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Despite review, still disagreement on UW alliance validity By DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
Jim and Joanne Medzegian stand next to their customized 2002 Ford Thunderbird that will be on display at Sunday’s Return to Renton Car Show at the Piazza in downtown Renton. Adam McFadden, Renton Reporter
This car fits Jim to a T
Jim Medzegian’s love of cars started early. As soon as he turned 16, he went to a local gas station near Franklin High School in Seattle and asked for a job. He worked there through high school and college and until he and his wife Joanne had their first son. “That job got me through college and helped us buy our first house,” Medzegian said. “Working there I always had
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The Ossorios go to extremes Every night Paul and I would go back to the hotel scratched, bruised, bone tired and battle weary from painting, wielding
chainsaws, ripping out flooring, grouting tile, and whatever unskilled labor we could perform.
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an affinity for cars.” And one car stood out among the rest: the Ford Thunderbird. That’s what he’ll be showing at this year’s Return to Renton Benefit Car Show and Cruise-In, a 2002 Ford Thunderbird. “T-birds then were really something,” Medzegian said. “I always liked them. And I love the new ones too.” He said the 2002 model caught his eye when he saw one of the first ones in November 2001. He also had a 1957 T-bird for a time and that car left a good impression for reasons beyond sweet looks and rumble of the engine. “That’s probably one of the only classic cars I’ve had where I sold it for more than I paid for it,” he said with a
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Return to Renton Car Show this Sunday at the Piazza is nostalgia on wheels
A “re-review” by state attorneys and other outside legal experts has found that the strategic alliance between Valley Medical Center and UW Medicine is legal. The legality of the alliance was called into question in March by the commissioners of Public Hospital District No. 1, which owns the medical center in Renton. The district commission in May 2011 voted 3-2 to approve the alliance and bind the district to the contract creating it. The commissioners who voted no pointed out the agreement was rushed and they didn’t have adequate time to review it. In November Dr. Paul Joos was elected to the board, creating a new three-member majority with the numbers to challenge the alliance. Dr. Paul Ramsey, CEO of UW Medicine, in a letter to the commissioners June 29 marking the upcoming one-year anniversary of the alliance, wrote the UW’s legal team and the commission’s legal counsel had discussed the commission’s concerns Dr. Paul Ramsey as part of a new review. “This work has confirmed our previous conclusion that the Strategic Alliance Agreement is legal and is structured to further our shared missions of improving the health of the public in this era of rapid change in healthcare,” Ramsey wrote. Representing the hospital commission in the one meeting with the UW counsel from the state Attorney General’s Office were Bruce Disend, the commission’s attorney, and former state Supreme Court Justice Phil Talmadge, who had reviewed the alliance agreement for the hospital commission. “I guess you could say there has been dialogue,” Disend said of the one meeting. He said there is “no agreement of any kind or com-