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Claire Thompson, a people, pet and nature lover, hoped one day her nurturing, generous personality would lead to a career in nursing.

Thompson, a 20-year-old Sammamish native who was fatally shot early Sunday morning in Redmond, enjoyed giving to others and never asked for anything in

return, according to her friends.“She was the best friend I could have

ever asked for,” said Mikaela Boyd, who was talking to Thompson when a bullet pierced a nearby wall and struck Thompson in the neck. “She had a beautiful soul. She wanted to be a nurse. She truly saw the beauty in everything.”

Thompson’s other good friend, Audrey Weigelt, who was like a sister, said she

and Thompson had plans of becoming nurses together.

“She dreamed big and we dreamed together,” Weigelt said. “We were going to become traveling nurses together and travel around with our cats.”

A memorial is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sat-urday at Mars Hill Church in Sammamish,

‘She saw the beauty in everything’Friends remember Eastlake High graduate who died in Redmond shooting

[ more THOMPSON page 5 ]

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Most parents have a great feeling of pride when asked about their child’s

success. But when a child’s success follows in their own footsteps, that pride can be palpable.

When Kirkland Deputy Mayor Doreen Marchione talks about her son, Redmond Mayor John Marchione, the pride is nearly as big as her love for him.

“When he was running for mayor I remember some people coming up to me and saying ‘don’t take this the wrong way, but John is the most qualified person we have ever had to be mayor,’” said Doreen on Monday afternoon, as

she sat next to her son in his office at Redmond City Hall.

But Doreen did not take offense because she agrees.

“I think he is doing great,” said Doreen, who is 73 and served as Redmond’s mayor from 1984-1992.

Many who have served in Red-mond’s government have respect for the job the Marchiones have done.

“They have some good leader-ship genes,” said former Redmond City Council president Nancy McCormick, who served with both John and Doreen. “They just work well with people.”

Doreen is a political trailblazer on the Eastside.

Friends remember Claire E. Thompson as a loving person who always gave and never asked for anything in return. Thompson was killed in a shooting in Redmond last weekend. Courtesy photo

FAmILY TIeSinPoLITICSMarchione leadership spans

four decades, two cities

Kirkland Deputy Mayor Doreen Marchione and her son, Redmond Mayor John Marchione, discuss their family’s role in Kirkland and Redmond city government during the past 40 years at John’s office in Redmond. Doreen served as Redmond’s mayor during the 1980s. CaRRiE WOOD, Reporter Newspapers [ more MARCHIONeS page 3]

Residents split on tax increase, according to survey resultsSAMANTHA PAK

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Redmond residents are about 50-50 in support of raising taxes to help pay for fu-ture parks and transportation projects, ac-cording to survey results, released Tuesday.

Results from a recent survey have prompt-ed City of Redmond staff to take a closer look at its overall planning and financial strategy regarding the city’s Capital Improve-ment Plan (CIP) and Capital Investment Strategy (CIS) before considering putting a bond measure on November’s ballot.

About 400 registered voters in Redmond participated in a survey conducted by an outside firm to see if the people of Red-mond would be willing to support a po-tential parks and transportation bond. The results were almost split down the middle with support for a bond in a slight lead.

Survey participants were asked twice whether they would support higher taxes, once at the beginning of the interview and once at the end after they learned more about the issues around the measure.

City officials to re-examine financial strategy after lukewarm response to potential bond ballot measure

[ more SURVeY page 2 ]

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Thursday, Feb. 16DUI: At 1:11 a.m., Redmond police

arrested the driver of a vehicle for driving under the influence in the 2400 block of 148th Avenue North-east in Overlake and driving with a suspended license.

Wednesday, Feb. 15Robbery: At 7:21 p.m., Redmond police responded to a report of a robbery in an apartment complex in the 9800 block of Avondale Road on Education Hill.

Assault: At 6:37 p.m., Redmond police responded to a report of an assault on a juvenile at a park in the 8400 block of 161st Avenue Northeast downtown. The adult suspect can be identified. The case is currently under investigation.

Illegal dumping: At 2:50 p.m., it was reported that unknown suspect(s) dumped a sofa, litter and other yard debris on private property in the 8300 block of 140th Avenue Northeast.

Tuesday, Feb. 14Grand theft auto: A company-owned pickup truck was reported stolen 12:12 p.m. while parked in front of a business in the 2400 block of 152nd Avenue Northeast.

Theft: At 7:59 a.m., it was reported that a $100 bill was taken from a cash bag from a hospital in the 8900 block of the 161st Avenue Northeast on Education Hill.

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Initially, 49 percent of participants said they would support a bond and 45 percent were opposed. Six percent were unsure. The results after participants were more informed on the topic were not much different, with 53 percent in support, 43 op-posing and 4 percent unsure. The margin of error for the survey results was 4.9 points.

Parks Director Craig Larsen said if they had received an overwhelming posi-tive response — closer to a 75 percent approval — the city would go ahead and propose a bond measure for November.

“Because the results are positive but modest, we’re going to look at this much more broadly,” he said.

Larsen, who was part of a group of city staff who presented the survey results to City Council Tuesday evening, said this means city staff will look at their estimates for expenditures on potential projects and make sure they are accurate.

Right now, the capital parks budget for 2013-18 is estimated at $23.6 million, but that is only 54 percent of what city staff estimates they need for their list of poten-tial projects. Redmond’s capital transpor-tation budget for that same time period is estimated at $103.5 million, but that is 66 percent of what staff estimates they need for projects.

“We have more capital needs than capital funding,” Redmond Mayor John Marchione told Council.

Larsen said staff will also look at what capital projects — specific ones such as the Redmond Central Connector and the planned downtown park and general ones like sidewalk repairs and park renovations — can realistically be completed in the next 10 years. He said by taking a closer look at everything, city staff will have a better idea of what the funding gap really is. Additionally, Larsen said staff will look

into other possible sources of funding such as grants as an alternative to raising taxes.

During the presentation to Council, staff shared other survey results. Carolyn Hope, a senior planner for the City of Redmond, said survey participants were also asked if they were more likely to sup-port a bond measure for just transporta-tion or for just parks. Thirty-five percent said they would more likely support a transportation-only measure; 23 percent were less likely and 42 percent were not sure. On the other side, only 12 percent said they would more likely support a parks-only measure; 47 percent were less likely and 42 percent were unsure. Hope said these percentages were rounded to the nearest decimal.

Hope said participants were also asked to rate Redmond city government. Most people gave the city a B or better for services, using tax dollars responsibly and protecting Redmond’s quality of life. This being said, she added that people did not see the need to raise taxes and 42 percent thought Redmond’s tax level is higher than surrounding jurisdictions. Forty percent said they did not know how Redmond compared to other cities. In ac-tuality, Redmond’s tax level is lower than its neighboring cities as well as unincor-porated King County.

“People were not convinced of the urgency and need for additional revenue,” Hope told Council.

One of the reasons for this may be that people don’t understand the difference between the city’s operational budget and its capital budget. Larsen said the operational budget, which is balanced for the next six years, covers what it costs to run the city. The capital budget funds projects the city would like to do in order to accommodate future growth.

[ SURVEY from page 1] ATS REMOVES INTERSECTION TRAFFIC-ENFORCEMENT CAMERASOn Thursday afternoon,

workers with traffic-enforcement camera vendor,

American Traffic Solutions (ATS), remove equipment from the

intersection at Union Hill and Avondale Roads, one of four intersections to have traffic

ticketing cameras. The cameras were turned off Jan. 31 after

City Council voted last year to terminate the contract with ATS, which removed camera

equipment from all four Redmond intersections this week. City

Council did recently sign a new contract with ATS to keep the

two school-zone speed cameras near Einstein Elementary School

through the end of the school year. PHOTO By DEBy Alm, City of Redmond

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She founded the Red-mond chapter of the League of Women Voters, was the third woman to be elected to the Redmond City Coun-cil, the second female mayor of Redmond and then moved to Kirkland, where she did something even more rare – won an election in a second city. John said he could only think of two other people to win elec-tions in two separate cities.

Doreen first won election to Redmond’s city council in 1976, spending just $100 on fliers. She stepped down in 1978 to move to Atlanta for her husband’s job. The Marchiones moved back just a few years later and she was re-elected to council in 1981.

DOORBELLING WITH MOMJohn has memories of

going doorbelling with his mother and attending po-litical strategy meetings.

But the early elections were a learning experience for John.

“I think one of the most important things she taught me was to just ‘let it roll off your back,’” said John.

Those life lessons came in difficult ways.

“I had people coming up to me when I was 10 or 12 years old complaining to me about city issues,” he said. “I

didn’t think it was fair.”But the hardest thing

for John was when people would criticize his mother.

“I remember reading let-ters to the editor against my mom and it was difficult,” said John, who is 46.

But those lessons have given John perspective when dealing with his own children and public life.

Doreen’s biggest contri-bution to both cities have come at tumultuous times. In 1983 she decided to challenge for mayor against two other people, including the first female mayor of Redmond, Chris Himes.

“When I ran there was a lot going on,” said Doreen. “Quarrels between the mayor and the council.”

Doreen ran trying to bring some civility and bridge

the divide. But she did not take office with a mandate, winning a plurality with 49 percent of the vote, which was split three ways.

Doreen served two terms as Redmond mayor before losing to Rosemarie Ives in 1991. She would go on to spend 15 years with Multi-Service Centers of North and East King County, or as it is known today, Hopelink, a Redmond-based organization where she served as CEO.

But the call to public ser-vice stayed with Doreen and she saw another situation in 2009 with the Kirkland City Council that she could not let go. Scandals and ethical issues brought Doreen back into the political fray as she defeated incumbent Tom Hodgson for Position No. 7.

“She just loves to be involved,” said McCormick. “And she is having a ball so I am not surprised.”

Doreen, who said the council has become more civil, was elected by the council to be Deputy Mayor in January.

“It was something I wanted to do and I have the experi-ence,” said Doreen. “But I have no desire to be mayor.”

John too came into a dif-ficult situation when he was elected mayor.

“My relationship with the council has been excellent but (the council’s relation-ship) was pretty rocky with the prior mayor,” said John.

JOHN’S ROAD TO MAYORJohn’s road to becoming

mayor was a lot different from his mother.

After attending Seattle University, just as his mother had, he earned a masters degree from the University of Washington in public administration. He then worked his way up to even-tually managing the King-dome budget and the debt financing for Safeco Field.

“I saw my job as to pro-tect the public,” said John. “I tried to make it strong enough to withstand a seven-year recession.”

That work paid off as the financing for the stadium withstood the events of Sept. 11 and resulting recession.

The debt was even paid off early, something that John is tremendously proud of. He was elected mayor in 2007, defeating Jim Robinson after Ives retired.

“I recognized early on that he had great leadership skills,” said McCormick. “He has a wonderful sense of hu-mor, which you have to have when managing people.”

But his job as mayor has been aided by his mother’s experience and his youth being spent in the city.

“Growing up in Red-mond has been a tremen-dous help because I know three generations in this city,” said John.

There have been many issues that the two have dealt with as mayor of Redmond. Doreen oversaw the move of the Microsoft and Nintendo headquarters to Redmond, and John has a good working relationship with both, as they have become two of Redmond’s largest employers.

“I remember going to Bill Gates’ home for lunch along with the city council,” said Doreen, who was the eighth mayor of Redmond.

John, who is Redmond’s 10th mayor, now coordi-nates Redmond’s legislative agenda with Microsoft’s executives.

There are still some people in the Redmond city government who served with Doreen and now John.

One person who has helped John in his efforts with Redmond’s upcoming 100th anniversary celebrations is former mayor Himes.

“If anyone has a reason to be bitter it is her and she has been great and so gra-cious,” said John.

A SERVICE FAMILYJohn said that one inter-

esting fact about his fam-ily is that he and his three other brothers have all married women who were trained in the teaching field.

“They all have the family value of service to the com-munity,” said Doreen of her sons, noting that Michael is a pastoral assistant, Paul works with nonprofit or-ganizations in Washington D.C. and David has worked in social services.

But John and Doreen do not talk politics much.

“The family would not put up with it,” said Doreen, who has credited her ambi-tion to the fact that her father died when she was six years old and was raised by a working single mother.

“We talk more about management issues and her grandkids,” said John.

As for a third mayor of Redmond or Kirkland named Marchione, John said that the service to community ethic is there, but he will let his children find their own way.

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Doreen Marchione (left, past photo) served as Redmond’s mayor from 1984-92 and her son, John, is currently serving his second term as mayor. Both of their pictures, along with the city’s eight other mayors, hang in the lobby of City Hall. CaRRie Wood, Redmond Reporter

Jihoon Lee, a senior at Redmond High School is one of two state-wide winners of the 2011 Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement, a signature program of the Siemens Foundation administered by the College Board.

The awards recognize Amer-ica’s top achievers in Advanced Placement Program science and mathematics courses with a $2,000 college scholarship to one male and one female student in each state. Julia Swanson, a se-nior at Central Kitsap High School, was the other Washington state winner.

Two national winners are also recog-

nized, each receiving a $5,000 scholarship. This year, 101 high school students in 50 states – in-cluding 96 seniors, four juniors and one sophomore – were recognized.

Lee has taken a total of seven AP courses so far with his favor-ite being Chemistry. His notable accomplishments include being named a National Merit Semifinal-

ist and National AP Scholar in 2011). Lee is also a VEX Robotics World Championship qualifier. He is interested in studying bioen-gineering, chemistry and computer science in college and his career aspiration is to be a biomedical researcher.

RHS senior one of two state scholarship winners

Jihoon Lee


A few weeks ago, as many Redmond resi-dents are now aware, our City Council voted to approve the signing of a devel-

opment agreement with Group Health, the re-gional health care cooperative, which is prepar-ing to dispose of its old hospital near Microsoft after relocating operations to a new building on the Eastside adjacent to I-405 in Bellevue.

The land the old hospital sits on is considered to be prime real estate. It’s situated close to Microsoft, the future Overlake light rail sta-tion, and the neighborhood’s commercial center.

The land is also home to some 1,100 plus mature trees, many of which are located on the perimeter, surround-

ing the hospital and the parking lots. The fate of these trees has become a hot topic around town after concerned residents began speaking out about a stipulation in the agreement that expressly permits Group Health or any subse-quent owner to ignore important provisions in Redmond’s tree preservation ordinance, which would otherwise prevent some trees from being razed during redevelopment. I’ve heard neigh-bors ask how it’s possible that Group Health got permission to clearcut everything.

Well, as it turns out, last April, when the city council rewrote Redmond’s zoning code, it ap-proved a clause which allows Redmond’s tree protection ordinance to be waived for develop-ment projects in downtown or Overlake, which are designated as the city’s two urban centers.

That’s what allowed city staff to prepare a devel-opment agreement with Group Health that doesn’t provide for the protection of a single tree on the property – in violation of the spirit (if not the letter) of Redmond’s tree protection ordinance, which begins with these two clearly-worded provisions.

From RZC 21.72.010:“The purpose of this chapter is to 1) avoid the

removal of stands of trees and significant trees in order to maintain the quality of Redmond’s urban environment; 2) protect stands of trees and signifi-cant trees to the maximum extent possible in the design of new buildings, roadways, and utilities...”

Another provision in the chapter provides a minimum threshold for protecting trees. RZC 21.72.060 declares, “In all new developments, including additions to existing non-single family buildings and parking areas, a minimum of 35 percent of all significant trees shall be retained.”

While the ordinance allows for exceptions, the agreement the city has signed with Group Health (which is now being challenged in King County Superior Court by Sustainable Redmond and former Mayor Rosemarie Ives, among other plain-tiffs) is more like a nullification, not an exception.

City officials don’t see it that way, though. City staff stress that whoever develops the property will be required to plant three new trees for every tree they cut down, and that not all of the trees would be razed at once, because the city expects the prop-erty to be developed in stages. They note plans call for a small portion of the property (around 2.6 acres, of 28 total) to be set aside as a park – though there’s no guarantee that this park will contain any of the trees that stand on the site now.

Dennis Lisk, one of the city’s associate plan-ners, told me the site would be difficult to rede-velop if tree protection was made a priority. “We became convinced you couldn’t have both large scale tree preservation and all that other kind of development,” he said, referring to the site’s po-tential for new mixed-use, multistory buildings in the heart of Overlake.

City staff and a majority of the City Council may be convinced that protecting existing trees on the Group Health site isn’t feasible, but I’m not. I think we can do better than zero.

I’d like to see city staff reevaluate this site with a different mindset. Instead of assuming, for instance, that it will be necessary to regrade the property and put a road through the middle, what if city staff assumed that the people of Redmond want this property to be sustainably redeveloped – with tree protection as a top priority? Under that assumption, what are the possibilities for new growth on that site? That is the question I’d like to see answered.

City staff have acknowledged that strong sentiment was expressed in favor of preserving trees on the property in response to the public outreach that they did.

To me, that indicates the people of Redmond want the agreements their representatives sign with landowners and developers to reflect the city’s environmental ethic. And unfortunately, the deal that the City Council approved (with one lone dissenting vote, from Council member Kim Allen) doesn’t.Andrew Villeneuve, a 2005 Redmond High gradu-ate, is the founder and executive director of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a Redmond-based grassroots organization. Villeneuve can be reached at [email protected].

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Overlake project approval ignores Redmond’s core values

I would like to continue the conversation regarding the Group Health/Overlake Village project.

I understand the rationale used by staff and Council but I want to be candid here, I feel let down and disenfranchised by the process.

I participated at multiple sessions as staff collected the community’s input in how this area should be developed. We all felt we under-stood what was being proposed - that this was to be a livable, quality environment, different from our neighborhoods, but that this proj-ect would reflect the elements that make Redmond unique and valued both by our community and by the businesses who bring their compa-nies and their families to Redmond

for a quality of life they can’t get elsewhere. It’s this lack of recog-nition to anything that says this planned neighborhood and village is Redmond where we value our neighbors and the environment.

This project tells me it is all about maximizing the economic value of the land — creating the maximum amount of density by arguing that any tree preservation is ultimately impossible either for the health of the trees or the safety of oth-ers. What was created then, was a justification for 100 percent tree removal to maximize the economic value of the land.

My frustration continues that after all the time and effort afforded by citizens, neighbors, boards and commission to provide a vision of what this vital urban village should look and feel like, the process has allowed for the total disregard of our core values. So, it raises the

question, why ask us? As noted by Mr. Berg (Sustainable

Redmond) and Mr. Hinman (Plan-ning Commission), there is a lack of transparency with the process once an applicant begins their permit. There is no progress report with Council – with the Planning Com-mission – with the community until it comes before us ALL as a virtual “fait accompli.” This is something that I believe needs to be reviewed and discussed by this Council. It raises the same question I asked several years ago to another Council - WHO WILL ADVOCATE for the community and our neighbor-hood values during the permitting process? How can we ensure that the balance of the urban village will be developed in a manner that will preserve those values?

Are we to assume that owner rights will exceed community interest? If property rights are

paramount for commercial development why don’t we afford something comparable for our homeowners?

Where can we provide an op-portunity with groups like Sustain-able Redmond, who have talent and resources, to assist an applicant in achieving the goals of the commu-nity? Where can we add a public review of the process so as to shine a light on the steps being consid-ered by an applicant? If you invite the neighbors and the community to offer input but then disregard it, why have a process at all?

The Group Health site is, as I ex-pect, a done deal but I hope we can look to the future and make some policy changes before the balance of the redevelopment begins - so the process can continue to honor Redmond’s commitment to our core values and the environment.Sue Stewart, Redmond

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where Thompson grew up.“She had no enemies,”

said friend Cole Kradin. “Her laugh lit up a room. She was an incredibly great person. This is a huge loss.”

Thompson and Boyd were at a house party in the Education Hill area talking about the unappetizing food at McDonald’s when Thompson was hit with the bullet, according to Boyd. Thompson was rushed to Harborview Medical Cen-ter, but was pronounced dead at around 10 a.m.

Cornelius J. De Jong IV, a 21-year-old Redmond resident, faces first-degree manslaughter charges in connection with the fatal shooting. Police say De Jong acted recklessly when he fired what he thought was an unloaded gun, according to King County Prosecutor’s Office charging documents. The charging papers said De Jong ap-peared drunk after the in-cident and refused a breath test. The witness who called to report the shooting told dispatchers, “My best friend shot a girl in the house, he was drunk,” the charging documents said.

“You don’t mix alcohol and guns,” said Thompson’s high school friend Grace Robison, who knew both Thompson and De Jong, but was not at the party. “We need to bring aware-ness to this. This situation could have been avoided. We could have our friend back.”

Boyd echoed those com-ments.

“No one should have guns unless you are at a shooting range,” Boyd said. “Everyone in this situation should never be able to touch a gun again. I hope there is a lesson learned here.”

Neighbors said the residence where the shoot-ing occurred was a known party house.

“It’s very sad,” said Paige Norman, who for the last 20 years has lived three houses down from the home where the shooting occurred. “I’m sorry someone had to lose a life, but it’s not really a surprise.”

GUN WAS LEGALDe Jong arrived at the

party with a 40-caliber semiautomatic handgun, which he was known to carry. The charging docu-ments said De Jong has a concealed-weapons permit, which was issued by the Redmond Police Depart-ment (RPD).

De Jong had placed the gun in a safe at the house

because he said he would be drinking alcohol, but his friend and the homeowner’s grandson requested to see the firearm. The charging documents stated that when the gun was taken from the safe, the gun magazine and live round were ejected.

Several people handled the gun and afterwards, De Jong placed it in an unse-cured kitchen cupboard for safekeeping. De Jong fell asleep on the couch and woke up to find the gun missing. The gun had been placed in a bedroom under a mattress, according to the charging papers.

When De Jong retrieved the gun, charging docu-ments state another person in the room “objected to the handgun being handled while the subjects were under the influence of in-

toxicating liquor.” De Jong removed the gun magazine and pulled back the slide “halfway to three-fourths,” the charging papers stated. He then pointed the gun at the wall and pulled the trigger to show it was empty, not knowing there was still a live round in the chamber.

“In truth it was an ac-cident,” said Robison. “I know (De Jong) and I know he wouldn’t hurt Claire like that. It’s really, really hard. I was just shocked. There’s no way to comprehend the pain that their family is go-ing through.”

Boyd said the media reports about the details leading up to the shooting have been “twisted,” but declined to elaborate.

“It’s something I don’t want to talk about,” she

said. “The situation should not have happened in the first place. No one should witness what I saw, it was horrible. ... I do believe there is a lesson learned: we need to grow up. It’s really horrible and tragic.”

De Jong’s arraignment is set for Feb. 27 and he remains in King County Jail on $300,000 bail, accord-ing to charging documents. Prosecutors pointed out in the charging papers that De Jong has past convictions for driving under the influ-ence and minor in posses-sion of alcohol.

Boyd said she doesn’t want to focus on what hap-pened that tragic night, but rather on “remembering Claire for the amazing per-son she was and to celebrate her life. She lives through us now.”

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Thompson grew up in Sammamish with her mother, stepfather along with her older brother and younger sister, Boyd said. She graduated from East-lake High School in 2010 after attending McAuliffe Elementary School and Inglewood Junior High in Sammamish, according to Kathryn Reith, Lake Washington School District director of communication.

She started working full-

time at the Issaquah PCC in November as a helper clerk and then became a part-time employee in January when she began classes at Seattle Central Community College (SCC), according to a PCC spokeswoman Diana Crane.

“She was really well-liked, very positive and a hard working staff member,” Crane said of Thompson.

Thompson’s favorite class at SCC was anthropology, according to Boyd and in her spare time, Thompson loved going on nature walks and hikes in the area.

In fact, Thompson and Boyd would go on nature walks or hikes every week. Their last nature walk together was last week at Marymoor Park, Boyd said.

“Those were my favorite times with her,” Boyd said of the nature excursions.

In honor of her best friend, Boyd said she plans to go on a hike at Tiger

Mountain, another place the two would go together often.

“It will be nice for me to get away from everything,” Boyd said. “Be somewhere where Claire would want to be.”

Besides enjoying the outdoors, Thompson loved cats and was the proud owner of two furry friends — Gucci and Oscar. She was also a big fan of soul and funk music, according to Weigelt.

Many of Thompson’s friends have posted me-morials on their Facebook pages, showing their love and appreciation.

“I can still hear her voice,” said Robison, who met Thompson in 10th grade at Eastlake High. “She was a free spirit and cared about everyone who meant something to her. She was always there when you needed her.”

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For Kirkland resident Solomon Metalwala, the search for his missing son Sky will take a new turn to-morrow with a vigil for the 2-year-old boy. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the Bellevue Downtown Park, 10301 N.E. Fourth St., across the street from Bellevue Square Mall.

“(We are) learning from other families who have suffered the same loss of a child or a loved one,” said Metalwala’s attorney Clay

Terry in an email to the Reporter, who also said Solomon will take part in the event. “With the assistance and balloons suggestion from Jennifer Mau, of Search and Seek, we are going to put this together and make it another event on behalf of Sky.”

The event — which is being organized by New Hampshire-based Lost-NMissing, Inc., Search and Seek and Terry — will have a balloon release and candlelight vigil.

“We are first going to start with balloons that will have felt-pen messages

written on them and released into the sky, allowing those who wish … to leave a thought or a prayer for Sky,” said Terry, who pointed out that Valentine’s Day marked the 100th

day since Sky’s disappear-ance.

Search and Seek and LostNMissing, Inc. are organizations that help families of missing people search for their loved ones and keep awareness about the search.

Sky went missing Nov. 6 when his mother, Redmond resident Julia Biryukova, claims he was kidnapped from her unlocked car in the 2600 block of 112th Ave. N.E. of Bellevue.

She told police that her car ran out of gas and walked to get help with the boy’s 4-year-old sister Maile. Police stated that the car had gas and found no mechanical issues.

Biryukova claims that she was taking Sky to Over-lake Hospital in Bellevue because the boy was sick.

Bellevue police said that Biryukova has been coop-erative but that they have not spoken face-to-face with her since the night of the disappearance.

Biryukova and Solomon Metalwala were in a bitter custody battle prior to the Sky’s disappearance.

Solomon and Terry have stated that they have doubts about the date Sky actually went missing.

“It is unfortunate that we have to use Nov. 6, 2011 as the missing date, but that is all we have since Ms. Biryukova will not step forward and tell the truth about what happened to young Sky,” said Terry.

Neither Terry, nor Solo-mon, have had any contact with Biryukova since the disappearance and she has still not spoken to police, according to Terry.

“Her brother, who was the one that named Sky and was his favorite uncle, has done absolutely nothing publicly except one state-ment in early November, in which he said his sister was devastated by the kidnap-ping,” said Terry. “… The whole family, and the few

close friends Julia had, have been deadly silent in any effort to find Sky … These are the same people who leaped gladly to assist Julia with written denuncia-tions of Solomon when the shared custody request of Solomon was denied.”

The community is frustrated with Biryukova’s silence as well.

Desiree Clifton of El-lensburg, Wash., created an online petition posted at change.org to have the Bel-levue prosecuting attorney arrest Biryukova. The peti-tion had 135 signatures as of last Friday afternoon.

The petition letter states: “Julia is directly linked to the disappearance of Sky and she is withholding critical information that can lead us to him … Ar-rest her and she will talk!!”

Terry’s law firm sent out 360 letters to local doctors asking if they had treated Sky, who was sick accord-ing to Biryukova, and none have seen the boy or his sister during 2011.

Maile Metalwala was taken from her mother af-ter the incident and placed in foster care. She has since

been reunited with her father and has also started school.

There have been sev-eral searches organized by Solomon, friends, family and Terry’s firm in the Puget Sound area and along the I-5 corridor during the past few months.

Police have also con-ducted searches of many local parks and other sites of interest. Terry said that he and Solomon have given 125 media interviews, nine of which were national.

“We want … to thank this community, the media, law enforcement, and the multiple and wonderful volunteers who have come from all walks of life to help us search for Sky,” said Terry.

Volunteers posted 3,500 posters during a period of one month in Bellevue, Red-mond, Issaquah and Kirk-land. Using the assistance of Search and Seek, the group has been able to put up 2,000 posters on I-5 from Seattle to Gresham, Ore.

Anyone with information on the case is urged to call the Bellevue Police tip line at (425) 577-5656 or email [email protected].

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Do you sit at work, or have to drive for long periods of time? Be sure you have proper support. Driving can be strenuous; if you’re driving for a living, be sure to have pillows and/or proper lumbar sup-port. They can run about $20-$40. If you’re sitting at work, be sure your work-space has good ergonomics.

Try using an exercise ball instead of a chair. It pro-vides an unstable surface which makes you have to move every few seconds. Our bodies were designed to move, not stay in one place for hours. An exercise ball helps this process – and helps strengthen our core while we’re at it. Experts across the board agree that a strong core relieves back pain. And see a massage therapist to work with your erector spinae group – the back muscles which help you stay upright. This is a group of three muscles: the iliocostalis, longissimus, and semispinalis muscles. Don’t worry, you don’t have to pronounce them.

In any event, back pain isn’t something you should just have to “put up with.” Even people with severe issues such as fractured vertebrae and herniated discs can find some relief with massage therapy. A study published earlier this month found “evidence at the cellular level that mas-sage blunts muscle pain in a similar way to anti-inflam-matory “pills.” Trina G. Jennings is the owner of A Better View Massage at Snap Fitness Red-mond. For more information, contact (425) 647-8831 or visit www.trinajennings.com.

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The City of Redmond wants to hear from you on how to manage your money.

City officials are seeking input on the 2013-14 bud-get at a series of upcoming neighborhood meetings at City Hall. The meetings will be broken up by neighbor-hood and residents and business people in the city’s 10 neighborhoods will have a chance to talk about how they would like the city to spend their tax dollars.

For the third budget cycle in a row, the city will be using its citizen-driven Budgeting by Priorities (BP) process to formulate its next money plan, which is created every two years.

City staff members will be gathering budget input from residents and business peo-ple through its Neighbor-hood Network meetings, a city outreach program in its second year. The meetings will be broken up by neigh-borhood and the common question to residents at all the meetings will be “What are your priorities for your neighborhood?” said City of Redmond senior planner Kimberly Dietz.

A key component to BP is citizen involvement, ac-cording to Mike Bailey, City of Redmond finance direc-tor. City staff members will then take that input and consider it for the upcom-ing budget, Bailey said.

“We are really working hard to try and make it make sense to the commu-nity and not be inside base-ball where if you don’t know how the city functions, then you feel you can’t really contribute to the thinking,” he said. “We really want to structure it around the way people think about their community.”

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Feb. 23 will cover the discussions concerning the downtown and Overlake neighborhoods — the city’s two designated urban centers. The meetings will continue March 1 for the Bear Creek, Educa-tion Hill, north Redmond and southeast Redmond neighborhoods and March 7 for the Grass Lawn, Idylwood, Sammamish Valley and Willows/Rose Hill neighborhoods. All of the meetings will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at City Hall, 15670 N.E. 85th St.

The upcoming meetings will give residents an oppor-tunity to visit with city of-ficials, ask questions of city staff regarding programs and projects and learn about the BP process. Participants will also share ideas in small neighborhood-based discussion groups.

In previous BP outreach efforts, the city held one large community meeting, which wasn’t well attended during the last budget

planning cycle in 2010. But this time around, city staff decided to incorporate a budget input component with the Neighborhood Network program, a suc-cessful program which began last year as way to connect neighbors and edu-cate the public about city programs and projects.

“Last year’s Neighbor-hood Network meetings were so successful, we realized this was a natural venue for our budget meet-ings as well,” Redmond Mayor John Marchione said in a press release. “The smaller neighborhood meetings create better com-munication and based on last year’s attendance, will likely result in greater par-ticipation compared to our previous budget meeting approach.”

City staff will take all of the input from citizens through conversations and comment cards at the meetings and report back to the planning commission

and City Council. A budget team featuring city officials and one resident will then examine the feedback and make recommendations to Mayor Marchione some-time this summer.

Marchione is scheduled to present his proposed 2013-14 budget to City Council in October. Council will then vote on the budget sometime in November or December after a series

public budget hearings.So now is the time to let

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“I encourage all residents to attend their Neighbor-hood Network meeting,” Marchione said in an email to the Reporter. “This is a chance to build commu-nity. You will meet your neighbors, learn about city services and have ample opportunity to provide

feedback to us. This year we added a budget component. The city creates a budget every two years. This is your opportunity to tell us what you think should be the highest priorities.”

For more information about the upcoming meet-ings, visit www.redmond.gov/residents/neighborhoods or ontact Dietz at (425) 556-2415 or [email protected].

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Leaders in both the pub-lic and private sectors agree that in order for the City of Redmond to continue growing into a strong and thriving community, the two entities must work together to form One Redmond.

And that is what they are doing.

The City of Redmond is teaming up with the Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce and nonprof-its Realize Redmond and Redmond Economic Devel-opment Alliance (REDA) to develop One Redmond, a public-private initiative that focuses on economic vitality and community building.

A panel with representa-tives from the four agencies spoke to a full house during the chamber’s monthly member luncheon, which had been postponed last month due to the mid-January snowstorm, about the initiative. The panel members were Realize Redmond Executive Direc-tor Jeni Craswell, former chamber board chair Tom Martin, City of Redmond Mayor John Marchione and

REDA Executive Director Bill Biggs.

“Redmond is a great place to live, work and play,” Martin said.

He said the chamber falls under the “work” category and with the economic recession and decline in chamber membership, it made sense for the cham-ber to team up with other economic development groups in Redmond to answer the question, “How do we remain relevant as an organization?”

Martin continued, say-ing they want to attract

additional businesses to Redmond and while they are reliant on large employ-ers such as Microsoft Corp., they also need to do what they can to support small businesses.

One Redmond would allow them to do this in a more coordinated way.

Marchione said as mayor, one of his principle responsibilities is to build a community within Red-mond. The way to do that is to work together with the

private sector. There may be disagreements, but he said it is important that they work together.

Biggs agreed. He said the private sector can’t work on economic development alone — they need help from the city government.

Biggs added that there is only a finite amount of funding within the city to support activities and services for businesses and they need to get rid of any duplicates, overlap or waste to be more effective.

One Redmond does this by consolidating the chamber, Realize Redmond and REDA into one entity with one board of directors and one executive. Con-cerns were raised with the chamber’s affiliation with the national Chamber of Commerce, but the panel members told the audi-ence that they would like to maintain that affiliation as well once One Redmond, whose name may change, starts up.

Marchione said there will likely be subgroups within the organization with different focuses but it would all be within the One

Redmond membership. The mayor said they are still in the developing stage and are still looking into how this will look, including how many people will sit on the board. Marchione said 12 to 20 members would be an optimal size for a board and they would like to hold the first board meeting in June or July.

He said he really wants to see business leaders working with the city, but his goal for One Redmond is to have a private board, meaning only one or two representatives from the city.

In addition to the busi-ness and government the community also plays a role in the city’s success and Craswell said everything is tied together.

She said One Redmond is also a chance for people to have more of a voice, giving them one organization to turn to with questions or concerns because “some-times it’s not as simple.” One agency may not have the answer to someone’s question, but any of the remaining three may, thus simplifying the process.

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After being ranked in the top 10 for much of the season and having visions of a state-tournament run, the Redmond High boys’ basketball season ended far too soon on Tuesday night after a stunning 45-42 overtime loss to Roosevelt in the consolation semifinals of the 4A Kingco Tourna-ment at Juanita High School.

But that’s basketball, and after an emotional post-game meeting in the home locker room during which head coach Jeff Larson said goodbye to his team’s 11 seniors, he was able to put everything in perspective.

“It honestly started about five or six years ago,” said Larson on the incredible camaraderie between his upperclassmen. “We may not be playing basketball anymore, but we’re forever family.”

A DEFENSIVE CHESS MATCHUnlike many teams in the league,

Roosevelt is known for its ability to come up with defensive stops and hold teams to low point totals, as opposed to a high-powered offense.

Case in point was Roosevelt’s up-set of No. 3 Skyline last week, which ended in a 39-38 Roughrider win.

Tuesday’s game was of the same mold, with both teams struggling to work the ball inside and the Roughriders scrapping to a 23-15 halftime lead.

In the third quarter, however, Redmond found an edge in senior Jason Harrington, who shot 3 of 4 in the period and capped off a 9-0 Redmond run as the Mustangs took a 28-27 lead going into the fourth.

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mustang senior Leslie Ellis drives to the hoop and draws contact while fellow senior Jason Harrington (left) watches. Ellis and Harrington both had older brothers (Will and Chris) who started for Redmond’s 5th-place state team in 2009, a dream both hoped to realize until Tuesday’s season-ending overtime loss to Roosevelt. PHoTo By MATT CAMPBELL, www.sportspixs.com

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With wins on Wednesday night, the Bear Creek boys and

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guard Turner Huletz nailed a clutch 3-pointer to give the Roughriders a 36-34 lead, and with the clock ticking down, Harrington came literally an inch away from sending the Mustangs away with a win.

With only a few seconds left on the game clock, the 6-foot-7-inch forward fired a long, off-balance shot from the edge of the arc that went through the net, sending the Redmond fans into a frenzy.

After a moment of confusion, the officials ruled the shot a two-point-er, sending the game into overtime.

“The refs got it right, his left foot was on the line,” Larson admitted. “Roosevelt’s solid, they play solid defense, we knew it was going to be that kind of a game.”

In the overtime period, the Mustangs had another chance to win, down by one and inbounding the ball from the baseline with six seconds left, but Roosevelt came up with one more big defensive play to cause a game-ending — and season-ending — turnover.

“We kind of knew what they were doing,” said Roosevelt coach

Bart Brandenburg. “We switched everything around a little bit … looked at their second set and got a read on that, and kids made plays.”

Added Larson, “They were able to make one more play than us.”

BEYoND BASkETBAllAs the dejected Mustangs filed

out of the Juanita High locker room, not many dry eyes could be seen as 11 of the team’s 13 rostered players came to the realization that it was time to hang up their Red-mond High uniforms for good.

After the game, Brandenburg had nothing but compliments for the Mustangs program and Larson, con-gratulating them on a fine season.

“They’re a tough team,” said the seventh-year Roosevelt coach. “That team scares me as much as any team in Kingco or the state. They’re big, strong, got good shooters, and they’re well-coached. They got everything, they really do.”

As much as the sting of a season-ending loss hurt on Tuesday night, Larson said that the bond between his players goes far beyond the hardwood.

“These guys truly care about each other, hang out in and outside of school,” he said. “We’ve had talks about graduation, and they know a lot of them are going their separate ways. Basketball is just one of the things that brings them together.”

The Mustangs ended the season with a 16-7 overall record, which included a 10-4 mark in 4A Kingco league play. Harrington, whose older brother Chris was on the Mustangs’ 2008-09 state team that placed fifth, finished the season fourth in scoring in the league,


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Redmond High sends five swimmers, one diver to state meetThe Redmond High

School boys’ swim and dive team will be competing

this weekend at the King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way for the 4A state

swim and dive meet, with a total of six representatives.

At districts last weekend at the University of Washington Husky Pool, freshman Xavier Graham had the highest in-

dividual finish in the pool for the Mustangs, swimming the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 6.73 seconds for fifth place. Graham will be swimming that event at state.

Teammate Nicholas Kodati also punched a ticket to state in the 100 butterfly with an eighth-place finish in a time of 55.56.

The Mustangs also wild-carded their 200 medley relay team of Albert Jiang, Graham, Kodati and Michael Pavlov to state, and the 400 free relay team (Graham, Drew McWhirter, Kodati, Pavlov) will also be competing.

On the diving board, sophomore Eric Klassen finished second with 372.35 points to Skyline standout Max Levy (433.20). Klassen will be looking to improve on his 12th-place state fin-ish from last year.

The state meet begins today at 2:30 p.m., with the finals starting at 2:15 p.m. on Saturday.

Mustangs’ garcia falls just short of state

The injury-riddled Redmond High gymnastics team performed well at the Sea-King District meet at Sammamish High School

last Saturday, but failed to advance anyone to the 4A state meet this weekend.

Team captain Ally Garcia, battling a foot injury she suffered last week during a vault, toughed it out to score a 9.025 in the floor, her best district performance in her prep career. Unfortunately, Garcia placed ninth, just 0.025 of a point shy of her first state berth.

Chelsea Polk’s solid front handspring netted her 8.25 on the vault. On the beam Rachel Lovitt got the high score for the Mustangs with a stellar 7.65 considering she only recently picked up the sport of gymnastics.

“That is extremely impressive since she isn’t a gymnast and doesn’t have the acrobatic skills that the other girls have,” said head coach Jason Farr on Lovitt’s performance. “She worked extremely hard all season and really showed what plain hard work and deter-mination can accomplish.”

As a team, the Mustangs placed eighth in the league and will lose Polk and Garcia to graduation this spring, but Farr is already looking forward to working with his remaining girls again next season.

“I’m optimistic for next year,” he said. “As for this season I’m extremely proud of what the girls have been able to and overcome to get where they did.” More sports onlinewww.redmond-reporter.com

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Published in Redmond Reporter on February 17, 2012. #584910. Pine Forest Properties is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Storm- water NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. 85th Street Apartments is located at the SE corner of NE 85th and 158th Avenue NE in Redmond, in King County. This project involves 1.6 acres of soil distur- bance for residential and commercial building construction activities. Stormwater will be discharged to the Sammamish River. Any persons desiring to present their views to the Wash- ington State Department of Ecology regarding this application, or interested in Ecology’s action on this application, may notify Ecology in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecolo- gy reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest according to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173- 201A-320. Comments can be submitted to:Department of EcologyAttn: Water Quality Program, Construction StormwaterP.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Pulished in Redmond Reporter on February 17, 2012 and Febru- ary 24, 2012. #586003

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READY FOR TAKEOFF AT MARYMOOR PARK Applications are now being accepted for this year’s Rockathon competition at the Old Fire House Teen Center in Redmond.

Musicians of all genres are invited to enter and get a chance to play their favorite classic rock songs in front of music industry professionals. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to win prizes and gift certificates.

Chris Cullen, recreation program co-ordinator for the teen center, said the first round of CDs and applications need to be

turned in by March 3.“They will be narrowed down to eight

bands by the teen producers of the Rocka-thon and then those eight will battle it off in two semi-final shows March 23-24,” he said. “Then the four bands that rank high-est out of the two semi-final shows will go on to the finals on April 13.”

Applications are available at the teen center, located at 16510 N.E. 79th St. in Redmond. For more information contact Cullen at [email protected].

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"Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Man and Horse" has extended its run another week for the third and final time,

according to a Tuesday press release.

The show, which pre-miered Jan. 20, will now be under the White Big Top at Marymoor Park at 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy N.E. near Redmond

through Sunday, March 4. Cavalia was originally scheduled to run through Feb. 5 but a strong demand has led organizers to extend the run for a third time.

For more information, visit www.cavalia.net.

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