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City studies remodel to increase police station space

BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com

Kent voters could be asked late next year to approve a property tax measure to pay for more space for the police department by re-

modeling existing city buildings.

The City Council agreed last week to move forward with a study to find out remodeling costs and funding options. City staff expects to have those details by spring or summer.

The council chose to look at the remodeling option after voters in November 2014 turned down a bond measure to build a new police station at a cost of $34 million at the same location as the current facility, which was last remodeled

in 1991 to handle 75 officers. The police department has just more than 140 officers and hopes to get to 165 officers by 2020.

“We believe the cost estimate will be significantly less than the $34 million stand-alone police

building,” said Derek Matheson, city chief administrative officer, at the Nov. 17 council workshop.

“We will also start to develop funding options. One of those [ more REMODEL page 2 ]

Green River faculty issue vote of no confidence in Board of Trustees

BY HEIDI SANDERS hsanders@kentreporter.com

Members of the 1954 Kent-Meridian Royals football team recently gathered to reminisce about the Turkey Day game they played in more than six decades ago. HEIDI SANDERS, Kent Reporter

Turkey Day memories Former Kent-Meridian football players recall 1954 Thanksgiving game

BY HEIDI SANDERS hsanders@kentreporter.com

Kent’s population dipped dramatically on Thanksgiving Day 1954.

About 2,500 of the city’s 3,500 people made the trek to Seattle that afternoon to watch the KentMeridian High School football team

take on Garfield High School in the eighth annual Turkey Day game.

Although the game ended in a 14-14 tie, members of the Royals team still have fond memories of that day six decades ago.

About 10 of the former team members got together Nov. 17 with their spouses, children and grandchildren to reminisce at the Greater Kent Historical Society Museum and shared their story with the Kent City Council later than evening. Some of the men donned their old letterman’s

jackets and sweaters.

KentMeridian was invited to the game after an undefeated season — eight wins and a tie — which secured the Puget Sound League title for the Royals.

The game was not a state championship game but an opportunity for the top Seattle team to play against [ more GAME page 9 ]

The Green River College faculty union last week sent a vote of no confidence in the college’s Board of Trustees to Gov. Jay Inslee’s office.

“The faculty after quite a lot of deliberation – deliberation that began many, many months ago – have taken an action that we very much hoped to avoid when months ago we began to pursue it, ” United Faculty

president Jaeney Hoene told the board about the no confidence vote during its meeting Nov. 18.

Tensions between faculty and administrators and the board have been high on campus for the past several months after the college announced the possible elimination of several programs in a cost-savings effort.

Ultimately two programs – auto body and geographic information [ more FACULTY page 4 ]

School zone traffic citations down despite more cameras

BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com

When the city of Kent added two more school zone traffic cameras this fall, city officials expected the number of speeding tickets to go up.

But if the month of October serves as an accurate indicator, tickets are way down even with cameras

at four elementary schools instead of two.

A total of 974 citations were written for the four schools in October, Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas said at the City Council’s Public Safety Committee meeting on Nov. 10. In October 2014, 1,198 citations were issued, according to [ more CAMERAS page 4 ]

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[2] November 27, 2015 [ REMODEL from page 1 ] options – though not the only option – could be another ballot measure.”

Matheson said a lessexpensive remodeling option rather than a new police facility could give voters a reason to vote for a property tax increase.

The 2014 bond received 54 percent of the vote but needed 60 percent approval.

The property tax rate on that measure was 19 cents per $1,000 assessed value or about $57 per year for a $300,000 home.

“We believe we would have a good message for the public in saying we

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heard you that you want the police department to have more space but you want us to be more efficient with our dollars and our space and we have tried to do that here,” he said.

Seattle-based ARC Architects presented a City Hall Space Efficiency Study to the council at its workshop last week. The council in June approved a $40,193 contract with ARC for the study.

The city has about 125,000 square feet of office space spread among City Hall, the Centennial Center, the police station and the City Hall annex.

The study showed the

potential to increase space for the police department to about 33,000 square feet from 22,000 square feet, in part by replacing a breezeway between City Hall and the police station with an office building and moving City Council Chambers to the first floor of the Centennial Building.

“We are not talking about, especially within City Hall and the police facility, just moving some walls and doorways and adding some new paint,” Matheson said. “We are talking about completely re-imagining the interiors and making it more like a Class A office experience

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like our employees experience at Centennial. That’s important for police officers who are very frustrated and hampered in their work by the layout.”

Rex Bond, an ARC principal architect, told the council the pathway between the police station and City Hall could be turned into more offices, possibly

even adding a second story.

“We felt this was such an underutilized piece of land between the two that it was a way to give the police the square footage they desire and if they desire more, a second floor or going out (west) further,” Bond said.

The remodeling of the Centennial Center could turn the lobby into a

customer service center for all city departments rather than the several public access points that exist now, Bond said. He added the permit center on the first floor of the Centennial has way more space than it needs. The first floor also could accommodate a large conference room, something the city campus lacks.

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Kent Police seek to expand force

BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com

Kent Police are trying a few new strategies to get the number of officers up to 165 from 147 by the year 2020.

The department has 139 officers on staff, although it is authorized to employ 147 under its 2015 budget approved by the City Council.

The number lags because it takes time to get new hires through the police academy, Police Chief Ken Thomas said to the council’s Public Safety Committee during a Nov. 10 report.

Thomas switched a patrol officer to work full-time in recruiting in an effort to boost the numbers. That recruiter recently visited Washington State Univer-

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Two officers have been hired but haven’t started yet, two others have conditional offers and there are four vacancies, Thomas said. Thomas recently conducted interviews to fill the vacant spots.

“By 2020 it would be ideal if we could get up to adding 16 or so additional officers in the next four years,” Thomas said.

The proposed city budget for 2016 approves boosting the number of officers to 150 for a city population of more than 124,000.

“We are going to explore instead of hiring a few at a time, we want to go to civil service and ask for a big push to get a bunch of people - get them hired in larger chunks earlier on or

we are going to get the same results,” Thomas said about being understaffed.

The chief said the force can be down as many as 2530 officers during an average month. But with seven officers in training and two just graduated from the police academy, the numbers are going up. Five officers are out with injuries. But Thomas expects by early next year to be down just 15 officers with the help of three new positions.

Councilman Les Thomas said he heard Normandy Park might be laying off officers as part of a budget cutback and wondered if Kent had looked to hire officers from that city.

Chief Thomas said Kent will look at Normandy Park and has checked with other [ more POLICE page 3 ]

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[ POLICE from page 2 ] financially strapped cities such as Memphis, Tenn., and a few in California. Kent can fill spots much quicker if it hires officers from other police departments because they don’t have to go through the police academy.

But other local cities and the King County Sheriff ’s Office also are looking to hire.

“If officers in Normandy Park are losing their job, there is going to be fierce competition,” Thomas said.

“We will have our name in the hat but so will King County, Renton and other cities. If you are a candidate

or lateral officer, you are in very high demand.”

Thomas said he recently met with his assistant chiefs and asked them what they need in terms of officers to run their division. He said he also looked at comparable cities to get an idea of how many officers the force needs and that’s how he came up with 165 for Kent, with an effort to keep overtime costs down.

“We look at our comparable cities and officers per 1,000 residents and for Kent to be in the middle of comparable cities we would need 170, so we are close,”

Thomas said.

“My job is to get them (staff ) the resources to do a good job for our community, and right now we are straining a little bit and I don’t know if it’s sustainable,” Thomas said. “It’s causing incredible stress on our staff.”

Councilman Jim Berrios said he remains a strong supporter of more police.

“I’m encouraged to hear we are looking at things differently,” Berrios said. “This council has been very supportive of the police department in terms of staffing and we will continue to be supportive.”

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The facility, at 505 Washington Ave. S., will provide a portion of the essential mental health and substance abuse treatment programs that were slated to be delivered as part of a campus of integrated services called Woodmont Recovery Center in Des Moines, Valley Cities said. Plans for the comprehensive campus have been postponed.

Valley Cities agreed to work with city, county and state officials to research alternate sites following a public outcry in the Des Moines community regarding the proximity to an elementary school and library.

“We listened to the community’s concerns about the Woodmont site and explored other options,” said Ken Taylor, Valley Cities CEO. “We know that we’re good neighbors and have a positive impact on the communities we serve.

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HEIDI SANDERS, Kent Reporter in our hearts but also with hope that our confidence in you might still be restored.

We hope you can hear us not as your adversary but as the allies of this beautiful college on a hill.”

Hoene said in an interview the vote of no confidence in the board doesn’t target a particular board member or call for removal and replacement of any board member. The fivemember board is appointed by the governor.

“Part of what we are trying to accomplish is to reach outside the college to the governor’s office specifically to say we need some kind of intervention,” she said. “It is not for us to tell him what that should be.”

A spokesperson for Inslee’s office said on Nov. 19 the office had received the vote

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to improve low morale on campus. Green River’s main campus is in Auburn with branch campuses in Kent and Enumclaw.

The faculty’s message at last week’s meeting was the same.

“We the faculty come here tonight with hearts full of wrath and compassion,” Hoene told the board during the faculty report.”It is not our desire to be your adversary, we would rather call you our partners, leaders, even mentors, but we cannot. Much as we may desire peace and feel loathe to sit and stand before you today delivering a message that we know will be received with anger, disdain and, quite rightfully, discomfort, we have an obligation to speak this truth to you.”

Hoene told the board it appears to have lost sight of the college’s mission.

“A community college is not a corporation or a branch of government,” she said. “It does not, and should not, work the way those kinds of entities work. … If you do not see that you do not belong here in the first place. You appear to have lost your way and forgotten what a community college is as well as the sacred trust vested in you to protect it. We are here to remind you, out of our commitment, with grief

Kent Municipal Court records.

“Wow, I have no idea how to make sense of this,” Thomas told the committee. “It’s the first month, so I don’t know what it means yet – it’s only one month.”

A total of 332 tickets were issued at Neely-O’Brien, 292 at Sunrise, 132 at Meridian and 50 at Millennium last month. The numbers do not total to 974 because of a lag in the court system, Thomas said. But the number of tickets are way down.

Cameras were installed this fall at Meridian, 25621 140th Ave. S.E. and Millennium, 11919 S.E. 270th St. Cameras were installed in 2014 at Neely-O’Brien, 6300 S. 236th St., and Sunrise, 22300 132nd Ave. S.E. “I understand these are preliminary numbers,” Councilman Jim Berrios said at the meeting. “But it seems to be encouraging that people are learning

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of no confidence but would review it before commenting.

Board of Trustees president Pete Lewis said the board is limited in how it can interact with faculty due to ongoing contract negotiations.

“We most certainly individually, and I think I can say collectively, wish to do so,” Lewis told faculty following the public comment portion of the meeting.

“We can’t do so. When that (negotiations) is done we certainly want to.”

Hoene said the board is using contract negotiations as an excuse for not communicating with faculty.

“He knows we have tried to communicate with them about our concerns before contract negotiations began,” she said. “The Board of Trustees was no more

we are serious about this. This speaks volumes in terms of people taking this serious and you will be cited. We are safer in those school zones and that’s good news - and if this trend continues - it’s very good news.”

Councilman Les Thomas was pleased and surprised with the early numbers.

“We take Neely-O’Brien and Sunrise with about 600 and that’s cut in half,” he said compared to last year’s numbers. “The message has become very clear. I don’t understand Millennium and Meridian, I thought those would be higher. I’m really pleased about the other two schools.”

Police issue a $124 fine for a vehicle exceeding the 20 mph school speed limit by 1 to 9 mph and issue a $248 fine for speeds of 10 mph or faster above the speed limit. The program has brought in more than $1 million to the city. The police department will spend up to $845,000 of the funds on

city jail renovations, police overtime costs, a use of force training simulator and traffic safety equipment.

Police started the program in January 2014 at the request of Kent School District officials in an effort to get drivers to obey the 20 mph speed limit at schools where traffic studies showed the most speed violations.

“I just want to be cautious as we look at last year’s numbers to this year’s numbers,” Chief Thomas said.

“We went a couple of months (last year) and made a significant difference down a couple hundred tickets and then all of a sudden it went higher in 2015 than 2014, so there is still not enough data to draw strong conclusions.”

Berrios hopes the numbers prove true.

“The intent is to get people to slow down in school zones, and I just hope to God that is what’s happening here,” he said.

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willing to talk to us then than they are now.”

Hoene said the vote of no confidence was signed by 82 percent of the college’s 112 tenured faculty.

Many faculty members attended the board meeting holding signs expressing their concerns, and several faculty spoke.

Allison Jansen, a political science instructor at the college, talked about the atmosphere when she started teaching at Green River more than 15 years ago.

“The relationships we had across faculty, across staff, across administrators, it was great,” she recalled.

“You would run into administrators across campus and you would talk. You would have real conversation about family, about your work.”

Jansen said the climate has since changed on campus.

“Morale has flipped,” she said. “It is totally low. We don’t feel respected. We don’t feel we are part of the team any more. I ask you the board, is this what you want?

Is this really, really what you want? Because that’s what you have right now.”

Jansen said although she respects Ely as a person she is not pleased with her leadership.

“As a leader of this campus, what we have right now is we have a boss, and we need a leader,” she said.

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Kent woman assaults brother with hot coffee looking for a place to pull over. The man had a driving while license suspended violation on his record.

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driving at about 8:51 p.m. on Nov. 7 after he allegedly fled from a restaurant Kent Police arrested a without paying for his food woman in her 50s for investigation of fourth-degree and sped away from police before finally pulling over. assault after she reportedly An employee at Jasmine’s threw a hot cup of coffee Mongolian Grill, 24060 on her brother during a 104th Ave. S.E., called dispute.

911 to report a The brother told customer had left POLICE officers that his without paying, sister is a drug user. according to the He said one of her police report. friends showed up The man left in a at about 12:50 p.m. green Buick. A witness got on Nov. 8 at their 80-yearthe license plate number. old mother’s house in the Police saw the vehicle going 2900 block of South 256th eastbound on Southeast Street, so he told the friend to leave, according to the 240th Street at an acceleratpolice report. ed rate of speed. An officer That apparently upset activated a patrol vehicle’s the sister, who went into emergency lights and the kitchen, grabbed a hot started to pursue the car. cup of coffee and threw it The driver didn’t pull on her brother. The brother over right away, as he hit told police he had put cold estimated speeds of 60 mph water on his clothes and in a 35 mph zone, sped he felt fine despite the hot through the 116th Avenue liquid hitting him.

Southeast intersection The sister told officers she and then ran a red light at was upset with her brother 120th Avenue Southeast. because he is mean to her The driver pulled over at so she threw coffee at him. the Kent Covenant Church The mother of the woman parking lot, 12010 S.E. and man told police she 240th St. has two daughters over the Officers handcuffed the age of 50 who are alcoholdriver. He told police he ics and drug users and she didn’t stop because he was wanted them out of the house. She said the son hadn’t caused any problems.

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Man tears up bathroom

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Police cited a man for investigation of thirddegree malicious mischief after he reportedly tore up a bathroom and a bedroom during a dispute with his mother on Nov. 6 at a home in the 400 block of East Titus Street.

The mother went upstairs when she heard her son swearing at himself while in a bathroom, according to the police report.

She saw the son had removed pictures from the bathroom wall and tore a shower curtain from its rod.

He tore up his bedroom in a similar manner.

The mother told her son to leave the home. She thought he had walked away, but then saw him sitting in the driver’s seat of her car. She let him sit there

to calm down. When she went out later to the car, the son had left but the vehicle had a cracked windshield, apparently from when the son punched the window from the inside.

When officers arrived, the son had left the home.

They searched the area but couldn’t find him so cited him at large.

got the car from a friend who is homeless and that the car belonged to a friend of her friend. She said the friend gave her the key to drive the car.

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Question of the week:

The Paris terrorist attacks. Suicide bombings in Beirut and Baghdad. The university killings in Kenya. The natural disasters that rocked Mexico and Japan.

With everything that has happened in the past few weeks (the Kenya massacre happened in April but didn’t manage to make headlines until recently), it’s no wonder that our country is still trying to regain its balance while also dealing with our own issues surrounding race, school shootings and gun control.

We are afraid, probably for good reasons, but I think we’ve let our fear get the best of us and helped us get more than a little ahead of ourselves, especially concerning the 10,000 Syrian refugees the Obama administration plans to accept into the country over the next year.

Many Americans have an opinion about whether or not the country should continue accepting Syrian refugees. Thirty-one governors have said they will not let refugees into their states, although their legal ability to refuse refugees is questionable at best.

I formed an opinion about this issue straight away, but it wasn’t until I sat down to write about the Syrian refugees did I realize that despite my strong opinion on the topic, I didn’t know why these people are refugees in the first place.

Everyone seems to know that Syria is a “war-torn” country, but beyond that, details are sparse.

Many of the news articles that have come out over the last week about the U.S. accepting refugees have failed to remind us why these people are fleeing their country. Millions of people have been reduced to nothing more than numbers and a label in our media – silhouettes painted in our minds, the details of their tragic lives escaping our notice.

The Syrian civil war started in 2011 as the authoritarian government, led by President Bashar al-Assad (and backed by Iran and Russia, according to the BBC), started cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrations. The use of heavy-handed force only spurred more of the country’s citizens to call for the President to step down from power.

By 2013, more than 90,000 people had been killed. Between 300 and nearly 2,000 of those deaths have been attributed to chemical weapons that were launched around the capital of Damascus.

The weaponized chemical used was sarin, a nerve agent that was classified by the UN as a weapon of mass destruction in 1991.

Death by sarin is quick, but not painless.

The chemical paralyzes the lung muscles, causing the victim to suffocate within minutes. Those who miraculously survive suffer permanent neurological damage. [ more STILL page 7 ]

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Why the delay on fireworks?

After the Kent voters overwhelmingly (66 percent) voted to ban fireworks, the City Council now wants to “study the matter further.” Really?

Why did they ask the voter for our opinion? How many complaints do they need to hear? Is there some other agenda they haven’t mentioned, such as lost tax revenue or someone else not making money from selling fireworks?

I find it difficult to believe other issues are influencing the council, such as not wanting to deprive us from our “right to explode things” as a way of honoring our country.

I am a veteran and I have no desire to hear something explode on July 4. And certainly if I did, I can see sane public displays everywhere.

I have written down the names of council members who are against the ban on fireworks, and I will use this as a guide for future votes. I know many other frustrated Kent citizens who are doing the same.

– Gregory Honeycutt

What’s the problem?

Ban fireworks I do not understand what is to discuss concerning banning fireworks in the city of Kent. The City Council has no problem raising taxes without an “advisory vote,” but fails to

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Deadline for letters to be considered for publication is 2 p.m. Tuesday. follow the clear direction of all who voted.

It is hard to understand what is so difficult about taking action on an issue to protect Kent citizens and property.

If all the towns surrounding Kent have banned fireworks, where do you go to legally shoot them off ? That is a redundant question, it is Kent.

I urge the members of the council to ban fireworks, or as an alternative, the citizens who voted for the ban to vote against the members of the council when they come up for election again.

– Merle Barnes

Uncaring comment Les Thomas’s comment on fireworks makes no sense at all.

Mr. Thomas, let us suppose you want to order a new car,

but it will take a year to reach you. Would you just keep delaying the order because it would take a year anyway?

I think not. Most people would want to order it as soon as possible. But, according to you, it takes a whole year, so what’s the hurry?

Makes no sense whatsoever.

You have to think before you say things.

For the people who voted no on fireworks, your comment is uncaring and belittling to the issue.

– Jenn Rivet

Please save charter schools The state Supreme Court’s recent decision not to reconsider its earlier ruling against voter-approved charter schools is as disappointing as it is unfeeling and mean-spirited.

Despite calls from concerned parents, current and past attorneys general, public education groups and prominent leaders of both parties, the justices decided to doubledown on their determination to close charter schools to children. Their insensitive decision is a blow to disadvantaged families who are under-served by traditional schools.

As Brenia, a student at Kent’s Excel Charter School, told the Washington Policy Center, “I don’t think it’s cool because all [ more LETTERS page 7 ]

www.kentreporter.com Commissioner for Refugees has estimated that women and children make up 75 percent of the refugee population. Close to 40 percent of refugees are children.

A further seven and a half million more Syrians have been displaced inside the country, where the UN says 5.6 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance.

A published UN report estimates 80 percent of Syrians now live in poverty. “War-torn� certainly doesn’t do this sort of devastation justice.

And yet, this country’s leaders are trying to find a way to turn these refugees away from a safe-haven that tells the rest of the world to send to it their homeless and tempest-tossed masses.

Although recent events are causing the country to hyper-focus on Syrian refugees, they only make up 2 percent of all the refugees

[ STILL from page 6 ] Assad agreed to a complete removal or destruction of his regime’s chemical weapons (fearing direct U.S. intervention), a mission lead by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

By this point, the war became sectarianized as the Sunni Muslim majority of the country started fighting against Assad’s secretive Shia Alawite sect. This religious split has drawn neighboring countries into the war and opened the way for religious extremists, like the Islamic State, to gain a foothold.

The death toll rose to 250,000 last August.

Since the start of the war, more than four million refugees have fled the country, roughly a quarter of the country’s population.

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that came into our country during the last fiscal year, according to the New York Times.

More than 700,000 refugees came into the U.S. during the 2015 fiscal year, the largest groups from Myanmar (nearly 20,000 refugees), Iraq (around 13,000 refugees), and Somalia (around 8,000 refugees).

Washington state alone has received 33,000 refugees since 2003 from all around the world, including Iraq (3,700 refugees) and Iran (1,200). Only 25 Syrian refugees have settled in this state.

Out of the 2,500 Syrian refugees taken in by the US since 2011, 50 percent are children and the rest evenly split between men and women. Only two percent of refugees were single men of combat age.

The screening procedure we use to check out Syrian

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the kids here (Excel Charter School), they love it ‌ I don’t see why you want to shut that down for kids.�

It was particularly mean of them to announce the decision on the same day charter

Jose Camacho is a community organizer with Tenants Union of Washington State. An article in the Nov. 20 issue had an incorrect first name.

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refugees takes between 18 and 24 months, has an acceptance rate of 50 percent and already involves the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State and the Department of Defence.

Despite this, the House of Representatives recently passed a piece of legislation that would put new screening procedures in place, requiring the director of the FBI, the secretary

agencies like the International Rescue Committee in Seattle or World Relief Seattle to host refugees before they are moved into homes of their own.

I stand with Gov. Jay Inslee and the other 12 states that have vocalized their support for these refugees.

Only by putting our fears aside will we find our balance again.

of Homeland Security and the director of national intelligence to confirm each Syrian and Iraqi refugee admitted into the country poses no threat.

But these refugees are families who want a quality life, parents and children seeking asylum from a war that has shattered their country. They deserve our compassion and understanding, not scrutiny and suspicion.

With that in mind, families in Washington can volunteer through various

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LONGTIME THOROUGHBRED OWNER, STAKES WINNER DIES AT 80 Richard “Rick” Pasko, a prominent member of the Washington Thoroughbred community for five decades, died Nov. 18 from a heart attack in Auburn.

Pasko, who had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for several years, was 80 years old.

Pasko, who founded and operated Meridian Valley Real Estate in Kent, raced stakes winners at Emerald Downs, Longacres and Yakima Meadows. He purchased a filly named Missa Bet at a local horse sale in the late 1970s and she became a foundation racehorse and broodmare who still paid dividends in 2015.

Missa Bet produced Longacres and Yakima Meadows stakes winner Timely Bet, and as a broodmare Timely Bet produced 13 winners including eight at Emerald Downs. As of Monday, services were pending.

The line of Nick Holowko, Scott Eansor and Jamal Watson powered the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 5-2 Western Hockey League win over the Portland Winterhawks in front of a sellout crowd of 6,162 last Saturday night at the ShoWare Center.

Eansor had three assists, Watson had a goal and an assist and Holowko had a goal in the T-Birds’ sixth consecutive win and their eighth straight on ShoWare ice.

Seattle (15-6-1-0) went in front 1-0 on Matthew Barzal’s goal at 7:58 of the first period.

But Portland (11-10-0-0) tied the game 1-1 at 15:44 of the first.

The T-Birds scored twice in 31 seconds late in the second period to take a 3-1 lead. Donovan Neuls tipped a Jerret Smith wrist shot from the right circle on the power play past Adin Hill at 16:22. Jarret Tyszka held the puck in at the left point and then got it to Eansor along the left boards. Eansor came off the boards and crossed the puck to Smith.

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Paul Bittner scored a power-play goal 42 seconds into the third period to cut the T-Birds lead to 3-2. Jack Dougherty had the only assist.

The T-Birds took the twogoal lead back at 2:40 of the third. Holowko banged in a loose puck in the crease on a scramble in front of Hill.

Seattle made it a 5-2 lead at 4:27 of the third. Ethan Bear crossed the puck from the right point to Turner Ottenbreit at the left point.

Ottenbreit took a slap shot.

Matthew Wedman tipped Ottenbreit’s shot past Hill for his third goal of the season.

Seattle goalie Logan Flodell improved his record to 10-3-1-0 while stopping 24 of 26 shots.

The T-Birds are home at 7:05 p.m. Friday against Vancouver.

SCORING SUMMARY First period - 1, Seattle, Barzal 6 (Kolesar), 7:58.2, Portland, Bittner 6 (Jones, Bukarts), 15:44. Penalties Bear, Sea (holding), 1:40. Jones, Por (delay of game), 10:22. Olhaver, Sea (goaltender interference), 17:09.

Second period - 3, Seattle, Neuls 2 (Smith, Eansor), 16:22 (pp). 4, Seattle, Watson 3 (Eansor), 16:53. Penalties - Overhardt, Por (tripping), 2:58. Dougherty, Por (delay of game), 3:15. Watson, Sea (hooking), 11:56. Clayton, Por (tripping), 15:19. Gropp, Sea (tripping), 17:13.

Hauf, Sea (roughing), 19:43.

Third period - 5, Portland, Bittner 7 (Dougherty), :42 (pp). 6, Seattle, Holowko 4 (Eansor, Watson), 2:40. 7, Seattle, Wedman 3 (Ottenbreit, Bear), 4:27. Penalties - Gropp, Sea (goaltender interference), 12:34.

Making waves Kentridge High’s Jonathan Borte, right, steals the ball from Auburn Mountainview’s Alex Toney, as Kentridge’s Tyler Lantz, left, looks on, during the boys water polo state tournament at Curtis High School in University Place on Nov. 14. Kentridge beat Auburn Mountainview 12-11 in overtime to take seventh place. Borte and teammate Jake Davies each were named to the All-Tournament Honorable Mention team. COURTESY PHOTO, Tracy Arnold

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The Tacoma Stars dropped their first Major Arena Soccer League game of the season as Soles De Sonora grabbed a 6-4 victory last Friday night at the ShoWare Center in Kent.

The Stars (4-1) were led by midfielder Jamael Cox, who had a pair of goals in the third quarter. Tacoma goalkeeper Danny Waltman recorded 10 saves on 16 shots.

Sonora midfielder Cristhian Segura’s unassisted goal opened the scoring and broke a scoreless tie with under a minute left in the first quarter to give the visitors a 1-0 lead.

Tacoma answered just two minutes into the second quarter with a goal from Ty Hall, his first goal of the season, tying the game at 1-1. Stars midfielder Joey Gjertsen put Tacoma ahead 2-1 with a

power play goal near the end of the first half. The lead did not stand for long, as Sonora would answer with an unassisted goal from Enrique Cañez 19 seconds later to send the game to halftime tied at 2-2.

The third quarter featured three lead changes, two ties and five total goals. Cox began the frame with his first goal of the night, an unassisted score that gave the Stars a 3-2 lead. Sonora midfielder Alberto Campoy evened the score at 3-3 just 10 seconds later with an unassisted goal of his own. Two more goals from Sonora (3-1) and a second goal from Cox would send the game to the fourth quarter with Sonora holding a 5-4 edge over the Stars.

With just under a minute left in the match, Sonora midfielder Gustavo Rosales put the game out of reach with an unassisted goal to extend Sonora’s lead to 6-4.

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“It was just very unusual for a small school to, No. 1, win the Puget Sound championship and, No. 2, to go to that game,” said Gerry Anderson, co-captain of the 33-man team.

Chuck Simpson, who played on the team, gave the presentation to the council recounting the game.

“The museum started doing a presentation in front of the City Council,” Chuck said. “I told my wife, Nancy, ‘I think that ‘54 Turkey Day game was a pretty significant event,’ so then it started snowballing from there.”

Chuck’s father filmed the game — clips from which were shown during the council meeting.

“He (Chuck’s father) liked to take movies,” Chuck said. “He was also a projectionist for local theaters part time. He took pictures from the grand-

stands with his 8-millimeter camera. The next year that convinced (Kent-Meridian head football coach) Jack Burell that they better start filming the games. So the school bought a 16-millimeter camera and the film and my dad started taking movies of all the high school football games from 1955 to 1970.”

Several of the members of the 1954 Royals football team recalled the field conditions of the game. The field at Seattle’s Memorial Stadium was sand. KentMeridian’s team was used to playing on grass “We went in and practiced on it one day,” Gerry said.

“It could get under in your uniform and grind on you.

When we walked out on the field (Coach Burell) said, ‘We are lucky the tide is out.’”

“It was just like playing on the beach,” added Bob Anderson, the team’s cocaptain and Gerry’s cousin.

“We were waiting for seagulls. I think they came in after we left.”

Garfield scored in the first quarter of the game, attended by more than 13,000 fans.

“We were so overwhelmed,” Gerry said.

“We had never been in a stadium that had that many people and the noise.”

But, the Royals scored twice before the end of the first half. Bob scored one of the touchdowns despite being injured.

“I was hurt real bad,” he said. “It was our last practice before we went in and I pulled a bunch of things in my leg.”

Garfield scored in the fourth quarter to tie the game. The outcome of the game was better than expected for the Royals as Garfield was heavily favored to win.

As a reward for their efforts in the game, both teams were invited for a free, one-hour airplane ride on a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. The flight would have cost about $700 or the equivalent of

The 1954 Kent-Meridian football team faced off against Garfield at Memorial Stadium in Seattle on Thanksgiving Day. The game ended in around $6,000 today.

“That was the first time I had ever been in an airplane,” Gerry said. “We flew around Mount Rainier.

They had food and drinks for us. It was over the top.

Most of the kids had never set foot in an airplane.”

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Time for some winter reading book in the series, “Down the Garden Path,” centers on buying his first thatched cottage and making a garden in the English countryside, followed by “Merry Hall” and a list of other books that celebrate his rambling, name dropping and out-of-date methods of garden making.

If you like English gardens, history and reading about people that have man servants and drink tea, then Beverly Nichols should be on your list for winter reading.

Garden classics

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Head to your local library or computer and look up Beverley Nichols.

This opinionated, snobby and always entertaining author was popular in 1940s and ’50 in postwar England but then forgotten as suburban gardeners preferred convenience over the perennial borders that Nichols brags about or his scolding tone on what flower colors may clash in a vase.

Today his series of books about his own garden and the visitors he loves to gossip about have been reprinted for a new audience

by Timber Press. The first Marianne Binetti

As winter arrives it is time to settle in with some great garden reads.

Garden lovers have been using the winter dormant season to read up on new plants, explore new ideas and study seed catalogs even before Thomas Jefferson made it popular among the aristocrats of the new world.

This year, consider getting lost in another time by reading some gardening classics, become inspired by trying a new garden magazines or fall hopelessly in love with a plant you discover on the pages of a garden catalog.

Garden magazines The trade and shelter magazines struggled to adapt when new media arrived on the garden scene

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but things have settled down and you can still subscribe to “Horticulture”, “Fine Gardening” and my personal favorite, “The English Garden” – for everyone who loves beautiful gardens. Blame it on reading those Beverley Nichols books, but spending money on this glossy imported magazine is a luxury that rivals chocolate on a cold winter night.

If you can’t find these garden magazines on your local newsstand, you can subscribe online by Googling the name.

Another favorite is one you would never find on local store shelves. It is called “Green Prints,” and there are no glossy photos or “how-to” articles. Instead this small, homespun, quarterly publication from North Carolina celebrates the personal side of gardening with stories about garden chores, pruning mistakes and furry garden companions.

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Garden catalogs Many seed catalogs, such as local Ed Hume Seeds, have gone to online only ordering formats, and this is an efficient way to order seeds.

For winter escapism, however, the seed catalog that inspires the most edible gardens has to be the Oregon-based Territorial Seed Company. The offerings of vegetables, flowers and fruits keeps getting more numerous and there are full color photographs of all the unusual leafy greens, colorful tomatoes and quirky squash they offer.

For gardeners who might want to purchase beer and wine-making supplies, herbs, vegetables for gourmet cooking – and even the Oregon Pioneer Sourdough starter – there is the family-run Nichols Garden Nursery catalog that has recently transitioned from paper to a downloadable PDF catalog.

Like Territorial Seed,

See Marianne Marianne Binetti hosts “Dig In Seattle,” a garden and cooking show that is back on the air.

You can watch the show via podcast at www.diginseattle. com or on Channel 22 KZJO TV at 12:30 p.m. Saturdays. The show focuses on local gardening tips and cooking demos from local chefs.

Nichols is based in Oregon, so the varieties they sell play well with our climate.

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Tomorrow is Shop Small Day, a nationally-recognized event that encourages you to shop small and spend big at our local, small businesses. Downtown Kent merchants are already decorated for the holidays and hope you will share the cheer of the season with them by stepping through their front doors, introducing yourself and supporting the mom and pops that make our downtown the place to be this time of year. Happy Holidays from the Kent Downtown Partnership.

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Kent Downtown Partnership Wreath Decorating Contest Voting will happen from November 23rd to December 21st Pick up a ballot at participating businesses and vote for your favorite wreath Ballots are entered into a raffle for great prizes!

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Happy Holidays from Downtown Kent