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Benefit Night show raises $24,000

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Sumner High School’s students — and some adult Sumnerites — put their talents on display last week to raise money for Sumner community man Dean Inglin.

Two evenings of the Benefit Night talent show were put on at the Performing Arts Center Thursday and Friday night.

The shows were preceded by a dinner and silent auction held Wednesday night.

It was the seventh year of the charitable talent show, and the third year of the dinner and auction.

Each year, Sumner High’s Associated Student Body takes nominations for community members deserving of assistance.

“There was an overwhelming amount of support for Dean,” said Bree Fealy, a senior student governor who co-organized the dinner with senior Meghan Hilden. “People were touched by his story.”

Inglin is a Sumner High School graduate who has remained invested in his home city. The husband and father of two is an active member of Sumner Rotary and has been an avid supporter of the Recreation Department and local Little League.

Inglin has been diagnosed with a severe form of brain cancer that — in addition to the costs in health and emotional wellbeing — comes with demanding financial costs in terms of

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Twenty-four acts entertained audiences at the Performing Arts Center Thursday and Friday. Clockwise from left: Dance crew Twisted Reality moves and shakes to a hip-hop/techno mix; Kayla Schuler sings “Find Me”; Taylor Bauer and Natalia Medrano perform “The A-Team” with Michael Furnstahl (not pictured). Photos by Daniel Nash

Journey to South Africa becomes ‘Our Hope’

By Dennis Box

and she has.

Recently Meyer returned to the Enumclaw area to visit her etsy Meyer had an epiph- father, Rich Elfers, and to raise any nearly nine years ago money around the region for her on a bus ride in nonprofit, Thembalethu Seattle.

Care Organization, that That bus ride took her provides assistance for the on a journey to South children and adults who Africa where she foundare ill from HIV. ed an organization Meyer went to South called Thembalethu, Africa in 2004 to help a “Our Hope” in English. home-based caregivers Betsy Meyer “God put AIDS and organization. The workorphans in my heart,” ers were trying to support Meyer said during an their South African neighinterview Friday in Enumclaw. bors who were dying of AIDS. Also in her heart was the will to make a difference in this world, See HOPE, Page 3

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Children at the Thembalethu Care Organization in the Amangwe Tribal Area in Central Drakensberg KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. Photo courtesy Besty Meyer

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Community Notes

By Daniel Nash Staff Writer

Cascade Regional Blood Services has scheduled five March blood drives for Bonney Lake and one for Buckley.

The organization’s mobile blood station will be parked at Columbia Bank in Bonney Lake from 1 to 6 p.m. every Friday in March: March 1, March 8, March 15, March 22 and March 29.

Columbia Bank is located at 19925 state Route 410.

Cascade will park at White River High School in Buckley on March 7 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

White River High is located at 26928 120th Street East.

About 4.5 million Americans would die each year without blood transfusions and

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someone needs blood every three seconds, according to Brookhaven National Laboratory, home of the U.S. government’s Office of Science.

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• Pierce County Library Foundation Board recently elected new officers to direct the volunteer board’s support of library services for Pierce County Library System.

New officers for 2012-13 include: • Michael Gordon, Tacoma, president; • Jane O’Neal, University Place, vice president; • Kari Kennard, University Place, treasurer; • Molly Stuen, Gig Harbor, secretary; • Janice Ludwig, Lakewood, member-at-large; and • Lisa Korsmo, Lakewood, past president.

Laurie Miller belts out “Don’t Ask Me Why,” opening Thursday’s Benefit Night Talent Show. Photo by Daniel Nash

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medical care, lost income, travel to treatment and home remodeling to accommodate paralysis related to his illness.

The community response to the fundraiser was overwhelming.

“I think we were both generally surprised how big the response has been,” Hilden said. “We were worried about getting the word out … but everyone came together.”

Local businesses were quick to donate to the auction, Fealy said, and attendance to the dinner alone rose over the previous year.

Last year saw 150 diners in all, but the 2013 dinner confirmed 107 in just presales; the high school commons was nearly packed Wednesday night, once the dinner was in full swing.

The talent shows boasted 24 acts — from singing to dancing to monologue — performing two nights in a row.

Sumner Downtown Association director Laurie Miller opened the Thursday night show with her rousing lounge song “Don’t Ask Me Why.” Anonymous Dance Crew — a Jabbawockeez dance crew tribute group whom have become a Benefit Night tradition over the past three years — once again brought down the house. This year they were joined by the mostly female Twisted Reality dance crew, a late addition to the show list.

A performance of Otis Redding’s “Respect,” the song made famous by Aretha Franklin, by Helena and The Kisses got the whole audience clapping and stomping their feet. And three-person rock group Raze The Dead brought some bite to the night with their rendition of Marilyn Manson’s “The Beautiful People.”

The funds raised hadn’t been fully accounted by press time, but the total net was estimated at $24,000 as of Monday.

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HOPE FROM 1 “The people were dying like flies because there was no treatment,” Meyer said. “They (the home-care workers) were just trying to come along side and support them and make them more comfortable.”

About 40 percent of the adults in the KwaZuluNatal area of South Africa are currently HIV positive.

South Africa as a whole has about a 20 percent AIDS infection rate.

Life expectancy in the 1980s in South Africa was in the 60s and today has dropped to the 40s due to the impact of HIV. Meyer said there is such a stigma attached to AIDS families would often try to take their sick and hide them.

“If you were HIV infected it meant you must be a very promiscuous kind of person,” Meyer said.

HIV in South Africa is primarily in the heterosexual population.

Meyer said in the rural area where she is working, the men travel to the city and get infected with HIV from a sexual partner, then take it back home to their wives.

When she first went to South Africa, Meyer joined forces with Xoli, who was a home-base caregiver, to give a 10-day training to the social workers and nurses at a hospital in the Amangwe region. The training provided information about HIV, the infections that occur as a result of the virus and providing for the many orphans left after the death of their parents.

“HIV is so big and it often hits both members of the family (parents) in the prime of life,” Meyer said.

“You have a lot of mothers and fathers who are dying and you end up with a lot of children infected as well.”

Meyer said according

Eugene, Joshua and Betsy Meyer in South Africa, Photo courtesy Rich Elfers

to statistics 1,000 South Africans die every day from HIV. “Right now we have 320 patients we are caring for and last month we had five people die,” she said. “Some women were in their 30s and another was a 12-yearold boy.”

Tuberculosis is another problem. When HIV lowers the immune system in the body, TB takes over in many. Meyer said the majority of her patients have both HIV and tuberculosis.

In 2006, when the training project ended, it appeared to be the end of Meyer’s work in South Africa.

“We’re leaving these women with lots of knowledge, but the level of need was so great we didn’t know what to do,” Meyer said. “I had finished my time with the microfinance project and I thought I was done.”

She returned to the U.S. thinking her time in South Africa was over, but just before leaving she put in a proposal with the Winterton Methodist Church in South Africa. The church members had asked her to submit a proposal.

Once back in America she discovered the church had given her about $25,000 to start her program.

The church bought her a bakkie, or pickup, and gave her about 18 months of operating expenses to travel around to patients’ homes and help orphans.

Meyer has been able to

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keep the care organization going each year through fundraisers. She also has a principal sponsor, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

Meyer’s organization serves a population of about 50,000 people, the Amangwe Tribal Area.

When she returns to the U.S. she catches up with friends and family, but spends much of her time raising money and supplies for Thembalethu.

Her father said he has had some mixed feelings about his daughter living in Africa.

“I’m very pleased she is helping people and proud of what she is doing,” Elfers said. “I’m not real excited about her being 10,000 miles away…. Skype has really helped a great deal.”

Meyer’s path to South Africa began in part while at the University of Washington where she majored in international studies with a focus on international development.

The crossroads came after graduation while she was riding a bus in Seattle.

“I heard God’s voice clearer than I ever have before,” Meyer said. “I was reading through a book about God’s heart for the poor… (“Rich Christians in an age of Hunger”) and the Book of Leviticus. It was talking about God’s design for societies in terms of caring for the poor.”

Meyer said next she received a letter from her dad.

“My dad likes to send me these love letters, a little note like ‘I remember the day you were born,’” Meyer said. “There were a couple of other things and it all came to a head when I was on a bus in Seattle.

I was reading the paper and there was this article about African women who were caring for orphans in Kenya. They were talking about African women with

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no education or maybe a third-grade education and they were doing a tremendous amount to care for children with AIDS. I am not normally a super emotional person, but I broke down in tears on the bus.

It was pulling everything together.”

What struck Meyer was the women with very little education helping so many.

“Here I was already in the 1 percent of the world’s population with a college education thinking I can’t do anything,” Meyer said.

“God just really convicted me. He’s given us a lot of love, he has a tremendous love himself for the poor and for all people. My dad had a lot of love, these women had a lot of love because they knew their creator and they were able to share that.

Why couldn’t I? All these kids really needed was love, not some high degree to go over there. So I went.”

Her decision of faith has grown into an organization that cares for 300 or more patients every month.

Thembalethu trains family members, provides food, transportation assistance and many forms of support. The group operates a soup kitchen and works with orphans. Since 2005 UNICEF reports there are 1.2 million orphans in South Africa.

There is treatment for HIV today, antiretroviral medication, that will suppress the virus in the body.

The medication must be taken for life and if accessed too late other infections can attack the body, causing death.

The other problems Meyer’s organization deal with are getting the medication to the afflicted patients and the stigma of AIDS. The medication is provided for free, but it is often difficult to get the patients to

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The stigma also creates a problem because children are not being told about their illness. Many of the children get the virus from their mother.

The challenges for Meyer are many and varied, but her life is a life that has been changed.

She and her husband have adopted a 2-year-old boy, Joshua, and they have found their life caring for the sick and orphaned in South Africa.

“They say Africa gets in your blood,” Meyer said when asked if she planned to return to the U.S. in the future.

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cards. A records check on one passenger returned a misdemeanor warrant out of the Puyallup Police Department, and she was arrested. The remaining passenger was told he was free to go, and he left the scene on foot. The cover officer transported the arrested passenger to a gas station in Sumner to transfer custody to Puyallup PD. The driver was transported to Enumclaw Jail, where he was booked on his warrant.

SIGNAGE THEFT: At 3 p.m.

Feb. 12, a citizen came to the Public Safety Building to report several sign thefts from the Woodside Manor Manufactured Home Park. The man provided a case number from a similar report he made in September. He also furnished surveillance footage of thefts that had occurred on Jan. 19 and Feb. 8, and the video files were placed into

Area resident victim of violent Vegas incident

By Katherine Smith Maple Valley-Covington Reporter

Maple Valley resident Sandi Sutton, 48, was identified by the Clark County Coroner’s office in Las Vegas as one of the victims of the shooting and subsequent car crash which happened during the early

morning hours of Feb. 21.

The incident occurred on the Las Vegas Strip, the city’s main gaming center.

Sutton was a passenger in a taxi cab that was struck by a Maserati at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Las Vegas Boulevard. According to Officer Jose Hernandez in the public information

both declined to answer questions. The officers issued the father a citation for theft, and informed his son he would be mentioned in the police report as a suspect, but would not be issued a citation at that time.

NO FREE CHICKEN: At 10:20 a.m. Feb. 13, officers were dispatched to an assault in progress at the KFC on state Route 410. A woman was reportedly attempting to obtain free chicken, and she had tried to jump over the counter to do so. When the first officer arrived at the scene, the suspect — a person the officer recognized from previous arrests — was laying on the counter restrained by restaurant employees. The officer advised her she was under arrest, took control and brought her to the floor. She resisted, kicking and refusing to place her hands behind her back.

She eventually relented and the officer was able to place her in handcuffs.

As the second officer arrived, the first realized his

hands were stained with blood, evidently from a puncture wound on the suspect’s hand. The suspect continued to yell and display mental issues to a degree that officers called East Pierce Fire and Rescue to the scene for an involuntary committal. The officer spoke with the store manager, who advised the suspect had come into the store — bleeding from her hand — and demanded free chicken. When the manager explained they did not give away chicken, she became verbally abusive and climbed onto the counter, where she began pressing buttons on the cash register and tore off the bottom of the till. The manager attempted to push her away, to which she responded by kicking him in his face and clawing his left arm. At that point, another employee called police. Based on the information provided, the officer decided to have the suspect involuntarily committed for a mental health evaluation.

Charges of assault in the fourth degree, malicious mischief and disorderly conduct were noted for forwarding to the prosecutor. Photos of the manager’s injuries were placed into evidence and the suspect was trespassed from KFC for one year.

METH: At 6:21 p.m. Feb. 14, an officer patrolling behind businesses along the 21100 block of SR 410 East observed a known man pushing a shopping cart. The officer asked dispatch to check the man’s name for warrants, and three were confirmed.

The man was contacted regarding the warrants and placed under arrest.

A search of his person turned up a glass pipe with what appeared to be residue from smoked methamphetamine. Further search of the man’s wallet turned up a small baggie containing a white crystalline substance. A field test kit turned up positive for methamphetamine. The man was

office of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, the taxi exploded and caught fire, trapping Sutton and the driver. Both died at the scene.

“This morning occupants of a black Range Rover opened fire on the occupants of a Maserati,” LVMPD Sheriff Douglas Gillespie said at a news conference Thursday.

“The Maserati driver, having been shot, sped through the intersection of Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard, colliding with a taxi cab and causing a

six-car accident. The driver and passenger of the taxi both died on the scene when the car exploded due to the impact.”

Police believe that the altercation between the drivers of the Range Rover and Maserati began in the valet area of a nearby resort, the Aria Hotel and Casino, after which both vehicles began traveling northbound on Las Vegas Boulevard. After colliding with the taxi, the Maserati also struck four other vehicles, Hernandez said during a phone interview

Friday. The driver and passenger of the Maserati suffered gunshot wounds and were transported to a local hospital where the driver, Kenneth Cherry Jr., died of his injuries. Three people from the other vehicles in the crash were also transported to the hospital.

Sutton grew up in Maple Valley and graduated from Tahoma High School in 1982. She is survived by her husband, James Wasmund, and their three children, Austin, Sarah and Hunter.

Sutton was a local business owner and an active member of the Greater Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce and the Maple Valley Rotary. Together she and her husband owned All Service Plumbing and she was co-owner of The Dazzled Dame with Leih Mulvihill. The store had recently moved to a new location in Maple Valley Town Center about a month ago. Sutton and Mulvihill were in Las Vegas together, attending a business convention.

“I honestly can’t remember what year we met,” said longtime friend Tina McDonough who, like Sutton, was involved in the fight against cancer. “The thing that drew me to her was that I’m highly involved in Susan G. Komen and she (Sutton) was a two-time survivor. We’ve always been on the same team to find a cure.”

Sutton had participated in Race for the Cure 5k with the local team Touched by Jeanie. Last year Sutton also participated in the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk for a Cure with Valley Girls and Guys, a team McDonough founded.

“2012 was her first time walking the 3-Day with us and she immediately signed up for this year,” McDonough said. “We’ve done a lot of stuff together… just a big heart, big smile.

(She was) really well-known and well-liked in the community. Just an amazing person and friend. She’s left a hole in this community and our hearts. She’s going to be forever missed.”

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WARRANT STOP: At 10:01 p.m. Feb. 14, an officer ran a records check on a vehicle, which returned an outstanding misdemeanor warrant out of Bonney Lake Municipal Court for the registered owner. The officer initiated a traffic stop and called in a cover officer. After the officer accepted the driver’s license, dispatch confirmed the warrant, which was for driving while license suspended and failing to transfer a vehicle title within 45 days of sale.

The driver was placed under arrest and asked if he would give permission for either of his two passengers to drive his car from the area. However, both passengers told the cover officer their licenses were suspended and presented him with state ID

evidence. Both recordings showed the suspect vehicle drive up, and each time a different male exited the vehicle and took signage and placed it into the vehicle before it left.

After reviewing the footage, an officer searched for the suspect vehicle in the vicinity of the residential park. A similar vehicle passed the officer on the 21400 block of 104 St. Ct. E. By the time the officer was able to turn around, the vehicle was gone.

However, the officer conducted a records check on the license plate and pinned down the address of the registered owner.

At 8:31 p.m. two officers visited the residence, noting that it bordered Woodside Manor. They contacted a man and his son and informed them the department was investigating the theft of Woodside’s signs; both resembled the suspects in the videos, but only the father was clearly identifiable to the suspect in the footage. Both were read their Miranda Rights, and

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Bonney Lake’s Beck a contestant in kosher cook-off

By Daniel Nash Staff Writer

Bonney Lake resident Donna Beck has been selected as a vote-in contestant in the seventh annual Man-oManischewitz Cook-Off. Aspiring contestants sent in their original recipes,

made with one of the company’s kosher broth products and one other food product.

Judges selected four finalists on the strength of their recipe, and one additional finalist will be selected by a combination of judging and online voting. Beck is one of the vote-in candidates to

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become a finalist.

If Beck receives the most votes, she will compete in the live Cook-Off on March 21 in New Jersey.

Donna’s recipe is Curry Spiced Pumpkin Peanut Soup.

Recipe voting will begin Feb. 21 on the Manischewitz website.

Beck is no stranger to culinary contest: in September, she was one of two Bonney Lakers to compete in the third annual Foster Farms Fresh Chicken Cooking Contest. In 2010, her daughter Emma Potts won Red Robin Gourmet Burgers’ Kids’ Cook-Off with her Spicy Honey-Glazed Bacon Burger.

Independent and concurrent investigations by the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office, the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Sumner Police Department regarding the shooting death of 47-year-old Patrick Don Dunford have been completed.

Dunford died from a gunshot wound inflicted by Milton Police Department Officer Zack Kenyon, a member of the Pierce County Metro SWAT Team. The incident occurred in the city limits of Sumner.

Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist concluded the death was justifiable homicide under state law. “Mr. Dunford left several suicide notes inside his residence, he said he had a .357 handgun and a hostage, and he exited the house with what appeared to be a gun, which he pointed at the officers,” Lindquist said.

“This is a sad case of suicide-by-cop.”

On Oct. 24, 2012, Patrick Dunford called 911 from his residence in Sumner and reported that he was suicidal. He also stated that he had a hostage inside his residence. When officers contacted Dunford by telephone, he told them that he had a handgun and was suicidal.

Sumner police officers and the Pierce County Metro SWAT Team responded

Mobile home fire still being investigated, reward offered flames shooting through the roof of the double-wide mobile home. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze to just half of the residence. After using a thermal device to ensure that all the hot spots had been extinguished, the last crew left around 3:45 a.m.

An hour later, 911 dispatch received multiple

calls that the same mobile home was on fire again.

This time the other end of the mobile home was fully involved. Firefighters again extinguished the blaze.

Fire marshals declared the mobile home a total loss.

The Pierce County Sheriff ’s Office is investigating the cause of the fires.

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Tire marks indicated a vehicle had run over all of them. The damage was not limited to 195th, and the officer counted damage to 16 signs and nine mailboxes in the vicinity of southwest Lake Tapps neighborhoods. The officer noted an aggressive tread pattern at the West and South Tapps Highway intersection where a Stop sign and No Parking sign had been knocked over.

BURGLARY: At 12:33 p.m.

Feb. 18, an officer contacted an 82nd Street East resident in reference to a burglary. Upon returning from a trip, the victim discovered her door was unlocked and her belongings had been disturbed. In the garage, she discovered the lock-

ing mechanism had been removed from her car portal, and the doorway to the backyard had been forced open, making it the suspect’s apparent entry point. The only item immediately found to be missing was a laptop. She suspected one man she had briefly met on an errand before her trip. She said she did not want to suspect this person, but he was the only person with whom she could recall discussing her travel plans. She provided the description of the man to the officer. The officer photographed the home for evidence, and forwarded the case to investigations for follow-up.

taken to Pierce County Jail for booking on unlawful possession of a controlled substance and a hold was placed on the municipal warrants. The meth and paraphernalia were booked into the police department’s property room.

KNOCKED OVER: At 7:26 a.m. Feb. 16, a citizen reported that his mailbox, neighbor’s mailboxes and several road signs in the vicinity of 195th Place East had been run over by a vehicle. An officer responded to the area and found numerous road signs and mail boxes had been knocked over.

Obituary MARK SMITH Mark Joseph Smith, known as Joey or Joe, died Feb. 18, 2013, in Ellensburg, Wash.

He was born June 15, 1981, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He worked as a food service manager and was employed at Suncadia Resort in Cle Elum, Wash.

He is survived by wife Tova Moller;

daughter Kyla, with a second child expected in July; father Christopher Smith of St. George, Utah; mother and stepfather Tami and Paul Benton of Bonney Lake; brothers C.J. Smith and wife Diane of Salt Lake City and Brian Smith of Enumclaw; and sister Mindy DeLozier and husband Eric of Ellensburg.

A service is planned for 1 p.m. Sunday, March 3, at Enumclaw High School.

Remembrances are suggested to an account established for his children at White River Credit Union in Enumclaw.

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A suspicious fire in Prairie Ridge has led authorities to offer a reward for information regarding the blaze that started shortly after midnight Feb. 16 at an abandoned mobile home on the 12400 block of 223rd Avenue East.

Firefighters from East Pierce Fire and Rescue arrived on scene to find

to Dunford’s residence. Dunford exited his residence and pointed what appeared to be an orange painted handgun at SWAT team members who were positioning themselves around Dunford’s house. Dunford ignored officers’ commands to stop and drop the weapon and instead continued to walk towards them. Dunford pointed the weapon at Officer Kenyon. Officer Kenyon, in fear for his personal safety as well as other officers in the area, fired his duty rifle one time, striking Dunford in the head.

Dunford immediately dropped to the ground. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

After the shooting, police confirmed that there was no hostage inside Dunford’s residence. They also determined Dunford was armed with a loaded flare gun at the time of the incident. The investigators found what appeared to be several suicide notes written by Dunford as well as a handgun inside the residence.

According to the Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Clark, Dunford died from the injuries caused by the gunshot wound to his head inflicted by Officer Kenyon.

It was also determined that Dunford’s blood alcohol was .29 at the time of his death.

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Everything better with buttermilk I have been consistently receiving buttermilk abuse at the various newspaper offices I find myself at these days.

I have a conspiracy theory this food crabbiness stems from another plot. Some seem to think I am not the Mr. Sensitive Bucket of Happiness I see in the mirror every morning (before I put my glasses on). Oh, how wrong everyone but me can be, and I do have to point this out… in a Mr. Happy Dennis Box way, of course.

Editor When I gently make my “I am right once again” dance I try to be sensitive while I fling my arms in the air and yell “touchdown, touchdown” and throw in the requisite hair flip just to be consistent.

The Mr. Sensitive world of rightness may have something to do with the pile of problems I am getting about my eating habits. Namely my discovery that buttermilk, especially Bulgarian buttermilk, is ambrosia on nearly everything.

Now, I remember my grandmother drinking buttermilk every morning and I thought that was nuts and disgusting.

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Courtship is always confusing I’ll never forget the response from one of my male high school Psychology students. I was discussing American courtship practices. I had asked the students why both males and females might act very thoughtful and caring toward each other during courtship and then, once the wedding is over, go back to their “normal” behavior.

Why do couples so often dress better, bring flowers, hold the chair, open the door for the love of their lives, go out to dinner and attempt to keep themselves slim only until the “quarry” has been safely bagged?

When I asked my question, one of my seniors exclaimed, “You mean I’ll have to buy my wife flowers for the rest of my life?” That got a big laugh from the class, but it provoked an interesting conversation about the illogical approach American culture takes toward courtship and marriage. Let me propose three reasons for this puzzling human trait.

One reason is that we want to be successful. Being successful means one has been able to convince his/her significant other that life with them will be marital bliss. There’s nothing wrong with that attitude. It’s using sales techniques tried and trusted for thousands of years.

A second reason for this practice is that we humans are often lazy and shortsighted. We don’t think very clear-

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ly, as the late author Steven Covey would say, “with the end in mind.” It takes a lot of work to be thoughtful for a lifetime and most of us don’t have the energy or the maturity to be that consistent with our behavior. We’d rather just “be ourselves.” Unfortunately, our spouses often find our real behaviors irritating, gross and thoughtless.

A third reason is that we fear that to be authentic — to be one’s real self — will not win us a spouse. It’s too risky.

To be honest and real about our feelings makes us vulnerable to rejection. And there isn’t much worse than to have someone we care about walk away and end the relationship. So instead, we wear our thoughtful masks until we’re safely, legally married. The masks don’t come off until we feel safe and the pressure is off.

The question I ask to you, dear readers, is this: Isn’t the real importance of marriage living together harmoniously for the rest of our lives and not the wed-

ding that costs thousands of dollars?

Shouldn’t we be focusing on the long term rather than the short term?

Many reading this column have suffered the pain of divorce, with the “collateral damage” to our children, friends and families. No one who enters a marriage really believes it will end in divorce; otherwise few would get married. Yet, we still marry because we want the security and commitment that a marriage license brings, both to ourselves and to our progeny.

So what is the solution to this conundrum? My solution is that we make the commitment of courting our spouses for the rest of our lives. It’s a risk, and requires great effort, but isn’t that what love really is?

Love is not only a strong feeling; it’s a conscious decision to be faithful in every way to the ones we declared before God and society that we would love and cherish for the rest of our lives, especially when life gets tough. We should court our spouses for the rest of our lives.

That’s my answer to the question.

A few days after my student’s fearful outburst in Psychology, he came back and told the class his mother had supplied a solution to his dilemma. She was a florist and would supply him with flowers for his wife as long as she lived.

He was a little relieved. Oh, that all us men had mothers like his!

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Letters Vote no on MPD I want to share why I am voting no for the Metropolitan Park District (MPD) measure April 23.

First, I am a small-government guy and this measure will create a bigger, moreexpensive government. The question is does the government need to grow to provide adequate services?

The obvious answer is no.

We currently have wonderful parks and are able to maintain them. Actually, over the last decade the city has increased the total acreage devoted to parks.

Furthermore, the city’s comprehensive plan, in chapter six for parks, reports that the city government is not the only park builder in Bonney Lake. That is right, the recreation needs of citizens’ is being met by home owner association (HOA) facilities, county facilities and yes even private facilities.

It is actually quite startling that given all of those resources, Bonney Lake has

a surplus of neighborhood parks. So, based on all of this, I don’t believe that we need bigger government to provide the needed services. The city’s comprehensive plan identifies that the city does not have a youth center or pool and has a slight deficit on ball fields.

The city needs to address these deficiencies but does not need a MPD to accomplish it.

That brings me to the second reason why I am voting no for the MPD. I believe that the city can pay for the facilities that are identified in the Comprehensive Plan in other ways without creating a brand new tax authority. One consideration is that the city could immediately issue a bond for the youth center, pool or ball field improvements. This city-issued bond can be created by a vote of council as simply as the council voted to put the MPD on the ballot. Why doesn’t the council do it? This is an excellent question. Is it because they have already posted bonds for the building previous-

ly known as the “Interim Justice Center” and the for water/sewer improvements?

A council-issued bond is not the only way to fund a large capital project like a youth center; the council could put a bond (tax levy) on the ballot for voters to approve. The bond would last a certain number of years, and then the bondissued tax would go away.

Another, more creative, funding mechanism is to amend the city charter to establish a park department and a fund it based on a percentage of the cities revenues.

The third reason I am voting no for the MPD is that it is the easy way for the city but at the expense of every Bonney Lake household. A park board authored presentation entitled “Creation of a Metropolitan Park District in Bonney Lake” dated Aug. 16, 2011 is very clear that a bond is too difficult to pass but a MPD is easy.

A bond is difficult because it requires 40 percent voter turnout, and then 60 percent voter approval; a MPD is easy because it only requires 50 percent approval and does not require minimum voter participation. Additionally,

the idea is to put the MPD on a ballot in an election with low voter turnout, the presentation states “Nonschool bond issues have the best chance of passing in a February or March special election.” So, the easy scenario is that in a special election only a few people, for example 70, turnout and then all 40 people interested in the MPD vote yes. The MPD would pass because it received 50 percent of the vote. In that scenario, only 40 Bonney Lake citizens created a new government tax authority for the 17,000 citizens. I hope a large number of citizens participate in this election, but this example illustrates that the MPD measure is the easy way to tax you.

The fourth reason I am voting no for the MPD is because the only thing we can guarantee if the MPD is approved is that your taxes will increase and the city council will run the board initially. There is no guarantee what the MPD will decide to develop, or how much money it will spend. The city won’t even guarantee how the current parks will be sold, leased or given to the MPD. I can’t give my approval to a plan

that says it will establish a board and the board members will be paid $6,000 dollars a year, but I don’t know how they will spend my money, except that they will spend it.

The fifth reason I am voting no is that I will now be taxed twice for parks. That is right, the money the city currently spends on parks will return to the general fund. So the city will essentially get a windfall revenue source if an MPD takes over. This is not all bad, but it is also not good given my third and fourth reasons. I do not feel comfortable giving the council, who clearly wants easy, more of my hard earned money without receiving a concrete, measurable plan for how they will spend it.

The sixth reason I am voting no for the MPD is that it creates a forever tax.

That is, once the MPD is created it will not expire after 20 years like a bond; a MPD collects the taxes forever. The proponents will say that the people can vote to dissolve the MPD if the MPD does not accomplish its goals. While that may be possible, this argument does not pass the giggle test. MPD proponents also

say the MPD has something for everyone, but the council won’t guarantee what we will get. The only thing we are guaranteed is a tax increase (see my fourth reason above). The truth is that an MPD will take some money from everyone and may give us … what? Forever is too long, I can’t support such an open ended deal.

In closing, I encourage everyone to take the ten to twelve hours it takes to read all of the city’s documents, listen to recorded testimony and piece together all the pieces to this MPD puzzle. Once you finish putting the puzzle together, the choice will be clear: No new forever tax.

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Keep new pet healthy with early vet visit Welcome back to Buckley Veterinary Hospital’s monthly pet care column.

This month, we are highlighting new furry additions to your family. We have combined tips from several animal health organizations to shed some light on what to expect in the way of veterinary care if you just brought a new pet home, or you’re planning on bringing a new pet home in the near future.

Either way, congratulations! There’s nothing like a cute, fuzzy new four-legged addition to the family.

While it’s important to start right in on the cuddling and training needed by a new pet, it’s also crucial to get a head start on your pet’s health. You want to make sure the get off on the right foot and this means scheduling their first veterinary visit and vaccine series and preventative care.

Depending on your pet’s age and expected lifestyle and living environment, there are a lot of different things you can expect from your veterinarian.

The first visit

When you take your puppy or kitten to the vet-

erinarian for the first time, your vet will start with a comprehensive physical exam before anything else.

This is really important – your veterinarian can find physical problems with your fuzzy family member just by looking him or her over – like a poor gait or skin problems – and get your puppy on a treatment plan early in life.

In addition, your veterinarian will want to make sure your puppy is free of a variety of illnesses and conditions, and to do so he or she will perform a variety of tests, including: • fecal screen to check for intestinal parasites; • start deworming (through the use of prescription medication) to treat intestinal parasites; • protecting both dogs and cats from flea- and tick-borne diseases; • microchipping to provide universal identification for your pet should they ever become lost; • screening cats for feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV); • depending upon their age, chemistry tests to evaluate kidney, liver, and pan-

We understand that this might seem confusing, but it’s really important. The best thing to do is talk with your veterinarian, who will set up a vaccination schedule appropriate for your pet.

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creatic function, as well as sugar levels.

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• Distemper, parvo, corona, hepatitis and parainfluenza – these are often combined into a single vaccine.

• Leptospirosis (lepto), is a primarily important vaccine for dogs located in areas with lots of wildlife: hiking, camping and hunting dogs fit into this category especially.

• Rabies is a vaccine that is required by Washington state law.

• Bordetella (kennel cough) is a vaccine highly recommended for all dogs; this is especially true if there’s a possibility that your dog will be boarded, visit doggie daycare or have regular exposure to other dogs.

Feline vaccines

• Core vaccine that includes antibodies for feline herpes virus, feline calcivirus and feline panleukopenia.

• Rabies is a vaccine that is required by Washington state law.

• Feline leukemia (FeLV),

depending on your veterinarian’s recommendations based on you cats lifestyle.

For dogs, depending on where an animal came from and whether it is older than six months during this initial visit, it may also need to undergo a heartworm test.

Because it usually takes six to s even months for an infected dog to test positive, heartworm wouldn’t necessarily show up in tests on puppies younger than six months of age. The Pacific Northwest has a low prevalence of heartworm cases annually, but the numbers continue to grow each year.

Your pet’s first veterinary visit is a great time to discuss other topics with your veterinarian like the health benefits of spaying and neutering; dietary recommendations; house, crate and litter box training; socializing; and other ways to keep your dog or cat well-behaved and welladjusted. Don’t be afraid to arrive at your veterinarian’s office with a list of all the questions you might have about your new little one.

That’s what we’re here for.

Thank you to our readers – we welcome you back next month. As always, send questions, comments, or suggestions for future columns to us at info@buckleyvet.com.

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Spartans edged by Renton in regional play Girls Basketball Dennis Box Editor

Nicole Miller attempts to maintain ball control while under attack by a Renton player. Photo by Kevin Hanson

The Sumner High girls showed what they are made of on the basketball court this season by winning the West Central District title for the first time in the school’s history and advancing to the state’s Class 2A Sweet 16.

The Spartans took on Renton Friday at KentMeridian and lost a close one 42-40 to end its run in the state tournament.

The girls posted a 12-2 South Puget Sound League 2A record and 21-5 overall.

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SHS Boys Basketball

The Sumner High boys basketball team finished its season with a game in the state regional tournament against Lynden.

The Spartans traveled to Lynden Saturday for a 6 p.m. game and lost 58-39.

Sumner entered play with a 7-7 record in the South Puget Sound

League 2A, 15-12 overall record.

Against Lynden in the state regional game the Spartans were outscored in the first quarter 19-12. In the second Sumner came back and scored 11 to Lynden’s 10.

The third period was trouble for the Spartans with Lynden outscoring the boys 15-5 and in the fourth it was

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Sumner’s Keenan Jackson was the leading scorer for the game with 15 points. Tristan Pearson added seven.

Sumner earned a spot in the Sweet 16 by beating Renton 55-53 in the first game of the West Central District tournament.

The Spartans lost to Sequim 55-48 then beat Bremerton 63-48. Sumner lost to White River 44-40 to take the fourth spot in districts.

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Loss ends SHS playoff run

Panthers stopped cold in their tracks The Bonney Lake High girls completed a successful season with a difficult game against Wilson in the regional round of the state Class 3A basketball tournament.

The Panthers lost to top-ranked Wilson of Tacoma 56-26 at Mount Tahoma High Friday.

In the first quarter against Wilson the Panthers were outscored 15-6. Bonney Lake fought back and scored 10 to Wilson’s 13 in the second.

In the third and fourth the girls were not able to counter the Rams’ high-powered offense, getting outscored 28-10.

Leading the scoring for Bonney Lake was Mekenzie Voellger with 15 points.

Jessyka Seger hit for five and Gabriela Ruiz added four.

Riley Jensen scored two.

The Panthers finished the season with a 5-6 South Puget Sound League 3A record, 15-11 overall.

The Panthers made the state’s Sweet 16 by beating Timberline 33-31 in the West Central District tournament and followed that with a 42-24 victory over Kennedy Catholic to take the fifth spot out of the district into regional play.

Against Renton. Sumner was on top at the end of the first quarter 7-6. In the second the girls outscored Renton 14-5 to take a halftime advantage of 21-11.

The third quarter presented real problems with Renton scoring 19 and Sumner 10. In the fourth the Spartans fought back but Renton edged them 12-9 to pull out the win.

Leading the scoring for Sumner was Brenna Allsop with 20. Jamie Lange hit seven.

Alex Denzinger and Amanda Friermuth both added five.

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White River Hornets see season end with regional losses

By Kevin Hanson

White River boys and girls basketball

There will be no return trips to Yakima’s cozy SunDome for the White River High boys or girls basketball teams.

Each experienced huge success in central Washington a season ago, but both suffered weekend defeats that brought otherwise successful seasons to a close.

This season started on the right foot, with both qualifying for the regional round, among the 2A’s Sweet 16.

But the Hornet girls were defeated 43-35 by River Ridge during a Friday contest at Kent-Meridian High School.

Less than 24 hours later, it was the White River boys going down to defeat, dropping a 51-50 heartbreaker to Burlington-Edison at Lynden High.

The Hornet girls were clearly the aggressors during the first half, particularly late in the second quarter when a scoring flurry left White River with an 11-point lead. The rally included three hoops by Amanda Lance, one by Crystal Narolski and a pair of Kennedy Hobert free throws and was only halted when Ridge’s Jazzlyn Brewster nailed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

The second half proved White River’s undoing. River Ridge, which has won three of the past six Class 2A state titles, appeared to wake up defensively and play the type of ball the team is known for. Pressing up and down the

court, the Hawks limited the Hornets to just four secondhalf buckets and 10 total points, while harassing White River into repeated turnovers.

The Hornets had just three players crack the scoring column. Kennedy Hobert, the SPSL 2A’s Most Valuable Player, finished with 15 points, while Amanda Lance and Crystal Narolski added 10 apiece.

The regional loss might have been even more traumatic for the White River boys, who entered the fourth quarter with a slim lead and held a one-point upper hand as the game clock ticked well inside the final minute.

But a repeat trip to the Elite Eight wasn’t in the cards.

With less than 30 seconds remaining, B-E’s Rudy Mataya drove the length of the court and, despite being fouled, converted a layup that provided the Tigers all they needed to pull off the win. White River had one final chance after Mataya missed his free-throw attempt, but couldn’t get a shot to fall.

White River kept it a close game the entire way, then took a 50-49 lead with Dustin France drilled a baseline jumper with 90 second remaining. Both teams then failed to score, setting up Mataya’s late heroics.

The Hornets’ Brandon Dove scored a game-high 21 points.

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White River sophomore Kristin Sturdivan applies defense during the Hornets’ Friday-night loss to River Ridge High School. The loss at Kent-Meridian High School was in the regional round of the 16-team state Class 2A tournament and brought an end to White River’s season. Photo by Kevin Hanson

Kahne is caught up in Daytona 500 crash

By Dennis Box Editor

Enumclaw’s Kasey Kahne had moved as high as third

place early in Sunday’s Daytona 500 when he was involved in a nine-car crash on the 32nd lap that dropped him out of conten-

tion.

According to nascar.com, Kyle Busch’s car caught Kahne’s left rear, which caused Kahne’s No. 5 car to

spin into the infield.

The article on the nascar site stated: Another handful of prerace favorites dropped from contention after an early nine-car crash, triggered when Busch shoved Kasey Kahne into a spin just past the start-finish line in the 32nd lap. The melee collected Kevin Harvick –

the winner of the Sprint Unlimited and Budweiser Duel preliminaries – and Tony Stewart, a four-time winner at Daytona, but never in the 500.

“I was kind of right in the middle of the race track, and it closed the door on us,” Stewart said. “… If I didn’t tell y’all I’m disappointed and heartbroken,

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Auto show to support WRHS vocational programs

Student and staff cars on display at the Buckley Log Show grounds. White River High’s Motorsports Club will sponsor an automobile show here on May 18. Photo courtesy of Shelley Skinner Staff Writer

White River High School’s Motorsports Club is putting together its first car show and fundraiser for May. The Auto Show will be held on the Buckley Log Show grounds May 18, and the club’s students are already working hard to pack the house. “(We’re going to put in) as many as it will hold,”

student Tyler Brateng said.

“If we have to line them up on 410, we’ll do that.”

Boastful hyperbole perhaps, but the club has a strong start by entering about 10 early bird vehicles from the students themselves and by gathering 11 sponsors, mostly local auto businesses acquainted with or belonging to the family of club president Monica Frazer.

“Each business represents a category of judg-

SkillsUSA vocational programs. The campus is equipped with a large, fully-equipped garage, but the continuous appetite for the cars and parts students need to learn mechanical trade craft is expensive.

Every student in the club is throwing their hat in to fulfill the labor needs of the show. One student will announce. Some students will park the cars; those

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The second trail is called the “Rim Trail” and begins just outside the park gate. It follows the chain-link fence to the edge of the “rim” and continues for two miles. The trail crosses old access roads in a couple of places, but is marked with tabs, sometimes hard to see. This moderate trail travels through a delightful, sometimes dense forest with lush undergrowth. Along the way, you will run into a few, somewhat unexpected things in unlikely places, like an outhouse, a picnic table, boardwalks through the large swamp and a nice little bench. Unfortunately you never get a clear view of the river and valley below. This trail is open to hikers and mountain bikes only.

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Eventually the trail comes to a stream with no bridge. During the dry months the stream is smaller and crossable. Horseback riders use this road/trail often. There’s a large parking area for horse trailers at the top of this road. It is not open to off-road vehicles.

To reach the park follow state Route 410 four miles from Enumclaw’s last stoplight. You can’t miss the large sign directing you to the right. Follow this road for one mile to the horse trailer parking lot and another 1.5 miles to the park entrance. During the winter months, the park is closed on weekends, but access to the Rim Trail is year-round. There are a couple of unmarked accesses to the trail, but it really is most enjoyable if you hike the entire two mile stretch. It’s a great place to get fresh air and exercise when you haven’t got a lot of time.

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Authorization to use the Log Show grounds was obtained handily with the help of a White River student on the Log Show committee.

“I think it will be good community outreach for everyone involved,” student Jake McPherson said. “And we’ve had a lot of community support for the show in return.”

The Motorsports Auto Show will be held May 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Entrants can submit their vehicles up to the day of the show, and all entries may arrive starting at 8 a.m.; judging will be from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The entry fee for one vehicle is $10.

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Students of the month Members of the Buckley Kiwanis Club picked six young people to honor as their January Students of the Month.

• Spencer Stinson attends Glacier Middle School. He is involved in the leadership team and donates time to work with other students on math.

• Breegan Deckys is enrolled in the Choice Program, is in Running Start, volunteers at the food bank and plans on being a teacher.

• Samantha Fiedler is involved in the backpack program, helps first-graders with math and helps kindergarten students with

reading and play activities at Elk Ridge Elementary.

• Grace Pompeo helps with kindergarten physician education class and is on the Mountain Meadows leadership team.

• Austin Young, a fourth-grader at Wilkeson Elementary, is involved in Boy Scouts, community food drives and the log show. Also, he helps a student with physical challenges.

• Maysen Westling is involved in sports, food and clothing drives and is a team leader. She is involved in the More Pennies From Heaven thrift store.

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For a weed-free garden, this is a season to kill

Shot weed – March right out and take aim now

Shot weed is the white-flowering, low-growing little weed with green leaves arranged in a circular whirl around the central flower stalk. It earned its name for the way it shoots its seed, machine gun style, all over the garden.

The irritating fact is that this is

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a recent introduction to western Washington gardens, brought into our area from nursery flats and potted plants.

First Line of Defense: Check all new plants, especially the drainage holes of pots, for this hitchhiking weed that sneaks into gardens by hiding under the foliage of plants you bring home from the nursery. Next, check the cracks of sidewalks, seams of cement walkways and damp, gravel areas for shot weed colonies. This weed loves damp, cool soil and when the seeds shoot about the garden, they can land in the most unlikely places. Shot weed will even multiply and go to seed in roof gutters and garden walls.

Smother Power: Hand weeding an infestation of shot weed is a tedious and wet job in early spring but even weed-killing herbicides will not stop shot weed this early in the year. The most

practical approach is to smother large colonies of shot weed with sheets of damp newspaper. Local newspapers that run a garden column are the best form of organic weed block. In pathways and other areas where you will not be adding plants you can use cardboard, old carpet scraps or any heavy material that blocks out sunlight to smother the shot weed. In garden beds, cover the newsprint with a fresh layer of bark chips, moo doo or other organic mulch and you’ll be improving the soil while you suffocate the weeds.

more top growth. Then you’ll have to cut again to ground level and then in a month or two cut back the fresh growth once again. It often takes three cuts over three months to weaken the extensive root system and get control of these weeds.

Using Roundup or other herbicides on these two demon weeds will fail because the foliage of horsetail is so thin and made up of scales that won’t hold onto the poison and the leaves of morning glory have a waxy covering that can also resist herbicide sprays.

Constant cutting of the top growth is tedious, but the most practical approach.

These two weeds cause so much frustration because homeowners make the mistake of trying to hand-pull these well-rooted invaders. Don’t be tugging at either horsetail or morning glory vines. Both these demons have survivor skills that tell the weed to send out new underground roots if somebody starts tugging at the top growth. Instead of stimulating the root system with a tug, sharpen up and cut back these weeds to ground level.

Yes, they will resprout and grow

The cheery yellow flowers that bloom in damp lawns across western Washington are invasive buttercup and they are trying to tell you that your soil needs lime.

This weed thrives in damp, acidic soil so don’t waste your money on weed-and-feed or try to spray your lawn with broadleaf weed killers. Instead, improve the drainage by aerating and adding a topdressing of sandy loam to the old lawn right on top of the grass. An inch of loam will block light from the buttercup

Horsetail and Morning Glory – Demon weeds

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• • • Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture from Washington State University and is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books.

For book requests or answers to gardening questions, write to her at: P.O. Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022. Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a personal reply.

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The end of February and the beginning of March is also when you see the first blooms of yellow sunshine in the form of bright gold forsythia and cheery yellow daffodils. Let the color yellow be your warning light – the slugs are now awake and about and you’ll need to be proactive and make the first strike if you want to protect newly emerging lettuce seedlings or spring-blooming pansies. You may also need to sprinkle slug bait near f lowering bulbs.

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City ponders new names for most-used buildings The city of Bonney Lake will be changing the names of its two flagship buildings soon.

As the city has moved its executive, legislative and judicial departments to the Justice Center and as it prepares to move its Public Works Department into the old City Hall on Bonney Lake Boulevard, city officials have recognized that the buildings’ given names will no longer fully reflect their functions. The former city hall’s name would no longer reflect its resident departments at all.

But what should the names become?

At the conclusion of discussion during the Feb. 19 city council workshop, the legislative body settled on the Justice and Municipal Center for the Justice Center,

and the Public Works Center for the old city hall. A survey of city employees found that “Public Works Center” was by far the most popular option for the old city hall.

“City Hall” was the most popular employee choice for the Justice Center, but some on the council were concerned about its incomplete accuracy, given the building’s additional role as courthouse. The council noted there have still been a few people who have shown up for court dates at the old city hall building.

“I just wouldn’t put a label on (the Justice Center) as City Hall,” Councilman Donn Lewis said. “To me, that’s not the best name for it to be officially named. Just because there’s too much heartburn from people saying, ‘Well, we didn’t want a city

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BUILDINGS FROM 19 hall, we didn’t vote for a city hall, you shouldn’t have built a city hall.’ Well, you (referring to elected officials) turn around and try to say it’s not a city hall, it’s a municipal center with

justice and we built it for the justice center. And then they look at it and it says City Hall on it…

“It doesn’t really matter in the end. People will still call it the city hall (informally).”

Responses to the city survey were varied, and one agreed with the senti-

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ment that the Justice Center should more accurately reflect its comprehensive services.

“The name needs to reflect the use in order to properly serve the citizens,” read the anonymous comment. “Justice Center excludes the majority (of) uses. Many courts are contained within a city hall, as it has been for most of the City’s life … The name clearly should be City Hall, or Municipal Building.”

A few other comments

www.blscourierherald.com lamented the idea of a name change.

“Again with the expense to change signage?” read a Jan. 10 comment. “It’s a BAD idea. It’s the Justice center - Clearly!”

Other comments noted that a name change would involve financial costs in altering street signs and forms, and labor costs in submitting the change to online search engines.

“In my opinion the name should stay the same,” read another comment. “The

city has paid for information signs on 410 already indicating Justice Center.

There has been lots of negative comments from citizens over the name change of the Old buckley highway [sic] because of the costs to the city … This is ridiculous and seems like a total waste of money!!!!!

“During this time of budget cuts and contract issues does this even seem appro-

priate to consider this?”

Still others took a tongue-in-cheek approach, using the comments to tender write-in name suggestions, such as the “Big Red Barn” for the Justice Center and the “Trailer Without Wheels” for the old city hall.

The name changes were not put on the agenda for the Feb. 26 regular council meeting.

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cut oatmeal, depending on how adventurous I feel, with wheat bran and raisins.

I put just a little water in the bowl and cook it in the microwave for two minutes.

Once the oatmeal mixture is cooked I break the eggs into the oatmeal mixture and cover everything with as much Bulgarian buttermilk as I can fit into the bowl.

I stir it all up and start checking my emails.

Even when a whole bunch of heretics are mad and trying to get me fired, I still feel like Mr. Sensitive Bucket of Happiness. How could I not? Most of women in the office are gagging and calling me names I don’t understand because women never tell me what those special words mean. Another conspiracy revealed.

Buttermilk - the ambrosia of superheroes, take my word for it.

taste buds and what was gross and disgusting as a child, becomes yummy, yummy as you near death.

I figure I have either turned into my grandmother, or I’m ready to croak.

Not only do I like buttermilk, I love it on my morning cereal mixture I call the slurry of superheroes – which is what I have been getting plenty of grief about due to the conspiracy.

My new favorite recipe is as follows. I soft boil two eggs in one-half inch of water for exactly 5 1/2 minutes at home before work.

I load those in a plastic container and head to the office.

Once I get to work I mix up a bowl of either oldfashioned oatmeal or steel

letters FROM 7 ball, it is also Colon Cancer Awareness Month.

March 8 we are hoping to rally 2,013 first-time patients nationwide to schedule or have a colonoscopy for National Colon Cancer Screening Day. Colon cancer is the third-leading cause of death in both men and women in this country, but unlike many other devastating illnesses, colon cancer can be detected and prevented with one very simple test – a colonoscopy. And yet, nearly 40 percent of at-risk Americans are not taking this lifesaving step.

Colonoscopy is the most effective method of screening for colon cancer. It is a simple procedure done under sedation, typically taking less than a half hour, and allows patients to resume normal activities the following day.

The lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is one in 20, and everyone over the age of 50 (45 for African American) is at risk for colon cancer.

If you have been putting off your colonoscopy, it’s time to get in the game. Join me on March 8 to be part of team Stop Colon Cancer Now. Dr. Ralph Katsman Digestive Health Specialists Bonney Lake

daytona FROM 10 over, defending Sprint Cup champ Brad Keselowski, Casey Mears, Juan Pablo Montoya and Kurt Busch were also involved.

“Oh, it’s crazy. I can’t believe it,” Kahne said of his early exit. “I mean, I wanted to race. I didn’t want to run singlefile by the wall. That’s what we were doing and you still got caught in something. I really don’t know how it happened like that. I understand how that happens but it’s restrictorplate racing and anything can happen here.”