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February 17, 2012 edition of the Issaquah/Sammamish ReporterTRANSCRIPT
BY CELESTE [email protected]
surveying a path through the ravine, sam Jarrett stands on the edge of
a clearing. a screen of trees hides the raging river from view, but not its sound.
He glances back at a power substation, before slipping through a nest of blackberry bushes and down to the rivers edge. Mossy rocks turn logs into teeter-totters above swirling water, which washes out the eery buzz from power lines.
Imagine a trail along the pristine river. It’s a possibility, says Jarrett, a recreation man-ager for the Department of Natural Resources.
The scene reveals the potential of the Raging River Forest to become the next big recreation site along I-90.
About four years after acquiring the land, DNR is now planning what to do with it. It kicked off the develop-ment of its recreation management
plan for the Snoqualmie Corridor Feb. 1 with a public meeting.
While most of Raging River’s second-growth forest, which has an impressive network of logging roads and a power line clearing that runs its length, has been impacted by logging, it is otherwise unexplored by hikers, bikers and horsemen alike. The three groups have a history of trail dispute.
The Raging River Forest is an op-portunity for all three user groups to figure out what types of trails they can share and where they need their own.
“This is a blank slate,” said Douglas McClel-land, a DNR assistant region manager.
Raging River was pri-vately owned until DNR acquired it about four years ago. The only trails are logging roads.
While some hikers have ventured to explore the forest, few know the Raging River better than Ralph Owen, who regularly explores the forests on foot.
He remembers when DNR decided to allow biking on East Tiger Moun-tain, which butts up agains Raging, about 15 years ago. Trails that hikers had created were given over to bikers, he said.
“There is always going to be ten-sion,” he said, but having bikers in the plan from the beginning will help.
The recreation plan, which also in-
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Claire Thompson, a people, pet and nature lover, hoped one day her nurturing, generous personality would lead to a career in nursing.
Thompson, a 20-year-old Sammamish native who was fatally shot early Sunday morning in Redmond, enjoyed giving to others and never asked for anything in return, according to her friends.
“She was the best friend I could have ever
asked for,” said Mikaela Boyd, who was talking to Thompson when a bullet pierced a nearby wall and struck Thomp-son in the neck. “She had a beautiful soul. She wanted to be a nurse. She truly saw the beauty in everything.”
A memorial is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sat-urday at Mars Hill Church in Sammamish, where Thompson grew up.
“She had no enemies,” said friend Cole
Kradin. “Her laugh lit up a room. She was an incredibly great person. This is a huge loss.”
Thompson and Boyd were at a house party in the Education Hill area talking about the unappetizing food at McDonald’s when Thompson was hit with the bullet, according to Boyd. Thompson was rushed to Harborview Medical Center, but was pronounced dead at around 10 a.m.
Cornelius J. De Jong IV, a 21-year-old Redmond resident, faces first-degree
Eastlake grad killed in shooting
Claire Thompson
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Blank SlateState plans for Raging River Forest filled with recreational potential
“It could be a destination landscape for recreation.” – Sam Jarrett, DNR
Sam Jarrett, DNR, stands at the edge of the Raging River. The land, recently acquired by DNR, has big recreational potential for multiple user groups. Celeste graCey, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter
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The new entrance to Eastlake High School will have a very familiar name.
The City of Sammamish approved a resolution Monday, renaming the portion of 233rd Avenue Northeast between North-east Eighth Street and EHS, Stan Chapin Way.
The recognition came two weeks after the popu-lar school resource officer died unexpectedly at his home.
“We wanted to find some way to honor him in ad-dition to what had already been done,” Sammamish
mayor Tom Odell said. “We felt that the new entrance to the high school was the perfect place because he was such a fixture to the school for so many years.”
Chapin, 61, was in his 12th year of working as a resource officer at Eastlake and Inglewood Junior
High. He was approach-ing 40 years in the King County Sheriff ’s Office.
The roadway will act as a second entrance to Eastlake, which currently only has one route in and out of the school on North-east Fourth Street. The new entrance is part of the Lake Washington School District’s expansion of the high school.
According to Odell, there is also consideration of adding a monument to honor Chapin. He said one concept is placing a boulder with a dedicated plaque in the middle of a new roundabout on the soon-to-be renamed 233rd Avenue Northeast.
“The idea is, many years from now, when the memories have faded, we’ll still have something there,” he said.
Kevin Endejan: 425-391-0363, ext. 1050;
Sammamish street named after Stan Chapin
Officer Stan Chapin holds a plaque representing his 2011 Sammamish Officer of the Year award he won in December. Courtesy photo
City considers adding another memorial in middle of new roundabout
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BY celeste [email protected]
The Seattle bag ban could be coming to Issaquah.
If a law were passed locally grocers would be banned from using plastic bags. They’d also be required to charge custom-ers 5 cents for a paper bag.
It’s good timing for Issaquah, because Seattle has already worked through the kinks with the law, said Mark Mullet, a councilmember.
In order to keep the bag bans consis-tent, Issaquah would adapt a law close, if not identical, to Seattle’s.
Before Seattle made the change, it couldn’t have happened in Issaquah. Now that major grocers, such as Safeway and Fred Meyer, have switched over to paper, it’s easier for them, Mullet said.
So far the city has only begun to discuss the bag ban, and it’s yet to draft an ordinance. If passed, Issaquah would be the first landlocked city to ban plastic bags.
The greatest criticism of plastic bags has been how they’ve caused problems in marine life. Biologists found 20 plastic bags in a dead gray whale’s stomach in Puget Sound over a year ago.
It’s going to take more landlocked cities to pass the law to convince lawmakers in Olympia to move for a statewide change, Mullet said.
People have asked legitimate questions over whether it’s the government’s role to ban plastic bags, he said. “My philosophi-cal position on that is that is the govern-ment’s job to protect the environment.”
Only about 13 percent of plastic bags get recycled in the country, that number is even lower in this region, he said.
The move in environmentalism has been to steer away from products that have short lifespans and a long-term impact on the environment, such as gro-cery bags, said David Fujimoto, resource conservation manager.
The major challenge is going to be in changing people’s behavior, he said.
Originally Seattle had a bag tax, but after criticism it decided to ban the bags altogether. Paper bags are much more costly than plastic ones, so to help businesses compensate, the city passed a mandatory 5-cent fee for paper. The money goes to the business and not the government.
So far the proposed ban in Issaquah has earned support from the Northwest Grocers Association and Environment Washington. Any opponents haven’t made themselves known, and the Is-saquah Chamber of Commerce has been neutral on the subject.
Issaquah Reporter staff writer Celeste Gracey can be reached at 425-391-0363,
ext. 5052.
Plastic bag ban discussed in Issaquah
State lawmakers from the 41st District will unite to host a pair of town hall meetings on Saturday, Feb. 18, to share news about the legislative session and listen to local residents discuss their hopes and concerns.
Rep. Judy Clibborn, Rep. Marcie Maxwell, and Sen.
Steve Litzow will hold their morning town hall from 10-11:30 a.m. at Hazelwood Elementary in Newcastle, and an afternoon town hall from 1:30-3:00 p.m. at Mer-cer Island High school.
The jointly hosted town halls are more convenient for local citizens and help
maintain the bipartisan approach the 41st Dis-trict lawmakers bring to Olympia. Participants can submit questions before the meeting via email to [email protected].
The 2012 session began Jan. 9 and is scheduled to end Mar. 8.
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BY lInda Ballissaquah & sammamish reporter
By a vote of 6-1 Tuesday night, the Sam-mamish city council supported a motion by former mayor Don Gerend, to autho-rize mayor Tom O’Dell to sign the Asso-ciation of Washington Cities Mayor’s letter in support of reclassification of marijuana.
Ironically, O’Dell cast the one dissenting vote.
The letter authorizes the Suburban Cit-ies Association public issues committee to support the SCA letter of support for the reclassification of marijuana.
Gregoire filed a petition with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to re-classify marijuana from a schedule I drug (which has no known medical purpose and cannot be dispensed) to a schedule II drug (which can be dispensed).
Council member Ramiro Valderrama said the Association of Washington Police Chiefs also supports the letter.
The use of marijuana for patients who
have debilitating or terminal illness has been permitted in Washington state since 1998, but the federal government indi-cated it would prosecute individuals and organizations involved in the manufactur-ing and distribution of marijuana even if it is permitted under state law.
Marijuana is currently classified as a schedule I controlled substance under the controlled substances act, which means that, according to the DEA, it has no cur-rently accepted medical use in treatment and can’t be prescribed, administered, or dispensed for medical use.
A comparison of the controlled sub-stances classified as schedule I versus schedule II is interesting. While mari-juana/cannabis is classified as a schedule I, many other drugs with a high potential for abuse are designated as schedule II, includ-ing opium, methadone,methamphetamine, oxycodone and cocaine.
Sammamish to support Gregoire on medical marijuana
The Sammamish city council voted 6-1 to support a motion to sign a letter in support of reclassification of marijuana. contributed
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[email protected] 4 www.issaquahrePorter.com Friday, February 17, 2012
land grabThe folks who’ve bought
homes in the Chestnut Estates plat may not be so happy to hear the truth about what happened with the open space tract in their development.
When the city of Sam-mamish hearing examiner made his March 18, 2001 decision concerning the plat, it was based on several conditions. One of those conditions, number 19, stated, “A homeowners’ association shall be estab-lished to the satisfaction of the city of Sammamish that provides for the ownership and continued maintenance of the recreation areas, open space areas and sensitive area tract(s).” The intent was clearly that the hom-eowners’ association was to own both the open space tract and the sensitive area tract.
The hearing examiner’s findings by law were to be applied by the city to the final plat. But they were not. The city allowed Buchan to snatch the land away from the HOA. When the final plat was recorded, Buchan had ownership of both the sensitive area and the open space – land that they had no right to because the original plat required 50 percent open space.
The city is supposed to be the authority in land-use matters, and is supposed to
apply the law, but appar-ently it is not and does not.
Buchan is running the city now and our public servants are apparently in its pocket. Ilene Stahl, Sammamish
InTrOdUCIng rep. Maxwell
I’m pleased to introduce state Rep. Marcie Maxwell to her Sammamish constitu-ents in the new boundaries drawn for the 41st Legisla-tive District. Marcie has represented me and a good portion of the Issaquah School District in Olympia for the past four years and I can assure those new to the
41st that they will be well represented by her, as well.
She is an enthusiastic supporter of the Issaquah Schools Foundation, PTSA’s, levy and bond campaigns, arts and athlet-ics throughout our school district.
I’ve known Marcie for many years, having served as members of neighboring school boards and at the state level as we advocated for adequate funding for education. She currently serves in the House of Representatives as Deputy Majority Leader for Educa-tion and Opportunity, and, by special appointment of the governor and Speaker of the House, as a member
of the Quality Education Council, which directs the implementation of basic education funding reforms.
Those in our business community will also be familiar with Marcie, as a leader of the Seattle King County Association of Realtors, member of our Chambers of Commerce, and past president of her Rotary Club.
Marcie has the dedication and influence to get things done for our communities and our schools. You will find that she is approach-able and responsive to your concerns. We’re lucky to have her represent our cor-ner of East King County.
Connie Fletcher, Issaquah
The Sammamish City Council took a gutsy – but needed – stand this week on medical marijuana by voting to authorize Mayor Tom O’Dell to
sign a letter in favor of reclassification of the sub-stance. The council’s move supports an effort by the Suburban Cities Association.
The issue of marijuana, medical or not, brings up strong emotions in people. To some it’s evil and its use never should be allowed. Others want it legalized and taxed and controlled as cigarettes or liquor are now. A third view cites marijuana’s benefits in help-ing those with debilitating or terminal illness.
It’s this third option that has drawn the support of the Sammamish council.
Since 1998, our state has permitted the use of marijuana for patients suffering extreme illness. However, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration classifies marijuana as a schedule I drug (which has no known medical purpose and cannot be dispensed). Additionally, federal officials say they would pros-ecute individuals and organizations involved in the manufacturing and distribution of marijuana even if it is permitted under state law.
This growing state-federal split shows the need for an open public debate and resolution. The 6-1 vote by the Sammamish City Council can help make that happen.
SenaTe TakeS a gOOd STepThe Washington state Senate took a step this week
that can stop the ongoing budget crisis engulfing our state. It has proposed a constitutional amendment that would mandate the Legislature pass a balanced budget.
The measure now moves to the House where it also should be approved. The final step would be to put the issue on a ballot where a simple majority vote would make it law.
Many people might think that this already is re-quired. Sadly, it’s not.
True, the governor must propose a balanced budget. However, there’s no requirement for the Legislature to do this. A constitutional requirement would close this loophole.
If approved, the balanced budget requirement would kick in starting in 2014. A key element would be that the Legislature no longer would be able to write a budget that creates a shortfall in the following biennial budget. The state’s rainy-day fund still could be used to balance a budget if a recession occurred.
House members should sign on to this legislation.
– Craig Groshart, Issaquah/Sammamish Reporter
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Everywhere you look, you can see the tectonic shifts in how we share information as a culture. Much of this change is being seen in the area of photography.
New trends and technology are everywhere. Kodak recently declared
bankruptcy and no longer will make digital cameras. Conversely, Nikon released two new professional DSLR camera bodies that have photographers scrambling for their checkbooks. Instagram, a photo sharing app for the iPhone, in a way
has turned Twitter on its head as an image-first social media platform.
But while the tools have changed, the impact of the photograph remains.
When I started my career as a news-
paper photojournalist, I spent part of my day in the darkroom developing film. I then made an early transition to using digital cameras for print publica-tion. Now I just reach in my pocket and pull out my mobile phone.
Today it’s See – Shoot – Publish as the Internet has leveled the publishing playing field.
Never in history has there been a greater appetite for – or more difficult time to monetize – photography and visual media. Across the industry pho-tojournalists have been laid off in favor of citizen journalism. Newsroom staffs shrink and attitudes of “good enough” pervade. But never as a culture have we had this amazing ability to “see it” and not just hear about it.
My mom recently called and de-
scribed to me the more than 30 hot air balloons over her snowbird home in Arizona. My response? Let’s see ‘em!
So she hung up the phone and proceeded to electronically send me an entire photo essay on hot air balloons, much to the delight of my 2-year-old son.
As we snap away in this visual-first society, we are making a huge record of our time, a moment by moment snapshot of history. As this sea of images grows ever deeper, we need to be reminded that content still is king. No matter if it’s digital or film, DSLR or iPhone, or the newest, hottest photo processing app, I always need to remind myself that it’s what’s in the photograph that matters.
Chad Coleman is a staff photogra-pher for the Issaquah/Sammamish
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Photos change, but content remains
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According to the National Institutes of Health, sleep
apnea a� ects more than 18 million Americans. � at is 1 in 15, the majority of whom remain undiagnosed.
Dr. Je� rey Doneskey, Oral Medicine Specialist and founder of � e Sleep Apnea and Facial Pain Center in Bellevue, said that most of the symptoms associated with sleep apnea are easy to recognize, and include things like daytime sleepiness, snoring, gasping on awakening, frequent awakenings, high blood pressure, and cognitive impairment.
Doneskey also said that sleep disorders are strongly interrelated and most, if not all obstructive sleep apnea patients, also experience nighttime tooth-clenching, a condition which causes heavy wear on the patient’s lower front teeth.
“Nighttime clenching is o� en associated with headaches, jaw pain, jaw popping and locking, and other symptoms,” he said.
“People who show evidence of this type of tooth wear may also have sleep apnea as well.”
According to Doneskey, the strong interrelationship between sleep apnea and nighttime teeth clenching impacts what type of treatment options should be considered.
At this time, the most common treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a medical breathing device called a CPAP.
CPAP, which stands for continuous positive airway pressure, delivers air through a mask worn over the nose or face during sleep in order to help maintain an open airway.
While CPAP can provide an e� ectivesolution, there are many reasons why some people are unwilling or
unable to use CPAP.“Restless sleepers o� en have
di� culty getting comfortable and keeping the mask on during the night,” Doneskey said.
“Others have trouble maintaining a seal around the mask and must use chin straps to
keep their mouth closed while asleep.
“And that doesn’t take into consideration the lifestyle issues, such as the awkwardness of showing up at your girlfriends house with your CPAP, or the challenge of traveling with it.”
Doneskey reports that while CPAP remains the most common treatment, the
American Academy of Sleep Medicine now also supports the use of oral appliance therapy for moderate cases.
“When you consider the relationship between these sleep disorders and the complexity of treating both, alternative oral appliance therapy o� ers some real bene� ts,” says Doneskey.
“People who are experiencing clenching, headaches, sore jaws and poor sleep should consider this a wake-up call that they may also have sleep apnea.”
At � e Sleep Apnea & Facial Pain Center, a specialty clinic that helps patients identify sleep disorders and manage Obstructive Sleep Apnea and associated issues, Doneskey has found great success and high levels of patient satisfaction with a new oral appliance called the SilentPartner. � e SilentPartner is a jawfriendly, oral airway dilator, approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Doneskey himself helped develop the device.In addition to keeping the airway open, the SilentPartner eliminates snoring in most patients, while protecting the teeth of patients who clench
during their sleep.“It’s an especially appropriate
solution for apnea patients who have simply given up on the use of their CPAP because of their inability or unwillingness to use it, and for those who continue to struggle with unmanaged nighttime clenching and its associated symptoms,” says Doneskey.
Because of the interrelationship between these sleep disorders, Dr. Doneskey recommends that anyone with evidence of lower front tooth wear and sleep apnea symptoms should consider testing for sleep apnea.
Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious, potentially deadly health concern that requires medical treatment.
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Driver hit by flying scooter wheel in SammamishBy KEVIN ENDEJAN AND CELESTE [email protected]
The following information was compiled from Issaquah and Sammamish police reports:
A Carnation man’s car was struck by a scooter wheel, after another driver, described as a young male, tossed it out of his car on 228th Avenue Southeast, near the Sammamish Skate Park, Feb. 4.
The wheel caused an estimated $1,000 in damage to the vehicle’s rear bumper. Police were called to the scene where they found the 14-year-old who admit-ted to throwing pieces of a scooter at three different vehicles. He said he knew he “screwed up” when he heard the wheel hit the car and initially got scared and took off. He left his phone and backpack and returned
to the scene where he was detained by police.
Domestic attackA Sammamish woman
was arrested the morning of Jan. 29 after punching her ex husband’s girlfriend twice in the head then turning on him. When the ex husband tried to break it up, she punched him with a closed fist causing scratches to his face. The woman, who had been divorced from her husband since June 2011, later admitted to hitting both parties and said no one had touched her. She was then taken into custody.
Scrap burglarsPolice arrested a man and
a woman after finding them rummaging around a scrap yard in Issaquah at about 1
a.m., Jan. 28.The man had a criminal
history and they were both out of jail on bails set over $10,000 each.
The business, located on 900 block of 7th Avenue Northwest, has been hit with recent thefts, so the officer responded quickly enough to find the man loading an old TV into the trunk of his BMW.
When he heard the officer call for backup, he called to the woman, but not quickly enough. She showed up to the car with a pillaged computer hard drive.
They both claimed they didn’t know that they were trespassing. The woman gave a couple names, and after running them, the offi-cer pulled up two warrants.
Hide and go seekA Sammamish family
had more than $50,000 worth of jewelry stolen from their home between 4 and 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 9. The thieves took ruby necklaces, gold coins and sapphires from the master bedroom of the home in
the 4500 block of 191 Place Northeast. The homeowner said she was aware of recent home burglaries in the area and remedied the situation by putting all her jew-elry in a plastic bag in the closet out of plain view. The burglars entered through rear sliding door, which was broken.
Flamingo roadblockPolice were called to
Mount Olympus Drive and Sunset Way in Is-saquah where a traffic cone, balloon and pink plastic flamingo were blocking the roadway Feb. 4.
Drugged drivingA young woman was
arrested after driving a dangerous path through the Issaquah valley floor while she was high on Percocet.
Someone followed her from around Issaquah Valley Elementary to the Safeway, where she parked on a median. With a slurred voice she told the witness that she was fine, and then she continued to drive.
The man saw her almost cause a head-on collision
six different times. He told police her car crossed over the fog line several times.
She eventually veered off the road and struck a tree on Gilman Boulevard Jan. 26.
The officer didn’t find any signs of alcohol, but she told him she was on Perco-cet. She was uncooperative at the hospital, and said she wanted to kill herself.
Phone scamA Sammamish woman
called police Feb. 2 after suspicious phone call.
The resident said an “African sounding male” told her she had won $3.5 million and all she had to do was go to a local store and get a $200 money pack and call him back. He said he would then send the state marshalls to come get the money pack from her.
The caller did not get the money pack or call back, but just wanted to make police aware of the incident.
Missing plateA Sammamish resident
reported the rear license plate on her SUV was stolen
sometime between Feb. 1 and Feb. 9.
She wasn’t sure when the theft actually happened as she traveled many places, but the plates had a Good to Go Pass bar code sticker on it.
Siphoned gasA man called police after
he suspected someone had been siphoning gas from his truck while it was parked in his driveway Feb. 4.
He didn’t want to file a report, but he did ask for extra patrols on the 2300 block of Squak Mountain Loop Southwest.
Business break-inSomeone busted open
the doors of a boating and heavy equipment store and made off with three backpack blowers and four yard trimmers, a $2,790 loss Feb. 10.
Metal theftFive brass end caps,
worth $1,200, were swept off some underground wa-ter pipes on Newport Way and Maple Street Feb. 9.
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cludes the Snoqualmie Middle Fork, is one of the largest that the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance has been invited to partici-pate in, said Doug Walsh, a biker at the kickoff meeting. It’s big deal for bikers.
Bikers only have access to about 12 of the 80 miles of trails on Tiger Mountain. As a result, some have “poached” trails or crossed into hiker-only areas.
There isn’t much opportunity to expand on Tiger, but there is a strong possibility of connecting to a new Raging River network.
Likewise, horsemen are looking to connect their trails on the nearby Taylor Mountain and hikers are hoping to offi-cially connect Tiger Mountain with Rattle-snake Ridge, which is East of the Raging.
The land doesn’t come without some baggage.
DNR exists to manage Washington’s 5.6 million acres of trust lands, much of which can be harvested for timber. The money is used to help build schools and prisons, said McClelland, who is leading up the recre-ation plan.
Over 8,000 of Raging’s 10,000 acres will
remain “working forests,” meaning DNR will continue to log the land, even after trails are built. This has always been the case on Tiger, which is about two-thirds working land, he said.
Mountain bikers came to the kickoff meeting looking for a way to create more places to ride, he said. “What they learned is there is much more to it than that.”
DNR first began creating formalized recreation management plans a few years ago. The Snoqualmie Corridor project is the biggest attempted in the state.
It’s an important region for recreation, because demand has been much higher for afternoon hikes that only take 2-3 hours, McClelland said.
At the forest, Jarrett, from DNR, rests his hand on the wheel of his truck. Looking past the clearing and buzzing power lines, he glances up into Raging River’s thickest forests along Rattlesnake Ridge. The whole valley has a view of the surrounding moun-tains. “It could be a destination landscape for recreation.”
Issaquah Reporter staff writer Celeste Gracey can be reached at 425-391-0363, ext.
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Doug Walsh, left, and Peter Sherill both participate in the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance. They attended the Feb. 1 DNR meeting to give input on what they’d like to see happen in the Snoqualmie Corridor forests. Celeste graCey, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter
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Louise Elston gets the ultimate sense of satisfaction when she goes through the cafeteria line at Margaret Mead Elementary and she sees her teaching in action.
“They watch my plate,” said the physical education teacher, of her students. “’Mrs. Elston, look I’m getting spinach, I’ve got peas here, what are you getting?’ They get the connection, it’s great.”
It’s that passion for health education that earned her recognition last Friday when she received the 2012 Lake Washington PTSA Council award for Outstanding Educator. She was the lone selection of the district’s 31 elementary, 13 junior high and nine high schools.
“I felt so honored, I love my job and it felt so special to be recognized for something you enjoy doing,” said Elston, who has been at the school that last nine years. “It was very much a surprise.”
Several of Elston’s accomplishments were highlighted, including being the driving force behind the school’s annual Walk-a-thon fundraiser. She not only played a key role in the planning of the second-year event, but also created the entire obstacle course.
Elston also organized a running club nine years ago — something she volunteers for after-school and recess time without any compensation. The club has continued
every year, running in the fall and spring. There are often 100 or more kids involved in the program, which ends with a “fun run” against other Plateau schools.
Among other innovative programs, Elston has helped organize a monthly fitness calen-dar, a food calendar, a healthy snack contest and is in the process of developing a family fitness night.
“Louise has really helped to develop a culture focused on good health at Mead,” principal Sandy Klein said. “Not only do the students hear her message at school, they are encouraged to keep daily logs at home tracking health and fitness habits. She com-municates frequently with the parents of her students, integrating lessons at school with
practice and parent support at home.” Elston also co-chairs the Student Advisory
Council, which implemented a school recy-cling program that drastically reduced the amount of garbage produced by the school. The SAC is currently pursuing participation in the Sparrow Club, which the pairs up with Children’s Hospital to provide support to sick children and their families.
Elston certainly has no trouble staying
busy, but it’s the satisfaction from her daily duties as a P.E. teacher that she always comes back to.
“It’s the best feeling because you get to connect what you’re teaching to what they’re going to apply to their daily lives,” she said. “It’s really a fun job.”
Kevin Endejan: 425-391-0363, ext. 5054;[email protected]
Mead’s Elston named LWPSTA’s Outstanding Educator
Margaret Mead physical education teacher Louise Elston was surprised last week with the Lake Washington School District PTSA Outstanding Educator of the Year award. kevin endejan, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter
“I felt so honored, I love my job and it felt so special to be recognized for something you enjoy doing.” – Louise Elston
Thirty-eight Eastlake High School DECA students recently advanced to the state competition, March 8-10 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.
Thirteen of those students placed in the top five Jan. 12 at the Area 3 competition.They are listed below.
Lauren Greenheck (11th grade) in Apparel and Acces-sories Marketing
Alec Hubbart and An-drew Cofano (10th grade) in Team Buying and Merchan-dising
Natalie Hurd (11th grade) and Alaina Hartley (11th grade) in Marketing Management
Matthew Ahlquist (11th grade) in Sports and Enter-tainment Marketing
Akaash Nanda (12th grade) and Joy Hsu (12th grade) in Business Services
Nir Levin, Lincoln Doyle, Simon Lee and Midori Ng (12th grade) in the Advertising Campaign event
Nicole McKernan (12th grade) in Hospitality & Tourism Professional Selling
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Briarwood Elementary School was recognized for saving 55 percent of its waste from going to landfills.
King County honored four schools last week for engaging students and staff in conservation acts with its Green Schools Program.
With help from the city of Is-saquah, the school started collecting food scraps in the cafeteria. Those scraps were then sent as compost to the nearby Cedar Grove facility.
A group of third graders, called the Green Team, helped trained young students on how to properly
sort recyclable materials from LWSD gets grant for school garbage.
ReaLTORS support iSd bond proposal
Seattle King County REALTORS came out in full support of the Is-saquah School District’s Construction and Maintenance Bond proposal, headed to voters April 17.
The measure would seek up to $219 million to fund several capitol projects, including the remodel of Liberty High School, over the next eight years.
The district needs the money to accommodate it’s growth, about 18.6 percent in the last decade. The bond will help rebuild obsolete schools, including three 50-year-old facilities, said Issaquah Realtor Joan Probala.
When schools are higher perform-
ing, it increases nearby property values, one reason the REALTORS group support the vote.
The ISD is hosting an informal meeting about its April 2012 bond measure March 8. The meeting starts at 5:30 at Issaquah Middle School. For more information call 425-837-7000.
Paul allen foundation awards LWSd $400k
The Lake Washington School Dis-trict has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. This grant will support the development of curriculum for the Science, Technology, Engineer-ing and Math (STEM) School that is scheduled to open in fall 2012.
The school will draw students from throughout the district, as one of its Choice schools.
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At the beginning of the season, the Issaquah boys basketball team wanted to get back to state for the first time since the 2004-05 season. After securing that prize already with a 67-54 win over Bothell, the Eagles are looking to make school history.
Despite entering the playoffs with losses in three of its previous four games, coach Jason Griffith’s squad finds itself in tonight’s 4A KingCo title game against Garfield after wins over Roosevelt at Bothell.
The championship presents an unfa-miliar opportunity for a program that last reached the league title game in 2006-07 in 3A KingCo.
A win would deliver the first confer-ence title for Issaquah boys basketball since Hans Gasser and future Patriot League Player of the Year Garrison Carr took the Eagles all the way to the 3A state title game during the 2002-03 season.
Senior Nick Price has been the steady
force throughout the season, averaging a team best 20.7 points per game while helping mentor freshman Ty Gibson, who has risen to the occasion thus far in his first prep postseason.
“The tempo of the game is way faster,” Gibson said of the biggest transition to varsity hoops. “The atmosphere is different too, a lot bigger crowds.”
After adjusting from football and to the increased speed and physicality of the high school game early in the year, Griffith, Price and Gibson himself all agreed the young-ster began gaining confidence and trusting in his ability to make plays.
“Once he started getting confident, I knew he would bring that onto the floor,” Price said. “The last four games, which have been the most important, he’s started to get that confidence.”
After hitting double digits only twice during the regular season (most recently before the New Year), Gibson put in 23 points against Newport in an opening round playoff win on 7-for-10 shooting
from the floor, including 3-for-4 from three point range.
Two night’s later with a spot to state on the line, Gibson delivered again with a game-high 24 points including six three- pointers in the win over Bothell.
“As the year went on, the seniors have helped me figure out my role,” Gibson said. “We’ve been capable all season. But now we’re kind of coming together.”
Griffith said he has been pleased with Gibson’s ability to provide offense in bunches as of late, but it was initially his defense that caught the coach’s eye.
“He set himself apart from just about every other guard with his on-ball defense,” Griffith said. “He has an amazing ability to turn kids and catch up with kids from a full court position.”
With Gibson making a name for himself thus far in the playoffs, Price acting as the
steadying force and a handful of other contributors including leading rebounder Fletcher Martin and top assist man Brian Watson doing their part, Griffith and the Eagles are hoping this is just the begin-ning of a journey that is unfamiliar to a group that has never been this deep in the postseason.
Price, for one, has drawn inspiration from another team that recently turned a mediocre regular season into the biggest prize.
“I think of us like the New York Giants,” he said. “We don’t have the best record go-ing into the playoffs, but we’ve turned it on at the right time.”
Reporter Josh Suman can be reached at 425-453-5054 or jsuman@bellevuereporter.
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Freshman Ty Gibson (with ball) and senior Nick Price (far left) are set to lead the Eagles into the playoffs for the first time since 2005. josh suman, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter
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Issaquah boys lock up first state tournament appearance since 2005
Winter post-season action heats up for local athletesGIRLs BasKETBaLL
Eastlake will have no repeat of last season, when the Wolves were dropped by Edmonds-Woodway in a winner-to-state pigtail game.
Instead, the Wolves will face state-ranked Woodinville for the 4A KingCo girls basket-ball championship at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17.
Coach Sara Goldie’s squad slipped past
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The Falcons took the only meeting of the year between the two teams, 64-57 in early January.
Skyline and Issaquah met on Thursday after The Reporter’s press time for a spot in
the KingCo-Wesco pigtail game against the third place team from the 4A Wesco tourna-ment. The winners will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 21 to decide the final berth to the state tournament from the district.
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Issaquah finished the 4A Region II wres-tling tournament in seventh place behind the third place finish of Max Tickman at 126 pounds and the fourth place from Almen Thorpe at 132.
Tickman rebounded from an opening round loss to eventual champion Ares Car-pio to earn 17-4, 7-2 and 4-1 decisions the rest of the way. Thorpe earned a trio of pins and was topped by Brady Foster of Graham-Kapowsin by fall in the third-place match.
Andrew Ramirez (170), Jerdon Helgeson (138), Joseph Tonnemaker (145) and Matt Soulsod (220) finished fifth and Jonathan Norriss (285) earned a fourth place finish for the Eagles.
Skyline ended the meet in 10th place with 44.5 points, led by the fourth place finish of
Griffin Howlett at 106 pounds and fourth place finishes of Joseph DeMatteo at 113 and Tristan Steciw at 120.
Eastside Catholic’s Matt Iwicki continued his stellar season with a regional champion-ship in 3A, pinning three opponents all in 1 minute, seven seconds or less.
The freshman defeated Chris Moore of Nathan Hale and Michael Wilkinson of Bainbridge before pinning Kallum Broder-ick of O’Dea in the title match at 113 pounds in only 12 seconds.
Connor Heger took the title at 170 pounds for EC with wins over Connor Kenyon from Bainbridge and Alex Paeth of Nathan Hale by fall before earning a 5-1 decision over Andy Newman of Blanchet in the final.
Kea Roberts worked his way all the way to the final match at 182 pounds before falling to Weber Coryell 16-2 and Joe Stoutt did likewise at 195 pounds prior to meeting Blanchet’s Peter Johnson, who took the title by fall.
Eastlake’s Eric Harper took the lone championship for the Wolves, winning the 170 pound title from Zack Bickford of Span-away with an 11-5 decision.
Harper, a junior, pinned his first opponent before a 7-4 win in the semi-finals and will meet Issaquah’s Ramirez in the first round at state.
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The Sammamish real es-tate market seemed to have fared better than Issaquah’s in January according to the latest statistics from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.
With single family homes and condominiums combined, the median sales price in Sammamish was down only 2 percent to $440,000 from $449,000, whereas in Issaquah the drop was 26.98 percent from $530,000 to $387,000.
Closings were up in both areas. Issaquah racked up 66 closed sales compared to 61 last year. In Sammamish, 118 residential closings occurred, up 16.8 percent from January 2011.
Pending sales were also up, by 19.28 percent in Is-saquah, and 33.11 percent in Sammamish.
But inventory is down.In Issaquah there were
402 properties on the mar-ket in January 2011 - last month there were exactly
100 fewer. In Sammamish there were 735 listings of the market in January 2011, where last month there were 597.
About the same number of listings came on the mar-ket last month in Issaquah as in January 2011 - 106 last month, and 102 a year ago.
In Sammamish 181 new listings came on the market, compared to 221 a year ago.
John Jergens with John L. Scott, Sammamish, said inventory is down due to more pending sales, but also because people are not putting their homes on the market unless they abso-lutely have to.
“I feel buyers believe, for the most part, that now is the time to buy,” Jergens said.
He added that move-up buyers are coming back into the marketplace if they bought their current home before 2007. As far as dis-tressed properties are con-cerned, Jergens said about 25 percent of the listings on the plateau are distressed, but those listings become a buyer’s opportunity.
“As you go north and south, distressed properties increase,” Jergens said.
He said most of the single family homes on the market that are $250,000 and under in Kennydale and Renton, are distressed. Distressed condominiums are even greater he said.
Cheryl Crane, a bro-ker with Windermere in Issaquah said it’s getting harder to find what buyers
are looking for.“There’s not a lot of
choices,” she said. “Good, clean inventory is on and off the market, quickly.”
She concurred that sellers who are not under stress are staying put; in fact many are staying put and remodeling.
“Declining inventory, extremely low interest rates, and positive job growth are contributing to rising optimism among industry professionals, but NWMLS directors say distressed properties continue to be a drag on the market’s recov-ery,” said a NWMLS press release.
J. Lennox Scott, CEO and chairman of John L. Scott Real Estate said the lower number of new listings on the market are a result of underwater sellers (who owe more than their home is worth), sellers who do have equity holding off for higher prices and the lack of new construction.
Linda Ball: 206-232-1215 ext. 5052;
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Issaquah: median $387,000 - Down 26.98 percent from $530,000 in 2011
MARKET AT A GLANCE
Two Issaquah institutions – Providence Marianwood skilled nursing home and artEAST artists’ group – are joining forces once again to bring more artwork to the community.
Local artists Michelle Sidnie Ryan, Maraget Van Duine and Catherine Kail-Tucker are currently showing their art at the senior care facility located at 3725 Providence Point Drive SE., in Issaquah. They are hosting an artists’ reception from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend.
Marianwood Administrator Karla Heath loves the en-ergy that this new art show is bringing to Marianwood.
“What a wonderful gift to our residents to have this dynamic and eclectic creative work in our hallways. It adds so much enjoyment to our days and the artists’ reception is a great time to invite the greater community into our home to share in enjoying this beautiful art show.”
This exhibit will be shown at Marianwood through the end of April and is open to the public daily between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds from the sale of artwork during this show will be do-nated to Marianwood.
For more information, contact Arlene Carter of Provi-dence Marianwood at 425-391-2800 or [email protected] or Liz Ashley at [email protected] or 425-213-3340.
Marianwood, artEAST host new show Saturday
‘The bluebird of happiness just flew in my window,’ by Catherine Kail-Tucker is one of the pieces on display Saturday. contributed
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Feb. 22Memorizing the Secrets: 7-8:30 p.m. Presented by mnemonist Charles Kraus. How much have you forgotten? How much can you remember? In less than an hour you will learn classic memory secrets to keep track of personal data, names, phone numbers, shopping lists and more. These are tips and systems that can be used every day by everyone. Free. Sam-mamish Library, Meeting Room, 825 228th Ave. SE, Sammamish.
Feb. 23The Red Thread – a Chi-nese New Year Tale: 3-4 p.m. Ages 4 to 8. There is an ancient Chinese belief that every child is born with a red thread that attaches the child to everyone of importance they will meet in life. Explore this theme and aspects of New Year cel-ebrations from around the world. Sammamish Library, Meeting Room, 825 228th Ave. SE, Sammamish.
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manslaughter charges in connection with the fatal shooting. Police say De Jong acted recklessly when he fired what he thought was unloaded gun, according to King County Prosecutor’s Office charging documents. The charging papers said De Jong appeared drunk after the incident and refused a breath test. The witness who called to report the shooting told dispatchers, “My best friend shot a girl in the house, he was drunk,” the charging documents said.
“You don’t mix alcohol and guns,” said Thompson’s high school friend Grace Robison, who knew both Thompson and De Jong, but was not at the party. “We need to bring awareness to this. This situation could have been avoided. We could have our friend back.”
Boyd echoed those com-ments.
“No one should have guns unless you are at a shooting range,” Boyd said. “Everyone in this situation should never be able to touch a gun again. I hope there is a lesson learned here.”
Neighbors said the resi-dence where the shooting occurred was a known party house.
“It’s very sad,” said Paige Norman, who for the last 20 years has lived three houses down from the home where the shooting occurred. “I’m sorry someone had to lose a life, but it’s not really a surprise.”
Gun was legalDe Jong arrived at the
party with a 40-caliber semiautomatic handgun, which he was known to carry. The charging docu-ments said De Jong has a concealed-weapons permit, which was issued by the Redmond Police.
De Jong had placed the gun in a safe at the house because he said he would be drinking alcohol, but his friend and the homeowner’s grandson requested to see the firearm. The charging documents stated that when the gun was taken from the safe, the gun magazine and live round were ejected.
Several people handled the gun and afterwards, De Jong placed it in an unsecured kitchen cup-board for safekeeping. De Jong fell asleep on the couch and woke up to find the gun missing. The gun had been placed in a bedroom under a mattress, according to the charging papers.
When De Jong retrieved the gun, charging docu-ments state another person in the room “objected to the handgun being handled while the subjects were under the influence of intoxicating liquor.” De Jong removed the gun magazine and pulled back the slide “halfway to three-fourths,” the charging papers stated. He then pointed the gun at the wall and pulled the trigger to show it was empty, not knowing there was still a live round in the chamber.
“In truth it was an accident,” said Robison, Thompson’s friend. “I know (De Jong) and I
know he wouldn’t hurt Clair like that. It’s really, really hard. I was just shocked. There’s no way to compre-hend the pain that their family is going through.”
De Jong’s arraignment is set for Feb. 27 and he remains in King County Jail on $300,000 bail, accord-ing to charging documents. Prosecutors pointed out in the charging papers that De Jong has past convictions for driving under the influence and minor in possession of alcohol.
Always positiveThompson grew up
in Sammamish with her mother, stepfather along with her older brother and younger sister, Boyd said. She graduated from East-lake High School in 2010 after attending McAuliffe Elementary School and Inglewood Junior High in Sammamish, according to Lake Washington School District communication director Kathryn Reith.
She started working full-time at the Issaquah PCC in November as a helper clerk and then became a part-time employee in January when she began classes at Seattle Central Community College, ac-cording to a PCC spokes-woman Diana Crane.
“She was really well-liked, very positive and a hard working staff member,” Crane said of Thompson.
Her favorite class at SCC was anthropology, accord-ing to Boyd and in her spare time, Thompson loved going on nature walks and hikes in the area.
In fact, Thompson and Boyd would go on nature walks or hikes every week. Their last nature walk together was last week at Marymoor Park, Boyd said.
“Those were my favorite times with her,” Boyd said of the nature excursions.
In honor of her best friend, Boyd said she plans to go on a hike at Tiger Moun-tain, another place the two would go together often.
“It will be nice for me to get away from everything,” Boyd said. “Be somewhere where Claire would want to be.”
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