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Lisa Michaels and her son, Gavin, weed a fl ower bed at Northwest Harvest last Saturday. About 300 volunteers – and their families – from Comcast took advantage of a sun-splashed morning to help beautify inside and outside of Kent’s main food distribution center, 22220 68th Ave. S. The eff ort was part of Comcast Cares Day, one of the nation’s largest single days of service by a corporation, with more than 2,200 volunteers around the state working on a dozen projects. Story, page 18. MARK KLAAS, Reporter
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BY STEVE HUNTER
State budget cuts to the city of Kent were “less painful” than what they could have been con-sidering the budget shortfall dealt with by legislators.
Kent will need to slash about
$600,000 from its budget because the state decided to keep all of a liquor excise tax for one year rather than sharing the usual por-tion with cities.
Th at decision will cost the city about $300,000 the second half of this year and another $300,000
the fi rst half of 2013, said Michelle Wilmot, city community and pub-lic aff airs director, in her report April 17 to the City Council about the 2012 legislative session.
“Th at’s the one cut we saw,” Wilmot said. “But with as much as $10 million at stake, the $600,000
is less painful.”Mayor Suzette Cooke and Chief
Administration Offi cer John Hodgson met with department heads to try to fi gure out where to make budget cuts worth $600,000. City staff expects to have a pro-posal soon about where to make
cuts this year and next year.“Th ere isn’t the wiggle room we
usually have,” Cooke said. “We don’t have any cushion.”
City offi cials were concerned the state might take away the nearly $4.9 million the city gets
State budget cuts to city less than expected
[ more BUDGET page 4 ]
Chamberlain
SCIENCE TEACHER, STUDENTS REACH EXCELLENCE
BY SARAH KEHOE
[email protected] Middle School science
teacher Michele Chamberlain tries to teach her students to think like
scientists. “My students learn to analyze
data and make inferences based on the evidence, they learn how to break apart information and
question it’s validity,” Chamberlain said. “Th ese are the students who will be responsible for making great discoveries in the future, who will shape our world and change how future generations think.”
[ more SCIENCE page 5 ]
Meridian’s Chamberlain, class earn top state honors
Community - pg. 15Community Volunteer Police Offi cer/ Firefi ghter Public Offi cial Teacher / School People - pg. 2Attorney/Law Firm Bartender / Location Insurance Agent Pet Groomer Realtor Veterinarian Waiter-Waitress / Location Health/Fitness - pg. 13Chiropractor Dentist Eye Doctor Healthcare Facility Massage Therapist Physician Skin Care/Cosmetics Spa Services Services - pg. 4 & 5Bank/Credit Union Car Dealer / Automotive / Tire ServiceCatering Hair Salon/Barber Shop Nail Salon Painter/Contractor Senior Living Facility
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INSIDEPull-out section: Best of Kent winners
BY STEVE HUNTER
Four high bidders received the rights to apply for spirits retail liquor licenses at the four Kent state-run liquor stores.
Th e Washington State Liquor Control Board announced the winning bids Monday for the 167 state-run liquor stores that were part of an online auction
concluded on April 20.Th e sum of individual bids
for the 167 stores totaled $30.75 million, with rights awarded to 121 individual bidders, according to a liquor board media release.
Voters approved Initiative 1183 last year to get the state out of the liquor business and
State reveals top bidders for 4 Kent liquor stores
[ more STORES page 22 ]
Teen charged for East Hill shootingBY STEVE HUNTER
King County prosecutors have charged a 16-year-old
Seattle boy with fi rst-degree assault in connection with a Kent shooting April 14 on the East Hill that left a 19-year-old man wounded.
Raqwon J. Slade is sched-uled to be arraigned Tuesday, [ more SHOOTING page 3 ]
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John Urquhart, former King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce media spokesman, announced Tuesday at a press conference in down-town Seattle that he’s running for King County Sheriff .
Urquhart will run against
interim Sheriff Steve Strachan, a former Kent Police chief, on November’s ballot to replace Sue Rahr. Rahr resigned in March to become director of the Wash-ington State Criminal Justice Training Commission in Burien.
Urquhart, 64, of Mercer Island, released his statements from the press conference about
the reasons he decided to run for sheriff .
“My campaign for King County Sheriff is based on leadership and accountability,” Urquhart said. “Th e Sheriff ’s Offi ce is at a crossroads. We are headed down a road where we run the risk of losing support of the citizens we serve. I can’t let that happen. If we
go down that wrong road, it will not be because our deputies don’t care. It will be because of a lack of leadership within the Sheriff ’s Offi ce.
“Th e citizens of King County want many things from their Sheriff ’s Offi ce. Th ey want a police agency that is tough on crime, but understands you can’t arrest your way out of every problem in society.”
Urquhart discussed his deci-sion to run with his wife and two adult daughters before mak-ing the decision offi cial. John Urquhart will run a campaign for
King County Sheriff ‘based on leadership and accountabiity.’ REPORTER FILE PHOTO
Ex-King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce media spokesman to run for sheriff
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BY STEVE HUNTER
A proposal to the King County Flood Control District Board to pay for removal of sandbags along the Green River might move a bit faster than initially anticipated.
Kjristine Lund, execu-tive director of the King County Flood Control District, said in an email Tuesday she is trying to get a special May meeting date of the board rather than waiting until the next scheduled meeting in July to consider a $7.5 million plan to remove sandbags by the fall along 26 miles of the river in Kent, Au-burn and Tukwila.
"I am trying to get a mid-May board meeting (a special meeting) so that bidding can occur to be ready for implementation before the rainy season," Lund said. "However, there is not a meeting scheduled for May yet."
Th e sandbags have lined the trail for nearly three years for extra fl ood protec-tion because of damage in 2009 to an abutment next to the Howard Hanson Dam on the upper Green
River. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers an-nounced last fall it can operate Hanson Dam at full capacity, which means the sandbags are no longer needed.
Cities now face the problem of how to pay to remove the bags without extra millions sitting around to pay contractors for the expensive job.
Th e King County Flood Control District Advisory Committee, a 15-member body composed of mayors and council members from eight cities, has recommended the fl ood district board pay for 75 percent ($5.7 million) of the removal cost with the cities of Kent, Auburn and Tukwila paying 25 percent ($1.9 million) over a six-year period.
Th e fl ood district board is composed of the nine members of the King County Council. It is a special-purpose govern-ment that funds and oversees fl ood protection projects and programs.
Th e board is funded through a county-wide property levy of 10 cents
King County might move up vote on sandbag removal plan
[ more SANDBAGS page 4 ]
May 3 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, according to the King County Prosecuting Attor-ney’s Offi ce. Slade remains in custody at the county jail in Kent with bail set at $250,000.
Slade is charged as an adult because anyone ages 16-17 is considered an adult under state law if charged with a serious violent crime, including fi rst-de-gree assault.
Kent Police arrested Slade the evening of April 19 aft er a standoff at a house in the 24500 block of 104th Avenue Southeast. Th e teen eventu-ally exited the house and sur-rendered to offi cers, which included a SWAT team.
Th e 19-year-old is ex-pected to fully recover from his injuries despite being shot three times.
According to charging papers, a dispute started the aft ernoon of April 14 among Slade and several others while riding a Metro
bus. Most of them knew each other. Th e argu-ing continued as they all departed the bus near the Jack in the Box. Two agreed to settle the argument by going up the street to 110th Avenue Southeast to fi ght each other.
Th e charging papers did not indicate what the males were arguing about beyond something regarding “a past issue.”
[ SHOOTING from page 1 ]
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BY STEVE HUNTER
[email protected] 46-year-old Kent Police offi cer
shot and wounded a 35-year-old Federal Way man aft er responding to a report of a man in a stolen car at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Arbor Chase Apartments, 1615 W. Smith St.
Th e driver started to leave the
area and was confronted by an offi cer, according to a Kent Police media release. At that time the of-fi cer attempted to stop the man and shots were fi red by the offi cer.
“He was shot once in each leg,” said Stan McCall, spokesman for the Federal Way Police, which has taken over the shooting investigation since
the incident involved a Kent offi cer.Paramedics transported the man
to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was treated for a broken leg but is expected to recover, McCall said.
Aft er the offi cer fi red shots, the man drove away and crashed into an occupied car near the apartments. Th e two people in that car were treat-ed and released at a local hospital.
Th e driver then headed about 1 mile north and abandoned the ve-hicle behind a warehouse in North Kent. Offi cers found the man and
took him into custody.A records check showed the man
has felony warrants for two counts of possession of a stolen vehicle.
McCall said the man is under guard at the hospital by King Coun-ty Sheriff ’s Offi ce deputies because of the warrants.
Th e Kent offi cer has 21 years of law enforcement experience. He has been placed on paid administrative leave, a common step aft er a shooting.
Police officer shoots, wounds man reportedly stealing vehicle
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FIRE DAMAGES APARTMENT COMPLEX
A two-alarm fi re in Kent destroyed three stories of
a building at an apartment complex in the 23200 block of
88th Avenue South.Eleven families were displaced
by the fi re that broke out at about 4 p.m. April 20 according to a Kent Fire
Department media release. There were no injuries and
the displaced residents were allowed to move into
unoccupied units at the complex.
Investigators were unable to determine the cause of the
fi re, but it did not appear to be intentionally set.
Three stories of one building were engulfed in fl ames when
fi refi ghters arrived at the complex. They were able to
stop the fi re from spreading to nine other units in the
building. Red Cross assisted families who lost everything
in the fi re.
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The advisory committee proposal would delay spe-cific projects planned by the flood district board in the Green River basin in order to pay for removal of the sandbags. Each jurisdiction in the county also receives a small portion of the flood district property levy to pay for any flood control projects within each city. Under the proposal, Kent, Auburn and Tukwila would use that money to help pay for sandbag removal rather than other projects for the next six years.
Lund addressed the advisory committee’s recommendation at a meeting Monday of the King County Flood Control District Executive Commit-tee, which is composed of four members of the county
council. The committee will decide whether to forward the recommendation to the full board.
“I was asked to prepare the resolutions necessary for a decision which will include a budget resolu-tion and another authoriz-ing the executive (Dow Constantine) to enter into agreements with the Green River cities (Auburn, Kent, Tukwila,)” Lund said. “The direction was to have these documents as vehicles for voting by the committee.
“I will likely draft them to reflect the advisory committee recommenda-tion as a starting point, though the committee may amend them for different scenarios.”
Lund said she is aiming for a special May 7 flood district executive commit-tee meeting to consider the sandbag removal proposal so the committee can for-ward the measure to the full board possibly later in May.
King County paid for the
installation of the sandbags in the fall of 2009 through the flood control district by delaying planned projects. Kent received $2.59 million from the county to place nearly 17,000 sandbags along 12 miles of levees to heighten the levees and help protect the city from flooding in case the then-damaged Hanson Dam could not hold back enough water.
No heavy rainstorms struck since the January 2009 storm that damaged an abutment next to the dam, so the bags were never tested.
Lund said she expects to know by next week whether any funds remain from the sandbag installation project.
“There was some discussion that there is a small amount of funding remaining from the original budget to install the sand-bags,” Lund said. “We are researching that amount which might help off-set the costs.”
[ SANDBAGS from page 3 ]
per year because of the streamlined sales tax miti-gation funds and the $3.7 million it gets per year from the annexation sales tax for annexing the Panther Lake area in 2010.
“The maintaining of the state-shared revenues was the bigger piece,” Wilmot said.
The streamlined sales tax measured passed by the Legislature changed the state in 2008 from an origin-based system for local retail sales tax to a destination-based system. That cost Kent a lot of tax money with so many busi-nesses in the city that ship or deliver goods to other areas of the state. The sales tax is now collected where the buyer purchases mer-chandise rather than where the product shipped from.
Kent receives money from the state to help make
up for that lost revenue.The state agreed to the
annexation sales tax rebate to encourage cities to an-nex urban areas. Kent gets a portion of the state sales tax collected in the city to help pay for annexation costs.
Kent also received a big boost from the 2012 Legis-lature when it approved $7 million out of the capital budget to help fund im-provements to the Briscoe/Desimone levee along the Green River.
“Getting this money given the economy is huge,” said Wilmot, who added the $7 million levee funding ranked as the largest single expenditure out of the capital budget.
State Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, helped secure the levee funding.
“The levees matter a great deal to homeowners and businesses who worry about flooding throughout
the Kent Valley,” Fain said. “These investments help ensure the integrity of the levees and move us down the path toward certifica-tion. Eventually this will help lower flood-insurance premiums in the area and keep the valley’s economic engine strong.”
The capital budget al-locates funding for building and construction projects statewide.
The Briscoe/Desimone levee is part of the city’s ongoing Green River Levee Improvement Pro-gram. The levee protects portions of Kent, Renton and Tukwila from flood-ing and is between South 180th Street and South 200th Street.
City officials hope to start work on the Briscoe/Desi-mone levee in the spring of 2013 or later depending on additional funding for the estimated $15 million project.
[ BUDGET from page 1 ] Urquhart retired in 2011 after 24 years
with the Sheriff ’s Office. He worked many years as the media spokesman and also served as a patrol officer, field training officer, narcotics and vice detective and as an administrative aide to Rahr and former Sheriff Dave Reichert.
Strachan, 47, became Chief Deputy of the King County Sheriff ’s Office in Janu-
ary 2011 after serving nearly five years as Kent’s Police chief. He previously was Chief of Police in Lakeville, Minn.
Rahr appointed Strachan in March as in-terim Sheriff and the King County Council appointed him to the position April 2.
Strachan and Urquhart must file by mid-May to run for Sheriff to complete Rahr’s four-year term that expires the end of 2013. Strachan has said he plans to run for the position.
[ URQUHART from page 2 ]
KENT POLICE will offer a Prescription Drug Take Back Day so residents can safely get rid of their old medica-tions. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in front of the Kent Police Station, 220 Fourth Ave. S. The program is part of nationwide effort by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and local authorities to provide a safe and secure environment for the community to turn in unused or expired medications.
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It is this unique ap-proach to teaching that caused Chamberlain to receive the Mary Havi-land Science Teacher of the Year Award from the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair. Her students also took home the Excellence in Scientifi c and Engineering Achieve-ment Award for Schools.
“I was thrilled to win the award, but also deeply touched,” Chamberlain said. “No one person wins this type of award based on their own merits. I work with an incredible team of dedicated science teachers at Meridian who believe in the value of student-centered inquiry learning and our passion together drives the success of the department.”
Chamberlain believes students learn best when teachers use creative ways
to engage them in the subject.
“I do whatever I have to to get my students interested in what I am teaching,” she said. “I am not afraid to get dirty, get outside and up to my elbows in grime and gunk or get a bit silly to make a point or to help students under-stand a concept.”
Chamberlain believes having students participate in a science fair is the best learning tool.
“Th ere is a big dif-ference in a student engaging in a lab ac-tivity than one stuck reading text books in a classroom,” she said. “Th e level of learning increases logarithmically when stu-dents focus on a question they are deeply interested in and then attempt to make sense of their own
data, correlating it with published research.”
Chamberlain uses for-mer students as mentors for her current students.
“My former students are able to give current students the gift of their experience for the science
fair and their enthusiasm has been contagious,” she said. “My current students benefi t greatly from this partnership as it validates the importance of what they are studying.”
Chamberlain hopes to continue building the sci-
ence program at Meridian.“I am absolutely in love
with teaching and am sure I will be still up to my elbows in goo 25 years from now,” she said. “Th e students motivate me to be the best I can be every day.”
District students sweep awards at state science fair
A record-breaking 45 students from the Kent School
District were among the 560 competing at the 55th annual
Washington State Science and Engineering Fair on
March 30-31 at Bremerton High School.
Schools represented were Meridian, Mill Creek and Sunrise
elementaries. The district won high honors with nine fi rst-
place eff orts, 15 seconds, 15 thirds and three special awards.
First-place trophies were awarded to Anthony Rudenko,
Ostap Ben, Rebecca Nielsen, Kelsey Newcomb, AJ Soccey,
Garrett Stewart, Ravneet Purewal, Sheridan Brown, and
Kelsey Evenson
Second-place honors went to Jordan Ortiz, Juan Alvarez
Villa, Ahbishek Mor, Makenna Heiss, Lauren-Julia Melamed,
Gavin Michaels, Justin McDaniel, David Balint, Brittany
Woke, Luis Moreno, Ilya Russu, Celeste Mader, Elana Cueto,
Victoria Roberts, Radha Goewey.
Third places went to Tristan Ingold, Benjamin Wadowski,
Charlotte Ross-Lyons, Amelia Stergion, Chaya Nguyen, Josh
Tingstad, Skyler Mortensen, Rita Kanonik, Monique Dabalos,
Kinza Mohammad, Kaarina Charlot, Junaina Shamdeen
Ashley Spickelmier, Irie Frigillana and Kathryn Araki.
In addition to Best in Category, Anthony Rudenko and
Ostap Ben also won Museum of Flight awards and the
American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics
(AIAA) award for their project on airplane flap design
using a wind tunnel.
Kelsey Evenson won an invitation to compete in the
Broadcom MASTERS, a national competition for middle
schools.
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The state science competition recently brought out the best in Kent School District students and teachers. COURTESY PHOTO
Kent-Meridian High School invites anyone interested to join a discussion from their School Improve-ment Team social on May 3. Members are hosting a “Have a Voice Social” with snacks and beverages. They will discuss the new direction the team is moving in and give a brief presenta-tion on next year’s goals. The event is from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the high school library. …
Kent resident Oksana Solovyan-chik received honors at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Solovyanchik landed on the dean’s list for autumn quarter with a 3.8 grade-point averageand winter with a 3.9. She graduates with a nursing degree. …
Kentlake High School is putting on “Beauty and the Beast” on April 27-28. The evening show starts at 7 p.m. and Saturday matinee is at 2. Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for students, children, and se-niors. Tickets are sold at the door and online at brownpapertickets.com. … Kentridge High School is hosting “Legally Blonde - The Musical” on May 2-5 and May 9-12. Evening shows are 7 p.m. and Saturday matinees are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 and go on sale April 18. … Kent-Meridian High School is showing “Tartuff e” on May 9-12. There is a 7 p.m. curtain for all shows. Tickets: $8 for adults, $6 for students. … Kentwood High School’s “Man of La Mancha” is from May 16-19 and 24-26. There is a 7 p.m. curtain for all shows. Tickets are $10 at the door.
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We have once again wrapped up the annual Best Of Kent reader-ship poll. Th e winners and fi nalists are in the special section in today’s paper.
Th e year-over-year increase of ballots, both online and in print, is amazing. I would like to thank all who took the time to vote for their favorites.
It is so incredible to see this great community take such pride
in their retailers, people and service providers that make Kent a great city.
We had multiple cat-egories again this year where there were ties in the fi nalist rankings. I would like to congratu-
late everyone who received votes and thank the loyal readers of the Kent Reporter for their support.
Aft er many hours of counting votes for the great prizes donated
by Kent Station, the honor of drawing the winners went to my creative design manager, Julie Black.
I am thrilled to present you the 2012 Best of Kent picked by the readers of the Kent Reporter.
A very special thank you goes out to John Hinds and Sommer Ueda at Kent Station who gener-ously donated all of the prizes to our lucky readers.
Polly Shepherd is regional publisher of the Kent Reporter, Auburn Reporter and Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter.
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Driving the message home to distracted, texting teens
Th e dangerous combination of teens, texting and driving has emerged as a bigger problem on local and national roadways.
Rising statistics of crashes and injuries, even fatalities, suggest a need for more pub-lic awareness, peer-to-peer education among teens and involvement from institutions, notably schools.
Th e dangers of texting and driving are well documented, but according to a survey just
released by State Farm Insurance with Harris Interactive, teens still believe it’s OK to text and drive.
A few facts from the survey:
drivers has not declined: 57 percent of teens admit to texting while driving despite widespread media attention about the dangers of distracted driving.
driving were nearly three times as likely to report being in a car crash.
sequences of texting while driving, but do not see it as severe as driving drunk. According to national data from highway safety groups, inju-ries and deaths related to distracted driving are
and 20 percent of injuries in 2009 across the country involved reports of distracted driving,
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Anniversary of health care law nothing to celebrate
Th e Patient Protection and Aff ordable Care Act (PPACA) recently celebrated its recent two-year anniversary in front of the Supreme Court. Th e controversial law fi nds itself in front of the highest court in the land
together to challenge its constitution-ality.
Aft er fero-cious public debate and two years of implementa-
tion, the legislation still faces an uncertain fate — and supporters still fi nd themselves working to convince a majority of Ameri-cans that this signature health care reform isn’t a bad thing. Current Gallup polling shows about three-fourths of Americans believe the law is unconstitutional.
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Pesticides applied only to parking lot
Last week a resident wrote to the Kent Reporter with concerns about the use of pes-ticides at Clark Lake Park and the potential risks and impacts to the park and park users.
I want to clarify that we did make an application the week of April 12, but only within the small parking lot off of 240th. Th is is done to control weeds and invasive plants within the sidewalk, curbs and parking lot area. We did not and do not, however, apply pesticides anywhere else in the 130-acre park.
Th e city practices integrated pest management principles in all of our parks. Specifi c to Clark Lake Park, our primary pest management goal is to control the invasive plants and weeds. Th roughout the park, our primary control methods remain mowing and many hours of manual removal by
city staff and numerous dedi-cated volunteers.
Great progress has been made in recent years. Th e parking lot remains vulnerable, though. Invasive plants such as scotch broom, canary reed grass and blackberry oft en start
their way into the property from there. Th e application in the parking lot strategically targets this small yet vulnerable
area and better protects the rest of the natural area from the en-croachment of invasive plants.
By being strategic in our practices, we have reduced our use of pesticides throughout the park system and continue to seek further reductions as we continually refi ne our practices.
I hope this additional information on our approach to pesticide use helps address some of the concerns voiced by
– Jeff Watling, director of Kent Parks Recreation and Community Services
Protect the ducks with a screen
I’m a baby duckling. I was recently rescued from one of the worst fates that awaits a duckling in all the city of Kent.
From the time of my hatch-ing, I was warned by my
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mama, “Stay away from storm drains – they are dark dungeons of death for any unsuspecting duck-ling.” But when you hurry across a five-lane highway with your both-ers and sizers, it’s easy to become disoriented by the loud threatening noise of motor monsters coming at you.
My 12 brothers and sisters and I were lucky. The compassionate citizen who notified the fire station and the firemen who rescued us are wonderful humans.
But my mama returned home last night from a meeting of concerned Ducks Against Drain Disasters. There she learned that this terrible situation has been go-ing on for a long time in Kent. Ever year ducklings fall into the death dungeons (storm drains), and many do not survive.
Even though in the past, Sa-maritan citizens, city utility work-ers and police officers have come to their aid.
It is terrifying for ducklings to be trapped beneath the highway and traumatic for mother ducks to lose their babies in this way.
Ducks Against Drain Disasters would like to suggest a solution to this ongoing problem. Why not add screens to the storm drains? The expense should be minimal.
Then in the future, commu-nity workers wouldn’t have to be dispatched to the drain site when they are needed elsewhere. Traffic showdowns wouldn’t occur, and mother ducks could nestle their babies beneath their wings at night with peaceful sighs of contented relief.– Laurie Saunders, Lucky-to-be-alive duckling No. 13
One option for removing sandbags
Regarding the removal of the sandbags written on April 13 by Steve Hunter, there was mention of the relative cost associated with the removal and obvious concerns for the negative impact it would create for the city budget.
I’m not sure how this would work with regard to unions and city work-ers, however, the thought came to me how you might do this relatively free. Is there anything wrong from a legal standpoint to utilize the inmates at the Regional Justice Center to help with the removal?
They could certainly benefit in many ways by being outside, getting some exercise and perhaps paid a minimum wage if appropriate.
Could be a win for the city and the inmates.– James De Donato
Change in tone with ShoWare?
After reading Steve Hunter’s story on the Kent City Council’s re-cent approval of an economic study of the ShoWare Center (April 20), it occurred to me the council’s current rationale for own-ing an event center has changed over the past five years.
As an example, see Reporter stories from July 7 and 21, 2008 (www.kentreporter.com/news/22948384.html www.ken-treporter.com/news/25600309.html). The theme in 2008 seemed to be “no worries.”
The City of Wenatchee can attest that hope is not a plan when ap-plied to an event center.
What is Kent’s plan for future years if large subsidies for the Sho-Ware Center need to continue?– Don Villeneuve
According to the White House, individual liberty matters less than the law’s big benefits, which are supposedly just around the bend. The view from the states, however, is decidedly less optimis-tic. The problems with the PPACA are so severe that we feel called upon to join together on behalf of our two organizations and enumer-ate the specific harmful effects of the law.
The PPACA imposes new burdens on states like Washington in three dangerous and damaging
ways. First, it costs our busi-nesses with new taxes. Second, it costs our residents with higher premiums. Third, it costs our state, threatening to reduce access to care for Medicaid recipients on the losing end of strained bud-gets. Tallying these cumulative economic burdens explains and justifies today’s stubborn public opposition. Rather than control-ling costs, the law controls lives – even to the point of worsening them.
Consider the costs to businesses, which are already holding down employment in anticipation of new
legislation. The Joint Committee on Taxation finds that the law will be responsible for a total of $400 billion in new taxes and fees in the next seven years.
Even the Obama Administra-tion’s own Department of Health & Human Services (via the Cen-ters for Medicare and Medicaid Services) admits the law will push health care expenditures higher. Though the Obama Ad-ministration continues to deny it, the calculus is simple: more health care spending equals more expenses on already-strapped businesses.
What about the impact on our fellow citizens? The law has raised, not lowered, premiums. Consult-ing firm Aon Hewitt estimates that premiums in the individual market are some 5 percent higher this year because of the health care law. More is to come.
The law wreaks havoc on our state budgets. In the first 10 years, it will increase Medicaid costs as people who currently qualify for Medicaid but opt out of the program are forced to enroll.
While the U.S. Supreme Court focused on the key issue of whether PPACA’s individual
mandate is constitutional, the law’s devastating economic consequences cannot be ignored. Its intended reforms raise taxes, increase premiums and balloon budgets while businesses, indi-viduals and states struggle to gain the upper hand on their finances. Whether the Supreme Court finds it constitutional or not, this is one law America can’t afford.
Dann Mead Smith is president of Washington Policy Center (washingtonpolicy.org) and Jonathan Bechtle is CEO of the Freedom Foundation (myfreedomfoundation.org).
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And the age group with the great-est proportion of distracted drivers was the under-20 group.
In our state, from 2006 to 2008, there were 224,503 drivers involved in injury crashes, of which 20,205 of the crashes (9 percent) were caused by driver distraction of all types.
Concerned officials in the public and traffic safety business consider a driver talking on a cell phone as impaired as a driver with a .08 blood alcohol level; a driver who is texting is as impaired as a driver with a .16 BAC.
If you’re a parent of teenage driv-ers, as I am, this is alarming stuff.
“It’s a significantly growing problem,” said Sgt. Robert Constant, supervisor of the Kent Police’s traffic unit. “It’s a challenge, especially with a generation that’s so techy, with the urge to text.”
While difficult to quantify, texting drivers are a prevailing problem.
As Constant observed: “It’s generally an upturning trend with everything from the introduction of the iPhone … to a continual barrage of media that’s available, and the at-tempt to communicate.”
State and local leaders are acceler-ating the need to address the prob-lem. The problem with and answers to distracted teen driving, as state traffic officials see it, begins at home. Data from the Washington Healthy Youth Survey shows when parents are more involved in the lives of their teens, and enforce clear, consistent
rules, risks fordrinking, drug use, texting, talking
on the cell phone and risky driving are reduced.
“Research shows that good parent-ing really pays off when it comes to reducing crash risk for teens,” said Jonna VanDyk, occupant protection manager for the Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC).
Parents can play an important role, but not every teen connects with mom or dad.
That’s where the WTSC – with partners like State Farm Insurance – is stepping in.
An ongoing project in that part-nership is challenging teen drivers to question themselves.
“Could you be persuaded to put your cell phone in your trunk while you’re driving?” the project asked.
As expected, the reaction was pronounced.
“They really squawked at the idea. No way,” VanDyk said.
Problem persistsOfficials have found that teens
understand the act is wrong, but are not inclined to do anything about it.
The problem evolves around the teens’ compulsive use of the cell phone, for many the source of their inner-circle communicative world, much of which is nonverbal. That addiction becomes a significant problem when the phone buzzes or lights up while they are occupied behind the wheel.
“It creates a sense of urgency or compulsiveness” when driving to respond to it, VanDyk said. “There is that urge to respond while driving.”
Peer pressure, not wanting to ignore friends, leads to texting and driving. And a new study shows that 75 percent of young adults think there’s nothing wrong with that.
“If this is the way you com-municate with your peer group, you’ve become kind of desen-sitized as to how much that is taking away from whatever else might be demanding your atten-tion,” VanDyk said.
Peer-to-peer education is one way to attack the problem.
The WTSC and State Farm, for instance, have gone back to school. There have been discussions, assem-blies and other awareness projects. They have teamed up to provide teens with an opportunity, an incen-tive to take action while earning a $500 grant for a school group such as cheerleading, a sports team, choir or club.
High schools can get involved. Teens need to help each other here. It is a good place to start. It is time to make it a priority.
Hands-free devices are not a cure-all. And teens don’t always do what their parents demand.
“Teens listen to other teens, more so than us,” VanDyk said. “They can persuade fellow teens that texting and driving is dangerous.”
To learn more about the programs, visit www.wtsc.wa.gov.
[ KLAAS from page 6 ] Court hearing for boy accused of rapes rescheduled for third timeBY STEVE HUNTER
A hearing scheduled in King County Juvenile Court in Seattle to deter-mine whether a 16-year-old Kent boy charged with rape should be tried as an adult has been rescheduled for the third time.
“The defense requested more time to prepare for the hearing,” said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attor-ney’s Office, in an email.
The boy had been sched-uled to be in court Monday, April 23. The defense attor-ney also received requests to the judge to reschedule hearings in March and February for more time to prepare for the case.
The latest hearing date is May 21, Donohoe said.
Prosecutors charged the boy Nov. 10 with two counts
of first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree kidnapping with sexual mo-tivation in connection with attacks on a 17-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman on separate nights in late Oc-tober on the East Hill along Kent-Kangley Road.
Prosecutors will request that the boy be tried as an adult. The boy attended Kentwood High School in Covington, where Kent Police arrested him Nov. 7.
If convicted in Juvenile Court, the boy would be incarcerated up to his 21st birthday, according to prosecutors. The minimum sentence in adult court is 28 to 36 years in prison with a potential maximum sen-tence of up to life in prison.
Because the boy was 15 when the alleged rapes oc-curred, the Juvenile Court first handled the charges. A Juvenile Court judge must order adult prosecution for the boy and decline the case, which would send it to King County Superior Court.more story online…kentreporter.com
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Carmela Lu, left, Maleeha Nizar, Lauren Kane and Olivia Van Rens – fourth- and fi fth- graders at Pine Tree Elementary – focus on their Movie Making in the Classroom project Tuesday at the Kent School District’s Tech Expo at the ShoWare Center. The Boeing-sponsored Tech Expo is a showcase for the Kent, Covington and surrounding communities to understand the extensive use of technology in schools and businesses. Kent School District students and teachers demonstrated how technology is used in their classrooms alongside local businesses showcasing technology in both traditional and nontraditional careers. STEVE HUNTER, Kent Reporter
BY SARAH KEHOE
KentHOPE had a record number of people attend their latest weekly planning meeting.
“We had a large turnout that included individuals from neigh-borhood associations and several people who were new to the issue of homelessness and eager to par-ticipate,” said Pat Gray, KentHOPE member.
“Everyone who attended is very committed to the goal of establish-ing a day center and volunteered specifi c skills to help during the
process and aft er the day center is established.”
April 19 was the fi rst general meeting of KentHOPE held in the evening. Th e executive committee, made up of Chris Gough and Mike Johnson from Union Gospel Mis-sion, Daniel McDougall-Treacy of Valley Cities, Rev. Bill Kirlin-Hack-ett of the InterFaith Task Force on Homelessness and nine others from various faith communities in Kent, meets in weekly planning sessions.
At this meeting, KentHOPE members discussed their vision of establishing a day center and eventual overnight shelter to
provide hope and assist those who are homeless in pathways to stable housing and a more secure future. Th e group has been seeking anoth-er location for their day center and a shelter for the homeless ever since the Kent City Council declined the use of the Kent Resource Center to house their needs.
“Right now we are looking for an-other location for our day center and eventual shelter,” Gray said. “We are working with a realtor and viewing those that seem promising.”
KentHOPE has 19 congregations represented either on their execu-tive committee, general meeting
attendees, or receiving emails or calls from individuals indicating a desire to help.
“We have had people in the com-munity contacting us asking how they can help the homeless right now, so we have decided to publish on our web site and in a brochure all of the community meals and services that presently exist to help our marginalized population,” Gray said. “We are happy to take on the role of facilitator to connect volunteers with the services that now exist.”
For more information, visit kenthope.co.uk/.
KentHOPE meeting builds connections
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Torklift Central RV hostsa classic car show June 2
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Several prizes will be awarded during the event. A free
catered barbecue lunch is also provided during the car show.
The car show kicks off the Stuff the RV donation drive
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SAXOPHONIST DARREN MOTAMEDY will return to Kent to play in the fi fth annual Evening of Jazz & Art Showcase from 5-8 p.m. June 28 at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith Street. For more information about the showcase, call 253-856-5164.
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Chiropractor earns top certifi cation
Gary Blackburn, doctor of chiropractic, recently received certifi cation by the Council of Extremity Adjusting.
Dr. Blackburn joins an elite group of only 900 Certifi ed Chi-ropractic Extremi-ties Practitioners in the world.
He is also a Cer-tifi ed Chiropractic Sports Physician, which indicates exceptional profi ciency in the assessment and treatment of the root causes of recur-ring pain in the spine and extremities.
Blackburn has worked with Olympians, profes-sional athletes and teams, and locally, has worked with the Valley Regional Fire Authority in injury prevention and perfor-mance training.
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ElsewhereYogurtland, pioneers of
the self-serve frozen yogurt category, has come to Kent.
Th e new franchise, 10216 SE 256th St., Suite 106, in the East Hill Village Center, next to Kent Meridian High School, is the company’s fi ft h location in the state. It offi cially opened Friday.
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Kentlake has hired Godfrey Drake to take over as head boys basketball
coach, according to Bruce Rick, the school’s athletic director, who made
the announcement Wednesday.Drake has worked as an assistant coach at Green River Community
College the past four years. The Mississippi native had previously
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Tahoma track team at the topBY TJ MARTINELL
Tahoma’s boys and girls track teams continued a double undefeated league meet streak with wins against Kent-Meridian on the Bears’ home track April 19.
Th e Bears boys defeated last year’s 4A state champi-ons 78-67, while the Bears girls won 105-44. Both Ta-homa teams are undefeated in league meets.
Tahoma coach Gary Conner stated in a tele-phone interview that he expected it to be a close meet.
“Th ey were good wins for both teams,” Conner said. “It turned out to be in our favor. I knew we were going to have to perform really well just to win. For us, we had to do well in all our areas.”
Conner said the meet against Kentwood on Wednesday would give more of an indication of where Tahoma stands in the league.
“What we’re hoping is to get through Kentwood,” he said. “If we can get through Kentwood (Wednesday)…hopefully (Tahoma has a shot at a) league title. Tomorrow’s meet is going to be tough for both boys
and girls so it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
Bears senior Aaron Davis took home two fi rst places in the 100 meters and the shot put, running a time of 11.53 seconds and throwing a distance of 48 feet and a half inch. His 100 meter time tied his personal record.
Junior Jacob Larsen won the 800 meters with a time of 2:04.11.
Senior Tyler Ward took fi rst in the mile with a time of 4:45.99, a three-second improvement over his pre-vious personal record from the March 21 meet against Mount Rainier.
Sophomore Riley Camp-bell won the two mile with a time of 9:55.50.
In fi eld events, junior Dallas Hayes won the discus aft er throwing it 128 feet, 2 inches. Senior Joshua Benson won the javelin aft er throwing it 138 feet, 7 inches. Sophomore Deshon Williams won the high jump aft er jumping a height of 5 feet, 10 inches, while fellow sophomore Tucker Mjelde won the pole vault at 11 feet, 6 inches.
Leading the Tahoma girls was Olivia Ranft , who won the 400 meters, the long jump and the triple jump. She ran the 400 meters in 1:00.42, a one second
improvement from her previous personal record. She long jumped 15 feet, 7.5 inches and triple jumped 32 feet, 6 inches.
Junior Elizabeth Oost-erhout won the 800 meters with a time of 2:25.07, a three second improvement over her personal record from the March 29 meet against Kentlake. Junior Paige Hammock took fi rst in the 100 meters with a time of 13.22. Freshman Abby Atchison won the mile with a time of 5:35.30.
Junior Savanna Hav-erfi eld won both the 100 hurdles and the javelin, with a time of 16.01 and a throw of 103 feet, 11 inches respectively.
Senior Cassidy Rich-mond won the 300 hurdles with a time of 49.56. Th e 1,600 relay team, comprised of Cheyenne Haverfi eld, Madeline Smith, Ranft and Richmond, won with a combined time of 5:30.21.
In the fi eld events, junior Kylie Eager won the shot put aft er throwing it a
distance of 33 feet, 4 inches. Senior Nadine Hyde won the discus aft er throwing it 113 feet, 1 inch.
Senior Chelsea Muskelly won the high jump aft er a vertical leap of fi ve feet.
Royals senior Jarey Suiter took fi rst in the 200 meters, crossing the fi nish line at 23.23. Sophomore Quincy Carter won the 400 meters aft er running a time of 52.84, a personal record.
Bears girls, boys teams beat K-M to stay undefeated in SPSL North Division
Tahoma junior Elizabeth Oosterhout runs alongside Kent-Meridian senior, Alexia Martin, in the two mile. Martin took fi rst with a time of 11:19.20. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter
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BY KRIS HILL
The battle for the top spot in the South Puget Sound League North Division continued among Tahoma, Kentwood and Kentlake’s fastpitch teams in the past week.
On Monday, Thomas Jefferson knocked off Kentwood in a 10-inning thriller while Tahoma put together a 6-1 victory on April 18 over Kentlake for the Falcons’ first league loss of the season.
Jefferson scored early and held onto a 1-0 lead until the bottom of the seventh when Rachel Burr hit the ball be-tween first and second base that drove in the tying run for Kentwood.
But, the pitching duel between Conqueror fresh-man Kendall Goodwin and Raiders hurler Rocky Hale continued, as the Jefferson defense was able to hold Kentwood.
The Conks struggled to put down bunts in the bottom of the 10th when international tiebreaker rules come into play – a runner is on second base at the start of the inning – while an errant throw to
third base at the top of the 10th pushed the Raiders into the lead.
Bailey Rundle’s bunt moved Michaela Patton over to third base for Jef-ferson. Katie Jackson, who pitched the final inning in relief for Hale and picked up the win in the circle, bunted and was able to reach when a throw to third base went over Bailey Marshall’s head which al-lowed Patton to score.
While everything came together for Jefferson it all fell apart for Kentwood, ex-plained Conks head coach Jason Wisor in an email interview.
“I think yesterday was the perfect storm of what has been the perfect storm season,” Wisor wrote. “With all the rainouts and in game cancellations this team has been frustrated that more games have not gotten in. The girls are working hard and getting better, it just so happens that yesterday we could not execute.”
He credited Hale and Goodwin for pitching well. Wisor said with nine games left on the schedule the team will need to focus.
“Yesterday both pitchers pitched well and both teams
struggled to adjust to the zone established by the um-pire,” he said. “Our goal will be to continue to play the best game we can. We need to eliminate the errors and execute in situations when they happen. Our goals are still in reach and we fully intend to accomplish them.”
Kentwood hosted Taho-ma Tuesday, and weather permitting the Conks were scheduled to get in five games this week.
Meanwhile, through Monday, Tahoma had won three straight including a tough game against Au-burn and a major morale booster in beating Kentlake on April 18.
Kentlake’s only lead of the game came in the first inning against Tahoma when Kellie Nielsen scored on an error.
In the bottom of the first, Tahoma tied it up when Hayley Beckstrom hit a long single to drive in Halle Elliot, then the Bears locked down defensively while their bats got hot in the third and fourth innings.
Jordan Walley and Beck-strom drew back to back walks. Morgan Engelhardt’s single drove Walley in to
make it 2-1 Tahoma in the bottom of the third then Beckstrom scored when Lauren Maulden reached first on an error to make it 3-1.
Elliott ripped a single through the middle infield then stole second base. Walley stepped up two batters later and send the ball to the center field fence for a double that drove in Elliott.
Beckstrom dropped a single into shallow right field behind first base and Walley scored to make it 5-1.
Tahoma tacked on one more run in the bottom of the sixth when Amanda Allison’s single brought in Molly Lathrop, who slapped a single by the short stop then stole sec-ond base, to make it 6-1.
Lathrop finished the day going 2-for-3 at the plate with a run scored and two stolen bases, Walley was 1-for-3 with a walk, two runs scored and an RBI while Beckstrom was 2-for-3 with a single, a double, a run scored and two RBIs.
Engelhardt went 1-for-3 with an RBI, Lauren Maulden was 2-for-3 with a single and a double.
Mariah Hill got the win
in the circle, pitching a complete game, giving up five hits – all singles – and one walk.
A day earlier Tahoma’s defense saved a close win against Auburn.
Center fielder Jena Waler hurled a perfect throw to home plate to get the run-ner for Auburn coming in for the tying run in the top of the seventh to seal the 4-3 victory.
Kentridge bounced back on April 18 from a 11-3 loss to Kentwood a week earlier with a 6-0 victory over Auburn Riverside.
Kayla Andrus led the Chargers offensively as everything came in pairs for her. Andrus finished the day 2-for-3 at the plate with a pair of singles, two runs scored, two stolen
bases and two RBIs. Abagail Bellin went 1-for-3 with a triple, a run scored and an RBI while Ashley Conradi was 1-for-4 with a single, a run scored and a stolen base and Hannah Overall was 1-for-3 with a triple, two runs scored, an RBI and a stolen base.
Lizzet Dominguez got the win in the circle for Kentridge, pitching a complete-game one-hitter while striking out six.
Kentridge couldn’t keep up the moment Monday, however, losing 4-2 to Auburn.
Andrus was 1-for-4 at the plate, Bellin went 1-for-2 with a single, a stolen base and an RBI while Bri Drury led the Chargers, batting 2-for-3 with a pair of singles and a run scored.
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[ TRACK from page 14 ] Junior Abu Kamara took first place in the 110 hurdles
and the 300 hurdles, crossing the finish line with a time of 15.38 and 42.20 respectively.
The 400 relay team, comprised of B.J. Phillips, Henry Hammond, Kamara and Suiter, took first with a time of 44.20, a mere .55 second ahead of the Bears team. The 1,600 relay team also won, with Suiter, Hammond, Phillips and Carter running a combined time of 3:38.87.
In field events, Tyler Hammer won the long jump with
a leap of 20 feet, 6 inches. Hammond won the triple jump flying 39 feet, 6 inches.
Royals sophomore Kariona Micks won the 200 meter race, crossing the finish lone at 27.18.
Senior Alexia Martin won the two mile, crossing the fin-ish line at 11:19.20.
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Junior Juliana Adams won the pole vault after vaulting 8 feet, 6 inches.
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BY KRIS HILL
While Kentwood’s base-ball team has conquered the South Puget Sound League North division there is a battle going on between Tahoma and Kentlake for second place.
Kentwood’s winning streak continued with victories over Auburn, Thomas Jefferson, and Kent-Meridian.
On April 20 Kentwood put together a 6-2 win over Auburn, scoring two in the bottom of the sec-ond and four in the bot-tom of the third, pounding out eight hits.
Kade Kryzsko was 1-for-3 with a two-RBI double, Taylor Jones fin-ished 1-for-2 at the plate, Skyler Genger went 2-for-3 while Jarrett Retz was 1-for-2 with an RBI.
Tanner Wessling made his hit count with a two-RBI double on a 1-for-2 batting performance.
D.J. Vallala hit a two-RBI double in his single
plate appearance.Michael Parrott pitched
a complete game, walk-ing one, striking out three while allowing six hits.
Kentwood followed that up the next day with a
double digit win over Jefferson.
It was a 9-6 Kentwood lead after two and a
half innings before a few errors and lot
of hitting led to a 10-run third inning for the Con-querors, who tallied a total of 22 hits in five innings, as they cruised to the win on April 21.
On Monday Kentwood hosted Kent-Meridian.
The Conks scored nine runs on 12 hits against the Royals while Kentwood sent four different pitchers to the mound in the 9-0 victory.
Lucas Gately was 1-for-2 at the plate with a double and an RBI, Cash McGuire was 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI, Dalton Cryderman was 1-for-2 with a double and an RBI, Reese McGuire was 1-for-3 with a triple
and an RBI, Wessling was 2-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored, Retz was 2-for-2 with a run scored and an RBI and Kellen Wilson was 1-for-1 with a run scored and two RBIs.
With those wins, Kent-wood was 13-0 in league play, and all alone atop the SPSL North.
With an 8-6 win over Jefferson, Tahoma improved to 9-4 in North play. Tahoma followed that up with a 3-0 victory over Kentridge on Monday.
The Bears scored all three runs in the first inning and held the Chargers scoreless despite giving up seven hits.
Sheldon Stober led Kentridge at the plate go-ing 2-for-3 with a double while Devin Riley hit 2-for-4.
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Despite some setbacks, the Kentridge girls are 4-1 in South Puget Sound League play.
They lost to Kentwood in their last match despite a good effort.
“We have some really good tennis players this year and once they really start to believe in them-selves, good things will hap-pen,” said coach Jennifer McIntosh.
The weather has slowed the team down.
“It has been a tough year with all of the rainouts. We are only at the halfway mark and we start playoffs next Friday afternoon,” McIntosh said.
“The schedule was heavily clustered due to different spring breaks and then we are starting playoffs even earlier than in the past. Hopefully the weather will cooperate, next week so we can finish.”
The players have matches against Mount Rainier and Tahoma left to play.
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BY STEVE HUNTER
A man driving an aqua green Honda Civic CRX through Kent streets at speeds of more than 80 mph during a police pursuit thought he had lost the patrol car when he pulled into a Wendy’s drive-thru restaurant in Renton.
Within moments, Renton Police surrounded the car at the drive-thru lane in the 17800 block of 108th Avenue Southeast at about 2:30 a.m. April 14, accord-ing to the police report. Kent Police arrested the man for investigation of eluding an officer.
The driver escaped the Kent officer after about a 3-mile chase that took only a couple of minutes. But Renton Police had listened to the pursuit on the Kent Police radio station and figured the man might head up the South 180th Street hill after he left northbound Highway 167. A short time later, they saw the aqua green Honda at the Wendy’s.
The incident started with a 911 call to report about 20 to 30 vehicles getting ready to race in a parking lot in the 19000 block of 62nd
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As a patrol officer headed northbound on 62nd Avenue South, he noticed two cars coming toward him. A Honda Civic had its headlights off but then the driver turned on the lights as he passed the patrol car. The officer turned his car around and activated his emergency lights in an ef-fort to pull over the car.
The driver of the Honda then sped up and went eastbound on South 196th Street. The driver ran a red light at South 196th Street and West Valley Highway, reaching speeds estimated at more than 80 mph.
The officer continued to pursue the Honda, which sped southbound on the East Valley Highway and then eastbound on South 212th Street. The officer saw the car take the northbound onramp to Highway 167, but then lost sight of the ve-hicle and ended the pursuit.
After Renton Police radioed they had the car
stopped at the top of South 180th Street, the Kent offi-cer went to the Wendy’s and confirmed it was the same car he had pursued.
The driver of the Honda told the officer, “I wasn’t even racing,” but then de-clined to say anything else about the incident.
ASSAULTPolice arrested a man for
investigation of third-de-gree assault after he report-edly punched a Metro bus driver in the nose at about 5 p.m. April 17 downtown near Central Avenue and Meeker Street.
Several officers later drew their guns and ordered the man to the ground near a Kent Transit Center bus shelter after reports that he might have a gun, accord-ing to the police report.
Officers discovered the man had a black plastic gun in a satchel he carried on his shoulder.
The incident began when a bus driver called 911 to report he had been punched by a passenger. The driver and another pas-senger then forced the man off the bus. The man held a plastic gun to the bus door before he fled on foot.
Witnesses later called 911 to report the man had shown up at the Kent Transit Center. An officer drew a rifle which caused about a dozen people near the man to flee the area. The officer ordered the man to the ground and the man complied.
MALICIOUS MISCHIEFOfficers arrested a man
for investigation of third-degree malicious mischief after he reportedly used a key to slash the tire on his wife’s car and later armed himself with a rock and then an AK-47 rifle.
The incident happened at about 10:13 p.m. April 17 outside of a house in the 27800 block of 130th Avenue South-east, according to the police report.
Officers responded to a domestic violence call and saw a man with a rifle who fled on foot and then jumped a fence into the backyard of a home. Police eventually caught the man coming out of a yard in the 13100 block of Southeast 279th Place.
The man no longer had a rifle as officers surrounded him and ordered him to the ground. The man refused to go to the ground so an officer used a Taser to shoot the man with darts in the ribs and leg. The man fell forward onto his forearms and of-ficers handcuffed him.
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A large work party came to embrace and spruce up Northwest Harvest.
About 300 volunteers – and their families – from Comcast took advantage of a sun-splashed Saturday to help beautify inside and outside of Kent’s main food distribution center, 22220 68th Ave. S.
“Th e place looks beauti-ful,” said Deborah Squires, community engagement director for Northwest Harvest. “We couldn’t do it without them. Not only did they bring the beauty bark and the paint, they brought the muscle.”
Th e eff ort was part of Comcast Cares Day, one of the nation’s largest single days of service by a cor-poration, with more than 2,200 volunteers around the state working on a dozen projects.
During their visit last Saturday, volunteers in Comcast’s service project
packaged 19,000 meals for distribution throughout Washington, Squires said.
In all, volunteers gener-ously gave an estimated $24,000 of free labor.
Comcast brought along soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord to chip in.
Volunteers cleaned the warehouse, swept and wiped down food stor-age racks. Th ey painted
the interior of the confer-ence room and warehouse offi ces. Teams performed landscape duty, pulling weeds, raking fl ower beds, spreading bark and picking up debris.
Th ey fi nished the morn-ing by conducting a youth art project, making thank you cards and poster boards.
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assist, especially now, with Northwest Harvest and supporting outlets faced with limited staffi ng and high demand for food.
Northwest Harvest and its food bank networks produce 1.6 million meals a month for the hungry throughout Washington.
To learn more about the nonprofi t group, visit www.northwestharvest.org.
Volunteers spiff up Northwest Harvest
Volunteer Merrill Swanson of Comcast shovels bark at Northwest Harvest last Saturday. About 300 volunteers pitched in to help beautify Kent’s main food distribution center. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
Gardening in the fast lane with annualsSpring is the time of year
when the earth blooms, and color fi lls the landscape. We are lucky enough to garden in western Washington with a mild climate that allows bountiful blooms and vivid color almost year round.
If you want to color your world with more beauty, for less money, invest in some fast-growing annual plants and dig in.
Annuals may only live one year but they party hearty and live life in the fast lane – and a colorful life is much more exciting.
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First, chose a favorite focal point plant or your favorite color family. Now build a color theme using diff erent blooming plants
all with the same hue. You could use all pinks that range from the pale pearl of impatiens to the vivid intensity of fuchsias. Or try grouping plants with fl owers or foliage with-in the purple and burgundy color palette. Royal purple verbenas, lavender lobelia and wine colored phlox make a trio of rich colors.
Want more sunshine? Pot up this combo from the orange and yellow color family.
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Th e focal point plant or thriller in the center of the pot: Canna Tropicanna
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Th e spillers: Use the yellow foliage of creeping Jenny to spill over the edge of the pot or the bicolored blooms of heat-loving lan-tana for more fl oral punch.
When you stick with the colors of yellow and orange
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Color Contrasts to Wake up the Landscape
Add some drama or garden opera with shock-ing color contrasts. Play up the boldness of chocolate foliage with white or silver contrasts. Contrasting col-ors that are opposite each other on the color wheel will shout out load like a drama mama and really create a scene.
Planting Recipe for a Backyard Patio Bed: Purple and Gold Can really be Bold
Th e focal point or thriller plant: Spiky cordylines now come in rich purple and reds to provide a dramatic back-ground for the shorter plants.
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District Healthcare SystemNOTICE OF BOARD
COMMITTEE SCHEDULE Notice is hereby given that the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees Nominating Committee will meet on Friday, May 18 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the Health Sciences Building, Room D-310 of UW Medicine. BOARD OF TRUSTEES (District Healthcare System) By: Sandra Sward Executive Assistant to the Board of TrusteesPublished in the Kent, Renton, Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on April 27, 2012. #612491.
Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King
In re the Estate of: ROBERT ROBINSON, Deceased.
No. 11-4-03018-8KNTPROBATE NOTICE TO
CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030)PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The above Court has appointed me as Personal Representative of Decedent’s estate. Any person having a claim against the Dece- dent must present the claim: (a) Before the time the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations, and (b) In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070: (i) By filing the origi- nal of the claim with the forego- ing Court, and (ii) By serving on or mailing to me at the address below a copy of the claim. The claim must be presented by the later of: (a) Thirty (30) days after I served or mailed this Notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020 (1)(c), or (b) Four (4) months afer the date of first publication of this Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time period, the claim will be forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective for claims against both the Decedent’s probate assets and nonprobate assets.Date of first Publication: April 20, 2012.Personal Representative:Doug Larkin1443 S 259th St.Des Moines WA 98198
Published in Kent Reporter on April 20, 2012, April 27, 2012 and May 4, 2012. #613308.
NO. 11-3-06143-8 KNTNOTICE TO CREDITORS OF
RECEIVERSHIP Superior Court of Washington FOR King County In the Receivership of: SEA COIN LAUNDRY, a Washing- ton Sole Proprietor business of Ly Suymeng & Chankaknica Chea. TO: CREDITORS OF SEA COIN LAUNDRY AND OTH- ER PARTIES IN INTEREST PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on March 29, 2012, the King County Superior Court appointed Turning Point Consulting (“Re- ceiver”) whose address is 918 Horton Street, #704, Seattle, WA 98134, as general receiver as de- fined by RCW 7.60.015, over the assets of Sea Coin Laundry whose address is 24437 Russell Rd, Suite 101, WA 98032-1786. Pursuant to the Order Appointing General Receiver, the Receiver has assumed control over the assets and business operations of Sea Coin Laundry (“Sea Coin”) pursuant to RCW 7.08.030(3) and RCW 7.60.025(1)(j). Corre- spondence to the Receiver may be sent to the Receiver in care of the address set forth below. CLAIMS: The Receiver current- ly is not able to predict whether any particular class of creditors can expect to receive payment on claims for pre-receivership debts owed to them. Nonetheless, all persons and businesses who believe they are owed money by Sea Coin on account of any goods, services, or credit provid- ed to Sea Coin before March 29, 2012 or who claim to have any other obligation enforceable against Sea Coin on account of any transaction occurring before that date, should fill out a Proof of Claim form in order to share in any distribution of assets to members of the claimant’s class of creditors. The Proof of Claim form may be obtained by sending a request to the Receiver at the address listed below or by e-mail to [email protected]. The Proof of Claim form must be returned to the Receiver at the address listed below no later than May 13, 2012. The bar date for claims arising from the rejection of an executory contract or unex- pired lease is 30 days after the date of rejection. The bar date for state agencies or taxing authorities is October 10, 2012. Creditors who fail to submit a proof of claim prior to the bar date will not share in any distri- butions, should any funds
become available for such distri- bution. The claim form must be mailed by the bar date to the Receiver at the following address: Sea Coin Laundryc/o Alan Chaffee Turning Point Consulting LLC.12505 Bel-Red Road, Suite 110Bellevue, WA 98005 The form does not need to be filed with the Court. Request for special notice. Pursuant to RCW 7.60.190(2), any person interest- ed in the receivership as a party or a creditor may serve upon the undersigned and file with the clerk of the Court a written no- tice of appearance stating that he/she desires special notice of any and all proceedings in the administration of the receiver- ship. Dated April 5, 2012. TURNING POINT CONSULT- ING, LLC By: ALAN CHAF- FEE Court-appointed Receiver for Sea Coin Laundry.Published in Kent Reporter on April 13, 20, 27, 2012. #611114
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NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL
LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 363
[S. 224th / 228th Corridor Project: East Valley Highway
to Benson Road] NOTICE IS GIVEN that the final assessment roll for Local Improvement District No. 363 (the “District”) has been pre- pared as required by law and is on file and open to inspection at the office of the City Clerk at City Hall, 220 4th Avenue South, Kent, Washington. LID No. 363 was established by Ordinance No. 3896 (2008) of the City of Kent, Washington (“City”) for the improvement of the next phase of the City’s S. 224th arterial corridor, east from the East Valley Highway (“Project”). The Project improvements in- clude construction of a roadway beginning at the intersection of East Valley Highway and S. 224th Street via S. 218th/216th Street, terminating at the inter- section of Benson Highway and S. 216th; the installation of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, a two- way left turn lane, planted center medians where possible, roadside planter strips, street lighting, undergrounding of overhead electrical facilities, storm water management facilities, a bridge over SR 167 and a new Garrison Creek bridge; and, sanitary sewer and water extensions and/or
stubs and appurtenances to provide service to properties not currently served by City utilities. NOTICE FURTHER IS GIVEN that the City Council has fixed the time for the hearing upon the final assessment roll for 3:00 p.m., local time, on May 14, 2012, before the Public Works Committee, in the Council Chambers in the Kent City Hall, 220 4th Avenue South, Kent, Washington. Any person desiring to object to any assessment appearing on the final assessment roll for the District is notified to make all objections in writing and to file them with the City Clerk on or before the time and date fixed for the hearing on the final as- sessment roll or at commence- ment of the hearing itself. All objections must state clearly the grounds of the objections and should contain lot, block and addition, section, tax number or other identifying description of the property. All objections not made timely in writing and in the manner required by law, shall be conclusively presumed to have been waived. At the time and place fixed, and at such other times to which the hearing may be adjourned the City Council Committee will sit as a board of equalization for the purpose of considering objec- tions duly filed, together with all information and evidence in support of those objections, and for the purpose of considering such assessment roll. Property owners wishing to file a protest about the amount of the assess- ment must do so in writing and file any protest with the City Clerk at, or prior to, the public hearing. In order for a protest to be considered valid, it must include proof that the property is not being benefited to the amount of the assessment. One form of such proof would be an appraisal showing the value of the property before and after construction of the improvements. At the hearing, or adjournment thereof, the City Council Com- mittee may recommend to the City Council to correct, revise, raise, lower, change or modify the roll or any part thereof, or set aside the roll and order a new assessment. Following the hear- ing, and recommendation of the Council Committee, the City Council will confirm the assess- ment roll by ordinance. When property has been entered origi-
nally upon the roll, and the as- sessment thereon is not raised, no objection shall be considered by the City Council or by any court on appeal unless the objection is made in writing at or prior to the date fixed for the original hearing upon the roll. Brenda Jacober, City Clerk City of Kent, Washington Any person requiring a disability accommodation should contact the City Clerk’s Office in ad- vance at 253-856-5725. For TDD relay service, call Washington Telecommunications Relay Ser- vice at 1-800-833-6388.Published in the Kent Reporter on April 20, 2012 and April 27, 2012. #613690.
INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that the City of Kent, Washington, will receive sealed bids at the City Clerk’s office through May 8, 2012 up to 10:45 p.m. as shown on the clock on the east wall of the City Clerk’s Office on the first floor of City Hall, 220 4th Avenue South, Kent, Washing- ton. All bids must be properly marked and sealed in accordance with this “Invitation to Bid.” Bids must be delivered and received at the City Clerk’s office by the above-stated time, regard- less of delivery method, includ- ing U.S. Mail. All bids will be opened and read publicly aloud at 11:00 a.m. for the City of Kent project named as follows:
64th Avenue S. Channel Improvements
Project Number: 10-3030C The project consists of the removal of three existing 60 inch diameter, 122 foot long culvert pipes, and the installation of one three-sided 20’W x 7’H x 106’L concrete box culvert with a cast- in-place base. Also included is the removal of approximately 3,000 tons of soil sediment, refuse and invasive plant species. As the 64th Avenue Channel is a primary drainage feature for the valley, all in channel work must be completed before the start of the seasonal wet season (October 1). The Contractor shall consider the long lead time to design, have reviewed, order and fabricate the large, concrete box culvert. The Engineer’s estimate for this project is approximately $1.5 million. Bid documents may be obtained by contacting City of Kent Engineering Department, Nancy Yoshitake at (253) 856-5508. For technical questions, please call Garrett In- ouye at (253) 856-5548.
Bids must be clearly marked“Bid” with the name of theproject on the outside of theenvelope, addressed to the CityClerk, 220 4th Avenue South,Kent, WA 98032-5895. Onlysealed bids will be accepted. Nofacsimiles will be considered. Each bid shall be in accordancewith the plans and specificationsand other contract documentsnow on file in the office of theCity Engineer, City of Kent,Washington. Copies of the plans and Special Provisions may bepurchased at a non-refundable cost of $50.00 for each set.Plans and specifications can also be downloaded at no charge at www.kentwa.gov/ procurement. Copies of the WSDOT Standard Specifications are available for perusal only. A cashier’s check, postal money order or surety bond in the amount of 5% of the bid is required. The City of Kent reserves the right to reject any and all bids on any or all schedules or alternates or to waive any informalities in the bidding and shall determine which bid or bidders is the most responsive, satisfactory and responsible bidder and shall be the sole judge thereof. No plea of mistake in the bid shall be available to the bidder for the recovery of his/her depos- it or as a defense to any action based upon the neglect or refusal to execute a contract. Bidders must submit with their initial bid a signed statement as to whether they have previously performed work subject to the President’s Executive Order No. 11246. No bidder may withdraw his/her bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the day of bid opening.Dated this 18th day of April, 2012.BY: Brenda Jacober, City Clerk Published in the Kent Reporter on April 27, 2012. # 615382.
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Add fillers: Here is where you need the color contrast. Use vivid gold blooms of Goldilocks Rocks or mini marigold plants against the taller, darker focal point.
Lime green could also be a bold contrast to deep purple. There are new mini petunias called Calibra-choa that have bicolored blooms of contrasting colors. Pretty Much Picasso is a new hybrid with vivid purple blooms outlined with lime green. This petunia is pretty much a spectacular plant due to great color contrasts. Many coleus plants also have colorful contrasts spilled all over their leaves like a painter’s palette.
The spiller: As a groundcover plant or to spill from the sides of a
pot, the lime green Sweet Caroline sweet potato vine would make a great contrast to the deep purple tones. If you use petunias with bicolored blooms the solid color of a foliage plant provides a stunning backdrop for the big show.
Color Punches to Fight off the Darkness
We do have a lot of gray days in our gardens and our beautiful evergreens can cast dark shadows onto the landscape. Use white and silver plants to sneak in a knock out punch of color:
Use white impatiens, white lobelia and white begonias for a planting bed in deep shade. The color white next to any bright color will amp up the intensity of the hue so be sure to include white bloom-
ers in your mixed displays for more vivid brights.
For sunny areas plant drought-resistant white alyssum or any silver-leaved annual such as Dusty Miller. White geraniums planted in black pots make a fine impres-sion that says “simple elegance.” An all-white flower garden can be dramatic and will show up best against a dark evergreen hedge or house color.
Covering the Ground with a Grand Display of Color
Make this the year you cover a sunny slope with drifts of hot pink petunias or vast stretches of bright red verbenas. New varieties of groundcover petunias and spread-ing verbenas make sensational swaths of blooming color more af-
fordable than even before. You only live once and having a yard that really does stop traffic should be on everyone’s bucket list. Or you could take that bucket, add some drainage holes and contain yourself, along with your petunias and verbenas.
Planting more flowers is a gift to the neighborhood, the bees and butterflies and your beauty-seeking soul.
Marianne Binetti is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books. For book requests or answers to gardening questions, write to her at: P.O. Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022. Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a personal reply.
[ BINETTI from page 18 ] COME PLANT TREES at
West Fenwick Park, 3808 Reith Road on the West Hill on Satur-day. The planting party is from 9 a.m. to noon, rain or shine.
Volunteers are asked to dress for the weather, bring work gloves and a shovel, pruners or lopping shears if you have them.
Starbucks will provide coffee and hot chocolate. Water also will be available.
To keep our events manage-able and safe, register by noon. Forms are at www.KentWA-Parks.com. Click on Volunteer. Or call 253-856-5110.
The event is part of the city’s Green Kent Partnership, a 20-year commitment to restore and manage natural areas.
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privatize sales. That change becomes effective June 1. Stores must have at least 10,000 square feet to sell liquor under the initiative, but the state-run stores are excluded from that rule.
Initiative 1183 directed the liquor board to auction the state store properties at their current location. However, the state leases the properties, not owns, creating a unique circum-stance for the auction.
Successful bidders earned the exclusive right to apply for a liquor license at the current location within its current footprint. All state store properties are below the 10,000 square foot threshold established by the initiative.
Successful bidders will need to secure a lease with the property landlord. If they are unable to secure a lease, they may re-sell their right or request an alternative location within a 1-mile radius of the existing location.
Here is the rundown on the four Kent stores:
20514 108th Ave. SE. Winning bid $141,000 by Ramesh Rabadia, of Renton. Store had $3.7 mil-
lion in gross sales in 2011.-
ington Ave. S. Winning bid $125,100 by Rajinder Singh,
million in gross sales in 2011.
Kim, of Vancouver. Store had $2.8 million in gross sales in 2011.
Ave. SE. Winning bid $160,100 by Kidest Belete, of Renton. Store had $4.2 mil-lion in gross sales in 2011.
Rabadia, in addition to
also had the state’s highest winning bid of $750,000 for the Tacoma store at 7048
$6.2 million in gross sales in 2011.
The state liquor board ran two simultaneous auc-tions to achieve “maximum reasonable value,” as stated in the initiative.
individual store. The second was for all store locations available for a single bid,
higher of the two. The sum of individual
bids exceeded the $4.6 mil-lion all-store high bid by a nearly 7-to-1 ratio.
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In January, Valley Women’s Healthcare joined the Valley Medical
Center Clinic Network. Excellent, safe care is our top priority so
we felt it was in the best interest of our patients as well as our
practice to form a partnership with our area’s premier hospital
leader, Valley Medical Center.
What This Change Means for Our Patients
This change will not affect offi ce care. Drs. Bigler, Zomer, Maccio and
Atwood, as well as all of our staff, will remain in our current Auburn location
and continue to provide our patients with excellent OB/GYN care. It is
important to note our physicians have now moved all in-hospital care to
Valley Medical Center in Renton, including all surgeries and deliveries.
We Chose Valley for Their Remarkable Birth Experience
Valley Medical Center parents-to-be enjoy a comfortable home-like setting
with an expert level of care unlike any other in South King County. Specially
trained staff deliver family-centered care in a safe, nurturing environment
designed to provide a full complement of support services for moms and
their newborns that we feel is vitally important, including:
Level III Neonatal ICU provides §
the highest level of care between
Seattle and Tacoma
In-house anesthesia service 24/7 §
to assist with pain management,
Caesarean section and
emergency deliveries
24/7 obstetric hospitalists §
dedicated to the safety of our
patients and new arrivals
In house neonatal team specially §
trained to care for the tiniest of
newborns
Maternal fetal medicine §
specialists
Lactation specialists §
Pediatric specialists §
For more information about The Birth Center at Valley Medical Center, visit
valleymed.org/birth.
Make your appointment with Valley Women’s Healthcare today!
253.939.9654 1 East Main Street, Suite 100, Auburn, WA 98002
Choose Valley for a
RemarkableBirth
ExperienceThe Physician Team at
Valley Women’s Healthcare:
(top to bottom)
MaryEllen Maccio, MD;
C. Robert Bigler, MD;
Amy Atwood, MD;
Bilha Zomer, MD
