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BY NAT LEVY
Th e race to replace departing City Council Member Grant Degginger is nearly deadlocked, and incumbents in other races are leading aft er the latest batch of tallied votes were released Wednesday.
In one of the closest races in the state, retired attorney, and current member of the Parks and Community Services Board John Stokes holds a slim 146-vote lead over land use attorney Aaron Laing. Incumbents Claudia Balducci and John Chelminiak both garnered approximately two-thirds of the vote in their races.
Stokes, Chelminiak and
Balducci celebrated their position together at a party Tuesday downtown at Tap House Bar and Grill. In front of a small crowd of support-ers, cheers rained down as the votes were read aloud by
campaign managers.Just a couple blocks
away Laing, Patti Mann and Michelle Hilhorst gave impassioned speeches thanking their volunteers for all the time and eff ort
they put in on the respec-tive campaigns.
Council Member Jennifer Robertson ran unopposed, garnering 97 percent of the vote.
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Th ough police maintain that the mother of missing 2-year-old Sky Metalwala has cooperated with the investigation, holes are beginning to appear in her story.
Police said Wednesday they were able to determine that Julia Biryukova’s silver Acura Integra - which she said ran out of gas Sunday morning - had enough fuel to drive for a considerable amount of time. Combined with her unwillingness to take a lie-detector test, Biryu-kova has become a source of police frustration.
“Th e story doesn’t add up, the whereabouts of Sky are unknown, and mom’s story is falling apart day to day; and her lack of cooperation so far in providing more information proactively and submitting to a polygraph doesn’t help,” said Bellevue police Maj. Mike Johnson.
Johnson maintained that she has answered investigators’ questions through her attorney, and she has not been named a suspect.
Th e focus of the investigation continues to be getting in-formation from those closest to Sky and Biryukova, who lives in Redmond, so they can piece together the days and weeks that lead up to the boy being reported as missing Sunday.
“Th e people that were close to Sky and Julia are the people that know what happened to Sky,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday morning. “If everyone cooperates, we should have answers we need.”
Th e boy’s father, Solomon Metalwala was scheduled to take a second polygraph test Wednesday aft er the fi rst one proved to be too emotionally trying.
Solomon and Biryukova were going through a divorce and
Sky Metalwala
Bellevue City Council members John Chelminiak and Claudia Balducci check elections returns Tuesday night. The pair held on to their seats by a 2-1 margin over their challengers. CHAD COLEMAN, Bellevue Reporter
Last of two parts
BY NAT LEVY
For State Rep. Ross Hunter, the Seattle Supersonics leaving town was heart-breaking. He was a longtime fan, but like other Washington lawmakers he refuses to be held for ransom by the National Basketball Association.
“Th e current NBA model is they ex-tort cities to get them to pay for arenas,” said Hunter, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee. “With the fi scal
reality that cities, counties, and states are in right now, it’s hard to imagine any state would put money into funding an NBA arena rather than paying for public education, as an example.”
Fans blame politicians who fought to keep the team, and the league that has developed a model to coerce residents into spending billions on arenas, even as governments are forced to cut down to the bare bones due to economic reces-sion. Legislators have worked on plan aft er plan to bring a team back, but thus far, nothing has come to fruition.
Arena needs a ‘white knight’
[ more ARENA page 15] [ more MISSING BOY page 6]
Bellevue council incumbents keep seats
Police suspect foul playin case of missing 2-year-old
[ more ELECTION page 18 ]
HEALTH | Children’s Hospital gets $65 million gift, $15 million of which will go to Bellevue facility [ 11]
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BY GABRIELLE NOMURA
You won’t find a big dance number or a fanciful, fictional plot in Interlake High School’s next play, “The Laramie Project.”
Instead, audience members will be con-fronted with a play based on a horrific true story: In 1998, a gay college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wy.
Interlake drama teacher Katalin Wargo said she chose this production because it was a great opportunity to start a dialogue among Interlake families and students.
“It shows how hate is a societal issue that is our problem; we can make a change,” said Wargo, who asked students how they felt about playing characters that were, for example, pro-gay rights or homophobic when they auditioned for the show.
The nine actors in “The Laramie Project” collectively play a total of 60 different characters – an added challenge for the actors who use dramatic gestures, voice, props and subtle costume changes to take on each role.
Interlake junior Ben Kadie plays Shep-ard’s father, Shepard’s academic adviser, as well as a local, Unitarian minister, for example.
Rather than dramatizing the hate crime, the play is a series of real testimonials from people in the town based on more than 200 interviews. Those were conducted by
playwright Moisés Kaufman and his fellow members of New York-based Tectonic Theater Project when they visited Laramie five weeks after Shepard’s murder.
The experimental theater group, which aims to start dialogue with audiences on social, political and human issues, would go on to compile the interviews that would make the play.
Wargo said that while the play takes a specific look at homophobia, a serious and relevant issue in itself considering the num-ber of gay teens who took their own lives in 2010, bullying in general affects almost all students.
“It’s making people feel marginalized or put down for who they are, it can be physi-cal or verbal – it has many forms,” she said.
Kadie said bullying is an important topic for teens and adolescents, who often use “gay” or “faggot” as put-downs – not real-izing how that could really hurt someone.
“Ultimately, the message is of hope,” said Kadie, who hopes the play opens peoples’ eyes to these problems. “There was a crime here, but we can turn it into positive change.”
“The Laramie Project” is 7:30 p.m., Nov. 17-19, with an additional 1:30 p.m. show on Nov. 19 in the Interlake High School auditorium at 16245 NE 24th St., Bellevue.
For more information about “The Lara-mie Project,” go to http://on.fb.me/uEkzTz.
Gabrielle Nomura can be reached at 425-453-4270.
Interlake High play sparks dialogue about discrimination
Interlake High School students (from left) Melanie Strickland, Ben Kadie, Rohan Waghani and Evan Mahnken rehearse for ‘Laramie Project.’ CHAD COLEMAN, Bellevue Reporter
Youth Eastside Services (YES) is seeking companies, community groups and indi-viduals to sponsor a needy family or child from the Eastside.
Sponsors are given a wish list from their adopted family or individual by Nov. 21 and are asked to give a minimum of one new gift and one article of clothing to each child in a family, as well as a family household gift, such as a vacuum cleaner or kitchen necessities.
Gifts must be delivered to the YES office in Bellevue at 999 164 Ave. NE by Dec. 13. Additionally, sponsors can fund a child’s
summer camp experience, or provide cash that aids young mothers and their children, and donate gift cards.
Recipients of these gifts are YES clients who have been identified by a YES coun-selor, and have met a financial eligibility to be part of the program.
Last year, donors assisted more than 150 families, some 500 plus people, making it one of the largest holiday programs on the Eastside.
For more information, contact Jill Potter at 425-586-2307 or [email protected].
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Debbie Nordstrom comes by her love of an-tiques honestly.
As a child, playing in the fields at her grand-mother’s store in Maple Valley, Nordstrom would drop everything at the sound of a bell. Mounted to the top of the farmhouse door, it rang whenever customers had come to buy antiques.
Back then of course, the store was a dusty barn and the customers were little old ladies try-ing to buy teacups.
When Nordstrom grew up, she would both carry on her grandmother’s legacy – plus update it, a little.
Since opening Haystack Antiques in Bellevue in May, Nordstrom has drawn in clientele who she says come for the dust-free environment, the one-of-a-kind and re-finished or re-purposed items. The store is big enough to occupy custom-ers for several hours, but not cluttered. Booths are laid out with style and new items daily.
“Maybe it’s an old, galvanized square baking pan that now becomes that perfect little cook-book holder on your counter,” she said.
Despite the name of her store, finding a worthwhile item isn’t like finding a needle in a haystack. The 25 antique dealers hand-select a variety of different styles. There’s even a wait list to be a Haystack dealer.
If shabby chic isn’t a customer’s thing, he or she can move on to upscale, fine furnishings for example.
The former real estate professional was inspired to open her business when she used to pick one day a month to go on an antique hunt, the quest to find unique, non-catalogue home furnishings.
Once she dropped the kids off at school, it
was a mad dash for Snohomish, Arlington or Bellingham for the antique malls.
“I’ve always had a passion for that one, fantastic find, which you usually have to go through thou-sands of square feet of stuff to get to,” she said.
Nordstrom aims to bring urban-dwelling antique lovers, such as herself, closer to home and cut down on time spent searching for that one fantastic find.
She said she has nothing against catalogues or big home furniture stores, but even Pottery Barn
can mix-and-match the old and new.“Wouldn’t it be great if that Pottery Barn couch
was accented with a one-of-a kind pillow and root ball table which just knocked it out of park?”
Haystack Antiques is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon to 5 p.m., Sunday at 144 105th Ave. NE, Bellevue, 425-455-1515, http://haystackantiques.com/.
Gabrielle Nomura can be reached at 425-453-4270.
Antiques business gets modernized
Debbie Nordstrom, owner of Haystack Antiques, has 25 antique dealers in her downtown Bellevue store, reflecting a variety of styles. CHAD COLEMAN, Bellevue Reporter
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Business RoundupBusinesses and business people making news
Dental offi ce opensChris Clave Family and Sports Dentistry has opened its
new offi ce in the Forest Offi ce Park in Bellevue. Th e offi ce is located at 14655 Bel-Red Road, Suite 101. More informa-tion is available by calling 425-641-4111.
Nomura named CFOPhyllis R. Nomura has been named chief fi nancial of-
fi cer/executive vice president of Core Business Bank in Bellevue.
Nomura has spent the past 20 years working in the fi nancial services industry as an external auditor, accoun-tant, and business unit and company leader. She is a Certi-fi ed Public Accountant and previously worked at three other banks.
Chow promoted at AAAAAA Washington has named Ron Chow as its new
training specialist in its member services call center in Bel-levue. Chow has been with AAA Washington for two years. In his new role, Chow is responsible for facilitating training sessions, enhancing training programs, and implementing system/solution initiatives.
Elenbaas joins YESMonica Elenbaas has joined Youth
Eastside Services’ (YES) as director of fund development and community rela-tions. A three-decade nonprofi t profes-sional, she has served in a variety of leadership roles in program delivery, community outreach, public relations, special events and major gift s.
Bellevue fi rm fi ned $500A Bellevue company, Northpoint Escrow & Title, LLC,
has been fi ned $500 by the state Insurance Commissioner for improperly sponsoring a promotional event.
Th e fi rm was one of a dozen insurance agency and bro-kers fi ned by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler for activities from early June through early September.
Cooper joins ColliersBill Cooper has joined the Bellevue offi ce of Colliers In-
ternational as vice president. He was formerly with Pacifi c Real Estate Partners.
Campbell joins Banner BankBruce Campbell has joined Banner Bank as vice presi-
dent/commercial real estate relationship manager. He was formerly with First Horizon National as an SVP market and relationship manager focusing on commercial loans and fi nancing.
Dana Hays promoted at SAV-ONDana Hays has been promoted to manager/agent of the
Bellevue offi ce of SAV-ON Insurance. She has nearly 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. Th e offi ce is located at 1313 156th Ave. NE, 425-641-0458.
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Schnitzer West LLC has put the Shops at the Bravern up for sale, the company announced.
Dan Ivanoff , founder and managing investment partner at Schnitzer West, said they began receiving some unso-licited off ers for the 309,000-square foot luxury retail space. Eight or nine days aft er buyers learned the status of the property, Ivanoff said 68 candi-dates registered as potential buyers.
“Th e logic tended to say that it looks like there’s a market window open,” Ivanoff said.
Reselling the property was always part of the plan aft er Schnitzer West closed the deal to acquire the space in December of 2000. Th e Shops opened in September 2009, in the depth of economic recession, aft er nearly a decade of planning. Sales the fi rst year were down from 2008, Ivanoff said.
But 2010 showed improvement and 2011 has been a very strong sales year, he said.
Th e complex also features offi ce and residential towers. Two offi ce towers, housing mostly Microsoft operations, were sold to an Iowa-based fi rm in 2010, for $410 million. Schnitzer West will continue to own the residential towers, which were completed in 2010.
Ivanoff said the Bellevue demo-graphics were of great interest to potential buyers.
Shops at The Bravern for sale
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Reporter to use Facebookfor online comments
If you read the Bellevue Reporter in print and also online, you’ve probably noticed a disconnect. Letters to the editor in our
print edition come with the name of the author. Many comments online don’t have them – and worse – the authors oft en are hidden behind a made-up name.
No more. Th e news industry is clearly mov-ing away from anonymous commenting, and we are proud to be part of this change.
Beginning Nov. 17, the Bellevue Reporter will discontinue its online comment section as it is now and instead require all comments to come to us via Facebook.
Th e Facebook system encourages and re-wards real identity; anonymous and negative comments – which put off many of our readers and hurt site participation – are curtailed. Chronic “trolls” are driven away.
If you are logged-in Facebook user, you’ll be able to comment on our stories. And the chanc-es are good that you probably are. Facebook has 800 million users.
Th ere are other pluses for you, too. Buttons will allow Facebook users to recommend a par-ticular story to their FB friends or subscribers, or more directly send it to specifi c FB friends or anyone via email.
Many other newspapers already are moving to using Facebook, including LATimes.com, Gannett, Media General and American City Business Journals.
A few other things are worth noting. Th ese are nothing new, but they are worth repeating:
We won’t allow personal, hateful, or other attacks, including derogatory usage of race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, region, disability, etc. However, we still welcome debate on these potentially sensitive subjects.
We won’t accept comments on stories of personal tragedy because we don’t want readers speculating or commenting irresponsibly on culpability for automobile crashes, unexplained deaths, sexual assaults or other stories where sensitivity is called for.
And, we won’t allow obscenities, profanities and sexual innuendo. And we won’t allow num-bers or symbols to fi ll in the letters of scatologi-cal and sexual terms.
Finally, remember that if you don’t have a Fa-cebook account, you’re not left out. You still can send us a letter to the editor via mail, FAX or email and be part of our robust letters section.
– Craig Groshart, Bellevue Reporter
Coleman’s photographs appreciated
I just want to let you how much we appreciate Chad Coleman’s photographs. It is obvious how much he goes out of his way to take would could otherwise be a boring assign-ment and create one that is much more interesting.
Probably the best example I can think of is several years ago. He took a photograph of someone at the Bellevue Art Museum. Your average pho-tographer would probably have just use a fl ash on the camera. But Chad took the extra time and set up the lighting system his camera system allowed and made a much more creative and interesting photograph. I believe there was even an article on how he created the photograph.
Anyway, just wanted to pass on a little praise for one of your staff .Bob Cerelli, Cerelli Photography
Put those apartmentsin Bellevue
Bellevue developer Lob-sang Dargey should relocate the overpopulated big-box apartment complex out of our Kirkland neighborhood where it doesn’t fi t (Bellevue devel-oper’s plans controversial in Kirkland).
Dargey may be friendly, however, at issue is whether the proposed project is consistent with laws.
Kirkland’s ordinance 3974 says “Th e city’s … administra-tive actions and decisions must
be in compliance with the ad-opted [comprehensive] plan.” In city-speak, “must” means mandatory.
Ordinance 3974 places commercial use restrictions on each property in Kirkland. Two properties are designated “Residential Market.” One is identifi ed specifi cally on the map as “10th St S/LWB - Resi-dential Market.”
Ordinance 3974 provides the defi nition “...an individual store or very small mixed-use building ... focused on local pedestrian traffi c. Residential scale and design are critical to integrate these into the residen-tial neighborhood. … Uses may include small grocery stores, laundromat...small cof-fee shop.”
Is this project a small store? Very small building? Focused on local pedestrian traffi c (to avoid exacerbating vehicular ingress/egress issues?
Is this consistent with any approved use?
Dargey should not put anything in our residential neighborhood that his neigh-bors wouldn’t welcome on their street in Bellevue.Karen Levenson, Kirkland
Stop blamingthe victim
Th e Oct. 21 editorial car-toon was in very poor taste. Although we all have a right to our opinions, this totally degrades the millions of people out of work and the millions living in poverty. Th e rising non-violent protests in the United States (and in vari-ous countries in the world) is democracy working to bring attention to this very serious problem. People, especially the young, are asking for a chance
to make their future life the “American Dream.”
Once again it seems we are blaming the victim - rather than the cause.Cheryl Edelman
Let’s choose hope for the future
Many recent letters to the editor were full of despair and frustration on the political level, which appears to be busi-ness as usual. However we can make a diff erence in our own circle of family and friends by giving each other the message of hope and courage.
In our neighborhood of Eastgate, friendly neighbors and concerned citizens have regular gatherings to learn more about each other and the discovery of the wonderful resources that we share.
One of our neighbors is grow-ing Kale and partnering with HopeLink to share his produce.
Our extended community family is constantly available to help and encourage each other in their diffi culties and combine to create a stronger and more in-timate association. We celebrate our ethnic and physical diversi-ties and endeavor to transcend social, economic and political barriers in order to bring about change and seek inspiration through service to others.
As part of emergency preparedness it is necessary to know our immediate neighbors so that we can fi nd out ways to reach out and help and get help based on individual needs.
We can choose to live with hope for a better future or live in fear of what the politicians’ propagate.Farida Hakim, Bellevue
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Couple left Sky alone in car when he was 3 months olda custody battle before the boy disappeared.
Police have interviewed Sky’s 4-year-old sister as well, a talk Johnson called “frustrating.” He said they
received very few answers to their questions, but the daughter did confi rm that Sky was in the car that morning wrapped in a blanket.
Sky was reported missing Sunday morning when he was allegedly left in the car, with at least one door unlocked, while Biryukova and her 4-year-old daugh-
ter walked to a nearby gas station. Biryukova told police she was taking Sky to Overlake Hospital Medi-cal Center because he was dealing with an undisclosed illness.
Other than polygraph tests, Johnson said resources from the FBI, Bellevue, Red-mond and King County will focus on DNA tests from samples found in Biryu-kova’s Acura Integra and her Redmond apartment.
Johnson said police will conduct DNA tests of inter-view subjects and the boy’s
family to see if they are left with any suspect samples.
Police and FBI agents searched her downtown Redmond apartment and questioned neighbors and only one neighbor reported seeing the boy within the last two weeks. But Johnson said this wasn’t an unusual circumstance because the family is known to be reclusive.
Johnson said he was “incredulous” of Biryukova’s decision and movements on the morning when she left Sky in the unlocked car
near the 2400 block of 112th Avenue Northeast.
“Many of us are parents as well as police offi cers, and when you hear this story that mom has told, you have to scratch your head and wonder why,” Johnson said. “If that’s what really what happened, why? Th is kid was sick; she was on the way to the hospital with him. Beyond that, why would you leave a 2-year-old alone in the car?”
Solomon and Biryukova were previously charged with reckless endangerment and leaving a child unat-tended in a sports utility vehicle in 2009 in a Target parking lot in Redmond when Sky was three months old, according to court documents.
Police had to ask that the vehicle’s owners be paged in order to get the parents to come out to the vehicle, the documents said.
Th e charges were dis-missed in February of this year aft er the parents took court-ordered parenting classes and completed com-munity service, the docu-ments stated.
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Dance | Get your tickets early to this oneMark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) to
perform Dec. 1-3 at Moore Th eatre.I admit that I was heart-broken when I
heard MMDG was canceling its Seattle per-formance of “Hard Nut” – the most hilarious version of “Nutcracker” you will ever see, com-plete with drag queen maid and a co-ed cast of dainty fl owers and swirling snowfl akes. But having the modern dance company stop by
to perform two works, “Festival Dance” and “Violet Cavern” is still a treat.
1932 Second Ave., Seattle; 877-784-4849; http://stgpresents.org/moore/.
Christmas outing with a twistSeattle Men’s Chorus featuring Bellevue-
girl-gone-Broadway-star, Megan Hilty, Nov. 26-27 at Benaroya Hall.
Our very own Megan, a former Samma-mish High School student who would go on to play Glinda in Broadway’s “Wicked,” will make an appearance in this SMC show, aff ectionately dubbed as “Seattle’s Other Holiday Tradition.” One of the largest gay choruses in the world, SMC will sing favorites such as “Let It Snow,” with a live swing band.
200 University St., Seattle; 206-388-1400; http://www.seattlemen-schorus.org/.
A show of local music legend
Seattle folk-pop trio Uncle Bonsai celebrates its 30th anniversary at 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18, at the Th eatre at Meydenbauer Center.
As critic Michael Upchurch put it, if there were an Ella Fitzgerald Award for Exquisite Elocution in Song, these three would certainly get it. Uncle Bonsai performs original folk/pop music with intricate three-part harmonies and biting humor, accompanied by only an acoustic guitar.
11100 NE Sixth St., Bellevue; 206-527-3546; https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/198636.
Pre-holiday family funDisney’s “Sleeping Beauty” from now
until Nov. 20 at Youth Th eatre Northwest.Th ank goodness there is still time to
catch this show which tells a love story trea-sured by 7-year-olds and 20-somethings (present company included) alike. Christ-mas and turkey-themed plays can wait it out for this one.
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Shalom, theaterSeattle Jewish Th eater Company presents
“Tales of Chelm” at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue on Nov. 20.
Aft er recently seeing the documen-tary, “Sholem Alichem: Laughing in the Darkness” by Joseph Dorman, I’m espe-cially intrigued by Seattle Jewish Th eater Company’s upcoming show, which is based, in part, on the hit Broadway show, “Th e World of Sholom Alichem.” Shalom Alichem was the pen name of Shalom Rabinowitz, the “Jewish Mark Twain” who wrote the story that would eventually
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For the millennialsJay-Z and Kanye West on Dec. 16 at
Tacoma Dome.Well, it doesn’t surprise me that these
two kings in hip-hop royalty have teamed up for “Watch the Th rone.” From when I last checked, the cheapest tickets to see the Louis Vuitton Don and Young Hov in action were in the $60-range. I’m sure they will go fast, though.
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Bellevue City Council is scheduled to vote on an agree-ment Monday to bind the city and Sound Transit to pay for a downtown light-rail tunnel.
The council held its final public meeting before the Nov. 14 vote, an event that drew 49 speakers, talking in favor or against the proposed agreement. It was part of an extensive public outreach effort in recent weeks to encourage resi-dents and others to weigh in on a blueprint to bring light rail to Bellevue.
On Sept. 26, some 62 people commented during a public hearing, and on Sept. 20, more than 200 people attended an open house at City Hall, where alignment options were displayed and attendees offered feedback.
The flurry of meetings is the culmination of years of
public involvement and studies on East Link – by both Bellevue and Sound Transit – since a draft environmental impact statement was issued nearly three years ago, in December 2008.
Among other points, the agreement spells out how the city will make up to $160 million worth of contributions – such as properties, utility relocations or easements – to-ward the cost of a downtown light rail tunnel. The council unanimously supports a tunnel, but it’s significantly more expensive than a street-level alternative.
Also addressed in the agreement are issues such as permit-ting, how Bellevue and Sound Transit will collaborate on light rail design, and how the light rail route would run through Bellevue, particularly between Interstate 90 and downtown.
Bellevue council holds final public meeting before light-rail deadline
Bellevue coat drive to collect new and ‘gently used’ coats
Bellevue Youth Link will partner with the Bellevue High School Fashion Club to collect new and gently used coats to keep youth, teens and adults warm this season.
Last year, the Kids Care Coat Drive collected more than 3,000 coats for Bellevue families in need.
More than 22 percent of Bellevue public-school students qualifying for free or reduced lunch prices in 2010, orga-nizers say, making the need especially great.
Donations can be dropped off through Nov. 21 at Bel-levue community centers. Donated coats will be distributed to Bellevue families in need on Nov. 21 and 22, from 4-7 p.m. at Crossroads Community Center, 16000 NE 10th St., while supplies last.
The Kids Care Coat Drive was established in 2004 by former Chinook Middle School Student Rick Teegarden. When Teegarden was a volunteer for Youth Link’s Teen Closet, a clothing bank for middle- and high-school stu-dents, he saw that coats, jackets and other warm outerwear were the most-requested items. While helping plan the school’s annual canned-food drive, he suggested collecting coats, too. The first drive brought in 350 coats.
Information about coat donations and other drop off locations is available by contacting Patrick Alina, Program Coordinator at [email protected] or 425-452-5254.
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Seattle Art Museum sup-porters hosted a memorable benefi t event Nov. 4. Cel-ebrated chef Mario Batali attended. Batali is the 2005 Chef of the Year Award from the prestigious James Beard Foundation. Today, he has a restaurant empire, several cookbooks, and a line of food products. He is recognized for his passion and respect for all of the great tastes and traditions of Italian cooking.
Mario’s parents Marilyn and Armando Batali, of Seattle, were instrumental in bringing Mario and SAM together. Other special guests were artist Dale Chihuly; Chef Th ierry Rautureau, owner of Rover’s and Luc in Madison Park; Steve Pool; and Celebrity
Chef and Mixologist Kathy Casey, who created a Rose-mary Mandarin Sparkle as the evening’s specialty cocktail.
More than 60 Connois-seur guests ($1,000 p.p.) ar-rived at 5:30 p.m. to mingle and sip with Mario while enjoying Batali-inspired hors d’oeuvers. Patrons could also have their photo taken with Mario, Dale and Th ierry. At 6:45 p.m., these guests enjoyed a family-
style, seated dinner in the Arnold Board Room. 70 Patron-level guests ($600 p.p.) arrived at 7 p.m. to mingle and enjoy Batali-in-spired hors d’oeuvers at bite stations while live music played in the background.
At 8:30 p.m., guests joined Mario and Th ierry in the Plestcheff Audito-rium for a presentation moderated by Steve Poole of KOMO 4 TV. One of the questions Steve asked the chefs was which food was better, Italian or French? Both proclaimed their country of origin was the best, of course, Mario- Italy and Th ierry- France. When Mario was asked by an audience member, “For your last supper, who would you dine with and
what would you eat?” Ma-rio proudly said, “My par-ents, and we would sail all over the world, enjoying fresh fi sh from the ocean and the labors of the lands whenever we docked.” Th e presentation was followed by live music, dancing and Dolci desserts that included Biscotti, Pana Cotta, Polenta Docle, and Zeppole.
SAM president, Colette Courtion, was the chair of this successful fundraising event. For more than 25 years, this talented group of volunteers has raised more than $5 million for a variety of programs at the
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Gifts include $15 million to Bellevue facility Seattle Children’s on Monday announced two phil-
anthropic gift s totaling $65 million to benefi t pediatric research, nursing education and clinical care.
An anonymous donor pledged approximately $50 mil-lion of their estate – the largest single gift in Children’s 104 year history – to benefi t pediatric research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
In addition, Jean Reid of Bellevue made gift commit-ments valuing approximately $15 million to support Chil-dren’s Bellevue Urgent Care Clinic, the advanced training of nurses, and the greatest needs of Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center.
In recognition of Reid’s commitment, the Children’s Bel-levue Clinic and Surgery Center will be named the “Robert and Jean Reid Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center” in honor of her and her late husband.
“We are ecstatic,” said Jim Ladd, chair of Seattle Chil-dren’s Hospital Board of Trustees. “Children’s has always relied on the community to sustain its mission of caring for all children and fi nding cures and better treatments. Th ese gift s help ensure Children’s can continue this critical work.”
Th e $50 million donation will benefi t the greatest needs fund, which enables the Research Institute to provide criti-cal infrastructure, recruit and retain scientists, and invest in early stage medical treatments for childhood disease.
Earlier this year, Reid pledged $1 million for the staffi ng needs of the Urgent Care Clinic at Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center. She most recently made an ad-ditional estate pledge valuing approximately $14 million to endow the greatest needs of Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center and to support the continuing education of the hospital’s nurses. Of Reid’s estate pledge, 25 percent will support nurses’ advanced training needs while 75 percent will fund clinical care priorities of Children’s Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center.
Robert and Jean Reid have previously supported schol-arships for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Washington School of Nursing. Th ey also
donated to the University of Washington School of Nursing to establish the school’s fi rst endowed deanship: the Robert G. and Jean A. Reid Endowed Deanship in Nursing.
Robert Reid, who passed away in January 2011, was a leader in the construction industry on the Eastside and was active in forming the city of Bellevue.
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Starlight sets ‘Breakfast with Santa’Starlight Children’s Foundation will hold a “Breakfast
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112th Ave. For more information or to make reserva-tions, contact Pat Cramer at 425-861-7827 ext. 100, [email protected], or visit online at www.starlight-northwest.org.
Bellevue-area residents run NYC Marathon for local children’s charity
Last weekend, four Bellevue-area residents ran the New York City Marathon, raising $290,000 for Carnation’s Camp Korey, an organization that provides various services for children with disabilities.
Th e Eastsiders who were part of the 38-person team included Christoph and Jenny Palmanshofer, Howard McQuaid and Wendy Paisley.
Paisley, of Medina, said she ran to increase awareness and because she wanted to help raise at least $300,000 for the camp, where many children with life-threatening or serious illnesses attend week-long summer camp sessions in an environment that provides for their medical needs, yet let’s them have fun with other kids – at no cost to their families.
Leading up to the marathon last Saturday, Paisley held her own fundraiser in her neighborhood, “Run with Wen-dy,” where she invited friends and family over to her house for a barbecue and “fun run” to spread the word about her involvement in the east coast marathon.
A family friend of Paisley’s, a 16-year-old girl with a skin condition that prevents her from going to a traditional camp, benefi ted tremendously from the Camp Korey expe-rience, Paisley said.
Th e team was organized by one of Camp Korey’s board members, Chris McReynolds, who decided to take on this athletic and fundraising challenge in celebration of his 50th birthday.
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When Bellevue and Eastside Catholic meet tonight for a spot in the 3A state quarterfi nals, it will be for the fi rst time since 2006. For everyone other than cousins Chevy Walker and Budda Baker.
Th e dynamic off ensive threat for the Cru-saders and all-everything budding star for the three-time defending 3A champion Wolverines go back a much further than that.
Th e fi rst memory Walker has of his younger cousin is seeing him wrapped tightly in a blanket just moments aft er he was born. Th e two at-tended Enatai Elementary school in Bellevue, have grown together as athletes and even shared in some childhood antics.
Walker described a scene from their youth when the two were playing basketball, which eventually turned into a rock fi ght. When Walker felt something hit his shoulder he picked up “a pebble”, chasing his cousin around a car. When he thought he had a clear line of sight, he let the stone go.
“I hit the back of a car and the windshield shattered,” Walker said. “We just bolted.”
Baker, who was quick to point out he won the basketball game, remembers that as just one of many childhood memories with Walker, whom he considers like an older brother.
“We hid for a little bit before they came out and realized the window was broken,” Baker said. “Th en, we got in trouble.”
As youngsters, the duo would compete with
other cousins and friends in a game they called “tackle the dummy”, essentially a football free-for-all where one player avoids the attempted tackle of the rest. According to his elder cousin, Baker was dominant even then.
“He used to run people over, hurdle people
and tackle everyone,” Walker said. “And he was the littlest guy out of the whole group.”
Since moving to the varsity prep ranks this season, not much has changed.
Bellevue defensive coordinator James Hasty,
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Bishard “Budda” Baker returns an interception during a game against Mercer Island this season. The sophomore fi nished the game with two picks of Mercer Island quarterback Jeff Lindquist and has four for the season. CHAD COLEMAN, Bellevue Reporter
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BY JOSH SUMAN
Isabel Farrell didn’t come into the 2011 high school soccer season looking for recognition.
Th e Interlake senior has been playing Internationally with the U.S youth national program since she was 13, stars for highly regarded and Redmond-based Crossfi re Pre-mier and in February will accept a full athletic scholarship to continue her career next year at the Univer-sity of Washington for coach Lesle Gallimore.
Joining the Interlake team was supposed to be about having a good time, making some new friends and getting involved with the school. As the postseason resumes, it’s still about all of those things. And win-ning a state title.
Head coach Kirk Tavener, who is in his fi rst season back at Interlake aft er a stint as the head coach at Lindbergh (he was the JV coach for the Saints four seasons ago), said he has been as impressed with Farrell’s demeanor off the pitch as her skill-set on it.
“As a coach, I had only heard
about Isabel Farrell as a soccer player,” Tavener said. “I learned more about her this year as a per-son. She is a great young lady. She is well grounded, knows what she wants and has her head on straight. She’s just a pleasure.”
On the pitch, Farrell’s play was good enough to earn her the 2A/3A KingCo MVP aft er a regular season that saw her net 10 goals and 10 assists.
While Farrell has been the steadying force for the quarterfi nal-bound Saints, teammate Emma Bergstrom has provided a fl ash that
has elevated the team to the next level.
Th e sophomore has a confer-ence-best 25 goals aft er beginning the season with nine in the fi rst two games. She added a pair of hat tricks and two games with two goals during the conference slate, and continued to be a key threat for the Saints’ attack all year.
“She’s been our anchor,” Tavener said. “She has the most poise I’ve ever seen from a young lady in front of the goal. Once she receives the ball, she goes totally relaxed and
Top duo in conference lead Saints
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Bellevue managed to overcome 25 penalties for over 200 yards to defeat Glacier Peak (Snohomish) 28-17 in the opening round of the 3A football playoff s.
John Nguyen scored a pair of rushing touchdowns for the top-ranked Wolver-ines and Joey Moore added a touchdown reception from quarterback Tyler Hasty. Myles Jack also add-ed a score on the ground.
Tonight’s matchup with Eastside Catholic will be the fi rst between the two programs since a 35-13 win for Bellevue back in 2006.
Interlake overcame three fi rst half fumbles to beat White River 20-13 in the opening round.
Senior running back Jordan Todd took a kickoff back for a score and pushed his team’s lead to the fi nal margin with a rushing touchdown in the fourth before the defense sealed the win with a takeaway.
Th e Saints will take on Franklin-Pierce tonight in the 2A state playoff s.
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If it were up to Kim Williams, Bainbridge Island might still be home.
Th e idyllic community where the Bellevue Christian freshman spent her fi rst 12 years was tough to break away from two years ago and initially was a major source of frustration.
“I was kind of depressed,” Williams said of the aft ermath of her family’s move. “I was really attached there.”
Th e reasoning behind the move was two-fold and the results have been better than she ever thought possible.
Kim’s sister Brooke is a level-10 gym-nast and junior at Bellevue High School, but before relocating the family would commute across Puget Sound to make practices and competitions at the Bellevue gym where Brooke trained. Around the same time, Kim’s swimming coach and mentor on Bainbridge Island retired from coaching at age 80, leaving an uncertainty around how and where her career in the pool would continue.
Moving off the island became the best option for ev-eryone and aft er what her father called a relatively short adjustment period, things started getting back to normal.
“It always takes awhile,” Al Williams said of the transi-tion of moving for kids. “Kim is so friendly, she seemed to make friends instantly.”
Eventually, one of the most comfortable elements of living on self-contained Bainbridge Island shift ed from a problem to an opportunity.
“On Bainbridge, your swim friends and school friends are the same,” she said. “Here, I made friends from my Issaquah swim team, at Bellevue Christian and now on my high school swim team.”
Aft er beginning on an Issaquah-based club team to swim with local standouts like multiple-time 4A state champion
Katie Kinnear of Skyline, Williams eventually landed on the Bellevue Athletic Club swim team and decided to join the team at Bellevue High School as well. While that has meant entirely new groups of friends and teammates, it has also led to some rather long nights.
Monday and Friday means two hours of intense club team workouts followed by an hour and a half in the pool for the high school team. On Wednesday’s, throw in an extra session with the BAC team that includes a “dryland” or weight lift ing session.
“It really wears you down,” Williams said of her workout schedule. “But it gets you in great shape and you feel really accomplished.”
Th e workouts paid off last weekend at the 3A Sea-King swim and dive championships.
Williams swam a pair of automatic state qualifying times and also broke the district record in the 200 meter individual medley at 2 minutes, 3.18 seconds, defeating the defending state champion Grace Wold from Mercer Island with the automatic All-America time. She also won the 100 breaststroke in an All-America consideration time of 1:04.99. She will also swim anchor on the 200 and 400 free relay teams for Bellevue.
None of Williams’ success has been a surprise for Bel-levue High School swim coach Lisa M. van Loben Sels.
“What’s nice about Kim is she couples her extraordinary talent with just being an extraordinary young lady,” van Lo-ben Sels said. “Her competitive nature is second to none.”
While the state swim and dive meet is the most intense competition many high school swimmers will ever face, it will just be another day in the pool for Williams, who has competed in regional and national championships around the country.
“Th e atmosphere of high school swimming is a lot more fun and it’s more team oriented than club,” Williams said. “I just want to do well for my team.”
Th e 3A prelims will begin at Federal Way’s King County Aquatic Center today at 9:45 am. Th e fi nals are tomorrow at 10 am.
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a two-time Pro Bowl selection at defensive back during his time in the NFL, said he has been hearing about Baker since
he was still in the youth football system.
“Word was, he was the next best thing on
the Eastside since Kasen Williams,” Hasty said. “He’s a physical tackler and probably the most mature sophomore I’ve ever coached here. Th e hype is for real.”
Baker has made his presence felt on defense and special teams as a sophomore, returning three kickoff s for touch-downs, intercepting four passes and recording 53 tackles on the year.
But big cousin has been no slouch.
Walker, a senior who
holds off ers from Idaho, Montana and Portland State, has his team in the playoff s for the fi rst time since 2008 and is looking for a signature moment in his prep career. For the season he has 119 carries for 742 yards and 13 touchdowns on the ground to go with 32 re-ceptions for 437 yards and three more scores through the air. Add in four return touchdowns (three on kickoff s, one on a punt) and he is without a doubt the primary scoring threat for the Crusaders.
“I think he’s great,” Baker said of his cousin’s ability on the fi eld. “He deserves more attention than he gets.”
Th is will be the fi rst time the two have ever met on the gridiron, having always played on diff erent levels throughout their time in the GEJFA. But the initial plan was to play together.
“I was supposed to go to Bellevue,” Walker said. “I have a lot of friends at Bellevue. Th ey [Wolverine players] know me and I know them.”
Interlake senior Isabel Farrell fi ghts for a header during a game against Mercer Island earlier this year. BARBARA CARLSON, Courtesy Photo
that’s a great feature for a soccer player to have.” Bergstrom, who fi nished second in the MVP voting (no
other player in the conference received a vote), believes the team’s cohesion headed into the state tournament will be a key factor in making a run at the championship.
“We want to go out strong,” Bergstrom said. “Coach has prepared us well.”
Chevy Walker
[ COUSINS from page 12 ] BY JOSH SUMAN
Both Interlake and Newport will open the state volley-ball tournament today at Th e Evergreen State College (2A) and Saint Martin’s University (4A).
Th e Saints, which qualifi ed as the fourth seed from the West Central District III tournament, will face Selah in the fi rst round today at 1:30 p.m. Interlake defeated Washing-
ton High School 3-0 to earn its state tournament berth and with a win in the state opener will play the winner of an-other fi rst round match between Centralia and Anacortes.
Newport, the 4A KingCo regular season champion and tournament runner-up, will meet Olympia at 11:45 am for the right to face the winner of a match between Tahoma and Mead in the quarterfi nals. Th e Knights fell to Woodin-ville 3-1 in the conference tournament title game.
State volleyball gets underway today
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Newport’s boys tennis team was perfect as a a team on the season, going 7-0 and advancing three pairs to state. MELINDA LILLEY Courtesy Photo
Th e Newport boys tennis team completed a perfect season by sweeping through the 4A KingCo tournament to take both of the two direct berths to the state tournament in the Spring.
Doubles pairs of Alec Tsutsumoto and Andrew Choi as well as Chris Lilley and Dylan Harlow advanced to the title match before Tsutsumoto and Choi earned the win 6-2, 6-4 to take the title.
Allen Kim and Matt Sham claimed the third-place spot in the league tournament before winning their crossover match with Peter Cung and James Okubo to claim the
district’s third and fi nal spot at state. For the season, the Knights lost only three individual
matches, one each to Roosevelt, Juanita and Skyline. New-port swept all seven individual matches against Liberty, Garfi eld, Ballard and Issaquah and fi nished the regular season with a 7-0 record.
Th e Newport boys tennis team (pictured at left ): Coach Ron Coleman, Ryan Cheung, Jonathan Newman, Chris Lil-ley, Dylan Harlow, Alec Tsutsumoto, Adam Owen, Kelvin Yuchen, Matt Sham, David An, Uday Singh; Front Row: Andrew Choi, Allen Kim, Alex Vu.
Knights perfect, go to state in spring
BY JOSH SUMAN
Sammamish High School senior and 2010 and 2011 Junior Olympic Championship qualifi er Haley Lange has signed a letter of intent to accept a full athletic scholarship to the University of Utah to compete in gymnastics.
“We found a real diamond in the rough in Haley,” Utah gym coach Greg Marsden said in a press release.
Lange said the atmosphere at the school, her love of Salt Lake City and the business program at Utah all factored into her decision.
“I love Salt Lake, I love the city and the college,” Lange said. “Utah was my fi rst choice and it’s an honor to be part of the Red Rocks.”
Lange, who has trained in gymnastics since age fi ve, does not participate for the Sammamish High School team but trains at Auburn Gymnastics Center with coaches Brent Phelps and Peter Flores. Her parents are Mara Ferrari and Ron Lange.
Utah has won 10 national championships in gymnastics and is the only program that has made the Super Six every year since 2000.
Utah lands LangeBY JOSH SUMAN
Bellevue completed a KingCo and Sea-King championship cross country season with a fourth place fi nish at the 3A state cross country meet at Pasco’s Sun Willows Golf Course.
John Fowler (15:42.9) and Ryan Long (15:48.9) ended the day in 11th and 12th place respectively to lead the Wolverines. Will Sheeran (16:04.2) rounded out the top-25 fi nishers for Bellevue while Spike Sievert (16:79.9), Nick MacLean (16:22.3) and Kyle Pratt (16:58.8) all fi nished in the top 82 spots for coach John Hill’s squad.
Sammamish freshman Nick Martin ended the meet in 57th place with a time of 16:36.8.
Th e highest local fi nisher was Sammamish freshman Pascale De Sa
E Silva, who ran in 25th place with a time of 19:25.9. Bellevue’s Julia Ellings was also a top-100 fi nisher in a time of 20:36.2.
Jessica Spray was the lone Newport qualifi er in the 4A girls meet and ran a time of 19:27.8 for a top-50 fi nish. Jordan McPhee of Mount Rainier won the race in 17:24.7.
Interlake ended the 2A girls meet in third place behind Cheney and Sehome, powered by the seventh place fi nish of freshman Antoinette Tansley (18:37) and an eighth place fi nish from sophomore Niki Waghani (18:51).
Grace Hsieh (21:25), Annie Davis (21:15), Eleanor Tansley (21:00) and Nadia Lucas all fi nished in the top 100 for the Saints.
Th e Saints fi nished with four top 100 fi nishers on the boys side, led by
the 12th place of junior Sam Giner (16:01.7). Jay Taves (16:35.5) ran 30th, Jack Taylor (16:48.5) 45th and Ivan Leniski (17:03.4) 61st. Axl Alvarez, Colin Glenny and Graham Jordan rounded out the Interlake partici-pants.
Th e only local participant in the 1A girls race was Bellevue Chrisitian’s Bree Oldham, who ended her fi nal cross country meet as a prep in 40th place with a time of 20:44.6.
Emerald City League champion Daniel Nortz, a junior at Bellevue Christian, fi nished the state meet in 19th place with a time of 16:54.
Gig Harbor (4A boys), Tahoma (4A girls), North Central (3A boys), Ca-mas (3A girls), Lindbergh (2A boys), Cheney (2A girls) and Lakeside (1A boys and girls) won the team scoring championships.
Local runners place in Pasco
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Fans of the Sonics remain bitter about the political process that accompanied the team’s departure. COURTESY PHOTO
That means it may take a white knight – one or a number of heads of the area’s largest companies or an outside owner – to bring professional basketball back to the arena. The question, though, is: does such a person or group exist?
In the past, it’s been the public that has played that role. New arenas for both the Mariners and Seahawks received tax dollars in the 1990s. The $430 CenturyLink Field became a reality after Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen said he would buy the Seahawks if a new arena could be built. After Allen pledged responsibility for any cost overages, the people voted by a 51 percent majority to build the stadium.
For the Mariners, it took some magic. The team was on its way to Tampa Bay in the mid-90s when the 1995 season galvanized the Legislature to approve a half percent sales tax increase and 2 percent car rental tax to build SafeCo Field. That happened even after voters rejected a funding measure.
But such good feelings faded when the NBA grumbled about Key Arena being out of date. The public blowback was immediate.
Then Seattle City Council President Nick Licata went as far as to say the Sonics provid-ed zero economic or cultural value to the city and he fought a bill for $200 million in state subsidies to keep the team financially viable.
Legislators also weighed in with House Speaker Rep. Frank Chopp pledging that the Legislature would not to pay for a new arena. As Hunter notes today, “I don’t think there’s a role for government in financing an arena.”
Bellevue, mentioned as a possible site of a
new stadium, echoes those thoughts. At a re-cent Bellevue City Council candidate forum, both sitting council members and challengers were united that a stadium could be great for Bellevue, but only as long as city taxpayers don’t have to pay for it.
“If a plan came forward, and it meant not spending tax dollars, I would certainly work hard to try and find a way to make it happen, I think it’d be exciting,” said Bellevue Coun-cilmember Claudia Balducci.
For politicians, the issue is money. The Legislature has had to deal with a $12
billion shortfall between 2009 and 2011. It has to fill another $2 billion hole this year. That means possible cuts to schools, social services and other institutions.
Victor Matheson, professor of sports economics at Holy Cross University, sees that problem nationally.
“There are cities that have laid off police officers, firemen and teachers, and you are going to raise taxes to pay NBA players? That’s not going to be acceptable in this political
climate,” Matheson said.However, a coalition of legislators is work-
ing on finding a solution that doesn’t take money from the taxpayer.
The coalition, known as the Sonics taskforce, is led by Reps. Dave Frockt (D-Seattle) and Mike Hope (R-Lake Stevens). Hope likely will propose a measure known as the “jock tax,” an income tax system that charges visiting professional athletes for money made in the state. According to a report from KING 5 news, this could raise approximately $175 million.
That likely wouldn’t be enough. Research by Matheson shows that since 2000, the average NBA arena cost $302 million to build, with an average of 51 percent public investment.
And the trend over the past decade has seen greater public investment in arenas. Since 1999 only a single NBA-only arena has been funded by 100 percent private dollars, the Air Canada Center in Toronto. But this was a special case, with the owners buying up a partially built arena and established team. Rarely, if ever, is the case that an owner will build an arena, without the
promise of the team, and then buy a team and bring it to the area.
However, Matheson’s research also shows a variety of ways in which public money could be used to augment private investment, including hotel and gambling taxes, ticket charges, sin taxes on goods such as cigarettes and alcohol, and personal seat licenses - a system in which a fan purchases the rights to later buy season tickets for a designated seat.
It also could help spur private investment to add a professional hockey team to a stadium proposal. In fact, Matheson’s research shows that of the 10 new arenas built since 1990 that house both hockey and basketball teams, the average public contribution was 14 percent.
That leaves any remainder up to a wealthy individual or individuals. And while there’s no shortage of wealth on the Eastside, one name often comes up: Steve Ballmer.
The Microsoft CEO had been a big part of Sonics discussions in the past. He helped organize a consortium of individuals to potentially pump in $300 million to renovate Key Arena. While that effort failed, Ballmer in a speech this summer, characterized the prob-lem not as a money problem, but a real estate problem of an arena to house the team.
While he indicated he was not likely to be the man to build an arena to make way for the team, he did note that “If somebody could solve the real estate problem, someone could solve the NBA problem.”
Bellevue’s Bob Wallace, president of Wal-lace Properties and a board member board for both the Kingdome and Safeco public management districts, watched the process that sent the Sonics to Oklahoma City. All of these interests, he said, have been around throughout the process and could have come in and saved the team.
“I believe we have the market, we have the capacity,” Wallace said. “All we need is the motivation, but I haven’t seen any evidence of that.”
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A Bellevue boy suff ering from cystic fi brosis has his wish to meet the Seattle Sea-hawks granted through national children’s charity Kids Wish Network.
Jake was born with cystic fi brosis, a life-threatening lung condition, and has been in and out of the hospital constantly since he was born. He must take daily medications, endures nebulizer and breathing vest treat-ments and is currently on IV antibiotics.
One of the things that helps Jake cope is watching football, especially when the Seattle Seahawks are playing. So, when he was given the chance to have a wish granted through national children’s charity Kids Wish Network, it came as no surprise that he wanted to meet his all-time favorite football team in person.
“It was amazing,” said Jake’s mother, Lisa, of her son’s wish. “Th is [wish] just gave him a chance to be a kid for once. He and
his sister [who also has cystic fi brosis] go through so much - this was an amazing chance for them.”
Th rough the generosity of several local sponsors in Bellevue and Seattle, Jake was given the perfect weekend wish that included accommodations at the luxuri-ous Hotel 1000, dinners each evening, a trip to the EMP Museum, a Duck boat ride and, of course, a chance to tour the Seattle Seahawks’ practice facility along with a meet-and-greet with the players. He also got fantastic seats at the Seahawks game against Cincinnati Bengals.
“I don’t know how it could’ve been bet-ter,” said Lisa. “It was such a thrill for Jake to see behind the scenes on the tour [of the practice facility], and meeting the team was something he’ll never forget.”
Aft er watching the Seahawks prepare for their game against the Bengals, Jake saw the team heading his way when he heard a voice yelling, “Jacob! Jacob!” He looked around and called out, “Here I am!” and saw that the voice belonged to none other than his favorite player, Marshawn Lynch.
Running over to Jake, Lynch presented him with his own practice-worn gloves and a personalized jersey for Jake with his name on it along with Marshawn’s number, which he happily signed. Marshawn and the rest of the team also gave Jake a bag full of Seahawks gear and signed autographs, posed for pictures and just hung out with the beaming little boy.
According to Lisa, Jake was so in awe that it lasted through the night and he couldn’t wait for the big game the next day.
Kids Wish Network, Seahawks grant special wish to Bellevue boy
Jacob meets his favorite player, Marshawn Lynch. COURTESY PHOTO
Th e Bellevue Schools Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2011-21 Enrichment and Innovation Grant awards. Teachers and school staff apply for these competitive small grants to fund projects that extend the regular curriculum, encourage higher-level thinking skills, or enrich students through culture, art, or other activities. Th is year $50,000 in grants are being awarded.
Out of the 107 grant applications re-ceived, 64 grants were awarded.
Examples of funded projects include:
elementary schools will do hands-on science and learn about complex marine systems on an oceanographic cruise in Puget Sound.
Spiritridge elementary schools will enrich their glass and ceramic arts learning with new kilns.
will explore Northwest Coastal American heritage and culture at Tillicum Village and the use Skype to perform self-created myths with pen pals at other schools.
Bellevue Schools gets innovation grants
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For the rest of this year, our QFC stores will continue to focus our chari-table efforts on Bringing Hope To the Table, our annual drive to raise both food and cash donations for agencies which are working to feed the hungry. As the effects of our country’s economic recession continue to impact long-term unemployment, more and more people are facing poverty and the prospects of not being able to afford proper food, shelter and health care.
Thanks to the dedication of our store associates and the generosity of our cus-tomers, QFC stores are helping to se-cure critically needed food supplies and money to support the work of our two Bringing Hope To the Table partners: Food Lifeline in Washington and the Oregon Food Bank in our Portland area stores. Food Lifeline states that 96% of its revenue goes directly to feeding hun-gry people and Oregon Food Bank says, “More than 94 cents of every dollar do-nated to OFB goes directly to fighting hunger.”
Last year Food Lifeline delivered more than 24 million meals to hungry people through its network of nearly 300 neigh-borhood food banks, hot meal pro-grams and shelters. From 2005 to 2010, the number of people served by Food Lifeline grew from 550,000 to 686,000, an increase of 24%. Much of the food do-nated to local our QFC stores is targeted by Food Lifeline to supply the part-ner agencies it supports in the same areas those stores serve.
The Oregon Food Bank which has a network of 20 regional food banks and 923 partner agencies saw a 12 percent in-crease in the amount of food it provided from July of 2010 through June of 2011. The Oregon Food Bank distributes food throughout the state and Clark County based on an allocation system that takes each area’s population and poverty sta-tistics into account.
According to statistics provided by Food Lifeline, 37% of the people it serves are children and 12% are seniors; 9% of its clients are homeless. Many Food Life-line clients have had to choose between food and paying for heat or utilities, between food and paying for medicine
or medical care, or be-tween pay-ing for food and paying for rent or mortgage.
For many of us, hunger
is something that only happens for short periods between meals. But for many others chronic hunger is a real problem. Food Lifeline points out that “children who are hungry may be less attentive, independent, and curious. Many hun-gry children have difficulty concentrat-ing; therefore their reading ability and verbal and motor skills suffer.”
“Chronic hunger in adults weakens bones and muscles, increases the risk
of illness, worsens existing health prob-lems, and contributes to depression and lack of energy.”
Individuals who wish to contribute to Bringing Hope To the Table can do so in a number of ways.
They can purchase a $10.00 pre-made bag. Each bag contains seven nutritious food products that will be distributed by Food Lifeline: oatmeal, tuna, diced to-matoes, quick rolled oats, pasta sauce, vegetable beef soup and macaroni and cheese. They can scan a Bringing Hope To the Table” $10 Virtual Bag Donation Card by requesting the cashier to scan a product dona-tion card. Customers can donate their 3¢ Bag Re-use Credit .They can scan $1, or $5 Scan cards at the check stand.Coin boxes located at the check stand will be available for custom-ers to donate their extra coins.
Finally, they can purchase food bank recommended items throughout the store and place them in our donation dump bin. Shelf signs will highlight tar-geted BHTTT items.
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Both Stokes and Laing were prepared for a very close race for the Position 1 seat on the council. As of Wednesday, Stokes
had 9,423 votes, or 50.25 percent, to Laing’s 9,277 votes, or 49.47 percent.
Laing said he felt all along that the margin of victory for either candi-date wouldn’t exceed a 52 to 48 type of result.
Stokes was enthused with his early lead, and he said his campaign put forth a big last-minute voting eff ort, so he be-lieves future tallies may widen his slim lead.
In the race for Position 3, Chelminiak had 12,800 votes as of Wednesday, or 67.98 percent of the
count, compared to Hilhorst’s 5,987 votes, or 31.8.
Chelminiak saw his lead as a mandate from the people as to the direction of the city.
“Th ey understand the future of this city, and they support the people who have that vision,” Chelminiak said.
For Hilhorst, an executive at AT&T, the loss was tough to stomach. Not for her, but
for the people who put their time, eff ort and faith into her campaign and her ideals.
“Th is is not a personal loss for me,” Hilhorst pas-sionately told supporters while fi ghting back tears. “It’s a loss for the people I was running for.”
In what many predicted would be a very close race, incumbent Claudia Balducci held nearly a two to one edge over chal-lenger Patti Mann when the fi rst batch of
votes were released, tally-ing 12,493 votes, of 65.79 percent of the count, to Mann’s 6,453 votes, or 33.98 percent.
Balducci said the cam-paign was diff erent from any she’d faced before, but she was proud of her supporters.
“I think we ran a strong campaign, and the voters responded,” she said.
Mann, a Seattle fi refi ghter, told her sup-porters to continue working to realize their visions of the city’s future, and she will as well.
“It was humbling to have all the support we had,” Mann said.
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Laing-Stokes race remains close
Veteran King County Council member Jane Hague grabbed the lead against what
was deemed to be her toughest challenger in years.
Hague, who has been a member of the County Council since 1994, has nearly 53 percent of the vote as of Wednesday evening. Hague said she was surprised at the big
lead she gained over her opponent Richard
Mitchell, a Mercer Island resident and for-mer counsel for Gov. Christine Gregoire.
Th e campaign was a contentious one as Mitchell continuously challenged Hague’s leadership. He impugned her vote in favor of a $20 car tab fee to save transit fund-ing. He said her back and forth position, in order to gain such concessions as the elimination of Seattle’s ride free zone, was not a demonstration of leadership.
Hague had 18,638 votes, or 53.85 percent of the vote Wednesday compared with Mitchell’s 15,871 votes, 45.85 percent.
BY GABRIELLE NOMURA
Challenger Steve McConnell maintained a slim lead Wednesday over incumbent
Patsy Johnson in a race for the District 1 seat on the Bellevue School Board.
McConnell had 9,102 votes, or 50.62 percent, to Johnson’s 8,842, or 49.17 percent in the race for Bellevue School Board District No. 1, Wednesday aft ernoon.
“I always thought it be a close race,” said Johnson, a Bellevue parent of four and former Microsoft manager who
came on to the board last year to replace a retiring member. “We will just have to wait and see how it comes out.”
McConnell is the parent of one gift ed child and one special-needs child and the owner of Contrux Soft ware based in Bellevue.
“I think I knew that as a challenger it was going to be tough to defeat an incumbent,” said McConnell, who campaigned on a number of issues, including openness and accountability.
“Th e fact that the race is this close shows me that people are listening, and I think that’s good,” McConnell said on election night.
Candidates for districts 2 and 4, Chris-tine Chew and Michael Murphy respec-tively, ran unopposed.
Hague on track to keep county council seat
McConnell maintains lead in school board race
Jane Hague
Steve McConnell
John Stokes
Aaron Laing
John Chelminak
Claudia Balducci
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Many years ago I went to pick up my son from junior high school. I chatted with
another mom while I waited, and I told her I was thinking about taking
a trip to Montana to see my dad soon. She told me I would never regret it. Th at thought stayed with me through the next few years until dad
passed away. I went to see him whenever I could get away.
So many people I know are completely immersed in the care of their parents. My elderly neighbor, Joyce, is visited by her daughter, Al-ice, at least twice each day. Not only does Alice oversee all of the care of her mom, but she also has two young teens, a disabled husband, and a full-time job. Sounds like four full-time jobs to me.
All of us in the neighbor-hood try to be aware of any
help that Joyce might need. Several times in the last few years I have heard sirens approaching the neighbor-hood, and without fail, they stop across the street at Joyce’s place. I always go over to see what’s happen-ing so that I can secure her dogs or her house when she leaves. I’ve seen other neighbors chasing a canine escape artist in the rain. Joyce is always cheerful, and feeling a bit sheepish for all the trouble. But Alice is my hero. I don’t know how she does it.
Meanwhile my friend Diana is caring for her mother long-distance by paying bills and coordi-nating her care, while she herself is working full-time and fi ghting a debilitating
illness. Likewise for Karen, who has her extremely frail mom living with her until a spot opens up where she can receive the care and attention she needs. She’s not worried, but being on high-alert is taking a toll on her.
I know four brothers (my husband Lenny’s cousins) who have undertaken the enormous project of help-ing their bachelor uncle divest himself of the home where he lived his entire life, including more than 80 years of possessions.
Another one of Lenny’s cousins had to call in a posse of friends and family, and use stealth and distrac-tion to move her parents to appropriate housing where she can manage their medi-cations and appointments.
I sincerely salute every one of you who is taking care of elderly parents and relatives. I know for sure that you will never regret it.
Patty Luzzi has lived on the Eastside for 33 years. Readers can contact her at [email protected].
Taking care of parents worth the extra effort
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Fun run to help amputees in Sierra Leone
Greatest Goal Ministries-USA will hold its second annual “Beat the Bird” fun run at 9 a.m. Nov. 24 at Larson Lake in Bellevue.
Th e registration form can be found at www.ggmusa.org.
GGM-USA serves the amputees, disabled and war aff ected peoples of Sierra Leone by focusing on sus-tainable projects that address their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
Bellevue food drive hopes to fi ll moving van
TOP Food & Drug, Haggen Food & Phar-macy and 106.1 KISS FM are attempting to fi ll a Mayfl ower moving van in Bellevue with food to help the needy.
Th e drive seeks to collect canned food high in protein, canned fruit, pasta, rice and any other non-perishable food items. Donors also may purchase pre-stuff ed bags of groceries that include tuna, macaroni and cheese, peaches, chili, green beans and pinto beans for $5 each or make donations at the cash reg-ister of $10 or $20.
Donations will be distributed to local food banks by Northwest Har-vest, which is a food bank distributor with a network of over 325 food banks, meal programs, and high-need elementary schools.
In Bellevue, the dona-tions will be collected at the Bellevue TOP Food & Drug at 15751 NE 15th St.
Christmas craft show Nov. 17-19
Th e Vasa Park Christ-mas Craft Show will be held Nov.17-19. Th e show will feature more than 95 vendors, handcraft ed holiday trimmings, home décor, personal accesso-ries, and gourmet food.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 17-18 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 19.
Vasa Park is located at 3560 West Lake Samma-mish Pkwy SE, Bellevue. For More information visit www.countrycreation.blogspot.com.
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