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17 candidates apply for vacant city council position BY RAECHEL DAWSON AND CARRIE RODRIGUEZ Kirkland Reporter
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eventeen candidates have applied for the empty Kirkland Council seat, Position No. 2, that former Councilman Bob Sternoff vacated on March 25. The longtime councilman abruptly resigned following a March 21 story the Reporter
published regarding a civil lawsuit filed against him last November, an embezzlement claim Sternoff recently filed with Kirkland police against a former employee and his financial woes. The candidates include Carol Buckingham, Cynthia Hudson, Eric Martenson, Robert L. Style, Benjamin Wobker, Jason Gardiner, Shelley Kloba, Jon Pascal, Santiago Ramos, Elise Spring
Vitus, Jay Arnold, Michelle Goerdel, Graham Laing, M. Larry McKinney, Kathleen McMonigal, John Smiley, and Tenzing Thinley. The council will hold a special meeting on Monday, April 15, at 6 p.m. in the Peter Kirk room at City Hall to review the applications, finalize interview questions and to
determine the candidates to be interviewed. The council will conduct interviews on Tuesday, April 16 during a special meeting at 4:30 p.m. and the council will make the appointment during the regular council meeting later that evening by a majority vote of the remaining council members.
The appointed council member will take office on May 7 and will serve until the King County Elections Office certifies the November election. If the new council member stands for the general election and wins, he/she will continue to serve. If another person is elected to the fill the vacancy during the November election, the person elected will take
Robotics Club needs funding to go to world champs
City delays action with Medic One levy, firefighters disagree BY RAECHEL DAWSON
BY RAECHEL DAWSON
rdawson@kirklandreporter.com
rdawson@kirklandreporter.com
Four high schoolers sat in a Lake Washington High School computer lab last week. Their focus was not on playing computer games or updating Facebook, but on an 18-inch tall robot they created. Their task at hand was to tweak it just enough so that, come world championships, it is fit to compete against more than 400 teams from around the world. Created in the fall of 2011, the Lake Washington High School Robotics Club has proven this school year that they’re serious about competition. The team won the Western Washington VRC Tournament in March after becoming semifinalists at the Washington B Team and the Lake Washington VRC tournaments a few months ago, and were quarterfinalist winners at the Washington
office when the election is certified and would serve through Dec. 31, 2015, which is the remainder of the unexpired term. The Reporter attempted to contact each of the candidates vying for Position No. 2 before the Reporter’s deadline. Each candidate contacted was asked the same questions. Here are the responses: [ more COUNCIL page 2 ]
Members of the Lake Washington Robotics Club work on the robot that will compete in the 2013 VEX High School World Championship in Anaheim, Calif., April 17-20. (Front left) Grady Cox, 11, (back left) club president Steve Anton, 11, (back right) Jacob Wall, 11, (front right) Gordon Walsh, 12. Also on the team, but not pictured, is Regan Colburn, 9. RAECHEL DAWSON, Kirkland Reporter Jump Start Tournament last November. They’ve since been quarterfinalists at the British Columbia VEX Championship in March. The team will next take on the 2013 VEX High School World Championship in Anaheim, Calif., April 17-20.
“This is a chance in a lifetime for these students,” Lake Washington High School club advisor Milo Dullum said, noting the team’s strengths are in dependability and scoring. “It is something they will always remember.”
Robotics Club president Steve Anton, 11, and club members Gordon Walsh, 12, Jacob Wall, 11, and Regan Colburn, 9, make up the competitive team named VEX 4770A Raging Robots, which consists of more students. But before the four
team-members and two chaperones can fly the 1,000plus mile trip, they need to raise more money. They are more than half way towards their $6,000 goal. Organizations such as the Kirkland Rotary Club, the Kirkland [ more CLUB page 5 ]
Kirkland is withholding support of a regionwide Emergency Medical Services’ levy – opposition that could jeopardize the highly regarded Medic One system if a resolution to the impasse isn’t found soon. But Kirkland firefighters this week called out city officials, urging them to leave the decision up to voters in November. “Kirkland’s been working over 18 months to find and improve the service to Kirkland,” said Councilman Dave Asher, who serves on the EMS Advisory Task Force. “We think we’re close and we think we’ll see something in the next couple of weeks that will be something, we’ll get this levy passed and keep this super system together.” [ more EMS page 6 ]
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be placed on the ballot and decided by the VOTERS.