Kent Reporter, March 29, 2013

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Berrios, Stober, Sharp to run for City Council; Perry won't seek re-election By Steve Hunter shunter@kentreporter.com

Jim Berrios, Ken Sharp and Bailey Stober announced plans this week to run for the Kent City Council while Councilwoman

Jamie Perry decided she will not run again. Berrios, owner of the Golden Steer Steak ‘N Rib House on the East Hill, plans to run for Position No. 2, held by Perry. Sharp, owner of Minuteman

Press in Kent, said he will run for Position No. 6, held by Elizabeth Albertson. Stober said he will wait until each councilmember up for reelection announces their plans before picking a position.

Councilman Dennis Higgins’ four-year term also expires the end of this year. Higgins said in a phone call that he is running again. Albertson said in an email she will issue a statement next month about her plans.

By Michelle Conerly mconerly@kentreporter.com

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Former prisoner turns life around, studies law at UW

Reallocation of funds leads to new safety measures in KSD The money from a 2006 bond referendum intended to pay for the reconstruction of a Kent School District elementary school is being reallocated to fund school surveillance cameras, school lockdown technology and other district projects. Nguyen The bond, worth more than $15 million, was initially meant to help pay for the Covington Elementary School replacement building, but because the amount would cover only a portion of the costs, the School Board of Directors decided to release and reallocate the $15.95

Perry, who was appointed to the council in 2008 to fill a vacancy and was elected in 2009, decided to focus more on her full-time job and family.

BY MICHELLE CONERLY mconerly@kentreporter.com

Totally tubular twirls Lauren Lee, right, and Urmika Tejpaul practice their moves for South Side Dance Force’s latest ’80s inspired show, “Drum Machines and Night Club Screams,” choreographed by Joselito Castillo. Story page 7. MICHELLE CONERLY, Kent Reporter

It wasn’t long ago when Lizzie Reid was sitting in a similar seat at the Washington Corrections Center for Women near Purdy, listening to the same testimonies. The last of the speakers, Reid knows the prisoners have heard all the statistics before, and many Reid times that’s not enough to convince them to turn their lives around. As she steps up to address the group, Reid leads them down memory lane instead, retelling her own story of how she, a former prisoner, is now on the career path to becoming a practicing

attorney in public service law. Once a prisoner of her past mistakes, the Kent woman is telling a different story of hope and purpose today. Reid, a no-nonsense and engaging woman, makes her way around the state to speak to prisoners, motivating others with her own words as an ambassador for the changes she made that have turned her world around. “I always like it when I get to make the men cry,” Reid said. “I think it’s because they hear the possibilities because I’m calling them on their b.s., and I don’t want to hear those excuses. I used to have the same excuses.” [ more REID page 8 ]

Kent man sentenced to prison for Panther Lake vehicular homicide A 19-year-old Kent man received a sentence of six years,

eight months in prison for the vehicular homicide death of motorcyclist David Daniel, 56, last August in a Panther Lake neighborhood.

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Justin Jerald Cordova, a former Kentridge High School football player, pleaded guilty in December to the charge. He could have been sentenced up to eight years, six

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months under a new state law that took effect in June to stiffen the penalty for vehicular homicide. “I know my actions cost you something that can never be re-

placed and that from the bottom of my heart I’m sorry,” Cordova said in a letter he read during his [ more homicide page 8 ]

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By Steve Hunter shunter@kentreporter.com


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