Tree damages elementary school portable classrooms
March 23, 2009
Cascade Ridge Elementary School students won’t be returning to their portable classroom soon, but they are still learning.
To The Editor
March 23, 2009
Newspapers
Readers are lucky to still get community news in wake of national failures
Your paper will be more appreciated for local Sammamish/Issaquah news in the future. Losing the Eastside Journal, we lost so much local news. Read more
Off The Press
March 23, 2009
Bob Taylor Press Sports Editor
After never giving up, it’s good to be back
I’m not sure how pitcher Jon Lester felt when he toed the mound for the Boston Red Sox in 2007 after coming back from his successful victory over non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
But I can tell you that it feels great for me to be back on the job at The Issaquah Press.
For those of you who noticed my absence the past year, I did not win the lottery, retire and become a snowbird in Palm Springs.
No, I’ve just returned from the sidelines because of an ongoing battle with cancer, multiple myeloma to be exact.
I had an autologous stem cell transplant at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in August, and then I was sidelined for the next five months for recovery. For someone who has reported sports, especially at the high school level for 30 years, missing the fall and winter seasons were very difficult for me.
However, my doctors didn’t want me to attend prep events or church services, go to movie theaters or anyplace where there were big crowds, because of the possibility of catching viruses. The only plus was as an outpatient, I spent my recovery time at home and not in a hospital. Read more
Press Editorial
March 23, 2009
Relay for Life teams, volunteers wanted
It may seem a bit early to be thinking about camping in late spring, but not if it’s for Issaquah’s Relay for Life and there is a goal to raise a quarter-million dollars! Fifty-two teams — representing 336 people — are already formed and raising their share of proceeds to benefit the American Cancer Society.
Roll Call
March 23, 2009
2SSB 5945 creates the Washington Health Partnership Plan to provide comprehensive health coverage to all residents of the state. It passed the Senate by a vote of 28-19 and is before the House Committee on Health Care & Wellness.
Public Meetings
March 23, 2009
March 26
Local pioneers honored for Women’s History Month
March 23, 2009
In honor of Women’s History Month, we look back at some interesting women in city history. Read more
Patriot chefs win state tourney
March 23, 2009
A team from Liberty High School knows a thing or two about running a restaurant.
Eagles build a better robot
March 23, 2009
Robotics team members Elyse Edwards (bottom), Carolyn Adkins and Janella Shu (top) demonstrate how the robot’s collection and shooting mechanism works. By Chantelle Lusebrink
Issaquah High School’s Robotics Society smashed the competition and will go to the national robotics tournament in Georgia April 16-18.
The team won each of its seven matches at the FIRST — For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology — regional tournament in Portland March 5-7.
Each year, teams across the nation are given a challenge to create a robot within six weeks. They start with a standard kit of parts and common rules, but have freedom to engineer, program and design their robot in the best way possible, according to the FIRST Web site. Read more
Women’s club care packages remind soldiers of home
March 23, 2009
Sandy Cobel (left) and Mara Page, with the Issaquah Women’s Club, assemble care packages to send women serving in the armed forces overseas. Contributed
“People back home don’t realize how much a simple thank you does for a soldier over here,” wrote Pfc. Candice Owens. “It’s the simple things that remind us of home.”
Owens is one of many Issaquah residents stationed overseas in the armed forces who received a care package last year, courtesy of the Issaquah Women’s Club. Like others, she wrote a letter in response to thank the club for its effort.
