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Del Mead, former president of the Renton Kiwanis Clothes Bank, tends to the racks at the clothes bank recently on South Third Street. ABOVE, AT LEFT: In her teens, Mead was a showgirl; her father was a Vaudeville drummer and her mother was a dancer. CHARLES CORTES, Renton Reporter

Del Mead’s ‘little shop of miracles’

BY DEAN A. RADFORD

[email protected]

Th e political career of Margarita Prentice – includ-ing 20 years as a state senator, will come to an end early next January.

Prentice no longer lives in the 11th Legislative District, now that statewide redistricting has moved her home on Langston Road on West Hill into the neighboring 37th Legislative District.

It was a move of just a block or so, but it took her out of what she herself called the “Prentice bulge” into the 11th District. But the bulge allowed her to serve her neighborhood.

Prentice has lived in Skyway since 1958 and her daughter and son are nearby.

Already, Prentice had expressed doubts about running again for a sixth term, a reticence she also felt a bit four years ago. But she did run; this time, the decision was taken out of her hands.

“I will not be active in politics any-more,” she said Wednesday. Still, she said she could get elected anywhere.

Prentice had spoken with Tim Ceis, the Democratic member of the state redistricting commission, about her doubts, but she said she didn’t expect to lose her district. But, she says she’s not disturbed.

Prentice will remain in offi ce as the 11th District senator until Dec. 31, when her fi ft h term in the Senate

ends. She turns 81 in February.“I have served long and well,” said Prentice. In her last

election, she won in every precinct in the district.“I guess that my constituents agree that I did a good

job,” she said.Her decision ended the possibility she would run

against the 37th district’s current senator, Adam Kline, who was elected overwhelmingly to his third term in offi ce. He’s up for re-election in fall 2014.

Th e Legislature has 30 days to review the new dis-tricts as drawn by the Washington state Redistricting Commission, but it can only make technical changes and those require a two-thirds yes vote by the House

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BY TRACEY COMPTON

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Since stepping down from the presi-dent’s position for the Renton Kiwanis Clothes Bank board in September,

Del Mead has been catching up on her sleep and enjoying family. But, the 88-year-old is not backing away from her life-long passion yet. Mead says she will serve on the board for as long as she is able.

She is known to many in the com-munity for her work with the clothes bank to which she began contribut-ing in 1967, later served on the board of directors and eventually became board president in 2000.

“She is the clothes bank,” said Pat Auten. “I mean she has always been a driving force to keep up the clothes bank.”

Mead has been a role model to Au-ten since she met her in the early ‘80s.

“She is just one of those women that

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Mike Fobes, a Renton Technical College instructor, built a rotary-powered motorcycle from scratch. MARK

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BY MARK KLAAS

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In his many imaginative and uncon-ventional creations, mechanic Mike Fobes dares to be diff erent.

“I don’t build normal anymore. I like to do the wild,” admitted the 51-year-old Au-burn man, a certifi ed masters automotive service technician and instructor at Renton Technical College. “I’m always building something. It’s something I enjoy doing.

“I’ve always been good with my hands,” added Fobes, who likes to tinker and experiment in his spacious shop like a mad scientist. “I was lucky enough that my career was my hobby.”

True to character, Fobes’ latest fabrica-tion is unlike any other.

Salvaging aff ordable parts from many sources, he carefully hand-craft ed a customized, rotary-powered motorcycle. Chrome-clad “Twisted Evil” glimmers inside Fobes’ shop, the radical chopper stretching nearly 10 feet long, from the narrow front tread to a pair of wide rear tires.

Sitting on solid aluminum billet wheels, the unorthodox bike features a gas tank tucked in the rear fender and a custom radiator occupying the tank’s customary spot. Th ere is front independent suspen-sion, a racing transmission and two shift ers – one for high and low, the other for for-ward and reverse. A powerful Mazda RX7 rotary engine produces 175 horsepower.

A signature devil’s tail from twisted frame rail ends gives the motorcycle a somewhat menacing accent.

No kickstand is required.Fobes can only grin at the anomaly.“It’s ridiculous,” he said of his proud

bike, which evolved over a three-year span, from concept to completion. “As I’m building it in my head, things changed throughout. As I’m imagining it, I looked for parts. I’m always looking for good deals to keep expenses down.”

Fobes plans to paint the bike black, polish and bring it to the masses for a little show and tell, including an exhibit at

Los Angeles next year. Th e beast was built more for looks than high-speed perfor-mance, Fobes insisted.

Th e innovative chopper caught the eye of a Snap-on Tools representative who stopped by the college. He urged Fobes to enter the machine in the Snap-on Tech Toys 2012 national wall calendar. A persuaded Fobes just beat the contest’s deadline.

“Twisted Evil” won a spot, embracing the month of June.

Fobes, the maker of hotrods and a long-time classic car connoisseur, got the itch to buy a bike. But conventional motorcycles proved too expensive, so Fobes decided to customize one himself.

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At fi rst, “she had no idea I was mak-ing this thing,” Fobes said. Eventually, she discovered the bike. It was no surprise.

Fobes has a history of fi xing and making things. He turned wrenches professionally for 20 years before becoming a teacher. He is in the Automotive Hall of Fame in Mid-land, Mich., as a world-class technician certifi ed in many testing categories.

His love aff air with machines began when he bought, restored and maintained a 1967 Mustang, his fi rst beloved trophy car that received national magazine atten-tion.

He also got into dirt bikes, motorcycles and other things that simply roar.

Fobes turned his considerable mechani-cal skills to other characters, especially around Halloween. Th e family haunted house is legendary in Fobes’ rural south-west Auburn neighborhood.

Over the years, Fobes created curiosity for trick-or-treaters. Among his mechani-cal monsters were a 500-pound robot with red eyes and a Gatling gun; a talking head with glowing eyes; a snarling and leaping mechanical mastiff ; and a fi re-breathing dragon.

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The King County Library System will hold a public meeting to address plans for a new and expanded Renton Highlands

Library.The meeting is 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Highlands

Neighborhood Center, 800 Edmonds Ave. N.E., in Renton.

The public is invited to review and offer input about the designs that

an architectural team from THA Architecture has created.

Representatives from the City of Renton and Colpitts Development Co. will attend as the new library is part of a major redevelopment

of the Sunset area.KCLS hopes to have a schedule

after the meeting on Jan. 11 for completing the design and

permitting process during 2012. “As to the transition from the

current library to the new building, there will be a brief

closure for relocating, but otherwise the present library will be open throughout the construction time,” said Kay

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CORRECTIONAn error appeared in the Dec. 9 Renton Reporter story, “Budget

cuts threaten kindergarten, staffing.” Full-day kindergarten

costs $300 a month at some schools in the Renton School District. The story incorrectly reported the cost was yearly.

BY TRACEY COMPTON

[email protected] Road Map Project run by an

education think tank is calling for stronger education systems and in the short-term focusing on strate-gies to help students now in South King County and south Seattle.

The think tank, the Community Center for Education Results, recently released its “Baseline Report” that describes a troubling state of education in Renton, Au-burn, Federal Way, Highline, Kent, Tukwila and south Seattle.

The group is looking at ways to combat the challenges that face students in the region as they try and gain access to college and career credentials.

The Road Map Project is a col-lective impact initiative aimed at getting dramatic improvement in student achievement from cradle to college and career in South King County and south Seattle, according to as press release.

The group noted in its report that the Renton School District

has bright spots in its focus on quality teaching in math and sci-ence.

The district has 72 teachers who have earned math and science credentials from a partnership the district has with Seattle University.

The Renton School District also benefits from a partnership with the University of Washington in which teachers learn more about their subjects and improve their teaching practices.

The Road Map Project wants to use the Renton district’s example as a model for creating this type of “system-building” work across the area it studied.

Overall, the project has culled data that finds that the region is home to 70 percent of King County’s low-income students, 69 percent of the county’s English Language Learner students and 58 percent of the county’s students of color.

“The data we show in the Road Map Baseline Report at each stage of education – from cradle to

college and career – is a sober-ing reminder of the urgent need to dramatically improve student achievement in South King County and South Seattle,” said Mary Jean Ryan, executive direc-tor of the Community Center for Education Results (CCER), which staffs the Road Map Project.

The goals of the project are to boost third-grade reading levels with help from city halls to classrooms to doctor’s offices and libraries. Some of the project’s members are working in Olympia on better policies to support Eng-lish Language Learners.

A major effort continues to sign up eligible students for the state’s College Bound Scholarship.

The scholarship covers the cost of tuition at Washington’s public colleges and universities for low-income students.

School districts worked col-laboratively with mayors and community partners to achieve 93 percent of eligible students signed up in the Road Map region.

The project is also dedicated to helping students sign up for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA.

The Road Map’s intent is to align efforts in the community toward the same goal of improv-ing educational outcomes in the region and to track and report that progress.

“The Road Map Project stands out because, while there have been many calls for educational improvements over the years, none has involved a collective commitment to united action by school districts, educators, elected officials, non-profits, community members and funders,” said Dr. Edward Lee Vargas, superin-tendent of Kent School District. “Success at this scale is possible if, and only if, we all work together to place students and their future at the center of our decisions.”

For more information on the Road Map Project’s “Baseline Re-port,” visit www.ccedresults.org/media/baseline-report/.

Road Map calls for stronger schooling

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Baptist Church in the Renton Highlands is hosting a special program in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The celebration is at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 15 at the church, 4519 N.E. 10th St. in Renton.

Guest Rev. Leslie Braxton of New Begin-nings Christian Fellowship in Renton has been invited to speak as well as Rev. Linda Smith, who will speak about Dr. King. Smith is pastor of The S.K.Y Institute in Renton.

New Beginnings’ choir will sing along with the Martin Luther King Jr. Baptist choir.

There will be a special presentation in honor of King.

For more information call, 425-255-1446.Celebrations to honor King are planned

regionally, too. One of the largest annual Martin Luther

King Day celebrations in the U.S. will take place in Seattle on Jan. 16.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee, chaired by King County Council member Larry Gossett, is hosting their 30th anniversary of annual events with a day of workshops, a rally and a march.

Themed “Recapturing MLK Jr.’s Revolution-ary Spirit!” the day kicks off with workshops geared toward youth from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45

a.m. at Garfield High School, 400 23rd Ave at East Jefferson in Seattle.

At 11 a.m. a rally with speakers, poetry and music will commence followed by a march at 12:30 p.m. from the school to the Jackson Fed-eral Building at Second Avenue and Marion.

There organizers will present a brief outdoor rally.

For more information call 206-786-2763, or 206-296-1002, or visit www.mlkseattle.org.

This year also marks the 25th year that King County and its employees will honor the life of Rev. King.

The public is invited to join King County employees at Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle for the county’s free Silver Anniversary celebration at noon on Thursday, January 12.

Speakers at the celebration will include Gos-sett, King County Executive Dow Constantine and former King County Council member Bruce Laing, one of the leaders who worked to rename the county in honor of Dr. King 25 years ago.

The celebration will include musical perfor-mances by Abráce, a Seattle-based group that builds inter-cultural understanding through music, along with the reunited MLK Employee Singers, county employees who have per-formed at previous celebrations.

MLK Jr. events planned

BY DEAN A. RADFORD

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The trial of the 36-year-old Kent man charged with first-degree murder in the death of 12-year-old Alajawan Brown on April 29, 2010, on West Hill, was getting under way this week.

Curtis John Walker has been in custody in the King County Jail in downtown Se-attle on $5 million bail since his arrest on May 14, 2010.

Jury selection is expected to begin on Monday, with opening arguments likely to begin on Tuesday.

Alajawan was walking home from a bus stop on Martin Luther King Jr. Way when he was hit by gunfire from an argument at an apartment complex. Despite attempts to revive him, Alajawan died in the parking lot of the 711 store at South 129th Street.

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Sheriff ’s detectives confirmed this week that the man who shot a park ranger to death Sunday at Mount Rainier National Park was one of the men in-volved in a shooting earlier in the morn-ing on West Hill.

The West Hill shooting at about 3 a.m. left four people injured, including two critically. At least two gunmen fired multiple rounds into the air, including Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, who killed Ranger Margaret Anderson later Sunday morning.

Detectives with the King County Sher-iff ’s Office have interviewed witnesses, but as of earlier this week had not been able to talk with the victims. Two were in critical condition and two in stable condition Tuesday at Harborview Medi-cal Center.

“It is unclear at this point who shot first and who was shot by whom,” said Sgt. Cindi West, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff ’s Office. Detectives are still pro-cessing forensic evidence, she said. As of mid-week, no arrests had been made.

The Sheriff ’s Office released additional information Tuesday about the New Year’s shooting in the 6200 block of South 117th Place on West Hill.

About nine people were at the party. At some point, there was a “show and tell” of guns and at midnight New Year’s Day at least two people fired multiple

rounds into the air, according to West.Just before 3 a.m. one of the men the

party asked to see a gun belonging to an-other person. He refused to give back the gun when asked and a shootout started involving at least two people. Barnes was one of those who pulled a gun and fired.

Barnes and two other subjects left the house after the shooting. Detectives spent most of the day talking to witness-es and trying to identify and locate those who had fled the house.

Two of the subjects were located and detectives were working with Barnes’ family to convince him to come to the police to tell his side of the story, accord-ing to West.

Barnes, still armed, had driven to Mount Rainier National Park. Accord-ing to media reports, he drove through a park checkpoint where rangers were checking to ensure that vehicles were properly equipped to drive in win-ter conditions. At this point the King County Sheriff ’s Office had not sent out an alert about Barnes’ car, according to West.

Barnes was stopped by rangers a short time later and it was then that he shot Anderson.

Barnes’ body was found not far away partially submerged in a creek. Accord-ing to media reports, it’s likely he died of exposure.

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The following information was compiled from City of Renton police reports.

BY TRACEY COMPTON

[email protected]

A Renton woman was robbed at gun-point in front of her children on Dec. 27.

Police responded to the robbery in the 17100 block of 126th Avenue Southeast at about 6:50 p.m.

The 27-year-old woman was upset and crying as she tried to tell police what hap-pened.

She was on her way to the store and had just put her children in her vehicle. She noticed a black man wearing all-black clothing walking toward her.

The woman walked around her vehicle to the driver’s side and the man pulled out a dark-colored handgun and pointed it at her.

He demanded her purse and she gave it to him.

The suspect is described as approximate-ly 6-feet-tall, medium build, wearing all black with a black hooded-sweatshirt.

Police did a K9 check of the area but were unable to locate the suspect.

Fur-like clothes stolenA 28-year-old Seattle woman was ar-

rested for stealing fur-like clothes from Walmart on Dec. 27.

The theft happened just before 6 p.m. at the Walmart, 743 Rainier Ave. S. in Renton.

A store employee witnessed the woman conceal merchandise and pass by all points

of sale without paying and leave the store. She was confronted and detained by store security.

When asked why she did it, she said she is homeless and needed warmer clothes.

Man beats parked carA 22-year-old Seattle man was arrested

for taking his frustrations out on parked car on Dec. 16.

A witness called police to say the man was kicking a black sedan and screaming at about 1:56 a.m. in the 600 block of South Fourth Street in Renton.

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Police observed 26 kick marks on the vehicle along with numerous scratches.

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Fight over affairA Utah man was arrested in a domestic

dispute in Renton on Dec. 17.The 27-year-old man was arguing with

his 29-year-old wife when the dispute turned violent.

Apparently he had discovered pictures of his wife with another man on his cell phone. According to her, he began slapping her repeatedly while they were driving. The woman tried to escape when they pulled into a parking lot on East Valley Road.

Police arrested the man for investigation of fourth-degree assault.

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as a woman you look up to her,” Auten said. Auten participated in the Soroptimist organization with

Mead and served with her on the clothes bank board the whole time Mead was president.

Auten called Mead a joy to be around as a good listener and leader, able to make informed decisions and make everyone feel included.

“If everybody was a little like her, it would be amazing the things that would happen,” Auten said of Mead’s service.

Current president of the Renton Kiwanis Clothes Bank, Susan Bressler, described Mead as a “tireless advocate for those who are less fortunate in the community” pouring “her heart and soul” into the clothes bank.

“Del has seen the true blessings that have come from chil-dren and adults receiving a helping hand when they need it the most,” Bressler said in an email. “By receiving, even

gently used clothing, children are able to go to school with their heads held high, and are better prepared to learn when they don’t have to worry about basic needs.”

Bressler has worked with Mead on the board for about six years.

So, why did Mead decide to dedicate so much of her life to

community service and what has she learned?“I’m 88-years-old and keeping involved and helping your

fellow man over the rough bumps of life is very important,” Mead said. “And as long as I’m able to do that, it gives me a fulfillment.”

In terms of relating to the people she has served, Mead said, “I’ve been there and done that.”

As a child, she remembers standing in line for food with holes in her socks. Mead was the recipient of clothes from charitable organizations at a young age, but said her family worked out of poverty and has thrived ever since.

She has learned in all her community service - 37 years with the Soroptimists - that giving another guy a lift up gives you a lift up, too.

Mead has learned many things that she is happy to share with anyone who wants to know.

“I’ve learned that giving is better than receiving most of the time,” she said. “And helping others is so gratifying and self-fulfilling and gives meaning to your life.”

Mead likes to refer to the clothes bank as her “little shop of miracles” because of the many wonderful things that hap-pen to people there.

Everything from finding a nice-fitting suit for a customer for an interview to giving a child a coloring book, all kinds

of experiences have given her satisfaction over the years. “So, you learn that every little thing you do is important as

well as the major things that you can contribute,” she said. But there are things many may not know about the kind

and generous woman.For example, her parents were Vaudeville performers and

Mead herself performed on stage in productions across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

She worked with a magician and got sawed in half. Mead was once a ski queen of a ski area in north Michigan, where she’s from originally.

“I’ve just done all kinds of exciting things my whole life,” she said.

Mead had a special connection to the city of Renton before she even moved here.

When the 707 air-plane debuted, it took its maiden flight to an Air Force base near her hometown of Oscoda.

Mead worked for the school district at the time and the district

got a grant to build a school in the shape of 707 airplane. Her husband would later take a trip out to Washington,

meet a Boeing recruiter on a fishing trip and soon after they moved to Renton.

“I have been in my house on Talbot Hill since 1957,” Mead said, when the city’s population was about 16,000.

She used to go hunting with her husband, John, with her own Ithaca Featherlight shotgun and 6 mm rifle. John passed away in 1986.

“So, I’ve been alone for quite awhile, so that’s how I got more involved with everything else,” Mead said.

Mead worked as a Renton city clerk from 1972 to 1982. She has also volunteered in the front information booth of the City Hall lobby since 2000. Mead has worked or volun-teered for eight different Renton mayors.

“I’ve had a very wonderful, exciting life and Renton has been a big part of it,” she said.

Del Mead has retired as president of the Renton Kiwanis Clothes Bank. CHARLES

CORTES, Renton Reporter

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Credit to Kathy KeolkerHaving just moved from my beloved

Renton aft er 70 years for family and economic reasons, I was visiting Renton and picked up a Renton Reporter which I always enjoy read-ing and “what to my wondering eyes should appear” but commentary by Mayor Denis Law entitled “Tough times still ahead but so are brighter days in city.”

Mayor Law is an excellent “wordsmith” and I give him credit but to IMPLY to Renton-ites that He was solely responsible for welcom-ing to Renton the Seattle Seahawks, Th e Land-ing, and the Federal Reserve Bank I believe needs clarifi cation. Yes, he was there as a city councilman, but it was under Mayor Kathy Keolker’s leadership that those fi ne establish-ments came to Renton. Th ere are pictures and articles to back up that statement.

I also fi nd it unacceptable that Renton City Hall has gone out of its way to exclude former Mayor Keolker in civic events and invitations aft er 24 years of service to the City of Renton is just not class, but that is my opinion for which Letters to the Editor are for. I just hope that Mayor Law was not trying to impress all the new population that has been added to the

City of Renton since 2008 and that the year 2012 might defi nitely be more encompassing, compassionately open and brighter in the city.Judith E. White, West Seattleformerly of Leisure Estates, Renton

City doesn’t fund schoolsSuggestion: maybe you should add clarifi -

cation of facts to letters with obvious errors. Ms. Robinson (Nicola Robinson, Letter to the Editor, No to more tax dollars for schools, Dec. 30, 2011) seems to confuse the schools with the city with the library system. Th ey are very separate entities with diff erent but over-lapping funding. Th e city does not fund the school district. As part of the annexation of the Renton Library system to the King County Library system, the city has some continuing obligations.

Speaking of obligations, it is our civic obligation to educate ourchildren and grandchildren for the future. Fail to do so and who will take care of the seniors who no longer can care for themselves?Charles GrassRenton

The National Transportation Safety Board has taken a

tough, but necessary, stand on texting, emailing or

chatting while driving a vehicle. The board wants it

outlawed.

Good.

The unanimous recommendation from the fi ve-member

board would apply even to hands-free devices, a much

stricter rule than any current state law.

Again, good.

Despite the popularity of such devices, there’s no way a

person can give full concentration to driving and still pay

attention to a making a telephone call, emailing or sending

a text.

As NTSB chairwoman Deborah Hersman rightly noted, “No

email, no text, no update, no call is worth a human life.”

And people have died while trying to do both. One deadly

crash in Missouri involved a 19-year-old teen driving a pickup

who sent or received 11 text messages within 11 minutes.

The pickup was traveling at 55 mph when it plowed into

the back of a tractor truck that had slowed for highway

construction. The pickup was then rear-ended by a school

bus, and a second school bus rammed into the back of the

fi rst bus.

The pickup driver and a 15-year-old student on one of the

buses were killed. Thirty-eight other people were injured.

Our state is one of 35 and the District of Columbia that

bans texting while driving, and, along with eight other states

and Washington, D.C., that ban hand-held cellphone use.

That seems like a step in the right direction, but you

only have to look around at our streets to see driver

after driver fl aunting the law. And most, if not all of

them, are clearly paying more attention to their cell-

phone calls and text messages than they are to their driving.

And, yes, the police do write tickets – lots of them – for

these off enses – but it’s clear that it isn’t stopping this

dangerous practice.

Let’s stop kidding ourselves: It is inconceivable to believe

that all – or even most – of those cellphone calls and text

messages are in response to an emergency. In reality, people

doing them are putting their personal need to chat and text

above any concern for public safety.

The National Transportation Safety Board is right. Ban all

use of texting, emailing or chatting while driving. We can live

without doing those activities. It’s now apparent that we can

die while doing them.

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Th ere are probably few superlatives that haven’t been used to describe Sen. Marga-rita Prentice.

For nearly a quarter century she has watched out for the interests of Renton and West Hill in the state Legislature.

She has been a champion of the worker, education and especially health care.

So it will be with dismay to see her political career come to an end in January. She still had the political fi ght in her, but redistricting ever so slightly moved her Skyway home into the neighboring 37th District.

She turns 81 next month, so maybe it’s time to take a break. She has certainly

earned it, along with the thanks of her grateful constituents.

Rarely do we see lawmakers with the backbone and the will to do what’s right for their constituents, to champion those who otherwise have no champion.

Prentice is one of those lawmakers and she will be missed.

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Other food drives are planned, too. For information about joining the troop, contact Margaret Solaire at the school, 425-226- 3717. Submitted

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Th e neighborhood program off ers matching funds to neighborhood groups and associations to implement projects that

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Renton’s chilly New Year’s Day tradition continued Sunday when dozens of brave swimmers ran, dove or tip-toed into Lake Washington at Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park for the annual Polar Bear Dip. Afterward they enjoyed clam chowder at Ivar’s. GARY PALMER, For the Renton Reporter

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Th anks to the “ARISE needs help feeding the homeless in January” story in the Dec. 30 Renton Re-porter, the group was able to fi ll all but two nights this month for their homeless men’s feeding program.

Th e ARISE group, which is operated by Catholic Community Services, found itself with 12 days not covered with organiza-tions to help feed homeless men coming to the Salva-tion Army this month.

Support poured in from local groups and parents off ering their high school-aged child’s com-munity service hours, said Sally Cummings, who is on ARISE’s site committee.

Now with only Jan. 11 and 18 to cover, the group has support through May 1. Aft er that time, they will be

faced with the same chal-lenge of coordinating food support for the summer months.

High school students interested in fulfi lling their community service hours for school are welcome as volunteers, Cummings said.

Th ose interested in vol-unteering should call Cum-mings at 425-228-1871.

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For the clinic’s updated monthly schedule visit, http://www.king-county.gov/healthservices/health/personal/mobilemed.aspx.

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and Senate.Prentice has been one of Renton’s strongest voices in the

state Legislature for more than two decades. She served on the Renton School Board and was a registered nurse at Valley Medical Center.

Prentice was appointed to the state House of Representa-tives to replace Avery Garrett, who died in 1988. She was elected twice to the House and in 1992 won her first of five Senate races.

Mayor Denis Law said the city doesn’t believe that the legislative changes will affect issues important to the city.

“We’ve had great working relationships with both sena-tors and are extremely grateful for their service to the community,” he said. “Sen. Prentice has been the “Dean” of the Renton state legislative delegation for many years, and she has worked tirelessly to support the city through

its dramatic growth and aggressive economic development efforts.”

The state’s redistricting commission last weekend com-pleted redrawing the boundaries of the state’s 49 legisla-tive districts, based on the population figures in the 2010 Census.

The commission also redrew the boundaries of the state’s nine congressional districts and carved out a 10th one, centered around Olympia.

Renton is in the 9th District, which by design is the state’s one congressional district that has a majority of mi-norities, 50.32 percent. The new 9th District is represented by Adam Smith and stretches from Federal Way through Bellevue.

“The historic development of a “majority minority” district will allow the 9th District representative to focus on the needs and opportunities of our diverse communi-ties, as well as the pressing needs of the entire district for

economic opportunity, transportation improvements, and other infrastructure and community needs,” Law said.

In the past Renton has also been part of the 8th Congres-sional District. Under redistricting, U.S. Rep. Dave Reich-ert’s 8th District includes not only parts of King and Pierce counties, but also Chelan and Kittitas counties.

The boundaries of the nine King County Council districts also were redrawn, based on the new population figures.

The redistricting pushes Julia Patterson’s District 5 far-ther east to include more of Renton, including Cascade.

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It didn’t take long for Hazen’s Airashay Rogers to assert herself to coach Jeff Bernhardt. During the sec-ond summer-league game before her freshman year, Roger sat Bernhardt down and asked him a simple question.

“She said, ‘Coach, why am I not starting?’” Bern-hardt recalled. “Th is is the second day I’ve ever been in a gym with her, everyone’s got to pay their dues. But she was ready to go.”

It didn’t take long for her to get into the starting lineup. Rogers led the team in scoring with 19.3 points that season, yet the team still made sure she paid those dues. “Rookie,” as her teammates called her, car-


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Hazen’s Airashay Rogers drives against Lindbergh last season. ADAM

MCFADDEN, Renton Reporter

SHAYairaHazen’s Rogers in middle of fourth year leading team

ried the ball and the medi-cal kit for the Highlanders’ games.

Rogers has come a long way, from rookie to captain. Now a senior, the 5-foot-7

point guard has commit-ted to play basketball at the University of Washington next year.

As a freshman, Rogers came into a group already

well established. Th e team’s leader, Monica Nevi, gradu-ated the previous year, but the core group of girls remained.

“She was charismatic, but kind of timid in taking over leadership roles,” Bernhardt said. “I was kind of disap-pointed that she didn’t just step forward, but she was just 14.”

He said Rogers’ coming out party was in a 71-66 loss to White River in the district playoff s that year. Before fouling out in the fourth quarter, she scored 27 points. Rogers had certainly played other great games but this one came against one of the state’s top-ranked teams with winner-to-state stakes.

“Th at night, in that game, there wasn’t anybody bet-ter,” Bernhardt said.

Rogers scored 26 against Columbia River two nights later, then later made three of her 21 points with a buzzer-beater against Bon-ney Lake to lift Hazen to the 3A state tournament for the fi rst time since 1991.

Th e next season Rogers led the team in scoring, at 18.3 points per game.

She also led the group in assists (3.0 per game) and rebounds (7.0), all the while becoming more of a leader.

“We took baby steps with the leadership,” Bernhardt said. “At that point it was time to be more vocal and know everyone’s looking to her.”

As a team, Hazen strug-gled aft er losing key

players and missed the playoff s with a tie-breaker loss to Foster on the last day of the regular

season.Rogers took her

game to the next level her junior year. She averaged 26.0 points per game (best in the Seamount League), and again led the team in points, assists and re-bounds. Hazen made it to the sub-district playoff s, but no further.

Th is year, Hazen is off to a 3-5 start overall. Rogers is averaging 18.3 points per game, and she may have had the best statistical game of her career Dec. 16 against Highline. Rogers scored 24 points, added 13 steals, 11 rebounds, eight blocks and six assists.

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Th e Liberty boys swim and dive team edged Hazen 97-86 Tuesday.

Th e Patriots controlled the top of the events, while Hazen's superior depth kept the meet close.

Liberty won all three relays, with

the 200-yard medley (Luke Duschl, Raymond Ha, Kevin Hays and Nick Klatt) taking out Hazen (Nolan Hoover, Chris Foth, Kyle Nelson and Alex Gayte) by almost six seconds.

Liberty's 200-free relay (Hays, Ha,

Connor Biehl and Logan Briggs) beat Hazen (Gayte, Chase Onstot, Nel-son and Malcolm

Mitchell) by less than one second.

In the 400-free relay, Liberty (Duschl, Biehl, Klatt and Briggs) beat

Patriots edge HighlandersLiberty’s Nick Klatt (front) swims past Hazen’s Chase Onstot in the 200-yard freestyle Jan. 3. ADAM

MCFADDEN,

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double by two blocks, that’s hard to do,” Bernhardt said.But even with the highlights, she’s struggled mightily

with sickness the past three weeks. While those struggles have been tough to watch, it’s also a great opportunity for Bernhardt to see how far Rogers’ leadership has come. Rogers hasn’t been at her peak physically, but she’s never let the team see her down.

“When she’s around other people she just doesn’t let them see her have a bad day,” Bernhardt said. “She’s always bubbly. She hasn’t ever taken a day off . When it comes to the team, they don’t ever see her down or dragging. She’s the life of the team and she won’t ever let anybody relax.”

Bernhardt is enjoying his last year with Rogers, though it’s hard not to think ahead.

“She’s the best high school player I’ve seen in a long time. She just has that power, that grace, that glide,” he said. “I don’t think we’ll ever have another Airashay.”

Hazen (Onstot, Conner Broughton, PJ Warmen-hoven and Mitchell) by about six seconds.

Klatt won the 200 free, while Onstot fi nished second. Duschl won the 200 IM, with Biehl in second. Briggs won the 50 free, with Nelson in second.

In the one-meter dive

competition Hazen's Dustin Coda topped Liberty's Jesse Herrild.

Ha won the 100 fl y with Nelson in second. Briggs also won the 100 free with Mitchell in second. Klatt also won the 500 free with Biehl in second. Duschl won the 100 back with Hoover in second. Ha won the 100 breast with Hays in second.

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‘I don’t think we’ll ever have another Airashay’

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Hazen’s Nolan Hoover ADAM MCFADDEN, Renton Reporter

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atthelanding.com6 p.m. - 8 p.m., Jan. 6, Wines

of South Africa Tasting with A&B Imports, Warren Van Doren, $10

8 p.m. - 11 p.m., Jan. 7, Andre Feriante, Spanish guitar virtuoso, free

Jan. 8, Closed for staff holiday party

6 p.m. - 8 p.m., Jan. 13, wine-tasting, TBD, $10

8 p.m. - 11 p.m., Jan. 14, Brooks Giles, jazz trio, free

6 p.m. - 8 p.m., Jan. 20, Tulpen Cellars wine tasting, Kenny Hart, $10

8 p.m. - 11 p.m., Jan. 21, Danny Godinez, solo guitar, free

6 p.m. - 8 p.m., Jan. 27, Terra Blanca wine tasting, Keith Pilgrim, $10

8 p.m. - 11 p.m., Jan 28, Troy Kline, jazz trio, free

A Terrible Beauty Irish Pub201 Williams Ave. S., RentonContact: 425-227-3396, mys-

pace.com/aterriblebeautyirishpub11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Saturdays and

Sundays, Live Jazz Brunch, free7 p.m.- 9 p.m., Wednesdays,

Traditional Irish music session with Matt Haverly, free

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Thurs-days, Acoustic Irish Dinner various artists, free

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Jan. 6, Acoustic Irish Dinner with Erin McNamee, free

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Jan. 7, Acoustic Irish Dinner with Jacob Jones, free

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Jan. 13, Acoustic Irish Dinner with Erin

McNamee, free9 p.m., Jan. 13, The Whiskey

Gaels, Irish, free5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Jan. 14,

Acoustic Irish Dinner with Mc-Cormack & Lowry, free

9:30 p.m., Jan. 14, The Stunt Doubles, alternative covers, free


9:30 p.m., Jan. 20, Bowi, Irish rock, free


5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Jan. 28, Acoustic Irish Dinner with Mc-Cormack & Lowry, free

Liberty Cafe926 S. Third St., RentonContact: 425-235-14007 p.m., Jan. 6, First Friday

Party, free7 p.m., Wednesdays, K.T. and

Hoops host open mic, free

Luther’s Table419 S. Second St., Suite 1,

RentonContact: 425-970-31577:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., Jan. 6,

Sarah Pasillas and Friends, folk covers and originals, free

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., Jan. 7, Nate Houge, musical artist, free

Noon - 3 p.m., Jan. 8, Jazz Sunday, open jam session, free

7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m., Jan. 12, Open Mic, first come, first play, 3 songs or 15 minutes, free

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., Jan. 13, Jonathan Nicholson, guitar instrumentals, free

2 p.m. - 4 p.m., Jan. 14

Volunteer training for Luther’s Table, free

7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., Jan. 14, Quarter Past 8, music group, free

11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m., Jan. 15, BRAZZ with Carole Miguel, jazz session, free

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., Jan. 17, Theology Pub, free

7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Jan. 18, Trivia Night, free


7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., Jan. 21, Bitter Tonic, music group, free

Noon - 3 p.m., Jan. 22, Orpheus Jazz, jazz Sunday, free

1 p.m. - 2 p.m., Jan. 25, Chil-dren’s Story time, music, stories, crafts and snacks, free


Noon - 3 p.m., Jan. 29, Jazz Sunday, free

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Jan. 31, Luther’s Reading Ladies, book club, free

Tea Palace2828 Sunset Lane N.E., RentonContact: 425-228-9393,

teapalacerestaurant.com8 p.m.-midnight, Fridays,

Vietnamese, English and Chinese live music, free

COMEDYDC’s Bar and Grill907 S. Third St., RentonContact: 425-255-2511, www.

dcsbargrill.com/8 p.m., Jan. 19, Special Guest

TBD, $5

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Chester AnglemyerChester Anglemyer passed away

December 19, 2011.Chet was born in Humboldt

Saskatchwan Canada on March 7, 1921. He was the 11th child of 13 and was the last to go. Chet came to Renton with his parents at the age of 9. Chet worked at Boeing and 33 years for the phone company. Chet retired on January 28, 1982.

He married Ruth Lievense on January 22, 1944. They had two sons Don and Dick. Don passed away April 30, 1999 at the age of 51.

Chet is survived by his wife Ruth and son Dick Anglemyer of Enumclaw, 4 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

Private interment is planned at Greenwood Cemetery in Renton, WA. There will be no memorial service.

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Nancy Jane (Stivers) Hendricks Nancy Jane (Stivers) Hendricks was

born July 16, 1931, in Spokane, WA. Her long valiant fight with Alzheimer and breast cancer finally ended on December 25, 2011.

Nancy met Harry at a USO dance in Spokane. Harry was a Staff Sergeant serving in the Air Force and stationed at Geiger Field. They were married on March 16, 1952. Nancy was a member of the Navy WACS and the American Legion. She retired from the Boeing

Company and volunteered her time at the Boeing Museum of Flight. She enjoyed taking pictures, crocheting and singing in her church choir but what brought her the most joy was her family!

Nancy is survived by her loving husband Harry, her children Christine (Tom) Bennett, Paul (Linda) Hendricks, Shari (Mike) Wallace, Kathy (Kent) Cook, her grandchildren, Justin, Christopher, Tyler, Michelle, Brittany, Evan, John, Briana and her niece Penny (Glenn) Tyrrell. Nancy is pre-deceased by her brother Ron and nephew Michael.

The Hendricks family would like to extend our gratitude to George and Adina of Loving Care A.F.H. for their loving care of our mother.

Memorial donations can be made to the Alzheimer Association at www.alzfdn.org or the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Awareness at www.ford.com/warriorsinpink.

Memorial services will be held on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM with a reception to follow at Lakeridge Lutheran Church, 7465 S. 112th St., Seattle, WA 98178, 206-772-0400, www.gowithgrace.org

You are welcome to leave a message for the family by visiting Nancy’s obituary at www.bartonfuneral.com. Nancy’s final

resting place will be Tahoma National Cemetery. 569342

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