Locally owned 50 cents January 7, 2015 Prsrt Std U.S. Postage PAID Kent, WA Permit No. 71 POSTAL CUSTOMER R eview sammamish 50 ¢ www.sammamishreview.com Skyline sweeps Mount Si Page 6 22975 SE Black Nugget Road, Issaquah, WA 98029 RSVP at (425) 200-0331. eraliving.com Join us for a two-part lecture series about Your Aging Parents! Thursdays, January 15 & 29 at 6:00 pm By Tom Corrigan [email protected]Listed on the Issaquah School District website as a $27 million project, the total rebuilding of Sunny Hills Elementary School is ready to get underway this spring. Funded by a bond sale approved by voters in 2012, the Sunny Hills replace- ment was set to start in 2016, said Steve Crawford, director of capital projects for the district. The district moved up the timeline, he added, in response to pro- jected population increases in the area around Sunny Hills. The district website also mentions that various aspects of the project — the building, drop-off area, parking and bus loop — have been significantly revamped since preliminary designs were unveiled in 2012. Not everyone is happy with By Tom Corrigan [email protected]“This has been a beautiful area,” resident Patrick Husting said while standing on Northeast Eighth Street, a number of cows mooing in the background. Husting lives near Lake Allen, just beyond the Sammamish border in an unincorporated sec- tion of King County. Where those cows now roam, there are plans for residential development. More develop- ment is planned in other spots around Lake Allen. “Go ahead, put in the homes,” Husting said. “But fix the infrastructure.” What worries Husting and other residents in the area is that new development will only add to long-standing flooding prob- lems, especially on Northeast Eighth. “We have started getting a lot more water,” Husting said, adding that he believes water is coming from upstream in Sammamish. At the same time, the new development already may be causing problems. Husting alleges that late last month, a developer was jetting excess water directly out of a dozen or so pipes and into a creek that feeds Lake Allen. That pumping was possibly in viola- tion of rules requiring the flow of such water be mitigated by sprinklers that lessen the water’s impact. “It’s a tough spot,” Doug Williams, a spokesman for the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, said of the Lake Allen area. He declined to speculate on whether any developers would face fines over water pumped into the creek. “We’ve done quite a lot of steps out there,” he added. County officials held a public meeting with concerned resi- dents in October. Officials have promised to once more clean out culverts, hopefully letting water flow more freely. Non- native species are a particular problem, Williams said. County workers last did weed removal after flooding in December 2010. Culvert cleaning is only one step being studied. Some cul- verts simply need replacing, while others need to be made larger. At the public meeting, county officials said they want Some unhappy with new Sunny Hills school plans Resident hopes county can address flooding problems See FLOODING, Page 2 See SCHOOL, Page 2 By Greg Farrar “Year of the Dragon,” a wood-cut piece created by Betsy Best-Spadaro, is one of several works on display through Jan. 16 at the art exhibit “A Cut Above,” presented at the Sammamish City Hall Commons Gallery by the Sammamish Arts Commission. Five local artists have contributed unique contemporary works in a variety of media and perspec- tives inspired by traditional art practices. Due to a multiple-vehi- cle collision just outside Sammamish city limits, Duthie Hill Road between Highway 202 and 278th Avenue Southeast was closed for several hours on the afternoon of Jan. 5, according to a news release from the city of Sammamish. There were two fatalities and one non life-threatening injury, according to DB Gates, of the King County Sheriff’s Office. The accident happened at about 12:15 p.m. Not a lot of details were available, but two cars were involved, Gates said. Fatality crash closes Duthie Hill Road Beauty at the gallery
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Listed on the Issaquah School District website as a $27 million project, the total rebuilding of Sunny Hills Elementary
School is ready to get underway this spring.
Funded by a bond sale approved by voters in 2012, the Sunny Hills replace-ment was set to start in 2016, said Steve Crawford, director of capital projects for
the district. The district moved up the timeline, he added, in response to pro-jected population increases in the area around Sunny Hills.
The district website also mentions that various aspects of the project — the
building, drop-off area, parking and bus loop — have been significantly revamped since preliminary designs were unveiled in 2012. Not everyone is happy with
“This has been a beautiful area,” resident Patrick Husting said while standing on Northeast Eighth Street, a number of cows mooing in the background.
Husting lives near Lake Allen, just beyond the Sammamish border in an unincorporated sec-tion of King County.
Where those cows now roam, there are plans for residential development. More develop-ment is planned in other spots around Lake Allen.
“Go ahead, put in the homes,” Husting said. “But fix the infrastructure.”
What worries Husting and other residents in the area is that new development will only add to long-standing flooding prob-lems, especially on Northeast Eighth.
“We have started getting a lot more water,” Husting said, adding that he believes water is coming from upstream in Sammamish.
At the same time, the new development already may be causing problems.
Husting alleges that late last month, a developer was jetting excess water directly out of a
dozen or so pipes and into a creek that feeds Lake Allen. That pumping was possibly in viola-tion of rules requiring the flow of such water be mitigated by sprinklers that lessen the water’s impact.
“It’s a tough spot,” Doug Williams, a spokesman for the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, said of the Lake Allen area.
He declined to speculate on whether any developers would face fines over water pumped into the creek.
“We’ve done quite a lot of steps out there,” he added.
County officials held a public meeting with concerned resi-dents in October. Officials have promised to once more clean out culverts, hopefully letting water flow more freely. Non-native species are a particular problem, Williams said. County workers last did weed removal after flooding in December 2010.
Culvert cleaning is only one step being studied. Some cul-verts simply need replacing, while others need to be made larger. At the public meeting, county officials said they want
Some unhappy with new Sunny Hills school plans
Resident hopes county can address flooding problems
See FLOODING, Page 2
See SCHOOL, Page 2
By Greg Farrar
“Year of the Dragon,” a wood-cut piece created by Betsy Best-Spadaro, is one of several works on display through Jan. 16 at the art exhibit “A Cut Above,” presented at the Sammamish City Hall Commons Gallery by the Sammamish Arts Commission. Five local artists have contributed unique contemporary works in a variety of media and perspec-tives inspired by traditional art practices.
Due to a multiple-vehi-cle collision just outside Sammamish city limits, Duthie Hill Road between Highway 202 and 278th Avenue Southeast was closed for several
hours on the afternoon of Jan. 5, according to a news release from the city of Sammamish.
There were two fatalities and one non life-threatening injury, according to DB Gates,
of the King County Sheriff’s Office.
The accident happened at about 12:15 p.m. Not a lot of details were available, but two cars were involved, Gates said.
Fatality crash closes Duthie Hill Road
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those alterations, especial-ly regarding what could be access to the school site.
In response to com-plaints, district officials held a community meet-ing with residents Dec. 15 regarding the access issue.
According to resi-dent Paul McTiernan, the new access route for Sunny Hills buses will use essentially the same road — namely 235th Place Southeast — that is the main entrance to three residential developments, including Timbercrest, which McTiernan calls home.
Crawford countered that there are no homes in the immediate area around what is planned to be the entrance to the school’s bus loop. He said on one side is a retention
pond and on the other will be the new school. He added that there would be five buses using the new entrance initially, though projections have that number up to 10 in the future.
The entranceway also would be used by a limited number of service vehicles, such as are used for food service or building mainte-nance. Crawford noted the bus loop would be screened from the surrounding area.
While current plans call for buses to use 235th Place Southeast, car traf-fic will use an entryway off Southeast 32nd Way, near the roundabout that serves as the intersection of Southeast 32nd Way and Issaquah-Pine Lake Road, Crawford said.
“We really need, from a safety standpoint, to separate the buses from the parents,” he added.
“Some neighbors are for it, because they have kids that they would
love to see go to a new school,” McTiernan said in an email. “Many of us longtime residents don’t like the idea. We do have a beautiful entryway, which serves the Field Rush and Audubon neighborhoods as well as our own neigh-borhood.”
Initially, district plans called for the main entrance to the new Sunny Hills to be on 235th Place Southeast. That was changed because of early resident objections, Crawford said. With par-ents picking up and drop-ping off students, there would have been hundreds of additional car trips reaching the street daily, he said.
“I think we’ve made a great compromise,” he said.
John Vanderwulp, man-ager for the Timbercrest Home Owners Association, also opposes the bus entrance on 235th Place, but seems resigned to los-
ing this battle.“I kind of believe they
are doing the best they can,” he said of the district and the design committee reviewing the Sunny Hills plans.
During the Dec. 15 public meeting, design committee members said they would look at the arguments for and against an entrance off 235th Place and make a recommenda-tion. No timetable was reported, but Vanderwulp said he expected a decision early this month.
“I don’t think it will come out in my favor,” he said.
He was also pessimistic in emails sent to interested homeowners.
“They said, since they work for the district, they will do what is best for the district,” Vanderwulp wrote of the review com-mittee.
“The school district isn’t listening and it’s very upsetting,” McTiernan said.
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to expand three culverts to four feet in diameter and replace six others with nine-foot waterways. The catch is the cost: $250,000 for the smaller culverts, $1 million for the larger efforts.
“We don’t have the funding,” Williams said.
Three culverts that need attention are on private property, but the county still is involved in trying to address those alleged prob-lem spots.
“Replacing those cul-verts will help keep water from running up and over Northeast Eighth Street and that is a primary goal, and we’re hopeful that we can get grant funding needed to get the job done,” Williams
said.One other step planned
by county officials is a $50,000 hydrologic study of the lake. Williams said there is funding in place for that work.
In talking about the flooding, Williams and
others point to 2010 as the worst year. According to the county, one and a half feet of water covered the street in December that year. As they tried to reach their homes, some residents found themselves turned away by safety forces.
Husting said he doesn’t believe heavy rains alone caused that flooding, but that neglect to drainage systems and unabated water from outside the immediate area were also to blame.
Williams didn’t dis-agree. After the flooding, workers not only cleaned out culverts, but installed what was dubbed a “bea-ver deceiver.” According to information supplied by the county, the cul-vert cleaning reached 1,450 feet downstream of Northeast Eighth Street.
While there hasn’t been any flooding as bad as 2010, Husting said a few inches of water cov-ered most of the street last month. He said he isn’t convinced new and improved culverts are the entire answer, that they might end up simply mov-ing the problem further downstream.
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By Tom Corrigan
King County resident Patrick Husting worries that plans to build more homes near Lake Allen will make flooding problems worse for himself and neighbors along Northeast Eighth Street.
Agriculture commission seeks members
King County seeks experts in farming, food production and distribu-tion to apply for a posi-tion on the Agriculture Commission.
Created in 1994, the commission advises county managers and elected officials on poli-cies and programs affect-ing agriculture, including land-use issues and pro-moting and enhancing agriculture and agricul-tural products across the region.
Interested applicants should have a working knowledge of agriculture and/or food systems, and the ability to work with differing viewpoints to find solutions to com-plex problems. They should either be produc-ers of agricultural crops or commodities, or have demonstrable knowl-edge, experience and interest in agricultural real estate, food process-ing, wholesale and retail marketing, produce buy-
ing, direct marketing, supply and finance.
Learn more by calling 206-477-1556, emailing [email protected] or going to http://1.usa.gov/1xul4lQ.
Audition now for Master Chorus Eastside
Master Chorus Eastside is holding audi-tions in preparation for its upcoming 2014/2015 season.
Tenors and basses are particularly needed. This season’s repertoire includes works by Bach, Eric Whitacre, George Gershwin, local compos-er John Muehleisen and the spectacular “Sunrise Mass,” by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo.
Interested singers must have choral expe-rience and basic music reading ability. Call the Master Chorus Eastside office at 392-8446 for an audition appoint-ment. Learn more about the chorus at www.mas-terchoruseastside.org.
Collective project show draws almost 1,000
Last month’s per-formance of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” pre-sented by the Sammamish Arts Commission’s Repertory Collective Project, drew nearly 1,000 patrons.
The group is in the planning stages for future musical and dramatic productions, including “An Operatic Cabaret,” the West Coast premier of “Adrift in Macao” and a special children’s pro-duction at the EX3 Teen Center.
Organizers said the high attendance for “It’s a Wonderful Life” shows
Sammamish residents want more from the col-lective project.
“We have tapped into a definite desire for
continuing this proj-ect,” Sammamish Arts Commission Steven Wright said in a news release. “This is the begin-
ning of a journey to create a platform for talented people in our community to explore and express, learn and share.”
Rich Radcliffe has a simple business philosophy that has served him well since taking the ownership reins of the original Uncle Si’s Pizza restaurant in 2012.
“Our theme is basically, ‘We treat you like you want to be treated,’” Radcliffe said. “When we go out, we want good service, we want good food, we want to have fun.”
Quality service, a tasty menu and a fun atmo-sphere have blended at the second Uncle Si’s branch, which opened shortly before Christmas along the Lake Sammamish water-front.
It features the same menu as the original Uncle Si’s, in the Snoqualmie Ridge development, with a twist: The building has more space than the own-ers need for pizza, so they chose to add a breakfast bar. It’s limited to coffee for now, but Radcliffe said they’ll begin serving crepes within the next month.
Radcliffe, a 13-year Sammamish resident, owned a telecommunica-tions company until a few years ago, when he sold it in pursuit of “what I want-ed to do when I grew up,” he joked.
The original Uncle Si’s has done well since, sparking expansion plans. Radcliffe has had help from a business partner, Paul Wedeberg, although plans to open in May 2014 were pushed back due to build-ing-code hurdles.
Uncle Si’s is the only
restaurant on the Lake Sammamish waterfront in Sammamish city limits, and it’s already receiving posi-tive reviews from residents, Radcliffe said.
“I’ve been driving by here for years, and I’ve always thought it would be a good location for some-thing,” he said.
“… The neighborhood is very receptive. Actually, everybody that has come in
says, ‘Thank you for build-ing this. We needed this for the neighborhood.’ Our job is to make sure they come back. If you build it, they’ll come, and if you build it great, they’ll stay.”
The restaurant features several specialty pizzas, ranging from $13 to $20 for a 12-inch pie and $17 to $26 for a 16-inch pie. Gluten-free crusts are avail-able, and Radcliffe offered
up only one secret ingredi-ent: “It’s made with love. A special crust and a special sauce differentiates any pizza.”
The signature pizzas are the marinara-based Mama Yo, covered in garlic chicken, Canadian bacon, Italian sausage, basil, jala-penos, tomatoes, mush-rooms, olives and moz-zarella; and The Divorce, a half-pepperoni, half-cheese
concoction.“It goes with our sense
of humor,” Radcliffe said.The list of appetizers
includes cheesy bread, bruschetta, potato skins and baked chicken wings.
Vegetarians can dig into Greek and Caesar salads, and sandwich fans can select from eight grinders, including parmesan chick-en and Bayou shrimp.
Customers over 21 can enjoy a selection of draft beers or a growing list of wines.
In only its first week of business, Radcliffe said, dinner patrons have packed the place every night. That might have something to do with the three 55-inch televisions, sure to attract the atten-tions of most sports fans.
Radcliffe joked that he built the restaurant as a “man cave” aimed at his own amusements.
“I get to come to work and we have fun every day,” he said. “It’s light-hearted. … It’s just like me and my friends, or you and your friends. It’s nothing too serious. We’re especially proud of the quality of the food and service we give.”
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Get a fresh startby being a volunteer
Start the new year off right by volunteering your time or money to worthwhile causes like these:
Redmond/Sammamish Boys & Girls Club — Get involved with young people and make a difference in their future. Opportunities include games and activities, teen nights, education center/computers, coaching and advising, maintenance and fundraising. Volunteers have to complete an application. To volunteer with kids, a background check is a legal requirement. Go to http://positiveplace.org. Learn about the Redmond/Sammamish club under “Locations.”
CERT — The Community Emergency Response Team program educates people about disaster preparedness and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, and disaster medical operations. There are many other volunteer opportuni-ties. Learn more at http://sammamishcitizencorps.com.
Mountains to Sound Greenway — Make a dif-ference while having fun outside by volunteering in the greenway, 1.5 million acres surrounding Interstate 90 on more than 900,000 acres of publicly owned land. Restore natural areas and improve trails in order to keep the greenway healthy and beautiful. Learn more at http://mtsgreenway.org.
Issaquah Schools Foundation — Be on a com-mittee, help with fundraising, help write grants, speak in a classroom or volunteer to mentor students. Or just donate money so local children can get a better education than the state pays for. Learn more at http://issaquahschoolsfoundation.org/volunteer.
Lake Washington Schools Foundation — Help students and watch them grow. Give your time volunteering or mentoring or donate money to help children get the education they deserve. Learn more at www.lwsf.org.
Eastside Friends of Seniors — “Eastside Friends of Seniors helps the elderly living in the greater Issaquah, Sammamish, Snoqualmie Valley and Bellevue com-munities with volunteers, so that they may stay where they really want to be — in their own homes.” Help with chores, drive someone to a medical appointment or grocery store, or help with shopping. Learn more at http://eastsidefriendsofseniors.org.
Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank — “The work-ing poor. The newly homeless. Struggling seniors. The mentally ill. Whether underemployed or unemployable, the victim of tough times or tough streets, representing a long-term need or a short-term crisis, we try to help everyone who comes to us.” The organization helps people of all ages in the Issaquah School District all year long. You can help by donating food, money or time. Learn more at http://issaquahfoodbank.org.
Simple solution — Pick up a few extra canned goods when you’re doing your own grocery shopping and drop them by the bank at 179 First Ave. S.E., Issaquah.
By Sandra CollinsSpecial to Sammamish Review
I never considered myself a particularly sentimental or nostalgic person. In fact, I often question myself whether I should keep things or donate them.
I think to myself, “Shouldn’t I keep this bird made out of a shell that my grandpar-ents passed down to me?” and “Shouldn’t I have some attachment to it that screams, ‘Save me from eBay?’”
Well, there is one thing that I will never sell, donate or toss and that is my turquoise Sunbeam
Mixmaster. My mom gave this to me after my grand-mother passed away. I am sure I got it only because she already had the same version but in an avocado shade.
I love my Mixmaster. My kids love the cookies we make together with this mixer. Every time I lug it out of the cup-
board, I look at the bright color and it makes me smile. I think of the stories my dad told me about how him and all his buddies would come home from school and his mom would have a plate of cookies waiting for them to devour. I know she made them with love and with this Mixmaster.
I Googled “turquoise Sunbeam Mixmaster” and it seems it may have been from the 1950s, which seems about right. Maybe her mom gave it to her. I think it may be the only thing I own that just might be vintage.
My grandmother has been gone for many years now and it seems harder and harder to remember her. I wish I could walk with her. I wish I could talk with her. I would love for her to meet my kids. I know she is peeking down on us when we are making cookies, smiling with us.
No eBay for this mixer. You won’t find it in my next garage sale. You will have to find some-body else’s Sunbeam at Goodwill.
It doesn’t matter how much it is worth…to me, it’s priceless.
Citizens can make a difference by contacting their elected repre-sentatives.
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D), 511 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3441; http://cantwell.senate.gov; 915 Second Ave., Suite 512, Seattle, WA 98174; 206-220-6400
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D), 173 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510; 202-224-2621; http://murray.senate.gov; Jackson Federal Building, Room 2988, 915 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98174; 206-553-5545
U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert (R-8th District), 1730 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515; 202-225-7761; 22605 SE 56th St., Suite 130, Issaquah, WA 98029; 425-677-7414; www.house.gov/reichert
State — Governor Gov. Jay Inslee (D), Office of
the Governor, P.O. Box 40002, Olympia, WA 98504-0002; 360-902-4111; www.governor.wa.gov
State — 45th DistrictSen. Andy Hill (R), andy.hill@
King County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, District 3. King County Courthouse, 516 Third Ave., Room 1200, Seattle, WA 98104; 206-296-1003; 800-325-6165; [email protected]
My turquoise Sunbeam Mixmaster is priceless
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Car break-ins• Reports did not list
what was stolen, but some-one broke into cars in a residential driveway in the 800 block of 198th Place Southeast on Dec. 17. The cars were not locked.
• Again reports did not say what was stolen, but thieves this time broke into a car parked Dec. 20 in the 1800 block of 216th Place Northeast. The incident was listed as a larceny, as the items taken
were valued at more than $250.
• An in-dash GPS was stolen when persons unknown broke into a car parked the morning of Dec. 22 in the 2400 block of Northeast 27th Place. The thieves entered through a driver’s side door.
• This time, a bag of collector coins was sto-len from a car parked Dec. 24 on 207th Avenue Northeast. The suspect or suspects broke a passenger side window to gain entry to the vehicle. This theft also was listed as a larceny,
because of the value of the stolen property.
With friends like these…
Someone the victim described as an “old friend” came to visit at a home on 220th Avenue Southeast. The “visit” turned into what police dubbed a home invasion robbery. Police say the victim was assaulted and unspecified tools stolen. Reports did not mention any arrests in the incident, which took place at about
1:20 p.m. Dec. 20.
BurglaryPersons unknown let
themselves into what police reports said was a garage left unlocked the night of Dec. 24 in the 2400 block of Southeast 30th Street. Reports did not say what was stolen.
Suspicious circumstances
Someone reported hear-ing loud bangs, which could have been gunshots
or fireworks, in the area of the 20300 block of Southeast 24th Street the evening of Dec. 24. Police did not report finding any problems in the area.
Also suspiciousA resident in the 2300
block of Northeast 10th Place discovered what was described as several small holes in the dining room windows of their home. Reports did not speculate about what may have caused the holes, discov-ered early the evening of Dec. 26.
Theft from construction site
Persons unknown made off with an unreported amount of copper wire and an electrical control box from a construction site in the 700 block of East Lake Sammamish Road. The incident was reported ay about noon Dec. 27.
Sammamish Review publishes names of those charged with felony crimes. Information comes directly from local police reports.
Police blotter
The Samantha Smith Elementary School’s Student Leadership Council collected gifts from Dec. 1-5 for the Issaquah Holiday Gift Barn, a program of the Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank.
Teacher Brianna Woodworth, librarian Barb Regan and several fifth-grade students on the leadership council led the
gift drive. It was the first time the school supported the gift barn after several years of collecting gift card donations and sup-porting the Pantry Pack program, which gives food on the weekends to needy Lake Washington School District students.
The Smith students met regularly during recesses to develop plans for soliciting donations, construct signs
for the promotion and write scripts to read over the school’s intercom, and also did a lunchtime skit to raise awareness.
On Dec. 8, the students gathered hundreds of presents from each class-room and brought them to Pickering Barn in Issaquah, where they helped stock shelves in preparation for the Holiday Gift Barn opening.
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From left, Smith Elementary fifth-graders Dylan Denq, Aditi Goyal, Maeve Toland, Parker Kirkwood and Jaskaran Dhilon helped lead the school’s gift drive for the Issaquah Holiday Gift Barn.
Smith Elementary supports local gift donation program
City invites students to apply for scholarship
The city of Sammamish is now accepting applications for the Association of Washington Cities Center for Quality Communities Scholarship fund.
The scholarship is available through a state-wide competitive process for students who are actively engaged in their city government and/or community and plan to attend post-secondary school in fall 2015.
To be eligible, a stu-dent must be graduating from high school, home school or receiving a GED in spring/summer 2015; live or go to school in Sammamish; plan to con-tinue his or her education at an accredited post-sec-ondary institution in the 2015-2016 academic year on a half-time or more basis; and have been involved with a city gov-ernment or with a com-munity/school leadership activity.
The city is nominat-ing one local candi-date to compete for the AWC Center of Quality Community’s Scholarship. The $1,250 scholarship will be award-ed to six Washington state students.
Those wanting to be considered should submit a completed scholarship application form by Jan. 30. Information and application materials can be obtained at cfqc.org.
Mail your completed application package to City of Sammamish, Attention: Recreation Coordinator, 801 228th Ave. S.E., Sammamish, WA 98075.
Record number of bird species tallied during Christmas Bird Count
Members of the Eastside Audubon chapter counted a record 97 spe-cies of birds during their annual Christmas Bird
Count on Dec. 20.This was the 31st year
for the count that takes place in Issaquah, Preston, Fall City, the Snoqualmie Valley, Redmond, on the Sammamish Plateau and along the east and west sides of Lake Sammamish.
Four new species were added to the all-time list of birds seen, including a Golden Eagle, Eurasian-collard Doves, a Turkey Vulture and a Gyrfalcon.
“The annual bird cen-sus enables scientists to see long-term trends in bird populations and range,” Andy McCormick, president of Eastside Audubon, said in a news release. “Many birds are on the brink of losing suitable habitat due to cli-mate change.”
A recent report from the National Audubon Society on birds and cli-mate change identified 50 birds in Washington state at risk.
The data collected are sent to the National Audubon Society, which has been conducting simi-lar counts for 115 years, since Christmas Day 1900.
The Skyline High School girls basketball team doesn’t have a star player, but the Spartans are learning to use that to their advantage.
Sophomore Kailey Kassuba led three double-digit scorers, and fresh-men Jade Loville and Julia Mitchell gave Skyline an edge off the bench, as the Spartans knocked off the Mount Si Wildcats, 65-55, in a Class 4A KingCo Conference game Jan. 3 in Snoqualmie.
A huge third quarter propelled the Spartans, who won for the fourth time in five games fol-lowing an 0-3 start. Skyline outscored Mount Si 21-10 in the third, turning a six-point half-time lead into a 50-33 edge that proved insur-mountable over the final eight minutes.
Coach Joe Fithian said the Spartans played well in the first half, but several missed layups kept them from building a bigger lead.
“I basically told them to continue to do what we were doing, and just to settle down and make the
layups,” Fithian said.“They worked really
hard, and we had a really good game plan for
(Mount Si). We wanted to attack and we wanted to spread things out and take it to the rim, and we did.
We just couldn’t finish in the first half.”
Mount Si’s Madi Bevins scored to open the third quarter, but Skyline went on a 17-4 surge to take control.
It was a run that exem-plified the Spartans’ share-the-wealth approach.
Maddie Adamson hit
Alicia Shim for a fast-break layup that extended the lead to 10. Kassuba, who had a team-high 18 points, hit a 3-pointer. And Taylor McKerlich stole the ball and broke free for another basket as part of her 12-point performance.
Kassuba is leading the
Spartans with a 12-points-per-game average, but doesn’t always look to take over the game.
“I didn’t know I scored that much until I looked up at the board, and so I just kind of feel like I was in the flow of the game,”
Well-rounded attack sparks Skyline girls’ victory
By Greg Farrar
Mount Si High School’s Annie Hiebert is fouled while going to the basket between Skyline’s Kelli Sullivan (left) and Caroline Bowmanduring the second quarter of their Jan. 3 basketball game.
By Greg Farrar
Skyline High School junior wing Maddie Adamson (right) is fouled by Mount Si’s Camryn Buck during the third quarter of their Jan. 3 basketball game. Adamson sank both free throws and the Spartans won, 65-55.
After the first quarter of his team’s Jan. 3 game at Mount Si, Skyline High School’s Robert Biegaj had an unusual stat line: two points, three fouls.
The day before, he began having eye prob-lems, and even after get-ting treatment, he wasn’t feeling 100 percent. But he didn’t make excuses about his first-half performance.
“I just wasn’t men-tally focused going into the game,” he said. “But I knew I just needed to stick with it going into the second half … and when I was sitting on the bench, I was just getting mentally prepared to get back to my prime.”
Biegaj scored 16 of his game-high 18 points in the second half, help-ing Skyline overcome a five-point halftime deficit and beat Mount Si, 64-56, in a Class 4A KingCo Conference boys basket-ball game in Snoqualmie.
Trailing 29-24 at the break, the Spartans were very much in the game, but needed to make some adjustments to turn things around.
“We’ve just got to trust in the system,” Biegaj said. “There was no doubt in each other. We were tak-ing bad shots. I think the team just came together in the second half and really played well.”
The Spartans (3-5 over-all, 2-3 conference) opened the third quarter on a 10-0 run, including 3-pointers
from Biegaj and Connor Crisp. They outscored the Wildcats 20-7 in the third, and despite giving up 20
points in the fourth, were never in danger of losing the lead again.
“Really, it’s a credit to
the team as a collective, because in the second half they committed to mov-ing the basketball with the pass,” Skyline coach Bill McIntyre said. “The first half it was catch, head down, dribble. There was no ball movement. Once we started getting ball movement, we started get-ting good looks.”
Mount Si coach Kyle Clearman acknowledged the third quarter as the turning point in the game.
“They went to a 2-3 zone that kind of shook us up in the third quar-ter, and we didn’t make the right adjustments,” Clearman said.
Skyline scored the game’s first six points and had a 15-13 lead after one quarter, but with Biegaj on the bench, the Wildcats
scored the next 11 points.The Spartans didn’t
score in the second period until Logan Wanamaker’s 3-pointer at the 3:35 mark, and a basket from Mount Si’s Isaac Mullins in the final seconds extended his team’s lead to five points.
Biegaj sat out the entire second quarter, and Clearman said he didn’t think the Wildcats could’ve done anything more to hammer out a big-ger lead.
“I don’t there was one player that made the dif-ference in the game,” he said. “Like I said, I think we just didn’t make the right adjustments, and down the stretch we just weren’t quite good enough.”
Robert Biegaj turns it on, leads Skyline boys past Mount Si
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By Greg Farrar
Skyline High School senior forward Drew Stender (right) defends Gavin Gorell, of Mount Si, under the hoop during the first quarter of their Jan. 3 basketball game.
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Ian Frank, a seventh-grade student at Inglewood Middle School, organized a holiday food drive as part of a class assign-ment from English teacher Tamara Schaefbauer. With the help of a few friends, Frank was able to collect a load of canned goods that was given to Eastside Fire & Rescue personnel in Sam-mamish. The items were distributed to needy local families.
SEATTLE KingCounty REALTORS honors David Irons
David Irons, of Coldwell Banker Bain in Issaquah, was recently named Government Affairs Volunteer of the Year.
Irons was one of 10 members of SEATTLE KingCounty REALTORS honored for their special achievements at an industry event Dec. 17 in Bellevue.
Banquet attendees participated in a 50/50 raffle and dessert auction to raise funds for the Seattle First Citizen Scholarship Foundation. Nearly $5,000 was raised for scholarships, awarded in part for good citizenship and community involve-ment.
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she said.“Realistically, it was a
matter of matchups, and they didn’t have anybody who could guard her,” Fithian added. “That’s not a knock on the Mount Si kids — they really played hard — but when you look at the size and the agility that she has as a four (power forward), it presents a lot of matchup problems for the other team.”
Mitchell scored 10 points and Loville added nine, giving the Spartans what proved to be a vital 19-9 edge in bench points.
The Wildcats (0-5 con-ference) used the inside play of Annie Hiebert and Elizabeth Prewitt to charge back in the fourth quarter. Hiebert’s layup with 2:30 left narrowed Mount Si’s deficit to nine, but an Adamson 3-pointer restored momentum for Skyline.
Hiebert and Prewitt did some damage, scoring 18 and 16 points, respectively, but Fithian felt Alexa Kirton’s defense had a big impact.
Kirton, a 5-foot-10 sophomore, made her first varsity start, and her coach gave her one task: keep Prewitt from getting the ball. Kirton played the entire first and third quar-ters, and Prewitt scored only four points in that time, helping the Spartans open up comfortable leads.
Mount Si coach Taylor Bass, a former Skyline assis-tant, said his girls nearly found a way to win despite their size disadvantage.
“We’re the smallest team in the league,” Bass said. “It’s probably going to be that way for a year or two before we get some of the volleyball kids to hopefully come out. But for us, it’s just understand-ing what our game is, what it is we want to do, and staying true to that and not letting the other team dictate the things we want to do.”
Skyline hosts Redmond at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7, and travels to Issaquah at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 9 with a good chance of solidifying a spot in the top half of the KingCo standings.
“I think we’ve started to play a lot more togeth-er, and we’re starting to get used to Joe’s system,” Kassuba said. “We’re start-ing to get good.”
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Drew Stender scored on a post-up play to give Skyline its first double-digit lead in the third quarter. And after the Wildcats made a couple of runs in the fourth, reserve guard Ryan Sakamoto drilled a 3-pointer from the left corner that all but iced the final result.
McIntyre said Sakamoto has been patient despite being a senior who isn’t getting a lot of playing time. He saw the floor more during the Spartans’ three-game tournament in San Diego over the holiday break.
“He’s a very con-
fident kid, and he didn’t hesitate. He was open and he took it,” McIntyre said of the shot.
Stender scored 12 points, with Wanamaker, Crisp and Braden Ahlemeyer adding eight points each. Mount Si got 17 points from Danny Tomson and 10 from Jojo Hillel.
Skyline faces a pair of high-caliber teams in their next two games, traveling to Issaquah at 8 p.m. Jan. 9 and to Bothell at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 13.
Winning at Mount Si might be a sign of what McIntyre believes is a maturing group of play-ers.
“Any win in league, especially on the road, is good for us and good for our growth,” he said.
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