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Members of Hazen’s FTC robotics team fine tune their machine at the state FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics competition, Saturday at the ShoWare Center in Kent.

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‘Rookie’ Hazen team competes in robotics competition at ShoWare Center in Kent Inside Kent’s ShoWare Center, it’s a nerd’s paradise.

Hundreds of students gather around scores of tables, all loaded with machine parts for the robots built to take home the coveted Washington FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) title.

In the middle of the pits, a practice area allows the teams to finish fine tuning the 18-inch-by-18-inch robots, readying them to compete in Cascade Effect, this year’s challenge.

Wendy Liang, an 18-year-old Hazen senior and co-founder of Hazen 9693 Team Scarab, explained the rules.

“Each squad consists of a group of seventh to 12th graders,” she said. “The field is 15-foot by 15-foot, split in half with red and blue sides.”

On each side, an alliance of three teams

operate their robots in cooperation with the others.

“There are three parts,” Liang said. “The first is autonomous for 30 seconds; the robots do what they’re programmed to.”

After the autonomous section, the teams take control by remote, operating their robots as they try to scoop up two different sized balls and put them into three different sized plastic tubes.

“Points are scored on not how many balls you have, but how high the balls are in the tubes,” Liang said.

The final 30-second section allows teams to score extra points by attempting to load balls into the center goal tubes, which are the highest in the field.

Also on hand at the competition is Auburn Mountainview’s Roarbotics Team 5953, headed by co-captains Jasper Lommen and Austin Kukay.

“FIRST is known as the sport for the

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mind, which is how the founder puts it,” Lommen said. “People can get together and build robots. There is a lot to it. There are business management skills, there are mechanical skills and there is a lot of teamwork skills you get.”

Lommen added that the robotics programs are currently the biggest program at Auburn Mountainview.

“It’s bigger than football, than basketball, than all that,” he said.

Auburn Mountainview has recently named the program an official sport at the school, hanging a banner in the gym alongside other more traditional sports.

At this past Saturday’s competition Roarbotics earned the Rockwell Collins Innovate Award and punched their ticket to the FTC West Super-Regional Championship, March 27-29 at the Oakland Convention Center in Oakland, Calif. [ more ROBOTICS page 10 ]

Stopped heart leads to political action

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As a 22-year-old vegetarian skiing and sailing instructor, Beverly Elmer isn’t the type of person you’d expect to have heart problems.

“I was lying down in bed and turned to Weylin and said, ‘Baby, oh god,’ and clenched my chest,” she said. Her memory stopped moments before, so she could only recall what she’s been told about the event. “I guess that’s when my eyes rolled into the back of my head.” [ more CARDIAC page 8 ]

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Renton Police have released a sketch of an individual wanted for a home invasion and assault Jan. 24 that left two 86-year old man and his 74-year old wife hospitalized with serious head injuries.

As of midweek, the suspect had not been arrested.

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“Wow. Really? He was coherent enough to have a knife, steal money & damage this poor girl for life. He is sane enough to get what he deserves. No sympathy whatsoever for this monster.” - Facebook user Heather Timmen on the story about throatslashing suspect’s arraignment being postponed (above right).

The arraignment was postponed Jan. 29 for the man charged with first-degree assault and first-degree robbery in the assault of a store clerk Jan. 14.

A judge ordered a competency evaluation for the defendant, Darren Gayles, 44, who is accused of cutting a clerk’s throat during a robbery at a video game store in downtown Renton.

He is scheduled for a competency hearing on Feb. 18 at 8:30 a.m. in courtroom GA of the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.

According to prosecutors, Gayles allegedly held a knife to the woman’s throat, forced her to open the cash drawer and then cut her throat. He then stole cash from the cash drawer and fled.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS AT MUSEUM

In honor of Black History Month, the Renton History Museum will feature two events for the community.

Bellevue College Sociology Professor Eric Davis, or “Professor E,” will discuss the political, cultural and societal implications of rap.

The event is 5:30 p.m., February 19, at the museum, 235 Mill Ave. S., Renton.

He’ll explore what rap conveys about the state of society today, contemporary popular culture, diversity issues and social justice through the lyrics of popular rap music.

Back for a second year is the presentation “Global Heat: Hip Hop Soul Music and Dance.”

This family-friendly performance celebrates the Black roots of hip hop through fusion music, break dancing and spoken word.

The event is 1 p.m., February 28, at the museum.

The presentation features excerpts from the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a discussion of the history of hip hop dance and its origins in traditional African and Brazilian dance and martial arts. The program also features free-style rap by hip hop emcees.

Cultural events are free with regular museum admission, a suggested donation of $3 per adult and $1 per child and always free for members.

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Three-year-old Maliyah McKenzie and her mother Janiesha look forward to Tuesdays and Thursdays in their house.

“I tell her, her teacher is coming,” said Janiesha.

On those days the Skyway residents receive a visit from a representative of the Parent-Child Home Program, a research-based early literacy and school readiness program. It is designed to teach parents of 2- to 4-year-olds how to be their child’s first and best teacher.

Now in its second year in Renton, 97 families in the Renton School District are participating in the program.

“I really like it, especially the person that comes out to the homes; the kids love her,” said Janiesha.

She heard about it from a friend and now she and her daughter are participating in their second year. As a young, single parent, Janiesha said it’s difficult to know how to teach her children new things, but the program has helped.

Maliyah likes the educational games her home visitor brings and she’s learning the alphabet and her numbers.

“It helps me to get her excited about reading and learning her numbers,” said Janiesha.

The Renton School District is working in partnership with the United Way of King County to receive services from the Parent-Child Home Program. As part of an expansion, the United Way began serving Renton families in the fall of 2011.

“We believe it is an opportunity gap closer and are very excited to partner with the Renton School District and we are expecting great results for Renton’s young scholars,” said Carol Van Noy, of the United Way of King County.

As part of the program, a trained home visitor comes twice-weekly for two years to participant’s homes, bearing gifts of books and educational toys. The home visitors are culturally competent parent coaches, who model behaviors that stimulate early learning. Twenty-two different languages are spoken amongst the program’s home visitors. This is significant because 44 percent of Renton’s participants are immigrants or refugees, coming from Cambodia, China, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Honduras, Laos, Mexico, Somalia and Vietnam.

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A mother and daughter read a book, with a home visitor from the Parent-Child Home Program. SUBMITTED in the program and the goal is to focus on those that are not as connected to other services. They primarily serve families of color and immigrant and refugee families of color. There is a priority to serve families from population affected by racial disparities because United Way’s data shows racial disparities in educational outcomes and even in kindergarten readiness.

Forty-six percent of Renton’s participants speak a language at home other than English.

More than half the parents are single-parents and 93 percent of the participants are women, 4 percent are males. Other caregivers in the program represented 2 percent and 1 percent was a grandmother.

The United Way of King County finds its home visitors through community organizations with expertise in early childhood and that deliver high-quality services under that model.

For Renton, Atlantic Street Center of Seattle is the service delivery partner.

The paraprofessional home visitors are supported by early childhood professional site coordinators, who supervise them and handle referrals to other services as families’ needs are identified.

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readily gain acceptance and trust by families, and they are the foundation of the language and cultural match between visitors and families,” wrote Karen Howell-Clark in an email.

She is United Way of King County’s director of early learning.

“The model intentionally uses a ‘light touch,’ with modeling by a trusted community member as opposed to instruction by an ‘expert,’” Howell-Clark said. “In addition to a cultural and language match with families, programs look for home visitors with qualities like warmth, patience, a non-judgmental approach to working with families, knowledge of the community, the ability to work well with both adults and children and enthusiasm for supporting young children and their parents.”

United Way is involved in collaborative funding relationships with the Highline and Auburn districts in addition to Renton, to host the program.

The program holds a graduation for its participants in late May or June. The United Way finds that the Parent-Child Home Program has a substantial positive effect on how parents interact with their children and it has an 85 percent retention rate.

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Teachers threaten opting out of Common Core tests One by one, and sometimes in pairs, teachers and community members took to the podium to address the Renton School Board at the Jan. 28 meeting. In total, 12 people shared their frustrations, mostly about the upcoming Common Core testing, the Smarter Balanced Assessments Consortium or SBAC or SBA, as they are commonly called.

Many teachers in the Renton School District are not happy about having to administer these state-mandated tests. Some even said that they are considering not administering the assessments, which is against district policy.

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will rank and sort children so labels of failure may allow takeover of public schools by privatizers in the name of ‘accountability.’”

Dauble spent the earlier part of Wednesday speaking to state legislators in Olympia about her concerns. Both the Washington State Democratic Party and the state Republican Party have passed resolutions opposing Common Core State Standards.

The state Board of Education has also recommended to the Legislature to eliminate the biology end-ofcourse assessment as a high school graduation requirement. The reasoning is that a focus on biology comes at the expense of broader science, technology, engineering and mathematics or (STEM-based) science curriculum.

The Class of 2015 is the first required under state

law to pass the biology test or an approved alternative in order to graduate.

More teachers relayed concerns about the amount of testing they are required to do to Renton School Board members at last Wednesday’s meeting.

“I am concerned with the ever-increasing focus on data – data that in fact does little to inform my teaching,” said Michelle McLaughlin, a Sierra Heights teacher. “Many of the tests we are required to give tell us what we already know. I need no more tests or spreadsheets for collecting data. I need time to teach. My students need time to learn and to practice.”

At the high school level, preparation for the SBAC is just one of the tests eating away at instruction time, teachers said. Students are also challenged to take

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other standardized tests including the PSAT, SAT, the Washington English Language Proficiency Assessment (WELPA), High School Proficiency Exams (HSPE) and end-of-course (EOC) exams.

“We are so focused on the science and the data and our fear of falling behind as a nation that we are losing the art and heart of teaching, which is why we came to this job,” said Kerri Dowd, a Hazen High School teacher.

David Spring, of the Coalition to Protect our Public Schools, called upon the Renton School Board to withdraw from the Common Core State Standards, as he said other school boards across the country have done.

“We ask that the Renton School Board also pass a motion opting out all of the 15,000 students of the Renton School District from the coming SBAC test,” he said. “The students of the Renton School

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The Renton Education Association will support all teachers who need representation, should they decide not to administer the assessments, REA President Cami Kiel said.

However, the teachers’ union has not taken an official stance on the Common Core State Standards or the SBAC. “REA is opposed to highstakes testing just like the state and national associations are opposed to it, but we’ve not taken a position on it,” said Kiel.

The organization’s membership has yet to officially bring the issue forward and vote on a position.

Personally, Kiel said she feels the testing will harm students and she’s heard from REA’s membership who echo that concern.

“I’m equally concerned,” she said. “I think the number of assessments and the high-stakes assessments (are) crushing our students and teachers. Teachers need time to teach and a lot of their time in the classroom is spent assessing students.”

The Renton School District did not return a request for comment by press time.

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Sierra Heights fifth-grade teacher Julianna Dauble is one such teacher, who spoke out at the meeting.

“I would like them to actually allow me to opt out of administering it,” she said. “I don’t want to give the test and I don’t want to take 10 days of suspension, which would be the likely consequence for my insubordination.”

The high-stakes testing is not aligned with what she feels students need, she said, and assessments are increasing. As a mother of two children in the district, she has already decided to opt her children out of the tests.

“I object to the inhumane test environment imposed upon us by people who believe schools should be run like businesses and students treated like commodities,” Dauble wrote in her letter to the school board. “SBA

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The fight to save an undeveloped wooded area in the Tiffany Park neighborhood is not quite over. Requests for reconsideration of the hearing examiner’s decision have been filed by representation for Henley USA, LLC, the developer, and by Tiffany Park Woods Advocacy Group (TPWAG).

Hearing Examiner Phil Olbrechts also issued an order on request for reconsideration II, which limits the new evidence TPWAG might bring forward.

Cairncross and Hempelmann, the firm that represents Henley USA, LLC, filed its request for reconsideration to ensure that technical errors are reviewed and ruled on, as they have not yet received a ruling on an earlier request.

The errors are both typographical – concerning the width of the perimeter landscaping requirement – and errors of fact or law, they claim. Henley is asking the

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The hearing examiner in his order said that Henley can choose whether to only address evidence in the record and not new evidence. If Henley chooses to address the new evidence, Olbrechts will rule on whether or not that evidence is admissible.

Both Henley and TPWAG had until 5 p.m., Wednesday to comment on the requests for reconsideration. The hearing examiner has up until 10 days from Wednesday to issue and order. After that, the appellants have up to 14 days to appeal Olbrechts’ order.

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hearing examiner to separate out and clarify the difference of the 10-foot front yard landscaping issue called for by code and the 10-foot buffer for retaining walls along the edge of the property that resulted from the State Environmental Protection Act (SEPA) appeal.

Henley is also calling for revisions to lists of lots requiring perimeter landscaping buffers because of the lots’ retaining wall heights. The developer takes issue with the discussion of the retaining wall height because that issue was a part of the preliminary plat proceeding, not the SEPA appeals.

TPWAG takes issue with the way the wetlands on the property have been determined, measured and staked.

“The hearing examiner’s decision provides inadequate mitigation for the impacts on the environment and on the surrounding community of applicant’s proposed development to support a (Determination of Non-significance Mitigated) under SEPA,” TPWAG said in their request.

TPWAG is also asking the City of Renton, via the hearing examiner, to exercise its authority to ask for mitigation under SEPA. TPWAG wants an environmental impact statement for the property. They feel it is justified based on significant adverse impacts on the environment they feel are probable. TPWAG also made their case for

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Keep an eye out for a passing UFO Last week I wrote a story for the Journal of San Juan Islands and I think I finally found some fans.

I wrote about a UFO sighting in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. It’s the first UFO story I have ever written and, amazingly, no one is calling demanding I be replaced with a welldressed mannequin draped in apparent hair.

I received a call from Jim Dunn late in the day on Jan. 19, while I was sending pages for The Journal. He told me he had a story he wanted to discuss. I told him I was sweating a deadline and asked if we could talk the next day. There was something about the conversation that interested me and I hoped he would call.

Fortunately, Dunn called back the next day.

At first I thought he wanted to talk about a problem in his neighborhood or with some goofball city rule. It took me a moment to get it through my thick fog that he was talking about a UFO sighting.

Dunn said on Jan. 15 at about 6:15 p.m. he saw three orange lights over the main street of Friday Harbor – Spring Street.

He thought at first it was a plane making a very low approach to land at the town’s airport, which he thought was odd. Next he assumed the lights must be a helicopter or a drone, but there was something weird about the movements.

“It was three orange lights moving independently,” Dunn said. “At first I rationalized it was a drone, but they were moving too rapidly.”

Once I finally realized this was a different kind of story, I had to decide if Dunn was a regular guy, not a wacko like me.

He came to the office in Friday Harbor and we spent some time talking. He was a very sensible, intelligent man. Dunn is a retired architect and private pilot, which meant he had a pretty good understanding of the way an aircraft would approach the airport.

That is when the story got interesting. Dunn had contacted air traffic control at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. The controller told Dunn there was a helicopter listed as being in the area, but it was 45 minutes after the sighting, Dunn said.

Dunn contacted Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center who suggested he contact the local media (that’s me) to see if anyone else saw the light.

After The Journal published the story several people sent emails about the same lights.

Now, I have to admit this is just plain fun.

Few stories I do can be described in that manner.

The intriguing part of the news business is I never know what’s coming around the corner. One day someone is calling for my well-groomed scalp, and the next it is an alien doing the moonwalk.

While driving back from the Islands, I considered the deep implications of UFOs, aliens and why I was having so much fun with outer space (fun and me just can’t be right).

A ferry ride that probably lasted too long al-

Finding joy in mentoring a boy I am Akeem Blake and I am currently a financial analyst at Boeing. I am also a Morehouse College 2011 graduate. And I am a mentor with Communities in Schools of Renton.

I mentor because growing up with a single mother, I had a mentor in my early years. I did not have a consistent male in my life and having a guy who checked up on me changed me as a child.

My mentor gave me confidence. I knew I could do it because of that second opinion he gave to me. I always got encouragement from my mom, but thought that parents are supposed to tell you that stuff. A mentor can give it to you raw. They can tell you to get your stuff together.

My mentor could see the potential that I had and could lead me to action. I remember him saying, “Akeem, you really can do it. Akeem, you are smart.” Then when I accomplished what I set out to do, I believed more in myself.

I love mentoring with Communities In Schools of Renton and I want to give back because somebody did that for me. Once a week, for an hour, I mentor a third-grade boy at Bryn Mawr Elementary, which is in the Renton School District.

I like learning my mentee’s story and mentorAkeem Blake

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“I object to the inhumane test environment imposed upon us by people who believe schools should be run like businesses and students treated like commodities.“ Fifth-grade teacher Julianna Dauble on what is described as excessive testing in schools

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ing is something I really look forward to. I didn’t expect to look forward to seeing him as much as I do. My mentee and I have been meeting since April of last year and in that time, my mentee has just bloomed. I see a big difference in his attitude.

He reminds me of me at that age.

In December we worked on dribbling a basketball and he was mad because he couldn’t figure out the between-the-legs dribble. So we worked on that and I told him “Can’t isn’t in a man’s vocabulary.”

I know he can work hard and he did. When we came back from the school break in January, he was so excited to show me how he can dribble now.

My favorite part of our hour together is when I first see him come into the school office. He has a big smile on his face and he is excited and ready to go. It makes me feel really good that he’s so excited to tell me about his week.

I would encourage other men be a mentor with Communities In Schools of Renton. It’s just about giving your time. You can make someone’s life better.

Take it from me; a few simple interactions with a child can change everything in their life.

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lowed me to imagine a TV world in the not-toodistant future where the top Super Bowl ad might be for the website, “FindYourAlienGirlfriend. com.”

“Think you’re a baldy head? Your alien girlfriend knows better. Call 1-800-milky way now.”

Tell me that won’t cheer up any Super Bowl fan suffering through a deflated pass.

Another interesting point was, the day Dunn came to the office CNN published a story about the Air Force UFO files being released. The

story stated John Greenewald has put all the documents together and posted it to his website, “Project Blue Book Collection.”

I haven’t had a chance to spend any time on the site, but I plan to and I intend to keep in touch with Dunn.

After Super Bowl XLIX it might be a good time for Seahawk fans to look to the sky for some relief.

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entered through a sliding glass door and then brutally attacked the elderly couple inside, leaving them with serious head injuries.

They were taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where they were still hospitalized mid-week.

The suspect also ransacked the house, taking the couple’s belongings. A K9 track and extensive search by patrol officers did not locate the suspect.

A person of interest seen in the immediate area is described as a light-skinned Hispanic male, 35-45 years old, wearing light grey sweatpants and a matching light grey sweatshirt with a white t-shirt underneath. His hair is described as mostly dark with some grey, short on the sides and pulled back on the top into a short ponytail high on the back of his head.

He had no facial hair at the time of the attack.

The victims suffered significant head injuries, including skull fractures. The woman also suffered an injury to her hand.

Renton Police are asking for help in identifying the person depicted in the sketch. If you have information about this crime, please contact Detective Kordel at 425-430-7647 reference Renton case number 15-989. Your anonymity will be respected.

Anyone with information that can help identify this subject can also call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). You will remain anonymous and are eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $1,000.00 if the information given leads to an arrest and felony charges of the person(s) involved.

Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and charging of the suspect.

The victims from the Jan. 24 attack were still in the hospital mid-week recovering from their injuries. Police have not released their names. PHOTOS COURTESY RENTON POLICE DEPARTMENT

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Renton Police have identified the male teenager who is a suspect in damage done Jan. 21 with a BB gun at the downtown parking garage.

He has been trespassed from the Metro Transit Center but investigators haven’t yet been able to establish probable cause to arrest him, according to Terri Vickers, a Renton Police Department spokeswoman.

Investigators didn’t release his name.

The Renton Reporter wouldn’t name him because he has yet to be charged.

Security cameras show him carrying a BB gun in a box that was sticking out from his backpack. He looks directly at the camera.

The footage also shows a girl carrying a fire extinguisher in the elevator.

Police were called to the transit center at about 9:15 a.m. Jan. 21 for a report of malicious mischief that resulted in a large, fourth-floor window being broken by what appeared to be a BB gun.

The window was cracked and there were concerns it may fall and injure pedestrians below. Police sealed off the area.

In addition, a fire extinguisher was discharged inside the garage elevator.

Police released images to the media in an effort to identify the youth in the elevator.

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Elmer’s boyfriend, Weylin Rose, performed CPR for 10 minutes before EMTs arrived on the scene.

If he would have stopped, even just for a moment, it could have cost Elmer her life.

Elmer of Renton didn’t suffer a run-of-the-mill heart attack. She is one of approximately 326,000 people who suffer every year from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), and only one in 10 victims live to tell the tale.

“A lot of times the first symptom of sudden cardiac arrest is actually sudden cardiac arrest,” said Darla Varrenti of Mill Creek, whose 16-year-old son Nicholas died of a sudden cardiac arrest following a weekend of football in 2004.

In Nicholas’s honor, Varrenti founded the Nick Of Time Foundation, a non-profit organization, which she now serves as executive director, dedicated to reducing rate of SCA in young adults and children. The foundation has held SCA awareness events and CPR classes at 41 different Washington schools and has screened over 13,000 students for heart abnormalities.

The issue has surfaced in Olympia where legislators, in partnership with Nick Of Time, are pushing a bill aimed at educating students and parents on how to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in schools and sports settings.

Typical heart attacks occur when blood flow to the heart – for one reason or another – has either slowed or stopped completely. SCA, on the other hand, is an electrical issue that causes the heart to abruptly shut down, rendering the victim unconscious and legally dead until someone can get the heart pumping again.

That initial response is key.

According to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, survival rates drop between 7 and 10 percent for every minute a victim goes without some form of CPR. “CPR isn’t going to bring them

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Renton Fire & Emergency Services is partnering with Valley Medical Center, Renton School District, Renton Community Foundation and City of Renton Community Services Department to provide free preventative blood pressure and blood sugar screenings to the public.

Renton firefighters and emergency medical technicians will perform the screenings at schools, businesses and community groups throughout the greater Renton area.

“Renton Heart Month has helped raise awareness that heart disease is the leading killer of men and women in our country and closing the gap between awareness and prevention of heart disease remains a critical public health priority,” Mayor Denis Law said in a press release. “The screenings only take a couple of minutes, but those minutes could save your life or the life of a loved one. “ Early detection can lead to early intervention and improved quality of life. From 1998 to 2008, cardiovascular disease (CVD) death rates declined 30.6 percent. However, CVD is still the leading cause of death in the U.S. and strokes remain the leading cause of disability in the U.S. The American Heart Association has identified “Life’s Simple 7” as key measures to assess your heart health and take preventative measures. The three health factors are: knowing your blood pressure, your blood sugar, and your cholesterol.

The four lifestyle behavior factors are: physical back, because with sudden cardiac arrest they’re basically already dead,” Varrenti said. “The CPR helps the blood move through the body before an AED can be brought to the scene, administering electric shock to actually try to reboot their heart and get it back in a normal rhythm.”

Heart valve and rhythm disorders are most often the culprits behind SCA episodes, although recreational drug use, electrocution and sudden blows to the chest also have been known to cause it in individuals without pre-existing heart conditions.

Although his family didn’t know it at the time, Nicholas

activity, eating habits, weight and tobacco use.

In nine years, Renton Fire & Emergency Services Department has performed over 50,000 screenings during the month of February. Of those, nearly 15 percent were found to have high blood pressure or elevated-to-dangerous blood sugar levels. Those at risk were encouraged to see their doctor to help prevent future medical complications.

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suffered a disease that causes the heart’s muscle tissue to thicken without any obvious cause. The condition tends to show no signs or symptoms until it causes the victim to go into sudden cardiac arrest.

Elmer suffers from a heart rhythm disorder that, like Nicholas’s condition, isn’t obvious until something goes wrong. The syndrome is a hereditary condition, so as an adopted child, Elmer had no knowledge of the dangers of her affliction until it was almost too late.

“This is something that parents and athletes need to know about, because this is something that can

happen without any warning,” Varrenti said. “Right now, we don’t do enough to make sure that our kids’ hearts are safe.”

The American Heart Association estimates that more than 6,000 people under 18 experience sudden cardiac arrest each year.

Undetected heart conditions are the leading causes of death in young athletes, who as a group make up over half of all youth sudden cardiac arrest cases.

“This happens to athletes more often because of the high activity level that athletes have,” Varrenti said. “But that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen to kids who are in PE class or even science class. We

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That’s why Varrenti thinks the best place to start with SCA awareness, for all ages, is in the classroom. And members the Washington Legislature agree with her.

With the help of eight other legislators, Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, D-Bothell, constructed SB 5083 — Sudden Cardiac Awareness Act — that would require schools and community athletic organizations to hold informational meetings at the beginning of each school year to educate parents and young athletes about the risks of SCA. The bill also calls for Nick Of Time, in a partnership with the University of Washington medicine center for sports cardiology, to develop an online educational pamphlet that parents would have to read and sign off on before their child could participate in athletics programs. Coaches would be required to complete an online SCA prevention program every four years.

The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Act is similar to the Zackery Lystedt Law, a 2009 bill that requires similar measures be taken in promoting concussion awareness. In the five years since Washington first passed the law, all 49 other states have adopted similar legislation.

Varrenti told McAuliffe that her wish was to see a bill similar to the Lystedt law that would educate parents on the possible consequences of not knowing how healthy their children’s hearts are.

If parents had the information in front of them, Varrenti thought, they would be more inclined to get their child screened for heart problems.

“That’s when she told me, ‘Well we can do that. Let’s start working on it,’” she said.

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For Team Scarab from Hazen, the results weren’t as good, but that’s not why they’re here anyway.

“Our team just started this year, we’re a rookie team,” she said. “The last two years we were preparing for the competition with Labview and learning how to build with simple robots from the manual.”

“I do it because ever since I was really little I was interested in this STEM field in general,” she said.

“In my sophomore year I took AP computer science, learned how to program and become very interested in computer programming.”

Liang said she hopes to build on the things learned with FIRST by majoring in mechanical engineering at the University of Washington.

ALSO: The ShoWare also hosted the Washington State FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Competition Western Washington championships. Sammamish’s Astroboats Team 3368 took home the state title, with Renton’s Lord of the Gears Team 4988 winning the Core Values: Teamwork award.

The FLL pits teams of three to ten competitors, aged 9 to 14 with two adult coaches or mentors, against each other in a robotic competition. Teams build and program a small robot to accomplish various challenges, as well as investigate a research topic and present findings at tournaments. Teams also win points by establishing a team around FLL Core Values, which emphasize sportsmanship, learning and community involvement.

Hazen’s Team Scarab competed for the first time at this past weekend’s event at the ShoWare Center in Kent, but unfortunately did not take home any awards. SHAWN SKAGER, For the Renton Reporter

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Four fires have been intentionally set in an outof-the way area behind the former Renton City Hall on Mill Avenue in recent weeks, possibly by someone trying to keep warm.

An investigation is under way by Renton fire investigators; the reason for the fires isn’t known yet, but options include a malicious intent or they were basically camp fires.

There are no suspects.

“We are always concerned whenever we have someone lighting fires in the city,” said Fire Marshal Anjela St. John. “We hope the behavior doesn’t change into something else.”

There’s no evidence that any tenants of the cityowned building are being targeted, she said. She called the location where the fires have started an “area of convenience” with some cover.

The King County Sexual Assault Resource Center is in the seven-story building’s lowest floor.

The small fires were started on the concrete with discarded materials, she said. Accelerants weren’t used.

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Three men were assaulted within about 30 minutes Jan. 14 on South Third Street downtown by the same man they identified as their assailant.

The first man was assaulted at about 6 p.m. as he filled his gas tank at the Shell gas station at 300 Rainier Avenue South.

Two other assaults were reported closer to 6:30 p.m. One man, a Metro Transit bus driver, was hit in the head by the suspect while walking near Safeway at 200 S. Third St. A third man was walking in the 700 block of South Third Street when the suspect walked past him, then immediately turned back and hit him. The suspect then asked him, “What’s good?” and then punched him again, knocking him to the ground, The 19-year-old Seattle man was pointed out by a victim to an investigating officer as he walked near the Shell station.

The suspect was booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of fourth-degree assault.

A BOEING TRESPASSER: A blue VW Golf, its lights on and keys in the damaged ignition in a private Boeing lot on Garden Avenue, caught the attention Jan. 6 of company security.

Two men returned to the car at about 10:30 p.m. as the security guard stood there. One fled, one remained behind and he was trespassed from Boeing property and released.

The 24-year-old Oak Harbor man who fled managed to get as far as a Boeing secure area near North Sixth Street and Nishiwaki Lane. An officer found him on his back, arms at his sides and palms up, refusing to talk or get up.

After the man was arrested, the officer found a cigarette pack in his pants pocket that contained a black substance the officer recognized as heroin that was later weighed at 2.56 grams. The officer also found $640 in cash and a butterfly knife.

Meanwhile, back at the VW Golf, an officer could see inside more tinfoil with black track marks, which is a byproduct to ingesting heroin or oxycodone.

The Oak Harbor man passed out on the way to the SCORE regional jail. He was taken to Highline Hospital where he recovered. He asked for something to eat but there was no food in the ER. On the way back to the jail, the officer stopped to buy him a cheeseburger.

He was booked for investigation of drug charges, possession of a dangerous weapon and criminal trespass.

DRUG BUST: Two men smoking marijuana inside a car Jan. 16 on Sunset Boulevard quickly got out and went inside a nearby laundromat – and continued to look back at an arriving officer.

One of them walked back outside and apologized to the officer. The other man remained inside but was seen walking through a door and apparently into a storage unit.

He agreed to come out and officers discovered a $7,500 warrant for his arrest.

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pocket. Field testing determined it was .54 grams of methamphetamine. He as booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of drug possession.

The other man was turned over the Issaquah Police Department on a $600 warrant for driving with a suspended license.

SMOKIN’ POT GROW: A Renton Fire lieutenant had never seen powerlines burned off from a main powerline to a residence, so he called in Renton Police to help investigate.

No one answered the door when an officer checked on the residents on Jan. 6 in the 400 block of Index Avenue Northeast.

Puget Sound Energy was called, which advised it would take a strong load of electrical power to melt the wire insulation.

Firefighters entered the home to make sure everyone was OK and were hit with a strong odor of marijuana.

Tubs were set up in the basement to grow marijuana and upstairs rooms were filled with marijuana in different stages of growth. Some buds were hanging to dry.

There were no livable spaces and the front door was walled off. The Special Operations Unit was called in to investigate, which is ongoing. A report isn’t yet available.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF RENTON DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Department of Community and Economic Development has fixed the 24th day of February 2015 at 10:30 a.m. in the Renton City Hall Council Chambers, 1055 South Grady Way, Renton, Washington, as the time and place for a public meeting to consider the following: Project: LUA 15-000015, V-H, Southwest Grady Way South Preservation Project Location: the project limits extend along Grady Way South from west of the Rainier Avenue South intersection to Longacres Drive SW. Application by the City of Renton Public Works requesting a variance from the City of Renton Noise Ordinance, for 10 nonconsecutive nights of construction work between April and May 2015. The items of work to be performed include but are not limited to: • Grinding of existing asphalt and overlaying of new asphalt • Installation of permanent channelization City of Renton has determined that crews will perform project work at night in order to minimize lane closures and congestion impacts to drivers, businesses, school buses and local commuters during the day and provide maximum safety for workers and the traveling public.

All interested parties are invited to attend the meeting and present oral or written comments in support or opposition to the proposal. The Renton City Hall is fully accessible and interpretive services for the hearing impaired will be provided upon advanced notice. For information, contact (425) 430-6510.

Correspondence should be addressed to Doug Jacobson, Deputy Public Works Administrator- Transportation, Renton City Hall, 1055 South Grady Way, Renton, WA 98057.

For more information about the project, please contact Doug Jacobson, City of Renton Public Works at (425) 430-7242.

Published in Renton Reporter on February 6, 2015 and February 13, 2015. #1249343 NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING FOR AN EXTENSION TO THE 2014-2015 GENERAL FUND BUDGET OF THE RENTON SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 403 In compliance with WAC 392-123-071 through WAC 392-123-074 and WAC 392-123-078 and WAC 392-123-079, the Board of Directors of Renton School District No. 403 has completed a proposed extension to the 2014-2015 General Fund Budget of the district. It is on file in the Business Office and a copy will be furnished on request.

The Board of Directors will hold a public hearing, prior to the regularly scheduled board meeting at 7:00p.m. on Wednesday, Feb-

ruary 25, 2015 at Kennydale Elementary,1700 NE 28th Street, Renton, Washington for the purpose of presenting the proposed General Fund budget extension to citizens. Any person may appear at the meeting before the Board and be heard for or against any part of the preliminary 2014-2015 budget. Then during the regularly scheduled board meeting the Board of Directors will take action on a Resolution to extend the District’s 2014-2015 General Fund Budget.

Published in Renton Reporter on Febuary 6, 2015 and February 13, 2015. #1249371.

CITY OF RENTON DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Department of Community and Economic Development has fixed the 24th day of February, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in the Renton City Hall Council Chambers, 1055 South Grady Way, Renton, Washington, as the time and place for a public meeting to consider the following: Project: LUA 15-000036, V-H, SR900/Tukwila NCL to SR 167 Wye - Concrete Pavement Rehabilitation MP 6.66 to MP 9.87 Location: the project is located along State Route 900 between Mile Post 6.66 to Mile Post 9.87 and includes the following jurisdictions; Seattle, Tukwila, Renton and unincorporated King County.

Application by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) requesting a variance from the City of Renton Noise Ordinance, for 30 nonconsecutive nights of construction work between June and December, 2015.

The items of work to be performed include but are not limited to: • Pavement Shoulder Repair • Replacement of Concrete Panels • Pavement Marking WSDOT has determined that crews will perform project work at night in order to avoid daytime traffic congestion impacts to drivers, businesses, school buses and local commuters on SR 900/Martin Luther King Blvd. and to provide maximum safety for workers and the traveling public.

All interested parties are invited to attend the meeting and present oral or written comments in support or opposition to the proposal. The Renton City Hall is fully accessible and interpretive services for the hearing impaired will be provided upon advanced notice. For information, contact (425) 430-6510. Correspondence should be addressed to Maria Laura Musso-Escude, Air Quality, Acoustics and Energy Specialist- PO Box 330310, Seattle, WA 98133-9710. For more information about the project, please contact Maria Laura Musso-Escude, WSDOT at (206) 440-4554.

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Employment General

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CALENDAR ASSISTANT Seattle Weekly Seattle Weekly, one of Seattle’s most respected publications and a division of Sound Publishing, Inc. has an immediate opening for a calendar assistant. This is a Part-Time position, working approximately 16 hours over 3 days per week. The calendar assistant will assist both the arts and music editors in the creation and upkeep of Seattle Weekly’s extensive events listings. He/she must be detail oriented, able to comb press releases and online calendars and manually transcribe mind-numbing information with great accuracy a n d g u s t o. A p r o ve n ability to write succinct, lively copy is a must, as is a working knowledge of most art forms and familiarity with Seattle’s arts and music scenes, from the high-art institutions to the thriving underground. Obsessive knowledge about one or two particular disciplines (Appalachian folk songs and Kabuki, say) is not required, but is definitely a plus. If you have trouble meeting deadlines, don’t apply. Applicants mu s t h ave a wo r k i n g knowledge of Microsoft Office. The successful candidate will possess excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to juggle several projects at once.

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Employment General

Multi-Media Advertising Consultant ISSAQUAH

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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Hazen, Lindbergh compete at Berzerker Tournament The Hazen and Lindbergh wrestling teams competed in their final tournament before this weekend’s league meet.

Hazen’s Tyson Mowrey, right, finished in first place at 113 pounds, while teammate Derek Nichols, left, finished first at 138.

Lindbergh’s James Garcia finished first at 285 pounds while Jayden Schwope finished second at 126 and Diego Gallegos finished tied for third at 182 pounds.

Hazen finished seventh overall and Lindbergh ninth.

Photos courtesy Vicki Maddy

Hazen boys stumble while Lindbergh keeps hope alive

LINDBERGH SWIMMER ACHIEVES ‘IRON MAN’

Lindbergh sophomore swimmer James Buchanan became only the third swimmer in school history to qualify for the state meet in every individual event.

Buchanan achieved his final and most difficult time, in the 100-yard breaststroke, during the team’s final dual meet , a 114-69 loss to Kennedy Catholic on Jan. 29.

The Seamount League meet is scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Hazen High School. The state meet begins Feb. 20 at the King County Aquatic Center.

Renton girls keep rolling as playoffs approach

BY BRIAN BECKLEY

BY BRIAN BECKLEY

bbeckley@rentonreporter.com

bbeckley@rentonreporter.com

After a week in which they won two games, the Hazen Highlanders boys basketball team hit a snag this week, dropping two games, including one at Renton High School against the Indians. Meanwhile, Lindbergh picked up two wins to keep their playoff hopes alive.

HAZEN On Jan. 28, the Highlander boys traveled to Renton to take on intra-district rivals Renton, but the Indians took it to them, besting Hazen 63-39.

No stats were available for the game.

Then, on Jan. 30, league-leading Kennedy Catholic came to Hazen High School and though the game was much closer, the outcome was still the same for the Highlanders as the Lancers beat them 67-55 in a battle of the Seamount’s top two teams.

Hazen is now 14-5 on the year and 10-3 in the Seamount. They play Foster at home on Wednesday in their final regular season game.

LINDBERGH The Lindbergh Eagles picked up two wins this week to remain solidly in fourth place in the Seamount, which is good enough to make the playoffs.

On Jan. 28 the Eagles traveled to Foster to take on the Bulldogs. Lindbergh jumped out to a quick 16-7 lead after the first quarter and then kept going to take a 34-21 lead into halftime.

The Eagles continued rolling in the third and the teams headed to the fourth with Lindbergh up 51-31, but Foster put up a fight in the final frame, dropping in 20 points, but ultimately falling short as Lindbergh left with a 65-51 win.

Anthony Hill led all scorers with 22 points.

On Jan. 30, the Tyee Totems came to Lindbergh and again the Eagles jumped out to a fast first-quarter lead and then hung on for the win.

Lindbergh went out fast against Tyee, putting up a 20-7 first quarter lead and holding on for a 34-26 score as the teams headed to the half.

A 20-12 third quarter all but sealed the deal for Lindbergh, who came away with a 74-58 win.

Devon Jackson led the Eagles with 16. Darrien Sawyer-Lamb added 15 and Anthony Hill dropped in 14 in the win.

With the two wins, Lindbergh moves to 9-8 on the year and 6-7 in the Seamount. They are presently in fourth place, which would put them in the playoffs, though Evergreen was battling for the same spot.

Lindbergh plays Highline Wednesday at home in their final game of the regular season.

RENTON The Indians got their week started with a win against Hazenwbut then dropped a game at Evergreen.

The Indians beat Hazen 63-39 in a match-up Jan. 28 at Renton. No stats were available for the game.

On Jan. 30, Renton traveled to Evergreen where the upstart Wolverines bested the Indians 52-46.

The two teams battled through the first quarter, with Evergreen coming out ahead 8-7, but in the second the Wolverines took control, dropping in 23 points for a 31-16 halftime lead.

Renton rallied through the second half, winning the third quarter 13-11 and the fourth quarter 17-10, but the Wolverine lead from the second proved too much.

Renton’s Wesley Edwards led all scorers with 16 points in the loss.

Renton is now 9-9 on the year and 8-5 in the Seamount. They are in third place in the league and will make the playoffs.

Renton travels to Foster on Wednesday for their final regular season game of the year.

It was another big week for the Renton girls basketball team as the Indians picked up two more wins. Lindbergh also got a win this week, but the Hazen Highlanders fell twice.

RENTON On Jan. 28 Renton headed to Hazen to play the Highlanders and left with a hard-earned 34-31 win.

Renton opened the game with a 10-8 first quarter and maintained their momentum for a 18-13 halftime score, but Hazen rallied in the third and the teams entered the final frame with the Indians ahead by only 2 points, 26-24.

In the fourth, Renton was able to hold off the Highlander attack 8-7 and hold on for the 3-point win.

Shelby Proctor led the Indians with 9 points.

On Jan. 30, Renton hosted Evergreen and bested the Pirates 38-24.

No stats were available for the game.

Renton is now 14-5 on the year and 11-2 in the league. They are presently in second place in the Seamount League.

Renton’s final game of the season is Wednesday at Foster.

HAZEN It was a tough week for the Highlanders, who had to play the top two teams in the Seamount within three days last week.

Though they kept it close, Hazen fell to the Renton Indians Jan. 28 in a tight intra-district match-up. The Highlanders rallied in the second half, but ultimately fell just short against the second-place Indians.

Hazen’s Sarah Sherrod led all scorers in the game with 11 points.

On Jan. 30, Hazen headed to league-leading Kennedy Catholic, where the Lancers easily beat the Highlanders 62-37.

Kennedy took control early with a 15-9 first quarter. By the half, the Lancers were up 32-15.

Kaya Dumas led the Highlanders with 14 points in the loss.

Brenna Hairston added 11 of her own.

Hazen is now 9-10 on the season and 7-6 in the Seamount. They are presently in fourth place and should make the playoffs.

The Highlanders play Tyee Wednesday at home in their final game of the season.

LINDBERGH It was an up-and-down week for the Eagles who dropped a game to Foster, but then picked up their fifth win on the year at Tyee.

The Foster Bulldogs came to Lindbergh on Jan. 28 and a good first half from the Eagles kept the game close, heading to the half with Foster up only 20-18. But the Eagles had some trouble in the third, scoring only 5 points to Foster’s 11 and headed to the final quarter down 29-23.

In the fourth Lindbergh’s rally fell short and the Bulldogs left town with a 45-34 victory.

Connie Tua led the Eagles with 10 points in the loss.

But on Friday, the Eagles traveled to Tyee and easily bested the Totems 63-32.

No stats were available for the game.

Lindbergh is now 5-13 on the year and 4-9 in the Seamount.

Lindbergh headed to Tyee Wednesday for their final game of the season.

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