concerns with KIRKLAND congestion I found this trial to ease the mind and buses on the CKC: It is near many parks bring great happiness for my family, as and schools; It’s used by many school well as the community. kids; and It connects neighborhoods and Please consider this letter as this is from has a lot of pedestrian cross traffic. the bottom of my heart and don’t add to the I will oppose ST3 if it includes transit on the already hectic lifestyle.

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Nicolette Bouw, Kirkland

I support rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor I support rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor. GASP! Yes, I support it.

Our city/region has an ever-increasing problem with traffic and with this problem comes more: pollution, health risks and change to our climate.

Our City Council is doing the right thing by providing more people the opportunity to leave their car at home and either walk, bike or use tran-

Steve Meza, Kirkland

Don’t change Interstate 405 tolling system I understand that a bill is being considered which would change one of the Kirkland-area Flex Pass lanes to a general lane. Sad. I am amazed that this is even being considered.

Look at any I-5 section from Fife to Everett. It is painfully slow in rush hour even with seven or more lanes. You don’t need to look far to see that adding general lanes barely helps. A single

carpool lane typically goes the same speed as the general lanes, so it removes the biggest incentive to carpool.

In Kirkland, the Flex Pass lanes go 60 mph in rush hour, and a single driver can use them, unlike other diamond lanes, without a carpool. Fee too high? Really? You don’t value your time at your hourly pay rate? OK, sit in traffic. From Fife to Everett, there is no choice but to sit.

In the Kirkland I-405 section, at least you have a choice.

You say your tax dollars paid for this? Wrong.

Voluntary toll payers are paying. You save taxes every time someone else pays a toll. Pissed at $10 tolls? Why? That is more taxes you save, since those extra revenues paid by someone else replace taxes you would have paid for other roads.

I don’t know why folks want to change the lane so they can sit in traffic like I-5. Plus, with extra incentives to carpool, parking problems in Kirkland are helped because there will be fewer cars to park.

Tolling not only saves you taxes, but keeps parking fees low as well.

Doug Rough, Kirkland

Keep transit off the corridor for quality of life I do not support bus rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor.

For quality of life, safety and fiscal reasons we oppose buses on the Cross Kirkland Corridor.

Rick Doane, Kirkland

Rapid transit on the CKC is unsafe, unnecessary I have been a downtown Kirkland resident for four years and I am also a small business owner. I moved here from Bellevue because of Kirkland’s unique charm. The waterfront, bridle trails, and the beautiful new CKC (Cross Kirkland Corridor) are just few examples of what makes Kirkland unique.

Adding rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor is unsafe, unnecessary and not what Kirkland residents want. Councilmembers that are in support of this are clearly out of touch and are not doing their jobs as representatives of this city.

I will oppose ST3 if it includes transit on the CKC.

Alyssa Darby, Kirkland

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Don’t destroy serenity of the Cross Kirkland Corridor trail

The Cross Kirkland Corridor trail is, to residents and visitors alike, a dream come true. It is the most charming and enchanted walkway I have ever seen, as if it leapt right out of a storybook and into real life. This is due not only to its serene, fragrant greenery, but also to its many views of the lake, and in the evenings, its magnificent views of dramatic sunsets.

Further, there is nothing more balancing to the highstress lifestyles that so many of us live, than to take a walk on this peaceful trail near dusk. I highly encourage everyone to walk the length of this trail (in Southern Kirkland especially), on a sunny spring day, with birds chirping and sweet honeysuckle blooming, and then see if they are willing to desecrate it with the concrete, noise and pollution the proposed ST3 transit system would most certainly bring.

What actions we take today show what we value for tomorrow. Do we value the environment, preserving the

earth and its beautiful spaces for our children for years to come? This intracity trail is one of the most beautiful in the country, a true jewel and I would not be surprised if a Kirkland child of today becomes an author who writes fondly of walking on this trail with his grandpa, or her mom, and immortalizes it in the collective consciousness of the nation; the trail has that quality to it. But this might never happen if we trample upon its serene, uplifting beauty with loud, polluting buses, as planned in ST3.

(I have heard it suggested that art sculptures are planned with ST3, in an attempt to improve its aesthetic impact. This is just sad; Nature does a far better job at art than humans, and there has yet to be any art sculpture that could ever come close to eliciting the reverence and inspiration that a peaceful, beautiful natural setting can.)

In closing, the Cross Kirkland Corridor trail is a unique and rare natural treasure and most cities in the nation have nothing that comes anywhere close to it.

Its presence greatly increases residents’ quality of life and uplifts their spirits. Any

plans to destroy the trail’s serenity by constructing transit on it are soul-deaf to its beauty, short-sighted for future generations, destructive to the environment, and deeply disrespectful to most residents’ wishes.

For these reasons, I will oppose ST3 on the November 2016 ballet if it includes transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor trail.

Jennifer Shelton, Kirkland

Support the LWSD bond, for Peter Kirk In regards to the article “Public comment welcome on Lake Washington School District’s $400 million bond to fund new schools, repair older ones”…

As a former student of two of the schools listed for repair, I applaud the plans being made. When I was in Robin Heliotis’s class in 2000 there were only two Kindergarten teachers working at Peter Kirk Elementary School (PK). Now there are five.

The demand for expansion of PK is finally underway and I hope that the teachers are given the space to provide the excellent education I remember with

the increasing population of the district.

One of the issues not addressed in the article was the recent renovation of Lake Washington High School.

The remodel, completed in 2011, was planned to house grades 10-12 as the school traditionally housed, though one year after the remodel was complete grade nine was added to the facility.

So much money was spent building a school that was not large enough for the students put into it.

I just wish that time could have been spared and the plan to house four grades would have been brought to light from the beginning instead of expanding five years later.

Lastly, I hope that all of the schools are given the repairs and space they require in order to foster the minds of tomorrow. Kirkland is truly a wonderful place to grow up.

Jessi Navarre, Kirkland

No transit on CKC I do not support bus rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor.

There are many safety concerns with buses on the CKC: It is near many parks and schools; it’s used by many school kids; and it

connects neighborhoods and has a lot of pedestrian cross traffic.

I will oppose ST3 if it includes transit on the CKC. I enjoy the peaceful [atmosphere] without undo noise and complications of transit traffic.

Please help us maintain the CKC without rapid transit.

Kathleen L. Scharr, Kirkland

Transit on the CKC would be bad for our neighborhoods I am writing in opposition of rapid transit on the CKC (Cross Kirkland Corridor).

I am shocked that this would be given any consideration whatsoever. I do not live on the trail, but I do live in Kirkland, and I see this as a violation to the safety and tranquility of our residential neighborhoods.

The trail is loved as an extension of our parks system.

When the trail was created it provided Kirkland residents with benefits that other communities enjoy with their trail systems (Sammamish River Trail, Burke-Gilman, etc).

If rapid transit is allowed, we will lose this. Rapid Transit brings enormous safety concerns as well as significant noise pollution.

It would be a rape of our neighborhoods. We have plenty of major streets and highways that can continue to provide rapid transit just fine. The trail is peaceful and quiet. Please keep it this way.

Tronda Quin, Kirkland

Adding the Kirkland police to my prayer list I agree with the main message in the “Pray for our blessings and police” letter in your Jan. 15 issue. Thank you for publishing it.

I’m supportive of our police but haven’t specifically prayed for them; I will add a prayer for their wisdom, guidance and protection to my daily prayer list.

It was seeing my wife’s prayers consistently answered that turned me from being an agnostic wanting nothing to do with religion, to having faith and friendship with Jesus. Sadly there are more people than ever who are like what I was, but they are missing out.

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a whole hour trying to get from the Poo Poo Point parking lot to downtown Issaquah.

Was it pleasant to sit there in the dark? Not really, but I learned a lot about Henry David Thoreau and John Locke listening to a recorded college lecture.

My commute is much shorter now and doesn’t really make sense to do it anymore, but if traffic gets slower it’s exactly how I intend to respond.

You may not realize it at the time, but looking back you’ll remember a lot of what you hear driving to and from work, even if you didn’t appreciate the bumper-to-bumper travesty.

A while ago, my brother and I took a road trip down to Vancouver to climb Mount St. Helens, and during the three hour or so journey we listened to a Dan Carlin podcast on World War II. I don’t remember much of the TJ Martinell

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ately there’s been a lot of talk about traffic congestion and rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor.

Having suffered from the doldrums resulting from mechanical lethargy, I have taken upon myself to remedy the situation.

That is, to provide some ways for people to make use of their time as they sit in the Interstate 405 parking lot.

For a few years I worked for our sister newspaper in Maple Valley/ Covington, which was a 22-mile commute. Thankfully, the roads were mostly unclogged, but even then 22 miles is a ways to go there and back every single day. To offset the boredom, I downloaded and played many audio recordings ranging from lectures to podcasts. I recall one time there was an accident on the (single lane) IssaquahHobart Road and I spent

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drive, but I remember much of what Carlin said about the firebombing of Dresden.

I don’t want to make any recommendations on podcasts and whatnot, because it’s all a matter of preference and taste, but taking advantage of modern technology helped me make use of time that would have otherwise been wasted. Instead of it just being a commute I got a fairly decent education I wouldn’t have had the time to get if I had waited until getting home first.

I’m sure there are plenty of you who already do this, but for those who haven’t, it’s not something you’re going to regret, and unfortunately the reality is that there’s only so much control we have over our external environment (hard as we try). I’ve found that maximizing control over what I can to improve my life is a better use of my energy.

TJ Martinell is a staff writer for the Kirkland Reporter.

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Funding issues haunt Legislature’s response to education reforms

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eachers’ compensation, teacher-shortage, the educational opportunity gap and school districts’ operating levies are all on Washington State legislators’ agenda this session as the state Supreme Court’s McCleary mandate—along with the court’s $100,000 per day contempt citation— loom over the proceedings.

The 2016 session began Monday in Olympia.

The Washington State Supreme Court in its January 2012 McCleary v. State of Washington decision, determined the state was not fulfilling its constitutional requirement to fund basic education for all students, including compensation for basic-education teachers. The court required the state to fulfill its duties and provide annual reports following the legislative session in order to ensure “steady progress” toward a 2017-2018 school year deadline.

Basic education, by law, includes the ability to read, write and communicate successfully with a variety of audiences; know the core concepts of a variety of subjects; be able to think analytically, logically and creatively and use technology to do so; and understand how a decision today can influence opportunities tomorrow.

The court in 2012 required the state to reduce reliance on local school district excess tax levies, particularly for funding teachers’ salaries and benefits, and to meet the requirements of a “prototypical school” defined in HB 2776, a bill passed by the Legislature and signed into law in 2010.

The 2010 law required reducing class sizes for K-3 students, funding for all transportation, material and operations costs, and providing for all day kindergarten by 2018. The court found the state in contempt of the McCleary

orders in September 2014.

Legislators responded by passing bills in 2015 that fulfilled these requirements.

But legislators failed to produce plans to fully compensate teachers by the end of the 2015 session, so the court on Aug. 13 imposed a $100,000 per day sanction on the state.

To address that sanction, Gov. Jay Inslee in September 2015 created a bipartisan work group with members from both chambers of the Legislature to develop a proposal responding to the court’s requirements.

Teacher compensation and shortage A survey conducted by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction last November found that 24 percent of schools could not find qualified teachers to fulfill their classroom requirements and 69 percent were “struggling” to find qualified teachers.

“We knew about this a year ago. We knew it was serious. We are just now putting numbers to the problem,” Nathan Olson, communications manager at the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, said of the recent survey.

Along with a shortage of teachers, some districts fund their teachers with local special tax levies, which is unconstitutional, according the Doran decision from 1977 that was upheld by the Supreme Court in its McCleary order.

The Legislature’s work group has introduced two bills for consideration by the 2016 Washington Legislature: Senate Bill 6195 and House Bill 2366.

Both bills establish a task force to develop a plan to fund staff shortages and instruction in basic education elements proscribed in the Supreme Court’s decision.

The task force would create a plan to fix the teacher

shortage and teacher compensation problems for consideration by the 2017 legislative session.

“This keeps everybody at the table, keeps us moving in the right direction. It will get us to a solution,” said Sen. Christine Rolfes (DBainbridge), a work group member. “This proposal will hopefully say to the court that we are committed.”

The group could not determine how much local districts spent on teaching basic education, so a cost estimate was not included in the bill. The bill requires collection of this information.

“The fact is, there is more work to be done,” said Rep. Pat Sullivan (D-Covington), another work group member. “I believe, in the end, this plan will force a solution.”

“We have to stop thinking about a silverbullet approach to funding education,” said Sen. Ann Rivers (R-Clark County).

“What we do know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that the court wants a stable, steady source for funding education. We have all recognized that this is a complex problem.”

Special tax levies “There is an adequacy issue and an equity issue” related to school districts’ special tax levies, said Sen. Chad Magendanz (RIssaquah), a work group member. “This equity issue is complicated. The fact that we’re dependent right now on local levies that may or may not pass depending on where you live is a real problem.”

The court said in McCleary that local property tax levies have helped pay for basic education, including teacher compensation.

To fulfill their constitutional duty, state lawmakers must fund schools using “regular and dependable tax sources.”

The bills proposed by the work group address the issue by requiring the

Legislature to eliminate school district dependency on local levies by the end of the 2017 legislative session.

Along with levies funding parts of basic education, a 2010 amendment to the Levy Lid Act expires in 2017.

The state legislature passed the 1977 Levy Lid Act following a decision by the state Supreme Court in the 1970s. The decision came from a lawsuit against the state by the Seattle School District following two levy failures. Levies in the 1970s were higher than 30 percent of districts’ funding resources. The decision limited the levy rate and established that funding basic education with levies is unconstitutional.

In 2017, the levy lid will drop from 28 percent to 24 percent of district’s state and federal revenues, resulting in a “levy cliff ” for levies used for maintenance and operation of schools.

One solution, proposed in Senate Bill 6109 by Senate Republicans last year, is a “levy swap.”

The bill did not pass during the 2015 session, but was reintroduced for the 2016 session.

A levy swap would lower the levy tax rates in districts with lower tax bases and increase the levy tax rates in districts with higher tax bases. This results in areas with higher property values paying more for education than areas with lower valued property. Currently, it is easier for areas with higher property values to fund education levies than areas with lesser values.

The Washington Policy Center, an independent nonprofit think tank, determined that the state Supreme Court does not require a levy swap to address the state education problems. The center also found that the levy swap would reduce local funding along with the state property tax for schools.

Educational opportunity gap

Part of the McCleary case requires the state to provide all eligible students — no matter their finances, race, location or ability — a basic education.

Senate Bill 6192 and House Bill 1541, under consideration this session, would reduce the educational opportunity gap by increasing cultural competency of educators and classified staff like bus drivers, retaining more school staff of color, and limiting disciplinary actions.

The actions proposed in the bills are based on recommendations from the Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee, created by law in 2009. The committee creates annual reports for legislators and the governor.

According to the committee’s 2015 report, the education opportunity gap and achievement gap are not the same.

“Achievement gap language negatively focuses on the students of color and their families for being responsible for disproportionately low student achievement,” says the 2015 report. “In reality, it is our public school system failing our students not our students failing the system.”

The 2016 report will be finalized next week.

This is the fourth year Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos (D-Seattle) has introduced a House bill based on the recommendations of the committee. She says all parts of the recommendations are interconnected and require passage as a unit or the root problems will be left unaddressed.

This story is part of a series of news reports from the Washington State Legislature provided through a reporting internship sponsored by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation. Contact Reporter Izumi Hansen: hansenizumi@gmail.com

January 22, 2016 [7] [ TOLLS from page 1] lanes, and that he’s willing to pay the toll if it means he can get to his destinations on time.

“During rush hour, trips that used to take me well over an hour can now be done in about 35 minutes,” Milloy said at the hearing.

“Paying a modest toll, usually 75 cents, is well worth it to reduce my time on the road.”

At some travel times, commuters are paying well over 75 cents and have complained about paying as much as $10 to drive in the lanes—the maximum toll rate. Hill said commuters have also complained about WSDOT’s response to calls.

“We’re talking about 25-minute wait times on the phone,” he said.

Patty Rubstello, WSDOT assistant secretary for tolling, said the toll lanes have had beneficial effects. She said the department has seen more than one million trips each month on the toll lanes, and that people are taking advantage of the lanes for quicker commutes.

“Not every day,” she said.

“But when they need to, they can get a faster and more reliable trip.”

Rubstello said the department is listening and has plans to address issues. She said the agency has identified places where access lanes need to be expanded and that the department will modify two of those access points next week to help relieve traffic.

The department currently has two years to see how the lanes work, and they must be removed if they don’t meet certain standards during that two-year period. Traffic in the toll lanes must maintain speeds of 45 miles per hour 90 percent of the time during their peak use, and they must generate enough revenue to pay for all costs related to operating the lanes.

If passed by the Legislature, the bill would go into effect immediately, though Rubstello said it would take about 18 months to successfully remove the lanes— pushing the lanes close to their two-year period. more story online… kirklandreporter.com

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Second is by offering incentives to private contractors through actions like requiring new developments to retain a portion of new units for affordable housing, waiving permit fees and other direct incentives.

Third is direct assistance through funds donated by member cities into an ARCH trust fund, coupled with county, state and federal dollars to directly construct new housing, purchase land and acquire existing housing.

The first two options generally benefit residents who make 50 to 80 percent of the area’s median annual income of around $70,600, according to ARCH. Seattle’s annual median income is $62,000, and $70,567 county-wide.

Fifty-four percent of households in East King County earn more than $84,700, while nearly onethird of Eastside residents fail to earn 80 percent of the area’s median income.

However, income levels overall have declined in recent years, with half of the Eastside’s workers falling below the 40th percentile

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$42 million in East King a national trend of income County city funds have inequality. been made available Of those making $35,300 through various funding or less, 75 percent are costsources, and ARCH has burdened, meaning they funded more than 3,000 spend more than one-third housing units, although the of their income on housnumber of housing units ing. Of these, there are cities actually created was 25,000 households in East much lower, and heavily King County which are skewed toward households extremely cost-burdened, earning between 50 to meaning they pay more 80 percent of the median than 50 percent of their income. income for housing, and are According to ARCH often younger residents or data, between 1993 and seniors on fixed income.

2002, Eastside cities creAccording to ARCH ated only 36 percent of 445 data, average monthly rent planned affordable housing in Eastside cities was units for households $1,362 in 2013, the making less than most recent year $35,300 annually, EAST KING available, as comthis fell to a paltry pared with $1,173 18 percent of 445 county-wide. between 2003 and In a nutshell, this 2012. means ever-increasing In contrast, these cities numbers of Eastside resicreated 361 housing units, dents are having a harder or nearly 115 percent of time paying for housing. their goal of 315 units, For low and very low for households earning income residents, ARCH between $35,300 to $56,499 and local cities use direct annually from 1993 to 2002. funds to try and help, but This also dropped during even still, only seven per2003 to 2012, with only 225 cent of housing is affordof some 315 anticipated able to households making units being constructed. less than $21,200 annually, Other institutions are compared with 15 percent also trying to address county-wide, according to ever-increasing rents and ARCH. stagnant wages.

Since 1993, more than The Low Income Hous-

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ing Institute Director Sharon Lee thinks cities could be doing more.

“I think there’s a lot of talk about how unaffordable the Eastside is,” she said. “I think ARCH should do a bigger (funding) ask, and the elected mayors and city councilmembers should be making affordable housing a high priority.”

She said that with area growth, cities could implement a fee on new developments to be put directly towards creating or acquiring low-income housing.

Her organization also works at acquiring property to develop low income housing in the greater Seattle area. There are two on the Eastside, in Kenmore and Bellevue.

Section 8 vouchers are also used to help low income earners find housing.

These vouchers use federal dollars, and are managed by the King County Housing Authority.

“We’re acutely aware of the skyrocketing rents both in North King County and East King County areas,” Deputy Executive Director Dan Watson said.

While rents have been rising, Section 8 funding from Washington D.C. has not increased in recent years.

“It’s been a very challenging situation in the last several years because of the increases in private market rents, and the costs to the program to try and keep up with those rents,” he said.

Section eight vouchers are awarded through application to a lottery process.

Lottery winners are placed on a waiting list to receive one of the 11,400 vouchers available county-wide outside the city of Seattle, and only become available when a voucher holder relinquishes them to the county,

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or the county deems they King County needs an andon’t need further assisnual income of $33,135 to tance. be self-sufficient, coverA section eight voucher ing only basic living costs, ideally allows a renter to requiring an hourly wage of pay only 30 percent of their nearly $16. income towards rent, with Minimum wage in the county picking up the Washington State is $9.47 rest. an hour, clocking in around But with no federal only $25,000 annually. funding increases and Sixty percent of workhigher rents, many voucher ers, or more than 183,000 holders end up paying more people employed in East than 30 percent of their King County, work in serincome towards rent. vice industries, where they Watson said his “I think there’s a lot generally earn bedepartment has to of talk about how tween $30,000 to choose between unaffordable the $55,000 annually, this or reducing Eastside is. I think with three Eastservice.

ARCH should do a side areas paying “One of the considerably bigger (funding) consequences of more, according ask, and the elected to ARCH data. not increasing mayors and city the assistance in The next largest councilmembers sector is retail, proportion to the should be making employing 27,692 increase in rents affordable housing and a median that we’re seeing a high priority.” is that people annual income Sharon Lee have to pay out of of $32,500, just their own pockbelow a selfets,” he said. sufficient income The section eight voucher level. lottery was opened in JanuMany of these employees ary 2015, but the county work in the cities where doesn’t know when it will they live. open again since many “It makes sense for the people are still on the waitcities to invest in affording list. able housing for their own Stagnant wages are one residents,” Lee said. of the major factors keepFurther solutions could ing affordable housing out come by way of Eastside of reach for many people, cities setting aside porand while Seattle passed a tions of new developments $15 minimum wage and for affordable housing, as has discussed rent control, Bellevue and Redmond do, Watson said he’s not sure levying a development tax if these approaches will be on new construction like effective on the Eastside.

Seattle or licensing a tax on “I think that the more AirB&B units like the city realistic approach is both of Portland. trying to create economic As for Sullivan, he thinks opportunities, and makaffordable housing isn’t just ing sure that there is a path a problem for very low to and a trajectory for people moderate income earnto grow their incomes,” he ers, but one that affects the said. entire region.

According to a study by “The more stress on the the Workforce Developpeople and their jobs, and ment Council of Seattleyour economy eventually King County, updated in suffers,” he said.

2015, a single adult in East The notice describes that operator error caused high turbity water to reach the Tolt Water Treatment Facility filters. Turbity is a measure of how cloudy the water appears. The incident did not cause a safety or health concern and had no impact on the taste of drinking water. However, because the treatment standard was not met on this particular day, the Washington State Department of Health requires that water customers be notified.

The city of Kirkland, as a member of the Cascade Water Alliance, purchases its drinking water from SPU and delivers it through the city’s distribution system. Kirkland water

customers can contact the city’s Water Division at 425-587-3900 with specific questions.

Kirklander named to dean’s list Dr. Dennis M. Wiseman, provost of Wofford College, has announced dean’s list students for the fall 2015 semester, including Kirkland resident Brian Michael Anderson.

To be named to the dean’s list, a student must be enrolled for at least 12 semester hours of graded courses and attain a semester grade point average of 3.6 or higher.

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oeing wrapped up a strong performance in 2015 with a record number of airplanes produced and many other accomplishments. But its centennial year will be challenging with a major focus on being more competitive seen as key to the company’s long-term success.

Thanks to a tremendous team effort, in 2015 Boeing produced a record 762 commercial airplanes. In 2014 the company delivered 723 airplanes – the previous year, 648. Climbing this hill was not easy, and the entire company takes pride in this achievement, which leads the industry.

Other accomplishments in 2015 include building the first 737 MAX, achieving firm configuration of the new 777X airplane design and celebrating the first flight of the KC-46A Pegasus refueling tanker. Boeing also set a record for parts and services orders, expanded the 737 Seattle Delivery Center at Boeing Field and hosted China President Xi Jinping.

It’s a different dynamic when it comes to new orders for airplanes. In 2015, Boeing booked 768 orders – a substantial number, but a 50-percent drop from 1,432 in the previous year. And Airbus recently reported they booked more than 1,000 orders – besting Boeing by nearly 25 percent.

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maintaining lower pricing – presenting a tough choice for even our longest-standing customers,” said Ray Conner, Boeing vice chairman and president and CEO of Commercial Airplanes.

Boeing believes the competition with Airbus will grow more aggressive this year – especially since timing and external forces could affect large airplane sales. To ensure its long-term position in the market, in 2016 Boeing is sharpening its focus on designing and building quality while accelerating efforts to reduce costs.

“This is the first time in our history where we are competing in every single market segment,” Conner said.

“It’s head-to-head competition with Airbus, and we’re also preparing for future competition from China, Brazil, Canada and other countries.”

The good news is that Boeing announced production rates will climb again this year as the 767 program moves to build two airplanes per month and the 787 rate climbs to build 12 per month. Meanwhile, the 737 program will lay the groundwork for next year’s jump from 42 to 47 jets per month.

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oeing and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), representing more than 20,000 employees, recently announced a tentative agreement on a new six-year contract extension, following several weeks of discussions.

“This tentative agreement recognizes the significant contributions of our engineering and technical workforce and reinforces Boeing’s commitment to the Puget Sound region,” said Boeing Vice Chairman and Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner.

Highlights of the tentative agreement include: n Market leading compensation n Expanded workforce stability protections relative to Puget Sound engineering work movement n A transition benefit to a new retirement program n Modest increases in employee contributions for market-leading health care “These negotiations were possible because SPEEA and Boeing decided not to let our areas of disagreement prevent us from making progress on items where we do agree,” said Ray Goforth, SPEEA executive director in a news statement.

“These contract extensions are the result of a lot of hard work and good will. Hopefully, this gives us a template for the future.”

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Linking up for the long game: Boeing, Callaway fulfill need for speed Golf company calls on aerospace engineers to help design faster club

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hen engineers from Boeing and the Callaway Golf Co. got together for a cross-industry collaboration last year, the knowledge and experience applied to airplanes on the runway resulted in a golf club that can drive a ball farther down a fairway.

An innovation by Boeing engineers to modify air flow around the club contributed to what they have validated through testing as a faster driver — Callaway’s XR 16.

The project began last year when Callaway sought the expertise of the world’s leading aerospace company.

“We’ve made a lot of strides over the years to improve aerodynamic efficiency in our products, but we decided it might be a good idea to call on the experts at Boeing and ask, ‘could your expertise help us design a faster club?’” said Alan Hocknell, senior vice president of research and development at Callaway.

That simple question led to a special assignment for a small team of engineers led by Wayne Tygert, chief project engineer of 787 Airplane Development, and Jeffrey Crouch, Boeing Senior Technical Fellow, Aero Flow Physics, who saw it as an opportunity to learn from experts in other industries.

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sign and something we take a lot of pride in doing extremely well,” Crouch said.

“I was very curious to see how we could translate our experience to golf club design.”

Newer team members like Adam Clark, an aerodynamics engineer in Flight Sciences, and Harrison Chau, a configuration design engineer in Airplane Configuration and Integration, gained valuable experience on shortflow product development and innovation cycles.

Despite the collective knowledge of the Boeing and Callaway group, the project presented some unique challenges, the engineers said. For example, unlike airplanes, drivers move through space with rapid changes in orientation.

Crouch, with Clark and Chau, determined that the best method to increase the speed of the driver was to use a local air-flow modifier, called the Speed Step, on top of the club head. The Speed Step essentially alters the flow of air around the driver head enough to improve its speed from the top of the swing through impact with a golf ball.

The increased speed upon impact can lead to greater distance for the driven golf ball — something every golfer of any talent level seeks.

“I love my job as an aerodynamicist at Boeing, but it’s always great to learn from engineers in other industries,” Clark said. “This was a great opportunity to push myself and grow my skills and experience.”

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Seattle Seahawks linebacker KJ Wright pops the question in Boeing’s Everett facility.

eattle Seahawks linebacker KJ Wright (#50) can be forgiven if years from now he doesn’t remember everything he saw during a tour in late December of Boeing’s facility in Everett, Wash. That’s because his VIP tour of the Everett Flightline and factory ended with him on bended knee before his longtime girlfriend, Nathalie.

As two Boeing employees, wearing bow ties with their coveralls, unfurled a banner saying, “Nathalie – will you marry me?” down the side of a 787, Wright popped the question before his shocked girlfriend and her family who were visiting for the holidays. Needless to say, the answer was yes!

Wright devised the unique proposal plan because his nowfiancee’s father is an aviation enthusiast who he knew would enjoy a tour of Boeing’s Everett site. Wright was joined on the tour by another notable guest – teammate Jimmy Graham – a registered pilot.

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A group of teachers from the Puget Sound area attended Airplane 101, hosted by Boeing as part of the company’s STEM outreach efforts.

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ecoming students for the day, a group of Puget Sound area teachers participated in interactive exercises illustrating basic aerodynamic principles such as lift, thrust, drag and weight that they could take back to their classrooms during a recent day-long Airplane 101 class in Everett, Wash.

The program, hosted by Flight Services Marketing and the Museum of Flight, is one way Boeing aims to build students’ interest and skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). By bringing teachers in to experience airplanes up close and talk with experts, Boeing gives them a unique perspective on the principles of flight, which they can then share with their students.

Larry Seto, product marketing manager of flight training for Flight Services, led the teachers through the interactive exercises. Later, the lessons came to life when the group toured the Commercial Airplanes factory and the 787 Dreamliner static test bed, where they saw how Boeing simulates stresses on the airframe.

“I now can offer my students realworld examples of careers in aviation,” one teacher wrote in an anonymous evaluation of the class.

Another wrote, “I plan to use these teaching techniques and examples in my class.”

The teachers indicated that touring the production line — and taking aerospace knowledge beyond books — was particularly important to them. “I like having personal experience to refer to when teaching,” one teacher wrote.

As Boeing prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2016, preparing and inspiring future innovators is a key focus, and programs like this can help influence the education environment, according to Sherry Carbary, vice president of Boeing Flight Services.

“Teachers play an incredible role in shaping our future workforce,” Carbary said “This was a great opportunity to give teachers the tools they need to incorporate basic aviation principles into their curriculum.”

“Teachers play an incredible role in shaping our future workforce.

This was a great opportunity to give teachers the tools they need to incorporate basic aviation principles into their curriculum.”

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Renee Amoe Olsen and Ken Toshiki Kumakura, both from Raisbeck Aviation High School, use simple props to try out exercises designed to illustrate basic aerodynamic principles.

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Boeing employees are making a significant difference in communities where they live and work. Through the Employees Community Fund (ECF) of Boeing Puget Sound, employees contribute funding for training for veterans, food for seniors, early learning for low-income children – and much more. Last year, more than $9 million in grants were awarded to community nonprofits throughout the Puget Sound region. Here are some recent grant recipients:

Boeing employees get in the spirit of the holidays The results are in and Boeing employees’ tremendous generosity helped give joy, happiness and warmth to many people in need this holiday season.

■ $103,370 in donations were provided with $60,756 company match that purchased 3,000 gifts to 5,600 foster children through the Treehouse Holiday Magic program ■ 748 families made up of 1,272 adults and 1,902 children along with 1,047 seniors and 305 individuals with special needs were supported ■ 14,106 toys were collected for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program

Navos’ new Behavioral Healthcare Center for Children,Youth & Families expands services for vulnerable children, youth and their families by bringing together programs provided by Navos and our partners, Ruth Dykeman Children’s Center and Seattle Children’s Home, in a compelling natural setting on Lake Burien.

$250,100 grant for new Behavioral Healthcare Center Campus

SEATTLE — Navos was funded a significant grant of $250,000 toward the build-out, equipment and furnishings for the new pediatric primary care clinic located at their Behavioral Healthcare Center Campus in Burien. Each year, Navos helps more than 25,000 low-income children, youth and adults with serious emotional and mental health issues to recover their individual potential and improve their lives.

$37,000 grant for new van for mobility program SEATTLE — The Lighthouse for the Blind was funded $37,500 for a new Toyota Sienna van to support the Orientation and Mobility (O&M) Program. The new van will benefit the more than 175 blind and/or deaf individuals and replaces the failing 15-year old van that the agency currently uses.

$40,000 grant for IT support WESTERN WASHINGTON — $40,000 was funded to Compass Health for computers and equipment that will provide IT support to meet the significant demand for their mental healthcare services. Compass Health provides innovative mental health services to over 20,000 at-risk, high-need children and adults each year.

$22,200 for medical facility STANWOOD — $22,200 was funded to Safe Harbor Free Clinic for medical equipment at their facility located in Stanwood. Safe Harbor provides free quality medical care and referral services for residents in Snohomish, Island, and Skagit Counties. The equipment funded by ECF will help the clinic expand services and provide high quality, low cost healthcare to uninsured and underinsured families and individuals.

$18,960 for senior center ARLINGTON — Stillaguamish Senior Center was granted $18,960 for a communication system upgrade. Their current phone system was over 20 years old, and did not connect the senior center with their four low-income senior housing apartment buildings, or the community at large. Stillaguamish Senior Center offers a wide range of health, education, recreation, social services, housing and volunteer opportunities for their participants.

$40,000 to youth transportation SEATTLE — Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission was funded $40,000 for a new 10-passenger van to transport at-risk, lowincome students. The van will be used to transport youth from school to the After-School site and then home after programming, as well as field trips, camps, and community events.

THANK YOU VIETNAM WAR VETERANS FOR YOUR SERVICE AND THE SACRIFICES YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES HAVE MADE. Many of the troops who returned home from Vietnam at the end of the war were met with disdain rather than with the thanks that veterans of other conflicts had received. Now is the time for the citizens of Washington state to undo that disservice done to our Vietnam veterans many years ago.

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March 30, 2016 is Washington state ‘Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day’. Make sure to thank a Vietnam veteran that day and every day.

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The steady decline of salmon runs to Lake Washington | Part I

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almon runs have steadily declined in Lake Washington for nearly 40 years, a phenomenon which has not escaped researchers, ecologists and environmentalists.

The Cedar River-Lake Washington watershed runs from Snoqualmie Pass all the way to Puget Sound in an expanding cone-shaped perimeter, with tributaries from Lynnwood to Renton pouring into Lake Washington.

The Cedar River is the main tributary for the watershed, providing access to fertile spawning ground for Chinook salmon and other fish in south Lake Washington.

The Sammamish River winds from Lake Sammamish in Redmond through Woodinville, Bothell and finally into Lake Washington in Kenmore, providing salmon access to Bear Creek and North Creek, primary spawning habitats.

Salmon runs used to be a prominent feature of Lake Washington and Puget Sound, but their numbers have dramatically declined following decades of shoreline development, contamination and increasing wetland urbanization, prompting ecology experts to galvanize governments and private landowners to try and carve out a place for salmon in the rapidly developing greater Seattle area.

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might describe starting a business as difficult, for Dixon the process of opening one of the latest stores for Rocket Fizz had few complications.

“It wasn’t that hard,” she said. “It (the process) was pretty well defined.”

It also seemed like the right time for her family, which includes an 18-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son.

“It was just something that presented itself,” she said. “It was something I thought we could all do.”

Complementing the store’s retro style is its assortment of old-time candies like bubble-gum cigarettes and cigars, gimmicks, gags and old

fashioned posters. It also has an enormous selection of taffy flavors, 100, as well as 60 root beer flavors and 300 types of sodas. Although much of the store caters to children, Dixon said that the wide range of items will attract people of any age.

“I think there is something for everyone,” she said. “People see things they haven’t seen in years.

It has something that appeals to everybody.”

When Dixon was working on securing permission to open the store she originally planned to open it in Woodinville where she lives, but a trip to downtown Kirkland to watch her son play baseball at the Lee Johnson

According to data from the Department of Fish and Wildlife, which has tracked Chinook salmon runs based on live fish in the Sammamish River and Lake Washington since 1983, there is a severe decline in the salmon population.

In 1983 there were an estimated 550 naturallyspawning Chinook salmon in the region, reaching low points of 33 salmon in 1996 and 2011.

In 2004, tracking began for hatchery-spawned salmon with an estimated 784 hatchery fish and 228 natural salmon in the region.

Both populations nosedived between 2014 and 2015, with a combined total population of 1,578 Chinook salmon in 2014, dropping to only 482 in 2015, only 35 of which were naturally-spawning. Chinook salmon are an important part of Puget Sound and northwest’s resident Orca population as their preferred source of food.

“For the resident pods, which are listed now under the endangered species act, there’s a lot of concern that the health of the local salmon runs are closely tied to the health of our Orca pods,” Myers said.

Chinook salmon are also an important part of many Native American cultures.

Development puts the squeeze on salmon Many of the biggest challenges to salmon habitat

field changed her mind.

“The downtown was lively,” she said.

By coincidence, a storefront had also just opened up along Central Way, and she was able to secure the lease.

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comes from human development.

Hard surfaces within a watershed area, even miles from bodies of water, don’t allow rain water to seep into the ground, which would normally be absorbed and filtered into the ground water supply. These surfaces include parking lots, roofs and sidewalks among other structures, as well as drained wetlands, which would normally act as natural sponges.

This both reduces fresh ground water in tributary streams and lets unfiltered runoff, full of chemicals, wash into streams and rivers. This is one of the most abrupt causes of salmon death, Myers said.

“For us, that’s such a horrible thing because fish have made it all the way back… to their spawning stream, and then they get hit by this toxic cocktail of chemicals that’s just completely lethal,” he said.

When water cannot soak into the ground, it is channeled into existing streams and rivers as runoff. This increases the water flow and volume in these streams.

In salmon spawning streams, Murdock said, these increased flows often scour the salmon redds, destroying them, or packing silt and sediment over them, blocking oxygen flow and suffocating them.

Stormwater runoff is warmer than groundwater when it enters streams.

Chinook salmon are highly susceptible to changes in water temperature. If the water is too hot, the salmon will stop where

heat up, especially in the summer and fall when the water level is lower.

Mulvihill-Kuntz also noted warm water is a problem in the Ballard Locks, where slower water is allowed to heat up. He said many salmon will make it up the fish ladder, which is full of cool water, before suddenly being dropped into hot water.

Man-made blockages along spawning streams also make it harder for adult salmon to get upstream, and smaller salmon to make it into Lake Washington.

One small stream which enters Lake Washington near Kenmore’s Log Boom Park, known as Stream 0056, or Little Creek, has around 60 barriers. Thirty-eight percent of them, Murdock said, belong to the cities of Brier, Lake Forest Park and the Department of Transportation.

Under Washington State law, entities who own fish migration barriers are required to remove them, but he said due to the cost of removal, enforcement has been lax. The Department of Fish and Wildlife’s interactive Salmonscape map also documents other barriers along North and Bear Creeks.

In the next report, concerned residents and local and regional leaders try to tackle problems associated with diminishing salmon runs.

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they are and wait until it cools down, sometimes staying put until they die, said Jason Mulvihill-Kuntz, Watershed Coordinator for the Department of Ecology’s Water Resource Inventory Area Eight serving the Cedar River-Lake Washington Watershed.

“Sometimes some of them will die before they get a chance to get up there,” he said. “A lot of that’s about restoring the stream-side vegetation to keep shade on the river.”

Replacement of natural shoreline with concrete barriers or other hard materials is another killer, with landowners and developers often hardening shoreline to prevent erosion. Areas of vegetation along streams or rivers are known as riparian zones.

Riparian zones often contain overhanging plants which drop leaves, pollen and other material into the water, providing food for bugs and other creatures which fish end up eating.

It can also provide a place for juvenile salmon to hide from predators such as larger trout species.

“If you look at any of these stream systems around Lake Washington, you will find very few areas where the riparian zone is of significant size,” Murdock said.

The Sammamish River itself is considered a slough, with slow water flowing through a winding path already causing it to

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“It’s tough being a baby salmon,” Adopt-A-Stream director Tom Murdock said as he described the life cycle of a Chinook salmon in northern Lake Washington.

Salmon are born in the Sammamish River tributary streams, primarily Bear Creek and North Creek, he said.

A female salmon digs out a nest, known as a redd, and lays hundreds of eggs before multiple male salmon fertilize them. They are then buried under gravel and left to hatch, after which the newly born salmon either stay in their stream, or move farther down into the Sammamish River and Lake Washington for around six months to a year.

Chinook salmon then move out to Puget Sound through the Ballard Locks in Seattle, and ultimately may end up in the Pacific Ocean, where they live for years before returning to spawn in the same streams in which they were born.

It seems simple enough, but Murdock said every step of the process is fraught with dangers stemming from complex and varying circumstances.

Jim Myers is a fisheries biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. The Kenmore resident’s work deals with area salmon populations.

“Most of the concern now has been all the great changes that we’ve had with the freshwater ecosystems, making sure that they’re still capable of supporting salmon,” he said.

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Two Kirkland dancers compete in semi-regional competition

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Two Kirkland dancers with the International Ballet Academy recently competed in the Youth America Grand Prix (YAPG) semi-regional competition in Bellevue, with one of them advancing to the finals in April.

For Gillian Smith, 13, a student at Kirkland Middle School, her second year participating in the annual competition, which took place Jan. 8-10, paid off with the necessary score to advance to the finals, while fellow Kirkland dancer Serene Wong, 14, received a chance to compete for the first time.

Smith said she first got into dancing when she was three and joined the academy at five after watching its performance of the Nutcracker, but it wasn’t until last year she decided to enter the YAGP semi-finals.

YAGP is the world’s largest international student dance competition.

“I would go watch the older girls from past years and it looked really fun,”

she said. “I just really enjoy preparing for it.”

Wong’s foray into dance came after participating in one of her older sister’s performances - but not from the stage.

“They had a recital and I started performing in the audience,” she said.

For her, the semi-finals offered a chance to perform roles from ballets such as Don Quixote and La Bayadère that she otherwise wouldn’t be able to as part of a normal ballet performance.

“I really like to perform,” she said. “I thought it would be nice to be out there on my own.”

After an injury last year Smith said she was cautiously about working on her routines too early, which included two from Sleeping Beauty.

“Some things are not entirely neutral for the body,” she said.

Being more technical and complicated than her prior routines at the last semifinals, she began training a little later in the year.

“I think I had a lot more

Ballet dancer Gilliam Smith at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAPG) semi-regional competition in Bellevue. Smith is a dancer with the International Ballet Academy in Kirkland. COURTESY PHOTO challenges than last year,” she said. “This year I was a little bit nervous but I was mostly excited.”

Their performances,

consisting of two classical routines and one contemporary, didn’t come without preparation. Tutored by Artistic Director Vera

Altunina and Assistant Artistic Director Francois Serre y Berga, they trained every day, starting the day after Christmas. Fortunately, Smith said this time she was able to avoid an injury.

When it finally came time to perform at the Meydenbauer Center in downtown Bellevue, Smith said it was to their benefit to dance on a familiar stage, and with their contemporary dance first, they were more relaxed performing the classical pieces.

They also had a larger audience applauding them when their names were announced, as members from the academy had arrived to watch the performances.

Finally, when the scores were announced, Smith said she was stunned to find out she was heading to finals.

“I really didn’t know what to do,” she said. “I was shaking so hard I almost dropped the trophy.”

With the finals taking place in New York this spring, Smith has plenty of time to prepare, aided in part by the detailed notes the judges made of her routines.

“I felt pretty good,” Smith said. “I’d still notice some things after I was done on stage but I really liked being on stage this year and the experience of it.”

“All the people were really nice,” Wong said. “It was better than you’d expect.

There’s no competitive spirit backstage.”

The finals will also offer scholarship opportunities, with the YAGP awarding $250,000 in scholarships each year to dance schools within the United States and internationally. While Smith said she has already been offered a summer scholarship, the finals will give her a chance to get exposure for when she’s older.

“Some girls go there just to win,” she said. “I want to get the gold medal, but I think it’s a great opportunity to be seen so they can know you in the future.”

Dancers under Altunina and Serre y Berga’s tutelage who have competed in the YAGP in the last 10 years have placed in the top 20 of NYC Finals every year and received honors for their performances.

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The Kirkland Arts, along with the Tateuchi Center, KidsQuest and Bellevue Youth Theater, will receive an economic boost from a King County program. The program will help to maintain buildings and preserve the arts and heritage programs that are held inside.

The Kirkland Arts Center will receive $75,000 from the Building for Culture grant. “Our commitment to sound financial policies has resulted in a surplus by paying off the Kingdome debt early,� said Council Vice Chair Jane Hague. “Countywide, and on the Eastside, this partnership with 4Culture is supporting significant investment in local arts, cultural and historic preservation projects such as the Bellevue Youth Theater, KidsQuest Museum, Kirkland Arts Center and Performance Arts Center Eastside, among others.�

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The bonds supporting these projects are made possible by early retirement of the Kingdome debt. State law requires that hotel-motel tax revenues King County collects this year after repayment of the Kingdome debt be directed to arts and cultural programs.

Salon Show at Parklane Gallery in Kirkland Parklane Gallery presents its annual Salon Show now through Jan. 31. The show features an extended exhibit of work from its gallery artists including traditional paintings, photography, digital, mosaic, jewelry and sculpture. Exhibited in the “salon� manner reminiscent of the earlier French style, it includes a diverse collection of traditional and contemporary artwork hung from wall to wall and floor to ceiling that will delight the viewer’s eye.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday noon to 8 p.m.

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In addition to the seven newly certified teachers, three teachers renewed their certification this year. That makes a total of 10 teachers completing the process. (Certifications must be renewed every ten years.) Teachers from around the district completed the process, including a district-high two teachers from Eastlake High School.

According to NBPTS, 270 National Board Certified Teachers (NBCT) working in Lake Washington Schools have earned their certification. National Board certification is considered the highest professional credential a teacher can obtain. “Lake Washington School District seeks to hire and retain highly effective teachers,� noted Dr. Traci Pierce, superintendent. “We are pleased to have so many teachers commit and re-commit themselves to excellence. The National Board Certification process helps teachers ensure maximum academic success

President Sarah Stone. “Our trustees are eager to have a bigger impact on each of the almost 28,000 students in our district. Larry’s passion for supporting public education matches ours.�

Wright has more than 15 years of experience in the nonprofit sector working with youth and education organizations. Most recently he served as chief operating officer of the College Success Foundation.

He also served as the executive director of Washington State Mentors and as CEO of their national office, the National Mentoring Partnership in Washington, DC. “I grew up in the Lake Washington School District and my kids are students here,� Wright said. “I’m excited about the opportunity to help a strong, high performing district continue to do great things for our kids.�

Two Kirkland teachers achieve National Board Certification Seven Lake Washington School District teachers, including two in Kirkland, have achieved National Board Certification, as announced by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NB-

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Teachers also are assessed on their knowledge of the subjects they teach.

Numbers released by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards show that for the third year in a row, the state of Washington is first in the total number of new NBCTs (329). That number maintains the state’s ranking as fourth overall in the number of national board certified teachers in the country at 8,614.

Across the country, fewer teachers were certified this year because the National Board started transitioning to a new certification process in 2014. Because it can take up to three years to earn certification, the NBCTs announced this year have been using the process in place prior to 2014.

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