Issaquah/Sammamish Reporter, February 03, 2012

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Churches are pulling together in a citywide eff ort to help keep homeless boys and men warm for the remainder of the winter.

Th e clothing drive will help fi ll the shelves of Issaquah’s clothing bank as well as the Union Gospel Mission in Seattle.

“We have a lot of homeless men that could really benefi t from warm feet,” said Kim Ortego from the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank. “Th ere are teens in school that need clothing, too.”

While about 80 percent of King County’s 8,900 homeless are men, most of the donations are women’s clothing. Churches hope to help balance that this winter when the need is the greatest.

Th e event runs the entire month of February. Bring gently worn clothing to one of four churches or the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank. Waterproof boots, new socks and new underwear top the list of requests.

Issaquah Food & Clothing Bank179 1st Ave. SE, Issaquah; 425-392-4123

Issaquah Christian Church10328 Issaquah-Hobart Rd. SE, Issaquah; 425-392-5848

Foothills Baptist Church10120 Issaquah Hobart Rd. SE, Issaquah; 425-392-5925

Mountain Creek Fellowship165 Front St. N., Issaquah; 425-391-3416

Community Church of Issaquah205 Mountain Park Blvd. SW, Issaquah; 4250-392-6447

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One by one they walked up to the concrete Eastlake High School sign — the exact spot he greeted every one of them with a smile and a wave each morning.

Some laid fl owers down. Others brought balloons.And nearly all of the 200-plus students

who gathered aft er school Tuesday had stories to share about King County Sheriff ’s Deputy Stan Chapin, a resource offi cer for EHS and Inglewood Junior High whose un-expected death late Monday night stunned the Sammamish community.

“Every day when I’d come to school, he was always there waving,” said senior Amber Cuozzo, who along with friend Marlena Masterleo, organized Tuesday’s remembrance at the entrance to the high school. “It was always a good start to the day.”

Chapin, 61, died peacefully at his Both-ell home Monday of what is believed to be natural causes.

Th e near 40-year veteran of the King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce was in his 12th year of working as a resource offi cer on the Plateau.

“He was there because he genuinely cared about the kids — he wanted to see the kids succeed,” Sammamish Police Chief Nate Elledge said. “Th is guy was just such a phenomenal offi cer. He touched the lives of so many students past and present.”

Students refl ected on their many fond memories of Chapin on Tuesday aft er-noon, highlighting everything from his spot-on impersonation of a velociraptor — the screeching dinosaur made famous in the Jurassic Park fi lms — to his ability

to remember every student by name. “Not a lot of teenagers respect authority,

but all of us respected him regardless of him being a police offi cer,” Masterleo said. “I just think it’s really great one person could connect all of us, even though we’re so diff erent.”

Compassion is one trait all students agreed made Chapin so special.

Junior Austin Henderson recalled get-ting called into Chapin’s offi ce as a sopho-more. It was his fi rst and only meeting in the resource offi cer’s offi ce, but it was all it took to make a new friend. Every time aft er, Chapin greeted him with a hello and acknowledged him by name.

“One time when I was walking into school, I was kind of having a tough day and he stopped me and talked to me for a while and just made sure everything was OK,” Henderson said. “Th at really just made my day.”

By the time the fi nal bell rang Tuesday, there were two posters stretched across the main upstairs hallway at Eastlake High School with hundreds of signatures and well-wishes from students and teachers.

But Chapin’s impact still stretched far beyond the walls of EHS and IJH.

A HERO REMEMBEREDStudents, community honor beloved resource offi cer Stan Chapin

Hundreds of Eastlake students met in front of the high school Tuesday aft ernoon to honor resource offi cer Stan Chapin in the exact spot he welcomed them every morning. KEVIN ENDEJAN, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter

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Grasping the 2-foot saplings by their tender trunks, the gardener moved them to make room for the day’s potting – cedars so small they looked more like clippings stabbed in bits of earth than trees with roots.

It’s the beginning of a several year process for Jema Hayes who, wearing mud-stained Carharts, directs volunteers at the Mountain to Sound Greenway Trust’s native plant nursery.

She cares for the trees for over a year before volunteers haul them into the moun-tains to restore old logging roads or to wetlands to reclaim land once thoroughly abused by blackberry bushes.

MTS plants 12,000-15,000 bushes and trees each year from Seattle to Ellensburg. Each of those trees begin at the trust’s single nursery at Lake Sammamish State Park under Hayes’ care.

Th e group relies on hundreds of volun-teers each winter to help pot the plants. Th e work is expected to continue through February this year, aft er a snow storm can-celled two events.

For Steve Blank, who’s volunteered at

MTS for 10 years, it’s an opportunity to connect with coworkers and a chance to help balance nature with new development.

Like Hayes, he’s seen the saplings grow, cleared blackberry-ridden fi elds where they’ll eventually root and then planted them.

Tree planting, which is what the most volunteers show up for, is a romantic idea, but for Blank, a hardcore volunteer, it’s see-ing the trees through, he said.

At the nursery, snaking lines of black pots are stacked beside a plywood shed while the group pulls bushes from brown paper bags and squishes them into healing beds. Th e nursery has about 30 native plant species.

Nearby, men pot 8-foot maples, wiry and red. Th ey had a good year, Hayes said with a laugh. Th ey’re usually half that size.

Many of the plants were paid for through Carter Motors’ carbon neutral program, which claims credit for planting about 45,000 trees since 2008.

While the nursery is her favorite place in MTS, the satisfaction isn’t in bright green rows of Douglas fi r or the thousands of plants. It’s returning a year aft er her trees are planted to keep the weeds at bay.

It gives them a fi ghting chance, she said. “You truly feel ownership of these trees.”

Jema Hayes, a volunteer coordinator at Mountain to Sound Greenway Trust, moves cedars at its native plant nursery in Issaquah. CELESTE GRACEY, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter

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Aft er taking four years off , Issaquah Landscaping will make a return to the big stage this week.

Th e local company was invited to participate in the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, Feb. 8-12, at the Wash-ington State Convention Center where it will present one of 25 display gardens under this year’s musical theme, “A Floral Symphony — Garden’s Take Note.”

Th e show is the second largest fl ower and garden show in the United States and the largest west of the Mississippi River.

“It’s awesome, the energy is just over-whelming because some of the best land-scapers in the state are there,” said David Rogers, owner of Issaquah Landscaping.

Rogers, whose garden is centered around bluegrass music with a Northwest theme, titled his display “Rhythm and Roots - A Tribute to Bluegrass.”

He got the idea when talking to friend Dave Shipley, guitarist for the local blue-grass group, the Cascade Cut-Ups. Th e Issaquah-based band will perform from 2-3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 11, on the main stage and will perform in the garden display from 3-3:20 p.m.

Th e entire 1,300 square-foot bluegrass display is centered around a reclaimed metal building, a pond and native plant-ings accented by herb and fl ower gardens.

Th e other 24 displays will focus on many diff erent genres of music ranging

from jazz to classical and gospel.“Th e gardens are a crowd favorite for

their beauty, but they also generate take-home ideas for gardeners of all abilities,” said show producer, Terry O’Loughlin of O’Loughlin Trade Shows.

Issaquah Landscaping begins putting its display together this weekend and has three-and-a-half days to construct the entire project. Rogers compared the setup to that of reality shows, like Cake Boss, where contestants are given a brief amount of time to fi nish a detailed project.

“Th e whole construction — you’ve got 25 gardens going at once, it’s quite a production,” he said.

Issaquah Landscaping, which opted out of participating in the Northwest Flower & Garden Show the last four years, has a successful history in the event since 2003, winning two bronze, one silver and a gold medal for its displays.

In addition to the displays, there are more than 120 seminars, “Th e Play-Garden” for families, a large line-up of exhibitors.

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BY GABRIELLE NOMURAISSAQUAH & SAMMAMISH REPORTER

Let me get one thing straight – at 24, I’m not sure I’m qualifi ed to write a review of Village Th eatre’s newest play, “Th e Odd Couple.”

Set in New York in the ‘60s, the play depicts the tale of divorced men looking for meaning in their lives aft er marriage. Th e leads are Felix Ungar, an utterly annoying neat freak, and Oscar Madison, a curmudgeon who tosses his wrappers and trash on the fl oor.

Felix moves into Oscar’s apartment when his wife kicks him out, and hilarity ensues as these two try to make it work being best friends, yet polar opposites of one another.

When Neil Simon sat down to write his comedic play in the mid-’60s, a slob was someone who sat on his couch eating peanuts, as opposed to Big Macs and fries. A man who was in touch with his emotions and loved to clean was seen as an oddity; today, he’s an ideal husband.

Th ese two male arche-types, while comical in the ‘60s, are not relevant in 2012.

Male and female gen-der roles have changed dramatically since Simon’s time: hippies have frolicked, the bra was burned, then brought back to be worn under women’s shoulder-padded suites. Th e term stay-at-home-dad continues to become more and more normal. And divorce has become less of a big deal.

When I knew I would be

doing a review of “Th e Odd Couple,” I brought the one person I could think of who would appreciate it – my grandma.

While the phenomenal actors still made me laugh, especially at Oscar’s “Why I outta…!” moments or Fe-lix’s cluelessness, there have been other Village plays that resonated with me more; shows such as “Take Me America,” a story of in-ternational people seeking asylum in life-and-death situations, or the radical “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

Th e art of theater won’t always be able to please

its audiences, especially when the people sitting in the seats are generations apart. But it’s good there’s a theater nearby that knows when to push boundaries sometimes, and when to pull out the oldies at other times.

“Th e Odd Couple” runs now until March 25. Village Th eatre is located at 303 Front St., N, Issaquah. For more information, go to villagetheatre.org.

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Politics and the way people feel about their own views versus the views of others seems to get nastier and nastier as a major election approaches. People will always disagree, but can we

do this without losing respect for one another?Four years ago when a presidential race was ramping up, as one

is now, I was continually sent a barrage of emails from a friend, who has polar opposite political opinions than me.

I asked her to stop, as I found them insulting. She did not. I was very close to her at the time, but it killed our friendship for quite a long time.

Now, we’ve been in contact once again, shar-ing thoughts on family and daily challenges, peacefully.

The other day I re-posted something I liked from another person’s page on Facebook. It was political, but really benign, not nasty, in fact something positive.

My old friend pipes in immediately with a stream of vitriol that wouldn’t end. I responded, and said please, let’s not do this again. Do what? She seemed to think she was innocent of stirring up trouble again.

Also, about the middle of last year, a second cousin of mine, who I’ve known since he was born, turned real ugly on me, going so far as to call me a communist on Facebook. I had to “de-friend” him and report him to Facebook to get him from spewing forth really, really ugly stuff on my home page. It was devastating and stressful for me.

Why on earth can’t we all just agree to disagree, but be nice about it?

It will be a long, ugly year if the citizens of this deeply divided country continue sniping at each other, just like Congress does now.

Rise above it people. We need to rise above the partisan bickering and work together to achieve results.

Steve Farley, a Democrat who is an assistant minority leader in the Arizona House of Representatives, said disagreement is part of a democracy, but disrespect is not.

It took the assassination attempt of then U.S. Representative Ga-brielle Giffords of Arizona for members of Congress to actually sit together at the State of the Union addresses the past two years. It’s a start, but at the price of six lives.

So, all I’m asking here is for people to play well with others. Be fair. Respect the opinion of others even if you don’t agree. Above all, be nice, please.

Linda Ball is a staff writer with the Issaquah & Sammamish Re-porter. She can be reached at 206-232-1215 ext. 5052 or at [email protected]

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DUE DILIGENCE NEEDED ON DEVELOPMENT

I was disappointed to read that The Reporter, describing the angst felt by the neighbors of the proposed development on Ingelwood Hill Road, failed to give the reason why.

After seeing the variances the city is granting developers on par-cels that the county had deemed “unbuildable” or “sensitive area,” many old time environmentalists on the Plateau are being reawak-ened to the need for vigilance to protect our beautiful area.

One example is a parcel at the top of Northeast 211th that the county had designated too steep to build on. The city granted a variance, the builder removed all the trees and vegetation and now three homes hang off the steep slope which, in my opinion, puts the existing homeowner at the bottom of the hill in peril.

The developer of the proposed Benham Ridge Development mentioned in the article has every right to develop it, we just want to make sure he does it in an environmentally responsible way

and we don’t trust the city and the developer to do this without due diligence and oversight on the part of those who love our beauti-ful Plateau.

Barbara Raabe, Sammamish

WHY THE CHANGEON OPEN SPACE?

Recently a code violation com-plaint was made against Buchan Homes alleging that the company had violated the newly-created open space tract for Chestnut Lane. The complaint was investi-gated by the city of Sammamish and found to be true.

The company had taken a large cat or backhoe and made inroads and dug test pits in the newly-dedicated open space tract of Chestnut Lane, a new develop-ment on 212th Avenue Southeast. However, it seems to me that this is not just a mistake on the company’s part, but a fi nely-or-chestrated scheme to incorporate this permanent open space into a new development. And the city is helping.

The Chestnut Lane plat, fi nal-ized and recorded in April of 2010, is contingent upon keeping this open space tract untouched. According to the plat dedication

and city code, “Any open space resulting from lot clustering shall not be altered or disturbed except as specifi ed on recorded docu-ments creating the open space.” The dedication for Chestnut does not allow alterations.

So how is the city helping? The city merely requested that the company apply for a clear-ing and grading permit. How can the city issue a clearing permit for a dedicated, permanent, open space tract that is protected by law? The city did not open a code enforcement case, and there was no red fl ag or stop work order though more than one law was broken. Then in January, the city accepted and is now processing a new development application for Chestnut Lane West, which includes plans for development of the permanent open space – the very one that was illegally violated.

Why is the city not protecting the open space that was created to protect Ebright Creek? Do we need the fees so badly that we are willing to destroy open space and ignore our own code? Perhaps like on Wall Street, the rich and powerful, both nationally and locally, do not live by the same rules as the rest of us.

Ilene Stahl, Sammamish

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The following information was compiled from city of Sammamish police reports:

A Sammamish man’s plan for fun in the snow went awry Jan. 19 when his truck got stuck in the park of a ho-meowner’s association near the 2300 block of Northeast 19th Drive.

In his attempt to do donuts, the vehicle got stuck in the deep snow, forcing the man to temporarily abandon his ve-hicle. When an officer arrived he noticed a 45-foot track estimated to 6-to 8-inches deep. The driver, who was off looking for help, reap-peared just as the police were investigating. He didn’t have a

driver’s license, but pulled out registration showing the vehicle belonged to his father. The man agreed to pay all restitution for damage done to the field.

Rocky situationA Sammamish resident

awoke to find an unpleas-ant surprise in the back of their vehicle the morning of Jan. 26.

The car, parked on the 2800 block of 234th Place Northeast, had its rear window shattered. When the owner looked inside, he found a purple painted triangular rock with glitter,

a smirking smiley face and press-on googly eyes.

Speeder nabbedAn officer looking for

speeders on the 1700 block of Beaver Lake Drive Southeast, Jan. 25, caught a big offender. On the dark and rainy night, he spotted a vehicle reach-ing speeds estimated near 80 mph in a 35 mph zone.

When he finally caught the driver, the officer opted to call the teen’s mother, who showed up on the scene. It was agreed upon by both parties that if the boy, a high school honor student, retook the driver’s education class and paid for it himself, there would be no citation issued. If he fails to do so, charges would be filed within a year.

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Main Street shops and restaurants are open to the general public of all ages during the wine walk and those under 21 may attend the tasting areas. Th e tasting is available only to those with tickets and valid event bracelets.

Musical performers for tonight’s event include, Meg Mann, “Uncle Phil” Hansen, Angelo Pizarro and Boda-cious Ladyhood.

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Adam Soennichsen was one of hundreds to sign the Stan Chapin’s memorial wall Tuesday. KEVIN ENDEJAN, Issaquah & Sammamish Reporter

Dylan Markley, a 2010 Eastlake gradu-ate, started a Facebook memorial page immediately aft er he learned the news. By noon Tuesday, there were more than 400 fans and by Wednesday morning more than 2,800 people liked the page.

“Having the page gives everyone a chance to share how much of an impact offi cer Chapin has had on their lives and what he meant to Eastlake and the com-munity,” said Markley, who is currently in the Explorer program at the Redmond Fire Department.

He said he ran into Chapin three weeks ago and he expressed how happy he was that he was on the path to becoming a public servant.

Over his career, he served as a patrol deputy, detective, and member of the Seat-

tle FBI’s Fugitive Apprehension Team. And just last month, the city named Chapin the Sammamish Police Department’s “Offi cer of the Year” for 2011.

Chapin, who served in the U.S. Army Reserve for 23 years, was also an avid runner. He competed in track at Seattle

University, won the 1974 Seattle marathon, and completed the Boston marathon in 1974, 1976 and 1977.

Many students agreed they were still in shock — a feeling they don’t expect go away anytime soon.

“I don’t know if a lot of people have really had it kick in, but every day when we drive into school, when we’re walking around at lunch, just not seeing him is go-ing to hit hard,” Henderson said.

Masterleo echoed the sentiment. “Th e biggest absence is going to be not

being there for that friendly hello,” she said. “It always just cheered me up a little bit if he was like ‘Hey Marlena.’”

A date for a memorial hadn’t been set by Th e Reporter’s deadline.

Check online at www.sammamishre-porter.com for updated time location.

Chapin is survived by his wife Sue, and three children: Christopher, 27; Bethany, 22; and Scott, 17.

A drawing of Stan Chapin done by an Eastlake High School student. KEVIN ENDEJAN,

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Local athletes sign letters of intentSchools around the nation celebrated

National Letter of Intent signing day with ceremonies recognizing student-athletes who will be continuing their athletic careers at the collegiate level.

At Eastlake, both running back Ryan Lewis and lineman Gino Bresolin inked LOIs aft er leading the Wolves to the most successful season in school history that included a run to the 4A KingCo title game, the state quarter-fi nals and the fi rst ever win over Sam-mamish rival Skyline.

Lewis signed with Pittsburgh and Bresolin will play for the University of Texas at El Paso.

A pair of Wolves will remain home

for their collegiate careers, as Michael Gallagher signed to play soccer for the University of Washington and Shayla Page did the same for Seattle Pacifi c.

Skyline also hosted a signing day ceremony for athletes inking a letter of intent for their collegiate career and signing at the ceremony were a trio of players from the Spartans’ state cham-pionship soccer team. Tina Vargas pledged to the University of Denver, Nicole Candioglos with UNLV and Dom Randle with USC.

Defensive back Damian Greene, along with four other players from the Puget Sound area, will continue his football career at Wyoming.

Drew Matthews signed with the University of Kansas for track and fi eld and Jack Pruitt did so with Denver to play lacrosse. Max Saffl e, another lacrosse player, signed with the Air Force Academy.

Issaquah had four athletes sign LOIs, sending Brandon Mahovlich to Gonzaga for baseball, Eric Lemke to Idaho for football, Ethan Kalin to Skagit Valley for baseball and Dayna Bennett to Seattle University for tennis.

Eastside Catholic’s lone signee was Chevy Walker, who will play football at Portland State.

With a handful of touted in-state recruits spurning the home state schools in 2012, there has been no shortage of conversation on the topic of fan interaction with local prep superstars.

Unlike some, I’m not of the belief that seniors in high school should be handled with “kid gloves” (don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t mean I condone death threats and other subhuman

behavior either). But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some lessons to be learned.

Take the case of Kevin Hart.In 2008, Hart held an announcement ceremony

at Fernley High School in Nev., where he was the biggest thing to come through the program since, well, ever. As countless others before him and aft er, Hart chose a hat from a table, telling the world he would be headed to Cal-Berkeley to play for coach Jeff Tedford.

Th e only problem was, someone forgot to tell the Golden Bears.

Hart, though widely considered the top lineman prospect in Nevada in the 2008 class, had a sagging GPA and had never even taken the SAT. Because of his shortcomings in the classroom, the recruit-ing process had in reality never even gotten off the ground.

Aft er the folks in Berkeley got word of his faux-announcement the dominos of his deceit began to fall, leaving Hart in their wake.

But Merle Trueblood believed otherwise. “I saw the pain on the kid’s face,” the Feather River

Athletic Director said when reached by telephone. “I’d hate to think my life was over at 18.”

Trueblood said he and former coach Tom Simi (now the head football coach at West Point Prep in New York) waited for months to get a reply from Hart. But eventually, aft er time helped rinse away the sour taste of his own dishonesty, Hart opened up to playing the game again and landed with Trueblood and Simi at Feather River College, a junior college in Quincy, Calif where he would overcome injuries, continued scholastic hardship and most importantly, one big mistake he made back home in Fernley.

In 2011, he was named a fi rst-team All-California junior college lineman. On Wednesday, he will sign an offi cial National Letter of Intent to play his fi nal two years of collegiate football at Missouri Western State, a Division II school that fi nished with a 9-3 mark in football in 2011.

“He’s turned his whole life around,” Trueblood said. “It’s the most inspirational story I’ve ever heard or seen in my life.”

Lessons on Signing Day

Josh Suman

Tri-Freaks, a Seattle-based multipart race coordinator, is bringing the RainMan Indoor Triathlon Series to Issaquah on Saturday, Feb. 11. Th e event will also feature a food drive to benefi t FamilyWorks, a staple of events hosted by TriFreaks.

“It’s something that we do as a company that we feel is really special,” said Leslie Barber, director of relations for Tri-Freaks. “It gives back to the community in so many ways.”

Like an outdoor triathlon, competitors will swim, bike and run in that order. Th e swim will be 450 yards (or 15

minutes), followed by a 30-minute bike ride and a 1.5 to three mile run.

Timed events (swimming and biking) will be converted into distance using a formula to determine the race winner.

Th e triathlon will be held at the Gold’s Gym in Issaquah, 1025 NW Gilman Blvd Suite E-8.

To register, visit trifreaks.com and fi nd the “RainMan” tab on the left of the page. Start times will be given to competi-tors at time of registration. Th e fee for the triathlon is cur-rently $55 and will go to $60 on Feb. 3.

Indoor triathlon coming to Issaquah

From left to right, Tina

Vargas, Drew Matthews, Nicole

Candioglos, Damian Greene,

Dom Randall and Jack Pruitt signed National Letters of Intent

at a ceremony Wednesday at

Skyline.JOSH SUMAN, Issaquah &

Sammamish Reporter


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