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Liberty Lake resident Mirna Reyes was recently named outreach chair for the Washington State PTA board. She said she hopes to use her position to connect local PTA units to state resources.

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Liberty Lake resident Mirna Reyes was recently named outreach chair for Region 15 of the WSPTA. The WSPTA region includes 27 individual PTA or PTSA units in Spokane, Adams, Lincoln, Ferry, Okanogan, Stevens and Whitman counties.

“I’d like to meet with each local unit to find out what their needs are, prioritize them and figure out how I can help them fulfill their top needs,” she said.

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Mirna Reyes Age 42

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I didn’t really get involved very much when my first son was in school. Now with my younger son, I’ve been more involved. I think there’s a lot that can be done as parents to get involved with your kids’ school. There are studies that have shown kids are more successful in school when their parents are involved.

I’m lucky enough to have a job that allows me some flexibility to be able to be involved. That’s why I’m doing it.

It’s exciting to be able to share and go in knowing I’ll be able to help. There are all these resources available that a smaller PTA unit might not know about. I can come in and say, “Here is what you can use that the state offers to help you guys progress and grow as a unit.”

Q: What was your first step into getting involved?

A: My oldest son was in high school, and I got a little bit involved with the Band Booster because he begged and pleaded. They did really good things, and I thought I should split my time to get involved with my younger son’s school, too.

I approached a couple people I knew that were involved at the elementary level and asked where to get involved. I was told to just show up at a meeting, but all the

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Calendar of events COMMUNITY

Recurring

Aug. 11 | “Hit the Road, Jack!” auditions

Friends of the Liberty Lake Municipal Library meetings 6 p.m., the last Tuesday of

2 or 7 p.m., Liberty Lake City Hall’s Little House, 22710 E. Country Vista Drive. Cold readings (no prep required) to cast upcoming Liberty Lake Community Theatre production for ages 13 and older. For more: www.libertylaketheatre.com

Aug. 13-16 | “Tales from the Gold Mine” Vacation Bible School Rockin’ B Ranch, just

south of stateline exit 299. Children entering first through fifth grades are invited to free VBS organized by Liberty Lake Church. To register or for more: www.libertylakechurch.com or 255-6266

Aug. 16 and 23 | “Twelfth Night” Know Before You Go 7 p.m., Liberty Lake Municipal

every month, 23123 E. Mission Ave.

Wednesdays, Liberty Lake City Hall, 22510 E. Country Vista Drive. For more: www.libertylakekiwanis.org Aug. 15: Pamela Mogen, Liberty Lake Municipal Library director, will present a book review of “Master and Commander,” by Patrick O’Brian

Liberty Lake Centennial Rotary Club Noon Thursdays, Meadowwood Technology Campus Liberty Room, 2100 N. Molter Road

Liberty Lake Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, 1421 N. Meadowwood Lane. For more: www.llfarmersmarket.com

Aug. 17 | Outdoor cinema: Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire Dusk, Pavillion Park.

and fourth Wednesday of each month, Barlow’s Restaurant, 1400 N. Meadowwood Lane. For more: 927-2193 or cheshierll@aol.com

Aug. 18 | Mutt Strut 8 a.m. to 1 p.m, Pawpu-

lar Companions, 21950 E. Country Vista Drive.

This community walk/run for dogs and their owners will consist of 1.5- to 2.5-mile routes that end at Pawpular Companions parking lot with an ice cream social, free giveaways and raffle prizes. All proceeds from pledge walk will benefit SCRAPS Hope Foundation. For more: www. pawpularcompanions.com

Aug. 24 | Outdoor cinema: How to Train Your Dragon Dusk, Pavillion Park. Free movie

Mission Ave. 10:30 a.m. Saturdays, Knitting Club; 10:30 a.m. Saturdays, computer classes; 1 p.m.

Fridays, crafts for preschoolers; 1 p.m. Saturdays, crafts for ages 6 and up; 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, baby lapsit story time; 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays, toddler/preschool story time. For more: 232-2510 or www.youseemore.com/libertylake Wednesdays at the Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District building, 22510 E. Mission Ave. For more: 208-765-8657

MUSIC & THE ARTS

Sept. 1 | Chef's Demonstration 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Liberty Lake Farmers Market, 1421 N. Meadowwood Lane

Sept. 9 | Bailey's Brigade Car Show 8 a.m.

to 2 p.m., Allsport Polaris and Honda, 19505 E. Broadway. The car show will benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Registration for cars is from 8 to 10 a.m., and awards will be announced at 1:15 p.m. Music, food, raffle prizes and a Wheel of Fun and Fortune. Basic registration is $15. For more: www.baileysbrigade.com

George Clooney shines in the Coen Brothers’ retelling of Homer’s “Odyssey,” set in the Deep South of the 1930s. Rated PG-13

Liberty Lake Toastmasters 5:45 to 7 p.m.

Aug. 25 | Pie Festival 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.,

Liberty Lake Farmers Market, 1421 N. Meadowwood Lane

Dusk Saturday at Pavillion Park: “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

Liberty Lake Municipal Library 23123 E.

Aug. 25 | Lego Mindstorm Robot Class

10:30 a.m. to noon, Liberty Lake Municipal Library, 23123 E. Mission Ave. Class for ages 9-14, registration required. For more: 232-2510

Denzel Washington delivers a knockout performance as a football coach who must unite his racially diverse team in the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement.

Rated PG

Liberty Lake Lions Club Noon on the second

Senior Lunch programs 11 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at Liberty Lake City Hall, 22710 E. Country Vista Drive, and 11 a.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at Talon Hills Senior Complex, 24950 E. Hawkstone Loop. Seniors age 60 and older invited; recommended donation $3.50.

is part of the Friends of Pavillion Park Summer Festival Series

Dusk Friday at Pavillion Park: “Remember the Titans”

Kiwanis Club of Liberty Lake 6:45 a.m.

Library, 23123 E. Mission Ave. Prepare for the Friends of Pavillion Park Shakespeare production of “Twelfth Night” with this 30-minute presentation to ready play-goers for the hilarious, but complicated, comedy. For more: 232-2510

Free movie is part of the Friends of Pavillion Park Summer Festival Series

Free upcoming events in Liberty Lake’s parks:

Aug. 25 | Shakespeare in the Park, "Twelfth Night" 5 p.m., Pavillion Park, 727 N.

Molter Road. Free performance is part of the Friends of Pavillion Park Summer Festival Series

Sept. 1 | Pavillion Park Summer Concert Series: Spokane Symphony 6 p.m., Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Road

Sept. 29 | Artist Showcase Auction 5 p.m., Great Room at CenterPlace, 2426 N. Discovery Place. Annual Spokane Valley Arts Council fundraiser features wine, food, live music and art.

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5:15 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Half Moon Park: Fifth annual River District Criterium Bike Race Hosted by the Baddlands Cycling Club, this family-friendly race includes “just for fun” kids’ races before the adult bike racers take to the course at 6 p.m. (kids under 12 should show up by 4:45 p.m. to register). Wood-fired pizza by Veraci Pizza (underwritten in part by Greenstone), desserts and refreshments available. The event will also include an Extreme Science show by Radical Rick. Parking and traffic restrictions in the neighborhood will be in effect from noon to 9 p.m. Half Moon Park is located in the River District, 19995 E. Meyers Ave. For more: 255-9456

building, repairing or replacing your dock The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, Spokane County, and the Washington State Department of Ecology require permitting for building, repairing or replacing a dock. The permit process requires a Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application (JARPA). Find it here: http://wdfw.wa.gov/licensing/hpa/

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Cheney to Downtown Spokane Five Mile to Moran Prairie North Division to Downtown Spokane Downtown to Liberty Lake via Spokane Valley

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News Briefs Nonprofit seeks career clothing The annual Best Foot Forward career clothing drive will be held Sept. 7-16 at the Liberty Lake Safeway.

Dress clothes and accessories are being collected to benefit men and women who may need a professional wardrobe for a job search or position or for a special occasion.

The program is housed at Spokane Valley Partners, 10814 E. Broadway, and donations needing a tax receipt can be taken to this address between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Volunteers are also needed to sort clothes.

For more information about the drive, call Sharon Jayne at 255-6758.

City seeking volunteer drivers for Meals program Volunteer shuttle drivers are needed to provide five-day service for Meals on Wheels lunches in Liberty Lake.

City of Liberty Lake Recreation Coordinator Michelle Griffin is seeking drivers to take Meals on Wheels attendees from City Hall to the Tuesday, Thursday and Friday lunches provided at Talon Hills Seniors Apartments, 25000 E. Hawkstone Loop. She said the city already has access to the shuttle but just needs drivers. Lunches are hosted at City Hall on Mondays and Wednesdays.

For more information or to volunteer, contact Griffin at 755-6726.

Police Report The following incidents, arrests, calls for service and citations were reported by the Liberty Lake Police Department July 30 through Aug. 6.

Incidents and arrests • Burglary — At 9:15 a.m. Aug. 3, LLPD received a report of a commercial burglary that occurred between 11:15 and 11:35 p.m. Aug. 2 at Allsport Polaris, located at the 19000 block of East Broadway Avenue.

The manager reported that during that timeframe, unknown suspects cut their way through the chain link fence into the back storage lot of the business and removed two new Polaris utility vehicles.

Video surveillance footage was viewed by law enforcement. Both vehicles were entered into the system as stolen.

• Malicious mischief — At 7:15 a.m. Aug. 3, LLPD received a report of damage to a mailbox at the 1400 block of North Caufield Court, and officers determined a subject had placed a bottle bomb inside of the mailbox. Later that afternoon, a neighbor reported seeing a person making bottle bombs in the backyard of a house in the area. The officer located the subject and after questioning, he admitted to blowing up the mailbox using a 2-liter bottle with water and dry ice inside. The victim decided not to pursue criminal charges and made arrangements with the suspect to have him pay for the damages.

• Collision — At 6 p.m. July 31, LLPD was dispatched to a three-car non-injury accident at the intersection of Liberty Lake Road and Appleway Avenue. The at-fault driver was issued an infraction for following too close.

• False alarm — At 5:30 a.m. Aug. 2, LLPD was dispatched to a residential alarm at the 1700 block of North Aladdin Road. Officers determined the alarm was false.

• Disorderly subject — At 3:20 p.m. Aug. 2, LLPD was dispatched to the 1300 block of North Liberty Lake Road for a disorderly subject. A caller reported a possibly intoxi-

cated subject inside Albertsons causing a disturbance and refusing to leave. An officer arrived on scene, escorted the subject out of the business and trespassed him from the location.

• Domestic violence — A 41-year-old Liberty Lake woman was arrested at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 5 for domestic violence assault — 4th degree.

• False alarm — At 6:45 p.m. Aug. 4, LLPD was dispatched to a residential alarm at the 1700 block of North Aladdin. Officers determined the alarm was false.

• Neighborhood dispute — At 8:15 p.m.

Aug. 4, LLPD was dispatched to a neighborhood dispute at the 1400 block of North Ormond Road. A caller reported neighbors yelling and swearing at each other. Both parties were contacted and advised that if there were issues, they needed to call the police instead of engaging in an argument.

• Suspended licenses — LLPD officers made two arrests on suspended licenses during the reporting period, including: - 2:45 a.m. July 31 at the 900 block of North Liberty Lake Road; - and 7:30 p.m. Aug. 3 at Liberty Lake Road and Interstate 90.

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SVFD keeps busy in LL From staff reports

Firefighters responded to two major incidents in Liberty Lake area this weekend — a structure fire at a manufacturing company on Madson Street and a wildfire south of the lake.

On Friday evening, units from the Spokane Valley Fire Department responded to a fire reported at 6:07 p.m. located at Precision Manufacturing, 1711 N. Madson St. Employees reported a fire in the grinding operation area where the firm prepares metal parts and components for powder coating. Employees immediately called 911 while other employees attempted to contain the fire to the area of origin using fire extinguishers and a garden hose.

A total of 10 Spokane Valley engines, ladders and support units with 34 personnel were assigned to the incident. American Medical Response (AMR) provided three ambulances, and support was received from Liberty Lake Police.

On arrival, SVFD personnel observed light smoke coming from the one-story commercial structure and a number of employees still in the manufacturing area.

While employees had effectively contained the fire to the grinding operation area, 14 were exposed to potentially toxic smoke, requiring SVFD’s initiation of a mass casualty medical response.

SVFD and AMR personnel medically triaged employees for potential respiratory problems, and two were transported to Deaconess Medical Center for a precau-

tionary evaluation.

The fire was extinguished with damage confined to the grinding operation, and damage costs are estimated to be minimal.

The fire cause is currently under investigation.

On Saturday, Units from SVFD returned to Liberty Lake at 2:03 p.m., responding to reports of a brush fire reported near Liberty Lake Regional Park.

Initial 911 callers reported seeing smoke in the area southeast of the lake, prompting the dispatch of Valley Engine 3. A Sheriff ’s Deputy reported the smoke coming from south of the Liberty Lake campground resulting in additional units being dispatched. The first arriving SVFD crews from stations No. 3 and No. 4 took immediate action to extinguish the main body of the fire involving trees and light brush.

The steep terrain and distance from a road made the fire difficult to access. Air units from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) were called in for support.

Additional DNR units and a water-tender from Fire District 8 were also dispatched to assist firefighting operations.

In all, seven SVFD units, one Fire District 8 unit, and 14 DNR units — including two air assets — were used to fight the fire.

Other agencies helped with traffic control and evacuations.

Initial estimates from SVFD said the fire reached about 10 acres. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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The Spokane Valley Fire Department responds to a wildfire south of Liberty Lake Saturday afternoon. Initial estimates say the fire reached about 10 acres.

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Smith’s job eliminated Longtime city employee let go in restructuring

By Kelly Moore Splash Staff Writer

At the City Council meeting Tuesday evening, Liberty Lake Mayor Steve Peterson announced the city no longer employed former Community Development Director Doug Smith. His last day was Aug. 3.

“His job has basically been eliminated,” Peterson said in an interview after the meeting. “It was a business decision. …

Doug did a good job for us.”

He said the mutual separation was the culmination of a handful of discussions, and the city’s attorney was reviewing Smith’s employment contract, which includes a severance.

“What we want to do is continue to offer quality services to the city, and we want to put together an organizational structure that will allow us to do those services in the most efficient and responsive manner possible,” Peterson said.

Peterson also noted a shift in the city’s development in which a need for planning services were waning.

“It’s all planned out,” Peterson said.

“The bulk of our business is implementation now.”

Employees who previously reported to Smith will now report directly to City Administrator Katy Allen. Allen joined the city in June, bringing extensive public works and city engineering experience to her position.

Moving forward, Allen said she plans to develop clear goals for the city with input from the City Council. Based on that input, she said she would evaluate how to distribute the necessary workload among available resources.

Smith began work with the city in 2001, working closely with city leaders to define city development codes and practices.

As the city staff grew, Smith became the Community Development Department head, overseeing planning building services, parks and recreation and public works.

“If you look at our community and our green space and our parks, a lot of that comes from the comprehensive plan, and he was the leader in that,” Allen said. “So many of those aspects that we really identify with as a community come from that work.”

As one of the highest-ranking city employees, Smith’s position also came under public scrutiny after the Council called for a review of human resources

policies based on rumors of employee mistreatment. Smith’s position was singled out in the review’s findings, as well as other concerns about chain of command and staff organization. Overall, however, the review garnered mixed findings at best.

In addition, Smith is currently named as a co-defendant in a lawsuit against the city, claiming hostile work environment and employee mistreatment. Allen said the lawsuit is unrelated to his recent departure, and he will continue to be represented by the city’s legal team.

During the same Council meeting, other department directors updated the Council on recent business.

Finance Director RJ Stevenson reported a positive financial outlook for the rest or 2012, with most revenue sources meeting expectations and expenditures on track to the budget. In preparation for the upcoming budgeting season, he said department heads were currently preparing budget proposals for the Council, an early step in preparing the 2013 budget.

Municipal Library Director Pamela Mogen reported a successful summer reading program, with 648 registrations. Upcoming programs include an adult “know before you go” seminar on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” which will be performed at Pavillion Park Aug. 25.

Liberty Lake Police Chief Brian Asmus reported another spike in garage burglaries, but said residents who were able to provide serial numbers to stolen items led to the arrest of two suspects in numerous burglaries.

In other business: • Five-year service awards wear presented to LLPD Records Clerk Bobbi Anderson, Liberty Lake Master Police Officer Brad Deines, City Treasurer Ann Marie Gale, Liberty Lake Municipal Library Clerk Ronda Gimlen, Liberty Lake Master Police Officer Darin Morgan and City Clerk Ann Swenson.

A 10-year service award was presented to LLPD Sergeant Clint Gibson.

• Allen and other Council members lauded Planning and Building Services Manager Amanda Tainio and Recreation Coordinator Michelle Griffin for work coordinating Liberty Lake Days.

• City employees are scheduled to make a grant presentation for the city’s civic center in Olympia Aug. 14. Employees will go through a mock presentation at City Hall Friday.

• The Council scheduled a special meeting from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday to discuss numerous items and formalize cohesive goals for the city.

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Along for the ride Wayne Williams The president and CEO of Telect is the son of the Liberty Lake couple who founded the business 30 years ago, Bill and Judi Williams. Williams and his wife, Terina, have three children and dedicate their time to business, family, marriage and ministry outreach. Among many other endeavors, he is a past member of the Whitworth University Board of Trustees and a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program.

Two years ago, Telect CEO Wayne Williams came up with a vision of taking to the road on his Harley-Davidson to visit customers throughout the United States.

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A conversation with CEO Wayne Williams on the early years, adversity and the strategy behind an 11,000-mile motorcycle trip

By Josh Johnson Splash Staff Writer

Wayne Williams’ spacious secondfloor office blends outdoorsy appeal with high-tech functionality. He is neck-deep in preparations for an 11,000-mile motorcycle ride to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of Telect Inc., but he’s made time for a conversation with a Splash reporter.

In only a couple minutes of opening chitchat, he has already covered ministry, iPad apps and the parallels between text messages and slot machines. Before diving into a Q&A (excerpted below) about the business he’s passionately given so

Telect 101

Telect Inc. was born 30 years ago — Sept.

13, 1982, to be exact — in the Spokane Industrial Park. The business moved to Liberty Lake in 1989. Always privately owned, Telect is a global manufacturer of communications equipment operating under the

much of his adult life to, Williams offers a glass of water. The reporter declines, so Williams ambles to a corner of his desk to retrieve “what’s left of my caffeine addiction.” And the conversation begins …

Q. A.

Have you invented a way to have a cup of coffee on the Harley?

No. Actually on this trip, I’m in the heat. I thought, ‘Who is the idiot planning this trip this time of year? Oh, that would be me.’ You know, I did it all around the anniversary (Telect officially turns 30 in September). … Now I’m trying to figure out something that will keep my drink cool.

Q: Before we talk more about the ride, tell me about the 30 years. How did you and your parents get started with this?

A: The quick answer is I got here by accident. I got kicked out of the house when I was 18, and I was going to go into the Coast Guard, and I had epilepsy from about 3 until I was 12 but I had outgrown

mantra, “We simplify networks.”

Telect sold its sprawling headquarters on Appleway and Molter in 2005 to Itron and moved to space on Madson now occupied

by Center Partners. In 2011, the company moved once more to its current location at 23321 E. Knox Ave.

Riding: A 2011 Harley Davidson CVO Street Glide Notable: Williams has earned two patents during his 30 years at Telect that have earned the business more than $500 million in revenue.

On the cover Splash photo by Josh Johnson

Telect CFO Stan Hilbert and CEO Wayne Williams pose with their Harley-Davidson motorcycles in front of the company’s Liberty Lake headquarters. The duo left last week on a 30-city, 50-day tour to visit customers. it, so I couldn’t go into the military. …

My dad was going to start this business over in the Spokane Industrial Park in ’82, and he asked me three weeks before it started if I wanted to come into the business and help him out and get started, so I was sweeping floors and painting and hanging air lines in the very beginning.

Fast forward about six months, I ended up meeting at church my wife — who is my wife today. So my goal back then was to move back to Alaska where I was born, hunt and fish, be single and get as far from my dad as I could. And then I meet

Stan Hilbert The executive vice president and CFO of Telect is responsible for North American manufacturing operations, as well as finance, IT and other corporate support functions. As time and weather in the Northwest permit, he and his wife, Barbara, love to take long motorcycle road trips. Hilbert holds a degree in business administration with a major in accounting from the University of Idaho and earned his CPA while working at Coopers & Lybrand P.S.

See TELECT, page 11 While its corporate headquarters remain in Liberty Lake, Telect operates manufacturing facilities in Plano, Texas, and Guadalajara, Mexico. The company sells worldwide through direct channels, distributors and OEM (original equipment manufacturer) partners.

Riding: 2011 Harley-Davidson Ultra Glide Classic Limited Quotable: About his Harley — “It’s a great road bike that has many extra features that make long days on the road much easier. Air conditioning, however, is not one of the many extra features, and heat is the toughest of all things to endure on a long hot summer day ride.”

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9/17 Bellevue, WA 7/31 Liberty Lake, WA 9/14 Portland, OR

Join the journey

7/31 Missoula, MT 7/31 Bozeman, MT 8/6 Burnsville, MN

8/13 Rochester, NY

8/7 Madison, WI 8/7 Milwaukee, WI 8/8 Elgin, IL 8/8 Schaumburg, IL 9/7 Englewood, CO

9/4 Overland Park, KS

8/16 Edison, NJ 8/17 Linthicum Heights, MD 8/17 Herndon, VA 8/20 Richmond, VA

8/9 Indianapolis, IN

9/4 New Century, KS 8/22 Welcome, NC 8/28 Little Rock, AR

8/23 Greenville, SC

8/21 Morrisville, NC 8/22 Charlotte, NC

8/24 Alpharetta, GA 8/24 Anniston, AL

8/30 Plano, TX 8/27 Monroe, LA

TELECT

8/14 Westborough, MA

Listed are the cities and approximate dates for Telect’s 30-year anniversary ride. The dotted route shown is for illustrative purposes only.

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this lady in February, and I think a purpose started to develop. I got married a year later, so there went that single piece.

And I have stayed working with my dad for now 30 years.

Q: I’m intrigued by this concept of a family business. Talk about how Telect makes that work because some people say family and business together is difficult.

A: In truth, my dad and I haven’t always gotten along in business, and even personal. I would suggest that if I had gone to Alaska to be single, we probably wouldn’t have had a great relationship like we do today. There’s a natural thing in families where they don’t like conflict.

When there’s conflict, they want to flee.

My nature, which gave me the opportunity to manage and lead the company during the downturn as well, is that I tend to eat that for breakfast. I don’t like unresolved issues.

Q: You mention leading through the downturn. What is it about the business that has kept it alive as an independent business for so long?

A: When you look at us in 2000, we were $275 million in revenue, 2,400 employees and we were worldwide placement. At the end of 2001, we were about $139 million, 1,300 employees. At the end of 2002, we were $61 million and 500 employees. So the fact that we survived the 70-percent drop in revenue and had to cut that many jobs was painful, was difficult. In any right mind in other businesses, those that went through that, most of their management team and CEOs did not have the opportunity to rebuild the business. They were exited because of shareholders saying, “Hey, we got to have someone else come in.”

So many of those people who didn’t have the opportunity to stay like I have didn’t have the opportunity to learn from the roots, the character and the DNA of the business before, and be able to reapply it and stay committed to going through very difficult times.

I’ve had that opportunity. Saying that, the last 12 years have been more productive, more energizing and more determined than the previous 17 years. The previous 17 years, if you weren’t making money in communications and you weren’t growing, you were doing something bad. The marketplace was growing.

Q: So to shift gear to Telect’s 30-year plans, at what point did you or members of your team say, let’s do a ride?

A: It was two years ago. We were on a ride as a group. Stan Hilbert, my CFO, we ride as couples together with some friends. I said, “You know, we have our 30-year coming up, I want to do this ride.”

It was heavily about exposure and telling our customers thank you and showing them that we are clearly a different business. It was taking the DNA of this business and trying to get it out there. …

People don’t do tradeshows anymore.

When we spend money on trade shows, usually one of our customers shows up and there are 10 more back at the office.

People are local, community-oriented people. My dad and mom in 1991 did a 6,000-mile trip to visit customers in a car. I thought what was interesting on this with our customers is (we went) out there and visit(ed) them locally. They care about their community; they don’t care about mine. … Now I can get there and I can visit 10 people, and I can thank them for buying our product.

Q: And it has nothing to do with the fact you love riding?

A: Well, yeah it does. We always talked about doing a four-corners ride. The four-corners ride is 21 days and you have to hit all four corners of the U.S. … This trip actually started out trying to see if we could do all four corners, and that was just way too long and too many miles, and so what we did is we narrowed it down to finding the primary cities where our key customers are in.

Q: Why Liberty Lake? Your fist tour stop is about 1,200 miles down the road. What has kept this company connected to this community?

A: First and foremost, any business that was started or headquartered in a place, is people started those businesses where they live. … We started in Spokane, Wash., in the industrial park, and it’s really because I grew up in Otis Orchards. … When Bill Main broke his teeth and everything else to have a vision for this community from its industrial standpoint, at that point we were the recipients of being one of the companies that were able to be here in the late ‘80s in the early stages of building, and almost setting a little bit of standard before there was even a city of Liberty Lake. That was fun. It was fun to be entrepreneurial. It was fun to be innovative. It was fun to care about the community. …

It’s not always the most strategic. Most of our product, probably 65 to 70 percent of our product, is sold east and southeast of the Mississippi (River). It’s been that way since we started. I hope to stay and remain here. …

My family moved to Liberty Lake in 1990, so we’ve been out here coming up

Using various forms of media, Telect has made it easy for people to “ride along” on the 11,000-mile, 30-city, 50-day journey with blog posts, videos, Facebook updates and Tweets. A few highlights from the first week: July 31, Liberty Lake send-off (from blog post): “I want to thank all of the community, our employees, family, and friends that shared in our launch … From the Blessings of the Bikes, with Nathan Rector, the Pastor of Valley Real Life Ministries, to the team of riders that rode with us to Lookout Pass and Missoula, Montana — we had a wonderful day.”

Aug. 1, Yellowstone National Park (from blog post): “Riding through Yellowstone Park started out most interesting. The park thought we were a commercial vehicle, and apparently, according to federal law, Yellowstone is the only park that does not allow commercial vehicles to travel through the park to conduct business. The park ranger went to www.ridewithtelect. com to find out that we were legit and that our event did not start until August 6. This allowed us to tour Yellowstone Park and get a chance to see some large bison in the park area. Slow traffic, and people who have never seen bison—or the animals that we in the Northwest see every day—kept us going at a snail’s pace.”

Aug. 3, Mt. Rushmore, S.D.: Check out Twitter for a picture of four members of the group striking the same pose as the famed national monument.

Aug. 4, Sturgis, S.D. (from blog post): “Being able to travel through Sturgis, South Dakota — a day before the start of the 2012 bike week rally — was interesting. We saw many cool bikes as well as interesting people.”

Aug. 7, Milwaukee, Wis.: Photos and reflections were posted from an event held, appropriately enough, at the Harley Davidson Museum.

Follow the ride: www.ridewithtelect.com facebook.com/telect Twitter: @Telect on 22 years. Where else would I want to live when I could ride, walk, golf cart within 5 minutes or so (to wherever I want to be) in the community?

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Rockin’ the park

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At left: Community members fill the park for the Aug. 4 Friends of Pavillion Park Summer Festival Series concert, headlined by former Rare Earth drummer and lead vocalist Peter Rivera. Above: Opening act Oli Brown, a British blues guitarist, warms up the audience with his band.

LL Little League player throws first pitch

LL golfers place high in tourney

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Junior Golf Northwest hosted a junior golf tournament at Downriver Golf Course Aug. 4 for junior golfers ages 10-18. Pictured above are placers from all boys’ age groups, including Liberty Lake residents Joel Christensen, Michael Stansberry and Jake Dringle.

Liberty Lake resident Noah German, 7, was selected to throw the first pitch at a Spokane Indians game July 29 through a drawing among his Little League teammates.

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“The promotions guy suggested to him that he throw from in front of the mound, but he would have none of it,” his dad Brian German said. “He was going to throw from the rubber. The catcher setup a little in front of the plate and Noah zinged in a perfect pitch as his teammates were chanting his name from the skybox.”

Liberty Lake resident Jacob Amini poses with The Splash in front of the "Cristo Redentor" in Rio de Janiero, Brazil July 22. Amini is serving a full-time two-year mission in Rio de Janiero for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

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LL wrestler makes promising show at national tournament

By Kelly Moore Splash Staff Writer

With all eyes on the Olympics this week, one Liberty Lake resident is paying especially close attention to the wrestling with thoughts of one day battling for a medal himself. In USA Wrestling’s “Future Olympian” rankings, he said he’s currently sitting at No. 8 nationwide in his age group and weight class.

“I just have a passion for the sport,” said Alius De La Rosa, 14. “I love how physical it is. It’s something I’m good at.”

At state this year, Alius earned a “triple crown” achievement in the sport, sweeping his division with first-place titles in all three styles: Greco-Roman, freestyle and folkstyle. His wins earned him a spot on the Washington State Schoolboy National Dual Team, on which he was voted one of the team captains.

His journey as a wrestler, however, started well before this season. His dad, Abel De La Rosa, said he started him out on the mats at age 5.

“I told my wife from the very getgo, he’s going to be a wrestler,” Abel De La Rosa said. “From the time he started walking, he’s always had big, muscular legs. When he was 6, we were at a tournament and overheard someone say, ‘Oh, my goodness, look at that little boy’s legs.’”

In fact, wrestling runs in Alius’s family. His dad won state at the high-school level in 1987 before going on to wrestle at Eastern Washington University. Abel De La Rosa said his uncle and brother were also known as competitive players in their day. He has coached Alius and his two younger brothers throughout their club careers, and also helped coach Alius’ team at Greenacres Middle School.

Genetics and family ties aside, Abel De La Rosa said his son is successful because of his discipline.

“He works hard,” he said. “He’s mentally tough and doesn’t get shaken very easily.

When you lose your focus or get angry,

Alius De La Rosa poses with his dad and coach, Abel De La Rosa after his state team took second and fourth place titles at the USA Wrestling National Schoolboy Duals. Alius was voted as one of the captains for the team.

Below: Alius De La Rosa (third from right) joins his Washington State teammates at the Spokane airport as they depart for the national tournament in Indianapolis. At the event, the team placed highest in the state’s history.

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During his typical season, the young wrestler runs 3 miles every other day and works out daily either on the mat or in the weight room. To prepare for nationals in Indianapolis, Alius stepped up his routine to twice-a-day practices.

For the Schoolboy National Duals in Indianapolis, Alius wrestled nine times in one day to help his team earn its highest

placing at nationals in Washington history. As a team, they snagged second place in Greco-Roman style and fourth place in freestyle.

With high school on the horizon for Alius, he said he plans to drop other sports in order to focus full-time efforts on wrestling. Come November, he’ll be focusing in on his next big goal: being a freshman high school state champion.

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Aug. 22 | Transportation Benefit District meeting 7 p.m., Liberty

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Lake Municipal Library meeting room, 23123 E. Mission Ave. Formed to implement trails in Liberty Lake, the board will be discussing possible uses of remaining funds.

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Aug. 10 | WELL (Women Executives of Liberty Lake) Meeting 12:45 p.m. networking and your own picnic lunch, fun starts at 1 p.m., Rocky Hill Park., Mission Avenue and Winrock Street. The meeting will be a fun interactive event. Bring your own lunch, kids and even your significant other! This picnic environment is meant for everyone to get to know each other on a bit more personal side. Creating relationships.

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meetings were at 3 p.m. I have a job, so I told them the way they had it set up was really excluding a lot of people who work and probably have valuable input.

Then the next year, they started alternating meeting times to have some in the evening, so I finally got to go.

I went to my first meeting,

Central Valley School Board 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, CVSD administration building, 19307 E. Cataldo, Spokane Valley

Liberty Lake City Council 7 p.m.

on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, City Hall, 22710 E. Country Vista Drive

Liberty Lake Planning Commission 4 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month, City Hall, 22710 E. Country Vista Drive

Liberty Lake SCOPE 6:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month, City Hall, 22710 E. Country Vista Drive

Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District Board 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month, 22510 E. Mission Ave.

HEALTH & RECREATION Aug. 9 | 16th annual Valley Chamber Golf Scramble 1 p.m.

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and they said they needed a secretary. I said, well, I can take notes. Things just snowballed from there.

Q: Do you feel like being involved has enriched your life in any way?

A: I just really believe in the mission of what PTA is trying to accomplish. Historically, they help kids. It helps school systems progress. My husband always says I have a say-so, and it’s true. As parents, we should

have a say-so, and PTA is one outlet where we can. I think it’s important to keep that going.

That’s one of the reasons why I keep at it.

Q: Do you feel like your involvement has affected your sons’ lives at all?

A: It’s proven that the more parents are involved in their kids’ lives, even at a young age, they do better in school. That was my No. 1 motivation for getting involved. I saw that with

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Sept. 16 | RIM Ride Various times depending upon distance starting from the Meadowwood Technology Campus, 2100 N. Molter Road.

Distances include 5, 15, 25, 50 and 100 mile routes. Online registration deadline is Sept. 1, cost is $15-$45 depending on distance. For more: www.rotaryinmotion.com Sept. 29| Open house and five-year anniversary celebration Noon to 4 p.m., HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo, Liberty Lake. Free

my oldest son when I got involved with his activities. With my youngest, it helps just knowing I’ll be there on a monthly basis for our meetings, and getting to know his principal and his teachers better has been more positive all the way around. I hope anyone we bring in to get involved is able to have that same experience.

Q: Tell me a little more about this position. Is it new?

A: It’s fairly new; in Region 15, which is our region, it was established just last year. I was approached by the regional director and asked to do it. … Last year, I went to a few leadership conferences just kind of learning about the position and sharing that information here with our individual PTA units. It was a very low-key position last year.

Q: What kind of work are you planning to do this year as outreach chair?

A: This year we have a new

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state chair, and she’s very motivated about getting us out there and really pursuing the outreach portion. We have all these resources available and want to make sure everyone knows how we can use those to our advantage. As regional chairs, in each region our goal is to be able to go out and connect each unit with the resources they need at the state PTA level.

Q: Do you have any specific goals?

A: We just met yesterday to talk about goals and timelines and deadlines. There is a huge expectation from the state PTA board to really get out there and bring in anybody we can. It’s not about outreaching to minorities.

We want to help any unrepresented group — whether it is minorities, or grandparents or dads. My goal through the end of the year is to at least meet face-to-face with each individual unit within our region, find out what their goals are, what it is they need and then say, “OK, this is what I can offer you to help.”

Q: Do you have any expectations for what you might come across?

A: I don’t really know what to expect yet. It could be all they need is help with language barriers. It could be they need help bridging the gap between the community and the school. I don’t know what it’ll be, but I’m excited to get in there and find out.

E-Mail them to editor@libertylakesplash.com or drop them by the office at 2310 N. Molter Road, Suite 305

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Fire levy carries day; Chase trails

By Josh Johnson Splash Staff Writer

After a week where fire protection services were quite evident in Liberty Lake, the community agreed with the rest of the Valley area in giving the Spokane Valley Fire Department more than enough support to renew its $16.4 million maintenance and operations levy.

The measure, which required a supermajority of 60 percent, was passing with 67.3 percent support after initial tallies were released Tuesday night. Liberty Lake mirrored district-wide results, chiming in with 67.9 percent support.

The measure accounts for 53 percent of the department’s current budget.

Also Tuesday, voters narrowed the field in the District 2 race for Spokane County Commissioner. Republican Rob Chase, a Liberty Lake resident and the current Spokane County Treasurer, trailed fellow Republican Shelly O’Quinn and Democrat Daryl Romeyn in balloting to determine the final two candidates who will square off on the November ballot. Romeyn, an organic farmer and former weatherman, led the way with 42.0 percent followed by 34.6 percent for O’Quinn, an executive at Greater Spokane Inc. Chase’s 23.1 percent represented a district third, though his supporters will likely play a large role in the general election, where many are expected to shift to fellow Republican O’Quinn.

The race tightened significantly among Liberty Lake’s six precincts, where O’Quinn was favored by 34.6 percent of voters, followed by Romeyn at 33.6 percent and Chase at 31.8 percent. Despite a stronger showing, Chase narrowly missed winning any of the Liberty Lake precincts.

Elsewhere, voters propelled Republican U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers with 54 percent of the vote into a general election matchup with Democrat Rich Cowan (35 percent). Incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (56 percent) will face off against Republican Michael Baumgartner (30 percent).

The Washington state governor election also ended with the expected result, as Democrat Jay Inslee (47 percent) and Republican Rob McKenna (43 percent) advanced to face each other in November’s general election.

In each of these races, Liberty Lake voters heavily favored the Republican candidates.

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In Biz Itron announces quarterly financial report Liberty Lake-based Itron announced second-quarter financial results Aug. 1, noting GAAP diluted net earnings per share of 79 cents and non-GAAP diluted net earnings per share of $1.16.

"I am pleased with our business execution in the second quarter," Itron President and CEO LeRoy Nosbaum said in a release. "While revenue was flat year-overyear at constant currency, we improved gross margin in both segments as we continue to focus on efficiencies and resource prioritization."

Revenues were $579 million for the quarter, compared with $612 million in the same period in 2011.

STCU announces promotions, hiring for key positions Liberty Lake-headquartered Spokane Teachers Credit Union recently announced the promotion of four longtime employees and the hiring of two others.

The moves come as the credit union realigns its lending departments, creating separate commercial lending and small business divisions from what was formally grouped under a business services umbrella.

The staffing changes include: • Patrick Garrity, director of lending strategy (a new position at STCU). Garrity has worked in lending for 30 years, the last 19 with STCU, where he most recently was director of consumer lendgarrity ing. He majored in finance and economics at Eastern Washington University.

• David Flood, director of consumer lending. Flood has worked in lending for 20 years, the last 12 at STCU, where he most recently was lending flood center manager. A resident of Hayden,

Idaho, he has degrees in accounting and finance from University of Idaho and is enrolled in EWU’s MBA program.

• Greg Swanson, director of commercial lending (a new position at STCU). Swanson, a new STCU employee, has more than 30 years of experience in business and lending, most recently as vice president of swanson Sterling Bank. He has a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University and an organizational management certificate from Whitworth University.

• Jeff Verble, commercial lending manager. Verble, a new verble STCU employee, started his banking career 29 years ago, interspersed with periods as a residential contractor. He has a bachelor’s degree in industrial technology from EWU. • Jessie Chastain, chastain home loan relationship development officer (a new position for STCU). Chastain has been at STCU for five years, most recently as a real estate loan officer. She attends Whitworth University.

• Terri Mills, small mills business manager (a new position at STCU). Mills has 25 years of experience at financial institutions and has worked at STCU since 2007, most recently as business services manager. She attends Whitworth University.

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opinion

Plenty of evidence signals need for better traffic control

By Jack Schnitzius

Splash Guest Column

Would someone please stop the insanity? Would someone in the Liberty Lake government realize they are in over their collective heads and they need the advice of a real traffic engineer? God bless him, but this isn’t Chief Asmus’ area of expertise. It doesn’t appear to be Doug Smith’s, either.

A real traffic engineer, consulting with, making the argument for and representing the city should be able to convince the “answer is no” bureaucrats in WSDOT that there are other criteria beyond traffic volumes to justify the use of a signal to control traffic at an intersection (“Seeking safe passage,” Aug. 2 Splash).

As the chief points out, 24 accidents at Mission and Harvard roads in two years — many of them right-angle accidents — are more than enough to meet the threshold of the required five per year used by qualified traffic planners to justify a signal.

Dwell time, or delay studies, and gap analysis can also be used independent of volumes and collisions to justify a signal.

This is based on the scientifically proven fact that the longer a person must wait at a stop sign, the greater risk they are willing to take to cross the intersection.

Therefore, more accidents occur.

Spread, or distance between signals, is a consideration when installing a device. The distance to the closest signal at Appleway is more than enough to prevent back-ups and congestion, especially given the current technology of programmable

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and interlinked signal controllers. Much of the traffic heading north on Harvard Road turns right onto the freeway ramp before reaching the intersection of Harvard and Mission. The intersection of Molter and Appleway is a great example of demand-style programming.

In the 1970s and 1980s, “roundabouts” — we called them traffic circles in those days — were removed at major intersections because of the number of collisions and gridlock they produced. What replaced them? You guessed it, programmable signals!

While the traffic engineer is at it, he can recommend establishing realistic speed limits along the two stretches of speed trap roadways in town, Appleway and Country Vista. Realistic limits are set by looking at the 85th percentile of speed travelled by free-flowing traffic in the absence of law enforcement. This is based on the principle that 85 percent of motorists will travel at a safe speed given the conditions of the roadway and surrounding traffic conflicts. Sitting alongside the road in a silver Crown Victoria gathering data does not constitute the absence of law enforcement. Taking the measurement near an intersection where the speeds from vehicles entering from the side road are slower is also a no-no to a trained and qualified traffic engineer.

By the way, the 85th percentile speed taken along Country Vista, prior to the speed change and even under these flawed conditions, was over 42 mph, suggesting a realistic speed limit of 45 mph. Future development should not enter into the equation, as limits can be reestablished as conditions change. It is an ill-advised misconception that artificially reduced speeds contribute to traffic safety. The resources used trying to enforce an unrealistic speed can be better used patrolling our neighborhoods and businesses.

Finally, let’s talk about cost. $1.5 million dollars can buy a lot of valid roadway improvements. Heck, $550,000 of city funds can do the same thing. Let’s understand, there is no such thing as a free lunch. While the remainder of the funds might come from state or federal funding, it still comes out of the pockets of we the taxpayers. Please stop the delusion that anything from the state and feds is free!

And no, I’m not a traffic engineer, nor am I looking for a job, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Jack Schnitzius lives in Liberty Lake. He originally wrote this column as a post on The Splash Facebook page. Join the conversation at www.facebook.com/libertylakesplash.

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Letter to the Editor Boats should be careful not to interfere with fire suppression Kudos to the pilot of the turbine Thrush float plane used to suppress the fire southeast of Liberty Lake on Saturday for a job well done.

I was in disbelief watching so many boats on Liberty Lake interfering with the fire suppression operations. One boat departed from Wicomico Beach pulling a wake surfer directly toward the aircraft in a converging course after the aircraft had picked up the water and was accelerating toward takeoff.

Perhaps these people have nary a clue about the complicated nature of float plane flying. Float planes are not as maneuverable as boats and are prone to easy flipping.

Waves and wakes interfere greatly with the safe operation of sea planes, visibility is limited at times especially when operat-

One boat (pulled) a wake surfer directly toward the aircraft in a converging course after the aircraft had picked up the water and was accelerating toward takeoff. ing during plow taxi and any aircraft operating on a hot day loaded to maximum weight has considerably reduced takeoff capability.

Next time you see a float plane taking off or landing on the water, get out of the way!

Stop your boat if you are creating a large wake. People, please pay attention. And by the way, where was the marine law enforcement when we actually needed them?

Judy Black Liberty Lake

People make the heart grateful What “gratitude” means to me is everything I have received in my life and all of the people I have met or been involved with over the 43 years of my life. I have gained so much knowledge (good and not so good) from so many situations in my life. The value of these people and lessons is very humbling. Having the opportunity to have met so many professionals and people, gives a perspective of what a person can gain in life.

I am very appreciative of having been able to travel to different parts of the world to see how so many others live. Visiting Washington D.C. with my family gave us a chance to see some of the history and sacrifices that so many others gave for this country.

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has,” said Epictetus.

Having grown up my entire life in and around Spokane, I have the deepest appreciation for those who have paved the way for me and the future generations of this city and country. Having a positive outlook on life can be challenging and downright frustrating at times. I can attribute so many awesome things that have happened in my life to experiences that have taught me so much. I respect so many people who have given me a chance or an opportunity to do things I have never dreamed of doing.

I have the utmost respect for the positives and the negatives! Every day, I meet so many different personality types and people. I admire the individuals who have taken and continue taking risks to make this city and world better. Everything does come at a cost. Hard work and dedication take the ability to know you will fall on

Christopher M. Patterson Splash guest column

your face — and to get back up again to do it over.

Knowing that at anytime you could lose something you love dearly — like a nephew, brother, dad or anyone you cared for — makes life so much more valuable than expected. Gratitude is very simple when you think about what you might not have.

I am very appreciative of the friends, acquaintances and family members I have learned from over the years. In the end, what I truly care about is providing a stronger community, city and world for all generations.

Most of all, I have the deepest love and heart for my children, family and friends.

I have found that without that simple motivation and drive to provide and lead by example, I did not do my job as a father, husband, grandfather or even simpler, just a good man.

Christopher M. Patterson works for BreakThrough Inc., a specialized youth treatment program he created after spending time growing up in the foster system.

This column was written as a part of a monthly series highlighting the PACE (Partners Advancing Character Education) trait of the month. The columns run in partner publications like The Splash. PACE is a grassroots Spokane Valley initiative. For more, visit www.pacecommunity.org.

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Aug. 9, 2012 • 17

Library carnival at the park Hundreds of local kids came out to Pavillion Park Thursday evening for the Liberty Lake Municipal Library’s annual carnival. The event was part of the department’s summer reading program.

“We’ve been doing it for about five years now, and every year it gets a little bit easier,” Children’s Library Associate Amy Dickeson said. “The thing we are most proud of is it’s all free. Kids get to come and have a lot of fun and take home some prizes, and they never spend a dime.”

Dickeson co-coordinated the event with fellow Children’s Library Associate Katie Wiykovics. The Fun Guy donated carnival games for kids to play, and Friends of the Liberty Lake Municipal Library donated prizes.

For more information about more upcoming summer reading program events, visit www. libertylakewa.gov/library.

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LEGAL NOTICES SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES THAT: the Mayor and City Council of the City of Liberty Lake will hold a Special Meeting Sunday, August 12, 2012, from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. in the Administration Building of the Spokane Valley Fire District, 2120 N. Wilbur, Spokane Valley, Washington. The Special Meeting is for the purpose of a City Council retreat. No public testimony will be solicited, but this meeting is open to the public.

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City of Liberty Lake Notice of Decision Proposal File #: CP-12-0002 Zoning: R-3 / M-1 Proposal: Guardian Angel Homes Specialty Housing Proposal Description: Phase 1 - 8 Unit (4 Buildings) of Independent Senior Living (Approx. 1,100 Sq. Ft. Per Unit) and Future Phase of Additional Independent Senior Living and/or Assisted Living Site Address: 23128 E. Mission Ave., Liberty Lake, WA 99019 General Location: S. of Mission Ave., E. of Homestead, W. of Molter Rd. Owner: Snow Peak Properties, LLC Phone: 208-929-2726 Contact: Guardian Angel Homes (Mike Geddes) Phone: 208-929-2726 / 801-787-8238 Application Date: 5/11/12 Determination of Completeness Issued: 5/22/12 Incomplete, 6/1/12 Complete Notice of Application Review: 6/6/12 - 6/20/12 Notice of Decision Issued: 8/2/12 Appeal Closing Date: 8/16/12 City of Liberty Lake Planning & Building Services Decision: Approved w/ Conditions SEPA Threshold Determination: Mitigated Determination of Non-Significance (see MDNS issued 8/2/12) The decision on this project and the SEPA determination made under chapter RCW 43.21C are final but they may be appealed.

Interested parties with standing, as defined in RCW 36.70C, have the opportunity to appeal a decision on a project permit. The decision may be appealed within fourteen (14) calendar days from the date the decision is rendered by delivering a notice of appeal to Planning & Building Services by mail or personal delivery. The notice of appeal must be received by 4:00 p.m. on the last day of the appeal period, unless the last day of the appeal period falls

See LEGALS, page 19

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classifieds

LEGALS

EILEEN S. DUNBAR, Deceased.

Continued from page 18 on a weekend or holiday, the notice of appeal shall then be due on the following business day. Appeal requests shall contain all information and items required in the City Development Code Section 10-4B-4, subsection H. An ‘open record’ appeal to the Hearing Examiner is available on many Type I project permits. The appeal procedure shall be as outlined in the City Development Code Section 10-4G-2, subsection H for Appeals of Administrative Interpretations by the Director and Section 10-6A-7, Subsection C for SEPA Appeals. The appeal closing date for this project is 4pm, 8/16/12.

Location where application file may be viewed: City of Liberty Lake Planning & Building Services, 22710 E. Country Vista, Liberty Lake, WA 99019. Project information is also available on the City website at www.libertylakewa.gov/development/public_notices.asp.

Questions may be directed to the Project Coordinator listed below.

Review Authority - Project Coordinator: City of Liberty Lake - Amanda Tainio, Planning & Building Services Manager, Phone: 509-755-6708, Email: atainio@libertylakewa.gov Date Notice of Decision (NOD) Issued: 8/2/12 Published Date & Paper: 8/9/12, Liberty Lake Splash Appeal Closing Date: 8/16/12 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE In the Matter of the Estate of

No. 12-400945-9

RONALD E. THOMPSON,

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Deceased.

RCW 11.40.030

The Co-Personal Representatives named below have been appointed as Co-Personal Representatives of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Co-Personal Representatives or their attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Co-Personal Representatives served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent=s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of first publication: August 9, 2012 /s/ Eugene R. Thompson EUGENE R. THOMPSON Co-Personal Representative /s/ Rick E. Thompson RICK E. THOMPSON Co-Personal Representative Attorney for Personal Representative: Karen L. Sayre, WSBA #15548 SAYRE & SAYRE, P.S. Address for Mailing or Service: West 201 North River Drive, Suite 460 Spokane, Washington 99201-2262 (509) 325-7330 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE In the Matter of the Estate of

No. 12-400904-1

FRANCIS LEONARD VAN VEEN,

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Deceased.

RCW 11.40.030

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative=s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent=s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of first publication:

August 2, 2012 /s/ Julia M. Shaughnessy JULIA M. SHAUGHNESSY Personal Representative

Attorney for Personal Representative: Richard L. Sayre, WSBA #9400 SAYRE & SAYRE, P.S. Address for Mailing or Service: West 201 North River Drive, Suite 460 Spokane, Washington 99201-2262 (509) 325-7330 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE In the Matter of the Estate of

No. 12-400920-3

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Matter of the Estate of

No. 12-400869-0

RCW 11.40.030

CORNELIA B. HESTON,

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative=s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent=s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of first publication:

August 2, 2012 /s/ James A. Dunbar JAMES A. DUNBAR Personal Representative

Deceased.

RCW 11.40.030

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative=s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent=s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of first publication:

/s/ Alfred C. Heston ALFRED C. HESTON Personal Representative

Attorney for Personal Representative: Richard L. Sayre, WSBA #9400 SAYRE & SAYRE, P.S. Address for Mailing or Service: West 201 North River Drive, Suite 460 Spokane, Washington 99201-2262 (509) 325-7330 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE

August 2, 2012

Attorney for Personal Representative: Richard L. Sayre, WSBA #9400 SAYRE & SAYRE, P.S. Address for Mailing or Service: West 201 North River Drive, Suite 460 Spokane, Washington 99201-2262 (509) 325-7330

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