covington/maple valley reporter, july 24, 2015

BY REBECCA GOURLEY

Reporter

Th e Maple Valley City Council is aiming to put a $22 million general obligation bond on the April 2016 special election ballot.

Th e money would be used for park projects throughout the city including developing the rest of Summit Park, doing maintenance and repairs at Lake Wilderness Park and golf course and developing a 15-20 acre park on the Legacy site.

In March, the council asked the Parks and Rec-reation Commission to fi ne tune a list of priority projects and their associated costs to later put into a bond proposal.

At the July 13 meeting, the commission and council met to discuss the projects and the bond proposal and terms.

LAKE WILDERNESS PARKA master plan of the park was created in 2007.

Th e plan was cut into 10 phases. Some of the items on the list of projects that would be funded by the April bond, if it passes, would be reconfi g-uring the entrance to the lodge and arboretum, establishing a more permanent storage facility for Parks and Recreation staff and constructing additional parking in the park.

LAKE WILDERNESS GOLF COURSETh e club house, which was originally built sev-

eral decades ago, according to Greg Brown, Parks and Recreation director for the city, is in need of a few repairs including a potential new roof. Included in the bond project would be paving the remaining unpaved cart paths, which are riddled with pot holes, said Brown.

In total, the repairs and maintenance costs associated with the club house would be about $1.4 million. Brown told the council July 13 the projects listed can be considered à la carte,

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BY SARAH BRENDEN

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The Covington Police Depart-ment has a new chief heading the force.

Andrew McCurdy started July 1 as

the police chief aft er former chief Kevin Klason retired June 30.

McCurdy still works for the King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce but has been as-signed as the chief of Covington under a contract between the sheriff ’s offi ce and the city, McCurdy wrote in an email.

McCurdy is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area but has been living in the Puget Sound area since 1996.

He comes from a family of police.McCurdy said both his father and

mother were police offi cers in California and his brother is a sergeant with the King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce.

His career in law enforcement started in 1991 where he was a community service offi cer in San Francisco.

Five years later, in 1996, McCurdy was hired as a police offi cer in Washington.

He said aft er two years he was transferred to the King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce and was assigned to the Maple

New chief joins Covington Police Department

BY REBECCA GOURLEY

Reporter

At the July 13 meeting, the Maple Valley City Council unan-imously voted to approve an interlocal agreement between the city and the Tahoma School District.

Th e ILA encompasses all city and district facilities, from sports fi elds to meeting rooms.

Th e agreement has been in negotiations between city and district offi cials since October 2014 when the city approved the sale of about 8 acres of the Summit Park property to the dis-trict for additional parking. Th ere was no exchange of money for that property transfer, only an understanding that an ILA

would be worked out and the city would be allowed access to the new road off of state Route 169 and the new parking stalls.

Th e City Council is also discussing the future of the re-maining acreage on the city’s land on Summit Park.

That story can be found to the right of this one.If the city builds a new park on the remaining acreage,

the district would be granted use of those facilities. In addition, the city will be granted access to use all of the new district facilities it is building along with the new high school.

In the agreement it states the district and city will meet to develop a master schedule of all facilities. Priority of use for facilities will go to the entity that owns the facility.

The agreement has a two-year term on it. Meaning, after two years the terms of the agreement can be rene-gotiated if desired. In two years, the new high school will be built and potentially Summit Park (pending a bond approval by the residents of Maple Valley).

Maple Valley approves ILA with school district

The Parks and Recreation Department currently relies on these storage buildings for their equipment. Courtesy Photo

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Morgan Martinsons, 9, chows down on a slab of watermelon during the watermelon-eating contest at Covington Days Saturday. The two-day festival featured a wide array of activities for all ages. More photos on page 8. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter

Andrew McCurdy will lead the force following the retirement of Kevin Klason

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CIDER FESTIVALThe first Sausage and Cider Fest will debut 4 to 8 p.m. Aug. 22 at Covington Community Park.

Hard cider and sausage lovers will sip on ciders and snack on different styles of sausage from around the Northwest. The festival will also feature local beer and wine for non-cider drinkers.

Featured cideries include Finn River Farm and Cidery, Cockrell Hard Ciders, Six Knot Cider, Number 6 Cider, Locust Cider and more. Cedar River Cellars will also be on hand featuring wine selections. Adding to the festivities will be live music and a variety of lawn games like corn hole, croquet and badminton.

The festival is a fundraiser for the Covington Kiwanis Club.

Ticket prices are $35 for general admission or $50 for VIP admission.

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I’ve been lamenting my children haven’t been camping with us in a couple years. I’ve missed them.

My oldest wants to go with us, but now that she’s 20, she has work respon-sibilities. My youngest just doesn’t like to camp; not liking bugs, smoke, sun or nature in general. So my husband and I have been going solo these last couple year.

I guess it’s not solo as we do have each other. But I refer to our years before children as “when we were single,” even though we were married. I can’t even remember life before being married.

So when my oldest moved back home last week and was transitioning jobs, she found herself free to accompany us to a car show last weekend. My husband and I left on Wednesday to camp, so she was planning on driving herself to the venue on Friday.

I wasn’t too exciting about her driving that far without accompaniment. She hadn’t driven that distance alone to a place she wasn’t familiar with

(although she’s been going there since she was a baby,

but when they’re riding they don’t pay attention to their surround-ings), so I talked my youngest into going with her.

I’m an anxious sort of person and I had a

whole list of anxieties that weekend, not the least of which was the poker run that I was in charge of (an event designed to get the car show participants driving around). But fi rst on the list of anxieties was my daughters’ drive to the beach. I texted them instructions on how to get through Aberdeen grace-fully, because if you’ve ever been through Aberdeen on your way to Westport, you know it can be confusing.

I was excited for them to arrive and be at the ocean with us and enjoy the car show aft er not having been for a couple years. We also had a new RV they hadn’t even spent time in. Th en upon their arrival, they stormed in, plopped all their stuff down in the RV, got out their phones and plopped on my bed in the back of the RV.

Oh yeah. I forgot how

they spread out with no mind to anyone else mov-ing about the RV. You’d think I would’ve remem-bered seeing as how they do it at home. We didn’t get a much bigger RV, but it does have a bit more interior space.

I thought they’d have matured aft er a couple years and would automatically contain themselves. I was wrong. Th e next morning as I was cooking breakfast, my husband threw up his hands and said, “I would like to sit at the table and eat, something has got to move.” Th en he stormed out to yack with his car buddies.

Th e girls and I folded up the couch table and threw the debris (because who knew what it really was) onto the bed above the cab, shoved the rest to the end of the table making room for a couple plates so we could have a meal together.

I’m not sure if it was the sudden estrogen in the small RV or the clutter, but the next morning, aft er we once again cleared space to eat, my husband came in, grabbed his plate and said, “I’ll be right back.” Th en he proceeded to eat his meal outside, standing up, while talking to one of his friends. I have to admit, if I hadn’t been in my pajamas still and the picnic tables outside hadn’t been dewy, I probably would’ve joined him. Our adult-sized chil-dren are everywhere.

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Maple Valley Parks and Recreation’s annual Kids Festival Bike Challenge was held on Saturday at Lake Wilderness Park and more than 80 racers competed. Boys and girls ages 4 to 11 sped through Lake Wilderness Park trying to post the fastest time in their age division. First place fi nishers in each division were: Roman McCurd and Olivia Hoff man (5 years old), Kasen Vargas and Layla Monzon (6 years old), James Monzon and Kaylin Webb (7 years old), Kyle Fillmore and Allison Zappe (8 years old), Choen Storch and Kaelei Roberts (9 years old), Connor Smith and Haylei Widdis (10 years old), and Corey Smother-man (11 years old).

JT Keene won the raffl e for the free bicycle donated by Maple Valley Bike Masters. To view the offi cial results visit the Bike Challenge page on the city’s website, www.maplevalleywa.gov, and search bike challenge results.

Bike Challenge results

Bob Dunning rejoined the Lake Wilderness Arboretum Foundation Board of Directors as a member at large.

He is recently retired and has been volunteer-ing at the arboretum since 1997 and served as foun-dation president in 2000.

“I came back to the board now because I see a need for better representa-tion from the garden vol-unteer team where I have been active for the last few years,” Dunning said.

• Why are you involved

with the Lake Wilderness Arboretum Foundation?

“I became attached when I built the Smith-Mossman Western Azalea Garden. I planned it and coordinated its construc-tion.”

• What’s your favorite arboretum event?

“Th e annual spring plant sale. I enjoy meeting people and selling plants.”

• What do you think is the arboretum’s biggest contribution to the com-munity?

Dunning returns to arboretum board

BLOOD DRIVES There will be two blood

drives in August. One will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 7 at MultiCare in Covington. The other will

be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the Maple Valley

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Editor’s note: Makaila Heifner is a Tahoma High student.

My name is Makaila Heifner, I am 16 years old and I will be entering my junior year at Tahoma High School in September. At 16 months old I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Fift een years later, I journeyed to Congress to ask our state’s senators and representatives to support Type 1 diabetes research.

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune dis-ease that makes a person’s pancreas stop produc-ing insulin – insulin is a hormone that converts food into energy. T1D is a serious and life threat-ening disease that can lead to severe complica-tions and is associated with an estimated loss of life-expectancy of up to 13 years. Furthermore, the disease does not discriminate. It aff ects all ages, races and people. Its onset has nothing to do with diet or lifestyle. Th ere is nothing you can do to prevent T1D, and at present nothing you can do to get rid of it.

Type 1 diabetes is a hard disease to live with. Th is is one of the reasons I was so excited for the opportunity to talk to our nation’s leaders and explain the importance of research through JDRF’s (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) Children’s Congress.

Children’s Congress meet every two years with new delegates each time. I applied to the Children’s Congress in November and anxiously awaited to see if I was selected out of 1,700 other applicants. In late February, I was notifi ed that I was accepted for this years Children’s Congress. Th is year was compromised of 167 delegates

across the United States as well as six interna-tional delegates. We all went to DC with one dream: to cure Type 1 diabetes.

Th e fi rst two days of Children’s Congress were spent getting to know the other delegates and preparing for our time on the Capitol Hill. On the third day, aft er an early breakfast, all the delegates plus their parents loaded into buses and began the day. Th at morning I met with Sen. Patty Murray, Rep. David Reichert and Sen. Maria Cantwell. Th e meeting went extremely well and we were met with posi-tive reactions from our leaders as well as their staff .

One of the goals in our meetings was to encourage our senators and representatives

to support the Medicare CGM Access Act of 201. Th is bill will allow seniors on Medicare the ability to be covered by insurance for the use of a constant glucose monitor, or CGM. A CGM is a device that constantly tracks a per-son’s blood sugar and is proved to help people have better control over their diabetes. Since Children’s Congress, the CGM Access Act has already gained nearly 15 new cosponsors.

Although Children’s Congress may be over, our fi ght to cure Type 1 diabetes most certainly is not. We will continue to fi ght for research, innovations and ultimately a cure. Th e day we stop fi ghting is the day that Type 1 becomes Type NONE.

Do we need more taxation to repair our roads?

Who would question, “If you don’t tear up our roads then you won’t need to repair them?”

I worked in three different asphalt refineries over a period of 22 years. At each refinery I was involved in asphalt research and product devel-opment. Following that, I developed and began marketing an asphalt additive to make asphalt bind to the rock and sand from which asphalt pavement is made. In a couple of years the sales exceeded $800,000 per year. At that time the company I worked for was in Casper, Wyo.

Years ago the Wyoming Highway Depart-

ment did a study to find out how destructive heavy loads are to asphalt pavements. They knew from their measurements that when a load passes over the asphalt pavement the pavement compresses slightly. The heavier the load the more the pavement compresses. However, the good news is that the pave-ment will rebound in a few seconds. Of course, the heavier the load the more the asphalt pavement compresses and the longer it takes to rebound. If the load is heavy

enough the pavement cracks in addi-tion to compressing. Also, if a second load (axle) passes over the pavement before it has recovered the damage will be more severe.

On one occasion I was discussing these problems with an engineer at the Wyoming Highway Department. I asked him, “How much damage does a car do to the pavement compared to an 18 wheel tractor and trailer (five axles)?” I was surprised at his

answer. He said that their studies had shown that it takes over 850 cars to do as much

D I D Y O U K N O W ? : According to the American Diabetes Association Approximately 1.25 million American children and adults have Type 1 diabetes.

Fighting to cure Type 1 diabetes

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For the past six or seven months I have been attending Maple Valley Planning and City Council meetings in the hopes of getting a rezone of this property, with the thought of erecting a hotel on said property (26038 Maple Valley Black Diamond Highway).

Th e Maple Valley Planning Committee and senior planner now claim the rezone cannot be done due to previous councils and the planning committees allowing housing to be developed between SE 260th and SE 264th. Using this a prime business acreage for hous-ing units (thus creating a lifetime of services required) seems to have been very short-sighted decision on the council’s part. Th is was done counter to the advice that city of Maple Valley and City Council received from

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Valley precinct. Since starting with the King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce in

1998, he has held a number of diff erent position.He has worked as a patrol deputy, a Covington Police

Department master offi cer, a detective in the special as-sault unit, a patrol sergeant at Maple Valley, a detective sergeant in the internal investigations unit, a sheriff ’s offi ce Advanced Training Unit sergeant at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Center in Burien before return-ing to Covington as chief.

Th is is the fi rst time as police chief for McCurdy.“I never really aspired to be a police chief but this is a

unique position that was hard to pass up,” McCurdy said. “I loved working in the city of Covington as a patrol deputy.”

He said the city of Covington is “busy enough to keep things interesting but is still a pleasant community to live and work in and the citizens seem to appreciate what we do

for them.”He added, he hopes to stay as Covington’s police chief

for a long time.As a fi rst time police chief, McCurdy hopes to fi nd more

ways to communicate with both staff and residents in order to determine what the community is concerned about and what they expect from the police department.

“Being a police offi cer is really all about building rela-tionships with people, but too oft en we only have oppor-tunities to interact with people during times of crisis,” he said.

In his short time back to Covington, McCurdy said he has an idea of some of the problems the city faces. He added he won’t begin to know what is really going on until he talks with residents and does more research.

He said property crimes appear to be an issue in Coving-ton and violent crimes appear to be low.

McCurdy said the use and the abuse of heroin and re-lated crimes in Covington are growing and he doesn’t think the city is prepared for the problems they would face if this

doesn’t get managed now.“I am already working to better coordinate education,

treatment and enforcement eff orts to better address the problem before it becomes an epidemic,” he wrote.

McCurdy said he has worked with Klason before and believes, “he did a great job of laying a foundation of trust and building a partnership with the city and its residents.”

McCurdy said he only hopes to match Klason with regard to the quality of care and service he provided to the city.

McCurdy is currently working with the department’s budget and hopes to fi gure out ways to better allocate resources and fi nd ways to add more offi cers to the depart-ment in the coming years.

McCurdy took part in Covington Days over the weekend by taking a seat at the dunk tank.

McCurdy wrote he hopes to meet as many residents as he can at community events, neighborhood association meetings and at the city’s National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 4.

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A concussion is a type of brain injury that can occur when the head hits an object or a moving object strikes the head. Sports-related concus-sions are a major public health concern, it is estimated that 1.6-3.8 million injuries occur each year in the United States. A concus-sion can cause a multitude of symptoms which include:

Cognitive changes: Poor concentration, slow thinking, memory loss, confusion, loss of consciousness, dazed appear-ance

Physical changes: Headache, nausea or vomiting, sensitivity to light or sound, dizziness, slurred speech, blurry vision, changes to balance or coordi-nation

Mood changes: Depression, anxiety, personality changes, trouble controlling emotions

Sleep changes: Drowsiness,

insomnia, feeling hazy or groggy, frequent awakenings

Th e symptoms oft en begin right aft er injury, but sometimes may not

appear until the person starts exercising again. Oft en, chil-dren experience concussion symptoms for much longer compared to adults. Concus-sions can also occur when the head experiences a sudden im-pact without being hit directly such as a blow to the neck or upper body.

• Are there sports that put my child at a higher risk of concussion?

Concussions can occur in many sports, but are most common in high speed contact sports. Football, rugby, hockey and soccer pose the greatest

risk. Studies have shown that concussion risk is greater in females than in males playing soccer or basketball. Th ere is not enough evidence to show diff erent risks by gender for other sports. Once someone has experienced a concussion, he or she is at greater risk of having another one.

• When can my child return to play?

A child can return to play when:

All symptoms have resolved, especially aft er medications have been stopped.

Th e child has been cleared by a licensed professional trained in managing concus-sion.

Th e child should avoid any activities that make symptoms worse or increase the risk of a second concussion. Th e plan should be individualized, so be sure to discuss this plan with your healthcare professional. Th ere is no set time for recov-ery. Th ere is also no evidence

that complete “brain rest” is necessary. Th ere is new evi-dence that too much rest can actually cause more symptoms in teenagers.

• What should I do if I think my child has had a concussion?

It is important that if a concussion is suspected, the child should be removed from play immediately and be evalu-ated by a licensed healthcare professional. For immediate attention, bring your child to an emergency room or urgent care for an evaluation. If symp-toms persist, it is important to follow-up with your child’s pediatrician or primary care provider. In some cases, you may need to be referred to see a neurologist or sports medicine physician who can provide more specialized care for your child’s concussion.

Th is column is for gen-eral information, and any specifi c questions or concerns regarding this topic should be brought to your physician.

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211 is a free, confi dential phone number that serves as a lifeline for over a half million people across the state each year. With a single phone call to 211, those in need receive information and referrals to essential health and human services such as:

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SUMMIT PARKIn October 2014, the city sold about 8 acres of the Sum-

mit Park property to the Tahoma School District for ad-ditional parking and a bus turn around for their new high school. Th e property is located on the west side of state Route 169 and just south of state Route 516. In exchange for the land, the city and district made an interlocal agree-ment for joint use of all city-owned and district-owned facilities.

Th e Parks and Recreation Commission, with the help from Erik Sweet of SLA Landscape Architecture in Renton, recently reconfi gured the master plan for the Summit Park site, taking into account the sale of the 8 acres on the northwest corner.

Th e new plan includes a soft ball fi eld, both for high school and adult league use; a multi-purpose fi eld; a sport court; a skate park; a playground; a 2-acre dog park; walk-ing trails and pedestrian access to adjacent neighborhoods.

Brown said they took input they received at various pub-lic meetings and at Maple Valley Days into account when they picked what facilities to include at the park.

UNDEVELOPED PARK PROPERTYA new 15-20 acre community park would also be on the

ticket for the April bond. Th e commission Chair Pat Weiler said the park would be located on the Legacy site, a 54-acre plot directly across state Route 169 from the Tahoma School District Central Services building.

Th e Legacy site is one of only six undeveloped parcels of land that’s at least 15 acres remaining in the city. Th e other fi ve are zoned commercial or are otherwise spoken for and the owners aren’t willing to sell.

Because of this, the commission collectively said they felt this was the best location for another park in the city.

Th e plan for the park is still unknown, because a master plan has not been developed. Brown said it likely will be passive recreation as opposed to ball fi elds, or active recreation.

TAXES AND SUPPORTTh e $22 million bond would increase the average home-

owners’ property taxes by about $18 per month, Brown said. Th at fi gure is based on a home value of $385,000. Th e bond would last 20 years.

Brown said while the parks commissioners were man-ning their booth at Maple Valley Days and soliciting input from residents about the Summit Park plan, they also asked people if they would support this type of funding

mechanism. He said they didn’t hear a lot of negative reaction to the

plan.“Almost every single person was in favor,” Brown said. A more scientifi c survey was done earlier this year by the

Bellevue fi rm Hebert Research on the community’s willing-ness to support a bond of this type.

Th e results show that approximately 55.2 percent of those surveyed would support a $20 million bond to fund Summit Park, improvements of Lake Wilderness Golf Course and Park, a dog park and community garden.

Brown said that percentage is exceptionally high consid-ering there was no eff ort to educate those people that were surveyed on the details of the projects.

Th e city will need a supermajority – at least 60 percent approval – for the bond to pass.

OTHER TAXESTh is bond, which would be the fi rst general obligation

bond for the city, comes on the heels of a $195 million construction bond for the Tahoma School District. Th at bond received overwhelming approval – 68 percent – in the November 2013 election and was an increase of $36.75 per month in new taxes for the owner of a $300,000 home. Th e funds from that bond, which is also 20 years long, are paying for the construction of a new high school and regional learning center.

To comment on this story, go to www.maplevalleyre-porter.com/news. Reach Rebecca Gourley at [email protected], by phone at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052 or via Twitter @rebeccalgourley.

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damage as one loaded 18 wheel tractor and trailer. He also said that other state studies had shown similar results.

In Washington we frequently see heavily loaded truck and trailers moving down the road on 26 wheels (eight axles). This means that the Washington Department Of Transportation allows 26 wheel truck and trail-ers on taxpayer built roads. No other western state allows more than 18 wheels under a tractor and trailer. The cause of massive road damage in Washington is obvious.

This road damage is read-ily visible on Washington roads because the frequency of these heavily loaded axles compresses

the pavement and allows no recovery time. Then each wheel lane begins to crack. If this cracked pavement is not re-paired, pieces of pavement will soon begin to break loose and potholes will develop. There-fore, the pavement is removed in strips in each wheel lane and new pavement is added. (Watch for these repairs as you drive around. See the note below.)

As an asphalt chemist and sales person I have driven thousands of miles across the roads in every western state. I have never seen any state except Washington where wheel lane strips of pave-ment are removed and replaced.

So, do we need more taxes to repair overloaded roads? No! We just need the Washington Department of Transportation

to exercise some common sense and get these 26 wheel trucks off our roads. Otherwise, the truck companies should be heavily taxed to pay for the damage they are doing.

NOTE: The need for road surface maintenance is greatly attributable to the heaviest vehicles. Based on the findings of the American Association of State Highway Officials (AAS-HO) road test, damage caused by heavy trucks was long thought to increase with approximately the fourth power of the axle load. This means that one axle of 10 tons on a heavy truck was 160,000 times more damaging to a road surface than an axle of 0.5 tons (car scale).

Troy Mullins lives in Maple Valley.

their own experts when planning the city’s original zoning areas. Th e expert’s opinions were ignored by previous councils in order to get a quick infl ux of money into the city’s coff ers and has cost a loss of 25-30 acres of prime city business zoning and future taxes to the city of Maple Valley. To continue compounding this error and cause the city more tax dol-lars, makes no sense at all.

I continue to feel that the subject property should get the CB zoning I have been requesting in order for me to continue my project which ultimately will benefi t the city of

Maple Valley. If the city and council continue to deny the CB zoning, I am requesting a R18 zoning for town houses. If the council continues to deny zoning for such structures as hotels, the city of Maple Valley will just become a bedroom community of Covington.

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Many dog problems and training challenges are due to miscommunication and unrealistic

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Attention: It’s diffi cult to train a dog, or have a conversation with a human, if your partner isn’t

paying attention. Say your dog’s name in a quiet, calm voice. Wait for him to look at you. Reward

with food and praise. Every time you speak to your dog, make sure you have his undivided attention.

Clarity: Break behaviors down into small steps. Use your hands, treats, a leash or other props to

help your dog accomplish each tiny task. Use unique, single command words for each behavior. Keep

praise words short and consistent. (For example: “Good” is better for specifi cally marking a behavior

than “You are such a good boy and I just think you’re the best dog in the whole world.”)

Beginning, Middle and End: Every behavior should have a beginning, middle and end. For

example, if you want your dog to lie down and stay, break the task down into small steps. Begin

with your command word and signal, then show the dog what you want him to do. Help him with

your hands and food. Gently hold him down using your hands, praise and food. Praise is important.

Praise tells Fido that he’s doing the right thing and should continue doing it. End the behavior with

a release word, such as “Okay” or “Free.” Recognize that regular training sessions are required if you

want to teach complicated behaviors. Control the variables of time, distance and distractions to help

your dog succeed.

If your goal is a fi ve minute down stay, begin with fi ve seconds. Increase time slowly, and keep

track of your dog’s accomplishments so future training sessions build on past successes. Be clear with

your expectations, commands, praise and release words. Be patient! Before you know it, friends

will compliment you on your well-trained dog and say, “Wow, it’s almost as though he can read your

mind!”

All subjects in the po-lice blotter are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

CRIMINAL WARRANT• On July 14 a driver

was pulled over for failing to stop at a stop sign. While officers were talking with the driver, it was determined he had a warrant out of the city of Kent for third degree driving with a suspended license.

• On July 16 officers responded to the Allegro Apartments to reports of two subjects seen sleep-ing in the parking lot. According to the police report, Allegro staff had seen the two sleeping in the parking lot on three different occasions. Offi-cers found drug parapher-nalia in the vehicle they were essentially living out of. One of the subjects also had a felony warrant.

LARCENY• On July 16 officers

responded to reports that the victim’s gasoline had been siphoned out of his vehicle overnight. His vehicle was parked in an apartment complex park-

ing lot.• It was reported that

on July 17 an unknown subject shoplifted alcohol and a cooler from Fred Meyer.

FAMILY DISTURBANCE• On July 15 officers

responded to Fred Meyer because an argument between a man and a woman was reported. The reporting party told of-ficers the two were having a verbal argument inside a vehicle and believed they saw the man slap the woman in the face.

ASSAULT• On July 15 officers

responded to reports of an ongoing neighbor dispute.

According to the report, the ongoing dispute turned physical. No ar-rests were made.

• On July 16 officers received a call reporting a man had punched a wom-an inside a vehicle parked in a 7-Eleven parking lot. According to the police report, the victim fled the scene on foot.

• On July 18 officers responded to reports that an unknown suspect punched a passenger of a vehicle due to a road rage incident.

• On July 19 officers responded to reports that the victim was pistol whipped, choked and punched by someone. That person was then

booked into the King County Jail.VANDALISM

• On July 16 officers responded to reports that a man stole his ex-wife’s phone during an argument and smashed it on the side of the road outside a residence.

• On July 20 officers responded to reports that a drinking glass had been shattered on the reporting party’s front porch. The reporting party believes it may have been thrown from the park across the street.

FRAUD• On July 17 it was

reported that one of two caregivers for someone

withdrew money from the victim’s account without permission.

BUSINESS LICENSE VIOLATION• On July 18 it was

reported that a while male had been knocking on residence doors’ appearing to be casing the homes. Ac-cording to the police report, he was soliciting without a permit and was seen look-ing in windows of homes.

BURGLARY• On July 20 it was

reported that several heavy equipment batteries were stolen by unknown suspects from an unsecured con-struction site. The police report stated diesel fuel was also stolen from the site.

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Cup July 12.They won 2-1 in overtime against

VSA Heat 98 Blue from Virginia.Maple Valley residents Christo Mitchell, Wesley McClure, Alex

Bailey and Kasey Cowell hold the winning trophy.

Editor’s note: the following is a release from the city of Maple Valley Parks and Recreation.

Maple Valley Parks and Rec-reation’s Pee-Wee Soccer League begins registration on Aug. 3.

This instructional league is a great way to introduce your soc-cer player to the game.

Players are divided into two

divisions: 3-4 and 5-6 year olds, and player’s age is based as of Aug. 1 of the current year.

Teams practice once a week in the evening and games are played on Saturdays between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The league will run from Sept. 12 to Oct. 24 and early reg-istration is encouraged.

Registrations can be completed online at www.maplevalleywa.gov

or in person at the Lake Wilder-ness Lodge. No phone regis-trations will be accepted. The registration deadline is Aug. 14. The player fee is $68.

Volunteer coaches are always needed and team sponsorships are available for only $175. For more information about coach-ing or sponsoring a team, contact Recreation Coordinator Bobby

Quick at (425) 432-9953 or e-mail him at [email protected].

Pee-wee soccer registration begins Aug. 3

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For recent Kent-lake graduate, Katie Habryle, the

softball season didn’t end when school did.

During the summer, she plays for a team in Portland, Ore. called the NW Bullets 18G.

And on July 17, the NW Bullets won the TC/USA Nationals tournament in Reno, Nev.

The Bullets entered the tournament ranked 64th overall.

The team went unde-feated including four wins over top 20 teams.

Habryle and the Bullets faced No. 18 Texas Bomb-ers in the finals.

NW Bullets won 19-9 in five innings.

On the way to the nationals tournament, the Bullets played an exhibition game on July 7 against the women’s USA junior national softball

team.While playing for the

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Th e biggest and busiest weekend of the summer is ready to kick off with the Scottish Highland Games fi lling the grounds of the Enumclaw Expo Center.

SCOTTISH HIGHLAND GAMES AND CLAN GATHERING

Th e 69th annual Pa-cifi c Northwest Scottish Highland Games and Clan Gathering kicks off Friday evening, then gets rolling for the general public at 8 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday at the Expo Center. Th e fun continues until 11 p.m. Saturday and 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

A highlight is the mass-ing of the pipe and drum bands and the parade of the clans, which takes place at 12:30 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.

Visitors can stroll through the Avenue of the Clans, delve into Scottish heritage or wind through the Hall of Vendors and the Celtic Marketplace to

see the workmanship of Scottish artisans. Others will wander through the Scottish farm with shaggy Scotch Highland cattle and Clydesdale horses, visit the Celtic kennel or perhaps hoist a glass or two of Scottish-style ales.

Th e musical acts tradi-tionally provide everything from quiet strings to rau-cous reels. Acts range from Blackthorn, which cele-brates the traditional music of Scotland and Ireland, to Neil O’Neill, a pure Celtic tenor and multi-instru-mentalist, and the popular Wicked Tinkers, pioneers in the Tribal Celtic move-ment. Th e Seattle Knights return with their acts of choreographed combat and athletes will compete in traditional Celtic events like the caber toss and sheaf toss.

Tickets are $17 for adults per day or a two-day pass is available for $25. Reduced prices are available for se-nior citizens, children and active military. Th ere’s a $5 daily fee for parking. Th ere is no admission fee for Friday night’s festivities.

Tickets sales at the gate are on a “cash only” basis.

For information call 206-522-2541 or visit www.sshga.org.

Th ese Highland Games, hosted by the Seattle Scottish Highland Games Association, are the sixth-oldest in the United States and are traditionally the largest in Washington state. Last year’s event drew an estimated 28,000 visitors.

FIND YOUR CELTIC SPIRITTh e following is more

information on the event from the Seattle Scottish Highland Games Associa-tion.

View the titans who deft ly toss the caber and put the stone, matching skill and strength against the odds on the athletic fi eld of battle. Delight in the soothing sound of the Celtic harpists as they join together for a Harpers’ Circle jam session. Th rill to the bourdon of the bagpipes and the cadence of the drums as you wit-ness, fi rst hand, the fi ne array of talented pipers

and drummers competing before judges of world-wide renown. Behold the grace and elegance of the Scottish dancers as they regale you with the High-land and National dances of Scotland.

Stroll through the Avenue of the Clans, the Glen of the Clans and the Walk Th rough Time and delve into your Scottish ancestry and heritage. Ob-serve the fi ne workman-ship of Scottish artisans, and spend your hard-earned tuppence on lovely imported goods from the British Isles as you wend your way through the Hall of the Vendors and the Celtic Marketplace.

Visit the Scottish Farm with shaggy Scotch High-land cattle, Black Faced sheep, and Shetland pony. Complete your tour with the Celtic Kennel that fea-tures the Celtic dog breeds at work and at play.

On Saturday evening there will be the Ceilidh (Kay-lee) - a traditional Scottish party with music, sing-along, stories and Scottish country dancing.

Highland games return to Expo center

The King County Flood Control District announced Monday $1.5 million in grants for 10 projects aimed at improving water quality, protecting and restoring habitat, and supporting salmon recovery eff orts in the Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound wa-tersheds. The area is collectively called Water Resource Inventory Area 9 (WRIA 9).

The funding will go to local organizations who are working to improve water quality and protect salmon. The grants will be matched with an additional $2.5 million of funding.

“These WRIA grants play an im-portant role in the all-over health of our region’s ecosystems,” said Flood Control District Chair Reagan Dunn. “Healthy watersheds mean a healthy future for our salmon and our communities. I am proud of the role the Flood District plays in supporting these habitats.”

One of the projects that received grant funding is the Downey Farmstead Restoration project in the city of Kent. Frager Road on the Downey site will be relocated away from the river’s edge to allow for future creation of the side channel network and expanded fl oodplain. The grant amount al-located to this project is $717,255.

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The fourth week of July is when your roses and fuchsias need some special attention to keep them blooming for the rest of the summer.

All roses appreciate more fertil-izer and extra water during the midsum-mer cycle and if you deadhead or clip off the faded rose blooms you’ll be encouraging more roses to bloom through the fall season.

Fuchsias that dangle from hanging baskets or those with large blooms are the annual type of fuchsia and these suffer in hot weather. To keep your fuch-sia baskets in bloom keep pinching off any seed pods or “fuchsia berries” that form at the end of the stems once the faded flowers fall. On hot days set ice cubes on top of the soil to pamper your hanging fuchsias and spray the foliage lightly with water. Fuchsia baskets do best in full shade. There are also hardy fuchsias that grow more like peren-nial shrubs with smaller blooms. The hardy fuchsias can handle more sun but add a layer of mulch on top of the roots to keep them cool and conserve moisture.

August is coming! Here are the Top 10 tips for

conserving water in your garden and landscape:

1. Water in the evening or morning so you’ll

lose less water to evapora-tion. Avoid runoff or let-ting water hit the sidewalk or driveway.

2. Right plant,

right place. Use sedums, succulents, plants with gray leaves or small leaves (think lavender, potentilla and lamb’s ear) in the hot spots of your landscape like against a west- or south-facing wall.

3. Mulch. You can use wood chips, com-

post, hay, leaves or even marbles and seashells for a decorative look on top of your potted plants. A mulch will shade the soil to keep it cooler and seal in moisture so you will need to water less often.

4. Let your lawn “go golden.” This sounds

more luxurious than saying you have allowed the lawn to go brown and dormant. Some gardeners even use a special lawn paint to dye the dormant golden lawn a shade of green. Don’t worry, once the rains return in the fall your lawn will green up again.

5. Recycle your kitchen water and use it to

water your potted plants.

This is the way most of Europe has watered their summer plants for cen-turies. Any rinse water or non-salted cooking water goes into a kitchen pitcher and at the end of the day in-stead of pouring your liquid assets down the drain use the recycled water on the patio plants. Bonus: some of the nutrients from cook-ing veggies will leach into the cooking water so you’ll get some free fertilizer.

6. Use a rain barrel. Collecting all the

water that runs off the roof into one container means you can dip a watering can into the barrel and hand water the potted or extra thirsty plants.

7. Install a drip irriga-tion system to water

vegetables and even potted plants. Sprinklers are not as efficient as drip lines. Bonus: When you target the water right at the root of a plant the rest of the soil will stay dry – and you’ll have fewer weeds.

8. Make compost – or buy compost

in bags – and use this in planting holes, on top of new plants and as a topdressing for a thirsty lawn. Compost acts like a sponge to hold and store moisture.

9. Take a shower with some pots and

pans. You will be sur-prised how much water you can collect before it

runs down the drain. Use this sometimes soapy wa-ter (called “gray” water) to wash insects from roses or to soak the roots of thirsty hydrangeas and heucheras.

10. Finally, my favorite tip for

conserving water: position a thirsty shrub or pot-ted plant right under the drainage hole of a hanging basket or window box. Now you’ll be recycling the drainage water from your hanging basket by letting it drip from one plant into the root zone of another.

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Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture from Washington State Universi-ty and is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books.

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4 PLOTS SIDE BY SIDE located in the Garden of t he Good Shepherd . Section 12, block 40, Lot C. Des i rable Bonney Watson Memorial Park. Valued at $4,795 each. Selling for $1,500 each. or all 4 for $5,000. Call 425-572-6643.Black Diamond7th ANNUAL 3-day fund- raising garage sale. July 24th & 25th (Fr iday & Saturday) , 9am-4pm. 30505 Sel leck Place, Black Diamond - Morgan Creek Neighborhood. All proceeds go directly to the Susan G Komen 3-Day for the Cure.

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1994 Winnebago Itasca- Sunrise, Class A. 40,000 miles, 23’, Chevy chase, 454 engine. Sleeps 5. Always stored covered & in very good condition $10,000/OBO. (253)719- 8875

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There’s trouble in River City. “Trouble with a capital T…” as Meredith Willson’s The Music Man marches onto the stage of Green River College, courtesy of Heavier Than Air Family Theatre and local teens who have spent their summer reviving this Tony Award winning Broadway musical.

Talented 14-17 year old actors from the company’s musical theatre camp light up the playhouse with the escapades of a traveling con artist in a quaint but naïve Iowa town set in 1912.

The plot twists and turns with amusement, suspicion, warmth and ro-mance. Featuring show stopping band music, fast paced song and dance

numbers, a barbershop quartet, sweet love songs, and a chorus of gossip-

ing ladies, there’s something for every generation in this classic musical

comedy that’s been entertaining audiences since 1957.

This group of students is handling the material with freshness and inspira-

tion, led by the director Terry Thibodeaux Jr., assistant director Megan

Black, music director Lindsay Holzworth, choreographer Lauren Slettedahl

and assistant Sophie Nelson.

The Music Man performances are at 7 p.m. July 31 and Aug. 1, with a 3

p.m. matinee on Aug. 1 in the Green River College Performing Arts Build-

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All tickets are $8 and can be purchased by calling 253-833-9111 ext. 4966.

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