Schools instill sense of service
December 21, 2010
Each week in these pages, it seems we publish another story about students in Sammamish doing something for others. This spirit of generosity in the community is nothing short of amazing.
In the past few months, we’ve shared with our readers the good deeds of students collecting food at McAuliffe and Creekside elementaries and collecting toys and money at Skyline and Eastlake high schools. Hardly a week goes by that student outreach and charity is not a part of the Review’s weekly pages. Read more
Sammamish Forum Dec. 22
December 21, 2010
Burn the Freed House
I have been reading about the Freed House in your publication for a while now.
I had barely glanced at it once, before, but the other day I made a special effort to go out of my way to drive to 212th Avenue to take a real look at the house.
I cannot see anything, but any old house you see in any older sections of any city. It is just an old house. Read more
Fees go up for Lake Washington, down for Issaquah
December 21, 2010
Trip to Kenya changes perspective
December 21, 2010
In 2006, at the Timberlake Church missions fair, Rob and Jan Mathis, of Sammamish, promised each other they would travel to Africa on a short-term mission trip someday.
The trip would be to the largest urban slum on the continent, Kibera slum, near Nairobi, Kenya.
“I said, ‘we have to do this,’ ” said Jan Mathis. Then in 2009, they decided they would finally make it happen. “I said, ‘I think this is the right thing to do.’”
Marilyn Schwartz (left), of Sammamish and Gayle Andrews, of Redmond, meet children at the Grace Children’s Centre in Langata, Kenya.
Brian L. Grutzius
December 21, 2010
Brian L. Grutzius
EFR rejects Fall City Fire
December 21, 2010
Eastside Fire & Rescue will not add Fall City’s fire district as a partner any time in the near future.
After years of discussion, the agency’s board of directors voted Dec. 9 to turn down King County Fire District 27’s application to join EFR, putting the issue to rest indefinitely.
Board Chairman and District 38 Commissioner Ron Pedee, who had long been a proponent of adding the district and closing the “donut hole” in the agency’s coverage area, told the board he’d changed his mind on pursuing the issue now. In a later interview he said he still felt that it would be a benefit to EFR and Fall City to include the district, but the finances did not work out right now. Read more
State closes offices Dec. 27 in order to pinch pennies
December 21, 2010
Puget Sound Blood Center extends holiday hours
December 21, 2010
Eastlake club collects toys for children at Seattle Children’s
December 21, 2010
Eastlake senior Alison Cary and her fellow club members spent the weeks before winter break going from homeroom to homeroom promoting a good cause to their peers. They made posters and told everyone they knew about it.
On Friday, Dec. 17, their time perfecting their spiel and Power Point presentation paid off. They collected toys for patients age 3 and younger at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
The Project Giggles toy drive was Eastlake’s part in the larger effort among the hospital’s guild association to bring smiles and comfort to those going through treatment and staying at Children’s during the holiday season.
Eastlake seniors Rachel Golan, left, and Alison Cary sort toys from the Project Giggles toy drive Dec. 17. The school’s Junior Orthopedic Guild club collected and donated the toys for infants and toddlers at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Photo by Christopher Huber
60 families will eat for a week, thanks to McAuliffe Elementary
December 21, 2010
As students and parents filtered into McAuliffe Elementary School Dec. 10 to begin their Friday, dozens plopped bags of groceries into the seven round bins on the sidewalk. School ASB leaders waved signs and danced to draw attention to the final day of the week-long food drive, hoping for one last surge of donations.
The energetic efforts paid off, as the school brought in 1,529 items that day, more than the four previous days combined, said Kim Robinson, a parent helper. In all, the students and their families donated a whopping 2,380 pounds (2,958 items) of food in five days.
That will feed approximately 60 families for a week this holiday season, according to Redmond-based Hopelink, the drive’s beneficiary.
McAuliffe ASB students Amy Wisegarver, left, and Emily Vu, jump with excitement while parents and students bring food donations to the school’s main entrance area Dec. 10. Lizzie Iwicki (far right in red) encourages people to donate. McAuliffe families donated enough food to feed about 60 families for a week, according to Hopelink. Photo by Christopher Huber
