Word: sammamish
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...many grandparents, flying helps them teach their grandkids about the world. The three granddaughters of Betty Foose, 66, a Sammamish, Wash., Realtor, get a geography lesson when she takes them up in her plane. Over the years, Cristina Greig, 15, has learned that California isn't actually golden, and she knows she's in Oregon when she crosses the Columbia River. When Cristina and her sister Alysha were little, they posed their own geography question. As the plane broke through the overcast gray into a brilliant blue sky dotted with white clouds, Alysha, 4, asked, "Grandma, is this heaven?" Foose...
Raftery’s rise to prominence in the Harvard secondary was an unlikely one. Starring at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, he was All-King County at running back from his sophomore through senior years...
During his senior season, Raftery captained his team to the Washington state championship game, where Sammamish was downed by Prosser High School on a touchdown with 17 seconds left...
...result was not a complete disappointment for Raftery. The Sammamish captain rushed for five touchdowns in the game, which remains a Washington state championship game record...
Burden, 58, puts bloated thoroughfares on what he calls a "road diet." In cities as large as Las Vegas, Toronto and Seattle and hamlets as small as Sammamish, Wash., he has trimmed lanes and filled the space with bike routes or a grassy buffer between the asphalt and the sidewalk to ease walkers' stress. Of course, motorists tend to react to Burden as they might to a jackknifed manure spreader directly in their path. "They say ,'We already have a traffic problem,'" says Burden, "'and now you want to take lanes away...