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Delicious | It’s the busy season for a new chocolatier at The Landing [3]
FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 2014
GOING GLOBAL | Artist Benson Shaw’s new work at Rainier Avenue and Grady Way is lighting up the night. [Page 6]
Deputies search Lake Kathleen for missing man 51-year-old was last seen Jan. 31 rowing on the lake By Brian Beckley bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
Daddy’s favorite dance partner
Dozens of dads and daughters, including Fred Granados and McKayle Grenados, 8, above, and Cordell Jones and Christina Jones, 7, right, danced their way through two hours of fun Friday at the Renton Community Center’s annual Daddy Daughter Dance. There were photos, cupcakes, punch and, of course, dancing at the event, which was sold out for weeks in advance. Brian Beckley, Renton Reporter
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King County Sheriff ’s Office teams were searching Lake Kathleen this week for a 51-year-old man who went missing Jan. 31. On Feb. 7, a woman called the sheriff ’s office to report her son missing. The man lives in a trailer on her property and hadn’t been seen since Jan. 31, when he left but told her he would be back to watch the Super Bowl Feb. 2. No one has seen or heard from him since. According to the sheriff ’s office, deputies learned the missing man uses an aluminum rowboat to get to the north end of Lake Kathleen, located off Southeast 128th Avenue in the Renton Highlands. Once across the lake, the man secures the boat and continues on foot or uses the Metro Transit System. The missing man’s mother told deputies the boat was not on their property but also not where he usually parks it on [ more search page 8 ]
Births at Valley Medical down after opening of birth center in Auburn Valley Medical Center is reporting a 20 percent decrease in births at its hospital since MultiCare acquired Auburn Regional Medical Center in October 2012. Valley officials call the decrease a blip, not a trend and they feel they can rise above with increased services and patient access to care. In October 2012, the switch moved MultiCare doctors, who had previously delivered babies at Valley for years, to start delivering at Auburn Regional Medical Center.
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“So we have seen a drop that was anticipated once the acquisition was completed,” said Dr. Bob Thompson, vice president of physician relations at Valley. “So it wasn’t a surprise.” Valley still has more than 300 deliveries a month compared to MultiCare Auburn’s 110 deliveries a month. But Auburn’s numbers are up from 40 deliveries a month before MultiCare took over the facility. “We have brought Auburn into a MultiCare practice and standardized approach,” said Christi McCarren. She is [ more births page 5 ]
Dr. Bob Thompson and Judy Roudebush of Valley Medical Center aren’t concerned about a dip in births. tracey compton, Renton Reporter
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