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Voters to weigh in on fireworks ban in Kent
Sound Transit picks I-5 route for light rail to Kent, Federal Way BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Sound Transit plans to extend light rail tracks along the Interstate 5 alignment to Kent and Federal Way rather than along Highway 99. The Sound Transit Board of Directors voted unanimously to pick the west side of I-5 route as the preferred alternative for the 7.6-mile route from SeaTac to Federal Way at a July 23 meeting in Seattle. But the board couldn’t agree on where the agency should build a station in the Kent/Des Moines area, instead it approved amendments for staff to further study whether to put a station on the east side or west side of Pacific Highway South near Highline College in Des Moines. City officials from Kent, Des Moines, SeaTac and Federal Way already had agreed that I-5
BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
An emotionally loaded question about fireworks requiring a simple yes or no answer will face Kent voters on the Nov. 3 general election ballot: “Shall the sale, possession and discharge of consumer fireworks be prohibited in the city of Kent?” The City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday at a special meeting to refer the advisory proposition to voters. The council will use the results of the vote to help determine whether to ban fireworks in the city. Any new ordinance passed by the council would not apply to the city’s Fourth of July Splash fireworks display at Lake Meridian or any other permitted display. Numerous complaints from residents to the council over the last few years about fireworks going off in their neighborhoods before, during and after the Fourth of July caused the council to consider a ban. [ more FIREWORKS page 14 ]
[ more LIGHT RAIL page 14 ]
Man convicted in deaths of three men in Kent BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Alyse Elliott, 10, guides Spirit, a 20-year-old Appaloosa mare, at the BESC Performance Horse Show at Reber Ranch last Saturday. While Elliott was the youngest rider in the show, Spirit has been competing at the Lea Hill ranch for 10 years and comes from the stable of Crystal Creson Carter’s Triple C Pleasure Horses in Enumclaw. Proceeds from the show benefitted the Mounted Mischief 4-H Club. For more information on coming shows, visit Reber Ranch on Facebook. More photos, page 17. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
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A King County Superior Court jury convicted a Lakewood man on three counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of three men found in 2011 at a nursery plant in unincorporated Kent. Alberto Avila-Cardenas, 40, faces a sentence [ more KILLINGS page 4 ]
YOUNG HANDS EAGER TO LEARN AND HELP High school students apply skills, touch at MultiCare Nurse Camp
BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@kentreporter.com
Ailen Rosales appeared comfortable as she walked the hospital wing, station to station. She stood bright as a job shadow on a busy morning.
“It’s more than what I expected,” said Rosales, pausing between patients in the intensive care unit at the MultiCare Auburn Medical Center last week. “It’s interesting to see how it works. … It’s always unpredictable. You’re always
on your feet.” Rosales was one of 109 high school students from throughout the South Puget Sound who got a hands-on look at careers in nursing at MultiCare Health System’s 12th [ more CAMP page 15 ]
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Avry Freaney of Kent, right, and Kelsey Vanderhoof, an occupational therapist, middle, talk to a patient at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center last week. COURTESY PHOTO, Patrick Hagerty
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