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Businesses wants Sound Transit rail yard someplace else BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
Bellevue residents and business owners told Sound Transit on June 5 that a 25-acre maintenance facility in the city's Bel-Red Corridor could remove them from the map permanently, and urged its board to look somewhere else — anywhere else. Sound Transit is in its 45-day public comment period for a draft environmental impact statement that analyzes four options for siting an operations and maintenance satellite facility for its expanding light rail fleet on the Eastside.Three alternatives are
proposed in Bellevue and one in Lynwood. The comment period ends June 23, and the transit board plans to select its preferred route in July before beginning work on the final environmental impact statement. The cheapest alternative for Sound Transit is to use Eastside Rail Corridor property, along with the old International Paper building it acquired last year, to site the facility east of the train tracks and west of 120th Avenue Northeast in Bellevue. Jorge Gonzalez said that option could cost him a portion of his Barrier Motors property on 120th Avenue Northeast, used for vehicle inventory and employee park-
ing. Former city planning director Matt Terry said industrial use there conflicts with the Bel-Red redevelopment plan and will not fit with the future mixed-use, highdensity area. Another alternative using the rail corridor would place the facility on the east side of the tracks, with storage tracks sited to the west. Most residents at Thursday's public hearing said it's just as undesirable as the other. Jeff Myrter, general manager for Wright Runstad, said formal comments soon would be filed with Sound Transit opposing Bellevue options that would place the facil-
ity just outside of the developing Spring District, which will be a $2-billion, 20-year investment in transit oriented development. Jeanne Muir for Security Properties, which is developing the first 300-plus apartments in the Spring District with an option to double that figure, said siting a maintenance facility on the rail corridor will greatly reduce the company's interest in future development. Rob Aigner, senior vice president for Harsch Investment Properties, was joined SEE SOUND TRANSIT, 18
Residents feel misled by PSE on energy project
STROLLING TO STOP SIDS
BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
People of all ages walked and pushed strollers on Saturday, June 7 to raise money to fight Sudden Infant Death Syndrome the leading cause of death among infants 1 month to 1 year old that claims the lives of about 2,500 each year in the United States. The second annual Strollin’ to Fight SIDS had raised about $12,500 by the start of the 5-K walk at the Newport High School track course, exceeding its $10,000 goal. Funds raised go to the CJ Foundation for SIDS. BRANDON MACZ, Bellevue Reporter
Opponents of Puget Sound Energy's proposed Energize Eastside project spilled out of council chambers during a Bellevue City Hall forum on June 3, which is just one part of the city's growing involvement in the controversial undertaking. The Bellevue City Council has committed to tracking down answers to myriad questions coming from neighborhoods that say their property values will be diminished should large power poles be erected near them as part of the 18-mile transmission line project from Renton to Bellevue. Many residents said June 3 they're wary of the answers they've been receiving from PSE. They said they feel they're being misled by the energy company, which states the project is critical to meeting Eastside energy demands as soon as 2017, when capacity is expected to be reached. Todd Andersen, chairman for the Somerset Community Association technical committee, claims PSE is inflating its projections for future demand while understating what percentage of energy generated by the project would go to Canada. He said PSE states 5 percent, while his estimates are at least 38 percent. SEE PSE, 18
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Nine honored for human services work
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The Alliance of Eastside Agencies has honored nine people or organizations for contributions to human services on the Eastside. Winners are Outstanding Business – Small Threads for Kids, nominated by Eastside Baby Corner; Outstanding Faith Organization: Cascade Covenant Church, nominated by Encompass; Outstanding Elected Official – Jane Hague, King County Council, nominated by KITH; Outstanding Not-for-Profit Staff – Karina Woodruff, nominated by Friends of Youth; Outstanding Volunteer – Mabel Graham, nominated by Hopelink; and Outstanding Youth Volunteer – Alaina Blyth, nominated by Crisis Clinic; Outstanding Eastside Philanthropist – Bill Henningsgaard; Community Impact Award – Marilyn Mason-Plunkett; and Legacy Award – Sharon Anderson.
Bellevue College to offer summer IT health program
Warm temperatures bring kids and adults out to Bellevue's Crossroads Park to sit on the grass and play in the water park. The water feature shoots jets of water from a variety of locations in a nautical setting including an Orca whale. The whale, with water spouting from its blow hole, makes for a popular slide for children. CRAIG GROSHART, Bellevue Reporter
Bellevue College will offer two short-term, online certificates to help speed deployment of job-ready candidates in the health IT sector. BC and its continuing education division will offer CAHIMS (Certified Associate in Healthcare Information & Management Systems) and Healthcare Data Analyst. The classes will start July 1. CAHIMS coursework provides candidates with a strong foundation in health IT and prepares students for the industry certification exam for HIMSS CAHIMS certification. The Healthcare Data Analyst certificate will provide working professionals with advanced tools that support clinical, financial, operational, and quality analytics applications in healthcare settings. To learn more or to enroll, visit: hiteducation.org/bcstudents, or contact Shanon Magnusson at 425-564-2979; informatics@bellevuecollege.edu.
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When Larry Knoeb Sr. (front) says he runs a family business, he isn’t kidding. His two children, LaRae Bauman and Larry Jr., also are part of the hair-cutting team. Beginning this fall, granddaughter, Mandy, will join the group. In the back are Mary Hayes (left) and Mindy Vo, two stylists with Beautiful People Hair Design, that shares the space with the barber shop. Julie McMorran, a longtime stylist, was not there that day. CRAIG GROSHART, Bellevue Reporter
Larry’s Barber Shop adds third generation to business The year was 1964. Lyndon Johnson was president, the Beatles first appeared on the Billboard Charts with “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” the United States was in the midst of the Vietnam War and Lawrence Knoeb Sr. opened Larry’s Barber Shop in the Lake Hills neighborhood of Bellevue. The Knoeb family still is cutting hair and will mark its golden anniversary and show appreciation to its customers with a celebration and open house from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The shop shares a storefront at the corner of 145th Place Southeast and Southeast 16th Street. In the mid-1970s, when men began wearing perms, Beautiful People Salon was added in the back. When Larry Sr. first opened his doors, he had no idea he was starting not only a family business, but also a Bellevue institution. “I never expected my kids to come and work with me,” Knoeb said, but both son, Lawrence (Larry) Jr. and daughter, LaRae Bauman, both having planned different careers, still work side by side with their father. When granddaughter Mandy (her mother is Larry Sr.’s daughter, Deana)
graduates from school in September, she'll join them to make it three generations. Now that LaRae has graduated as a medical assistant, working at Group Health, she cuts hair part time. Larry Jr. believes the shop’s family values and ties are what have kept customers coming to Larry’s Barber Shop for so many years. Many regular customers have been coming back for over 45 years. “People know us and we know them so it really is personal service for us. We’ve been around for a long time and our customers are like our family.” Larry Jr. said. Customers say they like Larry’s classic barber shop feel, with leather swivel chairs and a no corporation-chain feel. Barber shop customers need no appointment. Whether or not the shop the family tradition is undecided. Larry Jr.’s son and daughter, still living at home, have yet to graduate from high school and his oldest daughter lives in Spokane with her own family; none so far have expressed a desire to continue in the family business. LaRae’s own three sons are going in other directions as well, so she also doubts they will take an interest in cutting hair. But then, that's what LaRae once said of herself and she's been with the shop now for 24 years – and counting.
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Botanical garden reopening facilities
BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
The Bellevue Botanical Garden will open up Saturday with a celebration of the recently completed visitor center and new garden features, and includes guided tours, plant sales and more. Construction of the 8,500-square-foot visitor center was completed early and under budget, and will be one of several new features at the garden during this weekend's twoday open house. The structure includes three classrooms, administrative offices, restrooms and a garden shop. It's on its way to a gold rating under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, one feature being a 10,000 gallon cistern for catching rain water from the roof and using it for the facility's toilets. The list is already long for those wanting to use the new facility, said garden manager Nancy Kartes, but priority
will first go to classes and lecture series starting in July through a partnership with the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society, which raised half of the $10 million for the project. "We are taking our time to settle in and grow, especially our adult education process, and letting our partners do the same thing," Kartes said. Saturday starts off the two-day open house for the new visitor center. At the Trillium Store, visitors will be able to use touchscreen monitors to run the Interactive Garden Visit, which is a software application that allows people to search the garden and learn more about what and where vegetation can be found. Another addition is the Iris Rain Garden, which naturally filters water absorbed in the ground that is then piped and spread to other natural areas around the garden, said Ken Kroeger, project manager for parks and community services. West of the visitor center is a reconstructed wetland area that will be used for educational classes and
showing how development and wetland ecology can work together, he said. Parking should be adequate as part of the project included expanding the lot from 53 to 119 stalls, and people are encouraged to show up 10 a.m. Saturday for a ceremonial tree planting to kick off the event. Musical performers during the event include the Sammamish Youth Orchestra.
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King County Realtors push levy swap for education funding BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
Washington Realtors are backing a proposal by Rep. Ross Hunter (D-Medina) to boost statewide funding of basic education through a levy swap that would aim to reduce the dependency of school districts on voter-approved levies. Legislators and legislative hopefuls were educated about the proposal June 5 during a meeting of the Seattle-King County Association of Realtors in Bellevue, and were urged to support the move in Olympia this session. First introduced in 2010, a levy
Council says shoreline plan taking too long BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
Facing a tight timeline to adopt a shoreline master plan that would pass state Department of Ecology review, the Bellevue City Council paused a study session Monday to spend 30 minutes arguing about how much time the process is taking. Mayor Claudia Balducci said at the rate the council is being informed
well-funded, quality districts for attracting homebuyers, said Patti Hill, vice president of government affairs for the association. Of the 295 districts in the state, 280 receive funding through voter-approved levies. “We need, and the constitution requires, a common ground solution,” she said. A levy swap wouldn’t resolve the total balance required for K-12 education, Hill said, but would generate more revenue without taking funding away from other state services. Legislators can expect to keep receiving pressure from the Supreme Court to increase the state’s contribution to basic education as decided in the McCleary
swap as proposed by Hunter would raise the state property tax from $2.03 to $3.20 per $1,000 of assessed property value for an added $1 billion in revenue. Schools would then reduce their levies by the amount of new revenue received from the state. Lawmakers are already required to significantly increase the state’s contribution to basic education in public schools, following a Washington Supreme Court decision that by not doing so the Legislature was in violation of Article 9 of the state Constitution. The Realtors have worked to help pass more than a dozen school levies here in the past, and acknowledge the importance of
about the process the planning commission went through developing a shoreline master plan, a revised version likely wouldn’t be adopted before the council’s break in August. Monday’s meeting was meant to catch the council up on vegetation conservation and critical areas, but staff didn’t get far before councilmembers interrupted the presentation to zero in on setback requirements, which had delayed those topics from being discussed on May 27. Land Use Director Carol Helland and Councilmember Jennifer Robertson disagreed about whether there is a difference in the environmental impact of a development that is set back 25 feet as opposed to 50 feet from the shoreline. Vegetation does play an integral part in setback requirements, but Robertson said she’s concerned shoreline views will be obstructed by the types of native vegetation proposed for mitigation of the DOE’s “no net
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he King County Council made the right decision Monday to deal with Metro’s financial problems. By a 5-4 vote, the council approved reducing Metro service hours beginning in September. But the council did something even better. It held off on approving more cuts in 2015 and instead suggested ways Metro might find additional funds. Those wise decisions didn’t make it past County Executive Dow Constantine who, unfortunately, vetoed the plan. The result shifts the burden of paying to prevent future service cuts on to the backs of cities instead of where it belongs — on Metro itself. Make no mistake. Metro is facing a dire financial future. The Great Recession saw thousands of dollars of revenue it gets for a portion of the sales tax disappear. At the same time, its costs remained high. An attempt this spring to increase the sales tax and boost car-tab fees was soundly defeated just about everywhere but Seattle. Metro’s answer? Cut back transit service. That probably is the only reasonable answer this year. But the future isn’t so clear. The recession is over and people are spending more. That means Metro is getting more money from its share of the sales tax. There’s also the possibility that a thorough audit of Metro will find ways to bring its expenses more in line with those of other major transit systems. That might not be enough to make Metro whole. But it could help lessen the amount of transit cuts scheduled for 2015. Then next year, if Metro can show it has sharpened its budget-cutting knife, voters might be more willing to consider a tax increase. Instead, Constantine’s veto has the effect of telling bus riders their transit future is bleak. Sadly for our congested roads, many of them probably are looking at buying a car. – Craig Groshart, Bellevue Reporter
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stablishing a commission to examine the causes and consequences of the Oso mudslide is taking longer than Snohomish County Executive John Lovick and Gov. Jay Inslee imagined. In the six-plus weeks since Lovick announced the joint effort, they’ve mapped out a scope of work, but not figured out how much to spend getting it Jerry Cornfield done. The price tag could eclipse $1 million. How to pay for it hasn’t been decided, though it’s a good bet the partner with the deeper pockets — the state — will cover the lion’s share. Who will be on the panel, and who will run it, also isn’t clear. Part of the difficulty encountered by these veteran Democratic politicians — and rookies in their current jobs — is a lack of precedent. There’s no template to follow. They didn’t make it any easier by calling for a commission to look into what happened and what lessons can be learned. Commissions are typically associated with high profile reviews following national calamities and tragedies. The product of some are engrained in our memories and inscribed into school history texts like the Warren Commission and 9-11 Commission.
Thus by pursuing a commission, Lovick and Inslee raised public expectations for an outcome grander than what a legislative task force or study group might produce. David Postman, Inslee’s communications chief, is one of a tiny number of advisors involved in setting up the joint undertaking. He said it will be an independent commission to ensure people who have questions feel they are getting complete and truthful answers. Inslee and Lovick will “weigh in” but not handpick the chairman, he said. Neither he nor Lovick offered any names of those under consideration to either serve on or lead the panel. As for its duties, the commission is likely to consider the history of the area before the March 22 mudslide, the causes of the slide and the responses to the incident by emergency workers, volunteers and residents, Postman said. It also will review regulatory policies and recommend changes, he said. How deeply the commission will probe for a cause is not chiseled into stone. Postman said this week they want hydrology and geology experts involved in the review and investigation. However, Inslee said last month he didn’t think the panel would carry out a who-knew-what-when brand of inquiry. SEE CORNFIELD, 7
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More Obama agenda
Well the White House that can't shoot straight has done it yet again. Obama has unleashed five of the worst of the worst terrorists on the world in exchange for a U.S. Army deserter. Both the Army and Obama knew about Sgt. Bergdahl's desertion in the face of the enemy. Yet, neither mentioned it. Of course it fits Obama's agenda to eventually close Gitmo. With eight more "trades" like this one he can do just that. Never mind that the terrorists he released have killed thousands and can't wait to get back at it. And there was Obama's favorite pinata, Susan Rice, on a Sunday talk show again, saying how Sgt. Bergdahl had served with, "valor and distinction." Since when is leaving a cowardly note, dropping your weapon, and running off, "valor and distinction?" I hope Rice is getting double pay for all that lying with a straight face. All this could all be considered low comedy...if it weren't so tragic.
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Just tip of iceberg
The problems in the VA are just the tip of the iceberg in governmental agencies. All cabinet appointees are temporary, at the pleasure of the president. Career employees are there forever. It is nearly impossible to fire career employees, due to the union and protective regulations. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki was SEE LETTERS, 7
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Know when to fold ‘em
Larry Brickman, Bellevue
A slap in the face
It seems not another day goes by whereby Bellevue and it’s citizens don’t suffer from the bellicose actions of Seattle centric Sound Transit. At the same time Sound Transit brags about the near completion of another tunnel within the Seattle Sound Transit grid, protecting multiple Seattle communities, they also announce they need an addition 5-10 feet of space for walls from Bellevue home owners in the Surrey Downs community (Bellevue Reporter, Friday, June 6, 2014, Surrey Downs neighbors get light rail surprise). Sound Transit had no problem turning down a request for an East-Link tunnel proposal into downtown Bellevue, and instead chose an at-grade route, drastically impacting the Enatai and Surrey Downs Neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the majority of the Bellevue City Council have not supported these communities, including the current mayor who also serves on the Sound Transit Board and has stated in the past she serves the Eastside and not Bellevue. It’s too bad King County Executive Dow Constantine and Gov. Jay Inslee already have her other constituents. But even the City Council was surprised that Sound Transit was seriously considering putting an operations and maintenance satellite facility in the Bel-Red corridor.
Dick Applestone, Bellevue
City, PSE need to work together
As a real estate agent, I am very concerned about the Energize Eastside project and the negative effect it would have on property values. The proposed utility poles would be disastrous to go up in our residential communities. It would decrease the values not only to the adjacent properties, but also the surrounding community. I believe Bellevue is one of the best managed cities in the Northwest. We have outstanding schools and strong business development. There is beautiful green space that provides the perfect balance to suburban living. Please, I ask the City Council and PSE to work together to find a solution with the lowest visual impact to our neighborhoods. Let’s keep Bellevue at the top of the list of great places to live.
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underway until 8. Unfortunately, they meant that’s when Kenny was to go on. So well before 8, I was standing at least a hundred yards away outside when a local D.J. announced to the capacity audience of a couple thousand: “Folks, the man you’ve come to see tonight, Kenny Rogers, will be out shortly. But until then, here’s a young comedian, Pete Cushman!” When I failed to appear, the crowd began rumbling. Someone ran out into the parking lot and screamed, “Hey, you’re on! They’ve already introduced you!” It is all a blur after that. Out of breath, I struggled through my monologue, with the mob giving me no mercy as they chanted, “Kenny! Kenny!” Finally, with great relief, I left the stage — garnering my only applause of the night. I didn’t try standup for many years after that. Guess you have to know when to hold ‘em — and when to fold ’em.
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As details get hashed out, the two political leaders may want to seek out former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton for advice, inasmuch as he served on the commission established after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Citing that experience, Gorton suggested a commission should focus on getting the history right and not play the blame game. Set out what happened in the past and, based on what happened, determine what improvements might work in the future, he said. “You don’t say someone is at fault. You don’t express opinions in a (final) commission report,” he said. Lay out the facts and let the public interpret them, he said. Another piece of advice: the panel should be
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A homecoming for actress on tour with ‘Porgy and Bess’ BY DANIEL NASH BELLEVUE REPORTER
A Bellevue actress returned home this week after eight months on the road, with the national tour of “Porgy and Bess: The Musical.” The cast and crew began the show’s 18-day run at 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle on Wednesday. “I just look forward to being home,” Cheryse McLeod Lewis said in a phone interview June 3. “I miss my family, I miss my husband. I miss my own bed and house. Friends. It’s been hard being away from them since, basically, October. Not that it hasn’t been wonderful, but there are challenges to living in a hotel.” Lewis is a swing ensemblist and understudy for the titular Bess in the show’s first national Broadway tour. The tour opened in San Francisco in November and will close in Charlotte, N.C. — 90 minutes from Lewis’s native Greensboro — in July. “Porgy and Bess: The Musical” is the 2012 musical theater adaptation of the DuBose Heyward, George and Ira Gershwin folk opera “Porgy and Bess,” itself an adaptation of the play based on Heyward’s novel “Porgy.” The story follows the budding romance between the abused and addicted Bess and
the kindly crippled beggar Porgy, against the backdrop of the fictitious South Carolina tenement Catfish Row. First staged in 1935, the opera produced a number of musical classics like “Summertime” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” but the story has remained controversial for stereotypical depictions of the Southern black community. Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ Broadway adaptation alters what she called, in a March interview with Buffalo News, “less than accurate … images of a group of people,” fully realizes the show’s operatic archetypes as living characters and injects spoken word dialogue into the stage play. Director Diane Paulus’ production is truncated to 150 minutes and presents the show’s music in their more widely recognizable jazz interpretations. The show won the 2012 Tony award for Best Revival of a Musical. “The creative team wanted to stress to us (the cast) that this Broadway version is not meant to replace the opera,” Lewis said. “The two are meant to live side-by-side. And this version, I think, is a more accessible experience with the piece for audiences who aren’t familiar with the opera and its story. ” In her swing role, Lewis is responsible for filling the positions of actors who are sick,
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on vacation or other leave — sometimes in the middle of a performance. At any given moment, she’s responsible for knowing the lines and blocking of six different performers. She was able to fill in for Alicia Hall Moran, as Bess, for the first time in a performance during the show’s six-week run in Los Angeles — an incredible experience, she said. SEE LEWIS, 9
Child Rights and You will host a Bollywood music concert fundraiser June 28 at Bellevue High School. Seattle band the AllGoRhythms will headline the performance, called “Kal Aaj aur Kal!: 100 years of Bollywood Music.” The AllGoRhythms are a “Bollywood orchestra,” founded in 1999, featuring more than a dozen members. The group performs music from Bollywood cinema — the Hindi-language segment of the Indian film industry — known for its melodramatic style and large musical numbers. The AllGoRhythms frequently perform to raise funds for CRY, Asha, AID and other nonprofits. The performance will feature dances by the Lasya troupe of Seattle. CRY Seattle will donate all profits raised to children’s rights initiatives in India and the United States. The show starts 5 p.m., and tickets may be purchased at http://cryseattle. org/?event=allgorhythms
Join QFC for Summer Festival Fun The weather here in the Puget Sound is heating up and so are the community festivals in our neighborhood. Kids are out of school and parents are taking time off to enjoy all the great events and activities in the area and so are we! Here are just a few of the events QFC is pleased to sponsor this summer. We hope you’ll stop by and say hello!
Capitol Hill Pride Festival, Saturday, June 28 Have you noticed a colorful change in your QFC stores on Capitol Hill? We’re gearing up to celebrate Pride month with the city of Seattle! Come over the rainbow and onto Broadway in Capitol Hill for the Pride Festival on Saturday, June 28th from 11am10pm where you’ll enjoy live music, food and tons of vendor booths including one with your friends at QFC! Yes, QFC will be there with thousands of food and product samples. Our friends at KIND bar will be featuring their flower wall where you’ll be encouraged to pass on the kindness by taking a free flower and sharing it with your friends or even strangers at the festival. Come show your pride at the street fair and don’t forget to stop by for a visit. For additional Pride events, visit www.capitolhillseattle.com.
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Kirkland Uncorked, July 18-20 Wine, water and friends make for a perfect summer weekend in Seattle, doesn’t it? Join QFC at the Kirkland Uncorked event at the scenic Marina Park in Kirkland for a weekend of wines from Washington wineries, delectable bite-sized cuisine from Eastside restaurants and appearances from Northwest celebrity chefs and culinary personalities. Friends and family of all ages can enjoy the Street Fair including a Boat Show, the City Dog Modeling Contest and a Food Truck Feast on Sunday. QFC will be part of the 21 and over Tasting Garden all weekend where you can meet our world-class wine stewards who will be pouring tastes from our exclusive brand wines. For more information on the Festival and to get your tickets early, visit www.kirklanduncorked.com.
Capitol Hill Block Party, July 25-27 Want to rock out with the Dum Dum girls, Robert Delong and Man or Astro Man? Or maybe you want to sing along with Seattle-based artists Cataldo and Iska Dhaaf? The Capitol Hill Block Party has been nationally recognized for its outstanding musical performances in its 3-day music extravaganza but the party doesn’t stop with the music. The Festival also features resident art galleries, craft booths, restaurants, food trucks, clubs and stores that glorify all that Seattle has to offer. Go to www.capitolhillblockparty.com to get your tickets now! Don’t forget to follow QFC on Twitter at @qfcgrocery in July for a chance to win VIP passes to the Block Party courtesy of KIND Bar. Paid Adver tisement
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Art At Your Service: Ariel Brice, Gésine Hackenberg, Molly Hatch, Giselle Hicks, Garth Johnson, Niki Johnson, Sue Johnson, Emily Loehle, Caroline Slotte, and Amelia Toelke mess with crockery and other tokens of the domestic table. $8-$10. Through Sept. 21. Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E. bellevuearts.org, 425-519-0770
Books Crow/Raven: As part of artEAST’s exhibition on the historic fascination with crows and ravens, Dr. John Marzluff will discuss his book “Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans.” $5. June 16. Village Theatre Issaquah, 303 Front St. N., Issaquah. 425-392-2202 It coulda been worse!:
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“I like the fact that (the story) talks about redemption and true love,” she said. “Bess starts in an abusive and toxic relationship with another man and she doesn’t think she deserves better. It’s through Porgy that she’s finally able to experience true love and acceptance. She faces her demons … she has to come to terms with how she’s lived her life.” Lewis is a classically trained opera performer, having graduated in 2002 as one of the first Fletcher Fellows of The University of North Carolina’s A.J. Fletcher Institute. A mezzosoprano, she has played the title role in “Carmen,” Rosina in “The Barber of Seville” and Prince Orlofsky in “Die Fledermaus” (a role she’s played on both coasts, with the Greensboro Opera and Vashon Opera). Lewis relocated from North Carolina to Bellevue with her family in 2012. She has performed as a soloist with Orchestra Seattle and Ballet Bellevue. Daniel Nash: 425-453-4290; dnash@bellevuereporter.com
Political scientist Daniel Drezner argues the current financial crisis isn’t a disaster deserving blame, but rather a near depression that was averted. His book, “The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression” will be read and signed at Town Hall Seattle. $5. June 16. Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave., Seattle. 1-888377-4510 I Love You More: Jennifer Murphy reads and discusses her latest mystery novel, in which police explore the tangled web of a murder victim’s multiple secret families. Free. June 20.
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Comedy Kelly and Son: The green-eyed comedian Gerald Kelly and his son Isiah are presented by Jordan Babineaux for a Father’s Day comedy performance. $20-$30; tickets available online only. June 15. Parlor Live, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Ste. 300, Bellevue. parlorlive. com Mitch Fatel: The “Tonight Show” guest comedian performs. $20-$30. June
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Concerts The Fray: Performing with Barcelona and Oh Honey. $44.50-$54.50. June 17. Marymoor Park, 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy. N.E., Redmond. 888-929-7849 West Coast Jazz: The music of Stan Kenton and Gerry Mulligan, presented by the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. $15-$44. June 22. Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave.
Dance Next Step: The event where dancers become choreographers. Pacific Northwest Ballet Company presents six world premieres choreographed by corps de ballet members and accompanied by the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. $10-$20. June 13. Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle. 206-733-9725 33rd PNB School Performance: The annual showcase of students’ skills and accomplishments over
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Theater Terre Haute: Based on the true story of Timothy McVeigh’s correspondence with Gore Vidal. Through June 15. ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle, acttheatre.org, 206-292-7676 The Construction Zone: Workshop series of new plays. June 25 and July 29. ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle, acttheatre.org, 206-292-7676
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Liu named Dartmouth valedictorian Serena Liu of Bellevue graduated Sunday as one of five valedictorians in Dartmouth College’s class of 2014. Liu earned a 4.0 grade point average in pursuit of her bachelor of arts. She majored in biology and minored in economics. A Goldwater Scholarship and Kaminsky Family Fund Award financed her honors thesis in biology. She received numerous other honors while attending Dartmouth, including induction into Phi Beta Kappa, designation as a Rufus Choate Scholar, a James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar and a recipient of a Paul K. Richter and Evalyn E. Cook Richter Memorial Fund Research Grant. She worked as a tutor and a teaching assistant, held membership in the Handel Society and assisted at the Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio.
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Serena Liu Handcrafted jewelry is a favored hobby of Liu’s, as is singing, embroidery, glassblowing, bead making and dancing. Liu spent one summer as a research assistant to Tianxi Cai of the Harvard School of Public Health, as part of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics summer program. Liu plans to pursue a Ph.D. in computational biology in the University of Washington genome sciences program.
Last week, more than 100 Bellevue teachers and staff underwent training in a Yale-developed method of social and emotional learning. The Bellevue School District initiated a pilot program for the RULER emotional intelligence program for the third- through fifth- grades in fall 2013. It was one of the first 10 schooling entities to adopt the program, according to the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Schools have long been accepted and understood by the public as places to foster students’ academic intelligence. The concept of emotional intelligence was popularized in 1995, with the publication of Daniel Goleman’s “Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ,” a self-help book built on the work of academics like Yale’s Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer. RULER — which stands for “Recognizing, Understanding, Labeling, Expressing and Regulating emotions” — is a system developed in 2005 for incorporating emotional exercises into academic curriculum. It was co-developed by Salovey/Mayer protege Marc Brackett, current director of the Center for Emotional Intelligence. Brackett was
in Seattle last week to train staff in the Bellevue School District and Seattle Public Schools. RULER is based on the premise that frustrations occur when people can’t understand their own emotions and therefore cannot act on them appropriately. The system seeks to break down emotions and responses step-by-step, largely by converting qualitative feelings into quantifiable data points. The basis for the system is the mood meter, a four-quadrant graph that places the entire spectrum of human emotion on axes of “energy” and “pleasantness.” Emotions of high energy and high pleasure might include elation or mania, at the extreme corner of the quadrant. High-energy, low-pleasure emotions include anxiety and anger. Low-energy emotions coupled in the low- and high-pleasure quadrants include emotions like depression and calm, respectively. Teaching students to find their exact point on the graph at a given point leaves plenty of room to discover more specific and nuanced emotional descriptions. “They can begin to understand emotions like ‘elated’ or ‘euphoric,’” said Dan Sakaue. Sakaue teaches fifth-grade students in the gifted program SEE RULER, 19
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TAKE THE TOUR The garden tour will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 29. There will be one garden each in Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, and Medina,with two in Kirkland. Descriptions and driving directions will be provided with tickets, which are $25 each and are available online at www.brownpapertickets.com, by phoning 425-746-4148 or by mailing a check, with return address, to LWSO, 1440 170th Place N.E., Bellevue 98008. Mail orders must be received by June 21 or they will be returned. Tickets may also be purchased at Wells Medina Nursery or Sky Nursery in Shoreline, anytime through June 29.
Magazine. “Oliver’s Garden” in Medina contains many unusual species, planted in long rows separated by the lawn. It replaced a former tennis court. In Tim and Connie Aspinall’s Clyde Hill garden, flora descends from a gazebo hidden in a glade. Below is the genesis of a rock water course, which runs toward a fish pond. The garden features many secluded sitting areas. The gardens in Kirkland are located near the waterfront and on a former homestead property in the Highlands. The Highlands garden is owned by Richard and Lisa Atlig and has been used for previous tours. It features a rose garden, a pond, as well as a massive Sequoia. Perry said she hopes that the tours will not only help fund future concerts but raise awareness about the symphony itself. “I think the (Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra) really left a hole when it closed,” she said. McCaslin said it also is intended to create a broader audience for the orchestra that reaches more communities. “The orchestra really wants to be thought of as an Eastside orchestra, not a Bellevue orchestra,” she said. “We really support music on the Eastside. Additional information on gardens proximate to Bellevue contributed by Daniel Nash. TJ MARTINELL: 425-822-9166; tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
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Newport alum Fisher part of NCAA Tourney team for UW baseball BY JOSH SUMAN BELLEVUE REPORTER
Jared Fisher has always believed he had a future on the baseball diamond. The 2011 Newport High School graduate and former standout pitcher for the Knights was selected in the MLB draft after his senior year, but elected instead to play for the University of Washington. After three years, and a host of tough lessons, that future is beginning to take shape. Fisher spent 2014 and much of 2013 as the Friday night starter for Washington in the Pac-12, developing into a reliable piece of coach Lindsay Meggs’s staff and finding himself front and center for the renaissance of baseball on Montlake. He said after starring throughout his high school career, the adjustment to major college baseball was at times shockingly difficult. “In high school, it is a completely different game,” he
Lacrosse players, coach, recognized Bellevue assistant coach Ashkaan Jaberi picked up an honor recently, as US Lacrosse Washington named him its Assistant coach of the Year for 2014. Jaberi, also a member of the Bellevue football team coaching staff and a 2007 alum, played an integral role in the defensive game plan for the state title game against Issaquah. The Eagles had beaten Bellevue earlier in the year, 6-5, but Jaberi’s plan was executed to perfection with a state crown on the line, and his team posted the first ever shutout in a Washington state championship game. Coach John Baumann praised Jaberi in a postgame interview.
Newport graduate Jared Fisher throws a pitch during a game this season for the University of Washington Huskies at the renovated Husky Ballpark. SCOTT EKLUND / RED BOX PICTURES, University of Washington
said. “Guys come in thinking we’re going to be hotshots automatically. I was overconfident.” Fisher spent a year developing his body, focusing himself psychologically on the mound and studying the task of facing Pac-12 lineups, a humbling but valuable expereience. After that redshirt season in 2012, Fisher found himself “Coach Ashkaan did a great job preparing our team.”
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Interlake High School senior and Bellevue East lacrosse player Camille Sullivan was honored as an All-State selection after helping BELAX to the state quarterfinals.
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US Lacrosse named Bellevue senior goalie an All-American, after he helped his team to a state title on the field and earned AP Scholar distinction in the classroom. Also a volunteer for several local organizations, including Congregation for the Homeless, Cansler is slated to attend the University of Washington in the fall.
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in the starting rotation last year after a rash of injuries. This season, he took an even more prominent role. Fisher was third on the team in wins with six, and posted a 4.07 earned run average while starting 16 games, as the Huskies reached the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2004. He said after entering a UW program that had fallen back in the conference pecking order, the atmosphere around the program changed seemingly overnight with the completion of the renovated Husky Ballpark. “It’s even better than we could have imagined,” he said. “It just happened to be the best year we’ve had in a long time.” Meggs said the time Fisher spent working with pitching coach Jason Kelly during his career paid dividends. “The most impressive thing is the way he has handled himself in between pitches and in between innings,” Meggs said. “At times, he looks like a big leaguer out there in terms of his composure.” Fisher got a no-decision in his final start of the year, as the Huskies eventually beat Georgia Tech 4-2 in the third game of their NCAA regional. Washington was eliminated the following day in an extra-inning thriller, and Fisher was among many of his Husky teammates in this year’s draft, as he was taken by the Philadelphia Phillies. He said before the selection he was hoping to go in the first 10 rounds, and would have a difficult decision to make regardless of where he was chosen. That leaves the former Newport standout with options for the final two years of his collegiate eligibility, as he can elect to sign with the Phillies, or return to UW and try to improve his stock, along with the Huskies’ chances of reaching the top of the Pac-12 and College World Series. “I wouldn’t mind coming back,” he said. “To take another shot at Omaha.”
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Knights win cup
Newport High School is home to the Scholastic Cup champions. The distinction is awarded from the WIAA based on grade point average from student-athletes, sportsmanship awards and state tournament performance. The Knights finished with 1870 points in the tabulation, one of the highest ever totals in any
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Water polo champs Northwest Water Polo’s 14U team won the championship at the first annual Pacific Northwest championships, winning each of their seven matches in the tournament. The program includes players from throughout the Eastside and Seattle. For more information, visit them online at northwestwaterpoloclub.com.
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Four with ties to Bellevue taken in MLB draft Four baseball players with ties to Bellevue were selected in the Major League Baseball first year player draft recently, and will have the opportunity to continue their playing careers with a shot to reach the big leagues. Colin Hering, a 2009 Newport High School graduate and former Bellevue College Bulldog for coach Mark Yoshino, was selected in the 10th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers out of Coastal Carolina University. The left-handed outfielder helped the Chanticleers to the NCAA Tournament in 2013, after spending two seasons at BC. He started 49 games in his final season, knocking in 13 runs. Jared Fisher, a pitcher for the University of Washington and 2011 Newport grad, was chosen in the 15th round, 442nd overall, by the Philadelphia Phillies. A right handed pitcher who has spent the past three years playing for coach Lindsay Meggs and the Huskies. Fisher was second on the team in strikeouts and won six decisions, as Washington reached the NCAA Tournament. During his senior season at Newport, Fisher helped the Knights to their last 4A state tournament berth, and a win in the opening round against South Kitsap. He was chosen in the 26th round after his senior year at Newport by the Houston Astros, but elected to instead sign with Washington. Nick Kiel, a Bellevue College sophomore pitcher, was also chosen in this year’s draft, and was part of the Jackson team that beat Fisher and the Knights in the 2011 4A state quarterfinals.
An early signee with the University of Missouri, Kiel was a second team AllNorth Region NWAACC selection for the Bulldogs and coach Yoshino during the 2014 season. He started 12 games on the mound, and led the team in wins with seven on the year. Kiel worked 74 innings and a third, posting a 1.81 earned run average and tossing five complete games. Matt Cooper, a 2010 graduate of Marysville-Pilchuck High School, was selected in the 16th round by the Chicago White Sox, after spending the past two seasons at the University of Hawaii. Prior to his time with the Warriors, Cooper lettered twice for Yoshino at Bellevue College, helping his team to the NWAACC title in 2011. Yoshino, the head coach for Bellevue College for the past 16 years, said the chance to help players develop their skills and mindset on the diamond is at the center of his job. “It is nice to see the development of players at Bellevue College, which leads to great things such as being drafted professionally or gaining a four-year college scholarship,” he said. “Although many do not view Bellevue College baseball as their initial choice after high school, the data shows that the ultimate dream of getting drafted or receiving an NCAA division one scholarship is a realistic one if they come through our program.”
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John Chadwick is anything but new to Little League baseball and softball. The District 9 administrator for more than three decades, and the head of the annual Junior Softball World Series in Kirkland, Chadwick is one of the foremost Bob Toigo, a longtime Little League volunteer authorities on the organization’s local presin the area, stands near a diamond at East ence. Sammamish Park. JOSH SUMAN, Bellevue He is also one of a select few who predate Reporter Bob Toigo. “He was sort of my protégé,” Chadwick has never been pushing paperwork. said. “He has done an excellent job of car“People have to remember Little League rying on the district’s reputation.” is not a baseball program,” he said. “We are Toigo’s next job is taking his decades of teaching life lessons, and using baseball as experience in District 9 to Williamsport, a vehicle.” Pa., as part of the Board of Directors of That philosophy, while at times muddled Little League International, an appointment 44 years in the making. by a select few overzealous parents or “It’s an honor, and I’m humbled,” Toigo coaches, is a personal one for Toigo, and said of the chance to serve on the board. not negotiable on any front. “It is an honor to say my peers feel enough Despite his decades of service to an about me to elect me to that position.” organization formed around a baseball diaAfter getting his start in Little League mond, Toigo said he had only a brief stint baseball in California, when his nephew as a player during his youth in Chicago. began taking an interest in the game during No standards existed in the early 1950s the 1960s, Toigo eventually settled near for playing time in Little League, and Toigo Lake Sammamish with his wife of 51 years, Vicki, and had two sons of his own to bring knew before he hit his teens he likely had no future on the diamond. up in the game. But thanks to his manager, the years Bob Jr. and Dan traveled into Redmond he spent in Little League were valuable to play baseball and attend school, and Toigo began his own service in Redmond nonetheless. when it was still a one-league town. That is “I had a great manager who made sure when Toigo said he began his dedication to we had a good time,” he said. “He didn’t the organization in earnest, and when he care if we won or lost, and after the game first met Chadwick. all he said is, ‘One scoop, or two?’” “Bob is a very good people-person,” Toigo acknowledges even youth sports Bellevue College will have a men’s tennis Chadwick said. “He is just consistent, and have become susceptible to the ultra-comOffered at $2,885,000 program for the 2014-15 school year, addeveryone knows it.” ethos that athletics ake Washington, silhouette and the Olympic mountains will petitive greet you the instant youdominates enter this gracious home.atThis is a home ToigoSeattle’s has served as District 9 adminising to the portfolio of sports offered at the never forgotten im- spaces. rsonifies understated, both inviting and also envelopingall youlevels. with its But blendhe of has formal, informal and alwaysthe luxurious trator for thetasteful past elegance, seven years, and has member school. r and a half baths, formal living and dining, media and recreation room, cellar, office and his two life, laundry rooms. 6,630 squareNWAACC feet pactwine baseball had on even though been part of an advisory board that meets w.WestBellevueViewHome.com The women’s tennis team at BC has been in Williamsport to make recommendations he was anything but the most talented player on his team. on regulations, rules changes and other y Madsen “Baseball will always be that common policies. SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL ain Street, Bellevue WA 98004 But the most important thing for Toigo ground,” he said.
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Lincoln Square expansion a go (Left) Kemper Freeman gets hard-hat ready for Wednesday’s Lincoln Square expansion ground breaking. (Right) Construction equipment sits at expansion site.
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the Bellevue Square expansion. The northern tower will be residential only while the southern tower will have 204 hotel rooms on the lower 11 levels, with a total of 239 residential units. The total square footage for the project is 766,579 with 266,856 square feet in the retail podium. Freeman announced during Wednesday’s groundbreaking ceremony the construction will quickly create 4,000 new jobs in the city, teasing the pay will be more than the
A Bellevue entrepreneur says the Washington State Liquor Control Board has reversed an earlier decision denying him licensure to open a recreational marijuana shop on 130th Avenue Northeast, allowing him to move forward as one of four operators allowed in the city. Chris McAboy and his girlfriend, Allie Charneski, were dropped from consideration last month after taking one of the four top spots for Bellevue in a WSLCB lottery when the board determined their store — The Novel Tree — violated state regulations by being within 1,000 feet of a recreation center. Chris McAboy The couple argued the Girl Scouts of Western Washington’s administrative office on the 13000 block of Northeast 20th Street was being incorrectly identified as such, and were preparing to file suit against the liquor control board to halt the licensing process pending their appeal for licensure. “We ended up just getting a call on June 5 with the supervisor we’ve been in contact with and she notified us that after consulting with their attorney generals and higher ups that they were going to let us open up and we spoke with the investigator the next day,” McAboy said. “… It’s nice to see that they’re able to go back without an appeals process
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Gold shovel in hand, Kemper Freeman lobbed a few clumps of earth into a wheelbarrow and quickly apologized for any added work it might create for the crew that will be responsible for constructing Lincoln Square 2, which marked the beginning of the $1.2 billion Bellevue Collection expansion on Wednesday. The Lincoln Square expansion by the Kemper Development Company includes an office tower with
700,000 square feet of office space and 177,000 square feet for retail, dining and entertainment. Another tower between the office building and Westin Bellevue will be for a 244room designer hotel with 250 luxury high-rise apartments. The expansion is planned to open fall 2016. The Bellevue Collection expansion will add two million square feet of retail, office, hotel, dining and residential space once work is completed along Bellevue Way. A three-story retail podium with two 17-story residential towers is proposed for
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Bellevue council to scale back project wish list BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
The city has wish-listed $1.2 billion in capital investment projects over the next 20 years, but without nearly enough capital to cover it all. It will be up to the Bellevue City Council to decide what can realistically be accomplished in the near term, and how to increase revenue to foot the bill. However, some projects appear to be non-negotiable. Finance Director Jan Hawn told the council Monday the city anticipates about $400 million in revenue could be available for capital investment projects over the
next 20 years. Revenue gains could be accomplished through tax and fee increases, and councilmembers expressed an interest Monday in having staff lay out financing options for consideration. Mayor Claudia Balducci said she feels focusing on funding $100 million in projects in the near term would be a responsible and affective investment in infrastructure. Councilmember John Stokes said the council has practically promised to fund the $10 million Newport Way sidewalk project after several meetings where concerned residents in green shirts appealed for it. He added the city also will likely need to invest capital in promot-
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Manwaring promoted Michael Manwaring has been promoted to vice president at MWH Global. Manwaring is based in the MWH office in Bellevue and retains his role as dams and hydropower business development sector leader for North America.
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als for generating additional revenue up to $60 million, adding the recession is over and now is the time to invest in infrastructure improvements in order to keep up with ramped up development in Bellevue. Councilmember John Chelminiak said the former plan had been a 3 percent property tax increase, and a model for generating new revenue should be approved by a vote of city residents. Councilmember Jennifer Robertson said she wants to see red light camera enforcement revenue redirected toward pedestrian safety projects. The city is still running its red light camera program under a monthto-month agreement with American Traffic Solutions while police try to answer questions raised by the council earlier this year. The council anticipates readdressing capital investment projects and revenue sources on July 14.
ing development of the Tateuchi Center. The city and the Performing Arts Center Eastside are currently working under a memorandum of understanding to find a public-private solution to closing that funding gap. The council also has committed to completing Phase One of Meydenbauer Bay Park by 2018, Balducci said, which requires connectivity to Bellevue Downtown Park. There’s also been a lot of discussion about a facility plan being submitted by the Bellevue Fire Department, said Deputy Mayor Kevin Wallace, which includes a lot of high costs but is a long-range plan. Wallace said he’d like to see staff propos-
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process and agree on that. It’s pretty obvious what that building was and I’m glad they recognized it.” The Novel Tree is expected to open in two months, said McAboy, and replace the A Better Bath and Kitchen at 1817 130th Ave. N.E., which relocated to the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle and reopened as Abbrio. Property owner Dan Sherman said he knows recreational marijuana is a hot political discussion, but he supports the hard work being done by the young couple to open this business. “We’re doing what we can to support these folks because … they’re working really hard to get this done,” Sherman said.
$15 an hour jobs “that seem to be so popular these days.” As a nod to Bellevue Deputy Mayor Kevin Wallace, who joined in the ceremonial shoveling, Freeman added the city will gain $120 million in tax revenue from the project before future tenants even start paying rent. “It shows you we’re not so bright, but the city likes those stories,” he said. Brandon Macz: 425-453-4602, bmacz@bellevuereporter.com
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by tenants of Plaza 520 in opposing a third option to site the maintenance facility over its property south of State Route 520. This option would displace approximately 101 businesses and is the second-most costly alternative for Sound Transit. "We are the face of small, local businesses in the 520 corridor," he said, adding "We've invested our money and our lives into this business" and its tenants. Tenants like Amy Terziyski, who has owned a restaurant there with her husband for the past 11 years. She told Sound Transit if her restaurant can't stay there, they likely wouldn't be able to find another location.
"Commercial retail in Bellevue is at a premium and very hard to find," Terziyski said. David Plummer, who opposed the BelRed plan when it was being developed, repeated his opinion that the rezone there was irrational and negated the potential for other businesses to develop there. He said use of the rail corridor was the best choice as it is the cheapest option for Sound Transit, impacts the fewest properties and would provide easy access for facility workers due to its proximity to the future 120th Avenue light rail station. To comment on Sound Transit's DEIS or find out more about the project, go to this shortened link: http://bit.ly/1k1cGNE.
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PSE is using this year to solicit public comments and work with a community advisory group to determine which of the two routes is preferred for its transmission line project, however, company representatives were not present for Tuesday’s forum. City Manager Brad Miyake said written and oral comments received Tuesday will be presented to the City Council on June 16. As the jurisdiction impacted most by the transmission project, Bellevue will need to work closely with PSE as it seeks
construction permits. Jeff Dubois, who resides in Greenwich Crest near the H Segment, said that 1.1-mile stretch is concerning in his neighborhood. The clearing of more than 1,000 trees there could compromise the ground along the slope of the hill atop which the neighborhood lies, he said, causing concerns about landslides. He added residents there are considering commissioning geotechnical engineers to provide independent study. The recently formed Coalition of Eastside Neighborhoods for Sensible Energy urged the city to focus on regional solu-
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Workshop focuses on downtown livability Downtown Bellevue has a lot of room to grow, and there's no doubt it will. Residents speaking in one of several work groups at a downtown livability open house advocated that growth not squeeze out open spaces there and finding incentives for developers to do so. The workshops were led by city staff and members of the community advisory committee that is drafting recommendations for how to ensure downtown remains vibrant and livable for its growing residential population, with final recommendations to soon be brought before City Council. Once the recommendations are made, the city's planning commission will assess what changes will need to be made through the land use code, which will be the most comprehensive update since 1981. The CAC has not concluded what recommendations should be made for parking and building heights and form, however, city staff had been
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Meta moments ask students to stop when they feel a strong emotion, acknowledge it, picture their best self and consider how to proceed appropriately. The Blueprint is a self-analysis exercise for intra- and interpersonal social situations. Students are asked to think about how a situation made them, or another person, feel; what caused the feeling; how that feeling was expressed; and how the situation could have been handled better. “We’re not psychologists,” Sakaue said. “We’re not psychiatrists. But the fact that we can use tested and proven material to develop the ‘whole child,’ and not just stop at students’ academic development, is huge.”
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"Land is just getting more expensive, and the desire I've heard is there is more want for public space, but how do you get it?" Powell said. "Well, it's money." Residents agreed increasing heights and development from 112th Avenue Northeast to I-405 makes sense, as it wouldn't add to crosstown traffic and will screen the downtown area from the interstate traffic nearby. CAC member Jan Stout said she believes residents will be happy with what the committee has come up with, adding the city and Bellevue Downtown Association has looked at Vancouver, British Columbia, and how it has dealt with growth and density issues there. Stout said she is still concerned about the growing number of foreign investors with downtown property holdings, and whether that will affect residents already here. To learn more about the Downtown Livability Study, go to http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/downtown-livability.htm.
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Lois was the only daughter of Earl and Mary Wells. She married brother Bob’s friend, Harry Sully, in 1946. Moving to Lake Hills (Bellevue) in 1960, they raised Monica, Stephanie and Linda. She sang of leaving her heart in San Francisco – in reality she gave her heart wherever she went. Lois used her myriad of talents as a room mother, scout leader, PTA board member, kitchen table counselor, garden advisor, gracious hostess and Lions Club supporter. She loved her daughters and was delighted when the family expanded through the addition of sons-in-law and grandchildren. Lois will be remembered as the helpful “insurance lady” at Pacific Car and Foundry, the smiling sales clerk at Lake Hills Drug, and the friendly volunteer at Bellewood and Auburn Meadows. The last years of her life she shared her laughter, kindness and quiet faith with the staff and volunteers at BaileyBoushay House in Seattle. This summer her life will be honored at a celebration by friends and her family: Dennis, Betty, Kyle and Chelsea Stover; Bill, Stephanie, Jeremy, Tiffany, Josh and Alexis Hedrick; and Steve, Lin, Arianna and Quinlin Peters. Written memories at: www.klontzfuneralhome.com. Remembrances to Bailey-Boushay House are suggested. 1074270
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Eastside Audubon members will guide an easy walk on Saturday at Lake Sammamish State Park. Participants should enter through the park gate on Sammamish Road and meet in the northwest corner of the parking lot by 10 a.m. No park fee or Discover Pass is required. People should dress for the weather and bring bring binoculars and water. People can leave the walk at any point.
costumed folk dancers and musicians, a folk dancing performance around a flower covered maypole and Scandinavian crafts and food. Children will be offered free pony rides in the morning, face painting, free cotton candy and popcorn, interactive game bus and Dizzy’s Tumble Bus. Traditional children’s races and games start at 2 p.m. The playground, swimming beach and waterslides will be open all day with lifeguards on duty A Swedish pancake breakfast will be served from 9 a.m. until noon at the outdoor kitchen. During the afternoon, hot dogs, hamburgers, and salmon will be served. A beer garden will be open from noon until 6 p.m. The Pickled Herring Band will play from 3-6 p.m. in the beer garden. Vasa Park is located at 3560 W. Lake. Sammamish Parkway S.E. in Bellevue.
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The city will begin a three-month repaving project on Factoria Boulevard, from Southeast 36th Street to Southeast 41st Place, on Monday. Work is expected to take place 7:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Thursday, in order to minimize traffic delays. The city reports drivers should still expect frequent lane closures and pedestrians should be cautious of curb ramp and sidewalk closures as the project gets underway.
KidsQuest on target for downtown reopening in 2015 BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
KidsQuest is about a third of the way toward its $12.7 million fundraising goal to move its children's museum out of Factoria and into downtown, keeping its schedule to open by fall 2015. Since starting its capital campaign two years ago, KidsQuest reports $4.2 million has been raised to date through staff, board members and public and private pledges. "Right now we're working with Key Bank to see," said Shelley Saunders, director of advancement for KidsQuest, about when remodeling the downtown location will start. "We might do some sort of financing that's typical in capital campaign where they would make a loan against pledges." KidsQuest is still waiting to close on purchase of the former Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art. The 13,500-squarefoot space will include room
for more programs, a new water play area, a semi-truck cab and a rotating doll exhibit, utilizing portions of the Whyel collection, which is now recorded and catalogued. Saunders said the current KidsQuest location at the Factoria Mall is set to close in June 2015, with the downtown reopening slated for that September. The move is necessary, said Saunders, because the current space is too small to accommodate growing attendance. "The mall has been a wonderful place for us to start and get to know the community and the community to get to know us," she said, adding its also hard to stand out as a nonprofit in a mall setting. "Right now we're just way overbooked and can't do nearly as many programs as we have demand for." KidsQuest needed to hire a consultant and is working with the city and nearby senior living facilities to tackle parking issues at the old doll museum
site at 1116 108th Ave. N.E. There are only about 25 stalls available there, Saunders said. "We've really worked on some creative solutions there," she said, adding senior homes may allow for public and staff parking in exchange for more programs. "It's an issue that we know is important to our patrons, so it's a high priority for us to ensure parking for our patrons." Downtown businesses also are excited to have a children's museum downtown, said Saunders, because of how attractive it is to their employees who have children. She said there may be pop-up programs next summer in Ashwood Park, as KidsQuest wants to take advantage of having the playfield close by. KidsQuest will hold its annual Carnival fundraiser Oct. 11 at the Meydenbauer Center. To find out more, go to kidsquestmuseum.org.
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7 BUFF COCKER puppies. Ready June 15 th for their forever homes. They will be small with shots & wormed. Mother & father on site. Home raised by hand in loving environment. Accepting deposits for 4 Females and 3 Males. Cute, cuddly playful puppies. $500 each. Buckley. Call Carole 253-299-6782. 7 GREAT DANES puppies. Beautiful purebred puppies are Harlequin, Mantle & Blue Mer le. Wonderful dispositions! $400 ea. Photos emailed upon request. Call 253223-4315. Tacoma area. AKC German Shepherd pups. European champion lines. First shots, wormed and hip / health guarantee. Parents hips & elbows are OFA certified. Raised in loving home, with years of German Shepherd breeding experience. Ready now! $800 - $850. 360-4579515. www.germanpups.net AKC PARTI-POM Male puppy, 5 mo old $400 So adorable, with shots & wormed. Potty trained. Parents on site. 253886-4836 360-825-1521
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ABANDONED VEHICLE AUCTION Mercer IslandTowing June 19th, 2014 at 12:30pm. Vehicles may be viewed one hour prior to sale 13417 SE 27th Place, Bellevue.
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1996 Honda Accord, 195,000 miles, 4 door, 4 cyl, 5 speed manual, A / C, p owe r w i n d ow s, door, locks. Cruise control, power steering, custom ster io with blue tooth. Clean, no dents $3,200. 2002 Lincoln Town Car Executive, 91,000 miles, black and cream, maintenance records $6,000. 360.893.8018
1963 REINELL JET Flight for sale $11,750. One of a kind, fully restored space-age runabout with tail fins of a 1959 Chevy Impala. Custom embroidered interior, muscle-car tach Auto Service/Parts/ Accessories on dash, stereo, sump, batter charger, storage / cooler under back seat, with low-hours Yamaha 60 HP 4 stroke fuel inj e c t e d e n g i n e . A l s o, JUNK CARS & comes with 2 nd engine, 1979 Merc 80 HP 2 TRUCKS s t r o ke w ra p p e d o n a crate & matching Tee Nee trailer. Porsche Gulf racing team colors. 253-335-3932 Vashon Island. Call Josh 206-829-8233.
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19910 North Creek Pkwy, Ste 200, Bothell, Washington 98011 Phone: (425) 974–6137 • e-mail: shira@talentwise.com TalentWise is seeking a Software Development Engineer In Test to work out of its office in Bellevue, WA. Duties include: Writes test specifications, test cases and own testing of a product; Develops component level automation (unit, functional, integration, performance etc.); Recognized as group expert of a specific feature or component and contributes this expertise to others; Detect underlying problems and patterns and looks beyond the obvious; Recognized as a leader in terms of automation, testing, domain etc.; Able to mentor new hires and work with offshore team members; Understands the needs of customers and of groups’ dependent on the work of the team, and uses this understanding to drive test automation; Contributes to the architecture of automation frameworks; Invent novel solutions to challenging technical problems; Codes complex tests to implement a test design; Sets up a test automation and execution framework; Implements key steps that are used by several test cases; Puts together the key steps to build an automated suite of test cases; Executes test cases if needed and reports results; Works on all stages of a product from conception to completion.Employee will occasionally work out of TalentWise, Inc.’s Bothell office. Minimum Qualifications: • BS in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. • Minimum 5 years of experience with building test automation framework or reporting tools required. • Minimum 5 years’ experience with the Quality Assurance process and methodologies for web applications. • Minimum 3 years design and development skills in one or all of the following: C/C++, C#, Java, Python, or PHP. • Minimum 3 year experience working with: PHPUnit, JUnit, NUnit, or Selenium. • Knowledge of SQL, relational databases & XML required. • Minimum 1 year experience with code coverage tools (PHPUnit/Xdebug, Clover) • Knowledge of Internet technologies and Service Oriented Architecture is required. Salary is minimum $116,272/yr and standard employee benefits; Send resumes to Sippy Hira at: 19910 North Creek Pkwy, Ste 200, Bothell, Washington 98011; Phone: (425) 974–6137; e-mail: shira@talentwise.com
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