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BY DANIEL NASHISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
Dozens of Issaquah citizens gathered in Tibbetts Creek Manor Monday night to iden-tify troublesome crosswalks at a community meeting for pedestrian safety.
Mayor Fred Butler called the meeting a forum for a back-and-forth interaction between citizens and government that wasn’t possible in city council
public comment regarding the June 26 death of 4-year-old Haochen Xu on Newport Way Northwest, outside the Sum-merhill neighborhood.
“� is evening our � rst team is here to listen and hear from you,” Butler said in a statement at the top of the night.
Butler added that he expected new applications for develop-ment along Newport to change the nature of the corridor and potentially necessitate lower
speed limits, eliciting applause from the audience.
Some residents said they expected the community meet-ing’s dialogue to take the form of a group discussion with the city’s sta� , elected o� cials and hired transportation consul-tants.
Instead the meeting took the form of an open house in which those same city parties set themselves up next to maps of Issaquah neighborhoods and took notes as Issaquahns pointed out which intersections they believed to be unsafe for pedestrians.
� at data will be compared against tra� c and accident data
FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2015
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This weekDecatur Bu� , a North-
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phony Orchestra will also return to the market to play 10-11 a.m.The Issaquah Farmers
Market takes place in the Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. N.W.
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BY MEGAN CAMPBELLISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
In the midst of a summer that’s seen higher than normal water use and hot, dry weather — and coming o� the heels of a winter that saw scant snowfall — water of-� cials in Western Washington are worried about the availability of water throughout the region.
� e Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District activated its water shortage response plan Monday, joining the Cas-cade Water Alliance, Seattle Public Utili-ties, Tacoma Water and the city of Everett in asking residents to use water wisely.
At the same time, the Sammamish Plateau has seen its highest level of water consumption in nearly a decade, accord-ing to the Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District.
“Our June consumption was o� the charts,” the District’s General Manager Jay Krauss said Monday.
Just from 2014, the District has seen an uptick of nearly 16 percent in water consumption. � at is 116 million more gallons of water used this year over last.
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Evergreen Balloons’ Jami Stavlo hands Shelby Prokop, 3, a balloon bumble bee while Prokop’s mom, Samantha, looks on during the Issaquah Chalk Art Festival Tuesday. About 400 community members took advantage of the sunshine and set to work on their creations on the sidewalk along Rainier Boulevard South, near the Issaquah Community Center, from noon to 5 p.m. The free event, in its 18th year, is sponsored by the Issaquah Arts Commission.
BY SHAUN SCOTTISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
� e entire Eastlake Wolves soccer community will converge at Mod’s Pizza in Sammamish in early August — but’s not it’s not for an a� er-game pizza.
� ey’ll be there to support a recent Eastlake grad who was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in early 2015.
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Even still, the District’s “robust” and “diverse” water supply, Krauss said, can meet the demand generated by the 55,000 people it serves on the Plateau and in Issaquah.
While the response plan is still in the “advisory stage” — meaning the District is encouraging customers to be aware of their water use without imposing restrictions, vol-untary or otherwise — the water shortage response plan is a precautionary measure to “ensure that the entire region is ready for a potential water short-age,” according to a Seattle Public Utilities announce-ment Monday.
“We have been closely monitoring our water production and aquifer levels,” Krauss said. “We are seeing water levels in July drop to what we nor-mally see in September.”
Whereas the water supplies for the Everett, Seattle and Tacoma areas rely on snowpack, the major source of water for the cities of Sammamish and Issaquah comes from groundwater aquifers that rely on rainfall, Issaquah Water Manager Greg
Keith said.It is this distinction that
has local o�cials con�-dent the water supply will continue to provide for Sammamish and Issaquah residents leading up to the fall.
“Our wells are certainly not in any danger,” Keith said.
�e city of Issaquah re-lies on four wells along the valley �oor and purchases some water from the Cas-cade Water Alliance.
Most of the Plateau is served by the Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District. �e northern tip is supplied by Northeast Sammamish Sewer & Water District.
�e Northeast District is not connected to Seattle Public Utilities or the Cas-cade Water Alliance and is not a�ected by the water advisory.
Residents are asked to conserve water by turning the faucet o� while brush-ing their teeth, washing dishes or shaving and limiting watering lawns.
Taking shorter show-ers and skipping the car wash are others ways to conserve water.
For more, visit www.savingwater.org.
Megan Campbell: 425-391-0363 ext. 5054; [email protected]
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BY MEGAN CAMPBELLISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
Many of the housing options in Sam-mamish are not a�ordable for people, like educators, who actually work within the city.
“Everybody recognized we don’t have available housing for our teachers,” Councilmember Don Gerend said.
About 26 percent of Sammamish’s workforce is in public education, com-pared to 6 percent countywide, accord-ing to city data.
So breaking ground July 15 on the Habitat for Humanity project o� of 228th Avenue Southeast, near Southeast 20th Street, is a great addition to the city, he said.
“It will provide an opportunity for families to live in Sammamish that origi-nally couldn’t a�ord the retail market,” Gerend said.
On the 1.47-acre lot, Habitat volun-
teers will build 10 cottage homes. Previously, the site contained a single-
family home, called the “Lamb House,” which the city had used as a mainte-nance shop before donating it to the Habitat for Humanity.
Gerend was the mayor at the time the city approved the Habitat pilot program in 2011. �is project is unique, in that it’s currently the only a�ordable housing option outside of the proposed Sam-mamish Town Center. At a minimum, 10 percent of the town center will be reserved for a�ordable housing.
“�e term ‘a�ordable housing’ is describing a really wide range (of homes),” A Regional Coalition of Hous-ing (ARCH) Program Manager Arthur Sullivan said.
Essentially, it’s “modest housing,” he said. �ese homes, on average, will be 1,200 square feet and will not exceed 1,600 square feet.
ARCH works, countywide, to address
homelessness and a�ordable housing needs.
�e Habitat project aims to provide low-income housing for families, who want to be homeowners, but whose an-nual income is around $40,000.
Sullivan says Habitat sets the price of the home to 30 percent of the family’s annual income; and future homeowners are required to put in 500 hours of work, whether that’s on the construction site or in the Habitat o�ce.
“�e down payment is your sweat equity,” he said.
He said this site will show current Sammamish residents that “small homes at a higher density can feel and look good in the community.”
�e site is within the Issaquah School District. Students will be able to walk along the 228th corridor to Discovery Elementary, Pine Lake Middle School and Skyline High School.
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BY MEGAN CAMPBELLISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
Eastside Fire & Rescue crews responded to two brush �res in the Sam-mamish area this week.
�e �rst, in a bog near a residential neighborhood in Klahanie, broke out in the 24500 block of Southeast 34th Place about 7 p.m. Tues-day, July 28.
�e second shut down East Lake Sammamish Parkway, between Inglewood Hill Road and the northern city limits of Sammamish, around 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 29. �at �re began in the 3200
block of East Lake Sam-mamish Parkway Northeast shortly a�er 4 p.m.
No one was hurt in either blaze and both were likely caused by humans, Deputy Fire Chief Greg Tryon said.
Smoke from the Tuesday �re near Klahanie Park was reportedly seen from miles out, as far north as Sahalee Way Northeast and as east as Seattle, Tryon said.
Once located, in the center of a muddy swamp sur-rounded by brush and veg-etation, �re�ghters struggled to extinguish the �re, as it was burning in heavy peat moss
and it was di�cult to access. “It’s going to smolder until
the rains return,” Tryon said. “It’s truly amazing to see a swamp on �re.”
�is was the second bog to catch �re in Sammamish this year. �e previous one, caused by �reworks, was in March.
Crews remained on scene overnight to keep an eye on the area and will continue to monitor the site until the fall rain returns.
Tryon said the �re likely started in a “hangout” area where someone had a camp�re.
�e roughly 2-acre by
1-acre �re was about 100 yards from nearby homes on Southeast 34th, Tryon said.
In order to keep residences safe, Tryon asks people to be mindful of dry debris around the home. He suggests trim-ming low, dry tree limbs and regularly mowing the lawn — even if it is dead.
“Simple stu� like that would help keep everyone safer,” he said.
About 50 �re�ghters, in-cluding three from the Duvall Fire Department, responded to the Klahanie �re. It took 11 engines, including four brush engines, to contain the �ames.
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TSI will additionally set up cameras to record ac-tivity at city intersections in real time.
“Instead of standing out there and watching all day, we can watch the footage at high speed and slow it down when we see someone approach,” Salemann said. “� en we can look and go, OK, did they press the crosswalk button before they crossed the street? If so, did cars stop at the signal?”
� at data will be dis-tilled into a preliminary report to be released in September.
� e data collection at the open house — which consisted of residents
sticking pins at problem intersections — revealed several popularly despised roadways beyond Newport Way Northwest.
Martin Buckley and Grania Buckley said one pedestrian thruway south of Clark Elementary was nearly invisible, and that drivers in the area would travel well above the posted speed limit.
“We’ve all almost been hit on this crosswalk,” Martin Buckley said.
Other hot spots in-cluded a “choke point” on West Lake Sammamish Parkway east of 194th Av-enue Southeast — where a neighborhood wall forces parallel parkers to block available pedes-trian pathways, nearby resident and city council candidate Tim Flood said — and the Highlands intersection of Northeast Park Drive and Northeast Federal Drive.
One intersection that attracted particular ire was the Issaquah Commons private road intersec-
tion with Maple Street Northwest. Notes about the road, which connects to Target and Trader Joe’s, identi� ed the need for a four-way stop, and point-ed out the brick overlay of the private throughway made crosswalks di� cult to identify.
C.A. Christensen said he was almost hit at that intersection several years ago.
“It was pretty close,” Christensen said. “Within inches, I’d say.”
Christensen has con-tacted the city about the intersection several times with little response, he said. He said he was one of the meeting attendees who had hoped for a public group dialogue.
“What people wanted was more of a question and answer period,” he said. “If everyone reports these things separately, they seem isolated.”
Daniel Nash: 425-391-0363 ext. 5052; [email protected]
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the Wolves during her high school years, graduated in 2013. She is currently attending the University of Arizona where she is pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in broadcast journalism with an emphasis in sports media.
New Eastlake head soc-cer coach Marc Wilson met Brown for the � rst time this spring.
“Riley is an incredible young woman and one of those people that has a smile on her face all the time,” Wilson said. “You can see why people gravi-tate toward her.”
Wilson and the Wolves will host an all-day fund-raiser bene� tting Brown and her family Aug. 4.
“Mod Pizza will donate 20 percent of all sales on that day to the Eastlake Booster Club, which will in turn donate those funds to Riley Brown and her family,” Wilson said.
Wilson said Brown is part of the Eastlake Wolves soccer family.
“One of our big mottos as a soccer program is family and that extends beyond just the group of girls that are playing here today, it extends to all the alumni that played here
in the past,” he said. “We are a tight-knit commu-nity. Once family, always family.”
Wilson announced in mid-July that Brown was named as an honorary alumni sta� coach for the 2015-16 season.
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Eastlake Wolves 2013 graduate Riley Brown (as seen above during her time on the Eastlake soccer team) was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma earlier this year.
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Voter drop o� locations available
�e King County Aug. 4 primary election is right around the corner.
Residents can �nd a 24-hour drop o� location at the Issaquah City Hall, located at 130 E. Sunset Way until Aug. 4.
�ere is also a ballot drop o� site at the Sammamish City Hall, located at 801 228th Ave. S.E. It will be available Saturday, Aug. 1, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Mon-
day, Aug. 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
�ere is no postage nec-essary. �e county mailed ballots out July 15.
Samm. council breaks for summer
�e Sammamish City Council broke for summer vacation a�er its last regular meeting, July 21.
�e council’s next meet-ing is set for Sept. 1 in city hall at 6:30 p.m.
Prescription drug take-back
In partnership with the Drug Enforcement Admin-istration, the Issaquah Police Department will participate in the National Drug Take-Back Day Sept. 26 from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. Drop o� unused or expired medica-tion at Issaquah City Hall at 130 E. Sunset Way.
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PAGINATORPeninsula Daily News, a six-day morning news- paper serving the beauti- ful North Olympic Penin- sula of Washington, has a full-time opening on its design/copy desk in Port Angeles. The successful cand idate must have demonstrated and crea- t ive layout/paginat ion skills using the Adobe Suite, copy editing expe- r ience, good grammar and syntax skills, be AP style-savvy, know cur- rent events, write accu- rate and catchy head- lines and possess sharp InDesign skills (we have a Macintosh-based com- pu te r sys tem) . Da i l y newspaper experience preferred; will consider a top-drawer candidate from a weekly newspa- per looking to move to a daily. The design/copy editor will produce pages and put together sec- tions. The shift is day- t ime Sundays through Thursdays. The suc- cessful candidate also will post stories on the PDN’s website as well as have Facebook and Twitter responsibilities. Affordable Port Angeles, gateway to Olympic Na- tional Park and Victoria, British Columbia, gets half the rainfall of Seattle yet is close enough to enjoy Seattle as well as our rain forests, great f ishing and other out- doo rs ac t i v i t i es and pleasant lifestyle. Por t Angeles just f in ished second in a nat iona l magazine’s “Best Town Ever” contest after beat- ing out a l l four other Western c i t ies in the contest. Peninsula Daily News pub l i shes two zoned a.m. editions in Clallam and Jefferson counties. Pay commen- surate with experience; full benefits package in- cludes medical/dental/vi- sion insurance, 401(k), paid vacation with imme- diate eligibility and sick pay. Finalists may be in- vited to a tryout; prefer- ence given to candidates from the Northwest and West Coast . P lease send cover let ter, re- sume and clips of pages (PDFs are acceptable) with at least three pro- fessional references to
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CREATIVE ARTISTSound Publishing, Inc and The Whidbey News Times, a twice-weekly community newspaper located in Coupevil le, WA, has an immediate opening for a full-time Creative Artist. Duties in- clude performing ad de- sign, designing promo- t i o n a l m a t e r i a l s , providing excellent inter- nal and external custom- er service. Requires ex- cellent communication skills and the ability to work in a fast paced deadline-oriented envi- ronment . Exper ience w i th Adobe Crea t i ve Suite, InDesign, Photo- shop, Illustrator and Ac- robat strongly preferred, as is newspaper or other media experience. Must be able to work indepen- dently as well as part of a team. We offer a great w o r k e n v i r o n m e n t , health benefits, 401k, paid holidays, vacation and sick time. Please e- mail your resume, cover letter, and a few sam- ples of your work to:
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EDITORSound Publishing has an immediate opening for Editor of the Journal of the San Juans in the beautiful San Juan Is- lands o f Wash ing ton state. This is not an en- try-level position. Re- quires a hands-on leader with a minimum of three years newspaper experi- ence including writing, editing, pagination, pho- tography, and InDesign skills. editing and moni- toring social media in- cluding Twit ter, Face- Book, etc.
We offer a competitive compensation and bene- f its package including health insurance, paid time off (vacation, sick, and holidays), and 401K (currently with an em- ployer match.) If you are interested, please email your cover letter, resume, and up to 5 samples of your work to:
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DRIVER/ LIBRARY TECHNICIAN SUBSTI-
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Cemetery Plots
2 CEMETERY PLOTS in the Veteran’s Section Of Washington Memor ial Park, located in SeaTac. Easy road access, near beaut i fu l mausoleum. Purchaser must be, or have a mil i tary family m e m b e r . Va l u e d a t $3195 each. Reduced price asking $2200 ea. 206-979-6254.2 NICHES features quiet sitting bench area to re- flect. Situated among the f lower ing landscape. Available at the beautiful Fir Lanes Cemetery, in Spanaway. Located on the outside Nature Wall. 924 East 176th Street, 98387. Pr ice reduced $2950 ea. 253-376-8454
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4” Concrete � oor w/� bermesh reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, 8’x9’ raised panel steel overhead door, 10’x4’ Portico, 3’x6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, (2) 3’x4’ & (4) 3’x2’ double glazed vinyl windows w/screens, 3/12 roof pitch, 18” eave & gable overhangs, bird blocking at both gables.
4” Concrete � oor w/� bermesh reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (2) 8’x7’ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3’x6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 18” eave & gable overhangs, (2) 10’ continuous � ow ridge vents, bird blocking at all gables.
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(1) 10’x9’ & (1) 4’x4’ Metal framed split sliding door w/cam-latch closers, (3) 4’x8’ split opening unpainted wood Dutch doors, 3’x6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 18” eave & gable overhangs, 2’ poly eavelight, bird blocking at both gables.
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Firearms &Ammunition
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Canada Drug Center is your choice for safe and affordable medications.Our licensed Canadian mail order pharmacy will provide you with savings of up to 90% on all your medication needs. Call today 1-800-418-8975, for $10.00 off your first prescr ipt ion and f ree shipping.
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REGIONAL PUBLISHERSound Publishing is seeking a dynamic executive to lead the Bothell/Kenmore, Redmond, and Kirkland Reporter publications in the beautiful northwest. These are award-winning publications, with an o� ce based in Kirkland, WA. The City of Kirkland is located on the shores of Lake Washington just east of Seattle.
We want a proven leader with the entrepreneurial skills to build on the solid growth of these publications. Ideally, the Publisher will have a good understanding of all facets of newspaper operations with emphasis on sales, marketing, � nancial management, and a strong appreciation for quality journalism. Additionally, the candidate should be well-suited to working with community groups and advertisers. As Publisher, you will help develop strategy for the operation as it continues to serve a rapidly expanding and diverse market area. Quali� ed applicants must be well versed in leading and developing sales teams and culture on all media platforms, have excellent communication skills and be innovative and agile in responding to changing business and audience needs.
This position receives a base salary plus bonus; and a bene� ts package including health insurance, paid time o� , and 401K. Quali� ed applicants should email a cover letter and resume to: [email protected] ATTN: PUB
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Accepting resumes at:[email protected] by mail to:19426 68th Avenue S, Kent, WA 98032ATTN: HRPlease state which position and geographic area you are applying for.
We are community & daily newspapers in these Western Washington Locations:
• King County• Kitsap County• Clallam County• Je� erson County• Okanogan County• Pierce County• Island County• San Juan County• Snohomish County• Whatcom County• Grays Harbor County
Sales Positions• Multi Media Advertising Sales Consultants - Bellevue - Everett - Kitsap - Kirkland - Seattle - Whidbey Island
• Social Media & Marketing Communications Contractor - Everett
• Regional Sales Account Manager - Bellevue
Reporters & Editorial• Regional Publisher - Kirkland
• Executive Editor - Port Angeles
• Editor - Vashon Island - Friday Harbor
• Reporter - Bellevue - Everett
• Sports Reporter - Everett
Creative• Creative Artist - Everett (PT) - Coupeville
• Paginator - Port Angeles
Transportation• Driver (Class B) - Everett
Material Handling• General Worker - Everett
Cats
B E N G A L K I T T E N S , Gorgeously Roset ted Consider a bi t of the “Wi ld” for your home. L ike adventure? This may be the pet for you! www.seattlebengals.com Click “Best/Pet Kittens” to find photos, pricing and pedigrees on who’s available............ Spotted Pr ices s tar t a t $900. Championship Breeder, USDA Licensed, TICA Outs tand ing Cat te r y. Shots/Health guarantees 206-422-4370.BENGAL MAINECOON MIX KITTENS WILL BE BIG. Lots of spots and str ipes. Look Bengal . Doc i le , dog l i ke and smar t. Shots, wormed and guaranteed. $300 Mainecoon Ragdoll kit- tens, tiny adorable fluff b a l l s , s i l v e r t a b b y, orange & black $300, no checks. Del ivery pos- sible 206-436-4386.PIXIE BOBS Cat Kitten- TICA Registered. Play- ful, lots of fun! Hypo-al- l e rgen i c , sho r t ha i r, some polydactyl, short tails, very loving and loy- al. Box trained. Excellent markings. All shots and wormed. Guaranteed! Taking deposi ts now! R e a d y f o r F o r e v e r Homes in July/August. Prices starting at $350. Cal l for appointment: 425-235-3193 (Renton)
Dogs
AKC Labrador Retriever Puppies. Healthy, cuddly puppies; ready to go. All colors. Parents on site. Shots, wormed & social- ized. $695 - $850. Call 360-367-0618.
Dogs
2 HAVANESE PUPPIES Curious, sweet, happy, and playful. Full grown be tween 8 - 10 l bs . Hypo Allergenic option because they have hair not fur and do not shed. Quieter breed. 2 Black females. $995 I will drive to Seattle to deliver. Call Shambra 208-255-9766.www.joyfulhavanese.com
AKC Eng l i sh Mas t i f f Ke n n e l h a s p u p p i e s available. Great pure- bred family pets. Ideal secur ity dogs. Perfect show dogs. Extremely gentle & patient. 3 boys & a girl. Colors are an Apr icot Male, a Red- Brindle Male, a Brindle Male & a Fawn Female. Kingston. $2500. Francis [email protected]
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Dogs
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GREAT DANE Puppies All males; 6 weeks old, born June 3rd. Har le- quins & Fawns. Dad is AKC. Mom is purebred. Shots & wormed. $900 to $1000 each. 253-761- 6067.
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General Pets
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Garage/Moving SalesKing County
4 PLOTS SIDE BY SIDE located in the Garden of t he Good Shepherd . Section 12, block 40, Lot C. Des i rable Bonney Watson Memorial Park. Valued at $4,795 each. Selling for $1,500 each. or all 4 for $5,000. Call 425-572-6643.
AutomobilesAudi
2000 Audi A6 2.8l auto- matic, very spacious & large trunk. The car has been very wel l taken care of & has had al l maintenance done when needed (have receipts). Burns a little oil, maybe a half a quart a month. Belongs to a VW/Audi family & has been well loved. Everything works in the car including: 2 key fobs, A/C, heated seats, sunroof, cruise control, new tires costing over 1000 bought in 2014. The car runs great with AWD and has no w a r n i n g l i g h t s o n . $2600obo contact 206- 454-9060
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“Most injuries happen with dag-gers. � e reason for that is that they’re small and they’re
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It’s a Friday a� ernoon and Dylan Birtolo and I are sitting outside the cafeteria of Building 50 on the Microso� campus in Redmond. Birtolo spends most of his days writing programming instruction manu-als for the Windows 10 UAP, but at the moment he’s taking a break to explain the � ner points of medieval weaponry.
� e problem with collapsible daggers, he explains, is that they work mechanically and mechanisms can fail. Especially when they’re improperly lubricated or jammed up by foreign matter — say, blood.
“You can really wind up hurting some-one if you go for a full stab and the dagger doesn’t collapse,” Dylan says.
� ough Dylan’s weeks are spent in a windowless o� ce � guring out new ways to explain cross-platform coding, his week-ends are spent with swords, maces and jousting lances. You see, he’s a member of the Seattle Knights, a stage combat per-formance troupe that sells its services to Renaissance faires, Medieval Times-style dinner theater venues and � lm or televi-
sion productions — recently, members appeared as extras on HBO’s Game of � rones.
“We prefer to use real weapons while using techniques that make it look like we’re stabbing someone without actually stabbing them,” Dylan says.
Some Microso� employees having lunch at the next table look over at us as Dylan explains this. One could be forgiven for thinking this is some kind of History Geek Amateur Hour, some kind of Adult Playtime for Fantasy Nerds. Forgiven, but still wrong.
“It’s much safer,” Dylan says.
***Five days later, I’ve driven from work
to the Interbay neighborhood of Seattle, home of the Washington National Guard’s Seattle Armory. Dylan’s told me this is where the Seattle Knights hold their weekly practice, but a� er two trips circling the parking lot — and two good looks at the sign reminding visitors that trespass-ing on federal property is a felony — I’m tempted to cut my losses and bounce for the night.
� en I spot two women getting out of their car. Dressed in T-shirts and yoga pants, they could have been any pair of friends out for an evening WOD at the
Cross� t studio across the train tracks. Except when they reach into the trunk for their gear, what comes out are a halberd and a spear. Bingo.
Soon enough, I’m following them past the Armory gate into a small gymnasium where the steady clang of sword impact a� er sword impact is backed by the loose change sound of two dozen women and men � tting chain mail and steel plate over their Under Armour and Reeboks.
I � nd Dameon Willich, the founder of the Seattle Knights, sitting in the corner with senior members of the troupe, talking logistics for their show in July’s Highland Games in Enumclaw. He gets up to greet me and, standing north of 6-foot, broad-shouldered with a mane of snow white hair
swept into a ponytail under his ranger hat and a spiderweb of blood vessels that lend his nose a permanent sunburn, he cuts an imposing � gure. When other Knights say his name, they say it in reverent tones, the kind of “Oh captain, my captain” tones reserved for a Dear Leader. When he barks orders, there’s just a little bit of give in his voice, like a so� -but-stern father or a stern-but-so� football coach.
We exchange greetings and then get down to business.
“I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” Dameon says in his characteristic gru� tones. “I’m going to � nd you a chair and a corner where you can sit and watch safely. We’re going to
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I’m a little disappointed I won’t be in the thick of things. But then I remind myself if I had my druthers, I’d be jamming my gut into a breast plate and swinging a � ail with the same cowboy enthusiasm as Major Kong in the climactic scene of Dr. Strange-love. So, fair enough.
A� er all, the people on the � oor had put in two years to get to this point: One year in “Knights Academy,” a series of four 10-week courses that cover everything from walking in armor to advanced choreogra-phy and improvisation, plus a second “in-ternship” year as an unpaid squire, fetching water and performing other support duties at shows.
Twenty feet in front of me, a squat, muscular woman in a black T-shirt and camou� aged fatigue pants wanders from Dameon’s makeshi� o� ce onto the open � oor, dragging the blade of her broadsword against the smooth concrete in loop-de-loop swirling motions. � e idly violent ges-ture is a common pop culture trope: highly impractical, but also highly intimidating. I wonder how many of her characters are villains. She makes it halfway to a basketball
hoop in the corner and brings the point of her sword up to another woman there, chal-lenging her to a duel. � ey draw closer and immediately engage in a half-speed block and parry, their swords striking one-two, one-two, one-two.
“Is everyone here practicing their routines for this weekend’s show?” I ask Dameon.
“Practicing old routines and building new ones,” he replies.
Dylan had explained to me that � ght choreographers have their own language, a system for committing the � ghts they build in practice to paper so they can be more easily memorized or picked up by other performers. � e language is largely nu-meric, assigning numbers to points on the body. � e standard used by the Society of American Fight Directors for sword � ghts is a � ve-point system; the Knights use 18.
� e two women end their battle and separate without a clear winner.
***“One of the things we pride ourselves
on is that, I think, about half of our troupe is female.”
� e � rst person Dameon’s sent over is Kyle Robinson, a longtime performer and an up-and-coming director in the Knights.
“A lot of joust troupes don’t have female
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Kyle, lean and lanky with a long pony-tail, stays in a comfortable crouch for our entire chat. I can tell he’s one of those guys who has a graceful ease about him at all times — when he’s in character, he plays Sir Gerard Valliant, a swaggering ladies man. But he assures me that Kyle — the real Kyle — is Very Stressed working out the details of the Knights’ upcoming joust arena at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire in Bonney Lake.
“� is is basically my directorial debut,” he says. “I mean, I’ve directed individual jousts before, but Midsummer is three weekends, three shows a day… that’s 18 shows. In a row.”
He exhales hard, as if to punctuate the point. “When I joined the troupe [in 2004], that was the last year they performed a three-weekend Faire.”
Just listening to him describe the logis-tics is exhausting: casting parts, rotating schedules, scheduling � ghts on the steeds and on the ground, dealing with fans, making sure the client is happy, looking a� er the well-being of the jousters’ horses — horses they o� en own, usually for the sole purpose of jousting.
At the same time, this is Kyle’s idea of heaven. He attended Renaissance faires for years before he joined the Seattle Knights
and the � rst time he saw the Knights was at Midsummer, when it was still the Washington Renaissance Fantasy Faire in Gig Harbor.
“My jaw dropped,” Kyle says, mimicking the expression. “� e rest was history.”
I � rst met Midsummer’s operations man-ager, Tracy Nietupski, two years ago on an-other assignment. Chatty and jovial, she was the quintessential “theater mom,” regularly checking in on her volunteers and making sure they stayed fed and hydrated. She was al-ways armed with a laugh whenever the young men joked about � irting with wenches.
But she was also supremely dedicated to the Faire’s mission of historical education and accuracy. Actors at Midsummer don’t wear costumes, they wear period correct clothing handsewn from whole cloth. � e build-ings aren’t two-dimensional facades, they’re solid structures. For the three weekends a year that it exists, the � ctional destination of Merriwick is a fully functioning village that entertains more than 30,000 visitors.
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***� e woman in the camou� aged pants
is at it again. � is time she’s locked in mortal combat with a great mountain of a man swaddled in a royal blue cloth shirt and matching bandana. She holds her own well and at one point traps him in a bear hug aided with the � at of her blade over his chest. He breaks free and swings for her head. She kneels to avoid the strike, but as she comes back up, Big Blue comes in with the punch.
A� er they wrap up, Big Blue comes over and introduces himself as Sir Edward. I’m momentarily gleeful when he o� ers me his sword and introduces me to the � rst two rules of swordplay: “Move � rst, block second” and “Strike with the blade, block with the � at.”
“Sir Edward,” Dameon barks. “What’s that man doing with your sword?”
Edward snatches his blade back out of my hands with a speed that belies his size.
“Nothin’,” he says, shooting Dameon an ‘aw shucks’ smile.
Edward con� des that he’s on R&R a� er a recent surgery. He’s still allowed to practice, but Dameon’s restricting him to maybe 10 minutes at a time, at a leisurely pace. Edward lives on the west side of the Puget Sound, so e� ectively he’s taking the ferry each week to spend the better part of two hours not practicing.
Every person who wanders over to my dunce’s chair o� ers another shock at the e� ort and sacri� ce it takes to be a part of the Knights. Edward isn’t the only mem-ber who lives in the Olympics and, by his account, most of the members travel from well outside Seattle. One woman, Ti� any Kreider, tells me she rides the bus from Kirkland each week with her chainmail, sword and spear.
“I get looks,” she says. “� e ones I love are the people who want to ask about them but don’t. Because you can tell when they want to ask.”
Dylan’s list of investments in the knight-hood alone could � ll an article. A few years ago he bought a horse, Connal, for the sole purpose of jousting, with no idea whether it would take to the sport or not. He lucked out — once Connal got used to seeing Dylan in his armor, he turned out to be a natural.
But risk is ever present, even under ideal conditions, and Dylan took a nasty fall o� his horse during a show.
“When you fall, you’re supposed to ditch your shield immediately,” he says. “But this one time, I couldn’t throw it away from me and I landed wrong.”
� e shield twisted his arm on impact, wrenching his shoulder and popping out his collarbone. It didn’t incapacitate him, but Dylan says he still feels the injury every day.
So why do it? Why traverse counties for two-hour practices? Why spend two years learning an entirely new and largely impractical skillset? Or spend thousands on weapons, armor or beasts of burden? Why does Edward have the purest look of pride I’ve ever seen when he shows me the necklace he received upon entering the knighthood?
� e speci� c reasons I’m given vary. One Rentonite, Jordin Mitchell, tells me the act-ing side of knighthood brought him out of his shell, helping him overcome a shyness that kept him from saying a word during his � rst days in the academy.
Ti� any, who struggled through class a� er class until she was “happily in the middle” of performance, felt like it was a natural � t from the moment in 1994 when a member of the Knights — who still per-forms today — let her sit on her horse.
“It’s funny because I learned that’s one of the things you’re absolutely not supposed to do, for the liability and insurance and everything,” she says. “So I asked her years later why she did that and she said, ‘I had a feeling about you.’”
Edward tells me he gets a kick out of the children who buy into his character, hook, line and sinker.
“When a child looks up at me with big, wide eyes and asks ‘Are you a knight?’” he says, imitating the expression. “� at’s the best.”
But for every single person I talked to, for every speci� c little reason I heard, it all eventually boiled down to one big reason: It’s just frickin’ awesome.
“[My favorite part about this] varies and my answer changes year to year,” Dylan says. “Right now, it’s being on the horse, ei-ther a� er a joust or a run, riding around at breakneck speed, whipping o� my helmet, screaming at the crowd and having them scream back at me.
“Yeah. � at’s pretty cool.”
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T o some, Mrs. Gold-berg is a wild adven-turer, a woman who
enjoys wing walking and once joining a group of friends from Seattle to trek down to Burning Man. To others, she is an aging, doting mother who struggles with, but even-tually supports, her daughter’s
decision to make jewelry instead of becoming a doctor. None of the ideas � oating around on Mrs. Goldberg’s Facebook page can be proven right, yet none of them are incorrect.
Mrs. Goldberg, the � ctionalized woman at the center of the Kirkland Arts Center’s new exhibit Mrs. Goldberg, A Curated Life, has sprouted the imaginations of artists and art patrons alike.
Viewers are meant to take away their own ideas about who Mrs. Goldberg is from the myriad of pieces that make up the exhibit. What they interpret about the mysterious Mrs. Goldberg from these fragmented pieces is meant to juxtapose reality with the identities people create online.
“If you look at the Facebook page, that person could be just as real as anyone else,” said one of the exhibit curators, Michael Dickter.
Dickter and fellow curator Nancy Whittaker brought the idea to the Kirkland Arts Center during an open call for exhibit submissions.
� e imaginary entity of Mrs. Goldberg was created ten years ago by Ballard-based artist Carole d’Inverno in response to Dickter asking for the identity of the woman in an abstract oil painting she had just � nished. “Oh, that’s Mrs. Goldberg,” she said � ippantly, creat-ing a woman who would become a long-running joke between the two, and later the star of the nearly 30-piece
exhibition. Most pieces in the show don’t comment on the physi-
cal aspects of Mrs. Goldberg. Instead, they act as scat-tered breadcrumbs, tidbits of information about her life and her personality.
But there isn’t even a set trail to follow — the exhibit wasn’t arranged with a particular work� ow in mind.
For example, Mrs. Gold-berg’s Struggle To Maintain Balance, which features a rough three-dimensional image of an abstract hanging scale, is made of mysteri-ous rough-textured materi-als. Look closely, and you’ll see the frame is made from orange peels. � e jury is out on the other materials and what balance Mrs. Goldberg is trying to maintain.
Both Dickter and Whittaker have sometimes con-trasting but constantly evolving interpretations of the various artwork. Stopping in front of Mrs. Goldberg: Stowaway, a misty-colored painting showing the hull of a rowboat on calm waters, they o� er di� ering opinions on if the boat is departing and arriving, where it came from/is going to.
“I’ve walked through this exhibit so many times, but I still have all of these new ideas about the pieces,” said Whittaker.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the show is that the purpose and takeaway is constantly changing. Spoiler alert: � ere are no answers. � e conclusions drawn are entirely in the minds of the beholders.
“I wasn’t interested in coming up with who Mrs. Gold-berg was,” said Dickter. “What was interesting was what everyone brought to it and takes away from it.”
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Identity by committeeAbove: One of the art pieces making up the Mrs. Goldberg exhibit, which is running at the Kirkland Arts Center through Aug. 8.
Below: The piece by Carole d’Inverno from which Mrs. Goldberg was born. | Credit: Kirkland Arts Center
A Kirkland Art exhibit ponders life, personality of mysterious Mrs. Goldberg
“I wasn’t interested in coming up with who
Mrs. Goldberg was. What was interesting
was what everyone brought to it and takes
away from it.“ Michael Dickter,
Mrs. Goldberg curator.
by Allison DeAngelis
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One of the largest thri� stores in Bel-levue, in terms of square footage, Bryant says Heart And Home is crammed with inventory on Mondays, but customers pack the house for Wacky Wednesdays. � at’s when customers get to try their luck at drawing a ticket good for 40-70 percent o� anything in the store.
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Don’t bother trying to haggle; the prices you see are non-negotiable.
“� ey tend to buy it when they see it, because, usually when they gamble with it, it’s gone,” Ladiges said. “We have huge support from the community. Our donations are wonderful. � ey really give us the best of the best. … We get a lot of designer items, especially in clothing.” (Don’t expect much in the men’s section, because men wear clothes until they’re falling apart.)
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� ri� shop pro� ts go to LifeSpring services that feed, clothe and educate children living in poverty, which adds up to about 3,600 kids in Bellevue. Gi� cards are also passed out to use at the thri� shop, but Vergien says the store struggles with children’s clothing donations. For every $200 of assistance LifeSpring provides an adult, they are expected to provide an hour of community service, which can be done at the thri� shop. About 20,000 volunteer hours are logged their every year.
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story from NPR cited a study by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, which found that over the course of � ve seasons, less than 3 percent of roles in Broadway productions went to Asian-Amer-ican actors. Great Wall confronts this problem head on, both in its premise and in the very fact of its production.
Great Wall will run Aug. 6-9 in Issaquah and Aug. 15-16 in Everett.
Great Wall — a show by Kevin So and Kevin Merrit with creative input from M. Butter� y's David Henry Hwang — which last made an ap-pearance at the festival in 2012 and has appeared in development at nine other festivals and venues across the country. Village � eatre is opening up the staging of Great Wall to the general public, at $25 for adults and $20 for children and seniors.
Here's the premise, from the description in Village � eatre's an-nouncement:
It’s a long shot for Kevin to become an Asian-American rock star, but that’s exactly what he’s reaching for as he struggles to smash glass ceilings and become America’s new sensation. But a� er the sudden death of his father, a clash of family and cultural expecta-tions force him to choose between supporting his family and pursuing
stardom. Full of soulful melodies, this bold new musical takes a fresh and honest look at the American dream, examining the choices we make, the risks we take, and the relationships that make it all worthwhile.
Pretty cool, right? Despite breakout hits like 1988 Tony Award winner M. Butter� y, it's an open secret that Asians and Paci� c Island-ers are generally underrepresented in the performing arts. One 2012
It's an exciting time to be a Northwest theater geek. In mid-July, 5th Avenue an-
nounced the lineup for its inaugu-ral NextFest program for musicals under development, rattling o� a list of nine shows that included a WWII period drama about a master art forger, an adaptation of a classic Ray Bradbury novel and a murder mystery in a world where clowns are an ethnicity.
� e bad news? You won't be able to see any of these shows unless and until they're � nished -- at least, not unless you're willing to drop $2,500 on a donation to join the theater's prestigious Artist's Circle.
� at's also largely true for the Village � eatre's Festival of New Musicals, which announced its six-show lineup earlier today (although Village Originals memberships, starting at $150 for donors who want to attend the festival, are just a wee bit easier on the wallet for your average Joe Drama Nerd).
Five of the festival's shows — pre-sented as gussied-up stage readings of the scripts — will be closed o� to everyone but professionals and Originals members who will be tasked with providing feedback on what they did and didn't like about the infant productions.
But that won't be the case for
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by Daniel Nash
The title page of the production draft of ‘Great Wall,’ shared to the musical’s Facebook page July 23. | Photo credit: ‘Great Wall - Musical’ on Facebook.com
Village Theatre opens up developing show Great Wall to the general public for its Festival of New Musicals
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Tommy DavidsonConversations with Funny People
Interview by Keegan Prosser
If you had to describe your act in two words, what would they be?
TOMMY DAVIDSON: Fan. Tastic.
What inspires your comedy?
DAVIDSON: Just everyday life. I’ve been blessed to see the funny in everything — I can see funny where people don’t see it.
You’re known for doing some great impressions, including ones of President Obama and Sammy Davis Jr. What’s your favorite?
DAVIDSON: Right now, it’s Obama, because he is so current. But I switch between them at di� erent times.
You’ve been doing this for several years; has your humor changed over the years? And how so?
DAVIDSON: I wouldn’t say my humor has changed, but I go in more directions. I have more skills in doing standup.
You have your hand in a lot of di� erent things; cartoons, movies, videos, standup? What’s your favorite thing to do, and why?
DAVIDSON: I love them all like my kids, but they are all di� erent. I love them each for di� erent reasons. I would say singing, that’d probably surprise you the most. Singing makes me feel good. And I’ve been doing that since I was a kid.
Do you have any musical projects in the works?
DAVIDSON: Not anything soon, but I’m always working on music.
� e In Living Color reboot was cancelled early in 2013. Can you speak to how you felt when you heard that?
DAVIDSON: What I would say is that Keenan [Ivory Wayans] is not ready. He’s very, very smart. When he’s ready, it will be unveiled.
What can fans expect form your standup act right now?
DAVIDSON: I talk about people. White people, black people, Hispanic people, Caribbean people — all types of people. I go o� in a lot of directions about people — don’t ask me how I got there. I just did [laughs].
Last question: Pop culture website TMZ has caught some funny moments of you in L.A. driving some pretty beat up cars. So what are you driving these days?
DAVIDSON: A ‘63 Dodge Dart.
Is that a new purchase? Or something you’ve had for awhile?
DAVIDSON: I’d say that’s a new purchase. I love that car.
Tommy Davidson performs at Parlor Live Comedy Club August 20-21.
� is article originally ran in the August 2013 issue of � e Eastside Scene, then published as � e Bellevue Scene. Keegan Prosser is the former assistant editor of � e Bellevue Scene. She is currently a sta� writer for Reel-World Productions, a global radio company that began in a one-bedroom Seattle apartment in 1994. In 2011, ReelWorld’s European headquarters opened in London and relocated to MediaCityUK in 2013.
An original cast member of In Living Color, (1990-1994) Tommy Davidson — along
with cast members Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and Damon Wayans — built a legacy of laughs for their ground break ing and inno v-a tive comedic talents. And in the years since, Davidson has continued the tradition.
In addition to perfecting hilar i ous impres-sions of Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jack-son and President Obama, Davidson has released three Show time specials: On Strength of New York, Illin’ in Philly and Ta-kin’ it to DC.
On the big screen, Davidson has starred in � lms including Strictly Busi ness, Booty Call, Bamboozled and Ace Ven tura II: When Na-ture Calls. Davidson has also lent his voice to the Adult Swim show Black Dynamite and Bruce W. Smith’s ani mated series, The Proud Family.
The Eastside Scene caught up with David-son (to talk politics and such) in advance of his headlining shows at the Parlor Live:
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