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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2013
Kent marijuana business applicants to state up to 18 BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
The state Liquor Control Board has received 18 Kent applicants so far for recreational marijuana businesses despite a city ban to
prohibit such businesses. City officials also plan to replace the temporary ban with a permanent ban in 2014 by changing land use codes. Ten more applicants from Kent were on the latest list released
Dec. 17 by the liquor board. The deadline for applications was Dec. 20. A final list of applicants is expected to be released the week of Jan. 6. Kent has four retail applicants, eight producer and six process-
ing applicants for recreational marijuana businesses. Six of the producer and processing applicants are for the same properties. Pat Fitzpatrick, acting city attorney for Kent, said many cities with bans against marijuana
businesses also have numerous applicants. “Receiving an application in a city that has a moratorium on marijuana land uses is not unique [ more APPLICANTS page 7 ]
Phillip to face second Kent trial in Frankel murder case woman each man loved. The trial lasted six weeks. Frankel worked as a video program coWilliam L. Phillip Jr., will ordinator for the city of Kent. face a second trial starting “It’s obviously always disapFeb. 24 in Kent after jurors pointing to have a trial of that were unable to reach length and to not have an unanimous verdict an outcome and have to about whether he do it all over again,” said stabbed Seth Frankel Patrick Hinds, deputy to death in 2010. prosecuting attorney, King County Supeduring an interview last rior Court Judge AnFriday after Darvas set drea Darvas declared a new trial date at the a mistrial Dec. 18 after Maleng Regional Justice Phillip the 12 jurors deliberCenter. ated for one and a half Hinds said the misdays. Phillip remains in custrial came as a disappointment tody in the county jail on the for Frankel’s family as well. His first-degree murder charge. father Richard Frankel traveled Jurors considered whether from his home in Hawaii and Phillip stabbed Frankel to his mother Emily Markiewicz death on May 21, 2010 in traveled from her home in Frankel’s Auburn home he [ more TRIAL page 3 ] shared with Bonny Johnson, a BY STEVE HUNTER
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TOYS FOR JOY Kali Goodfellow sorts donations at the Toys for Joy program at the Kent Food Bank on Harrison Street last Friday. About 75 volunteers gathered to help collect, sort, organize and distribute more than 4,000 toys to 900 families to take home to nearly
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2,000 children. The Kent Fire Department, Kent Firefighters Local 1747, and the Kent Firefighters Foundation orchestrated the drive, with help from groups and businesses. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
Hope, inspiration through art Autistic savant artist shares his passion, studio with others BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@kentreporter.com
When Michael Tolleson takes up a brush, his autism paints. In strokes of vivid color
and harmonizing hues, he creates outstanding, and outstandingly beautiful, art. Tolleson in-breathes the emotional tone of a landscape, a person or a situation, and in one hour or less paints an inspiring piece. His medium of choice, acrylic, lets him finish a work even before the paint has dried. The resulting oil-like
painting is revealing, almost impressionistic. It’s a gift he struggles to explain. “I don’t even know what I’m doing,” the autistic savant artist said from his recentlyopened art studio in south Kent. “When I start the canvas, I don’t know what it’s [ more ARTIST page 2 ]
Michael Tolleson’s art has received a global following. Now, through his art studio, he wants to reach out and work with the autistic community. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter