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Daughters reminisce about their parents after fatal crash ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@redmond-reporter.com
As Lynn Wood and Sandy Frazier look around their childhood Redmond home, memories of their parents come flooding back to them. On one wall, there’s a purple ribbon that Joan Kinger received at a fair for baking. Her daughters say their mother also earned copious first-place blue ribbons for baking and canning during her lifetime.
Frazier points at a photo of Stanley Kinger, who is smiling with his eyes twinkling. That’s a typical portrait of her dad, she says, matching his smile for a second. The two sisters — along with their husbands — were back in Redmond to go through their parents’ belongings following a head-on car crash that claimed their lives on June 16 on Highway 522 near Maltby. Joan, 76, a passenger in a 2007 Ford Fusion, died at the scene.
Stanley, 79, was the driver and was transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle where he also died. A 1-year-old girl, who was a passenger in the other car, was taken to Harborview and died at 4:03 p.m. on June 20, according to Washington State Patrol trooper Keith Leary, who was notified by a Harborview staff member. The other driver, 24, of a Mitsubishi Eclipse was listed in serious condition in intensive care at Harborview at the Reporter’s press time.
The collision occurred around 3:20 p.m. east of Fales Road. Troopers believe that the driver of the Mitsubishi was heading east and crossed over onto the westbound shoulder. The Mitsubishi hit a traffic barrel that was in some grass beyond the shoulder, and the driver overcorrected before crashing into the Kingers — longtime Redmond residents who moved their family to their Education Hill home on Northeast 107th Street in 1967. [ more KINGERS page 6 ]
Girls get their game on at hoops camp
Suspects target stabbing victim on river trail for allegedly destroying tent SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
Left, Former Redmond High School star Ashley Graham, who played professionally in Romania last season, discusses an upcoming drill with girls in grades 3-5 on Wednesday during the Redmond Girls Basketball Camp in the high school gym. Above, Rylie Bird drives to the hoop. ANDY NYSTROM, Redmond Reporter
Bike Park should be ready to roll in the fall SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
After five years of planning, an appeals process, public meetings and waiting, the Redmond Bike Park is finally on its way to becoming a reality. Work parties for the park began earlier this month and will continue throughout the summer as the park is scheduled to open in September. The next work parties are scheduled for Saturday
and Sunday with more scheduled for July 19-20 and 26-27 and Aug. 8-9 and 16-17. All work parties run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be held at the park site. Parking is available in Hartman Park on 172nd Avenue Northeast off Northeast 104th Street. The work parties have been made up of volunteers from the community and city staff, with help from Hilride Progression
Development Group — a California-based consultant group specializing in developing destinations, riding areas and bike parks. David Shaw, the City of Redmond project manager in charge of the Bike Park, said the work parties have had anywhere between 25 and 60 volunteers and they have logged 550 volunteer hours so far. “We’ve actually done a lot of work,” he said.
The fruits of all that labor so far has resulted in the start of the park’s jump routes and the beginning of a skills trail loop. The Bike Park will feature two separate jump routes. One will be for beginning and intermediate riders. The second route will be for more advanced riders. “That’s a really cool feature of this park,” Shaw said. “It accommodates all levels.” [ more BIKES page 7 ]
Joan and Stanley Kinger
Two to four times a week, Eva Moon walks along the Sammamish River Trail in Redmond. Sometimes the Redmond resident will walk by herself, but most of the time, she’s with a friend. “The visibility is good and there are usually other people in view,” she said. Because of this, she said she feels safe doing so. But recent events along the river — on the trail on the west side of the river — have her rethinking walking on her own.
THE INCIDENT
On June 13, three 20-year-old men allegedly assaulted and stabbed a 28-year-old man while walking along the trail. The man was stabbed and/ or slashed in the neck, face and torso four to six times and had walked to an office building adjacent to the trail, located in the 8400 block of 154th Avenue Northeast. The victim arrived at the office building at 3:07 p.m. Several employees found him, administered first aid and called 911. The
victim was then treated by Redmond Fire Department (RFD) personnel and immediately transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He was released from the hospital on June 14. Redmond police responded to the scene within minutes and located and detained three suspects — Ronald Fox, Edwin Foster and Trevor Utley. The three men were charged with second-degree assault on June 18. According to King County charging documents, “Foster lured (the victim) to an outside location where the other two defendants were lying in wait, ready to attack (the victim). After first tasing (the victim) with a stun gun, all three men attacked him.” Documents state that one stab “barely missed his spinal cord.”
THE SUSPECTS
Foster, who has a prior conviction for seconddegree burglary, admitted to planning the attack and to luring the victim to the outside location, documents state, while Utley admitted to stabbing the victim. Charging papers [ more STABBING page 6 ]