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Aerospace Training Center fully funded By Brian Beckley bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
The Central Sound Aerospace Training Center overlooking Renton Municipal Airport has $12.5 million in funding. Submitted
The new Central Sound Aerospace Training Center set to be built at the Renton Airport recently received some additional funding from the state Legislature and will now be built to its full size. When the legislature gathered in November to pass the 777X tax-break bill for Boeing, it also passed legislation providing an additional $5 million to the Aerospace training project, bringing the total amount to $12.5 million for the center. “The goal here is to create a central training center,”
Renton Communications Director Preeti Shridhar told the City Council Monday during a presentation. The center, when completed, will house three floors of classrooms and training spaces designed to offer hands-on learning for the next generation of aerospace workers, all at a real-life setting. “We’re hearing from Boeing and other companies that a lot of their workers are retiring and they’re in need of new workers,” said Shridhar. The center is designed to bring together many of the local players in the aerospace industry, as well as educational facilities like Renton Technical College, to provide [ more center page 15 ]
Renton woman charged in slaying of her husband By DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
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For the first time, live reindeer have been added to Newcastle Fruit and Produce Company’s Christmas setting for holiday sales.
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Pair of reindeer make pre-flight stop in Renton By TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com
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he day after Thanksgiving marked the opening of many Christmas tree stands in the area, including the Newcastle Fruit and Produce Company’s Christmas tree stand. This year the business kicked off holiday sales with a celebration and introduced reindeer for customer viewing
at its location. Petting, feeding or riding the reindeer isn’t allowed. “We’ve got two weeks to make everything disappear and recreate this as a Christmas business,” said Dave Franklin. Franklin has co-owned the Newcastle Fruit and Produce Company for 21 years with Damu Maples. After its Christmas transformation was complete, the company held a tree[ more Reindeer page 3 ]
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A 34-year-old Renton woman was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder, domestic violence, in the Dec. 1 shooting death of her husband. Vanetta Yvonne Richardson will be arraigned on Dec. 16. She’s being held in the King County Jail in downtown Seattle on $1 million bail. If convicted, she faces at least 15 years in prison. Richardson called 911 at about 1:30 p.m. Dec. 1 to report she had just shot her 31-year-old husband, Jerry Lee Butler. Officers found the Butler lying on the front yard, with seven gunshot wounds, including two in the back, and Richardson with her hands raised in the air, according to the Renton Police Department’s certification of probable cause filed with prosecutors. He died at the scene. “Please, I shot my husband. Please help us,” she said to responding officers. Renton officers have been to the residence in the 12400 block of 184th Street on several occasions for domestic incidents, according to Terri Vickers, a Renton Police Department spokeswoman. Besides the couple, there are six children at home, including three they share in common. According to the children and with interviews with Richardson, Butler was shot inside the house and after he ran outside. Officers learned the couple had argued that weekend over text messages he had received from another woman.