Kent Reporter, August 15, 2014

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INSIDE | Committee OKs property rezone for par 3 golf course [3]

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Sports | Wilson Playfields plan Sept. 6 grand reopening [8]

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Business | The Quarters brings the taste of the South and Midwest [13]

Residents debate need for new police station BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com

Kent resident Alex Senecaut prefers to see the city spend money on a new public works facility rather than a new police station. But Marvin Eckfeldt and Monty

Burich are all for a Nov. 4 ballot measure to increase property taxes to pay for a new Kent Police headquarters as well as improvements to the city jail and firearm training range for officers. If voters give the $34 million bond measure its needed 60-percent approval, the property tax

rate would be 19 cents per $1,000 assessed value or about $57 per year for a $300,000 home. “The money would be better spent, in my opinion, on a new public works facility to be located on the East Hill,” said Senecaut, who worked 36 years for the city of Kent before retiring a few years ago.

Senecaut will write the opposing statement in the King County Local Voters’ Pamphlet. He was the only person who applied to the City Council to be picked for the opposition committee, which can have as many as three members. Eckfeldt, Burich and Rita Ann

Schwarting were picked by the council to write a statement in favor of the bond measure. “We have a pressing need for better facilities for the Kent Police Department,” said Eckfeldt, a retired minister who has lived [ more STATION page 4 ]

ShoWare loses marijuana trade show to larger Everett arena BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com

SUMMER SCHOOL ON ICE Seattle Thunderbirds goaltender Taran Kozun teaches a group of youngsters in front of the net at the Thunderbirds Hockey School at the ShoWare Center last week. The school resumed this week, with T-Bird coaches and players

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working with different age groups. Young players receive on- and off-ice instruction and scrimmage during the week. RACHEL CIAMPI, Kent Reporter

Proposed historic district continues to take shape BY MARK KLAAS

INSIDE: All-day event celebrates Kent’s history, pages 14

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A storied Kent area may soon become the first historic neighborhood district in South King County. The Kent Historical Museum and

Mill Creek Neighborhood Council are working with city and county officials to complete the steps necessary to designate

a lower East Hill area of historic homes as a registered King County Landmark district. “From what I’m hearing, it sounds really good,” said Toni Azzola, the city’s

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Kent bus service cuts discussed at public workshop BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@kentreporter.com

King County Metro Transit’s proposed bus service cuts have many Kent residents concerned, some more than others. Notably the elderly, the disabled and the poor. [ more METRO page 5 ]

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Kent’s city-owned ShoWare Center lost out on a potential marijuana trade show to the Comcast Arena at Everett because it’s “not big enough,” arena officials say. The High Times Cannabis Cup Sept. 6-7 in Everett is projected to generate an economic impact of $2.3 million to the Snohomish County area, according to an Everett arena media release. The Kent and Everett arenas often compete against each other for shows, concerts and other events. “I did get a call,” said Tim Higgins, ShoWare Center general manager, when asked if the arena had tried to get the trade show. “We are not big enough. The event needs a trade show floor along with the concert

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