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Police seeking tips to find Kent woman’s killer BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
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More than a week after the murder of a Kent woman in West Seattle, Seattle Police are still seeking more tips to help solve the case. Detectives are investigating the killing of 51-year-old Greggette Renee
Guy whose body was found March 12 floating in the Puget Sound offshore of West Seattle. “We have received some tips and are following up on those,” said Mark Jamieson, Seattle Police spokesman, during a phone interview Monday. “We encourage anyone who has information to contact us.”
Guy’s death is an active homicide investigation. Jamieson would not comment about the cause of death of Guy. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office released the identification of Guy March 15 but said the cause of death is pending an investigation by the Seattle Police. At approximately 7:30 a.m. March 12,
a resident reported seeing a body floating in Puget Sound approximately 30 feet offshore of the 3800 block of Beach Drive Southwest. Detectives responded to the scene and determined two days later that the death was a homicide. Detectives believe Guy parked her 2010 Buick Lacrosse in the 4400 block [ more HOMICIDE page 4 ]
Eagle found near Panther Lake killed by another eagle BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Terry Pallas, shelter director for Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission, hopes to turn the former Kent Resource Center on East Meeker Street into a day center/night shelter for the homeless. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
HAVEN FOR THE HOMELESS? Proposed downtown shelter draws opposition, concerns BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@kentreporter.com
A man of faith and compassion, Terry Pallas naturally extends a hand to help the homeless.
It is an obligation, a demanding role as shelter director for Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission. Pallas and his group, an association of churches committed to easing homelessness, say they have made an impact in affected communities. Recognizing a growing problem closer to home, Pallas wants to do something significant in Kent. The
Union Gospel Mission and its partners – notably the Kent Homelessness Partnership Effort (KentHOPE) and Valley Cities – wish to open a day center and overnight shelter in the downtown area. The group is interested in leasing and transforming the publicly [ more SHELTER page 5 ]
A dead bald eagle found this month in Kent likely died from a territorial dispute with another eagle. A Kent woman found the eagle March 8 near Panther Lake, not far from where two eagles had created a nest. The woman had a relative take the eagle to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement office in Redmond, according to an email from Doug Zimmer, spokesman for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. “Examination revealed that the bird likely died from injuries received in a territorial dispute with another eagle,” Zimmer said in the email. “Territorial disputes are usually not fatal but it does happen.” The woman who found the eagle said she didn’t want to talk about the incident to avoid drawing attention to the nest location.
Two eagles perch by their nest near Panther Lake in Kent. COURTESY PHOTO, state Department of Fish and Wildlife
Zimmer elaborated about eagle fights during a phone interview. “They fight in the air and most of the time it results in driving off the other bird,” he said. “Sometimes, there is a double fatality. Twice in my 30 years (of work) both have crashed to the ground.” Zimmer said that the eagle’s death did not have any [ more EAGLE page 4 ]
District students get hooked on technology to learn BY TJ MARTINELL AND SARAH KEHOE tmartinell@maplevalleyreporter.com skehoe@kentreporter.com
New technology is not just for teachers. Students now have many tools at their disposal they didn’t
even have five years ago. While laptops, document cameras and PowerPoint presentations have replaced overhead projectors, Dry Erase Markers and transparencies for educators,
technology tools are replacing hard copies of text books, pen and paper for students. Ninth-graders in the Kent School District were issued laptops at the start of the school year. Tahoma
grade schoolers have been using Netbooks for two years while other bleeding edge technologies are finding their way into the hands of students. [ more TECHNOLOGY page 9 ]
Tech series This is the second in a series of stories examining the use of new technology in the public classroom.