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News [ 05 ]
Opinion [ 02 ]
News [ 05]
The top 12 stories readers flocked to online
Possible 2016 carbon tax ballot measure in jeopardy
Interlake Saints earn the Class 3A state soccer title with win against Garfield
The citizens and events that made news in 2015
Sports [ 08 ]
Year’s most read stories
Year in review: Sports
The Petri Dish
Year in review
FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2016
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BY ALLISON DEANGELISBELLEVUE REPORTER
Representatives from Bellevue College and Washington State Uni-versity recently traveled to Chicago to meet with local universities as part of their ongoing discussion of
a BC/WSU partnership. Russ Beard, the vice president of
IT at Bellevue College, joined Col-leen Kerr and other representatives from WSU on the fact-finding foray on Dec. 15-17.
During the WSU-organized trip, the group visited and met with representatives from DePaul Uni-versity, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chicago City Col-leges. Each institution has different partnerships that the group felt they could learn from.
“As this conversation has become more serious, in terms of the conversations between the two university presidents and the regents, I said, ‘If we’re really seri-ous about this, we need to go and see what else is happening in other states,’” said Kerr.
In particular, they were in-terested in learning more about models such as the University of Illinois system, which is similar to City Universities of New York.
BY RYAN MURRAYBELLEVUE REPORTER
A contentious dispute between a community council and a utility company reached a head late last month when King County Superior Court Judge William Downing affirmed the
council’s right to make decisions regarding a land-use permit for a transmission project.
Puget Sound Energy (PSE) had planned to build two “compromised” transmission lines through the Lake Hills and Phantom Lake neighborhoods in Bellevue, and the East Bel-levue Community Council (EBCC) sued, claim-
ing they had the right to reasonably amend or deny utility infrastructure in the area.
Downing’s decision acknowledged that EBCC was indeed able to make decisions in its area, despite what Puget Sound Energy or the Bel-levue City Council had argued.
“In this case, although a hearing examiner had recommended approval of PSE’s application
BY DANIEL NASHREPORTER NEWSPAPERS
The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board announced last week that Bellevue will be al-lotted four additional licenses for stores.
The city currently has three active marijuana retailers: Green-Theory on Main Street, The Novel Tree on 130th Avenue Northeast and BelMar on 116th Avenue Northeast. Bellevue’s fourth retail license was awarded to Greenside in 2014, but a location dispute with Green-Theory prevented it from opening on Main Street. It has not opened to date.
The increased allotments are the result of work by the Board, the state Department of Health and other agencies to roll existing purveyors of medical marijuana — alternatively called dispensa-ries, access points or “collective gardens,” as they’re known in state law — into the recreational retail system as directed by the “Canna-bis Patient Protection Act” signed by Gov. Jay Inslee earlier this year.
“Our goal was clear: To ensure medical patients have access to the products they need,” Board Director Rick Garza said in a press release.
Under the Act, the Board is required to issue licenses in ac-
BC, WSU glean parternship ideas on trip
City doubles marijuana retail licenses
East Bellevue wins land-use suit over PSE
SEE PSE, 3
SEE MARIJUANA, 3
Photo via Twitter, @BvuePD Members of the Bellevue Police Department pose for a photo with Aiden, 5. Officers visited children and handed out gifts at Seattle Children’s Hospital on Dec. 24.
SEE BC, 3
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St. Louise Parish SchoolPre-Kindergarten, K-8 133 - 156th Avenue SE Bellevue, WA 98007425-746-4220 • stlouiseschool.orgOpen House: February 4, 2016 | 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Eastside Catholic SchoolGrades 6-12232 - 228th Avenue SE Sammamish, WA 98074425-295-3000 • eastsidecatholic.orgHigh School and Middle School Open HouseWednesday, January 6, 2016 | 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart4800 - 139th Avenue SE Bellevue, WA 98006-3015425-201-2434 • forestridge.orgAll School Open House (Grades 5-12)Thursday, January 7, 2016 | 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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St. Monica Catholic SchoolPre-Kindergarten, K-84320 - 87th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040206-232-5432 • stmonicasea.orgOpen House DatesJanuary 13, 2016 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Kindergarten ShowcaseJanuary 31, 2016 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. School Open HouseFebruary 3, 2016 9 -11 a.m. School Open House
Holy Family School, KirklandPreschool, K-87300 120th Avenue NE Kirkland, WA 98033-8121425-827-0444 • hfkschool.orgFuture Kindergartner Night: January 6, 2016 | 6:15 p.m. – 7 p.m.Visit our website to register for a tour or download an application
St. Brendan Catholic SchoolPreschool, K-8 10049 NE 195th Street Bothell, WA 98011425-483-8300 • school.saintbrendan.orgOpen House: Sunday, January 31 | 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
St. Joseph School, Issaquah and SnoqualmiePreschool, K-8220 Mountain Park Blvd. SW Issaquah, WA 98027425-313-9129 • sjsissaquah.orgPlease contact Jackie Olund to schedule a tour [email protected].
Sacred Heart SchoolPre-Kindergarten, K-89450 NE 14th Street Bellevue, WA 98004-3437425-451-1773 • sacredheart.org/school/Open House: Thursday, February 4, 2016 | 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
St. Madeleine SophiePre-Kindergarten, K-8 4400 - 130th PL SE Bellevue, WA 98006425-747-6770 x201 • smsbellevue.orgOpen House: Sunday, January 31, 2016 | 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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and the City of Bellevue had given its ap-proval, it remained for EBCC to exercise its lawful role,” Downing’s decision reads. “Although the EBCC must accord due defer-ence to the factual finding of the hearing examiner, it does not abdicate its responsi-bilities as the law assures it ‘a significant role in determining land use regulations within the community municipal corporation.’”
The proposed land-use project would have removed 300 trees along 148th Avenue Southeast and Northeast 8th Street while placing a 115,000 volt transmission line between Bellevue’s Lake Hills and Phantom Lake electrical substations. PSE said this would improve reliability in those and sur-rounding neighborhoods. EBCC said the 85-foot support towers would mar the beauty of the neighborhoods and that better options to provide reliable energy to East Bellevue existed.
Downing cited City of Bellevue v. East Bellevue Community Council, a 1999 case in which it was ruled that “the obvious pur-pose of the statute is to place final decision-making power in the community council where land use regulations affecting property within its jurisdiction are concerned.”
Don Marsh, spokesman for EBCC and Coalition of Eastside Neighborhoods for Sensible Energy (CENSE), said the work came from the effort of concerned citizens.
“The lion’s share of the credit for this result belongs to the brave members of the East
Bellevue Community Council who chose to stand in front of a speeding locomotive,” he said. “People are sometimes pessimistic about our chances of prevailing against a multi-billion dollar corporation with sub-stantial political influence, a formidable legal team and practically unlimited marketing resources. Today’s victory shows that justice can prevail. The strong desire of citizens to protect our beautiful city can be successful.”
Downing did acknowledge that EBCC was gung-ho in its suit.
“There are ertainly aspects of EBC’s Resolution No. 550 that misstate or over-state things,” he wrote. “But this does not invalidate the entirety of the Resolution. This Court cannot find that the EBCC commit-ted any fatally erroneous interpretation or application of the law.”
As for Puget Sound Energy, the precedent could have significant impact for Energize Eastside, an 18-mile long transmission line the company has proposed through four Eastside cities.
Akiko Oda, Puget Sound Energy’s media engagement program manager, said more information would be available later, even as PSE appealled Downing’s ruling.
“We’re reviewing the judge’s decision and evaluating options,” she told the Reporter.
Marsh was disappointed in the company’s decision to appeal.
“Instead of spending time and treasure on years of legal wrangling, both PSE and residents would be better served working together on a solution that delivers improved reliability without destroying trees and erect-ing new poles,” he said.
PSECONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
The former has several similarities to WSU, including the issues they must serve and the fact that both are land-grant colleges and therefore receive state funding and benefits.
The University of Illinois at Chicago also works with community colleges, including the seven community col-leges and six satellite sites that make up the Chicago City Colleges.
Leadership from BC and WSU are still working out what the partnership between the two would entail. Kerr said that she couldn’t discuss the specifics of how anything might
transfer to the BC/WSU partnership, but that they are jointly agreed that they want to create a new institution that helps students get four-year degrees.
“The whole point is to seek out institutions that may have done something similar,” said Beard. “We’ve estab-lished fairly well that no model fits exactly what we want to do, but some bear a resemblance to what we want to do.”
But, Kerr said she did walk away from the trip with many points of inspiration. Specifically, the ‘Colleges to Careers’ program at the City Col-leges of Chicago was of interest to Kerr.
Through the program, the City Colleges form partnerships with indus-try leaders to better
align curricula with the demands in growing fields. Bellevue College has informal relation-ships with local industry leaders to help guide their curricula, but is consistently working on workforce development and developing the right business relationships, according to Albert Lewis, vice president of economic and workforce development at B.C.
In the coming months, representatives from both schools are planning on visiting more colleges from which to glean ideas. The discussions about the universities’ partner-ship are ongoing.
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cordance with a three-tiered system that gives first priority to the owners or employees of collective gardens in op-eration prior to 2013 who also applied for retail licenses prior to July 2014.
Statewide, the cap on marijuana retailers increased from 334 to 556.
King County was determined to contain the greatest share of the state market, producing 36 percent of state revenues from medical marijuana and containing 31 percent of verified dispensaries.
King County will nearly double its allowance of retail licenses, save for the four cities that have instituted bans or moratoriums on recreational mari-juana.
MARIJUANACONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Because people can’t drive
Miss Morgan asks why flash-ing yellow lights are so confusing, 12/18/15 Reporter.
The answer: because Seattle driv-ers are constantly confused: “gee, I don’t know, should I or shouldn’t I?”
Seattle drivers are the absolute worst in any major city I’ve driven in.
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Seems to be more about maximizing toll revenues
On Saturday, Dec. 19 at about 5:30 p.m., a collision occurred in the northbound lanes of I-405 near the SR-527 interchange.
This caused a blockage to traffic, and shortly afterwards, the variable message signs were announcing a 4-mile back-up.
At the location of the accident, there are two general-purpose lanes and one “HOT” lane, available only
to carpoolers and to those willing to pay a toll.
In past times, WSP would have directed traffic into the (then) HOV lanes in order to use all the available capacity, in order to clear the back-up. Nowadays, the same result could be achieved by chang-ing the toll signs above the HOT lane to indicate that the lane was open to all traffic free of charge.
But instead, the toll signs were changed to read that the toll would increase by a factor of 13 from $0.75 to $10. It seemed reminiscent of the actions of the young hedge
fund tycoon who purchased a drug company in order to raise the price of its product from $13.50 to $750 per pill — an opportunistic attempt to make an unseemly profit from a situation of misery.
Does this action signify that WSDOT’s priorities have changed? Is maximizing toll revenue now more important than relieving traf-fic congestion?
I think WSDOT owes us an expla-nation, with an apology if appropri-ate, for this indefensible behavior.
Lin WilsonBellevue
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Decision could avert dueling carbon 2016 ballot measuresBackers of a carbon tax measure have spent months
gathering signatures needed to earn a spot on the 2016 ballot.
Now they may not turn them in because the content of a competing initiative polls better.
“We are on the fence about whether or not to turn in our 350,000 signatures because of the emergence of an alternative proposal,” Yoram Bauman, the force behind the revenue-neutral proposal in Initiative 732, wrote on the group’s web site Monday.
A conference call with I-732 supporters was slated for Tuesday night and a final decision due by Dec. 30.
I-732 is conceived as a bipartisan plan to combat climate change in a way that doesn’t put all the financial onus on the emitters of pollution-causing carbon. The alternative, which is still being drafted, will likely impose a fee on polluters and spend the money on clean energy and clean water projects. It is pushed by the
Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy.Bauman noted I-732 doesn’t fare as well with voters as
the alternative because of its complexity. And voters won’t spend the time to consider it amid the din of the presiden-tial elections.
“That puts us in a difficult situation because I-732 re-quires a serious conversation ... but most voters don’t have the time or the inclination to have a serious conversation
JERRY CORNFIELD
about climate action amid all the other issues raised during a presidential election year,” he wrote.
Recent polling shows I-732 “starts in a hole” with 44 percent support and 40 percent oppose. In contrast, the alternative approach is “likely to start out better” with 57 percent support and 36 percent opposed, he wrote.
“Supporters of the alternative approach believe that the measure can be tweaked to boost these numbers even
more, but in any case it is clear that the alternative ap-proach significantly out-polls I-732,” Bauman wrote.
Read Bauman’s full statement on carbonwa.org/carbon-wa-on-the-fence.
Political reporter Jerry Cornfield’s blog, The Petri Dish, is at www.heraldnet.com. Contact him at 360-352-8623; [email protected] and on Twitter at @dospueblos.
Competing initiatives strive to combat climate change — one might fare better with the public
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JanuaryBellevue College begins partnership process
Bellevue College and Washington State University began the continuing process of partnering together on what both parties have said will be a new type of institution in Washington State when the Bellevue Board of Trustees authorized President David Rule to explore potential financial partnerships in January. Months later, the two schools signed a memorandum of understanding and moved on to the second-level of talks to merge the two in-stitutions. WSU president Elson S. Floyd, who spearheaded the partnership talks by approaching Rule in November 2014, died earlier this year, but the two schools continue to explore the partnership.
FebruaryMylett is the new police chief
After nearly a year of searching, Steve Mylett was chosen as the Bellevue Police Department’s chief of police. Mylett had spent a combined 27 years as the police chief in Southlake and Corpus Christi, Texas. He took the reins from Linda Pillo, who retired in April 2014.
Mylett would take the reins mere weeks
before the department released a 518-page investigative report into allegations against former police lieutenant John Manning. In the months following, now-former Deputy Chief Michael Johnson would abruptly resign after being caught using his department-issued police cruiser in violation of department regulations, and Deputy Chief J. Jolliffe would be placed on administrative leave pending the results of an internal investigation.
MarchBovee Park renamed
A city park originally named after the first mayor of Bellevue, Charles Bovee, was renamed decades after he was accused of molesting several young girls and run out of the city. Bovee Park had only re-cently been named when he was arrested for allegedly molesting an 11-year-old girl in 1959. The charges were dropped when Bovee agreed to leave the city, settling and later dying in Ephrata. The park was renamed in May to honor former city councilmember Georgia Zumdieck.
AprilSound Transit deal reached
After six months of negotiations, King County Executive Dow Constantine and Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci an-
nounced a tentative agreement with Sound Transit for East Link light rail service. The MOU removed $60 million from the city’s contribution to contingency costs in 2023, following the completion of the $100-mil-lion downtown tunnel that starts near the East Main station and ends at the Bellevue Transit Center station at city hall. Sound Transit accepted a $121 million bid in November for the construction of the East Link light rail extension in Bellevue, and construction is expected to start soon.
JuneFootball program punished
Two coaches were handed down game suspensions and the Bellevue High School football team received sanctions after an investigation revealed that violations of district rules and the Washington Inter-scholastic Activities Association articles. An investigation carried out by a third party found the football program had con-ducted out-of-season coaching and illegal recruiting. Head coach Butch Goncharoff and another coach received two-game suspensions and the team was put on probation for three years.
It was later alleged that the coaches and members of the football booster club had directed and/or paid for players to attend the Academic Institute in Bellevue and used false addresses and received subsi-dized housing in Bellevue to gain eligibili-ty to play on the team. With rumors flying around, the district asked the WIAA to conduct an investigation into the program in August. The investigation is ongoing,
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Most read stories of 2015
1. “Chick-fil-A opening with a ‘camp out’ | First 100 customer to stay night in parking lot”
2. “Bellevue High football put on three year probation | District reports coaching, illegal recruiting violations”
3. “Bellevue elementary art teacher accused of child rape, molestation”
4. “Chick-fil-A craze slowing traffic”5. “Bellevue Central packs in big
names | Lease states REI, Trader Joe’s, HomeGoods to be tenants”
6. “Injuries, illness lead to more Sammamish football game cancella-tions”
7. “Toddler in stroller killed in crash on 140th Ave, Bel-Red Road | Likely cause driver’s failure to yield while making left turn”
8. “Missing brothers leave void | Family, friends continue to search for brothers abducted by mother”
9. “Nordstrom security catches suspect featured on ‘Washington’s Most Wanted’”
10. “Sex trafficking an old problem in Bellevue with new challenges”
11. “Fatal crash on 148th splits car in two”
12. “Bellevue High School teacher sparks controversy with tweets”
Read these articles and the latest news online at www.bellevuereporter.com
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JulyOrdinance raises alarm
An ordinance requiring residential and commercial alarm owners to register their systems caused confusion and frustra-tion. Under a new program meant to curb responses to false alarms, alarm owners were required to register their alarms, pay an annual fee as well as fees for any false alarms. When registration opened in July, the Bellevue Police received many phone calls and emails from confused citizens. That feeling was duplicated in October when the Public Safety Corporation, which created the CryWolf program being used by the city, sent invoices for overdue ac-count charges and fines.
SeptemberToddler dies in crash, flashing yellow lights questioned
A 2-year-old toddler in a stroller was struck and killed in a crash on 140th Ave N.E. and Bel-Red Road after A Bellevue driver failed to yield at a flashing yellow light and was hit by oncoming traffic and pushed up onto the sidewalk, killing Shrad-dha Panchakarla.
The accident sparked a continuing con-versation about the safety of flashing yellow lights, which the city has maintained are safe. City data supported those claims.
OctoberHigh schools to start later
The Bellevue School Board voted Oct. 6 to approve a conditional 8:30 a.m. start time for district high schools. The new start time will tentatively begin in fall 2016.The start time is subject to board approval of an implementation plan that includes a feasibility study at each school.The decision came after a feasibility study, public vote and months of debate.
Not everyone was in favor of the deci-sion, and some parents voiced concern over the conflict with the conflict with extra-curricular activities. It sparked similar conversations in Seattle, Mercer Island and Issaquah.
NovemberBalducci wins county council election
Former mayor Claudia Balducci defeated Jane Hague in a three-to-two margin for position 6 on the King County Council. Balducci was elected to Bellevue’s City Council in 2004 and mayor in 2014.
In the City Council election, Vandana Slatter and John Chelminiak won their respective races by a narrow margin. The council will choose the next mayor during its next meeting on Jan. 4.
DecemberCity, Microsoft partner to increase safety
The City of Bellevue, Microsoft and UW partnered up create a safer city for cyclists and pedestrians. The city’s transportation department, researchers for Microsoft and the university, and engineers from Seattle’s Toole Design Group are using existing infrastructure in Bellevue to see if there are patterns or data which can be used from collisions and “close-calls” to help pinpoint where they are most likely to occur and possibly prevent future crashes and save some lives. The city also recently announced a plan to reduce motor vehicle deaths called Vision Zero.
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A rogue beaver wandered over to Chick-fil-A in June and ended up receiving a police escort back to his habitat seven blocks away. Many citizens and critters made their way to the restaurant after it opened in March, causing traffic problems on 116th Avenue.
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2015: THE YEAR IN THE SPORTS WORLDJANUARY Bellevue defeats Interlake in rivalry wrestling match
The Bellevue Wolverines had five pins in a 42-36 victory against the Interlake Saints in a Class 2A/3A KingCo wrestling match on Jan. 8 at Interlake High School in a battle of schools separated by a mere six miles.
Chen strives for the state Interlake Saints wrestler Albert Chen is
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Column focuses on tragedyShaun Scott writes a column about the death
of his good friend Jim Johnson due to ALS. The column focuses on watching the NFC Champi-onship game between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers in his fallen friends honor.
FEBRUARYWolverines clinch league title
The Bellevue Wolverines girls basketball team registered a 59-41 win against the Mercer Island Islanders on Feb. 8 in Bellevue. It was the Wolverines 10th win in a row and clinched the KingCo Class 3A regular season basketball championship. Bellevue improved to 17-3 over-all and a perfect 10-0 in league with the win.
Bellevue defeats OlympicThe Bellevue Bulldogs men’s basketball team
continued its winning ways with a 92-85 win against the Olympic College Rangers on Feb. 11. The Bulldogs improved their overall record to
22-2 with the win and won their 13th game in a row.
State title attainedBellevue Wolverines 152-pound
wrestler Christian Villani captured his third consecutive state wrestling championship, registering a pin against Peninsula’s Zach Goddard in the Mat
Classic Class 3A 152-pound state championship match with 1:24 left in the third round.
“I just can’t thank God enough. It was all off of my habits in practice. I keep a strong faith and I was able to go for those risks that I wouldn’t normally do,” Villani said. “I didn’t want it to end. I don’t want it to end.”
MARCHBellevue nabs fifth place at state
The Bellevue Wolverines girls basketball team’s season came to an end courtesy of a 68-66 loss to Bishop Blanchet in the third place/fifth place game at the Class 3A state tourna-ment at the Tacoma Dome. Bellevue Head Coach Leah Krautter was proud of her team’s resolve not only at the state tournament but throughout the entire 2014-15 season.
“It’s tough to end the season like this because it doesn’t show or define the kind of season we had. I’m really proud of the way we fought. We gave it everything we had,” Krautter said.
APRILJavelin thrower is focused
Newport Knights track athlete Julia Sliwoski was focused on attaining a dream of a lifetime in her favorite event, the javelin during her senior season.
“My ultimate goal is to win state this year. I want to be at around 150 (feet). The winner of the state meet in javelin usually throws at around 150 (feet),” Sliwoski said. “I want to make the most out of my senior year and leave my mark on the high school.”
Bellevue defeats rival Mercer Island in softball contest
In a matchup between fierce rivals, the Bel-levue Wolverines earned a 6-4 win against the Mercer Island Islanders on April 17 at Bellevue High School in Bellevue. The Wolverines had five stolen bases and three triples in the win.
“We definitely want to be aggressive on the bases. We’ve had a couple of games where we have been really aggressive and have been close to making it work for us. Today we finally broke through so we’re excited about that,” Bellevue Head Coach Heather Tracy said.
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The Interlake Saints boys soccer team captured a 1-0 victory against the Garfield Bulldogs in the Class 3A state championship game on May 30 at Sparks Stadium in downtown Puyallup. Jason Rodriguez, pictured above, gains control of the ball in the first half of play against Garfield. Interlake sophomore Stirling Russell scored the lone goal of the game in the 40th minute of play.
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MAYVikings win district title
The Bellevue Christian Vikings boys soccer team defeated the Klahowya Eagles 1-0 in the Class 1A West Central District III Championship game on May 14 in Orting.
Interlake wins state soccer title
The Interlake Saints at-tained the absolute pinnacle of high school soccer with a 1-0 victory against Gar-field Bulldogs in the Class 3A state championship game on May 30 at Sparks Stadium in downtown Puyallup.
Interlake sophomore Stirling Russell scored the lone goal of the game in the 40th minute.
JUNEPan clinches berth at US Open
Bellevue resident Cheng-Tsung Pan captured first place on June 8 at the USGA Sectional at Tumble Creek Golf Course near Cle Elum to qualify for the U.S. Open. Pan shot a combined 138 during the two rounds of play.
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Chuck Swirsky is a household name to nearly every Chicago Bulls fan throughout the midwest-ern portion of the United States.
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“When I was in elemen-tary school and junior high school they allowed me to read the announcements to start the morning on the public address system, which was a big thrill for me,” Swirsky said.
SEPTEMBERBishop Gorman defeats Bellevue in season opener
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35-7 victory against the Wolverines in front of a packed house on Sept. 11 at Bellevue Memorial Stadium in Bellevue.
OCTOBERMcDonald takes KingCo tennis title
Bellevue Wolverines sophomore tennis player Theo McDonald cap-tured the Class 3A singles KingCo tournament title on Oct. 19 at Mercer Island High School. Mc-Donald had a 4-0 overall record at the tournament.
NOVEMBERBellevue hosts Squash tourney
Gregory Gaultier of France captured the 2015 Professional Squash Asso-ciation World Champion-ship courtesy of a 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 12-10) victory against Egypt’s Omar Mosaad in the title match on Nov. 22 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue.
DECEMBERBellevue loses state title game
With a little more than
six minutes left in the third quarter, it appeared the Bellevue Wolverines would reclaim the Class 3A state championship after a one-year hiatus in a matchup against the Eastside Catholic Crusaders.
Bellevue running back Christoph Hirota scored on a 12-yard touchdown run, giving the Wolverines a com-manding 42-14 lead against Eastside Catholic with 6:10 left in the third quarter of play.
Eastside Catholic out-scored Bellevue 34-0 down the stretch, earning an improbable 48-42 overtime victory on Dec. 4 at the Tacoma Dome.
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