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By TRACEy COMPTON
Renton High School will find out in April if the school has been approved to host a new International Baccalaureate program.
Colloquially known as IB, it is a col-lege preparation program for juniors and seniors that expects the students to demonstrate college level work. Students can either pick and choose several of the IB classes to take, or they can go for an IB diploma and take all seven classes, do a research paper and complete community service.
Successfully obtaining an IB diploma gives students the opportunity to apply to exchange credits and gain access to such college’s as Paris’ Sorbonne and Harvard. Students can wave up to two years of col-lege classes with an IB diploma anywhere the diploma is accepted nationally and internationally.
But the work will require a lot more studying than students are used to now, said Principal Giovanna San Martin.
San Martin is an IB graduate herself and said the program offers students skills beyond just college readiness.
“The overall effect, if you like, beyond
college and career readiness is really all embedded in that piece,” she said, of the international aspect. “How do they operate in a pluralistic community, form their own opinions and relate and understand other people.”
Students at Renton have been hearing about the program from advisory sessions that give them details on what to expect.
“They are excited,” said Shehnaz Wad-hwania, Renton’s IB coordinator. “In fact, our juniors and seniors are upset that they are not going to get the IB program.”
If approved, all 11th-grade students will get IB English next year and the first gradu-
ating class of the program would be in 2016. If there are at least 12 or 15 students who choose to do the program and gradu-ate the first year, that counts as success, said the principal.
Renton High has been a candidate school for the program for the past three years as school staff has researched and applied to the program.
“It’s extremely rigorous and the training the staff needs to have and the curriculum and instructional piece that we need to have to become and IB school is very rigor-ous,” San Martin.
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Grant season is beginning to heat up and the City of Renton is gearing up to make a run at some federal and state monies to help improve the city’s roads and trails systems.
City of Renton Planning and Programs Supervisor for Transportation Jim Seitz this week detailed for the City Council some of the projects the city hopes to receive money for this year. There are four rounds of “Calls for Projects,” with the first coming from the Puget Sound Regional Council.
The PSRC will be distributing fed-eral funds for projects and Seitz said his department is busy working to make sure Renton gets its share of the dollars.
Seitz said the top priority in the city eli-gible for PSRC money is the next phase of the Rainier Avenue South rebuild project, stretching from South Third Street north to Nelson, near the city limits.
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Rainier and sunset avenues top city’s 2014 grant prioritiesTrails around the lake and in Benson Hill also make list
A ‘super’ send-offHundreds of seahawks fans gathered at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center in Renton on Sunday to cheer on the Seattle Seahawks, as the team left for the airport to begin its trip to New Jersey and Super Bowl XLVIII. Later in the day, thousands of fans showed their pride at The Landing’s ‘Volume 12’ rally. For pictures, see page 16. The Super Bowl is set for 3:20 p.m. Sunday. PHoToS CouRTeSy keLLey BALCoMB-BARTok
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By TRACEy COMPTON
While some vacant Rent-on properties have piqued the interest of potential buyers, others continue to sit waiting for new owners. However, local real estate agents say the market does appear to be getting better.
“The market is better than it was a year ago by far,” said Mike Catt of Kid-der Matthews real estate company. “We’ve got more
people who are interested in the market…who are ready to move forward.”
Kidder Matthews sold two of Renton’s car dealer-ship properties recently. The former Lincoln Mer-cury dealership, a 4.35-acre property, was sold to the owners of Car Pros.
Dale Walker of Walker’s Renton Subaru moved his dealership to the former Saturn dealership on Grady Way about a month ago.
Currently there is an offer on the table for the former Renton Western Wear building, Catt said, although he’s not at liberty to discuss the details of the potential sale.
There’s also been some activity on the former McLendon Hardware site, but that building has sat vacant for a long time too, Catt said.
“Some of the down-town core continues to be
somewhat challenging, but it’s getting better,” he said. “We’re getting more traffic down there.”
The former American Drapery building is facing this particular hardship too, according to agent Steve Holman of American Com-mercial Real Estate.
He has been trying to drum up interest from
restaurants and museums, businesses that would be a local draw but so far no takers.
The building has 16,000 square feet on the main floor and sits across the street from the Renton Transit Center. It was re-cently taken off the market by its owners and is still awaiting sale.
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Some kids and adults know him only as “Mr. Scrappy.”
“After they see me three or four times, they ask me what my name is because ‘Mr. Scrappy’s’ easy; it’s easy to remember and it’s catchy,” said Jeff Gaidjergis of Renton.
In the scrap collecting business for three years, Gaidjergis is using his funds to give back to society through humanitarian proj-ects that take him all over the world.
Gaidjergis used to have a handy man service; but after he saw a lot of materi-als going to the dump that could be recycled instead, he decided to open a part-time scrap-metal collection business.
Now he’s grown his busi-ness 30 percent, he said, and works with his wife, kids and grandkids, as his only employees.
There’s no secret to where he gets his scrap metal; it’s just being fair and honest with his clients and educat-ing them, he said. Most of his business he gets by word-of-mouth. He offers a free service traveling around to different homes
and businesses to pick up materials.
Gaidjergis’ humanitarian work started nine years ago, when he traveled to Mexico to build homes for the poor. He’s gone on many trips with New Life Church of Renton. The church funds the projects and volunteers pay their own way.
In Mexico, they build 16- by 20-foot, wood-frame homes on cement slabs that help prevent the respiratory problems that come with sleeping on a dirt floor. The church group can build two to three homes in as many days. It’s a feat that would take the average person there seven to 10 years to build, said Gaidjergis.
“It’s important to me because we’re giving back,” he said. “It’s not all about taking, it’s about giving back.”
He travels two to three times a year and has been to Haiti, Africa, Honduras and Mexico on mission trips. He’s helped build homes, churches, schools, Bible colleges and has done well maintenance.
“We may go on a certain mission thinking we’re going to do a certain thing, but it’s wherever God calls us to go,” Gaidjergis said. “I tell people when they go
on a mission trip they have to be like Gumby. You have to be flexible because you never know what’s going to happen.”
Gaidjergis has faced personal safety concerns, volatile weather and primi-tive airports and infrastruc-ture on trips aboard to third world countries. But he is so moved by his experienc-es he finds it hard to explain how he feels.
He’s moved by the mother in Mexico who comes to find his group
every time they’re in town to offer thanks. Money his church raised went to pay for an operation to correct her son’s club foot.
“It’s hard to put into words the feeling you get by doing that,” Gaidjergis said. “I wish more people could go along and get that feel-ing because then we’d have more people who’d give.”
His plans are to grow his scrap-metal business enough to sustain a full-time operation and fund three to four trips a year to
do humanitarian work. This year he plans to
travel to Mexico for another mission trip and has prom-ised to take one of his 10- year-old grandsons along to help. In August he plans to do more volunteer work in four African countries.
“I”m trying to grow this business so I can do more work in the humanitarian field,” said Gaidjergis. “So the more I grow this the more I can give back. That’s my main focus.”
Renton business funds world-wide volunteer efforts
Mr. Scrappy, Jeff Gaidjergis, has taken mission trips all over the world, including to Haiti, funded by his scrap-metal collection business. submitted
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By DEAN A. RADFORD
Starting this week, the Vietnamese community of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle will gather in
Tukwila to worship in their own language.
Members of the Viet-namese Martyrs Parish are working hard to put the finishing touches on what for now is a temporary sanctuary and meeting rooms in a large building on South 180th Street, just west of West Valley Highway.
Firecrackers filled the air with joyful celebration as the new building was blessed Thursday evening and will again this weekend as Masses mark the tradi-tional Lunar New Year.
The parish is the out-
growth of the Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Com-munity that brought together Vietnamese from throughout the Archdiocese that encompasses Western Washington.
The parish was estab-lished in 2010 by Archbish-op Alexander J. Brunett as a personal parish.
“That means that the parish just meets the needs of Vietnamese language and traditions,” said Father Thanh Dao, the parish pastor.
In Seattle, the parish has about 1,300 families, but Dao said that not all of the families will move to the church in Tukwila. The move is necessary because the current location was too small to serve all members who were split over two locations, he said.
The search began be-tween Seattle and Skyway for a new location, but all the possible sites were too small, he said. Then, they found the site of a former car-wash company next to the Green River, which Dao said is a peaceful place like Lourdes, where Catholics go on pilgrimage to the mountains of south France.
Last summer, the parish held its Summer Festival
along the Green River to mark the 25th anniversary of the canonization of the Vietnamese martyrs, who were Catholics persecuted and killed in Vietnam.
The parish will look forward to the future, said Dao.
“We focus more on our young people. A lot of them have wandered away from faith,” he said. The parish now has about 300 youths.
With the large space, the parish will have plenty of space for its faithful mis-sion program and language school. It will involve youth in its own youth program that blends religion and scouting.
The future includes a new church the parish will build on the 5.8-acre site next to the current building.
But, now, the parish plans to celebrate its temporary church and the Lunar New Year.
It received permis-sion from the Tukwila City Council to light the thousands of celebratory firecrackers.
The red firecrackers are a long Vietnamese tradition, said Dao, symbolizing good luck.
“You are making merry. People love it,” he said.
Vietnamese parish moves to TukwilaNew space brings community closer to Renton in time for Lunar New Year
Thanh Dao pastor of the Vietnamese Martyrs Parish in Tukwila stands at the alter. DeaN a. RaDfoRD, Tukwila Reporter
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Renton principal gets ‘Golden Apple’ excellence award
Campbell Hill Elementary School Principal Zakariya Palsha received the 2013 Golden Apple Excellence in Edu-cation Award last weekend.
The award celebrates educators, programs and schools making a positive difference in Washington state education. Palsha’s name was submitted among hundreds of other nominees for the 22nd annual award by students, parents, teachers and community members. A panel of education leaders and previous winners evaluated and selected this year’s winners.
Palsha attributes his individual honor to hard work by his staff at Campbell Hill, who personify the Nigerian proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” a district press release stated.
The principal is known for creating an environment that brings out the best in teachers and support staff. He has helped staff members be more reactive to children’s needs by creating professional development around culturally responsive teaching strategies.
Campbell Hill has improved family involvement with
math and literacy nights, including a “Jump-In, Jump-Out” night, which asks parents and community to provide feedback on ways the school can improve. The program also gives the community a chance to say what the school is doing well.
Palsha has been credited for starting a new after-school program, partnering with the YMCA to bring reading, writing and math activities to the school as well as extracur-ricular opportunities. Students are participating in drama and music activities, such as an Earshot Jazz program.
The award ceremony will be aired at 7 p.m., Feb. 24 on KCTS Channel 9.
Renton Technical College named in top nationwide list
Renton Technical College was named as one of the na-tion’s top 150 community colleges eligible to compete for the 2015 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. The position gives the school the chance to compete for $1 million in prize funds.
The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program high-lights the critical importance of improving student success in America’s community colleges, an RTC release stated.
The prize is awarded every two years and it is the nation’s signature recognition of high achievement and perfor-mance. It recognizes institutions for exceptional student outcomes in student learning, certificate and degree completion, employment and earnings, and high levels of access and success for minority and low-income students.
“The selection of Renton Technical College by the Aspen Institute shines a spotlight on the exceptional work that RTC’s faculty and staff are doing to support student suc-cess,” said Steve Hanson, president at Renton Technical College. “One of the goals of the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program is to highlight exemplary work be-ing done in community and technical colleges across the nation. Our selection provides recognition that Renton Technical College is a national leader in implementing best practices to improve student outcomes while train-ing students for family-wage jobs in a competitive, global economy.”
A full list of the 150 community colleges is available at www.AspenPrize.org. Prize winners will be announced in early 2015.
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Gov. Jay Inslee’s call to raise money for schools by closing tax breaks put the education funding debate back in the laps of lawmakers this week and in the conversation with voters this fall.
Inslee’s plan to generate $200 million in new taxes by eliminating or revising seven exemp-tions is a slimmed-down version of the billion-dollar-plus tax package rejected by a Republican-led majority in the Senate a year ago.
There’s no evidence things will turn out dif-ferently for he and his Democratic allies in 2014 because the balance of power is the same.
Republicans say lawmakers put roughly $1 billion additional dollars into schools in 2013 and can wait to make another hefty investment in 2015.
Inslee didn’t seem concerned about the prospect of another defeat when he unveiled his scheme Tuesday.
Rather, he sounded as if he was test-driving messages Democratic candidates can use this fall as the party tries to regain a working majority in the Senate.
He spoke of the need to fill the “gas tank of reform” and satisfy the Supreme Court’s demand
for “concrete action” to fully fund the basic education of 1 million public school stu-dents.
And he cast Republicans as a reluctant bunch whose minds might change before the Legislature is set to ad-journ in early March.
“The other party has said they don’t want to spend another dime on our children’s education this year,” he told reporters, adding later he hoped it was only “a temporary condition.”
And he suggested lawmakers are wrong to think voting for his tax plan to fund schools will doom their re-election.
“I believe very deeply that it is a winning issue for a candidate to face his public and say ‘I stood up for funding our schools and our kids’,” he said. “I will tell you candidates who do that are going to win elections this November. I believe this is where the people are (at) in the state of Washington.”
Time will tell if he’s right.
Students lead on billsTwo Snohomish High seniors incited a little
partisan kerfuffle recently with their proposal to require many unemployed adults to perform community service in order to keep receiving benefit checks.
Students Kristen Hoffmann and Marissa Martz came up with the idea in their govern-ment class and pitched it to lawmakers in a visit to Olympia earlier this month.
Community service, they reasoned, could pro-vide new skills and job opportunities for those seeking work.
“The intention is not to punish people on unemployment,” Hoffmann said. “It is to open doors, reduce fraud, keep people moving and help them find work.”
Conservative Republicans in the House and Senate were sold on the concept and sponsored
Ode to the Seahawks“Super Bowl or Bust”We’ve had a phenomenal football runtruth to be toldNow the Hawks face Down the BroncosThey’re in the Super Bowl
The shopping list is all made outThe beer is packed on iceThe sacred chair is precisely placedTo take in all the sights
It’s bound to be a nail-biterMy blood pressure is running highLook out Denver BroncosThose Hawks are gonna fly
It’s just a football gameGrown men dressed in tightsPumped up on testosteroneThey ought to call it “Ladies Night”
It’s great to be a SeattleiteMirrored in a sea of blue and greenOur 12th Man flag proudly fliesIt’s such a sight to see
The 12th Man shall rise up and rumbleThey’re known for their seismic screamsThe sounds will echo everywhereFrom Seattle to New Jersey
The playbook has been openedPete Carroll calls the shotsThe Hawks they are a well-oiled machineThey’ll give it all they’ve got
The Seahawks are like the OspreyThey soar above to get things doneThe Broncos are like wild horsesThey get spooked and then they run
So, just out on the horizonLies the prestigious LombardiLike a carrot dangling in a raceIt’s well within our reach
Let’s hear it for the SeahawksSuper Bowl or bustWe would like to thank them for a fantastic rideAnd wish them lots of luck!
Vicki Shamek,Renton
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bills in each chamber to put it into law. The identical bills would require most able-bodied individuals aged 18 to 65 to do at least eight hours of community service for every four weeks of unemployment benefits received.
Senate Democrats denounced the legislation as a punitive measure.
“Our friends and neighbors seeking jobs are already struggling to pay the bills and feed their kids in addition to looking for work,” said Sen. Jeannie Darneille, D-Tacoma, in a statement.
“Community service is an honorable pursuit, but forcing someone into it simply to maintain their family’s lifeline is downright cold.”
As of Wednesday, no hearings had been set on the bills.
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The following information was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.
By DEAN A. RADFORD
About $18,300 worth of jewelry was sto-len Jan. 19 from a home on Lake Washing-ton, along with two iPhones and a laptop.
The theft apparently occurred during a party at the house, where a resident’s rela-tive was house-sitting. A man unknown to the partygoers had entered the house and was leaving with the laptop when he was stopped and questioned.
He hit the questioner in the eye and tried to run out the front door. But another partygoer punched him in the stomach,
which stopped him. The partygoer took his wallet so he could get his drivers license to get his name, then returned the wallet. The suspect, a 20-year-old Seattle man, was told to leave.
The partygoers planned to call police but didn’t because the laptop had been recovered. They went back to their drinking game. The suspect was still sitting in a car outside; no one had recog-nized him.
About 30 minutes later, a partygoer noticed the laptop was gone, as well as two cell phones. They figured either the suspect came back inside or someone at the party brought the items to him.
Three days later, the resident contacted police. Someone had entered a bedroom and stolen $18,300 worth of jewelry.
The resident’s relative later emailed po-lice, writing that he narrowed the suspects to a men’s and women’s basketball team on the Eastside. But he didn’t see anyone take the stolen items.
Theft start of his worriesShoplifting three pairs of gloves Jan.
19 from Walmart on Rainier Avenue was enough to get this 23-year-old Kent man arrested.
Then there were a felony warrant for stealing a motor vehicle and that stolen motorcycle parked on the sidewalk near the store’s main entrance.
He hid the gloves in a motorcycle helmet. But he didn’t make it past store security.
In checking the man’s ID, a Renton Police officer discovered the warrant. And he noticed the helmet and asked where the man had parked his motorcycle. A friend dropped him off, he told the officer.
The officer looked out and saw only one motorcycle, a green Kawasaki, which a check showed was stolen from the Univer-sity of Washington.
Not wanting to lie, the man told the of-ficer a friend let him drive the motorcycle so he could score some drugs. He figured the motorcycle was stolen because he had to use a screwdriver to start it.
He declined to offer any information about his friend.
The motorcycle’s owner arrived and drove it off.
The suspect was booked into the SCORE regional jail for possession of a stolen vehicle.
If ‘Dino Cruz’ calls, hang up“Dino Cruz” will offer to service a heater,
but if you need to call to change the ap-pointment, you’ll get a phone-sex line.
That’s exactly what happened to a 74-year-old Renton woman.
She received a call from a “Dino Cruz,” who said he worked for a company called Washington Heating and Air Conditioning. He offered to service her home’s heater.
They made an appointment and he
gave her a call-back number. She had to reschedule, and when she called, she got the phone-sex line.
The officer called Washington Heat-ing and Air Conditioning in Seattle and was told the company started receiving calls about six months ago about a “Dino Cruz.” No one by that name works for the company.
No one is sure what happens if Cruz actually shows up for an appointment.
Officers told the woman to call police if Cruz showed up at her house.
Accord leads chaseA Honda Accord, its driver apparently
familiar with the area, led a Renton Police officer on a pursuit Jan. 15 through the Highlands.
The pursuit began at about 7:40 a.m. near Union Avenue Northeast and Northeast Sunset Boulevard.
During the pursuit the driver pulled into parking lots, ran traffic lights and stop signs, and nearly collided with other vehicles.
Eventually, the Honda entered a school zone near McKnight Middle School. The pursuit was reaching speeds of about 30 mph. The Honda drove through a con-trolled intersection at Harrington Avenue and Northeast 16th Street. Up ahead were several vehicles going to McKnight.
The Honda turned onto northbound Edmonds Avenue Northeast. Traffic was
becoming congested at Aberdeen Avenue and Northeast 27th Street. The driver drove in the center of the road, splitting between an oncoming police cruiser and traffic.
The pursuit ended when it became ap-parent the Honda wasn’t going to stop. The Honda’s owner was contacted, who told officers the vehicle had been stolen. The officer took a stolen-vehicle report.
Argument over cells, cashA Renton woman was chased into her
bedroom Jan. 14 during an argument with an ex-boyfriend over cell phones and the whereabouts of $150 in cash.
The ex-boyfriend, who has a state war-rant for escaping from community custody, yelled out: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”
He then kicked in the door and threw her to the ground as they wrestled over her mother’s cell phone. She was scream-ing “help” into the phone but wasn’t sure dispatchers heard her cries.
The man twisted the cell from her hand and ran from the home. He yelled out that he would return the mother’s phone if they would return his phone. The victim doesn’t know where the suspect’s cell phone is.
And he’s the only other person who knows where the key is hidden to a safe where she kept $150 that’s now missing.
A K9 track didn’t locate the suspect. The suspect called a short time later with the same offer to exchange cell phones.
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“Hey!” I called out as if we were old friends, before the mayor and I exchanged a cordial smile and shook hands. “You ever been to 8 Bit before?”
I wasn’t surprised when he shook his head. I knew from his bio on the City of Renton webpage that Denis Law has two grown daughters and though I’d only met him a couple times I couldn’t quite imagine him saddling up to a game of Tetris at the new arcade on Third after work.
On the flip side of that coin I could also never have imagined Bill Gates re-cently dressed in a chicken costume on Jimmy Fallon to promote a viral video about poverty, so I know people do a lot of things you wouldn’t expect when they’re engaged and passionate.
And so here we were at 3 p.m. on a Wednesday at 8 Bit for what I hoped would be a candid discussion about
downtown Renton over a doubles game of Ms. Pacman.As a Renton resident who yearns for a cool downtown to
take my family, I’m tired of what appears to be a discon-nect between the City and residents about how to go about creating a vibrant and bustling downtown.
This communication gap and lack of progress only seems to have widened after the whole library debacle. And my concern going forward is that this continental divide will impinge future progress.
These days, driving by the empty storefronts on Third is like signing up for a tour of the dashed entrepreneurial dreams of Christmas Past: people who no doubt sunk their life savings and gumdrop dreams into a now failed small business in downtown Renton.
Over the years of writing columns about the business owners in DTR, I’ve heard an earful: complaints about slum land lords locking down any hope of progress; a lack of support from the city on actual dollars spent to help market and promote the downtown; resistance to change from all sides, where new ideas for events are often treated with suspicion and exorbitant city permit fees.
I’d exchanged emails with Law many times about things going on in downtown Renton, and the lack thereof. But after reading that the Old Renton Book Exchange was in the weeds so bad they were reduced to offering a kick starter on gofundme.com to keep the dream alive, I think it’s safe to say without too much controversy that what we’re doing is not working.
I hoped to walk away from my meeting with a sense of exactly what the mayor could do for DTR and to get some specific answers.
Which brings us back to 8 Bit and my meeting with the mayor. Unfortunately, on weekdays, the arcade doesn’t open until 4. Too bad; I had this vision of a photo of me
beating the mayor at Ms. Pacman.So with 8 Bit not yet open, the mayor and I decided to
walk over to Common Ground for a coffee.“So, what’s the problem with downtown Renton?” I
asked after we’d gotten our drinks. “It’s a problem of critical mass,” the mayor began. I tried not to appear disappointed as he eloquently broke
down the need to attract more people to live and work downtown if it is to attract developers. I was disappointed because I wanted to talk to him not as a mayor, but as a person who has the power to move aside from words like “critical mass.”
I wanted to get real.“I want to write a more personal column about specific
ideas that YOU have, what kind of downtown would YOU like to see in the near term, specifically,” I said. “I mean you live in Renton. Like all the rest of us you drive down Third, which compared to The Landing looks more and more like a place where people’s entrepreneurial dreams come to die. As a former highly successful small business owner how does it make you feel?”
If you didn’t know, before the mayor became The Mayor, he had a successful career as a newspaperman. He started the Renton Reporter followed by the Kent and Auburn Reporter and sold in 2000. He is no longer affiliated with the paper in any way.
My impression going in to the meeting was that the may-or has the power to make changes downtown based on his professional track record, which includes accomplishments such as past chairman of the Greater Renton Chamber of Commerce and past president of the Renton Rotary Club among others.
“You’re making your piece too broad. This isn’t about me,” The Mayor said in the confident way editors have of seeing a story that a passionate writer may be too caught up in.
But I wanted the story I was attempting to write to be his story too, in a way that it hadn’t before: less “savvy politi-cian” more “roll up your sleeves Norma Rae.” Essentially, more “chicken suit.”
“Well, unless I’m mistaken at the power a mayor has, it is a lot about you,” I said.
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“I want to make down-town Renton a place where the Mary Clymers of the world can thrive,” Law responded, referring to the artist and former owner of Happy Delusions.
“Why is it that a cute shop like Happy Delusions can’t survive?”
Pause. “Not enough people,” he
said, adding, “Thousands of cars drive down Third every day. Seventy-five percent are commuters rushing by and they are NOT stop-ping.”
As he spoke, the mayor wore a look I could relate to: frustration.
“We’re creatures of habit. We have to give them a reason to stop. Look at The Melrose, it’s packed every night. People come to downtown Renton for The Melrose because they have great service and food, they know where it is and there’s parking, it’s a destination. The Melrose also destroys the myth that businesses can’t be successful in down-town Renton.”
Clearly another is-sue is the perception that downtown Renton isn’t safe and I asked him about it. When the whole library fiasco happened I was surprised by the number of people who said they didn’t feel safe over by the Big 5
location. As a mom of five, I’ve never not felt safe in downtown Renton.
“It’s hogwash that people say downtown Renton is not safe. It’s very safe. Things can happen any-where,” Law said. “But its perception and we need to change that. If it means we put police on walking patrols, most people love to see cops and that’s not a problem for the city to provide that.
“Another thing is the property owners,” he con-tinued. “Those buildings next door are low- income housing in a substandard building. The people who live there deserve better. They deserve a nice place to live and should be treated with more compassion.
“I think people want places to go in the down-town; a safe, clean, upbeat environment to do some shopping. We have to attract retailers that can survive. Downtown is go-ing to evolve the way the market allows. We can help it along.”
But I wanted more.“What EXACTLY is the
city planning to help it along?”
The mayor explained that in the short term he wants to turn the space that was
once the old Big 5 building into an extension of the Piazza with a water feature for kids to play.
He also wants businesses to know that the city is committed to processing permits quickly: “Time is money and we are willing to bend over backwards. We will also continue to of-fer deferred property taxes for 10 years to encourage multi-family construction.”
I was also sur-prised to learn that the City often gives tours to potential de-velopers around downtown, woo-ing them with
how business-friendly the City of Renton is.
In addition, Law would also like to see the old McLendon’s building become an extension of Renton Technical College.
I came to the meeting believing that the mayor has the power and influ-ence to revitalize downtown Renton. And I left the meeting the same way.
The mayor does not have a magic wand, but he can bring people together like the Chamber of Commerce and potential developers who have money to inject into downtown through city sponsored incentives that are too good to refuse.
In a nutshell, he can be
a cheerleader for the cause of revitalizing downtown Renton, inspiring confi-dence and encouraging current and future small business owners to keep throwing their hat in the ring.
I left Common Ground feeling inspired and excited to be a part of an upcoming meeting where Law intends to invite developers (with money), small business owners and locals to discuss potential opportunities.
“There is a lot of oppor-tunity in downtown and we intend to turn over every rock we can to move the ball forward.”
I don’t know about you, but I’ll be there with my “I Love Renton T-shirt” on. (By the way, you can get your I Love Renton t-shirts in the DTR at pinkpress.com: www.facebook.com/PinkPressScreenPrinting.)
As he spoke, the mayor wore a look
I could relate to: frustration.
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While most of America spent the day after the NFC Championship game reacting to Richard Sherman’s postgame antics, the Seahawks cor-
nerback was already immersed in film study.“With Peyton,” Sherman said. “you have to be on it quick,
because I know he was on it quick.”When it comes to preparing for quarterback Peyton
Manning and the Denver Broncos’ offense, an extra week between games is probably one or two weeks too few, which is why Sherman and the Seahawks defense, despite being the best in the NFL, know they have their hands full this weekend.
All season this Super Bowl matchup seemed like destiny. In the AFC, the 37-year-old Manning enjoyed the best sea-son of what will surely be a Hall-of-Fame career, shattering passing records while leading the Broncos to an NFL record for points in a season.
Seattle, meanwhile, earned the NFC’s No. 1 seed thanks in large part to a defense that became the first since the 1985 Chicago Bears to lead the NFL in fewest points (14.4) and fewest yards allowed (273.6) as well as takeaways (39). When you factor in the pass-happy era we’re in, Seattle’s pass defense wasn’t just great, it was one of the best of all-time.
So when Sherman tipped Colin Kaepernick’s pass to Mal-colm Smith for the game-clinching interception in the NFC title game, it didn’t just secure a Super Bowl berth for Seattle, it also set up one of the most intriguing Super Bowl match-ups in recent memory, a classic meeting of an unstoppable force and an immoveable object.
“We really embrace that, man,” Sherman said. “As a de-fense, we respect the heck out of Peyton Manning, but as a true competitor, as competitive as our team is, you wouldn’t
want to have it any other way. You want the best of the best, otherwise you don’t feel like you’re getting the biggest chal-lenge of your life. ... It’s just a competitive drive in you. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best. So that’s the only way it can go.”
And there is no arguing that this is a best-vs.-best matchup. Manning, whose career was in danger less than three years ago following multiple neck surgeries, established single-season records for passing yards (5,477) and passing touchdowns (55). He carved up opposing defense by spread-ing the ball around to a group of pass-catchers with diverse skill sets, ranging from a prototypical No. 1 receiv-er in Demaryius Thomas to a speedy slot receiver in Wes Welker to an athletic tight end in Julius Thomas. And of all the crazy stats the Broncos put up, the most stunning might be that they had four pass-catchers produce 10-plus touchdown seasons: Thomas, Thomas, Welker and Eric Decker. For a little perspective on how crazy that is, there were just nine other receivers and tight ends on the NFL’s 31 other teams to accomplish that feat.
So it’s no surprise that the Broncos are confident in their offense, no matter who is lined up across from them.
“They are the No. 1 defense,” Demaryius Thomas told reporters in Denver. “They have a great defense and we have a great offense. This is what you play for. I think we’ll be fine.”
Yet as confident as the Broncos may be, it’s safe to say they’ve yet to see anything quite like this Seattle defense, which didn’t just have the best pass defense in the league, but the best by a significant margin.
Seattle allowed 172.0 passing yards per game, 22.1 fewer than the No. 2 team. The Seahawks’ opponents’ passer rating of 63.4 is 10.8 points better than the next best team. The website FootballPerspective.com came up with a formula
to rate pass defense in a historical context by using adjusted net yards per attempt — meaning it factors in sacks, not just actual pass attempts — then factored in a standard deviation relative to the average pass defense that year, and came away with the conclusion that the Seahawks have the fourth-best pass defense since 1950 behind 2002 Tampa Bay, 1988 Min-nesota and the 1970 Vikings. Those ’02 Buccaneers won the Super Bowl, and it should be noted that Seahawks coach Pete Carroll was the defensive backs coach of the ’88 Vikings.
Seattle’s secondary deservedly saw three players, Sherman, Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor, earn Pro Bowl and All-
Pro honors, yet it’s safe to say they’ve yet to see anything quite like Denver’s offense.
But Seahawks fans might take comfort knowing that in the previous four Super Bowls to match the league’s No. 1 offense and No. 1 defense in terms of yards, the defensive team won three times. Not only is Denver’s offense talented, it’s also a challenge because Manning has so much freedom at the line of scrimmage, essentially serving as, as Sherman called him, “an offensive coordinator out there.”
“Nobody has ever taken more command of the game than he has at this stage of his career,” Carroll said. “And the coaching staff has allowed that to happen where he can be in total command of what’s going on.”
One thing Carroll and his defense know well is that stopping Denver’s passing game isn’t only about the players covering Manning’s targets. If the Seahawks can somehow generate a pass rush to disrupt Manning’s timing, they’ll be doing something few teams have this season. The Broncos al-lowed a league-low 20 sacks this season, 18 on Manning, and that number clearly isn’t a testament to Manning’s mobility.
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By John Boyle
Seeing as this is just the second Seahawks team to reach the Super Bowl, the comparisons are inevitable.
Throw in the fact that both this year’s squad and the 2005 team finished with 13-3 regular-season records and were the NFC’s No. 1 seeds, and it’s all but impos-sible to avoid the question.
Which team is better?Of course, if the cur-
rent team wins Super Bowl XLVIII, the debate is over. Become the first team in franchise history to win a title and you are indisputably the best. But until the final whistle blows Sunday, we’re left to speculate about which team is better, and just for fun, how the 2005 and 2013 teams would match up.
Unfortunately, the man perhaps best qualified to settle the debate has little interest in doing so. Mike Holmgren was the coach of the 2005 team, and has seen plenty of this season’s team serving as an analyst for Sports Radio 950 KJR. He even occasionally attends practice and chats with coach Pete Carroll. So if anyone knows which team is better, it’s Holmgren, right?
“I don’t like to make that comparison, honestly,” he said. “I’m emotionally at-tached to those guys and I love those players and I love those coaches and I think they accomplished a great deal that year.”
Even if he won’t pick a side, Holmgren concedes it’s a fun debate, particularly when it comes to wondering
how his offense would match up with this team’s defense.
“That’s a good bar discus-sion isn’t it, over a couple of beers?” he said. “I always thought we could compete against anybody. We had a good line, we had a good runner, we had a good quarterback, but this defense presents challenges really for any team.”
Indeed a fictitious ’05 vs. ’13 matchup seemingly would have a lot in com-mon with this year’s Super Bowl. While Holmgren’s team didn’t put up crazy passing numbers like this year’s Denver Broncos, those Seahawks did lead the NFL in scoring at 28.2 points per game, and had an incredibly efficient, balanced offense that featured a Pro Bowl quarterback in Matt Has-selbeck, an MVP running back in Shaun Alexander, and the best offensive line in franchise history.
By comparison, this year’s Seahawks led the NFL in fewest yards and fewest points allowed, as well as takeaways.
“I would hope we could function offensively against this defense, but I’m sure the defense on this team would say, ‘No way,’” Holmgren said.
While there are no players left from the 2005 team on Seattle’s roster, defensive assistant coach Marquand Manuel is perhaps the best person to assess both groups, having served as a starting safety on the 2005 team, and a defensive assistant coach on the current one.
“I joke about that a lot,” Manuel said. “I can say from
top to bottom this team is probably more talented than we were. We were good in the secondary, but we weren’t Kam and Earl and Sherm. Trufant in his prime was pretty good. But we played as a cohesive unit, and that’s one thing I tell these guys that they do a great job of, ‘Even though you have more talent than we did, continu-ing to play like a cohesive unit is going to be key.’”
As Holmgren noted, this is a better bar debate than seri-ous question, so in the spirit of that, crack open a drink and let’s get to a position-by-position breakdown.
Who would have the edge?
QuarterbackYou could give the advan-
tage to Russell Wilson for a lot of reasons, and to Matt Hasselbeck for plenty more. Wilson and Hasselbeck’s reg-ular-season numbers were strikingly similar, though you could argue Wilson’s are held back by the cautious offense he is in. Also, his mo-
bility gives him an added ele-ment Hasselbeck didn’t have. Yet while Wilson has hit a few bumps in the road late in the season, Hasselbeck went into the Super Bowl playing the best football of his career, throwing 12 touchdowns and one interception in six games leading up to the Su-per Bowl with passer ratings over 100 in each of those six games.
Edge: Draw
Running backsAgain, too close to call.
Shaun Alexander put up MVP numbers that year, but it’s hard to imagine Mar-shawn Lynch, who’s rugged style defines this team, wouldn’t have been able to do similar behind that line. Both were/are among the league’s best in their primes, yet are such different run-ners, style wise, it’s almost impossible to compare. This is a too-close-call battle even if you extend it to fullback, with both teams employing Pro-Bowl caliber players in Mack Strong and Michael Robinson.
Edge: Draw
Offensive lineThe biggest gap on offense
between the two teams, the ’05 squad featured an all-time great left side in Walter Jones and Steve Hutchinson, who were both All-Pro and Pro-Bowl selections that year, as well as Pro-Bowl center Robbie Tobeck. This year’s team, meanwhile, has a lot of talent, but has not being able to play consis-tently while battling through injuries at tackle and center, and season-long uncertainty at left guard.
Edge: 2005
Tight endZach Miller is one of
Seattle’s more underrated players, doing so much more as a blocker than his mod-est pass-catching numbers would indicate. Even so, Jer-ramy Stevens was incredibly productive in 2005, catching 45 passes for 554 yards while being one of Matt Hassel-beck’s most reliable targets (until the Super Bowl, any-way). One notable advantage
for this year’s team, however, is the productive No. 2 op-tion provided by rookie Luke Willson.
Edge: 2005
ReceiversIf only to add fuel to Doug
Baldwin’s fire, we’ll give the nod to the ’05 team, which the kind of depth (after Darrell Jackson returned from injury) and size in the form of Joe Jurevicius that this year’s group just doesn’t have. At full strength, this year’s receiving group, which is underrated as is, prob-ably would get the nod, but the lack of Sidney Rice and Percy Harvin makes a dif-ference.
Edge: 2005
SecondaryLike the offensive line on
the other side of the ball, this is a lopsided comparison. The ’05 team had talent on the backend, most notably Marcus Trufant at corner and Michael Boulware at safety, but this year’s second-ary is putting up historically
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Instead the Broncos rely on solid pass protection and, even more important, a quarterback who through years of experi-ence has learned precisely when to get rid of the ball and where to throw it.
The Seahawks added Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril to improve their pass rush, and it worked, with Seattle regis-tering 44 sacks this season, but even with a strong group of
pass-rushers, pressuring Manning, like stopping the entire Broncos offense, will be a challenge even for the league’s best defense.
“We have to be able to do everything,” Carroll said. “We have to be able to pressure him, we have to be able to play zone and man, do all of the things. Hopefully give him some new looks he can’t prepare for. We have to find a way to get him out of his normal rhythm. Very few teams have been able to do that. So it’s a big challenge.”
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Edge: 2013
LinebackersThe ’05 team had a solid group, led by Pro Bowler Lofa
Tatupu and fellow rookie Leroy Hill, but this year’s squad has more athletic playmakers across the board, and gets an added bump thanks to its depth. Heading into the Super Bowl, the Seahawks have essentially have four starters with three spots to play them.
Edge: 2013
Defensive lineAnother close call. The 05 squad featured 9.0-sack DE
Bryce Fischer, a beast inside in Rocky Bernard, and more strong play from Grant Wistrom and Marcus Tubbs, but this year’s team has insane depth, which is more important late in the year than ever. Michael Bennett might be the team’s most valuable defensive player outside of the secondary, yet he’s not even a starter. He, Cliff Avril and Chris Clemons give the Seahawks an abundance of pass rushers, while nose tackle Brandon Mebane has quietly had a Pro-Bowl caliber season, even if he wasn’t recognized for it.
Edge: 2013
Special teamsIt’s hard to quantify the overall impact of special teams,
but if you believe in the advanced statistics of websites like Footballoutsiders.com, this year’s team is considerably better than the 2005 squad. You can also single out the play of indi-viduals on this year’s team such as kicker Steven Hauschka, punter Jon Ryan, and special-teams ace Jeremy Lane.
Edge: 2013
OverallObviously we’ll never know how a game between these
teams would play out — unless somebody out there has a DeLorean with a flux capacitor — but on paper it seems like the differences between the two defenses, as well as the 2013 team’s edge on special teams, outweigh the close-calls on offense. The one thing we know for sure is that it would be fun to see an offensive guru like Mike Holmgren match wits with a defensive mastermind like Pete Carroll.
Edge: 2013
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The Renton School District is hosting a grand opening celebration for the new Meadow Crest Early Learning Center today, Friday. Residents are invited to come tour the brand new facility for children ages 3 to 5, talk to teachers and discuss new programs with staff and administrators. The open house runs from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., with a formal program and ribbon cutting set for 5:30 p.m. The Meadow Crest Early Learning Center is located at 1800 Index Ave. N.E. Above, workers install the school’s new electronic sign this past week. BRIAN BECkLEy, Renton Reporter
Grand Opening The school and its teachers had to make many changes and prepare curriculum and instruction to meet IB standards. The process usually takes a school five years, San Martin said.
One added bonus of their prepara-tion is that the IB preparation is align-ing teachers instruction with what the school has to do to get ready for Common Core standards. Common Core standards are reading and math benchmarks adopted by the state and are rolling out all across the country.
“So actually, the beauty about IB and the Common Core is that they are almost the same,” said San Martin. “Because the Common Core stan-dards have that international setting, that global perspective, so it’s very easy to align them.”
The move to the IB program is just one more step in a very intentional trajectory to give students at Renton High more opportunities. Under the
direction of former principal Damien Pattenaude, such programs as the Uni-versity of Washington’s Dream project, Washington State University’s Imagine U program and the state’s Navigation 101 were all brought to Renton.
The school has also sought to
increase the numbers of students enrolled in their Advanced Placement classes. They started with 29 students several years ago and have grown to a record 397 students in AP classes last year.
San Martin says her personal take on college readiness programs is that public school students should have the same opportunities as private school
students if the means are out there.“If public schools now have the abil-
ity to offer IB, why shouldn’t my kids receive that too?” she said. “So it’s a very strong issue of equity and access and giving them the best that there is in education.”
Renton High received a visit in November from a Canadian team representing the International Bac-calaureate Organization, which is headquartered in Cardiff, England.
School officials have been partner-ing with the Seattle School District to share information and gather feedback on the IB program. Seattle’s Rainier Beach, Chief Sealth and Ingraham high schools all have IB programs.
Recently Renton was awarded a total of more than $400,000 from the Executive Committee for the Road Map Region Race to the Top grant for work on their IB program and Seattle partnership.
First ‘Gamer Fest’ set for Feb. 8Renton Technical College will host “Gamer Fest” Feb. 8
on campus.The event is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and put on by the
Administrative Office Management program, RTC Gamers Club and the RTC Foundation.
There will be workshops, comic and game vendors, food trucks, guided tours, demonstrations, exhibits, a costume contest and a zombie photo booth. There will also be a Magic the Gathering tournament hosted by Uncle’s Games.
It’s the college’s hope that the event become an annual experience for the gamer community and a chance for visi-tors to explore the campus and its programs.
“We’re planning this as a large-scale outreach and social event, and intend to grow it to a signature event with our Puget Sound gaming and sci-fi communities over time,” said Heather Winfrey, foundation president.
Proceeds from the event benefit the college’s Basic Stud-ies Fund, which helps low-income students obtain their GED.
Speakers include representatives from the Bigfoot Re-search Field Organization, Northwest Paranormal Investi-gation Agency, Microsoft and Zaklabs.
Zombies will be on hand, courtesy of Seattle Thrillers and Rely on Renton will host the zombie photo booth.
Tickets to the festival are $5; the tournament is $25. For tickets and more information, visit www.RTC.edu.
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Renton ballers rally in the fourth to top HazenBy BRian Beckley
Despite a 12-point lead at the beginning of the final quarter of play, the Hazen boys basketball team fell 57-55 to the Renton Indians Friday in an intra-district rivalry game at Renton High School.
It was Hazen’s second loss of the year and the first loss to a Seamount League rival. Hazen is now 14-2 overall and 9-1 in the Seamount.
Renton improved to 8-7 overall and 7-3 in the Seamount with the win.
The Highlanders jumped out to a 17-10 after the first quarter, but the Indians rallied in the second to close the gap to 31-26 at halftime.
The third quarter was all Hazen, however, as the Highlanders outscored Renton 12-5 in the third frame.
But Renton roared back in the final quarter, outscoring Hazen 26-12 to secure a 2-point win.
Turnovers proved to be the problem for the Highlanders, as Hazen turned the ball over nine times in the fourth quarter and 22 times overall.
“They did a great job with their defensive pressure and we did not handle the adversity that faced us in the fourth quarter as we lost our composure,” said Hazen coach Ryan Thompson in an email.
Hazen’s Connor O’Hearn led all scorers with 21 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists. Isaiah Davis
added 12 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists while Dominic Green had 14 points, 5 blocks and 4 rebounds of his own.
Shaykiel Milord led the way for the Indians with 19 points and Jordan Holland added 15.
With the loss, Kennedy Catholic moved into a first-place tie with Hazen as both have a 9-1 league record.
Hazen took on Lindbergh Wednesday at home and travels to Foster today (Friday).
Renton played Foster on Wednesday at Foster and travels to Highline today (Friday).
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The first time Pete Carroll and John Schneider met, Carroll was the coach of a college juggernaut and Schneider was a young scout trying to get information on USC players.
As is so often the case in those situations, the coach wasn’t that eager to open the doors of his pro-gram to an outsider, especially one interested in scrutinizing the lives of the team’s best players.
“I give him crud that he gave me
the college-head-coaching hand-shake,” Schneider said, “You know, ‘Hey did you get everything you need today? OK.’ No, I didn’t get (anything).’”
Neither could have possibly known it at the time, but that would mark the informal beginning of a partnership that has turned the
Seahawks into a Super Bowl team four years after the two took over a franchise that had gone 9-23 over the previous two seasons.
When then Seahawks CEO Tod Leiweke brought Carroll and Schneider together, he described it as a “fantastic collaboration” that, quite frankly, sounded a little unrealistic in the cutthroat world of the NFL. While most NFL fran-chises have a coach who answers to a general manager, who in turn
answers to an owner, the Seahawks hired Carroll first, gave him the most power, then let the coach help hire the GM. That was the only way Carroll, who essentially had all the power at USC, was going to return to the NFL, and Seahawks owner Paul Allen and Leiweke accepted his terms.
That structure led to plenty of people thinking Schneider, who was 38 at the time of his hiring,
By BRian Beckley
And it is official: Lindbergh’s Andrew Franco-Munoz is an iron man.
Franco-Munoz last week swam a state-qualifying time in the 100-yard breaststroke and has officially qualified for every individual event at the state meet this year, including all four strokes at varying distances.
Known as the “iron man,” the feat shows a versatility in the pool that most swimmers do not have.
Franco-Munoz, 18, has been swimming since he was 8 years old. He is primarily a butterfly and freestyle sprinter and is only the second Lindbergh swimmer to accomplish the iron man in Coach Roger Miron’s 19 years with the team.
Lindbergh’s 200-yard medley relay team, which features Franco-Munoz in the butterfly leg, also broke the school record in the event last week by 1.5 seconds during a 103-83 victory over Kennedy. The record has stood since 1996.
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The Lindbergh Eagles wrestling team on Jan. 23 defeated Kennedy 43-31 to improve their overall and league record to a perfect 7-0.
The Eagles sit atop the Seamount League standings, followed by Hazen, with a 5-1 league record and a 7-1 record overall. Renton presently sits in third with a 3-2 league record.
In addition, Lindbergh placed third as a team Saturday at the River Ridge Rumble in Tumwater. Jayden Schwope (120 pounds), Trevonn Russell (195) and James Garcia (285) all won their weight classes. Colton Maddy (126) and Diego Gallegos (170) finished in second and Zach Goe (106) and Westerling Nugent (138) finished in third place to earn medals.
The Renton Indians wrestling team
also competed at the Rumble, finishing in fifth place as a team. Khali Crowl won his weight division for the Indians.
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Members of the Lindbergh and Renton wrestling teams pose for a photo at the River Ridge Rumble. Below, Khali Crowl of Renton kisses his championship belt. ViCKi Maddy, For the Renton Reporter
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would be something of an, um, “Underling?” he inter-rupts with a laugh. “Not that I remember reading that or anything.”
But instead, it became the perfect partnership that Lei-weke envisioned. Prior to the Seahawks overhauling things after the 2009 season, there was, as Leiweke described it, dysfunction in a franchise that didn’t have a coach and front office always seeing eye-to-eye. Mike Holmgren was originally hired as Seattle’s head coach and general manag-er, then later lost the GM title and ended up in something of an arranged marriage with Tim Ruskell. Holmgren won’t speak poorly of that setup — though Leiweke later would — but the former coach doesn’t deny the importance of a front office where everyone is on the same page.
“It’s absolutely essential if you want to get to the Super Bowl,” said Holmgren, who now works as an analyst for Sports Radio 950 KJR. “I suppose you can do it, but you’re battling things you shouldn’t have to battle. When you have a straight line running from your owner to the president through the general manager through the head coach, and everyone’s pointing in the same direction, and everyone’s rowing the boat in the same direction, you have a tremen-
dous advantage over a lot of teams. ... When you don’t have that, when too many people are worried about who gets the credit or who takes the blame — who drafted that player, he was my player — you have problems. You can see it every year around the league, and those teams just don’t have much of a chance.”
By letting Carroll hand-pick Schneider, a person he could work with to rebuild the Seahawks around his foot-ball philosophies, Allen and Leiweke helped create what has turned into the perfect front-office structure for the Seahawks.
“I think it’s absolutely the most crucial relationship and aspect of our program,” Carroll said of his partnership with Schneider. “All of the decisions that we make, we make together, and the fact that we communicate so well and we trust one another so much, it’s helped us throughout.
“We’ve done a lot of stuff, we haven’t just been quietly go-ing through with it, we’ve been very active and we’ll always be that way.”
As Carroll notes, the Seahawks have “done a lot of stuff ” since he and Schneider took over in 2010. Between the time they were hired to the end of the 2010 season, the Seahawks made 284 roster transactions. They kept going in 2011, and now, four years into what became almost a com-plete rebuild, the Seahawks will play in Super Bowl XLVIII with just four players who were on the roster Carroll and Schneider inherited: defensive end Red Bryant, defensive tackle Brandon Mebane, center Max Unger and punter Jon Ryan.
Reaching the Super Bowl is a huge accomplishment for any NFL franchise, but doing so four years into the process of so thoroughly tearing things down and building them back up is quite remarkable. Schneider and Carroll both believed this was possible, but also knew it was far from a given that their approach and the somewhat unorthodox structure at the top would produce a Super Bowl appear-ance.
“I think we believed we could do it, but this league, it’s so hard to win one game,” Schneider said. “... I think we just have a ton of respect for the league and how hard it is to get to where we are right now.”
Yet while Sunday’s Super Bowl is validation of the work Carroll and Schneider have done, it’s hardly the end game. This marriage, as Carroll has described it, is one that both expect to last.
Said Schneider: “We’re trying to get better every single day beyond this game because we want this to be a consis-tent championship-caliber team.”
Herald Writer John Boyle: [email protected].
Kennedy are:106 – Zach Goe (L) won by forfeit113 – Chad Omonaka (L) won by forfeit120 – Vinnie Sposari (K) pinned Aby Chufar, 3:05126 – Jayden Schwope (L) pinned Brady Moore, 2:10132 – Colton Maddy (L) pinned Spencer Mackenzie,
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Seitz said the city can only apply for a single phase of the project and will be re-questing $3 million for the design phase of the project, which he said is crucial because the new Central Sound Aerospace Training Center will be built near the north end of the project limit.
“We’d like to have good improvements up to that point,” he said Wednesday.
But the grant application will be compet-ing through the “very competitive” four county PSRC area, including King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap Counties, so Seitz said the city will also be entering the proj-ect in the PSRC’s county-wide competition as well.
Seitz said the regional grant takes prior-ity so the city won’t be eligible for both, but because the project is so important to the city, a secondary grant application is worth it, just in case.
Seitz said Renton is also asking for a $2
million grant to purchase right-of-way for work planned along Sunset Avenue. The city received grant money for the design phase of the project, which looks to create a Rainier Avenue-style boulevard with sidewalks and traffic-calming medians, but to move forward on the project, money is needed to begin to buy land around the street.
In addition, Seitz said a new trail is planned for the north side of Sunset.
In the countywide non-mo-torized category, which includes money for sidewalks and trails, Renton is also hoping to receive $600,000 for the right-of-way work for the Lake Washington Loop Trail, which runs the perimeter of the airport and will connect to the southern portion of the trail that runs along Logan Avenue in front of Renton Memorial Stadium.
Again, the city previously received grant
money for the design work and hopes this year to get moving on the construction, which should move bikers and walkers off of Perimeter Road on on to their own trail.
“Perimeter Road can sometimes get really busy, so we’re looking at separating that trail,” Seitz said.
Seitz also said the city will ap-ply for a $500,000 grant to begin design work on a “missing link of sidewalk” on 116th Avenue Southeast, as identified in the city’s Benson Hill Neighborhood Plan.
In the “Preservation” category, which is designed to help main-
tain current roadways, Seitz said the city is seeking money for work on Duvall Avenue North, a major north-south roadway that connects with Coal Creek Parkway to the north.
Seitz said the projects align with the City Council’s priority list, as drawn from the six-year Transportation Improvement Plan,
and also show an attempt to bring money to all parts of the city.
Seitz said there is usually a minimum city match of 20 percent of funding for federal grants and also added that when the money comes in, it comes with deadlines so the city has to be quick or they could lose it.
“We have to be ready to spend the money when we receive it,” he said.
Seitz said the city has a good shot at money, especially for Sunset Avenue and the Rainier corridor, both of which re-ceived funding last year.
“Those two projects, I think, are fairly high priority for the county,” he said.
He also said the loop trail has a good shot, but called the Benson Hill money a “longer shot” because of the location and the “missing link” nature of the project, but said he thought if the city did not get a grant, it could be re-submitted later in the year for a different round of calls for projects.
“Historically, the city has done very well at getting these projects funded,” he said.
Reach Editor Brian Beckley at 425-255-3484, ext. 5050
“Historically, the city has done very well getting these projects funded.” Planning and Programs supervisor for transportation Jim seitz
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LADIES stylish leather coat. Size 9, calf length, worn very little, like new, Retail $300-$400, selling $140. Please call Diane 4 2 5 - 8 8 5 - 9 8 0 6 a f t e r 12pm.
OAK Antique reproduc- tion oval curio cabinet. glass oval sides & front. 3 glass shelves, lighted 56 “ h x 32” x 13” w $65. Oak hall tree 440. 253- 859-3044
Stereo speakers, $40. Ladies Suede Jacket, Size: Small, Color: Plum, $20. Mic rowave $40. 425-885-9806 or 260- 8535. Call after noon.
W O O D W O R K I N G Tools: Refinished Hand P lanes, made in the USA. From the 1950s. Bailey Plane, 18”, $100. Stanley Plane, 9”, $50. 206-772-6856.
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Birds
SINGING CANARIES Hens & Males, also pairs $ 5 0 - $ 7 5 . R e d Fa c - tors/Glosters/Fifes & Re- cessive Whites. Also for slightly more, Timbra- dos & specialty colors Auburn, 253-833-8213 Unavailable on Satur- daysNeed extra cash? Place your classified ad today! Call 1-800-388-2527 or Go online 24 hours a day www.nw-ads.com.
Dogs
(5) MIN PIN Puppies. 6 weeks old. Tails docked, ears natural, Red color. $300 each. Can deliver. Call: 206-497-1248 or 360-808-4728
AKC Poodle Puppies Te a c u p s ; 5 G i r l s , Parti, Apricot, Choco- late, Black & Cream; 4 Boys, Parti, Choco- la te and Phantom. Darling Little Bundles Full of Love and Kiss- es. Reserve your puff o f l ove . 3 6 0 - 2 4 9 - 3612AKC Register GOLDEN Retriever puppies ready Fe b r u a r y 8 t h . G o o d bloodlines $700. par- en t s on s i t e . Sho ts , wormed. 509-575-4546 [email protected]
***AKC WESTIE PUPS* West Highland Whi te Terr iers. Males & fe- males, $1,000. Will take deposits. Call with any questions. You can’t go wrong w i th a West ie 360-402-6261
A K I TA P U R E B R E D P u p p i e s . C h a m p i o n bloodlines. Parents on site. 7 weeks old. Will have first shots and pup- py packet. 4 Females, 3 Males. Black & White; Black, Brindle & White and Brindle. $850 obo. Call Tony, 505-507-5581 or email:[email protected]
DA C H S H U N D P U P - PIES. Mini. Black and Tan , Dapp le . Fam i l y Raised, First Shots, Vet Checked and Wormed. Parents on site. $300 to $400. 253-653-8346
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MINI AUSSIEPurebred Pups, raised in family home, sweet par- ents, 1st shots, wormed, dew claws & tails done, many colors, $395 & up, [email protected]
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PUPPY KISSES FOR Sale! Bernese Mountain Dog cross puppies. Last two litters, only 5 days apart! Various colors, 5 puppies, choose your color today! 10 week old boys & girls! Super cute! Great family dogs! Both parents on s i te. Ca l l Christine for details $300 - $600. 360-858-1451. www.facebook.com/SeedMountainFarmwww.facebook.com/SeedMountainFarm
STANDARD POODLE AKC POODLE Standard Super sweet puppies, very intelligent & family raised! Two year health guarantee. Adult weight between 50 - 55 lbs. 12 puppies available. Ac- cepting puppy deposits now! $800 each. Please call today 503-556-2060.
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28’ BAYLINER FULLY stocked, ready to hop in & go! Must see in per- son, a steal at $15,000! Comparable boats this size w/equipment are in the $30,000 price range. Won’t last long, act quick before it’s gone! Serious offers will be considered. Also willing to entertain vehicle or property trade. Call Tony 785-320-1448.
Auto Events/ Auctions
ABANDONED VEHICLE AUCTION
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Pickup TrucksChevrolet
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Pickup TrucksDodge
2001 DODGE 1 TON Dually. 5.9 Turbo Diesel 3500, crew cab. Upgrad- ed Laramie pkg. Many after market items & only 134,000 miles. Extreme- ly nice cond! $15,500. Snohomish. For sale by owner, cal l Max 206- 660-8034.
Pickup TrucksFord
1 9 9 0 B L AC K F O R D F150 XL pickup truck for sale. 2 wheel drive, Tires are 31x10.50’s on Ultra wheels (need cleaning), tires in excellent cond. Repainted 5 years ago & engine replaced (July ‘03) at 71,186 miles by Whidbey Is land Ford. Stock 302, V8 fuel inject- ed! Twin gas tanks and cruise control. Canopy is 4 years old w/ bed liner. Runs Great! Very de- pendable. 29,619 miles on new engine. Have all receipts since I bought in 2001. Odometer reads 00805. $3,500 Firm. Call or text 360-320-8390.
Pickup TrucksFord
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Sport Utility VehiclesJeep
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