Issaquah/Sammamish Reporter, September 26, 2014

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Friday, September 26, 2014

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Two charged in Samm. killing BY BRYAN TRUDE ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER

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Issaquah groups offer help to homeless, others BY CRAIG GROSHART ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER

It is Friday morning at the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank and the shelves are looking pretty empty. For Executive Director Cori Walters, it means she’s doing her job. Each day, Monday through Thursday, more than 100 households in Issaquah and Sammamish will find the food and clothing they need to survive. Though many people see the communities as affluent suburbs, Walters knows better. “We live in a community where social/economic life is very diverse,” Walters said. “Many have a lot, but there are people who are truly homeless or couch surfing.” To help meet the need, approximately 150 community volunteers a week refill the food and clothing bank’s shelves. SEE FOOD, 8

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Goliath will return to this year’s “Nightmare at Beaver Lake” haunted house after disappearing last year for repairs and refurbishing. Goliath made his first post-repair appearance at Seattle’s Crypticon convention in May.

Goliath Lives Again Animatronic gargoyle returning to “Nightmare at Beaver Lake” BY BRYAN TRUDE ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER

Like the zombies, ghouls, and ghosts that infest the world of the living at Halloween, a Beaver Lake legend will rise again as the Nightmare descends on Sammamish. Goliath, the animatronic gargoyle will make its triumphant return when “Nightmare at Beaver Lake” reopens Friday, Oct. 17, at Beaver Lake Park, 2656 244th Ave. S.E., in Sammamish. The two-week event is presented by the Sammamish Rotary Club and Swedish Hospital. As a major fundraiser for the Rotary, “Nightmare” funds Rotary projects throughout the year, including scholarship programs

at local schools, aid for local charities, and assistance for a pair of communities adopted by the Rotary in Nicaragua. “It started as something to give the kids to do during the Halloween season, and it’s mushroomed into a huge event,” Sammamish Rotary President Cary Young said. “Last year, we had more than 13,000 patrons.” A fan favorite since the annual Halloween carnival opened in 2004, Goliath was absent from last year’s “Nightmare” after years of weather, wear and tear forced organizers to sideline Goliath for extensive repairs and refurbishing. “Our partners, Scare Productions, brought up a guy from Hollywood

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that does special effects, and he rehabbed Goliath,” Young said. “Nightmare” functions much like a haunted house, with attendees walking through a trail of gory and scary scenes meant to frighten and horrify. The first 45 minutes every night is set aside for families with young children, with actors toning down the scare factor until the “full fright” experience kicks in at 8 p.m. On average, the Rotary spends about $40,000 on the event. In 2013, Young said the Rotary profited $187,000 after expenses. All staff and actors in the show are volunteers drawn from local schools and groups.

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King County prosecutors have filed charges against the two men accused of killing a Sammamish man in his home Wednesday, Sept. 17. Kevin David Patterson, 20, and Christopher John Shade, 18, were charged by King County prosecutors in Superior Court on Friday, Sept. 19, with first-degree murder in the death of Richard Bergesen, 57, of Sammamish. The two also were charged with first-degree robbery and theft of a motor vehicle. Bergesen was killed late Tuesday or KEVIN early Wednesday by a blunt force impact PATTERSON to the head, according to an autopsy report released by the King County Medical Examiner’s office Sept. 19. In statements to prosecutors, Patterson and Shade both said that the other beat Bergesen to death with a shovel. The pair then stole Bergesen’s car, crossing the Canadian border on a dirt road north of Spokane, according to charging papers. In Canada, the two used Bergesen’s credit card to purchase prepaid cell phones, a laptop and


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