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the home of the Weasley family. Of the fans spoken with July 14, many said they had waited in simi- lar lines to see previous “Harry Pot- ter” films. At least among these fans, no other movie franchise had elicited such loyalty, although sev- eral admitted they had queued up to see the most recent installment of the “Twilight” series when it came out last year. But among these fans, that movie’s vampires and were- wolves aren’t in the same league as Potter and his wizardly crew. Probably not surprisingly, Solem and her friends as well as the group with the Loudon sisters had all read all of the “Potter” books. They also unanimously voiced the opinion that the books are better than the films. While the mood outside the the- ater was predictably light and fun, for these fans, the fact that “Deathly Hallows” marks the end of the “Harry Potter” films made the July 14 event at least a little bittersweet. “I’ll always wish there had been more,” Loudon admitted. One of her compatriots didn’t to- tally agree. “It left off nicely. I don’t know where it could go next,” Kara Alden, 15, said of the Potter series. Tom Corrigan: 392-6434, ext. 241, or tcor- [email protected]. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com. O BITUARIES Summer Sunday Worship 9:30 AM LIVING GOD’S LOVE 745 Front Street South, Issaquah Phone: 425-392-4169 www.oslcissaquah.org Kids’ Day Camp Aug. 1-5 visit www.oslcdaycamp.com Conveniently located on Gilman Blvd. Your one-stop shopping for groceries, dining, medical services, gifts, tutor- ing, flowers, real estate and professional services. Sharon Ann Griffith Sharon Ann Griffith, of Is- saquah, died July 13, 2011, in Bellevue. She was 81. Get service details at www.flintofts.com. Sharon was born July 12, 2011, in Wichita, Kan., the daughter of Frank and Hildred Snorf. She was raised in Denver. Sharon married Rowland J. Griffith on Aug. 25, 1950, in Rich- land. She and Rowland raised their four children in Bellevue and moved to Issaquah in 1988. Sharon graduated from Colum- bia High School in Richland, and attended Holy Names College in Spokane. Sharon was a lifelong artist who inspired everyone she met and was an enthusiastic member of the Cascade Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. She was the heart of the family and will be dearly missed. Memorial donations can be made to Pasado’s Safe Haven or the Lymphoma Society. Donald ‘Mark’ Pieratt Ferndale resident Don- ald “Mark” Pieratt, 55, went home to heaven June 23, 2011, after a short coura- geous battle with cancer. He was born Oct. 5, 1955, in Kirkland, to Lloyd M. and Barbara Pieratt, and he was raised in Issaquah. Mark worked and played hard. Doing business as Northern Con- struction, he built houses from dirt to roof while enjoying his free time with fishing (fresh and salt water), boating, camping, snowmobiling, target shooting, hiking, panning for gold, music and playing his Gibson guitar. Mark’s favorite thing to do was to mow the lawn on the rider, and his latest love was cruising on his new Harley. He was preceded in death by his father Lloyd M. Pieratt and brother James L. Pieratt. Mark will be greatly missed by his wife Linda; two stepsons, Eric and Greg Petersen, of Ferndale; his mother Barbara, of Lynden; brother David M. Pieratt and wife Annette, of Bellingham; sister Jeanne Moore and husband Mel, of Idaho; 12 nieces and nephews; nine great-nieces and great- nephews; many great aunts, un- cles and cousins; and a lot of lov- ing friends. Arrangements are by Jerns Fu- neral Chapel and onsite cremato- rium, Bellingham. Family and friends are invited to celebrate Mark’s life at Sandy Point Clubhouse in Ferndale on Saturday, July 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Donald Pieratt ple when they have a major prob- lem like this,” Foltz said. Sarah spent the next 16 weeks in a coma, with her husband, newborn daughter and parents visiting her daily. One time, Nate brought in a fussy Sage to visit her mother in the ICU. The moment he laid Sage on Sarah’s chest, the infant fell fast asleep. Since her discharge from Swedish Medical Center in Seattle on Oct. 12, Sarah has undergone all kinds of physical and occupa- tional therapy, dealt with severe short-term memory loss and ad- justed to caring for her daughter. “I couldn’t talk for awhile,” Sarah said in an interview earlier this month. “It’s been a really hard time. I just started feeling more like myself.” The family lives near the heart of downtown Issaquah, a good lo- cation for Sarah, who can’t drive yet because of her brain injury. She enjoys walking to restaurants and stores. After her hemorrhagic stroke, Sarah said she would tire easily and sometimes feel confused. To help improve her short-term memory, Nate and Sarah hung a white board in the kitchen where Sarah could write herself notes. “It just gets better as time goes on,” Sarah said. “Before, I would do something and I wouldn’t re- member it 10 or 15 minutes later.” Patients with lingering brain in- juries can continue to improve even two years after a an event like a brain hemorrhage. “It’s not surprising that she should be getting better all of the time,” Foltz said. Until June 2010, Sarah worked with her mother at Issaquah’s Sa- lon Jade, a business she co-owned with her. As a working mother, Sarah had hoped to apply for an- other salon job, but those plans are on hold. Recovering and parenting are full-time jobs. Now that her mem- ory is improving, her therapist re- cently allowed Sarah to spend up to four hours alone with Sage. Though her recovery has been slow, the family still counts its blessings. “I had a really easy pregnancy,” Sarah said. “She is such a good baby. God knew what we could handle.” Sage rarely cries at night, allow- ing her parents to get much- needed sleep. “She’s been perfect,” Nate said. “She sleeps all the time. When she’s supposed to nap, she does.” Their friends and family have supported them through thick and thin. Sarah’s parents, Peter and Jennifer Knypstra, have baby-sat Sage and helped Sarah. “It’s remarkable about how she can take on things now as far as daily tasks, as far as getting up and taking care of the baby,” Peter said. “There are times when she needs some help and she still has memory loss. I think eventually she’ll be the same old Sarah.” The grandparents moved from Oregon and are renting a house in Fall City so they can be closer to Sarah, Nate and Sage in Issaquah. “I’ve probably done more baby- sitting and diaper changing in this short period of time then with my seven kids,” Peter joked. Sarah and Nate attribute their successful marriage to their close friendship before her stroke. The two recently got some alone time. Their friends invited them on an all-expenses-paid trip to Palm Springs for their 10th wedding an- niversary. “We just relaxed by the pool,” Nate said. “We got some sun.” Meanwhile, Sage’s grandparents baby-sat Sage, now almost a year old and a super crawler who con- stantly explores the house. “Just value all the time you have with people that you love,” Peter said. “Sarah was 30 years old and if it wasn’t for certain circum- stances that happened when she was in the hospital, we could have lost her. We could have lost both of them.” Laura Geggel 392-6434, ext. 241, or [email protected]. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com. Mend FROM PAGE B1 Fans FROM PAGE B1 tions, like what kind of fire ex- tinguishers do you have to have on a school bus and how far from a railroad track are you re- quired to stop safely?” The pre-trip is just like the daily check all drivers do before they leave the bus barn to pick up students. In addition, drivers have to know the inner workings of their bus, answering ques- tions about the suspension sys- tem or the air supply system. “You have to be able to ex- plain those and describe those to see if they are in proper working order,” Rupp said. Finally, drivers steel them- selves for the driving test. Each transit bus is 40 feet long, and the contestants have to parallel park it in a 46-foot spot and be no more than three inches away from the curb. Bus drivers have to weave their buses through marked tennis ball lines, and “if you even graze the tennis ball, points are de- ducted,” Rupp said. “It’s kind of nerve wracking. It takes a lot of concentration to go through without hitting anything.” He got zero points for one ex- ercise. “I put my blinker on when I came into the event. When you turn a wheel it cancels your sig- nal,” he said. “I didn’t catch it for 15 or 20 seconds, so I got zero points.” Even so, “It’s all in good na- ture and fun,” he said. About 15 Issaquah bus drivers came to state to see their friends compete, cheering for them the whole time. Rupp had kind words for his co-worker, Lee. “Joe is a great steward of the transportation community,” Rupp said. “He’s an excellent driver.” Lee began driving after he moved to Issaquah to be closer to his grandchildren in 2007. “I do the roadeo because it re- ally makes me a better driver,” Lee said. “Everything that we learn translates into how safely we can operate the bus.” Laura Geggel: 392-6434, ext. 241, or [email protected]. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com. students. The cutout’s keys are the same size as a regular key- board, so when the time comes, “We are prepared to put our fin- gers on the piano,” Allen said. “It’s just the same.” The students take turns playing a real piano, and everyone plays in class recitals on a real instru- ment. Teaching piano allows Carson to spread her joy for music. As a child, she would listen to her grandfather, a tailor in New York, sing arias all day. She began tak- ing piano lessons at age 6. “I was one of those weird kids,” Carson said. “I didn’t mind prac- ticing.” One time, after receiving a new music book filled with Frederic Chopin’s waltzes, “I ran all of the way home to show my mother,” she said. After high school, she attended the Manhattan School of Music in New York, married and began moving across the country every few years with her husband, a military man, their three children and her small upright piano. Moving frequently made it hard for her to create long-term rela- tionships with her piano students, but thankfully her husband’s ca- reer took her to Memphis. Halfway through the school year, a teacher who knew that Carson taught piano asked her to fill in for another music teacher. “I walk over there and there was this class of cute second- or third-graders,” Carson said. “Someone said, ‘Say something,’ and I’ve been talking ever since.” Many of her students had ac- cess to school keyboards, but they used cardboard keyboards when they didn’t. She learned more about the technique at Rhodes College. With the cardboard, every student can play at the same time without making a med- ley of noise. Every student is en- gaged, too. “No one is looking out the win- dow,” Carson said. A regular piano has 88 keys, while Carson’s cardboard cutouts have 53. “This has four octaves, and four octaves is all you need to learn the piano,” she said. The cardboard keyboards work so well that Carson said she plans to offer a class teaching the tech- nique for school or music teach- ers in August. With much of school arts fund- ing falling to parent fundraisers, Carson said the cardboard key- boards were a cost-effective way for students to learn the piano. “The benefits of studying music, oh my goodness, it helps with their coordination, it helps them focus, it helps them think,” she said. “We are kind of missing that in youths today. They have too many electronics where you just push the button and you have the answer.” Allen, the ever-studious piano student, said Carson has a talent for teaching students at different levels. Allen’s granddaughter, a student at Yale University, plays the viola. Allen just learned a song called “Sea Mist,” and plans to flaunt it. “I’m going to sit right down and plop out ‘Sea Mist’ for her,” Allen said. “You got to keep up with your grandchildren.” Laura Geggel: 392-6434, ext. 241, or [email protected]. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com. GET INVOLVED School or music teachers who would like to learn how to teach with cardboard keyboards in August can email Carolyn Carson their mailing address at kybd- [email protected]. Carson will mail interested teach- ers a brochure with information about the details and fee. Piano FROM PAGE B1 The Issaquah Press Wednesday, July 20, 2011 • B3 Roadeo FROM PAGE B1 Registration still open for Girl Scout Camps All three Girl Scout camps in Western Washington have space left for campers this summer. The camps — Girl Scout Camp River Ranch in Carnation, Girl Scout Camp Robbinswold in Lilli- waup and Girl Scout Camp St. Al- bans in Allyn — are accredited by the American Camp Association, which affirms that each camp has high-quality programs and has met more than 300 safety guide- lines. The camps accept girls entering grades one through 12; girls do not have to be Girl Scouts to reg- ister. Go to www.girlscoutsww.org/camps/ SummerCamp to sign up or to learn about financial assistance.
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GET INVOLVED moved to Issaquah in 1988. Sharon graduated from Colum- bia High School in Richland, and attended Holy Names College in Spokane. Sharon was a lifelong artist who inspired everyone she met and was an enthusiastic member of the Cascade Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. She was the heart of the family and will be dearly missed. Memorial donations can be made to Pasado’s Safe Haven or the Lymphoma Society. Sharon Ann Griffith Donald ‘Mark’Pieratt FROM PAGE B1
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the home of the Weasley family.Of the fans spoken with July 14,
many said they had waited in simi-lar lines to see previous “Harry Pot-ter” films. At least among thesefans, no other movie franchise hadelicited such loyalty, although sev-eral admitted they had queued upto see the most recent installment ofthe “Twilight” series when it cameout last year. But among these fans,that movie’s vampires and were-wolves aren’t in the same league asPotter and his wizardly crew.
Probably not surprisingly, Solemand her friends as well as thegroup with the Loudon sisters hadall read all of the “Potter” books.They also unanimously voiced theopinion that the books are betterthan the films.
While the mood outside the the-ater was predictably light and fun,for these fans, the fact that
“Deathly Hallows” marks the endof the “Harry Potter” films madethe July 14 event at least a littlebittersweet.
“I’ll always wish there had beenmore,” Loudon admitted.
One of her compatriots didn’t to-tally agree.
“It left off nicely. I don’t knowwhere it could go next,” KaraAlden, 15, said of the Potter series.
Tom Corrigan: 392-6434, ext. 241, or [email protected]. Comment atwww.issaquahpress.com.
OBITUARIES�
Summer Sunday Worship 9:30 AM
LIVING GOD’S LOVE745 Front Street South, Issaquah
Phone: 425-392-4169www.oslcissaquah.org
Kids’ Day Camp Aug. 1-5
visit www.oslcdaycamp.com
Conveniently located on Gilman Blvd.
Your one-stop shopping for groceries, dining, medical services, gifts, tutor-ing, flowers, real estate and professional services.
Sharon Ann Griffith Sharon Ann Griffith, of Is-
saquah, died July 13, 2011, inBellevue. She was 81.
Get service details atwww.flintofts.com.
Sharon was born July 12, 2011,in Wichita, Kan., the daughter ofFrank and Hildred Snorf. She wasraised in Denver.
Sharon married Rowland J.Griffith on Aug. 25, 1950, in Rich-land. She and Rowland raisedtheir four children in Bellevue and
moved to Issaquah in 1988.Sharon graduated from Colum-
bia High School in Richland, andattended Holy Names College inSpokane.
Sharon was a lifelong artist whoinspired everyone she met andwas an enthusiastic member ofthe Cascade Chapter Daughters ofthe American Revolution.
She was the heart of the familyand will be dearly missed.
Memorial donations can bemade to Pasado’s Safe Haven orthe Lymphoma Society.�
Donald ‘Mark’ PierattFerndale
resident Don-ald “Mark”Pieratt, 55,went home toheaven June23, 2011, aftera short coura-geous battlewith cancer.
He was bornOct. 5, 1955,in Kirkland, toLloyd M. and Barbara Pieratt, andhe was raised in Issaquah.
Mark worked and played hard.Doing business as Northern Con-struction, he built houses from dirtto roof while enjoying his free timewith fishing (fresh and salt water),boating, camping, snowmobiling,target shooting, hiking, panningfor gold, music and playing hisGibson guitar. Mark’s favorite
thing to do was to mow the lawnon the rider, and his latest lovewas cruising on his new Harley.
He was preceded in death by hisfather Lloyd M. Pieratt andbrother James L. Pieratt.
Mark will be greatly missed byhis wife Linda; two stepsons, Ericand Greg Petersen, of Ferndale;his mother Barbara, of Lynden;brother David M. Pieratt and wifeAnnette, of Bellingham; sisterJeanne Moore and husband Mel,of Idaho; 12 nieces and nephews;nine great-nieces and great-nephews; many great aunts, un-cles and cousins; and a lot of lov-ing friends.
Arrangements are by Jerns Fu-neral Chapel and onsite cremato-rium, Bellingham.
Family and friends are invitedto celebrate Mark’s life at SandyPoint Clubhouse in Ferndale onSaturday, July 23, from 11:30 a.m.to 3:30 p.m.
Donald Pieratt
ple when they have a major prob-lem like this,” Foltz said.
Sarah spent the next 16 weeksin a coma, with her husband,newborn daughter and parentsvisiting her daily. One time, Natebrought in a fussy Sage to visit hermother in the ICU. The momenthe laid Sage on Sarah’s chest, theinfant fell fast asleep.
Since her discharge fromSwedish Medical Center in Seattleon Oct. 12, Sarah has undergoneall kinds of physical and occupa-tional therapy, dealt with severeshort-term memory loss and ad-justed to caring for her daughter.
“I couldn’t talk for awhile,”Sarah said in an interview earlierthis month. “It’s been a really hardtime. I just started feeling morelike myself.”
The family lives near the heartof downtown Issaquah, a good lo-cation for Sarah, who can’t driveyet because of her brain injury.She enjoys walking to restaurantsand stores.
After her hemorrhagic stroke,Sarah said she would tire easilyand sometimes feel confused. Tohelp improve her short-termmemory, Nate and Sarah hung awhite board in the kitchen whereSarah could write herself notes.
“It just gets better as time goeson,” Sarah said. “Before, I woulddo something and I wouldn’t re-member it 10 or 15 minutes later.”
Patients with lingering brain in-juries can continue to improveeven two years after a an eventlike a brain hemorrhage.
“It’s not surprising that sheshould be getting better all of thetime,” Foltz said.
Until June 2010, Sarah workedwith her mother at Issaquah’s Sa-lon Jade, a business she co-ownedwith her. As a working mother,Sarah had hoped to apply for an-other salon job, but those plansare on hold.
Recovering and parenting arefull-time jobs. Now that her mem-ory is improving, her therapist re-
cently allowed Sarah to spend upto four hours alone with Sage.
Though her recovery has beenslow, the family still counts itsblessings.
“I had a really easy pregnancy,”Sarah said. “She is such a goodbaby. God knew what we couldhandle.”
Sage rarely cries at night, allow-ing her parents to get much-needed sleep.
“She’s been perfect,” Nate said.“She sleeps all the time. Whenshe’s supposed to nap, she does.”
Their friends and family havesupported them through thick andthin. Sarah’s parents, Peter andJennifer Knypstra, have baby-satSage and helped Sarah.
“It’s remarkable about how shecan take on things now as far asdaily tasks, as far as getting upand taking care of the baby,” Petersaid. “There are times when sheneeds some help and she still hasmemory loss. I think eventuallyshe’ll be the same old Sarah.”
The grandparents moved fromOregon and are renting a house inFall City so they can be closer toSarah, Nate and Sage in Issaquah.
“I’ve probably done more baby-sitting and diaper changing in thisshort period of time then with myseven kids,” Peter joked.
Sarah and Nate attribute theirsuccessful marriage to their closefriendship before her stroke. Thetwo recently got some alone time.Their friends invited them on anall-expenses-paid trip to PalmSprings for their 10th wedding an-niversary.
“We just relaxed by the pool,”Nate said. “We got some sun.”
Meanwhile, Sage’s grandparentsbaby-sat Sage, now almost a yearold and a super crawler who con-stantly explores the house.
“Just value all the time you havewith people that you love,” Petersaid. “Sarah was 30 years old andif it wasn’t for certain circum-stances that happened when shewas in the hospital, we could havelost her. We could have lost both ofthem.”
Laura Geggel 392-6434, ext. 241, [email protected]. Comment atwww.issaquahpress.com.
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tions, like what kind of fire ex-tinguishers do you have to haveon a school bus and how farfrom a railroad track are you re-quired to stop safely?”
The pre-trip is just like thedaily check all drivers do beforethey leave the bus barn to pickup students. In addition, drivershave to know the inner workingsof their bus, answering ques-tions about the suspension sys-tem or the air supply system.
“You have to be able to ex-plain those and describe those tosee if they are in proper workingorder,” Rupp said.
Finally, drivers steel them-selves for the driving test.
Each transit bus is 40 feetlong, and the contestants have toparallel park it in a 46-foot spotand be no more than threeinches away from the curb. Busdrivers have to weave theirbuses through marked tennisball lines, and “if you even grazethe tennis ball, points are de-ducted,” Rupp said. “It’s kind ofnerve wracking. It takes a lot ofconcentration to go throughwithout hitting anything.”
He got zero points for one ex-ercise.
“I put my blinker on when Icame into the event. When youturn a wheel it cancels your sig-nal,” he said. “I didn’t catch itfor 15 or 20 seconds, so I gotzero points.”
Even so, “It’s all in good na-ture and fun,” he said.
About 15 Issaquah bus driverscame to state to see their friendscompete, cheering for them thewhole time.
Rupp had kind words for hisco-worker, Lee.
“Joe is a great steward of thetransportation community,” Ruppsaid. “He’s an excellent driver.”
Lee began driving after hemoved to Issaquah to be closerto his grandchildren in 2007.
“I do the roadeo because it re-ally makes me a better driver,”Lee said. “Everything that welearn translates into how safelywe can operate the bus.”
Laura Geggel: 392-6434, ext. 241, [email protected]. Comment atwww.issaquahpress.com.
students. The cutout’s keys arethe same size as a regular key-board, so when the time comes,“We are prepared to put our fin-gers on the piano,” Allen said.“It’s just the same.”
The students take turns playinga real piano, and everyone playsin class recitals on a real instru-ment.
Teaching piano allows Carsonto spread her joy for music. As achild, she would listen to hergrandfather, a tailor in New York,sing arias all day. She began tak-ing piano lessons at age 6.
“I was one of those weird kids,”Carson said. “I didn’t mind prac-ticing.”
One time, after receiving a newmusic book filled with FredericChopin’s waltzes, “I ran all of theway home to show my mother,”she said.
After high school, she attendedthe Manhattan School of Music inNew York, married and beganmoving across the country everyfew years with her husband, amilitary man, their three childrenand her small upright piano.
Moving frequently made it hardfor her to create long-term rela-tionships with her piano students,but thankfully her husband’s ca-reer took her to Memphis.
Halfway through the schoolyear, a teacher who knew thatCarson taught piano asked her tofill in for another music teacher.
“I walk over there and therewas this class of cute second- orthird-graders,” Carson said.“Someone said, ‘Say something,’and I’ve been talking ever since.”
Many of her students had ac-cess to school keyboards, but theyused cardboard keyboards whenthey didn’t. She learned moreabout the technique at RhodesCollege. With the cardboard,every student can play at thesame time without making a med-ley of noise. Every student is en-
gaged, too.“No one is looking out the win-
dow,” Carson said. A regular piano has 88 keys,
while Carson’s cardboard cutoutshave 53.
“This has four octaves, and fouroctaves is all you need to learnthe piano,” she said.
The cardboard keyboards workso well that Carson said she plansto offer a class teaching the tech-nique for school or music teach-ers in August.
With much of school arts fund-ing falling to parent fundraisers,Carson said the cardboard key-boards were a cost-effective wayfor students to learn the piano.
“The benefits of studying music,oh my goodness, it helps withtheir coordination, it helps themfocus, it helps them think,” shesaid. “We are kind of missing thatin youths today. They have toomany electronics where you justpush the button and you have theanswer.”
Allen, the ever-studious pianostudent, said Carson has a talent
for teaching students at differentlevels. Allen’s granddaughter, astudent at Yale University, playsthe viola. Allen just learned asong called “Sea Mist,” and plansto flaunt it.
“I’m going to sit right down andplop out ‘Sea Mist’ for her,” Allensaid. “You got to keep up withyour grandchildren.”
Laura Geggel: 392-6434, ext. 241, [email protected]. Comment atwww.issaquahpress.com.
GET INVOLVEDSchool or music teachers whowould like to learn how to teachwith cardboard keyboards inAugust can email Carolyn Carsontheir mailing address at [email protected] will mail interested teach-ers a brochure with informationabout the details and fee.
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Registration still open forGirl Scout Camps
All three Girl Scout camps inWestern Washington have spaceleft for campers this summer.
The camps — Girl Scout CampRiver Ranch in Carnation, GirlScout Camp Robbinswold in Lilli-waup and Girl Scout Camp St. Al-bans in Allyn — are accredited bythe American Camp Association,which affirms that each camp hashigh-quality programs and hasmet more than 300 safety guide-lines.
The camps accept girls enteringgrades one through 12; girls donot have to be Girl Scouts to reg-ister. Go towww.girlscoutsww.org/camps/SummerCamp to sign up or tolearn about financial assistance.
