MATT PHELPS [email protected]M any Eastside residents know Tom Colicchio from Bravo’s TV show “Top Chef.” Most don’t know how far his passion for end- ing hunger in the United States extends. Colicchio was scheduled to be the main speaker during Hopelink’s Reaching Out Luncheon Monday at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue to raise money for the Redmond nonprofit that seeks to end hunger and homelessness on the Eastside. But not even an emergency back surgery could prevent Colicchio from lend- ing his voice to the cause. “I have been active for years in the battle against hunger and I am not alone,” said Colicchio in an audio mes- sage from New York, while urging those in attendance to help Hopelink. “But it has grown worse.” e event raised $1.16 million for Hopelink. e organization raised more than $1 million last year from the same event. Colicchio told a story of an 11-year-old girl that he met in New York whose family was living off of chips, soda and ramen noodles, as it was all they could afford. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011 A DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING R EP O RTER .com NEWSLINE: 425.867.0353 REDMOND ˜ NEWS | LWSD seeks input from community on hiring a new superintendent [3] BUSINESS | New olive oil, vinegar store opens [6] COMMUNITY | Spanish-immersion preschool opens new location [8] SPORTS | The red-hot Bear Creek School boys’ soccer team shuts out La Conner, 2-0, tunes up for the playoffs [13] SAMANTHA PAK [email protected]Representatives from Group Health Cooperative (GHC) presented its mixed-use plans for the 28-acre piece of land the non- profit owns in the Overlake neighborhood at Tuesday’s Redmond City Council business meeting at City Hall. During a public hearing on the Overlake Village Master Plan, GHC showed plans that would include a mix of business and residen- tial buildings that could include up to 1,400 residential units and 1.4 million square feet in office and retail space at the site located at 2464 152nd Ave. N.E. in Redmond. e proposed site, which was previously the campus of Group Health Overlake Hospital before it closed in 2008, would also include a 180-room hotel/conference center as well as a 2.67-acre park. Mike Hubbard of Capstone Partners, the Seattle-based real estate development firm overseeing the project, said the proposed site will be in the center of a triangle of regional activity points comprised of the future light rail station to the northwest, the Microsoſt Corp. campus to the west and the regional bus transit center to the south. “We wanted to have a vision for this site,” he said. He said a large part of that vision was creat- ing an area where people could live and work, which means creating a place where people can gather such as a park. Hubbard and his team, working closely with city staff, began their site planning with the park as a centerpiece, rather than an af- terthought. He explained that they did it this way because they wanted to make sure there was enough land and space for an adequate park instead of putting it on whatever leſt- over land they had aſter the other elements were designed. Hubbard said the proposed park would be a network of open space and trails and would be developed over time. Although Overlake will be an urban center, the planning team took Mother Nature into account throughout the process. is in- cluded working an 80-foot hill climb into the design as well as figuring out how to keep as many native trees in the area as possible. Overlake Village plan features housing, retail and central park Group Health proposes to develop 28-acre piece of land into a mixed-use urban center [ more OVERLAKE page 2 ] HOPE for the HUNGRY Hopelink luncheon raises $1.16 million [ more HOPELINK page 5 ] Tom Colicchio NAT LEVY [email protected]e United States must push for the most productive work force in the world and pursue more free trade to remain a top economic power, Republican presidential hopeful and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney told a crowd of Microsoſt employ- ees last ursday. Romney promised to crack down on international trade “cheaters” like China during his speech, which was held on Redmond’s Microsoſt campus in front of 200 employee donors to the company’s political action committee. “As long as trade rules and regulations are fair, America can compete and win anywhere in the world,” he said. Romney’s speech was part of a tour through the Puget Sound area last urs- day, where he attended a fundraiser at the Grand Hyatt in downtown Seattle. Romney began his 20-minute speech with a story about his failed attempt to recruit a young man named Steve Ballmer to his management consulting firm, only to have Ballmer turn him down to begin his Microsoſt venture. Romney represented a tough stance on China, saying he would label the nation a “currency manipulator” for intentionally devaluing its money to push their prices down and hurt international competition. Free trade key to U.S. success [ more ROMNEY page 3 ] ROMNEY VISITS REDMOND Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, shakes hands with Carl Albrecht as he greets the crowd after a trade address at Microsoft in Redmond last Thursday. CHAD COLEMAN, Redmond Reporter Republican presidential candidate promises to crack down on international trade ‘cheaters’
Many Eastside residents know Tom Colicchio from Bravo’s TV show “Top Chef.” Most
don’t know how far his passion for end-ing hunger in the United States extends.
Colicchio was scheduled to be the main speaker during Hopelink’s
Reaching Out Luncheon Monday at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue to raise money for the Redmond nonprofi t that seeks to end hunger and homelessness on the Eastside. But not even an emergency back surgery could prevent Colicchio from lend-ing his voice to the cause.
“I have been active for years in the battle against hunger and I am not alone,” said Colicchio in an audio mes-sage from New York, while urging those
in attendance to help Hopelink. “But it has grown worse.”
Th e event raised $1.16 million for Hopelink. Th e organization raised more than $1 million last year from the same event.
Colicchio told a story of an 11-year-old girl that he met in New York whose family was
living off of chips, soda and ramen noodles, as it was all they could aff ord.
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Representatives from Group Health Cooperative (GHC) presented its mixed-use plans for the 28-acre piece of land the non-profi t owns in the Overlake neighborhood at Tuesday’s Redmond City Council business meeting at City Hall.
During a public hearing on the Overlake Village Master Plan, GHC showed plans that would include a mix of business and residen-tial buildings that could include up to 1,400 residential units and 1.4 million square feet in offi ce and retail space at the site located at 2464 152nd Ave. N.E. in Redmond. Th e proposed site, which was previously the campus of Group Health Overlake Hospital before it closed in 2008, would also include a 180-room hotel/conference center as well as a 2.67-acre park.
Mike Hubbard of Capstone Partners, the Seattle-based real estate development fi rm overseeing the project, said the proposed site will be in the center of a triangle of regional activity points comprised of the future light rail station to the northwest, the Microsoft Corp. campus to the west and the regional bus transit center to the south.
“We wanted to have a vision for this site,” he said.
He said a large part of that vision was creat-ing an area where people could live and work, which means creating a place where people can gather such as a park.
Hubbard and his team, working closely with city staff , began their site planning with the park as a centerpiece, rather than an af-terthought. He explained that they did it this way because they wanted to make sure there was enough land and space for an adequate park instead of putting it on whatever left -over land they had aft er the other elements were designed. Hubbard said the proposed park would be a network of open space and trails and would be developed over time.
Although Overlake will be an urban center, the planning team took Mother Nature into account throughout the process. Th is in-cluded working an 80-foot hill climb into the design as well as fi guring out how to keep as many native trees in the area as possible.
Overlake Village plan features housing, retail and central park Group Health proposes to develop 28-acre piece of land into a mixed-use urban center
Th e United States must push for the most productive work force in the world and pursue more free trade to remain a top economic power, Republican presidential hopeful and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney told a crowd of Microsoft employ-ees last Th ursday.
Romney promised to crack down on international trade “cheaters” like China
during his speech, which was held on Redmond’s Microsoft campus in front of 200 employee donors to the company’s political action committee.
“As long as trade rules and regulations are fair, America can compete and win anywhere in the world,” he said.
Romney’s speech was part of a tour through the Puget Sound area last Th urs-day, where he attended a fundraiser at the Grand Hyatt in downtown Seattle.
Romney began his 20-minute speech
with a story about his failed attempt to recruit a young man named Steve Ballmer to his management consulting fi rm, only to have Ballmer turn him down to begin his Microsoft venture.
Romney represented a tough stance on China, saying he would label the nation a “currency manipulator” for intentionally devaluing its money to push their prices down and hurt international competition.
Albrecht as he greets the crowd after a trade address
at Microsoft in Redmond
last Thursday. CHAD COLEMAN,
Redmond Reporter
Republican presidential candidate promises to crack down on international trade ‘cheaters’
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However plans do call for the elimination of 1,133 trees.
Mark Brumbaugh, the landscape architect for the project, said this is because peeling up the existing as-phalt during the construc-tion process would destroy the trees’ root system because they are shallowly rooted. Additionally, Brum-baugh said they will have some selective preservation of existing trees, keeping in mind how tearing down buildings could aff ect wind patterns and potential storm damage as a result.
Redmond resident Mary Wirta, who spoke during the hearing’s commenting portion, said she felt the site proposal called for too many trees to be uprooted
and didn’t have enough green space. She added that she would like to see the site include least 40 percent of green space.
With all the trees that would come down, Brum-baugh said their strategy would be to replace each signifi cant tree removed with mitigation trees at a ratio of 3-to-1 and replace each landmark tree with a mitigation tree ratio of 6-to-1. Th is would bring the total number of trees to 3,345, which would be planted off site on public land that has yet to be determined.
Tom Martin, board chair for the Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce and senior vice president and chief information offi cer for Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, also spoke
during the public comment portion and voiced his ap-proval for the project.
“Th ese opportunities don’t come along very oft en,” he said about devel-oping such a large area. “I think this is a development to be proud of.”
Martin added that the chamber fully supports the project because it would bring an economic vibrancy to the city that aligns with the chamber’s goals.
Following the public hearing, council members voted to continue the public hearing until its Dec. 6 business meeting, during which they plan to take ac-tion. Until then, people will be able to provide input on the Overlake Village Master Plan. For more information visit www.redmond.gov.
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Here is a schematic drawing of what the Overlake Village will look like and how it will be integrated with the planned light rail station (at right). Courtesy of City of Redmond
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Th e City of Redmond received the Best City Award from the Washing-ton State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) for its Northeast 36th Street Bridge project in the Over-lake neighborhood.
An award presentation was given at Tuesday’s City Council business meeting and public works director Bill Campbell said, “(Th e bridge) is our pride and joy … to deliver this project.”
Th e recognition came as part of the WSDOT’s 2011 Awards of Excellence, which were also presented by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Th is year’s awarded projects were part of almost 300 projects completed in 2010
and highlight local and community improvements. In addition to Best City, the other categories were Best County, Director’s Award and Best Special Award. Th e awards recognize en-hancements, construction, innovative design, environ-mental sustainability and community involvement.
Connecting the Overlake neighborhood, the North-east 36th Street Bridge was recognized for its public-private partnership between the City of Redmond and Microsoft Corp., which funded $17.5 million of the bridge’s $26 million price tag. Th e bridge’s landscap-ing and integrated design for cyclists and pedestrians were also recognized.
City receives award from Department of Transportation for bridge project
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The Lake Washington School District (LWSD) is seeking community input on what it should look for in its new superintendent.
The district’s board of directors is embarking on its process to find a succes-sor to Dr. Chip Kimball, who will be leaving after this school year in July to take a similar position in Singapore.
The board is asking par-ents and community mem-bers to provide input into what they should look for in Kimball’s replacement through an online survey or during a public comment period at Monday’s board meeting.
“Finding the right indi-vidual to lead our school district is among the most important tasks we do as a school board,” board
president Jackie Pender-grass said in a LWSD press release. “We have several very important initiatives underway as a district, such as the change in grade con-figuration of our schools. Given these challenges, we are trying to determine the kind of leader who will best help us complete that work.”
The survey covers the critical issues facing the dis-trict and the background, experiences or characteris-tics a new superintendent should have. This feedback will help the board refine their hiring criteria for the new superintendent, ac-cording to LWSD director of communications Kath-ryn Reith.
Parents and commu-nity members can fill out the survey through Oct. 28 by going online to the district website, www.lwsd.
org, and clicking on the superintendent survey link on the right-hand side of the homepage. So far, there have been more than 1,300 responses to the survey, ac-cording to Reith.
In addition, residents can speak directly to the board at Monday’s meet-ing during a special public comment period devoted to this topic, Reith said. Each person who signs up for
public comment is given three minutes to address the school board. The meet-ing begins at 5:30 p.m. The public comment period will be placed toward the end of the agenda so that more
people can take part.Community members can
also provide feedback to the board by sending an e-mail to [email protected], which will send the message to each school board member.
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Romney said the government has the tools to crackdown on this sort of problem, but has hesitated in doing so.
“We don’t need new legislation; we need a new president,” he said.
Romney proposed a trade policy he called the “Reagan Zone.” He characterized it as a free trade agreement, that would have even fewer bar-riers than the World Trade Organization. Member nations would have to agree to a number of principles including honestly valuing their currency and honor-ing intellectual property.
Romney’s speech came as the United States passed into law three new free
trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia.
Romney saluted the hard work of Microsoft em-ployees and other private enterprises. He lauded the productivity of the Ameri-can workforce. Without the greatest population and landmass, the United States has to depend on produc-tivity and innovation to remain at the forefront of the world economy. He said their efforts will propel the United States forward into the “century of America.”
“With your work, and my work, together we can keep America as it was destined to be, the hope of the earth,” he said.
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Event shines spotlight on girl bullying in schools
Th is past weekend, GoGirlGo! Seattle and the City of Redmond hosted a viewing of the docu-mentary and movement called “Finding Kind.”
Th is is a powerful movie on the eff ects of bul-lying and/or meanness is girl world. Originally, only one viewing was scheduled at 2:30, but that event sold out very quickly. Another viewing was added at 5:15 and also sold out. Overall, 200-plus people attended this event. GoGirlGo! Seattle and the City of Redmond agreed that they would add additional screenings to their calendars.
Th e young girls who attended this event were quite moved. Elementary and junior high girls shared their experiences of bullying and mean-ness, many with tears in their eyes. One girl cried about the bullying that her little sister is enduring. Another cried because of the lack of real emotion girls seem to show to one another. One mom discussed how bullying she expe-rienced as young girl has led her to avoid true relationships with women around her to avoid getting hurt once again.
Unlike physical bullying, meanness in girl world is diffi cult to deal with in the academic setting. Does the school have the right to pun-ish someone for gossiping? Can they recognize the mean stares that girls give each other and administer a consequence? As parents we feel helpless to deal with the meanness in girl world. We all agreed that school personnel probably feel the same way.
We as a community agreed that this meanness in the girl world must be dealt with to create a healthy environment for the young girls in our society. Th is change starts with girls and women pleading to be kind to one another. Th is doesn’t mean that we have to like everyone or have to be all smiles. Th is just means, as Th umper from Bambi so eloquently stated, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”
Sheri Gazitt, GoGirlGo! Seattle director
Flynn is the right choice for Redmond City Council
I have known Redmond City Council candi-date Tom Flynn since 2003, when I joined the board of a local literary arts association called Redmond Association of Spokenword (RASP).
For several years, Tom volunteered with one of RASP’s youth programs, coordinating the Young Authors Contest for grades K-6 in the Lake Washington School District. Aft er I took over the direction of the Young Authors Contest, Tom was a loyal supporter of the program. I remember seeing him in the back of the room at Redmond Town Center Borders Books, when we had our awards ceremony there, cheering and clapping while the kids read their stories.
Tom has also read at the RASP open mic and hosted a poetry reading or two at Victor’s Celtic Coff ee. Over the years, we have met informally and exchanged critiques of each other’s creative prose. I was impressed with his ability to listen and to off er constructive feedback in a positive manner.
I’m aware of the work that Tom has done on the city’s arts commission and most recently, on the planning commission. I know that he is interested in preserving our wetlands and parks while Redmond prepares for urban growth.
Tom Flynn is a passionate arts advocate and community organizer. He has a steady, pleasant, no-nonsense style that helps both individu-als and groups to focus on the matters at hand. Whatever the issues are, whatever planning and decisions the city government has to make, Tom will bring insight and focus to the table. He has the ability to get things done.
Laura Lee Bennett, Redmond
Flynn truly cares about our cityWe need people on City Council who are
thoughtful and care deeply for the City of Red-mond.
Tom Flynn is that type of person. Tom is running for City Council, Position
5 and is already familiar with several facets of Redmond government having served on the arts commission and more recently, on the planning commission.
His interest in preserving Redmond’s amazing parks, streams, and trails; concern for controlled growth emphasizing local urban centers; and focusing on transportation options should reso-nate with most of the residents.
He has a desire to see that the communities within the city stay connected ensuring that Redmond remain “a livable community.” Tom has been actively involved in his children’s lives coaching sports and serving on the PTSA. I fi nd him to be passionately involved and interested in doing the right thing for those around him.
As a resident of Redmond for the past 30 years, I’m excited that Tom is running for city council this November.
He is an educated, soft spoken, introspective individual with a kind demeanor. I believe he will make good decisions for the residents of Redmond and I am very proud to support him with my vote and my voice.
Robin Pfaff , Redmond
Time to bag your bagsKing County’s second annual “Bag your Bags.
Bring ‘em Back” campaign brings together recy-cling, reuse and reduction right in your kitchen and grocery store.
We all end up with at least a few single-use plastic bags at home no matter how hard we try to avoid them. Now it’s easier than ever to recycle them. Just take your plastic bags to par-ticipating grocery stores, including Fred Meyer, QFC, Top Food & Drug and the Duvall Family Grocer.
Nearly 50,000 tons of recyclable plastic bags and plastic wrap ended up in King County’s Cedar Hills Landfi ll last year, and this program
helps us put those bags where they belong.More kinds of plastic bags than ever before
are now accepted by store collection programs. Types of plastic bags and wrap you can bring in for recycling include: grocery bags, bread bags, produce bags, wrap for products such as paper towels and toilet paper, bubble wrap, dry clean-ing bags, newspaper bags, and shrink wrap.
Th e campaign is called “Bag your Bags” be-cause that’s the way you need to do it. Loose bags get stuck in recycling machinery or cause litter problems, so always stuff your bags in a single bag, knot it up and take it in.
Many folks are surprised to learn that a strong demand exists for recycled plastic bags to make products such as composite lumber. Th at deck you have admired at your neighbor’s house might well be made of composite lumber, which consists of plastic bags and wrap combined with reclaimed sawdust.
For more information on King County’s Bag your Bags campaign, visit www.BagYourBags.com.
Recently more attention has been focused on the waste and litter problems associated with plastic bags, in the Northwest and around the world.
Reducing our consumption of bags by using durable bags will always be the most eff ective approach. But it’s bag-tastic that we now have increased recycling options as well.
Karen May, King County Solid Waste
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You make me happy to be a part of our com-munity. And your parents should be proud.
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But he pointed out that hunger in the U.S. is not like what most people think of: starving or skinny chil-dren in Africa.
“(She) and her siblings were overweight and they regularly had colds and infections,” said Colicchio. “Managing a problem isn’t solving it.”
With Colicchio not able to physically attend, Lisa Brum-mel, a co-owner of the Seattle Storm and chief people of-ficer of Microsoft, stepped up to extend the message to the audience of 1,700.
Brummel, dressed in a chef ’s coat, said that she was able to talk to Colicchio and while she wanted to ask questions about Top Chef, all he wanted to talk about was ending hunger.
“He is on a mission to stop hunger in America,” said Brummel. “We have a lot of things in common.”
She described three main areas that people need to focus on to end the problem. The first was educating oth-ers on how to farm and what goes into growing vegetables.
“When you see the look in a child’s eye when they put a seed in the ground and then come back to see what they have grown it is amazing,” said Brummel.
The second issue is knowing what to eat.
“We are a highly indus-trious nation and we can produce a lot,” said Brum-mel. “But a lot of it is highly unhealthy.”
Brummel talked about educating people on what is healthy and what is not nutritious.
The third part was spreading the message.
“Growing vegetables is not hard,” said Brummel. “You can grow some in a pot in your home.”
A short video described
Brummel’s part in the cause with Sunnyside Farm.
“It was created 17 years ago and started with a few (garden) beds and a won-derful piece of land to give back,” said Brummel. “Now we produce 1,000 pounds to donate to Hopelink.”
Hopelink is an intricate part of Sunnyside Farm, which is located in Sunny-side, Wash.
“It takes an organization like Hopelink to connect our organization to people who need it,” said Brummel.
Brummel said that Colic-chio wanted to leave a final message to “never give up, always give what you can and push legislators because that is what it will take.”
Hopelink CEO Marilyn Mason-Plunkett said the organization’s need just keeps growing.
“The reality of today’s world is that so many people are experiencing the
economic slowdown,” said Mason-Plunkett.
And that need is outpac-ing Hopelink’s resources. She referenced the fact that in 2010, Hopelink turned away 84 families per month and in 2011 the organization was turning away approximately 127 families a month.
“We are getting less fund-ing from our cash-strapped public partners,” said
Mason-Plunkett.But some of the successes
were also highlighted during the event, such as former Redmond resident Jonathan Dickenson, who was high-lighted in one of the many videos. Dickenson told his story of being homeless as a child and living in a five-seat car with five other family members. The sight of the apartment that his family lived
in prior to becoming homeless was a stark reminder for the Hopelink board member.
“I saw the video for the first time this morning and I got choked up,” said Dick-enson, whose family was helped out of its situation by the Hopelink organization.
For more information about Hopelink, visit www.hope-link.org or call (425) 869-6000.
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With the opening of their new store, one Redmond couple is working to prove that not all olive oils are created equal.
Education Hill residents Kevin and Shirley Carder opened their store last month and as the name implies, Paradiso Olive Oils and Vinegars at 16717 Redmond Way, Suite 150 in downtown off ers a variety of olive oils and balsamic and white balsamic vinegars for customers to choose from and mix and match.
Kevin said one of the biggest diff erences between the olive oils they sell in their specialty shop and the bottles seen in grocery stores is the production process. He said the olives for their products are hand-picked when they are ripe and taken to the mills to be cold pressed within hours.
With other brands, the olives are usually falling off the trees and past their ripeness when they are pressed. Kevin said this method provides more oil, but olives that are pressed earlier produce better oil.
“Th e quality is increased,” he said.
Kevin added that with
the exception of a few, all of their oils are produced from olives grown in the southern hemisphere. And like wine, he said factors such as the climate and soil in the region where the olives are grown will aff ect the oils’ tastes.
Paradiso olive oils come in about two dozen fl avors such as Tuscan Herb, lemon, blood orange and garlic. Th e shop’s balsamic vinegar fl avors range from traditional and espresso to lavender and pomegranate to coconut white balsamic and cranberry pear white balsamic vinegar.
In addition to selling the products, Paradiso is also a tasting room and customers can taste and try everything before purchasing.
Bottles for both oils and vinegars come in three sizes: 200, 350 and 700 milliliters (about 6.76, 11.83 and 23.66 fl uid ounces, respectively). Th e bottle prices are $12.95, $17.95 and $34.95, respectively.
All bottles are fi lled by hand on the spot when the customer makes a selection.
A NEW ENDEAVORKevin, at 60, recently
retired from his old career as a painting contractor and is the one who spends the
most time at Paradiso, while Shirley has kept her day job as a human resources man-ager at a digital solutions company in Seattle.
Shirley said she helps her husband out as much as she can and takes care of the shop’s paperwork in the eve-nings and on the weekends. But between her job and helping out with her parents, who live in south Bellevue, she said her main role has been just supporting Kevin.
Shirley said they were both a bit apprehensive about opening Paradiso since neither of them has much retail experience — aside from her days in high school working as a carwash clerk. However, shesaid they both had custom-er service experience with Kevin’s old career and her current one.
Despite this apprehen-sion, the couple continued with their new endeavor because they were both very excited about the pros-pect of opening an olive oil and vinegar shop.
Th e idea to open a shop came when the couple was traveling in Arizona to celebrate their 30th an-niversary. Th ey had stopped by an olive oil and vinegar
New specialty shop offers variety of olive oils, balsamic vinegars
Kevin Carder, owner of Paradiso Olive Oils and Vinegars in downtown Redmond, opened the specialty shop after visiting one in Arizona. SAMANTHA PAK, Redmond Reporter
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tasting room just before heading to the airport on the recommendation of another couple they met on the trip.
“I was convinced I wanted to bring the concept back to Redmond,” Kevin said.
Kevin said after a knee surgery last year, working as a painting contractor was becoming a very physical job for him.
So he began looking into how he could start his own specialty shop: find-ing a location, looking for furniture (much of which he purchased from Borders Books in Redmond Town Center during its closing sales) and enlisting the help from friends he’d made in the construction business during his previous career.
“It was just lots of kind-ness,” he said about all the help he received.
EXPERIMENTINGParadiso opened in early
September and Kevin said things have been going well. Located on Red-mond Way between 166th Avenue Northeast and 168th Avenue Northeast, he said many drivers use their shopping center’s parking lot as a shortcut through traffic and some have actu-ally stopped in to Paradiso as a result.
Although neither Kevin nor Shirley has had much experience in oil and vinegar world, they are both enjoying the learning process. Kevin has been buying a lot of pre-made salads and testing different oil and vinegar pairings.
Shirley has been ex-perimenting as well and improving her cooking skills.
“I think I learn some-thing new every day about olive oil’s benefits for us...how to pair things for unique flavors and devel-oping recipes,” she said. “I want to share those ideas with everyone.”
Shirley added that it has also been rewarding for them to have family and friends getting involved in their new business.
“I can’t tell you how thankful we are for our friends who continue to help us out and support us,” she said. “Ultimately, this is our American dream that we hope we can share and grow with into our older age!”
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Parents in Redmond now have one more option when considering preschools for their children.
The North Bend-based Spanish Acad-emy has opened a new location in the Washington Cathedral located at 12300 Woodinville-Redmond Rd. N.E. in Red-mond. Founder Kimberly Houde said one of the main reasons for the expansion was because many families said they would like to see a location in the Redmond and Woodinville area — unique to this location is a gym and indoor swimming pool.
“We started off with this little preschool with a few kids and it’s really grown over the years,” she said.
The Spanish Academy, a Spanish-immer-sion preschool, began 10 years ago when Houde and her family returned to the United States after living in Argentina. Her daughter was two years old at the time and accus-tomed to speaking and listening to Spanish and Houde wanted that to continue.
She started looking into a school that would cater to her needs, but couldn’t find anything.
“Ten years ago, (Spanish-immersion schools were) pretty much nonexistent,” she said.
So Houde, who speaks Spanish with an Argentine accent, decided to start her own school and the Spanish Academy was born.
At the school, which is open to children ages 2-5, the curriculum is taught in Span-ish almost 100 percent of the time. Houde said the only time teachers speak English is when they are explaining an academic concept, addressing behavioral issues or in the case of an emergency.
Houde said they use a lot of pictures, charts and other visual and tactile tools during lessons, which include letters, num-bers, colors, opposites, art and nature.
“It’s a very structured program,” she said.Class sizes are no more than eight stu-
dents per teacher with students of all ages from 2 to pre-kindergarten.
Houde said some parents also decide to keep
their children in the program an extra year if they are on the young side in their grade.
When the Spanish Academy opened, there was only one location open in North Bend and about two percent of students came from families with at least one Span-ish speaker. Now two more locations have opened — in Bellevue and Redmond — and about one in every 10 students has at least one Spanish speaker in their family.
“That’s new,” Houde said. “That didn’t happen 10 years ago.”
She said part of the increase in Spanish-speaking families may be due to an influx of Spanish-speaking families to the area.
With non-Spanish-speaking families, Houde said parents understand the benefits of learning a second language — especially at an early age — in a society that is becoming more diverse with more intercultural interactions. She said with 21 Spanish-speaking countries in the world, being able to speak the language will only help the students later on in life.
“With a Spanish education and knowing how to speak that language ... it’s going to give them a feather in their cap when they enter the workforce,” Houde said.
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Although they have only been enrolled for one whole school year, Myers said she has already witnessed results.
“(My daughters) started talking and counting to me in Spanish,” she said. “I was pretty happy with that.”
The Spanish Academy’s Redmond campus meets on Mondays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, visit http://spanishacademy.org.
Spanish preschool opens new location in Redmond
Maestra Carolina Liendo teaches Spanish Academy students, from left, Amelia Myers, Cora Myers, Lauren Livingston and Kate Livingston from the immersion school’s curriculum. The preschool recently opened up a new location in Redmond. CHAD COLEMAN, Redmond Reporter
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As a legal advocate for the Redmond Police Department (RPD), Lena Johnson does not have an easy job.
From dealing with the court system to the police, her work focuses on do-mestic violence victims.
Th e Minnesota native came to the City of Redmond in January 2009 aft er working at a nonprofi t domestic vio-lence agency as an Ameri-corps volunteer with the King County Prosecuting Attor-ney’s Offi ce and volunteering at a crisis helpline.
In her current position, Johnson, who has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Washing-ton, said one of her largest roles is providing domestic violence victims with infor-mation such as court dates and other legal action that may be taken.
“Not every police depart-ment (in King County) has an advocate,” Johnson said. “I feel like Redmond really utilizes that position well.”
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is to contact victims and assess their safety. Johnson said she must also assess the lethality risk of a situation.
“It’s a reality of my job,” she said. “Th e reality is that domes-tic violence kills.”
Johnson will also refer clients to alternative hous-ing if and when necessary. Th is is not always easy as shelters are oft en full.
“It might take some creative thinking,” she said. “It’s extremely diffi cult, especially in this economy to fi nd that kind of housing.”
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residents are more affl uent, staying in a hotel is also an option.
However, Johnson said sometimes victims are financially dependent on their abuser, which adds to the difficulties. In these cases she will work with victims to figure out how to get temporary financial relief such as from family or friends.
THE BIG PICTUREJohnson said she takes
a holistic approach when working with victims because safety is more than “getting new locks on the door and a protection or-der.” It means giving people back the control that has
been taken away by their abusers.
As part of her holistic ap-proach to her job, Johnson also works closely with the RPD.
Police officer Julie Beard, who has been with the department for about eight years, said Johnson makes sure to keep everyone up-dated on cases. This includes arresting officers, who Beard said usually don’t attend court hearings or other proceedings unless they are subpoenaed. As a neighbor-hood resource officer (NRO) for the department she no longer responds to calls, but Beard said Johnson’s role really helped her do her job
better when she was a patrol officer. Beard said if she was responding to a call from a house with a history of domestic violence, knowing whether or not a suspect was in jail helped because that person may be in the house and the officers can approach the situation ac-cordingly.
“(Johnson) takes officer safety seriously,” Beard said. “She’s also proactive and we appreciate that.”
Beard also said having Johnson on board also helps because sometimes victims find it easier to trust someone who is not a police officer.
Now as an NRO for RPD,
Beard said her job now focuses more on long-term problem solving and the help she gets from Johnson is valuable. This often in-volves working with repeat situations and provid-ing people with the right resources.
She admits that the repeat cases are a challenge and dealing with victims who don’t know a way out can be frustrating because a history of abuse can lead a person to believe they deserve it.
SPREADING AWARENESSJohnson said there is a
misconception that domes-tic violence usually happens
in low-income situations with people who are un-employed, but that is not always the case. She said domestic violence comes in all shapes and sizes.
“I’ve worked with women who are high-paid ex-ecutives. I’ve worked with women who have only been with their abuser,” she said.
While Johnson and Beard said most of the victims they see are women being abused by men, both wom-en said they have seen the situation reversed. Johnson said she also sees cases with domestic partners and same-sex relationships.
Johnson added that many of her cases unfortunately in-
volve children, but when the children are the victims — not just witnesses — she will usually turn the cases over to Child Protective Services, depending on the age.
October is National Domestic Violence Aware-ness Month and the RPD — in collaboration with Bellevue and Kirkland police departments and the Eastside Domestic Violence Program (EDVP) — is encouraging people to become educated.
This includes recog-nizing signs of domestic violence, which include: physical harm, stalking, financial abuse, sexual abuse, isolation and ma-nipulation. Redmond police are also encour-aging people to contact the police or advocacy programs such as EDVP if they or someone they know is being abused.
While both Johnson and Beard said they face chal-lenges in their work with domestic violence victims, they said there are good moments.
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Much like Th e Bear Creek School’s stellar basketball program, head soccer coach Chad Pohl-man knows that some teams in the Sea-Tac 2B League may not give his team the challenge they need to succeed at the state tournament this November.
As a result, Pohlman, who also serves as the Bear Creek School’s Athletic Director, put together a late-season tune-up for his squad on Monday against a very tough La Conner team that placed third at the 2B state tournament in both 2009 and 2010.
His Grizzlies passed the test with fl ying colors, shutting out the Braves 2-0 to improve to 10-1-1 overall.
“Our goal today was just to go out and play really hard and not worry about winning or losing,” said Pohlman, adding that the in-jury bug has bitten his team worse than usual this season. “It was that checkpoint in the year where we fi gure out where we’re at and things we need to work on as we make this last push.”
PLAYING WITH PRIDETh e Grizzlies, who had averaged
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Senior forward Mark Phillips sprints downfi eld with the ball as La Conner senior Todd Hoagland gives chase during Monday’s 2-0 shutout win against the Braves, who have placed third at the 2B state tournament each of the last two years. Phillips scored his team’s second goal in the game, his 32nd score of the season. TIM WATANABE, Redmond Reporter
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who have allowed two goals or less in eight of their 10 games this season.
Aft er a number of chances sailed just high or wide of the net, in addition to La Conner goalkeeper Taylor Fay making a couple of nice saves, the Grizzlies broke through in the 26th minute as junior mid-fi elder Gabe Rongve scored unas-sisted from the right wing.
Just before the fi rst half ended, Bear Creek played add-on, with star forward Mark Phillips taking advantage of a clear shot off a nice
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“Luke played me a really nice little through ball,” Phillips said of the goal, his 32nd of the year. “I just kind of let it run onto my left foot... and slid it in.”
Phillips has been in a dead heat with Tacoma Baptist standout Jake Zimmer for the league lead in goals scored all season, with Zimmer’s 33 currently one ahead of Phillips, but Pohlman stressed that his off ense is far from one-dimensional.
“(Phillips) is one of the best players in the state and we rely on him a lot, but, you know, we have a lot of really good players on the team as well,” he said. “A lot of guys here can put the ball in the net, and if Mark doesn’t score, we have the confi dence that someone else will.”
In addition, the Grizzlies’ defense put the stops on the Braves every time they had an opportunity, as-sisting goalkeeper Michael Worley in earning his league-leading fi ft h shutout of the season.
“Th e defense has gotten a lot better this year,” Pohlman noted. We started off the year a little shaky, but we’ve been working hard every day getting better at that. We challenge these guys, and we have a lot of pride. We don’t like giving up goals, and that’s one thing we’ve defi nitely improved on.”
Phillips admitted that even though Monday’s game didn’t count towards the fi nal standings, he understood the importance of play-ing a team like the Braves with the postseason looming ahead.
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and Providence Classical Christian (2-0), crash-ing the team’s hopes for a state title.
Although they are likely to finish second this year in the Sea-Tac 2B League to unbeaten Tacoma Bap-tist (8-0-1, 10-0-1), the Grizzlies have already se-cured a state tournament berth, as both the No. 2 seeds from the Sea-Tac and Northwest leagues are guaranteed to advance from the Bi-District tour-nament at Interlake High School in Bellevue, where they will play for seeding on Nov 5.
This year, Pohlman
will do everything in his power to guide his team to at least a repeat of the Grizzlies’ 2009 run, where they made the 2B state title game.
“We just have a few more league games and then we’re gearing up for the postsea-son,” he stated. “We’re doing everything we can to get healthy and work on the things we need to work on, and it always seems to come down to those district and state games. We’ll be doing everything we can to get ready.”
Phillips, who was a
huge part of the Grizzlies’ state-tournament runs last year and in 2009, said that staying focused on the task at hand and not tak-ing anything for granted
will be key down the stretch.
“We just have to work hard in practice, that’s the key,” Phillips said. “Whatever we do in practice, we do in the games — we have to keep fo-cused, and (not) get
complacent.”The Grizzlies played
Christian Faith (1-5-0, 1-7-0) late Thursday after-noon after the Reporter’s deadline.
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Chad Pohlman
The No. 2-ranked Bear Creek School volleyball team earned its 10th Sea-Tac 2B league win at home on Wednesday with a 3-0 sweep of Rainier Christian on set scores of 25-9, 25-4 and 25-13.
Bethan Meyer had seven kills to lead the team, followed by Makena Schoene with four, as setter Michele Brown recorded a season-high 19 aces to go with 17 assists.
Defensively, Schoene and Kristin Wallis led with five digs.
With the win, the Grizzlies improved to 10-0 in league play and 16-1-1 overall.
OVERLAKE VOLLEYBALL BEATS U. PREP
Playing in a 1A Emer-ald City League match on Tuesday, the Owls’ volley-ball team defeated Univer-sity Prep in four sets, 25-8, 25-11, 20-25 and 25-20.
Kirsten Parris slammed home 14 kills, followed by Emily Chambard with five.
Setter Vanessa Rosato had 25 assists for the Owls, who improved to 7-3 in league play and 10-5 overall.
MUSTANG SOCCER FALLS TO ROOSEVELT
Goals were scored early and often in Tuesday night’s 4A Kingco shootout at Roosevelt High, but the Mustangs gave up two late
goals to lose 5-3.Facing a 2-0 deficit just
19 minutes into the game, Redmond’s duo of Elizabeth Zitnik and Meghan Cooley responded, connecting twice in the 30th and 35th minutes as Zitnik scored twice to tie up the score.
The Roughriders scored just before halftime, and Cooley scored in the 65th minute to tie it up again of 3-3, this time off Zitnik’s assist, before Roosevelt’s Emily Thiel scored the game winner in the 70th minute.
The loss dropped Red-mond to 4-3-1 in league play and 6-5-3 overall.
Prep Report: Bear Creek volleyball 10-0 in league play
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If you have a son or daughter that has played soccer in the Lake Wash-ington Youth Soccer As-sociation (LWYSA), then chances are you have visited 60 Acres Park in Redmond, the largest soccer complex west of the Mississippi.
Home to LWYSA matches as well as national tourna-ments and a myriad of other events, the aging park requires as much as $500,000 of maintenance and upgrade costs annually, and a new nonprofi t organization is spearheading the eff ort to raise the funds needed to keep the park in top shape.
“Our maintenance costs have now approached almost half a million a year,” explained Curt Bate-man, Director of Commu-nity Development for the LWYSA’s Crossfi re soccer club. “We fund that solely from user fees and our own budget, so there’s no tax-payer money that goes into this. We’d like to improve the park and there’s several things we’d like to do to make it a better place.”
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Acres Park may not realize is that the facility’s use goes far beyond its 25 soccer fi elds.
“Every Wednesday during the summer, the Seattle Area Soaring Society
comes down and has their club night, and on any given morning you’ll see several guys down here fl ying their electric planes,” said Bateman, adding the local Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts participate in rocket launches at the park. “We’re very pleased to be the only venue that you can do rocket launches on.”
Th e Potlatch Ultimate Frisbee tournament was held on Fourth of July Weekend, drawing hun-dreds of the top Ultimate players from the Pacifi c Northwest and Canada, and the park is conveniently
located next to the popular Sammamish River Trail, which connects Eastside recreational hot spots.
In addition, the park hosted the opening of the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure event in September last year, an event that drew 3,000 participants and volunteers, and Bateman
met with representatives from Redmond-based Hopelink last week to discuss future plans for a fundraiser, which may involve a 5K run.
“It is right at 5K from Marymoor to 60 Acres, so that works out really well,” Bateman said. “We just did
a food drive for Hopelink a couple weeks ago, and the donations were incredible,
something like 2,500 pounds of food. We’d like to do something really large to aid them in their quest to make Redmond hunger-free.”
Th e park is best known for soccer, however, and as the hundreds of kids of all ages that use the facility on a daily basis from June to October can attest to, it is a vital part of the community.
“Our goal with this
organization is to maintain the fi elds so that everybody, not just soccer players, gets a chance at this community resource,” said Redmond City Council member David Carson, who is on the or-ganization’s advisory board. “It’s an amazing resource for the community and we need to take care of it.”
Friends of 60 Acres provides helping hand to local park
Curt Bateman David Carson
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AN ECONOMIC BOOSTCarson, who is also the
chairman of the city’s Lodg-ing and Tax Advisory Com-mittee (LTAC), pointed out that a well-maintained 60 Acres Park will drive money into the city of Red-mond and the surrounding Eastside region as seen during the park’s hosting of the girls’ national soccer championships, when 120 teams from around the
country and 180 from the LWYSA came down for one week during the summer.
Bateman noted that those 300 teams booked out 2,000 hotel rooms for the tournament.
“That’s part of the impor-tance of 60 Acres,” he said. “It drives a lot of tourism dollars into the city.”
Carson went on to de-scribe how he has friends in the Tri-Cities area of Wash-ington who often come to play at 60 Acres, and that the LTAC is now support-ing a grant program that provides marketing dollars for an event if it’s in Red-mond, a perk that Crossfire happily participates in.
“We get a huge influx of people... some stay at our hotels, and there are not many hotels to the north which is great because Redmond gets the bulk of it,” Carson explained. “To me, that’s the kind of activ-ity we can support on the
LTAC. It brings people to us, and that helps not just the hotels, but obviously the rest of the economy.”
PAVING THE WAYBeing that King County
“doesn’t put a lot of money into the park,” according to Carson, the money needed currently comes from the LWYSA budget and park user fees that are included in soccer registration costs – and now fundraisers put on by the organization.
Friends of 60 Acres’ first big campaign is underway, and it will allow park sup-porters to purchase engraved pavers. Individuals can purchase 4-inch by 8-inch bricks for $65 or an 8-inch by 8-inch for $120, and business sponsorship opportunities are available at the $1,000, $2,500 and $5,000 levels which include larger pavers mounted in a prominent location at the park.
“There are a lot of people that played here 30 years ago, and we’re hoping they’ll pony up and buy a paver, and that some corporations buy one at a higher level,” Bateman said on the fundraiser. “We’re
hoping to raise a quarter of a million dollars.”
The park’s current main-tenance project is a much-needed improvement to the water irrigation system, as 60 Acres has had to open late the past two years because it has been too wet, only to not have enough water once July and the warmer summer weather hits.
“There’s not enough electricity to run a bigger pump, so currently we’re pumping out of the river,” Bateman said. “What we want to do is upgrade that, and be ready for Brightwa-ter, which comes in next year. We want to put some sprinklers in the ground and buy larger irrigators so we can keep the fields a little softer and grow better grass.”
For more information, visit www.friendsof60acres.org. If you are interested in purchasing a paver or becoming a corporate sponsor, click on the “Donations” tab on the left side of the page or contact Bateman at (425) 821-1741 or e-mail info@friendsof 60acres.org.
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