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Mi Amore WHAT TO DO IN THE DARK DAYS OF WINTER? Love thy neighbor. Although we may be lacking in the cheer we so vibrantly celebrated in months past, it is my hope that your hearts are full and your loved ones are near.

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This time of year can be dark and dreary with the festivities of the holiday season behind us, yet still several weeks to endure until we see the light of springtime. Unless you’re off snowbirding to the warmer and brighter climates, February can be a time of doldrums for many. What better way to spice it up than with some sparkles for a loved one? Whether you’re seeking guidance for a special Valentine’s Day gift, or that once in a lifetime happily ever after piece, our gift guide is sure to inspire.

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Indulge in our healthy lifestyle food blogger’s decadent (and heart healthy) mini chocolate cakes, kick back and read about the less stressful days of yesteryear’s commute across Lake Washington, and enjoy a feel-good story from the city about our law enforcement officers giving back. Indulge and enjoy. It’s time to recharge, relax and love thy neighbor.

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During the last dark days of winter, let’s show our love for one another. February is a time of stillness as the earth begins to thaw and mother nature begins to reveal her love. Take it all in. These are the moments. Thank you for reading Kirkland Lifestyle and thank you for #KeepingItKirkland. Mi amore.

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INSIDE THE ISSUE FEBRUARY 2020

FEATURES 14 Mini Flourless Chocolate Cakes February, The Month of Love, Is Also Heart Health Month

18 Lake Transportation To The First Eastside Settlers, Lake Washington Was A Beautiful Barrier To Progress

24 Shop With A Cop Kirkland Police Department’s Inaugural Event

34 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide Treat Your Loved One To Something

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FEBRUARY, THE MONTH OF LOVE, IS ALSO HEART HEALTH MONTH. SAYING "I LOVE YOU" WITH CHOCOLATE CAKE CAN BE HEALTHY!

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FEBRUARY IS KNOWN BY MOST AS THE MONTH OF LOVE, BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT IT’S ALSO HEART HEALTH MONTH? Treat your loved ones to a dessert that not only says, “I love you” but also, “I care about your heart.” These Mini Flourless Chocolate Cakes are made with cacao powder, which is rich in two flavonoids: anthocyanidin and catechins, both known to be especially powerful antioxidants. Be sure to use real cacao powder for maximum benefit… the more well-known cocoa powder undergoes processing that strips most of the naturally occurring antioxidants in the cacao powder. Don’t let the mini size of these little chocolate cakes fool you. They are so rich and decadent! Serve room-temperature or warm with a dusting of powdered sugar and fresh raspberries. The raspberries add a pop of color, freshness, and an extra hit of antioxidants. Mi Amore!

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TIMES PAST

LAKE T R A N S P O R TAT I O N TO THE FIRST EASTSIDE SETTLERS, LAKE WASHINGTON WAS A BEAUTIFUL BARRIER TO PROGRESS.

During times of high water, it was possible to bring a boat from Puget Sound up the rivers and into the lake. The arduous

The lake provided access to Seattle, their main contact with

process sometimes took weeks and often involved winching the

civilization. To Seattle speculators the lake’s eastern shore lured

boat through the shallows and removing wind-felled trees from

promising potential fortunes to be made in natural resources such

the river. Local Native Americans were often hired along the way

as coal and timber. A canal connecting the lake and Sound was

to help. By the 1870s several other boats had made the arduous

envisioned within a few years of Seattle’s 1852 founding, and build-

passage up the rivers. These boats towed coal barges and carried

ing the canal would make the lake essentially a well-protected

passengers across the thickly forested lake.

freshwater harbor, creating an opportunity for industrialization.

To reach their new homesteads many of Kirkland’s earliest

Writing in 1934, R. H. Collins, Kirkland’s first mayor, said

settlers loaded all their belongings on these 40 to 65-foot ves-

of the early days, “Separated from Seattle as we are by Lake

sels. One such pioneer was Juanita settler Elisa Forbes, who

Washington, transportation has always been a vital problem in

said in 1939 that the tiny vessel her family first rode across the

the development of this section.”

lake in 1877 looked more like “a ship’s boat” than a steamer

Canoes and rowboats were the first transport on the lake, but

because it was so small.

when coal was discovered at Newcastle in 1863, steamboats

After it became practical to build boats on the lake in the

became a necessity for towing coal-laden barges. In 1868, the tiny

late 1880s the lake soon had a small fleet. When Kirklanders

Fannie—the first powered craft on the lake—appeared. In those

Captains George Bartsch and Harry Tompkins bought a section

days, lake level was nine feet higher than it is today.

of waterfront land for their boat yard from the Curtis family in

At the south end of the lake, the Black River drained out of the

1901, they set a course for Houghton development that lasted

lake near where the Cedar River flows in today. The Black River

until after World War II. The tiny yard was located at today’s

joined with the White River, which then fed into the Duwamish

Carillon Point. They also operated boats on the lake under their

River, which in turn flowed into Puget Sound.

B&T Transportation Co. banner. In 1900 King County launched The King County of Kent and contracted B&T to operate the first double ended ferry to ply the lake between Kirkland’s new ferry slip at the end of Kirkland

TO THE FIRST EASTSIDE SETTLERS, LAKE WASHINGTON WAS A BEAUTIFUL BARRIER TO PROGRESS

Avenue and that of Madison Park, but the boat had design flaws and operated at a non-trivial financial loss. Captain John Anderson bought controlling interest in B&T’s fledgling boatyard, changing the name to Anderson Shipyard, which he ran in conjunction with the several lake steamboats

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he already owned and operated under the sister company Anderson Steamboat Co. Anderson immigrated from Sweden and by 1888 found himself in Seattle where he took jobs on various saltwater vessels until he landed a deckhand job on the lake in 1891 on the C.C. Calkins and later became fireman on the Kirkland, built by Kirkland co-founder, publisher and developer Leigh Hunt (Hunt’s Point’s namesake).

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The native Duwamish People crafted the first vessels to ply the lake. The native man in the bow lived on Portage Bay. The photographer was the first white baby boy born in Seattle, Orion O. Denny, whose Eastside summer home grounds were bequeathed to become today’s O.O. Denny Park.

The French family settled in what became Houghton in 1872. Harry, the grown son, built the first frame home on the Eastside in 1874. A hobby photographer, Harry used his wooden box camera to capture these images of his parents Samuel Foster “Foss” and Caroline with the steamboat C.C. Calkins in the spring or summer of 1890.

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The twin queens of Lake Washington during its 1900s golden age of steam boating were Capt. John Anderson’s Fortuna and her sister Urania. The Fortuna ran primarily out of Leschi, serving the landings and private docks on Mercer Island and today’s Bellevue. The Urania served mostly the more northern routes, from Juanita Bay south to the Points.

No longer content to just walk on, by the 1910s lake travelers and commuters wanted to drive their automobiles once on the other side and the shift started to double end ferries to accommodate motor vehicles.

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Anderson’s steamers served the Eastside and Mercer Island. He built a number of double decked excursion style steamboats in anticipation of the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, a large, international event held in 1909 on what is now the University of Washington campus. He also built a number of double ended ferries, including the King County of Kent’s replacement, the Washington of Kirkland and the Washington’s replacement, the Lincoln of Kirkland, which ran between Kirkland and Madison Park until 1940, when the floating bridge connecting Seattle to Mercer Island opened and ended the service out of Leschi and reduced that out of Madison Park. The smaller ferry Leschi took over the Madison Park-Kirkland route.

01 The image with Caroline only reveals the steamer Kirkland, owned by Kirkland co-founder, publisher Leigh Hunt’s Jackson Street Cable Railway. The Kirkland ran out of Leschi and after disembarking there most passengers boarded a streetcar for a ride down Jackson street to the business district, then today’s Pioneer Square and vicinity. This was Kirkland’s boom period, when it underwent rapid transformation from wooded lake shore to an envisioned, burgeoning steel manufacturing town.

02 Captain John Anderson stands proudly as his wife Emily christens the excursion passenger steamer Aquilo just before Seattle received tens of thousands of visitors and the eyes of the world in 1909 for hosting the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition on the site of today’s University of Washington campus. Anderson began his Lake Washington career in 1891 as the lowly deckhand on the C.C. Calkins soon graduating to fireman on the Kirkland. By his death in 1941 he had built, owned or had control over most of the lake’s steamboats and ferries 03 The Kirkland at dock, c.1889, probably at the foot of Market Street, looking southeast across Moss Bay to a then practically undeveloped Lake Street. Primarily a passenger vessel, but if hay needed to be hauled then it was. The Kirkland‘s end was inglorious, during the Klondike gold rush in 1898 Seattle was full of fortune seekers heading up to the diggings and practically anything that would float was bought, stolen or bartered for. Hastily stripped of superstructure and machinery, she was converted to a humble barge and hauled down the Black River and into Elliott Bay, where she was quickly loaded up, towed north to Alaska and never heard from again. CONTINUED >

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The long awaited canal connecting Lake Washington to Puget Sound opened in 1916—lowering the lake 9-feet in the process—thus opening the lake to sea going vessels. Anderson sold the shipyard in 1923 to Charles Burkhardt, Alaska Consolidated Canneries’ owner, who changed the name to the Lake Washington Shipyard. It spent its remaining years making mostly sea going ships. In 1934-35 it transformed a burnt hull into the iconic art deco ferry Kalakala and during World War Two built axillary ships for the US Navy, including about 25 seaplane tenders and four submarine net tenders. Post war vessel construction slowed to a trickle and its last vessel was launched in 1967. Anderson Steamboat Co. dominated lake transportation, but automobiles were there to stay and his beautiful excursion boats were slipping into obsolesce. By

1922 King County had car ferries running on Madison Park-Kirkland and Leschi-Roanoke (Mercer Island)Medina routes, all operated at a substantial loss. That year Anderson contracted with the county to operate its Lake Washington Ferries—they still lost money, but a whole lot less—a position he held until his 1941 death. He died childless, but his brother, Albert, who worked with him has several families of Anderson descendants living in Kirkland today. The Lake Washington Ferries lasted another decade until the Leschi made the final run in the summer of 1950.

01 The Fortuna was robbed of her beauty and radically transformed into a utilitarian double end ferry, seen here in the 1920s transporting a Boy Scout troop through the locks. She was scrapped a few years later. 02 Anderson Steamboat Company’s 1909 route map.

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03 The Houghton built, Anderson Steamboat Company’s twin Aquilo and Triton, loaded to the gills with excursion passengers in 1909.

The King County Port District’s first ferry, the problem plagued, double ender King County of Kent was condemned and replaced in 1908 by the larger steam powered Washington of Kirkland. The second photo of Kirkland’s crude ferry slip was taken from the Washington‘s upper deck. The lake was 10-feet higher then, the slip was at the end of Kirkland Avenue at about where The Slip restaurant is located today.

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GIVING BACK

SHOP WITH A COP KIRKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT'S INAUGURAL EVENT

THE KIRKLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT’S INAUGURAL SHOP WITH A COP EVENT TOOK PLACE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, AT THE KIRKLAND FRED MEYER, LOCATED IN TOTEM LAKE. Sponsored by the Kirkland Police Guild and the Kirkland Police Department, the event was meant to bring gifts, toys, clothes and a healthy dose of holiday cheer to a few Kirkland families whose Christmas season may have otherwise been a little less bright. The event was coordinated by Corporal Doug Dreher, who stressed that it was a team effort that wouldn’t have been possible without support from command staff, patrol and everybody in between. Shop with a Cop is all about strengthening relationships, celebrating positive outcomes and building community, said Dreher. Often, when police officers interact with children, it’s during times of high-stress in unpleasant circumstances. Events like Shop with a Cop give officers the opportunity to have interactions with families that are wholly positive. “Shop with a Cop really gives us a chance to connect with the families we serve in a way that’s gratifying for everyone involved,” Dreher said. Made possible through employee contributions and donations, the Shop with a Cop budget supported five Kirkland families, allowing each individual family member to spend a total of $100 on clothes, gifts and toys. Roughly 25 Kirkland police and corrections officers volunteered their time to push toy-filled shopping carts as their

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accompanying tiny tykes contemplated the latest Avengers

other members of their family. The Kirkland Fred Meyer served as

action figure or Frozen-inspired trinket. Some helped teens shop

a gracious host, providing delicious baked goods and beverages.

for clothes and shoes, while others helped families select bicycles, toy pirate ships, race cars and more. Families were referred to the program by patrol staff and Kirkland’s New Bethlehem Day Center. Whether four years old, 14 or 34, Shop with a Cop recipients were able to shop for themselves, their siblings, or

Kirkland resident Myriah Leifi was overcome with gratitude as she and her family shopped for clothing and toys. Watching her children browse the aisles and interact with the officers was an incredible gift, she said. “There are no words,” Myriah said.

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Another benefit of Shop with a Cop was that it gave observing community members the opportunity to experience the Kirkland Police Department in a way that was both heartwarming and authentic. Fred Meyer customers frequently inquired as to what was happening, often touched by the sight of uniformed officers as they knelt to be eye-level with young ones excited to share toys and books. Kirkland resident Tony Griffin was so moved by what he saw, he asked if he could make a donation to support the police department’s efforts. A Kirkland resident for 22 years, Griffin expressed gratitude for the City’s law enforcement professionals and was excited for the chance to help. “I like to help out when I can,” Griffin said. “Especially for these guys because they put their lives on the line every day.” While this marked the Department’s first ever Shop with a Cop event, it was not the first time officers have come together to support a family in need. In December of 2018, individuals within the department raised over $1,000 to provide Christmas presents to a mother and her three children who had been abandoned financially.

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“Events like Shop with a Cop are shining examples of community policing,” said Chief Cherie Harris. “I am proud to lead an agency that actively seeks to provide this hands-on level of compassion to our community members. This was about a lot more than just tangible gifts, it was about sharing our time and making important connections with the people we serve.”

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Spread the vintage love. Use antiques strategically and as accent pieces to keep your overall aesthetic from coming off as too dated.

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Make it art. Donâ€™t be afraid to display unique pieces as wall art. Consider creating a gallery wall that mixes vintage photographs, prints, mirrors and china.

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