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‘Historic Issaquah,’ Barbara

VanDyke Shuman’s original

pastel, depicts paraglider

pilots in flight above the

Issaquah Alps and the historic

Issaquah Train Depot.

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ON THE

COVER

PANORAMA PAGE 6Discover unexplored corners of Issaquah’s landscape.

ISSAQUAH WORD CLOUD PAGE 12See a jumble of words from every story in the magazine.

SUMMER CALENDAR PAGE 14Experience summer fun at can’t-miss events around town.

ISSAQUAH IQ PAGE 46So, you think you know Issaquah? Test your knowledge.

MOUNTAINS TO SOUND GREENWAY PAGE 8Explore the greenbelt from Puget Sound to the Cascades.

ISSAQUAH SPORTSMEN’S CLUB PAGE 10Head to the historic gun range for target practice.

TUBING PAGE 31Float down local rivers on a nostalgic inner-tube cruise.

PUGET SOUND PAGE 34Conserve Issaquah Creek — and help Puget Sound’s health.

SUMMER HAZARDS PAGE 44Take precautions to avoid common summertime mishaps.

SUMMER

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Issaquah

LIVINGINSIDE

Discover natural wonders at Mount Rainier, Olympic National Park and Washington’s other national places.

STAINED GLASS ARTISTS

Issaquah artists, a husband- and-wife duo, build a 40-year-old business by creating beautiful glass artwork.

HISTORIC SALOONS

Belly up to the bar for a beer-soaked history lesson about Issaquah’s drinking establishments of old.

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Hairy hominid, maybe mythical, or maybe not, could roam Pacific Northwest backwoods country.

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ESSENTIALS

FEATURES

STAFFNATIONAL TREASURES

DISCOVERING UNEXPLORED CORNERS OF THE ISSAQUAH LANDSCAPE

PANORAMA

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Inside each modern jetliner is a piece of Issaquah — several thousand pieces, in fact.

The fasteners connecting pieces in each Boeing and Airbus jet-liner originate at a small Issaquah manufacturer.

Marketing Masters creates inserts and fasteners from Torlon — a substance cheaper, lighter and more resistant to corrosion than the titanium used in earlier-generation aircraft fasteners.

The fasteners hold together pieces in the behemoth Airbus A380 — the largest passenger jetliner in service — and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a next-generation plane assembled mostly from com-posite materials.

MARKETING MASTERS

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Forget the store-bought marsh-mallows as pale as a ghost and as flabby as a sumo wrestler.

Fluff Marshmallows proprietor and self-styled “certified aerated- confection engineer” Kathy O’Neill creates batches of boutique marsh-mallows in flavors such as lavender, mimosa and hot buttered rum.

The idea originated as a DIY Christmas gift for friends.

“I made marshmallows and then my boyfriend said, ‘These are wonderful. Can you put alcohol in them?’” O’Neill said.

So, after rounds of trial and error, O’Neill developed a formula to spike some marshmallow flavors to create treats for grown-ups.

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TAKEOFF

The technology to help scientists decipher AIDS, cancer and other dis-eases is manufactured in Issaquah.

The biomedical imaging sys-tems company Applied Precision manufactures high-tech micro-scopes and other equipment for pharmaceutical giants, medical research institutes and universities. Clients include the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

APPLIED PRECISION

Lakeside Industries’ most notable product hides in plain sight.

Roads do not demand much attention from motorists, but many thoroughfares in Washington started as gravel mined from a local hillside.

Lakeside Industries specializes in road paving. So, sand and gravel from the Issaquah mine below the Issaquah Highlands is used to build roads in the Pacific Northwest.

LAKESIDE INDUSTRIES

KING OF THE ROAD

Evergreen State dairy farmers send milk to the Darigold plant to transform into butter, cottage cheese and sour cream — products recognizable in the dairy case by a familiar red-and-gold logo.

The plant — founded as the Northwestern Milk Condensing Co. — started churning out dairy products in 1909 and has remained in continuous operation.

DARIGOLD

CHURN, CHURN, CHURN

SHED SOME LIGHT

In 1956, Julius Boehm opened Boehms Candies in Issaquah, 17 years after the former Olympian fled Nazi-occupied Austria.

The iconic chocolatier offered a taste of Issaquah to chocoholics attracted to the city to see candy makers in action.

Nowadays, the chalet-inspired chocolate factory turns out cara-mels, cordials, truffles and candy bars in a distinctive gold wrapper.

BOEHMS CANDIES

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“Twin Peaks” put North Bend on the map, but the TV cult classic filmed some scenes in the Issaquah area, too.

Tiger Mountain is not as recognizable to outsiders as Mount Si — thanks, David Lynch — but Hollywood called on Issaquah and the surrounding area in recent decades for produc-tions in need of suburban streets and forested backdrops.

“Twin Peaks” aside, most productions filmed in the Issaquah area faded into pop culture ephemera.

Remember “Hot Pursuit” — a short-lived ’80s thriller about a couple on the lam? Or “An Upstanding Citizen” — a 1998 Lifetime movie melodrama, in true Lifetime movie melodrama form, about a tragic car accident and the aftermath?

Both productions included scenes shot in the Issaquah area.

The crew for “The Secret Life of John Chapman” filmed in the Issaquah area and included local extras. Ralph Waite — the father on the homespun TV series “The Waltons” — starred in the 1976 film about a college presi-dent on sabbatical as a laborer.

Perhaps the most notable film to feature Issaquah scenes is “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.” The 1992 flick about a psychotic nanny turned into a moderate hit at the box office.

The Herbfarm served slow-roasted salmon in zucchini blossoms, tarragon ice-topped melon soup and other creations from a space near Boehms Candies from May 1999 until April 2001. The restaurant then departed for more upscale digs at a bucolic Woodinville inn.

Tragedy led The Herbfarm to Issaquah. Fire destroyed the original Fall City restaurant in January 1997.

Owners intended to rebuild in Fall City and, in the meantime, selected the since- closed Hedges Cellars tasting room along Northeast Gilman Boulevard as the interim location for the restaurant.

The location presented challenges and, for diners during the Issaquah era, altered the experi-ence. The garden tour, a precursor to meals in Fall City and Woodinville, went on hiatus while The Herbfarm operated in Issaquah, cofounder Carrie Van Dyck recalled.

The floorplan shielded the kitchen from the dining room, a departure from the open kitchen in Fall City.

Still, the restaurant reeled in diners — and accolades. The New York Times recommended The Herbfarm in a 2000 travelogue and national magazines clamored to feature the Pacific Northwest menu.

The menu is ever-evolving to reflect changes in seasons and themes.

“We never serve the same thing,” Van Dyck said. “You could come to the same theme year after year and have a different experience each time.”

FILMS

‘THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN CHAPMAN’

1976

‘THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE’

1992

TV SHOWS & MADE-FOR-TV

MOVIES

‘HOT PURSUIT’1984

‘TWIN PEAKS’1990

‘AN UPSTANDING CITIZEN’

1998

FROM FARM TO TABLE

TO ISSAQUAH

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KAGARISE“ ”Stories that shed hair, that leave footprints, that are interwoven into the oral traditions and sometimes material, cultural traditions of the Native Americans that are indigenous to this region, that are seen by contemporary witness that are often credible and observant. I said it’s much more than just stories.

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TIMELINEMajor initiatives and land acquisitions

in the Issaquah area shaped the greenway during the past 22 years.

✺ 1990 ✺Citizens, led by the Issaquah Alps Trails Club, march from Snoqualmie Pass to the Seattle waterfront to dramatize the need for a greenway plan.

✺ 1991 ✺ Citizens form the nonprofit Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust. Seattle civic leader Jim Ellis is the founding president.

✺ 1992 ✺ The state Department of Natural Resources designates more than 4,000 acres on Tiger Mountain, just east of Issaquah, as a natural resource conservation area.

✺ 1996 ✺ King County initiates a 4-to-1 land-use program on Grand Ridge to preserve 1,400 acres of open space.

✺ 1998 ✺ Federal Highway Administration officials designate the 100-mile greenway as a National Scenic Byway.

✺ 2005 ✺Major ecological restoration project at Lake Sammamish starts, and adds 4,500 native trees and shrubs.

✺ 2008 ✺ Issaquah acquires 10 parcels along Issaquah Creek to protect stream quality and expand a city park.

✺ 2011 ✺ Marchers re-create the 1990 trek from Central Washington to the Seattle waterfront.

✺ 2012 ✺Organizers launch a campaign to convince Congress to recognize the greenway as a National Heritage Area.

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Like the matter-of-fact name suggests, the Mountains to Sound Greenway

starts amid fried fish counters and souvenir shops along the Seattle waterfront, unfurls along Interstate 90, encompassing cit-ies and forests, and continues on, across the Cascades.

The greenbelt represents decades of effort to protect the natural landscape along the inter-state, even as Issaquah and other Eastside cities experienced a pop-ulation explosion in recent years.

Issaquah Alps Trails Club members spearheaded a 1990 march from Snoqualmie Pass to Puget Sound to attract atten-

tion to the proposed greenbelt — a sort of Central Park for Western Washington.

The next year, citizen, con-servation, corporate and gov-ernment interests behind the proposal united to form the nonprofit Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust to oversee greenbelt preservation.

Forests along the bustling interstate provide habitat for black bears and other species. Trails meander along the greenway, from flat sidewalks in suburban cities to paths perched on mountainsides. Crews log some areas in a compro-mise between economic and envi-ronmental interests. n

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✺ 1.5 MILLION ✺

TOTAL MOUNTAINS TO SOUND GREENWAY ACREAGE

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NUMBER OF TIMES IT IS LARGER THAN SEATTLE

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ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND IN THE GREENWAY

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MILES FROM SEATTLE TO ELLENSBURG

✺ 29 ✺

NUMBER OF CITIES ON THE GREENWAY

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GOING, GOINGGREENWAY

GOING, GOINGGREENWAY

Marchers navigate the terrain from Snoqualmie Pass to the Seattle waterfront during the inaugural trek in 1990.

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The range at the Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club is a virtual paradise for people who like to take target practice.

“It’s for people who like to put holes in paper,” joked John Dallaire, the club’s range safety officer, who explained that most gun enthusiasts who come to the range are trying to improve their accuracy.

STAYSTAY ON TARGETON TARGETSTORY BY MICHELE MIHALOVICH

PHOTOS BY GREG FARRAR

Bull’s-eyes stapled onto a cardboard backing at each shooting station soon become filled with bullet holes.

Folks stand in a covered outdoor area and shoot at targets that are between seven yards and 100 yards away. And there is no typical shooter. Some are new, some are seasoned. There are young, old, male, female, hunters and businessmen.

“You name it, they come out here to shoot,” Dallaire said.

Some have handguns; others might be shooting a submachine rifle. And the regu-

Women, such as this Seattle resident, and men alike have equal opportunity to pick up a rifle and aim for the bull’s-eye at the Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club.

CLUB OFFERS CHANCE TO SHOOT

FOR THRILLS

Tyler Marchand, of Issaquah, a gun user from age 9, inserts a magazine into his 9mm Glock handgun.

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LIVE LIKE A MOUNTAIN MAN

If you think guns that use mod-ern bullets are too fancy-schmancy for your taste, then the Cascade Mountain Men might be for you.

Vern Steward, current member and past president of the traditional black-powder, muzzle-loading club, said the club is a fun and relaxing way to enjoy the old-fashioned, traditional way of life.

The current 50 to 60 members favor the 1812 to 1850 timeframe, when mountain men went out into the wilderness and trapped beavers.

Steward said his interest in black-powder guns began in the 1970s.

Opportunities to participate in rendezvous, some quite primi-tive, can happen just about any weekend in the Pacific Northwest.

The primitive rendezvous for-bid anything that wouldn’t be found back in the mountain man time period … no modern clothes, stoves, watches, tents, guns or anything else that might smell of city slicker.

READY, AIM...

The Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club offers gun safety, pistol and home defense instruction, basic hunter and bow hunter education courses.

Annual membership is $80 person, or $90 per family, but any-one can use the gun range for $12.

It also has a clubhouse available for meetings and parties.

Pat Moore has organized the Tiger Mountain Archers youth archery program. Call 557-1497.

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“You can tell when someone’s ner-vous or just not comfortable handling the gun yet,” said Tony McIntosh, a club member. “We’ll go over and offer some advice to help them out.”

McIntosh, 70, first started shooting guns when he was 9 years old and liv-ing in New Jersey. He also used to love

hunting, but when he returned from the Vietnam War, he decided he couldn’t ever kill another living thing.

That didn’t stop his enthusiasm for guns however, or shooting at targets and trying to improve his accuracy.

“I’m retired,” McIntosh. “So I can just sit around with my feet propped up watching Fox, or I can come here and get some fresh air and exercise.” n

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Concerts in the Park Second Hand NewzPine Lake Park

Wooden O Shakespeare ‘12th Night’Pine Lake Park

Cascade Cougar Club ProwlTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Kidsfirst! Series Karen QuestEast Sammamish Park

Concerts on the GreenCambalache

Community Center

Concerts in the ParkCraig Terrill BandPine Lake Park

Wooden O Shakespeare‘The Winter’s Tale’ Pine Lake Park

XXX Mid Summer RunTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

31 Kidsfirst! SeriesThe Board of Education Sammamish Commons

Concerts on the Green Seatown Rhythm and BluesIssaquah Community Center

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ON THEGREEN

Head outside to listen to local bands perform.

7 p.m.

6Tuesdays

through August

6Issaquah

Community Center

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HOTPICKS

HOLIDAY

Celebrate Independence DayDown Home 4th of July and Heritage Day Celebration

Veterans Memorial Park

Participants gather and register for the Kids, Pets ‘n’ Pride Parade and then head to Veterans’ Memorial Park for a hay hunt, three-legged and gunnysack races, pony rides, face painting, bouncy houses, and a slug race and beauty pageant. Save room for a pie-eating contest.

JULY

411 A.M. TO 2 P.M.

JULYXXX Old Tractors, Truck, Buses and Station Wagons Show Triple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Concerts on the GreenThe PenguinsIssaquah Community Center

Fourth on the Plateau Sammamish Commons

ArtWalk Downtown Issaquah

All Chevy ShowTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Kidsfirst! SeriesAlex ZerbeBeaver Lake Park

Concerts on the Green Cloverdale Issaquah Community Center

Concerts in the ParkThe SpyrographsPine Lake Park

Wooden O Shakespeare ‘12th Night’Issaquah Community Center

Burgers and Bikes of All TypesTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Kidsfirst! Series Lori Henriques,Sammamish Commons

Concerts on the GreenEchoe’s Issaquah Community Center

SUMMER CALENDAR

HOW TO MAKE THE

MOST OF THE SEASON

6ISSAQUAH FARMERS MARKET

The market features

produce, crafts, food vendors, and demos

or performers each week.

9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

6Saturdays through October

6Pickering Barn

6SAMMAMISH

FARMERS MARKET

Fresh offerings abound at the

weekday market.

3-7 p.m.

6Wednesdays

through Oct. 3

6Sammamish

Commons

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18 A.M.

37 P.M.

46 P.M.

65 P.M.

88 A.M.

10NOON

7 P.M.

126:30 P.M.

7 P.M.

6CHALK ART FESTIVAL

Artists of all ages come together to create street-

side artwork.

Noon to 5 p.m.

6July 17

6Issaquah

Community Center

158 A.M.

17NOON

7 P.M.

196:30 P.M.

217 P.M.

24NOON

7 P.M.

228 A.M.

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268 A.M.

287 P.M.

297 P.M.

31NOON

7 P.M.

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CELEBRATION

Go wet ‘n’ wild for summerBeat the Heat Splash Day

Issaquah Community Center

Beat the heat — or, at least, cool down — at the annual Beat the Heat Splash Day, a wet and wild water carnival for children ages 1 to 12. Prepare to get soaked as a fire truck arrives to spray water on the crowd. Or run through sprinklers, blow bubbles and participate in other activities.

AUGUST

11 TO 2 P.M.

AUGUSTConcerts in the ParkStacey Jones BandPine Lake Park

Wooden O Shakespeare ‘The Winter’s Tale’ Issaquah Community Center

ArtWalk Downtown Issaquah

Old Rides Car ShowTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Kidsfirst! SeriesCircus CascadiaSammamish Commons

Safe & Sound Sam-mamish: A Kickoff to National Night OutSammamish Commons

Concerts on the Green Black Velvet 4Issaquah Community Center

Concerts in the Park Adrian Xavier Band Pine Lake Park

Chip ‘N’ Dip Golf TournamentJulius Boehm Pool

N.W. Muscle Car MeetTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Kidsfirst! SeriesPajama Party with Harmonica PocketSammamish Commons

Concerts on the Green 85th Street Big BandIssaquah Community Center

Concerts in the Park Cloverdayle

Pine Lake Park

House ConcertsThe Paperboys TreeHouse Point

6NATIONAL NIGHT OUT

Meet the men and women in blue at the annual safety celebration.

Enjoy a hot dog, climb aboard a fire truck,

get your face painted and

more.

5 - 7 p.m.

6Aug. 4

6Issaquah City Hall

6FESTIVAL OF

NEW MUSICALS

The festival is a laboratory

to test original musicals before

audiences.Often, selections from the festival re-emerge later

at the Francis J. Gaudette Theatre, or

Mainstage, and sometimes on

Broadway.

Showtimes vary

6Aug. 10-12

6Village Theatre

26:30 P.M.

7 P.M.

35 P.M.

58 A.M.

7NOON

2 P.M.

7 P.M.

116 P.M.

14NOON

7 P.M.

Kidsfirst! SeriesDaring Dreams in Times of MagicBeaver Lake Park

Sammamish NightsSammamish Commons

NWCCC ’55-’56-’57 ShowTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Kidsfirst! SeriesEric Herman and the Thunder Puppies Ebright Creek Park

Concerts on the GreenGeoffrey CastleIssaquah Community Center

Concerts in the ParkSammamish SymphonyPine Lake Park

All Corvette Car ShowTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Vintage Chevy Club of AmericaTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Concerts on the Green Magic BusIssaquah Community Center

Concerts in the ParkCherry, CherryPine Lake Park

6MOVIE ON THE GREEN

Bring a blanket and see the

action-packed comic book flick ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’

under the stars.

8-11 p.m.

6Aug. 8

6Issaquah

Community Center

6SAMMAMISH

DAYS

Spend a culture-filled day with the kids at a child-centric

festival to celebrate the community’s diversity and

strength.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

6Aug. 18

6Sammamish

Commons

18NOON

6:30 P.M.

198 A.M.

21NOON

7 P.M.

236:30 P.M.

268 A.M.

275 P.M.

96:30 P.M.

128 A.M.

166:30 P.M.

8 P.M.

287 P.M.

306:30 P.M.

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CAR SHOW

Cruise in for classic ridesDraggin’ Into Winter With No Regrets Car & Truck Show

Triple XXX Rootbeer Drive-in Issaquah is a popular destination for forms of transportation powered by internal- combustion engines. Triple XXX Rootbeer Drive-in hosts vehicles of all makes and models in waxed-and-polished parades during car shows held throughout the summer.

SEPTEMBER

168 A.M.

SEPTEMBERSalmon SEEson viewing opportunitiesIssaquah Salmon Hatchery

Rat Bastards Rat Rod ShowTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

XXX Car Show/Shop N’ Swap MeetTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Issaquah School District students return to class

ArtWalkDowntown Issaquah

All Ford ShowTriple XXX Rootbeer Drive-In

Salmon Days Festival Volunteer Sign-up Event Pickering Barn

Lower Commons Native Plant Garden Volunteer Meet-and-GreetSammamish Commons

Fall Home & Garden Show Pickering Barn

Mini Cooper Show Triple XXX Rootbeer

Drive-In

6‘BIG RIVER’

The hit musical re-imagines ‘Huckleberry

Finn’ as a musi-cal told from the

protagonist’s perspective.

Showtimes vary

6Sept. 12 to

Oct. 21

6Village Theatre

6COMMUNITY SERVICE FAIR

Find ways to give back to

the community. Learn more about the

many nonprofit organizations active in the

area.

3 p.m.

6Sept. 12

6Sammamish

City Hall

1ALL DAY

28 A.M.

4ALL DAY

98 A.M.

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FESTIVAL

Catch some fi shy funSalmon Days Festival

Downtown Issaquah and Issaquah Salmon Hatchery

The annual salmon-centric celebration is stitched into the city’s fabric. Salmon Days serves as a last hurrah before autumn, a touchstone for old-timers and a magnet for tourists. The street fair consistently ranks among the top destinations in the Evergreen State.

OCTOBER

6/710 A.M. TO 6 P.M.

38 A.M.

75 P.M.

125 P.M.

229 A.M.

1310 A.M.

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SUMMER CALENDAR

HOW TO MAKE THE

MOST OF THE SEASON

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8ISSAQUAH LIVING

NATIONAL TREASURES

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�EXPERIENCE

NATURAL WONDERS

IN WASHINGTON’S

NATIONAL PLACES

STORY BY WARREN KAGARISE � PHOTOS BY MATTHEW STAERK

19SUMMER 2012

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Splendor is not limited to Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier dominates the land-scape in Western Washington. The active volcano is unparalleled as a natu-ral icon for the region — Mount Rainier even appeared on the state quarter — but the peak is not the only nearby national treasure. Landscapes in the shadow of Mount Rainier and farther afield deserve attention, too. Spaces set aside for conservation and recreation — national parks, national forests, national recreation areas, even a national volcanic monument — stretch from British Columbia to the Columbia River. Discover the signature moun-tain and, along the way, a handful of other national treasures.

The postcard-perfect mountains, meadows, lakes and waterfalls in North Cascades National Park earned the remote region the nickname the North American Alps.

The superlatives stack up to describe the 504,781-acre national park. The area is among the most mountainous in North America. The park includes more than 300 glaciers to form the highest concentration of glaciers in the lower 48 states.

Mountains inside the park bear disqui-eting names — Despair, Fury and Terror — but the landscape is tranquil.

Below the craggy peaks, emerald eddies roil the Skagit River into a froth the same shade as snow.

The speed limit along the North Cascades Highway slows at Newhalem, a company town for a Seattle City Light hydroelectric project along the Skagit River.

Travelers cross the river on a foot-bridge to see the lush landscape surround-ing Ladder Creek Falls.

In the 1920s, a City Light superinten-dent envisioned a light show on Ladder Creek Falls and lights installed through-out the adjacent forest as a glittering, jewel-toned monument to electricity.

City Light restored the light show in 2008, and the nighttime attraction is a

NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARKESTABLISHED 1968

SIZE 504,781 acres

OPERATING SEASON The park is open year round, but winter weather dictates when most facilities and roads open. From late May to late October, campgrounds, visitor centers and roads are open for summer parkgoers.

FEES The park has no entrance fee, but camping fees vary by campground and season.

CONNECT www.nps.gov/noca

popular destination after a day along the North Cascades’ trails and lakes.

Deeper inside the park, bottle-green Diablo Lake and the Ross Lake National Recreation Area lure adventurers in boats, canoes and kayaks. Silt from the glaciers, called rock flour, turns bodies of water in the park to a deep, milky hue.

In the old-growth forests and stark peaks, black bears, mountain goats and even a small grizzly bear population inhabit the landscape.

In North Cascades National Park, rugged peaks and alpine lakes define the landscape in a region dubbed the North American Alps.

At left, the landscape surrounding Mount St. Helens reflects signs of destruction from the 1980 eruption and the return of life to the blast zone.

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OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARKESTABLISHED 1938

SIZE 922,650 acres

OPERATING SEASON The park is open 24 hours a day year round, although some roads, campgrounds and other visitor facilities close for the winter.

FEES The entrance fee for a single visit in a motor vehicle is $15. For adults on foot, bicycle or motorcycle, the fee is $5. Children 15 and younger receive free admission. Campsite fees range from $10 to $18.

CONNECT www.nps.gov/olym

Olympic National Park spans ecosystems, from glacier-clad peaks to moss-draped rainforests to salt-splashed tide pools. The park is full of landscapes lifted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth.

The largest national park in Washington encompasses swaths on the Olympic Peninsula. U.S. Route 101 loops around the park, so access to the Hoh Rain Forest, Hurricane Ridge, Lake Crescent and other pop-ular sites is easy.

Crystalline Lake Crescent, carved by glaciers in the last Ice Age, is a tamer destination in a park noted for the intense gales atop Hurricane Ridge.

The lodge along the Lake Crescent shoreline appears lifted from a Works Progress Administration brochure. Inside the lobby, a stuffed elk head holds court above a stone fireplace.

Elsewhere, a landmark ecolog-ical restoration effort to remove dams along the Elwha River is meant to restore the waterway for salmon and other species.

Perhaps the most iconic locale in Olympic National Park is the mysterious Hoh Rain Forest. The verdant landscape receives 12 feet to 14 feet — yes, feet — of rain each year. The temperate rainforest unfurls beneath a lush canopy.

Water thunders almost 90 feet from a mossy cliff over Marymere Falls, plunges into a pool and courses into Barnes Creek.

A black-tailed deer grazes in a wildflower-carpeted forest near Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park.

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The crunch underfoot on 4th of July Beach, a crescent of pebbles along smooth-as-glass Griffin Bay, is the only sound, except for the occasional blast from a ferry whistle in nearby Friday Harbor.

The sun bakes kelp leaves to the consistency of tissue paper. Bleached driftwood logs scatter the landscape like discarded Tinker Toys.

Mountains rise in the distance. Snowcapped Mount Baker plays peek-a-boo from behind high clouds.

The windswept island possesses unassuming beauty — no rugged land-scapes or skyscraping peaks. Instead, wildflowers and coastal grasses carpet hillsides to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The island is home to Columbian black-tailed deer, red foxes — and the foxes’ favorite meal, Townsend’s vole — and other species.

From a viewpoint on Mount Finlayson, parkgoers can glimpse other national parks — North Cascades, Olympic and, on especially clear days, Mount Rainier.

San Juan Island National Historical Park is not far from civilization — mil-lion-dollar homes sit just outside the park boundaries — but the location is remote. Parkgoers must board a ferry in Anacortes for the 60-minute journey to the island.

Situated at the northern and south-ern tips of San Juan Island, the park commemorates a footnote in history.

In 1859, a territorial dispute between the United States and Great Britain erupted into the Pig War, after a Yankee settler shot a pig owned by a British subject. The otherwise-bloodless dispute ended after both sides agreed to joint military occupation on the island.

Nowadays, parkgoers trek to the his-toric sites at the American Camp on the southern tip and the English Camp on the northern tip.

Uphill from the settlement, the English Camp Cemetery is eerie, espe-cially at dusk. Behind a white picket fence, a small Union Jack marks graves of Royal Marines and a civilian lost to accidents during the British occupation.

The ferry Evergreen State chugs past snowcapped Mount Baker and a sailboat en route to Anacortes from the San Juan Islands.

Griffin Bay in San Juan Island Historical National Park is framed by a crescent of pebbles and driftwood at peaceful 4th of July Beach.

SAN JUAN ISLAND NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

ESTABLISHED 1966

SIZE 2,072 acres

OPERATING SEASON American Camp Visitor Center is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Sept. 3. The grounds open to parkgoers from sunrise to 11 p.m. daily. The English Camp Visitor Center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Sept. 3. The grounds open to parkgoers from 8 a.m. to sunset daily.

FEES The park has no entrance fee, but a special-use permit is needed for horseback riding and other activities.

CONNECT www.nps.gov/sajh

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MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARKESTABLISHED 1899

SIZE 236,381 acres

OPERATING SEASON Mount Rainier National Park is open year round. Parking is limited in many areas, especially on busy sum-mer weekends and holidays. Vehicle access to Mount Rainier in the winter is only available from the Nisqually Entrance, en route to Paradise. In winter, the Carbon River Entrance is open to foot and bicycle traffic only.

FEES The entrance fee is $15 for a motor vehicle or $5 for each visitor 16 and older entering on foot, or by motorcycle, bicycle or horseback, or for individuals traveling together as a noncom-mercial, organized group. Everyone needs a climbing pass to travel above 10,000 feet or onto any glaciers. Campsite fees range from $12 to $64.

CONNECT www.nps.gov/mora

The oldest national park in Washington is also a crown jewel in the coast-to-coast national park system.

Parkgoers travel to poetically named Sunrise and Paradise to see the splen-dor in the untouched landscape around the active volcano. Historic Longmire, another frequent destination, interprets the efforts to conserve Mount Rainier.

In late spring, Mount Rainier is still a winter wonderland. The popular Henry

M. Jackson Visitor Center at Paradise remains buried beneath a deep snowpack. On many days, gloom obscures the sum-mit, even from the vantage point 5,400 feet up on the southern slope.

Navigating the deep snow above Paradise, sans skis or snowshoes, is akin to a haphazard series of dance steps, unchoreographed and complicated.

The change of seasons reveals alpine splendor — meadows carpeted in wild-

flowers, thundering streams and a pan-orama as picturesque and unblemished as a painted film backdrop.

Upstream on the Carbon River is the lowest-elevation glacier in the lower 48 states.

Throughout the park, streams fed by glaciers high above rush past lichens glued to rocks. Some, such as Narada Falls on the Paradise River, drop over cliffs in dramatic style.

Mount Rainier rises from a landscape of boulders and evergreens along the road to Paradise, a popular visitor destination in the park.

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MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT

ESTABLISHED 1982

SIZE 110,000 acres

JOHNSTON RIDGE OBSERVATORY

OPERATING SEASON Johnston Ridge Observatory is open 10 a.m.

to 6 p.m. daily through Oct. 28.

FEES The entrance fee for the observatory is $8 per person. Recreation passes do not cover fees for winter recreation areas, cabin rentals, developed campgrounds, or climbing and wilder-ness permits. Everyone must have a climbing permit to go above 4,800 feet elevation on Mount St. Helens.

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The lonely highway to Mount St. Helens leads 32 years into the past, to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption.

The eruption lopped off the cone-shaped top, destroyed 150,000 acres of forest and transformed the surrounding forest into a moonscape for years. Spirit Lake, a popular recreation area before the eruption, shrunk as Mount St. Helens disgorged earth.

Long after the hellfire subsided and the landscape cooled, Mount St. Helens appears crouched, mired in debris, in a valley reshaped by the eruption.

The crater looms above ubiquitous signs of rebirth — prairie lupine, a dainty flower and regal conifers poke from soil blasted from the mountain by the erup-tion. Mammals large and small, elk and marmot alike, pad across resurgent land-scape as birds soar overhead.

In decades after the earth ripped open at Mount St. Helens, life abounds in the blast zone — a place once so barren that President Jimmy Carter said the lunar surface appeared more hospitable.

Still, reminders from the fateful May morning in 1980 remain indel-ible. The panorama from Johnston Ridge Observatory allows visitors to peer into the maw opened by the eruption.

The peak, nestled inside the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, is a destination for people curious about the most-destruc-tive volcanic eruption to occur on U.S. soil.

The observatory — named for a volca-nologist lost in the eruption — includes a striking topographical map illuminated by fiber optic pinpricks of light to illus-trate the unfolding disaster.

The drama is more subtle in a documen-tary exhibited at the observatory about the eruption and aftermath, titled “Eruption of Life.” The film ends as the curtain rises from panoramic windows to reveal the cra-ter outside — and a glimpse into the past.

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STORY BY

Christina LordsPHOTOS BY

Greg Farrar

t. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, the oldest permanent structure in Chelan, is nestled near the south-ern tip of the 55 mile-long lake that

bears the same name.The chimes that ring out from its dark-

brown bell tower audibly undulate through-out the area, and worn, wooden pews line the aisle of a structure that has been a place of worship for residents since the 1890s.

Two such devotees are Issaquah’s Jim and Liz Perry.

Their part in the structure — though only a few of the church’s faithful know the story behind their contributions — are last-ing, resplendent and illuminating.

The leaded glass windows with care-fully etched medallions and selected hues depicting sacraments and church seasons were made here in the couple’s Front Street stained glass studio.

ARTISTS COMBINE

TO CREATE STAINED-GLASS MASTERPIECES

faith, flair

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Jim Perry, 82, holds a sheet of red-layered clear glass up to the light in the Perry Stained Glass Studio workroom at 470 Front St. N.

The Israelite tribes of Reuben (far left) and Asher are symbolized in two of 12 windows made in 1981 by the Perry family for a Jewish auditorium in Seattle.

The parable of the Prodigal Son is depicted at Fall City United Methodist Church in one of the 11 windows created by Perry Stained Glass Studio for the church’s centennial in 1985.

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Long before installation, each project starts from a rough idea or sketch.

Every project starts off with a preliminary color

design — traditional designs are done by an independent

artist in Bristol, England; contemporary work is designed

by a designer in University Place — that goes to the client

for approval and slight modifications.

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The approved design is blown up to a full-sized

black-and-white drawing, known as a cartoon.

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The cartoon is color-coded, not unlike a paint-by-number

book, so Jim knows which piece of colored glass goes where.

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Jim then makes cutlines, which reveal the size and shape

of each piece of glass that will be used in the final piece.

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The colored glass, which comes from an array of sources

including providers in Seattle, West Virginia and Germany, is cut

over a backlit table to ensure proper size and shape.

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Each piece of glass is marked off when cut and finished to

ensure multiple pieces of glass aren’t made for the same space.

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A subject’s facial details and other detailed painted work

are added next. A mixture of iron oxide and powdered glass is

fused right into the surface of the glass to give life and texture

to aspects such as facial features and a subject’s garment folds.

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Those pieces are then finalized and fired in a kiln.

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The pieces are taken out of the kiln, and then leaded

together into a window panel.

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The joints of a window must be soldered together to

ensure stability of the piece.

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The window is sealed with a mixture of putty and paint

thinner to make it waterproof.

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The window is then carefully packaged, crated and

hauled to its final destination for installation.

CREATING STAINED GLASS

FROM

start to finish

Jim Perry shows how he scores a piece of glass on the cutline template (below left) breaks the glass along the scored groove (above) and bends leading along a finished edge (below right).

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Jim and Liz escape from Issaquah each Thursday to make the drive to their week-end home in Chelan, where Liz is origi-nally from, to worship at St. Andrew’s on Sunday.

“I don’t really necessarily try to avoid telling people, but it’s not me to really promote myself as their maker there,” Jim said. “I’m not that enamored with myself.”

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The couple first met in the Seattle area when Jim was stationed here for military police work through the Army before trav-

eling to California so Jim could attend school for police training.

“I came from a family of Midwest famers and people that did a lot of every-thing,” he said. “I had made a scale-model of a church that our congregation was building in Santa Clara and the fella who owned the stained glass business there came by to get some ideas for windows … eventually I went to work for him part time.”

After tinkering in the shop and learn-ing the art of stained glass for several years, the couple returned to the Pacific Northwest, opening Perry Stained Glass Studio in 1971.

More than 40 years later, more than 120 major stained glass projects have come out of the studio, including windows with traditional, contemporary and fac-eted glass designs that enrich places of worship up and down the West Coast, as well as Arizona, Alaska, Nebraska and New Hampshire.

And those are only the projects listed in the studio’s trifold brochure.

“When people ask how many windows we’ve done, it’s kind of like what my son tells people when they ask him how many pieces of glass are in a stained glass win-dow,” he said. “He says, ‘only amateurs count.’”

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At left, Liz and Jim Perry show the cartoon (left) and the cutline (right) used in the making of a recent window for Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church in Union City, Calif. Above, windows in a Seattle auditorium made in 1981 depict the Israelite tribes of (from the top) Issachar, Ephraim and Benjamin.

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While the couple attends some church conventions and maintains a website, most of their new business comes from word out mouth, Jim said.

“Priests tend to get changed from one church to another,” he said, “so some-times one will see a window and ask where it came from.”

The couple works as a team to complete each project, with Jim doing the brunt of the glass cutting and Liz and their son, who also works out of the studio, adding paint detail to complete a project.

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Although the studio has produced win-dows for Episcopal, Catholic, Lutheran, United Methodist, Baptist and several other kinds of churches and worship space, including Jewish synagogues, every window the couple does has some-thing in common — it tells a story.

“It started out being a teaching tool before people could read back in the Middle Ages,” Liz said. “Now it’s become more decorative, although it’s still used as a teaching tool with certain saints. There’s always a story that refers to the Bible. Most subjects come out of the Bible

one way or another.”Many churches start fund drives to

have new windows installed or families often commemorate a loved one with memorial windows — such as the ones in St. Andrew’s.

But Jim said demand for stained glass has slowed considerably with the downturn of the economy. When the cou-ple first opened the studio, most of the demand was solely for traditional design, which generally includes religious figures such as Jesus Christ, Mary and recogniz-able saints. Now their work includes con-temporary design and work for people’s homes.

“In the last three years, there hasn’t been that much church building,” Jim said. “The thing with stained glass is normally when they need a new building it may be figured into the budget, but when the building goes over budget, the first thing that goes out the window is the stained glass.”

Projects tend to take two to three months, depending on the size and scope of work, but some, like the three-window project they’re working on now — bound for Our Lady of the Rosary in Union City, Calif. — has taken about a year. They’ve

already completed about 20 windows for that church and may do more.

As frequently as possible, Jim and Liz like to see the process through from start to finish, crating up each piece and installing it themselves. They attend as many of the windows’ dedications as pos-sible.

“I’ve seen two or three jobs where they’ve hired somebody else to install them and the two figures are supposed to be looking at each other and they were turned around so that Christ is looking at one end of the church and Lazarus is looking at the other,” Jim said, chuckling lightly. “The panels are marked right and left from the inside, and when they install them from the outside, right becomes left and left becomes right.”

But when an installation goes the way it should and the pieces are finally in place, the rest of the arduous process falls away, Liz said.

“I may have worked on them and painted them and seen them in the studio, but when they get installed in the church, they look completely different,” she said. “It’s like seeing them for the first time. It’s like they’re where they’re supposed to be. ” n

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Windows at Fall City United Methodist Church include depictions of the Parables of Jesus (left) and the Centennial Window (above the altar).

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Were that rumor to come true, some rain-drenched, sun-starved Washingtonians will no doubt choose to spend their days tubing in one of the state’s rivers and lakes.

Don Martin, an experienced rescu-er, river guide and owner of white-water rafting company River Recreation, said rivers and lakes offer differ-ent advantages.

“The allure of rivers is that you’re travel-ing to a dif-ferent section of river,” as you float, he said. A lake offers a calmer alternative, with not so much mov-ing water. W a s h i n g t o n state is full of lakes like that, he added.

Tyler Folkman, manager at Issaquah’s Sports Authority store, said most Eastside tubers prefer rivers.

“They go to the Snoqualmie, right under the falls or they go up to Cle Elum and do the Yakima River,” he said. Preferred lakes include Beaver Lake, Pine Lake and Lake Sammamish, he added.

Martin advised tubing only if you are at least 8 years old. For younger children, a Wild Waves-like place with a controlled environment may be better.

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Folkman said police check tubers on the Snoqualmie for life jackets.

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Officials estimate about 75 percent of all pollution in Puget Sound comes from storm water runoff. The runoff comes from the water passing over roads, sidewalks, driveways and yards — pick-ing up oil, grease, metals, soaps and yard chemicals along the way.

PUGET SOUND STARTS IN ISSAQUAH — AMONG OTHER PLACES — AND PROBLEMS

IN LOCAL STREAMS CAN IMPACT THE SOUND’S OVERALL HEALTH.

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Glance at any storm drain in downtown Issaquah, and the con-nection between run-off from city streets

and Puget Sound comes into focus.“Puget Sound Starts Here”

read placards about the same size as a deck of cards.

The shortest distance between Issaquah and Puget Sound is about 15 miles, separated by open spaces set aside for conservation and acres sealed beneath con-crete. The actual division between suburb and sound is shorter.

Curbside storm drains through-out Issaquah drain to Issaquah and Tibbetts creeks, and then into Lake Sammamish. The lake is con-nected through a broad, intercon-nected watershed to Puget Sound.

“It’s all of us that live in the watershed,” said Michael Grayum, director of public affairs

for the Puget Sound Partnership, a state agency formed to spear-head cleanup. “The work of the Puget Sound Partnership goes from the snowcaps to the white-caps, and everything is connected to Puget Sound in between.”

Many sources of pollutants in Puget Sound exist far from the shoreline.

The most common way toxic chemicals reach Puget Sound is through polluted surface runoff from residential, commercial and industrial lands. Untreated run-off sluices into freshwater lakes, streams and then drains into Puget Sound.

Data collected in Puget Sound and tributaries point to human activity as the major culprit for pollution in the sound and related waterways. Inland streams serve as important indicators for condi-tions throughout the watershed. n

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INTO THE SOUND

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Puget Sound Partnership leaders need dog owners to scoop the poop.

The waste contains hazardous organisms and can cause contamination in local streams, rivers and lakes. Runoff after rain carries fecal coliform bacteria in doo-doo into storm drains, ditches and streams feeding local rivers, lakes and Puget Sound. The bacteria in waste can make water unsafe to swim in or drink.

The public awareness campaign from Puget Sound Starts Here reminds pet owners to keep yards clean of pet waste by scooping at least once a week, if possible, and carrying a plastic bag to scoop and dispose of poop. Plus, not picking up dog waste on public property is illegal.

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The forests and moun-tains up and down the Cascades, cloaked in mist and mystery, could harbor Sasquatch, a

reclusive creature noted for coarse fur, malodorous scent and, oh yeah, oversized feet.

Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, depending on geography and preference, just might roam Evergreen State forests, believers claim. Or, as detrac-tors suggest, the creature is not 8 feet tall and covered in fur, but is rather a figment of imagination.

Evidence is concentrated in California, Oregon and Washington — especially the untamed backwoods near Mount St. Helens — and across the border in British Columbia and Alberta. Websites dedi-cated to Sasquatch encounters describe pulse-pounding con-tact between man and beast in the forests near Issaquah, including Squak Mountain and Rattlesnake Lake.

Sasquatch, maybe mythi-cal, maybe not, is a fixture revered in American Indian lore and monumentalized in pop culture. Look no further than the Sasquatch statue out-side a roadside attraction in Southwest Washington.

The statue along a rural Cowlitz County road stands 28 feet tall and bears a beneficent grin. The piece is perhaps the

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Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, is a pop culture icon. The maybe-mythical hominid pops up in adver-tisements, films, as a mascot — everywhere, seemingly, except in the wild.

In the Evergreen State, perhaps the foremost example of Sasquatch as a brand is the music festival named for the creature. Held at The Gorge along the Columbia River, Sasquatch attracts A-list performers to the Memorial Day weekend event.

Bigfoot, unleashed on audiences in 1979, is considered the original monster truck. The vehicle, dubbed a 4x4x4, is a staple at mud-spattered monster truck rallies across the United States.

In 2010, as the Winter Olympics opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, organizers turned Sasquatch from creepy to cute for the mascot Quatchi.

Before the Seattle Sonics bolted from the Emerald City for Oklahoma City, Squatch — a team jersey-clad creature noted for performing death-defying leaps — served as the team mascot.

Jack Links Beef Jerky features the hungry hominid in a popular advertising campaign called ‘Messin’ with Sasquatch.’ Pranksters attempt to trick Sasquatch, but in the end, the creature angrily retaliates.

Kokanee beer used a Sasquatch named Mel in a series of commercials in the 2000s. The company also released a line of Sasquatch swag, including a

footprint-shaped decal.

‘Sasquatch’ is a 1977 B-movie about a fictional expe-dition to search for the title creature in the wilderness of British Columbia.

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A statue of Sasquatch rises above state Route 504 en route to Mount St. Helens in rural Cowlitz County. BY MATTHEW STAERK

North America, or anywhere.“Bigfoot country begins

here” reads a sign along state Route 504 just before motorists reach the statue and the Buried A-Frame, a half-submerged house mired in lahar from the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

In a PEMCO Insurance Northwest Poll released last year, 38 percent of respondents

said Sasquatch exists and 13 percent claimed to have seen the hairy hominid or known some-one who had.

The creature is enshrined in lore — and law. In 1969, Skamania County passed a law to criminal-ize the killing of Sasquatch.

Believers said the study of Sasquatch is not cryptozoology — or search for mythical crea-

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tures — but a decades-long, even centuries-long, effort to explain the inexplicable.

The foremost Sasquatch expert in the United States, Jeffrey Meldrum, said the ample evidence is difficult to refute.

The anatomy professor at Idaho State University in Pocatello is focused on the evolution of hominid locomotion — in other words, how humans and other pri-mates move.

Meldrum recalled the time a skep-tical colleague dismissed the study of Sasquatch as a collection of stories.

“Stories that shed hair, that leave foot-prints, that are interwoven into the oral traditions and sometimes material, cul-tural traditions of the Native Americans that are indigenous to this region, that are seen by contemporary witness that are often credible and observant,” he said. “I said it’s much more than just stories.”

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In 1982, a father and son out for a hike on Squak Mountain ran into a giant, mus-cular creature and then fled, a user recount-ed to the Bigfoot Encounters website.

A sighting at Rattlesnake Lake occurred in August 2000, a supposed eyewitness recounted to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. The creature stood more than 7 feet tall, moved in a manner similar to a human and sported dark fur.

Meldrum said Sasquatch is a curi-ous creature, at least as intelligent as other great apes, although probably not a threat to humans.

“I don’t think there’s cause to be fear-ful,” he said. “If it were a very real threat to humanity, then it would have suffered the fate that the grizzly bear in the lower 48 suf-fered. It has survived and remained unrecog-nized formally because of its reclusiveness, because of its retreating, retiring behavior.”

Sasquatch is not, however, as cuddly as the title character in “Harry and the Hendersons” — a 1987 film about a Seattle family and a hominid-turned-housemate.

Andrea Lankford, a former park ranger and author based in Sonora, Calif., heard some strange stories from colleagues as a ranger at the Cape Hatteras, Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Zion national parks.

“Rangers tell their own stories around a campfire or a campsite or a ranger sta-tion, and there was just a lot of stories that had never been documented that I was privy to,” she said. “I decided some-body needed to write a book about that to document these things.”

Lankford included a Sasquatch account in “Haunted Hikes” — a 2006 guide to spine-tingling treks. The detailed informa-tion from a supposed eyewitness in Oregon offered a compelling case, she said.

“Bigfoot is pretty iconic, and even in the East, there’s a critter called the skunk ape in Big Cypress in Florida, so this sort of iconic, big, bipedal creature was in national parks across the United States,” she said. “Bigfoot was going to have to be in there no matter what.”

The iconic Patterson-Gimlin film is authentic — not a man in a gorilla suit as detractors claimed, Meldrum said. The footprints recorded at the Northern California site offer firmer evidence.

“It’s not a pair of floppy Kmart slip-pers like one of the would-be men in the costume claimed,” he said. “It’s not a set of carved wooden feet strapped to work boots like the other argued. It’s a living, animated foot that reacts and responds and leaves a variable imprint depending on the nature of the step.”

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The short film purports to show a hairy hominid traversing the area along the Klamath River in Northern California.

Meldrum saw the Patterson-Gimlin film as a boy, as Patterson traveled to Spokane to exhibit the documentary.

“Even at that age, I was already inter-ested in all things prehistoric — dino-saurs, cavemen — mysteries and the

unexplained,” he said.The interest turned into a lifelong

passion and, eventually, a career pursuit. Footprints led Meldrum to the study of Sasquatch in the mid-1990s.

“When I then, in ’96, came face to face with a very fresh set of footprints — 35, 45 individual prints in a track — I was in a pretty good position, I felt, to evaluate them,” he said.

The initial set of footprints traced across the Blue Mountain foothills near Walla Walla. The distinctive shape hinted at a creature similar to chimpanzees and gorillas, only larger.

“These tracks were just mind-boggling,” Meldrum said. “I kind of literally sort of pinched myself and said, ‘Is this really hap-pening? Could this be a hoax? Could this fellow that took us out and showed us these tracks possibly have perpetrated this?’”

The evidence appeared too strong to discredit and, as Meldrum documented more footprints, patterns started to emerge. The impressions from through-out the West hinted at the underlying construction beneath the giant footpads.

“These weren’t simply enlarged facsim-iles of human footprints,” Meldrum said. “They had distinctions which were, how-ever, quite reasonable if one were to design a foot for a 900- to 1,000-pound, upright, walking primate and one that particularly made its living in very, very broken, steep, mountainous, forested terrain.”

Since the initial set of footprints in 1996, Meldrum has collected more than 200 footprint casts. The difference between hoaxes and footprints left by a creature is simple to spot.

“People ask me, ‘What’s the most com-pelling evidence?’ Well, for me, given my position and my expertise, the footprint evidence is,” he said. “For people to say these are a bunch of fakes made by crude, carved wooden feet strapped to hiking books, work boots, it just reveals a naïveté of the mechanics and the complexities of human foot form and function that are present in these footprints.”

Footprints documented in remote plac-es — along a lake far from civilization in Ontario, for instance — also call the pos-sibility of hoaxes into question.

“There’s no question that there are hoaxes, although I think they’re rather few and far between,” he said. “Much more common are misidentifications. People see another flat-footed imprint with five toes left by, say, a bear and mis-take it for a Sasquatch track.”

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Jeffrey Meldrum, a Sasquatch expert and Idaho State University professor, holds a cast of a footprint suspected to have been left by the beast. BY RACHEL ANNE SEYMOUR

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The forest floor is a superhighway of sorts for creatures of all shapes and sizes, so tracks left by other forest animals often get reported to Meldrum and Sasquatch enthusiasts as possible evidence.

Decades of constant study taught Meldrum to sort the hoaxes and misidentifi-cation from the more tantalizing prospects.

“People, they see what they want to see,” he said. “Sometimes, a pothole that bears a faint resemblance to an oblong footprint takes on undue significance. You have to sift through those, but, boy, the ones that remain. There’s something out there making tracks that defy expla-nation by any other means.”

The information collected from sup-posed eyewitnesses hinges on credibility and sincerity, not to mention a keen abil-ity to observe and record the scene.

Meldrum said many supposed sight-ings contain insufficient data to deter-mine authenticity. Footprint evidence is often more useful than reported sightings.

Oftentimes, people unable to explain creatures spotted in the forest feel reluc-tant to report the incident due to concerns about credibility — or unwanted attention.

“Some people are after their five minutes of fame and some people want to spite someone else by showing that they’re gullible in accepting something which they think is silly and outrageous,” Meldrum said.

The closest Meldrum came to a face-to-face encounter occurred in Northern California, not far from the Patterson-Gimlin film site, and at a cabin on a remote lake in Ontario.

In the Siskiyou Mountains near the California coast, not far from Sasquatch hotspot Blue Creek, a large creature brushed along the team’s tents amid pea-soup fog.

Unable to catch a glimpse due to the fog, Meldrum and the others noticed 16-inch footprints around the tents.

In Ontario, as Meldrum and a docu-mentary film crew searched for evidence of Sasquatch, someone or something tossed rocks and cordwood on the cabin’s aluminum roof just after the team snuffed the lights for the night.

“Critics will say we never saw what we were interacting with, but yet, we’re hun-dreds of miles from civilization, we’re at a location that’s only reasonably arrived at by floatplane and all six of us are accounted for inside the cabin, and something heaves a quartered chunk of cordwood onto the roof,” he said. “Unless bears have sprouted oppos-able thumbs, it’s kind of hard to imagine.” n

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Edwards R. Fish Jr. outlined early saloons in the Oct. 18, 1962, edition of The Issaquah Press, noting it was far from difficult to find a place for a man (it was not socially acceptable for women to enter bars until much later) to get a drink in the early days of Issaquah.

At the time, an even half-dozen drink-ing establishments were available in one block along the town’s main street — Isaac Cooper’s place, the Bellevue Hotel bar, Schmidt’s Saloon and Hotel, the Eagle Saloon (with a large maple limb from a tree over its bar), the Klondike

Bar and Clark’s Saloon.“It is not exactly coincidental that

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PPistol duels. Free-for-all brawls. Bombings.These are just a few standout bar stories that permeate Issaquah’s rich history and

its favorite drinking establishments along the way.Many of the early hotels — if not every hotel — in the area would have had a drink-

ing establishment associated with the business as Issaquah became established as a municipality.

“They knew that whenever the miners did get home, they were going to want to get a beer, to get a drink they enjoyed,” said Issaquah History Museums Executive Director Erica Maniez. “It made sense to have them right there in the boarding house, or they could walk down the block and go to a saloon.”

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of recreation for some of the younger, wilder groups around town. The ‘scrap iron gang’ … often had the opportunity to defend the valor of Issaquah against the Swedes from Preston, loggers from up the lake or the Renton miners.”

Fish and Maniez agree that saloons and bars were probably some of the first establishments erected as miners flooded Issaquah’s early days in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

“I’m sure the first saloon was right before or right after the railroad reached town and coal mining really got started here,” Maniez said. “For sure, for positive, there were saloons popping up by 1892, because some of the first things the town council was dealing with were liquor licenses. That was the majority of the town council business for some time.”

DRINKING ENDS IN RIOTEd Cope and his friends John Cope

and Patrick Curtis had likely just spent the better part of their day doing back-breaking work at one of Issaquah’s nearby coal mines.

They entered the Bellevue saloon — a local Issaquah watering hole — on a Sunday night in late January 1903, joining about a dozen other men in the establishment that night.

They were drinking. And they were drinking heavily.

According to the deputy sheriff dis-patched from Seattle to the saloon, trouble began when the town marshal attempted to arrest Ed Cope, who was a son of one of the deputy marshals in town — a move that didn’t sit well with, well, anybody.

The town marshal tried to persuade Ed Cope to leave the saloon at the request of the barkeep, but he report-edly “refused absolutely to budge.”

That’s when things disintegrated rapidly.

As the marshal laid his hands on Ed Cope to forcibly eject him from the establishment, Ed turned and struck the marshal full in the face, knocking him to the floor.

Two other deputies rushed to the marshal’s aid, only to be swarmed, beat-

en and pounced on by the inebriated young miners drinking there.

“In a short time, there was a free-for-all fight in which both officers were badly used up,” an article about the incident in the Feb. 4, 1903, Seattle Daily Times states. “Another deputy named Cameron heard of the trouble and ran to the saloon. He had no sooner entered the door until he was jumped upon and beaten almost into insensibil-ity.”

The young Ed Cope’s father appeared on the scene, advising all three instiga-tors to submit to arrest as the best way out of the difficulty.

They agreed, following the advice of the elder Cope, accompanying him to the town jail, where they were subse-quently incarcerated.

That could have been the end of a tiresome — albeit interesting — night, but friends of the prisoners demanded the judge fix the bail for all of the boys. He refused on the grounds of the incident’s seriousness and the unavail-ability of vetted full facts of what had happened in the saloon.

“The refusal of Judge Heaton to fix the bail of the assailants of the town officers infuriated the crowd that had gathered in front of the official’s house,” the Times article states. “They swore, it is claimed, that if he did not fix the bail they would break open the jail and then tar and feather Heaton.”

The judge became so frightened by the mob that the responding deputy sheriff from Seattle stayed the night at the judge’s house for protection.

The crowd broke down the door of the jail and the two Copes, along with Curtis, were allowed to meander out.

Meanwhile, the saloon keeper had cleared the bar of the injured officers, who were sent home to mend, and locked up for the night — to the bewilderment of the crowd. They reportedly returned to the drinking place to continue the evening.

A prosecuting attorney later issued warrants for the arrest Ed Cope, John Cope and Curtis—all charged with assault and battery with the intent to commit murder — as ringleaders of the mob.

The Times article states that the behavior in the crowd was not all that uncommon for Issaquah’s miners,

although this was the most serious inci-dent to date.

“A few years ago, Sheriff Moyer was forced to take a special train to Issaquah with deputies aboard to pre-vent the lynching of a man who had raised a Spanish flag in town and was said to have cursed the President and United States government,” the article states.

Quiet, in that instance, “was secured without bloodshed.”

PISTOL DUEL ERUPTSIt was 9:45 p.m. at Soyen’s saloon in

Issaquah when a pistol duel broke out between the town marshal, J.H. Case, and John Condotti, a non-union miner.

Six rounds were fired off in the bar brawl, but no one was hit or injured, according to the July 14, 1904, edition of the Seattle Star.

Tony Condotti, the son of John Condotti, had resisted arrest for a simi-lar offense a week prior to the pistol duel.

Both men were arrested on their way to work.

“All is quiet today,” the Star article states. “The Condottis are out on bail.”

SHOOTING INJURES REVELERSGunfire drew headlines in Issaquah

again after a man reportedly opened fire at the Lake Sammamish Inn, which likely boasted its own drinking spot, during a nighttime dance party.

In what was described as “a most regrettable affair,” Andrew Darst was shot in the abdomen, Truman Hume was shot in the chest and Eddie Parker was shot in the right groin.

“Three popular young men were sent to hospitals with wounds from a revolv-er held by Earnest Hale, lessee of the resort,” the Jan. 23, 1941, issue of The Issaquah Press states.

Reports about the incident were so varied, it was nearly impossible to say what exactly happened.

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“Most seem to agree on the following: Hale struck Parker over the head with a ball bat,” The Press article states. “Hale was knocked down by Parker and fired all tree (sic) shots from the floor.”

Parker and Hume apparently attempted to transport themselves home, but “swooned near the Pickering corner and were afterwards brought to town for first aid and taken to the hospital.”

Darst was transported to the hospi-tal immediately via ambulance, where he was given numerous blood transfu-sions and reports on his condition were encouraging.

“The last report from Parker was that the head blow was giving more trouble than the shot to the groin,” The Press article states.

Hale was taken into custody and held in a Seattle jail.

EXPLOSION LEVELS TAVERNMany people who want to dismiss

Issaquah as a quiet, sleepy town inca-

pable of bar brawls and drunken mis-deeds need only take a short journey back to 1980 to know it wasn’t always that way.

They need only go back to a time when a popular watering hole — the Waterhole — was blown to smithereens.

Waterhole Tavern owner Dave Brumpton reportedly had plans to reopen the bar as a topless club in Issaquah after it had temporarily shut down in June 1980. The new joint was marketed with “Girls-Girls-Girls! Live! On Stage!” signs, and amateur nights were planned for Wednesdays, accord-ing to Jean Cerar, a docent at the Issaquah History Museums.

(Never fear, ladies, there were even all-inclusive plans for male dancers on Sunday nights.)

But before the plans could get off the ground, a suspected Seattle mob mem-ber and strip club extraordinaire added his own flare to the mix.

Ed Mott, an Issaquah policeman at the time, said in an oral history inter-view conducted by the Issaquah History Museums, that the mobster pressured Brumpton to include him in the revamp of the Waterhole.

“There was an individual, [Frank] Colacurcio [Sr.],” Mott said, “who was kind of the godfather of all the strip clubs in the area, who came to him and said, ‘You hire my girls, you put my soda machines in there, you put my cigarette machines in there. And that’s the way we’re going to run it, and I get a cut.’”

Brumpton reportedly refused, and a couple of nights later, the place was blown sky high in an explosion at about 11:30 p.m. Aug. 28 that was heard by residents throughout the area.

“The area was strewn with yel-low crime scene tape,” Cerar said. “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had taken over the inves-tigation, a sure sign that arson was suspected. Witnesses working at Hi-Lo on the night of the fire said there was a small explosion, followed by a huge blast that sent a ball of flame 100 feet into the air, and then another four or five smaller explosions.”

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SURVIVESUMMER

VACATION

The summer months have ar-rived.

School is out, the anticipation of summer weather is almost too much to bear, and now you’re ready to head outdoors and enjoy it.

But wait! Before you head out the door, there are summer haz-ards to be aware of and ways to make sure you stay safe.

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As the sun emerges and the temperatures rise, a nice dip in Lake Sammamish seems quite enticing. But before you whip out your bathing suit, slather on your sunscreen and grab that inner tube, make sure you know the important stuff. Last year, there were 18 drowning deaths in King County, according to Tony Gomez, manager of violence and injury prevention for Public Health - Seattle & King County.

Because of lingering cold weather, when it finally does warm up, rivers and streams may flow at a tem-perature of 35 degrees. Water that cold can be deadly.

“Water that is that cold causes a person to be-come disabled in a matter of seconds, then rescue is just about impossible because of the dangerous, deep and cold conditions,” Gomez said.

So, for now, he recommends satisfying your wa-

ter needs by visiting lifeguarded swimming pools, such as Issaquah’s Julius Boehm Pool, just until the water warms up later in the summer.

If you do decide to venture into cool waters, it is vital to wear a life jacket.

“Life jackets aren’t guaranteed to save lives in every situation, but they’re pretty darn effective in preventing drowning deaths,” Gomez said.

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As roads dry and the sun emerges, a great way to enjoy Issaquah, get around and get some exercise is to hop on a bike.

As more people ride bikes in summer, Gomez wants to remind people of the importance of wear-ing a helmet. Not only can it prevent serious injury, but it’s also the law in King County.

“When you wear a helmet, a helmet prevents brain

or head injury anywhere from 65 to 85 percent of the time,” said Tony Gomez, manager of violence and injury prevention for Public Health - Seattle & King County.

Gomez also reminds drivers to give bicyclists plen-ty of room. Be patient and only pass when it is safe.

“If drivers would take just a few seconds to plan a safe pass around bicyclists, it works better for ev-erybody,” he said.

As roads dry and the sun emerges, a great way to

BIKING ACCIDENTS

BEAR ENCOUNTERS

Issaquah is full of scenic trails and family-friendly walks. What better time to visit your favorite hiking trail than summertime?

Hiking is a great way to enjoy all that the pic-turesque Northwest has to offer and get exercise at the same time. But as more people enjoy hik-ing in the summer, it is important to remember to stay prepared for any dangers, according to Matt Mechler, the open space steward for the Issaquah Parks & Recreation Department.

It’s important for people to remember to bring basic essentials on a hike. Nutrition, water and sun protection are especially important on warm summer days. As always, remember to bring some sort of insulation, navigation, first aid, illumination and emergency shelter just in case a hiker gets lost. Mechler also suggests telling a friend or family member where you are going to hike and when you plan to be back.

“Making sure people are prepared when they go out hiking is the main thing,” he said. “Be pre-pared for the conditions you’re going out in, be it the weather or the trails.”

Issaquah is full of scenic trails and family-

HIKING MISHAPS

Hiking is all good and fun, but what happens if you stumble upon a bear? A bear sighting is not an uncommon occurrence in the Issaquah area. There aren’t necessarily more bears during the summer, but as people spend more time outdoors, the animal’s presence is more noticeable.

People have seen bears while hiking the trails near Tradition Lake, in town near the Rainier Trail and even in an occasional backyard.

The good thing is that bears usually try to avoid peo-ple. Furthermore, black bears, the kind found in Issaquah, are not normally aggressive. Still, Matt Mechler, the open

space steward for the Issaquah Parks & Recreation De-partment, says there are simple steps that people can take to ensure safety during a bear encounter.

It should go without saying, but do not ap-proach the bear, especially if there are cubs nearby. Mechler says it’s important to leave the bear an es-cape route and give it plenty of space. Also, be sure to stay calm and identify yourself as a human by standing, waving your hands above your head or by talking. Taking these steps should ensure that the bear will leave you alone.

After a long day outside enjoying the sum-mer weather, there’s nothing more annoying than discovering those red, itchy bumps all over your arms and legs. The mosquitoes have triumphed yet again.

Not only are mosquitoes a general nuisance, but they may also carry dangerous diseases such as West Nile virus, according to Sharon Hopkins, the veteri-narian for Public Health - Seattle & King County.

One of the best ways to combat mosquitoes dur-ing summer is to control sources of mosquito breed-

ing. Mosquitoes breed in standing water. So in places where water does not circulate, such as standing water on a rooftop, gutters or on top of a pool cover, residents should dump the liquid.

Mosquitoes are generally worst during the eve-ning. Hopkins suggests wearing long sleeves and long pants, exposing the least amount of skin as pos-sible, when going outside at night. Mosquito repel-lant is also a good idea.

To keep the critters out of your house, Hopkins advises everyone to keep screens on their windows.

After a long day outside enjoying the sum-

MOSQUITOES

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IQISSAQUAH

So, you think you know Issaquah? Is the city just

another buttoned-up suburb? Nope. Issaquah is home to more than 30,000

people — and more than a century of secrets. Issaquah anecdotes stretch deep into the past

and continue into the 21st century. Look beyond the basics to discover tidbits and trivia.

Test your Issaquah IQ.

BY WARREN KAGARISE

1. WHAT IS THE NO. 1 ITEM SOLD AT MORE THAN 600 WAREHOUSES WORLDWIDE BY ISSAQUAH-BASED COSTCO? HINT: NO. 2.

AB

WINE

LAUNDRY DETERGENT

CD

TOILET PAPER

ROTISSERIE CHICKENS

2. WHICH MAGAZINE NAMED ISSAQUAH — NICKNAMED TRAILHEAD CITY — AS A TOP OUTDOOR RECREATION DESTINATION?

AB

OUTSIDE

FIELD & STREAM

CD

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

BACKPACKER

3. IN WHICH EVENT DID CHOCOLATIER JULIUS BOEHM COMPETE FOR AUSTRIA IN THE 1924 SUMMER OLYMPICS IN PARIS?

AB

110-METER HURDLES

3,000-METER TEAM RACE

CD

4X400-METER RELAY

MARATHON

4. WHAT SONG BY ISSAQUAH-FORMED MODEST MOUSE REACHED NO. 1 ON BILLBOARD MODERN ROCK TRACKS CHART IN 2004?

AB

‘DASHBOARD’

‘FLOAT ON’

CD

‘OCEAN BREATHES SALTY’

‘HEART COOKS BRAIN’

5. HOW MANY PEOPLE ATTENDED THE FIRST SALMON DAYS FESTIVAL IN 1970, LONG BEFORE THE CELEBRATION EXPANDED?

AB

15,000

30,000

CD

60,000

120,000

9. WHICH BEER INGREDIENT DID FARMERS ONCE GROW IN ISSAQUAH BEFORE APHIDS DECIMATED THE CROP IN THE 1890S?

AB

HOPS

BARLEY

CD

RICE

CORN

10. WHAT MUSICAL DID VILLAGE THEATRE PERFORMERS PRESENT IN THE DOWNTOWN ISSAQUAH PLAYHOUSE’S 1979 DEBUT?

AB

‘MY FAIR LADY’

‘HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING’

CD

‘CAMELOT’

‘OKLAHOMA!’

11. IN WHAT YEAR DID THE HISTORIC ISSAQUAH THEATRE DEBUT MOTION PICTURES WITH SOUND?

AB

1930

1929

CD

1932

1940

12. WHICH SPECIES FROM HABITAT IN ASIA IS NOT AMONG THE COUGAR MOUNTAIN ZOO COLLECTION?

AB

SARUS CRANE

BENGAL TIGER

CD

INDIAN ELEPHANT

SIBERIAN REINDEER

13. WHERE DID THE 8-TON STATUE OF VLADIMIR LENIN ORIGINATE BEFORE COMING TO ISSAQUAH AND, LATER, FREMONT?

AB

RUSSIA

BELARUS

CD

POLAND

CZECH REPUBLIC

6. WHICH EX-PRESIDENT ATTRACTED A CROWD OF MORE THAN 1,500 FANS TO A BOOK-SIGNING EVENT AT COSTCO IN 2004?

AB

JIMMY CARTER

GEORGE H.W. BUSH

CD

GERALD FORD

BILL CLINTON

7. WHAT NAME DID CITY FOUNDERS CHOOSE FOR ISSAQUAH IN 1892 TO INCOR-PORATE THE REMOTE OUTPOST?

AB

SQUAK

GILMAN

CD

OLNEY

SAMMAMISH

8. THE ONLY OTHER REMAINING TRIPLE XXX ROOTBEER DRIVE-IN IN THE UNITED STATES DISHES UP BURGERS IN WHICH STATE?

AB

INDIANA

OHIO

CD

ILLINOIS

MISSOURI

14. THE MILITARY INSTALLED MISSILES ON WHICH PEAK TO SHOOT DOWN SOVIET BOMB-ERS IN CASE THE COLD WAR TURNED HOT?

AB

TIGER MOUNTAIN

SQUAK MOUNTAIN

CD

COUGAR MOUNTAIN

TAYLOR MOUNTAIN

15. HOW MANY CHINOOK SALMON EGGS DID WORKERS AND VOLUNTEERS COLLECT AT THE ISSAQUAH SALMON HATCHERY IN 2011?

AB

750,000

1.25 MILLION

CD

1.75 MILLION

2.5 MILLION

16. IN 1971, AIRLINE HIJACKER D.B. COOPER USED A PARACHUTE FROM THE ISSAQUAH SKYPORT WHEN HE JUMPED FROM THE JET.

TRUE FALSE

17. THE ISSAQUAH ALPS — COUGAR, SQUAK AND TIGER MOUNTAINS — FORMED FROM MILLENNIA OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.

TRUE FALSE

18. IN 1924, ISSAQUAH HOSTED 13,000 PEOPLE AT THE LARGEST KU KLUX KLAN RALLY EVER HELD IN WESTERN WASHINGTON.

TRUE FALSE

19. ISSAQUAH HIGH USES PURPLE AND GOLD BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DONATED THE ORIGINAL UNIFORMS.

TRUE FALSE

20. ISSAQUAH LEADERS ONCE SUGGESTED LAKE SAMMAMISH STATE PARK AS A POSSIBLE SITE FOR THE 1962 SEATTLE WORLD’S FAIR.

TRUE FALSE

1 TO 5

REALLY? DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE ISSAQUAH?

6 TO 10

SO, YOU CAN PRONOUNCE ISSAQUAH AND, MAYBE, FIND IT ON A MAP.

11 TO 15

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU’RE ALMOST A BONA FIDE ISSAQUAHN.

16 TO 20

WOW! YOU MUST BE DESCENDED FROM ISSAQUAH PIONEERS.

1. C 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. D 7. B 8. A 9. A 10. B 11. A 12. C 13. D 14. C 15. C 16. TRUE 17. FALSE 18. TRUE 19. TRUE 20. TRUE

ANSWERS

HOW MANYDID YOU ANSWER

CORRECTLY?

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