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ENTREPRENEUR Teen skips college to pursue his dream of developing his own line of ski wear.

MCNUGGET Technically not an official mascot, beloved rooster given send off.

CAR SHOW Swedish car enthusiasts are fans of good engineering, sharing a story or two RUGBY Eastside Lions help rugby gain foothold in local sports community ROCK SCHOOL Mayor Fred Butler welcomes School of Rock in Issaquah with a bang

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OF SUCCESS Teen entrepreneur skips college to pursue a dream of developing his own line of ski wear

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@ isspress.com

By David Hayes dhayes@isspress.com

Blake Warmenhoven tugs a Kilo Threads ski mask, a balaclava, over his head to show the mesh top and breathable lycra mask.

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@isspress.com

A Pfaff Passport 2.0 (left) and a Singer ProFinish sit side by side in Blake Warmenhoven’s workroom where they produce the single-needle stitches and professional seams for function and strength in the elastic and cuffs.

When his classmates last spring were receiving the typical graduation gifts of cars, college money and the like, Blake Warmenhoven got a sewing machine.

Mind you, it was the exact one he wanted.

However, just the prior summer, the 2015 Liberty High School graduate had no idea what he wanted to do next.

But a late night brainstorming session with his cousin, Jake Regge, which stretched to 4:30 a.m., resulted in a plan to create a new ski mask. By spring, their scheme had grown into a full business model for their own clothing company, Kilo Threads.

But first, they needed a sewing machine.

Warmenhoven has skied since he was four and participated in competitive freestyle throughout high school. So, he knew what was lacking from the typical outdoor gear for the head.

While on a family vacation at Lake Chelan in 2014, he and Regge brought some material from Joanne’s Fabrics and worked out some designs.

“We came up with this idea to create a ski mask, a

Kilo Threads co-founder and president Blake Warmenhoven holds up one of his Polartec fleece hoodies.

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@isspress.com

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balaclava, that would have breathable lycra to keep your face warm combined with a mesh top that was also breathable but compatible with beanies and helmets,” Warmenhoven said.

They turned the prototype over to the capable hands of his grandmother and her sewing machine.

“We went through a lot of really bad variations,” Warmenhoven said.

By mid October, they got their template down and Warmenhoven was creating it on his first sewing machine — a Singer. The machine was a basic model that handled the most standard stitches.

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@isspress.com The initial ski mask they offered A Kilo Threads Polartec fleece hoodto close friends and family, while ie packaged for retail and a balacontinuing to tweak the design. They clava are shown on the dining room made it more comfortable and functable of the Warmenhoven family’s tional, adding the two-piece adjustCoalfield-area home. able face. According to their research, no other ski mask on the market had Warmenhoven needed to broaden his a breathable mesh top. burgeoning company’s appeal and “All my friends in high school liked expand his product line. it,” he said. “But they all didn’t ski.”

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night,” he said.

It took months more of trial and error before getting the template down. In the meantime to pay for expenses, Warmenhoven created tiedye T-shirts with his new company’s logo, Kilo Threads.

“I wish I had a better story for how we came up with the name,” he admitted. “We just wanted something short that ended in a vowel.”

By then, he’d graduated to a Serger sewing machine, which a buddy in the industry recommended for more heavy-duty stitches and to bring his clothes to the next, retail quality level.

Warmenhoven wanted to stick with a simple design — a normal hoodie with pocket — but made from the most technological, yet practical material, Polartec.

He also took the cut of the sleeves up a little so arms could move up and down easier.

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Finally, he stayed with simple colors: gray, black and white.

Now fully committed to Kilo Threads, Warmenhoven needed another upgrade to assemble the more demanding fleece pullover design.

A lady he still earned money from on the side mowing her lawn recommended he talk with her knowledgeable friend about sewing. She recommended the Pfaff Passport 2.0. After some research, Warmenhoven knew it was the machine he needed and actually asked for it as his graduation gift.

“Originally, I wanted a computer or mountain bike, but was in need of new sewing machine,” Warmenhoven said. “But my Dad told me in the long run, the sewing machine can buy the computer or bike.”

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Vacuum in Kirkland, which actually offered the high-end machine.

“The day I got it, we drove up, through awful traffic. It took us an hour and a half to get there, I wanted it that bad,” he said.

They finally arrive, only to be told one wasn’t in stock.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” he thought.

Not wanting to return the same time the next day and sit through traffic again, he did the next best thing — he took the display model.

“I really needed it. I had an order to fill the next day,” Warmenhoven said.

Now armed with a top-of-the-line sewing machine, he reached out to local retailers.

Next, he needed to bang out the fleeces to offer at a Western Washington University fair for incoming freshmen. However, by now he was a one-man show. Although Regge still supported the business, he was also a full time college student with a part time job. Which left all

the grunt work to Warmenhoven.

“I was my own sweat shop in the month of September,” he said.

He managed to sell 14 of 18 fleeces at WWU. Although he thought that was a good number, Warmenhoven knew he needed to take Kilo Threads to the next level and find a manufacturer. He settled on Four Seasons Sewing in Seattle, which caters to small businesses.

After an initial product run of 100, Kilo Threads continued to find success. Warmenhoven sold another 18 fleeces at a craft fair in Meridian Valley, which his grandmother helped arrange his participation, where 25 percent of profits went to charity.

“We raised $360 for Seattle Children’s, which I thought was pretty good,” he said.

Orders continue to roll in — he recently got a random one from North Dakota — and the holiday sale is just about sold out. He’s also building the marketing end of Kilo Threads, planning appearances next year. Just like any successful entrepre-

neur, Warmenhoven has to adjust to market demand. He said he originally planned to unveil a new product this year. However, demand for his ski mask has taken off, requiring he shift production to meet that demand for now. He’s even making Kilo Threads available to more brick and mortar stores in Issaquah.

Warmenhoven still operates his virtual business out of his parents’ house, for now. But that doesn’t diminish his developing passion for apparel.

“I truly enjoy sitting at a sewing machine, taking a blank piece of fabric and turning it into something like this,” he said, grabbing the facemask. “But my passion is not only for the product, but how it’s made. Starting out, that I was the one designing the product was really important. I understood why I wanted high quality components, so when it comes out of manufacturing I can appreciate it more.

“I want to build a company that will long outlive myself,” he added. “I want to hold on to it my whole life.”

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R.I.P. McNugget Technically not an official mascot, community gives send off to beloved rooster

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Residents come for refreshments and conversation May 8 in a celebration of life near McNugget’s former home at the Your Espresso stand on Front Street as it became a shrine celebrating the independent and long-lived rooster.

A steady stream of mourners ushered in and out of the Staples parking lot on May 8, 2015. Some wore black, others stayed casual, but all were there to honor a fallen icon.

It was a quintessentially-Issaquah moment, the day when the community gathered to remember a dead rooster.

As far-fetched as it sounds though, McNugget had an innate ability to bring people together, as evidenced by the dozens upon dozens of people who attended his memorial.

They sat in lawn chairs, took pictures of the growing McNugget shrine filled with flowers and notes, and munched on cookies and bought dinner from the My Chef Lynn food truck that came just for the special event.

Bernard Garbuskuk, of Boehm’s Candies & Chocolates, donated a platter of chocolates topped with a chocolate rooster that was too beautiful to eat.

Shannon Taylor, a neighbor who helped plan the memorial, worked

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A memorial to McNugget was up soon after he was killed at the Your Espresso stand where he liked to hang out.

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He was vain, combative and territorial, but McNugget was Issaquah’s.

A Front Street staple since 2002, McNugget escaped from the nearby Issaquah Grange Supply and found a home in the Staples parking lot. Neighbors and employees of the espresso stand in the lot adopted the rooster, named him and cared for him.

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said. “He just glimmered.”

He could be grumpy, as many community members noted, but that was just a part of his charm. If you were in a wheelchair or a dog, you had to be on high alert, said Tad Williams, who lived just next door to the parking lot.

Williams remembers having to “run interference” whenever anyone got too close. McNugget would give people warning if an attack was imminent, Williams said.

You’d know it was coming when the feisty rooster would “start to work himself up like a berserker.”

He’d hop on one leg, spin a few times and work up steam to go on the attack.

“It was the cutest thing in a way,” Williams fondly recalled.

“He wouldn’t attack me because he knows me. I just had to get in between him and his target.”

McNugget was also a little vain.

He couldn’t help but take long looks at that attractive rooster staring back at him in the chrome hubcaps of parked cars.

Customers often had to shoo him away just so they could move their vehicles.

The rooster was so popular that he inspired his own brand of “chicken tourism,” Williams said. Whenever a TV news channel did a story on him, people would flock to the parking lot just to look for him.

“We’d get what we were calling chicken tourists,” he said. “You can just tell because the family would just pull up in the middle of the parking lot looking lost, get out looking around, trying to figure out where he was. It was a little adventure for people, I think, to find him after seeing him on the news.”

Taylor was walking home the evening of April 27, 2015 when she saw a dog run toward the Staples parking lot, where McNugget lived. Minutes later, the dog ran back, this time with the rooster in its mouth.

She tried chasing after the dog, but wasn’t successful. Neighbors later found the rooster’s body and respectfully buried it in an undisclosed location.

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McNugget was not afraid to share space outside the Staples store with others avian species.

“It all just happened so fast,” As news began to spread of Taylor said.

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Espresso stand owner Michelle Schneider that had to deliver the bad news to customers and the rooster’s frequent visitors.

“I just can’t believe it,” she said at the time. “He’s an icon. It’s a nightmare, really.”

McNugget’s small house perched beside the espresso stand became a shrine as visitors steadily came to pay their respects. People left messages, photos, even a life-sized rooster statue at the site.

“He needs to be remembered.

He survived odds that people don’t survive,” said Dana Zuber, one of the McNugget memorial organizers.

There was often controversy about McNugget’s place in the parking lot. In 2009, a group of citizens was A couple of youth walk past McNugget blocked from moving him to a warm- Street in Issaquah. er environment.

McNugget wasn’t young, Williams “Had he been anywhere else, he said, adding that the community was wouldn’t have had the long and sort of bracing themselves for this happy life that he had,” Zuber said, reality. He lived a good life, though, mentioning all the community memfilled with visitors, yummy worms bers that came to feed and care for NEIL.ePROOF.ISS-LIVING.CMYK.PDF 0216 LAM and adoration. him. “He led a great life.”

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“He was like a 112-year-old man in chicken years,” Williams said. “It doesn’t make it any easier, but he had an incredible run.”

Community members expressed a wide-range of emotions upon hearing about McNugget’s death. Some were mad, some surprised, but all were sad. Others went so far as to call animal control over the incident.

While some were angry, most just saw it as a very tragic accident, Schneider said.

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Classic American-made muscle cars are no doubt more popular with the general public.

But the enthusiasts gathered Feb. 14 at Issaquah’s Triple XXX Root Beer Drive-in might argue that’s only because many Americans have never experienced the ride of a Volvo, classic or brand new.

Just over 100 Swedish car enthusiasts — both Volvos and Saabs — stuck it out through a steady drizzle that Sunday to show off and chat about what they believe are the bestriding cars in the world.

“Volvo” literally means “I roll” in Latin and inspired the name of the car. But Volvos have earned the nickname “Swedish Iron” because they are so well-built, said Gail Ritchie, assistant chapter coordinator for Puget Sound Volvo Sports America.

“Volvo’s always had kind of a wellbuilt car,” said Gary Ramstad, chapter coordinator.

“They are cleverly engineered, which I appreciate,” said Volvo fan

Tim Munnell.

“It’s amazing how smooth they run,” said Ingvar Carlson, who was running the show at the Triple XXX for the Puget Sound Volvo chapter.

He said you could drive over a chuckhole that you’d think would take a wheel off and not even feel it in a well-maintained Volvo.

Probably not surprisingly, “wellmaintained” described most of the cars on display that Sunday. But not incidentally, why hold an outdoor car show in the middle of February — the middle of winter? While the temperature was fairly comfortable, the rain never completely stopped.

Carlson laughs.

“It takes a special kind of person to come out in this,” he said, noting several drivers brought their cars to Issaquah from Portland or Vancouver.

He said the weather probably scared off a few enthusiasts. As one of the few Swedish car shows around, the event usually attracts about 150 or more cars.

Besides holding monthly meetings at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, the Volvo chapter holds big swap meets in April and October, and there are plenty of car shows during the summer, even if they are not specifically for Swedish makes.

Carlson said his group wanted to do something when there were some long blank spots on the car show calendar.

Volvos might be well-engineered and smooth as silk going down the road, but they also seem to have some unique problems. The motors can be complicated, sometimes equipped with dual carburetors that a couple of collectors said tend to get replaced with something simpler.

Volvos also can have serious rust problems underneath.

Several of the cars displayed at the recent show had been greatly modified depending on how their owners intended to use them. Cameron Lovre brought his 1957 444 up from Hillsboro, Ore. The car has seen a lot of alterations and probably will see a few more before Lovre thinks it is ready for it and his biggest challenge: the La Carrera Panamericana race in Mexico, an endurance race that cov-

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Steve Wellman of Wenatchee admires the turbocharged engine of a 1989 Saab 900 owned by Dennis Lin of Seattle. Fans of Saab and Volvo met at Triple XXX Root Beer Drive-in for the show.

Scott Stoddard / sstoddard@ isspress.com ers more than 2,000 miles over seven days. With a little more work to do on his car, Lovre is aiming to make the October 2017 race.

Race crews consist of a driver and a navigator inside the race vehicle.

A team of fully equipped mechanics trails the main car.

“There are people who budget lots

of money for this race,” Lovre said.

“That’s not us.” He refers to his 444 as “the best $600 car I ever bought.”

Lovre rescued the car from a spot next to a creek. The car spent a good deal of time every year at least partially underwater. He had to remove the dash and the car currently has no heater or defroster, a couple of facts

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Issaquah’s Riley Shirey is another Volvo owner with a hugely modified car. In fact, he says there’s not much left of the original P 1800. It’s been rebuilt into a racecar, though Shirey said he does not drive it very much anymore. The last person to race the car was a 74-year-old enthusiast who came within a second of matching the car’s best time on the Pacific Raceways track near Kent. Shirey said the man made him an offer for the car, then apparently remembered he was 74 and probably wasn’t going to be doing a lot more racing.

Incidentally, Shirey notes a model P 1800 was the car used by actor Roger Moore in his 1962-1969 TV show, “The Saint.” Best known, of course, for playing James Bond, Moore also reportedly owned one of the cars himself.

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The nose of Riley Shirey’s 1967 Volvo P1800 modified race car is a menacing sight. Shirey lives in Issaquah.

work. For the show, it sat on the back of a flat bed trailer. Shill had purchased it the day before. As he talks, it’s apparent he doesn’t take much seriously, but at least gives clues as to when he’s joking.

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The car is his second Volvo and he’ll be taking it back to Yakima to rebuild it.

His first was a 1957 444 PV. Shill said Volvo has always been somewhat literal in naming their cars. For example, the “PV” simply means “personal vehicle.”

Now retired, Shill also goes into a story comparing coming up Interstate 5 on this day with how he used to came up the highway in his days as a state trooper. True or not, Shill asks that yarn not be repeated.

What’s the future hold for Swedish cars? Saabs are at least temporarily out of production, though the company had been selling electric cars in Europe. As for Volvo, their next big engineering challenge will be hitting what’s called the 2020 goal, said Tom Schroeder, sales manager for dealers Bob Byers Volvo of Seattle. The idea is that by the year 2020 the company will ensure no one driving or riding in a Volvo is killed or seriously injured in a crash. The company plans to use accident avoidance technology such as cameras and automatic stopping along with extra air bags and other steps.

“If the car in front of you starts to slow down, you will slow down automatically,” Schroeder said.

While the 10th All Swedish Car Cruise In was the first car show of 2016 at the Triple XXX, it’s certainly not the last. The Triple XXX offers various shows just about every weekend beginning March 6 and running through early December. Marv Nielsen is on the board of directors for the Washington State Hot Rod Hall of Fame. He wanted to point out the Swedish Car Show and many others held at Triple XXX contribute part of their entry fees to the locally based LEO, or Life Enrichment Options, which operates three group homes for challenged persons in Issaquah.

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Eastside Lions help rugby gain foothold in local sports community

By Neil Pierson

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@isspress.com

Below, Two members of the Lions Eastside Youth Rugby varsity team demonstrate a tackle as coach Chris Nickel, in the cap, and other members of the team look on before they all work on the drill during a February practice at Newport High School.

Fast forward to the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where television viewers will see a sport that hasn’t been on that stage in nearly a century.

Rugby, which has been a longtime fixture in other parts of the world, is now the fastest-growing sport in the United States, with participation rates soaring 81 percent between 2008 and 2013, the Sports & Fitness Industry Association reported.

Those changes are being felt locally, too, as the Eastside Lions Youth Rugby Club has seen its membership numbers climb rapidly since its inception in 2007.

Ray Keane, who began coaching with the Lions five years ago, said the club has grown from about 30 players to more than 150 in that time

period, and expects to keep adding athletes, teams and playing opportunities for the foreseeable future.

Many players live in Issaquah and Sammamish, and they join together a couple times a week with residents of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Renton and many other cities. The Lions accept boys and girls in grades one through 12 and have squads operating out of Bellevue, Redmond, Fall City and West Seattle.

Keane is a native of Ireland, where the game has been entrenched for more than 100 years. He coaches the Lions’ junior varsity squad, made up of high-school freshmen and sophomores, and his sons, Killian and Karl, both play for the club.

Keane and others said the club has benefited from expatriates coming to the Seattle area to work for companies like Microsoft, Boeing and Starbucks. Those families already know rugby and are passing it along to the people they meet.

“There is an issue happening within the game … where some of the more formative teams that have been here for many, many years in (Seattle) are suffering because people are migrating outside of the city,” Keane said. “So their numbers are dwindling, ours are increasing, and we’ve got to figure that out as a governance body. How do we redistribute all of that? Because the overall number is moving up.”

David Pelton began playing rugby at the University of Texas because he was “too small to play football.” The sport quickly stuck with him and he became an official after his playing days ended. He moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1996 and rugby is now a family affair — his wife formerly played for the Seattle Saracens women’s team, and his son, Luke, plays for the Lions.

“Growing up in Texas where football is king, I find football boring now,” Pelton said. “I don’t find it as enjoyable in terms of watching the antics of people out there compared to what I see in rugby.”

There’s a burgeoning relationship between football and rugby, however, because the skills are closely related. Seattle Seahawks head coach

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Castle Molia, a Kent-Meridian High School junior, runs the ball during a full scrimmage as the varsity team divides into two squads during a Lions Eastside Youth Rugby practice.

Pete Carroll, for example, has implemented rugby-style tackling among his players, helping them reduce concussions and other serious-injury rates.

Part of that connection stems from Waisale Serevi, who can be aptly described as the Michael Jordan of the rugby world. He played in seven World Cups for his native Fiji (three appearances in the 15-man game, four in seven-a-side) and captained Fiji to the World Cup Sevens titles in 1997 and 2005.

He came to the Seattle area in 2010, where he founded Serevi Rugby as a way to grow the sport among young people. Serevi has now rebranded as Atavus, with a dual focus on football and rugby, and Waisale can often be found at Newport High School in Bellevue lending a hand with the Lions’ junior varsity and varsity squads.

While children in this country might be more familiar with football, basketball or soccer, Serevi thinks

those sports can easily translate to the rugby field and vice-versa.

“I think rugby is much easier to play,” Serevi said. “I mean, just the shorts and the T-shirts and off you go. This is the best age to learn.

When I started, I was doing it at this age, 14 or 15, and for them to come do rugby, it’s good.

“They will enjoy it because they will pass the ball. They all have the opportunity to tackle other players, so they’ll learn a lot of skills from rugby, which can benefit football, too.”

Sophie Demandolx is the Lions’ club administrator, responsible for scheduling and budgeting, among other duties. She is a native of France and grew up with a love for rugby, which has filtered to her son, who plays with one of the Lions’ fifth- and sixth-grade squads.

Demandolx noted that most rugby players participate in other sports like track and field or wrestling. Her son has a purple belt in karate – “martial arts help build core muscles and elas-

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ticity,” she said – that has helped him successfully transition to rugby.

“On the field, you tackle and you train hard but there is camaraderie,” she said. “Rugby is a contact sport played by gentlemen and taught by gentlemen.”

That sense of family is shared by the Lions’ players and coaches.

Conner Pederson, a senior at Issaquah High School, began playing rugby four years ago, in part, because his older brother, Braden, was doing it. He found he could contribute because size is less important in rugby, and he fell in love because of the brotherhood he joined.

“On the field is one thing, but off the field it’s like you are so welcomed by all the players,” Pederson said.

By Greg Farrar / gfarrar@isspress.com “It’s a completely different environment than football.”

Waisale Serevi, who played in seven “He’s one of the best players on World Cups for his home nation of our team, without a doubt,” said Fiji and captained teams to World Chris Nickel, the Lions’ varsity coach.

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on the gridiron at the next level this fall when he heads to Claremont McKenna College in California. If his football coach allows it, he plans to play rugby as well.

Concussion concerns have infiltrated all levels of football — rugby’s growth has coincided with a 21-percent drop in football participation rates from 2008-13 — and rugby is trying to stake its claim as a safer sport. Conclusions vary from study to study, but USA Rugby reported its overall injury rates are on par with football, wrestling and soccer.

“You put people to the ground better and you’re not putting your head in front, so you’re not getting that concussion,” Pelton said of rugby tackling techniques. “It’s not with the head in the chest — it’s put the shoulders here at the thighs, and lift and then drive back.”

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football.”

Nickel, who played rugby at Bowling Green State University and the University of Georgia, doesn’t believe his sport is unequivocally safer because “it’s still a collision sport,” but the injuries tend to be superficial ones like scrapes, cuts and bruises.

There are no pads and helmets, only mouth guards.

“I won’t let them practice without them,” Nickel noted.

Killian Keane, a sophomore at Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle, plays for father Ray’s junior varsity team and has aspirations of playing in college. He traveled over the holiday break to Bakersfield, Calif., with the Loggers, a Washington all-star squad. There, he had a chance to play in front of highschool All-American scouts.

For Killian Keane, it’s encouraging to see the game grow locally. As the older Lions ran through drills on a chilly night at Newport High in early February, they were surrounded by packs of elementary- and middleschool boys.

“It’s great to see that you have kids of the younger age starting to learn it now,” he said. “It means they’ll be back when they’re older.”

Nickel said this is the first season in which his 15-man varsity squad is comprised entirely of players with

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“They’ll have the knowledge and they’ll have the splitsecond decision-making,” Nickel said. “They don’t have to process because they’ve been doing it, and that’s the difference between us in the United States and some of the international play — it’s the quick decision-making. They’re just that much faster to break down or through a hole.”

The U.S. men’s team is ranked seventh in the current World Sevens Series standings and a good showing at this summer’s Olympics could mean a boost in popularity to an already-booming game.

“Whether silver, bronze or gold, I believe they have the opportunity of grabbing one of these medals,” said Serevi, who was part of a group that successfully lobbied to bring the game back to the Olympics for the first time since 1924.

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Rock this way Mayor Fred Butler welcomes School of Rock in Issaquah with a bang

Fred Butler for the first time in his life smashes an electric guitar, to christen the Issaquah School of Rock business Jan. 16 at the Meadows Shopping Center.

The school will help to ‘save Rock n’ Roll one kid at a time,’ the mayor proclaimed.

By Greg Farrar/ gfarrar@ isspress.com

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By Christina Corrales-Toy ccorrales-toy@isspress.com School of Rock Issaquah is not your average music program.

You won’t hear students practicing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” or any other light-hearted nursery rhymes.

Take a stroll by the new school in the Meadows Shopping Center, and you’ll more likely hear the familiar tunes of Pink Floyd and AC/DC. “They want to play music, that’s why they’re here,” instructor Jeff Rouse said of his students. “You want somebody to pick up something and have fun immediately. If it’s fun, you’re going to want to keep doing it.”

That’s the approach the new performance-based school emphasizes, teaching students of all skill levels music that they actually want to play.

Every week, School of Rock pupils participate in a mix of private lessons and band rehearsals.

The school offers lessons in guitar, bass, keyboard, drums and/or vocals.

Top-of-the-line instructors with real world experience work with students weekly to prepare them for a rock show at the end of the program.

And who better to learn from than an actual rock star? Luckily, School of Rock Issaquah has a few of those on staff, led by industry veteran Rouse.

Rouse has jammed alongside some of the top names in music. The first show he ever played was as an opening act for Nirvana. He’s probably most known for playing bass in Alien Crime Syndicate and Loaded, led by Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan.

The Puyallup native picked up a bass as a teenager and never looked back.

“I took a couple lessons, but I just jumped right in learning how to play songs,” he said. “I didn’t think about theory, I just wanted to get in

By Greg Farrar/ gfarrar@isspress.com

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After a lot of practice, and an unceasing drive, Rouse got the chance to perform with some of his idols.

One of his fondest memories is a performance at the legendary Viper Room, where he sang lead, while a band filled with members from Guns N’ Roses, The Cult and the Sex Pistols played with him.

It was a huge moment for a Northwest kid who grew up worshipping those bands. Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, McKagan and Matt Sorum of Guns N’ Roses and Billy Duffy of The Cult all showed up that night.

“I’ll never forget that moment,” Rouse said. “If I could’ve told my younger self that that would happen, I would’ve never believed it.”

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Offering private guitar, bass and vocal lessons allowed him to do that.

Teaching grew to be a real passion for Rouse. He loves watching his students connect with the music, and even admitted to getting emotional watching them perform.

“When you teach people, you almost become family,” he said.

“Music changed my life. I was a wallflower; I was a really dorky kid.

When I picked up an instrument, it was a way that I could communicate.

I see that light go on in so many kids’ face.”

He didn’t hesitate to get involved when School of Rock Issaquah cofounders Chad and Tracy Fondren announced they were starting a local franchise in January 2016. Rouse even recruited Kathy Moore, his The Guessing Game band mate, to join the staff.

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She started her music career on the piano and participated in bands, choirs, musicals and plays growing up. But she ultimately found her calling in the guitar.

While working as a barista in college, she saved up all of her tips, mostly change, in a jar to fund her guitar purchase.

“They were very angry with me because I dumped change onto their counter,” she said of the purchase. “I bought this Squier and the moment I played, that was it. Something about the guitar sang for me the way that nothing else had before.”

Moore described playing music as a spiritual thing. It’s all about selfexpression, she said. Music education is important for everyone because it teaches skill building, she added.

“It teaches you to focus, it teaches you to work well with others,” she said.

The School of Rock Issaquah model, which culminates with a school performance at the end of the season, is particularly important because it gives students context, Moore said.

“You practice to perform,” she said, “and then at the end, you get to feel that feeling, that rush of performing. There’s just nothing like it in the world.”

Cole Paramore, the school’s drum instructor, agreed, saying the school’s band format forces musicians to be accountable to each other.

“The inclusion in a band, in a performing band, is really what makes all the difference in this program,” he said.

Another thing that makes the program special is that everyone, students and instructors, is working toward that end-of-season performance, Paramore said. The Issaquah school’s first show is Pink Floydthemed, so students are practicing songs from “The Wall.”

Ultimately, playing music is about having fun, Rouse said, and he wants to share his passion for song with anyone that will listen.

“My thing with teaching is this: let’s learn the rules and then let’s figure out how to break them,” he said.

“That’s what music’s about.”

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