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Soldier accused of murder to return BY CARRIE WOOD cwood@kirklandreporter.com
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Joint Base LewisMcChord soldier will soon return to King County to face charges of murdering a Kirkland woman last November, after he received a bad conduct discharge from the U.S. Army. The King County Prosecutor’s Office charged Pvt. Dakota Miles Wolf, 20, with first-degree murder last December for allegedly stabbing 19-year-old Scarlett Paxton to death behind her apartment complex in Juanita on Nov. 30, 2011. Wolf was Absent Without Leave from the military during this time, according to military records. Wolf, who had a record of going AWOL, assaulting a noncommissioned Scarlett Paxton officer and a history of drug abuse, was held at the base following the murder while he awaited courtmartial charges. The Kirkland native was found guilty on April 20 of several charges, including six AWOLs, missing four unit movements and disobeying an order from a superior commissioned officer, according to JBLM I Corps spokesman Gary Dangerfield. Wolf was sentenced to a bad conduct discharge, nine months of confinement, and forfeiture of pay of $994 per month for nine months, said Dangerfield. JBLM will release Wolf back to Washington state authorities on July 16, when his case will be transferred to King County Superior Court.
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Construction workers remove the turf from the football field at Juanita High School. The Lake Washington School District had the field removed and replaced at an estimated cost of $910,000 last weekend. MATT PHELPS, Kirkland Reporter
Juanita High School field gets a $900,000 upgrade BY MATT PHELPS mphelps@kirklandreporter.com
The Juanita High School football field has seen a lot of action during the past decade. Between boys and girls soccer, football, lacrosse, track and field and an assortment of practices and youth games, the community puts the field to good use. But that use has led to
wear. “The field has reached its useful lifespan,” said Lake Washington School District spokesperson Kathryn Reith. The LWSD replaced the Field Turf last weekend at a cost of more than $900,000. The entire project took about three days, with the use of forklifts. Community and high
school athletes will see and feel the difference. “It is an upgrade because not only is all the turf being replaced, but an additional support layer will be going under the turf to help extend the life and good condition of the field,” said Reith. The construction cost is $800,000, with a total project cost of an estimated $910,000. The project
is paid for by a capital levy passed in 2010. The field was last replaced in 2002, when it went from natural grass to Field Turf. Most of the high school fields in the KingCo League were transitioned to Field Turf at the beginning of the last decade. The top surface of the turf is made up of plastic grass with shredded
rubber pieces and sand filling the areas between the blades. The turf is designed to be relatively recyclable. “The contractor will be doing limited recycling of the materials,” said Reith. “The sand/rubber mix will be reused for the middle layer fill of the field. There is a possibility that the turf material could be recycled as a plastic.”
Kirkland musician adds ‘author’ to her repertoire with love, mystery novel BY KRISTINE KIM UW News Lab
Not everyone gets a 240page love story for Christmas. But not everyone is married to local violin and viola teacher Dr. Cynthia Morrow. The former psychologist and string player from Los Angeles started with a strong musical background. At 14 she was in an all-girl rock band with Columbia
Records. In California row of the move. In the she played professionprocess, she gave up being ally, in ensembles a psychologist and and many concert a concert violist, symphonies. In her essentially starting 40s, she trained to over in their new become a psycholohome. But the pair gist. Then she met fell in love with the Gary Hattal, a fedPacific Northwest, eral mediator. The and they have Cynthia Morrow couple decided to remained here since marry and relocate 2001. to Kirkland to be It was on closer to Hattal’s daughter. Christmas several years “It was scary,” said Morago when Morrow and her
husband were amid piles of wrapping paper that they decided to write a book for one another. Hattal ended up giving Morrow jewelry the next Christmas. Morrow, however, handed him “Unstrung: A Blanchard House Mystery.” “She’s always been a good writer in a variety of ways,” Hattal said. In her career, Morrow has written psychological papers, and has been a composer, lyricist,
and has even written musicals. The pair’s relationship also started in written form, with a year of exchanged letters as he traveled for work. On her writing a mystery novel, Morrow’s husband said, “I had no doubt that she could. What I didn’t know was just how interestingly her mind worked, in that she came up with interesting plots and twists [ more UNSTRUNG page 3 ]