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When Sara Goldie stepped onto the Eastlake High School gym floor with athletic director Brent Kawaguchi in May, something felt different, she said.
The 1997 Eastlake grad had played dozens of games and countless practices on the hardwood as a varsity player. She was an assistant there in college and again for three years until 2009.
Sara Goldie
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While preparing to compete in the national youth rowing regatta in early June, members of the Sammamish Rowing Association had to show up to practice wearing winter clothing. The idea was to get their bodies used to rowing in the hot, muggy climate in Ohio.
One time, Jonathan Carrigan, of Sammamish, nearly got sick after a workout.
Jack Elder, left, of Skyline High School, and Jonathan Carrigan and Maggie Yuse, of Eastlake High School, each participated at the national youth rowing regatta in Ohio. Photo by Christopher Huber
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New: June 28, 1:27 p.m.
A 44-year-old Sammamish woman on her way to jail wiggled out of a pair of handcuffs, kicked out the back window of a police car and attempted to escape out of the moving vehicle onto Interstate 90 on June 13, according to police reports. Read more
New: June 27, 3:10 p.m.
Make sure to bring some cash to this year’s Fourth on the Plateau celebration. In a break from previous years, the city is allowing the three locations that provide parking to charge this year. Read more
New: June 26, 10:04 a.m.
A local company that specializes in eco-friendly gift baskets was recently honored as one of King County’s greenest workplaces.
Accents Et cetera, located at 1225 244th Ave. NE., was one of 75 businesses named to the county’s Best Workplaces for Recycling and Waste Reduction in 2010. The 19-year-old company provides an assortment of gift baskets, but with a “green” flair – biodegradable cellophane that dissolves in a matter of months, recycled paper shreds as filling and containers that can easily be reused after the recipient is finished with the basket.
Susan Huenefeld's gift basket company is one of the greenest businesses in the county. Photo contributed
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New: June 25, 2:58 p.m.
The Lake Washington School District managed to avoid making steep cuts to this year’s proposed budget, but they are likely coming, said Barbara Posthumus, the district’s director of Business Services.
This year represents the final year of federal stimulus money coming to the district. As that funding winds down and the economy doesn’t pick up, hard choices will come before the School Board. Read more
The city of Sammamish was right to reject an ill-conceived plan to change the contracted playing time on Skyline High School’s community fields.
For years, the city and schools have engaged in a great partnership, which serves both students and the community at large.
Lights and turf were installed using city taxpayer money on school-owned property. Both groups have been able to use the fields to the enjoyment of all.
Circumstances are changing for the school as it adds a freshman class, and more playing time on the fields is needed for freshman teams.
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Jacob Kuper threatened the Issaquah School District might take its ball and go home if it didn’t get the changes it wants to an agreement governing the use of the fields at Skyline High School.
“We could rescind our interlocal agreement and there would be no community hours – not that we want to do that, but legally it is an option,” said Kuper, chief financial officer for the district.
The Community Sports Fields abut the Redhawk neighborhood. Photo by Christopher Huber
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Eastlake’s Class of 2010 was graduated on June 15. Photos after the break. Read more
Too much rain
If we had a Roman Emperor in charge in Washington, D.C. I’m sure he would be sympathetic, because of all this rain, for a request to change the name of this month to Juneuary.
Anthony Emmanuel
Sammamish
Parkway is unnecessary
Having lived in Sammamish for more than a year, I’ve been pleased with how well the city seems to be run. One exception to that is the East Lake Sammamish Parkway project.
This is a project that has cost commuters hours of their time — hundreds of hours that will not be returned in the form of roads that allow higher speed or additional capacity.
Making matters worse, phases of this project have, at one time or another, coincided with construction at 244th Avenue Northeast as well as Sahalee Way — the only other two roads off the plateau toward Redmond.
This has severely jammed traffic, particularly during the afternoon commute.
City officials speak of the federal funds paying for phase 1B as though it is free money; manna from heaven. This could not be further from the truth.
Perhaps the council has a special exemption from federal income taxes that the rest of the city doesn’t have.
“Shovel ready project” indeed — it’s poised to dig a big hole for the country to pay its way out of. Let me thank the council on behalf of the under-30 generation of Sammamish residents that will have to pay for the fiscal irresponsibility of its elders.
Michael Sullivan
Sammamish
Obama is at fault
While I respect Mr. O’Connell’s basic science lesson on the ocean, he misses the real point.
This is a crisis that was based upon an accident and a failure of protective equipment, which is required by law as a safety precaution.
Mr. O’Connell, instead of lambasting your friends publicly, taking cheap shots at those with opposing opinions (this is still America isn’t it?) and espousing the “we need stricter regulation, better inspections and greater adherence to safety practices” dogma heard from mainstream media, how about addressing the underlying issue of why this disaster is not being contained and is getting worse?
This is classic big government failure after a natural disaster with an inexperienced leader at the helm who knows nothing about leadership.
The federal government will plod along at a snail’s pace without direct intervention and require executive orders to waive the red tape.
The oil booms produced by the small companies were not purchased right away even though those companies took the risk and built up production ahead of time.
Some of those companies are being denied the right to supply the states whose beaches are at risk because of federal red tape.
The Army Corps of Engineers took more than a month to authorize the state of Louisiana to build 23 barrier islands to keep the oil away from their marshes.
BP’s CEO is resident on the coast managing operations. Where is our CEO Obama?
He does a drive by, gets some photos and he is gone.
I guess his Paul McCartney concert at the White House, his vacation in Chicago, his commencement speeches and twice a week golf game are more important than direct management of a national crisis.
And I submit, the crowning solution of the current administration in this crisis is to completely halt new offshore drilling for six months while federal bureaucrats assess safety regulations.
I am sure Mr. Obama will not even be welcome to visit Louisiana after dealing out this final deathblow to the Gulf Coast economy.
John Burg
Sammamish
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