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Weekend meal program serves Black Diamond families Shop with a

Cop returns Dec. 12

Donations are needed to help fill the increasing numbers of children being served

BY ANA KAREN PEREZ-GUZMAN Reporter

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ost schools offer free breakfast and lunch programs for children from low-income families during the week. The other two days of the week are up to the families.

Rebecca Olness, past president of the Black Diamond/Maple Valley Kiwanis Club, heard about a weekend meal program the Enumclaw School District started in 2013 for their students. After getting details about the program, Olness started her own in Black Diamond in 2014.

The program provides children in need at the Black Diamond Elementary School with a bag of food for the weekend. It includes two breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks and beverages to help them over the weekend.

Any parent can sign their children up for the program, and it is confidential, Olness said.

Olness asked The Black Diamond/Maple Valley Kiwanis Club for help with the program and they were more than happy to help and contribute. The club budgeted $500 a year for the program and formed a partnership with the Rainier Foothills Wellness Foundation and the Black Diamond Community Center. After word spread about the program, local business and community members pledged financial support and the program received a grant from the PNW Foundation.

The community center gives Olness space to store the food donated and a place to pack the food. Since the community center also provides services to low-income individuals

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Every Thursday during the school year, Olness and club members put together the bags of food and then deliver them to the school so the students can pick up the bags on Friday morning. Dietary restrictions are also met, as best as they can, Olness said. The principle

Shop with a Cop is coming to town Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Covington Walmart.

Children, mainly elementary school aged kids, will be able to shop with a police officer and pick out their holiday gifts.

Each kid will be given $50 to shop for gifts.

Officers will help kids buy presents for COVINGTON themselves.

Mechee Burnett, King County Sheriff ’s Office Community Service Officer, said often times, the children go straight to the laundry detergent, shampoo, soap and other house hold items because they know that is what their family needs.

“Officers are there to guide the kids to items for themselves,” she said.

She added last year, there was a 10-year-old boy who participated but rather than shopping for himself he spent his time and money looking for gifts for his siblings.

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Cheryl Hanson, left, and Rebecca Olness work at the Black Diamond Community Center to help families in need. On the right are examples of meals Olness helps pack for elementary students. SARAH BRENDEN, The Reporter and families, Olness includes in the food bags flyers of upcoming events where free food or other items are provided.

“This way, students and their families know when and where they can get free items year-round,” Olness said. Including presents around the holidays and free jackets, scarves, hats and blankets donated by Zumiez, Cheryl Hanson said, director at the Black Diamond

Shortage of volunteers causing problems with PTA

BY ANA KAREN PEREZ-GUZMAN Reporter

Katrina Montgomery is burnt out. Year after year of putting on PTA run events with a significant shortage of volunteers gets hectic. Montgomery has been a part of the Tahoma PTA for eight years. In those eight years she has seen a rapid decline in volunteers, leaving it up to her and the few other board members to fill the positions of sometimes hundreds of volunteers.

“I just don’t know how to get people to volunteer, it gets tiring on a person to do everything,” Montgomery said. She calculates there are at least 500 parents available to volunteer. If every parent volunteered just one time during a two or three hour event, in the nine month span of a school year, there would be more than enough

The 59 slots were filled by only 32 volunteers. During and preparing “I just don’t know volunteers. The job of 125 people for an event the volunteers and how to get people was done by 32. It was only when board members will work beto volunteer.... I she posted on Facebook a slot was tween 60 to 70 hours a week – on want parents to going to be cancelled if nobody top of other daily responsibilities. realize this is all stepped up that a few volunteers “I want parents to realize about the students.” offered to help. this is all about the students,” Katrina Montgomery While that was a significant Montgomery said. All of the amount of volunteers needed, it money made from events and is hard to come by even a small fundraisers goes right back to the amount of volunteers. During students and the school.

Montgomery has noticed parents step up picture retake day this year, they only needed two volunteers. Nobody stepped to help at the very last minute only when up to volunteer. It was left up to the board she would inform them an event would be members to fill in the two positions. Even cancelled if nobody volunteered. though it is the job of the board members “It’s frustrating it has to come to that. It’s to cover situations where there is a shortage like they need the shock value to step up,” of volunteers, they can’t do it every single Montgomery said. time, Montgomery said. The shortage of During the book fair this fall, the PTA volunteers has affected the PTA for years needed 125 volunteers with 59 slots filled.

now and it is still an ongoing problem that needs to be solved.

They have tried many tactics over the years to get volunteers, including having one PTA for three schools instead of three individual ones. Even doing that did not help, Montgomery said.

The PTA is responsible for about 15 events every year, including science fairs, book fairs, powderpuff football, carnivals and school plays. Without the PTA, those events would not take place.

“This might sound selfish but I keep doing this for my children,” Montgomery said.

She knows what is at stake if the PTA were to ever close down.

Montgomery is hopeful more parents will step up to help and she will continue to do as much as possible to get more volunteers.

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Black Diamond Christmas Events • SANTA ARRIVES IN BLACK DIAMOND Santa is own his way to the Black Diamond Community Center, complete with holiday lights, caroling, hot chocolate and cookies.

The Christmas fire engine will deliver Santa to the center at 6 p.m. at 31605 Third Ave. The event is free and includes pictures with Santa.

• FAMILIES HELPED IN BLACK DIAMOND The Black Diamond Community Center provides Christmas for children of low-income families from Black Diamond, Ravensdale, Cumberland and the Green River Gorge.

Organizers are collecting new and unwrapped toys for children up to 17 years old. Look for giving trees at Columbia Bank, Black Diamond Antique Store, Black Diamond Library, Lake Sawyer Grocery, The Loft and the Black Diamond Community Center. Donations should be dropped off by Dec. 14. Gifts will be distributed from 3 to 6 p.m. Dec. 21.

The Black Diamond Community Center also seeks donations of small turkeys or hams (10-12 pounds) for our Food Bank clients for the holiday meals. They can be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Dec. 21-22.

The Black Diamond Community Center is at 31605 Third Ave. in Black Diamond. Anyone with questions about the programs can call Cheryl Hanson 360-886-1011.

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Burnett said the Shop with a Cop program has been around since the late 90’s.

The program serves 10 schools between Maple Valley and Covington. “This year, we are trying to serve 500 kids,� Burnett said.

The school in Covington the program works with is Cedar Valley Elementary School. “Kids (from Covington) need it more so than those from Maple Valley, in my opinion,� she said.

The children chosen for this program are selected by the counselors at the schools.

Burnett said the counselors choose the children based on their needs and

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informs Olness every week of how many bags of food need to be made, along with any dietary restrictions. The food they try to include in the bags are items that do not require a lot of work and the students can make on their own if they have to.

If a family does not have a microwave or another item needed to make the food, Olsen will be informed and will try to include items that do not require those items to make.

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their families needs.

Aside from shopping for holiday presents, Burnett said the program works to “bridge the gap between law enforcement and youth.�

A few weeks ago, Burnett said the schools were given the number of students they could select for the program.

She said deadline for counselors is Monday, Dec. 7.

Aside from the slots schools are allotted, there still are available spots on the law enforcement side.

The public can also nominate families and children to participate in this year’s Shop with a Cop. Covington Police Chief Andrew McCurdy said a family of six who just recently moved to Washing-

ton have been nominated to participate.

Shop with a Cop runs from 9 to 11 a.m.

Burnett asked that due to space, only parents are able to come along and shop with their child and the officer.

She also asked that volunteers arrive at 8 a.m.

The children will also be able to take their photo with Santa and their police officer who shopped with them.

This year’s Shop with a Cop is sponsored by the Maple Valley Rotary and Windermere Foundation.

For more information on how to nominate a family, how to volunteer or anything else contact Burnett at mechee.burnett@kingcounty.gov or 206-477-3026.

year, Olness is concerned about the students who participate in the food program. She tries to include as much extra food as she can when vacation days come up.

When the program started in January 2014, about 27 students participated. Now, almost two years later, 45 students participate. With the increase in demand of the food bags comes an increase in money and donations needed. The Kiwanis Club was able to double their budget for the program and the Black Diamond PTA

also donates about $1,000 a year. With their donations, a corporate donation of $2,000, an individual donation of $500 and with the food donations from Saint Barbara Parish and other individuals, they are able to meet the required bags of food needed every week. Olness said donations of money and food item are always welcome.

To donate to the program contact Rebecca Olness at rolness@yahoo.com or items can be dropped off at the Black Diamond Community Center.

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City of Covington named Tree City USA for 13th year

BLACK DIAMOND The community center’s tree lighting will be today, Dec. 4, starting at 6 p.m.

Covington met four standards to become a Tree City USA community: • a tree board or department; • a tree care ordinance; • a comprehensive community forestry program; • and an Arbor Day observance and proclamation.

Communities that receive Tree City USA recognition not only have taken the time to meet these four standards, they recognize trees

They aren’t even trying I have my ways of doing things in the house and I’ve tried to make things as easy as possible for my family to comply.

If whatever system I’ve put in place seems too difficult, I’ll often relax it just to save my sanity from having to repeat myself over and over trying to get them to do it my way.

I’m really not a controlling person, but I like things to be fairly organized; a place for everything and everything in its place. I like the towels at the end of the hall to be on the shelves for whichever bathroom they belong to, not just crammed on willynilly. I like the ceramic cups on the kitchen garden window to be on their respective saucers and next to their respective teapots, not stacked in a precarious

pile. I like the leftover food to be placed in plastic containers and put in the fridge, not in the pot it’s cooked in. I like the dishes to be put away where they belong, not in random places where I have to search for them.

I try really hard not to make putting things away puzzle-like; where you have to remove one item to get another out, then reverse it to put it away. I know things would rarely get put away if was stored in such a manner.

Right now, in the lives of my children, I am the chief cook and bottle washer only because they are in school and need to concentrate on homework.

promote healthier communities.

Leaves filter the air we breathe by removing dust and other particles.

Trees moderate climate, conserve water and provide habitat for wildlife. Trees in urban areas reduce the heat island effect caused by pavement and buildings.

Properly placed trees can increase property values, and buildings in wooded areas rent more quickly and tenants stay longer.

“A community, its elected of-

But there’s the rare weekend, like last weekend, when I ask them to do the dishes because I cooked all day.

So I opened the cupboard this morning and the medium sized mixing bowl was shoved on top of the large and small mixing bowls.

Come on people! They nest inside each other so they fit properly.

I’m wondering if more thought was put into deciding not to pull out the large mixing bowl and doing it right than it would’ve taken to actually do it. It really doesn’t take that long and considering the medium mixing bowl on top of the whole contraption doesn’t fit that well, it was a minor chore to stash it that way. Probably about as much energy as taking the large bowl off the shelf, picking the Gretchen Leigh

The city of Covington has been named a Tree City USA community by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor its commitment to community forestry.

It is the 13th year Covington has received this national recognition.

The Tree City USA program is sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the National Association of State Foresters and the USDA Forest Service.

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HOLIDAY EVENTS Starting today, Dec. 4, Covington Hollydaze events kick off the holiday season with the Float-In Movie at the aquatic center from 8 to 10 p.m.

Then on Saturday, Dec. 5 the Reindeer Dash 5K starts the day’s festivities.

The run starts at 8 a.m. at City Hall and goes until 10 a.m.

A pancake breakfast with Santa will be held at City Hall from 9 a.m. to noon.

The day will conclude with the tree lighting from 4 to 6 p.m. near Pier 1 and Fred Meyer.

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ficials and its citizens that provide needed care for its trees deserves recognition and thanks,” said John Rosenow, chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation. “Trees are a vital component of the infrastructure in our cities and towns, and they also provide environmental and economic benefits. Cities that are recognized with a Tree City USA designation go to great lengths to plant and care for the community forest.”

small bowl out of it and nesting the medium one in between or at least no more time than I’ve spent contemplating why they didn’t do it.

There are other things. I buy a boneless ham from the store so they can slice it themselves and use it as lunchmeat. It’s cheaper than deli meat. However, they apparently have an issue with slicing meat themselves.

They are not fooling me by telling me they really had a hankering for a peanut butter sandwich – five days in a row – over a ham sandwich. In the past I have sliced up the whole ham roast and what do you know? They eat it up. I’ve had that particular chore on my list for several days

now and haven’t gotten to it, because unlike just taking the whole ham out and slicing one piece off, it will take me some time to slice the entire ham.

I don’t get after them too much because like I mentioned above, I hate repeating myself. They get their due when they’re eating peanut butter sandwiches for a week instead of a nice ham sandwich.

It’s my reward for having to look at a mess of towels and chaotically stacked cups.

But they know, I know and you know, they’re not even trying.

Gretchen Leigh is a stayat-home mom who lives in Covington.

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Career day turns into educational experience Ray Still Reporter

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Last week, I participated in a high school’s career day.

Frankly, I knew that I was going to stand in front of a classroom full of teenagers and tell them about my career for weeks beforehand.

And yet, with all my (over) preparation and foreknowledge of this event, I was still pretty nervous. Scared, even.

And I haven’t been legitimately scared for a long time.

I wasn’t scared when I ran through the fireline during a wildfire to get a picture of firefighters putting out flames.

Was I stupid? Yes. But scared? No. I wasn’t even scared when I pulled out my phone one day and saw that my mother called me multiple times, each call made within a minute or so since the last.

This should honestly strike fear into any person older than 16, because those kinds of calls mean one thing and one thing only.

So nervous? Uh, yeah. But scared? Not really.

But standing in front of a room of high schoolers? Teenagers? Yeah, that scared the crap out of me.

Even with a high-school teacher girlfriend (read: soon-to-be fiance) who for the last year and a half has inadvertently prepared me to interact with teenagers, my palms were sweating, my voice was shaking, and I was really glad I brought several bags of candy to encourage audience participation.

I was scared because, even though I graduated high school nearly six years ago, it still felt like it was only a year since I sat in their seats and listened to some old fogey like me stand up at the front of their classroom and give a presentation

(read: lecture) about their career.

They may be a professional in their field of choice, but that didn’t matter when they stood in front of us high schoolers.

What mattered was whether or not they could connect with us, the younger generation that would grow up and run the world as we saw fit.

Many times, they couldn’t make that connection, and we would sit politely and listen to their words and nod our heads and ask questions but after they left, really, there were scarce signs that they had been there at all.

And almost by magic (read: a year in New York, three in college and one and a half as a reporter), I’m whisked from the desk as a student and transformed into the stranger standing in front of the classroom.

If this was a fictional tale, let me tell you, I’d

Danger in black-and-white thinking World War II era German theologian Paul Althaus noted, “We Lutherans see Hitler as a gift and a miracle from God.” Why did most German Lutherans follow Hitler and not pastors like Dietrich Bonheoffer? And why did many Jewish Christians disastrously turn away from their Christian beliefs and follow Jewish nationalism in their rebellion against Roman rule between 66-73 AD? These are questions raised in my mind when I recently listened to retired PLU history Professor Robert Ericksen speak about Martin Luther’s influence on Hitler’s Germany. The answer for both seems to lie in the enduring but baffling human tendency to think in black-and-white terms.

Professor Ericksen gave a fascinating account of how many Germans were enraged over the losses during what is now called World War I. The vengeful, greedy and stupid British, French, and Italian diplomats had punished Germany during the Versailles

Peace talks that ended World War I and set the stage for World War II a generation later.

Germany had lost their leader, Kaiser Wilhelm, their army and navy, their African colonies, and part of their territory to Poland and France. They were forced to pay billions of dollars in reparations to France and Britain, and worst of all, they were forced to create a weak new democratic government called the Weimar Republic which was unable to deal with the many financial and social problems created by the end of the war.

Germans justifiably felt they had been “”stabbed in the back” by the Allies at Versailles.

Following Hitler was a radical response to the anger and the wrongs engendered from Versailles.

Most German Lutherans were conservative and patriotic, according to Ericksen. The Protestant regions of Germany were more pro-Hitler than were the Catholic areas. Most Germans saw loyalty to their country and to God as the same thing.

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have some choice words to exchange with my fairy godmother. She could have at least given me better shoes to wear.

But, no, there was no magic to blame for this abrupt transformation - just time.

And in the span of six short years, I was scared that I was no longer relevant to the next generation that looks hungrily at the world, knowing that their time is coming, and coming soon.

I left the high school with a feeling that my fears were unfounded, that I was not an obsolete part of society in the eyes of these ridiculously intelligent teenagers.

Sure, I was able to tell a few funny jokes, and when they gave me answers I liked I lobbed some candy their way (often unsuccessfully) but

Jewish Christians were shocked and confused by the martyrdom in 61 AD of their strict and righteous bishop, James the Just, half brother of Jesus, at the hands of a Jewish Jerusalem mob. Many had lost faith that Jesus would return in their lifetimes, according to Professor Ernest L. Martin in his fascinating book, “Restoring the Original Bible.”

During this time thousands of these Jewish Christians turned away from Christianity and toward Jewish nationalism. They rose up in rebellion against Roman rule in 66 AD and, like the German Lutherans at the end of World War II were mercilessly crushed and defeated.

Thousands died and their temple and city were destroyed in 70 AD. Most of the surviving Jews were sold into slavery and exile throughout the Roman Empire. The Jewish nation of Israel was no more, and would not return until the end of World War II with the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.

What do these nationalist movements have in common? Both were made up of people who could only see the world in black-and-white terms. There was no middle ground for either group.

The German Lutherans were used to the state doing their thinking for

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them. So too, were the Palestinian Jews whose thinking was ensnared in their strict orthodoxy. Neither had developed the ability to examine their thoughts and feelings rationally.

Neither could separate love of their nation from belief in their God. The freedom of choice offered by the Weimar Republic confused and frightened German Lutherans. So, too, for Jewish Christians, the security of their beliefs died with the martyrdom of James the Just and the “Great Disappointment” of Christ not returning in their lifetimes.

What lessons can we of the 21st century learn from these nationalistic movements? The answer is that we must leave the immature blackand-white thinking that is common with teens and become mature, being able to live between extremes. We must examine ourselves and challenge our beliefs, because we, like the German Lutherans and Jewish Christians are all prone to simplistic answers to complex problems.

Both nationalistic movements ended in absolute failure because neither group was able to see the world from perspectives other than their own. That’s the warning and danger of thinking in black-andwhite. That danger we all need to heed.

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All subjects in the police blotter are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

their shopping cart while across the street at Fred Meyer.

• On Nov. 25 it was reported that an unknown male was shoplifting items from Safeway. According to the police report, he was contacted outside the store where he abandoned the items and left the scene in his vehicle.

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE

VIOLATION OF COURT ORDER

• On Nov. 21 officers responded to reports that the suspect fled the scene of a collision. The suspect was later found driving while under the influence.

• On Nov. 22 it was reported that the subject continues to violate a protection order by texting and leaving voicemails for the victim.

BURGLARY

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POLICE

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• On Nov. 21 officers contacted suspected prowlers and determined they had committed a residential burglary. According to the police report, the prowlers had entered the home through an already open garage door.

• On Nov. 22 at 12:50 a.m. officers responded to reports that a residential burglary had occurred.

According to the police report, the window next to the door was shattered and the front door was then unlocked.

• On Nov. 24 officers responded to reports that the reporting party had their storage shed broken into.

According to the police report, the back gate was removed in order to gain entry into the yard and then forced entry into the shed.

LARCENY • On Nov. 25 the reporting party came into City Hall to report that his wife’s purse had been stolen from

injury. According to the police report, the two were fighting over a gun that one of them had given to their mother. The police report stated the mother is suicidal and was committed to the hospital.

• On Nov. 25 officers were dispatched to the Four Corners Bar on reports that the victim had been hit in the head with a rock.

HIT AND RUN • On Nov. 25 it was reported that a rollover accident occurred and the driver had fled the scene prior to officers arriving on scene.

PROWLER

• On Nov. 24 officers spoke with the driver of a motorcycle who was driving without a helmet. The driver was also driving with a suspended license.

• On Nov. 26 officers were contacted about a suspected prowler. According to the police report, the reporting party told officers he was walking his dog when he saw a male wearing dark clothes crouching down by a front window.

The report also stated that the reporting party saw the suspect go from the front of the house to the back, where he found the back door ajar.

CRIMINAL WARRANT

FORGERY

• On Nov. 23 two subjects were contacted by officers.

The two were in possession of a possible stolen bike along with wire cutters and other tools.

DRIVING WITH SUSPENDED LICENSE

• On Nov. 24 officers stopped a vehicle for traffic violations. The driver had a suspended license and the passenger was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant.

ASSAULT • On Nov. 24 officers responded to reports that two brothers were in a physical altercation with one another. One brother was arrested for punching the other and causing

On Nov. 23 it was reported that the victim’s adult daughter took out multiple student loans for her son using the victim’s information as a co-signer. According to the police report, the victim co-signed for the first loan and believes her daughter forged her signature for the remaining loans. The report also stated the daughter’s whereabouts are unknown at this time.

Investigation continues in early morning shooting of Covington man

BY SARAH BRENDEN Reporter

The investigation is still ongoing in the shooting death of a man found in the morning hours of Nov. 18 in Covington.

King County Sheriff ’s Office Sgt. Cindi West said the case is being placed on Washington’s Most Wanted program to try and receive tips.

Around 3:15 a.m. a woman driving near South-

east Timberlane Boulevard and 185th Court Southeast called 911 reporting she saw a man lying in the street bleeding.

According to a King County Sheriff ’s press release, when officers arrived they found the man lying on the side of road bleeding from an apparent gunshot.

Kent Regional Fire Authority emergency personnel responded to the scene and pronounced him dead

Editor’s note: the following is from the Kent Regional Fire Authority: More than 30 million families in this country will buying a precut or U-cut tree for the holidays this year. For some, there is just something about the smell and appearance of a real tree.

Here are some tips for when you buy and once you are home.

Selecting a tree: • Be picky and shop around. Ask the staff how long ago the trees on the lot were cut. Try to find a tree that was cut no more than three to four days prior.

Trees that were cut down prior to that will be drier, drop needles faster, and be more of a fire hazard.

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A nearly unnoticeable bump on his ring finger led to a chase to the wire for his life

By Dennis Box Editor

It started simple.

He was spending time with friends at Seabrook when he first noticed it.

Next he was working in his garage on a project, “doing something” – and he tried to get his wedding ring off.

It wouldn’t come off.

The wedding ring threw open a door for Enumclaw Police Sgt. Tony Ryan that brought him face-to-face with death, months of unbearable pain and a second chance.

In less than a year Ryan saw the worst of fortune turn into the best of fate.

It was February 2014 when Ryan noticed a tiny bump on his ring finger. He happened to show it to a nurse from Franciscan who suggested he have a doctor take a look at it – just in case. The physician told him it was a cyst and likely would go away without incident… in time.

Ryan is big man – 6 feet, 5 inches tall, 250 pounds.

At 37 he could pass as a pro

linebacker.

He’s been on the Enumclaw police force for 11 years. Up to that day in February he had seen and experienced his share of problems like any young man, but Ryan was about to get a crash course in the upside-down meaning of life.

In two months the tiny bump grew down to his fingernail. Ryan was sent to a hand specialist. A biopsy was sent to an Oregon lab.

The pathology report came back that it could be sarcoma – cancer.

In the timeline of a few months Ryan lost all function in his fingers, as if his hand was frozen. Following “MRI after MRI” the physician found a mass growing in Ryan’s left wrist. By June the cancer was found in both his left and right wrists.

“The first thing they asked was, ‘Are your affairs in order?’,” Ryan said. “The surgery was a cakewalk compared to what they said that day.”

Seven months after noticing a bump on his ring

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For a cop and a very active young man, Ryan was stopped in his tracks.

“You might as well of cut my legs off,” he said.

Prior to the surgery Ryan said the pain was the “worst I’ve ever experienced; it was endless. It felt like my arm was in boiling water. On a good night I got an hour of sleep.”

When he did get to sleep, he woke up to “pain that put me on my knees.”

Ryan is a cop. He is used to fixing problems and not losing a fight. He doesn’t take pain medication, but this was no car chase, burglary or bar fight. He was staring straight at an aggressive sarcoma that day-by-day was corkscrewing into his tendon sheets heading for his bones, and his life.

“The hardest part was watching my family, my wife and two girls,” he said.

“They were devastated.”

His wife, Kari, and two daughters, Jessica and Allie, walked with him through his crucible.

“Kari wouldn’t let me have a bad day,” he said.

Friends came and helped with work at his house and “they kept my head on straight.”

But the days were bad, very bad, and the pain excruciating and overwhelming.

It happened when he reached his lowest. He had come to the crossroads and he knew it. It was that day when a friend came – Pastor Marcus Kelly.

“Marcus just appeared,” Ryan said. “His involvement became so important in my life. He walked me down the path I needed to go. I was never very spiritual, I never understood it until Marcus, until I started to believe. God’s grace is that amazing.”

The surgeries were set for

August 2014. The chances of success were not good.

The time had come for Ryan to prepare for his fate.

“Marcus and I prayed together,” Ryan said. “He baptized me.”

After three surgeries the sarcoma was stopped. Suddenly he was free from the grip of cancer; it was gone.

“It was like a miracle,” Ryan said. “It was such an emotional experience.”

He was able to return to the force within a few months, and he had complete use of his hands.

There has been no sign of cancer since.

“The totality of the entire event made me understand patience and forgiveness,” he said. “One thing I’ve learned is tough days come and go. Take them for what they are worth. And it is OK to be vulnerable.”

Ryan said the fastgrowing sarcoma made him grow – quickly.

“It is a second chance,” he said. “I got a second chance.”

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What plant is best to give?

Holiday Hellebores – the best gift plant for gardeners or anyone who complains about the dark days of winter.

Hellebores are evergreen perennials that bloom in the winter and thrive in our mild moist climate. They live for years and once moved outdoors to a partly shaded spot are slug, deer and drought resistant. In European countries hellebores have been more popular than poinsettias as gift plants but now Americans are seeing the heavenly traits of the hellebore plant. New varieties are more compact and adapt to indoor warmth – but please place your potted hellebore outdoors after a few weeks inside and don’t let the soil dry out. You can transplant a potted hellebore into the garden any time of the year as long as the ground is not frozen. You can recognize hellebores – sometimes called the Christmas Rose or the Lenten Rose by the cup-shaped, white, pink or green blooms hanging gracefully from a thick stalk. The foliage is shiny green with pointy tips.

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The first week of December is when holiday gift plants appear as the easy and practical solution for Christmas, hostess and personal gifts.

There are many advantages of giving a living plant during the dark days of winter: • They are easy to find, not just nurseries and garden centers; in December you’ll find these plants at home stores, drug stores and supermarkets.

• You don’t have to worry if a living plant will fit, ruin a diet or need to be exchanged.

• You’ll be supporting a true “growth industry.”

• It is the only gift that sucks away carbon dioxide and replenishes oxygen in a room (OK, maybe there are machines that do this but they don’t look as festive sitting on a table).

• Plants are more colorful, personal and smell better than gift cards.

• You don’t have to wrap a gift plant; this time of year they come with their pots wrapped up in festive foil and already adorned with holiday bows, so you can pick one up on your way to an event – perfect for last-minute shoppers.

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Give a living plant during the dark days of winter

potted hellebore to someone without any garden space – then in a month or two when the plant is done blooming, offer to take the plant back and plant it in your own garden. Now you can share the winter blooms for years to come with the

first owner.

Poinsettias – classic gift plants that now come in many colors and sizes.

Give a tiny pocket poinsettia to brighten an office cubicle or to add to a dish garden. Fill an empty fireplace with classic red poinsettias, hang a huge basket poinsettia from an indoor balcony or march a row of creamy white poinsettias up the front stair case. Poinsettias also come in pink, yellow and mixed colors.

Just remember that these are tropical plants so protect them from the cold – and no, you cannot plant your poinsettia outdoors after it is done blooming.

Amaryllis – bold, bodacious, blooming bulbs.

Long strappy leaves surround a thick stem that erupts with gigantic butterflyshaped blooms in shades of red, pink or white. This eye-catching houseplant can stay in flower for months in a cool room and you have the choice of giving an amaryllis already in flower or as part of a ready- to- plant kit that comes with plant, pot and soil. Just add water. This is a great plant for college dorms, nursing homes or small apartments as it doesn’t take up much room. Protect them from cold and don’t let the bulb’s roots sit in their own drainage water. The tall stem can grow 2 feet or more and will lean toward the light so provide support and turn the pot often.

••• Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture from Washington State University and is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books. For book requests or answers to gardening questions, write to her at: P.O. Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022.

Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a personal reply.

For more gardening information, she can be reached at her Web site, www. binettigarden.com.

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Road Closures near new Tahoma High School Contractors will soon complete work to install a deep sewer main for the new Tahoma High School and the project requires the closure of 228th Avenue Southeast while work is completed.

The closure affects 228th Avenue Southeast from Southeast 272nd Street to Southeast 275th Place.

Road closures began Monday and run through today, Dec. 4.

Then from Monday, Dec. 7 through Friday, Dec. 18, this portion of 228th will be fully closed.

This project will affect bus route 37 (Tahoma Junior High), route 6 (Cedar River Middle School), route 4 (Tahoma High School), route 40 (kindergarten) and route 15 (Glacier Park Elementary). The drivers on these routes will pick up students as usual but then turn around in the parking lot of the old Elk Run Golf Course clubhouse and proceed on alternate routes.

I wouldn’t attribute the candy to why I feel I was able to connect with them.

I stood in front of these teenagers, these budding adults, and I saw myself in each of them, and I remembered exactly what I wanted from people like me, who come into their world to present pieces of my world to them, like friendly offerings between two strange countries.

They want life. Real, unadulterated, wild, unpredictable life and the passion, the joy, the tragedy and the triumph, the fight and the fall and the redemption that comes with it.

They’re tired of having life parceled to them, chemically grown under sterile conditions, carefully tested and wrapped tightly with a bow.

And these teenagers, with wit in their eyes and fire in their hearts, they know the difference and yearn for something that

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Something real.

I think old fogies like me forget that we, too, felt this way while we were deciding what to do with our lives.

So to those of you who I talked with, shared my jokes and experiences with, I hope I was able to give a little bit of that to you, and I hope other presenters were able to give it to you as well.

I hope that during these tumultuous times, you find something stable and strong to hold yourself fast to.

And I hope that whatever paths you decide to go down during your walk through life that you find the fulfilling happiness that only struggle and your strength of will can help you find.

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Let the games begin

BY SARAH BRENDEN

Reporter

As the weather outside turns colder, high schools bring their teams inside as the winter season begins.

The Conquerors, Falcons and Bears take to the hardwood, the pool and the mats as the new season of play kicks off.

We took a look at boys and girls basketball last week and this week The Reporter looks ahead to the 2015 boys swim,

gymnastics and wrestling season.

Boys Swim

Kentwood The 2015 season begins 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8 against league-rivals Kentridge Chargers at the Kent-Meridian Pool.

Kentlake and Tahoma The Falcons and Bears start the season with a meet against each other at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8

at the Covington Aquatics Center.

For the Falcons, coach Jim Tanasse returns for his third year of coaching.

He said last season, Kentlake finished with a winning, 5-3 overall record.

The four captains this year and four returning swimmers and diver.

He said he expects the team to finish 6-3 this year.

“Always looking to improve,” Tanasse said.

Wednesday, Dec. 9 at Kent-Meridian.

Gymnastics Kentwood The Conks open its season at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9 at Mount Rainier High School.

When asked about the upcoming season coach Ann Diaz said the Conks “have a very beginner team this year.”

Kentlake The Falcons begin its season at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9 with an away meet at Decatur.

Tahoma The Bears’ 2015 season also begins at 7 p.m.

Wrestling Kentwood The Conquerors’ season began Wednesday, after the press deadline, when Kentwood hosted Rogers of Puyallup.

The next match for Kentwood is the Edmonds Woodway Tournament at 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 5.

Kentlake The Falcons’ 2015 wrestling season begins 9 a.m. [ more GAMES page 13 ]

Jockey Joe Steiner finalists for George Woolf Memorial Award Joe Steiner received wonderful news today when the 51-year-old jockey learned he is among five finalists for one of Thoroughbred racing’s most prestigious awards.

Steiner, Joe Bravo, Javier Castellano, Victor Espinoza and Gerard Melancon are the 2016 finalists for the Santa Anita George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. Presented annually, the Woolf Award recognizes those riders whose careers and personal character earn esteem for the individual and the sport of Thoroughbred racing.

The winner will be announced in February following a vote of jockeys nationwide.

“Out of 13,000 jockeys in the

country, I’m one of the five they picked,” Steiner said. “I was so surprised. What an amazing honor.”

Steiner has enjoyed an eventful year. Returning home to the Northwest after several years in Southern California, Steiner flourished at Emerald Downs, finishing fifth with 41 wins including his 1,000th career victory on April 19. Off the track, Joe and wife Dagmar celebrated the birth of son Jonah Michael Joseph in July, and the family has a new residence in Tacoma.

Steiner rode briefly this fall at Golden Gate, but is back home and looking forward to the 2016

season at Emerald Downs.

“I feel great, and I’m having more fun now than I ever have in my whole career,” he said.

Emerald Downs

Buoyed by larger fields and increased purses in claiming races, the daily average handle soared 10.7 percent at the 70-day Emerald Downs’ meeting that concluded September 27.

Average field size also showed a healthy increase—going from 6.27 horses in 2014 to 6.86 in 2015— while on-track horse population sailed over the 1,000 mark for the first time in three years.

Average total daily handle was $1,262,956, with a high of $2,421,017 for Longacres Mile day on Aug. 16.

The Emerald Downs’ brand also grew substantially—showing a 16 percent increase in selling of its races in 2015.

First-year Emerald Downs’ President Phil Ziegler credited the successful meet to the track’s strong financial foundation built by Ron Crockett, and the continued commitment from the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, who officially acquired the track in March and have enhanced purses the last 12 seasons.

“The success we experienced

this season would not have been possible without the support of our track founder Ron Crockett who continues to play a integral role at Emerald Downs, and the Muckleshoot Tribe who own our company and have invested over $13 million in purses since 2004,” said Ziegler, Last winter Emerald Downs announced a 20 percent purse increase for lower level claiming races and also added several incentives to lower costs for horsemen.

In 2016, Emerald Downs celebrates its 20th anniversary meeting. Racing dates will be announced later this year.

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A happy hunting widow finds fun on staycation I am a hunting widow.

And I love it.

Every fall my husband spends a series of days tromping around outdoors in search of the ultimate trophy – or just a scrawny little one-antlered buck.

During his days in the wilderness and wheat fields, my daughter and I watch endless amounts of HGTV shows on Netflix, lounge in our pajamas and eat popcorn for dinner. Like I said, we love it.

The reward upon his successful return is even better.

My mom’s kitchen morphs into a meat processing factory at the hands of the hunters. The lean venison meat is ground, cut with fatty pork roast, seasoned

and squeezed through sausage casings and jerky guns. Some is made into breakfast sausage and a few packages of back strap usually make it to the freezer. Yum…. Side note: contrary to the heinous rumor started by editor, Dennis Box, I am NOT a vegan. (Editor’s note: Rumor started and confirmed by a deep background source. To protect his identity we will call him John.)

If the deer is worthy of bragging about, the antlers will be salvaged and mounted. As of press time, my husband has not filled a deer tag with a full, headmount-worthy animal. I have yet to incorporate this

item into my home décor; but when the time comes, I will consult with experthunter’s-wife and decorator extraordinaire, Casey Mumford.

I didn’t realize that these types of interior design elements were not as common off the Plateau.

After graduating high school, I was dating someone who grew up in “the city.” I should have known that I was much too “rural” for him and this relationship was going nowhere when he commented on my parents’ gravel driveway – like it was a bad thing. He told me he was afraid of dogs and asked me not to share with his parents that I had attended public school.

I continued to let him take

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me out, because he was nice enough and paid the tab whenever we went somewhere. When he arrived at my parents’ house to pick me up for a Mariners game, he strode through the front door into the two-story entryway right underneath a large, shoulder-mounted three-by-four buck with eye darts. On the opposite wall was a stuffed Canada goose with its wings locked and ready to land, but he couldn’t tear his gaze from the deer. Right at that same moment my brother’s black lab came trotting up to investigate. The date asked me in a shaky voice (dog fear kicking in), “Did your dad shoot that?”

Because I was raised to be polite and kind, I refrained from calling him a moron or a sissy. I also figured if

School board names volunteers for Boundary Review Committee The volunteers will find balance between having six elementary schools rather than four The following is provided by the Tahoma School District: The Tahoma School Board on Tuesday selected 14 representatives and seven alternate members to serve on the school district boundary review committee.

The committee members were drawn at random from a pool of 168 candidates. Board members Mary Jane Glaser and Tim Adam each pulled slips of paper bearing names of the volunteers from a construction hard hat decorated with a Future Ready logo.

Along with Transportation staff

SPORTS ROUNDUP GIRLS BASKETBALL The Kentwood and Kentlake girls basketball teams started its season Saturday, Nov. 28.

The Conks lost 56-47 to Auburn Mountainview.

And the Falcons won its first game of the season, 67-56 against Puyallup.

and district staff, committee members will begin meeting in December to determine how attendance areas can be created to balance enrollment when the district moves from four to six elementary schools. The committee also will create proposals for middle-school attendance areas. Two public meetings will be held to gather comment on the committee’s plans before final versions are presented to the school board. The committee will decide upon a meeting schedule in December, which will be shared with the community.

Committee members were chosen by the school their child attends; or, were part of an at-large group if they have no children in school or if their children are in high school. The committee members and alternates are:

[ GAMES from page 12] Saturday, Dec. 5 at the Redmond Tournament.

Tahoma For the past eight seasons, the Tahoma Bears have gone undefeated in league play, assistant coach Doug Burnham said.

“We are expecting to win league again this year,” he said.

The Bears are returning four state placers,

Glacier Park Elementary: Charlyn Sinclair and Mitchel Morey; Ashley Butcher, alternate.

Lake Wilderness Elementary: Molly Humble and Jim House; Rebecca Murakami, alternate.

Rock Creek Elementary: Ann Enyeart and Jami Gallegos; Shandette Hetzel, alternate.

Shadow Lake Elementary: Megan Holecek and Jessica Zielinski; Heather Erickson, alternate.

Cedar River Middle School: Rebecca Cowles and Robin Shipley; Lori Miskar, alternate.

Tahoma Middle School: Bambi Fuller and Stephanie Ybarra; Chris Tugwell, alternate.

At large: Alicia Pacheco and Anna Knuth; Trish Parker, alternate.

Burnham said.

Those being juniors Justin Sipila, Nick Whitehead, Ryden Fu and Dylan Weiding.

He added the team is looking to improve on its ninth place finish at state last season.

Other wrestlers to keep an eye on this season are senior Izzy Murrietta, juniors Dagen Kramer and Joe Novak, sophomore Cameron Hanson and freshman Austin Mi-

chalski.

The Bears’ season began Tuesday, after the press deadline, with a jamboree at Liberty High School.

Up next for Tahoma is an away match at Kentridge at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 9.

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dogs scared him, guns were probably terrifying. So, instead I responded, “No. You should have seen him wrestle it to the ground!”

His eyes got as big as saucers (more like clay pigeons, but he wouldn’t know what those were either), so I suggested we head to the game.

By the way, he was also afraid of heights. I learned that on the 300 level of the Kingdome.

I took this opportunity to enlighten him about the public education I received at the Enumclaw School District. I may have embellished a little when I told him our science curriculum included learning how to pull calves with a comealong winch, and that we learned to cook Rocky Mountain oysters in home economics.

He replied, “I don’t really care for seafood.”

I’m not sure if the green tint on his face was from the elevation or my explanation that Rocky Mountain oysters do not come from the ocean.

Eventually, I was able to find my husband, who isn’t fearful of weapons or venison and who will willingly leave me alone to scout out the perfect animal every fall. He is not shocked by old family photos of my grandparents, rifles in hand, flanking four limp deer hanging from the bucket of a tractor. He is also not afraid of dogs or heights, so that’s an added bonus!

As this hunting season winds down, I will look forward to my next staycation in fall 2016.

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CITY OF COVINGTON NOTICES ORDINANCE NO. 14-15 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COVINGTON, KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON, PASSING THE REGULAR PROPERTY TAX LEVY FOR 2015 FOR COLLECTION IN 2016.

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ORDINANCE NO. 15-15 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COVINGTON, KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON, SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZING A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE IN TERMS OF BOTH DOLLARS AND PERCENTAGES AS PURSUANT TO RCW 84.55.120.

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