covington/maple valley reporter, november 18, 2011
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November 18, 2011 edition of the Covington/Maple Valley ReporterTRANSCRIPT
BY TJ MARTINELL
Although the city of Maple Val-ley is approaching its 2012 budget conservatively, things have started off on a positive note.
While giving a presentation at the Maple Valley City Council Nov. 7 meeting, Finance Direc-tor Tony McCarthy revealed that the city will underspend $1 million due to a combination of conserva-tive budgeting and unexpected revenue.
But don’t expect the city to spend it anytime soon.
City Manager David Johnston called the $1 million savings a “blip,” stating the city should not take it as an excuse to spend more liberally.
“It doesn’t mean we don’t remain cautious and conserva-tive because…it is a very diffi cult environment to predict,” he said. “You used to be able to under-project and expand your services, and you’d still get a boon of excess revenue, but now we’re not having it.”
Yet, he said it will benefi t the
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During the coming weeks the Tahoma School Board has some tough decisions to make and that’s exactly what the ad hoc student housing committee was aiming for with its recommendations.
Th e board received the com-mittee’s report at its Nov. 8 meet-ing.
Tahoma Superintendent Mike Maryanski described the fi ve-month eff orts of the 19-member committee as “a very valuable learning experience.”
“Th is group of people really pushed me to change one of my mental models… that over a long period of time that we’ve just been making it work,” Maryanski said. “We’ve got to quit talking about maximum capacity because we’ve been beyond capacity for a long period of time.
Th e committee was challenged initially because there was a desire to evaluate why they were there in the fi rst place.
Th is group was formed in response to the failure April 26 of the district’s construction bond measure. Th e district had hoped to sell bonds to raise $120 million for maintenance, to build a fi ft h
Tough decisions for school board
Taylor Usselman, a ninth-grader from Tahoma Junior High, cleans the gravestone of Kentlake High graduate Nicholas Bloem, a Marine Corps lance corporal who was killed in action in Iraq, during a service project at Tahoma National Cemetery. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.
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“Woody” the spooky tree sits in front of the Laws’ home near Cedar Airpark. Gena Laws and her family make many of the props. TJ MARTINELL The Reporter
BY TJ MARTINELL
At fi rst glance Gena Laws would seem she’s been inspired by fi ctional Christmas movie characters such as Clark Griswold and Kevin McCallister.
In “Christmas Vacation,” Gris-wold had 25,000 Christmas lights on his house. Laws plans to have 45,000 for her Christmas show.
In “Home Alone,” Kevin draws up a detailed layout of his house
with colored markers. Laws has a stack of plans for her Christmas show which goes back years and is based on the home’s original drawings.
For 10 years, Laws’ home near Crest Airpark south of Covington has been a local attraction for shows celebrating the Fourth of July, Halloween and Christmas. Starting out with regular lights and simple props, she now uses electrical equipment, synchroni-zation, song writing soft ware and
home-craft ed props to create her shows, which has brought not only local, but national attention.
Recently, msn.com named her home among the top 10 great home haunts aft er fi nding videos of her display on Rocky Mountain Haunted Group, of which Laws is a member.
“Th is reporter had contacted our group and saw my video and asked me to contact them,” she said. “Th e next thing I know they had me on the top 10.”
HAUNTING AND HAPPY HOLIDAYSLaws has been decorating for
the holidays for as long as she can
From patriotic to spooky to Christmas wonderland
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elementary school, add classroom space to Tahoma Junior High and Tahoma High, among other projects.
Th e committee began meeting shortly aft er the school year ended in June and met once or twice a month until its fi nal gathering on Oct. 26 at Ta-homa Junior High.
“A lot of people on the committee wondered, ‘Where did this bond mea-sure come from? I didn’t read very much about it,’” Maryanski said. “One of the themes that came up was if we had marketed this a diff erent way… maybe this would have passed.”
Yet, district staff was able to show the committee evidence of every eff ort it had me to communicate the message of overcrowding in classrooms, yet Maryanski said, “we still didn’t do the job because friends and neighbors were still asking the committee members,
‘Where did this come from?’”
Th e plan was for the committee to off er the school board short-term and long-term options.
“I made a decision early on that it wouldn’t be
productive to try and prioritize this list,” the super-intendent said. “When we started that process, it was all about, ‘Let’s get creative here.’ If we can’t pass a bond measure then what are we going to do
with the young people as the growth continues to occur. Some of those deci-sions are program-related decisions. Any solution that looks long-term needs to consider how to get kids out of the portables.”
Th at was one major mes-sage the committee had for the board, Maryanski said.
“Th ey also told us to be really patient about one thing,” he said. “Some of the administrators said it was
pretty clear, we can create a lot of capacity if we do some sort of multi-track option. Th e committee’s message to us and to you was pretty strong: please use this as a last option, we don’t want the community to think we’re punishing them as a result of the bond vote.”
Tanya Donahue, a mem-ber of the committee who has a sixth grader and ninth grader in the district, said the committee had plenty of ideas.
“Th e hardest part, I think, Mike had to keep gearing us toward our main thing: to come up with short-term solutions,” she said. “We didn’t want to do that, we just wanted to fi x it, to go fi nd that $25 million.”
Kevin Kalberg, who also served on the commit-tee, told the school board the group covered a lot of ground.
“Mike’s instruction’s were, ‘Th ink outside the box, the school board has to make this decision, so nothing is
off the table,’” Kalberg said. “Whatever you guys do, I implore you to have Plan A, B, C and D ready to go. We’re talking about 2020, which is nine years away, but when the last bond issue was passed in 1997 we though we were fi ne.”
Board member Bill Clausmeyer was impressed with the creativity of the committee.
“Th is board has sat in untold number of meetings on student housing,” Clausmeyer said. “You guys have touched on things that have never been proposed. I was very impressed with the work you guys did.”
In the committee’s report, staff included a signifi cant amount of data the group used to some extent to formulate its recommen-dations, which were not prioritized.
Among that was data from demographers which showed that since 1985, only the Issaquah School
District has grown faster among districts in Puget Sound, with enrollment go-ing up 139.4 percent in the past 25 years.
In that same time period, Issaquah district voters have approved more than $500 million in bond mea-
sures, while Tahoma voters have ap-proved about $61.5 million.
Th e committee came up with eight
short-term solu-tion recommendations, a number of ideas for long-term solutions, and gave the board a great deal to consider.
“We’re at that point where we need to sit down, roll up our sleeves and give you the resources to make this decision,” Maryan-ski said. “I believe they’ve given you some options in that packet that will force you to make some really diffi cult decisions... I think that packet will well serve the decisions you will make.”
The Tahoma Ad Hoc Student Housing Committee met for fi ve months. After review of information provided by the district about enrollment, the failure of the construction bond measure and the alternatives the district has considered to manage overcrowded classrooms, the committee submitted a report to the district’s Board of Directors on Nov. 8.
Below are some of the suggestions off ered by the committee in no particular order. The group did not prioritize any of its recommendations to the board.
SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS:Recommendation one:Create additional capacity at elementary schools by converting computer labs and music rooms to home rooms and eliminating all day kindergarten.
Recommendation two:Use Central Service Center for classrooms and house the district functions in rental spaces in the com-munity.
Recommendation three:Identify a program off ering that keeps 120 junior students at one or both middle schools. This pushes the need for space at the junior high forward without creating signifi cant capacity issues at the middle schools in the short term.
Recommendation four:Move 120 students from the junior high to the Central Services Center.
Recommendation fi ve: Move 30 to 95 students from the junior high to the high school.
Recommendation six:Create high school space by encouraging early graduation, online learning and enrollment in Running Start.
Recommendation Seven:
Use Russell Ridge Center portables to house junior high students.
Recommendation eight:Implement a year-round, multi-track model in the year that enrollment exceeds established building capacity.
LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS:
round, multi-track double-shifting schedules.
through 12th grade high school. This would reduce to the bond amount to $98 million and the com-mittee recommends timing it to kick in when the 1997 bond is paid off in 2016. This would cover construction only.
plus one, versus a bond measure which needs a 60 percent supermajority minimum to pass. Then run a $90 million bond in the spring of 2013 followed by the replacement operations and technology levies in 2014 and a $23 million 6-year levy in for low and medium priority projects such as the performing arts auditorium and athletic facility improvements.
the “warm, safe and dry” elements of the bond, which would reduce the dollar amount by $15 million.
ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONSIt is worth noting that enrollment data available in October 2010 showed Tahoma Junior High would hit maximum capacity in 2014, with other schools reaching enrollment limits in the succeeding years, however data available in late October of this year shows enrollment is growing at a slower rate. The junior high is expected to hit capacity in 2019 instead while elementary school capacity is expected to max out in 2017. District offi cials stated that Tahoma schools are already crowded beyond what the buildings were designed for and “maximum enrollment” is the absolute limit for a school.
The 21-page report in its entirety is available on the Tahoma School District website, www.tahomasd.us.
Source: The Tahoma School District
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remember. Growing up in Nevada, Halloween at the time fell on Nevada Day, which was a state holiday.
“We were always out trick or treating,” she said. “School was off, so there were parades and all kinds of things. It was just a really fun time.”
She first began setting up house displays during the holidays a decade ago. At first, it was simple and basic, like most ordinary homes. As each year passed, however, she and family kept looking for new ways to expand and build upon what they had already done.
The big leap came when Laws attended a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert, which synchronized the music and lights. She also learned about various software programs which would allow her to write her own songs.
“That was infectious,” she recalled.The equipment was by no means cheap. Laws said she
had to save up for three years before she could purchase it. First, she bought prepackaged Christmas music which had the lights synchronized.
“That was getting me closer,” she said. Yet, she wanted to create her own light pattern and
songs.Now she uses a combination of Light-o-rama software,
Wow Lights Production and Wild Lights, the preplanning and preparation of which makes it resemble a small movie production.
For the Light-o-rama software, for example, Laws has to create a specific name for each channel of lights. For her Halloween display, there were seven boxes containing 112 channels. Then, she must enter in what she wants each light to do for each second for every song.
On average, it takes her six to 10 hours to program a two minute song, and that’s if she doesn’t have to write the song. For Halloween, she wrote 13 original songs, a task which consumes even more time.
“You count that up, that’s a lot of hours,” she said.Ironically, Laws described herself as “computer illiterate.”“In the beginning I was so overwhelmed,” she said. “I
would be on the phone at 10 p.m. ... on Sunday.”Due to the time required, preplanning begins months in
advance, February for the Fourth of July, March for Hal-loween. Another reason for the early planning is the result of a new theme each year.
The hours add up. The Halloween show required 260 hours of preparation, 50 hours for setup, most of which is done by Laws and a handful of other people.
“I have some really great friends and family, but it’s pretty much here in this household,” she said.
HOW TO BE A REAL-LIFE CLARK GRISWOLDTo avoid burdensome costs, Laws said she and her family
rely on donations, garage sales and their own ingenuity to create their props. For example, Woody, the spooky-looking tree featured in this year’s Halloween display, was built using real bark and roots from a tree their neighbor had cut down. After building a wooden skeleton, the Laws nailed the bark to the exterior and added the roots. The result was a favorite among their visitors.
For the hearts, they used CV piping and coated it to resemble wood. The interior of a coffin had velvet cushion-ing from a garage sale.
But a large percentage of their props are built by Laws’ husband, Robert. In addition to the coffin and hearts for Halloween, he also built a cannon for the Fourth of July.
“You can find ways to build things cheap,” Laws said. “I show him (Robert) something and ask, ‘Can you build this?’ and he says, ‘Sure.’”
KEEPING IT UNDER WRAPSLaws said she tends to be guarded about the exact details
of her upcoming shows so the surprise is not ruined.“We try to keep it secret,” she said.She did reveal, however, several facts about this year’s
Christmas show. The theme will be “The Presence of Christmas” and will include a 13 foot tree in addition to a mega-tree with 64 lights.
Unlike Clark Griswold, however, they don’t have to worry about falling down any ladders. After her husband had spinal surgery earlier this year, they were forced to find another way of putting lights up on their house and on the trees. Through a friend who runs Kent Truck and Equip-ment, they are now able to borrow one of their old bucket trucks to put up and take down lights.
“It makes things easy,” Laws said. “But it’s been a god-send with the safety.”
Safety first, Laws said, is their first motto. The second is think of others, specifically her neighbors. Laws said she
has maintained a relatively good relationship due to an open door policy when it comes to complaints. Thus far, however, she hasn’t received any negative feedback.
“On the flip side, I hear them say ‘We love your house, we love what you do and I can’t wait to bring my grand-kids,’” she said.
Laws said one of the most frequently asked questions she gets about her show concerns the cost of her electric bill as the result of having so many lights up.
“People think it’s really expensive,” she said. “But the truth is it’s not that expensive. Your lights aren’t on all of the time.”
She also uses LED lights, which consume less amperage than incandescent lightbulbs. On average, she said it costs them an extra $60-100 a month.
AND IT’S FOR A GOOD CAUSEAside from being a neighborhood attraction during the
holidays, Laws also uses her shows as a philanthropic op-portunity to collect food for local food banks. During the shows, they have a toter and sign by their house for food donations, which has been a success.
Last year they were able to donate 1,000 pounds to the Black Diamond Senior Center and Food Bank.
So far this year, they have raised 650 pounds, and expect as much during the Christmas season.
“It’s like icing on the cake,” Laws said. “I really felt like it was such a great place to donate food.”
Although she said the display “comes with a lot of sore backs,” in the end the appreciation she receives from the community is worth it.
“It’s a lasting memory,” she said. “It’s a time you can come up with your family and be a kid again. (I get) a lot of thanks. They say ‘You’re our tradition.’”
Laws’ house is located at 30211 176th Ave. S.E., Cov-ington. The Christmas show debuts on Nov. 25 and will run from dusk until 11:30 p.m. through Jan. 7. The Black Diamond Fire Department will be at the show on Dec. 11.
Videos of her show can be viewed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNfS33LQMZE&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZDsNKEwws.
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Today, Friday, Nov. 18, marks a signifi cant milestone in my life: my daughter, Lyla, turns 2 years old.
It is hard to believe that it has been two years since I gave birth to my precious, sweet baby girl.
As I refl ect on the time that’s passed and all that I’ve learned since Lyla was born, there are two things that really stand out to me about her impact on my life — fi rst, I am a better person because of my daughter, and second I am a bet-ter reporter because I am a mom.
To start off with I am considerably more pa-tient than I was before she was born. I lose my temper less oft en.
And I have a dif-ferent perspective on life, so, things that may have frustrated me before I became a mother now tend to make me laugh.
Lyla is smart, stubborn, independent, hilari-ous and creative.
When I get home from work she wants me to chase her around the house, play with her or when the weather is nice, go for a walk in our neighborhood.
Many sunny days this past summer I would walk through the laundry room door to a squealing toddler who would immediately grab my fi nger and lead me to the backyard.
From there we would walk through the gate to the front of the house and walk up and down our street.
If Lyla wants me to read her a book, she’ll select one, bring it to me and drop it in my lap.
Or, if I’m not paying attention, chuck it at me — with her left hand, which she also uses to eat with, color, wave, high fi ve and hold things.
Her creativity is fun. I imagine she is like most toddlers. Toys are fun but so are empty Amazon boxes which are great places to sit or color on.
I think that even if she didn’t have piles of toys and stuff ed animals she would still be able to entertain herself just fi ne with whatever she could fi nd.
I hope I can encourage that creative play and use of imagination well into her childhood.
Now, she does have her moments, there have been tantrums and unexpected disasters.
Th ere have been boo boos, scrapes, bruises and cuts.
Somehow, I have managed to stay calm through these moments, at least for the most part.
And I know this is because she’s my kid.
But, I have found that being more patient has made a diff erence in my other relationships and in my job.
I also think being a mom has given me a new perspective as a journalist.
Now when I mess up and don’t get a kid’s name in the paper for sports or when I get a call from a proud parent about the cool thing his son did last week, I have a diff erent understand-ing of the signifi cance.
I get it — and it’s not just an over-sight or an easy story. It’s a chance to give a parent bragging rights for their kid. It’s a celebration of a milestone.
And I totally understand that, because like any parent, I could talk for hours about my daughter.
She is the light of my life, so, I just want to spread that light around.
It’s also allowed me to be more sympathetic and compassionate on the tough stories about
young people who have died too soon, stories I have unfortunately written more frequently than I care to think about in the past few years.
A few years ago, before we had decided for sure to start a family, someone told me there is no right time to have kids.
While I understand where that’s coming from, I feel like Lyla came into my life at the perfect time, as if the universe was just waiting for me to give it the green light.
Th rough the columns and blog posts I’ve writ-ten over the past two and a half years about my pregnancy, her birth, the early months as well as all the little moments that happened along the way I’ve connected with other people in my life and the community in a way I never thought possible.
I am glad to have given you a glimpse into that part of my life. So oft en journalists come across as soulless robots at worst and insensitive, socially awkward jerks at best.
Now you know not only am I your neighbor, I am a real person, who goes through ups and downs. All of that makes me a better person and a better reporter.
So, while I work on getting a Cookie Monster cake — Lyla is now obsessed with Sesame Street, she’s fi gured out how to watch it on my iPad — and arranging a little party for my baby girl, thank you all for going on this journey with me since May 2009.
Happy birthday, Lyla! Mommy loves you more than you will ever know.
Unincorporated Area Council Nov. 7 meeting summary
On Monday, Nov. 7, the Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council (GMVUAC) held its regular monthly meeting. Th e major topic discussed was the King County Comprehensive
Plan (KCCP) 2012 Update. Paul Reitenbach, comprehensive plan project
manager of KC Department of Development and Environmental Services (DDES), discussed the 2012 major four year update to the KCCP.
Th e KCCP is the guiding policy document for all land use and development regulations in unincorporated King County, and for regional services throughout the County including tran-sit, sewers, parks, trails, and open space.
Every year the KCCP can be amended to address technical updates that do not require substantive policy changes. Every fourth year a complete review of the KCCP is done, as is the case for 2012. In this review, broader policy issues can be addressed and the plan amended accordingly. A Public Review Draft (PRD) of the 2012 KCCP Update is available at: http://www.kingcounty.gov/property/permits/codes/growth/CompPlan/2012_PublicReviewDraft .aspx. Pub-
lic Comments are due Friday, Dec. 23, and can be e-mailed to [email protected].
Th e Area Council’s Growth Management Committee and the Transportation Committee have been reviewing the PRD. Th e Committees have focussed on specifi c chapters and appendi-ces of particular interest to rural area citizens:
Ch 3--Rural Area & Natural Resource LandsCh 4--EnvironmentCh 6--Parks, Open Space, & Cultural Re-
sources Ch 7--Transportation Ch 8--Services, Facilities, & Utilities Ch 9--Economic Development; Area Zoning
Studies; and Transportation Needs Report. Th e Committees will present their fi nal
recommendations to the full Area Council for discussion at our Dec. 5 monthly meeting.
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“Through the columns and blog posts I’ve written over the past two and a half years about my pregnancy, her birth, the early months as well as all the little moments that happened along the way I’ve connected with other people in my life and the community in a way I never thought possible.”
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I was sitting in the car at the bus stop the other morning with my young-est daughter. She’s 14 and dresses herself and every-thing.
I say that because she had her foot on the dashboard, her shoe untied and was pulling up her sock that had slid into her shoe. When she re-tied her shoe I had a fl ashback.
It wasn’t a fl ashback of her father chastising her for having her foot on the dashboard — it was a fl ash-back of when she couldn’t tie her shoe.
I was glancing at her and trying to remember who taught her how to tie her shoes because I don’t tie my shoes the way she was tying her shoe.
Th en I started thinking of when my kids couldn’t dress themselves, couldn’t tie their own shoes, couldn’t feed themselves or make their own lunches and
wondered where the time had gone.
Guiding little kids through the maze of grow-ing up can be diffi cult.
Sometimes I think they are born wanting to be independent and you know in time they will be, but it feels like such a long road when they are young.
Before I had kids, in fact when I was pregnant with my fi rst, I used to panic when I encountered adolescents.
Th ey frightened me and I didn’t feel I would ever be prepared to deal with teen angst and rebellion.
What I didn’t fully com-prehend until I had a child of my own was that they aren’t born teens and we have plenty of time to fi gure them out. Th ere are many ages in between infancy and adolescence. And there
are many things they must learn before they become independent.
But, unfortunately, they do not come with instruc-tion manuals. What worked for one child doesn’t neces-sarily work for the next.
Th is brings me back to tying shoes.
When my oldest started kindergarten they took class time to teach the stu-dents how to tie their shoes. By the time
my youngest started kin-dergarten it was forbidden for the teachers to teach the kids how to tie shoes and it was forbidden for the teachers to tie kids’ shoes.
It took a teacher to get my oldest to tie her own shoes, but, my youngest wanted to learn because her sister knew how.
I don’t even know how old my youngest was when she learned.
She was an older kinder-gartener, as she missed the Aug. 31 birthday deadline and turned six a couple weeks aft er she entered kindergarten, so, she prob-ably learned how to tie her shoes before she even got to school.
But I remember trying to teach her.
In those days my young-est had a temper akin to a volcano. She would blow up at me or her father when things went wrong — this included learning to tie shoes. She would try and they wouldn’t be tied tight enough or would fl op help-lessly with a missed loop and she would explode, “I am never tying shoes again!”
She oft en made these blatant comments when she got frustrated and her temper got the best of her:
“I am never talking to you again! I am never eat-ing again!”
Of course, the resolve of her statements would last all of fi ve minutes when she got distracted with some-thing and forgot she was angry.
Tying shoes was no dif-ferent. And aft er each failed attempt, I would encour-age her to keep practicing. She would stamp her little foot, resolve never to tie her shoes again, and then we would start all over. Aft er a day of this I began to get frustrated. I tried to get her to stop for a while and calm down before she tried again but she was determined.
When her dad came home he took over. He’s a big, bearded cuddly daddy.
He took her on his lap, put her little foot in his big hand and went through the motions of tying her shoe.
He did it over and over, patiently coaching her
through each failed attempt until she fi nally got the hang of it.
So I gazed at her now-tied shoe at the end of her long, long leg as we sat waiting for the bus remem-bering a time she couldn’t tie it.
I wondered where the time had gone and what was left to teach my kids.
Th en I had another fl ashback.
Th is one was me in the car trying to teach my old-est daughter to drive — my life fl ashed before my eyes.
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Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She is commit-ted to writing about the humor amidst the chaos of a family. You can read more of her writing and her daily blog on her web-site livingwithgleigh.com.
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Gardening doesn’t have to end when the weather turns cold and the days are short. Some of the best houseplants thrive indoors all winter and some don’t even need to grow near a window to coax them into blooming.
The versatile African violet is a classic houseplant that will bloom all winter if its humble requests are met.
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Moist soil: Don’t let your African violets dry out but don’t let their roots sit in
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atop pebbles, wine corks or marbles. This way the drain-age water will evaporate to add humidity without rotting the plant roots.
A boiled egg: This old husband’s tale really does work. If you have an African violet that is refusing to rebloom, boil an egg and water the plant with the cooking water. Do not add salt to the water
and allow the water to cool completely before you water your violets. It is the calcium from the egg shell that leaches into the water and puts African violets in a blooming good mood.
A proper stage: Put your plants on a pedestal and show off those winter blooms by staging your violets with these ideas:
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city if its revenue sources are affected.
“It gave us a lot more breathing room,” he said. “But we also should be thankful for that because we don’t know what is going to come out of the legislature.”
Originally, the city planned for only 50 single
family permits (SFP) in 2011. So far, there have been 140, and they expect to have 150 by the end of the year. This has brought in an additional $634,000.
The city also was able to save $479,000 in spending due to position vacancies.
Maple Valley staff had to use $100,000 of it in subsi-dies for the Lake Wilder-ness Golf Course.
For 2012, they expect to only have 70 SFP, which is why the city plans to budget less for 2012 than it actu-ally collected in revenue in 2011.
“We were surprised to see 140 single family permits this year, so that’s why we are being cautious planning this year,” Johnston said.
Johnston explained the $1 million will aid the city at a moment when there is a significant degree of un-certainty coming from both
the state and national level.Two weeks ago, Gov.
Christine Gregoire unveiled a proposal which would hold back various inter-governmental transfer payments and instead keep the revenue entirely for the state, in an effort to close the $2 billion gap in the state budget. The proposal has met with strong criti-cism from the Association of Washington Cities (AWC), which sent a letter dated Nov. 2 signed by 115
mayors, including Maple Valley Mayor Noel Gerken.
According to Johnston, Maple Valley would lose $367,000 in revenue as a result of Gregoire’s proposal if it were implemented.
“It surprised all munici-pal governments,” he said. “She (Gregoire) told us she wasn’t going to look at shared revenue with local governments as a way to stop the financial bleeding, and then it (the proposal) comes out of nowhere.”
as this, Johnston said, is why the city needs to bud-get conservatively.
“I view budget as a guide, not a mandate to spend,” he said. “That ($1 mil-lion) helps, but it doesn’t mean we won’t get off the conservative stage. I froze $400,000 (in spending) my first year because we didn’t have the money. Last year we had to fill a $1.3 million hole by dipping into our re-serves. We’ve felt the pain.”
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...HEALTHY LIVING
It’s getting harder to feel good about life in America. According to data collected by the Census Bureau, the average income of Ameri-cans has fallen by almost 10 percent since the beginning of the recession of 2008. Some experts say the financial crisis has been as traumatic and anxiety-pro-ducing for millions of Americans as the events of Sept. 11, 2001. While people back then were fearful of another terrorist attack, they are now experiencing profound existential angst about their future.
More than 40 million people suffer from anxiety disorders in this country, estimates the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) based on prescription drug sales.
Younger generations seem to be most affected.
“It used to be that if you got a good education, you would get a good job. But today, young people are
uncertain about finding a job, they have a lot more debt, they are working while studying, finish-ing later, more fa-tigued and some are starting fami-
lies while still in school, and juggling all of this causes a great deal of stress,” said Dr. Katy Kamkar, a clinical psychologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada.
So, are our times more stressful and anxiety-ridden than, let’s say, the Great Depression era in the 1930s? In a way yes, accord-ing to Dr. Jean Twenge, a professor at San Diego State
University and author of “Generation Me.”
“Anxiety rates have risen steadily over the past seven decades, during good economic times and bad,” she said.
Dr. Twenge sees at least some of the reasons in the deep cultural shifts we as a society have undergone since the 1960s.
“Recent generations have been told over and over again: You can be anything you want to be, you can have the big job title, you can have the big bank ac-count, and in the case of women, you can have the perfect body. That puts a lot on a person’s shoulder – and it is also not really true. That disconnect creates a lot of anxiety about how hard you need to work […] and a deep fear of failure.”
And it’s not only that people have impossibly
high expectations that are bound to be frustrated at some point in their lives. The world keeps changing so fast that many feel left behind even at a relatively young age.
Reconsidering one’s values and making changes to one’s lifestyle is not easy. It’s hard if not impossible to get off the train once you’re on it.
“People feel they should always be on, and that they could be called upon at any moment to do something,” said Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, a professor of psychology at Yale Univer-sity who specializes in stress and women’s health. “Our e-mail and iPhones are constantly pinging, which keeps anxiety heightened all the time.”
Experiencing anxiety every now and then is – like stress – a natural phenom-enon and not necessarily a bad one.
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“Italians celebrated Christmas, New Years, and of course, Easter was a big one. The Fourth of July was American. In Italy we used tocelebrate some saint days which we don’t celebrate here. Later on we did have Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving didn’t mean much to me until Roninvited me over.”
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chology and neurosci-ence at Duke University in North Carolina.
The term “anxiety disorder” refers to anxiety as a chronic condition.
It can take on different forms. There is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), so-cial anxiety disorder (a.k.a. social phobia) and specific phobias.
Anxiety and fear are often used interchangeably. But in clinical usage, they have clearly distinct mean-ings. Anxiety is defined as a negative emotional state for which the cause is either not identified or perceived to be beyond a person’s control.
Fear, on the other hand, is an emotional and physiological response to a concrete external threat. Phobias, which are re-sponses of fear or discom-
fort triggered by specific stimuli or situations, are also considered to be anxi-ety disorders.
Anxiety often goes hand in hand with clinical de-pression and other mental disorders. It is esti-mated that about 60 percent of people suffering from chronic depression experience regular bouts of anxiety as well.
Sexual dysfunc-tions are quite common among men and women with anxiety dis-orders, although it cannot always be determined whether anxiety causes the dys-function or whether they
both result from a com-mon cause.
Treatment options for anxiety disorders include psychotherapy (e.g. cogni-tive-behavioral therapy), medication and lifestyle
changes. Exercise has been
shown to help with stress manage-ment and can have positive effects on
anxiety reduction as well. So can dietary changes.
“Eating too much of the wrong kind of foods produces an inflammation effect that can cause disease in the brain,” said Dr. David Heber,
director of the Center for
Human Nutrition at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Sufferers from chronic anxiety have reported that cutting back on starchy foods and eating more fresh fruits and vegetables has made a significant dif-ference not only for their physical- but also their emotional well-being.
Controlling and, if nec-essary, reducing consump-tion of caffeine and alcohol is equally as important. Caffeine can increase anxiety and trigger panic attacks. While alcohol may make you feel more relaxed for the moment, it can also contribute to depression.
Relaxation techniques, yoga, meditation, breath-ing exercises, massage and other soothing treatments
are all highly recommend-ed to counterbalance anxi-ety. They may not always suffice, but they are always helpful. Just by being able to turn off the noise once in a while, both body and mind can relax, heal and rejuvenate.
Timi Gustafson R.D. is a clinical dietitian and author of the book “The Healthy Diner – How to Eat Right and Still Have Fun”®, which is available on her blog, “Food and Health with Timi Gustafson R.D.” (http://www.timigustafson.com), and at amazon.com.
You can follow Timi on Twitter (http://twitter.com/TimiGustafsonRD) and on Facebook.
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“Eating too much of the wrong kind of food produces an inflammation effect that can cause diseas in the brain.” Dr. David Heber
The Jerry Woods Holiday Fire Engine will be visit-ing the neighborhoods in the Maple Valley area this holiday season. As in the past, food and monetary donations will be collected for the Maple Valley Food Bank.
The holiday fire engine is sponsored by the Maple Valley Professional Fire-fighters Association, the Maple Valley Rotary and Valley Medical Center. In the past years the holiday fire engine volunteers have been able to contribute to the food bank and they will be looking forward to doing the same this year with the help of the community.
Become a friend of the Jerry Woods Holiday Fire Engine on Facebook to see the schedule and updates. You can also go to the Maple Valley Food Bank web page, www.mapleval-leyfoodbank.org and make a donation on line.
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Bellmont Woods – 8:15 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 3Maple Woods – 6:15 p.m.Maple Ridge – 7:15 p.m.Glacier Valley – 8:15 p.m.Rock Creek Meadows –
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– 2 hours – 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Dec. 10Wilderness Estates – 6:15
p.m.Vine Maple Place Garden
(Witte Road) – 7:00 p.m.Wilderness Downs – 7:30
p.m.Daybreak – 8:00 p.m.Boy Scout Leader Scott
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Apartments – 8:15 p.m.Friday, Dec. 16Rock Creek Ranch – 6:15
p.m.Shadow Firs – 7:15 p.m.Pebble Creek – 8:15 p.m.
Eastwood Forest – 6:15 p.m.
Barclay Woods - 7:45 p.m.
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ments – 6:15 p.m.Jaqueline Meadows /
Maple Valley Meadows – 7:15 p.m.
Lake Wilderness CC Event – 6:15 p.m.
Upper Country Club Drive inc Crowne Point – 7:15 p.m.
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Starting Jan. 1, all sus-pects arrested in Coving-ton will be housed in the South Correctional Entity (SCORE) in Des Moines.
Currently, felony arrest and pretrial misdemeanor arrests are housed in the King County jail, while
post-trial misdemeanor prisoners are housed in the Buckley jail.
Approved by the Cov-ington City Council at its June 28 meeting, the switch was made in an effort to cut public safety costs, according to City Manager Derek Matheson, as well as simplify the inmate housing situation.
“It’s a lot cheaper in Buckley, but it’s complicated to have two jails,” said Matheson.
It’s also costly. The city pays $135 a day per inmate at the King County jail, plus an addi-tional $452 booking fee. In Buckley, it $57 a day, but no booking fee.
Housing inmates is expected to cost the city
$278,000 this year alone.
“We’re always looking for the opportunity to re-duce costs in pub-
lic safety,” Matheson said. “When you add it
together, it is a good chunk of our budget.”
At the SCORE jail it will cost $128 a day and no booking fee.
“When you compare our King-Buckley combination, it’s going to significantly reduce our jail costs,” said Matheson. “It depends on the number of people you put in jail and how long they spend in jail. We’re going to have to do it for a few months before we know how much we save on an annual basis.”
The SCORE jail is a consortium of seven differ-ent cities: Auburn, Bur-ien, Des Moines, Federal Way, Renton, SeaTac and Tukwila.
“We’ve watched the SCORE cities come togeth-
er and we’ve watched the jail be built over a number of years,” said Matheson.
Matheson stated that all inmates in the Buckley jail will be transferred on Jan. 1 as a part of the switch. King County, on the other hand, will be done on a case-by-case basis, depending on where they are in the court process.
Under state law, counties are responsible for housing felon arrestees, while cities are responsible for housing misdemeanor arrests.
Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story, go to covingtonreporter.com
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City signs new contract for jail services
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BY TJ MARTINELL
Chocolate milk will no longer be served at Ta-homa school cafeterias.
Accord-ing to Kevin Patterson, spokesman for Ta-homa School District, the Food and Nutrition Services Department decided to remove choc-olate milk about a month ago due to its high sugar or fructose content, which they felt was “not conducive to a healthy lifestyle and doesn’t fit the district’s nutrition program goals.”
Additionally, milk that is sold to students must meet new federal requirements that only allows fat free or one percent milk to be sold.
Tahoma schools cur-rently serve fat-free white, one percent white and soy milk.
At the Oct. 25 school board meeting, Rock Creek Elementary student Laura Pierson asked the board to reconsider its decision. She also presented a petition with 138 signatures as well as a letter from a Rock Creek class.
According to the Oct. 25 minutes, the board requested an explanation
be given as to who made the decision and why.
Sheri Me-lewski, food and nutrition services su-pervisor, gave a presentation at the Nov. 8 meeting, explaining that choco-late milk was removed as a part of a three-year progression
towards healthier choices for students. Canned food and foods with high sodium and high fructose corn syrup will be gradually replaced with fresh fruits, lower sodium foods and beverages with low sugar.
According to the presen-tation, a carton of chocolate milk has 140 calories and 25 grams of sugar, while fat-free milk has 110 calories and 12 grams of sugar. She also said that chocolate milk has not been banned from the school entirely, but is simply not sold by the cafeteria.
Although chocolate milk has been removed, certain foods such as pizza, french fries, mozzarella breadsticks and chicken nuggets are still available.
Chocolate milk off the menu
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Kentlake’s Emily Tanasse put together a fi fth-place fi nish in the 100-yard butterfl y at the 4A state girls swim and dive championships on Saturday at the King County Aquatic Center to help the Falcons take third, their highest fi nish in school history. CHARLES CORTES, The Reporter
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Kentlake’s third-place fi nish at the 4A state swim and dive championship meet at the
King County Aquatic Center Nov. 11-12 was no small feat.First, the team did it without a diver, and second they did it swimming against Skyline, which won its third straight team champion-ship in the pool thanks to a pair of individual titles from standout Katie Kinnear and a pair of fi rst place fi nishes in relays.And to top it all off , it was the best fi nish for the Falcons at the state swim meet since Kentlake opened in 1997.“Th is means a lot to the team, the girls worked very hard this year and everyone contributed something to the team’s suc-cess,” wrote Kentlake coach Seth Dawson
in an email. “I think the key to winning the trophy was perseverance. Th e kids never gave up, they kept swimming hard and all of our relay’s really stepped up, we had some really great swims and scored points in all three relays. I was very proud of our kids and their accomplishments.”Th at hardware for Kentlake comes thanks to a fi ft h place fi n-ish in the 200 yard medley relay which senior Sarah Dougherty led off , followed by Laura Wil-liams, Emily Tanasse and anchored by Abby Swanson.Th e Falcons added on a third place fi nish in the 400 free relay at the end of the meet, with Kyndal Phillips leading off followed by Swan-son and Dougherty with Tanasse anchoring.Phillips also had a sixth place fi nish in the 200 IM and a ninth place fi nish in the 100
butterfl y while Tanasse placed fourth in the 100 backstroke and a fi ft h place fi nish in the 100 fl y.Meanwhile, Joanna Wu of Kent-Meridian fi nished her career for the Royals with a third place fi nish in the 200 free less than two sec-onds shy of an automatic All American time,
touching the wall in 1 minute, 51.06 seconds. Wu added a silver medal with her second place fi nish in the 500 free, clocking in at 5:00.77.
Kentwood sophomore Natalie Lesnick fi n-ished 14th overall in the 500 free.Kentridge senior Emily Mohr fi nished sec-ond in the 50 free with a time of 24 seconds fl at and added another medal to her col-lection with a fourth place fi nish in the 100
Kentwood’s Tess Manthou digs the ball in a state semifi nal match against Curtis on Nov. 12. Photo courtesy of Shane T. Peterson
BY KRIS HILL
Kentwood was within a few points of a 4A state volleyball title but fell just short Nov. 12 against Olympia at Saint Martin’s University.
Th e Conks lost 3-2 (25-23, 18-25, 25-14, 25-6, 13-15) to the Bears aft er beating Kamiak 3-1 in the fi rst round, sweeping South Puget Sound League North division rival Kent-Merid-ian in the second game, the beat Curtis of the SPSL South in the semi-fi nal.
A week ago Kentwood lost to Olympia in the West Central District semi-fi nal, so, the Conks knew what they were up against.
Kentwood coach Cindy Seims said via email it was tough for the team to have
to settle for second place.“Th e girls were disap-
pointed to be so close and not get that coveted state title,” Seims wrote. “We were up in game fi ve and just couldn’t get it done.
Th ough it was Kent-wood’s eighth straight appearance and seventh trophy in that run, it was the school’s best fi nish since winning the state crown in 1986.
“We had an amazing season,” Seims wrote. “Our key all along was to have fun. Our girls play great when they are relaxed and savoring the moment.”
Senior setter Kacie Seims -- who was voted the SPSL North MVP -- and senior outside hitter Mikaela Bal-lou made the all tourna-ment team. Ballou tallied 27
kills in the title match while Kacie Seims had 40 assists.
Meanwhile the other SPSL North teams in the tournament, Tahoma and Kent-Meridian, both missed out on a shot at a trophy.
Tahoma was eliminated in two games, fi nishing the season 11-10 overall and 6-2 in conference, losing 3-2 to perennial volleyball powerhouse Mead which has placed every year but this one since 1998. New-port then bounced Tahoma in the second round.
Kent-Meridian provided the stunner of the fi rst day of the tournament when it beat KingCo champion Woodinville 3-2 in the fi rst round but it couldn’t carry the momentum forward, losing to Kentwood then Skyline, fi nishing the sea-son 9-9 overall aft er going 5-3 in the North.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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SUMMIT GYMNASTICS HOSTS HOME MEET
The Summit Gymnastics Girl’s Artistic Team hosted Puget
Sound Gymnastics and Dance, Sky Valley Gymnastics and
Aryal’s Gymnastics in a meet Nov. 5.
Athletes competed in balance beam, uneven bars, vault and
fl oor routine.Summit Team’s Girl’s Artistic
Team in Level Four results:Age 10 and above:
Hayley Rayburn: fi rst in vault, fl oor, beam and all-around and
second in bars.Julia Johns: Second in beam,
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BY KRIS HILL
A pair of football teams from southwestern Washington that are just 15 miles apart ended the sea-sons of Kentwood and Kentlake -- which are located seven miles from each other -- on Nov. 11.
Kentwood lost 34-7 to Skyview on the road in Vancouver, Wash., while Union traveled to French Field to defeat Kentlake 31-7.
It was a tough night at French Field for the Falcons.
Kentlake Head Coach Chris Paulson, in his second year at the helm, said Union came ready to stop his team.
“Union did a much better job of blocking and tackling than we did,” Paulson wrote in an email interview. “Th ey controlled the line of scrimmage and were able to put time consuming drives to-
gether to keep the ball away from our off ense. Th ey are a very good, physical football team. When you turn the ball over and don’t take advantage of opportunities when you have them, it’s very diffi cult to win in the playoff s.”
Union had a 10-0 lead in the fi rst half and on two Kentlake drives that looked like the Falcons were about to score, the Titans picked off the Falcons quarter-backs, ending both drives.
Kentlake struggled to answer and couldn’t contain Union’s Gabe Rego or Brandon Brody-Heim, as each racked up more than 100 yards on the ground.
Still, Paulson said, the Falcons should be proud of what they accomplished in their best season since losing to Kentwood in the fi rst round of state in 2000.
“Overall, we had a great sea-son,” Paulson wrote. “It obviously
didn’t end the way we would have liked, but I am very proud of our players. Th ey fi nished 10-1 and are SPSL North champions. While we had higher expectations, that is nothing to be ashamed of. Th is was a special group of players and I am proud of the way they played and carried themselves through-out the season.”
Kentwood’s loss to Skyview was similar in that it was close in the fi rst half but the Conquerors struggled to fi nd its rhythm of-fensively.
Skyview led 14-0 in the second quarter when Jackson Huerta scored Kentwood’s lone touch-down on a 43-yard fumble return.
Aft er that, though, Skyview’s off ense scored two more touch-downs and it locked down Kent-wood’s off ensive eff orts, including a 47-yard interception return for a touchdown in the fi nal period.
Kentwood and Kentlake bounced from state
Kentlake’s Steffi n Church tries to avoid a sack against Union in a 31-7 loss in the fi rst round of state on Nov. 11. CHARLES CORTES, The Reporter
Kentlake’s Jennifer Stefenescu swims in the 500-yard freestyle at the 4A state girls swim and dive championships at the King County Aquatic Center. Her swim in the consolation fi nal helped the Falcons fi nish third in the meet. CHARLES CORTES, The Reporter
[ SOAR from page 15] free, stopping the clock at 52.95 seconds.Mohr also swam the anchor for the Chargers’ fourth place 200 free relay team. Senior Emily Shonka led off the relay with Flannery Allen and Bella Chilczuk swimming the other legs.Kentridge’s 400 free relay — Shonka, Chilczuk, Al-len and Mohr — fi nished sixth.Th e Chargers fi nished 11th overall as a team.Tahoma senior Allanah Miller fi nished fourth in
the consolation fi nal of the 100 free, 12th overall.Th e Bears 200 free relay of Alex Stein, Anna Pierre, Jessica Miller and Al;anah Miller fi nished eighth. Tahoma’s 400 free relay team — Pierre, Jessica Miller, Tori Bow-ers and Allanah Miller — swam in the consola-tion fi nal of the 400 free, fi nishing 14th overall.Reach Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.
BY KRIS HILL
The road to the state 4A girls soccer title game leads through the Sammamish Plateau.
Again.A year ago Tahoma beat
Skyline, then the top-ranked team in the country, to get to the state title contest.
Tahoma gets back to the semi-final again this year thanks to a 2-1 overtime win over Central Valley at home on Saturday night, with both goals coming off the boot of senior Becca Velasco, who scored her first goal with 18 minutes, 30 seconds left in the first half. She put in the decisive goal in overtime.
Velasco also led the charge for Tahoma in its first-round win against Gonzaga Prep.
“I feel like we’re not play-ing to our potential yet but we’re super close,” she said after that game. “Hopefully we can connect more in the next game.”
She got her wish as Ta-homa played an aggressive first half and dominated offensively.
This year the Bears will square off against the Spar-tans in the state tournament for the third season in a row, the second straight semi-final match up be-tween the two, except this year it won’t be Kentwood waiting for the winner.
For the Conquerors, the defending champions, the road to the title game ended on the Sammamish Plateau in a 1-0 loss against the Spartans on Saturday evening.
“It was a good game,” wrote Kentwood head coach Aaaron Radford in an email interview. “We had some good chances overall, but just couldn’t get a good finishing touch. Mykala (Benjamin) had two chances where she got in behind the defenders but the Skyline keeper forced one of the shots wide and made a big save on the other one up at the top of her box.”
In a sideways drizzle, Kentwood fought to tie up the game after Skyline scored 14 minutes into the game, but despite their best efforts the Conks couldn’t get crack the Spartans tough back line.
“In the first half, they had two free kicks near the midline and one our keeper saved, but the other one, carried into the 6 yard box and one of our players tried to clear it, but either missed it or it just grazed her head and got by our goal keeper,” Radford wrote. “In my opinion we controlled the majority of the second half, but our crosses weren’t connecting or our shots were just off. The weather was tough to deal with, but both teams had to do it, so it balanced out.”
Kentwood finishes the season 17-2-1.
“I feel good about the way we played this year,” Radford said. “We didn’t achieve all of our goals, but it is actually rare to meet
them all, every year. I think we had a team that was ca-pable of playing in the Final Four again, but it wasn’t meant to be. It’s unfortunate that we had to play Skyline in the quarterfinals, but those type of matchups happen each year.”
Tahoma can breathe easy for a few days before it takes on Skyline at Sparks Stadium on Friday, Nov. 18, in the semifinal. The winner of that contest gets the vic-tor of the Gig Harbor-Bel-larmine Prep match on the other side of the bracket.
Getting this far was no easy feat for Tahoma, which had to bounce back after losing its final
regular season game 1-0 to Kentwood, but
it hasn’t lost since, beating Puyallup 4-0 in the league seeding game then Olympia in the West Central District tournament.
“I feel like we got really angry that our (regular) season did end so badly,” Velasco said before the Central Valley match. “We took that anger and put that motivation into our games and that’s why we’ve been so focused.”
Senior co-captain Maggie Hanson said Tahoma has Kentwood to thank for its attitude in the playoffs.
“I think that losing to
Kentwood, it got us in the mood to want to win,” Hanson said. “And after winning our first playoff game that really gave us the momentum. We had a rough patch... but we learned from those games and know we know what it takes to get there.”
In the first round of state, the Bears had to travel to Spokane on Nov. 9 to play the Bullpups of Gonzaga Prep, having left at 8:30 a.m. to play at 6 p.m. After winning that game 2-1 in a shootout, Tahoma got back on the bus and headed home, getting home shortly after 2 a.m. on Nov. 10.
The key, Velasco said, was “our drive just to win. We didn’t drive all the way down there just to lose.”
With the win over
Central Valley, Tahoma improved to 14-3-2. The Bears finished third in the South Puget Sound League North Division. A year ago, the Conks finished third in the division and won the state title.
No matter what happens next, Hanson said, Tahoma has put together a great year.
“We should be proud of our season because we learned what it’s like to lose and what it’s like to win and how to come up for a loss,” she said.
Velasco described her senior season as “amazing.”
“Honestly, this team, it’s the best I’ve ever been on,” she said. “We’re just one huge family and I’m going to miss it.”
Tahoma moves on to semis, Kentwood knocked out
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Kentlake High Athletic Director Bruce Rick has hired a new fastpitch coach and a new boys soccer coach. Both are spring sports.
Kaylee Powell, a Kentlake graduate, will take over as fastpitch coach. She is fill-ing a spot vacated by Greg Kaas. She played three years on the Falcons fastpitch team and earned a scholarship to play at West Texas A&M University. She also coached for two seasons under Kaas at Cedar Heights.
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Super Pro driver Dale Green, representing Pacific Raceways, wheeled his DG
Machine Mullis dragster to a semi-final finish at the Summit Racing Series National Championships Sunday, Nov. 13.
The race was held in conjunction with the 47th Annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals.
Green, who resides in Kent and owns DG Machine in Auburn, drew
a first round bye and was nipped in the semi-final round by eventual champ Mark Horton representing South Georgia Motorsports Park.
Both drivers left with nearly identical reaction times and Horton’s margin of victory was 0.0122 seconds. Green ran a 7.243 on a 7.22 dial.
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Another former Pacific Raceways bracket cham-pion, Jody Lang of Puyal-lup, powered his Chevrolet Malibu to the Super Stock win at Pomona.
Former Maple Val-ley resident Brad Plourd was the Stock Eliminator runner-up.
The races for both sports-man drivers concluded today.
Lang finished the season ninth in the nation in Super Stock points and second in Stock Eliminator points.
Faul finished the season 12th in Super Stock points and 15th in Stock Elimina-tor points.
Former track champion Toby Lang, of Auburn, ended the year 11th in Stock points, one spot ahead of Pacific Raceway’s Brad Burton and his hard-charging Pontiac.
Dallas Glenn, of Cov-ington, wound up 23rd in the Stock final standings driving the Dr. Injector Corvette.
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BY KRIS HILL
A trio of Tahoma High students signed their athletic national letters of intent this week.
Jordan Walley, a left-handed pitcher, and Hayley Beckstrom, both committed to play college fastpitch last week.
Walley signed a letter of intent to play at Western
Washington University on Thursday. She earned South Puget Sound League North First Team honors in the spring at the Designated Player position. Wal-ley was 3-0 in the circle with just one error, and hit .373, including seven doubles and seven home runs while drawing 15 walks.
Beckstrom, a shortstop
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errors in the field while batting .373, eight doubles and just two strikeouts
along with four stolen bases in five tries.Walley and Beckstrom
helped the Bears to a pair of South Puget Sound League North division titles the past two seasons.
Beckstrom joins 2011 Ta-homa graduate and former teammate Lisa Maulden, a first baseman who walked on with the Redhawks this fall, on the Seattle U fast-pitch team.
Joey Palmer, a trans-fer from Rogers High in Puyallup, signed to wrestle at Oregon State University.
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BY SARAH KEHOE
This year, Kent School District staff found a fast way to connect with parents during school emergencies.
A new phone messag-ing system called School Messenger allows staff to send recorded messages to parents’ cell phone num-bers, alerting them to a situation occurring at their child’s school.
“Technology is becoming a bigger and bigger factor these days, so the mes-senger is a useful tool for our school district to have,” said Mike Halliday, district spokesman. “Most parents or guardians have mobile phones and it’s important we have the functional-ity to inform them about emergency situations through the devise they use the most.”
School Messenger is also designed to determine what a child’s home language is.
“We need this because our school district is so
diverse,” Halliday said. “The two main languages spoken are English and Spanish, so it was important to us to offer those languages in order for our parents to un-derstand completely what is going on.”
The system is the quick-est way district staff can communicate with parents.
“We have always done our best to communicate with parents whenever things occur and things just happen so quickly there are lots of deacons to be made,” Halliday said. “A child’s safety is our main priority; this system allows us to communicate with their parents in a way that is faster than posting some-thing on our website.”
The new feature was tested this month when dis-trict officials locked down Kent-Meridian High School for about a half-hour Nov. 8, after hearing a report of a man carrying a gun near French Field. The incident turned out to be a false report.
“We were able to send a phone message out to our parents, alerting them of the situation and describing how we were handling it,” Halliday said. “Everything worked out well. We like to let our parents know about things like this, especially because the kids will prob-ably be going home and talking about what hap-pened at school.”
The system means par-ents don’t have to contact the school district.
“We have around 2,000 students at some of our schools, so if we had to just rely on the phone to communicate, it would take much longer to talk to our parents,” Halliday said. “I think this system helps because it answers their questions right away so they don’t feel they need to search to find answers about what is going on with their child. However, we are pleased to be around to answer any questions parents have for us if they’d like to call.”
Kent schools use new way to alert parents about school emergencies MAPLE VALLEY CREATIVE ARTS CENTER TO
HOLD FOURTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY BAZART DEC. 3
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Center will host its fourth annual Holiday BazArt from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3 at the Creative Arts Center.
The event will feature handmade decorator blocks, quilted pet beds, handmade vintage ornaments, glass beaded jewelry, feather extensions and hair pieces, handmade greeting cards, nesting dolls, silver/copper/leather and semi-precious stone jewelry, chenille gloves, cloth baby items, crocheted hats, stained glass items, children’s tutus,
capes and more.
The event is free.
The Arts Center is located at 23220 Maple Valley Black Diamond Road SE.
TAHOMA CROSS COUNTRY TEAM TO HOLD DINNER AUCTION NOV. 19
The Tahoma High cross country team will host a dinner and benefit auction at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19 at the Olsen Mansion Pavilion. Dinner tickets are $20.
The food will be served by Ginger Passarelli.
The Pavilion is located at 21401 244th Ave. S.E .Maple Valley. For tickets or to make a donation, contact Julianna Mock at [email protected].
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Grace Christian FellowshipService Times – Sunday Bible Study 10am
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Children's Sunday School .. 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.Adult Christian Education....9:00 to 10:00 a.m.Worship Service.................................... 10:30 a.m.Children's Worship .............................. 10:45 a.m.Youth Group ............................ noon to 1:00 p.m.Monday Morning Prayers...... 7:00 to 8:00 a.m.
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KING COUNTY DEPT. OF DEVELOPMENT
& ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (DDES)
900 Oakesdale Ave SW, Renton, WA 98057-5212
NOTICE OF BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION REQUEST: Building PermitFile: B11C0034Applicant: AT&T c/o Shane SmithLocation: 16671 227th Ave SE Maple ValleyProposal: Replace 3 antennas, 6 remote radio heads, 1 surge protector & 3 lines of cable to exist. AT&T facilitySEPA Contact: Mark Mitchell 206-296-7119COMMENT PROCEDURES: DDES will issue an environ- mental determination on this application following a 21-day comment period that ends on December 19, 2011. Written comments and additional infor- mation can be obtained by contacting the SEPA Project Manager at the phone number listed above.
Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on November 18, 2011. #545660
The Villages and Lawson Hills Master Planned Developments
Public Information Meeting November 29, 2011 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Black Diamond Elementary Gym 25314 Baker Street
YarrowBay invites you to attend a public information meeting regarding The Villages and Law- son Hills Master Planned Devel- opments. At this meeting you will be able to review informa- tion regarding these projects, their timing and relationship to city plans, policies and codes. In addition to learning about these projects, you will have an oppor- tunity to discuss these projects with the applicant, YarrowBay. If you have any questions or need reasonable accomodations, please call YarrowBay at 425- 898-2100.
Published in Covington/Maple Valley Reporter November 11, 2011 and November 18, 2011. #544684.
CITY OF BLACK DIAMONDNOTICE OF
PUBLIC HEARINGS Notice is hereby given that the Black Diamond City Council will be holding two (2) public hearings to receive comments on: 1) Setting the Property Tax Levy for 2012, and 2) 2012 Prelimi- nary Budget, including revenue sources. Both hearings will take place on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Black Diamond Council Chambers, 25510 Lawson Street, Black Dia- mond, WA. Written comments may be submitted to the Clerk’s office located at 24301 Roberts Drive, Black Diamond, WA until 5:00 p.m. on November 22, 2011, otherwise they must be submitted at the hearing. All documents related to the hearings are available for inspection or purchase at City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, or on the City’s website at http://www.ci.black- diamond.wa.us.Dated this 10th day of November 2011 Brenda L. Martinez Assistant City Administrator/ City ClerkPublished in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on November 11, 2011 and No- vember 18, 2011. #544675.
KING COUNTY DEPT. OF DEVELOPMENT
& ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
900 Oakesdale Ave SW, Renton, WA 98057-5212
NOTICE OF PERMIT APPLICATIONREQUEST: FORMAL SUBDIVISION File: L11P0002 Sugarloaf Mountain Estates Applicant: 9700 Partners LLC Location: South side of Kent- Kangley Rd between 309th Ave SE & 320th Ave SE (approx.) RavensdaleProposal: Subdivide 290.43 acres zoned RA-5 into 52 lots for S/F detached residences & private access tractProgram Manager: Kim Claussen 206-296-7167COMMENT PROCEDURES: Comments on the above file are
now being accepted by King County DDES, at the address listed above. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on November 18, 2011. #545671
VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
District Healthcare SystemNOTICE OF
BOARD MEETINGNotice is hereby given that the
Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees Interim Finance, Facilities and Audit Ad Hoc
Committee will be held Monday, December 5, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. in Conference Room B of Valley Medical Center, Renton WA.
Regular meetings of this com- mittee will continue to be held on the 3rd Monday of each month at 1:30 p.m. thereafter unless change by public notice.
The regular meeting of the Val- ley Medical Center Board of Trustees scheduled for Monday, December 19, 2011, at 2:30 p.m., has been rescheduled to Monday, December 5, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. in the Board room of Valley
Medical Center.Regular meetings of this Board
will continue to be held on the 3rd Monday of each month at 2:30 p.m. thereafter unless changed by public notice. BOARD OF TRUSTEES (District Healthcare System) By: Sandra Sward Executive Assistant to the Board of Trustees Published in the Kent, Renton, Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on Novem-ber 18, 2011 and November 25, 2011. #545686
PUBLIC NOTICES
CITY OF COVINGTON NOTICES
SEPA DETERMINATION OF NON-SIGNIFICANCE (DNS)
Application Name: City of Covington Adoption of Various Code Amendments
Application File Number: SEPA11-07
Applicant/Contact: Salina Lyons, Senior Planner City of Covington 16720 SE 271st St. Covington, WA 98042 253-638-1110 ext. 2239
Date of Issuance: November 18, 2011
Project Location: This is a non-project action that will be applicable to development permit applications approved within the City of Covington.
Project Description: This is a non-project action to amend language in the Covington Municipal Code Title 18 – Zoning that was inadvertently left out of recently adopted code amendments and/or requires clarification. The code amendments are related to the downtown zoning code and permitted land uses. The purpose for amending these code sections is to correct conflicts, provide clarity and make the code easier to understand, particularly regarding process.
Documents Reviewed: Environmental Checklist (City of Covington, 11/15/2011), City of Covington Comprehensive Plan (Adopted 12/16/03, and as amended), Covington Downtown Plan and Zoning Study (09/30/09), and other information on file with the lead agency.
Responsible Official/ Richard Hart, AICP Community Development DirectorLead Agency City of Covington SEPA Official 16720 SE 271st Street, Covington, Washington 98042 (253) 638-1110
This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340. Notice is hereby provided for the SEPA action for a non-project GMA Action. The comment period is 14 calendar days and ends December 2, 2011 at 5 PM.
Comments and Notice of AppealsAny notice of appeals must be filed in writing, with the required filing fee paid in cash or check and received within 14 calendar days of the end of the comment period at Covington City Hall Offices by December 16, 2011. You must make specific factual objections, identify error, harm suffered, or identify anticipated relief sought and raise specific issues in the statement of appeal. Contact the Community Development Department at Covington City Hall to ask about the procedures for SEPA appeals.
CITY OF COVINGTON CITY COUNCILNOTICE OF FINAL PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE 2012 PRELIMINARY OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2011 – 7:00 PM
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2012 Preliminary Operating and Capital Budget has been placed on file with the City Clerk and is available for review at Covington City Hall and the Covington Library. The public is encouraged to attend budget hearings and provide written or verbal testimony on any provisions of the proposed CY2012 Budget.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that a Final Public Hearing on the 2012 Preliminary Operating and Capital Budget will be held at the City Council meeting of Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers located at Covington City Hall, 16720 SE 271st Street, Covington.
All persons desiring to comment may do so in writing to the City Clerk at 16720 SE 271st Street, Suite 100, Covington, Washington, 98042 or by appearing at the Preliminary and/or Final Public Hearings. Copies of the 2012 Preliminary Operating and Capital Budget are available for inspection and copying at Covington City Hall.
Agenda information will be posted the Friday prior to the above meetings at Covington City Hall, Covington Council Chambers, Covington Library, and the City’s web site: www.covingtonwa.gov. For further information, please contact the Covington City Clerk at (253) 638-1110, ext. 2225.
Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on November 18, 2011. #546351.
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BY TJ MARTINELL
The Tahoma School District has been included in the second-
annual Advanced Placement District Honor Roll.
“(We’re) honored,” said Terry Duty, principal of Tahoma High. “Th ere wasn’t too many schools that got that honor, so it’s pretty amazing.”
Th e honor is bestowed by the Col-lege Board, which administers the Advanced Placement program and the SAT. A total of 14 school districts in Washington and 367 in 43 states and Canada were included.
A school district can earn a place on the AP Honor Roll by increasing access to Advanced Placement course-work while at the same time main-taining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP exams.
Since 2009 the Tahoma School Dis-
trict increased the number of students participating in AP while improving the percentage of students earning AP Exam scores of 3 or higher from 70 percent in 2009 to 74 percent in 2011.
Tahoma’s AP classes accounted for 762 seats in 2008-2009 and jumped to 917 seats in 2010-2011.
Duty credited two areas for the school’s success. One of them is what he called “stretch learning,” where students are encouraged to go beyond what they would normally take.
“Every kid should stretch them-selves and excel, because sometimes it’s hard to get out of their comfort
zone,” he said. “Kids take on that challenge and they do that when they take an AP class. Th is isn’t just an elite honors program.”
Th e other is the inclusion of AP environmental science to the 10th grade outdoor academy. In addition, Duty stated they have seen an increase in students taking AP math as well as American and European History.
“Numbers are just signifi cantly up,” he said. “Kids are fi nding ways to challenge themselves. A lot of them are being successful.”
Th e complete Second Annual AP District Honor Roll can be found at www.collegeboard.org.
Reach TJ Martinell at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.
Tahoma earns AP honors“Every kid should stretch themselves and excel because sometimes it’s hard to get out of their comfort zone. Kids take on that challenge they do that when they take an AP class. This isn’t just an elite honors program.” Terry Duty
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PUBLIC NOTICESCITY OF BLACK DIAMOND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
REGARDING THE PETITION FOR FORMATION OF BLACK DIAMOND COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 2011-1
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Black Diamond City Council will be holding a public hearing on Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Black Diamond Council Chambers, 25510 Lawson Street, Black Diamond, WA. APPLICANT: BD Village Partners, LP and YarrowBay Development LLC, 10220 NE Points Drive Suite 310, Kirkland, WA 98033ISSUE UNDER CONSIDERATION: The City of Black Diamond has received a petition from the applicant for the formation of Community Facility District No. 2011-1 (hereinafter the “District”) pursuant to Chapter 36.145 RCW. The petition proposes over $20 Million of assessments upon the property located within the boundaries of the proposed District, which consists of 377.8 acres. The purpose of the hearing is for the Black Diamond City Council to receive public comments and evidence in support of, or in opposition to, formation of the District. The City Council is required by law to take action approving or denying the petition within 30 days after the hearing.OBJECTIVE: The proposed District’s objective is to finance portions of ten specific improvements that provide special benefits to property located within the District through the application of assessments. The applicant states in its petition that the net amount proposed to be assessed on each parcel within the District is proportional to the special benefit conferred on such parcel by the ten improvements. The applicant has proposed financing the following ten specific facilities:
SR-169/Roberts Drive/Black Diamond - This construction is intended to reconfigure two intersections to increase their collective capacity to operate adequately through the completion of the proposed District’s occupancies. Located within close proximity of each other, the two intersections are the connections of Roberts Drive to S. R. 169 and Black Diamond – Ravensdale Road to S.R. 169.Roberts Drive – 750/850 Zone Water Main Extension – This main line extension is intended to provide water services and satisfy fire flow requirements for the District. The construction consists of two lines, oriented vertically, one pipe over the other, configured as a looped system.Auburn – Black Diamond Road Frontage – The proposed scope of the construction is to augment the current through traffic lanes with turning structures and intersections to facilitate ingress and egress into The Villages MPD. The current design includes two roundabouts, a center turn lane and frontage landscaping. The Improvements are grouped into three construction phases.Onsite Spine Road – The Onsite Spine Road is an in-tract road which intersects Auburn-Black Diamond Road and traverses the District in a North-South orientation. While the limits of construction are the District’s boundaries, extensions of the road will eventually serve all of The Villages Master Plan Development (MPD) when built out and occupied.Onsite Ring Road – The proposed onsite Ring Road connects to Auburn – Black Diamond Road and will travel in a circular arc as it traverses the District. This road is intended to provide additional traffic capacity within the internal road network and also provides an additional point of access to the District for fire and safety equipment.Stormwater Detention Pond – The Stormwater Detention Pond will be designed to detain, treat and infiltrate stormwater runoff from large portions of the District as well as other parts of The Villages MPD. In addition, the pond will serve as the ultimate overflow route for all stormwater runoff from the District that is not infiltrated or detained in other facilities within the District.Sanitary Sewer Lift Station – The Sanitary Sewer Lift Station will be constructed to service the District as well as other portions of The Villages MPD. At a later date, a higher capacity sewer lift station sized to service all of The Villages MPD (including the District) may be constructed in a different location.Sanitary Sewer Storage Facility – This facility will work in conjunction with the Sanitary Sewer Lift Station described above. The Sanitary Sewer Storage Facility will be sized to detain sewer flows from the full District as well as other areas within The Villages MPD.Village Green Park Improvements - These improvements will provide park space, recreational facilities, and open-space facilities for the use of The Villages MPD residents, the Lawson Hills MPDs residents, and the public at large for entertainment, assembly, and recreation.Civic Park Improvements – These improvements will also provide park space, recreational facilities, and open-space facilities for the use of The Villages MPD residents, the Larson Hills MPDs residents, and the public at large for entertainment, assembly, and recreation.
PURPOSE: The purpose for forming the District is to finance portions of the Improvements as they provide special benefits to the property located within the District.DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: See the below diagram showing each separate lot, tract, parcel of land, or other property in the District. The District boundary legal descriptions by metes and bounds is available for review in the Petition.
Written comments may be submitted to the Clerk’s office located at 24301 Roberts Drive, Black Diamond, WA until 5:00 p.m. on December 15, 2011, or otherwise they must be submitted at the hearing. The applicant’s petition for formation of the District and all documents related to the petition and the hearing are available for inspection or purchase at City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, or on the City’s website at http://www.ci.blackdiamond.wa.us under “In the Spotlight”.Dated this 18th day of November, 2011
Brenda L. Martinez, Assistant City Administrator/City ClerkPublished in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on November 18, 2011, November 25, 2011 and December 2, 2011. #546604.
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COVINGTON
Nov. 7
TODDLER TAKES OFF: Southeast 262nd Place and 184th Avenue Southeast. A woman saw a 3-year-old running down the street in the Timberlane neighbor-hood in pajamas without shoes on.
Nov. 5
TIME TO UPGRADE: 27000 block of 172nd Av-enue Southeast. Two men cut the security cords on a pair of cellphones in the T-Mobile store then ran off with the gadgets. The phones were reportedly valued at $500 each.
Nov. 2
SHOPLIFTERS: 17400 block of Southeast 270th Place. Two men stole a pair of shoes and several BluRay discs from Walmart. The total loss, according to the police report, was $28.24.
RETURN SCAM: 17000 block of Southeast 270th Place. A woman tried to return a toy to Kohl’s she hadn’t paid for using a receipt from an earlier date for a similar item.
Oct. 30
INDECENT EXPOSURE: 17800 block of Southeast 259th Place. A woman observed a male neighbor apparently masturbating in front of his window.
MAPLE VALLEY
Nov. 5
ARRESTED: 24300 block of 228th Avenue Southeast. A man was arrested at his apartment for burglary and possession. Police seized two grams of methamphet-amine and $356 in cash.
Nov. 4
OOPS: 27700 block of 217th Avenue Southeast. A man accidentally shot him-self in the left hand with a .357 revolver.
UNFRIENDLY PATRON: 26800 block of state Route 169. A customer at a Wash-ington state liquor store threatened to return and assault a store employee.
Nov. 1
DRUNK IN THE DARK: 27300 block of state Route 169. A driver who was stopped for having an improper tint on his car’s windows was found to be driving under the influence at 2:09 a.m.
LOST: 26600 block of 233rd Avenue Southeast. During a party, a woman set her phone down, and when she went to retrieve it later she couldn’t find it. The victim
told police there were a number of people at the party she didn’t know. She and her friends spent about two hours searching the home for the phone to no avail.
CAST THE FIRST STONE: Southeast 268th Street and 227th Avenue Southeast. After getting off the bus at the intersection, a boy threw a rock at a girl, hit-ting her in the head hard enough the injury required three stitches.
Oct. 31
CARD FRAUD: 24500 block of 250th Avenue Southeast. While checking over her checking account online, a woman noticed 19 separate unauthorized charges for USPS.com from Washington, D.C., for a total of $466.75.
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Jimmy Burton HefleyCovington, WA – Jimmy B. Hefley, 64, passed
away November 2, 2011 at his home in Covington, Washington.
He was born December 8, 1946 in McAllister, Oklahoma the son of Jimmy Hefley and Jean Hefley.
He attended the 7th Day Adventist Academy in Auburn, WA.
After graduation he entered the US Army, serving as a Sergeant with the Transportation Battalion providing route reconnaissance for convoys moving needed supplies to forward operating bases in Vietnam. After his discharge in 1969 he eventually returned to his hometown of Kent, WA and settled where he operated his own long haul trucking business. He liked camping and also enjoyed raising his two boys. His favorite thing was to be surrounded by his family.
Besides his wife, Maude Hefley, he is survived by his two sons, Bobby (Leanna) and Randy (Steffen) Hefley, both of Covington; granddaughter, Addison Hefley; one brother, Ted, of Kent; and Mother, Jean Hefley.
Memorial Services will be held Friday, December 2, at 2 pm at Tahoma National Cemetery where he well be laid to rest. Full military rites will be presented at the service. The ceremony will be followed by a celebration of his life at the Hefley household.
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