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Arts and Entertainment | June 2015
Happy Endings She’s a novelist. He’s a screenwriter. Now they’re making a life together in Bellevue. By Megan Campbell
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t’s the fifth century in Ireland. That’s as specific as the timing gets, because that’s how legends work. St. Brigit, having earned a place in the Catholic church after being born a slave, was popular among the poor and known for her compassion toward women. She did annoy St. Patrick, though. Her complaints about women forced to wait around for proposals that might never come irked him to such an extent he declared that every four years, on leap day, a woman could propose to a man. Now it’s Feb. 29, 2004 in Los Angeles, the night of the Academy Awards. Screenwriter Stephen Susco had just returned from Tokyo after wrapping up production drafts for the 2004 horror film The Grudge. He began researching “The Ladies’ Privilege” for another project and, offhand, shared the legend with his girlfriend Bridget Foley, a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Public Hearing 7 p.m. Monday, June 1, the Issaquah City Council will hold a public hearing for its six-year transportation improvement program covering 2016-2021. A copy of Issaquah’s proposed TIP can be found with the May 4 Council Agenda on issaquah.civicweb.net. - Daniel Nash
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The Creekside Elementary School Marimba Ensemble drew a crowd on opening day for the Sammamish Farmers Market, May 20. The event saw a record-breaking turnout of about 1,500 people, Sammamish Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Deb Sogge said. This year’s mild weather meant shoppers saw strawberries and cherries. The market will host four new farmers this year. There are also new dinner options with the Flying Kalache’s and Big House BBQ. The Sammamish Farmers Market is every Wednesday until Sept. 30 from 4-8 p.m. at the Sammamish City Hall Plaza.
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The ghosts of Squak (and Gilman) past
EF&R to lose deputy chief
BY DANIEL NASH ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
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Come June, Eastside Fire & Rescue will be down a man. Deputy Chief Bud Backer will be leaving Eastside Fire to accept a position with East Pierce Fire and Rescue as fire chief June 15. His last day with EF&R will be June 10. “I’m pretty excited about it,” Backer said. “It’s a pretty good feeling.” The East Pierce department opened its search nationally. Backer was one of 21 initial candidates and among the five SEE EF&R, 4
A 46-year-old bank robber whose underground bunker was discovered in Sammamish earlier this year was sentenced to prison on May 18. Bradley Steven Robinett, 46, featured on “America’s Most Wanted” in 2011, pled guilty in January to escape, being a felon in possession of a firearm and interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. U.S. District Judge James L. Robart sentenced Robinett to 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, as well as $12,886 in restitution last week.
Erica Maniez walked through a house on Southeast Andrews Street and into the backyard. The house — a 130-year-old wooden two-story — was the Gilman Town Hall Museum and the backyard contained a low-slung concrete bunker. Maniez, the director of the Issaquah History Museums, walked inside. She came out holding a boot with spiky nails poking out of its soles. By this time, most of the dozen people that had been milling around the exhibits in the museum had come outside, forming a loose semi-circle around Maniez. She spoke. “This concrete building was the city of Issaquah’s second jail,” she said. “You might have noticed I said ‘second.’ When we were at the hatchery and we walked by the white building that has Rogue Ales and Spirits inside now, right around there, there used to be a small wooden building that the city used as its first jail. “Now, this thing I’m holding in my hands,” she said,
holding up her boot. “This is a cork boot.” Cork boots, she continued, were necessary footwear for loggers. The nails in their soles allowed loggers to penetrate wood and earth with their footsteps and create traction on rain-slick surfaces. At one time, many loggers called Issaquah home. Many of those loggers drank. And on any given night, some of them would be thrown into jail until they sobered up. “One night, two men were put into the first jail after a night of drinking and the guard forgot to take away their cork boots,” Maniez said. “So he left and they kicked down the building. Then they went home for the night.” The story was just one told over the course of Saturday’s Issaquah History Walk, part of a roughly monthly series of tours put on by the Issaquah History Museums from March to October. Maniez led Saturday’s walk around Olde Town. On June 20, museum Docent Doug Bristol will lead a tour through Grand Ridge Park to an old coal mining site. SEE HISTORY WALK, 3
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