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Comedy icon, coffee addict Dave Foley in Kirkland
Group discusses rich 62-year history with Kirklanders young and old Treasure Chest, created in 1996, that makes the biggest impact. ody Creek, 6, didn’t “The Seafair Pirates’ flinch when one Treasure Chest has been pirate one of the top five grabbed his leg charities in the and another state three years threatened to in a row,” said cut it off. After Jensen, who is the all, the Seafair only pirate that is Pirates are more paid as he does all into giving than the organizations taking. public relations. Three of the “We deliver the MARK JENSEN group’s memgifts and food on bers invaded Christmas Eve. Kirkland’s Heritage Hall Each year I lie to my wife Wednesday stealing kisses, and say I am not doing it wreaking havoc and speakagain.” ing to the Kirkland Heritage As Jensen explained that Society about the pirate’s rich the group delivers 22,000 62-year history. gifts and 10 tons of food he “We are actually a year was interrupted. older than Seafair,” said “The rum, we kept!” said Seafair Pirate’s spokesman pirate Chas Anderton, who and long-time pirate Mark is a Kirkland resident. “... Jensen, who’s nickname is But don’t let him fool you. “Keelhaul.” “We were started He (Jensen) is the one that in 1949 by the Washington makes Christmas happen.” Press Club to promote The third pirate on hand, Seafair ... Everything is usualso from Kirkland, was ally prim and proper and Arne Stray, who proclaimed our job has always been to he was the wallflower of the create problems.” group. But despite the havoc that The pirates will deliver the pirates create during one big present and two parades, it is their charity smaller presents at Christwork through the Holiday mas time, along with three BY MATT PHELPS
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Above, Kirkland resident and Seafair Pirate Chas Anderton takes Heritage Society president Loita Hawkinson “captive.”The group of three pirates came to Kirkland to t ell the story of their history. Right, Kirkland resident and Seafair Pirate Arne Stray hold the foot of a six-year-old boy while Anderton pretends as if he is going to cut it off. MATT PHELPS, Kirkland Reporter
stocking stuffers and clothes to families in need. “We didn’t get one drop of rum or even a piece of coal,” joked a pouting Anderton. “Every pirate is just a big kid,” said Jensen. The playfulness of the
Seafair Pirates was on display during the event, as they attempted to steal kisses from Heritage Society members and handed out pirate toys for the kids in attendance. The visit is one of many promotional events,
but the group does 240 official appearances and visits five different countries each year. The only month the pirates take off is January. [ more PIRATES page 3 ]
Redmond woman pleads not guilty in the poisoning death of a Kirkland man BY BILL CHRISTIANSON Reporter Newspapers
A Redmond woman who was extradited from Great Britain last month pled not guilty Tuesday morning to first-degree murder charges in the poisoning death of a
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Kirkland man. A case setting hearing for Janjira Smith, 56, is scheduled for Sept. 7, according Dan Donohoe, spokesperson for the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
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She is being held in King County Jail on $5 million bail for the 2006 crime. KIRKLAND Prosecutors allege Smith killed Roger Lewis, her ex-boyfriend and severely injured Lewis’ future fiancé,
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Thanyarat “Nina” Sengpharaghanh after Lewis laced a bottle of Jagermeister with an insecticide, methomyl, the two drank from in a Kirkland apartment in October of 2006. Sengpharaghanh has recovered from the
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incident, but a separate charge of first assault was brought against Smith for Sengpharaghanh’s injuries. Smith pled not guilty to that charge also. Smith had been in an 18-month relationship with Lewis, who took a [ more POISON page 17 ]
Puget Sound residents’ love for coffee is a reputation known worldwide. But they have nothing on Dave Foley. “I drink about 50 cups a day when I am on set,” said the iconic comedian and actor, who will play Laughs Comedy Spot in Kirkland July 7-9. “They keep two thermoses around just for me so I don’t have to keep taking breaks to go get one.” But the idea of an amped up actor is in stark contrast to Foley’s calm delivery of Dave Foley comedy dialogue as the news director on the late 1990’s TV show “Newsradio.” The five-season NBC show ended just after the death of actor and friend Phil Hartman. “That was an amazing cast,” said Foley. “The director, James Burrows, could go to any one of us for a laugh. But it was pretty frustrating for him as a director because we would have too much fun and it would be difficult to get us to work.” Foley said the show struggled to stay on the air the entire time as many at NBC were not fans. “They hated us and tried to kill it with the scheduling [ more FOLEY page 19 ]
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