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By SHAWN SKAGER
Auburn High School’s gymnasium resounded with the rapid fire, click-clack of plastic stacking cups last Saturday, as competitors from throughout the Western States and Canada, including Hazen High School, pitted their skills
against one another in the Northwest Regional Sports Stacking Championships.For the past nine years, regional stackers have vied for world, national and
personal-record times in various events, all featuring timed stackings of a set of 12 uniformly-sized cups, placed upside down on a flat surface, stacked in one of three configurations and disassembled quickly. The goal is to complete a stacking cycle in as little time as possible.
Winners at the regional competition earn a berth in the U.S. Sport Stacking Asso-ciation’s National/Kansas City Open championships on March 29 in Kansas City, Mo. From there, stackers can take it to the next level at the WSSA World Sport Stacking Championships on April 26 in Jeonju, South Korea.
For the past seven years, Hazen High School has fielded a team composed of spe-cial needs students in the special stackers division.
Last Saturday, keyed by 19-year-old Pierce Harris – world record holder in the 3-6-3 and cycle events – Brittney Drebert – world record holder in the pairs 3-6-3 and cycle events – and Jesse Choi and Manuel Bettencourt, the team won its division’s head-to-head relay competition.
Although the accolades, ribbons and trophies are all part of the fun, special educa-
Hazen students compete at ninth annual regional sports stacking competition
Hazen Gold team member Jesse Choi, right, competes in the team relay event at the World Sport Stacking Association 2014 Northwest Regional Championships this past Saturday at Auburn High School. SHAWN SkAgeR, Auburn Reporter
City, PSE at odds over $34,000
By BRiAN BECKlEy
The work to widen Garden Avenue North and realign the intersection with Logan are complete, but the City of Renton is still wrangling with Puget Sound Energy over $34,000 the city says PSE owes for part of the project the city believes should have been the responsibility of the energy purveyor.
The money is part of a $200,000 increase in the project budget that was recently ap-proved by the City Council.
According to Public Works Administra-tor Gregg Zimmerman, a series of delays on the Garden Avenue project, includ-ing changes to the design to allow new sidewalks to connect with the planned Highlands to Landing trail, changes in
Renton says the money is owed over delays to a construction project
FAA cancels tower lease, but plans to stayBy BRiAN BECKlEy
Last year, during the federal government sequestration, the City of Renton fought with the Federal Aviation Administra-tion over keeping the Renton Municipal Airport tower open.
Funding was secured and the tower, which houses FAA air-traffic control staff, remained open.
But this spring, a new wrinkle has ap-
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Luther’s Table will host an art show opening reception for a joint project between St. Matthew Lu-theran Church’s Breakfast Club and Art With Heart Friday, March 14.
The event is 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Luther’s Table, 419 S. Second St., Suite 1, Renton.
Katrina Sather, a program facili-tator for Art With Heart, led teens and ‘tweens in creative expression workshops from September to ear-lier this month. The students, who drop into St. Matthew’s late school start breakfast program, produced 11 pieces of art that will be on display at Luther’s Table through March 25.
The project is “less about art and more about helping them express themselves creatively,” said Sather.
Art With Heart is a Seattle non-profit that uses creative expression tools to help children overcome trauma.
About eight to 12 Renton kids participated in the project. St. Matthew facilitates their breakfast program for kids in the area, who typically attend McKnight Middle School.
Students painted, did creative writing and visualization exercises, collage and worked with mixed media.
“We really don’t focus on having end products, but we celebrate everything that they’ve worked through,” said Sather.
Students were guided through the therapeutic journal “Chill & Spill,” which is published by Art With Heart. Mental health clini-cians and life coach therapists pro-vide the content for the non-profits’ books. The participatory workshops are designed to help students find healing, develop coping skills and build self-confidence.
“We really do like to have shows like what Luther’s is offering us, so the kids can display their work,”
said Sather.All the student participants have
been invited, along with the public,
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Students exhibit self-expression at Luther’s Table
Renton students produced various forms of creative expression like this piece to make up the “Chill and Spill” art exhibit at Luther’s Table until March 25. SubMiTTed
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The Emergency Feeding Pro-gram of Seattle and King County now has a new home at The Land-ing in Renton.
The organization is moving from its current space, which is in the former Green Fresh Market building off of Rainier Avenue, to the new facility at 851 Houser Way N. The program presently has a two-year lease at that space with St. Vincent de Paul, owner of the building, that expires the beginning of April.
The Emergency Feeding Pro-gram supplies about 2,500 bags of food, from 14 different variet-ies, designed to feed families for multiple days. The program reports that it distributed 26,146 emergen-cy grocery bags, serving more than 70,000 individuals in 2009.
The new lease is for five years with a 15-year option and allows the Emergency Feeding Program
more space. Their current location is a little more than 7,500 square feet, while the new location is more than 9,000 square feet.
“This organization has moved several times in its existence; we looked at it from a financial stand-point,” said Glenn Turner, interim executive director. “What would be more realistic for us in a long term situation and Renton welcomed us with open arms and we worked with the city. We’ve worked with the owner of the building, which is Merlino Construction and they provided us with a good opportu-nity.”
The Emergency Feeding Pro-gram will hold an open house at their new location from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., April 12. All the program’s supporters, donors, volunteers and community partners have been invited.
For more information on the Emergency Feeding Program, visit www.emergencyfeeding.org or call 206-329-0300.
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The Friends of Renton Schools Foundation will host an all-day fundraising concert March 22 to support music programs in the Renton School District.
The event is from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at The Landing, 828 N. 10th Place, Renton.
The group’s goal is to raise $10,000 to improve programs and make music more accessible to more students. This is the second annual March Music Month in support of the district’s music programs.
Friends of Renton Schools is a non-profit organization managed by community and business volun-teers and dedicated to raising funds for education in Renton Schools.
The all-day concert will feature 15 musical acts from Hazen, Rent-on and Lindbergh high schools as well as Sierra Heights Elementary
School and Nelsen, Dimmitt and McKnight middle schools.
“Every student can benefit from the experiences, education and lifelong enjoyment that singing in a choir or learning an instrument provides,” said Brian Hoskins in a press release. He is the choral conductor for Lindbergh High and Nelsen Middle schools.
The foundation is also collecting gently-used musical instruments at the event.
For more information, visit www.friendsofrentonschools.org.
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American with Disabilites Act standards during the project and unexpected soil conditions where light poles were to be placed also contributed to the overrun.
But among the costs is the money the city is seeking from PSE regarding over-head power lines that the city had to raise as part of the project.
According to Zimmerman, the 15-year franchise agreement the city signed with PSE in 2000 includes the recognition that the city owns the rights-of-way in which PSE power lines are placed. In addition, the agreement says that PSE is required to make and pay for the revisions to lines in the right-of-way “in a timely manner and without cost to the city” as not to cause delays to their projects.
Zimmerman said the project required the movement of two power poles and the raising of power lines to accommodate lights in a different section of the project.
As required, the city notified the en-ergy purveyor in 2010 and the company responded in writing to say they would complete the work.
But when crews were sent out, only the power poles were moved. The wires were not raised.
In 2012, Zimmerman said the city once again brought the topic to PSE’s attention, even having a meeting on-site and explain-ing that it was nearing a point where the lines were going to affect the rest of the project and its deadlines and budget.
According to Zimmerman, PSE told the city it had to redesign the work.
But the project manager on the job said
they were out of time and had to move the works themselves.
Once that was completed, Zimmerman said PSE assumed they were off the hook for the work, but that was not the case.
“The budget had already been negatively impacted,” he said, adding that the city had to take matters into its own hands for the sake of completing the larger project.
The city sent the $34,000 claim to PSE in December. The company responded in a letter dated Dec. 11, 2103, rejecting the claim and stating PSE is not responsible for the costs.
Zimmerman said the city disagrees and is pursuing an “informal appeal” with PSE
adding that the city believes “they missed something” when reviewing the franchise agree-ment.
“We’re saying ‘We think you guys owe us for this one,’” he said.
Zimmerman said the dispute was “not a huge deal” and cited a
“generally good relationship with PSE.”Ray Lane, a spokesman for PSE, also
cited a strong relationship with the city and said in an email that “Things are still in movement” regarding the repayment.
“PSE has a very good working relation-ship with the City of Renton,” Lane said. “Every now and then, disagreements happen, and this is one we are actively working to resolve.
“We’re taking a close look at the situ-ation and what actions can be taken,” he said.
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“We’re saying ‘We think you guys owe us for this one.” Gregg Zimmermann, Public Works administrator
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Puget sound energy is hosting a series of sub-area committee meetings and workshops this spring regarding plans to install new transmission lines on one of two routes through Renton.The sub-area committee will meet from 6:30 to 9 p.m. March 27, April 24 and May 15 at Renton Technical College to discuss the project.Sub-area committee members will share their findings with the larger Community Advisory Group , who will make a route recommendation to PSE later this year. PSE will ultimately make the final route decision.
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peared as the FAA in January told the city it did not plan to renew its lease at the airport to pay for utilities and janito-rial services at the tower, but planned to keep its employees working at the facility.
“We’re having a little disagreement,” said Airport Man-ager Ryan Zulauf this week.
According to Zulauf, the city owns the tower building, but the FAA has traditionally leased the space for its em-ployees, which are provided by a private company. Instead, the FAA now wants a “tower operating agreement” under which the city pays for the services.
Zulauf said the airport does accept federal money and therefore agrees to provide space for federal facilities on site, including a weather station on the east side of the air-port, but Zuluaf said that should not include the tower.
“Land is not the same thing as a building,” he said.Zulauf said the city is looking to a similar situation in
Lynchburg, Va., which “pushed back” against the FAA and was resolved with a new, three-year lease signed Dec. 23, 2013.
According to Lynchburg Regional Airport Director Mark Courtney, their situation was slightly different. Lynchburg agreed to pay to keep their tower open during the sequestration as the federal government worked out funding to keep the tower open. Then, his airport worked out a new lease with the FAA at their tower, but the city will pay for custodial and utility costs, which the FAA pays for space.
However, Courtney said language in the law states that airports do not have to pay for FAA space usage. But he also cautioned that all airport tower leases are different.
“If you’ve seen one airport lease, you’ve seen one,” he said.
The lease at Renton Municipal is worth about $28,000 per year to the city.
Calls for comment to the FAA’s Northwest Mountain region office were not returned in time for this story.
Reach Editor Brian Beckley at 425-255-3484, ext. 5050
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It is becoming clearer what new laws will emerge from the two-month legislative session set to end Thursday night.
For those keeping count, 11 had been added to the books as of Wednesday afternoon with dozens of bills still to be sent to Gov. Jay Inslee for his signing in the coming weeks.
Not every piece of legislation earns a head-line. Here are a few that have, and have not.
• Maximum Funblock for Minors: Teenag-ers are barred from using tanning beds unless they have a prescription from their doctor for a few doses of artificial sun. And if you look 17 or younger, prepare to show a photo ID in order to use the equipment.
• Left Turns on Red: It’s going to be legal for motor-
cyclists soon. If a motorcycle does not trigger a traffic light to change and the rider waits through a full cycle of the signal, they can run it.
• No Peeking: Unmanned aerial systems, AKA drones, will keep flying overhead. But city, county and state law-enforcement agencies can’t equip them with a “extraordinary sensing device” to track people below for an investiga-tion without a warrant.
• Vino to Go: Growlers aren’t just for beer drinking. Owners of Washington wineries will soon be able to sell growlers and kegs of wine at their tasting rooms. Customers can also bring in their own growler for a fill up.
• Gin and Tonic, Hold the Rummy: Nonprofit senior centers can soon add Happy Hour to
their list of daily activities. Centers can obtain a liquor license to sell spirits, wine and beer every day as long as they offer some food service. Until now, centers needed to buy a special oc-casion license if they wanted to sell booze at a specific event.
• Keep Your Plates, Please: The requirement to replacing license plates every seven years is ending. Now, plates will change when the own-ership of a vehicle changes, although the new owner can apply to keep them.
• And Speaking of Plates: Backers of breast cancer research and Seattle University will be able to show support with a license plate. Sales of the breast cancer awareness plate will aid the state Department of Health’s breast, cervical, and colon health programs. Seattle University will use proceeds it collects for student scholar-ships for current and incoming students.
• Made in Washington: A bivalve mollusk and a waterfall are getting added to the honor roll of official state icons. Lawmakers desig-nated the Ostrea lurida, commonly called the Olympia oyster, as the official oyster and the Palouse Falls as the official waterfall.
• The Fine Print: Collective bargaining agree-ments between school districts and their teach-ers must be posted online starting this fall and updated whenever revisions are made. Many districts already do this but may need to high-light it better on their websites. Also, budget information on funding of Associated Student Body programs must be posted for all to see.
Political reporter Jerry Cornfield can be reached at 360-352-8623 or [email protected].
Is the Puget Sound region – home to more than 4.5 million people – adequately prepared for a disaster?
That’s a tough one to answer comprehensively, many emergency preparedness experts admit.
While the “big one” may be tricky to predict, experts know for certain that the region is prone to natural disasters.
And that for the Seattle area, fractured as it is with fault lines, earthquakes top the list.
Overlooking the valley, mighty Mount Rainier has been dormant since its last erup-tion around 1100 AD. But its activity – com-bined with its proximity to Seattle and Tacoma – makes any eruption there one of the most dangerous in the world, according to the Inter-national Association of Volcanology and Chem-istry of the Earth’s Interior’s Decade Volcano list.
Such potential events concern Dr. Stephen Flynn of Northeastern University, a profes-sor and one of the world’s experts on disaster resilience. Dealing with disaster is sort of his business, a source of his intense study.
Flynn recently visited Seattle to talk with local leaders about the region’s readiness for a
catastrophic event. Flynn, now leading a major study in the aftermath of SuperStorm Sandy that will be presented to Congress and the Obama administration, is solicit-ing responses to his study from leaders throughout the country.
Upon his review, Flynn says, Puget Sound area leaders are paying attention to the warn-ing signs, but concludes the region and notably its residents are no more fully prepared to deal with a disaster than are other parts of the country. Outside of emergency management professionals, too few of us spend any time considering how prepared our communities are, Flynn noted.
“Your emergency management community is about as on top of it as anywhere in our country in terms of understanding the kinds of risk and working to prepare for those risk,” Flynn said. “(But) your area, like much of the country, is not where it needs to be.
“Increasingly, as citizens, we expect the professionals to take care of this. . . . When something goes wrong, we pay for emergency managers . . . fire and police . . . they’re sup-posed to fix this stuff,” Flynn said.
“The reality is . . . it certainly came through from the Katrina and Sandy experiences … that the first-responders are almost always your family, your neighbor or the stranger near you. There’s not enough professionals around,” Flynn said.
Flynn said he believes the lessons learned from SuperStorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina can help our region better prepare for such an event.
But it remains a challenge.While cities, such as Renton, are equipped
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to mobilize in the event of a more isolated flood or mudslide, the region as a whole needs to better prepare for a widespread disaster.
Flynn hopes the country, region by re-gion, broadens its commitment to become better prepared for these events, both in terms of negating the risks and recovering quickly from a crisis.
It’s not a matter of “if ” disaster strikes
but when, Flynn says.“It will happen. We will have a major di-
saster in the Puget Sound area. It is almost certainly going to be a major earthquake,” he said. “I state that out front because to the larger extent . . . every part of our country has gone through a disaster.
“We wait until they happen, and we cope well when they happen. . . . But what we know is they are less frequent than we often presume them to be, and there’s a lot more we know about them now and what we can do about them in terms of reducing their impact.”
Regions need to be better prepared for a disaster, considering the geographical dependency on infrastructure, the power grid, water, communication and extended transportation, Flynn cautioned.
The Seattle region is a global leader in technology and advanced manufactur-
ing, as well as a major military hub that depends on the reliable operation of critical infrastructures in the energy, transporta-tion, communications and IT sectors. A major disaster has the potential to en-danger millions of lives and cause major disruptions to our communities and busi-nesses, as well as undermine the capacity for the U.S. military to carry out its national security mission, Flynn noted.
“(For instance) Seattle and Tacoma are the umbilical cord to Alaska in terms of all its logistical needs,” he said. “If you get knocked down, then Alaska will feel it.”
But, in the aftermath of a disaster, we somehow recover.
“I can always find things that I wished we had done up front to basically reduce the mayhem that was caused. But I often always marvel at our capacity to work our way through these things and get back on
our feet,” Flynn said. “My message is we just try to do both. We should spend equal measure and efforts to anticipate and pre-pare and reduce the cost of these events as well as pat ourselves on the back about how quickly we bounce back.”
Beyond the professional community, residents need to take more personal responsibility in emergency prepared-ness. Not everyone is risk literate, Flynn acknowledges, but it’s a civic duty for those who are physically able to become trained, ready and willing to help their neighbors in times of trouble.
“They will almost certainly happen,” Flynn said of disasters, man-made or natural. “We just hope they don’t happen tomorrow.”
Mark Klaas is editor of the Kent Reporter. He can be reached at 253-872-6600.
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Renton seniors can enjoy a free breakfast cooked by the Knights of Columbus Renton Council this week-end at the Renton Senior Activity Center.
The Knights’ 29th annual Renton breakfast will feature pancakes, eggs, sausages, fruit and assorted beverages. The meal runs from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 15.
The annual breakfast, pre-pared and served by Knights of Columbus volunteers from St. Anthony and St. Stephen the Martyr Par-ishes, honors seniors for the many ways they contribute to making Renton a great community to live. The Knights of Columbus have served the annual breakfast for more than 20 years.
“We do this breakfast as part of our mission to serve the community,” said Miguel Quiroz, Grand Knight of the Knights of Council at St. Anthony Parish, in a press release. “It is usually on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day and is a fun time for attendees and volunteers.”
Dan Kellogg, longtime Estate Attorney in Renton and Kent, www.dankellogg.com, contributed funding for the food for the event, as he has done for the prior two years. The Knights of Columbus thanks him for this support.
The Knights of Colum-bus is a Catholic, Fraternal, Family, Service organiza-tion with nearly 1.7 million members worldwide www.kofc.org. In Renton, the Knights of Columbus also helps at the ARISE homeless men’s shelter, supports St. Vincent de Paul, raises funds for Special Olympics of Washington and for needy Haitian chil-dren and assists with other charitable works.
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“We started the team trying to find something to get the kids engaged in so they could feel like they were part of the school,” she said. “And it’s something that works both sides of the brain, as well as hand-eye coordination, so we’ve seen a lot of improvement in their focus.”
Atkinson added:“The best thing is we’ve seen them grow
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Gong! Renton’s craziest talent contest returns Saturday for third go-aroundBy TRACEy COMPTON
Local band the Hi-Speed Wobblies will present “The Renton Gong Show 3” at DeLancey’s on Third this Satur-day in downtown Renton.
The talent show is 9 p.m. at the lounge at 810 S. Third St.Mike Moscowitz, Mark Embry and Mark Arnold de-
cided six months ago that the city needed to have a gong show for people who think they don’t have talent or who
have an unusual skill. Former owner of the Renton shop Happy Delusions, Mary Clymer, is also a co-collaborator.
The previous shows have been well attended and the event has raised a couple hundred dollars for the Renton Food Bank, the chosen charity, according to the organizers.
“Everybody’s got something and this is the kind of place where they can let unknown gifts be known to the world,”
said Moscowitz.Past acts have included comedians, music acts, magic
tricks and little skits. Hosts break the performers up into two heats of the best of the best and the best of the worst.
And like the old TV show, if an act is really terrible it gets the gong and the audience is encouraged to let their feelings about the acts be known, said Moscowitz.
At the first Renton Gong Show, a woman inflated a bal-loon while playing a didgeridoo and throwing a dart in the air. She won that show.
Another winner from a previous show was a man play-ing a unique, sad song on an accordion. Once a quartet of women sang The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army.”
There are raffle tickets and prizes of gift certificates to area restaurants like the Local 907. There are also unusual found object prizes and gift certificates for the winner of the talent show.
For more information, call DeLancey’s on Third at 206-412-9516.
Mike Moscowitz Judges prepare the gong during a previous incarnation of the Renton Gong Show, returning Saturday at Delancy’s on Third. SubmiTTeD
The Community Gar-den Compost Drive event kicks off this weekend in King County.
Five Renton gardens will benefit from the Big Garden Give that allows King County residents the opportunity to give back to local community gardens and feed those in need.
The campaign is a partnership by King County, Waste Manage-ment, Cedar Grove and Seattle Public Utilities. Participating in the proj-ect requires residents to go online from March 15 to April 15 and donate a
bag of compost or pledge to compost. Cedar Grove will match each coupon used and each online bag donation with one bag of compost to a community garden benefiting low-income communities.
Gardening experts from the Master Recycler Composter East Program and representatives from the Just Garden Project will be at the Maple Val-ley Fred Meyer from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., March 22 at 26520 Maple Valley Black Diamond Road S.E.
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By DEAN A. RADFORD
Blood running down his mouth, a 49-year-old Renton man flagged down an officer on Renton Center Way on March 1 to report he had just been
assaulted by three men.The men’s car was just
turning onto Rainier Avenue South, but the of-ficer caught up with them. A woman was in the car with them.
The victim and the woman had just broken off their engagement. He was “jumped” by the three men in the car in the parking lot and kicked and punched. She was getting a ride to her new residence.
Only one of the men openly admitted to assault-ing the victim, whom he said was carrying a key and he feared for his safety, so he defended himself.
One of the men in the car, who is homeless, had objected to the men getting out of the car because he needed to go to the mosque to pray.
Three dogs charge woman and children
A 40-year-old Renton mother grabbed her three children and pushed them behind her March 3 when they were charged by three dogs while walk-ing in the Highlands.
She feared they would get bit by the dogs, described as similar to a black Labrador and two
Stafford Terriers.A woman driving by stopped and honked in an
effort to scare away the dogs. A neighbor heard the barking and took the dogs to a nearby house on Ed-monds Avenue Northeast and closed the front door.
A few days later, officers contacted the residents of the house where the dogs were taken. One told the officer two of the dogs were with her when the incident occurred.
The victim identified two of the dogs. She told officers the dogs had approached her before and she reported this incident because she feared the dogs would bite her children.
One resident was cited for violating leash laws and the second was cited for not licensing the Labrador.
Magazine vendor caught stealing on the job
A magazine vendor walked through Walmart on March 6, restocking racks from a shopping cart filled with magazines, occasionally stopping to look at other merchandise.
She caught the attention of a store security officer.In the electronics department, she placed a DVD
into a disposable Walmart bag in the baby section of the cart. She walked on, restocking racks near the front of the store.
As she worked, the 26-year-old woman placed three packs of lighters into the bag as well as an-other item. She walked to a stock room and when she left, she picked two pairs of sweat pants, which she concealed under a blue jacket.
She walked from the store, with the stolen items concealed and magazines still in the cart. A police officer arrested her and booked her into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of third-degree theft. The stolen items were worth about $327. She was trespassed from Walmart for a year.
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Renton firefighters climb tower to fight leukemia
Eleven of the 19 members of Renton’s team pose for a photo. Below, one of the climbers wears a photo of Deputy Chief Art Larson. Photos CouRtesy Lt. NeiL sAmueLseN
Nineteen members of the Renton Fire Department made the trek up the Columbia Center’s 1,311 steps on Sunday to help raise money for the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
So far, Renton firefighters have raised more than $23,000 to fight the disease.
This year, like last year, the depart-ment’s team climbed the stairs in hon-or of retired Deputy Chief Art Larson, who lost his battle with the disease in January 2013. Larson served with the department for 33 years before retiring in 2006.
All of the department’s members completed the climb, which totals 69 stories and 788 vertical feet.
Renton’s top finisher was Josh Brown, who completed the climb in 14:44 minutes to finish 48th out of 1,653 climbers.
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In re the Estate of: DARRELL ALLEN WILSON, Deceased.NO. 14-4-01289-3 KNT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise appli- cable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attor- neys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the No- tice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is for- ever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and
11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate assets and nonprobate assets.DATE OF FIRST PUBLICA- TION: March 13, 2014.PR: JUDY KAY WILSONPETER W. MOGREN WSBA #11515 Of MOGREN, GLESSNER & ROTI P.S.Attorneys for Personal Representative100 Evergreen Bldg.; PO Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542King County Superior CourtCause No. 14-4-01289-3 KNT Published in Renton Reporter on March 14, 2014, March 21, 2014 and March 28, 2014. #1009325.
In the CIRCUIT COURT for the STATE OF OREGON in and for the COUNTY OF DESCHUTESPENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC, its successors in interest and/or assigns, Plaintiff,
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Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King
In re the Estate of: DELORES MATTHAI, Deceased.NO. 14-4-01105-6 KNT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise appli- cable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attor- neys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim withthe Court in which the probate
proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the Notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is for- ever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate assets and nonprobate assets.Date of first publication: February 28, 2013.PR: MORGAN MATTHAIPETER W. MOGREN WSBA #11515 Of MOGREN, GLESSNER & ROTI P.S.Attorneys for Personal Representative100 Evergreen Bldg.;P O Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542King County Superior CourtCause No. 14-4-01105-6 KNTPublished in the Renton Reporter on February 28, 2014, March 7, 2014, March 14, 2014. #993646.
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By TRACEy COMPTON
Renton teen Austin Buza is headed to the United States of America Snowboard Association’s National Championships in Copper Mountain, Colo., at the end of March to com-pete against the top teens in the nation in snowboard-ing.
Sixteen-year-old Buza has been snowboarding since age 4 and has high hopes. The competition is the first national showcase on a road that could lead to the Winter X-Games. The sophomore at Hazen High School will test his best tricks and style against 70 other snowboarders in the slopestyle competition at nationals. Slopestyle is a course of rails and jumps.
“I was excited at first and then I thought about actu-ally going and competing against other kids, who are pretty good too,” said Buza. “And so I do actually have some competition.”
He had competition lo-cally, Buza said, but realized the field of boarders gets tougher at nationals.
“I just got to focus and become prepared,” he said. “There’s not really a ritual to doing anything; it’s just going there and thinking about what you have to do and practice every week-end.”
Buza spends about every weekend and Wednesdays driving up to Snoqualmie or Stevens Pass to practice with his mom, Sharon Buza.
The two have formed a special bond around the sport, as his mother was the first to introduce him to snowboarding and his earli-est instructor. She tried to get him on skis first, but he wanted nothing to do with them, she said. She spotted a gentleman at Stevens Pass with a 99 Chopper, a little snowboard big enough for her 4-year-old son, and she got one.
She tried putting Buza in a lesson, but he didn’t like that and so she, an avid snowboarder herself, be-come his first teacher. She set up an obstacle course of water bottles and gloves for him to board through and find his edges. Eventually, he became good enough to
use the chair lift and it was practice, practice, practice after that, she said.
“I do remember crying a lot and falling,” said Buza. “I remember me being on her back and her carrying me up the hill.”
Buza was spotted by Snoqualmie instructor and coach Phil Thomas and rec-ognized by him for having real potential in Thomas’ lessons. Buza began competing around age 11. He placed third in his first competition at the Green-horn Games in February 2010 at the Summit at Sno-qualmie. Then he placed first in two consecutive trips to the Minor Threat competition at Stevens Pass in 2011 and 2012.
For Buza, snowboarding has always been just for fun, although he’s naturally talented at it. He didn’t get
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serious about it until he qualified for nationals, he said.
His fanciest tricks are his 720, which is twice around, and a cork flip. He admires and appreciates top snow-boarders like Mark Mc-Morris and stunts like the triple cork, which is three flips.
Buza hopes to get in lots of practice time be-tween now and March 29, when nationals start at Copper Mountain. He will compete on Wednesday, April 2. His mom and dad, Peter, will be in Colorado cheering him on.
Sharon Buza said she knows she’ll miss their trips to the mountains together once her son goes off to college.
“It’s just awesome; it’s something that we can do together,” she said. “We go to the mountain; we talk in the car. You know to be up there to do something together, it’s a closeness that we share.”
Buza will be judged on the difficulty of his tricks, his style and amplitude, or height, and whether he sticks his landings.
“I’m nervous a little bit just knowing that these kids are actually pretty good too,” he said. “I just have to do what I do, concentrate on what I have to do to win.”
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