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Ex-attorney from Maple Valley faces sentencing
Covington planning for future town center
BY STEVE HUNTER
BY KRIS HILL
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khill@covingtonreporter.com
A former Kent family law attorney and youth baseball coach pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to production of child pornography, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography. David Scott Engle, 49, of Maple Valley, faces a mandatory minimum prison term of 15 years when he is sentenced Oct. 21 by U.S. District Judge James L. Robart, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office media release. Law officials arrested Engle in November. He has been in jail since his arrest. The Mount Rainier Baseball Association terminated Engle, a fellow board member, in November of his duties with the Enumclawbased group that runs teams for players who live in the Auburn,
As soon as the Kent School District is ready to sell the property Covington Elementary sits on officials from the city of Covington hope to be ready with a plan for the site. Covington City Manager Derek Matheson said staff is working on four major initiatives related to the property, which will be home someday to the city’s town center concept. First is the request for qualifications which went out July 15. The city is looking for a development partner so a plan can be developed for the site. Second is an amendment to municipal code which will allow development agreements in the town center. Third, thanks to a $50,000 grant from the state, the city can hire a consultant to help with a study of
The Business Of Summer
Garrett McGann turned his summer hobby into a business with a booth at the Black Diamond Farmers Market July 12. McGann learned to make survivor bracelets on YouTube after seeing his friend make them. McGann had a display of premade bracelets and was also taking special orders for specific color combinations. KATHERINE SMITH, The Reporter.
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To the top of Mount Si to help women in need BY KRIS HILL khill@maplevalleyreporter.com
Tami Kapule wants to celebrate conquering breast cancer with a climb to the top of Mount Si. Tami Kapule, a Black Diamond resident who works for the Kent Fire Department, was diagnosed in December. Her first-ever mammogram in May 2012 showed something suspicious but not scary, so, the staff at MultiCare in Covington suggested she return in
six months to check again. “Ann, she was the mammogram technician, she said, ‘Don’t get dressed, just hang tight,’” Kapule said. “They put me in a little waiting room. In came the radiologist and Shelly (Donaldson), the nurse navigator. That’s when I first met her.” Next up for her was a biopsy. She was told there was a 15 percent chance it would come back positive for breast cancer. Kapule got the results of the biopsy Dec.
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10. “Shelly had a little blue folder in her hand,” Tami Kapule said. “She said, ‘How are you?’ And I said, ‘I feel like the balance of my life hangs in that folder.’” With the diagnosis of breast cancer confirmed — it was in the first stage and detected early thanks to the vigilance of the staff at MultiCare, Kapule said — it was time to consider the options. A friend whom she works with encouraged her to meet with Dr. Richard Clarfeld, a surgeon at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue who specializes in breast cancer related procedures. “We met with him and went over the options,” she said. “The [ more HELP page 8]
Kylie Kapule, left, gives her mother Tami a kiss the day after her mom underwent a double mastectomy in January at Overlake Hospital. Photo courtesy of Kapule family
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