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Jessica Brown (left), and Caren Neohl, practical nursing students at Green River, packed 230 backpacks for Covington Rotary’s Backpack Buddies program last week with other members of the college’s Nursing Club. The program sends the packs home with students over the weekends who otherwise might not have enough to eat. KATHERINE SMITH, The Reporter

Packing To Fight Hunger

BY ERIC MANDEL

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Until the state decides how to juggle the regulations between recreational and medical mari-juana, the city of Covington is content with waiting.

Th e City Council extended its ongoing morato-rium on medical marijuana production and process-ing facilities, dispensaries and collective gardens for an addition-al six months — the fi ft h morato-rium since August of 2011.

Th e Washington State Liquor Control Board and the state legislature are in the process of developing a new regulatory framework for medical marijuana, which will likely be similar to the recently adopted state regulations for recreational marijuana.

Council extends temporary ban on pot

BY KATHERINE SMITH

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Th e next step in the future of the Donut Hole, and toward a new Tahoma High School, is for King County to buy out its lease with the Elk Run Golf Course.

Th e Donut Hole is 154 acres of unincorporated land within the urban growth boundary off Kent-Kangley Road Southeast and Southeast 228th Street that is home to the back nine holes of Elk Run Golf Course, a stand of trees and the county’s 13-acre roads maintenance facility.

Th e land, which is owned by the roads division of King County, was annexed into the city aft er changes were made to the state’s laws governing annexation pro-cesses last year, specifi cally with

King County to buy out lease with golf course

BY ERIC MANDEL

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The No. 2046 robot, named Bearium, would not move; stuck with

its mechanical arms up in the air — or its proverbial pants down.

Th e three-person driving team “lost comm” frantically refreshed the joysticks, rebooting the onboard computer — attempting to salvage the match. Once the

rolling dynamo fi nally regained connectivity, the clock ticked to zero. Tahoma High School’s Bear Metal club had lost the match.

But the point of the FIRST Ro-botics challenge is not to see how a team’s robot performs once, but how it’s builders respond.

“Malfunctions,” said senior Gavin Collins. “It happens.”

Th e Bear Metal group com-peted with 31 other teams from Washington and Oregon in the

seasons’ fi rst competition Feb. 28-March 1 at Auburn Mountain-view High School. Despite its ini-tial hiccups, the Bears earned fi rst place in the event and also won the coveted Chairman’s Award.

Having grown to more than 150 teams in Washington, FIRST, which stands for, For Inspira-tion and Recognition of Science and Technology, changed from its large regionals format to one with multiple district competi-tion. Tahoma will take part in two more events, and if their robot earns enough points, will be among the 64 teams that advance to the Pacifi c Northwest District

The games begin with top honors for Bear Metal

The Tahoma Bear Metal Club won the fi rst of its three district competitions in the FIRST Robotics challenge at Auburn Mountainview High School. ERIC MANDEL, The Reporter

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The city of Covington has continued to move forward with plans for the Town Center, selecting a develop-ment partner at the Feb. 25 City Council meeting.

Panatonni Development Company was chosen after a request for qualifications process that began in July.

“Things are always fuzzy when you start putting it on paper, and then you start putting it on paper and you wonder if things will ever start popping off the paper,” said Covington Mayor Margaret Harto in a phone interview on Monday. “It’s just one step closer to real-ity for us.”

The Town Center concept encompasses the land on which Covington Elementary sits, as well as an adjacent parcel of land. The Kent School District has long-term plans to build a new school and sell the current site, at which point Covington has the right of first refusal to buy the property.

According to city staff it is undetermined when the school district will be ready to sell. The idea is to have the planning pieces in place so Covington and a private partner are ready when the school district does want to sell.

“If the city doesn’t step up and say, ‘we want to buy it,’ then the school district will put it on the market and sell it to somebody else who comes along,” Richard Hart, community develop-ment director for Coving-ton, said.

Hart said that while a retail base is important to Covington, the city also

wants to have, “an identifi-able place that is downtown Covington.”

Panatonni was chosen, Hart said, because of their broad experience working on similar kinds of projects for other cities. Hart also sited Panatonni’s access to capital as a major factor.

“Panatonni can come in with the city to purchase that property,” Hart said. “Then we can work together to develop it.”

Now that the city has selected a partner, the work can begin on ham-mering out the details of what that partnership looks like.

“It’s astonishing and I’m excited,” the mayor said of the progress. “The Town Center is a real key to the future of the city and the viability of the down-town. The community, the staff, the council, Panaton-ni, everybody has made a considerable contribution.”

Harto said that she was impressed by the group of partners in Panatonni.

“The variety of people that they brought together to offer us a partnership with them in creating that town center, that’s amaz-ing,” Harto said. “I don’t think we could do any better.”

Meanwhile, other wheels in the planning and devel-opment process are also turning.

The city received money from the state Legislature to conduct a study of infra-structure needs and costs related to the Town Center. That study is currently underway by Burke and As-sociates and the results are

expected by the beginning of summer.

“The more that the city can bring to the table in those costs, the more you can obtain quality develop-ers,” Hart said.

Inland Group will be developing the property that is behind Safeway and adjacent to the school prop-erty as mixed use. Hart said

that project will include housing for seniors — the building will be the tallest in Covington — as well as retail. The developer plans to break ground by the end of the year.

“It’s going to change the face

of downtown Covington,” Hart said.

Meanwhile the city is re-viewing its design standards to make sure that future development is aesthetically pleasing and functional.

Financing the project, Harto and Hart agreed, is the biggest challenge going forward.

“Money is not easy to come by in these times,” Hart said.

That knowledge, and the city’s tight budget, is what shaped the idea of creating a public-private partner-ship to develop the Town Center.

“The financial resources are going to be a challenge for us,” Harto said. “And it just depends on how we can put together the public private partnership.”

Reach Katherine Smith at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.

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“It’s astonishing and I’m excited. I think it’s a real key, the Town Center is a real key to the guture of the city and the viability of the downtown.” Mayor Margaret Harto

MAPLE VALLEY FARMERS MARKET ACCEPTING VENDOR APPLICATIONS Applications to vend at the Maple Valley 2014 Farmers Market are now available online at www.maplevalleyfarmersmarket.org.

This year’s market season will run for 16 consecutive weeks, begin-ning Saturday, June 21, and con-tinue through Saturday, Oct. 4.

The Farmers Market is seeking applications from farmers, pro-cessors, prepared food vendors and artisans/crafters. Interested vendors should check [email protected] or call 425-463-6751.

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An old issue of conten-tion arose between the new mayor of Black Diamond and the City Council when mayor Dave Gordon made appointments to the Plan-ning Commission without the council’s involvement.

Out of a group of six applications for two vacant positions on the seven-per-son commission, Gordon selected Brian Weber and Gary Davis at the council’s Feb. 20 meeting. Gordon told the council that after “long consideration” he chose the men because they are active in the commu-nity and frequent council meetings.

When it came time to confirm the individu-als, each council member voiced his or her concern over the lack of interviews that took place.

“I don’t have a problem with the people you’ve selected, but I don’t know them,” Councilwoman Janie Edelman said at the meeting. “I haven’t spoken to either one of them about this position or what makes them qualified.”

City code allows the may-or to make appointments and the council to confirm or deny the selection(s). The council had disagree-ments with former Mayor

Rebecca Olness about the process, ultimately compro-mising with an interview committee that consisted of the mayor and one rep-resentative each from the council and commission.

Gordon told The Re-porter that he disagreed with Olness’ decision.

“I choose not to do that out of respect for the office; out of my diligence to get to know who I’m appoint-ing,” he said. “I’m not just going to give away my right to appoint… It is open gov-ernment when the mayor appoints.”

At the meeting, Council-woman Tamie Deady said she had contacted Gordon about her concerns prior to the meeting. She said Gordon’s tactics tell citizens that the mayor has already made his choices and that applying is a waste of time.

“I was just mad – and am still a little angry — that he didn’t at least come forward to the council to say this is what I am doing,” Deady told The Reporter days after the meeting. “He just said, ‘I am appointing these two people and you guys affirm.’”

Edelman echoed Deady’s concerns at the meeting, saying the mayor should let the council “do our homework.” She said the new process eliminated the council’s ability to conduct

interviews.“To give this to us

without any background information just isn’t fair to the council,” she said. “ We can’t do our job.”

The city’s Planning Com-mission gets more visibility than other city commis-sions because of its role in long range planning and growth, which has been a conten-tious issue over the last few years. Gordon said the result is a “tug of war” between the various sides that are pro-devel-opment, against development or, as he feels, hoping for “responsible development.” Gordon said by selecting his own appointees, he gets the opportunity to shape the composition of the com-mittee to be in line with his own policies.

“That is the whole point; this is the executive branch trying to leave their mark,” Gordon told The Reporter. “I have to do my own homework. You can always delegate responsibility, but out of respect, I have to do it right.”

Gordon told The Re-porter that he contacted both men and has spoken to them before and after council meetings. He also

noted that his appointee doesn’t have to come from applicants.

“I can appoint some-body for whatever reason I choose to,” Gordon told The Reporter. “I could pick my friends, but I might have a challenge getting my friends appointed. That’s the check and balance of

the whole sys-tem.”

At the meet-ing, Gordon said he understood the council’s concerns but believes the law is written as such to give the executive branch an opportunity to influence the

committee.“Could you imagine the

president of the United States asking (a) con-gressman to come in and interview a candidate for the Supreme Court position and they vet them together and then go in and then go and confirm,” he said. “It would never happen.”

At the meeting, Council-man Ron Taylor said it is less efficient when the may-or doesn’t take the council’s input into consideration for vetting the applicants. He added that confirma-tion hearings should be in the public, rather than as personal interviews.

The council unanimously agreed to delay the con-firmation vote until after a public interview process took place on March 6.

Deady said the council and mayor are not yet in sync.

“We are so off of the page,” Deady said at the meeting. “It’s wasting more time on getting people appointed to the Planning Commission.”

Weber told The Reporter that he knew the council needed to go through its own interview process and that he didn’t expect to be confirmed on Feb. 20.

“The council is going to have to learn some of his quirks and he will have to learn some of theirs,” Weber said. “We are only a couple months in … there are going to be some growing pains. That is just human nature.”

Weber said at the meet-ing that he looked forward to the interview process.

“Maybe not to the Clar-ence Thomas level,” he said. “But I’m honored to get the appointment.”

Reach Senior Reporter Eric Mandel at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054. To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.

Black Diamond council frustrated by mayor’s tactic

“I can appoint somebody for whatever reason I choose to. I could pick my friends, but I might have a challenge getting my friends appointed.” Dave Gordon

TAHOMA SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM

MEMBERS HEADED TO NATIONALS

The Tahoma High Speech and Debate team competed

at the National Qualifying Tournament for the Western

Washington district at Federal Way High School over

the weekend.

Four Tahoma students qualified for the National Tournament to be held in

June in Kansas City, Mo.

The Tahoma students going to Nationals are: Jayaram

Ravi in International Extemporaneous Speaking,

Sarah Wheeler and Becky Colvin in Policy Debate, and

Tyler Lincoln in Humorous Interpretation.

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SENATE HONORS KENTWOOD STUDENTS FOR ‘KICKS FOR A CURE’The Kentwood and Kentridge women’s soccer teams were honored by the Washington State Senate on Feb. 18 for their work on “Kicks for a Cure” program that raises money for breast-cancer screenings to support women’s health.

Sen. Joe Fain sponsored a resolution that highlighted the Kentwood soccer team’s work that raised more than $21,000 to provide breast cancer screenings for low-income women through MultiCare Cov-ington’s “Women Get It” program, according to a press release. Since Tara Radford, wife of Kentwood soccer coach Aaron Radford, launched the effort in 2009 the team has played five fundraising matches along with other community events to raise funds and awareness.

“This is a great example of turning tragedy into opportunity,” Fain said in the release. “Not only have Tara, Aaron and the teams accomplished a great deal helping women access essential screenings, but they also set an incredible example for other people in the community about their ability to effect change and help others.”

Radford launched Kicks for a Cure after her mother and grandmother were diagnosed with breast cancer.

Kentwood hosted Kentridge for a “Kicks for a Cure” match this fall that raised more than $3,500. The group also sold merchandise, hosted car washes and found other local sponsors to raise money.

PUGET SOUND BLOOD CENTER TO HOLD BLOOD DRIVE IN BLACK DIAMONDThe Puget Sound Blood Center will hold a blood drive at St. Barbara’s Catholic Church in Black Diamond on March 9.

A mini-bus will be parked in the upper parking lot and the drive will be held from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The church is located at 32416 6th Avenue in Black Diamond.

For an appointment call Ray Signani at 360-886-2450. Walk-ins welcome around scheduled appoint-ments.

For questions on eligibility call 425-656-3077 or email [email protected]

Reminder: Photo identification now required at registration check-in. For more information go to www.psbc.org.

NEW PTA IN KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOCUSES ON SPECIAL EDUCATIONThe Kent School District has chartered a new PTA that is focused on children receiving special educa-tion.

According to a press release, the mission of the Kent Special Education PTA is to enable all students receiving special education the means to achieve their highest possible potential through increased communication between families and schools, offering monthly support groups and educational trainings.

This PTA includes the entire Kent School District. The next meeting will be held March 11.

More information can be found at www.ksepta.org.

Community News and Notes


My plan with this week’s column was to write about something brainy, like free speech. You know, that First Amendment thing politicians and community cranberries throw around like a dayglow Frisbee.

Once I started writing, my brain began to hurt and images of buttermilk popsicles began dancing in my head. Here is the rub. No one really likes free speech, unless it’s their unfi ltered gossip. Th at is why we have a First Amendment (that apparently no one reads if they can possibly resist).

Free speech means someone has the right to annoy, irritate and infuriate someone else with political speech … whatever that is … I think … kinda.

My daughter, Katy, exercises her free speech on me all the time. I never knew I was such a dumbwad until she learned to free speech me when she was two. Now I get free speeched all the time. My best attempts at suppression just seem to get me in deeper trouble. Th at may be the problem with daughters going to college and getting all smarty.

A week ago or so, Katy made me buy a new smarty-pants phone, which she picked out.

Yesterday, while I was writing this column, I had to take a picture with my new smarty-pants phone and send it to someone. I hit every button thing I could fi nd and could not fi gure out where the dippy device hid the photo.

I fi nally caved out of desperation and called Katy to fi nd out where my phone from the evil region put the photo.

It was cleverly hidden under photos. What sort of logic is that?

I got a lot of free speech from Katy for that one.

Aft er being thoroughly annoyed by my phone, I decided to do something I was good at – cook-ing. I made some popcorn.

While it was popping on the stove, I became distracted with my hellish device by looking at some recipe apps, and burned my popcorn.

(Fortunately I have discovered a cure for burnt popcorn. Mix it with buttermilk and hot sauce, and I didn’t fi nd an app for that one.)

Once I cleared the smoke from the kitchen, I went back to searching for apps. Every app I found either tried to tell me where I was, which I thought I knew, or where I was going, which I

don’t want to know.I just started downloading everything I could

fi nd.I don’t know what all these stupid apps I

downloaded are really supposed to do, beside force me to call Katy and get yelled at when I can’t fi gure out whatever I am supposed to be doing … I think.

A couple of years ago I wrote a column about goofy app talk and a young woman on a bus sent me a message from her fancy-smanchy phone with every app on earth yelling at me, exercising her darn free speech, telling me what a dolt I am.

What I need is an app to tell me what apps are really for, and how to suppress free speech of daughters and young women on buses yelling at me when they are right.

Th at darn free speech.

Th e Earth, and all life on it, would not exist without the sun; it is thus understand-able that scientists take such an interest in how it works.

Its gravitational fi eld combined bil-lions of small asteroids into our world, its energy began the processes of life and its heat allowed complex life like humans to survive.

In the early 17th century, an astrono-mer named Galileo Galilee demon-strated that the Earth revolves around the sun, and that this sun had miniscule spots upon it, which he called sun spots. No further study was taken for several centuries, when the topic was revisited by Rudolf Wolf in the 1840s. He discovered that those spots were not only darker, but also signifi cantly colder than the rest of the sun.

His work brought up more questions than it answered. What causes sun spots and how do

they aff ect us here on Earth? To this day, these questions have not been fully answered, but much has been uncovered throughout the past two centuries.

One of the most interesting elements of sunspots is their strong connection with the Earth’s temperature. Th e fi rst person to pub-lish this idea was not a physicist, but rather an

English economist by the name of William Jevons.

Looking over Wolf ’s archive of sunspot activities, he noticed that sunspot activity and economic prosperity were closely linked. He believed that sunspots aff ected the Earth’s weather, thus chang-ing crop output and infl uencing the economy. While his economic

theory was never taken seriously, his ideas caused many scientists to investigate the con-nection between sunspot activity and tem-perature.

Th e lowest recorded sunspot activity oc-curred between 1650 and 1725, a period known as the Maunder Minimum. Th is period also coincided with the coldest portion of the mini ice age.

As the sunspot activity began to increase throughout the 1700s, Earth’s temperature

rose, although it was still cold enough to be classifi ed as the mini ice age (remember that it was during this “warming” period that George Washington crossed the frozen Delaware River, indicating temperature in the 20s). When the second lowest recorded sunspot activity occurred in the early 1800s, the Earth soon followed suit, cooling until the 1850s, soon aft er sunspot activity began to increase.

Interestingly enough, sunspot activity began reaching high levels in the late 1950s, and by the early 1980s the Earth began to warm, consistent with the 15-20 year lag which seems to occur between sunspots and temperature changes.

Sunspots began very slowly declining in number throughout the 80s and 90s, and from 2001 onward have been declining tremen-dously.

Many scientists who associate sunspots as the primary source of our temperature changes (such as the American Astronomical Society and the Royal Observatory of Bel-gium, major players in the study of our sun) predict a cooling phase to start within the next decade, intensifying throughout the 2020s and likely the 2030s even as others predict a warm-ing of the Earth.

Time will tell who is correct.

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TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURYTraumatic brain injuries (TBIs) have been in the headlines

partly because strides have been made in both research and treatment of injuries that involve the brain. Many people are familiar with TBI because of its frequency among football players and soldiers, although a person doesn’t have to be a football player or a soldier to suffer from a traumatic injury to the brain. TBI occurs when the head strikes an object in a sudden and violent way. Symptoms include loss of consciousness; dizziness; blurred vision; ringing in the ears; bad taste in the mouth; and trouble concentrating, remembering, and thinking. A person with traumatic brain injury might have dilated pupils, fluids draining from the nose or ears, and confusion.

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Is your family at their healthiest this winter?

There are many illnesses and health issues that are more common during the winter. For example, asthma, eczema and viral illnesses such as the flu tend to cause the most problems during this time of year. There is even some-thing called seasonal affec-tive disorder – or seasonal depression – that can be more common during the colder, darker and wetter months.

So what can you do to help your family prevent

health problems this winter?

During cold, dry months we tend to use our heaters much more often, effectively drying out the air in our homes. For children who are prone to eczema or dry skin, this time of year can

be particularly challeng-ing. Be sure to use a mild soap for sensitive skin during bath time and use a good moisturizer several times a day to prevent skin from becoming itchy and irritated. You can also try bathing your child three times a week. When fin-

ished bathing, pat the child dry rather than rubbing. If you notice your child has frequently dry or cracked lips, try applying a lip balm daily.

The dropping tempera-tures and declining weather can also be a trigger for coughing, wheezing and asthma symptoms. If your child has a history of asth-ma, prepare for the winter season by having refills of their asthma medicine readily available.

If you do not already have a plan in place for what to do if your child has an asthma flare, then it might be time to see your primary care pro-

vider to put a plan in place. Symptoms of an asthma attack include coughing, wheezing, difficulty breath-ing, chest pain and chest tightness.

The most significant health issue we face during the winter is the flu virus, and it is hitting us par-ticularly hard this year. The most important thing you can do to protect yourself and your family from the flu is getting the flu vaccine. It’s never too late to get the vaccine. It saves lives and is available for children as young as six months of age.

One of the biggest misconceptions about the winter is that playing out-

side in the cold will make you sick. This isn’t exactly the case. In fact, playing out in the cold can actually be beneficial to your health. Some children, adolescents and even adults experience something called seasonal affective disorder, or winter depression. Those living in northern latitudes with less sunlight during the winter (sound familiar, Northwest-erners?) are particularly at risk.

The dark months make some people want to stay indoors, go to bed earlier and be less active. These feelings can worsen and escalate into depression. Exposing yourself to more

sunlight, spending time outdoors daily (even if it is cloudy), and opening up your window blinds in your home can make a positive difference in your attitude. Luckily for us, the days are already getting longer!

Dr. Callie Byrd is a pedia-trician with Valley Medi-cal Center’s Covington Clinic South. She can be reached at 253-395-1960. If you have a question you would like Dr. Byrd to address in her column, send it to [email protected].

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Police Blotter

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

LARCENY• Accessories were

reported stolen from the outside of a vehicle lo-cated on the 16000 block of SE 253 Place at 4:44 p.m. on March 3.

• A vehicle was report-ed broken into at 8:31 p.m. on March 2 while parked at Home De-pot, 27027 185 Avenue

Southeast.• Shoplifting involv-

ing two bottles of liquor reported at 1:29 p.m. on March 3 at Fred Meyer, 16735 SE 272 Street.

• A vehicle theft was reported at 11:41 a.m. on March 2 from the 23700 block of Southeast 243 Court.

• Shoplifting involv-ing a carton of cigarettes was reported at 2:50 a.m. on March 2 at AM/PM, 17450 SE 272 St.

• Shoplifting by juveniles was reported at 1:30 p.m. on March 1 from Walmart, 17432 SE 270 Place.

• A phone was report-ed stolen by a known suspect at 3:34 p.m. on Feb. 28 from a private

residence on the 27000 block of 200 Avenue Southeast.

• A license plate was reported stolen from a vehicle parked at Walmart, 17432 South-east 270 Place, at 2:08 p.m. on Feb. 28.

• Shoplifting was reported at Rite Aid, 17125 SE 272 St., at 9:23 p.m. on Feb. 27.

• The rear back door was smashed and items were stolen during a burglary reported at 7:04 p.m. on Feb. 27 from a private residence on the 17200 block of Southeast 264 Street.

• A computer was

reported stolen at 4 p.m. on Feb. 27 from a front porch on the 24200 block of 183 Avenue Southeast.

• A vehicle was re-ported as entered and rummaged through at 1:26 p.m. on Feb. 27 on the 25000 block of 222 Court Southeast.

• Suspicious circum-stances were reported at 10:08 p.m. on Feb. 26 after unknown suspects broke into a clothing donation bin at SE 264 Street and 242 Avenue Southeast.

• Theft from a motor vehicle was reported at 6:35 p.m. on Feb. 26

on the 17000 block of Southeast 272 Street.

• An individual re-portedly left the Safeway gas station, 27020 Maple Valley Black Diamond Road Southeast, at 2:55 p.m. on Feb. 26 without paying but provided the clerk with an ID prior to leaving.

• A pressure washer was reported stolen at 12:46 p.m. on Feb. 26 from a garage on the 26600 block of 197 Place Southeast.

• A mail theft was reported at 8:10 a.m. on Feb. 26 on the 25800 block of 187 Avenue Southeast.

• A burglary that involved stolen tools in a detached garage was reported at 6:31 p.m. on Feb. 25 on the 27200 block of Witte Road Southeast.

• A theft from an unlocked vehicle was re-ported at 12:52 p.m. on Feb. 25 at Fred Meyer, 26520 Maple Valley-Black Diamond Road Southeast.

• A purse and GPS were stolen during an attempted auto theft that was reported at 6:42 a.m. on Feb. 25 in the 25900 block of 227 Place

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Because of the “near certainty” of change to the state medical marijuana landscape, the city staff rec-ommended to maintain the moratorium until the state legislature adopts the new regulations. This extension means the council won’t need to make a decision until August. The city may terminate the moratorium prior to the end of the six-month term.

Mayor Margaret Harto said she supports medi-

cal marijuana but is not sure where she stands with recreational.

“I’m not sure what I want to see,” she said. “From where I sit I want the council to have a good healthy discus-sion.”

City Manager Derek Matheson said the council has varying views on medicinal marijuana. The pro-side views cannabis as an effec-tive treatment for certain

medical conditions. The detractors worry that the industry is out of the com-munity’s character and may attract crime.

“I think there is a fear of the unknown that is weighing heavily on the debate,” Matheson said.

While there is no limit on the number of times a city can extend

its moratorium, Matheson said there is a reasonable-ness factor that must be met or the city would open itself up to a legal fight. There was no comment during a public hearing on the mat-ter Feb. 25.

“There was a handful the first time (we extended the moratorium),” Matheson said. “With each extension the amount of comment has dropped.”

Although the city does not officially allow medical marijuana dispensaries, it is not pot-shop free. The state has allowed medical use of marijuana since 1998 and Covington Holis-tic Medicine opened in 2011, prior to Covington’s moratoriums. Although the business is not technically grandfathered in, city man-ager Derek Matheson said there is an understanding between the two parties.

“We’ve chosen to make enforcement of the mora-torium a low priority,” he

said. “Barring any major criminal incident or code violation, we don’t plan to interfere with their opera-tions at this point.”

Matheson said the city has had no issues with the business and he com-mended the business’s charitable donations to the community.

An employee of Coving-ton Holistic Medicine said the owners were not inter-ested in making a comment for this story.

State legislators are look-ing into an interim zoning ordinance that would put a 1,000 foot buffer between recreational pot shops and places such as elementary schools, playgrounds, child care centers, parks and libraries.

Covington Development Director Richard Hart said it is too early to specu-late on how any potential merging of standards might impact Covington Holistic Medicine, which is in close proximity to the Covington Library.

The hundreds of dispen-saries in Washington are operated under state law language on “collective gar-dens” and is not currently regulated by the state. The measures being considered would eliminate collective gardens and force dispensa-ries to get a license or close.

The Liquor Control Board capped the state’s recreational retail licenses

at 334, despite more than 2,000 applications. There are 13 prospective busi-nesses with Covington addresses that have applied for marijuana licenses, according to the control board’s website.

Matheson said there are only 11 licenses available for unincorporated King County and every city

with a population of fewer than 20,000, meaning the likelihood of more than one such business in the area is low.

The Black Diamond City Council was also expected to hold a public hearing regarding extension of its own medical marijuana moratorium at a meeting Thursday.


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Let’s start with our 8-year-old lab. She deserved better than us. She deserved a family who would exercise her and en-joy her exuberant personal-ity. I listed her with Seattle Purebred Rescue and aft er several months, and many interviews, I found her a better home. She lives by a

lake now. I think I did well; guilt diminished.

A couple weeks ago, I was cold-called by a tree company soliciting work.

“As a matter of fact,” I said, “I have a cherry tree in my back yard that needs to be cut down and some branches from the neighbor’s trees that needed to be

trimmed back.” We also need to rebuild

the shed the tree was hanging over, so it was a convenient, well-timed phone call.

Th e tree was gasping its last breath as the original owners of our house put a

tire around the base of the tree. By the time we moved in 22 years ago, the tree was too big to pull the tire off . We tried to cut it off , but the steel belt of the tire was too tough to cut through. Th e tire was choking the life out of the tree, not to men-tion the huge branch that was dying a slow, painful death.

A week aft er that call, the tree is down, the branches trimmed back — just a few trunk rounds to remind me of the last tree of my daugh-ters’ childhood backyard. Another item off my mind.

Next on the list was the cat we rescued fi ve months ago. I thought it would be a no-brainer to introduce an-other cat into our home. We have a nine-year old cat that

has been on the other end of the spectrum; she’s been the cat we introduced into our home when another cat already lived with us.

It started out typically, lots of growling and hissing, but once I put them togeth-er in the back of the house, they seemed to be fi guring out how to get along. Th en it all went bad. Apparently, our rescue cat decided that since she wasn’t going outside anymore, every-thing inside was under her management; including the food.

Our older cat stopped eating and lost weight. I had to separate them again. But my home is small and although the cats calmed down and our older cat started eating again, it

couldn’t go on forever. Once summer hit and we started going on vacation it would be a logistical night-mare. Plus the drama of it all was stressing me out; I’m the one home alone with them all day.

I didn’t want to just drop her off at the pound and none of my friends could take her, because it was obvious she needed to be an only cat. So I listed her on Craigslist, where I could interview people for the right, forever home for her. I found a lovely family with a 14-year-old son who knew everything about cats because he used to volunteer in a shelter. I scored once again. Th e guilt isn’t totally gone by giving her away. I spent a lot of

money rescuing that cat, but I did the right thing and my stress level has dropped signifi cantly.

Th e last thing on my list was the piano no one has played for two years. Craigslist hadn’t worked, but now my neighbor wants it. Another one down!

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• An auto theft was reported from a private driveway at 5:50 a.m. on Feb. 25 from the 23800 block of Southeast 248 Place.

• An unknown suspect reportedly stole the pants from an individual in the LA Fitness, 27245 172 Avenue Southeast,

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• A burglary of a laptop and jewelry was reported at 4:03 p.m. on Feb. 24 to a residence on the 24000 block of 223 Place Southeast.

• A burglary was reported at 3:51 p.m. on Feb. 24 that involved a rear door window of a residence on the 15400 block of Southeast 252 Place being broken.

• A burglary was reported at 2:29 p.m. on Feb. 24 that involved an unknown suspect forcing entry into a residence on the 15800 block of Southeast 253 Place and stealing jew-elry and electronics.

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• A forgery was re-ported at 7:58 p.m. on Feb. 28 on the 26200 block of 173 Avenue Southeast.

• A credit card fraud was reported at 12:59 p.m. on Feb. 28 on the 12100 block of Southeast 74 Court.

• A female reported a fraudulent tax return

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• A bag of feces was reportedly left in a mail-box on the 25100 block of 235 Way Southeast at 9:55 a.m. on Feb. 27.

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The robotics challenge gives students 46 days to build a robot that can drive around a 25-by-54 foot field and launch oversized exercise balls into goals — like a basketball through a field goal. The 2014 game is called “Aerial Assist,” which focuses on passing the balls from one robot to another on its team before scoring a goal.

There are 55 Tahoma students in the club, which

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“It takes the commit-ment level of like a varsity sport,” said Darren Collins, Tahoma’s head coach for the last eight years.

But a challenge involv-ing robots is different from a football, chess or cheer squad. The FIRST competition mixes real life engineering skills with team goals and a dash of competition.

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“You learn a lot,” Blair said. “Not only how to build a robot, but also how to work as a team.”

Collins said, excluding travel, the Tahoma team spends more than $30,000 per year for parts, tools and supplies. The Bear Metal Booster Club’s annual din-ner and auction will be held at 6 p.m. Friday night. The students also raise funds by

hosting a week-long robot-ics camp in the summer for kids aged 9-13.

Collins said Boeing is also a major sponsor of Washington teams and that multiple Bear Metal alumni currently work as engineers for the company.

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Maple Valley and the Donut Hole in mind. A sale of 35 acres to the Tahoma School District, to be

used for the district’s new high school, is pending. The future of the Donut Hole will be a focus of Maple

Valley’s comprehensive plan update that will begin this month, City Manager David Johnston said.

“We need to work on our daytime population, which means getting primary jobs in our community,” Johnston said.

He further explained that the new high school — with the school district’s vision for a regional learning com-munity and potential partnerships with area community colleges or technical schools — could act as an anchor for drawing employers.

With the City Council’s focus on economic development in recent years, Johnston said that a vision for bringing living wage jobs to the city will likely shape the focus of development goals in the Donut Hole.

The county has been leasing the property for the golf course in the Donut Hole to Elk Run. This week an ordi-nance was introduced to terminate that lease agreement.

King County Councilman Reagan Dunn, who represents Maple Valley, said in a phone interview Monday that the county will buy out the remaining 15 years on the lease at a cost of $2.9 million.

“That will free up the title to that particular parcel of land, which allows us to complete the transaction with the Tahoma School District,” Dunn said.

The county has planned to move the roads maintenance facility that is on the site, possibly to a county owned site in Ravensdale.

“That’s one of the preferred sites,” Dunn said.The long-term plan is for the county to sell the 119 acres

left after the sale to Tahoma. “I think the general idea percolating around King

County is that we are going to find an alternate area or facility to meet our roads needs and we will sell that parcel either broken up or in total to whomever would want to buy it,” Dunn said. “The first step is getting rid of the lease on the golf course and making sure we sell that chunk to the school district.”

Dunn said that it will take longer for the county to sell the 13 acres where the roads facility is located because of the need to move the facility first. He expects that the county will be looking to sell the rest of the acreage “fairly quickly.”

Dunn pointed out that since the roads division owns the property it will receive the funds upon the sale of the land, which could provide a sorely needed boost to roads divi-sion revenue.

“The revenue that would be generated from a sale could go to fix roads, so we want to sell that as quick as we can,” Dunn said.

At this point, the future of the front nine holes of the golf course is unclear.

“We would expect that they’ll sell that land as well when the back nine is no longer available to them,” Dunn said.

Roy Humphreys, general manager of Elk Run, was un-available for comment.

“We do have needs, we won’t know until we have talks with the owner,” Johnston said of any possible interest by the city in purchasing the front nine holes of the golf course. “Right now it has been a golf course for a number of years and no one really cared, except to play golf.”

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KENTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER RECOGNIZED AS TEACHER OF THE YEARKentlake High School’s American Sign Language teacher Kathy Underhill has been selected 2013 Teacher of the Year by the Covington Chamber of Commerce.

Underhill is a regionally recognized expert in the sign language field and holds a degree in Sign Language Interpreting. She is responsible for creating Kentlake’s annual ASL Music Project, a concert of contemporary music in sign language.

“The ASL Music Project is a model of performance art,” said Kentlake Principal Joe Potts in a Kent School District press release. “Kathy serves as a brilliant example of a first-rate educational professional.”

The Covington Chamber of Commerce selects the Teacher of the Year for the impact they make in their school and in the lives of their students.

The Chamber recognized Underhill at the chamber’s monthly membership lun-cheon on Feb. 13.


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Kentwood’s four person all-girl stunt team is eagerly awaiting their white satin jackets.

Th e team, which is made up of juniors Nichole Grif-fi n and Torey Robinson and freshmen Payton Kalka and Alexia “Bebe” Th omas, brought home Kentwood’s fi rst ever UCA National Championship in the all-girl stunt team category.

“Winning this is really big,” Robinson said. “Th is is every high school cheer-leader’s dream, to get a white jacket.”

For the all-girl stunt team portion of the UCA national championships, teams submit a video of their routine to be judged. When the Kentwood team started practicing last summer, they knew they wanted to enter the national competition, but as the sea-son went on, it slipped their collective minds. Th en Rob-inson checked the website and realized the deadline to submit their video was only three days away.

“We came up with the routine in 20 minutes,” Griffi n said.

Th e foursome spent the next three days putting in extra practice time.

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Among those stunts was a double up — something Robinson said is rare in high school cheerleading.

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knew all the individual stunts already, it was just a matter of working out the specifi cs.

“Putting it all together took a lot of energy,” Griffi n said.

All that extra time and energy proved to be worth it.

“We all like to work for each other,” Th omas said.

All four started cheer-leading on recreational

teams under the age of 10 and have experience on club cheerleading teams.

Kalka said her favorite moments of cheerleading are when the team comes together, puts in a great performance and they know their coaches are proud of them.

“I really like being able to work hard in the gym and going out on the fl oor and showing what we’ve done,”

Griffi n said. “I like the adrenaline,

that’s what pushes me,” Th omas added. “Knowing that the crowd likes watch-ing.”

As the national champi-ons, the Kentwood stunt team was invited to the UCA Worlds Champion-ship in Orlando, but they were unable to go. Th ey do, however, plan on entering again next year and want to make it to Florida.

One of the most exciting aspects of the champion-ship victory, the team said, was beating other squads that were expected to win.

While Robinson said she has fulfi lled part of her dream by earning a white jacket, she now has her eyes set on the entire team win-ning a championship next year.”

“Coming into high school I told myself I wasn’t leaving without a white jacket,” Robinson said.

Reach Katherine Smith at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To comment on this story go to www.covingtonreporter.com.

Stunt team wins national titleFour Kentwood cheerleaders win the school’s fi rst national championship in all-girl stunt competition

Torey Robinson, Payton Kalka, Nichole Griffi n and Alexia Thomas (from left to right) wave to the crowd during a routine. The girls won Kentwood’s fi rst national title this year for an all-girls stunt team. Courtesy photo

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Th e KW-09 ball is fi nally resting, strategically tucked into the corner of a door frame inside the Kentwood gym, closest to the court where Sarah Toeaina is about to start team drills.

As soon as Toeaina en-tered the gym for practice, the orange sphere with the black marker inscription started its familiar motions: being dribbled between her legs, tossed in circles around her torso, passed from fi ngertip to fi ngertip between her hands.

Always moving, always within reach.

Th e soft -spoken senior said the “kay-dub, oh-nine” balls have the best texture — supremely smooth, with less gap between the seams.

But there’s more to the story than that.

Jenny Johnson, her teammate since seventh grade, recalls when the pair worked as ball girls for the

Kentwood 2009 team. Th at group won state. Th is is a reminder.

“I always have a ball ready,” Toeania said. “I like it in my hands; it feels right.”

Toeania’s Kentwood squad (20-5) crashed through to the fi nal eight state championship tourna-ment with a 65-55 win over Chiawana at Richland High in the win-or-go-home 4A regional tournament on March 1. Th at means a date with Lynwood (23-1), the top-ranked 4A team, at the Tacoma Dome on March 6. Kentwood knocked Lyn-wood out of state conten-tion with a one-point win last season.

Head coach Lisa Ashley said her squad showed the best “team ball” of the year in the Chiawana win, taking some of the pressure off the nearly 6-foot-tall Toeania, who has used the leather like few others in the state in 2014.

Th e athletic point guard

averaged nearly 20 points per game in the regular season and was among the nominees for the 2014 McDonald’s All American Games. She was recently named to the SPSL 4A All-League fi rst team for the third time. She called the all-league selection “very humbling,” even though she has received the honor for multiple sports in her career.

Toeaina, who said she fell in love with basketball in second grade, signed a let-ter of intent to play with the University of Hawaii.

Her parents are Univer-sity of Hawaii alumni and she has chunks of family from both sides living on the island.

“It’s like I’m not leaving,” she said.

Toeaina has been a dominant force for the last four years in three sports — basketball, volleyball and track — breaking the school’s triple jump record last year. All of her teams have made state. Kentwood Athletics Director Jo Anne Daughtry said Toeaina is the school’s fi rst ever 12 sport letter winner.

Although there was an

opportunity to also play collegiate volleyball Toeaina said she is sticking to her fi rst love.

“I want to fi nally focus on one sport,” she said. “Jug-gling three, sometimes four, can be tough.”

Th e Kentwood girls

basketball program has a strong tradition with two alumni in the WNBA — Courtney Vandersloot and Lindsey Moore. Despite all of Toeaina’s individual accolades, Ashley said her star player’s biggest strength may be her drive to always

make the team better.“And she’s always happy,”

Ashley said.Johnson said her friend

always brings a positive ap-proach to the court.

“She just wants to win,” she said. “You can’t ask for any more than that.”

Hoops star dribbling to Hawaii after state

Kentwood senior Sarah Toeaina posts up a defender while practicing against the boys team on Feb. 27, in preparation for postseason play. ERIC MANDEL, The Reporter

Kentwood’s Sarah Toeiana will play basketball for the University of Hawaii next year, but has her eyes on state fi rst

The All-League awards have been announced for basketball in the 4A South Puget Sound League.

The MVP for both the boys and girls North division are listed, along with the local student-athlete winners.

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MVP: Jawan Stepney - Senior - Ken-tridge

1st Team:

Coleman Wooten - Senior - THS

Malik Sanchez - Junior - KW

2nd Team:

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DeShon Williams - Senior - THS

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Josiah Bronson - Junior - KW

Grant Johnson - Senior - THS

NORTH DIVISION - GIRLS

MVP:

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1st Team:

Sarah Toeaina - Senior - KW

Chardonae Miller — Senior - THS

2nd Team:

Kate Kramer - Senior - KW

Jenny Johnson -Senior - KW

Briana Aldridge - Freshman - THS

Honorable Mention:

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Alycea DeLong - Senior - KW

Rachel Paulsen - Sophomore- THS

Sydney Peterson - Fresh-man- KL

Ashley Rolsma - Senior- KW

Zaria Jones - Sophomore- KW

Kaelan Shamseldin - Fresh-man- THS

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