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6 Issaquah’s birthday10 Freebee 200 bus14 Living green16 Julius Boehm22 Public art26 Polar Plunge30 Census 201032 Young leaders40 Rick Rizzs44 Snowshoeing48 Shop local50 Issaquah ferry54 Special Olympics60 Clubs

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Issaquah History Museums/Reference No. 93.20.55

Musicians line up for a photograph in the town of Gilman, now Issaquah, on July 4, 1893, as they take part in the com-munity's Independence Day celebrations.

BY WARREN KAGARISE

Everybody wonders about thename, the jumble of vowels and con-sonants joined by Q-U, and almostunpronounceable to outsiders:Issaquah. But the tale behind thename — and the names Issaquah hadbefore city fathers picked Issaquah —

brings up almost as many questions.The first white settlers reached the

area now known as Issaquah in themid-1860s. Because officials incorpo-rated the town a few decades later —and changed the name a few yearshence — questions still arise aboutwhen, exactly, Issaquah was founded.

How about 1862, when the first set-tlers arrived? How about 1892, when

the town incorporated as Gilman? Or,why not 1895, when the Legislatureapproved the latest name, Issaquah?

The confusion even inspired aRipley’s Believe It Or Not! riddle.“Four members of the Cowell familyall were born in the same house butin different towns,” the brainteaserbegins.

Huh? The answer to the riddle canbe traced to star-struck settlers, aconfused postmaster and lawmakersin Olympia.

Settlers trickled into the verdantSquak Valley in the mid-1860s. Thefertile valley, hemmed by the moun-tains now known as the IssaquahAlps, held — on clear days, at least —spectacular views of Mount Rainier tothe south. Farmers grazed dairy cattleand grew hops bound for Seattlebreweries in the rich soil.

The soil yielded another treasurein the late 1800s: coal. Depositsbeneath the settlement, known thenas Squak, transformed the pastorallandscape. A muddy, rough-and-tum-ble mining camp grew.

Gilman, as Issaquah used to beknown, incorporated April 25, 1892.The early residents cast a decisivevote to incorporate the rugged out-

Issaquah History Museums/Reference number 86.18.264

Miners of 1909 take a break at the entrance to the Central Coal Company’sfirst mine on Grand Ridge.

From Squak to Gilmanto Olney to Issaquah

City has hadmultiple names inits 118-year history

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post as a city: 61 residents in favor, 31opposed.

Leaders named the town for DanielHunt Gilman — as in boulevard, as inBurke-Gilman Trail — a founder ofthe Seattle, Lake Shore and EasternRailway, a key link between the min-ing town and points beyond.Although Gilman never lived in thetown, residents named the hamlet forhim to honor the role the railroadplayed in the development of thetown. The town became the fourthincorporated city in King County;there are 39 cities nowadays.

But residents’ decision to name thecity after Gilman could have beenmotivated by other factors, too.

“If I was going to live in an incor-porated town called Squak, I’d proba-bly want to change the name myself,”longtime Issaquah resident LindaHjelm said.

Not long after the town incorpo-rated, however, problems arose withthe new name. Gilman looked a lotlike Gilmer, a settlement in KlickitatCounty. Mail bound for Gilman

instead reached Gilmer.Issaquah History Museums

Director Erica Maniez said a post-master proposed a stopgap solution.Mail addressed to Gilman shouldinstead be addressed to Olney, Wash.

Why Olney? Maniez said the post-master at the time hailed from Olney,Ill. Recycling the name for Gilmanseemed to work — for a while. Mailsent to Olney indeed arrived inGilman, but the confusion prompted

Issaquah History Museums/Reference number 72.21.14.214

This circa 1911 photo shows Front Street, looking north from Mill Street (now Sunset Way).

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Issaquah History Museums/Reference number 94.40.2

In this circa 1918 photo, several logs are loaded on one of the High Point MillCo.’s wooden Pacific cars at one of two loading landings on Tiger Mountain.

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questions from town leaders aboutperhaps finding a new name for thecity.

By the late 1890s, the name-changemovement had gained momentum. InFebruary 1899, the precursor to themodern-day City Council sent a peti-tion to the Legislature asking for the

city and the post office to renameIssaquah. City fathers carried thepetition to lawmakers in Olympia,where the Legislature switched thename.

The word Issaquah, Maniez said,means “the sound of water birds” inthe language of the American Indiansnative to the region.

The years ahead contained moreconfusion about what to call the

town. The name even remainedunchanged in some old city recordsuntil the early 1900s, when some-one finally crossed out Gilman andreplaced the moniker withIssaquah.

Issaquah — the former Olney, theformer Gilman, the former Squak —celebrated 100 years in 1992. On theanniversary of the day the town wasfounded — as Gilman.

Issaquah History Museums/Reference number 86.18.264

A train pulls into the bustling Gilman Depot in this circa 1892 photo.

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King County Metro Transit’s 200line isn’t perfect, as rider Kelly Boehlkeis quick to point out.

“It’s either early or late. It’s rarelyon time. Rarely,” she said.

As if to punctuate her point, the busscheduled to arrive sometime after 12:47p.m. idled up to Front Street by TheIssaquah Press building at 12:44 p.m.

“See,” she said.But most riders, Boehlke included,

love the 200.“I would recommend this bus to

everybody,” said Larry Worthing, whocommutes from Seattle by bus andthen uses the 200 to get to work.Worthing is a sales rep for the GilmanAntique Gallery on Northwest GilmanBoulevard. “I have a car, but I don’tuse it because I don’t need to.”

Worthing said the 200’s ridership

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Ruben Simpson, on his way home from school, waits for his stop on the 200 line.

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community is a little more reservedthan on some buses in Seattle, but helikes the people he meets in Issaquah.

“After awhile, people loosen up andsocialize,” he said.

“The 200 is invaluable,” opined arider who goes by the name of Po.

Po said he rides the bus every daybecause it runs every half-hour andstops at a variety of commercial cen-ters, giving him easy access to Targetand several grocery stores.

“It runs so frequently, you can justwindow shop until the bus comes,” hesaid.

Another thing about the 200 is thatit’s free, which makes it affordable toriders like Po who are homeless andcan’t afford a car.

Anthony Robinson, one of the 200’sdrivers, said several homeless peopleuse the bus to get to church, wherethey receive free meals.

Robinson said the free ridershipmakes his job less stressful.

“You don’t have the hassle of argu-ing with somebody about paying thefare,” he said.

Riders do seem friendly and relaxed.Ruben Simpson, 17, takes the 200

in the afternoon. Simpson is enrolledat Issaquah High School and hasaccess to an afternoon school bus thatleaves campus at 2:45 p.m. He oftenwants to stay late to study or work outat the gym, so he uses the 200 to getback to his house near the Fred Meyer.

“It’s flexible,” Simpson said.George Quimby, another 200 bus dri-

ver, has worked all sorts of routes overthe years, but he picked this one last fall.

“It doesn’t have any hills on it,” hesaid, explaining that he was wary of icypatches after 2008’s snowstorm. “It’s agood route.”

The 200 bus is a 19-foot-longChampion Transit Van that seats 18 peo-ple. That’s almost 40 feet shorter than thestandard articulated two-section busesoften circulating through downtownSeattle. The shorter length makes for eas-ier maneuvering, according to Quimby.

One of the drawbacks of theChampion Transit Vans is that they aren’tequipped with Orca Card readers yet,Quimby said. But that doesn’t matter ona route that doesn’t require payment.

The route has proven popular, espe-

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cially since expanding out to FredMeyer in the East Lake SammamishCenter in February 2007, according toRochelle Ogershok, a spokeswomanfor King County Metro Transit.

In the past decade, the route hasaveraged between 300 and 340 ridersper day, Ogershok said. Each trip aver-ages about nine riders.

“You fill it up at rush hour,”Quimby said.

The 200 covers most of Issaquah’svalley floor, running from the IssaquahCommunity Center in downtownIssaquah to north Issaquah and FredMeyer. It weaves by the IssaquahPublic Library, the Issaquah TransitCenter, Gilman Village, IssaquahCommons and Pickering Place alongthe way.

The route passes by most of thecity’s retail centers, giving people easyaccess to grocery stores, restaurants,hardware stores and more. Robinsonsaid he sees a lot of riders using thebus to reach Fred Meyer and Target.

Jing Pecht, who works at the cus-tomer service desk at Fred Meyer, saidthe 200 has helped business a little bit.She said employees from nearby busi-nesses, like the Siemens on Southeast51st Street, use the 200 to shop.

“I don’t think it’s a big impact right

now, but it’s probably a matter ofadvertising,” she said.

Metro Transit has plans to expandthe route out to the IssaquahHighlands on one end and to the Talusneighborhood on the other, but thosearen’t scheduled until 2011.

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BY DAVID HAYES

In 1956, in a town more renownedas a farming community and for itslegacy in the logging and miningindustries, an unlikely new ventureopened its doors in Issaquah by aneven more uncommon man.

In the foothills of the IssaquahAlps, Julius Boehm found a perfectsetting, one that reminded him of hishome in the Austrian Alps, fromwhich to offer up a risky venture fewthought had much chance at success— selling handmade chocolate con-fections.

“People thought it was a joke of anidea at the time,” said BernardGarbusjuk, the current owner ofBoehm’s Candies.

Well, the joke was on the doubters,as Julius Boehm added a new legacythe city of Issaquah can now lay claimto.

But as time marches on furtheraway from Boehm’s passing in 1981,fewer remain who knew the man will-ing to take that risk.

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Julius Boehm (right) makes change for a customer at Boehm’s Candies in the late 1970s.

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Boehm’s photo archives

Julius Boehm stands on Mount Blanc, on the border of Italy and France, with anOlympic flag in honor of the 1956 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.Boehm and his fellow mountaineers accidentally placed the flag upside-down.

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Garbusjuk is one of the few whoremained close to Boehm up to theend. A pastry chef by trade,Garbusjuk came to the U.S. in 1968through the sponsorship ofSchnitzelbank Restaurant. In 1971, amutual friend, Walter Schiefer, askedGarbusjuk to join Boehm in hiscandy-making venture in Issaquah.

Garbusjuk was impressed by thestrong personality running the grow-ing candy enterprise.

“He was actually the first ‘soup

Nazi,’” Garbusjuk said, referring tothe short-tempered “Seinfeld” charac-ter. “The store would have peoplelined up outside to buy candy. WithJulius, you had to make up your mindquickly or get out of here.”

An impressive, but tough, bossJulius Boehm was already 74 years

old by the time Garbusjuk began toapprentice under him. He became moreimpressed with his new, tough boss.

Boehm was born to a family of

privilege in 1897 in Vienna, Austria, toan Austrian father and Swiss mother.

“I used to say his stubborn sidewas his Swiss way of doing things,”Garbusjuk said, “and his charmingside was his Austrian way.”

While there are many gaps inBoehm’s personal history, what isknown for sure is his athletic prowess.In 1924, Julius represented Austria inthe Olympics, running the third leg of

Photos by Greg Farrar

At left, the front door to Julius Boehm’s chalet honors his participation in the Olympics. At center, a framed certificate thankshim for his participation as a torch carrier in the Austria-to-Czechoslovakia portion of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. At right,the hand torch is kept in a glass case with pictures of Boehm and his Olympic hero, Jesse Owens.

Photos by Greg Farrar

At left, Julius Boehm (left) poses with noted Pacific Northwest mountaineer George Senner, in a framed photograph on thewall of Boehm’s home. It’s inscribed by Senner, ‘To Julius, my good friend and mountain comrade.’ At center, Boehm skiesin a photograph by Earl Roberge in the May 14, 1972, Seattle Times Pictorial magazine. At right, Boehm’s involvement withyoung people and sports is on display in Seattle YMCA plaques for exceptional service and for founding its ski school.

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the men’s 400 relay in Paris. Later, hecarried the Olympic torch that was enroute to the 1936 games in Berlin,running his leg of the relay over onekilometer of Austrian roads.

The very torch he carried in 1936 sitsin a case on display in Boehm’s chalet,where he lived out the final decades ofhis life above his candy factory.

Garbusjuk said it was this pride inhis country that made him unable tosit idly by as Austrian families sidedwith the growing Nazi Germanempire in World War II. There are acouple versions of how Boehmescaped there in 1939.

“One version is with little but theclothes on his back, Julius cross-coun-try skied, out of Austria and intoSwitzerland, in the dark of night,”Garbusjuk said.

The Alpines of the WestBoehm came to the United States

in 1941. His first job was teaching skilessons on the East Coast. Garbusjuksaid one of Boehm’s students told himabout Washington state, with its gor-

geous mountains. And that wasenough to hook him — he crossedthe U.S. to see this pristine land forhimself.

Liking what he found, Boehmstayed, later opening his first CandyKitchen in the Ravenna area of Seattle

in 1943 with friend George Tedlock.Through the help of another mutualfriend, candymaker Cecil Hall, theydeveloped the signature taste thatwould become Boehm’s Candies.

Garbusjuk said Boehm was thefirst to apply the “authentic Alpine

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By Greg Farrar

The second story of the Boehm’s Candies Swiss chalet is where Julius Boehmlived, and it remains today the way he left it at his death in 1981.

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quality” tag to his candy, also beingthe first to import European choco-late to the West Coast.

Garbusjuk said Boehm’s great skillat the factory was delegation.

“He had a great nose for findingthe right person for a job and he’d go

to battle for that person,” Garbusjuksaid. “Of course, if anything wentwrong, it was still their fault.”

To continue the Alpine feel in hiscandy factory, in 1956, Boehm com-missioned Walter Schefer, fromAppenzell, Switzerland, to design and

build the Edelweiss Chalet, as it wasnamed. It was the first of its kind inthe Pacific Northwest, Garbusjuk said.

“Schefer and his crew later went onto design the whole Alpine look forLeavenworth, Wash.,” Garbusjuk added.

To keep the setting natural,Garbusjuk said the Chalet and otheradditions to the original factory werebuilt up around the trees already inplace. And to continue the Alpinetheme, Boehm used to raise huge lit-ters of Saint Bernards.

Young athlete at heartMindi Reid, approaching her two-

year anniversary working at Boehm’s,is one of the regular tour guides.About 10,000 people take tours of thechalet from June through Septemberand in special groups the rest of theyear. The last of the Saint Bernardspassed away in the early 1980s.

“But we still have people comethrough here asking about the dogs,”Reid said.

The chalet’s walls are decoratedwith art reminiscent of European

By Greg Farrar

Tour guide Mindi Reid rings the bell in the 12th Century Swiss church, whosereproduction Boehm oversaw shortly before his death in 1981.

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greats. Garbusjuk said becauseBoehm came to America with little,he frequently in later years traveledback to his home country, collectingthe works that adorn the walls of hisnew home and inside the factory.

Some of the walls are tributes tomilestones in Boehm’s life, from thecertificate of participation in the 1924Olympics to the photos of the summitshe climbed, such as Mount Rainier atthe spry age of 80. He was the oldestman to climb Rainier at the time.

In fact, Boehm remained active inathletics well into his later years,Garbusjuk said, often playing tennisor hitting the ski slopes with thosemore than half his age.

“He didn’t like senior sports,”Garbusjuk said. “He felt it wouldtypecast him.”

Boehm became prolific in thenumber of locals to which he gaveboth skiing and swimming lessons. Tohonor his contribution to the com-munity, the swimming pool wasnamed The Julius Boehm Pool afterhim.

Like going with a rock starBy 1965, Boehm had built up quite

the reputation, and that’s whenSuzanne Suther first came into hislife. Now a retired executive directorof the Issaquah Chamber of

Commerce, she was then givingregional tours for the SeattleConvention and Business Bureau.

Suther said Boehm was a big advo-cate of the arts, often passing his loveof the theatrical on to the younger

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By Greg Farrar

Julius Boehm, an excellent photographer, had among his portfolio cases ofmounted black-and-white photographs a cemetery with the Matterhorn in thebackground in the Alps between Switzerland and Italy.

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generation and paying for youths toattend events in Seattle.

“To go to the opera with him was togo with a rock star,” Suther said. “Hewas very charming, very interesting.”

One her favorite memories ofBoehm is the time he took her to an

opera. Before they left, Boehm satdown at his dining table and playedthe opera for her first, translating thestory.

“It was fascinating to me,” she added.Suther would go on to open her

own Boehm franchise in Poulsbo.

One of the last legacies Boehm leftbehind was the High Alpine Chapel,finished in 1981, next to the chalet. Areplica of a 12th century chapel in St.Moritz, Switzerland, the chapel isBoehm’s tribute to fallen mountainclimbers.

It features a painted mural of aChrist-like figure carrying the soul ofa climber up to heaven. And abovethe fresco is a recreation ofMichelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceilingpainting of The Creation of Adam.The Boehm recreation was painted byformer employee, Margaret VanWrangel, who provided many otherworks throughout the chalet.

Reid said Boehm wanted the alpinetheme to encompass even the pulpit,which was built from large stones toresemble a mountainscape.

“He wanted to have his own moun-tain inside the chapel,” Reid said.

As a regular tour guide, Reid fre-quently uncovers tidbits from Boehm’spast, from magazine articles to portfo-lios with romantic photos he tookover the years. She often encouragesGarbusjuk to create an official archiveof items and tales from Boehm’s past,so his legacy will never be lost.

By Greg Farrar

The bedroom of Julius Boehm’s home is mostly a music room, decorated withpaintings and sculptures of the classical composers he enjoyed, and an uprightpiano decorated with European floral folk art.

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BY CHANTELLE LUSEBRINK

Public art is a big part of Issaquahtoday. In fact, there’s an entire city pol-icy dedicated to it.

While it may be an addition to thecity’s beauty — depending on yourtastes — you may have driven by morethan one of the pieces and wondered,“What is that?” Well, here are someanswers to some pieces you may havewondered about.

Have others that we didn’t list?Send them to editor@isspress.com.

(Photos by Christa Lusebrink)

Chefchaouen doorLocation: City HallArtist: Omar Ettaleb El Alami andAhmed Benyoussef, from ChefchaouenArchitects: Omar Herras, Brett Dean,BAD/CADEngineer: Terry Baldwin, B&T Design& EngineeringContractor: WYN PropertyMaintenanceInstallation: April 2008Funded by: Arts Commission

Story: Since beginning a relationshipwith Chefchaouen, Morocco, througha local student’s study abroad pro-gram, both cities have enjoyed a rela-tionship of cultural exchange. ‘Thistraditional door is a gift from the cityand the people of Chefchaouen,Morocco, to the city and people ofIssaquah. The gift’s message is one ofwelcome and friendship. Once youenter through the doors, you are wel-comed into our homes and lives andare among friends and family,’ the ded-ication plaque says.

‘Linda Ruehle’ Location: City HallArtist: Rich Beyer with assistant SteveLoveInstallation date: Salmon Days 2001Funded by: Rowley Enterprises, ArtsCommission, Microsoft, Talus, PortBlakely CommunitiesStory: Ruehle was the city clerk for 30years. In recognition of her dedicationto businesses, community groups, cityofficials and residents, members of thecommunity commissioned the statue

in her memory.

‘Reaching Home’Location: Issaquah HatcheryArtist: Tom Jay Installation: Finley (1997) and Gilda(1998)Funded by: Friends of IssaquahSalmon Hatchery and city ArtsCommission.Story: Officials purchased the piece asa visual and hands-on rendering ofsalmon during the spawning seasonfor educational purposes at the hatch-ery. The pair got their names, Finleyand Gilda, from a public naming con-test.

‘The Valiant Effort’Location: City HallArtist: Doug EckInstallation: January 2000Funded by: Arts CommissionStory: Heroic and patriotic, the bronzeeagle depicted in ‘The Valiant Effort,’ is

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a tribute to the city’s police depart-ment. Artist Doug Eck is a descendantof Issaquah’s pioneer Eck family. Cityofficials believe it is an outstandingdepiction of Issaquah’s enduring spirit.

‘Logging steam pull’ Location: Rainier Boulevard ParkCompany: Puget Sound Iron and SteelWorksBuilt: Between 1895 and 1910Dedicated to: Ted Cook Jr.Donated by: Issaquah HistoryMuseumsStory: This early road engine, or steamdonkey engine, as they were mostcommonly called, helped once clear-cut vast mountainsides of timber inthe Puget Sound area. It was aban-doned in Tacoma’s Green River water-shed at 2,600 feet before making itsfinal home Issaquah as a donation byTed Cook Jr. It was later dedicated inhis memory. Engines like this oncehelped clear-cut all of the tops of theIssaquah Alps during the beginning ofthe city’s logging industry and helpedbuild Issaquah’s economy.

‘Kateri Brow MemorialRaven Sculptures’Location: Issaquah LibraryArtist: Robert W. CookeInstallation: 2000Funded by: Schools advocates whowanted to honor Kateri Brow in a pub-lic way

Story: Kateri Brow was an IssaquahSchool District superintendent from1986-1992. There are three life-sizedraven sculptures around and outsidethe library to honor her memory anddedication to learning. There’s a ravenoutside the library with a book, whichsays, ‘Knowledge makes all things pos-sible;’ there’s a raven flying into thelibrary and a raven with ‘keys ofknowledge’ in its talons. The threesculptures present a sense of a com-munity working together at the library.

‘Zephyr’Location: Rainier Boulevard ParkArtist: Andrew CarsonInstallation: 2004Funded by: City Arts CommissionStory: Arts Commission membersreceived the piece as a part of their‘loaned art’ program. The programallows city officials to try out a piece ofart and gauge the public’s interest inpurchasing it. The ‘Zephyr’ wasextremely popular, so they purchased itto keep as a piece of public art.

‘Copper Clad’Location: Front StreetArtist: Jason Paul DillonInstallation: 2007Funded by: Arts CommissionStory: ‘Copper Clad’ was temporarilyinstalled along Front Street North near

the Hailstone Feed Store, at the requestof DownTown Issaquah Associationofficials who use the store as theirheadquarters. Old ‘Copper Clad’quickly turned into a conversationpiece among residents and visitors andhas been there since.

‘Fathers of theIssaquah Valley’Location: Gilman Boulevard Artist: Boris SpivakInstallation: 2001Funded by: George ‘Skip’ Rowley Jr.Story: The sculpture celebrates ‘theconnection between history, familiesand land while honoring the shift froman agricultural area to what is nowknown as the suburban city we callIssaquah,’ according to the sculpture’splaque. It was commissioned byGeorge ‘Skip’ Rowley Jr. to honor hisfather, Issaquah developer GeorgeRowley Sr., (seated, left) and Issaquahresidents Henry Bergsma (seated,right) and his son Bill Bergsma Sr.(standing). The Bergsmas owned andoperated the Issaquah Valley Dairyfrom 1930-1962 until they sold it toGeorge Rowley Sr., who began sellingand developing the land. Today, theHyla Crossing development stands onthe site of the former farm.

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‘The Dig’ Location: Gilman Boulevard Artist: Brian GoldbloomInstallation: 1993Funded by: King County Arts

Commission and the city ArtsCommission Story: The piece, made of Cascadegranite, was purchased to commemo-rate the Issaquah Centennial in 1992.The sculpture was paid for with fund-ing from the hotel/motel tax. The pieceincludes several pieces of granite lyingon the ground, a standing broken gran-ite piece and a granite bench on thewest side of Front Street North.Together, the pieces represent a histori-cal or archeological dig, said Parks andRecreation Director Anne McGill, whowas with the city at the time. The ele-ments combine various aspects of thecity’s history, including its tie to therailroad, fishing and mining industries.

‘Man-Who-Eats-Lots-of Fish’‘Man-That-Becomes-The-Moon’‘Song Carrier’Location: Beaver Lake Park Artist: David Horsley and DavidBoxleyInstallation: 1992-1999Funded by: King County Public Art

ProgramStory: The totem and story poles wereplaced at Beaver Lake Park, because thearea was once part of American Indians’summer lands. Tsimshian artist DavidBoxley and adopted Snoqualmie artistDavid Horsley created the AmericanIndian artworks for Beaver Lake Park.During the artists’ residencies with 4

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‘Under story’Location: Issaquah Highlands Artist: Jean Whitesavage and Nick Lyle Installation: 2003Funded by: Sound Transit Story: The enlarged plants and flowersreflect those found in Issaquah’s forestunder story. The artwork was pur-chased while improvements were beingmade to the Sunset Way and Interstate90 interchange. Sound Transit, stateDepartment of Transportation andcity officials, as well as local artists,chose the pieces to reflect the area’snative flora. The pieces are made fromiron and were forged using blacksmithtechniques. They may be orange at thetime of this publication, but keep aneye out for them to turn color soon asthey’ll be repainted this year.

‘Miracle Grow’Location: Issaquah HighlandsArtist: Leon WhiteInstallation date: 2005Funded by: City Arts CommissionStory: The piece was part of the cityArts Commission Loaned Art pro-

gram. The piece was placed in thehighlands to recognize their annexa-tion to the city. After a survey of high-lands residents, Arts Commission offi-cials found it was popular with the res-idents and purchased it.

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BY TIM PFARR

D oes jumping into brutal-ly cold water sound likefun to you? On a hotsummer day, it maysound like a good idea,

but what about in the dead of winter?If this painfully cold combinationsounds appealing, you may considertaking a polar bear plunge.

Yes, polar bear plunges are what youmay expect: events where masses ofpeople run and dive into frigid waterwhen the weather is at its coldest. So, doyou need to be completely out of yourmind to participate? Not necessarily.

Polar bear plunges are held allacross the country, and they are usual-ly held as fundraising efforts. InWashington, there is a Polar Plungeseries that benefits Special Olympics ofWashington.

The 2010 series stops at six cities,and it kicked off New Year’s Day inLake Sammamish at Redmond’sIdylwood Park. After the kickoff, thePolar Plunge series also made stops atAlki Beach in Seattle and ColumbiaPark in Kennewick.

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Reporter Tim Pfarr, of Sammamish, heads to Idylwood Park on Lake Sammamish to join more than 30 other swimmerson New Year’s Day for the Polar Plunge.

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It seemed covering the series’kickoff would make for a chillingly

good article. However, since theevent was in Redmond, the storyneeded an Issaquah connection,which meant finding Issaquah resi-dents who were taking the plunge.This turned out to be quite difficult

during the holiday season, and I wasforced to resort to my plan B: takethe plunge myself.

New Year’s Day quickly rolledaround, and with no word fromIssaquah residents, I suited up in mytropical-looking board shorts, grabbeda change of clothes and headed to thelake.

The actual plunge was preceded bydrinking hot beverages, eating tinysandwiches donated by Jimmy John’sGourmet Sandwiches and the presen-tation of the “best costume” award, assome individuals came to the plungedressed in insane outfits. There waseven one man dressed as a voluptuoushula girl.

Then, the moment came. All ofthe plungers lined up on the shore,and after a short countdown, we alltook to the water. Knowing the pro-cess would be analogous to rippingoff a Band-Aid, I ran as fast as Icould until I reached knee-deep

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Connor Broughton (left) and Charlie Nussbaum (right) pull Nussbaum’s sonKeith back for one more plunge into the water at Idylwood Park for the PolarPlunge on New Year’s Day.

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Henry Dees, 12, of Issaquah, jolts back out of the 45-degree water ahead of other swimmers in the Polar Plunge in LakeSammamish.

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The water temperature was some-where near 45 degrees, and the experi-ence of diving in felt like getting hit by abrick wall. Every muscle seemed to con-tract as if each was screaming out inshock, and I hurried to the shore assoon as I was back on my feet. Totalelapsed time in water: about 10 seconds.Extremities left with feeling: none.

Next came the process of recovery.Somehow, my knee was bleeding.There was goose poop stuck to thebottom of my numb feet. I was shiver-ing uncontrollably.

What proved to be particularlytricky was fitting my shoes on mynumb feet with hands that were virtu-ally too cold to function.

However, after putting on a drysweatshirt, warming up didn’t takelong, and knowing I had contributedto a good cause by donating toWashington Special Olympics to par-ticipate helped keep the warm feeling

going inside.Ironically, before taking the plunge, I

got acquainted with several Issaquah resi-dents who were participating: Ben and

Keith Nussbaum, both 13, and ConnorBroughton and Henry Dees, both 12.The boys had heard about the plungeand decided to make a splash themselves.

The cold water didn’t seem to fazethem as much as it did me, thus prov-ing their toughness. In fact, Ben, Keithand Connor are members of theIssaquah Swim Team, and they vowedto return next year with more of theirteammates. If it weren’t for the charita-ble aspect of the event, I would haveno choice but to conclude these boysare a little bit nuts.

Event organizers declared the eventa success, and they thanked partici-pants for their pledges, of which theminimum was $50. In total, the NewYear’s Day plunge raised more than$10,000, and event organizer Lt. TimGately, of the Redmond PoliceDepartment, said the departmentplans to host the plunge at the sametime and place next year.

In fact, Gately and several of his fel-low officers even took the plunge … inuniform.

“It stings the lungs at first, but thenit’s kind of refreshing,” Gately said.

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Reporter Tim Pfarr gives a thumbs updespite being cold, wet and numbafter his Polar Plunge.

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BY TIM PFARR

Once every 10 years, it comes outof hiding, and it feeds. It feeds on yourpersonal information, and it’s hungryfor its decennial supper. No, it’s not ahorrible monster; it’s the 2010 census.

Here’s the good news: The CensusBureau has taken steps to ensure theprocess is as quick and painless aspossible for residents.

The census is a short questionnairemailed to every household across thecountry every 10 years. Only one cen-sus must be filled out per household,and the census will ask about the num-ber of people living in a given house-hold. Specifically, it will ask the ages,genders and races of the people living

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Questions aboutthe 2010 CensusCan political organizationsmanipulate the census?

The census process is closelywatched by Congress, the U.S.Government AccountabilityOffice, the Office of the InspectorGeneral of the U.S. Departmentof Commerce and others. Onlysworn employees of the CensusBureau conduct the census. Ourpartners only volunteer to helpraise awareness of the comingcount.

Could there be criminalsworking for the census?

All census workers undergo anFBI name background check.Fingerprinting has also beenadded as a requirement in 2010.These security measures screenedout about 16 percent of the hun-dreds of thousands of applicantsfor census operations in 2009.

Will the census ask a bunchof intrusive questions?

The 2010 Census will be one ofthe shortest and simplest in thenation’s history. It will ask 10 basicquestions, including name, gen-

der, age, date of birth, race,household relationship and if agiven home is owned or rented. Itasks less personal information thana typical credit card application.

Should I be concernedabout sharing mypersonal information?

Census information is protectedby law, and everyone who worksfor the census must swear thatthey will never disclose any per-sonal information. An employeewho shares personal informationcould be sentenced to as much asfive years in prison and a$250,000 fine.

Why can’t I fill out thecensus form on the Internet?

The Census Bureau exploredthis option and found that allow-ing individuals to fill out the cen-sus form online would not allowenough protection on individualcensus responses. It also foundthat doing so would not increasethe percentage of individualswho responded, and that doingso would not save money.However, the Census Bureau isstill exploring a secure Internetoption for the 2020 census andother surveys.

in the household, and their relations tothe homeowner. It will also ask for aphone number.

All residents need to do is fill out thecensus and return it in the postage-paidenvelope the Census Bureau provides.It’s as simple as that.

However, if you don’t complete theform and mail it back, a census workerwill knock on your door and ask you thequestions. Census workers will never askto enter your home, and they carry iden-tification verifying their employmentwith the Census Bureau.

If you are not home when a censusworker knocks on your door, he or she willleave a door hanger with a contact num-ber. Census workers will be making theirrounds between April and July.

According to the Census Bureau’sWeb site, participating in the censushelps communities receive federal fundsfor things such as hospitals, job trainingcenters, schools, senior centers, publicworks projects and emergency services.In total, more than $400 billion of federalfunds will be distributed for such things.

Census information is also used forredistricting, the process by which elec-toral districts and constituency bound-aries change. Redistricting is required bythe U.S. Constitution.

State legislators or independent bipar-tisan commissions use census data toredraw district lines.

On occasion, residents have even usedcensus data to support community initia-tives, according to the Census Bureau.

The city has partnered with the cen-sus team in Issaquah to let residentsknow about the upcoming census and itspurpose, said Autumn Monahan,Issaquah communications coordinator.

She said the city is issuing notices inits newsletters, on its Web site and onflyers at City Hall to alert residents ofthe upcoming census.

After you have completed the census, sitback, relax and a wait for the statistics to beannounced. In December, the CensusBureau will deliver the regional populationdata to President Obama, and in March2011, regional data will be added to theCensus Bureau Web site for members ofthe public to view and use, U.S. CensusBureau Media Specialist Deni Luna said.

For 72 years, no census data for individ-ual households is made available to anyone,including the president. However, after 72years, census data for individual house-holds will be made publicly available toallow individuals to track their ancestors,Luna said.

BY CHANTELLE LUSEBRINK

Teens today are changingthe world one day and onelife at a time and Issaquahyouths are joining themovement.

Volunteering by 16- to 19-year-oldshas more than doubled since 1989, from13.4 percent to 28.4 percent, accordingto a 2007 report from The Corporationfor National and Community Service, afederal agency that oversees service pro-grams in the U.S. Volunteering by thatage group is also 36 percent higher thanit was in 1974, when it was 20.9 percent.Today, 8.2 million people ages 16-24volunteer their time.

Mitchell Byron, a Liberty High

By Greg Farrar

Levi (left), a Clark Elementary School second-grader, smiles as he tackles arithmetic problems with his tutor LindsayBaringer, an Issaquah High School senior, with the Volunteers of Issaquah Changing Education program.

Community leadersof tomorrow:

By Greg Farrar

Dean Byron (second from right), a Liberty High School senior, and LiamDammann, 12, watch Maywood Middle School wrestling action.32

Youth activismcan lead to abetter world

School alumni who volunteered forAthletes for Kids and is deaf, is one ofthem.

“I want to give back to a communitythat has given so much to me,” he said.

Students are learning philanthropy athome; through community organiza-tions, like Kiwanis and Rotary clubs; inchildren’s leadership groups; and inschool, according to the agency’s reports.

Locally, there is an Issaquah SchoolBoard policy dedicated to ensuringstudents learn philanthropy beforethey graduate, said SuperintendentSteve Rasmussen.

“Globally, we want kids to knowthat we’re in a world that they canimpact, personally and in largergroups,” he said. “I want them to knowwhat they do impacts the rest of theworld, and it is incumbent upon themto be much wiser than my generation.”

Students in Issaquah have takenthat message to heart, not just for theirgrades, but also in hopes of leavingtheir world better.

“We have to take action to see theoutcome that we want,” said LindsayBaringer, a senior at Issaquah HighSchool who volunteers with theIssaquah Schools Foundation. “If youhelp out, the world will be a nicerplace to live.”

Planting seeds(Volunteers of IssaquahChanging Education)

Children and students in Issaquahcan get involved at an early age by vol-unteering their time as a mentor forother students.

The Volunteers of IssaquahChanging Education program, fundedby the foundation, helps 173 studentsin elementary, middle and high schooleach year by matching them with olderstudents and adults.

Baringer, one of 145 mentors, workswith a second-grader named Levi atClark Elementary School.

The mentors help students duringor after the school day as a one-on-onetutor and mentor for at least one hourper week.

“It’s been fun to work with him,and to help him learn and encouragehim,” Baringer said of Levi, whomshe’s mentored for two years.

“She gets to help me with math,and it gets better and better,” Levi said.“We also play games like Tic-Tac-Toeand Connect Four.”

Foundation officials carefully matchstudents with their mentors based on astudent’s strengths, desires or needs.Mentors come from many walks of life,cultures and backgrounds, and theyfoster social skills and motivate stu-dents to become lifelong learners, saidSusan Gierke, program director.

“Our volunteers feel that their timeis highly valued when they see that forone hour a week they can see that theymake a huge impact in the life of astudent,” Gierke said.

Part of the program also requiresthe mentor to work with school staffmembers to provide appropriate tutor-ing and enrichment activities.

“We make sure everything is going

well at home, they’re happy and learn-ing the things they need to know, andwe also contact the teacher to makesure they are on track,” Baringer said.

“Our students not only develop arelationship with their mentor, buttheir academics are improved with theone-on-one tutor mentoring theyreceive on a weekly basis,” Gierke said.“What we found is that both mentorand mentee come away with wonder-ful, worthwhile, valuable experienceshared between the two of them.”

Helping them grow(Athletes for Kids)

Byron, a Liberty alumni and nowfreshman at the University of Oregon,has been deaf most of his life. But hehasn’t let that stop him from helpingothers.

He learned the importance of vol-unteering early, and chose to volunteerwith Athletes for Kids, an organizationthat pairs special-needs students andchildren with high school athletes intheir community as mentors.

Right now, the program has 65trained mentors from five high schoolsmatched with students, but 50 addi-tional students are on the waiting listfor mentors, which the organizationwould like to fill, said Executive

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Director Teresa Bretl.“Being deaf, I’ve had a lot of help

from my grandma, my neighbors, myclassmates and my school,” Mitchellsaid. “I wanted to give back.”

For Mitchell and his friend LiamDammann, a sixth-grader at MaywoodMiddle School, their time togethermakes a difference in both of their lives.

Liam’s mother, Andrea Johnson,signed him up for the program to helphim learn how to be a good athlete andfriend with someone closer to his age.When he interviewed Mitchell to be hismentor, they hit it off right away andhave been playing catch and Wii andgoing to movies and sports events since.

“We spend a lot of time playinggames, making up our own games andtalking a lot about things,” Mitchellsaid, adding that Liam dreams of play-ing professional football after college.

“I had a bit of social issues and wasbeing a bit aggressive, so I signed upand I met Mitchell,” Liam said. “I sawthe way he acted toward people and it’s

gotten better and better.“I also saw he has a hearing disabili-

ty, so he’s kinda like me,” he added.“We both have some issues, so we’re agood match.”

Even after Mitchell graduated fromhigh school, the two boys stay in touchwhen Mitchell is home for breaks andthrough his brother Dean, a LibertyHigh School senior, who took overmentoring Liam.

“When I would go over toMitchell’s house, Dean would be at thehouse, so I knew him,” Liam said. “Meand Dean are working out really well.He’s a soccer player, so I’ve learnedhow to kick a lot further like him andwe have a lot of fun.”

“AFK impacted my life by allowingme the experience to be a part ofsomeone’s life and be a positive influ-ence to my buddy,” Mitchell wrote inan e-mail. “I got the chance to makean impact on someone else’s life,which is always good, and I hope heremembers what I taught him, whichwas to open up to people and believein himself, that he can accomplish any-

thing and be whomever he wants.”

Affecting change(Generation Joy)

At Beaver Lake Middle School,change for others is something stu-dents have specialized in for nine yearsas part of Generation Joy and theBeaver Lake Humanitarian Project.

“It makes me feel good to do stuffwith my friends and help peoplearound the world,” said Jordan Rabold,now a ninth-grader at the PacificCascade Freshman Campus.

The program started with CurtisBetzler, a science teacher, who took atrip to Ghana in 2001 and returnedwith an idea to help his students helpother children around the world.

Each spring, Betzler and his stu-dents gather items, like clothes andschool supplies, for a humanitariandrive for children in South Africa. Theitems are collected in March andshipped to Africa in April.

“It’s the little things that we take forgranted that are their big treasures,”

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After the shipment arrives, educa-tors from the school, students andtheir parents pick it up and travel tovillages, schools and orphanages todistribute the goods during summervacation. To date, more than $100,000worth of items has been donated toSouth Africa through Generation Joy.More than 6,200 students in 32schools throughout South Africa weregiven items donated by 2,500 local stu-dents by summer 2008.

To better manage their growingefforts, Betzler and several others turnedthe project into a nonprofit organiza-tion last year, so they could expand theircapacity to accept donations and coor-dinate travels to South Africa.

In 2009, 10,000 books, 20,000 pens

and pencils, 1,200 pairs of shoes, 2,500soft toys, 2,500 notebooks and pack-ages of paper, 1,000 clothing items,280 sports balls and 95 bicycles werecollected.

Donations are now being acceptedfor this year’s drive.

“I’m so proud of these kids,” Betzlersaid. “This is the power of kids helpingkids.”

The event has had such a largeimpact that many students who partici-pated in middle school have continuedto contribute in high school and college.

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“When our students leave schooland go into world, when someday theyare all at the end of the line, we wantthem to look back and say ‘I made adifference. I left this place a betterplace than I found it.’ That is some-thing we instill in all of our students asthey become leaders of a future gener-ation,” Rasmussen said.

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When both of his parents werediagnosed with different types of can-cer, Mark Horoszowski was devastated.

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But instead of wallowing in sorrow,he formed a plan to help others fightthe fight his parents were battling. Hehelped organize some of the first Relayfor Life events at Issaquah High Schoolin the early 2000s.

“Both my parents were big on giv-ing back. It was never a chore ormandatory, but always encouraged,”said Horoszowski, who is 26, living inSeattle and launching a new companycalled Symbol Interactive. “I felt likecancer sucks and this I can do. It isactually something I can do thatdirectly affects my parents.”

Both of his parents survived theirbattle with cancer, but the experienceled him to keep fighting for others, asa Relay for Life student coordinator atthe University of Washington and as avolunteer ambassador with theAmerican Cancer Society.

“I’ll get jazzed up and spend 30 min-utes on a project that is big and excitingfor a good cause,” he said. “What a coolbreak from the working world.”

His experiences have led him tonew friends across the world and tofound his own nonprofit organization,1in2, with his friend Jesse Durrance,from Colorado.

The name 1in2 stands for the num-ber of men diagnosed with cancer intheir lifetime, he said.

“I’m a guy. I don’t really like theodds,” he said. “My first question was,‘What do I have to do to not be one intwo?’ Then, we realized that everybodyneeded to know this information.”

In 2007, Horoszowski andDurrance climbed up and skied downMount Adams, Mount Baker andMount St. Helens, and in 2008, theyclimbed up and skied down MountRainier to promote awareness.

However, after two years, the pairrealized the organization had to takeon a larger role.

Today, they strive to coordinate vol-unteer efforts, educational tools, advo-cacy programs and health screeningopportunities between research andhealth facilities and nonprofit organiza-tions, like the American Cancer Society

or the American Diabetes Association.The bottom line is to get people liv-

ing healthier lifestyles through educa-tion, so there are fewer people battlingdiseases that are preventable, makingroom for research and funding forcures.

“A big part of what we do is educat-ing people that one-third of all canceris attributed to not living a healthylifestyle, like wearing sunscreen, eatingvegetables and fruit, and staying awayfrom chemicals,” he said.

“I wish my parents never had can-cer and I wish, in a way, I was neverinvolved with this,” he added. “But it iswhat has happened and it’s this way.It’s a cool way to give back, and itsmotivating, encouraging and fun.”

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BY BOB TAYLOR

Dreams do come true. SeattleMariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs is liv-ing proof. From the time he was ableto pick up a baseball bat and throw a

baseball, Rizzs dreamed of becoming aBig League announcer.

“I’m one of the most fortunate guysin the world,” the Issaquah residentsaid. “How many people get to dowhat they dreamed of as a kid?”

Rizzs grew up in Chicago and waspassionate about baseball at an early age.

“I’ve always been a baseball fan,”said Rizzs, who would get togetherwith guys in his neighborhood andplay sandlot ball during the summer.

“We would play all day long,” hesaid.

Meeting his heroThe White Sox was his favorite

team, although he occasionally rootedfor the Cubs. When it came to players,his idol was shortstop Luis Aparicio,one of baseball’s all-time greats.

Rizzs had another hero — Cubs’broadcaster Jack Brickhouse. Actually, itdidn’t matter whether the White Sox orCubs were on the radio. Rizzs tuned inhis transistor radio to whoever was onthe air. He listened to the broadcasters ofboth teams, but Brickhouse, a future

Hall of Famer, was definitely his favorite.By the time Rizzs was 12, he knew

what career he would pursue —broadcasting.

He worked hard to reach that goal.Sometimes as a youngster, he wouldrace home from school and go downin the basement, where the family hada television set. He would turn thesound down, and pretend he wasbroadcasting the game.When Rizzs was 12, he received sup-port from Brickhouse.

“I wrote a letter to Brickhouse andtold him I wanted to become a MajorLeague Baseball broadcaster,” Rizzssaid. “He wrote me a handwritten let-ter back. He urged me to get all theschooling I could and to work hard. Inever forgot that.”

After high school, Rizzs attendedSouthern Illinois University, where heplayed baseball and majored in radioand television.

Then, he began a long climb to thetop. It took eight years.

His first broadcasting job was withAlexandria, La., a Class AA farm clubfor the San Diego Padres. When theteam moved to Amarillo, Texas, Rizzs

Living the

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Rick Rizzs, of Issaquah, is fulfilling his childhood dream of broadcasting Major League Baseball games.

Issaquah resident Rick Rizzsfulfilled his boyhood fantasy

of calling major league games

Living the

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went with it. He later worked for theMemphis Chicks, an AA team for theold Montreal Expos, and theColumbus Clippers, a Class AAA teamfor the New York Yankees.

In 1983, the Seattle Mariners had anopening and Rizzs sent a résumé andtape to the club. Former owner GeorgeArgyros called Rizzs and had him cometo Seattle for an interview. Argyros andDave Niehaus, another future Hall-of-Fame announcer, liked what they heardon tape. Rizzs got the job.

At spring training that year, Rizzsmet one of his idols — Brickhouse.

“I came up to him and said ’Mr.Brickhouse. You probably don’tremember this, but when I was 12, Iwrote you a letter about becoming abroadcaster. You answered that letter. Ijust wanted to let you know that I’mnow a new broadcaster for theMariners,” Rizzs said recalling themeeting. “He gave me a big hug.”

‘One of the best storytellers’The 1983 season was the beginning

of a long relationship with Niehaus.“I couldn’t have broken in with a

better mentor than David. He is one of

the greatest broadcasters of all time. Heis one of the best storytellers,” Rizzssaid. “So much of the time when youare doing a baseball game, you have tofill those gaps with a great story.”

The one thing Rizzs learned earlywas putting the fan at home in thefront seat at the ballpark.

“You really have to make him feellike he’s at the ball park. Radio is reallya visual media,” Rizzs said. “The gametakes place in your mind. If I can makethe fan feel the excitement, then I’mdoing my job. Imagination is betterthan any camera ever invented.”

The best part of the job?“I get to be the fans eyes and ears. I

have a responsibility to the fans to becreative and prepared for all 162 games,”Rizzs said. “Every game is different. Youhave a different story to tell every night.”

Rizzs settled in Issaquah in 1988.Like joining the Mariners, he has neverregretted the move.

“I love it out here. I grew up inChicago, where everything is flat. Icame out here and there are moun-tains, streams and lakes. There is somuch to offer,” he said.

From No. 2 to No. 1Rizzs left the Mariners for a short

time when he was hired as the DetroitTigers’ broadcaster for the 1993 sea-son. He was to replace longtime Tigers’broadcaster Ernie Harwell, a favorite ofMo-town baseball fans. Tigers presi-dent Bo Schembechler, following the1992 season, had forced Harwell out.

Rizzs said he knew it was going tobe a difficult job replacing Harwell,another Hall-of-Famer, when heshowed up for the club’s season opener.

“There were thousands of fansprotesting the club’s decision to letErnie go. A radio station in town hadprinted up Ernie Harwell faces and putthem on sticks,” Rizzs said. “There

Rick Rizzs’ top 10Mariners’ memories1 – Edgar Martinez’s game-winningdouble in the fifth game of the1995 American League series withthe New York Yankees.2 – The Mariners’ victory againstthe California Angels in the one-game 1995 playoff when Rizzs said“Everybody scores!”3 – The 1983 Seattle Mariners’opener, his first major leaguebroadcast.4 – The 1995 Seattle Mariners’ sea-son. “Everyone contributed. Theyjust refused to lose!”5 – The 2001 season when theMariners won 116 games, settingan American League record andtying the Major League record.6 – Edgar Martinez’s grand slam inGame 4 of the 1995 playoffs thatpropelled the Mariners to a victoryagainst the New York Yankees.7 – Aug. 31, 1990, Ken Griffey Sr.and Ken Griffey Jr. play in the samegame for the first time.8 – The final game of 1991 seasonwhen the Mariners finished with a.500 record for the first time.9 – Broadcasting his first game inChicago’s old Comiskey Park in1983.10 – Brian Holman’s near-perfectgame in 1990.

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After being the No. 2 guy for theMariners, Rizzs had looked forward tobeing the No. 1 guy for the Tigers.

“But I knew it was going to be atough job, because I was asked toreplace a legend,” Rizzs said.

At the season opener, Rizzs turned toBob Rathbun, his sidekick in the booth,and said, “I hope people give us a shot.”

However, fans were so loyal toHarwell that he was brought back bypopular demand. Rizzs worked withHarwell for a little more than a season,and then was let go.

“I did the best job I could do.Things just didn’t work out,” he said.

A memorable season,memorable moments

He didn’t stay unemployed long.Niehaus invited Rizzs back to theMariners’ booth, and the duo wound up

broadcasting a memorable 1995 season.“As things turned out, it couldn’t

have turned out better,” Rizzs said.“Thank goodness I didn’t miss the1995 season. That was the team. Thatwas the year baseball was saved inSeattle. The Tigers actually did me awonderful favor.”

Rizzs has been with the Marinersever since. Fans have become familiarwith his catch phrase “Good-bye, base-ball!” his call for home runs.

There have been many memorablemoments for Rizzs in his 25 years withthe Mariners. The 1995 season holdsmost of them, especially the Mariners’dramatic finish to tie California for firstplace in the West Division, the playoffvictory over the Angels and the five-game series with the New York Yankees.

Rizzs also cherished the 2001 sea-son, when the Mariners set anAmerican League record for victories.The 2009 season was special, too.

“I was really impressed with lastyear’s team. Jack Zduriencik (generalmanager) did a fabulous job of build-ing the team. Don Wakamatsu (man-ager) did a great job, and all the play-ers contributed.” Rizzs said.

With third baseman Chone Figginsand pitcher Cliff Lee among the newadditions, Rizzs said he is anxious toget to spring training.

“This team has a chance to be verygood, especially with the one-twopitching of Felix (Hernandez) andLee,” Rizzs said.

If the Mariners reach the playoffsthis season, Rizzs will really enjoy hisjob. Winning makes the job easy, butthere are other benefits. He especiallyenjoys the relationships he has madewith players, fans, front office person-nel and the members of the Marinersbroadcast team.

“I’ve been around a lot of greatpeople,” he said.

His father once told him, “If youwake up in the morning and you’rehappy to go to work, you’ve got itmade.”

Rizzs knows he has it made.“I am very blessed. I set out to be a

broadcaster when I was 12. How manypeople get to do what they dreamedof?” he asked. “I don’t regret one dayof the choice I made. Now, I am thevoice on the radio I heard as a kid. Ihave the greatest job in the world.”

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BY DAN CATCHPOLE

AND CHANTELLE LUSEBRINK

With a steady snow falling, SandraHiltmann and David Millard strappedtheir snowshoes on and headed upKendall Ridge overlooking SnoqualmiePass and Lake Keechelus.

Crunching through snow-coveredhills, the two friends enjoyed the hike’squiet, easy pace.

Climbing up the Kendall RidgeTrail, the hikers enter another worldapart from the crowded, noisy trail-head off Interstate 90.

The crowd thinned out, the silenceechoed in their ears and the snowturned more powdery.

By far, snowshoeing is one of theeasiest, no-fuss winter sports around.

It was Millard’s first time snow-shoeing, but he cruised along withouta problem. Most people quickly getused to walking in snowshoes.

“You strap them on and go,” he said

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itself. Most outdoor enthusiasts knowthe frustration of wading throughsnow in hiking boots. It only takes afew inches for a simple walk tobecome physically taxing.

With snowshoes on, you glide alongquickly and with ease.

A few quick steps in them andyou’ve pretty much learned all youneed to know: Pick your foot up a lit-tle higher, have a solid place for it toland and don’t walk backward — oth-erwise you might find yourself sittingin the snow and asking for help up.

Those who have had knee injuriesshould know it’s easy to twist them intounusual angles if you’re not on a stablepath or looking where you’re going. Becautious, especially going downhill.

For the most part, even a group ofnovice hikers or first-timers can headout into the snow without instruction.While most winter activities involve aload of specialized equipment or a lotof preparation, snowshoeing is easyand affordable for most.

“You can do it anywhere there’ssnow,” and the costs are minimal,

Hiltmann said.Snowshoes and poles can be rented

for as low as $20 from local outfittersfor the weekend, far less than the costof ski or snowboard rentals, lessonsand lift tickets.

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“You’ve got to make sure you havegot the right clothes on,” Hiltmann said.

You should come equipped for coldweather, but wear layers you can peeloff and store, since you might get hot,depending on what trail you choose.

Hats and gloves are a must, and ifyou’re not used to frosty temperatures,bring hand and feet warmers. You canfind the one-use, prepackaged kind atdrug or convenience stores for about$1 per pair.

Bring a relaxed attitudeAside from that, the sport is pretty

low maintenance — no special boots,binding or even outdoor wear is neces-sary.

Millard said he appreciates therelaxed attitude of snowshoeing.

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“It’s more social and less competi-tive than skiing,” Millard said.

Snowshoeing also offers a sense offreedom that doesn’t often come withwinter outdoor sports. While it’s easiestto stay on trails where snow has alreadybeen tramped down, anyone can swingoff trail to do some bushwhacking onvirgin snow. Of course, sound judg-ment should always be used to main-tain safety and avoid ecological damage.

Remember to check a map beforeyou go off trail, as you could end up onprivate property or in unstable areas.

Research where your trail goes andwhat it borders, in case you get lost.You should also keep in mind thatsome trailheads require parking per-mits, so research those ahead of timeby visiting a park’s Web site.

Whether it’s just a few hours afterbrunch or a weekend of exploringmountains, snowshoeing is a great wayto experience winter in the area.

Lauren Crandall(left) andNatasha Kroh,first-time snow-shoe hikers, findout how easy itis to strap on$20 rentalsfrom REI andenjoy a sunnywinter day in theCascades.

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BY CHRISTOPHER HUBER

When the wintersnowstorms ofDecember 2008blanketed theIssaquah area, local

shops and businesses experienced aspike in revenue. Shoppers stayednearby, rather than brave snow and iceon the roadways to Bellevue or Seattle.

But once the weather cleared up,things were back to normal, saidMatthew Bott, CEO of the IssaquahChamber of Commerce.

The chamber and its member busi-ness owners want “normal” to be as itwas when it snowed. That’s why theyrecently launched a “Shop Issaquah”campaign to bring awareness of thebenefits of spending your moneylocally.

“When you shop locally … it devel-ops the character of the community,”said Darlene Cohen, manager of theGilman Antique Gallery, located in

Gilman Square on Gilman Boulevard.Her 17,000-square-foot antique

mall is the largest antique mall on theEastside, and offers one-of-a-kind arts,collectibles and gifts from vendorswho have sold in Issaquah for 20 yearsor more. Each vendor is anotherentrepreneur, keeping commerce aliveand well in Issaquah.

Other local businesses strive to beunique while filling a niche for theircustomers. Some local shops makeroom for youngsters to play in the cor-ner while adults shop. Other business-es lead the way in community service.And almost all prefer to hire local

employees whenever possible.Fischer’s Meats in historic down-

town is historic itself, celebrating 100years in business this year. Customersknow the little meat market for itsgreat steaks and chops, but also for thespecialties made right here on FrontStreet — like pepperoni and jerky.

Gilman Village has the largest col-lection of unique shops and smallrestaurants in one Issaquah shoppingcenter.

One of those, X Marks the Tot, is ahomegrown business that designs andmanufactures custom clothing forbabies and toddlers. Tarri Burchak anddaughter-in-law Carisa Burchak co-own the business. Larger orders aremanufactured in Seattle, but all of theirsales come back to Issaquah, she said.

“We try to keep it pretty local. Ithink it’s important to keep the com-munity thriving,” Tarri Burchak said.“It also keeps it unique.”

X Marks the Tot’s clothing is madefrom recycled or organic material, and

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Annette Blakley answers the phone at the front desk of the newly renovated Gilman Antique Mall in Issaquah.

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the owners also make custom outfits, she said. One hot-seller is the T-Suit for 1- to 3-year-olds, a one-piecemade of adult T-shirts.

“One of the things I think people overlook is thatoften in local establishments, they can find productsand services that really are not generally available,” saidAaron Barouh, general manager of Gilman Village.“And they sometimes don’t realize that there are a lot ofhomegrown products.”

Issaquah residents may not be able to buy all of theirdesires locally, but Issaquah business owners and theircustomers agree that shopping locally is good for thecommunity.

Top reasons to shop locally❑ Sales taxes support city services and parks.❑ Local businesses hire locally.❑ Save gas and time with shorter trips to the store.❑ Sales taxes help support police and fire departments.❑ “Go Green” — cut down on air pollution with short-er drives.❑ Local merchants support schools with fundraisingand more.❑ Local businesses create community pride. Theirachievements help put Issaquah on the map.❑ Boost property values. Nearby goods and services areamenities homebuyers seek.❑ Better service comes from local people who know you.❑ Local charities are supported by local businesses.

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Co-owner Tarri Burchak arranges clothes for display at the X Marks the Tot store in Gilman Village.

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into position. Destination: VashonIsland.

The ferry glides into view acrossPuget Sound. The hull carries the samename as a place 20 miles east:Issaquah.

The vessel matters little to the trav-elers; the Klahowya or the Tillikumcould carry them home just the same.

Come daylight, the boxy Issaquahlooks as unglamorous as a mail truck,with the same work ethic as a lettercarrier — neither snow nor rain norheat nor gloom keeps the ferry idle.

Darkness softens the hard edges,and the Issaquah looks handsome,even majestic. Light spills from theoblong windows and the open vehicledeck. Reflections glimmer across thedark water.

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Capt. David Wilson, followed by Boatswain Greg Kruse, walks across the deckand takes a staircase up to the End No. 2 wheelhouse of the M.V. Issaquah toguide its return trip from Vashon to Fauntleroy. 50

later, more cars, trucks and SUVs fillthe hold.

The placid efficiency contrasts withthe years in the Carter era when theIssaquah entered service and headlinesblared problems aboard — and causedby — the ferry.

The ferry, and the other Issaquah-class vessels under construction at aSeattle shipyard in the late ’70s, took acircuitous route from lemon to modern-day workhorse in the state fleet.Nowadays, the ferry Issaquah plies PugetSound on regular runs from theFauntleroy Terminal to Vashon Islandand Southworth on the Kitsap Peninsula.

Lawmakers and the builders hurledsharp words at the other in the earlydays. The rhetoric ratcheted higher asWashington State Ferries yanked thevessels from service, inspected andrepaired the ferries, only to remove thevessels from service again.

Reminders from the contentiousearly years remain: Crewmembers stillrefer to the vessels as “citrus class” fer-ries, a nod to the era when editorialcartoons and T-shirts derided theIssaquah as a proverbial lemon. Thevessel debuted with unforeseenmechanical problems, spats betweenbuilders and officials, and troublesomesafety questions.

“My mother would call me up andsay, ‘Do you know what you’re doingdown there?’” ships superintendentand welding supervisor Ralph Hansenrecalled.

He worked at the Marine Power &

Equipment shipyard, where theIssaquah class vessels took shape.

Before the maelstrom — accidents,lawsuits, angry letters to the editor —dignitaries set aside the unease tochristen the Issaquah. Townspeoplegathered at the Seattle shipyard towatch the ferry ease into theDuwamish River. Historian HarrietFish walloped a bottle of champagneagainst the hull Dec. 29, 1979.

After the ceremony concluded, theboldface names and Issaquah residentsleft, and yard workers raised the vesselfrom the water for some last-minuteconstruction.

Name game, blame game

Not long ago, a class of PortTownsend fourth-graders beat stu-dents in Chimacum and Whidbey

Island to pick the name for the neweststate ferry class: Kwa-di Tabil, or “littleboat” in the Quileute language.

A celebration followed theannouncement from the stateDepartment of Transportation. Nextcame congratulations from Gov. ChrisGregoire. A commemorative plaque —delivered by the governor — shouldarrive within weeks.

The announcement recalled a pushmore than 30 years ago to name a ves-sel after Issaquah. The effort resulted ina ferry class named with words pickedfrom native tongues: Issaquah, Kittitas,Kitsap, Cathlamet, Chelan, Sealth.

But the grade-school contest — tiedto lessons about Pacific NorthwestAmerican Indians and Puget Soundmaritime history — lacked the ironcladdetermination and political maneuver-ing behind the Issaquah effort.

Fish, then the Issaquah historian,spearheaded the endeavor to name avessel in a planned ferry class for theEastside city, and shepherded the nec-essary legislation through Olympia.

A Lake Washington ferry from theearly 1900s also carried the nameIssaquah, and townspeople conceivedthe drive to name a new ferry as partcivic pride, part tribute to the bygonevessel.

Supporters marshaled students tocollect innumerable signaturesscrawled on petitions, City Councilmembers to endorse the effort and res-

By Greg Farrar

Passengers enjoy the sunshine as the M.V. Issaquah heads toward Vashon Island.Life rings, Zodiac lifeboats, doors and bulkheads are all labeled ‘Issaquah.’

NicoleMartinez, traf-

fic attendant atthe Fauntleroy

dock in WestSeattle, directs

automobilesand trucks

onto theIssaquah for

the 10:20 a.m.departure toVashon andSouthworth.

By Greg Farrar

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idents to sit through legislative com-mittee meetings. For the effort to suc-ceed, city residents had to convincelawmakers to name a ferry forIssaquah.

The blitz worked: A state trans-portation bureaucrat told a Senatecommittee how he had never seen“such a tremendous outpouring ofsupport” for a ferry name.

Legislators agreed, and designatedthe first vessel in a soon-to-be-launched ferry class as the Issaquah.

But the rollout of the new classproved nettlesome. Designers includedadvances — like computer technologyand variable-pitch propellers built formaneuverability — in the new ferries.Although engineers hailed the systemsas innovative, delays and public squab-bles between the shipyard and stateofficials shoved the superlatives aside.

Chuck Fowler served as the stateDepartment of Transportation publicaffairs administrator in the ’70s. Hehandled a barrage of questions fromreporters asking about the troubleswith the Issaquah class.

“I think that the major problem wasthe use of variable-pitch propellers, thefirst application of this new technology

on state ferries,” he recalled. “Therewere some early ferry-meets-dock col-lisions, but they were explained ascrews becoming familiar with the newtechnology and equipment.”

The woes and high-profile misstepsdrew unwelcome attention to thelargest ferry system in the UnitedStates. A cruise around Elliott Bay forstate dignitaries ended after a gasketblew and the Issaquah limped intoport alongside a tug. Accidents andcomputer glitches plagued theIssaquah-class vessels after the ferriesentered service in the early ’80s. Thenew ferries rammed docks and, anoth-er time, a vessel pulled away from apier, dropping a — thankfully —unoccupied car into Puget Sound.

People called the new ferries unsafe.T-shirts emblazoned with “I Survivedthe Issaquah” appeared. The ringer teesdepicted cartoon cars and passengerstumbling into the water, while seagullsrecoil from the scene.

Paul Zankich often faced a firingline from passengers and the newsmedia back then. He designed the fer-ries, and served as chief engineer of theMarine Power & Equipment shipyard.

“People said I should get combatpay for what I was doing,” Zankichsaid.

Former shipyard workers said someof the snags dissipated as ferry crewsacclimated to the new systems. Tweaksordered by DOT officials helped reme-dy problems, too.

“Once you’re sitting at the helm andthe controls are in your hand, that’swhere the buck stops,” Hansen said.

A rising tide

Midmorning sunshine reveals theIssaquah as a leviathan — brawny andutilitarian, all noise and steel. The deckplates jostle beneath cars, trucks andMetro Transit buses, rumbling aboardin a careful choreography. Day-Glo-orange life rings and Zodiac lifeboatspunctuate the hunter-green-and-whitecolor scheme.

Nowadays, the Issaquah and its fivesister vessels serve as workhorses in thestate ferry fleet. Combined, the ferrieshaul about 18,500 passengers per day.The flagship Issaquah carries 2,751people each day on trips from WestSeattle to Vashon Island to Southworthand back again.

Built to carry 1,200 passengers,about 130 vehicles and almost as longas a football field, the Issaquah feelslike a lonely place on midday cross-ings. The cavernous passenger decksits almost empty. Below, on the vehi-cle deck, most of the passengers waitin cars, idle and still seat-belted in.

Aboard the Issaquah, BoatswainGreg Kruse keeps order on the vehicledeck, where loadings and unloadingsunfold in a well-timed blur.

“Safety is our biggest concern,” hesaid during a mid-January crossing.

The former charter boat captainwakes on workdays at 3:17 a.m. andleaves home in Ballard to reach theFauntleroy Terminal by 4:25 a.m. Onsome days, the job rewards Kruse withpostcard-perfect vistas: Mount Rainierto the south, the downtown Seattleskyline to the northeast, the OlympicMountains to the west.

The passengers aboard include for-mer Issaquah Councilman DavidKappler, a frequent rider on the ferry.He boarded the vessel on a sun-splashed January day for the crossing toVashon Island, where he has a house.

Kappler left his pickup on the vehi-

By Greg Farrar

Capt. David Wilson stands in the wheelhouse and pilots the Issaquah to dockat the Fauntleroy terminal, as the Klahowya starts its voyage in the backgroundacross Puget Sound.

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cle deck, and then ambled upstairs tothe passenger area. The longtimecouncilman eyed grainy reproductionsof historic photographs depictingturn-of-the-20th-century Issaquah.Besides the photos, the ferry containsfew connections to its namesake city.

Kappler, however, noted similaritiesbetween eco-savvy Issaquah and con-servation-minded Vashon Island, anddescribed the rural island as a localewhere “people are proud to say the

place is weird.”Despite dozens of trips to the island,

he has never encountered notable,part-time residents Al Rossellini andBooth Gardner — former governorswho spend summers there.

Capt. David Wilson joined the stateferry service about the same time theIssaquah-class vessels entered service.On most days, he guides the Issaquahfrom pilothouses at each end of theferry.

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“If you cut the ferry in half, you’dbe hard-pressed to know which end iswhich,” Wilson said.

The vessel sails Puget Sound at about17 knots, or 20 mph. Upgrades, likeradar and global-positioning technology,have alleviated some of the navigationconcerns about fog and bad weather.

“It’s not a real stressful situation likeit was in the old days,” Wilson said.

The ferry’s design — so malignedwhen the Issaquah-class vesselsentered service — also withstood thewear and tear of the decades. The stateeven plans to build new 144-vehicleferries based on the Issaquah-classdesign. The new ferries could enterservice as early as 2014, state budgetspermitting.

Consider the decision as belatedvindication for Zankich, the designerof the Issaquah class and West Seattleresident who lives not far fromFauntleroy Cove. On a clear day, hecan look outside and watch theIssaquah sail from the mainland toVashon Island with workmanlike effi-ciency.

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BY LAURA GEGGEL

With her straight, brown hair tied ina ponytail, 11-year-old Abbey Powersthrew her basketball into the air,bounced it against the backboard andgrinned as it fell through the hoop.

Her teammates whooped and herfather shouted words of encourage-ment before the ball even hit theground.

While many children play basket-ball, Abbey is a special case. Doctorsdiagnosed her with both autism andcerebral palsy, although they nevergave her family a clear diagnosis thatwould explain all of her challenges.

“It was unbelievable,” her father JeffPowers said. “We were told she wouldn’twalk, we were told she wouldn’t talk, wewere told she would only live to 2.”

Now a sixth-grader at Pine LakeMiddle School, Abbey has a fullschedule. Four years ago, her familyenrolled her in Special Olympics for achildren’s basketball class. At first, herparents only knew of practices inWoodinville, and would drive Abbeyall the way from Issaquah so she coulddribble the ball as part of a basketballteam.

When they learned Issaquah offereda Special Olympics program in theirown backyard, they were delighted, JeffPowers said. But they’re not nearly asexcited as Abbey.

“She got up extra early this morn-ing,” her father said as he watched herand her friends play ball at theIssaquah Community Center. “Shecould hardly wait for basketball.”

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Abbey Powers, 11, a Pine Lake Middle School sixth-grader, shoots a basket asher dad, Issaquah Special Olympics volunteer parent Jeff Powers, gives encour-agement during practice for a tournament. 54

Special Olympics tournaments annu-ally, including a basketball tournamentin the winter and a softball tourna-ment in the summer.

“I pushed to get them here,” saidFinnegan, who said Special Olympicfamilies used to have to drive all overthe county for games. Issaquah is morein the middle of the county, he said,which makes the drive for many easier.

Finnegan first started coachingSpecial Olympics when his son’s highschool coach retired. Like manySpecial Olympics players, Finnegan’sson, Tim Finnegan, has a developmen-tal disorder. Tim Finnegan is now 43and his family is still involved in theorganization.

The Special Olympics has threedivisions: junior (ages 8-15), senior

(ages 16-21) and masters (ages 22 orolder).

Leo Finnegan welcomes each playerwith the same enthusiasm and sup-port, high-fiving them as they come infor basketball practice. He remembersdetails about each player, and asksthem questions based on last week’sconversation about life and basketball.

“A lot of the athletes I coach aresome of the most genuine people I’vemet,” Finnegan said.

Basketball and softball coach TedStamper said he enjoyed getting whole

By Greg Farrar

Mikel Halperin (right) dribbles the ball at the front of a line of teammates as hebegins his approach to the basket in a shooting drill.

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families involved, with siblings playingbasketball together and parents coach-

ing. He encouraged the community toget involved, too, whether peoplechose to coach on the court or cheerfrom the bleachers.

“That’s what it’s about: fun and

exercise,” Stamper said.It’s also about children with special

needs realizing their full potential.“Their whole lives, they’ve been

told explicitly or implicitly they don’tfit in,” Leo Finnegan said.

For Abbey Powers, basketball con-nects her with other players, many ofwhom are now her friends.

“Abbey was shy the first year, butnow she’s very outgoing,” her fathersaid, adding that basketball gives hisdaughter confidence.

“I think it lets her know she can dowhat the other kids can do,” he said.“She’s shy, but she understands.”

Christopher Miller, a 13-year-oldSpecial Olympic athlete fromRedmond, said he bowls and plays

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Coach Ted Stamper (left) encourages Eli Levy, 13, to hit a basket at the com-munity center in Issaquah’s Special Olympics basketball program.

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basketball with the program.“I just like hanging out with my

friends,” he said. “We just do a lot ofworking out and running a lot.”

The Soukup family, of Sammamish,brings 14-year-old Aubrey to basket-ball practice, too. Aubrey has DownSyndrome, but she doesn’t let that getin the way of her game.

“It gives her an opportunity to bepart of a team,” her mother JulieSoukup said. “Her brothers and sistersare very athletic and it gives her anopportunity to have her own sport.”

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King County has about 1,500

Special Olympic athletes. Coaches arewelcome at any level, be it junior,senior or masters, said MeganHemingson, King County regionsports and training manager forSpecial Olympics.

Those interested in coaching musttake two online courses, a protective

behaviors class and the general orien-tation.

After completing those, they willtake a sport skill-specific course, suchas a soccer or aquatics course.

Coaches must recertify every four

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Ricky Brennan, a participant in the Issaquah Special Olympics program, shootsa basket as assistant coach Chris Torres (left) and Brennan’s teammates cheerhim on during a drill.

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assistant coach. Head coaches must be18 years or older and need to submit abackground check done by both theWashington State Patrol and a nationaldatabase. Assistant coaches can be 16to 17 years old.

Skyline High School junior ChrisTorres has volunteered as an assistantbasketball coach for two years.

“It’s good community service and Ireally enjoy doing it,” he said.

Torres said working with SpecialOlympics athletes has helped him real-ize how inappropriate some of theSpecial Olympics stereotypes are, espe-cially those about players not beingskilled at sports.

“They are so much smarter than youwould imagine,” he said. “I don’t eventhink they’re special anymore, becausethey actually make some crazy plays.”

Torres pointed at an athlete wearinga green jersey.

“He’s a guy with talent,” Torres said.

“I’ll watch him and he’ll run up to the3-point line and just turn and shootand sink it.”

Just as he finished his sentence,another player made a basket, the balllanding on the carpeted communitycenter floor with a thud.

“Good job guys!” Torres clappedand shouted.

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Another Skyline junior, MichelleBretl, has made many friends on thecourt through assistant coaching.

“I always get hugs every day and itmakes me smile, because I know thatthey’re having fun and that they enjoyit,” she said. “It’s very rewarding.”

Bretl’s mother Teresa Bretl is theexecutive director of Athletes for Kids.She instilled a strong sense of commu-nity service in her daughter. Likemother like daughter, apparently, asMichelle Bretl commended SpecialOlympic athletes and encouraged oth-ers to get involved.

“Special Olympics is a place wherepeople can just be themselves and becomfortable with who they are and

how they play,” she said. “They don’thave to be perfect at everything, butthey should get the opportunity to dowhat they love.”

Jeff Powers attested to that, sayinghis daughter will “crack up and laugh”whenever a ball is in her court.

“There are some good ball players,”Powers added. “They can dribblebehind their back.”

During one game, Abbey’s team lost68-2, and she was the one who madeher team’s only shot.

“She was the leading scorer,” Powerssaid, clearly proud of his daughter’sachievement.

Leo Finnegan called the positiveatmosphere pivotal to any SpecialOlympics practice or game.

“We never let anybody say anythingnegative about anything,” he said.“Even if they miss a free throw, wecheer.”

Parent LeeAnna Hayes agreed.“Everybody encourages everybody,

even on the opposite team,” Hayessaid. “It doesn’t matter how good youare. This is a very happy environmentfor everybody.”

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A Deeper Well discussion group:8 p.m., last Tuesday, Issaquah BrewHouse, 35 W. Sunset Way, 392-4169,ext. 105

American Association ofUniversity Women, Issaquah Branch:7 p.m. third Thursday, King CountyLibrary Service Center, 960 NewportWay N.W., issaquah@aauw-wa.org

American RhododendronSociety, Cascade Chapter: 7 p.m. sec-ond Tuesday, First PresbyterianChurch of Bellevue, 1717 Bellevue WayN.E., 391-2366

Amnesty International,Issaquah-Redmond-KirklandChapter: 7:30-9 p.m. thirdWednesday, Redmond Library, 5990N.E. 85th St.

Beaver Lake Community Club: 7p.m. first Monday, Issaquah Lodge atBeaver Lake Park, 25101 S.E. 24th St.,www.beaverlake.org

Cascade Women’s Club: 7 p.m.second Wednesday at a member’shome; and a volunteer activity at theYWCA Working Wardrobe inRedmond, 898-8603

Cascade Republican Women’sClub: 11:30 a.m. third Wednesday,(except July and August), SammamishPlateau Club, 25625 E. Plateau Drive,868-3076

Daughters of the AmericanRevolution, Cascade Chapter: 10:30a.m. second Tuesday, Bellevue RedLion Inn, 11211 Main St., 392-1658

Eastside Chapter of Parents,Families & Friends of Lesbians &Gays: 7-9 p.m. third Thursday, FirstUnited Methodist Church, 1934 108thAve. N.E., Bellevue, 206-325-7724

Eastside Interfaith SocialConcerns Council: noon, secondTuesday, St. Margaret’s EpiscopalChurch, 4228 Factoria Blvd. S.E.,Bellevue, 746-5249 or 885-6993

Eastside Welcome Club: 10 a.m.first Wednesday, 641-8341

Faith and Sharing for those withspecial needs: 2-4 p.m. first Sunday,St. Joseph parish hall, 200 Mountain

Park Blvd. S.W., 392-5682Friends of the Issaquah Library:

7 p.m. second Wednesday, IssaquahLibrary, 10 W. Sunset Way, 392-3571

Friends of the SammamishLibrary: 5:15 p.m. the first Thursdayin the library meeting room, 825 228thAve. N.E. 868-3057

Four Creeks UnincorporatedArea Council: 7 p.m. thirdWednesday, May Valley AllianceChurch, 16431 Renton-Issaquah Road,www.fourcreeks.org

Greater Issaquah ToastmastersClub No. 5433: 6:45 p.m. Thursday,Bellewood Retirement Community,3710 Providence Point Drive S.E., 306-2232 or issaquahtm@gmail.com

Greater Issaquah Youth andFamily Network: 5:30 p.m. firstMonday, Aegis of Issaquah, 780 N.W.Juniper St, 333-6614

Issaquah Business Builders: 7:30a.m. first & third Thursday, IHOPRestaurant, 1433 N.W. SammamishRoad, 206-852-8240

Issaquah Eagles No. 3054 —Aerie (men’s organization) andAuxiliary (women’s organization):7:30 p.m. fourth Wednesday, 175 FrontSt. N., 392-6751

Issaquah Emblem Club No. 503:7:30 p.m. first Wednesday, Elk’s Lodge,765 Rainier Blvd. N., 392-7024

Issaquah Guild of Children’sHospital: 11 a.m. third Thursday, ElksLodge, 765 Rainier Blvd. N. Call 392-

6625Issaquah History Museums: 392-

3500 or www.issaquahhistory.orgIssaquah Networkers: 7:30-8:30

a.m. every other Wednesday, IHOPrestaurant, 1433 N.W. SammamishRoad, www.IssaquahNetworkers.com.

Issaquah Valley Grange: 7:30 p.m.second and fourth Monday, MasonMyrtle Lodge, 57 W. Sunset Way, 392-3013

Issaquah Women’s Club: 9:30 a.m.first Thursday, Tibbetts Creek Manor,750 17th Ave. N.W., 369-3090

Jewish Juniors Club: 3:30-5:30p.m. Wednesday, Chabad of CentralCascades, 24121 S.E. Black NuggetRoad, 427-1654

La Leche League of theSammamish Plateau: 10 a.m. thirdThursday, Issaquah Highlands FireStation, 73 1280 N.E. Park Drive, 605-0837 or 827-6843

Mirrormont CommunityAssociation: 7 p.m. first Thursday,Mirrormont Country Club,www.Mirrormont.org

MOMS Club of SammamishPlateau: 10 a.m., third Friday, PineLake Covenant Church, childrenalways welcome, 836-5015 orwww.MomsInTouch.org

Moms In Touch: For more infor-mation on groups within the IssaquahSchool District, call 681-6770 or go towww.MomsInTouch.org.

Optimist Club of Issaquah: 6-7p.m. first Tuesday at Shanghai Garden,

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third Tuesday community outreach atIssaquah food Bank, 829-7864

Pine Lake Community Club:board of directors meet thirdWednesday, 392-4041

Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 9 a.m.Thursday, Our Savior LutheranChurch, 745 Front St. S., 557-4710 orwww.tops.com

The Toastmasters ofSammamish: 7-8:45 p.m. TuesdaysMary, Queen of Peace Church, 1121228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, 373-6311or davidlloyhall@live.com.

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ArtEAST Collect Works: 6-9 p.m.first Friday, Up Front [art], 48 FrontSt. N., 392-3191

Camp Fire Family Group: 7 p.m.every other Tuesday, 313-1600

Cascade Llama 4-H Club: secondWednesday, 391-7988

Cascade Mountain Men: thirdTuesday, Issaquah Sportsman’s Club,600 S.E. Evans St., club shoots the thirdSunday, www.cascademountainmen.com

Eastside Camera Club: 7 p.m. firstand third Thursday, St. MadeleineCatholic Church, 4400 130th PlaceS.E., Bellevue, 861-7910 www.eastside-cameraclub.com

Eastside Genealogy Society: 7:30p.m. second Thursday, BellevueLibrary, 1111 110th Ave. N.E., GeneFagerberg

Eastside Mothers & More: 7-9p.m. second Tuesday and thirdWednesday (without children),Eastshore Unitarian Church NorthRoom, 12700 S.E. 32nd St., Bellevue,www.eastsidemothersandmore.org

Guide Dogs for the Blind: 6 p.m.most Sundays, Issaquah Police StationEagle Room, 644-7421

Issaquah Alps Trails Club:www.issaquahalps.org

Issaquah Amateur Radio Club: 7p.m. first Wednesday, Issaquah ValleySenior Center, 105 Second Ave. N.E.,392-7623.

Issaquah Community FamilyClub — Camp Fire USA: 6:30 p.m.Tuesday, usually at Clark ElementarySchool, 500 Second Ave. S.E., 313-1600

Issaquah Garden Club: 10 a.m.

second Wednesday, Tibbetts CreekManor, 750 17th Ave. N.W., 603-0711

Issaquah Ham Radio SupportGroup: 7 p.m. fourth Monday at thePolice Station, talk in at 146.56 MHz at7 p.m., meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Issaquah Historical Society:monthly board meetings, 392-3500 orwww.issaquahhistory.org

Issaquah Quilters: 10 a.m. – noonsecond and fourth Friday, CommunityChurch of Issaquah, 205 MountainPark Blvd. S.W., rvndlsp1@aol.com

Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club: 7:30p.m. first Monday, Sportsmen’sClubhouse, 392-3311

Issaquah Valley Rock Club: lastFriday (no meetings July, August),Issaquah Senior Center, 75 N.E. CreekWay, Information@issaquahrockclub.org

Kachess Klimber SnowmobilingClub: during winter months near KachessLake, 392-1921 or www.wssaonline.com

Pine Lake Garden Club: 9:30 a.m.second Wednesday, 868-8057

Puget Sound Smocking Guild:first Saturday, September throughJune, Mercer Island CommunityCenter, 391-2581 or www.smocking.org

Rhythm and Reins Women’sEquestrian Drill Team: Sunday, RockMeadow Equestrian Center, 20722 S.E.34th St., Sammamish, 222-7100 or e-mail Leemod@pobox.com

Sammamish Garden Club: secondTuesday, 836-0421 orcathywebst@aol.com

Sammamish Heritage Society:four times during the year with board

meetings the second Thursday, exceptsummer, at Pallino Pastaria,Sammamish, 281-0170 or 392-2446

Sammamish PresbyterianMothers of Preschoolers: first andthird Monday, mothers of children(birth to kindergarten) are welcome tojoin, 466-7345

Sammamish Saddle Club: 7 p.m.second Monday, Bellewood RetirementHome, 3710 Providence Point DriveS.E., trail ride for horse owners atnoon the first Saturday at Section36/Soaring Eagle Park in Sammamish,466-7168

Social Justice Book Group: 1-2p.m. first and third Monday,Sammamish Hills Lutheran ChurchFellowship Hall, 22818 S.E. Eighth St.,shlcministries@yahoo.com

Sunset Highway Cruisers: threetimes during the year, five car showswith proceeds benefiting LifeEnrichment Options, 392-1921

West Lake Sammamish GardenClub: 10 a.m. second Thursday, VasaPark ballroom, 641-9084

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Kiwanis Club of Issaquah: noonWednesday, Gibson Hall, 105 NewportWay S.W., new members are welcome,391-9275

Issaquah Lions Club: 7 p.m.fourth Tuesday, Coho Room at CityHall, 130 E. Sunset Way, 206-232-1700

Mason Myrtle Lodge No. 108: 7:30p.m. third Thursday, Lodge Hall, 57 W.Sunset Way, 894-4410

Providence Point Kiwanis: noonFriday, Bake’s Place, 4135 ProvidencePoint Drive S.E., 427-9060

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

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

Sammamish Kiwanis Club: 7 a.m.Thursday, Sammamish Hills LutheranChurch, 22818 S.E. Eighth, 392-8905

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post3436: 7 p.m. third Tuesday, IssaquahValley Senior Center, 75 N.E. CreekWay, 837-9478

By Greg Farrar

A member of Guide Dogs for theBlind bonds with one of her charges.

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ActivitiesAdventure Kids Playcare 42Back Stage Dance 38Cookalicious Club 42Dance with Miss Sue 39Deerfield Farm 39Family Fun Center 21Issaquah History Museums 8Sammamish Club 42Sammamish Family YMCA 55U.S. Senior Open 35

AutomotiveAlpine Licensing 36Eastside Mobile Auto Glass 29I-90 Motor Sports 15Morgan Motors 19

ChurchesOur Savior Lutheran 34

Food & beveragesBoehm’s Candies 58Boxley’s 36Fischer Meats 12Flying Pie Pizzeria 13Issaquah Café 53

Health careApex Dental Center 13Barry Feder, DDS 37Bartell Drugs 64Eastside Pediatric Dental 9Issaquah Nursing & Rahab 20Issaquah Women’s Clinic 13Kelly Fisher, DDS 46Lake Sammamish Physical Therapy 13Manley Orthodontics 24Peak Sports 43Providence Marianwood 15Rosemary Warren, DDS 18Solid Rock/Rebecca Turner, LPC 46

Home & gardenBellevue Paint 4Greenbaum Home Furnishings 63Issaquah Glass 47Kitchen Arts 34Mike’s Hauling & Tractor Work 47Nursery at Mt. Si 28Russell Watergardens 57

Professional servicesCarolanne Baccari hair design 53Edward Jones – Steve Bennett 9Issaquah Chamber of Commerce 8State Farm Insurance/Kathy Johnson 37Tate & Oellrich CPAs 24The Issaquah Press 59

Real estate Alicia Reid, Ltd. 9Issaquah/Sammamish Home Tour 62Windermere/Nancy Olmos 29Windermere/ Susan Gerend 24

Retirement LivingBellewood Retirement Living 25Merrill Gardens 56Red Oak Senior Housing 18

SchoolsChildren’s Garden 39Hammond Ashley Violins 15Huntington Learning Center 3Lakeside Autism 58Learning Rx 2Mathnasium 38Our Savior Lutheran Preschool 38St. Joseph’s 38Sunnybrook Montessori 39

Specialty shoppingGolf U.S.A. 43Nault Jewelers 20Town & Country Square 28

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