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FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Students leap for a better future By Sebastian Moraga Eight-year-old Katie Kanzler was 5 years old. Grandma’s house was playtime central back then. “We would go to my grandma’s house with all the cousins, and play and stuff,” Kanzler remembered. One of the playmates was Chrissi Baerg, Katie’s aunt. A Navy wife who fulfilled that role to the core, Baerg was the proverbial “everybody’s friend,” an amazingly cheerful person who was her niece’s best pal. “She loved her aunt,” said Kim Kanzler, Baerg’s sister and Katie’s mom. “Katie talks about her all the time. Baerg’s was living in Hawaii back then, so Katie would visit the Aloha State twice a year to hang with her aunt. “She would play with us all the time,” Katie said. “She was really nice.” In 2009, Baerg died of a heart attack. She was 30. See LEAP, Page 9
By Sebastian Moraga
Jerrie Crook, left, and her daughter Casey play on Fall City Elementary School’s playground, along with second-grader Sophia Walters, center, and Brooke Kelly, in the background. Crook showed up for her daughter’s school’s Parent Play Day.
Adults get in playtime with kids By Sebastian Moraga
By Sebastian Moraga
Audrey Hoving, dressed for her class’ Colonial Tea Day, participates in the American Heart Association fundraiser Jump Rope For Heart on Feb. 14 at Snoqualmie Elementary School.
Third-grader Rylee Welch’s playmate during break at Fall City Elementary School had some unusual accessories on her: car keys and an iced latte from The Grind. That didn’t stop Welch’s friend from rocking the Hula Hoop with Rylee for a while, latte in hand, before leaving for a nearby appointment.
The appointment was with another Fall City Elementary student, to have lunch and play kickball. Parent Play Day gathers parents and their children at the school playgrounds to play games during recess. Candace Welch showed up to Hula Hoop and play kickball, not just with her children but with their buddies. “I have a lot of kids
here that pretend I’m their mom,” Welch said, because their parents can’t come. “It’s huge for the kids when their parents come. They love it.” Across the playground, Matthew Wieting patrolled centerfield during a game of something called baseball-kickball, (yeah, we don’t know what that is, either.) When the other team See PLAY, Page 9
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