Sammamish Forum May 19
May 18, 2010
No to Town Center
I thought the March Sammamish city newsletter’s “Town Center: Prudent approach pays dividends” meant a check was in the mail. No luck. Instead it was disturbing to see it adopt special interest extortion tactics like “the Town Center will adsorb growth and help protect existing neighborhoods from the impacts of more indiscriminate development.” Even worse, it conflicts with state law. Read more
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May 18, 2010
We know our readers enjoy sitting down each week and thumbing through the pages of their Sammamish Review.
But in this ever-more wired world, the Review is working to keep up with the times to bring you the news and stories as they happen. Although the paper comes out weekly, we update our website SammamishReview.com once or twice or more each day. Read more
Grassless dog park reopens in Beaver Lake Park
May 18, 2010
Sally Uffenes sat on a bench at the off-leash dog area of Beaver Lake Park and contemplated the pros and cons of the new mulch. She pointed to her black poodle, Charlie, who was coughing from the sawdust kicking up.
Charlie’s curly coat was littered with light brown wood fragments, too. Read more
Sammamish City Council says U.S. Senior Open traffic plan is best option
May 18, 2010
The City Council appears to have run out of options: Sammamish residents living outside of the Sahalee neighborhood will have to drive to Redmond and board a bus to attend the U.S. Senior Open in their own city.
Plans to add a shuttle route between Eastlake High School and Sahalee Country Club were all but squashed May 11. Read more
Issaquah School Board, superintendent hold retreat
May 18, 2010
Board stays in Issaquah, discusses districtwide issues
Issaquah School Board members finished up a their annual retreat with Superintendent Steve Rasmussen May 4.
The meeting was held at the district administration building and was open to the public.
Rasmussen met with board members and other district officials to review district policies to ensure they are meeting the needs of the district. Read more
Relay for Life is coming to Skyline High School
May 18, 2010
Stacy Strickland’s father was diagnosed with lung carcinoma in 1992, when she was just 16. Six weeks later, he succumbed to the disease.
“It was a tough thing for anyone to go through,” Strickland said. “Especially for a 16 year old.”
It would take her 18 years to find an outlet in the community to help support the American Cancer Society. Read more
Eastlake grad wins national sports page design contest
May 18, 2010
Colleen Kirsten, a 2005 Eastlake High School graduate, loves it when, while walking on the University of Washington campus, people stop in their tracks to read the sports page she designed, she said.
And to some of the leading sports page designers in the country, Kirsten has skills and insights beyond her age. She’s clever and has a knack for attention-grabbing graphics.
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Sammamish residents reach out to Nicaragua
May 18, 2010
Four years ago, Angelo Gonzalez, 15, and Manuela Acevedo, 13, didn’t have a whole lot of hope. Day-to-day life was a struggle in the poverty stricken rural town of Dario, Nicaragua. Angelo had no interest in learning or working toward a goal, he said.
Something changed inside of both of them, they said, after they found a school, built and run by members of Sammamish-based Evergreen Christian Fellowship.
“Now I have interest in my whole life,” Angelo said in Spanish from the Dario Christian Academy in Nicaragua. He wants to be a mechanical engineer. Read more
Eastside Catholic sees consequences of bad choices
May 18, 2010
Hailey Odegard, an Eastside Catholic junior, thought it would be interesting to know what it was like to play a car-crash victim. So she went along with it when she was asked to be part of the school’s bi-annual DUI car crash simulation.
Odegard and seven other student-actors worked with school administrators, Sammamish Police and members of Eastside Fire & Rescue to stage a fake collision in front of her peers May 12. The actors played victims and a drunk driver in a collision, complete with bloody makeup and destroyed vehicles.
Eastside Catholic junior Maddie King-Foster, right, and senior Monica Taylor act as friends of a victim during the mock DUI car crash May 12. Photo by Christopher Huber
5 Sammamish schools among the top in the state
May 18, 2010
Five schools in Sammamish are flying bright green banners in their hallways thanks to continued high marks and all-around improvement from students.
Mead, McAuliffe and Smith elementary schools, Inglewood Junior High and Eastlake High School each received the 2009 Washington Achievement Award for overall excellence May 5 at a presentation at Hazen High School. Read more
