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3. Male falls out of ceiling in Safeway’s men’s bathroom, naked woman at Log Boom Many big stories graced Park - Kenmore Blotter the pages of the Bothell/ The Kenmore blotters Kenmore Reporter this year. provided by the King County Here is a list of the most read Sheriff’s Office hit a particustories of 2015 from bothelllarly bizarre note on Aug. reporter.com. 18, after deputies, whom 1. PCC Natural Markets to Kenmore contracts with open new store in Bothell, to provide police services, Seattle-based PCC Natural reported a man fell out of the Markets announced in July men’s bathroom ceiling in they would be opening a Safeway and ran off. Bothell branch in 2016, 4. Chase and crash compliwhich is expected to create cates traffic along some 130 jobs. Highway 405 and It’s expected to be 527. located south of A robbery suspect the Interstate 405 led police on a highand Bothell-Everett speed pursuit from Highway intersection Shoreline to Bothell in the Canyon Park on April 8, ending Shopping Center. when he crashed, The new Bothell loresulting in a hip cation would be the injury. Alan Smith 10th PCC store. 5. Bell tolls as 2. Storm update: guilty verdict anAll Northshore schools nounced in Alan Smith closed today, could stay murder trial closed tomorrow Bothell resident Alan A crippling windstorm Smith was convicted of swept through the state Nov. murdering his estranged 18, devastating the power wife, Susann Smith, by beatgrids in Kirkland, Bothell, ing her with blunt objects Kenmore and Woodinville, and drowning her in a tub among others. Although in 2013. As the judge was Puget Sound Energy claims reading the guilty verdict, to have restored power withthe 2 p.m. bells rang outside, in 24 hours, many residents creating an eerie cosmic reported extended power coincidence of which Poe outages, and forced the issue would have approved. of patchy area power service 6. Child struck by car, to the forefront of heated killed at Redmond Town Kenmore City Council meet- Center, driver from Kenmore ings. [ more 2015 page 9 ] BY AARON KUNKLER

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For nearly 13 years Kent Manchester has operated his homemade train and pony rides at Country Village in Bothell. Higher property taxes are at the root of a move that has forced the longtime Country Village attraction to look for a new home. AARON KUNKLER, Kenmore Reporter

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or nearly 13 years Kent Manchester has been building a train-lovers utopia in an open field behind Bothell’s Country Village, but by Jan. 1, the Iron Horse Railway and pony rides will be gone until further

notice. Country Village owners group Loveless Family LLC decided to begin sales negotiations for the four-acre plot with a real estate developer which could be constructing hundreds of multi-family housing units on the land. “We tried to keep

the train rides, but he feels that he has to have pasture for his ponies on site, and I just won’t have pasture,” said Country Village co-owner Leeann Tesorieri. Increasing property values in Bothell prompted the owners group to consider selling. “With the increase in

property taxes, we just can’t have land that sits there,” she said. “We have to pay property taxes, and there’s no revenue for us.” Iron Horse Railway has expanded over the years since its inception in 2003, but Manchester’s love of trains started well before that. [ more TRAIN page 9 ]

Puget Sound Energy talks outages with Kenmore Council during tour On a rainy Monday afternoon, representatives from Puget Sound Energy and the City of Kenmore met beneath

Kenmore’s troubled circuit 26 to discuss what the company plans to do to address residents’ concerns over frequent power outages. Standing beneath a PSE tent in pouring rain in the

19500 block of 65th Avenue Northeast, members of the Kenmore City Council watched company spokeswoman RaeLynn Asah explain how the circuit runs through more than 125

private properties and some 1,500 customers. “This is such a different circuit than most of the rest of them in our system,” she said. This is due, Asah said, to

former King County plans to construct a road along the route of the wires, which was later scrapped, but the power lines were still constructed. “It’s a hodgepodge of easements in the area,” she said.

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installed in 2016 in neighboring circuits, which will outages as trees that dried benefit circuit 26. These out over the summer are reclosers will shut off power knocked into power lines only in damaged sections of by intense winter winds. the line, allowing linemen To help alleviate these to more accurately pinpoint outages, ‘tree wires’ will be where repairs are needed, installed on the circuit in 2017 on one of three groups facilitating quicker power restoration. of wires. When a circuit loses PSE engineer Mike Johnpower currently, son said when a “There’s been a lot the entire line tree falls on two of outages on this must be inspected wires now, it will circuit, so this circuit for more damage cut power for is a really high before it is turned the entire circuit. priority.” back on. Even a tree that Mike Johnson Encroaching leaves the wires trees are a serious intact and falls problem for ciron the wires can cuit 26, with most access, or cut power by disrupting easements, being between the circuit, as they are not 10 and 25 feet where the insulated. power company can legally Tree wires are insulated, tread to restore power. which means that if a tree PSE will be negotiating falls in it but does not break increasing these with each the wire it will not disrupt individual property owner, the circuit. Tree wires also Asah said. bear more weight and are Vegetation crews curless prone to breaking. rently clear trees on a fourReclosers are also being

Puget Sound Energy spokeswoman RaeLynn Asah explains how circuit 26 runs through more than 125 private properties and powers some 1,500 customers, during a tour of the circuit for Kenmore City Council members and the media. AARON KUNKLER, Kenmore Reporter year cycle on the circuit, two years less than most other areas, Asah said. “Our vegetation management team is well aware of what the problems are,” she said. The power company tracks how many outages individual customers suffer each year, and the duration of those outages, Johnson said.

PSE tries to keep each customers outages to an average of 1.3 annually, but he said the company understands the circuit does not meet that standard. “There’s been a lot of outages on this circuit, so this circuit is a really high priority,” Johnson said. Recent outages beginning in late summer have prompted outrage from

residents and Kenmore City Council members, with many sharing stories of hundreds of dollars worth of food going bad. Kenmore’s economy is also filled with home-based businesses, which many owners saying power outages severely affect. The idea of burying the power cables has been popular with residents and council members, but Asah said PSE does not view that as a viable solution. She said power outages underground are often harder to find and repair, leading to longer repair times and an installation process which is intrusive for homeowners. If the company were to bury cables, state regulations mandate the company bear 60 percent of the cost, with the city picking up the remaining 40 percent. Other solutions could eventually come by way of ‘smart grid’ technology cur-

rently being installed along Kenmore’s southern border with Kirkland. Known as distribution automation, Johnson said it involves computercontrolled circuit switches which automatically react to power failures. When the circuit is switched now, power crews must manually restart transformer switches to restore power. Automation, he said, can reduce power outages from hours to seconds in some cases, although this technology will likely proliferate in the southern regions of the city before it reaches up to circuit 26, and only if the tree wires are ineffective. PSE and the city of Kenmore are entering into franchise negotiations over easement rights, with many concerns being presented to the company. Negotiations are expected to continue into 2016. Serving You Since 2002

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UW Bothell, Cascadia look to expand, neighbors upset a property line only 30 feet away from a dormitory. “The whole neighborhood will have a terrible time adjusting to the ugliness of it all, plus the much reduced worth of our homes,” she said. “I’m scared and shocked. I don’t understand the unmitigated rush toward a destruction of trees, fresh air, natural water control, quiet space and healthy Northwest ambience.” Tammy Urquhart lives in the neighborhood and began an emotional appeal to the council before having a neighbor finish reading her written statement. “I needed a sanctuary for my mom who had just been diagnosed with what we believe to be terminal cancer, and my son who had been diagnosed with significant developmental delays,” she said. “I feel that my home and everything that it provides us is in dire jeopardy.” Urquhart said she moved into her house wary of the

campus’s proximity, but chose to purchase it after reading the buffer commitments in the current PUD. “My son is worried about losing his neighborhood. He is worried about losing his sanctuary which has been so critical to his amazing progress,” she said. City council members seemed to hear neighbors’ concerns. “If that was my backyard, I’d feel like I was in a fishbowl,” said councilman Andy Rheaume. “I really do sympathize with the residents that are neighboring there, and I hope there’s some sort of compromise that we can work out between the residents and the college to make it a little bit more appetizing instead of having a six-story building in your backyard.” Councilwoman Tris Samberg echoed similar concerns about the buffer zones. “I think that we need to make sure that those promises made back when

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property abutting residential neighborhoods along 182 and 183 Places Northeast. Under the current code, buildings must have at least a 30-foot buffer with vegetation between a campus building and a residential property line for buildings under 35 feet in height. The buffer zone is increased by 30 feet for every 10 feet of height added to the building, maxing out at a 120-foot buffer for a building 65 feet or more. The proposed code would allow buildings up to 65-feet high to be built with only a 30-foot buffer, with additional layers staggered back 30 feet once after the first 35 feet of height. Campus representatives said this was necessary to allow greater flexibility in constructing student dormitories consistent with the rest of campus designs and the land space available to them. If they were to construct a dormitory with current regulations, it would end up long and thin, campus representatives said. However, council members and around a dozen residents from abutting neighborhoods voiced their concerns at a Dec. 15 meeting. Neighbor Janelle Lowen was worried about the destruction of natural tree groves bordering the 182 and 183 Places Northeast communities, as well as sharing

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and roofs. The 127-acre campus is only allowed 35 acres of these surfaces. Sixty-three acres are protected wetlands and cannot be developed, so the campus is requesting to increase the amount of impermeable surfaces to around 48 acres within the remaining developable 64 acres. While neighbors are concerned, Karaman said the campus will be working towards having a low impact on the community. “We care about the local community and neighbors and will continue to maintain the city approved setbacks, buffers and height restrictions,” the statement said.

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Longtime Olympia resident Betty Sanchez passed away on November 22, 2015. She was born to Hiram “Bill” and V. Louise Fay in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 9, 1933. The Fay family, including her only sibling, Barbara “Bobbe,” arrived in the Seattle area during WWII when her father found employment in the war effort. Eventually, the family moved to Bothell, WA and Betty graduated from Bothell High School as one of the top scholars of the class of 1951. She then attended Everett Community College and received an Education degree from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA in the spring 1955. At WWU, she was the 1954 Homecoming Queen. Betty married Boyd Wilson in 1955 and they and their two children, Cynthia and Scott, moved to Olympia in 1963. Olympia remained Betty’s home for the rest of her life. Soon she began teaching in the Olympia School District at L. P. Brown Elementary School, and later became the school librarian and audiovisual specialist. She continued as a faculty member at L. P. Brown until retirement. In 1980, Betty married Bob Sanchez. He died in 1983. Betty was a social creature with a warm smile, who made friends easily and formed long-term relationships that lasted for many years. She was a bright, intelligent woman with many interests, including reading, traveling, dancing, her flower garden, and volunteering. She was creative, and enjoyed theater, social events, and skiing. Betty had an eye for art and loved books. She was devoted to her family and friends. Betty is survived by her two children, Scott Wilson (Barb Kingsley) of Long Beach, CA, and Cindy Wilson (Bill Graeber) of Olympia; first husband, Boyd; and five much loved and wonderful grandchildren, Jessica, Zachary, Forrest, Ellie and Drew. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Bobbe; former companion, Hank Heinrich; and husband, Bob Sanchez. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Women’s Club of Olympia (Abigail Stuart House) on Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. Contributions in Betty’s name may be made to Friends of the Olympia Library or to the charity of your choice. For more information or to leave memories, visit www. FuneralAlternatives.org. 1493795

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School board wrestles with elementary school enrollment growth

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his week the Northshore School District Board of Directors spent several hours wrestling with detailed and difficult plans for addressing continued elementary school enrollment growth and optional state funding for full-day kindergarten in 2016-17. The board reviewed a total of four options developed by staff. Each option was clearly imperfect with varying levels of positive and negative impacts to students, teachers, families and school communities. The options reviewed were as complicated as the problems they are intending to solve. In a general sense, two of the options prioritized maintaining current elementary class sizes and relying more heavily upon additional portables and use of alternative spaces such as the leased Northshore Primary Center while the other two options would have increased elementary class sizes as a means of creating needed classroom space and greater opportunities for state funded full-day kindergarten. In the end, the board could not endorse either of the plans that would increase class sizes, even if just for a year until enrollment relief and capacity for full-day kindergarten in all schools is created in 2017-18 through the opening of North Creek High School, grade reconfiguration and boundary adjustments. The Board has tasked staff with continuing to analyze and refine elements of the two plans that maintain current class sizes and bring a recommendation forward for their consideration in early January, prior

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to the start of kindergarten registration for 2016-17 on Jan. 19. The Board identified the following priorities to guide staff in their continued work: 1. Maximize the placement of additional portables where possible to keep students in their neighborhood schools. 2. In the event sufficient portables cannot be placed, utilize the Northshore Primary Center for half-day kindergarten. 3. Utilize any remaining available spaces (e.g. computer labs, daycare rooms, program relocations, etc.) to create needed classrooms. 4. Increase class sizes as a last resort. We have known for several years that 2016-17 would be our most challenging year responding to continued enrollment growth prior to the longer-term solutions planned for 2017-18. Looking ahead, 2016-17 is proving to be even more challenging than we envisioned two or three years ago. I want

to assure you that we have and will continue to explore every available solution. Unfortunately as our enrollment continues to grow, particularly in the north and central regions of the district, our options become more limited. We are committed to doing all we can to make 2016-17 an outstanding year for all students, staff and families. I continue to deeply appreciate the understanding, resilience and grace of all who are impacted by our current circumstances. I ask you to please maintain your flexibility and resolve to make the best of the less than ideal circumstances we face for one more year. As my final message for 2015, please accept my warmest wishes for a safe and peaceful holiday season.

Larry Francois is the superintendent for the Northshore School District.

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Regarding the toll lane situation on I-405, Keith Dunbar, Kirkland I would recommend that the Washington State Legislature consider raising the State gas tax 10 cents a gallon as a way to raise transportation revenues to pay for needed improvements in our transportation systems In this time of heated rhetoric, political versus the toll approach. With gas now down posturing and heart-breaking violence, we to under $2.50 a gallon in many areas, now have a choice. We can succumb to fear. We is the time to provide needed revenue to can build walls, fences and make policies our state to help fix our roads and bridges that protect us from the outside, from those across our state that need repair or improvewho are different than us. We can raise our ment. To encourage carpooling, address voices and shout, “Keep out! I’m afraid.” peak hour traffic issues, and to help But the real cost of a defense built out reduce carbon emissions, the Deof fear is not in dollars or even in lost READER partment of Transportation should opportunity to expand our diversity; it return the left lane on I-405 for its is in the callousness, cynicism and haentire length to HOV-2. The second tred with which we embalm our hearts. restricted lane now constructed on the The other choice is one of love and middle portion of I-405 could be exclugenerosity of spirit. It is the opposite of sively dedicated for buses in peak Monday scarcity and fear. Love says our hearts have through Friday commute hours. When and the capacity to be challenged, to risk being if Sound Transit gains approval to fund bus welcoming and to dare to live in a world rapid transit on the I-405 corridor, this peak filled with people who are diverse not only hour bus lane could also serve the Bus Rapid in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, Transit program. income, ability, but also in religious beliefs. The tax on gasoline is equitable because

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Our country was founded on the belief in religious freedom; it is enshrined in our founding documents. The Statue of Liberty sits in the harbor welcoming all. There is no religious litmus test. Love is not an esoteric term. Beyond opening our hearts into ways of generosity and compassion, love is just and kind. To those who terrorize, cause harm, or use violence (in word and deed), there must be justice. But love does not slander a whole group of people who might be different than us. Love says you are my neighbor and a fellow human being. What we can do is reach out – speak up when you hear hateful speech. Say hello instead of walking by or ignoring. Have coffee with someone you don’t know. Attend a service of a religion that you are unfamiliar with. Do something out of your comfort zone that helps you understand or learn. In this season when many celebrate the birth of a savior, let us remember what we are being saved from. No longer do we have to encase our hearts in fear, we can choose instead to open our hearts and walk the path of loving our neighbors as ourselves.

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Family finds steady ground at Kenmore Hopelink shelter BY DAN AZNOFF Special to the Reporter

Ten-year-old Angel has literally become the poster child for the ability of charitable organizations to help families regain their stability and become contributing members of the community. Angel and her little brother Achillis were living in the backseat of their parents’ car on the streets of Kirkland on a cold and damp winter night hoping for an extra pair of warm socks while her parents huddled in the front seat and prayed for a miracle. “We were ready to give up when we called 211, the health and human services referral number in Washington State,” her mother Renay Ferguson remembered. “They gave us more than just a handout and a warm bed for the night. We moved into the Hopelink shelter in Kenmore. We had hot water and real beds for the kids.” Once the family had food and shelter, Hopelink helped Ferguson and her husband find jobs. Renay began working in the supply room at a local hospital and her husband, Ronald George, secured a position as a driver for Habitat for Humanity. The organization also helped the young family repair their finances and apply for permanent low-income housing. The family wanted to do more than just say thank you for the generosity that literally saved their lives. “We’ve come full circle,”

Ferguson said proudly. “Ronald and I now volunteer at the Hopelink food bank in Shoreline.” Ferguson and George have also sponsored a complete two-bedroom apartment through Hopelink, providing all the essentials from pots and pans to bedding to help another family in crisis. She said her family is living proof that charity can make a difference. “Once people are stable, we focus on helping them gain the skills they need to exit poverty permanently,” said spokesperson Kris Betker. She added that Hopelink offers adult education classes for GED prep and English in the Workplace as well as family development case managers that establish and monitor goals for each member of the family. Betker said 509 families were helped by Hopelink during the past year. She proclaimed that 72 percent of the participants who went through the program in 2013 have been able to maintain stable housing. Hopelink is just one of 275 of non-profit organizations in the Puget Sound region that strive to provide tangible results for each charitable dollar they receive through donations. The Redmond-based program serves more than 65,000 people every year through food banks, energy assistance programs, temporary shelters and transportation. The winter holidays and year-end tax deductions

have made December the biggest month of the year for individual and corporate giving. Charitable organizations across the country reported an all-time high of $358.38 billion in donations for the year, an increase of more than seven percent compared to the totals for 2013. Three-fourths of the donations were made by individuals. Religious organizations represented the single largest category of charities receiving tax-exempt dollars, garnishing 32 percent of all contributions ($115 million). Education as the next largest sector with 15 percent of all donations. Charities that focused on environmental and animal issues saw an increase of seven percent to $10.5 billion during the last calendar year. The only area of giving that saw a decrease in 2013 were international causes. The two percent decline may have been the result of fewer natural disasters.

Specific goals United Way of King County has taken a different approach to providing a safety net for the poor. Director of Communications Jared Erlandson said the umbrella organization maximizes the impact of each donation by focusing on specific goals. “We have big ambitions and only a finite number of dollars,” Erlandson said. “In King County, we are committed to reduce homeless-

Local 10-year-old Angel helps her mom Renay Ferguson move into their new apartment. CONTRIBUTED ness by 50 percent and work toward having 80 percent of children ready to learn when they enter kindergarten.” According to the spokesman, the strength of the nationwide organization allows United Way to return 80 percent of every donated dollar back to the community in the form of social service programs. Many of the programs operate through endowments from major corporate sponsors. He singled out a program operated with funding from Kodak that has utilized peer counseling to boost the graduation rate in New York City by 40 percent. “Individual donors in King County can make a contribution earmarked for United Way for a specific concern, whether they want to help Planned Parenthood or a small program that provides transportation for seniors,” Erlandson said.

Long term coalition The Seattle Foundation represents a coalition of community organizations

and philanthropists who have combined their money and passions to make longterm investments to promote a stronger and more vibrant community. The Foundation’s director of marketing services, Erica Klinger, explained that the Seattle organization manages more than $800 million in grants to worthwhile groups that share the agency’s vision for King County and the region. The Foundation has been given responsibility to oversee 10 percent of the $392 million Best Start for Kids Program proposed by King County Executive Dow Constantine and approved by voters in the November election. The Seattle Foundation staff vets more than 17,000 non-profit groups based on causes that align with the mission of the organization. It recently launched an educational program designed to educate and inspire future philanthropists.

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s work continues on the new North Creek High School, area neighbors are concerned about increasing traffic and the changing character of their once-rural neighborhood. Charles Austin has lived on 43rd Avenue Southeast for years. His five-acre property is adjacent to the new high school. “This situation out here is literally untenable right now,” he said. During the past decade or so, Austin said, Snohomish County officials considered incorporating their neighborhood into the Urban Growth Area, increasing their property value. In 2005, the decision was made not to include the neighborhood. However, surrounding neighborhoods were included, and have since been developed. This decision made his five-acre property with a house roughly as valuable as much smaller housing plots only a block away.

“We’re basically the same as the people who live in the subdivisions that surround us, even though we have huge chunks of property,” he said. In addition, Austin said the new high school will cause more traffic, a concern which many of his neighbors who live on the narrow street share. Alaina Johnson has two children, including a 9-year-old daughter who uses a wheelchair. There are sparse and inconsistent sidewalks on 43rd Avenue and surrounding streets. While Johnson’s son can walk to on the shoulder of Jewell Road to Fernwood Elementary School a couple blocks away, she and her daughter have to wait for the bus. “I’m just really concerned about dealing with the speeding,” she said. “There’s been a few times we’ve almost been hit.” Rachel Davis lives at the corner of 43rd Avenue Southeast and 196th Street Southeast with her younger brother. She’s

also concerned with an increase in traffic the new North Creek High School could bring. “It’s going to be dangerous,” she said. Northshore School District spokeswoman Leanna Albrecht said the site for the new high school was chosen based on the rapidly expanding population in the northern end of their district. “Hundreds and hundreds of homes are being constructed,” she said. Snohomish County Planner Clay White agreed, and said his department is anticipating around 230,000 people moving to the county during the next 20 years. This presents problems keeping pace with infrastructure maintenance and improvements. “There’s a lot of challenges with growth,” he said. Every eight years, the county updates its comprehensive growth plan based on population data and growth projections. A new comprehensive plan update for the 2035 plan

This barrier is a part of the traffic revision on 43rd Avenue Southeast due to new traffic concerning the new North Creek High School. AARON KUNKLER, Bothell Reporter

was finalized this year. It did not include an expansion of urban growth areas near the new school. While Austin would like to see improvements, such as more consistent sidewalks, speed enforcement and efforts made to keep 43rd Avenue from being used as an access road for the new North Creek High School, he’s also concerned with the direction the surrounding area is headed. “They’ve taken an urban landscape and plucked it down right next to farm-

ers and ranchers,” he said. In his mind, the county government is unresponsive to residents’ concerns. Austin said it’s gotten so bad, he’s started calling their neighborhood ‘Little Chechnya,’ drawing a comparison between their fight with county officials to the Russian invasion of Chechnya in the mid1990s, where one of the war’s justifications was to save Chechnya from itself. And dramatic action from the neighborhood may be coming soon by way of protests and dem-

onstrations. “Our neighborhood is no longer just going to meetings and stuff, we’re going to start doing civil disobedience,” Austin said. North Creek High School was designed to have various parking lots on its property, each with their own access roads designed to disperse traffic without over-burdening any specific neighborhood. The student lot accesses onto 188th Street Southeast, backroads lead to 188th Street, which was recently connected 43rd Avenue Southeast. Austin feels this could attract high school traffic along 43rd Avenue. Talks with Northshore and Snohomish County officials have done little to ease his mind. “We live in a war zone. Our thing here is just totally screwed,” he said. “Our concerns are literally no one’s concerns.” The North Creek High School is on schedule to open during the 20172018 school year.

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A two-year-old girl was struck and killed by a 25-year-old Kenmore man after she darted out in front of his car. Police ruled the driver was sober and had no chance to see the girl or stop. 7. Bothell business hopes to put a dent in modern slavery Kristina Valiani opened a hand-crafted cosmetics store in Country Village with a percentage of her revenue going to Real Escape from the Sex Trade, a Seattle-based non-profit combatting human trafficking. 8. Identity of Bothell house fire victim released Diana NottinghamJohnson, 53, died in a June 3 housefire from smoke inhalation and thermal burns. Neighbors battled the flames with garden hoses until the fire department arrived to extinguish the fire. 9. Bothell mayor triggers conflict of interest investigation Bothell mayor Joshua Freed has been in the spotlight for the past few years after his membership in a development group which bought the back nine holes of the Wayne Golf Course came to light. The course was originally slated to be sold to the City of Bothell to be preserved as open space before they passed on the offer. Freed helped purchase the property after the city turned

down the offer, sparking cries in downtown Bothell of corruption and conflict Bothell resident Annie of interest. An investigation Carl decided to follow her carried out by an insurance dream this year and set group cleared Freed of any up her own bookstore in potential charges, but public downtown Bothell called The perception still remains that Neverending Bookshop. The the mayor and Fred Lamb, 31-year-old battled and beat also a sitting council member non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and also involved with the and is currently cancer free. golf course, may not have the Her store is located in the city’s best interest at heart. Logsdon Building. Freed later agreed to sell the 13. SR 522 closure to property to a conserseverely impact Northvancy group called shore drivers this Forterra. weekend YEAR IN 10. Bothell police A salmon-friendly respond to a DUI culvert being concrash and welfare structed between check turned suicide Ballinger Way and Nov. 24 was a long one Brookside Boulevard NE for Bothell PD after an 8:30 west of Kenmore in Lake a.m. DUI driver smashed his Forest Park diverted traffic Toyota 4-Runner head-on in July. into a Cadillac SUV. Later in 14. Fatal crash in Bothell the day, police responded to blocks 101st Avenue Northa welfare check in the 19300 east block of State Route 527. Two people were killed Upon arrival, police heard a after their vehicle was speedgunshot and set up a periming, lost control and struck eter. A robot with a camera a tree in the 18500 block of was sent in, and found a man 101 Avenue Northeast on who appeared to have shot Nov. 11. himself. 15. Chef John Howie’s 11. Forterra forges agreeBeardslee Public House ment to purchase Wayne Golf brewery and restaurant opens Course back-nine in Bothell today in Bothell Forterra and Mayor Joshua Beardslee Public House Freed’s development group opened in August after came to a purchase agreewell-known area chef John ment for the back nine holes Howie took an interest at of the Wayne Golf Course in a location at The Village at Bothell. Beardslee Crossing. Distiller 12. Cancer survivor, sci-fi and business partner Erik junkie opens used book store Leidholm later opened a

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8 Eastside Catholic School Grades 6-12

232 - 228th Avenue SE Sammamish, WA 98074 425-295-3000 • eastsidecatholic.org High School and Middle School Open House Wednesday, January 6, 2016 | 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Ridge School of 9 Forest the Sacred Heart 4800 - 139th Avenue SE Bellevue, WA 98006-3015 425-201-2434 • forestridge.org All School Open House (Grades 5-12) Thursday, January 7, 2016 | 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.