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Lake Washington student covering presidential election BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com
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s the presidential candidates fight for their respective party’s nomination, a Kirkland student is among the reporters covering the campaign. Gabryelle Matz-Carter, a 16-year-old junior at Lake Washington High
School and class president, will be covering the presidential election race through Envision’s Chase the Race 2016, which was created for students to participate in the political process and encourage youth to get involved as well. Matz-Carter, who is interested in pursuing law, said she first learned
about the initiative “I feel that law and through another reporting and one of Envision’s journalism programs at Stanbecame kind of ford, after which easy connection the opportunity piece between the came available. two,” she said. “It Although jourkind of all ties in nalism and law together. I feel like Gabryelle may not seem relaws are the lanMatz-Carter lated, she said her guage of politics. passion for one That’s the lingo spilled over to the other. they’re using. That’s my
translation factor. I think law is a huge factor in that and the foundation of it.” She also was interested in getting involved due to her current involvement politically on a hyper-local level as class president. “I’ve always been interested in social justice and what’s going on,” she
said. “You have all these top politicians trying to make changes. I’m really used to being a voice for the crowd and a voice for student body.” She’ll also be reporting on the final Democratic debate March 9, where she’ll get a chance to interview a candidate, depending on who has [ more ELECTION page 3 ]
Save Our Trail pens Sound Transit letter in opposition to transit conditional support for various candidate projects slated for the ST3 ballot Now that the city measure expected to be of Kirkland and other voted on this fall. While Eastside cities have sent the city originally pushed letters to Sound Transit for BRT on the corridor expressing their support and approved a $250,000 for rapid transit on the study to bolster its stance, Cross Kirkland Corridor it has shifted into a (CKC), the organized more open-minded opposition has its view of light rail CROSS KIRKLAND as more and more own action. In a letter dated details emerge Jan. 26, Save Our from Sound TranTrail, which opposes sit. any transit on the The candidate CKC, wrote to the Sound projects for ST3 include Transit Board of Directors putting BRT on the CKC urging them to instead and I-405 and light rail on focus on getting bus rapid the CKC. If approved, BRT transit (BRT) on Interstate on the CKC is expected to 405. take 8-15 years to comIn a 6-1 vote, the counplete, while light rail would cil authorized Mayor Amy presumably take several Walen to sign the two letdecades to study, design ters sent to Sound Transit, and construct. one by the city and one by Save Our Trail, which the Eastside cities. Over[ more TRANSIT page 3 ] all, the letters expressed BY TJ MARTINELL
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More than 500 Lake Washington School District orchestra students from elementary to high school age took part in the district’s I “Heart” Strings event, packing the Redmond Middle School gymnasium on Jan. 28. Many of the students attend Kirkland schools within the district. For the youngest students, it was their first taste of playing for an audience. The program brings together all age ranges and skill levels from first year musicians to seasoned seniors ready to play in college. BRENDA PHELPS, Special to the Reporter
Archdiocese to potentially add names to list of sexual abusers following Reporter story REPORTER STAFF
A week after the Reporter and community members revealed that a list of Seattle-area priests who had sexually abused children failed to include employees of the Archdiocese of Seattle who had been accused of the same
crime and the organization had paid out settlements on, the organization said they will review the list and determine if more names need to be added. “We will continue to review the list to determine if additional information or names should be
included,” the archdiocese said in a statement. They also encouraged anyone with information about sexual abuse by a member of the clergy, employee or a volunteer to come forward. The archdiocese had released the list with the aim of transparency, with
spokesperson Greg Magnoni telling the Reporter that it is an ongoing effort. The initial list released by the archdiocese included 77 priests from the Seattle and other archdioceses. Three of the people on the list worked in Kirkland. However, both
community members and the Reporter identified alleged abusers who were not named on the list. Also absent from the list was a former youth minister named Jim Funnell who allegedly molested a child in the mid-1980s for more than a year while serving at St.
John Vianney Church in Kirkland. A lawsuit filed by the victim was settled out of court by the parish district in 2012. For the last 13 years, the archdiocese has run background checks and conducts training programs for their 5,000 [ more ABUSE page 3 ]