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School district narrows redrawn Kirkland boundary options Revision made after parents object to sending kids to new schools
BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
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he Lake Washington School District has narrowed down its possible options for redrawn school zone boundaries while revising them based on public feedback. Among the biggest revisions is an option that would allow children in the Yarrow Ridge and Yarrow Bay Village
neighborhoods to remain within the Lakeview School Zone, rather than be sent to Ben Franklin Elementary as the three previous options would have dictated. While the first of two scenarios would still include moving 42 students, the second scenario would only move 13, and they would come from the Northup Way area. Both scenarios proposed would move 53
students out of the LWLC and into the Juanita Learning Community. But for Bellevue resident Deanna Androski, a parent trying to keep her two children in the Lakeview Zone, even if the school board voted for scenario two, it might still be a short-term victory. As she sees it, they might come back the next year and propose to move them again, reinitiating a conflict that
has spurred the idea of legal action and exhausted parents in her neighborhood. “Our goal is to not ever have to move our kids and not repeat this battle in 12-24 months from now,” she said. Androski, like many other Yarrow Ridge parents with kids in the Lakeview zone, has criticized the district’s rezoning proposals for what they perceive as only affecting the southend of the learning community while leaving the northeast area alone. She
also said their plans did not include a study of traffic data and how it would affect parents’ ability to get their kids to new schools. Androski also thinks that the revised scenario might just be there for the district to save face and so parents feel as though the district is listening to feedback.
“I’m still very concerned what they’re trying to do is pacify us and get us to calm down in the short term. I don’t want to have to fight this battle again… We’re still wondering why they’re choosing what they’re choosing and we’re not feeling like this is a victory, especially since we don’t know scenario two is going to pass. But we’re working as long and as hard at it as we can.” The Lake Washington [ more ZONE page 8 ]
Judge dismisses charges against Hope Solo around 1 a.m. when a male caller stated that a female at the residence was ‘hitting A Kirkland Municipal people’ and they could not Court judge has dismissed get her to stop or to leave the domestic assault charges house. against U.S. women’s When officers soccer team player entered the home and Kirkland resident they noticed Solo was Hope Solo. upset and intoxicated, Solo’s attorney had according to police previously filed a documents. They also motion to dismiss the Hope Solo observed visible injucharges, requesting two ries to Solo’s nephew counts of fourth degree and her sister. Solo’s assault be dropped, claiming nephew had visible scratch he has not been able to intermarks, was bleeding from his view the alleged victims. ear and his t-shirt was torn, The charges stemmed according to court docufrom an altercation with her ments. half sister and 17-year-old Solo has continued to play nephew during a party at a for the U.S. Women’s Soccer family home in Kirkland June Team and was allowed to 21. Kirkland police respondattend a training camp rather ed to the call of a disturbance than the hearing. BY TJ MARTINELL
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147 incidents in 3 years at drug house prior to raid BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
On Dec. 19, the Kirkland Police Department and the Eastside Narcotics Task Force (ENTF) raided a home on the 8200 block of NE 142nd Street. The Kirkland Code Enforcement later posted Do Not Occupy signs on the doors, and the city is now seek-
ing an abatement on the property. For the Finn Hill residents who lived in the neighborhood, this meant an end to three years of making phone calls reporting 147 suspicious incidents. The Dec. 19 raid was the second time a SWAT raid had taken place at the residence, the first [ more DRUGS page 3 ]
Record renaissance Vortex Music and Movies owner Daren Compton has the only independent record store on the Eastside and is expanding to a second location in Kirkland. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter
Kirkland’s Vortex Music and Movies expands to new location BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
The Eastside’s only independent record store, Vortex Music and Movies on Totem Lake Boulevard, is planning to expand to a new storefront next month, which will also coincide with its third anniversary. Boosted by a returning popularity of vintage vinyl records, owner Daren Compton said he hopes to attract more customers at the new location near the Value Village on 12400
116th Ave NE, which offers more parking space and has more visibility. Despite the rise of digital downloads for both music and movies, Compton’s store is proof that people have an affinity for physical products. Most of his sales, both online and in person, are vinyl. “The collective market has given me a boost,” he said. Compton sees Record Store Day, which was officially founded in 2007, as a sign of its revival after vinyl
underwent a sudden decline in popularity between 1988 and 1991. With many of the records supplied through his own personal collection amassed over 40 years, filling up storage units and garages, the new store will have more space to display them. A former chef at Merrill Gardens, he grew up on classic rock like Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and The Who, whose records adorn the store along with other classic rock bands. He also remembers that the first
album purchased for him at age of 7 was the Beatles Sgt. Peppers during the fall of 1967. “I made sure it was in stereo,” he said. “I got the mono version later. But that album was truly meaningful art. It didn’t have the typical love songs and singles.” “My original thought was that the brick and mortar store would drive the website but I am rethinking that because I think the web drives the business,” Compton told the Reporter in 2011. “We have an active audience that orders online.” [ more VORTEX page 2 ]
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www.kirklandreporter.com In addition to vinyl, the store also features old movie posters, eight-
track tapes, Laser Discs, Blueray and DVD films. Compton said that he plans to do a gradual move into the new location, culminating in a third anniversary celebration that includes
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www.kirklandreporter.com being in April 2013 to apprehend suspects as part of a burglary investigation that also involved the U.S. Secret Service. Dozens of police documents obtained by the Reporter through a public records request offer a glimpse into the situation. By the time KPD took over the area after the annexation of Finn Hill in June 2011, the four bedroom house had already become well known as a source of alleged criminal activity and believed to have had between 8-20 people living there. For police, it was an easy place to find people wanted for outstanding warrants or suspected in drug dealing, vehicle thefts, property theft, traffic offenses and bank robberies. Here are some examples of the police visits.
Almost got ‘em In January 2013, two KPD officers on patrol observed a vehicle parked outside of the house for 15 minutes. A man left the house and approached the vehicle, where he took something out of his pocket and offered it to the driver, and then went back into the house. It was a scene residents had reported to police dozens of times while complaining about suspicious drug activity. Police also knew two of the residents were wanted on extraditable warrants. After the interaction, a third officer pulled over the vehicle and found three people inside. While looking at the 22-year-old male driver, one of the officers noticed tinfoil lying on the driver-side floor boards. In the back, the vehicle was covered with random items and backpacks. When the officer asked a 40-year-old woman passenger why there was tinfoil on the ground, she replied that it had come from inside of their box of pizza sitting in the back of the vehicle. When she opened the box, however, no tinfoil interior was found. Meanwhile, the male driver was questioned. He insisted he hadn’t gone to the house to make a drug
Part 1 This is the first part of a two-part series. The second part will run next week with further details and a possible abatement by the city. transaction. Or, that is, a drug transaction at that particular moment in time. He claimed he had just gotten out of Snohomish County Jail stemming from an unrelated drug arrest and had gone there to pay one of the residents $60 for a past drug sale. When the police doubted his story - the part about the payment being a past drug sale, that is - the man said they were welcome to search the vehicle. Instead, they questioned the other woman passenger, a 23-year-old, whose story was somewhat different. She promptly admitted she and the two other individuals were heroin addicts and that they had come to the house to purchase heroin, because the man was going to “get her high” with money he had gotten from his father. As for the heroin itself, she didn’t know where it was because the man started “freaking out” as soon as he saw the police vehicle. The 40-year-old female and registered owner of the vehicle, however, denied there were any illegal drugs and allowed police to search the vehicle, even after they told her she wasn’t required to and she could stop the search at any time. As the cops went to get a permission to search form for the 40-year-old female to sign, the man’s recollection suddenly changed. They had in fact gone to the house to carry out a drug transaction, he said. And, he added, there were drugs in the glove compartment. Inside the compartment, the officer found an electronic weight scale and a plastic cover with a brown tar substance that resembled heroin. There was also a plastic bag sitting in the compartment next to the scale which contained pieces of tinfoil that had “tracks,”
meaning they had been used to heat up heroin so it could be smoked. Shown the brown tar substance, the man admitted it was heroin and that the $60 was used to pay for it. The 40-year-old woman was released, but told not to drive her vehicle. The 23-year-old woman asked the cops for a ride back to the police station but not before writing a statement admitting they had gone to the residence to buy heroin. The man was arrested, but despite being informed of his Miranda rights, he was still willing to talk to the officers. During his interview he provided a written statement in which he admitted he had bought heroin and provided the name of the dealer at the house. He also listed the drugs the 40-year-old used and didn’t use. The drug evidence was sent to the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab. In February 2014, the police received the results. Negative. In the end, none of the occupants were ever charged for drugs.
Fearing and loathing On April 18, 2013, an officer observed a 34-yearold man working under the hood of his vehicle parked in the driveway of the residence. A records check showed he was wanted by the KPD on suspicion of possessing stolen property. While he worked under the hood, a 41-year-old woman took four bags from the vehicle and placed them against the house, then paced around the front yard and back yard and then looked through the bags she had put against the house.
The officers left their vehicle and arrested the man, but not before they discovered the woman had an outstanding misdemeanor warrant out of Bellevue for theft. During her arrest, the woman claimed she was from another country and America’s laws didn’t apply to her. When officers informed her of her rights she refused to acknowledge she understood them or answer any questions. Police examined a ceramic tray used for potted plans she had been holding when arrested, and it was found to contain methamphetamines. Yet she insisted she knew nothing of drugs and that she did not do drugs. She then began talking nonsensically and was unable to stay focused as they questioned her. Police then realized she may not have known what methamphetamines are, but she knew how to use them. The man seemed to have the same ignorance. When they told him they had found meth, he asked curiously, “What is that? Is that a drug?” They then searched the woman’s bags, which included a brown corduroy “Hurley” purse as well as a reusable grocery bag with yellow and purple flowers and “Jesus” written on the side with black marker. Inside the purse the officers found a glass meth pipe. Asked about the purse, the woman declared she was a man and did not carry a purse. In response to questions about the bags, she said “I have stuff all over. I don’t know where all my bags are.” Ultimately, the man was interviewed but released, while the woman was turned over to Bellevue police and
cited through investigation. The police report ultimately listed her as a woman.
Wardrobe malfunction On Dec. 16, 2013, a report came in about a vehicle parked outside the residence for 20 minutes after a girl had gotten out and entered the house. An officer contacted the 45-year-old man in the vehicle, who said he had been texting while his cousin’s ex-girlfriend had gone inside. He gave the officer her name and a records search showed she was an 18-year-old woman with an outstanding warrant out of Marysville and another from Everett. While still conversing with the man, the officer saw the woman approaching the vehicle wearing a low-cut shirt. He told the driver to leave and then confronted the woman. Asking if she had anything on her, she just stared ahead and said nothing. When he asked again, she said she had clean needles in her purse. But they weren’t for her, she insisted, just for her IV drug user friends. As the officer patted her down, he noticed a syringe filled with a brown substance on the top of her breasts, held in place by her bra cups.
He asked her if the syringe was capped. “It’s in my bra!” she answered. “Yeah, it’s capped!” She then added that it wasn’t anything, just a cleansing solution she was bringing to a friend. On top of the syringe, the officer found a bottle of iodine and a spoon in her pocket. In her purse, he found a green case containing a rubber elastic band used to help find a blood vein, clean syringes, hard plastic tubing with brown residue and alcohol swabs. Not surprisingly, the “cleaning solution” in the syringe later tested positive for heroin/morphine.
Mommie Dearest In April 2012, police arrested a man at the property on an outstanding $10,000 domestic violence warrant. He also had numerous theft-related convictions and a suspended license due to a felony involving a vehicle. At the time of his arrest, he was found with three knives and a pair of pliers, as well as a vehicle full of power tools and equipment commonly used for purchasing drugs. His explanation: He was a mechanic. The cops weren’t fully convinced.
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ne of Bryan Vadney’s jobs as president of the local firefighters union is to maximize the number of firefighters hired, apparently without regard for whether it is in the city’s overall best interests and without balancing the cost against other important priorities. It’s thus not surprising for him to come in at the last minute of a two-year station siting process claiming that geography is irrelevant, more firefighters are really the answer, and to have “lost confidence” in management who made recommendations based on actual response time and call data. What is surprising and disappointing, however, is escalating that to stirring up public concern about quality of service, pitting neighborhood against neighborhood, and twisting and selectively using facts, such as the following: Vadney fails to point out that Station 34 is not and never has been a Kirkland fire station; it belongs to Woodinville Fire and Rescue. It was WF&R’s decision to close it, not Kirkland’s. Vadney fails to point out that the volume of fire and EMS calls on Finn Hill never have justified having two fully-staffed fire stations on the hill. Vadney fails to point out that the reason Station 27 handles so many calls is that it has twice the staff and coverage area of other stations in the city. Vadney fails to point out that Stations 25 and 27 have always responded into areas south of NE 132nd Street even when the buildings and equipment were owned by Fire District 41. City residents have always benefitted from this positioning of assets by FD41. Station 27 would have never been built right on what was then the northern boundary of the city if it was intended to be used only to respond into FD41. Vadney fails to point out that the $5.2 million transferred to the city from FD41 can be used only for the capital cost of building a new fire station. None of it can be used for staffing. None of it can be used toward an aquatic center, regardless of location. Building a new fire station along the boundary of northern Finn Hill and North Juanita would not
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be a “waist” (sic), as Vadney puts it. Dispatch data is clear that dividing Station 27 into two will not reduce overall coverage, but will simply spread it geographically to make it possible for more of the city to be reached by fire and EMS units within national standard response times. The units in Station 27 already respond into north Finn Hill and western North Juanita; the new station will simply make it possible to reach those areas faster. The units that would remain in Station 27 would continue to respond to calls in Totem Lake and Kingsgate as they do today. The calls currently handled by Station 27 in the area from eastern Finn Hill to the eastern edge of the city would be smoothly divided and balanced between the two stations. The city plans to also build a new Station 27 east of I-405 so that assets would be positioned to be able to reach the north and east portions of Kingsgate and the eastern portions of Totem Lake even more quickly, to close the gap created when Woodinville closed its station. This would also give us a second station east of I-405 to help people there if a big earthquake collapses the overpasses on I-405 cutting the city in half. Having three stations spread evenly across the northern half of the city would provide coverage and service levels comparable to the three stations spread across the southern half of the city, not lower levels of service. As a former commissioner of Fire District 41, I know personally that the goal of the District always was to close the response time gaps on the edges of the district in the most cost-effective way possible. Further study has shown that neither a second sta-
tion on Finn Hill nor a single consolidated station would accomplish that. Spreading three stations evenly across the northern neighborhoods would. These proposals are not in any way politically motivated, but driven by the desire to optimize the positioning of fire units to reach the greatest number of people as quickly as possible, using city resources as efficiently as possible as our citizens and taxpayers expect. The Kirkland City Council knows that public safety is the number one priority of Kirkland residents, and takes seriously its responsibility to maintain a high level of service and provide adequate staffing to meet the need. In December the Council just added $3 million dollars to help complete the new station and another $1 million to provide supplemental staffing at Station 25 until the new station is built. The Council will always step up to keep our residents safe. But that does not require excessive staffing in concentrated locations to accommodate every possible combination of simultaneous events, such that other important priorities in the city would be ignored. The council does not and would not pit neighbor against neighbor, or enact policies that would put the people of the city in danger. The city will continue to work with all stakeholders, including firefighters, to identify and implement the best solutions to the challenges that face us. We hope everyone will set aside political grandstanding and join in good faith collaboration.
Toby Nixon is a member of the Kirkland City Council, and a former commissioner of King County Fire Protection District No. 41. He can be reached at tnixon@kirklandwa.gov.
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Bag the ban on plastic bags Marika Weber wrote succinctly in favor of a ban on plastic bags and corresponding tax on paper bags. Here’s a counter argument. First, our family uses these free bags as trash can liners. Banning them would require us to buy commercial liners, which are of thicker plastic, and thus, worse for the environment. Second, all the grocery bags we don’t use get returned to the store, where a commercial recycler picks them up and they get made into other useful products (like grocery bags). Third, back in the 70’s the environmental slogan was: “Reduce, reuse, recycle.” Thin-film grocery bags adhere to this credo in all three ways. And my family is not alone in this effort: according to the EPA an estimated one billion pounds of plastic bags, sacks and wraps were recycled in 2010, a 55 percent increase since 2005. Fourth, unless reusable bags are washed in 140
degree soapy water they can accumulate some nasty bacteria. A study by the University of Arizona found that 50 percent of all reusable bags contained food-borne bacteria like salmonella. What’s more, 12 percent contained E. coli, indicating the presence of fecal matter and other pathogens. I wonder, Marika, do you dutifully and thoroughly wash your reusable bag after each trip, or just hang it up in the garage, like my 20-something daughters do? Finally, those jaunty, politically-correct reusable bags, with their whimsical sayings, fun slogans and artistic designs, are predominantly made in China. Those boring, brown, thin-film grocery bags, are made in America - often from recycled grocery bags - by 30,000 workers at 329 plants all (source: www.plasticsindustry.org) around the country. We should be proud of the vibrant recycling industry we have created, not seek to minimize it with loopy ideas like a bag ban. If the Kirkland City Council has any lingering
thoughts of implementing a misguided-but-feelsgood ban on thin-film grocery bags, they should dispose of that idea immediately (in a landfill; no recycling). Summing up: Plastic bag bans do not improve the environment (because they force us to buy thicker plastic bags for our trash cans) but they do increase costs for everyone, and do increase the likelihood of spreading infectious diseases among our families. They do also help increase the trade deficit while helping to throw 30,000 citizens out of work, for a product that is largely recycled, and even when not, takes up just under 0.5 percent of our landfills. Facts, not fashion.
Roger Clarke-Johnson, Kirkland
Promise made, not kept It’s that time of year when the Kirkland City [ more LETTERS page 5 ]
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Council adopts a budget that promises the tax payers is all they need to run the city. Don’t believe it. They’ll spend a lot more at our expense. Historically, the city has averaged a surplus of $15 million per year. Balancing the budget that shows the added surplus is not a problem. The question is what to do with the surplus. With additional money coming in, the budget is not balanced, so the council will hold
meetings that change expenditure figures periodically to balance the budget. The council doesn’t keep its promises. They’re spending our surplus. I contend that we are better at balancing our budgets. The problem is governments are spending more and more of our money leaving us a reduced amount that makes it more difficult for us to balance our budget that we can live by. Kirkland balanced budgets don’t last long. They keep on
spending. The council busts right through their own adopted budgets. Staff told us the city’s adopted budget will increase about 2 percent. It’s really 7 percent far greater than fixed income’s COLA’s 1.7 percent that seniors are getting. In order for the 2 percent to be true, the city must use some creative adjustments. As money keeps rolling in, surplus is spent, money that could go a long way to help us balance our budgets.
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Bruce Irvin returns an interception for a touchdown against St. Louis in Week 17. GENNA MARTIN, Everett Herald to. But this year, I took it more seriously, I guess you could say, studying my craft, trying to correct my mistakes.” By thriving in a dual role this season, Irvin, who is arguably the team’s best pound-for-pound athlete, has overcome one of his perceived weaknesses coming out of West Virginia, where he was used as a situational pass rusher. Plenty of people liked Irvin’s upside in the 2012 draft, but not everyone was sold
on the idea of him as a first-round pick. Seattle, however, used the No. 15 pick on Irvin, and he was effective, collecting 8.0 sacks, the most for a rookie that season, but as was the case in college, he was a part-time player. This season, however, Irvin has played 70.8 percent of Seattle’s defensive snaps and his role has increased even more of late with him playing 84 percent or more of the snaps in each of the past three games. Against Carolina
and mobile quarterback Cam Newton, who Irvin sacked twice earlier this season, Irvin figures to have a big role once again when Seattle kicks off postseason play tomorrow night. “I’m just doing the complete opposite of what my biggest knock was coming into the league — I was a one-dimensional pass rusher who couldn’t play the run,” Irvin said. “I think I’m proving that I can play the run pretty good. Pass rushing is
coming along, so I think I’m becoming a complete player if you ask me.” The Seahawks were excited about the idea of Irvin as a linebacker when they made the move last season. “When you look up the picture of a linebacker, his face shows up,” linebackers coach Ken Norton Jr. said early last season. “We’re really excited, he’s going to do it all. He’s going to be rushing the passer, he’s going to be playing the run, he’s going to be buzzing to the flats, he’s going to be flying around.” But it took time for Irvin to not just learn how to be a linebacker, but also to embrace the change. And after a second season at his new position, Irvin is starting to look more and more like that player Norton described 15 months ago. “I’m just trying to be consistent,” Irvin said. “Talent is cool, but when you’re team can’t depend on you to be at the right spot or depend on you to make certain plays, that don’t mean nothing. That’s my biggest thing, I’m just trying to be dependable, man. Let these guys know that I’m going to be there when I’m supposed to be there.”
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“That was fun, but I’d rather have a sack though,” he said. “I’d rather have two sacks. I’d take one and a half sacks over them two touchdowns. I need them sacks, man. I need ‘em. I need ‘em, man.” But even if the passrushing element of his job is still Irvin’s first love, he is embracing his role at linebacker in a way he didn’t in 2013. It wasn’t that Irvin was bad last season, but he didn’t have the impact he has had this season. He is playing well against the run, making plays in coverage, making the right pre-snap adjustments, all while still getting those cherished sacks as a pass rusher. “I feel like I’ve made a significant stride to becoming a good, consistent ‘backer,” Irvin said. “The biggest thing with me was just being consistent. Last year I’d have a good game, then fall off two games, then have a good game. So that was the biggest thing for me was to try to stay consistent, and I think I’ve done that pretty well this year.” Irvin said the biggest change as been “Just studying more. I wasn’t too sold on becoming a ‘backer, because I was a D-end all my life. So I really didn’t buy in last year like I was supposed
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Jan. 7 Theft: 9:20 p.m., 14400 block of 124th Ave NE. A 22-year-old woman was caught shoplifting groceries. She was taken into custody.
Jan. 5 Disorderly conduct: 10:30 a.m., 8500 block of 122nd Ave NE. A 20-yearold woman called police concerning a 33-year-old homeless man kicking and striking one of her customers at her drive-thru coffee stand. The homeless man then struck her in the shoulder when she tried to help the customer. Police found the man to be aggressive, defiant and drunk. He was
arrested and booked for disorderly conduct. Assault: 2:22 p.m., 10200 block of NE 133nd St. A 32-year-old man picked up a chair and struck a 44-year-old man in the head with it. The suspect was arrested and will be charged with assault through investigation.
Jan. 4 Assault: 10:30 a.m., 10020 block of
NE 124th St. Police responded to a fight at Camp Unity between two homeless people. A 35-year-old woman got into an argument with a 28-year-old man inside their tent over a dollar. She finally bit his upper lip. Following her arrest, she was uncooperative and refused to allow photos or give a statement.
She eventually, and tearfully, handed over .26 grams of meth and some paraphernalia. She was booked on an outstanding theft warrant out of Woodinville and was charged through investigation.
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Warrant: 1:24 a.m., 12000 block of 120th Pl NE. A 24-year-old woman was approached by an officer at the Motel 6 parking lot who discovered she had an outstanding warrant out of Bothell for domestic violence assault.
Drugs: 9:30 a.m., 12700 block of NE 129th Ct. A 20-year-old woman was found passed out in an apartment complex. She seemed to be in good health, but lied about how she got into the cabana and provided several false names.
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ously evicted out of his Sammamish home after it was foreclosed. At the time of the October police raid, he had been living in Bjorkstam’s home for six months, according to police documents. Following the raid he was detained and brought to the Redmond Police Department, where he told investigators that he helped “clean the place up,” but wasn’t involved in the drug dealing. He admitted,
according to the documents, that he had a heroin addiction and got his heroin from Bjorkstam. Swift also told investigators that he had accompanied Bjorkstam to confront a drug dealer who had failed to give him $2,000 for heroin. Swift stated that both of them were armed during the confrontation, the documents continue. The Reporter first broke the news that Swift was
living in the Kirkland home after discovering that police had been called to the residence in the days following the raid. The police reports, obtained through a public information request, repeatedly mentioned Swift, and Kirkland police later confirmed his identity. Swift was selected by the Sonics with the 12th pick in the 2004 NBA draft. He will be back in court on Jan. 26 for a case setting hearing.
to spokesperson Kathryn Reith. The boundary committee received input from the community until Wednesday, which they will
now take the feedback to review today. Reith added that eventually the committee will determine the final recommendation to present to the superintendent, who will then make her own recommendations to put forward to the school board for a final vote on Jan. 26. LWSD is planning to rezone the school boundaries in an attempt to properly accommodate student growth by placing them in schools based on capacity and expected growth in each neigh-
borhood. Though there were originally seven scenarios considered by the school board at a Nov. 17 study session, they were whittled down to three by December. The district sought public input on these three options for the Lake Washington Learning Community from Dec. 1-15 before reducing the scenarios to two. All three previous scenarios for the LWLC considered in December would have had 42 Lakeview students moved to Ben Franklin
Elementary and Rose Hill Middle School, a situation which drew protests from parents, particularly from the Yarrow Ridge and Yarrow Bay Village neighborhoods. Among their complaints was that they were highly invested in their children’s current schools, that to switch would have a detrimental effect on their property values and the move would essentially sever their connection to their local community. Reith previously told the Reporter that the district is trying to keep as many neighborhoods together as possible, but “most of the time, any scenario we create
isn’t perfect.” She added that public feedback would be used to determine any revisions. Reith also said that the district must redraw school zones after the district bond failed to get 60 percent approval, which would have helped with overcrowding. In October, the district sought input on a plan to redirect funds that would go, among other things, towards installing one portable at Franklin Elementary, 10 portables at Lake Washington High School, and modifications to Juanita High School creating offices for teachers during their planning periods. The redrawn boundaries, she said, are intended to relieve congested schools and move students into ones which are not at full capacity yet. After seeking public input on the boundary process in September, the district received over 5,000 responses from parents, with the top ranked criteria being maintaining neighborhoods to the extent possible and minimizing the number of students and families affected.
PUBLIC NOTICES Per RCW 39.10.440(5) Saybr Contractors Inc. is hereby providing notification of intent to perform City of Kirkland Job Order Contract for General Construction Services – Vertical, Job No. 14-14-PW. Scope of Work: repairs, remodeling, new construction of public buildings, associated parking lots, walkways, landscaping & other site improvements. Location: NW Washington (City of Kirkland). Seeking sub bids from Small/Minority/Women/Disavantaged/Veteran. Business Enterprises. EOE. Contact 253531-2144 for more information. Published in the Kirkland Reporter on January 9, 16, and 23, 2015. #1226669. NOTICE TO PATIENTS OF MEDICAL RECORDS TRANSFER A Women’s Clinic At Evergreen, PLLC (AWCE) closed its operations on December 31, 2013. Patient records will be released and transferred to Spectrum Information Services NW, Inc. (SISNW) January 2015. All patient records will be available with authorized patient releases through a transfer of ownership agreement with SISNW. Any questions about your medical records can be directed to SISNW by fax 206.686.2840 or by email roisupport@sisnwinc. com. Published in Kirkland Reporter on January 16, 23, 30, 2015. #1227060. Mike Dedonker, 3207 Pacific Ave. Everett, WA 98201, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, Meritage Ridge, is located at 12817 136th Ave NE in Kirkland, King
County. This project involves 5.98 acres of soil disturbance for residential construction activities. The receiving water is Totem Lake. Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State Department of Ecology regarding this application may do so in writing within thirty days of the last date of publication of this notice. Comments shall be submitted to the department of Ecology. Any person interested in the department’s action on this application may notify the department of their interest within thirty days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest ac- cording to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173- 201A-320. Comments can be submitted to: Department of Ecology Attn: Water Quality Program, Construction Stormwater P.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Published in Kirkland Reporter on January 16, 2015 and January 23, 2015.#1227413.
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We are community & daily newspapers in these Western Washington Locations: • King County • Kitsap County • Clallam County • Jefferson County • Okanogan County • Pierce County • Island County • San Juan County • Snohomish County • Whatcom County • Grays Harbor County Sound Publishing is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace. We offer a great work environment with opportunity for advancement along with a competitive benefits package including health insurance, paid time off (vacation, sick, and holidays), and 401k.
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