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District collects input on later start timesSome teachers say later times will burden their commutes, ability to obtain child careBY DANIEL NASHISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER

� e Issaquah School District on � ursday closed a survey intended to gather the community’s thoughts on proposed later start times in area schools.

� e Issaquah School Board is expected to consider later bell times soon. � e board reviewed input gathered so far from parents, guardians, students and sta� at its Wednesday night meeting, a� er press time.

Superintendent Ron � iele directed district sta� to examine later school start times a� er two area parents, child psychiatrist Dea Barnett and Allison May, collected more than 1,500 signatures on a MoveOn.org petition in spring 2015 requesting later times.

Barnett posited that research shows early start times run counter to teenagers’ naturally late-rising circadian rhythms and lead to a host of mental, physical and emo-

He wanted them to have a second banana.Christopher Lee, who at the time was a sixth

grader, was volunteering with more than 140 students and teachers at a school in the Kangemi Slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

� eir daily meals consist simply of rice and beans; but once a week, everyone got a banana. And they love their bananas, he said.

So, Lee decided he would send his monthly allow-ance of $50 so they could all have a second banana

each week.Lee, now 15 years old and a sophomore at Lakeside

School located in Seattle, still sends his allowance to Africa. But it’s just one way Lee, of Sammamish, tries to give back to a community less fortunate than the one he is raised in.

BY MEGAN CAMPBELLISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER

Teen brings tech know-how to students in Africa

Issaquah Development Commis-sioner Essie Hicks is withdrawing her candidacy for the Washington House of Representatives.

Hicks announced via her cam-

paign website Sunday that she will not challenge Republican incum-bent Jay Rodne for his seat in the 5th Legislative District.

“As other Democrats enter the race for Jay Rodne’s seat, I think it makes sense for me to stand down … concentrate on local politics

here at home, and the community projects that make our region such a great place to live,” she wrote.

Hicks cited her interest in op-posing Tim Eyman’s next initia-tive and helping Democrats win the U.S. presidency and state and local o� ces as reasons for stepping

down.But she also referenced a dif-

� cult political climate for female candidates.

“� e decision to step up [as a woman] in the � rst place is hard,” Hicks wrote. “Women are criticized

BY DANIEL NASHISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER

Essie Hicks drops out of state House race 3 weeks after announcing

Left: Christopher Lee, on a previous trip to Africa, shows a student how to use a mouse. Lee and his parents will return to Kenya in February, where Lee will teach his tech classes once again.

Below: Students wave to the camera, eating their bananas. Lee donates his monthly allowance to the organization so the students and teachers can have an extra banana to eat once a week.

Photos courtesy of Christopher Lee

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�e city of Issaquah has selected a design for an Issaquah Creek-spanning bridge in Con�uence Park.

Picking from �ve designs submitted by David Evans and Associates, sta� selected a timber arch bridge (pictured) with rail-ings “meant to evoke a may�y’s wings,” according to a description provided by city Parks and Recreation.

Park Planner Jenn Fink presented the arch design to the Issaquah Park Board Monday night.

Parks and Recreation presented the �ve options to the public for input in Novem-ber. Alternatives included a faux cable-suspension bridge, a prefabricated steel truss, a precast concrete girder and a steel tub girder design which sta� noted could have been wrapped in vines.

Of 136 pieces of public input received online, the timber arch received the great-est quantity of favorable comments. Sup-porters praised the use of wood materials to blend in with the natural surroundings.

“My favorite for this park,” one support-ive comment read. “Looks natural, like a tree bending and also is a bit reminiscent … of the original I-90 bridge — so a bit of a nod to history.”

�e design invited detractors as well. �e most common criticism was that the arch was too large and overstated for humble Olde Town. Others noted that the arch could be unsafe if children attempted to climb it.

One particularly grim comment read: “Looks like a perfect place to hang people!”

�e bridge, planned for construction later in 2016 as announced by Mayor Fred Butler in October during budget proposals, is part of a larger improvement campaign for Con�uence Park o� Rainier Boulevard North.

Parks and Recreation sta� also selected a playground to be constructed on the northeast corner of Con�uence. �e design, supported by public input in No-vember, is a climbing playground based in an asymmetrical “natural” design. It includes a Palisades-style climbing boul-der and beat out two symmetrical tower designs constructed out of netting.

�e Con�uence Park improvements are funded by a $1 million state grant and $900,000 from the park bond passed by voters in 2013.

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$400M bond set for April voteBond would bene�t Lake Wash. School District

Margaret Mead Elemen-tary School students do not have a cafeteria.

“Students are now served hot lunch in an exterior courtyard,” Lake Wash-ington School District Deputy Superintendent Janene Fogard said during a board meeting Monday. “We learned that they’ve resorted to netting over the courtyard to make sure crows don’t come down and pick o� the salad bar.”

If, however, the public approves a $398 million bond the district’s board of directors approved Monday for the April ballot, the district will rebuild and enlarge Mead Elementary. In addition, the district will rebuild several other aging schools and build new ones to address the district’s growing population.

Mead Elementary, built in Sammamish 37 years ago, was designed to house about 450 students, but currently has a population of 600 students. Applying the reduced state funded class sizes, the school has an even smaller capacity of less than 400 students.

“Our district is at a critical point with regard to class-room space,” said Nancy Bernard, board president. “Moving to all-day kinder-garten and reducing class sizes thanks to new state funding increases our need for more classroom space. At the same time our enroll-ment continues to grow.”

�ere are also six por-tables on campus, all at least 25 years old.

�e school, comprised of six buildings connected via outdoor walkways, and its portables have a “fair” rating, based on the annual state building assessment, according to the district.

If approved, the bond would allow contractors to construct a new building to the side of the Sammamish site, allowing classes to continue in current facili-ties until the new structure is available, likely in 2019, according to the district.

�e new school will include a cafeteria, library, gym and 30 standard class-rooms. It would also have rooms for music, art and science; a space for special education; and an outdoor covered play area. It’s capac-ity would be 550 students, which is an increase of 158 students based on the state’s reduced classroom size model for kindergarten through third grade.

�e �nal project cost for Mead Elementary ap-proaches $45 million.

Mead Elementary is the only Sammamish school lumped into the funding model for the Lake Wash-ington School District’s 2016 bond.

Among other things, if approved, the 2016 bond

would fund two new elementary schools and a new middle school to be placed in Redmond; it would upgrade the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center to include a preschool; and it would replace portables at Explorer Elementary School in Redmond.

In Kirkland, the bond would fund replacing and enlarging Juanita High School and Peter Kirk Elementary School.

�e bond measure would address the district’s immedi-ate needs, providing funding to rebuild and enlarge aging schools and to create new classrooms for the steady in�ux of student enrollment.

�e district anticipates $21 million from state assistance and another $10 million from school impact fees, bringing the total cost of the projects to about $430 million.

“�e plan that we’ve developed does involve subsequent bond measures to fund the longer term needs,” district Superinten-dent Traci Pierce said Mon-day. “Bond measures won’t increase tax rates. �ose tax rates will be maintained at the 2015 tax rate and will be kept steady over the next 15 years.”

City selects bridge designBY DANIEL NASHISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER

Photo courtesy of city of Issaquah

An artist rendering of the Confluence Park bridge, set for construction later in 2016.

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for things that men are not. �e climate has improved even in the past decade, but we still see a smaller number of women entering politics than men. Fewer than a third of our state legisla-tors are women.”

Hicks’s campaign ended less than three weeks a�er it began, having been an-nounced Jan. 5.

She will evidently be replaced as a candidate by Democrat Jason Ritchie, according to another recent an-nouncement. Ritchie had originally stated his intention to run against Chad Magendanz for Position 2 in the 5th Legislative District.

Magendanz, a Republican, recently announced he will vacate his House seat to run against Mark Mullett for his state Senate seat. Magendanz has endorsed fellow Republican and attorney Paul Graves of Maple Valley for the House seat. Graves will be opposed by Sno-qualmie Mayor Matt Larson, running as a Democrat.

Graves and Larson announced their candidacies Wednesday.

Hicks previously ran against Rodne in the 2014 state House race, earning more than 42 percent of votes cast that November. Prior to moving to Issaquah, she was a planning commissioner for the city of Maple Valley.

In addition to her position on the Issaquah Develop-ment Commission, Hicks is currently treasurer of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a politically le�-leaning think tank.

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Construction begins on Gateway projectTra�c-concerned neighbors contend apartment complex

Early construction has begun on a 400-unit apart-ment complex along the Newport Way Northwest corridor, Issaquah city sta� announced Jan. 20.

Crews began work earlier this month clearing and grad-ing the site at 2290 Newport Way NW in preparation to pour foundations for the complex’s 18 buildings, once permits are approved.

In an unusual turn for a private development, Mayor Fred Butler announced the Issaquah Gateway Apart-ments at a community open house in July.

�e open house con-cerned pedestrian safety following the death of 4-year-old Haochen Xu at a crosswalk on Newport Way Northwest. At public meetings following the accident, several corridor

residents blamed high speed limits and a lack of stopping points for creating an unsafe roadway. Butler assured the audience of the open house that the apart-ment construction would “change the character” of the tra�c corridor toward lower traveling speeds.

Some residents disagreed with that assessment at subsequent Issaquah City Council meetings, public hearings and community open houses, criticizing the idea of placing more cars on a road with blind curves and high speeds. One Sum-merhill resident who spoke at an Aug. 2 City Council meeting, Mary Lynch, said

she believed the idea wasn’t viable without walkable infrastructure.

“Where are the children going to wait when they need to go on the bus?” Lynch asked. “�is is going to dump 600 cars between two blind curves. … How can you con-tinue to develop, to cram stu� into the Gateway Village? How can you let develop-ment go forward without adequate infrastructure?”

City Council voted to drop the speed limit on Newport Way Northwest to 30 mph in September.

Criticism of the Gate-way project continued at a November open house held to review further proposed

changes to Newport Way. Transportation consultant Victor Salemann responded by reasserting Butler’s sentiment that more cars on Newport Way would change how people drive on it.

“Not everybody may like it, but one of the side e�ects of higher congestion is slower speeds,” Salemann said.

Tra�c impacts from construction will be mini-mal at the beginning of the project, a city spokesperson said. Work will take place 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and, soon, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. More trucks will enter and leave the roadway at the site come springtime.

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“Here, I think we take things for granted a little bit,” he said.

�e opportunity to volunteer at the school, run through the charity organization Ham-omi Children’s Centre — which began as a community project in 1999 and established a Seattle base in the late 2000s — arose when Lee was in middle school. Hamomi’s mission to improve the lives of orphaned and vulner-able children in Africa resonated with him.

Lee and his parents have since traveled to Kenya twice, bringing with them boxes of art supplies, clothing and shoes. Additionally, Lee applies his technological knowledge by teaching classes for students of all age groups and the teachers.

“We’re in the 21st Century now,” Lee said. “It’s essential everyone know just the basics to function in the world.”

As part of the charity organization’s mis-sion, Hamomi’s three-tier system strives to, �rst, establish basic resources by bringing in food, shoes, clothing, medical care and social services to the area; second, establish a free and complete educational structure; and, lastly, to create a sense of sustainability, help-ing children become self-reliant adults able to compete in today’s world.

“�e world is shi�ing to a more technol-ogy-based system,” he said. “If you’re not technological, you’re illiterate.”

During their most recent trip, Lee and his father established Internet in the computer classroom. (�ere’s only electricity in the computer room, he said. And they “burned through (their) data plan in maybe two hours,” Lee said.)

He taught the younger children how to interact with the computer interface, using a computer program he wrote to teach them how to use a mouse. For those students who have not grown up immersed in technology, sitting down at and using a computer is not intuitive. Lee hopes to change this.

“We really have to account for everything,” Lee said. “I could just tell that they just really wanted to learn.”

Students, especially, well-behaved and eager to learn, impressed Lee.

“�ey feel it’s a privilege to be there,” Lee’s mother, Florence, said.

Lee also taught the older children how to use more advanced programs, like Microso� Word, and basic programming in Scratch.

Lee held a seminar for the Kenya teach-ers, instructing them in Excel so they can better keep track of grades.

In the fall, he raised hundreds through a fundraiser in which he sold custom-print-ed, 3D-printed boxes at school, using the money to send more shoes to the students in Kenya.

He’s also built two applications, available through the Apple store.

�e most recent invention, called the “IntelliSplash,” is a device that tests the purity of water. Via Bluetooth, the device sends information regarding the water’s purity to a mobile application.

“I plan to use this app when I go back,” Lee said.

He built the low-cost device during a two-day road trip, a last minute, win-ning entry for the Youth Apps Challenge Contest.

He “dramatically re�ned the app, turn-ing it into a Internet-of-�ings device,” adding social networking, GPS location

awareness and user interface updates before entering it in the Social Venture Partners Fast Pitch business competition in October 2015.

He won �rst place and a $4,000 investment for the invention, in the high school venture category, at the competition. Lee will use the money to further develop the device and application.

�e rechargeable device has a battery life of a week, he estimated. He plans on replac-ing the battery — which is the bulk of the device — with an even smaller one. Return-ing to Kenya with his parents in February,

the Lees have already packed �ve, 50-pound boxes full of clothing donations for kinder-gartners through eighth graders. �ey antici-pate packing another box with toothbrushes, toothpaste, school supplies and other tech gear they’ll need while they’re there, Lee said.

To donate to Hamomi, particularly to Lee’s shoe campaign, make out a check to “Li� Up Africa” and on the memo line write “For Hamomi Children’s Ctr, fundraising for shoes (Christopher Lee),” and mail to:

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tional disruptions caused by sleep deprivation.

�iele imposed a number of requirements on late-start proposals by sta�, including the preservation of the tiered bus system and that costs associated with the change be “�scally responsible.”

Sta� came back with a plan that included 8 a.m. start times for elementary, morning kindergarten and morning preschool stu-dents, a 9 a.m. start time for high school students and a 9:10 a.m. start time for middle school students.

Wednesday start times would be pushed to 10:25 a.m. for middle schools and 10:10 a.m. for high schools.

Recent school board meetings have seen pushback from opponents to the proposal in public comment. At the Dec. 9 meeting, several parents and some students argued the change would mean less family time, as well as less time to juggle jobs, extracurriculars, advanced classes and homework.

And on Jan. 13, some teachers asked the board to consider the additional strain to sta�.

Elizabeth Lund, an English teacher in the International Baccalaureate program at Skyline High School in Sammamish, said that later school start times would roughly double her commute time and force

her to second-guess her continued employment in the district.

“�e change to a 9 a.m. to 3:55 p.m. day would make it extremely di�cult for me to stay,” she said. “… I would be facing up to an hour [to travel to Skyline] in the morning and an hour and 15 minutes to get home.

“… �ere are quite a few of us who work here but don’t live in Issaquah and working here has worked for us because of the cur-rent schedule.”

A schedule change as early as the 2016-2017 school year could also hurt working parents in the dis-trict, Issaquah High School English teacher Shannon Henderson said.

“Finding child care, as many of you know, is one of the most stressful things about being a working par-ent,” Henderson said. “… When I �rst heard about this proposal in October, I called my son’s onsite a�er-school care about availabil-ity and they told me they were full until 2019.

“… Changing bell times so drastically is going to have a profound impact on the schedules and ar-rangements that working families have established for themselves.”

But Jonathan Grudin, a Microso� researcher and parent of adolescent daugh-ters in the district, urged the school board to look at the “overwhelming” data in support of later start times. �e district’s Healthy Youth Survey revealed a pattern

of sleep deprivation and lack of school enjoyment compared to state averages, Grudin said.

He also pointed to the comments of Columbia, Missouri, school admin-istrators in an article pub-lished by education news website �e Seventy Four in early January tracking the results of 9 a.m. school start times implemented in 2013.

In that article, Colum-bia Superintendent Peter Stiepleman said out-of-school suspensions had dropped by 1,000 per year from 2012 and that gradua-tion rates had climbed from 82.7 percent to 90.2 percent.

“I’m very sympathetic to the problems we’ve been hearing about,” Grudin said. “But I don’t think that blaming the students for not studying e�ciently is actually a great approach. It’s also just possible, if you look at the data from other coun-tries and from other schools, it’s just possible one reason the students are having to come a�er school to talk to teachers is they’re not awake when they’re in the classes.”

If the Issaquah School Board approves later school start times, they will follow in the footsteps of the Bellevue and Seattle school districts.

�e Bellevue School Board approved an 8:30 a.m. start time for high school students on Jan. 19. �e Seattle School District approved 8:45 a.m. start times for its high schools and a portion of its middle and elementary schools in November.

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Arts groups could share Mars Hill property

Regarding the Mars Hill property, with so many arts groups needing space for rehearsal exhibitions and perfor-mances, would a public-private or other funding model allow it to become a performing arts center?

Sammamish Symphony Eastside Chorus ballet and other arts groups could share the space perhaps with commercial tenants as well. Is there any civic interest in supporting these vital arts groups by providing a space where they could thrive?

Fran PopeIssaquah

Now is a great time to be kind

� e Lunar New Year on Feb. 8 will provide yet another opportunity to bring about some solutions for making our neighborhoods, cities, states and nation friendlier. Many city councils are reaching out to learn what the public feels about certain issues. Granted they might not be able to solve everyone’s problems but perhaps it is possible to listen to what everyone wants to share.

Would it be bene� cial for all of us

to make another resolution for 2016 where we are more welcoming to our family, friends and neighbors?

Improv theater utilizes the phrase “yes, and …” to keep the dialogue rolling and staying away from a nega-tive response, which usually ends the conversation. Now seems to be a great time to resolve to take it upon ourselves to be more cordial, positive, reply with a smile and a “yes, and …”

Larry CrandallSammamish

State leaders should invest in early education

I would like to thank Gov. Jay Inslee for making early childhood education a priority during his time in o� ce.

During his recent state of the state address, the governor highlighted the fact that over the past three years, almost 7,000 additional children were given access to high-quality early learn-ing opportunities.

Since over 90 percent of brain development takes place before a child is 5 years old, preschool and Head Start programs are essential in making sure every child has a strong start to life.

As a local high school student who will be going to college soon, I

know the high-quality early learning I received as a kid was key in giving me the cognitive and emotional foundation I needed to succeed both academically and socially.

But as the governor said, we aren’t done yet. To this day, two out of every � ve American children do not have access to early education. � is is our chance to set an example for the rest of the country, to encourage our lawmak-ers to put kids � rst. � at is why I am urging our elected leaders to invest even more in these vital programs. Kids deserve the chance to thrive — let’s give it to them.

Daphne Myhrvold Bellevue

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“Work ethic is not a moral virtue that can be cultivated simply by wanting to be a better person. It’s actually a biochemical condition that can be fostered, purposefully, through activity that increases dopamine levels in the brain.”

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A coalition led by statewide labor groups recently � led an initia-tive to push the minimum wage

to $13.50 an hour and allow workers to earn paid sick leave.

� e e� ort could be one of the biggest election battles this year. As proposed, the minimum hourly wage would climb to $11 in 2017, $11.50 in 2018, $12 in 2019 and $13.50 in 2020. � e measure would not prevent cities or counties from paying a higher wage — as is already the case in Seattle and Tacoma.

� e measure also requires workers be allowed to earn one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours they work. Sup-porters of the initiative contend a healthy and better paid workforce will bene� t the state’s economy without trigger-ing any job loss.

Among those advocating for the e� ort is Jane Teske, a registered nurse who works in the newborn intensive care unit at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett.

Although she has sick leave bene� ts, Teske said she and co-workers are not encouraged to take it. And while she has a good wage, she knows many workers in the state do not.

Voters last considered the minimum wage in 1998. � at year they passed Initiative 688 to provide annual cost-of-living adjustments based on increases in the federal Con-sumer Price Index. Washington’s current minimum wage is $9.47 an hour, a � gure unchanged from 2015 because the Consumer Price Index did not rise.

For many years, this state has had the nation’s highest minimum wage. But that changed Jan. 1 when the rate climbed to $10 an hour in California and Massachusetts, $9.75 in Alaska and $9.60 in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. To qualify for the November ballot, the coalition will need to turn in 246,372 valid signatures of registered Washington voters by July 8.

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Four Issaquah churches and Value Vil-lage are partnering to host a men’s winter clothing drive to bene�t clients of the Union Gospel Mission and the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank.

�e clothing drive will run for four weekends in February, starting on Sunday, Feb. 7. Participants may drop o� new or gently used mens clothing in barrels at the following Issaquah locations:

• Issaquah Christian Church, 10328 Issaquah-Hobart Road SE; 425-392-5848

• Foothills Baptist Church, 10120 Is-

saquah Hobart Road SE; 425-392-5925• St. Joseph Catholic Church, 220 Moun-

tain Park Blvd.; 425-392-5516• Community Church of Issaquah, 660

NW Gilman Blvd. Ste. C-5; 425-392-6447• Value Village Thrift Store, 5530 East

Lake Sammamish Parkway SE; 425-392-2249

Items especially needed include warm clothing items, such as boots, hats, caps, gloves, pants, sweaters, tube socks, under-wear in size 38-40 or larger, ponchos, coats and blankets. All items need to be in larger sizes.


�e blotter consists of o�cers’ accounts of crimes and incidents in the cities of Issaquah and Sammamish. Anyone arrested is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

IssaquahJan. 15GONE: At 1:02 p.m., a manager at the Office Depot on 12th Avenue Northwest reported a theft. The manager reported the suspect, a blonde female in her early 30s, had left the store and was walking toward Costco.THEFT: At 4:56 p.m. in the 5700 block of E. Lake Sammamish Parkway SE, a complainant reported third-degree theft. A cellphone, cash and padlock were stolen at a loss of $570.

Jan. 16LOSING ARGUMENT: At 5:22 a.m. in the 6300 block of E. Lake Sammamish Park-way SE, an o�cer was dispatched to a store in reference to two females arguing with the manager. �ey were trespassed from the location.THEFT: At 8:38 a.m., a theft was reported in the 2900 block of NE Dayton Court. A briefcase, iPad, hard drive, calculator, architectural scales and computer were reported stolen at a loss of $2,245.VEHICLE PROWL: At 9:34 a.m., a theft was reported from a vehicle in the 1900 block of NE Kenyon Court. A window was dam-aged to extract cash and tools, resulting in

$1,100 of damage.SMASH: At 9:53 a.m., a window was reported damaged on a 2002 Toyota Highlander parked in the 1800 block of NE Kenyon Court.DE-BUSSED: At 5:50 p.m. in the 5700 block of E. Lake Sammamish Parkway SE, cash and an ORCA card were reported stolen at a loss of $90.

Jan. 17IN THE DOGHOUSE: Shortly after noon, an o�cer was dispatched to a man report-ed to be sleeping in his vehicle in the 5300 block of 236th Place Southeast. The man advised he and his wife had been arguing and he left their residence.RECKLESS: At 1:08 p.m., an officer contacted a reported reckless driver at the intersection of First Place Northwest and Northwest Alder Place. �e man had allegedly been seen striking two light poles with his Toyota Camry before traveling southbound on First Place Northwest.DOMESTIC: At 1:21 p.m., officers arrested a 26-year-old Puyallup woman in response to a reported verbal domestic dispute on the corner of Northwest Gilman Boulevard and Fourth Avenue Northwest.WEREWOLVES, NOT SWEARWOLVES: At 4:27 p.m. in the 100 block of Front St. N., an o�cer contacted two patrons of a business at the manager’s request about their use of foul language in the store.

Jan. 18SQUATTER’S RIGHTS: At 7:51 a.m., an o�cer contacted a man reported sleep-ing on a sidewalk behind a building in the 1400 block of NW Gilman Blvd. The man said he had been there all night and didn’t

think it was a problem since the building was vacant. He was asked to leave.EW-EW-EW: A resident of the 1500 block of NE Hawthorne Square reported he had returned home at 2 p.m. to find about six condoms and wrappers on his front porch, along with a large quantity of o�-white liquid on the porch and his front door. An o�cer observed that the liquid appeared to be soap.

Jan. 19DRUGS: At 3:47 p.m., an officer responded to the Highlands Safeway, where the manager reported a male had been using intravenous drugs in the bathroom. �e suspect left the area on foot.CLEAN AS A WHISTLE: At 6:08 p.m. an officer responded to a theft at a store in the 700 block of NW Gilman Blvd. The store reported nearly $1,450 of electric razors and electric toothbrushes had been stolen.

Jan. 20THE MAD DUMPER: At 10:41 a.m., an o�cer responded to a complaint that a man dumped garbage into the parking lot of Malarkey’s in the 1000 block of NW Gil-man Blvd. �e o�cer found the man and had him pick up his trash.BURGLARY: At 11 a.m. in the 3000 block of Quinalt Court SW, a resident reported a burglary. A wallet and money were stolen at a loss of $175.

Jan. 21BURGLARY: At 8:12 a.m. in the 2200 block of Newport Way NW, $10,000 of construc-tion tools were reported stolen from the Gateway Apartments project site.TMI, LOL: At 1:36 p.m., an officer re-sponded to the Medical Clinic of Issaquah on 450 NW Gilman Blvd., where a possible impaired driver had been reported. �e o�cer contacted the man, who did not ap-pear intoxicated. He told the o�cer he had been texting.

SammamishJan. 17ARREST: Sammamish police arrested a driver stopped for multiple violations in the 24500 block of SE Issaquah-Fall City Road around 10:30 p.m. Police arrested the driver for third degree driving while license suspended and altering a trip permit.

Jan. 18ARREST: Sammamish police arrested a driver for driving while license revoked

in the first degree in the 800 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway NE, impound-ed the driver’s vehicle and booked the driver into the Issaquah Jail.

Jan. 19BURGLARY: Residents in the 1600 block of E. Beaver Lake Dr. reported someone had entered through the unlocked garage and stole items.

Jan. 20BIKE: A Safeway employee, who rode his new bike to work in the early morning hours, reported someone stole his bike, which had not been locked up, at 630 228th Ave. NE.

Jan. 21SMASH: A resident in the 22700 block of SE 13th Way reported someone had smashed the passenger window of the resi-dent’s vehicle; however, as nothing of great value had been left in the car, nothing had been ransacked or taken.DUI?: Sammamish police stopped a driver who admitted to consuming alcohol and exhibiting intoxication but, when tested, the driver recorded a 0.001 blood alcohol level. The legal alcohol limit is 0.08.

Jan. 22THREE MINORS ARRESTED: Sammamish police arrested three minors in possession of marijuana around 12:42 a.m. in the QFC parking lot, located at 2902 228th Ave. SE.CREEPER: A resident in the 21300 block of SE Eighth St. reported that a suspicious man rang the front doorbell, saw a young woman inside and went around to the rear of the house to ring the back doorbell.$$$: A good samaritan found two wallets on the sidewalk in the 25000 block of SE 41st Dr. and turned them in to the Sam-mamish Police Department.

Jan. 23ANOTHER WALLET: A jogger reportedly found a wallet in the bushes in the 300 block of 28th Ave. SE and turned it in to Starbucks employees, who turned it over to police.LIKE A MOVIE: A burglar used power tools to cut a hole in the wall of the hot tub pump room of a residence in the 3300 block of 217th Place SE to gain access to the house.HOVERBOARD: Someone stole a hover-board left on the front porch of a residence in the 23000 block of SE 45th Place.

The BlotterPolice reports from

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� e Issaquah Eagles boys basketball team defended their home court with gusto in a Jan. 22 rivalry game against the Eastlake Wolves.

Issaquah dominated in all aspects of play en route to a convincing 72-39 win against the Eastlake Wolves at Issaquah High School. � e Eagles improved their overall record to 13-3 with the win while Eastlake dropped to 5-12.

Issaquah’s swarming de-fense surrendered just � ve Eastlake � eld goals in the � rst half, building a sizable 39-15 lead at hal� ime.

Issaquah’s Trevon Ary-

Turner, who scored a team-high 18 points against the Wolves, said the Eagles are focused on righting the ship a� er su� ering a 72-67 loss to Woodinville on Jan. 12.

“We’re just trying to get back into it. We’re trying to bounce back and get ready to make this playo� run. We are building momentum right now,” Ary-Turner said.

Eagles head coach Jason Gri� th concurred with Ary-Turner’s sentiment fol-lowing the blowout victory.

“Now we got four games le� in the regular season,” Gri� th said. “I just told the guys that we got to take it one game at a time, try to get better and prepare our-selves for the end-of-the-

season run. We want to go into the postseason playing well and executing.”

� e Eagles are a team without a superstar. � is year’s Eagles squad relies on its team chemistry.

“� is team has great chemistry on and o� the court,” Gri� th said. “� ey enjoy being on the � oor with each other. You can just see it. � ey have fun on the bench, they support each other and you can just tell they are really good

friends.”Ary-Turner said the

Eagles unsel� sh style of play has been a staple of the Eagles hoops program for the past several seasons.

“We realize that if we all move the ball that we will all get our shots. We know if we keep moving it and make that extra pass that everyone will get their shots either way,” he said.

Shaun Scott: 425-453-5045; [email protected]

Basketball is known to be a game of seemingly endless runs up and down the court.

� is old-school cliché couldn’t have been more true with the matchup between the Issaquah Eagles and East-lake Wolves girls basketball squads.

Issaquah overcame a frenzied Eastlake rally in the � rst half, cruising to a 64-53 win on Jan. 22 at Is-saquah High School. Issaquah had an early 17-7 lead but saw it disappear in the second quarter of play. Eastlake point guard Gina Marxen connected on a three-pointer late in the second quar-ter, giving the Wolves a 20-17 lead. � e 13-0 run unveiled by the Wolves

ended as Issaquah scored the � nal � ve points of the second quarter, regain-ing a 22-20 lead at hal� ime. Issaquah sophomore Mariah VanHalm, who scored a team-high 19 points, said the Eagles were determined to defeat the Wolves a� er su� ering a 49-48 defeat against the Wolves on Dec. 11.

“� e key was not getting down on ourselves,” VanHalm said. “Sometimes when things aren’t going our way we get a little negative but tonight we were all intense and were picking each other up. We really wanted this game.

Last time we played them they beat us by one point and we really wanted revenge.

“� is was really important to us

because the last three or four years we have always played them in the knockout round of the playo� s. � ree years ago they knocked us out, two years ago they knocked us out and last year we knocked them out. It is a really strong rivalry.”

� e Eagles dominated the second half and led by 18 points early in the fourth quarter of play. Issaquah im-proved its overall record to 10-5 with the win and Eastlake dropped to 11-6.

Eagles’ head coach Nicole Reid was pleased with the way her team con-trolled possession of the ball against the hard-charging Eastlake defense.

“I think the major thing that we had to remember the whole game was to take care of the ball. Eastlake is a very well-coached team and they have great players. We knew they were go-ing to make a run. � e key for us was to take a breath, play our game and take care of the ball,” Reid said.


Contact and submissions:Shaun Scott

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Issaquah Eagles avenge early season defeatBY SHAUN SCOTTISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER

Photo courtesy of Rick Edelman/Rick Edelman

Issaquah sophomore Mariah VanHalm drives to the basket against the Eastlake Wolves in a rivalry matchup on Jan. 22. VanHalm scored a team-high 19 points in the 64-53 win.

Issaquah boys basketball team cruises to victory BY SHAUN SCOTTISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER

Photo courtesy of Rick Edelman/Rick Edelman photography

Issaquah sophomore Garrett White hoists a jumper while being defended by Eastlake’s Max Marks on Jan. 22.

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It’s the lesson that sits at the core of Village Theatre’s “Crimes of the Heart,” directed by Kathryn Van Me-ter. But it also speaks to the production itself, which stays true to the dual na-ture of sisterly love and rivalry, even as it assaults the audience with accents as thick as the Mississippi air in summer.

There are times when “Crimes” seems to want to smother you in its regional charm, like a faded Southern belle chanting “bless your heart” as she picks apart your outfi t.

But charm works; that’s what makes it charming.

The story sees the three Magrath sisters reunite at their grandparents’ home in 1974 Hazlehurst, Missis-sippi, after the youngest, Babe (Sydney Andrews), has been released on bail in

the shooting of her abusive husband.At the opening of the show, Andrews

plays Babe as the Stepford sister — prim, perfect and always ready to fi x a pitcher of sweet lemonade. By contrast, middle sister Meg (Brenda Joyner) plays the rebellious and spoiled wild child, while Lenny (Rhonda J. Soikowski) is the frazzled and self-denying elder, forced unexpectedly into the role of family matriarch after a stroke puts their grandfather in the hospital.

These early characterizations are highly archetypical, even two-dimensional. They’re thrown at the audience with such low subtlety and high bombast through the fi rst hour that they threaten to persist through the next two.

But the fi rst-time Village actresses bring depth to their characters with each twist and turn of Beth Henley’s stageplay.

Age plays a strong role in the progress of the sisters throughout the show and it’s only appropriate that the story opens on Lenny’s 30th birth-day. Soikowski exhibits a premature “grandma mania” as she frets and worries over everyone but herself, an

attitude that lightens only as she learns to slow down and feel her oats. Joyner takes the reverse path — an oblivi-ously selfi sh and immature hedonist who slowly learns to act her age.

As parts of the show’s B- and C-plots, Lenny’s and Meg’s arcs are nips and tucks compared to Andrews’ highly dynamic character journey. Each act sees Babe take another hit to her freedom and mental health, caus-ing her to regress further and further away from eerily precocious and put-together housewife toward the part of defenseless and scared child.

These individual characters’ stories are satisfactorily compelling on their own, coaxing you into investing your-self in their outcomes. But it would be a mistake to expect them to pay divi-dends: None of the plot points neatly resolve themselves in a clear payoff . Instead, “Crimes” shows its strength in the way the Magrath sisters play off each other and grow as a family greater than its individual parts.

and Van Meter felt the kitchen was a natural fi t.“The kitchen is the heart of the home,” Van Meter

said. “It’s where secrets come out. At every party people will end up in the kitchen and that’s where the conversa-tion happens.”

So it is with “Crimes,” where the Magrath sisters, annoying cousin Chick Boyle (Angela DiMarco), fl awed southern gentleman Doc Porter (Orion Bradshaw) and Babe’s lawyer Barnette Lloyd (Robert Bergin) go through the ins and outs of love lost, careers derailed and family (including pets) coming to a gruesome end.

Beth Henley’s play premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1979, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981. A fi lm adaptation starring Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek hit the box offi ce in late 1986.

Van Meter said her own southern background helped her direct the play, which is steeped in the tradition of the South. She lived in New Orleans for several years and has family in Atlanta, providing her a little bit of background on the Southern Gothic genre.

“Henley sets all her plays in the South,” Van Meter said. “I think there is an attraction to the heightened, genteel language. This has been one of my favorite projects I’ve ever worked on.”

She is the fi rst local female solo director at Village Theatre’s Mainstage in more than 15 years. She previ-ously co-directed “Mary Poppins” and “Les Misérables” alongside Steve Tomkins.

Showtimes run at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays and select Tuesdays, 8 p.m. on Fridays, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sundays. All performances are in the Francis Gaudette Theatre at 303 Front Street N. in Issaquah. The play will move to Everett from March 4 to March 27.

‘CRIMES’ CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Magrath Family ValuesBy Daniel Nash REVIEW

‘VANISHING POINTS’ AT SAMMAMISH CITY HALL

-Daniel Nash

Donald Fels’s father was a WWII pi-lot. It wasn’t something the younger Fels knew about for most of his own life.

But his dad and other pilots with the United States Army Air Force’s Air Transport Command had been tasked with one of the most important missions of the Burma Campaign: To resupply the forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the USAAF in the Chinese war eff ort against Imperial Japan.

Fels, an artist based out of North Bend, learned about his father’s mission in 2008, while working in

Southern India. He was particularly fascinated by the pilots’ rescue signal should they go down: A mirror with a pinhole in the center, which allowed downed men to triangulate light to sig-nal airplanes fl ying overhead, despite being themselves out of view.

Fels’s exhibit “Vanishing Points,” on display in Sammamish City Hall through April 14, examines the disap-pearances of small things in both The Hump campaign and the work of South Indian billboard artists. The phrase takes on multiple meanings, referring to

both what’s depicted and the manner in which Fels abstracts his subjects over multiple paintings, Sammamish Arts Commissioner Barbara Jirsa said.

“He’s a tremendous public artist,” Jir-sa said of Fels. “He’s really a thinker and a wonderful artist in residence because he pushes people to think diff erently.”


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