snoqualmie valley record, february 08, 2012

When schools and parents can’t see eye to eye, Education Ombudsman bridges the gap

BY SETH TRUSCOTTEditor

When her freshman son was severe-ly beaten in a Mount Si High School locker room in 2009, Fall City par-ent and recent school board challenger Peggy Johnson wanted someone to take his side.

She turned to the Washington State Office of the Education O m b u d s m a n , a six-year-old agency that resolves problems between Washington families and their schools.

Now a junior, Johnson’s son—whose name is not being published due to his age—was 14 at the time of the locker room beating. He told Snoqualmie police that he was defending a friend from bullying by a group of students, when an older boy intervened, and the confrontation got physical. No teachers were around, and Johnson said her son never raised his fists; the older boy was later found not guilty of assault in court.

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Lower Valley pair meets over bridge, forms lifesaving bond

BY CAROL LADWIGStaff Reporter

This love story is missing some-thing. It has all the high points, from boy-meets-girl to boy-and-girl-date. It’s got all the flirting, all the blush-ing, all the hand-holding, giggling, and gentle words of love, too. All

the meaningful looks are there, in spades. What it’s missing, though, is the awkwardness and uncertainty that usually precede all of those other things.

So, how did they get past that point, and on to the good parts?

George Summers and Betty McNeely look at each other before answering,

and Betty’s cheeks begin to color. They both laugh. They can’t explain it.

Maybe it’s because this isn’t the first or even

second time that either of the Sno-Valley Senior Center members have been part of a couple.

A senior center connection helps Valley couple discover

Lateblooming loveCarol Ladwig/Staff Photo

Betty McNeely and George Summers, together for almost five years, share a hug as they remember how they met. Both members of the Sno-Valley Senior Center in Carnation, they caught each other’s eyes at Betty’s bridge club.

“As long as George needs me, I will be

there for him.”Betty McNeely

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After a desperate phone call from her son, Johnson arrived at school to find him bleeding from the eye, nose and mouth, his head over a trash can.

No medical aid had been called in nearly an hour, and during the ride to the hospital, her son started vomiting blood. Doctors found that he had suffered a broken eye socket, broken teeth and a concussion.

Johnson’s concerns deepened in the after-math of the beating. She told the Record that school administrators were adamant that her son return to school quickly, but she insisted that a satisfactory safety plan be put in place first. She connected with the ombudsman’s office, which stepped in as mediator, helping craft a plan to ensure her son’s safety.

When the ombudsman got involved, “It immediately turned things around,” Johnson said.

The mediatorThe Office of the Education Ombudsman

was created in 2006 to help parents and school officials find common ground, on a child’s behalf.

Typical issues addressed by the office include bullying and harassment, suspen-sion, expulsion, special education, trans-portation, discipline, academic progress and truancy. Officials with the OEO help parents understand their legal rights, how public schools are run and governed, and how to complain so that people will listen. The office also helps parents find ways to get involved in their child’s education, and take a stand against bullying. Its services are free.

“We are advocates for fair processes for students,” said Cathy Liu Scott, community relations manager for the OEO. “We try to find out what the core problem is. We help parents and educators think creatively to solve problems.”

The ombudsman’s office responded to 11 complaints in the Snoqualmie Valley School District in the 2010-11 school year, about one complaint per 560 pupils, accord-ing to the OEO annual report. That ratio puts Snoqualmie at the second-highest complaint-per-pupil ratio, behind Seattle Public Schools. Snoqualmie tied for 12th most calls with Vancouver schools.

In 2009-10, Snoqualmie Valley School District had five OEO cases—two for bul-lying and harassment, two for enrollment issues and one for special education. The district also had five calls in 2008, which included one for bullying, one for discipline and one for special education. One was a request for ombudsman publications.

Snoqualmie schools’ particular com-plaint volumes aren’t alarming, says Adie Simmons, director of the Office of the Education Ombudsman. But, noticing that bullying is trending upward statewide, Simmons said her office is spreading word that Washington needs new legislation.

Most of the parental calls to the ombuds-man’s office are for special education issues, with discipline, bullying and parental involvement following.

According to Scott, the ombudsman’s office is a resource for parents who don’t understand their rights or role.

“We are the people you call when you are frustrated and don’t know what else to do,” she said, “when you’re hitting a roadblock and are unable to move forward.”

The biggest red flag, Scott says, is when a child is not in school. Ombudsmen also step in if a student is in danger of failing to graduate.

Often, a communication breakdown

is to blame. Parents and educators aren’t always able to listen to each other, Scott said. That’s why ombudsmen are trained in conflict resolution—their job is to be out-side the system, looking at problems from both sides.

Every district has its strengths and weak-nesses. Some districts may have adminis-trators who are not well-trained in conflict resolution, or in dealing with parents who are emotional or upset.

“The system needs to look at parents as natural allies,” Scott said. “Parents can do a lot of things to enhance education. They have to learn how to work with educators. And parents have to trust that they’re going to be good partners.”

Seeking compromiseNancy Meeks, Student Services Director

for Snoqualmie Valley School District, admits that parents and schools don’t always see eye to eye.

“It doesn’t mean we as a district are doing something wrong,” she said. “It means there is a disagreement on how we are providing educational service, and we need to come to agreement.”

According to Meeks, more than 90 per-cent of student and parent complaints are resolved at the local building level. The dis-trict relies on a multi-step reporting system to address specific concerns such as bullying or harassment.

Issues of student education or safety are worked out, starting with teachers and staff. If staff can’t resolve concerns, parents move on to the principal, and if parents and the principal can’t come to an understanding, then Meeks’ office gets involved. If issues aren’t resolved there, then a third-party mediator may step in.

“They’re going to look at ‘Did you follow the law or not?’” Meeks said. “We spend time making sure our policies and proce-dures are clear, that we’re following them. I may not always agree with (state mediators), but I learn from them every time.”

Meeks said all sides need to be able to listen and understand the issues.

“There are cases where, no matter what happens with the best intentions of the school, it’s going to be contentious,” Meeks said. “Parents come being advocates for their kids—they want the best for the stu-dents. The challenge for schools is, we have constraints or issues we have to balance—legal issues, resources, schedules, caring for all the students. There are so many things that are out of the control of teachers. But they do a really good job of trying to prob-lem-solve.”

Schools also emphasize preventing prob-lems before they come up.

This year, the district is also focusing on safety with a Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools, or REMS, grant that looks at prevention and response at every school.

“There’s a lot of work that principals and teachers do on a daily basis to be proactive, to make sure that schools are safe,” Meeks said. From school surveys to staff training on diversity to curriculum on civility, bul-lying and cyber-harassment, “that’s where a lot of time and energy goes.”

These activities, and resources for parents and students, can be viewed at http://www.svsd410.org.

An advocateFor Johnson, ombudsman officials

helped her son select a trusted teacher as his advocate, someone to turn to for help. Yet, despite mediation, Johnson ultimately pulled her son from school because she didn’t believe he was safe there. She blames unwelcome attention from administrators.

“The powers that be robbed him of his high school experience,” Johnson said.

Today, her son is being taught by a tutor, paid by the school district. Johnson said he hopes to join his graduating class in 2012.

Johnson herself is now a member of the Education Ombudsman’s Parent Advisory Council. As an advisor, her duties include communicating with other parents, making suggestions on how schools could improve, and testifying to the legislature on education issues.

“My goal is to help other students avoid what my son went through,” Johnson said. “Life is difficult enough for our children to navigate. They should not be subject to the deliberate mishandling (by) the very adults paid to act in their best interest.”

Since the ombudsman’s office is not an advocate for parents, but a mediator, Johnson advises parents who need help to remember that they’ll need an advocate, too—someone they trust who can help them deal with school issues.

“Look for somebody who knows the ropes,” Johnson said. Never meet with school officials alone, she added—“always bring a witness.” Johnson said she is willing to meet with parents and students as an advocate.

Parents may be afraid to speak out when they have a problem with a school, but Johnson challenges inaction.

“We cannot be so frightened that we run and hide,” she said.

call toll free to 1 (866) 297-2597 or visit http://www.governor.wa.gov/oeo/.

cate questions at (425) 999-2710.

Finding helpWho should call the Office of the Education Ombudsman (OEO)?Parents or guardians of students who are experiencing a problem with a public school, and educators who have questions about problems or conflicts with parents may call the ombuds-man, as may anyone who has questions about the K-12 education system, education law, poli-cies, parent involvement or cultural competence.

When should I contact the ombudsman?You should contact OEO when you have an unresolved problem with a public school that impacts your student’s education, and you are not sure what to do next. Or, you may want an indepen-dent assessment of the situation, need options or have questions about the education system.

What will the ombudsman do?The ombudsman will listen to you, discuss the situation with school officials with your permis-sion, mediate conversations, research education laws and work with everyone to generate options that will solve the problem or improve the situation. Ombudsmen do not conduct formal investigations, but gather all information to assess the situation fairly.

Is there a cost for this service?No, all services are free of charge.

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Speaking at a school tour, anti-bullying compliance officer Nancy Meeks, with the Snoqualmie Valley School District’s Student Services Division, says building-level initiative is at the center of safety efforts.

Compliance officer puts initiative front and center in Snoqualmie schools’ anti-bullying efforts

BY CAROL LADWIGStaff Reporter

The face of Snoqualmie Valley School District’s com-pliance with state anti-bullying requirements is not Nancy Meeks, and she’d be first to say so.

Instead, Meeks said the school district really addresses harassment, intimidation and bullying issues at the level of each individual school.

“The real work is not with me, it’s with the buildings,” she said. Although she is officially the school compli-ance officer for the state-mandated policy 3207, she said “it’s the principals and the counselors in the buildings who play the biggest role.”

Last year, all state school districts were required to adopt and implement an anti-bullying policy by August 1, 2011.

The safety role

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How anonymous is the Mount Si High School tip line?

Mount Si High School’s year-old Tipline is intended to let students anonymously express their concerns about school violence, bullying, and other safety issues. They can visit the school’s tip website, (mountsi.schooltipline.com) to report something, with the option to include their contact information, or to remain anonymous, or they can send a text message containing “@mountsi” and information about their concerns to 847847.

According to Pam Hayes, sales director for School Tipline, Inc., some students are skeptical that the tool really is anonymous, and may not use it because of that.

“They’re scared that it’s not anonymous because the schools purchased it,” she said. However, she stated that all of the identifying information with each tip is stored only on her company’s data servers. Tips are forwarded on to the school administrative staff for review, stripped of all contact information, she said, and “They do not see the students’ information. That is completely con-fidential.”

Tipline also has options for students to create accounts, and log in to see their tips and any responses to them, and a phone number option. However, Hayes said nei-ther of these options are very popular with students, who don’t want to be associated with their tips, or have their voices recorded.

Students can still get responses to their reports, howev-er, by leaving contact information, visible only to the com-pany. If an administrator responds, the message is sent to the company, and then forwarded on to the student.

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The district has had harassment and bullying policies in place since the early 1990s, Meeks said, but 3207 was updated earlier this year to match the model put forth by the Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction (OSPI).

Part of the model calls for a compliance officer, whose job it is to ensure that the dis-trict adheres to its own policy, and to handle any complaints that are not resolved with-in the individual schools. Meeks, who works in Student Services, primarily with spe-cial education needs, was asked to don the compliance officer hat, as well.

Thanks to initiatives like Mount Si High School’s PRIDE campaign, and prin-cipals’ and counselors’ frank conversations with students at the start of each school year about what bullying is and how to report it, Meeks said her job has mainly been limited to keeping the district policies current, and communicating those updates with teachers and administration.

Bullying hasn’t been elimi-nated, of course, but Meeks said the principals and coun-selors at each school are able to quickly address any inci-dents that occur.

“They do a thorough inves-tigation of any allegation that happens at the building level,” she said.

That means interviewing all of the students involved, any students or staff who may have seen the event and, if a

security camera was in place, reviewing any video footage of the incident. A principal generally has final authority regarding the nature of the incident and any punishment to be applied, Meeks said, but cases can be escalated to her for review. That hasn’t hap-pened yet this year, she said.

Meeks praises the initia-tive of administration and staff in making student safety a priority, citing the Mount Si Tipline as an example. This online reporting tool was launched last January, by then principal Randy Taylor. Students can visit the web-site, https://mountsi.school-tipline.com, or send a text message to report bullying incidents, threats, depressed students, and other student safety issues. The website is intended to provide ano-nymity if students request it, but students claim that the district can trace the IP address of the computer used to make a report. The company insists the system is anonymous (see related story, page 3).

There have also been some challenges with promoting information about the Tipline. Until the high school launched its new website earlier this year, any links to the Tipline were difficult to find, and links to it from other district Web pages didn’t work.

Starting this school year, Meeks said, “I think there’s a lot of work that the student body does to let kids know,” such as posters in the hall-ways, and a prominent link

on the new website. Each school building is

promoting school safety and respect in a variety of ways, which Meeks refers to on the district website. For a list of programs at the elementary,

middle or high school lev-els, visit www.svsd410.org/parents/harassment_bullying/prevention_support.asp.

“We’re going to do what it takes to keep our kids safe,” Meeks said.

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Bullying responseSnoqualmie Valley schools have a seven-step system for addressing safety concerns

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At Mount Si, tips are rout-ed to the attendance office, where Attendance Secretary Bronwyn McDaniels and Principal John Belcher review them and forward them to staff members best prepared to address the issues. Hayes said that staff can also request to have the tips forwarded to their mobile devices. All iden-tifying information about the tip is stripped from the tips, and, if a student agrees to be contacted, from the staff’s response, so no phone num-bers are inadvertently shared.

Tipline has been used in more than 1,000 schools in

the U.S. since it was launched in 2006. Hayes said the schools vary in size from some of the largest in the nation to some with only 300 students in the entire district. Cost of the program varies with each implementation, Hayes said, “but typically, it’s a dollar per student.”

That fee includes the software for reporting, and a variety of on-line and in-person staff training options.

Since its implementation in January 2011, the Tipline has received 12 tips total, said Principal John Belcher, who started at Mount Si in July. This school year, there were four, including one from a middle school student.

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Donating blood can be daunting, but the numbers save—and amaze

It’s just a “one-gallon” pin, a small red, blue and gold circle with a 1 in the center. It doesn’t get me into cool events, doesn’t

come with a password or secret handshake, and probably wouldn’t sell for much. It doesn’t do anything but stick to an old denim jack-et, and remind me of some-thing important.

I give blood, not regularly, and not nearly as often as the people at the Puget Sound Blood Center (we call them vampires) would like me to, but I do it when I can, because I can. I know a lot of people can’t.

Fear of the needle is what keeps most people from giving blood, the vampire tech I talked to during my December donation told me. The reported numbers vary, but between 20 and 40 percent of people in the U.S. are eligible to donate blood, and only about 5 to 7 percent actually do.

Assuming a U.S. population of 312 million (rounding up from www.census.gov), that’s about 100 million people who: don’t have tattoos or if they do, they got them done at state-licensed businesses; haven’t been off the North American continent in a couple of years, and never got sick while traveling; haven’t engaged in any of the sexual behaviors, or contracted any of the condi-tions that disqualify you; and haven’t taken any of the drugs, legal or otherwise, that disqualify you. From that pool, between 16 and 22 million people donate blood.

That’s amazing. Each year, millions of people go through the process, completely voluntarily. They spend their precious time to read a stack of safety information, answer a bunch of personal questions, let strangers check their vitals and take a drop of blood (an anemia test that sometimes defers people from donating), and then give a pint-plus of their own blood, all for a glass of juice and some pretzels.

This system works, and only because of volun-teer donors. Blood can’t be mass-manufactured. Our bodies don’t make it very fast, either, limit-ing the most regular of donors to a maximum of six or seven donations a year. Blood expires after about six weeks, but the bloodmobile vampires told me the blood they collected that day would be gone within the week.

On the receiving end, most blood is separated into its components, and a single unit can be used to help three different people. The average transfusion patient requires just over three units of blood. So if 22 million people donated once last year (and most give twice), they gave transfu-sions to more than 7 million people.

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“There’s a list! His sense of adven-ture, his love for the Lord, and how

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Thursday, Feb. : Middle

Fork resident Jerry Roloson, who owns riverfront property on Middle Fork Road, discovered that his land was being used as an illegal dump. He found several dump-truck loads of broken concrete curbing, dirt and gravel thrown down a steep slope.

burglary in Carnation fell in 1986 compared with 1985, with num-bers dropping 36 per-cent overall and more than 50 percent for commercial burglaries.

Thursday, Feb. 1, 1962: North Bend Chamber of Commerce members will view up-to-date slides of Seattle’s World’s

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many thousands of visitors to North Bend,” predicted George Wysrch, Chamber Vice President.

solar radio is on display at Hearing’s Rexall Drugs, and is to be given away to some

forerunner, perhaps, of bigger things to come?

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Alternate-day Kindergarten is not best option

The Snoqualmie Valley School District (SVSD) is con-sidering major restructuring of the current Kindergarten daily schedule.

Rather than attending school five half-days per week, stu-dents would only go to school two or three times per week for the full day. This change would not be made to better our stu-dents’ academic learning or enhance a new curriculum; it is purely to cut costs and save money.

Times are hard and budgets are tight. The school board and district have said they strive to make cuts that would not affect student learning. This particular choice, however, would be a significant detri-ment to our Kindergarteners, with negative impacts during this crucial first year.

It is well-established that Kindergarten-aged children have short attention spans and learn best through repetition. By forcing students to cram two days’ worth of lesson plans into one long, 6.5-hour

day, the amount of informa-tion students can learn will be severely diluted. While the new proposal boasts an addi-tional 28 hours (per school year) of student-teacher con-tact time, the question must be asked, “Which is more impor-tant: quality or quantity?”

These students will not have the luxury of “break time” like the every-day students. These alternate-day children will need to cram as much as possible before leaving the classroom, often not returning for another five days.

This new model lacks the opportunity to practice new skills through daily repetition, consideration for attention span, and consistency of rou-tine and schedule—making the transition to first grade that much more difficult. It would also be emotionally draining for many of these young stu-dents to be gone from home, some for the first time, and be expected to perform for six hours a day.

SVSD board members have expressed interest in hearing from the community. Public meetings are in the process of being scheduled. To help our school board make a decision on this matter, I encourage par-ents to engage in this discus-sion, become informed, and let your feelings be known.

Wendy Pynn North Bend

LETTERSSNOQUALMIE VALLEY EFR’s Prop. 1 on

Carnation ballotA $5.5 million bond issue for the construction of a new

fire station in May Valley and improvements to five other stations in Fire District 10 will be on the February 14 ballot for Carnation voters.

The measure, Proposition 1, is a 20-year bond that would cost voters an additional estimated 9 cents per $1,000 of assessed value in property taxes ($27 a year for a $300,000 home), to raise a total of $5.5 million. Of that amount, $4 mil-lion is budgeted for the new May Valley station, which will be the future home of Fire Station 78, now in Kent.

The remaining $1.5 million will be used to complete updates already in progress, along with new remodels at other stations, as follows:

five separate bedrooms for career and volunteer firefighters on staff. Eastside Fire & Rescue also hopes to develop a parcel of land in the area, which it owns, into a training facility, for needs specific to the Valley.

alarm system on the 50-plus year-old, all-volunteer station.

a fire alarm system in the facility, which is moving from all-volunteer to include overnight staff members.

overnight staff members, and adding a fire alarm system.

parking for emergency response vehicles. Fire Chief Lee Soptich said that these projects might have

to be scaled back, if the new station’s construction costs exceed the budgeted $4 million.


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The event includes appe-tizers, desserts, dancing, a cash bar, raffles, games and photographs.

Tickets are $25 each, and are available by advance sale only.

In Snoqualmie, you can buy tickets at Carmichael’s Hardware 8150 Falls Ave. South, (425) 888-1107.

In North Bend, tickets are available at: Totz, 249 Main Ave. S., Suite E, (425) 292-9477; Birches Habitat, 202 W. North Bend Way, Suite A, (425) 292-9390; and Zo Home, 137 E. North Bend Way, (425) 292-9390.

Sallal Grange will donate all money raised from ticket sales to House of Hope.

The nonprofit helps women in crisis and their children, by providing them with a safe home and sup-port services.

Totz will offer a special rate on child care for the night of the fundraiser, for any ticket-holders who are parents.

For additional infor-mation, call the Grange at (425) 888-0825, send e-mail to [email protected], visit the website at www.sallalgrange.org, or find the Grange on Facebook.

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p.m., a citizen turned in a wallet found around 8:50 a.m. as he was walking in the 1300 block of Stilson Avenue. The wallet had no cash, but there was a driver’s license inside.TIRES SLASHED: At 9:39 a.m., a citizen in the 4500 block of Southeast North Bend Way discovered his tires were slashed, and called police. The vehicle had been

parked in the lot of an apart-ment building.

FRIDAY, JAN. 27

MARIJUANA POSSESSION: At 9:11 a.m. an offi cer noticed a person sitting in a parked car in the rear driveway of a business in the 46900 block of Southeast 146th Street. The man seemed nervous and admitted to having marijuana when asked.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1

DONUTS: At 6:27 p.m., a call-er reported seeing a white SUV driving and skidding in circles at Meadowbrook Farm. Police responded but did not catch the off ender.

TUESDAY, JAN. 31

RECKLESS DRIVING: At 4:10 p.m., a caller contacted po-lice about a blue and silver Chevy S10 pickup truck that was weaving in and out of traffi c in the 6500 block of Railroad Avenue Southeast.

MONDAY, JAN. 30

SALES CALL: At 4:30 p.m., a resident in the 6700 block of Elderberry Avenue South-east contacted police about a salesperson. She said a

man driving a white van had approached her two hours earlier, while she was in the garage, to ask if their family ate meat. He may have been selling meat products. She asked him to leave, and he went to the front door and knocked, but then he left.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28

OVERDOSE: At 7:36 p.m., medical professionals in the 9500 block of Ethan Wade Way called police for help with a patient who was try-ing to leave. The patient’s friends calmed him down. They said he’d overdosed on heroin and they had to per-form CPR on him.

TUESDAY, JAN. 31

BURN COMPLAINT: At 8:16 a.m., fi refi ghters responded to a burn complaint, and is-sued a burn permit.

MONDAY, JAN. 30

HOME CHECK: At 8:55 a.m., fi refi ghters checked on a 30-year-old woman. She was treated and transported to Swedish Hospital via the Fall City Fire aid car.DIABETIC ISSUE: At 11:56 a.m., fi refi ghters responded

to a 42-year-old woman with a diabetic issue. She was also seen by Bellevue Fire paramedics, treated and left at home with family.FALL: At 7:26 p.m., fi refi ght-ers responded to a 35-year-old woman who fell. She was treated and transported to Harborview Medical Cen-ter via private ambulance.

SUNDAY, JAN. 29

CHEST PAIN: At 10:39 a.m., fi refi ghters responded to a 53-year-old woman with chest pain. She was also seen by Bellevue Fire para-medics, treated and trans-ported to Swedish Hospital via private ambulance.FLOOD ALERT: At 11:43 p.m., the Snoqualmie River moved to a Phase 2 fl ood alert. Dur-ing fl ood alerts, fi refi ghters telephone residents on the contact list and residing in fl ood-prone areas, to inform them of conditions.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28

MAN DOWN: At 4:58 p.m., fi refi ghters responded to a man who was found fallen down on the side of the road. He was treated and transported to Swedish Hos-pital of Issaquah via private ambulance.

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Outside the gym, senior Robby MacNair was demonstrat-ing the wrestling move he’s been saving for the upcoming regional tournament, and of course, for state.

“I haven’t used that move all year,” he told his friend. He’s ready to.

Inside, DJ Bergquist and Eli Gremmert relaxed as they waited for the preliminary rounds of the Cascade Conference sub-regional tournament to finish up Saturday, Feb. 4. They would soon be wrestling each for the championship of the 152-pound weight class, but since they’re teammates on the Cedarcrest High School Red Wolves, they weren’t too con-cerned about who placed where.

“Either way, we both go on to regionals, and either way, it’s good for the team,” said Bergquist.

He was sporting a camouflage tournament T-shirt with “Nothin’ but hustle and muscle” on the back in hot pink let-tering. Most of his teammates were wearing the shirts that they just got that day, maybe for luck, but the Red Wolves didn’t need any today.

Cedarcrest saw 14 of its 22 wrestlers place in the top four to automatically advance to regionals, this weekend in Bellingham, and claimed a decisive team victory, with 280 points.

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Above, Mount Si junior Bruce Stuart flips Connor Gullstad of Mercer Island in a third-place match Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Kingco championships, winning by points. Below, AJ Brevick handles Quinn Magendanz of Liberty to claim third.

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“I’m going to regionals.”That was the common

refrain for Mount Si wres-tlers racking up points at last weekend’s Kingco League wrestling tournament.

On the mat at Liberty High School, Mount Si claimed the tournament championship, 214.5 points to Mercer Island’s 209, enough to send Mount Si on to the regional tourna-ment as a team.

Punching that ticket to regionals felt “absolutely amazing” to Bruce Stuart, who took third and a berth in 138, locking up Mercer’s Connor Gullstad to win the match, 4-0.

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Cedarcrest wrestler and senior Austin Koons, right, wearing a bandage to staunch a nosebleed, puts a hold on Moses Sun of Granite Falls. Koons took third in his division, 145 pounds, beating Sun by points.

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“We’ve already wrapped up league championships, and won duals… today we’re just continuing what we’ve done all year, believe in yourself and hard work,” said Cedarcrest head coach Eric Pedeferri, during the 45-minute break between rounds.

The team is led by 10 seniors, most of whom wrestled through-out high school. Among them are MacNair, who took first in the 285-pound class, Gremmert and Bergquist who took first and second, respectively, in the 152-pound class, and Cody Paxman, first in the 160-pound class.

“He’s pretty dominant,” Pedeferri said of Paxman. “We hope he can win a state title.”

Cedarcrest wrestlers advancing to the regional tournament this weekend in Bellingham are: freshman Bailey McBride, sec-ond place in the 106-pound. class; senior Nik Werner, first, and sophomore Callen Martinez, third, at 113; Curtis Chittenden, a junior, first at 120; freshman Ely Malametz, first at 126; junior Nick Decker, first at 138; junior Carlos Toledano, first, and senior Austin Koons, third at 145; Gremmert, first, and Bergquist, second at 152; Paxman, first at 160; senior Martin Vakamoce, second at 170; junior Parker Dixon, fourth at 182; and MacNair, first at 285.

Team scores were: Cedarcrest, 280; Lakewood, 200.5; Granite Falls, 178; Sultan, 158.5; Archbishop Murphy, 99; and South Whidbey, 95.

“If you want it more than he does, you’ll win,” Stuart said.

That goes ditto for junior Tim Corrie. In only his sec-ond varsity tournment, the Mount Si wrestler pulled a point ahead of Bellevue’s Jamey Mange for third place at 182 and a trip to regionals.

“I wanted it more,” Corrie explained.

The top three wrestlers qualify for regionals, to be held Saturday, Feb. 11 at Skyline High School. Fourth placers go as alternates.

Mount Si’s best claimed their rides to Skyline, with

plenty of other Wildcats grabbing berth honors, too.

Senior Josh Mitchell spent all of 80 seconds on the mat on the weekend, need-ing 42 seconds against Lake Washington’s Gabe Olson and 38 for Bellevue’s Dean Jones for fall wins.

At 120 pounds, Ryley Absher felled Sam Kim of Bellevue, Trevor Gullstad of Mercer Island and Austin Flegel of Lake Washington.

Junior Mitch Rorem and senior Tyler Hutchinson beat all comers and had to wrestle for the title at 195. Rorem took the match with a fall in 5:38, so Hutchinson took second.

Senior Aaron Peterson took second at 138, as did sophomores Tye Rodne at 145 and Eli Clure at 106. Senior AJ Brevick took third at 160.

Brevick faced Liberty’s Quinn Magendanz for the second time in a week; both wrestlers had each other’s measure.

“I knew I was going to beat him,” Brevick said.

“That kid is no pushover,” Brevick added. “He thought I wasn’t good on my feet.” The Wildcat proved him wrong by scoring two takedowns.

Mount Si’s Gunnar Harrison took fourth at 113, Davis Glass took fourth at 152.

Wilkins Melgaard took fourth at 126, and Tanner Stahl took fifth.

Justin Edens took fourth at 132. Nate Whited took fourth at 220, followed by Chris Schlicting at fifth.

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Mount Si’s Nate Whited faces off with an opponent during the second day of the Kingco league tournament at Liberty High School.

Parker Dixon, left, tries to throw off Carl Lunn of Lakewood, in the consolation round for the 182-pound. weight class of Saturday’s tournament. Dixon took fourth place in the class, and will advance to regionals in Bellingham.


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George, a tall, garrulous 75 year-old, admits that he’s had a few failed relation-ships with women. Betty is a lovely redhead, soft-spoken and definitely a still-waters-run-deep kind of gal. She has been married twice, the second time for 32 years. She politely declined to give her age, saying “If you’ll for-give me for not answering, I’ll forgive you for asking.”

The two met playing bridge at the Sno-Valley Senior Center in Carnation, where George had been a regular for years when Betty joined the group, about five years ago. She’d just recently learned to play the game, and, lonely after her hus-band’s death, she wanted to get out more.

“She walked in one day, sat down at the bridge table. I think we were playing three tables that day,” said George, as if that explained it all.

He was still getting over a 2004 Russian love affair that ended when he returned to the United States, and although Betty caught his eye that first day, a romance was out of the question. He knew right away, though, “she was a lady of integrity.”

A quick and easy friend-ship formed between them, though, and flourished. Well, they called it friend-ship, anyway.

“She said to me one day, words to the effect of ‘Can we be friends, and do things as friends once in a while?’ And I said, ‘once in a while, that might be nice!’” George recalled. “That was about four years ago.”

They took long day trips together, visited other clubs to play bridge together, and

generally started spending more and more time with each other.

Senior Center Director Amara Oden said “I didn’t realize they were a couple, but I have heard them flirt-ing for two years…”

She said she was “just delighted” to learn that they are, in fact, the couple she suspected them to be.

Another bridge friend, Janice, observed a lot more teasing and giggling when the pair were together. It was obvious.

“There’s nothing like a goofy pair of old coots!” laughed Betty. She’d just admitted what caught her eye about George that first day playing bridge, and it had very little to do with his intelligence, or his skill as a card player, although she touts those qualities of his, too.

“George, stand up and turn around,” she said, as if that explained it all. He did, and she giggled away.

On a more serious note, Betty said she’d struggled with loneliness for some time after her husband’s death.

“After you’ve been in a couple for a long time, and that relationship is severed, you get really lonesome.”

That’s why she joined the senior center’s bridge group, where “I see this big, tall, reasonably handsome guy with a cute tush….”

George unabashedly admires Betty’s physical attributes, too, but they are just nice additions to what he really sees in Betty.

“This is a relationship built on extreme respect and trust, built up over a period of time,” he said.

George literally trusted Betty with his life in January, when she came to stay at his warm, well-lit home during the extended power outage throughout the Valley. Betty, a retired nurse, noticed that George was becoming con-fused and developing other problems that prompted her to call a doctor.

The two ended up at the Overlake Hospital emer-gency room, where they spent the night, Betty hav-ing almost certainly saved his life.

His doctor believed he’d had a mini-stroke, Betty said, and he will be under-going a series of tests soon to determine the cause. In the meantime, doctors advised George he shouldn’t be living alone, so Betty will continue to stay with him.

“I am determined to see this through with him,” she said, putting her hand in his. “As long as George needs me, I will be there for him.” After a pause, she adds, “Unless of course, he throws me out.”

That’s hardly likely. Both agree that they will need to discuss their future together, but as far as he’s concerned, they will be together.

“Being together is terribly habit-forming,” he said. “I’d need a damn good reason not to continue in a close relationship with her. … It’s just too nice being around her, to want to go back to being alone 24/7.”

In her usual understated style, Betty concludes, “I think you could say we’re very compatible.”

Finding love at... the senior center They’re no singles clubs, but it turns out, both of the Valley senior centers have produced their share of love matches in recent years.

Several couples have met at, married, and then moved on or moved away from the Mount Si Senior Center under program coordinator Janet Fosness’s watch, she recalled, and she never knows when a new one is forming.

“There are definitely seniors who come in looking for that,” said Fosness, “and then there are the accidental ones.”

At the Sno-Valley Senior Center in Carnation (temporarily located at Camp Don Bosco during a remodel), one such “accidental” couple just gave up trying to keep their relationship a secret, and endured some vigorous teasing for it.

“Janice, no talking…Janice… JANICE!” said Betty, whose four-year relationship with George is “out of the bag” and fair game according to fellow bridge player Janice, who’s rattling off jokes about hot water bottles and cold feet.

“Beats me how she found out,” says Betty, with a shrug.

Asked why they tried to keep a low profile in the first place, Betty bursts out “Because of her!” with a finger pointing to the still-joking Janice.

A lot of seniors try to keep their relationships quiet, according to Sno-Valley Senior Center program coordi-nator Amy O’Bryant. “People at this age are very private, so sometimes you don’t know.”

Amara Oden, Sno-Valley Senior Center director suspects it is a generational characteristic, and that it might change as the center reaches out to more, and younger, Baby Boomers.

“Seniors are still interested in that kind of thing,” she said. “It’s the perfect place to come… You end up spending time with people in a comfortable setting, finding companionship, really getting to know them.”

Both senior centers are working constantly on expanding their programs to attract more people, and par-ticularly more men to their programs. Women tend to outlive their partners, but are used to reaching out and networking, says Oden. She wants to make sure she reaches the men out there who are newly alone and may need help.

However, with a lopsided gender ratio, about 70 percent women to 30 percent men, neither center could really focus on romance, even if it intended to.

That’s a relief to some members.

“Oh heavens no!” says Mount Si member Gloria, her eyes wide. “We’re not here for the romance, we’re here for the food!”

Her friend, Edith, also a widow, said she came to the senior center every week for lunch, for the knitting club, and for friendship, but that’s it.

“I’ve been a widow for 30 years… I live with my kids, and I need adult stimulation, if you want to put it that way,” she said, “My husband was my romance, I’ve had the best.”

Dating might be the problem. With a dating pool of about twice as many woman as men, and no recent experience with asking someone on a date, many seniors are intimidated. At another table in the Mount Si dining room, Karen, happily married, compares their single friends to fish out of water when it comes to modern-day dating.

“The usual people here, they want the friends, they don’t want the romance,” she concluded.

Then, from over at the first table, an unidentified voice says “Speak for yourself!”

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Students take over McDonald’s

Mount Si’s sophomore class will take over the North Bend McDonald’s restau-rant, 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8. A percentage of the proceeds goes to Mount Si’s sophomore class. Several Mount Si staff will be work-ing the counters, drive-through desk, and helping make food.

Museum seeks choice prizes

The Northwest Railway Museum this week put out a call for auction items for its upcoming annual gala fundraiser, “Working on the Railroad.” Learn more at www.trainmuseum.org, or call 888-3030.


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Acting improv teachers come to North Bend Several well-known impro-

visation teachers come to North Bend February 15 to 19. Teachers from Alberta,

Canada, North Carolina, San Fransico, Los Angeles and Massachusetts will spend the weekend planning an

improv conference, and will also workshop the games and

invite the public.

Several performances are planned. The first is Sparky Johnson’s “Back to Borneo”

a one man show about his life and work with acclaimed

director Paul Sills, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16 at Valley

Center Stage.

Storyteller Awele, from San Francisco will perform Friday,

Feb. 17 at 7:30 pm.

Admission is free.

Above, junior lyrical danc-ers Jonah Duvall and Jeorgia Rowell-Gimmeso show off a lift.Below, teens Rachel Massey, Karley Macmillan, Katelyn Stewart and Sammi Cesmat hone their moves.Bottom, Ignite’s competitive dance teams hold trophies at nationals in Burien.

Hot movesIgnite teams explode

in national dance competitionBy Valley Record Staff

Their expressions fierce, their moves flowing, their footsteps in unison, the trio of dancers leaped and slid across the floor.

For all the seriousness of their skills, these dancers are surprisingly young. All are part of the junior-level lyri-cal dance team, part of the 52-strong competition con-tingent at Ignite Dance in North Bend, which recently cleaned up at a national competition at Burien’s Highline Performing Arts Center.

The wins show the dedi-cation of dancers like Jessica Amans, a senior-level dancer who finds competition physi-cally and emotionally fulfill-ing.

“That’s my dream right now, to be onstage and perform,” said Amans, a 19-year-old from Fall City. Dancing, she’s in the zone—”All I think about is to do what I love.”

When Amans started at Ignite two years ago, “I came in as a total hip-hop person,” she said. “They got me into so many the things. Now, I love jazz and hip-hop.”

Performance success “makes me want to go out and see what else is there for me,” she added.

Ignite opened about a year ago, offering recreational dance and yoga classes for youth and adults. The per-formance team has doubled in size since the first year, and still stokes its inner fire.

“They are so dedicated to practicing, at home, coming in extra, on the weekend,” instructor Katie Black said. “Just being in the class is a privilege, and they’re aware of that.”

Lots of awardsTeam members as young

as 4 and as old as 19 took part in the Highline event, held the weekend of Jan. 28. Ignite won multiple firsts.

At Burien, Ignite’s Nikki Thompson, 8, won Highest Scoring Dancer of the Year Finalist. The team received multiple awards for chore-ography; Black praised her core group of instructors, particularly Brittany Mains and Brenda Herman.

Nine-year-old Nina Horn placed first overall for all dancers in her 9-11 division, scoring above older danc-ers. The senior-level hip hop team won video of the year, and their video is part of a Facebook competition. If Ignite’s hip-hop team gets the most Facebook likes, it will get a promo video shoot from Rainbow Dance connection.

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TALES: Pajamarama Story Time is 6:30 p.m. at the North Bend Library; all young children are welcome with an adult.

STUDY ZONE: Teens can drop in for free homework help at 4 p.m. at the Snoqualmie Library and 7 p.m. at North Bend Library.

TAX HELP: AARP Tax-Aide volunteers can help prepare your basic return, 10 a.m. at North Bend Library.

TALES: Young Toddler Story Time is 9:30 a.m. at Snoqualmie

Library, for children ages 6 to 24 months with adult.TALES: Preschool Story Time is 10:30 a.m. at the Snoqualmie

Library; for ages 3 to 6 with an adult.COMPUTER HELP: Get extra help on the computer with vol-

unteer assistance, 6:30 p.m. at Fall City Library.

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HEALTHY COMMUNITY COALITION: Meeting is 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Riverview School District boardroom.

TEEN VALENTINE PARTY: Valentine’s Day Celebration is 3 p.m. at Fall City Library. There will be materials to make your own valentines and plenty of chocolate.

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TEEN VALENTINE PARTY: Valentine’s Day Celebration is 3 p.m. at North Bend Library.

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SPANISH TALES: Spanish/English Story Time is 10:30 a.m. at Snoqualmie Library. All young children welcome with adult.

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JOB CLUB: Connect with fellow job seekers for support and networking and learn about resources to assist you as you seek employment, 2 p.m. at North Bend Library.

LEARN ENGLISH: English as a Second Language (ESL) Class is 6:30 p.m., North Bend Library. A formal class to learn Eng-lish grammar, reading, writing and conversational skills.

TALES: Merry Monday Story Time is 11 a.m. at North Bend Library; for newborns to age 3 with an adult.

STUDY ZONE: Teens can drop in for free homework help at 3 p.m. at Snoqualmie and North Bend Libraries.

LIBRARY FRIENDS: Friends of the North Bend Library meet at 9:30 a.m. at the library.

TALES: Afternoon Preschool Story Time is 1:30 p.m. at Sno-qualmie Library; for ages 3 to 6 with an adult.

ONLINE TAXES: Preparing and Filing Taxes Online workshop is 7 p.m. at Snoqualmie Library, presented by H&R Block.

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TALES: Toddler Story Time is 9:30 a.m. at North Bend Library; for ages 2 to 3 with an adult.

STUDY ZONE: Teens can drop in for free homework help at 3 p.m. at Snoqualmie, Fall City and North Bend Libraries.

TALES: Toddler Story Time is 10 a.m. at the Fall City Library; for newborns to age 3 with an adult.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15

TALES: Pajamarama Story Time is 6:30 p.m. at the North Bend Library; all young children welcome with an adult.

SUPPORT GROUP: Survivors of Snoqualmie Valley School Dis-trict No. 410 Foundation support group meets, 7:15 p.m., at Si View Community Center, 400 Orchard Dr., North Bend.

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PUBLIC NOTICE #582714CITY OF CARNATIONDETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE

(ECF12-001)WAC 197-11-970 Determina- tion of nonsignificance (DNS).Description of proposal: C i t y of Carnation amendments to Chapter 15.40 CMC Permissible Uses to allow Nurseries, Garden Centers and Farm Supply Stores as a Permitted Use in the Service Commercial Zone.Proponent: City of CarnationLocation of proposal, including street address, if any: City of Carnation, city-wide.Lead agency: City of CarnationThe lead agency for this proposal has determined that it does not have a probable significant ad- verse impact on the environment. An environmental impact state- ment (EIS) is not required under RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c). This decision was made after review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file with the lead agency. This information is available to the public on request.[X] This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2); the lead agency will not act on this proposal for 20 days from the date of First Publication below. Com- ments must be submitted by February 28, 2012.Responsible Official: Linda Scott

Position/Title: City Planner Phone: (425) 333-4192

Address: City of Carnation 4621 Tolt Avenue PO Box 1238 Carnation, WA 98014-1238

Date February 2, 2012 (OPTIONAL)[X] There is no agency appeal.Date Issued: February 2, 2012Date Mailed: February 6, 2012Date Published: February 8, 2012 and February 15, 2012 in the Snoqualmie Valley Record.

PUBLIC NOTICE #582585CITY OF NORTH BEND

NOTICE OF SEPA DETERMINATION OF NON-

SIGNIFICANCE (DNS) FOR THE FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT PLAN

DNS Issuance Date: February 2, 2012

Notice of DNS Publication Date: February 8, 2012Deadline for SEPA Comment:

February 22, 2012 Proponent: City of North Bend

Description of Proposal: The City of North Bend is pro- posing amendments to the Flood-plain Management Plan. Theamendments incorporate recentlyannexed areas, provide updatesto information in the plan basedon recent changes in local, stateand federal regulations, andprovide revisions to selectedrecommendations in the planbased on public input. The draftamendments are posted on theCity’s website at www.north-bendwa.gov, under ‘Plans and Documents’.Location of Proposal: TheFloodplain Management Planapplies to all Special FloodHazard Areas within the City ofNorth Bend. The City of NorthBend lies on both sides of I-90approximately 30 miles east ofSeattle centered on Section 9,Township 23 North, Range 8E.W.M.Threshold Determination: The City of North Bend (leadagency for this proposal) has de-termined that this proposal doesnot have a probable significantadverse impact on the environ-ment. An environmental impactstatement (EIS) is not requiredunder RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c).This decision was made afterreview of a completed environ-mental checklist on file with thecity.This information is availableto the public on request. This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2); the lead agencywill not act on this proposal for 14 days from the date of publication of the notice of DNS, allow-ing time for public comment.The issuance of this DNS shouldnot be interpreted as acceptanceor approval of this proposal as presented. The City of NorthBend reserves the right to denyor approve said proposal subject to conditions if it is determinedto be in the best interest ofthe City and/or necessary forthe general health, safety, andwelfare of the public.SEPA Responsible Official:Mike McCarty, Senior Planner,(425) 888-7649, [email protected]. North BendCommunity and EconomicDevelopment Department. POBox 896, North Bend WA98045. Published in the SnoqualmieValley Record on February 8,2012.

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2005 Dodge Magnum RT utility (2692B) ..........$12,971

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2006 MINI Cooper hatch (R11448P) ............ $14,171

2009 Chevrolet Malibu LT (26540) ................. $14,271

2006 Pontiac Solstice Roadster (V8294A) ... $14,371

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2005 Chevrolet Colorado crew cab (26614D) ..$14,971

2005 Chevrolet Suburban 1500 4WD (26828) .$15,071

2002 Ford F-150 Harley Supercrew (26842A) $15,971

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