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Maple Valley was named among the top 50 Best Places to Raise Your Kids in 2013 by Bloomberg Businessweek.

According to Businessweek, cities were chosen based on an evaluation done with Bloomberg Rankings which evaluated more than 3,200 areas in the country with populations between 5,000 and 50,000. The publication chose one city from each state.

The recognition came as a surprise to Maple Valley City Manager David Johnston.

“We’re extremely proud to say the least,” he said. “I think it begins to tell the world what the people who live here (know), what a special place it is to live.”

The Tahoma School District, as part of the distinction, received a GreatSchools city score of nine. [ more KIDS page 5 ]

As the calendar year draws to a close there is much to reflect on including all that has happened across the country and even the globe from the Summer Olympics to the presidential election to the shootings Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., as well as the myriad of stories that have captured the attention of our readers. To that end, the staff has compiled a list of the top stories of 2012. Here they are in no particular order:

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Santa’s Key Club Helpers

Annie Chan, left, puts a present under the tree during the Kiwanis Kids Christmas party Dec. 19 at First Christian Church in Kent while Jordan Ablau looks on. Chan, a sophomore at Kentwood High, and Ablau, a junior at Kentridge, both volunteered through their school chapters of Key Club. kris hill, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.

Moment of clarity leads to gifts for the homeless

BY KRIS HILL khill@covingtonreporter.com

Not long after her mother died, Casey Rust had a moment of clarity during the holidays 11 years ago.

She realized some of her efforts during the season would be better used by helping the homeless.

“It’s a Christmas tradition to take my children to go to the Old Spaghetti Factory and I would

see all the homeless people and I wished I was rich and I could buy all of them something,” she said.

Rust, who lives in Ravensdale, began saving her pennies during the next year so she could get items to wrap and pass out to homeless folks in Seattle.

Now, there are more than a dozen women from Maple Valley, Covington, Renton, Auburn, Black Diamond and other South King County cities who collect

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donations, find items on sale, gather coats and then spend an evening in December at the home of Sara Acree Habryle wrapping it all in preparation for handing the gifts out on Christmas Day near Occidental Park.

“When we pull up they know we’re coming and they just swarm us,” Rust said.

In that first year, Rust did it on her own, and handed out 55 gifts.

A year ago, they handed out more than 300 wrapped packages of shirts, hats, gloves, backpacks as well as hygiene items and candy canes.

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In February Tahoma’s wrestling team put together the first state championship run since 1996, racking up 190 points with 12 of those coming from pins in the finals.

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Casey Rust, explains to Jamie Redick of Maple Valley and Ida Tribble of Auburn which items should be wrapped together during a work party Dec. 20. kris hill, The Reporter Hours: Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. and Fri.7am-7pm; Sat 8am-6pm; Sun: Closed

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School district to assess safety and security Tahoma School District principals, the district’s Safety and Emergency Preparedness Committee and representatives from Maple Valley Police and Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety will meet during the first week of January to assess security and emergency preparedness at each of the district’s eight schools.

The meeting was arranged by Superintendent Mike Maryanski in the wake of the deadly school shootings in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14.

All Tahoma schools have emergency plans in place and practice safety and security procedures in monthly drills.

The district also works closely with local law enforcement and firefighters.

Maryanski called the meeting in order to look for measures that can be taken immediately to increase security as well as to consider long-range solutions that could further improve security.

Questions linger about marijuana legalization the initiative pretty much is a state issue now, whereas when we had to fight this The recently approved battle earlier in the year beInitiative 502 did not cause of last year’s actions, clarify the state and federal it was resting all on the conflict over marijuana for city’s shoulders,” Johnston cities like Maple Valley and said. “Now the state and Covington. federal government have Instead, the passage to get together and make it of I-502 by the voters in work or the federal governNovember simply added ment will have to take its recreational marijuana to actions against the state medical marijuana on preemption as one more state law issues. But what that contradicts the we’re hearing in Controlled Substance the press is the Act. Department of “Initiative 502 Justice are talking didn’t change the exto the states to isting medical mariDerek Matheson get a feel about juana statue so we this issue. Maybe, still have to address hopefully, next the issue of collecyear it will be clearer.” tive gardens,” said CovingFor Covington, which ton City Manager Derek extended its moratorium Matheson. “But at the same on collective gardens, the time we’ll probably address initiative didn’t settle any the issue of retail marijuana conflict between the state stores and where those and federal law, which could be located within the means the council might city limits.” vote to extend it once again, The difference, however, Matheson said. is that recreational marijua“It’s generated more quesna will be handled entirely tions, not answers to questhrough the state’s Liquor tions. On top of how to deal Control Board, which with medical marijuana Maple Valley City Manager we have to create a whole David Johnston said shifts new regulatory system for the burden onto the state, recreational marijuana,” he rather than on cities. said. “It’s a rapidly evolv“I think for most cities, ing area of law and it’s

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Community Note Tahoma students earn awards for essays Maple Valley Black Diamond Post 5052 Veterans of Foreign Wars honored the winners of this year’s Patriots Pen and Voice of Democracy contest at the Tahoma School District.

As part of the contest, students wrote a 250-400 essay with the prompt “Is our Constitution still relevant?”

Essays discussed things such as

the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment.

With more than 260 participants from Tahoma High, Cedar River and Tahoma middle schools, 10 winners and eight runner-ups moved on to the District 11 competition.

Patriots Pen and Voice of Democracy is the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ premier outreach program, engaging students in the community.

The winners received cash awards

going to take time for the legislature and the court system to refine. And that’s one of the reasons we’ve chosen to continue our moratorium in six month periods because there’s no point in regulating a rapidly changing industry, now two industries.”

During the initial controversy over medical marijuana, Maple Valley and Covington took separate routes on how to address it. Although they both passed moratoriums on collective gardens and dispensaries in the spring, Maple Valley eventually passed an outright ban in the summer after a medical marijuana management company opened in April.

A King County Superior Court judge upheld a city’s authority to ban medical marijuana collective gardens in October. In Black Diamond, where a medical marijuana management company called LadyBuds Inc. opened in September, the council has been silent on the issue and instead relied on its business license to regulate medical marijuana.

For the time being, the cities will wait until the Liquor Control Board creates regulations concerning

retail stores. Under the initiative, the board has until Dec. 1, 2013 to establish guidelines and regulations.

According to a letter sent to Maple Valley from the Association of Washington Cities, growing marijuana, unless in a collective garden, remains illegal until the Liquor Control Board establishes a process for licensing and regulation.

The board will take public comment until Feb. 10 about rules and restrictions.

Only state-licensed production, processing and sale of marijuana will be allowed under the initiative.

Johnston stated that the question then will be a matter of where and if to zone for retail stores within the city.

“We’ll have to establish a use, like we have liquor stores as a use within a zoning code,” he said. “We’ll have to establish some marijuana stores. We’ll get that clear once the board does its work.”

At the same time, Matheson said that while Washington residents 21 and over are allowed to smoke marijuana, city employees will not.

“Even though marijuana is legal at the state level it remains illegal at the federal

and the opportunity to compete at districts, which includes a majority of King County.

Dessa Mehan of Tahoma High School and Nathan Simmons of Tahoma Middle School both placed second in their divisions at the District competition. Notably, Simmons was second overall in the Patriots Pen competition.

Megan Greenstein Honorable Mention

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Cedar River Middle School

Jessica Goulet Third Robert Copeland Second Katherine Ho Chee First

Tahoma Middle School

Piper Connel First

Kyle Sherick Third Andrew Bruneel Second Nicholas Dazell Honorable Mention Nathan Simmons Honorable Mention Kayla Ondick Honorable Mention Jaclyn Allen Honorable Mention Tracey Anderson Honorable Mention Stephen Kinshella Honorable Mention

level and we’re an employer that receives federal funds,” he said. “We’ve informed them that there will be no changes to our employee handbook.”

Johnston said that it will really come down to how the federal government ultimately responds to the initiative as the state attempts to implement it.

“We’re all waiting for some direction,” he said.

“That’s the bottom line.”

A statement from the Justice Department earlier this month stated officials are examining the legalization initiatives, but claim final authority as to whether or not marijuana is legal.

“The Department’s responsibility to enforce the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged,” it reads. “In enacting the Controlled Substances Act, Congress determined that marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance….

Members of the public are also advised to remember that it remains against federal law to bring any amount of marijuana onto federal property, including all federal buildings, national parks and forests, military installations, and courthouses.”

Haley Moss Honorable Mention

Tahoma High School Isabel Bammer First Dakota Storm Second Dessa Meehan Second Alissa Bates Third

District Winners Dessa Meehan (Voice of Democracy Second), Nathan Simmons (Patriots Pen Second overall, sixth through eight grades.

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[4] December 28, 2012 [ STORIES from page 1] Joey Palmer, who is now a freshman at Oregon State, won the crown at the 132 pound weight class while Aaron Davis pinned his way through the bracket to earn the title at 220 pounds. Tahoma sent 15 wrestlers to Mat Classic and 10 placed.

It was redemption for the program, which came close in 2010 when the Bears placed second.

This season Tahoma’s wrestlers plan to win another state crown at Mat Classic XXV.

SNOWPACOLYPSE 2012

In mid-January Mother Nature dumped snow on the region followed by freezing ice which brought the area to a screeching halt.

Students missed a week of school in the Tahoma and Kent school districts. Crews from King County and the cities of Covington and Maple Valley worked tirelessly to clear the roads and clean up lasted well into the spring.

Glenn Akrmoff, public works director for Covington, told the Reporter in January the ice storm, which lasted three days, didn’t come as a surprise to him.

His experience with previous storm response meant it was wise to prepare for the ice storm even though it caught so many others off guard.

“They (forecasters) compared it to ‘96 and I was working in Olympia at that time,” Akramoff said in January. “The next thing that happened (after the snow that year) was ice.”

In Maple Valley, crews worked to clear six inches of snow off 30 miles of streets with sand, deicer and salt, while at the same time carefully monitoring the National Weather Service updates, Public Works Director Steve Clark told the Reporter in January.

The public works department also kept in communication with Maple Valley Life and Fire Safety.

Clark told the Maple Valley City Council after the storm that the city benefited from preparations that had been made during the late fall, as well as the new maintenance facility located at Southeast 264th Street.

The city purchased the 2.79 acre property for $1.1 million in November 2011.

“Overall, I think we were well prepared to respond to this event,” Clark said. “We had the pieces of equipment ready to go. It really elevated morale.”

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Blair started the foundation as a response to the one-two punch breast cancer delivered. First, it took her mother who was diagnosed in 2004. Having discovered it late, Denamark was subjected to rigorous treatments before she died.

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kids never gave up, they kept swimming hard and all of our relays really stepped up.

In late May, Fred Meyer, the anchor of We had some really great swims and scored Maple Valley Town Center located at Four points in all three relays. I was very proud Corners, opened its doors ending a long, of our kids and their accomplishments.” winding journey for the retail chain which When he took over the boys program, is owned by Kroger.

On the day of the ribbon cutting, Deputy he was the fourth coach in four seasons, but Dawson told the Reporter in NovemMayor Victoria Laise Jonas told Peter Powber 2010 he intended to stop the revolving ell, who spearheaded the development of door. the plaza through his firm Powell Develop“I plan to be here a long time,” Dawson ment, that, “history is being made in Maple said after his first practice with the boys Valley as we speak.” team.

For the city, the arrival of the big box reDawson grew up in Vancouver, Wash., tailer was a sign of shifting attitudes toward where he swam at Hudson’s Bay High beeconomic development in the past three fore competing on scholarship at California years. Fred Meyer had been interested in State University at Bakersfield, where he locating a store in Maple Valley for a numearned a bachelor’s degree in business adber of years but the city had an ordinance ministration and sports management. on the books since incorporation that Hiring a swim coach is a difficult prevented big box stores that were top stories of proposition, Kentlake Athletic Dilarger than 60,000 square feet. rector Bruce Rick told the Reporter Powell described the project, in February, because practices and which was more than seven years in competition take place off campus the making as, “a labor of love.” and after school when administrators Now Maple Valley Town Center is don’t have the opportunity to supervise the also home to a number of businesses such program. as the Nutty Squirrel Gelato shop, restau“You really need to hire someone you rants such as Farrelli’s and Hop Jack’s, a can trust to run the program without new MultiCare clinic, The Spot coffee and supervision,” Rick said. “Not only did wine bar, and branches of Chase Bank and Seth take care of that aspect of it, he was a BECU, to name a few. great teacher of mechanics on how to be an exceptional swimmer. He had coached DEATH OF A BELOVED COACH everybody from the elite to swimmers who Though Seth Dawson had coached Kentlake swim and dive teams for barely 18 were turning out for their first year. He gave everybody equal time.” months he made a deep impression on the young people he coached.

BLACK DIAMOND’S PROPOSITION 1 His death in a small plane crash in midA 4-1 vote by the Black Diamond City February, a day before the 4A state swim Council July 19 placed Proposition 1 on the and dive championships were to start at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal ballot asking the citizens if the form of government should change from strong-mayor Way, shook the swim community in South to council-manager.

Puget Sound.

The proposition ignited months of Dawson was one of three people on the plane, which crashed near North Bend Feb. debate in the town of about 4,000. The issue was debated on the editorial pages of this 15. The others were fellow swim coaches. newspaper leading up to the election in He coached a wide variety of kids who November. came to the pool deck ranging from longProposition 1 did not pass, with 59.24 time club swimmers to kids looking for percent or 1,247 voters checking the ‘no’ something to stay in shape in the offseason box and about 41 percent voting in favor of of another sport.

He was particularly pleased with the way the change. the girls season ended in November 2011.

WINGS OF KAREN “This means a lot to the team, the girls Maple Valley resident Kristi Blair started worked very hard this year and everyone Wings of Karen, a breast cancer fundraising contributed something to the team’s sucorganization, in honor of her mother Karen cess,” Dawson wrote in an email after the Denamark, who battled breast cancer girls state swim meet. “I think the key to before she died in 2007. winning the trophy was perseverance. The

FRED MEYER OPENS in maple valley

The ambiguity over the state medical marijuana law brought controversy to Maple Valley after Green Society Group, a medical marijuana management company, opened in late April.

The Maple Valley City Council had previously approved a year-long moratorium on zoning for collective gardens and dispensaries for medical marijuana in July 2011.

GSG received a stop work order and unsafe notice from the city of Maple Valley after his permit was allegedly denied by the city due to the city’s moratorium on medical marijuana gardens and dispensaries.

The city’s hearing examiner ruled GSG to be a collective garden in August and upheld one of the city’s citations against it.

The city later filed a request for an injunction against GSG, as well as a complaint of moral nuisance in August. The city and GSG reached a settlement in October.

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In the 5th District, Sen. Cheryl Plfug and Rep. Glenn Anderson were replaced

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Reviewing New Year gardening resolutions buying a potted rosemary plant for the kitchen counter and using more fresh herbs in your everyday life. Here in Western Washington it is simple to grow cool season crops like lettuce, peas, cabbage, kale and Swiss chard. You don’t even need a patch of ground as many edibles do just as good in pots as they do in the ground. Beginners should start with cherry tomatoes, basil, and zucchini.

2. Resolve to leave the clippings on the lawn.

In our cool climate leaving the grass

clippings to decay on the lawn will help improve the water-holding capacity of the soil by adding organic matter and add nitrogen by returning green material to the soil. The trick is you must mow more often and choose a mulching mower so that the clippings are tiny enough to slip in between the blades of grass. Mowing your lawn every seven days during the growing season fits in nicely with the most popular of all New Year’s resolution: the vow to loose weight and get more exercise.

3. Resolve to add more houseplants to clean your indoor air.

We all need plants to breathe easier so this winter replace your holiday

ornaments with a few green and growing plants known to absorb and clean indoor pollutants. I vote for the attractive and hard-to-kill peace lily or spathiphyllum because this houseplant adapts to low light and will bloom with white, flag-like spaths or leaf bracts. If you go away for a few weeks and your peace lily looks limp and dead on your return, cut it back, add some water and it will revive and keep growing. Other air cleaning houseplants to add to your home include heart leaf philodendrons, English ivy, spider plants, dracaena and snake plant.

4. Resolve to cut back on your garbage - start a compost pile.

You don’t need a lot of room to recy-

cle a lot of garbage. Just find a four foot space on the ground and dig in.

Set aside a pile of soil and layer your kitchen waste and pruning crumbs into the hole, covering with a few shovels of the soil from the nearby pile. Composting is as easy as layering green material (vegetable trimmings, grass clippings, faded flower blooms) with brown material (soil, sawdust, brown leaves) then letting it sit and rot. In six months or less you’ll have compost.

5. Resolve to rebel from convention - and bring back the bees.

Becoming a flamboyant, rebellious and adventurous gardener has many benefits but the latest buzz is about what your experiments

in growing can do for the birds, bees and the butterflies. The more diverse the plant material we grow in our gardens the more likely our local wild life will survive. This year, promise to try a new climbing vine, plant a tree, add more perennials and buy a blooming baskets filled with flowers you’ve never grown before. We need gardens full of early bloomers, late bloomers, trees, shrubs, native plants and exotic new comers that will provide nectar for bees, homes for birds and foliage for the caterpillars that turn into butterflies and moths.

Life began in a garden, so celebrate the New Year and just keep growing.

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reconnected with Rust.

“She told me what she and her sister were doing,” Acree Habryle said. “And I told her I wanted to be involved.”

From there, Acree Habryle got her daughterin-law and grandchildren involved, and after that WICS, the support group for widows, came on board.

“The amazing thing to me, the reason I chose to do it with Casey, is because she chose the homeless people in Seattle because they’re

throwaways,” Acree Habryle Then a young man about said. “That’s the reason 21 years old changed her these people get involved. son’s perspective as well as Once you do it and see the her own, Acree Habryle happiness they get for one said. moment and 90 per“He said, ‘I haven’t cent are thankful.” received a gift since One year, Acree gifts for the I was 7 years old,’” Habryle took her Acree Habryle said. son, who was a “I’ll never forget teenager at the time, that.” along for the handing This small effort out of gifts on Christmas has gained considerable Day. She said he was resissupport. A business owner tant because he believed in Ravensdale handed Rust all the negative stereotypes a check for $100 recently about homelessness. when she was on her way to

the dollar store to shop for the gifts.

“I was in my glory,” Rust said. “That just made my day.”

She had about $40 for that shopping trip before she received that donation.

It’s a small reward for her desire to counter the excess that can come with Christmas each year.

Rust said it just makes more sense to her to spend money to help people at this point in her life.

“I just save my change

all year and buy things on sale,” Rust said.

On Tuesday, while the country shut down for the holiday, Rust and Acree Habryle along with a number of other volunteers handed out hundreds of necessities and gifts to the homeless — all because of a moment of clarity for Rust on Christmas Day more than a decade ago.

of ways.”

Among the reasons Businessweek named Maple Valley included the Lake Wilderness Lodge, a winner of American Institute of Architecture and Washington State Design Awards, well as the Parks and Recreation Department.

Among the criteria evaluated were public school performance, the local job market, median income, housing costs and commute time.

The data come from GreatSchools.org, the FBI, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The publication excluded places where the median family income exceeds $115,866, the lower limit for the wealthiest 20 percent of U.S. families.

This is the second award Maple Valley has won in the past two years. In 2011, Family Circle magazine named Maple Valley among the top ten places to raise a family.

Maple Valley was selected because it fit the survey criteria which analyzed 2,500 cities and towns with populations between 15,000 and 150,000.

Johnston said receiving the recognition from two distinctly different publications adds to the credibility.

“I think we have with these two we can really present this as a city of families and a great place to raise families,” Johnston said. “Other people are telling us this. I think it’s interesting that you had the consumer magazine do it, they tend to be more cooking and style and arts and crafts type, and then a year later we get recognized by a prominent business magazine.”

with the effort seven years ago. Before long she brought along members of the widows group she belongs to in order to get all the wrapping done. She has known Rust for years because they lived in the same neighborhood in Maple Valley at one time and their children went to school together.

For a time after her husband died, Acree Habryle worked at the Ravensdale Post Office, where she

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The Compleat Home Gardener

The end of December is a time for resolutions, reviews and renewals so resolve to start a garden notebook, mark up your calendar or take more garden photos if you want to chart the improvements and failures of your gardening experiments.

Here’s a few ideas for ways to make 2013 a celebration of all things green and growing: 1. Resolve to start growing your own food.

This one act can be as simple as

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“We’re pleased with it,” said Tahoma Spokesman Kevin Patterson. “It’s an acknowledgment that we’re doing good things for students, which we believe is true. It’s nice to see that reflected by other people. It kind of validates the collaboration we have with the city and the business community in trying to meet the needs of students in a variety

REQUIRED IMMUNIZATIONS FOR OVERSEAS TRAVEL Overseas travel can be exciting, but before leaving, discuss immunizations with your doctor. While many dangerous or deadly diseases are rare in the United States, they may thrive in foreign soil.

Travelers should be up to date on routine vaccinations for diseases such as diphtheria, pertussis, and hepatitis A and B. Depending on which countries will be visited, extra immunizations for diseases like Japanese encephalitis, rabies, and typhoid may be recommended.

Some vaccinations need time, sometimes up to six months, before they are effective. Since most vaccinations are only recommended and not required, it is up to the traveler to advocate for him- or herself by talking to a health care provider about vaccines. There are only two vaccinations that are required for international travel: yellow fever for certain sub-Saharan and tropical South American countries, and meningococcal for visitors to Saudi Arabia during the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

Since many vaccinations require several days or weeks to take effect, you will want to anticipate any “holding period” well before you are to travel. The CDC recommends that travelers visit their health care provider four to six weeks before an international trip.

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“I am Mr. Cheerful and Supportive. “ - Dennis Box

My farewell address to you They say that all good things must come to an end at some point.

There is a strong degree of truth to it, as least for me.

I must state with great sadness that this will be my final issue, and consequently my final editorial, for the CovingtonMaple Valley-Black Diamond Reporter. Starting at the beginning of next year, I will be working as an editor at msn.com.

Replacing me will be Katherine Smith, a Kentridge graduate with ties to community.

In one of my columns last year when discussing people’s futures and their careers, I remarked that the future is, for most of us, uncertain. There is always that one event or occurrence we can’t anticipate which changes everything. The everchanging face of journalism makes it all the more uncertain for reporters like myself whose journey has just recently started. Who knows where I will be at this time next year?

As excited as I am for the opportunity that has come my way, the transition carries with it a lot of bittersweetness. Inasmuch as this new job is a large step forward, I wouldn’t have been able to make that step if I hadn’t come here first.

When I started at the Reporter in April 2011, I was a recent college graduate working in retail with barely a year’s worth of journalism experience under my belt. I had no idea what to expect or what my experience at the Reporter would be like. My limited knowledge of newspapers came from my time as the news editor at my university paper and my impression of national media, a rather odd combination.

Being geographically challenged at the time, I also knew virtually nothing about the South King County area, as I was born and raised in Bellevue.

This job I feel has managed to cram 10 years worth of experience into two, in no small part thanks to Kris and Dennis. I have learned more in that amount of time than I have at any other point in my life.

As some of you may know, or don’t know, people don’t go into journalism for the money — and unlike other professions, when we say that, we’re being serious. People become reporters for a lot of reasons, some of them legitimate, some not.

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Advocacy paid off for Lake Sawyer residents I would like to publicly acknowledge the amazing efforts of several individuals who have worked smartly and selflessly against great odds, and with little assistance from our city’s current administration, to affect improvement on the

reporter or what attracted me to journalism, in spite of all the struggles that come with it.

Most of the time, I found it hard to provide an answer. I’ve never been good at the five-second elevator pitch. My elongated explanations would have tried the patience of Job. The answer would always come out, however, whenever I spoke with friends, family or while striking a conversation with a random person on the street. Work always came up.

While the other person would briefly describe their Office Space-like work environment, banal workload and day to day monotony caused by their Lumbergh-like supervisor, I would get to talk about dozens of fantastic stories I was currently covering, from the fastest cross country runners in the state and a series on education and historical events to state legislative politics and all the great philanthropic efforts people in the community are doing.

I got to read my editorials, articles and columns to family members, which always got a laugh or chuckle we writers so badly crave from our readers. I also thought of it this way: In 30 years, how many people look back on the work they did when they were 25? And how many of those look back fondly on it?

I know I will be able to do both, thanks to the amazing people of Maple Valley, Covington and Black Diamond. Some of the best stories I wrote had little to do with my writing abilities and mostly to do with the achievements of the person or people in the story. My best contribution to those stories was letting the story tell itself without me

bungling it.

Most importantly, though, I got to write stories that helped not only inform, but bring attention to people in the community who deserved to be recognized.

This doesn’t happen enough.

In a world where tragedies are often the mainstay of media outlets, it’s critical more than ever to get those stories out about people who build up their community, rather than those who tear it down.

I’m certain that many of the people I’ve written about, whether they’re musicians, athletes or cartoonists, are going to make it big.

When that happens and suddenly everyone knows their name, I will not only be able to say “I knew them when…” but “I wrote about then when…”

Additionally, as an aspiring novelist, my time here has given me enough book ideas to last a lifetime.

I also was blessed with two great editors who helped me learn the basics of reporting. Whereas in other work environments supervisors maintain a god-like aura around themselves and tolerate no dissent, Kris and Dennis fostered a rare climate where we could debate and discuss issues and stories freely — and yes, poke fun at each other about our respective idiosyncrasies.

If I am able to work in another environment similar to it, I will be lucky.

My time here will be remembered as a positive part of my life. I hope you the reader will remember it in a similar manner.

impending development out here. I have been a full time resident on Lake Sawyer since 1956.

This lake is a huge part of my life and know that the main protection of our water quality has been provided through the efforts and appeals of these individuals.

Many other improvements have been brought about by the pressure they have brought to bear as well. Without their dedication and many long hours of hard work, who knows what we would have had to contend with as YarrowBay began to develop. Certainly there would have been no safe pedestrian passage over Rock Creek, despite the city and developer saying this would be a “walkable city.”

The appellants have been in the minority but have prevailed in calling attention to many “conditions of approval” and studies that were promised to protect the environment and provide for the taxpayers but were seemingly overlooked by the City as they allowed the developer to con-

tinue to move forward. The Hearing Examiner says it best: “As usual, the SEPA Appellants have succeeded in raising several issues that will make the Villages MPD more compatible with their community. The Appellants have once again invested an incredible amount of their time and resources in ensuring that all of the detailed development standards carefully put together by their elected officials are faithfully and effectively administered. Their hard work and professional effort has once again made a major difference in this proceeding.”

I just want to be among the first to say, thank you. Thousands of us have benefitted by your exertions and effort. This city will be better for decades to come because of what you did.

Betty Wheeler Black Diamond [ more LETTERS page 7 ]

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City amazes, but not amuses Once again our Maple Valley city government has amazed, but not amused us.

An earlier article in one of the local papers stated that the city was over half a million dollars in debt.

Wouldn’t it be great if the rest of us could simply run our households without thinking income vs. expenditures?

So, despite all the talk about considering alternate ways to help reduce this debt (getting rid of excess

personnel, etc.) the city council decided to make the city residents pay (and pay) for this ineptness.

At the Nov. 26 Maple Valley City Council meeting, they passed two ordinances. One was to pass a 2013 property tax levy, and the other was a levy lid increase of 0.9 percent.

The first ordinance means that property owners will have to pay $1.55 for every $1,000 of assessed value.

Now according to my math, that means that a property valued at $100,000 would

pay an additional $155.

Property valued at $200,000 would be an increase of $310, and a $300,000 would be $465 more in taxes… and so forth. In the same article, it states that this will happen even though our overall property values are dropping. And, as if to add insult to injury, this same paper ran an article stating that the city council had also decided to impose a vehicle fee for every resident within the city limits, of $20 per vehicle.

So, for all you folks out

there with kids who are living at home and have their own cars, do the math. This all adds up – to too much.

What a “privilege” to live within a city limits with a governing body that can’t manage their own finances, and feel it is within their “right” to pass those mistakes on to the residents.

Shame on you!!!

At the same time, the city’s new construction has increased by 116 percent, from $26.6 million to $57.5 million.

Another article quoted

City Manager, David Johnston who said, “We’re here to attract jobs, and because we don’t know what businesses would be interested in locating here, you provide a certain amount of latitude.”

What does that mean?

What kind of latitude? Like the 100 foot building OK

on the re-zoning for the Brandt Property?

So, as a resident, I can hardly wait to see what more lousy ideas our city government thinks up, so the rest of us can continue to pay, and pay, for their errors.

Judy Hines Maple Valley

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Maple Valley Parks and Recreation’s coed volleyball league will be held 6-10 p.m. on Friday nights at Tahoma Jr. High This league is complete with referees, championship t-shirts, post-season playoffs and team trophies.

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Zoe Krambule practices on the balance beam at Kentwood. Krambule has been doing gymnastics since she was 3. Tj Martinell, The Reporter

It’s a tale of two gymnasts at Kentwood High.

For junior Zoe Krambule, this is the 11th year in gymnastics, a sport she began at 3. With junior Tessa Carlin, it’s about the only sport she hasn’t tried out.

Krambule and Carlin are an example of the variety of ability and experience Ann Diaz, the girls’ coach, believes could perform well at districts and state this year.

“We have a lot more people with skills so we can go further as a team,” Krambule said. “We bonded a lot last year and I think it helped to support everyone.”

Krambule started out the season well. Although she competes in all four events, she has found immediate success on the bars, with a first place at the Dec. 19 meet against Auburn Riverside and Kentridge. It’s also, not surprisingly, her favorite event.

“I like how you feel like you’re flying on it,” Krambule said.

Krambule’s mother decided to channel her daughter’s natural flexibility through gymnastics classes after finding Krambule climbing all over the shelves as a toddler. Krambule

Opposites in the Kentwood gymnastics room evidence of team’s potential continued to participate at a local gym until 2009, when the four and half hour a day practices got to her.

“I kind of got tired of it,” she said.

After a two year hiatus, however, Krambule joined Kentwood’s team as a freshmen, where she found the atmosphere to be less competitive.

“It’s more fun to do,” she said. “They (club) put more stress to get higher scores and be the best.”

At 4-foot-11, Krambule’s diminutive stature is an advantage in the world of gymnastics.

“It’s the one place you can be small and it’s OK for the sport,” she said.

In many respects, Carlin could hardly be more different in terms of her background. Above average height for a gymnast, this is her first time ever participating in gymnastics, one of the few sports she has yet to try. In addition to running for the Conquerors’ cross country team and long distance for the track team, she competed in football in middle school in addition to rugby, and played basketball before deciding to try gymnastics.

Carlin said what got her interested in gymnastics was the desire to become

more flexible, which would help improve her running.

What struck her at first was how difficult it was to not only pull off some of the complicated and difficult acrobatic movements, and also look graceful while doing so.

“I had no idea how hard it is to be pretty and elegant and how buff you have to be,” Carlin said.

She said at first she tried to imitate other gymnasts until one of the captains explained to her the need to master the skills.

“They said to learn it, look ugly, and then make it look pretty and elegant,” she said.

Another obstacle to clear was a natural fear of injury while practicing backflips and somersaults.

“For the first two weeks I wouldn’t vault without one of the coaches there,” she said.

Fortunately for Carlin, she said she found her niche in the vault, which she attributes to her running background. Although Carlin has yet to compete at a meet, Diaz said she has high hopes for Carlin.

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Tahoma rushed out to a 15-6 lead in the first quarter and took a 27-18 lead into the locker room at halftime.

The Bears then held the Lions to five points in the third quarter while putting up 14.

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10 and Ethan McCormack chipped in eight and Paul Loranger added seven.

Tahoma coach Brian Davis wrote in an online conversation that the win was significant because Lynden, which is a 2A school, has a tradition of championships, so to “play well against them is exciting.”

“Plus it is a great game to see where we are at in the growth of our team,” Davis wrote. “To be a program of significance you have to play those programs and compete at a high level. We did that.”

This game was a good way for Tahoma to stay sharp over winter break before South Puget Sound League 4A North play begins again.

“It was a game where we really executed a game plan against a very physical team,” Davis wrote. “Plus we were especially efficient offensively and played tremendous defense.”

Tahoma will travel to Kentridge with tipoff slated for 7:30 p.m. Jan. 3 to start league play again. The Bears will wrap up winter break with a tournament at Bothell High Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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In some ways, there is a sense of de ja vu to the South Puget Sound League North girls basketball season.

Mount Rainier is atop the standings, led by standout Brittany McPhee who regularly scores 30 or more points, while Kentwood and Auburn Riverside are in a battle for second place.

Last season, Kentwood won that second spot while Mount Rainier finished the league season undefeated.

Not much has changed on Kentwood’s roster. What is different at the start of this season is a spate of illness and injuries have hampered the Conquerors.

Still, the Conks beat the Ravens, 38-36 Dec. 15 on the road, then put together a 63-31 victory over Kent-Meridian Dec. 18 to improve to 5-1 in league play heading into winter break, putting Kentwood in second place behind Mount Rainier. That lone loss came against Mount Rainier Dec. 13 which seniors Kylee Ashley and Allison Newcomb both say won’t be repeated when the two teams play again Jan. 19 at Kentwood.

Newcomb, who took

comb added, she enjoys the chance to watch the girls on the team because they are so talented on the floor.

“We have a lot of talent of all different ages,” Newcomb said. “If everyone is healthy … I think we’ll be unstoppable. I’m really excited about this year and the talent we have.”

Both Newcomb and Ashley said the plan is to make it to the playoffs with the ultimate goal to get to the state tournament at the Tacoma Dome in March.

“We are planning on making it to districts and we’ve talked about that,” Newcomb said. “This year I think we’ll make it to state.

After losing two games I think we realized we’re not hot shots. We have things to work on.”

This is one area where Kentwood doesn’t want this season to be like last, Jackson eliminated the Conks in the regional round of the state tournament — just one win away from Elite Eight.

Once Kentwood gets healthy, the sense of de ja vu could go away in March.

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While the injuries did make the game against the two years off after playing Rams a challenge, Ashvarsity as a freshman to ley said, the Conks have focus on softball, explained learned a lot about themthat Mount Rainier had exselves as a team. Everyone pected to thump Kentwood can shoot, she said, and the by 50 points. Instead, it was team is balanced. a 27 point loss, something “And there’s chemistry,” both seniors expect to Ashley said. “The juniors change next time. have played together a long “We’re always excited to time. And we just click as a play Mount Rainier,” Ashley team.” said. “They’re an outstandNewcomb said that offing team. I’ve court chemistry heard their coach “Our biggest makes it easier to say they like play- strength is we all work together on ing us because we get along. When the court. give them some we’re playing, we “Girls sports, competition.” trust each other. it can be hard,” Ashley, a post We don’t take it Newcomb said. player who stands wrong if we get on “Our biggest at 6 feet tall, strength is we all each other. This is said teams may get along. When a great team.

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It’s so much fun.” this point in the We don’t take it Allison Newcomb season because wrong if we get they’ve played on each other. without key juThis is a great team. I love niors such as Sarah Toeaina the locker room. It’s so and Alycha DeLong, which much fun.” has required reserve playEven though Newcomb ers have stepped up when is recovering from pancreanormally they’ve come off titis and has missed three the bench. or four games, she wouldn’t “We’re just focused on trade the experience for getting our bench ready,” anything. She hoped to get Ashley said. “We need to the go-ahead soon from her just keep working hard doctor to get back on the and stay focused and play court. our game. Just because we Talent, she said, is have Alycha out, she is a another major strength of huge part of our team, but this year’s team. Even when it helps us, too. We have to she’s not playing, New-

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Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on December 28, 2012 #719977 CITY OF BLACK DIAMOND, WASHINGTON CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCES ADOPTED On December 20, 2012 the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, Washington adopted the following ordinances: ORDINANCE NO. 12-985 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, adding a new section to the Black Diamond Municipal Code regarding compensation of the City Council; providing for severability; and establishing an effective date.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-986 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, amending the City of Black Diamond Comprehensive Plan; providing for severability; and establishing an effective date.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-987 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to the establishment of office hours, as required by the Revised Code of Washington, 35A.21.070, and establishing an effective date.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-988 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to utility taxes; increasing the utility tax rate for cable services from one percent to six percent; providing for a referendum petition; providing for severability; establishing an effective date; and providing for suspension of the effect of the ordinance.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-989 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to utility taxes; increasing the utility tax rate for stormwater from six percent to twelve percent for year 2013 and from twelve percent to 18 percent for year 2014 and thereafter; providing for a referendum petition; providing for severability; and establishing an effective date; and providing for suspension of the effect of the ordinance.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-990 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to stormwater utility rates; amending section 14.02.110 of the Black Diamond Municipal Code; implementing a monthly rate increase of one dollar per ERU in 2013 and one dollar Per ERU in 2014; providing for severability; establishing an effective date.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-991 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to special event permits; amending section 2.59.050 of the Black Diamond Municipal Code; authorizing special events permit fees to be set by resolution; providing for severability; and establishing an effective date.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-992 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, amending Black Diamond Municipal Code 10.04.100 relating to payment of parking fee or annual pass; and establishing an effective date.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-993 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, amending the budget for calendar year 2012 as adopted by

Ordinance 11-972, 12-975 and 12-976 by means of appropriations, adjustments and transfers within various funds in accounts in the 2012 budget.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-994 An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, adopting the budget for calendar year 2013.

Copies of the ordinances are available for review at City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, on the City’s website www.ci.blackdiamond.wa.us, or by contacting Brenda L. Martinez, City Clerk, at 360-886-5700.

Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on December 28, 2012. #721552

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CITY OF COVINGTON NOTICES CITY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2013 – 7:00 PM NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Chapter 35A.63.220 of the Revised Code of Washington the Covington City Council will a hold a public hearing on a proposed ordinance which establishes a six-month extension on a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries, production and processing facilities, and collective gardens, at its regular meeting on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., to be held in the Council Chambers at Covington City Hall, 16720 S.E. 271st Street, Covington, Washington.

The purpose of this public hearing is for the City Council to receive comments from the public, both written and oral, regarding a proposed ordinance extending the current moratorium within the City of Covington on the establishment, location, operation, licensing, maintenance, or continuation of medical marijuana dispensaries, production facilities, processing facilities, and collective gardens.

All persons desiring to comment may do so in writing to Sharon Scott, City Clerk, at 16720 SE 271st Street, Suite 100, Covington, Washington, 98042 or by appearing at the public hearing on January 8, 2013.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that agenda information will be posted the Friday prior to the above meeting at Covington City Hall, and on the City’s web site: www.covingtonwa.gov. For further information, please contact Richard Hart, Community Development Director at rhart@covingtonwa.gov or by phone at 253-480-2441.

Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on December 21, 2012. #720525.

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