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Valley looks to ‘gold standard’ for assault exams New program brings specially trained nurses to evidence-collection tests BY DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
Renton teachers take it to the streets One-day, after-school protest highlights frustrations with funding, testing BY TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com
Several downtown Renton intersections were dotted with teachers in red shirts May 28, all chanting and waving signs for support from passing vehicles.
Joined by Renton School District School Board members and administrators, the teachers were voicing their frustrations in a one-day, after school protest and rally. One protester, teacher Kerri Dowd, called the list of frustrations a “hot mess” of problems teachers want solved by the state legislature. Everything was on the table including fully funding education according to the McCleary decision, cost-of-living raises, health care funding, an end to Common Core testing and smaller class sizes. [ more TEACHERS page 9 ]
Starting in early July, highly trained nurses will come to Valley Medical Center to administer sexual-assault exams that can provide the critical evidence needed to send a rapist to prison. The exams, also known as “rape kits,” have always been available at Valley; but about a year ago Valley administrators reached out to UW Medicine after hospital nurses expressed concern about the exacting demands, both medical and legal, of their administration. “They didn’t want a woman to suffer yet again because we had not been able to do it absolutely perfectly,” Theresa Braungardt, Valley’s chief nursing officer, said of the exam, which takes about three hours. Valley’s registered nurses didn’t perform enough of the highly specialized exams to maintain their skills and to keep up with changing protocols, Braungardt said. Valley’s nurses met Public Health require[ more VALLEY page 15 ]
Boeing begins production of 737 MAX BY BRIAN BECKLEY bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
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A worker at Boeing’s Renton facility works on part of a wing for a new 737 MAX, the first of which will be assembled this fall. BRIAN BECKLEY, Renton Reporter
Boeing is about to take its Renton production facility to the MAX. This week, workers started building the first 737 MAX aircraft, beginning with the wings. Machine operators on May 29 loaded 737 MAX wing skin panels and stringers into the new panel
assembly line that uses automation to drill holes and install fasteners in the upper and lower wing panels. Mechanics also loaded the initial parts of the first 737 MAX spars— internal support structures in wings—into automated spar assembly machines. The unfinished skins, stringers and spars were machined by Boe-