Covington/Maple Valley Reporter, November 22, 2013

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COVINGTON | MAPLE VALLEY | BLACK DIAMOND

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LOCAL | Rotary partners with business owners to feed Covington students [page 3]

BREAKING RECORDS | Girls swim ends the season breaking records at the state FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013 championship meet Nov. 15 and 16 [9]

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Covington pool hits swimming milestone

Moms unite to continue community programs

BY KRIS HILL

BY KATHERINE SMITH

khill@covingtonreporter.com

ksmith@maplevalleyreporter.com

Covington Aquatic Center staff celebrated a major milestone Nov. 15 when the 100,000th in-water customer of 2013 came through the doors. Linda Lee of Covington was the patron who hit the lucky number and was surprised with a free oneyear aqua family membership for the Covington Aquatic Center. Attendance has been a particular focus for pool staff for more than a year. A new marketing plan was implemented, a restructured fee schedule was put into place last year which increased some fees and reduced others which in conjunction with a significant increase in patrons created a considerable bump in attendance, according to information provided by Karla Slate, the city’s communications and marketing manager. In fact, the staff set a goal of 93,000 in-water visits for this year but surpassed that goal in October. If the current rate continues, the attendance will be close to 110,000 program participants by the end of the year. This would constitute an increase of 25 per-

A group of moms from Maple Valley have formed Maple Valley Family Circle to continue Toddler Time and Family Movie Night at the Greater Maple Valley Community Center on a short term basis while they search for a long term solution. The moms — Farinaz Barker, Christie Cummings, Tonia Mosieur, Laura Skobin and Joy Stramer — came together after the Community Center announced in early October that at the end of the month the Children’s and Family programs at the center would be discontinued due to budget cuts. “We didn’t even plan it (to become a group), we just came together and kept going,” Mosieur said. Mark Pursely, executive director of the community center, explained in an interview with The Reporter in October that more than 70 percent of the Community Center’s annual budget comes from various grant funding sources. The rest comes from program fees, fundraising, facility rentals, program sponsorships

[ more POOL page 7 ]

Ready to Hit the Stage

Kentwood High choir members Nicole Cortines and Alyssa Gurr, both juniors, prepare to perform at at the B Sharp Choir Boosters holiday vendor fair Nov. 16. Choir members performed at the end which was a fundraiser. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter

McDonough never stops raising money for a cure BY KRIS HILL khill@maplevalleyreporter.com

Just because the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s 3 Day Walk for the Cure in Seattle has come and gone, that doesn’t mean Tina McDonough quits working to raise money to find a cure for breast cancer. McDonough, along with her husband Cory, own One.7, Inc., an environmental equipment and

street maintenance dealership in Ravensdale. This year marks the fourth the McDonoughs have pinked out one of the machines One.7 offers — this year a Vactor 2100 combination sewer cleaner — and sold it to donate a portion of the proceeds to the Komen Foundation. A truck came to pick it up from the One.7 shop Nov. 13. The Vactor 2100 was covered

[ more MOMS page 6 ]

in pink ribbons, the symbol for breast cancer awareness, as well as McDonough’s 3 Day team’s Valley Girls & Guys logo, and even a specially-made 1,000-foot pink Piranaha Hose Products highpressure sewer hose mounted on the front of the truck — the hose was donated by Piranha after they let Tina McDonough pick out the color. She said it was the first time they made a hose in that color. “When Tina called to ask if Vactor Manufacturing would support One.7, Inc’s, plan to (detail) a used Vactor truck for the Susan G. Komen event, I was very interested,” said Sam Miceli, the [ more CURE page 7 ]

A Vactor 2100 truck is loaded onto a trailer Nov. 13 after Tina and Cory McDonough pinked out and sold it to donate a portion of the proceeds.. KRIS HILL, The Reporter


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