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BY KEVIN [email protected]
Susan Carollo wasn’t sure what her son Jonathan was up to.
� e Sammamish mother of three heard quick bursts of banging on the washing machine, but when she investigated, the cul-prit, her middle child, had already vanished.
“By the time you could get in there and say, ‘Why are you banging on the washing ma-chine,’ he was done, he was gone,” she said.
It turns out Jonathan, 11, was simply rehearsing for his big performance — a video that is approaching 1.5 million views on YouTube.
When Dan Carollo, a successful acoustic guitarist, � rst noticed what his son was doing, he knew it was special.
For fun, he � lmed Jonathan performing a 1 minute, 13 second solo on the family’s Super Queen, super-capacity plus, 14-cycle washer. Using everything from the lid to the stainless steel inside the machine, Jonathan created a percussion beat reminiscent of a one-man drum line.
“� e washing machine really just had the
right combination of sound to make it inter-esting,” Dan said. “� at raw, original sound, he just really loves that.”
When Dan showed the video to his friends, they told him it would be a hit on the internet. He sco� ed at the idea.
“Someone I was talking to said this will go viral and I was like ‘Oh, right,’” he said.
Posted in late September, the video had only 200 views up until Christmas Eve. In a two-week span, it has gained well over 1 million
views. “I don’t have a good explanation as to why
it happened,” said Dan, who noted the video caught � re a� er he posted to Reddit.com
� e increase in popularity has already resulted in national exposure on “� e Today Show” and “Good Morning America.”
“So far it’s been all fun and games, no
BY KEVIN [email protected]
It appears there won’t be a quick � x for Sammamish’s Ace Hardware quandary.
Kamuron Gurol, the city’s Director of Community Development, indicated to the City Council on Tuesday night that obstacles involv-ing development of a new hardware store on the property between Northeast Second and Northeast Fourth streets might be too large.
“� ere are a lot of compli-cated steps and precious little time le� ,” Gurol said. “I don’t like to say this, but I don’t see how we can approve this pro-posal by the deadline we have.”
Ace Hardware’s lease in the Sammamish Highlands Shop-ping Center expires August 2013. Store owner Tim Koch has made it clear he would have to close the business due to high rents imposed by property owner, Florida-based Regency Centers.
Gurol told the council that the potential site, located near Mars Hill Church on the other side of the stream from the Washington Federal building, has several environmental concerns.
Under current codes, the ad-jacent George Davis Creek and a Category 1 bog wetland both require 215-foot bu� ers with an additional 15-foot building setback.
“� is site doesn’t appear to be supportive to that kind of use due to constraints,” Gurol said. “I don’t like saying it, but that’s what I see. Major codes and policy changes would be required in order to accommo-date this use.”
While Gurol argued chang-ing codes is the only way the
A DIFFERENT BEATSammamish boy’s washing machine video goes viral with more than 1 million hits
“That raw original sound, he just really loves that.”
– Dan Carollo
Jonathan Carollo, 11, stands near his parent’s
Super Queen, super-capacity plus, 14-cycle
washing machine. A
recent video of the Sammamish
boy’s ability to drum on
the machine has gained
more than 1 million hits on YouTube. KEVIN ENDEJAN, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter
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problem at all,” said Su-san, who moments later answered a call from the “Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
Jonathan, a fifth grader at McAuliffe Elementary, said he’s surprised, but pleased by the attention. He became interested in drumming after listening to one of his dad’s favor-ite bands, Rush, and the group’s drummer, Neil Peart.
He got his first drum set, an old Pearl model, a little over a year ago and has taken lessons once a week since.
But he’s always enjoyed making beats around the house.
“If I can’t use the wash-ing machine because there’s clothes in there, I like to do it on furniture or on myself,” he said. “My sister doesn’t really like it when I’m going to drum practice and I’m drum-ming on the seats.”
Dan, who has released several of his own albums, said he isn’t surprised by Jonathan’s ability.
“He has a unique talent for recognizing rhythm, he’s just quite good at do-ing things fast,” he said.
Jonathan isn’t sure where he wants to take drumming yet. He aspires to be in the school band and possibly a drum line, but that’s as far as he’s looking ahead.
“I don’t think it’s going to be my job,” he said, not-ing right now he might be better playing the washing machine than his actual drum set.
Jonathan’s newest obses-sion is performing home science experiments.
And with his intuition and creativity, there’s no telling — maybe the next viral internet video is right around the corner.
“He really just likes to discover new things. He has an exploratory way of learning,” Dan said.
Assistant editor Kevin Endejan can be reached
at 425-391-0363, ext. ext. 5054.
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Jonathan’s washing machine video, titled “whirled Beat,” can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vium_seoou. as of press time, the video had nearly 1.4 million views.
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land could be approved for construction, the applicant believes there is a way around the obstacles.
Land owner and developer Elliot Severson said an agreement can be reached through a Development Agree-ment — a contract that makes exemptions in land use agreements.
“The Development Agreement provides the city a great deal of flexibility in how to deal with process, regulations and time frames and they’ve been used very successfully in other jurisdictions,” he said. “We’re not asking the city to do anything that’s illegal, to do anything that they are uncomfortable in doing.”
Mike Walter, an attorney with Seattle-based Keating,
Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., didn’t dismiss the idea that a Development Agreement could be used to bypass buffers and other environmental issues, but he said Sammamish would be in uncharted territory.
“You folks would be the test case,” he said.Listening to both sides, the City Council unanimously
voted to allow Severson’s attorney Charlie Klinge and city attorney Bruce Disend to discuss how a Development Agreement could be used for development of the land.
That was good news for more than 100 community members who turned out to support Ace Hardware at a Dec. 4 council meeting.
“We absolutely are more encouraged today with the status of the project than we were three weeks ago,” Severson said.
Assistant editor Kevin Endejan can be reached at 425-
391-0363, ext. ext. 5054.
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BY linda [email protected]
Choon-Sook Yang, a 67-year-old Issaquah resident, was released Jan. 3 from Saint Mary Medical Center in Walla-Walla after being in serious condition, following the Sunday, Dec. 30 bus crash east of Pendleton, Ore.
Yang is resting at home, said her husband, Cheul Yang. He was not on the bus; he said his wife was on the way to visit a friend. Cheul Yang said his wife doesn’t remem-ber much about the crash.
Choon-Sook Yang suffered a
broken backbone and shoulder Cheul Yang said. She is now under the care of her primary physician. Cheul Yang said it will take two to three months for her to recover.
A spokesperson at Saint Mary Medical Center said four patients were originally transferred to Walla-Walla. One was transferred immediately to another hospital, with another transferred later.
Saint Mary Medical Center is about an hour from Pendle-ton. The spokesperson said the Pendleton Hospital is small, so they had to dispatch patients to several hospitals where beds and
surgeons were available.Lieutenant Gregg Hastings with
the Oregon State Police said the accident is still under investiga-tion.
“It was on a flat, straight stretch of a two-lane freeway (I-84),” he said.
Hastings said there have been crashes in the area before, due to snow and ice.
The tour bus was carrying 47 passengers, of which 38 were injured and nine were killed.
Staff writer Linda Ball can be reached at 425-391-0363, ext. 5052
issaquah woman released from hospital after Oregon bus crash
