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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2014
Board recommends rezoning par 3 property Golf course takes another step closer to development Alan Gray, Land Use and Planning Board member, comments about the par 3 rezone. STEVE HUNTER,
BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Kent city officials took another step toward kissing the Riverbend Golf Complex par 3 course goodbye and turning the property into a mixed-use development. The city’s Land Use and Plan-
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ning Board voted 7-0 Monday night to recommend the City Council rezone the 24-acre site along the Green River with views of Mount Rainier from open space to general commercial mixed use. That would allow a broad mix of uses. Any multifamily residential (apartments, condos, hotel) must include 5-percent commercial use. The council unanimously agreed in April to try to sell the course to a developer to help bail out the financially
struggling golf complex, which also features an 18-hole course, driving range and merchandise shop. Riverbend faces a $2.6 million debt, capital investments of at least $6 million and operating deficits of about $300,000 per year. City officials hope to sell the par 3 to cover the debt as well as the capital improvements needed on the 18-hole course. [ more PAR 3 page 4 ]
Couple fights eviction from Kent apartment BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Princilla and Dominic Dinish never knew a landlord could refuse to renew an apartment lease for no reason at all. Now they are fighting the decision by the managers of Bryson Square Apartments, 24006 108th Place S.E., in Kent, to evict them from their unit. They moved to Kent last July from Seattle. They signed a one-year lease. But when Dominic Dinish, 69, went to pay rent in June, the apartment management told
Aishah Mohamed, of Kent, right, learns how to set up a delivery table from surgical technician Angela Bernal in a birth
center suite at Auburn MultiCare Medial Center during Nurse Camp last week. COURTESY PHOTO, Patrick Hagerty, MultiCare
Learning, experiencing the real deal Local teens get hands-on lessons at Nurse Camp BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@kentreporter.com
Aishah Mohamed appeared pale and somewhat shaken, watching a baby being born at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center last week. The career-conscious teen did
not understand at first the intense moment was part of participating in the MultiCare Health System’s Nurse Camp. This was no training film, she recognized, it was the real deal. “It was scary, it was freaky,” Mohamed said of her experience in one of the center’s dozen birth center suites. “It was a boy … he was so cute.” Mohamed, a junior-to-be at Kentwood High School, was one of more than 100 high school students from
the South Puget Sound area who got a hands-on look at nursing careers during MultiCare’s five-day camp last week. At Nurse Camp, students tried out medical devices, performed “Skittlectomies” on mannequins, practiced suturing on pig kidneys and followed professional nurses and other health care professionals in various departments at MultiCare’s [ more CAMP page 2 ]
them their lease was up soon and wouldn’t be renewed. They were given 20 days written notice, but no reason for having to move out. “They don’t have to give a reason,” Princlla Dinish, 58, said during an interview last week at her apartment. “My husband asked if it was because of flowers, they said no, and said didn’t have to give a reason.” Managers raised concerns about so many flowers planted by the Dinish’s in their backyard, Princilla Dinish said. [ more COUPLE page 4 ]
Kent boy, 14, gets 8 years to life in prison for raping 8-year-old girl BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
A 14-year-old Kent boy received a prison sentence of eight years and could serve a life sentence for the firstdegree rape of an 8-yearold girl last November in a wooded area near a Kent hotel. King County Superior Court Judge Bill Bowman sentenced Harrell last Friday at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, ac-
cording to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Because first-degree rape is a violent sex crime, Bowman sentenced Harrell to an indeterminate sentence. That means that after Harrell serves eight years, the state Indeterminate Sentence Review Board can add up to five years at a time to his sentence to a maximum of life. Harrell will be transferred to an adult prison at the age [ more SENTENCE page 4 ]