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A walk among the hungry BY DANIEL NASH ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
On the evening of March 6, Sammamish drivers were treated to a strange sight: More than 100 children and teens burdened with backpacks, duffels and sleeping bags walking in a columnar mass north alongside 228th Avenue Southeast. The walkers, each one a member of a local church youth congregation, were on a nearly 2-mile trek from Pine Lake Covenant Church to Sammamish Presbyterian Church, where they would camp overnight
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among the pews. The more adventurous among them would sleep in “Famineville,” a tent community on the church’s back lawn (next to an unlocked door for those anyone who found they couldn’t brave the cold all night). Among the group, the walkers pass the time with talk about school, video games and favorite television shows. A few start up a game of I Spy. They display the enthusiasm that might go hand-in-hand with an
The morning of March 5, Jaime Baker sat at the front of a basement meeting room in Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church talking to a group of high school students. Baker’s not a teacher. He’s the co-owner of Eastside Bavarian, an independent Issaquah auto shop specializing in German cars. But last Thursday he put down his socket wrench to talk to students about the business — specifically, the educational pathway to becoming a mechanic. “The days when you can drop out of school … and go to work at a shop are long gone,” he said. Baker’s plainspoken about the challenges that lay ahead for someone who chooses to become an import mechanic. An associate degree with an emphasis
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A joint team of investigators from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as local law enforcement and the Washington State Patrol, uncovered an underground bunker allegedly used by a bank robber. Bradley Steven Robinett, now 45, was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” after having spent the last five years as a fugitive. The roughly 10-by-8-foot bunker was dug into the hillside at 3500 East Lake Sammamish Parkway SE. This was one of two bunkers located in Washington, Sammamish PD Sgt. Peter Horvath said. Officers removed several totes from the bunker, which officers think had been abandoned for several years. The totes’ contents are unknown at this time. Robinett was convicted of bank robbery in 2004. He was released from a federal prison in Arizona in 2009 on the condition he report to a halfway house. Police encountered Robinett twice in 2009. In September 2009 he fled police during a car chase on Bainbridge Island. In November 2009, state patrolmen attempted to corner Robinett at a Bellevue park and ride, where the suspect rammed a patrol vehicle before fleeing the area. He was located and apprehended in Hillsboro, Oregon in June 2014. He remains in custody in Oregon.
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