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Anyone who attends the Kirk-land Artwalk on

Park Lane tonight will probably see Kathy Feek.

As the � rst chair of the city’s Cultural Arts Com-mission, Feek has worked alongside other Kirkland residents and businesses over the years to bring art into the city that re� ects its distinct culture and style. Aside from the Art Walk, she is also involved in Kirkland Summerfest and the recent Fish Frolic fundraiser. Earlier this year she was recognized along with other commu-nity members and groups at the fourth annual mayor’s CACHET event.

Previously working for the Kennedy Center Arts Education Center and Imagination Celebration in Seattle, Feek � rst came to Kirkland in 1999, only a year a� er the opening of the Kirkland Perfor-mance Center. She had � rst acquired an interest in art during graduate school at Seattle Univer-sity, where she said she discovered the power of art to improve people’s learning abilities.

“I remember the days of high school when I was forced to do my ge-ometry proofs in pencil,” she said. “I saw someone doing shapes in color and noticed how much easier it is to keep track of the angles… I thought ‘Wow, this is just an unbeliev-able di� erence that we’re all missing in the way we’ve been teaching.’ It

Feek’s fundraising lifts Kirkland art scene

Kirkland resident Kathy Feek stands with the Fish Frolic sculptures during Kirkland Summerfest. Fish Frolic is just one of the many art events that Feek has put her heart into to bene� t the Kirkland art scene. BILL VADINO, Special to the reporter

helps catch all kinds of people and all kinds of learners and the needs of young children to old people,” she said. “It cuts across all of that. I’ve loved [art] from the very begin-ning of my adult learning.”

Feek said she sees art as a way to not only re� ect their values but stimulate discussions and conversa-tions.

“I have seen the most amazing conversations with people who don’t

know each other at all discussing art,” she said.

When she � rst came to Kirkland, she was eager to get connected with the community and joined the cultural arts commission.

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� is is part 1 of a 2 part Reporter investigationBY TJ MARTINELL

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An arrest by bail bond agents in Long Beach, Calif. on Nov. 20 put a stop to an alleged identify thief and Kent resident who was listed on Washington’s Most Wanted.

� e arrest of Jocelyn Valerie Ruiz, 20, is relief for a 31-year-old Kirkland woman, who police believe was a victim of a massive identity the� . But it didn’t stop there. Ruiz is believed to have allegedly planned

an armed robbery of the victim’s home and physical violence to be carried out by members of a regional gang as revenge for being reported to police.

An arrest warrant was is-sued a� er Ruiz failed to ap-pear in court for � rst degree attempted robbery and two charges of identity the� , with bail set at $250,000. She was tracked down by the bail bond agents from Jail Sucks Bail Bonds fol-lowing an eight day hunt, according to the Kirkland Police Department (KPD).

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Kirkland ID theft case nearly turns into attempted murderPart 1: Kirkland woman steals friend’s identity, ends up on most wanted list

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A Woodinville man accused of walking away from a car crash in September that killed a Kenmore man in Kirk-land walked away from his court date last week.

A $250,000 bench war-rant has been issued for Thomas Cushman Bird, II of Woodinville, 48, after he failed to appear at his Dec. 4 hearing at the King

County Courthouse. His arraignment is now set for Dec. 17. According to Dan Donohoe, the King County Prosecutor’s Of-fice spokesperson, Bird requested a new arraign-ment date, but the bench warrant remains active.

Bird was recently charged with vehicular homicide, vehicular as-sault and hit and run. King County Prosecutor’s Office described him

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Teens cooked, served and enter-tained 60 Kirkland

senior citizens during the Kirkland Youth Council’s 14th Annual Holly Day Brunch at the Peter Kirk Community Center on Dec. 6.

The Youth Council hosts this annual event as one of its commu-nity service projects. The council uses money from projects during the year to pay for the supplies for the brunch.

“This event is one of the year’s highlights for both the kids and the seniors,” KYC representa-tive Regula Schubiger said via email. “The 30 teens cooked, hosted and enter-tained the seniors for the night.”

The Kirkland Youth Council is a group of about 40 teens represent-

ing all the junior and senior high schools in Kirkland. In addition, it

has members who attend private schools and who are home schooled.

Kirkland Youth Council hosts annual Holly Day Brunch for seniors

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as being a “danger to the community” in the charg-ing papers, requesting a $100,000 bail.

“The defendant cannot or will not comply with the rules of the road and now a man has died,” the charging papers claim. “He is a danger to the community.”

Although he has no felony convictions, pros-ecutors stated Bird has an extensive history of vio-lating traffic laws going back to 1989, including negligent driving, reck-less driving, hit and run attended and unattended and no valid operator’s license with valid identifi-cation (NVOL).

Bird is believed to be the driver in a single vehicle accident Sept.

19 on Simonds Road in Kirkland that left one of the passengers dead.

The accident occurred late in the evening on Sept. 19 after Bird had been drinking at a local Kirkland casino with several friends, including Kenmore resident and Redmond High School graduate Kyle J. Reel and Dave “Beaver” Zielinski, one of the fisherman on the boat “Time Bandit,” featured on Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch. Then they left in a Porsche Bird borrowed from a friend. At around 10:45 p.m., police claim Cushman was going around 80 mph in a 35 mph zone when he lost control, crossed into the oncoming lane, left the roadway and crashed into a fence and up an

embankment at Simonds Road Northeast and 92nd Avenue Northeast. The impact threw Reel, who had been sitting behind the driver’s seat, into the front of the car, causing him to suffer fatal inju-ries. When responding bystanders arrived they mistakenly believed he was the driver and pulled him out. Barely conscious from severe rib fractures, Zielinski told people that “Bird” had been driving, which police at the scene assumed was a nickname for Reel, the presumed driver.

Prosecutors allege that Bird left the scene of the accident immedi-ately, despite suffering significant injuries, and walked to Zielinski’s home three miles away. He was discovered there

the next morning when a friend arrived to take care of Zielinski’s dogs. After explaining to her what had happened, Bird allegedly told the person not to contact the police or medics. It was then the police discovered that Reel was not the driver.

Police were then informed that a Shore-line medic unit had responded to a Zielinski residence to treat Bird, who eventually was transported to Haborview Medical Center. Bird al-legedly had injuries that were consistent with that of a car accident, accord-ing to the medic supervi-sor who contacted the police. They also claimed

Bird had admitted to the medics he had been driv-ing the Porsche.

The Reporter first became aware of the mistaken identity after it was contacted by Anita Reel, Kyle Reel’s mother. Anita Reel insisted her son had not been behind the wheel and would not have driven while in-toxicated. Kirkland Police Department officials, while maintaining that the crash was still under investigation, confirmed her claims that her son was not the driver. The blood alcohol level of Bird could not be con-firmed by police.

At the hospital, Kirk-land police questioned

Bird, who allegedly stopped speaking with them once he learned Reel had been killed. He was arrested and then released on his own re-cognizance.

During the followup in-vestigation, casino video footage showed Bird had consumed at least six alcoholic beverages at the Kirkland casino approxi-mately between 8:05-10:17 p.m. The footage also showed Bird getting into the driver’s seat of the Porsche as it left the casino at around 10:34 p.m.

His arraignment is now set for Dec. 17 at 8:30 am in courtroom 1201 of the King County Courthouse.

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Springer named Deputy Majority Leader in State House

House Democratic law-makers elected three lead-ership positions, including Rep. Larry Springer from Kirkland as Deputy Majority Leader on Friday. His du-ties will focus on business outreach and engagement.

Springer has owned a small business in Kirkland, � e Grape Choice for more than 25 years.

Springer is a former board member of the Seattle/King County Economic Development Council, former president of the Kirkland Downtown Association and mayor of Kirkland. He currently serves as a member of three chambers of com-merce working on business development and promo-tion.

� e Reporter will have a full story in next week’s issue.

Evergreen Academy students donate to Maltby Food Bank

� ree Evergreen Acad-emy locations in Bothell and Kirkland partnered to donate canned goods and nonperishable items to Maltby Food Bank on Nov. 20. Evergreen Academy students have been collect-ing nonperishable items, including canned corn, mixed fruit and boxes of macaroni and cheese.

Students at the Bothell school, located at 16017 118th Place NE, loaded a bus with donations and the bus continued to the other Evergreen Academy locations in Bothell and Kirkland to collect more donations before dropping o� the items at Maltby Food Bank.

� rough this experi-ence, students will learn the importance of helping those in need during the holiday season.

Library to host screening of The Santa Clause

� e Kirkland Library will host a screening of the movie � e Santa Clause at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 16.

Scott Calvin is a divorced father whose strained relationship with his son, Charlie, begins to mend only a� er a bizarre twist of fate transforms him into the new Santa. � e 1994 movie is a PG family � lm directed by John Pasquin and starring Tim Allen. � is is a family program for all ages with an adult.

For more information visit www.kcls.org.

� e Kirkland Library is located at 308 Kirkland Ave.

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Reprehensive Springer incurring unacceptable cost for tax payers

The recent news is “House Democrats elect Rep. Larry Springer of Kirkland to Deputy Majority Leader” whose job it will be to focus on business outreach and engage-ment. What does that mean to the taxpayers in Kirkland and Puget Sound communities?

At one of the many visits to Kirkland, Rep-rehensive Springer was proud to announce what his job was in Olympia. He said his job to find new revenues for government. What it means to the taxpayer is higher taxes and more of them. To Rep. Springer, engagement means trying to convince business and the public the additional cost is worth it.

History has shown it is the poor who habitually elect Democrats yet they are still poor. Rep. Springer is doing what he can for that to continue.

The announcement of Rep. Springer merely formalizes what he’s been trying to do all along: raising taxes beyond the cost of living.

For those who recently receive Social Se-curity payment notices from Social Security Administration showing their cost of living increase income went up 1.7 percent, far short of Kirkland’s 4.2 percent utility tax in-crease. Seniors quality of life is in jeopardy.

Seniors are affected the most. Rep. Spring-er likes the wording of what he will focus on. I call it political poppy-cock that has an unacceptable cost.Robert L. Style, Kirkland

In favor of extra ads in the paper

I would like to weigh in on Ghislaine Bernard’s letter on the “extra junk mail” that comes with the Kirkland Reporter. This junk mail consists of ads that generate the revenues necessary to publish this community newspaper. Usually, the advertisers have a contract with the newspaper requiring the paper to run these ads. I suspect that if there were no ads there would be no newspaper.

As to what I do with this “extra junk mail,” I use it to plan my shopping activities for the next week. The Fred Meyer ads have great coupons that I often use; and coupled with the coupons from the Smart Source in-sert, I find that I am able to cut my grocery bills by quite a bit. The PCC Taste insert is full of bits of information on foods and of-fers great recipes. Finally, the Michaels’ ads have introduced me to a store that carries a wide array of solutions to everyday prob-lems, such as a kit to replace the inner work-ings of my battery-powered kitchen clock.

Like the plastic bags, which seem to send

the greenies into a tizzy, I reuse these inserts after I am finished with them. I currently have three weeks of inserts on my garage floor with newly dug dahlias drying on them. I use the papers for packing fragile items; and in the summer, I cover my flower beds with the papers and then cover the pa-pers with bark, which is effective in keeping the weeds under control.

Needless to say, I favor the Kirkland Re-porter keeping their “extra junk mail” policy. This just goes to show that one person’s perception of incredible waste is another

person’s idea of a gold mine.Laurel D. Lupton, Kirkland

I like the inserts in the Kirkland ReporterIn response to Ghislaine Bernard

about “What do you think of extra junk mail?” I want to say that I like the inserts in the Kirkland Reporter. My husband and I love the Frame Games in the back of the USA Weekend. And I want the Fred Meyer insert so I know what will be on sale start-ing on Sunday. I don’t want to wait until Sunday when I’m at the store. We don’t take the Seattle Times so don’t get all their inserts and ads. Besides your ads in the paper, I’m sure you get paid for the inserts too. Thank you Kirkland Reporter for your wonderful little paper. I look

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History is merely a repeat of itself, some say. Recent events seem to indi-cate this, sort of.

In Seattle last week, protesters stormed the Woodland Park Zoo after the zoo announced they were shutting down their elephant exhibit over concerns about the condition of the pachyderms. Nearly a century ago, the same zoo was accused of causing the death of one of the largest elephants ever in North America by its Kirk-land owner.

Chances are, you have never heard of Tusko the Magnificent. I hadn’t until my cousin told me about him. During the Roaring ‘20s, however, he was well known as one of the largest elephants ever to set foot in North America, at 10-feet, 2-inches tall and a full ton heavier than Jumbo, the largest elephant ever in North America.

Don’t let Tusko’s epithet fool you, though. Whether he was magni� cent depends on your de� nition of the word. Yet his unruly personal-ity and violent temper, o� en preceded by im-bibing ridiculous amounts of alcohol, are well documented. Before he came to Washington, he had already killed six full-grown bulls in a Mexican arena on a $2,500 bet, two of which were thrown into the crowd.

Trust me, what you’re about to read, you can’t make up.

As part of the then-famous Al G. Barnes Circus, “The Mighty Monarch of the Jungle” - as he was referred to in advertising posters - was brought to Washington in 1922. In May,

the circus came to Sedro-Woolley, which at the time was a small logging community of 2,000 people. The pavilions went up, the crowds gathered, and all was set for a night of thrill and excitement.

That’s when all hell broke loose, as re-counted by J. Kingston Pierce’s article for his-torylink.org, “Tusko the elephant rampages through Sedro-Woolley on May 15, 1922.”

Tusko burst forth from his tent after toss-ing his trainer, stomping through pavilions as he began a path of destruction that would continue on into the morning.

While in the Disney film Dumbo, the titular character’s mother goes berserk simply to protect her son, Tusko’s motives were far less noble. His belligerence is attributed to the overconsumption of fermented moon-shiner’s mash, which Tusko apparently took upon himself to raid while his chains were

removed.The rest of it reads like a rip-off of King

Kong. After stomping through the circus grounds, the elephant marched into the town of Sedro-Woolley, tearing out telephone poles, tossing whole cars in the air, and even intruding himself into chicken coops. On Township Street, the elephant even poked his head into the living-room window of a fam-ily’s home, scaring them half to death.

So how did the gentle folk of Sedro-Wool-ley respond to the sight of a massive beast raising Cain through their streets?

According to one account, they joined Tusko in his inebriated state by tipping back home-made moonshine as they chased after him. Try to envision a pack of drunken log-gers, and boys, tipsy as they chase after an elephant five times their size. Then imagine a circus representa-

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Why is it important to have purpose in early childhood development? This was the question I asked myself. What is the relevance? Why is it important? I’m a stu-dent at Lake Washington Institute of Technology, where I am studying the pedagogy of early childhood education and development. Not only in the experiences I’ve been through in this study and that of practical child care experience, I have seen the benefits of hav-ing a purpose to motivate and cultivate our young children.

The age group that I am dealing with is 3 years old. In the general pub-lic’s eyes, their response usually is, surprise, “how do you guide purpose and structure in such a cha-otic group?” Undoubtedly my reply is it’s not about how, it’s about why. I like to see children’s growth as a continual cycle of change. As they begin something new and un-derstand how to belong to their community, they become active in their learning and go beyond the current understand-ing. The cycle of begin, belonging, becoming and going beyond represents the purpose and plans that we can use to help guide our children and the community as teach-ers.

When I look about, I see four areas that, without structure and purpose, do not help the child grow. The most important is community, because from diversity, health and wellness and educational preparedness have a place to thrive. From the words of Hill-ary Clinton’s book “It Takes a Village” the refer-ence to “it takes a village to raise a child” refers to a community and how to create a growth cycle for their future.

Through my educa-tion as a student, I have deeply studied these four areas. My goal is to reach out to the community to address the growth of our young children, their diversity, for the lifelong pursuit of wellness and to

be able to academically reach their goals through educational preparedness.

The curiosity of the child provides us a won-derful platform to answer embarrassing questions. Everything to a child is different and that’s what fascinates them. They are just learning about the world around them and are driven to ask “why?” Why does that person look different? What does Christmas celebrate? And one of my favorites, just

“why?” As a community, we can help answer those questions about diversity by providing rich cultural examples that are tar-geted toward developing young children. Through conscientious purpose and planning, teachers and communities can work together to help our children grow by begin-ning their understanding of diversity.

As we look at ways that children can begin, we also see the transition to

their belonging in our community. As teachers, we must closely look at the words that were said by Martin Luther King Jr.: “Education without morals is like a ship with-out a compass, merely wandering nowhere.” As a community, we need to make sure there is some-where for children to go and belong. For an early childhood education, that path is through the elementary system. Being able to provide children

with the skills necessary to be successful means granting them the ability to belong to a common goal of lifelong learning. I ask that we all think about what we can do to help the child belong.

At the foundation of a healthy lifestyle is wellness and nutrition. Without a plan to provide children with healthy lifestyle habits and routines, we do not help them succeed and be-come successful. Success-

ful people are healthy in both the mind and body. As a community, we can provide enrichment by creating a setting where children can experience healthy activities and diverse foods that pro-vide a well-proportioned and balanced diet. In our community, there is a rich offering at farm-ers markets of organic foods that we can show our children is real, not processed, and is within

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She acted as its � rst chair and served on the commission for eight years. Among the � rst things the commission accomplished, she said, was saving two bronze sculptures at Carillon Point by successfully raising $250,000 through hundreds of small dona-tions. � ey also carried out a project to place art on Interstate 405. � rough the arts commission, she said, the city has obtained around $1 million worth of art.

Kirkland’s � rst attempt to bring art to the East-side started in the 1950s. � ough it had music in the schools and a local bar-bershop quartet, Kirkland was known as a sports city, according to artist Mer-rily Dicks. Organizations such as the Creative Arts League, now known as the Creative Arts Center, were founded by Kirkland resi-dent and Lake Washington School District Art Direc-tor Bill Radcli� e. Radcli� e also started the Cellar Gallery in 1957. Located on Kirkland Avenue, it ran until 1977 and was the � rst real opportunity for local artists to show o� their work on the Eastside. � e

KAC was founded in 1962 not only to provide local artists with venues to pro-mote their work, but also to preserve the historic Peter Kirk Building.

� ough the city saw the arrival of several art gal-leries in the 1980s, within a decade much of the art scene seemed dri� ing back across the lake to Seattle, according to Dicks.

“People weren’t inter-ested here,” she said. “� ey [galleries] would draw their clientele from Seattle, so they might as well move to Seattle,” she said. “I really think it has changed with di� erent people com-ing into town.”

Feek sees the same downtown area as a great venue to showcase local art through events such as Kirkland Art Walk. As a consultant for four hos-pitals in the area, she has also acted as the curator for art at EvergreenHealth hospital.

“� ere is more and more research on the e� ect of colors and art on patients,” she said. “We don’t do just any kind of art. It’s upli� -ing, colorful, inspirational, peaceful; things people � nd comforting and reas-suring. We don’t have to show everything, and we don’t do anything contro-

versial.”Feek said hospital art is

designed to bring a sense of warmth and friendliness to a place that can o� en feel cold.

“It is a different kind of niche, but within that there’s a whole world of art,” she said. “People love it, they respond to it. They don’t want to go places that feel sterilized. They want to go to places where the environment feels as if people care about them.”

Since the economic downturn in 2009, Feek said local organizations and groups have turned to fundraising as a necessity, though she hopes at some point this will change.

“The things we love in downtown Kirkland, the holiday lighting, the concerts in the park, the things that are beautiful and enhancing our lives - they don’t pay for them-selves,” she said. “We use the art to raise money for things that really matter.”

� e success of Fish Frolic, a project which Feek headed up, suggests they have tapped into an e� ective method of using art to fundraise in order to purchase more art. � e idea � rst came out of Kirkland Summerfest a� er

King County’s 4culture provided a small grant to pay for � berglass � sh. Selected artists such as Dicks were then allowed to apply material to give it an artistic exterior. � e � sh were � rst unveiled in front of over 200 people in June at Nytec Product Innova-tion Center in Kirkland, and later were displayed during both Summerfest, as well as the Fourth of July parade.

“It’s been a massive project and lots of skills needed,” she said. “� e people who have been working on it have been amazing.”

Feek said they have raised $60,000 so far and

expect a total of $100,000 once they have sold all the � sh.

“It’s sort of like using art as a Kickstarter crowd funding,” she said. “It’s been completely popular with the businesses, com-munity and with people at Summerfest. People who purchase the � sh love them. � ey put them in their lobbies and gardens. � ey’re going to all sorts of di� erent sites. It’s very fun to hear what people are doing with the � sh.”

Having previously worked in the Seattle art scene, Feek sees Kirkland as having the opportunity to carve out its own art identity that is equally as

distinct. “Kirkland I think has a

real energy,” she said. “It’s a boutique community. What is great for Kirkland is variety, to have bronze sculptures and colorful art and have movement.”

One such example of how they view art, she said, is the cow and coyote sculpture located at Lake Street and Central Way, which Kirklanders tradi-tionally decorate for the holidays.

“It’s completely silly and lighthearted and doesn’t hurt anything,” she said. “We don’t take it too seriously, and we have fun with our art. We like to experience our art.”

In addition to dedi-cated volunteers and strong response from the business community, Feek sees continued fundrais-ing success as proof that Kirklanders are willing to put their money where their art is, or where it will be.

“There are people who feel passionate about it,” she said. “That’s what I love about Kirkland. You can live in a lot of places where nobody cares. I’ve found only people who care. They work with you and come day after day and show up for things.”

Kathy Feek, center, was awarded the mayor’s annual CACHET Award in April. Feek is standing with Kirkland Mayor Amy Walen, left, and former mayor Santos Contreras. REPORTER FILE PHOTO

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BNP Nutcracker features Kirklanders

The Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) is celebrat-ing the last year of its one-of-a-kind Stowell and Sendak Nutcracker that has been dazzling Northwest audiences for the past 31 years.

A few of the talented kids who go to school and live in Kirkland are per-forming in this season’s production. All dancers attend PNB School, which is recognized as one of the top three ballet train-ing institutions in the

United States. This year from Kirk-

land, Maia Breslin is play-ing the role of Infantry; Alyssa Eros is playing the role of Little Girl; Mia Griff is playing the role of Mouse King; Sophia Hara is playing the role of Chinese Attendant; Hana Jacobs is playing the role of Baby Mouse; Grace Klinge is playing the role of Scrim Mouse; Olivia Milstein is playing the role of Small Servant; Brooke North is playing the role of Small Servant; Olivia “Lola” Richmond is playing the role of Tall Servant; Abigail Kosto-lansky is playing the role of Infantry; Isabelle Mol-licone is playing the role of Fighting Mice Woman; Emily Brooks is play-ing the role of Artillery;

Mia Kennedy is playing the role of Scrim Mouse; Laura Massey is playing the role of Toy Theater Girl; and Alma Wigzell is playing the role of Infantry.

For more information about performance dates and times or to purchase tickets go here www.pnb.org.

KPC presents Captain Smarty Pants, Sensible Shoes and Arnaldo!

The Kirkland Per-formance Center will present Captain Smarty Pants, Sensible Shoes and Arnaldo! at 8 p.m. on Dec. 19.

This one’s for the grown-ups. A night of drag and holiday tradi-tions turned on its head. The three performing groups will bring the hilarious campy fun with satirical versions of favor-ite holiday songs. Hosted by David Hunter Koch.

Tickets are $25 for those 18 and up.

For more information visit www.kpcenter.org.

LW Symphony Orchestra to perform with choir for Christmas Pops

The Westminster Cha-pel Choir and the Lake Washington Symphony Orchestra, conducted by

Laurence J. Berteig, is presenting a Christmas Pops Concert on at 6:30 p.m. today and 3 p.m. tomorrow.

This choral Christmas concert includes “Glo-ria” by John Rutter; two portions of Robert Shaw’s “The Many Moods of Christmas,” some con-temporary Christmas songs, old and new; and audience sing-a-long of favorite carols.

Tickets are available at www.westminster.orch/events and are $10 for adults age 13-60; $7 for seniors age 60 and older; $5 for students age 5-12; childcare is provided for birth through age 4.

Westminster Chapel is located at 13646 NE 24th St. in Bellevue.

Kingsgate Skating Club to host “Winter Solstice” performance

The Kingsgate Skating Club will host its annual “Winter Solstice” event from 5-7 p.m. today at the SnoKing Kirkland Ice Arena. The holiday presentation on ice will feature skaters from the club. Donations of non-perishable food items or wrapped holiday gifts will go to Hopelink.

For more information visit www.snokingkirk-land.com/schedule.

The SnoKing Kirkland Ice Arena is located at 14326 124th Ave. NE in Kirkland.

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investigation into Ruiz, obtained by the Reporter through a public informa-tion request, reveals an alleged � nancial nightmare Ruiz created for sev-eral people in Renton and Kirkland, whom she would befriend before stealing their personal information. As part of the charges, Ruiz allegedly went to elaborate lengths to obtain the vic-tim’s credit cards in order to purchase clothing, hotel reservations and even a car from a Renton dealership despite the credit check showing a fraud alert. Ruiz is also accused of suc-cessfully obtaining credit cards in the victim’s name and violating a no-contact order.

� e list of � nancial records collected as police evidence includes four credit cards, three bank ac-count statements, one debit card and � ve credit/debit Paypal cards.

Friendship fallout

Interviews by KPD detectives with both par-ties indicate the two were friends for several months. � ey o� en slept at each other’s residences and had planned to take a trip together. It is not known precisely what ended the relationship, but Ruiz claimed in a KPD inter-view that her brother and the victim had “messed around,” which bothered her. She also claimed the alleged victim had told her “You are not a very good friend. I should kill you.”

In July 2013, before their planned trip, the alleged victim discovered unex-plained charges made to her debit and credit card accounts for a room at a Pateros motel and a Lake Chelan hotel, in addition to a $170 charge to South-west Airlines. When she called the Pateros motel, one of the employees said a woman matching Ruiz’s description and going by her name had rented out a room. Surveillance footage later showed Ruiz in the hotel as well as in the park-

ing lot. � e alleged victim told

police that Ruiz questioned her about her ethnicity and her mother’s maiden name, which was a security ques-tion for her bank account.

While investigating Ruiz, Kirkland police learned that she had an outstand-ing warrant for the� out of Kent. She was arrested and interviewed by Kirkland police in the Kent Jail on July 11, 2013. Ruiz allegedly claimed she had taken the trip with the victim to Lake Chelan and that she always paid. She said she o� ered to pay the alleged victim $1,000 to cover her losses because she wanted to “just go away.”

Following the police investigation, the alleged victim � led a two-year restraining order against Ruiz.

When Kent police at-tempted to serve orders on Ruiz on July 29, 2013, they discovered she had moved and did not leave a forwarding address.

A� erwards, however, the victim allegedly discovered more and more charges made to several of her credit cards between June 25 and Aug. 29, 2013 total-ing in $2,600. In response, the alleged victim was forced to cancel three credit cards. Yet, that didn’t put a stop to it.

Car purchases and credit card fraud

On Aug. 10, 2013, Ruiz allegedly attempted to put a charge for $18,969 on one of the victim’s credit cards while trying to purchase a 2006 Chrysler 300 at Sunset Cars in Renton for $30,0000. Ruiz alleg-edly listed herself as the co-buyer and the victim as the buyer, according to police documents.

When the alleged victim contacted the dealer, they admitted that while run-ning a credit check on her they received a fraud alert, but decided to process the sale anyway because the victim’s credit score was so high, according to police documents. � e purchase

was never completed, how-ever, because the victim’s signature was needed on a loan application for the remaining amount due.

� e alleged victim began receiving rejection and con-� rmation notices for credit and debit cards for which she didn’t apply.

During a police inter-view on Sept. 4, 2013, Ruiz denied using any credit or debit cards belonging to the alleged victim or open-ing any accounts with her personal information. She allegedly insisted that the victim had agreed to buy the car with her but hadn’t been able to complete the purchase due to a lack of necessary funds.

When asked by police about the use of the card at the Pateros motel, Ruiz claimed she had used her own card.

It was only later that Ruiz allegedly began admit-ting to taking credit cards mailed to the victim, cards which Ruiz had applied for in the victim’s name a� er stealing her personal information from a variety of sources, including her email, as well as memoriz-ing her Social Security number - which she was able to repeat to the o� cer. She also allegedly confessed to opening up an Ameri-can Express account in the victim’s name without her knowledge.

Ruiz also allegedly admit-ted to getting American Express and Citi to change the email address and phone number for the alleged victim’s account to her own phone number and an email address she had set up.

When police con� scated

Ruiz’s phone they discov-ered numerous photos of the alleged victim’s driver’s license, Social Security card, AAA card, as well as numerous credit cards. All of the photos had been taken between June 22 and July 6, 2013.

Repeat o� enderAlthough the alleged

victim could not know it at the time, her story eerily matches that of another one of Ruiz’s alleged victims in Renton. One of the identity the� charges leveled at Ruiz stems from accusa-tions made by a Renton woman and her father, who claimed Ruiz stole their � nancial information in a manner similar to that of the Kirkland woman.

� e then-18-year-old woman � rst met Ruiz when they both lived in Califor-nia, according to Renton Police documents. � ey later met again in Wash-ington, when the victim was working for the same company as Ruiz. In No-vember 2012, Ruiz rented out a bedroom in the same house as the victim, which was owned by her 46-year-old father.

Within days, the alleged victim noticed mysteri-ous charges to her Bank of America account. She contacted the bank and learned the money went to-wards a cell phone payment for a person whose name matched that of Ruiz’s grandmother, who shared the same cell phone plan as Ruiz. When she confronted Ruiz about it, Ruiz alleg-edly claimed it was a mere coincidence.

Later in the month, the alleged victim’s checks started disappearing from the cardboard box she kept

them in, only to see them later pass through her ac-count written out to Ruiz, according to RPD docu-ments.

� e situation grew worse when the victim’s father was informed by Citi that money had been taken from his credit card account and two conve-nience checks had been written on his account. A� er � ying back to Wash-ington, the victim’s father met with her and Ruiz at the house, where he found garbage bags with his opened mail in it. He also searched Ruiz’s bedroom and found more of his mail, including an image of a credit card check and his Best Buy credit card.

When police arrived at the house, Ruiz alleg-edly admitted to stealing mail from both the victim and her father, using his credit cards to make large purchases as well as de-positing checks by taking pictures of them with her cell phone and then de-positing them in her bank account through her cell phone. � e victim’s father

then accused Ruiz of using his daughter’s debit card to pay for her cell phone bill, which Ruiz allegedly denied at � rst before later saying she had used the checking account number to pay the bill over the phone. When the o� cer searched Ruiz’s bedroom a� er obtaining her written consent, he found opened garbage bags full of mail on her bed, including let-ters written from the bank to the victims alerting them of fraudulent checks. She was later charged by the King County Prosecu-tor’s O� ce with � rst degree and second degree identity the� .

Ruiz was arrested for the identity the� s as well as an outstanding warrant, only to be released from jail a couple days later. It was then she allegedly start-ing threatening the victim through calls and text messages. Meanwhile, she was also allegedly plotting to break into the victim’s residence with the help of at least one gang member, which will be covered in Part 2 of this series.

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Toys still needed at Hopelink Holiday Gift Rooms

Local kids in low-income families who are dreaming of a special toy or gift this holiday season are counting on the generosity of their neighbors to make those wishes come true. Hopelink holiday gift rooms begin next week and donations of toys and gifts are still needed to stock the shelves.

Last year, more than 5,800 children in Hopelink families had a happier holi-

day because their parents and grandparents were able to “shop” for them at a holiday gift room. Now in their 20th year, Hope-link’s gift rooms in Kirk-land, Bellevue, Redmond, Carnation and Shoreline enable families to select new, unwrapped toys and gifts for their children and grandchildren.

New toys and gifts can be dropped off at any Hope-link Center through Dec. 12. In addition, the Kirk-land Center at 1011 120th Ave. NE will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Dec. 13 to accept donations.

Toys are needed for all ages – as well as warm clothes, sweatshirts and sports clothing. In particu-larly short supply are gifts for teenagers, such as sports equipment, electronics, makeup and lip gloss sets, prepaid cell phones and gift cards.

For center locations and hours, visit www.hope-link.org/contact/locations or call Hopelink at 425-869-6000.

A list of toy and gift suggestions is available at www.hope-link.org/take_action/toys/. Ford of Kirkland

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to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Washington, Oregon, northern Idaho, Montana and Alaska, in keeping with its commitment that no child should go hungry - especially as the holidays approach.

Ford of Kirkland is part of a group of local dealer-ships donating $6,000 to King County Boys & Girls Clubs. Ford of Kirkland is partnered with the Kirk-land Boys & Girls Club.

A fleet of more than 35 Ford Mobile Food Pantries provides food banks across the country with added flexibility in delivering food. Over the last five years, the Ford Fund has given over $5.3 million to hunger-related organizations across the US and nearly $420,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs.

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Red� n’s October Hous-ing Market Tracker showed a 14.4 percent increase in Kirkland home prices from

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� e median home price was $497,500. � e median price for single family homes was $569,000 and $295,500 for condos and townhomes.In October 144 homes sold in the city and spent a me-

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King County was up 7.9 percent with $12.2 billion in taxable retail sales and 6.1 percent in retail trade at $4.8 billion. Snohomish County was up 5.9 percent at $2.9 billion in taxable retail sales and was up 7.5 percent at $1.6 billion in retail trade.


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purpose to drive early childhood education in our community, everyone can help the child take the next steps to go beyond. It’s very important that we have a plan to make sure the growth cycle for every child does not stop. � rough our commu-nity, we can provide opportunities at each step in their journey to have structure and sup-port for them to have the roadmap for future success.

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[ LETTERS from page 5] tive following in the ele-phant’s path of destruction to pay o� the town’s people with $20,000 in cold-hard cash he had in a satchel.

As I said, you can’t make this stu� up.

� eir pursuit of Tusko did little good. He went on for 30 miles before anyone, or anything, caught up with him. Finally, a group of drunken men managed to get him back into town and trap him between boxcars in an area known as the Garden of Eden.

Ostensibly Adam and Eve were unavailable for comment.

� us ended Tusko’s no-torious rampage through Sedro-Woolley, amazingly, without a single injury or death.

A� er a series of new owners, bigger chains and plenty of barrels of whis-key, Tusko had acquired a new epithet, “� e Great Unwanted.” He was even-tually purchased by Kirk-land resident H.C. Barber, who attempted to display him in Seattle, accord-ing to the now-defunct newspaper, the Eastside

Journal. � e plan back� red when Seattle Mayor John Francis Dore, horri� ed at the alleged poor condi-tion of Tusko, ordered him placed in the Woodland Park Zoo on Oct. 8, 1922. G.W. “Slim” Lewis was hired as special keeper for Tusko, while children collected money to accom-modate his gargantuan size within the Wide Awake’s Elephant House. � ere was even a Tusko Fund set up to pay for his care.

Yet, Barber wasn’t done showing o� his prized elephant. In 1933, he tried to convince Kirkland busi-nesses to bring Tusko there to help advertise the town of 1,700 people. During the winter, when he wasn’t being used for advertise-ments, Tusko would be kept in the old Todd Feed Building at 120 Commer-cial, which according to Loita Hawkinson, presi-dent Kirkland Heritage Society, is now 120 Park Lane.

� e plan never bore fruit, as Tusko died of a blood clot on June 10, 1933. Barber had him skinned by another Kirk-land man, Jacob Kaper, a

job Kaper described as the biggest of his life, requir-ing ten hours for him to skin the gargantuan beast. � e hide alone weighed 2,200 pounds, according to the Eastside Journal.

Tusko was then stu� ed in preparation for the 1933-1934 Chicago Centu-ry of Progress exposition, while his bones were put on a roadside show before � nally being donated to the University of Oregon Museum of Natural His-tory.

Of course, no story seems complete without the requisite lawsuit. Barber ended up suing the city of Seattle for $25,000, claiming they had killed his beloved elephant and cost him money he would have got in Kirkland and Chicago. Dore, a lawyer himself, retorted that the owner was mistreating Tusko and he had no legal case.

Meanwhile, the render-ing company and another man � led a chattel lien on the bones and hide to try to recover its unpaid bill from Barber.

“Beyond that, the papers are silent,” writes by Alan

J Stein in a short article titled “Tusko the Magni� -cent’s Adventures in Kirk-land. “No mention is made of the � nal resting place of Tusko’s remains, nor the results of the claims and liens surrounding this hapless elephant.”

� is year, the Post O� ce released Limited-Edition Vintage Circus Posters

Forever Stamps, one of which includes an old Al B Barnes Circus poster believed to be of Tusko.

Whether or not history repeats itself, this only goes to show that it is o� en full of quirky, fascinating and hilarious tales.

So in tribute, let’s raise a tipple to Tusko, the Mighty Monarch of the Jungle.

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Juanita High School students, sta� give back to the community

Juanita High School students and sta� came together to help those in need in the community. � e JHS National Honor Society sponsored a food drive to collect items needed for the Hopelink food bank from Nov. 18-25.

“Each year our student body chooses a slogan that de� nes the sense of com-munity we feel when we are

all together. � is year’s theme is ‘Rebel Heart,’” said Juanita High School principal Gary Moed. “It is terri� c to see so many students and sta� working together to share their Rebel Hearts with others during the holiday season.”

More than 3,262 pounds of goods were delivered on Nov. 25 to the food bank.

“It was incredibly reward-ing to know that we were able to raise so much for the less fortunate,” said Madelyn Lum. “It’s really great to know that when we sit down and eat � anksgiving dinner, other people will also be able

to do the same.”Items included canned

and dry foods, toiletries and diapers. A cash donation of more than $1,500 will be made from Juanita High School to help buy other items needed.

“� is is who we are,” said student Caitlin Carbonell. “We shout it loud and proud.”

Juanita High School has held an annual food drive for more than 25 years.

“It was great to see the student body unite towards a common goal,” said Oliver Jones, a National Honor Society member.

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Kirkland middle school kids set new USA Swimming record

Two Kirkland middle schoolers were part of a record-breaking 200-yard medley relay team in their age group at Mount Rainier Pool on Sunday.

Tyler Lu, a 6th grader at Chinook Middle School, swam backstroke, and Jake Rinehart, a 7th grader at Kirkland Middle School, swam butterfly.

Their KING Aquatic Club relay also in-cluded Alex Flores and Ethan Dang.

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When Rev. Jesse Jackson stepped up

to the podium, people leaned forward in their chairs and listened intently to his thoughts about education.

As he locked eyes with more than 320 educators and business leaders at the third annual Wash-ington STEM Summit 2014 at the Microsoft Conference Center on Dec. 2, the civil rights leader recalled one of his grade-school teachers believing in her students during a rigorous math lesson.

“You must never teach down to our children and have low expectations of them,” Jackson — an unannounced guest at the summit — told the crowd during the morning group session. “There’s nothing that you cannot learn given the opportu-nity. Tell (your students) over and over again that deep water does not drown you — you drown when you stop kicking, you drown when you give up, you drown when you

surrender.”Jackson was in Seattle

to discuss the need for high-tech companies to employ women and minorities and added another stop to his visit by joining Gov. Jay Inslee at the summit in Red-mond.

Prior to Jackson’s speech, Inslee addressed the crowd about improving stu-dents’ involve-ment in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.

“(Jackson) and I both support the need for more women and more chil-dren of color to enter into STEM fields. In a state as diverse as Washington, our STEM workforce has got to be as diverse, as well,” Inslee said of one of his goals. He also pas-

sionately spoke of educa-tion funding and improv-ing graduation rates with services like counseling, learning assistance pro-

grams, connect-ing students with mentors and internships and more.

Inslee also praised the many top-notch STEM students in Washington schools, and University of Washington computer sci-ence majors Yarelly Gomez (from the Both-ell campus) and Karolina Pysz-kiewicz were on hand to discuss their positive experiences in

their courses. Both spoke of having confidence and tackling challenges to succeed.

Gomez is a member of the Society for Ad-vancement of Hispanics, Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, and Pyszkiewicz is an ambassador for the Na-

tional Center for Women and Information Technol-ogy, a NASA Space Grant consortium recipient and a Google ambassador.

Inslee said Washington victories include launch-ing the STEM Education Innovation Alliance — a collaboration between businesses and educators to ensure that all students acquire STEM skills — and being the only state to receive two National Governors Association Center for Best Practices education grants.

According to the The Boston Consulting Group’s report — Op-portunity for All: In-vesting in Washington State’s STEM Education Pipeline — in order to produce major returns, investing $650 million in early childhood educa-

tion, K-12 education and postsecondary education would create 8,000 STEM jobs that would generate $4.5 billion.

“About the best thing we can do in our state right now is to develop innovative talent,” Inslee said.

Jackson gleaned in-spiration from Inslee’s speech and addressed Washington’s STEM situation with words that could apply to any scenario: “We’ve seen that inclusion leads to growth, and with growth, every-body wins. Don’t give up on dreaming, don’t give up on believing. If we fall down, we get back up again — because the ground is no place for champions and so we keep rising, we keep fighting back.”

Mike Town, an instruc-

tor at the Tesla STEM High School in Redmond, was impressed with both Inslee and Jackson’s speeches about STEM education helping to boost the state’s economy and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed in school and in life.

Along with the many breakout sessions dur-ing the day — including addressing the Com-puter Science Talent Gap, Effective Teaching and Leading and more — Sen. Andy Hill and Rep. Ross Hunter discussed meeting the McCleary mandate while balancing the needs of other services, STEM education being part of the definition of basic education and improv-ing the economic vitality of the state by investing in STEM teachers and degrees.

Jackson, Inslee address crowd at Washington STEM Summit

Top left, Gov. Jay Inslee, above, and civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson speak to more than 320 educators and business leaders at the third annual Washington STEM Summit. ANDY NYSTROM, Reporter Newspapers

“You must never teach down to our children and have low expectations of them. There’s

nothing that you cannot learn given

the opportunity. Tell (your students) over and over again

that deep water does not drown you — you drown when

you stop kicking, you drown when you give up, you drown when you

surrender.” Rev. Jesse Jackson

Robert Allen Weaver

Robert Allen Weaver, born in Seattle on March 3, 1945, passed away on Nov. 20, 2014 from long-standing respiratory issues.

“Bob” was raised on a farm in Kirkland, graduated from Lake Washington High School, attended West-ern Washington State College and graduated from the University of Washington.

He served in the

Army in Vietnam, was an RN at Overlake Hospital’s Emergency Department for 30 years, and raised his family on Finn Hill.

He is survived by life-partner Terry Me-linda Mandeville (Du-vall), and sons Velizar Allen Weaver Man-deville (Kirkland) and Anton William Weaver Mandeville (Duvall). Internment will be at Restlawn Memorial Park (Edmonds) as well as the Potholes Reservoir.

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Outreach planned for new Kirkland fire station

Following its approval in August 2014 to continue studying the “dual station” model to maintain Fire Station 25 in the Finn Hill Neighborhood at its current location and build a new station in north cen-tral Kirkland city limits, the City Council directed the further evaluation of two properties located in the Juanita Neighborhood on Northeast 132nd Street.

The “dual station” model provides faster and more reliable fire and emergency medical response to more residents.

The City Council con-sidered six sites at its No-vember 18, 2014 meeting and expressed consensus to further study the parcel located at 10007 NE 132nd Street, the current site of a church, and 9820 NE 132nd Street, the current site of the Rite Aid. Both sites provide for four-min-ute emergency response travel time within city limits, offer dual means of egress to adjacent streets, and the availability of ex-isting utilities (e.g. water, sewer, and electricity).

In the coming months, the city will host public outreach opportunities to engage Juanita and Finn Hill Neighborhood residents, schools, and businesses about the two potential sites on North-east 132nd Street and the benefits of the new station.

To request a presenta-tion, contact Marie Jensen, Communications Program Manager at 425-587-3021 or [email protected].

Analysis shows that the two sites provide improved response time to the northwest area of the City, in addition to areas to the west, east, and south. A new fire station located at either of the two proper-ties would respond to calls that would otherwise be responded to by Fire Stations 27 (Totem Lake), 25 (Holmes Point), and 21 (Forbes Creek).

The Rite Aid site could offer two possible options: using a portion of or all of the parcel.

As part of the siting analysis, more than 20 sites have been considered. The cost of a new fire sta-

tion would depend on the programmatic and func-tional needs of the build-ing and the cost of prop-erty. Current estimates range from $7.5 million to $11.9 million. There is $5.2 million set aside toward a new fire station. Addition-ally, the city’s proposed 2015-2016 Budget includes an additional $3 million toward the completion of a new north end fire station. However, in order to fully fund the new station, it will be necessary for the city to sell the Fire Station 24 building and identify other funding sources that may include issuing debt or tapping reserves. The volunteer Emer-gency Medical Technicians (EMTs) which have been based out of Fire Station 24 will be reassigned to the city’s Fire Corps program beginning January 1, 2015.

The Kirkland Fire De-partment Strategic Plan, adopted in 2013, identi-fied several response time gaps, including north Finn Hill which prompted a Standards of Coverage and Deployment Plan. The Coverage Study identi-fied the option to build and staff a new fire station (replacing Fire Station 24), while maintaining Fire Station 25 by redeploying existing personnel. The city’s short term plan is to move forward on this concept. The Deployment Plan recommends that in the long-term, the city move Fire Station 27 to the east side of I-405 to ad-dress a coverage gap in the northeast area of Kirkland.

School district LINKS program seeks

volunteersAt this point in the

school year, Lake Wash-ington School District (LWSD) students are settling into their daily classroom routines. They have been adjusting to new teachers and the expecta-tions set for them. While some kids look forward to a new, challenging class schedule; others may become overwhelmed. These are the students that the LINKS Program offers extra support.

LINKS receives volun-teer requests from staff that range from volunteers needed to work with small groups of kids on math or reading to academic men-tors to work one on one with a student who needs more focused support. Mentors help a student in one subject until the stu-dent feels comfortable with achieving success on their own. This can take months or it can be a short-term match. In both cases, stu-dents show improvement more quickly when they receive additional support. Students who partici-pated in this program last year showed noticeable improvement and felt more confident about their ability to do well in school. They proved to themselves they can achieve better grades with the added sup-port of a volunteer. That’s success.

Several middle and high schools throughout the district have started lunchtime and after-school study programs. Many students voluntarily meet with a tutor to receive extra help in a particular subject. Math, science and English are among the most commonly requested;

however there can be more subject specific needs in the middle and high schools.

LINKS volunteers pro-vide students the necessary support and the skills they need to work toward per-sonal success. Jane Todd, principal at Redmond High School commented, “In total, RHS has ben-efitted from the time and expertise of 16 LINKS volunteers. These dedi-cated adults have assisted in high needs classrooms and have worked 1:1 with struggling students. The students not only improve their academic skills, and therefore their grades, they also extend their network of support. They begin to understand the power of service as well and may choose to emulate their adult tutor later in their own lives.”

LINKS depends on com-munity support to fill the growing number of vol-unteer needs throughout Lake Washington School District.

To learn more about volunteer opportunities, visit the LINKS website at: www.lwsd.org/links. To register for an upcom-ing volunteer orientation, email Nanci Wehr at [email protected] or call 425-936-1410 for addi-tional information.

Kirkland libraries to close Dec. 15

The Kirkland Library in downtown and the Kingsgate Library will be temporarily closed on the morning of Dec. 15 for staff training. The Kirkland Library will open at 12:30 p.m., while the Kingsgate Library will open at 1 p.m. For more information on the closures call the King County Library System assistance 425-462-9600 or visit www.kcls.org.

PSE releases mobile outage reporting app

Puget Sound Energy electric customers have a quick, new way to keep tabs on power outages: a mobile outage reporting app that’s now available for most web-enabled smartphones and tablets. It can be used 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Even if the electricity is out at a customer’s home or business, they can still access the app to get the information they need.

Key features of the mo-bile app are: Report power outages to PSE, view a map of outages, get estimated restoration times, see the number of customers af-

fected in neighborhoods and report natural gas emergencies.

“PSE strives to provide reliable, affordable energy service to our 1.1 million electric customers. But sometimes outages still happen. We’re commit-ted to keeping customers informed so they can make plans for their families or businesses,” said Phil Bussey, PSE’s chief cus-tomer officer.

PSE customers can download the new app to their Apple iOS, Android and Windows smart-phones and tablets from the various app stores. Search for “Puget Sound Energy” or “myPSE.”

PSE officials still need to hear from customers when their power is out. The easiest way to report an outage is to use the app. To do that, customers use their myPSE account information to log in; they can also quickly set up their account on the app if they need to. Report-ing outages becomes even easier after that. Reports can also be made at PSE.com or by calling 1-888-225-5773.

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Lake Washington School District (LWSD) was named by the College Board to its 5th Annual AP District Honor Roll. That honor is awarded for increasing ac-cess to Advanced Placement (AP) coursework while maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of three or higher on AP exams. Reaching these goals indicates that these districts are successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are likely to benefit from rigor-ous AP course work.

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The number of AP tests taken by LWSD students increased from 2,825 in 2012 to 3,496 in 2014. At the same time, the rate of students achieving a score of three or higher dropped from 79 percent in 2012 to 76 percent in 2013, but returned to 79 percent in 2014.

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• Increased participation/access to AP by at least 4 percent in large districts, 6 percent in medium districts, and 11 percent in small districts.

• Increased or maintained the percentage of exams taken by African Ameri-can, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian/Alaska Native students.

• Improved performance levels when comparing the percentage of students in 2014 scoring a three or higher to those in 2012, un-less the district has already

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Students named to WMEA All-Northwest or All-State Ensembles

Lake Washington School District high school music students have been accepted to the 2015 National Associ-ation for Music Education’s (NAfME) High School All-Northwest Honor Groups and the 2015 Washington Music Educators Associa-tion (WMEA) High School All-State Honor Groups. Of those students 20 are from Kirkland.

After three days of rehearsals, under the direc-tion of outstanding national level music educators and internationally renowned conductors, the students will perform at the conclu-sion of the 2015 NAfME’s Northwest Division Confer-ence in Spokane, Wash., on February 15, 2015. Besides Washington state, the Northwest Division of NAfME includes Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Wyoming. Each of these musicians had to submit required audition re-cordings to be considered.

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2015 WMEA All-Northwest Band

Abby Bergman, senior, flute, JHS

Clark Ellis, senior, trom-bone, JHS

Leslie Fisher, senior flute, JHS

Thomas Mikkelson, ju-nior, alto saxophone, JHS

2015 WMEA All-Northwest Jazz Choir

Tyra Overby, senior, so-prano 1-vocal jazz, JHS

2015 WMEA All-Northwest Orchestra

Logan Esterling, senior, oboe, LWHS

Madeline Kramer, junior, viola, JHS

Chris Potter, senior, string bass, JHS

2015 WMEA All-State Concert Band

Jonathan Azpeitia, senior, bass clarinet, JHS

Thomas Donahue, fresh-man, euphonium (baritone horn), JHS

Alexander Gilbert, senior, Bb soprano clarinet, LWHS

Adrian Goodwin, sopho-more, trombone, JHS

Izabel Jo, junior, trumpet (cornet), JHS

2015 WMEA All-State Symphonic Choir

Erik Abramson, junior, tenor 2, LWHS

Justin Buell, junior, bass 1, JHS

Olivia Heindel, senior, soprano 1, LWHS

Brianna Murillo, senior, soprano 1, LWHS

James Rowan, junior, tenor 2, LWHS

Jonas Rutledge, senior, tenor 1, LWHS

2015 WMEA All-State Symphony Orchestra

Kyle Oppermann, junior, viola, LWHS

Students selected for junior all-state music ensembles

Lake Washington School District has 38 students who have auditioned and been selected for Washington Music Educators Associa-tion (WMEA) Junior All-State ensembles. Twelve of them are from Kirkland.

Students from Finn Hill Middle School (FHMS), International Community School (ICS), Kamiakin Middle School (KaMS) and Kirkland Middle School (KiMS) were selected. These students will perform at the WMEA conference in Spokane, Wash. on Feb. 14. The ensembles rehearse for a day under the direc-tion of outstanding music educators and perform in a culminating concert

later that afternoon. Each of these young musicians had to submit required audition recordings to be consid-ered for these ensembles. Students selected from Kirkland are listed below:

WMEA Junior All-State Band

Grace Burt, eighth grade, alto saxophone, KaMS

Samantha Ellis, eighth grade, flute, FHMS

Travis Hannemann, eighth grade, euphonium/baritone horn, KiMS

Riley Huston, eighth grade, trumpet, KiMS

Evelyn Locker, seventh grade, bassoon, KaMS

Claire Longcore, seventh grade, Bb clarinet, KaMS

Skylee Lorenz, eighth grade, Bb clarinet, KaMS

Davin Schaible, eighth grade, oboe, KaMS

WMEA Junior All-State Mixed Choir

Kate Cocales, seventh grade, soprano voice, KiMS

WMEA Junior All-State Orchestra

Grant Poupore, seventh grade, viola, KiMS

WMEA Junior All-State Treble Choir

Sage Boyd, eighth grade, soprano voice, KiMS

Sophie Root, sixth grade, alto voice, KiMS

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4 CHOICE LOTS IN the prest igious, desirable Rhododendron Garden. Nestelled side by side, with a nice level walk up for visitors. Mature flower ing landscape. Well ma in ta ined g rounds. Easy to locate. Available now at The Greenwood Cemeter y in Renton, 9 8 0 5 6 . O w n e r p ay s t ra n s fe r fe e . A s k i n g $9000 ea / OBO. Please call 206-307-5609.

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ACACIA Memorial Park, “Birch Garden”, (2) adjacent cemetery plots, #3 & #4. Se l l ing $4,000 each or $7,500 both. They wi l l charge you $5,000 each. Located in Shoreline / N. Seattle. Call or email Emmons Johnson, 206-794-2199, [email protected]

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