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The city of Sammamish was given a clean bill of health in a recently released report from the Washington State Auditor’s Office.

The audit, which comprised all of 2013, found city officials com-plied with state laws, as well as its own policies and procedures, in safeguarding finances and public resources.

The auditor’s office noted that it does not review every transac-tion in the city, but focuses on

areas with the highest risk of fraud, loss, abuse or noncompli-ance.

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Tiger Mountain Community High School will close after the 2015-16 school year, a plan that deviates slightly from the one proposed by the Issaquah School District’s superintendent.

Superintendent Ron Thiele had recommended the closure of Tiger Mountain at the end of the current year, but the Issaquah School Board voted 5-0 at its Oct. 22 meeting to delay the closure by a year and remove a gap in alternative edu-cation for district students.

The vote capped an eight-month process surrounding Tiger Mountain, which has served as the district’s alterna-tive high school since 1991. Thiele’s plan, announced in February, would have closed the school at the end of the 2014-15 year and created a gap year before a new alternative school, under a different educational model, opens for the 2016-17 year.

Board members said the feedback they’ve received from

Tiger Mountain staff, students and parents over the past sev-eral months was influential in their decision-making process.

“I’m not comfortable with the district not having an alternative option,” board member Suzanne Weaver said, adding that Tiger Mountain is “obviously is an option that’s working well for some kids.”

Several people spoke last week in favor of keeping the school open, including Mitchell Reed, whose daughter, Erica, attends Tiger Mountain. He argued the district’s plan to close the school was a deceitful — and possibly illegal — repurposing of a $3.9 million bond measure approved by voters in 2012.

The bond was designed to pay for the relocation of Tiger Mountain to the current Issaquah Middle School cam-pus, and to expand the district’s career and technical education efforts.

The measure was overseen by Thiele’s predecessor, Steve Rasmussen, and while it didn’t specify closing Tiger Mountain in favor of a new educational model, Thiele said he came to

that conclusion because of data like the school’s low graduation rates, test scores and attendance figures.

“I could not live with the results that I was seeing,” Thiele said.

Fewer than 100 students are currently enrolled at Tiger Mountain, but its close-knit environment has proven to be a safe haven for many students, several people stated.

“If we close the school, not only will fewer kids graduate, but in my opinion, there’s a real chance that the suicide rate in our community may increase,” Reed said.

Tiger Mountain senior Ivy Catlin, who has spoken to the board on several occasions, said last week the school has helped her in ways a comprehensive-school environment could not have.

“At Tiger, through the efforts of these teachers, I can tell you I’m engaged in my education,” Catlin said. “I’m not going to stop when they hand me that degree.”

School board pushes back Tiger Mountain closure to 2016

By Christina Corrales-Toy

A powerful windstorm swept through the region Oct. 25, causing damage in many areas. In Sammamish, crews had to repair fallen power lines along 244th Avenue Northeast near Carson Elementary School.

Weather disruption

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The Lake Washington School Board voted unanimously Oct. 20 to repurpose leftover money from a 2006 bond measure and add classrooms to several school buildings.

District officials estimated hav-ing about $12 million left from a $436 million bond sale voters authorized eight years ago. That money will be combined with another $30 million in state con-struction assistance funds, giving the district $42 million to build additional classroom space.

Kathryn Reith, the district’s communications director, said the district plans to spend $20 mil-

lion this year to meet short-term needs, and the remaining $22 mil-lion will be saved for long-term growth plans.

The school board resolution allows the district to use the $42 million for various tasks, includ-ing new portable classrooms; remodeling and upgrading cur-rent classrooms to improve instruction; new permanent classroom space at Redmond Elementary School; and acquiring property for future expansions.

Lake Washington schools have added nearly 2,000 new students in the past three years, bringing enrollment to 26,708.

The Sammamish City Council adopted an ordinance Oct. 21 that will prohibit businesses from growing, processing or selling marijuana in the city limits.

The council approved the new law by a 6-1 vote, with Councilman Don Gerend provid-ing the lone opposition.

Since last December, the city had passed two temporary moratoriums to keep recreational marijuana businesses away. More than 30 cities around the state have adopted permanent laws around the issue, which resulted from the passage of Initiative 502 in 2012.

Fifty-five percent of Sammamish voters approved

I-502, which legalized recreational marijuana use statewide.

While there have been no laws passed to uphold permanent bans from cities and counties, the state attorney general’s office said ear-lier this year that it believes I-502 “includes no clear indication that it was intended to pre-empt local authority to regulate such busi-nesses.”

Municipalities that prohibit marijuana-related businesses will likely not receive any of their tax revenues, under state legislation that is currently being crafted.

Sammamish’s law only affects businesses, not recreational mari-juana users who possess an ounce or less.

City bans marijuana-related businesses

Lake Washington schools to get more classroom space

City passes annual state audit

• Hanyu (Mark) Chen, of Sammamish, has enrolled as a freshman at George Fox University, in Newberg, Oregon.

• Natalie Hurd, of Sammamish, has joined Rochester Institute of Technology’s women’s

soccer team, in Rochester, New York. Hurd is study-ing industrial engineering.

• Kelsey Nyce, of Sammamish, has been named to the spring 2014 dean’s list for aca-demic excellence at Biola University, in La Mirada, California.

• Joshua Jancola,,a graduate of Skyline High School, began studying at Wheaton College, in Wheaton, Illinois.

District officials said most of the students enrolled there are on track to gradu-ate by 2016, and the ones remaining at that time

would be able to use person-alized learning plans to help them graduate.

The district has been working for several months with the Puget Sound Consortium for School Innovation to develop a framework for a new alter-native school.

Board members said they want to see a more

inclusive plan that could work for more students who are at risk of not graduat-ing. Issaquah, Liberty and Skyline high schools have added full-time staff posi-tions this year to help those types of students, but many people have argued that the typical child in need of alternative learning won’t be helped at a comprehensive

school.Board member Lisa

Callan said a new alternative school would provide “new tools” for reaching more stu-dents, and she didn’t want people to be “boxed into the idea” that Tiger Mountain was the only usable model for alternative education.

Closing Tiger Mountain a year later, Callan said, would help students transition into a new educational plan.

“I want you to have time to do that,” she told students at the meeting.

Board President Marnie Maraldo said the district has known for two years that Tiger Mountain would have to change. A big shift

is on the horizon next year as all public schools in the state shift to a 24-credit graduation requirement for the class of 2019, a four-credit increase from Tiger Mountain’s current stan-dards.

Although Maraldo voted for the amended plan, she also said she could support the idea to close at the end of this year because action needed to be taken quickly. The closure isn’t the stu-dents’ fault, she added.

“We don’t think it’s the failure of the current stu-dents,” Maraldo said. “We think it’s the failure of the district to address what’s going on.”

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Most boys who enter the world of Scouting will make a lot of fond memories and learn many valuable lessons, but fewer than one in 10 will accomplish what Jonathan Chriest is doing this week-end.

At a Nov. 2 Court of Honor ceremony at The Plateau Club, the Skyline High School senior will receive his Eagle Scout rank from the Boy Scouts of America.

The National Eagle Scout Association esti-mates about 2.25 million boys have attained the honor since 1912, which might seem like a lot until learning that number rep-resents only 5 percent of all Scouts.

While there’s no know-ing if Chriest will become as famous as other Eagle Scouts — former astro-naut Neil Armstrong, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and film

director Steven Spielberg are all part of the club — there is a large sense of success in reaching the milestone.

Jonathan’s father Mark is an Eagle Scout and has passed along much of his knowledge and joy about the organization.

“Once I got into Boy Scouts, I just started to love it,” Jonathan said. “It was not something that I would ever be able to give up.”

Chriest’s journey to Eagle Scout began inaus-piciously when he joined

Cub Scout Pack 684 in sec-ond grade at Sunny Hills Elementary School.

In fourth and fifth grades, he participated in Webelos, a 20-month pro-gram for those interested in joining Boy Scouts. He attained the Arrow of Light — the highest award in Cub Scouts — based on things like strong physi-cal fitness, citizenship and outdoors skills.

By eighth grade, Chriest was the senior patrol lead-er of Boy Scout Troop 677, comprised of 40 young men in Issaquah and

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“Backpacking was, by far, my favorite thing to do from a Scouting perspec-tive,” he said, “and some-thing I still like to do on my own outside of Scouts.”

He has been part of several challenging expe-ditions, starting the sum-mer after seventh grade, when he took a 50-mile hike along the Olympic Peninsula, from Cape

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Skyline senior attains high honor with Scout troop

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Skyline High School senior Jonathan Chriest will join an elite club Nov. 2 when he earns his Eagle Scout rank. Only about 5 percent of Boy Scouts earn the Eagle rank.

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Initiative 1351 is being called The Washington Class Size Reduction Measure. The name is intended to appeal to an electorate with short attention spans and little time for or interest in details. A recent Elway Poll revealed that 66 per-cent of those polled say they will definitely or probably vote in favor of Initiative 1351.

How could anyone be against reducing class sizes in Washington state schools? The real question is where is the state going to find the almost $5 billion it will cost through 2019 to add the 25,000 new education employees the mea-sure requires to its payroll? The state Office of Financial Management is the source of the $5 billion estimate of the ini-tiative’s cost, and I-1351 does not contain any funding method.

With the state under court order to fully fund education, lawmakers already need to find $2 billion in the state budget that they can redirect to education, or raise taxes to comply. Approving I-1351 with no mechanism to fund its very spe-cific requirements will make it necessary to find even more items to cut from the budget in order to further fund educa-tion. It will also make the process far more complicated.

House Bill 1545 was recently introduced in the Legislature to create a state income tax. No doubt Washingtonians will hear more about the need to increase taxes and possibly create a state income tax to cover the cost of I-1351 if it’s approved by voters.

The measure was drafted by the Washington Education Association and its top three donors are all unions: the WEA, the National Education Association and the Public School Employees of Washington.

The WEA has spent millions to promote approval of I-1351. If it passes, the WEA will get its money back several times over. While only 7,500 of the 25,000 new education employees required by the measure are actually teachers, all new teachers are compelled to join the union. At WEA’s quoted annual dues at $405 per member, that means the 7,500 new teachers will add more than $3 million per year to WEA’s coffers. The Washington Policy Center places the estimated new dues collected by the WEA at closer to $7.5 million per year.

Washington voters are asked to believe that I-1351 will benefit “the children,” but its real beneficiary is the union. Reject Initiative 1351. Our state simply can’t afford it.

Endorsements45th Legislative DistrictState Senator — Andy Hill: Republican Andy Hill’s

experience in the State Senate, his bipartisan approach and his experience with education funding, position him well to represent the 45th District.

State Representative Position 1 — Joel Hussey: Joel Hussey’s experience as

president of a school board will serve him well in represent-ing the 45th District as education funding is the biggest chal-lenge facing the state.

Position 2 — Brendan Woodward: Brendan Woodward is a novice candidate, but his pledge to fund education first and his opposition to a state income tax are important posi-tions to take as the representative for the 45th District.

Reject Initiative 1351;election endorsements

Vote for Joel Hussey

Integrity and character in family and business, and service to others with fiscal soundness and tan-gible results — all these are desirable attributes in government service. Those are qualities Joel Hussey has exhibited in his private life and community ser-vice.

He would bring a great-ly needed fresh approach to eight long years of the current problems in this legislative office.

With confidence in his conscientious abilities, we should cast our votes for Joel Hussey.

Dr. John and Carrie VaskoSammamish

Support firearm background checks

I read today of the City Council passing a resolu-tion to support Initiative 594, which would expand background checks for firearms sales and close gaping holes in current regulations. I applaud the council for weighing in for the safety of our com-munity.

I am also dumbfounded as to how council mem-bers Ramiro Valderrama and Don Gerend could oppose the resolution, “saying they were unclear on the proposed law’s intentions.” The initiative’s intentions are clear — to make it more difficult for felons and mentally ill persons to acquire fire-arms. The intent is to reduce preventable fire-arm deaths and threats to the general citizenry.

In states with similar laws there are nearly 40 percent fewer domestic violence associated shoot-ing deaths and an equal

reduction in police officers killed with handguns. If Washington had already had a law like this in place in June, it is possible that the killing at Seattle Pacific University by a young man with mental illness would not have occurred.

Isn’t it fair for Sammamish citizens to expect you to be informed as to the meaning and intent of the issues you vote on? Read your Washington State Voter’s Pamphlet, and read the text of the measure, coun-cil members. This is a no-brainer. When even a majority of NRA mem-bers support tighter back-ground checks, what in the world are we waiting for?

Carol RadloSammamish

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I highly recommend Sammamish citizens sub-mit a nomination for the 2015 SAMMI Awards.

All residents, business owners, students, teachers and volunteers that contin-ually go above and beyond to make our community a better place and inspire oth-ers are eligible.

As a mom with a young family in our city, I find the SAMMI Awards to be a sim-ple, yet impactful way to become more involved and honor my neighbors and friends who inspire me!

Consider taking a moment to acknowl-edge someone that has truly made an impact in Sammamish.

Nominations are open and can be submitted through Dec. 8. Visit www.sammiawards.org to nomi-nate someone online.

Alison OglioreSammamish

Who’s responsible for negative ads?

Are you asking, as I am, just who is behind the slick political ads trashing State Senate candidate Matt Isenhower?

To date, I have found five of these ads in my snail mailbox from the Good Government Leadership Council, mailed from a post office box in Centralia …. Centralia? The organization picked a name that gives a favorable first impression; we cer-tainly want good govern-ment leadership.

But who’s paying for these mailbox ads? “Top Five Contributors: The Leadership Council.” It’s quite apparent that these five outsiders have more than enough money to throw away in a blatant attempt to discredit a viable Democratic challenger to Republican State Sen. Andy Hill, who currently repre-sents the 45th Legislative

District. Read the fine print!Other negative mailers

have reached me trash-ing Andy Hill. They’re from the Washington Conservation Voters Action Fund, and they are appalling!

Neither Andy nor Matt needs this kind of “help.”

I am well-acquainted with both Andy Hill and Matt Isenhower. They are good men. Both are very well-qualified to rep-resent us, and they both care about the future of Washingtonians, as evi-denced by their shared concern for the education of the children in our state. They mainly differ in how to pay for education and how to meet the state’s other fiscal obligations.

Compare the candi-dates. Get to know them and their plans for us. Then, please base your votes on the merits and values of each candidate.

Doris (Jody) WilsonKirkland

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Poll of the weekIn the wake of the school shooting in Marysville, how safe are Washington schools?A) Very safe. This was an isolated incident and couldn’t have been prevented.B) Mostly safe. But schools can and should do more to identify potential threats.C) Mostly unsafe. But the solution lies in keeping guns away from people who shouldn’t have them.D) Very unsafe. All schools should install metal detectors and have more police officers.Vote at www.sammamishreview.com.


Bragging rights are always at stake when the Issaquah Eagles and Skyline Spartans meet, and that was the case again in an Oct. 23 volleyball match.

First-place Skyline earned the bragging rights, starting fast and building momentum on its way to a 25-18, 25-17, 25-15 vic-tory over visiting Issaquah in Class 4A KingCo Conference action.

“We focused and we remained really steady through the whole entire match,” said Skyline’s Kate Richardson, a junior outside hitter. “It was really fun to see every-one try really hard to beat Issaquah.”

Heading into their final matches this week against Mount Si and Bothell, the Spartans can claim the pro-gram’s first regular-season KingCo title in coach Callie Wesson’s four-year tenure.

“That’s definitely on the back of the mind,” Wesson said. “It’s little stepping

stones to get to the final goal of getting to state, and these are the things that we’ve been prepping for all season.”

Skyline (12-1 overall, 6-0 conference) set the tone in the early portions of the match by winning battles at the net and committing very few errors.

Senior outside hitter Chloe Epker had four of her match-high 10 kills in the opening set, and Skyline took an 14-8 lead before an Issaquah time-out. Richardson, who had seven kills and two blocks on the night, was respon-sible for the last two points of the set.

Epker, Richardson and newcomer Lindy Chang, a 6-foot senior, have given the Spartans some formi-dable offensive weapons.

“So many high-school teams a lot of times just go outside, outside, outside, and it becomes predict-able,” Wesson said, “but for us, the defense never knows … which gives us so many hitting options.

“It’s good, definitely, to be able to go to any kid at any time, and know that

they’re going to do their job.”

Issaquah had a bet-ter start to the second set behind senior Rachel Baker, and the teams exchanged leads five times. But the Spartans pulled away once again, and Chang had one of her match-high four blocks on set point.

Epker served 10 straight points in the third set, helping Skyline to a 20-10 lead, and senior Kristin Dietzel closed out the vic-tory with one of her three blocks.

Issaquah (7-4, 4-2) had won four straight matches, but the loss dropped the Eagles into third place with Bothell and Newport left on the schedule.

Still, it wasn’t the type of performance that coach Amanda Sewell was par-ticularly upset about.

“It’s a learning match for us,” Sewell said. “Our defense and our serve receive really kept us in the game, and our middles were doing a really good job of producing and keep-ing the ball in play.

“Just a little less hitting

errors, and it would’ve been a different story.”

Sewell said she’s seen “huge improvement” from the players since the start of the season, and one of their strengths is a core of six seniors who’ve helped quicken the offensive pace and solidify defensive com-munication.

“They’ve learned how to kind of build that solid base together and that chem-istry, and the few add-ins that we’ve had, they’ve done nothing but help that chemistry,” the coach noted.

Issaquah’s leaders in the match included Baker (nine kills, 10 digs), senior setter McKenzie Bostic (27 assists) and senior libero Daniela Jaramillo (12 digs).

Senior setter Meghan Wedeking had 18 assists and six digs for Skyline, and Epker added 12 digs and four aces.

Both squads have high hopes for the KingCo tour-nament, and being one of the two teams that qualify for state, Nov. 14 -15 in Lacey.

“Watching the stand-ings of KingCo, things

have been flip-flopping the whole entire season, so it’s anybody’s game,” Sewell said, “but I think we have a good shot of getting a good seed into playoffs and working our way through that bracket.”

“I think we are where we want to be,” Richardson said of Skyline. “Obviously, every day we’re working harder toward our goal, which is going to state and hopefully placing really well in state.”

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Skyline volleyball powers past Issaquah

By Greg Farrar

Skyline High School senior midfielder Kelli Sullivan, after scoring an unassisted goal in the 78th minute, tried to make lightning strike twice with another offensive play before time expired in the Spartans’ Oct. 23 soccer match at Issaquah. Skyline lost, 2-1.

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The Eastlake High School baseball program had its most successful season in a decade this year, but it will be under the direction of a new head coach next year.

Kevin Agnew led the Wolves to their first KingCo Conference title in 2014, and their first trip to the state tournament since 2003, but he won’t return next year after school administra-tors elected this month to not renew his con-tract.

Kathryn Reith, communications director for the Lake Washington School District, didn’t com-ment on the decision other than to say all of the district’s coaches serve under one-year contracts and “coaches know when they sign on that it may be limited to one year.”

Agnew confirmed via email that he will keep teaching humanities courses at Eastlake, but declined to comment further.

The coach’s dismissal triggered an online petition — started by the parent of an Eastlake player — that gathered 191 signatures for his reinstatement. The petition states that support-ers “believe that the process that culminated in his dismissal was flawed and that it is important that our voices of support are heard.”

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There’s a talented mix of all ages on this year’s Eastlake High School girls swim and dive team, and the results could hardly have been better for coach Kate Agnew and her athletes.

Eastlake wrapped up the KingCo Conference Crown Division title Oct. 23 with a convincing win over Bothell, and the Wolves had a chance to capture the outright KingCo title dur-ing an Oct. 28 meet against defending Class 4A state champion Newport, results that came after press time.

The Wolves have two experienced divers in seniors Christina Torrente and Kaela Call, who will look to repeat their state-meet performanc-es of 2013 next month.

Both divers won medals last season by finishing in the top eight, and they’re among the highest point scorers in the state in 2014.

Call, chasing after her

fourth trip to state, was recently rewarded for her hard work, accepting an NCAA Division I scholar-ship offer from Brigham Young University.

“I love their coach, and the people on the team are so fun to be around,” Call said. “I think I can do well there.”

Call and Torrente have finished first and second in each of the Wolves’ eight dual meets, guiding the team to a 7-1 record. Eastlake’s only loss came in a narrow decision, 95-90, to five-time defending 3A champion Mercer Island.

The divers compete year round for a select club in Federal Way, and Call said their work with weights, trampolines and diving tech-niques have put them where they want to be.

“We went down every weekday, four hours a day, in the summer, so we’ve been training a lot,” she said. “We really want to do well at state, and we think we will with the practicing that we’ve been doing.”

In a 127-59 win over Bothell at Redmond Pool, Call took first place with 287.35 points and Torrente was second with 275.70.

“They’re serious about it, and it shows,” Agnew said. “State is going to be a really fun meet for them.”

They will graduate in the spring, but the Eastlake program is poised to replace their point totals because of a talented freshman class this season, Agnew noted.

Among the ninth-graders who’ve excelled are Maya Alderman and Maggie Van Nortwick, who’ve recorded state-qualifying times in the 100-yard butterfly and 100 breaststroke, respectively.

They’ve also contributed to the Wolves’ 200 medley relay team, which previously recorded a state-qualifying time of 1 minute, 55.23 seconds. The foursome of Veronica Stureborg, Van Nortwick, Alderman and Aimee Ellis won the event against Bothell in 1:57.99.

Stureborg, another fresh-man, is on the verge of a

state berth in the 100 back-stroke. She won the event against Bothell in 1:02.75, and needs to get to 1:01:30 to reach state.

Agnew expects some older swimmers, like seniors Alyssa Poggemann and Nikki Bennett, and juniors Mindy Hsu and Ally Haase, to step up in relay events.

The Wolves haven’t quali-fied for state yet in the 200 and 400 freestyle relays, but could get there behind their veterans. Relays are important in the postseason because they’re worth twice as many points as individual events.

Other Eastlake winners in the Oct. 23 meet included Hsu in the 200 free (2:10.29); Poggemann in the 100 butter-fly (1:03.82); Ellis in the 100 free (58.98); Van Nortwick in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.53); and freshman Jackie Bennett in the 200 individual medley (2:19.97).

“We’ve got a lot of depth, which is making these dual meets really fun,” Agnew said. “We’ve had a really suc-cessful dual-meet season.”

Eastlake swimmers clinch division title

Flattery to La Push.He later planned and

led two more 50-mile group treks, one looping through the Cascades near Stevens Pass, and another around the Hurricane Ridge area of Olympic

National Park.Another one of his

favorite adventures was the Bowron Lake Canoe Circuit, a 73-mile excur-sion in British Columbia that took eight days to complete.

Achieving the Eagle Scout rank, of course, requires a lot more than outdoors knowledge. Eagles must earn 21 merit badges, and 10 of them are

in specific topics mandated by the BSA, such as com-munications, cooking, fam-ily life, first aid, personal fitness and personal man-agement.

Troop 677 has had 65 Eagle Scouts since its inception in 1993, and Chriest has been working closely with Scoutmaster Ryan Steffen for the past three years to lead the troop and complete his requirements.

“Our troop is big on being a boy-led troop,” Chriest said. “Mr. Steffen is always there at our patrol leader conferences, and

just kind of facilitates the ideas along, makes sure nothing crazy gets out of hand, and always making sure that we’re encouraged to keep going with merit badges.”

Chriest’s extracurricular activities include playing baseball for Skyline and the Lakeside Recovery Senior American Legion

teams; serving with the school’s Link Crew and National Honor Society; and hiking, camping and skiing in his spare time.

He’s part of the school’s challenging International Baccalaureate curricu-lum, and wants to study atmospheric sciences or geology next year. He has applied to six schools; his top three choices are the University of Washington, Cornell University and the University of California at Davis.

“I’m looking at more of a climate-change, climate-dynamics kind of thing,”

he said of his future career. “… Not necessari-ly broadcast meteorology, but more of the behind-the-scenes, National Weather Service kind of stuff.”

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EASTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL’s 21stAnnual Holiday Bazaar!Date: Saturday, November 1st Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pmThis wonderful holiday show featuresover 70 artisans and crafters! Youwill find beautiful items for your homeand special holiday gifts for friendsand family. This event is sponsoredby Eastlake HS PTSA.Eastlake High School, 400 228th Avenue NE, Sammamish WA [email protected]

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‘Theater of Possibility,’ rehearsing social skills for teens on the autism spectrum, a free inclusive event, 1-3 p.m. Nov. 8, Bellewood Apartments, 3710 Providence Point Drive S.E., register by emailing [email protected].

Thursday, Oct. 30Nia fitness classes,

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Ever notice how many people are run-ning and walking the trails and roads of Sammamish? We live in a very active community and we need a great local resource for shoes, apparel and gear to stay on-the-go. That resource is Plateau Runner. This specialty running and walking store on the Sam-mamish Plateau believes that the right shoes, clothing and accessories make the differ-ence between a healthy, com-fortable runner or walker and one sidelined by pain and discomfort. By addressing each customer’s individual needs, from current training programs to aches and pains to long-term goals, the staff at Plateau Runner personalizes the shoe-fitting process. “We’ve all been through disappointing injuries and long recover-ies,” says co-owner Mark Steen, “so we put customers’ health and comfort first.” Plateau Runner has a wide selec-tion of shoes, apparel and accessories, but customer requests for products are always welcome. “We listen to our customers’ suggestions for new products and special order what they need whenever possible,” says Steen. The medical community also has had product requests. “Physical therapists

and doctors have helped us build a great selection of recovery and injury preven-tion products.” The store is committed to local track and cross country programs. “We’ve supported programs in Issaquah, Sam-

mamish and Redmond with donations and special events,” says Steen. The latest was the Pumpkin Dash, a fun run for elementary students put on by the Eastlake High School cross country team. Plateau Runner holds fundraisers such as the

Sammamish Turkey Trot benefiting the Marty O’Connor Scholarship Fund for student athletes. It also sponsors many local races including the Sammamish 5/10K, Run Duvall, and the Issaquah Triathlon. “One of the best things about owning a running store is being able to support the local community and these races,” says Steen. Plateau Runner offers weekly group runs and personalized coaching for many local races, including the Seattle Marathon/Half Marathon, Sammamish 5K/10K and Seattle Rock’N’Roll, “Sammamish is a vibrant, active com-munity,” says Steen. “We love that the store brings people together.”

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