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COUNCIL BIDS | Kirkland Councilwoman Amy Walen seeks re- election; Jay Arnold launches bid for council seat [5]
New aquatic center | Columbia Athletic Club B&B | Have a personal stay at Kirkland’s only bed and breakfast [5] FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2013 opens state-of-the-art facility [10]
Kirkland among many cities in controversial gun control issue noting that much of it has to do with President Barak Obama’s stance on the issue. mong the many “We will not have our arms jurisdictions, orgainfringed, we the people will nizations and forces not allow it.” across the nation debating Kukuk, a software the issue of gun control verdeveloper, created the 2nd sus protecting 2nd AmendEnforcers in January so that ment rights, Kirklanders are his group could band with not exempt. other pro-2nd Amendment Kirkland resident Jacob advocacy groups to create Kukuk, 23, recently started one “silo” of more than 100 an organization called the militias to protect human 2nd Enforcers, a nonprofit rights from government focused on protecting the tyranny. right to bear arms. And just “We the people have the weeks later, the Kirkland right to assemble wellCity regulated Council militias for received the purpose a petition of the secuof 197 rity of our signatures freedoms,” from the Kukuk said Plymouth in a news Church release. UCC of The 2nd Seattle. Enforcers Jacob Kukuk speaks at a Feb. 8 Both have been initiatives pro-gun rally in Olympia with other active in the are in their organizations that are set to defend Washington the 2nd Amendment. CONTRIBUTED infancy, Legislative and both agenda, have strong beliefs. having already been a part The Kirkland Police of two pro-gun rallies within Department reported a sigthe last month, although nificant surge in Kirkland’s Kukuk is the only official concealed pistol license apmember of the group so far. plications within the last few Kukuk said the first years. In 2010, 272 license rally turned out nearly applications were submitted, 2,000 people, with members 489 license applications in of the 2nd Amendment 2011 and 874 license apOrganization, the Veterans plications in 2012 - about a Motorcycle Group, the Tea 221 percent increase over the Party Patriots and various three-year period. senators as a way to support “Due to all the recent Rep. David Taylor, R-Moxee, shootings and the probable sponsored House Bill 1371, change in gun laws, it has which would establish increased,” said Kirkland the Washington firearms police officer Audra Weber. freedom act of 2013 and is “I think it just has to do with meant to add a new section the current atmosphere to current law. It states: an with all the shootings and “official, agent or em(proposed) gun laws.” ployee of the United States Kukuk attributes a rise in government who enforces gun purchases as “stock pilor attempts to enforce any ing,” of which he began to do act, order, law, statute, rule himself two years ago when or regulation of the United he turned 21. States government upon a “There’s a threat to a right [ more GUNS page 6 ] to bear arms,” Kukuk said,
LWSD, state sees spike in homeless students
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Ferry Clock
The Captain Anderson ferry clock was rededicated to Kirkland citizens on Feb. 10. After a citizen “clock” committee led by Sue Contreras and members of the Kirkland Heritage Society received financial help from 250 citizens, organizations and firms to restore the 1935 clock, the public celebrated its return at the corner of Lake Street and Kirkland Avenue. Kirkland’s Public Works Department also did its part by making sure its light standard was updated where the clock was installed. Over a year ago, the City of Kirkland removed the clock because its metal cabinet was in poor condition. The clock’s time stopped at 1:33 o’clock some time ago, and will continue to stay that way to preserve its history. In the photo: Bridget and Brett Anderson with their two boys, who attend Kamiakin Middle School and Robert Frost Elementary are relatives of the late Capt. John Anderson who donated the ferry clock to the city in 1935; other community members Kurt and Lori with their two children from Sequim and their Kirkland grandpa, Jack. COURTESY OF MATT MCCAULEY
Suspect in 1996 murder of woman extradited BY CARRIE RODRIGUEZ crodriguez@kirklandreporter.com
A Montana man charged in the 1996 cold case murder of a Kirkland woman was extradited to King County on Wednesday. Clifford Everell Reed, 59, faces second-degree murder charges for allegedly killing Sandi Rae Johnson on April 26, 1996. Reed, who was the wom-
an’s co-worker during her disappearance, was booked into King County Jail Wednesday on $5 million bail. Johnson was reported missing in 1996 and her body was found eight years later near Highway 410. Reed left Washington shortly after the woman was reported missing, according to court documents. Detectives conducted multiple
interviews throughout the investigation and Reed’s friends revealed his alleged infatuation with the woman. Detectives with the King County Sheriff ’s Office arrested him at his Victor, Mont. home in early December. Reed’s arraignment was set for Feb. 14, after the Reporter’s press deadline, at King County Superior Court.
Most people envision panhandlers and adults sleeping in doorways in downtown Seattle when they think of the homeless. The vision of a homeless first grader is not readily available to most. But the numbers released this past week by the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s office paint a stark picture of homeless students in Eastside school districts in 2011-2012. And current numbers are even more severe. “As of Friday, Feb. 8 we have 209 students identified as homeless under the McKinney Vento Act; last year on Feb. 10, we had 169,” said Lake Washington School District (LWSD) spokesperson Kathryn Reith. “We had been running about 10 percent higher this year than last until a jump after winter break raised the number.” Under the federal McKinney-Vento Act, all school districts are required to track the number of students identified as homeless in their district, and they also have certain obligations to those homeless students. McKinney-Vento defines a student as homeless if he or she lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence. In practical terms, the student is classified as homeless if he or she lives in emergency or transitional shelters; motels, hotels, trailer parks or camping grounds; shared housing due to loss of housing or economic hardship; hospitals secondary to abandonment or awaiting foster care placement; cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing or similar situations; or public or private places not ordinarily used as sleeping accommodations for humans. [ more HOMELESS page 3 ]