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NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH | Unincorporated residents use technology to fi ght crime [page 3]
Meyers ready to conquer | Kentwood siblings hope to fi nish wrestling season on the podium together [16]FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2012
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Rae Solomon sings at The Spot coff ee and wine bar in the Maple Valley Town Center Saturday. Solomon grew up in Enumclaw and lives in Covington. Her latest album was released in July. A former rodeo queen turned country singer, Solomon toured the last year, including opening for Blake Shelton. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
Belting It Out
BY TJ MARTINELL
Th e Maple Valley City Council approved an ordinance estab-lishing a transportation benefi t district in the city at their Nov. 26 meeting.
Although the exact amount of the fee hasn’t been estab-lished yet, the benefi t district is expected to cost Maple Valley drivers an extra $20 for their license tabs.
Th e transportation benefi t district is estimated to provide $320,000 annually towards main-taining, improving and preserving existing transportation facilities.
Th e city’s real estate excise tax, which is currently used to provide $300,000 for the asphalt overlay program, has dropped from $2
City Council establishes benefit district
BY KRIS HILL
A project which has been more than a decade in the making will bring the city’s fi rst soccer fi eld to residents in the springtime in Covington.
Work on the fi rst phase of Covington Community Park is nearing completion. Beyond the soccer fi eld is a trail system and eventually, as additional phases are built, the park will have so much more, according to Parks and Recreation Director Scott Th omas.
“I’m working on getting phase two funding,” Th omas said. “Th e fi rst phase met an important need. Th e population has grown by 40 percent, but no new soccer fi elds.
First phase of city park to be done by spring
BY TJ MARTINELL
Janice Ranton fi rst joined the Pythian Sisters Temple 12 in Black Diamond when she was 16 years old. In a time before commuting, the Internet, cable television and even fax machines, lodges were the primary social function for people in town. Th ey also served as a source for fringe benefi ts and philanthropic op-portunities.
Both of Ranton’s parents were members of a lodge. Her fa-ther belonged to the Knights of Pythias.
Th e Pythian Sisters was the fi rst lodge to open in Black Diamond in 1896. To become a member, girls had to be 16, English speak-ing and hold a belief in a Supreme
Being, which was easy for Ran-ton, whose family attended St. Barbara Catholic church.
When Ranton became old enough to join, her mother brought her to one of the meet-ings along with other girls her age. As part of her initiation, Ranton had to memorize the diff erent offi ces and the speaking parts. Th eir enthusiasm for the fraternity was evident, she said, as soon as they joined.
“We learned the reciting parts before they did,” she said.
It was easy, Ranton said, to become excited at the prospect of joining. In a small town like Black Diamond, few sources of enter-tainment were available outside the lodges. For Ranton, as well as the other girls, it gave them the
rare opportunity to dress up and attend dances, complete with a band and orchestra.
“Th ere were women there dressed fi t to kill,” she said. “We didn’t see (ourselves in) mink coats, but it gave us an opportu-nity to dress up.”
Th e fraternal lodges like the Pythian Sisters also acted as more than sources of entertainment and socializing. Among its other purposes was to provide a sort of health insurance for the women. When one got sick, the entire fraternity would help cover medi-cal expenses through their dues. Th e fraternity would also travel to diff erent lodges in the state, in ad-dition to dinners and fundraising.
At the time, Ranton said,
The times are changing for the Pythian Sisters of Black Diamond
Pythian Sisters Lilynne Davis, Janice Ranton, Judy Warwick and Althea Craig. Formed in 1896, it is the oldest fraternal organization in Black Diamond. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter
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BY TJ MARTINELL
As budgets for law en-forcement agencies tighten, many unincorporated neighborhoods have turned to creative methods to deter crime.
In the Remington neigh-borhood, located south of Covington, when suspi-cious looking vehicles are seen idly sitting outside a home or off the street, resi-dents can send a text which goes out to neighbors on the list to determine if any-one knows who it is.
Having been previously trained, they know what to observe and notice, such as the vehicle’s license plate, color, make and model, as well as any other distinct attributes.
Or, they simply walk up to the person in the vehicle and ask, “Can I help you?”
Remington, along with Lake Morton, Winterwood, Sawyer’s Grove and Lake Morton Estate, is a section of unincorporated King County south of 272nd Street Southeast residents such as Kathy Gendreau say have had problems with petty crimes, such as burglary theft , which started around two years ago.
According to Gendreau, the Sheriff ’s Offi ce formed a special emphasis team to crack down on the theft s that met with initial success.
“Th at made a huge impact,” she said. “Th ey arrested a few, scared the rest away.”
According to Randy Sorge, head of the Rem-ington Home Owner’s Association crime preven-tion committee, much has
changed since then. Before, residents would
dismiss suspicious activity, such as grown men wearing hoodies while carrying leaf blowers on BMX bicycles.
Now, however, through a combination of education and strong communication with King County deputies, they are able to pick up on potentially illegal activ-ity, such as a teenager carrying a backpack with a hoodie over his head on a sunny day.
“It might be harmless, but what kid carries a backpack on Saturday or at 2 p.m. during a weekday, when they should be at school?” Gendreau said.
Before, when a crime occurred,
many residents sim-ply did not report it, as it usually involved petty theft of less than $1,000.
Th is, Gendreau said, created two problems. One, it did not give the Sheriff ’s Offi ce an accurate
refl ection of the true crime statistics. Addition-ally, if the items were later recovered during an arrest when issuing a search war-rant, the culprit couldn’t be charged because no theft had been reported.
Now, Gendreau said more and more residents report the incidents imme-diately. Remington Crime Watch Group, an exclusive
online group forum moder-ated by Gendreau, allows residents to inform the neighborhood whenever something occurs.
Th ey can report incidents to crimereports.com, which the King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce has linked to their website. Th ey have also
improved communication with each other,
“Before, it wasn’t unusual to see a vehicle in someone’s yard and not think anything of it,” Sorge said. “Now, we have a community that looks aft er their neighbors, that report suspicious activ-ity and deters crime.”
Gendreau said they have also built up a good rela-tionship with the deputies who patrol the area.
“Th ey have been at-tentive, really committed with residents,” she said. “Th ey’ve done very positive things when they’re there. We’ve all been pleased.”
One of the prob-lems they’ve encoun-tered, Gendreau said, is not only is the area big for the deputies to patrol, but because the crimes are non-violent and involve lower value items, they are not a high priority.
Additionally, resi-dents like Sorge and Gendreau feel that crimes committed in unincorporated areas are given less atten-tion than similar crimes committed in cities.
King County Sher-iff Sue Rahr seemed to affi rm this in 2011 when she explained at a meeting why the County Council de-cided to cut funding out of the Sheriff ’s
Offi ce budget that led to the closure of the precinct sta-tion in Maple Valley.
“Th ere is a strong belief on the council that those who live in rural areas have chosen a rural area quality of service,” Rahr said at the meeting. “It’s not something that can be defended, but
it’s the reality.”In addition to a crime
prevention committee and a newsletter, the neighbor-hood also held its fi rst National Night Out event at Remington Park in August.
Despite the measures taken, the community continues to deal with short bursts of crime.
According to statistics provided by Gendreau, within a two week period in October there were nine burglaries in a two square mile area alone.
“We’re shedding our own light on it,” Gendreau said.
As the holiday season approaches, Sorge said residents are afraid their packages will get stolen, something that has hap-pened in the years prior. Recently, stolen packages have been reported to the Remington Crime Watch group.
“People are getting scared,” he said. “Th ey should be.”
Even though the crimes are not serious in nature, Gendreau said such intru-sions rob the neighborhood of its tranquility, which is more important than what-ever is actually stolen.
“It’s not huge to King County, but to the people — they’ve stolen their peace of mind and sense of se-curity,” she said. “You can’t get it from your insurance plan.”Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.
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The Very Merry Christmas House will host a Santa Food Drive at 6
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9.Also present will be Mountain
View Fire and Rescue - Black Diamond Fire. They will be
collecting nonperishable food and new unwrapped toys for
Auburn and Black Diamond food banks. Come hear the sleigh
bells ringing and the sirens singing to all. Several local
businesses will be here with special handouts for the kids.
Don’t forget cameras for pictures with Santa and his Elves
The house is located at 30211 176th Ave SE.
“It’s not huge to King County, but to the people — they’ve stolen their peace of mind and sense of security.” Kathy Gendreau
Temple 83 shared its headquarters with the Knights of Pythias and was around 50 members strong in a town of 1,000.
In the 1960s, how-ever, changes in so-ciety and technology dramatically impacted the lodges, Ranton said. Commuting made it possible for residents to drive to other cities for entertainment. The rise of
health insurance providers via the workplace stripped the lodge of one of its purposes. Thus, it became harder for the lodge to at-
tract newer, younger members.
Now, 50 years since Ranton first joined, the Pythian Sisters is one of the few fraternal lodges left in Black Dia-
mond. It’s headquarters is still in the same building, but it is
now owned by the Free Masons after the local Knights of Pythias chapter folded. The members still have original copies of the lodge’s first minutes from May 1896. Although times have changed, the lodge still does philanthropic work in the community, such as providing clothes and shoes for needy children and paying visits to the other seven lodges in the state that have survived.
In the long run, however, it seems as though the chapter will
fold too unless it can recruit new members, something which Ran-ton said has been very difficult to do. One of the problems lies in demographics. None of the 21 members are under the age of 50. Additionally, people’s social and work schedules often conflict with lodge events.
“You can’t get members like they used to,” Ranton said. “It’s hard getting people interested and I don’t know why. We are al-
ways out looking, but times have changed. My mother says I’m going to join and I’m like ‘OK.’ I tell my daughters and they say, ‘I
don’t think so.’”Past Grand Chancellor
Gwen Rhodes, who lives in Renton, put it suc-cinctly.
“We aren’t the heart of their social activities any-
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That was a pressing need.”Phase one is critical be-
cause it will fill a need that has been one of the highest priorities for residents ac-cording to research the city has done in preparing its Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces (PROS) Plan.
“Most of the need here is for little kids,” Thomas said. “So, most of the time (the field) will be broken down into mini fields or micro fields. We can play any level of soccer here, so, it is very versatile.”
Eventually when the money is secured to build the second phase -- and Thomas said that will be no easy task given that the city has poured as much as it can afford into this first phase -- it will have a com-munity event stage which is another major priority residents identified.
“We need a community event space where we can hold free, family events,”
Thomas said.Covington Community
Park is located at 180th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 240th Street.
The site is about 30 acres and is a collection of four parcels purchased by the city in 2003 and then brought into King County’s urban growth boundary in 2004. It was annexed into the city in 2008. It is a short walk from Tahoma High School.
Construction has a $1.6 million price tag while the total project cost comes in at $2.26 million.
Funding came from a variety of sources
including grants as well as city dollars, with the City Council approving an increase to the utility tax earlier in the year to ensure funding to cover the costs of maintenance.
“The council really did have to make some hard de-cisions to get this started,” Thomas said.
It has been an interesting
site to work on. The soccer field takes up half of what was formerly a pasture. On the perimeter where some of the trail system exists are wetlands and an intermit-tent stream.
“This is a hydrologically dynamic site,” Thomas said. “We knew that when we first started, but, now we really know much water flows through this site.”
After a significant fall storm in mid-October, for example, a tertiary retention pond park designers thought would likely get very little use is full to the point of overflowing just south of the soccer field which runs north-south off 240th.
“Dealing with the water has been one of the biggest unanticipated challenges of this site,” Thomas said.
While the soccer field on
the site meets one impor-tant recreation demand, upgrading the existing trail there while building new trails which connect to the old ones should meet another priority.
“The PROS Plan survey says one of the most
popular priori-ties is walking or jogging,” Thomas said. “We’ve heard the community and we’re trying to respond to those highest priorities.”
Considerable thought has been put into
the trail design at Cov-ington Community Park. Designers and contractors have worked to preserve as many of the big trees on the property as possible. The trails have been built so they are ADA accessible with gentle, curving slopes so those with walkers or in wheelchairs can safely enjoy them. Thomas noted the
trails were also designed with extensive sightlines and awareness of escape routes for greater safety.
One piece of the new trail system was built along a Bonneville Power Adminis-tration power line easement on the southeast portion of the property. It will eventually connect up with another trail that is, at least temporarily, known as the Jenkins Prairie Trail, which will connect up with other trails in the region which could take people from Lake Wilderness through Covington down to Lake Meridian.
That portion of the trail is paved and is capable of handling BPA’s heaviest work trucks, Thomas noted.
Other portions of the trail on the site will have in-terpretive signs. School field trips or small groups could make use of that feature of the trail, Thomas said.
The trail system is nearly done, Thomas said, likely in the next month or so. He expects the city will host a
grand opening sometime next spring or summer with a ribbon cutting and pos-sibly a soccer jamboree.
By then, the grass field, which was planted in early October, will have spent the entire winter growing and developing its root system. Thomas said he could have not asked for better weather for a new soccer field.
Overall, this first phase exists thanks to the groundwork done by his predecessor, Dave Erickson, the efforts of many city staff members, the City Council, representatives from the 47th Legislative District and the input of residents as well as the hours he’s put in, Thomas said.
“I’m really happy with the way the design turned out,” Thomas said. “It’s going to be a really beautiful place.”
Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at [email protected] comment on this story go to covingtonreporter.com.
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[ DISTRICT from page 1] million in 2006 to $700,000 presently.
The benefit district would divert the real estate excise tax revenue for the city’s debt service on the Maple Valley Legacy Place Site, which is currently taken from the general fund.
The transportation ben-efit district would apply to those living within city lim-its. Several types of vehicles, such as campers, farm tractors, mopeds and non-highway vehicles would be exempt from the fee.
During the motion to ap-prove the ordinance, Coun-cil member Layne Barnes proposed an amendment inserting a “sunset clause,” which would cause the law to cease effect after five years, unless further action is taken to extend the law by the council.
The proposed amend-ment was defeated by a vote of 5-2.
City Manager David Johnston told the council in October that unless a ben-efit district was established or some new source of
funding arose for road in-frastructure, the city would probably have to make cuts in city park programs and other services.
The Washington State Transportation Commis-sion has projected an esti-mated $38 billion shortfall for the $67 billion needed for statewide transportation improvements.
Reach TJ Martinell at 245-432-1209 ext. 5052. To comment on this story go to maplevalleyreporter.com
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“Most of the need here is for little kids. So, most of the time (the field) will be broken down into mini fields or micro fields. We can play any level of soccer here, so, it is very versatile.” Scott Thomas
“We aren’t the heart of their social activities anymore.” Gwen Rhodes, Past Grand Chancellor
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In the early morning hours Dec. 2 a vandal sawed into Covington’s community tree in the Don Henning Roundabout on 168th Place near Fred Meyer.
Covington planned to host its annual Holiday Tree Lighting event that evening and the event went on as planned despite the dam-age the 35-foot-tall Spruce suffered.
According to information provided by the city, Cov-ington police responded to a call around 5:30 a.m. the morning of Saturday, Dec. 1, that someone was report-edly trying to saw down the tree. When officers arrived
on the scene the suspect was gone, however, a metal wedge and sign were left behind.
“We’re going to try to do everything we can to recover evidence from the items,” said Covington police officer Kyle Riches in a statement.
Bill Fealy, an arborist and maintenance crew member for the city, said the cut which appeared to have been made with a hand saw went through 80 percent of the tree trunk.
“That damage is a death sentence,” Fealy said in a statement.
Public works employees have secured the tree so the event can continue, but, the
tree will have to come down afterward. The tree’s value is estimated at about $10,000 and other costs could be added including the labor related to the work done after the damage was dis-covered and what will need to happen once the tree
comes down.“It is sad that
someone would be responsible for such a selfish act
in a season that’s all about giving. I know
this community won’t let it dampen their spirit,” said Covington Mayor Margaret Harto in a release.
Harto also provided opening remarks for the tree lighting event that evening.
City staff expects they will need to replace the 3,000 lights used for the holiday event as well as the
LEDs used for the Purple Light Nights tree lighting which kicks off the annual domestic violence aware-ness event in Covington. Those lights in particular were paid for by donations and money will have to be
raised to replace them.In addition to Harto’s
remarks, the event included an introduction of the citizen and honorary citizen of the year, a solo singing performance, community caroling, kids crafts, Santa
riding in on a fire truck and a performance by the Emerald City Ringers bell choir.
To comment on this story go to covingtonreporter.com.
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EASTSIDE ECONOMY EXPECTS TO SEE GROWTH OVER NEXT YEAR, SURVEY SAYS
The Eastside economy should see growth over the next year, according to a consumer shopping survey con-ducted by Pulse of America and the Reporter.
In addition, the survey indicated that most new jobs will be created by new or expanding small businesses.
According to the survey:
34 percent of survey respondents expect their household spending to increase over the next 12 months, while only 18 percent say it will go down.
28 percent of respondents say that they plan to spend more at locally owned businesses rather than the Internet or out of town over the same period.
At the same time, 62 percent state their local spending will be the same.
The survey covered hundreds of small business types and provided details on where respondents intend to shop in the next 12 months.
Details include:
11 percent intend to shop for a used car;
10 percent intend to shop for a new car (which is up over their previous quarters);
10 percent expect to use a landscaping service;
16 percent will shop at a furniture store;
15 percent will shop at a jewelry store; and
10 percent will use a legal firm.
The survey also contained some interesting nuggets:
23 percent plan to go to a bowling alley, compared to 16 percent who plan to use a golf course;
21 percent plan to change auto insurance providers;
23 percent plan to change or get a new dentist; and
13 percent plan to change their cellular phone provider.
The survey noticed certain trends, too.
14 percent of respondents plan to buy a tablet in the next 12 months; 20 percent already do own a tablet;
More than twice as many respondents (68 percent) use Facebook at least weekly compared to 33 percent who use YouTube.
Only 11 percent use Twitter at least weekly.
The complete survey shopping results are available to any local small business by calling the Reporter’s Na-tional Sales office at 360-394-5833.
Finally, local residents are invited to participate in the current Pulse of America survey.
Those participating in the survey will be entered in a drawing for a Visa card, pre-loaded with $4,000 that they can spend whenever and wherever they want.
SPIRITS SALES UP 2.9 PERCENT FOR FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF PRIVATIZATION
Despite some serious stockpiling in May, spirits sales by volume were 2.9 percent higher dur-ing the first four months of privatization than they were a year earlier, the Washington State
Department of Revenue reported.
Nearly 13.6 million liters were sold from June through September 2012 compared to 13.2 million a year earlier when state liquor stores were in operation.
The average retail price of a liter of spirits, including taxes, was $24.09 in September, compared to $21.58 at state liquor stores a year earlier, an 11.6 percent increase.
That equals a nearly $2 increase for a standard 750 ml bottle, to $18.07 from $16.19 last year.
The overall numbers mask a divergence between con-sumer purchases at retail stores and purchases by bars and restaurants.
Consumers purchased 7.9 percent more spirits during this period while on-premise businesses bought 12.6 percent less.
On-premise purchasing presumably is down because businesses purchased substantially more liquor in May 2012, the last month state liquor stores were in opera-tion, than they did a year ago.
Bars and restaurants may still be working down their inventories, but higher prices, weaker demand and sup-ply issues also may be factors.
The Department has begun posting monthly sales data online.
Go to http://dor.wa.gov/Content/AboutUs/StatisticsAn-dReports/stats_SpiritsTaxes.aspx for a detailed spread-sheet that includes tax revenues generated by the liquor sales and liquor liter taxes.
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Vern Heinle spent a fair amount of time in his workshop this year trying to get a wooden tank design just right.
“I’m fortunate enough not to have to have pat-terns,” said the 79-year-old retired carpenter. “I make up my own. I had to come up with a design that looks like a tank and is easy to build.”
Heinle, who lives in Kent, will donate hundreds of handmade wooden toys including the tanks to the Forgotten Children’s Fund this year. He often enlists the help of his grandsons, two of whom attend Kent-lake High, in the process or delivery of the toys.
Now in his fifth year of building toys for the drive, Heinle has 300 cars, planes, tanks and trucks for children in need. A year ago he built about 200. This year he was able to build more toys thanks to the generosity of the community.
“Donations were wonderful,” Heinle said. “I didn’t have to dig so deep in my pocket this year. One person gave me a whole bunch of hardwood lumber. In fact, I had to make two trips with my van.”
Heinle spent 40 years as a carpenter but has made toys as a hobby for decades. His house is filled with his handiwork, as well. There
are toys, a rocking horse, cabinets, jewelry boxes, blocks worn smooth from use, the dining room table and more.
Work on the toys for this year’s drive for the Forgot-ten Children’s Fund — a non-profit which has been doing this since 1975, when a letter to Santa landed in a restaurant, where a group of people decided to ensure that needy children and their families would not go without at Christmas — began in September.
He first became in-volved with the holiday drive when Jim Pelletier, the former manager of the Shari’s on 132nd Avenue Southeast and Southeast Kent-Kangley Road, asked him. Pelletier, who recently moved from Covington to Enumclaw, is now the man-ager of the Shari’s on Rus-sell Road in Kent so now
Heinle drops off his toys there.
Every Shari’s in the area, how-ever, will accept donations of cash, clothes, and food, Heinle said, and he encourages those inspired to help to go to the
restaurant nearest them to donate.
The plan this year is to drop off his toys at 10 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Shari’s on Russell Road. Heinle said he will give out small wooden toys to children 12 and under that morning while supplies last.
Heinle gives credit to a
number of supporters for his ability to build the toys, a project which has grown each year. He said he is par-ticularly thankful for the fi-nancial support of Clarence Kitzan, Richard Metzger, Eric Norton, Bryan Heinle, Matthew Croft, Phil O’Neil, Scott Mayfield and Jennifer Tingey.
The past two years, the distribution point for the non-profit will be in Woodinville, Heinle said. Volunteers will wrap pres-
ents then leave from there to deliver them.
Heinle said a volunteer told him a story about a child’s reaction a year ago to getting one of the toys he’d made.
“One little boy, a volun-teer delivered the truck to his house, and his mother said, ‘Let me see that,’” Heinle said. “And he held it against his chest and said, ‘No. Mine.’”
Heinle knows the chil-dren who receive the toys
he makes have so little, he wants them to have some-thing that will fire their imaginations and give them a chance to be kids.
Heinle, of course, enjoys the creative process, espe-cially sharing it with his family.
“Last time we finished the toys, my son Jim, he’s 45, he was out there with his son painting cars, listen-ing to Christmas carols and having a great time,” Heinle said. “I love making some-
thing children enjoy. I enjoy creating things. At times I feel so exuberant when I’m out in my shop it hurts.”
He encourages anyone who likes to make things to get involved as he has, whether it’s woodwork-ing or handmade dolls, or whatever sparks the imagination.
“You will get immense satisfaction,” Heinle said.To comment on this story go to covingtonreporter.com.
Toymaker makes 300 wooden toys for charity
Vern Heinle works on a toy inside of his workshop. This Christmas season, the 79-year-old Kent resident built 300 cars, planes, tanks, and trucks for needy children. Vern Heinle began building toys for the Seattle-based Forgotten Children’s Fund four years ago. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
“I love making something children enjoy. I enjoy creating things. At times I feel so exuberant when I’m out in my shop it hurts..” Vern Heinle
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‘Tis the season for Christmas pageants, those wonderfully awkward times in the holiday season when children are caroused onto intimi-datingly high stages in oversized costumes and recite their memorized lines in a high-pitched voice as quickly as possible before they forget what they are supposed to say.
Meanwhile, parents crowd the gym, church or vicinity with cameras and video recorders like pa-parazzi, eager to get their child’s 15 seconds of fame on fi lm to use retroac-tively as black mail when the child is an adult yet still foolish enough to bring their date home.
Or at least that’s what I observed many times when I was a kid.
I had what you would refer to as a “special” or “unique” childhood when it came to Christmas programs. My mother was, and continues to be, the music teacher at Eastside Christian School in Bellevue, where I attended preschool, elementa-ry and middle school (insert jokes about private schoolers). She also directs the Christmas pro-grams, including all of mine from kindergarten up through fi ft h grade.
At the same time, a close family friend, whose kids went to my school, directed the Christmas program at our church. In fact, there was an entire gaggle of kids who went to ECS and the same church, known idiosyncratically as the SAFARI gang (it does actually stand for some-thing).
Th is situation caused some unique dilemmas.One, having your mother as a teacher always
makes the interactions strange. Do kids refer to their mothers in a formal setting as “Mom,” or “Mrs.?” (answer: depends on what mood they’re in. Tone is also important).
It got even more confusing when I referred to the adult family friend during one of the re-hearsals at church as “Mrs.,” only to be corrected for my apparently superfl uous formality.
For those of you who may have never expe-rienced all the fun and fancy free excitement of participating in a Christmas program, it inevitably involves a copious amount of three things: singing, hand motions, and unexpected
near-disasters.It was hard enough for a kid to memorize the
lyrics to a list of songs for one program. But kids like me, as well as my brothers and the rest of the SAFARI kids, had to memorize the lyrics for two diff erent programs.
Oft en, my mom and our family friend would swap programs from season to season to avoid unnecessary headaches of fi nding a new one.
It was like some sort of convoluted algorithm. Th e church program would have the same instrumental songs as last year’s school program, but with slightly diff erent lyrics. Or they would have the same hand motions, but for separate songs. Or, the school would reuse a program from the church, but have a few parts rewritten to suit the time length or for “artistic purposes.”
As for the third aspect, well, this is where Murphy’s Law takes eff ect.
Every year some sort of mini-disaster or po-tential catastrophe would occur. One of the kids playing a lead role would get the fl u. Another kid would lose his script. A costume that took hours of painstaking work to make would tear.
Or a quasi-revolt among the “little people,” i.e. those who had no speaking role whatsoever,
would petition the director for a redress of griev-ances.
Considering that many of these rehearsals were held on Saturdays or aft er school, the only time we kids fully had to ourselves, this only made matters worse. When you have 7-year-old kids on a stage or bleachers while a certain scene is rehearsed multiple times, it’s only natural their fi dgeting grows into outright anxiety and impatience.
Anyone who has tried to organize a group of kids surrounded on all sides by their friends and get them to be quiet for fi ve minutes knows what I’m talking about.
Admittedly, I participated in several of these aforementioned revolts like a mini-Samuel Adams. But we easily agreed to a cease fi re at the off er of hot chocolate (with whipped cream, no less!) and dessert aft er rehearsals, which was perpetually “in just fi ve minutes.”
For some, the evening of a Christmas program would be among the more nerve-racking nights in their childhood. We would arrive at either the church or the school an hour or so before the parents. Like actors and actresses setting
Stay informed and involved in political process
It’s been just weeks since the 2012 elections, and I imagine many of you welcome the reprieve from campaign advertising. You may have been disappointed regarding the ballot box results. However, I encourage you accept the voice of the people and to become more engaged in the process. Washington elected to retain single-party rule for at least another term. It remains
to be seen, though, if our new elected leaders will change course from a path that brought us declining quality of public education and fi scal uncertainty.
In representative government, we must articu-late the citizens’ priorities to our leaders. Th at task knows no rest, both in and out of election season.
Leadership in Olympia must steer another course and place governing ahead of games. Rather than managing Washington’s citizens, the new governor and legislature should strive to serve the people.
Private enterprise must have the confi dence to invest and hire employees, and it’s time for elected leaders to take this seriously. Th at must be immediately followed by fully-funding our public education system with the already-existing dollars in the budget. While speaking of education, I am pleased that public education leaders will be charged with bringing more fl ex-ibility to our system with the implementation of charter schools.
Finally, the legislature must honor the voters’
wishes in requiring a two-thirds majority to raise taxes. Th is necessitates bi-partisan support for future budgets and requires government to live within its means. If Olympia tries an end-run, we must hold them accountable.
In the aft ermath of an election like 2012, it would be easy for cynicism to set it. It has been said that cynicism is full of naïve disappoint-ments that cause people to disengage from government and politics. But we can ill aff ord the citizenry’s decoupling from its government. Th ere are still millions of people in Washington State who believe as you do. So now is not the time to succumb to doubt.
Rather, it is time to remain both involved and informed so that you can speak with a reasoned voice. I am committed to work shoulder to shoulder with those who choose this route. I hope you are, too.
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My mention of the Sears catalog in one of my blogs elicited the response, “Th at ages you.” I never thought remembering a catalog could age me, but now that I think about it, my kids aren’t familiar with the Sears catalog. And although I don’t have a problem with my 48 years here on earth, the depart-ment stores of yore came fl ooding back with Christ-mas memories my children
missed out on.I remember pouring
over the Sears catalog when I was a child. We
usually lived in the country or a remote town, so it was our only source of shopping dur-ing the school year. Best of all, right before the Christmas season the “Wish
Book” would arrive in the mail. I would pour over it all season, circling the toys I
wanted; tattering the pages before my visit to Santa.
One year the catalog came in the mail and I eagerly fl ipped through its pages, but found nothing I was interested in. I don’t remember how old I was, but I had outgrown the draw of toys. I felt sad that year and struggled to regain my Christmas cheer. My mother suggested an art box, which I agreed to, but
it really wasn’t the same.Th e catalog was still
mailed the year I got mar-ried. I looked through the Wish Book that December with renewed interest, in anticipation of having children of my own. But Sears quit distributing their catalogs in 1993, keeping only their Craft sman tool catalog. So by the time my oldest was born in 1995, there was no “Wish Book”
to pour over when my kids were growing up. Th ey had other holiday catalogs to look at, but nothing was as captivating or thorough as that Wish Book.
In 2007, Sears started printing their specialty catalogs again, including their Wish Book. But it doesn’t come in my mail-box; if it had it would have just caught the last bit of my children’s toy years.
Th en there is Nordstrom. I was most familiar with Nordstrom for shoes be-cause my mother believed in sturdy, leather shoes for children, not tennis shoes. Th eir mascot Nordy was what pulled my sister and I there. He was some sort of weird, blob of a creature with a big nose. We could get Nordy balloons and “I
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Th e beginning of De-cember is when you should purchase a poinsettia plant. Th e selection is early in De-cember, the plants will be fresh from the greenhouse and you’ll have all month to enjoy the world’s most-loved holiday houseplant.
Why you should give a poinsettia plant:
A poinsettia says Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuk-kah, Tis the Season, Th anks for your business, thank you for hosting, and does not require wrapping paper, a trip to the mall, a gift receipt or ordering from a
website. A blooming poin-settia is the quickest way to decorating a home for the holidays – a living plant that adds color and class
without elec-tricity, nails in the wall or needles on the fl oor.
Why you should want to get a poin-settia plant:
A living plant is your best defense against the plastic commer-cialism and fake sentimen-tality of Christmas. Gift plants like poinsettias are calorie free, one size fi ts all, they can help clean the indoor air of pollutants, and you won’t have to store it
away or cart it to the thrift store when the season is over. (I just add my poinset-tia to the compost pile each spring – a great way to recycle the potting soil.)
Where to use poinsettias:March a line of potted
poinsettias up a stairway, (indoors only, they hate the cold) line up a few poinset-tias on the mantel, display a single plant in a silver bowl on a dining room table, arrange a dozen poinset-tias on risers to create a living tree form, place a tiny poinsettia in the guest bathroom, on the kitchen counter, in an offi ce cubicle or beside the bed on a night stand.
My favorite way to use poinsettias:
Take a beaded bag or glittery purse and use the handle to hang it from a stairway post, mantel or even a sturdy branch on the Christmas tree. Line the fancy purse with a plastic bag, insert a potted poinsettia (a small one may fi t best) and you’ll have a living ornament and a prac-tical way to get some use from a party purse. Dive further into diva hood and drape your potted poinset-tia with jewels from your own collection – a string of pearls draped over a red poinsettia is a decadent scene of shocking beauty. Go ahead and clip on those earrings or a dazzling brooch to really primp your potted poinsettia and get
some use out of that real or costume jewelry.
Beyond the red poinset-tia:
Garden centers and nurseries off er new poinset-tia varieties in many exotic shades so experiment with diff erent colors.
Go modern: Place a gold or yellow-leaved poinsettia inside a glass bowl – fi ll in the sides with shiny silver and gold ornaments to hide the pot.
Go rustic: Place a pale pink poinsettia inside a recycled basket or metal tin. Mulch with wine corks and pine cones to hide the rim of the pot.
Go Sweet: Choose a duo-colored poinsettia with red and white or pink
and white leaf bracts. Place inside a holiday serving bowl. Surround the pot with visions of peppermint drops and candy canes.
How to kill your poinset-tia plant aft er the holidays:
Leave it in a cold car, place it on top of a warm appliance, never water, give it too much water or let it sit in drainage water. No need to feel guilty about dumping your potted poin-settia aft er the holidays. Part of the reason we appre-ciate holiday traditions like poinsettia plants is because we know the beauty is to be enjoyed for just a limited amount of time – a bright spot of living color to light up the longest nights of winter.
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up before a play, we would gather into some room, throwing on our costumes as we did one final ad hoc rehearsal while watching “Charlie Brown’s Christ-mas,” praying ours would be more successful. The tension would mount as the parents arrived in droves, swelling into the chapel or gym.
Even though the pressure would be greatest on those with the lead parts, it is an inherent aspect of every Christ-mas program that each child feels as though the weight of the whole world has come down on their shoulders.
An in-stinctive fear overtakes them, convincing them that if they don’t correctly sing each syllable of every song, correctly perform each gesture of every hand motion and recite every line of dialogue with perfection, it will be seen by the entire audience and ruin the pro-gram completely, bringing humiliation and disgrace down upon themselves and their family name.
With these sobering thoughts lingering in our minds, we would march out of the rooms and head for the gym or chapel. Some-times, it felt like we were marching into a battle.
Those who screwed up would be the casualties.
On stage, we would be subject to two hundred thousand cameras flashes and three hundred red laser dots of video recorders, in addition to the bright stage lights.
Maybe I wear contacts
now for a specific reason…As the programs would
progress, however, we learned, much to our sur-prise, the audience didn’t quite spot mistakes like we did. And even when they noticed, it was always given a good lighthearted laugh.
One year, a family friend blurted out a line my brother, a shepherd, was supposed to say - his only line - only to exclaim immediately afterwards, “Oops! That’s Dan’s part!”
Then there is the line recital.
If there is a Guinness World Record for the fastest reading of the Nativity Story as told by Saint Matthew, I grew up with the kid who holds it.
Technically, in a phonetic sense, he always quoted Saint
Matthew correctly. But no one could ever understand him; underneath the dam of taut smiles were floodwa-ters of suppressed laughter.
Nevertheless, like a race, all the pain and hardship endured was well worth the finale.
Every kid felt like a Hol-lywood star at the end.
After the program had concluded, there would always be a buffet table full of every single kind of dessert imaginable - M&M cookies, brownies, Christ-mas decorated cookies, peppermint white choco-lates and whatever else that brings kids joy and dentists business.
Stuffing ourselves full of yuletide sweets, we would sit back and relish in the fact that we had, without question, performed the best Christmas pageant we had ever done that year at that particular location.
love Nordy” buttons.Nordy is supposed to re-
semble a shoe horn (who knew?), not some weird creature out of a child’s closet.
He was friendly, though, with his big nose and smile. Periodically, they bring Nordy back, as they did when I took my oldest daughter as a toddler there for shoes. She didn’t care about Nordy, preferring instead to tromp over the
little bridge they had in the middle of the chil-dren’s shoe department.
At Christmas time Nordstrom’s was magical. My parents would make the drive from our home in Eastern Washington to visit the Nordstrom Santa, make the train in the win-dow run by matching our hand up to the one on the glass and to see the lights of the city.
But these days with so many outlying malls closer
to home, I’ve never taken my children into Seattle to experience Nordstrom at its finest. I don’t even know if it’s still the magi-cal Christmas place it used to be.
Remember Frederick and Nelson and the Bon Marché? Those were the stores my grandmother loved the most; to her they were fancy and posh. On the Christmases we would spend with my grandpar-ents, she would take us
to those stores for after Christmas sales. Frederick & Nelson closed in May of 1992 and the Seattle building was taken over by Nordstrom.
My grandmother had died in March of 1992 and probably turned over in her grave when Frederick and Nelson closed.
The Bon Marche never actually closed, but merged with the owners of Macy’s (my grandmother may have turned back
over, but I can’t be sure). It became Bon-Macy’s for
a short time, then in 2005, the Bon part was dropped with the stores being renamed Macy’s Northwest. In 2008, it merged with Macy’s west division based in San Francisco.
Reminiscences of the Sears catalog, Nordy, Frederick & Nelson and the Bon Marché may age me, but to me they are the ageless memories of my youth.
Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She is commit-ted to writing about the humor amidst the chaos of a family.
You can also read more of her writing and her daily blog on her website living-withgleigh.com. Her column is available every week at mapleval-leyreporter.com under the Lifestyles section.
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STATE SEN. JOE FAIN ELECTED TO LEADERSHIP POST IN SENATE
State Sen. Joe Fain was elected as the floor leader by his caucus, one of four top leadership positions filled by
Republican senators as they met last week in Olympia.
As floor leader, Fain will coordinate floor action when the full Senate is in session and will work across the aisle on actions that take
place in the Senate chamber.
The floor leader also serves as a member of the Rules Committee, which is an important step in determining which pieces of legislation will be voted on by the full Senate.
Fain, the Senate’s youngest member, was select-ed unanimously by the caucus and is the youngest
senator to serve in this position in recent decades.
He is midway through his first term as state senator for the 47th Legislative District, which includes Covington.
Legislative committees will assemble Thursday and Friday to review decisions from previous sessions and make plans for the 2013 legislative session, which begins Jan. 14 and will last 105 days.
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Here are some things to consider in preparing for this winter:Make a plan –• Know the hazards that exist in your area and how they affect you.• Have an evacuation and communica-tions plan in place so everyone in your family knows what to do and where to go.• Everyone in your family should have the name and phone number of an out of area contact.Build a kit –• What do you need for yourself and your family if emergency responders can’t help you during a disaster? A minimum three-day survival kit will
provide peace of mind, comfort, and survival needs during a disaster. Store at least one kit each at home, in the car, at work, and at each child’s school or daycare facility. If you buy a kit,remember to customize it to your specific needs, such as medications or extra items for children or pets.Get involved –• Learn CPR and First AID.• Attend trainings and get involved with your neighbors and community.• Become a part of a Community Emer-gency Response Team (CERT).
For more information on winter preparedness, please visit the following websites.
Take Winter By Storm:www.takewinterbystorm.orgWhat To Do To Make It Through:www.makeitthrough.org
WINTER PREPAREDNESS ARE YOU READY?
GIVE THE GIFT OF SWIMMINGGift certificates are available at the Covington Aquatic Center. These make great gifts during the holiday season and can be used for everything from swimming lessons to birthday party rentals, to public swim 10-visit cards and much, much more. For more information, or to purchase gift certificates, contact the Coving-ton Aquatic Center.
CHOOSE SWIMMING AS YOUR NEW YEARSRESOLUTION!Maybe you are an avid swimmer already, or maybe it’s been 10 years since you swam your last stroke – either way, choose swimming to be your 2013 New Year’s Resolution. Lap swims and water exercise classes are available periodi-cally throughout the week to accommodate your schedule (check the current pool schedule for current swim and class times). Drop-in rates, 10-visit discount cards, and great membership options are all available.
LIFEGUARD TRAINING CLASS BEGINSDECEMBER 20th – REGISTER TODAY!Did you know that all lifeguards at beaches and pools must be certified? If you are interested in working as a lifeguard, then this class is for you. Participants that successfully complete this course earn certifications in American Red Cross Lifeguarding, First Aid, and CPR- AED training. Individuals must be at least 15 years of age and pass a prerequisite swim test to participate. Contact the Covington Aquatic Center for more information or to register.
FOR MORE INFORMATIONFor more information about the Covington Aquatic Center or to register for ac-tivities, visit www.covingtonwa.gov/cac, call 253-480-2480 or visit us at 18230 SE 240th St, Covington, WA 98042 (Next to Tahoma High School).
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As news of vandalism to the
Covington community tree has spread,
citizens and businesses from inside and
outside of the city are stepping forward
with offers to help. Since Saturday, the
city has received numerous emails and
phone calls from people wanting to
donate trees, offer money for a reward
to catch the vandal, and donate funds
to cover costs of replacing the tree and
lights.
The outpouring of support comes
after city crews had to cut down the 35
foot tall tree because the damage was
so severe. The fatal damage was caused
when a vandal attempted to cut down
the tree in the early morning hours of
Saturday, Dec. 1. The tree was secured long enough to allow the community
tree lighting event to take place that evening, but public works crews had to
remove it at the end of the night due to extreme safety concerns. Rectifying
the vandalism by removing the damaged tree, replacing and planting a new
tree and purchasing and stringing new lights will cost an estimated $10,000 or
more. Unfortunately the tree was not insured as the city’s insurance provider
does not insure growing trees.
The original tree was purchased using donations from Fred Meyer and
Costco. The city is prepared to accept donations from the public toward the
costs associated with replacing the tree. Donations will be accepted by mail
or in-person at Covington City Hall, 16720 SE 271st St. #100, Covington,
WA 98042. Donations to this cause are likely to be tax deductible, but please
check with your tax professional before claiming them.
The City is also working with Crime Stoppers who will offer up to a $1,000
reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the vandal. To
report tips anonymously, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or
provide a web tip at www.crimestoppers.com.
The public can direct any inquiries to the city via email to raisethetree@
covingtonwa.gov or by calling Community Relations Coordinator Karla Slate
at (253) 480-2402. Updates and donation information can also be found at
www.covintgonwa.gov/raisethetree.html.
COMMUNITY’S SPIRIT NOT DAMPENED
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Several hundred spectators enjoyed Covington’s annual community tree lighting event that occurred on Dec. 1
CITIZEN LEADERS NEEDEDEach year, 40 community-minded and passionate individuals serve on
the City’s commissions. Our commissioners provide valuable leadership to the City through their active participation on the Covington Economic Development Council and the Arts, Human Services, Parks and Recreation, and Planning Commissions.
Now is your chance to join this group of concerned and dedicated citizens who play a signifi cant role in city government. Of the City’s fi ve commissions, there are currently four openings on the Parks and Recreation Commission for citizens who want to be advocates, proactive participants, and leaders in the growth of Covington’s Parks and Recreation system.
Commission members participate in advisory, advocacy, and planning activities related to parks and recreation. Meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. and members are also expected to occasionally attend other events such as council meetings and participate in identifi ed volunteer and community events.
Applicants can include youth as well as adults who live in or within three miles of the city. City Council expects to conduct interviews on Tuesday, January 22, at 6 p.m. prior to the regular city council meeting.
To be included in the upcoming selection process, please complete a City Commission Application available on the city’s website at www.covingtonwa.gov or at Covington City Hall, 16720 SE 271st St. Applications are due by 5 p.m. on Monday, January 7, and should be directed to Senior Deputy City Clerk Joan Michaud in person, by mail or to [email protected].
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The Storehouse is accepting toys for their Christmas store for low income families.
The store is available for clients that The Storehouse already serves throughout the year.
Donations can be brought to Covington City Hall by december 14th or call The Storehouse at 253 631 3038.
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NEW RECREATION CLASSES BEGIN IN JANUARY
We’ve heard your requests and now we’re delivering! The City of Covington’s Parks and Recreation Department is now offering recreation classes for all ages from kid’s dance to adult aerobics and more. The first sets of classes are scheduled to begin in January and registration officially opens on December 15. To register for recreation classes, please call (253) 480-2480. Here’s what we’re offering:
Adult AerobicsRizzmic – It’s an
all American dance fitness format that uses exclusively American music and dance styles. You will find a huge variety in this calorie burning class: Jive, Rock, Hip Hop, Disco, Jazz, 80’s, and so much more! No dance
experience is required. Each session includes four classes. Wednesday, Jan.9-March 27 | 9:45-10:45 a.m. | Ages 16+ | $24/session
Youth ClassesSuper Sitters – Boys and Girls, come for a day
of fun while earning your Super Sitters Certificate. This class will cover leadership and the business of babysitting, basic care for children, understanding children of different age groups, and safety and first aid. Bring a sack lunch and snack to class. Additional Babysitter’s Kits available from instructor for $20. Saturday, Feb. 16 | 9 a.m.-3 p.m. | Ages 11-16 | $60/class
Pre-School Age ClassesLittle Athletes – Come explore soccer, football,
t-ball, basketball, volleyball, and track. Each week we’ll learn a new sport. Emphasis will be placed on team work and good sportsmanship. Now is your chance to find your favorite sport! Tuesday, Jan. 8-March 26 | 9:15-10 a.m. | Ages 3-5 | $83/session
Messy Time – Come dressed for a mess. Have fun exploring the joy of art using different themes
and materials each week. Parents will stay to participate. Tuesday, Jan. 8-March 26 | 10:15-11 a.m. | Ages 2-4 | $96/session
Alphabet Soup – Each week we will focus on two letters. Through show and tell, art projects, songs, games, rhymes and movement we will learn the alphabet together! Tuesday, Jan. 8-March 26 | 11:05-11:50 a.m. | Ages 3-5 | $96/session
Beginning Dance Combo – This class introduces students to several different dance styles. Basic combinations of beginning level Ballet, Tap, Jazz, and Hip Hop. Suggested Attire: leotards, tights, pink ballet shoes, and black tap shoes. Tuesday, Jan. 8-March 26 | 4:30-5:15 p.m. | Ages 5-7 | $120/session
Beginning/Intermediate Dance Combo – This class is for the older students and introduces several different dance styles. Basic combinations of beginning level Ballet, Tap, Jazz, and Hip Hop. Suggested attire: leotards, tights, pink ballet shoes and black tap shoes. Tuesday, Jan. 8-March 26 | 5:15-6 p.m. | Ages 8-11 | $120/session
2/05 – Budget Priorities Advisory Committee Meeting, 6:30 p.m.
12/06 – Planning Commission Meeting, 6:30 p.m.12/07 – Hollydaze Float-in Movie at the Covington Aquatic
Center, 7 p.m.12/11 – City Council Regular Meeting, 7:30 p.m.12/12 – Parks and Recreation Committee Meeting, 6 p.m.12/13– Arts Commission Meeting, 6:30 p.m.12/13 – Covington Economic Development Council, 6:30 p.m.12/20 – Planning Commission Meeting, 6:30 p.m.12/26 – City Council Regular Meeting, 7 p.m.
For more information on any of these events,please contact Karla Slate at (253) 638-1110 x2234
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SEEKING INSTRUCTORS!
The City of Covington Parks and Recreation Department is currently looking for quality instructors interested in offering recreation classes. Please contact Jaquelyn Martinsons, Parks Program Assistant for more information at (253) 480-2412 or [email protected].
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Your new Bright Now! Dental offi ce in Maple Valley knows it’s hard to get kids excited about oral hygiene, but they are available to help. By following these three simple tips, you can help your child develop healthy habits that last a lifetime.
Start early:Experts recommend that brushing begin as early as six months, or as soon as your child’s fi rst tooth appears. Be sure to use a soft bristle brush and just a touch of toothpaste to prevent them from swallowing any of it. Before your child reaches a year old, bring them by a Bright Now! Dental offi ce for their fi rst visit. You can fi nd Bright Now! Dental in Maple Valley, Kent, Issaquah and Tukwila. Starting early not only gives your child a healthier smile, it will also get them accustomed
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Enjoying delicious food is at the center of nearly all holiday celebrations, regardless of social, cultural or religious background. Festive banquets, sumptu-ous buffets and overflowing dinner tables invite to in-dulge. However, with so much food put out, there is also a heightened danger of contamination that can result in some-times serious, even fatal food-borne illness. Whether you eat out in a restau-rant, partake in a catered office party or cook up a storm at home, chances are you encounter items that are not agreeable with your digestive system.
Fortunately, most food-borne infections only cause stomach cramps, vomiting and a day or two of diarrhea – but noth-
ing more serious. Still, out of the nearly 50 million Americans who on average fall sick from spoiled food every year, 128,000 were hospitalized and 5,000 died in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC).
Treating cases of acute food poisoning costs the United States a whopping $152 billion per year in healthcare,
missed work and other economic losses, says a re-port by the Produce Safety Project (PSP), an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trust.
According to the CDC, food-borne illness, also known as “food poison-ing,” is a common but largely preventable public health problem. There can
be many different kinds of infections caused by a wide range of pathogens that contaminate food. In addition, there are poison-ous chemicals and other harmful substances that can do equal damage. Currently, over 250 dif-ferent food-borne dis-eases have been identified by the agency. Besides through food, infections can spread through unsafe drinking water, water people swim in, and even person-to-person contact.
Raw animal food prod-ucts spoil the easiest and fastest. Raw meat, seafood (especially shellfish), poul-try, eggs and unpasteur-ized milk are prime can-didates for contamination. The risks multiply when items consist of parts from many individual animals such as ground beef or raw milk that often come
from hundreds of different sources.
Fruits and vegetables are also of concern when they are consumed uncooked, unpeeled, unwashed or washed in unclean water. Exposure to fertilizers, es-pecially manure, can result in E. coli and salmonella, to name just two of the most common illnesses. If there are pathogens in or on fruit used for fruit juices, even those can be contaminated if they are not pasteurized.
Contamination can also occur when the people who handle the food don’t take the necessary precau-tions. Dirty kitchens and unsound cooking tech-niques are often a cause for food spoilage. And so is improper refrigeration.
While you can only hope for the best when eating out, you can rea-
sonably safeguard your food at home, especially when you are in charge of the kitchen. Here are a few rules you should always observe, according to the CDC:
Cook meats and seafood thoroughly. Even if you like your steak less than well done, make sure it gets exposed to heat high enough to kill bacteria on the outside and avoid con-tamination of the center from improper handling.
Wash lettuce and all salad ingredients you con-sume raw in clean water and peel fruits whenever possible.
Always clean hands, utensils, cutting boards, plates and kitchen counter surfaces after they’ve come in touch with raw meat or fish.
Refrigerate perishables as soon as possible and
don’t keep them unneces-sarily exposed to room temperature during prepa-ration.
If you get sick and have symptoms of food poison-ing, see your doctor.
Timi Gustafson RD, LDN, is a registered dietitian, newspaper columnist, blogger and author of the book “The Healthy Diner – How to Eat Right and Still Have Fun,” which is avail-able on her blog, “Food and Health with Timi Gustafson R.D.” (http://www.timigustafson.com), and at amazon.com. You can follow Timi on Twitter (http://twitter.com/TimiGustafsonRD) and on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Timi-GustafsonRD).
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State Rep. Mark Har-grove, R-Covington, will return to Olympia aft er a recount upheld his victory over Kent Democratic challenger Bud Sizemore for the State House District 47 Position 1 seat.
King County Elections completed a man-datory machine recount of the race Tuesday. Th e recount resulted in one more vote for Hargrove. One other ballot origi-nally counted as blank was visually
reviewed and determined to have a write-in vote that was not attributable to either candidate, according to an Elections offi ce media release.
Th e race went to a recount aft er Hargrove, a Boeing instruc-tor pilot and Air Force veteran, led Sizemore by just 157 votes through the fi nal tally on Nov. 27. Sizemore is a Kent fi refi ght-
er and former Covington City councilman.
Before the recount Hargrove had 50.08 per-cent (27,101 votes) while Sizemore has 49.79 percent (26,944 votes). Th ere were 71 write-in votes for .13 percent.
Another 4,583 ballots were left blank when voters had a chance to choose be-tween the two candidates or write in a name.
By law, any offi ce must be recounted by machine when the diff erence between two candidates is less than 2,000 votes and less than .50 percent, according to the King County Elections website.
Hargrove’s lead had been more than 300 votes until dropping to 284 votes on Nov. 19, 241 on Nov. 20 and to 134 on Nov. 26.
In machine recounts, the tabulating equipment is programmed to examine votes for the specifi c race being recounted. Some
ballots are identifi ed for closer inspection by Elec-tions staff to confi rm that the original results were correct.
Aft er all ballots have been recounted, the Elec-tions Canvassing Board reviews and approves the amended results. Th e board members are Sherril Huff , director of Elections; Kevin Wright, Prosecuting Attorney’s Offi ce repre-sentative; and Anne Noris, King County Council representative.
Offi cial results will be posted on the Elections website aft er the Canvass-ing Board certifi es the recount on Dec. 6.
Hargrove was elected to his fi rst two-year term aft er defeating Democrat Geoff Simpson in 2010.
House District 47 covers the East Hill of Kent as well as Covington, Black Diamond and parts of Auburn.
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Rock Creek Elementary School PTSA is hosting Mc Teacher Night at the MC Donald’s at Wax Road and state Route 169 5-8 p.m. on Wed. Dec 12.
Rock Creek PTSA is continuing it’s eff orts to improve playground equipment. The principle, and other
teachers and staff will be greeting and taking orders and a portion of all proceeds will be donated to our playground fund.
100 percent of the sales from cook-ies and coupon sheets will also be donated.
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Kentwood High graduate Demitrius Bronson, a running back for Eastern Washington
University, added 76 yards rushing and a pair of short
touchdown runs in a 31-20 victory over Wagner in the second round of the NCAA
Football Championship Subdivision playoff s Dec. 1.
Bronson and Eastern Washington take on Illinois State at 3 p.m. Saturday at Roos Field in Cheney in the
quarterfi nals.
Celebrate the holiday season with the magical sounds of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Marilyn Monroe. These timeless classics will transport you back to the 1950s so come on down to Club Galaxy December 11 - 16. See muckleshootcasino.com for show times.
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BY TJ MARTINELL
Swimmer Erik Fulmer is never satisfi ed — even when he comes in fi rst.
Th e 17-year-old Kentlake senior hopes to take fi rst in his mid-distance races this year. But whether he actu-ally achieves those goals or not, it’s still not going to be
good enough to merely be “good.”
“You can always do bet-ter,” he said. “You should never settle for good.”
Th is personal motto is
refl ected in his advance-ment year-by-year. He has qualifi ed for state since he was a freshman.
He fi nished last year with a sixth place at the state
meet in the 200 yard free with a time of 1 minute, 46.47 seconds. He also took seventh in the 500 free with a time of 4:52.05.
Ironically, Fulmer didn’t take his fi rst plunge into swimming due to his own curiosity, but at the zealous encouragement of one of his mother’s friends. On the swim team for the Kent Swim and Tennis Club, Fulmer said he initially did not care for the water at all. While his mother did not force it on him, he said, she felt he should keep his op-tions open.
“I really, really didn’t want to,” he said. “At fi rst, I hated it.”
Whatever was in the water, it started to grow on Fulmer until by the age of 12 he acquired a taste for competing. With a natu-ral talent in mid-distance races, he also placed well during races where there is little room for error.
“I’ve always been a free-style and fl y type of guy,” he said. “Th ey’re really fast
Falcon swimmer takes final plunge
Kentlake senior Erik Fulmer sits inside the Covington Aquatic Center as he listens to Mozart, a pre-race ritual he started two years ago. Initially averse to swimming, Fulmer took sixth in state at last year’s meet in the 200 yard free and seventh in the 500 free. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter
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Little more than nine months ago Kentwood se-nior Cassidy Meyers stood on the podium at Mat Clas-sic in the Tacoma Dome, where she accepted the medal for winning the girls 118 pound wrestling title.
Cassidy hopes her final season of wrestling culmi-nates with a trio of Meyers siblings on the podium under the dome as her brothers Dalton, a junior, and Walker, a sophomore, will try to work their way through the boys brackets.
“I’d like to make it to state,” Walker said. “I’d like to do that with my brother and sister.”
This would be a dream not just for them, but for their father, Steve, who coaches the Kentwood girls.
“It’s nice to have them there,” Cassidy said of her brothers. “When I’m running and I look over and see my little brother (Walker) running, I don’t want to let him beat me. There’s that family rivalry.”
They all get along, of course, but being the oldest of the three still in high school -- there are three older sisters, two who played soccer and Jolene, who won a state wrestling crown in 2008 -- Cassidy doesn’t want them to get the better of her. And though they look up to her, Cassidy thinks they probably wouldn’t want her to get the better of them.
“I’ll wrestle with the guys
a little bit at practice, but not my brothers,” she said.
Dalton values the fact his family spends so much time together in the wrestling practice room at Kentwood.
“There’s no rivalry,” Dalton said. “Sometimes we butt heads because we think they can work harder, but, we’re there for support.”
Grappling has just been a part of life in the Meyers household for as long as Cassidy can remember. Her father wrestled so he signed his sons up.
“Jolene asked if she could wrestle and he said
no,” Cassidy recalled. “I wanted to wrestle. He let me. Then my mom got mad and told him Jolene had to wrestle, too. My mom wanted to make sure it was fair. My
brothers were wrestling, so I wanted to wrestle.”
Steve said he tries to draw a line, though, be-tween the practice room and the dining room. There are a few conversa-tions about wrestling at home, but, he’s Dad there and Coach at Kentwood or wherever they’re on the wrestling mat.
Because Cassidy rarely wrestles in the South Puget Sound League North dual meets her brothers compete in, her role in those mo-ments are different: team-mate, proud older sister.
“I just support them in general,” she said. “I can get intense watching a wres-tling match, or any sport, actually. I usually yell at
them to do something but they can’t hear me. I do support them on and off the mat.”
They’re easy to sup-port, Cassidy said, though Dalton and Walker are very different people as well as very different wrestlers.
“Dalton, he’s a really good wrestler,” Cassidy said. “He’s a really technical wrestler. Last year watching him at state, I was so proud of him. This year I think he’ll get on the podium.”
Cassidy believes Walker can get to state this year if he fine tunes his technique and focuses on the areas he needs to work on.
“Walker is definitely a so-cial butterfly,” she said. “He’s more of a flashy wrestler. He’s getting more technical now. He’s going through exact same stages now that
I went through at that age.”Cassidy remembers a
soccer coach telling her a few years ago she needed to develop the mental ma-turity to match her athletic ability in order to progress in the sport.
Steve Meyers recalls her first two years of high school wrestling. Cassidy didn’t need to listen to her coach, he said, because she knew what she was doing.
When she realized her coach had something help-ful to say, when Cassidy had that moment of clarity, it was a turning point for her, and she was able to put all that hard work together with her athletic ability to win the state title.
When Walker has that moment, Cassidy said, she knows he will turn the corner and do great things
on the mat.“The boys have been
lucky with Jolene and (Cassidy) coming through,” Steve Meyers said. “They’ve seen what that hard work can do. (Dalton) has always been one of the hardest workers. He works his tail off. Walker always had a lot of natural ability and balance. Wrestling came naturally for him.”
Steve Meyers said he tries not to push them, to pressure them to place in the top eight at Mat Classic in February, but he knows that’s the goal all three of his children have this season.
“It’s their decision to do the extra work they need to do to get where they want to be,” Steve Meyers said.
Walker said he likes hav-ing his dad in the practice
room and he thinks Cassidy is glad to have him there, as well.
“When he’s there, she’s happy,” Walker said.
And Dalton said he likes having his family members at practice.
“It’s a comfort having them in the room,” Dalton said. “We can push each other, motivate each other in the room. We’ve been wrestling together a long time.”
This season, Cassidy is competing at 124 pounds while Dalton will wrestle at 138 and Walker is at 120 pounds.
Both Walker and Dalton look to their sister as an example of the payoff that comes with hard work. They know they need to fol-
From left, Walker, Steve, Dalton and Cassidy Meyers. At the Mat Classic in the Tacoma Dome last year medal Cassidy won the girls 118 pound wrestling title. Steve Meyers coaches the Kentwood girls wrestlers. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
Meyers family on the wrestling mat ready to conquer
“I just support them in general. I can get intense watching a wrestling match, or any sport, actually. I usually yell at them to do something but they can’t hear me. I do support them on and off the mat..” Cassidy Meyers
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low that in order to accom-plish what they’ve set out to do this season.
“The best part is when you’re tired, you know you need to work harder,” Walker said. “Cassidy, she was tired in her last match but she kept pushing and she won.”
Dalton said they look up to Cassidy.
“We wanted to follow in her footsteps,” Dalton said. “We want to make her
happy and do what she did. The most important thing is to better others every time you’re in the gym. We have to keep getting better. We have to peak at the state tournament. That’s the best chance of achiev-ing that.”
Cassidy, who is an ac-complished rugby player who plans to play that sport at the college level next year, said she will miss wrestling.
“It’s an addictive sport after a while,” she said. “In a sense I feel like if I don’t end it well, it’s like not finishing the last chapter of a book.”
What she’s learned from wrestling, the importance of mental toughness, has prepared her for life be-yond the mat.
From now until the end of February, though, the Meyers family is work-ing hard toward a big goal: Cassidy, Dalton and Walker all on the podium at Mat Classic XXV.
Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at 425- 432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to maplevalleyreporter.com.
paced and they’re tricky races.”When he joined the Kentlake team as
a freshman, he said the environment was somewhat different from club swimming.
“High school was less serious,” he said. “Everyone is really close. It’s like a job. It’s still very competitive.”
He started off his high school career
with a state-qualifying time in the 200 individual medley and the 100 backstroke. Swimming year-round, Fulmer also com-petes for KING Aquatic Club in Federal Way.
He also found a way to control the natural nervousness he experienced right before a race by listening to music by Mo-zart, which he said calms him down.
As far as setbacks go, Fulmer said he has avoided season-crippling injuries or health problems. While he did well his junior year, he said, it concluded on an extremely heart-breaking note when his coach, Seth Dawson, was killed in a plane crash the day before the state meet.
Going into his races, Fulmer said the tragedy affected the entire team as a whole as well as him individu-ally.
“It was the hardest meet of my life,” he said. “It was on my mind the whole time.”
With new coach Matt Zietzke at the
helm, Fulmer has high expectations not only for himself, but for the team.
“To win state…I think that is a very realistic goal.” he said. “The group of guys are getting along, and we’re training well together. I think that’s a big plus. I think the future is looking bright.”
Regardless of how this season ends for Fulmer, his future in the pool is already determined. He signed on to swim at University of the Pacific in California. His older brother, John, is a freshman at Seattle University where he also swims.
“We’ve always been the swimmer boys,” Fulmer said.
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Alisha Lynn JohnsonNovember 9, 1990 - December 2, 2012
Alisha Lynn Johnson of Black Diamond passed away on December 2, 2012. She was 22 years old. Alisha was born on November 9, 1990 in Enumclaw, WA.
She will always be remembered by her big beautiful smile and wonderful bubbly, caring personality. She was an amazing daughter, sister, aunt and friend to many.
Alisha is survived by her mother, Tami Johnson; father Johnny Dean Johnson; Step-father Ron Whitbeck; sister Rachel Johnson; brother J.J; grandparents, many aunts, uncles and cousins.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, December 8 at 3:00 pm at Real-Life Church located at 26201 - 180th Ave SE Covington.
- Gone too soon, but will always remain in our hearts!
Charlotte Ora EatonCharlotte (Mom, Gram, Nana) Ora Eaton, passed away at her
home in Enumclaw on December 2, 2012 at 80 years of age.She was born November 13, 1932 to Ralph and Ethel Hiner
in Oklahoma. She graduated from Wapato High School in 1951. She retired from her career as a grocery checker after more than 40 years.
Charlotte was preceded in death by her husband Charles Eaton Jr., sister Juanita Griffin, and brother Ralph ‘Buck’ Hiner.
She is survived by her brother Jim Hiner and sister Betty Keys; children Sherry Davies, Tom Hofferber and wife Ann, Chuck Eaton, Traci Chopic and husband Frank; grandchildren Lisa and husband Kirk, Ian and wife Erika, Jocelyn, Jacob, Alisha, and Lindsey; many nieces and nephews, and last but not least her little dog Zoey. Charlotte loved gardening, cooking, gambling and spending time with her family and friends. She enjoyed celebrating each holiday to the fullest, especially Christmas. She is greatly loved and missed.
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Tahoma made a statement with its 83-72 win Friday night at Kentwood in the opener of South Puget Sound League North boys basketball.
Kentwood cut a seven point Tahoma halftime lead to just two with 3:33 on the clock in the third on a pair of free throws by Brenton Roggenbach but that was as close
as the Conquerors would get.By the end of the third quarter the Bears stretched the
lead back out to six after a wild up and down period that saw a flurry of scoring in the final minute.
Coleman Wooten and DeShon Williams carried the load for Tahoma, scoring 24 and 22 points respectively, with both attacking the basket in the fourth quarter to help extend the lead to double digits for the Bears.
Kentwood was led by Jackson Huerta with 24 points while Terence Grady tallied 18 and Kendall White chipped in 12 points in the loss.
Tahoma is now coached by Brian Davis, who spent the
previous two season at Kentwood, while the Conks are led by alumnus Blake Solomon.
Kentwood played at Kentridge Tuesday night while Ta-homa hosted Auburn Riverside after the Reporter’s press deadline. Kentlake, which lost to Auburn Riverside 81-54 Nov. 30, will play at Kent-Meridian Friday while Kent-wood hosts Thomas Jefferson and Tahoma plays at Mount Rainier. Tipoff for those games is at 7:30 p.m.
Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at 425- 432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to maplevalleyreporter.com.
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“To win state…I think that is a very realistic goal. The group of guys are getting along, and we’re training well together. I think that’s a big plus. I think the future is looking bright..” Erik Fulmer
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