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SPORTS | Romanian gymnastics instructor coming to Bellevue to lead elite training program [7]

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | Cartoonist Frank Shiers Jr. talks about illustrating 30+ years of FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2014 Washington state’s political jungle [11]

Business | First Congregational Church in downtown Bellevue sells for $30 million [10]

County Exec wants transportation district Funds would fix roads,replace lost revenue for Metro buses

BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER

Bellevue Recruit Firefighter Jarrod Larson runs drills Tuesday at the city’s training center. BRANDON MACZ, Bellevue Reporter

A burning desire to serve

Firefighting recruits face 12 weeks of trials and tribulations to earn their place

BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER

Thirteen recruits have been hired on by the Bellevue Fire Department, and the job is theirs if they can earn it.

This is Week Two of a 12-week training academy being held at the city's Public Safety Training Center where prospective firefighters from Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond and Northshore are attending. The academy is staffed by Eastside firefighters volunteering to share their expertise in various

areas of the job and brings in recruits from multiple agencies in an effort to build consistency of service and communication among them.

"Because we train together, we can anticipate what the other companies are doing," said Battalion Chief Bruce Kroon with Bellevue Fire. "It's really breaking down those barriers and making us more efficient on the fire ground."

Bellevue Fire lost 16 firefighters to retirement last year, and replacing staff takes time. All recruits undergoing training passed a rigorous list of qualifiers, including written and physical tests, medical evaluations, background checks and

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Tired of waiting for a transportation plan to pass in the state Legislature, King County Executive Dow Constantine on Tuesday announced his plan for filling a funding gap that would spare public transit service, but depend on the will of voters.

Faced with a $75 million funding gap, King County Metro is proposing a 17-percent reduction in transit services that would affect 28 of 33 routes in Bellevue, including changes to routes to Bellevue College being moved further from the institution.

With no clear sign of when state lawmakers will agree on a transportation plan that includes public transportation funding, Constantine is proposing the King County Council approve forming a transportation benefit district. This would allow the district to go to voters for the right impose vehicle fees and sales taxes to shore up lost revenue. Metro will lose $25 million when a $20 vehicle congestion reduction fee approved by the Legislature expires in June.

Constantine proposed the County Council take public input and discuss formation of a transportation district with formation possible in February to place the funding measure on the April ballot.

To provide an estimated $130 million in revenue, Constantine proposes the ballot include a $60 car-tab fee and one-tenth of a cent sales tax with 60 percent of revenues going to Metro Transit and 40 percent to fund local road and other transportation projects.

A 25-cent across-the-board fare increase also is proposed to start in March 2015, and is estimated to raise $6.6 million annually.

Bellevue city councilmembers Tuesday approved a letter to King County Metro preserving frequent service routes in favor of focusing reductions and lost routes on routes that receive less ridership. The letter did not address funding, upon which they were updated that night.

“There’s a broader problem in Olympia of not providing funding for transportation of all stripes and we really need to have a conversation and be aware of the impact this conversation might have on that conversation,” said Deputy Mayor Kevin Wallace, “and continue to push on a more statewide, I think, effort to solve the problem.”

Brandon Macz: 425-453-4602; bmacz@bellevuereporter.com

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County attempting new program to help homeless

BY DANIEL NASH BELLEVUE REPORTER

The King County Housing Authority has begun a yearlong pilot for a rapid rehousing program.

The authority hopes the program, Rapid Re-housing for Families, will successfully transition as many as 350 homeless families by the end of 2014.

Unlike transitional housing, which provides long-term — up to two years — assistance via dedicated housing sites or financial assistance with “scattered site” housing on the private market, rapid re-housing provides short term financial assistance to set families up in a private sector apartment, as well as aid in finding an apartment. The program additionally provides an “employment navigator” to help families establish a regular income.

“It’s a much shorter intervention with very temporary assistance,” Program Director Cheryl Markham said. “It’s more like helping clients with landlord debts, their security deposit — those kinds of things. It’s helping them with the starting costs of moving in so they can better take on the monthly costs of an apartment.”

The goal is for most client families to be assisted for up to three months, Markham said.

Families who find themselves in extenuating circumstances can apply for an extension on assistance or direction to a

longer-term program, but the intent is to nudge families toward self sufficiency.

Employment navigator services will be able to continue after short-term assistance has ended, Markham said.

Rapid re-housing is a recent social policy concept that has gained popularity due to reports of fewer returns to homelessness among those enrolled in the program. One report out of the state of Georgia’s Department of Community Affairs, which tracked recidivism through the state’s Homeless Management Information System, observed that clients in rapid re-housing were one-fourth as likely to check back into a shelter when compared against clients in transitional housing.

Seattle nonprofit Building Changes and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted a meeting of case workers from seven counties to discuss rapid re-housing programs. Five counties are utilizing Ending Family Homelessness, the state rapid re-housing program. King and Pierce counties developed their own programs.

The One Night Count, a survey of King County homeless conducted each January by the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness, found more than 2,700 individual homeless in 2013, 197 of whom were found in Eastside communities.

Of those, 52 were found living in cars or trucks.

The Eastside had the second greatest

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The rapid re-housing pilot has $3.1 million in funding and is partnered with a number of government and non-government organizations. King County Career Connections, YWCA Works and Neighborhood House will provide employment navigator services for the program. Funding and planning partners include the Housing Authority, King County Department of Community and Human

Services, the city of Seattle Human Services Department, United Way of King County and Building Changes.

Local agencies Catholic Community Services, Domestic Abuse Women’s Network, Neighborhood House, Solid Ground, Wellspring Family Services and the YWCA are all participating in the pilot.

The Housing Authority is seeking and identifying families who qualify for rapid re-housing. Catholic Community Services’ Family Housing Connection is the feeder program for identifying clients for housing programs. Families who believe they qualify for assistance can call 211 to schedule an appointment.

Daniel Nash: 425-453-4290; dnash@bellevuereporter.com

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Bellevue police officer facing DUI charge resigns Six days after entering a not guilty plea to a DUI charge in Issaquah Municipal Court, Bellevue Ofc. Andrew Hanke resigned his post with the police department on Jan. 9.

Hanke was charged with DUI in early December after a fellow Bellevue officer pulled him over for speeding and swerving on Nov. 20 and let his wife pick him up rather than arrest his 38-year-old coworker.

Bellevue Ofc. Doug Brennan reported the incident to supervisors within the

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department following the traffic stop and the department states Hanke was placed on paid administrative leave. An internal investigation of Hanke and Brennan's conduct relating to the traffic stop is still ongoing.

"As we move forward, my hope is that we rebuild the public's trust and continue to focus on the great work that the men and women of this department do every day," stated Chief Linda Pillo in a news release.

Hanke is due back in court Feb. 11.

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EDITORIAL

Legislators need to listen to state Supreme Court’s words

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he state Supreme Court last week told state legislators to get off the dime on education — and spend it. It’s a message lawmakers should heed.

The court ruled in 2012 that the Legislature was violating the state constitution because not enough money was going to education. The justices gave the Legislature until 2018 to fix the problem. The court estimated the price tag at somewhere between $3 billion and $4 billion.

The court noted that while the Legislature is making gains, they aren’t good enough. The $982 million allocated to K-12 education in the 2013-15 budget is only a 6.7 percent increase over the constitutionally inadequate level of funding.

Clearly, the court has concerns that the state will get to the $3 billion to $4 billion level given that there are only two more full budget cycles before it must close the gap by the end of 2018.

Lawmakers have been put on notice that improving education funding must be met. It won’t be easy. The sooner we have that discussion in earnest, the better.

All Hawks, all the time

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t seems you can’t go anywhere these days without being bombarded by the Seattle Seahawks. Apparently, that means here, too.

So be it.

Professional football is probably the most hyped sport — at least in this country. But for the Seahawks to be one win away from the Super Bowl is, well, super.

We suspect non-fans will find streets suddenly quiet and shopping malls fairly empty come Sunday afternoon.

Everyone else will be grabbing their ‘Hawks gear and staking out the best chair in front of the TV. Go ‘Hawks.

– Craig Groshart, Bellevue Reporter

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The problem of too much homework for kids As a sophomore in high school, I’ve spent a huge amount of my life doing homework. It’s been annoying, sure, but I’ve never thought of it as a major problem. Only recently has it reached this point where I can’t live my life and do all my homework at the same time.

American high school students spend an average of 32.5 hours each week at school. Then they come home every day and do homework Fina Short for another two hours.

The worst part? Studies have shown that homework is not necessarily linked to getting better grades.

What homework is linked to is doing better on standardized tests. And standardized test preparation isn’t helping the American education system either.

Finland leads the world in education scores, yet Finnish students only take one standardized test in their entire school career. (The United States, meanwhile,

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flounders below the global average in math and science scores.)

The homework in the U.S. started with the launch of Sputnik in the 1950s by the then Soviet Union. Homework was thought a necessary measure for the U.S. to keep up with the rest of the world (and beat Russia in the space race.) The next step was the education reform of the 1990s, when the first laws were passed requiring homework in schools everywhere.

And that brings us to today.

Homework has never been a more contested topic. It’s the subject of countless studies, books and experts. Yet research continues to show that homework isn’t worth the time students spend on it.

It’s time to change this. It’s time for students to be able to spend their afternoons doing what they want to do, instead of sitting in front of a computer screen. It’s time that students’ lives were considered just as important as their test scores.

Fina Short, 15, is a sophomore at Eastside Preparatory School. She lives in Medina.

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by Obamas After 15 days of the Obamas vacationing in Hawaii, it is another added cost to taxpayers for Michelle to stay there to celebrate her birthday. A lot of extra aircraft, support staff, security etc. is required for her to continue to vacation by herself.

The Obama’s are really milking the system for as much as they can get out of it while in the White House.

The president wants to redistribute the wealth, as long it does not not affect him.

Larry Brickman, Bellevue

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Adjusting to cats Turn to library for resolution support

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ood neighbors are invaluable. But that’s the conclusion to this story, so let me start at the beginning.

In July, we lost Oscar, our 16-pound tabby, to old age. In late fall, the adopt-a-new-cat bug struck.

We visited several shelters until we found a possible adoptee. We soon learned that rules for adopting cats had changed since our last venture.

We were accustomed to the bakery-style approach where you pointed to the most appealing goodie in the case (or cage) and said, “We’ll take that one.” After paying your fee you took your cat home and lived happily ever after.

These days potential adopters and adopAnn Oxrieder tees go through screening. We completed a personality profile to help the shelter manager decide if we and our chosen cat were a good match.

A color coding system on each cage identified cats as ready to walk into your home and take over, or as needing a medium or longer period to adjust. We picked an orange cat with an orange tag (medium adjustment period).

After receiving approval, the orange cat — Gordon — came home with us. We followed the shelter’s instructions and set the cat carrier on the bathroom floor and aimed the opening toward the shower stall, which is where a litter box, food and soft cushions awaited him. We shut the door and left him alone to decide how best to get acquainted with his tiny new home. An hour later we discovered him wedged under a cabinet so tightly that his head couldn’t move and he was having trouble breathing.

When I called the shelter, the folks there said not to worry, he’d come out when he was ready. Next call was to the fire department. The third call was to Glenn, the neighbor who built our house. He said he wasn’t sure how he could help, but would stop by when he got home.

After Glenn arrived, we tried jacking up the cabinet a few millimeters to help Gordon get free and offered food to lure him. He wouldn’t or couldn’t move. We agreed that the only other option was to cut a hole in the cabinet shelf.

Gordon’s story, though not the cabinet’s, had a happy ending.

I don’t yet know what “medium adjustment period” means, except that now he’s easily accessible in his hiding spot behind a sofa.

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here are two seasons that stand out above all in a public library: tax time and the month of January. Tax season is obvious. New Year’s resolution season is more complex.

Resolutions aren’t always about weight loss or quitting smoking. People are looking for information on living stress free, organizing garages or learning something new like a musical instrument or a foreign language.

Some of us want this information and we want it now, because by February we have abandoned our running regimen and shifted our attention to finding the instruction booklet for the 1099 form.

Last year, King County Library System Darcy Brixey focused on food and education with A Place At The Table. Programs and author visits covered everything from cooking, raising bees and chickens, couponing and beer brewing.

Programming for 2014 focuses on health and fitness with a program series called Start To Fitness. Programs range

from Bollywood Dance, Scottish Country Dancing, talks on snowshoeing, hiking and curling as well as a large variety of bicycling topics presented by the Cascade Bicycle Club.

In addition to the workshops on fitness and exercise, there is a focus on healthy eating. Programs presented by nutrition educators cover different diets and dietary strategies for immune systems and healthy hearts.

The Start To Fitness page also links to outside fitness challenges such as the First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign.

Libraries are collecting healthy nonperishable foods for distribution to 45 area food banks. A complete list of programs and sponsors can be found at http://www.kcls.org/programs/ fitness/. Get involved and track your progress. Together we can be a stronger and healthier community.

My own resolution is simple. I want to rely less on my husband for bicycle maintenance. Thankfully there is a workshop scheduled to teach me the basics. I hope to see you there.

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cational Programs and Operations levy on the Feb. 11 ballot as an essential source of special education funding. Bellevue's most vulnerable children need support from local voters to maintain and improve the special instruction and services that are required for their success.

Voting "yes" on the levy will help fund special as well as general education programs, benefiting all children, including those who need extra help.

Katherine George, Bellevue

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city of Bellevue for a new leadership team that has the pragmatism, creativity and vision to heal divisions and lead the city to better prosperity, inclusiveness and collaboration.

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Levy will help special ed.

Nearly one of every 10 students in Bellevue has a disability requiring special education. But state and federal funding covers only two-thirds of the cost of meeting the special needs of Bellevue children.

As an education attorney working with parents throughout the Seattle area, and as a Bellevue resident, I support the Edu-

Ann Oxrieder has lived in Bellevue for 35 years. She retired after 25 years as an administrator in the Bellevue School District and blogs about retirement at http://stillalife.wordpress.com/.

Darcy Brixey is the teen services librarian at the Bellevue Library. She’d like to tell you she loves to read, but it’s an expectation of the job.

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Road-rage incident on I-90 sends cars rolling into median A road-rage incident Wednesday night, with two cars repeatedly crashing into one another as the drivers sped westbound on I-90, left both drivers injured and one of them booked into King County Jail.

The incident happened at 6:43 p.m. near milepost 13 (Lake Sammamish exit) as Desi C. Beltran, 29, and Hugo

Teens to try ‘Speedbooking’ Teens will be able to experience “Speedbooking” on Feb. 8 where they will meet a new book every minute. They will be able to take home the ones they want to date or leave the ones they hate.

The 3 p.m. event will be at the Newport Way Library, 14250 S.E. Newport Way.

Yanez, 32, engaged in a road-rage incident that saw the two vehicles eventually roll-over and come to rest in the median.

Yanez fled the scene, according to the Washington State Patrol, but later was caught by Bellevue Police.

The roadway was blocked for more than four hours.

Beltran, of North Bend, was transported to Overlake Hospital for treatment. His 1995 Ford Explorer was totaled.

Yanez, of Bellevue, was booked into King County Jail. His 2007 Ford Freestyle was totaled.

Karen M. Hardtke, 27, of Cle Elum, a passenger in Yanez’s car, was not injured. A two-year-old male, also of Cle Elum, also was not injured.

Community Roundup What’s happening in Bellevue

Event to honor Nan Campbell A celebration of the life of Nan Campbell, a former mayor of Bellevue, will be held 1-3 p.m. Jan. 24 at Youth Eastside Services. Community sharing will begin at 2 p.m.

More details are available by calling Kim Reid at 425-586-2310 or via email at kimr@youtheastsideservices.org.

Youth Eastside Services is located at 999 164th Ave. N.E., Bellevue.

United Way offers free tax help United Way of King County is offering free tax preparation at two locations in Bellevue. At the sites, United Way will prepare income tax returns with an eye to take advantage of all the possible credits available.

The Bellevue locations are Hopelink, 14812 Main St., and Goodwill, 14515 N.E. 20th St.

Tips help nab alleged robbers Bellevue Police credit the pouring in of multiple tips following the release of information on five alleged robbers at the Kelsey Creek Walmart for identifying all suspects, four of which surrendered with one still at large.

Among those arrested were three juveniles and one adult with one adult woman still being sought by police for the Jan. 2 incident at Walmart where shoppers were attacked for their valuables.

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Free lecture to discuss falls A free lecture on preventing dizziness and falls in seniors will be presented 3 p.m. Jan. 21 at Pacific Regent Bellevue, 919 109th Ave. N.E. Lecturers include Overlake Senior Health Clinic’s Medical Director, Priyanka Duggal, M.D., and its Clinical Pharmacist, Trang Le. Guest space is limited. To request a seat, call 425-646-9808 ext. 4125.

Film to show recession’s effects The Sophia Way will present a free screening of American Winter, a film

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Framed through the personal stories of eight families, the film shows fallout of the mortgage meltdown, unemployment, the health care crisis and a shrinking social safety net.

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For the Obeidat family, gymnastics is serious business.

So when the chance to bring a multiple-time Olympic medal-winning coach to Bellevue and Gymnastics East arose, they jumped at it.

For the past several weeks, professor Nicolae Forminte has been training with their three children, and also beginning a project the Obeidat family hopes will form the base of an elite level training program at Gymnastics East.

“We are super excited to have him here,” owner Kim Thompson said. “We’ve always been competitive, but there wasn’t that elite level.”

If there is anyone who can bring that, it is Forminte.

Along with a host of World Championship and Euro-

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Professor Nicolae Forminte at Gymnastics East near Factoria, where he will help develop a new elite level training program. JOSH SUMAN, Bellevue Reporter pean Championship medalists, Forminte has coached 16 Olympic medalists, including six gold medal winners as part of the Romanian National Team.

Since the early 1980s, when he earned his first postgraduate degree specializing in gymnastics, Forminte has dedicated his life to coaching.

His exploits as a junior and senior national team coach and lecturer have taken him from Deva in his native Romania to Bangladesh, Italy and finally, Gymnastics East.

“They want to do what is best for children,” Forminte said of Gym East. “Every kid needs a chance to reach their SEE FORMINTE, 8

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Bellevue won a pair of dual wrestling meets to keep its record perfect at 4-0.

Jason Presley (126), Garrett Williams (138), Cole Bouwman (145), Zach England (195) and Alec Palander (220) won matches for the Wolverines in a 34-30 dual win over Interlake.

Korey Yamagata (195) and Chandler Ewing (152) joined Presley and Williams as winners in a 39-36 dual meet win over Juanita.

Three Wolverines won championships at the Shoreline Invitational, as Williams, Palander and John Mancuso picked up titles in a field that included some of the top wrestlers and teams in the state.

Ewing finished second and Presley, Nathan Smith and England were third place finishers as Bellevue ended the tournament in fourth place out of eight teams.

Youths finish first in pool Northwest Water Polo Club, a recently formed organization on the Eastside, competed in its first ever tournament recently and brought home a trio of top-three finishes.

The 14A team led the way, winning each of its six matches in the Beaverton, Ore., tournament to bring home a first place trophy.

An 11-9 victory in the third-place match gave the 14B team a third place finish as well, while the 16U team also took home a third place finish.

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Bellevue boys still perfect in KingCo Bellevue is off to a 7-0 start in 3A/2A KingCo play, and had little difficulty taking care of Mount Si in Tuesday’s 63-17 win.

The Wolverines meet Interlake tonight before playing in the MLK Hoopfest tournament at Seattle Pacific University Monday.

Sammamish has an uphill climb to earn the conference’s lone 2A playoff berth.

The Totems currently trail Lake Washington by two

games in the standings and must still face the Kangs in Kirkland Jan. 24.

Newport hasn’t been able to get any momentum rolling in 4A KingCo, and enters tonight’s game against Issaquah winless in conference play at 0-6.

A conference tournament spot looks like a long shot at this point, with two games against Issaquah and another against Crest leader Eastlake still remaining on the schedule.

Interlake picked up its first and only KingCo win last week, 54-41 over Juanita, and faces league leader Bellevue tonight.

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Keeping the area’s potentially elite gymnasts from heading to World Olympic Gymnastics Academy in Texas or other training facilities with top coaches and training opportunities is one of the main goals for bringing Forminte to Bellevue.

While Gymnastics East has a strong foothold with its competitive and recreational programs, those with the potential to take their talents to the world’s biggest stages had no option for continuing their careers around greater Seattle.

That is, until Forminte arrived.

The Obeidats tracked down Forminte through online research, utilizing their own background and gymnastics with their own children to hone in on a man they considered supremely talented and ideally situated to help build the foundation of elite gymnastics in the region.

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After making initial contact via email and phone calls, and connecting on video chats via Skype, the family travelled to Romania, where they stayed and had their children begin training.

“As soon as we emailed him initially, we were impressed,” Arwa Obeidat said.

When they arrived in Romania, Obeidat said it was immediately apparent Forminte had not only a wealth of knowledge about everything gymnastics, but the ability to relate to his young students and connect with them on their level.

“He knows how to break apart the skills and teach them in a way the kids can understand,” Obeidat said. “The kids are automatically attracted to him.”

The family sponsored Forminte’s EB-2 Visa, which is for individuals possessing an exceptional talent.

The hope is he can develop an elite training niche at Gymnastics East and become the region’s primary destination for toplevel competitors.

“You have to have passion,” Forminte said. “It’s a new opportunity.”

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The Knights currently sit in the top spot in the division with a 6-0 conference record and face second-place Issaquah tonight with first place on the line.

Bellevue, which began the year 9-1 and with a tournament title at the MaxPreps Holiday Classic in California, lost three straight to conference foes before facing Mount Si Wednesday after the Reporter’s deadline.

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When Seattle Seahawks tight end Zach Miller got a phone call from a friend and former college teammate, he didn't think much about the simple act of signing a football and some Seahawks merchandise and sticking them in the mail.

The call came from Cincinnati Bengals guard Mike Pollak, who played with Miller at Arizona State. Pollak had heard from his wife about Dave and Kristina Quick, Seahawks fans with newborn twins, one of whom was at Seattle Children’s Hospital following multiple surgeries.

Kristina Quick and Kristi Pollak had attended physical therapy school together and Kristi suggested to her husband that they reach out to Millers wife, Ashley, who had recently given birth to twins.

So, Miller and his wife didn't hesitate packaging up a card and some items signed by Seahawks players and sending them to a family they had never met.

On the other end of that gesture, Dave Quick came home from a two-day stint at the hospital where his son Franklin had recently undergone open-heart surgery, opened a mysterious package on his front porch and shed a few tears.

"I cried a little bit,” Dave Quick said.“It's just the coolest thing that these guys would take a few minutes out of their day to sign stuff, send it with a card.”

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"I can definitely relate to anyone who has twins or premature babies," said Miller, whose twin girls were born seven weeks early and spent three weeks in the NICU at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland.

Not long before Miller sent that surprise package of signed memorabilia to the Quicks, the couple and their infant twins, Franklin and Harrison, got a hospital visit from Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and his wife, Ashton, who stop by Seattle Children's every Tuesday.

Wilson gets a lot of attention for those visits, but he's just one of many in Seattle's locker room making a difference out in the community. Whether it's Miller sending a gift to a family he never met, or Richard Sherman starting a foundation to help underprivileged kids, or Doug Baldwin trading autographs for donations to a local food bank, the Seahawks roster is full of people who understand they can make a much bigger impact off the field than on it.

"Look at what these people do," Dave Quick said. "They don't know us."

While the Quicks were at Children's, doctors and nurses started joking that they never saw Dave smile. So when Russell and Ashton Wilson included Franklin's room on one of their weekly visits, it made a real impact.

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BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER

A Chinese investment firm closed on its purchase of the Bellevue First Congregational Church property on Monday for $30 million. But Pastor Kevin Brown says his congregation will remain there for the time being.

The 1.6-acre property at 752 108th Ave. N.E. went to market last year and was marketed by real estate company Kidder Mathews.

“It was widely exposed and had a lot of interest from investors worldwide,” said broker Jason Rosauer. “The church went out in a very formal and controlled manner and found the best buyer for the site.”

Brown said the church negotiated with purchaser Plus Investment USA for a lease back arrangement and doesn’t plan to move any time soon. A new location for the church is still being sought. Brown said having a new location was a caveat for selling the property a year ago.

“The closing on the sale of our property, which did occur (Monday) had to be disentangled from a commitment to any future location,” he said, adding he recently found church documents indicating reloca-

App to help private schools take roll

BY DANIEL NASH BELLEVUE REPORTER

A Bellevue startup has released an app it claims will streamline the daily in- and outtake of private school students.

Private schools, unlike public institutions, are required by the state to obtain guardian signatures when students arrive in the morning and leave in the afternoon.

The school then forwards the signatures to the Department of Early Learning to ensure compliance with state regulations.

Moazzam Ahmed, a software program manager and father of a Bellevue Montessori student, thought the manual process of obtaining those signatures was inefficient.

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tion had been considered as far back as the 1970s. “Just like the children of Israel, it took us about 40 years to get that done.”

Paul Totah has joined Hyatt Regency as the hotel’s associate director of sales. Totah formerly worked in sales at Hyatt Morristown in New Jersey and a number of Washington, D.C., hotels.

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Ahmed said. “Staff would stand outside, look for parents and walkie-talkie for another staff member to bring the parents’ child out. They would get the parents’ signature and then they would have to do it all again for the next child.”

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Armstrong named Paccar CEO Ronald E. Armstrong has been elected chief executive officer of Paccar. Mark C. Pigott also has been elected as executive chairman of the board. Both are effective April 27.

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The Bellevue Youth Theatre begins its winter 2014 season March 10, but tickets are becoming available in the latter half of January.

The company will run productions of “Winnie the Pooh,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Tempest” and “Peter Pan” from March through May. First week showings will cost $12. All tickets for “The Tempest” will be $5.

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Coffee table book “The First 100 Years: Women’s University Club of Seattle” tells the story of the club that encourages its members to participate in educational, cultural and social activities. Club president Suzy Lantz and book editor Karen Lane will be on hand for a celebration at the Bellevue University Book Store. 3 p.m. on Jan. 18.

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Youth Theatre Northwest is presenting Disney’s “The Little Mermaid Jr.” through Feb. 9. The production is an adaptation of Disney’s take on the Hans Christian Anderson story. The production will have a single evening performance on Fridays, a matinee and evening performance on Saturdays, and a single matinee on Sundays. Ticket information can be found at youththeatre.org.

Cartoonist Frank Shiers, Jr. on drawing more than 30 years of Washington state’s political

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n Monday afternoon in the Bel-Red Starbucks, political cartoonist Frank Shiers Jr. was worried. In any given week, he produces five editorial comics for his client base of local newspapers: some statewide and applicable to every client, and some specific to certain publications.

Shiers was worried about one of the latter, regarding a police pullover on the San Juan Islands. On Christmas Eve, sheriff ’s deputies stopped a car towing a hay cart of carolers. It might have ended as a routine stop, but the ensuing confrontation between the driver and law enforcement turned the incident into an odd drama that pit holiday cheer against public safety. The challenge Shiers faced was to give his opinion on the incident, represent it in a single picture, and poke fun without poking the bear, so to speak. He thought he’d arrived at his solution — draw Santa Claus at the sheriff ’s office counter, naughty list in hand — but he was concerned even that might antagonize the department.

“Mainly I’m afraid of being spiked,” Shiers said.

It’s an old term for content cut from newspapers, harkening back to the pre-digital days when editors would impale the questionable items on nails.

Shiers has been at this for more than 30 years, starting with his college work for Washington State University’s Daily Evergreen. But he was drawing long before, tracing Walt Kelly’s seminal strip “Pogo” as a child. He was fascinated with the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and became enamored with American politics during Nixon’s first successful bid for the presidency.

“Back then I followed (editorial comics) casually,” he said. “Some I liked, some I didn’t like so much. Rarely for their content, mostly for their art.”

Favorite artists over the years have included Mike Ramirez and Dave Horsey who, like Shiers, started cartooning professionally at the Bellevue Journal-American. Shiers freelanced for Opinion page editor Karl Thunemann, producing an editorial cartoon, comic strip

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“I learned… my happy place is not the business side,” he said.

“I’m happy at the drawing board. And I learned you have to send the bill to get paid. There was a long stretch of time to the point of getting paid.”

Shiers has never made his living from his art, he said, instead putting bread on the table as a journalist, talk radio host, teacher — he stopped this interview at one point to say hello to a former Cherry Crest Elementary School student — and, currently, a news anchor for KIRO Radio 97.3 FM. It’s more a point of pride that he’s paid for his work as an artist and said he wouldn’t continue doing it if he weren’t. But it’s also the work he believes he’ll stick with the longest.

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Congestion on those roads would be mitigated by a sixfold expanded drop-off zone around the parking lot, and a branching bus road and cul-de-sac to be wrapped around the east and south of the school.

The next step for the capital project is an as-yet unscheduled public hearing, the testimony of which will go before the city council for consideration of a conditional use permit.

The Bellevue Chamber of Commerce and Seattle/King County Realtors have each voted to support the Bellevue School District bond and levy measures on the Feb. 11 special ballot. The Realtors have pledged their assistance for a get-out-the-vote campaign, according to a Tuesday press release from the organization. In explaining their support for the three measures, Realtor President Larry Christensen pointed to the correlation between quality schools and higher home values.

The Chamber and Realtors both pointed to the district’s consistent placement in national rankings of schools; Realtors pointed to Newsweek magazine’s 2013 list of America’s Best High Schools as an example.

Bellevue School District has three measures on the Feb. 11 ballot: renewal of an educational and operations levy to fund 27 percent of the operating budget, renewal of a technology and capital projects levy to fund equipment replacement and other projects, and a capital construction bond. The capital construction bond will fund the rebuilding of Bennett Elementary, Clyde Hill Elementary, Enatai Elementary, Puesta del Sol Middle, Stevenson Middle and Highland Middle. It will also fund improvements to International School and Bellevue Big Picture School, and add additional capacity at Newport High School and Woodridge Elementary.

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Odle is the last among phase two of the district’s capital construction projects campaign, funded by a $545 million bond approved by voters in 2008.

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“As planned, the school will increase in size from 700 to 1,200 students,” read a neighborhood letter submitted to the Bellevue City Council on July 18.

“This increase in student population, coupled with the planned opening of the vehicle entrance on (Northeast Fourth Street), will have a significant detrimental impact to the tranquility and quality of life of the Imperial East neighborhood.”

The letter, signed by residents of 75 households, listed hazards to children, other pedestrians and the road itself, argued to be too narrow for constant two-way traffic and containing no

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Responding to the selection, Habib said “I’m both honored and humbled to be part of Governing.com’s list of legislators to watch. I look forward to continuing my work this year helping to make Washington the best state in the nation for businesses, workers, and families.”

Habib grew up in Bellevue and attended Bellevue public schools. At age 8, he lost his eyesight to cancer, but he went on to college at Columbia, to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and to Yale Law School where he was editor of the law review.

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an interview with Fire Chief Michael Eisner. The academy boasts a 90-percent success rate.

"When we hire people, we hope it's a 25-30-year commitment," said Kroon. "This is a job that you come to for a career."

Steve Seiwerath had a career as a high school history teacher, but spent the past three years testing and volunteering in an effort to get into the academy and hired on to serve in Bellevue. Until his training is finished, Seiwerath will be staying with a cousin closer by than Tacoma, where the recruit said he has a wife and three kids waiting.

Bellevue recruit Daniel Sobol has worked as a firefighter

January 17, 2014 [13] before, but said he wanted the career advancement and level of training the city's department offers with "the amount of instructors they bring in from the area specializing in different areas."

Recruits are teamed together and each one is put in a temporary leadership position while at the academy, said Kroon, and many stand out immediately. Seiwerath said two weeks in and recruits are already starting study groups to get through the advanced course work. Despite being from different departments and training to be the best, he said there's no competition because everyone's goal is the same.

"It's kind of driving each other to be as good as they can be," he said.

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After school director Christine Hoffman sought approval from Early Learning, the program began beta testing at Bellevue Montessori in September 2012. The campus had already collected signatures electronically for years, Hoffman said, but staff needed to take an iPad to cars on foot.

“In terms of time, I guess I wouldn’t say (QManager) saves us 20 percent, or 30 percent or so on,” Hoffman said.

“The reason we like the system is more in terms of its efficiency in letting parents send their signatures from their smartphone, its dependability and security.”

The app became available for release in the latter half of 2013, charging schools a dollar per student per month for use of the service. Eleven private schools, including Bellevue Montessori, and two day cares are clients.

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