Gliders begin summer session
June 18, 2008
Matthew Frerker jogged alongside the slew of elementary school runners streaming past him.
“Smooth exchange!” He yelled, as the children handed off batons in mid-sprint.
“Okay, that was good, but let’s do it again,” he said, calling them back before they strayed too far.
Frerker is an assistant coach with the Issaquah Gliders, a parks and recreation club focused on encouraging local youth to hone their stride on a track or cross country course. Read more
17th golf classic next week
June 18, 2008
Tournament raises funds for Junior Achievement
This week, philanthropy once again calls upon would-be golfers to raise money for a good cause.
The 17th Annual Junior Achievement Evergreen Bank Golf Classic and Auction will take place at Sahalee Country Club June 23.
But before brandishing your clubs, know that the entry for a single player is $940, and $3,750 for Read more
Sammamish coaches are tops in county
June 18, 2008
Skyline’s Geiser, Eastlake’s Crowder earn coach of the year honors
Dawn Geiser can add to her list of accolades.
Geiser, the head women’s track and field coach at Skyline High School, recently received the 3A KingCo Coach of the Year award.
She has received the honor twice before in 2004 and 2006. In 2007 she also received women’s track and field coach Read more
Class makes glass
June 18, 2008
Schools welcome Rachel Carson Elementary with glass mural
Lake Washington elementary schools are fashioning a different sort of welcome mat for their new peer, Rachel Carson Elementary.
Students from Christa McAuliffe, Samantha Smith and Louisa May Alcott elementary schools are fusing a glass mural that will Read more
7 students graduate from area transition academies
June 18, 2008
Program helps students with developmental disabilities learn needed life skill
Local participants of the transition academies in the Lake Washington and Issaquah school districts celebrate their final day of secondary education this June.
“The program itself is set up to work with young adults mostly with developmental disabilities,” explained Richard Haines, program coordinator for the Lake Washington School Read more
Calendar
June 18, 2008
Events
Guitarist Dan Carollo will be joined by master uilleann piper Eliot Grasso and the Baile Glas Irish Dancers at Sammamish Presbyterian Church for a family-friendly evening of Irish music and dance at 7 p.m. July 13, Sammamish Presbyterian Church 22522 NE Inglewood Hill Rd. Call 868-5186.
Fundraisers
The 15th Annual Susan G. Komen Sound Race for the Cure to raise Read more
Celebrate the green
June 18, 2008
The fifth annual Green Festival Celebrates the Mountains to Sound Greenway is June 28-29.
The greenway is a 1.4 million-acre scenic and recreation corridor from Puget Sound in Seattle to central Washington, featuring 750,000 acres of public land, 1,600 miles of multipurpose trails and hundreds of lakes, campgrounds, museums and farms.
The two-day festival has more than 25 events in 10 communities along 100 miles of Interstate 90. Greenway Days offers group hikes, bike rides and community celebrations in addition to its highlight events: The Cowboy Rendezvous in Cle Elum, Greenway Geoteaming Competition at Rattlesnake Lake, Fenders on Front Street Car Show and Cruise in Issaquah and the 100-mile Mountains to Sound Relay from Snoqualmie Pass to Golden Gardens Park in Seattle. Go to mtsgreenway.org.
3 decades of 3-year-olds
June 18, 2008
Lynda Schupp to close preschool after 31 years
Lynda Schupp opened her own preschool at the urging of a friend who was disappointed with the current offerings in Sammamish.
“She told me, ‘Lynda, you can do better than this,’” Schupp said.
So, in January 1977, she did just that and has spent the last 31 years tending to the needs of more than 350 of the plateau’s 3- and 4-year olds from her home-based school. Read more
Sammamish: the new city of brotherly love
June 18, 2008
Man gives kidney to older brother
When Kit Eldredge learned that his brother needed a kidney transplant, he said he felt predestined to help.
“The way I’m wired, I’m not only an optimist, I’m a fatalist as well,” said Kit. “All things happen for you, not to you.”
Kit Eldredge, 53, lives in the Crest Read more
College News
June 18, 2008
Sammamish students graduate from OSU
Graduating with Oregon State University’s class of 2008 on June 15 were Jordan Long, cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in speech communication; and Stuart D. Morris Read more
