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The Rainier Youth Choirs got the opportunity to perform with Barry Manilow and Olympic skaters during the Pandora Unforgettable Moments of Love On Ice program last Friday night at the ShoWare Center. The choir was asked to sing during the grand fi nale. “It is with great
confi dence that I accepted the last-minute challenge,” said RYC Choral Director Leora Schwitters. RYC of Kent off ers a children’s choir and youth choir music education and performance program for boys and girls in the South King County area. COURTESY PHOTO
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Fight at RJC injures 3BY STEVE HUNTER
Assault charges were expected to be fi led this week against a 23-year-old Renton man in connection with a fi ght Monday with a detective and attorney outside a courtroom at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Kent Police arrested the man for fourth-degree assault and third-degree assault, according to probable cause documents fi led with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Offi ce. Prosecutors had until Th ursday (aft er the Kent Reporter dead-line) to fi le charges. Th e man was booked Monday into the city jail and released Tuesday. Bail was set at $20,000.
Th e incident started outside of a third-fl oor courtroom dur-ing recess of a criminal trial [ more FIGHT page 3 ]
Carol Cleveland, iGrad principal, keeps her door open to students and off ers one-on-one guidance. MICHELLE CONERLY, Kent Reporter
MORE STUDENTS MAKING THE GRADE AT IGRADBY MICHELLE CONERLY
“Welcome! Are you here for class today?”
One by one, each student checks in at the front desk, takes a seat in front of a laptop and begins learning.
For students completing the Kent School District diploma track through the new iGrad program, this is what their classroom looks like.
Th e iGrad academy is a district program funded by the state in partnership with the Kent School District and Green River Com-munity College (GRCC) that off ers students 16-21 years old the ability to earn credits toward one of three program tracks. Students also may choose to earn a Washington state diploma or a GED certifi cate.
Th is individualized learning model is structured to cater to the students’ unique needs.
“At the iGrad site each student is taking the subjects they need to [ more IGRAD page 2 ]
BY MARK KLAAS
[email protected] Marlatt, an emerging local fashion
designer, is sizing up the national competition.Th e Kent woman – who has realized her
dreams by pursuing her passion in apparel – was one of 16 clothing designers from throughout the country chosen to vie for top honors and prizes in Season 11 of “Project Runway”, a reality TV series that premieres at 9 p.m. next Th ursday on Lifetime.
“It was fabulous. It was a (full range) of emotions every day,” Marlatt said of the experience. “I’d do it again 100 times. It was a
wonderful experience. It was such a thrill to be included in that group of people.”
Marlatt, 60, and other designers used the spotlight of New York City as inspira-tion to create garments during the fi rst episode, but quickly discovered working in teams for the season chal-
lenged their patience and creativity.Th e series was fi lmed entirely in the
Big Apple. Marlatt said fi lming recently wrapped up but could not divulge the
show’s outcome.“It was more intense than I could ever
imagine,” Marlatt said. “People have no idea of how hard it is to be creative under those circumstances. Everything is so fast.”
In “Project Runway”, contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time, materials and theme. Th eir designs are judged, and one or more designers are eliminated each week.
For Marlatt and the other designers, it was fi erce. Contestants had to watch their backs while keeping their eyes on the prize
Fashion designer gets shot to compete on ‘Project Runway’
Marlatt
[ more MARLATT page 4 ]
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If as many as 18 or more coal trains per day start roll-ing through Kent, city offi cials
want to try to reduce the impact to residents, businesses and the environment.
Th e City Council knows any chance to halt the proposed Gateway Pacifi c terminal near
Bellingham to ship coal to China could meet similar results as try-ing to stop a runaway train.
But the council agreed it must try to do something to mitigate the impact on Kent if trains run
from Wyoming and Montana to Spokane through the Colum-bia River Gorge and up north through Kent on the way to Bellingham. Th e seven-member council and Mayor Suzette Cooke
signed an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) scoping letter Tuesday night in an eff ort to get the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
City Council raises concerns about coal trains
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graduate – whatever they are credit deficient in,” said Catherine Cantrell, interim dean of instruction – lan-guage, academic skills, and wellness at GRCC.
At of the beginning of January, around 460 students were enrolled in the iGrad program, but ac-cording to Principal Carol Cleveland, 12 to 14 students are added daily, making the actual number of students much higher.
Before enrolling, every
student meets with Cleve-land for a one-on-one ses-sion to address the student’s educational needs and goals. Then, the choice is his or hers as to which track would satisfy those needs.
For the students who choose the GED track, pro-fessors come to the iGrad site in a Kent strip mall at 25668 104th Ave. S.E., and students are expected to at-tend class four days a week in order to prepare for the GED test. For the students who choose to earn a Kent School District diploma,
they must attend class for three hours once a week at the iGrad site. The other 12 required hours per week are to be completed remotely via a computer.
For students choos-ing the Washington state diploma track, they are able to attend GRCC classes on campus. Students are also able to earn college credit while still earning high school credits.
“We consider iGrad students Green River Com-munity College students,” Cantrell said. “We encour-
age them to be a part of the college. The whole benefit of iGrad is that students can transition to college.”
To the couple thousand students in the Kent School District that were eligible to participate, a team of administrators sent out postcards informing them of their eligibility. For every postcard that was sent back expressing interest, the administrators called every student to meet with Cleveland and to begin the process of enrollment.
Many of the students
who choose to participate in the iGrad program have dropped out of school or never re-enrolled in school for many reasons. Part of Cleveland’s job is to address those issues and make learning as accessible as possible for the students in this program.
“I try to remove all the barriers I can,” Cleveland said. “My day is filled with figuring out what they need.”
From bus passes and reduced childcare services to paying for their first two years of at GRCC, Cleve-land has set up funds that allow her to be a “barrier remover” for the students in the iGrad program that qualify for these options.
Students do not have to live within the boundaries of the Kent School District to enroll in the iGrad pro-gram, yet if they choose to participate, they must abide by the school district rules. The interest in the program has grown so much that Cleveland has received calls from other districts and even other states as to how this model of educa-tion is working out for the students.
Not all the kinks are
worked out yet, though. With only five teachers and two counselors, the minimal staffing makes it difficult at times for Cleve-land. She is looking to hire an assistant principal to help organize and supervise the program.
For the students who choose to earn a Kent School District diploma, there is little to no social aspect of the program. For some students, the lack of socializing is welcomed, but for others, they miss the traditional classroom setting.
At any time, students can choose to leave the program or return to the program. For the older students who enroll, they must finish one of the three tracks before exceeding the age require-ment.
Although in some cases, Cleveland must turn poten-tial students away for lack of eligibility reasons, she strives to accommodate as many students as she can and enable them to reach their goals.
“I’m on a get your skills, get it done system,” said Cleveland. “It’s tough, (but) this is the dream job. Excit-ing and challenging.”
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stemming from a 2012 drive-by shooting in Seattle.
A Seattle detective was in the courtroom at the trial involving several gang members, accord-ing to probable cause documents. Th e detective knew about threats that had been made to the victim
and witnesses by associates of the defendant. Th e detective said he observed the Renton man angrily staring at the victim in the court-room. Th e detective told the man he needed to stop staring.
When court went into recess, the Renton man and others went out-side the courtroom into the foyer.
Th e Renton man and another man started to yell at each other.
Th e detective said he put a hand on the Renton man’s chest to encourage him to leave but the man pushed his hand away. He identifi ed himself as a police offi cer and again put his hand on the man’s chest. When the man started to reach for his back pocket,
the detective saw that as a threat and grabbed the man’s right hand.
Th e man pulled his hand away and started to yell at the detective, according to court documents. He then allegedly reached up with both hands and grabbed the detective’s shirt collar, turning his hands in-ward as if the strangle him. He then
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man on the ground, a prosecuting attorney attempted to assist the detec-tive. But the Renton man reportedly kicked the attorney in the stomach, causing him to fall in pain.
[ FIGHT from page 1 ]
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Kent Police detectives on Wednesday continued their in-vestigation into the disappearance and eventual return of an 8-year-old Kent girl last week.
Th e disappearance triggered Kent Police offi cials to issue an
Amber Alert aft er family mem-bers were unable to locate the girl or her father for an extended period of time.
Family and police concerns for the safety of the girl were heightened when it was learned that several acts of family violence had preceded her disappear-
ance, according to a Kent Police media release. Police spokesman Pat Lowery said police took the unusual step of issuing the Amber Alert aft er their eff orts to locate and interview the child’s father went without success.
Several hours aft er the alert was issued, the young girl was returned
to the home of her mother by an unknown man believed to be an associate to the child’s father. Police confi rmed that she not been harmed during her time away from home.
Th e motive for the father taking her without notice to other family members is not known at this time. Th ere were no custodial issues pend-
ing, though tensions between the two parents had risen sharply in the days leading to her disappearance.
“It appears that the Amber Alert message produced just what we had hoped for, prompting the young girls father to return the child to her family without injury or incident,” Lowery said.
Police looking for father of girl returned after Amber Alert
City seeks to retain state-shared revenueBY STEVE HUNTER
Th e city of Kent plans to lobby hard to keep the Leg-islature from taking away state-shared revenue despite the state’s budget struggles.
Kent wants to protect nearly $4.9 million per year it gets in Streamlined Sales Tax mitigation payments as well as another $3.7 million per year it receives in sales tax credits for annexing the Panther Lake area in 2010.
Legislators opened the 2013 session on Monday in Olympia. Kent Mayor
Suzette Cooke, Council-woman Dana Ralph and Michelle Wilmot, city community and public aff airs manager, met with legislators Monday who represent portions of Kent to present the city’s agenda.
“Th e biggest ones are the retention of state-shared revenues,” said Wilmot, who works closely with city contract lobbyist Doug Levy. “With the state bud-get problems, we’ve been fearful the Legislature will look to fi nd cuts to help solve the budget issues.”
City offi cials also want to protect state liquor taxes that provide about another $1.7 million to the city for public safety and human service needs.
“It’d be a whole diff erent ballgame if there is a $10 million cut from the state,” Wilmot said.
Kent receives Stream-lined Sales Tax mitigation funds to help replace lost sales tax revenue when the 2007 Legislature changed how taxes were collected. As a distribution center, Kent initially lost out on revenue because the sales tax is collected in the loca-tion where products end up rather than where the products originated.
Th e annexation sales tax credit is scheduled to last for 10 years to the help the city cover the capital infrastructure costs of annexing 24,000 people in the Panther Lake area.
Th e state faces a $900 million budget shortfall through the end of June 2015, according to the September report by the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council.
Legislators also must spent $1 billion or more to meet its obligation to fully fund basic education as or-dered by the state Supreme Court.
“We know they are look-ing at cuts again,” Wilmot said.
Because of re-districting of legislative districts, city offi cials will work with representatives from Dis-trict 11, which covers part of the Panther Lake area, as well as District 33 and 47 representatives.
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as they worked together to impress supermodel and fashion maven Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Nina
Garcia and featured judge Zac Posen and guest judge, Season 4 “Project Runway” winner Christian Siriano.
“The judges were tough
but fair,” Marlatt said.Working with other
creative minds proved even tougher for Marlatt.
“That was a nightmare,”
she said. “I’m stubborn … you learn to work with others … but working in groups is difficult.”
Especially with so much creativity in play and with so much on the line.
The season’s victorious designer received $100,000 from L’Oréal Paris to start his or her own apparel line, in addition to a fashion spread in Marie Claire mag-azine, a 2013 Lexus GS 350, a $50,000 technology suite by HP and Intel to create and run a business and the opportunity to design and sell an exclusive collection at Lord & Taylor.
For Marlatt, the oppor-tunity to shine on national TV turned out to be a great opportunity. She is deter-mined to give her fashion design work a full-time go – her third career, sort of speak.
She drove a UPS truck as a single mom during the 1980s, then met and joined her husband in owning and operating a funeral home
in Kent. She raised three kids of her own, and helped raise two more inherited from her husband.
Marlatt earned a degree in fashion design at the Art Institute of Seattle, where she presented nine of her designs at the school’s fash-ion show last March.
She went to New York City to do a three-month internship at Ann Taylor in Times Square.
Marlatt, who began designing clothes for her family when she was a little girl, hopes to open her own clothing line, providing apparel to Nordstrom and local boutiques.
She produces high-end products “because I love the beautiful fabric like silk and wool.”
Her design’s primary focus is on movement and comfort, producing the right look for professional women, ages 35-50.
Marlatt is enjoying the ride. “It’s what I love to do,” she said.
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[ TRAINS from page 1 ] and state Department of Ecology (DOE) to look at impacts on Kent as part of the EIS.
“I’m not sure what we ask for would mitigate the im-pact but we have to at least try,” said Councilwoman Elizabeth Albertson during a Public Works Committee meeting about coal trains.
Albertson said the city wants steps such as to cover and secure the coal in the train cars; money for construction of overpasses or underpasses so streets do not turn into gridlock; ways to lessen the noise impact; and control of air emissions from the trains.
“It’s very important to weigh in,” Council-woman Dana Ralph said. “We might not have much control whether this hap-pens or not happens but my main concern as we go along is to mitigate the im-
pacts to our residents and businesses and this is the first step in that process.”
Seattle-based SSA Marine Inc., has submitted applica-tions to develop the largest coal export facility in North America at Cherry Point, said Steve Mullen, city transportation engineering manager, in a report to the Public Works Committee. Coal mined from the Pow-der River Basin in Montana and Wyoming would be hauled by trains along Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) rail lines.
As many as 18 trains (nine full, nine empty on return) would cause crossing gates to go down for additional one hour in Kent. Gates go down about 2½ hours per day now.
“We have concerns about additional delays down-town,” Mullen said. “The 1.5-mile long trains would add 51 seconds of delay at
each (of Kent’s eight) cross-ings and block traffic from South 259th Street to James Street simultaneously which means nobody moves.”
Each coal train take up to five locomotives to pull up to 150 cars, Mullen said. He added research has shown trains with the uncovered cars can lose up to 2,000 pounds of coal dust during a trip from Montana to Cherry Point.
Courtney Wallace, Seattle-based BNSF Railway regional director of public affairs, said BNSF has taken operating steps to greatly reduce the loss of coal dust and that the issue is no longer a problem because of a new rule passed two years ago.
“Coal dust posed a serious threat to the stability of the track structure operational integrity of BNSF’s rail lines in the Powder River Basin (Montana and Wyoming),” Wallace said in an email.
“Railcars properly loaded at origin effectively address coal dust. BNSF implemented an operating rule in 2011 requiring our customers to properly load and treat coal carloads with a surface crust-ing agent to prevent dust. We believe that our operating rule effectively addresses coal dust.”
Wallace said about 50 trains of all types go through Kent daily. She said grain trains average about 110 cars. She declined to reveal how many coal trains go through town now or the destinations of those trains.
Mullen said one or two coal trains go through Kent daily. He said the trains go to British Columbia terminals for the coal to be shipped to China.
BNSF confirmed that as many as 18 coal trains per day could be added to the Kent route.
“The Gateway Pacific
Terminal is being permit-ted to handle one to nine loaded trains per day,” Wallace said. “At maximum capacity, the terminal could handle nine loaded trains a day and nine empty trains a day. BNSF has three major east-west routes through Washington and exact routing would depend on several factors, such as cus-tomer needs, weather and freight volumes.”
The other routes are through Stevens Pass or Stampede Pass. Mullen said, however, that the Columbia River Gorge looms as the anticipated route because Stevens Pass already has a lot of train traffic while it’s doubtful Stampede Pass can handle loaded coal trains but might carry empty trains.
For more information or to comment about the pro-posed terminal, go to www.ecy.wa.gov/geographic/gatewaypacific/.
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Our school discipline needs an overhaul
Th ere is a lot of talk and activism around school discipline these days and I happen to be serving on the Kent School District (KSD) committee to review its discipline policies.
Th e committee is made up largely of school administrators, but also includes representation for teachers and community members which includes parents.
It’s always tough to talk about discipline issues because there are so many diff erent perspectives and positions. However, the cur-rent committee members show extraordinary commitment by agreeing to continue the discussion beyond the originally sched-uled meeting dates. Furthermore, it is quite evident that these committee members care
about the community’s children.
As a school admin-istrator in the past I suspended many, many students. Among the concerns that teach-ers had about student discipline was that the response to a school vio-
lation provided consequences that were fair to all parties concerned. Most parents and students felt likewise.
Among other discipline-related issues, obviously safety would be a major concern for teachers, other staff and students during any discussions around student discipline. Th ere are many discipline situations wherein if a student was not removed from the class-room or the school, it would create an unsafe environment and students and staff could become very concerned about the ability of the school leaders to maintain order. Some suspensions are necessary.
On the other hand, parents certainly don’t want students suspended from school while they are at work. Th at point came through so loud and clear that as an administrator I pulled together a team of community orga-nizations to work with and supervise some students who were suspended during their days on out of school suspension. Although this is not the time or place to discuss the details of that program, it was apparent that the program also served many more students whose parents never complained about the length of their child’s suspension.
For many, schools are homeI could tell you stories about home life for
many students that would be chilling. But suffi ce it to say, that for an enormous number of students, schools are the only safe haven, the only place where they have structure, the only place they encounter positive role models in their young lives. Th e proper so-cialization process that takes place at school is absolutely critical to their success in life be-cause too many don’t receive that from home.
A school administrator is oft en caught in
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we do our fair share
In response to Sandra Gill’s numerous, and unanswered, letters to the Kent Reporter, I feel it is fi nally time for a response.
Ms. Gill, to be blunt, is mis-informed on what businesses are required to pay. She contin-ually has stated that businesses need to pay their “fair share” (a politically charged “buzz term” from our last election).
It is also a term that has been used to segregate large segments of our population. Here it is being used to entice a form of class warfare in our community by pitting a confl ict between the regular (homeowner) citizenry against its business community.
Well, Ms. Gill, since you ap-pear to be so completely misin-formed, let me enlighten you, and any followers you have, of what one locally owned, small business, among many, is required to pay.
First, there is our new B&O tax. It will cost in 2013, over $5,700 per year, and this amount is not the “next to zero” fi gure your letter, dated Nov. 30, stated regarding busi-ness’ expenses. And in case you weren’t up on this fact, busi-nesses did not get the option to vote on this new 8&0 tax, nor do residents have to pay it.
Residents at least got to vote on Proposition 1. And should we note that Prop 1
was defeated by the residents, which outnumber the business owners by a great majority. And should we also note that if it had passed, that business owners would have had to pay their “fair share” of Proposition 1 (in addition), just like the residents.
Second, there is the Regional Fire Authority (RFA) and Fire Benefi t Charge (FBC). A home valued at $300,000 will pay $300 per year for the RFA, and a 2,700-square-foot home will be charged ap-proximately $234.47 per year for the FBC. Our business will pay $3,946.40 for the RFA and $5,285.81 for the FBC. Doesn’t that demonstrate that business-es are paying their “fair share,” and at a rate much higher than the average homeowner?
Th irdly, just to further enlighten you, there is the por-tion of our property taxes that are paid to the city. Th e average
homeowner in Kent will pay $411.88 per year to the city of Kent from their property taxes. Our business will pay $6,188.53 to the city this year.
I believe that further demon-strates our proportion of “fair share” for the city’s infrastruc-ture, proving again that busi-nesses payout much more than the average homeowner. By the way, this is on top of the B&O tax for road repairs.
And while we are speaking of road taxes, our small busi-ness has nothing to do with the 18-wheeler semi-trucks that you say are responsible for all the damaged roads. We have little problem with paying our “fair share” for the road repairs, but how much do homeowner’s pay for the road repairs that they drive on every day? Eighteen-wheelers only travel on a few of the roads in this community, and usually roads that are co-shared and main-tained by either the county or the state.
Lastly, if we haven’t al-ready made our point, there is the storm drainage charge. Residents pay a monthly storm drainage fee of $10.56. Th is equals $126.72 per year. Our business pays over $750 per month for storm drainage. Th is totals up to over $9,300 per year. Th is rate will increase by 5 percent in 2013, a 53-cent increase per month for resi-dents, but a $39.16 increase per month for us.
So Ms. Gill, businesses are paying their “fair share” – and more – for maintaining this
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Janice Marie (Zaborac) TegtmeyerJanice Marie (Zaborac) Tegtmeyer, 66,
passed away at her home in Kent on January 10, 2013 surrounded by family members and her cats. She suffered from serious lung issues for over 20 years. Born on July 5, 1946 in Illinois, Janice lived almost all her life in Seattle and Kent. She went to Holy Rosary Grade School, Holy Family Grade School, Holy Rosary High School, and West Seattle High School. Most of her
work years were in the service industry including working at King’s Beef Broiler, Clark’s Round the Clock, American Legion, Kent Bowl and lastly as a parking garage attendant at SeaTac Airport.
Janice was a very kind person. She would give you her last dime and oftentimes did. She made friends with everyone. She was funny, even outrageous at times. She had a child-like perception of the world, finding humor in situations where others may have been stressed out. She loved her family and her cats. Janice was a key person in our family and will be sorely missed. Our loss is Heaven’s gain.
She is survived by her parents Zab Zaborac and Rosella; son Robert Tegtmeyer; granddaughter Jessica Tegtmeyer; siblings Sharon Dalrymple (Al), Dennis Zaborac (Mirei), Larry Zaborac (Cathie), and Monica Zaborac; niece and nephews David and Steven (Sarah) Dalrymple and Nathaniel and Andrea Zaborac; grandnephew Austin Dalrymple; grandniece Allison Dalrymple; and her four cats Sylvia, Socks, Tiger and Whiskey.
Celebration of Life is Saturday, January 19, 2013 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. at the Kent American Legion, 25405 97th Place South, Kent. Memorial donations may be sent in her name to the Kent Animal Shelter. Please sign the online guest book at www.edline-
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away peacefully at Swedish Hospital in Seattle on January 8, 2013, with his family by his side.
Richard was born August 11, 1917, in Seattle, WA. His parents and five siblings moved to Kent when he was a young boy. He graduated from Kent High School in 1935. Richard and his brother, Irving, owned and operated a fur farming business in the Kent Valley for 32 years.
Richard and his wife, Helen, moved from Kent to Seabeck, on the Hood Canal, in 1980. The Pohls moved to Lacey in 2005. Richard was a life-time member of the First Baptist Church in Kent, WA. In recent years, Richard was an active member of the Lacey Senior Center, and enjoyed the time he spent there with friends.
He is survived by his wife Helen of Lacey; daughters Sharon Genzlinger and Marilyn (Bob) Greenway; grand-daughter Stacey Genzlinger, all of Olympia; and brother, Harold Pohl of Garden Grove, CA.
A celebration of life will be held in the spring at a date to be determined. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Richard’s name to the Lacey Senior Center Building
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city’s infrastructure, and making your roads safer. But businesses are dealing with the same struggling economy that homeowners are.
Remarks you make about Kent businesses are very disparaging. In the last month, two businesses on our street closed down. Gone, out of business.
If more businesses close because they can’t make ends meet, possibly due to the new B&O, higher utility rates, etc., what will happen to Kent’s economy and work force? Kent has seen a
loss of 4,400 manufacturing jobs since 2000.
Your negative diatribe about Kent businesses and their failure to meet their “fair share” of responsi-bilities to the city (and particularly you, a resident) couldn’t be further from the truth. The Kent business community is, and has always been a responsible contributor to the infra-structure, funding for all aspects of this city, and to a greater degree than hom-eowners. Residents utilize the same roads, parks, water, sewer and storm drainage system as the busi-
nesses. They utilize them probably a lot more, yet pay far less than the business community.
So why don’t we just stop here. All of us within this city have a “fair share” respon-sibility to make our city’s infrastructure work. We don’t need “class warfare” – Kent residents vs. Kent businesses tearing this city apart.
The real problem here is that our fair city made the decision years ago to go into commercial business … the Riverbend Golf course and the 5hoWare Center. They have become anchors. Take them out of the equation and Kent will be just fine, without all the extra taxes and fees. But I cannot comment here how to fix that problem. But I do know … it will take all of us … working together and living together in this community.– Nadia Ahmed
Youth Board is exemplary
I’m writing to share my experiences with Con-gressman Dave Reichert’s Youth Board. As a student interested in policymaking, I didn’t hesitate to apply.
Throughout the year, we discussed public policy is-sues with the Congressman in locations ranging from Issaquah to Enumclaw. By participating in these discus-sions and visiting different places, I feel we’ve come to understand better the opin-ions on both sides.
But most importantly, this board is a channel for youth voices to be heard.
I applaud Congressman Reichert for creating this model board and encourage any high school student in the Eighth Congressional District to join.– Johnny Xu
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the middle knowing also that suspending students leads to more student failures, to higher dropout rates, and eventually more ending up in jail. So what’s the answer?
Some parents can’t, won’t or don’t do enough to sup-port their children’s educa-tion. In some such instanc-es, the community must do so. That’s a major reason
why education is compul-sory; a good education also can help level the playing field for a child’s success in life regardless of the parents contribution. And, in addi-tion to our need for human compassion, a democratic society needs an educated populace to thrive.
In the words of John Dewey, “... What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the
community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy ...”
The answer is clear, the education of children is not just a parent and school concern, it’s the concern of a caring community and society as well. We must find ways to support students, educators and parents. That means finding ways to reduce the number of suspensions while keep-ing students and staff in a safe learning environment. And when it becomes nec-essary to remove a student from school, provide their families with options for students to be placed in
another educational setting. There is a large amount of research and best practice information with proven strategies for to accomplish those ends.
The KSD published a document indicating the numbers of students suspended from the KSD in each of the years from 2007 through 2011. Of the students suspended or expelled anywhere from one day to more than 21 days in the 2011 school year 30 were American/Alaskan native, 134 Asian, 757 black, 74 Hawaiian/Pa-cific Islander, 515 Hispanic/Latino, 191 multiracial, 81 information not provided, and 885 white students for
a total of 2,586 suspended students.
Think about how many of these students were out on the streets being recruited by gang members, making babies, entering homes, shoplifting or just sitting at home watching TV and wasting time, all while many parents are at work.
The research says for many students suspension from school is their first step toward jail and the beginning of many other negative effects on the stu-dent, family and communi-ty, yet there is little evidence to indicate that suspensions changes the suspended students’ behavior.
Another way to view it is, we care now or we pay later. Let’s care now by changing the conver-sation from one of how many days does a student get suspended to hav-ing conversations first about what is our guiding principles around disci-pline of the community’s children? How do we responsibly reduce the numbers of suspensions? What alternatives can we provide to the numbers of unsupervised suspension? And where do we get the resources to implement proven strategies to meet those ends?
Melvin Tate is a regular con-tributor to the Kent Reporter.
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Kent Police busted a mother-daughter shoplifting duo who allegedly worked together to take items from WinCo Foods, 21100 91st Place S.
A store loss prevention officer called police to report he had a mother and her 15-year-old daughter in cus-tody for removing items from shelves and not paying for them before leaving the store at about 6:05 p.m. Dec. 30, ac-cording to the police report.
The pair reportedly took double of multiple items and placed some of the items in the top portion of the cart and some items on the bottom part of the cart next to a reusable bag. They then moved into the next aisle where the mother tried to block any view of her daughter as the girl placed items into the bag.
When the two left, they
paid for items in the cart but not for the items they had placed in the bag. The report did not list the type of items taken but reported a value of $145 worth of items removed from the store.
Police cited and released the mother and the daughter for investigation of third-degree theft.
RobberyA teen reported that
three older teens or men in their early 20s attacked and robbed him of his wallet during an incident at about 3:44 p.m. Dec. 31 at a field near East Hill Elementary School in the 9800 block of South 240th Street.
The teen told officers that he and his brother went to play football at the park when three subjects walked up and asked if they could play, according to the police report.
One of the men pulled out a small baseball bat and hit the teen on the head. The teen fell to the ground and
all three men reportedly kicked and punched him and someone took his wallet that carried his driver's
license and a gift card. The trio then fled on
foot before police arrived.Police closed the case for
a lack of sufficient informa-tion about the suspects.
AssaultA woman reported that
her boyfriend head-butted her during a dispute at about 11:33 a.m. Dec. 31 at an apartment in the 23300 block of 61st Avenue South.
The woman had a bump on her forehead, according to the police report. Officers cited the man at large for in-vestigation of fourth-degree assault.
The woman said her boy-friend had hit her before but
this marked the first time she had reported a case to police. They have known each other for about eight years and have a child together.
The boyfriend had left the apartment before officers ar-rived. An officer later talked to the boyfriend by phone. The boyfriend said they had been in a fight and that his girlfriend would not let him leave the apartment so he
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The man and woman
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Mike Christiansen sits at his desk, watching students type away on computers.
In his classroom, you will fi nd no paper or pencils, only a small bookshelf with textbooks dating back decades. What you will fi nd
are Macintosh comput-ers, desks and a projection screen – all Christiansen needs to teach world and U.S. history.
Christiansen and seven other educators at the Kent-Meridian Technology Academy (KMTA) have taken a new approach to teaching. Th is “school
within a school” program uses a technology-based model of instruction to help students hone skills for the future.
“We’ve created a culture of academic achievement,” Christiansen said. “We’re preparing kids for the 21st century.”
Established in 2007, the
academy was added to Kent-Meridian High School aft er Mill Creek Middle School created the Kent Technol-ogy Academy (KTA) for younger students. Together, the academies employ 15 teachers and serve about 500 students.
In the KMTA teaching model, students use the Internet and diff erent com-puter soft ware programs to learn the material, which, for some instructors, serves as a better resource for the subjects they teach.
“Th is is current world issues so there’s no textbook that will ever be up to date,” said Alexandra Samorano, social studies teacher at KMTA. “Th e culture of the class is totally Internet-based because the most up-to-date information is going to be there.”
Th is new model of
instruction “fl ips the classroom,” accord-ing to Christiansen, allowing students to problem solve on their own while teachers help guide them to the right information.
“I’m the guy who’s helping them gain more knowledge,” Christiansen said. “It’s my job they learn the key concepts but also enthuse them to learn new ideas.”
Instead of memoriza-tion and rewriting answers found in the back of the book, the curriculum is more project-based. Kids create presentations and videos to demonstrate their understanding of concepts.
For math or science classes, a website like Ex-plorelearning.com provide products such as Gizmos! to let students dissect frogs digitally. Products like Bamboo Pen Tablets allow students to use their own
handwriting to do calcula-tions that show up on the computer screen.
Christiansen introduces a new program like Adobe Photoshop or Flash every couple of weeks. Students then create videos and presentations that, at times, turn out to be creative and innovative projects.
“Kids love the programs we use,” Christiansen said. “Th ey get geeked up about them.”
Although the Kent School District completely supports the KMTA, not everyone is as “geeked up” about it as Christiansen and Samorano.
“Sometimes we get a little weirdness from outside teachers,” Samorano said.
“How could you be teaching if you’re not in the classroom? But we have a lot of trust in our kids and deal with any discipline problems in-house.”
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Another concern is that students don’t get the socialization traditional classrooms provide. But Samorano assures that in and outside of a KMTA classroom, students learn the social skills needed to succeed in the real world.
“Our kids are involved in electives with everyone else (at Kent-Meridian),” Samorano said. “A lot of them are offi cers of the clubs. Th ey take on leadership positions even when we don’t force them because it’s
just natural.” Christiansen and
Samorano see the role of technology as a positive element in their curriculum. And even though they might have their own concerns, they believe the Internet and technology in general should be embraced and not ignored.
“One of my fears is that handwriting is going away,” Samo-rano said. “But I think (students’) thoughts will be more clear because they can edit faster. Kids are going to be learning things at a faster rate.”
Learning by doing: Kent-Meridian tech students sit in the green screen room adjacent to Michael Christiansen’s classroom. They are fi lming news broadcasts and commercials as part of their history project. MICHELLE CONERLY, Kent Reporter
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Madison Robinson, a member of Kentwood’s Silver coed tumbling cheer squad, practices a stunt. The team is preparing for state onJan. 26. KATHERINE SMITH, Reporter
BY KATHERINE SMITH
Every detail counts for Kentwood High’s cheer-leaders.
Th e team is preparing for the Jan. 26 Cheerlead-ing State Championships at Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion on the University of Wash-ington campus, and the Conquerors have their eyes on taking home gold.
Kentwood, which fi elds both tumbling and non-tumbling cheer squads, qualifi ed for the state meet earlier this year at a competition where they scored 241 and 264 points, respectively – it only takes 175 to qualify.
Watching the team in the
gym, where they practice tumbling passes and stunts over and over again, it is clear that this is a team out to win. Every move must be sharp, every transition perfect – if not they do it again. Every bobble or missed count will cost the team precious points at the state competition.
At state the teams will be judged on their eff ective-ness as crowd leaders and tumbling, jumps and mo-tions as well as execution.
One stunt that the tumbling squad has worked to perfect as the competi-tion approaches is called a double up.
“It’s an advanced move,” said Kentwood coach Kim Kawachi. “We’re the only high school, that I know of,
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Th e 2013 King Showcase will hit the court on Mon-day, Jan. 21 at the Showare Center in Kent.
Seven games are featured for an all-day high school basketball event. Two of the
best girls teams in the Pa-cifi c Northwest will square off when Mount Rainier of Des Moines plays Oregon City, Ore.
Decatur will play the Fed-eral Way boys in a matchup that has only been seen once in the last four years. A Kent
showdown is at 7:30 p.m. between the Kent-Meridian and Kentridge boys.
A Martin Luther King Jr. Day tribute will commence at 5:30 p.m.
Ticket prices are $5 to $10. Th e tournament is presented by Team Financial Partners.
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Lingerie Football League changes name to Legends
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Th e women’s Lingerie Football League is now the Legends Football League.
Th e league includes the Kent-based Seattle Mist who play at the ShoWare Center. League offi cials announced the name change Jan. 9.
“Th is is the next step in the maturation of our now global sport,” said Mitchell S. Mor-taza, league founder and chairman, in a media release. “While the Lingerie Football League name has drawn great media attention allowing us to showcase the sport to millions, we have now reached a crossroad of gaining credibility as a sport or continuing to be viewed as a gimmick.”
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CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF ORDINANCES
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
The following is a summary of the ordinance(s) adopted by the Kent City Council on January 15, 2013:ORDINANCE NO. 4068 - AN
ORDINANCE of the City Coun- cil of the City of Kent, Washing- ton, amending Section 9.02. 150, entitled “Criminal Code,” adopting new RCW’s relating to marijuana.
Each ordinance will take effect 30 days from the date of passage, unless subjected to referendum or vetoed by the Mayor, or unless otherwise noted. A copy of the complete text of any ordinance will be mailed upon request of the City Clerk.
Ronald F. Moore, MMC, City Clerk
Published in the Kent Reporter on January 18, 2013. #729909.
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INVITATION TO BID The Kent School District extends an invitation to qualified General Contractors to bid the construction project hereafter identified as the New Adminis- trative Offices.PROJECT SCHEDULED BID DATE Sealed construction bids will be due at, or before, 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, January 30, 2013. The said bids will then and there be publicly opened and read aloud. Bidders and other properly interested individuals are invited to be present at the bid opening. Bids received after the time fixed for opening cannot be considered. Bid opening loca- tion is:
KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 415ADMINISTRATION CEN- TER – BUILDING “B”12033 SE 256TH STREET
KENT WA 98030-6643PROJECT SCOPEThe Kent School District wishes to contract services to remodel the existing Administrative A-300 area which includes me- chanical and electrical modifica- tions.PROJECT DOCUMENTSA maximum of two project draw- ing sets will be made available to each prime contractor and prime sub-contractor bidders (general, HVAC, electrical and plumbing as applicable) free of charge from the Kent School District Facilities & Construction office located at the above address. MANDATORY PRE-BID WALK THROUGHContractors intending to submit bids must attend a mandatory pre-bid walk through. Mandato- ry pre-bid walk through shall begin at the administrative office (Bldg. A) reception area at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 24, 2013 at the site located at:KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE CAMPUS12033 SE 256TH STREET, BLDG. AKENT WA 98030BID SECURITY REQUIREMENT Bid security, in the amount of 5% of the bid sum shall accompany each bid. Security shall be made payable to the Kent School District either by certified check or bid bond issued by a surety company licensed to conduct business in Washington State. The Kent School District re- serves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any irregu- larities or informalities.No bidder may withdraw his bid after the hour set for the opening thereof, or before award of contract, unless said award is delayed for a period of sixty (60) days.Dated this 9th day of January 2013.
Lee Vargas Ph.D.Secretary to the Board
Kent School District Published in the Kent Reporter on January 11, 2013 and January 18, 2013. #726790.
INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that the City of Kent, Washington, will receive sealed bids at the City Clerk’s office through January 29, 2013 up to 10:45 a.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, Washington. 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, regardless of delivery method, including 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:
Hawley Road Levee Improvements
Project Number: 10-3010 The project consists of construc- tion of approximately 835 linear feet of levee including raising the existing Hawley Road, adjusting existing utilities, detention pond excavation and other miscellane- ous work. Included are approxi- mately 5,770 tons of levee fill, 425 cubic yards of excavation, 2,080 tons of crushed rock, and 775 tons of asphalt paving. The Engineer’s estimated range for this project is approximately $800,000 - $987,000. Bid docu- ments may be obtained by con- tacting City of Kent Engineering Department, Nancy Yoshitake at (253) 856-5508. For technical questions, please call Nick Horn at (253) 856-5529. Bids must be clearly marked “Bid” with the name of the project on the outside of the envelope, addressed to the City Clerk, 220 4th Avenue South, Kent, WA 98032-5895. Only sealed bids will be accepted. No
facsimiles or electronic submit- tals will be considered. Each bid shall be in accordance with the plans and specifications and other contract documents now on file in the office of the City Engineer, City of Kent, Washington. Copies of the plans and Kent Special Provisions may be purchased at a non-refund- able 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, cash 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 9th day of January, 2013. BY:Ronald Moore, City ClerkPublished in the Kent Reporter on January 18, 2013. #728550
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONand Proposed Determination
of Nonsignificance A project permit application was filed with City of Kent Planning Services. The City of Kent ex- pects to issue a Determination of
Nonsignificance (DNS) for the proposal and the Optional DNS Process is being used. This may be the only opportunity to com- ment on the environmental impacts of the proposal and asso- ciated mitigation measures. The proposal may include mitigation measures under applicable codes, and the project review process may incorporate or require miti- gation measures regardless of whether an EIS is prepared. A copy of the subsequent threshold determination for the specific proposal may be obtained upon request. Following is a descrip- tion of the application and the process for review. The applica- tion and listed studies may be reviewed at the offices of Kent Planning Services, 400 W. Gowe Street, Kent, WA.
APPLICATION NAME/NUMBER:UPPER MILLCREEK DAM IMPROVEMENTSENV-2013-1/KIVA #RPSA-2130033
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The City of Kent Public Works Department proposes to upgrade the Upper Mill Creek Dam and the upstream diversion structure in order to increase the flood storage to accommodate a 500-year flood event. Proposed improvements to the dam include raising the dam by 5.5 feet and reconstruction of the primary and emergency spillways to reduce potential overtopping. The up- stream diversion structure is not conducive to fish passage and does not have adequate capacity for diversion of large flood events. Accordingly, the diver- sion structure will be replaced. Other improvements include a concrete weir with a barrier to prevent adult fish from entering the diversion channel, three downstream box culverts and an instream adjustable notch weir. The property is zoned SR-1, Single Family Residential.
The location is the Southeastcorner of 104th Avenue SE and SE 267th Street, King CountyParcel Numbers 292205-9021, -9279, -9292, 9307, -9308.OTHER PERMITS AND PLANS WHICH MAY BE REQUIRED Department ofEcology Dam Safety Permit andConstruction Stormwater Gener-al Permit; Department of Fishand Wildlife Hydraulic ProjectApproval; and Corps of Engi-neers Nationwide Permit.OPTIONAL DETERMINATION:As the LeadAgency, the City of Kent hasdetermined that the proposedproject, as regulated by theCity’s development codes andstandards, is unlikely to have a significant adverse impact on theenvironment. Therefore, as per-mitted under the RCW43.21C.110, the City of Kent isusing the Optional Determinationof Nonsignificance process togive notice that a DNS is likelyto be issued. Comment periodsfor the project and the proposed DNS are integrated into a singlecomment period. A 14-dayappeal period will follow the is-suance of the DNS.PROPOSED MITIGATION MEASURES: NonePUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: January 18, 2013 – February 1, 2013 All persons may comment on this application. Comments mustbe in writing and received in theKent Planning Division by 4:30P.M., Friday, January 1, 2013, at 220 4th Avenue South, KentWA 98032. For questions re- garding this project, please con-tact Erin George, AICP, Senior Planner at (253) 856-5454.DATED: January 18, 2013 Published in the Kent Reporteron January 18, 2013. #729219.
PUBLIC NOTICES
Th e third week of Janu-ary is time to banish the mid-winter blues with col-orful thoughts of spring. If dark days and cold weather has you winter-weary perk up your outlook with these tips for renewal:
1. Get yourself to a Home and Garden Show.
Th e Tacoma Home and Gar-den Show runs Jan. 23-27 at the Tacoma Dome. Th is indoor show has hundreds of vendors but go to see and smell and touch the garden displays and you’ll reap the benefi ts of inhaling nature.
I’ll be speaking next week every day at 2 p.m. (OK, an hour later at 3 on Satur-day) at the show, and to stimulate your spring fever I’ll be giving away samples of some cool new plants. “Taming Your Garden” is the topic for Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, and Th ursday and Saturday
I’ll be speaking on “Cool New Plants and Some Old Favorites.”
2. Grow fresh rosemary, basil or thyme in your kitchen window.
A windowsill herb garden improves your inner health in three diff erent ways.
First, you reap the visual beauty of living plants that soft en
all the hard surfaces of a working kitchen. Second the smell and texture of these Mediterranean herbs relaxes the mind simply by evoking memories of well-seasoned meals. Th en there is the third benefi t, that of actually consuming herbs from their fresh, most nutritious state. Snip the tips of rosemary into stews and soups, layer basil leaves into sandwiches, salads and pesto sauces and trim your potted thyme plants and use these pruning crumbs
to fl avor eggs, bread and chicken. Herbal renewal is just a potted plant and kitchen countertop away.
3. Force some forsythia.It is nice to fool Mother
Nature when you simply cut leafl ess branches of early spring blooming shrubs like forsythia now and place the cut stems into a tall vase of warm water. In a few days the tight buds will plump up and then open to sprays of sunshine-colored blossoms. You can also try forcing cherry, quince, magnolias and camellias to bloom indoors. Low humidity inside the house may hinder the early forcing of some fl owering shrubs but anyone can force forsythia.
4. Buy some seeds.Celebrate the coming
spring by displaying the seed packets in a basket or use clothes pins to clip them onto a length of twine in a location where this vi-sual promise of spring will greet you each day. Even
if you never get around to planting your seeds, the art work and planting instruc-tions are enough to kick start a hibernating winter brain into waking up with energetic spring plans.
5. Buy some cool new berry plants.
One of my favorites for spring 2013 are the easy-to-grow but super healthy Lu-cium Goji berry, also called wolf berry. Th is year Proven Winners is introducing a new variety named “Life-berry.” It was named for the highly nutrient rich berries that can be enjoyed dried or fresh with antioxidant and other health benefi ts.
I am also sweet on “Rasp-berry Shortcake” a dwarf, thorn less, raspberry plant perfect for containers or small gardens.
Winter is a good time to transplant or add berry plants to the garden.
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ball and basketball games and volunteer at other sports’ competitions.
Community service is also a big part of the team’s culture.
Last fall the team orga-nized and hosted a carni-val at Covington Elemen-tary where every student was given a backpack and school supplies.
“Th ey’re amazing stu-dents and good leaders,” Kawachi said. “Th ey’ll go above and beyond for each other and the com-munity.”
Th e team hopes to advance to the national competition later this year in Orlando, Fla.
Kentwood has placed as high as second at nation-als and has fi nished in the top 10 the last six years.
A year ago at the state competition, Kentwood Silver won the 4A coed title, edging out Stadium by four points with 249.
Kentwood Black took second in the non-tum-bling 4A category, with 218 points to Bothell’s
fi rst-place showing of 234.Co-captains Riana
Slyter and Brooke Chase agree that competing and serving their community is what they love most about cheerleading.
For Chase one of the most memorable events the team participated in this year was the Seattle Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon last summer.
“We were up at 4 a.m. and cheered on the run-ners,” Chase said. “We could see how apprecia-tive they (the runners) were.”
Another event the Kentwood cheerleaders organized in the fall was Conks for a Cure, which culminated in the pink-out football game against Kent-Meridian to help raise money for breast cancer charities.
Th rough a number of means such as sales of pink merchandise and donation collections, the team raised $3,500.
“Th ere’s a sense of be-ing a part of something greater,” Slyter said. “It’s such a great team.”
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The Washington State Department of Transportation has begun the scoping period for the Interstate 90 Tolling Environmental Assessment. The community can provide input throughout the scoping period (Jan. 22 – Feb. 22, 2013) on-line or by mail, and in-person during three scoping meetings held January 29, 30, and 31, as noted below.
Tolling on I-90 between I-5 and I-405 is needed to generate revenue to help complete the SR 520 program and to help alleviate congestion on I-90. Scoping is an opportunity to gather feedback that will shape the tolling study. Please join us at any time during the public scoping meetings to learn more and tell us what you think.
Mercer IslandJanuary 29, 20134 – 7 p.m.Mercer Island Community Center8236 Southeast 24th St.Mercer Island, WA 98040
BellevueJanuary 30, 20134 – 7 p.m.Bellevue City Hall450 110th Ave NEBellevue, WA 98004
SeattleJanuary 31, 20134 – 7 p.m.Yesler Community Center917 East Yesler WaySeattle, WA 98122
Your input is needed!
www.wsdot.wa.gov/Tolling/i90The public comment period ends on February 22, 2013
By Mail: Angela Angove, I-90 Tolling Project, 999 Third Ave, Suite 2200, Seattle, WA 98104Jan. 22 - Feb. 22
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EventsFifth annual MLK Day of Service litter clean-up: 1-3 p.m. Jan. 21. Volunteers encouraged to participate in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service effort along the Interurban Trail on Jan. 21.The group meets at the Kent Lions Skate Park on West Smith Street near the Lincoln/Valley High-way overpass in downtown Kent. Parking is available in the Park-and-Ride lot next to the skate park. Please come dressed for the weather. Wear sturdy boots, bring work gloves and bottles of water. Trash bags and pick sticks will be available. Registration deadline is noon Jan. 16. For more informa-tion, contact Victoria Andrews, special programs manager, Kent Parks, Recreation & Community Services, 220 4th Ave. S, at 253-856-5110 or [email protected].
Kent Technology Expo: 6-8:30 p.m. Jan. 24, ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St. Large school district technology event. Find out how students are preparing for success, and expanding and developing their class-room, college and career skills. Business sponsors demonstrate technology skills in their industries.
Lunar New Year celebration: 6 p.m. Feb. 8, Green River Community College Lindbloom Student Center, 12401 SE 320th St., Auburn. Welcome the Year of the Snake. Various clubs and societies perform and present videos about their cultures. The Kungfu/Lion Dance troupe also performs. A dance party follows. Traditional, festive snacks and dishes from Vietnam, China and Korea will be served. Admission $5 for students, $8 non-GRCC students, $10 at the door.
Greater Seattle Postcard and Paper Collectibles Show: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Feb. 9; 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave N. Approximately 15-20 dealers from throughout the Pacific Northwest, California and Utah display close to one million old postcards, paper collectibles and ephemera. Included will be postcards, Stamps, vintage Alaska and Yukon paper and artifacts, advertising trade cards, cigar labels, valen-tines, scrap, travel brochures, photographs, stereographs, aviation, auto, railroad, ship, movie memorabilia, Western Americana and more. Admission: $5, good for both days. www.postcardshows.com
Jefferson Davis Secretary of War 1850s: 1-3 p.m. Feb. 23, Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St. Greater Kent Historical Society presents a program on Jefferson Davis with guest speaker and local historian Karen Meador. Tickets: $10 for Greater Kent Historical Society members, $12 for nonmembers, $5 for students. For more information, call 253-854-4330.
BenefitsKent Fire Department fundraiser: 4-6 p.m. Feb. 2, Kent Station, next to Cold Stone Creamery, 504 Ramsay Way. Raising funds for the Scott Firefighter Stairclimb, a race up the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle to support the Leukemia & Lympho-ma Society. A field of 14 Kent firefighters plans to participate in the Stairclimb. Meet the firefighters. Donations accepted.
WEHG Mardi Gras Celebration: 7-11 p.m. Feb. 8, Meridian Valley Country Club, 24830 136th Ave. SE, Kent. Women Encouraging Hope Guild’s fourth an-
nual fundraiser. Celebration includes hors d’oeuvres and dessert, a no-host bar, cock-tail hour music by the Kentlake Jazz Band, a short program highlighting the group’s activities, followed a DJ to fill the dance floor. Tickets: $75 per person. A portion of each ticket directly benefits the day-to-day operations of Rita’s and Katherine’s Houses, and the general fund of the guild. WEHG offers financial and in-kind support for the residents of Rita’s and Katherine’s Houses, transitional houses for single women in recovery. Community members are invited to attend. Tickets must be purchased in ad-vance, and information and RSVP card can be found on Facebook.com/WEHGuild. For more information, contact event co-chair Jill Harle at [email protected].
11th annual Rockin For Relay Ka-raoke Bash: 5-9 p.m. Feb. 9, American Legion Hall, 25405 97th Place S., Kent. Prudential’s Aggressive Cancer Kickers fundraiser. Hosted by karaoke songstress Carla Vertrees. More than 200 door prizes and a mystery prize worth $100. Buffet. Early registration $35, $40 at the door. For more information or to order tickets, contact Winston Johnson at 253-335-5223.
Classes, workshopsLeadership seminars, workshops: Noon-2 p.m. Saturdays, Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Room 1, 310 3rd Ave. S., Kent. Parents encouraged to attend and participate with their children. Topics to be discussed: leadership; advocacy within the school system; college readiness; job readiness, preparation skills; community service; public speaking and presentation skills; accounting class; robotics; math-
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Wise Buying – Making the Most of Your Remodeling Dollars: 10-11 a.m. Feb. 11, Kent Senior Center, 600 E. Smith St. Informational workshop presented by Bath Fitter. Tips and tools for remodeling your home. Topics include how to get started, how to check out companies, what are available resources and how to understand a sales pitch. Free. For more information, connect Saralyn Whitney at 206-280-1728 or [email protected].
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Late Nite Catechism, Sister Rolls the Dice: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19, Kentwood Performing Arts Center, 25800 164th Ave. SE, Covington. Sister Rolls the Dice is the latest class in the sinfully funny Late Nite Catechism series. The convent needs a new roof, so the order has decided that Sister (with her extensive gambling experience running the church bingo for the last 25 years) will organize a Las Vegas night. Tickets: $28 general, $26 senior, $15 youth. www.ticketturtle.com.
Ken Waldman and the Secret Visi-tors, From Kent to Kodiak: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25, Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Cen-ter, 10020 SE 256th St., Kent. Ken Waldman, Alaska’s Fiddling poet, has drawn on his 25 years in the Great North to produce poems, stories, and fiddle tunes. A former college professor, Waldman has had published six full-length poetry collections, a memoir, a children’s book, and has released nine CDs that combine old-time Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry. Tickets: $18 general, $15 senior and $10 youth. www.ticketturtle.com.
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Mary's Fine Food RestaurantServing the Community since 1974
Mary's Restaurant 253-854-2650
THANK YOUFOR 20 YEARS OF
CONTINUED SUPPORT!Nominated for:
Best BreakfastBest Lunch
Hours!Mon-Fri 6:30am-8:00pmSaturday 7:00am-3:00pmSunday 7:00am-1:00pm
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HOT AND FRESH:ONE LARGE CHEESE OR
PEPPERONI PIZZAfor
$5.00eachUse promo code: READY5 to order this deal
papajohns.com. Limited time offer.
253-630-2222
253-893-1111
We appreciateour customers!
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FEELING GOOD…LOOKING GREAT
Dr. Sue Hollinsworth
Healthy teeth and gumsare an important part of your
overall well-being. Partner with usto get yours in tip-top shape
New patientswelcome!
253-631-828613210 SE 240th St., Ste B-3,Kent, WA 98042
www.drsuehollinsworth.com
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