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13 people infected with E. coli traced to food vendor
Dawn Sanders holds a sick infant in the Ba Vi Orphanage in Vietnam in October 2014. The longtime Sammamish resident and her husband have been living abroad in the country for a year and a half.
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As of Tuesday, 13 people are affected by an E. coli outbreak that was linked to a local Mexican food vendor in August. Six cases were reported early last week; public health officials expected to find others infected as they continued investigating the outbreak. “These people are not newly ill, but rather people who were unable to be reached during our initial interview process,” Lindsay Bosslet, a public information officer for Public Health — Seattle and King County, wrote in a statement. SEE E. COLI, 8
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The Issaquah City Council on Tuesday night voted 6-1 to enforce a 30 mph speed limit on Newport Way Northwest from State Route 900 to the Lakemont Interchange beginning Sept. 22 — a 25 percent reduction on the current 40 mph limit. Residents of the Newport corridor, speaking in ad-
vance of the vote, praised city lawmakers for taking action on speed limits in the aftermath of the death of 4-yearold Haochen Xu outside the Summerhill neighborhood. But many added that the speed reduction seemed like a reactionary measure that still left much to be done — such as turn lanes and stop signs at intersections,
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Back on the Plateau
Longtime Sammamish resident returns briefly from volunteer work in Vietnam BY MEGAN CAMPBELL ISSAQUAH/SAMMAMISH REPORTER
Sammamish resident Dawn Sanders did eventually find a way to spend her time in Vietnam while her husband worked on a Peace Winds America initiative there. She volunteered at a local orphanage, traded English lessons to Vietnamese students for their help bargaining in the local markets and became accustomed to a simpler lifestyle more than 8,000 miles away from the states. After spending a year and a half in the country, former city volunteer coordinator and “champion of nonprofits and charities,” as Sammamish Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Deb Sogge calls her, is back in town for a visit. Her first full day back and she was at Sammamish Nights Aug. 22, which she helped create over a kitchen table many years ago with Sogge. That Sunday, Aug. 30, she went to Costco and just stood there, marveling
at all the stuff. Over the next month or so she’ll see her children and grandchildren, squeezing coffee visits in with old friends. She’ll return to Vietnam in October, probably. But her vacation to the Plateau is about more than socializing with old friends and family members. Sanders is also rallying financial support to aid her and her husband’s efforts in the port city of Haiphong, located in northern Vietnam, where they have been living since late spring 2014. While she had visited the country before, living and working there was a different matter. “Everyone tells us when working in a developing country, you have to have a lot of patience,” Sanders said. This proved true, as Sanders was initially overcome by the sudden change. “The days are very long,” she said. “It was really overwhelming at the beginning.”
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