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From the ashes
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Breaking new ground
Bellevue football investigation stems from 2014 incident BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER
The investigation into the Bellevue High football program and allegations of illegal recruiting and
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off-season training emerged after an incident in which a volunteer trainer allegedly swore at players and challenged a student to fight, according to Bellevue School District documents.
The documents cite a December 9, 2014 incident when Tracy Ford is alleged to have called students “bitches,” challenged a student to fight and had to be separated from the student. Ford says the allega-
tions against him are false, and that the incident did not get heated until the student lashed out when Ford told him he was a good player, but a SEE FOOTBALL, 11
Sound Transit Newport alum assists in earthquake aftermath taking input on ST3 plans Board eyes November 2016 for funding measure BY BRANDON MACZ BELLEVUE REPORTER
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Bellevue boys take fourth consecutive Class 3A title at state meet in Tacoma
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Sound Transit may still be waiting for authorization from the Legislature to seek $15 billion in voter-approved funding for its third set of long-range capital projects, but planning for the future of public transportation remains on schedule. The Sound Transit board last month released a draft list of potential projects it would ask voters to fund through a November 2016 ballot measure. That list will be shored up in August and the projects vetted over the next year, said Karen Kitsis, planning and project development manager for Sound Transit. Kitsis said the agency added back several projects that were removed from ST2 funding due to the recession, as well as other light rail and transit investments on the Eastside. Other interests include Eastside connectivity and supporting expansion — more maintenance facilities, services and studies — as Sound Transit looks down the road at ST4. One project would extend East Link light rail past its current ST2 stopping point in Redmond — along State SEE TRANSIT, 6
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Nepalese children relax near rubble on May 9. Around 8,500 people died in the earthquakes, and thousands more have been displaced.
Nepal needs long-term solutions, she says BY ALLISON DEANGELIS BELLEVUE REPORTER
Six days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, Katie Fischer-Price left family and friends to travel to the crumbling country where her father had died nearly 20 years prior. “I’d never done anything like this before, so it wasn’t an easy
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decision. But it was something I felt like I needed to do,” she said. “It was probably the scariest thing I’ve ever been through, though.” Fischer-Price, the daughter of late mountain climber Scott Fischer, had originally planned to visit Nepal and her father’s memorial on Mount Everest with her brother, Andy, and a documentary crew. Instead, Fischer-Price connected with two nonprofits she knew through her father’s company, and flew nearly 7,000 miles to put her skills as a
psychiatric nurse to use. During her first few weeks in Nepal, she conducted medical assessments, dropped off food supplies and assisted at a refugee camp. In one village in particular, 400 people had died and 90 percent of the homes had been destroyed. “With the monsoon approaching, there’s a fear that more damages will be caused by the flood and landslides,” said Dawa Geljen SEE EARTHQUAKE, 7
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