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In pursuit of higher education in the city

Committee ramps up for Tahoma school bond

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Someday Covington’s town center could be more than just a place to shop and live, it could be a place to go to school, a place that could fill a higher education gap in southeast King County.

Bringing colleges to Covington is an idea which first came up in 2010. The city worked with MultiCare to develop a plan to bring higher education here with health care as the hook, explained Covington City Manager Derek Matheson. But COVINGTON that concept has broadened considerably since then.

“The short term goal is to bring higher education to Covington and the long term goal is to bring … some type of facility to the town center,” Matheson said. “The

The VOTE Yes committee is gearing up to campaign for the Tahoma School District construction bond which will be on the November general election ballot.

The bond that the district will put before voters is for $195 million and includes money for a new Tahoma High School to be located on 35 acres in the Donut Hole in Maple Valley. It also includes what are called warm, safe, and dry projects as well as funding MAPLE for work related VALLEY to restructuring the district’s existing schools for different grade levels.

The committee, which is cochaired by Barbara Kennedy and Erin Weaver, has met since May and will officially kick off the

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Darren Motamedy, a jazz saxophone player and former Kent School District music teacher, performs during Maple Valley’s Music in the Park concert series Aug. 8 at Lake Wilderness Park. Motamedy and his family moved to Las Vegas in 2010 but he still returns regularly to perform. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.

Up with People brings a message of hope, peace

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While Up with People will bring the world, figuratively speaking, to Auburn in September for its performance of Voices, the non-profit wants to introduce its cast to as many people in south King County as possible.

To that end they seek host families throughout the area including Covington, Maple Valley

and Black Diamond, volunteer opportunities in the region as well as chances to work with middle schools on an anti-bullying program Up with People has to offer.

With the cast set to spend a week in south King County in mid-September, a trio of volunteers from Up with People are in town now working to set up volunteering, connect with potential host families as well as school

districts. There are about 100 cast members, explained Lorna Murphy Durran, a promotions manager for the non-profit which was founded in 1965. While the performers are in the area, Durran explained, they will perform about 1,000 hours of community service.

Durran added that Up with People began in the 1960s as an organization which was based on music, a single song in fact, that brought a message of hope and peace. Over the years it evolved into a service-based organization and in 2005 it restructured significantly. Now it is an opportunity

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Covington Days turnout better than expected

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ovington Days was full of surprises for Karla Slate, the city’s community relations coordinator who helped plan the Seafair-sanctioned festival.

For example, volunteers ran out of prizes children could get when they redeemed tickets they collected playing games in the Kids Zone not once, not twice but three times, Slate said. The amount of revenue brought in by selling tickets for that element of the festival was considerably higher than she anticipated.

“I was expecting $600 or $700,” Slate said. “But we brought in around $3,500 in ticket sales for the Kids Zone.”

Generally speaking the surprising elements of the two day festival in July in the parking lot of Kohl’s were pleasant, which made the work city staff put into the event during the four months they had to plan it worth the effort, Slate said.

The festival kicked off with the parade which had 45 entries with the route being a bit longer this year, coming down Southeast 272nd Street and ending in the downtown business core, Slate said. It terminated not far from the site of Covington Days.

“It was pretty busy as the parade ended,” Slate said. “Most people felt like just by looking that there was a significantly higher turnout of spectators and those spectators definitely came to the festival right afterward.”

And as spectators wandered around the festival grounds, Slate said, they got the chance to see a larger number of booths representing a wide variety of vendors. Slate said there were 52 vendors in 2012, according to the list she had, while there were 92 this year.

“In past years we’ve heard from attendees and even vendors themselves that they felt like the event was getting too commercial,” Slate said. “People want to attend a festival like that for arts and crafts booths and more interactive booths so that was our goal when we were seeking vendors.

Within our policies we created a limit for each different type of vendor.

We actually sold out of commercial vendor spaces about two months before the festival and had a waiting list.

“The purpose of the waiting list was if we didn’t fill all of our other slots that we would be able to offer slots to them but we didn’t have to do that.”

This led to another pleasant surprise. Part of

the challenge of putting on the event this year was to find as much support as possible to defray the city’s costs. Once the commercial booths were sold out, Slate said, it presented an opportunity.

“It helped generate a few more sponsors because there is, at a certain sponsorship level … a free booth,” Slate said.

“The commercial vendors turnout was really good. It’s hard to limit that revenue but we felt like it was a good decision.”

In terms of revenue and sponsorship support, Slate said, the vendor booth spaces and Kids Zone ticket sales brought in more than $10,000 combined while sponsorship dollars came to about $10,000 in cash but considerably more through in kind donations.

It did not entirely cover the city’s expenses but she felt like that it laid a good foundation for future planning.

“Because the festival was an unbudgeted decision to start coordinating it I think we were trying to be very conservative with our expenses,” Slate said. “I feel like sometimes maybe we were being a little too conservative. We obviously did better than we thought we could do. It was just so much busier than we thought so we were short handed. That’s one of the

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There were also some things to think about in terms of layout of the festival in the parking lot, Slate said, and selection of food vendors as there were some overlap in menus.

Planning for the 2014 Covington Days festival will begin soon, Slate said.

“Our first course of action will be plotting out the site again to determine what things did work and didn’t work and rearranging to figure out how more vendors we could fit, what we should add and remove as well as a traffic and parking plan,” Slate said. “Once we have that figured out so we know we aren’t going to have any problems we’ll move back into connecting with our sponsors and finding new sponsors and connect with vendors because there’s already several chomping at the bit to fill out applications. And it will definitely help to have an additional six months to plan.”

Slate plans to send out a survey to vendors soon but would love feedback from others. She would also appreciate it if folks would consider volunteering next summer.

“It really was a lot of work but it was a lot of fun,” Slate said. “I’m excited to start planning the next one.”

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lessons that I learned is that it takes so many more people to pull off an event like that. We did well but we could have done better.

Those are things we will fine tune over the next few events.”

Now there is a baseline for planning Covington Days, Slate said.

So next year the work will focus on bringing in more sponsors, particularly multi-year sponsorship agreements, as well as finding more volunteers and fine tuning traffic flow as well as parking.

Slate said they will have a much more refined plan when it comes to the latter two points when staff approach Kohl’s again for using the site next year.

“Another lesson learned is you have to be completely flexible and expect the unexpected,” Slate said.

Feedback, thus far, has been largely positive, Slate said. Those who attended the festival seemed to enjoy the fact there were more arts and crafts vendors, something the planning committee focused on broadening, and there was considerable positive comments about the parade specifically the new route was well received.

Vendors are already contacting Slate to get on the list for next year. Those who didn’t necessarily sell products told Slate it was a

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To help build a healthier forest, 125 acres of young, over-crowded Douglas fir trees in the 334-acre DanvilleGeorgetown Open Space near Ravensdale will be selectively thinned this year.

The thinning operation is scheduled to get under way Aug. 19, and it is expected to run through October on the portion of the site that is south of Summit-Landsburg Road Southeast. In order to protect public safety, trails will be closed to all access in this portion of the open space during the work.

The goal of the tree-removal work is to improve forest health and increase bio-diversity in this planted forest of 30-yearold Douglas fir.

The forest currently has little species or structural diversity, with low habitat value. Thinning trees increases the growth rate of the most desirable, large trees, and it increases the forest’s value as fish and wildlife habitat.

The remaining 35 acres in this stand of trees consists of wetlands and their buffers, riparian buffers, and logging access roads.

King County awarded thinning contract to Erickson Logging, Inc. of Gig Harbor. The harvest and sale of the trees will generate an estimated $193,000 that will help fund the ongoing management of this and other King Countyowned forestland.

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O Q U O T E O F N O T E : He who opens a school door closes a prison. - Victor Hugo

In support of Tahoma schools

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Edelman and Deady respond to mayor The Black Diamond Mayor made several negative comments about the

Kris Hill Assistant Editor

In every journalist’s life there comes a time when she has to pass the torch onto someone else. For me, it is time to pass the Tahoma construction bond measure and overcrowded schools narrative on after covering it off and on for the past three years.

There are two primary reasons for this. First, Katherine Smith can offer a fresh perspective on it, and she has a fair amount of familiarity with the Tahoma School District. Second, my daughter is rapidly approaching school age and I’m getting to a point where I can’t separate my opinions as a parent of a future Tahoma student from my writing.

I recognize this and am handing the story off.

In the summer of 2011 I wrote a column offering my thoughts on the bond measure which failed that year. Among the things I said was that I wouldn’t put my daughter in an overcrowded school. Now that she’s two years away from kindergarten I still feel this way and even more strongly now than I did then.

From the time I started covering the Tahoma School District in 2005 after helping to start this paper, I have been nothing short of impressed with how it is run, the curriculum, the teachers and the kind of students, really the kind of people it helps create. I look forward to putting my daughter into the Tahoma school system.

And I will vote for the construction bond measure in November. Just like I did in April 2011. I believe supporting our schools means it is considerably less likely the kids in my neighborhood will start breaking into my car or house and much more likely the good schools we have will continue to shape amazing young people — who, by the way, are generally supported by wonderful parents who partner with educators.

I also know that I am likely not the only one who was surprised when I heard — Katherine attended the board meeting Aug. 1 where the amount was set — the final amount the board set for the bond measure. In 2011 they went to the community asking it to support a $120 million bond. This time, the amount is $195, and there are some in the district’s boundaries who will balk at that number. People who don’t have kids in school anymore, seniors on a fixed income, and folks who still haven’t fully recovered from the recession. I understand that.

But, the conservative folks in the community who can afford it will also wonder why they should have to support this bond.

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I know the VOTE Yes committee, which will campaign for support of the bond measure, is made up of smart people who learned from the last three bond measure failures and understand the challenges this one presents.

Campaigning in 2011 began in March for a fall general election. This time, they have three short months to rally voters in the school district around the cause.

Now, it should be noted that though the price tag is higher — the bulk of the cost comes in building a brand new Tahoma High School which appears to have a price tag of $140 million — it will not be a whole lot more in taxes than what property owners in the district pay now on the last bond the district passed in 1997. That is set to expire in 2016. I know a significant chunk of the property taxes I pay on my house, about half, goes to the school district. I also got phone calls and emails and comments on the website in 2011 from people who resent that.

It’s not the district’s fault that basic education is not fully funded by the state Legislature and that the funding formula is broken. Don’t hold it against Tahoma officials, who are doing the best they can to provide a world class education to your kids and in two years mine, with less than they need.

And district staff are dealing with the doubleedged sword of Tahoma’s reputation. Many people who moved here in the past decade did so because of the schools. As a result, the classrooms are overcrowded, which means we are going to be asked to vote to pay higher taxes to build to create capacity as well as to improve the places our kids spend 180 days a year in.

I think it’s worth it. That’s because I have been

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City Council as quoted in the Aug. 2 issue of the Covington-Maple Valley Reporter. The following is in response to those comments.

The article quotes the Mayor as saying:

“I have never not had a balanced budget”.

Of course, the final budget was balanced — the law prohibits an unbalanced budget. The issue raised at the forum was that she chose to present an

at Tahoma Junior High during passing time. I’ve spent time in portables at Tahoma High during the winter when they are freezing cold in the morning and blazing hot in the afternoon. Or the ones which smell. I’ve been at Cedar Heights Middle School during lunch when the cafeteria is bursting at the seams.

Then there’s the reality of the safety concerns of having 19 portables at Tahoma High. It is a security nightmare. I could go on but the only way — and I said this two years ago — to know what it is like is to go see for yourself. If you are skeptical, go to a school in September such as Lake Wilderness Elementary which had about 1,100 students last year and was the largest elementary in the state, then tell me you won’t vote for the bond measure.

If you care about your safety, if you care about your property values, if you care about your neighborhood, if you care about your community at all, you should support the bond measure even if you don’t have children in school.

I have paid property taxes to Tahoma for nine years now with no immediately apparent direct positive effects for me. But I think the combination of supportive parents and a good school system means the children in our community, for the most part, are doing good things and are not breaking into my car or house. They are also going out into the world and changing it.

Parents in this community are doing their part at home, educators are doing their part in the classroom so let’s go the rest of the way as a community to ensure the district continues on its current academic trajectory by funding the construction bond measure which will provide the environment needed for success.

unbalanced budget to the the council and the public and left it to the council to balance it. The official preliminary budget was presented Nov. 2, 2012 as required by law and was out of balance by $248,783.

“I never use reserves which was done a lot before.”

That is untrue. Reserve funds were used earlier this year to pay the Black Diamond Hearing Examiner.

Reserves were also used from the Sewer enterprise

fund to supplement the Stormwater and Water enterprise funds. She has been able to decrease expenditures. She had to because revenue decreased.

The council recommended the specific decreases that included council members foregoing their own salaries. The Mayor did not offer to do the same. “… but this council has been very difficult to work with. I have reached out to [ more LETTERS page 5 ]

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The Mayor has not reached out to us.

In fact, we have been snubbed by her in public. She does not even acknowledge that we are a part of the city of Black Diamond government. Every email from the Mayor that required a response and was not information only was responded to.

Olness said that council members refused to meet with her.

That is absolutely untrue. The only requested meeting was with Council member Deady. And the meeting was held. The only other meetings that have been scheduled city committee meetings which we both attended regularly.

“They really don’t know what I think a lot of the times, because they won’t discuss things with me, but they think they disagree so they don’t want to (discuss things).”

Because of the amount of disinformation about the council members disseminated, we are more comfortable talking to the city administrator and city staff.

We know and understand the separation of legislative versus administrative functions. This is not a transparent government.

This is an issue of respect. We are not acknowledged publicly as other city government officials are by their mayors.

If the Mayor would really try to reach out to the council, she may be surprised to find that we would like to work with her. But she must be open and treat us with respect.

Janie Edelman and Tamie Deady City Council members Black Diamond

Mayor’s Facebook comments insulting The day before the election, incumbent Black Diamond Mayor Olness’ Facebook campaign page posted: “A little over 24 hours from now we will know how many reasonable, knowledgeable people in Black Diamond voted.”

The day after the election she posted: “Guess I gave too much credance to reasonable and knowledgeable. Dave Gordon got 60 percent of the vote...”

So, Mayor Olness thinks the 60 percent — actually 66 percent — that voted for Dave are both unreasonable and ignorant.

Well, I’m part of the 66 percent and I know an insult when I hear it. Behind Mayor Olness’ condescending remark is a window into her thinking, that she exhibits open disdain for most of Black Diamond, and that she is completely out of touch, having no concept of what is important to the people in our community.

Mayor Olness, on her campaign website, states we should “let the record speak for itself.” It did indeed, and two-thirds of the voters rejected her record. Mayor Olness’ post election comments speak volumes, also.

I look forward to November when we will finally elect the kind of leadership we need.

Doug Ostgard Black Diamond

Primary election results a strong message What does Dave Gordon getting 66 percent of the vote in a three-person election mean? This large percent of the vote means the people in Black Diamond are concerned about what has been going on in Black Diamond. They are waking up to what’s really been happening in city hall. I didn’t want my elected officials to buy into this giant development.

When people do take the time to think about it, they realize: What is going to happen to my property value? What is going to happen to my taxes? What is going to happen to the transportation system? And they know they don’t want to go through with this on a massive scale. They don’t want that type of development.

I want a country life, that’s why I’m living here. I don’t want masses of people.

I’m living here because I have a little bit of freedom, it’s a place where you don’t have people living on top of you.

Now the people voted for a mayor that will look out for the town in years to come.

The old mayor and the planning commissioner weren’t paying attention to us.

All they were doing was giving OKs to some developer that had no investment in the town at all except how much money

they could make off the deal.

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Bill Bryant Black Diamond

Black Diamond residents want a new direction Last Tuesday (Aug. 6) the citizens of Black Diamond voted by over 66 percent for a new city mayor — Dave Gordon — in the primary election. This huge majority clearly shows that the citizens of Black Diamond are not happy with the direction the incumbent mayor has taken this town.

With fewer than 19 percent of the vote the incumbent lost for several reasons: 1. She is a strong supporter of the massive YarrowBay development project.

The vast majority of the Black Diamond’s citizens oppose YarrowBay and want a less disruptive future.

2. Her attempts to mislead the voters on the financial and legal issues around the development did not fool the people.

3. Mayor Olness ignored the will of the people, demonstrated in 2011 when we elected a new city council by over 70 percent of the vote. The YarrowBay development was the issue then and it is the issue now. The citizens of Black Diamond have sent a clear message that they meant what they said in 2011 and they are going to continue to take back the city.

The upcoming general election campaign promises to be a nasty affair. Mayor Olness will use lies, distortions, and campaign tricks to distort the positions of Dave Gordon. Already she is posting ridiculous claims about Dave Gordon’s intentions on her Facebook page. Mayor Olness’ mudslinging is doomed to fail. The citizens of Black Diamond are not stupid, even though Mayor Olness thinks they are, and when they talk to Dave Gordon they find a highly approachable, honest man with well thought out goals for this city.

The citizens of Black Diamond have spoken and we want a new direction for this city.

Gary Hanson Black Diamond

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Editor, It’s no secret Black Diamond is expected to quadruple its current population over the next 10 to 20 years. Over 15 years ago it was determined by the state that our city is within the Urban Growth Area. The purpose of this was to help keep urban sprawl within bounds.

At that time our city had a great deal of open land. Mayor Botts, Council members Cline, Scorci, Williamson, Bowie, and I along with city administrators Jason Paulson and Rick Luther, knew we had to plan for the growth that we could see was coming. Obviously this land would not remain as is.

Our planning began more than 10 years ago. The mayor and council ultimately determined to use the concept of master planned development. We believed it would help avoid the randomness we saw in other areas. We knew we were fortunate to have open space within the city and surrounding area that allowed us to plan large areas rather than taking a piecemeal approach.

Many months were spent planning, taking community input, and studying maps of the city as well as areas to be annexed.

Numerous meetings were held to keep the public informed.

It became apparent we needed additional staff to assist with this coming change to our city. In order to get the needed personnel we ultimately required the current developer to provide funds for staffing.

During the planning process the council listened to citizens who expressed a desire to have Black Diamond retain its rural character so the concept of Rural by Design was adopted. this meant our city should provide parks, residential areas, places for schools and businesses as well as a coordinated system of pedestrian oriented facilities such as trails and bike paths.

It was also important to show respect for the city’s history and design. Members of our community also believed it was important to incorporate preservation of physical characteristics, protection of surface and ground water — for people and fish — as well as preservation of open spaces. Fifty percent open space was one of our goals.

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[ LETTERS from page 5] ognized how important it would be to timely provide necessary facilities and infrastructure.

“Growth should pay for growth” was a theme

often heard. It was a major issue. We believed existing citizens should not have to bear the burden of developer costs. I believe subsequent councils and administrations have held to this concept as well as to

Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council The Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council met Aug. 5 for its monthly meeting where the top issues discussed were growth concerns and county transportation funding issues.

The discussion on growth concerns centered around the city of Covington’s draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Hawk Subarea property and the impacts that the development will have on the area, namely increased traffic.

The Area Council is concerned about impacts to state Route 516, state Route 18, and state Route 169. The Area Council voted to pursue a review of the Environmental Impact Statement and prepare and submit comments.

The Area Council’s transportation committee initiated a project to review King County roads funding and usage to propose a better model to ensure unincorporated area road infrastructure is sustainable in the long run.

With the addition of several new members the Area Council decided to review and expand its committee rosters. The following includes changes made: Outreach/Survey/Election: Prepare and execute bi-annual Area Council Elections and Citizens’ Advisory Survey. Public outreach was added to the Committee’s responsibilities.

Lorraine Blacklock and Anne Meis joined the committee.

Bylaws: Reviews current by-laws and in conjunction with the entire Area Council, identify any item/issue needing update, or change, and drafting proposed language.

Reviews and revises voting precincts that define Council

as the paper division was once the flagship of the company. And then there is the experiment that is the Orange County Register, where two middle-age owners, whom have been on the job a year, have poured money into the place and adding pages, sections, and entire publications not to mention adding to the newsroom staff. It’s the classic “if we build it they will come” tactic. Time will only tell if that approach will work.

It’s not all bad news, there are papers out there that are still profitable, albeit at smaller margins than they used to be. The smaller, community journalism papers have been known to be in the black. It happens.

With a sale comes the inevitable question which have plagued journalism professionals for the past decade: what will become of us?

Collectively, however, the business model for journalism is broken. It has been limping along, wounded by a circulation scandal in the mid-2000s, the implosion of advertising revenue thanks to the Internet and the bursting of the housing bubble—the latter of which was accelerated by economic collapse of 2008. Historically, advertising

has carried the industry—the newsstand and subscription prices have never been enough to support the production costs—which worked fantastically when it was the main vehicle for reaching consumers. But we’ve all seen how that came crashing down.

This has led may to believe that journalism is dying. A sad state of affairs that would be. As long as we live in a republic, we need the fourth estate. We need passionate, committed people who are willing to search for the truth, have the knowledge, and put in the time to inform citizens.

We need people who are willing to serve as the watchdog.

To survive, to flourish, we need to try new things. We need to be unafraid of trying. What other option do we have? Journalism isn’t dying, but it is evolving. Will, our society value our work enough to come along for the ride?

No one yet knows what Bezos’ strategy with The Post will entail in practice, but in his letter to the staff he emphasizes innovation and experimenting. Perhaps that means he will be willing to try something new, and not rehash what other owners have tried to no avail. But he’s willing to try, so I have to give him props for that.

the open space goal.

Surrounding communities have not had the advantage we have had to plan the future of our city.

We were and are fortunate to have had large tracts of open land so we have been

been done by our past representatives as well as where we are headed. These plans are available to all citizens (see Black Diamond’s home page). There have been numerous community meetings over the past several

Districts every four years. Susan Harvey left to attend to other committee duties and Rhys Sterling joined the committee.

Train Show: Defines Council support requirements and recruits and implements activities necessary to conduct train show. Craig Duckering and Susan Harvey joined the committee.

Flood Control/Surface Water Management: Study King County flood control and surface water management issues, assess current status of policies and fees. Tara Larson left to attend to other committee duties and Todd Mitchell and Sue Neuner joined the committee.

Growth Management -- Monitor County land-use decisions, zoning, and we and enacted ordinances. Susan Harvey left to attend to other committee duties and Lorraine Blacklock, Craig Duckering, and Rhys Sterling joined the committee.

Natural Resources/Parks -- Study regional parks, historic landmarks, natural habitats, water quality, wastewater, and solid waste. Tara Larson and Bev Tonda left to attend to other committee duties and Carl Buchholz, Chuck Meis, and Rhys Sterling joined the committee.

Transportation -- Investigate the area’s transportation problems and offer potential path towards mitigation. Rob Morris left to attend to other committee duties and Carl Buchholz and Lorraine Blacklock joined the committee.

The Area Council’s next meeting will be held from 7-9 p.m.

Sept. 9 at the Fire Station located at the intersection of Southeast 231st Street and state Route 169.

For more information about the area council, visit www. greatermaplevalleyareacouncil.org.

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Two weeks ago we got word of three more sales — The Boston Globe, Newsweek, and The Washington Post.

The Globe is notable for it’s diminished value, what the New York Times Co. bought for $1.1 billion they sold for a tiny fraction at a mere $70 million.

Bezos, of Amazon.com, bought the Post for $250 million, also undoubtedly less than the paper would have fetched a decade ago. Does anyone even remember Newsweek?

There is the still-looming question of what will happen to the Tribune Co. papers, namely the Chicago Tribune and LA Times. Speculation has swirled for years about their sale, which was stirred up again this year when Tribune Co. emerged from bankruptcy. The two main theories involve selling — although who would buy? — or spinning the papers off into a separate company which is ironic

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“First, on a personal level I strongly to students. He pointed to the 20 different believe that just about everything starts bachelors and masters programs offered by and revolves around quality educational UC Everett. opportunities,” Lanza wrote. “We have “As far as benefits to Covington resipositioned Covington to be the Southeast dents, cost and convenience are the main King County center for retail, and once the ones,” Lanza wrote. “Many students cannot (MultiCare) hospital is built we will be the afford to go away to a four year institution. center for medical services as well. I want Room and board put the cost of a bachelors to also make us the center for educational degree out of reach for many. Granted they opportunities. I have a vision of an allcan attend one of the local universities in inclusive educational program starting at Seattle or Tacoma, but that also requires kindergarten all the way through a bacha commute resulting in an outlay of more elor’s program.” time and money.”

Lanza noted that the Kent School DisMatheson said the next step is for a trict has added some elements of this group of state legislators, City Council concept but he thinks the city can members, community and techniTOWN take it to the next level. cal college leaders as well as other A new element city staff is now members of the community to tour considering, Matheson explained, is UC Everett in the next month. The a university center. idea is to see if it’s a concept the city There are only seven such centers in wants to pursue and if so, then work the country including one in Everett which would need to begin soon to lobby the state is called the University Center of North Legislature to fund a feasibility study of the Puget Sound, Matheson said, also known as concept in Covington.

UC Everett.

“While we’re working that university A portion of the Everett Community center track, we’re setting up meetings with College campus hosts eight different public representatives from each of the state’s six and private universities. Students can public four year universities to ask them pursue a bachelors degree there through what we can do to advocate for a physical a combination of in person and online presence in our community,” Matheson learning. It filled a gap in that portion of said. “The bottom line for us is that we the state because Everett is a long drive to think higher ed is a critical component of any of the schools in Seattle and Western our town center vision but we know like Washington University is a fair distance the the town center itself this effort is going to other direction in Bellingham. take many years and so we’re just trying to “We believe a similar gap exists in take one baby step at a time.” southeast King County and north Pierce Lanza and Matheson both see a number County,” Matheson said. of advantages to a university center finding Lanza wrote that the university center a home in the city’s town center plan, which concept allows for a wider range of degrees envisions a walkable development that

for students to travel, earn college credit, perform service and learn about other cultures.

Durran, who is Irish, is in the community now along with two other Up with People volunteers: intern and cast member Brenda

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“We have music that everybody knows,” Guisset said. “We also have our own songs. The whole show is based on a message. We try to incorporate messages of hope. We have songs from Europe, Africa, Asia, so everybody can see a little bit of the world on stage.”

There are 20 different nationalities represented in the cast this year, Guisset said, which gives the performers a chance to see a

wide variety of viewpoints.

Interactions with the other performers coupled with the opportunity to stay with a wide variety of people all over the world gives everyone a whole new perspective.

“We go to a different community every week,” Durran said. “We stay with local host families for cultural immersion. We learn more about cultures and we bring our culture to them.

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“We love staying with families that have teenagers,” Durran said. “It’s a nice opportunity for us to be with people our age and introduce the program to future cast members. We’re not there during the day, we’re busy all day doing community service, working with the schools and performing.”

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A major focus right now as the trio prepares for the cast to arrive for the Auburn performances — which are sponsored

by Rotary International, specifically five clubs in the area including Covington Rotary — is finding host families. Durran, Lopez and Guisset spoke to the Covington Rotary chapter Aug. 9 about Up with People as part of their preparation for the arrival of the cast.

Lopez said the cast members need a place to sleep, that is the most important thing host families can provide. Durran noted that they are not picky — a bathtub, a pillow and blanket would work in a pinch.

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“The advantages for that is mainly economic development,” Lanza wrote. “Right now everything is dependent on KSD selling the property and moving Covington Elementary. In the absence of a bond issue being passed, they would need the sale of that property to be sufficient to allow the new school construction costs to be financially neutral. It is my understanding that there is a few million dollar difference.

What I am hoping is that since one of the priorities of the legislature is to increase the opportunities of higher education to the citizens of Washington that this project would qualify for state and maybe federal grants.”

Because the town center plan includes housing, Lanza continued, what if some of that housing could be set aside for low cost student or faculty housing. That could go a long way in getting grant money — something Covington staff members have proven experts at in the past two years — which could help close the gap between what KSD can get for the property Covington Elementary sits on and what it needs to build a new school.

“If we could deliver a long term, solid tenant to a developer then that would enable the Town Center to pencil out and kick start the development,” Lanza wrote.

“Our vision for the town center is not only a retail (and) economic center, but also a true community gathering center. Ideally City Hall, the library, post office, community center would all someday, hopefully be located there. A four year institution would only enhance that vision.”

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Meetings with administrators of Renton Technical College and Green River convened in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Then not much happened, Matheson said, until both schools reached out to the city in 2012.

Green River worked with the Covington Chamber of Commerce to develop what they called an interest scan, Matheson said, to determine what kinds of classes residents would be interested in taking. Based on the responses Green River started offering courses at City Hall last fall.

In the meantime, Renton Technical partnered with the Kent School District to offer the Medical Career Pathways program at Kentlake High School, with those classes slated to begin this fall.

In January, Matheson said, members of the City Council asked staff during the annual strategic retreat to expand the vision of education to include four year universities in addition to the burgeoning relationships with nearby community and technical colleges.

An ad hoc committee was formed in the spring which included Mayor Margaret Harto, Councilman Mark Lanza, Community Development Director Richard Hart and Matheson.

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“Our role really begins in earnest as soon as the district decides to run the bond and because our school board was working extremely diligently to get the best possible, most effective bond before the voters they just spent a lot of time deliberating on what exactly did Tahoma need and how can we get that for the least amount of dollars,” Weaver said.

The board voted Aug. 1 to put a bond on the November ballot.

In an interview Aug. 9 Weaver said the committee will focus on spreading factual information about the bond throughout the community and also on encouraging residents to register for, and then actually, vote.

“We have the framework for getting this to pass with that old-fashioned, feet on the ground, campaign,”

[ PEOPLE from page 8] This week, Durran said, they will be out in the community continuing to introduce themselves. For example, the three volunteers will be at the grand opening festivities Thursday and Saturday for Valley Medical Center’s Covington Community Clinic South. They will be doing face painting, particularly Saturday as that event has a family focus, flags from around the world.

They also plan to go to

Weaver said. “It just is getting people to understand that the time is now.”

Weaver said she believes one of the biggest hurdles to getting the bond approved is getting eligible voters registered as well as mail in or drop off their ballots come election day.

“We have roughly 8,000 families in the Tahoma School District and anywhere between 1,500 to 2,000 of parents in those families aren’t registered to vote,” Weaver said. “And if we can’t get our own parents who are seeing first hand the effects of overcrowding, the older buildings, to take that step — to register to vote and to make an effective difference — I very much worry that we aren’t going to pass.”

Sean Stewart, who is also involved with the VOTE Yes committee and participated in campaigning for the 2011 bond which did not pass, said the main thing he learned after that campaign it is vital to get community support.

“In order for it to pass at all the community really has to get involved because we don’t have huge amounts

of money like other communities to hire a PR firm to run advertisements and mailers and radio ads or whatever they’re doing,” Stewart said. “This is an old style neighbor-to-neighbor campaign.”

Stewart also talked about the value of utilizing social media as a way to inform the community and also realizing that a campaign is more than the online component.

Weaver, Stewart, and fellow committee member Sarah Gilbert-Newall said that they think the sticker shock at the high price tag on the bond can be overcome when the details and extent of the district’s needs and the projects in the bond are laid out.

“If a person has kind of an immediate gut reaction to the sticker price of the bond, I think they also need to consider, we haven’t passed a bond in 16 years,” Stewart said. “That’s from 1997 to today, that’s the year the city of Maple Valley became a city, and that’s with less than half of the population then it does today. So for 16 years as the population has more

than doubled we haven’t been building the facilities to accommodate the new population that we have.

So for 16 years we’ve been accumulating need and more need and more need and not doing anything to address it. The bill has come due, and that’s what happens when you wait 16 years to address a growing need of more than doubling your population.”

Another hurdle to overcome will be reaching the community members who don’t have students in the schools or who live outside the city.

Gilbert-Newall said one way they hope to reach the wider community is by being in front of local businesses, like grocery stores, much in the way Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety did this spring when they were trying to raise support for a levy lid lift. Weaver said that standing in front of businesses would be a new tactic for the Vote Yes committee.

The three committee members also said the improving economy should help the bond’s chances.

“I think two years later

the economy has picked up, things are better, things feel more settled for many people — hopefully for most people — and the bond is different this time as well, it’s a different set of projects,” Stewart said.

Weaver also pointed to the head counts of students in the schools which continued to rise. Specifically she cited the fact that the district has three of the largest elementary schools in the state, with Lake Wilderness Elementary being the largest.

“We really are reaching that perfect storm,” Weaver said. “We have a growing economy … who is coming out here? Young families. And we already have packed schools. So this nexus of where we are literally going to be forced into a different mode of education. In the next two to three years we are going to be at that point of not being able to do instruction in the way we’re used to now.

The urgency is huge.”

Stewart spoke about how the school district helps the community by being a draw for people to move to Maple Valley and the sur-

rounding area and how that has economic benefits, both for individual homeowners and the city as a whole.

He went on to say that if the district has to change its format to year-round or double shifting it will have negative impacts on the wider community.

“This is a pivotal moment, not just for the Tahoma School District, but for our city,” Weaver said. “I’m convinced of that.”

Weaver, Stewart, and Gilbert-Newall said that they are encouraged about the chance of the bond passing based in part by what they are hearing in the community and the urgency with which people are talking about the bond and the improved economy.

“They have to make a decision what kind of school district do they want, and really, what kind of community do they want,” Stewart said. “If they want the vision that the school district is painting with this bond — and it’s more than just the high school — it’s the community as a whole, then they have to step up and get involved to make that happen.”

the back to school barbecue Aug. 24 at Real Life Church in Covington where volunteers from the Storehouse will help families in need with school supplies, clothes and hair cuts, plus food and fun for the family.

In addition, they will help Rotarians fill bags as part of the Covington chapter’s Backpack Buddies program, which provides backpacks full of food to students in need at several schools in the city.

Durran said they also plan to partner with Habitat

for Humanity and will work on another project in Covington.

Details on the middle school anti-bullying program are still being hammered out but the plan is to try and spend two days in local schools in September.

Members of the cast range in age from 16 to 29 years old, Durran said.

They can get up to 12 credits thanks to a partnership with Florida Southern College. But, more than anything, the travel, working with people from all

over the world and the exposure to different cultures through staying with host families is just as significant as the credits.

“Personal growth is huge for our organization,” Durran said. “And creating global citizens — that’s something we really focus on. Yes, we’re all diverse, but why?”

In the end, Up with People volunteers hope to not just bring the world to south King County, but to bring it together through service, music, and travel.

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His name was Chase, fitting for a fun-loving, adventurous boy who enjoyed racing.

Aboard a powerful, swift motorcycle, Chase Stancil was comfortable and competitive. He challenged many trails, honed his skills and eventually found his way to the local dirt track.

He raced against kids his own age, even those older, more experienced behind the handlebars.

Stancil was speeding down a straightaway during a practice run on the motocross track at Pacific Raceways near Covington

Aug. 7 when the 15-yearold Kent boy went over a small bump, lost control and fell, according to racetrack officials.

A 19-year-old biker right behind Stancil had nowhere else to go, a track official said, and ran over the boy.

On-site medical personnel performed CPR before Stancil was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle where he succumbed to injuries.

Pacific Raceways observed a moment of silence for Stancil Aug. 9 prior to the motocross races.

“Our entire Pacific Raceways’ staff and volunteers are deeply saddened by the loss of one of our rac-

ing community and our thoughts and prayers are with his family,” said Jason Fiorito, Pacific Raceways president, in a statement on the track’s website.

“We remain committed to keeping this sport as safe as possible.”

Also on the same night, a large turnout of family, friends and supporters assembled for a candlelight vigil on a football field at Kentridge High School.

They came to shed tears, exchange hugs and share stories about a boy who left an impression on those he touched.

Stancil would have been a sophomore at Kentridge.

His sudden loss stunned

friends.

“He was a really good guy, funny. He was always joking around with someone,” said Emmitt Medina, who rode dirt bikes with Stancil. “It’s so scary because it could have been me. … You never think it’s going to happen to someone you’re close with.”

Grant Sattelberg, a senior-to-be at Kentridge, recalls a trustworthy kid with a positive disposition.

“He was a great guy, always happy. He never argued with anyone,” Sattelberg said. “He always had your back, no matter what you were going through. He was always there for you.”

Surrounded by friends,

Chad Stancil stood numb, emotionally drained. He had difficulty describing his younger brother.

“He was my best friend.

We were so close,” said Chad Stancil, who will be a senior at Kentridge. “He was a great guy. … was there for everyone, very active. He died doing what he loved to do: riding his bike.”

Ryan Simpson – Chase Stancil’s eighth-grade teacher at Northwood Middle School – remembers a courageous, thoughtful, enthusiastic boy who looked to do the right thing.

When a handgun was found at the school, Chase Stancil reported it to the front office.

“It was that foresight, the ability to do the right thing to really stand up for others and make sure the people were safe and protected,” Simpson said.

His former student’s passing is the latest in a string of recent deaths of family members and a close friend for Simpson. Nonetheless, he spoke in front of the crowd at the vigil, fighting back tears while describing a boy who wasn’t afraid to help others.

“He was one of a couple of students whose acts really motivated me to want to continue teaching,” Simpson said. “He would want us to look back on the good times.”

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Community News and Notes COVINGTON PLANNING COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING AUG. 15 Covington’s Planning Commission will convene for a special meeting and open house discussion of the draft subarea plan of the Hawk property at 6 p.m Aug. 15 at Covington City Hall, 16720 S.E. 271st St. In addition to discussion on the subarea plan for the property which is near state Route 18 and Southeast 256th Street, the Planning Commission will also take input on the the planned action environmental impact

statement. Following the open house the Planning Commission will meet at its regularly scheduled time at 7 p.m.

Agenda information will be posted the Friday prior to the scheduled meetings at Covington City Hall and the City’s web site: www.covingtonwa.gov. For further information, contact Community Development Director Richard Hart at 253-480-2441.

WALKING TOURS AUG. 20-21 FOR KENTLAKE FRESHMEN Kentlake is offering informational walking tours for incoming freshmen

and their parents on Aug. 21 and 22.

Tours will be available every half hour from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m.

The walking tours are optional and are provided to families so that parents who want their children to get a sense of the school before opening day can come to school, walk the building with student guides, and locate lockers and classrooms. No reservation is required.

For questions call the Kentlake office at 253-373-4904.

COVINGTON HOSTS KIDSFEST SATURDAY The city of Covington will host Kidsfest

from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Kohl’s parking lot.

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MAPLE VALLEY HOSTS ANNUAL TOWN HALL AND ICE CREAM SOCIAL AUG. 26 The city of Maple Valley will host its annual town hall meeting and an ice cream social to celebrate the city’s 16th birthday from six to 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 26 at Lake Wilderness Lodge. Topics to be discussed include the vision for the future of Maple Valley and the city’s program to update

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY SET FOR OCT. 26 Join the action Oct. 26 for the 23rd annual Make A Difference Day, the nation’s largest day of community service.

During the past several years, the Rotary Club of Maple Valley and the city of Maple Valley partnered to bring volunteers and projects together.

Financial assistance for Maple Valley’s Make a Difference Day projects and acts of service is currently available.

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Youth programs this fall are set to include tumbling classes, art, dance, flag football, Zumba and soccer.

Adult offerings include flag football, basketball, fitness classes, yoga, parent’s night out, and art.

More information and online registration is available at www.maplevalleywa.gov.

Chasing her dancing dreams

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his summer brought another important step in achieving Gabby Letourneau’s dream of becoming a Radio City Music Hall Rockette.

The Rockettes are a precision dance company that perform the Radio City Christmas Spectacular each year and have become a familiar symbol of Christmas in New York.

Letourneau, who began dancing as a toddler, earned a spot in the Rockettes summer intensive program in New York.

This year was the first time Letourneau was eligible to audition, and still was only just barely old enough. She turned 14 — thereby meeting the age requirement — just in time to be able to participate.

Letourneau first learned about the Rockettes a few years ago and was intrigued.

Letourneau, who will be a freshman at Kentwood this year, dances at Allegro

Performing Arts Academy in Kent. There she studies most styles of dance including ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, heels, point shoes, and hip hop, although she says lyrical and jazz are her favorites.

“It (jazz and lyrical) is what I’m most comfortable with and those are my strengths,” Letourneau said.

She flew to New York in February with her mom to audition and found out a month later that she made the alternate list.

“I was the youngest girl who auditioned so I wasn’t really expecting to make it,” Letourneau said.

In May she got the call that a spot opened up and she was invited to attend.

So at the end of June it was back to New York she went.

As part of the program Letourneau got to tour Radio City and learn and perform Rockettes routines.

“Just how blessed I was to get to dance with actual Rockettes,” Letourneau said of how she felt when she got on the plane to come home.

“I really enjoyed meeting all the different people who came.”

Letourneau said she dreams of returning to New York. She hopes to attend New York University and get into the fashion industry — and to be a fullfledged Rockette.

Also as a part of dancing at Allegro, students are involved in a number of community service projects throughout the year.

“I actually really like performing for the elderly,” Letourneau said of her favorite community service aspect of Allegro. “It’s really cool seeing their reactions to everything.”

Letourneau said it is the ability to express herself through dance and how she can always challenge herself to grow as a dancer that are the things she loves most about dancing.

“It isn’t just one thing you can do with it (dancing), it’s so many different things,” Letourneau said.

Reach Katherine Smith at ksmith@covingtonreporter.com or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.

Gabby Letourneau, who will be a freshman at Kentwood this fall, hopes to become a Rockette at Radio City Music Hall. Courtesy photo

Boat rentals offered at Lake Wilderness

BY KATHERINE SMITH ksmith@maplevalleyreporter.com

This summer the city of Maple Valley is offering a variety of boat and board rentals at Lake Wilderness.

The program, which is new this year, includes two pedal boats, two stand-up paddle boards, two kayaks, and three canoes.

Maple Valley Parks and Recreation Director Greg Brown said that the city decided to do a pilot program for watercraft rentals because the city is planning

to replace the dock and is considering adding on a boat rental pier.

The project to replace the dock is currently in the planning stages and Brown said that the hope is to have the project completed before the 2014 swim season opens in June.

The idea for boat rentals first was raised in 2007 when the city was going through the process of creating a master plan for Lake Wilderness Park.

Brown said that between the start of the swim season

on June 24 and July 31, 324 hours of time had been rented via the watercrafts.

The city started off the season with one pedal boat but at the end of July added a second boat because of the popularity of the vessel.

Brown added that plans for future growth will be evaluated at the end of the season and that, so far, the program has ben a hit.

“Word is getting out that boats are available and on sunny days we often don’t have enough boats,” Brown said.

Watercraft rentals will be available through the end of the swim season on Sept. 2. Fore more informaton log on to http://www. maplevalleywa.gov/index. aspx?page=585.

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Learning to follow directions on road trips secret to long marriage My husband and I will celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary very soon. I think the secret of a long marriage is a couple’s ability to follow directions together.

The strength of our marriage is tested every summer when we go to car shows — more specifically when we go on poker runs during the car shows. A poker run is an event the hosting car club puts on that gives the cars an opportunity to drive around. Each stop is typically a place to draw a card, the highest poker hand at the end of the event usually wins a cash prize.

Now as a writer and former technical writer, other people’s perception of what are good directions and what are bad directions are always in question. Do you tell someone about the light then tell them to turn at the light or do you only talk about the light as you approach it? If you talk about the light twice without the benefit of a street name, the reader can misinterpret it to mean there are two lights rather than

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only one.

So as my husband and I follow the directions, with me navigating and him listening as I read out the sometimes vague instructions on where to turn, we can get into heated arguments about what the author meant.

“He talked about the light, here’s the light.”

“That was the light we just went through, we need to go straight now.”

“But the light we just went through wasn’t near the McDonald’s, it talks about McDonald’s being across from the light.”

“The last light was before the McDonald’s. I think they said if we got to the McDonald’s we had gone too far.”

“It didn’t say anything about going too far. Who’s reading these directions anyway?

If you want me to navigate, let me navigate.”

“Let’s go to McDonald’s, I could use a Coke.”

By this time my kids are irritated by our bickering and yelling at us to stop. We then

a summer reading program but teachers were concerned that some children were still suffering from what is known as the summer slide, a loss of reading skills during break. When one teacher shared an innovative program she read about in a trade journal, Meridian administrators decided to implement the model to see if they could improve on the existing summer program.

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have to pull over and pore over the instructions, discussing where we previously turned and where we are ultimately headed.

I usually win because I’m the one holding the instructions in my hand and reading them as they play out. It’s much harder to be the driver and sort out where we’ve turned and what has and hasn’t happened.

I have to confess something here: I write a poker run for my husband’s club’s car show. It’s in Westport. The problem with Westport is there is no actual west — it’s in the ocean — and the two main highways in the area don’t connect. So the potential routes are extremely limited.

About eight years ago, to make it more interesting and give me more to work with, I started rhyming the directions. Not only are they in rhyme, but I don’t actually tell them where to turn, I only give them clues (in rhyme). Let’s just say I may have ended marriages.

One year, there was a newly married couple at the car show and one of the seasoned attendees said, “You’re newly married? This should not be the first poker run you go on the school year so all Meridian students could select three books they could take home with them.

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They did go on it. I think it was the poker run where 60 percent of the participants got lost. I believe the newlyweds stayed married — at least for the remainder of the car show. I can’t vouch for what happened on the ride home.

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PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Kent School District No. 415 will meet for the purpose of adopting WKH 'LVWULFWÂśV EXGJHW IRU WKH ÂżVFDO year 2013-2014 at 7:00 p.m. on August 28, 2013, at the Administration Center, 12033 SE 256th Street, Kent, Washington. Any person may appear at said meeting and be heard for or against any part of said budget. A budget has been prepared by the board DQG ZLOO EH ÂżOHG DW WKH RIÂżFH RI

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Dr. Edward Lee Vargas Secretary of the Board of Directors Published in the Kent and Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on August 9, 2013 and August 16, 2013. #856312.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Chapter 35A.63.220 of the Revised Code of Washington the Covington City Council will a hold a public hearing on a proposed ordinance which establishes a six-month extension on a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries, production and processing facilities, collective gardens, and any business activities related to medical marijuana, at its regular meeting on Tuesday, August 27, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., to be held in the Council Chambers at Covington City Hall, 16720 S.E. 271st Street, Covington, Washington.

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

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Project Location: The subject property is located near the corner of Covington Way SE and 165th Place SE, Parcel No. 352205-9215, and is situated in Section 35, Township 22N and Range 5E in the City of Covington, King County, WA. Project Description: The Developer is proposing to import 200,000 cubic yards of fill material with associated site improvements on 20.47 acres in the Downtown General Commercial (GC) zone. SEPA review is required due to the amount of proposed fill material. Emergency Services will be provided by the City of Covington and the Kent Fire Department, Regional Fire Authority. The applicant has not identified any environmentally critical areas.

Comp Plan/Zoning Designation: Downtown District, General Commercial (GC) zone.

Consistency with Applicable City Plans and Regulations: This proposal will be reviewed for compliance with all applicable City of Covington ordinances; including Title 18-Zoning, Title 15-Buildings and Construction, Title 12-Design and Construction Standards, Title 14-SEPA Environmental Review, Title 13-Surface Water regulations, and applicable design requirements.

Other possible permits not included in this Application: Major Tree Removal Permit; issuance of other permits or approvals required by other jurisdictions (i.e. Public Health-Seattle & King County, Washington State Department of Ecology, etc.); and any other permits as deemed necessary.

Comment Period: August 16, 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; September 6, 2013 This is a Type 1 Application in accordance with CMC 14.30.040, whereas the City of Covington Community Development Director issues the final decision for the applications, which is appealable to the King County Superior Court. To make written comments, please mail, email or hand-deliver specific comments to City Hall, Community Development Department, 16720 SE 271st Street, Covington, WA 98042, no later than September 6, 2013. Please contact Permit Services at 253-480-2400, or via email at permitservices@covingtonwa.gov should you have any questions or comments pertaining to this proposal.

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...obituaries Rosalie Bergstrom Rosalie Ann Bergstrom, 74, of Covington, Washington went peacefully with the Lord the morning of August 6, 2013. Rose was born on March 5, 1939 in Forbes, North Dakota. She graduated from Northome High School and was married to Sidney Allen Bergstrom of Kelliher, in 1957.

She was raised on a farm in Mizpah Minnesota.With 6 siblings, there was never a lack for conversation and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;friendly-fireâ&#x20AC;? game of cards. She would drive all over the state to watch her grandkids play soccer, basketball and baseball. She liked filling her time with arts and crafts that she often gave away as gifts. Later in life, her love for gardening blossomed. Her yard was always a stunning display of color.

Her greatest accomplishments were her four children, Robert (Betty) Bergstrom of Silverdale, Marlene (Ernie) Mashburn of Tacoma, Crystal (Corey) Olson of Laguna Niguel, and Tom (Dee) Bergstrom of Federal Way. Rosalie is preceded by her parents, Howard and Mildred Morrow of Mizpah, Minnesota, sisters Avis Nesset and Betty Reimer, also of Minnesota. She is survived by her brothers Ronald (Darlene) Morrow and Tim (Cindy) Morrow of Apache Junction, Arizona and her sisters Penny Buentemeier of Northome, Alice (Bill) Filipiak of Cohasset, her four children, seven grandchildren and one great granddaughter.

She will forever be missed and in our hearts.

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Tips and tricks on growing tomatoes here

WHAT’S BLOOMING AT THE ARBORETUM The Lake Wilderness Arboretum has been a busy place recently.

About 50 friends of the Arboretum gathered Aug. 6 in the gardens for the 2nd Annual Fuchsia Festival, which features a barbecue dinner set among the fuchsia plants that are now in full bloom.

“We have the Hellebore Tea in the spring and wanted another fundraiser that brings attention to other garden collections,” said Event Coordinator Maria Van Zanen. “Everyone who came to last year’s Festival, which took place in September, had a great time, so we decided to make it an annual event.”

Arboretum volunteers host tables set in the Arboretum’s Perennial Garden.

Invited guests buy a seat, and are treated to homemade meal. This year, hosts grilled steak and chicken served

etables almost year long. A good source of harvest and planting supplies can be found online at gardeners. com or ask for a catalog by calling 1-800427-3363 The middle of August is also tomato time. This has been a great year for tomato growers in Western Washington with a few exceptions.

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You can plant a second harvest this week by seeding a winter crop of kale, herbs, cabbage and carrots.

The trick to harvesting vegetables all year long is to cover the soil with a shade cloth in the summer to keep it cool right after you plant your summer seed.

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“The Fuchsia Festival is a way to celebrate the stunning fuchsias, our beautiful gardens and raise funds,” said Amy Hardebeck, Executive Director of the Lake Wilderness Arboretum Foundation. “In the future, I’d like to open this event to the entire Maple Valley community.”

This weekend features another annual event.

The annual Theatre in the Arboretum event is set for 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday in the meadow at Lake Wilderness Arboretum near the gazebo with audience members encouraged to bring donations to benefit the Maple Valley Food Bank.

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Tomatoes are also picky about how often they get water. A consistent supply of water keeps the fruit from cat-facing or developing multiple cracks on the blossom end of the fruit. A mulch of wood chips two inches thick will help keep the moisture in the soil at consistent levels.

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Meanwhile, enjoy a salad of

Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticultur e 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. For more gardening information, she can be reached at her website, www.binettigarden.com.

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Admission and parking is free, and each attendee is asked to donate one can of food to benefit the Maple Valley Food Bank. Please bring your own chair or blanket to sit on.

“Also, consider donating to the Arboretum for hosting this enjoyable event,” said Executive Director Amy Hardebeck.

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Doctor offers thoughts on vaccinations for children posing sources, especially with social media and the internet. Here is my opinion and links to additional resources that I hope will help you if you are undecided about whether or not to vaccinate your children.

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As a pediatrician I am asked many questions on a variety of topics, but the ones that come up most frequently are regarding vaccinations: Are vaccines safe?

What are the side effects of vaccines?

Do vaccines really work? Do vaccines cause autism?

Should I vaccinate my child? These are all important questions that every parent should ask and I have decided to address them in my first column because vaccine continues to be a hot topic and extremely important!

Everyone wants to do what is best for their child, so it is understandable that as a parent you want all the information available before making a decision.

The difficulty is figuring out what information to believe since there are so many different and op-

ARE VACCINES SAFE AND WHAT ARE THE SIDE EFFECTS?

Vaccines are continuously monitored for safety and before they are available to the public they undergo years of extensive research which has again and again concluded that there is no causal relationship between vaccines and autism. Yes, vaccines have side effects, but you must weigh the common side effects against the effects of getting the disease. Fever, redness, soreness, fussiness, fatigue, and headache are the most common side effects and are usually short

lasting. Serious problems after vaccines are extremely rare. Side effects can be slightly different for each type of vaccine so I encourage you to look them up on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, www.cdc.gov, and ask your doctor if you have additional questions.

The website for the Covington-Maple ValleyBlack Diamond Reporter is getting a fresh look that will help readers get faster access to local news – and more of it.

The new crisp-and-clean design makes space for more stories and photographs on the newspaper’s home page, and also offers easier access to readers on the go.

The home page is topped by a new navigation bar which boasts a quick-glance box for current weather conditions. Also at the top: Icons for mobile applications and social media, so readers can quickly share stories and news with others.

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MAPLE VALLEY CRIME STATISTICS | JUNE AND JULY The following are city wide crime statistics for Maple Valley in June and July.

In June there were five residen-

SHOULD I VACCINATE MY CHILD? My answer, based on years of training and work as a pediatrician is unequivocally yes. I under-

stand that each family has different circumstances or beliefs that affect their decision on whether or not to vaccinate, and I think it’s important to get all of the facts in order to make an informed decision. For me, the bottom line is that it has been proven scientifically that vaccines save lives by preventing diseases and

DO VACCINES REALLY WORK?

complications of diseases.

Check out the CDC website and the American Academy of Pediatrics website, www. aap.org, for more information.

Callie Byrd, MD, is a pediatrician at Valley Medical Center’s Covington Clinic.

She can be reached at 253395-1960.

Yes! Let’s use polio virus as an example. In the 1940s and early 1950s more than 35,000 cases of polio were reported in the United States. In 1965, 10 years after the polio vaccine was introduced, only 61 cases of paralytic polio were reported. If you have been watching the news lately you’ve learned about the polio outbreak in Somalia — most Somali children have not been immunized against the virus. Or take measles or pertussis, also known as whooping cough,

Changes coming to Reporter website in the near future REPORTER STAFF

as examples — the United States has seen recent outbreaks of these diseases in individuals who are not vaccinated.

content appearing at the top of the home page – though top stories will feature larger photographs, plus larger headlines and summaries.

As more stories and features are published each day, older stories will carry smaller headlines and flow toward the bottom of the homepage.

The box for “trending stories” – articles that are connecting with readers and being shared and read more often than other content – will also be repositioned on the home page; higher, for faster access for readers.

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The website update is being launched across most of Sound Publishing’s titles, though the websites for paid-access newspapers will share a slightly different makeover.

It’s the first update to Sound Publishing websites – which boast 2.2 million unique visitors and 11.5 million page views a month – since 2010.

tial burglaries, three incidents of larceny from vehicle and three auto thefts.

In July there were also five residential burglaries, in addition to four incidents of larceny from vehicle, and five auto thefts.

Statistics were provided by the Maple Valley Police Department.

For more information log on to http://www.maplevalleywa. gov/police/.

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