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FRIDAY, May 3, 2013
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Panhandling in Redmond
Squaring off with computer science
Police, human-services employees address issue Samantha Pak spak@redmond-reporter.com
Clint Rutkas of Microsoft (left) and Abhishek Sangameswaran of the STEM School discuss the inner workings of the “Boxing Bot.” samantha pak, Redmond Reporter
Microsoft hosts Technology Education and Literacy in Schools Field Trip Samantha Pak spak@redmond-reporter.com
The Washington State Legislature recently passed a bill that will allow computer science (CS) to be counted as a math or science requirement toward high school graduation. While the bill still needs to be
signed by Gov. Jay Inslee to become law, Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. has been working to bring CS to high schools throughout the area for a number of years. Through the company’s Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program, company employees team up with schools to teach high schoolers
how computers work. On Monday, Microsoft took this to the next level by hosting the TEALS Field Trip, a conference for middle school and high schoolers, which brought more than 800 students from more than a dozen Puget Sound-area schools to its Redmond campus. [ more microsoft page 5 ]
people panhandle because they need money and they see this as the best way to get it.
STAYING WHERE THEY SHOULD
With the country workJim Bove, spokesperson ing its way out of a yearsfor the Redmond Police long economic recession, Department (RPD), said it has not been uncommon there are a number of to see more panhandlers reasons why someone around town. becomes a panhandler. In Redmond in “Some are recent years, indilegitimately broke viduals have been Real change and need money spotted standing to survive, some on the corners of spotlight, are homeless, busy intersections page 2 some are looking and in front of for money to feed grocery stores and addictions, and/or fast-food restaua combination of all three,” rants. And while it may he said. be easy to make assumpHowever, Bove said tions about them, City of while driving, it is difficult Redmond human-services to tell whether someone is manager Colleen Kelly homeless or if they are just said there is little known trying to get money and it about panhandlers and is a traffic hazard to stop the circumstances of their and try to carry on a consituation — there is more versation. If someone is in unknown about them than front of a grocery store or there is known. This is part in a parking lot, it is easier of the issue when it comes to talk to them. to trying to help. Legally, Bove said there “We don’t know much is no law against being about these people,” Kelly in public and asking for said. She said in most cases [ more panhandle page 2 ]
Body of missing 29-year-old Redmond man found in Lake Sammamish Samantha Pak spak@redmond-reporter.com
Last Thursday, the King County Sheriff Marine/Dive/ Rescue Unit found the body of 29-year-old Redmond resident Sathish Periasamy in Lake Sammamish near Idylwood Beach Park in Redmond. According to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, the cause of death was
drowning and the manner was suicide. Jim Bove, spokesperson for the Redmond Police Department, said Periasamy was last seen April 19 and was reported missing on April 22. “We found his vehicle right around the Idylwood Park area on Tuesday (April 23),” he said. Bove said a K-9 unit was brought in after this, leading them to the dock. The marine
unit conducted an initial search in the lake on Tuesday but were unsuccessful. Bove said this is not uncommon as the water is deep and murky. He said divers went back in the water two days later and found Periasamy’s body at 12:19 p.m. A Facebook page was created to help with the search when Periasamy first went missing but it was taken down when he
was found. Officials suspect no foul play and Bove said before Periasamy was found, they suspected suicide because investigators found a note he left before he went missing. The medical examiner’s office later confirmed this. Bove said this is not the first time a body has been found in Lake Sammamish, though he does not know the exact num-
ber or the most recent case. “We have found a few over the last several years that were drug related or suicide related,” he said. In addition to living in Redmond, Bove said Periasamy worked in Redmond, as well, at Microsoft. “Our thoughts are with (Periasamy’s) family and friends,” he said.
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