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Tahoma’s Adam Hokenson, top, pinned Aaron Ibanez from Bothell in the semifi nal round of the 195-pound 4A Mat Classic state wrestling tournament. Kyle Capperault from Kentwood, lower right, wrestles Alex Fairhust from Snohomish in the semifi nal round, losing 6-2. Kentwood guard Darius LuBom drives the lane against Federal Way Saturday during the 4A district boys basketball championship. The Conks lost 74-56. Stories on page 6. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter

Postseason Classics

BY REBECCA GOURLEY

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While most of her peers are going to be graduat-ing from high school in

three or so years, Gabi Sciuchetti will be accepting a diff erent kind of diploma – a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washing-ton.

Currently, Gabi is a sophomore at UW based on the amount of credits she has earned, and she’s barely 15 years old. On top of being four years ahead on her education, she also made the dean’s list for the 2014 fall quarter, earning at least a 3.5 grade point average.

Gabi, from Covington, attended the Early Entrance Program at Th e Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars at UW during the 2013-2014 school year. Th is transition school enabled her to skip high school and start earn-ing college credits in spring 2014.

Aft er the program fi nished, she immediately dove head-fi rst into

Teen on the fast track to engineering degree

BY REBECCA GOURLEY

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Aft er almost an hour of dis-cussion, the Maple Valley City Council unanimously voted to refi nance the city’s $2.9 million in general obligation bonds using a tax-exempt structure, keeping the status quo on the Legacy Site.

Th e tax-exempt option saves the

city approxi-mately $47,000 more than the other option of

taxable bonds. Th e tax-exempt

option also keeps the current use restrictions on the land, which Councilman Layne Barnes said it is “just enough fl exibility” for what the original plan was for the land.

“At the end of the day, based upon what the CAC’s (Citizen’s Advisory Committee) report was… I have every belief that fl ex-ibility exists with the tax-exempt situation,” Barnes said.

Councilman Dana Parnello agreed with Barnes.

“One option gives us more fl exibility, the other maintains the fl exibility we’ve had.”

City Council chooses tax-exempt refinancing

BY REBECCA GOURLEY

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Th e state House Committee on Health Care and Wellness voted 10-5 Feb. 18 in favor of a bill that would make it more dif-fi cult for parents to make their kids exempt from getting vaccinated in Washington.

Currently, state law allows parents to not vaccinate their school-aged children for medical reasons, a personal objection or religious beliefs.

Th is bill would eliminate the “philo-

sophical or personal objection” exemption option, but leave medical reasons and religious beliefs in place.

Rep. Chad Magendanz, R-Issaquah, is listed as a co-sponsor of the bill – HB 2009. However, when asked about his reasons for supporting it, he said he was considering taking himself off the sponsor list.

“My initial inclination was to support it because of the potential public health risk of unvaccinated children to the elderly, infants and immunocompromised, but I’m discovering there’s also considerable (well-

documented) risk to our kids when they’re inoculated with live virus,” Magendanz said in an email.

Rep. June Robinson, D-Everett, is the primary sponsor of the bill and said at the committee meeting last Wednesday the bill is cen-tered on public health.

“Ultimately it’s a bill about public’s health and the community’s health,” she said. “We all live in community and we need to think about how our actions aff ect those around us.”

Th e recent push for vaccination reform in several states is at least partially due to the recent outbreak of measles at Disney-land. Th at outbreak, which started in De-

cember, has spread to seven states, includ-ing two cases in Washington. Th ere have been fi ve cases in Washington so far this year, three of those were not related to the amusement park in California, according

to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2013, measles cases were slightly below 200, nationwide, according to the CDC. Last year, the number of measles cases more than tripled from the previous year. So far, 154 cases of measles have been reported across 17

states and Washington, D.C. this year. To keep diseases like measles from

Vaccine bill aims to eliminate personal objection exemption

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VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

District Healthcare SystemNOTICE OF BOARD

COMMITTEE MEETING Notice is hereby given that committee meetings of the Val- ley Medical Center Board of Trustees will be held as follows:

Executive Committee will be held Tuesday March 10, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center, Renton WAFinance Facilities & Audit Com-

mittee will be held on Tuesday March 10, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center, Renton WA.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra SwardExecutive Assistant to the Board of Trustees

Published in the Kent, Renton, Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on February 20, 2015 and February 27, 2015. #1253551.

Where’s Walter, LLC, is seeking coverage under the Washing- ton State Department of Ecolo- gy’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, Cedar Springs, is located at 18205 SE 272nd St., in Convington, in King County. This project involves approxi- mately 8.7 acres of soil disturbance for construction of new

apartment buildings with asso-ciated parking, utility, and drain-age improvements. Storm waterwill discharge to ground with

ities will be discharged to on-site wetlands and an onsite man-

onsite wetlands and man-madelake then discharge to JenkinsCreek. Any persons desiring topresent their views to the Wash-ington State Department of Ecol-ogy regarding this application, orinterested in Ecology’s action onthis application, may notify Ecol-ogy in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publica-tion of this notice. Ecology re-views public comments and con-siders whether discharges from this project would cause a mea-surable change in receiving waterquality, and, if so, whether theproject is necessary and in theoverriding public interest accord-ing to Tier II antidegradation re-quirements under WAC173-201A-320. Comments canbe submitted to: Department of Ecology Attn: Water Quality Program,Construction Stormwater P.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA98504-7696Published in Covington/MapleValley/Black Diamond Reporteron Febtuary 27, 2015 and March6, 2015. #1255353.

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CITY OF COVINGTON NOTICES

CITY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGTUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015 – 7:00 PM

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Chapter 35A.63.220 of the Revised Code of Washington the Covington City Council will a hold a public hearing on a proposed Ordinance which extends interim zoning regulations for the production, processing, and retailing of recreational marijuana, at its regular meeting on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, at 7:00 p.m., to be held in the Council Chambers at Covington City Hall, 16720 SE 271st Street, Covington, WA.

The purpose of this public hearing is for the City Council to receive comments from the public, both written and oral, regarding a proposed ordinance extending interim zoning regulations for the production, processing, and retailing of recreational marijuana.

All persons desiring to comment may do so in writing to Sharon Scott, City Clerk, at 16720 SE 271st Street, Suite 100, Covington, Washington, 98042 or by appearing at the public hearing on March 10, 2015.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that agenda information will be posted the Friday prior to the above meeting at Covington City Hall, and on the city’s web site: www.covingtonwa.gov. For further information, please contact Richard Hart, Community Development Director at [email protected] or by phone at 253-480-2441.

Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on February 27, 2015. #1255964.

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college by starting full time in the summer of 2014.

But, she says, it’s not all about studying and classes, she also participates in several extracurricular activities. She’s an actor in the drama society for stu-dents with early acceptance and she’s also a mentor for students going through the transition school that she fi nished last spring.

She plans to apply for the engineering major at the end of the year, specifi cally aeronautical and astronau-tical engineering.

Gabi said she’s almost done with the prerequisites for her bachelor’s degree.

In addition to her stud-ies, she’s also getting some hands-on experience.

“Right now I’m actu-ally working in a lab doing research,” Gabi said in a phone interview.

Th e research is in the

realm of mechanical engi-neering and focuses on mi-crospheres. Th e technology developed as a result of the research could potentially be used to create something like an invisibility cloak, she said.

In addition, Gabi has already completed a job shadow at an aeronautical company. Which, she said, should help her with her application for the engi-neering major.

Gabi plans to go to graduate school when she’s done at UW. But, there could be a roadblock in her way and it probably won’t be her grades.

Scott, Gabi’s dad, said she’s too young for a lot of the scholarships for grad school.

“She is going to have to come up with some schol-arships for her school to continue,” he said. “She has the problem of being too young to apply for many of them as they are geared toward the high school seniors.”

Despite the fact that Gabi would start grad school a few months before her 18th birthday and all of her friends would be just starting college, she said she doesn’t feel like she’s jump-ing ahead of everyone.

Scott agreed and said he thinks it’s good timing.

“I kind of look at it this way, she will be starting a new college the same time as many kids her age start.

Th ey will just be attending diff erent classes,” he said.

She also said she doesn’t think she’s missing out on anything by not having the high school experience her friends describe to her.

She said high school seems to be “mostly focused on sports and drama… and I get plenty of that here.”

Gabi still lives in Coving-ton with her parents, Traci and Scott, and her younger brother, Antonio, who has ocular albinism, which makes him legally blind. Gabi must have handed her brainpower down to her brother because he, like his sister, also skipped a grade in school. He’s a 10-year-old sixth grader.

Th e commute for Gabi to get to Seattle can be long, ranging from one to three hours on a metro bus, but it is necessary because she’s not yet old enough by UW’s standards – 17 – to live on campus, Scott said.

Her days are long, too. Gabi wakes up at 6 a.m. most mornings and doesn’t return home until 7 or 8 p.m. Th at’s longer than most adults’ work days.

Being 15, Gabi won’t be getting a part time job dur-ing the summer. Instead, she’ll continue to take class-es at UW, full time. She’s on track to graduate from UW in the spring of 2018, but if she continues to take classes over her summer breaks, she’ll most likely graduate even earlier.

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spreading, an immuniza-tion rate of at least 90

percent is recommended according to the Washing-ton State Department of Health. Th is is referred to

as “herd immunity.”In the Covington, Maple

Valley and Black Diamond area, seven schools have a vaccination rate of less than 90 percent. One of those schools is a private middle school and has a

vaccination rate of 26.9 percent, according to Public Health of Seattle and King County. Th e exemption rate – either for medical, personal or religious reasons – for that school is 6.4 percent.

HB 2009 could move on to the House fl oor for a vote in the next couple weeks.

But, it will likely be met with some resistance because at least one co-sponsor is reconsidering his stance on the bill.

Magendanz said, “Even if I stay on the bill, I may introduce a fl oor amend-ment to address some of the public’s concerns.”

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The dock replacement project is underway at Lake Wilderness Park. The boat launch will have periodic closures the week of February 23-27 as the construction crew removes the old dock.

The project is expected to be complete in late March 2015.

In 2007, the city completed a master plan for Lake Wilderness Park and Lodge. That master plan identifi ed ten diff erent phases of work that were to be designed and built over a 20-year period.

With the recession aff ecting avail-able funding for park development projects, starting in late 2007, this fi rst phase of development at Lake Wilderness Park was put on hold for several years.

In 2011, a fi rm specializing in dock design was hired through a com-petitive recruitment process and a “condition survey” was completed late that year. The results of the survey showed that the dock and pilings were failing and needed to be replaced in the near future.

In 2012, a preliminary design was developed to replace the existing dock in a similar confi guration and add a boat rental fl oat.

In 2013, project staff completed a Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application and fi led that with the state of Washington to start the permitting process.

In late 2014, the project was put out to bid. The successful low bid-der was Neptune Marine, LLC and the city entered into a contract with them to remove the existing dock and pilings, and construct the new dock.

Lake Wilderness Park dock replacement

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All King County and city residents can safely dispose of old car batteries, oil, paint thinner and many other household hazard-ous items at no cost when the Wastemobile begins its 26th year of operation with a stop in Bothell. Following the Bothell stop, the Waste-mobile will be in Covington

March 13-15 in the parking lot of Fred Meyer.

Residents can drop off household hazardous waste items including pesticides, oil-based paints, automo-tive products (oil, anti-freeze, lamps, etc.), fl uores-

cent bulbs/tubes and other items without a charge. Th e service is pre-paid through garbage and sewer utility fees.ABOUT THE WASTEMOBILE

Created in 1989, the Wastemobile was the fi rst

traveling hazardous waste disposal program in the nation. It is operated by the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program and goes throughout the county from the spring through fall.

Household hazardous waste collection in Covington March 13

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wine in moderation might benefit people with type 2 diabetes. People with diabetes must be very careful when consuming alcoholic beverages for several reasons. Drinks with lots of sugar can cause a dangerous blood sugar spike, while drinking on an empty stomach or in conjunction with certain medications can cause a low swing. Now, promising research might offer a positive outlook. It turns out that wine, either red or white, may help the body use insulin more effectively. Still, caution is advised. Low blood sugar and an alcohol buzz can seem the same, so wearing an ID that lets others know about the diabetes is recommended. Diabetics should also be sure to stay hydrated.

Alcohol can affect other medical conditions you may have, like diabetic nerve damage, diabetic eye disease, and high blood triglycerides. Check with your health care provider to make sure alcohol doesn’t complicate any of your medical conditions or interfere with your medications.

For more information, please call Southlake Clinic at (253) 395-1972. Our Covington clinic is located at 27005 168th Place SE. Our primary care providers are supported by a network of multi-specialty physicians and services.

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Since my oldest daughter has been away at college, my water bill has gone down quite markedly, but when she was home this weekend, her shower seemed longer than normal. I went into the bathroom and commented to her how long she had been in there and she said, “Yeah, they’ve gotten longer since I’ve lived away from home.”

How could that have happened when she lives in an apartment with three other girls? Apparently, none of the others shower in the morning like my daughter does. I person-ally don’t know many other people who don’t shower in the morning. I’ve never been able to get away with showering at night because I’m a hot sleeper. Meaning to say, I snuggle up under my down comforter and sweat the night away.

For years, when she lived at home, I nagged my oldest to shorten her shower time. Her excuse when she was in high school was that her long hair took a lot of time between the washing and

conditioning and she couldn’t possibly shorten it. I even bought a timer once so she would be more aware. Th ere was a time in those last few years when I got her down to

about 17 minutes.Now she has short hair,

she lives with other people and her showers have increased in length. I asked her what she was doing in there. She said she was ruminating on the world.

Everyone uses their shower time for some sort of mental exercise: at 4 a.m. my husband uses it to wake up, my youngest uses it at 6 a.m. to help her face the reality that she has to go to school, I use it at 9 or 10 to

go over the tasks I have to complete for the rest of the day. So I understand how solving the problems of the world would take expo-nentially longer than those other tasks.

However, I really thought living with three strang-ers rather than her family would help my daughter come out of her selfi sh, teenage ways of using more than her share. Not only has that plot failed miser-ably, but even her eating habits have become more self-involved.

She’s always been my child who would eat the left overs. Now that she’s not living at home, in order to make sure food doesn’t get wasted, I only cook two or three times a week. I put a portion in the freezer for my college daughter (if she’s deemed it freezer-worthy) and the three of us who live in the house eat a lot of left overs during the week either for dinner or lunches.

When my oldest came home Friday night, she im-

mediately hit up the fridge for left overs as she hadn’t eaten dinner, then again in the morning for breakfast. She poked fun at her sister for reheating only roasted potatoes, but not the pork I served with them, “Way to ruin everyone’s weekend,” she said.

Th is statement irritated me. Not only are her show-ers considerably longer than they’ve ever been, but she feels entitled to all the food in the fridge, because all the food that she person-ally brings into the apart-ment is hers. Th e girls don’t have much communal food.

So what it basically comes down to is we parents spend their whole formative years teaching them how to share only to have all those lessons thrown out the window in six short months of living away from home.

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1. History: Established 50 years ago, the property was once home to a private report and airplane landing strip.

2. Volunteering: Maintained almost completely by volunteers, who will help keep this public garden growing for another 50 years.

3. Botanical Collections: The Smith-Mossman azalea garden is the largest collection of wild collected western azaleas in the world.

4. Native Forest: Enjoy walking trails through 26 acres of protected second growth forest.

5. Open to the Public: Every day from dawn to dusk. Free parking.

6. Plant Sales: Annually on Moth-er’s Day weekend and the second Saturday in September.

7. Docent Tours: Free guided walks on select Saturdays from April through October.

8. Outdoor Classroom: Learn-ing programs for preschoolers, elementary school fi eld trips and community service for high school students.

9. Tribal Life Trail: Learn how native plants were used by Pacifi c North-west Native Americans.

10. Relaxation: An urban oasis of native forest, cultivated gardens and botanical collections in the community, ready to be enjoyed by families and their pets.

Visit LakeWildernessArboretum.org, email [email protected] or call 253-293-5103 to volunteer, donate or become a member.

Top 10 reasons to visit the Lake Wilderness Arboretum

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UNINCORPORATED AREA COUNCIL

MEETING

The Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council

monthly meeting is from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, March

2 at the Maple Valley Fire Station. Guest speaker, Karen

Wolf of the King County Offi ce of Performance,

Strategy and Budget, will provide information on the upcoming four-year major update to the King County

Comprehensive Plan.Members of the public are

invited to attend and can address the area council on

any local issue during an open comment period.


What’s all the fuss about the Keystone XL pipeline proposal anyway? Th e proposed 1,179-mile pipeline from Alberta, Canada, would di-agonally cross Montana and then traverse South Dakota, to Steel City, Neb., where it would be connected to already existing pipelines to Gulf state refi neries.

Liberals don’t like it because it would take tar sands from Canada, causing higher pollution: the extracted oil produces 17 percent more carbon pollution than normal petroleum production, ac-cording to a Nov. 18, 2014, New York Times article by Coral Davenport. Th ey object to the whole process of extracting oil from tar sands because it is environmentally destructive.

Conservatives want it, Davenport goes on, because they say it will create 42,000 temporary, two-year jobs. Eventually, upon completion, the pipeline would create 35 permanent jobs and make the U.S. more energy secure by getting oil from Canada. Th eir argument is that this pipe-line just adds to the thousands of pipelines that already criss-cross the nation.

Th e fact of the matter is that environmental groups have turned the Keystone XL pipeline into a symbol for them. Because the pipeline crosses an international border, the president is open to pressure from these groups not to approve it. Th ey’re seeing the pipeline issue as a litmus test of the president’s loyalty to environ-mental causes, according to Bernard Weinstein, associate director of the Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University in a Feb. 4, 2015, article on Watchdog.org.

Th ese groups are exaggerating the issue of pollution because whether or not the pipeline is built, Canada will continue to process its tar sands into petroleum and then ship it via rail or truck to the west coast, as long as it remains cost eff ective. Of course, with the recent drastic price reductions of crude oil, the issue could become moot.

Th e arguments of conservatives ignore the fact that recently created railroad and trucking jobs would be lost as a result of the pipe construction. Additionally, most of the jobs created by con-struction would be temporary. Republicans and Democrats have turned the proposed pipeline into a political issue to rally their base constitu-ents in preparation for the 2016 elections.

In other words, this whole pipeline controver-sy is not that important one way or the other.

Th e Republican-controlled Congress may soon pass a bill favoring construction, while President Obama has promised publicly he will veto any related bill that lands on his desk. Th e Keystone XL pipeline decision is actually another straw man for larger diff erences between the Democratic president and the Republican-controlled Congress.

All of this emotion, threats and name-calling will continue for the last two remaining years of the president’s term, not because it is in the nation’s best interest but because the power of politics has a much greater voice than rational thinking in the nation’s capital.

Editor’s note: On Tuesday, Feb. 23 President Obama vetoed the Republican bill that favored the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Lawmakers are looking at ways to make the election process cheaper for voters, easier to see who is funding campaigns and harder to run initiatives with fi nancial consequences.

Holding fewer elections, paying the postage on mail-in ballots and new disclosure rules for pop-up political committees are among the ideas put forth thus far this session.

Here are fi ve bills receiving attention from lawmakers that could mean big changes in com-ing election cycles.

Exposing dark money: Senate Bill 5153 takes aim at an emerging force in campaigns — political committees created and funded by nonprofi t associations. Under existing rules, they can pretty much mask their identity and shield the source of their money because of their status.

Th is is a big topic nationally — think Koch Brothers — and it is showing up in this state as well. In 2013, a group called Working Washington dumped bunches of money into passing a minimum wage measure in SeaTac. It took time to track the source of the money to a union-sponsored group. Also that year,

the Grocery Manufacturers Association spent several million dollars to defeat a food-label-ing initiative, then tried unsuccessfully to keep its donors secret.

Th is bill creates a new class of political committee called incidental committees. Th ese would fi le reports with the state Public Disclosure Commission if they spend at least $25,000 in a campaign for a statewide offi ce or statewide ballot measure or $5,000 in a local contest like a county council race. Only those who contribute $2,000 or more to a committee must be identifi ed.

Enough with the advice: House Bill 1323 would eliminate those statewide advisory votes that let voters weigh in whether they like or dislike revenue-generating bills passed by the Legislature. Th ese nonbinding measures are the result of a provision in Initiative 960 which Mukilteo’s Tim Eyman sponsored and voters approved in 2007.

It costs taxpayers to give their advice. Th e text of the bills and the votes of the lawmakers must appear in the voter pamphlets. In 2014, that information fi lled six pages and cost the state $87,761. In 2013, the tab was $164,444 for 10 pages of content.

Election reduction: Th ere would no longer be elections in February and April if House Bill 1379 became law. Instead, there would only be a primary in August and general elec-tion in November with provisions for special elections to deal with recalls and unexpected vacancies.

Elections in February and April are typically

when school districts and fi re districts put their funding measures on the ballot.

Picking up the tab: Some lawmakers worry the cost of a stamp — 49 cents for fi rst class — is a barrier to voting. Th ey’ve drawn up Senate Bill 5344 to require that return envelopes for primary and general election ballots include prepaid postage. Counties would pay and get reimbursed by the state. It might not be cheap.

“Th e legislature fi nds that the postage, while only a small amount, amounts to the poll tax for many of our citizens,” reads the bill.

Hold that budget-busting initiative: Th ere’s a bipartisan uprising to keep expensive initia-tives off the ballot unless they include a means of paying for themselves. Th irty-eight senators — half of them Republican, half Democrat — are proposing a constitutional amendment to turn down initiatives that would knock the state budget out of balance because of cost.

Senate Joint Resolution 8201 must be ap-proved by a two-thirds majority in each cham-ber and then it goes to the people for a simple majority vote.

Voters’ approval of Initiative 1351 in No-vember is pushing lawmakers in this direction. Th at measure requires smaller classes at every grade level. It will cost an estimated $4 billion to carry out and lawmakers don’t know where they will get that kind of money. Th at’s why it’s likely that sometime this session lawmak-ers will act to amend or suspend the ballot measure.

Political reporter Jerry Cornfi eld’s blog, Th e Petri Dish, is at www.heraldnet.com.

D I D Y O U K N O W ? : Pineapples don’t grow on trees, they grow on bushes close to ground that resemble the top of a pineapple.

Keystone Pipeline: A Tempest in a Teapot

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All subjects in the police blotter are presumed in-nocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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reported change was taken from the center console.

• On Feb. 18 while shopping at Fred Meyer, an unidentified male stole the victim’s wallet from her purse.

• The reporting party told officers they noticed plants for sale outside a store had gone missing. The plants had been left out overnight.

• The subject was arrested shoplifting and trying to re-turn items for a profit while using someone else’s identi-fication at Home Depot.

FAMILY DISTURBANCE• The subject was angry

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On Saturday, Feb. 14, firefighters from the Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety responded to a residential fire in the 21100 block of SE 248th Street.

Aiding the Maple Valley firefighters were some from the Kent and Renton Fire Department.

Once on scene, they found an abandoned home with the roof already burned and the second floor engulfed in flames.

The Maple Valley Fire Marshal Scott Webster said because the driveway leading to the house was so long, fire-fighters had to use “1,700 feet of hose to reach the house.”

He added, it took roughly two hours to “extinguish the fire.”

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damages is $300,000.The cause of the fire is cur-

rently under investigation.No injuries were reported.

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Maple Valley Fire & Life Safety respond to a residential fire early Saturday. Damage is estimated at $300,000. Contributed photo

He said he didn’t see a compelling argument to not go with the tax-exempt option.

In the original Citizen’s Advisory Committee report dated June 27, 2005, the committee made recommendations to the City Council at the time for po-tential uses of the Legacy Site. Among those recommendations was the con-struction of a City Hall, a community meeting hall, a performance center and community amphitheater and commer-cial/retail use.

Barnes presented two maps to the council Monday night, both from the original CAC report in 2005.

One map outlined three “potential primary development zones,” or areas that the CAC recommended could be used for private purposes or sold. It also says these zones are the “maximum sug-gested extent” for this use.

“The three areas represent less than 50 percent of the site,” Barnes said. Meaning, “We don’t have more than 50 percent of the land to sell.”

Currently, 50 percent of the Legacy

Site was purchased using the bonds, the other fifty percent was purchased using the city’s money. In the tax-ex-empt structure, this means the half not purchased with the bonds and up to 5 percent of the half purchased with the bonds can be used for private purposes. The rest has to be set aside for public use under that limitation.

As stated at the meeting Monday, the term “public use” can be broadly interpreted. It can mean a library, a City Hall building, a jail, open space and rec-reation center.

In a letter to the City Council dated Feb. 4, former council member Victoria Laise Jonas expressed her agreement with the option to refinance using the tax-exempt structure.

She stated in the letter this option will “continue to protect the vision of this public land.”

To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com. Reach reporter Rebecca Gourley at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.

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Th e Tahoma boys wrestling team placed four in the top eight at the Mat Classic 4A wrestling tournament Saturday.

Tahoma fi nished ninth as a team with 66 points with a second, third and a pair of fi ft h place fi nishers.

Senior Adam Hokenson took the silver medal in the 195-pound weight class.

Hokenson pinned his fi rst three opponents, but lost by a pin to Cody Vig-

oren from Lake Stevens at 1 minute, 48 seconds in the championship round.

Hokenson opened the tournament pinning Ryan Cook from Yelm in 3:27. In the next round Hokenson pinned Donovin McElliott from Ferris in 1:10.

In the semifi nal round Hokenson pinned Aaron Ibanez from Bothel in 2:51 to move into the cham-pionship match against Vigoren.

Individual resultsSophomore Justin Sipila

took third at 126.

Nick Whitehead, a sophomore, took fi ft h at 120.

Ryden Fu fi nished fi ft h at the Mat Classic in the 138 class.

KentwoodTh e Kentwood boys

team fi nished 23rd at the Mat Classic scoring 30 points on four wrestlers in the top eight.

Individual resultsKyle Capperauld took

sixth in the 220 pound class.

Andy Sandhu at 113 fi nished seventh.

Walker Meyers took seventh at 132.

Trenton Harris fi nished eighth at 195.

Girls WrestlingTh ree Kentwood girls

fi nished in the top eight in the Mat Classic wrestling tournament.

At 135 junior Sara Mozeleski took seventh.

Anna Watson was sev-enth at 140.

Sabrina Perez was sixth at 170.

Tahoma finishes ninth

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The first round of the basketball postseason ended Saturday with the completion of the 4A districts tournament.

Boys Districts

Th e Kentwood boys team played the semifi nal round against league rival the Kentridge Chargers.

Th e Conquerors started the game off strong and never looked back, winning 63-41 Th ursday.

Th e win advanced the Conks to the districts championship game to face South Puget Sound League 4A Northwest leader Fed-eral Way.

Th e Conks and Eagles played for the title Satur-day.

Federal Way out played Kentwood and won the game 74-56.

However, the loss did not end the boys’ season.

Th e Conks advance to the regional round as the No. 2 seed.

Kentwood is scheduled to face Camas at 4 p.m. on Saturday Feb. 28 at Puyal-lup High School.

Th e winner will advance to the state tournament beginning March 5.

Th e loser of the game Saturday will not advance.

Th e Kentlake Falcon boys team continued play

Feb. 17 with a 52-47 win over Spanaway Lake.

Th e win moved the Falcons to a loser out game against Gig Harbor Feb. 19.

Kentlake lost the game 60-44.

Th e Falcons were one win shy of entering the regional tournament.

Girls Districts

Th e Kentlake Falcons girls basketball team se-

cured its spot in regionals.Th e Falcons faced Todd

Beamer Feb. 18 in the district semifi nals and lost 49-30.

Th e loss advanced Kentlake to play for seeding against Curtis.

Th e girls won Saturday by two, 29-27.

With the win, Kentlake enters the regional round in third place.

Th e girls will play Sky-view at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28 at WF West High

School in Chehalis.Th e winner will advance

to the start tournament.Th e Tahoma girls season

ended Feb. 18 with its 59-55 loss to Timberline in a loser out game.

Th e loss comes aft er the Bears beat Kentridge 41-34 on Feb. 16.

Kentwood, Kentlake advance to regional games

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BY DENNIS BOX

[email protected]

Tahoma gymnast Tenley Mjelde fi nished seventh all around at the 4A state championship Friday at the Tacoma Dome.

Mjelde scored 36.225 to take seventh all around.

She was tied for 11th on the bars with 8.8.

On the beam Mjelde was tied for 13th with 8.95.

She tied for ninth on the vault with 9.4 and 25th on the fl oor with 9.075.

Mjelde places seventh overall

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Marianne Binetti will present a free seminar, “The Unthirsty Garden,” beginning at 7 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Bellevue Botanical Garden classroom. Learn to renovate a landscape so you won’t need to water. Register at cascadewater.org/classes.php.

Snowdrops, crocus and daffodils can be spotted in bloom this week. These early flower-ing bulbs may be small but they are welcome signs of spring and easy to grow in most landscapes. These bulbs are usually planted in the fall as they need a few months of winter chill to get them in the blooming mood.

The good news for West-ern Washington gardeners is that our climate allows color-seeking gardeners to buy potted, blooming bulbs from the nursery now to add to the garden for instant gratification and years of perennial color. Local nurseries and garden centers now offer spring bulbs in plastic pots much like they do summer annuals. Bring them home, slide the bulbs, soil and roots out of the pot and plant the blooming color into any well-drained site in the garden. You can even leave the potted bulbs in their containers, bury them a bit into the potting soil of your empty porch or patio pots and enjoy container gardens that bloom with early spring color. Once the spring flowers fade simply transfer the bulbs from the pots into the landscape for years of more spring bloom.

Do you think you don’t have room for early bloom-ers in your garden? Think about our pollinators and think again. Pollinators in-clude birds, bees, butterflies and moths that all need the nectar of flowers this time of year for the energy it takes to pollinize the plants and keep us humans alive. Hummingbirds may be the divas of the pollinator crowd but native bees and night-flying moths are also mixing up the pollen and doing their part to create new life. Loss of native habitat has meant the loss of pollinators so it is up to gardeners to save the world and plant more early bloomers.

Here are some great plants to add to your land-scape that attract and feed

pollinators.Lungwart or Pulmonaria

– ugly name, pretty plant. This early-blooming peren-nial likes shade but will adapt to sun. The blue-gray foliage is spotted and at-tractive. In early spring the small, bell-shaped blooms

appear in shades of blue, fading to pink, with some variet-ies flower-ing white or salmon. Humming-birds and bees

dip into the blossoms with gusto so adding just a few pulmonaria to your garden will create a hum from all the pollinators in the neighborhood.

Ribes, Currant or Goose-berry – all are members of the same family and some ribes are native shrubs in Western Washington. These plants flower with lovely, dangling clusters that put a rumble in a bumblebee and put the hum into hum-mingbirds. Many birds love the summer berries but it is the hummingbirds that benefit the most when you add a pink or red blooming currant shrub to your land-scape. You won’t need to keep your artificial feeder filled to get the hummers fighting over a food supply and putting on a show. If you add native huckleber-ries to the mix you might just entice the humming-birds to collect some moss and spider webs and con-struct a tiny nest to dangle from the branches of these under used shrubs.

Sarcococca or Sweet Box is a winter-flowering

evergreen shrub that comes in several sizes from a petite dwarf less than 2 feet tall (Sarcococca humilis) to a more robust version (Sar-cococca ruscifolia) that can be used as a hedge. The big news here is that Sweet Box thrives in the deepest, dark-est shade so it can provide tidy evergreen structure on the north side of a house where moisture collects and moss likes to grow. Plant vanilla-scented Sarcococca and you may never notice the tiny white blossoms that appear in February but you will never forget the strong, sweet fragrance and the many thanks from the grateful pollinating bees and moths.

Forsythia – The bright yellow blooms on this upright, woody shrub will never be called subtle as the flowers appear before the foliage, creating a mass of sunshine color that alerts the pollinators from miles around. You can buy forsythia shrubs dirt cheap as bare root plants but don’t invest in a large specimen. Any forsythia will become a large specimen in just a few years if left unpruned. The smart location for this winter bloomer is some-place in the background where it can grow wild and free and never need prun-ing. A location where it gets at least half a day of sun will force it into flower but the garden gossip on forsythia is that she does not age gracefully. Once the bloom of spring has sprung this long-lived shrub will spend the summer looking dowdy and a bit unkempt. Keep this in mind when choosing a location.

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Conformation: More than a beauty contest, this is where breeders and owner/handlers present their dogs for evaluation based on structure, movement and temperament. After earning enough wins over competition, dogs may achieve their American Kennel Club (AKC) breed championship title. Well over 100 diff erent breeds of dogs, and more than 1,000 total dogs, are presented each year.

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ANIMAL HOSPTIAL2015 marks the 50th year that

Wilderness Animal Hospital has been in business. To confi rm this information was correct, we consulted with two long term Maple Valley residents, and both confi rmed that Wilderness Animal Hospital (formerly Lake Wilderness Veterinary Clinic and Wilderness Veterinary Clinic) did exist in 1965.

2015 is going to bring exciting changes as we plan to expand into the space next to us. One of the biggest changes is the addition of two exam rooms, making it possible to schedule more time for our technicians, including a new service we are adding; cold laser therapy. We are excited to add this treatment modality, as it has many uses to help decrease infl ammation and encourage healing.

We will also be adding a cat specifi c hospitalization ward and a cat only waiting area. The entire clinic is going to be updated keeping in consideration our clients and patients. With emphasis on safety, comfort and best care possible. Look for our Open House which will be scheduled this summer!

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18631 SE 300th Place

Covington, WA 98042

Phone: 253-631-0565

Fax: 253-630-4825

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covington/maple valley reporter, february 27, 2015

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