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Iconic restaurant, bar closes Goodwill Outlet store might be moving in BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Priscilla Hoflack walks past the closed H.D. Hotspurs restaurant and bar on Washington Avenue next to the Kent Kmart. Hotspurs closed in April after 32 years. STEVE HUNTER, Kent Reporter
The closure of H.D. Hotspurs after 32 years as a popular Kent restaurant and nightclub is just one of several changes going on next to Kmart in the Washington Avenue strip mall. The liquor store is moving out by the end of June. Furniture Plus and
Lil’s Thrift Shop will close the end of May. All four businesses received notices from the landlord to vacate. Outgoing business owners have heard Kmart’s new neighbor could be a Goodwill Outlet store, although details have yet to be released. “We’re looking at an outlet store in the Kent area,” said Amanda Bedell, a Goodwill spokeswoman, who added she could not confirm a specific location at this time. An outlet store carries items not sold at Goodwill retail stores, so
prices are even lower. Clothing, housewares, glassware, books, media and toys are sold by the pound. All other outlet merchandise is priced as marked. Items sold by the pound are not pre-sorted, and customers can sort through a variety of merchandise bins. The company has outlet stores in Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and Vancouver. “We have devout followers waiting for the arrival of goods,” Bedell said. Devout followers flocked [ more CLOSING page 4 ]
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND Chris Rumble sings along to Kelly Clarkson’s hit single, ‘Stronger’, for his inspiring YouTube video.
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Patient’s video inspires the sick to be stronger BY SARAH KEHOE skehoe@kentreporter.com
Sarah Blum tends to others torn by wounds of war Sarah Blum saw her share of pain and suffering as an Army nurse in the operating room of an evac hospital during the Vietnam War. Today, she works to bind up the psychological wounds of veterans and others. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@kentreporter.com
War seared Sarah Blum. As a 26-year-old Army nurse in an operating room within earshot of Vietnam’s battlefields, Blum saw what modern warfare could do to the human body – and soul. Soldiers and civilians, bodies torn asunder by enemy and friendly fire,
In early May, children with bald heads and big smiles danced on the Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Hematology Oncology floor. They held up signs with the words “hope” and “fighter” as they sang along to Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger.” This celebration of strength was instigated by Kent resident
Chris Rumble, a 22-year-old Children’s Hospital cancer patient diagnosed with leukemia in April. The video went viral shortly after Rumble released it on YouTube. It now has a little more than two million hits. “I was blown away by the video itself as well as the success of it,” said Darren Rumble, Chris’ father. “I think it’s [ more VIDEO page 8 ]
rivers of human blood, suffering on a lunatic scale. For a young woman determined to do her duty, the war cut cruelly, horribly, lastingly deep.
Task force arrests 23 gang members, affiliates in South King County
“It was the hardest thing I ever had to do. It was crazy,” Blum said of treating the wounded in an evacuation hospital in a battle zone by the Iron Triangle. In that thickly forested, 120-square-mile area, most of the heavy fighting of 1967 was done.
Twenty-three gang members and their affiliates were arrested in Kent, Auburn, Renton, Tukwila and Des Moines as part of a multiagency crackdown. More than 50 officers from 12 city, county, state and fed-
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BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
eral law enforcement agencies participated in the Saturday night enforcement emphasis. “It went well,” said Kent Police Cmdr. Rafael Padilla. “Whenever you take down 23 on one night that’s a good showing.” Officers conducted covert [ more ARRESTS page 7 ]