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VOL. 18, NO. 2
MIRROR
F E D E R A L WAY
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CALENDAR | The city will host its annual Styrofoam collection event through Jan. 15 [22]
City seeks to mitigate air traffic impacts as part of legislative priorities Air traffic increased by 13 percent during first quarter of 2015 BY ANDREW FICKES For the Mirror
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ommercial airplanes flying into and out of SeaTac Airport are making their approaches more and more over residential areas in Federal Way. Now, residents and city leaders are saying enough is enough. The Federal Way City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved passage of the council’s 2016 federal and state legislative priorities. Working with the congressional and state legislative delegations to seek ways to mitigate the environmental and public health impacts of commercial aircraft topped the list. “Our efforts are ongoing in terms of dialogue with the Port of Seattle, Sea-Tac (airport), and with the (Federal Aviation Administration),” said Brian Wilson, Federal Way’s chief of staff. “Part of this has been us understanding really what the environment is in terms of policy and procedure. What we’re seeing is there appears to be a difference between the south approaches and takeoffs versus the north from a policy standpoint.” Wilson said he and city staff are assessing the environmental approvals that have taken place over history and seeing what flexibility the city has within that current environmental review. “We are waiting for a report from the FAA pertaining to that exact issue in terms of what options are available for us to make potential policy changes in terms of approaches and takeoffs to the south, which is the biggest concern for our residents,” Wilson said. “There has been a good deal of information, cooperation provided by the Port and the FAA during this process. We have had good [ more AIR TRAFFIC, page 3 ]
Prayer for peace Dozens of strangers turned to one another in the lobby of City Hall, put their arms around each other and prayed during the second annual prayer rally. On New Year’s Eve — a night police were out in full force — the Federal Way church community prayed for their safety, the health of local firefighters and peace between city officials and citizens during the rally. Andre Sims, a pastor at Christ the King Bible Fellowship, co-organized the event with approximately 20 pastors from the area. The group also prayed for education, business and the media. Photos courtesy of Bruce Honda
Federal Way native to spread global health awareness on cross-country trip BY ANDREW FICKES For the Mirror
A 2006 Thomas Jefferson High School graduate and now fourth-year medical student at Ohio State University has the opportunity
this spring to bicycle 3,300 miles across the United States, educating small, underserved communities about the disparity of resources affecting access to basic healthcare. Victor Nguyen, 27, specializing in general surgery at the university’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, will join Ohio
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State University’s studentled nonprofit Ride for World Health where they will start in San Diego, California on March 21 and end in Bethany Beach, Delaware on May 15. Major cities the group of bicyclists — many of them fourth year medical students at the university — will visit are San Diego,
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Phoenix, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, Louisville, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C. and Bethany Beach. But Nguyen said there will be many small communities in between, many with populations under 5,000 people. “These are extremely small towns,” Nguyen said.
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“These are some of the most underserved. We call ahead to communities to ask what health concerns they have to customize our visit to their community.” In many of the communities that are visited, Ride for World Health presents a lecture series that hits on topics that include infectious diseases, mental
health and poverty and health. These lectures bring to the forefront Ride for World Health’s goal to not only educate about domestic healthcare, but also global health. This year, as part of the trip, Ride for Global Health wishes to fund[ more HEALTH, page 3 ]
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