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For the final installment of the Renton Reporter’s series on police use-of-force and community relations, we look at the police perspective on some of the issues raised in the series.
BY TRACEY COMPTON
Officer Mark Coleman has been with the Renton Police Department for 11 years and Police Guild president for four years in two separate two-year terms. The guild is Renton’s police union and has 99 commis-sioned police officers and 29 non-commis-sioned members.
In the wake of several high-profile,
national cases of police use-of-force, the Renton Reporter sat down with Coleman to get his response to the issues raised by members of Renton’s African-American community in the previous stories of this series.
Overall, Coleman said his experience with the department has been a good one and he described the department as “a very close-knit organization” of “comrades.” He also said that a case similar to those that have exploded nationally could happen anywhere and that Renton’s officers are a diverse unit, who have each other’s backs.
But his responses do show a rift in perceptions between the guild and some Renton community members.
On the one hand, com-munity members said that while Renton’s police are getting it right most of the time, more could be done to reach out to com-munities of color. Police administration has echoed the same sentiments with regard to community outreach and hiring.
However, according to Coleman, Renton’s force is plenty diverse and would respond to any given situation the same way regardless of the demographics of the department.
PERCEIVED THREAT AND RACISMColeman wanted to stress that any
person, “even an unarmed teenager, could become an imminent threat” to an officer or another person anywhere in America.
“Once a person becomes an imminent threat to another’s life, then the possibility of lethal force does exist based on the facts and circumstances that are immediately in front of the officer,” he said.
Coleman took issue with the mention of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmer-man in the series because he said they have nothing to do with the police or communi-ty relations with the police. However, to the African-American community members
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Renton rallies for the HawksRenton’s Seahawks spirit was front and center
for all the world to see as hundreds of fans descended upon Renton City Hall last Friday to cheer the team on to victory in this past Saturday’s playoff game against the Carolina Panthers.
A confident and boisterous crowd filled the upper parking deck of City Hall clad in all manner of blue-and-green Seahawks regalia. Former players Marcus Trufant and Craig Terrill got the crowd going, as did the band Blue Thunder, Blitz and the Sea Gals.
It took Efren de Jesus, right, a month to put to-gether his costume. The Renton resident spread his arms wide and let onlookers take pictures of him and with him.
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Hearing examiner sides with districtBY TRACEY COMPTON
The development of a 97-lot residential sub-division will continue as planned, after Renton’s hearing examiner this week rejected the appeal from the citizens’ group Tiffany Park Woods Advocacy Group (TPWAG), that tried to save the 21.7-acre undeveloped property.
Hearing Examiner Phil Olbrechts noted that Tiffany Park’s woods may have had recreational and aesthetic value in the past, but the woods are not subject to Washington State Environmental Protection Act (SEPA) review.
“As detailed in this decision, the fact that the applicant has allowed neighbors to use its prop-erty in the past (or worse, the fact that neigh-bors may have trespassed in the past) does not justify the imposition of any SEPA requirements because the neighbors will lose that privilege as a result of the development,” wrote Olbrechts in his decision.
The hearing examiner went on to say that just because the neighbors of the park enjoyed an “appealing arboreal view,” that same view does
97-lot Tiffany park subdivision will proceed as planned
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Plans are in motion for the construction of a new middle school in the Renton School District, starting with the preliminary boundary lines.
A committee of district parents, staff and oth-ers are reviewing these preliminary boundary lines now. The boundaries were approved by the School Board in 2013.
The changes are for middle schools only and the new middle school will be a comprehensive sixth- through eighth-grade school. There are no changes to the existing elementary or high school boundaries.
The new school is being built on the site of the former Hazelwood Elementary School at 6928 116th Ave. S.E. in Newcastle.
The district is holding a community meet-ing to present any changes to the preliminary
middle school boundaries at 7 p.m., Jan. 20, at McKnight Middle School, 1200 Edmonds Ave. N.E., Renton.
The majority of the new middle school’s at-tending students will come from the immediate
neighborhood, as the school will not be a mag-net school, drawing from all over the district.
“The district will form a committee that includes parents, community, teachers and staff to work through the school-naming process and present the School Board with naming options,” said Randy Matheson, district spokesperson. “While we do not have a set date for that com-mittee work, it will happen well before the open-ing of the school in September 2016.”
To learn what middle school your student will attend beginning in 2016, visit http://busroutes.rentonschools.us/edulog/webquery/.
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATIONKindergarten registration for next year in the
district at all Renton elementary schools begins Tuesday, Jan. 20. Children must be 5 years old by Aug. 31, 2015 to register. For early enrollment, children must be 5 years old by Sept. 30 and will be assessed by the district for enrollment.
Families will have the chance to visit and tour the schools in April and May. Teachers will also be on hand at that time to share information about learning strategies and expectations in kindergarten.
A new school in Newcastle means adjustments to all of the district’s middle school buildings
not have to be retained by Henley USA, the new de-veloper of the property.
Henley USA is planning to build 97 single-family residential lots on the undeveloped property and retain 30 percent of the trees. TPWAG, the citizen’s group, sought an appeal to have further environmen-tal review and mitigation to address the aesthetic impacts of the woods.
Community members spoke out at Renton School Board meetings - the district owns the property in question - and at public hearings.
The property has trails, tree forts and other rec-reational structures that neighbors don’t want to part with any time soon.
“We’re disappointed and sad and haven’t decided what to do next,” said Re-nate Beedon in an email response to the hearing examiner’s decision.
She is a member of the group TPWAG.
The group also alleged that there could be some hazardous waste on the property left by previous owners, the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense. The hear-ing examiner said that a mitigated determination of non-significance condition of review will require Hen-ley USA to submit its Phase I review to city staff prior to development to verify that there is no hazardous waste issue with the site.
Olbrechts approved the preliminary plat with some conditions.
Henley USA is to pro-ceed with the mitigation measures issued as part of the Determination of Non-Significance Mitigated from Sept. 22, 2014, except for a couple of modified issues. There were some revisions to the earthwork require-ments, landscaping and re-taining walls specifications and curb bulb-outs, used to
extend the sidewalk slightly into the intersection.
Henley USA was also to comply with submitting a revised plat and landscap-ing plan depicting curb bulb-outs where on-street parking is located.
The only contested issue between Henley USA and the City of Renton was the requirement of a 15-foot landscaping buffer around the entire perimeter of the development. Olbrechts decided that only a 10-foot buffer was necessary, limited to areas adjoining proposed retaining walls to conceal the walls from neighboring views.
TPWAG, or any other interested parties, now have within 14 calendar days from Jan. 8 to appeal to the Renton City Council if they choose.
A request for reconsid-eration may also be filed within this 14-day appeal period.
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13. This year’s president is Avery Petek and the vice president is Cora Supasatit. For more photos visit www.rentonreporter.com. TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter
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When my parents graduated from high school in 1936, a college education was too expensive for the son of a copper miner and the daughter of a plumber.
Eighty years ago, our country was in the middle of the Great Depression and teens took odd jobs to help put food on the table and pay the family bills. In those days, no bank would lend money to college students.
Following World War II, there was new hope. The GI bill paid for veterans to com-plete their college or trade school education. My father, for example, graduated from trade schools in Seattle and Chicago and became a jour-neyman electrician, thanks to Uncle Sam.
In the 1960s, the federal government in-troduced the work-study program, allowing students from middle- and low-income families to work their way through college. I found jobs and fortunately didn’t have to borrow money to complete my degree.
Today, it is a much different story. Student loans are the norm rather than the exception. As a result, student loan debt has shot past $1.2 trillion and more than 20 percent of Ameri-can households have student debts averaging $33,000.
Student loan debt is even more common among dependent undergrads from low- and middle-income families. The Department of Education reports that in 2012, 44 percent of these students had student loan debts of more than $12,400.
Adding insult to injury, when these students graduate, many can’t find work in their degree fields and end up in jobs that were once the
domain of high school students. This widespread underemployment, with its lower salaries, is one of the reasons student loan default rates are 14 percent higher than for mortgages, cars and credits cards, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A big contributor to student indebtedness is skyrocketing tuition.
Since the 1970s, tuition has shot up by 1,000 percent while the consumer-price index climbed by 240 percent. By 2010, it took 36 percent of annual household income to pay the average private four-year tuition, up from 16 percent in 1970.
Frank Mussano and Robert Losue, co-authors of “College Tuition: Four Years of Financial Deception,” focus on three reasons for mush-rooming tuition: reduced teaching loads, higher number of administrators and extravagant build-ings such as luxury dorms.
The U.S. Dept. of Education reports that the number of college administrators has increased 50 percent faster than instructors since 2001. For example, the University of Minnesota added 1,000 administrators in the past decade and now there is one administrator for every 3.5 students on the Minneapolis campus. The non-teaching staff at the University of Pennsylvania swelled by 83 percent, a rate far greater than the growth in student enrollment.
Second, the average professor spends much less time in the classroom even though enroll-ments are increasing. The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA reports that, in 2010, 44 percent of full-time faculty spent nine or more hours a week in the classroom, compared to 12-15 hours in 1989.
Third, higher education construction spend-ing has doubled since 1994. It peaked at $15 bil-
This week in the Renton Reporter, we are wrapping up a three-part series from reporter Tracey Compton titled “Can Fergu-son Happen Here?” and I think it’s been an insightful look at a difficult topic.
I know I have learned something in every segment we’ve published and I think that’s exactly what you hope when taking on a topic of this magnitude.
We did not approach this topic lightly, nor did we want to just gloss past it. We also did not want to accuse the Renton Police Depart-ment – by all accounts an excellent depart-ment that does a good job in both protecting their community and protecting the rights of the people in their community – of being something they are not.
Let’s just say it here for the record: We have not received any complaints about the department or gotten any sense that the RPD is anything less than a top-shelf organization. We are not trying to pick a fight or manufacture a crisis where there is not one.
But because of the larger discussions oc-curring on a national level about race and police relations, we felt it was our duty as a newspaper, as a place designed to reflect the community and to encourage discussion within it, to simply ask the question. Which is what we did.
We went into the story with no precon-ceived notions or expectations and began very simply just asking the police directly “Can Ferguson Happen Here?” Then we went to several community leaders and asked the same question, following up to get their perception of treatment by police.
Finally, this week, we went back to the police guild and asked them to respond to the community concerns we came across in part two, as well as asked how they are trying to fix the perceptions – and misperceptions – held by some of the very people they are out protecting everyday.
Because, honestly, we all know police work is a difficult job that can be dangerous. Even in small cities like ours, anything can happen, anything can go wrong and there is always the possibility that the man or woman who puts on a badge and gun in the morning may not make it home that night.
We absolutely respect that choice and are thankful for the men and women who make it.
And yet, all across the country, members of the community that police officers are there to protect do not see them as such. They do not perceive police officers as there to help, but instead as a threat.
That’s not good.And we wondered why. We wondered how
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Doss Bert ElliottDoss Bert Elliott passed away peacefully on January 3,
2015. He was 93. Bert was born June 2, 1921, to Lola and Doss Elliott of Drumright, Oklahoma. The Elliott family relocated from Oklahoma to the Seattle area in the late 1920’s. Bert attended school at both Broadway and O’Day.
Bert was a proud member of the 205th Coast Artillery Army Regiment- Battery B, during WWII.
After the service he returned to Seattle and worked for Foremost Dairy until his retirement in 1976. He and his wife, Eileen “Jeri” Elliott (who preceded him in death in 2010) lived in Maple Valley. They loved to go camping, fishing and bowling together.
Bert is survived by his grandchildren and his many nieces and nephews. His nephew, Tom Elliott was like a son to Bert and was a constant for Bert in the latter part of his life.
The family would like to especially thank Providence Hospice and Arbor Village for their kindness and support over the last few years of Bert’s life.
Rest in Peace, Uncle Bert.Services were held on January 15th at Greenwood Memorial Park, 350 Monroe Ave N.E., Renton, WA 98056
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Mary Louise Cooper BondyJuly 18,1953 - January 2, 2015
Loving wife, mother, grandmother and sister. Survived by husband Ron, son Ian (Allison) grandson Braeden, siblings Michael (Jan), Michelle (Allen), Mark, Matthew (Chris), Marla (Dave) and 15 nieces and nephews.
In keeping with her wishes no services will be held. A celebration of Mary’s life will be held at the VFW Hall, 416 Burnett Ave. S., Renton WA on Saturday, January 17, 2015 from 1:00-
5:00pm. Remembrance to Fred Hutchinson or your charity of choice. In memory please wear Mary’s favorite color purple.
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Maybelle BrickleyMaybelle Brickley, at the age of 78,
died peacefully on January 3, 2015 at home. Maybelle was born August 23, 1936, in Bellingham, Washington, the daughter of Paul and Mabel Chamberlin. She was the � fth of nine children.
Graduated from Renton High School in 1954. Member of Girls’ Club, Pep Club, and Orchestra, in which she played the violin.
In 1956, Maybelle married Ralph Evans. They had four children together. Laura, David, Cynthia, and Timothy. Her youngest son was a year old when her husband passed away unexpectedly in a work related accident.
In 1975, Maybelle married James Brickley. They were married almost eighteen years before he passed away battling cancer.
Although boarding an airplane was not her favorite mode of travel, she wanted to see the world, traveling and cruising to many destinations throughout the US and abroad with family and friends. Embracing life she loved the outdoors. She enjoyed tending to her yard and � owers, taking a walk along the beach, and riding her bike to Coulon Park for an outdoor concert. Maybelle loved gathering family and friends together and very much enjoyed a good barbeque or picnic. She loved books, music and the theater. You could always � nd a crossword puzzle nearby, and a baby blanket or a quilt nearby that she was working on for those special occasions throughout her life. Knitting and crocheting hundreds of hats and mittens for children and families in need and for cancer patients. She has left her imprint of love for so many, sharing her faith and commitment to give more than you receive.
Maybelle has always had the heart of a volunteer. When her children were young she was active in scouting, sporting events and school programs, encouraging and supporting all of the children. After retiring from Boeing she lived her life � nding ways to help where ever there was a need. She volunteered with Bluebills, Meals on Wheels, The Puget Sound Blood Bank, USO, and various other organizations. She was an active member of Renton First United Methodist Church.
Maybelle is survived by her brother Bob (Kay) Chamberlin, and sisters, Paula Maas, Donna Crueger, Clarice (Chris) Christo� erson, Carol Stimmel, and Patty (Peter) Tencer-Droppa..Brother-in law Bob (Geri) Evans, and sister-in-laws, Marge (Gary) Ru� ner, Carol (Dave) Dunning. Daughters Laura Bioren, Cynthia (Jim) Foster, and sons, David Evans and Timothy Evans. Step sons David (Michele) Brickley, and Ronald Brickley. Thirteen grandchildren : Jeremy, Forrest (Tessa), Jennifer (Justin), Tyler (Kelsey), Brittney (RJ), Paul, DJ, Bobby, and Aquinnah. And proud great-grandmother (aka GiGi) to Julianna, Faith, Evan, McKenzie, and Jameson. Nieces, nephews, and many other relatives and close friends. Lots of love!
Her kindness, compassion, humility and love will be so missed by her family and dear friends. She was ferociously independent and always thought of others before herself. She inspired us to be good to one another and to keep hope alive.
A special thank you to the wonderful people at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, University of Washington Cancer Research, Providence Hospice and her church family. You supported our mother and our family and we will always be so grateful.
There will be a Celebration of Her Life, Saturday, January 31st, 2015 1:00 pm at the Renton First United Methodist Church, 2201 N E 4th Street Renton, WA 98056.
Remembrances may be made in honor of Maybelle to UW Center for Cancer Research – UW Foundation, Box 358045 Seattle, WA 98195. Her church, or a charity of your choice.
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Franca Silva JavelliFranca Silva Javelli. Born July 23 in London England.
Fran grew up in Italy and Scotland. After serving in the British women’s army during World War II she migrated to Seattle in 1950. Fran married Joseph Javelli in 1953. They built a home in Renton where they had three children. After Joe’s passing in 1995 Fran continued to live in Renton, moving to a condo on the banks of the Cedar River.
Fran is survived by her three children and their families, daughter Linda Javelli Wanless, sons John and Joe. Burial services were Monday, January 12 at Greenwood Memorial Cemetery.
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Jerry G. VardemanJerry G. Vardeman, age 79, passed away January 1, 2015 at
home in Renton. He was born May 7,1935. He joined the Air Force in 1954 and was stationed in Moses Lake where he met his wife Patricia (Larrigan).They were married 57 years.
He is survived by daughter Valerie Hampton (Paul) of East Wenatchee, sons Darrell Vardeman and Jay Vardeman (Rachael) both of Renton, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Memorial Service will be held January 23 at Washington Memorial, Bonney-Watson, Seatac at 2 pm. Jerry was in Real Estate and owned
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lion in 2006 and has leveled off to $11 billion. Paying off those construction bonds is expensive.
Mussano and Losue argue that higher education needs performance audits, much like those the government conducts on defense contractors, hospitals, social agen-cies and other businesses that get tax dollars. They believe the resulting cost reductions could bring tuition increases more in line with the consumer price index.
Whether you agree with them or not, the fact is the traditional college education on a university campus is slipping away from many families. While it may open new opportunities for on-line universities, in the long run, it is not good for America.
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it had come to this, to a place where the folks willing to die to protect us were perceived as the threat. If I were a police officer, I would want to know how I had lost that trust and what I could do to get it back.
And I don’t know the answer to that question. Even after these three weeks of excellent reporting from Ms. Comp-ton, there is no easy answer. But I think we have learned some interesting things each week that can help us all in these matters.
First, in the opening article, we learned that the use-of-force by the Renton Police Department is actually way down in recent years. I found that encouraging, especially in the wake of national news that seems to show the op-posite.
I think that’s important. The use-of-force in Renton is down to a 10-year low, according to the department. One of the major reasons was a change in policy and training philosophy that teaches officer to only draw and point their weapons if they intend to use them. In the past, that was not always the case and since pointing a weapon is con-sidered a use-of-force, simply training officers to not draw first reduced the numbers.
Not to mention that the less your police force points their guns at people, the better. I don’t care whose side you say you are on, if you are pointing a weapon at me, you are not my friend.
That change in training is absolutely a positive step by the RPD. They should be commended for that.
I personally found part two of the series very enlighten-ing, primarily because it challenged my “white privilege” without ever using the phrase, revealing that for many in the community, the Thin Blue Line does not bring security but worry.
That’s not really something I face and a perspective that is at times confusing but 100 percent real and valid.
As a white male, my perception of police is very different from some of the men interviewed. It was stunning to see
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just how much at times.But at the same time, I thought it was
great to see that everyone seemed to trust Officer Jeff Reynolds, the school resource officer at Renton High School and I thought the reasons WHY they trusted him showed the way to solving the issues in our city and potentially nationwide: The students trust him because he is part of their lives.
The students and community leaders told us that Reynolds has credibility with them because he is “part of ” the com-munity instead of only showing up when things were bad. It was the pro-activity on his part, on being around and taking an interest, that led the students to trust him, even when they don’t trust other officers.
I think that’s really important and I think it shows the way: more direct contact and involvement leads to better perception of police.
When the police learn the names of the people they serve and the community learns the names of those who serve them, they are less likely to blame each other for things and to be more understanding of each other in general.
The community also would like the makeup of the Police Department to more accurately reflect the makeup of the community as a whole, as a way for the minority members of the community to see themselves in the faces of those protecting them.
I will be honest, I think the administra-tion and the City Council get that. I think Chief Milosevich gets that and I think most of members of the department get that.
Unfortunately, reading this week’s piece, I felt the disconnect again, specifically in the answers from Guild President Mark Coleman.
I am afraid he does not come off very well in the story and that is because he doesn’t appear to be answering the ques-tions we asked.
When we asked him about how to change perceptions of mistrust of police within the community, Coleman blew off the question, instead citing 70,000 calls that he says must mean the people trust the police.
Unfortunately, we learned last week that is not necessarily the case and, more to the point, was not what we asked him. Telling us there is no problem is not the way to
solve the problem of mistrust.
Indeed, most of his answers seem to come from the idea of police protecting police, instead of the members of the com-munity, somewhat understandable given his role, but not what we were getting at.
But he also speaks of the diversity in the department in terms we don’t see, using the phrase “very diverse.”
But that hardly seems accurate as well.The RPD is 82 percent white in a city
that according to the last census was only 55.5 percent so. Now, that’s not necessarily a problem, but 82 percent of ANY single ethnicity is by very definition NOT “very diverse.”
On top of that, when asked about the department’s diversity, the guild president always says that no matter the diversity and makeup of the force, the department will be a brotherhood that looks out for each other and will value the diversity in the
community.That’s great – and I believe him – but it
kind of misses the point. The point is to protect and serve the public, not the force. And while I (honestly) do not doubt that the police in this town value the diversity and apply the law evenly no matter, the issue is one about PERCEPTION and Mr. Coleman’s answers, I’m afraid, do not even attempt to address that.
I am willing to chalk it up to a defen-sive posture, however. This is a tough, tough topic and even asking the questions sometimes feels accusatory – though never our intention – and I understand getting into a defensive position, especially if one perceives he is about to have his life’s work questioned or feels he is about to have their professionalism challenged.
But at the same time, that is also the way several African-American members of our community described any interaction with the police.
Which is why we need to have these discussions and why I am very proud that Ms. Compton took on this topic.
I hope you found it as interesting as we did. Please let us know what you think. We’d love to hear your views on the topic and on the series.
Je suis CharlieOne more thing:On Jan. 7, two masked gunman forced
their way into the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. They opened fire, killing 12 journalists and wounding 11 others.
While claiming to be “Muslims,” I think it is quite obvious that these people are simply thugs and bullies attempting to hide behind a religion of peace, like when homegrown terrorists kill abortion doctors while claiming to be “Christian.”
Put simply, this was an attack on free speech and free expression. It was an at-tempt to scare people into shutting up, into not challenging bad ideas and false prophets.
It must not be allowed to stand.We here at the Renton Reporter do not
have access to the comics and covers that sparked this event and normally would not publish anything like them anyway. The comics were not our style and at times they get a bit pointed.
That said, now I would run it in a second, simply to prove that we can and we should and we will not give into fear.
Journalists are the front line of freedom in the world. Every nation has doctors, teachers and an army, but the truth is that only a nation with a free press is truly free.
And we must never be scared into silence by thugs.
Je suis Charlie.
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How to win the trust of students? They answer, be part of our lives
“When the police learn the names of the people they serve and the community learns the names of those who serve them, they are less likely to blame each other for things and to be more understanding of each other in general.” Brian Beckley
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Steven Baldwin, 48, has been charged with first-degree assault for the Jan. 5 attack on comedian Dylan Avila in downtown Renton. He’s being held at the King County Jail in downtown Seattle on $250,000 bail.
Baldwin was no stranger to the Local 907’s comedy club, however, having signed up for his prior open mic sets as “Jesus Christ” and performed his act wielding a Bible and a sex toy.
According to court documents, Baldwin “spoke as if he thought he was Jesus Christ” for both comedy sessions performed at the Local 907 in the weeks prior to the beating of Avila, the open-mic host.
But when Baldwin attempted to perform the same act for a third time at the pub, he was asked by Avila not to perform it any more. At that time, Baldwin left without incident.
However, on Monday, Jan. 5, Baldwin re-
turned to the Local 907 with an aluminum baseball bat and black rubber gloves and hit Avila in the head twice with the bat.
The attack left Avila in pain, dazed and bleeding on the floor. After brain surgery, with two metal plates in his head now, he is expected to recover.
It is not the first time Baldwin of Renton has been in trouble with the law. He has three previous counts of third-degree mali-cious mischief and criminal convictions for conveying false information regarding explosives, threats against the President and reckless endangerment.
“The defendant’s actions in this case demonstrate clearly that he is an extreme threat to community safety,” wrote James Daniels, deputy prosecuting attorney, in the charging documents. “Accordingly, the defendant should be considered a threat to community safety in general, and to the victim in particular.”
Baldwin’s arraignment is set for Jan. 22 at the Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Renton man charged with assault for attack on comedian The third week of January is when the
birds most appreciate homeowners that keep the feeders filled. But is it nec-essary to feed our native birds with seed?
Back in Novem-ber I wrote a con-troversial column suggesting that we all add more plant material to feed
the wild birds rather than continue to fill
feeders with bird seed. The reasons are many, but most important is that attracting flocks of birds to a feeder is unnatural and is causing the spread of fowl diseases.
It could be that your kind-hearted gesture can actually harm our local birds. There is also the fact that bird feeders contribute to the overpopulation of rats, squirrel and nuisance birds like pigeons and starlings. Now some naturalists warn that spilled seeds can introduce invasive plants to our environment.
I did receive many thoughtful comments
A bird feeder backlash
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This week we welcome back columnist Carolyn Ossorio, whose new column Pippimamma! Hot From the Oven! will serve up local stories over food.
Stone-Ground Grits, Shrimp, Cheddar Cheese, Andouille Sausage and the dish
that started it all: Lula Mae’s Fried Chicken served with collard greens, mashed potatoes, chicken gravy and corn bread.
Hungry yet? “I’ve eaten a lot of grits
and no one can match the soulfulness of Chef
Wayne’s,” said Hank Linear.Linear, Ron McGowan and Chef Wayne
Johnson’s are the co-owners of Shuga Jazz Bistro in downtown Renton.
These days there are as many restaurants as there are writers out there to choose from.
But how many restaurants pour their heart and soul into every plate? And how many call themselves “Shuga’s” in hom-age to “the endearing term used by our grandmothers when they welcomed us into their homes and into their arms. It is that warmth and love that we at Shuga share with our guests and the community.”
Umm, no pressure!The goal of this new column is to meet
really cool people around Renton and share a story while sharing a meal.
And these days there’s no better story to tell or plate of food to woo your palate than a plate of Chef Wayne’s Southern-inspired food to warm the winter blues away, all set to sensational jazz.
On a recent Friday, I was invited to Shuga’s to cook Braised Southern-Style Oxtails with Chef Wayne.
After some prep work in the kitchen, the two of us moved to the line: a bay of industrial sized stoves and ovens that in the space of a few hours would be filled with five chefs busily cranking out fried catfish and chips, hush puppies, Cajun deviled eggs, bacon wrapped shrimp served with onion and apple cider vinegar infused collard greens and house-made sauces so definitive they have personalities.
Even though it was just the two of us, Chef Wayne filled up that space like a prima ballerina fills a stage.
I watched in fascination as he fired up a gas burner for the broccolini, switched back to the sink to fill up an industrial-sized bowl with water and ice (an ice bath for the vegetables so they retained the deep, for-est green color) then nabbed two kitchen towels - “Chef ’s gloves,” he said - to place on either side of the scarred metal braising panned curled up the edge of the foil where the oxtails had been slowly cooking for four hours.
He fanned up the steam in a rapid mo-tion and as I inhaled the slow roasted meat and bones, infused in stock, tomato and hot sauce with spices and herbs my mouth immediately started to water.
“During the winter months, I have always loved cooking braised, casserole and baked items,” Chef Wayne told me. “It just says comfort to me and when it is cold out who doesn’t need warmth of comfort wrapped around them. I’m blessed to have a Mom that always enjoyed cooking while me and my brothers and sister where kids,
it helps to get an early understanding of home cooked meals.”
There is a reason why foodies love watch-ing food shows: the fluidity and motion with a master in the kitchen is an art in itself.
“Here, you can do this like a real chef, no more wannabe,” Chef Wayne said, with a smile, referring to our first conversation when I used that word to describe myself.
Afterward, I kind of kicked myself about being intimidated by this Iron Chef (season 9; Chef Johnson went up against Iron Chef Symon in a cucumber battle).
Chef Wayne lifted up a spoon for me to taste.
We’d spent the last hour cooking together and it was easy for me to see how much he
enjoyed mentoring and teaching others.“Why Renton? Why now?” I asked.“I love that Renton is home to the world
champion Seahawks. The space to accom-modate live music. The inspiration behind a southern inspired menu only seemed right since live jazz and soft R&B was our entertainment of choice,” he said.
I watched him pull out an aged sliver of paper, wedged tight within the crease of his bill fold. I was sure I was about to get served a lesson in southern cuisine, but instead it was a note this Iron Chef had scrawled out to his younger self years ago.
It read: • Flavor Profiler before chef or cook.• Flavor conductor.• Flavor compositioner.As a writer who carries around scrawled
notes in my backpack and also scattered around the homestead, I felt a kinship with Chef Johnson, who I now considered an Ahab in the pursuit of high flavors.
“If you just season the outside of the meat, you just get the flavor on the outside,” he said. “You’ve got to get the flavor inside!”
Good writers and chefs worth any salt are cut from the same cloth: on a quest to inflate people’s palates not their own egos. And what we look for is the flavor.
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BY JOHN BOYLE
Everett Herald columnist
RENTON — One of the most memorable plays made by a Seattle Seahawks receiver in 2014 involved blocking, which in a way is both fitting and misleading.
On one hand, the impressive effort made by Ricardo Lockette on Marshawn Lynch’s 79-yard touchdown run in Arizona demonstrated so much of what the Seahawks look for in receivers — unselfishness, toughness, the willingness to do the dirty work in a run-first offense.
But on the other hand, to say Seattle’s receivers are just gritty or scrappy or whatever you want to call them is a bit demeaning.
Because while no one in Seattle’s passing game, quar-terback Russell Wilson included, puts up big individual numbers, the Seahawks are a much better passing team — and much more productive at receiver — than most give them credit for.
While the Seahawks attempted the fewest passes in the NFL this season, marking the third straight year they’ve been 31st or 32nd in that category, they still managed to be one of the most explosive offenses in the NFL. Of Seattle’s 454 pass attempts this season, 54 went for 20 or more yards. That rate of 11.9 percent ranked first in the NFL, just ahead of Indianapolis, a team that, oddly enough, attempt-ed the most passes in the league this season.
Wilson deservedly gets a lot of the credit for those big plays, but Seattle’s receivers, led by Doug Baldwin, Jermaine Kearse and rookie Paul Richardson (until his season-ending injury against the Carolina Panthers), are an underrated part of Seattle’s offense.
“You’ve got to be mentally tough to be a receiver here, because you’re not going to get as many balls, you’re not
going to get as many targets, but you’ve got to stay ready at all points of the ballgame,” said Kearse, who has had a knack for big catches in big moments, from the game win-ner in Carolina last year to his fourth-down touchdown in the NFC championship game to his touchdown in Super Bowl that saw him pinball off multiple Denver defenders.
“You might get three balls in the first quarter and might not see another one until the fourth quarter. You’ve just got to be ready, and when your opportunity comes, you’ve just got to make the most of it.”
Over the past two seasons, beginning when Sidney Rice went down with an injury, the Seahawks’ receivers have been one of the most disparaged position groups on a first-place team you’ll ever see. They’ve been called pedestrian, appetizers (Get it? Because there’s no main course) and not talented enough to get the job done. Yet time and time again they’ve done enough to help the Seahawks win a Super Bowl and return to the playoffs this year as the No. 1 seed, even without big stats on their resumes.
“There’s obviously a lot that’s been said about our receiv-ing corps — it’s mediocre, average, pedestrian, or whatever you want to call it — but we just don’t get the opportunities that other passing teams do,” Baldwin said. “You have to have the mentality of knowing that when you come here as a receiver in Seattle — a lot of guys that come here and they don’t get it or they don’t understand it — that you’re going to do more blocking than you do receiving, and that’s just our job.
“So yeah, you have to have a strong mindset, a tough mentality in order to play receiver here because you’re go-ing to be doing that [blocking] more so here than anything else. So yeah, mentally tough is definitely a prerequisite for a receiver in Seattle.”
That mindset is almost as big a part of Seattle’s talent evaluation at receiver — and really at any position — as is physical ability. Nobody in Seattle’s receiving room is going to claim he’s Calvin Johnson or Dez Bryant, but at a posi-tion where Seattle starts two undrafted players in Baldwin and Kearse, the right mindset is hugely important for a team that isn’t going to feed a receiver like most teams do their top targets.
“Everything counts when we’re making evaluations on guys,” Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. ... The makeup
Let’s do it again! ...Go Seahawks
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Told that Carroll called Seattle’s receiver feisty, cornerback Richard Sherman joked, “He’s talking about Doug,” and even though Sherman was mostly having fun at the expense of a close friend, Baldwin does in many ways epitomize what Seattle wants from its receivers. From the enormous chip on his shoulder to his willingness to do the
dirty work, to his ability to come through in the clutch time and time again.
While few would consider Baldwin or any other Seahawks receiver elite NFL talent, it’s worth noting that Baldwin’s 2014 numbers as Seattle’s top target — 66 catches, 825 yards, 3 touchdowns — are very similar to the numbers Golden Tate put up a year ago when he had 64 catches for 898 yards and five scores.
“The thing I don’t think people un-derstand is that if we wanted to throw it around, we could,” receivers coach Kippy Brown said. “I’m convinced that we could. We prepare that in case we had to open it up — we’re prepared for that. Our guys,
they could go any place. I’ve coached a lot of places in this league, and they could go any place and play.”
Seattle’s receivers aren’t going to consis-tently post 100-yard games in the postsea-son, and they certainly won’t be listed by pundits as a reason why the Seahawks can repeat, but odds are someone, whether it’s Baldwin or Kearse or Kevin Norwood, will make a big play when the Seahawks need one.
“They’re feisty, they’re underrated, they’re dynamic, they’re clutch, they’re veterans, and they’re champions,” Sherman said. “A lot of people from last year — this is the same group of receivers that went to the Super Bowl, and a lot of people were
calling them appetizers, pedestrians; they called them a lot of things... you can call whoever you want whatever you want, but on game day it really means nothing.
“I think our guys show up when we need them. Jermaine Kearse caught a clutch touchdown in the NFC Championship game last year — these are guys who’ve played big time in big games. There are a lot of people who play big time in the regular season, but what did that do for you in the playoffs?”
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interviewed for this series, perceived systemic racism is the link between these recent cases of young African-American males, reflected in the protest slogan “Black Lives Matter.”
All of the African-Americans interviewed for this series spoke of a community mistrust of the police built on institutional racism in this country. Black youth, in particular, feel threatened for their safety around officers, according to youth advocates.
When asked how the Renton Police Department deals with this mistrust, Coleman had the following to say:
“Our officers responded to over 70,000 calls for service in 2014, most of the calls coming from 911 dispatch. If that many people are calling our department for help, then I must believe that the Renton community has trust in us.”
Given the circumstances, Coleman said, the commu-nity is treated “non-confron-tationally,” which he said is the department expectation.
“If you’re responding to a domestic, for example, you know you’ve got someone who’s assaulted or fighting,” said Terri Vickers, police guild board member and department spokesperson. “It doesn’t matter if they’re black, white, or purple, or green, you have to respond the same way.”
A QUESTION OF PROACTIVE COMMUNITY EN-GAGEMENT
As to how far officers go to engage the community, Coleman said that, of course officers get out of their cars, but how often they do that as outreach is done at the of-ficer’s discretion.
“A lot is left up to the officer to be proactive, whether that’s doing traffic, or doing business checks, or walking through the schools, or trying to do proactive patrols in parks,” he said. “A lot of that is left up to the deter-mination of the officer and how they patrol their patrol district.”
For Renton community activist Kenneth Williams that line of thinking isn’t good enough.
In speaking about local police officers, Williams, who works with the organization People of Color, said officers “don’t want to talk to them (black youth) and until the police start getting out of their cars and mingling with the people and actually talking to them - and going to these community centers and working with these kids - it’s not
going to change,” he said. Williams said that Renton has done a better job with
its Police Department than some, but it is still perceived as predominantly white and unrepresentative of the com-munity.
HIRING IN 2014In 2014, Renton had 15 openings in their commis-
sioned police force. They were able to fill nine of the vacancies.
Eight white males were hired for entry-level police officer positions and one white male was hired for an experienced officer position.
There were more than 600 applicants for the entry-level officer positions, with 421 white applicants, 34 African-American, 49 Asian, three Native American or Alaska Native, eight Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 36 His-panic applicants. There were 61 applicants of two or more races or of unknown race total.
The opening for the experienced officer got 34 total ap-plicants, with 24 white applicants, one African-American, one Asian, two Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, four His-panic and two applicants of two or more races.
On the non-commissioned side of the department, Renton hired an Asian female for its community program coordinator vacancy, a white male as a new crime analyst and a white female evidence technician. There were only six applicants - one Asian and five white - for the coordi-nator position.
There were 174 applicants for the crime analyst posi-tion: 10 African-Americans, two American Indian or Alaska Native, 14 Asian, two Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 10 Hispanic, 107 white and 29 who either didn’t identify, were of two or more races or were unknown.
The evidence-technician vacancy received 195 appli-cants, of which 17 were African-Americans, 121 white, one American Indian or Alaska Native, 12 Asians, 12 Hispanics and 31 unknown, of two or more races or who did not reply.
DIVERSE ENOUGH OR NOT?The guild has no responsibility for hiring or recruiting
for Renton’s police department, but Coleman said that he feels no matter what the make up of the department is, of-ficers would still respond the same way to the community.
“And as I’ve said, we have a very diverse and ethnic community amongst the men and women of the Renton Police Department,” he said. “No matter how that diver-sity is, whatever its makeup is, we’re blind to color within the department. We work as a team. We have all of each other’s backs. It doesn’t matter what your background is, who you are, you know, we are comrades.”
Of Renton’s 113 commissioned police officers, 92 are white, seven are black, 12 are Asian and two are Hispanic officers. The demographics for the department’s non-
commissioned staff shows a similar spread. There are 30 total, with 24 white staff, two black, two Asian and two Hispanic staff members.
When asked again if he thought Renton’s department needed to be more diverse to reflect the community, Coleman said:
“What I’m saying is no matter who applies, who gets hired, no matter how diverse our department is, I’m very confident that we would be a very close-knit organization, who cared about each other, who cared about the com-munity, who cared about all the different cultures in our community.”
SOLUTIONSFor activist Williams, the solution to
the disconnection between police and the African-American community is simple.
“I just see room for improvement,” Williams said.
He would like to see an even more diverse Renton police force, officers who proactively talk to the community, more extensive training and the replacement of any bad apples on the force.
“If they can’t do any of those things, they’re wasting our time,” Williams said.
The Police Department’s solution to the disconnection is an open invitation to attend its Citizen’s Academy. The academy is a 12-week community outreach tool to give the public an insider’s view of the department and its operations. According to Vickers, it’s been well-attended since it started in 1988.
“We’ve held 53 sessions of our Citizen’s Academy,” she said. “It started in 1988, so it is a program that is inter-ested and I believe appreciated, but it certainly gives a great opportunity for the community, for the public to understand law enforcement and for them to share their concerns.”
Vickers said the majority of the public doesn’t get to see the complexity of a law enforcement officer’s job because they sometimes encounter police on their worst days, when they’ve been the victim of a crime or involved in an accident.
“I think years ago that the perception of police officers was that they were, you know, you had to be big and you had to be strong and that was what was important,” she said. “But what’s important in law enforcement today is that you have to be smart. You have to understand case law. You have to be able to make good decisions quickly based on experience, training and what the law is.”
The next Citizen’s Academy starts in March.
Reach reporter Tracey Compton at 425-255-3484 ext. 5052.
“Our officers responded to over 70,000 calls for service in 2014, most of the calls coming from 911 dispatch. If that many people are calling our department for help, then I must believe that the Renton community has trust in us.” Renton Police Guild President Mark Coleman
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make you a good story teller, just as preparing only the best cuts of meat doesn’t make you a great chef.
It’s all about finding the flavor in the unlikeliest of places and there is no humbler place than an ox’s tail.
Southern style braised oxtail takes time, marinating the bones in broth overnight to seal in the flavor inside and out. The next day it literally requires hours of slow cooking.
The reward, however, is a sublime and a southern inspired plate of food that transports your taste buds to a place I’ve never been, the south, within the embrace of a southern grandmother I never knew I had.
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FOR AN EXTENSION TO THE 2014-2015
GENERAL FUND BUDGETOF THE RENTON SCHOOL
DISTRICT NO. 403 In compliance with WAC 392- 123-071 through WAC 392-123- 074 and WAC 392-123-078 and WAC 392-123-079, the Board of Directors of Renton School Dis- trict No. 403 has completed a proposed extension to the 2014- 2015 General Fund Budget of the district. It is on file in the Busi- ness Office and a copy will be furnished on request. The Board of Directors will hold a public hearing, prior to the regularly scheduled board meet- ing at 7:00p.m. on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at the Kohlwes Education Center, 300 S.W. 7th Street, Renton, Washington for the purpose of presenting the proposed General Fund budget extension to citizens. Any person may appear at the meeting before the Board and be heard for or against any part of the prelimi- nary 2014-2015 budget. Then during the regularly scheduled board meeting the Board of Di- rectors will take action on a Resolution to extend the District’s 2014-2015 General Fund Budget. Published in Renton Reporter on January 9, 2015 and January 16, 2015. #1208297.
Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King
In re the Estate of: JANE E. REIERSTAD, Deceased.NO. 14-4-06048-1 SEA
NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise appli- cable statute of limitations,
present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attor- neys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the No- tice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is for- ever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate assets and nonprobate assets.DATE OF FIRST PUBLICA- TION: January 2, 2015.PR: MARCIA I. LOTTERPETER W. MOGREN WSBA #11515 Of MOGREN, GLESSNER, ROTI & AHRENS, P.S. Attorneys for Personal Rep- resentative100 Evergreen Bldg.; PO Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542King County Superior CourtCause No. 14-4-06048-1 SEA Published in Renton Reporter on January 2, 2015, January 9, 2015 and January 16, 2015.#1211732
CITY OF RENTONNOTICE OF ORDINANCES
ADOPTED BY THE RENTON CITY COUNCIL
Following is a summary of the Ordinances adopted by the Renton City Council on January 12, 2015:
ORDINANCE NO. 5743An Ordinance of the City of Renton, Washington, amending subsection 4-3-100.B.1, of Chap- ter 3, Environmental Regulations and Overlay Districts, of Title IV
(Development Regulations) of the Renton Municipal Code, amending the applicability of the Urban Design Regulations.Effective: 1/21/2015
ORDINANCE NO. 5744An Ordinance of the City of Renton, Washington, amending Sections 4-2-010, 4-2-020, 4-2-060, 4-2-100, 4-2-110, 4-2-115, 4-2-120 and 4-2-130, of Chapter 2, Zoning Districts — Uses and Standards, Sections 4-4-080, 4-4-090, 4-4-095, 4-4-100 and 4-4-110 of Chapter 4, City-Wide Property Develop- ment Standards, of Title IV (De- velopment Regulations) and Sec- tion 8-7-4 of Chapter 4, Noise Level Regulations, of Title VIII (Health and Sanitation) of the Renton Municipal Code, by Amending the Regulations relat- ed to Maximum Lot Area, Build- ing Coverage and Impervious Surface Area and Creating a New Residential Six Dwelling Units per acre (R-6) Zone.Effective: 1/21/2015
ORDINANCE NO. 5745An Ordinance of the City of Ren- ton, Washington, amending Sec- tion 4-3-050, of Chapter 3, Envi- ronmental Regulations and Over- lay Districts, section 4-6-030, of Chapter 6, Street and Utility Standards, sections 4-7-130, 4-7-190, 4-7-200, and 4-7-220, of Chapter 7, SubdivisionRegula- tions, and Section 4-8-120, of Chapter 8, Permits — General and Appeals, of Title IV (Devel- opment Regulations) of the Ren- ton Municipal Code, amending the Regulations regarding the Creation of Tracts to Contain Utilities, Open Space, Critical Areas, and other Similar Areas that Warrant Protection or serve a Public Purpose.Effective: 1/21/2015
ORDINANCE NO. 5746An Ordinance of the City of Renton, Washington, amending Sections 4-2-060, 4-2-080, 4-2-110, 4-2-120 and 4-2-130
of Chapter 2, Zoning Districts - Uses and Standards, Sections 4-4-095 and 4-4-140 of Chapter 4, City-Wide Property Develop- ment Standards, Section 4-9-030 of Chapter 9, Permits - Specific, and Section 4-11-230 of Chapter 11, Definitions, of Title IV (Development Regulations) and Section 5-19-5 of Chapter 19, Telecommunications Licenses and Franchises, of Title V (Fi- nance and Business Regulations) of the Renton Municipal Code, Amending the Wireless Commu- nication Facilities Regulations.Effective: 1/21/2015
ORDINANCE NO. 5747An Ordinance of the City of Renton, Washington, amending Section 4-4-040 of Chapter 4, City-Wide Property Develop- ment Standards, and Sections 4-11-060 and 4-11-180, of Chap- ter 11, Definitions, of Title IV (Development Regulations) of the Renton Municipal Code, amending the Regulations Re- garding Fences, Hedges and Re- taining Walls and adding new definitions of “Fence”, “Retain- ing Wall”, “Retaining Wall Height”, “Retaining Wall Height, Exposed” and “Rock- ery”.Effective: 1/21/2015
ORDINANCE NO. 5748An Ordinance of the City of Renton, Washington, amending Section 4-4-130, of Chapter 4, City-Wide Property Develop- ment Standards, Section 4-8-120 of Chapter 8, Permits - General and Appeals, and Sections 4-11-080 and 4-11-200 of Chap- ter 11, Definitions, of Title IV (Development Regulations) of the Renton Municipal Code, amending the Regulations Re- garding Tree Retention and Land Clearing, and adding, amending and deleting certain definitions related to trees.Effective: 1/21/2015
ORDINANCE NO. 5749An Ordinance of the City of
Renton, Washington, amending Section 4-1-160 of Chapter 1, Administration and Enforcement, Sections 4-2-080 and 4-2-110 of Chapter 2, Zoning Districts - Uses and Standards, Section 4-3-050 of Chapter 3, Environ- mental Regulations and Overlay Districts, Sections 4-4-070 and 4-4-100 of Chapter 4, City-Wide Property Development Stan- dards, Sections 4-5-040 and 4-5-060 of Chapter 5, Building and Fire Prevention Standards, Section 4-6-030 of Chapter 6, Street and Utility Standards, Sec- tion 4-8-120 of Chapter 8, Per- mits - General and Appeals, Sec- tions 4-9-060, 4-9-150, 4-9-200, and 4-9-250 of Chapter 9, Per- mits - Specific, and Sections 4-11-030, 4-11-040, 4-11-120, and 4-11-150 of Chapter 11, Def- initions, of Title IV (Develop- ment Regulations), and Section 8-7-8 of Chapter 7, Noise Level Regulations, of Title VIII (Health and Sanitation), of the Renton Municipal Code, by amending certain regulations, and amending specific defini- tions pursuant to the Department of Community and Economic Development’s Administrative Code Interpretations.Effective: 1/21/2015 Complete text of these ordinanc- es is available at Renton City Hall, 1055 South Grady Way;
and posted at the King County Libraries in Renton, 64 Rainier Ave S, Ste A (temporary loca- tion) and 2902 NE 12th Street. Upon request to the City Clerk’s office, (425) 430-6510, copies will also be mailed for a fee. Jason A. Seth, City ClerkPublished in the Renton Reporter on January 16, 2015. #1227933.
CITY OF RENTONNOTICE OF RESOLUTION
ADOPTED BY THE RENTON CITY COUNCIL
Following is a summary of a Resolution adopted by the Renton City Council on January 12, 2015:
RESOLUTION NO. 4239A Resolution of the City of Renton, Washington, declaring that the Sunset Area is a “Redevelopment Area” and “Investment Priority Area.” Complete text of this Resolution is available at Renton City Hall, 1055 South Grady Way; and posted at the King County Li- braries in Renton, 64 Rainier Ave S, Ste A (temporary loca- tion) and 2902 NE 12th Street. Upon request to the City Clerk’s office, (425) 430-6510, copies will also be mailed for a fee. Jason A. Seth, City ClerkPublished in the Renton Reporter on January 16, 2015. #1227950.
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Rotary Club of Renton has selected its Youth of the Month for January.
Spencer Chin is a senior at Hazen High School. Chin holds a 4.0 G.P.A. He has been involved in National Honor Society, FBLA, DECA, Gordy Guides, concert band and leadership class. Chin has received AP Scholar
with distinction, Mr. Highlander Award, Hazen Pageant Show, Harvard Prize Book and language arts and science department awards. He volunteers with Effective Aid Inter-national. Chin plans to attend a four-year
university to pursue a degree in busi-ness with a minor in computer science or government.
Roxanne Garcia is a senior at Lindbergh High School. Garcia holds a 3.9 G.P.A. She has been a mem-ber of FBLA, girls basketball, ASB Class Office, Key Club, DECA, jazz choir and Ad Astra Choir. Garcia
has earned National Honor Society, student of the month award in various subjects, Microsoft Office Specialist Certification, Distinguished Scholastic Award for basketball and choir. She volunteers with the Renton Farmer’s Market, Renton Park Elementary and at her church. After high school, Gar-cia plans to attend the University of
Washington to study law or medicine. She hopes to become either a registered nurse or would like to practice family or medical law.
Glenpierre Nadela is a senior at Renton High School.
Nadela holds a 3.7 G.P.A. He has been involved with Green Team, ASB Class Office, Renton Peer Mentoring, Filipino Club, Relay for Life, Youth Heritage Project and tennis. He has received honor roll, Matter of the Heart Award and Masonic Participa-tion Award. Nadela volunteers with Renton Salvation Army Food Bank and spends time practicing Tae-
Kwon-Do. He plans to join the Navy’s ROTC Program and then plans to at-tend medical school to study genetics
or astrobiology. In either field, he hopes to discover ways to help people live longer lives.
Rotary members recognize three Renton School District high school
students each month. After being selected by counselors at each of the district’s three comprehensive high schools, a se-lection 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 stu-dents who possess leadership abilities, maintain a good grade point average, participate in school activities and volunteer in their community.
The students and their parents are honored guests at a regular Rotary luncheon.
The students and their parents are honored guests at the luncheon.
Renton RotaryJanuary Youth of the Month
Spencer Chin Roxanne Garcia
Glenpierre Nadela
(and just a few bird-brained rants and “cheep” shots) from that column and so the debate continues. Here are some opinions from readers on the controversy:
“Thank you, thank you for making my neighbor stop with the bird seed. I get up early in the morn-ing before dawn only to watch a huge rat scramble to his bird feeder. Now he believes me when I tell him the spilled seed from the feeder is attracting rats to our neighborhood” Email, Renton
Comment: Don’t just blame bird seed for the rat outbreaks in Western Washington. Pet food left out overnight, compost piles filled with the wrong types of kitchen scraps (no meat scraps, or dairy prod-ucts) and overgrown slopes of English ivy also make life easy for our growing rat population.
“I am going to continue feeding the birds no matter what you say! Many birds flock to my feeders because there is not enough food
in my neighborhood – and I have never seen a rat!” Email, Maple Valley
Comment: Bravo – you certainly have that right. Perhaps to avoid spreading bird diseases you could try spacing the feeders at least 12 feet from one another, using only enough seed that is consumed during the day. Do not leave seed in feeders overnight (mold forms, raccoons and rats visit) and most important dip your feeders into a 10 percent bleach solution every few weeks and let the feeders soak for at least 10 minutes. This will help to get rid of the four bird diseases that are being spread from area feeders. The National Audubon society assures all homeowners that the birds feasting from feeders are enjoying the seed as a supplement to their diet and they will not starve. The only exception is when the ground and all shrubs are covered with snow and the day time temps are below freezing.
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The Renton girls basketball team just keeps on cruising, picking up their sixth and seventh consecutive wins this week with easy victories over Evergreen and Foster.
The Indians beat Evergreen 53-34 on Jan. 7 and then rolled through Foster 66-24 on Jan. 9 in Renton to raise their record to 9-4 overall and 6-1 in the Seamount, just behind Kennedy for the league’s top spot.
No statistics were available for either game.Renton played Highline Wednesday at home
and welcomes Lindbergh to Renton High School tonight, Friday.
LindberghThe Lindbergh Eagles girls team picked up
two more wins this week with a 54-13 win over Tyee Jan. 7 and a 41-31 victory Jan. 9 over Highline.
Lindbergh never trailed against Highline, going out to an 11-6 lead in the first quarter and extending it to 18-10 before the half. Highline battled tighter in the second half, but it was not enough as the Eagles held on for the win.
Christina Wiley led the Eagles with 9 points while Daychelle Wilson added 7 of her own in the win.
Lindbergh is now 4-8 overall and 3-4 in the Seamount. They welcomed Hazen on Wednes-day for a home match-up with the Highlanders
and will play at Renton tonight, Friday.
HazenIt was a down-and-up week for the Hazen
girls basketball team as the Lady Highlanders fell to league-leading Kennedy but were able to bounce back against cellar-dwellers Tyee.
On Jan. 7, the Lancers bested Hazen 44-29 as Kennedy remained undefeated in league play, but on Jan. 9, it was Hazen’s turn as they topped Tyee 59-21 at Tyee High School.
No statistics were available.The split week brings Hazen’s record to 6-7
overall and 4-3 in in the Seamount. The High-landers played at Lindbergh on Wednesday and travel to Evergreen today, Friday.
Renton girls roll through seventh straight win
BY BRIAN BECKLEY
The Hazen boys basketball team this past week dropped a game to league-leading Kennedy but also picked up another win this week to stay in second place in the Sea-mount League.
The Highlanders fell to the Lanc-ers 64-56 on Jan. 7, but bounced back Jan. 9 to topple Tyee 82-61 at Hazen.
Dominic Green led the High-landers with 27 points and 12 re-bounds in the win. Brandon Brown added 18 points and 6 rebounds of his own for Hazen.
The Highlanders improved to 10-3 overall and 6-1 in the league, firmly in second place.
Hazen was scheduled to play Lindbergh Wednesday and Ever-green today, Friday. Both games are at home.
RentonThe Renton Indians are riding a
two-game win streak after crushing Evergreen on Jan. 7 and then riding a second-half rally to victory Jan, 9 at Foster High School.
The Bulldogs opened strong, dropping 20 points on the Indians in the first quarter for a 13-point lead after one, but Renton began to battle back and narrowed the score to 35-20 at the half.
But the second half was all Indians as Renton went on a tear to outscore Foster 19-8 in the third so
the teams went in to the final frame with Foster ahead just 43-39. But Renton was just getting started and the Indians continued to roll, put-ting up 20 points of their own and winning the the game 59-57.
Krishan Coles had 15 points for the Indians in the win and Shanden Powell and Abbi Ali each added 13 in the comeback win.
Renton moves to 5-7 overall this season and 4-3 in the Seamount League.
The Indians played at Highline on Wednesday and will face Lind-bergh tonight, Friday, at Lindbergh High School.
LindberghIt’s been an up-and-down season
so far for the Lindbergh Eagles boys basketball team and this past week was no different. After dropping a game to Tyee 60-59 on Jan. 7, the Eagles stormed their way past Highline 48-33 on Jan. 9.
Lindbergh never trailed in the game and held the Pirates to fewer than 10 points in each of the quar-ters in the win.
Anthony Hill led the Eagles with 14 points.
Lindbergh is now 6-5 on the year and 3-4 in the Seamount.
The Eagles have a big week of intra-district ball in front of them. They traveled to Hazen on Wednesday to play the Highlanders and will host the Renton Indians tonight, Friday, at Lindbergh High School.
Highlanders boys battle to stay in second placeLITTLE LEAGUE
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