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School board told not to rush supt. search By GABRIELLE NOMURA Bellevue Reporter
Slow down the superintendent search and don’t rush into hiring Seattle Schools interim superintendent Susan Enfield, was the message to the Bellevue School Board uttered by a handful of the 30 teachers and parents Tuesday night at the Wilburton Instructional Center. The feedback was part of a public input sessions before the board will decide whether or not to hire Enfield. The board had discussed an accelerated search process after discovering that Enfield was also a finalist for a position with the Highline School District.
Several parents said a desire to live in Washington and lead Bellevue schools long-term were important to them. On that note, some raised a concern that Susan Enfield Enfield has moved around in her career. From 1999 to present, the longest Enfield has stayed in one position was as deputy superintendent of Evergreen Public Schools in Vancouver (August 2006 to June 2009). However, Jacque Coe, spokeswoman for Bellevue public schools, emphasized that
the board also has received a lot of positive feedback about Enfield. Coe pointed to the first public input session held at Odle Middle School, attended by a handful of teachers and parents. Some attendees praised Enfield’s qualifications and urged the board not to wait too long in the search process, as other districts want to hire her, Coe said. At the second session Tuesday night, Stephen Miller, former Bellevue Education Association president and a current Odle teacher, said it was essential that the new superintendent have a proven track record for working well with staff. “Don’t just choose someone who says the
right thing during the interview” he said, addressing the board. Former school board president Judy Bushnell, who stepped down from the board in 2010 after 18 years, attended the event. Bushnell, who helped bring in former superintendent Mike Riley, called the search for Amalia Cudeiro’s replacement “the most important decision you will make as a board.” Staff and community members are encouraged to email the board at board@ bsd405.org with their input. Please put ‘Supt. Search’ in the subject line. The school board will likely publish its findings from these input sessions after mid-winter break, which is Feb. 20-24.
Bellevue facility brings beach volleyball inside By Nat Levy Bellevue Reporter
Bellevue is known for a lot of things diversity, good food, its bustling downtown, but sunny days of beach volleyball isn’t one of them. But in true Pacific Northwest fashion, a couple of Washington natives have adapted the game to fight this area’s grey existence. Brian Park and Brian Boyer opened up East Beach Volleyball late last year, an indoor beach volleyball retail company and academy. The facility features three courts in the warehouse location on Northeast 116th Avenue, a store area and a tropical style where players can cool off with a Gatorade after a tough game. The store has been a plan for Boyer and Park for years. Previously, with a store on Alki Beach, business didn’t last all year round. Seattle is not replete with beach volleyball courts, and even then, players have to
brave the traffic, and parking issues at Alki or Golden Gardens in Ballard. “The biggest thing is there’s not a whole lot of public courts for beach volleyball,” said Boyer, who played volleyball during his time at the Naval Academy. “To really put in a nice, quality court costs a lot of money, and there’s not a lot of public money there for developing volleyball courts.” So Boyer, who has been playing volleyball since 2001, and Park decided to fill that void. East Beach operates as more of a training facility than a recreational space, though open gyms happen on Friday evenings. Boyer, along with three contracted instructors run several group classes as well as individual sessions. They teach players the game, from the basic concepts, to advanced skills. They can also help players get up to speed with a limited gym and workout supervision. Though the academy doesn’t See beach, 3
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At the end of a veterinary visit, Gibson, a black-and-white Cairn Terrier-Shih Tzu mix, yawned. The purpose of the visit was to check out a red, cherry-like protrusion coming out of his eye. This chance yawn, and an alert veterinary specialist, may have saved Gibson from a painful death. Emily Taibl, Gibson’s owner, said the vet saw a lump in the dog’s mouth. This led to a chest X-ray, two biopsies and eventually, a diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma, a common canine cancer. The cost to diagnose 8-year-old Gibson added up to $3,000, said Taibl. It would take an additional $4,500 to treat the family pet, an amount the Taibl family found hard to afford in the current economic downturn. “I was grasping at straws,” Taibl said when she stumbled across the Magic Bullet Fund website. Laurie Kaplan, a longtime medical animal writer, started The Magic Bullet Fund in 2005 after her Siberian Husky dog, Bullet, survived canine lymphoma, according to the fund’s website. At the urging of her dog’s oncologist, Kaplan wrote a book about her experience, “Help Your Dog Fight Cancer.” Amazon.com describes it as “a crash course on canine cancer, cover[ing] issues of prevention, diagnosis, treatment options, side effects, diet, supplements and home care.” Kaplan wanted to donate the proceeds from the book to an organization that helps needy families pay for canine cancer treatment, but couldn’t find one. So she started her own. Since then, she said in an email, The Magic Bullet Fund
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has helped 167 dogs and their families through cancer treatment. When Taibl applied to the fund, she thought her application would go nowhere. But to her surprise, she heard back from the agency within three days, she said. After only a week, her case was posted on the website. The application process can be done online. Taibl said that bank statements and pay stubs or tax returns must be submitted, as well as information from your veterinarian. “The two qualifiers that the MBF Review Committee looks at are the family’s degree of financial need, and the potential for adding a year of quality life for the dog with treatment,” Kaplan said. Once accepted, The Magic Bullet Fund helps families establish a fundraising goal and starts them off with a launching gift from the agency’s general fund. The website hosts a donation page where people can read about the animals that need help and see photos. “It really was so easy,” Taibl said, “I couldn’t believe it.” The Taibls have collected almost half of their fundraising goals. They have until Feb. 17 to raise the remainder of funds. So far, Gibson is doing well, Taibl said, although Gibson probably will lose his right eye. But if all goes right, “he will live two to four more years, a normal life expectancy” for dogs of his breed. “I think that even people that aren’t having trouble financially should look at Laurie Kaplan’s book. It is a huge help and very informative,” Taibl said.
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he Bellevue School Board faces a difficult task: How to get a new superintendent worthy of the district while starting its search late in the game. Former Supt. Amalia Cudeiro told the board earlier this year that she would not seek renewal of her contract. She had been on leave for several months dealing with illnesses in her family. That news and decision by Cudeiro, while understandable, puts the district in a bind. High performing school districts such as Bellevue have been in the hunt for a new superintendent for months now. The district needs to act quickly or face delaying a decision for another year. Assistant superintendent Eva Collins has been filling in admirably in an interim role, but has notified the board that she isn’t a candidate for the superintendent position, wanting instead to return to the assistant superintendent role. Faced with such a situation, the board has reacted quickly and smartly. It scheduled community meetings last week and this to hear what parents, teachers and others in the community say they want and need in a new superintendent. The board also is soliciting comments via email for those unable to make one of the four districtwide meetings. It also has advertised the open position in education journals. As a result, the board could be in a position to act quickly and still meet the district’s needs. One candidate, Susan Enfield, made her interest known shortly after Cudeiro announced her resignation from the district. Enfield is serving this year as interim superintendent in the Seattle School District, where she has received good marks from various sources. Even more interesting is that Enfield was Bellevue’s No. 2 choice when the board picked Cudeiro. Does this make Enfield a slam-dunk for the job? Not necessarily. The board has made it clear that it wants an open, public process, however long it takes to find a new superintendent. The four meetings have made it clear that there is no lack of opinions on what talents and traits a new superintendent should have. Teachers, not surprisingly, want someone with a good track record working with staff. Parents have noted the district’s growing diversity and want someone who understands the socio-economic makeup of the district and its increasing diversity. While such thoughts and advice are worthwhile and worth noting, the bottom line is that the school board that must make the decision based on criteria that it – and only it – finds relevant. If the board finds it has a candidate who is a good fit for Bellevue’s next superintendent, it doesn’t have to artificially wait for any period of time before it acts. We feel the school board is up to the task, however difficult it may seem. What’s important is who is picked, not how long – or short – the task takes.
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Photos change, but content remains Everywhere you look, you can see the tectonic shifts in how we share information as a culture. Much of this change is being seen in the area of photography. New trends and technology are everywhere. Kodak Chad Coleman recently declared bankruptcy and no longer will make digital cameras. Conversely, Nikon released two new professional DSLR camera bodies that have photographers scrambling for their checkbooks. Instagram, a photo sharing app for the iPhone, in a way has turned Twitter on its head as an image-first social media platform. But while the tools have changed, the impact of the
photograph remains. When I started my career as a newspaper photojournalist, I spent part of my day in the darkroom developing film. I then made an early transition to using digital cameras for print publication. Now I just reach in my pocket and pull out my mobile phone. Today it’s See – Shoot – Publish as the Internet has leveled the publishing playing field. Never in history has there been a greater appetite for – or more difficult time to monetize – photography and visual media. Across the industry photojournalists have been laid off in favor of citizen journalism. Newsroom staffs shrink and attitudes of “good enough” pervade.But never as a culture have we had this amazing ability to “see it” and not just hear about it. My mom recently called and described to me the more than 30 hot air balloons over her snowbird home in
Arizona. My response? Let’s see ‘em! So she hung up the phone and proceeded to electronically send me an entire photo essay on hot air balloons, much to the delight of my 2-year-old son. As we snap away in this visual-first society, we are making a huge record of our time, a moment by moment snapshot of history. As this sea of images grows ever deeper, we need to be reminded that content still is king. No matter if it’s digital or film, DSLR or iPhone, or the newest, hottest photo processing app, I always need to remind myself that it’s what’s in the photograph that matters.
Chad Coleman is a staff photographer for the Bellevue Reporter. He can be contacted at 453-4254 or ccoleman@bellevuereporter. com.
Walmart info inaccurate, misleading By Steven V. Restivo
I’m writing in response to the letter from Garet Handy published Jan. 24 in the Bellevue Reporter. He used information that is both inaccurate and misleading, and we’d be remiss not to set the record straight for your readers. Let’s start with wages. The truth is that not only are our average, full-time hourly wages significantly higher than the federal minimum, but also they exceed the Washington state minimum — the highest in the nation — by some 40 percent. As of October 2011, the average wage for regular full-time hourly Walmart associates in Washington is $12.79 per hour. Our wages and benefits
are competitive and meet or exceed those offered by many of our competitors. Next, Mr. Handy draws conclusions about our perceived impact on Chicago’s west side and references a long-discredited study. A complete analysis can be found here — www. walmartchicago.com/Loyola — but if Mr. Handy were to visit the store there, he’d likely agree with the Chicago SunTimes that calls the report “a cheap shot at Walmart,” or the neighborhood’s own alderman who has written that “Walmart has been a boon to [her] constituents.” The point is this: in each community where we do business, we try to be part of the solution when it comes
to creating jobs, improving access to healthy, affordable food and strengthening neighborhoods. In communities across the country, customers want to shop and work at Walmart; Bellevue is no different. From experience, I know that as people learn the facts — as opposed to the recycled urban myths put forth by a few special interests — the more they see the value that Walmart brings. We look forward to serving more Bellevue customers soon and helping them save money on fresh food and other products their families need.
Steven V. Restivo is senior director of community affairs at Walmart.
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‘80s event to raise funds, awareness of cancer
Rotary auction to support Jubilee Reach Bellevue Rotary will hold its Foundation Auction on Saturday, April 21 at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue. An estimated 600 supporters of Bellevue Rotary will gather to raise funds for this year’s beneficiary, Jubilee Reach and the Bellevue Rotary Foundation. Jubilee Reach focuses on kids at risk through their successful sports program. This year, Jubilee Reach will provide soccer and basketball teams for six middle
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easy to accomplish with a pair of leggings and a neon shirt. The sisters also admit that the movie “Hot Tub Time Machine” may have been an inspiration to keep the event fun. For Cope, a Bellevue resident, Totally schools under the leadership of Tim Kuykendall, manager of Jubilee Reality Sports and After School Programs. The aim of Jubilee Reality Sports is to provide a safe place for the youth of Bellevue to be seen, heard and cared for by experienced coaches, tutors and mentors to develop youth as individuals as well as athletes. Coaches and staff coach character, life skills and academic success above and beyond the athleticism, teamwork and sportsmanship provided on a regular sports team. To get involved, to make a contribution or to attend the Rotary auction, visit www. bellevuerotary.net or www.jubileereach.org.
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While cancer research and the bar scene don’t tend to go-hand-in-hand, three local sisters want you to imbibe for a good cause. Corinne Cope, Jackelyn Immel and Jessica Shane are inaugurating Totally Teal Toast, an ‘80s bar-crawl fundraiser set to take place in Downtown Bellevue on Saturday. A $50 entry fee will be donated to the Marcha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research. Kicking off at Lot No. 3, participants will start with their initial toast at 12:30 p.m. and continue down to Pearl Bar and Dining, Paddy Coynes, Lucky Strike and Earls. The sisters chose the slower mid-winter months to help get people out of the house, and the ‘80s theme because it’s
Teal is a positive way to end a roller-coaster year. Cope and her sisters were inspired to take action after losing two women close to them, their aunt and their neighbor, to stage-four ovarian cancer. They also watched another aunt battle the disease. In addition to educating people, Cope says she’s doing this for her mom. “It’s been so hard for her to lose these important women in her life,” she says. Part of the problem, Cope says, is that there’s not enough knowledge about this disease. Just like talking about breast cancer was once taboo, because it involved an intimate part of a woman’s body, people don’t like talking about pelvic exams – which are essential to detect ovarian cancer. Additionally, when women are no longer in their reproductive years, they often stop getting these annual exams, says Cope, who spoke with various doctors
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and experts as part of her sisters’ planning for Totally Teal. By educating themselves and learning the symptoms, women can prevent the disease, and men can help their partners stay healthy. Cope says Totally Teal is a way for her and her sisters to heal, and hopefully, for others as well. In spreading the word about the cause, the sisters have heard many peoples’ stories about loved ones they’ve lost to the disease. “To hear how much they appreciate what we’re doing is what makes it worth it,” Cope says. For more information, go to www.totallytealtoast.com. Gabrielle Nomura: 425-453-4602; gnomura@bellevuereporter.com
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The plan includes high-priority projects and improvements that address emerging needs and opportunities, such as the Eastgate/I-90 Land Use and Transportation Project, the Bel-Red Corridor Project, and the Pedestrian & Bicycle Transportation Plan Report. The public can weigh in on what should be funded in the future. Those interested can respond to an online survey, beginning Feb. 20, available at www.bellevuewa.gov/transportationfacilities-plan.htm. Or, they can attend an open house, from 4:30-6:30 p.m., on one of the following dates: • Thursday, Feb. 23, at Bellevue City Hall, 450 110th Avenue NE, Rm.1E-108 • Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Crossroads Mall, 15600 NE 8th Street, Community Meeting Room.
A vigil for Sky Metalwala, the 2-year-old boy who went missing last year, will take place at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Bellevue’s Downtown Park. Sky went missing last Nov. 6 when his mother, Redmond resident Julia Biryukova, claims he was kidnapped from her unlocked car in the 2600 block of 112th Avenue Northeast in Bellevue.
She told police that her car ran out of gas and walked to get help with the boy’s 4-year-old sister Maile. Police stated that the car had gas and found no mechanical issues. Anyone with information on the case is urged to call the Bellevue Police tip line at 425-577-5656 or email pdtipline@bellevuewa.gov.
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The public will have several chances to view and comment on transportation projects coming down the pipeline at several open houses this month. Before a transportation project goes to design and construction, it most likely was included in the Transportation Facilities Plan. The plan will be the primary subject of the open houses. The plan is a 12-year transportation planning document of high-priority projects recommended by the Bellevue Transportation Commission and approved by the City Council. It’s the first step in getting a transportation project funded and built. Bellevue’s most recent plan included the years 2009-2020. The city now is planning the development plan for 20132024. City staff will be reviewing current project priorities and identifying ones.
Other road improvement projects included in the initiative are: 120th Avenue Northeast (in three separate stages) from Northeast Fourth Street to Northup Way; 124th Avenue Northeast from 15th/16th Street to Northup Way; Northeast Sixth Street from 112th to 120th Avenue Northeast; and construction of a new 15th/16th Street (in several segments) in the Bel-Red area from 116th Avenue Northeast to Northup Way. The council will again discuss the package, specifically the Northeast Fourth Street extension at its March 5 meeting. This meeting will feature more discussion, and possible direction from council, on financing the project. At the March 19 meeting, the council will be asked to accept grant funding related to the project and sign off on a consultant contract.
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Manager Ron Kessack. The plan involves a five-lane road, with two lanes heading west. The extension of Northeast Fourth Street, and widening of 120th Avenue Northeast became a controversial subject last year, when property owners gathered enough signatures to void a nearly $7 million contribution in the form of a local improvement district. A new alternative discussed Monday is the possible purchase by the city of the old BNSF railway corridor from its owner, the Port of Seattle. That could allow the city to use a portion of the BNSF land to reduce road construction impacts on nearby property owners. The new alternative features one fewer lane, and several City Council members weren’t any more satisfied with this approach. “This new option has as many, if not more, problems as the old option,” said Councilmember Kevin Wallace.
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is the extension of Northeast Fourth Street, from 116th to 120th Avenue Northeast. The council learned that design work for the project is now about 60 percent complete, though a final road alignment has not been selected. Staff has received extensive pushback from Best Buy and Home Depot, which would be impacted by the new road. At this point, the plan for Northeast Fourth would take away 10,000 square feet of the 45,000-square foot Best Buy property. It would require the company to rebuild its loading dock on the other side of the building. Much of the focus during the design process has been finding a way to shift the road further south, away from Best Buy, without causing too much impact to the neighboring Home Depot site. City officials said this will be a difficult process, and any impact on the properties will be costly. “If you bite into Best Buy, 10,000 feet or 30 feet, you bite into it and the payments are significant,” said Bellevue Right of Way
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By putting this furnace and air conditioner package together (then “jaw boning” the factory) and committing to a do-or-die purchase agreement of 36 systems. I was able to buy both the furnace and the air conditioner for less than anyone should have a right to pay! So, if you buy one of these normal 36 new premium air conditioners (but only if one of the
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What A Really Simple Concept By letting you win big now I will win at the end of the year. I’m betting that if I make you an offer that is “irresistible” (at least it should be if your furnace or air conditioner is over eight years old) and barely mark it up above the price I paid, I will accomplish two things: 1. I can pay my professional staff of six employees to work instead of paying them or not paying them to sit at home. 2. I will cover my rent, utilities, insurance and taxes in the “business destroyer” months. If I can accomplish these two objectives, I will minimize my losses and the rest of the year, I can be a winner.
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Why This Offer Can’t Last You must act before March 15th. Here are two reasons why: 1. I can only have nine of each of the four sizes. When all air conditioners are sold and all furnaces are “given” away in a particular size, that’s it. There are no more at this price.
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The battle of travel days. We’ve signed up for a tour and are responsible only for our flights. How hard could it be to book airline tickets? I turned to a karate dictionary to illustrate the challenges. Let’s start with the original meaning of karate: empty hand. This word describes my condition after devoting a good part of January to searching on-line for flights. I haven’t found the translation for empty bank account, but could have used it had I paid the $6,000 per person
offered this week on one website advertising bargain flights. Maegeri – front kick — reminds me of the blow I felt to the belly when I learned that my one gazillion air miles would not get me anywhere on the days I selected. Kaiten – spin around – aptly represents my reaction to finding out that I could use my air miles on another airline, but that the fees and surcharges for my “free tickets” to London amounted to more than $1,400. My only courses of action seem to be 1) rei — bow — before my opponent (my computer); 2) hajime – begin — as in begin again to-
morrow; 3) apply renzoku waza — a combination of techniques: and 4) if all else fails, try sokuto kebanashi — a side kick to the middle — of my computer screen.
Ann Oxrieder has lived in Bellevue for 35 years. She retired after 25 years as an administrator in the Bellevue School District and now blogs about retirement at stillalife. wordpress.com/.
Bill the Butcher closes Bellevue location Citing issues with electricity and their property owner, the owners of Bill the Butcher have closed the Bellevue location. In a short memo that went up on the doors last week, the company informed customers that it will open a new Kirkland location, along with its current stores in Redmond and Woodinville. The shop had problems with power from the beginning. “To power our shop, it would require digging a tunnel through the parking lot and under Main Street, and our landlord was unwilling to work with us to undertake this project,” according to a memo in the shop’s window. According to the memo, Bill the Butcher is searching for another location in Bellevue.
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wisteria blossoms and vines to cover their booth. They had a big costume ball on Saturday night. Mother dressed “One of the big Mrs. Sherman bashes that they up as Jazzabelle. put on was the It was just so out Jazzbird Jubilee, of character for and that was a Mrs. Sherman to really big thing. be dressed as a All of Bellevue doll and toddling was involved in around the floor. that, and it was No one guessed even advertised in who that was. Seattle. A Jazzbird as it Mother also Then they had appeared in the Nov. 10, made little red the Jazzbirds, 1920, issue of the local devil costumes which as near as paper The Reflector. for (us) , and I can remember we got to dance were large pineright along with cones with bright yellow the grownups. feet and legs, and the heads were red and yellow. Heritage Corner is a feature Then all the different in the Bellevue Reporter. clubs and churches had Material is provided by the booths, and I remember Eastside Heritage Center. helping my mother and For more information call grandmother make [imitation] lavender and purple 425-450-1049.
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Three people were taken to Overlake Hospital on Feb. 10 after a pair of bank robbers crashed into two cars while attempting to flee. Just before 6 p.m., Bellevue Police responded to a reported robbery at the Banner Bank in the 12400 block of Bel-Red Rd. where a male suspect presented a note demanding cash and left the scene with an undisclosed amount of money. Police caught up with the suspect and his accomplice when his vehicle was recognized in connection with another bank robbery only minutes earlier in Kirkland. The suspect’s car was disabled after crashing into the second vehicle on the Northeast 10th Street on-ramp to SR-520 and the two men were taken into custody without further incident. The injuries to the suspects as well as the citizen who was in one of the vehicles that was struck were all non-life threatening.
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Goncharoff applies for Calif. coaching job Bellevue head football coach Butch Goncharoff has applied for the same position at Orange Lutheran High School in Orange, Calif. “I’m fortunate to have the best coach in the state,” Bellevue Athletic Director Lance Gatter said. “Butch Goncharoff is Bellevue football.” Goncharoff has led the Wolverines to nine class 3A state titles since 2001, including a pair of four-peats, the most recent of which was capped in 2011. Orange Lutheran is on the hunt for a new leader of its football program after it was decided in Jan. that longtime coach Jim Kunau would not return as head coach for the 2012 season. While everyone around the Bellevue program is certainly hoping this is nothing more than an innocent career flirtation, Gatter was adamant that the school will be supportive and accommodating of Goncharoff and his family regardless of the decision that is made. “We obviously want Butch to be the coach here,” Gatter said. “But if he and his wife decide that (moving to Calif.) is best, we will do anything we can for them.”
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Joseph Raineri has kept up an active lifestyle despite losing his sight and works out daily in his Wilburton home. Josh suman, Bellevue Reporter States. Symptoms begin to manifest during childhood typically but do not develop into blindness until adulthood through a prolonged deterioration of peripheral vision and eventually, central vision. “For you, it would be like looking through fog, or a pinhole,” Raineri said of his current ocular portrait. “There’s no details, no distinctions.” Far from devastating, the diagnosis was initially met with a certain level of denial and adolescent invincibility by Raineri, who simply went back to playing basketball with friends and pushed the ominous
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The moment Liana Montague began tying her shoes, she knew this fitness class would be unlike any she had ever attended. Montague showed up at the Mercer Island Parks and Recreation Department for a bootcamp class expecting the usual routine from an overzealous instructor more interested in instilling fear than catering to the needs of those taking the class. What she found instead was Joseph Raineri. Raineri, a Bellevue resident and lifetime exercise enthusiast, began teaching the class through the Mercer Island Parks and Recreation Department some seven years ago with a handful of dedicated patrons who would quickly learn just how deep his own passion for fitness ran. “He felt my shoes and made sure they were OK,” Montague recalled. “He’s pretty passionate about what he does.” As a youth Raineri remembers playing sports with friends and his five younger siblings, maintaining an active lifestyle and always displaying a natural inclination to athletic activities. Then, when he was 13 years old, Raineri got the news that would change his life forever. “I went in for an eye check when I was 13,” Raineri said. “My doctor told me I was probably going to go blind.” The disorder Raineri was diagnosed with was Retinitis Pigmentosa, a genetic condition that gradually reduces the sight of roughly one in every 4,000 people in the United
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diagnosis to the back of his mind. But as time went on and the symptoms worsened, there was no more hiding from the truth. The doctor that initially diagnosed Raineri painted a depressing picture of his future. “He told me to be aware of two things. One is I should never try to have children,” Raineri said. “The other was that I should think about getting a really good job. Like in a broom factory.” While the allure of shaping planks into broomsticks was difficult to ignore, Raineri decided instead See RAINERI, 12
hen you look at Jeremy Lin, what do you see? Maybe it’s the improbable runners off glass, the uncanny ability to create space in the lane, or a light brown hand dangling in the air after sinking a game-winner. What do I see when I look at Jeremy Lin? An effect, not a cause. In case you haven’t heard, which is impossible if you have turned on your television or computer in the past week, Josh Suman Jeremy Lin is the latest sensation in sports. A Harvard grad that was not recruited as a prep, Lin languished in the NBA D-League before finally getting his shot with the Knicks only because of injuries. In his first five starts, he scored more points than any player in NBA history and has the Knicks on a seven game win streak. Oh, and he happens to be Taiwanese. As much as anything, sports are about a look; one that exudes confidence and demands respect from opponents. That look is not one typically associated with Asian-Americans, a group that is often stereotyped as meek, more likely to be found buried in a book than with the ball when the game is on the line. But travel around the courts and fields on the Eastside and you will soon Not even the great realize Jeremy Lin is not the reason Kobe Bryant could stop young people of Asian descent will be- Linsanity. AP Photo gin changing that perception through athletics. He is the evidence they already have. At Interlake, Kamana Adriano quarterbacked the Saints to the 2A state quarterfinals. During the winter he took to the court for the basketball team and when the spring season rolls around, he will play baseball. Across town at Bellevue, John Nguyen was the latest in a long line of brothers to tote the rock for the Wolverines and bring home a state title. His brother David is at the University of Montana and scored six touchdowns in 2011. Eastlake’s Edward Kim is one of the most decorated swimmers in the state already as a sophomore and will continue his quest for eight individual state championships today. Every single girl on Newport’s 2011 tennis team was Asian. Lin’s gradual ascent to NBA starter and national media phenomenon has stunned the experts and confounded conventional wisdom about the look of a star. But those of us around the Greater Eastside prep sports scene have a different perspective. After all, we see star athletes that look like Lin every day.
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dedication to get an education and begin a fulfilling career. After finishing high school, he earned a Bachelor’s in Spanish from San Diego State and continued his education at Seattle University where he received a Master’s in Counseling. Since finishing his graduate work, Raineri has worked in his own private practice since 1994. As his professional career and family life dwarfed any predictions from the medical experts, Raineri also surpassed outside expectations on what an active lifestyle can mean for the blind. After running, walking, biking and swimming throughout his life, he knew there was a therapeutic element to his workouts by the time his sight began to seriously wane around age 25 when he had to give up driving. He trained continuously regardless of the state of his eyes and ran his first marathon in Calif. in 1976. “I started running for therapy and ended up running a marathon,” Raineri said. “I just didn’t know what to do with all the energy, anger and frustration.” The feeling of freedom running provided stuck and to date, Raineri has completed 19 marathons in various stages of sight loss. He took up downhill and cross country skiing and nearly made the United States Disabled Ski Team after winning 5K and 10K cross coun-
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try races and traveling the country doubt it does the same for those who with the U.S. Association for Blind participate in the class, which is a mix Athletes. The downhill runs are more of young and old individuals of varycomplicated and involve a guide but ing athletic capacities. provide still another outlet for Raineri For Julie Schuman, the best part to live a fulfilled life. of the class is working with “I don’t want to be At some point, running, Raineri. Before joining his biking and swimming alone anyone’s hero. But bootcamp class, Schuman were no longer enough and it’s really important was in another exercise to me that ableRaineri began competing class that she said lacked in triathlons for yet another bodied people the positive reinforcement challenge. The most notable know that people she was looking for from an competition he took part instructor. with disabilities in was the Iron Man in Ha- have different “It’s a very tough workwaii, which he undertook out but it’s a very positive possibilities.” Joseph in a partially blind state in workout,” Schuman said. “It Raineri 1982. makes you feel good.” “I got really lucky,” Montague agreed that Raineri said. “I have wonderful hearing a positive message from the friends, great people in my life.” voice at the front of the class is a reRaineri has retired from competifreshing change of pace and has even tive skiing and due to his increasingly come to enjoy the portion of the class diminished eyesight, can no longer where Raineri encourages them to belt go for runs or on a swim without a out a cleansing scream. companion. He remains connected “I always tease him about his spider (literally) to friends and family, which senses,” Montague said. “If we stop run or swim with him tethered to a working hard for even a second, he piece of surgical tubing that makes always knows somehow.” sure he stays out of the road or doesn’t The size of the class has varied over drift too far into his favorite Lake the years and is hovering around five Sammamish swimming spot. When individuals currently; drumming up others aren’t available to head into the interest for a 6 a.m. workout can be outdoors with him, Raineri completes tough during the colder months. his workouts indoors with the help But for those who have come to of a stationary bike, treadmill and know and appreciate Raineri as an weights. instructor and friend, the class is a “I have now learned, being stubcan’t-miss. bornly independent, to learn to ask “He pushes all of us but always in a for help, Raineri said. “There’s some positive way,” Schuman said. “I try to growth there.” never miss his class. If you knew me, He said the fitness class adds anyou would know that is an amazing other element for him and there’s no feat.”
State swim and dive begins today at KCAC The state swim and dive competition begins on Friday, Feb. 17 at 9 a.m. at King County Aquatic Center with the 3A preliminaries and continues through the following day with the 2A finals as the final event on Saturday evening. Newport owns a trio of top seeds and will be powered by Sebastian Bury, Benton Allen and Dehlan Gwo. Bury has the top seed in the 100 free and second seed in the 50 free. Gwo earned the third seed for the Knights in the 100 fly and is also the sixth seed in the 100 back, along with 16th seeded Tyler Yee. The Knights have the top seed in the 400 free relay, the second best seed time in the 200 free relay and the seventh seed time in the 200 medley relay. Benton Allen will have the top seed time in 4:42.54 in the marathon 500 free and owns the fourth seed and will be joined by teammate Andrew Pana, seeded
18th in the 200 free. Bellevue’s Carl Andrews is the second seed in the 50 free and will be joined by teammate Matt Williams in 13th. Andrews also owns the second seed in the 100 free. Jamie Doucette will be the eighth seed in the 100 fly. The Wolverines are the fourth seed in the 400 free relay, the fifth seed in the 200 medley relay and the ninth seed in the 200 free relay. Michael Stanchi is the third seed in the 100 back and fourth seed in the 500 free. Sammamish is the sixth seed in the 200 free relay. Interlake has its best seed in the 400 free relay. Conrad Sheridan is seeded seventh in the 500 free and eighth in the 200 free, Joe Lorr is the sixth seed in the 200 IM and ninth seed in the 100 fly. Michael Lorr is the eighth seed in the 100 breast for the Saints.
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‘Uptown’ ready to be next big spot By Nat Levy Bellevue Reporter
CMT opens new office Technology solutions provider Computer Media Technologies has opened a new regional office in Bellevue to meet the growing needs of its customers in the Pacific Northwest. The office employs 10 technical, sales and administrative staff to serve customers, including several Fortune 500 companies, in the region. CMT’s unprecedented success in 2011 – a 101-percent increase in sales revenue – prompted opening of the office. Mark E. McKie, Sr. Vice President, Sales, is directing the Bellevue office. McKie has more than 12 years of experience providing solutions to customers in the region. He joined CMT in June 2010 after serving as a regional manager at Symantec, managing sales teams covering enterprise and large enterprise customers in the Pacific Northwest. The new CMT regional office is located at 601 108th Ave NE, Suite 1983, Bellevue WA 98004. Phone: (425) 9437784.
BDA names new chair
From left: Jan Lawrence, owner of ViaVita Cafe; Polly Teeter, owner of Del-Teet Furniture; Gloria Ramirez, of Uptown Bellevue Community Development; Jill Dunn, director of Yuan Spa; and Jia Mooko, owner of Flo Japanese Restaurant are working to brand their neighborhood Uptown. chad coleman, Bellevue Reporter for the last seven years. The idea came to Ramirez, when a merchant approached her about helping to make the neighborhood
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The Bellevue Downtown Association selected Brian Brand, principal with Baylis Architects, as this year’s chair of the organization’s board of directors. Brand has been with the BDA board since 2006, and he has led committees on land use, planning and transportation issues. “Downtown Bellevue is an amazing success story,” Brand said. “We have a major role to play in the economic health of our city and the Puget Sound region, Brian Brand and the BDA will continue to work with our members and the community on a strategic plan of action to keep downtown thriving.” The chair position rotates between board members annually.
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NBA arena discussions coming to Bellevue As talks continue about a possible arena in Seattle, Bellevue officials are eager to enter the conversation. The potential of a new NBA or NHL arena will be the subject of the Bellevue Downtown Association’s February Forum on Feb. 28. In recent weeks, reports have surfaced that Seattleborn, San Francisco hedge fund manager Christopher Hansen is leading a charge to acquire land south of Safeco Field to build a new arena. The Bellevue discussion will focus on how this opportunity could affect Bellevue, and the Puget Sound region as a whole. Bellevue has long been rumored as a potential destination for an arena, with its growing downtown and future public transportation improvements because of the coming of light rail. The discussion will be led by Brian Robinson, president of ArenaSolution.org,
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around for years, even decades, but there hasn’t been much of a relationship between them, said Polly Teeter, owner of DelTeet Contemporary Furniture, which has been in its location for 25 years. “We basically hadn’t talked at all before,” Teeter said. “No one ever took the time and effort to bring this all together.” The businesses began a monthly “stakeholder meeting” in January to discuss the neighborhood’s future. The plan is in its very early stages, and no concrete proposals have been developed yet. Ramirez suggested pursuing some landscaping changes and design features throughout the neighborhood. The businesses may soon hold a wine and art walk, Ramirez said. And Ramirez said, just to get businesses and residents talking, she has thought about inviting business owners to regular socials at Washington Square. Jia Mooko, owner and manager of Flo Japanese Restaurant, said several of the local businesses banned together to make a
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donation to Medina Elementary School. Though a small act, she said, this will help establish an identity for the businesses of Uptown Bellevue. Mooko said eight or nine businesses were involved in the donation, and merchants are continuing to reach out to other possible members. Teeter said a similar movement on Seattle’s Capitol Hill in the past helped create a great retail environment. This history pushed her to get involved with the movement. What will come out of these talks remains to be seen. It could be a unified organization, similar to the Bellevue Downtown Association. At the very least, Teeter said, it will let the residents of Bellevue know that the great shopping experience doesn’t end at the north side of Northeast Eighth Street. “The ultimate outcome is to remind the folks in the Bellevue area of the small businesses that exist and offer experience you may not find from the Big-Box folks.”
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Open Letter on Bellevue Shoreline Master Program TO: Bellevue Residents and Shoreline Property Owners FROM: Washington Sensible Shorelines Association (WSSA) RE: Response to Seattle Times article (Feb. 1, 2012) regarding Bellevue Shoreline Management Program and appointments to the City Planning Commission Many of you may have read this Seattle Times article. The WSSA Board was disappointed in the article. Its focus seemed to be personalities and politics, not fact. We’d hoped for an article tied to the Shoreline Master Program Update; one focused on fairly addressing important issues, plus the Planning Commission’s role, and that of City Staff. The Seattle Times reporter talked at length to WSSA Board Member Martin Nizlek about WSSA’s mission, property owner desires for regulations founded on fact-based science, protection of Bellevue’s lakes, and the Shoreline Master Program Update process. Unfortunately, almost nothing from that conversation was included in the article. We think it necessary to provide our perspective. The Times’ article expressed concern about Councilmember Wallace’s appointments to the Commission as the Council liaison. First, it should be noted that Councilmember Wallace, following Council practice, has appointed seven people to vacancies on the Commission. The City Council unanimously approved the first six of those appointments, with the seventh appointee approved by a 5-2 vote. Second, Councilmember’s Wallace’s own words explain his intent and purpose: “I’ve made it very clear a number of times that the Shoreline Management Program has to balance the protection of the environment with people’s property rights. Candidates that I selected, I think, were the most qualified candidates of the pool to achieve that goal.” Even more germane are statements included in the article relative to shorelines. It’s important to address these. Statement 1: Is the Planning Commission seeking to roll back regulations? The newspaper article contends a “now tainted” Planning Commission is “backing away” from some shoreline regulations or “rolling back” the rules “that lakefront property owners find inconvenient.” Real Story 1: The Planning Commission is doing what the City Council directed —carefully reviewing and seeking to adopt shoreline regulations based on fact, pertinent science, and that are compliant with State code. In 2006, the City adopted critical area rules for lake shorelines without amending the Shoreline Master Program (SMP), thus creating two sets of wildly contradictory rules. The SMP is the state mandated plan of regulations and non-regulatory programs for the City’s lakes. The SMP is required by the Shoreline Management Act and must be approved by the State Department of Ecology. The City had never regulated lake shorelines as critical areas and did not effectively notify or engage lakefront property owners regarding the 2006 rule changes. In short, the dramatic changes had no support of or input from shoreline property owners (the regulated community) and, as established by a State Supreme Court ruling, the changes should have been approved by the Department of Ecology. The 2006 shoreline critical area regulations expanded the historic shoreline setback to contain a 25 foot “no touch” vegetative buffer plus a 25 foot setback from the edge of the buffer. In short, these rules, which are still in effect, treat the urbanized lake shorelines in the same manner as the natural shoreline of the Mercer Slough or pristine wetland. This was a mistake and caused irrational regulation of existing homes. Learning of City staffs’ intent to merely roll the CAO rules into a new set of shoreline restrictions resulted in residents forming WSSA, the Sensible Shorelines Association. The 2006 CAO rules are both hugely excessive and contrary to helping the environment. For example, a property owner sought to construct a built-in BBQ on an existing patio within the 50 foot setback area. But City staff said, “Don’t waste your time applying for a permit because it will be denied under the 2006 rules.” Yet, adding a BBQ to an already constructed patio will not cause any harm to the environment. In another situation, a property owner removed patio pavers and replaced them with grass, which most would think was a benefit to the environment. Yet, the City brought a code enforcement case because, according to the 2006 rules, removing patio pavers “adversely impacted” the Lake. The property owner was forced to spend thousands of dollars in permitting and planting trees to “mitigate” his so-called environmental impact. Importantly, the City Council heard these complaints about the 2006 shoreline critical area regulations and as a result the Council directed staff and the Planning Commission to revisit the 2006 rules in the SMP update process and to make appropriate changes. That takes time. We believe the Commission should not be asking whether the proposed rules are “inconvenient”; they should ask whether they are “logical and legal”. For example, a serious legal problem relates to the starting point for the buffer and setback standard. These are measured from the Ordinary High Water Mark (OHWM). While this line is relatively stable on Lake WA, on Lake Sammamish and Phantom Lake it is unstable due to government mismanagement of lake outflow channels. WSSA has found it necessary, in light of staffs’ failure to do so, to bring this matter to the Planning Commission and City Council’s attention. The complexity of dealing with this issue has added to the SMP review time.
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Statement 2: Is the Planning Commission less interested in keeping the lakes healthy? The newspaper article voiced a concern that the new Commissioners are less interested in keeping the lakes healthy. Also, the article claims that the new Commissioners want less restrictive vegetation requirements similar to those adopted by Mercer Island but not yet approved by the State Department of Ecology. The article editorializes by stating: “Lakefront residents uniformly blasted a proposed shoreline plan at a hearing last year” even though it was less restrictive than current rules. Real Story 2: WSSA’s position is that the current staff proposal does not focus enough on how to make the lakes healthier, and instead proposes restrictive regulations that will provide no meaningful environmental improvement. The currently proposed shoreline regulations are known as the Draft Shoreline Master Program or Draft SMP. The Draft SMP was created by City staff and released in March 2011. The Commission provided preliminary input then directed that a public hearing be held to obtain public input prior to making any firm decisions about the staff created regulations. That hearing occurred May 2011. For all who attended the Commission public hearing, you’re aware participants overflowed Council Chambers, presenting (over nearly 4 hours) more than 30 well thought out and carefully reasoned concerns about the staff proposed Draft SMP. The plan was not “blasted” as the Times’ article editorializes; rather, the Draft SMP was subjected to fair debate. Yet only minimal consideration has been given this input by City staff. Since the public hearing, staff has been challenged repeatedly to identify the ecological benefits gained by the more restrictive elements of staffs’ proposed rules, including the vegetation requirements. Each time, staff has been unable to defend the rules with scientific information that disputes the clearly presented science and other information submitted to the Planning Commission by residents. That explains the quote in the article by Commission Chair Kevin Turner in saying that staff needs to show these regulations will actually improve fish habitat and achieve other measurable goals. With respect to vegetation protection, WSSA is advocating for precisely what the Department of Ecology says in its guidelines, namely that “vegetation conservation standards do not apply retroactively to existing uses and structures.” It was precisely those improper, retroactive vegetation standards that the Planning Commission majority agreed were excessive. In addition, WSSA has explained that shoreline property owners have done more to protect trees than most other sections of the City. Current tree retention requirements in the City Code will result in more tree retention in shoreline areas. Neither extreme, new regulations, nor excessive requirements imposed by the CAO in 2006, are needed. Based on the input of the community, WSSA has been steadfastly focused on advocating for “non-regulatory” programs that will greatly improve the environmental health of the lakes. Specifically, lakefront property owners are uniformly aware that stormwater runoff causes a substantial amount of the pollution in City lakes. Cleaning up stormwater pollution, which arrives only in small part from private properties, will have a much greater beneficial impact on water quality than overly restrictive land use regulations. And, the City should be focused on expediting projects that directly benefit salmon by restoring spawning areas on creeks feeding our lakes. Statement 3: Is the Planning Commission “in favor of individual property rights over the benefit of the greater good”? The newspaper article relates the property rights background of the appointees and quotes a Planning Commissioner saying that two of the appointments favor property rights over the greater good. Real Story 3: Property rights are protected by the Constitution in order to further the greater good, and property rights are expressly protected in the State Shoreline Management Act. This statement voices a complete misunderstanding of the fundamental principles of our society and its government. Most people inherently understand these principles, but it is worth repeating – both our national and state constitutions protect private property rights. If property rights are not respected and protected, then the greater good will suffer. Protecting these rights furthers the greater good by ensuring all individuals are equally respected. But, the Shoreline Master Program Update is not about property rights versus the environment, or property rights versus the greater good—it is about balance. The State Shoreline Management Act was approved by voters in 1971 and it expressly states a policy to balance shoreline development with shoreline protection, while “at the same time, recognizing and protecting private property rights.” The Sensible Shorelines Board is committed to continuing its efforts to advocate for this balance. Please contact any WSSA Board Member if you have questions or concerns – www.sensibleshorelines.org. We urge your recognition and support of our efforts.
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Joseph Edward Youch of Medina passed away Friday, Feb. 3, at him home. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ann.
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