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By Lillian O’[email protected]

The Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School may have happened on the other side of the country, but phones were ringing in the Issaquah School District.

In the weeks following the shooting in Connecticut, district officials said they had an influx of parents calling to find out what was being done to keep students safe. In response to the heightened concerns, princi-

pals across the district sent out newsletters on the topic and held parent safety meetings.

“What we know is effective is being prepared,” said Jodi Bongard, the district’s executive director of elementary schools.

State law requires schools to have evacuation plans and to work with local emergency response agencies to come up with safety plans, as well as run monthly drills. Six of those each year must be fire drills, and at least one has to be a lockdown.

Bongard explained that the

district is continually monitor-ing its drills and seeks feed-back from local police and first responders. Principal evalua-tions are another checkpoint, she said, explaining that the reviews include checking to make sure a principal has an emergency plan in place and that it’s up to date.

On the plateau, Sammamish police visited several schools to talk safety with principals.

Issaquah has three police officers working within the district. Each of the three school resource officers is designated to

one of the three comprehensive high schools. With the major-ity of their time spent in their assigned high schools, the police officers use the school day to do a number of things, including speak to classes about different laws, mentor students and con-duct criminal investigations. The officers are also available to the elementary and middle schools, if needed.

School resource officers aren’t new. For years, the district has worked with different jurisdic-tions to insure the program stays

in place. The cities of Issaquah and Sammamish now share the costs of the officers; King County, however, does not. Last year, the school district paid $187,665 for the officers.

Additionally, it spent another $133,000 on three high school campus security officers, whose duties include tracking security camera footage. Cameras are a district standard at all middle and high schools, as well as

District officials consider school safety concerns

See SAFETY, Page A5

Photos by GreG Farrar

Sheshank Shankar (above), 8, of Sammamish, is close to finding one more purple Easter egg, hiding in the lower center of the photo with the plastic camouflage balls, as 60 6- to-9-year-olds scramble in the Julius Boehm Pool March 22 during the Under Water Egg Hunt. Dominic Marinos (left), 11, is one of more than 140 youngsters in three age-group waves who gathered floating and submerged eggs, and traded them in for novelty prizes.

THE FIRST SPLASH OF SPRING

By Peter [email protected]

A survey says the citizens of Issaquah care deeply about es-tablishing parks and renovating the Julius Boehm Pool.

The results of a City Council-di-rected survey was brought before the council Services and Safety Committee during its March 4 regular meeting. Regarding a possible parks, recreation, pool and natural area park bond, EMC Research conducted a telephone survey to gauge the mood and priorities of local residents.

Residents were asked two questions, about their support for the renovation of the pool and about their support of a bond for new park and recreation devel-

opments. The survey found that not only

is the pool “extremely or very important to city residents,” as stated in the council agenda bill, but they also displayed concern regarding the protection of wild-life habitat, preserving natural open space, acquiring new park space and improving trails.

City Parks Planner Margaret Macleod presented the results of the survey to the committee as well as specific designations on how a potential bond would be allocated.

The committee sent consider-ation of the bond back to the City Council with its recommendation. The council will discuss the mat-ter, as well as the disbursement, at its April 1 meeting.

Committee hears park bond survey results


Three months after Kevin Ham was told a boundary change would send his children to a new school next year, he went in front of the Issaquah School Board and asked them to change the way such decisions are made.

According to district policy, it is up to the superintendent to make boundary adjustments. In the case of small adjustments, the district does not open the process to public input.

After hearing Ham’s request, the board discussed the mat-ter at its March 13 meeting and ultimately decided to leave the policy as is.

Ham’s concerns began at a community meeting Nov. 20, where Superintendent Steve Rasmussen explained that in or-der to alleviate overcrowding at Grand Ridge Elementary School, about 175 of its students would be shifted to Clark Elementary School next fall. Additionally, all kindergartners will go to Chal-lenger or Endeavour elementary schools.

“It is not acceptable that within such a short time frame so many families will be forced to change schools,” Ham said during public comment at the Feb. 13 school board meeting. “We understand that the superintendent can determine boundary changes without input from the school board and the general public, if the boundary change only affects

one to two schools. We ask the school board to revise this policy because these decisions both deserve, and benefit, input from the community.”

Ham, who said he was speak-ing on behalf of several Issaquah Highlands families, suggested the new policy include the school board giving ample notice to the community, holding at least one public meeting where people could give their input to be con-sidered in the decision and that the final approval of any bound-ary changes be made by the school board.

The board picked the issue up again at its March 13 meeting. During the discussion, board member Suzanne Weaver said she understood that the request was coming from people who felt like they didn’t have a say in any part of the decision.

“When the public feels like they don’t have input, they go to the board because the board is where you give public input,” she said. “So, really all we need to say is that, we need to have assurances from the administra-tion that they are listening to the public when they do boundary changes. And, I believe they are.”

The other board members agreed that boundary changes are complex and best left to the administration.

“I see the frustration of the Grand Ridge community … but


Eleven days after fleeing the scene of a thwarted robbery attempt at an Issaquah Arco station, a female suspect was arrested in Kenai, Alaska.

Task force members of the U.S. Marshal’s Service captured the woman on March 21, ac-cording to a release from the Is-saquah Police Department. Echo Kaylee Paden, 19, of Issaquah, was charged with first-degree robbery, according to charging papers from the King County Prosecutor’s Office.

After the failed robbery, Paden fled Washington state, and ef-forts to locate and capture her were turned over to the mar-

shals. An arrest warrant was issued by King County Superior Court on March 15.

Local police used images caught during the robbery to enlist the public’s assistance in identifying the woman. In the release, they credited citizens with aiding with the woman’s location and arrest.

She will be booked as a “fugi-tive of justice” and extradited back to Washington, police said. They expect the process to take a month.

While attempting to rob the convenience store, at 1400 N.W. Sammamish Road, with what appeared to be a handgun

Robbery suspect found in Alaska

School board leaves boundary decisions with superintendent

See BOUNDARIES, Page A5

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This female suspect is shown as photographed by surveillance video during a reported armed robbery March 10 at the Arco am/pm convenience store, 1400 N.W. Sammamish Road. See SUSPECT, Page A3

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Caryn Matusiefsky (left) takes an Easter basket from Tracy Vu, as the two Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church parishioners bring 300 Easter baskets for children March 25 to the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank. Church mem-bers volunteered as they have for years to take empty bas-kets home, fill and return them with stuffed animals, toys and games, books, crayons, plus of course some candy and chocolate.

HELPING HANDS

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The Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer District approved a hike to both water and sewer rates at its March 18 meeting.

On a 4-0 vote (Com-mission President Tom Harman was absent for the vote), rates will go up 2 percent for water and 16 percent for sewer. The combined increase will be about 7.9 percent. For most single-family households, that will mean an average water bill increase of 65 cents per month, bringing their bill to $35.17, according to the district.

Sewer rates will climb by an average of $4.03 per month, bringing those bills to $29.20.

The new rates go into effect April 1. The Sam-mamish Plateau Water & Sewer District covers the majority of the Sam-mamish Plateau, including Klahanie and parts of un-incorporated King County east of Sammamish, parts of the city of Issaquah and parts of unincorporated King County east of Red-mond.

Water District General Manager Jay Krauss said the discrepancy in rate increases owes to the district policy of not forcing residents on septic systems to help subsidize the sewer system. The district has slightly less than 17,000 water customers and slightly less than 11,000 sewer customers.

Krauss said that much of the increase is, paradoxi-cally, related to residents’ water conservation. Many of the district’s costs re-volve around fixed costs, such as replacing pipes and pumps. As residents use less water, the district has less money to replace those as they wear out.

“Part is a budget structur-al problem,” Krauss said.

Krauss also noted that the district has a policy of setting aside money for future work. Instead of reacting to broken water mains and paying down cash reserves, they like to build up a fund for replace-

ment of those in advance of the work. The idea, he said, is to spread out the replace-ment costs among everyone who is getting the benefit of the infrastructure, instead of saddling some future generation with the costs.

Sammamish resident Karen May said at the meet-ing she sympathized with the work the district does, but she was still upset about the increases. She noted that she has decreased her water use, but still saw a 14 percent increase in her bill. She wants the district to structure their rates so that high-volume water users pay more.

Commissioner Lloyd War-ren said that the increase last year was likely a one-time adjustment, and that rate increases should be more gradual from now on. He further noted that 95 percent of district expenses come from fixed costs.

“We need to start guar-anteeing that we’re going to be able to pay our bills,” he said.

He also noted that many high-volume users have a higher base rate, which captures some of the cost.

RECENT ADJUSTMENTSThe chart shows the

percentage of increase in water and sewer rates for the past seven years.

Year Water Sewer2007 0 02008 9 92009 7 72010 7.5 7.52011 12.7 13.52012 6 252013 2 16

Source: Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer District

Water, sewer rates to increase

GET INVOLVEDLearn more about the Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer District, including about the district budget, at www.sammplat.wa.org.

Parks information — there’s an app for that

The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission has entered its 100th year and is launching an iPhone and Android app to celebrate.

The Pocket Ranger smartphone application is a free, interactive app that provides users with infor-mation about more than 100 state parks, historical sites and campgrounds. Each listing includes infor-mation about amenities,

maps and directions.Visitors can search for

a park by current GPS location, or activity like hiking and camping. Once inside the park, the app will allow the user to track and record trails, and even save the trails in the event of loss of service. News alerts, weather advisories, a calendar of events and photo sharing are among the other features avail-able on the new app.

Download the app from iTunes or the Android store. Search “Pocket Ranger.”

Annual filing of B&O taxes now available for small businesses

Small businesses can now file their taxes annu-ally instead of quarterly with the city of Issaquah.

In line with demands from business owners, those who earn $20,000 or less in gross, taxable income will be able to file city business and occu-pation taxes on an an-nual basis. If gross annual income is greater than $20,000 in 2013, the taxes will revert back to quar-terly filing in 2014.

It will save on the amount of paperwork and hassle for those businesses that meet the threshold.

Learn more at www.issaquahwa.gov/business-taxes or call 837-3050.

Donated flower baskets will brighten downtown

The flower baskets in downtown Issaquah will return to Front Street soon.

Thanks to contributions from local residents and businesses, 20 baskets will be hung along Front Street. Each year, the Downtown Issaquah As-sociation campaigns for donations to hang flower baskets in downtown Is-saquah.

Several local businesses donated $250 for the cost of one basket and main-tenance for five months.

Amante Pizza on Front Street will receive a plaque to hang downtown for its $1,000 contribution.

Water district has clean audit

The Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer District received a pair of clean audits March 4.

The Washington State’s Auditor’s Office did not find any problems with the district’s financial reporting. It also found no problems with other mat-ters that auditing stan-dards would require to be reported.

The auditor’s office also reviewed district practices in billing, general disburse-ments and controls over procurement, and found the district has sufficient controls in place to keep public assets safe.

Youth board to host Glitz & Glam night

Elementary school girls can express their glamor-ous side at the Issaquah Youth Advisory Board’s Glitz & Glam night from 6-9 p.m. May 17 at the Is-saquah Community Center.

Girls in kindergarten through third grade can spend the night doing hair, makeup and crafts.

Registration fee is $20. Learn more at https://iplay.issaquahwa.gov/Start/start.asp, or call 837-3300.

City seeks Earth Day volunteers to plant trees

The city invites locals to plant trees in recognition of Earth Day.

To help beautify along Issaquah Creek and Picker-ing Trail, the city needs vol-unteers to help with placing the saplings from 11 a.m. to noon April 20. Individu-als or groups wishing to participate can register at

the information booth near the Pickering Trail entrance beginning at 9 a.m.

Organizations like the Cascade Bicycle Club, Seattle Tilth, the Issaquah Garden Club and the Mas-ter Gardeners have already volunteered, but more are encouraged to join.

The day will also mark the opening day of the Issaquah Farmers Market at Pickering Barn with

local exhibitors available between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Learn more by call-ing the Issaquah Parks & Recreation Department at 837-3300.

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The Eastside Fire & Rescue board set seven goals for Fire Chief Lee Soptich to fulfill in 2013 at its March 14 board meet-ing.

Top on the list is to prepare for the 2014 col-lective bargaining agree-ment with the firefighters’ union, which also includes hiring an attorney to pro-vide comparison data.

The second goal is to explore expanding the EFR partnership, which cur-rently includes Issaquah, North Bend, Sammamish, and fire districts 10 and 38.

This comes at a time when the board is still waiting to hear whether

Sammamish is going to withdraw from the partnership because it is unhappy with the current funding model that bases partnership costs on as-sessed property values.

The goal asks Soptich to research the pros and cons of expanding into neighboring jurisdictions, reaching out to potential partners and advising the board who, how and when is the best to invite potential jurisdictions to consider partnering.

The third goal is to consider creating and adopting a strategic plan for pursuing international accreditation.

Soptich’s fourth goal is to evaluate the need for an emergency management coordinator, a battalion

chief or chiefs, and a facil-ity maintenance position, along with costs for the new personnel.

Soptich is also being asked to provide better awareness of fireworks safety and stepping up enforcement of violators in coordination with law enforcement agencies.

The sixth goal is to look at considering the pos-sibility of offering early retirement incentives, and the seventh goal is to implement the volunteer live-in/sleeper program at station 88 in Wilderness Rim in North Bend and consider the same for sta-tion 79 in May Valley near Issaquah.

The board came up with the set of goals at its board retreat held Feb. 6.

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March 10, Paden was dis-armed by an employee.

She entered wearing a purple mask, holding a plastic bag, and demanded money from the on-duty clerk. He suspected that the weapon was fake and attempted to stall until police arrived. He waited until her attention was diverted and then grabbed the gun, which was actu-ally a starter pistol, like

the kind used at the begin-ning of races, and tossed it across the room, accord-ing to the charging papers.

Paden then reached down to remove a knife from her waistband. The clerk grabbed the knife and threw it to the ground, and then stepped on it. A struggle followed in which the clerk removed the mask and sweatshirt from Paden, who then fled on foot, the charging documents said. The clerk sustained no injuries.

“We don’t normally recommend people do that in the event of an armed

robbery, but we’re just thankful that no one was hurt,” Issaquah Police Cmdr. Stan Conrad said.

Police recognized Paden from previous encounters, according to the charging papers.

Marshals were able to later verify that Paden flew to Anchorage, Alaska, on March 11. Officers in Issaquah learned from her boyfriend and mother that she may have gone there to stay.

Reporter Christina Corrales-Toy contributed to this story.

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Several of the Issaquah School District’s construc-tion projects in the next few years are likely to be finished early, while others are set to take longer.

That’s according to the district’s updated timeline for projects funded by the $219 million bond passed by voters last April. A month after the special election, district Director of Capital of Projects Steve Crawford drafted a pre-liminary project schedule.

Two weeks ago, at the March 13 school board meeting, Crawford pre-sented an updated version of that timeline, in which some completion dates were bumped up between

a few months to two years. According to Jake Kuper, the district’s chief financial officer, permitting time-lines is what drove most of the time changes.

Most notably, construc-tion at Apollo Elementary School could start as early June and wrap up Decem-ber 2014. The addition and modernization were origi-nally set to begin in April 2015 and last through the end of 2016.

Three other projects are on tap to start and finish a year early. The soonest of those is Issaquah Valley Elementary School’s year-and-a-half-long addition and modernization, which will start this summer.

Also beginning this sum-mer is the construction of Skyline High School’s new stadium. The project was

originally slated to take 14 months to build, but Craw-ford and Superintendent Steve Rasmussen said they hope to have it open by the end of September.

The new timeline does, however, include some delays. Beaver Lake and Maywood middle schools were supposed to get arti-ficial turf on their athletic fields last summer. Pine Lake and Pacific Cascade were scheduled for the same upgrade this sum-mer. Now, Maywood and Pine Lake are set to get their new fields this sum-mer, and Beaver Lake and Pacific Cascade will have to wait until summer 2014.

A link to district con-struction news is available on the district’s homepage at www.issaquah.wednet.edu.

Timeline for schools, fields construction updated


Parcel two of the Ichijo preliminary plat filled the agenda for the Urban Vil-lage Development Com-mission in its march 19 meeting.

The Issaquah Highlands parcel was received from King County in exchange for retaining green space northwest of Issaquah High School. The presentation regarded plans that are under way to develop the land into residential hous-ing. The meeting allowed for public comment about the upcoming project; few concerns were expressed.

The 4.28 forested acres are in the beginning stages of development.

“The applicant is request-ing preliminary plat ap-proval to subdivide Parcel 2 into 36 lots for construction of detached single-family residences,” according to the Washington Depart-ment of Transportation transfer of development rights agreement.

The plot south of 14th Place Northeast will “range from approximately 3,000 to 5,700 square feet. The

project consists of a main residential street that transitions into narrower, shared streets to provide access to the lots.”

As the highlands continue to bustle with development of plots in various forms, city Environmental Planner Peter Rosen said the Ichijo plat is continuing along the same line as others.

“I wouldn’t say there’s anything out of the ordi-nary about this,” Rosen said. “Focusing on single-family detached, the plot allowed 60 houses and Ichijo is proposing 36.”

He stressed the planning department’s continued emphasis on minimizing impervious terrain in new developments as well as a focus on adding to the neighborhood vision.

The majority of concerns raised by the few citizens who attended the meeting centered on the place-ment of the open space within the development plans. The transfer of development rights from the county stipulates that there be an open, shared recreation space for each of the developed parcels. In its plans, Ichijo, the same

company responsible for constructing the highlands landmark zHome, has the open space situated along the border of the western side of the plot, allowing some potential residential spaces to have greater ac-cess than others. It differs from other residentially planned spaces in the high-lands, where shared recre-ation spots are centered.

“The concern was that space is on the edge of the property,” Rosen said. “The commission is very con-cerned about making this a useful space within the development.”

In answer to the con-cerns, he pointed to the proximity of the shared space to unbuildable land beyond the parcel. By connecting the land to the open area over the bound-ary, Rosen said that it would add to the overall recreational value.

The next stage in the verification of the devel-opmental plan will be a Urban Village Development Commission public hear-ing at 7 p.m. April 2 in the Council Chambers at City Hall South, 135 E. Sunset Way.

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The Issaquah School District’s plan for handling school boundary changes represents the height of arrogance from the administration, and a dodge by the School Board.

Under the policy re-affirmed by the School Board two weeks ago, boundary changes are entirely in the province of the district administration. Since the School Board isn’t part of the process, any committees studying potential changes aren’t subject to open meetings laws.

In the future, as parents at Grand Ridge Elementary School found out recently, parents will get a little note tell-ing them: By the way, your child will be going to a different school next year. You can come and ask questions about it, but we already made the decision and didn’t bother to let you know we were even thinking about the change.

This closing off of the public flies in the face of the open-ness the district has tried to embrace for the past few decades.

There’s absolutely no good reason not to let members of the public have a seat at the table. District officials simply assume they know best; that they have nothing to learn from the people who actually live in the affected neighborhoods.

Even if parents can’t offer official comments, they should be able to sit in on the meetings so they can understand the issues and the reasons behind the decisions.

Boundary changes are hard. Families sometimes choose a home so they can attend a specific school and feel angry when the attendance lines change.

Yes, parents are usually concerned solely with their own child, while the district has to take a broader perspective about the long-term enrollment patterns. That’s no excuse. Public officials should have an open-door policy when mak-ing decisions that impact families.

The School Board may have been right to remove itself from the process, but by washing their collective hands of the decision, they have closed the door on open govern-ment.

The board may not need to be a part of the changes, but at the very least, it should mandate that boundary meet-ings be open to community members.

Decisions without input are against public values

Hunger Action Week

Donate formula to help babies who need it

March 25-30 marks Hunger Action Week, which highlights those who are at risk of hunger, and hunger’s harmful impact on our community.

While the week shines a light on those in our community with-out enough food to eat, we pose the question, “What about babies without enough to eat?”

Why is formula an important ‘hunger’ problem? Whereas food for hungry families can be econo-mized by purchasing a variety of cheap alternatives, there are no ways to safely economize infant formula. A 12-ounce can of pow-dered formula that feeds a baby for approximately three days costs $16 a can.

Infant formula safely provides babies with the building blocks they need to build brain cells and brain connections.

What about breast milk? Breast milk is still the ideal source of nutrition for infants, but not all babies are able to nurse well and not all mothers are able to provide sufficient milk for their babies.

How do we help? For 23 years, our social service organization, Eastside Baby Corner, has been committed to making sure that every infant has the formula it needs to reach its full potential. Since our inception in 1990, we have fulfilled every order, a 100 percent fill rate, for formula.

This task is not easy, as for-mula is one of our most request-ed items. Since EBC is commit-ted to ensuring that every child who requests formula from our agency receives it, we purchase any formula that we are not able to provide through community donations.

What can you do? Donate formula with a shelf life of six months or more to Eastside Baby Corner, and we will ensure your donations go to babies and moth-ers who desperately need it.

Karen Ridlon, Eastside Baby CornerFounder, executive director emeritus

Financial aid

Give aid to citizens before illegal immigrants

My thanks to 5th District repre-sentatives Chad Magendanz and Jay Rodne, who stood against the wave of political correctness sweeping the nation and voted against a bill that will, if ap-proved by the state Senate, give college financial aid to illegal immigrants.

In committee hearings, Magen-danz noted that the state didn’t have the money to give this aid to

more than 32,000 legal citizens last year. If the bill passes, they’ll be even less likely to get the funds because they’ll be compet-ing with illegals.

Magendanz offered a sensible amendment that would have giv-en preference to citizens. Aston-ishingly, even that was defeated by the PC crowd, who kowtow to the illegal-immigration lobby at every opportunity.

This irresponsible bill passed the House the day before a report announced that the state’s budget deficit grew by $300 million to a whopping $1.3 billion. Our state can’t even provide basic education required by our state constitution, but we’ve got legis-lators trying to hand millions in taxpayer funds to illegal aliens.

Even if our state had billions in surplus funds, this bill would still be an outrage. People who violate our laws should be punished, certainly never rewarded with handouts, driver’s licenses and in-state tuition. As any parent of a college student knows, cheaper college costs are a benefit not just to the student but to the par-ents, many of whom pay some, if not most, of such costs. Thus, this bill will directly benefit the law-breaking parent.

Rewarding illegal immigrants is not only an insult to the rule of law but an insult to legal immi-grants who stood or are currently standing in line. And, this bill will encourage thousands of others to illegally enter our country (and our state specifically). Who can blame them? Look at all the goodies they’ll get.

Matthew BarryIssaquah

Gun purchases

Support background checks for everyone

In December, the same week 20 children were viciously mur-dered in Connecticut, Issaquah High School had three gun incidents. On March 16, I went to the Issaquah town hall meeting to ask our state representatives what they were doing to keep my children safe.

I learned our senator, Mark Mullet, had supported legisla-tion that would have required background checks for all gun purchases. Our representatives, Jay Rodne and Chad Magendanz, were personable and easygoing as they bragged about defeating the background check bill.

As I sat in that meeting, I real-ized Chad and Jay don’t listen to mothers like me. They listen to men with guns and money who hate our government.

I trust the democratic pro-cess. The “government” isn’t my enemy. The “government” is us.

Jay told me Connecticut had

some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, and that didn’t stop the massacre of 20 small chil-dren.

I didn’t answer because I had never been to a town hall meet-ing and I was nervous.

Here’s my answer: If Connecti-cut’s laws weren’t tough enough, then I want our Washington laws to be tougher than Connecticut’s.

I don’t care what party my rep-resentatives are from — Demo-crat, Republican or Hello Kitty.

I don’t care about the maneu-verings in the state capitol.

I care that my children, on a regular basis, huddle in their classrooms and wonder if this is the day some nut is going to blow them away.

Let’s register every gun and ban assault weapons.

Australia took these steps and stopped mass shootings.

We can stop mass shootings, too.

Mark Mullet: I don’t agree with the gasoline tax, but you have earned my forever vote through your efforts to protect my chil-dren.

As for Jay Rodne and Chad Magendanz: Stop siding with criminals and anti-government wackos. Side with our children.

Lois BrandtIssaquah

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Being new to the com-munity, I wonder how to blend in and be thought an old timer or at least a regular.

I have discovered that how one does this varies among geo-graphic areas of the country.

In Alaska, you were either a chechako (newcomer) or a sourdough (old timer). How you made the transition depended on who you asked. Most of the explanations are rooted in old Alaska, before the advent of modern roads and air travel. Some say you had to have missed the last boat out at least once, which meant you had been there through at least one winter. Oth-ers say you had to have relieved yourself in the Yukon River.

And then there was the fellow who walked into a bar in Nome, which is surrounded by tree-less, frozen tundra, and asked how to become a sourdough. He was told he had to drink a fifth of whisky, hug a tree and kill a polar bear.

He unwisely drank the fifth of whisky first and headed out the door. He stumbled back into the bar a couple of hours later all bloody and torn up and asked, “Now, where is that tree I’m supposed to shoot?”

I related this story to an old timer in Mount View, Ark., which is so deep in the Ozarks they don’t get the Grand Ole Opry until Wednesday night. We were listening to mountain music in the courthouse square. Every evening, the hill folk come to town with their guitars, auto harps, bass fiddles, man-

dolins or dul-cimers, form little musi-cal groups around the square and entertain the folks. I asked the old timer how I could become the Ozark equiva-lent of a sour-dough.

“Well,” he drawled, “you could live here 80 years and you’d still be an outsider, though it might help a little if you were a 33rd-degree Mason.”

So, what does it take to be-come the Issaquah equivalent of a sourdough?

You might be an Issaquah old timer if you can order at Starbucks without the barista saying, “What!”

You might be an Issaquah old timer if you have renewed your Costco card at least once.

You might be an Issaquah old timer if you no longer use an umbrella.

You might be an Issaquah old timer if you prefer roundabouts to four-way stops.

You might be an Issaquah old timer if you no longer stop before entering a roundabout.

You might be an Issaquah old timer if you leave your GPS at home.

You might be an Issaquah old timer if you go on more than six hikes a year.

You are an Issaquah old timer if you went to school with Rob Pickering.

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Creekside Elementary School (the most recently built school) and all el-ementary schools built in the future.

Maintaining and replac-ing cameras, according to district Chief Financial Officer Jake Kuper, costs between $20,000 and $30,000 every year. The district also earmarked $2.65 million in the 2012 bond for camera installa-tion and upgrades at all of its older buildings.

Safety reviewsThe district reviews its

safety plans and proce-dures every year, Bongard said. Rapid response systems, she added, are usually updated every October and had already been updated this year when the district revisited them again in the wake of Sandy Hook.

“Is there anything else we can do?” she said they asked themselves.

While no major changes have been made at Is-saquah’s schools, some have made a few tweaks. Discovery Elementary School decided to lock its wing doors, so visitors have to pass by the office in or-der to enter the school.

“Now, again, is that going to stop somebody if they have an intent to do harm? Probably not,” Bon-gard said. “But, it makes us aware that we have people in the building that didn’t check in, and we can respond appropriately.”

People being able to walk into schools freely and unchecked has Creek-side parent Erin Stines concerned. She attended a school safety presentation in January by her son’s principal Robin Earl. After the meeting, she said Earl did a great job of easing her worries about other safety issues, but that she

was unhappy with the district’s decision to leave elementary school front doors unlocked.

“I strongly disagree with this decision and believe that if it was left to the vote of the parents, the parents would vote to keep front doors locked,” Stines wrote in a letter to The Press. “Keeping the front doors unlocked and counting on parents and visitors to sign in and out seems hope-lessly optimistic.”

Later on, in a phone interview, Stines explained that the high school she went to as well as her son’s preschool used a buzzer system. Both of those were private institutions, she added. Over all, Stines said, she feels the district is doing a great job with its preparedness, but that it is missing a vital piece of the puzzle: controlling the first point of entry.

Extra stepsStines isn’t alone in her

thinking. Across the state and the country, schools are bulking up security. Schools in Birmingham, Mich., are locking the front doors of all school build-ings during the day and have hired security guards to regulate visitors. Sev-eral schools in Wisconsin, inducing Pewaukee Lake Elementary School, have added a locking mechanism with a buzzer system to their front door. Teachers at Alabama’s Orange Beach Elementary School now have panic buttons to wear around their necks, or keep somewhere within reach should an armed trespasser come on campus.

Closer to home, five dep-uties have been assigned to schools in unincorporated Snohomish County. The cost of the program is ex-pected to reach $1 million and the unit will not be able to cover many of the 106 schools in that area.

In the Snoqualmie Valley, the school district is in early discussions with local police to figure out if it’s possible

to dedicate an officer to the schools there. In Olympia, the state Senate voted 47-0 Feb. 11 for a bill that would require all school districts to install panic alarms by Dec. 1, 2014. The bill also suggests districts install perimeter security control mechanisms on all cam-puses.

In his new eBook, “Safer Schools,” Bob Bennett, who moved from Sammamish to Woodinville nine months ago, suggests that armed security officers should be put in every school.

“The only way I know how to stop an armed outsider from bringing a weapon in the school is to stop them at the door,” said Bennett, who has worked in security for 15 years.

He said each school should be equipped with a walk-through metal detector, which costs about $5,000, he estimated. On top of that, Bennett added, each needs three armed guards to keep an eye on different areas of a school.

Security like that, he es-timated, would run about $180,000 per school and would include an officer’s salary, training and uni-form. If his estimate were accurate, it would cost Issaquah more than $4.3 million to put guards and metal detectors at all 24 of its schools.

Not everyone thinks that is a good idea.

“Our dollars could be so much better spent. We don’t need armed guards at schools. We don’t. Seriously,” said Caroline Brown, president of the school district’s PTSA. “It just breeds a very weird at-mosphere in schools. They are schools. They are a place of academic learning where we nurture children to grow up. We don’t need guns around them.”

If his suggestion isn’t taken to heart, Bennett said one of the best things that can be done is putting plans and protocol into place in case the unthink-

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the school district already does, said Brain Deagle, president of the Issaquah School Board. He added that the value of being pre-pared was made evident Sept. 20, when Skyline High School was closed

after someone threatened to target the school for a mass shooting.

“We implemented our process and procedure, and the staff, principal and teachers all executed that very well,” Deagle said. “It was something that we had already had in place and

are continuing to update and improve. It was not something we just created when that incident hap-pened.

“Parents deserve to be assured that their kids are safe,” he added. “And that is the No. 1 priority of the district.”

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it really is about growth and deciding what is best for kids,” board member Marnie Maraldo said. “We’ve had a system in place for a very long time, and I don’t see the need to pull that into the board. I actually think it would be detrimental to the process.”

Ron Thiele, who will step in as Issaquah’s superintendent July 1, later explained in a phone interview that boundary

decisions are not made arbitrarily. Important factors, he said, include the transportation depart-ment, feeder patterns for middle and high schools, and calculating the pro-jected number of elemen-tary school-aged children in each neighborhood.

“I understand that people get frustrated when boundaries have to change, but it really is a function of management and you want to do it well,” Thiele said. “It is going to be inevitable given the changing nature of demographics. I could never say to you, ‘These are the boundaries for the

next decade.’” Small adjustments —

like when a subdivision builds a few houses over a current boundary line — are often made, he said, to keep neighborhoods intact. The administra-tion will typically get the public involved through a committee process, Thiele said, only when several thousand students stand to be effected by a change.

“In this particular case, we didn’t do a large com-mittee process,” Thiele said about Grand Ridge. “It was a much smaller scope, and you didn’t have a lot of options either.”

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Issaquah resident Steve Olsen

praises the Friends of Youth orga-nization for helping him build a life and a model scale cowboy town.

In 1957, Olsen was one of 13 children and had problems in his home that found him having to live his life where he could. The Griffin Home, something of a foster home operated by Friends of Youth in their first years of service, took him in and provided the beginning for a complete life.

“I had no place to go except for

the streets, “ the 69-year-old man said in an interview last week. “And, I always remembered that they took me in. It’s always a part of me. It’s the first thing I can remember that was good.”

From the guidance that the orga-nization provided, Olsen went on to a successful life in sales, working with aerospace and machining. It left him to find what he describes as a comfortable existence.

“I did a few things right,” he said. One of the things he did was build a

scale model of what he called a “cow-boy town” on his property. Around the perimeter of his large yard, under-neath the tall firs, is a boardwalk that leads to the doors of various frontier establishments.

“I always liked cowboys and Indi-ans,” he said.

He said he had some wood stored up and when his first granddaughter was 2 years old, he decided to get to work.

“The mine was the first thing,” Olsen said.

He pointed to a wooden building where a cart stood on iron rails,

showing the illusion that it gave of a deep mine shaft. He began the proj-ect 18 years ago, with no real notion of how it would continue. He said people kept donating wood to him, so he continued to use it.

After that, he built a mercantile shop, a livery, a saloon, a bank, a jail, a hotel, a church, a gallows, even a two-story outhouse. All of it, he built himself, refusing any help except for the donated wood.

“I didn’t let anybody help me, except for the gallows,” he said. “I was trying to learn some things, like patience.”

The crowning achievement and most touching portion of his town is the model of the Friends of Youth Griffin Home that took him in when he was a boy.

“Every cowboy town needs a man-sion,” Olsen said, standing near the impressive pillars of the 15-foot, two-story building.

The house was torn down years ago, but he found a picture of the

Western Washington University sophomore Tai Geng, of Issaquah, and a team of five other industrial design majors at Western are among 20 finalists out of 170 entries from around the world still competing in Boston’s Street Seats Design Challenge.

As part of an indepen-dent study with professor of Engineering Technology Arunas Oslapas, the stu-dents designed a concept for a park bench for the Fort Point Channel in South Boston’s Innovation District. Judges for the event consist of Boston business owners, industry professionals and design experts.

The team now must build a full-sized model

of their design, called “Cleat,” and transport it to Boston, using grants from

the contest’s sponsors. The top design team will win a $5,000 grand prize

and two runner-ups will receive $2,000.

“They worked excep-tionally well as a team, handled criticism well, and moved the design pro-posal forward each week with new iterations and improvements,” Oslapas said. “I am not surprised that they are finalists in the competition.”

All semifinalists will have their work installed around Fort Point Chan-nel in South Boston, and the winner will be cho-sen after an eight-month evaluation period.

Geng graduated from Issaquah High School in 2010, and is study-ing Industrial Design at Western.

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Sammamish resident tuba player Andy Abel is the Na-tional Winner in the Brass category of the Music Teach-ers National Association Senior Performance com-petition, held at the MTNA National Conference, in Los Angeles, on March 10.

He competed against other division winners in the Brass Senior Perfor-mance category, which includes tuba, trumpet, trombone, French horn and euphonium musicians. To get there, he had to book his tuba its own seat on the plane.

The three-tiered MTNA competition begins at the state level. Winners advance to division compe-titions and then proceed to the National Competition Finals.

Andy is a senior at Is-saquah High School and has been studying tuba for six years. His instructor is Chris Olka, principle tubist with the Seattle Symphony. Andy performs with the Issaquah High School jazz and wind ensembles (di-rector Patrick Holen), the

Evergreen Philharmonic Orchestra (director Doug Longman) and the Seattle Youth Symphony, Stephen Radcliffe (conductor and director of music). In 2012, Andy won a seat as a sub-stitute tubist for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

Andy won auditions to study with Boston Sym-phony principal tubist Mike Roylance at the Tanglewood Institute in 2011 and with Chicago Symphony principal tubist Gene Pokorny at the Pokorny Low Brass Seminar in 2012. He also travelled to Australia in 2011 to perform with Pacific Honors En-semble Program at Griffith University.

Andy plans to study tuba performance at the University of Washington or Boston University.

The Music Teachers National Association is a nonprofit organization of 22,000 independent and collegiate music teachers. Founded in 1876, it is the oldest professional music association in the United States. The National Com-petition started in 1972.

Seven local students have been accepted into Phase One of the Washington Aero-space Scholars Program at the Museum of Flight.

Affiliated with NASA and the University of Wash-ington, the program is a free, competitive, science, technology, engineering and mathematics program for high school juniors.

This year’s participants are Amber Dannis, Priyan-ka Kompella, Grant Vaska and Austin Weinstein, of Issaquah High School; Jeremy Stroming, of Liberty High School; and Kevin Liu and Zachary Freedel, of Skyline High School.

The students are among the 285 student applicants from 117 public, private

and home-school organiza-tions who applied earlier this year. They are among 218 students still par-ticipating in the program. Having already completed five online lessons, they will spend the next three months continuing to compete for one of the 160 slots available in a Summer Residency session held at The Museum of Flight in June and July.

Applications for the 2013-14 program will be available late summer at www.museumofflight.org/was. Participants must be high school juniors, United States citizens and Wash-ington state residents with a 3.0 minimum grade point average.

Tuba player wins top musician title

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Andy Abel, Issaquah High School senior, recently had to pay for an extra seat to take his tuba to a contest.

Students to take part in aerospace scholars program

Help those in need by attending sock hop

Get hopping at the Ki-wanis Club Sock Hop Dance and Auction on April 26.

Your $40 ticket gets you into the dance and auc-tion, two drink tickets and your choice of dinner. Meal choices are three different sliders: smoked chopped brisket, smoked chopped pork, Thai lamb, or a vege-

tarian burger. All meals also include salad and dessert.

Dancing will start at 6 p.m. at Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave N.W.

All proceeds from the auction benefit the Kiwanis Club of Issaquah organiza-tion and will be used to help those in need in the community.

Get tickets at www.auc-tions.readysetauction.com/kiwanisofissaquah.

Issaquah student is among finalists in Boston waterfront design contest

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Issaquah’s Tai Geng is among 20 finalists from around the world competing in a design challenge in Boston.

Photos by GreG Farrar

Steve Olsen rolls a mining cart out on a short track from a model mine entrance, one of the scale model Old West town build-ings he constructed in the back yard of his Mirrormont home.

Issaquah man builds a life, town from

Friends of Youth influence

MAYOR OF COWBOY TOWN

Steve Olsen’s Old West town includes a double decker outhouse building (far left) and a scale model of the Griffin Home (above left), where Friends of Youth in Renton once took him in.

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LET’S

GO!EGGstravaganza10 a.m. to 1 p.m., March 30

Don’t miss the biggest Easter celebration in Issaquah, EGGstravaganza, featuring egg hunts, activity booths, swimming, putt putt golf, arts and crafts, inflatables and an appearance by the Easter Bunny. The free event is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., March 30 at the Sammamish Family YMCA, 4221 228th Ave. S.E. To learn more, call 391-4840 or email [email protected].

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Citizenship classes, 3:30- 5 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way. A trained instructor will help you prepare for the written and interview sections of the citi-zenship test.

Food, Glorious Food!, for adults, 7 p.m., a display of more than 100

artist’s depictions of food throughout the centuries. Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Wednesday Night Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Zeeks Pizza, 2525 N.E. Park Drive, 893-8646

Issaquah Amateur Radio Club: 7 p.m., Issaquah Valley Senior Center, 75 N.E. Creek Way, www.w7bi.com

Issaquah Emblem Club: 7 p.m., Elks Lodge, 765 Rainier Blvd. N., 392-1400

Issaquah Networkers: 7:30-8:30 a.m., IHOP restaurant, 1433 N.W. Sammamish Road, www.IssaquahNetworkers.com

Optimist Club of Issaquah: 6-7 p.m., at Shanghai Garden and 5-7 p.m. third Tuesday at Issaquah Food Bank, [email protected]

‘Two Faces in the Shadows,’ 7 p.m. March 28, Faith United Methodist Church, 3924 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road

Easter Sunday champagne brunch, Spiritwood at Pine Lake, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 29, 3607 228th Ave. S.E., $12 per person, 313-9100

EGGstravanza at Gilman Village, featuring egg hunts, cooking decorating and the Easter Bunny, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 30, Gilman Village, 317 N.W. Gilman Blvd., free, www.gilmanvillage.com

Easter egg hunt and pan-cake breakfast, 9:30 a.m. March 30, Faith United

Methodist Church, 3924 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road

Easter Sunday sunrise ser-vice, 6:30 a.m. March 31, Beaver Lake Pavilion, 25101 S.E. 24th St.

Worship services, 9 and 10:30 a.m. March 31, Faith United Methodist Church, 3924 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road

Community egg hunt, 10 and 11:30 a.m. March 31, Grand Ridge Elementary School, 1739 N.E. Park Drive. Sponsored by Timberlake Church. Egg hunts immediately follow the church service.

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Children’s Story Time and Book Fair, 9 and 11 a.m., Swedish/Issaquah, 751 N.E.

Blakely Drive, free, 206-386-2502

Greater Issaquah Toastmasters Club No. 5433: 6:45 p.m., Bellewood Retirement Home, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E., [email protected]

Rotary Club of Sammamish: 7:15 a.m., Bellewood Retirement Home, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E., 444-2663

Sammamish Kiwanis Club:

7 a.m. Thursday, Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church, 22818 S.E. Eighth, 392-8905

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly): 9 a.m., Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. S., call Marjorie at 369-8161

Eastside Alcoholics Anonymous:4One Step At a Time: 7 p.m., 206-686-29274Joy of Living: 4 p.m., IHOP Restaurant, 1433 N.W. Sammamish Road4Issaquah New Start: 5:30 p.m. , Community Baptist Church, 205 Mountain Park Blvd. S.W.

Issaquah Alps dog hike, 10 a.m., dogs welcome, bring leash, scoop and water for this easy 3- to

5-mile hike. Meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S.

Spiritwood at Pine Lake presents Friday Social with Ron Herring singing/playing big band era music, 3 p.m., 3607 228th Ave. S.E., free, 313-9100

Clay Play for Adults, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $30, artEAST Art Center, 95 Front St. N.

Districtwide Middle School Dance, for grades six through eight, $5 with ASB

card, 7-10 p.m., Issaquah Community Center, 301 Rainier Blvd. S., 837-3317

Live music: Chris Stevens and the Surf Monkeys, a blues band, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella, 99 Front St. N., 391-1424

Live music, Heather Sullivan Project, 8 p.m., Pogacha, 120 N.W. Gilman Blvd., $5 cover, 21 and older

Saturday

Super Sitters, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Issaquah Community Center, 301 Rainier Blvd. S., $45,

Little Si hike, 9:30 a.m., moderate, 5-mile hike, bring Discover Pass, meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S.

Drop in tax help, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, bring a copy of last year’s tax return

Adamink, an Issaquah band, and a showing of exotic car paintings, 6-10 p.m., Ryan James Gallery, 989 112th Ave. N.E., No. 102, Bellevue

‘Crazy for Cabs,’ 6:30 p.m. Milbrandt Winemaker’s dinner at Lombardi’s,

695 N.W. Gilman Blvd. Call 391-9097 for reservations. Five course dinner, $55 plus tax and gratuity

The Magic Teakettle Puppet Show, a Japanese tale for ages 3 and older, 10:30-11:20 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 225th Ave. S.E.

Live music: Kid Quagmire, a blues, jazz and swing band, 7:30-11:30 p.m., Vino Bella, 99 Front St. N., 391-1424.

Sunday

May Creek hike, 10 a.m., hike May Creek and Honey Dew Creek on this moderate 5- to 6-mile hike. Meet at 175 Rainier Blvd. S.

Harvest (Vaisakhi) Festival, 5-7 p.m., Blakely Hall, 2550 N.E. Park Drive. Performance by Rhythms of India Dance School, free

Figure Drawing open studio, 9:30-11:30 a.m., short pose, noon to 2

p.m., long pose. artEAST Art Center, 95 Front St. N., $20 drop in fee. [email protected]

Beginning ESL class, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sammamish library, 825 225th Ave. S.E. Materials will be provided.

Intermediate ESL class, 12-2 p.m., Sammamish library, 825 225th Ave. S.E. Materials will be provided.

Beaver Lake Community Club: 7 p.m., Issaquah

Lodge at Beaver Lake Park, 25101 S.E. 24th St., www.beaverlake.org

Issaquah Community Network: 5:30 p.m., Hailstone Feedstore, 232 Front St. N., 391-0592

Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club: 6:30-7:30 p.m., Sportsmen’s Clubhouse, 23600 S.E. Evans St., 392-3311

Healing mental illness, depression and anxiety, a live online question-and-answer session, 11 a.m., Christian Science Reading Room, 415 Rainier Blvd. N., 392-8140

Teen Book Group, 3-4:30 p.m., Issaquah

Library, 10 W. Sunset Way

OB Speed Dating, for expecting moms, 6-7 p.m., free, Swedish/Issaquah, 751 N.E. Blakely Drive, 206-386-2502

Poetry reading and open mic,

6:30 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E. Listen to local poets and bring your own poetry to read. Call 392-3130

Open Mic at the Historic Train Depot,

6:30-8:30 p.m. Music only, including folk, rock, blues and jazz. Go to www.issaquaho-penmic.com

Elks Lodge No. 1843: 6:30 p.m., 765 Rainier Blvd. N., 392-1400

Rotary Club of Issaquah: 12:15 p.m., Tibbetts Creek Manor, 750 Renton-Issaquah Road, www.issaquahrotary.org

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landmark and added it to the quaint hamlet.

Though he moved around in his salesman days, he made a con-certed effort to bring his life back to Issaquah. For the past 35 years, he has made his home against the scenic background and raised three boys with his wife of 49 years.

“I always wanted to move back,” Olsen said. “I always told myself, ‘One day, I’m going to live in Is-saquah.’ And, I’m lucky.”

He also has continued to contribute to Friends of Youth beyond build-ing scale models of their homes. As an example of the organization’s suc-cess with local children, he regularly spoke at their celebrations and led a few programs in drug rehabilitation. At a March 15 annual fund-raising luncheon, Olsen was prominently featured in a video attesting to the lasting benefits of Friends of Youth’s work within the community.

“If it helps them, it’s fine with me,” he said, eschewing the publicity or attention.

He was proud to simply assist with what he be-lieved were effective and noble goals.

“Steve has stayed connected with Friends of Youth,” organiza-tion President and CEO Terry Pottmeyer said. “He’s been a wonderful resource to remind us where we began.”

The organization has him return regularly for speaking engagements, and he is continually involved with its mission. She said he even donates memorabilia from the time of the original Grif-fin home.

“We have an amazing number of men who were in the program in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s who come back and donate their time,” she said, adding it is doubtful another has replicated one of its institutions with such devotion.

Pottmeyer spoke fondly of not only Olsen’s past volunteerism, but also of what he will offer in the future. The morning of March 25, the Friends of Youth board of directors officially offered an invita-tion for Olsen to join the board, which he accepted.

“He will provide a wonderful viewpoint and a voice for the organiza-tion,” Pottmeyer said. “He is very open and giving about sharing his stories. Steve is a won-derful spokesperson.”

After 10 years of build-ing the town, Olsen said he could see the benefits of his time with Friends of Youth in his large-scale personal project. The persistence and confidence it took to com-plete something enjoyed by generations of his family resonate with the greater intentions of the service organization.

“You can pity yourself, but you still have to tie your shoes and get up in the morning,” he said. “But, sometimes you need a break and that’s what I feel I got: a break.”

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WeddingKrebs, Blankenstein

Rachel Krebs, of West Seattle, and Brian Blan-kenstein, of Issaquah, were married Dec. 29, 2012, at Pickering Barn, in Issaquah, where a reception followed.

Kevin Cumming re-sided.

The couple honey-mooned in Cannon Beach.

The bride is the daugh-ter of Richard and Janine Krebs, of West Seattle. Her bridal attendants were Rebecca Baker, Kel-lie Blankenstein, Lauren Roles, Brynne Berriman, Kate Streck and Melissa Ragghianti.

Rachel is a 2006 graduate of Academy Northwest. She earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing in 2009 from Seattle Pacific University. She is a nurse at Virginia Mason in Seattle.

The groom is the son of

Craig and Cathy Blan-kenstein, of Issaquah. His groomsmen were Jesse Lister, Shane Nelson, Jared Krebs, Travis Ross, Marcus Browne, Nick Sturm and Ethan Thomas.

Brian is a 2003 gradu-ate of Skyline High School. He earned a Bachelor of Science in microbiology in 2007 from Washington State University. He works as a financial planner at Thrivent Financial.

Brian Blankenstein and Rachel Krebs

Who’s neWsIHS booster club honors scholar athletes

Issaquah High School Booster Club recently hon-ored the following students with its Tutta Bella Scholar Athlete Award, given to a senior who has shown outstanding accomplish-ments, as an athlete and as a student at Issaquah High School and in the com-munity.

Austin MelodyAustin Melody is captain

of the boys swim and dive team, and is being recog-nized for his leadership and sportsmanship, in and out of the pool.

Melody has been a district and state qualifier, receiving the All KingCo award for all four years of high school. Additionally, he has been an integral part of helping with much of the early season orga-nization and orientation of incoming freshmen. He has been involved in the National Honor Society and the Issaquah Sockeye swim program while maintaining a 3.8 grade point average.

Ashley HoffmanAshley Hoffman is the

captain of the gymnastics team and has exhibited great leadership throughout

her four years on the team.Hoffman has participated

in many others sports, qualifying as a scholar ath-lete in volleyball and track and field. Hoffman carries a full class load, includ-ing Advanced Placement classes, while remaining a part of the National Honor Society and the Eagle Crew. In the community, Hoffman has been part of the stu-dent ministries leadership team, as well as an Ameri-can Red Cross professional rescuer and lifeguard.

Katrina ClementsKatrina Clements is the

co-captain of the girls bas-ketball team and has been a great leader throughout her four years on the team.

Clements has been part of Associated Student Body leadership and a door greeter. She has par-ticipated in Young Life as a member of the work crew at Malibu Young Life camp in Canada in the summer. Clements has also been a wildlife leader for middle school children. Addition-ally, she has been part of Petco and the adoption pro-cess for cats; volunteered for Eastside Baby Corner and Mountains to Sounds Greenway; and assisted in the Tent City feeding of the homeless program.

Local students serve as pages in state senate

Jaden Mongauzy, of Is-saquah, and Coo-per Antin, of Renton recently, served as a page for the Washing-ton State Senate in Olympia.

Burnett was spon-sored by Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah.

Jaden Mongauzy, a junior at Skyline High School, is a member of the student government and said his favorite subject is social studies.

Antin was sponsored by Sen. Steve Litzow, D-

Issaquah. Page duties range from

ceremonial tasks, such as presenting the flags, to operational chores, like distributing amendments during legislative sessions.

Former resident named managing editor

Garrett Rudolph, formerly of Issaquah, became managing editor of The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle on March 1.

Rudolph spent the past five years as the sports editor of the Woodburn Inde-pendent in Woodburn, Ore.

Rudolph grew up in Issaquah and graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in English in 2003.

Garrett Rudolph

Jaden Mongauzy

Cooper Antin

College neWsLocal student studies in Southeast Asia

Collin Morris, of Is-saquah, spent January studying in Southeast Asia through a special program at Linfield Col-lege, in McMinnville, Ore.

Morris, a senior major-ing in political science, is the son of Keesha Ewers and Richard Morris, of Issaquah. Morris took the class “From Colonialism to Globalism: Political Change in Southeast Asia from World War II to the Present.”

Local students make deans’ lists4Christie Landrie,

a 2010 Issaquah High School graduate, was named to the 2012 fall semester dean’s list at California State Univer-sity, Chico.4Nathalie Langlois, of

Issaquah, was named to the dean’s list at Boston University for the 2012 fall semester.4Adam Rowe, of Rent-

on, has been named to the dean’s list for the 2012-13 fall semester at Geneva College, in Beaver Falls, Pa. To qualify, students must earn a 3.6 or higher grade point average.

Local student makes SMU honor roll

Katherine Anderson, of Issaquah, was named to the fall 2012 honor roll with distinction at South-ern Methodist University, in Dallas.

Student spends spring break on service trip

Bridget Rowe, of Renton, spent her spring break attending Dordt College, in Sioux Center, Iowa, performing service projects throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Participating in Putting Love into Action, Rowe was one of about 135 students performing a variety of jobs, including home repair, cleanup, teaching and providing childcare.

Dining Out!

By Joe [email protected]

For a young team, every advance in competition be-comes a first, and so the Is-saquah High School Dance Team celebrated its first win in district competition, to be followed by a trip to state at the Sun Dome in Yakima on March 23 in hopes of winning a trophy at state for the first time.

However, that trophy was not to be.

Team Captain Raché Strand said the team performs and competes in the hip-hop category. Hip-hop is a style of dancing that finds it roots in street dancing in the 1970s.

“Hip-hop is like thug or gangsta,” Strand said. “It is more like street danc-ing or like dance crew, lots of getting low and kind of

aggressive dancing. We dance to popular music,

BELLEVUE — Haley Mincin scored five goals as Issaquah earned its first high school girls lacrosse win of the season in a 20-6 defeat of Holy Names on March 18 at Robinswood Park in Bellevue.

Issaquah was firing on all cylinders offensively, as several players scored mul-tiple times each during the matchup. Suzy Emerson, Miranda Hansen and Katy Bucy contributed three goals each in the win.

Holy Names had a hard time getting things going against a tough Issaquah squad as it found itself down 10-4 at the half. Wendy Donier led Holy Names in scoring with four goals.

On defense for Holy Names, Molly Sherwood re-corded two saves. Issaquah goalkeeper recorded a game-high seven saves on the day.

Issaquah (1-0-0) next faces Bellevue (2-0-0) in an 8 p.m. matchup, Friday, March 29 at Bellevue High School.

Game summaryIssaquah 20, Holy

Names 6 (Haley Mincin, I, 5 goals; Suzy Emerson, I, 3 goals; Miranda Hansen, I, 3 goals, 1 assist; Katy Bucy, I, 3 goals, 1 assist; Emily Mincin, I, 2 goals, 1 assist; Meg Corscadden, I, 2 goals; Laura Voss, I, 7 saves; Wendy Donier, HN, 4 goals; Maddie Osse, HN, 1 goal; Madison Miller, HN, 1 goal; Molly Sherwood, HN, 2 saves)

Ballard tames Liberty for first boys lacrosse win

SEATTLE — Thomas Christensen scored four goals to lead Ballard to its first boys high school lacrosse win of the season with a 15-4 defeat of Liber-ty on March 21 at Seattle’s Lower Woodland Park.

The Beavers jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the first and then blanked Liberty 1-0 in the second for a 4-1 lead at the half. In the second half, Ballard added four in the third to extend their lead to 8-3, and then poured on another seven goals in the fourth to cap the win.

For the Beavers, Jacob Marks and Jake Losi both had three goals, while Josh Schawrtzenberger and Dar-nell Akers each had two.

Akers’ goals at 5:16 and 1:22 of the fourth were the junior attackman’s first scores in the Beavers’ red and black.

Liberty goaltender Ro-land Deex had 17 saves.

Game summaryBallard 15, Liberty 4

(Thomas Christensen, B, 4 goals, 2 ground balls; Jacob Marks, B, 3 goals, 4 assists, 4 ground balls; Jake Losi, B, 3 goals, 3 ground balls; Josh Schwartzenberger, B, 2 goals, 2 ground balls; Darnell Akers, B, 2 goals; Jackson Bowen, B, 1 goal; Alex James, B, 7 saves, 3 ground balls; Collin Ross, L,

3 goals, 1 assist, 5 ground balls; Scott Smith, L, 1 goal, 3 ground balls; Roland Deex, L, 17 saves)

Players of the weekAdrian Pydych, junior, defense, IHS

Issaquah High School junior Adrian Pydych compiled five ground balls and four takeaway checks in Issaquah’s win over Bel-larmine Prep (0-3-0).

Maintaining a 3.69 grade point average at Issaquah, Pydych’s coursework in-cludes Advanced Placement classes in sports medicine, pre-calculus, English and Spanish.

In the community, he works toward fulfilling a 90-hour service require-ment in sports medicine and coaches first- through fourth-graders in lacrosse twice a week.

Colin MacIlvennie, senior, midfield Eastside Catholic High School

Eastside Catholic senior midfielder Colin MacIl-vennie finished the week recording nine goals, four assists and 11 ground balls and was the high scorer in both Crusaders wins over Curtis (1-2-0) and Woodin-ville (1-2-0).

In the Crusaders’ 14-3 win over Curtis, MacIlven-nie posted four goals, three assists and four ground balls. In the 14-2 Wood-inville win, he tallied five

goals, one assist and seven ground balls.

In the classroom, MacIl-vennie is a 3.6 grade point average student focused on chemistry, anatomy, physiology, U.S. history and Mandarin Chinese.

His community involve-ment includes helping kindergarten students at the Wing Luke Elementary School in South Seattle as a part of the Eastside Catholic High School’s an-nual Peace and Justice Day. He is also actively involved with the school’s Mandarin Club, where students are exposed to Chinese lan-guage, culture and the arts. McIlvennie also volunteers his time at Seattle’s Recov-ery Café.

On the lacrosse field, he was named the Crusad-ers’ team captain for the 2013 season, and received the school’s Offensive and Team MVP awards in 2012 following the Crusaders’ runner-up performance in the Division I state champi-onship game.

Issaquah boys drop NW Invite lacrosse opener

MERCER ISLAND — Led by Mikey Giannopulos with two goals and 10 ground balls, Issaquah dropped its NW Invitational opener to Henderson of Nevada 13-9 March 22 at Mercer Island High School.

The loss was the sec-ond of the season for the Eagles.

After finishing the first period knotted at 3-3, Is-

saquah gave up six to Hen-derson in the second while only adding a single goal to trail 9-4 at the half.

Issaquah was held to just a single goal in the third, while Henderson added two as the Eagles slipped to 11-5 after three.

In the fourth, Issaquah added another four, but could not catch Henderson.

Along with Giannopulos, Derek DeYoung and Jake Lindahl both delivered a

pair of goals, and Brady Hahn had seven saves for Issaquah. Kieran Eissler led Henderson with six.

The annual NW Invita-tional Boys High School Lacrosse Tournament on Mercer Island included more than 380 student-athletes representing 16 of the premiere boys’ high school lacrosse programs from Washington, Oregon, Nevada and British Colum-bia.

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Lorin Archibald, Liberty High School junior pitcher, fields a ball hit back to him by a Hazen batter March 18, send-ing it to the first baseman to retire the side in the fourth inning on the way to the Patriots’ 7-3 win.


As the wind and rain swept over the front nine holes of The Plateau Club March 19, the Skyline High School girls golf team car-ried on until it had Wood-inville beaten 286-313.

“They are not complain-ing with this horrible weather,” said Michael Fleming, the girls’ new head coach.

Fleming also coaches the boys team in the fall and said he has been pleasantly surprised by the girls.

“You know, the guys are in shorts, getting suntans and stuff,” he said. “And, the girls, you know, it’s 38 degrees and stuff, and they don’t complain at all. So, it’s been wonderful.”

With a new coach comes a new style. Practices are different, the players said,

with more workshops and attention to detail.

“I have much more intricate practice plans,” Fleming said. “I’m doing more hands-on stuff with the girls, correcting their swings, changing their grips.”

The team is going back to basics, in part, because nearly half of its 13 players are new to the sport this year. This is good news for the team, Fleming ex-plained, because the girls are young and the basics will provide a solid foun-dation for future seasons. In the meantime, only a team’s top five individual scores are used to cal-

culate the overall result. Skyline has six experienced players: Brya Vowels, Emma Farno, Stephanie Bush, Marie Guenette and Sarah Gaston.

Scoring for Skyline March 19 on the par 36 was Vowels with 49 strokes, Farno with 54, Farris with 59, Busch with 61 and Tori Wehrle with 63.

“I had a few iffy tee shots and some bad putts, but other than that, it was pretty good,” Farno said.

The Skyline junior plays often with her father and uncle, and while going back to the basics in practice can be a little boring, she said, she is learning new tech-niques. One thing Fleming showed her was loosening her grip when chipping downhill onto the green. On the seventh hole March 19,

By LiLLian O’rOrke

Brya Vowels, Skyline High School senior, puts on to the green of hole No. 5 March 19 at The Plateau Club golf course.

By GreG Farrar

Audrey Thomas, Issaquah High School senior, is applauded by classmates as she is sur-prised in her Advanced Placement literature class March 21 with the presentation of the Gatorade Washington Girls Soccer Player of the Year trophy.

DRINKING IN THE HONOR

UP NEXTSkyline vs. Bothell4At Wayne Golf Course43 p.m. March 27

Skyline battles the elements, beats Woodinville on the links

PLAYING THE POSITION

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Eagle dancers bust a move

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The Issaquah High School Dance Team poses March 2 at Eastlake High School with their Sea-King District 4A trophy in the hip-hop/military category before heading to Yakima for state competition March 23.

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like stuff you would hear on the radio for dancing party music.”

The dance competition includes other styles such as pom and military drill. In the district competition at Eastlake High School on March 2, the Issaquah Dance Team had to compete in the same category as the military, since there were not enough hip-hop teams for a separate category.

It placed first in hip-hop and second in the hip-hop and military combined category. At state, the team competed only against hip-hop teams and came in ninth out of 16 teams.

Melanie Krieger coaches the Issaquah team and has for the past four years. She works for a company called United Spirit Association. She danced hip-hop in high school and college, and she now instructs it and is cer-tified to judge competition.

The team was three or four years old when she came to it. She co-coached for two years and has coached it alone for the past two years. Before she came, the team had had a different coach each year.

Strand and fellow dancer Holly Ellis credit Krieger with providing the spark to inspire the team to greater competition. Krieger, Strand and Ellis attribute their success this year to the fact that they listened to the advice given by the judges at competition and worked to overcome the deficiencies the judges

pointed out.When asked for an ex-

ample of that advice, Ellis said, “They said things like we moved too quickly out of our formations, so we stayed in some of our for-mations longer. We made our facials bigger and made sure everyone was doing the same type of facial at the same points in the routine.”

Krieger said the judges noted that the team’s per-formance energy and facial energy needed to improve, and the team needed to keep the energy strong to the end.

“They took that advice and performed their routine at full capacity,” she said.

Ellis said district com-petition was “really fun. We prepared a lot for it, because this year, there were more hip-hop teams. Hip-hop has not been the biggest category, but it is starting to get bigger, so we really worked hard and pushed ourselves.”

“I’ve just been real happy with how hard the team has been working,” Krieger said. “They set their goals really high. They wanted to place at district and go to state.

“Their routine has evolved throughout the season. We added more difficulty, and they con-tinue to challenge them-selves as we go to different competitions,” she added. “They have always taken the feedback (of judges) professionally and handled it in a way that makes them better dancers and makes them better team members, and that is why we have progressed so much this season.”

Catherine Ellis, Holly’s

mother, said, “The parent support is outstanding. The parents show up at the competitions. They met to organize special things for the girls at state.”

The girls have one routine that takes place in a darkened setting and requires the use of glow equipment.

“The dads took it upon themselves to order and organize all the glow equipment for the kids,” Catherine Ellis said.

that’s exactly what she did, landing the ball within easy putting distance.

“I was thinking about keeping my hands softer than I normally do, rather than keeping them tight,” Farno said. “That helped a lot.

“It was a little hard with the wind,” she added. “It kept knocking down your shots and things like that — making them go a lot less

farther or making them go too far. It was unfortunate.”

Some of the girls did manage to get one hole in before the rain came. Play-ing a dry first hole, Vowels followed a solid drive by us-ing an 8-iron to get on the green. She putted it in and birdied the par 4.

“I was planning on two-putting it, but then it went in — I read it right,” Vowels said. “That putting was good. The rest of it kind of went down though … a lot of the green’s holes were on hills today, so they were harder to get into. If you missed it by a little bit,

it rolled a lot.”The course in general,

Vowels added, is challeng-ing.

“It’s a good home-court advantage. The other team will come — and we know, like, the little secret spots to aim for on our fairways to be good — but they have no clue,” she said. “It’s a dif-ficult course even for us, and we played it yesterday.”

Vowels is a senior this year. After missing the state championship by three strokes for the past two years, she said it’s her goal to make it this time around.


ScoreboardBaseball

Monday, March 18Non-leagueSkyline 3, Auburn Riverside 1Auburn Riverside - 1 3 3Skyline - 3 5 3Skyline batting – Matt Sinatro, 1 for 2, RBI, 2B; Jack Valencia, 2 for 3, RBI, SBSkyline pitching – Jake Kargl (W)

Liberty 7, Hazen 3Hazen 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 - 3 6 2Liberty 0 0 4 0 0 3 x - 7 11 4Liberty batting – George Suddock, 2 H, 3 RBI; C. Vanek, 3 H

Tuesday, March 19Non-leagueLindbergh 5, Liberty 3Lindbergh 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 - 5 1 2Liberty 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 - 3 6 2Batting and pitching not available

Wednesday, March 20KingCo 4ANewport 5, Issaquah 2Newport 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 - 5 5 1Issaquah 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 - 2 6 4Batting not availableIssaquah pitching – Justin Vernia (L)

Thursday, March 21KingCo 4ASkyline 2, Garfield 0Skyline 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 - 2 6 0Garfield 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 4 1Skyline batting – Cole Blackburn, 2 for 3, R, 4 SB; Nate Gibson, 1 for 3, RBI; Jason Santiago, 1 for 2, R, SB; Matt Sinatro, 1 for 3, RBI, 2BSkyline pitching – Arthur Stromquist (W)

Friday, March 22KingCo 4AGarfield 5, Issaquah 2Issaquah 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 - 2 4 1Garfield 2 0 0 2 0 1 x - 5 5 2Issaquah’s batting – Justin Vernia, 2 RBIIssaquah’s pitching – Ryan Guiberson (L)

Non-leagueLiberty 3, White River 1White River - 1 4 3Liberty - 3 6 0Stats not available

Saturday, March 23Richland 5, Skyline 0Stats not availableSkyline 3, Richland 0Stats not available

Issaquah 5, Kelso 4Kelso 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 - 4 8 4Issaquah 1 1 1 2 0 0 x - 5 3 0Issaquah’s batting – Blake Jones, 1 for 2, R; Justin Vernia, 1 for 3, RBI, 2BIssaquah’s pitching – Ty Gibson (W)

Softball

Monday, March 18Non-leagueIssaquah 7, Lindbergh 0Issaquah 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 - 7 8 0Lindbergh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 6 1Issaquah’s batting – M. Fowler, 2 for 4, 2 RIssaquah’s pitching – B. Englin (W)

Tuesday, March 19KingCo 3A/2ALiberty 6, Interlake 2Stats not available

Wednesday, March 20Non-leagueInglemoor 18, Liberty 17Liberty 1 0 3 4 3 3 3 0 - 17 21 2Inglemoor 4 3 0 1 5 0 4 1 - 18 18 5Liberty’s batting not availableLiberty’s pitching – J. Wolff (L)

Friday, March 22Non-leagueMarysville-Pilchuck 5, Skyline 4Marysville-Pilchuck - 5 6 0

Skyline - 4 7 2Skyline’s batting – Tia Hedman, 2 for 4, RBI; Annika Hildebrand, 2 for 3, 1 R, RBISkyline’s pitching – Annika Hildebrand (L)

Saturday, March 23Husky InvitationalSelah 7, Liberty 4Stats not available

Boys soccer

Monday, March 18Non-leagueIssaquah 5, Decatur 1Issaquah’s scoring – Michael Callan (Ryan Higgins assist) (Benjamin Corman assist), 15:00; Cooper Fry (Alex Shane), 19:00; Ryan Higgins, penalty kick; Cooper Fry, penalty kick; Alex Shane (Josh Lazar assist), 61:00

Tuesday, March 19KingCo 3A/2ALiberty 4, Interlake 2Liberty’s scoring – Jared Bales (unassisted) 34:00; Tyler Jensen (Antonio Lago assist), 36:00; Colton Ronk (Tyler Jensen assist), 38:00; Ryan Graham (Jared Bales), 43:00

Thursday, March 21Non-leagueSkyline 4, Wentachee 1Skyline’s scoring – Kaleb Strawn (unas-sisted), 14:00; Nate Hardwick (unassisted), 20:00; Cole Ames (Strawn assist) 42:00; Nate Hardwick (unassisted), 46:00

Issaquah 3, Bonney Lake 1Issaquah’s scoring – Cooper Fry (Alex Shane assist), 50:00; Paul Hegedus (Alex Shane), 65:00; Dyllon Nguyen (Josh Zhou assist), 72:00

Friday, March 22KingCo 3A/2ALiberty 1, Juanita 0Liberty’s scoring – Quinn Magendanz, shutout; Nate Mak, shutout; Jake Ericksen (Connor Noblat), 33:00

Track & Field

Thursday, March 21KingCo 4AIssaquah v. BallardBoys100 – Jake Nienhuis, I, 11.4200 – Jake Nienhuis, I, 24.0400 – Kenny Norton, I, 54.0800 – Caleb Walin, I, 2:10.11,600 – Hunter Sapienza, I, 4:37.43,200 – Bryan Quandt, B, 10:23.4110 hurdles – Joey Domek, I, 17.7300 hurdles – Joey Domek, I, 44.8400 relay – Issaquah (Ray Littles, Kenny Norton, Andrew Kim, Jake Nienhuis), 46.7Shot put – Jonathan Norris, I, 38-11.5Discus – Joe Sharpe, I, 94-0Javelin – Caleb Pearson, I, 133-5High jump – Andrew Larsen, I, 5-6Pole vault – Andrew Larsen, I, 10-6Long jump – Andrew Kim, I, 17-6.75

Girls100 – Gabrielle Gevers, I, 12.4200 – Gabrielle Gevers, I, 26.51,600 – Cayla Seligman, I, 5:20.63,200 – Larissa Kolasinski, I, 11:41.3100 hurdles – Lauren Bruner, I, 16.3300 – Lauren Bruner, I, 49. 8400 relay – Issaquah (Alia Sugarman, Sarah Rothwell, Allison Evans and Colette Lertkantitham), 53.7800 relay – Issaquah (Juliana da Cruz, Grace Englund, Mack Wieburg and Gabrielle Gevers), 1:46.61,600 relay – Issaquah (Grace Englund, Juliana da Cruz, Amanda Chalfant and Cayla Seligman), 4:12.9Shot put – Aimee Brakken, I, 29-10Javelin – Katie Zhong, I, 100-2High jump – Mack Wieburg, I, 4-8Pole vault – Emilie James, I, 8-0Long jump – Paige Thompson, I, 13-4.25Triple Jump – McKenna Hogan, I, 33-10.25 Skyline vs. GarfieldBoys1,600 – Keegan Symmes, S, 4:41.0Shot put – Bryan Lee, S, 42-4.5

Liberty soccer goes undefeated in first week

The Liberty boys soccer team began the 2013 sea-son with two wins against nonconference opponents.

The Patriots defeated Everett, 4-1, March 12. Jared Bales put Liberty on the board first with a goal in the 23rd minute. Noah Anderson added another score, while Jake Ericksen had two more.

Just three days later, the Liberty offense exploded for eight goals, soundly defeating Enumclaw, 8-1. Noah Anderson and Connor Noblat both scored twice. Josh Johnson, Sean Carl-son, Antonio Lago and Ollie

Janders each scored once.In both games, Liberty

goalkeepers Nate Mak and Quinn Magendanz com-bined to hold their oppo-nents to just one score.

Allison Northey wins Pac-12 gymnastics award two weeks in row

Allison Northey, a 2012 Skyline High School gradu-ate, has been named Pac-12 Gymnastics Newcomer of the Week two weeks in a row.

Northey, a freshman on the University of Washing-ton gymnastics team, first earned the honor for the week of Feb. 11-17. Her first time competing in the

all-around as a collegiate athlete, she finished third overall with a 39.075 that week, helping her team tie No. 6 Utah for the second time in school history.

Northey also tied for second on bars and beam, and posted a new career-high on beam with a score of 9.85.

The following week, Feb. 18-24, Northey was named the Pac-12 Gym-nastics Newcomer of the Week again. She took third overall after finishing third on vault with a score of 9.825 and on bars with a score of 9.85, and fourth on beam with a score of 9.8. Her score on bars tied her career high.

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Three generations of the Finkelstein Family

Discus – Bryan Lee, S, 136-3Javelin – Garret Corlis, S, 161-6High jump – Brandon Graue, 5-0.0

Girls200- Dorie Dalzell, S, 26.9400 – Alexis Daugherty, S, 60.71,600 – Samantha Krahling, S, 5:25.8300 hurdles – Ashley Richardson, S, 60.9800 relay – Skyline (Stephanie Lunde, Alex Daugherty, Dorie Dalzell and Kaylie Greninger), 1:47.31,600 relay – Skyline (Dorie Dalzell, Maizy Brewer, Mckenzie Deutsch and Alex Daugherty), 4:13.8Discus – Kelly Garrett, S, 75-3Javelin – Jennifer Uomoto, S, 86-5High jump – Ashley Richardson, S, 4-10

KingCo 3A/2ALiberty v. Juanita Boys100 – Alex Olobia, L, 11.2200 – Alex Olobia, L, 24.8400 – Hiron Redman, L, 52.7800 – Hiron Redman, L, 2:06.11,600 – Collin Olson, L, 4:45400 relay – Liberty (Tyler Le, Truson Petrilli, Alex Olobia and Alex Pappas), 47.81,600 relay – Liberty, 3:59.30Shot put – Matt Cambell, L, 34-06.75Javelin – Sean Campbell, L, 141-07

Girls200 – Julia Shchepanskiy, L, 33.2400 – Michaela Chucka, L, 65.8800 – Megan Larson, L, 2:33.60100 hurdles – Jordan Raymond, L, 21.0300 hurdles – Jordan Raymond, L, 58.4400 relay – Liberty (Kelli Anderson, Danielle Demps, Samantha Harrell and Cherelle Demps), 54.10800 relay – Liberty (Cherelle Demps, Jordan Raymond, Samantha Harrell and Kelli Anderson), 1:52.8Javelin – Anna Frodsham, L, 104-01High jump – Kelli Anderson, L, 4-08.0Long jump – Danielle Demps, L, 14-08.0

Saturday, March 23Liberty Invitational BoysEisenhower 120, Yelm 112, Liberty 102, Jefferson 98.5, Issaquah 96, Newport 80, Mount Rainier 51

100 — Alex Olobia, L, 11.2200 — Alex Olobia, L, 23.0400 — Hiron Redman, L, 51.53,200 — Hunter Sapienza, I, 9:52.6High jump — Andrew Baugh, L 5-10. Pole vault — Andrew Larsen, I, 11-6

GirlsIssaquah 184, Eisenhower 105, Liberty 99, Jefferson 84, Newport-Bell 83, Yelm 59, Mount Rainier 38, Mount Tahoma 29, Cle Elum/Roslyn 8200 — Gabrielle Gevers, I, 26.5 800 — Cayla Seligman, I, 2:201,600 — Sarah Bliesner, L, 5:30.6100 hurdles — Lauren Bruner, I, 16.7300 hurdles — Lauren Bruner, I, 48.5400 relay — Liberty (Demps, Anderson, Demps, Harrell) 52.3800 relay — Issaquah (Da Cruz, Gevers, Wieburg, Englund) 1:45.9. 1,600 relay — Issaquah (Da Cruz, Chalfant, Wieburg, Gevers) 4:03.9High jump — Mack Wieburg, I, 5-0Long jump — Mckenna Hogan, I, 17-1Triple jump — Mckenna Hogan, I, 35-7.5.

Golf

Tuesday, March 19KingCo 4AAt Plateau Club Skyline 286, Woodinville 313Individuals – 1. Yuri Machida, W, 45 strokes; 2. Brya Vowels, S, 49; 3. Emma Farno, S, 54; 4. Coco Farris, S, 59; 5. Stephanie Busch, S, 61

Tennis

Monday, March 18Mount Si 4, Liberty 3Singles — Jenny Adams, L, beat Jessica Graves, M, 6-0, 6-0; Krsity Braunston, L, beat Rachel Walker, M, 6-0, 6-1; Sadie Demme, L, beat Kerry Pemberton, M, 6-3, 6-1; Alaina Kinghorn, M, beat Noelle Rauschendorfer, L, 6-4, 6-2Doubles — Kelcey Sharp-Cheyenne Dixon, M, beat Yen Lee-Ana Guzman, L, 6-0, 6-0; Olivia Howland-Peyton McCulley, M, beat Felicia Chiang-Katie McGuire, L, 6-1, 6-0; Kayla Schumbacher-Sami Kieffer, M, beat Isabelle Ashraf-Rachel Whorley, L, 6-0, 6-0

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‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ up front.” Then, me and my two culprits walked up to the front of the class, each with five pages stapled together that looked like an essay. The rest of class spent a good four minutes in panic as our teacher chewed them out for not doing the essay. After they had a good scare, we let them in on the prank.”

Issaquah High School“All of the kids in the

classroom were sit-ting like obedient children when my friend gave the cue. All of a sudden, all of the students either got down on the floor, ducked down or just plain out left the classroom. The teacher was quite confused.”

“My sis-ter Saran-wrapped me to my bed while I was sleep-ing, and I was stuck like that until she cut me loose.”

Hannah Heyrich, junior

“Some-one I know replaced the fill-ing of Oreos with toothpaste and gave them out to people at lunch.”

Parke O’Leary, junior

Liberty High School“I have

a tendency to hide in random spots, be-cause I’m small, and I jump out at people. They never ever expect it, even though I do it all the time.”

“I fit in those little lockers, and when people walk by, I jump out at them.”

Alex Holmberg, sophomore

“I once filled a per-son’s living room with balloons.”

KD Kerstetter, junior

Skyline High School

“In fourth grade, I re-placed the sugar with salt near the coffee machine. My parents ended up putting salt in their coffee and didn’t think that the joke was too funny, although I definitely did.”

“One April Fool’s Day, I collaborated with my parents to prank my sister. While they were away, I knocked on the door when she was home alone and acted like someone had bro-ken in. We searched the house and got

to my dad’s office, which was now completely empty and when Mom and Dad got home, they pretended to be angry at her until she was reasonably freaked out. Then, my Dad put his hand on her shoulder and said, ‘April Fool’s.’”

“Well, my best prank was putting candy in between the shower head, so that way when the water dried, people got all sticky. My worst was replac-ing the sugar for salt in my mom’s coffee.”

“The best one was when we were told that all the people in the children’s play would be marked with unex-cused ab-sences for the classes we missed, since the perfor-mances would be in the mid-dle of the day. The worst was when we told the little preschoolers that there wasn’t a perfor-mance on that day.”

Eastside Catholic High School

“The best I’ve got is my elemen-tary physi-cal educa-tion teacher who tried to tell us one April Fool’s that the Mariners had put Ichiro in for pitcher in the game the night before. Of course, nobody believed her, but it was a good try anyway and an original idea.”

“So, freshman year, I had my English teacher and two of my friends help me pull a prank on my class. On April Fool’s Day, I had my teacher at the beginning of class say, “OK, guys you can turn in your papers on

More than 2,000 students roam the halls of Skyline High School every day.

That is more than 2,000 plastic water bottles waiting to be dropped, and more than 2,000 pieces of gum waiting to miss the trash can. Despite these possibilities, the school’s custodial team makes sure that every day runs as smoothly as the last.

“Our goal and biggest focus is creating a safe learning envi-ronment for students with no distractions,” said Mr. Buchanan, Skyline’s head custodian. “We make sure everything is running behind the scenes so that the kids can keep doing what they do best.

“I am very proud of my custo-dial team and we take great pride in maintaining the school.” He

included a shout out to Moham-med, the custodian who opens the school every morning.

“There is no telling what he faces as the first eyes and ears of the school. It is a tough job. There are also the custodians that people don’t see as much, for example those that work from 4 p.m. until midnight.”

Buchanan said about his most memorable moment: “It would have to be opening day after the comple-tion of the remodeling of Skyline. We were running all over the place to make sure the portable heaters were working, to fix any leaks or to deal with anything else that came up. For the first couple weeks, it felt like every day was an accom-plishment.”

Lastly, Buchanan talked about Skyline students.

“These have been the best, most considerate, most polite students that I have ever worked with,” he said. “They, along with the staff, are just fantastic.”

Kind and generous words from a man who truly makes Skyline a

better place. A big thank you to Mr. Buchanan and his entire team for all they do at Skyline High School!

Walking through the front doors of Issaquah High School, it is evident that the school is a well-oiled machine.

Flamboyant posters advertise numerous clubs and Associated Student Body events. Stu-dents mingle in the commons and walk past on their way to math help. The grounds are very safe, clean and well-groomed.

The question: Who runs this machine that is Issaquah High School? If you hang around the school for some time, you will most likely spot one of these people, like custodian Steve Hole-man.

Although few may notice, he is always around the campus. In fact, he works from noon to 8 p.m. every day, so students do not even witness the majority of his work.

“Students do not realize that being a custodian is an enormous job,” English teacher Nan Alvey said.

Aside from the regular cleaning of the commons, the custodians tidy the classrooms and bath-rooms, empty garbage and help set up for special events, such as schoolwide assemblies or private teacher events.

“They do an excellent job,” Alvey said. “Being a mom, I come home and wish that they had cleaned my house, too.”

Maintaining Issaquah High School is not only a difficult task, it is also necessary in order to maintain a positive atmosphere at the school. As students, we are lucky to have these people work-ing behind the scenes, and we should acknowledge their hard work whenever possible.

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Addison Klinke, sophomore

Tim O’Melia, senior

Madison Bristol, sophomore

Movie: ‘Argo’After watching “Argo”

take home the Best Pic-ture award at the Oscars in February, I immediately added the “based on a true story” flick about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis to my list of must-sees. “Argo” did not disappoint. With a stellar perfor-mance by Ben Affleck as a CIA exfiltration specialist who undergoes an un-dercover rescue mission in Iran (Alan Arkin also deserves praise for his hilarious portrayal of fic-tional film producer Lester Siegel), “Argo” kept me at the edge of my seat while delivering laughs along the way.

Music: ‘A Single Man: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack’

I first became acquaint-ed with this soundtrack when I heard “Sunset,” by Abel Korzeniowski, an almost hauntingly beautiful track that left me wanting more. Upon listening to the full album, I discovered a collection of exquisitely composed music that includes the original orchestral score by Korzeniowski, as well as some vintage pop tunes and operatic arias that were used in the film. Be sure to give “George’s Waltz,” “Going Some-where,” “Stormy Weath-er,” “Green Onions,” and “Swimming” a listen, in addition to the aforemen-tioned “Sunset.”

Book: ‘Death Comes to Pemberley,’ by P.D. James

When we finished read-ing and discussing “Pride & Prejudice” this year in English class, I decided that the Jane Austen fan in me was still itching for more of the author’s witty writing. My teacher recommended “Death Comes to Pemberley,” a murder mystery novel by P.D. James that follows the lives of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy after the ending of “Pride & Prejudice.” James does a good job of emulating Austen’s style, allowing the main characters from “Pride & Prejudice” to live on and experience the drama of a murder case in Der-byshire.

Trevor D’mello, junior

Neal Moorthy, junior

Pull off a successful prankApril Fool’s Day is

almost here, and everyone knows what that means: the one day of the year where being a jerk is to-tally acceptable, as long as you are a funny jerk. With that in mind, here is how to successfully be a funny jerk:4Pick a good target.

Family members or close friends are a good idea because they are less likely to mis-take your prank as mean behavior. This will allow you to be as mean

as needed for maximum comedic effect.4Once you have picked

a target, tailor your prank specifically to an individual’s personality quirks. Replacing the cream in an Oreo with toothpaste does not work if the Oreo-eater huffs toothpaste in secret.4Make it believable.

Pretending to lose a limb will be less shocking if the prank recipient already

knows about your pros-thetic arm.4Make the best out of

what you have. Homemade fake spiders can be just as frightening as store-bought ones, especially if you re-member to add authentic dead animal hair.4Be considerate. Those

who have lost a loved one to a house fire tend to re-act poorly to having their own house set on fire.4Remember: Plausible

deniability is key. Make sure to have a believ-able alibi and only reveal that you were the prank’s perpetrator after you are reasonably certain that nobody is going to call the police/fire department/Child Protective Services/etc.

If you keep these steps in mind, you can success-fully pull off an amazing prank, while keeping the risk of being arrested to a minimum.

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Three Issaquah institutions — Providence Marianwood skilled nursing home, the artEAST artists’ group and UP Front Gal-lery — are joining forces to bring artwork to the community.

The current show in the Marianwood gallery, entitled “Spring Approaches,” features work by artists from the UP Front Gallery in Issaquah. It is co-sponsored by Providence Marianwood and artEAST.

Issaquah artist Heidi Rose is showing several portraits of buildings from the local area. With watercolor, pen and ink, and pencil, Rose captures the remarkable and extraordinary beauty of seemingly common and everyday sights from the surrounding community — a red barn, a historic building and a chapel are among her subjects.

Local painter and photog-rapher Johann Neethling has a special tie to Providence Marianwood. Not only is he a wonderfully gifted artist, but he

is also the chaplain at Marian-wood. His beautiful oil paint-ings with the themes of family

and serenity are included in the show.

“Art is one of the many ways that I capture and express my love of God’s creation,” he

said.Fabric art by Erika Carter,

dramatic and dynamic horse portraits by Kerry Anderson, and vivid watercolors by Janis Smith round out the show, which will run through the end of April. It’s free and open to the public.

Marianwood Administrator Chris Bosworth welcomes the artists and their works to Mari-anwood.

“What a wonderful way for our residents, many of whom are elderly and cannot easily get out to visit art galleries in the community, to be able to ex-perience the arts right in their home here at Marianwood,” Bo-sworth said. “We are pleased to be able to promote awareness of local artists while enjoying this wonderful art show in our gallery.”

Twenty-five percent of the pro-ceeds from the sale of artwork during the show will be donated to Marianwood.

By Karista Bennett

I’m deeply enamored with Ireland. It feels a poetic and roman-tic place. Melodic Celtic music seems to

transcend time, lush green landscapes, drifting fog and rugged shores. All cre-ate visions of charm and daydreams.

I’m just as enamored with Irish cuisine. Deep, rich flavors warm a belly and comfort the soul. It’s hearty fare my grandmoth-er used to call “stick to your ribs” cuisine. Perfect for the cool evenings still to come.

There’s no celebrating the arrival of spring at my house without some fes-tive and hearty Irish fare. One of my favorite dishes to prepare is Colcannon. Traditionally a mashed potato, cabbage and green onion side dish, I decided to recreate this lush recipe into a one-pot meal.

Layered sautéed on-ions and ground sausage with wilted Swiss chard and green onion swirled mashed potatoes, topped with creamy Irish cheddar. Much like shepherd’s pie meets Colcannon … with a little Issaquah flair.

Here’s to a most deli-cious spring season!

Colcannon BakeServes 4-6Ingredients

41-2 tablespoons oil 41 small onion, diced42 cloves garlic, finely

diced41 pound ground sau-

sage, beef, lamb or chicken41 bunch Swiss chard,

stems removed and chopped42 green onions,

chopped42-3 large potatoes,

peeled and cut into large cubes 44 tablespoons butter4½ cup sour cream4Salt and pepper to

taste41 cup shredded Irish

cheddar (I used Dubliner Irish cheddar)48-by-8 baking dish

DirectionsHeat the oven to 350F.

Prepare the mashed pota-toes.

Place the cubed potatoes in a medium or large pot and cover with cold water. Add a few pinches of salt. Bring the water to a boil and continue a lively sim-mer until the potatoes are fork-tender.

Drain the potatoes and then place back into the pot. Add the butter and mash the potatoes with a potato masher. For smoother potatoes, I trans-fer them to my Kitchen Aid mixer (with the paddle attachment) and mix until

smooth. Gently mix in the sour

cream and season with salt and pepper to taste. Set aside and try not to sneak bites.

In a large skillet over medium high heat, add a tablespoon or two of oil and sauté the onions. When the onions are soft and translucent, add the garlic and ground meat and cook until done. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer the ground meat and onions to the baking dish.

Using the same skillet, sauté the Swiss chard over medium heat until wilted. Take the skillet off the heat and toss with the green onions.

Gently fold together the mashed potatoes, wilted Swiss chard and green onions. Spread the mashed potato mixture over the ground meat and onions. Sprinkle evenly with the shredded Irish cheddar.

Place the baking dish in the oven and heat until the cheddar is melted and sides are bubbly.

Let the Colcannon Bake cool slightly before serv-ing. This can certainly be served as a one-dish meal or serve with spring greens dressed in lemon or citrus vinaigrette.

Karista Bennett is a local chef/owner at Karista’s Kitchen and culinary instructor at PCC Natural Markets. See more recipes at www.karistaskitchen.com.

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Providence Marianwood hosts ‘Spring Approaches’ showIF YOU GO

‘Spring Approaches’ art show4Through April4Providence Marianwood43725 Providence Point Drive S.E. 4The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

For the love of all things Irish

by Karista bennett

Irish cuisine is delicious anytime, not just on St. Patrick’s Day.

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Issaquah chef and culinary instructor Karista Bennett shares her favorite creations

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