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Lucille Crozier, receptionist for the Renton Chamber of Commerce, has had a view to history for 20 years from the chamber offi ce that overlooks the Renton Municipal Airport, where every 737 has made its maiden voyage. DEAN A. RADFORD, Renton Reporter

Chamber on the move

The Flood of 1911

“Instead, the bells heralded a potentially lethal situa-tion – announcing a day of terror for Rentonians living in the lower parts of the city.”

“We see a lot of value in being in downtown Renton and feel our presence there will make a statement to businesses and the community that we have confi dence in the downtown core and belong there.”

Renton’s coin shop

“Well, [gold and silver]are really important right now because they’re helping keep people’s portfolios balanced and the people that are selling it need money.”

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“I started running way back in the 60’s, back then nobody ran, except weirdos.”

Aidan Zorich, 4, of Kent buys a bouquet of fl owers for his grandma Barbara Zorich, Tuesday, the last day of the 10th season of the Renton Farmers Market at the Piazza. CHARLES CORTES, Renton Reporter

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Benson Hill Elementary School has re-committed to procedures to get kids on the right school bus, aft er two 5-year-olds were left stranded on a busy highway Sept. 16.

Th e incident also led the Renton School District to examine its trans-portation procedures districtwide.

But the incident involving the

Benson Hill kindergartners was an “anomaly” said a district spokes-person.

“Th is was an anomaly. Like I said, 10,000 kids got home that day safely,” said the spokesman, Randy Matheson. It was “not a system-wide failure, just that bus on that day,” he said.

Th e two fi ve-year-olds at Benson Hill Elementary were put on the

Benson Hill re-commits to its bus-rider protocols

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Mayor Denis Law, left, and NBA star Jamal Crawford dedicate the Jamal Crawford Court Saturday. CHARLES CORTES, Renton Reporter

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Renton dedicated the re-furbished basketball courts at Liberty Park Saturday, recognizing the contribu-tion of NBA star Jamal Crawford that helped make the work possible.

Crawford, who spent his early childhood and youth in Renton, spent count-less hours at the Liberty Park court, developing his basketball skills.

The donation from the Jamal Crawford Foundation was more than $50,000 to refurbish the now-called Jamal Crawford Court. The donation also will help with maintenance.

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Arlene Roberts, an 80-year-old widow, was found dead more than 30 years ago in her trailer at the Lakeshore Manor Mobile Home Park on Lake Washington.

Last week, a 50-year-old man was charged in her homicide after his arrest in Reno, Nevada, by cold-case detectives with the King County Sheriff ’s Department.

Ronald Wayne MacDonald is be-ing held in a Reno jail on $2 million bail.

An extradi-tion hearing is planned; his first court apperance in King County is

Oct. 6, unless he fights extradition.MacDonald is in jail because of

advances in fingerprint analysis.“DNA gets all the attention,” said

Sheriff Sue Rahr. “But other ad-vances, including fingerprint iden-tification via AFIS, solve crimes as well. It is very gratifying to finally solve the murder of an 80 year-old woman, thanks to AFIS and great detective work.

Roberts was found dead on Oct. 28, 1978, in her trailer at the mobile home park at 11448 Rainier Ave S. in Bryn Mawr, where she lived

alone. No one had seen her for several days, so neighbors checked on her, according to Sgt. John Urquhart, a spokesman for the Sheriff ’s Office, who outlined the case in a news release Friday.

Roberts’ hands and feet were tied with nylon stockings and there was a gag in her mouth. A hair net was tightened around her neck. The trailer was ransacked.

A King County Police spokes-man said at the time there was little hard evidence in the case, although detectives thought robbery was a motive, according to a short story in the Nov. 1, 1978, Renton Record Chronicle.

An autopsy determined she was

strangled to death.With little evidence to go on,

the case went cold and was never solved.

But in 2010 detectives from the Sheriff ’s Office Cold Case Unit looked at what evidence had been collected, including fingerprints from the crime scene. Because of advances in Automated Finger-print Identification System or AFIS technology, prints could be entered into the system that previously may have not met the criteria for quality or detail, according to Urquhart.

AFIS technicians found matches to MacDonald on three items from the crime scene, including a bank statement and a Traveler’s Cheque, according to Urquhart.

In checking MacDonald’s back-ground, detectives discovered he lived seven blocks north of Roberts on Rainier Avenue.

MacDonald also was booked into jail twice in 1978 on burglary charges. By 1979 he had moved to Florida and was arrested for burglary in 1979 and 1980. He served prison time in Florida and Washington.

MacDonald was arrested in Ne-vada in 1992 and in 2001. He lives in Reno, where he was interviewed by Sheriff ’s Office detectives last June.Dean A. Radford can be reached at 425-255-3484, ext. 5050.

Arrest made in ‘78 cold case

Arlene Roberts was found strangled to death in home at the Lakeshore Manor Mobile Home Park on Oct. 28, 1978. With little evidence, the case went cold. KING

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Sustainable Renton, a non-profit service organization established in fall 2010, is hosting a series called “Sustainable Talks” in October.

The series kicks off at 7 p.m., Oct. 6th at the downtown Renton Library, 100 Mill Ave. S.

The guest speaker will be Niko-la Davidson of EarthSystemsNW, who will talk about rainwater harvesting and cisterns, which are tanks for storing water.

Davidson will speak on how to harvest rainwater from your roof to use in the garden or house. Ac-cording to the group cisterns save money, conserve water, prevent storm water pollution and can remedy drainage issues.

The workshop will cover the basics and benefits of cisterns, the components of a cistern, how they work, how to customize a system for your landscape and what to do to start collecting rain.

The group is currently working to find ways to support the South Renton Neighborhood Associa-tion and their goal of developing a new garden in South Renton.

For more information email, [email protected].

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BY TRACEY COMPTON

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Oktoberfest is coming to Renton.

Coinciding with Luther’s Table’s sixth-month an-niversary, an Oktoberfest is planned to kick off the fall season from 4 p.m. to mid-night, Saturday, Oct. 1.

Gretchen Mertes, Luther Table’s mission developer, thought it was a great idea, considering it is a tradition-ally German celebration and Martin Luther, the namesake of the restaurant and pub, was also German.

Originally Mertes tried to get an “oompa” band with a tuba and squeeze box, but she couldn’t fi nd any locally, because “apparently Leav-enworth has all of them for

all of October,” she said, laughing.

Instead, Luther’s Table will feature beer, German food and funk music presented by the nine-piece band called Off the Hook.

It is a full band with a horn section and three singers.

Two local brewers will be on hand to talk about their beers and off er tastings. Big Al’s Brewing and Two Beers Brewery will bring in their pumpkin beers and fresh hop, or special end-of-the-season beer.

It is a family-friendly event and those 21-years-old and up will be given a wristband at the door, Mertes said.

Brawts, pretzels with fancy mustards, German potato salad and spaetzle (like German pasta), will be served in addition to the regular Luther’s Table menu.

In the six months that Luther’s Table has been open, business has been good and there has been an upswing in sales, said

Mertes.To those who don’t

understand the concept of having a church mis-sion and a pub in the same place, Mertes says, it’s about modeling moderation.

“Th is place is not about coming in and getting wast-ed and getting your party on and being irresponsible and all those things,” she said.

“Th is is a place to gather with your family and friends and celebrate life together and have conversa-tions.”

Luther’s Table is located at 419 S. Second St., suite 1 in Renton.

Th e Berliner, Renton’s gastro pub, will also feature Oktoberfest activities start-ing the second weekend of October, with an opening ceremony planned. Th e fi -nale and big celebration will take place in an Oktoberfest tent with live music and fes-tivities next to Th e Berliner Oct. 21-23. Th ere will be a cover charge for the tent. For more information visit www.berlinerpub.com.


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Luther’s Table volunteer Erica Brehm brings out a serving of brats and beer, an example of what will be featured at their Oktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 1. CHARLES CORTES, Renton Reporter

Students take reading challengeRenton’s Highlands Elementary School has some of the

most productive readers in the state. As part of the Scholas-tic Summer Reading Challenge, students at the school read more books than any other school in Washington state.

Highlands students logged more than 3,200 hours of summer reading making them top readers in the state and 52 out of the hundreds of thousands of schools that partici-pated in the challenge worldwide.

All students at the school participated in the program.“We know when students read all summer they retain

their skills and develop a love of reading that will help them to live better, happier lives,” said Janet Fawcett, High-lands Elementary principal in a release.

A celebration is being planned.

The state Department of Transportation will try again this weekend to close Interstate 405 through Bel-levue to connect new ramps to the freeway.

On Friday state crews will close northbound Interstate 405 for 53 hours. When crews reopen the road Monday morning, drivers headed to Red-mond, Seattle and Kirkland will use new ramps to get to I-405 and State Route 520.

This is the Washington State Department of Trans-portation’s second attempt at the weekend closure. Last week, Atkinson Construc-tion, the contractor for the I-405 Bellevue Braids project, called the week-end closure off due to the forecasted heavy rain. This weekend, if heavy rain is expected, the closure could be postponed again.

“We need dry weather this weekend to make sure the construction is finished by Monday morning,” said Seema Javeri, WSDOT project engineer. “The work is very challenging and compressed into a tight time frame, and we need to ensure we’ve got a long enough weather window to complete the work.”

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Providing quality education to our children is critical to the continued economic development of our city and the future of our community. With the new school year already under way, teachers need our help. From African-American history books for elementary students, to wick-less alcohol burners to teach middle school students about science, to requests for guitar kits to help high school students who love music, there is no end to the needs of a classroom. And

to meet these needs we must all be committed and support our teachers and students.

I am pleased to share an opportunity that will soon be available in Renton that will help secure funding for supplies and projects for our teachers and classrooms. On

Oct. 5, anyone visiting a neighborhood Starbucks can help Renton teachers and students for free. All you have to do is pick up a free $10 gift card from any Starbucks in King County, log onto www.donorschoose.org/kingcounty2011, and use the cards to help fund the needs of our teachers. Local public school teachers have posted their re-quests for needed classroom materials or student projects on DonorsChoose.org and all you have to do is simply select a project that speaks to you.

Aft er the project is completed, you will receive photographs and thank-you letters from the classroom you selected. In each case, the teach-ers will explain how your donation helped their students learn and grow.

You also have the option of donating more to

support teachers’ classroom requests. Additional donations can be made directly through the DonorsChoose.org website at any time.

We are very fortunate to have received this funding for the free gift cards thanks to a col-laboration between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Starbucks and the Road Map Project.

Th e Road Map Project is a groundbreaking, community-wide, regional eff ort that aims to drive major improvements in student achieve-ment in our schools. Th e project includes a special emphasis on students in South Seattle and South King County. Donorschoose.org is an

online charity that helps support the goals of the Road Map Project by making it easy for anyone to help students in need.

Whether you pick up a free card at your neigh-borhood Starbucks or dig into your own pocket, you can help make a diff erence in our classrooms and in a child’s life. In Renton we are proud of our amazing teachers and students. Show your pride by making a diff erence in a classroom today.

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Today, the Renton Reporter begins a series of endorsement editorials in three City Council rac-es and the race for a sole position on the Public Hospital District Board of Commissioners. Th e endorsements are made by our Editorial Board, comprised of Publisher Ellen Morrison, Editor Dean A. Radford and community members Jim Medzegian, Armondo Pavone and Pat Auten. Th e candidates in each race were interviewed, then the board deliberated before voting. Th e interviews are continuing through early October.

CITY COUNCIL, POSITION 5

Robin Jones off ersa fresh perspective

The Renton Reporter endorses Robin Jones in his race

to replace retiring City Council member King Parker

for council Position 5.

Jones brings a maturity in his viewpoints and in

the way that he presents those views that his opponent,

Ed Prince, is still developing. As a Boeing project manager,

Jones has had to look at the big picture, which is important

when making decisions aff ecting everyone in a city of about

93,000 people.

Jones is a deputy commander of a U.S. Army Reserve

brigade and he has served as a member and chairman of the

Renton Human Services Committee.

Combined, that experience in leadership and in making a

group work shows he is someone who can get the job done.

The Editorial Board in August did not recommend that

Jones advance to the general election. The intent then was

to off er our counsel in what essentially was the nominating

process. We recommended Prince and Mark Martinez; Prince

won the primary with about 41 percent of the vote, while

Martinez and Jones roughly split the other 60 percent.

The three generally agreed on the issues the Editorial

Board raised in the primary election interviews.

We still applaud Prince for his hard work to learn how

Renton works. He is a leader for the future. But we saw

a diff erent side of the two candidates during the second

interview, when they were questioned more in depth and

had a greater chance to interact with each other.

Right now there’s a need to elect a City Council member

who will bring a fresh perspective in dealing with the diffi -

cult issues the city is facing. That’s better provided by Jones.

Jones would need to listen, too, to fellow council mem-

bers, realizing that governing is about compromise. But his

experience and voice are needed on the City Council.

CITY COUNCIL POSITION 7

Don Persson still hasmuch to off er Renton

Without reservation, the Editorial Board endorses

Don Persson in his bid for a fourth term on the

Renton City Council.

Persson has devoted himself to the Renton

community, as a police offi cer and later deputy police chief,

as a founder of the Renton River Days and as an active mem-

ber and supporter of numerous organizations and causes.

That experience and his 12 years already on the City

Council make Persson one of the most valuable members of

the council. His institutional knowledge is deep. His boss is

the community, he says.

His top priority is the city’s fi nancial stability. That’s most

apparent when he warns of the negative fi nancial impact

annexing West Hill could have on current Renton residents.

Persson hasn’t had a challenger in his last two council

elections. He beat Dan Clawson for the open council seat in

1999. Now, Phyllis Forister has stepped up to run against

Persson. Forister is well-spoken and has done her research

on important issues facing Renton.

But, despite her statements otherwise, the Editorial

Board couldn’t shake its belief that Forister is a one-issue

candidate. That issue is the location of the downtown

Renton library, which the City Council has already decided.

Now, Forister supports an initiative to overturn the City

Council’s approval of its agreement with the King County

Library System. That’s counterproductive and signals a po-

tential unwillingness to accept votes that don’t go her way.

Forister simply hasn’t made the case that she should

replace Persson.

In reality, as an Editorial Board member said, it would

take a “rock star” to unseat Persson. He has yet to face such

an opponent.

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A homeless man was arrested after leading police on a chase after a theft Sept. 14.

A 20-year-old said he stole a t-shirt from the Save Smoke Shop, 17170 116th Ave. S.E., because he is homeless and has been wearing the same clothes for weeks.

The teen led an officer on a car and foot chase through Renton at around 10 a.m.

Woman robbedA woman was robbed at

gunpoint at a Renton clean-ers on Sept 9.

A little past noon, the 51-year-old woman at a cleaners on Southwest Sev-enth Street said that a man came into the shop pointing a gun at her.

The man was described as a black male, mid 30s, 6-foot-2 to 6-foot-6-inches, wearing a dark grey, almost black track suit and a baseball cap that was white, gray and black. He was also wearing black gloves.

The suspect did not speak but grabbed all the cash from the register that the shopkeeper gave him. The suspect left the woman sitting on a chair and told her not to call the police. She waited 20 minutes then called 911.

Handgun shownSomeone was seen bran-

dishing a handgun in a car on Sept. 9.

A witness driving in a car with two children was stopped at the stop sign on Southeast 160th Street. A vehicle, described as a maroon, 1990’s four-door sedan, with two black males passed by. The witness said

that the passenger, for no apparent reason, pointed a black handgun out the win-dow toward her vehicle.

Knives at schoolTwo Lindbergh High

School students were repri-manded for bringing knives and fireworks to school on

Sept. 6.The mother of one

student came to the school to report the two students had made threats against her son.

School staff searched the two students in question and found two folding pocket knives and il-

legal firecrackers in their backpacks. Both students said they left them in their backpacks from a camping trip over the weekend and forgot they were there.

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touch with the past, too.A great resource for Renton’s

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website.Ellen Morrison, publisher

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INSIDEChamber on the move/9

The Great Flood of 2011/10Renton on track/12

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BY DEAN A. RADFORD

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In the 1950s and early 60s, the freeways serving Renton and the rest of the region were still on the drawing boards or maybe a really big unpaved ditch in the case of I-5.

Anyone headed north to Seattle got on Rainier Avenue or Empire Way. Th ey were the thoroughfares of a much simpler time, when traffi c wasn’t as bad as it is today and those semis seemed smaller.

Th e long path of Rainier was a prime spot for businesses looking for exposure to all that traffi c. So it made sense that the beacon of the Renton business community, the Renton Chamber of Commerce, should fi nd a home there, too.

It didn’t hurt that the location for the new chamber building overlooked the Renton Municipal Airport, one of the birth places of modern commercial aviation.

Every 737 built has taken off in front of the chamber offi ce. It’s park-ing lot is a tourist attraction.

But those days are coming to an end. Fift y years have gone by quickly.

Th e chamber’s lease with the City of Renton, which owns the airport that includes the land under the chamber, expired at the end of 2010. It was signed in 1960. Now the cham-ber has a month-to-month lease, paying about $3,400 a month to the city while it looks for a new home.

What exactly will follow on the chamber’s perch isn’t known, but it will have some tie to the aviation industry. And Renton’s thousands of visitors will have to fi nd Lucille Cro-zier and the rest of the helpful folks at a new chamber offi ce.

Lucille Crozier is the chamber’s receptionist. But more to the point she’s Renton’s unoffi cial hostess. Can’t fi nd Jimi Hendrix’s grave? Ask her. Where is the rocker buried is the question she’s asked most oft en. If someone’s in the offi ce, she hands them a map from a stack on her desk. (In case you didn’t know, he’s buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in the Highlands.)

She’s also asked frequently about Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and martial arts star Bruce Lee, but it’s hard to fi g-ure out their connection to Renton.

Lucy, as she’s more frequently called, has worked for the chamber for 20 years, aft er a 47-year career in banking. She’s 83. She loves her job.

“We are going to miss this place,”

she says.It’s safe to say others at the cham-

ber offi ce feel the same way. Th ey’ll miss their view to history, from those huge picture windows that provide an expansive view of the airport and those 737s still dressed in green. Crozier once saw a 747 land at the airport.

Crozier has been to busy to watch all those 737s – thousands of them – take their maiden voyage. She’s greet-ing either in person or on the phone and handling myriad details for the chamber staff . She’s oft en the fi rst face seen by congressmen, governors and state legislators who walk through the chamber’s doors.

She’s kept track of the chamber’s history. Th e chamber had about 350 members when she came to work in 1991; now it’s roughly 650 members. She’s worked for four chamber CEOs.

Th e chamber’s front door once faced Rainier Avenue; now the entry is off the parking lot.

Crozier’s current boss, Bill Taylor, is now deep in the search for a new home for the Chamber of Com-merce. Th e search is concentrated in downtown Renton, for many reasons.

As a visitors center, the chamber needs to be downtown, he says

But where the chamber locates also

sends an important message to the community, he said

“We see a lot of value in being in downtown Renton and feel our pres-ence there will make a statement to businesses and the community that we have confi dence in the downtown core and belong there,” Taylor said.

Th e chamber needs about 2,500 square feet; it wants to buy, rather than lease.

“We have looked at literally every-thing that’s out there,” he said. “Th ere is nothing that is exactly right.”

He would like to locate at the his-toric train depot on Burnett Avenue, but at about 6,000 square feet, the building is too big, he said. A possi-bility is that owner Burlington North-ern Sante Fe Railway would “split off a piece” of the building, he said.

“Th e good news is that I think we have the advantage of time,” he said. Th ere isn’t a for-sale sign on the depot, he said.

Th e Chamber of Commerce was incorporated in 1924, but in 1909, businessmen met at the Melrose Ho-tel (now the Melrose Grill) to form a chamber “to advance the communi-ty’s interest,” according to a chamber history. At one point it was called the Renton Commercial Club.

Fast forward to the late 1950s,

when business and community lead-ers mounted a fundraising campaign to build a new offi ce for the chamber. Th eir names are memorialized on a large plaque in the chamber confer-ence room. Taylor couldn’t pinpoint the amount raised.

What’s historically signifi cant with the building is apparent almost daily, when a new Boeing jet fl ies off within ear shot, he says.

Th e business leaders agreed to turn over the building to the City of Renton aft er 50 years. Th ere was a 20-year extension and then a 10-year extension that brought the termina-tion date to Dec. 31, 2010. During the early years, the chamber paid $1 a year for its lease.

Owning its own building will help give the chamber some fi nancial predictability, which a manageable mortgage would provide, he said. He doesn’t want to the chamber to face again the possibility of a move.

Denis Law, then a newspaper publisher, was on the chamber board when a 10-year lease extension with the city was signed. Now, as mayor, he hopes that famed perch to watch the 737 would somehow remain.

“People have watched an awful lot happen from that perch on the hillside,” he said.

The Renton Chamber of Commerce faced Rainier Avenue when it was built in 1960. Another major change occurred when a deck was removed from the side of the building that faced Renton Municipal Airport. Renton Chamber of Commer

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Lucille Crozier answers questions from her receptionist’s desk at the Renton Chamber of Commerce and greets visitors. DEAN A. RADFORD, Renton Reporter

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The original photograph of the devastating effects on Renton of the Great Flood of 1911 hung in Dr. C.L. Dixon’s office in downtown Renton. He practiced medicine in Renton from 1904 to 1950. Collection of Renton History Museum, #1967.005.0640

BY DEAN A. RADFORD

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Renton has always had an uneasy relation-ship with the Cedar River, even after its wrath was controlled by the dam built by the City of Seattle above Landsburg.

But there was one Great Flood, when the Ce-dar, the Black and the Duwamish rivers joined forces to wreak havoc on Renton and up toward

Kent.It was a

Sunday morn-ing, nearly 100 years ago, on Nov. 11, 1911. Church bells tolled at about 8:30 a.m., noth-ing unusual for a Sunday.

But as Tom Monahan writes in his essay for the Renton Histori-cal Society and Museum Quar-terly, “A River Ran Through It: The Great Flood of 1911,” those bells

weren’t a call to Sunday worship.“Instead, the bells heralded a potentially

lethal situation – announcing a day of terror for Rentonians living in the lower parts of the city,” wrote Monahan, who was a museum researcher.

The weather that day wasn’t anything unusual for a turbulent fall. Rain in the lowlands, heavy snow in the mountains and a warm wind, Monahan explains. All that water was headed down those three rivers, to the bottom of the basin – Renton. The dam on the Cedar hadn’t

failed Renton yet.But the city was gripped in fear.Sentries were posted, with binoculars trained

on the river. A system of signals was set up for the Denny-Renton brick plant siren. One was an all clear; the other would signal a dam failure – a constant 30-minute blast. The dam held, but false alarms had already created a panic and rightly so.

Water still rushed toward Renton, bringing with it logs and debris, which piled up against the bridges in the city. Even after 100 years, that scenario still plays out in Renton during major floods on the Cedar.

The raging water spread across Renton, forc-ing residents to flee to higher ground. Eventual-ly, the waters receded and clean up began. Mud and debris filled basements and every street in town. No one died, Monahan reports, and the injuries were mostly minor.

But the Cedar River wasn’t finished with Renton.

As public works director, Gregg Zimmer-man is responsible for much of the city’s flood control and response today. He, like almost everyone else alive today, wasn’t around for the 1911 flood. But he worked for the city in 1990, when the Cedar River struck a major blow to Renton.

Many of the apochrophal stories about flooding of the Cedar in Renton stem from that November storm. The National Weather Service ranks it as No. 10 in its top 10 list of the state’s major weather events in the 1900s.

That year, sandbags were stacked to prevent flooding of what was then the Renton City Hall next to Liberty Park. The Cedar nearly over-topped the sandbags. Prisoners in the city jail in the basement were evacuated because water was flowing up through the floor drains.

City officials feared the Houser Way bridge would give way from the force of logs and

The Great Flood of 1911 left a big mess

Logs and debris piled up against the Williams Avenue bridge over the Cedar River during the major storm of January 2009. DEAN A. RADFORD, Renton Reporter file photo

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Following the historic storm of 1990, the City of Renton took several steps to ease the flooding of the Cedar River.

are filled with water and placed along the river bank to protect old city hall and Carco Theater when needed.

River Delta. While this did not alleviate flooding, it enhanced sea plane operation and reduced the threat of bird strikes at the airport.

205 Lower River Flood Control project in

Engineers.

along the river adjacent to the Maplewood Golf Course to prevent flooding of

in partnership with the City of Renton, dredged the lower 1.25 miles of the Cedar River, increasing the cross section of the river and thereby the increasing the flow capacity.

in partnership with the city, installed certified levees and concrete flood walls along the lower section of the Cedar River.

Bridge across the river with a bridge that can be hydraulically jacked above the river level to protect it during flood events.

section of the dredged portion of the river to check on the status of the elevation of the river bottom and channel flow capacity. Maintenance dredging will be performed to preserve the flow capacity of the lower section of the river.

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Two boys walk home from school on a muddy plank sidewalk along a fl ooded South Second Street following the 1911 fl ood. In the background at right is the former Renton High School. Collection of Renton History Museum, #41.9785

South Second Avenue is now a modern paved street. The trees have grown tall, obscuring the view of the “new” Renton High School. CHARLES CORTES, Renton Reporter

debris stacked up against it. Th e Renton airport and golf course suff ered signifi cant fl ooding. Boeing aircraft stored at the air-port suff ered some damage.

“Aft er this fl ood event, we knew that steps needed to be taken to better protect the city from fl ooding of the Cedar River,” Zimmerman said.

Part of that eff ort was to work with Seat-tle Public Utilities to change the procedures for operating the Seattle-owned Masonry Dam on the Cedar to “more closely accom-modate watershed conditions,” he said.

Th e Masonry Dam created the Chester Morse Reservoir, which supplies water to Seattle and the city’s water customers.

“Th ese improved operating procedures at the Masonry Dam were one of the largest contributing factors to reduced fl ooding in Renton,” he said.

Renton has taken a number of others steps, too, (see the breakout box) that to-gether have “dramatically decreased” fl ood-ing along the river in Renton, he said.

“Cedar River fl ooding is much less severe in Renton and causes far less damage than was the case in 1990,” he said. Th e airport no longer fl oods and a berm has reduced the severity of fl ooding on the golf course.

Flooding of the Cedar may not create vivid new memories, but old memories still make for dramatic stories.

Karen Curtis Knudsen lives in down-town Renton. She has lived through the the major fl oods in the city and heard family stories of earlier ones. Interestingly, she once heard a story from a friend about the fl ood of 1911, but she didn’t write it down

because she thought it was the product of the woman’s illness.

She suggests checking out some of the homes in North Renton, on Park, Pelly or Wells. Look for homes with four or fi ve steps to the porch. Th ey were trying to get to “high ground.”

Parts of Renton also were fl ooded by the Green River.

As a child in the late 1940s, Knudsen lived on a hill on what is now Valley Medi-cal Center, so was above the fl ooding. But she watched as neighbors rowed to work. Th e rowers would tie up their boats to a telephone pole, then take another one to dry land. “Th ey would do this day aft er day until the river receded,” she said.

Th ere was one rule she learned in listen-ing to the stories. Don’t tie up your boat without a slipnot. If not, as occasionally happened, a boat tied fi rmly would end up dangling from the pole.

“Th e boat and telephone were right across the street from the local tavern, so the men at the tavern had a good laugh at newcomer’s expense,” she says.

Today, the Cedar River is still not com-pletely tamed, which many argue is OK.

Th e Masonry Dam still holds back mil-lions of gallons of water, but there’s no way to stop the fl ow into the Cedar River from streams below the dam or from runoff .

Logs and debris still pile up against the city’s bridges during high water, result-ing in expensive eff orts to remove them. Th e City of Renton and King County are working together to limit how oft en that happens.

But in 100 years man has made the Ce-dar a much better neighbor.

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Ken Storkson stands next to his home in East Renton. ADAM MCFADDEN, Renton Reporter

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“When I coached cross country, we had a lot of fun, and did a lot of crazy stuff,” he said.

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In the end Storkson remembers some of his disap-pointments (“Not everybody’s built to be a winner, there’s a lot more pressure to be a winner than a loser.”) but mostly his fun moments. The team’s trips to Lincoln Park in Seattle, learning from former Renton High coach Barry Savage, friendships with former Lindbergh coach

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At this point there are just a few things he might change, like having the kids run even more.

“We practiced six days a week, they would have to do a seventh day on their own,” he said. “On the seventh day God rested, so I can too. But good runners don’t.”

Now that Storkson is back coaching at Hazen, he’s come full circle. He’s still getting to work with kids, and he still sees former students and athletes all of the time around Renton, greeting each one with a smile and a story.

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When Steve Campau took over the Renton Coin Shop seven years ago there were four counters, now he has 14 for conducting business and he’s seeing a greater mix of customers.

With changes in the economy and the value of gold and silver has come a new influx of people.

“Well, [gold and silver] are really important right now because they’re helping keep people’s portfolios balanced and the people who are selling it need money,” said Campau.

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“We see more people from more walks of life and I think we’re seeing quite a few more middle class people than we were before that are looking for a little extra money to help pay the rent or to make their mortgage payments,” Campau said.

People are digging up coins that their grandparents gave them and Campau said, “It’s a treasure hunt everyday.”

The Renton Coin Shop has probably five to 10 million coins. On a typical day they will have as many as 100 or 125 customers.

“And so the traffic has changed a lot,” said Campau. “A lot of people buying and a lot of people selling more gold, more silver.”

It’s an extreme, he said, from the poorest customers buying $2 to $3 items to people that buy items worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Over the years Campau has watched as the value of gold and silver has gone up and down, but what’s remained a constant is the community that’s formed around the shop.

“We get an awful lot of referrals and word of mouth simply because this shop has been here treating people decently since 1964,” said Doug, a long-time shop worker. “And that makes a big difference.”

Doug started helping the original owner, Tom McNeelan, in the late 1980s at the shop as a hobby but came to work full-time

about 12 years ago when he retired from his regular job.

He got an education from working and learning about coins in the shop and said, “I’ve met so many darned nice people over the years who have similar interests.”

The shop has remained for years a cen-terpiece of the community, but is also at-tracts people from as far away as Montana, Anchorage, British Columbia and Oregon.

There used to be two workers serving the customers, but that has changed to five

people working the shop. The Bid Board, which Campau describes

as an early eBay, still has 7,000 names of bidders and sellers on it.

The shop has undergone a major re-model in which all of the old fixtures were removed. It took them one year and they are still re-organizing 45 years worth of items that have been stored in the shop all this time.

Amongst their dusty treasure they’ve found pennies from the 1930s, 40s and 50s and rolls of nickels. Now when customers asks for a nickel from 1935, shop workers can ask which grade would they like and pull it from a tube and sell it to them.

Some of Campau’s other rare treasures include a 1909, gold, $5, Indian coin that was one of the last minted in New Orleans and valued at $8,350.

He also has a 1916, Standing Liberty Quarter valued at $8,500 and a 1802 1/2 cent piece valued at $10,000.

Campau’s love for coins started at age 5 or 6, when his uncle gave him a Churchill Crown and some other British coins. Then he bought his first coin from the original owner of the shop, Tom McNeelan, when he was 7-years-old before McNeelan moved the shop to Renton. McNeelan sold coins from a booth in a Boulevard Park delicates-sen before he bought the Renton Coin Shopin 1964.

Campau played with McNeelan’s daugh-ter, Mary Gladding, in the shop becoming a regular visitor.

“Mother thinks the world of Steve, the new owner,” said Gladding recently about her mother Betty, who will be 83 in Febru-ary.

It makes her mother feel good she can still walk in and say hello, Gladding said.

That’s exactly the kind of atmosphere Campau has worked to create through out the years.

“And I want people to come in and have coffee and eat a donut and bring the kids in or bring their dog in and not have it be a big deal,” he said.

Campau’s goal is to be the biggest little coin shop in the world with a neighbor-hood coin store appeal.

With a recent customer driving from as far away as Spokane seeking fair deals at the Renton Coin Shop, it seems Campau is well on his way.

Steve Campau, owner of Renton Coin Shop, displays a 1890s piggybank in the store. He occasionally puts out a few of the banks around the holidays. TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter

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Benson school officials have made sure that stu-dents at Benson Hill will be identified with name cards detailing their bus route, intended destination and parent contact information. Bus drivers will have a list of all those students who are supposed to be on their bus.

This, according to Matheson, was not a new

procedure, but a procedure that just wasn’t being fol-lowed the day the students were left at the wrong bus stop.

The substitute bus driver did not have a list of the kids who were supposed to be on his bus that day, Matheson said.

Despite the renewed emphasis on transportation procedures, parents are still concerned.

“I’m kind of worried too and that’s the first kid we have in school,” said Phong Dang of his son, who he was picking up from kindergarten at Benson Hill Elementary the Friday after the incident.

His wife told him of the incident with the two

5-year-olds after learning about it on the news. Now they put a note in his back-pack on the days their son takes the bus, just in case he gets lost. The note has his home address and parent contact information on it.

“It’s pretty disturbing to hear what happened to those poor kids,” said Linda Johnson, mother of another kindergartner at the school.

Her daughter is in the

bus zone, meaning she has the option to ride the bus to school, but Johnson drives her to and from school to avoid situations like the Sept. 16 incident.

“She’s 5, you know, and like those poor kids if something happens - they don’t know where they are,” she said. “They don’t have any direction or they don’t have phones. They can’t call. Something like that is

pretty disturbing.” After the incident prin-

cipals and administrative assistants emailed district headquarters the cards they use to identify students. They were all very consis-tent, Matheson said.

“It’s working fine at other schools; we just have to make sure they’re imple-menting it at all schools,” Matheson said.

The principal, Martha

Flemming, had a conversa-tion with all the kindergar-ten staff and addressed the incident, he said.

This safety procedure will continue for the first couple of months of school, Matheson said, until bus drivers and students are comfortable with the routine, taking into account changes parents may make if children go to daycare or a new school in the district.


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George SpendiffGeorge, born July 17, 1926

in Roundup, MT to Art and Marjorie Spendiff, passed away September 17, 2011 peacefully with family by his side.

George is survived by Virginia, loving wife of 62 yrs; daughters Shawn (Rusty), Shana and Susan (Dave); sister Anna Lee (Matt) and cousin,

Billie Kuper; 10 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren; and sadly predeceased by son Jerry (LuAnn).

George graduated from Centralia HS and Central WA College (University). He was an Army Air Force WWII Veteran. George taught at Onalaska Elementry, was a JC Penny’s manager, and was a Renton real estate agent. But George’s favorite job was working at the Renton HS Stadium. Youth sports, whether it was his own or other kids playing, was his great passion. He also enjoyed golf, fishing, and hiking. George shared that “his life’s special achievements” were, to marry Virginia and share so many special years with her.

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Margaret Ilse LaValleyMargaret Ilse LaValley was

born on December 4, 1922 in Driesen, Germany to Paul and Bertha Bengsch. Margaret was 88 when she passed away at her home in Yakima on Sunday, September 25, 2011.

Margaret met an American soldier, Jack LaValley, as she was fleeing for safety during the bombing of WWII. She immigrated to the US after the war and married Jack on December 2, 1947 in

Renton where they resided the next 35 years.She leaves her husband of 63 years, three daughters and their

husbands; Diana Hammond (Mike) of Elma; Jackie Feldmiller (George) of Spokane; and Tina Wagner (Bruce) of Yakima, four grandsons; Michael Whetstine, Aaron Hammond, Nick Wagner and Brandon Wagner. She also leaves behind a very special sister-in-law; Margaret (Muggs) Warren and a brother-in-law; Ted LaValley (Renton), several nieces, nephews and friends.

Margaret retired from The Boeing Company with 30 years of service in 1982. At that time they left Renton and moved to Elma where they lived the next 18 years. Then in 2000 they moved to Yakima.

Margaret was preceded in death by her father, mother and sister (Germany). There will be a memorial at Rexford Manor Retirement Community (1010 N. 34th Ave. Yakima) on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 3:00 pm in honor of this strong, courageous woman who pulled through the horrific times of WWII and became a loving

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Lindbergh girls soccer coach James Valles was worried.

Valles knew much of his team core was seniors, and as the team’s third head coach in four years, he had some thoughts the seniors would have trouble adjust-ing.

“I was actually kind of worried,” Valles said. “I’m so glad they all stayed

because it’s made my job so much easier. Th ey have a pretty complete team.”

Th e team starts with seniors Kimi Girmus, Whitney Hilde and Jordyn McLuen. All three made the all-league fi rst team last season and there’s little doubt the trio makes the Eagles one of the most talented teams in the Sea-mount.

Valles said Hilde, an attacking midfi elder, is a spectacular player.

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the top players in the Sea-mount,

she’s got to be close,” Valles said. “She does everything for the team.”

Hilde is tied for the team lead with two goals so far this season.

Girmus, a defender, is one of the team’s best lead-ers.

“She’s just one of those personalities that helps everyone feel welcome,” Valles said. “Whether it’s organizing practice, keep-ing everybody involved, she does it all.”

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Left: Lindbergh’s Whitney Hilde brings the ball upfi eld against Kennedy Catholic Sept. 27. Above: Lindbergh’s Jordyn McLuen fi ghts for the ball with a Kennedy defender. ADAM MCFADDEN, Renton Reporter

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Liberty’s Cassidy Nangle dribbles away from a Juanita player Sept. 27. ADAM MCFADDEN, Renton Reporter

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It’s all about star power for the Liberty girls soccer team. Th e Patriots have two all-state players in Kimi Fry and Cassidy Nangle.

“We have a group of really hard-work-ing girls and they have one goal in mind, and that’s to win a state championship,” said Liberty coach Jamie Giger. “Th ey come out every day look-ing to get better on the fi eld.”

Fry, who has committed to play for the University of San Diego, plays center midfi eld. Nangle, who has committed to play for Oklahoma, plays forward.

Th e two together give Liberty one of the most talented duos in the state.

“With those two captains we have very strong leader-ship,” Giger said. “Th ey know how to get the young kids to do what they want them to do.”

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for friend Malia Arrant. She has the Patriots starting right where they left off last year: winning.

“It was a pretty easy transi-tion; our coaching philoso-phies are very similar,” Giger said.

Liberty went undefeated in KingCo 3A/2A play last year on the way to a league title and a state berth. Th is season, the Patriots 6-1 over-all and 5-0 in league play. Liberty’s only loss came was a 1-0 non-league contest to state-power Skyline, and the Patriots were missing two starters in that game.

Other key players for the team are junior midfi elder Kianna Haff erty and senior goalkeeper Macaire Ament. One newcomer to watch is forward Kali Youngdahl.

“I could actually go on about players on this team

a team-leading three assists.“If I had 11 players like her

I would be in seventh heaven,” Valles said.

Lindbergh’s two other seniors, defender Selena Mullins and midfi elder Kayse Angel, are also starters. Angel made the all-league second team, while Mullins earned all-league honorable mention last year.

Other key players are junior goalkeeper Audrey Cun-ningham, junior midfi elder Meghan Hansen, sophomore defender Alicia Wasisco and sophomore forward Lindsey Pfl uger.

Th e Eagles are currently 4-3 overall and 4-1 in Seamount play. Th at’s good enough for second place in the league, fi rst among 2A teams.

Lindbergh picked up a state-ment win Tuesday, topping Kennedy Catholic 2-1.

Liberty’s Kimi Fry looks to pass against Juanita Sept. 27. ADAM

MCFADDEN, Renton Reporter

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because we have so much talent,” Giger said. “It’s just

a solid lineup all the way through.”

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Minutes after its 2-1 win against Kennedy Catholic Tuesday night, the Lindbergh girls soccer team was still screaming in the locker room. Need-less to say, the Eagles were excited.

“This group of seniors doesn’t even remember scoring on Kennedy, let alone beating them,” said Lindbergh coach James Valles. “So this is a really big deal, a really big deal.”

The Lancers (4-4-1 overall, 3-1-1 Seamount) went up 1-0 on a penalty kick from Kirsten Olson late in the fi rst half. Lindbergh (4-3, 4-1) tied the game in the 60th minute.

Goalkeeper Audrey Cunningham kicked the ball out of goal, midfi elder Whitney Hilde head butted the ball, and forward Jordyn McLuen knocked the ball in.

“Just scoring one goal makes a huge diff erence in the game,” Valles said.

Just over two minutes later Hilde made a penalty kick to give Lindbergh the lead. From that point, the Eagles just had to hold on.

“That was the longest 20 minutes of my life,” Valles said.

Valles said his team is coming together at the right time and this win will just build even more confi dence.

“Given this game and how we played, I think we’re a team to be reck-oned with,” he said. “We’ve got some hard teams coming up. This isn’t the end of it, this is the beginning.”

Lindbergh will take on Foster Oct. 4.

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menting maintenance dredging in the vicinity of the Seaplane Base. SCOPE OF WORKThe work to be performed by the CONSULTANT consists of up- dating existing plans, developing construction documents, permit preparation and support, and providing assistance implement- ing the maintenance dredging project.INFORMATION TO BE PRO- VIDED IN THE STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS (SOQ)Submittals should include the following information: • Firm Name,• Firm phone and fax numbers,• Project team resumes/profes-

sional biographies, and• Project experience in the

Puget Sound region. The SOQ must contain all of the required information, organized in a clear manner on eight (8) single-sided pages or less, ex- cluding covers, section dividers, and cover letter (single page). The font shall be no smaller than 11-point. Submittals will be evaluated and ranked based on the following criterion: 1) Key personnel, 2) Firm experience with PS&E preparation, 3) Firm experience with planning and permitting process, 4) Ap- proach to project, 5) Familiarity with relevant codes and stan- dards, and 6) Past performance/ references. The City of Renton encourages disadvantaged, minority, and women-owned consultant firms to respond. Persons with disabilities may request this information be pre- pared and supplied in alternate forms by calling collect (425-430-7476).Title VI The City of Renton, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regu- lations, Department of Transpor- tation, Subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimi- nation in Federally-assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all applicants that it will affirmative- ly ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this

advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises, as defined at 49 CFR Part 23, will be af- forded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or sex in consideration for an award. Please submit an electronic copy of your Statement of Qualifica- tions (SOQ) to: Ben Dahle, Cap- ital Projects Coordinator, City of Renton Airport, at bdahle@ren- tonwa.gov by October 7, 2011, no later than 10:00 a.m. No submittals will be accepted after that date and time. Electronic submittals are the preferred media of the SOQ. Hard copies may be sent to the address provided below. Any questions regard- ing this project should be direct- ed to Ben Dahle at 425-430-7476. Ben Dahle, P.E. Airport Capital Project Coordinator 1055 S. Grady Way Renton, WA 98057 Requests for the full text of the RFQ should be emailed to [email protected]. Only e-mail communications will be accepted. Bonnie I. Walton, City ClerkPublished in the Renton Reporter on September 23, 2011 and Sep- tember 30, 2011. #528137

Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King

In re the Estate of: MIRIAM F. LINDBERG, Deceased.NO. 11-4-05277-7 KNT

NOTICE TO CREDITORSThe 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 applicable 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 attorneys 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 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 forever 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: September 30, 2011.PR: KENNETH LINDBERGRUTH A. ROTI WSBA #19495Of MOGREN, GLESSNER & ROTI P.S. Attorneys for Person- al Representative100 Evergreen Bldg.; PO.Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542King County Superior CourtCause No. 11-4-05277-7 KNTPublished in on Renton Reporter on September 30, 2011, October 7, 2011 and October 14, 2011. #528781.

Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King

In re the Estate of: ALICE M. BILZ, Deceased.NO. 11-4-05230-1 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 applicable 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 attorneys 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 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 forever 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: September 30, 2011.PR: NANCY L. DAVIDSONPETER 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. 11-4-05230-1 KNTPublished in Renton Reporter on September 30, 2011, October 7, 2011, October 14, 2011.#529572

CITY OF RENTONNOTICE OF ORDINANCE

ADOPTED BY THE RENTON CITY COUNCIL

Following is a summary of the ordinance adopted by the Renton City Council on September 26, 2011:

ORDINANCE NO. 5628 An Ordinance of the City of Renton, Washington, amending Sections 3-1-1 and 3-1-5 of Chapter 1, Executive Depart- ment, Sections 3-2-3 and 3-2-5 of Chapter 2, Community Servic- es Department, Section 3-3-5 of Chapter 3, Department of Com- munity and Economic Develop- ment, Section 3-8-5 of Chapter 8, Police Department, Chapter 9, City Attorney Department, and Section 3-10-2 of Chapter 10, Municipal Court, of Title III (Departments and Officers) of Ordinance No. 4260 entitled

“Code of General Ordinances ofthe City of Renton, Washington”,by revising department descrip-tions in accordance with recentdepartmental changes.Effective: 10/30/2011 Complete text of this ordinanceis available at Renton City Hall,1055 South Grady Way; andposted at the King County Li-braries in Renton, 100 Mill Ave-nue South and 2902 NE 12thStreet. Upon request to the CityClerk’s office, (425) 430-6510,copies will also be mailed for afee. Bonnie I. Walton, City ClerkPublished in Renton Report onSeptember 30, 2011. #530144.

NOTICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATIONENVIRONMENTAL

REVIEW COMMITTEE RENTON, WASHINGTON

The Environmental ReviewCommittee has issued a Determi-nation of Non-Significance-Miti-gated for the following projectunder the authority of the RentonMunicipal Code. Joey’s Short Plat LUA11-066, ECF, SHPL-A Location: 2208 Jones Ave NE.Applicant requests SEPA Review and Administrative Short Platapproval of a 2-lot subdivisionon a 36,847 sf parcel in the R-4zone. Appeals of the environmentaldetermination must be filed inwriting on or before 5:00 p.m. onOctober 14, 2011. Appeals must be filed in writing together withthe required fee with: HearingExaminer, City of Renton, 1055South Grady Way, Renton, WA 98057. Appeals to the Examinerare governed by City of Renton Municipal Code Section 4-8-110.B. Additional informationregarding the appeal process maybe obtained from the Renton CityClerk’s Office, (425) 430-6510.Published in the Renton Reporteron September 30, 2011. #530153

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Renton Reporter, September 30, 2011