Kent Reporter, August 17, 2012

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Many streets, parks on repair list under levy measure BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com

The bumps in Kent city roads and play fields could get much worse and costlier to fix if voters don’t pass a property tax increase

in November to pay for street and park repairs. That’s the message being spread by Tim LaPorte, public works director, and Jeff Watling, parks director. LaPorte oversees the roads

and has watched them get worse and worse with a lack of money dedicated to fixing them. “I’m not a naysayer, I’m the messenger,” LaPorte said during a phone interview. “The cost would be many times more later.”

The City Council voted 4-3 on July 31 to send a six-year property tax levy increase to voters on the Nov. 6 ballot. The increase of 37 cents per $1,000 assessed property value would cost the owner of a $350,000 home about

$111 per year. The levy would raise about $29 million over six years, $18.3 million for parks and $10.7 million for streets as 23 cents per $1,000 [ more MEASURE page 4 ]

Olympic champ to return to skating in Kent BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com

For the birds Tom Hall sells handmade bird houses during the annual Pantera Lago parking lot sale last Saturday. Lee Pope, an artist from Longview builds the bird houses from de-constructed barns. Hall takes them to local farmers markets to sell them for Pope. CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter

Let the hype begin about ice skater Evan Lysacek coming to Kent. Lysacek, the 2010 Olympic champion, announced Aug. 10 on NBC’s Today Show from the London Olympics his plan to return to competitive skating after a two-season layoff. U.S. Figure Skating confirmed in a media release that Lysacek will make his return at the 2012 Hilton HHonors Skate America Oct. 19-21 at the ShoWare Center in Kent. That is the opening event of the International Skating Union’s Grand Prix of

Olympic champion Evan Lysacek plans to return to the ice for the Oct. 19-21 Skate America at the ShoWare Center. COURTESY PHOTO

Figure Skating Series. “I am returning to competitive skating with the ultimate goal of representing the U.S. at the 2014 Olympic [ more LYSACEK page 2 ]

LOCAL COMPANY SHOWING THE WAY Ingenium honored for waste prevention, recycling efforts BY TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com

A local waste management company recently was named among five other Kent workplaces to the 2012 Best Workplaces for Recycling and Waste Reduc-

tion list by the King County Solid Waste Division. Ingenium was among 92 companies named on this year’s list. The other Kent honorees were Applus Technologies, the City of Kent, Kent Downtown Partnership and Torklift Central. “The recognition of our efforts is exciting and it’s nice to see so many local companies working hard to be sustainable,” said

Corey Johnson, director of the Pacific Northwest for Ingenium. “I am confident this list will continue to grow and help keep Washington the Evergreen State and a leader for sustainable practices at work and at home.” Ingenium, has 20 recycling criteria that they adhere to in their Kent workplace. Among [ more INGENIUM page 5 ]

Corey Johnson, director of the Pacific Northwest for Ingenium, sits behind environmental waste samples taken for recycling and repurposing. TRACEY COMPTON, Kent Reporter


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