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Levies, bond could help out Renton schoolsBY TRACEY COMPTON
Th e Renton School District will ask voters this winter to fi ll the budget gap not covered by state, federal or district funds raised from rental facility fees with two levies and one bond measure on the Feb. 14 ballot.
Th e measures are needed to fund every-thing from classroom learning materials, math instruction, soft ware licenses, bus transportation, and safety improvements to a badly needed new middle school.
If the measures are approved, collection would begin in 2013.
Th e district estimates that they would cost taxpayers an additional 69 cents per
$1,000 of assessed valuation initially, rais-ing the rate collected to $5.40 per $1,000. Homeowners with a home valued at $252,000 would pay a total of $1,361.
Maintenance and operations make up 30 percent of the budget and every four years the district has to ask taxpayers for a re-newed commitment to funding, said Randy Matheson, district spokesperson.
Th is comes in the form of the Education Maintenance and Operations Replacement Levy, which was on the 2008 ballot and will expire in 2012.
A second levy is being put on the ballot that provides for math, reading and writing instruction, student assessment, teacher
BY TRACEY COMPTON
[email protected] a bit of serendipitous luck, Richard
Tynes went from unemployed to over-worked by Th anksgiving, all with the help of his mother’s pie recipe.
Tynes is the man behind Ms. Margie’s Sweet Potato Pies.
Th e pies fi rst appeared at the Renton Farmers Market this summer and became so popular that they eventually landed a place on the shelves at all four Uwajimaya grocery stores in the greater Seattle area.
But, it all happened by chance. Tynes was holding on to a moneymaker. Its potential he hadn’t fully realized yet when he was baking in the kitchen one day as an out-of-work carpenter.
“I can’t really tell you why I started,” he said. “I just started messing around in the kitchen one day and trying to perfect my mom’s recipe and boom, bam!”
Tynes remembers the day his version of this mother, Margie Tynes’ sweet potato pie came together.
One of his daughters told him he fi nally got it right and said, “Th is is Th anksgiv-ing and Christmas all wrapped in one,” he remembered.
Tynes’ mother will never get to taste his version of her pies, she died in 1991.
Th e fi rst thing one detects about Tynes’ pies is the cinnamon. Some have even been tricked into thinking that they are pump-kin pies because of their sophisticated mix
Sweet successfound in making pies
BY TRACEY COMPTON
Santa Claus made an early visit to a Renton family on an antique fi re engine truck and was wwescorted by vehicles and fi refi ghters from Station 17 on Monday.
Th e very special trip and parade of equipment was part of a program devel-oped with Communities in Schools of Renton and the Renton Firefi ghters Local 864 Firefi ghters Benevolent Fund.
Communities in Schools identifi es low-income families in need and the Firefi ght-ers Benevolent Fund gives $250 to each fi re station for each family. One family is assigned to each fi re station and in addi-tion to those funds, fi refi ghters contribute money as well.
“It happened last year with a station looking for a family and then it turned into a family per station and now it’s gone to outside the city of Renton,” said Sue Paro, executive director of Communities in Schools of Renton. “We’ve grown just in between last year and this year.”
As the vehicles arrived at the apartment complex where Linda Beckwith and her family lives, the spectacle drew attention from children like the Pied Piper.
Santa arrived and passed out candy canes, but his intended audience was with Beckwith’s three boys.
Th e boys - Gabriel White, 3; Antonio
Beckwith, 7 and James Beckwith, 9 - stood in excited amazement and shock as Santa climbed from the truck.
Santa, a Renton fi refi ghter, brought in a sack of goodies with the help of other staff from Station 17 to the Beckwith’s home.
Th e boys tore into one present each and saved the rest for Christmas.
Linda Beckwith, their mother, called the experience great.
“I’ve been feeling great all week; it’s really nice because my kids wouldn’t have had anything,” she said. “I lost a lot of hours on my job, so this was great that
they were able to do that for my kids.” All Renton Fire Stations plus District 20
in Skyway participated in the toy giveaway program.
About two weeks ago Linda Beckwith went shopping with Capt. John Hettick and Firefi ghter John Hollcraft from Sta-tion 17.
“John and I pushed the cart and it was a wonderful experience,” said Hettick.
Beckwith loaded up the cart, but only wanted to get gift s for her children and mother.
Merry Christmas!
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Santa, specially sent by Renton Fire and Emergency Services, visits Antonio Beckwith, James Beckwith and Gabriel White. TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter
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BY TRACEY COMPTON
Listening to people tell their stories, that’s a big part of what Erin Milliren and her 44 volunteers do in a United Way of King County program called Bridge to Basics.
And the story she hears most oft en among some of the state’s 9 percent who are unemployed is that, “It’s bleak out there,” she said.
Bridge to Basics runs in partnership with another outreach organization called Within Reach. Th rough it, volunteers pro-vide assistance connecting people, includ-ing the unemployed, to resources to help them stay afl oat.
Volunteers help people in need apply for food stamps, utilities assistance, pregnancy nutrition, free or low-cost children’s health insurance, child- care subsidies and job training.
On average they help to submit about 60 Basic Food applications a month. In
October, the Within Reach outreach staff , which consists of four AmeriCorps service members, two full-time employees and the Bridge to Basics volunteer team, spoke to a total of 1,022 community members. Th ey submitted 89 Basic Food or food-stamp applications and made referrals to commu-nity assistance agencies and resources.
Milliren supervises three volunteers in the Renton area who frequent the city’s Work Source center, one of their busiest sites for this work.
“Th ere are a lot of Washington commu-nity members who are in crisis right now,” she said.
A major part of her job is helping people understand that they aren’t alone. Milliren has noticed that there are a lot of people in their 40s, 50s and 60s looking for jobs.
A lot of people she’s met with had high-paying jobs at companies like Boeing and Microsoft and are now feeling over-
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UW Medicine an-nounced Tuesday morning that they have appointed King County councilmem-ber Julia Patterson to Valley Medical Center’s new board of trustees.
Patterson, who is of the SeaTac area, will serve as a community trustee ap-pointed from within the medical center’s service area. She will start her two-year term immediately.
Patterson is a lifelong res-ident of south King County and served as a City of SeaTac councilmember from 1990 to 1993.
Th e strategic alliance was formed July 1 between
UW Medicine and Valley Medical Center. As part of it, a new board of trustees will provide oversight for Valley Medical Center and its clinics.
“I am delighted that Julia Patterson is joining the board of trustees, which is responsible for assuring that Valley Medical Center continues its
long tradition of provid-ing outstanding clinical care with an emphasis on patient safety and service,” said Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, chief executive offi cer, UW Medicine. “Her experience as a policy maker and as a
member and past chair of the King County Board of Health will serve the board well.”
Since 2001, Patterson has served as King County councilmember represent-ing south King County.
She is also a member of the Employment and Administration Com-mittee; Regional Transit Committee, King County Board of Health (chair
from 2006-2011); Sound Transit Board; and Matt Griffi n YMCA Board. She has also been a member of the Washington State Sen-ate and
Washington State House of Representatives.
“I am pleased to wel-come Julia Patterson to the board,” said Lisa Jensen, chair, board of trustees, Valley Medical Center. “As a lifelong resident of south King County, she is closely connected to the commu-nity and fully understands the health challenges faced by south King County
residents. Under her leadership, the Board of Health adopted many policies to help keep our residents safe, encourage people to make healthier choices, protect the envi-ronment, reduce the spread of disease and challenge health disparities.”
Patterson was raised on a small farm in south King County. She has a bachelor of science degree in Society and Justice from Washing-ton State University and a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Washington.
BY DEAN A. RADFORD
[email protected] portrait photog-
rapher Bruce Hudson has a new backdrop – Tukwila.
Hudson during the last 30 years or so has photographed thousands of high school seniors and countless families on vacation and in special moments.
He started in Fairwood in 1982 and moved to Benson Road in Renton in 1987. In October he moved his Hudson’s Portrait Design to the Tukwila Commerce Center in Southcenter, where he and his son Josh are expanding their business line.
Th e Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce will hold a ribbon cutting at 4 p.m. Jan. 11. Earlier, the Renton Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting at Hudson’s studio, in recognition of his many years in the Renton business community.
Much has changed in the pho-tography business in those 30 years. Film has given way to digital pho-tography, which has made it possible for almost anyone to record family events and then share the photos easily.
Th e recession has forced profes-sional photographers out of business as their longtime customers tight-ened their belts. To survive, those who remain, such as Hudson, are
changing their relationship with the customers.
“We have been diversifying a lot,” he said. And he’s spending more time with each customer.
One of those new business lines are classes in digital photography; Hudson has been teaching photog-raphy for about 20 years. Hudson now teaches a basic digital class, but he plans to add intermediate and advanced classes.
His new studio has enough space for about 40 students at a time.
Right now, a whole new genera-tion knows about Photoshop, but
not so much about photography, said Josh, who is handling the business and marketing side of the business. Th at’s where his father comes in, with his 30 years of experience.
Ultimately, the Hudsons see the classes as the fi rst steps toward creating a photographic academy or school.
Some, including Hudson, may suggest that training photographers is like training his competition. But, in fact, he says these students are not only learning about photography but also what he can do as a photogra-pher. Th ey are becoming his clients.
Hudson is expanding his commer-cial photography, which the Hudsonsdescribe as the fastest-growing part of their business. Th eir services include portraits and assistance with marketing and websites.
His photo safaris continue; he’s doing an Alaska cruise photo safari next year and will photograph three families in Hawaii in February.
Th ere are the Santa photos, too, in the studio. His son-in-law, Dustin Nicholson, is his Santa.
Hudson is perhaps best known for taking photos of graduating seniors, as many as 300 a year. His Renton studio had a large outdoor portrait park, where students and their fami-lies could choose multiple settings.
Now, he photographs about 100 seniors a year, but spends more time with each and at more locations. About 95 percent of their photo-graphs are taken on location.
He’s already searched out loca-tions; nearby are parks, the Green River and even the sides of a ware-house, which can take on a whole new meaning in the hands of the right photographer.
“Th ere is a really cool train track and train trestle that the kids are totally digging,” Josh said.
To learn more about Hudson’s Portrait Design online, go to www.hudsonportraits.com. Th e phone number is 206-687-7283, and the ad-dress is 641 Strander Blvd., Tukwila.
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Bruce Hudson, left, and his son Josh stand in front of Hudson’s Portrait Design, as studio mascot Posh looks on from inside. DEAN A. RADFORD, Renton Reporter
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Trying not to overshadow the educational needs of the Renton School District, community members hope area pools get a boost from a February election bond measure.
The “Building for a Lifetime of Learning School Improvement Bond,” offers many district improve-ments, including a new middle school and upgrades to the Lindbergh High School pool, if it passes in the Feb. 14 special election.
Among other things, the passage of the bond would allow for energy-saving improvements to be made to the Lindbergh High School pool, potentially decreasing the expenses it and the Hazen pool cost the district and the commu-nity in money they have to raise overall for both pools’ operations.
However, even with the passage of the bond, the community is still responsi-ble for raising funds to close the gap between the pools’ revenues and expenses. It costs the district about $900,000 to operate both pools.
Renton Pools Commu-
nity, the local community group that has been raising funds to save Renton’s pools, has contributed to nearly $80,000 for that ef-fort this school year. With some funds carried over into the next year, the orga-nization is working on rais-ing the remaining $40,000 to reach the $60,000 to keep the pools open for the 2012-2013 school year.
“We will still continue to count on the public to financially support to keep the pools open, even if the improvement bond passes,” said Randy Matheson, district spokesperson.
The pools are not a mon-ey-making endeavor and if the district was running them like a business, they would have been shut down a long time ago, he said.
However, both pools have recently proven that they are resources that are in demand.
“For both Lindbergh and Hazen pools, they had the highest revenue year ever, even with the current econ-omy,” said Bryce Jensen, Lindbergh pool manager, of the pools’ performance last year.
Recently the Renton School District learned that it didn’t have complete in-
formation from the county on what it costs to operate the pools.
King County had two budgets for utilities and operating costs, Matheson said.
The county gave the dis-trict the operating costs not the utilities costs; another department had been pay-ing for it and didn’t give the district that information.
“It’s more to operate than what we thought,” Matheson said.
“With what we’re spend-ing and what the commu-nity is raising, it still costs a lot,” he said.
“We’re in the business of education, so we have to make the decision on what’s best for students and learn-ing,” Matheson said.
Because of that, he doesn’t see asking the com-munity to take on more financial responsibility with the pools as a problem. The district is committed to keep the pools open as long as there is community
support. The long-term plan,
Matheson said, is to reduce overhead expenses, increase fees and renovate the Lind-bergh pool to see savings in operating and utility costs.
The issue of the pools takes a backseat to the educational needs of the district that like all others in the state, is facing more
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Bryce Jensen, Lindbergh pool manager, and Chris Carlson, organizer for Renton Pools Community, discuss the future of the Lindbergh pool. TRACEY
COMPTON, Renton Reporter
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The following information was taken from City of Renton police reports.
BY TRACEY COMPTON
A grandson and grandmother were burglarized in Renton in early December.
Thieves made off with the grand-mother’s jewelry while she was gone on a trip.
Police and the grandson suspect that the thieves are friends of the grandson, who he invited over dur-ing his grandmother’s absence.
There were no signs of forced entry to the residence in the 19900 block of 106th Avenue Southeast.
Disgruntled ex takes revenge
A disgruntled ex-boyfriend took his frustrations out on his ex-girl-friend’s vehicle on Nov. 24.
The two dated for four years and have a child in common, but broke up two months ago.
The 23-year-old male became up-set recently, according to the woman, because she is dating someone else.
The man came over to the 23-year-old woman’s residence. He asked her to come outside and when she didn’t he supposedly shattered her vehicle’s windshield.
Police aided in tracking vehicle prowlers
Police stopped a vehicle prowling in progress and got some help from a civilian capturing one of the suspects on Dec. 8.
An officer responded to a report of a vehicle theft in progress at AAM-CO, 500 SW Grady Way, at 6:04 a.m.
The officer observed several sus-
pects prowling and removing items from another vehicle the suspects were parked next to in the parking lot.
When the officer activated their emergency lights and ordered them to stop, one suspect took off in a truck and the other fled on foot.
A civilian just across the street stopped the suspect fleeing on foot and held him on the ground.
The other suspect’s truck was found with speakers stolen from the victim’s vehicle.
The suspect in custody was ar-rested for investigation of vehicle prowling and obstructing a law enforcement officer.
Pawn shop burglarized Super Pawn shop was burglarized
on Dec. 8, but oddly nothing was taken.
Police responded to an alarm at the shop located at 225 Sunset Bou-levard North at 5:39 a.m.
A police officer found the store’s manager there investigating and the rear business door pried open when they arrived.
The two also found numerous firearms in a room leaning against the walls, but none appeared to be missing from the store.
Expensive jewelry theft
Two Renton women were robbed of approximately $15,000 worth of
jewelry on Dec. 6. A 16-year-old girl, who lives at
the residence in the 1100 block of Monroe Avenue Northeast, left for school and returned to find a broken back door.
She called police around 3:20 p.m.Inside the house police discovered
the TV had been moved and set on the floor.
The owner of the home, a 41-year-old woman, came home and said the only thing missing was jewelry. About $11,000 worth of what was missing was recently inherited from a deceased relative.
Sick suspectWhile police took custody of a
suspect from a bail bonds agent, the suspect collapsed on Nov. 23.
The 47-year-old Renton woman was handed over to police because she failed to notify the bail bonds company of her move. She had been charged with third degree theft and driving with a suspended license.
While police were searching her, she complained of chest pains and fell to the floor. Police found nitro-glycerin in her pocket.
She was transported to Valley Medical Center.
Explicit graffitiAbout $1,500 worth of damage
was done to a Renton residence caused by graffiti on Dec. 9.
The residence, in the 2300 block of Southeast Eighth Drive, had graphic descriptions of sexual acts allegedly performed by the residence’s owner’s sister.
The graffiti was signed “LiL Pack,” which is a street name used by a sus-pect known to both the victims.
Pictures of the damage were sub-mitted into evidence.
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The U. S. Small Business Ad-ministration (SBA) is committed to providing access and oppor-tunity to Americans who are – or who want to become – small business owners. For a variety of reasons, some communities are underserved when it comes to getting the tools they need to grow a business and create jobs. We want to change that.
Our resource partners include Small Business Development Centers including one in Renton at Renton Technical College that provides training and busi-ness counseling for little or no cost. This includes the basics of starting a business and under-standing more about topics like finances, marketing, production and management.
We also have Women’s Busi-ness Centers, in Seattle, Mukil-
teo and Tacoma and a Veterans Business Outreach Center in Seattle. Counselors stand ready to help small businesses get con-nected to resources.
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And, it’s also why SBA is piloting the Community Ad-vantage program. For the first time, we opened up SBA’s most popular loan program to com-
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As a physician in Renton, I’m very concerned about what years of budget cuts are doing to our state’s health-care system. While you may have not yet felt the pain, I promise you, your neighbors have. Soon we’ll all experience the impact of more cuts to health care if the Legislature ignores the governor’s call to include new revenue to solve the state budget deficit.
Some say these cuts will save us money. But the price we pay will be greater than the savings. An all-cuts budget would dismantle our primary health-care safety net, by eliminating Disability Lifeline, a vital program for people who are tempo-rarily disabled, and Basic Health, which gives health coverage to struggling working families.
Instead of getting preventive care at their local community health center, like HealthPoint here in Renton where I work, people who have lost their health coverage will forego treatment until the emergency room is their only option. What could have been a $150 primary care visit becomes a $16,000 inpatient hospital stay.
If you need stitches or a cast for a broken arm, expect to get in line at the ER behind parents seeking help for their one-year-old’s earache, or others seeking treatment for their chronic conditions. You can also look forward to skyrocketing health insurance premiums as hospitals pass these costs on.
More cuts to health care will take a dev-
astating toll on real people. We see an aver-age of 76 patients each day at HealthPoint Renton, while the lobby is packed with a growing number of others hoping for a can-cellation. Dozens of other clinics across the state face the same wearisome scenario.
For people like Karen D. who has always worked but does not receive insurance from her employer, regular access to her doctor and medication not only sustains normal-ity, it sustains her life. She relies on the high- quality, affordable care at HealthPoint to help keep her blood pressure under control. In my years working in community
health, I have never met a patient who does not want to be a productive member of the community. No one wants to be dependent.
I took an oath to prevent harm, and I believe our state elected officials should do the same. I ask you to join me in urging ourlegislators to give voters a chance to save these programs. I believe voters will choose to raise revenue to save lives and maintain our healthy communities.
Dr. Kelly Barbour is the lead provider at Renton Healthpoint Community Health Center.
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computer training, software licenses, computers and hardware. It’s called the Technology Levy and it is part of the district’s long-term technology plan.
On top of this, the dis-trict is asking for approval of its Building for a Lifetime of Learning School Build-ing Improvement Bond, which would raise $97 million to provide a new middle school at the cur-rent Renton Academy site among other projects.
The academy would be moved to a different loca-tion and a new 800-student middle school would be built in its place.
“We need to create some-thing that eliminates the overcrowding at our middle schools,” said Matheson.
Currently, McKnight Middle School is the largest in the district with about 1,400 students.
A new middle school will alleviate overcrowding at McKnight, said Matheson, and allow the district to move some families around rebalancing the district. It will take an estimated year and half to plan and build a new middle school.
The bond would also cover renovation of the pool at Lindbergh High School and improvements, upgrades and moderniza-tion of other schools.
The district gets 58
percent of their funds from state allocation based on the number of students in the district. About 11 percent of the budget is federal funds tied to certain programs; 28 percent of the budget is local money from taxpayers. The remaining 3 percent is generated by rental facility fees in the district.
The last time the main-tenance and operations levy was on the ballot was 2008 and the current levy expires in 2012. The district doesn’t set aside money in its budget to construct new buildings and so has to ask for voter support to build
and make renovations. The Renton Academy
site was chosen because the land is owned by the district and it is big enough to accommodate the right-sized middle school.
Right now, the district has begun community presentations, starting with reaching out to groups like Renton Rotary, Kiwanis and the Soroptimists.
Visits to neighborhood association meetings, City Council meetings and other community presentations are planned after Novem-ber.
If the maintenance and operations levy does not
pass the district operating budget would be reduced by approximately 30 percent and could result in program and staff cuts and adjustments to balance the budget, according to a district release.
If the bond measure is not approved, the district will not be able to build the new middle school or make renovation and construc-tion improvements.
School building main-tenance is included in the general operating budget, but funding for essential large-scale building im-provements is not funded by the state.
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Hollcraft said it was a nice feeling to help others in this way.
“We want to go out of our way to give back to people that appreciate it,” he said. “And Linda certainly did, which made it really close and personal.”
Shawn Mendenhall is a captain with the Renton Fire and Emergency Services Department.
He was driving the antique fire engine for Santa and acted as a helper.
“We’ve done a version of (the program) for as long as I can remember, 25 years,” he said. “But, a real or-ganized version started last year with Brad (Santa) and I and our Benevolent association picking one family from each station through Communities in Schools.”
Last year was the first year the firefighters decided to have Santa deliver the gifts on the back of an an-tique fire engine.
Mendenhall said that he and Brad Gould had such a great time they pledge to dress up and participate until they retire.
Gould remembers last year encountering a child with tears in their eyes.
“They didn’t have anything in the house except a table and chairs and a broken down couch and no presents or gifts or anything,” he said. “So, that makes it pretty fun,” said Gould of delivering a sack full of presents.
After all the lunches, the halls fill to capacity during the passing period to the next period at McKnight Middle School. CHARLES CORTES, Renton Reporter
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The Renton Salvation Army and parents in the community received a “blessing” this week and the charitable organization didn’t even have to ask. That was the case at the annual
toy giveaway at the site of the former LA Fitness facilities in Renton on Monday.
This year even with increased need in the com-munity, the Salvation Army had enough donated toys for the children on their lists that they didn’t have to ask for additional support.
“There is greater need,” said Capt. Chris Aird of the Renton Salvation Army. “We’re seeing a lot more families this year than we did last year. We have about 2,100 children (to) about 2,500 children that we’re helping, which is a little bit of an increase from last year.”
The Salvation Army, with what was donated, even anticipated being able to ac-commodate the few families that signed up after the toy giveaway deadline.
“It all came through,” said Aird. “We worked out, from the first time with us being here, we started talking with Hasbro and other companies and the need was just met.”
Aird and his wife Lisa took over as captains of the Salvation Army this year.
Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast were major contributors donating more than 8,700 toys and games. Donations were also increased by private donors and other local businesses.
“I think it’s a blessing,” said Nadia Midrgan, a parent
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Midrgan has relied on the Salvation Army a couple of years because of what she can’t do with her own finances.
“I think it’s a great idea for - especially this helps a lot of people who don’t have a high income for families. It’s a great gift for them.”
First time participant in the toy giveaway, Denise Haggett, found out about the services from a friend.
“It’s beautiful, honestly my kids were not getting toys this year,” Haggett said.
She has a boy and a girl and called the efforts “pretty amazing that people have good hearts.”
Denise Daniels has been
a volunteer for the toy give-away for the past five years. She works as a family liaison for the Renton School Dis-trict and refers a lot of her families to the program.
There were about 70 to 100 volunteers helping par-ents pick out gifts and select-ing food baskets on Monday afternoon and scheduled all day Tuesday.
“It’s just really awesome; it feels good to be able to help,” Daniels said.
She called the amount of private and corporate giving “amazing.”
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BY TRACEY COMPTON
Navigating holiday meals is tricky for anyone, but the potential for harm can in-crease for diabetics if care is not considered when planning a meal experts warn.
The biggest concern comes from the re-strictions on food intake and too many food choices, Anna Betancourt says.
She is a wellness dietitian at McChord Air Force Base Health and Wellness Center.
Added to that concern is the idea that people with diabetes will fear they won’t be able to follow their diet and the pres-sure they might encounter from family and friends to eat everything that is offered, she said.
“With Type 1 diabetes the concern would be the need to maintain glucose control and more vigilance with insulin administration,” Betancourt said. “The meals have to be
more closely monitored in order to adjust insulin needs.”
Type 1 diabetes is characterized by the body’s inability to produce insulin and was formerly known as juvenile diabetes.
With Type 1 diabetes the concern to maintain glucose control is even more chal-lenging for children and young adults.
Type 1 is related to insulin needs and food intake, the focus is on glucose levels and supplying adequate insulin for the meals, Betancourt said.
“With Type 2, there is more emphasis on weight management,” she said. “The loss of weight, which will improve the glucose levels, is compromised and they fear regain-ing weight. Also, paying closer attention to glucose levels pre meals, and remembering to keep your medication schedule. Diabetes doesn’t go on holiday.”
It didn’t go on holiday for James Nolan one Thanksgiving after he was mistakenly
diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Type 2 is characterized by a resistance to
insulin. The majority of people diagnosed with diabetes have this form.
In Nolan’s case he was actually Type 1 and didn’t know it.
He was taking pills for the disease instead of shots of insulin at the time.
“And I was pretty sick, but I was kind of in denial,” Nolan said. “Ate what I wanted on Thanksgiving day, took my two pills a day and didn’t think about it.”
Nolan ended up in the hospital for eight days, three days of which he spent in a dia-betic coma in the intensive care unit.
Based on his personal experience, Nolan said that it doesn’t have to be that extreme for something to be wrong.
“Some people, they may not feel quite right or they may not feel great,” he said. “But they don’t really see it necessarily as diabetes; they may not even be able to put
their finger on it.”For him, Nolan feels pretty lousy when
his blood sugar gets to a certain point. “So, I always try and keep in mind that I
really don’t want to feel like that,” he said.Nolan, now as a diagnosed Type I dia-
betic, relies on an insulin pump to regulate his blood sugar levels.
He also uses Valley Medical Center’s edu-cation services for diabetes and an endocri-nologist at their Southlake Clinic.
Betancourt advises the following for sur-viving the holidays for people with diabetes:
Make smart choices and concentrate on the family, friends, socializing, fun stories and don’t stress too much about the diet restrictions. Make time to walk especially after having a meal. Consider colorful choices of fruits and vegetables.
When dining out, research menus before you arrive and know what you will eat. Scan buffet tables first for healthier choices. Choose less creamy sauces and fried prod-ucts to avoid added calories. Use smaller plates and savor the flavors and textures. Small amounts of sweets are OK as long as you don’t overindulge.
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Hazen High School. Aileen holds a 3.9 grade point average (G.P.A.). She has been involved in National Honor Society as vice president, Symphoni Club, Highlander Club, Breakfast Club, track and fi eld, leadership team, swim team as captain. Isakharova has received outstanding junior award, academic all-star, scholar athlete award, honor orchestra, swim varsity letters. She works part-time as a lifeguard and instructor at Hazen pool; volunteers with National Honor Society, Synagogue-Eastside Torah Center, East Hill String Lessons. Isakharova plans to attend the University of Washington to earn a bachelor’s degree in biology. She hopes to become either a pediatrician or ultrasound technician.
Lindbergh High School. She holds a 3.8 G.P.A. Traylor has been a member of Key Club, speech and debate team, vocal jazz ensemble and robotics club. She has received National Honor Society Award, student of the month awards in several subjects. Traylor volunteers with Key
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and social sciences. She is interested in a career involving biology, communi-cation, history and human rights.
Renton High School. She holds a 3.0 G.P.A. Locke is involved with ASB as vice president, poetry club as founder, wres-tling as manager, volleyball and soccer. She has received the honor roll and choir letters. Locke volunteers with Relay for Life. She plans to enlist in the Air Force then attend a four year university to study English and education. After
serving in the military and completing her studies, Locke hopes to become a successful English teacher.
Rotary members recognize three Renton School District high school students each month as Youth of the Month. After being selected by counselors at each of the district’s three comprehensive high schools, a selection committee of Rotary members reviews applications and interviews students to identify those who will be selected as Youth of the Month. The award is given to students who possess leadership abilities, maintain a good grade point average, participate in school activities and volunteer in their community.
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HolidayHappeningsOne night only
Th e Renton Civic Th eater presents “A Gos-pel Christmas Extravaganza” for its second year Friday, Dec. 23.
For one night only, a cast of singers and performers will put on the Christmas pro-duction at 7:30 p.m.
It is a free community event staged by Th e Carolyn Michele Baumgart Th eatre Group in conjunction with Pacifi c Church of South Seattle.
All are welcome. Renton Civic Th eater is located at 507 Th ird Street in downtown Renton.
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HolidayHappeningsBY TRACEY COMPTON
Th is recipe features the rich, sweet decadence of a Snowy Chocolate Cookies recipe as shared by Liat Shklarski in cel-ebration of Hanukkah. Th e Jewish holiday began Dec. 20 and continues for seven days.
Shklarski is a child and family therapist for Sound Mental Health in Tukwila and came to the United States from her homeland of Israel three years ago. Baking is her passion and
she only uses recipes from Israeli cookbooks. She adapted this cookie recipe from the book called, “Sweet Secrets,” by Karin Goren.
Baking these cookies is a tradition Shklarski started with her father, from whom she gets her baking skills, she said.
“So, I try even though I’m away from my family, I keep do-ing the things that I remember from home,” Shklarski said.
She has noticed since moving to the U.S. that a lot of Jewish people here buy presents for each other for Hanukkah.
“In Israel we are not exchanging presents during Hanuk-kah,” Shklarski said. “I think that in the U.S., Jewish people want to get some of the Christmas miracle and use Hanuk-kah for that.”
She might start that custom with her infant daughter and husband once the child gets older, she said.
At Sound Mental Health, Shklarski has as her boss de-scribes “probably the cutest caseload.”
She works with young children and families on how to deal with stress and post-traumatic stress disorder.
She facilitates an art-therapy program called “Chill and Spill” for her young clients.
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Liat Shklarski, therapist for Sound Mental Health in Tukwila, has adapted this Israeli cookie recipe for Hanukkah, which began Dec. 20 this year.
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With one of the Seamount’s best players and plenty of depth, fi rst-year Lindbergh boys basketball coach Robert Graham is confi dent and ready to roll.
“We’re not going to lose to many basketball games,” Graham said. “Th e main thing is that these are good kids, that’s why I really think this team is going to go a long ways.”
It all starts with senior guard Jimmy Keum. Keum is second in the Seamount in scoring this year, at 19.0 points per game. He also fi nished second last year, at 20.6, and proved to be nearly unstoppable at times. He scored 49 points in the Eagles’ fi nal playoff game last year, when Lindbergh lost to Port Angeles in double overtime one game short of state.
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“We have to be a little hungrier,” he said. “I want my kids to play as hard as they can all the time.”
Graham especially wants that
attitude to manifest itself on the defensive end.
“I think that bothers teams and puts them in a situation they don’t want to be in,” he said.
Lindbergh has already put itself in a favorable position this year with a 6-1 overall (3-1 league) start that has it in second place in the Seamount. Th e Eagles avoided a slow start like last season, when they went 0-4, and got hot late in the year.
Lindbergh takes on Kentridge Dec. 30, Bear Creek Jan. 3, then gets back to league play against Kennedy Catholic Jan. 4.
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Above: Lindbergh’s Jimmy Keum drives into the key and passes against Hazen. Right: Lindbergh’s Colin Malone puts up a shot against Hazen. ADAM MCFADDEN, Renton Reporter
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SEASON
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GIRLS BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
Tyee's Arinesha Smith scored 32 points, but it wasn't
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The Eagles (4-2, 3-1) led by three heading into the fourth quarter, then held on for the
win.Emily Graver led Lindbergh
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BY ADAM MCFADDEN
Th e one thing that the Renton Results Boot Camp isn’t: boring.
Fitness expert Luka Hocevar makes sure of that. Hocevar runs the boot camp at Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance, located at 1222 Bronson Way North in Renton.
“It’s a pretty cool environ-ment because you have pro athletes working alongside 55-year-old moms,” Hoce-var said. “Nobody cares what anyone else’s ability level is, everyone is just try-ing to make it through this boot camp.”
Th e gym off ers semi-private training in addition to the popular boot camp. Hocevar said the boot camp attracts people from 18 to 70 years old and from every level of fi tness. And that’s the beauty of his system, is its versatility.
“Th e fi ttest person in the world can do the hardest level and still get a great workout,” he said. “Or if they’re just starting off at Level 1, almost anyone can do it.”
Th e typical boot camp starts slow rolling and self massage with foam rollers to get the muscles ready to even get warmed up. Th en the group starts with dynamic warm-up drills, which are a combination of body weight exercises and
stretching.“At that point everybody
is sweating,” Hocevar said. “Th en we explain what the bootcamp is for today, and just crank it.”
Th e workout portion usually lasts 20-25 minutes and might consist of any-thing from kettle bells, to
sand bags, to medicine balls in a circuit fashion.
“It’s never boring,” Hoce-var said. “No one has ever come in and said, ‘I’ve done this already.’”
Hocevar and his staff attend various seminars throughout the year to always stay on the cutting edge of exercise ideas. Th at keeps the boot camp ses-sions fresh and effi cient.
As part of Hocevar’s goal to change the lives of 10,000 Renton residents by 2015, Vigor Grounds decided to set up a weight loss contest earlier this fall. For every pound lost, the gym donated $2 to the Boys and Girls Club of Renton/Skyway. Th at totaled 682.7 pounds and $1,365.40 over the eight-week contest.
For more information about the gym, programs, or videos of classes, go to www.rentonresultsboot-camp.com.
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Boot camp working to make Renton healthier
Above: Luka Hocevar, owner of Vigor Grounds, brings the participants at his boot camp in for a huddle and a motivational speech. Left: Hocevar walks among a class, pushing the participants. ADAM MCFADDEN, Renton Reporter
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Seamount boys standings (through Dec. 20)
Kennedy Catholic (4-1 overall, 4-0 Seamount)
Lindbergh (6-1, 3-1)Evergreen (5-3, 3-1)Hazen (4-4, 2-2)Foster (3-4, 2-2)Renton (2-3, 2-2)Tyee (0-5, 0-4)Highline (0-6, 0-4)Scoring (at least three
games played)
Mitch Penner (Kennedy) - 21.3 points per game, Jim-my Keum (Lindbergh) - 19, Alex Campbell (Evergreen) - 16, Jonathan Patterson (Renton) - 15.7, Alex Olson (Hazen) - 14.3
ReboundsPatterson - 14, Camp-
bell - 9.9, Zac Kolterman (Hazen) - 8.8, Penner - 8.7, Dawit Kasa (Hazen) - 8.5
StealsKeum - 4.3, Zack Lee
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3.7, Anthony McCluskey (Kennedy) - 3, Ablie Leigh (Foster) - 3
AssistsKeum - 4.4, Frankie
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of spices. Without a doubt they are smooth, rich and sweet.A friend, who helped Tynes set up side contracting
work in carpentry in the past, encouraged him to go forward with this business venture and helped him get started.
“My mom would be surprised out of all her three sons that I’m the one to do something like this,” Tynes said.
His mother never taught him how to bake specifi-cally, but she taught him and his two brothers and two sisters how to cook.
“But, I’ve been a carpenter for 30 years, I know how to follow the instructions,” he said.
It took a little more than that because as Tynes puts it, “Old folks, they don’t measure stuff.”
He was able to concoct his pie recipe also adhering to his mother’s recipe, using measurements his mother had given his wife 28 years ago.
The recipe has Southern roots, as Tynes’ mother hails from Mississippi, but raised her children in San Jose, Calif.
Tynes moved to Washington in the early 1980s and says that Renton is a good place to raise children.
As for the pies, Renton seems to love them. “Oh yes, I sold out almost every Tuesday,” said Tynes
of his experience at the Farmers Market in downtown Renton.
He was also popular at the market at Valley Medical Center on Sundays and again at the annual Harvest Festival in the fall.
It was at the Harvest Festival that he met Rex Hashimoto, director of the Renton Uwajimaya store.
“He tasted one of my pies and a few days later he sent me an email asking if I could come down and meet some of the managers and also bring some samples,” Tynes said.
Tynes met with the group and they asked him on the spot if he would like to be in all four of the Uwajimaya stores.
“And they had a pretty good laugh at my expense because they could see on my face that I didn’t expect this to happen this soon,” he said.
This Thanksgiving with Ms. Margie’s Sweet Potato Pies proved an eye-opener for Tynes as he made so many pies he lost count. He makes them in a local commercial kitchen with friends and family helping him.
Customers were still calling him with orders when he was leaving his business for the day.
Tynes directed them to Uwajimaya stores and they
sold out at the end of Thanksgiving Day, he said.Tynes was looking forward to retiring in a couple of
years, but now says that’s probably not going to hap-pen.
“I’m enjoying this and I tell everybody, I wish I had of done it 20 years ago,” he said.
Tynes is still working out the kinks of his business, says that he’s at the crawl stage now, but wants to see if they can walk and then run.
Tynes just recently got a contract to have his pies sold in the Popeye’s restaurant off of Rainier Avenue in Renton at 105 S.W. Seventh St.
“I think you’re going to be hearing a lot from Ms. Margie’s Sweet Potato Pies,” he said.
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Richard Tynes, owner, creator and baker of Ms. Margie’s Sweet Potato Pies, stands in front of a refrigerated case at the Renton Uwajimaya store where his pies are sold. Tracey Compton, Renton Reporter
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whelmed by their mortgage payments, she said.Th ey are also worried about their utilities being shut off
and providing nutritious food for their children.Milliren remembers encountering a 60-year-old mother
who wasn’t quite retirement age but was laid off . Th e woman was forced to live with her son, who was also unemployed and near the end of his unemployment assistance.
Milliren was able to give the son information about low-cost health insurance and refer him to utilities assistance.
“Most people are really glad that there are these support systems that they can lean on,” she said.
Among the college grads and about everyone else she meets without a job, Milliren said, there are defi nitely feel-ings of shame.
United Way noticed there weren’t many volunteers doing public outreach off ering benefi ts, said Courtney Noble, man-ager of Basic Need Programs at United Way of King County.
Th ey knew that there were thousands of people who were eligible for food stamps, for example, but they didn’t know who they were. Th e Bridge to Basics program is an attempt to send volunteers out cold to fi nd people, she explained.
Th e program has now hit a tipping point in the number of agencies that are aware of their services. Th is has made
it very easy to recruit volunteers, Noble said.
Th ere are now more people ready and willing to help the program as volunteers than they have volun-teer positions to fi ll.
Recently they had 150 people who applied to volunteer
when they had only 50 spots to fi ll.Volunteers receive a three- to four-hour training ses-
sion and do outreach in food banks, libraries, community centers and Work Source sites. Some of them have a social work background or are retired professionals. Th e program currently needs volunteers who speak Spanish, Chinese or Russian.
Milliren is bilingual in Spanish and English and has been working in the Bridge to Basics program since last Septem-ber.
“I love people and I love that in this kind of work we have the opportunity to witness human strength and persever-ance in really tough times,” she said.
Despite her clients’ unfortunate circumstances and the climate in which she works, Milliren is amazed by the fact that she has witnessed clients still make a point to wish each other happy holidays.
budget cuts.“If we’re raising money,
we’re doing it to backfi ll some of these programs like kindergarten,” Matheson said.
Last year, all-day kinder-garten was cut from all but the low-income schools in the district. Th is year even those schools’ all-day kindergarten programs are on the chopping block and proposed to be cut.
“If we’re asking parents to fund all-day kindergarten, then asking them to foot the bill for the pools should be a realistic ask,” Matheson said.
Th e task for community groups like Renton Pools Community is tricky.
Th ey must tap new and old sources of funds for the
pools without getting in the way of others eff orts to raise money for district educa-tional programs.
“Keep in mind we as a community have higher priorities in the school-type of fund-raising,” said Chris Carlson, organizer for Renton Pools Community.
“Friends of Renton Schools is raising money just to cover the main school objectives and we certainly don’t want to com-pete with those eff orts of trying to tap major donors.”
To further its eff orts, Carlson’s group plans to educate the community about the February bond measure and also sell ad-vertising banners at about $1,500 each.
“Well, I think our fi rst focus has to be the bond,” Carlson said. “Because without passing the bond, the physical plant here at Lindbergh, which is quite aging, there’s the potential that something serious could happen and the money would not be there.”
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David Edward PughDave passed away at age 87 on
November 14, 2011 after a brief fight with cancer.
He was born and raised in Renton, WA, served in the Army overseas during WWII and then spent 32 years working for the Washington State Department of Transportation as a traffic engineer.
He and his wife Mary retired to their favorite place, Lake Cavanaugh,
where he helped found the Fire Department, served as a Fire Commissioner, was a recycling disposal volunteer, helped with the fun run and was always available to help those in need. Dave was a stand up guy with a great heart who gave selflessly to others.
He is survived by his wife, Mary, son Bill (Karen) of Sumner, grandsons Jeffrey (Trishia) of Anchorage, Joshua (Annjanett) of Mill Creek and Jacob of Tacoma and great granddaughter Geneva as well as other loving family members.
As requested by Dave, there will be no services. Remembrances may be made to the Skagit County Fire District #7, 35058 South
Shore Dr., Mount Vernon, WA 98274.562753
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Self Storage Lien SaleJanurary 11th at 11:00 AM
Sale will be held at:Storage One On Sunset Blvd NE
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PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT NO. 1
OF KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON
VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED MEETINGThe regular meeting of the
Board of Commissioners of Pub- lic Hospital District No. 1 of King County, (Valley Medical Center) scheduled for Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 5:30 p.m., has been rescheduled to Monday, January 23, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.
Regular meetings of this Board will continue to be held on the 1st Monday of every month un- less changed by public notice.BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSPUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT NO. 1 OF KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON (VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER)By: Sandra SwardAssistant to the Board of CommissionersPublished in the Kent, Renton, Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on December 16, 2011 and December 23, 2011. #561464.
VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
District Healthcare SystemNOTICE OF
BOARD MEETINGNotice is hereby given that the
January, 2012 meeting of the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees Interim Finance, Facilities and Audit Ad Hoc Committee will be held on Janu- ary 17, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. in Conference Room B of Valley Medical Center, Renton, WA. The Board of Trustees will be held on January 17, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in the Board Room of Val- ley Medical Center, Renton WA.
Notice is hereby given that the February, 2012 meeting of
the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees Interim Finance, Facilities and Audit Ad Hoc Committee will be held on February 21, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. in Conference Room B of Valley Medical Center, Renton WA. The Board of Trustees will be held on February 21, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center, Renton WA.BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra SwardExecutive Assistant to the Board of Trustees Published in the Kent, Renton, Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on December 23, 2011 and December 30, 2011. #561483. THE REGULAR DECEMBER 28, 2011 MEETING OF THE SOOS CREEK WATER & SEWER DISTRICT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING WILL BE HELD AT 4:30 P.M., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012, AT THE DISTRICT OFFICESOOS CREEK WATER & SEWER DISTRICT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 14616 SE 192ND STREETRENTON, WA 98058Published in the Renton Reporter on December 23, 2011. #562807..
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE
PROPOSED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOUNDARY MOD-
IFICATIONS FOR BOARD OF DIRECTOR
DISTRICTS FOR THE RENTON SCHOOL
DISTRICT 403. A Public Hearing will be held by the Renton School District Board of Directors on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the Kohlwes Education Center Board Room, 300 SW 7th Street, Renton. The Board will hold the hearing for the purpose of listening to public input on the modifications to the boundaries for Honey Dew Elementary School which were approved by the school Board in December 2010. Honey Dew Elementary School will open as a Kindergarten through fifth grade school in the fall of 2012. Boun- dary changes due to the opening
of Honey Dew Elementary will alter school boundaries for eight other district elementary schools. Any person may appear before the Board and be heard for or against any part of the proposed boundary plan.Published in the Renton Reporter on December 23, 2011 and De- cember 30, 2011. #563947.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGRENTON HEARING
EXAMINERRENTON, WASHINGTON
A public Hearing will be held by the Renton Hearing Examiner in the Council Chambers on the seventh floor of Renton City Hall, 1055 South Grady Way, Renton, Washington, on January 5, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. to consider
the following petitions: McCormick Plat LUA11-034, ECF, PP, PPUD Location: 16405 SE Renton- Maple Valley Road. The request includes Preliminary Plat and Planned Urban Development for a 34 lot, 9 tract subdivision of a 7.32 ac lot at 16405 Maple Valley Hwy, zoned R-8 resulting in a density of 6.33 du/ac. Legal descriptions of the files noted above are on file in the City Clerk’s Office, Seventh Floor, City Hall, Renton. All in- terested persons are invited to be present at the Public Hearing to express their opinions. Questions should be directed to the Hearing Examiner at 425-430-6515. Published in Renton Reporter on December 23, 2011. #564266.
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METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY COUNCILNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
2011-0424
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held before the Metropolitan King County Council, Room 1001, King County Courthouse, Seattle, Washington, on the 9th day of January, 2012, at 1:30 p.m., to consider adoption of Proposed Ordinance 2011-0424, authorizing the executive to transfer and assign an easement to the Cedar River Water and Sewer District.
SUMMARY
King County acquired a utility easement from the Fairwood Golf and Country Club to allow the County to construct a portion of the Fairwood interceptor pipeline together with connections, manholes and appurtenances. Now that the pipeline and improvements have been completed, the County is required under its agreements to formally transfer and assign to the Cedar River Water and Sewer District, the ownership and responsibility for the utility easement on a portion of the county’s wastewater pipeline. The easement is located at approximately 17070 140th Avenue SE, Renton Washington. A copy of Proposed Ordinance 2011-0424 will be mailed upon request to the Clerk of the Council, Room 1200, King County Courthouse, 516 Third Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, telephone 206-296-1020. It is available on the Internet at http://www.kingcounty.gov/council/clerk/ordinances_advertised.aspx . DATED at Seattle, Washington, this 23rd day of December, 2011.
METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY COUNCILKING COUNTY, WASHINGTONAnne NorisClerk of the CouncilPublished in Renton Reporter on December 23, 2011. #560090.
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