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Black Diamond City Council Position 5 Q&A Council approves mandatory garbage pickup for residents Pat Pepper
Lake Sawyer is another example. The No. 1 problem is YarrowBay’s Last year City Hall approved one of massive development plans. This devel- YarrowBay’s subdivisions with variancEditor’s note: The Black Diamond opment controls every other issue. We es and concessions that would increase City Council Position 5 candidates, should use every available policy and pollution and flooding to wetlands that incumbent Ron Taylor and feed into Lake Sawyer. Local law to better control challenger Pat Pepper, angroups like Save Black Diamond and manage developswered three questions this rallied and proved scientifically ment. We must avoid week prepared by the editorial to the hearing examiner that the impacts, not just try to staff. city erred in allowing the use of mitigate them. Ballots for the general elecobsolete engineering standards. Take transportation tion must be postmarked by With no help from their elected for example. Even if Nov. 3. representatives, citizens helped every proposed road Pat Pepper Ron Taylor reduce some of the risk. improvement were QUESTION 1 We need a City Hall that built, we would all What is the No. 1 problem respects input from the people, still be gridlocked by facing the residents of Black Diamond YarrowBay’s additional 60,000 vehicle especially those hundreds of people who over the next four to 10 years? What is trips a day. And most of those proposed have spoken up at public hearings over your proposed solution? What will your road projects aren’t even designed yet, the years about the excessive negative solution cost the public and how or where much less funded. [ more POSITION 5 page 2 ] will the funds be found? BY DENNIS BOX
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can, no matter what size the resident chooses, comes with a large recycling bin as well. At their October 13 “King County has a goal meeting, the Covington of 70 percent recycling,” he City Council approved said. “This is an effort to an ordinance for mandahelp accomplish that.” tory garbage and recycling The city has not officially pickup in the city. adopted a goal for recyThe increase in revcling, but is still working enue – about $17,000 – for mandating residents to have toward doing more of it. “If our landfills fill up their garbage and recycling later than expected, we picked up is “pennies save money,” Bolli (for) municipal said. budgets,” said COVINGTON As far as Regan Bolli, city nuisance reports manager. go, the city has reHe said the city ceived 16 complaints had two key deciding so far this year. Last year, factors when making this it received 19 total calls decision. One, he said, was to complain about trash to help prevent nuisance nuisances. violations in association The city has one partwith trash and solid waste time employee dedicated in people’s yards. The other to investigating nuisance factor was to help clean up the city with the addition of violations. The procedure for these complaints can be recycling pickup. Bolli said each garbage [ more GARBAGE page 18 ] BY REBECCA GOURLEY
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Victoria Throm honored with first Women of Distinction award BY SARAH BRENDEN Reporter
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Jason Warner Jr., 6, from Maple Valley, checks out a display at the train show in Ravensdale Oct. 17. The show was organized by the Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council. Attendees could look at all the trains on display or bring their own to use on the tracks that were already set up. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter
The Domestic Abuse Women’s Network honored the city of Covington’s Personnel and Human Services Analyst Victoria Throm with its inaugural Women of Distinction Award on Oct. 3. Throm was honored for her work with the Covington’s annual Purple Light Nights tree lighting. This event kicks off October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Through her work with Purple Light Nights, she has encouraged the campaign to spread nationwide and
globally. It is now in 32 states as well as Canada and Guam. The campaign helps to helps raise awareness of domestic violence issues. Throm also coordinates the tree sponsorship campaign where local businesses and individuals can sponsor a street tree during the month that is lit with purple lights, according to a press release. To learn more about Purple Light Nights® or how to participate in Domestic Violence Awareness Month activities visit www.purplelightnights.org.