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“I would have liked to have met Obama, but I started to think to myself, ‘A lot ofpeople met Obama that day, but very, very few were actually on the steps of AirForce One.’”

— Michael CisnerosA chef at Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria in Issaquah (See story above.)

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Issaquah chef prepares pizza forpresident to eat aboard Air Force One

By Warren KagariseIssaquah Press reporter

The unusual delivery order orig-inated far from the Tutta BellaNeapolitan Pizzeria restaurants inIssaquah and Seattle — 1600Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington,D.C.

The call from the White House torestaurant founder Joe Fugereoccurred late Feb. 15, days beforePresident Barack Obama left thecapital for a fundraising jaunt tothe West Coast. The tight deadlineleft Fugere and the Tutta Bellateam less than 72 hours to over-come culinary, logistical and secu-rity challenges to deliver 40 pizzasto Air Force One.

North Bend resident MichaelCisneros, a chef at the Issaquahrestaurant, and other Tutta Bellachefs prepared the pizzas forObama in a loaned outdoor ovenbeneath a tent on the Paine Fieldtarmac.

“‘The president won’t be able tostop at Tutta Bella, but if you canbring Tutta Bella to the president,we’ll make it happen,’” Fugererecalled from the White Housecall.

The team decided to use a4,000-pound oven at Paine Field toensure the pizzas reached thepresident as crisp as possible —rather than after a 30-minute tripfrom Seattle to Everett.

The setup to cook for the cus-tomer-in-chief posed hurdles toFugere, Cisneros and the otherchefs.

“We’ve been making pizzas foryears now, and when it comes tothe execution of the pizzas, so longas you’ve got your dough right andthe oven temperature right andyou’ve got all your ingredientsthere, we all have the skills tomake pizzas quickly,” Cisnerossaid. “Whether it be inside or out-side, it’s the same technique.”

The plans for the special deliv-ery started to coalesce Feb. 16.Fugere set up a command post atthe original Tutta Bella inColumbia City to create a menuand address the logistics.

Joyce Morinaka, director ofoperations for Tutta Bella, didsome research and learned Obamais keen on spicy foods.

Executive Chef Brian Gojdicscreated a pizza using local ingredi-ents — pickled peppers fromSeattle-based Mama Lil’s andsausage from Seattle-based

PHOTOS BY TOM SCHABARUM

Above, Michael Cisneros (left) and Dan Piecora Jr. prepare pizzas on thePaine Field tarmac. Above right, Michael Cisneros (clockwise from left), DanPiecora Jr., Brian Gojdics, Joe Fugere and Emily Resling stand on the stepsof Air Force One. At right, Il Presidente, a pizza created for President BarackObama, is slid into the oven. Below, Mini Coopers line up near Air Force Oneto deliver 40 pizzas to the president and White House staffers.


Colleagues remember longtimeEastside Fire & Rescue VolunteerBattalion Chief John Waltosz as afirefighter committed to the agencyand public service, even as thelandscape and the fire departmentchanged.

Waltosz, 83, died Feb. 19 after along career in EFR and, earlier, ina rural fire district and future EFRpartner.

“He had tremendous respect forthe fire service, and he wanted tomake sure that everyone else whojoined the fire service had thatsame sort of respect for the job,service to the public, service to thecustomers,” EFR Battalion Chief

Dave McDanielsaid.

W a l t o s zimparted arespect for theagency onfledgling mem-bers as theUnited StatesArmy veteranrecruited andtrained resi-dents torespond to fires and other emer-gencies.

“When new volunteers came intothe agency, he always took themunder his wing,” McDaniel said.“He really set them in the directionof what the fire service is as a vol-unteer, this is how it’s going to run.

He was just a stickler for that.”Waltosz lived near Station 78 —

in the Coalfield area near Rentoncity limits — and responded tocalls in the Coalfield, LakeKathleen, Maple Hills and MayValley areas before retiring inNovember 1998. Waltosz startedas a Fire District 10 volunteer fire-fighter 33 years earlier in January1965. (Fire District 10 later joinedEFR as a partner organization.)

“John will be missed for hisdevotion to his family, his neigh-bors and community service,” EFRChief Lee Soptich said.

Waltosz built a strong relation-ship between volunteer and careerfirefighters in the area.

“He was very well-respected bythe fellow volunteers and by the

career firefighters,” McDaniel said.“A lot of the career firefighters inthe agency either had a direct orindirect relationship with him.”

Despite the serious role,McDaniel remembered Waltosz asa genial man dedicated to familyand firefighting. The longtime vol-unteer firefighter also made upnicknames for colleagues as afriendly gesture.

“He had a great deal of influenceon a lot of people,” McDaniel said.“He was just a great guy to bearound.”

In December 2007, EFR leadersestablished the Volunteer BattalionChief John Waltosz Inspiration

EFR honors late volunteer firefighter

John Waltosz


The most innovative business-es in Issaquah manufacture fas-teners for airliners, use technolo-gy to treat autism, and rely on atiny-but-talented staff to createslick productions.

Issaquah Chamber ofCommerce announced theInnovation in Issaquah honorees— Marketing Masters, LakesideCenter for Autism and ImpactStudio Pro — at a Feb. 22 cere-mony and luncheon.

The carbon-neutral communityzHome also received a nod as themost innovative public-privatepartnership. The city spearhead-ed the 10-unit townhouse devel-opment from concept to comple-tion.

Leaders from the chamber andCity Hall recognized the entre-preneurs’ accomplishmentsthrough the Innovation inIssaquah contest, a showcase forlocal businesses offering uniqueservices. Honorees demonstrateinnovation in product develop-ment, services, systems or strate-gies.

Before the chamber and cityannounced the honorees, outgo-ing chamber Chairwoman KristiTripple said the contest present-ed a chance for Issaquah leadersto focus on accomplishmentsrather than economic doom andgloom.

The top choices in the contestrepresented a broad cross-sec-tion of businesses in Issaquah.Organizers considered more than

30 nominees for the honors. “I’m glad I didn’t serve on the

committee to have to select theseaward winners, because it musthave been tough,” CityAdministrator Bob Harrisonsaid.

The chamber announced the2012 honorees before a crowd ofmore than 100 business andgovernment leaders during aluncheon at Holiday Inn –Issaquah.

The honoree in the large busi-ness category, Marketing Masters,creates composite fasteners forBoeing and Airbus planes at afacility in the Issaquah businessdistrict.

“They provide the fundamen-tal building blocks — the fasten-ers in every single Boeing andAirbus airplane,” Harrison saidat the ceremony. “So, in short,what’s manufactured inIssaquah each day in a smalllight manufacturing facility

Registration is open forCommunity Emergency ResponseTeam training in Issaquah.

CERT training is designed toprepare residents to help familymembers and neighbors duringa catastrophic disaster. Thetraining is important becauseprofessional emergency servicespersonnel cannot help every-body immediately, so citizenscan use CERT training to protectand save lives.

CERT courses include disaster

first aid training, disaster pre-paredness, basic firefighting,light search and rescue, anddamage assessment skills.Participants can also learn howto turn off utilities and about thepsychology of disaster response.

The training program is $35.Learn more, and register for theCERT course, at the IssaquahCitizen Corps Council website,www.issaquahcitizencorps.com/cert/cert-class. CERT trainingcourses typically fill up quickly.

Community disasterresponse training is available

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Issaquah Alps peaks and trailsgarnered national attention Feb.21 after USA Today featured theEastside mountains in a travelpiece.

The feature outlines trails andpoints of interest on Cougar,Squak and Tiger mountains —including the long-defunct NikeAjax missile installation onCougar Mountain and theparaglider launch site on TigerMountain.

“Hiking through CougarMountain Regional WildlandPark, on to Squak Mountain StatePark Natural Area and into TigerMountain State Forest addsmileage but provides a scenicroute,” the guide notes.

The piece is the latest nationalrecognition for the Issaquah Alps

and the mountains’ namesakecity.

Runner’s World magazinelast year named CougarMountain Regional WildlandPark among the 25 best placesfor trail running in the UnitedStates.

Issaquah, long lauded in thePuget Sound region for trail-heads and salmon, earned a spoton Outside magazine’s BestTowns 2011 list for abundantoutdoor recreation opportuni-ties.

“Issaquah hasn’t been totallyyuppified,” Outside noted in theOctober 2011 cover article. “Thebiggest party of the year isSalmon Days, a two-day festivalin October celebrating the returnof the spawning fish.”

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U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert plans toopen a district office in Issaquahafter redistricting shifted the for-mer office on Mercer Island intoanother district.

The GOP congressman plans toopen a district office in a Southeast56th Street office building uphillfrom East Lake SammamishParkway Southeast. The relocationreflects a monumental change inthe district Reichert represents.The redrawn 8th CongressionalDistrict stretches from Auburn inSouth King County to Wenatchee inChelan County. The former districtencompassed only communities in

King and Pierce counties. (Thereshaped district goes into effectfor the House of Representativeselection in November.)

“We felt like Issaquah was prob-ably the most accessible and easyto get to for both sides of theCascades,” Reichert said in a Feb.24 interview.

The district office employs sevenstaffers who handle constituents’questions related to Social Securityentitlements, veterans benefits,immigration issues and more.

The congressman also operatesa smaller district office in Buckley,a South King County communitynear Enumclaw. Reichert said theBuckley office could shift, perhapsto Auburn, and another district

office couldopen to serveC e n t r a lWa s h i n g t o nconst i tuents,perhaps inWenatchee.

House rulesrequire mem-bers to relocatedistrict officesbefore May 1during election

years or to wait until after theNovember election.

Longtime Issaquah developerRowley Properties reached out toReichert to consider Issaquah for adistrict office after the WashingtonState Redistricting Commission

announced the redrawn districts inlate December.

District Director Sue Foy thensearched for a suitable space inthe city. The site needed to meetcriteria for security and squarefootage.

“I’m back here almost everyweekend,” Reichert said. “It’s abusy schedule, but you have to stayin touch with your constituents.”

The relocation represents ahomecoming of sorts for the law-maker. In the early 1970s, beforeserving as King County sheriff anda congressman, Reichert used topatrol the Issaquah area as adeputy.

Redistricting shifted MercerIsland into the 9th Congressional

District. Tacoma Democrat AdamSmith represents the redrawn dis-trict.

Local officials praised Reichert’sdecision to relocate to Issaquah.Neither of Reichert’s predecessorsin Congress — Republicans RodChandler and Jennifer Dunn —operated a district office in thecity.

“It’s always good to have the per-son familiar with the on-the-ground situation,” Mayor AvaFrisinger said.

Issaquah Chamber of CommerceCEO Matthew Bott said the addedluster from hosting a district officecould benefit local businesses.

“It allows the congressman andhis staff to get to know Issaquah

further,” he said. “It gives us con-tinued opportunities to work withmany different elements of the fed-eral government.”

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By Tom CorriganIssaquah Press reporter

Hoping to take the lead in imple-menting a coming change in statelaw, local school officials have set-tled on a teacher evaluation sys-tem that could end up being amodel for all of Washington.

The Issaquah School Districtwill now spend time ramping upto implementation of the new sys-tem, according to AssociateSuperintendent Ron Thiele, aswell information released by thedistrict.

The new teacher and principalevaluation system should be inplace in time for the next schoolyear.

In fall 2013, every Washingtonpublic school will be implement-ing a state-mandated system toevaluate the performance ofteachers and principals.

According to the state Office ofthe Superintendent of PublicInstruction, the vast majority ofdistricts in the state do not use aresearch-based instructionalframework to guide teacher eval-uations. The Issaquah district isan exception and district officialsdecided they wanted to be a partof any coming changes.

“We decided we wanted to beon the forefront of that,” saidSara Niegowski, executive direc-tor of communications for thedistrict.

The new teacher evaluationsystem was the choice of a selec-tion committee consisting of dis-trict administrators and repre-sentatives of the IssaquahEducation Association, the localteachers union. Frameworksunder consideration initiallywere studied in 13 districts, orconsortiums of districts, fromacross the state, Thiele said.Those initial studies earned pastpraise from Thiele, who said hefully supports strengtheningteacher evaluations.

“It’s good for the districts, it’sgood for the state, it’s good forthe teachers,” he added.

In the end, local officials decid-ed to go with what is known asthe Charlotte Danielson frame-work, Thiele said, indicatingthere were several reasons forthat choice.

District officials claimed thereis solid evidence of a direct rela-tionship between the use of theframework and improved stu-dent learning. Additionally, sev-eral other districts are using theframework. Those districtsinclude Bellevue and BainbridgeIsland. As the implementationprocess moves forward, therecould be opportunities for vari-ous districts to share resourcesand information, Thiele said.Finally, the district already usesan older version of the Danielsonsystem.

“That will help us in trainingour teachers and principals,”Thiele added.

In the past, a move toward anew evaluation frameworkgained the support of theIssaquah district teachers’ union.The district’s current methodscould use some toughening, saidPhyllis Runyon, head of theIssaquah Education Association.

“You have to know the nega-tives before you can move for-ward,” she said.

There has been some specula-tion that the state’s movetoward standardized teacherevaluations is somehow linkedto the idea of teacher merit pay.That is not at all the case,according to Thiele. The statelegislation creating the pilotprograms and what eventuallywill be evaluation requirementsmake no mention of merit pay,he said. The issue also has notbeen a local consideration,Thiele maintained.

“It’s not part of the work we’redoing,” he said.

Schools eye teacher evaluationsystem as state model

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Lighting the wayCub Scouts in Issaquah/Sammamish Pack 682 were awarded Arrow of Light Awards Feb. 7 as they graduated from Cub

Scouts to Boy Scouts at their annual Blue & Gold Banquet. The Arrow of Light is the highest award Cub Scouts earn, prepar-ing them for their next adventure. Cub Scouts receiving the Arrow of Light included (in alphabetical order) Braden Castro,

Brandon Cooley, Kyle Dutcher, Dmitri Foster, Tillman Henderson, Noah Holst, Bailey Larsen, Tyler Leznek, Andrew Liu,Raghav Mandadi, Trevor Moulton, John Murphy, Mathew Seminatre, Carter Shane, Calvin Switzer and Justin Wagner.

County assistance is availableto relieve farm flood risk

The likelihood of flooding is afact of life for many farmers livingand working on the rich land inKing County river valleys.

Help is available for farmersinterested in building and repair-ing farm pads — elevated land tohold livestock, farm equipmentand other essentials during a flood.King County is hosting a March 1meeting in Preston to offer adviceand technical assistance to rurallandowners.

King County approved a demon-stration project to improve existingfarm pads after record-breakingfloods in November 2006. Theflooding led many livestock todrown or die from hypothermia.The disaster also ruined farmequipment and livestock feed.

Landowners from flood-proneareas can learn more about farmpads at the meeting at 7 p.m. at thePreston Community Center, 8625310th Ave. S.E. County staffersplan to discuss technical assistancerelated to design, construction andpermitting for farm pads.

Contact Project Manager ClaireDyckman at 206-296-1926 [email protected] tolearn more.

Officials bump overdueproperty tax notices to June

King County plans to start notify-ing homeowners about overdueproperty taxes sooner, officialsannounced Feb. 21.

Officials plan to start sendingnotices in June, rather thanSeptember. County Executive DowConstantine initiated the policychange after input from taxpayersand County Councilman BobFerguson.

The county assessor mailedproperty tax bills in earlyFebruary. The deadline for first-half property taxes is April 30.

Though the county is notrequired to send a delinquencynotice, officials send a courtesynotice in late September to about9,000 taxpayers. The propertyowners receiving the notice missedthe April deadline and did not payproperty taxes by Sept. 1.

Officials timed the notice to be

close to the Oct. 31 due date forsecond-half property taxes.

Officials said the June notice togo to about 14,500 taxpayers. Thecounty expects about half of thetaxpayers receiving the notice topay before July 1 to avoid themonthly interest charges andDecember penalty outlined in statelaw.

Governor asks president todeclare county as disaster area

Gov. Chris Gregoire askedPresident Barack Obama on Feb.24 to declare a federal disasterarea in King County and 10 otherWashington counties for damagesand response costs from Januarystorms.

If the declaration is approved,Issaquah and other governmentscould defray 75 percent of eligibledisaster-related costs — such asdebris removal — by using FederalEmergency Management Agencypublic assistance grants.

The cost of storm response andcleanup reached $530,000 forIssaquah municipal government.Officials used the dollars to put

snowplows on Issaquah streets in24-hour stretches, clear fallentrees and haul off debris.

If a disaster declaration occurs,city officials said about $383,000in costs related to the storms couldbe eligible for reimbursementthrough FEMA.

Preliminary state and federaldamage assessments estimated$32.3 million in potential eligibledamage across the state caused bysnow, freezing rain, power out-ages, rain, fallen trees and limbs,avalanches, falling ice, landslidesand storm debris.

Gregoire proclaimed a winterstorm emergency in the state Jan.18.

Issaquah, Sammamish councilssupport school district bond

Issaquah and Sammamish lead-ers agreed last week to support the$219 million bond the IssaquahSchool District plans to put beforevoters April 17.

The measure is meant to gener-ate dollars to rebuild Clark andSunny Hills elementary schoolsand Issaquah Middle School, mod-ernize Liberty High School andrelocate Tiger MountainCommunity High School.

Issaquah City Council membersheld a public hearing about thebond Feb. 21 and then agreed toback the measure in a 5-0 deci-sion. (Councilman Mark Mulletand Councilwoman Eileen Barberdid not attend the meeting.)

Sammamish City Council mem-bers endorsed the measure Feb. 7.

“When companies are looking atrelocating, they often look at theavailability of excellent education,”Sammamish Mayor Tom Odellsaid. “We have that here, and it’sincumbent on us to keep it thatway if we want to protect what wehave here.”

Issaquah School District officialsalso plan to use bond funds toimprove districtwide heating andventilation, space and security; andimprove athletic fields and stadi-ums. (Clark Elementary School,Issaquah Middle School and TigerMountain Community High Schoolare inside Issaquah city limits.)

Mystery jackpot winner boughtticket at Issaquah store

Washington’s Lottery officialsasked local players to check tick-ets, because a jackpot winner pur-chased a ticket from a local retail-er in mid-February.

The winning numbers: 9-10-24-25-29.

The $730,000 jackpot — thelargest in state history for Hit 5 —is to be split between the ticketsold in Issaquah and one sold inArlington. Lottery officials did notrelease the retailers’ names.

The winners would each takehome $365,000. The winners have180 days to claim the prizes.

In Hit 5, players select five num-bers per $1 play. The jackpotstarts at $100,000 and rolls overuntil somebody wins.

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Local officials are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward budgetand revenue news coming out ofOlympia.

The state House ofRepresentatives passed its versionof a 2012 supplemental budgetFeb. 21.

In total, the spending plan slicesabout $890 million from the currentbudget. While local school officialshave been steadying themselves forbudget cuts, the House plan largelyleaves funding intact, IssaquahSchool District SuperintendentSteve Rasmussen said.

However, Rasmussen quicklynoted the state Senate must stillact on its version of the budget.He didn’t say so, but the two plansalmost certainly will need somework to blend them into one doc-ument, which still would needapproval by Gov. Chris Gregoire.

Notably, the House plan doesnot include Gregoire’s suggestionto trim the school year by fourdays as a cost-cutting measure.Local and state school officialshave come out firmly against thatproposal.

One key feature of the Houseplan moves a total of $405 millionin education payments from Mayand June of 2013 to July 2013.The change moves the payments

from the current biennium intothe next budget cycle.

“It’s a bit of gimmickry they’vebeen using in recent years,”Rasmussen said.

He didn’t offer an opinion as towhether or not the move is a wor-thy one on the part of the state inthe long run.

“It is what it is,” he said. For now, a proposal to elimi-

nate local levy lid lifts seemedmore troublesome to Rasmussen.

The House proposal reducesfunding under the heading of LocalEffort Assistance starting in August2013, though those dollars are notaffected in the 2012-2013 schoolyear, according to informationreleased by the Washington StateSchool Directors’ Association. Aspart of the LEA reduction, locallevy lids would be rolled back by 4percent starting in January 2013.

In the face of past cuts, the stateLegislature allowed districts toput levy lid lifts before voters.Issaquah voters approved a lid liftallowing district schools to collectup to 28 percent of their overallbudget locally. That’s up from 24percent, according to Jake Kuper,district chief of finances and oper-ations. Under the House proposal,Issaquah schools would lose thoseextra dollars. In the past, localofficials described those addedfunds as critical.

Even prior to the House budget

announcement, there was somepotentially good news for theschools coming from Olympia. OnFeb. 16, the state Economic andForecast Council revised its previ-ous revenue projections upwardby $96 million.

“It has been a long time sinceI’ve heard good news on the eco-nomic front,” Randy Dorn, stateschool superintendent, said in apress release.

Dorn went on to argue thosepreviously unanticipated dollarsshould mean no new cuts to basiceducation. To back up his argu-ment, Dorn cited January’s stateSupreme Court decision that ruledWashington still is not meeting itsconstitutional obligation to fundeducation.

“Not only should there be nofurther cuts, we should begininvesting more in education,”Dorn said.

Locally, Kuper has been creat-ing scenarios that had the stateslicing local educational dollarsanywhere between $2 million to$6 million.

“The state revenue forecast ispositive news,” Kuper said, “butit’s not affecting my ‘what if’ sce-narios.”

Like Rasmussen, Kuper saidthat it’s still to soon to know whatthe state’s final spending planmight look like. The current leg-islative session ends March 8.

Schools fare well in House budget,officials wait for Senate proposal

Local councilman urgesLegislature to create ‘blue alert’

King County Councilman ReaganDunn announced a plan Feb. 23 tourge state legislators to create a“blue alert” system to inform thepublic about people suspected ofinjuring or killing law enforcementofficers.

The proposal came hours after aman fatally shot a state trooper inKitsap County.

“We in government must doeverything in our power to protectthose who put their lives on theline every day in order to protectus,” he said in a statement.

Modeled after the AMBER alert,a “blue alert” could use mediaresources to inform the publicabout suspects accused of harminglaw enforcement officers.

“I am grateful that

Councilmember Dunn is againoffering his support to law enforce-ment to help stop futuretragedies,” Republican State Rep.Mike Hope, prime sponsor of the“blue alert” legislation, said in astatement.

Local state Rep. Marcie Maxwellis a cosponsor of the measure.

Dunn, a Republican, is runningfor state attorney general againstDemocrat Bob Ferguson, a fellowcouncilman.

Kiwanis Young Professionalsoffer free PC clinic

Run down? Fighting a virus? Arethings taking longer to process? Ifyour computer’s maladies seem tooutnumber yours even during coldand flu season, the IssaquahKiwanis Young Professionals Cluboffers a PC Clinic March 4 at Gibson

Hall, 105 Newport Way S.W. Computers can be dropped off

from 10 a.m. to noon and pickedup between noon and 2 p.m.

The Kiwanis Young Professionalswill run hardware diagnostics,scrub computers of viruses andspyware, do performance fine-tuning, and offer advice and tips.All services are free, but donationswill be gladly accepted to supportKiwanis’ local community service.

Community members need onlybring their computer and powercord. The Young Professionals willhave monitors, keyboards, miceand peripherals to plug in and dotesting.

If you believe your computer isbeyond help, the Kiwanis also willoffer free recycling for old comput-ers, laptops and monitors. Theywill not accept keyboards, mice,copiers, scanners or printers.


Officials used $55,249 in cityfunds to build affordable housingin other King County cities,including a planned Kirklandshelter for homeless youths and aBellevue shelter for homelesswomen.

City Council membersapproved the expenditure to ARegional Coalition for Housing —a joint group including KingCounty and 15 Eastside cities —in a unanimous decision Feb. 6.Issaquah officials used leftoverfunds from Eastside Fire &Rescue Station 72 construction tofund affordable housing projects.

“This was one of those last-minute budget decisions that cameout of our budget discussion at theend of last year,” CouncilmanMark Mullet said. “We decidedARCH was important.”

Janet Olin, a board member forThe Sophia Way, a nonprofitorganization dedicated to assist-ing homeless women, said ARCHfunds could enable the organiza-tion to remodel a Bellevue spaceto double The Sophia Way’scapacity.

“The women who are clients of

The Sophia Way need access toaffordable housing,” she saidbefore the council decision.“Without ARCH funds, this wouldnot be possible.”

The expanded capacity meansresidents should no longer needto sleep on the floor due to spaceconsiderations.

“Shelter is often the first step inthe journey from the streets toaffordable housing,” Olin said.

In the past, ARCH supported theYWCA Family Village at Issaquahcomplex and Habitat for Humanityof East King County constructionin the Issaquah Highlands.

The council praised ARCH forfostering cooperation and leader-ship in the region.

“ARCH is a great example of anumber of local municipalitiespooling their resources andaddressing needs for housing thatotherwise wouldn’t be taken careof by the marketplace in general,”Councilman Paul Wintersteinsaid.

Members also addressed thequestion of why city funds bene-fit projects in other municipali-ties.

“These particular projects thatwe’re approving this evening arenot going to be anything that arehoused here in Issaquah, butwithin the region of where thecoalition serves,” CouncilwomanEileen Barber said. “It is a broadregion. There is great benefit.”

Council approves dollars for affordable housing


The local representatives on theKing County Council act as leaderson regional justice and transitissues, after the board reshuffledmembers’ assignments for 2012.

Following the annual reorgani-zation, the Issaquah representa-tive, Councilwoman KathyLambert, serves as chairwomanfor the Law, Justice, Health andHuman Services Committee.Members recommend policiesrelated to criminal justice andemergency management, plushuman services and housing pro-grams. Issaquah-area CouncilmanReagan Dunn also serves on thecommittee.

The council announced thechanges to committee assignmentsJan. 30. In addition to committeeassignments, all nine council mem-bers serve on the Committee-of-the-Whole.

“King County has achieved a lotover the last several years, but it’scritical that the council maintainits focus on maximizing taxpayerdollars and improving servicedelivery,” council ViceChairwoman Jane Hague said.

Lambert serves on the Budgetand Fiscal Management Committee— the group responsible for outlin-ing policies related to the 2013county spending plan.

In the recent reshuffle, the coun-cil created the Government

Accountability,Oversight andF i n a n c i a lPerformance.C o u n c i l m a nBob Fergusonleads the com-mittee. Thepost is respon-sible for recom-mending stepsto improve effi-ciency, effec-tiveness and performance in coun-ty government. Lambert serves onthe committee, too.

The longtime councilwoman alsoserves on the Transportation,Economy and EnvironmentCommittee. The panel handles abroad portfolio, including develop-ment, roads and salmon recoveryissues.

Members also appointed leadersto regional committees. Theboards offer a forum for develop-ment and review of countywideplans and policies. The committeesinclude elected officials from otherlocal governments, in addition tocouncil members.

Lambert is a representative tothe Regional Policy Committee.The board reviews and recom-mends policies related to criminaljustice, environmental, publichealth, housing and waste issues.

Dunn is due to continue as chair-man for the Regional TransitCommittee. The board recom-mends polices and plans related to

bus service,commuter van-pools and vanservice for dis-abled riders.The committeealso gets a sayin establishingthe structurefor transitfares, purchas-ing buses, andbuilding bus

shelters and transit lots.Dunn serves on the Regional

Water Quality Committee. Thepanel handles water quality andsewer service issues, rate policiesand long-term facilities plans.

In unanimous decisions, thecouncil also chose Larry Gossett tocontinue as chairman and Hagueto remain vice chairwoman. Thechairman and vice chairwoman setthe agendas for council andCommittee-of-the-Whole meetings,and coordinate legislation sched-ules.

“King County, along with thestate and federal governments,continue to face fiscal challenges,”Gossett said. “We will meet thosechallenges, and the responsibilitiesof providing mandated serviceswhile supporting those in our com-munity in crisis, in a bipartisanand transparent manner.”


Issaquah representatives tappedfor County Council committee posts

Reagan Dunn Kathy Lambert

Republican caucuses will be held this Saturday across thestate, including here in Issaquah. It does matter.

There will be no presidential primary in Washington thisyear. Legislators decided to save the $10 million expense.Now it’s up to you to take action, but it will take more than anarmchair vote and a stamp. Democrats will caucus April 15.

Four years ago, fewer than 100,000 people participated instate caucuses, but 1.4 million voters cast ballots in the pri-mary. With only the caucus in play, the turnout is expected todouble.

Registered voters willing to attend their grouped-precinctcaucus will have to sign a card declaring that they do con-sider themselves to be a Republican before being allowed tovote for their choice for Republican Party nominee for U.S.President.

The best part of a caucus meeting is the conversationamong the participants. It’s an opportunity to meet like-minded people who are your neighbors, but it is also a timeto be open minded as you listen and learn from the discus-sions about the various candidates and their platforms.There is no need to voice your own opinion, but the opportu-nity is there if you choose to share your passion for one can-didate over another.

The outcome of the caucus vote is more of a straw pollthan a mandate. It will give delegates to the Republican Na-tional Convention an indicator of whom to support when thevote actually decides who the party nominee will be.

If attending the national caucus is your interest, theprecinct caucus gathering could be the beginning of yourquest. Delegates to the county convention are elected, andthose delegates in turn elect delegates to the state conven-tion and so on.

The caucus is also a good place to find out how to get in-volved by helping to put up signs, work telephone banks, helpwith mailings, ring doorbells or make a monetary donation.

Registration begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, with the meeting tobegin at 10. Crowds are expected to be large, so arrive early.Call 990-0404 for caucus sites, or go to www.kcgop.org/caucus-locator.

Caucus meetings areworth the time

Separation of church and state

State constitution needs moreflexibility in tough economic times

In the Feb. 15 issue of The Issaquah Pressthere was a letter to the editor concerning sep-aration of church and state.

The letter correctly stated that the Washing-ton State Constitution clearly states in Section11 that “...No public money or property shallbe appropriated for or applied to any religiousworship, exercise or instruction, or the supportof any religious establishment...”

However, in this time of severe budget crisis,what is wrong with renting empty school build-ings on Sunday to a church for their religiousactivities? It seems to me that this would be asimple way for the school district to generateadditional revenue, and would not violate theconstitution.

Don HindmanIssaquah

Plastic bags

If a ban must be enacted, banthem all regardless of thickness

I do not support the plastic bag ban Issaquahis taking about. Turns out, the timid do-goodersare not really talking about following the lead ofother cities and actually bucking up and ban-ning plastic bags … all the plastic bags!

What it seems they are talking about is onlybanning plastic bags of certain thicknesses.They want to continue to allow the use ofthicker plastic bags, you know the ones thattake more oil to produce and take many moreyears to breakdown.

I also wonder how many Barney Fife bag en-forcement officers Issaquah will need to makesure that only bags of the new specified regula-tion thicknesses are being used?

Frankly, this should not be that tough. It doesnot need months of meetings, hours of stafftime and endless City Council discussion. Itshould not be that hard to look at what othercities have enacted and use it.

This would be especially true if the discus-sion was about either enacting a total ban onplastic bags or not. Making this discussion asimple thumbs up or a thumbs down on allplastic bags would be much more honest and

clear. It also would waste far less of our timeand, if put in place, actually do something forthe environment.

Chuck OlsonIssaquah

Heart disease

Support bill to require CPR trainingas part of graduation requirements

Together heart disease and stroke take morelives in the state of Washington than any othercause of death. In October 2009, at 38 yearsold, I suffered sudden cardiac arrest. I waslucky to be at the right place at the right timeand received immediate medical care. I nowlive with a pacemaker and continue to educatemyself about heart disease.

Heart disease kills more women than all can-cers combined every single year. I volunteerand advocate for the American Heart Associa-tion's Go Red for Women cause. That’s why Itraveled to Olympia on Feb. 13 for the Ameri-can Heart Association’s Heart Disease Educa-tion Day. I went to speak to our District 5 Reps.Jay Rodne and Glenn Anderson.

It is my hope that they will support HouseBill 2294. This bill requires CPR to be taught inour state's high schools as a graduation re-quirement. Students can receive CPR trainingin less than 20 minutes and at little or no costto the school. Effective CPR can double or eventriple a victim's chance of survival.

As a mother, it makes my heart happy to thinkof a whole generation of high school graduateswith the tools and knowledge to save my life andthe lives of the more than 325,000 people who diein our country of sudden cardiac arrest every year.

Cardiovascular diseases may be the leadingkiller in Washington but through their actions,lawmakers have the power to improve thehealth of our families and children, and to helpmore patients become survivors of heart dis-ease and stroke.

Dawn McCutcheonSammamish

Recycling

Make repurposing a lifestyleRecycling is always in and out of the news.

Most recently, Issaquah considered a ban onplastic bags. Judging from the evolution of oursociety, it’s certain that one day paper andplastic bags will join the other dinosaurs, realand man-made, housed in the SmithsonianMuseum.

I can remember commiserating with a fellowantique dealer that we have been recyclinglong before it was politically correct. The vin-tage bug bit me in 1976 when my husband andI moved to Long Island, N.Y., from Honolulu.Since then, I’ve furnished three homes withstuff from the past.

Not everyone has a passion for the old. Butwandering through Issaquah’s Gilman Galleryconjures up images of lives once lived. Everyera produces inventions that make the dailygrind more bearable.

Gilman Gallery is a mecca for recyclers;those who sell and those who buy. All sub-scribe to the old adage “One man’s junk is an-other man’s treasure.” There’d be less wasteand pillaging of our natural resources if morefolks were inclined toward “hand-me-downs”instead of always clamoring for the next bestthing.

There’s a lot more to recycling than just plas-tic bags. We all have King Midas’ touch in be-ing able to turn disposable junk into valuablediscoveries. If we could only look beyond theouter trappings of convenience, and find thehidden treasure that once was.

Instead of a privacy wall for the toilet, whynot an interesting, salvaged window shutter?A vintage baker’s rack can serve as storage ina bathroom. A well-worn basket with a soft,painted patina can hold towels. Hang aunique, lead-glass window over the aluminumone in your bathroom. Replacing it is costly,opening it lets in bugs, and leaving it as is, isan eyesore.

The possibilities are limitless, when you re-cycle.

Millie VierraIssaquah

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Bob Taylor, we will miss youfar more than you can know

Bob Taylor. I had heard of himbefore I even met him.

He is a legend in the sportscommunity, I am sure many peo-ple will tell you. I certainly will.

People at the South CountyJournal used to talk about him inhushed, reverent tones. He hadbeen at the paper’s predecessor,the Journal American, for manyyears. And in his career, heworked nearly every sports beatthere was.

His list of career highlightsbegan in 1972, when he gradu-ated from college and was hiredby the weekly Bellingham Metro-politan. In between then andnow, he has covered manyteams, including the SeattleMariners. There is no way Icould do justice to his career inthis small space.

I think nowhere is he morewell-known and beloved than onthe Eastside. He has workedhere at The Press since 2000,covering prep sports. I wasthrilled when I applied for thisjob and found out that he workedhere.

When he emailed me his resig-nation letter on Jan. 25, I juststared at the screen for a littlebit. Bob has been with me sincethe day I started here, and I havenever had to worry about oursports section or coverage. Evenwhen he was off for manymonths for a stem cell transplantto try to help him recover fromcancer, he helped us stay in the

loop and ontop of ourgame.

Before hiscontinuingbattle withcancer be-gan, he hadto haveopen-heartsurgery. I re-member sit-ting at thehospitalthinkingabout how the members of mystaff were like a family and howdevastated we would be, Iwould be, if we lost him. I re-member times when he wassick when I felt like I couldn’tbreathe. I’m feeling a bit likethat now as I write this.

You see, it isn’t just aboutwhat he means to me on the job.Bob is one of the kindest, mostpleasant, positive people I’veever met. In my life. He doesn’ttalk badly about anyone, ever.He is literally never negative.Back when I first got here, hisfamily included me in their holi-day celebrations, because theyknew my family was far awayand they didn’t want me to bealone.

Bob and his wife are one of thefew examples of pure and utterlove and companionship I’ve

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FROM THE WEB�Hayes Nursery closure

So sorry to see you close. You were defi-nitely my go-to nursery for many of myplants, pond needs and all 35-plus of myroses.

Carla Jarman

Issaquah coffee stand indecent exposureSamuel K. McDonough’s record of repeated

indecent exposure arrests, in addition to his in-jail behavior after his arrest for the latest of-fense, is at the very least strong evidence thathe needs to be involuntarily committed to apsychiatric facility for a period adequate for athorough mental evaluation.

John P. Brown

ever seen between a couple.They’ve been married since1976, and they’re still crazyabout each other, really andtruly in love.

Everything that Bob does, hegives it 100 percent. Really.He’s a great guy who loves hislife and his God and his familyand his friends and his co-workers. If you know Bob, youknow every word I’ve said hereis true.

Bob told me that he doesn’twant a big farewell — “Just ahandshake will do,” he said.

I have always honored hiswishes, but this time I thinkthat would just be wrong. Iknow people in the communitywant to see him and have timeto talk with him, even if just tosay goodbye. So here at ThePress, we’re having a commu-nity open house from 2:30-4:30p.m. March 9, his last day atthe paper.

I hope you will come andwish him well in his new en-deavors, and tell him howvery much he has meant toyou in the years he hasworked here.

If you can’t make it, I hopeyou will email me any memo-ries or messages you have, so Ican share them with him.

I can’t imagine what ThePress is going to be like withoutBob Taylor. I hate I’m going tohave to find out.

Kathleen R. Merrill: 392-6434, ext.227, or [email protected]. Commentat www.issaquahpress.com.

ROLL CALL�

Feb. 13-17The week of Feb. 13-17, legisla-

tors voted on resolutions requiringfour-year balanced budgets; aSenate Bill regarding certificatedemployee evaluations; a Senate Billconcerning local transportation rev-enue options; a Senate Bill 6486,granting collective bargaining rightsfor post-doctoral researchers at cer-tain state universities; and a HouseBill concerning fees and rates fortwo truck services and vehicle stor-age.

Feb. 20-24No new bills were passed last

week, Feb. 20-24.

See how your legislators votedat www.washingtonvotes.org.WashingtonVotes.org is a free,non-partisan website to findplain-English explanations of billsand a record of each legislator’svotes.

Bob Taylor:He gives

everything100 percent

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Town & Country Square1175 NW Gilman Blvd.

Suite B-4, Issaquah (425) 391-9270

BEST OFISSAQUAH

15 CONSECUTIVEYEARS!

1996-2011

Award as a testament to Waltosz’sservice.

In a final honor to the longtimevolunteer firefighter, EFR officialsplanned for firefighters to participatein Waltosz’s funeral procession andfor a fire agency aid vehicle to carryhis casket from the funeral service toTahoma National Cemetery in Kent.

McDaniel, the inaugural recipi-ent of the inspiration award, saidWaltosz’s experience in the mili-tary, business and public sectorsoffered a breadth of experience toEFR. The experience came inhandy as the fire service evolvedand the region added residents.

“He’s the guy you would wantsomeone new in the agency to besat down with when they firstcame in,” McDaniel said. “Thatwas one of John’s biggest strongpoints — the fact that he knew thefire service and he wanted to makesure that everyone that became apart of it would take on that sameattitude and that respect for it.”


HONOR IS LATEST MILESTONEFOR ZHOME

The accolades started to accu-mulate for the carbon-neutral com-munity zHome before constructionconcluded.

The latest honor — recognition inthe Innovation in Issaquah contestas the top public-private partner-ship — highlights the collaborationamong academic, business andgovernment interests to completethe 10-unit townhouse project.

The community in the IssaquahHighlands uses zero net energyand 70 percent less water than atraditional home. The communityopened in September 2011 asthe inaugural carbon-neutral andzero-energy multifamily communi-ty in the United States.

“We live in a really exceptionalcity,” zHome Project Manager BradLiljequist said. “Projects like thiscannot happen without a mayorand a City Council that also havevision. I’ve worked in a lot of dif-ferent cities around theNorthwest, and Issaquah is trulyexceptional when it comes to ourcity’s leadership.”

behind Burger King provides akey construction piece for forWashington’s largest exporter,Boeing, and its competitor, not tomention many other industrialapplications.”

The honoree in the midsize busi-ness category, Lakeside Center forAutism, uses technology, such asthe Microsoft Kinect, as a treat-ment for autism.

“Offering a unique multidiscipli-nary and holistic approach to serv-ing clients and their families hasdistinguished this business as aninnovator in an industry we don’tthink about every day, but one thatdeserves increasing attention,”chamber CEO Matthew Bott said.

The top small business in theInnovation in Issaquah contest,video production company ImpactStudio Pro, boasts deep roots inthe community.

Impact Studio Pro “is a businessthat was started by a graduate ofEastlake High School and thenBellevue College, and is operated outof a small apartment in the IssaquahHighlands,” Harrison said. “They’rehomegrown Issaquah innovators.”

Organizers launched theInnovation in Issaquah contest lastyear. The initial honorees includedDemocracy Live, Restorix Health,Applied Precision and the non-profit Eastside Baby Corner.


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reflectdiversity

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Firefighter:Offered abreadth ofexperience

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Have you been looking for a truly personalized salon experience? Hair designer Carolanne Baccari at Hair for You! is one of the most knowledgeable stylists in Issaquah, with more than 20 years of experience helping her clients look their absolute best.

“My business is unique,” explains Carolanne. “I offer personal attention and discuss all services with the client. Communication is necessary to understand my clients’ needs want the best for the client, and that means I need to be the best.”

Carolanne’s customers appreciate knowing that she’s up-to-date with the latest styles and trends. She participates in many continuing education classes each year, both in the U.S. and abroad. Staying current with these classes enables Carolanne to create and capture that unique look that every woman wants.

“Carolanne has been taking great care of my hair for one and a half years and helps me to put everything about my hair in perspective,” says loyal customer Lois W. “Before that, I drove into Seattle, paid parking fees and dealt with Friday night traffic and often felt like a number in the process. Carolanne brings great attitude to her work.”

Another longtime customer, Karen G., agrees.

“Carolanne has been cutting my short, thin hair for about four years. She always gives me a great, chic, modern cut that makes people think I have the thickest hair. She gets to know you and your hair, then works her magic.”As an extra treat for her

established clients, Carolanne offers discounts when they book their next appointments.Hair for You! provides

many hair care services, including custom designer

cuts and styles, creative coloring, hair texturizing, deep conditioning treatments, and the popular Brazilian Blowout.One devoted customer, Alex, raves about the Brazilian Blowout she received from Carolanne.

“My life is changed,” Alex says. “I don’t have to struggle with my unruly, frizzy hair anymore. My hair has never looked or felt better — I can’t live without the Brazilian! The best part is I get a discount because of my continuous appointments.”

“It’s rewarding to see a happy face,” says Carolanne. “I start the day with excitement, eager to design a new look.”

Hair for You! is located within Markiel’s Hair Co. at 149 Front Street North in historic downtown Issaquah. To schedule an appointment, call 425-246-9260 or visit www.hairbycarolanne.com.

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Upcoming Issaquah Chamber

Events for March :

New Member Meet & GreetThis is a great opportunity to meet and network with

the Issaquah Chamber’s newest members. To make a

reservation or for more information, email Tricia

Barry at [email protected] or visit

www.issaquahchamber.com

Tuesday, March 27th: Location: TBA

3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Membership Luncheon:

Restaurants & Tourism;Featuring the CEO of the Washington Restaurant

Association Anthony Anton and the Executive

Director of the new Washington Tourism Alliance

Suzanne Fletcher.

Wednesday, March 21st: Holiday Inn of Issaquah

11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Using Linked-In Like a ProCareer consultant & noted speaker Matt Youngquist

discusses tools & tips for using LinkedIn for business

and career success. Part of the Business University

Seminar Series.

Thursday, March 8: Timber Ridge at Talus

11:30 am to 1:30 pm

The Chamber congratulates the Issaquah City Council and Mayor’s office for their leadership on creating an Economic Vitality Commission and placing Economic Vitality as a primary goal for 2012 and beyond. Thanks to the City’s leadership, much has been accomplished in support of our local economy…including a new hospital, a planned community college, and significant re-development plans for the City’s commercial core. However, much more work remains in order to ensure Issaquah remains as an attractive place to conduct business. Taking care of our existing businesses and enduring we are competitive for potential new businesses will be what keep our community strong in the decades to come. It is clear that in the new economic reality, jobs and business success will determine quality of life in all areas…schools, public safety, arts and culture, and more. The Chamber and our 515 members stand ready to partner with City and local leaders to help ensure a bright future for Issaquah and its citizens.

We must FOCUS on this:A Strong Local Economy

Competitive Economic Vitality Strategies

A Welcoming Business Climate

www.issaquahchamber.com

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Isernio’s — plus Calabrian chilies,roasted peppers, basil mozzarella,Grana Padano and extra-virginolive oil. (The chilies nod toFugere’s family roots in Calabria, aregion in southern Italy.)

“This is it,” Fugere recalled.“This is a home run.”

The team named the pizza IlPresidente.

“You could eat that pizza cold,and it would still be delicious,”Cisneros said.

Next, Fugere needed to deter-mine the optimum setup to pre-pare and deliver the pizzas to AirForce One as the jumbo set sat onthe Paine Field tarmac behind afortresslike security cordon.

Bellingham-based Wood Stonelent a portable oven for the TuttaBella team to use. Fugere, insearch of a spot to set up thebehemoth, called the Paine Fieldoffice.

“Here I call them and say, ‘Hey,by the way, can you think of a place— whether it be someone’s homeor a hotel or a parking lot or justanywhere — that would let us parka 4,000-pound oven close to theairport so that we can make thesepizzas a little bit fresher?’” he said.

Fugere received clearancemoments later to set up the ovenon the tarmac — outside the gatebut not far from Air Force One.The airport also loaned a forklift tounload the oven.

‘Just like on TV’The next day, after Obama deliv-

ered a speech about U.S. manufac-turing to Boeing employees insidethe cavernous aircraft assemblyfacility next to the airport, Fugereand the chefs reached Paine Field.Then, as Obama headed to

Eastside fundraisers in Bellevueand Medina, chefs started slidingpizzas into the 800-degree oven.

Gathered beneath a tent on arain-soaked afternoon as windswept across the pavement,Cisneros and the others preparedIl Presidente, Margherita and otherpizzas for Obama and White Housestaffers.

“When we pulled the pizza out ofthe oven and cut it up and tasted it— because it was the first thingwe’d eaten all day — it was like,‘Oh my God, these pizzas are sodelicious. They’re so good freshout of the oven,’” Cisneros said. “Ijust wish that we could get thatproduct to the president.”

The team loaded the 40 pizzas,salad and tiramisu into fire-engine-red Mini Coopers bor-rowed from Seattle Mini and head-ed to the gate. Fugere initiallyplanned to do a delivery to SecretService personnel at the gate, butafter some calls and a securitycheck, agents allowed the MiniCooper caravan to proceed to theplane.

“I’m looking at them thinking tomyself, ‘Man, this is just like onTV,’” Cisneros said after seeingearpiece-outfitted Secret Serviceagents emerged from a black vehi-cle.

The delivery culminated beneaththe polished fuselage, as Fugereand the chefs handed boxes to U.S.Air Force flight crew members totote into the cabin.

“Every time we thought we wereas close as we were going to get,we got closer,” Fugere said.

Then, the crew asked if theFugere and others wanted to posefor photographs on the Air ForceOne steps.

“You ask yourself, ‘Is this reallyhappening?’ These are the stairs toAir Force One,” he said. “We wereall kind of thinking, ‘Really?Really? We can climb the stairs? Orare you just teasing us here?’”

Fugere said a White House offi-cial described the Tutta Bella piz-zas as a hit aboard the plane.

The idea to deliver pizza to thepresident started percolating inAugust 2010, after restaurantowner Fugere met Obama at aSeattle roundtable discussion forsmall business owners.

The president later mentionedthe struggle to open a Tutta Bella— albeit not by name — inIssaquah during a Seattle speech.(The speech also included a refer-ence to the former IssaquahCommunity Bank, the institutionbehind the loan needed to open therestaurant.)

The president and the pizzaiolomet again the next month asObama signed a small businessassistance package at the WhiteHouse.

“I still haven’t tasted the pizza,but he promises I’m going to getsome at some point,” Obama toldFugere and the East Room audi-ence.

Fugere remained alert for oppor-tunities to serve the president aNeapolitan-style slice, and reachedout to the White House after offi-cials announced the Feb. 17fundraising trip.

Following the delivery to AirForce One, Cisneros and the otherchefs prepared about 20 more piz-zas for law enforcement officers atPaine Field. Then, the Tutta Bellateam lingered at the airport untilObama returned from a Bellevuefundraiser and Air Force Onedeparted for Washington, D.C., inthe late afternoon.

“I would have liked to have metObama, but I started to think tomyself, ‘A lot of people met Obamathat day, but very, very few wereactually on the steps of Air ForceOne,’” Cisneros said.


PizzaFROM PAGE A1

Seuss saysElaine Vega, a Target

employee at the GilmanBoulevard store, reads a

pop-up copy of ‘The Lorax’to youngsters Feb. 25, as

part of the National Educa-tion Association’s Read

Across America Dr. SeussStorytime presentation, heldat Target stores nationwide.

BY GREG FARRAR

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Christopher Hetzel, a middle-aged man, ispoised to turn 10.

The architectural historian and Issaquahresident is actually closer to 40, but due to aquirk in the Gregorian calendar, Hetzel’s birth-day, Feb. 29, only comes around as often as apresidential election.

In other years, Hetzel celebrated the leapday birthday on Feb. 28. Come Feb. 29, how-ever, the quadrennial occasion requires ablowout celebration.

“When you’re young, it always sets youapart as being special, which is of course apositive thing,” he said.

Feb. 29, or leap day, occurs in most yearsevenly divisible by four such as 2008 and2012. (Hetzel is not due to turn 11 — or 44 —until 2016.)

Though most years of the modern calendarinclude 365 days, a complete revolution ofEarth around the sun lasts about 365 daysand six hours. The extra hours accumulateand, after four years, the extra 24 hours isadded to the calendar to keep the calendarand the sun in alignment.

The unusual birth date also led to some con-fusion for others during Hetzel’s childhood.

“Growing up, I’d get teased a lot. ‘Oh, you’renot going to have a birthday’ or ‘You don’thave a birthday,’” he said. “As I’ve gotten

older, it’s become more of a positive thing,where people are jealous of me because I don’thave a birthday and I can claim to be 10 yearsold.”

Nowadays, Hetzel usually uses actual agerather than calendar age — although the salt-and-pepper hair acts as a giveaway.

“If it’s somebody that is a friend or coworkerthat may not know that I’m a leap year, then Imight make some reference or some jokeabout being 9 or 10,” he said.

Jennifer Sutton, Hetzel’s wife, said the birth-day is sometimes still a reason for gentle jabs.

“My friends kind of tease me a little bitabout robbing the cradle,” she said.

The birthday boy and grown-up friendstrekked to Chuck-E-Cheese’s, sampled a di-nosaur-shaped cake and enjoyed children’sparty favors for Hetzel’s eighth birthday. Thecelebration lasted until partygoers realizedChuck-E-Cheese did not serve alcohol.

“You can only go so far with the age-appropriate birthday,” Sutton said.

Partygoers headed to the Cougar MountainZoo for Hetzel’s ninth birthday in 2008. Hetzeland Sutton plan to attend a Seattle SoundersFC preseason match to celebrate the big 1-0.

“The beautiful thing about him having thisbirthday is that we, as adults, have an excuseto play,” Sutton said.

Warren Kagarise: 392-6434, ext. 234, or [email protected]. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.

Issaquah man is ready to celebrate rare Feb. 29 birthday

By Rick AllenCourtesy of the Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner

“The Bachelor” Ben Flajnik vis-ited John and Margy Cox, parentsof Lindzi Cox, at their home inMorriston, Fla., months ago, pos-sibly right around Lindzi’s 27thbirthday in late October. But theepisode aired Feb. 20.

Previews of that episode showedLindzi, of Issaquah, and Ben pic-nicking beneath a shady tree be-side a horse pasture and driving acompetition wagon with Ben onthe back seat.

Opening upIn a press release about the

episode, ABC said: “Ben’s journeystarts in Ocala, Florida, where hespends the day with Lindzi andher fun-loving parents on their

picturesquehorse farm. Upuntil now, shehas been hesi-tant to open upto Ben, but shefinally revealsthat her lastrelationshipleft her heart-broken and sheis afraid tomake herselfvulnerable.

“Her parents notice the differ-ence in their once-reticent daugh-ter whose heart seems open again,but will they welcome Ben intotheir family?”

Though dubbed a “hometowndate,” Ocala is not her home. The

The Grange Supply has an-nounced its 2012 Chick Days, aprogram advertised as focusing onhealthy starts for the many babyanimals that often help herald thestart of spring.

The 2012 Chick Days will providepoultry raising resources to theGreater Seattle and Issaquah com-munities March 16-18. The Grangebelieves that with many peoplelooking for ways to save on foodcosts and control their food choices,raising chickens provides a healthyand educational alternative.

“Raising backyard poultry isonce again popular as more andmore people commit to a sustain-able lifestyle, especially in ourarea,” said Michelle Boman, oper-ations manager for The GrangeSupply. “Chicken owners knowtheir eggs are fresh and can beconfident in the treatment of theirflock. Raising poultry is a fun andrewarding activity for the wholefamily.”

To kick off Chick Days, TheGrange Supply will have a chickseminar all about raising chickensat 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. March17. Reservations are needed. Go towww.grangesupply.com or call392-6469.

Throughout the duration ofChick Days, The Grange Supplywill offer advice and guidanceabout how to raise baby chickensfrom freshly hatched chicksthrough laying, including detailsabout proper nutrition to providethe best eggs. During the GreatStarts promotion, Purina dealerswill provide special cost-savingson Purina-brand feeds. Live chickswill be available at the storethrough May.

“Although keeping chickensdoes not have to be an expensiveor difficult hobby, it does require acertain knowledge,” Boman said,adding Chick Days coupled withthe Great Starts promotion are de-signed to demonstrate how easy itis to raise chickens for eggs, meator pets.


At a recent meeting of theIssaquah Women’s Club, a speakerfrom the Eastside Domestic Vio-lence Program expounded uponhow the 60 or so scholarships sup-plied to that group over the yearsby the club had changed lives.

The scholarships were intendedto help clients of the program getback on their feet, to help them getout of abusive situations. Past presi-dent and current promotions direc-tor for the Women’s Club DeborahBader said she and other groupmembers especially enjoyed hear-ing personal stories about how theirefforts had helped other women.

“It was just really special,”Bader added.

In order to keep supplyingscholarships to groups like theEastside Domestic Violence Pro-gram as well as direct support toother local charities, the charityarm of the Issaquah Women’sClub announces its Spring Lun-cheon, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30p.m. April 21 at the Hilton GardenInn, Issaquah.

The event will feature live andsilent auctions. Issaquah CityCouncilman Fred Butler will con-duct the live auction, as he has inthe past.

“He adds a wonderful dimen-sion to our live auctions,” Badersaid.

Items up for grabs during theauctions include a floral arrangingclass for six; breakfast for two atthe Salish Lodge and Spa in Sno-qualmie; and other items donatedby wineries, local businesses andrestaurants.

Additionally, participants canbid on unique baskets put to-gether by Issaquah Women’s Clubmembers. For example, one bas-ket might contain cooking utensilswhile another carries gardeningtools, Bader said.

“It’s always fun to see what thegroup comes up with,” she added.

The club used to put on one bigfundraiser annually, said JudySmith, fundraising chairwoman.But the event got to be difficult andtime consuming in terms of plan-ning. In response, the club decidedto hold a number of smallerfundraisers each year. That makesthe success of each one important,Bader and Smith said.

The Issaquah Women’s Club be-gan in 1983, an outgrowth of theIssaquah Welcome Wagon. Clubfounders wanted to put togetheran organization that was a service

By Caleb HeeringaIssaquah Press reporter

Why send three people to do ajob that only takes one?

That’s been a common rhetor-ical question for fire officials try-ing to handle a steadily increas-ing workload — about two-thirds of which are medical calls— in a time of tight public fi-nances. Eastside Fire & Rescueand King County’s EmergencyMedical Service officials will putthe theory to the test this yearwith a Community Medical Tech-nician pilot program.

Under the program, theagency will staff a one-personunit that will respond in an SUVto nonlife-threatening medicalcalls — a broken finger, badback pain or a nosebleed, for ex-ample. As of now, the standardEMT crew responds to thosecalls in a fully equipped aid caror fire truck, tying up three re-sponders that might be neededat more major calls.

EFR Chief Lee Soptich said thepilot program may prove to bemore efficient and a cheaper

model than adding another full-service unit to keep up with callvolumes — which have grownaround 3 percent per year re-cently.

“This gets us some data sothat we can find out,” Soptichsaid. “Down the road it may besomething we can do to stem therising tide of calls … instead ofhaving to add crews.”

The agency has about 5,100medical calls a year; DeputyChief Greg Tryon said the de-partment estimates that theCMTs would be able to respondto about 400 of those.

The pilot program is fundedby a $243,000 grant from KingCounty EMS, which handles life-threatening paramedic responseand is funded by a 30-cents-per-$1,000 of assessed value levyacross the county. About half ofthe firefighters in the agency —those who signed up for thehour-and-a-half training — willbe eligible to work the medicaltechnician program shift asovertime on top of their normalEFR hours, Tryon said.

In addition to providing minor

medical care, the unit is trainedin identifying patients who maybenefit from social services, likesenior citizens who may need apart-time nurse or help aroundthe house, for example.

Soptich said the pilot project ismodeled after a similar two-person Community MedicalTechnician program used by theKent Fire Department and SouthKing Fire & Rescue in 2010. Hesaid leaders in Kent credit theprogram for a reduction of 350calls from people that were “fa-miliar with the system.”

“A lot of them were peoplethat didn’t know that there wereany other options than to callthe fire department,” Soptichsaid.

The unit will be on duty from11 a.m. to 11 p.m. — the hoursthe agency expects to have themost minor medical calls. It willbe based out of EFR Headquar-ters, on Newport Way in Is-saquah, but will respond any-where within a 20-minute re-

Issaquah students’ artworkcould grace U.S. Capitol

U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert inviteshigh school students in the 8thCongressional District to submitartwork to the 2012 Congres-sional Art Competition.

“Every year, the CongressionalArt Competition serves as a cre-ative opportunity for students toshowcase their artistic abilities,”he said in a statement. “It is al-ways an inspiration for me andmy staff to study the art producedby our talented youth.

“The interaction and connectionwith young artists, their parentsand their teachers is energizing,”he added. “This competition high-lights the importance for ouryoung people to be creative, artis-tic and motivated.”

Since 1982, the winning selec-tion from the 8th District hasgraced the House of Representa-tives’ Cannon Building Tunnel inWashington, D.C., for a year.

Download the Student Informa-tion & Release Form and findmore guidelines atwww.reichert.house.gov. The artsubmissions can be paintings,drawings, prints, mixed media,computer-generated art or pho-tography.

Submit entries by 5 p.m. April19. Reichert’s office is acceptingentries in person or by mail at22605 S.E. 56th St., Suite 130, Is-saquah, WA 98029.

BY GREG FARRAR

Patrick Baker uses a gentle touch to round up five chicks at The Grange for acustomer during the 2010 Chick Day giveaway.

Luncheonsupports

scholarships,local charities

See LUNCHEON, Page B3

BY GREG FARRAR

Christopher Hetzel has a special appreciation forthe February page of a calendar on every fourth year,when the number 29 comes up in the last square.

Lindzi Cox is stillin the hunt forher ‘Bachelor’

Learn to raise poultryat Grange Chick Days

IF YOU GOGrange Supply 2012 Chick Days�March 16-18�Grange Supply�145 N.E. Gilman Blvd.�Go to www.grangesupply.comor call 392-6469

See BACHELOR, Page B3

Lindzi Cox

EFR plans new emergencymedical service pilot program

See EFR, Page B3

Events

“Tribute to Trees” will be ondisplay through March 8 in thecity of Sammamish CommonsGallery, 801 228th Ave. S.E., Sam-mamish. Learn more atwww.arteast.org or call 392-3191.

Overlake Alumnae Panhel-lenic’s annual forum for East-side senior girls who plan to at-tend a four-year college or uni-versity is at 7 p.m. Feb. 29 at theRedmond Library, 15990 N.E.85th St. Sorority members andalumnae from the University ofWashington and other universi-ties will speak about campus lifeand the benefits of sorority mem-bership. Applications for scholar-ships will be available. Call MaryAnderson at 641-6922 or JeanCerar at 392-1821.

Walgreens presents Ford’sFree Breast Cancer DetectionEvent March 2 at 6300 E. LakeSammamish Parkway.

The next DownTownIssaquah Association’s WineWalk is March 2. Check-in is at4 p.m. at the Hailstone FeedStore, 232 Front St. N. Tickets,which include six two-ouncedrink tokens and appetizers, are$20 in advance or $25 at thedoor. Make online reservations atwww.downtownissaquah.com.

King County RepublicanPrecinct Presidential Caucusesare March 3. Check your voterregistration card for yourprecinct. Find your precinct cau-cus location atwww.kcgop.org/caucus-locator.

The Sammamish PlateauWater and Sewer DistrictBoard of Commissioners hostsa public meeting to present the2012 amendment to the 2010Water Comprehensive Plan to thepublic at 6 p.m. March 5 at 1510228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish.

Master Chorus Eastside,featuring Issaquah singers, paystribute to St. Patrick’s Day with“Erin Go Bragh” at 3 p.m. March11 at the Kirkland PerformanceCenter, 350 Kirkland Ave. Tick-ets are $20 for general admis-sion and $15 for seniors and stu-dents. Purchase tickets by calling392-8446. Learn more atwww.masterchoruseastside.org.

LearningRx hosts an Educa-tion Expo, featuring informationfor parents with children from

COMMUNITY CALENDAR�

FILE

Celebrate SeussHappy Birthday Dr. Seuss! hosted by the Issaquah Libraryand the National Honor Society of Issaquah High School,

is from 3:30-4:30 p.m. March 2 at the King County LibraryService Center, 960 Newport Way N.W. The free event

includes food, activities and rhyming fun in Englishand Spanish. Call 392-1541.

mailing and scanning photos.Call 392-3500 or email [email protected].

ReligionThe Chabad of the Central

Cascades Italian flavoredPurim fiesta is at 6:30 p.m.March 7 at Blakely Hall, 2550N.E. Park Drive, Issaquah High-lands. Entry is $5 for children,$10 per adult or $25 per family.Call 985-7639 or go towww.chabadissaquah.com.

The Beit Tikvah MessianicCongregation presents aPurim Children’s Carnival from3:30-5:30 p.m. March 11 — withgames, face painting, mask mak-ing, photo booth, pony rides, afood court and an option to comein costume as a Biblical character— with an evening program fol-lowing from 6-8 p.m. at 7935136th Ave. S.E., Newcastle. Go towww.beittikvah.us.

The Beit Tikvah MessianicCongregation hosts a Commu-nity Seder to celebratePassover at 6:30 p.m. April 6.Reservations are $30 per personand must be made by March 28.Call 793-3000 or [email protected].

ClassesSwedish/Issaquah offers the

following free classes at 751N.E. Blakely Drive. Sign up bycalling 206-383-2502 or going towww.swedish.org/classes.�“Dementia,” 6-7:30 p.m.March 1�“Spine Care Seminar,” 6-8p.m. March 8

Squak Mt. Greenhouses &Nursery offers the following freeseminars at its Issaquah location,7600 Renton-Issaquah Road S.E.Call 392-1025 to learn more.�“Roses of David Austin” —10:30 a.m. March 3�“Seeding Indoors” — 2:30 p.m.March 3�“For Kids! Plant With Us” —10:30 a.m. March 10, for ages 4-8 with a parent, reserve a spotby emailing [email protected]

ArtEAST offers the followingworkshops at its Art Center, 95Front St. N., unless otherwisenoted. Go to www.arteast.org orcall 996-8553.�Tuesday Morning WritingWorkshop, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Tues-days through April 3, HailstoneFeed Store, 232 Front StreetNorth, $15 each class or $80 forentire series.

Friends of Youth hosts Guid-ing Good Choices Program, forparents of 9-14 year olds, from6-8 p.m. Thursdays throughMarch 22 and 6-8 p.m. March 27at Beaver Lake Middle School,25025 S.E. 32nd St. Youth attendthe fifth session with their par-ents (includes a free pizza din-ner). Workbooks are $30 (schol-arships are available). Register atwww.friendsofyouth.org/parentingregistration.aspx.Learn more by contacting SaraHildebrand at [email protected] or 888-4151, ext. 201.

Issaquah LibraryThe following events take place

at the Issaquah Library, 10 W.Sunset Way. Call 392-5430.

Book Club: “The Enchantressof Florence,” by SalmanRushdie, for adults, 6:30 p.m.Feb. 29

“Happy Birthday Dr.Seuss!,” for children and theirfamilies, 3:30 p.m. March 2

AARP Tax Aide, for adults,1 p.m. Fridays

“Organic Gardening 101,”for adults, 3 p.m. March 3

“Muppets Please Mari-onettes!” for children and fami-lies, 7-8 p.m. March 5

Crystal is a beautiful,4-year-old Labrador re-triever/Chinese Shar-Pei mix.She is calm, quiet, has greatenergy and enjoys a goodbelly rub! She has a thick,luxurious, golden yellow coatand deep, stunning eyes.

PETS OF THE WEEK

Meet Jetta! This 3-year-oldtabby mix is a tiny girl with abig fluffy coat that’s great forsnuggling — one of her fa-vorite pastimes. Jetta is affec-tionate; she will lounge onyour lap for as long as you’llallow her to.

These pets may already have been adopted by the time you see these photos. If you’re interestedin adopting these or other animals, contact the Humane Society for Seattle/King County at641-0080, go to www.seattlehumane.org or email [email protected]. All adoptedanimals go home spayed/neutered, microchipped and vaccinated, with 30 days of free pet healthinsurance and a certificate for an examination by a King County veterinarian. The Seattle HumaneSociety is now open from noon to 6 p.m. seven days a week.

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Justin Perun and Andrea Lacy

WEDDING�

Lacy, PerunAndrea Lacy and Justin Perun,

of Bellevue, were married Dec. 3,2011, at Lordhill Farms, in Sno-homish.

Tiffany Bluhm officiated.Lacy, the daughter of Jane and

Alan Lacy, of Issaquah, is a 2003graduate of Skyline High School.Matron of honor was Rachel Dray;maid of honor was Shelley Kaiser;and bridesmaids were Liz Jar-rard, Leah Ardissino, BrendaHoulihan and Molly Swanson. Theflower girl was Anya Houlihan.

Lacy, who graduated from Seat-tle University in 2007, works inpublic relations at Chase Bank.

The groom, the son of Teri andDave Perun, of Sammamish, is a2004 graduate of Stoney CreekHigh School, in Rochester, Mich.His best man was Kris Perun andhis groomsmen were Andrew Pe-run, Danny Petrisor, ChrisGooden, Michael Knapp, DavidBibb and Dan Doyle. The ringbearer was Patrick Houlihan.

A graduate of Miami University,Oxford, Ohio, Perun is a personaltrainer with Thrive CommunityFitness.

The couple honeymooned inJamaica.

WHO’S NEWS�

School stocks up throughHonda Auto Center

During Honda Auto Center ofBellevue’s annual business meet-ing, workers did team-building ex-ercises. Ten teams were taskedwith finding items at the FactoriaQFC and coming the closest tospending $100.

After the event, Honda AutoCenter donated more than $2,000in food and supplies to TigerMountain Community High School.

“Our staff, along with the QFCstaff and their customers really en-joyed this activity and knowing thatwe are donating all of this food to agreat cause makes it that much bet-ter,” said Mike Lavigne, Honda AutoCenter of Bellevue general manager.

CONTRIBUTED

Accepting the Honda Auto Centergrocery donation at Tiger MountainCommunity High School are (from left)principal’s secretary Amy Wiggins,counselor Bradley Nyhof, student MitraKundu and teacher Sheila Thacker.

COLLEGE NEWS�Althea Saldanhagraduates from BU

Althea J. Saldanha, ofIssaquah, recently graduatedfrom Boston University with aMaster of Science in computerinformation systems.

Local students makeGU president’s list

The following students werenamed to the Gonzaga Universitypresident’s list. To qualify, stu-dents must earn a 3.7 to 4.0grade point average.

Issaquah: Molly Bankson,Kylie Clark, Katarina Hostenske,Jeffrey Kettman, Emily McKaig,Patrick Nicoll, Alanna Redine,Kathryn Schaa, Merrill Schinski,Lauren Sullivan, Haley Swansonand Andrew Yoon

Renton: Kelsey WerreSammamish: Lauren Burns,

Rachel Boswell, Jessica Daniels,Kin Kang and Mikkel Kurian

Local students namedto deans’ lists�Brendan M. Smith, of Is-saquah, was recently named tothe Boston University dean’s listfor the fall 2011 semester. �Heather Davis, of Sam-mamish, was named to the 2011autumn semester dean’s list atthe University of Montana. Toqualify, students must earn agrade point average of 3.5 orhigher.�The following students werenamed to the Gonzaga Universitydean’s list. To qualify, studentsmust earn a 3.5 to 3.69 gradepoint average.

Issaquah: Michael Baba,David Dunphy, Peter Forsyth,Jeffrey Helling, Rachel Hildie,Mark Jordan, Jessica Klein,Christopher Lundeen, MichaelScafidi, Sierra Stauffer and JohnWinslow

Sammamish: Evan Bull, Con-nor Kelly, Luke Koch and LauraWoodward

Area students namedto UW dean’s list

The following students fromthe Issaquah area have beennamed to the dean’s list at theUniversity of Washington for2011 autumn quarter. To qualify,students must have completed atleast 12 graded credits and havea grade point average of at least3.5 (out of 4).

Cassie Absolor, Kyle Ahrens,John Albert, Rasa Amiri, NicoleArend, Alexandra Babayan,Zachary Bates, Amy Baxter, An-thony Beattie, Ekaterina Belkina,Jacqueline Belur, StanleyBiryukov, Katherine Borgnes,Will Borom, Austin Briggs, Peter

Brook, James Burgess, WilliamChandler, Kelley Chen, JackyCheung, Kyung Choi, KennyChou, Megan Christie, BlakeCizek, Meagan Clark, AlexisCourt, John Crotty, Raechel Daw-son, Kyle Dennison, Andrew De-paola, William Doerrfeld,Shahrzad Dow, Shayla Plooy,Neeraja Duriseti, Monica Dvorak,Nickolas Evans, Jaime Fajardo,Cindy Fan, Tasha Feng, ClaireFrederick, Christina Frost,Alexandra Fussell, Sheila Ghods,Ariel Goh, Kanav Gupta, LeighHansen, Melissa Hardy, ZacharyHermsen, Matthew Hertogs,Richard Hong, Justin Hoo, Dex-ter Hu, Fabliha Ibnat, VeronicaIvaniukovich, Nikita Katoozi,Christopher Kaulia, DanielleKemmerer, Emily Kim, JordanLabelle, William Lee, DanielleLemmon, Jeff Lestz, SoojungLim, Nicole Lock, Richard Lock-hart, Daniel Loudon, ChristinaMahlik, Ribicca Mamuye, KyleMartin, John Mather, JordanMcIntosh, Jesse Miles, Nina Mil-ligan, Gregory Miner, TravisMoeller, Daniel Morris, Alexan-der Muirhead, Quinn Nakano,Meagan Nakashima, Sarah Nel-son, Michele Neuffer, KevinNguyen, Stephanie Nguyen,Brandon Nudelman, EmmaOgilvie, Alex Ortiz, Lauren Pace,Angela Paderes, Sarah Park,Alexa Parker, Eric Parker, Jen-nifer Peterson, Sarah Peterson,Michelle Pham, Breanna Philips,Melissa Pighin, Zachary Pritch-ett, Vincent Quach, AndrewRamstad, Thomas Rauschendor-fer, Andrew Repp, CourtneyRoberts, Lorilyn Roller, ConnerRose, Matthew Rossi, BorisRozenberg, Madolyn Rubinich,Worawat Saelee, Conner Sapp,Olivia Schmoe, Jacob Shannon,Fablina Sharara, Max Sherman,Drew Shimizu, Christina Shin,Pedram Shokri, Simerjot Singh,Karen Sit, Brendan Smith, AnjaSpeckhardt, Mary Sprute,Christopher Stanley, WilliamStark, Meghan Stephenson,Sarah Stewart, Angela Su, MaxSugarman, Yeon Suk, MatthewSwartzendruber, NicholasSwartzendruber, Trevor Takami,Theodora Teodosiadis, NivrettaThatra, Braden Timm, JennaTollefson, Rebecca Tollefson,Akumbom Tunyi, MatthewVaeena, Tayoh Valdez, BenjaminVan, Erin Vanderwall, StephanieViolante, Viet Vu, Claire Wake-man, Anna Waldren, Evan Wal-ton, Mitchell Walton, JamesWang, Michael Ward, Tyler Wat-son, Leslie West, Amanda Wick,Kelly Wilkinson, Amanda Wong,Wanita Wong, Whitney Woods,Jonathan Yan, Michael Yang, Pa-tricia Yang, Conner Young, Mor-gan Young, Alan Yu, WilliamZahn, Nicole Zarfos, QinwenZhou and David Zong

newborns to teens, from 4-9 p.m.March 15 at Skyline High School,1122 228th Ave. S.E., Sam-mamish.

The Vasa Park Craft andGarden show is from 10 a.m. to7 p.m. March 15-16 and from 10a.m. to 5 p.m. March 17 at 3560W. Lake Sammamish ParkwayS.E., Bellevue. Admission is free.

The Grange Supply’s 2012Chick Days, is March 16–18. Tokick off Chick Days, The GrangeSupply hosts a Chick Seminar at10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. March 17about raising chickens. Reserve aspot for the seminar by RSVPingat www.grangesupply.com. Call392-6469 or go to the store at145 N.E. Gilman Blvd.

FundraisersThe Rotary Club of

Issaquah’s sixth annual GrapeEscape is from 6-9 p.m. March 8at Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave.N.W., featuring tastes of areawines and beer, which are com-plemented this year by smallplate samples of delicacies pre-pared by area restaurants. Therewill be a silent auction of art,wine-related items, and a widerange of experience and enter-tainment packages. Tickets, avail-able at www.issaquahrotary.org,are $40 per person, ages 21 andup. Proceeds fund Rotary pro-grams in the community andabroad.

Overlake Hospital Auxil-iaries are hosting the 2012Bandage Ball at 5:30 p.m.March 24 at the Hyatt RegencyBellevue. Proceeds will be usedto build a new, state-of-the-artNeonatal Intensive Care Unit.Tickets are $250 per person andinclude dinner, dancing, enter-tainment and a live auction. Fortickets or to volunteer, contactMuffie Signalness at 688-5529 [email protected] more at www.overlake-hospital.org/bandageball.

YouthThe Lewis Creek Park Visi-

tor Center offers the followingFamily Discovery Programs andAdult Enrichment Programs at5808 Lakemont Blvd. S.E. Call452-4195.�“Mammals,” for ages 12 andup, 2-3 p.m. March 11�“Cougars & Bobcats,” for ages12 and up, 1-2 p.m. March 24�Naturalists Book Club discusses“Encounters with the Archdruid,”by Jonn McPhee, for ages 15 andup, 6-8 p.m. March 25

VolunteersThe Issaquah History Muse-

ums needs volunteer docents togreet the public at the train depotor old town hall or helping with

Teen Zone: Manga!, 3 p.m.March 5

“Talk with Your Doc About LungCancer,” for adults, 7 p.m. March 6

“One-on-One Computer Assis-tance,” for adults, 2 and 3 p.m.March 10 and 24

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Glenna Anderson Huntington Glenna

AndersonHuntington,who lived atIdeal Care ofSammamish,died Feb. 17,2012. She was94.

Glenna's lifewill be cele-brated at 1:30p.m. March 10at Newport Presbyterian Church.

Glenna was born July 2, 1917,in Fort Pierre, S.D., to MargaretMyers Anderson and Daniel An-derson. She was raised in RapidCity, S.D.

Glenna spent her early years ona homestead in Stanley County,S.D., where she and her ponyroamed at will. Middle school andhigh school took her to Rapid City.She and her husband Ed moved toAlbuquerque, N.M., in order forhim to attend the University ofNew Mexico, and a big piece of herheart never quite left the desert.

A death in the family took themto Michigan for a few years, abrief interlude, on their path toColorado where they set deeproots, raised their family andtramped the high Rockies and richgrasslands. Glenna's retirementtook the couple to the hill countryof Kerrville, Texas. A rich 20 yearsthere was followed by 10 wonder-ful years in Issaquah among thetall trees and grand beaches of theOlympic Peninsula.

Glenna married Ed Huntingtonin 1936 and they explored life to-gether for 46 years.

Glenna was a reader and partic-ipated in reading groups wherevershe lived. Both in Colorado andTexas she participated in churchoutreach activities, volunteered for

hospice, nature centers and ElderHostel adventures.

If someone said "let's go"Glenna was at the door, a goodread in hand and a map close by.The best possible "going" was to,or with, family.

Glenna would have said that shewas "pragmatic," and indeed herrealistic outlook grounded her par-ents, siblings, husband, children,peers and employees. But morethan that she was fiercely opti-mistic and tenacious beyond belief.

Glenna's Issaquah family in-cludes her two daughters, JoleneSanborn (husband Mike) and HollyHallman (husband Fred Dunlap),and brother Dan Anderson (wifePortia). Brother Leo (wife Ervina)lives in Salem, Ore., and a sister,Lois Taussig (husband Jack) re-main in Colorado.

All of us who lived, and go onliving, in Glenna's shadow missher terribly! That includes nieces,nephews, friends at Bellewood andIdeal Care, folks in Kerrville Texas,Colorado and even back to theprairie people of South Dakota.

To honor Glenna, plant a tree,feed a bird or send money to Prov-idence Hospice of Seattle, 425Pontius Ave. N., Suite 300, Seattle,WA 98019.

Glenna worked 23 years for theU.S. Forest Service and was one offive professional women in thecountry who provided informationand education to groups through-out the nation. Her work includedgarnering public support for refor-estation projects in Colorado,Wyoming and South Dakota. One ofher last achievements was the es-tablishment of a campground onthe Pawnee Grasslands, northeastof Denver. She single-handedlyraised the money and the politicalwill to bring the campground tofruition. Today, it is being used asan environmental education center.

Glenna Huntington

�Ernest R. Plum

Ernest R. Plum, formerly ofIssaquah, passed away Feb. 18,2012, in Peoria, Ariz.

Ernest was born Nov. 21, 1920,in Issaquah, the son of Ernest andElizabeth Plum. He was raised inIssaquah and graduated fromIssaquah High School.

During World War II, he servedin the United States Navy in theSouth Pacific. Ernest served inseveral major campaigns acting inthe Beach Patrol capacity, allowingsafe and efficient transition from

sea to shore of U.S. fighting forces.Ernest was a private business

owner as well as a BoilermakerUnion member for more than 30years.

He retired with his wife HelenCaroline Plum and they both en-joyed traveling the Western U.S. intheir motor home.

Ernest is survived by wife HelenC. Plum, and sons Randy andMark Plum, as well as grandchil-dren Tori and Alex Plum.

Private family services were held.Please visit www.menkefuneral-

home.com to leave condolences.�Lauren Studebaker

Lauren Studebaker passed awayFeb. 16, 2012.

Born in Aberdeen on Feb. 11,1935, Lauren spent his early lifeon Mercer Island, where his fatherwas superintendent of schools. Hewas quarterback of the BellevueHigh School football team.

He then attended Harvard Uni-versity, where he sang in the Har-vard University Choir, and MexicoCity College. Lauren graduatedfrom the University of Washing-ton School of Law in 1961, andwas recently recognized by theWashington State Bar Associationfor 50 years of service represent-ing the public with the highestlevel of professionalism and dedi-

cation.In addition to the practice of

law, Lauren was active for 28years in coaching youth soccer. Hecoached three state championshipteams and was voted U.S. YouthSoccer State and Regional Coachof the Year in 1996.

Lauren was preceded in deathby his parents Robert and Lucilleand his sister Nancy Hurley.

He is survived by his sister SueEllen Powell; daughters Emily andTessa; sons Kenneth, Scott, Ericand James; and four grandchildren.

Contributions may be sent to theOverlake Hospital Cancer Centerby calling 688-5452.

A memorial celebration will be atMcCormick & Schmick’s in Bellevuefrom 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 11.

honey-haired, brown-eyed Lindziwas born and raised in Washing-ton; she considers the Seattle areaher home.

Yet, she's no stranger to theOcala, Fla., area. Her parents set-tled in Morriston about sevenyears ago, which is perhaps why“The Bachelor” website listsOcala as her hometown. A cham-pion equestrian, Lindzi hastrained there from her earliestyears.

She sometimes also volunteersat the Live Oak International com-petition, according to event coor-dinator Susan Gilliland. Her par-ents have been sponsors of theannual event, and Margy Cox her-self is considered a top carriagedriver.

“I've met (Lindzi) a few timesand she is a delightful girl, but Ido not really know her,” Gillilandwrote in an email. “I know herparents are wonderful people.”

She spends Christmases withher parents, and reportedly cele-brated New Year's Eve in Ocalawith friends.

Primarily a riderIn the season's premiere,

Lindzi rode into “The Bachelor”mansion on a horse, telling Benshe rides horses. She won thefirst impression rose. Since then,the dignified Lindzi has had littleair time, yet Ben keeps giving herroses, so they've likely spent timetogether not shown.

“She could be an internationalclass rider,” rider and trainer Pe-ter Gray said recently. “She hasall the talent in the world. Sherides with lots of personality andhas a natural balance.

“I'm not sure you can learnthat,” he added. “It's more of agift.”

Gray, who owns a horse ranchin Marion County, Fla., is anOlympic rider and former coachof the Canadian Olympic eques-trian team. He helped train ayoung Lindsey — as she wasknown then — from about age 6,both in Ocala and in Washington.

And he's reveled in her successesas she grew.

“Lindsey is confident, outgoing,a very warm person with lots ofenergy,” he said. “She was one ofthe dream students: a goodlearner and a good athlete. Com-bine the both, plus her naturalfeel and balance, and you've got awinner.”

But will she prevail in “TheBachelor?” Spoiler websites havepredicted Lindzi — she begancalling herself that in college —will be one of the final two.

Mum's the wordLindzi, her parents, friends and

associates were not allowed tocomment for this story. ABC andthe show's producers hold no-talkagreements with contestants,their families and friends — untilthe contestant's run on the showends.

Yet there are some nibbles ofbackground available.

Born in Bellevue, Lindzi was a2003 graduate of Liberty HighSchool in Renton. The Issaquahschool's Wikipedia entry lists heras a “notable alumni” — along

with classmate Tim Lincecum, apitcher with the San Francisco Gi-ants and Cy Young recipient in2008 and 2009.

She went to college at FresnoState in California on an eques-trian scholarship. She's listed onthe 2006-2007 roster as an Eng-lish/Western rider.

According to her Fresno Stateprofile, she was the 2001 U.S.Equestrian Association YoungRider champion and 2001 AreaVII Young Rider of the Year. Shewon three riding blue ribbonswith her horse, Nautical Ridge.

She graduated from FresnoState in 2010 with a degree inpublic relations. Her occupationon “The Bachelor” website islisted as business developmentmanager.

Win or eliminated, being on“The Bachelor” has been “a funexperience for her,” John Cox saidseveral weeks ago. “She's doing awonderful job. We're very proudof her.”

Contact Rick Allen at [email protected]. Comment at www.issaquah-press.com.

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sponse radius — an area thatstretches as far north as Sta-tion 82 in the Sahalee area andas far east as the west part ofNorth Bend, Tryon said.

Sammamish Mayor TomOdell, one of the city’s two rep-resentatives on the board, saidhe was skeptical that theagency could afford the pro-gram once the county grantmoney runs out, but said themodel makes sense — not everymedical incident needs threepeople on scene. The agency’sboard has discussed using asimilar model to respond tosome of the medical calls atProvidence Point, a retirementcommunity near Station 83 —which is mostly funded by Sam-mamish but spends more timeresponding to Issaquah thanany other partner.

“I’m interested in seeing howthis turns out,” Odell said.“Conceptually, it seems like agood way to go.”

Tryon said that no matterwhat happens, the program isgoing to give local firefighters adeeper understanding of citi-zens’ needs.

“Whatever becomes of theprogram, the information that

as well as so-cial group.

“It’s justgrownsteadily sincethen,” Badersaid.

Smith hasbeen a mem-ber for 10years.

“It’s just awonderfulgroup of peo-ple,” she said.

Besideshelping vari-ous serviceand commu-nity groups,the club hasa number ofregular so-cial events,such as alunch groupand a bookclub. Mem-bers vary inage from 30to 95, ac-cording to Smith, who saidthe club is in the midst ofwhat so far has been a suc-cessful membership drive.

The Issaquah Women’s Clubmeets at 10 a.m. the firstThursday of each month atTibbetts Manor in Issaquah.Guests are welcome. Go towww.issaquahwomensclub.org.

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the firefighters gain will be ofgreat help in their day-to-day en-counters with the citizens of East-side Fire & Rescue,” Tryon wrotein an email. “This program is giv-

ing us access to resources for ourcustomers that we have been un-aware of in the past, and shouldbe of great help to our patients inthe future.”

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It is withmuch sad-ness that Itell you thatIssaquahPress long-time SportsEditor BobTaylor isleaving us.His last dayat the paperwill be March 9.

We are seeking your photos,your videos, your memories and

anything else you have to sharewith us for a tribute to him that wewill have in the paper.

Email your items and contactinformation to Managing EditorKathleen R. Merrill at [email protected], or contact the paperon Twitter, www.twitter.com/issaquahpress, or Facebook,www.facebook.com/issaquah-press.

Please help us send Bob off theright way, with much love andrespect. He’s a Northwest sportslegend.

Bob Taylor

By Christina LordsIssaquah Press reporter

The Issaquah High School boysbasketball team had been here be-fore.

With a trip to the Tacoma Domeand the state championship tour-nament on the line, the Eagleswere only able to put up eightpoints in the first quarter againstan explosive Mount Rainier teamduring their KingCo 4A quarterfi-nal match Feb 24.

The sluggish start — similar tothe one Issaquah had the week be-fore against Garfield for theKingCo championship — con-

tributed to the 82-72 loss to theRams.

Issaquah coach Jason Griffithsaid the team wasn’t able to adaptto the Rams’ offensive prowess asquickly as it would have liked.

“It’s getting used to the pressureand the speed of the game,” hesaid. “We came out slow againstGarfield. The same thing hap-pened here. Adjusting to that typeof pressure isn’t a place where wedid well tonight.”

The Eagles ended the seasonwith a 14-10 record.

Press staff report

The Skyline High School girlsbasketball team looked like it washeaded for an upset in the Feb. 21KingCo/Wesco playoff at Stan-wood.

Skyline had an 10-point halftimelead against host Stanwood andappeared headed for the stateClass 4A regionals.

But third-ranked Stanwood,backed by its large crowd of vocalfans, rallied in the second half topost a 61-50 victory in the loser-out game.

Skyline, which won the KingCoCrest Division title this season, fin-ished with a 17-8 record.

It was a game where the teamshad the same mascots — both areSpartans.

The Skyline Spartans, sparkedby Megan Wiedeman, jumped to a16-10 first-quarter lead. Wiede-man scored seven of her game-high 13 points in the first quarter.Skyline pushed its lead to 31-21 athalftime.

Stanwood fought back to trail byjust two points by the end of thethird quarter. With 4:15 left in thegame, Stanwood took its first leadsince early in the first quarter.Samantha Kelleigh stole the ballfrom Skyline and passed it toteammate Jade Boreseth, whoscored on a layin to put Stanwood

ahead.The teams traded baskets before

Rachel Swartz hit a pair of freethrows with just over two minutesto play to put Stanwood ahead forgood.

Stanwood, which outscoredSkyline 23-10 in the final quarter,made the most of its free-throwopportunities in the second half.Renee Lucero, who finished with10 points, hit seven free throws inthe final quarter for Stanwood.

Swartz led Stanwood with 12points.

In addition to Wiedeman, HaleySmith scored 10 points and Mor-gan Farrar had seven points forSkyline.

By Bob TaylorIssaquah Press sports editor

A year after getting almost ig-nored by KingCo Conference 4Acoaches on the all-league team,Issaquah High School seniorNick Price was not overlookedthis season.

Price earned first-team all-KingCo honors this time whenthe all-league team was an-nounced. Once again, Price hasimpressive statistics. He rankedthird in KingCo scoring by aver-aging 19.7 points per game.Price also helped lead the Eaglesto the KingCo 4A title game anda Class 4A regional berth.

“I was real happy for him,” Is-saquah coach Jason Griffith said.

As a junior, Price earned hon-orable mention despite being thetop scorer in the Crest Division.This time, he was one of threecandidates for the league’s MostValuable Player award.

“He was unanimous all-KingCo. His play and leadershipwas respected by all coaches,”Griffith said.

Price had a game-high of 41points earlier this season. How-ever, he became more of a com-plete player this season.

“He was second on our team inrebounds, he led in steals andwas one of our assist leaders,”Griffith said. “This year, what re-ally separated him from pastseasons was his ability to do a lotof other things. When you look athis overall development, hemade big strides in all facets ofhis game. His development was adirect correlation with ourteam’s success. His leadershiphelped guide some of ouryounger players on the court.”

Price has not decided on a col-lege for next season. Griffith saida decision will be made some-time in the next two months.

The Eagles had two players

who received honorable men-tion: freshman guard Ty Gibsonand senior forward FletcherMartin.

Gibson was one of the Eagles’steadiest players late in the sea-son.

“In the first half of the season,he was adjusting to the physicalpart of the game. In the secondhalf, we saw him take some big,big steps. Down the stretch he

averaged around 16-17 points agame for us,” Griffith said.

Martin was a strong rebounderfor the Eagles this season andone of their senior leaders.

The all-KingCo first team in-cluded forwards Tucker Hay-mond and TreVaunte Williams,of Garfield; guards Perrian Cal-lendret and Zach LaVine, ofBothell; forward Jason Harring-ton, of Redmond; and guard WillParker, of Skyline.

Haymond, who averaged 21.7points and led the Bulldogs to theKingCo title, was selected as theleague’s MVP. LaVine led theconference in scoring with a 23.9average. Both Garfield and Sky-line advanced to the Class 4AState Tournament.

The second team included for-ward Lucas Shannon, of Skyline.Max Browne and Bryan Cikatz,of Skyline, earned honorablemention.

Liberty’s Tynan Gilmoreis second team

Liberty guard Tynan Gilmorewas selected to the KingCo

(Nick) Price isright for KingCo 4A

all-league team

BASKETBALLROUNDUP� PHOTOS BY GREG FARRAR

Above, Brian Watson, Issaquah High School sophomore guard, puts up a shot for three points during the fourth quarter, as the Issaquah student section lookson decked out in costumes. Below right, Fletcher Martin, Issaquah High School senior forward, keeps his eye on the hoop for two points during the fourth quarteras Dwane Clay, Mount Rainier senior forward, defends.

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Ty Gibson, Issaquah High School freshman guard, drives low around DwaneClay, of Mount Rainier, during the third quarter.

Skyline girls playoff run comesup short against Stanwood, 61-50

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Megan Wiedeman, Skyline senior post, goes to the basket as Issaquah junior guard Aimee Brakken defends duringtheir Jan. 6 basketball game.

Prep boys basketball4A KingCo ConferenceCREST DIVISION

League SeasonW L W L

Skyline* 13 1 18 5Redmond 10 4 16 7Issaquah 6 8 14 10Newport 5 9 10 13Eastlake 2 12 4 16

CROWN DIVISIONLeague Season

W L W LGarfield* 13 2 19 5Roosevelt 10 5 16 8Bothell 8 7 17 9Ballard 8 7 10 12Woodinville 3 12 5 15Inglemoor 2 13 6 14

*Division champions

Class 4A RegionalsFeb. 24 GamesAt JuanitaMount Rainier 82, Issaquah 72Garfield 63, Kentwood 59At Kent-MeridianJackson 50, Federal Way 45Bellarmine Prep 75, Snohomish 54At AuburnBothell 63, Olympia 54Union 58, Curtis 47At Spokane Falls Community CollegeCentral Valley 76, Richland 63Davis 69, Evergreen (Vancouver) 46

MOUNT RAINIER 82, ISSAQUAH 72Issaquah 8 20 19 25 – 72Mount Rainier 19 20 17 26 – 82Issaquah – Ty Gibson 15, Ryan Sexton 14, Brian

Watson 10, Jake Henke 9, Cole Westover 7, Tyler Witte 7,Fletcher Martin 4, Cory Nevin 4, Nick Price 2, DrewDanner 0.

Mount Rainier – Adrian Davis 20, Malik Rodgers17, Caden Rowland 11, Andrew Lenaburg 10, JamilWilson-Jones 10, Dwane Clay 8, Jake Morine 6, DanielAmare 0.

KingCo 4A All-League TeamFIRST TEAMF Tucker Haymond, Garfield, 6-5, Jr.G Perrian Callendret, Bothell, 6-2, Jr.F Jason Harrington, Redmond, 6-7, Sr.G Zach LaVine, Bothell, 6-3, Jr.G Will Parker, Skyline, 5-11, Sr.G Nick Price, Issaquah, 6-3, Sr.F TreVaunte Williams, Garfield, 6-4, Jr.SECOND TEAMG Seth Berger, Ballard, 6-7, Jr.G Chris Bryant, Inglemoor, 5-11, Jr.F Isaac Dotson, Newport, 6-3, Jr.F A.J. Edwards, Roosevelt, 6-4, Sr.F Conner Floan, Redmond, 6-7, Sr.G Brandon Lester, Eastlake, 5-11, Jr.F Lucas Shannon, Skyline, 6-7, Sr.HONORABLE MENTIONEastlake: Eric Holmdahl, Michael Hwang.Issaquah: Ty Gibson, Fletcher Martin.Skyline: Max Browne, Bryan Cikatz.SPECIAL HONORSPlayer of year: Tucker Haymond, GarfieldCoach of year: Ed Haskins, Garfield

3A/2A KingCo ConferenceLeague Season

W L W LLake Washington* 12 2 20 6Bellevue 11 3 18 7Mercer Island 11 3 21 9Sammamish 10 4 15 9Liberty 5 9 10 11Mount Si 4 10 5 16Juanita 3 11 7 14Interlake 0 14 3 16

*regular season champion

Class 3A RegionalsFeb. 24 GamesLake Washington 51, Wilson 40Kennedy Catholic 73, Mercer Island 67

KingCo 3A/2A All-League TeamFIRST TEAMC Darien Nelson-Henry, Lake Washington, 6-10, Sr.G Matt Staudacher, Lake Washington, 6-1, Sr.C Joe Rasmussen, Mercer Island, 6-7, Jr.F George Valle, Sammamish, 6-4, Sr.F Cole Walton, Bellevue, 6-10, Sr.F John Steinberg, 6-4, Sr.SECOND TEAMG Tynan Gilmore, Liberty, 5-8, Jr.F Guy Lynott, Lake Washington, 6-6, Sr.C Anthony McLaughlin, Mount Si, 6-6, Sr.G Tim Haehl, Bellevue, 6-0, Soph.G Sam Cohn, Mercer Island, 6-0, Sr.SPECIAL HONORSMVP: Darien Nelson-Henry, Lake WashingtonCoach of year: Chris O’Connor, BellevueDefensive player of year: Cole Walton, BellevueSportsmanship: Mount Si, Liberty

Prep girls basketball4A KingCo ConferenceCREST DIVISION

League SeasonW L W L

Skyline* 11 3 17 8Issaquah 10 4 17 7Eastlake 9 5 15 9Newport 5 9 9 14Redmond 2 12 6 14

CROWN DIVISIONLeague Season

W L W LWoodinville* 14 1 22 2Inglemoor 12 3 17 6Roosevelt 6 9 8 13Garfield 6 9 7 14Ballard 5 10 6 14Bothell 0 15 0 20

*division champions

KingCo No. 3/Wesco No. 3 PlayoffFeb. 21 GameSTANWOOD 61, SKYLINE 50Skyline 16 15 9 10 – 50Stanwood 10 11 17 23 – 61Skyline – Megan Wiedeman 13, Haley Smith 10,

Morgan Farrar 7, Alicia Shim 5, Allie Wyszynski 5, ShelbyKassuba 3, Susie Tinker 3, Lacey Nicholson 2, AlexDaugherty 0.

Stanwood – Rachel Swartz 12, Paisley Heckman 10,Samantha Kelleigh 10, Renee Lucero 10, TristenMurphy 10, Jade Boreseth 6, Tarah Murphy 2, BrendaBingham 1.

Class 4A RegionalsFeb. 25 GamesAt JuanitaEastlake 75, Rogers (Puyallup) 35Woodinville 59, Emerald Ridge 47At Kent-MeridianSkyview 72, Lake Stevens 56Jackson 50, Kentwood 37At AuburnFederal Way 54, Stanwood 43Mount Rainier 58, Bethel 35At Spokane Falls Community CollegeCentral Valley 55, Chiawana 48Gonzaga Prep 69, Olympia 35

EASTLAKE 75, ROGERS 35Eastlake 21 22 14 18 – 75Rogers 11 4 15 5 – 35Eastlake – Bella Zennan 15, Caleigh McCabe 14,

Kendra Morrison 9, Marijke Vanderschaaf 7, MaggieDouglas 6, Ellie Mortenson 6, Rachel Ainslie 5, TaylorBoe 4, Lauren Files 4, Abby Carlson 2, LaurenGreenheck 2, Tyler Yoneyama 0.

Rogers – Jordan Asher 10, Mackenzie Lancaster 8,Rachel Askew 5, Brylie Barnette 4, Jeankie Aczar 3,Leigha Stroh 3, Gabby Barnette 2, Aimee Bach 0,Sabrina Bledsoe 0, Arden Borden 0, Jazmin Borden 0.

KingCo 4A All-League TeamFIRST TEAMC Ali Forde, Woodinville, 6-1, Sr.

G Shaunice Robinson, Garfield, 5-3, Sr.G Taylor Peacocke, Inglemoor, 5-9, Sr.F Kendra Morrison, Eastlake, 6-1, Sr.G Mackenzie Campbell, Woodinville, 5-8, Sr.F Nyashu Sarju, Garfield, 6-1, Sr.C Megan Wiedeman, Skyline, 6-0, Sr.G Tanner Adams, Roosevelt, 5-7, Sr.SECOND TEAMG Mandie Hill, Issaquah, 5-7, Soph.G Kelly Conroy, Inglemoor, 5-9, Jr.G Chay Fuller, Inglemoor, 6-0, Jr.G Monica Landdeck, Issaquah, 5-8, Soph.F Cailey Beckett, Ballard, 5-11, Jr.F Allie Wyszynski, Skyline, 5-11, Sr.G Mackenzie Wieburg, Issaquah, 5-9, Soph.HONORABLE MENTIONEastlake: Marijke Vanderschaaf, Caleigh McCabe.Issaquah: Sabrina Norton, Aimee Brakken.Skyline: Hayley Smith, Rachel Shim.SPECIAL HONORSPlayer of year: Ali Forde, WoodinvilleDefensive player of year: Mackenzie Campbell,

WoodinvilleCoach of year: Scott Bullock, Woodinville

3A/2A KingCo ConferenceLeague Season

W L W LJuanita* 12 2 21 6Lake Washington 11 3 14 9Liberty 10 4 16 9Bellevue 8 6 14 11Mount Si 7 7 10 11Mercer Island 5 9 5 15Interlake 2 9 6 11Sammamish 0 11 3 14

KingCo Conference 3A/2ALeague SeasonW L W L

Juanita* 12 2 21 6 Lake Washington 11 3 14 9Liberty 10 4 16 9 Bellevue 8 6 14 11Mount Si 7 7 10 11 Mercer Island 5 9 5 15Interlake 3 11 10 15 Sammamish 0 14 3 16*regular season champion

Class 3A RegionalsFeb. 25 GamePrairie 65, Juanita 28

Club swimmingFebruary ChallengeDIVISION IResults for Issaquah Swim Team:GIRLS8 & under25 freestyle: 1. Ellie Deutsch 15.97; 7, Jasmine

Herri 22.39. 25 backstroke: 1, Deutsch 19.65; 3, Herri24.49. 25 breaststroke: 2, Deutsch 23.79; 10, Herri35.06. 25 butterfly: 1, Deutsch 16.17; 3, Josephine Piel22.84; 9, Herri 33.65. 100 individual medley: 2, Piel1:53.33.

9-10100 individual medley: 1, Danika Himes 1:13.71; 2,

Lauren Sayles 1:15.48; 3, Lillian Piel 1:25.25; 5,Riordan Roche 1:31.96; 6, Alyssa Helgesen 1:33.59; 7,Abby Roth 1:37.39; 12, Mallika Shah 1:46.77; 14, KateSansing 1:48.58.

10 & under50 freestyle: 1, Lauren Sayles 30.15; 2, Danika

Himes 31.07; 3, Lillian Piel 31.72; 4, Belle Battistoni31.98; 7, Riordan Roche 35.32; 16, Mary Russell39.98; 20, Mallika Shah 41.16; 24, Josephine Piel42.76.

100 freestyle: 1, Himes 1:08.17; 2, Battistoni1:08.67; 3, L. Piel 1:12.92; 4, Roche 1:20.84; 5, AbbyRoth 1:23.91; 6, Alyssa Helgesen 1:24.98; 13, AlexaLewis 1:38.96; 14, Kate Sansing 1:40.67.

200 freestyle: 1, Sayles 2:25.51; 3, Battistoni2:34.02; 4, Himes 2:36.09; 5, L. Piel 2:40.95; 8, Roth2:56.02; 12, Russell 3:13.35. 500 freestyle: 1, Sayles6:34.73; 2, Himes 6:53.63; 3, Battistoni 7:07.61.

50 backstroke: 1, Sayles 37.03; 3, Battistoni 37.50;4, Roche 38.93; 7, L. Piel 40.36; 9, Roth 42.68; 19,Shah 48.06; 21, Lewis 48.84; 25, J. Piel 50.84.

100 backstroke: 2, L. Piel 1:31.24; 3, Roche1:31.24; 4, Roth 1:31.85; 6, Helgesen 1:37.78; 9,Lewis 1:45.62; 11, Shah 1:48.36; 12, Sansing1:51.17.

50 breaststroke: 1, Himes 37.31; 2, Sayles 37.62;3, L. Piel 41.11; 7, Roche 47.22; 9, Roth 48.56; 11,Russell 50.18; 26, J. Piel 58.27; 31, Lewis 1:05.23.

100 breaststroke: 1, Sayles 1:23.94; 2, L. Piel1:31.24; 3, Helgesen 1:38.38; 7, Roche 1:45.36; 10,Shah 1:55.98; 12, Sansing 1:58.60; 13, J. Piel2:05.47.

50 butterfly: 1, Battistoni 33.79; 2, Himes 34.15; 5,Roche 42.65; 11, Roth 45.43; 19, Shah 55.01; 21, J.Piel 1:00.79; 23, Lewis 1:07.19.

100 butterfly: 1, Battistoni 1:19.88; 3, Roth1:45.58. 200 individual medley: 1, Himes 2:39.26; 2,Sayles 2:40.95; 3, Battistoni 2:51.57; 4, Shah 3:51.09.

200 freestyle relay: 1, IST A (Ellie Deutsch,Battistoni, Sayles, Himes) 2:07.94;2,IST B (Roth, Shah,Roche, L. Piel) 2:24.49. 200 medley relay: 1, IST A(Himes, Sayles, Battistoni, L. Piel) 2:21.87; 4, IST B(Roche, Russell, Roth, Shah) 2:53.77.

11-1250 freestyle: 4, Sarah Dimeco 29.77; 7, Abby

Russell 30.05; 10, Serena Xiong 31.95; 11, KavyaSrikanth 32.09; 12, Delaney Poggemann 32.36; 17,Alina Herri 35.57; 19, Valerie Adams 37.29; 21, JuliaCrumb 37.80; 22, Bailie Shultz 38.42; 25, Anna Leist40.58.

100 freestyle; 3, Stephanie Young 1:02.43; 7, EmilySchahrer 1:04.38; 12, Annika Helgesen 1:13.96; 14,Anna Orban 1:15.96; 16, Nicole Gasson 1:19.91; 17,Adams 1:20.98; 21, Ally David 1:28.83.

200 freestyle: 5, Sam Moynihan 2:33.85; 6,Veronica Stureborg 2:33.98; 8, Poggemann 2:36.49; 9,Xiong 2:37.90; 10, Maggie VanNortwick 2:41.67; 11,Rachel Clark 2:45.41; 12, Srikanth 2:47.08; 14,Catalina Sargent 2:57.18; 17, Leist 3:15.24.

500 freestyle: 1, Young 5:57.08; 4, Dimeco 6:39.27;7, Helgesen 6:52.41; Stureborg 6:56.81; 9, Moynihan6:57.92; 10, Van Nortwick 7:27.97; 11, Andrea Nelson7:40.00; 12, Shultz 8:20.71.

50 backstroke: 2, Russell 34.38; 3, Van Nortwick34.50; 5, Natalie Sun 35.89; 7, Dimeco 36.37; 11,Rachel King 39.10; 15, Herri 41.77; 20, Adams 44.82;22, Leist 47.31; 24, Shultz 50.88.

100 backstroke: 2, Young 1:09.00; 3, Schahrer1:10.49; 9, Dimeco 1:20.98; 12, Gasson 1:25.63; 15,Poggemann 1:26.38; 17, Orban 1:30.77; 20, Adams1:44.17.

200 backstroke: 1, Young 2:27.08; 3, Schahrer2:32.24; 5, Stureborg 2:40.43; 7, Dimeco 2:49.72; 10,Moynihan 2:55.53; 11, Xiong 2:57.68; 12, Van Nortwick2:58.44; 13, Poggemann 2:59.65; 14, Sargent3:17.14; 15, Clark 3:23.25; 16, Adams 3:41.12.

50 breaststroke: 3, Sun 39.01; 6, Crumb 42.18; 8,Srikanth 42.99; 12, King 45.42; 16, Herri 47.74; 17,Shultz 50.09. 100 breaststroke: 5, Helgesen 1:27.84;7, Stureborg 1:28.67; 8, Moynihan 1:30.45; 9, IsabelleGonzalez 1:33.01; 10, Poggemann 1:33.90; 14, Adams1:39.49; 18, Nelson 1:42.49; 19, Shultz 1:47.10; 20,Gasson 1:48.60; 21, David 1:57.20.

200 breaststroke: 1, Young 2:52.31; 4, Xiong3:04.94; 5, Russell 3:05.94; 7, Van Nortwick 3:06.58; 9,Stureborg 3:11.21; 10, Moynihan 3:11.36; 11, Schahrer3:11.46; 12, Dimeco 3:15.29; 14, Crumb 3:25.47; 16,Poggemann 3:32.20; 17, Clark 3:34.21; 21, Adams3:40.68; 22, King 3:48.58; 24, Leist 4:08.69;

50 butterfly: 4, Sun34.83; 5, Srikanth 36.91; 11,King 39.77; 12, Crumb 39.91; 14, Sargent 41.70; 18,Shultz 48.75; 19, Herri 50.33. 100 butterfly: 3,Stureborg 1:15.40; 8, Poggemann 1:22.81; 10,Gonzalez 1:29.80; 11, Orban 1:30.24; 13, Van Nortwick1:38.19; 14, Shultz 1:52.27. 200 butterfly: 1, Young2:34.70.

100 individual medley: 5, Van Nortwick 1:17.22; 6,Dimeco 1:17.56; 7, Moynihan 1:17.62; 12, Orban1:26.51; 15, Adams 1:34.19; 16, Gasson 1:34.69; 18,David 1:45.66.

200 individual medley: 4, Schahrer 2:39.53; 8,Dimeco 2:46.05; 9, Stureborg 2:46.22; 10, Moynihan2:51.29; 11, Helgesen 2:53.55; 12, Poggemann2:54.36; 14, Van Nortwick 2:55.98; 15, Gonzalez2:56.70.

400 individual medley: 1, Young 5:19.73; 4,Schahrer 5:39.75; 5, Sun 5:41.88; 7, Moynihan6:01.20; 8, Stureborg 6:02.06; 10, Clark 7:04.90.

400 freestyle relay: 3, IST A (Schahrer, Stureborg,Dimeco, Young) 4:28.89; 4, IST B (Moynihan, Orban,Poggemann, Van Nortwick) 4:58.36. 400 medley relay:

SPORTS CALENDAR�Adult sports Issaquah Alps Trail Club� Aug. 27, Dogs Welcome Hike,600- to 1,000-foot elevation gain.Call 206-322-0990 ... Sept. 2, 9:30a.m., Rattlesnake Ledge in NorthBend, 5 miles, 1,400-foot elevationgain. Call 453-8997 ... Sept. 5, 9a.m., Tiger Mountain-Tradition Plateauloop, 4 miles, 600-foot elevationgain. Call 228-6118.Cascade Bicycle Club�Aug. 26, 6:30 p.m., Eastside Tour,20-30 miles from Marymoor Park eastparking lot. Call 392-1347.Triathlon�Lake Sammamish Triathlon, Aug.28, 7 a.m., at Lake Sammamish StatePark. Event consists of 400-meterswim, 14-mile bike ride and a 3.4-milerun. Registration is limited to the first750 entrants. Go towww.signmeup.com/67401 to register.For other information, call 206-920-3983 or go to www.BuDuRacing.com.Open gym�Issaquah Parks and Recreation hasopen gym for volleyball and basketballat the community center. Volleyball is6-9 p.m. Monday, and basketball 6-9Tuesday. There is also noontime hoopsfor players 16 and older, noon to 2p.m., Monday through Friday, and 40 &over noontime hoops, noon to 2 p.m.Tuesday and Thursday, and 8:30-10a.m. Saturday.Volleyball�Coed league – Issaquah Parks coedleague starts Sept. 15. Registrationfees are due Sept. 8. Call 837-3341.Basketball�Men’s league – Issaquah Parksmen’s 35 and over 4x4 league andopen 4x4 league start Sept. 23.Registration fees due Sept. 15. Call837-3341.Tennis�Tennis and friends – Issaquah Parksprogram for people 50 years and up atTibbetts Valley Tennis Courts. Daily ses-sions from 9 a.m. to noon. Call 369-8332.Hunter education�Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club starts ahunter education course Sept. 8.Maximum size is 25 students. Call 746-4480.Shooting�Cascade Mountain Men hold theirnext monthly shoot noon Sept. 20 atthe Issaquah Sportsmen’s Club.

Youth sports/activities Equestrian�Riding lessons – The Red GateFarm in Sammamish offers year-roundriding lessons for ages 6-18. Call 392-0111.

Baseball tryouts�Cannons Baseball Club holds tryoutsfor its 2011 14U Sandy Koufax teamAug. 29 from 1-3 p.m. at Liberty HighSchool. Call 206-227-2920 or [email protected]�Lessons – The Washington FencingAcademy offers fencing lessons for youth,beginning and intermediate groups atClark Elementary School and IssaquahValley Elementary School. New sessionsstart Sept. 14. Call 837-3300.Basketball�Issaquah Parks begins basketballclasses for Little Dribblers, ages 4-5,and Hoopsters, ages 6-8, Sept. 23; andHoopsters II, ages 9-11, Sept. 22. Call837-3300.�Tryouts - Friends of Hoop holds try-outs for its fourth, fifth and sixth grade-girls basketball teams Sept. 13 and 157:30-9 p.m. at Bellevue College. [email protected]�Issaquah SC Arsenal is registeringplayers for its fall season. Go towww.issaquahsoccerclub.org.Cross country�Issaquah Gliders hold an informa-tional open house 3-6 p.m. Sept. 9 atthe Issaquah Community Center. Call392-8230 or go towww.thegliders.8k.com. Workouts forgroups, ages 5-8 and 9-13, start Sept.13 at Lake Sammamish State Park.Pee wee sports�Issaquah Parks has pee wee soc-cer, T-ball and basketball for ages 4-5.Soccer and T-ball start Sept. 20, bas-ketball starts Sept. 21. Call 837-3300.Karate�Issaquah Parks offers karate class-es, taught by the WashingtonShotokan Association, for ages 6-11starting Sept. 16. Classes are 5:15-6p.m. Thursdays through Nov. 4. Call837-3300.Swimming�Fall swim lesson registration istaking place now. Lessons at JuliusBoehm Pool. Register online atwww.issaquahparks.net orwww.ci.issaquah.wa.us.Lacrosse�Issaquah Youth Lacrosse holdsinstructional clinics for boys and girls,ages 6-10. The boys instructionalleague begins Sept. 10; the girls’ clnicstarts Oct. 1. Go to www.issaquah-youthlacrosse.com.

High school sports Football�Sept. 3 — 5 p.m., Issaquah atHeritage (Vancouver); 7 p.m., Skylineat Liberty.

2, IST A (Schahrer, Sun, Dimeco, Young) 4:51.02; 4, ISTD (Stureborg, Xiong, Moynihan, Clark) 5:09.14; 6, IST C(Srikanth, Crumb, Poggemann, Russell) 5:30.11; 8, ISTD (Leist, King, Shultz, Herri) 6:31.61.

13-1450 freestyle: 5, Malia Nakamura 28.53; 6, Brooke

Flaten 29.62; 8, Emma Gieseke 33.08. 100 freestyle:7, Annette Guo 1:02.15; 8, Ally Haase 1:02.49; 9,Nakamura 1:02.60; 11, Sami Harbeck 1:04.81; 12,Hannah-Rae Ernst 1:05.90; 13, Darian Himes 1:05.93;14, Clarissa Mitchell 1:07.50; 16, Julie Deng 1:09.05;17, Rachel Alexander 1:15.61.

200 freestyle: 5, Guo 2:16.26; 6, Nakamura2:16.94; 7, Ernst 2:17.15; 8, A.J. DiMicco 2:18.20; 9,Maggie Leist 2:19.03; 10, Himes 2:23.26; 11, Flaten2:26.79; 12, Deng 2:30.42; 13, Mitchell 2:30.69; 16,Gieseke 2:40.48.

500 freestyle: 3, Haase 6:01.24; 6, Himes 6:08.93;9, Ernst 6:14.96; 10, DiMicco 6:15.06; 11, Guo6:20.24; 12, Harbeck 6:29.87; 13, Gabby Salgado6:37.10; 14, Deng 6:50.33; 16, Alexander 7:32.25.

100 backstroke: 8, Deng 1:15.13; 9, Nakamura1:15.92; 11, DiMicco 1:20.92. 200 backstroke: 3,Elyse Kaczmarek 2:30.57; 6, Himes 2:36.41; 7, Leist2:38.96; 8, Guo 2:39.38; 9, Deng 2:43.53; 10,Mitchell 2:52.14; 11, Gieseke 2:54.42.

100 breaststroke: 2, Nakamura 1:18.40; 3, Ernst1:19.90; 4, Salgado 1:19.93; 6, Himes 1:22.04; 8,DiMicco 1:22.71; 9, Guo 1:22.93; 13, Harbeck1:29.66. 200 breaststroke: 3, Ernst 2:47.34; 4,Kaczmarek 2:48.21; 6, Salgado 2:49.47; 7, Nakamura2:51.81; 9, DiMicco 3:01.37; 10, Deng 3:19.13.

50 butterfly: 3, Flaten 33.01. 100 butterfly: 3,Haase 1:09.19; 7, Ernst 1:13.27; 9, DiMicco 1:17.97;11, Alexander 1:42.18.

200 butterfly: 1, Kaczmarek 2:36.12; 3, Ernst2:43.73; 4, Leist 2:48.17; 5, Mitchell 2:49.10; 6,Himes 2:55.13; 7, DiMicco 2:55.52; 8, Salgado2:56.14; 8, Guo 2:58.65.

200 individual medley: 7, Haase 2:31.27; 8, Guo2:31.76; 9, Himes 2:33.17; 11, Nakamura 2:36.52;13, Salgado 2:39.59; 14, Harbeck 2:41.33; 15, Deng2:45.77; 18, Mitchell 2:49.46. 400 individual medley:3, Kaczmarek 5:09.72; 6, Himes 5:30.35; 8, Guo5:34.71; 9, Ernst 5:35.35; 10, Leist 5:36.94; 11,Salgado 5:38.35; 12, Nakamura 5:38.51; 13, Mitchell5:50.43; 14, Deng 5:58.56; 15, Gieseke 6:23.47.

15 & over50 freestyle: 4, Alyssa Poggemann 30.02; 8, Hallie

Lynn 33.38. 100 freestyle: 3, Poggemann 1:04.89; 5,Katie Nelson 1:08.20. 200 freestyle: 3, Poggemann2:20.04; 5, Jessica Brady 2:27.18; 6, Lynn 2:49.27.

50 backstroke: 7, Brady 36.70. 100 backstroke: 3,Nelson 1:15.13. 200 backstroke: 3, Poggemann2:39.66; 5, Lynn 3:13.71. 100 breaststroke: 4,Poggemann 1:27.43. 200 individual medley: 2,Poggemann 2:35.58; 3, Nelson 2:42.58. 400 individualmedley: 2, Brady 5:55.89.

13 & Over 400 medley relay: 4, IST A (ElyseKaczmarek, Hannah-Rae Ernst, Alyssa Poggemann,Annette Guo) 4:41.96; 5, IST B (Darian Himes, MaliaNakamura, Maggie Leist, Clarissa Mitchell) 4:52.14; 6,IST C (Julie Deng, Gabby Salgado, Brooke Flaten, AJDiMicco) 4:57.66.

11 & Over 400 freestyle relay: 4, IST A (DiMicco,Mitchell, Ally Haase, Guo) 4:19.70; 5, IST B (Salgado,Sami Harbeck, Poggemann, Ernst) 4:20.74.

BOYS8 & under25 freestyle: 4, Marius Rakickas 21.34. 25 back-

stroke: 2, Ross Nakamura 21.09; 5, Rakickas 24.12.25 breaststroke: 3, Nakamura 25.51; 4, Rakickas26.61. 25 butterfly: 1, Nakamura 19.59. 100 individualmedley: 2, Nakamura 1:41.30; 3, Vivek Shah 2:07.85.

9-10100 individual medley: 1, Kyle Falkner 1:16.54; 4,

Nick Lewis 1:23.30; 9, Henry O’Daffer 1:34.50; 11,Connor Poggemann 1:38.38; 13, Nicholas Chin1:40.62; 14, Nico Bristol 1:45.41; 15, Warren Briggs1:49.60; 16, Louis Gasson 1:52.59.

10 & under50 freestyle: 2, Andres Gonzalez 29.32; 3, Nick

Lewis 31.08; 4, Kyle Falkner 31.43; 10, ChristopherHarig 36.21; 14, Nico Bristol 38.27; 18, Michael Guo41.38; 19, Warren Xiong 41.94; 20, Warren Briggs42.13; 21, Ryan Miller 42.24; 23, Ross Nakamura43.52; 28, Vivek Shah 51.90.

100 freestyle: 1, Gonzalez 1:04.65; 3, Falkner1:06.46; 4, Lewis 1:11.07; 9, Jarod Schahrer 1:20.43;11, Henry O’Daffer 1:20.79; 12, Connor Poggemann1:23.35; 14, Bristol 1:23.77; 17, Nicholas Chin1:32.14; 18, Louis Gasson 1:36.78; 19, Briggs1:38.58; 23, Shah 1:57.91.

200 freestyle: 1, Falkner 2:21.19; 2, Gonzalez2:25.30; 5, Lewis 2:42.91; 8, Schahrer 2:56.27; 9,Poggemann 3:06.2;3 10, Brandon Leung 3:07.74; 12,Bristol 3:17.10; 13, Briggs 3:24.78; 15, Guo 3:32.19.500 freestyle; 1, Falkner 6:10.00; 2, Gonzalez 6:28.08.

50 backstroke: 1, Gonzalez 34.07; 2, Falkner 36.45;5, Lewis 38.20; 10, Schahrer 43.74; 11, Harig 43.94;13, Leung 44.37; 17, Poggemann 46.79; 18, Xiong47.76; 19, Nakamura 48.23; 20, Miller 49.59; 23, Guo50.86; 24, Briggs 50.92; 25, Shah 52.37.

100 backstroke: 1, Gonzalez 1:13.71; 2, Lewis1:21.45; 6, O’Daffer 1:28.93; 7, Chin 1:36.19; 9,Poggemann 1:41.27; 10, Gasson 1:41.79; 11, Briggs1:47.78; 12, Bristol 1:50.18.

50 breaststroke: 3, Leung 42.15; 5, Lewis 44.10; 8,Harig 47.23; 12, Miller 51.22; 14, Schahrer 51.83; 16,Xiong 53.71; 18, Guo 54.26; 19, Poggemann 54.34;20, Shah 55.84; 21, Bristol 1:00.26; 23, Nakamura1:01.09.

100 breaststroke: 4, O’Daffer 1:39.21; 6, Schahrer1:48.66; 9, Poggemann 1:54.18; 11, Chin 1:59.06;12, Bristol 2:02.18; 13, Shah 2:10.72; 14, Briggs2:21.60; 15, Gasson 2:29.34.

50 butterfly: 1, Gonzalez 32.89; 3, Falkner 34.40;9, Leung 39.36; 11, Poggemann 43.24; 12, Schahrer43.51; 14, Harig 46.19; 15, Bristol 47.13; 17, Briggs48.50; 18, Nakamura 49.38; 20, Guo 51.46; 22, Xiong53.81; 24, Shah 1:05.36. 100 butterfly: 4, Schahrer1:36.69.

200 individual medley: 1, Falkner 2:39.07; 2,Gonzalez 2:44.99; 5, Lewis 2:59.85; 6, Chin 3:33.34.

200 freestyle relay: 1, IST A (Poggemann, Lewis,Falkner, Gonzalez) 2:06.13; 4, IST B (Schahrer, Bristol,Chin, O’Daffer) 2:30.26. 200 medley relay: 1, IST A(Falkner, Leung, Gonzalez, Lewis) 2:22.58; 4, IST B(Schahrer, Harig, Poggemann, Bristol) 2:52.25.

11-1250 freestyle: 4, Quinn Gieseke 31.59; 12, Sam

Bolosky 46.20. 100 freestyle: 3, Brandon Yue 59.72; 4,Will O’Daffer 1:05.58; 7, Alan Yang 1:16.96; 14,Connor Lotzkar 1:29.83; 16, Nicola Beirer 1:35.93.

200 freestyle: 3, Bennett Ernst 2:19.71; 6, NolanVan Nortwick 2:38.71; 7, Gieseke 2:43.99; 10, Bolosky3:27.77. 500 freestyle: 1, Ivan Graham 5:31.99; 2,Brandon Leu 5:42.95; 4, Yue 6:08.11; 5, O’Daffer6:16.93; 6, Ernst 6:23.42; 7, Van Nortwick 7:09.12.

50 backstroke: 2, Van Nortwick 39.27. 100 back-stroke: 1, Leu 1:03.69; 4, Yang 1:25.39; 5, VanNortwick 1:26.00; 7, Lotzkar 1:40.01; 11, Beirer1:49.31. 200 backstroke: 1, Graham 2:20.21; 2, Leu2:22.05; 3, O’Daffer 2:31.02; 4, Yue 2:34.44; 5, Ernst2:52.07; 6, Gieseke 3:04.25; 7, Van Nortwick 3:04.36.

100 breaststroke: 1, Graham 1:07.72; 2, Ernst1:20.40; 4, O’Daffer 1:24.29; 7, Yang 1:36.29; 12,Lotzkar 1:58.90; 15, Beirer 2:03.57. 200 breaststroke;1, Graham 2:31.13; 2, Yue 2:39.48; 5, O’Daffer3:06.80; 7, Van Nortwick 3:07.96; 8, Gieseke 3:22.54.

100 butterfly: 1, Graham 1:00.09; 5, Yang 1:31.93.200 butterfly: 1, Graham 2:15.05; 2, Yue 2:32.78; 3,Leu 2:37.97; 4, O’Daffer 2:42.87.

100 individual medley: 1, Leu 1:08.32; 2, Yue1:09.56; 3, Ernst 1:17.33; 4, Van Nortwick 1:17.41;10, Beirer 1:55.46. 200 individual medley: 1, Graham2:14.31; 2, Leu 2:23.70; 3, Yue 2:27.65; 4, O’Daffer2:35.89; 5, Ernst 2:43.18; 6, Van Nortwick 2:50.85.400 individual medley: 1, Graham 4:50.23; 2, Yue5:14.02; 3, O’Daffer 5:34.33; 4, Ernst 6:09.59.

12 & under 400 freestyle relay: 1, IST (Leu,O’Daffer, Yue, Graham) 4:03.84.

13-1450 freestyle: 9, Mattias Tung 32.73. 100 freestyle:

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3, Nick Nava 57.96; 7, Connor Azzazrello 1:05.01. 200freestyle: 5, Nava 2:09.92; 8, Azzarello 2:22.94; 9, Tung2:58.76. 500 freestyle: 4, Nava 6:14.11; 5, Azzarello6:22.14.

100 backstroke: 2, Azzarello 1:13.55. 200 back-stroke: 3, Nava 2:26.22; 5, Azzarello 2:37.72; 6, Tung

3:12.63. 100 breaststroke: 3, Nava 1:17.34; 4,Azzarello 1:22.34. 200 breaststroke: 4, Azzarello2:53.50; 5, Tung 3:18.05.

200 butterfly: 1, Nava 2:30.94. 200 individual med-ley: 3, Nava 2:23.24. 400 individual medley: 2, Nava5:10.30; 4, Azzarello 5:46.69.

Issaquah’s leading scorer of thegame, junior Ryan Sexton, con-tributed 14 points, while freshmanTy Gibson added 13 points for theteam.

Senior Nick Price, Issaquah’s topscorer, shot only one for 15 for thenight and scored two points forthe Eagles.

After trailing 56-47 at halftime,the Eagles brought the gamewithin five points late in the thirdquarter, but couldn’t develop aneffective way to stop MountRainier’s established offensiverhythm.

Adrian Davis scored a game-high 20 points for the Rams, withfour other Mount Rainier players

scoring in the double-digits.“We knew coming into it that we

had to make plays,” Griffith said.“They challenge you to make playsin open court. They challenge youto make reads off the double team.I thought for a while we did thatin spurts, and we did a good job ofit. But they’re capable of going ona 10-0 run.”

Griffith said while the team maybe disappointed with the game’soutcome, he’s proud of the Eagles’successes throughout the season.

“We’re proud of this group ofseniors, they’re a great group tocoach,” he said. “They left such agood mark on our program, and Iknow they’ll be disappointed inthe locker room, but overall theycan’t hang their heads too much.”

Christina Lords: 392-6434, ext. 239, [email protected]. Comment atwww.issaquahpress.com.

BasketballFROM PAGE B4

3A/2A All-league second team.Gilmore, a 5-8 junior, ranked thirdin league scoring with a 14.8 aver-age.

Skyline center earns first-team honorsSkyline center Megan Wiede-

man, who led the Spartans to theKingCo 4A Crest Division title, wasnamed to the all-league first team.Wiedeman, a senior, averaged13.3 points a game and rankedsixth in league scoring.

Senior forward Allie Wyszynski,of Skyline; and Issaquah sopho-more guards Mandie Hill, MonicaLanddeck and Mackenzie Wieburgwere named to the all-KingCo 4Asecond team. Hill, who transferredto Issaquah from California before

the beginning of the season, aver-aged 12.4 points a game. Sheranked eighth among the league’stop scorers.

Sabrina Norton and AimeeBrakken, of Issaquah, and HayleySmith and Rachel Shim, of Sky-line, earned honorable mention.

Woodinville’s Ali Forde was se-lected as the league’s most valu-able player.

Liberty’s Aspen Winegaris named all-league

Liberty senior Aspen Winegar,who helped lead her team to theKingCo 3A/2A title game the pasttwo years, was named to theleague’s all-league first-team.

Winegar averaged 12.5 pointsfor the Patriots, who reached the3A Sea-King District Tourna-ment.

Teammates Sierra Carlson,Ashlan Applegate and DelaneAgnew earned honorable mention.

RoundupFROM PAGE B4

Local players pick GonzagaIssaquah High School pitcher

Brandon Mahovlich and SkylineHigh School catcher Jimmy Sina-tro have signed national letters ofintent to play baseball for GonzagaUniversity next year.

Mahovlich, a 6-foot-2 right-hander, is rated by BaseballNorthwest as the eighth-bestright-handed pitcher and the 21stbest high-school prospect in thestate. As a junior last year, he hada 2.10 earned run average with 42strikeouts. Mahvolich also plays inthe outfield for the Eagles.

“Brandon will be an outstandingtwo-way player for us,” Gonzagacoach Mark Machtolf said. “He hasa very natural swing with powerthat projects very well at the nextlevel as well as arm strength andpitch ability, earning him an oppor-tunity to pitch significant innings.”

Sinatro has been rated thefourth best catcher and 30th besthigh school prospect in the stateby Baseball Northwest. He earnedall-KingCo Conference 4A honorslast season. He had a standoutsummer season with the LakesideSenior Legion team, hitting .345with seven doubles, four homeruns and 35 RBIs.

“Jimmy, being fairly new to thecatching position, is one of thebest we have seen in awhile,”Machtolf said. “His solid approachat the plate and strong leadershipability will be a very welcome ad-dition in 2013.”

Sinatro’s father Matt played 18seasons in the Major Leagues, in-cluding catching for the SeattleMariners.

Sign up for spring trail run

Registration is now open for theMay 26 Soaring Eagle Trail Run.

Participants can choose to takepart in the 5-mile, 10-mile,marathon or 50K. All runs willtake place in Sammamish’s Soar-ing Eagle Park, where EvergreenTrail Runs is hosting the event.Registration is $25-$50.

Check-in is at 7:30 a.m. Satur-day, May 26 at the park with thefirst run starting at 8:30 a.m.Learn more or sign up atwww.evergreentrailruns.com.

Soccer tryouts are planned

The Issaquah Soccer Club’s reg-istration for tryouts has started forits Arsenal and Gunners teams.

Registration for U6-U18 recre-ation is open April 1 to May 31 forthe fall 2012 season.

Learn more at www.issaquah-soccerclub.org.

Skyline defensive backis headed for Wyoming

Damian Greene, a standout de-fensive back and running back forSkyline High School, has signed anational letter of intent with theUniversity of Wyoming.

He helped the Spartans win theClass 4A state title last fall.

He joins Issaquah’s DanielFleischman, a redshirt offensivelineman, on the Wyoming roster.

Issaquah pitcher signswith Bellevue

Senior Brielle Bray, a pitcher onthe Issaquah High School fastpitchteam, has signed a letter of intent toplay for Bellevue College next year.

Bray was one of the top pitchersand hitters in the KingCo Confer-ence 4A last season. She earnedall-league honors.

Eric Lemke is bound for Idaho

Issaquah High School standoutlineman Eric Lemke recentlysigned a national letter of intentwith the University of Idaho.

The Vandals believe Lemke,who earned KingCo Conference4A first-team honors on offenseand defense last fall, will see ac-tion at tight end as a freshman.

Lemke joins former Issaquahteammate Nik Landdeck, a red-shirt freshman linebacker.

Sportsmen’s club offersnew pistol course

The Issaquah Sportsmen’s Clubis hosting its first NRA basic pistolcourse March 3 and 4.

The classes, which run from8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, will beheld at the club’s classroom facility.

See the course description athttp://aqaps.com. Learn more athttp://issaquahsportsmensclub.com.

Skyline hosts wrestling camp

The Commuter Wrestling Campwill be June 25-27 at Skyline HighSchool.

Sammie Henson, assistant headwrestling coach at the Universityof Oklahoma, will be the featuredcoach. The camp is for wrestlersgrades six through 12.

Henson is a former silver medalwinner in the Olympics, a worldchampion and a two-time NCAAchampion. He was 71-0 at Clem-son University.

Learn more or register for thecamp at www.sammiehenson.com.Other details are available atwww.skylinewrestling.com/hensonwrestlingcamp.htm.

By Tom Corrigan Issaquah Press reporter

Roger Fernandes believes hisvisits to schools such as GrandRidge Elementary School are es-sentially public relations appear-ances for Native Americans.

An artist and Native Americanstoryteller, Fernandes put in anappearance at Grand Ridge onFeb. 16. He and students from theschool put on a performance —songs, dances and native games —for parents and school staff mem-bers that evening.

“There is just a dearth of knowl-edge about Native Americans ingeneral,” Fernandes, a member ofthe Lower Elwha S’Klallam peo-ples, said.

Speaking to the third-gradeclass of teacher Krista Guenser,one of Fernandes’ first stories con-cerned a rabbit disrupting a meet-ing of the other forest animals bydrumming and singing.

One by one, in an attempt to geton with their meeting undisturbed,the other animals removed therabbit’s arms, legs and even hishead. But somehow, the singingand drumming didn’t stop. Theanimals then realized the drum-ming and singing came from therabbit’s heart. The moral of thestory?

“If something comes from some-one’s heart, you shouldn’t stop it,”Fernandes said.

Fernandes said he is a strong

believer that stories attract someform of innate response in all peo-ple, but especially in children.There are plenty of ways of tellingstories, such as TV, movies andbooks. But Fernandes said there issomething special about a storybeing told by mouth, by a live per-son right in front of you. As hetravels from school to school, henever has a problem getting chil-dren’s attention.

“Something kicks in and they

just start listening,” Fernandessaid.

Another story he told revolvedaround why people eat animalsand, generally speaking, not theother way around. After all, hu-mans are slow, have no fur, noclaws, no wings. All in all, humansare pretty pitiful compared to say,a bear. In the story, the animalsbecame convinced humans werefood and should be eaten.

For their part, humans argued

they had bigger brains and there-fore they should be the predator,not the prey. The argument could-n’t be decided. Both sides agreedthey would consult an old wisewoman living in the forest. No-body even knew how old she was.She listened to the question andthe arguments and told both sidesto come back in four days.

Instead of settling the issue di-rectly, the woman told the humansand animals to dig up the bones of

some ancestors and play a gameto see who would be eaten andwho wouldn’t. After some wran-gling over the game, the humanswon. Native Americans play thebone game as a gambling game tothis day, Fernandes said. Hetaught the game to Guenser’s stu-dents, who demonstrated it fortheir parents that evening.

Guenser said Fernandes' visitwas, as he indicated, a way to ex-pose students to another culture.Grand Ridge teacher ReneeDeTolla helped arrange the visit,paid for with a grade level grantfrom the school PTSA.

For their part, Guenser’s stu-dents seemed more than willing tosing and clap along with Fernan-des’ performance. Guenser happilysuggested students she thoughtcould make their way through agauntlet of cheering, clapping stu-dents without smiling, another Na-

tive American game. Guenser triedit as well and didn’t make it veryfar at all, saying she likes her stu-dents too much to be successful.

Besides schools around the area,Fernandes said he visits commu-nity centers, libraries and evencolleges. He described himself aslow tech, relying on word ofmouth about his performances.

“Hopefully, those students willhave a better context in which toplace Native Americans,” he said.

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PHOTOS BY TOM CORRIGAN

At left, Native American storyteller Roger Fernandes helps students atGrand Ridge Elementary School play the bone guessing game. Above, thegames continue, as third-grade teacher Krista Guenser tries to make it throughtwo rows of laughing, shouting students without smiling. She didn’t make itpast the first two students.

By Christopher Huber

A few high school teachers are spend-ing a little less time entering studentgrades after school.

Teachers at Skyline High School havecaught on to what some in the IssaquahSchool District call a sort of grassrootstech initiative to help teachers save time,schools save money and students get in-stant feedback on tests.

Skyline is piloting GradeCam, a Web-based software program similar to butmore readily available than a Scantronmachine. It works through a teacher’s ex-isting in-class document camera to instan-taneously grade multiple-choice tests. Theteacher-initiated program, which costs $2to $2.50 per student for a yearly subscrip-tion fee, is further along at Issaquah HighSchool. But staff members at Skyline arealready talking about using the programon a larger scale starting next fall.

“It’s pretty slick,” said science teacherBecky Fowler, who is piloting GradeCamthis school year. “It’s just another way tosave a few minutes here and there. Inthe long run, it’s a time saver, in terms ofthe grade-entering piece.”

It’s not only a time saver for teachers.It also gives a student immediate feed-back on multiple-choice tests, allowing

them to figure out their wrong answerswithin the same class period.

How it worksOn a test, a student fills in bubbles on

their student ID and their answers on ahalf-sheet form. The student or the teacherthen swipes the completed test under thecamera. Within a second or two, the com-puter screen flashes the student’s nameand score and is ready for the next one.

Fowler said a class of about 30 stu-dents can grade its own tests within fiveminutes. Students can then go back totheir seats and work on corrections whilethe program displays graphs telling theteacher which students answered whichquestions wrong and which was the mostcommonly mis-answered question. Thekicker for most teachers, Fowler said, isthat GradeCam then enters the gradesinto Skyward, the school district’s elec-tronic student grade-book program.

“I like the new tech things that comeout,” she said. “I like to try to find waysto streamline the grading process. If I canstreamline any piece I’m doing, I’ll do it.”

The quest for “paperless”Librarian Elizabeth Bacon introduced

GradeCam to Skyline. She saw how well itwas going at Issaquah and figured it would

help a little with the school’s continued ef-fort to go “paperless,” she said. Althoughstudents still use a half-sheet of paper, itcuts down on having to order the largerand more expensive Scantron score sheets,Bacon said.

The GradeCam program would be par-ticularly useful in math and science class-rooms, said Sara Niegowski, the district’sdirector of communications. But Englishteachers also use it to grade assignmentcompletion checklists — anything thatcan be formatted into a multiple-choicescore sheet. Another added benefit is thatthe program does not cost more for theschool — the annual fee comes from Sky-line’s departmental budgets, Bacon said.

“I think everyone will do it,” she said.While many schools across the United

States use Scantron machines, the newprogram is gaining momentum in theIssaquah School District. And it seems tohave plenty of fans among teachers in-terested in saving time.

“Because teachers really seem to ap-preciate the resource, I have no doubtthat it may become a tool widely usedand shared out through our Teachingand Learning Department as a best prac-tice,” Niegowski said. “But there is nocentralized effort to standardize orspread it at this point.”

BY CHRISTOPHER HUBER

Becky Fowler, a Skyline High School science teacher, demonstrates how the school’s GradeCamprogram works. The Web-based program uses an existing classroom document camera to rapidlygrade a multiple-choice score sheet and enter the grade into the electronic gradebook.

Camera grading program saves time, gives instant feedback on tests

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Police responded to a traffichazard at Interstate 90 and High-lands Drive Northeast after a busbroke down along the road at 6:34p.m. Feb. 14. City Public WorksEngineering Operations crewsprovided emergency lighting untila tow truck arrived. In the mean-time, another bus arrived to pickup the passengers.

Suspended licensesPolice cited and released:�a 46-year-old Oroville man for

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parked in the 800 block of SecondAvenue Northwest before 11:02 a.m.Feb. 15. The estimated loss is $50.

Special deliveryA resident in the 500 block of

Mount Everest Lane Southeast saida delivery truck backed into hermailbox, damaging and uprootingit, at 5 p.m. Feb. 2. The truck thenbecame stuck in the soft dirt andwas towed. The driver did not con-tact the resident, although the resi-dent snapped photos and wrotedown the truck’s license informa-tion. The resident reported the in-cident to police at noon Feb. 15.

Game overVideogames and DVDs were

stolen from Target, 755 N.W.Gilman Blvd., before 3:56 p.m. Feb.15. The estimated loss is $307.95.

ArrestPolice arrested a 51-year-old Is-

saquah man on a warrant for ma-licious mischief and assault in the1500 block of Northwest GilmanBoulevard at 4:31 a.m. Feb. 16.

Unchain my heartA chain was broken on a gate at

Issaquah High School, 700 SecondAve. S.E., before 9:04 a.m. Feb.14. The estimated loss is $100.

ArrestPolice arrested a 52-year-old Is-

saquah man for malicious mis-chief in the 900 block of NortheastIngram Way at 9:10 a.m. Feb. 14.

Candid cameraA security camera was stolen

from the Issaquah High Schoolcampus, 700 Second Ave. S.E., be-fore 1:44 p.m. Feb. 14. The esti-mated loss is $4,500.

Love lockdownCash and a key were stolen from

a vehicle parked in the 5100 blockof Issaquah-Pine Lake RoadSoutheast before 6:14 p.m. Feb.14. The estimated loss is $3.

ArrestPolice arrested a 78-year-old

Seattle man for obstructing andresisting arrest in the 1500 blockof Northwest Gilman Boulevard at1:01 p.m. Feb. 17.

Gas, passedPolice responded to possible

malicious mischief in the 700block of Northwest Gilman Boule-vard at 2:10 p.m. Feb. 17 after acaller reported a hole punched inthe gas tank of his or her vehicle.The vehicle smelled of gasolineand the ruptured tank leaked fuel.

Knuckle sandwichPolice responded to a possible

assault in the 100 block of FrontStreet South at 7:50 p.m. Feb. 17.The caller said a customer pusheda restaurant employee and leftwithout paying his or her tab. Theestimated loss is $136.

Airheads

Police responded to possiblemalicious mischief at the Shell gasstation, 825 Front St. N., at 11:59p.m. Feb. 17 after employees saidpeople attempted to break into theair machines’ coin box.

Bike bilkedA bike was stolen from a Nissan

parked in the 2500 block of North-east Julep Street before 7:30 a.m.Feb. 18. The estimated loss is$7,300.

Give me fivePolice responded to suspicious ac-

tivity at 188th Avenue Southeastand West Lake Sammamish Park-way Southeast at 12:21 p.m. Feb.19 after a man stood in the roadwayand attempted to get motorists togive him a high five. Police advisedhim to stay out of the roadway.

Honda heistA Honda was stolen in the 4300

block of West Lake SammamishParkway Southeast before 9:08a.m. Feb. 20.

Return to senderMail was stolen from commer-

cial mailboxes in the 1100 block ofNorthwest Gilman Boulevard be-fore 10:13 a.m. Feb. 20.

UnlicensedThe rear license plate was

stolen from a vehicle parked in the18800 block of Southeast 42ndStreet before 11:45 a.m. Feb. 20.

Paper chasePaperwork was stolen from a

vehicle parked in the 200 block ofSouthwest Clark Street before 7:31p.m. Feb. 20.

SwipedA Honda was stolen in the 600

block of Wildwood BoulevardSouthwest before 9:49 p.m. Feb.20. The estimated loss is $2,000.

Credit crisisA person in the 500 block of

Southeast Bush Street said unau-thorized charges had been madeto his or her credit card before12:15 p.m. Feb. 21. The estimatedloss is $775.

Pedal powerlessA lock was damaged and a bike

was stolen in the 100 block of WestSunset Way before 12:55 p.m. Feb.21. The estimated loss is $500.

Credit crunchA person in the 4600 block of

West Lake Sammamish ParkwaySoutheast said unauthorizedcharges had been made to his orher credit card before 2:11 p.m.Feb. 21. The estimated loss is$57.

Money troublesCash and a bankcard were

stolen from a wallet in the 1800block of 12th Avenue Northwestbefore 6:57 p.m. Feb. 21. The esti-mated loss is $400.

UntitledPolice cited and released a 47-

year-old Snoqualmie man at South-east Newport Way and NorthwestVillage Park Drive at 9:11 a.m. Feb.22 for failure to transfer a vehicletitle within 45 days.

Caught in the WebA person in the 4700 block of

West Lake Sammamish ParkwaySoutheast said he or she lostmoney in an online scam before2:16 p.m. Feb. 22. The estimatedloss is $1,000.

HackedA window was broken on, and a

credit card and computers werestolen from, a structure in the5200 block of Northwest VillagePark Drive before 9:49 p.m. Feb.22.

Prescription for troublePolice responded to suspicious

activity at a business in the 6300block of East Lake SammamishParkway Southeast at 1:37 a.m.Feb. 23 and encountered a mansleeping inside the pharmacy. Po-lice asked the intoxicated man toleave the business, and he did so.

ArrestPolice arrested a 31-year-old

Redmond man on a warrant formalicious mischief in the 600block of Southeast Bush Street at3:55 p.m. Feb. 23.

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Noon started her career at age 13 in thetitle role of “Violet” at ACT – A Contempo-rary Theatre. She also played Sophie in theNorth American tour of “Mamma Mia!”Noon’s Village Theatre credits include a2006 production of “Cats” and a 2005 stag-ing of original musical “Play It By Heart.”


Six years ago, the Rotary Club of Issaquah offered itsfirst Grape Escape event. For four years, the event tookplace at one of the smaller venues in the local HiltonGarden Inn, said Rotarian and event chairman ScottMcKorkle.

The event was conceived as a wine tasting. But thefirst events, while popular, featured only a handful of lo-cal wineries, maybe five or six, according to LesleyAustin, a Rotarian who has long been involved with theGrape Escape event.

How things change. Both McKorkle and Austin saidthe Rotary has put a major push behind Grape Escape,greatly expanding the offerings and tying it in with theTaste Our Town campaign featuring local restaurants,many of which will be rep-resented at Grape Escape.

Proceeds from theevening will go to supportthe Rotary Club’s severalcharitable undertakings,most notably scholarshipsoffered to students atIssaquah, Liberty andTiger Mountain Communityhigh schools.

This year’s event is from6-9 p.m. March 8 at Pick-ering Barn. Even afterholding last year’s GrapeEscape at Blakely Hall inthe Issaquah Highlands, alarger venue was soughtfor the 2012 event,McKorkle said.

Perhaps more notably, instead of five or six wineries,the year’s Grape Escape will feature approximately 20,Austin said. There also will be at least one local breweryon hand along with a tequila tasting.

And finally, at least 11 restaurants have signed up tosupply food for the evening. The idea is for each restau-rant to make a signature dish, McKorkle said, and serveup appetizer-sized portions.

Wineries to be on hand include Cedar River Cellars,Milbrandt Vineyards, Pleasant Hills Cellars and Airfield

Estates Winery. The Issaquah Brewhouse will have itsoriginal craft brews on hand, while local importer ElRelingo will offer a selection of tequilas.

Restaurants involved include Agave, Coho Café, Lom-bardi’s Italian Restaurant, Tantalus and WildFin Ameri-can Grill.

Finally, a silent auction will feature wine-related itemsas well as experience and entertainment packages.Wine and craft beer also will be available for sale by thebottle or at special pricing with no sales tax.

“This year, they’ve really upped it a notch,” Austinsaid, adding she and others hope the evening can turninto a “Taste of Issaquah” type event.

The Taste Our Town campaign runs from March 11-

25. The idea is to promote local restaurants, eateriesand taverns, urging residents and area employees to pa-tronize shops in Issaquah and Sammamish, accordingto a Rotary press release. The Issaquah RestaurantCoalition is running the campaign, McKorkle said.

Austin said she believes the city has some greateateries of which even locals might not be aware.Grape Escape is a good way to get to know and try afew local restaurants and perhaps visit them later,rather than driving to Bellevue for your next dinnerout, she said.

Tom Corrigan: 392-6434, ext. 241, or [email protected] at www.issaquahpress.com.

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A vintner discusses his product with visitors to one of the previous Issaquah Rotary Grape Escape fundraisers.

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A flier for the evening promised “po-etry, prose and other ponderings.”

Open mic nights of the Issaquah ArtsCommission are the third Tuesday ofeach month at the Issaquah Brewhouseon Sunset Way.

The evenings are now dubbed “Poetryand Prose on Tap.”

“We had a lot of fun and a lot of peo-ple,” Joan Probala, commission chair-woman, said of the open mic events thatwere formerly held at Vino Bella.

She noted the open mic events are forwriters of every stripe and skill level.

For this night, the second event at theBrewhouse, there were about a dozenpeople and some competition for atten-tion. The same night as the open micevent, the Brewhouse hosted a meet andgreet with a Rogue Ale brewmaster. Still,those involved with the open mic nightdidn’t seem overly bothered by the loudatmosphere or the AC/DC music pouringout of the bar’s speakers.

“I’m happy to see people stroll in,”Probala said.

While she is not a writer herself, sheappreciates the craft and likes the openforum.

“Poems come alive when the peoplewho wrotethem readthem,” Probalasaid.

The emceefor the evening

identified himself as Scoop Cox, anothermember of the arts commission, whosaid he had a couple of poems publishedback in the 1960s. His payment was, headded, about enough to cover thepostage involved. It was Cox who notedthe first Brewhouse open mic night drewplenty of visitors even though it tookplace the same night of the big snow-storm that blasted the area last month.

Seemingly dominated by retired teach-ers, one table of guests probably pro-vided most of the night’s original poetry.Up first was Chuck Blondino’s “ChickenCoup Breezes.” The poem made thepoint that not even bleach can clean upsome of life’s aromas. Nancy Talley’s firstoffering was “A Terrible Thing to Say toa Child.”

Anchored by a repeated refrain of “3or 4 or 5,” the poem seemed a humorousreflection on what it really means to beat a young age.

Turns at the mic by Fred Hopkins, a lo-cal attorney and member of the artscommission, were part stand-up comedyact. Suneeta Eisenberg was the youngestpoet to read for the gathering. Shestarted writing, she said, as a junior atSkyline High School in 2000.

Besides being the youngest poet,Eisenberg had easily the most unusualstory behind her appearance. Eisenbergread an announcement about theevening in The Issaquah Press. She pe-rused the paper on her recent planeflight back from Iceland, where she hadgone on vacation.

For his part, emcee Cox read a few po-ems and tried to give away a BrewhouseT-shirt to the first person to correctlyguess the name of a poem or poet basedon a few lines of a piece. At one point, hethrew out a line from Bob Dylan’s “Sub-terranean Homesick Blues.” Talley even-tually won the shirt by identifying EdgarAllen Poe’s “Annabel Lee.”

LeRoy and Marilyn LaCelle attendedthe evening strictly as observers, just as

they said they had done at the Vino Bellaevents. There is something inspiringabout what she called the joy of life evi-dent in many poems and poets, Marilynsaid.

“Hopefully, it’ll grow into what it wasbefore,” said LeRoy, also a member ofthe arts commission.

For the future, Probala talked aboutpossibly putting some of the original po-ems read at mic nights together into abook. On a totally different front, she andHopkins said the arts commission isplanning its first Issaquah film festival tobe held at Village Theatre. All the detailsaren’t worked out, Hopkins said, but heenvisions a festival of musicals spreadover a weekend, with a main attraction,possibly “The Sound of Music,” wrappingup the festival.

Go to www.ci.issaquah.wa.us and lookfor the arts commission under “boardsand commissions” for general informa-tion. For a schedule of events, go towww.ci.issaquah.wa.us/Calendar.aspand click on “arts and culture” in thedrop down menu.

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