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Next Tuesday, parents across the Issaquah School District will walk their kids to the school bus or to school for the start of a new school year.

Ahhhh, finally, a bit of free time for a second cup of coffee!But wait, your school needs you! The volunteer jobs at

school are endless. The playground needs monitors, the library can use assistance, the front office might need your organizational skills, teachers almost never have enough helpers and the nurse’s office is often in need of a mother’s touch to watch over a sick child.

But the best of the volunteer jobs may be working direct-ly with students. Parents, grandparents and other citizens are always welcome to just listen to children read. For a bigger role, ask about becoming a mentor to students, helping guide them in their social development and their studies — or sometimes just to be there to listen.

If you prefer something more athletic, check into becom-ing a volunteer to a coach. The middle schools and high schools have an array of sports teams that need organiza-tional and skills assistance in support of its coaches.

Volunteers at schools are not expected to take a leader-ship role. Volunteers do not get involved in discipline or instruction. Their role is one of helper.

Getting involved in school doesn’t necessarily mean more time with kids. The PTA at each school is looking for par-ents to volunteer in everything from teacher recognition to fundraising. Start by joining your PTA, and then get involved.

The Issaquah School District requires a background check on every volunteer, whether a parent or not. All volunteers must apply and be approved before they get clearance to begin service. In additional to the typical background infor-mation, volunteers must undergo a Washington State Patrol Criminal History check once every two years.

To get started, stop in at a school office to learn more about volunteer opportunities and get an application. Forms can also be found on the district’s website — www.issaquah.wednet.edu.

School begins with need for volunteers

Plastic bags

Why was the ban enacted?Ten thousand square miles of floating volcanic

pumice is found in the Pacific Ocean, the New Zealand Navy announced Aug. 10. When will the Issaquah City Council pass a law to prevent this from happening again?

Since plastic bags are bad, according to some, please someone on the council who voted to elimi-nate the plastic bags send a letter to The Issaquah Press to enlighten some of us less-intelligent Is-saquah residents, as to the specific path that all those Issaquah plastic bags take on their way to the Pacific Ocean. If there is no council response, then why did they act on the bag ban?

Ken SesslerIssaquah

Hiring a lobbyist

Isn’t there a conflict of interest?So, Issaquah has hired a lobbyist to promote

Issaquah’s interests in Olympia. Other cities have done it and “you have to keep up with the Jone-ses.” But, why Doug Levy? Sure, he seems to have excellent credentials including lobbying for several other cities with whom Issaquah will be competing for very scarce state funding. Doesn’t that create a conflict of interest?

Ray ExtractIssaquah

Park Pointe Trails Plan

Make trails available to more peopleThe Issaquah Mountain Bike Club would like to

thank the city staff and volunteers for their time and effort working on the draft Park Pointe Trails Plan. King County has been building multiuse trails in the area for a long time and those trails are see-ing a great deal of use. We also note that the state Department of Natural Resources is currently seek-ing feedback on multiuse trails in the area.

We understand that Cougar and Squak moun-

tains are completely set aside for quiet, easily ac-cessible, solitary contemplation, bird watching and senior walking groups such as those ably led by our friends, “The Guardians of the Mountains.” We are encouraged, therefore, that some of the land owned by the city might be available for activities which allow for a greater number of calories to be ex-pended in the decreasing time our busy schedules allow, and which are better able to compete with video games for our younger citizens’ attention.

Obviously, making these trails available to the local schools for use in activities that encourage outdoor pursuits such as trail running, hiking, orienteering and so forth makes great sense and we encourage you to call this purpose out explicitly in the plan.

Consistent with feedback we have previously provided, we feel the different user populations would be best served by providing separate trails for different uses and to leverage the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance when designing the trails.

In conclusion, we are thankful for the public planning process currently under way, the scope of interests included in the plan and the prospect of Park Pointe becoming a great community asset.

Tony CowanCommunications director

Costco and the President

Voting, not shopping, affects electionsIn response to Michael Shea and Martha

McLaughlin no longer wanting to shop at Costco because Jim Sinegal endorsed Barack Obama for president — while I love your passion, I believe it is misplaced for two reasons. The first is that Mr. Sinegal retired as CEO last December. The second is that I don’t think it will affect the election one way or the other if you shop at Costco.

Try voting, it’s our voice. Less than 25 percent of the registered voters in King County voted in the last election! Mr. Sinegal, thanks for your past years of generous sponsoring of Salmon Days and the Christmas turkeys for the food bank. Enjoy your retirement!

Eileen SherbonIssaquah

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Our recent story about the book by Barry Sweet, the Se-attle Associated Press photog-rapher for more than three decades, brought back a lot of memories. I visited with Barry at the Issaquah Costco and en-joyed reliving old times.

Would you believe that once upon a time, it took 10 minutes to send one black-and-white photograph to newspapers across the country? And 40 minutes to send color?

While studying at the Univer-sity of Washington, I landed a job in 1977 as one of five wire-photo operators at the Seattle bureau, working right next to Barry Sweet at the same desk and the same darkroom for two years.

A wirephoto — or Laserphoto — transmitter was about the size and weight of a carton of 10 reams of office paper. We typed a caption on sticky paper, put it on the margin of an 8-by-10 print, put it in the slot and pressed start.

The picture would slowly feed at an inch per minute as the laser would scan 120 lines an inch, turn the shades of gray into a constant rapid whistling of high- to low-pitched sound frequencies and send it across telephone lines.

Receivers at the nation’s newspapers would expose glossy thermal paper with synchronized lasers at the same time and spit out their repro-ductions when the transmission was done.

The job included calling sta-diums across the country to talk to their AP photographers for away games of the Mariners, Seahawks and SuperSonics. I

would “split” Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon-tana and Alaska off the national network, the pho-tographer would start the print and I would run it through a switchboard.

I think my most fabulous day was when the SuperSonics won the NBA championship in 1979 at the Kingdome against the Washington Bullets and there was a stack of Barry’s prints to send on the morning shift. Everyone answered New York’s roll call — Washington, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles — and then I crowed, “Home of the world champion SuperSonics, Seattle!”

One night, the Anchorage Daily News, trying to save money by putting their La-serphoto receiver on a timer, missed the photos of the finish of the Iditarod Sled Dog race shot by their own photogra-pher. Boy did I learn to swear that night!

There were some amazing news stories from 1977 to 1979, when computers took over the job, and on shift I got a first look of every photo. Two popes died and two were elected. There was the Jonestown Massacre. There were Barry Sweet’s photos of Deng Xiaoping’s visit to

When news photographs whistled through wires

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Greg Farrar

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from The WebIssaquah Valley Trolley Project

I’m very happy to see that the city of Issaquah has recognized the value in its streetcar and has moved forward to restore not only the trolley itself but the his-tory and value it will bring to this city. I just hope Seattle can do the same for its waterfront trolley system.

Tim Finley

Firearms business applicationThe permit should be rejected

and the city code should be revised accordingly. Law needs to respect the rights of everyone, including (potential) victims, especially little ones. There is an issue of child endangerment here.

I’d hate to see Issaquah hit the headlines with yet another school standoff.

Have a phone conference and take a stand.

George Nickelsburg

Updated city logoWell, the logo shows the con-

flict anyway. I-90 (looks oddly like a bare bottom), sprayed-on green and then buildings with a fish applied to the surface. We talk about salmon a lot, but when it comes to choosing to protect the habitat and maintain it, the political will and funding sort of goes away — just like the logo, a salmon facade.

Instead, we remove funding for transit (Route 200 bus) and sup-port more and wider roads while claiming that we want a different way of life with transit, walking and biking. So I-90 with a paste on fish is oddly realistic.

Connie Marsh

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See PHOTOS, Page A5

Back-to-school cash mobI applaud the good spirit in

these efforts. It’s a great cause. But it seems like this was smart with the exception of one effort: the cash mob.

A cash mob for school supplies,

See WEB, Page A5

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By Jayson JenksSeattle Times staff reporter

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Jake Heaps once commanded rooms the way only star quarterbacks can. Since his days at Skyline High School, his existence cen-tered on the number one, a ranking given to him by recruiting sites.

He wasn’t just Jake Heaps; he was Jake Heaps, the former top-ranked quarterback prospect.

Now, at the University of Kansas, Heaps has no num-ber attached to his name. In fact, this season will be lived mostly in the shadows.

Heaps will sit out this year after transferring from Brigham Young University. Just two weeks into fall practice, Heaps’ reps dropped significantly. His toil will come mostly in the weight room. He will watch Dayne Crist, himself a former top recruit, lead Kansas under new coach

Charlie Weis. He will live the life of an understudy.

Here’s the thing: That’s just fine with Heaps.

As the former No. 1 prospect in the nation begins his second — and maybe his last — chance, he welcomes a new chal-lenge, embraces it, even.

“It doesn’t matter where you place me, what you have me at, I’m my tough-est critic,” said Heaps, who will have two years of eligibility remaining. “I’ve

always been that way. I’m a perfectionist by nature.

“For me, it’s been a humbling experience to go through the situations at BYU. There have been high points and low points. To step in this situation, I feel very experienced from those. Now I have the op-portunity to sit back and observe everything.”

He also starts over at a

By Lillian O’Rorkeltucker@sammamishreview.com

Bob Jones, of Issaquah, has long loved competitive sailing and when he was paralyzed in a car crash in 1981 that didn’t change.

Now, three decades later, Jones is earning high marks on the national stage and, for the third time in four years, has won the American Eagle Trophy at

the Chicago Yacht Club’s North American Challenge Cup. Since the race’s debut in 1992, only a handful of people have been awarded the trophy three or more times.

“Several sailors I have admired have won the Eagle Trophy three times,” Jones wrote in an email after the event. “I am honored to be included in this small group of NACC Freedom 20 class sailors.”

The Freedom 20 class was

the original regatta’s only class of boat and is now one of three race classes during the three-day event. Sailed by two people, in-cluding one able-bodied person, the Freedom 20 this year was made up of five boats competing for the trophy.

Jones and his partner Ken Kelly won the event in 2010 and returned Aug. 3 to Chicago’s Belmont Harbor to do it again. After the first two days of racing,

the duo had won five of seven races and were in possession of a commanding lead. With the wind coming in at six to 12 knots, their lead started to slip Aug. 5 when they finished the day’s first two races in third place. But a second-place finish in the event’s final race, combined with the first two days of excellent racing, clinched the win for Jones and Kelly.

The two were honored that

evening at an awards dinner at the Chicago Yacht Club.

“Ken and I sail this boat once a year and are competing against sailors who sail this boat regu-larly,” Jones said. “The Freedom 20 isn’t a high-performance rac-ing boat, like the SKUD 18, but it is a tradition we continue.”

The same year that Jones won

By Matt Carstensip-sports@isspress.com

The Lakeside Recovery Baseball Club only lost two games in the American Legion World Series in Shelby, N.C., both to the same pitcher. Genetically, that is.

Brooklawn’s twin phenoms Casey and Cody Brown held Lakeside in check in the two games, limiting the Bellevue team to two runs in their first meeting Aug. 19, and only three runs in the Aug. 21 semifinal game. Both

games were one-run af-fairs.

“We ran into a tough left-hander, and they got the big hit when they needed it with two outs,” Lakeside head coach Rob Reese said. “We got our chances in the eighth in-ning and we only got one out of it. There’s not much room for error when you get to that level. You have to take advantage of your opportunities and we had a couple shots, but we just didn’t get it that day.”

The fact that they basically faced the same

pitcher who gave them problems two days earlier didn’t help matters.

“We faced his twin brother,” Reese said. “Both times we lost, we lost to those two guys and they were both college pitchers. Some of our best hitters were left-handed so that kind of put us at a disad-vantage, just not a great matchup.”

Despite the disappointing ending to the tournament, the fact that out of 5,200

Quarterback Jake Heaps glad to be at Kansas, out of the spotlight

THE SEATTLE TIMES

Jake Heaps will sit out this year at Kansas after transferring from BYU.See HEAPS, Page B5

MAKING WAVESCONTRIBUTED

Bob Jones sails with a teammate during a busy summer of 2010 at one of several regattas in the Atlantic Ocean off Newport, R.I.

Three decades after debilitating car crash, local sailor still overcoming his paralyzing disability

See SAILOR, Page B5

BY GREG FARRAR

Brandon Mahovlich, Lakeside Recovery pitcher, throws against Pacific Tech Construction July 14 at Bannerwood Park during the regular season Brandy Pugh Memorial Tournament.

Lakeside earns third in Legion World Series

See LAKESIDE, Page B5

Prep footballPreseason coaches pollKingCo 4A Crest Division1. Bothel2. Woodinville3. Eastlake

(Sammamish) 4. Inglemoor (Kenmore)5. RedmondKingCo 4A Crown Division1. Skyline (Sammamish)2. Issaquah (1)3. Newport (Bellevue)4. Roosevelt (Seattle)5. Ballard 6. Garfield (Seattle)

Youth Baseball

American Legion World SeriesShelby, N.C.Aug. 17 gamesLakeside Recovery 11, Moline 5Aug. 19 gamesBrooklawn 3, Lakeside Recovery 2Lakeside Recovery 4, Lakewood 1Aug. 20 gamesLakeside Recovery 10, New Orleans 6Aug. 21 gamesBrooklawn 4, Lakeside Recovery 3

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Max Browne named to preseason ALL-USA team

Skyline High School quarterback Max Browne has been named to the USA Today Pre-season American Fam-ily Insurance ALL-USA Team.

Browne passed for 4,034 yards with 45 touchdowns in 2011 and is on pace to break Jake Heaps’ all-time passing record of 9,196 yards at Skyline. Browne currently stands at 8,428 career passing yards.

Browne committed to the University of South-ern California in the spring and is the favorite to succeed current USC quarterback Matt Barkley in 2013.

BY CLAY EALS/ENCOMPASS

Shilpa Patel (left), of Pinnacle Physical Therapy of Maple Valley, and Bruce Nelson, a board member of the American Lake Veterans Golf Course in Tacoma, cheer a well-hit putt by Connor Stueckle, 20, of Issaquah, during the Aug. 21 Adaptive Clinic of the 2012 Boeing Classic at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge. Connor was one of five Encompass youths who participat-ed in the clinic, and Patel and Nelson were two of a dozen golf and therapy pros who volun-teered their services for the day. The clinic, in its third year, provides individual assistance to people of all ages with mild to severe physical disabilities and developmental challenges.

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place where expectations won’t make him a constant target.

In fact, Heaps is so far from the spotlight that when 100 Kansas fans were informally polled about who Heaps was, 75 had no idea.

In the Big 12, Jayhawks football is overshadowed by traditional powers Okla-homa and Texas. Even on campus, the football team is second string to basketball.

It could be the perfect spot for Heaps to start anew.

“For me, this is a great opportunity to learn, get better and take advantage of some weak areas in my game,” he said. “Already at this point, I feel really con-fident in my development and what I’m doing.”

Heaps knows he needs to evaluate and work on his decision-making, one of his biggest weaknesses at BYU. Most of that work, though, will have to come watching practice while most of the reps will go to Crist and his backups.

“It’s about running through things in my head,” Heaps said. “How would I approach that? How would I come to the line of scrim-mage and read the defense

in this situation?”Heaps had offers from

Notre Dame, Louisiana State, Tennessee and Washington out of high school. He chose BYU and showed plenty of potential as a freshman.

A year later, Heaps start-ed BYU’s first five games, but threw five intercep-tions and was benched at halftime of the fifth game. BYU replaced him with Riley Nelson.

“Those can be pretty heavy and burdensome expectations to try and live up to and to try and carry,” former NFL quarterback Brock Huard, who hosts a radio show on ESPN-710, said in December. “I think that just weighed him down this year.”

Heaps spent the rest of the year on the sideline, then left BYU.

“I needed to do it for my own personal progress,” Heaps said. “I really felt like I was at a position where I was stagnant. It was something that I need-ed, desperately needed, for myself and my growth.”

Kansas, though, wasn’t an easy sell. At least not to Heaps’ wife, Brooke, who had one year of school left at BYU.

“It definitely didn’t go over well,” Heaps said.

Yet Kansas offered some-thing Heaps couldn’t get at many of the schools express-

ing interest. The Jayhawks weren’t preparing for a bowl game. While most of the schools talking to Heaps — “some big-time programs,” he said — wanted to wait until January to move, Weis wanted him right away.

And Heaps wanted to play for Weis, the former Notre Dame coach who re-cruited him in high school. Weis developed a reputa-tion as an offensive guru.

“If you want to play at the next level,” Heaps said, “he’s definitely the guy to get you right and playing at the next level.”

So now Heaps gets his chance to take that step. He has been praised by his coaches for his intelligence and understanding of the game. He frequently dis-cusses scenarios with Crist, a former starter at Notre Dame. And he has done all of these things to change a career that didn’t go as pre-dicted out of high school.

Only, here’s the thing: That’s just fine with Heaps, too.

“I believe I have all the skill sets,” he said. “I know that I can play at this level. And I know I can play very well at this level. Now it’s about getting me to do all the little things before I take the next step.”

Jayson Jenks: 206-464-8277 or jjenks@seattletimes.com

teams in American Legion Baseball Lakeside Recovery came in third place is not something Reese is letting his kids get too down about.

“You have to win your league, you have to win your state, you have to win the whole Northwest to get to that tournament,” Reese said. “You had to play three weeks of great baseball to get back there, and to finish third, it was amazing.”

Shelby was quite the scene, with more than 101,000 people attending the tournament; none of the Lakeside kids had really had the experience of playing in front of such mammoth crowds. First basemen Ethan Kalin hadn’t experi-enced anything like it.

“It was pretty crazy,” he said. “Baseball down there was crazy — every-one would come up to you for autographs, pictures, everyone wanted to talk to you — it’s a big deal. There were about 5,000 people there and the city just shuts down. It was a really cool experience.”

The road to get there was even crazier for the team, which spent only four days at home between the three weeks of tourna-ment baseball. After win-ning five straight games in 100-degree Montana heat, they flew directly to Shelby, where they went 3-2, good for third place.

As for the cloned south-paws, Kalin didn’t have any answers either.

“They were pretty much

the exact same pitcher,” he said. “They were both freshmen in college. Most of the New Jersey team were college players. They were pretty good. It was funny just facing both of them, we were like, ‘Gah, we just saw this guy last time.’”

A cliché goalLooking back to the

beginning of the season, Kalin recalled his coaches telling the team members that their goal was to win the World Series. Kalin’s teammates we’re trying to be more realistic.

“Our team back then was like, ‘Let’s be honest, we’re not going to the World Se-ries,’” he said. “But we just kept winning. We went to state, won it all. Our game playing just got really good and then we won region-als, and then we’re like dang this is a pretty crazy experience.”

The odds were definitely against them, but Kalin said he knows the memo-ries will last a long time.

“It meant a lot because I think there’s only been two other teams that have gone to the World Series and the last time was in like ’96 or something,” Kalin said. “It was a cool experience and the young guys are proba-bly going to remember this for the rest of their lives.”

College-bound LakesidersNow that the long,

strange trip is over, a few of the Lakesiders will at-tend college soon.

Kalin and his Issaquah High School teammate Jake Bakamus will be roommates at Lower Co-lumbia Community College. Pitcher Brandon Mahov-lich, outfielder Nate Ander-son and pitcher/infielder Aaron Sandefur are going to Bellevue College.

As far as Division-I goes, Skyline High School stand-outs Jim Sinatro will attend Gonzaga, Matt Lunde is going to the University of Washington and Clayton Huber is going to Washing-ton State University.

LakesideFROM PAGE B4

BY GREG FARRAR

Jim Sinatro, catching for Lakeside Recovery, is in a close play at the plate in a July 14 game against Pacific Tech Construction at Bannerwood Park.

his first American Eagle Trophy he was excelling in the SKUD-18 class of sailing, a two-person boat for athletes with dis-abilities. After qualifying for the 2009 U.S. Sailing Team at the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, he began to compete in campaigns for the 2012 Paralympics in London.

In the end, he lost out in the team trials and is now a proud observer. When renowned sailor Dick Rose commented, after judg-ing the time trials, that Paralympic sailors were Olympic-caliber sailors, Jones swelled with pride.

“That recognition felt like a long-overdue vali-dation for many of us,” Jones said.

In many of the races he has won over the years, he added, other skippers would not know about his disability until he showed up at the awards ceremo-ny in a wheelchair.

“One reason we sail,” he said, “is because it is a sport we can compete without regard for our disability.”

Sailor: Proud

to compete

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HeapsFROM PAGE B4