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By DEAN A. RADFORD
Mary Alice Heuschel is already used to the hours she’ll put in as chief of staff to Gov. Jay
Inslee.“It will be 24/7,
just like Renton,” she says of the demands of her job as essen-tially a gatekeeper to Inslee.
She’s rented an apartment in Olympia, because she doesn’t want to risk getting stuck in traffic.
“I know the job is going to be incred-ibly demanding on my time,” she said. “I’ve the commit-ment to do that.”
Husband Gene will stay at their Renton home, but she’ll come home on weekends.
The Heuschels have four sons, all of whom live outside the Seattle area.
Gene is in the Air Force in Virginia, Brian is a registered nurse in Los Angeles, Tony is a deputy sheriff in Napa, Ca-lif., and Josh owns a business in Spokane.
Heuschel has resigned from all the organizations to which she belonged statewide and in Renton, including Rotary Club. But she
plans to join the Olympia chapter and will come back for the CAPER auction.
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By DEAN A. RADFORD
Ballots will go out in the mail the week of Feb. 4 to Boeing’s engineers and technical workers for a vote on a contract union negotiators are recom-mending they reject.
Also on the ballot will be a strike-authorization vote.
The Bargaining Unit Council of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), IFPTE Local 2001, met this week with negotiating teams.
“While extending the contract is easy to under-stand – the issues behind recommending rejection are not,” said Bill Dugovich, a SPEEA spokesman.
“Much of what is wrong with the contracts is what is not in them. We asked Boeing for pro-tections against the possible ‘scrap the cap’ and Medicare age eligibility changes.”
Those issues if unresolved could leave thou-sands unable to retire early or if they are retired, facing the need to go buy their own medical insur-ance, he said.
Negotiations ended last week after each side presented its final and best offer.
SPEEA will mail roughly 23,000 ballots; members will then have 10 days to return the ballots, according to Dugovich. The ballots will be counted at SPEEA’s Tukwila headquarters.
“If strike authorization is granted, then there is seven-days wait before the teams could call mem-bers out to strike,” Dugovich said.
A majority, plus one vote, is necessary for pas-sage of the measures.
In October 96 percent of SPEEA members rejected Boeing’s initial offer.
Boeing has been meeting with SPEEA members in the workplace about its contract offer. SPEEA representatives also will fan out to talk about the contract.Dean A. Radford can be reached at 425-255-3484.
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Mary Alice Heuschel introduced then-candidate Jay Inslee last April at the innovative Talbot Hill Elementary School, where he announced he would make schools and the future of the state’s children his top priority. DEAn A. RADfoRD, Renton Reporter
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By TRACEy COMPTON
A nationwide search is under way to find the next superin-tendent for the Renton School District.
former schools chief Mary Alice Heuschel left the post and became Gov. Jay Inslee’s chief of staff this month. Vera Risdon was appointed the interim superintendent.
Earlier this month the district collected feedback from the com-munity via an online survey and held meetings at area schools. The input will go to northwest Leadership Associates, the search firm hired to find candidates for the position. District officials and the firm will use the informa-tion to create a profile to solicit candidates.
The application period will be open until March 1. The school board application screening will be March 9. The public will get the chance to listen and take notes on the candidate interviews April 1, 2 and 4 at a location to be determined by the district.
The new superintendent will be offered the position on April 17 and they will report to the post July 1.
The search process
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as Inslee’s chief
Mary Alice Heuschel flew with the Blue Angels in August 2011. Renton School District
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Making a donation to a charity in which you believe is a voluntary act. No one makes you do it. Yet, we have built a culture in this country that supports, and even encourages philanthropy to improve our quality of life. But how do you know if your gift has been put to good use?
Many years ago, the Association of Fund-raising Professionals developed what they call the “Donor Bill of Rights.” This docu-ment was created in order to set a standard
nonprofits could use to gener-
ate confidence between themselves and their donors. The “Donor Bill of Rights,” stipulates donors have the right to such things as: knowing how funds are being spent; that the organization complies with federal, state, and municipal laws; that gifts will be used for the purpose intended; to be informed as to the identity of those serv-
ing on the governing board; and receiving appropriate acknowl-edgement and recogni-tion for their gift. In short, donors have a right to the informa-tion that will make them feel good about
their donation.I tell you this because most people don’t
know about the “Donor Bill of Rights.” They often make donations because some-body they trust asked them to. They never delve any further into how the organiza-tion operates, even though they just turned over some of their hard-earned cash. We wouldn’t buy a big-screen TV that way. If you bought a TV and it didn’t work, you would take it back and perhaps never shop at that store again. Making a donation isn’t as clear cut. Once we write that check, we really don’t know what happens to it. We just have faith that it will be used in the way we intended. So, why don’t we take the time to get to know our charities better? After all, when we make a donation, we don’t get anything nearly as tangible in return as a big-screen TV.
I would argue that as donors, we not only have the right to know more about our charities, we have a responsibility. I would
also speculate that most of the nonprofits (certainly those I’m familiar with) would welcome the opportunity to share more information with you. All you have to do is ask. Increased interaction with donors would not only build confidence in you as the donor, it would help charities commu-nicate better with the public and possibly even increase donations.
At the Renton Community Foundation, we have our “Donor Bill of Rights” right on our website. We want people to know up front that we recognize their right to certain information. If you make regular donations to a local charity, I would en-courage you to first visit the Association of Fundraising Professional’s website and read the full “Donor Bill of Rights.” Then, take the time to give your charity a call to get to know them better. That might only involve a quick chat on the phone or getting on their newsletter mailing list. But it might also spark a personal visit, or even (dare I suggest) an opportunity for you to volun-teer. If you will do this – if you will make a commitment to get to know your charity in more detail – I guarantee we will all benefit.
Lynn Bohart is executive director of the Renton Community Foundation. She can be reached via email at [email protected].
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The Renton Commu-nity Foundation celebrated by donating more than $30,000 to Renton teachers and staff and local organi-zations at its 13th Annual Circle of Giving Awards Celebration Jan. 16.
The event is called “Hats Off to Giving.” The grants were handed out by interim school Superintendent Vera Risdon and campaign co-chair King Parker. The grants were made possible by personal donations of $1,000 or more from community and business leaders.
Grants of $100 to $1,000 went to 20 Renton teach-ers or groups of staff and totaled $8,500. The money will be used to purchase mathematics and reading materials, science labora-tory equipment and other supplies.
The foundation members selected the 15 projects out of 104 teachers and staff, who made requests totaling $78,000 through the Circle of Giving grant application process.
“Circle of Giving is an unusual fundraising cam-paign,” said Larry Warren, foundation board president. “The donors who make gifts of $1,000 or more are the ones who decide how to split up the money.”
Three additional school projects were funded by the O.J. Harper Engineer-ing Children’s Needs Fund, thanks to work by the fund adviser Pat Auten.
This year, Communities in Schools Renton, Kiwanis Clothes Bank, the Salvation Army, Renton Rotary Food
Bank, Allied Arts of Renton and others received grants. These grants would be used for everything from sup-porting the 50th anniversa-ry for Allied Arts of Renton with their Fall Family Concert, to providing recre-ational scholarships for the city’s Community Services Department, to supporting
homeless families at the Way Back Inn and Vision House.
The Renton History Mu-seum, Evergreen City Ballet and Birthday Dreams also received a total of $7,250 in grants from Rebecca Cherney from The Next Curve Fund.
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“This will be the foun-dation’s first completely discretionary fund,” said
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My New Year’s Resolution this year was to get out of my comfort zone and challenge myself to go after “bigger” stories in Renton.
So I decided to check out the Renton Airport.I had heard an urban legend a few years ago that celebri-
ties (in this case Tiger Woods) and also corporate tycoons fly into our little airport for the anonymity and conve-nience: no security checks, long lines, baggage hassles or paparazzi.
Is it possible that there is this whole other world going on in Renton that few of us are privileged to know about?
I was game to find out.Besides, I was curious to see if there had been any prog-
ress on the new aerospace training facility that was slated
to replace the old Chamber of Com-merce building.
I met my guide, Ryan Zulauf, City of Renton airport manager, at offices situ-ated below the bottom of the control tower.
The office is adorned with black and white photos from the 1940s and 50s — I quickly learned that Zulauf has a passion for aviation history. Fortu-
nately, he has made it his personal mission to preserve the airport’s history . . . on a very tight budget.
Renton Airport is self-sustaining and doesn’t require tax-payer money. Their task each year is to protect civil avia-tion, create wealth in the local communities and to make enough money to replace worn out infrastructure — no easy task. Most of the current buildings were constructed in the 1950s.
The airport relies on tenant fees and grants to generate enough income to pay for annual operations and mainte-nance of air field and infrastructure.
Renton Airport’s humble origins began in 1922 as a small dirt landing strip for mail deliveries and at the time was surrounded by both the Cedar and Black rivers. Today,
only remnants of the Black River remain. In the 40s Boeing built warplanes at Renton Airport that
helped America win World War II and then after the war, Boeing chose Renton as the place to build the 707, making Renton the birthplace of the commercial airplane industry.
I followed Zulauf up several flights of little stairs (think
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“Can I take a picture?” I asked.“Not in here,” Zulauf said, referring to the inside of the
control tower.“But we can go outside. I hope you’re not afraid of heights.”I followed Zulauf out of a tiny little square door inside the
control tower that had the look and feel like the door in “Be-ing John Malkovich.”
Situated up high, midway on the airfield, for obvious reasons the control tower has the best seat in the house. And there I was standing outside her balcony in the frigid cold, throwing distance from a line of 737 all lined up like freshly baked bread waiting for their first test flight.
After getting clearance from the control tower, a still-silver 737 taxis down the runway toward its first take off as I watch from my perch by the control tower window.
“This is the closest you can get to something like this,” Zulauf said.
I was half listening, totally absorbed in that marvelous sense of wonder when witnessing at close range human achievement that makes you feel both incredibly small and large as you witness a modern marvel speed like a bullet toward the edge of Lake Washington. It blasts off effortlessly, up, up and away.
“Think of Pro Flight as an aviation hotel,” Zulauf said, as we pulled up to a shiny beautiful new building — a site for sore eyes at the Renton Airport. “And Diane Paholke owner of Pro Flight as an ambassador to Renton,” Zulauf said.
I met Diane at the reception desk of her new state-of-the art aviation center. Diane’s been building her fixed-base operation at the Renton Airport for more than 19 years. Her latest development is her new 28,000- square-foot building of which she gave me a tour.
Pro Flight is a thriving hub of aviation amenities. Pilot instruction, aircraft rental (they have nine aircraft on site) airplane maintenance, fueling (the only place to fill up at the airport) and they also take care of high-end clients like corporate executives and celebrities.
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It wasn’t going to happen.“Word of mouth is everything in the business of high-end
aviation. These clients’ anonymity and discretion is part of what they’re paying for,” Diane explained.
Zulauf and I finished the tour in the parking lot of the old Chamber of Commerce building and the future site of the Central Sound Aerospace Training Center.
“What are they doing down there?” I asked pointing to a lot of construction hubbub below the chamber site. Work-men using heavy equipment were in the process of building three new jet-blast deflectors and essentially adding five more parking spaces for completed 737s.
“Well that’s a good sign that Boeing will be sticking around for a while,” I said.
“Yes,” Zulauf replied. “And it’s our job to build a new state-of-the-art training center here.” He pointed to the old chamber building.
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By JANE HAGUE AND LARRy PHILIPS
King County Council
After a decade of work, King County and our regional partners have an unprecedented oppor-tunity to provide transportation and recreational connections to our East and South King County communities. Stretching from Renton to Wood-inville, in an area already confined geographi-cally between water and mountains, the 42-mile Eastside Rail Corridor (ERC) is a priceless public passageway. Now that its final acquisition has been completed, we must ensure that the region succeeds in maximizing its value and usage for the benefit of all King County residents.
Acquisition of the ERC means the possibility of creating a north-south public transportation corridor and turning a patchwork of dozens of small trails into a regional system connecting hundreds of miles of trail. Imagine riding light rail or a commuter train down this corridor and completely avoiding the snarling I-405 traffic. Imagine a future where you cannot only bicycle east from the Burke-Gilman trail through serene farmlands and wine country, but continue north to the lovely Snohomish County trails or go south through the key economic centers and charming suburbs.
So, how do we fulfill this vision? Acquisition of this corridor represents incredible partner-ships between both public entities and public and private stakeholders. At King County, we have determined that a regional planning process will be critical for properly coordinating plans between the public and private entities that have a legal stake in the county’s portion of this corridor: King County, Sound Transit, the cities of Kirkland and Redmond, and Puget Sound Energy.
This regional group will create a work pro-gram and outreach process to acquire input from the public as well as all of the jurisdictions located along the corridor.
A key outcome will be coordination and cooperation of corridor use for the betterment of our community and the taxpayers who will contribute to all of the potential uses. After all, future funding to pay for trail, transit, and utility infrastructure will all come from the same tax-payers and ratepayers. So, let’s make sure that we keep those costs as low as possible through good coordination.
We are known as a region of highly educated and innovative people who provide for a vibrant local economy. Thanks to regional cooperation, we now have a flagship acquisition to underscore our regional image.
We are planting the seeds for unmatched
regional transportation connections and recre-ational opportunities to meet future population growth throughout King County. Let’s work together on a plan for bringing to fruition a corridor of our collective dreams. Let’s ensure that our children and grandchildren will have a wonderful array of travel options through dense urban centers and beautiful open spaces.
Please join us in making this vision of the Eastside Rail Corridor a reality.
Jane Hague is vice chair of the Metropolitan King County Council and represents Belle-vue and Kirkland. Larry Phillips is chair of King County’s Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee and a member of the Sound Transit Board.
Don’t believe everything you read about the demise of Boeing because of the grounding of the 787 Dreamliner. Certainly, no one wants an unsafe plane, which appar-
ently is not the case here.But just remember that the pre-
mier airplane builder in the world is trying to figure out what has gone wrong with those batteries and the 787 comes equipped with all sorts of back-up systems.
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Lynn Wallace, who has nearly 20 years of Chamber of Commerce experience, is the new president and CEO of the Renton Chamber of Commerce.
For the past two years, Wallace has been the president and CEO of the Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce, which represents the business communi-
ties of Tukwila, Burien, SeaTac and Des Moines.
She replaces Bill Taylor, who retired as Renton chamber presi-dent and CEO last May.
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as the Renton chamber’s chief operating officer.
“Lynn is a very qualified individual and will make a great addition to an already great staff,” said past Renton Chamber
Board Chair Jason Parker. “I am really looking forward to the future.”
Wallace began her chamber career in 1984 at the Lewiston, Idaho, chamber as the operations manager. She then moved to Astoria, Ore., as the chamber’s executive director. She developed a tourism and mar-keting plan for the coastal community as the timber and fishing industries dwindled.
She then served 10 years as the president and CEO of the Eastern Pierce County Chamber, representing Puyallup and Sumner. The chamber reached a record 1,000 members. The chamber managed the Puyallup Farmers Market, which grew into the third-largest market in Washington.
She also has seven years of experience in hospitality as assistant general manager of the Best Western Park Plaza in Puyallup.
Wallace has been married to her husband John for 28 years and has one son Christo-pher. She also currently serves as president of PEO Chapter IY in Puyallup.
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Rep. Smith to open district office in Renton Jan. 30Congressman Adam Smith will open his
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Hazen High School senior José Lins is trying to find success as an emerging jewelry designer in a national industry competition.
The 19-year-old is a finalist in the Saul Bell Emerging Artist Awards. His produc-tion art and jewelry class instructor, Nanz Aalund, calls the competition the Golden
Globes of the industry. José has already won third place recently in a Washington high school jewelry competition, run by the Seattle Metals Guild.
Aalund gave José an introduction to a style of jewelry making called filigree.
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José Lins and his production art and jewelry class instructor Nanz Aalund at Hazen High School. Lins is a finalist in a national jewelry competition for this necklace he made in Aalund’s class. trAcey comptoN, Renton Reporter
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A special group was formed at Sierra Heights El-ementary School that calls on the extra special help of dads. Called Watch DOGS, or Dads of Great Stu-dents, the group provides opportunities for fathers, grandpas or uncles to be involved at school. The club met recently to discuss ways the men can have a greater presence at school. They might start by volunteering at least one day a week to help with student arriv-als, dismissals, monitoring
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that he has such an eye for detail and such fine finishing work, I just said, ‘This guy can handle it,’ Aalund said.
José entered the Saul Bell competition with a silver necklace he made using this technique. He learned how to make one of the intricate beads first, then made the entire piece graduating the beads in size. He is amazed by the hard work he’s put into pieces for Aalund’s class and loves the problem-solving skills it’s taught him.
“It makes you proud,” José said. “You don’t even have to show it to anyone. You don’t have to get money for it; you just look at it. It’s amazing to look at.”
He’s not the only one who thinks so. Aalund’s art class erupted when José brought the necklace in for her to review one day. Students remarked at the commercial marketability of the piece and asked if José could make them one.
“José is just one of those amazing students,” said his in-structor. “He’s multi-lingual. If he were to choose to go into the jewelry business – he would really be able to just select where he wants to go.”
José speaks Portuguese and about 70 percent of gem-stones in the world market are coming out of Brazil right now, said Aalund.
Her student would make a prime candidate for Ameri-can jewelry manufacturers, who work with dealers in Brazil and Argentina, she said.
Aalund’s been in the jewelry industry for a long time and knows what she’s talking about. She was the fine jew-elry designer at Nordstrom for 12 years. She’s taught at the University of Washington and also edited national jewelry
magazines. Aalund has been the instructor at Hazen for just two years. She was hired after former instructor Gary Grossman retired. He started the class about a decade ago.
Students work in a converted sheet-steal fabrication shop that was used for construction trades in the 1960s. The classroom is in need of renovation, with sinks with rusted holes and corroded countertops, said Aalund.
But they make do with what they have for now.“It’s such a breath of fresh air to have a student that is
that determined,” she said of José. “He’s willing to work re-ally hard toward his goal and that is just so refreshing and so wonderful to see. I just want to support that in anyway I can.”
Right now his teacher is trying to find him scholarships, while José seriously considers pursuing jewelry design as a career. Because he likes to work with his hands, he used to want to be a chef. He’s moved away from that now and has even more support from his family.
After placing at the state competition, it gave him confi-dence and solidified his family’s belief in his talent.
José calls Aalund his instructor, mentor and counselor in everything he does.
The Saul Bell winners will be notified in March. The top three winners will get to go on to the Jewelers Circular Keystone or JCK conference in Las Vegas, May 31-June 3.
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Eighteen Renton School District teachers have met rigorous standards to achieve the “gold standard of teacher credentials,” helping the state to secure a top spot among others in the nation.
Renton’s 2013 National Board Cer-tified teachers are John Austin, Erin Belka, Terry Derrig, Sarah Erickson, Beth Hansen, Lily Higgins, Jennifer Kalmbach, Kilty Keaton, Jennifer Koch, Rachel Lake, Heather Nelson, Ruthann Nelson, Stephanie Norton, Claudia Paul-Hergert, Lyn Robertson, Kirstin Roy, Alfred Sidman and Mary Jane Wyeth.
The teachers now have their National Board Certification and are a part of nearly 100 teachers in the district to have such credentials. Washington state now ranks third in the nation with nearly 7,000 National Board Certified teachers, according to a district press release. With an addi-tional 575 teachers this year, Washing-ton is second only to North Carolina.
To reach this certification, educa-tors did intensive study and under-went expert evaluation, self-assess-ment and peer review. The process takes hundreds of hours of profes-sional and personal time to attain the
certification.Teachers had to submit four
classroom portfolio entries, each of which includes a video and student work. They must also document their work outside of the classroom with colleagues, families, the community and detail how those efforts influence student learning. Then candidates complete six 30-minute exercises to demonstrate their content knowl-edge in the certificate field. Last, a dozen trained evaluators in the same field appraise a candidate’s portfolio submissions against National Board standards.
New board-certified teachers
Renton RotaryTeachers of monthRotary has selected their Teachers
of the Month for January.Carolyn Hudson is a kindergarten
teacher at Sierra Heights Elementary School. She attended the University of Washington. There she earned a bachelor’s of arts in psychology, with a degree in elementary education, with a focus in early childhood education kindergarten through third-grade. Hudson has been a teacher for 38 years, with experience teaching both kindergarten and first-grade in Or-egon and Washington state. This is her 14th year teaching in Renton.
Joseph Bento is a ninth-grade health teacher at Renton High School. He attended the University of Idaho,
where he earned a bachelor’s degree in child, family and consumer studies with an emphasis on education and school and community health. Bento has also obtained national board cer-tification in health education. Joseph started his teaching career in the Renton School District and has now been teaching for 11 years.
Christina Allen is a culinary arts and health teacher at the Second-ary Learning Center. Allen attended Washington State University, where she earned a bachelor’s of arts degree in women’s studies with a minor in sociology. She Benson Hill Elemen-tary School students, staff and parents showed incredible generosity during the holidays by collecting over 1,300
pounds of food that was donated to the Emergency Feeding Program of Seattle & King County which provides balanced nutrition meals to struggling individuals and families throughout the community. Allen continued her education at Central Washington University to earn a master’s degree in family consumer sciences education. This is Allen’s fifth year teaching in Renton.
As part of the recognition, teachers attend Rotary’s Teacher of the Month recognition luncheon held at the Ma-plewood Golf Course. Each teacher is introduced, makes a brief comment about their school and classroom, and receives $200 to be used for classroom supplies, or instructional materials.
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Renton School District “Good News” provided by the district.
• Renton High School students in the DECA Marketing program raised more than $1,000 at the school to donate to the Ronald McDonald House program which provides a “home-away-from-home” for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child.
• Business Education teachers at the Secondary Learn-ing Center brought in community partners to participate in mock employment interviews where students learn how to interview for jobs. Representatives from local businesses and the Renton Chamber of Commerce participated in the interviews.
• Two students in the district’s H.O.M.E. program re-cently won the People’s Choice Award as part of the annual Renton Film Frenzy competition for amateur filmmakers. Sisters Amelia (a first-grader) and Abigail (a fourthgrader) Zimmerman wrote, storyboarded, starred in, and produced the movie, Girls in Ghostland. Their father and grandfather helped them with the filming and editing.
• Sierra Heights Elementary School recently celebrated their annual Culture Day that allows students and staff to be immersed in the diverse cultures that make up the extended school community. Students and family members proudly presented their cultures at the event that allows for better enrichment and understanding.
• The district’s transportation department recently received a grant for $134,000 from the Department of Ecology to install heater units into 47 school buses that provide a greener way to warm-up buses, and reduce fuel consumption, engine wear and driver efficiency. The heater units are used to warm the buses heating and cooling system prior to starting the vehicle which allows for shorter idle times during pre-trip preparation. The grant will also be used to purchase aftermarket diesel multi-state filters on 18 buses which will further reduce emissions.
• Benson Hill Elementary School students, staff and par-ents showed incredible generosity during the holidays by collecting over 1,300 pounds of food that was donated to the Emergency Feeding Program of Seattle & King County which provides balanced nutrition meals to struggling individuals and families throughout the community.
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Mary alice HeuscHel
By DEAN A. RADFORD
It’s hard to say no to a governor, but Mary Alice Heuschel wasn’t going to leave the Renton School District behind if it wasn’t in good hands.
It is and Heuschel is now chief of staff for Gov. Jay Inslee.
Heuschel, 51, will bring a lot of Renton with her to Olympia, from her ability to build a team around common goals to measuring whether those goals have been achieved – and being up-front when they haven’t.
Inslee had to pass muster with Heuschel, too, who is essentially gatekeeper to Inslee’s time, making sure it’s used effectively. All state department heads will report to her.
“This is a big move for me,” Heuschel said, one she didn’t seek out. “I would not and did not take this position lightly in any way, shape or form when he first ap-proached me about doing this.”
Inslee initially appointed Heuschel as one of three leaders of his transition to the Governor’s Office.
Heuschel explained why she took the job in answering a question about partisanship in Washington, D.C. Inslee was elected
eight times to serve as a U.S. congressman from Washington.
What she has seen and learned about Inslee are the reasons she took the job – his “absolute commitment” to the state and his “total understanding” of the need to work collaboratively across the aisle in Olympia to move the state forward.
“The voters have spoken, this is the work, and we need to make Washington the best
place it can be for the people of the state of Washington. That’s why he’s doing it, or I wouldn’t have said yes,” she said.
While serving as chief of staff to a gov-ernor wasn’t in her career plans, serving as the superintendent of either the Renton School District or the Tacoma School District was.
Heuschel has worked in Olympia before, as deputy superintendent of public instruction. It was there that she played a key role in developing the state’s student assessments, including the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, and in implementing the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Heuschel worked for state school Super-intendent Terry Bergeson for six years, in-cluding running the office while Bergeson ran for her second term.
But Heuschel still had unfinished busi-ness. She wanted to complete her doctorate degree and she wanted to fill a gap in her resume, that of school superintendent at the local level.
So she stepped down as Bergeson’s deputy as Bergeson was preparing to run for a third term and started researching school districts. She settled on Renton’s and Tacoma’s and became a finalist for superin-tendent in both districts in 2006.
Renton and Tacoma were on a similar timeline; Heuschel said she didn’t want to pin one district against the other.
Near the end of the selection process, the Tacoma School Board asked to see all the original applications, which delayed an interview with the community by almost a week. In that week Heuschel got a call from Al Talley, then Renton School Board president, and she was offered the Renton job, which she accepted. She replaced Dolo-res Gibbons.
Tacoma had time to consider another applicant in her place, she said.
Talley had this to say about Heuschel when she came on board for the start of the 2006-2007 school year:
“Our newly hired superintendent, Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel, is committed to providing education in a manner that offers opportunity for every child, at every school, every day.”
In an interview with the Renton Report-er, Heuschel said she would have a “very specific focus” on math, with the goal of improving student achievement.
“Renton will become the poster child for how to make that happen,” she said in the interview.
a tribute froM tHe president of tHe renton scHool board
By LyNN DEsmARAis
Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel’s time with us has been about building on a legacy of strong leadership and commitment to the Renton School District community. We knew her to be a leader of uncommon talent, ability, clear vision, energy and
integrity who was uniquely suited to taking on this challenge because of her experience leading the statewide education reform work at OSPI. From the beginning, Mary Alice validated that we chose our superin-tendent very well.
Mary Alice’s predecessors, Drs. Gary Kohlwes and Dolores Gibbons, have a
legacy of setting our facilities plan on a path to rebuilding and renovation, as well as strengthening and building commu-nity partnerships, and establishing a firm foundation for the education reform work. That work continued during Mary Alice’s tenure, and has included completion the Secondary Learning Center and Honey-
dew Elementary School. The new Early Childhood Education Center will open this fall, and the new middle school 2-1/2 years from now. And, her connections region-ally, statewide and nationally added new dimensions to the partnerships that benefit our schools in many ways.
Dr. Heuschel: A leader of uncommon talent, energy, integrity
she’s leaving Renton’s schools in good hands as she takes on critical state issues as inslee’s chief of staff
a tribute to tHe superintendent
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At LEFt: Mary Alice Heuschel speaks of her six years with the Renton schools, between meetings and getting her office packed up in early January. DeAn A. RADfoRD, Renton Reporter ABOVE: Dr. Heuschel helps students at Highlands elementary with backpacks in September 2008. Renton School District
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What does it mean to have Ahead of the Curve Schools?It’s a community passionate about education and each student’s success. It’s amazing teachers and staff.
And it’s an outstanding superintendent.
Under the leadership of Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel, Renton schools are a national model of success.
The Renton School District has a 94% high school graduation rate — significantly above the Washington average of 76.5%. There’s also been a double-digit increase in student scores on state math and science tests at every grade level.
77% of funding goes for classroom instruction (Washington State average is 70%). Only 7% of the budget for district administration. The district has received a decade of awards for financial management and reporting.
Thank you Dr. Heuschel for your incredible leadership and best wishes as you join Gov. Inslee’s administration. We look forward to continuing to work with you and our community to keep Renton Schools Ahead of the Curve.
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This is what the School Board had to say, in part, in her final evaluation in early January:
“Mary Alice’s ‘fierce focus’ emphasis on student achievement had been her highest priority, and has become the district culture. She has estab-lished a team structure that allows the instruc-tional strategy/assessment process to take place in a systemic way, and ensures that program evalua-tion and improvement plans are data-driven.”
Test scores and graduation rates have improved in the last six years. Still, Heuschel isn’t complete-ly satisfied.
“We still have a long way to go,” she said.But Heuschel said one reason she was able to
accept Inslee’s offer is that she has 100 percent confidence the capacity in the district – “the team here is phenomenal” – is built and a system is in place “for Renton to continue its work.” And she calls the Renton community “amazing.”
“I have full expectations that specifically in mathematics that those successes will continue in the coming years,” she said.
Heuschel would not have accepted Inslee’s offer three years ago, just like she turned down other job opportunities. “I had no desire to leave Renton,” she said.
But “it’s just hard to say no to the governor for this kind of position,” she said.
So what was different three years ago, halfway through her tenure as Renton superintendent?
“In my mind that within three years we could move the system, but three years ago our capac-ity wasn’t sufficient that our achievement results would soar. I have that now,” she said.
The district built that capacity through hiring decisions, investment of time, professional devel-opment and working as a team to demonstrate that new ideas and practices would work effec-
tively, she said.“It takes a long time to change culture, to
change and build capacity of staff,” she said, re-quiring “a huge commitment of everybody.”
“When professionals see that it is effective and it works, then they own it, they do it. You don’t have to tell them. They do that work because they are in it for the right reasons,” she said.
There’s another reason why Heuschel may have turned down Inslee.
In 2011, Heuschel ran for an open seat on Board of Commissioners of Public Hospital Dis-trict No. 1, eventually losing to Dr. Paul Joos.
A victory would have presented her with “an interesting dilemma,” she said.
“It would have been a game changer because when I did that, I made a commitment. And I keep my commitments. I likely would have had to turn down the opportunity.”
Any disappointments Heuschel has had in her six years have had to do with the district’s budget.
“If we had more resources from the very begin-ning, I think Renton could have been where they will be in two to five years sooner,” she said.
Major cuts to basic support of education have been a disappointment, she said.
As Inslee’s chief policy adviser, Heuschel will be intimately involved in how the state addresses the state Supreme Court’s McLeary decision, which mandates massive spending to fund basic educa-tion.
“The McLeary decision has helped to stave off some of those kinds of devastating cuts,” she said, but the state isn’t in a position to immediately return state funding to where it needs to be.
“And so the longer it takes to do that, the longer it will take for our state to see what we should expect of student achievement in the public edu-cation system,” she said.
‘The team here is phenomenal’By Tracey compTon
• 2006, Hired as the Renton School District Superintendent.
• 2006, The estimated on-time graduation rate stands at 75 percent.
• May 20, 2008, $150 million bond measure passes with 62 percent of the vote. The measure includes funds for a rebuild of the Secondary Learning Center, the Early Childhood Learning Center, an additional wing at Hazen High School, portable buildings and other school improvements.
• August 2009, district forced to cut fifth-grade band and orchestra program due to budget restrictions
• January 2010, Heuschel and Bob Bridge solicit thousands of dollars from Boeing, the Seattle Seahawks and Bob Bridge Toyota for a new Renton School District foundation.
• November 2010, Heuschel named Washington’s 2011 Superintendent of the Year.
• 2011, Heuschel tries for a spot on the Public Hospital District No.1 Board of Commis-sioners, but loses the election to Dr. Paul Joos.
• January 2011, Heuschel selected as one of the top four finalist in the running for 2011 National Superintendent of the Year.
• August 2011, Heuschel flies into the wild blue yonder with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels. She was nominated as a regional Key Influencer by the local Navy Command Office.
• June 2011, The adjusted, four-year, cohort, graduation rate jumps to 78 percent.
• October 2011, Heuschel reports significant gains in state test scores for
third- through 10th-grades. Also, there are improvements in math scores, which are up in every grade level, with nearly 70 percent of elementary schools seeing gains between 20 and 40 percent.
• April 2012, Heuschel meets Jay Inslee, Democratic contender for governor for this first time. Inslee unveils his plans for the state’s education system at Talbot Hill Elemen-tary School.
• April 17, 2012, $97 million school-improvement bond measure passed with 61 percent of the vote. Funds for constructing a new middle school, rebuilding the Lindberg High Pool, replacement of portable buildings and other school improvements.
• September 2012, Honey Dew Elemen-tary School opens as a full kindergarten through fifth-grade school to alleviate crowd-ing in the district.
• September 2012, the Secondary Learn-ing Center, the district’s non-traditional high school program, opens on the site of Black River High School. Black River housed the program since 1980.
• September 2012, Briarwood Elemen-tary reopens to a new facility after a makeover provided by a 2006 bond measure.
• November 14, 2012, Heuschel named as one of the three co-chairs on Gov.-elect Jay Inslee’s transition team.
• Nov. 30, 2012, Heuschel named as Inslee’s chief of staff.
• January 2013, Heuschel takes office as Inslee’s chief of staff after he is sworn in as governor.
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Mary Alice’s core beliefs are that every student deserves an excellent teacher, and every school, an excellent principal, and that a comprehensive system of improvement must be based on proven, data-driven educational strategies. District-wide, teachers and administrators have embraced the school improvement initiatives, strengthened their skills through professional development, established common goals, practices and dialog. And the result? The district has moved far in terms of equity of opportunity for our students; students at every grade level are realizing great gains on state math and science tests, with 70 percent of elementary schools seeing test score improvements of 20 percent to 44 percent last year; elementary students reading and comprehending at grade level by third grade; nearly 98 percent of those middle school students taking algebra to prepare for higher-level math in high school passed their course; and the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement classes increasing by 71 percent this year; and of course, our 93 percent extended graduation rate.
You may wonder how such progress could have been made in recent years, as school districts have faced ever-tightening and less predictable financial resources. Our student popula-tion is increasingly diverse in terms of ethnicity, economic disparity, culture and language, behavior and ability, and life experiences. Mary Alice and her staff have been successful in bringing in several million dollars in grant money to pilot effective classroom strategies, which then became models for implementation across the district. One example is a $3 million grant from the Seattle Foundation to cover the cost of “academic liaisons,” specialists who closely monitor middle school students for attendance and grade issues. These factors have been proven to be among the early predictors of drop-out potential – the liaisons have the flexibility to intervene and provide support to help students be successful.
Dr. Heuschel’s contributions to education in the Renton School District are very deep and will be far-reaching for our students – we are grateful for her time here and her dedication to our community.
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A tribute from the mAyor of renton
by Denis Law
It is my honor to pay tribute to Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel, an individual whose dedication and con-tributions to the Renton community are exceptional. We have been fortunate to have such a dynamic and dedicated leader who has given her time and talent to make our city a better place.
As the superintendent of the Renton School District, Dr. Heuschel has guided the district through many challenges and many accomplishments. With collabo-ration and problem solving, the district has experi-enced a steady increase in academic scores for students and significantly closed the achievement gap among different groups of students.
During her tenure here in Renton, Dr. Heuschel has been a leader and contributor to the success of a num-ber of key community initiatives and programs. Repre-senting the school district, she has been a vital partner and stakeholder for Renton’s community marketing campaign and helped guide its success. Thanks to her
leadership Friends of Renton Schools has raised more than $450,000 and helped improve student learning. She has participated in a number of local commu-nity organizations including the Renton Community Foundation, Renton Rotary, the Business Education Exchange, and the Renton Chamber of Commerce.
I am particularly grateful to Dr. Heuschel for her partnership with the city to build an accessible play-ground in Renton. This is the first joint development project between the City of Renton and the Renton School District and, once completed, this all-inclusive playground will provide an environment where all children, including their families and caregivers, can challenge their minds and bodies and will provide op-portunities for different generations to play and learn together.
We are confident that in her new role as chief of staff for Gov. Jay Inslee, she will continue her tireless service and dedication to our state and be a champion for the Renton community. I look forward to working closely with her in her new role and wish her all the best.
She made the city a better place
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Since her first day on the job, Mary Alice Heuschel developed, enhanced and furthered the scholastic and community stature of the Renton School District. As the daughter of a registered nurse, her childhood orientation into healthcare issues gave her the practical foundation and interest to work with Valley Medi-cal Center, which included her participation on our Consumer’s Advisory Committee which ultimately
made the recommendation to pursue an alliance with UW Medicine . . . the largest and most distinguished academic medical enterprise in the Pacific Northwest.
While Mary Alice’s leadership role within the Renton community has facilitated myriad accomplish-ments, of equal note is the professional and positive at-titude she exudes on a day-to-day basis as both she and the school district achieved their remarkable results.
Mary Alice is a savvy and talented leader among leaders and she will be sincerely missed!
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The following information was compiled based on City of Renton Police reports.
By TRACEy COMPTON
Several people called 911 to report a disorderly man in a parking lot on Jan. 1.
The 31-year-old man was reportedly yell-ing “I will kill you” and punching out ve-hicle windows. He knocked over a motor-cycle and was trying to break out another vehicle window with a bottle of alcohol.
When police arrived about 12:47 a.m., they saw the man throw a bottle and run away. Police finally caught up with the man several minutes later and he refused their commands to get on the ground and show his hands. Police did not know if the man was armed and because of his earlier threats and noncompliance, they tasered him. Police tasered the man a second time because he continued to resist them.
The man was arrested for obstruction of a public servant and malicious mischief.
Hunt for missing pursePolice were called to a laundromat on
Harrington Avenue N.E. for a report of a stolen purse on Dec. 30.
A 30-year-old Renton woman told police she believed an unknown female stole her pink, Coach purse while she was wash-ing her clothes at about 5:45 p.m. The woman thinks the other female stole her purse while it was sitting on top of one of the machines and she had her back to the unknown woman. The 30-year-old noticed the unidentified woman leaving the laun-dromat quickly after that.
The purse contained $700 of rent money, her bank card and identification. Another customer said he believed he knew where the suspect lives and directed police to an apartment close by. The man said he saw another female quickly putting clothing in a shopping cart, not folding them and leaving. He believed she was concealing the purse underneath the clothes.
Police went down the street to where the
woman supposedly lived and discovered a shopping cart outside of the building. Police encountered several people and one matching the suspect’s description. This woman claimed she found a pink purse at the laundromat several days prior, but it wasn’t the missing Coach purse. Police did notice the woman had purses strewn all over her room.
Renton couple fightsA 27-year-old woman called police to
report her boyfriend of three years had as-saulted her on Dec. 16.
The 40-year-old man allegedly punched, choked and threw water on his girlfriend before she called police at around 3 a.m.
When officers arrived, the front door of the residence was open. They met with the woman, who appeared to have a wet shirt. Police questioned the man, who said he was just trying to have a quiet weekend. He told police the woman came home yelling at him after drinking all night. He claimed
he didn’t touch her but did throw the water on her.
Police arrested the man for suspicion of fourth-degree assault because the woman’s appearance matched what she reported to police.
Man arrested for DUIA 46-year-old Maple Valley man was dis-
covered by police passed out at the wheel of his jeep on Dec. 16.
The man was blocking the roadway eastbound on Maple Valley Highway close to 11 p.m. When police initially confronted the man, he regained consciousness and drove away but eventually pulled into an apartment complex.
Police reported smelling the order of in-toxicants coming from the man. They ques-tioned him several times and he slurred his words. The man refused to submit to a sobriety test and was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence.
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King County prosecutors have charged a 23-year-old Renton man with third-degree assault for punching and head butting a Se-attle Police detective outside a courtroom at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Aydriane Holloway is set to be arraigned Monday, Jan. 28, in Kent, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Holloway has been released on $20,000 bond.
The fight started Jan. 14 outside of a third-floor courtroom during recess of a criminal trial stemming from a 2012 drive-by shooting in Seattle.
A Seattle gang detective was in the courtroom at the trial involving several gang members, according to probable cause documents. The detective knew
about threats that had been made to the victim and witnesses by associates of the defendant. The detective said he observed Holloway angrily staring at the victim in the courtroom. The detective told the man he needed to stop staring.
“The defendant brazenly assaulted a po-lice officer in the middle of the courthouse,” wrote deputy prosecutor Karissa Taylor in the charging papers. “During the struggle, a deputy prosecutor came to the aid of the officer and was kicked, and his suit jacket ripped.”
Taylor wrote that Holloway and a friend were in court to attend the drive-by shoot-ing trial of Robert Isabel, a confirmed Deuce 8 gang member.
No one suffered serious injuries during the fight.
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The King County Flood Con-trol District Executive Commit-tee expects to decide within two weeks whether to choose the city of Kent or King County plan to spend millions of dollars to repair a 2.7-mile stretch of a Green River levee to improve flood protection and reduce insurance costs to businesses.
The levee helps protect from flooding about $650 million worth of property and 18,400 jobs at a variety of businesses in Kent, Tukwila and Renton, including the Boeing Space Center, the Star-bucks Roasting Plant, IKEA and the Alaska Airlines Call Center, according to Kent officials.
The four-member committee heard a one-hour report Wednes-day at the King County Court-house in Seattle by a third-party consultant it hired to help resolve a dispute between Kent and the county about the best way to re-pair the Briscoe-Desimone Levee that runs from South 200th Street to South 180th Street.
Kent proposes to install a flood wall at an estimated cost of $17 million. The county proposes a setback levee with estimated costs of $420 million to $920 million because of the need to buy prop-erty and reconfigure roads.
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“I think the flood district made an excellent decision to bring an outside expert in to bring us additional information and an unbiased perspective,” Patterson said. “I think we do have enough information now that we will be able to move forward with a decision. I don’t know where my
colleagues are and what their decision will be, but it’s time for us to act.”
The committee is expected to meet again in about two weeks during a special meeting to pick a levee repair plan. That recom-mendation will go to the full flood district board (the nine members of the county council) for approv-al. Dunn and Patterson expect the full board to follow the recom-mendation of the committee.
“I believe we have all the information that the experts can possibly provide,” Patterson said. “That’s the hard part of our job is that now we have to make a deci-sion. But we definitely have a per-spective that is different than what we had from either King County
or Kent. It’s added a dimension to the discussion that will allow us to act and within two weeks we will make a decision on how to move forward with that levee.”
Dunn agreed action is needed.“We are going to break the log-
jam,” Dunn said. “It’s like you’re looking at a Chevy or a Ford. The bottom line is both of these will protect businesses, property, people and the environment as well but we need to make a deci-sion.”
The flood district is funded by a property tax assessment of 10 cents per $1,000 assessed valu-ation to fund projects. That tax brings in about $35 million per year to help pay for projects along six rivers in the county.
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By DEAN A. RADFORD
They’ve been together four years, at Renton High School, these seniors whose basketball team, the mighty Indians, sits atop the Sea-mount League.
And that’s not to mention their standings in the polls as of the first of the week.
The Associated Press had the Indians ranked second in the state in the 2A poll, just behind Lynden High School. On Maxpreps.com, they were ranked third behind Lynden and Pull-man and The Seattle Times ranked the Indians first in the state, ahead of Lynden and Pullman.
Going into Wednesday night’s game the Indians were undefeated, 16-0 for
the season and 10-0 in the conference. Wednes-day they played Foster, in fourth place, and tonight it’s seventh-place Highline at Renton.
“They love the game. And the chemistry is great,” says Coach Rick Comer of the seven seniors who start or often start a game – Lavelle Smith, Donovan Saario, Justin Pienh, James Weathington, Jonah Magat, Zack Lee and starting cen-ter, Jonathan Patterson.
“They are just enjoying the success they are having,” says their head coach.
Renton High boys have had success on the court before, going undefeated in 2006 and making an appearance at the state tournament. Last season’s varsity team didn’t break
500, but a successful JV team whose juniors are now those seniors was already showing what was on the horizon.
“It’s definitely one of the top teams we’ve ever had here, just based on their ef-fort and chemistry,” Comer said of this season’s varsity team.
Comer has been head coach at Renton High since 1990. Rashaad Powell is his assistant head coach
who runs the team through practice.
Comer credits his seniors and Powell with “great leadership.”
Powell doesn’t allow any complacency; preparation for the next game begins when the last one ends, says Comer.
“Coach Rashaad. Com-placency? No,” says Comer. Powell tells the team, “You can’t be satisfied with yes-terday’s success.”
Teammates work hard for each other, says Comer, and they won’t let each other fail.
“If failure does occur somewhere, they just pick them up and encourage in-stead of tearing them down and pointing a finger. That takes them a long ways,” he says.
Maybe the toughest game has been the one against the Lindbergh Eagles on Jan. 4, says Comer. The Indians were ahead by 16 points at one point, but in the fourth quarter, the Eagles had a one- or two-point lead. The Indians won, 56-51. The Indians weren’t “off track,” says Comer, it’s that Lindbergh has a good team, coming off a state appear-ance the year before.
“They almost got the entire thing done,” says Comer.
On defense the Indians play a combination of defenses, but they like to pressure the other team from baseline to baseline, says Comer.
“We have been known for being an uptempo team,” says Comer, but a team can’t maintain that pace an entire game.
Powell has the team play-ing a variety of offenses and defenses, Comer said.
On offense, the stats show a team that knows how to share the ball.
“The kids are selfless,” said Comer of the bal-anced scoring. “They don’t care who gets it. Basically, whoever is open gets op-portunities.”
It’s not difficult to prepare against opposing teams where two or three players dominate the scoring, he said.
Many coaches will say they want to make the state tournament. Comer isn’t necessarily one of those.
“One of the goals we’ve had here on a consistent basis is just to become the best team we are capable of becoming,” he said. “And we think that winning will take care of itself.”
The goal is to improve as individuals and as a team every day,” he said.
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For the fourth consecutive year, the T-Birds will have a junior prep group, which will be geared toward 15 to 19-year-old players preparing for their upcoming junior season. The camp will be difficult and challenging and will focus on conditioning and pace.
T-Bird players will be participating in on- and off-ice sessions of the junior prep group. Players interested in the group will be required to call T-Birds Hockey Operations Assistant Jeff Caso at 253-239-7825 to register.
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Like Comer, he sees a team blessed with great chemistry and a willingness to work hard – and the team is having a good time.
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The Beatles may not have been perform-ing their legendary music for nearly 44 years, but it is far from gone from the world music scene.
Imagine “Remembering The Fab Four” – a classy Beatles tribute band – comes to the area for two shows: 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 10 at the IKEA Performing Arts Center in Renton; and 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 11 at the Auburn Performing Arts Center, 700 E. Main St.
The band has been performing the music of the Beatles for more than 20 years, nearly three times as long as the Beatles themselves. Imagine has performed around the world, including at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, the first act to ever perform at the 20,000-seat USANA amphitheater in Salt Lake City and 21 performances at the Shanghai Music Festival in China.
Opening for Imagine will be the local band, The Saltwater Saints, with even more 1960s hit songs.
Tickets are $10-25 and available from Brown Paper Tickets, 800-838-3006 or at the door on the day of the concerts.
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The Museum of Flight on Feb. 2 com-memorates Black History Month with an inspiring lecture and panel discussion, “Reaching Your Potential.”
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3 SIDE-BY-SIDE Burial Plots for Sale at Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Bellevue. Highly sought- a f te r l oca t ion in the “Garden of Prayer”, Lot 119: P lo ts 2 , 3 & 4 (these plots have been sel l ing for as high as $22,000 each in this gar- den). The seller is ask- ing for $17,000 for each plot or $32,000 for two plots and $46,000 for all three. If you are interest- ed in viewing the plots, please go to the Memori- al Park during business hours and ask for a fami- ly counselor.
4 CEMETARY PLOTS in the Her i tage Garden next to the Jewish Es- tates at Sunset Hills Me- m o r i a l i n B e l l ev u e . Beautiful, serene resting place. These are one of a kind and can only be purchased from individu- als. Valued at $22,000 each. Price negotiable. Will sell separately or as a group. Call: (206)568- 3227
ABBEY VIEW Cemetery in Briar. Single plot in Cascade View, Lot #39, Space #13. Can accom- modate up to 2. Valued at $3100. Asking $1500 or best offer. Call Marcy, 206-240-9209
SUNSET HILLS Memori- al Cemetery in Bellevue. 1 plot available in the sold out Garden of Lin- coln. Space 328, Block A, Lot 11. Similar plots offered by Cemetery at $22 ,000 . Se l l i ng fo r $12,000 or best offer. Call 360-387-8265
Cemetery Plots
ACACIA Memorial Park, “Birch Garden”, (2) adja- cent cemetery plots, #3 & #4. Se l l ing $4,000 each or $7,500 both. Lo- cated in Shoreline / N. Seatt le. Cal l or email Emmons Johnson, 206- 7 9 4 - 2 1 9 9 , [email protected]
BEAUTIFUL SETTING overlooking Seattle at Sunset Hil ls Memorial Cemetery in Bellevue. Olympic View Urn Gar- den, Lot 2026, Space #18. Includes: Plot, Mar- ble Marker and Installa- tion for only $5,000. Val- u e d a t $ 6 , 0 4 7 p e r Cemetery. Call 425-888- 1930 or email janetsli- [email protected]
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SUNSET HILLS Memori- al Cemetery in Bellevue. 2 s ide by s ide p lo ts available in the Sold Out Garden of Devotion, 9B, S p a c e 9 a n d 1 0 . $20 ,000 each nego - t i a b l e . A l s o , 1 p l o t available in Garden of Devotion, 10B, space 5, $12,500 negotiable. Call 503-709-3068 or e-mail [email protected]
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Sporting Goods
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pets/animals
Dogs
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Dogs
OUR BEAUTIFUL AKC Golden Retriever pup- pies are ready to go to their new homes. They have been raised around young children and are well socialized. Both par- e n t s h ave ex c e l l e n t health, and the puppies have had their first well- ness vet check-ups and shots. The mother is a Light Golden and the fa- t h e r i s f u l l E n g l i s h Cream Golden. $800 each. For more pictures and information about the pupp ies and our home/ kennel please vis- it us at: www.mountain- s p r i n g s k e n n e l . w e e - bly.com or call Verity at 360-520-9196
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Sport Utility VehiclesJeep
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