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Girl kicked by a horse takes back her life

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fter more than 40 days of recovering from a traumatic brain injury, Alexa Clark, 11, is ready to begin her first year at Kirkland Middle School. A horse kicked Alexa in the head during the last days of summer vacation as she prepared for a big horse show in Montana. The injury left her unconscious

with brain surgery in her future. Now, after numerous acts of love and support from the Kirkland community, her positive upbeat attitude and doctor-pronounced miracles along her recovery, the soon-to-be 12-year-old is ready to take back her life. “She’s surprisingly super excited to go back to school,” said Lacey Clark, Alexa’s mother, adding

she’ll attend school parttime at first. But the outcome hasn’t always looked so positive. On Aug. 29, Alexa was visiting her grandparents in Victor, Mont. to spend time with them and ride their pony. She was also preparing for the Montana Hunter Jumper Association horse show at Rebecca Farms in Montana. Alexa has been showing horses for about five years and has earned

Election | Councilman files PDC complaint against candidate [13] Alexa Clark is supported as she gathers the strength to walk. After being an induced coma for her brain trauma, Clark slowly made progress on Sept. 18 as she walked 10 steps with the help of her physical therapist. Now, she is able to walk on her own. CONTRIBUTED

several awards, including the 2013 Junior Montana Hunter Jumper Sportsmanship Award by the competition. On the evening of the accident, Alexa and her adult friend checked a horse before they went riding in preparation for her competition. Her friend checked the bridle and Alexa checked the girth but all of a sudden her friend [ more LIFE page 6 ]

Man stabbed during home invasion robbery bed to the basement as his family slept. The suspects then assaulted and injured A 19-year-old Kirkthe victim using an edged land man is recovering weapon before the man left at Harborview Medical his home to search for help. Center after he was cut Miles Calvert said he several times during a first didn’t see anyone until home invasion robbery he walked around to the at his Kirkland home on front entrance of the house Saturday morning. and saw the victim “just According to Kirkland standing there.” police, the man’s parents “I caught a look at him discovered their son was and he was just bloody, missing after head to toe,” Miles finding signs of Calvert said, addstruggle and items ing it happened so in disarray at their fast he didn’t have home, located in pants or shoes on. the 13200 block of Miles Calvert, 136th Ave. NE. who received his Officers EMT license in responded to the Burglary suspect 2010, immediately burglary call and went into action. missing persons He set the report that the parents victim, who had already made at 6:01 a.m. Saturday collapsed in Miles Caland found the man nearby vert’s arms, on the stairs. with several injuries. He turned his vehicle’s The 19-year-old had headlights on to assess escaped from his home and the wounds and grabbed was able to get help after bungee cords to create a banging and screaming tourniquet for the victim’s on the door of a nearby leg, which had a huge cut. neighbor. During this time he also Miles Calvert, the called 911 and his father, neighbor who helped him, Todd Calvert, who lived said he awoke to the man close by. screaming for help and that Miles Calvert said there “they were gonna kill him” were cuts or stab marks all and “he was gonna die.” over the victim. Two unknown sus“I thought maybe it was pects forced entry into random, but for somebody the residence and took to come in and somebody’s the 19-year-old from his [ more BURGLARY page 7 ] BY RAECHEL DAWSON

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Kirkland City Council incumbent Amy Walen addresses the audience during Monday’s candidate forum at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church in Kirkland. Candidates weighed in on city issues that included homelessness, the budget, zoning and the comprehensive plan. CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Kirkland Reporter

Council candidates tackle city issues at forum BY RAECHEL DAWSON rdawson@kirklandreporter.com

Kirkland City Council candidates explained how they would combat poverty, straighten out the budget and update the Kirkland 2035 Comprehensive Plan during a candidate forum that drew about 40 people to Holy Spirit Lutheran Church on Oct. 14. Four candidates faced off, while three unopposed incumbents also gave their views on a wide variety of issues during the event that the church hosted. Ballots for the Nov. 5 election, which were mailed to voters on Oct. 16, include

five Kirkland seats up for bid: Position 1 challengers Jay Arnold and Martin Morgan, Position 2 unopposed incumbent Shelley Kloba; Position 3 unopposed incumbent Penny Sweet; Position 5 unopposed incumbent Amy Walen; and Position 7 incumbent Deputy Mayor Doreen Marchione and challenger Bill Henkens. During the forum, several candidates said they want to see an update in the neighborhood plans but also a fix in the process in which those plans are created during the Kirkland: 2035 Comprehensive Plan update that will take place throughout the next few years.

Arnold suggested engaging the neighborhood associations and a nonprofit to streamline a grassroots effort. Sweet said the neighborhoods are “clamoring” for an update that the city can more easily respond to and that neighborhood plans should be more representative, compact, “templated” and something that doesn’t take two years to develop. Henkens said zoning needs to be addressed in the Comprehensive Plan because many are concerned about the increasing densities. And Morgan said he simply wants a better way to inform neighborhood citizens of when

there will be a change by the Planning Department. However, Walen stated she was concerned about how Kirkland would continue to pay for its services. “There are some communities in our region that are paying for services purely out of property taxes,” Walen said. “I think it’s terribly important that regular people, working class people, people who are aging in our population can live in their hometown and that means we have to have a diverse tax base and we do have to have economic development.” Nearly all the candi[ more FORUM page 2 ]

[2] October 18, 2013 should consider community involvement and funding because education - the “main ingredient” to getting out of poverty - is out of the Council’s hands. “I think Kirkland can look at expanding our Pea Patch programs,” said Marchione, who added she was the CEO of Hopelink for 15 years. “As we, as a Council, look at our human services, I think we can look at funding something like Nourishing Networks, which doesn’t meet our guidelines for funding but I think we can make an exception.”

Henkens explained his own efforts in helping the hungry by providing produce to Meals on Wheels and thinks there should be more information for small businesses to get involved at a community level, while Arnold said the $1.3 million toward human services will only increase at an incremental level so a type of community foundation to leverage energy could have the most impact on poverty. Morgan admitted he doesn’t have all the answers when it comes to feeding people but that he’s helped his neighbors by allowing people to rent his houses in Kirkland and Yakima for what they can afford.

“When I see a person in need with a place to live, I’ll let them live there and help them out as much as I can,” he said. During the lighting round of questions, which ranged from whether there should be more dog parks to if marijuana should be as easy to access as alcohol and tobacco, several candidates felt passionate about explaining their stance on the possibility of creating a “community police commission” that worked with residents to establish law enforcement priorities. “I’ve heard traffic stops is something where [people] said, ‘Why are [police] doing that?’” Arnold said. “I’ve also heard other things like ‘why

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check. Henkens echoed Arnold in that health care should be looked at as the Affordable Care Act might allow the city to negotiate with unions so that the city could get out of providing benefits to its employees. Marchione and Walen, who both serve on the finance committee, were more confident in the budget and cited the city’s AAA credit rating for being fiscally conservative throughout the years. “I disagree with Mr. Henkens, we do not have a budget problem,” Marchione said. “The city manager shows us every year the divergent line that we need to address because we are required to have a balanced budget, unlike the federal government, and we also have AAA credit rating, unlike the federal government, so we are in good shape. It doesn’t mean we can spend, spend, spend but we are in good shape financially.” In the end, all candidates were able to agree on at least one idea, which was to create a day in honor of diversity to further bring the Kirkland community together.

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dates agreed business development should continue to be directed to the Totem Lake business district to spur the needed economic development that will sustain Kirkland in the future. “The central business area is moving to Totem Lake,” Henkens said. “Kirkland’s waterfront is already built.” Because Kirkland has the two most serious areas of poverty on the Eastside of King County, which is measured by the number of families on food assistance, candidates said the city

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Rapist who attacked elderly woman sentenced to 22.5 years Reporter staff

A 26-year-old man who violently attacked and raped an 80-yearold Kirkland woman at her Juanita home was sentenced Oct. 11 to a minimum of 22-and-ahalf years in prison. King County Superior Court Judge Mariane Spearman sentenced Moses Kelly for two counts of first-degree rape and one count of firstdegree burglary that Kelly committed in the cities of Kirkland and Bellingham in 2012. Kelly pleaded guilty

on Aug. 16 to the three counts and was charged with the Oct. 25, 2012 rape of an 80-year-old woman that occurred in Kirkland’s Juanita neighborhood. The Washington State Patrol Crime Lab positively matched DNA taken from both crime scenes to Kelly’s DNA. A $1 million warrant was issued for Kelly and he was taken into custody with the assistance of the Redmond Police Department on Dec. 26, 2012. Kelly has remained in custody since his arrest. Detectives believe Kelly

was a transient and his residence was unknown. They located him near a gas station in Redmond and took him into custody on Kirkland’s felony warrant. According to the police report, the 90-pound woman who is small in stature returned home on a Metro bus from a visit to Seattle on Oct. 25, 2012. When she got to her Kirkland home, she went to close her front doors and saw the suspect swiftly walking towards her and assumed he might be a salesmen. However, Kelly forced

open her doors before she could lock them, “grabbed her by the throat/mouth area, choking her as he did so and forced her backwards into her residence,” according to the police report. In her request for bail to be set, Lisa Johnson, the senior deputy prosecuting attorney, said during the course of the sexual assault the defendant allegedly “wrapped his hands around the frail and elderly victim’s throat, choked her with his hands and threatened to kill her if she didn’t keep quiet.” However, despite the

woman’s age, she fought back, bit the man’s hand and the defendant responded by biting her, said Johnson. “Close to losing consciousness and unable to breathe, there were moments that [the victim] was convinced she was going to die,” the prosecutor continued. The suspect conversed with the victim during the assault and he told her he is currently homeless and had recently broken up with his girlfriend, according to charging documents. When she asked him

why he was raping her, he said, “I need sex,” the documents continue. After the sexual assault, Kelly left and the woman called her husband who took her to the Group Health Urgent Care Center in Bellevue. She was later transported and treated at Harborview Medical Center. Kelly has no criminal felony convictions, but his criminal history consists of two convictions for criminal trespass in 2008 and 2011 and additional convictions for malicious mischief and fourth-degree assault.

Kirkland man found guilty of attempting to rape girlfriend’s 9-year-old daughter A Kirkland man caught attempting to arrange to rape his girlfriend’s daughter during a police sting last year, was found guilty of the crime in King County Superior Court on Oct. 9. A jury found 37-yearold Ryan D. Firoved, a previously convicted child rapist, guilty of first-

degree attempted child The woman’s daughter rape. His sentencing is set was not at the hotel at for 10 a.m. Nov. 1 before the time and the mother Judge Douglass North at was cooperating with King County Superior the sting, according to Court. police records. Firoved was Firoved told his Kirkland arrested on July girlfriend that he 5, 2012 when wanted to have he went to the sexual contact Baymont Inn in with her daughter Kirkland expecting in phone calls that the to meet his girlfriend and Kirkland police recorded, her 9-year-old daughter court documents state. for a sexual encounter. His girlfriend told

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Kirkland police in June 2012 about the conversations she had with Firoved about sexual encounters he told her about involving himself and minors, one as young as 8-years-old, the documents continue. Firoved then told his girlfriend that he would like to have sex with her daughter. Officers reviewed text messages that confirmed his desire to

have sex with the woman’s daughter. Seattle police informed Kirkland detectives that they had also investigated Firoved in 1999, when he was convicted of raping a 14-year-old who he met online. In the recent case, Kirkland police recorded a phone call wherein the Kirkland man stated he wanted to have sexual contact with the woman’s

daughter. They also recorded a phone call of the couple setting up the meeting at the Baymont Inn with the woman’s daughter. When Firoved arrived at the room, detectives arrested him after he attempted to flee. He is currently being held in the King County Jail on $300,000 bail.

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Will Williams be independent on hospital board? I was intrigued by the recent Reporter article that said Kinnon Williams, challenger in one of the EvergreenHealth board races, has raised “more than $30,000” for his campaign (“Williams, Hirt vie for EvergreenHealth board seat,” Oct. 11). This is an extraordinary sum for a hospital district race, so I decided to check the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission website myself to discover who was funding this challenge. The findings were interesting to say the least. Williams’ PDC reports are difficult to decipher. PDC rules require electronic filing when total contributions exceed $10,000. Williams switched to electronic reporting mid-campaign, but his electronic reports do not match previously-filed handwritten reports, making it hard to determine the source of all contributions through the PDC database. After some digging, though, it is possible to determine where the $30,000 came from. It would be one thing if it came from many local contributors, evidencing broad support, but that’s not the case. Williams received $10,000 from Al DeYoung, $10,000 from Al’s wife Donna, and another $10,000 from Lucy DeYoung. Al DeYoung is the chair of the EvergreenHealth board. Lucy DeYoung is his daughter, a former mayor of Woodinville. Why would the chair, and family, of the EvergreenHealth board of commissioners be spending $30,000 to try to unseat Rebecca Hirt, a longtime, knowledgeable, experienced member of the board? What do the DeYoungs have to gain by this? Voters would be justified in asking if Kinnon Williams would be a truly independent voice for the people on the EvergreenHealth board, or just a “ditto” for Al DeYoung.

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Shutdown is misnomer, designed to incite public

The United States is already trillions of dollars in debt and accrued an additional deficit of nearly $350 billion in the first quarter of this year alone. The Affordable Care Act has its heart in the right place, but it is a costly, ill-conceived program that the public does not want and the country cannot afford. The people fighting it in Congress are doing the right thing. If only they would fight every new, unnecessary government program with such fervor.

Grant Beaver, Kirkland

Marchione shows strong leadership in budgeting

I would like to commend Kirkland Deputy Mayor Doreen Marchione for the outstanding leadership she and other Council members have I’m writing in response to your editorial on shown in addressing the financial and budgeting Oct. 11. I am so tired of hearing about how the issues of the city of Kirkland. “government shutdown,” which is a complete Not only did our Council accept the reality misnomer, falls solely on the shoulders of “some of hard choices made resulting from a severe House Republicans.” This is simply untrue, and is economic downturn in 2008-2009, but they an appeal to emotion about an issue that is more possessed the wisdom to navigate this era with a complex. continued vision for the future through business Firstly, these representatives are doing the development that continues to pay off today job they were elected to do. More than a in increased services throughout the city. third of Americans, and up to 75 percent This strong financial management is SOUND of the people in these Congressmens’ disreflected in the AAA rating of municipal tricts are opposed to the Affordable Care debt, and clean audits throughout all Act. They are expected to fight against dimensions of city financing. legislation that their constituents oppose. As a Kirkland resident, my family loves That is their job. this wonderful city. As a Kirkland business Secondly, even once a bill is passed and signed owner of Soundmark Wealth Management that into law, Congress has the responsibility of approvides wealth management services, I will vote proving funding for each and every department for continuity of this strong leadership in the and program that the government is responsible financial arena as Kirkland addresses growth and for. If the budget cannot support a program, livability issues throughout the 21st century. regardless of its passage, Congress has every right Bill Schultheis, Kirkland - and it is their obligation - not to fund it. Finally, the very term “shutdown” is a misnomer designed to incite the public. Government has remained more than 80 percent funded this entire time. All essential services were funded, just as they always have been. The effects of susThe following letter was sent to the Redmond pending government services were purposefully City Council, Kirkland City Council and Lake made to seem worse than they really were (barWashington School District Superintendent Traci ricading non-staffed memorials, for example). Pierce regarding the upcoming 2014 bond issue Republicans submitted multiple proposals that to replace several more of our schools: would put furloughed employees back to work, You recently met with our superintendent of but Democrats rebuked them time and again, schools, Dr. Pierce. She promised to get back presumably to extend the public’s hardship and to you on some unanswered questions about enable more finger pointing.

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state funding assistance to defray construction costs, and replacing portables with permanent housing for kids and teachers. I assume that she will explain that the bond resolution stipulates that no state support is expected and that there is no mention of new construction to replace portables. She may or may not explain why no state support is expected. The state would normally pay for about 25 percent of the construction cost to house new students or modernize existing buildings. However, based on the size of our schools, the state assumes we can house more students than the district needs. Therefore, while we still qualify for state assistance in modernization, we don’t qualify for that assistance for new construction. This problem has been exacerbated by the district policy of replacing schools, rather than modernizing them. These new buildings are built larger than allowed by state standards. For example, Lake Washington High School was recently rebuilt more than 19,000-square-feet larger than state standards. That’s enough area to house almost 150 high school students. The state assumes that it now houses those students. Modernization would not have affected the original lower housing capacity. We spent around $65 million more local money to rebuild Lake Washington High School than would have been required to modernize it to the highest level of state standards. That’s enough money to build six new elementary schools or three junior high schools to those standards. And likewise, in varying degrees for all the other schools rebuilt instead of being modernized. We’ve spent more than $600 million the last 14 years to tear down and replace over half of our substantially sound school buildings instead of modernizing them. Almost half our schools are still not modernized. They could all be modernized at this time with 25 percent of the costs borne by the state. We’re being asked for another $755 million, a major portion of which is earmarked to replace just six schools with 100 percent local money, not because they need it, but because it’s their turn. The kids and teachers in the rest of the schools will wait years more for a new school instead of having modernized facilities ASAP. I believe that it’s time that the district conducted an outside independent expert comprehensive [ more LETTERS page 5 ]

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Vote yes on I-522 Thanks to the lobbying efforts of biotech companies, politicians and corporations, the majority of Americans aren’t aware that we are consuming geneticallyengineered food. These compromised foods have shown to cause cancer and increase health risks, as well as cause a strain on small farmers and the poisoning of our environment. Initiative 522 will require any foods that contain GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) to be labeled so we as consumers will know what we are eating. Currently, we have no idea what is in our food unless we buy organic or shop at PCC where they have a voluntary, non-GMO labeling program that the food manufacturers

bear the brunt of labeling, it’s the manufacturer who is making huge profits selling you “food” that is contaminated with GMO’s. Labeling is a part of their job and it’s really easy, they do it all the time. We think we are eating the same foods we did as kids, we are not. The box of cereal may look the same and the food may look and taste the same but if it is made with GMO ingredients, it is not the same and we are playing “Russian Roulette” with our health. Do you realize that unless you are buying organic corn chips that you are eating GMO corn chips? We pay for our health, either at the grocery with healthy food choices or at the doctor’s office with procedures and pills trying to get our health back. It’s our choice if we know what we are eating. Currently, we don’t have that choice in Washington state. GMO labeling will put an end to corporations and politicians profiting from slowly killing consumers and the environment. Google “Dr. Vandana Shiva” to learn more about GMO, Seed Wars and Knowledge Wars. Vote yes on I-522.

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value engineering review of their facilities plan for modernization. It now assumes replacement of all of our schools on a 30-40 year cycle instead of keeping them all modernized on an as-needed basis. Then present the voters with a proposal to keep all our kids and teachers in modernized buildings all the time, handle growth and provide more effective stewardship of our limited physical and monetary resources.

agree to, (look for the tags, under the product). It’s good business to label, unless you have something to hide. I promise you, you may be shocked at how many of these GMO foods you are now eating. If Monsanto and the other chemical corporations are worried about labeling laws being passed in Washington state that they are spending millions of dollars here defeating I-522, you should wonder what they are trying to hide. All the money they are spending to defeat I-522 in Washington and the bill that barely failed in California last year could cover the costs associated with labeling for quite some time. They are trying to scare people that their food will cost more. It won’t. Farmers can label their bags of soybeans or corn with a GMO label. It’s not what they are afraid of. They are really afraid of people changing their eating habits to avoid this toxic product. The farmers chose to buy the GMO seeds and they can choose to go back to the seeds they have used in the past. There are many farmers across the globe who have stopped growing GMO crops because of all the problems, toxic chemicals and costs associated with them. It’s not the farmer that will

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health began to improve. Lacey Clark attributes it heard a squeal and Alexa to her daughter’s mediwas on the ground. An ambulance was there cal care but also to the homeopathic medicine within minutes and she called Arnica. With doctor was helicoptered to a hospital in Missoula within an approval, she gave Alexa Arnica the first night after hour. her surgery. Meanwhile, Lacey Clark “I think it made a huge and her ex-husband Jim difference,” she said, addClark, Alexa’s father, were ing a family practitioner driving to Montana when recommended it. “Her they got a phone call bruising went down, went no parent ever wants to away.” receive. Arnica is a perennial “I don’t know how to herb that has a number describe how it is to find of uses, including aiding out your child might not infections and inflammalive,” Lacey Clark said. tion. The two were just Throughout Alexa’s outside of Spokane, and recovery, her parents by the time they arrived, blogged on www.Caringthey knew it was bad. The Bridge.org, a website dedihospital in Missoula was cated to keeping families without neurosurgeons in the loop during healthso Alexa was airlifted to related events. Sacred Heart, a hosOne evening “I don’t pital in Spokane. know how to when Alexa was After the helicopter arrived at describe how heavily sedated 11 p.m., doctors it is to find from her induced discovered the out your child coma, her fampressure on Alexa’s might not ily started a group prayer after a friend brain was extremely live.” suggested it. When high and she was Lacey Clark the group prayer rushed into emerstarted, she “over gency brain surgery. breathed” her venAlexa came out tilator, giving her family of surgery in an induced even more hope. coma at around 3 a.m. “I asked her if she could with part of her skull squeeze my hand, which missing and some brain she did multiple times, and damage. her legs started shaking, It was the start of sleepher eyelids were flutterless nights at the hospital ing and I strongly felt her and continuous worry for saying ‘I want to wake up her family and friends. After the accident, Lacey mom, why can’t I wake Clark spent 30 consecutive up?’” Lacey Clark wrote on the Caring Bridge blog on days living in the hospital Sept. 5. in Spokane. Alexa started the process Her father commuted of waking up, coming out back and forth from of her induced coma and Spokane after the first two detoxing around Sept. 10. weeks so that he could During the following continue to work. days doctors reassured her “For the first week, they family that she was “still in never said that she was going to live. It was ‘if ’ she there.” And it only got better lives,” Lacey Clark said. “It from there. was very much touch and “Before today my most go.” intense and emotional Alexa’s lung collapsed moment of being a parent at one point and her brain pressure was constantly up was the first time I held Alexa, looked into her eyes and down. Her mother said it was a and we recognized each solid week before they had other as mother and child,” Lacey Clark wrote on any hope that she might Sept. 12. “Today, my baby even live, let alone have a - who almost left us a few quality life to live. Howevshort days ago - reached er, after about 10 days her

Alexa Clark at Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane after being kicked in the head by a horse. Clark underwent brain surgery and was put in an induced coma to help her brain heal from the trauma. CONTRIBUTED for me, clumsily put her arms around my neck and sweetly kissed my cheek. As tears streamed down my face I felt a deep, profound sense of gratitude. We are no longer waiting … We are now experiencing with awe and wonder.” Soon after, support from Kirkland students came flooding. A Peter Kirk Elementary teacher drove to Spokane to deliver cards from elementary students and a book of notes and getwell cards from Kirkland Middle School students. There was even a care package filled with food, magazines and books. But one of the most touching letters was addressed to Lacey Clark, mother to mother. The letter was from Carol Jensen, the mother of Kelsey Jensen who created Kid’s Corner at Peter Kirk Elementary. The name was later changed to Kelsey’s Corner in memory of Kelsey who, too, suffered from brain trauma but died December 2012. Alexa was a member of Kelsey’s Corner, which consisted of a group of children who spent time during recess playing with kids who might not have something or someone to

play with. “She let me know that she had been following Caring Bridge posts and how reading about Alexa’s [inter cranial pressures] made her stomach churn,” Lacey Clark wrote. “She reminded me to be appreciative of Alexa’s responses because they never received responses from their daughter.” Lacey Clark said before reading the letter, she was growing more concerned about Alexa’s future. “I was wondering about the first time she looks in the mirror and realizes that her head is shaved and what it will be like once she goes back to school,” Lacey Clark said. “Will kids be nice to her? Will she ever be able to ride horses again, what if her right eye doesn’t start tracking, will her speech be affected?” But Lacey Clark said Jensen’s letter humbly reminded her to be present and “immensely thankful.” As Alexa had pivotal moments in her recovery - getting out of her wheelchair on Sept. 17, plenty of jokes with her doctors, discovering she was able to read and write and a surprise visit from Seahawks quarterback

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why I was late, she said, ‘Gosh dad, I thought it was me who has the scrambled brains.’” Although Alexa has come so far, she is still working on her balance when walking, her shortterm memory and her right eye’s nerve is still damaged. Her mother continues to treat her with homeopathy to reduce some brain fluid, which may require a shunt if it doesn’t improve. “In general, she has a really positive attitude,” Lacey Clark said. “She gets sad sometimes because she wonders why it happened to her. Once in a while she gets down by the fact that her head is shaved and her eye is [not tracking] but she understands she could have died. But she’s happy she didn’t and she’s making the most out of it.” Alexa will need to wear a helmet 100 percent of the time during the day until the missing part of her skull is replaced in four to six months, another surgery. Eventually, she hopes to get back on the horse, literally, but will need to wait at least a year to do any kind of sports, including horse riding. “Quite frankly, I was hoping that wouldn’t be the case,” Lacey Clark laughs. “But we’re going to support her in what she wants to do. A lot of people do dangerous sports and get hurt, and they get through it.” As Alexa continues to heal through a Bellevue outpatient treatment program, Lacey Clark reflects on the last few months: “I feel so much more conscious of the fact that life is fragile,” she said. “Make time to do the things with your kids you don’t think you have time to do because you might not be able to do them tomorrow.”

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chopping you up … It wasn’t just a knife, it was a huge blade - a machete or an axe, I don’t know,” Miles Calvert said. “It’s hard to think it was random.” Todd Calvert explained the new housing development Vintners Ridge, where the victim and his family lives, wraps itself around his parents’ house, which is where Miles Calvert was as he house-sat for his grandparents. Todd Calvert said the victim and his family had moved in about 10 days ago and that the 19-year-old man had been home from college. As soon as he got the call, he and his youngest son went to help. “I saw large gashes in his legs, arms and head,” Todd Calvert said. Todd Calvert helped by holding the phone to the victim’s head so he could

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speak to the 911 operator. At this point, the Calverts heard him say that two suspects had broken into his home and he had locked himself in the bathroom because the two suspects were “trying to cut his leg off.” He also said he was worried about his parents, who were still home at the time. “I can’t imagine waking up and finding blood all over the house and my son missing,” Todd Calvert said. “I’ve been here 27 years and this is the only thing that’s happened.” The Calverts saw police arrive at the victim’s residence and soon the man was taken to the hospital. The last thing Miles Calvert heard was that the victim underwent major surgery. Todd Calvert said he’s since heard the victim is alive and his knee was able to be “fixed” but that he has permanent damage to his shoulder and arm. Miles Calvert said his

thoughts and prayers are with the family and that he is glad he was able to assist. The suspects are unknown to the homeowners and a motive for the victim being singled out remains unclear at this time and is under investigation. But Kirkland detectives are seeking the public’s help in identifying robbery suspects. One of the suspects is described as an Asian man, 20-30 years of age, approximately 150-160 pounds, hazel eyes with an average build, dark goatee and a white spike piercing through his lower lip. The second suspect is described as a black man with dark skin, 20-30 years of age, approximately 190 pounds with a muscular build, short black hair and a deep voice. If you have any information regarding the incident, contact the Kirkland Police Department tip line at (425) 587-3515.

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Police Blotter The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week. Between Oct. 4-10, the Kirkland Police Department reported 393 traffic violations (six DUIs), 17 school zone traffic violations, two animal calls, 31 alarm calls, 14 noise complaints, two juvenile crime, 10 calls of disturbance, 10 thefts, 11 car prowls, five car thefts, 24 traffic accidents, 16 calls of civil disturbance, nine

www.kirklandreporter.com reported burglaries, eight domestic violence calls, four calls for harassment, three reports of illegal drugs, one alleged assault, six acts of fraud, five malicious mischief reports, one sex offense and two suicides. At least 29 people were arrested.

Oct. 10 Minor in possession: 12:05 a.m., 9700 block of NE 120th Place. An 18-year-old woman was arrested for consuming alcohol as a minor at Juanita Pub. She was able to use her half-sister’s ID before staff figured out she was underage. The woman blew a .234 preliminary breath test. Domestic violence: 2:34 p.m., 14100 block of 73rd Place NE. A 23-year-old man was arrested after getting into a physical altercation with his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend. Warrant: 8:16 p.m., 12400 block of 103rd Ave. NE. A 28-year-old man was taken into custody on a felony, department of corrections

escape warrant. Police discovered he had drugs on him when he was booked into Kirkland jail.

pended driver’s license, which was his seventh time he has been stopped for the offense.

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Warrant: 9:01 p.m., 12900 block of 127th Drive NE. A 62-year-old man was arrested on a DUI warrant after police arrived at his residence for a disturbance between he and his fiancé. The man also blew a .348 preliminary breath test and was transported to EvergreenHealth Medical Center.

Domestic violence: 2:24 a.m., 7300 block of NE 141st Place. A 25-year-old man was arrested for being the primary aggressor in a fight between he and his 19-year-old girlfriend. The man initially called police to report his girlfriend had hit him.

Oct. 6 Theft: 3:56 p.m., 232 Central Way. A 54-yearold woman was arrested at Wing Dome after she ate $9.98 worth of food and left without paying. Traffic offense: 7:25 p.m., 7300 block of 132nd Ave. NE. A 32-year-old man was taken into custody after he was stopped in his 1996 Pontiac for driving without a front license plate. Police discovered he was driving on a sus-

Oct. 5 Trespass: 10:57 a.m., 100 block of Park Lane. A 54-year-old woman was arrested for trespassing Ragamoffyn’s.

Oct. 4 Trespass: 10:16 a.m., 12600 block of NE 124th St. A 24-year-old man was arrested for criminal trespass after returning to an apartment at Francis Village apartments he was evicted on Oct. 1.

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On her way to A.G. Bell Elementary School Tuesday morning, Hannah Ochoa, 8, walks ahead of her father Robert Ochoa, left, and her 5-year-old brother, Bobby as crossing guard Kriss Simon, right, holds traffic on Northeast 116th Street and 110th Avenue Northeast. Simon was assisted by the new rapid flashing beacons, which the city of Kirkland installed in time for National Walk to School Week. COURTESY CITY OF KIRKLAND

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Kirkland City Councilman Toby Nixon filed a complaint with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission on Monday against Kinnon Williams, a candidate for the EvergreenHealth board of commissioners Position 2. Nixon claims the candidate, who is challenging longtime incumbent Rebecca Hirt, failed to report all of his contributions that he received. He later amended his complaint after he discovered a filing discrepancy, but claims the candidate is still in violation of some PDC rules. However, Williams said he properly filed all of his reports and points to a “system malfunction” that has ultimately kept the updated information from showing up on the PDC website. The PDC website states that Williams has raised nearly $31,000 so far for his campaign. Nixon said the amount is “an extraordinary sum” for a hospital district race, so he decided to check the PDC website to see who was funding the campaign. According to Nixon’s PDC complaint, Williams reported to the commission on July 23 a $30,000 deposit. However,

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his corresponding C-3 report, tion right away as soon as we which shows who the congot it,” said Williams, who tributions came from, shows noted he had to re-submit only $20,000 in conthe information he tributions deposited previously filed after on that date. Also, the information did that report was filed not show up on the on Oct. 4 and should PDC website. “If have been filed no anything, blame this later than Aug. 10, on government malthe complaint confunction or a system Kinnon Williams tinues. that doesn’t work The PDC website well, as opposed to also does not show who my compliance.” contributed the remaining The Councilman also $10,000. pointed out that Williams “I am very passionate received $10,000 from about public disclosure, both Al DeYoung, chair of the by government itself, but also EvergreenHealth board who candidates - people who are has been a commissioner seeking to run the governsince 1980. He also received ment on our behalf,” said an additional $10,000 from Nixon, who is also president DeYoung’s daughter, Lucy of the Washington Coalition DeYoung, who is a former for Open Government. “The mayor of Woodinville. whole purpose of campaign Since filing the complaint, finance reporting is to show Nixon found a handwritten who elected officials are going disclosure form on the PDC to be beholden to because website that documents the these people paid for the entire $30,000 in contribucampaign.” tions. But Williams said he reHe said while Williams ported all of his contributions complied with the law and he received and the PDC PDC filings with his original website is unreliable. report of $30,000, he still be“If Mr. Nixon would have lieves Williams is in violation bothered to check with the of PDC rules by not filing the PDC instead of relying on report electronically. He said an unreliable online source PDC rules require electronic of information, he would filing - not handwritten have seen that we did in fact filings - when total contribusend in all of the informations exceed $10,000.

The handwritten form he found also disclosed who contributed the remaining $10,000 - Al DeYoung’s wife, Donna DeYoung. “I live in the EvergreenHealth hospital district - why is Al DeYoung trying to buy a seat for his friend on the hospital board of commissioners?” Nixon said. “I think it’s important to the general public because if Williams were to be elected as a direct result of this huge contribution from the DeYoung family, does that mean he’s not going to be an independent voice? Does that mean he will be a rubber stamp to everything Al votes on? I think that should really concern people.” But Williams vehemently denies Nixon’s assertions. He believes Nixon’s PDC complaint is a “political shenanigan.” And he said he will vote for what is in the best interest of his constituents. “He [Nixon] knows damn little about me and you can quote me on that one,” said Williams. “I’m nobody’s patsy; never have been, never will be.” He noted that DeYoung asked him to run for the seat and he is doing so for community service. He is vice chair of the Evergreen Healthcare Foundation and says that many voters he has

spoken with hope to see his community service translate to his service on the board of commissioners, if elected. He also served as an elected Northshore Utility District commissioner for 14 years. “I don’t need the money and I certainly don’t need some politician questioning my motives,” Williams added. “If anyone is going to insult my integrity, bring it on.” Al DeYoung also denies “buying” Williams’s seat. “I’ve given the hospital over a million dollars in gifts to help build things up at the hospital,” said Al DeYoung, who lives in Woodinville. “Why would I be trying to ruin my integrity by doing something like that. I’m not trying to buy anybody’s vote.” In his 34 years of serving on the EvergreenHealth board, Al DeYoung said Williams is the first candidate he has seen vie for a position on the board who is worth supporting monetarily. “I’m supporting him because he’s a qualified candidate - that’s as plain and simple as you can get,” Al DeYoung said. “I’m not interested in personalities. I’ve been on the board for 34 years and I’ve worked with a lot of people for all these years and sometimes you work with people who are

better than others. Kinnon has done a fine job with the [Evergreen Healthcare] Foundation and I’m very impressed.” He added that he doesn’t think Williams would “rubber stamp anything other than what he thought was best for the situation. I think Kinnon is the best man for the job and a big improvement over what we have.” He said it “doesn’t take any genius” to figure out that he intends to unseat Williams’ opponent, Hirt. “I think Williams can do a better job than Rebacca Hirt. I wouldn’t support him if I didn’t think so,” he said, noting he believes that Williams can help move EvergreenHealth forward. “It’s a very important position to have at this time, we’re going through a critical time with the hospital. He can get job done.” Al DeYoung also said that his family’s large contribution was done out of altruism. “I’m a man of few words and I try to stop and assess the situation and do what’s right for Evergreen,” he said. “Maybe some people worry about that, but my heart is with Evergreen.” Hirt could not be reached for immediate comment.

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Kirkland Police Department hosts drug takeback event Truck driver Scott Mortenson, 27, checks the last load of rails to be hauled off the Cross Kirkland Corridor near Railroad Avenue on Tuesday morning. CHRISTIAN KNIGHT, City of Kirkland tions have been collected nationally over the last three years through these events. According to the DEA, this initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines-flushing them down the toilet or

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LWSD state tests results improved over 2011 Lake Washington School District students improved their results on state standardized tests as compared to 2011 in almost every subgroup in reading and in math, but district results compared to Annual Measurable Objectives (AMOs) were mixed in 2012-13. Under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), districts and schools in the state of Washington are measured against AMOs. These unique yearly targets in reading and mathematics are designed to reduce proficiency gaps by half by 2017 for all students and each

student subgroup in that district or school. The AMOs for each school and district are determined based on the entity’s own performance in 2011 and the difference between that performance and 100 percent at standard. Statewide, most groups did not reach their AMO targets for 2012-13 in reading or in math. For Lake Washington School District, many groups did successfully reach their specific target for 2012-13 in math as a result of higher scores. Most did not make the district-specific target in reading despite scoring gains. The 2013 test scores for Lake Washington showed improvements in almost every subgroup in both reading and math compared to the 2011 results. In math, 82.6 percent of all students reached standard this year, which was over the 80.9 percent target.

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suites (smaller-scale apartments with shared kitchens, sometimes referred to as ‘aPodments’ in Seattle), which were adopted and start construction later this year, recommended affordable housing incentives and requirements in various zones, and supported cottage housing and accessory dwelling units in single family neighborhoods,” Arnold said. Marchione said she would work to develop an additional transit-oriented development in Totem Lake. She would also look at using cityowned homes for homeless

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A new levy to fund affordable housing and using cityowned homes for homeless families were just two ideas that Kirkland City Council candidates proposed in a recent questionnaire addressing homelessness and affordable housing. To help educate voters on candidates’ views toward housing and homelessness, the Eastside Human Services Forum conducted an electronic candidates’ forum. Candidates running in contested races in east King County cities - including Kirkland, King County Council (Eastside districts) and for the King County Executive position were invited to answer a three-item questionnaire. Kirkland Council candidates who answered the questionnaire include Jay Arnold, who is running for Position 1, and incumbent Doreen Marchione, the city’s deputy mayor who is running for Position 7. Martin Morgan, who is running against Arnold, and Bill Henkens, who is challenging Marchione, did not provide online responses in time to participate in the questionnaire. The first question asked candidates what they would do specifically in an elected official role to protect and strengthen human services for Eastside residents. Arnold said as a Councilman, he could strengthen human services by supporting and protecting direct human services and affordable housing funding in the city’s budget, adopting and strengthening policies that build and support affordable housing within Kirkland and ensuring the city builds partnerships that support human services. He noted Kirkland budgets about $4.9 million for human services, including support for A Regional Coalition for Housing and $1.3 million in funding directed by the city’s Human Services Commission. “Future increases in such funding are going to be incremental, so the biggest impact is going to be city policies that support and encourage affordable housing,” Arnold said, adding that Kirkland could partner with local businesses, the faith community and nonprofit and service agencies. “For example, discussions to build a Kirkland Community Foundation may be a vehicle to broaden

participation and giving within our community, and an opportunity to coordinate and leverage efforts between organizations.” Marchione said she would protect and strengthen human services by continuing the financial support for Eastside agencies, and she would advocate for additional financial support. “I also support the Eastside Human Services Forum as a way for cities and agencies to work together to solve problems,” she added. Candidates were also asked what actions they would take to increase affordable housing in east King County. Arnold said as Kirkland works on updating its Comprehensive Plan for Kirkland 2035, the city should pursue additional density and

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Emma Eleanor (Bratland) Landguth, 97, passed away September 27, 2013 at Aegis of Kirkland. She was the youngest of five children, born at home on September 6, 1916 in Utsaladdy, Camano Island, Washington, to Olaf and Kristina Bratland. When she was four years old, her family moved from their house near the beach in Utsaladdy to homestead a farm on what a surveyor claimed to be the highest hill on Camano Island. She attended Rocky Point School, Utsaladdy School, Stanwood Grade School, and Stanwood High School. In her sophomore year, she moved to Seattle, sharing various apartments with her sisters and attended Broadway High School. After graduating from Broadway High School in 1935, she attended Business College. Emma worked at Northern Life Insurance Company and the MGM Film Distribution Center in the Seattle. One of the highlights of her career at MGM was when she and the office staff had their photo taken with Frank Morgan, who played the Wizard in “The Wizard of Oz”. And, as an employee she was privileged to see MGM’s first-run films free at a small nearby theater called “The Jewelbox Theater” on “screening night”. As a child, Emma was a talented artist and loved to sketch and draw comic strip characters, fashion models and movie stars, as well as silhouettes. In recent years her daughter Nancy used her artwork to create personalized Christmas cards for family and friends. Emma also loved dolls and smiled when introducing each of them by name to those who came to visit her. Emma married Keith Charles Landguth on May 25, 1940, and had two children. They first lived in Seattle. In 1947 they moved from the Ballard area of Seattle to Kirkland, Washington, where she resided in the same house for 66 years. She was a loving wife and mother who devoted the rest of her life to taking good care of her family. Preceded in death by her husband, Keith Landguth, her parents, Olaf and Kristina Bratland, her sisters, Borghild (Babs) Tremaine, Evelyn Nebenfuhr, Olive (Teen) Hanson and brother, Karl Bratland, she is survived by her son, Glenn Keith Landguth, and her daughter, Nancy Eleanor Bock, both of Kirkland, four grandchildren, Cindy Dusin of Mill Creek, Clark Landguth, of Bothell, Deanna Bock of Bothell and Kristina Bock of Seattle and six great-grandchildren, Alyssa Landguth, Caleb Landguth, Megan Landguth, Rachel Dusin, James Josiah Dusin, and Joshua Dusin. The family suggests remembrances in Emma Landguth’s name may be made to your favorite charity. Friends and Family are invited to share memories, photos, and sign the on-line guest book on www.acaciafuneralhome.com. A private interment took place at Acacia Memorial Park. 901339

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