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CHRISTMAS SHIPS | Bon� re event to be held at O.O. Denny Park [2]
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2015A DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING
I-405 | New online petition against tolling has 22,000 signatures [3]
Dec. 21 | Event brings all faiths together [6]
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Fred Herzberg, a local “Santa” returned to Marina Park on Sunday, joining with the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce and the Kirkland Downtown Association (KDA) for a toy and food drive for charity. Herzberg and representatives from the two organizations met last week to discuss miscommunication stemming from an incident at Kirkland Winterfest. All involved decided to turn the issue into a bene� t for the community. “We took care of all the wish lists at the Ryther house for foster kids, and received lots of donations for Girls Giving Back,” said Barbie Collins Young of the KDA. They also received 129 toys and 329 pounds of food for Hopelink. The real Santa will visit Kirkland on his normal Christmas Eve run on Dec. 24. To see Herzberg’s letter to the editor on the event see page 4. MATT PHELPS, Kirkland Reporter
“Santa” returns for holiday charity event
BY TJ MARTINELL
The fate of the Eastside Rail Corridor and speci� cally that of the
Cross Kirkland Corridor (CKC) has drawn out numer-ous competing interests as to what should, or shouldn’t, be placed on it.
At a packed meeting on Monday night, the Houghton Community Council joined
opponents of bus rapid transit (BRT) on the CKC by approving a measure to have it instead placed on Interstate 405, in opposition to the city’s planned recommendations to Sound Transit.
Sound Transit, which has an easement on the corridor, is currently looking at pos-sible projects to include on their ST3 ballot measure. � e Sound Transit Board held its � rst workshop for ST3 a
few weeks ago, examining proposals that would extend light rail and rapid bus transit in Seattle, Everett, Tacoma and the Eastside. � ey have estimated the costsof a poten-tial light rail route connecting Issaquah and Totem Lake via Bellevue at up to $3.379 bil-lion, while another light rail project would have the East Link line extend to down-town Redmond, with a cost of $1.1 billion and up to 5,000
riders a day in 2040.Meanwhile, the city of
Kirkland is preparing to lobby Sound Transit in the hopes of getting them to instead opt for a BRT line on the ERC and conse-quently the CKC, which they believe would be comparably inexpensive, take less time to construct, and be more adaptable to changes as the region grows. Earlier this year the City Council approved a
$250,000 conceptual design for BRT planning, pre-design and cost-estimating that will later either be presented to Sound Transit or used by the city itself when looking at other related transportation options.
� e city has said it doesn’t know for sure how much the BRT would cost at this point, which doesn’t include the construction of a transit cen-ter at Totem Lake, but their
very rough estimate is around $300 million, though it is expected to be signi� cantly higher when more details come out.
City o� cials have stated that Sound Transit transpor-tation is needed in Kirkland to solve tra� c congestion that can’t be recti� ed through internal improvements such as add new roads or widen-ing existing ones.
At the same time, many Kirkland residents have
Houghton Community Council opposes bus rapid transit on corridorEastside Rail Corridor Regional Advisory Council member con� rms transit on corridor “almost a certainty”
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Kirklander enters Super Bowl ad competitionBY ALLISON DEANGELIS
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Local senior thespians went wild with a male strip-per in a Kirkland � lmmaker’s submission for Doritos’ 2016 Super Bowl commercial contest.
Doug Stapleton came up with the idea for the commercial’s plot a� er his parent’s retired and he started hearing more of their and their friends’ crazy stories. Stapleton said his wife encouraged him to “go for it” a� er batting around the concept for a few years.
While he originally envisioned it with women in their mid-30s and 40s, he said he realized it would be funnier if it involved a young man and older women. A� er searching for the perfect location, Stapleton and his producer Lois Greenberg de-cided to � lm the commercial at Paci� c Regent in Bellevue over a weekend in October.
� e scene takes place inside a retirement commu-nity and shatters stereotypes by revealing seniors’ wild and crazy side – while eating Doritos, of course. � e ladies are shown whooping and cheering-on a muscular male
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BY TJ MARTINELL
Kirkland resident Paul Otteni has been o� cially announced as a winner in the 27th annual Illustrators of the Future Contest for his science � ction artwork.
As part of the award, Otteni will be � own to Los Angles to attend the 32nd Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Event in April, along with a week-long workshop. His art will
also be published in the bestselling science � ction anthology series, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writ-ers of the Future Volume XXXII.
Otteni received the award for several pieces of impres-sionistic background art he submitted.
A Lake Washington High School graduate, Otteni said he started drawing as a kid while attending school, but at � rst wasn’t something
Kirkland resident wins prestigious national illustrator competition
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Comprehensive Plan Update approved by city following 200 meetingsBY TJ MARTINELL
� e Kirkland City Council approved its Comprehensive Plan Update that included zoning changes in Totem Lake and near Parkplace in downtown.
Following 200 open meetings on the mat-ter, the council approved nine separate ordinances pertaining to policy changes and amendment requests for properties look-ing to redevelop at their Dec. 8 meeting.
“It has been a hell of an e� ort, pardon my French, but it’s been an enormous body of work,” Council-member Penny Sweet said. “I’m really proud of what
we’ve done… I cannot think of a body of
work that has in-volved so much community involvement. It really feels like a product of
Kirkland.”Councilmember
Jay Arnold described the update as conveying their vision of a “walkable livable Kirkland” and “re� ects not
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Don’t let modern dental care Break the Bank!As the tech-world around us continues to move forward at lightning speed, so have technological advances in dental care at Kirkland Family Dentistry. Dr. Everett and Dr. Greene have recently enlarged and modernized their facility to accommodate more of Kirkland’s residents as patients. Using large screen monitors in every room, the doctors are able to look at digital x-rays and photographs of patient’s teeth using the most modern equipment available. Dr. Everett stated, “our job is simply to
inform patients about the status of their oral health and advise them on how to keep their teeth and gums healthy.”
Kirkland Family Dentistry’s mission is to provide the Kirkland community with the highest quality of dental care at the most reasonable price. Dr. Greene and Dr. Everett do so by honoring almost all available insurance plans and working with patients’ insurance companies to maximize their dental bene� ts. According to Dr. Greene, “we are commonly able to work with the insurance companies so that they cover many of the preventive procedures
at 100%, leaving no cost to the patient.” Both doctors do only necessary treatment so that patients do not go over their annual
allowable insurance bene� t. � is philosophy allows all of a patient’s dental needs to be met over time
at a minimal cost.
Kirkland Family Dentistry also has many patients without insurance and is committed to ensuring dental care is a� ordable to everyone in the community, regardless of insurance status. By giving ‘payment at time of service’ discounts whenever possible and working with simple payment plans, Kirkland Family Dentistry provides everyone the opportunity to take care of their teeth.
To a� rm their commitment to providing the highest quality of dental care available, Dr. Everett and Dr. Greene are extending to all new patients the 99¢ special for a comprehensive exam, cleaning, and x-rays. In Dr. Everett’s words, “this allows anyone to experience high-end dental care at no � nancial risk.” Kirkland Family Dentistry strives to eliminate the dilemma many people face when it comes to the high-cost of dental care. Kirkland
Family Dentistry encourages Kirkland residents to call the o� ce and see if Kirkland Family Dentistry can provide the same care or procedures as other dentists at a fee that’s more reasonable.
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Christmas Ships, bon� re at O.O. Denny Park
� e Christmas Ships will visit O.O. Denny Park in Kirkland on the shores of Lake Washington on Dec. 19.
� e � otilla will stand o� shore and regale those on the shore with caroling and Christmas lights.
A roaring bon� re will be provided by the city of Kirk-land and free hot chocolate will be provided by the Finn Hill Neighborhood Associa-tion (FHNA). � e Christmas � eet is scheduled to arrive at 4 p.m.
dancer, throwing Doritos at him in appreciation before being caught by a nurse.
� e lively ladies in Staple-ton’s 30-second commercial are all local actors.
A� er working for more than 35 years as a marine biologist, Mary Lou Mills started performing — � rst in a barbershop quartet and then entering theater.
“When I worked in marine biology, which was mostly full of men in those days, they always comment-ed on how I had never had the opportunity to play team
sports. And I know I really understand it, being part of a team like this is so much fun,” she said.
Mills was joined by play-wright and actor Josephine DeLellis and actor Carmen Parisi. While DeLillis works and auditions regularly for � lm projects in Portland, Ore., this was Parisi’s � rst � lm project.
“I mostly do theater, so this was really di� erent. � ere wasn’t really any memorization, this was just a small snippet that we did over and over again.”
With the long periods of
cheering and shouting, some of the ladies had started to lose their voices by the end of the � rst day of � lming.
While the cast and crew were � lming in a separate room, Paci� c Regent resi-dents were spotted � ling past and peeking into the room to watch the male stripper, played by a Eastside real estate attorney.
“We had a lot of fun with ‘Stripper Boy,’ he was very cute,” said DeLillis. “At � rst, Doug told us to stare at his belly button, and then he told us to look at his belt buckle, but then he told us to look a little lower.”
In its tenth and � nal year, Doritos Crash the Super Bowl Contest incentivizes independent � lmmakers like Stapleton to compete for the chance for their commercial to air to millions of Super Bowl viewers. � e winner also receives one million dol-lars as a prize.
Although it was among the highest rated videos on the Doritos website, Staple-ton said, the commercial did not advance to the semi� nal round from the close to 4,000 entries.
O� cial voting will begin on the three � nalists Jan. 5.
Residents at Paci� c Regent laugh at the commercial � lmed there in October for the 2016 Doritos Crash the Super Bowl Contest. Kirkland resident and the � lmmaker, Doug Stapleton, is at back left. ALLISON DEANGELIS, Reporter Newspapers
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formed an organized op-position to the city’s lobbying efforts, believing that Sound Transit should instead place BRT on I-405’s High Oc-cupancy Lanes (HOV), albeit there is disagreement over what should go on the cor-ridor, if anything at all.
Operating under the slogan that “buses and trails don’t mix,” the group Save Our Trail is made up of a variety of residents from different backgrounds, live in separate neighborhoods, and are opposed to BRT for different reasons.
Among them is former Kirkland City Councilmem-ber Santos Contreras, who lives in Bridle Trails. He said the response from the com-munity, which packed the Kirkland Performance Center during a recent open meeting with the city about their pro-posal and at the Houghton Community Council meet-ing, shows how concerned residents are about how they might be impacted.
“People are as wound up [about] this as I’ve ever seen,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like this in terms of getting people riled up.”
Complicating the entire debate is Sound Transit’s easement on the entire ERC, which allows them to take up a certain width of the corridor for rapid transit. Although Kirkland bought their section of the corridor and opened the interim trail earlier this year, city officials say they won’t be able to develop it any further until Sound Transit makes a deci-sion either way, because if it requires the city to move the trail, Kirkland is liable for any financial costs associated with the move. Typically, the Houghton Community Council has veto power on
any land use decisions that are made by the city council, but because there is already a legal use on the city-owned property by Sound Transit their measure is merely a recommendation, accord-ing to Community Council Chairman Rick Whitney.
Contreras says that while the easement needs to be acknowledged by opponents of the city’s efforts, the city should still look to other options before promoting BRT on the corridor, such as placing it on I-405. Contreras also said that the city should try increasing the number of parking stalls at the park and rides.
One of the objectives of Save Our Trail, Contreras said, is to send a message to Sound Transit that the city’s lobbying does not reflect what many Kirkland resi-dents want.
Another complaint op-ponents have of the city’s lobbying, Contreras said, is that while Sound Transit may place the project on the ballot next year, it might not include specific project details or how it will impact Kirkland or
the CKC. “There are too
many unknowns,” he said. “Right now there’s no known,
just what Kirkland is trying to do, which in my
mind has little probability of surviving in the long run.”
Unlike others opposed to BRT on the corridor who don’t want any rapid transit there at all, Contreras says that in the long-term it’s not a realistic outlook.
“In the long run some-thing’s going to go there, but I think what it comes down to is when,” he said. “I think the long range plan is rail, really, if you think about it.”
For him, it’s about making sure transit on the corridor is done properly.
“The answer is very simple,” he said. “Let’s pull together, with the cities and Sound Transit, a solution that works for everybody. That has got to be the goal. It’s regional, it’s not individual cities, so the region has to get together. Nothing like this is going to work if we don’t work together.”
Another Kirkland resident involved in Save Our Trail is Rob Butcher, who lives in the Norkirk neighborhood. He said that while residents like himself understand Sound Transit has an easement on the corridor and the state legislature’s special session has created a time crunch for the whole process, it is the city and not Sound Transit pushing the BRT proposal, and although the CKC’s masterplan includes the possibility of light rail or BRT, Butcher said it feels like the city is acting on its own.
“Why does the city want to have something on the trail when Sound Transit doesn’t want to?” he said. “It comes from the city, and when it comes from the city it impacts us as citizens.”
Though the city believes BRT would improve traffic, Butcher said it will actually make it worse because it will have to move through the old railroad crossings. He also questioned how this would work if the BRT would have buses arriving at the transit stops every few minutes.
“That’ll cause all our sur-face streets that cross the trail to be backed up all the time,” he said. “This will make it worse, it won’t make it better. It’s being sold as something to improve traffic. It helps regionally, but it could just as easily help regionally on 405.”
On top of BRT on I-405, Butcher said they should get king County Metro to provide more public trans-portation options, which could better serve the needs of different neighborhoods and link up to their transit centers.
Among the city’s justifi-cation for lobbying Sound
Transit is to ensure that tax revenue collected by Sound Transit from Kirkland residents actually serves their transit needs. However, Butcher believes that this isn’t realistic.
“This is Sound Transit, their job is
to have bus rapid transit,” he said. “They think of how to move people through Kirk-land. That does not improve the transportation needs of Kirkland. It’s creating another freeway through Kirkland with very few stops.
Like Contreras, Butcher said that even if Sound Tran-sit decides to put BRT on the final project list, that doesn’t mean they will necessarily
take the city’s BRT study into consideration when they go to build on the corridor.
“There’s no legal teeth,” he said. “We have no grounds to say ‘You must do this.’ It’s just a hope and a prayer. It seems really like putting the horse before the cart.”
The likelihood of rapid transit on the trail was con-firmed by Program Manager Deb Eddy with the Eastside Rail Corridor Regional Advisory Council, who told the Reporter it was “almost a certainty.”
The regional advisory council was formed after several entities, including Kirkland, purchased sections of the ERC from the Port of Seattle, creating a situation in which numerous parties have different ownership rights to the corridor. Mayor Amy Walen is one of the members of the council. The regional advisory council envisions transit on the corridor at some point, though it doesn’t
prescribe any specific trans-portation mode.
“Our interest is ensuring not only the coordination they’ve seen to date but going forward we have a higher level of coordination,” Eddy said.
However, she said no matter what makes it on ST3, the regional advisory council will not be taking a side either way due to the fact that sev-eral of the council members are also Sound Transit board members.
“We can affirm at every opportunity the commit-ment that transit is part of our vision for the corridor, so whether it’s this project or another, eventually tran-sit will be throughout the whole corridor, and Kirk-land’s segment may turn out to be one of the easiest places to evaluate and to implement transit, but that’s not a decision the regional advisory council is suited to making,” she said.
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“Our interest is ensuring not only the coordination they’ve seen to date but going
forward we have a higher level of
coordination.” Deb Eddy
KIRKLANDTRANSIT
BY AARON KUNKLER
More than 22,000 people have signed a petition
calling for the elimination of toll lanes on Interstate 405.
The lanes have proven to be unpopular with commut-ers since they were imple-mented in late September, but many drivers seem to have had it with what many regard to be an ineffective way for Washington State to reduce congestion along the notoriously tedious stretch of road.
Grievances laid out in the petition include forcing
two-person carpool vehicles into the general lanes, which charges three-person vehicles $15 for a FlexPass on top of a residual required balance and infrequent toll lane access points.
A Washington State Department of Transporta-tion blog post from late October said they had seen a decrease in average com-mute times.
The post claimed there had been a 50 percent reduction in travel times from a 40-minute commute in 2014.
Evening commuters, the post ceded, saw little reduc-tion in congestion, if any.
Along with the moveon.org petitioners concerns was the creation of new conges-tion points, an issue which the WSDOT blog post also addressed.
In the blog post, I-405 north of State Route 522 and Lynnwood increased congestion, creating longer commutes for drivers traveling shorter distances between the two cities.
It also did not signifi-cantly reduce congestion between Bellevue and SR 522, with stop-and-go traffic in Kirkland before traffic breaks up until it meets new congestion points near Bothell.
The petition states that as much as 75 percent of toll revenue is being shipped to the out-of-state tolling company, with the remain-der staying in-state, and states only an estimated 10 percent of the money col-lected is reinvested in road maintenance and improve-ments.
The petition asks law-makers to eliminate toll lanes and restore carpool lanes, remove double lines on the lanes and allow driv-ers to use carpool lanes for free during night hours.
This past week tolls for the I-405 lanes reached an all-time high at $10.
More than 22,000 residents sign petition against tolls Kay Zatine Real Estate receives 2015 Best of Kirkland Award
Kay Zatine Real Estate has been selected for the 2015 Best of Kirkland Award in the Residential Real Estate cat-egory by the Kirkland Award Program.
Each year, the Kirkland Award Program identifies companies that the orga-nization members believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their lo-cal community and business category.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category.
The 2015 Kirkland Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Kirkland Award Program and data provided by third parties.
The Kirkland Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accom-plishments of local businesses throughout the Kirkland area. Recognition is given to those companies which have shown the ability to use their best practices and imple-mented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
The Kirkland Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community.
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The Santa saga� is story has grown far beyond its importance
and I would like people to hear my voice about the Santa saga. Neither the city of Kirkland, nor any of its employees or o� cials were involved in any way, nor was the Kirkland Downtown Association and Chamber responsible for the confusion that occurred in the park. � is is a matter of pure mis-communication and missed communications.
I am working to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. Apologies have been shared and accepted wholeheartedly. In fact, in the spirit of Christmas, I partner[ed] with the Kirkland Downtown Association and Kirkland Chamber to do a toy and food drive on Dec. 13 from 2-3 p.m. at Marina Park by the Christmas tree.
As a community, we need to keep the spirit alive, and you can show your support by bringing toys and food to give back to the needy people in our area. Please come see me and spread the holiday cheer.
Ho, ho, ho, and here’s to happy endings. No coal in anyone’s stocking this year.Fred Herzberg, Kirkland
Help paralyzed veteransAs we begin the holiday season, many � nd
themselves wondering how to honor the men and women who have so bravely served our country. Currently, there are more than 18,000 paralyzed veterans across the country who are members of Paralyzed Veterans of America, with more than
400 living right here in Washington. � ere are countless stories of neighbors picking up a restau-rant tab or saluting a soldier in the streets, but it is o� en hard to � nd a way to truly give back to those who have sacri� ced so much.
� e Paralyzed Veterans of America are making it much easier through Wheels Helping Warriors, a vehicle donation program that raises funds to help provide veterans access to free employment counseling, bene� ts assistance, advocacy, adaptive sports and recreation programs and more. � ey take all types of vehicles for donation including motorcycles, motorhomes, cars, trucks, boats, trac-tors, etc., regardless of the condition.
Donations are tax-deductible. More importantly, money raised through donations goes directly back to the veterans who need it most.
� is holiday season, let’s truly give back. I urge you to consider donating a vehicle, or spreading the word to others who might be able to donate. You can call 866-841-2023 and they’ll pick up your vehicle for free. � is is an easy and meaningful way to honor those who deserve it most.Brent King, Paralyzed Veterans of America – Northwest Chapter
Feeding the fascist fringeIn regards to the editorial comics you published
in the last two editions of your paper...You are feeding in to the dangerous cynicism,
hatred and divisiveness of the fascist fringe. One week you trivialize legitimate concerns about
mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of our police forces. � e following week you equate masses of innocent Syrian refugees � eeing our sworn enemy ISIS, with the deranged terrorists killing innocent civilians.
Shame on you.Susan Vossler, Kirkland
Disappointed by the fear-mongering political cartoon
I was deeply disappointed by the fear-mongering political cartoon that ran on the Dec. 11 Op-Ed page. � e cartoonist implies that helping Syrian refugees will result in brutal attacks on Washing-ton residents, by explicitly lumping said refugees in with the recent San Bernardino shooters and describing them all as equally “dangerous.”
Unfortunately for the cartoonist’s intended point, the couple who committed those atrocities were not refugees seeking safety and security; neither were they from anywhere even close to Syria. � e [man was] an American citizen (born in Illinois and raised in California) and his wife, a permanent U.S. resident via marriage. Both were of Pakistani descent, a country nearly 2,000 miles from Syria.
“� at’s di� erent,” indeed. If you would rather not allow displaced Syrian families to enter our state, at least make your argument with hard facts, rather than wildly assuming that all people with foreign-sounding names are identical... and “dangerous.”Arijan Clark, Kirkland
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As we pulled up in the van I felt my heart beating. I was nervous — how could I begin to express my sorrow and pay my
respects to the many souls that died in the Holo-caust? As I climbed out of the car, I caught my � rst glance of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the famous sign, “arbeit macht frei,” or “work makes you free.”
I was overwhelmed seeing the vast place for the � rst time. As I took my � rst steps on the grounds of the concentration camp, I thought about the many people who had stood there and never got to live their dreams and share their sto-ries. I attempted to comprehend all the pain and su� ering that was experienced not long ago, but I had a hard time wrapping my head around everything. I was � ooded with inquiries as I walked through Auschwitz that rainy day in August.
Having been to Auschwitz, my perspective re-garding not only past genocides around the world, but also current situations our world faces, such as the Syrian refugee crisis, has changed.
A� er learning about how Jews were persecuted during the Holocaust, I can’t help but make a con-nection to the way the Syrians are being treated now, particularly a� er the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Seeing Auschwitz was a very meaningful experience for me, and it raised many questions. I wanted to learn more about the Holocaust from someone who had witnessed the concentration camps � rst hand to educate myself about how the lessons we have learned can be applied today.
I felt exceptionally privileged to have the op-portunity to meet a Holocaust survivor with the help of his daughter, Hana Kern. Tommy Lenda lives with his wife Rose in the Seattle area and has written and published a book, Children on the Death Row, the Hate and the War. Mr. Lenda wrote
his book under his given surname, Lustig, however his last name was changed a� er the war and the family has used the name Lenda since 1945. Mr. Lenda speaks frequently in schools to sixth grad-ers, and although it can be emotional, he enjoys sharing his stories with the new generation. I was honored to be invited to his home to talk with him in person and hear his inspiring and motivational story. I knocked on his door one evening with my notebook in hand, nervous and eagerly awaiting our conversation.
Mr. Lenda began by describing to me how as a young boy, he entered Terezín, a concentration camp in the Czech Republic, in 1942 at the age of 6. Young Tommy survived Terezín, and le� when it was liberated in 1945 at age nine. From the ghet-tos, Jews were o� en taken to camps like Terezín before being sent to death camps like Auschwitz. More than 15,000 children inhabited Terezín, but in Tommy’s age group of children under nine years
old only 48 survived the Holocaust. Little Tommy faced many frightening experi-
ences at Terezín, but from our conversation I gath-ered that he doesn’t just want people to pity him. He wants people to learn from what happened in the Holocaust and use that knowledge to make our world a better place. By sharing his story with students, Mr. Lenda has healed himself and found lessons in the Holocaust.
“We must eliminate hate because it’s usually the source of bad happenings,” said Rose, Mr. Lenda’s wife.
Mr. Lenda explained to me that eliminating hate is something we can all do to make our world a better place, and it could be as simple as standing up to a bully or advocating for what you believe in.
As I le� the Lenda’s home, I thought about how we strive to learn from the painful events of World War II. It occurred to me that history doesn’t always repeat itself in
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he did as a hobby while at home. He stopped drawing for a brief period in high school but got back into illustrating while attending a � lm school in Vancouver, B.C. studying video pro-duction. His main interest, he said, was in drawing landscapes and digital paintings of environments that would work well for fantasy or sci-� � lms and games, with an emphasis on mountainous landscapes and distinct geographical terrain.
“Just doing it on my com-puter, I could make these environments, these worlds no one has ever seen be-fore,” he said. “I would just be able to create something that’s new and original. � at’s what really drew me to these more fantastical environmental designs. Mostly what I make is I suppose organic worlds and designs, although I have been working more with man-built landscapes and cities.”
Ironically, Otteni said he initially learned about the contest while he and his brother were submitting scripts and short stories to numerous contests. During the process he got interest-ed in other work he could submit to contest. Learning about the Illustrators of the Future Contest, which had no submission fee, he took several background pieces he had drawn and sent them in. One of the entries was a panoramic image of a shallow ocean with jagged rocks sticking out and an abandoned broken up ship with giant stone men in the background. One of the others depicted a blizzard
in a mountainous landscape with a crashed UFO in the distance.
“� ere wasn’t really a lot of preconception put into the work,” he said. “I just kind of make it up as I go and sort of come up with strange ideas. Some things work, some things don’t.”
However, he said while he was proud of his art, he did not expect to win anything.
“With my work I thought it was good enough to submit, but I know so many people close to me that are so talented with illustra-tions,” he said. “I guess every once and a while your work just strikes a chord with them.”
When he was informed that he was one of the contest’s winners, he said he wasn’t surprised or excited, but skeptical that it was actually the contest o� cials. Since then, he said, the excitement has been slowly building.
“I don’t know if I’ve been able to grasp just the scale of this contest because it’s a pretty big thing,” he said. “Really I probably won’t fully realize the excitement until they � nally � y me out there for the ceremony.”
Despite the recognition his artwork has received, he said he isn’t sure of what to do from here.
� e writing contest was � rst started by L. Ron Hub-bard in 1983. An accompa-nying illustration contest was instituted in 1988 and to date has launched the careers of hundreds of il-lustrators.
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the same way. Certain as-pects of a situation are o� en similar to something that has happened before, but we don’t always make the con-nection.
Europe is currently being � ooded with Syrian refugees seeking a new home, similar to how the Jews were seeking safety from anti-Semitism in the 1930s and 1940s. Today, many see the Syrian mi-grants as potential terrorists. A brief article in the Sept. 25 issue of � e Week described how some people in Hun-gary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are holding signs that read, “Today’s refugees, tomorrow’s terrorists.” Just as the Jews faced hate and anti-Semitism during the war, Syrians today are facing stereotypes and rejection.
As Pope Francis encour-aged during his recent visit
to the United States regard-ing the Syrian refugees, “We must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories.” � is reminded me of Mr. Lenda’s message to eliminate hate and inspire love and acceptance.
Mr. Lenda’s evolving un-derstanding of the Holocaust relates perfectly to one of his favorite Latin proverbs, “� e times change and we change with them.” Mr. Lenda hopes that his stories will a� ect the way we change and inspire us to eliminate hate. As Tommy emphasized to me on the day of our interview, not hate but “the good feeling” helped people survive the worst genocide in history.
Allison Ho� is a 13 year old Kirkland resident.
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Improvements include a new playground, new picnic shelter, new path-ways, shoreline and beach enhancements, repairs to the dock, and drainage improvements to park lawn areas.
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The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be representa-tive of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
Between Dec. 4-11, there were 199 traffic incidents, 30 traffic accidents, one DUI, 46 general traffic incidents, 34 alarm calls, 11 abandoned vehicles, six burglaries, seven incidents of fraud, 13 civil incidents, 10 cases of harassment, 21 thefts, nine vehicle prowls, five vehicle thefts, 12 warrants served, 18 noise complaints, two animal calls, 14 inci-dents of domestic violence, eight incidents of malicious mischief, one arson, 11 distur-bances, one assaults, five hit and runs and 33 incidents involving at least one arrest.
Dec. 8 Assault: 6:30 p.m., 13500 block of 118th Ave NE. A 16-year-old boy was arrested for domestic violence and malicious mischief after he broke several items in the home, as well as assaulted someone with the buckle end of a belt. He then ran from police on contact despite officer orders. He was additionally charged with obstruc-tion.
Assault: 12:10 p.m., 14300 block of 123rd Ave NE. A 20-year-old man was arrested for assaulting his 27-year-old ex-girlfriend.
Dec. 7Assault: 3:10 p.m., 13100 block of 107th Pl NE. A 46-year-old woman was arrested for assaulting her roommate. She was upset with her roommate for call-ing police the night prior when she was involved in another domestic violence incident in which the man involved was
arrested and found to have drugs on him.
Dec. 6Assault: 5:50 a.m., 12400 block of NE 129th CT. A 23-year-old woman was arrested for assault after police were called to reports of arguments at the
residence. When officers arrived the woman admitted
to slapping the man, who was with her, in the face.
Assault: 5:30 a.m., 13100 block of 107th Pl NE. A 46-year-old
man was arrested after he got into an argument
with a 46-year-old woman and would not leave fol-
lowing a physical altercation. He then pushed and slapped
the woman. After he was arrested, officers found heroin and other drug related items on him.
Dec. 5Assault: 12:30 p.m., 13600 block of
128th Ave NE. A 48-year-old woman hit her brother in the head with a vodka bottle.
Assault: 11:50 p.m., 13400 block of NE 133rd St. A 41-year-old man was arrested for felony harassment and assault after he grabbed and threaten to kill his girlfriend with a knife in front of their 4-year-old daughter. He left the residence prior to police arriving but returned shortly after and was taken into custody.
Drugs: 10:12 a.m., 11600 block of Slater Ave NE. Two men, 18 and 24, and one boy, 16, were arrested after they were pulled over during a traffic stop and the vehicle was found to be stolen. One of them was arrested on a Kirkland warrant.
Assault: 1 a.m., 14200 block of 112th Ave NE. A 46-year-old woman was ar-rested for punching a man as he slept.
Dec. 4Assault: 8:40 p.m., 12600 block of NE 124th St. A 29-year-old man was arrested for assault after he pulled his girlfriend’s hair and struck her across the face. He was arrested and booked for assault.
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Vigil for Peace in Kirkland, Dec. 21
In the spirit of the holi-day season, multiple faith communities are putting aside their theological dif-ferences to stand together in witness for peace. Many will gather with candles and signs with one simple message: peace, from 4-6 p.m. on Dec. 21 at the intersection of Central Way and Third Street in downtown Kirkland.
In an unusual move, there is no political agenda for this gathering. The
goal is to show that the local community, and by extension the larger world, can stand together despite differences. People of many backgrounds have been working together to build relationships across faiths with no motive beyond respect for the other.
The Vigil for Peace is co-sponsored by F.I.R.E. (Fostering Interfaith Rela-tionships on the Eastside) and Northlake Unitar-ian Universalist Church. Everyone in the larger community is invited to participate.
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only our values in defining how we grow but defining our values in how we came together as a community and put this plan together.”
One of the ordinances in-cluded rewrites of the Totem Lake Business District Plan that had rezoning changes for several properties in the Totem Lake neighborhood. One of them included the Totem Commercial Center along NE 124th St. and al-lows for increased height for structures and a wide range of possible uses. The property owners praised the decision as a “game changer for the city.”
Todd Woosely of Hal Woosley Properties, Inc., which owns the Totem Commercial Center, told the council that the changes would put them in a position to redevelop it for multi-use.
“It is a new day for Kirk-land,” he said. “It will take time, as all these things do, but it’s a good place.”
Totem Lake, which is des-ignated as an urban center, is expected to grow from its present population of 5,544 to 9,800 by 2030, and double its housing units to 6,000. Employment is expected to increase from 11,511 to 29,000. The redevelopment of Totem Lake Malls by new owner Centercal Properties (and renamed the Village at Totem Lake) is expected to start sometime next year.
The council also approved an amendment request by MRM Capital for their prop-erty at 434 Kirkland Way, lo-cated just south of Parkplace in downtown Kirkland. The amendment allows for them to redevelop the property, located in a Central Busi-ness District, for mixed use, residential and retail, which they believe will create greater cohesion with the new Park-
place development owners named Kirkland Urban.
Critics of the request had claimed that it would go against the city’s pre-estab-lished vision for downtown and significantly diminish its capacity to offer office space for a daytime employment population. Right now, the 74,000-square-foot property contains a one story office building. MRM Capital Man-ager Joe Razore previously told the Reporter that they plan to have five stories of residential on top of the retail ground floor. The original zoning had a limit of 12.5 percent of the gross floor area for residential. The new zon-ing allows for six stories or 67 ft. for residential but up to 80 ft. if half the total gross space is office. Another ordinance for property in the Rose Hill neighborhood on 126th Ave NE changed the height limit from 45 to 54 feet. Another ordinance amended certain property in the Everest Neighborhood on 6th Street so that recreational open space is no longer required. One request concerning property in the North Rose Hill allows for limited com-mercial use on land zoned for office. While most of the ordinances were passed with-out further discussion, one of the amendments pertaining to several land parcels in the Moss Bay neighborhood gen-erated debate between both councilmembers and the property owners. The original amendment requested the property be rezoned from low density to high density, but the ultimate amendment designated it as medium density. Low density allows for nine units per acre, while medium density permits 12 per acre. Additionally, the council approved a 25 height limit on structures, with a 10 foot front setback, 20 feet for
driveways and 10 feet when abutting existing single family residences.
Jason Nelson, who origi-nally petitioned the city for the amendments and owns two lots in the neighborhood, objected to the switch from high density to medium, which he argued would make additional units impractical to put on the properties.
“I currently live behind Parkplace in a house sur-rounded by condos,” he said. “I’ve got neighbors that have houses….no one forces anybody to do anything but everyone has the option to do what they want with their property.”
A woman whose prop-erty is also affected by the rezoning complained that the medium density, rather than high density, would limit the number of units and thus the value of the property.
“We’re surrounded on all sides really by high density, so what reasoning is there to take our little plot of land and not make it high density?” she asked.
Another man who spoke also voiced his support for high density.
“The time is ripe to rezone to high density to really do anything financially in those houses or on those lots because they’re very small,” he said.
Several councilmembers sought to amend it to make the height limit 30 feet, afraid that the 25 foot limit would hinder potential development in the parcels, but the motion was defeated. Reiterating similar statements on the transportation masterplan, Councilmember Toby Nixon voiced his opposi-tion to aspects of one of the Comprehensive Plan Update that included transportation policies related to climate change.
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More details about the planned redevelopment
at Totem Lake Malls property were discussed by the developer and the city of Kirkland’s design review board (DRB) at a Dec. 7 meeting.
The conceptual design envisions a plaza situated between two separate buildings on the lower section of the property, with a large parking lot dotted with independent structures. Among the DRB’s guidelines concerns parking, which is intended to “minimize the number of drive-ways by restricting curb cuts and by encouraging property and business owners to com-bine parking lot entrances and coordinate parking areas,” according to a city memo. It also calls for the redevelopment to “encourage side and rear yard parking areas by re-stricting parking in front yards” and “require exten-sive screening where there is front yard parking.”
“Throughout Totem
Center, parking areas located between the street and the buildings should be discouraged,” the memo continues.
The master plan an-ticipates Metro Transit will eventually add a bus stop along 120th Avenue Northeast, the location of a joint effort between the city and CenterCal as part of a redesign in order to make it more friendly to pedestrians that could include more sidewalks and walkways.
The masterplan design conceives the Village at Totem Lake as a mixed-
use development that includes a theatre-anchored center featuring retail, 400 residen-
tial units, enter-tainment and office
spaces. The landscape con-
cept for the village is to “create lush and bucolic streetscape and public spaces that complement the mixed-use nature of the development,” accord-ing to their conceptual design plans. “The pro-posed landscape tree and plant selection will utilize an eclectic collection of native and imported
species, providing scale and color throughout the year.”
In all, the new mall is expected to include one million square feet of space.
According to the con-ceptual master plan for the project, now known as the Village at Totem Lake, most of the one-story re-tail building in the lower mall will be demolished, leaving the northern sec-tion intact. Most of the upper mall buildings will also be demolished, as well.
For the redevelopment, “all buildings on pedes-trian-oriented streets should be encouraged to have upper-story activities overlooking the street, as well as balconies and roof decks with direct access from living spaces,” ac-cording to a city memo.
“Residential build-ing facades visible from streets and public spaces should provide balconies of a sufficient depth to appear integrated into the building and not ‘tacked on,’” the memo states further.
Additionally, the DRB guidelines call for a vari-ety of colors and materials
for the numerous build-ings.
As part of the redevelop-ment, the Village at Totem Lake also envisions an 2,500 square foot Wells Fargo Bank building at the southern corner of the lower mall property, with drive-thru tellers as well as tellers inside the branch.
Once the design review board approves the proj-ect, they will be able to obtain building permits.
Businesses like the Ross department store, Famous
Footware and Car Toys in the lower mall will remain open throughout the re-development and there is no plan to demolish that building.
Conceptual design documents state that this section of the lower mall will be “architecturally consistent with the new construction.”
A Trader Joe’s spokes-person told the Reporter earlier this year that the grocery store has no plan to move away from
Totem Lake despite the fact that Whole Foods has been announced as the anchor tenant for the new development. The Whole Foods store will be 40,000-square-feet and located in the mixed-use development at I-405 and Northeast 124th Street. It is anticipated to open in the summer of 2017, and will be the first Whole Foods Market in Kirkland.
Meanwhile, the owners of the Totem Lake Hotel, located adjacent to the malls and the Totem Lake Cinema, are taking advan-tage of the redevelopment by engaging in their own renovation work.
In 2004, Coventry Real Estate Advisors and Developers Diversified Realty purchased the To-tem Lake Malls from the California Public Employ-ees’ Retirement System for $37 million, intend-ing to redevelop the site. Instead, the site became entangled in a $500 mil-lion fraud lawsuit filed in New York state. In April, Village at Totem Lake LLC purchased the mall. The Village at Totem Lake LLC is a joint venture partner-ship between CenterCal and PCCP, LLC.
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This artist’s rendering shows what the Village at Totem Lake could look like when the development is complete. CONTRIBUTED ARTTOTEM
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Offer ends 1/3/16. New residential customers only. Not available in all areas. Requires subscription to Blast!® Starter Double Play with Digital Starter TV, The Movie Channel™ and Blast! Internet. Early termination fee applies. Equipment, installation, taxes and fees, including Broadcast TV Fee (up to $3.50/mo.), Regional Sports Fee (up to $1.00/mo.) and other applicable charges extra, and subject to change during and after the promo. Additional outlet fee applies to multi-room viewing. After applicable promotional periods, or if any service is cancelled or downgraded, regular rates apply. Comcast’s current service charge for Blast!® Starter Double Play is $109.95/mo. and for DVR service (including HD Technology Fee) is $19.95/mo. (pricing subject to change). Service limited to a single outlet. May not be combined with other offers. TV: Limited Basic service subscription required to receive other levels of service. Internet: Actual speeds vary and are not guaranteed. WiFi claim based on September and November 2014 studies by Allion Test Labs, Inc. Two-year term agreement with qualifying Extreme Premier Triple Play required with prepaid card offer. Call for restrictions and complete details. Minimum-term agreement required with prepaid card offers. Cards issued by Citibank, N.A. pursuant to a license from Visa® U.S.A. Inc. and managed by Citi Prepaid Services. Cards will not have cash access and can be used everywhere Visa® debit cards are accepted. © 2015 Comcast. All rights reserved. NPA173160-0001
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