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Sun Villa Lanes to close, leaving people with memories, concerns BY NAT LEVY Bellevue Reporter

day and Joshua giggles and brushes the feathers away. He now knows that new textures can be fun. For his mother, Liz Cornejo, it’s a testament to early intervention. Her oldest son also has autism, but he wasn’t diagnosed until he was too old for Kindering’s program, which is birth to age 3. Sitting on a sofa in Kindering’s family room, she thinks of the years lost. Had she only known the signs. Had she only known there was help. Had she only known there was Kindering. The Bellevue organization has been

From 5-year-old kids, to a 97-year-old man, Sun Villa Lanes has been the go-to spot for bowlers in Bellevue for decades, but the Eastgate alley is in its final frame. The facility will close at the end of May, leaving hundreds of bowlers, specifically league players, looking outside of the city limits for other options. “For the seniors, (bowling) is the highlight of the week,” said C.J. Harms, president of a Monday afternoon league that has nearly 100 bowlers. The bowlers, along with employees at Sun Villa, found out about the closure in a meeting last week. Harms and others said the room was filled with teary eyes and solemn faces. Rumors abound on social media that the building would be demolished to build a parking garage for Michael’s Toyota, the alley’s southern neighbor. That isn’t the case, according to representatives of Skymatt LLC, the owner of the property for both the lanes and the car dealership. AMF, which operates the facility, planned to close the alley for some time, the property owners said. Representatives from AMF did not return calls requesting comment by the Reporter’s deadline, and management at Sun Villa declined to speak about the situation. An afternoon of bowling is considered one of the best forms of exercise and social gathering for senior players and many of the bowlers have been playing together for as long as 30 years. Harm has been the president of the league for 20 years. The nearest bowling alley to Sun Villa is Lucky Strike Lanes in Downtown Bellevue. That facility is smaller and is part of an upscale entertainment center at Lincoln Square. Elsewhere, there are bowling alleys in Kirkland and Tukwila, with a few in South Seattle. The impending closure of Sun Villa has become a sentimental issue for some league players. Don Erickson, a retired Boeing employee, said he taught his daughter to bowl at Sun Villa. She took home so many bowling trophies Erickson had to install new shelves all over the house to hold them. His best personal memory was a three-game stretch where he came one pin shy of topping the 600 mark, a

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Joshua Santes, who was diagnosed with autism, peeks out a play castle at Kindering in Bellevue. The center is celebrating its 50th year.

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Joshua Santes dives into the playpen like a cannonball, and a splash of feathers spin around his feet. With a toss, his teacher triples the flurry, and an odd new texture surrounds the boy. Seeing Joshua’s smile undone by curiosity, the teacher pinches a feather and tickles the 3-year-old’s cheek. For a child like Joshua, it’s a test.

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Students nationwide battle at Microsoft contest By Nat Levy Bellevue Reporter

Students strolling through the University of Washington’s Bothell campus are confronted with countless challenges - tests, research papers, and many more - but invading robots fighting a biological battle isn’t the typical academic bout. Nevertheless, three UW-Bothell students used that idea in a technology competition that gives high school and college students the opportunity to create technology solutions to help improve education, healthcare, the environment and more. Their entry was designed to teach players about the threats of germs and bacteria, and to educate about hygiene. It was one of many at the U.S. finals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup held Monday on the company’s Redmond campus. The Bothell team took third place in the Game Design - Windows/Xbox category. “One of the biggest problems in developed cities and countries is we all touch the same handrails and tables without washing our hands enough,” said Evan Harris, of the Bothell team Credit/No Credit. “That’s how these epidemics begin,” he said, referring specifically to concentrated populations with constant contact such as middle and

Evan Harris and Craig Nishina, of the University of Washington Bothell Campus, watch as people try their game designed to educate people about disease at the U.S. Imagine Cup finals at the Redmond Microsoft Campus. NAt Levy, Bellevue Reporter high schools. The winners in the three cup categories – Arizona State; Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa., will represent the United States in Sydney this summer. UW-Bothell had two teams competing. KinectMath used Microsoft’s

motion-capture technology, Kinect, to illustrate mathematical concepts in a way that allowed students to participate. “What we set out to do was develop an application that can make math more approachable,” said Jeb Pavleas, a senior at UW-Bothell. As UW-Bothell players were try-

ing to eradicate disease, two booths down found the youngest team showed the tradeoffs of technological advances. The team from Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, Md., developed a game based on the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

Players go through a variety of levels where they must build a network of hydro-electric power, while still controlling a water wheel that blocks harmful materials such as cement from getting into the river. As players climb through the levels, the technology gets better, but the environmental consequences increase. By the end, dams can cause buildup, but more homes have power. “Technology has positives and negatives and they have to be weighed to figure out if it’s worth it,” said Andrew Dicken, a member of the Springbrook team known as Digital Infinity, which finished in second in its division. The contest, which Microsoft created 10 years ago, is designed to help prepare aspiring programs and developers for a growing computer industry. Microsoft estimates that by 2016, an additional 800,000 highend computing jobs will be created. Harris, who is just a few months away from graduating, is hoping to end up in one of those jobs. His ultimate goal is to work for either Google or Microsoft as an algorithmic developer. At least for the next few months, he will have to settle for eradicating disease, one Xbox at a time. Nat Levy: 425-453-4290; nlevy@bellevuereporter.com

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he Port of Seattle and the Manufacturing Industrial Council raised an interesting $3 billion issue last week: a third sports stadium in the area of the Mariners’ and Seahawks’ facilities might cripple the marine-cargo business along the Seattle waterfront. Why, you say, should we here on the Eastside care? Everyone in King County is part of the Port of Seattle district and our taxes support it. Equally, the success of the Port is vital to the success of the region. As the groups sees it, a third stadium would add more congestion to an already crowded corridor and threaten the ability to move goods in and out of the region. Seattle isn’t the only option to ship goods out or in to the United States. The more difficult conditions here become, the more likely companies are to seek a different port. Just this month, The Port of Tacoma lured three shippers from Seattle – about 20 percent of the Seattle Port’s business – which will make Tacoma the biggest container port on Puget Sound by cargo volume. OK, we know that another stadium won’t wipe out the Seattle Port’s $3 billion business. But, as Dave Gering, head of the Manufacturing Industrial Council, says, “what part of $3 billion do you want to give up?” We’d prefer none of it. The problem with another stadium isn’t the stadium itself, but the do-nothing attitude on the part of Seattle to deal with congestion. Three overpasses were promised to deal with freight movement around the two stadiums we have now, but only one was built. Also, while Seattle has found the money to update its bicycle master plan, it says it doesn’t have the money to update a freightmobility plan. Perhaps Seattle is banking on everyone riding bikes to those football, baseball and basketball games. Or making it impossible to drive there. The arena’s primary backer Christopher Hansen is doing his part, spending $50,000 of his own money to commission a study to examine the potential traffic impacts and possible solutions to the problems. Seattle isn’t the only option for a basketball/hockey arena. Bellevue has several sites – one right on I-405 – that would do nicely. And it wouldn’t put $3 billion in jeopardy to build it. – Craig Groshart, Bellevue Reporter

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Union-supported, anti-Walmart study heavily biased, misguided BY JIM HEBERT

As one of the most experienced, respected and well-versed research firms in the country, we were both disappointed and offended by the recent attempts of Puget Sound Sage to tarnish our reputation – and to downright misrepresent – the conclusions we reached in our unbiased, straightforward analysis of Walmart’s future economic impact in Bellevue. To that end, we’re taking this opportunity to set the record straight (“Study says Walmart leads to drop in income, spending,” April 12). We strenuously refute the methodology, data, and conclusions of the CS Fowler “Economic Study for the Impact of Walmart in Skyway,” and have outlined below just some of the many flaws we identified in the Jim Hebert report. Fowler, used an inaccurate hourly wage for Walmart associates in Washington state. Walmart’s current average wage for regular full-time associates in Washington state is $12.87 an hour, a figure that easily available and regularly updated at http:// www.walmartstores.com/pressroom/StateByState/ State.aspx?st=WA. It is also worth pointing out that this figure is well above the state’s minimum wage, which is the highest in the country. Fowler also used King County union-only jobs as a point of comparison to Walmart jobs, when only about 10 percent of area retail clerks are unionized. Again, with very little effort, Fowler could have easily obtained unbiased figures from the Washington State Employment Security Department, which includes both union and non-union wages in its employment reports. If the Fowler model is recreated using the correct data, Walmart’s average wage in Washington is in fact slightly above that of most area grocery clerks and cashiers, which is $12.22 per hour. Then, to draw conclusions that contained big numbers, the Fowler study projected its findings 20 years into the future. But given that flawed numbers were

used for both the base Walmart average wage and the average competitive wage, the projected trajectory is highly inaccurate. Another oversight of the Fowler study is that it doesn’t take into account the positive economic impact of a new Walmart due to an increase in consumer traffic (both vehicular and foot). Major retail anchors, such as Walmart, increase the desirability of nearby commercial locations, and premiums are paid by smaller retailers to be in the development. Bellevue Square is a good example of how small retailers are willing pay premiums to be in closer proximity to larger retailers. This dynamic is already playing out at the Kelsey Creek Shopping Center where Walmart recently announced its new Walmart Neighborhood Market. Once it was learned that Walmart would lease space at Kelsey Creek, a number of other businesses followed, with several existing tenants extending their leases with center owner PMF Investments, Inc. Overall, the Fowler model is overly simplistic. According to his study, as long any new grocery store pays lower wages than the union average, it will have a negative impact on the economy. This is just too limited an assessment and it comes from a clearly biased viewpoint. Much has been written about how Walmart stores fit into their communities. Based on the comprehensive research we conducted, we found that on the whole, Walmart stores bring more jobs and a general increase in local economic activity. This is why our report on Walmart in Bellevue concluded that the two new stores will overall be beneficial to the local communities. Economic analysis must be conducted by looking at all the data, not just that which is likely to lead to a desired outcome. The Fowler Walmart study cherry picks and manipulates data in order to reach conclusions desired by the study’s backers. For that reason, it should be disregarded.

Jim Hebert is resident and founder of Herbert Research, Inc.

A gutter ball in the game we call life

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On page 1 this week, I told the story of a few longtime bowlers whose favorite bowling alley is set to close next month. This has sad written all over it. A lot of bowling alleys are closing; maybe bowling is not a recession-proof activity. It’s a shame. When Sun Villa closes down, the only other alley

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open in Bellevue is Lucky Strike, which caters to a more upscale crowd. After that, the nearest bowling alley is Tech City in Kirkland’s Rose Hill neighborhood, between 6 and 10 miles away depending on which part of town you live in. The senior league players I spoke to for the story said they will look into migrating their teams over to Tech City, but what about the younger bowlers? I wonder if parents in South Bellevue will want to take their children and a large number of their friends north to Kirkland, or all the way down to Tukwila for a bowling birthday party. What about groups of teens who like to hit up cosmic bowling on the weekends? Twelve-year-old me would be crest-fallen by this news. I spent many a Sunday afternoon with my dad, tossing turkeys and slamming spares. It was a real bonding point for us, one that lasts to this day.

Even as I got older, the game remained a huge part of my life. I often bowled with two of my closest friends in college, even though I usually lost. I even took my wife bowling on our first date, where I proceeded to hit my personal best of 203, and then like an idiot, ran off to call my buddies to tell them about it. I am hoping that another bowling alley opens soon in Bellevue. It’s sport that’s available to anyone, young and old. Senior leagues provide great social gatherings. There’s a level of competition, but it’s more friendly than anything. And it doesn’t even matter if you are all that good because very few people in day to day life are REALLY good at bowling. So here’s to Sun Villa Lanes, I dedicate my next failed seven-10 split attempt to you.

rush hour, every 15 minutes at other times weekdays, and every 20 minutes Saturday until later at night, then every 30. Your objection that a rider must actually pay for the ride is a reality, and the price is competitive with the total costs of your car trip when factoring in gas, parking and tolls. Instead of mocking Mayor Mike McGinn, who tries to set a positive example in his bike shorts, consider directing your criticism at Bellevue civic leaders such as Kemper Freeman, who spends millions of dollars obstructing a rail connection between Bellevue and Seattle. It would be more constructive to boycott Freeman’s Bellevue Connection than criticize an enlightened city such as Seattle. Oh, and stop complaining and take the bus in the meantime.

Times warns that the devastating environmental impacts of a meat-based diet are actually magnified when raising animals on the range, because this involves much more land and more greenhouse gas emissions. These conclusions are in keeping with an extensive United Nations Environment Program’s report, which drew on dozens of smaller studies. The highly respected report concluded that agricultural production accounts for 70 percent of global freshwater use, 38 percent of land use and 19 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. In an environmentally sustainable world, meat and dairy products must be replaced by vegetables, fruits and grains, just as fossil fuels must be replaced by wind, solar, and other pollution-free energy sources. As the world’s most conspicuous consumers, we have a special obligation to lead in pursuing an environmentally sustainable lifestyle. Our next trip to the supermarket is a great starting point.

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Stop complaining, take the bus Maybe the good people of Seattle do have an attitude about suburbanites, which I would offer, is justified and reinforced by Celeste Gracey’s recent rant, “Assimilate this, Seattle”. Like all major cities, parking is limited, and driving discouraged in Seattle. Your portrayal of bus service is misleading and should be corrected. Trip time between South Bellevue P&R and the Convention Center station is 23 minutes. The 550 bus offers service to Seattle every 10 minutes during weekday

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Cost-saving options considered for light-rail Bellevue and Sound Transit are exploring numerous options to save money on East Link light-rail, including moving buildings and stations. All of the options are in early stages of development. Thus far options discussed include potentially moving the historic Winters House and changes to the depth and location of a downtown underground station. Since January, Bellevue has been working with the transit agency, which is build-

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to reduce that contribution to zero. In addition to cost, the agreement addresses the project’s scope, schedule and budget, and design modifications to minimize impacts on neighborhoods. The 14-mile-long East Link route will run from Seattle, across Lake Washington on Interstate 90, through Bellevue to the Overlake Transit Center in Redmond. Six miles of the line will run through Bellevue, with six light rail stations located within the city’s boundary.

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milestone that signifies skill and consistency. But most of all, Erickson remembers the number of people who bowled at Sun Villa over the years, including regular visits by former Seattle Mariner great Jay Buhner.

“We have Pat in our league who is close to 100, all the way down to the little kids who use bumpers to keep the ball on the track,” he said. “Bowling is everybody’s sport, and that’s the way it should be.” Nat Levy: 425-453-4290; nlevy@bellevuereporter.com

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or more than 30 years food has been Gabrielle’s best friend, and worst enemy. She ate to celebrate, she ate to cope. And when it all started to pile up, the 43-year-old bulimic would go on exercise binges. In the last year, things became even more critical. She became obsessed with running, sometimes doing backto-back half marathons. It all came to a head when she decided to run a 24hour, 188-mile relay with friends. The grueling race forced Gabrielle into the hospital. She was dehydrated, starving. She even attempted to escape the ER several times because she thought she still had to finish the race. “That was sort of the last straw, and my body wouldn’t let me abuse it anymore,” she said. Gabrielle checked herself in to the Moore Center Clinic in Bellevue, the state’s longest-established eating disorder clinic, to help overcome her bouts of bulimia, an illness that began at the age of seven or eight, likely tied to incidents of sexual abuse. Episodes could be triggered by any number of stressors. Gabrielle (who didn’t want her last named used) is just one of as many as 10 million women nationwide who battle eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia. At the Moore Center, trained dietitians and therapists helped her come to terms with her problems and set about rebuilding her relationship with food. Gone untreated, eating disorders can lead to any number of emotional and physical problems, and in some cases can be fatal. The Moore Center has been helping men and women of all ages and sizes with eating problems since it was founded in 1991. Once a small office, the clinic has expanded in size to a 15,000-square foot complex complete with a spacious yoga room, and two sizable kitchens where patients can store,

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JHS Capital adds brokers JHS Capital Advisors has added 11 advisors into its organization in Bellevue and the Puget Sound region following the recent acquisition of Paulson Investment Company, Inc. They are Branch Manager Brian DiJulio, Sara Anderson, Vonie Bright, Bradley DiJulio, Michael Filer, Eugene Gregory Jr., Adam Levy, William Levy, Mel McMillan, David Stitt and Donald Zwiebel, Over the past 15 months, JHS has experienced a fourfold increase in client assets to $3.2 billion.

Dr. Mehri Moore, founder of the center, says the philosophy is to focus on creating a community for the patients. NAT LEVY, Bellevue Reporter

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Walmart begins hiring for new store BY NAT LEVY Bellevue Reporter

Hundreds of applications began pouring in online and through a local hiring center Monday for Walmart’s Neighborhood Market store in Kelsey Creek Center. Walmart plans to hire 90 workers for the store. For many of the applicants at the hiring center, the lure of a short commute was a big perk. Angel Davis lives only a few blocks from the Kelsey Creek market. A retail veteran of stores such as Fred Meyer, Bartell’s, Davis applied for a supervisor position. Davis said she pestered construction workers for months in an attempt to find out which stores would fill the vacant Kmart center at Kelsey Creek. Davis has been looking for a job for several months while volunteering for a nonprofit. “It’s really hard,” she said. “For every job there are at least 50 applicants.” Applications can be turned in any time between now and June, when the store is projected to open, but store manager Jeremy Winn said more positions will be available to those who apply early. Theanne Lum, a Bellevue resident, considers herself a long-time Walmart fan. Lum works as a Certified Nursing Assistant, but she is looking to pick up some extra work as a cashier or greeter on the weekends. A frequent shopper at the Renton Walmart store, Lum is looking forward to the opening of the location at Kelsey Creek, and a larger general merchandise store in Factoria later this year. She said a growing area like Bellevue needs more shopping options. “Bellevue is a city now, by itself and we need these kinds of stores to match the population growth and demand,” she said. “We’re no longer just a blueberry farm.” People interested in positions at the new store can visit the hiring center, located at 15650 NE 24th St., suite A in Bellevue or apply online at https://hiringcenter.walmartstores.com/OnlineHiringCenter/initialPage.jsp. Those

Bellevue resident Aida Wittenmeyer works on her application at the Walmart hiring center in Bellevue Monday. NAT LEVY, Bellevue Reporter interested can also apply at kiosks within the Lynnwood and Renton full-service Walmart locations. Nat Levy: 425-453-4290; nlevy@bellevuereporter.com

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nected with themselves,” said Liz Dill, marketing director for the Moore Center. Many eating disorder cases are motivated by some form of stress, said Dr. Mehri Moore, founder of the center. Whether it’s the pressure to live up to the media image of a beautiful woman, or the tortured memory of a past trauma, these triggers combined with genetic predisposition can lead people down the path to illness. To get back on the right road, patients can receive intensive all-day treatments where every meal is monitored. Also, they spend most of their time with other patients. The center provides less-intense outpatient programs with three rounds of group therapy each week plus weekly individual sessions with therapists and nutritionists. The focus of treatments is to create a support system for patients. Family members participate in therapy, and patients do restaurant outings to learn how to control food intake when they can’t control content or portion size. The walls are lined with

MOORE CENTER 425-451-1134 1601 114th Ave. SE, Suite 180, Bellevue http://moorecenter.org/ breathtaking pieces of art done by patients, and a line of rocks, decorated with chalk words like hope, knowledge and confidence, are strewn throughout outdoor walkways and outside windows. “We focus on creating a community for the patients,” Moore said. Gabrielle is the middle of the second phase of the stepdown program, which helps patients apply the concepts they learned in therapy to their everyday lives. She is down to one group therapy session per week, along with an individual therapy and nutrition session. In the final program, she will only come in for one group session per week to help others, more than herself. “I’ve made progress to the point where I have the tools to deal with the stresses that cause the eating disorder, but I still need the support and accountability to keep me on the straight and narrow,” she said. Nat Levy: 425-453-4290; nlevy@bellevuereporter.com

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When the owners of Rice Fergus Miller, an architectural, interiors and planning firm, outgrew their location, they decided to convert an abandoned building in downtown Bremerton into their new office and studio. So they turned to Bank of America for land and construction loans to help realize their vision of designing the most energy-efficient office building in the Pacific Northwest. The building was awarded LEED Platinum certification and helped spark the city’s redevelopment. The area is now home to new parks, shops and offices — many of which Rice Fergus Miller designed. Rice Fergus Miller is another example of how we’re working to help locally based businesses grow and hire in Bremerton — and across the country. In 2011, we provided $222.5 million in new credit to small businesses in Washington — an increase of 28% from 2010.

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Auction to provide hope for domestice violence victims

SPRING MEANS PLANT SALE Mikaela Chandler, a sophomore at Interlake High school, waters a hanging basket in preparation for the horticulture department’s annual plant sale, which begins at 11 a.m. Friday, May 4 Plants will be available for sale from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. The sale ends May 12. Interlake is located at 16245 NE 24th St., Bellevue.

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Eastside Domestic Violence Program’s World of Hope auction Saturday, May 5 will mark its 30th anniversary of advocating for victims of domestic violence and providing services to facilitate their safety. “Not only do we want to fill the Meydenbauer Center to celebrate 30 years of service, but we are making

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down a ramp toward Joshua. Playing with others is part of his work plan, and teacher Shafer Crissey jumps on the opportunity by suggesting he throw it back. The magic of two children with autism playing together lasts for a few rounds. While most Kindering graduates move on to special education preschools, about a third of its graduates no longer need the extra help. When Siegel started at Kindering more than 30 years ago, she had 3 staff members and 11 children. Today the center employs about 100 special educations, social workers and speech, occupational, physical and family therapists. They usually have masters degrees and some have doctorates. In the past five years alone, the number of students has doubled, pushing the center to capacity. Half of its students only receive home visits. “Early intervention is so critical,” Siegel says, “that we will not have wait list.” She is studying whether the facility can open on Saturdays or start a satellite to accommodate the need. Even though the organization is struggling with an influx of new kids, Siegel is adamant about the need for outreach. It is one of the first such organizations to offer a father’s support group — typically family support only included mothers. And she’s reaching out to homeless families, sending therapists to shelters to find kids needing help. She’s also hoping to help foster children with attachment issues. “I have believed so much in our mission,” says Siegel. “The kids are so precious.” Celeste Gracey: 425-391-0363, ext. 5052; cgracey@issaquahreporter.com

Volunteers still are needed for April 29 10K/5K and Kids Dash to support Seattle Childrens Autism Center, Kindering, and other local charitable organizations. The event is held by the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club and will bring up to 3,000 participants to Downtown Bellevue. To volunteer go to www.

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People pick top spots in Downtown Bellevue The Bellevue Downtown Association announced Wednesday the winners of the 10th annual Haute Picks awards. The public submitted online votes for 20 categories in this “best of downtown Bellevue” contest from February through April. The awards honor local businesses for helping make the community a great place to live, work, and play, according to a press statement. The Haute Picks winners are: • Best Casual Business Meeting Spot: 520 Bar & Grill (6th-year winner), 10146 Main Street, 520 barandgrill.com Runners-up: Bellevue Club and Starbucks Coffee Company • Best Place for Sushi: FLO Japanese Restaurant (3rd-year winner), 1188 106th Avenue NE, florestaurant.com Runners-up: Blue C Sushi and Sushi Maru • Best Cocktail (Drink and Place): “Gaucho Cosmopolitan” at El Gaucho, 450 108th Avenue NE, elgaucho.com Runners-up: “Appletini” at Parlor Collection and “Medina Martini” at 520 Bar & Grill

• Best Coffee House: Starbucks Coffee Company (7th-year winner), 10 Downtown Bellevue Locations, starbucks.com Runners-up: Café Cesura, Top Pot Doughnuts and Vovito Caffè & Gelato • Best Retail Boutique: Blue Luna, 10619B NE 8th Street, bluelunafashion.com Runners-up: Aritzia and La Ree Boutique • Best Happy Hour: Pearl Bar & Dining (3rd-year winner), Lincoln Square – 700 Bellevue Way NE, pearlbellevue.com Runners-up: El Gaucho and Palomino • Best Romantic Dinner: Daniel’s Broiler (3rd-year winner), Bellevue Place – 10500 NE 8th Street, schwartzbros.com Runners-up: Bis On Main, El Gaucho and John Howie Steak • Best Lunch Under $10: Chipotle Mexican Grill, 10503 NE 4th Street, chipotle.com Runners-up: Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches and MOD Pizza

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Runners-up: 520 Bar & Grill and Black Bottle Postern • Best Steakhouse: John Howie Steak (3rd-year winner), The Bravern – 11111 NE 8th Street, johnhowiesteak.com Runners-up: Daniel’s Broiler, El Gaucho and Ruth’s Chris Steak House • Best Place for a Haircut: 7 Salon, 101 Bellevue Square, 7salon.com Runners-up: Rudy’s Barbershop and Salon Tewl • Best Sweet Tooth Fix: Trophy Cupcakes (3rd-year winner), The Bravern – 700 110th Avenue NE, trophycupcakes.com Runners-up: Belle Pastry, Cupcake Royale and Oh! Chocolate • Best Place for a Mani/Pedi: Gene Juarez Salons & Spas (4th-year winner), Bellevue Galleria – 550 106th Avenue NE, genejuarez.com Runners-up: Casabella Spa & Nails, Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa and Happy Nails

and Spa • Best Uniquely Downtown Bellevue Experience: “Snowflake Lane” (6th-year winner), Bellevue Way NE & NE 8th Street, bellevuecollection.com Runners-up: Bellevue Arts Museum and Bellevue Downtown Park • Best Place for a Massage: Herban Therapies Boutique Day Spa, 11000 NE 10th Street, herbantherapies.com Runners-up: Massage Center of Bellevue, Truce Spa and Yuan Spa • Best Wine List: Purple Café and Wine Bar (3rd-year winner), Bellevue Towers – 430 106th Avenue NE, thepurplecafe.com Runners-up: Daniel’s Broiler and El Gaucho • Best Place to See and Be Seen: Munchbar, 505 Bellevue Square, munchgroup.com/Bellevue Runners-up: Blue Martini Lounge, El Gaucho and Parlor Collection • Best Workout Spot: Bellevue Club (4th-year winner), 11200 SE 6th Street, bellevueclub.com Runners-up: David Barton Gym and Elite Fitness Training

Take-back prescriptions day set Saturday The Bellevue Police Department is partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as part of a nationwide prescription drug “Take-Back” initiative on Saturday. The event, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., is designed to collect people’s expired, unused, and unwanted medications, including prescription drugs. Bellevue Police will have three locations throughout the city set up to collect controlled, non-controlled, and over-thecounter medications. No identification will

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Milne said, adding that this food drive is Hopelink’s largest donation. Last month Hopelink’s food bank served 3,008 households and 10,809 individuals, Milne said. That includes households in Bellevue, Kirkland, Bothell and Redmond. Although the Stamp Out Hunger drive collects mostly food, Milne said cash donations are sometimes given as well. “Money is really nice because when we do have a shortage we can utilize these funds to purchase items that we’re low on,” he said.

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easily accessible collections of books and periodicals.” Vicky’s reaction was more wistful. “It was a moment filled with a sense of wonderment, a bit of longing and nostalgia. A bit of longing because while we all made the decision to leave the work we did for so many years, a part of you is always there. Nostalgia because we re-connected to the staff still working at the school and because I toured with my former boss and colleagues.” By the end of our tour, I knew the Girl Scout ditty still applied when it came to these longtime friends. However, we all preferred the new school to the old, because the old one was neither silver nor gold, but more like bronze.

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Seeing the new school was a treat. We joked that the entrance, with its view of the football field, sent a clear message about what was important in the minds of the denizens of the building. And we all agreed that if we were teaching there, we would want the classroom with the view of Meydenbauer Bay. The most cheering change from the past was the presence of natural light everywhere. Among those in our group, Karen, who played more of a role in the project than the rest of us, said, “So many partial remodels over the years turned the school into a rabbit warren; the new school is functional, full of light and projects a wonderful sense of purpose.” Dick led BHS as principal in the late sixties, Vicky served as a assistant principal in the late seventies and both delighted in the changes. Always the scholar, Dick paid close attention to the library, which he said, “is a marvel of the latest technology with

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“Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.” Good advice from the song I sang as a Girl Scout, which came to mind recently when I met other retired Bellevue School District administrators for a tour of the newly remodeled Bellevue High School (BHS). My companions Ann Oxrieder on this excursion included three former deputy superintendents – Dick Clark, Howard Johnson, and Karen Clark –- and former Assistant Superintendent Vicky Murray. Our tour guides were Nancy Larson and Jack McLeod, administrators from the district’s facilities department. While people traded stories of their current lives, I thought about how much I enjoyed re-connecting with people I’d known for years, like a high school reunion, but with a short enough gap in time that we didn’t have to wear yearbook photos as name tags to recognize faces.

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Melissa Croshaw doesn’t consider herself a runner, although she has a unique way of shedding the label. The 40-year-old Sammamish resident recently completed her first Boston Marathon, her fourth marathon overall. Not bad for a woman who admits, “I hate running.” While the physical stress and injuries that accompany a marathon are trying, the feeling of running alongside her two brothers in one of the most prestigious fitness events in the world helped all three persevere. “We all had parts that were tough,” Croshaw said. “But we were all there to keep each other going.” Her eldest sibling Jeff Stowell and brother Blake Stowell both live in Utah, where Croshaw qualified for the Boston at the Top of Utah Marathon, with her brothers playing a pivotal role. Both have competed in multiple marathons; Jeff ran his first at age 14 and has taken part in 100 mile long endurance races that involve running for 33 consecutive hours. Blake often plays the role of pacer and was in for a bit of a surprise the first time he paced his brother while training for an endurance race. “I didn’t realize there is basically no running involved,” Blake said. “I started at mile-88 and it’s basically a 12 mile walk, telling stories.” Blake and Jeff were also there when their sister was attempting a last-minute qualification for Boston, following her path by car and shouting motivation. “I wanted to hop in and run with her, but that isn’t exactly allowed by the rules,” Jeff said. “We gave as much encouragement as we could and just Jeff Stowell (left) and his brother Blake and sister Melissa Croshaw after tried to be good cheerleaders.” completing the 2012 Boston Marathon together. COURTESY PHOTO, Kelye Kneeland After qualifying, the only thing left for Melissa was finding a way to get her brothers on the brothers, she may have stayed there. course with her in Boston. “I’m pretty stubborn,” Croshaw said. “But it would have Unable to find a qualifier so close to the event, Jeff and been that much more difficult.” Blake decided to try for a charity entry and raised more While Jeff, Blake and Melissa ran, they were joined by than $12,000 combined for a pair of partnering charities sister Kelye Kneeland, who lost upwards of 26.2 pounds in leading up to the race. preparation, matching the length of the race in miles with “Thankfully the Boston Marathon has that option,” Jeff pounds shed. said. “We wanted to make sure we were there with her.” “She earned her trip just like the three of us,” Croshaw If they hadn’t been, Croshaw may have never even finsaid of her sister. ished the race. But it was undoubtedly Croshaw who set the plan in Nearly halfway through, an injury she developed durmotion by qualifying for the Boston and giving all four ing training flared up, forcing Croshaw to a first-aid tent. siblings a chance to take part in one of the world’s most Without the promise of finishing the race alongside her recognized events. “It was neat to start this journey together and end it together,” Blake said.

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Tennessee’s Pat Summitt will leave us all a legacy Of all the many lessons I’ve learned covering prep and community sports full time, the most obvious has been the importance of an opportunity to participate. For an entire generation of young women who play sports across America, much of the thanks for that opportunity goes to Pat Summitt. When Summitt took over the University of Tennessee women’s basketball program nearly 40 years ago, not only was the women’s game marginalized, it wasn’t even a sanctioned NCAA sport. The coaching legend and original pioneer of women’s athletics retired last week after learning last year she has early onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type. Just like my grandmother Rose. I don’t remember much of my paternal Josh Suman grandmother, Rose Suman; she succumbed to the mind-crippling disease not long after my family moved to Washington when I was 9 years old and we had never lived closer than two coasts apart. It’s likely that by the time she died, she didn’t remember much of me either. But like with Summitt, hearing the way others recall my grandma Rose’s vitality and passion creates new memories entirely. My father, who is still characterized by his measured tone years after retiring from the Marine Corps, lights up like a kid on Christmas when something reminds him of his mother and offers a chance to include her memory in the conversation. His elder sister, infamous for her flawless deadpanning, sheds the sarcastic tone (if only for a moment) when speaking of Rose, a haunting, reverent look on her face as she recalls that special mother-daughter bond and the fleeting moments that defined it. It has been a similar story with Summitt, though she has left only the court and not the world away from it. The sports universe has been bombarded with images of the austere and intimidating coach throughout her career - sporting that I-dare-you stare she made famous in her nearly four decades on Rocky Top. While all of us may not play women’s sports, we all certainly have a daughter, sister, cousin, significant other or female friend who has laid it on the line athletically and been subsequently empowered by it. And in the same way the words from my dad and aunt bring my grandmother closer to my cousins and I even in death, hearing Summitt’s former players and assistants as well as opposing coaches talk about the lessons and benefits of an opportunity to play the game on its biggest stage, a stage that may still be under construction if not for their coach’s efforts, lifts her memory beyond that of a women’s basketball coach. Just as important, it gives all of us a chance to thank her for the opportunity.

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Golf Fore Red back at Redmond Ridge Bellevue-based Golf Fore Red, a non-profit that benefits the American Heart Association and Hope Hearty Institute in the fight against heart disease, will host its fifth annual tournament at Redmond Ridge on July 28 with feature guest Kayla Burt. Burt, a former University of Washington basketball player who was clinically dead from cardiac arrest, is now an outreach coordinator for the Hope Heart Institute and will be the keynote speaker. The event features a luncheon, round of golf and other activities including the cork-chipping contest. Players are encouraged to dress and decorate their carts red for the event. Registration is $130 and includes breakfast, range balls, green fees, cart, lunch, prizes and a gift bag and is available online now. Last yearâ€™s event raised $17,000.

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Six preps from Bellevue are among the statewide pool of players under consideration for the Washington Loggers all-star team. Interlakeâ€™s Zakir Butte (U19), Evan Prince (U19), Vincent Facon (U17), Billy Bishop (U17) along with Rio Morales of Bellevue (U17) and Sammamishâ€™s Tomas Narvaja are in the running for a spot on the squads. The Loggers will play in the Great Northwest Challenge in Idaho in June against teams from Idaho, Montana and Oregon. â€œThese athletes have earned the opportunity to represent

the Lions and the Issaquah-Sammamish area through their commitment to our club principles,â€? U19 head coach Josh Young said. Players could potentially earn a spot on the team that will travel through South Africa later in the summer.

Pair of Bellevue juniors qualify for National Championships Brooke Williams and Audrey Wilson, both juniors at Bellevue, placed in the top-seven at the Region 2 Gymnastics Championships in Beaverton, Ore. and qualified for a spot in the national competition in May in Virginia. Williams took first place in the flora exercise and Wilson was second in balance beam and all-around at regionals, both competing for Gymnastics East.

Sammamishâ€™s Austin Lee headed to WSFCA All-Star game Sammamish senior Austin Lee will play in the Washington State Football Coaches Associationâ€™s all-star game on June 30 at Everettâ€™s Memorial Stadium. Lee scored touchdowns rushing, receiving and passing in 2011.

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Students to use golf course as lab More than 90 students will use Bellevueâ€™s Glendale Country Club as an outdoor learning lab. The April 30 event is organized by First Green, a nonprofit organization that joins with golf courses to let students perform hands-on experiments and tests focusing on environmental science and/or horticulture curricula. Students will test water quality and soil samples, identify insects from a pond, conduct water measurements in Kelsey Creek, and learn about the life cycle of salmon. Theyâ€™ll also have a putting contest on the practice green.

An apartment in The Town House building on Bellevue Way burned in a fire last week. courtesy photo

Unit destroyed in building fire

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A three-story apartment complex suffered damage from a fire Sunday evening. One unit of the Townhouse Apartments at 417 Bellevue Way Southeast has been destroyed by the blaze, said Bellevue Fire Lt. Troy Donlin. The fire was called in at 8:35 p.m. Sunday when a neighbor reported seeing smoke. Fire crews initially came expecting a smoky building but were greeted by a full on fire that eventually took 17 units from Bellevue,

Mercer Island and Redmond to extinguish. One person was inside the unit just before the fire, and may have been cooking. A smoke alarm sounded and the person left the fire. One person refused care, Donlin said, but it is unclear if that was the displaced resident. A second unit in the building received smoke damage. A Bellevue fire investigator has not yet determined the cause of the blaze, Donlin said.

IN RECOGNITION OF THOSE WHO MAKE EVERY DAY AN EARTH DAY IN BELLEVUE The City of Bellevue and Republic Services wish to congratulate the following businesses for achieving recycling excellence in 2011!

La Tienda

Bellevue Healthcare

Par 5 Design Center, LLC

Small business category Recycle Rate of 87%

Medium business category Recycle Rate of 80%

Large business category Recycle Rate of 75%

1506 145th Place SE

1427 130th Avenue NE

To learn more about becoming a Star Recycler in Bellevue, email alaughlin@republicservices.com or call 425-646-2443.

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