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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2015
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School district narrows redrawn Kirkland boundary options Revision made after parents object to sending kids to new schools
BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
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he Lake Washington School District has narrowed down its possible options for redrawn school zone boundaries while revising them based on public feedback. Among the biggest revisions is an option that would allow children in the Yarrow Ridge and Yarrow Bay Village
neighborhoods to remain within the Lakeview School Zone, rather than be sent to Ben Franklin Elementary as the three previous options would have dictated. While the first of two scenarios would still include moving 42 students, the second scenario would only move 13, and they would come from the Northup Way area. Both scenarios proposed would move 53
students out of the LWLC and into the Juanita Learning Community. But for Bellevue resident Deanna Androski, a parent trying to keep her two children in the Lakeview Zone, even if the school board voted for scenario two, it might still be a short-term victory. As she sees it, they might come back the next year and propose to move them again, reinitiating a conflict that
has spurred the idea of legal action and exhausted parents in her neighborhood. “Our goal is to not ever have to move our kids and not repeat this battle in 12-24 months from now,” she said. Androski, like many other Yarrow Ridge parents with kids in the Lakeview zone, has criticized the district’s rezoning proposals for what they perceive as only affecting the southend of the learning community while leaving the northeast area alone. She
also said their plans did not include a study of traffic data and how it would affect parents’ ability to get their kids to new schools. Androski also thinks that the revised scenario might just be there for the district to save face and so parents feel as though the district is listening to feedback.
“I’m still very concerned what they’re trying to do is pacify us and get us to calm down in the short term. I don’t want to have to fight this battle again… We’re still wondering why they’re choosing what they’re choosing and we’re not feeling like this is a victory, especially since we don’t know scenario two is going to pass. But we’re working as long and as hard at it as we can.” The Lake Washington [ more ZONE page 8 ]
Judge dismisses charges against Hope Solo around 1 a.m. when a male caller stated that a female at the residence was ‘hitting A Kirkland Municipal people’ and they could not Court judge has dismissed get her to stop or to leave the domestic assault charges house. against U.S. women’s When officers soccer team player entered the home and Kirkland resident they noticed Solo was Hope Solo. upset and intoxicated, Solo’s attorney had according to police previously filed a documents. They also motion to dismiss the Hope Solo observed visible injucharges, requesting two ries to Solo’s nephew counts of fourth degree and her sister. Solo’s assault be dropped, claiming nephew had visible scratch he has not been able to intermarks, was bleeding from his view the alleged victims. ear and his t-shirt was torn, The charges stemmed according to court docufrom an altercation with her ments. half sister and 17-year-old Solo has continued to play nephew during a party at a for the U.S. Women’s Soccer family home in Kirkland June Team and was allowed to 21. Kirkland police respondattend a training camp rather ed to the call of a disturbance than the hearing. BY TJ MARTINELL
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147 incidents in 3 years at drug house prior to raid BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
On Dec. 19, the Kirkland Police Department and the Eastside Narcotics Task Force (ENTF) raided a home on the 8200 block of NE 142nd Street. The Kirkland Code Enforcement later posted Do Not Occupy signs on the doors, and the city is now seek-
ing an abatement on the property. For the Finn Hill residents who lived in the neighborhood, this meant an end to three years of making phone calls reporting 147 suspicious incidents. The Dec. 19 raid was the second time a SWAT raid had taken place at the residence, the first [ more DRUGS page 3 ]
Record renaissance Vortex Music and Movies owner Daren Compton has the only independent record store on the Eastside and is expanding to a second location in Kirkland. TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter
Kirkland’s Vortex Music and Movies expands to new location BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
The Eastside’s only independent record store, Vortex Music and Movies on Totem Lake Boulevard, is planning to expand to a new storefront next month, which will also coincide with its third anniversary. Boosted by a returning popularity of vintage vinyl records, owner Daren Compton said he hopes to attract more customers at the new location near the Value Village on 12400
116th Ave NE, which offers more parking space and has more visibility. Despite the rise of digital downloads for both music and movies, Compton’s store is proof that people have an affinity for physical products. Most of his sales, both online and in person, are vinyl. “The collective market has given me a boost,” he said. Compton sees Record Store Day, which was officially founded in 2007, as a sign of its revival after vinyl
underwent a sudden decline in popularity between 1988 and 1991. With many of the records supplied through his own personal collection amassed over 40 years, filling up storage units and garages, the new store will have more space to display them. A former chef at Merrill Gardens, he grew up on classic rock like Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and The Who, whose records adorn the store along with other classic rock bands. He also remembers that the first
album purchased for him at age of 7 was the Beatles Sgt. Peppers during the fall of 1967. “I made sure it was in stereo,” he said. “I got the mono version later. But that album was truly meaningful art. It didn’t have the typical love songs and singles.” “My original thought was that the brick and mortar store would drive the website but I am rethinking that because I think the web drives the business,” Compton told the Reporter in 2011. “We have an active audience that orders online.” [ more VORTEX page 2 ]