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We buy and sell guns. 1229532 City attempts to abate drug house after years of criminal activity BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected]O n Aug. 26, 2013, a Kirkland police officer approached the owner of the home located on Finn Hill in the 8200 block of NE 142nd Street. e officer explained to him the extent of alleged and actual criminal activity occurring at the residence for years. e owner, who had an address in Bellevue, said that while he knew his son had drug problems in the past, he was completely unaware of any of the incidents, investi- gations or arrests. In fact, he added, no one was supposed to be living in the home other than his son, who paid for the utilities but not rent. e officer warned him that if things didn’t change the city would shut down the house, to which the owner promised to fix the problems. The fi rst raid Months prior to this meet- ing, the first of two raids on the home occurred on April 15, 2013, when a SWAT team entered the house as part of an investigation into a recent burglary in the area. At the burglarized residence, just blocks away from the alleged drug house, police had discovered a cell phone belonging to the owner’s then 46-year-old son. Accompany- ing the officers during the raid was a U.S. Secret Service member, who was investigat- ing possible counterfeiting. During the raid, the police discovered eight people living there, three of whom were ar- rested. Many of them admit- ted they were heroin addicts and that the son, who took care of the home for his fa- ther, did not make them pay rent; later that year, though, police would respond to a domestic disturbance at the house in which the owner’s son got into a dispute with a roommate who refused to pay rent. Officers also found the condition of the house to be nothing short of appalling, according to police docu- ments. e rooms were filled with garbage and filth. e entire house stank with The is the second part in a two-part series [ more HOUSE page 8 ] Day of Service in Kirkland Lake Washington High School students, from left, Megan LeGressley, Kevin Chau and Helen Simecek, plant trees at Everest Park in Kirkland as part of the Day of Service on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 19. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene was also at the park to help plant trees. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter Juanita student’s alligator chili spices up cookbook BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected]e Kirkland City Coun- cil has approved a study of the 100th Avenue Northest corridor that looked at pos- sible ways to help mitigate traffic problems as well as improve safety for bikers and pedestrians. e council also autho- rized $589,200 in matching funds at its Jan. 6 meeting for a $2.6 million federal grant that will help pay for the $3.2 million in engi- neering design costs for the project. Capital Project Manager Dave Snider told the council that the grant will allow them to design the entire corridor project at one time rather than in phases. e corridor study, released in its final form in October 2014, looked at the 100th Avenue Northeast corridor between Northeast 132nd Street and Northeast 145th Street for the purpose of determining potential improvements to ease traf- fic congestion and make it friendlier to pedestrians and cyclists. At the council’s Jan. 6 meeting, Project En- gineer Frank Reinart said there has been a long-time public desire for improve- ments along the corridor for commuters and pedes- trians, as well as bikers. From south to north, the current roadway transi- City approves study of main corridor, receives federal grant [ more 100TH page 2 ] BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected]Juanita High School fresh- man Kristopher DiGiulio knows a thing or two about making chili. Competing in chili compe- titions since he was nine, one of his most recent chili reci- pes - containing alligator - was featured in “Future Chefs of the World Cookbook” by Ramin Ganeshram. Cooking is nothing new to the DiGiulio family. Among his own concoctions are folders of family recipes, as well as ones collected from friends and other countries. He got his start competing against others aſter watch- ing his grandfather, Vincent DiGiulio, do the same at chili cook-offs with the White Shrine in Auburn, as well as at the Masonic lodge where Vincent is a member. Aſter several cook-offs, Kristopher discovered he had a knack for making chili. In 2013, he competed in three chili cook- offs, winning a “best tasting” award at the first, and in the second and third he won “best overall.” Aſter receiving repeated requests from people on how to make his chili, the [ more CHILI page 6]
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HYPNOTIZED | Juanita High School wrestling coach to perform at team’s fundraiser [3]
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2015A DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING
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City attempts to abate drug house after years of criminal activityBY TJ MARTINELL
On Aug. 26, 2013, a Kirkland police o� cer approached
the owner of the home located on Finn Hill in the 8200 block of NE 142nd Street. � e o� cer explained
to him the extent of alleged and actual criminal activity occurring at the residence for years. � e owner, who had an address in Bellevue, said that while he knew his son had drug problems in the past, he was completely unaware of any of the incidents, investi-gations or arrests. In fact, he
added, no one was supposed to be living in the home other than his son, who paid for the utilities but not rent. � e o� cer warned him that if things didn’t change the city would shut down the house, to which the owner promised to � x the problems.
The � rst raidMonths prior to this meet-
ing, the � rst of two raids on the home occurred on April 15, 2013, when a SWAT team entered the house as part of an investigation into a recent burglary in the area. At the burglarized residence, just blocks away from the alleged drug house, police had discovered a cell phone belonging to the owner’s then 46-year-old son. Accompany-ing the o� cers during the
raid was a U.S. Secret Service member, who was investigat-ing possible counterfeiting.
During the raid, the police discovered eight people living there, three of whom were ar-rested. Many of them admit-ted they were heroin addicts and that the son, who took care of the home for his fa-ther, did not make them pay rent; later that year, though, police would respond to a
domestic disturbance at the house in which the owner’s son got into a dispute with a roommate who refused to pay rent.
O� cers also found the condition of the house to be nothing short of appalling, according to police docu-ments. � e rooms were � lled with garbage and � lth. � e entire house stank with
The is the second part in a two-part series
[ more HOUSE page 8 ]
Day of Service in KirklandLake Washington High School students, from left, Megan LeGressley, Kevin Chau and Helen Simecek, plant trees at Everest Park in Kirkland as part of the Day of Service on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 19. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene was also at the park to help plant trees. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter
Juanita student’s alligator chili spices up cookbook
� e Kirkland City Coun-cil has approved a study of the 100th Avenue Northest corridor that looked at pos-sible ways to help mitigate
tra� c problems as well as improve safety for bikers and pedestrians.
� e council also autho-rized $589,200 in matching funds at its Jan. 6 meeting for a $2.6 million federal
grant that will help pay for the $3.2 million in engi-neering design costs for the project. Capital Project Manager Dave Snider told the council that the grant will allow them to design
the entire corridor project at one time rather than in phases.
� e corridor study, released in its � nal form in October 2014, looked at the 100th Avenue Northeast
corridor between Northeast 132nd Street and Northeast 145th Street for the purpose of determining potential improvements to ease traf-� c congestion and make it friendlier to pedestrians
and cyclists. At the council’s Jan. 6 meeting, Project En-gineer Frank Reinart said there has been a long-time public desire for improve-ments along the corridor for commuters and pedes-trians, as well as bikers.
From south to north, the current roadway transi-
City approves study of main corridor, receives federal grant
Juanita High School fresh-man Kristopher DiGiulio knows a thing or two about making chili.
Competing in chili compe-titions since he was nine, one of his most recent chili reci-pes - containing alligator - was featured in “Future Chefs of the World Cookbook” by Ramin Ganeshram.
Cooking is nothing new to the DiGiulio family. Among his own concoctions are folders of family recipes, as well as ones collected from friends and other countries.
He got his start competing against others a� er watch-ing his grandfather, Vincent DiGiulio, do the same at chili cook-o� s with the White Shrine in Auburn, as well as at the Masonic lodge where Vincent is a member. A� er several cook-o� s, Kristopher discovered he had a knack for making chili. In 2013, he competed in three chili cook-o� s, winning a “best tasting” award at the � rst, and in the second and third he won “best overall.”
A� er receiving repeated requests from people on how to make his chili, the
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tions from a five-lane road with sidewalks on both sides of the street to a two lane roadway with no sidewalk on either side of the street, according to the city memo. There are also no desig-nated bicycle lanes in the cor-ridor north of Northeast 132nd Street.
“The lack of pedestrian and bicycle ameni-ties, together with the absence of access turn lanes, makes 100th Avenue Northeast a strong candi-date for safety access and mobility improvements,” a Dec. 9 city memo stated.
Data gathered during a two-year period high-lighted certain patterns.
Out of the 100 collisions reported, a third occurred between 3:30-6:30 p.m. and two-thirds of colli-sions occurred during the months of October through March. Addition-ally, 63 percent of colli-sions involved vehicles
rear-ending oth-ers. The second most frequent collisions were turning-traffic related.
The study attributed these patterns to heavy conges-tion during peak traffic hours and at times of the year when it is still dark in the
afternoon, as only a third of the collisions occurred between April and Sep-tember.
Additional data gathered found that the
southern section of the corridor experienced the highest traffic demand, with 29,915 average annual daily traffic (AADT) at Northeast 132nd Street compared to 16,149 AADT past Northeast Simonds Road. Peak direction of travel in the morning commute hours was southbound and northbound in the evening commute hours. Morning and evening peak hour demand was heaviest near Northeast 132nd Street, according to the study.
Public input, obtained through door-to-door and online surveys of resi-dents in the Finn Hill and Juanita neighborhoods, along with public presen-tations and open houses, helped shape the major goals for the project.
One consistent message the city received from the
public input was any at-tempt to improve the cor-ridor had to focus on all the elements, rather than focus on specific areas, according to Reinart.
The input from resi-dents strongly urged no traffic lanes be added to the corridor, and Rein-art added at the council meeting that it would be unrealistic for them to do so, nor would it improve pedestrian safety. Instead, city staff has recommended extending turn pocket lengths at in-tersections and adding an intelligent transportation system to synchronize traffic signals.
Among the recom-mendations based on the study to improve bike safety is providing five
foot bike lanes along the entire corridor from Northeast 132nd Street to Northeast 145th Street, with the ultimate goal of constructing buffers for the lanes, in addition adding painted bicycle lanes to separate cyclists and pedestrians from vehicle travel lanes.
Other solutions include modifications to
phasing for east-westbound Northeast 137th by separating the green signals,
as well as re-moving the speed
bump on the west approach.
The project also allows an opportunity for modi-fications at the Juanita Creek culvert, which is also needed in order to improve the sidewalks there. The culvert cur-
rently does not allow for fish to travel through it.
The federal grant, awarded to the city in November 2014, must be obligated by June. Before then, the city will go through a consultant selection process and get approval of the chosen consultant’s contract, ac-cording to Snider.
After that, the city will begin the preliminary design phase in addition to public outreach, which is estimated to last 18 to 24 months. The total cor-ridor project is estimated to cost $13.49 million. During that time they will consider the recommen-dations included in the study.
The corridor study was first authorized by the council as part of the 2013-2018 Capital Improvement Program update.
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“The lack of pedestrian and
bicycle amenities, together with the absence of access turn lanes, make
For Bruce Lee fans, Kirkland martial arts instructor Korbett Miller has organized something hard to resist. A tour with James DeMille, an origi-nal student of the famous martial artist, at the Wing Luke Art Museum’s “Do you know Bruce Lee?” exhibit. Not only will they have the chance to ask him about his time train-ing with Lee, but they will also be able to get signed copies of “Chinese Gung Fu: the Philosophical Art of Self-Defense,” a book by Lee which he appears in, as well as enjoy lunch at the Tai Tung restaurant, where Lee and DeMille would eat after training.
Miller, who has run Miller’s Martial Arts Academy for 18 years in Kirkland, said the tour is a great opportunity for people to learn about the famous Seattle figure from someone who knew him well.
Miller, a Michigan native, first met DeMille during a martial arts sem-inar in 1993. Although by then Miller was already fully immersed in the sport and had earned his black belt, he was work-ing to obtain a business degree. Before he gradu-ated, DeMille offered him
the chance to be one of his instructors and travel with him. The offer was too good to pass up.
Miller said he gradu-ated on a Saturday and left for Seattle. His cur-rent career as a martial arts instructor began the Monday after.
DeMille first met Lee at Edison Technical School, now known as Seattle Central Community Col-lege, before Lee dropped out of college and moved to Oakland.
Although he died in 1974, public interest in the Hong Kong native has grown, especially in the modern era of social media. It also increased
after the 1993 biopic film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.
“In many ways he was ahead of his time in terms of martial arts,” Miller said. “He was really kind of down on traditional martial arts. He was re-ally the father of mixed martial arts.”
“Chinese Gung Fu: the Philosophical Art of Self-Defense” includes Lee’s reflections on martial arts while providing exercises and fighting techniques for basic Gung Fu stances, waist training, leg train-ing and the theory of yin and yang.
“The book that Bruce Lee authorized with my instructor - he was really big on it as being a means of personal growth and development,” Miller said.
Now in his 70s, DeMille still teaches martial arts, according to Miller.
The tour will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Jan. 31 at the Wing Luke Art Museum, located at 719 S King St Seattle, WA 98104.
Miller’s Martial Arts Academy is located at 8920 122nd Avenue Northeast in Kirkland.
For more information or pre-event interviews please contact Korbett Miller at 425-444-5242 or to register go to www.mmaa.com/bruceleetour.
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Kirkland optome-trist Dr. Ross Cusic didn’t just help a
blind man see - he also helped him to be able to ride a motorcycle.
Cusic, who also practices in Bellingham, Olympia, and Vancouver, Wash., first met Oregon resident Wes Holthusen, in 2011. Holthusen had been born completely blind, but was able to gain limited vision after several experimental surgeries. Yet, his vision was still too poor to be allowed to
legally drive. But he did so anyway, albeit in retro-spect he advises blind people not to copy him.
“I didn’t want to let my children down as all of the other parents got in-volved with school events, dances, driving friends to the movies, etc. – so I got behind the wheel without a license,” he said.
This came to an end when he was pulled over during a traffic stop. Ironically, he had just booked an appointment with Cusic to see if there was any way to improve his eyesight, so rather than end up in jail, as he
said he initially feared, he ended up in the optom-etrist’s office.
Cusic said that what struck him the most about Holthusen was his relatively young age com-pared to most patients with the same vision problems, and that he was very open about discuss-ing his situation. For-tunately for Holthusen, Cusic’s solution was not another surgery, but a pair of glasses with bioptic telescopes.
The effects, Cusic said, were immediate, as Holthusen become the first blind person in
Washington and Oregon to be accredited with a Bioptic Motorcycle En-dorsement.
After a two-week driv-ing course, Holthusen was able to obtain a driver’s license. He later became the first person in Oregon and Washington to obtain a Bioptic Motorcycle Endorsement. Oregon passed a law in 2005 that allows the use of bioptic glasses to obtain a driver’s license or motorcycle en-dorsement, while Wash-ington passed a similar law in 2009.
“I can now drive day and night legally,” Holthu-
sen said. “A huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders because of Dr. Cusic.
“These are dreams that I was told would never happen.”
Cusic sees bioptic glass-es as offering those with degenerating vision or, like Holthusen, born blind or with poor vision, an opportunity to do things others take for granted.
“They can be helped in other ways, just to be able to see their grandkid’s face or be able to keep read-ing,” he said.
Despite the success he’s had with patients like
Holthusen, Cusic said that bioptic glasses aren’t always offered as a pos-sibility for those who seek out optometrists’ help for their eyesight.
“There’s a lot of skepti-cism, which is the hardest part,” he said. “An healthy skepticism is good, but we get too much. We don’t have a lot of primary care eye doctors talking about it or doing anything with it… Really nobody in the Washington area does this.”
Cusic’s Kirkland office is located at 12011 124th Ave NE.
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A Juanita High School wrestling fundraiser Jan. 30 offers Kirklanders the op-portunity to be hypnotized - willingly, of course.
As part of the fundraiser, assistant wrestling coach and professional hypnotist Joe Black will perform a show he has done for 18 years as well as in auditions for America’s Got Talent. Recently, Black performed at another high school fundraiser for the March of Dimes, which raised a total of $5,000.
A Carnation native and retired Marine, Black first started performing after reading a book on illusions at a friend’s house dur-ing a party. He was later introduced to hypnotism by a fellow Marine while stationed in Japan, eventu-ally asking Black to go on a USO tour. After leaving the Marines, he studied to be an electrical engineer while still performing shows on the side. After the economic downturn in 2008 cost him his electrical engineering job, he renewed his focus on crafting and fine-tuning on his show. In addition to performing for companies
such as Microsoft, Expe-dia, Frito-Lay and Kellogg, he has appeared twice on America’s Got Talent and won the “Rising Star Award” two years in a row.
Black said his perfor-mance for the fundraiser will be a family-friendly version of his show, as the content depends on the audience. Hypnotism is often confused with mind control, Black said, but re-ally involves a deep state of meditation.
“You have your conscious and subconscious and what you’re doing is putting your conscious mind into a trance and you are allowing the subconscious mind to play tricks on it. Ultimately the subconscious mind can go along or decline and so you’re surrendering to your subconscious not the hypnotist.”
As far as the hypnotism goes, the participants will be selected from the crowd based on how they respond to a hypnosis test, which Black said 10-15 percent of crowds tend to pass.
“It just identifies who is in the right state of mind to be hypnotize,” he said. “You can’t hypnotize people who don’t want to be hypno-
tized.”Black has also taken
his experience to the mat. Wrestlers interested can receive hypnotherapy, which he said can help them perform at their peak. His journey to becoming a professional hypnotist has also provided him with life lessons he passes on to the students.
“I try to instill upon the
wrestlers that it takes dedi-cation and self-motivation,” he said. “You have to be completely dedicated to what you’re doing. You can’t let yourself get discouraged from failure. You can’t get complacent through success as well.”
While hypnotism and wrestling seem unre-lated, Black has found both require similar personal
habits and mentalities. “When it comes to actual
disciplines, both take great focus concentration and those are really important for anything sports… any-time you’re doing a sport or things that take a lot of skill. Great focus helps in being successful and com-petitive.”
The fundraiser will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the
at Juanita High School Theater, located at 10601 NE 132nd St. Tickets are $10 general admission and $8 for students and seniors and may be purchased at the door. The proceeds from the event will cover the cost of wrestling tour-naments.
For group rates and ticket information call 425 442-3249.
Joe Black’s website can be found at blackmagicenter-tainment.com.
Juanita coach, hypnotist to perform at wrestling fundraiser
resident awarded research fellowship
Kirkland resident Philip Lindstedt has been awarded a Washington Research Foundation Fellowship.
Lindstedt is currently working in the Maly Lab at the University of Washington developing small molecule controlled
split protein switches for highly selective enzymatic inhibition, which could be applied to study intracel-lular signaling pathways implicated in disease and cellular differentiation.
Lindstedt will gradu-ate from the University of Washington in June with a degree in biochemistry. He graduated from Interna-tional Community School in Kirkland.
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Embarrassed at council members’ actions
I have to say how embarrassed I am on the actions of some of my city of Kirkland elected of-� cials and how they have been acting in the media this past few weeks. Speci� cally, the � re station siting process.
I sit back and shake my head as I watch the ping-pong gang on style of politics. � e last communi-cation was by Mr. Toby Nixon (Amy Walen and Penny Sweet included recently), a “Guest Editorial.”
Mr. Nixon makes many accusations in the article and one speci� cally states: “One of Bryan Vadney’s jobs as president of the local � re� ghters union is to maximize the number of � re� ghters hired, appar-ently without regard for whether it is in the city’s overall best interests and without balancing the cost against other important priorities.”
As a 36 year � re service professional, who has no association to Mr. Vadney other than I live in the city of Kirkland and work for an Eastside � re department, I couldn’t disagree more. A � re union operates for three things; wages, hours and work-ing conditions. Fair wages, for fair hours, for fair and safe (as much as our career allows) working conditions.
Fire� ghters put the lives of those for whom we work above our own on each and every emergency we respond. We, as professionals, understand the complexities in how a municipal � re service orga-nization operates and how it interfaces with other city departments. Fire� ghters champion every day to be good “stewards of the public’s funds.”
Apparently, in Kirkland’s governing standards, it’s not ok to call the question at a later point in a process. Can you imagine if that were the case at the world renowned NASA space program. We have all seen the “last second” shutdown of a space vehicle launch, which cancels a li� o� . I’m proud of NASA’s decision makers who do what’s right and don’t conform to the “normalization of deviance.”
� e � re station siting process seems to have come full circle. � e Kirkland community is losing faith in our elected o� cials, labor relations and rebound taxation. You know, never enough time or money to do it right the � rst time but always enough time and money to do it over.
� e station siting process should reconvene with all stakeholders and a facilitator. Egos, reputations and positional power should be shelved to ensure that the � nal product, a product that maximizes public safety, is delivered to the community. We the voters are watching. All will be held accountable for the open, transparent and purposeful conclusion to this process.Mike Kavanaugh, Kirkland
LWSD needs more schools� ank you for the generally excellent coverage
of the school district reboundary process. � is has been a long and arduous process, and as the board member representing southern Kirkland, I do appreciate the attention that the community has given to this issue.
Redrawing the boundaries for our schools in order to rebalance enrollment across facilities is not unprecedented, but neither is it capricious nor likely to happen again for many years. In the 11 years that my children have been at Lakeview, this is the � rst time that it has happened.
Speci� cally regarding your article in this evening’s paper, Mrs. Androski’s concerns are somewhat misplaced. � e real concern that the Lakeview community needs to come to grips with is not that another reboundary will happen in the next few years, but rather that another reboundary will not happen anytime soon, and we are going to have to live with the consequences of the current process for many years. At Lakeview, it is worth noting that Mrs. Androski’s preferred scenario 2 leads to overcrowding that will be signi� cantly
worse by 2017 than it is at present, and I know that our wonderful principal is already � elding many complaints about class size.
� e only long term facilities option that can truly alleviate overcrowding in our schools is construc-tion of new facilities. Our district’s student body is growing by 500 students a year, equivalent to one elementary school, yet the last new elementary school that we opened (Carson Elementary) was back in 2011. � e present reboundary process will not alleviate overcrowding, it merely distributes the problem more evenly, making the best possible use of existing facilities until we can � nd a long term solution.
Simply put, the long term solution to our over-crowding problem is new schools. Sadly, our last three attempts to pass a bond that would allow us to construct new schools have not reached the 60 percent supermajority needed to do so. � e next time a school construction bond comes up, voters in our district need to support it even more en-thusiastically than they have in the past, so that we can get over the 60 percent supermajority thresh-old. Even under the most optimistic scenarios of developing a bond proposal, taking it to the electorate, and passing the bond, no new elemen-taries are likely to open before 2018. Until then our community will be living with the consequences of the present reboundary process. It is going to be uncomfortable, but we can get through it if we all understand the bigger problem, and work together to solve it.Dr. Christopher Carlson, Director, District 2, LWSD
Tell your representatives to take a stand against HB 1104
According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Washington ranks as the seventh best state for ani-mal protection laws. But its rating may soon take a dive if HB 1104 passes.
� e bill, dubbed an “ag-gag,” is a frightening proposition. It would essentially make it illegal to document cruelty to animals on farms, giving employees on such farms a free pass to do whatever they want to animals, and making pariahs out of courageous whistleblowers. � is has real world consequences, as numerous undercover investiga-tions into farms have found extreme animal abuse, as well as environmental and food safety violations. To our friends in Olympia, please take a stand against HB 1104 and vote “no” if it’s brought to the � oor.
Houston Wong, Kirkland
Edible gardens in schools could provide transformative learning experiences
In my 12 years growing up in the Lake Wash-ington School District, I never attended a school that had a school garden program. � is is not uncommon: of the nine high schools, nine middle schools and 13 elementary schools I contacted in the district, only about a third of them have school gardens which students have the opportunity to participate in directly.
As a student who really struggled in school through all of those 12 years, I am certain that par-ticipating directly in a gardening experience would have been transformative. I believe I could have cultivated a valuable understanding of my relation-ship to the ecological world around me, creating an awareness earlier on of the need for sustainable practices, and I believe this learning would have contributed to me becoming a stronger, more inte-grated and passionate student as a whole. I believe this is true for all students, and especially for those who struggle most in school. Even those who don’t encounter as much struggle would bene� t from a more holistic, interactive education.
Further, immense value comes from working in a garden that grows food. � is creates immediate connections to our perception of food, and so has great implications for students’ learning about food choices and nutrition. Diet is also related to atten-tion and students’ success in school.
I urge local parents, administrators, teachers and community members to give students an educa-tional gardening experience, and especially to grow edible plants. � ere is more than one way to do this, but there is one place I know of to turn to for support: the Whole Kids Foundation, a nonpro� t founded by Whole Foods Market, provides grants to schools to build gardens. In other words, the funds are available — someone just has to ask for them!
School gardens can be incorporated into general, or many elective, science curriculums, home economics or even health classes — there are many di� erent ways to tie gardening into learning. It is valuable to do this as soon as possible — there may be a student, even your child, right now who struggles in school and would bene� t from work-ing and caring for a school garden.Rachel Dreyfuss, Redmond
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Per RCW 39.10.440(5) Saybr Contractors Inc. is hereby pro- viding notification of intent to perform City of Kirkland Job Order Contract for General Construction Services – Verti- cal, Job No. 14-14-PW. Scope of Work: repairs, remodeling, new construction of public build- ings, associated parking lots, walkways, landscaping & other site improvements. Location: NW Washington (City of Kirk- land). Seeking sub bids from Small/Minority/Women/Disa- vantaged/Veteran. Business Enterprises. EOE. Contact 253- 531-2144 for more information.Published in the Kirkland Re- porter on January 9, 16, and 23, 2015. #1226669.
NOTICE TO PATIENTS OF MEDICAL RECORDS
TRANSFERA Women’s Clinic At Evergreen, PLLC (AWCE) closed its opera- tions on December 31, 2013. Patient records will be released and transferred to Spectrum Information Services NW, Inc. (SISNW) January 2015. All pa- tient records will be available with authorized patient releases through a transfer of ownership agreement with SISNW. Any questions about your medi- cal records can be directed to SISNW by fax 206.686.2840 or by email roisupport@sisnwinc. com. Published in Kirkland Reporter on January 16, 23, 30, 2015. #1227060.
Mike Dedonker, 3207 Pacific Ave. Everett, WA 98201, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Storm- water NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, Meritage Ridge, is located at 12817 136th Ave NE in Kirkland, King
County. This project involves 5.98 acres of soil disturbance for residential construction activities. The receiving water is Totem Lake. Any persons desiring to present their views to the Wash- ington State Department of Ecol- ogy regarding this application may do so in writing within thir- ty days of the last date of publi- cation of this notice. Comments shall be submitted to the depart- ment of Ecology. Any person in- terested in the department’s ac- tion on this application may noti- fy the department of their interest within thirty days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public com- ments and considers whether dis- charges from this project would cause a measurable change in re- ceiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public in- terest ac- cording to Tier II anti- degradation 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 Kirkland Reporter on January 16, 2015 and January 23, 2015.#1227413.
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Bastyr University officials have an-nounced that they
are backing out of talks to take over the seminary building in Saint Edward State Park and renovate the 84-year-old structure. Saint Edward State Park is located in Kenmore on the boundary with Kirkland.
“After careful consid-eration and months of due diligence, Bastyr University has decided not to move forward on acquiring access to Saint Edward State Park facilities,” said Bastyr University President Daniel K. Church, PhD in a statement. “Based on information developed during our meetings with Daniels Real Estate, the Washington State Parks Commission and city of Kenmore, we concluded that from an operational and financial standpoint, working to renovate and occupy the buildings at the park were not feasible for us at this time.”
Kenmore Mayor David Baker said that the news was “pretty disappoint-ing.”
“I certainly under-stand,” Baker said. “It would have taken up a lot of their resources. We were looking forward to their possible involve-ment.”
Washington State Parks and Recreation Com-mission spokesperson Virginia Painter agreed.
“We were optimistic about the collaboration,” Painter said. “The Com-mission as a body has expressed an interest in a private/public partner-ship for the building.”
A public meeting scheduled for Feb. 4 on the future of the building has been cancelled by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commis-sion.
Painter said that the Commission will meet on Jan. 28 for a regularly scheduled work session and the Seminary issue will be discussed. The meeting, which will start at 9 a.m., is open to the public and will take place at the Washington State Labor and Industries headquarters, located at 7273 Linderson Way SW in Tumwater.
Last September the Commission voted to give the private/public partnership a year. But if there is no agreement with a private partner by Sept. 25, 2015, the Commission will move forward with vacating the building altogether.
“We still hope that something will come up to take care of the build-ing,” Painter said.
Painter said that the building is currently
being used to house rangers for the park and one of the rooms is being rented out. But for the most part, the building is empty.
“It is just too expensive to maintain,” Painter said.
Bastyr University, Ken-more’s largest employer, is also in the midst of expanding its campus in San Diego, Calif. The University is walk-ing distance from the 80,000-square-foot Semi-nary, which also includes an in-door pool.
The proposal would have brought the Semi-nary back to its original use with classrooms and student residential space — two uses that are included in the Univer-sity’s Master Plan that was approved by the city of Kenmore in 2009.
The Seminary, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, has been the center of debate for years, as the Washing-ton State Parks Depart-ment cannot afford the maintenance on the dete-
riorating building, which is closed to the public.
“There is a percent-age of the population that would love to see it crumble and there is a percentage that would love to save the building for the public and for posterity,” Baker said. “I would love to see some-one take it over.”
Baker said that the city of Kenmore does not have the resources to take over the building.
“We have more press-ing needs like sidewalks and other public safety issues,” Baker said.
The issue of what to do with the building has been ongoing for the better part of the last decade. Portland-based McMenamin’s looked at taking over the build-ing prior to its plans to renovate the former Northshore School Dis-trict’s Anderson Building in downtown Bothell. Local residents voiced concern in 2013 when a United States Defense Department contractor
was in talks to renovate and lease the building. Ultimately, talks for that deal also broke down.
Seattle-based de-veloper Daniels Real Estate stepped forward to broker the conversations between the Washing-ton State Parks and the city of Kenmore with Bastyr University. The Bastyr University Board of Trustees authorized university administra-tors to request a business plan from Daniels Real Estate earlier this year for review as Daniels was tasked to develop a pro-
posal for the restoration of the historic seminary building.
Bastyr University moved its main campus to its current location in 1996 through the pur-chase of the 51-acre cam-pus that was originally Saint Thomas Seminary, from the Seattle Archdio-cese in 2005.
The around 300 acres of Saint Edward State Park includes undevel-oped Lake Washington waterfront, forest and trails, and is in the stew-ardship of the Washing-ton State Parks system.
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[ CHILI from page 1] DiGiulios’ � nally put together a self-published book of not only his chili recipes but also pies, pizza, lasagna ravioli and pasta, selling it for $10 to raise money for the Shrine Children’s Hospital and the Royal Arch Children’s Heart Foundation.
While they sold the recipe books mainly to friends and acquaintances, Vincent said one day he received a phone call from an author in Paris. Somehow, she had gotten a copy of the recipe book and was interested in publish-ing one of his chili recipes. Ultimately, the “Future Chefs of the World Cookbook” written by Ramin Ganesh-
ram, included his alligator chili recipe, which Kristopher had made for a chili cook-o� . As the judges were from Louisiana, he made it using gumbo, which proved very popular with them.
A part of what has made his chili a success in com-petitions appears to be his attention to detail. In addition to employing a wood stove for preparing his food, which he said is hotter and therefore gives the food better � avor than electric or gas stoves, Kristopher’s grandparents said he is also very particular and precise when it comes to the ingredients and how they are prepared. He also will not look up or get distracted while cooking, which allows
him to focus ensuring it comes out just right. When making recipes, he said he likes to borrow ingredients from other recipes and mix it up, while making it spicy and o� ering a strong � avor. At the same time, his personal favorite is his 2011 mild chili for kids.
He also is emphatic about trying new things at each competition, as he never uses the same recipe twice.
As for the future, Kris-topher hopes to attend a culinary school and become a chef for the Army, where his father currently serves.
“Future Chefs of the World Cookbook” can be purchased on Amazon.com.
Kristopher DiGiulio prepares chili in his kitchen in Kirkland. His alligator chili recipe is featured in a new cookbook. Contributed
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Former Kirkland mayor Joan McBride is sworn in as a representative in Olympia. CONTRIBUTED
House Democrats elect McBride to leadership position
Finishing up leadership elections for the year, the House Democratic Caucus elected newly minted State Rep. Joan McBride to the position of Assistant Whip.
“I am honored and excited to be chosen for this important position by my colleagues,” McBride said.
Before a bill is brought to the � oor for a vote, respon-sible leaders know they must be able to estimate how many
yes or no votes each piece of legislation will receive. In her new position, McBride will be responsible for round-ing up her colleagues and counting their votes. � is is a critical step in the legislative process.
“I think my years of expe-rience coordinating stake-holders, city council mem-bers and other local leaders have prepared me well for this new job,” McBride said. “I’m looking forward to be-ing such a critical part of the action.”
McBride, who formerly served as mayor and city council member for the city of Kirkland, will also serve
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Prior to her service to the city of Kirkland, McBride worked in non-pro� t de-velopment and community relations.
“I know this will be a challenging session,”
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mildew. Extra precaution had to be taken in order to avoid the countless exposed needles in nearly every room. Metal spoons with burn marks were a common sight, as well as stolen property. In the down-stairs bathroom, there were three syringes in the toilet, as someone attempted to flush them prior to the raid.
In one occupant’s room, there was a blown up version of his state driver’s license on a ledge, which was an illegal copy of his own, in what officers determined was an attempt to print copies. They also found the stolen green card taken from a burglary victim’s home.
The room where the own-er’s son lived, police docu-ments claim, was the filthiest of all. It was crammed so full of things officers had trouble getting inside to search it. They found so much garbage littering the floor they finally decided it constituted a health and safety risk and limited their search.
Another occupant’s room was so full of junk the bed-room door had been com-pletely blocked off, forcing officers to access it through the hallway bathroom’s con-necting door.
More disturbing discov-eries, however, occurred prior to the raid, when police ordered the occupants to come out and one of the men emerged from the front door with an infant. The man was later determined to be the father. The child was turned over to the mother, who also lived in the house with the father but was at work during the raid - she was reportedly the only occupant to be clean as well as have a full-time job.
The mother was adamant to police about there being no drugs in the bedroom where she and her child lived and that she did not use herself. Police later determined that she was telling the truth, but she was warned that if she was found living there again with the child Child Protec-tive Services would intervene.
Prisoner’s dilemma
Ultimately, however, even a SWAT raid couldn’t stop
the house from acting as a hub for criminals. Within the same month, officers were dispatched to the residence yet again for drug-related activity after three suspicious-looking men had arrived and parked their vehicle near the house, then went inside. When an officer arrived he observed the people inside the house and waited until three of them left to return to their vehicle. After speaking to them he quickly real-ized at least two of them, a 22-year-old white man and a 24-year-old black man, were high on heroin. When he questioned the 22-year-old, after having them all sit on the curb, he denied they had used heroin, even as his arms were covered with fresh needle injections. He also spoke so quietly and incoher-ently he had to repeat himself numerous times before the cop could understand him.
The cop then turned to the black man, who had fallen asleep on the curb, requiring another suspect to wake him. The suspect also denied using heroin, saying “nah man, if I was high don’t you think I’d be falling asleep? I’m just really tired.”
When the officer asked for their names, they came up as having suspended drivers licenses, while the third indi-vidual, a 17-year-old boy, had an invalid license.
The cop questioned the 17-year-old privately, who claimed the other two men had asked him to drive them up to the house to watch a movie. While there, the two men had left the room with another man shortly after arriving.
Suddenly, the 17-year-old began to hyperventilate and his face turned red. He told the officer he is prone to panic attacks. As the cop went to walk away from him he sat down in the middle of the road with his hands behind him on the ground and started bouncing his feet up and down.
The cop watched him and then called an aid car.
Two aid cars arrived, but the personnel were unable to get the 17-year-old to calm down and initially decided to take him to the hospi-tal. Twenty minutes later, however, he was able to calm
down. Meanwhile, the cop’s
investigation continued. He asked the 22-year-old if he had weapons, to which he replied he didn’t, but he had some “rigs” left in his pockets. A pre-consented search produced used needles.
At this point, the cop sepa-rated the two men and spoke with the 22-year-old alone, telling him they would test the needles for heroin.
It was then the 22-year-old started to confess. Yes, they had come to the house to get high on heroin. Yes, the 24-year-old had brought heroin with him. In fact, he claimed, the 24-year-old had sold drugs to someone in the house and probably had drugs still on him.
As for himself, the 22-year-old claimed to have only used one or two needles.
After revealing all this in-formation to the officer about his partner, the 22-year-old added, “Don’t tell him I told you, though.”
With this knowledge in mind, the officer gave the 24-year-old about ten minutes by himself before he started questioning him. The man insisted he had no drugs on him.
The officer called his bluff, claiming to have been told by everyone in the house that he had drugs.
“Why would they tell me that?” the officer inquired of him.
The bluff worked. The 24-year-old said he wanted to talk, alone. When the of-ficer asked where, he replied “where the white guy can’t see us.”
They walked a short dis-tance before the 24-year-old revealed that the 22-year-old had lied about his first name because he had outstanding warrants for his arrest.
“The first thing he said when we saw you coming up on us was ‘Oh (expletive), I have warrants,” he recounted to the cop.
The cop told the 24-year-old he would check his claim and if it was true he would be willing to make a deal. After making the confirmation, the officer arrested the 22-year-old who, after being read his Miranda rights still wanted to talk. The officer asked him if he would still go by the previ-
ous first name he had given, to which the suspect replied “No, it’s (name removed), my (expletive) name is (name removed). He then admitted he had lied about his first name because he didn’t want to go to jail.
The officer made good on his promise to the 24-year-old. Even though he knew the suspect had drugs on him, the officer said, he wouldn’t pursue the drug investigation further and would not arrest him - at least not this time.
On top of his outstanding warrants, the 22-year-old was later charged through investigation for making a false statement to a public servant.
Promises made, not kept
Although in August 2013 the owner had promised to clean things up, the situation did not change, according to police documents. Officers continued to respond to incidents, and following the August conversation four more people were arrested there for narcotics, domestic disturbances and outstanding warrants.
The legal situation escalated when the city sent the owners a letter warning them of impending abate-ment action if they did not immediately remedy the situ-ation. The Sept. 4, 2013 letter claimed that since February 2012, the police had recorded 84 separate vehicles there, identified 64 individuals, 33 of whom were convicted felons. Between April 9, 2012 and July 20, 2013, 18 incidents had resulted in 22 arrests.
Still, nothing changed, according to the city. In the weeks following the warning letter, more arrests were made at the residence.
In November 2013, the city finally filed a complaint for abatement in King County Superior Court. The com-plaint described the home as a public nuisance that has caused “extensive police re-sources and manpower to be expended disproportionately in this neighborhood.”
The complaint also ac-cused the owners, and their son, of being complicit in the criminal activity by not
taking action, which had had “devastating and adverse impact on the surrounding neighbors and properties.”
“The city has no plain, adequate or speedy remedy at law and will suffer irreparable harm unless the defendants are restrained from continu-ing to use, maintain, or allow the Property to be used for the unlawful drug activi-ties detailed,” the complaint states.
As evidence, the city included numerous affida-vits by police officers who frequently responded to calls to the residence and exhibits containing police cases, some of which were previously published in part one of this series.
In a Dec. 13, 2013 response to the court, the owner’s son denied such activity was taking place. In the affirma-tive defense section of the document, he claimed that the majority of the arrests contained in the city’s exhibits were not actually made at the residence.
Despite the dozens of po-lice documents and exhibits, the owner argued further that the “Plaintiff fails to show any documentation to support statements in this complaint.” He also wrote that although he had been arrested during the April 2013 SWAT raid, he had later been released and all charges had been ultimately dismissed.
The owner himself, how-ever, never responded.
The complaint was ap-proved by King County in January 2014. The order left the owners with two options: Get rid of the criminal activ-ity or lose the home.
Suicide investigation
When the city came back for a final abatement in December 2014, one of pieces of evidence presented was a police response to the residence the month prior in which a 33-year-old man hanged himself by a rope.
On Nov. 11, police arrived at the residence after one of the occupants discovered the man hanging from a rope. The scene was not pleasant when they arrived. The body had been hanging there for so long, over 12 hours, that
complete rigor mortis had set in and fire personnel who also arrived did not bother to attempt CPR. One of the oc-cupants, 47-year-old female, found the deceased man after noticing her dog barking in-cessantly on the back porch. After finding the body, she screamed for help from her 55-year-old boyfriend and another one of the occupants. They tried to lift the man up, but were unable to untie the rope and eventually cut it with rusted shears found in one of the backyard sheds. They tried to perform CPR but found the body cold and icy, according to the police documents.
Later investigation found that the man was not actually an occupant at the home but an Everett resident who had been staying there for a brief time while gathering things for one of the residents, who was moving out. The current residents who found the body also told police the man had recently broken up with his girlfriend.
The second raidOn Dec. 18, the day before
the second SWAT raid on the home, King County Supe-rior Court judge granted the order of default against the owners for “failing to answer or defend in this action.”
The next day, after an investigation by the East-side Narcotics Task Force (ENTF), the final raid took place. Assisted by the Kirkland Police and the North Sound Metro SWAT team, they entered the home. Among those found inside was the owner’s son, who was held and then released with no charges.
Apparently the condition of the house inside had not improved since the April 2013 raid. According to police narrative officers were told to use caution when en-tering certain rooms, as they had used needles hanging from the ceiling.
One of the men was arrested for trafficking in methamphetamine.
This time, the house was shut down. Kirkland Code Enforcement posted a “Do Not Occupy” sign on the front door, and the owner’s
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� e day a� er the raid, an o� cer on patrol drove by the house to � nd the code en-forcement signs torn down, along with the boards nailed against the gate. � e o� cer went to the door in the back yard and knocked on it.
� e owner’s son an-swered.
Didn’t he remember he wasn’t supposed to be there? the o� cer asked.
“Yeah,” the owner’s son replied. “Where am I sup-posed to go?”
� e o� cer arrested him, then released him and told him to go to Tent City for the evening.
Ironically, the city’s � nal struggle to get an abatement on the house was not from the owner, but the bank, which demand a summary motion judgment. At the end of the month, the city � led a request to deny the bank’s summary motion judgment. According to the
city, the house had been in default since 2010 and was slated to be sold by a trustee on March 13, 2015, but so far the sale had not gone through and in the mean-time criminal activity had continued.
According to Assistant City Attorney Oskar Rey,
the court granted the city a summary judgment on the matter on Jan. 9.
As the house’s fate is decided, its only occupants now are cats, though they are in good health and have su� cient food and water, ac-cording to a police incident report.
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The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statisti-cal round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police o� cers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
Between Jan. 9-14, there were 266 tra� c incidents, 14 tra� c accidents, four DUIs, 15 general tra� c incidents, 22 alarm calls, nine abandoned vehicles, four burglaries, seven in-cidents of fraud, 13 civil incidents, six cases of harassment, 14 thefts, 15 vehicle prowls, two vehicle thefts, 11 warrants served, seven noise complaints, two animal calls, 14 incidents of domestic violence, two incidents of malicious mischief, seven disturbances, four instances of trespassing, two assaults, four hit and run and 26 incidents involving at least one arrest.
Jan. 14Assault: 8:50 p.m., 12000 block of 120th Pl NE. A 37-year-old woman assaulted her 37-year-old boyfriend at the Motel 6. When an o� cer observing the incident identi� ed himself, both of them ran into their motel room. The woman’s 15-year-old son later came out and told police his mother was not inside. She was later found inside the room hiding underneath
the bed. She was also found to have numerous outstanding warrants. The boy was arrested for obstruction and then released.
Jan. 13Trespass: 2:25 a.m., 12200 block of NE 116th St. A 22-year-old man was arrested for criminal trespass for enter-ing a 76 gas station and criminal trespass for being on the property of the Baymount Inn.
Jan. 12Assault: 1:20 a.m., 14100 block of Juanita Dr NE. A 38-year-old man assaulted his 40-year-old girlfriend in a parking lot. He grabbed her neck and threw her down against her van. A struggled occurred and she was � nally able to get away, but as she ran she heard one of her van tires pop. When she returned with friends they found her right rear tire had been slashed. The man was later arrested at another location.
Jan. 11License suspended: 4:12 p.m., 12400 block of 116th Ave NE. A 35-year-old man passed out in the driver’s seat of his car while sitting at a 76 gas station. Police were called and by the time they arrived he was out of the vehicle and walking into the gas station. He was arrested after it
was discovered he had a suspended driv-ers license, as well as a non-extradition warrant out of Everett for drug violations.
Assault: 5 p.m., 700 block of NE 120th St. A 50-year-old man was arrested after his 51-year-old live-in girlfriend came to Evergreen Hospital seeking treatment for injuries sustained during a physical
altercation with him.
Jan. 9Assault: 4:51 p.m., 1340 block of NE 133rd St. A 14-year-old girl assaulted her 36-year-old mother
after she grabbed a Samsung tablet from
her and struck her on the right eye. The girl has a
long history of violence with her mother and siblings. She
was arrested and referred to Youth Care Adolescents in Seattle.
Assault: 12:20 a.m., 11800 block of 93rd Ln NE. A 25-year-old woman was arrested for assault after she punched her 31-year-old husband in the face and then pepper-sprayed him. The two had been arguing after her discovered she had been cheating on him.
Assault: 9:55 a.m., 14300 block of 123rd Ave NE. A 23-year-old man was arrested for domestic violence after he grabbed his 21-year-old wife’s hair and pushed her down on the � oor.
Jerramy Stevens, for-mer Seattle Seahawk tight end and hus-
band of Kirkland resident and U.S. Women’s Soccer Team star Hope Solo, has been arrested in Califor-nia barely a week after domestic violence charges were dropped against
Solo stemming from a family incident in June.
Stevens, 35, was ar-rested in Los Angeles after he was pulled over at around 1:49 a.m. for allegedly swerving on the road, according to TMZ.
TMZ claims the couple were “acting belligerent” in the car and Stevens al-legedly refused to submit to as breathalyzer test. He
was eventually arrested by police for DUI.
Bail was set at $5,000.Prior to their marriage,
Stevens was arrested in 2012 and charged with domestic violence involv-ing Solo during a house party in Kirkland. The altercation took place between eight people, but the case was dropped due to lack of evidence.
The female driver who was killed on State Route 522 in Bothell Jan. 16 has been identified.
Kirkland resident Aireen Paige, 38, was traveling the wrong way on State Route 522 when her Toyota Camry collid-ed head-on with a Toyota Land Cruiser driven by a
Woodinville woman.The collision took
place around 5:50 a.m., as Paige’s vehicle was travel-ing eastbound in the westbound lane just west of Interstate 405.
Paige died at the scene and the driver of the second vehicle was take to an area hospital with non-life threatening inju-ries, according to Wash-ington State Trooper
Dominic Ledesma.SR 522 was closed
just after the crash to all traffic heading west into Bothell from Woodin-ville.
“We just got the road open,” Ledesma said that day at 9:30 a.m. “We don’t believe that alcohol or drugs were a factor.”
The accident remains under investigation.
Kirkland woman killed, driving wrong direction on 522
Solo’s husband arrested for DUI, Kirklander belligerent
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We o� er a competitive hourly wage and bene� ts package including health insurance, paid time o� (vacation, sick, and holidays), and 401K (currently with an employer match.)
Email us your cover letter, resume, and include � ve examples of your best work showcasing your reporting skills and writing chops to: [email protected] ATTN: HR/OVGT
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