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Maple Valley Rotary gives a gift of words handed out, to help them understand how to find items in the dictionary more easily. After they were handed out, members of the Rotary The third-grade class at Shadow Lake Elementary were surprised by club asked the students to find the Maple Valley Rotary Club on certain words, again, to help them Dec. 16. learn how to use the dictionaries. For the sixth year in a row, the Last year, Horn spotted a club handed out dictionaries to all third-grade boy crying of the third-grade classes “People don’t after they handed out the in the Tahoma school dis- realize how dictionaries. She found trict. The members try to important these do it in October, National dictionaries are for out he had tripped and fallen and had ripped Dictionary Day is on the kids.” Barbara Horn his dictionary. She could Oct. 16 (Noah Webster’s birthday), but it is a busy not believe how sad this time for the club. young boy was, and really Barbara Horn has been saw how grateful the kids a part of the Rotary club for 10 were for their dictionaries. She had years and sees the importance of extra dictionaries and gave him a handing out dictionaries. new one. “People don’t realize how imThe club is a supporter of the portant these dictionaries are for Tahoma School District and apart the kids,” Horn said. “This is the from handing out dictionaries, age they start using them and it is a it gives out between $25,000 and helpful tool.” The dictionaries are not just help- $30,000 a year in scholarships. ful for the students. Horn has heard Unfortunately, this might be the from many students and parents last year for the dictionary handout. that some parents use the dictionar- The club’s funding has decreased ies just as much as the students. and as far as the members know, “Many parents who do not speak the dictionary program will not be english refer to the dictionaries for funded for next year. The members help,” Horn said. are hopeful they will find fundThe students were given a tour ing somehow to keep the program of the dictionary before they were going. BY ANA KAREN PEREZ-GUZMAN
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The third grade class at Shadow Lake Elementary look up the word aardvark to help them learn how to look up words. The Rotary club did activities to teach the students how to use the dictionary. ANA KAREN PEREZ GUZMAN, The Reporter
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YarrowBay signs partnership with Chicago-based company Crown Community Developments to help finance infrastructure development in The Villages ment is a part of Henry Crown and Company, a Chicago-based company founded in 1923. According to Crown Community YarrowBay has a new financial Development Vice President Thepartner in The Village’s developresa Frankiewicz, this will be the ment in Black Diamond. company’s first land investment in The partnership was announced the Pacific Northwest. during the Dec. 17 City Along receiving a public Council meeting that Crown announcement of YarrowCommunity Development THE Bay’s new partnership, the will be partnering with YarVILLAGES City Council also voted rowBay to help finance The unanimously to approve the Villages’ infrastructure. master plannned develop“We are still the developer, ment funding agreement and and nothing has changed in that approved, three votes to two, a new regard as far as our staffing or Water Supply and Facilities Fundrelationship with the city,” said ing Agreement. YarrowBay CEO Brian Ross. “We The master planned developjust have a new financing partner.” ment funding agreement is a Crown Community Develop-
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“longstanding financial assurity,” said Ross, which allows the city to be reimbursed by YarrowBay for staffing, consultation or construction relating to The Village’s development for the next year. This agreement is backed by a $1 million letter of credit, which assures that Black Diamond will be reimbursed. The new water supply and facilities funding agreement established a new letter of credit with Crown Community Development for $2.8 million, money that will mostly be used in improving Black Diamond’s spring source in the future, according to Ross. “The city now has two letters of credit – the one that has been around for years and a new one that satisfies the assignment provision in the Water Facility [ more VILLAGES page 2 ]
The Villages in Black Diamond, highlighted in light brown, and Lawson Hills in darker brown cover more than 1,500 acres.