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Covington Days Festival organizers could use some more support — specifically from businesses willing to sponsor the event. Coordinated by the Covington Lions Club since 2006, the Seafair-sanctioned festival will be at Cedar Heights Middle School for the second year, but there will be some differences from 2011 to this year according to Judy Swanberg, who is chair of the festival for the club. Prior to a year ago the festival had been on what is now the site of the Covington MultiCare Emergency Department which had been a vacant lot. “We worked with the best option we had,” Swanberg said. “It worked last year. There really isn’t any place in Covington that’s big enough to hold it.” Swanberg hopes one key differ-
The State Supreme Court has denied the petition for review requested by Toward Responsible Development of a Court of Appeals decision. The appeals court reversed the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board decision regarding the master planned Black development Diamond ordinances for YarrowBay’s Villages and Lawson Hills in Black Diamond. The appeals court ruled the growth board lacked jurisdiction to review the 2010 ordinances which approved the two master planned developments. According to Seattle attorney David Bricklin no further appeals are available for the growth board case.
Lidstand, 3, gets some help from her dad Robert Lidstand while fishing off the dock at The Family That Kylie Lake Wilderness during the annual Hooked on Fishing opening day trout derby on April 28. box, The Reporter Fishes Together Todennis view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.
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With one hand violinist hits the right notes in youth symphony By TJ Martinell tmartinell@maplevalleyreporter.com
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othing seems to faze 16-year-old Abigail Brown. Born with only one fully developed hand, the Tahoma sophomore said that she grew up as any ordinary child would. Raised in Phoenix, Ariz., she said she never felt different from other kids, nor did she ever feel like things were harder for her to do,
even if they were. “Figure it out,” she said was her family motto. This can-do attitude has enabled her to play the violin as a part of the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra. Brown first developed an interest in music in fifth grade after a sixth grade orchestra performed at her middle school. “It was just a decision,” she said. “I said, ‘I’m going to do that.’ I
came home and told my parents, and they were like ‘Sure.’” Out of all the instruments to play, she settled on the violin, which she was attracted to due to its light weight and quality of sound. “It just seemed like a lot of fun,” she said. “It wasn’t big like the bass.” Brown eventually joined the orchestra at Centennial Middle School where everyone else were novice musicians. “I had no idea how to play,” she said. “Sometimes, at first it was hard. You just get used to it.” Unlike the rest of the students, [ more NOTES page 5]
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