Clubs
January 5, 2009
Camp Fire Family Group: 7 p.m. every other Tuesday, Clark Elementary School, 500 Second Ave. S.E., 313-1600
Eastside Camera Club: 7 p.m. Thursday, St. Madeleine Catholic Church, 4400 130th Place S.E., Bellevue, www.eastsidecameraclub.com
The Eastside Welcome Club: 10 a.m. Wednesday, 821-5857 Read more
Community Calendar
January 5, 2009
Events
Habitat for Humanity of East King County hosts a volunteer information meeting from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Jan. 7 in public meeting room 2A/B in the Issaquah Library Administration Service Center, 960 Newport Way N.E. Learn about its mission, current projects, volunteer opportunities and have questions answered. Go to www.habitatekc.org. Read more
Evelyn Evans Donlan Schall
January 5, 2009
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Evelyn Schall
Evelyn Evans Donlan Schall passed away in Federal Way in the early hours of the 1st day of 2009. She was 89.
Clayton Taylor Olney
January 5, 2009
Clayton Olney
Clayton Taylor Olney, formerly of Sammamish, died Monday, Dec. 22, 2008, at home in Seattle. He was 25.
Mary Grayce Blair
January 5, 2009
Mary Grayce Blair died at her home in Issaquah on Dec. 31, 2008. She was 84.
Arts calendar
January 5, 2009
JANUARY
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Revolution Gallery hosts a dual show of recent paintings by Emanuel and Lenore Vardi through Feb. 1 from 5-9 p.m. at 317 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Suite 26. Call 392-4982.
Artist David Repyak presents “Thirst,” his show of acrylic paintings through Jan. 17 at Pogacha restaurant, 120 N.W. Gilman Blvd. Call 392-5550. Read more
Exhibit born in harsh Black Rock Desert
January 5, 2009
The annual artistic expression camp in the desert of Nevada (left), will be displayed beginning Jan. 9 with others at the UP Front gallery.
Exhibit born in harsh Black Rock Desert
Take hundreds of artists, put them in the middle of a Nevada desert in August and you have Burning Man.
The name has nothing to do with immolation or the sunburn some of the artisans experience from the 110-degree heat in the Black Rock Desert, 120 miles north of Reno.
Burning Man, an annual temporary community, is the world’s largest outdoor art gallery. For one week each year, participants gather to create a community based on self-expression, sharing, self-reliance, and the creation of art without judgment and competition, said Karen Abel, executive director of artEAST. Read more
Home for the holidays
January 5, 2009
Skyline grad, Iraq bomb engineer, finds his way back to Issaquah in time for Christmas
Kevin Thruelsen
Half a world away, Kevin Thruelsen spent 15 months clearing roadside bombs and locating caches of weapons in Iraq. Amid the searing 130-degree heat, blinding sand storms and constant threat of being blown up, he was touched by a care package from students at the elementary school he attended a decade ago.
“I can’t tell you how much of a morale booster that was,” he said of the Christmas cookies he received from Hank Klein’s Challenger Elementary School class in December 2007.
Thirteen months ago, Thruelsen, 21, witnessed the first snowfall in Baghdad in 40 years. He also saw snow while visiting his family in Klahanie last month while on holiday leave.
For a little more than a year, he traveled along the pockmarked roads leading to Abu Gharib, Sadr City and Baghdad, and up to the Diyala province near the Iranian border in search of roadside bombs and other explosives. Read more
Brewhouse boasts a menu full of flavors
January 5, 2009
Sometimes in life, all you want is a quick and tasty meal. Located within the heart of downtown Issaquah is the answer to those desires — the Issaquah Brewhouse.
Renowned for its Rogue line of microbrews poured from an astounding 36 taps, the Brewhouse also sports a hearty menu to satisfy myriad hunger pangs.
Don’t go to the Brewhouse for its ambiance or décor — it’s a pub, after all. But if eating with a boisterous lunchtime crowd talking over ’70s classic rock pumping from the speakers while seated in stiff, wooden booths or simple tables is your style, then the Brewhouse is the right place to be.
Spartans prevail in plateau nail biter
January 5, 2009
Skyline holds off Eastlake upset bid with 61-60 win
Eastlake’s Turner Lee (right) fouls Skyline’s Nick Crossan in the second quarter of Saturday’s game at Eastlake High School. By Christopher Huber.
It came down to the wire. One point was all it took.
One less defensive foul would have made the difference for the Eastlake Wolves Jan. 3 against cross-town rival Skyline High School. Two free throw shots sealed the deal for Skyline.
In what began as a possible Eastlake upset, the tense rivalry turned into a point-for-point race to the final buzzer at the Eastlake gym.
The Spartans, now 3-3, beat the Wolves 61-60 in the teams’ first meeting of the season. Read more
