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November 28, 2014 edition of the Kirkland ReporterTRANSCRIPT
BY TJ MARTINELL
Two girls from Kirkland have signed on to play Division I basketball. Sydney Shepard, a senior at Lake Washington High school, received a full ride scholar-ship, the � rst LWH girls basketball player to do so since around 2000, with the University of San Diego Tor-reros. Jaisa Nunn, a senior
at Juanita High, has agreed to play for the University of New Mexico Lobos.
� ere are quite a few similarities between the two. Both started out playing soc-cer, volleyball and basketball as kids. Both had fathers who played college basketball and helped guide them as they pursued their passion.
While Shepard said she continued to play volleyball
in high school, basketball was her primary focus throughout the year.
“I was never tempted to give up basketball,” Shepard said. “I liked it because you can score a lot of points and a lot of other sports don’t, and you can work on your individual game. But I just felt like everybody can con-tribute in a way in basketball, and when someone doesn’t, it a� ects everything.”
“I wanted to play every-thing as a kid,” Nunn said of
her involvement in athletics. By � � h grade, her parents
told her she could only pick one sport. � e choice, she said, was easy.
“I loved playing it,” she said. “I loved hanging around kids with a sport that was very interesting to me. It was an energy burner.”
Going the distance
As far back as she could
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“Mr. Kirkland” Chuck Morgan playing the role of the Godfather in “The Nutcracker.” Morgan performed the role for four years, stepping down in 2008. Former Kirkland mayor Bill Woods will be playing the part Dec. 5-7 at the Kirkland Performance Center with the International Ballet Academy. CONTRIBUTED
IBT’s Nutcracker returns to KPCBY TJ MARTINELL
� e International Ballet � eater (IBT) in Kirk-land is dedicating their upcoming performances of � e Nutcracker at the Kirkland Performance Center (KPC) to two of the most in� uential men in the city’s history. One of them, former Kirkland mayor Bill Woods, will also be performing in the ballet in the role of the grandfather. � e other man is Chuck Morgan, who died in 2009 at age 98. He was simply known
as “Mr. Kirkland” and performed the role of the Godfather into his 90s. Morgan was also the former publisher of the Journal-American and Kirkland Courier, which is now the Kirkland Reporter.
Vera Altunina, a choreog-rapher at IBT, said their take on the ballet is based on the traditional version � rst choreographed in 1892.
“I tried to keep on the original version,” she said. “It’s very warm.”
� e performances, set for Dec. 5-7, signal a
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Dedicates performances to former mayor Bill Woods and “Mr. Kirkland”
Kirklander to star in NBC’s live Peter Pan production
Similarities don’t end with Division I basketballRebel, Kang girls sign to play in college
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Juanita High senior Jaisa Nunn has signed to play basketball for the University of New Miexco on a scholarship. CONTRIBUTED
Lake Washington High School senior Sydney Shepard will attend the University of San Diego next year. CONTRIBUTED
BY TJ MARTINELL
If you’re planning on watching NBC’s production “Peter Pan
Live!” Dec. 4 keep an eye out for Kirkland native Alanna Saunders, who will
play Tiger Lily. It’s her big-gest role to date, though by no means is it her � rst, with her � rst acting role coming at the age of four in Johnny Appleseed with her four siblings, all of whom are also active in the arts.
A graduate of Juanita High
School and a University of Miami alumnus, the role of Tiger Lily is the � rst role for the 22-year-old since she graduated from college.
Ironically, Peter Pan was the second performance she participated in at the age of 10, playing the twin lost boys along with her real-life twin sister, Claire, in addi-tion to her three brothers, Heath, Trent and Blake.
“It was probably one of the most amazing experi-ences I’d ever had at that point in my life,” she wrote in an email interview. “Yes, because of my siblings, but also because it was the � rst emotional attachment I’d ever had to a show, and to an experience.”
Currently, Trent Saun-ders is on Broadway in
Disney’s “Aladdin,” Blake Saunders is the choir teacher at Washington Middle School in Seattle, Heath Saunders made his o� -Broadway debut in “Lennon: � rough A Glass
Onion” and Claire Saunders
recently had a feature role in “� e Intern” that starred Robert de Niro and Anne Hathaway.
Growing up in a family that she also performed with was an experience like no other.
“Like all families we had our di� erences,” she wrote, “But growing up all loving music and the arts allowed
Show to air on Dec. 4, will be Alanna Saunders’ � rst role since college
Alanna Saunders
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Kirkland Winterfest will be held from 2-6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30 in down-town Kirkland.
Celebrate the coming of the winter season with an a� ernoon of Kirkland traditions thanks to the Kirkland Downtown As-sociation.
� e annual tree lighting ceremony will take place at 5 p.m.
� e event also includes the Argosy Christmas Ships, carriage rides, carol-ing, kids’ activities, games, refreshments and food.
Kids of all ages will enjoy greeting Santa’s arrival in Kirkland.
For more information visit www.kirklanddown-town.org/winterfest/
Kirkland Winterfest is this Sunday
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return to the KPC a� er six years performing at other venues in the greater Se-attle area. A reception will be held for Woods and honoring Morgan from 6-7 p.m. on Dec. 6.
Altunina said the dedication to Morgan and Woods is a gesture of gratitude for the work they did to create the KPC and encourage the arts in the city.
“In the past Chuck Morgan was the greatest supporter of our com-pany,” she said. “He also tried to help to sustain our presence at KPC.”
She also said they’re paying tribute to the numerous times Morgan played the Godfather role, which he � nally relin-quished in 2008.
“He was amazing,” she said. “He was an abso-lutely amazing person…
We wanted to pay tribute to this man who had so much passion and dedica-tion to Kirkland.”
Woods, who was a close friend of Morgan, o� ered to take up the mantle.
“I said if you are up to the beats and you are able to dance and not afraid of stage, I am more than happy,” she said.
� e Reporter was unable to contact Woods for comment prior to press deadline.� e two men are credited with e� orts to raise the $6 million that ultimately allowed the Kirkland Per-formance Center to open its doors in 1998. Altunina said during IBT’s hiatus from KPC they played at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, but they always felt like Kirkland was their
home. Now that they are back they are having to alter some aspects in order to accommodate the 85 performers on the smaller stage.
“It’s going to be pretty challenging to get all the danc-ers on,” she said. “But I’ve done it before and it works pretty well. We might take out some theatrical e� ects because…the KPC facility is not equipped
for it… other than that everything is stayed the same as choreographed.” � e IBT � rst performed � e Nutcracker in 2003. More information about the performances can be found at kpcenter.org/per-formances/the-nutcracker and ibtbellevue.org. For more information and tickets call 425-822-7694.
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Choral Society prepares for two holiday concerts
Kirkland Choral Soci-ety (KCS) will perform
Christmas concerts at 7:30 p.m. on Fri-day Dec. 5 at the First Methodist Church in Seattle and at 3 p.m. on Sunday Dec. 7 and Bas-tyr University Chapel in Kenmore.
Among the songs KCS will perform include “O Magnum Mysterium” using the two most famous 20th century settings of the
text, as well as Bob Chilcott’s version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”
The First United Methodist Church is lo-cated at 180 Denny Way in Seattle and the Bastyr University Chapel is located at 14500 Juanita Drive NE in Kenmore.
For more information visit www.kirklandcho-ralsociety.org.
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Curious addition in Reporter’s climate change story
� umbs up to the Kirkland City Council for supporting climate change initiatives. � umbs down to the Kirkland Reporter for the curious ad-dition of an out of context paragraph referencing a recent study by Johnstone and Mantua published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci-ences (PNAS 2014 111(40) 14360-14365).
� e article cited describes evidence that natural variation in atmospheric circulation may account for a large part of the temperature variation in the Paci� c Northwest over time periods as long as a century. � ere have been thousands of published articles in the scienti� c literature on climate disrup-tion in the past two years, including 91 in PNAS, the journal you cite.
� e study in question does not refute the fact that carbon dioxide emissions as a result of hu-man industrial activity have risen over the past 200 years resulting in a rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration and that atmospheric CO2 re� ects heat back toward earth resulting in a rise in mean atmospheric temperature. Nor does it lessen the concern that rising temperatures resulting in ex-
treme weather events and spread of tropical disease pose a risk to human health and safety. It merely describes in detail another variable in the complex process in which a rise in global mean tempera-ture can also alter so called “natural” atmospheric circulation patterns.
I am certain that the City Council considered the full body of scienti� c literature and the potential for serious adverse human consequences in making their decision. Mark Vossler, MD, Task Force on Climate Change
Treat others the way you want to be treated
Have you ever felt like you were less signi� cant than the people around you? I have. Back in sixth and seventh grades, I was living in Ohio, which is a lot di� erent than living in Washington, and I was a skater. My hair was long, my shirts were all ripped, my jeans were tight and I got made fun of constantly. � ere was even this kid that was just like me just without the long hair and he called me names.
One day he was trying to tell me I was bad at skating. � en he threw a hard green nut that had fallen o� a tree at me and hit me in the head. I
wasn’t very smart and I reacted quickly and I got into the only � ght I’ve ever been in. Humans have always been quick to jump to a � ght even in the most unnecessary situations. We are animals with instincts so it’s understandable but people need to learn to be nicer and not jump to violence. People these days are constantly trying to be better than others and act like they’re the coolest and “hardest” around.
We as humans have the same potential to go to the same places in life, we all have the potential to succeed and go and become the president or a doctor or an athlete. We all have the potential to fail and become the bum that everybody sees begging for change on the corner of the road. We all can be the best we possibly can, and that should prove we are equal but we, being the humans we are, have the individuality to make the choices we do and to do things di� erently than others. Just because they are di� erent doesn’t make one of you better than the other. Some people can handle others being rude and hateful but some people really take it seri-ously and they get down and depressed and then the sad thing is that the majority of people today have depression. Trevor Vickers, Bothell
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The weekend following � anksgiving, includ-ing “Black Friday,” is when many Americans choose to show their gratitude and apprecia-
tion for their many blessings in life by storming the gates of retail stores, swarming through aisles and engaging in quasi-mortal combat with another soccer mom over who will ultimately claim posses-sion of the new electronic gadget at a questionably reduced price, only to � nd out it’s already obsolete by the time they get it to the checkout stand.
For my family, this concept never quite caught on. We instead make it a tradition to forsake the chaos of consumerism by participating in the ancient yuletide ritual of selecting that most impor-tant symbol, the Christmas tree.
If picking out a Christmas tree is a � ne art, con-sider me a tree snob.
Some people judge a man by his lawn. I judge him by his Christmas tree, so when I come across ugly arti� cial spruce trees with obviously plas-tic branches and hideous LED lights in a front window that make the home resemble a kitsch nightmare worthy of a � omas Kinkade painting, I can’t help but wonder if Santa has that address on a “no � y” list of his own.
� en there are the real trees I recycled as a Boy Scout that were truly a sad sight to behold. Even Charlie Brown would have called them puny.
But it’s not just about the type of tree. � e ceremonial pageantry is totally unnec-essary but the enjoyable rituals are equally as important as that grand, glorious mo-ment when it is put into place in the living room and the angel is made alit without simultaneously shorting out the fusebox.
It simply isn’t appropriate to run over to a hardware store and pick up a scrawny already dead twig settled against other trees like stacked corpses a� er a battle. In a day and age when you can practically get everything done for you without li� ing so much as your index � nger to click the mouse button and order it, our modern, pampered, over-urbanized population can use a little bit of ex-ercise by chopping down that tree themselves with their own axe, preferably while wearing � annel and a � ve o’ clock shadow.
While trekking into the wild wilderness and looking for a raw, untamed evergreen to fell, a heightened sense of taste and style has always compelled us Martinells to search across the length and breadth of the many Christmas tree farms in the region. For years my family drove out to a farm in the Cascades run by an elderly couple until they ran out of trees worth selling. I like to think
we padded their retirement fund to their satisfaction by the time they closed it.
� e trouble with tree farms on this side of the mountains is the rain. Nothing is more depressing than setting out to � nd a Christmas tree amid a hideous cloud cover, rain and all the wet misery that ac-companies it.
Wandering among the tall rows of trees, one is permitted but a few moments in life to be ridiculously narrow-minded, judgmental, picky, choosy, what name you, without any condemna-tion whatsoever. In fact, the more judgmental you are, the better the tree you drag out.
You think that one tree appears acceptable? Well, it has a bit of a bare patch on that one side. Not good enough. Some appear attractive from afar, but upon closer examination the needles appear
too thick and awkward. No go. For me, the Pseudotsuga trees, or Douglas � r,
are the most beautiful. If they’re grown properly, they’re full, have a natural symmetry and you don’t have to spray fake scent to make them smell the way they should.
Unfortunately, there are these things called fam-ily members. � ey hold these things called opin-ions, and their opinions are not always harmonious with each other. Or mine.
� is collision is what you might refer to in some situations as family politics.
Whether tempers possibly � ared and con� ict-ing beliefs clashed, I can neither con� rm nor deny. But if, theoretically, such an event ever took place, it proved bene� cial to remind one and all that our circumstances were far better standing together in the � eld than in some store struggling to avoid an early death by asphyxiation at someone’s hand.
So when you’re tempted by that Black Friday ad, consider getting a respectable Christmas tree instead.
Trust me, the new gadget can wait.
TJ Martinell is a reporter with the Kirkland Reporter.
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Three LWSD schools named 2014 Schools of Distinction
Three Lake Washington School District schools have been named “Schools of Distinction” by the Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE). Dis-covery Community School in Kirkland, Evergreen Middle School in Red-mond and Kirkland Middle School were among 101 schools statewide in the top five percent for improve-ment on the state’s Read-ing/Math index test scores for students.
These awards are pre-sented by CEE, the Asso-ciation of Educational Ser-vice Districts (AESD), the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP), Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA) and Washington State School Directors’ As-sociation (WSSDA).
Each school had to show improvement in their “Reading/Math Index” over the past five years. Each recognized school also had student test scores that, at a minimum, were at or above the state median for the grade band.
“I am very proud of these schools for their sustained improvement,” said Dr. Traci Pierce, superinten-dent. “All of our schools focus on continuous improvement, and the data shows that these schools have worked hard toward achieving their goals.”
To be considered, schools had to perform at least at or above the state median in reading and math assessments, as mea-sured on the spring 2014 Measures of Student Prog-ress. Schools had to have data in at least two of three grades to be considered for that level (grades 3, 4 and 5 for elementary schools and grades 6, 7 and 8 for middle schools and junior highs). Schools were evalu-ated on combined reading and math improvement from 2009 to 2014 based on state assessments. The top five percent of public schools statewide subse-quently are recognized with the School of Distinction award.
Discovery Community School is a Lake Washing-ton School District Choice school that is housed at Sandburg Elementary School in Kirkland, Wash.
Discovery provides hands-on, interactive learning experiences to three multi-age classrooms, with a total enrollment of 73 students. Discovery Community School also received this award last year.
Evergreen Middle School, located in Red-mond, Wash., serves nearly 900 students. This year is the first that Evergreen Middle School is being recognized with a School of Distinction Award.
Kirkland Middle School, located in Kirkland, Wash., serves nearly 600 students. Kirkland Middle School has won this award for three years in a row.
The Schools of Distinc-tion Awards will be pre-sented to these and other area schools at a regional awards ceremony at the Puget Sound Educational Service District in Renton.
A Celtic Christmas at KPC
Geoffrey Castle’s A Celtic Christmas will be featured at the Kirkland Performance Center from 8:30-10:30 p.m. on Dec. 12-13.
Castle, an internation-ally recognized electric violinist, brings his Celtic Christmas Celebration to Kirkland for the ninth year. His fun and entertaining
show, complete with his accomplished band, local dance troupes, vocalists and Santa, make for one of the best holiday shows on the Eastside.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for kids.
For more information visit www.kpcenter.org.
The Kirkland Perfor-mance Center is located at 350 Kirkland Ave. in Kirkland.
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us to become the close-knit family we are today. We share a very strong passion for the same things, which means we appreciate and under-stand each other that much better. If you’re an artist, you know how widely your emotions range on a day-to-day basis and how that gets taken out on those closest to you. By understanding each other, everything feels a lot less personal, in a good way. But being from a family of artists, that also means emotions run high on the regular.”
Although she has found success in acting, she wrote she was first at-tracted to singing.
“I started singing in parts and in a choir when I was four as well,” she said. “It came naturally, being in front of people. I started to dance a little later because of a friend, and theater followed that. Music was my passion first.”
That passion remained with Saunders as she continued performing in roles and training as an actor through Studio East in Kirkland. In addition to performing in a family band, Saunders played the tenor saxophone in
the high school jazz and concert band, as well as the bass clarinet. She also sang in the high school choir.
But, she said, acting has had an indescribable allure for her since she was young. After studying abroad for a semester, the experience solidified her desire to pursue acting.
“The thing that both-ered me was that I didn’t know why I loved it,” she wrote. “It was what I had always done and what my family had always done. I hadn’t made the choice myself, so I decided to make some sort of choice all on my lonesome.”
Among her most favorite roles prior to college were Cinderella in “Cinderella,” Beth in “Little Women,” and Ti Moune in “Once on this Island.”
“I think that I fall in love with every role that I get to play,” she said. “Being able to live inside another person and understand all their complexities and what makes them beautiful and human, how could you not fall in love?”
While attending the University of Miami, Saunders went on to play Clara in “Night Train to Bolina,” Nellie in “Floyd
Collins,” and Diana Mo-rales in “A Chorus Line.”
“Morales was not a character that came naturally to me at first,” she wrote. “I wanted to make her softer and more complacent, she needed the opposite. She helped me to find my harder side and expand my abilities and use my vulnerability in a different way. It also helped that I think she has the best songs in the show.”
Though “Peter Pan Live!” is a live broadcast,
it will not be the first time Saunders has
been in front of a camera. As a child she acted in PBS’s “Biz Kids,” as one
of the subhosts of the show, which she
described as being “like Bill Nye the Science Guy, except instead of teach-ing kids about science we taught them about money.”
“This was particu-larly different from stage because a good amount of the time we addressed the camera, ‘our audience’ directly, breaking that fourth wall,” she wrote. “Because it [Peter Pan] is live, it is actually more similar to stage perfor-mance than other film projects. Not being able to edit a performance is
one of main differences between film and stage, and this concept shortens that gap.”
Despite her success in theater, Saunders said she wanted to be prepared to earn another living if it did not pan out. She took pre-med classes in high school and chose to go to a regular university that had a conservatory so she could continue studying.
“My original goal going into college was to take as many pre-med classes as possible so that way if I ever decided that I wanted to go to med school I would only need to go back to undergrad for another year or two,” she wrote. “In my mind it allowed me have, in the future, a family that I could support financially. That logic was one of the reasons I went with per-forming. Not because of what medicine isn’t, but because of what the arts are. Acting and singing and performing feed my soul more than anything else. It is what makes me happy. If I could be in a place I would be okay to not perform, then I could absolutely go into medicine.”
“The problem is,” she wrote further, “I don’t think I could survive if I couldn’t sing anymore.”
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The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statisti-cal round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police o� cers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.
Between Nov. 13-20, there were 427 tra� c incidents, 25 tra� c accidents, one DUI, 24 general tra� c incidents, 44 alarm calls, 11 abandoned vehicles, � ve burglaries, 10 incidents of fraud, 13 civil incidents, � ve cases of harassment, 22 thefts, seven vehicle prowls, six vehicle thefts, 15 warrants served, 10 noise com-plaints, one animal calls, eight incidents of domestic violence, six incident of malicious mischief, 13 disturbances, one assault and 26 incidents involving at least one arrest.
Nov. 20Protection order: 5:13 p.m., 11200 block of Champagne Point Ln NE. A 55-year-old man was arrested after violat-ing a no-contact order after his 55-year-old wife reported him at her residence. He was booked into the Kirkland Jail.
Nov. 18Assault: 9:39 p.m., 11200 block of Cham-pagne Point Ln. NE. A 55-year-old man was arrested for punching his 55-year-old wife repeatedly in the face.
Nov. 16Assault: 4 a.m., 5400 block of 113th PL NE. A 24-year-old man was arrested after he punched a 27-year-old woman, caus-
ing signi� cant injuries. The two had been drinking and playing cards at her resi-dence when an argument arose. When she told him to leave a physical � ght ensued. While not in a committed relationship, the two are “infrequently intimate.”
Nov. 15DUI: 1:50 a.m., 80 block of Kirkland Av-enue. A 45-year-old woman was arrested after being contacted by an o� cer in the driver’s seat of her running vehicle parked in the middle of the roadway. The woman claimed she was making out with the man in the vehicle. She performed poorly on a � eld sobriety test and refused to o� er a preliminary breath test. Her blood alcohol level was eventually found to be .108.
Assault: 10 a.m., 13100 block of 95th PL NE. A 42-year-old man was
arrested after he assaulted his 8-year-old son in front of the boy’s 42-year-old mother with the plug end of a phone charger. The child su� ered a small
scratch.
Nov. 14Assault: 10:25 p.m., 12700
block of NE 124th St. A 36-year-old woman was arrested after she got
drunk and struck and bit her 40-year-old boyfriend.
Warrant: 9:40 p.m., 12600 block of NE 124th St. A 23-year-old man was arrested after escaping from the Department of Corrections. He was transported back to the King County Jail.
Assault: 8:03 p.m., 11600 block of 127th LN NE. A 34-year-old woman was arrested after she attacked her 30-year-old niece with whom she shared a condo. The niece had told her uncle that he needed to pay his portion of the rent so they would not get evicted. The aunt overheard and became upset and attacked her niece by putting both hands around her throat, punching her in the chest with a closed � st and scratching her in the face and arm.
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Kiwanis tree lot opens tomorrow
With Christmas just around the corner, the Kiwanis Club of Kirkland is gearing up for their biggest fundraiser of the year. Since 1971, the club has sold Christmas trees, wreaths, gourmet nuts and See’s Candy, with all funds going to support children in the Kirkland community.
For the third year, the tree lot will be located in the parking lot at Juanita Beach Park. It opens Nov. 28, the day after Thanks-giving. The lot will stay open until Dec. 21 or until the trees are gone. Tree lot hours will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Fri-day, and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
The trees are freshly cut, with the first ship-ment being delivered just before the lot opens and a second shipment in mid-December, ensuring that the trees are as fresh as possible when you purchase them.
For the last two years, they have sold out early, so be sure not to wait too long.
This year, there will be a special event happening at the tree lot. On Nov. 30, Girl Scouts Troop 44035 will be adding to the festivities by having a tree decorating/caroling party starting at 4:30 p.m. After the girls have charmed everyone with their carol-ing, they will be passing out hot cocoa and cider to the tree lot patrons. It will be a great addition to the fun. Everyone is invited whether they buy a tree or not. Come out and sup-port the local Girl Scouts.
All of the net proceeds from the tree lot go to programs designed to assist children in Kirk-land. They include: Attain Housing (formerly KITH), Music in the Park, student scholarships, Special Olympics, What’s Next Bowlers, Scouting, Kiwanis Camp Casey, Eastside Baby Corner, Kirkland Easter Egg Hunt, the YMCA/Kirkland Teen Union Building and many others.
For more information about the Kiwanis Club of Kirkland, visit kirkland.kiwanis.org or contact Matt Gregory at 425-828-0231.
St. John Vianney Church to host tree sale
St. John Vianney Church in Kirkland will host the 11th annual Christmas tree sale beginning today.
� e tree lot will be open 5-8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturdays and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
For more information or special orders contact Ken Goodwin at 425-823-6840.
Winter Wonderland dinner at LWTech
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will host the 2014 Winter Wonderland Wine Dinner from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 5. Proceeds support opportunities for students in the culinary program at LWTech.
A very special winter dinner of four courses will be paired with select wines and dessert by students of the culinary arts program. High-lights include crab and apple soup, duck ravioli in a rich duck consomme, roasted rack of lamb and � ourless chocolate torte.
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Northeast 120th Street is performing “re-markably well,” said
Chuck Morrison, a Kirkland transportation engineer who has been closely monitoring Totem Lake tra� c since the city brought the 900-foot extension onto its street network Nov. 19.
“Once people know there’s a new route there, they may change their habits,” Mor-rison said. “People didn’t go that way before and people are creative. So you never quite know what to expect. We’ll keep monitoring it for a
few weeks.”Kirkland’s City Council
opened the 900-foot road to the public on Nov. 19, a� er a ceremony that featured Lake Washington High School’s drum line, cyclists, pedes-trians and drivers, as well as state and federal o� cials.
“Not only will these 900 feet improve the connectivity and tra� c � ow of the Totem Lake economic engine, they will also help catalyze local redevelopment,” Kirkland Mayor Amy Walen told the gathering of residents and stakeholders. “And it will do this while remaining sensitive to our immediate
environment through ex-tensive water quality e� orts up-stream of Totem Lake, Lake Washington and the Puget Sound.”
Northeast 120th Street is the � rst road the city of Kirk-land has built in two decades and the � rst prospective “Greenroad” on the Eastside. To achieve Greenroads sta-tus—it’s kind of like a LEED certi� cation for roads—the city committed to a variety of environmentally sensitive strategies.
For one, it used a warm-mix asphalt, rather than a hot-mix asphalt, which reduces the necessary temperature of the asphalt by 50- to 100-degrees. � at, in turn, reduces the amount of energy to heat the asphalt. It also reduces emissions. Kirkland is also making use of LED lighting, stormwater-soaking and � ltering devices and recycled pavement.
One fundamental require-ment of a Greenroads certi� -cation is the road’s durabil-ity, said Jeralee Anderson, Greenroads Foundation executive director.
“To earn Greenroads cer-ti� cation, we ask for a mini-mum of a 40-year lifetime [with regular maintenance],” Anderson said. “� e idea is to design for longer durabil-ity. � ere is a substantial amount of research that says if you add a few inches of pavement [thickness], even though it will cost more in the short term, it’ll cost much less in the long run.”
Kirkland holds celebration for new street extensionMayor Amy Walen, third from left, chats
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for Northeast 120th Street. Council
members Dave Asher, far left, Toby Nixon,
second from left, and Jay Arnold, far right, also participated in the event. CHRISTIAN KNIGHT, City of Kirkland
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LWSD named to AP District Honor Roll
Lake Washington School District (LWSD) was named by the College Board to its 5th Annual AP District Honor Roll.
That honor is awarded for increasing access to Advanced Placement (AP) coursework while main-taining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of three or higher on AP exams.
Reaching these goals indicates that these districts are successfully identifying motivated, academically prepared students who are likely to benefit from rigor-ous AP course work.
More than 90 percent of colleges and universities across the U.S. offer college credit, advanced placement or both for a score of three or higher on an AP Exam.
Achieving that score may save students and their families thousands of dol-lars in college tuition.
A total of 547 school districts across the U.S. and six Canadian provinces achieved honor roll status.
Fourteen districts in the state of Washington achieved this honor.
“As a district, we believe in preparing all students for college level work,” said
Dr. Traci Pierce, superin-tendent. “Our high schools have made a concerted effort to encourage students to take on the challenge of AP coursework as part of that preparation.”
The number of AP tests taken by LWSD students increased from 2,825 in 2012 to 3,496 in 2014.
At the same time, the rate of students achieving a score of three or higher dropped from 79% percent in 2012 to 76 percent in 2013, but returned to 79 percent in 2014.
Inclusion on the 5th Annual AP District Honor Roll is based on three years of AP data, from 2012 to 2014.
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• Increased participa-tion/access to AP by at least 4 percent in large districts, 6 percent in medium districts, and 11 percent in small districts.
• Increased or main-tained the percentage of exams taken by African American, Hispanic/La-tino, and American Indian/Alaska Native students.
• Improved performance levels when comparing the percentage of students in 2014 scoring a three or higher to those in 2012, unless the district has already attained a perfor-mance level at which more than 70 percent of its AP students are scoring a three or higher.
Man wins $1 million prize in Kirkland
An anonymous Both-ell man was in complete disbelief about winning a $1 million Powerball prize until the moment he walked into the Everett Lottery of-fice to claim his prize a few days later.
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Google hosts Business Symposium
Google hosted this year’s annual Kirkland Chamber of Commerce Youth and Business Sym-posium on Nov. 13 where 40 Lake Washington School District students from Juanita, Lake Wash-ington, ICS and Emerson High were attendees.
� e student’s � rst stop was Google where they were greeted by Western Region Public Relations Manager Darcy Nothnagle, who led to a panel discussion with six various so� ware engineers o� ering varying perspec-tives on their careers at Google.
A� er discussing the company’s mission, its functions and how Google’s many products have been adapted and improved, each individual speaker then described their career pathways, as well as a description of their typical “day in the life of a so� ware engi-neer.”
A question and answer session followed, and the
visit concluded with a comprehensive tour of Google’s facilities.
� e students and their chaperones then re-boarded their bus to � e Woodmark Hotel for a luncheon with the Kirkland Chamber of Commerce.
In keeping with the theme of the day, the featured speaker was Vice President of Engineer-ing and Site Director for Google Kirkland, Chee Chew.
Chew addressed stu-dents and Chamber mem-bers alike with his advice to be passionate with whatever it is you like to do; never have the fear to try new things in your life and to always stay open to new possibilities.
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remember, Shepard always wanted to play college ball. Although she played on se-lect teams and summer ball, she said when she entered LWHS as a sophomore there was a giant leap in the level of intensity and competition among the athletes.
“Going from ninth grade to high school was com-pletely di� erent,” she said. “I was playing against girls who are 17 or 18, and I was 14. It’s just a…completely di� erent atmosphere.”
Fortunately, she said, her father, Cory Shepard, who played basketball for Whit-man College in Walla Walla, helped her prepare for the level of competition by play-ing her a year up and with older girls on select teams. Cory Shepard is also the head varsity coach for Lake Washington girls basketball team and, prior to that, he was hired on to coach the boys basketball team in 1999.
“Really, I would credit a lot of my success to him helping me get better as a basketball player,” she said. “He’s seen what a girl has to do. Both my parents are really sup-portive.”
Shepard said she focused on improving certain areas of her game, particularly her agility. As a guard, she worked at protecting the hoop from quicker op-ponents looking to make a quick shot. O� ensively, she spent hours in the gym with shooting machines to improve her aim, including behind the three-point arc.
� e hard work paid o� . � ough the Kangs struggled during their regular season with a record of 13-12 last year, they managed to � ght their way to their � rst appearance at the state tournament since 2000, when the school was 3A. During a critical victory against Sumner in February, 51-44, Shepard racked up 12 points, seven assists and six rebounds. She was twice named All KingCo 3A/2A Conference First Team All
League player. While the team failed to
place at the state tournament, Shepard said the team was successful because of strong cohesion even though they were underdogs.
“We had some talent and yeah, we competed, but honestly we had great team chemistry,” she said. “We all liked each other on and o� the court and it makes up for some of the lack of talent. Even if we didn’t have talent, the great team chemis-try pushed us further and further.”
A� er being contacted during a summer game in Oregon by the University of San Diego, she signed on a� er an o� cial visit and will play guard for the team.
Like father, like daughter
Nunn too decided she wanted to play college ball at a young age, when she was in middle school. For her, there was something about the speed of the game, as well as the potential for improve-ment that she loved.
Like Shepard, her father also played college basketball at Eureka College and was eventually inducted into their Athletic Hall of Fame. Coaching several of her youth basketball teams, she said he was always o� ering guidance and advice based on his own athletic career.
“He gave me a lot of ex-perience,” she said. “I think it just came naturally when I took this sport.”
In addition to her father, she also credited her coaches, including Sam Lee, the head varsity coach for Juanita High School, her Swish Black coaches Sam Adams and Brent Merritt, as well as Steve Klees with the NW Blazers, an elite high school basketball club based in Portland, Ore. Growing to be six-feet, three-inches tall, she found a natural place as a post and power forward.
“When you’re there [post], it’s just you, the other post and the basket,” she
said. “When you get the ball you get a chance to prove yourself. I have the ball in my hand, she’s maybe on my right side, and I have to do this move, and you don’t even think about it. You score that point, add two more points on the score-board. I just love it when it’s just one-on-one.”
As she progressed, she said her father also encour-aged her to improve her shooting.
“He said if you have this aspect of your game, it will open up so many other doors,” she said. “Eventually I kept shooting and shooting and now I’m so grateful I did that and have that distinct form. If a post is taller than me I can take them outside the key and shoot and make buckets all the time. I basi-cally take my game one step further.”
Some of the highlights of her years with the Rebels include an edge-of-the-seat victory against undefeated Liberty High in 2012, 42-41.
“It was this game to see,” she said. “� ere were so many people there. You ei-ther have to perform or you are sitting on the bench…� ey were one of the top teams in the state and know-ing we beat them, it just makes me realize ‘Wow, I can do anything now.’”
Last season, the Rebels crushed the opposition during the regular season, ending with a 13-1-0 record and a 19-4-0 overall record. Although they lost in the playo� s, they were ranked 20th overall in the state.
She signed to play with the University of New Mexico a� er the coach contacted her in September 2013. When she’s not on the basketball court, she says said she’s thinking of study-ing engineering.
“I like building stu� , how machines work, how they move,” she said.
Both players hope to push their respective Kirkland high school teams as far as they can during their senior year beginning Dec. 1.
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Juanita’s Gary Moed named Principal of the Year
Juanita High School Principal Gary Moed has been selected as the KingCo 3A Principal of the Year. � is is Moed’s second selection, having received
the award in 2012 as well.Moed was chosen in
recognition of his impact on the culture and climate of the school in which all students feel welcomed and valued.
� is culture has also resulted in an academic resur-gence at Juanita. Under his leader-ship Juanita has greatly expanded its Advanced Placement, Hon-ors and STEM programs, as well as implementing the
AICE Cambridge program, an four-year international diploma program featur-ing rigorous academic
curriculum and assessment administered by the University of Cambridge, in England.
Juanita High School PTSA recognized Moed’s award at a recent assembly where
the students spontane-ously gave him a standing ovation.
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KPD to help dispose of prescription drugs
� e Kirkland Police Department now o� ers an ongoing program that allows citizens to dispose of unwanted prescription drugs into a secured recep-tacle in the Police Depart-ment lobby, located at the Kirkland Justice Center, 11750 NE 118th Street. Citizens can anonymously
dispose of their unused prescription drugs Monday through Friday between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Items not accepted include sharps, weapons and hazardous waste. Prescription contain-ers are permitted, however the public is encouraged to place pills in sealable plastic bags prior to disposal. � e prescription drugs are later incinerated in a facility ap-proved by the U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Connect with Kirkland’s O� ce of Emergency Management online
� e city of Kirkland’s Of-� ce of Emergency Manage-ment (OEM) is now on Facebook and Twitter: www.facebook.com/kirklandOEM and @OEMKirkland on Twitter.
Currently, both sites provide emergency preparedness information and resources. During major disasters and emergencies, city in-formation will be posted and regional information will be shared on these social media channels.
To o� cially announce the channels’ launch, the OEM decorated the Cow and Coyote statue on Central Way in downtown and is hosting a T-shirt winning contest. Participants need to
creatively respond to “What should the Cow and Coyote put in their emergency kit?” by tweeting @OEMKirk-land or commenting on the Facebook post. OEM team members will announce the winners on Nov. 17.
� e OEM aims to create a link between the commu-nity and the OEM by raising awareness of emergency management and by provid-
ing useful links and in-formation on how to
prepare the whole community for all hazards. � us, the Kirkland community and
its neighbors are highly encouraged
to ‘like’ and ‘follow’ both social media channels.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), “Increas-ingly the public is turning to social media technologies to obtain up-to-date informa-tion during emergencies and to share data about the disaster in the form of geo data, text, pictures, video, or a combination of these media.”
� e two social media channels feature emergency preparedness-related memes and popular hashtags or trends, such as #Tuesday-Trivia, #WednesdayWisdom and #� rowback� ursday.
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EvergreenHealth and Valley General Hospital announced Nov. 19 that their respective Boards of Commis-
sioners have voted to approve the third and � nal phase of an alliance agreement in which Valley General Hospital in Mon-roe, Washington will become part of the Kirkland-based health care system and managed by EvergreenHealth.
As part of the agreement, Valley General Hospital will change its name to Evergreen-Health Monroe e� ective March 1, 2015.
Valley General’s Board of Commission-ers rati� ed the agreement on Nov. 13 by a unanimous vote.
EvergreenHealth and Valley General entered into an a� liation agreement in late 2012 in which EvergreenHealth commit-ted to working more closely with Valley General, locating additional physicians in Monroe and sharing some core services.
� is latest agreement results in Valley General being fully integrated with Ever-greenHealth, including changing its name to EvergreenHealth Monroe.
“We are pleased to have this agreement in place, giving us the opportunity to further improve the breadth and quality of the services we can provide our growing population in east Snohomish County,” said Eric Jensen, CEO of Valley General. “Since our initial agreement in 2012, we’ve made great strides in stabilizing our operations, � nancial performance and delivering on the promise we made to our community when they enthusiastically approved a small levy increase to help maintain access to 24/7 emergency and trauma care and
inpatient services.”Valley General was recently recognized
by the Washington State Hospital Associa-tion with an Achieving Best Care award for its e� orts to decrease patient harm through its participation in the Partner-ship for Patients initiative, a nationwide collaborative e� ort to reduce the number of hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent and readmissions by 20 percent by the end of 2014.
EvergreenHealth Monroe will be gov-erned by a newly formed, integrated board structure for the 72-bed Monroe-based hospital while being part of the Evergreen-Health system.
Under the agreement, the two hospitals will create an Alliance Governance Board (AGB), consisting of two Board members from EvergreenHealth, two Commissioners from Snohomish County Public Hospital District #1 (SCPHD #1), and the CEO of EvergreenHealth. � e AGB will govern Valley General Hospital’s operations, while the SCPHD #1 Board will retain speci� c powers and responsibility for the public hospital district’s health needs.
“I am proud of our organization’s willing-ness to step up and help create this alliance, which will go a long way in serving those who rely on Valley General Hospital,” said Al DeYoung, chair of EvergreenHealth’s Board of Commissioners.
� e � nancial position of Valley General has improved greatly since the a� liation formed in 2012.
� e 2015 budget projects a positive net operating income of $1 million, thanks in
part to improved management and added tax support approved in 2012.
“I am excited about the potential this af-� liation o� ers, not only to make our hospi-tal and our district stronger, but to provide enhanced medical services in areas that have been underserved in our district,” said Tony Balk, chair of Valley General Board of Commissioners.
In the two years since the a� liation was created, EvergreenHealth has added new primary care, prenatal obstetrics, orthope-dic surgery and rehabilitation care to the Monroe community. In the late � rst quarter of 2015 a new 34-bed psychiatric hospital, operated by Fairfax Behavior Health, will open at Valley General Hospital in space previously occupied by Valley’s psych unit, which closed three years ago due to � nan-cial considerations.
“I have been practicing in Monroe since 2007 and I’ve watched this community and its needs evolve,” said Jonathan Borjeson, DO, board-certi� ed general surgeon and president of the medical sta� of Valley General. “� is agreement means that residents of our growing community will have access to the highest quality care at the best value. It’s rewarding to be part of that growth and continue to provide quality care in a community hospital setting.”
EvergreenHealth is the ninth largest hospital in the Puget Sound region, accord-ing to Puget Sound Business Journal, and has been named among the top 5 percent of hospitals in the nation by Healthgrades.
Last spring, U.S. News and World Report named EvergreenHealth the top non-aca-demic medical center in the Puget Sound region.
Chair of the EvergreenHealth Board of Commissioners, Al DeYoung, left, and Valley General Hospital Commissioner Tony Balk signed the agreement. COURTESY PHOTO, Contributed
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