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System is tardy: Kent school traffic cameras delayed BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
School traffic cameras will get a late start in Kent. Kent city officials had hoped to have the first cameras operating when Kent schools opened on Aug. 29.
“They’re not up yet ...we’re waiting to hear from the contractor on an actual start date,” said city spokeswoman Michelle Wilmot in an email. “While we had hoped they would be installed and operational by the start of the school year, we’re likely looking at mid-October.”
Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions (ATS), Inc., contracted with the city to provide the camera services that include the equipment as well as mailing out tickets. ATS contracts with Des Moines, Seattle, Federal Way, Issaquah and more than 300 other communities in 21 states to pro-
vide traffic camera services. “We’re told the design and installation process at the video camera locations has taken longer than the contractor originally proposed,” Wilmot said. Charles Territo, ATS spokesman, said during a phone interview Tuesday that the company
ran into “equipment availability issues.” “Kent remains a priority,” Territo said. “We hope to have them installed by mid-October. These are very sophisticated pieces of equipment. We operate on an [ more CAMERAS page 4 ]
Council candidate pleads not guilty to theft charges has been very stressful to say the least and to say it’s a distraction is far too Kent City Council canmild. It’s very tough on didate Ken Sharp pleaded Ken that it has come to not guilty to seven counts this point. He is reconsidof first-degree ering all of his optheft for reporttions with regard edly stealing to withdrawing, $297,500 from suspending the his 93-year-old campaign or mother’s bank acgoing full-steam count and putting ahead.” the money into Sharp was his account. booked into the Sharp Sharp, 66, plans county jail after to reconsider his entering his plea options about whether to and released an hour later stay in the council race, on $1 bail, according to said defense attorney jail records. Sharp was Mark Prothero during not in custody when he an interview after Sharp entered his plea. Federal entered his plea Aug. 29 Way Police arrested and in King County Supereleased Sharp on June rior Court at the Maleng 21 for investigation of Regional Justice Center theft from his mother, a in Kent. Federal Way resident. “I think he’s considerIf convicted as charged, ing all of the options now,” Prothero said. “This [ more SHARP page 5 ] BY STEVE HUNTER
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‘Like Niagara Falls’ Heavy rainstorms on Aug. 27 caused serious damage to the roof of a Kent business in the 8200 block of South 194th Street and flooded its floorspace. ‘It was like Niagara Falls,’ said Ray Fricks, owner of Crate Tech, Inc., in the North Kent industrial area. The business had a 40 feet by 40 feet section of roof come down in a warehouse
The Thresholds art project will remain standing at the Saar Pioneer Cemetery until Sept. 29. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
area shortly after 5 p.m. The building is a concrete tilt-up and the collapse happened in a corner of the building where drains were unable to keep up with the sudden accumulation of rain water. No one was in the area when the roof came down and no one was injured. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
Symbolic art installation to memorialize 89 unmarked graves BY ROSS COYLE rcoyle@kentreporter.com
In an effort to memorialize the Saar Pioneer Cemetery unmarked graves, collaborative artists Frances Nelson and Bradly Gunn
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Prothero explained that Sharp needed money to help his struggling business and his mother agreed to loan him the money. Sharp owns Minuteman Press in Kent. He served as president last year of the Kent Chamber of Commerce. “Ken’s business was failing during the recession and his mom wanted to help her son, the man who had been helping her and taking care of her on a weekly if not more frequent basis,” Prothero said. “She wanted to help him and help his business and she chose to do that. Everything that Ken did was done openly, honestly and in good faith which his mother understood and agreed to.” The seven counts are for the seven dates between August 2010 and August 2011 when Sharp transferred funds from Helen Sharp’s bank account into his own account, according to charging papers. “Sharp, with intent to deprive another of property, did wrongfully obtain such property belonging to Helen Sharp and did obtain
Kent City Council candidate Ken Sharp, left, chats with attorney Mark Prothero after pleading not guilty to theft charges on Aug. 29 in King County Superior Court in Kent. STEVE HUNTER, Kent Reporter control over such property belonging to Helen Sharp by color and aid of deception, and did exert unauthorized control over such property belonging to Helen Sharp,” Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Page Ulrey wrote in the charging documents. Ken Sharp received power of attorney in 1995 for Helen Sharp’s financial decisions with the approval of her family members. Helen Sharp had lived in her Tacoma home until moving to a Federal Way assisted-living facility in 2008 because of failing health. At that time, Helen Sharp had liquid assets of $220,000 and monthly living expenses of about $5,000 per month that Ken Sharp paid for out of Helen Sharp’s bank account. Family members told police in April that they later discovered from a reverse mortgage statement mailed to Helen Sharp that Ken Sharp had initiated a reverse mortgage loan on Helen Sharp’s home in Tacoma in August 2010. Ken Sharp had told his mother a loan was needed to fix up her house. Detectives discovered through bank records that Helen Sharp’s account received a wire deposit of $263,596.08 on Aug. 19, 2010, just a week after the reverse mortgage application was completed. On that same date, $200,000 was transferred from Helen
Sharp’s account into Ken Sharp’s account. “His sisters were aware of the loan,” Prothero said. “They advised their mother not to do so but she chose to do so and she was competent at the time. One of her daughters suggested that she cancel the loan so even her sisters believed she was competent at the time in 2010.” During an interview with detectives, Sharp said he paid his mother’s bills out of her account or by transferring money to his account. He said the more than $490,000 transferred into his account between 2008 to 2011 was with understanding from his mother that she would help him pay off his debts and bills from his business. Prosecutors found evidence to charge Sharp with the theft of $297,500 out of the $490,000 that changed bank accounts. Helen Sharp signed a notarized statement on Sept. 8, 2012, where she stated: “I, Helen Sharp, gave rights to Ken Sharp as my Power of Attorney so he could pay my bills. I did not want a reverse mortgage or any other loan on my house. I did not give Ken Sharp any money for his business or any other reason.” Detectives confirmed through an interview with the Federal Way assistedliving facility director that Helen Sharp suffers from
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Prothero said Sharp planned to pay the money back after his business took off again. “The hope was that (money) would be recuperated as the business got on its feet and grew and profited and the housing market returned and the house would be able to be sold for what it was worth at the time,” Prothero said. “Neither of those things happened and that’s why we’re here. Ken made attempts to reach out and rectify things and make arrangements to begin to pay back on the loan and that was rejected by his sisters because they didn’t think the monthly payments were enough and they wanted more.” The charging papers indicate that Ken Sharp reportedly used the money to help out his financially struggling business as well as to pay for trips to Spain and South Africa and to buy jewelry (with debits to a jewelry store in Tacoma of $10,000 and $2,358). Prothero denied Sharp spent any of his mother’s money on trips or jewelry. “Ken met his now wife Sara Sharp, a U.S. Army veteran who had savings and income that they lived off of,” Prothero said. “She surprised Ken with the trip to Spain. The trip to Africa was purchased at a charity auction event at less than half of what it was really worth. They paid for that out of Sarah and Ken’s money. He did derive an income from his business. He paid himself for the
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that payments for Helen Sharp’s care at the Federal Way assisted-living facility fell behind in 2010 and 2012 with numerous late fees charged. Ken Sharp was listed as the responsible party on the account. Sara Sharp, the wife of Ken, made two large payments of her “personal money” to help cover the costs.
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work he did so he did have an income when this was happening. To suggest he lived a lavish lifestyle from money out of his mother’s account is not true. “They were a middle-aged couple falling in love and courting and dating. They did take these trips but it wasn’t out of mom’s pocket.” Police also discovered
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Sharp faces a prison sentence of 22 to 29 months, according to Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Sharp is scheduled to return to court Oct. 2 when a trial date could be set or attorneys could ask for more time to prepare the case. Sharp said in an email after charges were filed Aug. 15 that he “absolutely” planned to stay in the race against Bailey Stober to replace Elizabeth Albertson, who decided not to seek reelection. Despite publicity about his arrest for investigation of theft, Sharp won the primary race Aug. 6 over Stober and Barbara Phillips to determine which two candidates advanced to the Nov. 5 general election. “Ken’s not guilty of criminal theft,” Prothero said during an interview after the plea. “He had no criminal intent to steal from his mother. Our position is that his mom was competent in 2010 when they entered into the loan agreement. She was subject to independent evaluations by the mortgage company and the U.S. HUD (Housing and Urban Development) certified counselor that interviewed her to make sure she knew what she was doing and that is what she wanted to do.”
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Details revealed on airplane door that fell from the sky BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
The landing gear door that fell last fall in a Kent neighborhood marked at least the 19th time that
similar part has fallen off one of the many Boeing 767 jets around the world over the last 12 years. The main landing gear shock strut door on the cargo jet dropped from the sky at about
6:45 a.m. Sept. 7. The door landed in the street just outside the home of Maureen Rinabarger in the 12800 block of Southeast 231st Way on the East Hill. The approximately 50-pound part, about
the size of a refrigerator door, did not injure anyone or cause any damage. But it definitely raised a lot of questions about the how and why a door suddenly would just drop
off a plane as it headed to Boeing Field. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Boeing and ABX [ more DOOR page 4 ]
K-M special needs student dies of unknown causes BY MICHELLE CONERLY mconerly@kentreporter.com
Paddling drills: Karla Kreger, left, and Julie Bunker dig their paddles into the waters of Lake Meridian early on Saturday morning practicing with the Kent Dragon Boat Association. MICHELLE CONERLY, Kent Reporter
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In unison, a group of 12 people dig their paddles into the waters of Lake Meridian, grunting and counting with speed and endurance.
Splashing themselves with the cold water as their paddles quickly rise and fall, these dedicated individuals know the hard work is well worth the effort. By the time they count to 15 three times, the drill is over, their chests padded in colorful lifejackets heaving in and out to catch their breath. Not long after they finish do they slide those same paddles back into the glassy water, slowly propelling the slender boat [ more BOAT page 2 ]
A student in the special needs program at KentMeridian High School died April 16 from unknown causes. According to an email sent out by Principal Wade Barringer, 19-year-old Chris McCracken was taken to the hospital on April 15 complaining of back problems. He died the next morning. “Chris was a big talker with a lot to say,” Barringer wrote to staff and students. “He loved talking to people and having people listen to him. Chris grew a lot this year in his ability to communicate with others and advocate for himself. Chris will be missed.” McCracken lived at Integrated Living Services,
‘Evita’ opens on Kentridge stage BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@kentreporter.com
It is a daunting production, one few high school casts would attempt. But Jennifer Grajewski wanted to take that im-
portant step – to recreate a powerful, historical and culturally rich story. “There aren’t a whole lot of musicals out there that focus on Latino culture,” said Grajewski, the drama
and artistic director at Kentridge High School. “Our demographics and population are changing. I like to try to find pieces [ more EVITA page 9 ]
an organization in Kent that provides “residential services to people with profound/ severe developmental disabilities.” Ken Abercrombie, director of the facility, did not comment on the death of McCracken due to the center’s privacy policy. McCracken’s family, who lives in Renton, did not feel comfortable at this time to speak about the passing of their son. The special needs programs at Kent-Meridian serve the intellectually disabled student population. In McCracken’s case, he was accepted into The Outreach Program (TOP) at K-M that teaches social skills and functionality in the workplace. He would have [ more STUDENT page 2 ]
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[4] April 26, 2013 Air, Inc., the Ohio-based operator of the cargo jet, determined a loose bolt caused the door to fall off, according to FAA documents obtained by the Kent Reporter through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. “You’re kidding, oh my gosh,” Rinabarger said when told by a reporter about the previous 18 incidents of the part falling off the planes. “It’s one of those things where you wonder what if it had hit a home. And my husband had just come in the door from walking the dog.” A neighbor had just
pulled his car out of the driveway a few minutes before the plane’s door slammed to the street. Just moments later that morning school children were walking down the street. “All the ways it could have been horribly devastating,” said Rinabarger, who has lived with her husband in the neighborhood for 34 years. “Thank goodness it didn’t hit my husband or the dog or a kid but landed in the street.” After the FAA declined to release further details about the incident besides that a landing gear door had fallen from a Boeing
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767, the Kent Reporter filed a FOIA request in February with the FAA. The agency last week mailed to the paper reports, photos, emails and a compact disc connected with the incident. A few pages were partially redacted by the FAA under FOIA exemptions that protect trade secrets, confidential commercial or financial information as well as inter-agency memos and letters that would be considered privileged because of attorney work product and attorneyclient privilege. The details that were released included investigations of the incident by the FAA, Boeing and ABX Air. “We had just talked a few days ago and wondered what had happened with all of that,” Rinabarger said about the investigation. The FAA, Boeing and ABX Air, agreed that a loose bolt caused the door to fall off about nine miles from its approach to Boeing Field. “The loose bolt caused the bolt to wear over time and eventually led to the failure of the bolt,” according to the analysis by ABX Air. “Once the mid-forward bolt fractured, this forced the door backward causing the remaining attachments to fracture and departure of the door.” The report also included a background statement from Boeing. “Boeing previously received reports of loose and/or fractured MLG shock strut door attach hardware,” according to documents. “Between 2000 and 2009 Boeing noted 18 cases of shock strut doors departing the airplane. Boeing has released Service Bulletins and Service Letters that provide instructions to inspect and install improved attachment hardware on
It fell from the sky: The landing gear door of a Boeing 767 fell from the sky last fall onto the street in the 12800 block of Southeast 231st Way on the East Hill. This is at least the 19th time that similar part has fallen off one of the company’s planes over the last 12 years. Courtesy Photo, FAA the shock strut doors.” The bulletins and letters for the 767 jets were issued five times between 1993 and 2003. A Boeing service bulletin issued in 2003 reported “approximately 50 fitting fractures (on the main gear strut doors) from seven different operators.” The report continued, “some operators are flying airplanes with the strut door removed or do frequent inspections that are necessary because of temporary repairs.” Doug Alder, a Boeing spokesman contacted Tuesday by email for further comment about the past problems with 767 landing gear doors said “at this point we can’t offer any comment or details.” ABX Air, a subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group, has operated the 767-281 aircraft that dropped its door since 2003. All Nippon Airways and Airborne Express previously owned the jet built 28 years ago, according to www.planespotters.net/. ABX Air inspected 33
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of its 767 aircraft after the Kent incident, a total of 66 shock strut door installations. Inspectors found 54 parts to be fine, six loose bolts, five loose rods and one bushing worn. “ABX does not consider these findings to be major or a deficiency with the ABX Maintenance Program,” according to documents. But the company recommended improvements to the maintenance program to include more specific checks of the bolts and mountings on the landing gear doors. The two pilots on the jet last fall over Kent didn’t know the door had fallen off. Crews performing a post-flight maintenance walk around at Boeing Field discovered the right main gear strut door was missing. Rinabarger called the Kent Police and the FAA when the part fell outside of her house. FAA inspectors picked up the part and took it the FAA’s Flight Standards Division office in Seattle. “We heard a big crash,”
she said. “My husband and I walked out and I saw a big metal thing. I thought it was a road work sign. But my husband walked over and saw it was a door to an airplane. It was crazy.” An FAA inspector told Rinabarger that planes lose little pieces all of the time. That wasn’t much comfort to Rinabarger. The FAA also told her she could call after the investigation was complete to find out more details. Rinabarger said she never made that call but wondered what had happened. For sometime after the plane part fell, Rinabarger and her neighbors looked at the approaching planes differently. “We always notice the landing gear doors because they are at the same altitude when they are coming in,” she said. “It was after they lowered the door that it fell off.” The crashing plane part onto Rinabarger’s street certainly sticks in her mind. “It was an interesting day for sure,” she said.
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Kent-based company criticizes city’s B&O tax BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
A local recreational vehicle company has a load of complaints with the city of Kent’s new business and occupation (B&O) tax. The criticisms include the fast implementation of the tax, how
the funds are spent and the heavy financial impact on businesses. Brenda Campbell, controller for Poulsbo RV along Military Road on the West Hill, shared her company’s story about the B&O tax on gross receipts the city implemented in January to raise an estimated $3.2 million this year and as much
as $5 million in future years to help repair city streets. “The nuts and bolts people like us in the accounting office and office managers is different from the City Council sitting down and saying, ‘yes pass this, we need the revenue,’” Campbell said during an interview last week at her office near
Interstate 5. “I understand the roads need to be fixed and the money needs to come from somewhere. Kent’s credit rating has taken a hit, I get that. But it was all reactive, nothing was proactive. “It didn’t feel like there was a firm hand in place and that they thought it through completely how is this
going to happen and how are we going to roll it out to people and answer the phone when we have questions. I got a busy signal when I tried calling in.” City officials, in partnership with the Kent Chamber of Commerce [ more TAX page 4 ]
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The Kent School Board decided it won’t expand the number of late arrival days for students in the coming 2013-14 school year. The board, which made the decision June 12, had considered adding more shortened days to the school calendar to give teachers additional time for professional development. The district, which currently has nine late start days throughout
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Kentridge High School’s class of 2013 tosses their caps into the air after receiving their diplomas at graduation ceremonies at the ShoWare Center last Saturday. Right, senior class speaker Karanbir Singh addresses the audience. Kent-Meridian, Kentlake and Kentwood seniors also held graduation ceremonies at the ShoWare on Saturday. RACHEL CIAMPI, Reporter
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the school year, looked at increasing the number to as many as 30 days. Board President Debbie Straus stated several reasons for the decision, according to a Kent School District media release: • “Student achievement is and must be our primary mission,” Straus said. “Collaboration is an essential element of meeting that mission. The Kent School Board supports its continued refinement and
aminer on the hours of permissible operation for Pacific Raceways. Judge Janice Ellis ruled on May 30 that the [ more TRACK page 9 ]
Kent International Festival unfolds this weekend BY MELANIE S. MOSSHART For the Kent Reporter
The fifth annual Kent International Festival – a celebration of multi-cultural music, entertainment, music, food and art
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to enjoy international dances presented in traditional culture and costume. It is free to the public. Sponsored jointly by Project U(th) and the Kent International Committee, the World Dance
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Deanne Crowell, age 48, of Kent, WA, Passed away peacefully with her family at her side on June 10, 2013. She was born in Tacoma,WA in 1964. She graduated from Kent-Meridian H.S. in 1983. She was Executive Assistant/Environmental Specialist for Sunix Inc. in Auburn, WA. She is survived by her son Chris, her parents Bob and Nola Strecker, sister, Kim (Greg) and three nieces, Colby, Brooke (Tim) and Erin. Many aunts, uncles and cousins and her beloved Levi, her canine buddy. A mass will be held Friday, June 28, at 11:00am at Holy Spirit Parish, 327 Second Ave S, Kent, WA 98032. For those wishing to honor her memory, A contribution can be made to the King County Animal Shelter. www.kingcounty.gov/safety/animalservices
and Kent Downtown Partnership, held a workshop on the B&O tax Thursday. The free workshop was designed to help businesses understand the city’s B&O tax reporting responsibilities as well as ask questions that apply to specific businesses. “I would have thought those workshops would have come before they put it in place rather than in the middle of it,” Campbell said. Michelle Wilmot, city spokeswoman, said the council’s adoption of the new tax in October gave city staff little time to organize any workshops prior to the tax’s implementation. “The ordinance was not adopted until October and the B&O auditors were not on board until March and April,” said Wilmot, who added the recruitment to hire two new auditors started in January. “They (the council members) snuck this in,” Campbell said. “They went from passing it in October to instituting it in January, which is really fast.” Wilmot said many businesses have told the city they like working with the city’s website about the B&O tax and that it has taken some less than 10 minutes to file. She added the city followed the state’s B&O model for the ordinance, which staff believed would help make it easier for businesses to file because they already pay that tax. The city also looked at the cities of Seattle and Bellevue B&O ordinances for guidance. “We didn’t anticipate there would be this level of confusion,” Wilmot said.
The council adopted the tax on the gross revenue of businesses as part of its three-step approach they agreed on last July to fund park and street repairs. The other parts included a property tax levy lid lift that voters soundly defeated on the November ballot and the hiring of a consultant to find ways to cut $2 million from the city’s budget. There is no sunset clause on the B&O tax, meaning it’s here to stay unless a future council removes it. The Chamber wanted a sunset clause of six years. The council passed the new tax to include $300,000 of the revenue to pay for two auditors to oversee the program. That auditing budget includes $226,468 in salary and benefits to the two auditors; $19,576 in computer and telephone services; $47,756 for tools, equipment and software; $5,200 for dues, membership fees, travel and training; and $1,000 for office supplies, Wilmot said. “I want to know money is going to fix roads,” Campbell said. “When you do something and telling a business you’re going to hurt their bottom line, the money we give you better be used on what you told us it was for and then prove it to us. And don’t spend $300,000 a year on (two) auditors.” Campbell also didn’t like the council’s decision on June 4 to use $2 million in B&O revenue to help pay for the $7 million Southeast 256th Street widening project. Council members approved a plan to repay the B&O fund over the next several years when enough money comes into the city through its Transportation Impact Fee (TIF). That fee
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is charged to new developments and pre-existing structures with a major change in use. “That sends up red flags,” said Campbell, who has worked for three years at Poulsbo RV. “I’m a controller. When I see them do moves like that, they’re taking money from the left pocket to right pocket and it doesn’t affect the bottom line. I wonder who is managing the money and how we know money we pay in B&O tax is going straight to roads.” Councilwoman Dana Ralph said at a Public Works Committee discussion of the B&O tax on Monday that the council does need to make sure the funds are used for street repairs. So far, only the plans for asphalt paving along Central Avenue have been delayed because of the diversion of funds to Southeast 256th Street. “We have a massive maintenance issue,” Ralph said about city staff reports that $10 million annually is needed to fix streets. “My concern is the intent of the B&O is for (asphalt) overlay and maintenance. That’s been our conversation all the way through and it’s important not to lose sight of that. As long as I’m here, that’s what we’re trying to do with this.” Public Works Director Tim LaPorte responded to Ralph that city crews are using the B&O revenue this summer for asphalt overlay projects along West Meeker Street near 64th Avenue South as well as along 64th Avenue South near South 228th Street. The tax brought in $614,000 in the first quarter. “I was down on Meeker and they paved it and it’s nice,” Campbell said. “We do a lot of business in Kent. We bank here. Our employees go to Kent Station. We know roads are bad and need to be fixed. I just don’t think (a tax on) gross sales
on a business is the right answer.” Poulsbo RV has 88 employees at its flagship store that’s operated in Kent since 1999. The company paid $4,000 to the city in the first quarter for the B&O tax, Campbell said. She expects that to increase to $6,000 to $8,000 in future quarters as business picks up the rest of the year. Kent exempts the first $62,500 of gross receipts each quarter. But Campbell said that’s one sale for the company as prices range from $30,000 trailers to $280,000 motor homes. “For it to be based on gross instead of net it has nothing to do with income,” she said. “It doesn’t take into account the utility (sewer, water) taxes we pay to Kent. We pay twice as much for utilities at this location than either of our other (four) locations and this facility is similar to our Snohomish County store.” Poulsbo RV has locations in Auburn, Fife, Everett and Mount Vernon. None of those cities charge a B&O tax. The company also pays the state B&O tax, which cost $33,000 for the Kent location for the first quarter of this year. “We pay Kent sales tax already,” Campbell said. “We paid $168,000 in the first quarter to the city of Kent through the state Department of Revenue for its 3 percent sales tax.” Campbell prefers to see the city make more cuts rather than finding more ways to raise revenue. “They should run the city like a business,” she said. “There are hard decisions to make. We made them. We got hit as hard as any city. Nobody was buying anything. We’re just getting back to business. Last year was still hard. This year is great so far. We had a great winter here and winter is usually a tough period for us.”
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Murder trial begins; did Phillip kill Frankel? BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
King County prosecutors plan to prove to a jury over the next few weeks that William L. Phillip Jr. killed Seth Frankel because he was angry about Frankel’s romantic relationship with his ex-girlfriend. Defense attorneys, however, claim
Phillip, 33, of Oregon, had no anger toward Frankel and that someone else killed the 41-year-old man, a city of Kent employee, on May 21, 2010 in the Auburn home he shared with Bonny Johnson. “Seth Frankel should be 44 years old,” Deputy Prosecutor Patrick Hinds said to jurors during his opening statement Monday at the
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Voters to decide whether they want new mayor BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Kent mayoral challenger Tim Clark and incumbent Suzette Cooke picked up opposite reactions during their door-to-door visits to attract voters. “One consistent at the door is that people think eight years is long enough,” Clark said about Cooke’s two-year term. “She’s had her chance. How deep that is the actual vote count will indicate.” Cooke said she typically received good feedback. “People see me and are positive,” Cooke said. “Of course, they are not going to say to your face that you’re not cutting it, well, a
FIRST WORDS FOR CITIZENS Immigrants from as close as Canada and as far as India raise their right hands to take the Oath of Allegiance to the United States. The ratification ceremony was Tuesday at the Kent Public
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ShoWare lowers losses BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Kent’s city-owned ShoWare Center continues to lose money but the losses so far this year are lower than 2012. The nearly 5-year-old arena has lost $346,865 through the first nine months, according to the center’s income statement.
ShoWare had expenses of $1.78 million and revenues of $1.43 million through September. “The loss was about $628,000 through the first nine months last year so it’s a significant reduction in loss - almost $300,000 compared to last year,” said Mike Miller, chairman [ more SHOWARE page 4 ]
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Day of the murder Frankel worked at Kent City Hall on the Friday of his death. He went to a daughter’s event in the evening and at 8:20 p.m. went shopping for camping gear for a planned trip alone that weekend. His girlfriend, Johnson, planned a trip with a female friend to the Oregon Coast and wasn’t returning that weekend to Auburn. Johnson called Frankel that Friday night and again in the morning and could not reach him, which was unusual, Hinds said. Johnson asked a neighbor to check on him. The neighbor didn’t get any answer to his knocks on the doors and windows and then saw Frankel laying on the floor inside. When police and paramedics arrived, they kicked down the door and found Frankel dead inside. “The living room was in disarray and he had obviously been stabbed,” Hinds said. “There was blood on his chest and around the room.” An end table had been turned over and a Uno card game scattered around the room. Two zip ties of about 18 inches were discovered, one underneath a table in the room and one on the upper arm of Frankel. Nothing was missing from the home.
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Frankel still had his wallet, no valuables were taken. Robbery or theft was not the motive, Hinds said. Auburn Police talked to Johnson who told them about Phillip as a possible suspect. She had dated Phillip in Portland, but broke up with him 1 to 1 1/2 years prior to May 2010. They did meet once a month or so for a drink. About a month prior to killing, he told her he still loved her. They had exchanged text messages up until May 21. There was no known connection between Frankel and Phillip, other than they each knew Johnson and knew of each other. “The burden is on the state to prove Mr. Phillip guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,” Hinds said. “That’s a burden we welcome because at the end of the day it’s not really us that need to convince you of anything. The evidence will speak for itself.”
Crime evidence Detectives focused on a towel with blood stains found on the living room floor. The Washington State Crime Lab found a DNA match to Frankel and a match to Phillip, Hinds said. Detectives talked to Phillip. He confirmed he knew Johnson, but described his relationship with her as a friend and downplayed the nature of the relationship as described by Johnson. “He had bruising on his fingers on his right hand as well as cuts,” Hinds said. “He told them he had been in an accident at work and hurt his hand.” Phillip worked at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. His co-workers and supervisors confirmed he had a relationship with Johnson, Hinds said. He worked as an audio visual technician. Co-workers said he hurt his hand at work, but bruised it and didn’t cut it. Phillip had access at work
to zip ties that held cables. The zip tides are almost identical to the ones found in Frankel’s living room and on his arm. Phillip’s primary mode of transportation was a motorcycle. But he borrowed a white Ford Mustang from his mother on May 21 that he reportedly drove to Auburn. Oregon State Patrol Crime Lab found blood on the driver’s side door and on the dashboard, but not enough to test for DNA, Hinds said. Cellphone records put Phillip at 4 p.m. in Kent about three to four blocks from where Frankel worked at Kent City Hall. At 7 p.m., cellphone records put Phillip four or five blocks from where Frankel lived. Hinds said at 8:52 p.m., Phillip’s phone records still showed him near Frankel’s house in Auburn. At 8:56 p.m., Phillip made a call to a friend in Oregon. He headed back to Oregon, and made another call at 12:04 a.m. May 22 from a Portland cell tower. “What exactly happened in that apartment we may never know the answer to every single question you might have,” Hinds said. “But we will lay out what you need to find and don’t need to find.” Jurors will hear from the King County Medical Examiner’s Office that the injuries to Frankel, the major one a wound to the throat, severed an artery and he bled to death. He also had wounds on his left hand, a deep cut across the palm and cuts to his knuckles and fists, a cut off a portion of a finger, a wound near his knee and elbow as well as blunt force trauma to his head. “The evidence will show that on May 21, 2010 the defendant committed premeditated murder of Seth Frankel in Auburn, Washington,” Hinds said.
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for a guilty verdict.” Phillip faces a first-degree murder charge in the trial in front of King County Superior Court Judge Andrea Darvas. He pleaded not guilty to the charge in March 2011 after his arrest by Auburn Police in December 2010 in Portland. “The main unanswered question you will have is who killed Mr. Frankel?” defense attorney Anuradha Luthra said to the jury. “It is the state’s job to answer that question. But you are not here to answer that big question. The question is did Mr. Phillip kill Mr. Frankel and the answer is no. The state will not be able to prove its case to you because Mr. Phillip did not kill Mr. Frankel. “At the end of this case after all that you’ve seen, Phillip heard and learned, you will know that Mr. Phillip is not guilty.” The trial is expected to last for a few more weeks. Phillip remains in custody at the county jail in Kent. Frankel, a city videoprogram coordinator, was stabbed to death inside his Auburn home. He was discovered the following day by a neighbor whom Johnson asked to check on Frankel’s welfare. When the neighbor looked through a window, he saw the body. “He had a normal life,” Hinds said about Frankel. “He loved his family. He was well-liked and respected by his friends, colleagues and co-workers.” More than a dozen family and friends of Frankel, including his mother and father, were in court Monday during opening statements. Hinds said Frankel and his wife divorced in 2010 but that they maintained a polite and cordial relationship, and he went to all of the events of their two young
daughters. As part of their presentation, prosecutors displayed a photo of Frankel on vacation in Hawaii taken by Johnson, a woman he initially knew from when he worked in California prior to moving to Kent in 2007. Johnson worked in Portland at Oregon Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) while she and Frankel shared the Auburn home on a quiet, residential street across from an alternative high school.
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Neighbors find city’s traffic calming program a slow go BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Neighbors are frustrated with the city of Kent’s slow and calm action to combat fast and furious cars along a residential street. “The process is slow and there’s
not great promise at the end because it will be sitting in a pile of projects and they don’t know if they have any money for it,” said Scott Bugbee, who lives in the Panther Lake neighborhood along Southeast 223rd Drive just east of
116th Avenue Southeast. Residents along the street started to contact city officials about ways to slow vehicles shortly after Kent annexed the Panther Lake area in 2010. The movement to get the city to take action grew
more intense last year after a speeding drunk driver hit and killed motorcyclist and neighbor David Daniel on Aug. 22 along Southeast 223rd Drive. City officials have met several times with a 223rd neighborhood
committee to come up with a proposal to slow traffic along the street that has a posted speed of 25 mph. Rob Knutzen, city transportation engineering specialist who [ more PROCESS page 4 ]
Planning board undecided on downtown area zoning BY ROSS COYLE rcoyle@kentreporter.com
Some progress was made on Kent’s downtown strategic plan Monday night at a city Land Use and Planning Board meeting, with key voices in favor of and against rezoning specific areas downtown. Tina Budell, president of the North Park Neighbor-
hood Council, reiterated the dangers of changing the zoning from townhouses to general multi-use commercial. Budell noted that changing the zoning could incentivize property owners to sell property for development – houses and apartments that are occupied by low-income families. [ more ZONING page 8 ]
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‘American Idol’ stars, from left, Candice Glover, Janelle Arthur and Angie Miller perform an opening number at the ShoWare Center last Friday night. The summer premiere of the American Idol Live Tour – a swiftly-paced, peppy showcase – featured Season 12 Idol finalists as well as fan pick Aubrey Cleland. Story, page 2. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
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How to bring more business to downtown Kent, the proposed sale of the Riverbend Par 3 Golf Course and the business and occupation (B&O) tax were among the hot topics for debate among
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www.kentreporter.com will present the proposed traffic calming plan and costs to the City Council’s Public Works Committee. That committee of three council members will then determine whether the city can find a way to pay for the traffic circles. City staff also will present traffic calming plans at that time for two other neighborhoods - 42nd Avenue South on the West Hill and 100th Avenue Southeast between Southeast 208th Street and Southeast 216th Street in the Panther Lake area. Matt Richner, who spearheaded a drive last year to get the city to install traffic calming devices along Southeast 223rd Drive after the death of Daniel, said two other accidents have occurred along the street in the last month. “There have been a number of additional speed-related accidents since last August’s fatal accident and all we have received from the city is one blue sign indicating the speed limit and they painted the
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speed limit on the road itself just a few weeks ago,” Richner said in an email. City staff installed the sign and painted the speed limit on the street as temporary measures. “I feel as though the city has been slow in their response,” Richner said. “The concept behind the traffic calming committee is a good one. The time it takes to get anything done has been frustrating.” Kent Police cited a man for negligent driving and speed too fast for conditions on June 13 after the man struck two vehicles parked along Southeast 223rd Drive while test driving a car. “I know I was traveling faster than the 25 mph speed limit,” the man said to an officer, according to the police report. Earlier this month, a car ran into a lamp post and knocked down the new blue speed sign that city staff had recently installed. Bugbee said he believes stop signs would be a better and a less expensive solution than traffic
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circles. Richner said he favors speed bumps, also partly because they cost less. If the city goes ahead with the plan to install traffic circles, Richner doesn’t expect to see them anytime soon. “Considering it took 10 months to paint on the speed limit onto the road, I would say a year or more before we see a single traffic circle,” Richner said. Knutzen said the process for slowing traffic along 223rd Drive actually has gone faster than normal. “The program is designed to take a year or two,” Knutzen said. “We accelerated them. Out of the three programs, it took the least amount of time. We acted in August and got a group of neighbors together. It took about a year.” Bugbee said neighbors do not have any problems with city staff. “Everyone at the city has been very nice,” Bugbee said. “It’s just frustrating (how long it takes).”
that I never thought I could before,” she said. “I didn’t think it would be this exciting, but it is. “I like the medical field. I am not exactly sure what I want to do, but this is a good opportunity just to explore what they have.” Like Ramadan, specialized nursing caught the curiosity of Kentlake’s Courtney Roberts. Roberts, whose mother and grandmother were nurses, might follow in their footsteps, possibly as a trauma nurse. “They do everything, the tricks of the trade,” she said. “They can do just about everything, a lot of fastpitched stuff. It’s very busy. It’s a lot of fun.” Roberts and other students learned that nurses do much more than draw blood and take temperatures.
dummy patient on the table was just a part of the weeklong hands-on experience for Ramadan and 99 other high school students from 31 cities who participated in the 10th annual Nurse Camp at Tacoma General, Mary Bridge, Allenmore and Good Samaritan hospitals last week. The four-day camp gave students an inside look at careers in the health care world. Students spent time in departments at MultiCare’s hospitals, visited local colleges and universities, and participated in rotations throughout the hospital network. Ramadan came away impressed. “I love it. It’s very educational, informative and I get to explore all the things
At camp, students examined pig hearts and LVADs (left ventricular assist devices), learned how to prepare pediatric patients for tests/ procedures, practiced with c-collar/backboards and performed neuro checks. In the operating room, students discovered hightech surgeries. They also job shadowed various units and departments at the hospitals. Ten years ago, MultiCare realized the need to encourage a more diverse and well-prepared health care work force. In 2004, MultiCare began supporting the weeklong day camp that is free to area students. As well as increasing ethnic and racial diversity in health care, a growing number of young men are pursuing careers in nursing, a trend MultiCare Nurse
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Camp encourages and supports. “Nurse Camp allows students to explore nursing and other health careers through hands-on activities, job shadowing and discussions with health professionals, visits to local nursing schools and much more,” said Nurse Camp Director Jamilia Sherls, MPH, BSN, RN. “They also receive a stethoscope and medical scissors to use during assessment activities. “From these experiences, it is my hope that Nurse Camp students begin to visualize themselves as future nurses and become even more motivated to pursue this career path,” Sherls said. “It would be great if these students returned to MultiCare one day as a nurse or another health professional.”
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Rosemary grew up in Minot, North Dakota until moving to Seattle in 1943. She graduated from Immaculate Conception High School in 1944. She then worked for Providence Hospital while attending their Nursing School at Seattle University from 1945 until 1947. Rosemary married Nick Devino in 1950 and began their family and life together for fifty four years. They moved to Kent in 1957 where they raised their five children. They kept busy with their kids activities and their Lake Sammamish property.Their greatest love was their family. Rosemary worked for The Boeing Company until 1977. Rosemary is preceded in death by her husband, Nick; sister, Maxine Knowles and brother-in-law, Bob Crawford. She is survived by her children, Tony Devino, Issaquah, Anne (John) Ball, Covington, Joe (Jaimee) Devino, Kent, Mary Devino, Seattle, Nickie Devino, Kent; granddaughters, Gina and Luci Lucarelli, Seattle; great-grandson, Dominic; brothers, Charles (Joyce), Philadelphia, George (Eleanor), Seattle; sister-in-law, Angie Crawford, North Bend and many nieces and nephews. A funeral mass was held at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, in Kent,WA on July 23, 2013. Burial at Tahoma National Cemetery.
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