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Friday, November 7, 2014
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BRYAN TRUDE, Issaquah/Sammamish Reporter
Kay Barber-Eck shows off a toy and activity packet for 10- to 12-year-old girls in the processing center of Eastside Baby Corner. Operations Manager Madeline Fish is in the background.
Pure joy in the warehouse BY BRYAN TRUDE ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
Heroin on the Eastside Page 6
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For 12 hours a week Kay Barber-Eck trades the office environment of Microsoft, where she works as an executive assistant, to work in a warehouse sorting toys and books. No, it’s not some part-time gig to make ends meet: Eck is a volunteer, helping the Eastside Baby Corner in Issaquah sort through the thousands of items donated each week to help Eastside children stay warm, stay fed and stay entertained. Eck, an Issaquah resident, was prompted to volunteer at the center after 20 years of volunteering with the Issaquah School District, which came to an end after the last
of her children graduated. “What prompted me to come here was the empty nest,” Eck said. “I no longer had the schools to volunteer for.” A search of Microsoft’s internal volunteerism database revealed the Eastside Baby Corner to Eck, who is now in her second year of volunteer service. In 2013, Eck spent 221 hours helping at the center. Each week, Eck helps to stuff more than 200 bags with toys, books, clothes and shoes to fill orders placed by service groups throughout the Eastside. The 169 programs and groups that receive help from Eastside Baby Corner include schools, hospitals, the YWCA and the Salvation Army. Despite SEE ECK, 2
Initial results for the Nov. 4 general election arrived Tuesday night and voters in the 5th legislative district were favoring Republican state house incumbents Jay Rodne and Chad Magendanz over challengers Essie Hicks and David Spring. U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert was likewise ahead of Jason Ritchie. In the race for state legistative district No. 5’s first representative position, Rodne was leading Hicks with more than 58 percent of the King County vote. In the race for the district’s second representative position, Magendanz led Spring with nearly 59 percent of the county vote. U.S. Congressional District No. 8 showed similar figures for Reichert, who was leading Ritchie with more than 59 percent of the county vote. Ritchie conceded the race in a statement issued Tuesday night. “While the results of this year’s election are not what we hoped for, this fight is not over,” Ritchie said in his speech. “I’m going to be working with the people of this district every step of the way the next two years and I am committed to running again in 2016.” Initiative 1351, mandating smaller class sizes, was seeing a close race on the first night. The measure was failing by just under 50 percent statewide. But King County voters were showing a slight preference for the measure at more than 53 percent. Initiative 591, blocking state-to-local controls on firearms sales, was failing with more than 45 percent of statewide “Yes” votes. In King County, fewer than a third of ballots counted supported the measure. On the flipside, Initiative 594 requiring background checks on private firearm sales was passing with more than SEE ELECTION, 2
Threat investigation delays Pacific Cascade school Sheriff ’s investigation into online threats will likely lead to felony charges for 13-year-old girl BY BRYAN TRUDE & DANIEL NASH ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
An investigation by King County Sheriff ’s deputies delayed the opening of Pacific Cascade Middle School in connection
to shooting threats seen online. Monday evening deputies responded to a caller who reported reading threats online. The caller, a teacher at Pacific Cascade, received the threats through a web site used by students to turn
in homework. The threats regarded the shooting of specific individuals who work and study at Pacific Cascade. Following a nightlong investigation, deputies identified a 13-year-old female student as the suspect. They contacted her and her parents at home and determined she had no access to firearms. SEE THREATS, 2
Pacific Cascade Middle School
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