covington/maple valley reporter, january 27, 2012
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January 27, 2012 edition of the Covington/Maple Valley ReporterTRANSCRIPT
BY KRIS HILL
A snow day is one thing but a snow week can wreak havoc on a school district’s schedule.
Offi cials from the Kent School District had to cancel school on Monday due to a litany of weather-related issues from last week’s storms, but all schools had power and were open on Tuesday morning.
Power outages, downed tree limbs and disrupted supply deliver-ies forced the district to take another day to recover from the snow and ice storms which hit the week of Jan. 16.
On Monday, Kentwood High still didn’t have power, along with several elementary schools including Covington and Soos Creek. By late Monday Kentwood still did not have power.
“We also have power lines and downed trees limiting access at a number of schools,” said district spokesman Chris Loft is in an email. “Our own maintenance and operations teams are working
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BY TJ MARTINELL AND KRIS HILL
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Glenn Akramoff was not sur-prised by the ice storm on Jan. 19 that followed on the heels of snow the previous three days.
Experience informed the deci-sion by Akramoff , the Covington Public Works director, to prepare for it even when weather forecast-ers were calling for warming temperatures and rain instead of the freezing rain and snow which arrived last Th ursday aft ernoon.
“We started planning for ice even though they weren’t calling for it as early as Tuesday,” Akramoff said. “Th ey compared it to ‘96 and I was working in the Olympia at the time. Th e next thing that happened (aft er the snow that year) was ice.”
Despite being prepared for the ice storm that led to destruction and power outages throughout the region, including Covington, Akramoff said the recovery isn’t
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Moving from storm response to recovery
Back in school after a week of snow days
Randy Payne cleans up his property near Lake Sawyer on Jan. 21 after freezing rain and snow storms last week scattered tree limbs all over his yard. He said he was lucky none of the buildings on his land were damaged and no one was hurt. DENNIS BOX, 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.
What A Big Mess
BY TJ MARTINELL
Th e Tahoma School Board recently approved a new academic program at Tahoma High teachers hope will allow them to give a more specialized focus to their classroom instruction.
Although it is called the Film
Academy of Tahoma, the two-year program is an integration of language arts, social studies, career and technical education and the arts.
According to Tahoma video production teacher Rick Haag, the academy will start in the fall.
“It’s ready to run,” he said.
Th e fi lm academy is an idea Haag said he has been promot-ing for roughly eight years and is pleased to see that it has fi nally been approved.
“I’m ready to go,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of great staff .”
Th e fi lm academy is designed for 60 students in their junior or senior year. Junior year, the acad-emy will run from 8:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily. Th e students take a video production class taught by Haag, a performance arts class taught by Melissa Corby, Ameri-can Expression taught by Allison Agnew and American Studies taught by Mike Seger.
Lights, camera, academic integration
Aili Carmichael works on a fi lm in Rick Haag’s video production class. The fi lm academy will integrate with English, history and art classes. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter
Film Academy program integrates multiple subjects to be off ered this fall at Tahoma High
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Property Rights for TradeUnderstanding how transfer of development rights works and how the program could affect Maple Valley and Black Diamond
Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series look-ing at the TDR program and its role in land use and development in Southeast King County.
BY TJ MARTINELL
At a time when infrastructure, population density and development are a major concern for cities like Maple Valley and Black Diamond, King County’s Transfer of De-velopment Rights program has the potential to significantly affect future development and growth.
WHAT IS IT, EXACTLY?The TDR program is a voluntary system which allows
landowners to transfer their development rights to another property. In Maple Valley, TDRs have the potential to affect the de-velopment of the Donut Hole site. In Black Diamond, the recently rescinded commu-nity facilities district used TDRs in order to increase the population density allowed for zoning, one of the main sources of criticism by its opponents.
Basically, the TDR program does two things. First, it protects certain rural property from being developed by sending its development rights over to an urban property, which is then allowed to increase its capacity beyond what it was previ-ously permitted.
According to Darren Greve, King County TDR program manager, the system was first started as a pilot program from 1997-1999. In 2000 it was officially adopted by the King County Council as a stand-alone program.
“The ultimate goal of our program is to relocate future development growth away from rural, farm, and forest lands and into existing urban areas, including both cities and unincorporated urban county areas using a volun-tary and market-based system,” Greve wrote in an email interview.
Although King County’s TDR program is essentially tai-lored for the county’s urban growth area, Greve said, many similar programs in the state and nation-wide are based on King County’s version due to its success in protecting rural areas and directing urban growth in cities.
Since it was first started, the TDR program has preserved 141,500 acres of rural and resource land in King County, allowing 2,4767 potential dwelling units to be built in an urban area instead of rural.
HOW IT WORKS
If a landowner wants to sell their development rights, they first have to enroll in the county’s TDR program.
To qualify, they must be able to demonstrate the prop-erty has certain potential, such as agricultural or forestry. It also has to be able to prove the land would provide some form of public benefit, such as regional trail connectors or wildlife habitat. Once their property is considered qualified to be a “sending site,” the owner then places what is called a “conservation easement” on the property.
A conservation easement legally protects the property from being developed. Once the easement has been placed,
the landowner is issued “TDR credits,” which is like a prop-erty deed they can sell to any potential buyers.
A landowner or developer who wants to buy or receive a TDR to use in a development project is required to submit a preliminary plat application.
There are restrictions, however. Only rural lands located outside of the King County urban growth area can be con-sidered potential sending sites. Likewise, only urban lands, located within the urban growth area, can be considered potential receiving sites.
There is no fixed or determined price for a TDR, Greve explained, as the price is set by supply and demand.
“The value of the TDR commodity is based on TDR market conditions,” he explained. “That is, the intersection of price at which a developer is willing to buy TDR and the
price at which a sending site landowner is will-ing to sell their TDR(s). In this way interested buyers and sellers can figure out for themselves what the ‘market price’ is for the TDR com-modity and negotiate openly with current and up-to-date market information.”
Once the use of TDRs in the development project is approved, the county eliminates the TDRs so they cannot be used again.
Successful TDR programs, Greve wrote, are the ones which “designate their TDR receiv-ing areas in places with a real estate market strong enough for the development commu-
nity to want to build and use TDR to increase development capacities.”
BENEFITS
There are various reasons why someone would sell their development rights.
The most obvious is if they wanted to protect their prop-erty from development, but, the TDR program also offers a variety of incentives. For those strapped for cash they can sell their development rights — which they might have never intended to use — in exchange for financial compen-sation, as opposed to selling their land outright, which they are not required to do under the TDR program.
According to Greve, it can also reduce the property tax, depending on how much the TDR is purchased for, although it is not always the case.
“Property taxes may be reduced on a property with a conservation easement because the property’s assessed value may be less since the development potential is removed from the land,” he wrote. “Many of the sending site properties in county’s TDR program are in a “current use” tax status – meaning that they are assessed based on the property’s current use as a forest or farm rather than speculative development potential. Therefore, the conser-vation easement often times doesn’t have an impact on the property taxes the landowner pays. However, property taxes would likely reduce if and when such properties are taken out of their ‘current use’ taxation status in the future.”
Developers, on the other hand, are able to add addi-tional housing units in their projects. In other words, they are able to increase the square footage, height or number of units on the property beyond the maximum number allowed by zoning. After a new policy was implemented in 2008, TDRs now can also help them meet traffic concur-
rency requirements, according to Greve.There are, however, some potential downsides to TDRs,
which will be explored further in Part II.
IMPACTThe King County TDR program has heavily affected
the areas of growth and development, particularly in cities such as Seattle, Bellevue and Issaquah, where growth has been focused in specifically planned areas, rather than spread out. It has also created areas where future develop-ment is an impossibility.
In Seattle, for example, the city used a TDR agreement to protect over 800 acres of rural land surrounding the Cedar River watershed — the city’s water supply — from develop-ment. The development rights were then transferred to the Denny Triangle neighborhood to allow for greater popula-tion density there.
“All residents of King County, including its cities, benefit from the TDR program, as farm and forestlands are per-manently protected from sprawl development and growth is shifted into existing urban areas,” Greve wrote.
The TDR program, Greve added, also has environmental and financial benefits.
“On the financial side this will save the county and taxpayers significant sums by not having to provide remote services to distant exurban development,” he wrote. “On the environmental side, rural open space is permanently protected and forest and farms can continue to provide ecological benefits (e.g. habitat for animals, flood storage, clean water, local food etc.) while preserving rural charac-ter and traditional rural economies such as farming and forestry.”
FUTURE OF TDRS
With the current recession, however, the TDRs market, much like the housing market, has seen a drop in sales. In turn, this has also negatively affected the amount of finan-cial compensation a sending site landowner will receive.
In June 2010, for example, an individual TDR sold for $15,000. At the height of the housing market in 2006, the average rural TDR sold for $30,000.
“The TDR market is inherently linked to the local and regional real estate markets,” Greve wrote. “Demand for the TDR commodity (and subsequently its price) oscillates with the real estate markets. So it is not a surprise that with the downturn in the real estate market we have experi-enced a downturn in the TDR market.”
Greve wrote that the TDR program has begun to show recent signs of buying and selling, but it will take some time before it picks up again.
“Like the real estate market it will be a slow and pro-tracted recovery that may take three to five years before we start to see the volume of TDR transactions like we saw in the years 2004-2007,” he said. “I don’t see the number of TDRs (i.e., the TDR supply) rising very much beyond what it is now until the demand for TDRs rises well beyond the level it is now at.”
Part II will discuss Maple Valley’s TDR program and how it may be used in the Donut Hole and the potential to impact future development in the city.
“The ultimate goal of our program is to relocate future development growth away from rural, farm, and forest lands and into existing urban areas using a voluntary and market-based system.” Darren Greve
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with (Puget Sound Energy) to systematically correct each issue.”
By Monday afternoon, Loftis wrote, there were only three schools in the district — which is the fourth largest in the state and covers a significant geographic area — without power.
The decision was made to get kids back to school on Tuesday.
“Our objective through all of this has been to keep our students, staff, and fa-cilities safe and to get back to regular classroom opera-tions as soon as possible,” said a statement released by the district on behalf of the Kent School Board of Di-rectors and Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas. “Our work is important, our students need us, and our community counts on us. The district is in the process of requesting a waiver of makeup days from OSPI. When we have a response to that request we will be able to finalize the revised calendar.”
Additionally, the board and superintendent signed off on moving a previously scheduled optional day at the end of the first semester from Monday, Jan. 30, to Monday, Feb. 6, making next Monday a regular school day for students and staff. The first semester will instead end on Friday, Feb. 3.
But, it wasn’t just five missed days of school due to inclement weather for Kent students.
The district’s Technology Expo scheduled for Jan. 18 at ShoWare Center in Kent had to be postponed as were several College Goal Sunday events scheduled for last week. The College Goal events were planned to help high school seniors work on federal financial aid applica-tion forms for college.
On Monday, Tahoma School District officials were on a two-hour delay schedule due to icy roads in the early morning hours.
The weather impacted the end of course assessment schedule for algebra and ge-ometry students at Tahoma High and Tahoma Junior High, requiring those tests to be rescheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
According to Tahoma district spokesman Kevin Patterson, the first snow day will be made up Friday, “which would otherwise be a non-student day for a semester break.”
“Other snow days would be made up in June,” Patter-son wrote in an email. “We won’t make a final decision on other options, such as moving one of the waiver days to June and using it as a makeup day, until we see how many cancellation days we have. We probably won’t know for certain (on makeup days) until February, except for the Jan. 27 date.”
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Seniors will have the academy throughout the entire school day every other day of the week. Their curriculum will consist of advanced video production with Haag, APGI (senior history) taught by Mike Seger, Story Development and Screenwriting by Jamie Vollrath.
The intent of the Acad-emy is to allow the teach-ers to focus on their one subject and skill, such as writing in English class,
but enabling students to incorporate the knowledge in their video production class or history class. For example, a student learning how to conduct research in history class will be able to use it when writing an English essay or use their literary talent when writing a script for film class.
By isolating the cur-riculum for each teacher, Haag believes this will help address various problems teachers have been dealing with.
“For years it’s bothered
me that they’ve asked teachers to do things outside of their realm,” he explained. “We’re asking them to do everything, help kids learn how to read, do math, learn science, and those are not our specialty. What makes the most sense is when teachers can be specialized in their subject area, so the history teacher can take on the history and how to do research on it. And the English teacher can focus on how to teach students to read and write and format and how to ap-
ply that knowledge. I get to focus on my specialty in the technology area and how to use technology as a tool, to demonstrate their knowl-edge and skills in social studies and English.”
Haag first thought of the idea when he took a class to the Sundance Festival.
“As I was seeing the process I stopped and thought how can I bring things to the next level? I’m not a writer. I haven’t been trained on how to help kids on story line. So the first idea was to get connected
with an English teacher,” he said.
Haag approached Voll-rath, who taught a class called Film is Literature, who he felt shared his views.
The eight year timeline between the idea and the academy’s approval by the school board, Haag explained, involves a lot of consideration and solving various problems within the school’s class scheduling.
“Part of it is to do it and to do it right,” he said. “There has to be a lot of thought in the process, a lot of planning. The environ-ment has to be right. If you try to force something and push it through quickly there’s a good chance that you’re not going to be prepared. So we want to make sure what we’re doing is right. And anytime you do something new there are questions, there are prob-lems. It creates scheduling issues, it also creates issues with classes offered in other departments. We tried to make out any possible is-sues. Teachers understand the power of this type of power.”
After they had the tech-nical dilemmas solved, they also planned to introduce the Academy when a new building was constructed for the school, something which never materialized, and in 2009 they finally decided to move ahead without it.
The Tahoma Joint Lead-ership Council eventually approved the academy in December, and the school board gave its approval earlier this month.
“The school board and the administration have been very supportive of the program,” Haag said. “They understand the value that we offer students.
For the academy to suc-ceed, however, it will need 60 students to register for it in February, when they are signing up for their 2012-2013 classes.
“It’s important that there’s a good match between the students and the programs because it is a two year program,” Haag said. “It’s important for thekids to really think about their future and what they want to do post-second-ary.”
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going to be easy.“I’d rather have two feet of snow than deal with ice,” he
said. “It’s just very difficult and very risky and it’s a scary thing listening to those trees pop as you’re driving down the road.”
In addition to the efforts of Covington and Maple Valley public works crews, entities from throughout the region responded to the hazards created by the storm ranging from Washington State Patrol to Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety, Kent Regional Fire Authority and Mountain View Fire.
Covington and Maple Valley have an interlocal agreement with their public works departments, which has them aid either city if they encounter difficulty handling any problems clearing up their roads and streets. This interlocal agreement allowed them to make improvements to the roads during the summer. Covington also replaced its old four yard dump truck with a new truck retrofitted with snow and ice equip-ment.
Covington city staff from all departments helped support the efforts of public works crews, Akramoff said, by work-ing 10 or 12 hour shifts in the city’s emergency coordina-tion center on Jan. 19 and Jan. 20, taking reports of fallen trees, cable and power lines.
“All hands were on deck,” Akramoff said. “Our team certainly came together, we had people from community development out in the field, we had finance and our executive department helping to run our ECC. Everyone kicked in to help us.”
And staff worked to deal with the emergency situation created by the weather.
“We had trees fall on five homes,” Arkamoff said. “We were able to identify those fairly quickly. The maintenance crew stayed out plowing roads… until Friday at 5 p.m. because there was still slush on the roads. Most of the plowing on Fri-day was plowing snow away from catch basins so we wouldn’t have flooding.”
City staff worked with Puget Sound Energy to partner with Covington Christian Fellowship to open an emergency warm-ing shelter for those still without power.
“It was about 1 p.m. on Saturday that we shut down our op-erations to give our guys some rest before we hit our recovery
period,” Akramoff said. “We’ve kind of been supporting the shelter in minor ways over the weekend.”
Now it’s time to prepare for recovery and post-storm clean up.
“People are very patient with response. People know you’re doing your best,” Akramoff said. “People
are not as patient with recovery because they want their power on, they want their cable on, they want their
streets cleaned up. Recovery is the hardest because it takes the longest.”
Akramoff foresees a three week recovery period.A full-time crew of four staff will work on clean up, but,
the public works director said, Covington has also brought in temporary emergency workers to assist.
Crews will start on the west side of the city and work their way east and will go street by street with dump trucks and back hoes to clear fallen trees as well as debris. That will be followed by a street sweeper later to get smaller debris.
There could be anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 cubic yards of debris to clean up over the coming weeks.
“When we’re in an emergency, that’s what we’re here for,” Arkamoff said. “People count on us to do our day to day activ-ity and keep the city running. When it comes to a situation
like last week, they expect us to shine… and I think every en-tity to PSE to all the cities to the county, to the state, all worked to make sure they did the best they could.”
In Maple Valley, crews worked to clear six inches of snow off 30 miles of streets with sand, deicer and salt, while at the same time carefully monitoring the National Weather Service updates, according to Public Works Director Steve Clark.
The public works department also kept in commu-nication with Maple Valley Life and Fire Safety. Opera-tions ceased on Jan. 20. Clark said the storm will cost the city approximately $30,000.
At the Maple Valley City Council’s meeting on Monday, Clark stated the city benefited from preparations that had been made during the late fall, as well as the their new maintenance facility located at Southeast 264th Street. The city purchased the 2.79 acre property for $1.1 million in November.
“Overall, I think we were well prepared to respond to this event,” Clark said. “We had the pieces of equipment ready to go. It really elevated morale.”
Meanwhile, emergency responders also had to contend with accidents in the area due to fallen trees and poor road conditions.
From Jan. 17-19 the Washington State Patrol reported 10 collisions, nearly all of them on state Route 18, which was eventually closed due to the number of fallen trees.
Kent Regional Fire Authority spokesman Kyle Ohashi stated that on Thursday, Jan. 19 he received nearly 500 non-emergency calls. Kent Fire provides service to the city of Covington.
Between Jan. 17-23 Mountain View Fire and Rescue, which serves Black Diamond and surrounding unincorporated areas, received 161 calls, when it normally receives around 20, according to department spokesman Tim Perciful.
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COVINGTON ARTIST ACCEPTED TO STATEWIDE ART SHOW
Covington artist Elinor Maroney has been accepted into the 2012 CVG Show, a statewide juried art show held at the Collec-tive Visions Gallery in Bremerton.
Her artwork wall sculpture titled “Tree Pods” is one of 136 artworks chosen from more than 800 works submitted by artists
throughout Washington state by exhibition juror Kathleen Moles, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Museum of Northwest Art in LaConner. Accepted artists will be competing for $6,000 in cash prizes plus potential purchase awards and will be on display at CVG from Jan. 28 through Feb. 25. Maroney is a local clay artist whose studio is in her home near Cov-ington. Much of her work is functional but for galleries she is doing wheel thrown and altered work for wall installations.
She has a Master’s in Fine Arts in Ceramics from Antioch College and teaches for Seniors Making Art in the area. The Collec-tive Visions Gallery is located at 331 Pacific Avenue in downtown Bremerton and will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. on Sundays during the exhibition.
The public will have the opportunity to vote on a $300 People’s Choice award up to 5 p.m., Feb. 24. A public reception is set for 5 p.m. on Feb. 3 during Bremerton’s First Friday Gallery Walk.
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Every time a storm rolls through like the one we had last week I park my rear-wheel-drive Mustang in the garage.
Th is year I was fortunate enough to have my mother-in-law’s 2006 all wheel drive Chevy Equinox at my disposal so I was able to get around.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I can drive my Mustang in the snow but I love my car and don’t wish to endan-ger it among the motorists who don’t know how to drive their AWD or four wheel drive SUVs in the white stuff .
Plus, it’s no fun slipping around or getting stuck, nor is chaining up to get out of my neigh-borhood then removing the chains once out on the main roads.
Still, it’s not really the snow that gets us around here. It’s the ice that inevitably comes along with it — on the hills we have all over the region — that can cause problems.
Or the crazy thing that happened on Jan. 19 when we were all expecting it to warm up and rain.
Instead, we got freezing rain then snow on top of it, something none of the weather forecasters predicted.
In fact, Cliff Mass, a meteorologist and profes-sor at the University of Washington (whom I consider the go-to weather expert when things get extreme) even essentially said, “Oops, our bad,” on behalf of weather forecasters.
OK. Actually, what he said on his blog, cliff mass.blogspot.com, “Well folks, this is not my profession’s fi nest hour. We had forecast the continuation of the light freezing drizzle of yes-terday (an irritant, but not a major threat) and then a warm-up today with rain coming in late. Our models did not indicate that the precipita-tion would move so far north, so fast.”
I would bet, however, based on numerous dis-cussions about weather preparation with Cov-ington’s Public Works Director Glenn Akramoff , that he wasn’t surprised at all by the turn for the unexpected worst.
Back in December 2008 Akramoff told me his staff tried to be ready for any other potential circumstances that could follow snow as the
weather changed such as fl ooding as the tem-peratures rose, freezing rain or wind storms. I am pulling that directly from a sentence I wrote in a story dated Dec. 18, 2008, the last big, nasty snow storm I remember.
Last week was crazy to me because I felt even more of an outsider looking in than normal.
I was able to get to work and drive around in the weather thanks to the Equinox (and, I won’t prevaricate, I love driving in the snow with the right vehicle). My house lost power but for little more than 24 hours.
At fi rst, the snow was a lovely thing, as it coated lawns and hillsides with the perfect stuff for snowmen as well as sledding while leaving the roads passable.
It fi rst arrived when kids weren’t in school. But then it kept kids out of school in Tahoma for four days and Kent for fi ve. Th en the power went out. We all saw the trees laden with ice and it wasn’t long before they started breaking under the weight of the frozen rain along with snow, taking out power lines, littering the road with limbs causing greater disruption than the snow.
In the midst of all that, the Los Angeles Times had the chutzpah to call Seattlites “snow wimps,” send a surge of outrage regarding the apparent hypocrisy rippling through social media and local news outlets.
Yep, other media wrote stories about how the
LA Times wrote a headline calling us out up here in rainy Seattle, something which kind of made me chuckle. Still, I agree with the outrage. Ad hominem attacks don’t belong in headlines, especially for stories about weather. Seriously. Shame on the LA Times.
As I write this on Monday aft ernoon, I know folks in East Kent who still do not have power, while most in Covington and Maple Valley have it back.
Still, by the time this column hits print, clean up may still be under way around the region as well is in our own communities.
In the end, this is why I park my Mustang somewhere, because Mother Nature is unpre-dictable at best and downright cruel at worst.
Somehow, though, we all manage to get through it and with each big storm we all learn something.
And it’s late January, so, it’s entirely possible we could have another storm of some kind so I hope you’re all prepared.
It’s one thing to know how to drive in the snow, how to steer out of a skid aft er hitting a patch of hidden ice, but it’s another thing entirely to get through more than a day or two without a power. Especially, when like me and many of my neighbors, you have pets and young children, so that’s an area where I will try to be better prepared.
For a while I have desired to write a column about how technological advances, particu-larly within the Internet, have the potential to aff ect the role and man-ner in which a reporter operates.
Th e Internet, as most of us have seen, has radically changed the way many businesses conduct their day to day aff airs. My fi rst observa-tion of this was when a family I knew moved out of Bellevue because their father had a job working for a company that used the Inter-
net for most of its work and communication. As a result, the father had the greatest of all job benefi ts; he was able to pick whenever he wanted to live in the country.
So, naturally, he chose to live in Leaven-worth, the most beautiful area in Washington.
Th en there is one of my family friends, who used to go to work at a huge building like ev-eryone else. Due to the Internet, however, the company cut out the unnecessary overhead costs and closed his offi ce. Now, he has the pleasure of working at home.
Another instance which piqued my curiosity on the matter was when King County Sheriff Sue Rahr discussed the closing of Precinct No. 3 in Maple Valley. Technology, she explained, allowed the deputies to complete most of their work from their laptops in their vehicles, re-moving much of the need for a precinct offi ce.
I believe that in the future, traditional media will begin to move in this direction, as well. Although there is still the ironic “Daily Planet” image of a newsroom, with people
either running around or pecking away loudly on typewriters, the reality is newspapers more resemble the quiet cubicle environment of Offi ce Space.
Th e trouble with writing about this was that I could never fi nd a specifi c example of how reporters have done this which was applicable to the area.
Th anks to the snowstorm last week, I do.Although I was able to make it down to
Maple Valley on Tuesday and Th ursday, the weather conditions kept me in Bellevue for most of the week. Fortunately, I was still able to call fi re departments and the Washington State Patrol, as well as receive updates about the weather conditions of the roads. Modern technology allowed me to publish my stories online and follow hour-by-hour updates on the Washington State Department of Trans-portation website, as well as Tweets by local fi re departments. Even though I wasn’t able
● Q U O T E O F N O T E : ”Pig-Pen, you’re the only person I know who can raise a cloud of dust in a snowstorm.” - Charlie Brown
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The city of Black Diamond Public Works Department is not able to provide collec-tion of residential or business storm debris. However, there are some local options residents can use to dispose of storm debris.
Residents who subscribe to curbside yard and food waste can put storm debris into their yard carts.
The material cannot be larger than 4 inches in diameter or 4 feet in length; weight varies by container size and hauler. Allied Waste will accept a double load of yard waste even if your last yard waste collection was not missed.
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Cedar Grove Composting is located at 17825 Cedar Grove Road SE, Maple Valley. They are reducing their fee for storm debris to $10 a ton with a$10 minimum.
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Pacific Top Soils is located at 21700 SE Lake Francis Road, Maple Valley, WA 98038 accepts storm debris. Fees are $20.60 per cubic yard and hours are Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., closed Saturday and Sunday. Customers have to unload their own material at this facility.
Clean up and hauling options: Firms that will pick up and haul debris for a fee can be located at King County’s “What do I do with?” website.
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to get my car out of my own neighborhood cul-de-sac, I could keep people in Maple Valley, Covington and Black Diamond informed of the situation (those who had power, at least).
I see journalism, specifi-cally community journal-ism, moving to the point where newspapers won’t have an office in a tradi-tional sense.
Reporters and editors won’t begin their day by coming into a specific building. They will operate out of their homes and cars or wherever they choose to set up their work station, resembling a
freelance reporter lifestyle. Now that phones have Internet access, stories can be allocated through email and Skype will allow editors to hold meetings and conferences with their reporters at any time or location.
I can’t predict for cer-tain what will befall print versions. Frankly, I think national and international newspapers will eventually all go online.
But regardless there will be a shift, gradual or dramatic, towards online publication. This will have a huge impact on the concept of “deadline.” Rather than trying to fin-ish a story to make a press deadline, reporters will
have a “deadline” defined by the timeliness and originality of the story.
Also, with phones now acting as little computers, at some point reporters will be able to interview, write, photograph, film and publish, as well as update their Facebook and Twitter accounts with their phone.
Like everything in life, I see this future bringing with it both a blessing and a curse.
The blessing is that it would allow reporters to cover issues during a crisis, like the snow storm, when they might not be able to do otherwise. Had I lived in Maple Valley, I may have lost power and
not been able to do much of my work, either due to a lack of electricity, or because I may have had other distracting issues to deal with it, such as a tree falling down on my house. This has also allowed less people to do more work with greater speed and efficiency.
The massive downsiz-ing of newspapers has been due to the fact that reporters are now required to be a jack-of-all-trades who can write, copy-edit, photograph and publish.
The potential curse, however, is putting all one’s eggs into a single basket, that basket being the Internet and phone satellites. If Internet or
phone connection goes down, a newspaper can find itself in a bit of trouble.
There is also the poten-tial that it could contrib-ute to poor journalism skills. Some news outlets may try to use technol-ogy as an excuse to never actually visit areas they report on, culminating in a noticeable disconnect between the media and the community.
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FLED IN STOLEN CAR: 27600 block of 220th Court Southeast. A deputy was dispatched to a home shortly after the victim heard someone turn on the engine of his 2004 Ford E350 van while it sat in his driveway before the suspect then drove off in it. The suspect attempted to elude police before eventually being caught.
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BY TJ MARTINELL
The Black Diamond Historical Society will offer tours of the ghost town of Franklin at noon on Sat-urday, Feb. 4 and Sunday, March 4.
The tour group will meet at the Black Diamond His-torical Museum, located at 32627 Railroad Ave., Black
Diamond. The tour will leave at 1 p.m. in a caravan style and drive about three miles to Franklin, which is located by the Green River Gorge.
There is a suggested donation of $5 for adults. Seniors, veterans and children under the age of 12 are free.
Don Mason, the “mayor” of Franklin, stated he
intends to emphasize several historical events and themes for this year’s tour.
Formed in 1886, Franklin was a coal mining town of about 1,000 people. The di-verse population consisted of immigrants from Wales, Italy, Slovenia, and Sweden.
But one of the most interesting ethnic groups in Franklin were African Americans who were hired
by the coal company in 1891 to break a union strike.
When the black miners arrived in Franklin they were greeted by company men who handed them all firearms and told that there were violent Indians in the region. They went to the mines where fences had been placed around it
to keep the striking miners out.
A conflict occurred as a result in July, in which two men were killed, and the National Guard had to be brought in to restore order.
Yet, the racial tensions settled quickly afterwards, according to Mason.
“There was some fric-tion, but it wasn’t company
sponsored, it wasn’t union sponsored. It was individu-als,” he said.
Mason added that there was no racial segregation in Franklin while there was in most cities in America at the time.
“No where else in Amer-ica would you find black kids going to school with
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white kids,” he said. “It’s just something. The company provided a doctor. There wasn’t a black doctor and a white doctor. Just a doctor. When the strike ended they kept all the blacks. They didn’t fire them.”
The other issue Mason plans to discuss more is the
opportunities the immi-grants had when they came to Franklin.
“Immigrants coming to America came here for op-portunities,” he explained. “As a farmer in Italy or Slo-venia, there was no oppor-tunities for advancement. In Franklin, they made enough money to buy a
home, to buy property, send their kids to school. They weren’t hungry. They had opportunity for advance-ment. When we were inter-viewing the people who had grown up in Franklin, it came up every time.”
Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to covingtonreporter.com.
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MAPLE VALLEY APPROVES $20,000 FOR NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT PROGRAM
As a part of the its 2012 budget, the Maple Valley City Council approved $20,000 for its Neighborhood Reinvest-ment Program.
The program is designed to provide funding for citizen group objects that improves the livelihood and safety of their neighborhoods.
According to Deputy City Clerk Bonnie Barney, this pro-gram was cancelled last year due to budget cuts, but the financial situation allowed it to be reinstated.
Past grants have been used for projects such as neighbor-hood public park enhancements, street lighting, habitat restoration and landscaping.
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Community Note
BY DR. JASON BRAYLEY
For The Reporter
Having been a lifelong, sun-loving Californian, who spent as much time on my road bike as humanly possible on a year-round basis, moving to the North-west was a big deal. I made a pact with myself that I would not give up on my hobby of cycling despite the weather and decided to give a new discipline of bike riding a try.
For those of you not familiar with the sport of cyclocross, let me give you a brief tutorial about this crazy form of bike rac-ing. Cyclocross racing has roots that are deeply set in the cold and wet winters of northern Europe. Many years ago, one of our cycling forefathers decided that bike racers could stay fit in the fall and winter months by putting knobby tires on their road bikes and racing over muddy courses that were filled with obstacles of all shapes and sizes.
My first season of cyclo-cross was fantastic until I hit a muddy rut I didn’t see, falling hard on my rear end and tearing some fibers of gluteal muscle tissue off the back of my femur bone.
No problem, I thought. This will get better soon.
Now comes the part that I’m ashamed to admit: For the next 18 months of my clinical practice, I preached much more than I person-ally practiced. Every day, I would see patients with sore knees, clicking hips, or any other manner of musculo-skeletal issue that prevented them from leading a com-fortable life. Day after day and patient after patient, I would extol the virtues of taking time to engage in physical therapy and recondition the body back
to a point where pain would no longer limit a healthier life -- except for me.
I told myself I didn’t have time for it. My job and time with my family were more important than taking care of my own needs. I con-vinced myself that my body would fix itself, and recov-ery would be as speedy as when I was 15 years old.
My symptoms reached a point that I could no longer tolerate, and I carved some time out in my schedule to have a physical therapist de-vise a plan for my rehabili-tation. “Great,” I thought. “Finally I will commit myself to getting this problem fixed.” Three days into my treatment plan, life threw another curve at me when I received a call from my sister telling me that my father had a heart attack and would need a four vessel bypass surgery. Sud-denly, the hip didn’t matter so much anymore and I was on the way to California to spend time with my dad.
I spent hours in the hos-pital with my dad that week before and after his surgery. I was lucky I still had the chance to do it. Things don’t always turn out well
with heart attacks. Now in my late 30s, I realized that despite the years I had spent in medical school, residen-cy, and fellowship training to be a physician, I had never really taken time to consider my own personal risk for elevated cholesterol and the potential for devel-oping heart disease. I sud-denly realized that in order to take complete ownership of my own health, care for other patients in need, and provide for my family, I would have to put all of the stresses I thought were more important on hold and spend even more time investigating what I could do to improve my health. I couldn’t wait this out like I did my injuries from cyclocross.
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Class 4A all state teams, as voted on by Washington State
Soccer Coaches Association members and other high school
coaches across the state of Washington, includes players
from Kent and Tahoma schools.MVP – Brie Hooks, Midfi eld –
Tahoma First Team
Midfi elders – Brie Hooks, Tahoma
Defenders – Laura Rayfi eld, Kentlake; Sara Bindl, Kentwood
Second Team Midfi elders – Reilly Retz,
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Honorable Mention Forwards – Mykala Benjamin,
Kentwood; Mackenzie HenkeTahoma
Midfi elders– Callen Shelton, Kentlake
Defenders – Madison Fuller, Kentwood
BY SARAH KEHOE
It was watching Olympic gym-nasts on YouTube
elegantly moving on the balance beam that made Delanie Cornwell want to be a gymnast.
“It looked so cool and I wanted to learn how to do everything they did,” said Cornwell, 18.
Cornwell started gym-nastics in seventh grade, falling in love with the sport right away.
“At fi rst everything was just fun and not taken too seriously,” she said. “Th en I went to high school and it’s still fun, but we have to work really hard and prepare ourselves more, which I like better.”
Th e senior at Kent-wood High School is excelling this year and is meeting the goals she set for herself in the past few meets. During her last invitational meet against Auburn Mountainview High School, Cornwell took third place in the balance beam and bars.
“Th e pressure from the meets is a good thing for me because it pushes me to be better,” she said.
Cornwell credits her coaches, teammates and work ethic for her success.
“Th ere are some
things that come easily to me, but some things that take awhile,” Cornwell said. “Luckily I have great coaches that encourage me at every moment and that helps a lot. Also, there are some girls that have been doing gym-nastics since they were fi ve and they have a lot of advice for us.”
Cornwell’s coaches are impressed with the positivity she brings to the team.
“She always has a great attitude and is such a hard worker,” said Coach Ann Diaz.
Cornwell is also enjoy-ing the role of captain this year.
“I really like help-ing the girls out and having them come to me with questions,” she said. “What keeps me motivated the most is feeling that all these girls are relying on me. All my teammates are really talented and will accom-plish great things.”
All the girls on Cornwell’s team are close friends.
“Th e best part of being on the team is the girls,” Cornwell said. “We become like a family be-cause we spend so much time together and go through similar things. We never stop talking aft er the seasons ends,
so, it’s really a lifelong friendship.”
Cornwell hopes to take her talents to col-lege.
“I know that no matter what happens I will keep gymnastics a big part of my life,” she said. “But I do hope to make it onto a team in college.”
In addition to gym-nastics, Cornwell enjoys outdoor activities such as snowboarding, wake-boarding, camping and swimming.
“I just like to do anything active basically,” she said.
Cornwell took ad-vanced placement classes last year and is enrolled in running start classes at Green River Com-munity College this year. She has already received academic scholarship off ers from Oregon State University, University of Idaho and Washington State University.
“I’m not sure what the future holds, but I do know I will be coming back to Kentwood to watch gymnastics meets and keep in touch with everyone,” Cornwell said. “I love this sport and all that this team has given me.”
Kentwood hosts the All City Meet on Satur-day aft er the Reporter’s deadline.
PROPELLED TO SUCCESS Kentwood’s Delanie Cornwell brings positive attitude to Conks gymnastics
Kentwood’s Delanie Cornwell works on a routine on the bar during practice Tuesday afternoon in preparation for a meet on Saturday. SARAH KEHOE, The Reporter
BY KRIS HILL
No school for a week for Kent and Tahoma students also meant cancellation of a number of sporting events.
Kent’s four high schools and Tahoma High are all
part of the South Puget Sound League 4A North Division.
As everyone digs out from the storm that hit last week, coaches and ath-letic directors spent Monday sorting out
when they would make up boys and girls basketball, boys swim and dive, gym-nastics and wrestling events canceled last week.
Dave Lutes, athletic director for the Kent School District, wrote in an email interview on Sunday that
decisions would be made early in the week.
“The individual league sport com-missioner might set
out a recommended date for blocks of games
to be re-scheduled,” Lutes wrote. “However, typically the league allows the indi-vidual schools to commu-nicate and determine final decisions based on facility availability and other re-spective schedule factors.”
Lutes said his office would re-post revised schedules on the SPSL (www.spsl.org) and Kent School District (www.kent.k12.wa.us) websites as in-formation became available.
Tony Davis, athletic director for Tahoma High, wrote in an email on Jan.
20 that the Bears basketball games against Thomas Jef-ferson that were canceled on Jan. 20 will instead be played on Satur-day, Feb. 4.
Tahoma’s wrestling squad rescheduled its double dual with Mount Rainier and Auburn Riv-erside for Monday while its Mat Clas-sic tournament planned for Jan. 21 was canceled.
For boys swim and dive, the SPSL non-qualifier meet set for Jan. 21 was resched-uled for Thursday while the league dual meets planned for last week would be re-scheduled for this week.
In addition, Lutes wrote in an email on Monday, basketball games that were postponed on Jan. 17 will be played on Wednesday, Feb. 1, while games involv-ing Kent schools planned for Tuesday night will be played on Monday, Feb. 6 with Feb. 7 reserved for
other make up games as necessary and Feb. 8 set for
division tiebreak-er games.
Basketball teams have five games left on the regular season schedule in ad-dition to the one or two from last week which need to be made up.
Gymnastics and wrestling teams had one
league meet remaining in addition to the meet that needed to be made up.
Boys swim and dive teams had one regular sea-son meet to make up before the SPSL Championship meet set for this Saturday at Rogers High in Puyallup.
Reach Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.
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Swimmers on the Kentwood’s boys swim team who have qualified for league will compete at the South Puget Sound League championship meet Saturday.
Members of the team can compete in two individual events as well as relays.
Varrick Anderson qualified for the 100 freestyle with a time of 57.30 seconds and the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:12.08. Taylor Casillas qualified for diving. Nick Creasia qualified in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:14.76 and the 500 freestyle with a time of 6:19.65.
John Croce qualified in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:16.16. John-Jyle Davis qualified in the 50 freestyle with a time of 24.69. Jesse Dehnert qualified in diving. Cole Hen-
dricks qualified in the 500 freestyle with a time of 6:21.35. Dane Hendricks qualified in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:13.46 and the 500 freestyle with a time of 6:18.58. Dan Lalime qualified in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:11.27. Kevin Molloy qualified in the 200 individual medley, the 50 freestyle with a time of 24:09, the 100 freestyle, the 100 butterfly and the 100 breaststroke.
Edward Quantos qualified in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:30.49 and the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:12.02. Logan Stoick qualified in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:08.32, the 200 medley with a time of2:28.07, the 100 freestyle at 56.69 and the 100 backstroke at 1:00.95. Dane Turnball qualified in the 200 individual medley at 2:27.55, the 50 freestyle with a time of 24.77, the 100 freestyle at 55.73 and the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:02.48. Ian VanMatre qualified for the 500 freestyle with a
time of 6:26.03. Brian Wright qualified for the 200 freestyle at 2:05.14, the 200 individual medley at 2:24.55, the 100 freestyle at 56.93, the 500 freestyle at 5:47.03 and the 100 backstroke at 1:09.32.
So far, five Kentwood swimmers have qualified for dis-tricts. Molloy qualified in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:11.66, the 100 butterfly at 58.76, and the 100 breaststroke at 1:05.17. Logan Stoick qualified in the 100 backstroke. at 1:00.95. Turnball qualified for the 100 back-stroke at 102.48. Casillas and Jesse Dehnert have qualified for diving.
Denhert has also qualified for state in diving. Reach TJ Martinell at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonreporter.com.
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PREP HOOPS
Get ready for the 2012 Les Schwab Shootout on Friday at ShoWare Center in Kent.
The Shootout features five South Puget Sound League basketball games with both boys and girls teams playing.
All four of the Kent School District high schools will have at least one game in the Shootout.
The schedule is as follows:
2 p.m. Jefferson boys vs. Bethel boys
3:30 p.m. Kent-Meridian girls vs. Kentlake girls
5 p.m. Kentlake boys vs. Kent-Meridian boys
7 p.m. Kentridge girls vs, Kentwood girls
8:30 p.m. Kentwood boys vs. Kentridge boys
The Reporter will be at the games, providing coverage via live blog on the website, www.covingtonre-porter.com.
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Marianne Binetti will be speaking on winter gardening, pruning and spring planting at 2 p.m. every day of the Tacoma Home Show. The show began Wednesday and runs through Sunday at the Tacoma Dome.
The last week of Janu-ary is a good time to sharpen your shears and get outdoors for some winter pruning. There are plenty of plants to get snippy with now but some you should not be pruning. Do not prune tender trees and shrubs like nandina, mag-nolia, camellia, hebe and hardy fuchsia this week. Wait until the weather warms in late spring to prune cold-sensitive plants because pruning always stimulates growth and you want these light sleepers to remain in the fog of winter dormancy. Instead, make your cuts on fruit trees and overgrown but hardy de-ciduous trees and shrubs.Q. My question is about
pruning. How do you know when and how much to prune a tree or shrub? K.K., TacomaA. The old rule says that
the best time to prune is when the shears are sharp
and this is meant to stop the procrastinators that never get around to prun-ing because they blame the time of year. In our climate, you can prune most plants when they are dormant, in the winter months from November to February.
The best source for details on how to prune and what to prune in western Wash-ington is either the website www.plantamnesty.org or the book “Cass Turnball’s Guide to Pruning” written by the founder of Plan-tamnesty. This nonprofit organization is dedicated to “ending the senseless torture and mutilation of trees and shrubs caused by mal-pruning.” The informa-tion is presented in a spirit of fun and education and the author lives in Seattle so she understands our unique climate.Q. How does one prune
fruit trees? Do you have to prune fruit trees? N.H., OlympiaA. You can increase the
fruitful bounty of most trees by thinning inner branches so more sunlight reaches the blossoms. You
can prune fruit trees any time of year but in the winter it is easier to see the shape and form of the tree. No, you don’t have to prune fruit trees to keep them alive – only if you want more fruit or to train the tree to stay low or thin
so the fruit is easier to harvest.
Thin-ning can be done on fruit trees now to open up the
center of the tree and allow more sunlight to hit the fruit. Just cut off a thin or inward-facing branch at the joint where it sprouts from a larger branch. A thin branch is anything less than a finger width wide. When pruning pear or apple trees you can also make head-ing cuts. This is when you shorten a long branch so you leave only two or three buds. Some orchardists call this type of cut “tip-ping back” and it encour-
ages more fruiting spurs to emerge from the newly-cut branch.
Pruning is a skill best learned by demonstration. Local nurseries, Plantam-nesty and Master Gardener clinics offer hands-on prun-ing demonstrations this time of year, including this week’s Tacoma Home Show and the Northwest Flower and Garden show Feb. 8-12.Q. When is the best time
to top some tall trees that might fall on my house? R.W., Maple ValleyA. Never. Topping trees
removes the “leader” or highest growth point and this messes up the apical dominance. Soon the lower branches left behind grow wide and crazy, creating a sail that can be caught in the wind and take down the entire tree left behind. Hire an arborist to evaluate the health of the trees you fear and perhaps thin, but never top, large trees.
Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture
from Washington State University and is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books. For book requests or answers to gardening questions, write to her at: P.O. Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022. Send a self-addressed,
stamped envelope for a personal reply.For more gardening information, she can be reached at her Web site, www.binettigarden.com.
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Born and raised in Kentucky, Angelo returned after the war with his wife to earn his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees from the University of Kentucky.
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Angelo is survived by his wife, Joyce; children Mark Marinaro of Port Angeles and David Marinaro of Bellingham and daughter Joanne Jenkins of Fife. His eldest daughter, Kathy, predeceased him. He also has six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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What is the diff erence between my experience and anyone else’s?
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I hope that you are able to strike that balance.
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All this snow was so much fun until the power went out. Now it’s cold and dark in the house. My old-est summed it up last night when she said, “Having the power out is depressing; it’s cold, dark and cakeless.”
Th e power came on for 10 minutes Th ursday night then went off . When it came on a half hour later, we thought it would hold. An hour aft er it had been on, I literally stood up to make a cake and the power went off again. Th at was at about 6:50 p.m.
So here we are on Friday aft ernoon at the library; along with all the rest of the Covington residents. Th e kids have been reduced to doing homework in the library. Th ey have nothing else to do; it’s cold in the house and the fun snow is
now just a sloppy mess.Besides homework in
silence at the library, we were discussing how things could have been so much worse: I could have made the cake and have just been putting it in the oven when the power went out or I could have made the cake and it could have been in the oven partially done when the power went out; both scenarios are markedly worse than not getting to make a cake at all.
To top it off , our only heat source when the power is out is our gas fi replace insert. It chose Th ursday morning to spring a gas leak. I smelled it when my husband was getting ready
for work, but quite honestly I thought our septic tank was going bad. It smelled like rotten eggs and when I got up about three hours later, I was sure bad things
were happen-ing to our septic when I went out into the living room. Th e smell was in the hallway and in the entry way; which is odd considering the septic tank
is on the other side of the house. As I got closer to the fi replace, the source of the stench fi nally occurred to me. I got my youngest and her friend up at the ungodly hour of 8:00, just to come smell it, so I could be sure. (Well, I initially woke them up to literally check for
signs of life before I made them smell).
I shut the gas valve off that feeds the fi replace. Th en it took me the rest of the morning to get rid of the stench by opening the front and back doors to let not only the smell out but the remainder of our heat. Th e smell must’ve been heavier than the air, because it took so long to move out, at one point I wasn’t even sure it had been the fi replace leaking and had to get the neighbor to come over and smell, just for a fresh nose.
I called my husband who pointed out that the stench is more powerful than the leak so you can smell it long before it could kill you. Hmm? Not sure that was comforting or not. My mom was worried
and ready for us to move out. I told her we’d go to a hotel if we had to, but that I wouldn’t leave until my husband came home from work. I mean, why should he rush home from work just to die along with us?
Seriously, though, gas leaks are nothing to mess with and by that time I knew it had been the fi replace and was on top of it. Besides the carbon monoxide alarm hadn’t gone off and our bird, who resides in the living room, wasn’t dead. Miners used to bring birds down into mine shaft s to check for carbon monoxide. If the bird died the miners would hustle themselves out of the mine.
Okay, now I’m just being deliriously morbid. It must be the cold or my skewed perspective on life. We all
will have our winter war stories; I mean we had to eat all our ice cream before it became a soupy mess. My neighbor called me before I came to the library. She told me how they had their wood fi replace going and a generator to keep their fridge running and kids’ movies playing. I told her how we still have hot water when the power is out.... she said “lucky dog.”
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SHOWING OF ‘LIVE TO FORGIVE’ AT MAPLE VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN RESCHEDULEDDue to a power outage, Maple Valley Presbyterian Church was unable to show Dean Smith’s “Live to Forgive” fi lm on
Jan. 22, and has rescheduled a showing of the fi lm for 6 p.m. o Sunday, Feb. 12. Smith, an Enumclaw native, will also speak on Feb. 12 about the fi lm, the ministry and the movement that has developed out of the journey of forgiveness he took after his mother was murdered in 1986.
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CLIMBING MEETINGS SET FOR JAN. 31 AT MAPLE VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHMark Fisher, pastor at Maple Valley Presbyterian Church, will host information meetings from 5-9 p.m. on Jan. 31 and Feb. 7. about climbs to Paradise on Mount Rainier.
Those interested in attending are asked RSVP, as well as
bring $5 for food and climbing harnesses if they have one.
The cost for the climbs, which will happen in May, June and July, will be $160.
The dates will be decided by the meeting on Jan. 31.
All who intend to climb with Fisher will need to sign release forms before going on the expedition.
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What the heck is a certifi ed arborist? And why is the designa-tion important to homeowner?
Th e simple answer is that in many respects we are like tree doc-tors. Th at seems to answer the question in most people’s minds. But it really goes much deeper than that.
Anyone can call themselves an “arborist” that can spell the word. But only those that have completed a certifi cation process can earn the professional designation of certifi ed arborist”
Th e International Soci-ety of Arboriculture (ISA) requires passage of a com-prehensive examination on the art and science of tree care, at least three years of practical experience, membership in a profes-sional organization and participation in continuing education programs.
Certifi cation measures the tree knowledge of an individual, but it cannot guarantee quality perfor-mance of work.
Th at is something a potential consumer must judge by asking questions, checking references and, for those arborists involved with tree services, being certain they are bonded or otherwise properly insured.
Th ose of us that have earned the designation take pride in it. While we feel we can off er quality and conscientious services, we also believe that we have an important role to help educate the public about proper tree care.
SERVICES ARE VARIED
Many certifi ed arborists are self-employed indi-viduals that perform all their own services. Some are WSU Master Gar-deners that are adept at diagnosing pest problems. Others have crews and of-fer expanded tree care and landscape services. Public agencies also have employ-ees that have attained the designation.
Many off er pruning services. Certifi cation not only means that an
the arborist will use the proper techniques for tree care, but that he/she also knows what not to do to improve the health, safety and appearance of a homeowner’s landscape.
Tree removal is a big business.
Th e primary goal of certifi ed arborists is to use removal as a last resort. Th ey are trained to use their best judge-ment, experi-ence and tools to evaluate the health and safety of trees and to make appropriate
recommendations.Such tree hazard assess-
ments may recommend removal where construc-tion or other activities have drastically altered a tree’s growing environment, serious defects are visible or root diseases may be
present or are suspect. While it is not possible
to predict if or when fail-ures may occur, an arborist can point out the possibili-ties to be aware of.
Damage appraisals may be called for under various circumstances. Certi-fi ed arborists use widely recognized tree formulas to estimate the value of trees. For large trees that are a signifi cant feature in a landscape, values can easily be several thousands of dollars.
Many off er legal services that may include expert witness testimonies at depositions and trials.
Most off er a wide range of consulting services to homeowners, local govern-ments, developers and other entities involved in tree preservation or tree care.
Several communities and homeowner associa-tions have tree preserva-tion ordinances.
Oft entimes they will require a report from a cer-tifi ed arborist if a resident has safety concerns about protected trees.
BE SUSPICIOUS OF DOORBELL RINGERS
Beware of the tree “expert” or “arborist” that knocks on you door and proclaims that a tree looks sick and must be removed or have some type of treatment to make it safer. Sometimes these are sales-persons paid on commis-sions. Do they really have a homeowner’s best interests at heart?
Oft entimes, it is wise to get a second opinion. I have been called in on situations where I recom-mended something other than what the unsolicited doorbell ringer was sug-gesting. Th e recommen-dations resulted in saved trees and money.
SOURCES FOR CERTIFIED ARBORISTS
Th e “Tree Services” sec-tions in the yellow pages of various communities list a few arborists or state that a tree service has such on their staff s.
Th e Internet off ers lists from various areas. Many links will lead to the
Pacifi c Northwest Chapter of the ISA that lists certi-fi ed members in British Columbia, Oregon and Washington.
Local county extension services also use the same list and may off er specifi c recommendations.
As the winter storm season progresses, a con-sultation with a certifi ed arborist may be prudent if a homeowner has concerns about his or a neighbor’s trees.
Dennis Tompkins is a Cer-
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He provides small tree pruning, pest diagnosis, hazard tree evaluations, tree appraisals and other services for homeowners and businesses.
Contact him at 253 863-7469 or email at [email protected]. Website: evergreen-arborist.com.
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DISTRICT #43PUBLIC HEARING
A PUBLIC HEARING, as required by state law, will be held on February 2, 2012 – 6:00 pm at 22225 SE 231st Street, Maple Valley WA 98038, for the purpose of discussing the Annexation of: “Lake Youngs Annexation”: Four parcels locat- ed at 182XX SE Lake Youngs Road. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on January 27, 2012. #575335.
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The regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of
Public Hospital District No. 1 of King County, (Valley Medical Center) scheduled for the 1st Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m., has been rescheduled to the first and third Mondays of every month at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center. Meetings will be moved to Tues-day if the Monday is a holiday. This meeting schedule will become effective at the next reg-ular meeting, February 6, 2012.BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSPUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT NO. 1 OF KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON (VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER)By: Sandra Sward Assistant to the Board of Commissioners Published in the Kent, Renton, Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on January 27, 2012 and February 3, 2012. #577278.
PUBLIC NOTICES
CITY OF COVINGTON NOTICES
ORDINANCE NO. 03-12
AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the City of Covington, King County, Washington amending the impact fee exemption requirements and process to cmc chapter 12.105 transportation impact fees and cmc chapter 18.120 school impact fees.
ORDINANCE NO. 04-12
AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the City of Covington, King County, Washington amending CHAPTERS 18.20 TECHNICAL TERMS AND LAND USE DEFINITIONS; 18.31 Downtown Development and Design Standards; 18.40 Development standards-landscaping and 18.55 signs OF THE COVINGTON MUNICIPAL CODE associated with MINoR corrections to the downtown zoning provisions.
Passed by the City Council of Covington, Washington, at the City Council meeting of January 24, 2012 to take effect five days after publication.
Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on January 27, 2012. #577214.
Think of a certified arborist as a doctor for your trees
“Anyone can call themselves an arborist that can spell the word. But only those that have completed a certifi cation process can earn the professional designation of certifi ed arborist.” Dennis Tompkins
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