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Kirkland Parkplace Cinema goes digital City helps offset cost by forgoing seat tax
BY RAECHEL DAWSON rdawson@kirklandreporter.com
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he Kirkland City Council approved an ordinance that prohibits the sale of recreational marijuana in the Market Street Corridor (MSC) 1 zone for six months. The Council passed Ordinance O-4434 on a 5-2 vote after a public hearing at the Feb. 4 meeting. Councilman Toby Nixon proposed to remove the MSC 2 zone from the original ordinance and the motion passed. With the amendment, Nixon, Councilman Dave Asher, Councilwoman Doreen Marchione, Deputy Mayor Penny Sweet and Mayor Amy Walen voted ‘yes’ while Councilwoman Shelley Kloba and Councilman Jay Arnold voted against the ordinance. The city looked at regulating marijuana sales along Market Street after several residents of the area voiced opposition to potential pot shops in the heavily residential area. Eight citizens testified in favor of the interim regulations and three testified against it, including a couple who had hoped to open a marijuana retail shop in Kirkland. The couple said that out of the 39 people who applied, only seven are in viable places. Of those seven, only one land owner on Market Street is willing to lease to a marijuana retailer, they said. During the next six months, the city will work to prepare zoning code amendments for the MSC 1 zone. If needed, the City Council may extend the interim regulations for another six months after another public hearing. The MSC 1 zone extends along Market Street from Eighth Avenue to 19th Ave.
BY RAECHEL DAWSON rdawson@kirklandreporter.com
Fit one more for a Super Bowl ring Kirkland resident Terry Flecther helps to dress up the Cow and Coyote statue in downtown Kirkland for the Super Bowl with a “Championship Ring.” The tradition paid off this weekend as the Seattle Seahawks defeated the Denver Broncos 43-8 to bring home the region’s first Lombardi Trophy. MATT PHELPS, Kirkland Reporter
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nastics after a friend took her to one of her practices when she was in first grade. “I saw everyone doing it and flipping around and thought it looked super cool,” Millie said. “The first time I tried it out I remember thinking I wanted to keep doing this.” Millie enrolled in a club at Northwest Aerials and placed well in several competitions before stopping her training to move to Ethiopia with her parents for missionary work. Her family lived there for two years. “I didn’t want to go at first, but when I got there I really started to like the culture and the people that were there a lot,” Millie said. “It was a great experience.” Millie was eager to [ more GYM page 17 ]
Juanita High School junior Millie Andrilenas practices her floor routine during a recent practice. SARAH KEHOE, Reporter Newspapers
In the small New York town where Jeff Cole grew up, the movie house was the place to be. Located at town hall, the community would pay 60 cents to watch a 16 millimeter film while sitting on hard wooden benches. Cole, the owner of Kirkland Parkplace Cinema 6, is the first to admit times have changed in the movie theater business -- some for the good, others for the bad. But on Jan. 21, the Kirkland City Council helped keep those changes looking positive when they passed an amendment to the Kirkland Municipal Code, which authorized Cole and co-owner, wife Chris McKenzie, to utilize the seat tax within ticket prices toward the cost of going digital for three years. “I’d been talking to our mayor at the time, Joan McBride -- she’s a big movie fan and comes to the theater a lot,” Cole said. “She had talked to me about her concern that the movie theater would close.” With the knowledge that theaters across the country were switching to digital projectors versus the 35 millimeter film equipment, Cole told McBride of the big capital investment and the difficulties his business could face. Then in December 2013, Paramount Pictures announced it would stop releasing movies on film. Their last 35-millimeter film was “Anchorman 2: [ more MOVIE page 3 ]