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Sammamish City Councilman Tom Odell followed his unsuccessful attempt to strip Freed House funding from the 2011-2012 budget by trying to give the project a one-year deadline.
“At least a couple years before we incorporated as a city, my next door neighbor knocked on my door asking us to sign a petition to save the Freed House,” Odell recalled at the council’s Nov. 16 meeting. “I signed it. My wife signed it. We’re now 13 years past this. My next door neighbor, who was in grade school then, is now three or four years out of the University of Washington. … As I said before, I want to be reasonable, but there is a point where I run out of reason and I think I am there.”
Read moreOlympic skier Yina Moe-Lange, of Sammamish, had a busy off-season. She ended the ski season ranked as the No. 1 U.S. skier in her age group and represented Denmark as the youngest alpine skier at the Vancouver Olympics.
“Standing at that start gate is the scariest thing,” she said of her Olympic experience. “You never really know what you’re going into.”
The former Skyline student spent months training, traveling and hanging out with royalty. She was named skier of the year in her native country of Denmark and awarded the prize by Crown Princess Mary in Copenhagen, Moe-Lange said. She also trained in Oregon, New Zealand, and various other states around the United States.
Read moreFor most of her life, Sammamish resident Lindsey Kirkbride has had trouble reading textbooks. Not only did she struggle with confidence and comprehending the content, but reading gave her frequent, painful headaches, she said. The words on a page would distort, causing frustration while she read.
“The hardest thing was just the contrast between the black and white made it hard to read and harder to understand,” Lindsey said.
It got so bad this fall that she and her mother, Jo Ann Kobuke, sat down with the school counselor to find a solution.
Read moreAbby Ferguson fills a metaphorical bucket in class every day in her second-grade classroom at Discovery Elementary.
Each day, Ferguson, who leads the school’s anti-bullying efforts, recognizes one student based on recommendations from other second-graders. It’s part of a program Discovery staff call “be a Discovery Eagle that CARES,” Ferguson said. In her classroom, a student receives a certificate based on how they exercised one of the program’s key characteristics: cooperation, assertion, respect/responsibility, empathy and self-control.
“It’s really interesting to see how they are looking for those characteristics in each other now,” Ferguson said. “It’s pretty powerful to see.”
Actors from Taproot Theatre perform Treasure Ally for McAuliffe Elementary students Nov. 15. The play is part of the school’s anti-bullying efforts. Photo by CHristopher Huber
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Skyline violinist Melinda Wang and her friends from around the Issaquah School District have the chance of a lifetime this school year.
Wang, a senior and the concertmaster for the district’s Evergreen Philharmonic orchestra, will be one of 54 fellow musicians who will get to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York this May.
Carnegie Hall has hosted the likes of the Beatles, Leonard Bernstein, composer John Adams, the New York Philharmonic and Duke Ellington, among others.
“So many famous people have been there before,” Wang said.
Read moreAs has seemingly become expected at Skyline football games, Kasen Williams pulled out all the stops to lead the Spartans to another win against Issaquah Nov. 19.
Williams and the No. 1 Spartans (11-1) got out to a sloppy start in the state quarterfinal match-up, and even trailed 21-14 at halftime.
But he managed to cap two key scoring drives in the fourth quarter to help Skyline rally past the hosting Issaquah Eagles (9-3).
Skyline won 42-21 to advance to the semifinals against undefeated Curtis Nov. 27 at the Tacoma Dome.
“We knew what we were up against,” Williams said of the tough Issaquah team. “(But) we came out with the Skyline swagger.”
Skyline receiver and defensive back Kasen Williams runs the ball in for a touchdown after recovering an Issaquah fumble in the first quarter. Photo by Jim Simpkins/Crimson Photography
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By many accounts, the Skyline girls soccer team had difficulty playing with passion for third place.
The defending state champ Spartans had been ranked No. 1 in the country going into the state semifinal Nov. 19 but Tahoma pulled off a stunning 1-0 victory.
With hopes for a three-peat dashed, Skyline still took its mid-day consolation game seriously enough to beat Skyview 2-1 Nov. 20 at Harry Lang Stadium in Lakewood.
“It was hard to come out with the passion we had all season,” said senior forward Michelle Bretl. “We wanted to play at 4.”
Jackie Wilson, Skyline junior defender, nudges an assist from Maddie Christ into the Skyview goal in the second half. Photo by Greg Farrar
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Sammamish athletes were named to all-league teams last week for fall sports. Not all sports have released their teams yet.
Football:
A handful of football players from Sammamish schools earned accolades for their standout play this fall season.
In the Metro League, Eastside Catholic’s Chevy Walker, a junior tailback, was named the Offensive MVP for the Metro Mountain Division.
He also was named to the first team offense along with teammates Trey Reynolds (quarterback), Alex Smith (wide receiver), Jake Springfield (wide receiver), Ross Barlow (guard) and Colin Trimm (tackle).
Read moreUpdated: November 22, 7:06 p.m.
Sammamish is getting its first taste of the wet, cold La Nina winter today.
Between three and five inches of snow is expected to fall today, with an additional inch or two possible overnight, according to the National Weather Service.
The dark of the evening commute made trips on and off the plateau even worse as snowy roads turned to ice. In a scene that’s grown familiar in Sammamish, drivers abandoned cars by the side of the road on hills leading up the plateau.
As of Monday afternoon snow was accumulating but most of Sammamish’s major roadways were clear and drivers were not reporting any major problems, City Communications Manager Tim Larson said. Read more
New: Nov. 21, 10:17 a.m.
Sammamish City Council will delve deeper into the city’s anti-hunting ordinance next month.
A proposal to make hunting in city limits a gross misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and a 1-year jail sentence turned into a broader look at the language of the city’s ordinance, which the council feared was unclear. The council took up the issue in response to two recent incidents involving bow hunters killing deer in city limits. Read more
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