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BY CARRIE WOOD

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With her 7-year-old Boxer, Michelle Nichols didn’t have a choice.

Her dog, McKenzie, who suff ered from a hereditary heart condition, dropped

right in front of her with a heart attack and died several years ago.

“So that was devastating to me,” recalled Nichols, who has since founded the Belle-vue-based non-profi t organi-zation AHELP - the Animal Hospice End of Life Project

– a coalition of veterinarians, allied animal service provid-ers and pet owners interested in providing education about in-home caregiving, hospice care and end-of-life options for beloved pets. AHELP will host a free, pet-friendly “Friend in Need” open house from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at Seattle Veterinary Special-ists in Kirkland.

As an avid pet owner, Nichols has been through so many “dogs, cats, animals that I loved and have done

the typical euthanasia because they had cancer or whatever condition they had,” she said. “I just felt that was so unfulfi lling. It felt so insignifi cant and empty and disrespectful – not the ending to a life that I had shared with a friend for years and years. Th at is not what I wanted for my animals.”

So when her Boxer, Brodie, faced the end of his life two years ago, Nichols turned to a natural death.

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Part 5: The future of Totem LakeBY MATT PHELPS AND CARRIE WOOD

Kirkland Reporter

The Totem Lake Malls, lake and surrounding neigh-borhood have a storied past. Th e area also has great potential.

Th e malls’ future is directly tied to the state of the surround-ing neighborhood.

Traffi c fl ow and access to the malls from the freeway and surrounding area can hinder or positively impact economic growth. Th e environmental impacts and potential recreational benefi ts from Totem Lake could bring in more people to the area on a regular basis or even physically prevent people from being able to get to the malls due to fl ooding. Th e expansion of

the surrounding business district can take away economic op-portunities from a potential redevelopment of the malls or can help to bring more shoppers to the area. Th ese and many more issues cloud the future of the once-vibrant malls.

In this fi nal piece of the ongoing fi ve-part series on the Totem Lake Malls, the Reporter will examine what may lie ahead for one of the most important pieces of retail real estate in Kirkland.

Totem Lake SymposiumTh e desolate sight of the malls makes it look as if the City of

Kirkland is doing nothing to help redevelopment along.

Reporter’s Totem Lake Malls survey resultsBY MATT PHELPS

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Getting a feel for what the public wants to see at the Totem Lake Malls site is apparently really easy. Th e Reporter ran a survey with the Totem Lake Malls series asking residents for their ideas and 333 read-ers replied. Th at number dwarfs all surveys pub-lished by the Reporter in the past fi ve years.

Th e ideas submitted in the survey were as diverse as the types of stores that residents want to see at the malls. Th e Reporter received 29 handwritten responses and 303 online surveys. Responses came from as far away as Florida and New York and included 10 states and Canada. And while not every person that fi lled out the survey completed every section, it was obvious people were passionate about the neighborhood and the malls’ current state.

Th e main section of the survey asked: “What are the most important im-

provements you would like to see in the Totem Lake Business District?”

Th e overwhelming votes were for more places to shop, more things to do in the area and the direct redevelopment of Totem Lake Malls. Flood control, parks and traffi c circula-tion and more gathering places were not at the top, but still important to respondents. Th e least important thing to the ma-jority of the respondents of the survey were pedestri-

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Th e Reporter tallied up how many times the individual businesses were mentioned in the

Totem Lake has a lot of potential as a recreational destination but the build up of silt over time has led the lake to over stretch its original boundaries. CHAD COLEMAN, Kirkland Reporter

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Brodie also suff ered with an irregular heartbeat and required intensive care throughout his life. As he got older, the family found out he also had a terminal seizure condition.

“Th e animal hospital sent us home with a handful of pills because our vet didn’t do overnight care,” recalled Nichol’s mom, Carol Soukup, a registered hospice nurse who lives in Kirkland. “He thought if we continued to

medicate his seizures that it would probably be okay and we’ll see you tomorrow.”

But Brodie’s condition worsened overnight. As his seizures kept coming, Nichols worried the pills would run out. Soukup put her skills as an on-call hospice nurse for people to work and reassured her daughter.

“I was just there to say, you only have those pills, you have to give him another one. It’s not due, I don’t care. Give it – that’s what you have,”

said Soukup, who reassured Nichols her pooch was not in pain. Nichols knew she didn’t want to bring Brodie to the veterinarian for an emergen-cy euthanasia in the middle of the night. So her family shared time with Brodie and said goodbye.

“Th e sun started to come up through the trees and everyone was waking up, except Michelle, who was still tired from being up all night,” recalled Soukup of the dying experience. “Brodie just

lift ed his head up and looked around as if to say, ‘where’s Michelle?’”

Nichols came back upstairs, kneeled beside him and said, “It’s okay, Brodie, you can go,” said Soukup, crying. “Th e family poignant moment of supporting that dying process is so remark-ably beautiful that you have to not be grieving for it, you have to be grateful for it.”

Nichols was amazed at how diff erent she felt aft er loosing Brodie compared to the losses of her other pets and she understood the value that hospice support could bring to animals. So that started her mission into the realm of animal hospice. It’s a new movement she found out as she attended seminars and went to house calls with veterinarians like Dr.Tina Ellenbogen, of Bothell, who performs in-home eutha-nasia. Nichols learned that pet owners can take care of a terminal or special needs pet at home if they are given the resources.

Last year, Nichols started her business, Partners to the Bridge, which supports companion animals and their families to end-of-life through home visits and case management. However, she soon discovered the com-munity was unaware of what animal hospice is. So she turned her focus to AHELP to educate people about

hospice, which supports the family and empowers them to promote a healthy grieving process. AHELP co-founders include Soukup and several area animal service providers.

She emphasized that AHELP does not advocate telling pet owners they should approach end-of-life issues one way or the other, rather the organization empowers people and gives them the resources to make those decisions themselves.

Nichols’ European Boxer, Sora, was diagnosed with

terminal cancer several months ago. She coordi-nated an end-of-life plan with her veterinarian, her mother and other care providers.

Sora passed away on her dog bed surrounded by her family on Jan. 14. Nichols said she felt empowered through the experience and was grateful she got to spend Sora’s last moments with her.

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BY LOITA HAWKINSON

Kirkland Heritage Society President

Th e fi rst celebration of Founders’ Day in Kirkland was the 1922 Bicentennial to honor Samuel, Caroline and Harry French who arrived at Pleasant Bay in 1872. Founders’ Day was again celebrated with the Found-ers’ Centennial in 1972. Th at Centennial gave Kirkland our fi rst Moss Bay Days and fi rst public art: the bronze Founders’ Fountain by James Fitzgerald at Marina Park.

Th e French family was not the fi rst to settle in the area, but they were the fi rst to stay. Th ree generations of French’s are buried in the Kirkland Cemetery and their home is the city’s oldest known dwell-ing. Th e Centennial Fountain was one of Fitzgerald’s last commissioned works before he died in 1973.

For two years Peter Kirk searched the Pacifi c coast for the ideal area to locate his Iron and Steel Works. In 1888 he chose the settlement on Nelson Bay between the lake ports of Houghton and Juanita. Th e new town was named Kirkland aft er Kirk. Nelson Bay was renamed Moss Bay aft er Moss Bay in Workington, England, home of Kirk’s original iron works.

In 1905, Kirkland was in-

corporated. Th at Centennial was celebrated in 2005.

Founders’ Week is cel-ebrated annually during the week in which founder Peter Kirk’s Feb. 15 birthday falls. For the month of February, Kirkland Heritage Society fi lls the City Hall lobby display case with Kirkland history, which includes Peter Kirk’s top hat, and history from Rose Hill, Juanita, Finn Hill and Houghton.

Th is Founders’ Week Kirkland Heritage Society is posting signs in downtown Kirkland with old photos and a snippet of history about the building in which the sign is posted. Fift een businesses are participat-ing. Because Kirkland was founded in 1888, the 1888

theme will be carried out by many of the participat-ing businesses. Some will be off ering a service or sale item for $18.88. Take the time to stop and see the sign posted, while getting acquainted with the services they provide for Kirkland. Th e celebration off ers a self-guided walking tour and gives us a chance to learn history and see photos of long-gone days.

Participating busi-nesses are: A Touch of Class, Bella Tesori/Bella Bambini, Beadworld, Bikini Beach, Café Happy, Design Within Reach, Grape Choice, Hall-mark Real Estate, Hectors, Howard/Mandville Gallery, Soul Ease Holistic Yoga Spa & Art Gallery, Th e Slip, Trendz Nail Bar and Zoka.

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*Food discount applies with beverage purchase only.

Savor Chef Brian Scheehser’s award-winning flavors.

Rustic, robust dishes, featuring the freshest ingredients from his

expanded 10-acre farm, accompanied by a boutique wine list.

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With Valentine’s Day right around the cor-ner, I thought this would be the perfect op-portunity to talk about the ways QFC can help support your heart health. February is Ameri-can Heart Month and we are proud to partner with the American Heart Association’s “Go Red For Women” as our Checkstand Charity of the month. So when you visit your neigh-borhood QFC florist to pick up that beautiful rose arrangement, as well as the ingredients for your romantic heart-healthy Valentine’s meal, remember that a small donation at our check-stands can have a positive impact on the health of many other hearts too!

There are three ways you can contribute this February: ask your cashier to scan a $1, $5, or $10 donation card, designate that your 3-cent reusable bag credit be donated or simply place your extra change in our coin boxes. You will be helping to fund life-saving research and educa-tion powered by the American Heart Associa-tion.

Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States. An alarming sta-tistic reveals our mothers, sisters, daughters and friends are dying at the rate of 1 per min-ute. Heart disease actually kills more American women than the next five causes of death com-bined, including cancer. This is why “Go Red for Women” exists – it is a way to raise aware-ness and dispel the myth that this is an “older man’s disease.” It is a passionate social initiative designed to empower women to take charge of

their heart health. You can begin by taking small but significant actions recom-mended by the American Heart Association:1. Celebrate with a check-upLet each birthday remind you that it’s time for your yearly physical and a talk with your doctor about how you can reduce your risk for heart disease.2. Get off the couchWork up to at least 30 min-utes of physical activity on a weekly routine. Step, march, jog in place—you can even do it while watching TV. Speak with your doctor be-fore starting a new exercise program. 3. Quit smoking in four stepsIf you smoke, but can’t quit “cold turkey”, cut the number of cigarettes you smoke each day in half; then cut that number in half; cut it in half again; finally, cut down to zero!4. Drop a pound or twoBy cutting out 500 to 1,000 calories a day you can lose up to two pounds per week, and gradu-ally bring yourself closer to a heart-healthy weight.5. Become a salt detective

Check out the Nutrition Facts panel on pack-aged foods to see how much sodium they con-tain. Aim for a total intake of no more than 2,300 milligrams (about a teaspoon of salt) per day.

Eating a healthy diet along with regular phys-ical activity are important steps in reducing risk factors for heart disease. The American Heart Association recommends eating a variety of nu-tritious foods, and QFC offers many great-tast-ing, convenient, nutritious options in just about every aisle. When it comes to packaged goods, the American Heart Association’s (AHA) heart

check mark is a great tool to identify a product that meets the AHA’s certification criteria for saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium and healthful nutrients. This way, we will build healthier lives, healthier hearts, and will be able to spend many more Valentine’s Days with the ones we love. Thank you for your support of the American Heart Association and “Go Red For Women.”

Eric Miller is the Public Affairs Specialist for QFC.

He can be reached at [email protected] or

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The blotter feature is both a descrip-tion 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 offi cers. The Kirkland Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be repre-sentative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 800 per week.

Between Jan. 28 to Feb. 3 the Kirkland Police Department reported 582 traffi c violations (eight DUIs), 14 traffi c accidents, eight noise complaints, fi ve thefts, six domestic violence calls, 23 alarm calls, 12 car prowls, fi ve cases of civil disturbanc-es, six burglaries, four disturbances, 10 cases of fraud and fi ve harass-ment calls. At least 41 people were arrested.

Feb. 3Illegal substance: 11:05 p.m., 8600 114th Ave. N.E. A 21-year-old Bothell man was arrested for possession of marijuana after being contacted as a possible subject involved in a malicious mischief incident.

Feb. 2Domestic: 6:21 p.m., 10800 block of N.E. 121st Street. Two siblings were involved in a physical and verbal domestic disturbance over food. The older sister clawed her younger brother’s neck and bit him on the back, causing pain and leaving marks. The injuries were photographed and a written

statement was taken. The 19-year-old woman was arrested for

domestic violence and assault.

Theft: 2:07 p.m., 12600 block of N.E. 105th Place. A 39-year-old Kirkland man

reported that he paid for Super Bowl tickets and the

suspect mailed him scrap paper instead.

Assault: 9:15 p.m., 6800 block of 132nd Ave. N.E. A 27-year-old

Kirkland female called to report that a male had pushed one of her friends, a 15-year-old girl, in the line of a Dairy Queen. The 18-year-old Kirkland man also placed a pocket knife on the table in front of the two females and bragged about how he “had a knife.”

Feb. 1Order violation: 11:09 p.m., 12700 block of N.E. 120th Street. A 50-year-old Kirkland woman reported that her daughter was outside her home knocking on the door, violating a protection order. The woman was arrested.

Warrant arrest: 9:40 a.m., 12000 block of Slater Ave. N.E. A 28-year-old Lynnwood man was arrested on an outstanding escape

warrant.

Jan. 31Illegal substance: 11:20 p.m., 12400 block of 116th Ave. N.E. A traffi c stop resulted in the arrest of the two occupants for possession of marijuana.

Jan. 30Illegal substance: 10:35 p.m., 12200 block of N.E. 116th Street. Police contacted a 24-year-old Bellingham female and a 22-year-old Redmond man in a suspicious vehicle behind Shari’s restaurant. Both were found with marijuana and the vehicle was found to have Suboxone and other drug paraphernalia. Both were arrested.

Jan. 29Minor, liquor violation: 1:43 a.m., 13000 Totem Lake Boulevard N.E. A traffi c stop resulted in the arrest of a passenger for being a minor in consumption of alcohol.

Theft: 12:12 p.m., 8629 120th Ave. N.E. Two females were arrested for shoplifting nasal strips, New York strip steak, Taquitos and Omeprazole at Costco.

Domestic: 7:39 p.m., 11400 block of N.E. 90th Street. A 51-year-old man called police to report that his 17-year-old stepson as-saulted him. The man attempted to restrain the boy after he began punching the walls of his bedroom. The man sustained injuries to his arm, leg and lower lip.

Jan. 28Warrant arrest: 9:44 p.m., 12000 block of 89th Plane N.E. A man was arrested on a felony warrant.

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Dieujuste on dean’s list

Kirkland resident Ostine Dieujuste was

recently named to the Columbia College dean’s list for the October to December 2010 award period.

To be named to the dean’s list a student must have completed 12 semes-ter hours in a 16-week period and achieved a minimum GPA of 3.5 on a four point scale.

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Third Street open for two-way traffi c

Th e new Kirkland Transit Center, located on Th ird Street between Central Way and Kirkland Avenue, is about to open.

Sound Transit’s contractor is expected to complete the project, with restored bus ser-vice to the new transit center

beginning Saturday, Feb. 26.In addition, Th ird Street

is now ready for intermit-tent two-way traffi c. Closing a single lane of traffi c may still be required while Sound Transit’s contractor completes the signage, art elements and the site is cleaned up.

While work progresses, pedestrians are encouraged to exercise caution when

walking along Th ird Street. Th e pedestrian crossing mid-block on Th ird Street, connecting Park Lane to the ball fi elds and Kirkland Li-brary, will open to the public in mid-February.

To learn about bus service and boarding locations at the Kirkland Transit Center, visit http://metro.kingcounty.gov/up/scvchange.html.

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Based on yesterday’s King County special election results, things are looking good for Lake Washington School District (LWSD). As of Tuesday night, the district’s Capital Projects Levy received a 59.33 percent yes vote and 40.67 percent no vote.

Although the fi nal vote count is not certifi ed until Feb. 23, LWSD director of communications Kathryn Reith said they are “absolutely grateful” for the community’s support of the $65.4 million vote-by-mail levy, which required a simple majority of 50 percent plus one yes vote to pass. In the past, Reith said yes votes have usually in-creased as more ballots came in and were counted.

“We’re pretty confi dent that (the levy) will pass,” she

said.According to the King

County Elections Web site, a total of 28,268 ballots have been counted — 16,760 in favor, 11,490 against. Th ere are 98,987 registered voters in the county as of Jan. 28, making the turnout so far 28.56 percent. Because the postmark deadline for the election was Tuesday, Reith said the tally thus far is for all ballots that have come in up to then. King County will release an updated count every day around 4:30 p.m. until the election is certifi ed at www.kingcounty.gov/elec-tions. Th e county expects a turnout of about 38 percent for all measures in the special election.

“Th ere are still ballots in the mail to be counted,” Reith said.

Th e six-year levy will allow LWSD to build additional

classrooms at Redmond and Eastlake high schools and build a new secondary choice school that will focus on sci-ence, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. Reith said now that it looks like the measure will pass, the district’s facilities will start working on the preliminary plans for these projects because construction must be complete by fall 2012.

Th e district also has to plan the academic program and curriculum for the new school, Reith said. As for its location, she said they are looking at a piece of land the district already owns next to Louisa May Alcott Elementary School in Redmond. Before construc-tion can begin, though, the district must go through the permitting process and be approved by King County.

LWSD levy passing with 59 percent


Abortion is fancy way to say selfi sh

Today I am going to change your look at abortion. I do have references to the Bible written here. Now fi rst you might be saying, “Th e Bible is a book of fairy tales and it doesn’t appear in our culture anymore.” Well, you are wrong. Th e Bible has and had a huge impact on our culture. You might think you can cover it up by changing B.C. to Before Common Era or B.C.E., but I would say that doesn’t even do it. When you have a president (Obama) swear his loyalty to you on a Bible, a book he doesn’t believe, you might want to ques-tion his loyalty. If he swore on some beat up book and visibly crossed his fi ngers, then I would know where he stood with God. But no, his hand touched Lincoln’s Bible and he swore on it without any denial. Th at means

he either is a liar or he actually be-lieves God’s word.

Let’s get back to abortion, though. Abortion is a fancy way to say SELF-ISH. Abortion doesn’t refl ect on the baby’s point of view, it refl ects yours. Say you’re 16 and then you realize you are pregnant. Th e fi rst thought that comes to your mind, shamed. What will people think of you if you drop out of school to raise your child? Well, what would people think of you if your baby grew up to become a man or woman thought of when people talk about Martin Luther King, Junior or Lincoln or Washington? You don’t know if the baby’s face will show up on America’s Most Wanted or have a day dedicated to him or her. Th ink of what they would become if you let them live.

Finally Americans are entitled to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of hap-piness. Th e children inside you are still Americans, right? When you kill

them you are taking away life. As well as liberty. You are making the choices, not the baby. Th ey have absolutely no say! And they should never be killed because you, when you perform abortion, you are taking away life, and liberty, and theoretically the pursuit of happiness.

Th e only reason you are here now is because your parents didn’t have an abortion. All those children would have been here now if you didn’t have an abortion. God says in Psalm 139:13: “For You formed my inward parts, You wove me together in my mother’s womb.” God is still forming the baby in your womb when you kill it. Th at is like ruining someone’s creation. It’s like trampling on one of Picasso’s best works. Psalm 139:14: “I will give thanks to you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; won-derful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.” Everyone, even children who have been killed are

wonderfully made and don’t deserve to be assassinated. So if you’re in a tough situation, remember the points I have made. I hope this will change your outlook on abortion. Meredith Maloof, Peter Kirk Elementary 6th grader

City gives public false impression on TOD

Council’s recent workshop and the previous meeting at Northwest College were nothing more than an attempt to gain support for what the mayor and council had previously decided. Th ey did not want to hear that the Transit Oriented Develop-ment (TOD) would create greater gridlock downtown for the people getting off the buses. Th ey didn’t want to hear that their arguments for aff ordable housing were bogus. Bob Style, Kirkland

The Reporter’s series on Totem Lake Malls has been eye opening – even for us. Going into the series we wondered how we would get

a fi ve-part series out of the topic. What we ended up with was so much information that we could have done a seven- or eight-part series. Our average story length for any news story is about 15 inches. Th e average story length for the Totem Lake series has been about 50 inches, not including photos, with the longest being a whopping 80 inches.

Th e response from readers has been nothing short of amazing.

Th e survey that ran with the series in the fi rst issue and online is just one component. As of Tues-day morning, we had received 29 hard copies in the mail and 304 online. We want to thank those who took time out of their day to give us their thoughts. Not all the responses were from those in Kirkland. We received surveys from people who used to live in Kirkland and have since moved away to places such at Florida, Colorado, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Iowa, Oklahoma, New York, Hawaii and Canada. For more on what people had to say in the survey see our cover story.

Th e idea for the series came from a Reporter Newspapers editorial conference. We strive to print good community journalism with in-depth report-ing. We stay true to these values in an attempt to set ourselves apart from online news sources and other news outlets. Both Reporter editorial staff members Carrie Wood and Matt Phelps have been asked about the state of the malls since arriving in Kirkland and fi gured it was time to get some answers. Since moving our offi ces from the Market neighborhood to the Totem Lake neighborhood we have seen fi rst hand the frustration with the property. But we have seen that frustration from readers, local businesses and the City of Kirkland turn towards optimism since starting the series.

We worked on the series for over four months, researching, interviewing, taking photos and spending countless hours on the phone.

While many of the news stories that run in

the Reporter average about three to fi ve sources, the Totem Lake Series was off the scale. Th e fi nal story accumulated more than 350 sources with the survey included. Th e story on the lawsuit and own-ership profi le had more than 60 sources, despite never being able to get a response from anyone in the ownership group.

We apologize if other areas of the paper have suf-fered during the last fi ve weeks, but we thought this issue is one of the most important facing the City of Kirkland and its residents right now.

Th e series has included the history, demise, pro-fi le of ownership, economic impact, current state of the malls and the future of the Totem Lake Malls. Th e Reporter has also attempted to augment the se-ries with profi les on other aspects and businesses in the Totem Lake neighborhood. Denny’s Pet World has been in the upper mall since the beginning. Totem Lake Cinemas is one of the only Bollywood theaters in the Western United States. Bob Lightfelt was the owner of Shady Lady in the mall for 15 years and has since retired. ShopSmart Bazaar is the newest business at the mall. Also included, was a story on the remodel of one of the most used busi-

nesses in the neighborhood, Fred Meyer, which is located just across the freeway from the site.

Th e most astonishing aspects to the series for Reporter staff was the absolute stonewall received from the malls’ ownership group and the economic impact of that single piece of property in the City of Kirkland.

Th ere are some people that we would like to extend a special thanks in making this series pos-sible: Everyone at the City of Kirkland including Marie Stake, Ellen Miller-Wolfe, Kurt Triplett, Joan McBride, Dave Asher, Mary-Alyce Bur-leigh, Ray Steiger, Eric Shields, Robin Jenkinson, Denny’s Pet World owner John Fleshman, Loita Hawkinson and Matthew McCauley of the Kirk-land Heritage Society, former Kirkland Mayor Bill Woods, Matt Harding, Sue and Sants Con-treras, and everyone who e-mailed and called to thank us just for doing our jobs and producing the stories.

Our hope with this series was to educate the public and to hopefully push the process along. All residents of Kirkland have a stake in the future of the Totem Lake neighborhood.

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Coach Program to assist those living in permanent supportive housing to increase income and access to eco-nomic opportuni-ties, build assets and make gains toward economic independence.

-ceived holiday food and gifts. The list of donors grew again this year and we are so grateful for the support.

units of affordable housing through a major renovation of Salisbury Court, a KITH transitional and supportive housing property; Synergy Construction and the King County Weatherization Program took the lead on

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Over the past few years the economy has hit everyone hard. KITH’s clients are no exception.

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agencies to fill every need we can. Like any business, under the governance of a strong Board of Directors, KITH’s team has worked diligently to stabilize, clarify priorities, and focus on the basics. We’ve been putting strong processes in place to make sure we are effective and our clients receive the optimal level of support

and help with every dollar and every in-kind donation. KITH case managers work closely with each family as they pursue their unique individual goals which will move them toward the ulti-mate goal of self-sufficiency.

This year KITH will continue focus on the core programs of the agency and begin to build a platform so we can take advantage of opportunities as the economy improves. Among

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But the city has recently attempted to help move along the process. The city entered into an agreement with the current owners of the malls, Coventry and Developers Diversified Real Estate (DDR), in 2004 that has fallen apart due to Coventry suing DDR and the economic downturn. Still, the city has held many community meetings to dis-cuss the area. One of those meetings was the Totem Lake Symposium held in September at the To-tem Lake Courtyard Marriott.

“We ignored the area for so long,” said Kirkland Mayor Joan McBride. “Some of us wanted to do something sooner. We have known for a while that this is the place to work on but we just could not keep up a steady vision and it has been to our detriment ... It is the business center of Kirkland. We make over 30 percent of our sales tax from the Totem Lake neighbor-hood.”

The symposium’s aim was to bring together about 50 property owners and area businesses, regional experts in finance, development design and engineering and city leaders to talk about the issues facing the greater neighborhood.

“We needed to ask the

people who do business there what they need,” said McBride.

The symposium brought light to some redevelopment barriers, such as having no sense of place, a lack of public or private funding, prescrip-tive zoning along with uncer-tain and slow permitting.

Some of the input given at the symposium has already been addressed by the city or other groups such as a dog park, which will open near the court house later this year, and a city presence in Totem

Lake, which will take the form of a new public safety building on the west side of the 405 freeway.

“The ah-ha mo-ment for me as the new

person was that there is so much more in the Totem Lake neighborhood than just the malls,” said Kirkland City Manager Kurt Triplett, who started in the position just

before the symposium.The issue of the BNSF rail

line that is just to the south of the malls is much like the lake in that there are great oppor-tunities, but many hurdles.

The rail line could bring connectivity to other parts of the city and region with light rail or a pedestrian bike and walking trail. But there are other issues such as how to bridge the rail line with cross-ing traffic and businesses.

The collective owners of Totem Square, which is located to the south of the malls, want to redevelop, said Triplett. The issue of the rail line, which runs directly through the development, is something the owners are beginning to work with the city on. However, the city does not own the rail line, and no one really knows who ultimately will own the defunct rail corridor in Kirkland and what they will do with it, which leaves the

city in an awkward place as far as granting ways to bridge the land.

One of the biggest problems with most of the ideas, though, is they take a massive amount of money. In a good economy, finding the money for such projects was difficult but not impossible. The city could seek state and federal dollars for transporta-tion improvements, create revenue from increased taxes or utilize bonds to improve infrastructure. In this economy, the city will have to

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ferent look at your capital projects ...,” said Triplett. “What we can do is if we have a project coming in the next couple of years that we have set aside money for but may not get federal or state matching funds, we could redirect those transportation dollars. There is no new money, there is no magic money, but if we can get money that is just sitting and put it to work for us we hope that can catalyze the process.”

Another revenue source is the $15 million the city committed to fund road improvements when offi-cials approved the devel-opment agreement. One of the biggest issues when talking about the neighbor-hood is traffic congestion and linkage.

Participants from the symposium and to the Reporter’s survey about the area talked about a north-bound on-ramp to 405 at N.E. 116th Street. The problem for the city is they have no control over that part of the process. The Washington State Depart-ment of Transportation has

talked about an on and off-ramp at N.E. 132nd Street.

“What we can do ... is to build small little connectors in the Totem Lake neigh-borhood,” said McBride.

One of those is a road that would connect N.E. 120th Street and Totem Lake Boulevard on the east side of 405.

The city has also worked with property owners on regulations to promote mixed-use redevelop-ment and has taken steps to declare Totem Lake an “Urban Center.”

But some in the busi-ness community have not seen the city’s actions as credible.

Stu Vander Hoek, presi-dent of Vander Hoek Corp., said the city should not “over-promise” more than it can provide.

Vander Hoek, who participated in the origi-nal Totem Lake Advisory Committee for seven years in the 1990s, manages fam-ily commercial and residen-tial property in downtown Bellevue and the Parmac Industrial Park in Kirkland.

“Even though the turn-out was good, I don’t have a lot of hope for the process,” said Vander Hoek of the symposium. “Until the city realizes they need to bring

a few primary stakeholders together who are commit-ted to a common vision, not much will happen in Totem Lake.”

He added a group of committed stakehold-ers could work with the development community to “create a realistic vision” for the area.

“This is what Bellevue did, and other communi-ties have done previously,” said Vander Hoek, noting that local stakeholders have been successful redevelop-ing the Bel-Red Corridor in recent years.

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Despite his doubt with the city’s redevel-opment efforts, Vander Hoek attended the recent symposium to voice his concerns.

He believes Totem Lake holds the potential to become the city’s second downtown. However, the neighborhood’s current demographics are not strong enough to support redevelopment of the malls, said Vander Hoek.

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parently don’t have enough demand from the local market. As long as they don’t have confidence in investing in the area, they won’t,” he said. “And, to try and pull customers from Bellevue, Woodinville, Bothell and Redmond might never happen. The bottom line is there just aren’t enough people living in the Totem Lake area to support a large scale mall. That’s why more housing is critical.”

He said a successful redevelopment of the malls would seek to bull-doze the property, create a park around the lake with housing and office space. Alternatively, the city could work with a developer to create a lid over the freeway between N.E. 124th and N.E. 128 to support an area where parks and recreation with housing could be placed together, he added.

“This could then be tied into future transit-oriented development. The mall itself could then be raised at least one level above the existing grade so that parking wouldn’t have to be buried, given the problems with the soil in that area especially.”

For this to happen, the city should be supportive of new development by simplifying the develop-ment process, cost, limi-tations and requirements, he said.

Several developers that attended the symposium agree that the malls’ rede-velopment should include a mix of retail, housing and office.

Andy Loos, develop-ment manager for SRM Development, LLC in Kirkland, says this type of mixed-use would strengthen the surround-ing neighborhood and provide for better infra-structure and community

amenities.“There is no real attrac-

tion to the area,” he told the Reporter. “It’s tough for retail to compete with Redmond and Bellevue. The city must create a niche, an amenity in the area, a draw for residen-tial and retail.”

He said the city, for example, could do some-thing with the lake and its shoreline to make it an amenity.

Symposium participant Jim Tosti, president of Windward Real Estate Services, Inc. in Kirkland, is interested in purchas-ing property and devel-oping in the Totem Lake neighborhood.

He said the neighbor-hood needs an overall conceptual plan “with a commitment from this

city for infrastructure improvements to kick this thing off.”

The area surround-ing the malls is already a medical hub, says Tosti, but it has the potential to become more. Add a transportation hub, resi-dential, office, retail and “it would become its own little town.”

Johanna Palmer’s biggest concern with the greater Totem Lake neighborhood is land use. Her family business, DeY-oung Manufacturing has been in Totem Lake for more than 25 years and employs about 65 people.

“We are located in the last area zoned for light manufacturing,” noted Palmer. “For the last 25 years the city has rezoned and ‘up-zoned’ all the

areas that were for indus-trial uses to commercial, office, or residential uses. Manufacturers and other providers of basic services are being zoned out of Kirkland.”

She said the city needs to make the land-use process more predictable in time and cost.

In addition, a redevel-oped mall would provide the area and northern an-nexation neighborhoods with an “economic and community focal point,” said Palmer. “Many people just drive through Totem Lake on their way to and from work. A good selection of businesses could serve those com-muters and these neigh-borhoods.”

Taking actionDuring the final meet-

ing of 2010 the Kirkland City Council adopted the Totem Lake Action Plan. It is a comprehensive guide to revitalizing the Totem Lake neighbor-hood that directly came from the symposium. The council has made the plan the city’s top focus in 2011.

“We are putting our money where our mouth is,” said Triplett.

The plan outlines things the city can do immediately, in the short term and long term. Some of the immediate things were a dog park and new public safety facility. The dog park is set to open this year and the My Home Wholesale build-ing, located near the cur-

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Seven members of the Lake Washington wrestling team earned spots at the regional tournament this Saturday aft er top per-formances at the KingCo tournament last weekend.

Senior Joel Navas won the 125 pound division with a 14-3 win over Ben Matteucci from Bellevue. It is a third KingCo title for Navas during his high school carerr.

In the 215 division, Jack Michels won the title aft er beating Jimmy Trull, also from Bellevue, with a 5-2 decision. Both Kang wres-tlers will have No. 1 seeds going into the regional tournament.

Joel Gonzales was second overall in the 140 pound division, while the follow-ing all took third: Gabe Brunson at 112, Austin Fle-gel at 119, Jacob Reddinger at 135 and Jerry Petrechko at 171.

Th e regional tournament takes place Feb. 12 at Gla-cier Peak High School. Th e top four wrestlers in each weight class will qualify for the state tournament the following weekend in the Tacoma Dome.

JHS wrestlers take third at KingCo meet

Th e Juanita wrestling team took third last weekend at the KingCo fi nals at Liberty High School. Th e team had fi ve wrestlers compete in the fi nals and six advanced to the regional tournament this weekend.

Th anh Truong earned a third place fi nish in the 103 pound bracket, while Jona-than Iwasaki earned a second place at 119. Rebel wrestler Michael Przystupa was sec-ond in the 152 division, while Logan McCallum fi nished second at 171 pounds. Chase Miller was also second in the 189 division and Jeremiah Laufasa was second in his

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Kirkland swimmers prepare for district meet

Members of the Lake Washington and Juanita boys swim and dive teams are preparing for the SeaKing district meet this weekend.

Last Saturday at the King-Co meet at the University of Washington pool, Lake Washington fi nished sixth out of the 3A schools, with Juanita fi nishing seventh.

Th e Kangs picked up 102 points overall, while Juanita had 58.

Th e district meet will begin Friday, Feb. 11 at Mary Wayte pool on Mercer Island at 4:15 p.m. with the fi nals on Saturday, Feb. 12, also at Mary Wayte pool, starting at 5:15 p.m.

Qualifying swimmers will head to the state meet at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way the following weekend.

LW gymnasts qualify for district meet

Four members of the Lake Washington gymnastics team earned spots in the SeaKing district meet next Saturday.

Heather Stambaugh, Holly Sullivan, Lauren Hamilton and Manon Debuire each earned a place at the district competition. Th e Kangs earned a sixth place team fi n-ish at the KingCo meet.

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INTERLAKE In the fi nal week of the regular

season last week, the Juanita Rebels fi nish the year with a 3-11

league and 4-16 overall record.The Rebels lost to Sammamish

on Tuesday, Feb. 1 48-30 at Sammamish High School.

The Totems had a solid 26-9 lead going into the half, but the Rebels picked up 21 points in the second

half to even things out slightly more.

During the loss Ryan Reed scored eight points, followed by six from

Taylor Williams, fi ve from Nicola Stanjic, four from Avery Britton,

three from Kellen Gildersleeve and two each from Ty Eng and Lee

Woodward.The following Thursday, the

Islanders closed out the regular season with a 61-55 win over

Interlake. A close fi rst half was followed by solid second for the Rebels, outscoring the Saints in

both the third and the fourth. Woodward had the team

high of 18 points, followed by Gildersleeve’s 10, nine from

Stanjic, eight from Eng and seven from Devan Jackson. Reed scored

four points, Brett Hamre had three in the game and Britton earned

two points for the team.

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Right, Jordan Sabine prepares for her dismount off the beam during the KingCo meet last weekend. MEGAN MANAGAN, Kirkland Reporter

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The top four individu-als in the all-around will compete at the state meet on Feb. 18-19 at the Tacoma Dome, while 13 from the district tour-nament will earn spots in the individual state competition.

Juanita girls end season with wins

The Juanita girls clinched their first KingCo league title since 1987, with two big wins over Sammamish and Interlake last week. The wins earn the Rebels a bye in the first week of the KingCo tournament, which wrapped up Thursday, after Reporter deadline.

The Rebels beat Samma-

mish 81-9 on Feb. 1.During the win Kate Cry-

derman and 20 points, Taylor Paddock put up 14, Tayler Lloyd had 11 and Mikayla Jones had eight.

The following Thursday Juanita traveled to face Inter-lake, winning 67-39 over the 2A Saints.

Jones had 28 points during the match, followed by 12 from Cryderman and nine from Molly Grager.

The team faced Liberty in

the semifinals of the KingCo tournament on Tuesday night.

Kang boys drop Totems, move to second round

The Lake Washingto boys beat Sammamish, Saturday dropping the Totems from the playoffs. The Kangs beat Sammamish 66-64 at Sam-mamish in the first round of

the KingCo playoffs.Sammamish kicked the

game off with an early lead, including a 25 point second quarter, but Lake Washington bounced back in the second half with 19 points in the third and 23 points in the fourth, while holding the To-tems to just 20 points in the last two quarter of the game.

During the win Matt Stau-dacher had 19 points, while Kramer Taylor posted 12 for the Kangs. Darien Nelson-

Henry had 10 points, while Robert Reyes scored seven points for the team and Cody Bernstein had two overall.

The Kangs took on Bel-levue on Tuesday at Bellevue College in the second round of the playoffs.

The previous week the team beat Liberty 87-63 in a decisive KingCo win, before falling to Mercer Island on Thursday, Feb. 3.

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term items the city plans to work on this year is to evaluate building ahead of mall development, pursue King County Flood Con-trol Zone District funding for the lake issues, advo-cate for 405 access projects to move forward faster, to identify and pursue new funding sources for transportation and verify specific concerns regard-ing current zoning with developers.

“That is something that (city planner) Eric Shields actually assigned to himself,” said Triplett. “He is actually going through all the (zoning) codes up in Totem Lake line-by-line. He has been really focused on it and he has already begun to highlight a couple of things.”

Triplett said that so far no one in the business community has come to the city with something that they cannot do thanks to zoning.

“We have let them know that if they are liter-ally stopped by what is currently allowed, let us know,” said Triplett.

McBride said one way residents and businesses can get involved is to lend their ideas to the process.

“I believe we are go-ing to be having an organized neigh-borhood meeting up there,” said McBride. “... We need to know what they want. Everyone wants action at Totem Lake. Some people want it so bad they don’t even care what it is ... We are still developing the action plan and we need people’s input.”

To see what residents

had to say in the Kirkland Reporter survey on Totem Lake Malls, see our story on the front page.

When asked if there was anything residents could do to move along the process of private rede-velopment, McBride said that a petition through the city would be preferable to writing the malls’ owners directly.

Totem Lake: The Eastside’s Greenlake?

Shabei Aziz opens a sliding glass door to one of the guest rooms at Carlton Inn that overlooks Totem Lake. It’s a sanctu-ary of sorts as birds chirp to various melodies.

“There are 88 species of birds,” says Aziz, adding, “Nobody knows this is here.”

Her father, Ali, purchased the prop-

erty and converted the building to a hotel in 1991. Before that, the structure housed Totem Lake Public Market, where scores of patrons picked through fresh produce, fish, spices or sipped fresh-squeezed

orange juice on the lawn overlooking Totem Lake in the 80s. The Carlton Inn still has one of the original staircases to the suburban market.

Ali donated the lake to the city in the 1990s.

Aziz points to an un-finished wooden walkway that surrounds a portion of the lake. She said she is unsure why the walkway was never completed, but she hopes the city will consider finishing the walkway some day to extend around the entire lake. She considers Totem Lake to be a valuable amenity that should not be overlooked with any future redevelopment.

Many others agree. One of the respondents

to the Reporter survey on Totem Lake Malls said: “Why not develop a ‘Greenlake’ of our own with a real walking path around Totem Lake. This could be the draw instead of an anchor store.”

“One of the things we heard loud and clear was how do you create a sense of place ...” said Triplett. “It gives us an opportunity to turn the lake into more of an attraction itself and create that sense of place.”

One problem is the lake is brown from silt that has built up. The silt is the root of many problems.

“The lake has actu-ally risen substantially in recent years causing things like Totem Lake Boulevard to flood,” said Triplett.

The flooding during heavy rain storms has been damaging to retail this winter. It has also caused some areas of the malls to sink.

Most people do not even know the location of the lake, thanks to an over-grown area next to Totem Lake Boulevard. Some of the wooden walking path that was constructed around the lake has been repossessed by the envi-ronment and the water. The flooding problem with the lake is far reaching for the area and needs to

be addressed before any major redevelopment takes place. The lake and surrounding wetlands also have major environmental issues.

The lake, which is located to the south of the malls, is connect-ed to wetlands that extend all the way to the west side of the freeway.

“We are re-ally trying to attack the issue of flooding in Totem Lake,” said Triplett. “It is an ongoing chal-lenge and getting much worse. In the budget the council approved, we have specific funds set aside where we are going to come up with a concrete work program with short- and long-term actions to prevent the

flooding ... another thing that complicates this issue though is that not all the things affected are owned by the city.”

The lake itself is owned by the King County Conservation District.

Environmental impacts must also be assessed.

“In many ways, having that much water up there is not good for the environment,” said Triplett. “... If we can kind of unclog all that and re-channel it we have actu-ally been able to show that it will

be a net positive for the environment. But it is not a simple process.”

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surveys and Target was the overwhelming winner, being mentioned 49 times. Wal-Mart was the second-highest with 21 people saying they would like to have the chain at Totem Lake. A few said they did not want Wal-Mart. IKEA was third, garnering 20 mentions. Other popular stores were Old Navy

(14), Macy’s (9), Kohl’s (9), Nordstrom’s Rack (8), Best Buy (8), Bed, Bath and Beyond (7) and Cost Plus World Market (7).

Many people suggested renovating the site for an outlet mall. The lack of diversity in eateries in and around the mall was a big issue for residents: “More good restaurants. Right now there is not one that

we go to and we live about five minutes away. We go into downtown Kirkland instead.”

Others combined the previous ideas: “Make To-tem Lake a place with 30 different small places to eat for under $7 per meal.”

Some identified the space as a place for build-ing up: “They’re only one story. Two stories or

more that would incor-porate lower levels to retail and upper level high rise apartments/condos might better serve that big chunk of land.”

Many people were upset with the economic impact of the malls: “What we have now brings in no revenue and is very sad as it brings down property value around the mall.”

The impact of the hospital was not lost on many survey respondents: “People visiting patients or going to doctor ap-pointments should have some place to hang out where they feel comfort-able.”

Many mentioned want-ing a year-round farmer’s market, a bigger grocery store, an asian grocery store, a YMCA or com-munity center or a gym. A couple people mentioned more nightlife and arts venues.

Some of the more unique ideas for the land were a water park, a new

professional basketball or hockey arena, paintball arena, skateboard park, ice skating rink, batting cages and open space.

“Why not develop a ‘Greenlake’ of our own with real walking path etc. around Totem Lake. This could be the draw instead of an anchor store. And make the mall areas into a litte more of a mini-University Village type environment.”

A separate response stated, “Develop the lake area with walking paths, benches and sitting areas along the lake. Make the lake visible to people. You can’t be passionate about something you don’t know is there.”

Some were not happy with what has happened to the area during the past decade: “For the most part, the modern City of Kirkland is ugly and ster-ile. What’s been done to Totem Lake, the land and trees, is the destruction of an incredible asset.”

Two people responded by wanting the potential Parkplace redevelopment to move to the site.

When asked what words would describe Totem Lake if all the improve-ments respondents had in mind were completed, the most common word used was “convenient.” Other common words were community, vibrant, desti-nation, walkable, inviting, green, family friendly, safe and accessible.

The lack of accessibility to the area was a big issue for many who responded: “Shopping and traffic go hand-in-hand and Kirk-land is a traffic nightmare, whether you’re slogging to get through it on 405, or taking surface streets.”

Some see other modes of transportation as an important issue: “I live less than a mile away, and it is foreboding to ride there with a bicycle.”

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Ford, Hyundai of Kirkland award Hopelink, Boys & Girls Club

Ford of Kirkland and Hyundai of Kirkland presented Hopelink and the Kirkland Boys & Girls Club each with checks that totaled $15,000 on Jan. 28. The awards were for money raised as a re-sult of winning a holiday sales challenge.

“Between both of our stores we have over 100 dedicated team members that are very excited to give back to our com-munity through these

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During the recent holiday, Ford of Kirkland and Hyundai of Kirkland held a “Sales Challenge” between their two fran-chises.

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Ford of Kirkland select-ed Hopelink, and Hyun-dai of Kirkland selected The Boys & Girls Club. As a result of winning a holiday sales competi-tion, both organizations received a donation from the dealerships.

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Matt Watrous, execu-tive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs Washington State Association, said the donation will help the club fund Tech Fest, a collaborative curriculum dedicated to engage young people in technology, digital arts and problem solving. Starting with afterschool program-ming and culminating with a full day event in October, over 250 youth from across Washington will gain skills preparing them to face the demands of college and the global workplace.

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Oregon State students from Kirkland make honor roll

The following students from Kirkland made the scholastic Honor Roll for the fall term at Oregon State University: Kristina M. Anderson, junior, Women Studies; Claire E. Sander, sophomore, University Exploratory Studies; and Tamara K. Smallman, sophomore, Athletic Training.

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