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Kangs spring into 2A/3A KingCo gymnastics title

Threats at Redmond movie theater and Redmond Middle School also reported

After sweeping through the regular season competition, the Lake Washington High School gymnastics team topped all at the 2A/3A KingCo championships on Saturday at Bellevue High School.

Lake Washington won with a team score of 154.925 to advance to next week’s Sea-King District meet. Mercer Island placed

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Talking with kids For more on how to talk to kids about these incidents please see page 3 for a full story.

Following a sweep through in-league meets this season, the Lake Washington High School gymnastics team won the 2A/3A KingCo championship on Saturday at Bellevue High School with a team score of 154.925 to advance to the Sea-King District meet as the No. 1 seed.

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authorities.

“Even if they aren’t credible we have to take them seriously,” she said. “The disruption and fear that has a huge impact from what a student might be thinking is not a big deal. It’s just really important for parents to have conversations with their kids.”

There are unconfirmed reports on social media and from students that a second message was found on Thursday at JHS and a threat found at Redmond Middle School earlier this week. A threat was also found at a Redmond movie theater. The announcement to cancel school was sent out Thursday by Lake Washington School District after a message was written on a dispenser found in the girl’s bathroom on Tuesday, in which nonspecific threats were made against the school. Alleged photos of the threat were posted on social media and stated: “Don’t come to school on 2/5 if you like your life.

I’m sorry.” The message is signed “F.” [ more THREATS page 3 ]

second (144.9) to also advance as a team.

Although undefeated against their KingCo opponents this year, Lake Washington coach Katie Perrigoue stopped short of calling a first-place showing at Saturday’s meet an expected outcome.

“We were really close with Mercer Island all season, so they didn’t know what was going to happen,” [ more TITLE page 5 ]

DelBene helps out at Thoreau with Valentines for Veterans Congresswoman Suzan DelBene talks with Kaily Williams, right, and Greyson Arnold about their project making Valentines for veterans during a visit to Thoreau Elementary in Kirkland on Monday. “The Valentines for Veterans program is a wonderful opportunity for our local students to make a connection with a veteran and thank these brave men and women for their service,” DelBene said. “We should all show our appreciation for those who served our country in uniform by asking veterans to ‘Be Mine’ this Valentine’s Day.” TJ MARTINELL, Kirkland Reporter

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irkland Police are investigating vague threats left in the Juanita High School bathrooms last week that resulted in classes being cancelled on Friday, Feb. 5.

A similar threatening message was also found at Redmond High School, which resulted in classes being cancelled for the same day there as well.

KPD Spokesperson Lt. Mike Murray said that there has been no update on the police investigation, though they are pursuing some possible leads.

“The safety of our students and staff is of paramount importance.

Out of an abundance of caution, since we cannot yet determine the credibility of these threats, we have made the difficult decision to close Juanita High School and Redmond High School on Friday, Feb. 5,” said Lake Washington School District Superintendent Dr. Traci Pierce in a release last week.

The release also stated: “The threats were specific to these schools: there were no threats to other schools in the district and all other schools will be open.”

LWSD Spokesperson Kathryn Reith said that parents can take the opportunity to talk to students about how seriously these incidents are taken by

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ith five threats in about a week on the Eastside — four of which occurred at schools — it may be difficult for parents to know how to speak with their children about what is happening.

When it comes to conversations about such serious events, parents should keep things age appropriate.

Parent educator and teen life coach Sheri Gazitt of Teen Wise in Redmond said parents with elementaryaged children should only share information their children ask for. If there are older siblings in the family, Gazitt said they should have a separate conversation with them, unless the younger siblings are aware of the events.

Reassuring youth And while parents should tailor their conversations with their children based on their ages, Gazitt said there are some things they can and should do with their children, regardless of their ages.

First, she said, it is important for parents to stay calm around their children.

Even if they are particularly anxious or worried, parents should try to not let their children see that. Gazitt noted that some children may not be worried or affected by what is going on and there is no need to scare them.

“We don’t want to put that emotion on them,” she said.

In addition, Gazitt also advised that parents ask their children how they are, rather than using phrases such as, “You must have been scared,” again so they do not unnecessarily scare their children.

Not a joke She added that because there have been so many threats in a short amount of time, part of the conversation has shifted. Gazitt said parents should discuss with their children about possible copycats and let them know that while these threats are probably nothing, “we as adults are taking care of it.” She said parents should assure their children that adults are doing what they need to do to take care of the issue.

Gazitt also stressed how parents should let their kids know that these threats are not jokes and they are not funny. She said youth might like to see school canceled but if something serious happens, the severity of the situation may become watered down and not taken as seriously as it should be because there has been a flurry of potential threats leading up to it.

Real-time information for students While it may be relatively easy for parents to monitor at home how much information their children consume from outside sources such as the TV news, Gazitt said monitoring areas such as social media is another story.

She said when news broke of last week’s threats at Juanita High School (JHS) and Redmond High School (RHS), students shared information among themselves through texts and social media apps such as Snapchat. But because the schools and Lake Washington School District did not share information with students, it was hard for people to discern what was fact and fiction and what was happening at which school.

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A second message was allegedly found in the boy’s bathroom on Thursday that read “I warned you not to come Friday,” which reportedly resulted in additional police presence following the initial investigation that started Wednesday.

Prior to classes being cancelled, teachers were allegedly telling students not to come if they didn’t feel comfortable.

Students and staff at both schools will make up the missed school day and an additional day will be

added to the school year.

Murray said that in incidents where actual threats have been carried out in schools, the culprit doesn’t usually announce their intentions so overtly.

“Just going by the unfortunate times across the country where it’s happened in the past, this is been what’s happened, just making random statements usually posting something on Facebook or social media,”

“(Students) were just working themselves up,” Gazitt said.

She said while administrators may not have wanted students to panic, not sharing information had the same result as “kids (were) telling each other” and that information was not always accurate.

Gazitt said there needs to be a way for students to receive real-time information to avoid this — not so much at the elementary level, but definitely at the secondary level as some middle schoolers and most high schoolers will have access to smartphones and other devices.

Back to reality Once a threat has been investigated and a school cleared, some parents and students may still be anxious about returning to school.

Gazitt said the decision to keep a student or students at home is a personal one and should be up to parents.

For some people, going back to school may not be a big deal, but for others, there may be something in their past that might be triggered by the idea of a potential threat, she said.

“There’s no right or wrong answer to it,” Gazitt said.

If a child is anxious, she said parents might want to have them stay home and then have a conversation with the child once they do return to class. Gazitt said parents should make sure their child feels supported.

This could mean carpooling with other families in the neighborhood or driving them to school instead of having them take a bus.

Gazitt also noted that there are resources at school such as a counselor, nurse’s office and teachers who students can reach out to if needed.

“It’s been great to work with the community of Kirkland to bring the Solarize Kirkland campaign to my hometown,” said Derek White, president and CEO of Northwest Electric & Solar. “With the current federal and state incentives available, and our really great Solarize campaign pricing, Kirkland residents have embraced the opportunity to ensure their energy future now when solar panels are so affordable. This is just a small token of our gratitude for the support the community has given us and we are happy to make a difference for such a worthy nonprofit organization.”

“We are thrilled to be chosen to receive a donated solar array as part of the Solarize Kirkland campaign,” said Terry Pottmeyer, president and CEO of Friends of Youth, headquartered in Kirkland.

“Not only will this donation create a renewable energy source for one of our buildings, it will allow us to invest the money we save on our electric bill in the children, youth, and families we serve.”

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The solar contractor with the Solarize Kirkland program announced a donation at the end of last year that made the new year even brighter for a local nonprofit that serves youth and their families.

Northwest Electric & Solar announced it is donating a rooftop solar system to Kirkland’s Friends of Youth, a nonprofit that operates youth shelters and offers youth development, family support, and counseling options for young parents and families.

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he said. “It’s usually not like the way this happened, but we’re supporting the school district in whatever decision they make. We really don’t give any recommendation. Whatever they decide they just need to know we’re there for them.”

Murray added that there are potential signs of problems for students to look out for among their peers “Their behavior changes, sometimes drastically from what they’ve known them in the past,” he said. “They stop coming to school as often as they used to.”

successful first year of a two-year Solarize Kirkland campaign, invited the first 25 homeowners to purchase solar systems to participate in a committee that selected the nonprofit to receive the gifted solar system. The committee chose Friends of Youth from among several other worthy nonprofits because of the facility’s visibility to the community, its educational potential, and because it serves a large number of people.

“The solar array will help Kirkland reduce its community greenhouse gas emissions (GHG’s), help citizens become more energy independent, and light the way for increased net zero energy home construction,” said city of Kirkland Associate Planner and Green Team Co-Chair David Barnes. The city of Kirkland was a key partner in the Solarize campaign, working to streamline the permitting process, and supporting the program as part of its commitment to clean energy as part of the King County Climate Collaboration.

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Jerry Cornfield

t’s been tough enough for Sound Transit board members to cobble together ST3, a ballot measure seeking $15 billion for the next phase of expansion.

Now a few of their longstanding critics want state lawmakers to replace them next year by changing how their seats are filled.

The Sound Transit board is made up of 17 local elected officials — 10 from King County, four from Pierce County and three from Snohomish County. The executive in each county makes the appointments.

The Secretary of Transportation, whomever that will be, is a nonvoting member as well.

Bills introduced in the Senate and House would create a panel of 19 people with each one elected from a separate district. It would result in 12 members from King County, four from Pierce County and three from Snohomish County.

Sen. Steve O’Ban, R-University Place, and Rep. Mark Harmsworth, R-Mill Creek, authored the legislation.

At a hearing Tuesday, supporters told the Senate Transportation Committee that directly electing board members would give voice to a greater number of Sound Transit taxpayers and increase accountability of the agency’s day-to-day operations.

Speakers expressed frustration with Sound Transit’s “Seattle-centric” policies and the ability of one person, King County Executive Dow Constantine, to appoint a near super-majority of the board.

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Among those testifying were Kemper Development Co. exec Bruce Nurse and Bellevue Councilman Kevin Wallace, who said he was speaking only for himself.

Opponents countered that board members are elected and thus already accountable to voters. And, they said, the current approach forces the region’s cities, counties and transit agencies to work together on expansion — even more than would occur with the proposed change.

“Balkanizing the system is not an answer to building a regional system,” said Everett City Councilman Paul Roberts, who is the board’s vice chairman.

On Jan. 1, the Snohomish County Council voted

to oppose the bill though some want to revisit the idea after the vote on the ST3 ballot measure.

“I don’t know if this is the right bill or not, but I think we need to take a serious look at how that board is constructed,” said Councilman Ken Klein.

“Snohomish County and Pierce County are at a disadvantage on this board with King County holding the majority of the seats,” he said. “I think that is actually going to be hurtful to our position with the ballot measure.”

Political reporter Jerry Cornfield’s blog, The Petri Dish, is at www.heraldnet.com. Contact him at 360-352-8623; jcornfield@heraldnet.com and on Twitter at @dospueblos

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Supplemental EIS for Potala Village and maybe new shorelines permit

agencies’ decisions. The agency preparing the document should notify all agencies with jurisdiction that a supplemental EIS is being prepared.”

“2.7.3 Addendum: An addendum [WAC 197-11600(4)(c) and 625] contains minor new information that was not included in the original SEPA Numerous citizens noted that the Potala Village document… Addendums are NOT appropriate proposal has grown more than 25 percent since the if the changes or new information indicates ANY Environmental Impact Study was done. new or increased significant adverse environmental Recently, city staff noted that whether a Suppleimpact.” mental EIS or an Addendum would be required The current proposal appears to have grown was a decision that will be made by the SEPA Responsible Authority, Eric Shields. It was indicated by more than 25 percent in the mass that is above ground and creates negative impact. Current prothat this decision was not yet made. posal 138,434sq ft and prior 110,972 sq ft (33,083 The difference in the addendum and the supple+ 33,083 + 15,241 + 29,565, source Appendix A ment are huge. An addendum is basically a rubber Potala Village Environmental Impact Study). The stamp of prior EIS, without public input or further height has also increased from 30 feet ABE to 33 study. A Supplemental EIS may require new feet ABE. The current proposal also disre“scoping” meetings, and makes new studies gards major mitigations previously agreed and new public comment period mandaKIRKLAND to by both the city and the developer. These tory. mitigations removed significant adverse Citizens note that Washington Departimpacts and removed substantial volume ment of Ecology makes the decision very from the building. clear for any SEPA Responsible Authority.

The current proposal greatly increases negaThis includes the DOE’s references to state laws tive impacts and these increased impacts have not (WACs). yet been studied. The current proposal adds new “3.6 Supplementing an EIS: A supplemental EIS impacts not previously studied. The Potala proposal [WAC 197-11-620] adds information and analysis to supplement the information in a previous EIS. … of late has become more massive, although EIS stated the smaller version already had incompatThere are several situations when a supplemental ible mass. The proposal brings 41 feet of height to EIS is appropriate: within 10 feet of the property line rather than being • The proposal has changed and is likely to cause new or increased significant adverse environmental set back 30 feet with the top story set back 40 feet.

Modulations on the east side of the building have impacts that were not evaluated in the original EIS; been removed and it now robs the neighboring • New information becomes available indicating new or increased significant environmental impacts properties of privacy. There is a very long list of newly introduced negative impacts that need study. are likely.”

The citizen groups also note that the increased “[T]he additional analysis, changes to the prosize of the Potala Village project seems to exceed the posal, or new mitigation may be relevant to other

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threshold of change allowed to maintain vesting in the Shorelines Development Permit. A new SDP is likely necessary if the applicant wants to proceed with the currently proposed plan.

Citizens look forward to participating fully in the Supplemental EIS and in any new Shorelines Development Permit Application.

Karen Levenson, Kirkland

City’s plan for fire response is wrong for north Kirkland I read with interest in last week’s Kirkland Reporter, that the Kirkland City Council has once again decided to forge forward in spite of adverse logic and reason. They have apparently approved the acquisition of land for the new Finn Hill Fire Station 24 at the bottom of the 132nd street hill.

I’ve stood in my yard and listened to the trucks coming all the way from Station 27 so I get it. We need something closer. Although Station 25 on Juanita Drive is less than three minutes away, it seems they seldom tap that station for a response.

During the community dog and pony show a month or so ago at Finn Hill Junior High, I asked the Fire Chief if No. 24 would be considered the “main” Finn Hill station. He told me “yes” so I asked about the wisdom of putting our “main” station at the bottom of the hill. I mentioned the possibility of snow and ice making the road impassable. He assured me that they have four-wheel-drive vehicles to which I responded: “So do I, but I can’t get to the top of the hill when the way is blocked by other vehicles sideways in the road.”

This is not a remote possibility, it has happened to me several times over the years.

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JHS students raise more than $3,100 for No-Shave November

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Juanita High School’s Key Club celebrated its third annual No-Shave November fundraiser by raising $3,166 for Eastside Baby Corner, a local non-profit organization that provides essentials for young children. The Key Club students, headed

by Paul Miller, and the Kiwanis members who support the school’s Key Club visited Eastside Baby Corner in Issaquah Jan. 22 to present them with the money and to tour their facility to see how their donation will be used.

As part of the fundraiser the person growing the beard agrees not to shave, cut, trim, or otherwise im-

Juanita High School Key Club members present Eastside Baby Corner officials with a check for more than $3,000. CONTRIBUTED pede the growth of hair on their face or chin between Nov. 1-25.

For some of the students like senior Corey O’Neill, who sponsored and was sponsored by his girlfriend, the challenge was not so much about growing too long a beard as it was handling the unkempt

appearance.

“For me it wasn’t that bad,” he said. “I don’t grow that much facial hair. It was just awkward and scratchy when I’d feel my chin. There were a lot of people like myself who could barely grow anything.”

The girls also partici-

Inadvertently not shaving in November kept one. I used to have a goatee a few years back but later opted for a cleaner appearance.

So why grow one now?

I think a lot of people underestimate the power of the beard. For the winter, the benefits are obvious. Early last month I went to the Cascades in zero degree weather and my face was perfectly fine. Having a beard is like having a natural balaclava.

Two, they make you look older. It makes no sense for some of us who look our age, but I don’t.

If other relatives are an indication, I’ll be getting carded at bars until I’m in

my late 50s. I compared my family’s Christmas card from this year to the last year when my face was naked and it’s like I aged five years. At least when I’m older I can shave and look younger.

Always play to the advantages, right?

Also, somehow having a beard makes you appear smarter and wiser than you are. Why, I don’t know, but when I stroke my chin while staring blankly into the distance people mistake me for being deep in thought when usually I’m just wondering how men back in the day were able to grow those curly mustaches. I have no interest in one, but you never know. I’m

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swimming pool prop. or a stupid plastic bag ban. This decision can have life or death consequences.

If you agree, let the City Council know how you feel.

ears, but the people of Finn Hill need to make their feelings known.

We need a station at the top, not bottom of Finn Hill otherwise response times will be significantly impacted during winter weather. With the $1.4 million they intend to blow just buying property, I’ll bet the old Station 24 could be expanded and updated right where it currently sits. Under any circumstance it would be better than the response coverage we have right now.

This isn’t forced annexation or an unnecessary

TJ Martinell

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The No-Shave November fundraiser made me realize I too participated in the quirky cultural phenomenon. I’m pretty sure through the entire month I didn’t shave.

My family’s Thanksgiving photo is evidence of this.

I had a full beard that covered my face and my neck, made me look like a character out of Lord of the Rings.

Not Gimli length.

More like Aragon.

I still have the beard, but I keep it trim so I don’t look like a hobo.

This hasn’t been my first time growing a beard, but it’s without question the longest I’ve

Bob Sordahl, Kirkland

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pated by not shaving their legs or armpits, though the winter weather gave them a good excuse to cover up with pants or sweats.

If they achieve this goal, their sponsor donates $10.

If the person shaves before Nov. 25 (before Thanksgiving) the sponsor only donates 25 cents for every consecutive day the person did not shave after Nov. 1.

“Usually everyone makes it through,” O’Neill said. “I haven’t heard of anyone giving in.”

In addition to the individual challenge, teachers agreed to wear some sort of crazy facial hair for November if their classes donated $50 the last week of October.

Though the fundraiser has only been held for a few years, O’Neill said the number of people participating has greatly increased.

“It’s really taken off,” he said.

not advocating deception, but can I help it if people presume there’s actual contemplation going on behind that contemplative expression of mine?

TJ Martinell is a staff writer for the Kirkland Reporter.

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Perrigoue said. “So it was exciting for them to pull through and win the meet.”

Lake Washington claimed four of the top 10 all-around scores of the day. Brittany Blaskovich was the Kangs’ top all-around her team were doing finisher, placing second well on bars and on with a score of 32.55. beam, two events Lake Joeli Pence was fourth (32.025), Nadia Popovici Washington easily won.

Now, the Kangs will placed eighth (30.75) see if they can continue and Megan Philips was their success through ninth (30.325). Interdistricts and claim one lake’s Amy Yeung had of the three team berths the top all-around score for the state championof 32.65. ships.

Popovici won the If the Kangs vault competition perform like they with a score of did Saturday, the KIRKLAND 8.55, and placed outlook would be third on beam promising.

(8.1). Pence “They’ve been was runner-up working so hard all on floor (9.275) and week just for this meet, third on bars (7.6). they were ready,” PerBlaskovich was third on rigoue said. “Brittany floor (9.15), fourth on Blaskovich did a great bars (7.25) and fifth on job just improving her beam (8). Blaskovich skills today and [so did] and Pence tied for sevNadia Popovici. They all enth (8.15) on vault. did great.”

Philips was fourth on The 2A/3A Sea-King beam (8.05) and 10th on district gymnastics bars (6.45), and Brittany McCormick was seventh championships will be on Feb. 13 at Ballard on beam (7.75) and High School. Individual ninth on bars (6.7). competition begins at Heading into Satur9:40 a.m., and teams day’s meet, Perrigoue will march in at 1 p.m. said points of focus for

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Police Blotter The blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Kirkland Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Kirkland Reporter police blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Kirkland, which average about 1,000 per week.

Between Jan. 28 and Feb. 4, there were 242 traffic incidents, 24 traffic accidents, 25 general traffic incidents, 35 alarm calls, 16 abandoned vehicles, two burglaries, 11 incidents of fraud, 23 civil incidents, 13 cases of harassment, 10 thefts, eight vehicle prowls, two vehicle thefts, 19 warrants served, eight noise complaints, four animal calls, incidents of domestic violence, five incidents of malicious mischief, eight disturbances, two sex offenses, three assaults, four hit and runs and 24 incidents involving at least one arrest.

Feb. 2 Warrant: 12000 block of 120th Pl NE. 12 a.m. A 27-year-old man was arrested after he was found by police in a Motel 6 room

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with another man. The suspect, who had an outstanding warrant, fled the scene but was later found. He did not provide his name to police but was eventually identified as having a King County warrant for domestic violence, with bail set at $10,000.

He was trespassed from the Motel 6 by staff request.

Feb. 1 Warrant: 12500 block of NE 144th St. 8:35 p.m. A 15-year-old man was arrested on his Bellevue misdemeanor warrant.

Jan. 31 Disorderly conduct: 11 p.m., 100 block of Kirkland Ave. A 31-year-old man was arrested after he created a disturbance in front of a bar.

Jan. 30 Warrant: 9 a.m., 11700 block of NE 118th St. A 29-year-old man was arrested on his Kirkland warrant for driving with a suspended license.

Jan. 29 Assault: 4 p.m., 10200 block of NE 132nd St. A 40-year-old woman was arrested for assault after she punched a nurse in Fairfax Hospital.

volunteer, organizers will make a $20 donation in the volunteer’s honor to a charity or program of their choice.

The race will take place on the morning of March 12 at Marina Park in Kirkland.

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Kirkland company announces plans to move to Bellevue

BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@kirklandreporter.com

Kirkland-based tech company Acumatica has announced its plans to move to downtown Bellevue following a year of explosive growth.

A provider of cloudbased accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, Acumetica recently reported seeing triple digit revenue growth in 2015 during their sixth annual summit in Orlando, Fla. The company also announced it had reached its 2,000th customer, and in

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doing so, doubled the size of its portfolio in less than 18 months.

“I think what we’re seeing is we’re really the right company with the right product at the right time,” COO Nigel LeGresley said. “The ERP space is a business tool that definitely is the heartbeat of the company, and it’s an area where folks have not done the change to the modern technology as fast as they have with some of the other technology tools.”

Built on cloud and mobile technology and a licensing model, Acumatica

provides business management applications through independent software vendors and with the help of value-added resellers (VAR), which add features or services to an existing product and then resells it as an integrated product.

“We are the system that is the heartbeat of a company,” LeGresley said.

“The finance, the accounting, being able to handle transactions every day in the backroom and the back office. It’s not the most sexy, but it is the most important piece. It forms the foundation for a company’s

business tool. Over the last year and a half we’ve really started to emerge. I think that has really contributed to the growth.”

LeGresley added that for companies like Amazon, they offer the opportunity to host ERP installations.

“Having that as part of the overall ecosystem of how we run our systems is important,” he said.

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Together Center and brings Walli, a Business Develimportant expertise and opment Officer for Verity experience to further our Credit Union in Seattle, efforts to help people find was also a board member the services they need.” for a brief time a One of the first decade ago. More nonprofit multirecently, he has tenant centers been a very active in the nation, ambassador for the Together Center Center. was designed first “We are very and foremost to lucky to have three lower barriers to Azim Walli such impressive finding help. Where leaders join our East King County board of directors,” said residents once needed Board Chair Margaret to travel from Bothell to Moore. “Each has been a Renton or beyond to find very strong supporter of help at individual locations,

people from throughout the Eastside now find comprehensive assistance at one location in downtown Redmond.

Services include medical and dental care, youth shelter, child care assistance, youth and family counseling and more. Tens of thousands of people are assisted on campus each year.

Together Center is located at 16225 NE 87th in Redmond. For more information, contact (425) 869-6699 or visit www. togethercenter.org.

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Last week an Eastside resident got a chance to sample Sri Lankan cuisine, something they won’t find in any restaurant in the region, cooked and served by Kirkland residents who make up the small population of immigrants.

The Sri Lankan Dinner for Charity was held as part of an auction for the Kirkland Arts Center.

One of the members for the Kirkland Arts Board is Shanika Weerasundara,

who helped put on the that gets the job (when dinner. they move),” she said.

Weerasundara and her “Most ladies, almost 90 family originally moved percent of them also have from Sri Lanka, a small advanced degrees and reisland nation south of ally great skills. Some India in the Indian of them have taken Ocean, for the time to raise famiKIRKLAND same reason most lies, they’ve taken have, to work in four or five years the budding techoff, and others are nology industry. She juggling career and too has worked in the family in between.” technology industry and She estimates there practiced law, and both are around 250 families she and her husband have in the area, and though entrepreneurial endeavtheir numbers are small ors as well. she said they’re growing.

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ployment previously in other states but for some reason Washington has become a very popular destination,” she said. “In a certain way it is like Sri Lanka. It has water and mountains and plains.

Very cosmopolitan. It’s very beautiful.”

For them, the auction dinner is a chance to offer a rare opportunity to sample Sri Lankan meal such as string hoppers, Watallapam and ceylon tea, served by women in traditional batik attire.

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Eastside cities join forces to open a third emergency winter shelter Thanks to additional emergency funding from the cities of Bellevue, Issaquah, Kirkland and Redmond, an emergency winter shelter for single women opened Jan. 20 in partnership with The Sophia Way and Catholic Community Services.

The shelter, located downtown at Bellevue First Congregational Church, provides a safe, warm place for single adult women to receive

a meal and a place to sleep during the coldest months of the year.

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Doors open at 8:30 p.m., and people can take shelter until 7 a.m. the following day.

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real time,” CEO Jon Roskill said. “Acumatica is founded on a vision to provide small-to-medium sized businesses with a business management solution that is easy to use and accessible from anywhere. We are committed to helping accelerate business growth.”

Now in Bellevue, LeGresley said they hope to achieve that triple digit revenue growth again.

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we are now,” he said. “We didn’t specifically look to leave Kirkland but for us to continue near Microsoft and Amazon - that was what was really key for us.”

Originally formed in Virginia, Acumatica moved to Kirkland in 2012 to take advantage not just of its proximity to Microsoft and Amazon but also the waterfront scenery.

“At the time they were looking for an area to be closer to the customer and closer to the technology companies that could really jump start,” LeGresley said. “Kirkland was just a great setting, very easy

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Acumetica is one of the many tech companies that call the Eastside home, which LeGresley attributed to the healthy mixture of businesses and customers.

“I think the vibrancy of the environment and the diversity of the area,” he said. “I think that’s really important. Tech companies understand customers are what make us successful, happy customers and happy employees. People feel empowered and feel good about coming to the office every day.”

The spring housing market has come early to Kirkland. While it continues to be a sellers market, home buyers are starting to come out in big numbers. During January, pending sales of single-family homes rose 36.6 percent, from 41 to 56, and sales were up 9.8 percent from January 2015. New listings rose 100 percent last month, from 34 to 68 and, but is 24.2 percent higher than a year ago. These numbers are deceptive, however, because buyers are grabbing what inventory there is as quickly as it comes on the market. Inventory is desperately low.

“The number of total listings available for sale is down 23.8 percent from a year ago,” said Lennox Scott, chairman and CEO of John L. Scott Real Estate. “We’re selling virtually all of the new

listings that come on the market, many with multiple offers.”

“Open house traffic is ramping up, and the number of homes selling in the first 30 days is double what a normal, healthy market would look like. ” “The relatively mild weather has buyers out early in growing forces and, with the Seahawks unfortunate loss, activity is high in Sunday open houses, says Kathy Estey,

Managing Broker of John L. Scott. “More homes are coming on the market and we continue to see multiple offers throughout the Eastside.”

Offers on homes close in are escalating by significant amounts, especially those within the more coveted school boundaries, and new construction homes are selling fast in spite of delivery dates of 2017.

Kathy advises that “if you’re a seller thinking about listing your home in the spring you may want to escalate that plan and beat other sellers to the market so you can take advantage of the large pool of buyers and low interest rates. Spring is hitting the real estate market early.”

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Google self-driving car starts testing on Kirkland roads

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These vehicles are easily recognizable due to the plethora of gadgets on the body panels, including cameras and sensors, which allow the autonomous vehicles to see where they’re going. The sen-

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The white Lexus SUVs Google has been using to test fully-autonomous technology in California and Texas started cruising around the streets of Kirkland on Jan. 3.

Kirkland is only the second city Google has chosen to test drive its autonomous vehicle technology outside Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

“Kirkland is a town that prides itself on being open to new technologies that could help improve our daily lives.

We are excited about the potential self-driving cars have to reduce accident rates and to provide mobility for people who can’t get around easily,” said Kirkland Mayor Amy Walen. “We’re thrilled to have the cars here as they do more testing. It’s a great fit.”

Currently, there are 22 Lexus RX450h SUV fitted with self-driving technology roaming around the streets of Mountain View (15 units) and Austin, Texas (seven units). These are the same kind of SUV you’ll be seeing driving around Kirkland, without a driver.

sors can detect pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles and other objects to ensure the vehicle safely drives around them.

The car’s computer uses exterior data and internal maps to navigate the world around it, using the sensors to predict the route and to react when something happens.

Google is also testing a completely new prototype Google Car, 26 units in Mountain view and 7 in Austin. Between the SUV test cars and the smaller prototypes, Google has covered 1,419,672 miles in autonomous mode driving with around 10,000 to 15,000 miles per week being driven autonomously on public streets.

Just like in Kirkland.

Kirkland self driving Lexus Press 1 SM“Kirkland is an ideal place to expand testing as it has a temperate climate, with seasonal rain for wet

weather practice,” Google stated in a press release. “The hills of the city will allow us to test our sensors at different angles and elevations. Testing in new cities enables our engineers to further refine our software and adapt to these different environments.”

In order to make those improvements, Google relies on the sensors, video taken of the car, and public input. The public input can be a general comment or feedback on good or bad driving habits that Google’s car does on the road.

Now, if you’re worried that Google is heading into this blind (pun intended), rest assured they are not. Prior to using these cars autonomously in new locations, Google engineers drive the cars in manual mode. There are fewer miles driven in Google Self-Driving Cars in manual mode than in autonomous mode, as there should be, topping out at 988,925 miles manually driven.

“Over the last few weeks, our test drivers have been driving a single Lexus RX450h SUV around a few square miles in North Kirkland and created a detailed map of the streets,” Google stated in a press release.

“Things like lane markers, traffic signals, curb heights, “keep clear” zones and other information that helps our car understand exactly where it is in the world. Now, our car is ready to take over the driving.”

Google’s cars will also not be alone. A test driver will be in the vehicles during any test drive in autonomous mode, ready to take over if need be.

“We have strong roots in Kirkland having established an office here a decade ago,” said Jennifer Haroon, head of business operations for the Google self-driving car project. “Kirkland has always been welcoming to Google and expanding our testing program here will give our self-driving cars some new learning experiences and let us hear from different communities as we develop this technology.”

To learn more about Google’s Self Driving Car, please visit www.google.com/ selfdrivingcar for information on how the car works and to give Google feedback on how the car is driving.

DeAnna Isaacs writes the Auto Reporter blog for kirklandreporter.com and is a former staff writer.

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Kirkland resident helps refugees access services in new country Moving to a new country is not easy.

There is a new culture to become accustomed to, new traditions and customs to learn, a language barrier to overcome in some cases and more.

For refugees coming to the United States, all of this is compounded by the fact that they are also starting over and rebuilding their lives from almost nothing — and oftentimes, while separated from some, if not all, of their loved ones.

Liaison between people and services As manager of the Cultural Navigator Program (CNP) at the Together Center in Redmond, Jennifer O’Neal has seen firsthand some of the things people go through when they arrive in this country.

Through her job, she helps people access the services they need to get back on their feet. She said CNP acts as a bridge between immigrants and the services they need to access, offering free consultation in five foreign languages.

“They can come to us and we will offer them the advice they need and the information they need,” she said.

O’Neal said this includes advice and information on how to navigate the health, education, housing, transportation and legal systems and more. She pointed out that many times, the services in their clients’ home countries do not work the same way as they do here.

CNP helps with that.

“We are also a resource for public and private service organizations who need guidance with regard to cultural competency in order to serve their clients who are new to this area,” she added. “Our organization is run by the Chinese Information and Service

Center and we work out of locations in Bellevue, Redmond and Kent.”

O’Neal said CNP is always in need of volunteers to help with their services.

Some of the roles that need to be filled include bilingual interpreters for languages such as Arabic and Farsi, people to run errands and deliver packets and people to welcome refugees as they arrive.

“We can match them up with opportunities that work for them,” O’Neal said.

A challenging transition Through CNP, O’Neal has been assisting a number of families from Syria escaping ISIS, who have recently arrived in the area.

With O’Neal acting as an Arabic-English interpreter, one woman shared with the Reporter some of her experiences since she arrived on the Eastside from Syria.

The woman requested to remain anonymous as O’Neal explained that some Syrian refugees have relatives who continue to face political persecution back home, which adds to their stress as they try to get settled in the United States.

The woman did not wish to be identified in order to keep relatives overseas safe.

Since she arrived in the area, the woman said some things such as the food stamps program have gone smoothly, while other things have been harder.

Through O’Neal she said finding affordable housing has been extremely difficult.

“There is no government assistance for rent and no available low-cost apartments in the Bellevue/ Redmond area, where most people in the Syrian or Arab community live,” O’Neal interpreted for her. “That means I have no choice but to relocate to somewhere like Kent or Everett, far from the support and companionship of my community and far from the Arabic-speaking families who might hire me to tutor

People of all backgrounds gathered along Central Way in Kirkland for an inter-faith peace vigil in support of Syrian refugees. CARI CONKLIN, Contributed their children in Arabic.”

Despite these difficulties, she said she has received a lot of help.

“I’d like to mention in particular Meena Menter, who is an immigration lawyer,” O’Neal translated.

“She helped me with some very important issues that I was unable to resolve on my own.”

A new home, a new language The woman said finding employment has also been a challenge. In order to receive cash assistance from the state, she needs to have a job. But she can’t find a job without learning English.

“Needless to say, it takes time to learn a foreign language, but my need for income is immediate,” she said through O’Neal. “It’s an impossible situation.”

In addition, the woman said if you had a vocation back home that required a license — such as a beautician or electrician — it is very difficult to get licensed to practice that vocation here.

“You would need about four years — two to learn English well enough and two to take the classes you need to get licensed here,” O’Neal translated. “That makes it very hard to get a

job in your profession here.”

Another challenge this woman — and other refugee parents — must deal with is the public school system. The woman, who came to the states with her daughter, said written materials that are sent home are in English or Spanish, so it is difficult for anyone who doesn’t speak English well. She said she requests translation of materials, but it doesn’t always happen.

“I had some exposure to English before coming here, but it was British English,” the woman said through O’Neal. “American English is very different and I had trouble understanding or speaking it. Many Syrians, especially those from rural areas, may not have studied English at all before coming here. So it is very hard for them.”

The language barrier is not limited to just parents.

Cari Conklin, a Kirkland resident who has been working with another Syrian family and helping them adjust to life in the United States, recently helped the family on their first day of American school in Seattle.

She said on that day, one of the daughters was becoming stressed because she needed to use the restroom but didn’t know how to ask.

Fortunately, the family met

a neighbor at the bus stop earlier — a fifth-grader whose family is Somalian — who also spoke Arabic and could translate. Conklin, whose work with the family has been through World Relief Seattle, said in the future the school may need to ask for the neighbor’s help again until they are able to get someone dedicated to help the new students.

Practical help In addition to the CNP and the work Conklin and her church have been doing, there are a number of organizations, faith communities and individuals in Redmond and throughout the area who have been doing what they can to help as more Syrian refugees are beginning to arrive in the Pacific Northwest.

The Muslim Community Resource Center (MCRC) initially began its work by organizing clothing drives with donated goods being converted into cash to send to refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey. But as people began arriving stateside, MCRC — which is a community outreach organization out of the Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS) in Redmond but represents mosques throughout the Eastside —

shifted its focus to helping refugees locally.

Khizer Sheriff, who co-founded MCRC with his wife, said they have mobilized and coordinated a community response, which includes donating and collecting furniture and other household items so when people arrive and find housing, they will have an inventory to choose from to furnish their new homes. In addition, he said MCRC has been working with Muslim Housing Services in Seattle to raise $250,000 to make 10 housing units available in the area for two years as more people arrive.

Sheriff said some community members have also donated cars, while others are volunteering their time to drive people around when needed as the newly arrived likely won’t have access to a vehicle or have a driver’s license. He added that they have also reached out to Uber, the ride-sharing app, to see if they can work out an arrangement.

This is still in the works, Sheriff said.

MCRC is also working to connect people to education, ESL classes and vocational training so people can take required licensing exams to be able to work and get back on their feet.

“Many of these people have good skills,” Sheriff said.

Conklin added that the refugees arriving are highly educated professionals and now they are starting over with minimum-wage jobs.

In addition, she said upon arriving refugees must pay back the U.S. government for their plane tickets — so they immediately have debt they have incurred.

O’Neal said contrary to what has been shown in the media, Syrian refugees are generally well-educated, cultured, middle-class people who happen to have been caught in an extremely unfortunate political situation not of their making.

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Obituary Patricia Nixon Patricia M. “Pat� Nixon, mother of Kirkland city council member Toby Nixon, passed away Feb. 1 after a long illness. She was 80.

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She lived in a shack on the side of Kilauea and raised rabbits for food. She rode a Harley through all 48 contiguous states. At age 70, she drove alone round-trip from Seattle to Anchorage in ten days “just because,� and to be able to say she had been to all 50 states. She got her first tattoo at age 60, and wore eight pierced earrings in each ear – the birthstone of each grandchild.

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her honor will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, at The Church of Jesus Christ adult and youth vacancies occurring on several of its advisory boards and commissions. Eligibility requirements differ for each board or commission. Interested residents are invited to apply. Some incumbents on these boards and commissions have served one term, are eligible, and intend to apply for re-appointment.

Completed applications must be received by the City Clerk prior to 4 p.m. on Feb. 18.

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Youth vacancies are available on the following boards and commissions: Human Services Advisory Committee and Transportation Commission.

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