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New LWSD boundary raises concerns SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
Some Redmond-area parents in the Lake Washington School District (LWSD) are concerned about what the future may hold for their children as there will be new boundaries to help accommodate the district’s growing
population. Enrollment has increased by close to 2,000 students over the last three years to 26,708, according to an LWSD press release, so a process to change neighborhood school boundaries was held beginning in September 2014. That process concluded Monday night as
the district’s board of directors voted unanimously to adopt Superintendent Dr. Traci Pierce’s recommendation for new boundary lines, which will go into effect in September. “The changes enable the district to most efficiently use current school buildings to house the growing
enrollment,” the release states. “We have this issue because we have more and more students coming to our schools,” noted Jackie Pendergrass, president of the LWSD board, in the release. “They deserve to have a place to be educated.” [ more LWSD page 2]
2.8-magnitude earthquake strikes near Redmond ANDY NYSTROM anystrom@redmond-reporter.com
Several employees at Nintendo of America Inc. felt it. Jim Gibons, senior buyer at the company located at 4600 150th Ave. N.E. in Redmond, said the employees noted that their computer monitors shook at approximately 9:37 a.m. Thursday morning during a 2.8-magnitude earthquake that struck north to northwest of the city, according to the United States Geological Survey website. [ more QUAKE page 2 ]
Honored for saving father’s life Community bands
together to support restaurant owner after accident the area near 224th Avenue Northeast and up the street from Northeast Novelty Hill Members of the Redmond Road. “She took out the front Ridge community are reachglass door, went through ing out to support Himitsu the dining area and the car Teriyaki owner Sue Lee and landed in the kitchen area her family in the (about 30 feet into form of cash donathe restaurant).” tions and encourAt the Reporter’s agement following deadline, the an accident at their restaurant has not eatery last week. yet reopened. After driving Lee’s insurance out of a Chevron will cover the mulgas station/car titude of repairs, Sue Lee wash, witnesses according to her said a 70-yearfriend and fellow old woman, Jo Redmond Ridge Trager, lost control of her resident Christine Musser, car, striking a post indicator who has reached out to start valve in the parking lot and a fundraising site for the Lee ramming into the front of the family at gogetfunding.com/ Redmond Ridge restaurant project/help-the-lee-familyat 22350 Northeast Marketduring-himitsu-reconstrucplace Drive on Jan. 22. tion. When the accident oc“It’s more of a thank you curred at about 9:36 a.m., from the community to help no one was inside Himitsu ease this time for you,” said Teriyaki or near the front and Musser, who met Lee seven the woman was uninjured, years ago when their children according to Bryan Loney, attended kindergarten toacting lieutenant for Redgether. “She’s always helping mond Fire Station 18, which out people. (For example) responded to the call. If someone was not able to “Witnesses said the car afford something to eat, she’d was accelerating around give them some food.” the corner,” Loney said of [ more HIMITSU page 8 ] ANDY NYSTROM
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Danci and Dave Underwood share a special moment while answering the media’s questions during a Jan. 23 gathering to honor Danci for saving her father’s life by performing CPR at their Redmond home last April. SAMANTHA PAK, Redmond Reporter
Rose Hill third-grader followed CPR instructions during 911 call SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
One day in April 2014, Danci Underwood was at home with her father and younger sister. Their father, Dave Underwood, was asleep on the couch in their Redmond home, but when Danci tried to wake him up, he would not respond. He had gone into cardiac arrest. Danci, who was 7 years old at the time, went to a neighbor’s house to get help, but no one was home. She then tried to call her mother, but she did not pick up the phone. So Danci, now 8 years old, then did something she learned from her mother.
“She told me if there’s an emergency, call 911,” said the third-grader from Rose Hill Elementary School in Kirkland. “I told (the dispatcher) that something’s wrong with my dad, ‘Can you please help me?’”
FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS
Margaux Lallas, the NORCOM 911 dispatcher who answered Danci’s call, gave her a number of instructions. She told the girl to find a piece of mail in the house for their address so she could send first responders. Lallas also told Danci to unlock the front door so they could get into the house when they arrived. After that, she asked the
girl to hold the phone up to her father’s mouth to hear his breathing and then gave Danci step-by-step instructions on how to perform hands-only CPR until first responders arrived. Lallas said she and Danci counted together the number of chest compressions the girl did until the paramedics arrived. They counted up to about 135. “She did everything right,” Lallas said about Danci. “She was as calm as can be.” While Danci was following Lallas’s directions, her younger sister Daela Underwood, who was 4 at the time, got scared and hid in a bathroom. [ more LIFE page 8 ]