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The city of Covington has partnered with the continuing education department at Green River Community College to offer a variety of classes for residents. The partnership came about in response to a desire from the community and as part of the city’s long term vision, Derek Matheson, city manager of Covington, said. “In our first dozen years or so we focused on building a tax base,” Matheson said. “Around ‘03 the City Council decided it wanted to spend the next dozen or so years creating a sense of place.” As part of the town center plan that was adopted by the council there is a vision for an increased education presence, with a 2 or 4 year college present in the town
Tahoma School District officials are on the hunt again for a place to build a new Tahoma High School after efforts to buy property in the donut hole from King County fell through earlier this month. The decision was made to discontinue negotiations Feb. 1, according to Tahoma Superintendent Mike Maryanski. “The difference between what we’re willing to pay and the county’s needs for that property is too great,” Maryanski said. “It was a complicated process because it’s not a surplus piece of property.” The donut hole is 156 acres of county-owned property located off Southeast Kent-Kangley Road and 228th Street Southeast — and is designated rural and unincorporated yet is wholly surrounded
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Tahoma High students work to be waste free BY KATHERINE SMITH ksmith@maplevalleyreporter.com
The Tahoma School District launched a Waste Free Wednesday program Feb. 6 led by each school’s sustainability ambassadors. Waste Free Wednesdays are a district-wide effort to eliminate waste from lunch by encouraging students to bring their lunch in reusable containers instead of plastic bags and by recycling and
composting. Tahoma High started a composting program during the last school year to help keep waste out of local landfills. “We’ve been doing a lot of outreach to inform, especially with the composting,” Cassandra Houghton, a senior at Tahoma High and president of the sustainability ambassadors, said. “In doing the outreach we thought we should do a day, a couple of
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schools were already doing it and we decided to have a district-wide day.” The ambassadors will promote the program and each month will hold a raffle with prizes that will include gift cards to local restaurants and stores, Houghton said. The kick off included games during lunches where students competed against one another to see who could sort a pile of typical lunchtime trash into the appropriate categories – compost, recycling or garbage – and a booth to inform students about the benefits of going waste free. “We’re trying to keep as much [ more WASTE page 5 ]
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Jordan Hays performs with the school’s drumline after the boys basketball team Drumming Up Tahoma’s played Curtis in the South Puget Sound League championship game Feb. 7 at ShoWare Center in Kent. The drumline performed before the game as well as during halftime. To at ShoWare view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com
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ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE COMING TO MAPLE VALLEY Blake Williams and Ryan Medford, owners of the Original Pancake House in Puyallup announced last week they plan to open a second location in the Four Corners Shopping Center of Maple Valley. The OPH has become a staple for central Pierce County, offering high-quality, made from scratch breakfasts. The menu includes twenty from scratch pancakes, freshly squeezed orange juice, quarter-inch thick bacon, and oven-baked omelets. Construction is underway and doors are tentatively set to open in April.
Functionality and variety focus at Crossfit MV BY KATHERINE SMITH ksmith@maplevalleyreporter.com
Crossfit Maple Valley is far from a traditional gym. “Your first thought when you come in is, ‘What am I going to do? There’s no treadmill,’� Debby Bartsch said, who works out at Crossfit MV. A lack of traditional cardio equipment like treadmills and stationary bikes is exactly what Crossfit is about. “It’s very industrial, it’s not fancy,� Kari Gordon, coach and owner of the gym, said. “You make do with what you have; it’s very adaptable and it’s very functional.� The gym itself is referred to as a box and the equipment is basic — weights, barbells, tires, rings and pull-up bars line the edges of the rectangular space. Daily workouts are posted
on a whiteboard and the open gym format allows for patrons to come and go and workout at their own pace. It was the differences in Crossfit that originally interested Bartsch when she started coming two and a half years ago. “I started coming and was very out of shape,� Bartsch said. “You can incrementally increase and you can keep challenging yourself.� Bartsch was also drawn to the community aspect of the gym. It (Crossfit) is different in like we’re like family and encourage each other,� Bartsch said. Cynthia McClelland, who also works out at Crossfit, had been struggling to find a workout routine that didn’t leave her in pain when she came to Crossfit. “The attitude is, ‘lets not focus on what you can’t do,
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lets figure out what you can do,’� McClelland said. For McClelland, the difference was in Gordon’s commitment to work with McClelland through injuries by adapting workouts. “If your body has any weaknesses Crossfit will bring them out,� McClelland said. “The key is knowing where you’re at — the improvements blow your mind.� Gordon and her husband, Eric, started the gym in 2010. Kari has a background in the fitness industry and a degree in nutrition and exercise science. Eric was introduced to Crossfit while serving overseas and after he came home Kari started working it into her workout routine as well. The focus of Crossfit is general physical conditioning and considering the entire body system, Kari said.
“You see results and it’s engaging and stimulating and fun,� Kari said. “We were talking one night and I said, ‘it would be fun to open a Crossfit gym.’� One of the hallmarks of Crossfit is that the workouts change every day. The workouts are posted online for free — it’s the community and coaching that brings people to the gym. “Every day you come in it’s different,� Kari said. “I think that’s what keeps people coming back, it doesn’t get boring.� One common misconception about Crossfit, Kari said, is that people believe you have to be a certain kind of athlete to come there. “There’s a little bit of everything here and all walks of life.� Kari said. “Every box is different, every one has its own flavor.� Kari said her focus is
dents to design a wildlife crossing over Interstate 90. The crossing should be similar to the structure already designed and scheduled to be built in 2015 near the Price Noble Creek Sno-Park. The scholarship application needs to include a model, blueprint or graphic of a wildlife crossing over a new six-lane highway and an essay explaining how the model demonstrates the importance of wildlife crossings within the I-90
working with each athlete who comes to the gym to maintain the integrity of the exercises, then working to where the athlete is at and increasing the intensity from there. “It (Crossfit) teaches you a lot about yourself,� Kari said. “You can push through and finish things you didn’t think you would finish.� Bartsch agreed that was true for her as she reflected on where she was when she started at Crossfit and where she is today. “I can do things I didn’t think I could do,� Bartsch said.
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CORRECTION In the Feb. 8 story “Maple Valley Fire puts levy to the voters� it was incorrectly reported that the district operates with a minimum of 10 firefighters per station. According to information provided by Maple Valley Fire the district currently operates with a minimum of 10 firefighers district-wide. The Reporter regrets the error.
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Learn strategies to cope with mental health disorders BY KRIS HILL khill@covingtonreporter.com
The statistics are startling: one in four Americans experience mental health disorders each year and every 14 minutes someone commits suicide in the United States according to information provided by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare. Sandy Tudor, a licensed mental health counselor associate, wants to teach people how to help others deal with a variety of mental health issues through a two-day Mental Health First Aid workshop developed by the national council. Tudor, a Covington resident, has a unique perspective on mental health disorders, having served for 22 years in law enforcement. She resigned from the Federal Way Police Department in late October with the rank of lieutenant. She first took the training while working for Federal Way Police so she could become a certified mental
health first aid trainer in order to offer the workshops to her fellow officers. “I had an interest in training officers ‌ because we deal with mental health (issues) all the time,â€? Tudor said. “I thought the class was amazing, something that was sorely needed, to give basic literacy in mental health. It helps teach people about the basics, as laymen, not as professional mental health care providers, how to deal with someone who is experiencing mental health issues and does not know what to do.â€? Tudor, who earned a master’s degree in counseling from Northwest University, is passionate about helping people understand the realm of mental health disorders in order to create understanding and reduce fear. “An important component about mental first aid is to de-stigmatize mental health issues,â€? Tudor said. “We are a lot more likely to admit we have high blood pressure or diabetes than depression or anxiety. The average length of time it
takes for someone to get healthy treatment is eight to 10 years for things like depression or anxiety, eight to 10 years of someone basically suffering ... before you get help.� Tudor sought a venue in the area to offer the workshop for some time now. When she found the community room at Covington City Hall it offered the right environment for a reasonable price. It also made sense because she lives in Covington. The workshop is scheduled for two sessions, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., March 8 and 9. It costs $99, which covers the rental of the space, the materials for the course and includes a workbook with information, resources and more. “I’ve been trying to get this rolling for the last year, but because it’s 12 hours, a lot of people resist it a little bit,� Tudor said. “People are always excited about it, it’s so needed, but it’s hard to take 12 hours to do it.� Given the larger national conversation underway following the shooting
rampages in December in Sandy Hook, Conn., and Portland, Ore., among others, the timing is appropriate. Tudor explained that the training program is part of President Barack Obama’s Now Is The Time plan for safe schools and communities. The training sessions will cover a number of topics including depression and suicide prevention, anxiety disorders such as post traumatic stress disorder and eating disorders. “The class is interactive, highly interactive, it’s not all lecture. It’s maybe 40 to 50 percent lecture,� Tudor said. “There’s group work. It’s fun — there’s videos, there’s role play. There’s just a lot of interesting exercises that we use which cater to a lot of learning styles.� Tudor said she hopes those who participate can walk away armed with knowledge and tools. The workbook participants receive provides an action plan with an acronym that offers steps to follow. “My hope is that they’re equipped to handle helping
someone who is having a mental health crisis, to be able to recognize mental health issues in themselves and others,� Tudor said. “I really think it will save lives because mental health issues affect a person’s emotions, thoughts and behaviors, and when you’ve got a mental health issue it seriously affects your ability to live a normal life, your ability to work, your ability to learn and your ability to have satisfying relationships. I hope people walk away knowing there is recovery, there is help out there.� Ultimately, as someone who offers help in practice at Cedar River Counseling in Renton, it is about helping others learn what she knows. “The purpose of me doing this — for me, it’s my heart, it’s my way of giving back to the community by doing this,� she said. “I just really believe in it.� For more information contact Tudor at 206-9140426, sandyetudor@gmail. com or visit www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org.
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Local coalitions, will they rise? The best part of post-election politics is watching the reforming of coalitions and groups of political thinkers. Win or lose, the great political animal called coalitions chops off one part, adds another and rises from the ashes reborn. This happens at all levels and all politics is local, whether national or next door. The Republican Party is the most intriguing to follow now because the scramble is on to find the center of power and, of course, the money. Many Democrats would like to give them the 10 count. Be careful boys, that way lies madness. My political handicapping centers on figuring out coalitions and whether the groups are rising or falling. They are always doing one or the other. Stasis is not an option. The national Republican Party is getting more press, partly because it is entertaining for TV news, the other reality show, and partly because there truly is a mad scramble for the money to fund campaigns. Without money, campaigns don’t flutter and robo calls aren’t made, which means more losing and more guys with kielbasa heads ranting on the tube election night. The more interesting, but less watched, are the local coalitions that form in local communities. These groups can start with just a few and grow into a force. Black Diamond provides a good example. A number of different groups have formed and reformed into coalitions mainly around the issue of support or fighting against the YarrowBay development. A coalition based on the fight against YarrowBay formed and successfully backed candidates during the 2011 council races, sweeping three Dennis Box Editor
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into office. But that coalition did not hold when a change-of-government proposition went to the ballot and failed in November. I suspect because it was really seen as a backdoor recall of the mayor. Change-of-government measures nearly always fail due to the real reason they are taken to the public, which is seldom to really change the form of government and usually to change the government — rather than waiting for another election season. Those darn, pesky rules. Coalitions are already taking shape in Black Diamond with the mayor’s seat and three council members up for election in November. This is the bread-and-butter of local politics and democracy — both fascinating and fun to observe. Win or lose, the coalitions make the system work — sometimes for the better. There are times when lines are crossed and behavior gets boorish or worse. That is why we
call it politics and not sponge Yahtzee. Another series of races to watch are in Enumclaw. There are four council seats and the mayor’s post up for grabs. Coalitions are less easily defined in Enumclaw, but they are there. Enumclaw does not have the white elephant sitting on the coffee table like some communities, but give it time. Bonney Lake has three council seats and the mayor’s chair on the next general election ballot. Since the days when I first started with the Bonney Lake Courier-Herald, the city has become a model of democratic functioning. Back in 2003, Bonney Lake and Covington were like Dodge City without the funny hats. Now, both are the most settled municipal governments around the region. Funny how things change. One year the guns are blazing and the next it’s Kumbaya‌ American politics, national or next door. The general election is Nov. 5
fortune. This brings us to the second part of the Chinese calendar - the introduction of 12 zodiac animals. Legend has it that Buddha invited all the animals to meet with him. When twelve came, he named a year after each one of them. He proclaimed those born in that year, and each subsequent 12 year period, would have some of the characteristics of that animal’s personality. Feb. 10 began the Chinese year of the snake, and specifically this year – 2013 - is devoted to the water snake. Perhaps if you were born in a year of the snake, you might see some of the characteristics attributed to the snake in yourself — intelligent, materialistic, analytical, insightful, gracious but private, stressed when lives aren’t peaceful and in order. When online researching these characteristics, I found one that caught my eye: Women, under the sign of the snake, do well in housework, but are irritable. That’s when I realized there might be a little bit of snake in me. To be sure, trying to understand the origins of the traditional Chinese calendar is challenging. But I do understand two Chinese traditions – Chinese food and fortune cookies. Did you know that eating Chinese food makes you smart? I discovered this by watching crime dramas on television. It seems every
time the detectives have to work late, they are eating Chinese food. And, not long after, they solve the crime. From this I deduced that eating Chinese food helps sharpen your deductive powers. Although the actual origin of the Chinese fortune cookie is blurred, we all look with anticipation for its words of wisdom about our good luck. It’s reassuring that someone in a factory that makes 60 million fortune cookies a month can predict my future. Nowadays the messages are mixed – sometimes a prediction, sometimes an inspirational message, and sometimes a row of six numbers. More than 20 years ago I bought into those numbers and have played them faithfully ever since in each and every lotto game. But the fortune cookie holds a big secret. It doesn’t say “when� your good fortune will come. I’m waiting on that other fortune cookie that has the date on it – hoping it’s not the year 4711, based on the Gregorian calendar currently in use today. I want to wish our Chinese community every good fortune for their new year and if I was to give them a fortune cookie, it would read, “Plan for many pleasures ahead.�
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It is the year 4711 according to the Chinese. Although they are thousands of years ahead of us, it somehow still looks and feels a lot like today. The origin of the Chinese calendar contains two parts. The first part is a lunar-solar calendar based on astrological observations going back to the 14th century. It is further complicated by the beginning and end of emperor dynasties, adding an additional month, and conquering a mythical lion-like monster called Nian, a Chinese word for year. Although the Gregorian calendar (used by Western Europeans and now across the world) was introduced to the Chinese as early as 1582, they resisted using it until it was officially adopted by them in 1949. But even today, the Chinese community still embraces the traditional Chinese calendar, rich in its astrology, numerology and zodiac signs to determine festival dates and guidance for the future so as to obtain favor and
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Community News and Notes Cedar Heights Middle School’s PTSA members are searching for students to participate in its inaugural spelling bee. The PTSA will host the competition March 2 for students in fourth through sixth grade. There is no cost to participate. Students must register in advance and registration is limited to the first 65 students in each grade. The deadline is Feb. 25. Register by sending the student’s name, phone and email address as well as school, grade and teacher to chms.spellingbee@gmail.com. Grade level bee-offs begin at 9 a.m. with the finals set to start at 10:15 a.m. The overall winner of the spelling bee will take home a Kindle Fire tablet and will advance to the regional Scripps Spelling Bee set for March 24 in Seattle. In addition to this being an educational event for students, it is a fundraiser for the Cedar Heights PTSA, with money raised going to support the school’s language arts programs. More information, including spelling lists and rules, can be found on the PTSA’s website at www.cedarheightsptsa.org/spellingbee.
FIRE DISTRICT 44 BOARD CONSIDERING LEVY Loss of revenue has required the Board of Fire Commissioners for Fire District 44 to take steps to reduce the budget for the district. The Board is considering placing a levy on the April ballot to help raise additional revenue. The recession beginning in 2008 has reduced
revenues available to operate the district over the last five years. “We have seen a loss of $1.2 million over the ROCK CREEK PTSA last several years, seeing another reduction for COLLECTING BOX TOPS 2013 of $283,686,� said Chief Smith. “We have reduced the budget and augmented operaRock Creek Elementary is currently in the runtions through the use of emergency operating ning for a national contest from General Mills, funds, reduced our support and admin staff The Sweetest School in America. by five positions and not replaced a vacant The winner of this contest will be the school firefighter position. It has gotten to the point that increases it clippings the largest percentthat we will be required to make some signifiage from last year. The school is currently at cant reductions and these will impact a more than 700 percent increase over our ability to provide emergency last year. services, these are cuts we have The winning school will earn a AROUND tried to fend off, this is our mission bonus $25,000. The PTSA will be we are talking about, what we are using this money to continue to fund here for.� PTSA projects, which included some The proposed levy would not replace new playground equipment. the loss seen over the last several years, The school is seeking help from all families in but would provide enough funding to prevent the community to help achieve this goal. Box further cuts that would include reductions in Tops may be turned in to the Rock Creek office career firefighters or closing of fire stations. through Feb. 25. “We see this as an opportunity for the citizens to let us know what level of fire and STUDENTS 6-15 CAN ENTER emergency medical services they want,� said SPRING FAIR CONTESTS Commissioner Farrell. “We want to hear from the public first, before we make more serious Students 6-15 can enter their work in the reductions to the budget that will affect our Creative Kids Exhibit at the Spring Fair in ability to provide emergency services, we Puyallup. don’t want to institute critical reductions withEntires must be registered by Monday, April 8 out asking the public. We have not increased at 10 p.m. and delivered between noon and 7 wages for chiefs, staff and support personnel p.m. on April 11 and 12. for several years, the Chief and Deputy Chief have turned down wage increases prior to this. Winning entries will be on display at the fair We all hoped that things would improve, but it April 18 through April 21. has been just the opposite.� Creative Kids Exhibit includes seven categories: The Board of Fire Commissioners will be taking art, baking & confections, creative writing, final action to decide on the levy at the Feb. paper crafts and scrapbooking, photography, 26 meeting. textiles, and an egg drop contest.
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tional options. Among those surveyed, there was an interest in a wide variety of classes and more than half of the participants indicated an interest in cooking and health and fitness classes. Other areas of particular interest that were indicated were computers/technology and arts. “It’s going really well,�
Bob Embrey, director for corporate and continuing education at Green River, said. “We hope to bring more programs in as there is demand.� The partnership with Covington is a pilot program for Green River, which has multiple cam-
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HOME SECURITY TIPS FROM THE MV POLICE DEPARTMENT There are some simple steps you can take that will help an officer or detective possibly retrieve your valuables. Engraving your valuables with the number on your driver’s license will help in identifying you as the owner. Engraving may also deter a thief from choosing to steal your belongings because they are more identifiable. Even if your belongings have a serial number already, engraving them will ease identifying you as owner. The department has an engraver it will loan to community members. Give us a call and if it’s not already checked out, you are welcome to borrow it. Make a list and take pictures of your valuables. Make several copies of your list and store them in two or more secure locations. You can also create your list electronically and email it to yourself. Include a full description of the item including color, make, model, year of manufacture, and any other identifiers, including any engraving. There are several home inventory software programs available online, some are even free.
“They (ambassadors) weren’t trying to make us into tree huggers,� Jackson said. “They have good, reasonable tips.�
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center, Matheson said. “We need to take some baby steps,� said Matheson. The first of those steps have now been realized in starting the continuing education courses. The city, chamber of commerce and Green River conducted a survey last summer that reinforced the desire by residents for more educa-
In addition to Waste Free Wednesdays, this year the sustainability ambassadors at Tahoma High are working towards helping the school achieve level three of the King County Green Schools program. Level three focuses on water conservation and pollution prevention. “It (the program) encourages schools to be waste free,� Houghton said. Houghton said she got involved with the
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Students who submit an entry or entries will receive a free gate admission ticket to the Spring Fair at the time of entry submission. This year’s Creative Kids Fastest Fingers Knitting Contest is slated for Sunday, April 21 at 1 p.m. Entrants may sign up on April 11 or 12 if they are bringing in other entries, or by noon on Sunday, April 21. Contestants will cast on and knit for 15 minutes in the garter stitch (knit every row). The contestant who has knitted the most stitches in the time allotted is the winner. Pacific Fabrics & Crafts will provide first, second and third place prizes in each age division. The Creative Kids Showcase presentation will be held on Sunday, April 21 at noon in the Pavilion. Students who enter their creative writing on April 11 or 12 can sign up to read their written work to the audience at the Showcase on Sunday. The Egg Drop Contest displays the containers in KidZone throughout the Spring Fair. Each must be a one egg container that will allow a raw chicken egg to survive, whole and unscrambled, when dropped from a height of 12 and 16 feet or higher. Students must arrive by 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 21 to put the egg into their containers for the 3 p.m. event. Prizes for the three highest eggs dropped in each division will be awarded, which include Washington State Fair gate tickets and rides this September. Specific rules and entry information for all events is available online at www.thefair.com. For further information about the April 1821 Spring Fair in Puyallup, or the Sept. 6-21 Washington State Fair, visit www.thefair.com, or text “FAIR� to 87767.
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[6] February 15, 2013 [ TAHOMA from page 1] by the city of Maple Valley. It is home to nine holes of Elk Run Golf Course, a 13acre county transportation maintenance facility and a large stand of trees. Two factors played into the start of the conversation regarding building a high school in the donut hole. First was the failure of the district’s construction bond measure in April 2011. Second, a few months later, county officials began an effort to change the policy on school construction outside of the urban growth boundary. Tahoma Junior High is outside the urban growth boundary but was built because a tight line sewer system was put in to serve the school — and only the school. As district officials began evaluating the impacts of the bond failure and the proposed change to county policy, a whole host of creative, out of the box ideas emerged. While Maryanski was serving on a rural school siting task force in 2011 he planted one of those ideas — a land swap between the district and the county. The swap would have exchanged the district’s 30 or so acres next to the junior high for land inside the donut hole.
It would have allowed the district to build a brand new high school that would accomplish a number of things such as addressing overcrowded classrooms and high use of portables while also helping TSD work on its new initiative to help students become not just ready for college but ready for the future, whatever that holds for them after high school. Eventually the land swap idea didn’t seem to be mutually acceptable, so, the two parties began discussing dollar amounts for a purchase of the property the school district would need. Maryanski said the county staff were collaborative and helpful but what complicated the process was the fact the county’s roads division owns the property and continues to operate on the site. “What the county needs to get in the sale of the property, which created a difference between what we’re wanting and willing to pay ‌ that’s too great, that difference, so we mutually agreed that we need to move forward in a different way,â€? Maryanski said. “So, that’s behind us now. It doesn’t change the vision or the concept, it just changes where the vision will come alive.â€?
That concept, which has emerged as a more refined and definite vision through conversations both within the school system and the community, is of a regional learning center, Maryanski said. It would fit with the vision of Tahoma’s Future Ready initiative as well as efforts to provide more than just a high school diploma to teenagers in the district. “We’ve been engaging with folks in industry to ensure that our young people are ready for careers, not just for college,� Maryanksi said. “We’re working with the folks from Renton Technical and Green River so that they can leave high school with an AA. The vision that’s coming alive in the community is living wage jobs.� As the vision moves forward, the district is also collaborating with the city of Maple Valley, the Greater Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce and the private sector. In the meantime, a group of community members and district staff are evaluating how to align grade levels in existing buildings with a new high school which would serve grades nine through 12. Currently the high school is 10th through 12th with a junior high for eighth and ninth
graders. One element of the county’s process to change its policies for the siting of rural schools did come out in Tahoma’s favor: if the district needs to build on the land it owns next to Tahoma Junior High, it can, however that is not ideal. “While all those decision are being made we need to step back and look at where we can site a new high school,â€? Maryanski said. “That’s a conversation we are going to have now. It (the land next to the junior high) is a nice piece of property outside of the urban growth boundary that we would like to not develop ‌ it’s a two lane road that feeds into a two lane road and we’re talking about a comprehensive high school with grades nine through 12 with a lot of kids and a lot of adults.â€? The district needs to make some decisions and do something to manage the issues of overcrowding. Tahoma has to find room for students. At this point, the best way to do that appears to be to build a new high school, which would alleviate capacity issues from the top down. “We’re feeling a heightened sense of urgency now that we couldn’t move forward with the county,â€? Maryanski said. “We’re
crowded, we’re full. We don’t have a lot of choice.� Projections for student growth mean there is no time to waste. The three largest elementary schools in the state are in the Tahoma School District — Lake Wilderness Elementary has about 1,100 students right now. Maryanski said district staff will look at every option available for a high school site within the urban growth boundary. “Once we make a decision on where to site a new high school we would move forward on a bond date and a dollar amount,� Maryanski said. “We’re working backwards, our hope is to have a bond measure ready to go by November.� This time, the superintendent said, the pitch for a construction bond measure will look different. The April 2011 bond asked for $120 million to build a new Lake Wilderness Elementary, refurbish a number of schools, add on to the junior high and high school, as well as cover maintenance needs. “It will be a vision that comes alive as opposed to our previous bond measure. The driver was how do we create space for kids,� Maryanski said. “If you could have one of your schools truly driven by a
vision it would be your high school, that’s the direction we’re going right now.� A decision the Tahoma School Board will need to reach in the very near future is how to house students at other grade levels. The board received a report Tuesday night at its meeting that covered a half dozen options. Meanwhile, Maryanski said, district staff have gotten feedback from community members that the concept of a high school that could serve as a regional learning center is resonating in a way the proposed construction in the 2011 bond measure did not. “We have people coming forward who, when they hear the concept, say, ‘What can I do and how can I help,’� Maryanski said. “We’re engaging in conversation that we didn’t initiate, that we didn’t have the last time.That’s not the normal experience we have with a bond measure — if that’s an indicator, then that’s a positive one for us.�
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Time to plant Hellebores and bare root roses that the crown or joint where the roots meet the top growth is slightly above ground level. Strawberry plants will rot if planted too deep. Spring-Blooming Bulbs: Mini daffodils, hyacinths, cyclamen and even tulips are available already sprouting and ready to pop into your beds or containers for instant spring color. If these bulbs are sold in plastic pots you can just leave them in those containers and bury it pot and all into the soil or cover the rim of the pot with moss or soil when set into a container. Then when the flowers have faded it will be easy to remove the plants, pot and all and replace with
summer annual color. My favorite for February color are the dwarf daffodils with their long bloom time and ability to return year after year. The secret is to uproot the bulbs when they are done flowering and pull them apart before quickly replanting the daffodils, fading foliage and all back into the moist ground. Grow daffodils in a spot where they can remain dry during the summer such as under deciduous trees and shrubs. Learn more about Hellebores at 9 a.m. Saturday at Windmill Gardens in Sumner. Call 253-863-5843 to register or go to www. windmillgarden.com Meet Marianne Binetti
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plant without soil around the roots. This is called “bare root� at the nursery and it often means the rose will be less expensive than the same plant sold later in the year after it has been potted up before being sold. I can promise you a rose garden with less work and more blooms if you chose the “landscape roses� or shrubby rose varieties that have been bred to resist disease and bloom over a long time with little need for pruning. Look for names like “Flower Carpet� Rose, “Home Run� and “Knock Out.� Bare root Strawberries: Both June bearing and the newer ever-bearing strawberry plants are sold bare root or without soil in early spring and these sad-looking, often leafless plants adapt quickly and transplant easily in Western Washington so don’t worry about their lack of leaves. There is an important strawberry planting tip to remember.. Set the new plants into the ground so
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Ferrets by Dr. Julie Brazeau The first time I ever encountered a ferret, I was a teenager visiting my best friend at her house. She wanted to show me her family’s newest pets. Their names were Bert and Ernie, and they were two beautiful sable male ferrets. I had never seen a creature with such an adorable face before. She let them out of their cage, and they started a high stakes, winner-take-all game of tag. They ran. They tumbled. They investigated the inside of my pant leg. They bounced and pounced and tackled, and when it was all said and done they passed out in their hammock. I have met a multitude of ferrets since that time, but the theme is still the same – ferrets are fun loving, trouble seeking, mischief making, always curious, playtil-you drop creatures. Some of them cuddle, and all of them are dynamos. If you are considering making a ferret part of your family, there are a few things you need to keep in mind to ensure the newest member of your family stays healthy. 1. Is it legal to own a ferret where I live? Some states or counties do not allow ferret ownership. If you live in California, for example, it is not legal to own a ferret. Other states that do allow ownership may have certain counties with different regulations, or may require that you have a permit in order to own a ferret. Be sure to check with your local authorities on whether owning a ferret is legal where you live. 2. What should my ferret eat? I recommend feeding your ferret a commercial ferret food. There are several brands available. This comes as a kibble and should be kept available at all times, as should fresh water. I do not recommend feeding your ferret cat food – while some cat foods can meet the protein requirement of a ferret, they will still differ in fiber, fat, and carbohydrate content. Feed the food formulated to meet the nutritional requirements of the species you have.
Avoid sugary and high fiber treats. These can cause diarrhea and dental problems. I recommend sticking with treats that are high in protein, as ferrets are obligate carnivores. Dried chicken chew sticks are an example of an acceptable treat. 3. What type of housing should my ferret have? Ferrets should be housed in a cage whenever they are not supervised. Most ferret cages are metal with multiple levels to facilitate play activities between exercise periods. This cage should have a litter box and a snuggle sack or hammock for sleeping. You need to check all bedding regularly for evidence of chewing – some ferrets will ingest their blankets, which may require surgery to remove. 4. How much exercise do ferrets need? Your ferret will appreciate as much exercise as you have time to supervise them during their play periods. Target at least an hour a day of playtime. Playtime should be done in a ferret-proofed room that is large enough for them to run and explore in. You can put their litterbox in a corner during playtime, as ferrets will often eliminate in corners. Ferret-proofing your play area needs to take into the account the fact that ferrets can fit into ridiculously small spaces and love to investigate things with their mouths, including electrical cords, ear plugs, and socks. Above all you need to ensure that your ferret does not injure themselves with their exhaustive curiousity. 5. What is the average lifespan of a ferret and what type of medical problems do ferrets have? The average lifespan of a ferret is 5-8 years. Ferrets are unfortunately prone to several medical conditions including dental disease, heart disease, adrenal gland tumors, insulin-secreting tumor of the pancreas, and a lymphatic cancer called lymphosarcoma. Some of these conditions can occur in ferrets as young as 1 year of age.
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clip them off now so you can more easily admire the early flowers that emerge from the center of the plant. Check local nurseries early and often for beautiful new varieties available now including the upright-facing blooms of ‘Jacob’ hellebore as well as varieties with silver leaves, and those with yellow, dark purple or even apricot blooms. Hellebores have also been called “The Lenten Rose� because they bloom in early spring during the months before Easter. You can add hellebores to the garden anytime the ground is not frozen — or use the potted plants you find at the nursery to dress up your front porch or patio pots. Bare root Roses: Early spring is when it makes the most sense to add to your rose collection as rose plants will still be dormant and easy to transport and
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The third week of February and it is time to start planting, but not everything can go into the ground. It is still too cold and early to set out annuals, plant most new perennials or to seed a new lawn but you do have the green light to start sprouting pea seedlings indoors and to add bare root roses, fruit trees and shrubs to the landscape. As spring fever heats up there are some plants to seek out now at the nursery or garden center. Hellebores - a perennial for winter bloom. This is one of the most contented perennials for our cool, damp climate and it will even bloom in the shade while naturally resisting slugs, deer and drought due to its’ thick, shiny foliage. If the leaves from last summer are still hanging on your hellebore plants
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A family cannot and does not subsist on bread alone years to realize my kids have rejected it. I put the hot dog buns in the freezer after we were done eating hot dogs. Even after these items were tossed or securely stashed in the freezer, the bread bowl was still overflowing. So this morning, I dug deep into the bowl and found moldy flat bread, crushed taco shells and some other unidentifiable bread-like substance. Now that the bowl pile is manageable, I must figure out where the breakdown — or lack of breakdown due to lack of use — in the bread pile is occurring. My husband has not been making sandwiches and keeps trying to convince me he is by telling me he has sandwiches at work. But what he really has are Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches. He’s being lazy about making a real sandwich for lunch, so he takes three or four breakfast sandwiches with him and eats them for breakfast and lunch. We get in heated arguments over this, because when I accuse him of not making sandwiches for lunch he tells me he has sandwiches already at work. He somehow thinks I think he made extra sandwiches and left them at work, when I know it’s just breakfast sandwiches and what I really want him to do is admit he’s not
making real sandwiches — phew. The point of that last paragraph is that my husband is not utilizing the pile of bread I have on my kitchen counter. But neither are my kids: my oldest has taken to making homemade “lunchables,� which is just lunch meat, cheese and crackers thrown into a plastic container and my youngest has been eating leftover dinner stuff, which is really weird for her and a whole different column. I usually have a piece of toast every morning, but I’m not a fan of sandwiches and since I’m at home and have use of microwaves, stoves, and knives, I don’t need to eat a sandwich every day. So I give up. Today is grocery shopping day and I am not buying any bread. I need to let our stock die out and see what my family is subsisting on before I bring anymore flat carbohydrates into our home. It has become obvious to me that one cannot live on bread alone — at least my family doesn’t.
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ementary. She currently teaches adult and children’s art classes at Lake Wilderness Park through Maple Valley Parks and Recreation. When not playing with her artistic materials, Cathi likes to walk her dogs, hike, ride her bike, and think of creative meals to cook.
This group is your chance to ask for feedback from fellow artists and to give encouraging feedback as well. This group is unique in that we are inviting all different types of artists to come together — painting/drawing, writing, photography, fiber arts, sculpture, etc. Feel free to invite other artists you think would be interested. Please bring in any work that represents where you are as an artist.
the page. She is the director of communications for the MVCAC where she is the Open Mic MC and hosts Third Word Wednesdays for storytelling and spoken word of all kinds. She is also the treasurer of Seattle Freelances, a writing group for authors, publishers and others involved in the literary world. Come join us for a poetry fueled party and good time!
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The next Open Mic will be held on Thursday, Feb. 28 at The Maple Valley Creative Art Center. Come celebrate Valentine’s Day with us! Check-in at 6:30 p.m., performances begin at 7 p.m. EJ’s Catering will be on hand with a tasty buffet menu.
MVCAC is excited to be hosting artist Cathi Christianson. Cathi has been creating art in some form or another for as long as she can remember. She recalls, in grade school, hurrying up and doing her assigned schoolwork so she could spend time on her art - even skipping recess at times. Cathi was an art docent for many years at Rock Creek El-
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CREATIVE COLLABORATION CRITIQUE GROUP Every second Wednesday the MVCAC will be hosting a critique group for artists in the area. This is a great opportunity to connect with other artists from around the Maple Valley. We’ll be meeting at the Maple Valley Creative Arts building at 7 p.m.
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Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She has nothing better to do than contemplate what bread her family will eat. You can also read more of her writing and her daily blog on her website livingwithgleigh.com or on Facebook at “Living with Gleigh.� Her column is available every week at maplevalleyreporter.com under the Lifestyles section.
Malorie Spreen’s first book of poetry “The Underneath and In Between� will be released on Friday, March 29 with a celebration and performance at the Maple Valley Creative Art Center at 7 p.m. A CD will be available as an accompaniment to the book with all poems read by the author. Malorie has been writing poetry for many years and began performing 3 years ago, finding balance between the stage and
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I don’t know why bread is such an issue for my family. I have the hardest time finding a type of bread everyone will eat consistently. Members of my family are not cooperating and I am finished trying to indulge all their different bread habits. At our peak bread time this week we had sandwich rolls, flat bread, whole wheat white, some sort of pumpernickel, taco shells, rice cakes, Dave’s Killer bread and hot dog buns stacked in the bread bowl on the kitchen counter. Needless to say, this didn’t all fit in the bread bowl and even a family of four can’t work their way through that much bread. I noticed the first signs of imminent doom for this pile of carbs in the trash yesterday. The sandwich rolls had gotten moldy — I rescued them for the compost, as I know how difficult it is for members of my family to throw stuff away in the compost when it’s RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TRASH CAN. I also composted the end of a loaf of the whole wheat white bread — it’s such moist bread that by the time I get to the end of the loaf I’m sure there is unseen mold mocking me and eating it seems like a bad idea. I started buying it because it does have fiber in it, but it has taken me two
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Tips on how to enjoy your massage BY EMILY TREAKLE-CHASE
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In order to obtain the wisdom of a “Massage Insider,� you don’t need to The size of your therapist has nothing to do with the type of have experienced hours massage you will receive upon hours of bodywork. Through the training we Before your next receive, all masmassage, help sage therapists yourself relax by learn proper ways considering these to use their own five tips from a body to achieve Licensed Massage your session goals Practitioner at - otherwise known MultiCare MedSpa, Emily Treakle-Chase as body mechanics. with locations in Using our weight, Covington and Gig your weight, and Harbor. some leverage, even the When we say, “Undress to your most petite therapist can comfort level,� we really mean it give deep tissue massage. Therapists and clients can Don’t be dismayed if your all agree: keep nakedness deep tissue therapist only under cover. We practice weighs 100 pounds: that’s clear boundaries and good 100 pounds she can apply draping in order to work to your tight and angry on specific areas and create shoulders. In the same way, comfort for our clients. we are strong enough to lift However, if a client and move your legs, arms is more at ease wearing and head. Often clients will underwear, go for it. Our hold or lift their extremigoal is to make you feel ties for us, this can cause an
Kentwood High Choir Booster Club hosts fundraiser March 16 Kentwood Choir B# Booster Club presents its first annual Spring Vendor Fair on Saturday, March 16 from 11-4 in the main gym at Kentwood. Find something special for Mother’s Day, graduation and wedding gifts, or something special just for yourself! A portion of all sales goes back to the B# Booster Club to support the Kentwood Choirs.
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This is your time, use it wisely Use your massage time in ways that make you happy. When it comes to talking, you are the boss. Don’t feel pressured to talk (or not to talk) in order to make the therapist happy. Also, speak up if the pressure isn’t right, if the table is too warm, if you need a tissue. Your
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Regional crowns for Cassidy Meyers, Tahoma Kentwood senior wins girls 124 pound final, Bears qualify 11 boys to state BY KRIS HILL khill@covingtonreporter.com
Tahoma senior Ed Torres put a punctuation mark on the Bear’s Region III team title Feb. 9 at Auburn High with his victory in the 285 pound weight class which made him the fifth regional winner for the team that qualified 11 wrestlers to Mat Classic this weekend at the Tacoma Dome. Torres beat South Puget Sound League North rival Tyler Deskins, a senior from Kentlake, 6-2 in the final. Deskins won a 3-2 decision in four overtimes in the semi-finals over Alex Boynton of GrahamKapowsin for the chance to wrestle Torres for the second week in a row — the pair squared off in the subregional 285 pound final with the same result. It was a significant win for Torres, who made it to the regional final in 2012, but lost. His win helped Tahoma to yet another regional championship with 226 points to second-place Graham-Kapowsin’s 150. Kentwood took fourth with 97.5 and Kentridge was sixth.
Kentwood senior Josh Boekelman defeated Tahoma’s Garret Autrey 9-5 in the 170 pound final. Boekelman didn’t qualify for state in 2012. Kentlake sophomore Nick Smith suffered his first defeat of the season in the 106 pound regional final to Graham-Kapowsin senior Spencer Schoeder, losing 5-0. Fellow sophomore Josh Beckler put together a run in the consolation bracket to take third at 145 pounds. Kentridge’s Derek Freitag finished fourth at 106. Chargers senior Kenny Hobbs finished sixth after a loss to Kentwood sophomore Conor Berlin in the fifth-sixth match at 113. Sphejtim Gilar from Kentwood defeated KentMeridian’s Chianson Siu for fifth place at 126. Tahoma then crowned three regional champions in a row starting with Tim Whitehead’s 6-0 victory over Kentwood sophomore Walker Meyers in the 120 pound final followed by junior Cruz Velasquez’s second-round pin of Spanaway’s Brian Short to win at 126. Gabe Boynay rounded
Kentwood’s Cassidy Meyers, right, tries to bring down Emerald Ridge’s ShaRaya Quinn in the girls regional 124 pound final Feb. 9. Meyers pinned Quinn to win the match. RACHEL CIAMPI, For the Reporter out the string of three straight with a 2-1 victory over Kentwood’s Dalton Meyers at 132. Whitehead, Velasquez and Boynay all won regional crowns for Tahoma a year ago. Blake Hoyle, a junior from Tahoma, bounced
back after a second-round defeat at 120 to take third place in that bracket. Justin Weiding took third place thanks to a pin 16 seconds into the second period of the third-place match against Todd Beamer’s Sean VanEarwag. Tucker Mjelde qualified for the state tour-
nament with his third place finish at 152. Chris McElroy tallied a third place finish at 160. Austin Perry took third at 182. Bears senior Matt Hopkins earned Tahoma’s fourth individual title of [ more REGIONAL page 11 ]
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Hoops teams from Tahoma, Kentwood head to districts and off the glass before falling in to give Kentwood the one-point victory in overtime over Emerald Ridge. It was a Hollywood ending to an unimaginable postseason game. With both girls and boys teams from Kentwood and All that remained was a spot on Sports Center’s Top 10 Tahoma playing in South Puget Sound League seeding plays — a video of the shot can be found on YouTube. games, the results were a mixed bag. Thanks to Huerta’s game-winner, Kentwood will play at While Tahoma’s boys struggled against Curtis for the Bellarmine Prep Wednesday, after the Reporter goes South Puget Sound League title Feb. 7, the girls put to press, in the district tournament. Win or lose, together a win in a loser-out game against Bethel Kentwood will play again on Friday in the double PREP HOOPS Feb. 9 to continue the season. elimination bracket. Kentwood’s girls put together a 54-53 win on KENTWOOD’S MAGICAL MOMENT the road against Skyview Tuesday night. This earns Kentwood’s boys, which found themselves in the Kentwood a matchup with Todd Beamer at 6 p.m. playoffs after Kent-Meridian was forced to forfeit its wins Friday at Puyallup High school. this season due to issues surrounding an ineligible player, put together a remarkable win in the loser-out game. TOUGH MATCHUP FOR TAHOMA BOYS, With 2.5 seconds left, Conquerors senior Jackson Huerta BIG WIN FOR THE GIRLS took the ball on the inbound play, dribbled twice then Tahoma’s boys couldn’t contain Curtis guard Dominic launched a half-court shot that bounced around the rim BY KRIS HILL
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Kentwood’s Josh Boekelman, green, works from the top position during the 170 pound regional final against Tahoma’s Garret Autrey. Boekelman won the match. RACHEL CIAMPI, For the Reporter
the day with his 3-2 win over Kent-Meridian senior Thomas Kemp. A year ago Kemp defeated Hopkins’ teammate Autrey at 170 at the regional tournament. Kent-Meridian senior Joshua Smith lost a tight match in the 138 pound final to Graham-Kapowsin’s Corde Ferreira, falling 6-4. Fellow Royals senior Treyvonn Wilson finished fourth in the 170 pound bracket. Kentridge senior Arthur Sargent lost a 7-0 decision in the 145 pound final.
Robinson in a battle of division winners Feb. 7 at ShoWare. Robinson had 16 points by halftime while the Vikings had a 39-21 lead. At the end of the game, Robinson led all scorers with 28. Everything seemed to fall for Curtis, which finished the game 49.2 percent from the field and 6-for-12 from three point land. Tahoma, meanwhile, was 42 percent from the field but 25 percent from the three point line and 61.5 percent as a team from the charity stripe. Curtis, on the other hand, shot 83.3 percent from the free throw line. Tahoma’s boys will host Olympia Wednesday night and will play again Friday. For the Lady Bears, their 52-39 win Feb. 9 over the Bethel Braves earned them the opportunity to travel for their first district game. Tahoma lost to Yelm Tuesday night and will play Auburn Riverside at 7:45 p.m. Friday at Bellarmine Prep. Chargers junior Zach Seibel was the runner up after losing in the 182 pound final. Meanwhile in the girls regional tournament, Kentwood senior Cassidy Meyers continued her pursuit of her second state wrestling crown by pinning her way through the 124 pound bracket. She put together a pin with 12 seconds remaining in the first period of the final against ShaRaya Quinn of Emerald Ridge. She will join her younger brothers Walker and Dalton at state this year to cap her final
season of wrestling. Also qualifying for state for the Conquerors out of the 124 pound weight class was freshman Sara Mozeleski, who finished third. Kentridge senior Taylor Lee finished third in the 112 pound bracket at the girls tournament.
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Sports News and Notes KENTLAKE GYMNASTS FINISH FIFTH AT DISTRICTS The Kentlake gymnastics team finished fifth at the Class 4A districts meet on Feb. 9 at Mount Rainier. The Falcons scored 163.775 as a team, behind Puyallup. Emerald Ridge finished first with 176.375 and Jefferson took home second with 169.7. Both Emerald Ridge and Jefferson will advance to the state meet. Ashely Pernell of Kentlake finished fourth in the all-around competition with a score of 36.5. Pernell finished second on vault with a score of 9.275, CaroLyne Schmidt of Emerald Ridge won the event with a score of 9.725. Pernell finished third on the bars, scoring 8.925, and fifth on beam with a 9.1.
SPSL BOYS BASKETBALL AWARDS ANNOUNCED
Coleman Wooten, a junior at Tahoma High, was named the most valuable player in basketball for the North division of the SPSL. DeShon Williams and Paul Loranger, both from Tahoma, and Terence Grady of Kentwood were named to the division’s second team. Honorable mentions went to Jackson Huerta of Kentwood, Ethan McCormack and Dominic Smith of Tahoma and Carson Stowell of Kentlake.
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MORE THAN A DOZEN TAHOMA HIGH STUDENTATHLETES COMMIT ON NATIONAL SIGNING DAY
Student-athletes from a variety of sports at Tahoma High celebrated National Letter of Intent signing day Feb. 5 with their classmates, school staff and family. There were 14 seniors who committed to play collegiate sports next year. Mackenzie Henke will play soccer at Nevada, Brie Hooks is headed to Colorado to play soccer, while Kaysha Darcy will hit the pitch at University of Idaho, Selina Aguilar and Hayley Warren will play for Shoreline Community College. Michael Cox will swim for Seattle University. Fastpitch players Courtney Cloud and Molly Lathrop are heading
Players earn all league basketball honors, Kentlake gymnasts score at districts to Eastern Nebraska and Willamette, respectively, while baseball players Reed Johnson and Troy LaBrie will move on to Tacoma Community College and Gonzaga University, respectively. Dallas Hayes will play football at Montana State. Savanna Haverfield will be on the track team at University of Nevada. Elizabeth Oosterhout will run cross country at Montana State. Cody Abel will play football at Rochester College.
KENTWOOD GIRLS SOCCER PLAYERS SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE
Ally Irwin and Sterling Peterson, both members of Kentwood High’s girls soccer team, both committed to play collegiately on National Signing Day Feb. 5. Irwin will play at Corbin University in Oregon while Peterson is heading to Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.
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Partnership aims to help youngsters overcome poverty dren entering kindergarten. Many youngsters who live in Birch Creek, if they remain in the complex, will eventually attend Cedar Heights Middle School and Kentlake High. The King County Housing Authority, Kent School To increase family engagement, the partnership estabDistrict, Kent Youth and Family Services along with other lished the Parent and School Academy. community organizations embarked on a unique The pilot project, which involves Millennium partnership to help strengthen the educational foun- “It’s about and Pine Tree elementary schools, uses parent facilbreaking dation for students who live in KCHA housing. itators from various language groups and outreach the cycle The new relationship has three main goals: to volunteers to encourage parents to discuss the chalof poverty expose children living in KCHA housing to early lenges which hinder learning for their children. through learning, to encourage family engagement and to The goal of PASA is to provide better learneducation.� improve literacy. ing environments at home while also serving as To accomplish these goals, the exchange of data Rhonda Rosenburg a forum for parents to address their needs and among the partners will be vital. concerns. “It shows us gaps of where we can develop action Coinciding with Race to the Top grant goals, the plans that include family engagement,� said Israel partnership initiated the Read to Succeed program. Vela, executive director of Student and Family EnThe focus is to help children read at grade level up to the gagement for the KSD. third grade. For the youngest children living in the Birch Creek, The programs offered at each community center already Valli Kee and Cascade Homes complexes, existing formal reinforce school curriculum but with the supplemental and informal learning programs such as Head Start or grant money, the partners are able to enhance the proplay-and-learn groups are held at the respective family and grams to better serve the children’s literacy and educational youth centers. needs. The purpose of these programs is to better prepare chilThis push to strengthen basic education has materialized BY MICHELLE CONERLY
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SAWYER WOODS ELEM. PARAEDUCATOR RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP Lisa Parks, a paraeducator at Sawyer Woods Elementary, is the latest recipient of the Kent Association of Paraeducators’ Paraeducator to Certification scholarship. The $1000 scholarship is awarded to paraeducators engaged in the student teaching assignment required by their teacher certification program. After working as a paraeducator for the past 10 years, Parks decided to pursue her teaching certification. “I wanted to challenge myself professionally and take on more responsibility, while continuing to do what I love
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A former Kent-Meridian High School teacher and track coach pleaded guilty to communication with a minor for immoral purposes. He is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 22. Ernie Ammons, 37, of Black Diamond, was scheduled to go to trial Feb. 5 but instead entered a guilty plea, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. He is scheduled to be sentenced at 1 p.m. Feb. 22 before King County Superior Court Judge Lori K. Smith at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Ammons could be sentenced up to one year in jail and be fined $5,000. He must register as a sex offender. In return for a guilty plea, Richard Anderson, senior deputy prosecuting attorney, will recommend to
Judge Smith a sentence of 10 days in jail for Ammons and that he pay $500 for victim penalty assessment, a $100 lab fee, a $100 DNA fee and pay restitution for any of the victim’s counseling and medical expenses, according to court documents. Anderson also will recommend Ammons be placed on probation for a year. Ammons, who is free on bail, signed the following guilty statement on Feb. 1: “On or about a time between June 27, 2011 and Nov. 6, 2011 in King County, I did communicate with (the 16-year-old girl), a person I believed to be a minor, for immoral purposes of a sexual nature,� Ammons wrote. Prosecutors said Ammons sent sexually explicit text messages to a 16-yearold girl who attended KentMeridian. Ammons taught health
and physical education at the school. He also coached boys and girls track and cross country for the Royals. The Kent School District placed Ammons on paid administrative leave in November 2011 when the allegations first came to the district’s attention. He resigned from the district in January 2012. He initially pleaded not guilty to the charge in December 2011. Ammons led the KentMeridian boys track team to its first state track title in 2011 when the Royals captured the Class 4A meet. He coached track and field at Kent-Meridian for eight years. He led the boys track team to a second-place trophy at state in 2009. Ammons taught health and physical education at Kent-Meridian. His classes in 2011 included health and weight training. The district hired Ammons in 2004.
The series of text messages were exchanged between Ammons and the girl from June 27 through Nov. 6 in 2011. In an Oct. 13 text message, Ammons asked the girl to meet him for sex in the school’s weight room before school. The case came to the attention of school officials in early November 2011 when a student at another school who knew the 16-yearold girl contacted KentMeridian Principal Wade Barringer about inappropriate conversations between a health teacher at the school and a student. The teacher was later identified as Ammons. Barringer talked to Ammons about the allegations, according to court documents. Ammons told Barringer the phone contacts with the student started on Facebook and the contact continued via text messaging.
Ammons told Barringer that he had exchanged text messages with the girl and they talked about exchanging money for sex. Ammons said he never intended to act on the suggestion, but he was afraid to stop texting the girl out of fear that she would expose him. School officials contacted Kent Police Nov. 8, 2011 about the allegations and the police investigation started. Detectives gathered cellphone records and emails that showed Ammons had contacted the girl. Detectives found as many as 46 calls between the girl’s phone and Ammons’ phone from June 27 to Oct. 24. Several more text exchanges occurred after Oct. 24. Ammons has volunteered as an assistant Green River Community College men’s and women’s cross country and track coach in Auburn since 2009.
Ammons was the second South Puget Sound League coach charged with a sex crime by county prosecutors in November 2011. Prosecutors charged Daniel Gregory Lum-Lung, who coached girls volleyball at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, with third-degree attempted rape in connection with a 15-year-old girl he met in October 2011 at Kent’s Lake Meridian Park. That case is in trial this week before King County Superior Court Judge Andrea Darvas.
Reach Steve Hunter at shunter@kentreporter. com or 253-872-6600 ext. 5052. To comment on this story go to www.kentreporter. com.
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For potable water, life is a series of one-way streets. Safe drinking water depends on all “traffic� within a water system to move from source to use. Normally, fresh drinking water flows one way. It isn’t supposed to turn around and travel in the other direction. In a perfect world, the flow of water would always follow the rules. But in reality, there are several situations that can cause backflow, such as a broken water main pipe (see picture below). Backflow is an accidental and unwanted reversal in the flow of water within a piping system. When this happens, any contaminants within the piping system can flow back into the source of fresh water, which could mix with drinking water and potentially contaminate the water supply. Consider this example: A home irrigation system with below ground sprinklers is running as usual when a neighborhood water main is damaged during road construction. Suddenly, the pressure that keeps potable water flowing into the system is gone and the water flow changes directions. Water from the irrigation system flows backward taking with it any pesticides, fertilizer, or animal waste that it may have come in contact with. This contaminated water can then mix with the potable water supply potentially making the homeowner and their neighbors sick. The danger of this kind of contamination exists wherever there is a “cross-connection� or link between potable and non-potable water. Examples of typical cross-connections include irrigation systems, boilers and fire protection systems. This is where backflow prevention comes in. Appropriate backflow prevention devices keep non-potable water from flowing backward toward the potable water supply. The District requires all cross-connections to be protected by customer installed backflow prevention assemblies. For more information about cross-connections and backflow prevention assemblies, please see the District’s website at covingtonwater.com or contact the District’s Cross-Connection Control Specialist at 253-867-0962.
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operation of the lock would not slow their response time. The District has a strict policy regarding the use of hydrants by non-fire or District personnel. Contractors or others wishing to use District hydrants for construction or other legitimate purposes must come to the District office and apply for the use of a hydrant meter and backflow prevention assembly, as pictured below. Any use of a fire hydrant without the meter and backflow prevention assembly is strictly forbidden. If you happen to see someone using a hydrant without a meter and backflow prevention assembly as pictured, they are most assuredly using the hydrant without permission and stealing the same water that you have to pay for. The District offers a reward of $100 to anyone reporting a water theft that leads to the identification of the thief. To report a theft, call 253-631-0565. Provide as much detail as possible about the location, the person, their vehicle and the license number.
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3. The District would contract with a Tester to complete tests on an annual basis for those customers who have signed the waiver. The District will solicit bids for backflow assembly testing as frequently as needed to keep the price of the tests competitive.
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Here’s how it would work: 1. The District is conducting a survey now on our website about interest in a contracted service. The survey is currently up and running at covingtonwater.com. Please take a few minutes to participate in the survey. If the District determines a contracted service for backflow assembly testing, is an effective and efficient customer service, the next steps would be: 2. The District would ask you to sign a waiver allowing the contracted Tester to enter your property to complete the test. The waiver will allow the Tester to enter your property just as though you authorized them to do so yourself. Just to be
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