Web site: www.lauriesperry.com

DOB: 7/7/60
Occupation: homemaking/teaching/citizen activist
Education: A.A.S., Lane Community College, Eugene, Ore.

Family/personal: I am married to Van, together we have three living children ages 13 to 28. Our 19-year-old daughter, Emily, had a brain tumor and passed on this past September (2004). I worked as a respiratory therapist at Children's Hospital for about 10 years mostly in the intensive-care units. For the past five years I have taught part-time at a classical, Christian, cooperative school in Kirkland.

Public service/volunteer experience: I was on a steering committee to open a Life Choices Pregnancy Clinic in Kenmore. The clinic has now been open since 2000. I contributed to the Kenmore Heritage Society's Book project, "Kenmore by the Lake: A Community History." I have been what might be called a citizen advocate, particularly on the cardroom issue in Kenmore.

What two issues concern you most in the race? The first issue is one that has been with Kenmore since incorporation, and that is the cardroom issue. Kenmore has an existing cardroom at the 11th Frame; it pays taxes and employs people, and for those reasons some believe that the cardroom should be able to continue to operate indefinitely. However if the city allows one cardroom, then legally, it has to allow all cardrooms. I have never heard a citizen say they wanted multiple cardrooms in their city. Shoreline's Aurora Avenue is a great example of what could happen in Kenmore if we don't enact a permanent cardroom ban. Traffic No. 2.