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Residential developers could have a more difficult time build-ing homes in Sammamish — at least for the next few months — after the City Council took action last week.

In a unanimous vote Oct. 14, the council passed an interim ordinance regarding tree reten-tion standards. The laws could change again after the coun-cil holds a public hearing in December — about the same time the city’s planning commis-sion finishes studying the issue — but for now, developers will have more restrictions to deal with.

City officials said they’re looking to balance state-man-dated growth targets with the wishes of residents who say too many trees are being cut down.

“This is not intended to impose a moratorium,” City Manager Ben Yazici said. “It is not intended to discourage development. It is intended to save more trees.”

Sammamish’s planning com-mission has been developing new tree retention codes for several months, and is sched-uled to deliver a recommenda-tion to the council in December. But some officials felt the so-called “emergency ordinance” was needed, and they couldn’t afford to wait to address the issue with so many residential projects in the works.

The interim regulations include six main changes, and could affect developments that are being designed, but none that have already received approval:

• Short plats of one or two lots must retain at least 25 percent of “significant trees.”

Coniferous trees that are at least 8 inches in diameter, and decid-uous trees at least 12 inches in diameter, meet the definition of significant.

• Plats of three or more lots must retain at least 35 percent of significant trees, an increase from 25 percent.

• The city has eliminated credits for retaining trees on environmentally sensitive areas of a development, such as wet-lands. Previously, developers could meet up to 50 percent of the retention requirement that way.

• Developers will no longer receive credits for saving trees so they can build fewer recre-ational spaces or increase hous-ing density.

• Significant trees that are removed must be replaced on a 1-to-1 ratio. Replacement trees must be native species, and coniferous species must be at least 8 feet in height.

• Deciduous tree replace-ments must be at least 2 ½ inch-es in diameter, an increase from 1 ½ inches.

The council chambers were mostly filled at last week’s meet-ing, and many people spoke on both sides of the issue.

Some residents, like Danna Collingham, disagreed with the notion of an emergency ordi-nance. Making it more difficult to cut down trees, she believed, will hurt property owners like

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Elena Uritsky, left, of Sammamish, gets a look at her daughter, Noa, 11, whose transformation into a werewolf was completed during makeup and costume work for the Oct. 18 performance of Nightmare at Beaver Lake.

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Spook-tastic!

Almost six hours after the King County Sheriff’s Office asked the public to help them track down a prowler near an unincorporated area of Sammamish on Oct. 17, police reported that the suspect was arrested near Fall City.

Police specifically mentioned

the Duthie Hill Park area and the 30000 block of Southeast Issaquah-Fall City Road as areas he had roamed.

There was probable cause to arrest Shayne C. Kennedy for possession of stolen property, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. The

release described Kennedy and asked for people to call if they had seen him.

A neighbor called 911 after seeing the male that fit the description and deputies and a K-9 unit responded and found Kennedy in the woods. He was taken into custody at 5:40 p.m.

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Jennifer Linnenkamp, left, and Megan Hanson apply fake hair to Noa and Elena Uritsky. More than 80 residents will be volunteering their time at nightly performances of Sammamish’s annual haunted house and trail through Oct. 31. Proceeds benefit projects and scholarships of the Rotary Club of Sammamish.

Temporary law makes it more difficult to cut down trees

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When 11-year-old Ajay Gupta visited Carson Elementary School earlier this month to talk about his fundraiser for UNICEF, he turned some heads and got fellow students thinking about a bigger picture.

Gupta spoke to five class-es at Carson on “Popcorn Friday,” when students are invited to purchase bags of popcorn for 50 cents each. But Gupta’s message about giving clean water to chil-dren in Third-World coun-tries got through.

“I reminded them that those kids, their only water source may be contami-nated, or they might not even have a water source,” he said. “And one of the children … they took their popcorn money and put it in the box that I gave to the class for them to donate in.”

Gupta, who lives in Sammamish and attends Open Window School in Bellevue, began raising money two years ago for the annual Trick or Treat for UNICEF, a fundraiser that has collected more than $170 million since its inception in 1950.

The idea is simple: Kids wear a small orange box around their neck and carry

it with them on Halloween night. As their plastic pumpkins and grocery sacks get filled with candy, their orange box is hope-fully being filled with dollar bills and spare change.

In 2012, Gupta ordered a few boxes directly from UNICEF, but then learned his father Manoj had more than 1,600 of them avail-able through his employer Microsoft.

“There’s no real limit

where I can put these boxes out,” Ajay said. “It’s not like I’m going to have a short-age at all.”

He began soliciting busi-nesses, partnering to get donations from their cus-tomers during the weeks before and after Halloween. He blew away his first-year goal of $500, bringing in

$1,035.His sister Reva, 9, joined

in last year, and the sib-lings took in $2,000, dou-bling their goal. This year, they’re aiming for $2,500, and appear to be off to a fast start. Ajay said last week that he had passed out more than 200 boxes to Carson students, and one teacher there requested a new box for his classroom because it had been filled in only six days.

“It’s 25 cents to give 10 kids clean water for a day,”

said Reva, who attends Smith Elementary School, where the children are also giving fundraiser presenta-tions. “We think 25 cents is not that much, but it can be a lot to those kids.”

Clean water isn’t the sole mission of Trick or Treat for UNICEF. The organization can feed one child for $1 a day, vacci-nate 280 children for $10, and install a water pump to serve an entire village for $500. Ninety-one cents of every dollar raised goes

directly to helping children, UNICEF’s website states.

Ajay and Reva expect several of their friends will be carrying orange col-lection boxes this year. It seems relatively easy to spread their message on this particular holiday, they said.

“Halloween is a good time to do it because we get free candy once a year through people in our neighborhood,” Ajay said. “Some kids don’t even have clean water or food.”

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her who are looking to sell but will have less acreage to build upon.

“I ask you to please rec-ognize that Sammamish is a city, zoned urban, with hundreds of acres of wood-land parkland for resi-dents to visit,” Collingham told the council.

Resident Jason Decker encouraged the council to take more time before enacting an emergency ordinance. He believed more restrictions would negatively impact the housing market.

“The haves and the have-nots are drastically

changing in this commu-nity, and I, for one, would like to see affordable housing in Sammamish,” Decker said.

Brian Eccles, who moved to the city three years ago, said he has observed some obvious clear-cutting situations. He referred to develop-ments on Inglewood Hill Road and Issaquah-Pine Lake Road, where large houses were built and few existing trees were retained.

“Sammamish, in a sense, has a claim to be one of the very best cities … in the country,” Eccles said. “But if all we do is allow everything to be cut down, paved over, devel-oped, then we won’t have a whole lot left.”

Lewis Ting and his wife recently relocated from Chicago, and he said they chose the city for its natu-ral beauty. A week before closing on his new home, he discovered all of the trees on the property had been removed.

“If this is part of the culture here in Sammamish … we may have made a poor choice,” Ting said.

David Hoffman, who works with the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish counties, called the pro-

posal “poorly vetted” and encouraged officials to let the planning commission process play out.

Hoffman noted that commercial developers

will continue receiving a 50-percent credit for trees retained in environmen-tally sensitive areas, and that builders often spend 18-24 months just to have their designs approved.

“This is changing the game in midstream for some folks,” he said. “People have a lot of time and a lot of money already locked into main projects in the city.”

Jeffrey Thomas, the city’s director of commu-nity development, said he was aware of two projects that could be impacted

by the interim ordinance, and acknowledged there could be more. He said he had spoken with one of those developers, and the new rules could cause that project to be smaller in scope.

Some council members said they weren’t happy with enacting an emer-gency ordinance, but felt it was in step with the city’s environmentally conscious priorities.

“Hopefully, this will not be too onerous on anyone,” Councilman Bob Keller said.

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It’s a little thing but it’s important: A flu shot this month can keep you and your family healthy this winter.

Sometimes, people confuse the flu and a cold because they both affect our breathing. Adding to the confusion is the way we describe stomach ailments as the flu.

The real flu, or influenza, is a respiratory problem. A cold will make you or your children feel bad for a few days while flu can make you quite ill. The differences can be deadly.

With a cold you rarely run a fever, usually have a stuffy nose but you can keep functioning.

With the flu, your temperature soars, possibly for several days, you ache and you’re so exhausted you can hardly move. A severe case of flu can develop into bronchitis or pneumonia and require hospitalization.

The flu can also be deadly. More than 53,000 people died from influenza in 2010, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The World Health Organization estimates that influenza annually hits 5 percent to 10 percent of the adult population and 20 percent to 30 percent of children around the world and accounts for between 250,000 and 500,000 deaths a year.

A virulent form of flu swept around the world nearly a century ago and killed several million people. And that was before international travel became as common as it is today.

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How much money can King County waste?

The East Lake Sammamish Trail was a perfectly user-friendly trail up until a few months ago when destruction took place. Beautiful trees, rockeries and landscaping were torn out.

King County “improvements” are a 12-foot wide paved surface with 2-foot gravel walking paths on each side. The cost of this one sec-tion of the trail alone (2.6 miles) for “improvements” is $6.1 million.

The next phase of “improve-ments” is for a 3.6-mile stretch at a cost of $6 to 8.5 million! Why not use this money available in a wise manner and use it for something that is really needed, such as roads, bridges or better yet, our schools?

The total destruction of a beauti-ful trail with shade for trail users, and privacy and road noise buf-fers for homeowners, is a total shame and huge waste of taxpay-ers’ money. Even more atrocious is the fact that King County decided to move the original center line of the railroad easement 9 feet in the direction of the lake and homeown-ers is even more disgusting!

What is really being gained? Definitely some jobs have been cre-ated with construction crews, biolo-gists, surveyors, soil experts, traffic flaggers and police officers on duty at the site at all times construction is going on.

Many homeowners’ privacy is totally gone. Millions of dollars have been wasted with plans for more of the same in the very near future. How about the $2.07 mil-lion for a 35-car parking lot for the Sammamish Landing Park and also the puny $340,000 for a rest room?

Does anyone else think this is ridiculous? No wonder our country is broke!

Linda FaySammamish

Tell officials how you feel about lakeside trail

While many letters have recently focused on the East Lake

Sammamish Trail from Inglewood Hill north to the Redmond city limits, residents south of Inglewood Hill to the Issaquah city limits are next on the trail “improvement” list.

Residents have until Oct. 29 to comment to the city and the county on plans to extend the 18-foot wide extreme make-over this distance. Trees will be destroyed in the name of building this “improvement” to city, county and federal standards.

The city and the county have it within discretion to make small adjustments to standards. In most cases, aligning the trail slightly toward East Lake Sammamish Parkway will save trees adjacent the west side of the trail.

I spoke with a county official who said this would encroach on the wetlands. In walking the trail end-to-end, the “wetlands” are nothing more than drain-age ditches, and in any event in most cases these ditches may be moved slightly toward East Lake Sammamish Parkway.

Finally, the tradeoff between wetland and trees ignores the environmental benefits of trees: capturing stormwater runoff, sta-bilizing slopes and protecting the lake.

Residents need to flood the city and county with comments. Appeals of the city permit and the shoreline management permit may be the only alternatives.

Scott HamiltonSammamish

Vote yes on I-594 and no on I-591

Gun background checks have been effective at reducing crime and saving women’s lives. In the 16 states and Washington, D.C., that conduct background checks on all handgun sales, there are 38 percent fewer women shot to death by their intimate partners. Also, there are 39 percent fewer law enforcement officers mur-dered with a handgun.

This election season you will hear a number of false, irrespon-

sible statements about Initiative 594. I-594 ensures that a person taking ownership of a gun passes a background check regardless of where the “transfer” takes place. The initiative is designed to close the loophole that allows convicted felons, domestic abusers, and the seriously mentally ill to buy a gun without a background check and no questions asked — not crimi-nalize recreational shooters or law enforcement.

Dissecting the bill, the word “transfer” is critical. It means transfer of ownership. The Federal Bureau of Investigation NICS staff said clearly: “Simply handing a gun to someone does not constitute a transfer” under federal law and would not under I-594.

I-594 makes no changes to Washington state’s hunting, target or sport-shooting laws. Simply handing someone a firearm to hunt or shoot with does not make anyone a criminal now, and it won’t under Initiative 594. The law has garnished strong support from law enforcement, includ-ing WACOPS Executive Director; former Washington State Patrol Troopers’ Association President Bill Hanson; the county prosecu-tors in King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap counties; and former U.S. Marshal and current Deputy County Executive Mark Ericks, of Snohomish County. Most recently, former Bellingham Police Chief Don Pierce spoke in support of Initiative 594 in an advertisement urging voters to vote yes.

As for the competing I-591, this is a dangerous move to block background checks. For example, it states, “It is unlawful for any government agency to require background checks on the recipi-ent of a firearm unless a uniform national standard is required.” There is no national standard and there will likely never be one given the lack of consensus in Congress.

Please vote yes on Initiative 594 and no on Initiative 591 to save lives in Washington state.

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After sustaining consecutive losses to Skyline and Bothell, the Eastlake High School volley-ball team got back on the right track last week by sweeping two matches in Class 4A KingCo Conference action.

Eastlake (9-3 overall, 3-2 KingCo) has put itself in the hunt for a top-four seed to the conference tournament along-side Skyline, Mount Si and Bothell. An important match against Mount Si (8-2, 2-2) looms Oct. 23, and two wins last week against Redmond and Woodinville helped the Wolves restore confidence.

“I think it was really key coming out with a lot of energy

tonight,” senior middle hitter Ellie Woerner said after her team’s 25-23, 25-10, 25-10 win over visiting Woodinville Oct. 16.

“In some games, we’ve come out a little bit flat, and I think this game we came out with a lot of energy, and the crowd helped us a lot.”

Eastlake never trailed against struggling Woodinville (0-12, 0-5), but the first set nearly slipped away because the Wolves’ hitters committed sev-eral errors. The Falcons trailed 22-14 before roaring back for a 23-23 tie. Eastlake outside hitter Jordan Dahl collected a kill, and an error from Woodinville hitter Kathryn Hatlen ended the first set.

Woerner, who finished with seven kills and three blocks, said

the Wolves focused on their own business to avoid complacency against a winless opponent.

“We have to take every oppo-nent the same way — we want to come out and play no matter their record,” Woerner said. “We came off two kind of tough losses last week, so we wanted to be able to prove ourselves and be able to come out and play our game.”

After a bit of a scare in the first set, Eastlake overwhelmed Woodinville. While errors piled up for the Falcons, the Wolves reduced theirs and spread out their offensive attack through setter Caroline DeStefano, who had 27 assists.

Woerner scored the final three points of the second set with two kills and a block, and senior libe-ro Ally Crinklaw, who tied for

the team lead with four aces, had a strong serving run late in the third set to close out the match.

Eastlake’s size — five players are 6 feet tall — has been disrup-tive to opposing teams through-out the season. And Woerner said the team’s improved back-row play has strengthened the team’s offensive rhythm.

Crinklaw, who led Eastlake with 12 digs against Woodinville, has been a crucial part of the back-row rotation. She said she believes there has been a shift in attitude among this year’s play-ers.

“Everyone has kind of gotten that mentality, that defensive mentality, of just going for every ball and kind of covering each other,” Crinklaw said. “I think we’ve really improved on that from prior years.”

Dahl had her usual jack-of-all-trades performance, finishing the match with nine kills, 10 digs and four aces.

Eastlake hasn’t reached the state tournament since 2002. With KingCo receiving only two berths this season, the program will have to find way to beat some quality teams in order to rewrite history.

The Wolves have at least one key factor working in their favor, Crinklaw said.

“With our nine seniors, it’s really fun to have those older girls and have all that leader-ship on the team,” she said. “I think that really helps us. Being a senior and being able to play with all of them, it just gives us a lot of experience, so hopefully that will help us in getting to the state tournament this year.”


If there were any doubts about Bothell’s ability to win a big football game on the road, the Cougars destroyed those theo-ries in the opening minute of their Oct. 17 game at Skyline High School.

Bothell, the top-ranked team in Class 4A, scored on its first two plays from scrim-mage and went on to thoroughly dominate the Skyline Spartans, 56-0, clinching the KingCo Conference title in the process.

“We couldn’t ask for anything bet-ter — score on the first play, score on the second play of offense,” said senior Sam McPherson, the Cougars’ star running back and defensive back.

“We’ve started off slow a couple of the games, so that was big for us, to start off strong. The great start put them down early, and that’s when we just kept piling it on.”

Skyline coach Mat Taylor gave credit to the Cougars (7-0), who beat the Spartans (4-3) for the first time since 2009. Bothell led 42-0 at halftime, out-gaining Skyline 340-94 and scoring on six of its seven possessions.

“They were unbelievable,” Taylor said. “They’re clearly the best team that we’ve seen — No. 1 in the state — and they deserve it.”

On the opening play from scrimmage, Bothell wide receiver Dayzell Wilson used a double move to blow past a defen-sive back, and quarterback Ross Bowers hit him in stride down the right sideline for an 82-yard touchdown.

Running back Rashaad Boddie fumbled on Skyline’s first play, and McPherson recovered the ball at the Spartans’ 31-yard line. On the next play, Bowers tossed a short pass to McPherson, who weaved his way through the defense to the end zone.

Bothell led 14-0, and the game was only 44 seconds old.

That changed the Spartans’ game plan, Taylor said, and it led to quarterback Blake Gregory’s struggles against a fierce pass rush. The Cougars sacked Gregory five times, and the junior finished 11-for-25 passing for 72 yards.

“It kind of got into a game where you had to start going deep, to try and get caught up,” Taylor said.

McPherson said the Cougars “take our defense seriously.” Their offense — led by Bowers, a California-Berkeley commit — averages 47 points per game and gets most of the plaudits for the team’s suc-cess, but their defense has been just as good, giving up only 10 points per game.

“As a DB, there’s no better pass cov-erage than having a quarterback on his

butt, so that’s awesome,” McPherson remarked.

After scoring twice in the first min-ute, Bothell didn’t let up. Skyline punter Kevin McGrane couldn’t handle a poor snap, and the Cougars tackled him for a big loss, shifting field position back in

Top-ranked Bothell roughs up Skyline, 56-0

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Bothell High School running back Sam McPherson (20) gets a block from a teammate to get past Skyline’s Bradley Kim (8) and Danny Sinatro and score a 13-yard touchdown in the first quarter of an Oct. 17 KingCo Conference football game. Bothell won, 56-0.

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Mark Hawksworth, an assistant baseball coach at Eastlake High School, was recently chosen as the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association’s 2014 Assistant Coach of the Year.

Hawksworth, who runs the Eastlake program’s pitching staff, has lived in Sammamish for more than 25 years and has three children who’ve graduated from the school. His son, Blake, was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and played for them and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

This year, Hawksworth was part of a coaching staff that led Eastlake to its first conference championship and its first berth in the state tournament since 2003.

He has previously won two SAMMI Awards for dedication to the community through youth baseball. He has coached at nearly every level from Little League through high school, and was one of the people who helped build the Eastlake Little League complex in the early 1990s.

He also serves as president of the Eastlake Baseball Club, which he co-founded in 2013. The pro-gram serves boys ages 10-17 in the American Legion system.

Hawksworth will receive his award and be honored at the WSBCA Hall of Fame luncheon, Nov. 1 at Safeco Field in Seattle.

Swim teams think pink

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The Eastlake and Redmond high school girls swim and dive teams competed Oct. 14 at Redmond Pool, where they recognized their senior athletes and raised awareness for breast cancer. Both teams wore pink T-shirts to school that day, and donned bright pink swim caps during the meet. The teams also honored Eastlake assistant coach Shelby Ruge, a breast cancer survivor.

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the middle for a 13-yard TD and a 21-0 lead.

Gregory completed a short pass to Boddie, converting a

fourth-down play on Skyline’s next series, but the drive eventu-ally stalled at the Bothell 30. And Bowers needed only four plays to take his team 70 yards, a drive that Jackson Keimig capped with a leaping, 37-yard grab in the front corner of the end zone.

Bowers tossed a 13-yard TD pass to Wilson, and McPherson scored his third TD on a 19-yard run before the half.

The entire second half was played with a continuously running clock because of the 40-point lead, but Bothell man-aged two more touchdowns as Bowers threw for a fifth score, a 23-yarder to Sean Hanrahan, and backup fullback Michael Gray piled in from a yard out.

Despite conference losses to Bothell and Woodinville, the Spartans still control their playoff

destiny. Wins over Inglemoor and Eastlake in their final two games would put them in the postseason. And Taylor didn’t want his players to be demoral-ized.

“We said at halftime, ‘We can’t lose the team,’” he said. “We have to win two games to go to the playoffs, so that’s the biggest thing. We’ve got to go 2-0.”

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Gary Alan Rosenow1937-2014Although he grew up

in rural Kansas and was destined by his family to become a farmer, Gary left in 1965 for the bright lights of the Bay Area in California and never looked back.

A certain woman by the name of Margaret Zomer, a recent Dutch immigrant, caught his eye in 1968. They began dating the following year and were married in 1971 in Alameda, California. A son, Erik (currently of Palm Springs, California) was born in 1973 and a daugh-ter, Danielle (of Seattle), was born in 1977. The family moved to Sammamish (for-merly Redmond) in 1980. Gary is survived by all. He was preceded in death by his parents Raymond and Esther Rosenow, and his brother Ronald Rosenow, all of Clay Center, Kansas.

Perhaps it was their honeymoon in Hawaii that gave Gary the travel bug that would stay with him for the rest of his life. Margaret introduced Gary to her native Netherlands, and in turn, Gary showed her his family’s farm in Kansas. Although numerous international trips were primar-ily focused on Europe, Gary was fortunate to visit Israel, South America, China, Thailand, Turkey and Egypt. Many cruises aboard Holland America Line ensued. Just this September, Gary made his final trip to the Netherlands and spent time in France as well. Added up, the family believes he visited 53 countries. Not bad for a farm boy!

Gary attended Clay County Community High School and was named the King of Hearts by his class in 1955. His degree in business administration from Kansas State University allowed him a very fulfilling career in the insurance industry. Between

California and Washington, he worked for various firms including Metropolitan Life, Regence Blue Shield and Premera Blue Cross, the latter from which he retired in 1999.

Sports were a central part of his life. An athlete throughout high school, college and into his adult life, Gary skied, played golf, football, softball and basket-ball. His community soft-ball team won the Kansas state championships two

years in a row in the late 1950s. One of his greatest joys was to cheer on his beloved Seattle Mariners. In his retirement, he was fortunate to work as a part-time usher for Mariner games at Safeco Field. His ulti-mate pleasure: being paid to watch base-ball!

He enjoyed all kinds of music. Gary was active in his community. He was a board member at the Alameda Christian School. He volunteered for Eastside Friends of Seniors (formerly Faith in Action). Most of his adult life he sang in his church choirs at Alameda Christian Reformed Church and Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church, as well as taught Sunday school for a few years.

Gary was deeply loved by his family. We will remember him as one of the most kind and even-tempered men. He was a wonderful friend, a great sports fan and the definition of a gentleman. His sharp wit will be missed by all.

A celebration of Gary’s life is sched-uled for Thursday, Oct. 23, at 11 a.m. at Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church, 22818 S.E. Eighth St., Sammamish, WA. A luncheon will immediately follow in the Fellowship Hall. Friends and family are welcome. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Gary’s memory to Eastside Friends of Seniors http://eastsidefriendsof-seniors.org.

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Moving to the Beats

Police were dispatched to Eastside Catholic School at 1 p.m. Oct. 1 after a reported theft. Three juve-nile males were seen enter-ing the campus from the woods to the north of the athletic fields. They took a backpack containing a set of Beats headphones val-ued at $299. The backpack was found shortly there-after, and an officer made contact with the boys, one of whom was wearing the headphones. Two of the boys were taken into cus-tody, and the third was released because there was no evidence he handled the stolen party. The owner of the items declined to press charges.

Man calls police Nazis

Police spoke to a man about a series of threats that allegedly occurred Oct. 5. While outside his home in the 2900 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast, a man said hello multiple times to a woman on the neighboring property. She continually ignored him, and he insulted her. The woman’s husband yelled at him and challenged him to a fight. The men confronted each other, and a punch was thrown,

but no contact was made. The reporting party admit-ted saying “a bullet would solve everything,” but claimed he wasn’t making a threat. When the offi-cer wouldn’t file a report because of conflicting sto-ries, the man called him a Nazi. Officers had been to the man’s home the previ-ous day, after a neighbor reported an ongoing prob-lem between him and his family. The man refused to speak with the officers, called them Nazis and demanded they leave the property. The case was sent to prosecutors for review.

Reckless driver near school zone

An officer along 212th Avenue Southeast near Creekside Elementary School at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 6 observed a vehicle speed-ing near the intersection with Southeast 20th Street. School had just ended, and multiple children were in the area. The driver allegedly forced another vehicle off the road to pass it, and was moving quickly enough that his tires lost traction and kicked up a cloud of dust. The driver didn’t immediately pull over for the officer. The driver eventually stopped and exited the vehicle, but kept his back to the officer and reached into the front of his pants. The officer was able to diffuse the situ-ation and place the man in handcuffs. He was charged with reckless driving and cited for having no insur-ance.

Wires cut on city light poles

Police were dispatched to the corner of Main Street and 244th Avenue

Southeast at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 7 after an officer noticed earlier in the morning that some street lights weren’t illuminated. Police found wire splices had been cut from two steel junction boxes along the sidewalk. A similar incident happened the morning of Oct. 9 along 244th, with five boxes being entered, the splices cut and about 500 feet of copper wire taken. The damage from the two incidents was estimated at $4,000.

Sleeping at the hot tub

A resident in the 500 block of 241st Lane Southeast contacted police Oct. 8 after three men were found sleep-ing in her condominium complex’s hot tub area for the second time in the past week. The subjects have allegedly been leav-ing garbage around the hot tub as well. An officer found the men on foot nearby. They admitted to being in the building overnight, but claimed they were with a condo resident. Police took pho-tos of the men and gave

them written warnings for trespassing.

Cell phone traced, recovered

A woman contacted police Oct. 10 and report-ed losing her iPhone near the Trader Joe’s in Sammamish at about 9 a.m. Oct. 9. She traced her phone’s location a couple of times the next day; officers went to a home in the 22300 block of Northeast 22nd Street to recover it. An 18-year-old said he found the phone and returned it to a curb-side location along 228th Avenue Southeast. He told police he didn’t know why he didn’t try to return the phone, even though it had displayed a message saying it was lost or stolen. The phone was returned to its owner; no charges were filed.

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Notice is hereby given that the CityCouncil of the City of Sammamishadopted the following ordinance atthe October 14, 2014 Special Meet-ing/Study Session. Copies of thisdocument are available and will bemailed upon request of the office ofthe City Clerk, 801 228th Avenue SE.during regular office hours, 8:30 a.m.to 5:00 p.m. Documents are alsoavailable on the city’s website atwww.sammamish.us.

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‘Hello English!,’ begin-ning ESL class, 10:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Family Book Club, ‘Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle,’ by Betty MacDonald, ages 6-12, 6:30 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Grief Share Support Group, 7-8:30 p.m., Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 N.E. Inglewood Hill Road

Young Toddler Story Time, ages 1-2,

10:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

‘Read Your Greens,’ meet children’s author Katherine Pryor, 4 p.m.,

Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Halloween Family Fun Night, a free eve-ning of games, activity booths, bounce house, prizes, crafts, Monster Mash dance, swimming and more, 6:30-9 p.m., Sammamish Family YMCA, 4221 228th Ave. S.E., RSVP by Oct. 23 at front desk or by calling 391-4840

Providence Marianwood, the only non-profit skilled nursing com-munity in the Issaquah/Sammamish area, assist with group activities, din-ing room host/hostess, befriend a resident, cleri-cal support or staff the Gift Nook, 391-2897 or email

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Volunteers needed for native plant salvage, 9 a.m. to noon, Inglewood Hill center, 22401 N.E. Inglewood Hill Road, email [email protected] or call 295-0556

Sammamish Recycling Collection Event, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunny Hills Elementary School, 3200 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road, learn more at http://bit.

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Times: Ni-Hao!, 10 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Arabic Story Time: Ahlan!, 11 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Pine Lake Covenant Church min-

istry for children with special needs, 10:45 a.m., 1715 228th Ave. S.E., call 392-8636

Introduction to Special Effects Makeup, bring your own makeup and brushes if you have them, 12 and older, 1 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130, registration required

Young Professionals, mid-20s to mid-30s profes-sionals meet and enjoy fellowship, single or mar-ried welcome, 6:30 p.m., Eastridge Church, 24205 S.E. Issaquah-Fall City Road, 681-6736 or email [email protected].

Mary, Queen of Peace Catholic Church youth groups, for children in sixth through eighth grade, and ninth through 12th grades, Mass at 5 p.m.,

dinner and then meetings at 6:30 p.m. Sundays, 391-

1178, ext. 129

Spanish Story Times: Hola!, 10 a.m.,

Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

‘Hello English!,’ inter-mediate ESL class, 11:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

‘Democracy In Action’ youth and government program for teens, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mondays through May, Sammamish YMCA, 4221 228th Ave. S.E., call 391-4840 or email [email protected].

Study Zone, grades K-12, 6-8 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Computer class: ‘One-On-One Assistance,’ 10

a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Play and Learn Chinese, ages 2-5, 10:30 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Study Zone, ages K-12, 4-8 p.m., Sammamish

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Sammamish Youth Writing Group, ages 10-18, monthly projects, 7 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Sammamish Plateau Community Bible Study,

open to all women and their children, 9:30 a.m., Faith United Methodist Church, 3924 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road S.E., email [email protected].

Toddler Story Times, ages 2 and older, 10 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Infant Lapsit Story Time, 11 a.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Study Zone, ages K-12, 6-8 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

‘Added Sugars: Such Sweet Sorrow,’ 7 p.m., Sammamish Library, 825 228th Ave. S.E., 392-3130

Mars Hill Students, sixth- through 12th-grade students in Sammamish, Redmond, Issaquah and surrounding areas; 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays; music,

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Wednesday night youth group; games, wor-ship and fun for students in grades six through 12; 7-9 p.m., Sammamish Presbyterian Church, 22522 N.E. Inglewood Hill Road

Nightmare at Beaver Lake, Family Scare 7-7:45 p.m. $11, Full Scare 8-10 p.m. $18, 2656 244th Ave. S.E., $1 discount with non-perishable food donation

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To be qualified for appointment to the vacancy, interested candidates must be (1) a United States citizen, (2) eighteen years of age or older, and (3) be a registered voter and reside within the District’s boundaries.

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Schools receive donations for programs, materials

The Issaquah School Board approved several gifts and donations at its Sept. 24 meeting that will fund various educational materials and programs at four elementary schools.

The Creekside Elementary School PTSA donated $15,000 to pro-vide additional support for its Learning Assistance Program.

Endeavour Elementary School’s PTSA gave a total of $29,125 — $12,000 of it for the salary of an addi-tional educational assistant to support its Learning Assistance Program, and the rest to purchase 24 lap-tops and a technology cart for its computer lab.

Educational assistant salaries were the targets of PTSA donations at Sunny Hills and Sunset elemen-tary schools. Sunny Hills raised $12,000 and Sunset took in $16,000.

Board policy dictates the board must vote to accept any gift of $5,000 or more in value.

Eastside Baby Corner names new board members

Eastside Baby Corner recently appointed the fol-lowing new members to its board of directors:

• Rick Lessley, of

Sammamish, vice president of the Supply Chain Group at Nintendo of America Inc. He has served as an executive at Nintendo since 2001, and brings extensive specialized leadership training and education.

• Carmen Malsbury, of Renton, a commercial lend-er at Whidbey Island Bank/ Heritage Bank Issaquah. Malsbury, in the banking industry since 1980, holds a Bachelor of Science in elementary education.

• Brian Daniels, of Snoqualmie, vice presi-dent of operations and surety manager at MCM. He holds a Bachelor of Science in business man-agement from Western Governors University and a Leadership Executive Master of Business Administration from Seattle University.

County gets $6 million grant to improve Hepatitis C treatment

King County health care providers will be better able to identify and suc-cessfully treat people with chronic Hepatitis C virus thanks to a $6 million grant awarded to Public Health – Seattle & King County.

The four-year grant from the federal Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will improve testing, treatment and cure of people with chronic HCV infection.

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Hepatitis C Test & Cure Project, which will provide training for clinicians on the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of HCV and connect them to special-ists. It will also enhance the ability to track patients through better integration of clinical and public health data systems. As a result, it will be easier to detect those patients who have fallen out of treatment and help them get back on track.

Learn more at www.kingcounty.gov/health.

Nominations sought for 2015 National Small Business Week Awards

The U.S. Small Business Administration Seattle District Office is accepting nominations for its 2015 National Small Business Week Awards, including the annual Small Business Person of the Year award.

The website http://awards.sba.gov provides all the guidelines and has made it easier to submit and track nominee sub-missions. It also has a complete list of award cat-egories.

Nominations can also be sent or brought to SBA’s Seattle District Office, 2401 Fourth Ave., Suite 450, Seattle.

Nominations must be submitted online, post-marked or hand-delivered no later than noon Jan. 5.

Southeast Fourth Street at about 8 p.m. Oct. 10. The driver allegedly tried to drift the car through the turn, lost traction and nearly crossed into oncoming traffic. The offi-cer stopped the vehicle and placed the driver under arrest. The man, 18, claimed he had purchased the BMW the day before, and the floor mat fit incor-rectly, causing the gas pedal to stick. The officer

tested the accelerator and found it worked properly, even though the floor mat was sitting against the pedal. The driver was charged with reckless driv-ing.

Keys left in stolen vehicle

Police responded to a reported vehicle theft in the 21600 block of Southeast 20th Street at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 11. A man said he parked his Volkswagen Jetta, Washington plate AAF0296, in his driveway at 5 p.m. Oct. 10. The car

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Shoplifters try to take cigarettes

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