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Marijuana business looking at Covington
Deputy pleads not guilty to charges
BY ERIC MANDEL
BY DENNIS BOX
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A prospective recreational marijuana business has expressed interested about opening a shop in Covington. The owners of the trade name Crimson Wave have inquired with city staff about bringing a pot retail sales store to Covington. The location under consideration is in the strip mall south of Costco, according to Covington City Manager Derek Matheson. Matheson said city staff is reviewing the official notice from the COVINGTON state Liquor Control Board and are working with the business owners on a business license and building permitting. “We are still reviewing the matter, but it appears this location is consistent with our interim zoning ordinance,” he said. The board expects to issue the state’s first 20 licenses July 7,
Darrion Keith Holiwell, a King County Sheriff ’s Office deputy assigned to the Ravensdale firing range, pleaded not guilty to charges of promoting prostitution, theft and selling a controlled substance. Holiwell was arrested June 19 and is incarcerated at the King County jail in Seattle. The King County Prosecutor’s Office charged the 49-yearold Holiwell with one count of promoting prostitution, second degree, once count of first degree theft and one count of selling a controlled substance, steroids. Bail was set at $150,000. The arraignment was June 24 and King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers denied a petition by Holiwell’s attorney to reduce bail. Holiwell pleaded not guilty at the hearing. Holiwell has been a deputy since 1995, was the chief firearms instructor assigned to the Ravensdale
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Kaide Cutshall, on the Maple Valley Farmers Market T-Ball team, runs the bases Saturday at
Grand Slam Patrick’s Field. The program is offered by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter
Drawing for a world record, one inch at a time BY KATHERINE SMITH ksmith@covingtonreporter.com
For 27-year-old David Book Jr. taking a week of vacation meant taking a shot at a world record. Book devoted roughly 30 hours last week to completing the world’s largest hand-drawn maze on paper. The goal: not just surpassing the old record of 4 feet by 30 feet, but crushing it by adding 20 feet of twisting and turning maze work. Book, a Kent resident, set up the project at the Covington Library last week, complete with
pencils, a long, continuous piece of butcher paper ordered off Amazon, and a video camera, with his mom, Robin Beauchamp, serving as his main witness. The video camera, as well as still photos and visits from others who served as witnesses, will serve as evidence that Book will submit to Guinness World Records. According to the official Guinness website, the company has been tracking records since 1955. Guinness also reports that they receive over 50,000 record applications each year. To break a record the feat in-
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volved must be measurable, have a single variable, be able to be verified and possible for someone else to challenge — and potentially break — in the future. Book started drawing at age 5 and by 9 had also picked up painting. “He’s very detailed,” Beauchamp said. “He’s been drawing mazes forever.” Book said that he got the idea to go after the record about two years ago when someone told him about it. “I’m just a little nervous,” Book said. “I want it to be legit.” There are rules, of course, such as that the solution to the maze can’t be obvious and it has to be solvable. As for the drawing of the maze [ more RECORD page 6 ]
David Book Jr. works on his goal of creating the world’s largest hand-drawn maze on paper at the Covington Library on June 27. KATHERINE SMITH, The Reporter