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Kent-Meridian High School Principal Wade Barringer gives directions to a student while on his daily campus rounds. His 2013-2014 superintendent internship drew him away from school often, he says, and he’s happy to be back and working with students again. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
Sports | Royals outlast rival Trojans in overtime, reclaim Taylor Trophy [10]
Gwen Allen-Carston, right, executive director for the Kent Black Action Commission, and her group march in protest of comments and conduct by City Councilmember Les Thomas outside City Hall on Tuesday. KBAC asked for the councilman’s resignation. STEVE HUNTER, Kent Reporter
BY STEVE HUNTER
[email protected] e Kent Black Action Commission
(KBAC) called for the resignation of City Councilman Les Th omas at Tuesday night’s council meeting because of comments he made last month about the Ferguson, Mis-souri shooting death of Michael Brown by a police offi cer.
Th omas, in his third four-year council term that expires in 2015, called Brown a thief and objected to a moment of silence for the 18 year old. Commission members testifi ed that they want Th omas to apologize
[ more COUNCIL page 4 ]
DRIVEN TO LEAD, MAKE AN IMPACT
Councilman’s actions stir protestKBAC asks for Thomas resignation for Ferguson shooting comments
T-BIRDS OPEN SEASONDefenseman Ethan Bear and the Seattle Thunder-birds open the Western Hockey League season this weekend. The T-Birds, coming off a solid playoff -rewarding season, visit rival Portland on Friday, then come home to face Everett at 7:05 p.m. at the ShoWare Center. Story, page 10.
K-M’s Barringer excels as a principal, gets taste of superintendency
BY ROSS COYLE
With 11 years of princi-palship at Kent-Meridian High School under his belt, Wade Barringer moved his
career forward last year with a superintendent certifi ca-tion program through Seattle University.
“It was a great opportu-nity. I had the freedom to be involved in a lot of diff erent leadership experiences at a lot of diff erent levels throughout the year,” Barringer said.
It was a serious time com-
mitment for the principal of one of the area’s busiest schools. Barringer said that the year-long course made him much more aware of the high demands of super-intendency in a large school district.
One such issue was how a
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BY MARK KLAAS
[email protected]’s hard talk, a sensitive conversation and
one King County and community leaders welcome.
A public forum to openly discuss county law enforcement’s relationship with the diverse neighbor-hoods it serves jammed the Tyee High School cafeteria in SeaTac on Sept. 10.
[ more FORUM page 12 ]
Can Ferguson happen here?County leaders, citizens sound off on race relations, law enforcement
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ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
City Council dumps proposal to pay for railroad-grade separationsBY STEVE HUNTER
Th e Kent City Council dumped its proposal Tues-day night to form a local improvement district (LID) to help pay for railroad-vehicle grade separation projects.
Th e council pulled from the agenda a resolution that would have set a Oct. 21 public hearing about a property tax fee on 500 or so property owners who would benefi t from projects along South 212th and 228th streets that would separate vehicles from trains by moving a road either over or under the railroad tracks.
“Aft er a large input from property owners we are back to the drawing table,” Council President Dana Ralph said. “Th e LID as presented will not move forward.”
Th e council met infor-mally with more than 60 people on Monday night
Garbage taxes could go up to pay for street repairsBY STEVE HUNTER
Residents and businesses would pay higher solid waste taxes to help cover street repair costs under a city of Kent proposal.
Th e City Council’s Public Works Committee on Monday discussed the proposal but delayed a vote on the measure to Oct. 6 until it has more information.
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superintendent’s role changes with the size of a school district.
“I think about Dr. (Ed-ward Lee) Vargas and how we have a 28,000-student school district,” Barringer said. “He’s not able to get into all the buildings as much as he’d like to. But if you went to a smaller district, a district with six or seven schools and a few thousand students, you
could be in buildings a few times a week,” Barringer explained. “As you get big-ger, the expectations are that you have to be more knowledgeable about those outside factors that impact education, and that’s where the political side comes in.”
Much of a superinten-dent’s time in a large district is consumed with internal and external communica-tion and relation building with outside agencies, which requires meetings with business fi gures, district offi cials and state politicians.
“His calendar is just stacked. Just stacked,” Bar-ringer said. “Some meet-ings take place on campus with various chiefs, some meetings take place outside of campus where he’s got to meet with civic leaders or the mayor or politicians or business leaders.
Barringer spent a large chunk of his time away from the school, shadowing Vargas at events, functions and meetings to under-stand the diff erent roles the superintendent fi lls in his work. It was a learning experience, particularly
when it came to the time commitments.
“Just the amount of hours I needed to be involved in district types of things: meetings, board meetings, committees. Last year I think I was on seven dif-ferent committees. I spent probably more than half of my time last year involved in intern related – or district leadership related – types of activities.”
He estimates he spent no less than 400 hours outside of his regular principal’s du-ties on the internship. Just a few of the committees he was a part of ranged from district level such as KEA union negotiations to state level School Improvement Plan Peer Reviews.
Another lesson Barringer came away with was the importance of looking at things from a larger picture and perspective, and think-ing how a policy made for a small system might impact larger systems that it con-nects to.
“If you’re in a big district, you’re not really at the ground level, really know what’s going on at the buildings,” Barringer said.
“You really are at a 30,000-foot level, and you have to have knowledge of the potential impact of outside factors, whether they be legislative or economic.”
Th e time commitments certainly took their toll on Barringer’s principalship and his family life.
“It was a sacrifi cial year,” he said. “My family was
sacrifi ced and my health and working out habits were sac-rifi ced and I think, to some degree, part of my infl uence as a leader not being here had an impact as well.”
Barringer said that he isn’t considering a superin-tendency but a high-level administrative role (as-sistant superintendent or executive directory). He is
considering moving away from Kent-Meridian if the job requires it, but he says he would prefer to stay in the KSD.
“Th is is where my fam-ily is, and I’ve been here for 11 years at K-M,” he said. “My heart and my drive and my ability to impact a community can go anywhere.”
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Wade Barringer listens in on a conversation at the school’s focus room, where issues between students and staff are worked out. Part of being a principal, Barringer says, is knowing what’s going on in your school at all times, but a large district superintendent needs to learn to delegate those responsibilities. ROSS COYLE, Reporter
THE CITY OF KENT, along with King County Parks and six other South King County cities, have teamed up to add outdoor fi tness equipment for youth and teens and their families to encourage healthy living and exercise as part of the “I” CANN healthy living initiative to combat childhood obesity. A $100,000 King County
Youth Sports Facilities Grant provided funding for the equipment. Kent’s West Fenwick Park on the West Hill will be getting a chest/back press, pull up/dip bar, ab crunch, balance steps and an assisted row piece, valued at $14,000. Through the South King County Community Activity Nutrition Network initiative (“I” CANN),
local cities, King County Public Health, King County Parks, local hospitals, schools, businesses and organizations are working to help educate children and families about this chronic health is-sue and promoting healthy activity opportunities and nutritional information.
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A Kent City Council committee began looking into whether a fi re-works ban on the Fourth of July might lower the boom on illegal devices going off .
City Councilman Jim Berrios led a discussion during the Sept. 9 Public Safety Committee meet-ing about how big of a problem
fi reworks are in Kent and whether the city can do anything to combat the issue. Several residents asked the council at a July meeting to study the issue because of so many fi re-works exploding in their neighborhoods.
“I’d like to take a look at any cities that had a recent ban and do those comparisons to see
if it was the right thing to do or maybe it wasn’t the right thing to do,” Berrios said as he asked city staff to track down numbers from neighboring cities with bans, such as Renton, Tukwila, Des Moines and SeaTac. “Th at to me would be helpful if we can get
that (data) in the future.”Berrios came away disap-
pointed that city staff didn’t have solid numbers about the num-ber of warnings given in July to fi reworks violators by police and fi re offi cials.
Jon Napier, fi re marshal with the Kent Fire Department Re-gional Fire Authority, said there were 341 fi reworks complaints from July 2-5 this year compared to 190 the previous year.
“Th at was a signifi cant increase
and I think a lot of it had to do with it being a long weekend,” Na-pier said to the committee. “Th e seizures (of illegal fi reworks) that we had were down this year. Part of it was some recording issues, we had 10 reported seizures and that was down from 71 last year.”
Berrios asked Napier what the recording issues were.
City Council committee to study fireworks ban
Berrios
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Wade “Mama Moan Alot” Schwartz, top, left, and Kiki Furburger, second from left, talk with Sisters Castrata Stigmata and Demanda Moorhead during the South King County Pride event in Kent last Sunday. Events included gay bingo, open mic and drag performances and a pride festival in the park. Tara Spink, above, left, holds her dog Stony as Gale Angel sells items at Burlington Green Park.
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District teachers want evaluations addressed in contract talksBY ROSS COYLE
Kent School District teachers checked into the Sept. 10 board meeting to voice their concerns about union negotiations over teacher evaluations that will be set up in light of the state’s evaluation guidelines following the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
“We were making our point that these things are very impor-tant to us,” said Kent Education Association President Cindy Prescott. “So far the bargaining team had not made movements that these things need to go into the fi nal proposal.”
Th e evaluation criteria was an item left open in negotiations from the KEA’s 2013 contract, and the teachers wanted the board and district to know how important it was that three issues be addressed in the contract.
Item one, Prescott said, was proof and information that princi-pals were qualifi ed and trained for the process, and that way teachers could better understand what principals were looking for.
“We want some assurance that our principals are trained and can evaluate teachers,” Prescott said.
She also noted that teachers want additional compensation for the evaluation process, which is
time consuming and requires a large amount of metrics and data collection, including proving that students have made progress in the class over the year.
Finally, the union wants to have more time set aside for professional development so that teachers can learn not only how to improve student success, but also complete evaluations on student progress.
Th e new state system under the NCLB states that teachers can choose how to examine student growth, Prescott said, but the former system lacked a student growth component entirely. Ad-dressing this and other issues with the new evaluations are key issues for the KEA, and Kent teachers want to make sure that they are covered in their union contract, and that they have the funding to make it happen.
“Th e state comes in and says you will do this, and so much of this is an unfunded mandate. If we want to do it and do it well, it needs to be funded,” Prescott said.
“Th is is another soup of pota-toes and gravy on our plate, and none of the peas being removed.”
Th e KEA has created a tentative agreement and sent it to its mem-bership for a vote, aft er which it will be presented to the KSD for further negotiation.
Th e district hasn’t commented on the negotiation process itself. An email from district spokesman Chris Loft is said that “comment-ing on specifi c components of the discussion would be a disservice to all parties involved.”
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legacy of racial injustice inhibit us from moving forward as a unifi ed com-munity, we need to deal with each other with open minds,” said Gwen Allen-Carston, KBAC executive
director, to the council aft er she led a protest march of about two dozen people from the Maleng Regional Justice Center to City Hall. “Th is brings us to our requests and demands. Th e statement that Council-member Les Th omas made at the Aug. 19 City Coun-cil meeting that ‘I won’t
participate in a moment of silence for an 18-year-old thief,’ referring to Michael Brown, shows us that you sir do not have the kind of open mind that this city needs to move forward.
“Th erefore, we the people who pay your salary, demand that you extend a public apology for your remarks.”
Allen-Carston concluded her comments by saying Th omas violated council code when he tried to stop Councilwoman Deborah Ranniger from asking for a moment of silence for Brown at the August meeting.
“You Councilmember Th omas violated the code (of conduct) and because of that we the members of KBAC and citizens who believe in fairness, equity and justice, request that you resign from the City Coun-cil,” Allen-Carston said.
Th omas has no plans to resign or issue an apology.
“Maybe I was insensi-tive but I was not thinking what the color the man was,” Th omas said dur-ing a phone interview on Wednesday. “I was concerned about a point of order and that it was premature to give the man a moment of silence. If it proves out the offi cer was wrong, I’ll be the fi rst one to apologize. But I don’t have all the facts and nei-ther does anyone else.”
Th omas added it wasn’t a race issue for him.
“I don’t know how it got blown out of proportion and race got tied to it,” he said. “It’s a misunderstand-ing of what took place. Th e race card I don’t know where that came from. I think they’re looking for an audience, I guess.”
At the Aug. 19 coun-cil meeting, Ranniger requested a moment of silence to honor and rec-ognize Brown, an unarmed
African-American teen-ager, was shot to death by Darren Wilson, a white police offi cer, in the streets of Ferguson on Aug. 9, a controversial incident that has led to protests, hos-tilities and arrests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
“Th is should serve as a tragic and painful reminder to all of us about how criti-cally important it is to embrace and make a top priority the strategic goal that we all set for ourselves of foster inclusiveness,” Ran-niger said aft er her
moment of silence request. “By this I mean it’s really important that we create connections, embrace the community that we live in, that we get to know our neighbors, make an eff ort to reach out to each other and take the time to build community together.”
Th omas quickly re-sponded to Ranniger’s request by asking Mayor Suzette Cooke for a point of order about whether it was even appropriate at such a meeting for the moment of silence.
“I think it’s a little prema-ture to be making state-ments like that,” Th omas said. “We normally have a moment of silence given to those of great honor such as a Nobel Prize winner dying, a president, gov-ernor or even the mayor. But to give honor to this 18-year-old thief I fi nd it kind of diffi cult to do that, especially in light of some of the statements made by witnesses who saw the police offi cer was more cor-rect than some of the other statements made.
“I wouldn’t mind joining Councilmember Ranniger in some of her statements she made. I thought they were very well done. I just don’t think this is the correct time or the place for our City Council to be
taking sides if you will and making this a race issue. Would it matter if it was a black offi cer who shot him or an Asian offi cer who shot him? It was a known thief of a nearby convenience store, tragically, things happen.”
According to news reports, witness accounts diff er greatly as to whether Brown was surrendering with his hands up or mov-ing toward the offi cer when the fi nal shots were fi red.
Councilman Bill Boyce reacted strongly to Th omas’ comments.
“I can’t sit here when you talk about someone’s life like it’s not worth anything,” Boyce said. “I will not judge what the police offi cer done, the jury is still out. But I am appalled for you to make that life sound so little. Regardless of what you do, people deserve to live. …I am a little sur-prised to hear you go that direction. I’m very shocked and surprised to hear you go that direction.”
Councilwoman Brenda Fincher also disagreed with what Th omas said.
“He was still somebody’s son and still deserving of a life,” Fincher said. “Wheth-er he stole something or not, in that situation doesn’t mean that you are automat-ically dead. Th at’s why we have a justice system. And that’s why we have jails for people who steal things and other crimes. Th e penalty should not be automatically death. He was one of three young black men killed in police actions this week.
“We are a country where race is still an issue. A country where, whether you realize it or not, things from the past still aff ect us today that were done historically.”
Th omas responded at the meeting to the comments by Boyce and Fincher.
“I apologize if you think I was making light of somebody’s life,” Th omas said. “Th at is the furthest
thing from my mind. My concern here is that we are very premature, and Councilmember Fincher just mentioned justice, and we have only seen one side of the scale. I will join Dr. Ranniger and the others if at some point this young man is made innocent. But I think we’re premature to honor someone where we just don’t know the whole truth.”
Councilman Dennis Hig-gins joined the discussion.
“What I’ve been thinking is what can we do better in our hometown to make a better community, to have wider open doors to encourage communica-tion,” Higgins said. “I think it bears mentioning that I like what I see in our Kent Police Department along these lines. I know how much our offi cers care about this community and how invested they are in the community. It seems what we have heard out of Missouri is 180 degrees dif-ferent from what we see out of our own police depart-ment.”
Ranniger added to her comments.
“Th e issue is not the whole story, the issue is there is work still to be done,” Ranniger said. “We have done some great work in Kent but there is still a lot of work to do and that involves all of us and reach-ing out to what has become a richly diverse community in Kent and making sure all of us who live in this com-munity feel safe.”
Cooke entered the discus-sion and later led the mo-ment of silence for Brown.
“I’m going to ask for the moment of silence in bring-ing it home for all of us to be conscious of what we can take responsibility for when it comes to our ac-tions and be perhaps a little less rushing to judgement of others,” Cooke said. “Let us at least be open to hav-ing conversations with our neighbors.”
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at the ShoWare Center to get feedback about the pro-posal. All of the property owners and business rep-resentatives who attended opposed the LID, said Andrea Keikkala, CEO of the Kent Chamber of Com-merce, which organized the meeting.
“The LID as it is current-ly proposed is not going to proceed,” Councilman Den-nis Higgins said. “There are some more questions that the council has for Public Works staff and some more conversations that the
council would like to have with the community about the current situation and that will be happening right away so stay tuned for that.”
If the council had passed the resolution, it would have set up a public hearing and vote by the council about whether to form the LID. Even if the council approved a LID, property owners could have over-turned it similar to what property owners did for street improvements along Southeast 256th Street in 2013. The council later decided to use business and occupation tax revenue for
the 256th Street improve-ments that are nearing completion.
City staff expected the LID to bring in about $54 million for the three rail-road grade projects, which will cost about $79 million to build the overpasses or underpasses. The city plans to pay about $8 million for the work and receive nearly $16 million in grants.
The LID property bound-aries were roughly from South 240th Street north to South 200th Street and from Highway 167 west to the Green River.
The council approved in
July a $100,000 contract with Foster Pepper PLLC to conduct a preliminary LID special benefit study for South 228th and 212th streets to determine the amount of benefits to each property within the bound-ary. That study showed property owners would benefit and helped lead to a 3-0 vote on Monday afternoon by the council’s Public Works Committee to refer the resolution to the full council. Higgins, Ralph and Brenda Fincher serve on that committee.
But the council quickly changed its tune after meet-
ing with property owners.“I believe you heard
many firsthand accounts of how this will negatively affect the business com-munity,” Keikkala said in an email to the council.
Keikkala further outlined the chamber’s opposition in a formal letter to the council.
“The council seeks to have a small portion of the business community pay for the majority of the projects to avoid losing the grants,” she said. “The affected businesses may have to take out large loans; delay their own maintenance projects,
hiring and expansion that would create jobs; or worse, move or close.”
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The 7.8 percent solid waste utility tax on customer bills could be boosted to 11.6 percent to raise $1 million per year for streets; to 15.1 percent to raise $2 million; or to 18.3 percent to bring in $3 mil-lion per year, according to city documents.
City staff brought the proposal to the commit-tee after a council request about how to raise more money for street repairs. Kent has about 26,000 garbage customers served by Republic Services. About 24,000 of those are residen-tial customers.
“It’s about $12 million a year that the city needs to address the maintenance on these roads citywide,” said Kelly Peterson, public works special projects man-ager, to the committee as he displayed a map of roads in need of repair.
Peterson said garbage rates in Kent are low com-pared to nearby cities.
“City of Kent customers enjoy some of the cheapest rates,” Peterson said.
Single-family residents in Kent pay $17.04 per month for garbage, recycling and yard waste service, according to city docu-ments. That’s the cost for a 32-gallon weekly garbage
pickup and up to a 96-gal-lon recycling and 96-gallon yard waste containers every other week.
The monthly rate in other cities includes Tukwila ($19.13), Renton ($21.12), Maple Valley ($24.76), Covington ($24.84), Burien (26.04), Auburn ($26.37), Des Moines ($26.53) and Federal Way ($28.88).
If Kent increased its util-ity tax to 11.6 percent the monthly cost would jump to $19.02; 15.1 percent would take it to $19.61; and 18.3 percent to $20.17 per month.
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Gov. Jay Inslee talks to Sophia Sanders and Larry Ruffi no, laminators and new hires, at Kent’s Hexcel Aerospace plant last week. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
Want better schools? Get parents involved
Reporter Editor Craig Gro-shart asks, “Are school failing?” (Auburn Reporter, Aug. 29). Yes they are. Th ey are failing to get the parents involved in their children’s education.
According to Randy Dorn’s latest pronouncement, we have about 64 percent of our ninth-graders completing what we refer to as a “high school diplo-ma.” Since there is no specifi c defi nition of what is required to achieve this moniker, one can suggest that the number of “graduates” who either have reached college admissions standards or have the skills to enter a living wage job might be signifi cantly lower than 65 percent.
Why? Unfortunately, either through ignorance or un-willingness, the home life of many of our children does not include a very high priority for learning. Learning isn’t fun is
oft en heard, and I have heard school board members suggest that it has to be “fun.” Th e threshold for “boring” and “no fun” has descended to levels where ringed worms may not fi nd diffi culties overcoming the thresholds.
Until we enlist – conscript might be a better term – the adults in our children’s lives in this venture, I don’t look
for much better results. Our international competitors seem to have come to understand the importance of a quality education. Meanwhile, we are watching our fl at screens and ex-pecting our schools to be centers of gladiator training and to be fun without being boring.
Quadratic equations? Boring and no fun. Fractions? Th e same.– Charles Hoff
Circus takes good care of its animals
Once again, the animal rights extremists with PETA are attempting to distort Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s record on animal care.
Despite PETA’s claims, Ringling Bros. has never been found in violation of the fed-eral Animal Welfare Act. Th e former employee they site in a recent letter was a witness in a lawsuit animal rights groups brought against the circus –
Inslee makes it a point to grow valley business
Like his policies or not, Gov. Jay Inslee is gaining credibility and making progress in helping many long-term unemployed Wash-ingtonians fi nd work.
To illustrate Inslee’s mission – to build and keep business at home – the governor and his team visited the Hexcel Aerospace plant in Kent last Friday. Th ey met employees
who have found a new start through a success-ful workforce initiative, Washington Work Start.
Inslee wanted the program put in motion, and he succeeded, scor-ing a major victory when the Legislature gave it a
shot aft er the last session in Olympia. Work Start taps into the governor’s strategic reserve fund, allowing the state to invest now and prevent the closure and loss of Washington businesses, including those beating in the heart of the Green River Valley.
It’s a business-driven, workforce train-ing program designed to provide new and existing employers with fl exible, customized training in direct alignment with the state’s business recruitment and expansion eff orts.
Work Start targets key sectors, such as aerospace, clean technology, advanced ma-terials, advanced manufacturing, maritime, forest products, agribusiness, life sciences, information, communications and technol-ogy, and locally targeted industries.
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Every fi ve years, the Washington State Transportation Commission updates its 20-year plan, a document meant to inform state and local gov-ernments’ decisions on transporta-tion spending and related issues.
Th e commission is introducing its 2035 plan at a series of public forums. Th e draft plan and an op-portunity to comment online are also available at wtp2035.com.
Th e most signifi cant issue the plan raises doesn’t involve concrete, steel rails or bridge trusses, but how the state pays for maintenance, operation and new construction in the coming years.
Th e state’s gas tax, 37.5 cents per gallon, isn’t automatically adjusted for infl ation and doesn’t account for the increase in the number of ve-hicles with improved fuel effi ciency.
With each passing year, the revenue generated by the gas tax pays for less and less.
Th e transportation commis-sion, in the draft plan, calls for a transition from the gas tax to a road usage charge, basically treat-ing transportation in general and roads in particular as a utility to be paid for based on how much of the service each of us use.
Actually, the commission couch-es its guidance in squishier language: “Th e commission recommends that the state continue to evaluate and plan for a possible transition from the
gas tax to a road usage charge.” But you get the picture.
A subcommittee was more con-crete, recommending that such a usage charge be assessed either
Replace the state’s gas tax, but how?R E P O R T E R E D I T O R I A L
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The job training program was designed with schools like Green River Community Col-lege in mind.
"To see this work is excit-ing," Inslee said while touring Hexcel with state and local leaders. "We have some really incredible people here. … It's a dream come true."
Inslee approved Work Start funding to train 150 new em-ployees at Hexcel’s composite manufacturing facility, allow-ing the company to grow from 450 to 650 employees.
Company officials say more growth is on the way as the economy slowly rebounds from the Great Recession.
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a lawsuit they lost so badly they agreed to pay us over $25 million to settle it.
That witness, in particu-lar, was found by the court to have no credibility and was actually paid by animal rights groups and their lawyers for his testimony.
Everyone one with Ringling Bros. is very proud of our animal care, and the health and well-being of all our animals can be seen at every show in every city we visit.
Rather than take what groups like PETA say at face value, area families can
come and see for them-selves how all the animals with Ringling Bros. are thriving in our care.– Stephen Payne
Overpass for school kids?
I am all for safety at the schools in question (“City plans to keep speed cam-eras at just two schools,” Kent Reporter Sept. 12).
Sunrise Elementary reminds me a lot of East Hill Elementary. It’s a busy street and a major north-south corridor. Instead of making your citizens commute slower and caus-
ing more bad feeling with tickets, why not take the funds generated and build a (pedestrian) overpass like the one at East Hill?
Traffic in this area is bad enough already without slowing it down more dur-ing rush hour.– Paul Scott
Thank you, Rotarians
We would like to thank the Rotary Club of Kent that meets at noon for providing us with much needed help in preparing our annual book sale at the
Kent Library.I made a phone call to
member Harry Williams and, as a result, eight volunteers showed up to construct the bookshelves we needed to display our books. In a little more than an hour, they had finished.
We are very grateful.– Rose Ann King, Kent Friends of the Library
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by charging a flat fee for an unlimited number of miles each month or year, a per-mile fee based on a vehicle’s odometer reading, a per-mile fee with mileage determined by a GPS-recording device, or a combination of two or more of those options.
Charles Royer, the mayor of Seattle from 1978 to 1989 and current Trans-portation Commission member, knows that such a transition in funding will require a change in thinking for motor-ists and legislators.
Oregon and California, he noted in a teleconference with The (Everett) Herald editorial board, are ahead of Washington state in terms of raising the issue and beginning work to implement
a workable system.Any system that uses GPS to deter-
mine how many miles are driven on state roadways will likely raise privacy concerns among many motorists, Royer acknowledged.
And the gas tax, at least for the time being, remains the closet thing we have to a carbon tax, levying a higher tax on those who pump more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
“The gas tax is no longer a sustain-able way to preserve and maintain our transportation system,” Royer said.
As a funding source, the gas tax is running on empty. Now’s your chance to weigh in on what replaces it.
Reach Jon Bauer, news editor/content at 425-339-3102, ext. 20-5652, or [email protected].
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Napier said he had done tally sheets in the past but was out of town this year and the tallies didn’t get recorded this year.
“We had 129 warnings issued in 2013 and we didn’t have any recorded this year,” said Napier, who added numerous warn-ings were probably given based on the number of complaints but no numbers were kept.
There were two arrests for illegal fireworks and 16 fires caused by fireworks, mainly small brush fires that caused about $3,200 in losses compared to $4,500 in 2013.
But the number of il-legal fireworks confiscated dropped from 150 pounds in 2013 to 20 pounds this year.
“We didn’t have a lot of seizures this year and I don’t know exactly what the issue is,” Napier said. “Some of it is seizures include fireworks dropped off by people at fire stations.”
“I am concerned that we didn’t get tighter (reported) numbers when we’re getting the number of phone calls and emails from people concerned,” Berrios said. “I was looking forward to
being able to say here’s what we have, here’s what we’ve done and we gave cita-tions and arrests and lots of warnings. I’m sorry to say but I’m disappointed to see these numbers for whatever reason. I’m assuming next year we will work through that process and make sure they are a lot tighter.”
Kent city code allows people to purchase and pos-sess legal fireworks from June 28 to July 4 but fireworks can only be discharged from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on July 4. Violators of the code must pay a $250 fine.
Councilman Les Thomas said he has noticed even cities with bans have illegal fireworks going off.
“Renton, Federal Way and Tukwila have bans and yet when I drive through Renton it’s even worse than Kent,” Thomas said. “I’m not saying Kent’s good. But in Renton there is smoke everywhere and fireworks going off after 11. Is another ordinance going to help?”
Councilwoman Dana Ralph also wondered if a complete ban would help in Kent.
“A good portion of the emails we received this year were fireworks went off all weekend long,” Ralph said. “Fireworks were illegal all
weekend long after 11 this year on a Friday. We con-tinue to have complaints when they’re not legal. Try-ing to flush out where they go off, I have some strong concerns on resources.
“My concern is we’re setting up false expectations by saying we’re banning something when we don’t necessarily have data that says that’s going to have a significant impact and now there’s an additional strain on the Kent Police Depart-ment. … We’re setting up expectations that can never be met as long as we’re sitting here five miles away from a place (Muckleshoot Indian Tribe reservation) - whether we ban them or not - you can buy whatever you want.”
Deputy City Attorney Pat Fitzpatrick told the com-mittee that if council de-cides to change its fireworks ordinance, it would take one year before going into effect under state law.
Napier said fireworks ven-dors asked and received that one-year protection from the state because they must order fireworks from China far ahead of July 4 and if cities where they sold fireworks suddenly banned them they would be left with a lot of extra inventory.
[ FIREWORKS from page 3 ] Kent welcomes new early learning centerFOR THE REPORTER
It was a ribbon-cutting ceremony with safety scissors as well as the obligatory giant shears.
Kindergarteners joined Kent School District officials and city dignitaries last Thursday to celebrate the district’s latest investment in the city’s youngest students – the Kent Valley Early Learning Center
The new center, located across the street from Kent City Hall, will alleviate overcrowding in valley-area elementary schools, address new class size reductions
mandated by the Legislature, and expand preschool opportunities.
All kindergarten and preschool students from Kent and Neely-O’Brien elementary schools will be bussed a few blocks away from their home school to the new site.
“Early learning is so important for our kids and their future success,” said Kent School Board President Debbie Straus.
Classes started last week with 175 kin-dergarteners and 37 preschool students at the former elementary school.
The center also offers a dual-language program for 40 Spanish-speaking stu-dents. Next year, the language program is scheduled for expansion to Kent and Neely-O’Brien.
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VOLLEYBALL TEAMFormer Kent Meridian volleyball
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eff orts with the Green River Community College volleyball
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Seattle defenseman Ethan Bear will try to help lead the Thunderbirds to another Western Hockey League playoff berth this season. The T-Birds open the season Friday at Portland. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
BY ROSS COYLE
Th e Seattle Th underbirds’ Ethan Bear, while proud of his past, is looking to his future.
NHL scouts project the 5-foot-11, 204-pound de-fenseman as an early round draft pick in 2015.
Bear, who developed and shined in his role with the club last season, returns to the ice this weekend when the T-Birds open the regu-lar season. Seattle begins Western Hockey League play at Portland on Friday night before playing Everett in its home opener Satur-day. Face-off is 7:05 p.m. at the ShoWare Center.
From the Ochapowace Native American reser-vation in Saskatchewan, Canada, Bear has been playing hockey from a young age. He was inspired by his brother, who played junior hockey in Manitoba.
“I’ve always been watch-ing him ever since then, watching him while I was growing up and him being
my role model,” Bear said. “I’ve always liked (hockey).”
While he’s grown up in a family of Toronto Maple
Leafs and Montreal Cana-diens fans, he said that any opportunity to play for the NHL looks good right now.
“Canadian teams would be nice to go to, but it doesn’t much really matter,” he said. “It’s a dream to be in the NHL, and that’s what I’m working for.”
Last year Bear was selected, along with T-Birds center Matthew Barzal, for the Canadian U-18 team. Th e team won the gold medal at the U-18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup in August, an experience Bear won’t forget.
“Th at was unbelievable, just to be there and to see all your competition for the draft . And you get to wear the Canadian jersey for the fi rst time and to play for your country, it’s really something else,” Bear said. “It’s some-thing I worked for when I was a kid, and I’m so happy I got that opportunity.”
Th e path to success for Bear started in the midget
Bear one of top NHL prospects for T-Birds
K-M beats Auburn in 42-39 thrillerBY SHAWN SKAGER
Aft er 15 years of residing in a trophy case at Auburn High School, the coveted Taylor Trophy has a new home at Kent-Meridian for the
next 12 months.Last Saturday’s 42-39 overtime
win at French Field is the fi rst time the Royals (2-0) have defeated the Trojans (1-1) since 1999 and puts the series between the football rivals – who have played every season since 1908 – at 50-49-7 in favor of Auburn.
With just seconds left in regula-
tion, Kent-Meridian’s Tristan In-gold forced the game into overtime with a 28-yard fi eld goal to tie it at 39. Ingold again proved the hero in overtime, booting a 22-yard fi eld goal for the victory.
“Th ere is so much that goes on behind the scenes that only people who are close to it know about,” said Kent-Meridian coach Brett
Allen. “Th ese kids go through so much on a daily basis. Th ey deserve so much to win at life. Th ey’re shar-ing this now with alumni, with the student body. Th ey accomplished something, and I know it’s a cliché, but a lot of times they lose at life. We want this to be someplace where they can love each other and
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league in Canada. He played his fi rst game with the Th underbirds in Portland in 2012. He said the experience was overwhelming at fi rst, but it just took one game to adjust.
With the Th underbirds in 2013-14, Bear was able to spend more time on his skating fundamentals and tactical thinking during games. As a 16-year-old rookie last season, Bear played 58 games with the T-Birds and had six goals and 13 assists for 19 points with 18 penalty minutes.
“Th e fi rst season was mainly working on my defensive zone, working on defense all the time. Mainly you gotta put in work every day … every time you’re away, in the gym, on the ice,” Bear said. “It’s always
something you gotta improve on playing in the WHL. You gotta adapt to all those situ-ations on the ice.”
He said that power skating was a major focus during summer workouts, specifi cally maneuvering and speed.
“You gotta be able to move your feet,” he said when facing standout players.
Today, he gets his inspiration from com-petition and camaraderie.
“I’ve always been really competitive in everything I’ve done,” Bear said. “When you step onto the ice everything just disap-pears. I just like being on the ice and being with a good group of guys. I’ve never really thought of anything else other than hockey, and it’s something I’ve always wanted to do.”
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enjoy some success.”“I’m feeling good. We
just got this important win,” Emmanuel Daigbe said. “I’ve been telling everybody this is a diff erent team. Th is isn’t last year’s team. We work together and work as a team.”
Kent-Meridian fi nished the game with 449 yards of total off ense, 156 rushing and 293 through the air.
Veningo Malietufa was 27 of 38 passing for 293 yards, three TDs and three interceptions for the Royals.
“We felt really confi dent going in,” Allen said. “We’ve played close games with these guys most of the years we’ve been here. Last year we lost to them on a last-second fi eld goal. So we knew we could play with them. Th e kids had a real good week. I think they were a little tight to start the game.
“We’re not a secret anymore. Everybody knows they can’t circle us anymore (for a win on the schedule).”
For Nate Barton, a senior who played in last year’s losing eff ort for the Royals, the win was especially sweet.
“I was just feeling confi dent,” Barton said. “I was feeling very
confi dent that we were going to come out and get the win. I didn’t want it to be like last year. Th at was very upsetting. We’re not done. We’ve got unfi nished business. Th is is just the start. We’ve been training all off season for this, and this is just the fi rst milestone of many.”
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Residents took turns voic-ing their concerns, fears and objections to how the King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce ap-proaches its work, especially
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Brown, an unarmed Afri-can-American teenager, was shot to death by Darren Wil-son, a white police offi cer, in the streets of Ferguson on Aug. 9, a controversial inci-dent that has led to protests, hostilities and arrests in the St. Louis suburb.
Witness reports diff er greatly as to whether Brown was surrendering with his hands up or moving toward Wilson when the fi nal shots were fi red.
Th e shooting served as a backdrop for the county-led forum last week that fea-tured a panel of authorities, community advocates and agency offi cials – including King County Sheriff John Urquhart and King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg – who fi elded questions from the crowd.
Both sides agree that ten-sions exist, and something needs to be done to soothe them.
“Th e reality is because of Ferguson and events like Fer-guson that happen all across the country, the thought is, ‘Is this the day I’m going to be shot?’” asked Dr. Edward Donalson III, an author, en-trepreneur and thought coach who serves the Kingdom Family Worship Center in Kent. “Until we reestablish a connectivity between police and the community – places like churches and community centers, high schools, etc. – we’re always going to have that tension.
“… Communities are not convinced that law enforce-ment is in place to protect and to serve and (how it) relates to people of color.”
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Urquhart said having an open discussion is an important fi rst step.
“I’m here,” Urquhart said. “… I have to wonder, did Ferguson, Missouri ever have a community meeting like this? I doubt it. And you have to wonder, would the events in Ferguson, Missouri have happened if the police depart-ment there had listened to the community? I don’t think so. I don’t think it would have been as bad if they did.”
Work to be doneBut Urquhart admits his
department can improve in many ways, notably working to recruit, train and hire more minority deputies. Offi cers also need to become more visible, accessible and sensi-tive to the people they serve, regardless of race, he said.
“Th e biggest mistake, detriment to community policing … was the invention of the patrol car,” Urquhart said. “What my offi cers do now is drive around in their air-conditioned offi ces on
four wheels … with their cellphones … and computers at their fi ngertips. Th ey never get out. Th ere is no way to interact with the public.
“If I had my druthers, I’d have nothing but beat cops walking the streets like we used to,” he said. “We can’t aff ord it. Th at’s why we don’t have it.”
Th e audience also brought up enforcement tactics, including the use of neck restraints, “choke holds” – a deadly police move that the NAACP has condemned – and concerns about a militarized police force.
“Th e Sheriff ’s Offi ce will no longer train on LVNR (Lateral Vascular Neck Restraint), neck restraints or choke holds,” Urquhart told the audience, reversing the controversial practice the county force has used.
Urquhart also added, “We’re not going to let the police department become militarized like Ferguson, Missouri. Simple as that.”
Body cams are also a possibility, so says King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove, who hosted the forum. Upthe-
grove announced that he had introduced legislation last week to begin the pro-cess of equipping deputies with body cameras and to develop appropriate privacy policies for their use.
County offi cials also are in the process of replacing Charles Gaither, the fi rst director of King County’s Offi ce of Law Enforcement Oversight (OLEO), who left the job on Sept. 5 aft er what he describes were three “dif-fi cult” years.
Forthcoming changes will help, authorities said, but the reality of the situa-tion remains – how does law enforcement handle the many issues related to race in grow-ing, diversifi ed communities?
“How do I deal with a Sikh cab driver who gets killed during a robbery? How do you deal with those commu-nities when there’s language, cultural and ethnic barriers?” said Jim Graddon, recently retired SeaTac police chief who worked 34 years with the King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce and now serves on the advisory panel to OLEO.
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King County Sheriff John Urquhart, right, with King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, fi elds questions from the crowd at a public forum last week. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
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Prepare your fall garden See MarianneMarianne Binetti hosts “Dig In Seattle,” a garden and cooking show that is back on the air. You can watch the show via podcast at www.diginseattle.com or on Channel 22 KZJO TV at 12:30 p.m. Saturdays. The show focuses on local garden-ing tips and cooking demos from local chefs.
Th e middle of September marks the start of the fall gardening season, but you also need to keep spring blooms in mind.
Rhododendrons and aza-leas are making fl ower bud this month so keep them watered for maximum spring bloom. Hydrangeas are also making fl owers for next summer so avoid cut-ting back your hydrangeas in the fall.
September is also the perfect time of year to dig and divide all types of iris. Don’t be afraid to lift the clumps right out of the ground and snip off the foliage leaving just a few inches of leaf. Use a sharp knife to separate the rhizomes and toss out the oldest, middle section of the roots. Replant these iris roots but don’t bury the rhizomes too deep – they should be just below the surface of the soil.
Any iris plants that have failed to bloom will have a fresh outlook on life aft er division and will reward you with renewed vigor
in the spring. Dividing in September is good for all types of iris, the bearded, the species and the Pacifi c Coast iris.
Here are the top three shrubs stopping traffi c in local gardens. You can fi nd them at local nurseries this month and once planted they will give you years
of color each autumn when the rest of your plants are grow-ing faded and summer weary:
Rose of Sharon (hardy hibiscus)
Th ere are a bunch of new varieties of this old fash-ioned shrub but the best behaved with eye-catching blooms in my garden is a reliable Rose of Sharon variety called ‘Helene’ with snow white blooms ac-cented with a deep red eye. Drought and cold resistant this shrub gives a tropical look to any garden and can be grown in a large pot as a patio plant.
Th e naked truth is that the hibiscus syriacua variet-ies lose their foliage early in the fall and don’t grow
new leaves until late spring. Th is means you are left with a leafl ess shrub at least six months of the year.
My solution is to use the woody frame as a support for spring fl owering vines. Clematis makes a great partner for many shrubs but is an especially useful vine for draping through a naked hibiscus. Look for hardy hibiscus in shades of purple and lavender blue as well as hybrids with double and huge single blooms. Don’t prune the Rose of Sharon hibiscus shrub in the fall – it is a bit cold sensitive and prefers never to be pruned.
If you must shape it up, just remove any awkward branches in late spring aft er all danger of frost has passed.
Smoke trees (cotinus coggygria)Th e “Royal Purple”
smoke tree is the most common variety but the lime green foliage of the “Golden Spirit” smoke tree will also add a pop of color to a sunny garden bed.
Th e name smoke tree refers to the dry panicles or seed heads that arise from
the plant in late summer and look a bit like puff s of smoke emerging from the leaves.
Th is is the perfect plant for dry soil, rocky soil or ar-eas where you do not want to irrigate. If left unpruned, the smoke tree will grow into a small but rather boxy looking tree. You can also keep this shrub compact by cutting it to the ground every spring.
In England, the smoke tree is used in perennial borders as a back drop for summer fl owers especially in the back of the border where it might never get water. Add more drama without more drinking to your smoke tree by underplanting it with silver foliage plants such as lamb’s ear, dusty miller or laven-der. Another tidy option is to pile gray stones around the base of this sun loving plant as a weed block.
Ornamental purple-leaf grape (vitis vinivera “purpurea”)
Th is magnifi cent vine is worth searching for at local nurseries as the eye-popping color from the deep purple leaves begins in August and contin-ues until frost. Th e small grapes themselves are not edible but the foliage and good manners of this vine makes up for the weak and random production of sour tasting fruit.
Train this vine to grow up the trunk of a white birch tree or to festoon an old stump or garden shed. Th e rich color comes when you most need it in the early autumn garden.
In my garden, I grow the ornamental grape vine in a mostly shaded site but it re-ally prefers full sun for the most intense leaf color. You can cut this vine almost to the ground in early spring or let it reach for the sky
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Ornamental purple leaf grape vines are breath-takingly beautiful when planted with purple asters and the dusky purple shades of ornamental cab-bage and kale.
Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture from Washington State University and is the author of “Easy An-swers for Great Gardens” and several other books. For more information, visit www.binet-tigarden.com.
GREEN TREE PARK in Kent will undergo a huge trans-formation on Saturday, when neighbors, other volunteers and city staff come together to install a new playground, walking trail and other amenities.
More than 150 volunteers will be on site from 8 a.m. until the ribbon-cutting at 2:30 p.m. by Mayor Suzette Cooke.
Refreshments, including lunch, will be provided courtesy of Starbucks, Fred Meyer and Papa John’s.
The park, at the intersection of 120th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 216th Street in Panther Lake, is in a neigh-borhood annexed to the city in July 2010. Call 253-856-5113 to see if there’s still room for more volunteers.
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