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Senior players psyched for Kinnune’s 20th season

BY SETH TRUSCOTTEditor

“Run through, run through! Bam!”

Defensive Coordinator Wayne Lewis was emphatic about what he wanted in the tackling drill, and Connor Deutsch was only too happy to comply.

The 175-pound running and defensive back stepped and charged with the rest of the Mount Si team.

“The team is looking good,” said Deutsch, who was psyched about a preseason rating of second in KingCo in a Seattle Times 3A coaches’ poll.

“I want to live up to that,” he said.

Deutsch joins four other seniors as team captains: Sherman Hutcherson, Josh Mitchell, Kolton Auxier and Ryan Atkinson.

“I think we’re ready,” said start-ing quarterback Atkinson. “I’m excited... real excited to see what happens.”

Starting his 20th September as head coach, Charlie Kinnune said the team, while a mite young with only 15 seniors, is still strong and well-respected.

“What I’m most proud of is that I’m as excited in year 20 as year one,” he said. “I really like the fami-lies, the kids, here.”

“I want to see us get to the Dome,” said senior linebacker Caymon Granillo. “That’s what everybody wants.”

Mount Si visits Bothell at Pop Keeney Stadium, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10.

Mount Si girls soccer returners aggressive, conditioned

BY SETH TRUSCOTTEditor

Cheers go up as Laura Barnes nears the net, then fires a ball over the keeper’s head and right under the crossbar for a goal.

“We just had to win,” the senior explained her shot, which drew cheers from teammates on both sides of the drill. “I had to get some-thing done.”

Getting things done should come easy to Barnes, a team captain and likely standout player for the Mount Si women’s soccer team this fall.

“She’s a very aggressive forward,” said assistant coach Ben Tomlisson, who expects

Barnes, “a real go-to player,” to put plenty of balls away over the next few months.

Barnes isn’t the only deeply experienced player on the women’s team.

Twin sisters Brittany and Taylor Duncan, both seniors, bring depth and a family feel—their older brother Sean helped the boys team get to the quarterfinals in 2009.

The Duncans say hard work and team play will get them back to the playoffs, where Mount Si reached the first round last year.

They played on the same Issaquah club this summer.

“You always have someone with you; you always have each other’s back,” Taylor said of the twin approach.

Young, but more experienced than her years, sophomore Sophia Rouches brings

Seth Truscott/Staff Photo

Above, senior Ryan Atkinson is a team cap-tain and starting quarterback for the 2011 Mount Si football team.Left, senior Connor Deutsch powers into a teammate during tackling drills. “We really want to work hard,” the running back says.

The Wildcat show

Seth Truscott/Staff PhotoAbove, Sophie Rockow and Courtney Cowan will share goal-keeper duties this fall. Far left, senior leaders include Laura Barnes and twins Brittany and Taylor Duncan.

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Saturday, Sept. 10• Mount Si at Bothell, Pop Keeney Field, 7 p.m.Friday, Sept . 16• Mount Si at home vs. Lake Washington, 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 23• Mount Si at home vs. Liberty, 7 p.m.Friday, Sept. 30• Mount Si at Interlake, 7 p.m.Friday, Oct. 7• Mount Si at Mercer Island, 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 14• Mount Si at Juanita, 7 p.m.Friday, Oct. 21• Mount Si at home vs. Bellevue, 7 p.m.Friday, Oct. 28• Mount Si at Sammamish, 7 p.m.

Band of brothersCo-team captain Kolton Auxier’s goals as part of the Mount Si varsity foot-ball team are to “get better in any way I can, have a great year, and have no regrets.”On varsity since his sophomore year, he says the Wildcat experience is about hard work with teammates who love the game. Conditioning and frequent practices “pull you closer together than anything else in life can. Everybody’s got each other’s back.“There’s nothing else like it,” he added. “There’s nothing that compares to football. We’re in all senses a band of brothers. We’ve gone through it all together.”

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MOUNT SI GIRLS SOCCER

Thursday, Sept. 8• Mount Si at Cedarcrest, 7 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 10• Mount Si hosts Monroe, 5 p.m.Tuesday, Sept. 13• Mount Si hosts Liberty, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 15• Mount Si hosts Sammamish, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 20• Mount Si at Lake Washington, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 22• Mount Si at Juanita, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, Sept. 27• Mount Si hosts Interlake, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 29• Mount Si at Bellevue, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 4• Mount Si hosts Mercer Island, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 6• Mount Si at Liberty, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 11• Mount Si at Sammamish, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 13• Mount Si hosts Lake Washington, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 18• Mount Si hosts Juanita, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 20• Mount Si at Interlake, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 25• Mount Si hosts Bellevue, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 27• Mount Si at Mercer Island, 7:30 p.m.

Quality controlMount Si midfielder Laura Barnes is expected to be a driving force on the women’s 2011 soccer team.Her goals: “We’re going to go to state. We’re going to have a really fun time.”In the past four years, she’s had a great experience getting to know everyone in the hometown program. Her summer went by fast thanks to club play and travel with Lynnwood-based Northwest Nationals—all with an eye on preparing for this season. LAURA BARNES

MOUNT SI BOYS

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Wednesday, Sept. 7• Mount Si at Bothell, 3:45 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 8• Mount Si hosts Liberty, 3:45 p.m.Tuesday, Sept. 13• Mount Si hosts Mercer Island, 3:45 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 20• Mount Si hosts Sammamish, 3:45 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 22• Mount Si at Lake Washington, 3:45 p.m.Tuesday, Sept. 27• Mount Si hosts Juanita, 3:45 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 29• Mount Si hosts Bellevue, 3:45 p.m

Tuesday, Oct. 4• Mount Si at Interlake, 3:45 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 6• Mount Si at Issaquah, 3:45 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 11• Mount Si at Liberty, 3:45 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 12• Mount Si at Sammamish, 3:45 p.m.Monday, Oct. 17• KingCo 3A Tournament begins, TBA

In the hot seatExpected to hold the number-one singles spot on the Mount Si tennis team, Camden Foucht plays solo, and is happy that way.“You can just depend on yourself,” said the sopho-more, who gave a brief interview while simultane-ously playing on the blue Wildcat court.He likes the sport, likes playing different opponents and exploring different ways to play. Foucht has played since elementary days and practices at the Edgebrook club in Bellevue. This fall, he is more consistent and better at volleys and serving. Work on the basics, he advises younger players.

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Fall 2011 Varsity schedule

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Wednesday, Sept. 7• Kingco jamboree at Lake Sammamish State Park, Issaquah, 4 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 10• Tahoma Co-ed Relay, Lake Wilderness Park, Maple Valley

Wednesday, Sept. 14• Mount Si vs. Bellevue at Kelsey Creek Park, Bellevue, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21• Mount Si hosts Bellevue and Interlake, 4 p.m,Saturday, Sept. 24• Bellevue Invitational, Lake Samm. State ParkWednesday, Sept. 28• Mount Si and Sammamish at Lake Washington High School, Kirkland, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 5• Mount Si and Interlake at Juanita, St. Edwards State Park, Kenmore, 4 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 12• Mount Si hosts Liberty/Mercer Island, 4 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 20• Kingco 3A Championships at Lake Sammamish State ParkThursday, Oct. 27• SeaKing Districts, Lake Sammamish State Park

Going placesMount Si’s cross country chances this fall are good, says senior Richard Carmichael.“We’ve all been training during the sum-mer,” he said. “We’ll push deep into league and have a bunch of PRs. It’ll be a good season.”Carmichael made it to districts and got to 17:30 on the course last season. He wants to go to state, “and break 17 minutes for sure.”RICHARD CARMICHAEL

MOUNT SI BOYS GOLF

Wednesday, Sept. 7• Jamboree vs. Mercer Island, Interlake, Liberty at Maplewood Golf Course, 3 p.m.Monday, Sept. 12• Mount Si at Bellevue, Overlake course, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15• Mount Si hosts Liberty, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 20• Mount Si at Interlake, Belleue Muni course, 3:30 p.m.Wednesday, Sept. 21• Mount Si hosts Interlake, 3:22 p.mMonday, Sept. 26• Mount Si hosts Lake Washington, 3:22 p.m.Wednesday, Sept. 28• Mount Si at Juanita, Wayne GC, 3 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 4• Mount Si vs., Mercer Island, Twin Rivers GC, 3:45 p.m.

Personal strengthWes Nelson, Mount Si golf team captain, is in his second year on varsity this fall.“We’ll send a couple of our seniors to state,” he predicted. “We have a couple of freshmen who will be really strong by the time they’re seniors.” Golf is a tough game, he advises young players. “So don’t give up.”In the individual sport, “you control your own destiny. It’s all you when you win,” Nelson says.Coach Brandon Proudfoot says Nelson works hard and keeps fighting on the course, even when faced with difficult situ-ations.

MOUNT SI VOLLEYBALL

Wednesday, Sept. 7• Mount Si at Jamboree, Interlake, 4 p.m.Thursday, Sept. 8• Mount Si hosts Liberty, 7 p.m.Monday, Sept. 12• Mount Si hosts Sammamish, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Sept. 14• Mount Si at Lake Washington, 7 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 17• Mount Si at KentClassic tournament.

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Raining thunderSarah McDonald will bring the kills this fall as Mount Si volleyball’s most experienced outside hitter.On the court, her job is to bring the ball down on a weak point in the opposition’s defenses.“It’s pretty awesome,” McDonald says of her role. She brings club experience, all the way to nationals in Atlanta, Ga., this summer, as well as speed camp improvement.Of head coach Bonnie Foote, “she’s one of my favorite coaches ever.” SARAH MCDONALD

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“I’d like to see us score a lot of goals and be in good condi-tion, a good fitness team.”

“The girls are real hungry,” head coach Darren Brown said. “We’ve got a great group,

they’ve worked very hard. I like this team. If we stay healthy, we’re going to be very good.”

Barnes said the team already has good chemistry. Now, “we’ve got show it on the field.”

On goalAt the net, senior Sophie

Rockow and junior Courtney Cowan will split halves.

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“It’s a lot more intense than JV,” said Rockow, who was moved up this season. “It’s exciting.”

Besides blocking balls, Cowan wants to see a more vocal, aggressive team.

She wants “to let my girls know what’s going on on the

field, to talk more, and be more of a presence.”

Team roster• Courtney Cowan, GK, junior• Claire Johnson, D, freshman• Trina Eck, D, senior• Ivy Paradissis, MF, sophomore• Maddy Hutchison, F, sopho-more• Sophia Rouches, F, sophomore• Laura Barnes, Captain, MF, senior• Claire Larsen, MF, junior• Taylor Duncan, Captain, D, senior• Leah Corra, D, sophomore• KiKi Olsson, D, sophomore• Miranda Rawlings, Captain, MF, junior• Alyssa Proudfoot, F, junior• Kelsey Lindor, MF, sophomore• Kristen Kasel, F, sophomore• Brittany Duncan, Captain, D, senior• Sophia Rockow, GK, senior• Michaela Wallace, MF, fresh-man

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Holmes’ eight-hour shift—two days a week in North Bend, three days a week in Snoqualmie, collecting thou-sands of green yard waste bins, dumping them, coming back for more—is full of shakes, wobbles, beeps, hisses and funny smells. But it’s also sur-prisingly full of human contact.

Like all Allied Waste collec-tors, Holmes drives solo. But he gets to know many residents—most Valley folk are great, he says—parents, children and pets.

“I even have dog treats for my dogs out here,” he said, pull-ing out a bag of bacon-flavored Canine Carry-Outs. “I meet about five a day.”

Pointing to a passing golden Lab making his own rounds on Kendall Peak Street on Snoqualmie Ridge, “I already hooked him up,” Holmes said.

As Allied Waste’s sole yard waste collector in the Valley, Holmes works under the com-pany’s contracts with North Bend and Snoqualmie. Those contracts are up for renewal this year, and city officials are negotiating new terms begin-ning in 2012, hoping to expand options and lower the local eco-logical footprint.

Trash pictureSolid waste in Snoqualmie,

North Bend, Fall City, Preston and the surrounding county is picked up by Allied Waste. In Carnation and parts north, garbage is picked up by Waste Management. Together, Waste Management and Allied Waste are the first and second largest haulers in the United States, commanding roughly a $20 billion share of the industry.

In Snoqualmie and North Bend, trucks hit the streets sev-eral days a week for eight-and-a-half-hour shifts.

In some cities, they’re on the road as early as 6 a.m.; in most, it’s 7 a.m., though, for school-children’s safety as well as noise reasons.

Three different kinds of trucks make the rounds. Some are specifically garbage, others recycling, still others solely yard waste, like Holmes.

Recyclers deliver to Allied’s high-tech Materials Recovery Facility in Seattle. Yard waste trucks deliver to the Cedar Grove Composting facility at Maple Valley. All garbage from the Valley is trucked to the county’s Cedar Hills landfill, dumped by the hauler for $95 a ton.

The 920,000-acre landfill takes in about 800,000 tons of trash a year, or 2,200 tons a day—all of the garbage gener-

ated from across the county, except Seattle and Milton. The landfill is expected to fill up after 2024.

County residents may self-haul, but city residents can’t move in without signing up for garbage service: “Not an option,” said Dan Marcinko, Snoqualmie Public Works director.

Collection is mandatory for homes, apartments and busi-nesses in city limits, “meaning you have to use the contractor we’re using,” Marcinko said.

Recycling is included in the rate, typically about $45 for a single family residence, which can be reduced for low-income residents or seniors.

Snoqualmie’s contract could be sweetened as part of the bid process. Proposals are due Wednesday, Sept. 7. A final-ist will be selected by October, council action will come in December, and the new con-tract comes online next June.

With contracts coming up only periodically, this is the time for competition among haulers for trash dollars.

“When you go through a competitive process, you have the opportunity to get the mar-ket price on things,” said Jeff Brown, a private trash contract consultant to the city.

Thanks to the recession, the marketplace has changed. Prices are lower and contrac-tors are hungrier for hauling accounts; there are more haul-ers in the mix, and a wider, bet-ter variety of recycling options and tech.

Mayor Matt Larson wants the city’s next solid waste con-tract to allow as much flexibil-ity as possible to adapt to new discoveries.

“One of the areas most lack-ing in our current contract is the ability to separate food waste for our commercial and

retail customers,” Larson said. “Local restaurants, schools, (The) Salish, TPC, etc., do not have the option to separate their food waste, which repre-sents a majority of their waste streams. I hope that new tech-nologies... will offer solutions to such problems. We wish to be sure that we can take full advantage if and when the opportunity arrives.”

Allied’s waste options have evolved in the course of the contract. The company most recently expanded a food waste program: Residents can now dump egg cartons, rinds and scraps into their yard bins.

“When I started here, March of 2009, you couldn’t do it,” Marcinko said. “Now you can. They’ve done a great job of adding, of allowing the city to make changes.”

Sole provider?Two contract companies

serve North Bend, each with its own franchise area. Allied Waste Management col-lects trash, recycling and yard waste from most North Bend residents, while Kent-Meridian Disposal has three separate contracts to serve the recently annexed Maloney Grove, Stilson, and Tanner neighbor-hoods of the city.

The city’s contract with Allied expires in 2012, but the North Bend City Council last month approved a 10-year extension of Kent-Meridian’s contract. By this extension, the council was able to avoid paying damages to Kent-Meridian for the loss of its franchise, as state law dictates. However, the city still has to manage multiple contracts.

City Administrator Duncan Wilson said Allied has request-ed that the city delay calling for bids on a new contract. The city agreed, and has begun negoti-ating with Allied on a possible

future contract. “We wanted to investigate

a way to bring all those con-tracts under one entity,” Wilson explained. Since the company is part-owner of Kent-Meridian, “Allied might buy out the con-tract,” he said.

Whatever provider wins the 2012 contract, the city wants a few changes from its current service level. Some possibilities are increased yard waste col-lection, now every other week, and lower rates for residents and businesses.

The monthly charge for the lowest volume of collection at a business in North Bend is $120, $198 outside city limits “...so you can see there’s a serious savings in the city,” Wilson said. “Allied has told us it’s feasible for them to buy out the (Kent-Meridian) contract and effectu-ate some savings.”

However, if the city and Allied can’t agree on terms, the city still has time to seek bids from other haulers.

Old landfillCarnation used to manage

its own waste stream, with a city truck and a couple of employees making the weekly rounds. That system worked for more than 50 years, City Manager Ken Carter estimat-ed, since the city had its own landfill.

“I think it wasn’t a land-fill like we think of a landfill today,” said Carter, who’s been with the city for about two years. “It was the old, old city dump.”

The landfill closed in 1989, and the city now contracts with Waste Management for trash collection, recycling and yard waste services. The current franchise agreement expires next year, and although the City Council hasn’t begun dis-cussing its options, Carter has

already been thinking about them.

“There is a big hole in our current agreement regarding commercial solid waste recy-cling,” Carter said. Without specific provisions for com-mercial recycling, “For a com-mercial business to recycle, doesn’t save them anything.”

Carter is also hoping to negotiate a spring cleaning day into the city’s next agreement, allowing people to dispose of large items at no extra cost on this day. Better rates are also always a goal, Carter said.

“On the whole, Waste Management does a pretty good job... but that doesn’t mean the council won’t want to explore other options.”

Among its other options are contracts with Allied Waste, or Cleanscapes, a newer contrac-tor that contacted Carter in mid-August.

Carnation’s current agree-ment with Waste Management is a franchise fee model, in which the city gets free collec-tion in return for the franchise, plus 5 percent of the contrac-tor’s receipts from residents and businesses in the city. Last year, that brought in about $50,000 for the city, after util-ity taxes.

That revenue almost cov-ers the annual cost of moni-toring the city’s closed landfill, which was $57,000 in 2010. Monitoring requirements from King County and the State Department of Ecology are for four periodic tests of the site each year, to check for methane production, settling of materi-als, or any movement in the landfill. The landfill has had some of these issues, but the periodic test results have been identical recently, so the city has received permission to test the site only twice in 2011, for an estimated cost of $48,000.

Dirty jobWaste collectors like Rod

Holmes have seen their indus-try change from the inside. Five years ago, Allied Waste did away with the last of the two-person pick-up teams. For safety reasons, all drivers go solo, using the robot arms to pick up bins.

Haulers are also embracing green tech in the truck fleet. Half of Allied’s 88 Eastside trucks are now powered by compressed natural gas; Replacing one truck is the equivalent of taking 325 cars off the road.

When the old rear-loaders went away, Holmes swore he wouldn’t change. But when they gave him one of the new hydraulic trucks, he quickly got on board. They couldn’t pry it from him now, he says, and he doesn’t mind driving solo.

There’s his name, decaled on the doors.

“For eight hours, it’s my truck,” he says. “The owner-ship is me operating the truck safely, educating the public.” Holmes not only meets cus-tomers on his route, but makes pitches for recycling on radio.

Holmes thinks constantly about safety, and warns fami-lies to keep children away from the bins. He often makes a personal connection, getting to know the people he serves.

“There are people who are truly grateful,” Holmes said. “Most people follow the rules. I’ve had some pretty good run-ins out here. Except for that deer.”

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