Sammamish readies for National Night Out
July 22, 2010
New: July 22, 1:32 p.m.
Get out for some barbeque, mingle with neighbors and meet the men and women charged with keeping the community safe during the National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 3.
The nationwide event is designed to foster bonds between citizens and law enforcement and teach citizens how to prevent crime in their neighborhoods.
Sammamish Police will kick off the event at Sammamish Commons from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. with police vehicles on display and children’s’ events, including Charlie “The Noise Guy” Williams, an Issaquah vocal sound impressionist at 11 a.m.
Overflow parking is available at Skyline and Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church.
Officers will be around to chat and will attend several community barbeques planned throughout the day.
Property owner fears lack of access to her beach
July 21, 2010
New: July 21, 10:28 a.m.
A citizen who owns lakefront land that will be surrounded by the proposed Sammamish Landing Park is fighting to ensure that she will still be allowed to drive to her property.
Patricia Propst, who owns property across East Lake Sammamish Parkway, and is one of several private landowners soon to have their lakefront property surrounded by a public park, said that since 1984 her family has been using an access road on the north end of the proposed park to access their recreational beach on the lake.
A locked gate protects access to several pieces of private lakefront property surrounded by city of Sammamish land slated to become Sammamish Landing Park. The park’s master plan calls for the gated road to be converted into a pedestrian walkway and opened to the public. Photo by Caleb Heeringa
Record number of Redheads
July 20, 2010
A total of 901 redheads came to Skyline High School July 17.
The state park is still our treasure
July 20, 2010
It’s painful to think that people out to enjoy our beautiful Lake Sammamish State Park turned it into a shooting gallery last Saturday night.
Our sympathies go out to the families of the dead and wounded men, those who witnessed the bloodshed and the park rangers who responded to the terror of the moment. Read more
Sammamish Forum July 21
July 20, 2010
BP is to blame
I choose to honor and appreciate the Letters to the Editor section of our local papers by expressing my original thoughts, opinions and feedback from my own personal perspective and in my own words.
Yet, sadly, others chose to use this precious area to regurgitate propaganda, distortions and Republican National Committee talking points, bringing no value to the issues raised. Read more
No bike lanes in Sammamish Town Center
July 20, 2010
Town Center might end up being bikable, but you’d better start working out those legs now.
Interim street standards for Town Center, part of broader development regulations being discussed by the City Council and Planning Commission, call for bicyclists to be incorporated into regular lanes of traffic and state that “dedicated bike lanes within Town Center are not recommended.” Read more
Shootings rock Lake Sammamish State Park
July 20, 2010
In the fading summer light, some picnickers and parkgoers thought the pops echoing through Lake Sammamish State Park on July 17 sounded like fireworks.
But seconds later, the crowd unwinding at the packed Issaquah park recognized the pops as something else: gunfire.
The shootings occurred at the picnic area near Tibetts Beach. Sammamish Review graphics
Sahalee residents prepare for U.S. Senior Open
July 20, 2010
Kelly Cudworth doesn’t mind that a few hundred thousand people will descend on his neighborhood at the end of the month. Cudworth lives in Sahalee, home to the 2010 U.S. Senior Open.
For people who live in Sahalee, a gated community used to its privacy, it means that there will countless strangers roaming the golf course.
In spite of that, many residents of the Sahalee neighborhood are happy to host the golf tournament in their own backyard this year – literally. Many homes in Sahalee back to the course. Read more
Sammamish businesses, city talk about sustainability
July 20, 2010
Local business owners put in their two cents about ways Sammamish could become more environmentally and economically sustainable at a Sammamish Chamber of Commerce luncheon July 15. Read more
Guatemala trip gives locals a new perspective
July 20, 2010
Some days, Santiago Canrrey goes without lunch while working in the fields near Antigua, Guatemala. He comes home to his wife and four children (the Cojolon-Chonay family), who live in a shack covered with plastic and sugar cane.
In the same region, recently hit by Tropical Storm Agatha and the eruption of Volcan Pacaya, the Civil-Melgar family struggles to buy food and pay for their four children’s schooling. They all sleep on the dirt floor of a one-room hut.
Nichole Nadalin helps a girl find clothes that fit as 300 mothers and children wait their turn June 25 in San Miguel Duenas, Guatemala. Contributed
