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BY KRIS HILL
Crews in Covington and Maple Valley worked this week to deal with one of the biggest snow storms in more than a decade.
Steve Clark, public works direc-tor for Maple Valley, wrote in an email that his staff were putting in a number of hours to keep main roads clear in the city.
“Our crews have been working 12 hour shift s to lay deicer, sand and plow snow,” Clark wrote. “Our advance planning, i.e. stockpiling sand, deicer, preparing our trucks for use and being at work prior to the storm, has enabled our staff to monitor and respond to the conditions as they develop.”
A map of Maple Valley’s snow plow routes can be found on the city’s website, http://www.maplev-alleywa.gov/index.aspx?page=415.
Covington’s Public Works maintenance team started prepar-ing roads at 8 a.m. the Saturday before the storm hit, explained Glenn Akramoff , the city’s public works director in an email on Monday.
BY KRIS HILL
With the approval of a 0.5 percent increase in the utility tax on Nov. 22, the Covington City Council gave the go-ahead staff to continue with a major project, its Community Park.
Th is approval, 6-1 with Mark Lanza dissenting, came aft er 2011’s up and down journey trying to budget for the fi rst phase of construction of the park.
Parks and Recreation Direc-tor Scott Th omas explained in an email interview where things go now that the city is collecting ad-ditional tax revenue.
“Th e next steps are to com-plete the bid package and bid the project this winter, probably by March, but that depends on what challenges come up as we fi nalize the design,” Th omas wrote. “We will build the project during the summer and fall, with the soccer fi eld grass planted approximately mid-September. Th e grass roots will get established over the win-ter and next spring. Th e soccer fi eld will open for play in summer
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LOCAL | Dean Smith brings a message of forgiveness [page 3]
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For the 16th time, Tahoma High’s We the People team took fi rst place at the state competition in Olympia Jan. 7, and will go to Washington D.C. for the fi nals.
Out of the 18 years Tahoma has participated in the program, they have only lost twice as fi rst runner up in 2007 and 2009.
“I am really excited for them,” said Gretchen Wulf-ing, who teaches the class at Tahoma. “Th ey worked
incredibly hard and earned it and I’m just thrilled for them.”
Kristen Jamieson said in a phone interview, “It was the best experience of my entire senior year, prob-ably high school career.”
First off ered in 1987, the We the People program is designed as both a senior class and a competition involving teams from high schools around the state. Th e teams are split up into diff erent units which cover various aspects of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
During the competition, each unit, comprised of three to four students, is asked three questions and provided the opportunity to cooperatively prepare a four minute essay response, followed by a six minute individual questioning.
Th e journey to fi rst place began well back in June 2011 when the students were assigned summer work
Sweet 16 for the We the People team
Danielle Neilsen, 12, converts her sled to a snowboard while sledding with her family on the 18th hole of Lake Wilderness Golf Course on Monday afternoon. The hill was a popular place to sled with dozens of kids — who had the day off from school due to the holiday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day — fl ying down in vehicles of all shapes and sizes. KRIS HILL, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com and to buy photos go to the website and click on the photo reprints tab.
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Tahoma High’s Emily Martin answers a question about the U.S. Constitution during the state We the People competition Jan. 7. Photo courtesy of Kevin Patterson [ more TEAM page 4 ]
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Dean Smith wants to help people learn how to forgive.
Smith, a speaker and pastor from Enumclaw, will be at Maple Valley Presbyterian Church on Sunday talking about his own journey which led to the making of a film called “Live to Forgive.”
“I’m preaching both sermons that morning and, of course, the movie at night,” Smith said. “If there’s people out there who have given up on forgiveness, I believe this is the perfect time to get inspired to do it, but, also to learn how to do it.”
Mark Fisher, a pastor at MVPC, met Smith last year at a mens retreat.
“I was a speaker there and we connected,” Smith said. “He ended up watch-ing the movie. He had his leadership team at Maple Valley watch it and it all kind of came in at the same time to their staff.”
Smith’s journey began when his mother was mur-dered by his stepfather, Bob, when he was 12 years old.
He explained that Bob beat his mother to death with a baseball bat.
After his mother’s death, Smith was adopted by a pastor in Enumclaw, bring-ing something to his life he hadn’t previously had: a sense of stability.
“Before that time, my step-dad, Bob, he was my fourth different step-dad and there were a number of other father figures in be-tween,” Smith said. “My life was really unstable and crazy and constantly mov-ing. Then all of a sudden my mom was murdered and I became a pastor’s kid. I became a Christian. I looked like I was super happy, and I was for the most part, but … on the inside I had this very deep seed of bitterness.”
For a while, Smith said, he was able to cope but when he started college that lingering effects of his mother’s murder began to seep out.
“When I got into college I just couldn’t suppress it with humor and not thinking about it anymore,” he said. “I got into drugs and alcohol and got married at 22 then got divorced at 22 think-ing I could have a loving relationship with a woman when I had so much hate and anger. I had become a loser in my own mind… knowing this unforgiveness was eating me from the
inside out.”So, in 1999, he explained,
he tried a new approach.“I threw my hands up in
the air and asked for help from God,” Smith said. “I knew it was going to take a miracle but I was going to give God the opportunity to do that. I started pray-ing, I started going back to church, I stopped doing drugs for the most part. It was a process. I got to the
point where I was no longer angry. I was bitter-free.”
But, that wasn’t enough, Smith said. He felt a pull to do more, so, he began to pray for Bob.
“At first, it was pretty insincere,” he said. “After a while it became more and more sincere.”
By 2005, Smith felt compelled to contact his stepfather, who had been out of prison since 1997 and was living in Tennessee.
“I remember almost negotiat-ing with God, ‘why Lord should I have to contact him to prove I have forgive him,’”
he said. “I felt, over time, that He actually wanted me to help Bob forgive himself.”
So, in 2007, Smith picked up the phone and made the call.
“I say, ‘Hey, Bob, it’s me Dean,’” he said. “There’s a long pause, and he says, ‘I knew this day would come.’
He told me later he thought I was calling to tell him I was coming after him to kill him. I told him I called him to forgive him… and we became friends that day, believe it or not.”
For a year he had month-ly conversations with Bob.
Smith was serving as a minister in his church and every time he would talk with Bob, they would do a little Bible study over the phone.
“I thought things were going great for about a year,” he said. “Then he stopped calling me back. I was hurt. After all that I had done, why isn’t he calling me back?”
Another six months pass. Then Smith got a call from Bob’s girlfriend informing him the man who mur-dered his mother had tried to kill himself.
“I prayed for him,” Smith said. “And I knew this was my opportunity to help him and because of the freedom God had given me, I knew that I could. I decided to fly across the country in April of 2008 and I thought it would be cool to capture this on film.”
Next thing Smith knew his idea for a small video camera morphed into a film crew coming along armed with high definition cameras to document the journey.
“When we got there we couldn’t have imagined we would get the footage that we got,” Smith said. “There were some conversations that the world has never seen.”
At the end of the process, when all of the conversa-tions were on film, it was
cut together and he started showing it to people it took on a life of its own.
It has become a ministry and a movement, Smith added.
Now the movie is avail-able in Christian retail stores across the country and will soon be available in other parts of the world.
“It’s a miraculous story,” Smith said. “Turns out it’s really inspiring people to believe that forgiveness is possible and to take that first step and enter into the process of forgiveness.”
Smith will be giving the sermon during the 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. services on Sunday at MVPC with the movie set to be shown at 6 p.m.
He hopes people will come learn about his journey and take something from it about their own path to forgiveness.
“If there’s people out there who have given up on forgiveness, I believe this is the perfect time to get inspired to do it, but, to also learn how to do it,” Smith said.
More information about the movie, the ministry and the movement can be found at www.livetofor-give.com.
Reach Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyre-porter.com.
Learning to forgive the unforgivable After years of resentment, Maple Valley pastor learned to forgive stepfather who killed his mother, which led to a film based on their conversations
SOUTHEAST KING COUNTY PARKINSON’S DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP
The Southeast King County Parkinson’s Disease support group will meet at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 24 at the Covington Library, 27100 164th Ave. SE Covington, WA 98042.
Kurt Ohlendorf from Cascade Health Care Solutions www.cascadehealthcaresolutions.com will be
attending.
Ohlendorf will be discussing equipment and bringing samples of items to help with effective living. Carrie Key, ACSM will give instruction on at home exercises.
An update on Planning for Emerald Downs for the Parkinson’s Day at the Race track will be given by Stephanie Lawson.
Our monthly lunches will continue to be the 2nd Tuesday of the month at Kent Senior Center, 600 E Smith St., Kent WA, 98030. Next Lunch Feb. 14, 2012.
For additional information contact Rick Pasko 206-841-6728 or Stephanie Lawson 206-579-5206.
Community Note
COLLEGE GOAL SUNDAY EVENTS AIM TO HELP
STUDENTS MAKE HIGHER EDUCATION A WIN
The Kent School District will host College Goal Sunday, a district-
wide FASFA application event for students and families.
FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is the
required financial aid process to become eligible for state and
federal grants, many scholarships and the College
Bound Scholarship.Preparing the pre-FASFA
information at a College Goal Sunday allows students, parents,
and guardians to come in, receive help, and complete the FAFSA
online. A students can also enter a $500 scholarship raffle contest.
Students and parents or guardians are welcome to attend
any event site.Families need only attend
one session.Sessions are set for: Kentlake High, 3-6:30 p.m., Thursday,
Jan. 19; Green River Community College: 1–4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21
Kent-Meridian High School: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22nd
Kentwood High School: 3:30–7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23
“I threw my hands up in the air and asked for help from God. I knew it was going to take a miracle, but I was going to give God the opportunity to do that. I started praying, I started going back to church, I stopped doing drugs for the most part.” Dean Smith
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in order to prepare for both the class and the competi-tion. The students had to read their textbook, We the People, and write answers to the questions found at the end of the chapter, which resulted in seven page responses. All of the assignments were due at the beginning of the first day of school.
According to senior Sadie Nelson, this strategy hit pay dirt when they arrived in Olympia.
“The work we did during the summer gave us the knowledge to use because once the school year started we had to prepare for dis-tricts,” she said. “So we had to be prepared before the school year started.”
Other students explained how the preparation helped in a competition scenario.
“It was nice because we got a background before we competed,” Barrett Weston said. “It wasn’t too rough. It was kind of what conditioned us to enjoy the process. It was definitely a
bit of a chore.”The team also benefited
from previous year’s cham-pions, according to Nelson, as well as study sessions which lasted until 9 p.m.
“Tahoma definitely has a legacy for We the People,” she said. “I think what re-ally sets us apart is Gretch-en pulls in old alumni, so students who have done it in the past come in during winter break and really help us understand what it takes to be the best. She also pulled in lawyers and we worked with a lot of
staff who teach history and English to be an all-around team.”
Weston said the group’s overall knowledge allowed them to tackle questions which may have applied better to other units.
“We definitely did a lot of work with just our unit, but we worked on our chem-istry as a group,” he said. “One of our questions was very comparable to another unit, so we asked each other deeper questions. I think that was a large part of what helped us succeed at state.”
Despite all of their preparation, the students encountered some tricky questions which required them to tailor their answers carefully.
“One of the questions we got was about political parties, which was hard for us because we didn’t want to say anything that was controversial or unfairly balanced,” Nelson said.
Even when they were asked about issues which they were not as informed about, such as victim im-pact statements, they were able to provide educated re-plies, according to Weston.
“It was the concept of the court system we were able to answer,” he said. “In that situation you can kind of give them what you know and it work to your advantage.”
Having won the state title, they will compete at the national event in Wash-ington D.C. in April — if they can acquire the funds to get there.
Up until last year, the program received state and federal grant funding to fly to the East Coast for the competition. This year, however, the students must raise the necessary money due to budget cuts.
“That has been the hard-
est part about this,” Wulfing said.”All the federal money has been cut. We already have scheduled a dance and we will have other fundrais-ing. We just don’t know what yet.”
In order to compete, they will need to raise $1,400 for each of the 22 students, $30,800 total.
According to Jamieson, some of the students are using their senior projects. They held a Halloween dance last October for Tahoma Junior High, which raised $500.
In the meantime, the team will have a few months of breathing space before the next competi-tion.
“It was actually nice be-cause we have such a long time to plan our what we’re going to do,” Weston said. “Gretchen is a huge help getting people together and getting things organized. She’s awesome. Just pretty much staying up to date and expanding our knowl-edge base.”
Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to maplevalleyreporter.com.
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Students are selected by the Ro-tary club based on their school and community involvement, activities, academics and leadership skills.
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“Things have gone well so far. I just received an update from the National Weather Service,” Akramoff wrote. “They are comparing this event to the 1996 event. If you check the history of that one you will find it was a big one.”
As both cities prepared for more snow, with predic-tions of anywhere from
six to 14 inches for the lowlands, Akramoff said he hoped drivers would be smart when on the roads.
“We will keep the Covington streets as clear as possible focused on the main routes and keeping fire and police moving,” he wrote. “Everyone should be prepared for winter travel and stay home if you don’t have to travel. Also do not abandon your cars on the
roadway. It is dangerous to all the traveling public mostly to the first respond-ers and for sure those who are risking their well being plowing the roads to keep everyone else safe. The longer people stay off the streets the faster they will be in better condition.”
Reach Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.
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2013. The trails will open as soon as they are completed this fall. The areas of the park that are not affected by construction … will remain open.”
This year the city will direct about $135,000 to the park capital fund and about $180,000 each year after 2012 for mainte-nance of the park.
One of the reasons the majority of the council supported the ordinance was the city had received about $1.5 million in grants from the state and King County. Thomas spent the better part of two years working to obtain that grant funding.
Thomas stated in October, “The single largest piece of that money survived two legislative sessions. It will not survive a third session.”
That $1.5 million covers a significant chunk of the project’s $2.2 million price tag.
If the city was unable to come up with balance to build the park the grant money
would have gone back.Staff told the council it would have been
more difficult to receive grant money in the future if they were unable to use these funds on the park.
The city has spent about $600,000 in designing and planning the park up to now.
The site is about 30 acres and is a collec-tion of four parcels purchased by the city in 2003 and then brought into King County’s urban growth boundary in 2004. It was an-nexed into the city in 2008.
Phase one includes a soccer field and a trail system. In addition, the long term plan for Covington Community Park includes a plaza, volleyball and basketball courts, a large playground, a plaza, tennis courts and an outdoor performance area along with trails winding around the edge.Reach Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonreporter.com.
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BY TJ MARTINELL
A new interlocal between Maple Valley and the Tahoma School District establishing a new curricu-lum is designed to address two issues at once.
It will allow the school district to create a cur-riculum to educate its its students about storm water pollution, all paid for by
the city.For the city, the agree-
ment helps satisfy a require-ment for a state program it participates in, according to City Manager David Johnston.
“Anytime there is an opportunity to use the Department of Ecology for education we always ask ‘can we work in partner-ship with the high school’?”
Johnston said in a phone interview. “Cities do many things, but because we have a very enthusiastic school, one way we can get to the next generation is to be a patron of their educational process.”
“We’re just really really pleased to be partnering with the city of Maple Val-ley,” said Nancy Skerritt, as-sistant superintendent and
director of teaching and learning for the Tahoma School District. “We believe partnerships are a way to leverage resources, to do outreach. We don’t want the school district to be a silo in the community, so, were really excited about the partnership.”
Under the National Pol-lution Discharge Elimi-nation System (NPDES)
Phase II permit, the city is required to develop and implement an education and outreach program. This program is designed to “re-duce or eliminate behaviors and practices that cause or contribute to the adverse storm water impacts.”
Skerritt explained that district officials hope to have the curriculum fin-ished by June and imple-
mented sometime next year.
“We’ve been working for three years on aggres-sively putting into place core curriculum units to educate our students about the environment and the various issues,” Skerritt said.“And the number one issue is pollution in storm water run off.”
Maple Valley signs interlocal agreement with Tahoma
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About six months ago, Netfl ix announced it would be raising its rates by as much as 60 percent, something that caused a massive public furor among its 23 million subscribers.
I recall reading posts on Facebook and Twitter about it.
Many railed against the rate hike while oth-ers attempted to remind folks that having DVDs delivered to your mail box for eight bucks a month is nothing short of a luxury.
Talk about a fi rst world problem, right?
When the rate changes were announced in July with plans for the hike in price to go into eff ect in September, I was among the angry sub-scribers, but I also saw the point made by those who tried to give the ranting cheapskate movie fans some perspective on the matter.
I was shelling out about $11 a month for one DVD a month with unlimited rentals, so to speak, along with unlimited streaming of digital media over my Wii or computer or whatever device I wanted to use.
We had just dropped down to that plan a few months earlier because we found with having a toddler and both of us working, it didn’t make sense to pay for something we weren’t using.
By the time September rolled around I realized we had a DVD that had been sitting by the BluRay player for more than a month and I couldn’t remember the last time we had streamed a movie or TV show.
Because we used the BluRay option, I paid a couple bucks extra each month, so the price hike would have meant $20 a month for unlimited streaming of content and the one DVD at a
time with as many movies as we could watch a month.
Seemed silly to pay nearly twice as much for something we didn’t even use and likely wouldn’t use anytime soon given our schedules and the demands of parenting.
As a result, I canceled the service, and I was also really annoyed by the price hike.
I didn’t want to pay more when I was trying to eliminate unnecessary expenses from my life. I had cut our cable bill, our cell phone bill, axed my satellite radio subscription and tried to cut back on eating out.
With a small child, a mortgage, a car payment and other bills that come with home ownership it only made sense to be better with our money.
But, when it came to Netfl ix, I was just mad.I tweeted about it, joining in on the cacophony
of “Dear Netfl ix…” posts that voiced displeasure
over the changes, but rather than just complain-ing I made a vow.
With the $20 a month I would not be spend-ing I pledged to put that toward a charitable cause.
My last payment to Netfl ix for services ren-dered was in September.
And I have yet to donate a penny.Yes, my moral outrage petered out pretty
quickly, as did my commitment to my pledge.Th is occurred to me during the morning of
Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I have no idea why. Maybe the posts on Facebook about what Dr. King did to make change got me thinking.
Th en I remembered about a website I read about a month or so ago called DonorsChoose.org.
As a reporter and a fi ction writer, the transfor-mation of the traditional publishing industry has been fascinating.
A mere 15 years ago, the Internet was con-sidered an aft erthought for newspapers, and no one would have guessed it would eventually sound the death knell for brick-and-mortar bookstores such as Borders.
I remember when Ama-zon fi rst proposed the idea of electronic books through the use of a Kindle when I was a sophomore in college. I thought it was a curious novelty. It didn’t occur to me at the time what sort of upheaval such a device had the capacity to cause on the industry.
I recently was given a Kindle Touch for Christmas and already I can tell why people are so enamored with it. It is compact, light and it carries around dozens of books within the space necessary for a small notepad. More importantly, it has changed the way people look at book publishing.
Many authors who once spent years trying to convince a literary agent to represent their book,
and then more time to obtain a deal with a pub-lisher, can now have their book available to just about anyone in the world at little to no cost.
Th ere are, however, plenty of downsides to self-publishing and e-books, as I myself have found out. If you can publish, anyone can publish. Whereas in the past literary agents and publishers performed the role of gatekeepers to what books came out, the gates have been thrown back, allowing just anybody to become an “author.”
Yes, it has allowed many good authors to get their books published. It has also permitted people who have no sense of literary talent what-soever to get their book published.
And the problem is it is impossible for readers to swim through the ocean of titles and locate quality books, unless the author invests plenty of time and money into marketing their novel, which leads to another problem. Oft en, a bad writer can gain attention because they have the cash to blow it on, while a broke, but excellent writer remains relatively unknown.
And then there are writers like myself, who have neither the money, nor the self-promotion skills necessary to successfully market our work. We also don’t have the money to pay a copy-edi-tor to edit all the minuscule mistakes we missed during our 35 revisions.
And frankly, I believe there is a true need for gatekeepers, because there is no way for an author to truly know if their writing is good or poor. Just because your mother loves your novel, which sounds eerily similar to Twilight, doesn’t make it worthy of a reader’s money and time.
Despite all the raving about Kindles, however, I still think there is a demand for hard copies of books. For example, it’s hard to showcase your original edition of a favorite novel when it’s sitting on a hard drive inside of your Kindle. It’s also hard for authors to hold signings for their books if they are sold electronically.
My prediction is that within the next 20 years, most books will be sold purely on an electronic format, and the publishing industry will have shift ed dramatically over to marketing and pro-motion. When they sign deals with authors, they will promote their e-books through advertise-ments and use their professional contacts to get newspaper and literary reviews. Th ey might pos-sibly have the book available for publish-on-de-mand, because in that situation there will be no fi nancial risks, since the book is only published when it is purchased by a customer.
Th ere will still be traditional books, however, except they will be reserved for those which the publisher believes will sell enough copies to bring them a specifi c revenue percentage aft er the costs of publishing are taken into consider-ation. Essentially, the authors who sell millions of copies will still be seen in grocery stores and small bookstores. For the majority of authors, who sell around 3,000 copies, they will be con-fi ned to Kindles and Nooks.
As for myself, I am not particularly worried or concerned, as I write for my own enjoyment and fulfi llment.
If a publisher ever happens to fi nd it worthy of a reader’s eye then it’s simply an added pleasure to a personal passion.
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Teachers can go to the site and submit requests to fund projects in their classrooms. Kent School District educa-tors ask for helping building their classroom libraries, for money for items such as dry erase boards or items called manipulatives that offer hands on learning of concepts or other tools that enhance their ability to help their students learn.
These ideas are simple, inexpensive, creative and innovative. But, there’s not much money in building budgets for them anymore and teachers only have so much spare cash to spend, so they’ve asked for help.
Another website has popped up called SA500 Kids, one which works in partnership with Do-norsChoose.org, which you can find at http://www.oo.com/sa500kids.
There are nearly two
dozen requests for funding from Kent educators. There are more Covington schools on Donors Choose if you want to get hyperlocal in your support.
In any case, Sarah Kehoe, a reporter based in the Kent Reporter office is going to write about SA500 Kids and projects in Kent schools.
Then I remembered another cool concept I heard about when Scott Oki, a retired Microsoft executive-slash-millionaire, spoke at the Greater Maple Valley Community Center’s benefit breakfast nearly two years ago.
He helped start a founda-tion called See Your Impact, where donors give small amounts that go a long way, at a website called seeyou-rimpact.org.
The concept seemed pretty cool to me.
So, the plan is to make $80 worth of small dona-tions in the coming week,
to put my pledge into action.
I am going to donate $80 because it has been four months since I gave Netflix any money. Had I con-tinued using the service I would have paid about $20 a month.
I would be thrilled if any-one was willing to match my donations or would consider finding something in their lives they could cut out for a month of two so they could give a little to some of these projects in our area.
If you think about the huge impact of a number of people giving $10 or $20 could have in a classroom in a local school, it could have a ripple effect into the community and into the fu-ture, so check the sites out.
I know if I can live with-out Netflix and make that change be beneficial to kids then surely you can find a way to do some good too.
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The Maple Valley City Council adopted a legisla-tive agenda that tackled a range of issues from trans-portation to state-shared revenues to commuter and passenger rail to unfunded mandates to economic development funding.
Maple Valley officials will actively lobby on eight issues.
First, the city encourages the State to be good stew-ards of public resources, while at the same time, be cautious of impacting local governments by perma-nently sweeping State-shared revenue accounts. Early estimates of the impacts of potential State actions will impact the city’s budget by approximately $275,000 to $400,000.
Second, support im-provements to the SEPA process—as advocated by
AWC, APA Washington and King County Planning Directors Group.
Third, increase the land size threshold of parcels so that cities could annex unincorporated parcels that are completely sur-rounded by a municipality. The city would like to see this threshold be increased to 175 acres. They also encourage an effort to allow cities time to annex land after a county classi-fies property as urban but before development occurs.
Fourth, adequately fund social service programs to meet the needs of the less fortunate—make the discussion more than just a budget question.
Fifth, through its part-nership with the cities of Auburn, Black Diamond and Covington, Maple Valley supports locating an
Amtrak station in Auburn and actions to meet the growing unmet transit and rail needs in southeast King County.
Sixth, continue the capital investment partner-ship between the State and Maple Valley.
Seventh, resist transfer-ring state responsibilities to local governments with-out adequate funding or resources.
Finally, to work with the cities on providing a thriving and competitive environment to support successful economic devel-opment to help create good jobs citizens.
Along with many other Washington cities, Maple Valley supports action on tax increment financing and tools to encourage successful private-public partnerships.
Legislative agenda adopted
MAPLE VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO HOST ITS 4TH ANNUAL WALTZ GALA BALL FEB. 3
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For tickets and information, please visit www.mvyso.org or call (425)358-1640.
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The city’s financial com-mitment to the curriculum will be reimbursed through an existing Washington State Department of Ecol-ogy Municipal Stormwater Capacity Grant.
As part of the interlo-cal agreement the school district will design a “Storm Water Thinking Curricu-lum,” which will include the demonstration of rain gardens and other green in-frastructure improvements on the school campus and
in the community. The curriculum will be
for third grade, fifth grade, seventh grade, ninth and tenth grade classrooms, as well as provide direct education workshops for the parents of the students.
“What we’re going to do is create a cur-riculum for both neighborhood workshops and student workshops for
the adults in the district,” Skerritt said. “The kids who
were involved in the green teams will have a role. But we’re going to invite families in and educate not just the children, but the adults also on little things we can on landscap-ing, with car washing, to how we deal with our pets.”
Additionally, the curricu-lum will include surveys to
assess how the workshop attendees are implementing the solutions, which will be published and presented to the City Council.
“We’ll be better citizens down the road,” Johnston said. “And we adults some-times need to be educated by our children.”
Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to maplevalleyreporter.com
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Obituary
WILLIAM ROBERT SEARS
William Robert Sears died Jan. 13, 2012. He was born on Sept. 25, 1953 in Redmond, Wash., to Dorothy Evelyn (née Fayder) and Elmer Henry Sears.
He is survived by his loving wife Glenda Sears, his daughter Leeah Sears and son Corbin Sears, as well as many other family members and friends.
He will be dearly missed. Please feel free to sign his online guest book at Cascade-
Memorial.com.
“What we’re going to do is create a curriculum for both neighborhood workshops and student workshops for the adults in the district. ” Nancy Skerritt
What is it with new year’s resolutions that makes them so prone to failure, it’s almost ludicrous to think of making another one? You know how it goes: This year, it will be different! I can change! I will stick to my plans and see them through, no matter what!
No more excuses! And then, a few weeks later (if that long), things fall apart again and everything is back to “normal.”
If this scenario sounds familiar to you, you are not alone. Just one week into the new year, a quarter of resolutionists will have given up, according to Tom Connellan, author or the “1 Percent Solution – How to Make Your Next 30 Days the Best Ever.” In his estimation, about 90 percent of all the promises people make to themselves are forgotten as time moves on.
So, let’s be honest: New Year’s resolutions may be a
time-honored tradition, but you shouldn’t take them too seriously. Old habits don’t break easily. Stop beating yourself up and face reality. It’s not going to be different
this time – or will it?
One of the main reasons why our best intentions often fail is that we rely too much on our own resolve, says
Connellan. People falsely believe that they can make big changes if they are suffi-ciently motivated. But noth-ing could be further from the truth. “People only think in large terms that are often unrealistic – like losing lots of weight or making a major life change. [They] don’t real-ize that even positive change is uncomfortable,” he says.
The trick is not to over-estimate your abilities but to accept your limitations and to begin by taking small
steps in the right directions. That doesn’t mean you’re giving up on your ambitions or lose sight of your larger goals. It just means you have to find better ways to go about them.
Be aware that there is no such thing as a clean slate or a brand new start when it comes to lifestyle changes. You are who you are. Every-one brings baggage. What matters most is not to let negative experiences of the past get in your way as you move forward.
People should not expect to become a “better person” by doing this, that or the other differently, say Judith Matz and Ellen Frankel, both
dietitians, real-life sisters and bestselling coauthors of the “Diet Surviver’s Handbook” and “Beyond a Shadow of a Diet.” “Instead of making resolutions, a better way to go is, every day, cultivate healthy practices in your life that enhance your overall being physically, emotionally and spiritually.”
In other words, don’t com-partmentalize. If your goal is to lose some weight, you should also look at the larger picture. You don’t just want to get rid of a few pounds, you want to be more healthy, fit and energetic. Healthy eating and exercise will get you there, but you also need a mindset that is conducive
to an all-around healthy lifestyle.
So instead of going on another dreaded diet regi-men, come up with realistic resolutions this year. Forget your futile attempts and failures of the past. They only make you apprehensive and fearful of more failures. “Visualize success,” advises Shirley Archer, a fitness and wellness instructor. “How would you look and feel and what would you be able to do if you enjoyed your ideal fitness?” “Don’t be too vague or too large,” she advises, when you set out your goals. While anyone can start a diet or fitness program at any time, in her experi-
ence, it takes approximately two months for a person to change his or her mindset and make new habits stick. A few weeks of dieting and exercising may let you lose some weight, but you need a larger scope to become a healthy person, she says.
This year could be dif-ferent if you take the right approach. You can choose to become the person you envision as your ideal and make the necessary changes. Or you can try once again to patch up things the way you did before, hoping for a different outcome. This is as good a time as any to decide which way you want to go. Happy new year!
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If you have a cold sore, it’s very easy to infect another per-son with HSV-1. The virus spreads through direct contact. Although the virus is most contagious when a sore is present, it can still be passed on even if you can’t see a sore. If they aren’t taken care of properly, cold sores can develop into bac-terial skin infections, and they can actually be dangerous for people whose immune systems are compromised.
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Colton Marlowe and Sean Farr continue to dominate for Kentlake on the wrestling mat.
In both duals last week, Marlowe won the 145 pound weight class by pin, while Farr beat Brandyn Bangsund of Kentwood on Jan. 11 in a technical fall thanks to a series of aggressive shots and work on the mat. Farr followed that up by beating Tilden Sansom of Auburn on Jan. 12.
Kentlake lost both dual meets, however, falling 46-21 to Kentwood and 42-33 to Auburn.
Dalton Meyers, a sophomore from Kentwood who went to state a year ago, beat Kentlake’s Josh Beckler 6-1.
Beckler bounced back in the 132 pound weight class the next night with a pin of Auburn’s Bailey Min-nar with just a few seconds left in
the fi rst period.Kevin Rodriguez had a similar
experience in the 138 pound class, losing 12-0 to Kentwood’s Logan Bearss, then turning around and
pinning Auburn’s Christian Loomis the next evening.
Kentwood’s Jonathan Ohashi, a senior who also plays football for the Conquerors, put together an
11-3 decision over Kentlake’s Matt Nutting on Jan. 11 at 160.
In the 170 pound class, Josh Boekelman of Kentwood beat Chad Johnnie.
At 185, Quinton Trihn, a junior, pinned Hayden Lasher of Kentlake at the end of the second period.
Jon Yarbrough put together an 11-2 victory over Kentwood’s Kyle Capperauld at 195. He followed that up on Jan. 12 with a pin of Stephen Heinze of Auburn.
Kentlake’s Dylan Beale made up for an off night at Kentwood, where he was pinned by Matthew Herrick in the 285 pound match, with a pin in 1 minute, 39 seconds, of Charlie Simms from Auburn.
Walker Meyers, a freshman, put his stamp on the evening for Kent-wood with a pin halfway through the second period of Kentlake’s Aa Saeturn at 120 pounds.
Conor Berlin, another freshman Conk, put together a 9-1 decision over Kentlake’s Nick Smith.
Tahoma, meanwhile, crushed Kentwood on Jan. 12 with a 48-12
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Kentwood High’s basketball teams sure like to play at ShoWare
Center.On Monday both the girls and the boys
squads won in the 2nd Annual Valley Medical Center Showcase, which featured seven games, as the Conquerors posi-tioned themselves for the playoff s.
In the aft ernoon, the Kentwood girls put away Federal Way, 57-42.
It was a close contest in the fi rst half, with the Conks leading the Eagles by six at halft ime, but Kentwood ran away with the game in the second half.
A 26-point fourth quarter for the Conks sealed the double digit victory against an Eagles team that came into the game near the top of the South Puget Sound League 4A South Division.
Balanced scoring, just what the young Kentwood squad has used to its advan-tage much of the season, made the vic-tory all the easier.
Sophomore Jenny Johnson led the squad with 14, followed by senior point guard Maddison Rankin’s 13 points, along with Sarah Toeaina’s 11 while Alexis Berrysmith added 8, Kate Kramer chipped in 6 and Alycea DeLong put in 5 points.
Kentwood played again Tuesday night then will take on Kent-Meridian on Friday.
In the fi nal match up of the evening, the Kentwood boys took on Th omas
Jeff erson, playing it close early, with the scored tied at 13-13 with 4:41 left in the second quarter aft er a Daryon James three for the Raiders.
Th anks to aggressive defense by the Conquerors, the Raiders turned the ball over a number of times on errant passes, double dribble calls and traveling.
Kentwood was able to convert a number of those turnovers into points in transition.
Jeff erson closed a 21-13 Kentwood gap in the second quarter to 23-18 at halft ime but the Conks scored seven points in the fi rst 85 seconds of the third quarter to take a 30-18 lead.
At the point, Kentwood never looked back, extending the lead throughout the second half and winning the game 66-39.
Spreading the ball around on off ense worked well for the boys, too.
Austin Benson, who made multiple trips to the free-
throw line, led the Conks with 21 points on 9-for-11 at the charity stripe. Jackson Huerta and Joe Kramer tallied 19 points apiece while Jeremy Smith and Taylor Jones added 18 each.
Th e win, coupled with Kent-Meridian’s loss to Kentridge earlier in the evening, sets up a key contest on Friday between the Royals and the Conquerors.
Both teams are at 8-3 in SPSL North play and are at the top of the division with Kent-Meridian having won the fi rst match up between the two teams earlier in the season.
Reach Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonreporter.com.
ShoWare Showcase conqueredKentwood boys and girls basketball teams both win
Kentwood’s Alycea DeLong with the ball as a Federal Way player defends her in a game at ShoWare Center on Monday. DENNIX BOX, The Reporter
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Kentlake’s Colton Marlowe lifts Kentwood’s Jamiel Jackson off his feet in a 145-pound match on Jan. 11. Marlowe pinned Jackson. KRIS HILL, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com and to buy photos click on the photo reprints tab.
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FOR MARCH 9Mark your calendars for
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The game is planned for 7 p.m. on March 9 at French Field.
This match up, which is a 2012 grad night fundraiser for Kentlake students, will feature
the Junior girls versus the Senior girls.
Kentlake’s pep band will be in the stands and the Flames, the school’s dance team, will
perform at halftime.More information can be found
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victory.Walker Meyers provided
a highlight for the Conks with a 58 second pin over the Bears’ Colton Jackson at 106.
Ohashi’s momentum continued as put together a 5-3 decision at 160 against his Tahoma opponent, Chris McElroy.
Matthew Herrick defeat-ed Tahoma’s Edwin Torres, 4-0, at 285.
Meanwhile, Todd Link beat Conor Berlin at 113, Tim Whitehead pinned
Scott Willis at 120, Jesse Vaughan beat Abriel Rodri-guez 17-7, Stephen Hopkins beat Jamiel Jackson 12-7 at 138, Joey Palmer put away Bearss, 13-3 at 145, followed by Tanner Mjelde’s 35 second pin of Bangsund at 152.
At 170 Garrett Autrey pinned Boekelman with just seconds remaining in the second period followed by Austin Perry’s 6-2 win over Trihn at 182.
Matt Hopkins pinned Capperauld in the second period at 195.
Aaron Davis squared off
against a familiar opponent in Visa Th ach. Both played football in the fall. Davis won 14-5 at 195.
Tahoma traveled for a double dual against Mount Rainier at Auburn River-side on Wednesday night. Kentlake hosted Kentridge and Th omas Jeff erson while Kentwood played hosted to Kent-Meridian and Auburn. All double duals this week were aft er the Reporter’s press deadline.
Also, Tahoma’s planned non-league dual against South Puget Sound League 3A power Enumclaw which was scheduled for Th ursday has been rescheduled for Jan. 27, at Tahoma. Th e teams will duel in the Battle for the Bone.
Th e SPSL 4A North regular season wraps up Wednesday, Jan. 25, with Tahoma traveling to Auburn, Kentlake hosting Auburn Riverside and Ken-
tridge at Kent-Meridian. Kentwood has the night off . All matches start at 7:30 p.m.Reach Kris Hill at khill@
covingtonreporter.com or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.
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Dance teams showed their moves Jan. 14 in a dance competition at Tahoma High. The Tahoma Junior High team at left is Gabby Bilka, Bri Little (team captain), Karla Rodriguez and Summer Fleming. Above is Kendra VanDuine, Austen Lundquist, Sara Wilton and Ayshane Sivells-Taylorsda. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter
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The third week of January is the start of the gardening season – yep, the Tacoma Home and Garden Show runs Jan. 25 through Jan. 29, followed by the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in February and then a bumper crop of garden shows, plant sales and blooming celebra-tions to welcome the 2012 growing season.
So what’s going on in the garden on in the midst of winter’s dark days? The joy of the winter garden cel-ebrates hellebores, heathers and snowdrop bulbs with
signs of spring popping up all over.
If your own landscape looks bleak this time of year, it’s time to consider adding these bloomers to brighten a January day
Hellebores: The Lenten Rose or Christmas Rose
Here’s a perennial that has gone from obscurity to super stardom without even having it’s own reality show. Hellebores
are woodland plants that happen to love growing in western Washington and are even slug, deer and freeze resistant. Add the fact that they thrive in the shade of
cedar and fir trees and you’ve got the perfect performer for your Northwest winter gar-den.
It is all the new varieties that have made this old-fashioned cottage garden plant suddenly Twit-ter worthy and Facebook proud. A variety named Jacob has pure white blooms
that fade to green and this proud winter bloomer holds it’s blossoms on upright stems rather than nod-ding downward like most hellebores. Another early-blooming hellebore, called Ivory Prince, bloomed for seven months in a container garden on my front porch.
You don’t even need a garden to enjoy the blooms of Jacob the hellebore this month. Local growers have discovered this perennial does well indoors as a tem-porary houseplant. Snatch one up at a local nursery, watch the blooms unfold and enjoy the gentle fragrance. Once the flowers are done you can add this hellebore to
a shaded part of the garden or, if you don’t have a garden of your own, offer the plant to someone who does.
HeathersYou can enjoy drifts of
color from winter-blooming heather and these low, shrubby plants will even bloom again in the summer if you remember to shear off their spent blooms right after they flower.
The secret to growing great heather is to keep the fibrous root system from rotting by not planting them too deep. Don’t use a mulch near the crown of the plants and make sure new heather plants get plenty of water the first summer they are in the ground.
When it comes to adding winter-blooming heather to the landscape the best advice is to visit garden centers in winter and pick out plants in full bloom. Heather propa-gate easily and new varieties are introduced each year.
The tiny leaves and microscopic flowers make this evergreen shrub easy to ignore unless you plant it in the landscape in groups of five to seven or add your
winter-blooming heather to patio pots near the house.
Winter Blooming BulbsSnowdrop, crocus and
dwarf daffodils are all peeking up from the frozen winter ground this month. If you want a closer look at these delicate beauties dig the bulbs from the ground now, set the plant, roots, bulbs and all into a tea cup with a bit of soil and enjoy a tiny garden on your tabletop. In Europe, the nurseries sell bags of moss to drape on top of indoor winter bulbs while they are in flowers. After you fool Mother Nature and force the bulbs to bloom early indoors you can return the spent bulb, foliage and all to it’s planting hole outside and the spent bulb will live to flower again next winter.
All Together NowAdd some winter color to
your planters, window boxes and front entry garden with a combination of hellebores, heathers and winter-bloom-ing bulbs. Poke in some stems of pussywillow or cut branches of winter greens for a back drop of more color and you’ll have a beautiful cure for cabin fever.
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Erwin “Erv” B. Altman Sr., 85, of Coos Bay, Oregon, formerly of Maple Valley, Washington, died on January 9, 2012 at Trinity Rock Island, Illinois.
Erv was born on April 9, 1926 in Dickenson, North Dakota to Arthur H. and Barbara (Meyer) Altman. He married Toni Marie Woods on November 10, 1965 in Alaska. She preceded him in death in 2003.
Erv was a World War II veteran and was a longtime truck driver having worked on the Alaska Pipeline.
He is survived by his children: Cissi (Terry) Leinonen, Milan; Elizabeth McDonald, Coos Bay, OR; Erwin Altman Jr.; George Rossi and Frank Rossi. He was preceded in death by his parents and his daughter, Barbara.
Per his wishes cremation rites will be accorded. Esterdahl Mortuary & Crematory, Ltd. is assisting the family with arrangements. Online
condolences can be left for the family at www.esterdahl.com573799
Priscilla E. FortenberryPriscilla E. Fortenberry, 66, passed away
peacefully January 11, 2012 with her loving family by her side. Born in Kingburg, CA, she had resided in the Covington area the last 44 years.
Priscilla enjoyed going to garage sales and shopping at thrift stores but most of all she was a loving wife and mother who cared deeply for her family.
Survivors include her husband, Wayne of 48 years; daughters, Carrie Lane Fortenberry of
Renton and Kelly Raye McGarvey of Kirkland; sons, Brett (Anika) of Federal Way, Brady (Joanna) of Tacoma, Joshua and Matthew both of Covington; sisters, Lee Lyons (Ron) and Janice Clark, both of CA; brothers, Elmo Hays (Vern) and Jack Hays (Fern) both of CA; 14 grandchildren, Mark, Theron, Jeremy, Rikki, Jeniffer, Paden, Tristan, Zachary, Chloe, Kalen, Hannah, Hunter, Brooke and Aron; 7 great-grandchildren, Mason, Miles, Jaida, Felicity, Sebastian, Madison, and Isabella.
A visitation will be held Saturday from 3-5PM at Yahn & Son Funeral Home in Auburn. Memorial service will be held Saturday, January 21, 2012 11:00 A.M. at Brooklake Church, 629 S. 356th St. Federal Way. Arrangements by Yahn & Son Funeral Home, Auburn.
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King County Fire Protection District #43 (Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety) presents notice of the existence of a “Vendor List” for purchase of materials, equipment or supplies as required by RCW 52.14.110. Interested vendors are solicited to submit their names for the list. While this is a general list, types of purchases would include janitorial supplies, fire suppression supplies and equipment, office supplies and EMS supplies. Respond to: 23775 SE 264th Street, Maple Valley, WA 98038, (425) 432-0200 or the form is available online at www.maplevalleyfire.org under the “information” tab.
Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black DiamondReporter on January 20, 2012.#574800
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