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Team building with a twist Father continues search for missing sonDad believes son is with a friend or family member of mother
MATT PHELPS
Reporter Newspapers
Many theories have been fl oated on the whereabouts of 2-year-old Sky Metalwala.
Th e boy allegedly went missing more than two months ago while in the custody of his mother, Redmond resident Julia Biryukova. She, and Sky’s father Solomon Metalwala, had been in the midst of a bitter divorce and custody battle for their two children.
But Solomon, of Kirkland, and his attorney Clay Terry are speaking out with their own theories as to where the boy may be and are taking action.
One of the ways they are moving forward is to request that Solomon be granted sole custody of his daughter Maile, with no visitation by Biryukova.
Solomon was granted custody of his daughter on Dec. 5. Maile, 5, was placed in foster care aft er her brother went missing.
“When Maile was picked up by the police, she looked gaunt and weighed only 29 pounds,” Terry told the Reporter. “She went to a foster home with really nice people … She went from listless to active and now she is doing great.”
Terry claims that Maile gained more than seven pounds in six weeks with the foster family.
Solomon was back in court last Friday to ask the judge to withhold visitation for Biryu-kova due to the nature of the missing person’s case.
“Th ere are only two witnesses here. One of them is the person in position of authority, which is the mother, and the other is a minor child,” said Terry, last Friday, arguing that any time that Maile spends with Biryukova could jeopardize the investigation.
[ more SKY page 3 ]
A Terex employee pushes Hayden Harbrige, 6, on her new bike as she is just learning how to ride without training wheels. More than 70 executives of the Aerial Work Platforms division gathered in Redmond Wednesday at their yearly kick-off conference to build bikes for kids through the Starlight Foundation. AMY SISK, For the Reporter
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Members of the Redmond community gathered in the Bytes Cafe at City Hall Tues-day night to meet Dr. Traci Pierce, the Lake Washington School District (LWSD) board of directors’ preferred candidate for its next
superintendent, and ask her questions about her views on K-12 education.
Th e event was an opportunity for people to meet and mingle with Pierce in an informal setting. About two dozen people attended, a number Pierce was happy with as she under-stands people have busy schedules.
“I was pleased with the turnout,” said Pierce,
who has been with LWSD for 17 years and is currently the deputy superintendent of instructional services.
Pierce may potentially replace current super-intendent Dr. Chip Kimball, who is leaving at the end of the school year to be superintendent
Community meets Pierce; more opportunities ahead
[ more PIERCE page 2 ]
AMY SISK
For the Reporter
This might not be 9-year-old Billy Dean’s fi rst bike, but he’s never been more excited to cruise around on a new set of wheels.
“I think it’s the best bike I’ve ever had,” he said. “It has a kickstand, and I’ve never, ever had a kickstand.”
Billy is one of 21 kids who received bikes through the Redmond-based Starlight Founda-tion on Wednesday. Th e kids or their siblings have been diagnosed with serious illnesses.
Executives of Terex Aerial Work Platforms, a manufacturer of heavy equipment headquartered in Redmond, gathered from around the world to assemble bikes in a team-building exercise at the company’s yearly kickoff conference.
Billy and his sister both received bikes. Th eir mother, Patty, said she’s very thankful as the two kids have to sit through many doctors’ appoint-ments for their younger brother, who has a disease where food attacks his body.
“I was so excited – the bikes they have are thrashed,” Patty Dean said. “It’s very nice that (Terex) is reaching out to the consumers that buy their products.”
Th e executives spent an hour assembling the bikes and were in for a surprise when they found out they would get to personally meet the families and give away the bikes. But before the grand fi nale, the employees underwent a rather elaborate assembly competition.
It started with trivia questions – the confer-ence’s 78 executives broke into teams, and each had to get 27 correct answers to earn enough tokens to “buy” the unassembled bikes. Once built, the bikes had to pass inspection before the teams could decorate them.
“We have girls, all of us, so we know what is needed,” said Lars Raagaard, who works in Den-mark as manager for the Scandinavian division. His team tied balloons to the bike’s handlebars and neatly wove streamers through the spokes and frame.
Terex execs build 21 bikes for Starlight Foundation children
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Board President Jackie Pendergrass, said the meet and greets — three more will be held next week in Sammamish, Kirkland and at the LWSD offi ce — allow people to put a name with a face as some people may know Pierce by name, but not in person.
Comment cards were provided for people to write down their feedback for the board. Pendergrass said they will also be col-lecting comments online through Jan. 22 so the
board can discuss the topic during the board’s Jan. 23 executive session. Kathryn Reith, LWSD director of communications, said the earliest the board could make a decision about hiring Pierce is at the Jan. 30 regular board meeting.
Pierce spoke briefl y to the crowd. She outlined some of the goings-on at the district such as the up-coming grade reconfi gura-tion to a K-5, 6-8 and 9-12 system next year, ongoing teacher growth and evalua-tions, curriculum adapta-
tions at all levels and the district’s healthy fi nancial bottom line in the face of state budget cuts. She stressed LWSD’s commit-ment to getting students future ready and how they
are not happy with being good because they always want to do better.
“One thing I know about our district is that we’re a strong district,” Pierce said.
Aft er her speech, parents, community leaders and a few Redmond City Council members had the oppor-tunity to speak with Pierce one-on-one and ask specifi c questions.
Kirkland resident Nicole MacKenzie attended the meeting to learn about the district’s curriculum
plans at the primary level. Her two children are in elementary school and with so much focus on STEM education, she wanted to know what is happening at the elementary level to prepare students. MacKen-zie also said she was happy to hear how the district stresses staff development and continuing educa-
tion for teachers. She said this is very important for students.
“It sounds promising and I just want to hear the details,” she said about speaking with Pierce.
Pierce said one of the biggest topics of discus-sion was the district’s grade reconfi guration. In earlier reports, Pierce, said she is very involved in the work concerning the reconfi gu-ration as well as the new secondary science, technol-ogy, engineering and math (STEM) school, which is set to open in the fall.
Pierce began her career as a teacher in LWSD, working her way up to her current position.
“I’m very proud of my 17 years in the district,” she said, adding she hopes to have many more.
Redmond City Council
member Kim Allen, who was in attendance, said with these initiatives going into eff ect next year, it is really great to have continuity and a candidate who knows what’s going on in the district.
Both Allen and Council President Pat Vache, who also attended the meeting, said the city and district work closely together on a number of issues and that the district is well represented in issues that concern both agencies.
“(LWSD is) a good part-ner,” Vache said.
Pierce also spoke about how important schools are in their surrounding neighborhoods. She said strong schools mean strong communities.
“Our schools are an integral part of a strong community,” she said.
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at Sammamish City Hall, 801 228th Ave. S.E. in Sammamish, in the Council Chambers, from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
at LWSD Resource Center, 16250 NE 74th St. in Redmond, in the Hughes Room of the from 4:00-5:30 p.m.
at Kirkland City Hall, 123 Fifth Ave. in Kirkland, from 4:30-5:30 p.m.
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Solomon and Terry are working to fi gure out if the boy could be with a friend or family member of Biryukova.
But they are having a hard time getting solid evidence of where the boy was during May through October of 2011.
“We need answers,” said Terry. “We are not saying Sky was defi nitely not here aft er April, but we want to know when Sky was no longer here.”
Solomon would not say if he has talked to Maile about the disappearance of Sky or if any new information has been found.
“I don’t want to put an-other burden on her to tell me where is Sky,” Solomon said. “Th is burden that she has needs to release from her…”
Biryukova has decided not to take advantage of her visitation rights but wants to retain the option.
“She desperately wants to see her child,” Biryukova’s attorney Rob Wyman told the judge. “… her decision not to visit at the moment is purely out of wanting things to go right.”
No decision was made on the matter and another
hearing is scheduled for Jan. 20.
Biryukova told police her car ran out of gas the morn-ing of the disappearance, as she attempted to take the boy to the hospital. She left Sky in the unlocked car at the 2400 block of 112th Avenue Northeast while she walked with Maile to get help.
When she returned to the car, approximately an hour later, he was gone.
Police later tested the car
and found that it had gas and there were no mechani-cal issues.
Terry was blunt in calling Biryukova’s story a lie.
“We are talking about a life of a 2-year-old child, whose mother is so vindic-tive and hateful, probably due to mental illness to some degree, that she is obsessed with the thought that she must prevent Solomon from (having) their children,” Terry told the Reporter. “She is
not intelligent, and she defi nitely does not have what many would consider a creative side … I am not saying that to be mean, but we are in the trenches trying to come up with a way to circumvent Julia’s silence while her baby is missing.”
Terry and Solomon are holding out hope that the boy may be with a friend or family member of Biryu-kova.
One of their reasons for this is that other than one neighbor telling police that she saw the boy two weeks before his disap-pearance, they have found no evidence Sky was in his mother’s care since April when her father visited from the Ukraine.
“Julia did a bit of a shuffl e on all of us …,” said Terry. “I suspected something, but because we were so wrapped up in the story that Sky just recently disap-
peared, we were all looking to the left , and we were not looking to the right.”
When Solomon was granted custody of Maile he attempted to obtain her medical records from the year that he did not see his daughter. Th e doctor had not seen the two children in a year.
“Armed with this alarm-ing information, just before Christmas, we contacted the children’s health insur-ance carrier, who told us that there had been no medical claims for pay-ments made for either child in 2011,” said Terry. “Now that was the shocker.”
He and Solomon began sending letters out to East-side doctors asking them to contact the Bellevue Police if they treated either child during the last year.
“We do not expect any positive replies, but we have to try since it is an open door,” said Terry.
Terry said that other than the one neighbor’s state-ment to police, no one has seen Sky since last May.
“Th e only person who certainly should have seen Sky was Julia’s brother, Stan, but he has said nothing to us,” said Terry.
Stan Biryukova has not responded to the Reporter’s requests for an interview.
“Some people think that (Biryukova’s father) from the Ukraine took the child back with him at the end of April,” said Terry. “I tend not to believe that, because there are too many hoops to get through to get a child on a plane without all kinds of documents signed by parents.”
Terry said that they do have evidence that Sky was in his mother’s custody in April of 2011.
“It is possible to say that this case may have been cold before it was hot,” said Terry.
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Kirkland resident Solomon Metalwala and son, Sky. The 2-year-old boy disappeared in Bellevue on Nov. 6. Courtesy photo
Missing boy’s father seeks information from doctors
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The police blotter feature is both a de-scription of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical roundup of all calls to the Redmond Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Redmond Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Redmond, which gets more than 500 calls (emergency and non-emergency) per week.
Wednesday, Jan. 11Burglary: Redmond police investi-gated a 2:05 p.m. report of a burglary at a construction site in the 1200 block of 164th Circle Northeast.
Shoplifting: There were two shop-lifting reports at a grocery store in the 17200 block of Redmond Way — one at 1:43 p.m. and another at 2:35 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 10Fraud: Redmond police investigated a 1:50 p.m. report of an attempted fraud at a residence in the 8600 block of 139th Avenue Northeast. Someone posted the house for rent without permission.
Hot wheels: Redmond police investi-gated two different theft reports at the same apartment complex garage between 10 and 10:30 a.m. in the 6400 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway. A total of eight tires from two different vehicles were stolen. The first report came in at 10:03 a.m. and the second at 10:25 a.m.
Monday, Jan. 9Warrant: Redmond police arrested a man for a misdemeanor warrant and for a criminal driver’s license violation in the 17600 block of Redmond Way at 4:13 a.m.
Suspicious key: A man who lives in the 6300 block of 158th Circle North-east returned from a two-day trip at 1:55 a.m. and found a strange key sitting on top of his dresser. There were no signs of forced entry and nothing was missing.
Sunday, Jan. 8DUI: A 31-year-old Bellevue man was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence after he was pulled over by Redmond police for impeding traffic flow on West Lake Sammamish Park-way near Leary Way at 1:26 a.m.
Saturday, Jan. 7Trespass: Redmond police responded to a 7:22 p.m. report of a trespass at an apartment complex in the 15800 block of Bear Creek Parkway. A resident’s ex-boyfriend was on her balcony and set off the fire sprinklers before leaving.
Fast getaway: At about 5:30 p.m., two teenage boys walked out of a store in the 16400 block of Cleveland Street with stolen merchandise. An employee ran af-ter the teens as they jumped into a silver Volkswagon Golf GTI, which was already running and had two more males inside, according to Jim Bove, police spokesman. The employee opened the driver’s side door and attempted to remove the keys from the ignition. As he did that, the driver began driving away and the em-ployee let go as the car drove away, Bove said. The two teens who entered the store are both white; one is approximately 6-feet, 150-160 pounds and the other is 5-11 about 200-220 pounds, according to Bove. The investigation is ongoing.
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Other teams went for pipe cleaners, twisting and turning them every which way to form a pattern.
“I’m in fi nance, and we’re generally not allowed to be creative,” joked Ron Lance, a fi nance director from North Carolina, as he tied pipe cleaners to the back wheel of a pink and purple pastel-colored bike.
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and one executive dropped into the splits aft er pulling off dance moves that would make even Napoleon Dyna-mite jealous.
An event organizer then spoke about the signifi cance of receiving his fi rst child-hood bike. Sridher Sukuma-ran, vice president of human resources in Redmond, grew up in a modest family in India where bikes cost 500 rupees, the equivalent of $10. He used to look out the win-dow and see the neighbor kids ride by his house. He tried to borrow their bikes as oft en as he could, always wishing for one of his own.
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Th en one day, his parents surprised him by bringing home a bike. He couldn’t believe it, and neither could the Starlight kids as they entered the assembly room and ran toward their gift s.
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On Saturday, the Washington Student Math Association (WSMA), a nonprofi t organization, will be hosting an expo event at the Redmond Regional Library, 15990 N.E. 85th St., to teach kids of all ages dif-ferent aspects of math.
Th e event will be from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and feature puzzles and games as well as a competition with prizes.
Th e WSMA is dedicated to the promotion of math-related activities, especially concerning math enrichment, throughout the state of Wash-ington. It is led and run by students in the Puget Sound area, with a small board of senior directors as advisors.
In its third year of opera-tion and second generation of leadership, the WSMA is looking to expand its reach to the entire state and is already doing so through online methods including the Electronic Data Initiative, which is part of a centralization process of math competi-tions throughout the state. Th rough this service, students all across the state can access past competition tests and practice tests to
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Math expo coming to Redmond Regional Library
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City Council ignores requests by community
I applaud former Redmond May-or Rosemarie Ives on her convinc-ing, sensible appeal for revisions to the development approval by City Council of the Group Health site in Overlake.
Ives testifi ed at the Jan. 10 Council business meeting, nearly a month aft er the Council voted 6-1 to approve the mixed-use develop-ment, which calls for the clearing of more than 1,100 trees. Th e Council however sat stone faced as Ives testifi ed and did not respond to any of the requests to evaluate facts presented by several citizens.
Th e original 2007 plan included leaving certain amounts of trees. Aft er 20 years of protection why make this change with little discus-sion with the people of Redmond? Why rush to agree with the devel-opers? Is there anyone else benefi t-ting from this project?Christa Karimi, Redmond
School Board should consider Jane Todd for superintendent
Your Jan. 6 article “Community invited to meet Lake Washington School District superintendent candidate” has a typo.
You write that: “Pierce will
replace Dr. Chip Kimball, who is leaving to take a school superinten-dent position in Singapore.” Th is is misleading. Th e school board hasn’t decided to replace Dr. Kimball with Dr. Traci Pierce. Th ey prefer Traci Pierce and are open to feedback from the community.
On Dec. 6, LWSD communica-tions director Kathryn Reith wrote: “Th e board did not hire Traci. It stated that she is their preferred candidate. She will go through a process of being introduced to the community (meet and greets) and the board will solicit feedback. Th e board could aft er that feedback decide not to hire Traci. If that is
their decision, they could indeed look at other internal candidates or external candidates.”
I commend the school board on engaging the community in this critical decision requiring their vote. Leaving their decision open to community feedback is a wise and thoughtful action. I have attended many school board meetings and work sessions and have seen Traci in action. She’s excellent and a good fi t with the board. I don’t know who could replace her.
As Traci makes her rounds, I am thrilled parents are getting a glimpse of Redmond High School Jane Todd’s LEADERSHIP skills during school
“Town Meetings” on the district’s planned grade re-confi guration.
Todd is a skilled and admired LWSD principal with experience leading Redmond and Juanita high administrations. Some may say she is the “people’s choice.”
Administrator Todd is a leader in a time when we need leadership the most. And, who can possibly replace Traci Pierce as deputy superintendent of school support. It’s a massive job. Th e School Board should take a second look at their “preferred” candidate. In these times, LWSD needs a leader. Bob Yoder, Redmond
Gov. Gregoire need to fi x ferry system before raising taxes
Instead of more taxes, how about some house cleaning, starting with the Washington State Ferry (WSF) system?
In 1978, there were around 700 workers on the docks and on the boats, 54 workers in WSF offi ces. Now 30-plus years later, there are around 700 workers on the docks and the boats and around 800 in WSF offi ces.
How did this happen? Or a better question would be why? Please clean your house before you leave Gov. Gregoire and let’s hold off adding more taxes before you go.Kurt A. Lysen, Vashon Island
Is now the right time for the City of Redmond to ask for a
tax increase?
Randomly selected residents will be asked to partici-
pate in an automated phone survey as early as Sunday,
which will help city leaders answer this question.
If you get that call, you will have a chance to voice your
opinion, so whatever you do, don’t hang up when you hear
the automated voice. The city is off ering a chance for resi-
dents to have input on a potential tax increase that will fund
upcoming parks and transportation capital projects.
The $20,000 survey, conducted by EMC Research, will ask
a series of questions to determine if Redmond voters are will-
ing to support a potential November bond issue.
“The city is trying to determine how voters feel about city
services,” said City of Redmond senior planner Carolyn Hope.
“If voters understand which services the city provides, if vot-
ers understand the city budget restraints and if voters would
support a ballot measure to potentially increase their taxes to
support some parks and transportation capital projects that
would be underway in the next six years.”
The survey results will be presented to the City Council
at its Feb. 14 meeting. During that meeting, staff will seek
direction from Council on whether to move forward with
developing a ballot measure. If Council chooses to move
forward with a ballot measure, there will be public meetings
in the spring, according to Hope.
The phone call will go out to random phone numbers
— both land and cell lines — pulled from the King County
voters’ registration list with the goal being 400 responses,
Hope said. The survey is designed to take 12 minutes or less,
so make sure to spare some of that precious time and answer
the questions.
The city is on stable fi nancial ground, but important future
capital projects, such as converting Redmond Way and Cleve-
land Street from one-way streets to two-way thoroughfares,
are not fully funded.
The city is wondering if now is the time to ask the taxpay-
ers for help.
The survey will help city decision makers learn about what
kind of opinions residents have about the city and “what kind
of projects residents would be willing to pay for,” Hope said.
A tax increase is a tough sell in today’s economy and
maybe the city will have to look at other revenue-generating
options — or maybe not.
However, taking the time to answer this survey that will
guide which direction the city goes, is a no-brainer.
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The Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce will postpone this month’s annual awards luncheon as it continues planning for One Redmond, a new developing public-private partnership that focuses on economic vitality and com-munity building.
While the awards recog-nition will be pushed back, Redmond business owners and residents will have a chance to learn about the One Redmond initiative at
the chamber’s Jan. 18 lun-cheon at Matt’s Rotisserie in the Redmond Town Center. The meeting starts at 11:30 a.m. and is $30 for chamber members and $40 for non-members.
One Redmond, proposed by Mayor John Marchione last year, is a partner-ship between the City of Redmond and the chamber, along with the city’s two other economic, commu-nity-focused entities — not-for-profits Redmond Economic Development Alliance (REDA) and Real-ize Redmond. The initia-tive is still in the planning stages, but the hope is to have the One Redmond structure in place within the next two months, ac-cording to chamber board
President Andrea Lach-mann, who is also on the One Redmond transition committee.
For more than a decade, the chamber has held its awards luncheon, which honors Redmond busi-nesses and individuals for their community involve-ment, in January. But the chamber board decided to postpone the awards recognition until after the structural plans for One Redmond are finalized sometime in late February or early March, according to Lachmann.
Lachmann, the leasing director of PS Business Parks in Redmond, said the chamber will continue its commitment to honor-ing its members, but right now the focus is on One Redmond.
“We felt we were better to focus our energy on (One Redmond) during the first couple months of this year and postpone the awards recognition,” said Lachmann, who won the chamber’s Rookie of the Year Award in 2008. “We weren’t looking to cancel that at all. … We have some people in the community that do some outstanding work.”
In fact, Lachmann said once One Redmond is formed, she expects the awards recognition to have a “beefier format,” saying that other groups involved with One Redmond will more than likely have other people and businesses they will want to honor. Ultimately, the new awards format will be up to the One Redmond board once it is formed, Lachmann said.
The point of next week’s chamber luncheon is to educate business owners and residents about the background and vision of One Redmond, Lachmann said.
The luncheon will feature panelists from all four groups, including Tom Martin, a senior vice presi-dent at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center (chamber); City Council President Pat Vache (City of Redmond); Jim Stanton, senior com-munity affairs manager at Microsoft (REDA) and Jeni Craswell, the executive di-rector of Realize Redmond.
For more information about next week’s luncheon or to RSVP, visit www.redmondchamber.org.
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With a daughter who has had nine years of hip-potherapy, former Seattle Mariner John Olerud and his wife Kelly both know how benefi cial getting on a horse can be for people with physical and cognitive disabilities.
Th ey have seen their daughter Jordan, 11, grow and hit milestones most parents take for granted — such as sitting up — and say most of it has been thanks to the therapy she receives at Little Bit Th erapeutic Riding Center in Woodin-ville.
On Tuesday morning, the west Bellevue couple were part of a celebration for the opening of the orga-nization’s new location at Dunmire Stables at 18669 N.E. 106 St. in Redmond and were among dozens who witnessed the site’s
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John and Kelly were invited to become part of the capital campaign and despite no prior experience in this area, they readily agreed.
“We knew what it did for our daughter,” Kelly said.
Th e Oleruds said when they brought 2-year-old Jordan to Little Bit, their wait was only a few months. Today, that has grown into a one- to two-year wait. So, having experienced so many positive results from their daughter’s therapy, the Oleruds wanted to help other families experience the same thing.
Th ere are only three horses onsite, but once the
17-acre Redmond location is fully up and running, community relations as-sociate Susan Williams said there will be 40 horses and Little Bit will be able serve 504 riders per week. Th is will more than double the organization’s current capacity of about 230 rid-ers. Th e current wait list has more than 250 riders.
Th e remaining $2.5 million will pay for the fi ner details at Dunmire Stables such as completing construction on an outdoor covered arena, therapy rooms and bathrooms. Williams said once this is complete, they will move all riders to the Redmond location and the Woodin-ville facility will be used for research purposes.
Th e services Little Bit provides, hippotherapy and adaptive riding, help riders lengthen and strengthen their muscles and gain social skills — among other things — but are not covered by health insurance. Williams said Little Bit will use the Woodinville facility to fi gure out how to quantify results so insurance companies will recognize hippotherapy and adaptive riding as legitimate forms of therapy.
Dunmire Stables is named aft er Mike and Phyl-lis Dunmire, who have been involved in Little Bit since 1980 and 1994, respectively. Th e couple have held vari-ous positions among Little Bit’s volunteers and leader-ship and have provided a lot of fi nancial support for the organization. Mike said one of the things he really enjoys about Little Bit is the people. From those in lead-ership positions and staff to riders and volunteers, he said they are blessed with helpful and joyful people.
“Th ese people are here because they have a passion and a level of love to put (other) people fi rst,” he said.
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Seventh-ranked Redmond High boys’ basketball
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Th e Redmond High School boys’ basketball team, ranked 7th in 4A, stayed red-hot Tuesday night with their fi ft h consecutive win, a 65-43 dusting of the Woodinville Falcons in a Kingco 4A matchup at home.
Redmond set the tone early and jumped out to a 20-6 lead aft er the fi rst quarter, a lead it would never relinquish.
For the Mustangs, Leslie Ellis led with a game-high 22, followed by three others in double digits: Conner Floan (15), Jason Har-rington (11) and Peter Hendron (10).
Th e win moved Red-mond (5-2 league, 10-3 overall) within a half-game of the division lead, held by Skyline (5-1, 10-3), and the team continues league play tonight against Issaquah
(4-3, 10-3).Th e Mustangs, who have
11 of 13 rostered players listed as upperclassmen, are feeding off the notion that this is the fi nal time they will ever play basketball together, according to head coach Jeff Larson.
“Th e real diff erence between now and November is that with this group of seniors, they are realizing that there is no next year,” he ex-plained. “Sometimes I think kids can become desensitized a bit to competition. Th is group is realizing that there is no ‘next year’ together.”
Th e team also has a pivotal game against No. 4 Garfi eld, on the road, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Th e Bulldogs currently are lead-ing the league with a 6-1 record, but the Mustangs intend to approach the battle on an even keel.
“Th e Garfi eld game will be important simply
because it is another Kingco game,” Larson said. “Our goal has always been to improve each week, be for-tunate enough to make the playoff s, and be at your best at the end of the season ... our number one goal is still to make sure we have fun playing basketball.”
REDMOND GIRLS FALL TO WOODINVILLE
Makaela Hayward scored 12 points as the Redmond High School girls’ basket-ball team fell to Woodin-ville, 58-40, in a Kingco 4A contest Wednesday night.
With the loss, the Mus-tangs fell to 1-6 in league play and 5-8 overall.
Alexis Mcleod scored a game-high 23 points for the Eagles. Jessica Kinssies and Lauren May each scored six for the Mustangs.
Redmond takes on Is-saquah tonight at 7:30 in a home game.
Stangs notch 5th straight win
Redmond High senior Conner Floan goes up for two of his 15 points during the Mustangs’ 65-43 win against Woodinville Tuesday night. Redmond has won fi ve straight games and moved within a half-game of the division lead. PHOTO COURTESY OF MATT CAMPBELL, www.sportspixs.com
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Apparently, Bear Creek boys basketball head coach Scott Moe does not heed the old adage, "pick on someone your own size".
In just the past couple weeks, the Grizzlies, who play in the Sea-Tac 2B League, made state history by being the fi rst small-school 2B team to knock off a 4A squad in basketball when they beat South Kit-sap, 75-60, in the opening
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In their fi rst game of 2012, the boys nipped Lind-bergh of the 3A Seamount League 57-54, capping a run of basketball that would have most teams spinning their wheels.
"I wish we could do that every single night," Moe said on the challenge of playing up. "It makes you better to play against guys that are bigger, faster, stron-ger and coached well … that was four really tough teams
in a row, and it was fun."On Tuesday night, it
was back to old hat for the Grizzlies as they trounced league foe Evergreen Lu-theran 68-32.
Th e team executed a full-court press to perfec-tion starting at the opening tipoff , which caused the Eagles to turn the ball over 10 times in the fi rst half and only put up 11 fi rst-half shots to the Grizzlies' 32.
At the break, the Griz-zlies led by a football-esque score of 34-9.
"It's a big part of our game," Moe said of his team's defensive pressure. "We've got some quick guys so we can apply a lot of pressure. It helps us get into our transition game, and our guys like to play fast."
For the game, a record 12 diff erent Grizzlies scored, led by guard Luke Blanken-beckler with 14 points, 12 of which came from beyond the arc. Collin Feight, a sophomore guard, added 13.
"All season long, our scoring has been balanced," noted Moe. "It seems like every night it's somebody diff erent being the leading scorer. Th is is clearly a team – everybody plays defense, everybody scores a little bit, everybody rebounds."
With seven league games remaining before the postseason begins in mid-February, the Grizzlies (5-0, 11-2) simply want to improve daily and work out the kinks identifi ed in their two losses this season to 4A Inglemoor and 3A Nathan Hale.
"Every time we step on the court whether it's practice or games,, we want to keep getting better and stay hungry and humble," Moe said. "Our guys for the most part are buying into that. Th ey're working hard. We're pretty deep with 12 guys on our roster and all 12 are contributing."
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More than 400 Muslims from around the state, including Redmond, are expected to attend a lobby day on Monday in Olympia for this year's Muslim Day at the Capitol.
Arsalan Bukhari, execu-tive director of the Wash-ington chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA), said the idea for the event came after a group of local Mus-lims attended a lobby day in Olympia in 2008 and 2009 as part of the Statewide Poverty Action Network, which works to end causes of poverty and create op-portunities for people to prosper.
"I was among them and during late 2009, I saw photos and videos of a very large and successful state lobby day organized by a Muslim group in Florida," Bukhari said. "Inspired by their great work and following their event program, CAIR-WA organized and held its first large-scale Muslims Day at the (state) Capitol on (Martin Luther King Jr.) Day of 2010."
He said about 500 Muslims from across the state attended the event and since then, the annual event has attracted hundreds of attendees who representing more than 30 of the state's 49 legislative districts.
Sanaa Carey, a 25-year Redmond resident, will be attending the event for the first time. She said is looking forward to showing people that Muslims do care about their govern-ment and want to have their voice heard in policy mak-ing at the local and national level.
"Mostly, I want to learn," she said. "I think it's abso-lutely essential to get more knowledgeable (about your government)."
Carey said she also hopes the event will lead people to question many of the stereotypes about Muslims.
Bukhari agreed."The growing suspicion
and mistrust of the Ameri-can Muslim community, caused in large part to an organized 'Islamophobia' industry, has also motivated community members to want to define themselves rather than having others define us," he said.
Bukhari said this year's
Muslim day will include a legislative meeting train-ing, a march to the Capitol
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The Redmond Youth Partnership Advisory Committee, in affiliation with the Asian Student Association of Redmond High School, will bring in the Chinese New Year with
its annual free celebration at the Old Fire House Teen Center on Saturday, Jan. 21 from 5-8 pm. A traditional Chinese lion dance will begin at 5 p.m. outside the building. The dance
will be moved inside if the weather is inclement.
There will be activities for all ages throughout the evening around the New Year theme. These include Chinese Zodiac, paper folding, calligraphy, mak-ing fortune cookies, and other activities.
Refreshments will be served.
2012 is the year of the Dragon, which is said to bring energy and intensity.
The teen center is located at 16510 N.E. 79th St. For more information, contact Nancy Chang at (425) 556-2358 or [email protected].
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from the 48th Legislative District, which includes Redmond, will be one of the speakers. There will also be pre-arranged meetings
with state lawmakers and a planning session focused on how to build the rela-tionships.
This year's Muslim Day will be a kickoff to CAIR-WA's year-long Political
Engagement Project. CAIR-WA will hold more than 15 one-day workshops in mosques across the state to train Muslims n how to build working relationships with their city, county and state level lawmakers, as well as with the local media.
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