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Daniel Farber, who finished Phantom Lake Elementary in 1967, jokes with ‘61 alum Gail Frank. Yeizo Masunaga, who attended the school in the ‘30s, sits next to Frank in the background. Story, photos on page 4. DANIEL NASH, Bellevue Reporter.

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BY BRANDON MACZBELLEVUE REPORTER

Bellevue Police Chief Linda Pillo defended her decision Feb. 27 to remove one of her o� cers from the city’s bomb squad as discipline for the 22-year veteran of the force drinking alcohol while on-call and driving his department-assigned vehicle.

Dion Robertson had been attending a Bellevue Swat Team appreciation event Nov. 10 at the Is-saquah Brewhouse. A fellow o� cer reported to supervisors witnessing the o� cer consume two beers before getting into a bomb squad truck and driving to another o� cer’s house where he continued drinking.

Robertson’s removal from the bomb squad represents a 4-percent pay cut. Pillo said in the press conference she followed the practice of progressive discipline based on labor laws. He was removed from his supervisory role with the bomb squad in 2012 a� er he and another o� cer were found to be drunk and disorderly at a Seahawks game in September of that year.

� at other o� cer, Andrew Hanke, resigned

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Bellevue Police claim the city's former recreation program coordinator admitted to embezzling more than $100,000 in gov-ernment funds that were documented for children's sports T-shirts, but were actually used to resolve debt brought on by an ad-diction to gambling.

Heather Christo� worked for the city of Bellevue for 10 years before resigning from her position Jan. 16. She is alleged by police in an ongoing investigation of admitting to using city-issued credit cards belonging to both her subordinates and supervisors to make � ctitious T-shirt purchases for chil-dren's sports and recreation programs.

According to an a� davit for search warrant � led Monday by a Bellevue Police fraud detective, an investigation began in November a� er the administrator for the city of Bellevue's Procurement Card (Pro-Card) Program identi� ed inconsistencies with receipts received related to purchases through the Parks and Community Ser-vices Department.

Inconsistencies were founds on credit cards assigned to subordinates of Christo� and superiors, including the community services manager, administrative assis-tant and community relations coordina-tor. � ese included expenditures in 2012 double what were calculated for 2011 and more than $102,000 in the � rst 10 months of 2013.

� ose increases were connected to 73 ProCard transactions with a PayPal ac-count for “mysimplet,” a � ctitious T-shirt company made up by Christo� , which totaled more than $100,000, according to the a� davit. None of the ProCards used were actually issued to Christo� .

Ted Mittelstaedt, the city's community services manager, told the detective he allowed Christo� to use his credit card when asked, but denied making 14 of the documented transactions with mysim-plet. � e administrative assistant and and community relations coordinator likewise stated they allowed Christo� to use their credit cards.

“� ey just assumed that she was mak-ing legitimate purchases with their credit

cards,” the a� davit states.Mittelstaedt also stated he didn't review

the paperwork for the ProCard purchases that had reportedly been made by Christ-o� 's subordinates as that was part of her responsibilities, according to the a� davit.

Mittelstaedt told the fraud detective that Christo� had come to him in 2012 with a request to change T-shirt vendors. Police did determine more than 1,000 shirts were purchased from a legitimate vendor out of Seattle in 2013.

A search warrant served on PayPal found Christo� had changed the credit card state-ment associated with her account several times, with some made to look like they

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Bellevue and Renton police caught up with and arrested Wen-dell Downs on Feb. 28, a month a� er his escape from custody at the Bellevue District Courthouse.

Downs, 20, had been in custody since Nov. 12, when he was booked on � rst-degree robbery, second-de-gree organized retail the� and two other felony the� charges. He was at the Bellevue Courthouse on Jan. 31 for a misdemeanor tra� c case.

A Bellevue police support o� cer brought Downs and another inmate to the courthouse from the King County Jail around 11 a.m. Both inmates had their hands shackled in front of them and feet shackled to prevent them from running.

Downs is reported to have started running a� er he was helped out of the van and is believed to have been picked up by his girlfriend, Tanjanique Hillis, at the bottom of the courthouse driveway. Hillis was arrested at another King County Courthouse on Feb. 18, but later released. She was arrested again Feb. 28 with another woman alleged to have been an accomplice of Downs’, Denisha R. Dunston.

Police reported Tuesday members of the Bellevue Police Special Enforcement Team and detectives located Downs, Hillis and

Dunston in a vehicle and attempted to initi-ate a tra� c stop on Friday. Downs report-edly stopped the car in Renton and � ed on foot before being captured by Bellevue and

Renton o� cers. He was arrested on Northeast 18th Street in Renton. A Bellevue SET o� cer sustained mi-nor injuries apprehending Downs, police stated.

Hillis and Dunston allegedly drove o� a� er Downs le� the vehi-cle, but were stopped and arrested a few miles away. Police reported a 1-year-old child was found un-restrained in the vehicle and taken into protective custody. Downs and Hillis have a child together.

Hillis and Dunston were arrested for � rst-degree rendering criminal assistance. All three were expected to face a judge sometime this week on multiple charges.

Following Downs’ escape from custody, police began making changes to how it handles inmate transports, including using additional sta� . � ere was only one police support o� cer in charge of trans-porting Downs and another inmate to the courthouse the day of his escape.

A court relocation committee is in the initial phase of designing security for a new courthouse facility in the Belle� eld Build-ing at 114th Avenue Southeast, where court and probation services will go sometime before spring 2015.


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Bellevue Police have requested more toxicology screening for a King Coun-ty Sheri� ’s deputy who was arrested in Newcastle a� er being reported slumped over the wheel of his patrol car on New Year’s Eve.

A passerby reported the 46-year-old deputy was “passed out at the wheel” of his patrol car while on duty.

� e witness was unable to rouse the law enforcement o� cer. A trained drug recognition expert was called out and determined the deputy was impaired by something other than alcohol. A blood draw was conducted at the time of the deputy’s arrest for physical control of a motor vehicle. He was released later that

night and placed on admin-istrative leave pending the conclusion of an adminis-trative investigation.

Results of the initial screening were expected to be concluded by the end of February, but further screening will likely push that timeline for several more weeks, according to police.

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� ere was a full house at the Red Lion Inn Tuesday night (Feb. 25) for Sound Tran-sit's East Main Station 60-percent design presentation, where Surrey Downs residents con� rmed they will lose access to their neighborhood from 112th Avenue South-east, but emergency access will remain.

Sound and Bellevue city sta� were on hand to discuss the East Link extension alignment and East Main Station design, which will be located along 112th just south of Main Street and across from the Hilton Bellevue. Surrey Downs residents were assured no transit-oriented develop-ment will be allowed west of 112th, but there is such potential to the east where commercial buildings already exist.

� e station will be at-grade with trains loading and unloading between eastbound and westbound platforms with north and south entrances for travelers. A pedestrian crossing is planned to be placed at 112th for traveling across the roadway. A portion of 112th near Southeast 15th Street also will be reconstructed during the project to allow the light rail train to switch from the east side of the street to the west by travel-ing under the roadway.

Sound Transit architect John Walser said stainless steel screening will be incorporated into the design at the entrances based on observing similar architectural treatments around the neighborhood. � e platform cano-pies will be the same for all East Link stations.

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Friday, March 7 were associated with the legitimate company from which the city was purchas-ing its T-shirts.

Christo� allegedly admit-ted to embezzling money from the city by making ProCard payments to her PayPal mysimplet account and then transferring the money to a bank account belonging to a friend and subordinate, who claimed she thought Christo� was removing cash from her personal credit cards to hide her gambling debt. Records of her ProCard transactions show more than $39,000 charges from February to October of 2013.

According to timelines provided by the city and the a� davit, Christo� admitted to the embezzlement six days a� er resigning her position.

� e city does not release information about ongoing investigations, but Interim City Manager Brad Miyake is providing this statement to media:

“We can con� rm that there is an ongoing crimi-nal investigation involving a former city employee for alleged the� of public funds that occurred between June 2012 and October 2013. � e individual resigned on Jan. 16, 2014. Given that this is an ongoing inves-

tigation we are unable to con� rm any additional details at this time.

“We take our respon-sibility of protecting the taxpayers' money very seriously and that is why we are actively pursuing the criminal investigation and restitution from the former employee.”


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Students and families of Phantom Lake Elementary celebrated the school’s 120th anniversary Feb. 28.

Eagle alumni were invited to join in a dinner reception, short documentary viewing and a “Parade of Nations” that saw current students representing countries around the world. A corner of the gym was

devoted to a visual timeline of the school from its foundation as a one-room school-house in 1894, to its induction into the Bellevue School District in the mid-20th century, to the modern day.

Yeizo Masunaga, an 86-year-old alum, said he was awed by the show of pride from the school’s current students.

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Phantom Lake Elementary celebrates 120 years

A student slaps five during the 120th anniversary’s “Parade of Nations.” DANIEL NASH

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While some students her age might be more apt to follow the careers of Marshawn Lynch or Russell Wilson, Newport senior Fiona Lee has her eyes on Pierre Hermé.

Don’t recognize the name? Hermé — dubbed “� e Picasso of Pas-

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“I’m probably going to go to Renton Technical College � rst, then I’d like to go to the Culinary Institute of America in New York,” she said.

Lee has gotten an early start, competing on Newport High School’s ProStart culi-nary arts team as an alternate. � ink of it as the restaurant industry’s version of prep sports: teams are tasked with preparing a three-course meal to restaurant standard in one hour’s time — in Newport’s case, a rack of lamb, crab bisque with avocado, potato risotto and other mouthwatering dishes.

While they try to ensure their � nal prod-uct outdoes their peers’, judges also watch

the processes that get them to the � nish line, including hygiene standards, knife skills and teamwork.

� e Newport High School culinary arts team competed at the Boyd’s Co� ee ProS-

Cory Black and Nick Chang prep their meal. DANIEL NASH, Bellevue Reporter

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Education RoundupWhat’s going on in schools and classrooms

Sammamish gets BECU grantSammamish High School is one of 46 schools in the

state to receive a grant from BECU to support education projects that help promote student excellence. Each grant is awarded based on speci� c need up to a maximum of $2,500.

BECU is a not-for-pro� t credit union owned by the members.

foundation sets annual luncheon� e Bellevue Schools Foundation will hold its annual

Spring for Schools luncheon 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Friday, May 16.

� e event shows examples of the impact the foundation makes in Bellevue public schools, presents student stories of success and connects people with others who care about public education.

� e event will be at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue, 900 Bel-levue Way N.E.

More information is available at [email protected], 425-456-4199 or www.bellevueschoolsfoundation.org.

Washington DECAMore than 3,600 Washington DECA students � ocked to

the Meydenbauer Center Friday, March 7, for the annual state conference.

DECA engages high school students in competitive challenges for marketing, business and entrepreneurship. Forty-� ve competitions were held in all.

More than 600 volunteer judges from the business com-munity determined who would move on to the interna-tional conference in Atlanta, to be held in May.

tart Invitational, held Sunday in eastern Washington’s Spokane Valley.

� ree days beforehand, Lee was preparing a tuile in � e Golf Club at Newcastle. Nearby, Executive Chef Jesse Olsen’s ears perked up at Lee’s comment about her future.

“You want to go to the Culinary Institute?” he said. “I didn’t know that. Good for you, that’s a good school.”

Olsen is a former colleague of Newport culinary arts instructor Tracy Green — they worked together at the Four Seasons — and makes himself available as a mentor for her class. He had worked with the culinary arts team in their own kitchen, and loaned out the Club kitchen for one practice in an unfamiliar space before they moved on to the invitational.

“If they do need to tweak anything, it’s better to do it out in the real world,” he said.

“� e students wrote the menu and Jesse came in and looked over it,” Green said. “He was really great about pos-ing questions that would let the kids arrive at the answer, without telling them the answer himself.”

Tracy Green, left, and Executive Chef Jesse Olsen, right, help Fiona Lee with a burner. DANIEL NASH, Bellevue Reporter

performance), I was really impressed by them,” he said. “� e unity was there and I really respect what they did. And the way each of them rep-resented their country, I thought that was great.

“It’s commendable what that school is doing.”

Masunaga began schooling at Phantom Lake Elementary in 1933, when it was still a one-room school-house. � ere were 28 students in eight grades, all taught by Betty Lyman-Brobst.

� e youngest of his family, Ma-sunaga was born in Medina and moved into a cabin on Phantom Lake. Bellevue was a di� erent place then, covered in forest.

“One morning we were walking to school and it was foggy as all get on,” he said. “We hear howling and we look up and see a band of coyotes. My sister started crying and I think I picked up a rock — the roads were all gravel, you know, so they were everywhere — and threw it at them. But coyotes were no big deal, it wasn’t like they were wolves.”

� e rugged environment made every child a Tom Sawyer or Huck

Finn. On the playground, Masunaga gleefully recalled, boys would settle an argument with a wrestling match. � e victor might not let his victim up for the rest of recess, but no one would bloody a nose or blacken an eye.

Rob Burton, an alumnus featured in the student documentary on the school, recalled meeting another stu-dent on the jungle

gym. One turned to the other and suggested the two should be friends. � ey’ve been best friends since and were the best men at each other’s wed-ding, Burton said.

“Enjoy yourself,” alumna Donna Murphy told the audience of students in her closing segment of the video. “� is is a great time in your life, being in grade school.”

Phantom Lake students in a 1935 class photo. Yeizo Masunaga stands at far right. YEIZO MASUNAGA, Courtesy Photo


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Time to end big pollution source

Water samples at more than 80 public beaches in the Puget Sound region show fecal coliform bacteria levels that exceed levels considered to

be safe. Harmful bacteria pollute � sh, shell� sh and other food harvested from our waters. � ey make our beaches

inaccessible for recreational use.Federal, tribal, state and local gov-

ernments are working to identify and correct pollution sources that harm our waters and marine life. Creosoted pilings are being removed. Changes in agri-cultural practices are keeping ag waste from streams. Property owners are more closely monitoring their septic systems to prevent leaching into public waters.

� ere is another pollution source — a big one — that hasn’t been addressed until now: sewage from boats and ships.

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If established, no boat — whether a cruise ship, freighter or pleasure cra� — could discharge anywhere within the designated zone. All boats and ships would have to store their sewage until they could safely dispose of it at an onshore or mobile pump-out facility, or hold it until it can be discharged in the open ocean beyond three miles from shore.

� e proposed zone extends from Puget Sound, including Lake Union and Lake Washington.

� e No Discharge Zone proposal would require a change in practices by those on the water, but it’s a change from which we, and future generations, will bene� t.

Richard Walker is editor of the North Kitsap Herald. He may be contacted at 360-779-4464.

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In Bellevue, we continue to robustly support and in-vest in our schools. It only seems reasonable to expect that our state legislators do the same.

No educational bills Sen. Rodney Tom has sponsored will help children learn more or support teachers to serve students better. Instead, his educational policies use faulty measures as political weapons to decrease educational in-vestment and destroy the faith we have in our schools and teachers.

His educational policies contradict � ndings in a preponderance of the peer-reviewed educational research.

For example, research shows that the policy that links student test scores to teacher evaluation is unethical and

inaccurate. Test scores don’t even come close to de� ning the totality of student learning in a given subject.

Yet, if Senator Tom succeeds in passing this policy, all our students will need to be tested in every grade, every class, every year, so that their teachers can be e� ectively evaluated. � at includes kindergarten.

As a result, our children will be tested much more, the curriculum they are taught will be further narrowed and their education will become more sterile and more standardized, ironically resulting in less student learning over time.

Educational research tells us that these and other poli-cies proposed by Senator Tom have not improved schools over time, leaving us to assume that he is either uncon-

Legislative leadership failing usEducation

Bellevue becomingmore bland

� e Feb. 28 article by Brandon Macz describes another new devel-opment destined to “enhance” down-

town Bellevue’s tasteless, unwelcom-ing, bland style. Yet more stores and apartments designed in the same nondescript, functional, soul-less architecture that is proliferating in the area.

Other cities highlight the impor-tance and civic beauty of preserv-ing characteristic, architecturally

interesting older homes and build-ings interspersed among the new — renovating their inside spaces for art galleries, co� ee shops, etc. Other cities showcase local natural beauty: creating livable spaces of natural and

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But not Bellevue, thanks to Kemper Freeman and other business-oriented “powers that be.” Our city is not focused on develop-ing a welcoming, walkable, visually varied, multi-cul-turally interesting center – a place to linger, appreciate, stroll and interact. Instead is has become an homage to e� cient consumerism: drive, park, shop, spend money, get in your car and drive away. Pedestrians sprint across streets as the ominous orange signs count down seconds.

Is Bellevue being co-opt-ed by business expansion to the point where nothing else matters? Do we really want our downtown to be a homogenous “shopping mall” with yet another new

project adding more stores and apartments in rapidly erected, functional, style-less buildings?

Peggy Gennatiempo, Bellevue

cerned with serious educational improvement or he lacks the ability to understand educational research.

If Senator Tom were really concerned about student learning and success, he would sponsor bills that increase student learning and improve teaching. He would sig-ni� cantly increase the state’s investment in high quality teacher education in our local colleges and universities and in supporting teachers’ professional learning in schools.

He would invest in policies that give teachers more space and time during the school day to adapt curriculum and di� erentiate instruction to struggling students. He would increase the state’s investment in support sta� like school counselors, paraeducators and ELL support sta� to better serve the needs of a diversity of students. Lastly but most importantly, he would have done something, anything, to alleviate inequity and childhood poverty in our communi-ties.

He has done none of the above.

Paul Sutton lives in Bellevue.

LETTERSCONTINUED FROM PAGE 6

More than the usual exchange of cold and � u germs occurred among lawmakers this session.

An outbreak of a rare virus indiscriminately infected Democrats and Republicans in the House and Sen-ate on Day One and shows no signs of abating before they

adjourn next week.It is a strain of Boeing Fatigue Syn-

drome, a political disorder characterized by extreme exhaustion from repeated legislative genu� ecting at the altar of the aerospace giant.

Historically it’s manifested itself among a handful of members of the Legislature unafraid of vocally criticizing a corpora-tion which is vital to keeping Washington’s economy alive and healthy.

� is illness spread in recent months and symptoms are present in nearly every one of the 147 lawmakers.

Many started experiencing fatigue soon a� er casting a vote in a November special session to extend tax breaks which could save the company an estimated $8.7 billion on futures sales of the new 777X jetliner.

When they arrived in Olympia in January, they believed their action inoculated them from further requests from the aerospace � rm in 2014.

� is explains why lawmakers roundly ignored Gov. Jay Inslee’s request for funds for two aerospace-related initiatives

aimed in the direction of � e Boeing Co.Writers of the House and Senate budgets did not include

$500,000 for Washington State University to establish a School of Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace in Ever-ett.

Nor did they put in $500,000 for the University of Wash-ington to develop an advanced manufacturing facility in Snohomish County.

And remember how the governor and some Democrats regularly touted the importance of a multibillion dollar transportation funding package to Boeing and the aerospace industry? Not only did they stop using that line, there’s almost no chance there will even be a package agreed upon this session.

To their credit, Boeing lobbyists recognized the mood of lawmakers early in the session and are making themselves pretty scarce.

� ere’s good news for the � rm, as most legislators will make a full recovery March 14.

� at’s the � rst day they can raise money for their re-election campaigns. � ere may be no better cure for this syndrome than a contribution from Boeing.

Jerry Corn� eld is a political reporter who covers Olympia for � e Daily Herald in Everett, which is among the Washington state newspapers in the Sound Publishing group. He can be contacted at jcorn� [email protected].

The Boeing ‘flu’ taking its toll

Jerry Corn� eld

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somewhere else and with whom you ex-changed letters about your towns, countries and lives, until one or both of

you lost interest?My � rst pen pal was

British. I found her name in a kids’ magazine. Ads for pen pals were big in those days. We wrote to each other on thin blue airmail paper,

which we folded on the dot-ted lines into the shape of an envelope and sealed.

My second pen pals were adults from Alma Alta, Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. (now called Almaty, Kazakh-stan). My husband and I responded to a plea during the Cold War to reach out to interested Soviet citizens and further understanding among peoples in our two countries. We wrote for a few years, sent photos and post cards of ourselves and our communities, but then the world changed.

A few years ago I gained an email pal, a young Iranian woman — Saeide — who had contacted a scholarly

friend of ours to ask him about a translation of a Persian poem, which started their e-mail correspon-dence. She wanted to be a writer and study in the U.S.

Fast forward to the pres-ent. Saeide is in her second year of a Masters in Fine Arts program in the U.S. and pursing her dream to become a writer. In February I met my email pal in person. She was in Seattle for a big writers’ conference. We spent part of an evening and a day together, talking about her goals — really, really ambi-tious — and mine — much less so. While I took her on a walking tour of Bellevue she told me about women’s

lives in Iran, her family, her American boyfriend, life as a teaching assistant in an English 101 class, culture shock, homesickness — all the things you’d associate with someone coming here from another, very di� erent culture.

As a result, we’ve done something that never could have happened between pen pals in the past, something that will keep us more connected to each other’s lives than ever before. We’ve become Facebook friends.

Ann Oxrieder has lived in Bellevue for 35 years. She retired a� er 25 years as an administrator in the Bellevue School District and now blogs about retirement at http://stil-lalife.wordpress.com/.

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I’ve been thinking about Laura Palmer. I was in high school when “Twin Peaks” came out and I’d watch it every week, then discuss it with my friends at lunch the

following day. Much hasn’t changed except now I talk about shows like “Breaking Bad” and “Downton Abbey.”

Recently I started thinking about “Twin Peaks” again, a� er a visit to Snoqualmie Falls and placed a hold on “Twin Peaks.” For a show that only ran two seasons, the gold box edition is an impressive set of 10 discs that circulate as separate items. I placed all of them on hold and made a rookie mistake: I didn’t manage my holds properly and they arrived out of order.

For any of you drawn to serialized television shows, you know it is just not feasible, nor is it wise, to watch them out

of order. Especially “Twin Peaks.” � ere is an easy way to avoid this: suspend your holds.

When you have placed an item on hold and you know you won’t need it for a while, choose the “suspend” option in your account. You will still climb to the top of the list, but the hold won’t be delivered until you are ready for it. You won’t receive holds when you are on vacation or too busy to try “War and Peace” for the third time in a year. (� is I know from experience).

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from the department in January following a DUI charge in October. Hanke had been pulled over by another fellow o� cer and allowed to be driven home by his wife rather than be arrested. His next court appearance is March 11 for a pretrial hearing. � e results of an internal investigation into the o� cer who released Hanke are still pending. � e city reports interviews are taking longer than

anticipated, but the investigation should wrap up in several weeks.

Pillo said Robertson, who remained on ac-tive duty during this latest internal investiga-tion, “knows he’s on thin ice,” and defended her decision not to terminate the o� cer for his bad decisions that put the department in “poor light, again.”

“For me to dole out termination, it’s like the death penalty,” said Pillo.

In Robertson’s notice of discipline, it states the o� cer had not planned to drink before arriving at the Issaquah Brewhouse. O� cers

interviewed during the investigation stated Robertson was not inebriated at any time the night of Nov. 10, said Pillo, and the o� cer defended his actions. Robertson cancelled a due process hearing originally scheduled for Feb. 26.

Pillo cited the Seahawks incident in the notice of discipline as subjecting the depart-ment and city “to a � restorm of negative media publicity, negative public comments and multiple public records requests,” and that Robertson received a lesser punishment because he’d made a “sincere commitment to no more errors in judgment.”

“I put my and the department’s credibility and integrity on the line by giving you a sec-ond chance to demonstrate that you would at all times use good judgment to avoid tarnish-ing the department’s reputation,” she states in the notice.

Interim City Manager Brad Miyake released a statement following the police department’s stating the punishment is “� rm and fair.” It states with Pillo retiring in April, the city’s transition plan includes “an internal assessment to evaluate the culture and to help determine the skills needed in our next chief.” Pillo said Miyake has already assem-bled a group to assess Bellevue’s policy for all city-assigned vehicles in every department.

“� is investigation did bring to light the need for the city to look very carefully and thoroughly at its policies — speci� cally when it comes to driving a city vehicle,” Miyake’s release states. “It is poor judgment to drive any city vehicle a� er having a drink — even if you are below the legal limit,” the release states. “If our current policies do not clearly re� ect that, then we plan to make the neces-sary changes.

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BC students worried over proposed cut of bus stop on campus

King County Metro’s plans to eliminate a single stop each direction on routes 271 and 245 on the Bellevue Col-lege campus, which serves 55 percent of the college’s tran-sit riders, has students, faculty and sta� concerned about how these changes would a� ect their daily commute.

� e stop in question is the only metro stop for the routes on the Bellevue College campus and more than 1,500 students use it on a daily basis. If the stop on cam-pus is eliminated from these routes, students will have to travel upwards of half a mile to an unsheltered stop on 148th Avenue Southeast, right next to the on-ramp for I-90.

“� is puts our population which includes many vulner-able, disabled and evening students at risk,” said Deric Gruen, Bellevue College sustainability director.

Student organizers have begun collecting signatures and donning pins to spread awareness both on and o� campus of the wide ranging e� ects the cuts in service would bring. � ey plan to collect more than 500 signatures this month.


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BELLEVUE CRIME REPORT 2-23/3-1

The Bellevue Reporter today begins a weekly wrapup of crimes committed in the city in 15 categories used by the police. Not all weeks produce crimes in all categories. And, because of the Reporter’s deadline and the lag in the Police Department in posting crime information to its Web page, our weekly crime chart will be for crimes reported in the previous week. To visit the city’s crime mapping feature, go to the

city’s website: www.ci.bellevue.wa.us, scroll down the left side of the home page to “departments” and click on the pop-up window

for Police. The crime map area is on the left. There are a number of ways to chart crime in the city.


It took nearly two years for the Munchbar in Bellevue Square to be undone by its own notoriety as a place where police o� cers were constantly responding to drunken assaults, disorderly conduct and � nally a fatal shooting that was its death knell.

Bellevue Police Chief Linda Pillo was back before City Council on Monday, Feb. 24 with a revised ordinance proposal that would allow her to declare a business or residence a chronic nuisance, a tool she said would curb bad practices like what had gone on at Munchbar.

"Can you imagine what kind of drain that was on o� cer resources," the chief said of the 377 calls for service the police received during Munchbar's short time in Bellevue Square.

� at number was likely greater, said Lt. Andrew Popochock, because police weren't counting calls that occurred a� er a person le� Munchbar and was arrested or contacted elsewhere.

If the ordinance passes, the police chief will have the ability to declare a business or residence a chronic nuisance if three or more de� ned activities occur there within 60 days or seven within a 12-month period. � e chief can do the same if the property has been the subject of at least two court determinations that speci� ed crimes have occurred there.

"We don't have the ability at this time to tell a club you need to improve your safety, be-cause a club can say, 'To heck with you, we're not going to do it,' and that's where we end up with the problem the chief talked about," said Popochock.

An owner of a property declared a chronic nuisance would be able to work with the chief to remedy the problems cited by the depart-ment. If, a� er a certain time, the property owner does not correct the problem, they would be subjected to penalties.

� e ordinance was dra� ed to be similar to what the city of Seattle has had in place since 2010. A 2011 annual report from the city at-torney's o� ce states the ordinance appears to be working well with all properties declared a chronic nuisance eliminating or greatly reducing their impact on the community.

Councilmember Jennifer Robertson said she support the ordinance, but also questioned whether sta� ng in the police department was adequate enough to handle the city's needs.

"Do we need more police o� cers down-town?" she asked Pillo. "If you do, it's a budget year. We want it to be safe."

Pillo said she is working on a proposal to re-store bike patrols downtown and to add more police investigators to her sta� .


Police chief proposes revised nuisance ordinance

Overnight closuresplanned for 84th on-ramp

Motorists should expect intermittent over-night closure of the 84th Avenue Northeast on-ramp to westbound SR 520. � e closures are to take place between 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. dur-ing the week and 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. during the weekend. One lane of the ramp will remain open during the day.

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Heritage CornerA look at Bellevue’s past

Killarney Glen Park Killarney Glen Park was one of the � rst parks to emerge

in Bellevue a� er the city’s incorporation. � e � rst Bellevue park bond passed in 1956. � is allowed the city to pur-chase the 10-acre parcel of marsh and woodland in 1958 for $25,000.

� e city held a park naming contest in April of 1959. Catherine Gene Walker, a seventh-grader at Bellevue High School, selected the winning name “Killarney Glen.” � is name may refer to the nearby Killarney Way or one of the three pieces of land in the immediate vicinity that were platted under the names “Killarney,” “Killarney No. 2,” and “Killarney No. 3.”

Park development took place in 1961. Originally, park employees tried to turn the swampy area into a pond. When that proved unsuccessful, workers put in pipes and drained the swamp into Mercer Slough instead. � e city also built a play area, tennis courts, a parking lot, a bas-ketball court, picnic tables and benches. Most of the park remained woodland, which was made accessible by a series of walking trails.

� e o� cial ribbon-cutting ceremony took place in 1962. In addition to local residents and city employees, members of the Killarney Glen Garden Club No. 2 and Scout Troop 602 also attended the celebration. In the next years, these groups and others would contribute to the maintenance and improvement of the park, usually through donating and planting trees and shrubs.

� e park is located at 1933 104th Ave. S.E.

Heritage Corner is a feature in the Bellevue Reporter. To learn more about Bellevue and Eastside history contact the Eastside Heritage Center at 425-450-1049 or visit EastsideHeritageCenter.org.

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Bellevue Collegeto host 200 kids atengineering fair

More than 200 students from King and Snohomish counties will compete Satur-day, March 8 in the � � h an-nual Central Sound Regional Science and Engineering Fair (CSRSEF) on the Bel-levue College campus.

Participants spend the months leading up to the fair conducting independent research, either individu-ally or in teams, in one of 17 science, math and engineer-ing categories. Projects will be evaluated for creativity, depth of content, thorough-ness, clarity, and other crite-ria set by local science and engineering professionals.

Fair organizers are encouraging public par-ticipation 1-3 p.m. and will present a “People’s Choice Award” to the project receiv-ing the greatest number of public votes. � ose in attendance will see science and engineering demonstra-tions on topics like computer science, chemistry, physics and entomology.

� e grand prize and category winners, will be announced at the awards ceremony at 3 p.m., with winners of the the top two projects receiving all-expense-paid trips to represent the central Puget Sound region at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles from May 11-16, an annual fair drawing over 1,500 students high school students from 40 countries.

� e Bellevue College main campus is located at 3000 Landerholm Circle S.E., and parking is available.

Bellevue Interim City Manager Brad Miyake begins his weeklong visit to

Japan today as one of 10 representatives for the Japanese American Leadership Delegation in order to build a greater understanding of multi-cultural America.

Miyake was selected as a representative of the U.S. Japan Council

to meet with Japanese leaders in business, government and education, among others. � e program is supported by Japan's Minis-try of Foreign A� airs.

� e Japanese American Leadership Delegation is in its 14th year, and this year's delegation will be visiting Fukuoka and Tokyo March 7-15.

Miyake will also serve as a panelist dur-ing a discussion sponsored by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and the USJC. � is is his � rst visit to Japan.

Miyake to represent U.S. Japan Council in Tokyo, Fukuoka

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people about a phone scam occurring in the state where people are being asked to call in to a Florida area code number (813) and provide their Social Security Number.

Victims are reporting these callers are

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WSP recommends calling a local state police o� ce to con� rm the caller is an employee. � e local number is 425-401-7788.


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the fastest growing in the city and showing no signs of letting up as more and more relocate here for employment and educa-tional opportunities. Entrepreneur Tim Lee remembers his own journey to the United States decades ago, and has spent the past year growing a business that works to accli-mate Chinese and Korean clients to a new life in Bellevue.

Lee � rst came to the United States from Hong Kong as a child attending boarding school in 1968.

“I didn’t speak a word of English, so my parents were trying to give me the best education possible,” he said.

Years later Lee returned to Hong Kong during a time of rapid business growth.

“It’s still the golden years,” he said. “Busi-ness is buzzing.”

In 2005 Lee returned to the United States and took a position with the California Department of Social Services.

“During that time I also learned the American system,” he said. “We’re a very, very people-oriented society.”

When Lee retired last year, he said he started the Bellevue Chinese Chamber of Commerce to assist immigrants like him-self in � nding essential services and adapt-ing to life in a new country where language can prove to be a barrier to establishing a satisfactory lifestyle.

“� ey don’t need � nancial help,” Lee said of his 600-plus clients. “� ey just need help with establishing a lifestyle and becoming comfortable.”

Lee speaks Cantonese and his wife speaks Mandarin. Together they show Chinese immigrants where to � nd essential ser-vices, such as health care, housing, driver’s licensing, food and retail, o� ering referrals and aiding with translation when the time comes to put down roots in Bellevue.

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Bellevue-based Outerwall announced Tuesday its award of more than $250,000 in general operating grants in the Seattle and Chicago areas and its collaboration with grantees to provide company em-ployees with volunteer opportunities.

Outerwall � rst stated its goal of com-mitting 1 percent of its previous year’s a� er-tax pro� ts to charity in its 2011 consolidated � scal report and issued its � rst grants in 2012, said Nicole Trimble, senior director of corporate responsibility

at Outerwall. “We invited, in total, about 30 organiza-

tions to apply for two di� erent requests for proposals,” said Trimble of this year’s Better Everyday and Community Connection grants, adding of those 29 applied.

� e Boys and Girls Clubs of King County, Childhaven, FareStart, Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King County, Hope-link and Treehouse are recipients of this year’s Better Everyday grants in the Seattle

Outerwall announces grant awards

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Business RoundupBusinesses and business people in the news

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Wells Fargo to open Kelsey Creek banking branch

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ping up on the new branch this week, which is set to be open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and in-clude 12 Wells Fargo team members. Services to be provided include consumer and business banking, loans and lines of credit, invest-ing, mortgages and insur-ance. Another feature is

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� e Bellevue Chamber of Commerce has announced its list of nominees for the 25th annual Eastside Busi-ness Awards set for 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 20 at � e Golf Club at Newcastle.

Legacy categories include Eastside Business of the Year and Eastside Small Business of the Year. � e

Chamber hosting annual biz awards

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“Mostly they are very par-ticular,” said Lee. “� ey know what they want.”

� at includes being within the Bellevue School District, he said, and � nding a home between $1 million and $2 million. Real estate comprises much of his business, he said, adding he is discussing with East West Bank a new program that will make it

easier for immigrants to get home loans when they have the money, but not the credit for it. Lee said that’s because there are limits on transfer-ring foreign funds.

Lee also has sta� to assist Bellevue’s growing Korean population.

“I really want the new im-migrants to have a better life integrating into our commu-nity,” said Lee.


area. � is grant is awarded to nonpro� ts that help individuals develop skills and access opportunities to improve their lives.

Neighborhood House, Powerful Voices and YWCA of Seattle-King-Snohomish received Com-munity Connection grants for their e� orts that align with Outerwall’s diversity

and inclusion initiatives.Grants were made in

Chicago through Outer-wall’s largest kiosk business, Redbox, and the same for Coinstar in Bellevue and the King County area. Outerwall’s newest business venture, ecoATM — where people can recycle their old electronic devices — could open new grant and volun-teer opportunities where it’s based in San Diego, said Trimble.

“If they’re ready as an organization to commit …

we’d be happy to support them in this,” she said.

Outerwall is also close to meeting its 2015 goal of engaging one-third of its workforce in volunteerism a year early. Trimble said employee volunteers are just shy of 30 percent of its workforce. Organizations receiving company grants agree to host Outerwall employees for volunteer op-portunities based on their skill sets. Outerwall also incentivizes its employees by donating $150 to a non-

pro� t of their choice for every 10 hours of volunteer work completed, up to $600 annually. Employees also qualify for up to eight hours of paid volunteer time.

“It helps us build our reputation as an employer, and we really hope people will learn what a great place we are to work from our employees out in the com-munities,” Trimble said.

Brandon Macz: 425-453-4602, [email protected]

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� e Bellevue City Council on Feb. 10 met in executive session to review “a robust pool of candidates” seeking to become the next city man-ager.

Brad Miyake has been serving in the position in the interim since Steve Sarkozy resigned as city manager last May.

� e council had planned to meet with � nalists for the position in late November, but two candidates withdrew and

another could not attend. With only two viable candidates le� , the council decided to re-advertise for the position.

� e city is not disclosing how many applications it received by the Jan. 24 deadline, but narrowed the pool on Feb. 10. Extensive back-ground checks are now being

conducted with a second round of reviews to take place in March. From that meeting a � nal list of candidates will be selected for on-site interviews ten-tatively set for April 3-5.

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Council narrows city manager candidate listBY BRANDON MACZBELLEVUE REPORTER

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� e Boys & Girls Club of Bellevue Teen Center commemorated the opening of its music room Wednesday with a visit from Seattle Sounders Lamar Neagle, Andy Rose and Brad Evans. Team band Sound Wave entertained the crowd of children and other Club associates.

� e soundproofed room — replete with recording equipment, microphones, snakes, guitars and drum set — was con-structed under Major League Soccer’s MLS:

Works outreach initiative.In a statement before the room’s reveal,

Club President and CEO Kathy Haggart urged children to practice diligently and “become the next Pearl Jam.”

A paper cover came down to a band ready and jamming inside the booth. � e Sounders captain and mid� elders soon shu� ed in to try out the instruments themselves.

“We’re the new Beatles, yeah?” Brad Evans joked in a faux-British accent, a� er playing a few beats on the drum set. “No, really, that’s all I know how to play.”

Sounders sound off in Teen Center’s MLS-built music room

From left: Sounders midfielders Lamar Neagle and Andy Rose, with team captain Brad Evans, jam in the Boys & Girls Club of Bellevue Teen Center’s new music room. The room was built under Major League Soccer’s MSL: Works outreach program, and opened to throngs of the Club’s kids and Sounders fans. DANIEL NASH, Bellevue Reporter


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Newport has a new head baseball coach entering the 2014 season, and it will be a familiar face for those who follow the Knights.

Brad Files, an assistant with the program for 17 years according to the team’s o� cial website, will take over for Hal DeBerry.

DeBerry stepped down due to a con� ict with his coaching duties and employment, according to Newport athletic director Gill James.

Files played for former Newport baseball coach and current scorekeeper Bob “Mitch” Mitchell, him-self an institution around the program, and has also spent time with many New-port players and coaches as part of Food Giant and Lakeside Recovery Ameri-

can Legion teams. James said during the in-

terview process, it became apparent Files’ ties to the history of Newport baseball would be an invaluable asset.

“� at was a big part of his interview,” James said. “He talked even going back to being a six year old kid growing up, coming to Newport baseball games.”

� e Knights own the most decorated postseason history in the area, and one of the most proli� c in the state with six state championships and a host of conference, district and regional titles.

� e past two seasons have been uncharacteristic for the Knights, with an 8-12 overall record last year the � rst sub-.500 mark since 1992. Newport last made the state tournament in 2011.

Knights name two new head coaches

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Bellevue’s boys and girls basketball teams are the only local squads remaining in the state tournament, and each played a quarter� nal game � ursday a� er the Reporter’s deadline.

� e Wolverines’ boys outlasted Lincoln Feb. 28 in the Regional round 60-55 to get back to the Tacoma Dome for the � rst time since 2011.

� ey faced Stanwood, which had lost only one game during the season, with a spot in the semi � nals on the line.

� e girls team handled Kennedy Catholic 69-52 at Bel-levue College March 1 to punch its second consecutive state tournament ticket.

Sunnyside, which was the co-champion of the Colum-bia Basin/Big 9 conference during the regular season, was waiting in � ursday evening’s quarter� nal round.

A win sends the Wolverines to another game against Cleveland, which beat them for this year’s district title and also in last year’s state semi � nals.

Semi � nals are set for Friday and championship games Saturday in the Tacoma Dome.

Visit the belleveureporter.com for updated scores, high-lights and coverage from the boys and girls state basketball.

Newport girls fall in Regional roundNewport lost its 4A Regional round game 62-31 to

Skyview at Mark Morris High School, ending the season

for the Knights.

CorrectionA story in the Feb. 21 edition of the Reporter contained

incorrect information about the state tournament history of the Newport girls basketball program.

� e Knights last made the state tournament in girls bas-ketball during the 2009-2010 season, � nishing 1-2.

Bellevue boys, girls in state tournament

Bellevue guard Mandy Steward (pictured above in a game against Lakeside) has been a key for the Wolverines all season, and will be in the state tournament March 6-8. RICK EDELMAN, Courtesy Photo

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Arts RoundupWhat’s happening on Bellevue’s arts scene

Ceramic people and fragile fortresses� e Bellevue Arts Museum opened two new exhibits

Friday, featuring ceramicist Kathy Venter and Northwest wood sculp-tor Dan Webb.

“Kathy Venter: LIFE” includes the debut of the Canadian artist’s series “MetaNarrative” and other pieces from her body of work in life-size � gure sculptures. Venter � rst displayed at the BAM during the 2010 biennial celebration, “Clay � rowdown.”

“Fragile Fortress: � e Art of Dan Webb,” features the 15 years of the Seattle artist’s work in woodcarving. True to the exhibit’s name, Webb explores the fragility of life and human resil-ience. � e exhibit was made possible by a grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

Both exhibits run from March 7 to June 15.

The Comedy of Errors� e Friends of the Bellevue Library will read and discuss

William Shakespeare’s “� e Comedy of Errors” at the library, 10:15 a.m. each Friday in March. � e early Shake-speare play, believed to have been published between 1589 and 1595, concerns two sets of identical twins sharing the same names.

� e twins were separated in childhood and became sepa-rate master-servant pairs in the neighboring cities of Syra-cuse and Ephesus. Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse arrive in the city of Ephesus, where repeated cases of mistaken identity result in misfortune and accusations.

A dancer finds his bliss in performanceBY DANIEL NASHBELLEVUE REPORTER

When Kuu Sakuragi was a third-grader at Ardmore Elementary, he was one of two students selected by Paci� c Northwest Ballet School’s DanceChance program to receive a scholarship for one season’s dance instruction. His parents were ecstatic, but Sakuragi had to be � guratively dragged kicking and screaming to the Francia Russell Center.

� at was just the � rst year. By the second year…

“I still didn’t like it,” Sakuragi said simply. “Because I was the only boy.”

� en-principal Nicholas Ade encouraged Sakuragi to take classes at the school’s Seattle campus, where he met other male ballet students.

“I liked it a lot,” Sakuragi said. “Now I can talk to other boys studying ballet and, since we’re going through the same things, we can relate.”

Sakuragi, now 15, proved a capable student and eventually advanced to Level Eight, the highest in the student division, where advancement is determined by mastery of skills in the school syllabus.

� e Interlake student will play the part of “real boy” Pinocchio, the human being the puppet wishes to

become, in the upcoming install-ment of Paci� c Northwest Ballet’s Family Matinee series. As a featured performer, he must not only dance masterfully, but do so to express the

emotions of his character. It’s a chal-lenge he welcomes, he said.

“I think (performing) is one of my

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favorite parts of ballet,” Sakuragi said. “Sometimes I still question why I do it because it takes all my energy and time. I don’t do other activities. I’m not a great student,

either. But I love performing, being on stage with the lights and the audience. It makes me feel special. It makes me feel like I’m worth something.”

Having developed a love for his chosen art form, Sakuragi hopes to move on to the Pacific Northwest Ballet School’s professional divi-sion, where students transitioning

to a career in dance are trained in perfecting technique and artistry.

“Pinocchio” will run for four performances beginning March 16. Find showtimes and ticket informa-tion under the 2013-2014 Season page of www.pnb.org.

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A retired Procter & Gamble Co. marketer has written and recently self-published two vastly different books in rapid succession. “Rock Hill” and “America’s Opportuni-ties,” both by James A. Nelson of Bellevue, were released via Amazon in October 2013 and January 2014, respectively.

“Rock Hill” is a fictionalized ac-count of the author’s childhood in a southwestern Washington logging community. In a narrative split across elementary school and junior high — the institutions comprise the only two chapters in the book — young Jim engages in Sawyer-esque mischief and opines at length about everything from the preferred gender of his unborn sibling to the economic and political status of the United States in the wake of World War II.

“America’s Opportunities” began its life, as Nelson tells it, as an afterword to “Rock Hill.” Origi-nally a frank essay about where the United States stands and where the author believed it should go, on the urging of his wife Nelson expanded it to a brief book. The tome covers everything from “American Citizen Service” — Nelson proposes a man-datory two-year draft into civic ser-vice after high school — to “Young People,” an earnest plea to America’s youth to study history and take an interest in their country’s future.

Nelson is not a politician or a pol-icy wonk, which may be part of the point: In America, everyone is free to have their say in the country’s di-rection. His political philosophy is nostalgic for the young and mighty superpower forged in the fires of World War II — respectful of constitutional limitations, unafraid to flex its muscle in improving the lives of a conscientious and active citizenry.

And Nelson practices what he

preaches. He has recently spent much of his free time working toward the relocation of a murdered black Civil War officer’s remains from Nebraska to Arlington Na-tional Cemetery.

“Rock Hill” and “America’s Op-portunities” are available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s online store.

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Books nostalgic for an America young and vigorous after World War II

James Nelson’s books “Rock Hill” and “America’s Opportunities” — a ficitionalized account of the author’s southwest Washington childhood and a manifesto on American policy and culture, respectively — are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble’s online store. COURTESY PHOTOS

BooksMarch 11Meet the author: 7 p.m. Jamie Ford, author of the popular novel “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” will discuss his follow-up, “Songs of the Willow Frost,” a Depression-era

Seattle tale of love and hope. Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E.

ConcertsMarch 9States of Mind: 3 p.m. Presented by Wash-ington Wind Symphony, in its 28th season. Ticket information at www.kpcenter.org. Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland

Ave., Kirkland.March 14Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado”: 7 p.m. Presented by Lake Washington Players. Advanced tickets can be purchased for $2 o� at www.lakewaplayers.org. Life Com-munity Church, 232 Fi� h Ave. S., Kirkland

DanceMarch 14PNB Director’s Choice: 7:30 p.m. Paci� c Northwest Ballet director Peter Boal’s annual roundup of favorite and new performances. Runs through March 23, visit www.pnb.org for

more information. McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle.March 15-16Tea For Ruby: Evergreen City Ballet. Ruby gets a prin-cess-worthy lesson on manners in this charming world-premiere ballet. www.evergreencityballet.org. � e � eatre at Meydenbauer Center, 11100 N.E. Sixth St., Bellevue

MusicMarch 15Geo� rey Castle’s 9th annual St. Patrick’s Celebration: 8 p.m. Geo� rey Castle with his high energy, rocker style electric violin play-ing, accompanied by his band and Irish danc-

ers. Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave.

TheaterMarch 8Little Shop of Horrors: 8 p.m. for opening night. 5th Avenue theatre and ACT present the story of a boy and his man-eating plant. Shows run through June 15. ACT � eatre,

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Bellevue city council-members are set to ap-prove an ordinance giving police officers the ability to investigate loiterers in the city they suspect are there with the intent to buy or sell drugs after re-jecting a rough draft three years ago.

Bellevue Police Opera-tions Deputy Chief Jim Jolliffe conceded Monday night a 2011 ordinance proposal — modeled after the city of Tacoma's — was too ambiguous. The newest incarna-tion is modeled after an ordinance from Seattle, which has withstood state Supreme Court scrutiny and been on the books since 1992.

The ordinance lists seven circumstances that would provide probable cause to investigate a per-son suspected of loitering at a location in the city for the purpose of conducting illegal drug activity.

That includes if the person is a known drug trafficker, is seen in possession of drugs or paraphernalia, has been evicted from the area for drug-related activity and if the person is monitored repeatedly contacting drivers and pedestrians on the street.

Bellevue Police Ofc. Jim Keene was working the Crossroads area of the city when he first came before the City Council to discuss such an ordinance, which had been inspired by a suspected drug dealer officers were unable to investigate.

"What it really came out of was a lot of frustration from the business owners who would call 911 for help because they could see people on the corner dealing drugs," he said. "And when we would get there, this particular person and this group had become so knowledgeable in criminal procedures that they knew what they could do — what they couldn't do — to basically get around what basic pa-trol procedures could do to arrest them or investi-gate the crime."

Keene said it was par-ticularly frustrating in the summertime when chil-dren were out of school. He said he came to find out they were aware of the drug dealers in their neighborhood and even became intelligence assets.

Deputy Mayor Kevin Wallace said the new ordinance is a significant improvement to its 2011 draft and will support its passage when it comes up on the council's consent agenda.

"I supported it in 2011," added Councilmember Jennifer Robertson, "and I support it now."


Council looking atdrug loitering lawBilingualism topic of talk

Fred Genesee, professor emeritus at McGill University, will discuss bilingualism and bilingual language acquisition in children at 6 p.m. April 30 at the Stroum Jewish Com-munity Center on Mercer Island. �e talk is in partnership with French Immersion School of Washington and the Stroum Jewish Community Center.

�e center is located at 3801 East Mercer Way.

Volunteers needed for Earth Day�e Bellevue Parks and Community Services is seeking

400 volunteers to work on environmental improvement projects for its annual Earth Day event May 3.

Volunteers will plant trees, restore trails, remove inva-sive plants and provide improvements for parks and open spaces, and all ages are welcome. Volunteers receive a T-shirt and complimentary lunch from Whole Foods.

Preregistration is required by March 14, and project work will be from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Volunteers are also asked to attend the community tree planting celebration 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Kelsey Creek Farm Park. To preregister or for more information, contact Curtis Kukal at [email protected] or 425-452-4195.

Plant stewardship program seeking volunteers

People are being sought for a Native Plant Steward-ship Program that will provide training in preserving and restoring habitat for birds, insect pollinators, other wildlife and the natural beauty of parks and public green spaces.

�e 10-week course includes expert training in native plant identi�cation, forest ecology, shoreline and wet-lands ecology and other areas.

Training will be held at Mercer Slough Environmental Learning Center in Bellevue on Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from April 18 to June 27. Also, there will be three all-day �eld trips on Saturdays on April 26, May 10 and June 7.

No experience is necessary and the training is free with a commitment for100 volunteer hours volunteer service working on a habitat restoration project, and to public outreach projects in King County.

Applications are posted at www.wnps.org/npsp/king/program.html.

Police foundation hosting fundraising breakfast

The Bellevue Police Foundation will hold its fifth an-nual fundraising breakfast 7:30-9 a.m. March 27 at the Barrier Motors Showroom in Bellevue.

The annual event raises funds to support the police department’s initiatives and programs where city fund-ing is not available. March 14 is the registration dead-line, and a minimum donation of $150 is suggested. Q13 anchor and Washington’s Most Wanted host David Rose will be the guest speaker for this year’s event.

The Barrier Motors Showroom is at 12000 Bel-Red Road, Bellevue. For more information, visit www.bel-levuepolicefoundation.org or email [email protected].

Howie to speak on LifeSpring luncheonChef John Howie will be the keynote speaker at the Step

Up to the Plate bene�t luncheon that raises funds to as-sist Bellevue’s children and their families.

�e event will be held 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. �ursday, March 27, at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.

Guest Speaker at the event will be Dr. James D. Krise-man of Overlake Medical Clinic, who will speak on child hunger.

Howie owns John Howie Steak, Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar, SPORT Restaurant & Bar and Adriatic Grill Ital-ian Cuisine & Wine Bar. For the past 10 years he has been reaching out to families in need in the Bellevue commu-nity. One of his largest charitable events is the �anksgiv-ing dinner he hosts at his Bellevue Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar.

Howie will be selling his cookbook, “Passion and Palate” for $35 and tax; $10 of every cookbook sale will directly bene�t Bellevue LifeSpring. As an added bo-nus, Howie will be signing books a�er the program.

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Todd, a 2-year-old brown and white hound mix, can't wait to meet you. Volunteers play every morning with Todd and practice basic commands with him, like "Sit," "Stay" and "Down." Todd is a fun, active boy who will keep you entertained.

Tabitha is a 1-year old medium-haired brown tabby girl that is curious and playful. She loves to explore, climb and gaze out the window at all the activities outside. Tabitha is still very much a kitten and would love chasing a laser dot or giving some what-for to a catnip mouse.

Both are at the Seattle Humane Soci-ety in Bellevue, located at the intersec-tion of I-405 and I-90. It is open seven days a week from noon to 6 p.m. For directions, call 425-641-0080.

Mira is a 3-year-old female Chihua-hua. Weighing about 9 pounds, Mira is a very sweet girl that loves to meet new people. Good on a leash, she loves going for long walks with her humans. Mira can be noisy when seeking attention. For this reason, she would do best in a house rather than an apartment. Mira also gets along great with other small dogs. If you're looking for a small girl who's big on love to join your family, Mira may be the one for you

Mira is available at the King County Pet Adoption Center in Kent, located at 21615 64th Ave. S. Adoption hours: 3-6 p.m. Monday, noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday to Fri-day and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. 206-296-PETS or [email protected].

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Bellevue city councilmembers voted unanimously Monday to extend for an additional six months an emergency ordinance addressing individual room rentals in residential dwellings. � e planning commission will ramp up work on a � nal ordinance later this month.

Spearheaded by concerns from Spiritwood neighborhood residents, the City Council approved the emer-gency ordinance in September and rea� rmed it in November.

� e ordinance restricts the number of unrelated renters in a dwelling unit

to four and will require those with leases in rooming houses in single-family residential areas to move out by July 1. � e exception would be if four unrelated persons can show they are operating as a family unit.

� ere was an absence of Bellevue College students, who have been the strongest opponents to the ordinance, but a number of Spiritwood residence came out Monday to reiterate their support for it.

� ey added since the emergency ordinance took e� ect the problem of such rentals in their neighborhood continues and requests for enforce-ment have been submitted with the city.

Carol Helland, city land use direc-tor, said property developers request-ing permission for remodels that indicate potential multi-room rentals are asked to sign an agreement stating that won't be the purpose of those homes, which aids in enforcement should they later be found to be doing so. Only one agreement has needed to be dra� ed, so far, she added.

� e city's planning commission, which will dra� a permanent resolu-tion for council consideration before summer break, is set to begin work at its March 12 meeting.

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Seattle-based singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile will headline the Youth Eastside Services Invest in Youth Breakfast 7:30-8:45 a.m. Wednesday, March 12, at � e Hyatt in Bellevue.

Proceeds from Invest in Youth bene� t the agency’s Lifeline Fund.

For information about Breakfast sponsorship and table captaining opportuni-ties, please contact Brooke Wiles at 425-586-2326.

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� e Bellevue Reporter is looking for residents who have an eye for photography for its upcoming photo contest.

Photographs can be in any or all of three categories: local scenery, local people and local animals (pets and livestock).

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AKC SHETLAND Sheep Dog pups! Bi-colored. Nice agility prospects. House training began. Shots & worming up to date. Both parents on si te. Ready for loving homes, 8 weeks o ld . $500 obo. [email protected] 360-801-6919www.washingtonshelties.com

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AKC WEST HIGHLAND White Terr iers, These four boys are beyond c u t e a n d f u l l o f “Westitude”. These guys are healthy, lively puppies from parents who are fantastic family pets. We a re expe r i enced breeders with over 35 years experience. Ready to go 3/7/2014 for the d iscr iminat ing buyer. $1,000 each. Rochester 360 273-9325.

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