How to make the best of April Fools’ Day
March 23, 2010
Olivia Spokoiny
It’s that time of year again — and there are ways to make it through the day with plenty of laughs without getting grounded. As long as your pranks are good-hearted, your April Fools’ Day should be memorable. Here are some that will do the trick: Read more
Who’s News
March 23, 2010
Local musicians perform well in piano competition Read more
Volunteer Call
March 23, 2010
Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank: A driver is needed to pick up food on Wednesdays from QFC Klahanie and QFC Pine Lake. Volunteers are also needed Tuesdays through Thursdays. Call 392-4123. Read more
Teen Talk
March 23, 2010
What is the most memorable prank you have ever experienced?
Liberty High School
“I hooked a nut onto a string and put it up against my sisters window, so that in the middle of the night, I could pull on it and it would rattle across her window.”
— Nolan Palzer, freshman Read more
Clubs
March 23, 2010
This week
ArtEAST: 6:30 p.m. first Monday, Up Front Art Gallery, 48 Front St. N., www.arteast.org or 392-3191 Read more
Rapid Response
March 23, 2010
How do you think new retail developments, like Sports Authority and Best Buy, will affect the city?
Citizens will benefit in having to make fewer shopping trips outside the city.
Mark Bowers, Issaquah Read more
Good Samaritan mosaic art combines faith with art
March 23, 2010
Cheryl Smith works on the mosaics near the beginning of the project. Pictured with her is The Rev. Dr. Suzi Robertson, who is working with the group on the verbiage of the 14 stations.Contributed
It all began with a statement from a former staff member, who said, “We really need more symbols of our faith in this church.”
The Rev. Dr. Suzi Robertson said she doesn’t remember the sequence of all of the conversations and action that came out of that first comment, but Good Samaritan Episcopal Church in Sammamish has chosen, as one of its Lenten disciplines, to make mosaic Stations of the Cross for their nave. Mosaic art is dated back to the fourth century.
Cheryl Smith, art educator and member of the Good Samaritan community, is leading the venture. She and Randy Nevin, also a Good Samaritan, spent hours with patterns, sizing and re-sizing and erasing lines that were not necessary. Read more
The Hot List
March 23, 2010
Max Smith-Holmes
-Web site: Google Wave
Google Wave, the next generation of e-mail, combines real-time chat and document sharing into a single experience. Wave was kept incredibly exclusive by Google, with membership limited to 100,000 until November 2009, when a preview became available to the public through an application process. Get your invitation at https://services.google.com/fb/ forms/wavesignup. Read more
Meeting Mr. Ironhead — local steelhead fishing lessons
March 23, 2010
Dallas Cross
Fish Journal
In the last article, I hoped to show the frustration that most beginning steelhead fishers have when they first set forth to catch this spectacular, sea-run rainbow trout. Not being very successful myself at catching them, I set out to meet local fishermen in Issaquah to learn how they kept filling their freezers and smokers with this elusive fish.
Bill Arndt married an Issaquah coal miner’s daughter and started his window washing business in town. I often met Bill at local watering holes where fishing was almost always a topic of conversation.
Bill was known for prolific storytelling and per his own hyperbole was a gifted golfer, sure-shot hunter and premier steelhead fisherman. Ron Powell, manager of the St. Regis Lumber Co., always challenged Bill’s stories, being certain he stretched them out to unbelievable lengths.
One evening, Bill came into the Elk’s Lodge, where Ron and I were talking. Bill loudly exclaimed that he had really scored by catching a couple of large steelhead. Ron immediately confronted him and asked where they were.
Bill didn’t miss a lick and said he had tied them up in the Raging River to keep them fresh until he could fetch them. Ron, immediately said, “Sure, let’s go look at them.” Bill wavered a bit before he responded, “Well, alright, if you don’t mind going way out of your way.” Read more
Sports Briefs
March 23, 2010
Rainiers win hockey title
Four Issaquah youngsters helped the Kent Valley Rainiers capture the Pacific District Pee Wee Tier 1 hockey championship March 21. Read more
