By Lillian O’Rorke

Pablo Picasso once said that every child is an artist – the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

But with any luck, that may not be a problem next weekend when area artists invite the public to a free two-day event of experiencing and exploring art.

“I like experimentation. I think people should. If they fail, who cares,” said print maker Leslie Moon “Doing my art and sharing my art with people is what fuels my soul.”

Moon is one of 31 artists who were hand-selected by a panel of their peers to take part in the sixth annual Sammamish Arts Fair, hosted at Sammamish City Hall, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 13 – 14. Her black and white images, printed from raw cuts on a lino-leum block will be on display there. Next to the finished pieces, Moon’s sharp carving tools will be ready and available to any adults who want to feed their curiosity about printmaking. This is the artist’s first time taking part in the event.

“Living out in North Bend, I used to think I had to go into

Seattle or Bellevue; then I found this art community in Issaquah and Sammamish and it’s fabu-lous,” said Moon. “Whenever I can be in a situation where I am just an artist it’s wonderful. Everything else goes away and I can just be Leslie the artist and it just fuels me for the day.”

The fair will stretch from inside City Hall, where paint-ings, jewelry, ceramics, textile art and more will be available for purchase, to the library and the grounds in between. Out in the plaza, families can watch live musical performances and take part in different art projects, including contributing to a com-munity mural. Ten easels will be set up in a line and a volunteer artist will start the mural then invite fair-goers to make their own mark.

Another art encounter planned for the event is the Junk Chime, a mobile percussion sculpture that is suspended for tone and hung from a wheeled superstructure. Made from recy-cled metal objects, the project was started in Seattle in 1985 and has since evolved through its use by children and adults alike at various fairs and festivals.

“To compliment the display of art…we wanted to make it a fam-ily day,” said Daphne Robinson, chairwoman of the Sammamish Arts Commission, which is help-ing to put on the event. “Usually it’s a beautiful day…people can come look at the art and go help make a quilt; go see a puppet show.”

One of the fair’s founding art-ists is Joe McConnell. While the reins have since been passed on, the wood carver and teacher will still have his work on display, including a 4-foot totem pole that depicts McConnell’s story of mov-ing to Sammamish from the other side of the country.

“Once you’ve established what you want to say, then you find the animals or characters or design elements that help you say that,” he explained about the process of crafting a totem pole.

The fact that you can find an artist who makes totem poles, and others who paint or work with glass all in the same com-munity, is one of the main inspi-rations behind the fair, he said.

“As an artist, I became aware of the diversity of the different artists and the different things they are doing just on the pla-

teau,” said McConnell. “Every type of art form that you could go into a museum or gallery to see is represented here.”

To get ready for the event, Pamela Holderman set a goal for herself months ago to do a painting a day. Her mixed media pieces start out with humble beginnings — builder’s joint compound, which can be picked

up at any local hardware store. She first slabs it on a board, then draws lines through the mud. Next she applies layer after layer of paint, paper and things like old stamps and buttons. Holderman, who majored in sculpture in col-lege, has even been known to add glitter to her final pieces.

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Contributed by Leslie Moon“A is for art” is one of many prints by Leslie Moon. The artists will have her work on display at the Sammamish Arts Fair Oct. 13-14.

Sammamish Arts Fair brings art to the city’s residents

By Lillian O’Rorke

School has only been in ses-sion a few weeks, and already the walls of Allison Lehr’s fourth grade classroom at Discovery Elementary School are decorated with examples of a happy and helpful classroom community.

The white butcher paper that canvases the door can hardly be seen for the colorful text describ-ing good deeds that the students have performed.

Scrawled in orange marker, one student wrote “played with my sister nicely,” underlining the last word. In blue was “I opened the car door for my brother,” and in red, another student wrote, “someone got the wind knocked out of him, and I said are you okay?”

Kushagra Verma, who will be 10 years old Oct. 7, said he likes to help his friends, like if he fin-ishes his schoolwork early he’ll offer them assistance.

“To you, you think it’s a little

bit but to them it’s a big help,” he said. “And by that, you’re help-ing make the world a beautiful place.”

Kushagra and the rest of his class were challenged by their teacher to do three random acts of kindness every day.

“Acts of kindness is something I like to do in the fall to build community,” said Lehr. “They start to think outside of them-selves and learn to be more help-ful and caring for others.”

To help illustrate the lesson, she showed the class a clip from the movie “Pay it Forward,” about a boy who attempts to make the world a better place.

A lot of them do it naturally, she added, but others need to be reminded.

“It really helps this place be a better community,” said Jake Kacsur. “It [helping one another] goes on and on and on.”

As the students learn about Photo by Lillian O’RorkeExplaining that his hands help him play football among other things, Srikar Chava reads aloud to his fourth grade classmates.

Discovery students take time to be kind

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See ART, Page 9

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By Lillian O’Rorke

Twelve minutes into Skyline’s first home football game Sept. 28, it was clear who would be the victor.

The first quarter was awash in touchdowns and none of them belonged to Garfield. The Skyline Spartans went to work right away with Sam Mix, on the punt return, running the ball to Garfield’s 35-yard line. Four plays later, the Spartans had their first touchdown thanks to Cedric Cooper, who made a successful run for the end zone. Skyline fin-ished it up with a 2-point conver-sion by kicker Sean McDonald.

Giving up zero turnovers, Skyline continued to score. Peyton Pelluer recovered Garfield’s fumble and ran it over the line; McDonald secured the extra point.

“Every game we go into defen-sively, we want to go and play our game, fast physical football,” said Pelluer.

Next, Andrew Giese finished off a 30-yard pass from Max

Browne, and Nate Gibson made the 2-point conversion. Rolling on, Browne completed a pass to Austin Bui in the end zone. Sailing it between the posts, McDonald put the Spartans 30th point on the board, setting the score at 30-0 with little more than three minutes left in the first quarter.

Skyline continued, gaining four more touchdowns and two points from Garfield’s botched hike, bringing the half time score to 60-8.

The deficit would have been larger when Chase Premore caught the punt and ran 80 yards, breaking two tackles. However, the touchdown was denied for illegal holding.

“I’m just happy with the way we played. We still have some stuff we need to clean up,” said Pelluer. “It was kind of sloppy. We work on our execution, and paying smart and not making bonehead mistakes and getting penalized.”

Photo by Jim NicholsonBrandon Crandall tackles Garfield’s quarterback Hayes Gorecki, causing the visitors to fumble.

In first home game Skyline squashes Garfield 67-16

See FOOTBALL, Page 13

By Lillian O’Rorke

The Eastlake boys golf team continued its undefeated run Sept. 27 when it beat Bothell 199-235.

Playing the par 36 east nine holes of their home course, Sahalee, this was the Eastlake Wolves’ 6th KingCo win this sea-son.

Senior Will Sharp was the day’s top golfer, outshooting Bothell’s best scorer by five strokes. After getting off to a slow start with a bogie on both holes No. 4 and 5, Sharp hit some well-placed drives and finished the last four holes one under par for a score of 37.

Sharp’s best hole of the day was the same one that eluded him and teammate Keegan Stirrat the week before.

The two were paired together during a practice when both had the chance to birdie No. 6 and lost it.

This time around, the two both scored a three on the par four, with Stirrat wrapping up his birdie with a 20-foot chip.

“I was excited for him; it was a good shot,” said Sharp. “Then I wanted to go up and make my putt…it kind of got my round going again, I got back my confi-dence.”

Stirrat, who usually plays at

the latter end of the varsity line-up, assumed the role of No. 1 for Eastlake.

Head coach Pat Bangasser explained that he likes to base his pairings and positions on chemis-try as much as scoring. So far, he said, it’s worked out pretty well for the team.

“He [Stirrat] has been working really hard this summer. He’s calm and collected on the course, and off the course, he’s funny,” said Sharp, who requested the pairing. “How calm he is kind of calms myself down.”

Playing in the team’s top spot, Stirrat finished at 44, two strokes shy of Bothell’s No. 1 golfer and nine strokes ahead of its No. 2.

Playing in the No. 3 and 4 spots for Eastlake was senior Li Wang and junior RP McCoy.

By the time their foursome reached the ninth green, more than 30 people, include players,

coaches and parents had gath-ered round. The crowd gave a subdued round of applause when McCoy, finishing on a high note, birdied the par four for a final score of 41.

After struggling a bit at the start, Wang was three over for the first four holes. Scoring a par every hole after that, he finished as the matches second top scorer with 39 strokes.

“I just told myself I need to get it together,” said Wang. “I kept it under 40, which I was pretty happy with, considering how I started off.”

Also contributing to the Wolves’ win was Casey Silva, who shot 40. Paul Pusso, Ian MacLeod and Scott Nielsen all scored 42. Colby Stirrat finished with 45 strokes and Josh Grace shot 47.

“We are trying to just play to our potential, and when things go well, we are a pretty good team,” said Bangasser. Eastlake finished third in state last year and is eye-ing the tournament again. “We don’t expect to win state but if we play well we have a shot. It’s all about getting guys into the sec-ond day.”

Reporter Lillian O’Rorke can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242 or ltucker@sammamishreview.com. To comment on this story visit www.sammamishreview.com.

Photo by Lillian O’RorkeAfter driving onto the eighth green, Eastlake’s Will Sharp putts the ball for his second shot. Sharp finished with par after the ball curved around the hole.

Undefeated Eastlake boys defeat Bothell 199-235“We are trying to just play to our potential,

and when things go well, we are a pretty good

team,”– Pat Bangasser,

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