Youth fast to understand the realities of world hunger
March 16, 2010
For Greg Peterson, an eighth-grader at Inglewood Junior High School, the hardest part of fasting for 30 hours wasn’t going without food at school March 5 or thinking about the feast on Saturday. The toughest part, he said, was when he went to sleep.
“It wasn’t that hard ‘til I had communion (at the end),” he said, after realizing how hungry he had been. “The hardest part was sleeping on an empty stomach.”
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Good Samaritan creates mosaics as part of Lent
March 9, 2010
The Rev. Suzi Robertson and the rest of the congregation at Good Samaritan Episcopal Church are making mosaics representing the Stations of the Cross, but they’re a bit nervous.
In making mosaics, hands and faces are particularly difficult to accomplish, and they have every reason to want to get them right.
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Great Waves win Sound Off
March 8, 2010
New: March 8, 1:15 p.m.
Great Waves, a Sammamish-based band, is the 2010 Sound Off winner. The band of mostly recent Skyline graduates and one Eastside Catholic graduate, won the underage-band event, put on by Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum, March 6.
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SAMMI nominees showcase Sammamish’s spirit
March 2, 2010
Students at Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning are busy creating fused-glass faces for nearly 40 awards to be presented at the ninth-annual SAMMI Awards. Read more
Scouts go deep to earn newly-minted merit badge
March 2, 2010
Cold waters greeted Boy Scouts from Troop No. 609 Jan. 26.
Submerging to 60 feet underwater, 20 of the 39 troop members completed their final dive off Alki Beach for their Professional Association of Diver Instructors certification for scuba diving and their Boy Scout merit badge. Read more
Eastlake grad shares in Saints Super Bowl victory
February 23, 2010
When the New Orleans Saints opened the second half of the Super Bowl with an onside kick, Marcus Ungaro knew it was coming. They had practiced it for two weeks and he had captured every play on video.
And when Tracy Porter intercepted Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning’s pass in the fourth quarter, the 2003 Eastlake graduate was shooting from the end zone.
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Alcott youth, parents sort clothes for the needy
February 23, 2010
When they could have been out playing or gardening on a sunny Saturday, dozens of Alcott Elementary fourth- through sixth-graders and their parents chose to help fold and sort clothes.
They weren’t doing laundry, but rather they were volunteering to help Sammamish-based Kids Without Borders, an organization that collects and distributes new clothes to needy children.
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Sammamish girl was a finalist for Boys & Girls club youth award
February 17, 2010
As a little girl, Madeleine Tobe used to set up a schoolhouse in her family’s garage and teach children from around her neighborhood.
She’s not sure if they learned anything substantive, the Sammamish resident said in a speech Feb. 8 at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. But it fed her knack for working with peers and children.
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94 years and going strong
February 17, 2010
Edward Baker has lived on the plateau for 9 decades
To this day, Sammamish resident Edward Baker is terrified of bears. He has been ever since World War II, when he was a maintenance worker at the Four Seasons Resort on Beaver Lake. The local black bears would hang out at the garbage dump near the present site of Beaver Lake Park and scare him, said his live-in caretaker Mary Austin.
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Sammamish starts developing
February 17, 2010
The second in a two-part series about Sammamish in the 1960s.
Last week, old icons — resorts and farms — closed as development began.
But even as some old icons disappeared during the ‘60s, new ones arose. One was the High Lonesome Ranch, located just east of 244th Avenue Northeast, about a quarter mile south of Northeast Eighth Street.
In 1960, Chris Klineburger bought the 50 acres that became the ranch, and within a year or so had built a “frontier town” to provide people with an authentic western experience. Read more
