Covington/Maple Valley Reporter, November 11, 2011

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BY DENNIS BOX

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Th e elections results rolled in at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8 with some interesting returns in city council races in Maple Valley and Black Diamond as well as thumbs up for the liquor initiative.

In the Maple Valley City Council races the King County Elections website had Sean P. Kelly with a comfortable 10 percentage point lead over Bill Woodcock for Position No. 1. Th e two were vying for a spot vacated by Dana Parnello, who was appointed to fi ll a seat left open when former Mayor Laure Iddings resigned

in December 2009, two years into her term. Parnello’s obli-gation is complete at the end of December.

In the race for Position No. 5 Mayor Noel Gerken, the incumbent, was ahead of challenger Karen Crowe by nearly 6 percent. Gerken is seeking a third term on the Maple Val-ley City Council.

Th e two incumbents in the Black Diamond City Council races were on the losing side of the numbers by landslide margins.

Tamie L. Boxx-Deady was leading incumbent Kristine Hanson by nearly 47 percent and Ron Taylor was ahead of Leih Mulvihill by about 58 percent.

Joe May came out with a similar margin over Pam Mc-Cain. May was ahead by about 55 percent.

In the only contested race in Covington the incumbent, Marlla Mhoon, was easily beating Joseph Cimaomo, Jr. by about 28 percent for Position No. 1.

In the Kent School District School Board races incum-bent Debbie Straus was leading Leslie Hamada by nearly 18 percent.

Russell Hanscom was ahead of Larry Sims for Director District No. 1 by more than 30 percent. Hanscom told the Reporter in October that he may not be able to take the position if he won the election.

Longtime board member Bill Boyce won his race for

Change coming to councils, fire and school boards

Cellist Karly Cangie and Ethan Mattson with the Maple Valley Youth Symphony play Nov. 4 at Maple Valley Presbyterian Church. The musicians enjoyed some belated Halloween spirit and played in costume. Selections included music from the opera “Carmen,” among others. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com and to buy photos go to the website and click on the photo reprints tab.

Plucking Your Heart Strings

BY TJ MARTINELL

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Earlier in the city’s short history Maple Valley relied on money generated by the housing con-struction boom, but city offi cials and staff have long known that would not last forever.

According to City Manager Da-vid Johnston, the city is limited in what it can do to compensate for the changing market, and what it can do may not be the most popu-lar tactic in a down economy.

“Th e only other option we have is to raise revenue,” he said.

And the rev-enue won’t be coming from the construction of new houses — a source the city had previously depended upon. Th e city is expecting 150 single fam-ily residential permits for 2011. While this is up from 125 from 2010 and 93 in 2009, it pales in comparison to 2005, when there was 452 permits.

“We’re not seeing as many houses bought and sold, and the ones that are being sold are at a far less value, so you’re seeing a volume and reduction that’s impacting our revenue,” Johnston

City looks for answers to revenue questions

BY KRIS HILL

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James Manning wanted to off er some direction to young men at Kentwood High School.

He wasn’t sure exactly how he was going to do it or which students he would work with, but, Manning was determined to fi nd a way.

What started out as a desire to be a mentor on Manning’s part has developed into a self-sustain-ing mentorship program for boys and girls at Kentwood known as CHOICES.

“I’m kind of refl ective,” Man-ning said. “I have fi ve kids of my own. So, all these kids were coming into my house… I was wondering if any of those boys were like me. I was a boy who lost his father at 15.”

As he transitioned from adoles-cence to manhood, Manning said, he didn’t have a strong male fi gure to off er direction “but I was lucky to have a strong mother.”

As a 20 year veteran of the Se-attle Police Department, Manning knows what happens to young men, especially young black men, who don’t have that kind of guid-ance in their lives.

As a dad, he has a child who graduated from Kentwood and

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BY TJ MARTINELL

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Woodrow Joseph Dough-erty is nearly fi ve times older than the city of Maple Valley.

A Hobart native, he was born 100 years ago today, Nov. 11, 1911, the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year.

With old age comes certain bragging rights. Dougherty is able to say things — such as attending high school during Prohibi-tion — which few others can.

He is also able to say he bought a house during the Great Depression when everyone else was losing theirs. Living on a farm in Hobart for 40 years, he

can recall a time before there was an urban growth boundary and when the Maple Valley Historical Museum was still a school-house.

Life, as he would put it, has been good to him. At 24, he married his high school sweetheart with whom he had seven chil-dren. He and his wife are weeks away from their 76th wedding anniversary.

“I’ve had a wonderful life,” he said.

FROM A SOUTH DAKOTA ORPHANAGE TO SEATTLE

Dougherty was born John Julius Vandeviere, in Garretson, S.D., to Belgian immigrants Ed and Ma-thilda Vandeviere.

His father was a horse

trainer and helped domes-ticate wild horses. When he was 1, his father moved up to North Dakota for work. Aft er he left , their mother sent both Dougherty and his 2-year-old brother, Spencer, to the Children’s Home Society, an orphan-age in Sioux Falls.

Th e exact reason for this is not known for certain, though a precise explana-tion really doesn’t matter to Dougherty.

“She couldn’t hack it, so she put us in an orphanage,” he said of his birth mother.

Sometime later, their fa-ther was killed when one of the horses he was training kicked him in the head.

Aft er only three weeks in the orphanage, Dough-erty was adopted by Joe and Ruby Dougherty and his name was changed to Woodrow Joseph Dough-erty.

Th e Doughertys were

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BY TJ MARTINELL

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To help students improve their results on the Measurement of Student

Progress (MSP) exams, Coving-ton Elementary has started a new extended learning program called the DAWG Pack.

It had its fi rst meeting on Nov 1., and is off ered from 3:45-5 p.m. Monday through Th ursday.

Angela Stave, Family And Com-munity Engagement facilitator for Covington Elementary, stated the program focuses on third through fi ft h grade students who need assis-tance in reading, writing or math, areas in which students are tested on the MSP.

“It’s going to be a great thing for the kids at the school,” she said. “It’s a program designed to give kids a boost in those areas.”

Th e DAWG Pack is based on a Century 21 grant program design, but, is funded entirely through Title I and III funds. Also participat-ing in the program are fi ft h grade teacher Lisa Aldrich and para educators Kulwinder Bains, Claudia Holzberger and Aida Willis.

Th e program hopes to emu-late earlier successes Covington Elementary has seen in academic improvement.

In September, the school an-nounced that nearly 72 percent of last year’s fi ft h grade students met or exceeded the state standard on the science assessment, the highest in the entire Kent School District. In 2009, less than 15 percent of the fi ft h grade students had met the standard.

According to Education Assistant Lisa Couch, the main emphasis is on students who have scored just below the passing grade for the three sections. Teachers, as well as para educators, help the students with their skills either in the library or in a classroom. Th e students then rotate aft er 25 minutes.

“We’re targeting students who are right on the bubble, then give them that extra push,” she said. “We felt this year we wanted to be more in-tentional about what we are doing.”

At the moment the program is invitation only. Th ere are 28 students currently participating, but, the hope is to have 36 within a week. In January, they will move onto a second wave of students, at

which time they hope parent inter-est will allow for more volunteers.

“We can’t do it solely on our own,” Couch said.

Stave stated the program was brought up by Principal Miles Erdly at a leadership meeting last year as a possible way to increase student performance.

“We started working on it as a

team,” she said. “It’s a positive thing. It’s going to help kids where they need to be in their grade level.”

Couch stated, “Our vision is to see multiple layers, to use our school as a place of learning.”

Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to covingtonreporter.com

After school goes to the DAWGS

Margaret and Woodrow Dougherty in 1933 in West Seattle. The car behind them is a 1924 Buick, which he bought for $17. Courtesy Photo

Celebrating a nice round number

Erik Cota, left, listens while Kentlake High student Sydney Rothenberger works with the Covington Elementary fourth grader during a DAWG Pack meeting. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter

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November 11, 2011[4][ NUMBER from page 3] unable to adopt his older brother.“They wanted to adopt both of us,” he said. “They saw us both there. They wanted to take care of us, but, some-one had already come and adopted my brother.”

He would not see his brother again until 1958.

Although this occurred before Woodrow Dough-erty could remember, the split between him and his brother — all while their mother was still alive — is something he rarely talks about.

His adoptive father, Joe, was a traveling salesman, and when Woodrow was 8 the family moved from South Dakota and settled in Seattle, an event which he still praises the family for.

“I thank God for the Doughertys,” he said. “They got me out of South Dakota.”

They lived in the White Center area where he at-tended West Seattle High School. One day, he met a girl two classes below him named Margaret Bingham. Both of them were turning opposite corners around the school building and accidentally bumped into each other. Bingham was carrying her textbooks in her arms and dropped them all over the ground, which

Dougherty picked up for her.

Initially, nothing seemed to come of it, until one of Dougherty’s friends devel-oped a crush on Bingham’s best friend. Nervous about meeting her at her house, he asked Dougherty to go with him, to which he agreed. There Dougherty met Bingham again.

“The rest is history,” he said. “It just seemed we had the same interests.”

Both Catholic, they married on Nov. 23, 1935, at the Holy Family Parish in Seattle. Their first child, Susan, was born the next year.

While Dougherty claims his accidental collision with his wife “had nothing to do with our relationship,” his daughter, Betty Dougherty Richardson, said it has since remained in family history.

“Mom must have told that story a thousand times,” she said.

THE GREAT DEPRESSIONAfter Dougherty gradu-

ated from West Seattle High in 1930, he moved into Fauntleroy, a Seattle neigh-borhood. By then, the stock market had crashed and the preliminary signs of the Great Depression were be-ginning to show in the form of unemployment lines and house foreclosures.

“It was hard to find a

job,” Dougherty recalled. “There was a lot of homes that were vacant. People lost their homes. God, yes, you couldn’t find a job anywhere.”

Yet, Dougherty man-aged to find work, first cleaning furs at a fur shop in downtown Seattle near the 5th Avenue Theater. In 1932, however, after a year, the owner went broke and Dougherty found himself out of work. He was able to obtain a dish washing job at a restaurant near the site of his future employment, the Boeing Company, which still operated out of the Red Barn in Renton. The barn was eventually moved to Seattle and is now featured as a part of the Museum of Flight.

With money tight and employment rare, he took any work he could find, including a job cleaning at a drugstore at the West Seattle Junction.

“I did everything,” he said.

At the same time, Dougherty was blessed with a number of opportunities. While other families were losing their homes, he was able to purchase a

house in Arbor Heights for $3,500 — the equivalent of $55,000 in 2010 — with-out putting a single dollar on the down payment.

“They were in a hurry (to

sell it),” Dougherty said of the owners. “It was God-given.”

WORLD WAR IIIn 1939 and the outbreak

of World War II, Dough-erty was hired at Boeing to work as an expeditor in the fabric upholstery shop.When the draft came in 1940 — the first peacetime draft in American history — Dougherty was classified as a 4F, which deferred him from enlisting.

Unsatisfied with the work and pay of 93 cents an hour at Boeing, Dougherty learned from a friend about Todd Pacific Shipyards, which paid workers $1.39 hourly, an offer he couldn’t refuse.

After he quit and went to work for Pacific Shipyards, however, he found the task of installing machines in the engine rooms even less satisfying.

“I didn’t like it,” he said.It was also unhealthy, as

the pipes would be covered with asbestos as he worked, which also got into the air. Years later, he would learn that it had gotten into his lungs. Fortunately, it did not have a permanent im-pact on his health and was unrelated to his decision to became a charter member of Renton’s Group Health, along with his wife, in 1947.

“I never thought about it

(asbestos),” he said. “That never bothered me.”

Finally he returned to Boeing on New Year’s Day 1945. His work there did not last much longer, how-ever, as the war produc-tion was slowly grinding to a halt. The government canceled orders for more bombers and Dougherty joined another 70,000 people who lost their jobs at Boeing.

“Everybody got a pink slip and got laid off,” he recalled.

FALLING FOR FARM LIFEUp until 1945 Dough-

erty had had no experience with farming. He had never milked a cow or fed chickens. But, when he visited his in-laws in Auburn, he got a taste of the farming community and was smitten with it.

“I think that it started right there,” he said of his love of farms. “I just loved it. We’d go out to visit and travel on the West Valley highway. The air was so good. I thought, ‘This is where I would like to live.’”

Then Dougherty learned of an 11 acre farm in Hobart which was for sale for $6,750. The family who owned it had moved out of the city, but, the wife had grown tired of the farm and wished to go back.

Selling his Arbor Heights home, which at that time was worth $6,500 — nearly

double its original purchase value — Dougherty bought the farm in June 1945, with a monthly payment of $25.

By then, two more chil-dren had been added to the Dougherty family — Betty (1940) and Ceclia (1943) — while Margaret was pregnant with Colleen, who was born later that year.

After he was laid off from Boeing, he moved with his family to the farm. The tran-sition from the Seattle me-tropolis to the rural area of Hobart was quite dramatic, according to Dougherty.

“I had to learn to milk a cow right away,” he said.

Although the war was on its last legs, rationing was still in effect, which limited the amount of food a family could purchase. On the farm, however, this limita-tion did not apply.

“When we got on the farm we had everything we needed,” Dougherty said. “I think that farm saved our lives.”

Aside from farming, Dougherty got a job work-ing for the Hobart School performing a variety of jobs - bus driver, janitor and the baseball coach. The school house was simple and basic, only two classrooms and a furnace that burned coal, which Dougherty had to

For the rest of this year, our QFC stores will continue to focus our chari-table efforts on Bringing Hope To the Table, our annual drive to raise both food and cash donations for agencies which are working to feed the hungry. As the effects of our country’s economic recession continue to impact long-term unemployment, more and more people are facing poverty and the prospects of not being able to afford proper food, shelter and health care.

Thanks to the dedication of our store associates and the generosity of our cus-tomers, QFC stores are helping to se-cure critically needed food supplies and money to support the work of our two Bringing Hope To the Table partners: Food Lifeline in Washington and the Oregon Food Bank in our Portland area stores. Food Lifeline states that 96% of its revenue goes directly to feeding hun-gry people and Oregon Food Bank says, “More than 94 cents of every dollar do-nated to OFB goes directly to fighting hunger.”

Last year Food Lifeline delivered more than 24 million meals to hungry people through its network of nearly 300 neigh-borhood food banks, hot meal pro-grams and shelters. From 2005 to 2010, the number of people served by Food Lifeline grew from 550,000 to 686,000, an increase of 24%. Much of the food do-nated to local our QFC stores is targeted by Food Lifeline to supply the part-ner agencies it supports in the same areas those stores serve.

The Oregon Food Bank which has a network of 20 regional food banks and 923 partner agencies saw a 12 percent in-crease in the amount of food it provided from July of 2010 through June of 2011. The Oregon Food Bank distributes food throughout the state and Clark County based on an allocation system that takes each area’s population and poverty sta-tistics into account.

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For many of us, hunger

is something that only happens for short periods between meals. But for many others chronic hunger is a real problem. Food Lifeline points out that “children who are hungry may be less attentive, independent, and curious. Many hun-gry children have difficulty concentrat-ing; therefore their reading ability and verbal and motor skills suffer.”

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They can purchase a $10.00 pre-made bag. Each bag contains seven nutritious food products that will be distributed by Food Lifeline: oatmeal, tuna, diced to-matoes, quick rolled oats, pasta sauce, vegetable beef soup and macaroni and cheese. They can scan a Bringing Hope To the Table” $10 Virtual Bag Donation Card by requesting the cashier to scan a product dona-tion card. Customers can donate their 3¢ Bag Re-use Credit .They can scan $1, or $5 Scan cards at the check stand.Coin boxes located at the check stand will be available for custom-ers to donate their extra coins.

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two who are going to school there now.“I went up to Kentwood High School and I talked to one

of the administrators there and asked if I could just come up there and just talk to (students),” Manning said.

He was connected initially with students whose biggest worries were how a B might effect their high GPAs and Manning said he was looking for something different.

Joe Potts, who was an assistant principal at Kentwood then and is now principal at Kentlake, pulled Manning aside.

“He said, ‘James, I’ve got these 10 African American boys, they need some help.’ I said, when can I start?,” Man-ning said. “I wanted these boys to graduate on time and that was really important to Joe, too. I was looking at the kid that is going to be on the bubble, that possibly needed a push in the right direction and that’s exactly what (Potts) gave me.”

As things began to fall into place, Manning said, he did some research and discovered that 40 percent of black boys graduate from high school and “more African American men are getting their diplomas or GEDs in prison.”

What mattered most to Manning in the beginning of the program was consistency.

“I didn’t want to just do it for one or two years,” he said. “My son was a sophomore, so, what I said is, ‘I’ll give you two more years after my youngest son graduates.’ I knew if I gave that commitment it would really start happening.”

Shaun Martin, an assistant principal at Kentwood, met Manning last year.

Martin, a native of Tennessee, moved to Washington state from Maryland so he was quite familiar with what Manning was talking about.

“After we talked we connected pretty quickly after my experiences in Baltimore,” Martin said. “James was coming every other week just to mentor these guys… giving them skills and strategies to improve not just their academics but their social skills, how they communicated with their parents and their teachers.”

A year ago Martin and Manning increased the number of students in the program from 10 to nearly 20.

“We started brainstorming how to make this more effective rather than him coming in randomly on Friday mornings,” Martin said. “We came up with a protocol of him meeting with the kids, looking a their grades. After working with some of the guys we decided this could become a mentorship program where the guys who were becoming upperclassmen could turn around in mentoring incoming freshmen.”

As the program grew, Manning was worried, so the idea of taking older boys who had been in the program for a while and developing their skills as mentors and leaders made sense.

“I said, ‘How about we do some kind of thing in the summer?’ and that’s how the three day leadership camp came together,” Manning said. “Watching these young men, these upperclassmen working with the freshmen, that’s been amazing this year. Both sides are learning.”

Martin described the three day camp as “a really cool event.”

“We wanted to make this a leadership program so the guys who went through the mentorship with James, we wanted to build up their skills and competency so they could mentor freshmen,” Martin said. “We invited com-munity members to come in and work with the guys. They came in and sat in small groups with the guys and shared their experiences and had it focused so they would talk not only about leadership but their career paths and barriers along the way.”

The camp culminated in the development and presenta-tion of leadership platforms by the juniors and seniors who participated with those platforms focused on the program’s core values.

“That’s one of the goals of the program, to facilitate that, to put guys in positions where they feel confident but they also are leaders,” Martin said. “We want this to become student driven.”

With the success of the program with boys, assistant principal Deborah Rumbaugh has been working on a pro-gram for girls at Kentwood, with the idea to help girls deal with particularly challenging social and emotional issues such as bullying.

There are 15 students who have been invited by coun-selors and administrators to participate, Rumbaugh said, though the girls program is still in its early stages.

“We focus on grades, getting to graduation and we provide a good role model of what girls can be in their communities if they choose to,” Rumbaugh said. “We have a threefold program, the first is the personal and social de-velopment, the second is collaborative enrichment, which is connecting with the community and volunteering, and the third one is academic achievement. Those are pretty lofty goals. We want to see girls really reaching their poten-tial academically, socially and in their communities.”

Like the boys, mentors such as Rumbaugh, King County Prosecutor Stephanie Webb and Kentwood graduate Sa-mantha Thompson (who is Manning’s daughter), will meet weekly with the girls.

“Outside of meeting individually with the girls on a weekly basis, our first activity is to coordinate with a local school district to watch the documentary called ‘Finding Kind’ which focuses on capitalizing on the positive nature of girls in treating each other with kindness and respect,” Rumbaugh said. “The other project that we’re going to be doing is some type of community Christmas project, something like a giving tree, something along those lines. So, we’re always seeking opportunities from the commu-nity as well.”

Rumbaugh said one challenge the girls program is facing right now is finding mentors that can make a weekly com-mitment for the entire school year.

Consistency is important, Manning said, because both boys and girls need to know that mentor is someone they can trust, someone they can count on.

“These kids, these freshmen, they don’t know if I’m go-ing to show up every week,” Manning said. “The older kids know I will and that’s important.”

And he is thrilled the program is now offered to girls.“That’s so huge,” Manning said. “What I see at the high

school, I see girls with very low self esteem, and that’s acted out in the way they dress and the way they act. It’s some-thing that’s important to have someone they can talk to… for these women to come in and have conversations with

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Rachel’s Challenge, which Black Diamond Elementary is currently participating in through the Enumclaw School District, is a program designed to encourage kindness among students and parents. Every time a child or teacher does a kind act, they create a paper link to a chain they hope will extend two miles.

Th e concept of the program was inspired by 17-year-old Rachel Joy Scott, the fi rst student killed during the 1999 Columbine shooting.

Aft er her death, it was discovered she had written six diaries. Among the topics she wrote about was her desire to see more kindness around her. Putting her words into action, Rachel’s Challenge was created and is used by schools nationwide.

I had the opportunity to speak about Rachel with Bill Allison, a Maple Valley City Council-man who attended the same church Scott and her family frequented in Colorado.

Th e impression I got of Scott was one of an ordinary teenager who seemed to have a very strong premonition of her ultimate purpose. In her diary entries, she repeatedly expressed the idea that her time on this planet was limited.

“Rachel knew she wasn’t going to live long,” Allison said. “She knew she would not live past the year. If she could see how her voice is heard through her diaries, it was what she expected.”

In the wake of school shootings, Rachel’s Challenge is the best mes-sage to send to students. Blaming guns, video games, trench coats, pharmaceutical drugs or fi lling schools with armed policeman teaches them that it isn’t the human heart that’s at fault, but material items.

Kids don’t just walk into a school with home-made bombs and automatic weapons because they played too much Call of Duty.

Hopefully the students participating in Rachel’s Challenge will learn that virtue is not conditional or reactive. Th ey should not be con-siderate out of peer pressure or because they will receive praise for it.

Th e schools should encourage them to emu-late this behavior even when no one is looking because character is not circumstantial and it is not always done in the public eye. It remains constant in all situations.

Scott’s family is a good example of this. I think what would make Rachel the most

proud is how her family has handled her death. Her younger brother, Craig, at-tended high school with her and watched as his classmates were shot right in front of him.

As Allison described it to me, it had the same impact on Littleton as the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had on the United States little more than two years later. Parents waited for children to get off of buses who never did.

I cannot nor will I attempt to imagine what Scott’s family went through on April 20, 1999.

All I know is that if anyone had the right to demand blood, they

did. Th ey could have easily used the publicity to name a scapegoat.

Allison and I also discussed the family’s response. It is remarkable when you compare it to how others who have gone through the same loss have responded. Th ey’re not pointing fi ngers in blame. Th ey know there was meaning behind her death.

In particular, Allison spoke highly of Darrel

Scott, Rachel Scott’s father. “He wasn’t bitter (aft er Rachel’s death),” Al-

lison said. “He’s not an angry man.”When I think of Scott’s family, the parable of

the Good Samaritan comes to mind. A “Good Samaritan” has come to be seen as

someone who helps out a stranger. Sadly, this removes the original parable from its proper historical context.

Ancient Samaria was located directly north of Israel and the hatred was so great between the two nations that their people would not have anything to do with each other and oft en prevented travel within their country.

So when the Samaritan helped the injured Jew on the side of the road, he wasn’t helping a stranger — he was helping an enemy.

Th ere is a reason it’s called Rachel’s Challenge, not Rachel’s Initiative or Rachel’s Dream. It’s not merely about challenging people to show compassion to each other. It’s easy to respond to kindness with kindness.

It becomes hard when it is not equally recipro-cated or at all.

In those circumstances, it’s natural to ostra-cize and isolate someone. Rachel Scott believed people should behave kindly to everyone, regardless of how they themselves are treated. It’s about having the forbearance to deal with people who harass you day aft er day, oft en without reason. It’s about forgiving those who hurt you, even when they don’t apologize.

Now that is a real challenge.

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start every morning before he drove the kids back to the school on the bus.Work on the farm could be diffi cult, however. His next door neighbor, Hubert Peacock, was a farmer who made a living selling milk. One night, they invited the Doughertys over for dinner and informed them that Peacock had contracted tuberculosis and was forced to go to a sanitarium in north Renton for isolation. With no one to milk his cows, he planned on selling them, until Dougherty stepped in.

While it doesn’t sound like an arduous task, Pea-cock owned 20 cows, which required Dougherty to get up at 5 a.m. every day, fi rst to light the fi re in the fur-nace at the school before he came back to milk the cows. Th en he had to grab the bus at the Maple Valley School — now the Maple Valley Historical Museum — and pick up the Hobart School students.

LUCKY IN LIFE AND LOVETh ree more children

were born while they lived at the Hobart farm: Timo-thy (1948), Teresa (1951) and Mary Joe (1956). Th e Doughertys resorted to some unusual means in order to cover the costs of delivery for their children. When Teresea was born, for example, the family sold $50 worth of cherries — $415 in 2010 when adjusted for infl ation — to pay for it. Raising seven children was a big task Dougherty said, the success of which he credits to his wife.

“Margie did a fantastic job with those kids,” he said.

Th ey also attended mass at St. Barbara Parish in Black Diamond and St. Joseph Catholic Church in Issaquah. For entertain-ment, the family had a mu-sic room where Dougherty would sing and his wife would play the piano.

All of this changed with the advent of television. Dougherty purchased an Admiral TV in 1950. As the fi rst person in the entire area to own one, the other farming families would fl ock to their house to watch, rather than hear, entertainment programs.

An avid sports fan, Dougherty remembered watching the fi rst televised football.

“All you could see was little specks running around,” he said.

Despite being separated from his brother, Spencer, as toddlers, Dougherty was able to stay in touch with

him through their wives, who wrote each other Christmas cards every year. In 1958, aft er 40 years of separation, Spencer trav-eled from South Dakota to visit him in Hobart. By then Dougherty had learned that their mother had been killed in a train wreck in South Dakota when she

was 38.“I think I talked to him

about what kind of car he had,” Dougherty said. “He had an Oldsmobile while I had a Ford.”

THE CENTURY MARKNow, Dougherty lives

with his daughter, Teresa, and her husband in SeaTac.

“Th ey’re taking good care of me,” Dougherty said. “I still feel good. I still enjoy sports. I’m pulling for the Seahawks all the time.”

For his 100th birthday, he said he plans to keep it traditional with cake and ice cream.

“I’m not going to get crazy,” he said.

His wife, meanwhile, lives in a family home only fi ve minutes away. He visits regularly. Suff ering from dementia, she nevertheless still plays the piano and has no trouble recognizing her husband of nearly 76 years, according to Richardson.

“She still kisses him as if he is coming home from

work,” she said. Dougherty said his wife

was the glue that held his life together.

“I give credit to her on our marriage,” Dougherty said. “Margie and I lived through the best part of our (nation’s) history. We just think we’ve seen all the best of it. We were lucky. I was lucky.”


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Erica Schweitzer wasn’t sure what she wanted to do when she grew up.

A senior at Tahoma High, she arrived as a 10th grader, searching for direc-tion.

“I didn’t have any role models outside of my fam-ily until I met Mr. Haag,”

Schweitzer said. “Now I want to be a video editor.”

Schweitzer is one of Rick Haag’s video production students, a program which is part of the schools Career and Technical Education curriculum, designed to help guide students who may not have a clear path after high school.

“Anything you want to do… Mr. Haag can show

you how to do it,” she said. “And he gives us top of the line equipment for it.”

Schweitzer was one of a number of students who told the CTE Advisory Board group about the im-pact one of the courses has had on their lives during a meeting in the Tahoma High library on Nov. 2.

Culinary arts students showed off their chops

with a fall and Thanksgiv-ing inspired dinner of roast turkey, dress-ing, cranberry sauce, carrots, salad and made from scratch dinner rolls and cupcakes.

“The beauty about CTE is it’s tangible,” said Tahoma High Assistant Principal Diane Fox. “It’s measurable, it’s hands on. The students come up with ideas. They make decisions.”

The mission of the CTE curriculum, Fox explained, fits into a theme for the high school this school year.

It manifested itself in a video made by four of Haag’s students where Prin-cipal Terry Duty, kids, staff members and others lip synced to Journey’s 1980s hit “Don’t Stop Believing.”

“It caused quite a stir here in Tahoma High,” Fox said of the video. “This is our theme for the year. Don’t stop believing in kids.”

Members of the large group Advisory Board meets three times a year, Haag explained afterward, with the group acting as an oversight committee that provides guidance for the CTE programs.

“The main objective is to have community business people help us understand what is needed for our young people to be success-ful in the world of work,” Haag said. “It is a time for the advisory members to see the type of work that is being done and hear from those that are part of the work and most effected by the guidance that the group provides. It is also a great place to provide authentic audiences for our students. It is one thing for our

students to preform in our classrooms and stay within those controlled safe four walls. It is another when their work is actually serving a purpose in the real world. Culinary actually catering an event,

video production work broadcasts to a audience or is posted on the web, a sign language student demon-strates her skills in front of a live studio audience, this is what Career and Techni-cal Education is all about.”

But, Fox pointed out, districts across the state face cuts and CTE is not safe from such cuts.

Still, the success of the curriculum at Tahoma High is such that staff want to do more.

“We’re going to grow our program despite some concern and worry,” Fox said. “We’re going to launch some programs next year (such as) financial algebra. We will develop CTE pro-grams that meet a defined need. So, we want to look at employability.”

Fox stated that students will be able to take part in a new robotics program to help train young people who are interested in en-gineering jobs, something she said is a huge need in Washington state, which can help propel teens into technical college programs or earn a degree from a four-year university.

Haag is on the verge of getting his new program, Film Academy, approved. The program for juniors and seniors will be an integrated approach with a team of six teachers across several different subjects ranging from drama to English to social studies to video production. The hope is to gain board approval in

December or January and launch Film Academy in the fall.

Students in DECA, marketing, Future Farm-ers of America, automotive maintenance, all offered their experiences in CTE.

“DECA is teaching us how to be business lead-ers,” Ben Fisher said. “I’ve competed in internationals — I was the first Tahoma student to compete at inter-nationals. I have a lot more confidence. It teaches us to act more professional. It’s a lot of fun.”

Dakota Nichols, a junior, who is a member of DECA and is a marketing student, said those two programs have changed his outlook.

“I have friends and fam-ily who have a four-year degree who can’t get a job,” Nichols said. “Thanks to marketing I’m more con-fident. DECA is the most important thing I’ve ever done in my life. Last year I went to internationals and I met business leaders from around the world who showed me what I can do with my life.”

It’s the experience of these students, Fox said, that matters.

“We are growing despite challenges to encourage post-secondary plans,” she said. “We want to make sure all post-secondary plans are valued. We’re not just asking kids, ‘What four year college are you going to?’ Our goal is to really get students thinking about where they’re going.”

Fox explained that none of this would have hap-pened without teachers.

“These are very poised young people who have walked away from Tahoma High School with a pas-sion,” she said. “You can’t get that without the fairy dust, the magic (teachers bring).”

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these girls. This program for the girls is going to be huge and I’m excited for it. There’s different needs (than for the boys) but the end result is going to be the same.”

As the program contin-ues to grow at Kentwood, Manning has a broader goal: he wants to see it of-fered at all four of the Kent School District’s traditional high schools.

“I want people who live in these communities to

help out at the high school that’s around the corner from them,” he said.

He knows it’s working at Kentwood so it could have an impact at other schools, as well.

“When you start hearing the sayings that you give to the kids and it starts coming back to you and they make fun of you with it… that’s when you know they’re getting it,” Manning said. “One of my favorite things I say is, ‘A closed mouth doesn’t get fed.’ Or, ‘Bad news travels fast.’”

One moment really hit Manning and made him realize he was having an impact.

“I was talking to a kid one day trying to get him to talk, something was going on with him,” he said. “One of the seniors was there talking to him, but, we couldn’t get it out of him. The senior said, ‘Look, you can trust Mr. Manning. A couple years ago he and I talked about some issues I had and he is like a second father to me.’ I was like, ‘Wow!’ You hear that and it

just kind of hits. That was kind of a ‘wow’ moment for me.”

Martin has seen the impact on his students, as well.

“One junior who has consis-tently met with Manning on a regular basis since the program’s inception asserts, ‘this is everything to me,’” Martin said. “When asked to say more about his experience, the student says that Manning’s mentorship and friendship has given him strategies for making positive choices. He said, ‘I was bad my freshman year and didn’t have it together, but Officer Manning has helped me with that. He’s been there for me when I need him.’”

Specifically, Martin said, the student pointed out that Manning’s continued guidance and presence has helped him avoid as well as resolve conflicts with students and adults.

“In one class, the student improved his communica-tion with the teacher and his grade jumped from an F to a B,” Martin said. “Another student who was receiving poor grades received mentorship and guidance from Manning, which allowed him to con-fidently speak to his mother about the matter. She gave him a consequence for the poor effort, but the student reported that the conversa-tion went well, and he liked the tone of the conversation

more than the alternative. One sophomore expressed interest in medicine, particularly cardiothoracic surgery, during the leader-

ship camp. One of our mentors connected with a surgeon in Seattle and coordinated a meeting be-tween the doctor and the student.”

There are a number of other examples but those are just some highlights, Martin said.

Martin has also been documenting progress of students, both anecdotally and quantitatively by talk-ing to students, as well as evaluating SAT scores and grades.

“It’s by far one of the most powerful things I’ve been a part of, easily,” Mar-tin said. “It’s impacting a lot of kids and impacting the culture of the school.”

Manning couldn’t be happier about the direction of the program.

“I really believe that you have to give back in some way,” he said. “That’s the only way this world is going to get better. The one thing all of us were missing at that time was a little love, someone to say that you’re good enough, that you can do it. When you teach with a lot of love, it really works.”

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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Members of the CHOICES program at Kentwood High meet during the summer leadership camp at the school in June. Photo courtesy of Clifford Crawford

“It’s by far one of the most powerful things I’ve been a part of, easily. It’s impacting a lot of kids and impacting the culture of the school.” Shaun Martin

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While retailers are working hard to get you into their stores — the commercials started before kids had

even shucked off their Halloween costumes — the staff at Maple Valley Food Bank and Emergency Services were working on feeding the hungry this holiday season.

Executive Director Lila Henderson said food bank staff expect at least as much demand for services this year as they did last year, with it being quite likely there will be an increase in requests for Thanksgiving and Christmas din-ners, as well as more need for gifts for children.

The need during the holidays is in line with the higher volume of requests for services MVFB has seen since the economy dipped into a recession in 2008.

“We have seen since that huge increase, that 50 percent increase three years ago, every year it has been steadily going up but it’s much smaller...,” Henderson said. “It’s still going up, it’s staying steady. We’re seeing clients staying longer with the food bank... we’re seeing returning clients, people who went away, who got on their feet, but with the

economy changing they’re coming back. We’re seeing an increase in clients who have never been to our food bank, middle class people who just did not think that would ever happen to them.”

On the days the food bank is open, Henderson said, there is an average of 100 families served.

And Maple Valley Food Bank serves more than just resi-dents of the Tahoma School District, but, those in Coving-ton and other areas, as well.

During the holidays, Henderson said, the expectation is to serve at least as many families as last year when more than 1,000 dinners were served to families combined for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The food bank needs help filling the need, especially if there’s an increase in demand as Henderson expects, for both holidays.

“We need people to go out and get our flier and fill that out,” Henderson said. “Every family gets a turkey (at Thanksgiving and Christmas). It’s one of those things for our clients, it’s not just one meal, it’s many meals.”

Donations of turkeys, and other foods, are welcome. Fi-nancial donations can also be made online with the money going to cover the cost of items that go with the holiday meal. Giving cash is just as good as, if not better than, donating food because the food bank has connections to organizations that can provide products at lower prices than the average consumer pays at the grocery store.

For Thanksgiving, donations need to be made by Nov. 19, and for Christmas the deadline to provide items is Dec. 15.

“The really important thing is we really need to stress for people within our communities that the need for these items... from an operational standpoint we’ve lost state and federal funding, we’re operating with less dollars, rising costs and less help, so I really need support to keep the programs going like they have in the past,” Henderson said. “Due to all the cuts happening at the state level... we will be impacted because people are losing the minimal services they had. We will have to fill in more gaps.”

It’s important to note that families who wish to receive holiday dinners or participate in the Christmas gift store must pre-register.

In addition to feeding families, Henderson said, the food bank provides gifts for children ranging in age from birth to 15 years old. Gifts for teens are the most challenging. Ideas can be found on the MVFB website, www.mapleval-leyfoodbank.org.

The good news, Henderson explained, is there are some significant efforts to provide for the food bank’s clients.

Both Safeway and QFC in Maple Valley, in partnership with Northwest Harvest and Food Lifeline respectively, will offer customers the chance to buy a $10 bag of food which will go directly to the food bank.

Local coffee shops are helping out, too, Henderson said.Stop at City Perk, Village Coffee or Surfrider Coffee, and

contribute via turkey bucks, Henderson said.“They make so much money for us toward our turkey

fund,” she said. “So when you’re going through to get your latte, give a buck toward my turkey fund, and these are three great local business.”

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A trio of South Puget Sound League North vol-leyball teams are headed to state out of the West Central District tourna-ment held at Kentwood High Nov. 4-5.

Kentwood won its fi rst two matches of the tour-nament to punch its ticket on Nov. 4 while Kent-Me-ridian, the surprise state-bound team, bounced back aft er a tough loss to eventual district champion Bellarmine Prep in the fi rst round.

Tahoma went 1-1 on the fi rst day, beating division rival Kentridge in four games before losing to Olympia, which earned the second seed out of the district.

Unlike a year ago when Tahoma was done in two at the district tourna-ment coming in with high expectations to get back to state, the Bears had to claw a bit to punch their ticket, but they bounced back aft er the loss on the fi rst day.

Tahoma put together a 3-0 sweep of Central Kitsap in a winner-to-state loser out match on Nov. 5

then beat Kent-Meridian in fi ve games to earn the sixth seed out of the district while the Royals are the No. 7 seed to state. Tahoma takes on Mead out of Spokane at 1:30 p.m. on Friday at Saint Martin’s University.

Kent-Meridian had a tough road but some-where between the second and third games in a loser-out match against Union it dug deep.

Maybe it was Assistant Coach Raven Northrup who got the girls attention when she told them they looked like the match was lost, that the looks on their faces told her they had already given up.

Th e Royals went out and proved their coach wrong.

Led by junior outside hitter Chloe Watson and setter Deidrianna Laban, Kent-Meridian fought back, winning 3-2 includ-ing a 25-21 victory in the third game, a 25-14 victory in the fourth and 15-13 in the decisive fi ft h.

Kent-Meridian was fi red up when they took on Skyview the next day, win-ning 3-1 (25-19,16-25,25-

ROLLING OUT TO STATE

BY TJ MARTINELL

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Girls ruled on Nov. 5 in Pasco at the 4A cross coun-try state championships.

Tahoma won the girls team title while Kent-Me-ridian’s Alexia Martin was the highest local individual when she crossed the fi nish line in fourth place.

“We’re pretty excited,” said Garry Conner, the Bears’ head coach. “It’s a big win for us.”

Martin, a senior, com-pleted the race in 18 min-utes, 20 seconds. Martin also placed fourth at the league and district meet. It was the highest individual ranking of any boys or girls runner from Tahoma or Kent schools.

TAHOMA BRINGS HOME THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Aft er narrowly losing to Bellarmine Prep at the Westside Classic district meet the week prior, 77-79, Tahoma was able pull together and outrun them 88-99 at the Sun Willows Golf Course.

Conner attributed several factors to the Bears victory. Th e girls came into the race all healthy aft er fi ghting several illnesses throughout the season. Additionally, they raced strategically in order to determine their competition during the district meet.

But, in the end, he cred-ited every single runner on the team for racing well.

“It was a group eff ort,” Conner said. “At that state meet, you just can’t make any mistakes. If you do, you’re a six to 10 (place) team. If any one of those girls didn’t run well, we wouldn’t have won the state meet. It was really all the seven girls.”

“It was an incredible ex-perience,” junior Elizabeth Oosterhout said. “Our team will remember it our whole lives. Every girl pulled their own weight and then some.”

Oosterhout placed 16th at 18:51, a vast improve-ment over last year’s 30th and 19:11.

“I feel good about my improvement in my per-

Cross country title for Tahoma

Tahoma’s Rachelle Frets swings at the ball during a district opening round win over Kentridge on Nov. 4. CHARLES CORTES, The Reporter

BY KRIS HILL

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On Nov. 1 there were four teams from the Ta-homa and Kent school dis-tricts in the playoff picture — Kentridge, Kentwood, Kentlake and Tahoma.

At the end of the week only two were left stand-ing: the Conquerors and the Falcons.

Kentwood won in dra-matic fashion in overtime while Kentlake won in a blowout.

SICK? SO WHAT?Matt Hubbard had

a banner game on the

ground for Kentwood in a 19-16 double overtime victory over Gig Harbor on Saturday night at French Field.

Conks Head Coach Rex Norris aft er the game said that Hubbard, a senior running back, was throw-ing up before the game and on the sidelines through-out the contest.

“Matt Hubbard had a great game for us,” Norris said.

Hubbard, despite his illness, tallied 200 yards on 26 carries.

On Hubbard’s highlight reel was a 27-yard touch-down run around the

outside to put Kentwood up 10-3 with 3:26 left in the third quarter.

Spectators would never have known Hubbard wasn’t feeling 100 percent, especially when he helped set up the winning touch-down by bringing it down to the 12 from the 25, in the second overtime.

From there, it was Visa Th ach, who carried the ball the fi nal three times for Kentwood including punching it in from a yard out to put the Conquerors on top for good.

It was not a pretty game for Kentwood.

“We were the hardest

From blowouts to an overtime battle

Tahoma goes to state for second time in three years, Kentwood punches ticket for eighth straight season

District football playoff games for Kentwood, Kentlake and Tahoma have it all

Kentlake’s Steffi n Church on the keeper in a 49-7 win over Mariner Nov. 4 at French Field. CHARLES CORTES, The Reporter

SWIMMERS TO MAKE A SPLASH AT STATE

CHAMPIONSHIPS A number of Tahoma and Kent

school district athletes will compete in the girls 4A state

swim and dive championship meet Nov. 10-12 at King County

Aquatic Center.Here are the local swimmers to

look for this weekend.Kentlake: Sarah Dougherty,

Laura Williams, Emily Tanasse, Abigail Swanson, Kyndal Phillips

and Jennifer Stefenescu in individual events as well as the

200 free, 200 medley and 400 free relays.

Kentwood: Natalie Lesnick in the 200 and 500 free.

Kentridge: Emily Mohr, Emily Shonka, Bella Chilczuk, Flannery Allen, in individual

events as well as relays.Kent-Meridian: Joanna

Wu in the 200 and 500 free.Tahoma: Allanah Miller, Alex Stein, Anna Pierre, Jessica Miller

in individual events as well as relays.

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mance,” she said. She added, however, “I think I let my nerves take over me and I got really worried.” Next year she said she will try to break into the top 10.

Freshman Abby Atchison led the Bears by placing eighth with a time of 18:40, a 23 second PR.

“I was really thrilled with how the race turned out,” Atchison said. “I really just felt confident going into the race, and our coaches have been working hard to peak our whole team. It really helped me when the race started. It just really came together.”

The rest of the Bears team included freshman Delaney Tiernan (21st, 19:02), senior Juliana Mock (44th, 19:29) sophomore Maddy Dennis (101st, 20:20) and freshman Katelyn Sherick (114th, 20:28).

Having taken the title, Conner said they now have to defend it next year.

“We’re going to try to make another run at it,” he said. “My coaching staff is excited. We’re just taking it all in.”

The Royals placed 16th in their first appearance at the state meet in school history.

Martin’s time of 18:20, a 22 second PR, was the fastest she had run in a race since her freshman year in 2009, when she took second at district with a time of 18:42.

Other Royals runners included sophomores Ruby Virk (106th, 20:24) Briann Funk (124th, 20:43), Sara Madden (132nd, 21:20) and Araceli Rios (138th, 21:55), senior Chelsea Watkins (136st, 21:50) and junior Christina Atkin-son (146th, 24:24).

NO OFFSEASON FOR CROSS COUNTRY RUNNERSIn the boys race Tahoma fought to secure eighth place.

Although they were hoping to stand on the podium, the

team still considers it progress from last year’s 15th place.“We still have some growing to do, some running matu-

rity that needs to take place,” Conner said. “We’re moving in the right direction. We had a good meet.”

“I thought we did pretty good,” said senior James Dagley. “We’re going to be even better next year. I’d say we’d prob-ably make the podium next year.”

Notable performances included sophomore Riley Campell who took 31st with 16:10, a PR and a minute and 20 second improvement over his time at last year’s state championship, where he placed 130th.

“I felt pretty good,” Campell said. “I was hoping to get under 16 minutes, but I feel good about it.”

“He had a really good run,” Conner said. Dagley placed 42nd with a time of 16:17, which was

disappointing for him after coming in 29th last year.“Not very good,” Dagley said of his performance. “It

wasn’t my best race. There’s been a lot of things this season I’ve been battling with.”

He explained that he’s been dealing with several debili-tating issues, such as a stress fracture, which hurt his pre-season training in the summer.

“I swam and biked, but, it wasn’t enough to stay in shape,” Dagley said.

With the top four runners coming back next year, Con-ner is confident Tahoma will be able to build upon the strength of this year’s squad.

“The (training for) state championship starts now,” he said. “We’ll give them a couple days off and then we’re up and rolling again.”

The Kentwood boys took 13th, one place lower than last year.

Head Coach Ken Paul, however, stated he was pleased with the performance after losing several top runners to

graduation. “They did well,” he said. “Things were really, really close.

We were hoping to be in the top 10, realistically we could have been 11th. If you look across the board, the competi-tors were really fast. It was a really fast race this year.”

Senior Danny Lunder finished his final high school cross country race at 23rd with a time of 16:04. Even though that’s seconds away from breaking the 16 minute barrier he had hoped to achieve, he was still able to break his PR.

“I felt pretty good,” he said. “I was pretty happy for my PR. I pushed my running to the max during the race because there’s no cross country after this. I knew that I had to give it my all because there’s nothing left. I’m going to look back on this and remember what it felt like so I decided to give it my all.”

His coach was impressed with Lunder’s efforts.“Danny ran a great race,” Paul said. “He ran his best time

on a hard course. That’s kind of a hard course to do it on. Danny, being the competitor and perfectionist he is, was probably disappointed, but he shouldn’t be.”

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on ourselves we’ve been all year,” Norris said. “We’ve got a young team but we’ve had quite a learning curve.”

Norris said Kentwood came into the game respect-ing the talent of Gig Harbor quarterback Garrett Gal-langer and had prepared the defense accordingly.

Defense, Norris stated, was what kept the Conks in the game. They did their best to mix up their pass coverage schemes, he ex-plained, and it worked.

“They’re a really well coached team. They put a lot of pressure on us defensive,” he said. “Defen-sively we played great. That quarterback threw for 300 yards last week and we held him to 42 yards in the first half.”

At halftime the score was tied 3-3.

The Tides knotted the score at 10-10 when they blocked a Conquerors punt and recovered the ball in the end zone with 8:53 left in the game. That’s where the score stayed until overtime.

Jerrod Dalton made sure Gig Harbor didn’t score again in regulation when he hauled in an interception on the four yard line.

From there, the teams traded field goals, then Gig Harbor went up 16-13 to start the second overtime period.

That’s when Hubbard and Thach put together a series of runs that put the Conks ahead for good.

After Thach scored

the go-ahead TD he was mobbed in the end zone by the entire squad as the fans who stuck around in the sub-40 degree weather cheered wildly.

“We didn’t panic,” Norris said. “That’s because of the resolve we’ve been able to gain in these close games in Kent. I think we represented the SPSL North well.”

Kentwood travels to Skyview on Friday for its first round state playoff game.

FALCONS FLY HIGHFor the seventh time this

season Kentlake scored more than 40 points in a game, beating Mariner 49-7 in a winner-to-state, loser-out playoff game at French Field on Nov. 4.

It didn’t start out look-ing like a rout for Kentlake, though, as the first kickoff was fumbled by the returner, recovered by Mariner and returned for a touchdown.

Little did the Marauders know with 13 seconds off the game clock that would be all they would get in the game as the Falcons romped.

Barely a minute of game time later, Kentlake re-sponded to the special teams miscue with a drive down the field that included a long pass to Austin Pernell which put the Falcons on the Maraud-ers 5-yard-line, setting up a Tanner Lucas touchdown two plays later.

With 8:08 left in the first quarter, Darryl Parker scored an 18-yard touchdown to make it 14-7, and from there Kentlake never looked back.

Lucas added two more touchdown runs in the

second quarter, helping Kentlake to a 35-7 halftime lead.

The Falcons scored their final TD with 9:39 left in the game.

Kentlake will host Union at 6 p.m. Friday at French Field.

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15, 25-17) to punch its ticket to state, its first trip since 1998. The last time the Royals brought home hardware from the state volleyball tournament was in 1994 when they finished third. K-M gets Woodinville at 3:15 p.m. in the first round of state.

Kentwood coach Cindy Seims, whose team was no stranger to adversity in the tournament either, said the Conquerors are happy for the Royals’ suc-cess.

“Our team went and cheered them on in their game against Skyview,” Seims wrote in an email. “Gave me even more Kent pride to see our Conks cheer on the Royals. I

am a Kentridge grad, so, I love Kent schools!”In the first match of the tournament, Kentwood had to

beat perennial volleyball power Graham-Kapowsin, and it took five games to do it.

It was a typical balanced offensive attack from the Conquerors with setter Kacie Seims (45 assists) spreading the ball out to Mikaela Ballou, who tal-lied 15 kills and four blocks, Mele Halahuni who racked up 12 kills, and Sarah Toeaina who finished

with 10 kills and five blocks.Kentwood made it to the district semi-final match

thanks to a sweep of Skyview, the team K-M beat to get to state, in which Kacie Seims tossed up 32 assists to Ballou

who had 23 kills, Halahuni who had 13 kills and Lauren Hackett with eight kills.

Libero Tess Manthou had 14 digs in that match while Emily Altobelli added 10.

Kentwood lost to Puyallup in the third-fourth game and will be the No. 4 seed out of the district to state. Kentwood gets Kamiak at 3:15 on Friday at Saint Martin’s.

Reach Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonreporter.com.

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stated. “We’ve had it good for about the first 10 to 11 years of this city’s history, but, finally it’s catching up to us.”

Consequently, this is dramatically affecting the cash flowing into the city’s coffers.

According to a presenta-tion by Finance Director Tony McCarthy, the city anticipates $542,000 in real

estate excise tax this year, a $145,000 drop from last year. In 2005, the city col-lected $1.5 million.

“The city and the citizens of this city…benefited in the good times,” Johnston said. “Those times are gone. If you want to have a certain level of service, we don’t have that revenue stream.”

Johnston said in order to pay for projects on the books such as Summit Park,

which has a $19 million price tag, the city will have to find a way to increase cash flow into the city.

“The city doesn’t have any revenue for that,” he said. “The state has shut down its pork barrel financ-ing projects like that. The citizens are going to have to invest in that city project. The only way to figure that is through debt-financing.”

Several proposals have been offered at City Council

meetings on ways to bring in more money, including a property tax increase, a levy lid lift for operations, a bond issue for capital projects, a business and oc-cupation tax and a trans-portation benefit district.

A business license fee has also been considered, but Johnston explained it would be cost neutral, meaning the fee would only cover city costs and not bring in revenue.

After the $125 million Tahoma School District

construction bond failed in April Johnston does not believe any bond or levy vote would be approved.

Another option other cities have taken is a car tab fee, which does not require voter approval as long as it is $20 or less.

Johnston stated this one has the highest possibility of getting passed.

“More and more Wash-ington municipalities are resorting to a car tab to supplement their capital budget, to use it for road

repairs,” he said. “The logi-cal approach is to have the people who own the cars maintain the road structure in the community. If there is one that may be dis-cussed, it’s that one.”

At this point, Johnston said, it’s not likely for the coming calendar year.Reach TJ Martinell at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyre-porter.com.

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Rep. Pat Sullivan, D-47th District, wants your opinions.

Sullivan, a resident of Covington and former Covington councilmember, is hosting a teletown hall meeting at 6 p.m. on Nov. 16.

“I want to know what you think are the best ways to solve our state’s current budget shortfall, “ Sullivan wrote in a statment. “We are calling households directly, offering you the option to join the conversation. “

However, if you don’t get called, please join at 1-877-229-8493 and enter 18646.

Sullivan said the legislature is already working on plugging holes in the budget after making significant cuts during the previous legislative session.

“It’s going to take the best efforts of the whole state to reach a responsible, balanced solution to the current eco-nomic crisis and to emerge from it with the kind of Wash-ington we want to live in,” Sullivan said. “Rebalancing our budget and reigniting our economy is a huge challenge and it’s vitally important that we are respectful of all ideas, no matter where they come from.

“It’s going to take the best efforts of the whole state, pulling together, to reach a responsible, balanced solution to the current budget crisis and to emerge from this eco-nomic crisis with the kind of Washington we want to live in. I look forward to hearing from you.”

You can also send Sullivan suggestions at [email protected], or call his office at 360-786-7858.

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During the second week of November there is still time to dig up and divide your overcrowded daylilies, hosta and iris and now is also the time to cut back the yellow foliage of lilies and peonies. In the vegetable garden you can leave car-rots, cabbage and brussels sprouts in the ground where the cold weather will add a sweetness to the fla-vor. Keep checking on any green tomatoes you have stored indoors and toss out any that begin to rot before the danger spreads.

If you think it is too late in the year to aerate, feed or mow the lawn you are wrong. Tackle these fall field goals now and you’ll score great yardage in the spring with less moss and weeds to worry about. Don’t mow the lawn if the ground is frozen solid or the soil so saturated with water that the mower would leave ruts in the ground.

The middle of November is still a great time to add spring-blooming bulbs and here are some that do great in our climate and are small enough to tuck into any open spot of ground. In the horticultural world these are called “minor bulbs” but they can make a major impact for just a minor amount of work. Many will bloom when planted just 1 or 2 inches below ground or when poked into the soft soil of a container garden or window box. Their quick and easy planting makes them perfect for guerrilla gardening – adding flowers to public spaces without asking permission. I like to call it “Occupy Spring” and hope the protestors who use our public parks will use their time efficiently by planting bulbs and pulling a few weeds between protests.

Occupy Spring with the minor bulbs – small and easy to plant, but give them

a few years and they’ll mul-tiply – and they can start a movement.

1. Dwarf Daffodils – to add cheer to your civil disobedience.

These early-blooming garden gems are members of the cyclamineus narcissi group and demand equal time and place-ment in public gardens or they will surely take-over in waves of blooming cha-os. Their petals are reflexing, which means they bend backward like a cyclamen flower. Tough and repeat bloomers, these dwarfs will thrive in dry rockeries and are easy to force into early bloom.

February Gold – All that glitters is not rising in price nor can you sell these golden beauties for quick cash. But February Gold daffodils are price-less because in our climate anything that blooms in February should be worth its weight in precious met-als. This variety is easy to find at local nurseries and if you plant February Gold in a spot were it has excellent drainage you’ll be making a great investment with growing dividends. This little daffodil will spread politely in tidy clumps.

Tête-à-Tête – Everything French is oh-so-chic right now so plant this fashion-

able dwarf daffodil and you’ll soon understand the name which means head-to-head. It looks like golden yellow blooms are talking to one another as the flowers nod in the slightest breeze. This is a great bulb to plant under the purple PJM rhododendron because they

flower at the same time, early in the spring.

2. Musca-ri or grape hyacinths – Not the high priced, strongly-

fragrant hyacinths but the more common, hard-working hyacinth sold for pennies and enjoyed for generations. Most common in the deep blue color and often used to create rivers of color in show gardens, you can also plant grape hyacinths under the shade of deciduous trees or mix them with windflowers and other minor bulbs under the skirts of rhododendrons and azaleas.

Mount Hood Muscari – A great naturalizer or spreader, this two-toned

gem is deep blue but then topped with a snow-white cap of tiny florets. Grow this one in a container on the porch and add bright yellow winter pansies for a blooming reminder of sunshine, blue skies and mountain tops.

3. Grecian Windflow-ers – Anemone blanda: Daisy-like blooms that stay close to the ground make this a lovely groundcover for any spring garden but don’t be surprised when you see the ugly corm that grows such a pretty flowers. Small, wizened and dark, the little pellets show little promise when planted into the cold November ground. But their small size makes them easy to sneak into forgotten corners and empty pots or to tuck under the branches of forsythia and other spring-blooming shrubs. Anemones come in shades of pink, lavender, blue and white.

White Splendour Anem-one – The French spelling of the splendor of this bulb lights up the garden with petals so bright they glow in the moonlight or, more important, in the darkest

days of late winter. Add-ing white to any planting scheme brightens the colors so use this bulbs with blue hyacinths or bright yellow daffodils.

4. Snowdrop – Galan-thus: How can one live in the rainy Northwest and survive winter without Snowdrops? Deer-proof, mice-proof and drought-proof you can add these small bulbs to the dry soil under maples and they will spread through the years into a carpet of milky white beauty. Their little heads nod downward with a meekness that will

warm the soul and light up the soil. Some years the snowdrops will flower as early as January and their spring green shoots emerge from the ground right after Christmas. Snowdrops re-ward the gardener with the promise of spring reneºwal.

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CITY OF BLACK DIAMONDNOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARING2012 Final Budget

Notice is herby given that the Black Diamond City Council will be holding a public hearing on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the Black Dia- mond City Council Chambers, 25510 Lawson Street, Black Diamond, WA. The purpose of this hearing is to hear public testimony on the proposed final 2012 Budget. Written comments may be submitted to the Clerk’s office at 24301 Roberts Drive, PO Box 599, Black Diamond, WA, 98010 no later than 5:00 p.m. on December 1, 2011, otherwise they must be submitted at the hearing. Dated this 28th day of October, 2011 Brenda L. Martinez, CMC Assistant City Administrator/ City Clerk Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on November 4, 2011 and No- vember 11, 2011. #541462.

CITY OF BLACK DIAMONDNOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARINGS Notice is hereby given that theBlack Diamond City Councilwill be holding two (2) public hearings to receive comments on:1) Setting the Property Tax Levyfor 2012, and 2) 2012 Prelimi- nary Budget, including revenuesources. Both hearings will takeplace on Tuesday, November 22,2011 at 7:00 p.m. at the BlackDiamond Council Chambers,25510 Lawson Street, Black Dia-mond, WA. Written commentsmay be submitted to the Clerk’soffice located at 24301 Roberts Drive, Black Diamond, WA until5:00 p.m. on November 22,2011, otherwise they must besubmitted at the hearing. Alldocuments related to the hearingsare available for inspection orpurchase at City Hall, 24301Roberts Drive, or on the City’swebsite at http://www.ci.black-diamond.wa.us.Dated this 10th day of November2011 Brenda L. Martinez Assistant City Administrator/ City ClerkPublished in Covington/MapleValley/Black Diamond Reporteron November 11, 2011 and No- vember 18, 2011. #544675.

CITY OF BLACK DIAMONDPUBLIC NOTICE

2012 Preliminary Budget The City of Black Diamond’s 2012 Preliminary Budget has been filed with the City Clerk. Copies of the proposed (preliminary) budget will be available to the public for inspection or purchase on November 10, 2011 at City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, Black Diamond, Washing- ton. The document will also be posted on the City’s website www.ci.blackdiamond.wa.us for viewing on November 10, 2011.Dated this 28th day of October, 2011 Brenda L. Martinez, CMC Assistant City Administrator/ City ClerkPublished in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on November 4, 2011 and No- vember 11, 2011. #541456.

PACIFIC COAST COAL CO Pursuant to the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 30, Part 947.774.15(b), notice is hereby given that Pacific Coast Coal Company, P.O. Box 450, Black Diamond, Washington 98010, has applied to the Office of Sur- face Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) to renew the operating permit for the John

Henry No. 1 Mine. Pacific Coast Coal Company’s federal permit was issued June 13, 1986 and renewed June 13, 1991, June 13, 1996, June 13, 2001, and December 7, 2006. The permit was significantly revised on August 22, 2001. This permit, issued by OSM, carries a term of five (5) years with the right of successive renewal within the approved boundaries of the existing permit upon expiration of the term of the permit. The mine location is northeast of Black Diamond between the Green River Gorge Road and the Black Diamond-Ravensdale Road, in Sections 11 and 12, T21N, R6E, W.M. A copy of Pacific Coast Coal Company’s renewal application is available for inspection during normal business hours at:Pacific Coast Coal Company30700 Black Diamond - Ravensdale RoadP.O. Box 450 Black Diamond, WA 98010360-886-1060 City of Black Diamond City Hall Building 25510 Lawson Street P.O. Box 599 Black Diamond, WA 98010 360-886-2560Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement - Olympia Field OfficeEvergreen Plaza Building711 Capital Way, Suite 703Olympia, WA 98501360-753-9538 Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement - Western Regional Office 1999 Broadway, Suite 3320 Denver, CO 80202-5733 303-293-5027 Written comments, objections, or requests for an informal con- ference may be filed with Office of Surface Mining, Joseph O. Wilcox, Project Manager, West- ern Regional Office, 1999 Broad- way, Suite 3320, Denver, Colora- do 80202-5733; (303) 293-5027 Published in the Covington/ Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on October 21, 28 & November 4, 11, 2011. #536053.CITY OF BLACK DIAMOND

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE

CITY OF BLACK DIAMOND

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN,ZONING CODE, AND

OFFICIAL ZONING MAPAs part of its regularly scheduled Thursday, December 1, 2011 meeting, which begins at 7:00 p.m., the City of Black Diamond City Council will conduct a public hearing on proposed amendments to the City of Black Diamond Comprehensive Plan and the Planning Commission’s recommendations regarding the same. The meeting will be held in the City Council Chambers, 25510 Lawson Street, Black Di- amond. The proposed amendments include: 1) minor amendments to the Future Land Use Map and other maps within the Plan; 2) various amendments to the Comprehensive Plan text; 3) con- current implementing zoning changes consistent with the proposed Future Land Use Map amendments; and 4) establish- ment of a new “Parks” zone district. Copies of the proposed amendments are available for review on the City’s website (www.ci.black diamond.wa.us) and at the Black Diamond Community Develop- ment Department, 24301 Roberts Drive. For further information, contact Steve Pilcher, Community Development Director, (360) 886-2560 or [email protected] diamond.wa.us. Published in the Covington/ Maple Valley Reporter Novem- ber 11, 2011. #544669

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 information regarding these projects, their timing and relationship to city plans, policies and codes. In addition to learning about these projects, you will have an opportunity 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.

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CITY OF COVINGTON NOTICES

CITY OF COVINGTON PLANNING COMMISSIONNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011 – 6:30 P.M.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Covington Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing on Thursday, November 17, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. during the regular scheduled Planning Commission meeting at Covington City Hall Council Chambers, 16720 SE 271st Street, Covington, WA. The purpose of the public hearing is to receive comments from the public on revisions to Covington Municipal Code regarding regulations for permitting and locating electric vehicle infrastructure.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Covington Planning Commission has also scheduled a public hearing on Thursday, November 17, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. during the regular scheduled Planning Commission meeting for the purpose of receiving comments from the public on revisions to Title 18 of the Covington Municipal Code (CMC) regarding permitting farmers’ and public markets and shooting ranges, amending the landscaping and sign section to cross reference the downtown provisions in CMC 18.31, and clarifying exemptions for school impact and traffic impact fees.

For more information or to submit comments, contact Planning Commission Clerk Kelly Thompson at [email protected] or 253-638-1110, ext. 2269.

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 11, 2011. #544627.

PUBLIC NOTICES

Kent City Council, which means his seat will be vacant in January.

The race for Valley Medical Center commissioner has Paul Joos cruising with a 16 percent lead over Mary Alice Heuschel.

Steve Pfaff was leading Larry West in the race for Soos Creek Water and Sewer District commissioner.

In Fire District 43 Board of Commissioner races Brian McGee was beating Gregg Roulst with 71.93 percent of the vote while Gabe DeBay was winning in his challenge of incumbent Jenny Rydberg, with 52.65 percent of the vote.

The Board of Commissioners for Fire District 43 oversees the Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety department which serves the city of Maple Valley and a swath of unin-corporated King County.

The state-wide measures on the ballot showed the liquor initiative leading and 1125, the transportation initiative, losing.

MAPLE VALLEY CITY COUNCIL Council Position No. 1 Sean P. Kelly - 1,652 54.88 percentBill Woodcock - 1,345 44.68 percentWrite-in - 13 0.43 percent

Council Position No. 5

Noel Gerken - 1,592 52.54 percentKaren Crowe - 1,422 46.93 percentWrite-in - 16 0.53 percent

BLACK DIAMOND CITY COUNCILCouncil Position No. 1Tamie L. Boxx-Deady - 627 73.42 percentKristine A. Hanson - 226 26.46 percentWrite-in - 1 0.12 percent

Council Position No. 3Joe May - 656 77.27 percentPam McCain - 191 22.50 percentWrite-in - 2 0.24 percent

Council Position No. 5Ron Taylor - 665 78.79 percentW. Leih Mulvihill - 176 20.85 percentWrite-in - 3 0.36 percent

COVINGTON CITY COUNCILCouncil Position No. 1Marlla Mhoon - 1,153 - 63.46 percentJoseph Cimaomo, Jr. - 651 - 35.83 percent

KENT SCHOOL DISTRICTDirector District No. 1Russell Hanscom - 9,968 - 65.19 percent

Larry Sims - 5,229 - 34.20 percentWrite-in - 93 - 0.61 percentDirector District No. 3Debbie Straus - 9,015 - 58.51 percentLeslie Kae Hamada - 6,316 - 40.99 percentWrite-in - 77 - 0.50 percent

KING COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT NO. 43Commissioner Position No. 1Brian McGee - 3,611 - 71.93 percent Gregg Roulst - 1,390 - 27.69 percentWrite-in - 19 - 0.38 percentCommissioner Position No. 4 short and full termGabe DeBay - 2,740 - 52.65 percentJennifer C. Rydberg - 2,448 - 47.04 percentWrite-in - 16 - 0.31 percent

PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT NO. 1 - VALLEY MEDICALCommissioner District No. 1Paul Joos - 17,144 - 58.01 percentMary Alice Heuschel -12,325 - 41.70 percentWrite-in - 86 0.29 percent

SOOS CREEK WATER AND SEWER DISTRICTCommissioner Position No. 1Steve Pfaff - 6,332 - 52.50 percentLarry West - 5,687 - 47.15 percent

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