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INSIDE THE PRESS QUOTABLE A&E ............... C8 Back to school . B1 Community .... C1 Let’s Go!......... C2 Obituaries ...... C3 Opinion .......... A4 Police & Fire .. C6 Sports .......... C4-5 “... the moment struck me as symbolic of how they had walked down life’s path together, never ahead of one another, always side-by-side.” — Tom Gentsch Jr. Son of Tom and Betty Gentsch, whose parents have been married 60 years (See story on Page C1.) SOCIAL MEDIA Connect with The Issaquah Press on social media at www.twitter.com/issaquahpress and www.facebook.com/issaquahpress. Scan the QR code to go to www.issaquahpress.com. s s Wednesday, August 22, 2012 Locally owned since 1900 • 75 Cents www.issaquahpress.com THE I SS AQUAHP RE SS THE I SS AQUAHP RE SS THE I SS AQUAHP RE SS Hiker creates guide to ultimate Mount Rainier adventure 4A&E, Page C8 Local dentist donates mouth guards for Eagles football 4Sports, Page C4 By Warren Kagarise [email protected] The triangle is out. The salmon is in. Issaquah leaders plan to phase out the longtime city logo — a triangle and styl- ized As meant to evoke the Issaquah Alps — and use a salmon-centric emblem instead. The shift comes as the city and a contractor com- plete a monthslong effort to overhaul the dated mu- nicipal website and forge a more modern image for city government. The streamlined website should debut before year’s end, but in the meantime, city leaders offered a glimpse at the effort to cre- ate a brand for Issaquah. The result is defined by a salmon in mid-leap, a grass-green hue and a landscape meant to evoke a cityscape surrounded by mountains and a creek. City leaders set out to create a logo design “that represents our community’s dedication to sustainability,” Mayor Ava Frisinger said. Hence the choice of green as the predominant color. City Council members authorized up to $125,000 for the website overhaul. Staffers chose CivicPlus, a Kansas-based company behind more than 900 local government websites na- tionwide, as the contractor for the project. So far, city officials spent about $50,000 on the re- design, including $7,000 to develop the logo. The logo total includes development of designs for business cards, envelopes, letterhead and a style guide to instruct staffers on the logo’s proper use. Autumn Monahan, city communications coordina- tor and the point person on the redesign, said the timing made sense to up- date the website and logo simultaneously. “With the redesign of our website, this was a great time to also get a fresh look for our logo,” she said. “It was important to us that we have the same look and feel on both our website and our logo.” The mayor unveiled the logo to the council and the public Aug. 6. “This is not something that’s going to happen across the board immedi- ately, but as we use up our old logo stationery, we’ll then be moving on to this,” she said. In addition to the pre- dominant triangle logo, municipal departments and boards used a mishmash of other emblems. Frisinger and Monahan said the existing array of logos cre- ated confusion. Issaquah unveils salmon-centric logo Updated emblem is part of branding effort for city PHOTOS BY GREG FARRAR Above, a pedestrian walks under ripening fruit on plum trees in front of KeyBank. Below, ripe green apples hang from branches in the city’s public orchard along Northwest Gilman Boulevard. WHAT TO KNOW Issaquah’s updated city logo (above) replaces 11 former logos used to represent the city, and municipal departments and boards. Residents can expect to see existing logos for months and years to come, until current stationery and vehicles need to be replaced. By Katie Larsen [email protected] Don’t go to the store to buy supplies to bake pies or can fruits — go to Northwest Gilman Boulevard. More than 20 years ago, the Issaquah City Council decided to make an edible landscape when the road was re- done. Today, more than 20 different fruits and nuts are available for the public to pick. The tour begins just west of the Visitor Infor- mation Center and ends by the Taco Time area. Parking is available in any of the neighboring shopping centers. It is the only landscape in Sidewalk landscape offers fresh fare STREET EATS See LOGO, Page A5 See FRUIT, Page A5 Registration is open for Community Emergency Response Team training in Issaquah. CERT training is designed to prepare residents to help family members and neighbors during a disaster. The training is important because professional emer- gency services personnel cannot help everybody immediately, so citizens can use CERT training to protect and save lives. CERT courses include disaster first aid training, disaster preparedness, ba- sic firefighting, light search and rescue, and damage assessment skills. The training program costs $35. Learn more, and register for the CERT course, at the Issaquah Citi- zen Corps Council website, www.issaquahcitizencorps. com/cert/cert-class. CERT training courses typically fill up quickly. The classes scheduled for Wednesdays start Sept. 19 and classes scheduled for Thursdays start Sept. 20. Train for emergency response Citizens can offer input about trails on a Tiger Mountain tract called Park Pointe, a section of forest set aside for conservation and recreation last year. Issaquah Parks & Recre- ation Department staffers created a draft trail plan for Park Pointe — a site en- compassing 101 acres near Issaquah High School. The public can comment on the proposal to the Park Board at 7 p.m. Aug. 27. The board meets at the Issaquah Trails House, 110 Bush St. Read the draft trail plan for Park Pointe at http://bit.ly/LSmlum. Once the Park Board listens to public comment, members intend to develop a recommendation for May- or Ava Frisinger and city Parks & Recreation Direc- tor Anne McGill. Frisinger and McGill then intend to finalize a plan for the site. Offer input on trail proposal CONTRIBUTED BY EASTSIDE FIRE & RESCUE Eastside Fire & Rescue sent a tender truck crew east to assist fighting the Taylor Bridge Fire. Taylor Bridge Fire mobilizes local response By Warren Kagarise [email protected] Towing a horse trailer packed with supplies, Kim Arellano steered her Ford F-350 across the Cascades and close to the Taylor Bridge Fire. The wildfire raging near Cle Elum and El- lensburg caused hundreds of firefighters to descend on neighboring Kittitas County. The disaster also led Arellano and count- less volunteers throughout Washington and the Pa- cific Northwest to mobilize and support the relief effort. Arellano is modest about hauling supplies from Issaquah and the Snoqualmie Valley to the fire-stricken area. “My part was so small, but it was so rewarding,” she said. “I hope that oth- ers had an opportunity to have similar experiences. I’m glad my kids were there to witness what it Volunteer joins wildfire relief effort See VOLUNTEER, Page A5 By Caleb Heeringa and Warren Kagarise [email protected] [email protected] Local firefighters made the trip across the Cas- cades to fight the Tay- lor Bridge Fire, which scorched more than 22,000 acres between Cle Elum and Ellensburg in recent days. Eastside Fire & Rescue sent at least five local firefighters to the blaze. EFR is a party to a state- wide agreement to send resources to respond to major wildfires. Officials sent a Preston- based tender truck, used to carry water or flame retardant to remote areas, along with two career firefighters when the fire initially broke out Aug. 13, EFR Deputy Chief Bud Backer wrote in an email. Since then, two more EFR firefighters have been sent to assist crews on the front lines. Josie Williams, Firefighters head east to battle blaze See WILDFIRE, Page A7 A1-3 aug 22.indd 1 8/20/12 7:00 PM
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InsIde The Press QuoTable
A&E ............... C8Back to school . B1Community .... C1Let’s Go! ......... C2
Obituaries ...... C3Opinion .......... A4Police & Fire .. C6Sports ..........C4-5
“... the moment struck me as symbolic of how they had walked down life’s path together, never ahead of one another, always side-by-side.”
— Tom Gentsch Jr.Son of Tom and Betty Gentsch, whose parents have been married 60 years (See story on Page C1.)
socIal MedIaConnect with The Issaquah Press on social media atwww.twitter.com/issaquahpress andwww.facebook.com/issaquahpress.Scan the QR code to go to www.issaquahpress.com.
s sWednesday, August 22, 2012Locally owned since 1900 • 75 Cents
www.issaquahpress.com
The IssaQuah PressThe IssaQuah PressThe IssaQuah Press
Hiker creates guide to ultimate Mount Rainier adventure4A&E, Page C8
Local dentist donates mouth guards for Eagles football
4Sports, Page C4
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By Warren [email protected]
The triangle is out. The salmon is in.
Issaquah leaders plan to phase out the longtime city logo — a triangle and styl-ized As meant to evoke the Issaquah Alps — and use a salmon-centric emblem instead.
The shift comes as the city and a contractor com-plete a monthslong effort to overhaul the dated mu-nicipal website and forge a more modern image for city government.
The streamlined website should debut before year’s end, but in the meantime, city leaders offered a glimpse at the effort to cre-ate a brand for Issaquah. The result is defined by a salmon in mid-leap, a grass-green hue and a landscape meant to evoke a cityscape surrounded by mountains and a creek.
City leaders set out to create a logo design “that represents our community’s dedication to sustainability,” Mayor Ava Frisinger said. Hence the choice of green as the predominant color.
City Council members authorized up to $125,000 for the website overhaul. Staffers chose CivicPlus, a Kansas-based company
behind more than 900 local government websites na-tionwide, as the contractor for the project.
So far, city officials spent about $50,000 on the re-design, including $7,000 to develop the logo.
The logo total includes development of designs for business cards, envelopes, letterhead and a style guide to instruct staffers on the logo’s proper use.
Autumn Monahan, city communications coordina-tor and the point person on the redesign, said the timing made sense to up-date the website and logo simultaneously.
“With the redesign of our website, this was a great time to also get a fresh look for our logo,” she said. “It was important to us that we have the same look and feel on both our website and our logo.”
The mayor unveiled the logo to the council and the public Aug. 6.
“This is not something that’s going to happen across the board immedi-ately, but as we use up our old logo stationery, we’ll then be moving on to this,” she said.
In addition to the pre-dominant triangle logo, municipal departments and boards used a mishmash of other emblems. Frisinger and Monahan said the existing array of logos cre-ated confusion.
Issaquah unveils salmon-centric logoUpdated emblem
is part of branding effort for city
PHotos by GreG farrar
Above, a pedestrian walks under ripening fruit on plum trees in front of KeyBank. Below, ripe green apples hang from branches in the city’s public orchard along Northwest Gilman Boulevard.
WHAT TO KNOW
Issaquah’s updated city logo (above) replaces 11 former logos used to represent the city, and municipal departments and boards.
Residents can expect to see existing logos for months and years to come, until current stationery and vehicles need to be replaced.
By Katie [email protected]
Don’t go to the store to buy supplies to bake pies or can fruits — go to Northwest Gilman Boulevard.
More than 20 years ago, the Issaquah City Council decided to make an edible landscape when the road was re-done. Today, more than 20 different fruits and nuts are available for the public to pick.
The tour begins just west of the Visitor Infor-mation Center and ends by the Taco Time area. Parking is available in any of the neighboring shopping centers. It is the only landscape in
Sidewalk landscape
offers fresh fare
STREET EATS
See LOGO, Page A5
See FRUIT, Page A5
Registration is open for Community Emergency Response Team training in Issaquah.
CERT training is designed to prepare residents to help family members and neighbors during a disaster. The training is important because professional emer-gency services personnel cannot help everybody immediately, so citizens can use CERT training to protect and save lives.
CERT courses include disaster first aid training, disaster preparedness, ba-sic firefighting, light search and rescue, and damage assessment skills.
The training program costs $35. Learn more, and register for the CERT course, at the Issaquah Citi-zen Corps Council website, www.issaquahcitizencorps.com/cert/cert-class. CERT training courses typically fill up quickly.
The classes scheduled for Wednesdays start Sept. 19 and classes scheduled for Thursdays start Sept. 20.
Train for emergency response
Citizens can offer input about trails on a Tiger Mountain tract called Park Pointe, a section of forest set aside for conservation and recreation last year.
Issaquah Parks & Recre-ation Department staffers created a draft trail plan for Park Pointe — a site en-compassing 101 acres near Issaquah High School.
The public can comment on the proposal to the Park Board at 7 p.m. Aug. 27. The board meets at the Issaquah Trails House, 110 Bush St. Read the draft trail plan for Park Pointe at http://bit.ly/LSmlum.
Once the Park Board listens to public comment, members intend to develop a recommendation for May-or Ava Frisinger and city Parks & Recreation Direc-tor Anne McGill. Frisinger and McGill then intend to finalize a plan for the site.
Offer input on trail proposal
Contributed by eastside fire & resCue
Eastside Fire & Rescue sent a tender truck crew east to assist fighting the Taylor Bridge Fire.
Taylor Bridge Fire mobilizes local response
By Warren [email protected]
Towing a horse trailer packed with supplies, Kim Arellano steered her Ford F-350 across the Cascades and close to the Taylor Bridge Fire.
The wildfire raging near Cle Elum and El-lensburg caused hundreds of firefighters to descend on neighboring Kittitas County. The disaster also led Arellano and count-less volunteers throughout Washington and the Pa-
cific Northwest to mobilize and support the relief effort.
Arellano is modest about hauling supplies from Issaquah and the Snoqualmie Valley to the fire-stricken area.
“My part was so small, but it was so rewarding,” she said. “I hope that oth-ers had an opportunity to have similar experiences. I’m glad my kids were there to witness what it
Volunteer joins wildfire relief effort
See VOLUNTEER, Page A5
By Caleb Heeringa and Warren [email protected] [email protected]
Local firefighters made the trip across the Cas-cades to fight the Tay-lor Bridge Fire, which scorched more than 22,000 acres between Cle Elum and Ellensburg in recent days.
Eastside Fire & Rescue sent at least five local firefighters to the blaze. EFR is a party to a state-wide agreement to send
resources to respond to major wildfires.
Officials sent a Preston-based tender truck, used to carry water or flame retardant to remote areas, along with two career firefighters when the fire initially broke out Aug. 13, EFR Deputy Chief Bud Backer wrote in an email.
Since then, two more EFR firefighters have been sent to assist crews on the front lines. Josie Williams,
Firefighters head east to battle blaze
See WILDFIRE, Page A7
A1-3 aug 22.indd 1 8/20/12 7:00 PM
