BELLEVUEREPORTER.COM BELLEVUE BELLEVUE Water supplies fall, residents urged to conserve BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER Seattle implementing the advisory stage of its water shortage response plan has the East- side cities it supplies joining in a call for greater conservation efforts as the region continues to weather through record-setting summer heat. e Cascade Water Alliance — its city members including Bellevue, Kirkland, Is- saquah, Redmond and Tukwila — reported in early May the city of Seattle began taking rain into its reservoir in February to compensate for low snowpack. At that time, the message was to continue using water normally. But Seattle reports high heat and dry weather significantly increased the demand for water, putting its supply outlook at fair. e city is also making operational changes and drawing from supplementary water supplies. “We’re definitely taking it seriously,” said Bel- levue Utilities spokesman Michael May. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a historically hot June and July, and then pair that with people using an Teachers bond, build BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER New Interlake High School science teacher Beth Gatewood got more than she expected working at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center this summer — not only was she working alongside world-class researchers, she found herself collaborating with longtime Interlake educator Philip Allen. Over the next 2 1/2 weeks, the pair worked on research projects that they have translated into new genetics and bio- technology curriculum. Not only that, but they developed an invaluable rapport. “It was absolutely golden to be able to work together with Philip (Allen),” Gate- wood said. “You just don’t get this one- on-one time during the school year with other teachers. It will benefit not only us, but our students.” Allen and Gatewood are two of more Report: June officer-involved shooting occurred as suspect was seeking cover BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER An investigation report regarding an officer-involved shooting in Bel- levue in early June reveals a veteran lieutenant shot at a suspect armed with a pellet gun while he was seeking cover from police follow- ing a brief standoff where he used his girlfriend/ex-wife as a human shield. e King County Investigative Response Team — a division within the sheriff ’s office — was put in charge of reviewing the events that led up to the June 5 officer-involved shooting, however, it did not make a determination whether Bellevue Police Lt. Andrew Popochock was justified in firing his pistol at 27-year-old Kevin Sahagun on a residential block in the Lake Hills neighborhood. Bellevue Deputy Police Chief Jim Jolliffe said a shooting review board found Popochock’s actions were within the law and city policy, and a use of force and firearms instruc- tor also reviewed the incident for Lieutenant found justified by review board SEE WATER, 7 SEE SHOOTING, 7 SEE HUTCH, 7 curriculum at Fred Hutch Sports [ 09 ] News [ 02 ] Bellevue Lightning All- Stars softball team wins District 9 tournament Health coach organizes meatless food crawl in downtown Bellevue Former Braves scout, Minor League player holding camps across W. Washington Seattle Children’s thrift shop employee uses Seattle to Portland Classic to raise funds for hospital Squad captures title The baseball guru Crawling with vegans Riding to save lives FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2015 @BelReporter Premier Retirement Living e Gardens at Town Square 933 111 th Avenue NE Bellevue, WA 98004 Please call (425) 429-7380 to schedule a personal visit. eraliving.com ARTS UNDER COVER Water supplier, Seattle Public Utilities says water resources low Matt Brashears / Special to the Reporter Ian Scott, right, of Bellevue, and Maria Buzard, left, of Shoreline, pass through the Bellevue Square parking garage carrying art by Jesse Link, a self-described urban surrealist from Seattle, Saturday at the BAM ArtsFair. With the rain, it was good that much of the fair takes place in the parking garage. (See Page 3) [ 04 ] [ 10 ]
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Water supplies fall, residents urged to conserve
BY BRANDON MACZBELLEVUE REPORTER
Seattle implementing the advisory stage of its water shortage response plan has the East-side cities it supplies joining in a call for greater
conservation e� orts as the region continues to weather through record-setting summer heat.
� e Cascade Water Alliance — its city members including Bellevue, Kirkland, Is-saquah, Redmond and Tukwila — reported in early May the city of Seattle began taking rain into its reservoir in February to compensate for low snowpack. At that time, the message was to continue using water normally.
But Seattle reports high heat and dry weather
signi� cantly increased the demand for water, putting its supply outlook at fair. � e city is also making operational changes and drawing from supplementary water supplies.
“We’re de� nitely taking it seriously,” said Bel-levue Utilities spokesman Michael May. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a historically hot June and July, and then pair that with people using an
Teachers bond, build
BY ALLISON DEANGELISBELLEVUE REPORTER
New Interlake High School science teacher Beth Gatewood got more than she expected working at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center this summer — not only was she working alongside world-class researchers, she found herself collaborating with longtime Interlake educator Philip Allen.
Over the next 2 1/2 weeks, the pair worked on research projects that they have translated into new genetics and bio-technology curriculum. Not only that, but they developed an invaluable rapport.
“It was absolutely golden to be able to work together with Philip (Allen),” Gate-wood said. “You just don’t get this one-on-one time during the school year with other teachers. It will bene� t not only us, but our students.”
Allen and Gatewood are two of more
Report: June officer-involved shooting occurred as suspect was seeking cover
BY BRANDON MACZBELLEVUE REPORTER
An investigation report regarding an o� cer-involved shooting in Bel-
levue in early June reveals a veteran lieutenant shot at a suspect armed with a pellet gun while he was seeking cover from police follow-ing a brief stando� where he used his girlfriend/ex-wife as a human shield.
� e King County Investigative Response Team — a division within
the sheri� ’s o� ce — was put in charge of reviewing the events that led up to the June 5 o� cer-involved shooting, however, it did not make a determination whether Bellevue Police Lt. Andrew Popochock was justi� ed in � ring his pistol at 27-year-old Kevin Sahagun on a residential block in the Lake Hills
neighborhood. Bellevue Deputy Police Chief Jim
Jolli� e said a shooting review board found Popochock’s actions were within the law and city policy, and a use of force and � rearms instruc-tor also reviewed the incident for
Lieutenant found justi� ed by review board
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SEE SHOOTING, 7
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Bellevue Lightning All-Stars softball team wins District 9 tournament
Health coach organizes meatless food crawl in downtown Bellevue
Former Braves scout, Minor League player holding camps across W. Washington
Seattle Children’s thrift shop employee uses Seattle to Portland Classic to raise funds for hospital
Squad captures title
The baseball guru
Crawling with vegans
Riding to save lives
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Ian Scott, right, of Bellevue, and Maria Buzard, left, of Shoreline, pass through the Bellevue Square parking garage carrying art by Jesse Link, a self-described urban surrealist from Seattle, Saturday at the BAM ArtsFair. With the rain, it was good that much of the fair takes place in the parking garage. (See Page 3)
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A swarm of people in bright green T-shirts � lled the main room of the 520 Bar and Grill in the Old Bellevue neighborhood with noise. Some were longtime vegans, while a few were carnivores looking to try something new. Altogether, the group was participating in the � rst Vegan Food Crawl, organized by Bellevue-based health coach and blogger Kirstin Wuhrman.
“I just noticed, on the Eastside, there’s not a lot of vegan-advertised restaurants, but
there is actually a lot available,” she said. “My goal was just to expose Bellevue as a vegan-friendly city.”
A� er � nding many clients, friends and others were interested in learning more about the vegan options available on the Eastside, Wuhrman organized the food crawl at four Bellevue restaurants: 99 Park Restau-rant, 520 Bar and Grill, Moksha Indian Cui-sine and Suite Restaurant and Lounge. More than 60 people from Bellevue, Redmond, Bothell, North Bend and Seattle quickly � lled the available spots in the event.
Many participants echoed Wuhrman’s
sentiments that it can be di� cult to dis-cover restaurants with vegan options in the Eastside.
“It’s hard for local restaurants to promote vegan menus. A lot of people have a set idea of what they can expect from that,” said Betina Finley, a polling and social media specialist who has worked for Moksha Indian Cuisine and attended the food crawl. “I’m thrilled that (Wuhrman) is doing this — marketing places like this and exposing it to people.”
A recent transplant from Los Angeles, food crawl participant Gail Goldman said she and her daughter Marley haven’t found as many options here compared to Los An-geles, and tend to eat at home more.
“� ere’s not a lot of vegan restaurants that I know of on the Eastside, so when we do eat out, we usually end up going into Seattle,” she said.
Others like Evan Davis said they do eat at restaurants regularly, but have to do research beforehand or, as a last resort, try to order o� of the menu.
“� ere de� nitely are not vegan options on the menu at any given place,” said Davis. “Occasionally I’ll try to order o� of the menu, but I know it’s an inconvenience for the restaurant.”
During the four course, chef-guided tour, participants sampled an array for vegan dishes from di� erent types of cuisine. Dishes ranged from spinach pakoras to heirloom tomato and cucumber gazpacho.
For Wuhrman, vegan eating has become a substantial part of her life and her health and holistic living coaching business over the last few years. She turned to dietary coaching a� er years of working in the corporate � eld and becoming vegan herself.
“� e tough thing is that when you go vegan for health-reasons, it’s really important to educate yourself on what that looks like,”
she said. “It’s not a fad thing, but a healthy diet around all food groups.”
� e � nal 2015 vegan food crawl in Bel-levue will take place on Saturday, Aug. 1, but with the positive response and good ticket sales, Wuhrman said it’s likely she will go on to make it an annual or bi-annual event.
Find more information at Wuhrman’s blog: http://www.missbellevuevegan.com/
Vegans descend on BellevueFood crawlers explore Eastside options for meatless dining
Allison DeAngelis, Bellevue Reporter
Above: Gail Goldman, far left, and her daughter Marley, far right, help themselves to vegan food at Moksha Indian Cuisine.Below: Organizer Kirstin Wuhrman.
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Matt Brashears / Special to the ReporterThe rainy weather last weekend did not discourage art lovers from visiting the Bellevue Arts Fair. Clockwise from upper left: Jose Pantoja, a woodturner with Seattle Woodturners, makes spinning tops in the shape of the top of the Space Needle. He is closely watched by Sasha Fridman, 9, of Bellevue, and her mother, Victoria, inside the Bellevue Arts Museum. Upper Right, A lone fairgoer does his last browsing at the 6th Street Fair as the rain comes down. Above right: A tiny bejeweled Volkswagen bug was created by artist Kathy Ross. Bottom right: Shoppers look through the art of Mike Woodward, of San Clemente, Calif. Bottom left: Trumpeter Erik Reed performs with his group, ‘Bakelite 78.’ For more photos, visit www.bellevuereporter.com
BY BRANDON MACZBELLEVUE REPORTER
David Baker delivers for the Seattle Children’s Hospital, whether it’s as receiving manager for its six thri� shops or raising funds with his bicycle and endurance.
� is July was Baker’s 11th year representing Seattle Children’s during the Seattle to Portland Classic, a 206-mile ride the 63-year-old accom-plishes in one day.
When Baker started riding for the children’s hospital, he was fundrais-ing door-to-door.
� e thri� shops where he delivers donated goods eventually took up fund-
raising for him, this year raising $34,000.
“I said, ‘� at’s too many doors for no,’ and then it evolved into the stores do-ing it,” Baker said. “Now it’s become what I always dreamed it would be.”
� is summer’s heat wave followed Baker nearly his entire ride from Seattle to Portland, where
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Baker said he’ll con-tinue to ride in support of Seattle Children’s and work for the hospital for as long as he can.
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Bicyclist’s long journey to save livesSeattle Children’s employee’s STP Classic ride raises $34K for hospital
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David Baker completed his 11th Seattle to Portland Classic ride on July 11, representing Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Microsoft employees plug Windows 10 through community serviceBY ALLISON DEANGELISBELLEVUE REPORTER
To celebrate the global launch of Win-dows 10, Microso� employees scattered across King County on Wednesday to vol-unteer in several dozen community service projects, including four in Bellevue.
� e company partnered with the Seattle Foundation and United Way of King County for “Upgrade You World” day. Altogether, nearly 2,000 Microso� employ-ees volunteered at various nonpro� ts in the area.
“Typically, Microso� would have an
internal celebration and end up tossing an engineering leader in the lake of its Red-mond campus,” said spokesperson Randy Hurlow. “However, on this important day they decided to do something di� erent.”
Employees volunteered at four Bellevue nonpro� ts on Wednesday, including Jubilee REACH, Humane Society Pet Food Bank, Helping Hands for the Disabled and Kin-dering Center.
� e volunteer day was also the kick-o� event for a new year-long initiative that will recognize people and organizations making a di� erence in the community and around the world, according to Hurlow.
Council clears major sewer project in Wilburton
BY BRANDON MACZBELLEVUE REPORTER
Bellevue is investing nearly $10 million in sewer capacity upgrades to ac-commodate development growth in the Wilbur-ton neighborhood, with larger pipelines projected to handle the next century of change.
A� er the Bellevue City
Council rezoned the Wilburton subarea to allow increased height limits and densities in 2008, the neigh-borhood wasexpected to be a transition zone between residential development on the east side and the down-town area west of Interstate 405.
“� e sewage infrastruc-ture out there was designed for a low level of develop-
ment; historically, it has been car dealerships,” said Paul Bucich, Bellevue’s as-sistant director of engi-neering. “� e systems out there were undersized for the rezone that the city has implemented.”
� e two years of engi-neering work for replacing 4,300 feet of various sized sewer pipes that started in 2013 anticipates the city council’s follow-through with another rezone for mixed-use development in
Capacity to increase ahead of planned development growth in neighborhood
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SATURDAY | 1UNMASK YOUR ART! SUMMER ART EXHIBIT AT NEWPORT WAY LIBRARY: Newport Way Library, 14250 S.E. Newport Way. This summer the Newport Way Library will host a display of art sub-mitted by kids, teens and adults from our community. Submissions are due on Aug. 1. For more information, contact the Newport Way Library.
SUNDAY | 2THE ZANIACTION CONTRAPTION SHOW: 2 p.m., Bellevue Library, 1111 110th Avenue N.E. See fascinating contrap-tions in action and discover how to become a super hero with this two-time Guinness World Record holder and zany, super-kinetic, high-energy performer who will have you laughing at his playful antics. For more
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MONDAY | 3DEFEATING DIABETES COOKING CLASS SERIES: 7 p.m., East Shore Unitarian Church, 12700 S.E. 32nd St. Join Food for Life instructor Amanda Strombom in exploring how a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes can improve blood glucose, promote weight loss, lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of common chronic dis-eases. The cost is $12.50 per class, or $40 for the series. For more information, con-tact Amanda Strombom at [email protected].
TUESDAY | 4X-RAY WOMAN-- MARIA SKLODOWSKA CURIE SCIENCE WORKSHOP: 1 p.m., Newport Way Library, 14250 S.E. Newport Way. Learn about Manya, the girl who grew
up to be Madame Curie, and recreate some of the experi-ments she taught students to explain the concepts of radiation, half-life and X-rays. For more informa-tion, contact the Newport Way Library.EAST BELLEVUE COMMUNITY COUNCIL: 6:30 p.m., Lake Hills Clubhouse, 15230 Lake Hills Blvd. East Bellevue Community Council address-es issues and developments that impact residents in East Bellevue, bordered by NE 8th, Se 28, 156th, and 140th. For more information, con-tact Charmaine Arredondo at [email protected].
WEDNESDAY | 5EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE DROP-IN: Noon, Bellevue Library, 1111 110th Avenue N.E. The Employment Specialists have experience helping those facing home-
lessness or receiving food stamps benefits. Learn to develop a strong resume, prepare for job interviews, discover financial support during your job search and get connected to local resources. For more information, contact the Bellevue Library.GENEALOGY RESEARCH HELP: 1 p.m., Bellevue Library, 1111 110th Avenue N.E. Volunteers from the Eastside Genealogical Society can help you track the history of your family. Come by for research help and an introduction to the library’s genealogy books, periodicals and databases.
THURSDAY | 6DRAWING COMIC BOOK HEROES AND ALIENS: 1 p.m., Bellevue Library, 1111 110th Avenue N.E. Elizabeth Guizzetti, sci-ence fiction author of graph-ic novels, will teach you to
draw your own aliens, super heroes and their environ-ments using basic shapes.STRATEGIC GAMING: 3 p.m., Lake Hills Library, 15590 Lake Hills Blvd. Teens, do you like to play Dungeons
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STAFF REPORTBELLEVUE REPORTER
� is past legislative ses-sion was the longest in state history, but there were some wins for Bellevue, says city Government A� airs Direc-tor Joyce Nichols.
A $16 billion transporta-tion revenue package pro-vides funding to complete express lanes from Bellevue to Renton — the Lynnwood to Bellevue portion opens later this year — and � nish
the western portion of the State Route 520 bridge, said retiring city lobbyist Mike Doubleday. � ere is also $2.8 million included for the SR 520 regional bike path and trail, $14 million for the Mountain to Sound Greenway and design fund-ing for a full SR 520-124th Avenue Northeast inter-change.
� ey also cleared a 16-year revenue package for local distribution, totaling $5.45 million for Bellevue,
which is projected to receive $170,000 in each of the � rst two years and $365,000 an-nually a� er that.
Cities will now also receive a portion of tax
revenue coming from recreational marijuana sales, the new formula anticipating Bellevue will receive $70,000 per year from 2015-17.
We don’t think a lot about not having enough water in Western Washington — we usu-ally have too much. When we see photos
of dry lake beds in California, we shrug, secure in the knowledge that abundant water is one more way we are superior to the “Golden” State. But this year, along with most of the West, water is in short supply in our state and in the Puget Sound region.
As a result, Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has de-clared a water advisory for its service areas. Yet looking at the utility’s data regarding its low reservoirs and skinny snowpack, it looks more like an imminent disaster.
We are heavily dependent upon the amount of snowpack in the mountains — a natural phenomenon that essentially serves as a mountain-top water storage
system. � at source, along with a series of reservoirs carefully managed to pro-tect � sh, crops and a grow-ing population, is usually more than adequate.
But things have changed.
� e advisory decla-ration should read: Stop
watering the grass; do not wash your car in the driveway; hold o� on washing dishes or laundry unless absolutely necessary. Showers should be no longer than three min-utes, max.
Even with these admonishments, the amount of savings achieved by each household must be multiplied by thousands to be e� ective. SPU supplies water to more than one million people in a dozen- plus communities in King County.
In addition to Seattle, those communities include: Bellevue, Redmond, Issaquah, Sammamish and Renton in an area that stretches from the King County boundary at Woodinville to the unincorporated areas to the south and east, to the foothills of the Cascades.
What we can learn from California as it urges its residents to take out lawns — is that watering the grass is a waste of money and resources.
We say just “let it go,” this year.
Let the grass go
‘To achieve any measurable savings, everyone must take part’
To the editorResponse to 7/24 letter about ‘sanctuary cities’
The concept of sanctuary cities has been around from antiquity to the Middle Ages, and more recently in the United States.
This noble idea of protecting the weak and vulnerable from unfair and harsh treatment has now in America, morphed into protecting alien fel-ons with multiple convictions and numerous deportations.
Facts are a stubborn thing. Most of these illegal alien felons come from countries south of us.
One recent writer to the Editor of this paper expressed the opinion that if that horrific murder of that young woman in San Francisco had been committed by a Canadian, the out-rage would have been muted.
I beg to differ.If our neighbors to the north
entered the US in large numbers and committed heinous crimes AND where routinely given protection by a rather lax and political correct system I know that the outcry would not be any less intense.
Furthermore the writer thought it would be appropriate for the editor of this newspaper to apologize and feel shame for allowing a opinion expressed by a reader to be pub-lished. This is political correctness gone amuck! The Bellevue Reporter owes no one an apology!
We are all allowed to have an opin-ion on any subject, and should be free to express it without fear of
being labeled by the political correct agenda.
Bert Dybdah
Partnership with Chinese college is game-changer
On July 17, 2015 in an article on City of Bellevue’s economic devel-opment progress appeared in the Reporter. It mentioned the Global Innovation Exchange, a partner-ship for graduate institute between University of Washington and China’s Tsinghua University.
I want to emphasize the signifi-cance and importance of this part-nership. It is “a long-term game changer” for Bellevue and the region. It is the “punctuation mark” that has put us on the map. The rest is up to us to make it become legitimate.
Economic development is perhaps one of the most important responsi-bilities of cities. It ensures financial well-being and greater revenues to pay for essential city services and and maintain an excellent quality of life for its residents. Bellevue has done very well to maintain its quality of life because its economic growth has kept up with its growing needs. However, as needs are increasing and revenues shrinking, every city has to be more competitive. So does our State, Puget Sound region and City of Bellevue.
Today’s economy is global. Competition is also global. We are at a time and place where cities have to compete with nothing less than excel-lence. We have a wonderful environ-ment, great talents, world’s most suc-
cessful companies and entrepreneurs. We have many advantages to attract talents and capital. But, we lack a world-class higher education center of excellence. That is, until now.
� e Joint UW/Tsinghua Uni-versity/Microso� GIobal Innova-tion Exchange (GIX) Partnership announced recently is the world-class higher education center of excellence. It has put our region on the map. � e news about GIX was covered world-wide, making us the envy of many. It has reinforced our suspected reputation that we are a place with great talents, great com-panies and great higher education. With the addition of Tsinghua Uni-versity and its commitment to higher education center of excellence, our region will � nd it among the world’s centers of innovation. With continu-ing and additional e� orts, we may become truly the center of excellence in innovation. However, there is plenty of hard work ahead of us. We have to work together to ensure the bones are � lled in with meat, that the promises are met.
This partnership is monumental! It’s once in a life time opportunity. It came after former UW president Michael Young began an effort to locate a research and development center on the eastside and the efforts and visions of many to make our region a world-class center of inno-vation; a name that truly befits our residents, businesses and companies of the past, present and future.
above average amount of water.”May said the city is encour-
aging residents to be mindful of their water consumption, recommending actions like tak-ing vehicles to commercial car washes that recycle used water or watering their lawns in the early morning or at night.
“It’s hard to say what people are using their water for,” he
said, “but definitely they’re using more of it.”
The advisory stage is the first of four — followed by voluntary, mandatory and emergency curtailment — laid out by Seattle’s Water Shortage Contingency Plan, and Bel-levue will be taking its water supplier’s lead should condi-tions change.
“The next step would be vol-untary curtailment,” May said, “just telling people now these are more things you can do.”
potential training issues.“We felt that, based on the
circumstances and information reasonably known to the o� cer, that his decision to shoot was within our policy and within the law,” Jolli� e said.
Popochock and O� cer Brenda Johnson responded to a domestic violence complaint on the 1200 block of 151st Avenue Southeast on the night of June 5, where Sahagun allegedly pulled out a � rearm — a pellet gun with the barrel drilled out to look like a deadly pistol — and grabbed his girlfriend in the driveway of his mother’s house, using her as a shield.
Sahagun allegedly then pointed the � rearm back and forth be-tween his girlfriend and police, according to KCIRT’s report, the assault suspect later telling investigators he wanted o� cers to kill him. Sahagun was hospitalized twice a� er his arrest, � rst for re-peatedly beating his head against the interior of a police vehicle and again when he allegedly made sui-cidal gestures with a string around his neck from inside his detention cell, according to the report.
Sahagun’s girlfriend — for-merly his wife, with whom he shares a daughter — told police the weapon was a pellet gun, but the suspect asked o� cers if they were willing to take that chance, according to his own statement to investigators.
According to the report,
Sahagun’s girlfriend got away, causing him to seek cover from police. Popochock � red one shot that missed Sahagun and struck a vehicle he was attempting to get inside, the report states.
Popochock, who was found justi� ed in the 2007 shooting death of a man threatening a fam-ily member with a knife, provided KCIRT investigators with an involuntary statement 12 days a� er the June 5 shooting, stating he was compelled to under threat of termination.
“� is is a true and involuntary statement given at the direct order of Chief (Steve) Mylett of the Bellevue Police Department given under the threat of termination,” starts Popochock’s statement, where he goes on to report he shot at Sahagun because he believed “a gun� ght” was imminent.
A sheri� ’s investigator’s supplemental report states “Lt. Popochock seems to indicate that he � res at the suspect just as the suspect goes behind the bush (he speci� cally indicated that, imme-diately a� er he shoots, the suspect in (sic) no longer visible).”
Popochock � red from behind a
vehicle, where he’d taken defensive cover. � e investigator’s report states that means the lieutenant’s “description leaves only the small area between the Toyota truck parked on the road and the bush at the end of the driveway for him to have shot at the suspect while in his view.”
Sahagun told investigators he threw his gun out into the street and came out from behind the vehicle a� er the shot was � red, because he feared further gun� re might strike his mother’s neigh-bor’s house behind him, where his daughter was staying during the alleged domestic dispute.
Johnson told investigators Sa-hagun came out from behind the vehicle with hands in the air, but refused to comply with o� cers’ orders, and then ran away. He was taken into custody a short time later in the neighborhood.
A 25-year-old man in his work van on 151st Avenue Southeast told investigators he attempted to get in front of Sahagun when he saw him running down the road with police in pursuit, according to the report, which resulted in the suspect allegedly knocking him away and then punching the worker in the head.
Sahagun is charged with one count each of third-degree assault and fourth-degree assault (domes-tic violence) in King County Dis-trict Court and was released three days a� er his arrest on a $150,000 surety bond.
KCIRT’s investigation report was provided to the Bellevue Reporter through a public records request.
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Photo courtesy of Bellevue Police
This picture shows the fake gun found at the June 5 shooting scene.
than 20 teachers from commu-nities throughout Washington who worked beside scientists in research laboratories through the Science Education Partner-ship. � ey joined educators from Seattle, Sammamish, Snohomish, Renton and 11 other cities.
“Our goal is for teachers to bring back what they learn over the summer to help jumpstart their students’ knowledge and perhaps kindle their interest in jobs or careers in science,” said Nancy Hutchison, Ph.D., director of the SEP.
Participating educators also gain access to the SEP’s science-kit loan program. � e kits, cost-ing up to $10,000 each, are � lled with supplies ranging from the exotic (microcentrifuges) to the mundane (plastic wrap, dish-washing detergent).
“We send out the real thing; these are not kids’ toys,” Hutchi-son said.
� e partnership celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. Since it began in 1991, more than 450 teachers have participated and the program has touched the lives of more than 300,000 students.
Students at Interlake High School will reap the bene� ts of Allen and Gatewood’s research in genetics and biotechnology. Starting with Gatewood’s 9th grade science course, students will isolate plant DNA. Allen’s higher-level courses will move on to developing experiments and comparing the DNA of di� erent plant species.
“Biotechnology is a part of people’s lives now — look at the recent ballot measure on GMOs (genetically modi� ed organisms),” said Allen. “If you don’t understand stu� like that, how can you be a well-informed member of the public?”
Get information about programs at kcls.org, or call the library.
An art workshop for teens!Lucha Libre Masks Art Workshop
Thursday, August 13, 3:30pm Bellevue Library
Learn about the history of Lucha Libre, a form of professional wrestling that is part of Mexican art and culture. Create your own personalized 3D
Luchador mask using traditional colors and patterns. All materials provided.
Please register online or by calling the library.
the near future, Bucich said.�e city council on Monday approved
an ordinance granting low bidder Mid-Mountain Contractors, Inc. a $7.9 million contract for the Wilburton sewer capacity project, with the expectation the cost will rise to $9.85 million before completion. Bucich said the contract was signed Tuesday to begin preconstruction discussions ahead of a potential September start time.
“A lot of the work is being done outside the road right-of-way, except out on 114th (Avenue Northeast),” said Bucich, adding tra�c coordination will be necessary. “We can’t shut o� the road. �at is the access for many (hotel) businesses to get their goods.”
�e project will take about a year to com-plete, and comes with a number of chal-lenges, such as having to use auger cast piles to support a pipeline that will run through a wetland area to prevent the line from sink-ing, removing and replacing a pipe crossing
under I-405 and 20-foot excavations in cer-tain areas to mitigate groundwater impacts.
�e Wilburton sewer project is one of three undertakings by the city — all amounting to about $19 million — to increase sewer capacity. Discussions are ongoing about mitigating tra�c when the East Central Business District trunkline improvement project — 1,850 feet of 30-inch and 42-inch sewer lines within 112th Avenue Southeast — starts in mid-August.
“�ey’re already feeling tra�c jams from the Belle�elds Pump Station project,” Bu-cich said, which is being replaced in order to continue being served by the ECBD line.
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National Night Out at Crossroads Mall�e Bellevue Police Department will once again host
the annual National Night Out event at the Crossroads Farmers Market noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4.
Police Chief Steve Mylett will be joined by Bel-levue Fire Chief Mark Risen and other city o�cials during the noon opening ceremony, this year’s theme being “Celebrate Our Heroes.” �e event is meant to strengthen the relationship between the police and the community, as well as provide resources for how to reduce crime and strengthen neighborhood safety.
�ose attending can meet members of the BPD and BFD, learn about child pedestrian safety and shake hands with comic book heroes as part of the King County Library System’s Every Hero Has a Story sum-mer reading program.
365 by Whole Foods Market coming to Bellevue Square
BY BRANDON MACZBELLEVUE REPORTER
Whole Foods Market’s �rst Wash-ington store for its 365 by Whole Foods Market will be opening up in Bellevue Square in the second half of 2016, according to Kemper Develop-ment Company, taking up the ground level of the former J.C. Penney Build-
ing, now known as the South Com-mons Shop.
�e new store model, marketed by Whole Foods as a “new streamlined, valued-focused brand,” having “every-day low prices on natural and organic products that meet the company’s industry-leading quality standards,” will take up 30,500 square feet of the South Commons’ ground �oor, with 35,500 square feet of additional park-ing, according to permit documents
“�e Whole Foods Market brand
has helped lead the shi� in conscious-ness toward fresh, healthy foods by o�ering the highest quality, broadest selection, and best customer service,” said KDC CEO Kemper Freeman in a Wednesday news release. “We are thrilled to be the location of choice for the �rst 365 by Whole Foods Market in Washington and we know it will be a highly anticipated addition for shoppers, residents and o�ce workers within �e Bellevue Collection and the surrounding community..”
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The Bellevue Lightning All-Stars softball team, comprised of players from Bellevue East, Bellevue West and Thunderbird Little Leagues, won the Washington District 9 tournament July 3 at Hartman Park in Redmond. Bellevue went 3-0 at the tourney, registering victories against Sno-Valley, Kirkland and Eastlake. Bellevue defeated Eastlake 10-3 in the championship game. The Lightning roster consists of Angel Le, Colette Liston, Lita Bankson, Rachel Lotzkar, Ren Watanabe, Zoe Yearout, Ariana Arnone, Cassidy Schilling, Audrey Owen, Chloe Hamada, Hanako Hirai, Sabine Cabales and Victoria Rodriguez. The manager of the squad is Allen Cabales and the coaches are Dale Watanabe and Jessica Cabales. The Lightning will compete in the Juniors Softball Little League World Series from Aug. 2-8 at Everest Fields in Kirkland.
Bulldogs hoops team to host camp
� e Bellevue College men’s basketball team will conduct its annual summer basketball camp for boys and girls between second and eighth grade from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. from Aug 24-27 at Bellevue Col-lege. � e camp will focus on shooting, ball-handling, rebounding, passing, screening, perimeter play, post play and team/indi-vidual defense. � e cost is $160 per camper. For more information, contact Bulldogs men’s basketball head coach Jeremy Eggers at 425-564-2193.
Diamond camp is on the horizon
� e Bellevue College baseball team will host two camps this summer at Courter Field in Bellevue. All camps will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. � e
next camp will be from Aug. 10-13 and the � nal camp will take place from Aug. 17-20. To register for one of the camps, call 425-564-2356. For more information about the camp, email Bulldogs’ head coach Mark Yoshino at [email protected].
FirstSwing to host softball/baseball camp in August
� e FirstSwing Foun-dation will host its 11th annual Bellevue baseball/so� ball camp at Interna-tional School Fields from Aug. 10-14. � e camp, which will take place from 9 a.m. to noon each day, will be o� ered to young-sters between the age of 5 and 13 years of age. � e cost of the camp is $140 per athlete. For more informa-tion, call Phil Rognier at 425-451-8276 or by email at [email protected].
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SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON
FOR KING COUNTYEstate of Marcella I. Suzuki, Deceased.NO. 15-4-04027-5 SEA
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
(RCW 11.40.030)PLEASE TAKE NOTICE The above Court has appointed me as Personal Representative of Decedent’s estate. Any person having a claim against the Dece- dent must present the claim: (a) Before the time when the claim would be barred by any appli- cable statute of limitations, and (b) In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070: (i) By filing the original of the claim with the foregoing Court, and (ii) By serving on or mailing to me at the address below a copy of the claim. The claim must be pre- sented by the later of: (a) Thirty (30) days after I served or mailed this Notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020(1)(c), or (b) Four (4) months after the date of first pub- lication of this Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time period, the claim will be forever barred except as provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective for claims against both the Dece- dent’s probate and non-probate assets.Date of First Publication of this Notice: July 17, 2015Helen Carol Fromm416 108th Ave, SEBellevue, WA 98004Personal Representative Published in Bellevue Reporter on July 17, 2015, July 24, 2015 and July 31, 2015. #1368977.
State of WashingtonKing County District Court
Katherine E. Mano DOB 02-05-47 Petitioner
vs.Josepb Allen RespondentNO. 151-273
REISSUANCE OF TEMPORARY ORDER FOR
PROTECTION AND NOTICE OF HEARING
The Temporary Order for Protec- tion issued on 06/30/2015 is hereby extended through the new court hearing date on this matter on 08/14/2015, at 1:00PM at KCDC Bellevue 1309 114th Ave SE ##100 Bellevue, WA 98004 The clerk of the court shall for- ward a copy of this order on or before the next judicial day to the: Bellevue Police Department where petitioner lives which shall enter this order in any com- puter-based criminal intelligence system available in this state used by law enforcement to list outstanding warrants.Dated 07/14/2015 1:40 PM Judge David SteinerPresented by Katherine E. Mano July 14, 2015Published in the Bellevue Re- porter on July 17, 24, 31, 2015; #1370413
NBK LLC, 11010 NE 8TH ST; Bellevue, WA 98004 is seeking coverage under the Washington Department of Ecology’s NPDES general permit for stormwater discharges associated with construction activities. the proposed 3.54 acre project, known as “Holiday Inn Express and Staybridge Suites” is located at 969 118th ave. se. in Bellevue. approxomately 3.54 acres will be disturbed for construction of a commercial development. Construction activities include clearing, grading, infiltration facility, storm drains, utilities, sidewalks, landscaping and a the construction of a hotel facility. stormwater will be cleaned and controlled through the use of silt fences, straw bales, sediment re- tention ponds and check dams prior to discharging to a category II wetland to the west of the site. Any person desiring to present their views to the Department of Ecology concerning this appli- cation may notify ecology in writing within 30 days from the last date of the publication of this notice.Comments may be submitted to:Washington State Department of EcologyWater Quality ProgramStormwater Unit – ConstructionP.O. Box 47596Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Published in the Bellevue Reporter on July 31, 2015 and August 7, 2015. #1373236. Washington Square Hotel Holdings LLC, Michael Niel- son, 10620 NE 9th Pl Bellevue, WA 98004, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Con- struction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, Hilton Garden Inn at Washington Square, is located at 965 108th Ave NE in Bellevue in King county. This project in- volves 1.06 acres of soil distur- bance for Commercial construc- tion activities. The receiving waterbody is Lake Washington. Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State Department of Ecology re- garding this application, or inter- ested in Ecology’s action on this application, may notify Ecology in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews pub- lic comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a mea- surable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest accord- ing to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173- 201A-320. Comments can be submitted to:Department of EcologyAttn: Water Quality Program, Construction StormwaterP.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Published in Bellevue Reporter on July 31, 2015 and August 7, 2015. #1375515.
For the � rst time since my arrival at the Bellevue Re-porter in August of 2014, I had the rare opportunity to take advantage of some of my rapidly accruing vacation time.
I made the short two-hour plane ride to Reno, which has been dubbed “Biggest Little City in the World,” for my good friend John Ball’s bachelor party last weekend. It was a gathering of six individuals from three di� erent states with a vast amount of di� erent likes, interests and modes of operation. One aspect of life on which all six of us in attendance were in agreement was our a� nity for sports. Collectively, we decided to attend a Triple-A baseball con-test between the Reno Aces and Las Vegas 51s on Saturday night. � e Aces defeated the 51s 8-5 in a battle between Nevada rivals. Aces Ballpark, located in downtown Reno, was a 10-minute walk from our hotel rooms at the
Eldorado Resort Casino. Aces Ballpark opened in 2009 and, in my opinion, is the crowning jewel of Reno’s down-town core. In addition to attending the game on the dia-mond, I placed a $30 bet earlier that day on the Mariners in their contest against the Toronto Blue Jays. While dining at Eldorado’s delicious bu� et, I checked my phone and discovered the Mariners built a 6-3 lead a� er � ve innings of play. I thought I was going to be $30 richer later in the evening.
Sadly, I was wrong. � e Blue Jays put up two runs in the top of the eighth
and the top of the ninth, earning an 8-6 victory. A few of my buddies engaged in some spirited trash talk in regard to the loss I experienced and I laughed right along with them. � e entire trip was a blast. It was two vacation days well utilized and well spent!
Bellevue resident Steve Goucher lives and breathes baseball.
Goucher, who played Minor League baseball as a right-handed pitcher before becoming a scout with the Atlanta Braves organization in the 1990s, has conduct-ed baseball camps and training sessions for the past 17 years. Goucher will partner with Bellevue Parks & Community Services for a baseball camp taking place from Aug. 10-14 at Hidden Valley Park in Bellevue.
“Bellevue has the nicest parks around. The park at Hidden Valley is awesome. The facility is just incred-ible,” Goucher said. “Since the 1990s, I have branched into running camps, clinics and lessons. Baseball has been my life.”
Goucher grew up in south Seattle and graduated from Highline High School. Following high school, he played collegiate baseball for Green River Community College and San Diego State University. He finished his playing career in Minor League baseball for the Bend Bucks and Pocatello Pioneers in 1991.
“I played all sports when I was kid. I played football, hockey, basketball and baseball. I just started to ad-vance at an early age in baseball,” he said. “Everybody starts out at shortstop when they are a kid. I finally ended up pitching. I loved it.”
Goucher, who also will be conducting a baseball camp in Langley on Whidbey Island this summer, has a long-term goal of expanding his reach across Washing-ton in the future.
“I plan on continuing this for at least 10 more years for sure. I would like to build up my staff and pass it on to them. Helping players get college scholarships and helping them get to the next level is what it is all about,” Goucher said.
Goucher teamed up with celebrity Bill Nye the Sci-ence Guy to invent the “Skipper Stick Fungo Bat” base-ball retriever. It allows individuals to pick up baseballs with the top of the bat as opposed to bending or kneel-ing over to pick up the ball. The device is a perfect fit for infield work.
“I go to a lot of trade shows and baseball clinics to promote it. There are three or four guys in the big leagues (Major League Baseball) who are using the bat today,” he said.
Baseball guru shares expertiseFormer Atlanta Braves scout and current Bellevue resident enjoys teaching the game of baseball to a plethora of players
Shaun Scott, Bellevue Reporter
Former Atlanta Braves scout Steve Goucher, who played Minor League baseball for the Bend Bucks and Pocatello Pioneers in the early 1990s, conducts baseball camps across the Western Washington region, including one in Bellevue in August.
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“Most injuries happen with dag-gers. � e reason for that is that they’re small and they’re
hard to keep track of in a � ght. Plays will o� en use collapsible daggers if they have a scene where someone needs to be stabbed. We don’t use the collapsible daggers.”
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
jousters,” he says. “Or, if they do, they’re just eye candy.”
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.
“As far as the show goes, we want this to be as close to a village in 1571 as possible,” Tracy told me at the time. “Most of our perform-ers try to speak as people back then would speak. It was a chivalrous and courteous time. So the queen will walk by and they will all bow and say ‘God save the queen!’ Visitors obviously don’t have to do that, but all of
our performers are working to make this an authentic historical experience.”
***� 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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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.
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� 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
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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.
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“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
There’s a certain wave of satisfaction that follows an unbelievable thri� shop discovery, where the bargain
compels one to snatch up their � nd and make a beeline for the register. � e only thing that makes a penny-wise treasure hunt more ful� lling is knowing your purchase is helping someone with needs greater than your own.
Across the Eastside, nonpro� t thri� stores set the standard for second-hand quality and style, all the while pumping funding into their charitable causes faster than you can say Macklemore.
Jubilee Heart and Home (Thrift Store)2301 148th Ave N.E., Bellevue
It may sound like a backdoor brag, but
Jubilee Reach’s Heart and Home thri� store’s outside signage is so classy that some people don’t realize there are bar-gains in there, says general manager Jason Bryant. To rectify this issue, the nonpro� t is changing the name to Jubilee � ri� Store as part of its August relaunch and accompanying block party (Find out when by following their Facebook page).
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.
But on any other day, a savvy shopper can always practice his negotiation skills.
“� is is like a swap meet every day,” Bry-
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ant said. “You’ve got to have a little haggle. It’s like buying a new car.”
Revenue from Jubilee Reach’s thri� store goes to supporting youth sports programs, but family connection centers in schools also put the nonpro� t in touch with families needing housing and furniture. Gi� certi� cates are also issued to needy families to take to the thri� store and hook themselves up.
Donations to Seattle Children’s Bargain Boutique are thoroughly researched and priced at value for a month before being marked down by 30 percent, said manager Sarah Ladiges, but many customers are willing to pay full price when it’s supporting the Seattle Children’s Hospital’s mission of providing little ones with medical care.
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.)
When the Bargain Boutique has too much inventory — furniture, kitchenware, clothing, etc. — Ladiges said the store will put on a sale to make room, but it takes joining the store’s email list to stay in the
loop. Seniors (55-plus) get 15 percent o� on Mondays.
� e hospital’s six boutiques take in an average of $600,000 annually, that goes into the uncompensated care fund for those families who would otherwise be unable to pay.
Bellevue LifeSpring Thrift Shop167 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue
If you have a job interview coming up and need to look designer chic with-out paying designer prices, the Bellevue LifeSpring � ri� Shop in Bellevue Square has your back 362 days a year. A word of caution from 11-year volunteer manager Maggie Vergien: Mall employees know the inventory, and word about the good stu� — say a $60 Armani jacket — spreads quickly. High tra� c is 11-11:30 a.m.
� 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.
Prices and deals vary, depending on how long an item has been on the shelf. Blue tagged items are 75 percent o� ; designer fashions with an orange tag are 50 percent o� and items with red, yellow or green tags are 25 percent o� .
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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
Tear down this wall
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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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