Bellevue Reporter, March 20, 2015

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Political expression

Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright talks brooches at BAM exhibit

Business [ 07 ] Chick-fil-A campout

‘First 100’ selected to camp outside new restaurant to get first taste in April

Sports

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Knights set sights on title

Newport girls tennis team has a talented roster of athletes

Arts [15 ]

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Eastside Winter Shelter nearing April closure

USPS looking for new main office Downtown space too expensive BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER

Nonprofit looking for year-round facility to aid homeless population BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER

A group of men arrived at the old International Paper building early last Thursday night, all of their belongings either strapped to their backs or by their feet. As they waited for warm food and shelter, they shared stories about their day, mutual acquaintances and where they’ll go when the Eastside Winter Shelter closes at the end of April. “It gives us warm meals and a place to stay,” said Brian Jones, who bikes to the winter shelter from Redmond. He’s been in and out of the Congregation for the Homelessness’ shelter program for about seven years. The city began operating a severe weather shelter in 2007 — after a homeless man died from exposure Christmas night — later expanding the program to all winter. The city leases space at the International Paper building from owner Sound Transit, which plans to use the site for an operations and maintenance facility in the SEE SHELTER, 5

Broadway talent returns

Brandon Macz, Bellevue Reporter

(Top) Volunteers serve guests food at the Eastside Winter Shelter on March 12. (Above) Rico Miles has been staying at the Eastside Winter Shelter for more than two weeks in an old office cubicle.

The U.S. Postal Service is searching for a new location for its main office in Bellevue, the current downtown site no longer affordable and providing fewer services than it once did. USPS spokesman Ernie Swanson said the main office currently only serves as a retail store, letter carriers having moved into the Carrier Annex in Factoria several years ago. USPS had been locked into an “attractive” long-term lease for the main office downtown, Swanson said, but the postal service decided to move when the new cost was determined too high, Swanson said. “It goes way back to when Bellevue was way smaller than it is now,” he said of the original lease terms. “We just aren’t going to be able to stay there at the price it’s at now.” Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci sought opinions from city councilmembers Monday about how to respond to a letter from the postal service expressing its interest in a property on Northeast Bel-Red Road. The letter — dated Feb. 24 — states no action will be taken for at least 30 days (March 27). Bellevue Postmaster Zachary Carter said he’s assessed about a dozen different properties and likes the Bel-Red property best because it’s a good size for the postal service.

From discarded plastic to 3D ‘ink’ BY JOSH STILTS BELLEVUE REPORTER

Brandon Ivie back at 5th Avenue to direct ‘Jasper in Deadland’

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A group of six entrepreneurial inventors from Bellevue are working to preserve the planet, one piece of plastic at a time. Prototype Northwest started as a crowd-funded group with the goal of building a sustainable method for creating filament or “ink” for 3D printers. The “ink” for 3D printers is a plastic filament that is continuously heat-welded together through a computer-controlled

process to “print” almost any three-dimensionally shaped object. But, in the process of developing a bench top filament extruder, a device that could transform ground up recycled plastic into spools of “ink,” the group discovered they were on the verge of something much bigger. Founder Liz Havlin said when she first discovered what 3D printing was several years ago, she was immediately struck by

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Prototype Northwest’s owners, D.K., Tristan Jones, Trevor Jahnke, Liz Havlin, Colby Jones and Henry Roberts explain how they can make 3D printer ‘ink’ out of recyclable plastics.

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