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By Lillian Tucker

Gracias and Asante.That’s how you say thank

you in Guatemala and Tanzania, and both are the focus of the fund-raising auction that the Sammamish Hills Lutheran church is hosting on April 21.

That night from 7 to 10 p.m. the Mary, Queen of Peace Church will be filled with live music, an array of desserts and drinks to accompany a silent and live auction to benefit the churches on-going effort to offer support in Central America and Africa.

The money raised will be split between helping to fund a humanitarian trip to Guatemala and buying building supplies for a school in Tanzania.

Twenty-three-year-old Nichole Kurz is leading the charge by planning to accompany a group of two dozen, mainly high-school students from around Sammamish, on a 10-day trip to Antigua, Guatemala at the end of June to build houses.

“It’s letting them get out and see the world in different ways,” said Kurz, who went on a trip to Tijuana her sophomore year of high school to build houses. “It changed my life.”

In Guatemala her group will be working with the God’s Child Project, an organization that

works with orphaned, abandoned and poverty-stricken children and their families. According to its website, the project focuses on the underlying causes of pov-erty by providing clinics, schools, social work, micro-finance, homeless shelters, drug reha-bilitation and human trafficking advocacy.

“I’m super passionate about kids and education and I love the way God’s Child focuses not just on the child learning but the child’s well being,” said Kurz, adding that the organization also charges tuition on a sliding scale that starts at 1 cent to encourage the children to take ownership of their education. “Their families also have the opportunities to participate in a bi-weekly veggie store. Obviously, having better food at home helps them learn more.”

Kurz said her group hopes to build five or more houses on their trip but said it all depends on how much money they raise at the auction to buy building materials.

“I’ve been pretty excited with our success in getting items,” said Kurz. Some of the donations up for grabs include Sounders and Mariners tickets, wine, chocolate and scrapbooking baskets, an Alaska wilderness trip, a resort stay, fishing, sailing and golfing packages and a private flight to

San Juan Island for a picnic. Event organizer Linda Saddler

said the church hasn’t targeted an exact fundraising goal.

“We are just doing the best we can,” she said. “People in the con-

gregation and their friends have been extremely generous.”

Saddler was among the group of nine that traveled to Tanzania several years ago to research projects for the church to sup-

port. She said it was an easy choice to settle on helping to build the Eben-Ezer secondary school in Morogoro, Tanzania.

Church looks to help in Guatemala and Tanzania

See HELP, Page 15

ContributedA worker attaches part of a roof to the school in Tanzania.

By Lillian Tucker

For one night only, a group of nine Sammamish residents will shed their everyday identities to play the roles of British coal min-ers grappling with the question: “What is art?”

Through a partnership of the Sammamish Arts Commission and Seattle’s ACT theatre, the free community event will take place April 19 when a local group is set to do a live, unrehearsed reading of the play “Pitman Painters.”

“It’s a story about who gets to do art and what is art; it’s about community too,” said Kristina Sutherland of the ACT theatre.

Based on a true story, the play follows a group of miners and other working class men in northern England through two decades as they take an art appreciation class and eventu-ally become the unlikeliest of art

world sensations.Nine people from around

Sammamish, who have vol-unteered to take part in the reading and have received the scripts to look over, will come together on stage for the first time at the performance.

A community discussion about art and the play will take place after the reading.

“Theater is communal. We’ll all sitting in a room together watching something unfold in front of us, live, which is spe-cial,” said Sutherland. “As an adult, you don’ t often get the opportunity to play around with scripts and try something new… And it’s an opportunity for the community to come together and talk about what this piece of art means.”

The reading is set to start at 7 p.m. at the Sammamish Library.

For more information visitwww.ci.sammamish.wa.us.

Unrehearsed play celebrates untrained art

ContributedFactory Scene, a painting by the Ashington Group, is one of the actual many pieces of artwork that was created by the group of mostly miners during the 1930s and 1940s.

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By Lillian Tucker

The Skyline softball team turned its season record on its head with an 11-1 victory over Redmond on April 9.

“I was really impressed,” said head coach Alison Mitchell who explained that the Redmond Mustangs are a team that usually finds a way to hang around and win. “It was nice to get that mon-key off our back because I know our team is much more capable than our record has shown.”

The Skyline Spartans had got-ten off to a rocky start of confer-ence play with consecutive losses to Issaquah and Newport. But their stay at the bottom of the KingCo 4A-Crest standings didn’t last long. The score was tied at zero at the bottom of the third inning when Winter Ridgeway, Skyline’s freshman pitcher, hit a single. Fellow freshman Tia Hedman followed with another single. With runners on first and second Natalie De La Garrigue smacked a double to bring Ridgeway home and for the first time this season, Skyline had the lead. The momentum contin-ued to grow as Riley Davidson stepped up the plate. Hitting a triple, she brought Hedman and De La Garrigue home. On the next pitch Davidson stole home,

giving Skyline a 4-0 advantage. “It was great when our bats

came alive,” said Ridgeway, who hit three for four against Redmond. “We just need to keep

buying into what our coaches are telling us. We are a team that’s how we played.”

Ridgeway pitched the entire game, which allowed for the

Spartan’s other pitchers, Megan Burris and Charlotte Zhao, to arm the infield.

“Our best defense is when I can use Charlotte and Megan

in other positions. We have a young team and I have a lim-ited number of players but with that defense out on the field it proved to be our best showing,” said Coach Mitchell. “We really limited our mistakes. Once she [Ridgeway] settled down and got going you could see the rest of the team get settled down and start going too.”

The Spartan offense came alive again in the bottom of the fifth when it responded to Redmond’s first and only run by circulating through its whole batting order, eventually scoring five more runs for Skyline. With a scoreless top of the sixth for the Mustangs, the Spartans were up to bat again with the possibility of an early finish. The coach turned to the bench and said “Ladies, it should never be quiet in the dug-out.” The team responded with a chorus of cheers.

“The key moment is when you can feel that momentum shift,” said Mitchell. “This is the moment when we can go in for the kill shot and be done with it.”

Davidson stepped up to the plate and soon the game would be over. With hard hit to the left field she earned her fourth RBI of the game. As Davidson rounded

Photo by Lillian TuckerAt the bottom of the fifth inning, Erika Wolfe, catcher for the Spartans, slides safely into home to score Skyline’s eighth run.

Skyline earns first conference win with an 11-1 bang

See SOFTBALL, Page 19

By Lillian Tucker

The grounds at Eastlake High School were buzzing with run-ners, jumpers and throwers on the overcast afternoon of April 12 when the Eastlake track and field team hosted the Inglemoor Vikings.

The Eastlake Wolves varsity men’s team bested the Vikings with strong showings across the board of events.

“Overall I was real pleased with what the kids did,” said head coach Steve Jones.

Eastlake went one-two-three in the 100-meters, with Colton Teglovic finishing first in 11.4 seconds, Drew Lewis second in 11.6 and Josh Horton taking third with 11.7. In the 200-meters, Teglovic took first again with a time of 23.1 seconds; Horton finished at 24.1 and Fortune Rodriguez came in at 24.3 for third.

Inglemoor won the 400, with Bryan Yue taking third for

Eastlake with a 57 second fin-ish. In the 800-meters, Eastlake’s Mark Milloy took second place with a time of 2 minutes, 2.3 sec-onds and Connor Dorsey finished at 2:02.8. Casey Kramer came in second in the 1600 with a time of 4 minutes, 45 seconds; Reece Bynum came in fourth in 4:48, Michael Flindt finished at 4:49 and Frank Menz had a time of 4:51.

Inglemoor took first in the 110-meter hurdles; Eastlake’s David Rosenberg took second place with a time of 17.8 seconds. Cameran Dennis placed second in the 300 hurdle in 45.3 seconds.

Using blind hand-offs worked well for the 4x100-meter relay team, made up of Ryan Lewis, Horton, Drew Lewis and Liam Doyle. They won the race with a time of 43.9 seconds. The 4x400 relay team of Doyle, Ryan Lewis, Dorsey and Milloy, also finished first with a time of 3 minutes and Photo by Lillian Tucker

Sophomore Brooke Calhoun takes off in the 100-meter race, which she ran in 13.5 seconds – fin-ishing one-tenth of a second behind the first place runner.

Eastlake track team tops Inglemoor

See TRACK, Page 19

A dramatic read-ing of “The Pitman Painters” will be performed by the

ACT Theatre at 7 p.m. April 19 at the Sammamish Library. The free program, sponsored by the Sammamish Arts Commission will feature selected scenes and a moderated discussion between the audience and the perform-ers.

Volunteer to help clean up Beaver Lake Park to cel-

ebrate Earth Day from 9 a.m.-noon April 21. Visit www.ci.sammamish.wa.us/events/Default.aspx?ID=2356.

An interactive seminar about tax strategies and planning is at 10 a.m. April 21 at the Sammamish Library.

Drop in to learn about ebooksthrough the King County Library System at 1 p.m. April 21 and May 19 at the Sammamish Library.

Used book sale

including chil-dren’s and adult’s books priced from 25 cents - $1 and DVDs for $3 will run from 8-11 a.m. April 21 and 3-4 p.m. April 23 at Margaret Mead elemen-tary.

A seminar about Islam including an overview of the faith

and a discussion of contempo-rary issues is at 7 p.m. April 25 at the Sammamish Library.

A free class about planning for unex-pected long-term care needs is at 3:30 p.m.

April 29 at the Sammamish Library.

The ARAS Foundation will hold its annual bike drive to benefit Ghana, Africa April 29 at City Hall. Bikes can be donated at City Hall from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. that day. The group also needs volunteers to help prepare the bikes for shipping from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Volunteer or donate by emailing mary@arasfoundation.org.Bikes may also be donated from

3-5:30 p.m. April 18 and 25 at Eastside Catholic.

The Sammamish Spring Recycling Collection Event and Bin Sale is sched-uled for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 29 at Sunny Hills and Discovery elemen-tary schools. Different items will be collected at each school and an assortment of rain, compost and worm bins will be for sale. For details, visit www.ci.sammamish.wa.us/events/Default.aspx?ID=2403.

Medicare Made Clearis a presentation cover-ing how Medicare works, what it covers and differ-

ent plans available at 7 p.m. May 2 at the Sammamish Library.

Alcott elementary will host a 5K run/walk at 9:30 a.m. May 6 in Redmond Town Center.

The walk will also have snacks, prizes and a raffle. Raffle tickets will be sold

after the event. Register at www.

getmeregistered.com/orcadash, at FootZone in

Redmond Town Center, Plateau Runner

in Sammamish or at the school.

Civil War Quilts, a visu-al account of quilts from the

Civil War era and the women who made them is at 7 p.m. May 9 at the Sammamish Library.

How to Start a busi-ness explains the resources available to prospective business

owners from the Small Business administration at 1:30 p.m. May 11.

Seven Secrets for Great College Essays, Dump the Stress and Write for Admission, a

90-minute workshop to help stu-dents write college admissions essays is at 11 a.m. May 12 at the Sammamish Library.

Lorenzo Romar, head coach of the University of Washington mens basketball team will be the keynote speaker at the annual fundraising dinner for the Sammamish Boys & Girls Club at 6 p.m. May 12 at Sahalee Country Club. RSVP today to Jeremy Peck at jpeck@positive-place.org.

Seniors Making Art, a free class about printmaking will run form 10 a.m.-noon

on Mondays through May 21 at the Sammamish Teen Center. To register, contact Allison

Gubata at 295-0597 or agubata@ci.sammamish.wa.us.

The Lake Washington Schools Foundation will hold its annual Legacy for

Learning fundraiser luncheon starting at 11 a.m. May 23 at Lake Washington High School. To register, visit www.lwsf.org.

Learn about how to use solar energy in the Pacific Northwest at 7 p.m. May 23 at the Sammamish Library.

Musical Fun for Everyone, a concert for all ages with an adult, features songs, poetry, finger pup-

pets, stories and more is at the Sammamish Library at 10 and 11 a.m. May 24. Registration is required.

A seminar about new techniques in the treatment of colon cancer is at 7 p.m.

May 30 at the Sammamish Library.

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April 18

Sammamish Youth Board at 6 p.m. at City Hall

April 19

Sammamish Planning Commission at 6 p.m. at City Hall

Lake Washington School Board worksession, at 5 p.m. followed by a business meeting at 7 p.m. at the L.E. Scarr Resource Center, located at 16250 N.E. 74th St., Redmond.

April 25

Southeast Eighth Street Park Master Plan meeting at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall

Issaquah School Board meet-ing, 7 p.m. at district head-quarters, 565 N.W. Holly St. in Issaquah

May 1

Sammamish City Council at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall

May 2

Sammamish City Council Office Hour at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall

Parks and Recreation Committee at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall

May 3

Sammamish Planning Commission at 6 p.m. at City Hall

May 7

Lake Washington School Board worksession, at 5 p.m. followed by a business meeting at 7 p.m. at the L.E. Scarr Resource Center, located at 16250 N.E. 74th St., Redmond

May 8

Sammamish City Council Study Session at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall

May 9

Issaquah School Board meet-ing, 7 p.m. at district head-quarters, 565 N.W. Holly St. in Issaquah

Viva, Verdi!

The Sammamish Symphony will perform “Requiem” by Verdi at 2 p.m. April 22 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. Tickets are $30. Visit www.SammamishSymphony.org.

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