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Kirkland’s Parkplace Cinema to close with Last Picture ShowBY TJ MARTINELL

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On Monday, the Parkplace Cinema will feature its � nal

� lm, appropriately titled “Last Picture Show,” before closing as the property is on the cusp of redevelopment.

Je� Cole, who manages Parkplace and who has been involved with the

independent theater since 2001, said they tried to � nd a way to keep it open once Talon Capital announced their plans to redevelop-ment Parkplace, including the theater, but decided it was time to close.

“At my age I’m not will-ing to move forward when there’s too much risk, too much capital,” he said. “I think it’ll be a good time

for the community to come and say goodbye to the theater.”

However, he said that they’re trying to get one of the digital projectors, owned by a separate leasing company, in the Kirkland Performance Center to show for smaller � lms.

“I’m working on that but don’t know if I’ll be success-ful,” he said.

Although an agreement hasn’t been reached, Cole said that so far the discus-sion has been positive.

“Everybody seems in agreement,” he said.

First a Sterling Realty Organization theater in 1983, it later became a Loews Cineplex until 2001 when Loews went bank-rupt and repudiated the lease. � e former owner

of Parkplace asked Cole to � gure out what to do with the space, and he concluded that Kirkland still needed a theater. � ey bought Loews’ assets and opened it as an independent movie theater right in time for the � rst Harry Potter � lm.

Prior to this, Cole said, he had never run a theater before. One of the many things he discovered from

the experience was navigat-ing the world of studio contracts, negotiating 27 of them prior to the theater’s opening. Right now, they have around 36.

“It’s a fun little business,” he said. “I didn’t know any-thing about the business, but it was fun.”

In 2007, when the Park-place owners sold the prop-

Kirkland residents plunge into New YearHundreds of people packed Marina Park in downtown Kirkland for the annual Kirkland Polar Plunge on New Year’s Day. The event drew visitors from all over the Puget Sound area. MATT PHELPS, Kirkland Reporter

BY MATT PHELPS

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Screams of glee and shock could be heard all

through Marina Park in downtown Kirkland at 1 p.m. on New Year’s Day, as hundreds of people from around the Puget Sound

area participated in the annual Kirkland Polar Plunge.

“It was colder than I thought,” said Bellevue resident Caitlin Mack, as her young kids and

husband watched her try to get warm again with a towel wrapped about her shoulders. “� is is such a beautiful location and it was fun, cold, but fun. � is

Hundreds pack Marina Park for event

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Kirkland-based Bit-Titan is like Jack’s magic beanstalk, it just keeps growing.

A tech startup formed in 2007 by CEO Geeman Yip, the initially one-man company o� ering cloud solutions has experienced 700 percent year-on-year growth. An IT change automa-tion company specializing in data migration and onboarding, they moved to their current Kirkland o� ce at 3933 Lake Washington Blvd NE early this year.

On top of expanding outside the United States, the company recently added three new execu-tives to help manage their rapidly-increasing number of employees. Jennifer Mar-tin was promoted to vice president of global sales in August, Rocco Seyboth joined BitTitan in July as vice president and general manager of products, while Barnett Silver came on

board in October as vice president of � nance.

Yip said being able to hire the new executives is a huge milestone for the company, as he didn’t take a wage for the � rst four years. He added the new team will help guide their speci� c departments, mentor and train those underneath them, and ensure the com-

pany remains prof-itable as it continues to expand.

“We needed someone re-ally [who] is strong from a go-to market perspective,” he said about sales. “I’m an engineer, we’re used to an engineer-

centric company. We create products, throw it over to sales and it’s their job to � gure it out. I wanted to think holistically by creat-ing a long-term roadmap and message versus creat-ing products without any sort of message or cohesive message from month-to-month.”

� e � nancial manage-ment will also help BitTi-

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erty to Prudential, Cole and his wife Chris McK-enzie bought the theater.

On top of hosting series featuring Bogart and Hitchcock films, Cole said they also had the pleasure of working with local high school students, some of whom even came back to work during their winter break after going away to college.

“It was fun working with the youth and the community and usually it’s their first job,” he said.

In recent years, the theater faced possible closure after film studios announced they would only release their mov-ies digitally. Operating with 35 mm projectors,

the theater wasn’t able to get a loan from the bank to purchase the digital equipment. In 2014, the Kirkland City Council passed a resolution allow-ing them to use the seat tax within ticket prices to help cover the costs.

No matter the number of atten-dants for the final movie, the theater has already gone out with a bang following the premiere of the latest Star Wars film, “The Force Awakens.”

“It was crazy,” Cole said. “People, kids were coming in with costumes and their lightsabers and it was very special.”

The masterplan for

the new Parkplace site, renamed Kirkland Urban, includes a theater as part of the mixed-use develop-ment, and although the theater won’t be his, Cole said he hopes the show

goes on. “I think this com-

munity deserves a movie theater,” he said.

The film show-ing will begin at

6:30 p.m. and will be featured on all six screens, with a total of seven hundred seats. Proceeds from the box office will be split evenly to ben-efit the Greater Kirkland Chamber of Commerce, Kirkland Downtown As-sociation, and Kirkland Performance Center.

From left, Kirkland Parkplace Cinema 6 general manager Chris Shelly, Barco distributor Miles McRae, owner Je� Cole and co-owner Chris McKenzie stand near one of the digital projectors in 2014. Cole and McKenzie switched Parkplace Cinema 6 to digital projectors with help from the city of Kirkland. REPORTER FILE PHOTO

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Volunteer manag-ers and coaches are still needed, especially for the younger divisions of both our baseball and softball teams.

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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 representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which aver-age about 1,000 per week.

Between Dec. 23 and Jan. 1, there were traffic incidents, traffic accidents, three DUIs, 13 general traffic incidents, 33 alarm calls, 10 abandoned vehicles, four burglaries, five incidents of fraud, eight civil incidents, one case of harassment, 22 thefts, vehicle prowls, one vehicle theft,

15 warrants served, eight noise com-plaints, three animal calls, eight incidents of domestic violence, five incidents of malicious mischief, two fireworks com-plaints, homicide, seven disturbances, two trespasses, one sex crime, four assaults, 19 incidents involving at least one arrest.

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tan, which relies on no venture capital, he said.

“I think of tomorrow. I think of what’s going to happen three to � ve years from now,” he said. “Your mentality begins to shi� . From a � nance side, it’s very surprising. A lot of people I talk to think it’s amazing to grow into a business of our size with a � nance department with no VP of � nance in the company. We literally have two people on our � nance sta� , and I did all the � nance up until that point. It’s a huge burden for � nance. When you spend $20 million and there’s no funding, it’s a very stressful job.”

Even as the company grows, Yip said he is deter-mined to maintain a close-knit company culture, one of the things that inspired him to create the company in the � rst place. A Micro-so� employee at the time, he said he initially worked on a small team and estab-lished strong relationships with his coworkers, but as the years passed that feeling was lost. During a vacation in 2006, he said he was determined to get it back.

“You really think about what you want in life and that’s what I wanted,” he said. “I set forward to � nd or create a company that could get that back for me again. Life is just too short to me. I didn’t know what technology or what I was going to do.”

“I have a lot of ideas,” he

added. “Ideas are cheap. One of them I had in late 2006 was around cloud computing.”

At the time, the concept of cloud computing was in its infancy, and while it o� ered great opportunity, he said that it also posed numerous challenges for selling the product.

“People really didn’t trust storing data in the cloud,” he said. “Back at that day there wasn’t a lot of the backup services that we have today.”

� is also prevented him from securing venture capital for the company.

“Nobody understood � le sharing,” he said. “Tim-ing really is everything, because the market’s not ready no matter how good your product is.”

Forced to fund it entirely on his own, he said he liquidated all his assets and took out a second mort-gage to create a datacenter, including a quarter of a million lines of code.

Still at Microso� , he said he � nally came up with MigrationWiz, which moves data from one cloud provider to another and from an on-premise solution to the cloud. At the time, the migrations were done manually, but now the process has been streamlined and no longer requires downtime for the client. Opening up an o� ce in Redmond TownCenter in 2010, the company’s internal growth exploded a� er they moved back to Kirkland. In

2014, BitTitan’s employees tripled to 77, and now the company has reached 100. In the last year, 2.35 million users moved to the cloud, a 290 percent increase.

Yip said having it be a bootstrap-operated company has taught him how to run a company and think creatively.

“It’s really built the cul-ture we have today,” he said. “It really is the foundation of our culture, of who we are. We work together, it doesn’t matter what it takes to get the job done.”

However, being boot-strapped meant it’s also constrained them in terms of hiring.

“When you’re boot-strapped I can’t a� ord to make everyone a VP,” he said. “I had to hire new people to the industry, and it was tough because as manager I take the role very seriously. It’s about mentoring people and helping them. Unfortu-nately, we just can’t hire managers and over time we’ve really tried to balance that out.”

� e biggest challenge

facing them right now, Yip said, is being able to grow fast enough to catch up with the growing demand for their services.

“We already have a vision for � ve years set out for what our roadmap looks like,” he said. “We know we have a long future ahead of us. I think from a product perspective, the challenge is really people. We’ve really been grow-ing our team, but we can’t even take the money in front of us fast enough into the company. We can’t collect money fast enough because we don’t have enough people to collect it. I’m unable to bring in the revenue right in front of us, the lowest hanging fruit. I have people willing to give us money that I can’t even collect.”

While he’s looking to hire talent, he said the people have to be right for the company.

“I need people to inno-vate so we can continue to grow,” he said. “We want to be true to ourselves of why we started the company.”

[ TITAN from page 1]Kirkland o� cials host update on Sound Transit 3

� e city of Kirkland is hosting a second community update on high capacity transit candidate projects that are being considered by Sound Transit as part of the ST3 ballot measure. � e city’s public event will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Jan. 11 at the Lake Wash-ington Institute of Technol-ogy, 11605 132nd Ave. NE, Room W404. Sound Transit o� cials will present basic information regarding three candidate projects (PDF) that propose high capacity transit to serve Kirkland:

• Candidate Project E-02/Bus Rapid Transit on I-405 in the Express Toll Lane from Lynnwood to Renton

• Candidate Project E-03/Light Rail Transit along the Eastside Rail Corridor from Kirkland/Totem Lake to Is-saquah via Bellevue; and

• Candidate Project E-06/Bus Rapid Transit on the Eastside Rail Corridor from Kirkland to Bellevue.

City o� cials will share their analysis of the Bus Rap-id Transit (BRT) proposal on the Cross Kirkland Corridor (Candidate Project E-06.) � e informational presenta-tion will be given at 6:30 to 7:30 and repeated from 7:45 to 8:45 p.m. City and Sound Transit sta� will be available to answer questions in Room W401 throughout the event.

� e city is analyzing how high capacity transit could be designed to address

concerns expressed by the Kirkland community such as access to the CKC, safety, noise, protecting sensitive areas and ensuring safety on the CKC. � e city also analyzed how BRT on I-405 could be designed to address basic access issues. General � ndings will be presented during the two informa-tional presentations. Sound Transit’s analysis of all of the candidate ST3 projects can be found at www.soundtran-sit3.org and select “Shaping ST3.”

On Dec. 4, 2015, Sound Transit released its analysis and project templates for each ST3 Candidate Project and is seeking techni-cal input from the City of Kirkland regarding the three candidate projects located in Kirkland by Jan. 21. � e Kirkland City Council will be discussing its response letter to Sound Transit at its Jan. 5 and Jan. 19 regular meetings.

For background on the city’s outreach e� orts, go to www.kirklandwa.gov/ST3. For speci� c questions, please email [email protected] or contact the Public Works Department at 425-587-3800.

� rough March 2016, Sound Transit will continue to develop its Dra� System Plan and will initiate a public involvement process in April 2016. � e Sound Transit Board of Directors will ap-prove the Final System Plan in June 2016 that will be pre-sented to regional voters in the November 2016 General Election.


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Kiwanis Club of Kirkland tree lot a huge success

� e Kirkland community and surrounding neighborhoods came through once again this year in its support of the Kiwanis Club of Kirkland’s Christmas Tree Lot. � e lot opened the day a� er � anksgiving and o� cially sold its last tree on Dec. 15. � e Kiwanis Club is grateful to the community for the loyalty and support it has shown over the years.

� e Kiwanis Club of Kirkland is one of the old-est and largest service organizations in Kirkland with close to 100 members. All proceeds from the fundraising go directly to children and families in need, including student scholarships, Attain Housing, Eastside Baby Corner and many other charitable causes. � e club also sponsors leadership groups in our local junior and high schools, known as Builder’s Club and Key Club, as well as support to the YMCA Kirkland Teen Union Building. � ese groups o� er leadership and mentoring, impacting hundreds of teens in your community.

If you would like more information about this all volunteer non-pro� t organization, please contact club secretary Matt Gregory at (425) 828-0231, attend one of its weekly meetings at noon at Hec-tor’s Restaurant or visit www.kirkland.kiwanis.org. Merry Christmas and Happy New year to our Kirkland Community and thanks again for all your support!Bonni Sundberg, Kiwanis Club of Kirkland

Reject buses on the CKC I would like some explanation of how the for-

mer Burlington Northern rail line, now known

as the Cross Kirkland Corridor (CKC), is being considered as a commuter bus line.

For decades this former rail line was used for freight only. Historically, the line was used sparingly. Since moving to Houghton in 1986 I have experienced freight trains of no more than 20 cars, usually more like � ve to 10 cars, passing a few times a week at very low speeds. It’s my understanding that the city of Kirkland had im-posed a speed limit on those trains of less than 20 miles per hour within the city limits.

For several years the dinner train ran along the corridor from Renton to Woodinville. It would pass by once a day during the week and twice a day on weekends. Again, at very low speed.

How can we go from very infrequent and slow moving freight trains to a walking and biking trail and then suddenly to an open highway for commuter buses? � e proposed Rapid Ride bus, I assume, will travel at a much higher speed than the freight trains ever did and at a frequency of every few minutes.

� is seems to me to be a change in land use. How can the city make this proposal to Sound Transit without � rst going through a public pro-cess? I know of no public hearings (though there have been some informational presentations) on this matter and I am not aware of an EIS having been done.

City o� cials and council members have said that this corridor has always been considered a motorized commuter transportation option and the Rapid Ride bus proposal should be of no sur-prise to anyone. I am not sure how that can hap-pen. Just because Sound Transit included some arbitrary self serving easement reservation on

a deed to the city of Kirkland, can the corridor now be used for any mode of transportation they please? By some magic wave of a pen by the city planning department this corridor is now desig-nated for high volume commuter bus tra� c?

I thought this was a rail line. Not a highway for buses.

Approving buses on the CKC seems to me to be a little bit like allowing a 20 unit apartment building on a lot zoned multifamily but that has previously only been improved with a four-plex.

In either case, there is a signi� cant negative impact on the neighborhood. � e neighborhood deserves an opportunity to participate in this process. Most users of the trail that I have talked with view the proposed bus use on the CKC as being imposed upon us with little or no par-ticipation in the process. I have heard some in authority on this matter state that this is nearly a done deal.

I would like to encourage Sound Transit, the city of Kirkland and Kirkland City Council to reject the proposed use of Rapid Ride buses on the CKC.Rich Jones, Kirkland

I do not support transit on Cross Kirkland Corridor

I would like add my voice to those opposing the addition of rapid transit of any kind to the Cross Kirkland Corridor (CKC). As was done with the Burke-Gillman Trail, lets leave this trail for non-motorized use but add rapid transit to the existing I-405 corridor. I am very disappoint-ed that the Kirkland City Council is pushing to add rapid transit to

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Last weekend the Eastside got a small taste of the snowfall Snoqualmie and Stevens Pass (are supposed to) normally get during

the winter and where I enjoyed a little R&R. As I was treading through the snow, I thought

of a few years back when the Seattle area got hit with a large snowstorm, which was quickly dubbed “snowpocalpse.” I contrasted this with snow-storms I experienced at college near Spokane. � e di� erences between the regions when it snows is like night and day. When it snows a few inches here, schools close and most people stay o� the roads. When it snows up to your neck on the east side of the state, you get up and move through the trenches created by the snow plows and get to class.

We on the Eastside, and the Seattle area as a whole, o� en get a bad rep for not being able to handle our snow when it comes to driving, something I hear when I either run into an out-of-towner or when I’m the out-of-towner. As I explain to them, they’re comparing apples to door hinges.

To start o� , snow is not common here. It rains. We can handle that fairly well. If snow was as predictable during the winter as rain, there wouldn’t be so many inexperienced drivers, we’d all buy snow tires and the local jurisdictions

would act, not react, to the snow. Something that gets le� out of the discussion

is that it’s not just the snow; it’s the ice. Here, it either rains � rst or snows a little, melts when the temperature rises for a while, and then turns into ice with snow on top of it.

Also, we have these things called hills. Lots of them. It’s easy to drive across straight, � at terrain. Driving down an ice-covered road with a respectably high percent grade (slope) is about as smart as standing up on a saucer sled. It’s also just as di� cult driving up that hill. I’ve had to do both, but I’ve also had to put chains on my tires during a snowstorm, and if I can avoid having to do any one of those again I’ll die happy.

Additionally, it’s not the same snow. A square

foot of Puget Sound snow is like carrying a brick, and it’s wet. In college it was like shovel-ing leaves and was as dry as powdered sugar. If you’re driving a vehicle designed to handle it, it’s not important. For a regular car, the di� erence can be felt when applying the brakes.

I’m not saying there aren’t bad drivers on our roads. I encounter them every day when they try to merge onto Interstate-405. � ere are also drivers who can’t seem to handle any snow what-soever on the roads.

I’m just saying we’re not as bad as we’re made out to be.

TJ Martinell is a sta� writer with the Kirkland Reporter.

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Joyce A. RaverJuly 12, 1945 – December 26, 2015

Resident of Kirkland, WashingtonNative of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

Joyce, 70, passed away peacefully from complications of Multiple Sclerosis on the morning of Saturday, December 26, 2015.

Joyce spent most of her life in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. She was a graduate of Governor Livingston Regional High School, and throughout her life she stayed connected with her many high school friends. She was instrumental in planning her high school class reunions, and until the end of her life she maintained a newsletter for her classmates.

When Joyce was 19, she married Donald Raver and they were married for 44 years until his death in 2009. They raised two daughters and enjoyed their two grandchildren. Joyce worked for over 30 years at what would � nally become Alcatel-Lucent (previously Bell Laboratories/AT&T). Her most recent position was as an Accountant for Alcatel-Lucent’s � xed asset department.

In 2011, Joyce moved to Merrill Gardens in Kirkland, WA where she enjoyed an active and happy life. She loved to take � eld trips with her new friends to local attractions such as plays, museums, gardens, restaurants, boat tours, etc. She was very involved with her new church and a book club she started. She also loved playing cards with her friends.

Joyce was preceded in death by her husband Donald Raver of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; her parents, Harold Gri� n and Angela (Miano) Gri� n; and her sister Janet Gri� n. Joyce is survived by her sister Joan Gri� n of North Carolina; her daughter and son-in-law Vernita and Drew Lytle of Washington; her daughter and son-in-law Nicole and Terrence Adam of New Jersey; grandchildren Matthew Lytle and Charlotte Adam; and nephew Carlos Gri� n.

A funeral mass was held Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 11am at Holy Family Catholic Church, 7045 120th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA. A memorial mass will be held Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 1pm at St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton Catholic Church, 105 Summer Rd, Three Bridges, New Jersey. A repass will be held directly following both masses.

In lieu of � owers, donations in her memory may be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society: http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Donate

Assisting with arrangements are http://bartonfuneral.com and http://www.branchburgfuneralhome.com

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Kay GragerKay Grager passed away peacefully on December 20, 2015,

with her family by her side following a year-long battle with cancer. She loved, and was dearly loved by, her family and friends.

Kay was born the fourth of five children in Leal, ND, and married William Grager in Valley City, ND. In 1957, Kay and the family relocated to Washington, where they became well-known and respected members of the community, helping to found Lake Washington United Methodist Church in Kirkland and singing in the choir. Later, she would be a member of Auburn First United Methodist Church for over two decades, where she continued to sing and serve community supper with joy.

Kay will be remembered for her quiet grace, Midwestern hospitality, homemade crafts and world-class baked goods. She is survived by four children, nine grandchildren and two great-

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The event drew about 200 participants into the water and many more friends and family who came for moral support.

The participants came from all over the area and ranged from elementary school age to the those in their 70s. But the views at Marina Park pulled many to the Kirkland event de-spite other plunge events in the area.

Erin Lavery of Ed-monds attended the event with her two young children, Madeline, 5, and Dillinger, 2, and family. Both kids even dressed up for the costume contest and Dillinger won the event dressed as Spider-man. Lavery said that her kids were not participat-ing the plunge because “it would be a total melt-down.”

“We wanted to get out and do something with the kids and family,” Lav-ery said.

The clear skies and a very bright sun masked an air temperature of about 45 degrees. The waters of Lake Washing-ton this time of year are

around 40 degrees. A few people stuck their toe or finger in and chickened out. Most jumped in and got right back out. Some swam out to the buoy, about 25 yards from shore.

“It is down-right freezing,” said Marcy Monroe of West Seattle, who skipped the plunge on Alki in favor of the waters of Lake Washing-ton. “It is a beautiful day and this is a beautiful setting.”

Like many, Monroe participated in the plunge with a friend. She said

that she is hoping the new year will bring more peace and, as a recent college graduate, she is hoping to work more this year.

Kirkland resident John Bywater, 24, brought

his friend from Everett, Kyle Larson, 27, to experience the plunge.

“I was just looking to get in on all the buzz,”

Bywater said.� e event is not sanc-

tioned by the city of Kirk-land and participants take part at their own risk. Kirk-land police were on hand incase of an emergency.

“This is just a cool community event and something to do on New Years,” Larson said.

Bywater said that he hopes to experience more inner peace in the new year.

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“This is just a cool community event and something to do on New Years.”

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LWSF names new executive director

� e Lake Washing-ton Schools Foundation (LWSF) Board of Trustees has named Larry Wright as the organization’s new executive director.

“Our trustees are eager to have a bigger impact on each of the almost 28,000 students in our district. Larry’s passion for sup-porting public education matches ours,” said LWSF President Sarah Stone.

Wright has more than 15 years of experience in the nonpro� t sector working with youth and educa-tion organizations. Most recently he served as chief operating o� cer of the College Success Founda-tion. He also served as the executive director of Washington State Men-tors and as CEO of their national o� ce, the National Mentoring Partnership in Washington, DC.

“I grew up in the Lake Washington School District and my kids are students here,” Wright said. “I’m excited about the op-portunity to help a strong, high performing district continue to do great things for our kids.”


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honor the people we love and re� ect back on the memories we’ve made with them. But as our loved ones age, adult children may want to also consider setting aside time to have a family money conversation.

Why? � e simple fact is that at some point, mom or dad may need help organiz-ing and/or managing their � nances.

Sharing important infor-mation with one another today may help you and your family be prepared when the time comes that you or a sibling needs to step in to lend a hand. Important topics to con-sider in such a conversation include insurance, creating an inventory of your par-ents’ assets and liabilities, ensuring your parents have enough money to provide

for their retirement, estab-lishing your parents’ wishes regarding passing on their wealth in the event of their death, and more.

Talking about money, potential health consider-ations and other “private matters” may sometimes seem awkward and having these kinds of conversa-tions as a family can be challenging. But doing so today helps to ensure ev-eryone is on the same page, making it easier for your family down the road.

To help navigate those potentially di� cult areas, here are a few tips for meaningful family money conversations:

• Communicate your desire to help one another prepare to transition re-sponsibilities.

• Discuss your feelings and needs regarding chang-ing roles.

• Understand parental

circumstances, needs and values regarding money.

• Consider parental health care, end of life and � nancial legacy wishes.

• Seek to align children’s strengths with future du-ties.

• Identify professionals who may be able to provide assistance, as necessary.

• Commit to periodically revisiting the conversa-tion to see if anything has changed.

For assistance or advice, contact a � nancial profes-sional. � ey can help your family both before and a� er these important con-versations.

� is article is provided by Brandon Honcoop a Financial Advisor at RBC Wealth Management. Consult your investment professional for additional information and guid-ance.

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REALTORS honor Kirkland agent

Twelve individuals, including one from Kirk-land, shared the spotlight for special achievements at an association event held in December. � e occasion also featured the installation of the organi-zation’s 2016 leaders and fundraising for a scholar-ship program to support outstanding community service volunteers.

Kirkland’s Debbie Cote received the A� liate of the Year award for “going above and beyond to help Realtors succeed” in their businesses. A veteran of the lending industry, she currently serves as sales manager for imortgage in Kirkland. As 2015 chair-elect of SKCR’s A� liate Council and co-chair of its Education Committee, she has been instrumental in developing free quarterly seminars for members. She is a longtime member and former o� cer of the Seattle Metro Chapter of the Women’s Council of Realtors.

� e annual event drew

more than 200 partici-pants, including members, a� liates and guests of SKCR, its Young Profes-sionals Network (YPN) and the Women’s Council of REALTORS.

As part of the evening’s festivities, banquet at-tendees participated in fundraising activities to support the Seattle First Citizen Scholarship Foun-dation., Approximately $6,500 was raised through 50/50 ra� e, dessert auc-tion and � ight simulator ticket sales which are awarded in part for good citizenship and commu-nity involvement.

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Emerson student receives Community Service award

Daniel Oliver, a senior at Emerson High School, received Kirkland Cham-ber’s Lee Johnson Com-munity Service Award at their Dec. 10 luncheon. The Lee Johnson Com-munity Service Award goes to a student in the Kirkland community who has shown a great drive to be involved in curricu-lar and extra-curricular activities.

When Oliver was in fifth grade, he started volunteering at a local animal shelter. In sixth grade, he began volun-teering with Bellevue Parks and Recreation, cleaning up trash and helping with landscaping. He currently volunteers with the Bellevue Youth Theatre, performing as an actor, working on sets and as a technical assistant with lighting. He also volunteers in the conces-sion booth, works with children during summer

camps and accompanies student performers on percussion instruments.

At Emerson High School, Oliver helps organize the holiday toy drive, assists special education students, plans dinners and auctions to raise funds for school activities, welcomes visi-tors at Open House and helps orient new students to the school. Oliver is a member of Life Smarts, which is a professional leadership organization that is connected with Fu-ture Business Leaders of America. He is an active member of Core Con-gress/ASB meetings and

leads class meetings.Oliver’s teachers de-

scribe him as responsible, reliable and always will-ing to participate in lead-ership activities inside and outside of the school day. They note that he has a unique sense of humor that puts others at ease. When planning school activities, Oliver makes sure that all students are included.

Next year Oliver plans to attend Bellevue Col-lege. He is considering a career in teaching.

Lightning FC from Juanita

wins state cupThe Lightning FC of

Juanita beat the Dragons of Vancouver, Wash. 3-2 to take home the 2015 Washington State Rec-reational Cup on Dec. 13, at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila.

Coach Eric Ullery and assistant Coach Phil Goodwin took their U18 boys’ recreational soccer team to its third Recre-ational Cup win in five years, and second in a row. The Lightning FC won the Cup in 2011 and 2014, and competed in the Cup Finals in 2012.

The Lightning FC roster included boys from Kirkland and Redmond: Kyle Ullery, Brendan Bau-er, Blake Voutour, Philip Lavery, Nick Goodwin, Jayson Edwards, Jackson Clemensen, Tyler Hill, Chris Raabe, Matthew Brady, Parker Narloch, Christian Turner, Ben Fries, Peter Tracy, Qais Najm, Elliott Hull, and Cade Totten.

Bumblebees advance to state semi-finals

The Juanita Bumble-bees, a U-13 girls soccer team in the Lake Wash-

ington Youth Soccer As-sociation, won the district two soccer champion-ship with a 1-0 victory against the Northshore Turf Tigers on Nov. 22 at Eastlake High School. They have since advanced to the state Recreational Cup semi-finals.

The Bees completed their regular season an undefeated 10-0 in the top division, scoring 29 goals and surrendering

only eight. Their district championship run gave them four more wins as a stellar defensive effort provided four straight shutouts; their 2-0 win in the state quarterfinals has put them in the top four of over 100 teams across the state in their age group.

The team is made up of girls from local middle schools, coached by Chris Burke and John Nikolai.

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Je� Pinneo experienced an up-close glimpse into what Syrian refugees are going through in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley and the Greek islands of Chios and Samos. � e Medical Teams Inter-national (MTI) president and CEO recently returned from an eye-opening and heart-wrenching one-week journey to gain � rsthand insight into the work that his charitable organization and its partners are doing in response to the refugee crisis.

Based in Portland with its Western Washington headquarters in Redmond, MTI is a global relief and development organization serving people a� ected by disaster, con� ict and poverty around the world.

MTI predominantly raises money for medicine and health products with long-established partners to distribute to refugees. At the end of November, MTI mailed 10,000 care kits — many of which were assembled in a Redmond warehouse — to Lebanon, Greece and other countries.

LebanonFor the last four years —

since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war and the � rst wave of refugees that � ed their homeland — MTI has focused its work in Lebanon, which now has 1.2 million Syrian refugees.

“� e level of vulnerabil-ity there we deemed much higher and so we focused our e� orts there,” said Pin-neo, who was accompanied on his trip by a videogra-pher.

MTI now has an 11-per-son sta� , which includes a doctor, a dentist and other community health profes-sionals who have been there for about a year and half or

two years. Health workers — including a dentist who is a Syrian refugee — try to make twice-monthly visits to the 40 di� erent refu-gee settlements that MTI focuses on in Zahle.

Pinneo described the MTI-focused settlements as a loosely planned series of structures that are tied into a power grid with open power boxes to create some electricity. In harsh weather, the refugees are exposed to bacterial waterborne diseases and must deal with other health issues.

“Nothing’s guaranteed at all. � ey’re so resource-ful in terms of gathering, garnering support on just basic food and water,” said Pinneo, who noted that in at least one camp, children were attending school. “So they’re able to keep some semblance of normalcy go-ing for some of the kids.”

Pinneo said that his con-versations with some of the refugee families were o� en tear-� lled.

One 23-year-old woman was just entering her fourth year of university in com-

puter engineering on the day her seven-member fam-ily had to � ee from Syria. � e neighbors two houses down had been kidnapped and a school was bombed: � ey had to pack what they could carry and get out post haste.

“� e future that she was that close to reaching, was taken from her. And to talk to her about that was really humbling for me, ‘cause I had this presumption that her giving up her future would be like the biggest grief. But her tears came when she talked about her brother in Sweden, worried about him and just worried about his future and their future together,” said Pin-neo, adding that the brother made his way to Sweden with family money — partly from the sale of their 300 head of sheep in Syria — to � nd a place to live, � nish his education, � nd a job and save enough money to bring the rest of his family there.

� e family lives in a settlement they made for themselves, adjacent to a po-tato � eld where they work.

Pinneo said the 23-year-old stoically told him that she hasn’t lost hope, and “she o� ered that in a way of encouragement to other 20-somethings around the world.”

GreeceIn Greece, MTI has a long

partnership with two agen-cies — International Or-thodox Christian Charities and Apostoli — and has sent containers with medicines and health products to them to distribute there.

“With the emergence of this (refugee crisis), they went right into action,” Pin-neo said.

With Greece being the � rst port of entry to the Eu-ropean union and months and months of red tape to cut through to enter legally, thousands of people are contacting black marketeers to arrange illegal crossings from Turkey on the Aegean Sea. A� er a four-nautical-mile trip to the eastern Greek islands, they hit the shore and begin the process of registering with the United Nations (UN) and applying to move deeper into Europe.

“It’s a very risky crossing, depending on weather and circumstance and all that, but mostly it’s one that is facilitated by human traf-� ckers, pro� teers,” Pinneo said. “� ey’re charging on average about $1,200 to $1,500 a person. And they’re doing it by supplying rubber ra� s with outboard motors and lifejackets, piling every-body in and then appointing somebody, just say, ‘You steer it over there and take it over across the island.’

So hundreds of drownings have occurred since the little boy that washed up on the shores in Greece that brought the world’s atten-tion.”

Pinneo shakes his head in disbelief when he told of seeing the beaches littered with lifejackets and popped ra� s, and families drying their clothes by draping them across boats. � e liv-ing conditions in camps are rough while they’re waiting to move along on their journey.

“� e interviews with the people were the most poignant. For them, this was their � rst landfall on (Eu-ropean) soil,” Pinneo said. “As di� cult as everything had been to that point, as traumatized as they were, there was a hopefulness now that they were there, so that was really wonderful.”

One mother, son, aunt and sister had a di� cult crossing and were looking forward to being reunited with the father, who was already ahead in Germany.

Pinneo said that from his observations, there was adequate security for the refugees in Lebanon and Greece.

If an uprising broke out in Lebanon, armed forces or intelligence support would be called on site. MTI checks in many times a day with the two organiza-tions as they go about their work. In Greece, the UN in conjunction with Greek authorities are on hand if tensions � are up.

Pinneo felt safe on his journey and said they make a sophisticated assessment of the situation and adhere to security protocols and are attentive to allowed routings.

“I came back inspired to form a trip of concerned and connected donors who, on fairly short notice, could carve out a week to do what I just did. To go back with me, and to come back more deeply informed, go to their Bellevue rotaries and be able to talk to others about it, to generate more support for the e� ort,” Pinneo said.

“� is is a work where you don’t have to manufacture any motivation for need,” he added. “So many people (are) counting on us to get it right every day, and I’m just so proud of the way our team is all motivated by that. Our faith inspires us to show up and they show up very, very well.”

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Deann Holtzman Fox

Deann Holtzman Fox, 44, passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 24 at home in Kirkland of an undiagnosed illness.

She was a Christian, a devoted wife, an adoring aunt to Hannah Holtzman and Andrew Fox, a sweet, smart, funny lady with a multi-tude of friends.

She was a proud Godmother to Brayden, Ryan, Megan, Jack and Andrew. She had been a caring nanny for several families since moving to the Northwest.

Deann’s survivors include her husband Patrick Fox, mother Victoria Peters, brother Chris Holtzman, cat Josie and many extended family she felt blessed to have in her life. She was preceded in death by her father John Holtzman and nephew Alex Holtzman.

Deann was born in California in 1971; she was a passionate 49ers fan who also cheered for the Seahawks. We will always miss her, but hold her in our hearts.

Memorial services at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Kenmore, at 1 p.m. on Jan. 10 and Jan. 16 in Sacramento, Calif.

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the CKC, and especially offended and angry that you would use $250,000 to fund a study to support what appears to be a deci-sion already made. I will not support any council members voting in favor of adding rapid transit to the beautiful CKC.Ken Craig, Kirkland

Amazed how transparency in government is executed

I’m all for this transpar-ency in government thing – great idea. But I shake my head in amazement at how it’s sometimes executed.

Now I know that Kirk-land City Council and Sound Transit mean well. They are attempting to deal with the tremendous backlash of citizens against transit on the Cross Kirk-land Corridor. It belongs on I-405 by the way, and ST’s own numbers actually sup-port this finding.

Back to shaking my head in amazement… so the city is getting details back from the $250,000 marketing study to support their point of view. They want to roll this out like a shiny new car (or maybe even super high tech, non-polluting, electric bus) to the public.

So they schedule a meeting on Jan. 11 at Lake Washing-ton Institute of Technology. Nothing wrong with that… It’s part of their “public outreach.”

Here’s where this all gets a little fishy. I imagine back-to-back presentations were scheduled, as if it’s anything like the last “public outreach” meeting, there will be overflow crowds. If you look closely however, the presentations are in room W404, but if you have questions or, heaven forbid, want to debate the findings, you’ll need to get up and move oneself to Room W401 where, according to the city’s press release “Sound Transit and city staff will be available throughout the event to answer questions.” If this isn’t stifling public comment and discussion, I don’t know what is. I guess the city and ST bristle at the idea that the citizens of Kirkland may want to share opinions with one another, within a group setting, and frankly be able to hear responses from our elected and appointed rep-resentatives. Isn’t this what a community meeting is all about? Rather, it appears that all opinions need to be taken “offline” and outside of a group setting.

I would hope that the city and Sound Transit will reconsider the idea and con-

cept behind this supposed “community meeting” and provide the citizens (and voters) of Kirkland the op-portunity for open public discussion of this very seri-ous issue being placed (or pushed) upon us. Gary Greenberg, Kirkland

Transit should last 100-plus years, not 15

I do not support bus rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor.

There are many safety concerns with buses on the CKC; it is near many parks and schools, it’s used by many school kids and lastly, it connects neighborhoods and has a lot of pedestrian cross traffic.

It’s time to think about improving the greater Se-attle metro area with mass transit that will last the next 100-plus years not 15 years. Seattle is no longer the city that I grew up in and is rap-idly become the next great international city. Buses are not the solution but a tem-porary patch, voters have said this for years. Look to New York, London, Paris, San Francisco and other great international cities which use underground or over-ground rail solutions. But please use underground rail, keep suburbia beautiful.

Lastly, too often I see empty buses shuttling around the arterial streets of the Eastside, this must stop. The only buses that I see full are shuttles to the Seahawks, Husky or Sounder games.

I will oppose ST3 if it includes transit on the CKC. I will consider transit use on CKC if it remains subter-ranean. Think about our children the world that their children will have to live in.Jonathan Gibson, Kirkland

We need rational thought in trail debate

Congratulations, TJ, on an excellent wrap-up article. Makes me wonder what the similar article will say next December.

Will the malls be mired in Kirkland process and harried by residents who remember (or invent, from whole cloth) what Kirkland used to be like? Will the rabid homeowners of Fall 2015 have settled down and realized that the rail line in their backyards was there before they moved in, and that right-of-way means exactly that? Will they un-derstand the Eastside Rail Corridor does not ‘belong’ to them, and their opinions carry no more weight than any other residents of King

County? Nah, you’re right: rational

thoughts and expectations will likely remain elusive. The December 2016 wrap-up will likely feature clips from ST3 town hall meet-ings: “Light the torches. Sound the alarm! Protect ‘our’ trail from evil electric buses and dangerous light rail.”Roger Clarke Johnson, Kirkland

Rapid Transit on the CKC is unconscionable

I do not support bus rapid transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor.

There are many safety concerns with buses on the CKC: It is near many parks and schools; It’s used by many school kids; and It connects neighborhoods and has a lot of pedestrian cross traffic.

I will oppose ST3 if it in-cludes transit on the CKC.

It is incomprehensible to me how any right minded individual would think and propose that mass transit sharing a pedestrian/bike trail is a “good idea.” This is a very bad alternative when clearly there are other workable alternatives. I live two blocks up from the trail in the Houghton area. If this rapid transit proposi-tion was going to be the city’s and Metro’s choice, why in the world was the trail established in the first place. Why didn’t the powers that be just remove the tracks and trail and put in a public road that mass transit could utilize. Why mask the project as a lovely, natural, safe haven for pedestrians and cyclists? Rapid Transit on the Cross Kirkland Corridor is un-conscionable.June Schenck, Kirkland

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(Bothell/Kenmore, WA)The Bothe l l /Kenmore Reporter, a division of Sound Publishing Inc. is seeking a general assignment reporter with a minimum of 1-2 years writing experience and photography skills. This position is based out of the Kirkland office. The primary coverage will be general assignment stories. Schedule includes evening and/or weekend work. As a reporter for Sound Publishing, you will be expected to:• be inquisitive and re- sourceful in the coverage of assigned beats;• produce 5 by-line stories per week;• write stories that are tight and to the point;• use a digital camera to take photographs of the stories you cover;•post on the publication’s web site;• blog and use Twitter on the web;• layout pages, using In- Design;• shoot and edit videos for the web . We are looking for a team player willing to get invo lved in the loca l community through pub- l icat ion of the weekly newspaper and da i ly web jou r na l i sm. The ideal applicant will have a commitment to community journalism and everything from shor t, brief-type stories about people and events to ex- amining issues facing the community; be able to spot emerging trends; wr i te clean, balanced and accurate stories that dig deeper than simple features; develop and institute readership initia- tives. Candidates must have excellent communication and organizational skills, and be able to work ef- fectively in a deadline- d r i ve n e nv i r o n m e n t . Must be proficient with AP style, layout and design using Adobe InDe- s i g n ; a n d u s e t h e publ ica t ion ’s webs i te and online tools to gath- er information and reach the community. Must be organized and self-motivated, exceptional with the public and have the ability to establish a rap- port with the community. We offer a competitive hourly wage and bene- f i ts package including health insurance, paid time off (vacation, sick, and holidays), and 401K (currently with an employer match.)

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VIEW TOWNHOUSE | Downtown Kirkland Gorgeous, remodeled townhome with great views of Lake Washington, Olympics & sunsets + 2 decks! End unit for privacy, yet minutes to downtown. Stainless appliances, hardwood � oors, landscaped courtyard, 2-car garage & more! 2 bdrms, 2.25 baths MLS# 849979 $649,000Kay Plimpton & Chelle Nelson · 206.953-5927

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CLOSE-IN ACREAGE | Redmond160’ Waterfront on Cottage Creek featuring 1.59 acres of lush rolling lawns & privacy. Estate Quality Property with 1933 Cottage-style home & detached Garage/Shop, ready to renovate. $475,000Heidi Bright · 425.417.4716

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