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More than 360 con-cerned parents, scout leaders and members of the scouting community have signed a petition to keep Federal Way-based Camp Kilworth open after the Pacific Harbors Council of Boy Scouts of America announced its closure last month.

Camp Kilworth is one of four camps and one center that will close for financial reasons due to declining membership and use, ac-cording to Scout Executive Ralph Voelker.

But supporters say the camp’s closure will do more harm than good.

Dane Bergman, a Federal Way resident who was on the property committee for Camp Kilworth and was a program director for Cub Scouts for about four years, said closing the camp will just contribute to the already declining member-ship.

“If you don’t have a camp, numbers will go down,” Bergman said. “For

a lot of parents in our area, they don’t have time to drive down there.”

Bergman is referring to the one camp that will remain open – Camp Thunderbird on Summit Lake in Olympia. That camp is part of the Pacific Harbors Council’s vision of a “one camp plan.”

Camp Kilworth served scouters in Federal Way, Tacoma, Edgewood, Milton and Fife, Bergman added.

Bergman’s son is now in Boy Scouts Troop 361 but attended Camp Kilworth every summer for four years as a Cub Scout and continued to volunteer after he got older.

“It’s right in the city, it’s conveniently located for

drop off and pick up but the 25 acres and forest makes you feel like you’re in the woods,” Bergman said, adding the view of Puget Sound and wildlife, coupled with the fire bowl ceremonies and Rotary Lodge, are elements that make this camp special.

However, Voelker said Camp Kilworth isn’t as centrally located as many of the petitioners believe it to be.

“[The petition] says they would have to drive two-and-a-half hours to another camp,” Voelker said. “That’s not true. We have two scheduled in Gig Harbor and Tacoma … Camp

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Superintendent Tammy Campbell delivers 100-day summary report

The superintendent’s 100 days are up.After completing her 100-day

entry plan, not-so-new-anymore Superintendent Tammy Campbell pre-sented her summary report to the Federal Way Public Schools Board of Directors at a board meeting on Tuesday.

Campbell embarked on her pre-entry plan well before she officially took her seat on July 1, which included visiting schools

and meeting board members among other tasks.

At the meeting, Campbell sum-marized how she completed the five goals set forth in her entry plan, which included: 1. develop a board-superintendent relation-ship, 2. gain a deeper understand-ing of organizational strengths, 3. strengthen family and community engagement, 4. promote a positive, col-laborative constructive climate, and 5. identify critical issues and challenges.

Campbell and the school board spent seven days attending retreats to enhance their skills.

“In fact, this Saturday, we’re due up for another six hours of learning and training together because what we know, when we

read the research, that the most important thing in the overall health of the district to mobilize and actually act on its goal is that partnership between the board and superintendent and how key it is,” Campbell said. “We’ve invested that time and continue to do so.”

To gain a deeper understanding of the district’s strengths, she visit-

ed 39 schools, spending two hours at each, and met with every principal and office leader in a one-on-one encounter. She met with high school students who dropped out or were in danger of dropping out and even rode a school bus on its route.

Engaging in the community and with families led Campbell to do a ride along with Police Chief Andy Hwang.

“I’ll tell you, that partnership has really been helpful,” she said. “For example, he’s been really helpful to help us continue to train our own security officers and he’s got some ideas on how we can continue to partner as a city and a school district.”

The district also secured a grant for par-ent involvement.

“One of the most exciting things that has come out of this work is our Deep Dive 3 success,” Campbell said. “Federal Way procured the Deep Dive 3 event where w’ere going to be working with five of our schools to train parents, leaders who are bilingual to be leaders of a parent academy for other parents and to train parents on what they want to know to be successful in helping their students be

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Cub Scouts at Camp Kilworth in July 2015. Contributed photo

Data from Campbell’s 100-day entry plan will pave the way for strategic planningBY RAECHEL DAWSON

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AAA Federal Way collects 4,860 toiletries for those in needFROM STAFF REPORTS

During the holiday season, AAA Federal Way collected 4,860 items benefiting the Federal Way Community Caregiving Network.

Statewide, AAA Wash-ington teamed up with local shelters, food banks and other charitable organiza-tions to provide unused toiletries for those in need.

The program’s eighth year proved to be the most suc-cessful year yet, bringing in 148,159 items or 12,347 pounds across Washington and northern Idaho.

“The generosity of our members, local businesses and community partners has made the 2015 Soap for Hope campaign record setting,” said Jennifer Cook, AAA Washington spokes-person.

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Anthony Petruzzelli named to dean’s listFROM STAFF REPORTS

Anthony Petruzzelli, from Federal Way, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2015 semes-ter at the University of Vermont. Petruzzelli is a class of 2018 business administration major in the Grossman School of Business.

To be named to the dean’s list, students must have a grade-point aver-age of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their re-spective college or school.

Chartered in 1791, the University of Vermont was the first college or university in the United States that did not give preference to a religious sect in its charter. The college now has 10,081 undergraduates in seven schools and colleges, 1,360 graduate students and 457 medical students.

Centerstage presents ‘Ring of Fire’FROM STAFF REPORTS

From the iconic songbook of Johnny Cash comes Centerstage Theatre’s unique musical “Ring of Fire” about love and faith, struggle and success and home and family. More than two dozen classic hits includ-ing “I Walk The Line”, “A Boy Named Sue”, “Folsom Prison Blues” and the title tune paint a musical por-trait of The Man in Black, a salute to a uniquely American legend.

Though he is never impersonated, Cash’s re-markable life story is told through his music.

Richard Maltby, creator of the stage version of “Ring of Fire,” wrote, “When I was first asked to put together a theatri-cal show out of the music of Johnny Cash, several things became imme-diately clear. First, we shouldn’t attempt to put Johnny Cash himself on stage. The persona, the voice, are not duplicable and the very best we could achieve would be a poor imitation. Second, as fascinating as Johnny Cash’s life was, it seemed to me that dramatizing it on stage would not enhance it. A film could do that, perhaps, but not a stage show.

“To me, Johnny Cash’s biography wasn’t the most important story avail-able to tell. Taking all the songs together, adding in the life he led, the person he was, the people he knew, loved and sang about, it seemed to me that there was another story here. It’s almost a mythic American tale —of growing up in simple, dirt-poor surroundings in the heartland of America,

leaving home, traveling on wings of music, find-ing love, misadventure, success, faith, redemption and the love of a good woman — and eventu-ally returning home. It’s about the journey of a man in search of his own soul. That seemed to be a worthy story to put on a stage, and the best part is we could tell it entirely through the songs.”

Cayman Ilika and Jared Michael Brown are two, young musical theatre talents in Seattle. Ilika appeared at Centerstage and at ACT Theatre as Patsy Cline in “Always…Patsy Cline.” She has been nominated for two 2015 Broadway World Awards (Local) as “Best Leading Actress in a Musical” – one for her performance in the title role of “Mary Poppins” at the Village Theatre and one for her role in “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” with ACT and 5th Avenue Theatre.

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I’ve never seen a busier newsroom than the one at the Federal Way Mirror.

During my first day as editor more than two years ago, then-Deputy Chief Andy Hwang stopped in to welcome me to the com-munity, followed by a half-dozen other residents.

I learned to keep my office door open early on, as several “regulars” often stopped by to share inside informa-

tion on the latest happenings in Federal Way. When they weren’t visiting, someone from the Kiwanis Club, the Lion’s Club, the Women’s Club of Federal Way, Reach Out, FUSION, the Farmers Market, the Historical Society of Federal Way or any number of nonprofit orga-nizations would come by to share information about their nonprofits and invite me to their meetings.

Then there were the people who stopped by to question me over a controversial story or vented about their wet newspaper. During one political season, a group of supporters for a particular candidate were so impassioned that they marched into the office and demanded to speak with me on the spot as we were trying to send the Mirror off to press.

Since I’ve worked at the Mirror, this level of community engagement has remained consis-tent.

And if I’ve learned one thing about Federal Way, it’s that the people here are truly passion-ate.

As I leave the Mirror this week to take on a new position as regional editor for other Sound Publishing newspapers on the Eastside, I’d like to thank all of you who have taken your time to visit me, call me, write letters to the editor and invite me into your workplaces and homes to share your stories and your lives.

Thank you to my Mirror family who I’ve worked very late nights with and talked politics

Attendance was a little light at church this past Sunday due to the 10 a.m. start time of the Seahawks game. But since the 2016 legislative session also con-vened this week, I hope church atten-dance increases as it may take divine intervention to actually get anything of significance accomplished in the short 60 day session. While there is much talk of cooperation, the reality is that politics will hold sway over policy. This is an election year with all members of the state House of Representatives, half the state Senate and all statewide offices, including the gover-nor’s office, on the ballot. Power, who has it, who wants it and who holds it next December will determine every movement on every issue.

The numbers in each chamber are so close that the loss of even one seat could be critical to each party’s goal of legislative control.

Both sides will introduce legislation to ad-vance their policy agenda but also try to build

a negative voting record for the opposition that will surface later this year in mailing brochures and television commercials. Republicans will introduce conserva-tive bills and Democrats will introduce progressive ones. But nothing will pass that makes the other side look good.

Legislators and special interest groups have been refining their talking points to the media in preparation for the session. You may have no-

ticed an emphasis on funding for fire services in reaction to last summer’s fires in eastern Washington. Funding may be needed, but it is also being used as a “stalking horse” to shift the public dialog away from education. The same is true of the heightened visibility of funding for charter schools. Although that serves two purposes. Charter schools were ruled uncon-stitutional by the Supreme Court because they are not “common” schools and

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Thank you for your diver-sity section. I certainly ap-preciated Raechel Dawson’s first article in today’s edi-tion. As I am given informa-tion I gain understanding.Dana Turcott, Federal Way

Housing developments will sap police resources

I have lived in Federal Way since 1979. I’m seeing a lot of new, high density, low-income housing devel-opments. This issue drove residents to band together and create city-hood back in the day. Already these developments are having a major impact on our schools and police. Appar-ently, our city government and school board officials are just innocent bystand-ers looking the other way ignoring what is a viable mix of socio-economic groups needed to make a vibrant city.

Yet the city council is vigorously pursuing a Performing Arts and Event Center, or more likely a future homeless shelter, without a lot of public sup-port. The reality is, families with resources are not going to locate to Federal Way and

subject their children to our schools and yet these are the very people the city needs to attract to make the event center (and city) viable and vibrant.

I am very concerned that these housing developments will sap the resources of our excellent police force and force homeowners into spending more money to bolster a beleaguered force at the same time the city drains the public treasury on a boondoggle. Why can’t our public officials do some-thing positive, like develop-ing/permitting luxury high rises around the old Target site, across the street from express transit service to downtown Seattle? I think a lot of homeowners are of the opinion “lets get outta Dodge while the getting’s good.”Dennis Pollard, Federal

Way

Anti-gun backers miss the mark

When anyone dies unexpectedly, it is a tragedy and the younger the person the more tragic. A recent letter in the Mirror refers to the December 2012 Sandy Hook shootings, the murder of 20 children and that “something” must be done about guns and the suppos-edly the “evil” NRA, ignor-ing the fact that there are millions of responsible gun owners and that the NRA constantly promotes gun safety and responsibility.

According to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website, in the following year 2013, “a total of 1,149 children 14 and younger were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes. Of those

1,149 fatalities, 200 (17 per-cent) occurred in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. Out of those 200 deaths, 121 (61 percent) were occupants of vehicles with drivers who had blood alcohol content’s of .08 or higher and another 29 children (15 percent) were pedestrians or pedal cyclists struck by drivers with blood alcohol content’s of .08 or higher”.

I wonder if Ms. Hedwig Backman, who recently ranted about guns, feels the government should do something about the exces-sive deaths of children by drunk drivers, or in fact the overall death total of 1,149. Perhaps the government should “do something” and all responsible car owners should have their vehicles confiscated because there is the potential for them to drive drunk.

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Q&A with Mr. FW: Newspapers 101 and requirements for new editorQ: Mr. Federal Way,

why can’t newspaper articles be complete in one place? Why do they have to be broken up so a reader has to flip back and forth through the paper? I wind up missing things that way. I do like the size of your paper, other regu-lar papers are too big – try reading one on the bus with a passenger squashed up next to you!

A: Full disclosure, Pub-lisher Rudi Alcott received this hand-written letter but doesn’t have the time to explain Newspapers 101 to little old ladies. Unfor-tunately, Mr. Federal Way does.

Ma’am, the broken up stories you so eloquently refer to are called story jumps or jump lines. Some-times ads take up space on a page, which prevent the story from running on one page. Mr. Federal Way could do away with the ads but apparently they pay for basic newsroom perks, like salaries or whatever.

Other reasons for jumps? Style. Would you read a newspaper that had one

story with one photo on the cover? Come on, lady. Where’s your artistic eye? Jumps also cause the reader to flip through the news-paper, which you seem to find annoying, but people who create the paper tell Mr. Federal Way it helps draw readers deep into a product they each spend 40 hours a week making week after week. So, while readers are taking the bus, squished next to a un-desirable person, they can learn a little bit about their community and be a little bit more connected.

Q: Mr. Federal Way, I loved your article today. Usually I don’t like it because it’s so “sanitized.” I like the “unsanitized” much better. It is to the point and clear. Please continue writing this way. We don’t need anymore “sugar coating” of the facts.

A: As Mr. Federal Way mentioned before, editor

Carrie Rodriguez has gone over to the darkside, a place far, far away in the land of serial Nordstrom shoppers, only accessible through a hell not even Mr. Federal Way would wish on Mayor

Jim Ferrell – Interstate 405. It’s a place called Bel-levue. And with Rodri-guez gone, Mr. Federal Way doesn’t have to worry about silly things that

journalists go to college for. What’s media law? Either way, Mr. Federal Way has a list of requirements for the new Federal Way Mirror editor, whenever Alcott decides to stop worrying about the budget and hire somebody already.

• The new editor must al-ways, always bring pizza for the newsroom on Thurs-days. No questions asked.

• He or she must limit columnist Bob Roegner’s 100,000-word columns to an appropriate length. Mr. Federal Way needs coffee before he’ll even pick up

those doozies.• The new editor should

coerce Mrs. Federal Way into writing more columns. It would give Mr. Federal Way a chance to catch up on approving friend re-quests on Facebook.

• Aside from being a top-notch investigative and passionate individual, the new editor should commit to smaller stories that make this newspaper a commu-nity newspaper.

• The new editor needs to be attractive, but not so attractive that it makes the rest of the newsroom look ugly.

• The new editor must recognize how hilarious Chief Joy Facilitator Jen-nifer Anderson is. (But not funnier than Mr. Federal Way.)

• As part of their hazing, one requirement of the new editor will be to sell coupons to the rash amount of couponers the Mirror has for two Fridays in a row all. day. long. Also, he or she must deal with the maryjanes who come to the newsroom looking for marijuana.

• He or she should know the difference between a touchdown and a home run or have blind faith in sports reporter Terrence Hill’s ability to.

• If female, the new edi-tor must be open to the idea of joining sales representa-tive Kay Miller’s Fairly Fit Female cult, err, Mr. Fed-eral Way means “extremely successful healthy lifestyle group that has helped many.”

• The new editor must know CPR and have a first-aid card in case of an emer-gency. Mr. Federal Way isn’t sure how quickly the fire department would get here based on past reporting.

• The new editor should attend the hundreds of community events sales representative Cindy Ducich volunteers at.

• To align with the Mir-ror’s and reporter Raechel Dawson’s new diversity sec-tion, the new editor should break the status quo and be an active member of all facets of this diverse com-munity.

• He or she should re-spond to every letter, email

and complaint that comes regarding moist Mirrors. It’s an epidemic. Bonus points if he or she comes with a solution to Washington’s precipitation problem.

• The new editor should have a great sense of humor, so much that he or she isn’t afraid to tease Alcott when he falls off a ladder and gets a boo boo on his head.

• The new editor needs to be smart enough to recognize the value of our most senior member in ex-perience, not in age, Marcie Shannon.

• And, last but not least, the new editor needs to have a spouse, sugga daddy or sugga momma to support them financially. Unless, of course, the editor will make more money than Mr. Federal Way.

Q: Mr. Federal Way, are you mad that Alcott didn’t promote you to the new editor position?

A: None of your business.

Got a question for Mr. Federal Way? Email [email protected].

over pizza with after our candidate debates, who I’ve cried with over heartfelt people we’ve interviewed and who have helped me grow as an edi-tor. Thank you to Mirror columnist Bob Roeg-ner for our continuous conversations over your columns and for keeping the community vigilant (whether they’re look-ing over their shoulder

for you or keeping an eye on the issues you opine about).

Thank you to our elected leaders on the Federal Way City Coun-cil, our legislators and King County Councilman Pete von Reichbauer. The Mirror watches your ac-tions closely but we never forget that you are serving Federal Way and care for this community.

Thank you, Mayor Jim

Ferrell, for being on call any time I needed to ask you tough questions, and thank you for your candor.

Thank you to new Superintendent Tammy Campbell for bringing a new sense of stability to our schools. And thank you to all the countless contributors who send us

photos and other content to help strengthen your community newspaper.

During my time at the Mirror, I’ve watched downtown Federal Way transform from a ques-tionable area, to an actual downtown with a new park and a soon-to-be-complete Performing Arts and Event Center. As part

of that vision, the city also purchased the former Tar-get site for $8.2 million.

These three issues alone generated much contro-versy into the pages of the Mirror from people on both sides of the issues who care about this city and want to make sure that it progresses and grows in the right direc-

tion.But no matter how slow

or fast change is occurring in Federal Way, one thing will always remain steady — the passionate people who live and work here.

Federal Way, don’t ever change that.

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umn took issue with President Obama’s repeated claims that high-profile shootings do not happen with the same frequency in other countries. For instance, at a June 19 speech before the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Obama claimed, “We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months.”

However, the Post turned to research examining the rate of deaths resulting from mass shootings in 11 countries, conducted by State University of New York-Oswego public justice professor Jaclyn Schildkraut and Texas State Uni-versity’s H. Jaymi Elsass. The Post points out, “The United States had a lower rate of mass shooting fatalities per 100,000 people than Norway, Finland and Switzerland.”

The murderers in Paris where guns are not allowed still had plenty of weapons to carry out the carnage, both in the January and November terrorist attacks. The criminals weren’t concerned about the law. What the government should do is uphold existing laws and prosecute to the maximum those involved in gun crimes. However, accord-ing to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University (which tracks information about federal enforcement, staffing and spending), the Obama Justice Department has actually been prosecuting fewer gun crimes, down 15.5 percent in the last five years. Why do you suppose that is?

Regrettably, there will always be evil people with evil in-tent. Fortunately, there are far more honest, responsible and respectful citizens and they should not be lumped together for the sake of “doing something.” If I’m ever in a dangerous situation, I hope there are plenty of those NRA-concealed

carry members right next to me.Tom Heunisch, Federal Way

Yes vote on technology levy a no-brainer

Please join us in supporting the technology levy that Federal Way Public Schools has proposed to enhance the education of the students in Federal Way. This is not a tax increase; it is a replacement levy at exactly the same level as the one it replaces. It is not a luxury, as the students of today need a sound basis in computer science in order to obtain the jobs of tomorrow. Excellent schools enhance property values and the quality of life for us all. This is simply a “no-brainer”— please vote yes!Jeanne and James Burbidge

[ ROEGNER from page 4 ] therefore not eligible for public funding. By raising the dialog on charter schools it also gives some legislators the avenue to reopen its critical comments about the Supreme Court and finding the Legislature in contempt in 2012 for not fully fund-ing basic education. Telling the Supreme Court to “mind its own business” might make a good election year headline in a legislator’s hometown newspaper, but it is neither a thoughtful nor prudent move in the long run. The fines for non-compliance levied by the court against the Legislature on basic education are almost $15 million. At $100,000 per day the fine levied by the court is going to look like real money a year from now.

So far the only agreement on educa-tion has been that 2017 looks like a good time to make a decision. That gets the controversial issue past this election cycle year, and there won’t be any of that silly accountability stuff the public expects until the 2018 elections.

The other talking point making the rounds is suggesting that funding for

schools can be solved by a redistribu-tion formula because some districts pay their teachers more than other districts. There are districts that pay their teachers more than ours are paid in Federal Way. However, that would require an “equaliza-tion” and any plan that has some districts benefiting from other districts’ loss isn’t going to be well received. Each district has its own elected school board that responds to education needs within the commu-nity. Although “full funding” has different meanings to different people, the redistri-bution idea needs “all winners” to be taken seriously. But it works as another way to put off the decision until next year while the legislature “gathers data.”

Democrats are trying to keep the discus-sion from straying to side issues and stay-ing focused on full funding for education. They do not want full funding of education to come at the expense of other programs that they believe are underfunded. They would be willing to support a discussion around revenue options, but not this year. Republicans will only support a solution that does not increase taxes. They would like to see budget cuts elsewhere. But the

amount of money needed to solve the problem likely can’t be reached solely through budget cuts. Budget cuts now, will likely show up as a problem later and the public will be upset about a problem that could have been controlled by the appro-priate funding amount in the first place. As an example, mental health is an area that needs additional funding.

Some of these ideas are being pushed to appeal to each party’s political base. Increased turnout in the fall election can be helped by whose issue is pushed now. Also, you can count on several initiatives qualifying for the ballot that will appeal to the special interest groups and increase the voter turnout. Minimum wage may make the ballot.

Watch for Democrats to bring up global warming and gun control. Not only do those issues appeal to their base, but new polling shows shifting public opinion among independents who want something done on those topics as well. That’s why national democrats have tried to make both issues part of the debate.

You can expect a significant amount of legislation, with no chance of passing,

to be introduced by legislators up for re-election. Current statewide office holders have been appearing on the news lately along with several legislators running for higher office. Face time on the evening news everyday will guide each day’s events. Gov. Jay Inslee will take some hits on the prisoner release controversy, but he has control of the issue and can wait until the right time to release his review. Handled correctly, he can neutralize the issue. There will also be calls for the impeachment of State Auditor Troy Kelley. That will make good press but won’t happen, as there is nothing to act on until his trial is over.

While there has been much talk about cooperation, the only goal both sides really agree on is to try and adjourn a day or two before the 60 day deadline.

And you can do your part. Go watch the legislature in action. Or better yet, don’t skip church for next week’s game. The Legislature could use your prayers.

Federal Way resident Bob Roegner is a former mayor of Auburn: [email protected]

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Kim completes Army basic trainingFROM STAFF REPORTS

U.S. Army National Guard Pvt. Juwon Kim has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Jackson, S.C.

During the nine weeks of training, Kim studied the Army mission, his-tory, tradition, core values, physical fitness, received

instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare, bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches and field training exercises.

Kim is the son of Heejae Kwon and Hyung Kim of Federal Way.

He is a 2015 graduate of Decatur High School.

Lima completes Army basic trainingFROM STAFF REPORTS

U.S. Army Pfc. Janeilan P. Lima has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Jackson, S.C.

During the nine weeks of training, Lima studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and re-ceived instruction and prac-

tice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet train-ing, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksman-ship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises.

Lima is the daughter of Adalia Lima of Federal Way. She is also the wife of Paulo Nakagawa and mother of Luiz Fernando Gomes.


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Molly Venzke has personally helped Federal Way girls

break the hold of sex traf-ficking.

“Even as recent as two days ago, I got a text from a friend of mine,” said Venzke, an Auburn resident who works at the Federal Way Christian Faith School. “A friend of hers was ap-proached by a gentleman at work.”

The woman’s low-paying job and lack of a work visa, didn’t qualify her for the job this “gentleman” was saying she could get.

“He started talking to her, saying he has a great opportunity for her,” Venzke said. “If she just comes with him, meets and goes to this location, there will be work for her. It was completely bogus.”

Venzke said the woman wouldn’t have been seen again if she had gone.

It’s situations like this, seemingly harmless oppor-tunities, that have contrib-uted to the approximate 27 million people being trafficked around the world, according to a statistic from The A21 Campaign.

To create awareness and find a way to donate towards the cause, Ven-zke wrote the first of three books called “Caged” in 2011. Her second book, “Caged No More,” came out on Jan. 4.

Nearly a year after

“Caged” was published, she was contacted by movie producer Lisa Arnold, who had produced and directed “God’s Not Dead.”

Not only did she want to turn Venzke’s book into a movie, Arnold asked Ven-zke to write the screenplay.

Four years later, “Caged No More,” the movie, is set to release in 200 theaters nationwide on Jan. 22, with more to follow.

According to a news release, “Caged No More” highlights how complex it is to rescue those who have been trafficked. Character Aggie Prejean (played by Loretta Devine, a “Grey’s

Anatomy” ac-tress) is a Cajun grandmother who searches for granddaughters Skye (played by Cassidy Gif-ford, an actress in “God’s Not Dead”) and Elle, who were kid-napped by their father, (played

by Keven Sorbo, an actor in “God’s Not Dead” and “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”). Their father takes them to Greece to be sold into the sex trade but Aggie is determined to find them. With help from the girls’ uncle, a New Orleans philanthropist, and his son, formerly with the Special Forces, a “global hunt ensues.”

“They go on a hunt against the clock to be able to rescue the girls,” Venzke said, adding that the while the movie is rated PG 13 for the topic of sex traffick-ing, the film itself doesn’t depict any graphic or scary

scenes. “You leave that movie feeling empowered. We can stop this and make a difference.”

Venzke said churches and high schools are show-ing the film, which was awarded “Best Feature” in October at the 2015 La Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles, Calif.

All of the proceeds from the novel and movie will be donated to the nonprofit Trafficking Hope, an anti-trafficking organization Venzke used to work for.

Venzke was the copy-writer for the organiza-tion’s website, which was launched in 2007.

“It was really, for me at the time, the only organiza-tion I knew of,” she said of the Louisiana-based non-profit. “I remotely worked for them and did all kinds of stuff as a writer.”

It was then, as she started doing research on sex traf-ficking in the United States, that it opened her eyes to how prevalent human traf-ficking is.

“I would write stories for the girls when they would rescue somebody,” she said. “It broke my heart and I wanted to be more involved.”

According to The A21 Campaign, only 1-2 percent of sex trafficking victims are rescued.

Living and working in the South King County area, Venzke has also heard local stories.

One, in particular stands out:

“A young girl who was in high school right here in Federal Way met an 18-year-old boy; she was

14,” she said. “He came on the campus and was just hanging out in the parking lot. They didn’t know this guy wasn’t a student, and he was what you’d call a recruiter, a deliverer of the girls.”

Venzke said recruiters develop a relationship with girls and take them to a location where the pimps are and then leaves.

“That happened [to this girl] and serious, by the grace of God, four days later, she was found,” Venzke said, noting the details of what happened during those four days are unfathomable. “This is hap-pening.”

Outside of novels and films, Venzke is helping pi-lot a project under Traffick-

ing Hope called Students Against Trafficking, or StAT. The project allows students to be involved with their peers in a fun way, while addressing the issue of sex trafficking and how to prevent it.

“It’s really awesome because you get these high school kids and they take it through college,” she said, adding that if a man does not buy sex by the time he’s 25, the chances of him buy-ing it after the age of 25 are extremely low.

“Caged No More” will be playing in Tukwila at the AMC Southcenter 16, located at 3600 Southcenter Mall as well as at a theater in Lynnwood. For more information, visit www.cagednomoremovie.com.

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Molly Venzke’s “Caged No More” will be released nationwide on Jan. 22. Contributed photo

GILDER NAMED TO DEAN’S LIST

Luke Gilder of Federal Way was named to the dean’s list at Dean

College for the fall 2015 semester.Founded in 1865, Dean College is a private, residential college

located in Franklin, Mass., 45 minutes from Boston, Mass. and

Providence, R.I. Dean College offers baccalaureate degrees,

associate degree programs, as well as a robust schedule of part-time continuing and professional

education credit and certificate programs throughout the year.

Federal Way School district expands automated notification systemFROM STAFF REPORTS

The Federal Way school district is expanding the use of the automated notification system to make morning attendance calls for all students, at all schools, as part of the district’s Safe Arrival Program. With the automated system, parents

will be contacted more quickly than is currently possible with a manual system.

Within an hour of the school start time, a morning attendance call will be placed to the primary phone number for each parent/guard-ian listed in the student information system.

Families of students who have arrived late to school and those whose absences have not been verified by a parent or guardian will receive a morning attendance call.

If parents have notified their child’s school, the automated system will not contact them. There

may be times when a parent has contacted the office regarding an absence, but the informa-tion isn’t entered into the system prior to the call being made. If you have already contacted the school regarding the absence, district officials said to disregard the call.

In the evening, all parents and guardians of students in secondary schools who were late or absent will continue to receive a call informing them of their child’s absence by period. These calls are scheduled between 5 and 8 p.m.

Miloscia begins legislative session, targets lapses in government accountabilityFROM STAFF REPORTS

Washington’s 2016 legislative session began Monday and Sen. Mark Miloscia announced plans to tackle the lack of ac-countability responsible for lapses in state government at West-ern State Hospital and the Department of Corrections.

“The failure of ac-countability at many levels of our state government is now leading to the loss of life,” said Miloscia, chair of the Senate Ac-countability and Reform Committee. “When people don’t report problems and leaders fail to fix them, there is a clear culture of apathy. My first order of business will be getting to the root cause of what is going wrong in our state agencies.”

Western State Hospi-tal, Washington’s largest mental health facility, is under fire from courts and the federal government for safety concerns and long waits for care. The Department of Correc-tions recently revealed that a software glitch went undetected for a decade and then unaddressed for another three years, releasing more than 3,200 inmates before their allot-ted jail term. So far, early released inmates have been charged in two deaths, one by vehicular homicide and

one by first-degree murder.“It is unconscionable

that these issues have taken place over several years,” said Miloscia. “These are not momentary lapses, but the consequence of a culture of apathy among state agencies. We need to identify and resolve these issues before they become another headline about lives lost because the state didn’t do its job.”

Miloscia plans to examine the processes each of these agencies

have in place to ensure quality service and the shortcomings of the governor’s accountabil-ity office, Results Washington, through hear-ings in Ac-countability and

Reform Committee. He also intends to introduce legislation to fix the gaps in accountability uncovered by their investigation.

Miloscia concluded, “My focus this session will be continuing my work to restore our government’s integrity and build a new culture of accountability. There’s clearly much more work to be done.”


Lucile Norwood Gunderson Lucile Norwood Barnes Shelton Mahoney Gunderson passed peacefully into the Light on December 31, 2015 surrounded by her loving family. She died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease and recent hip and pelvic fractures. Lucile was born on October 17, 1926 in Butte, Montana to Dr. Frank A. Barnes and Helen Elizabeth Barnes (Propst). Her siblings were Francis Bruce, Beverly Vizzutti, Dr. Frank A Barnes Jr, and Dr. David Barnes. She attended schools in Missoula, Montana, then graduated from Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana in 1948 with degrees in English and Chemistry. She was very active in her sorority, Alpha Delta Pi, Science Club, as a writer for Revonah yearbook, and in the Women’s Athletic Association playing softball, volleyball, tennis, track, and field hockey. She met and married her first husband, Paul P. Shelton Jr at Hanover. Surviving are their 6 children - Dr. Paul P Shelton, III (Roberta), Dr. Thomas Shelton (Kathy), Linda Shelton Dutton (J. Craig Dutton), Dr. Daniel Shelton (Lisa), Dr. Mark Shelton (Victoria), and Steven Shelton (Mary) with 10 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. With Paul she lived in Charlo, Montana; Madison, Indiana; Kirksville, Missouri; and Seattle, WA before settling in Federal Way, WA in 1956 where she lived the rest of her life. She was active in her church’s women’s auxiliary, PTA and PEO.Lucile loved family and family get-togethers. She loved to decorate for every holiday. She hosted Christmas Eve with a sit-down dinner for 20-30 family members held in her heated garage, since that was the only room large enough. The menu was traditional: lasagna and oyster stew. She invented King Kamehameha Day with Hawaiian shirts, leis, BBQ and hand-cranked ice cream to have an excuse for a summer party.After Paul’s untimely death in 1977, she married her widowed neighbor, Thomas Mahoney, in 1983. Tom also had 6 children with 5 boys and 1 girl, then 5 grandchildren. Together she and Tom explored the USA flying his Mooney airplane to visit family and friends.After Tom’s death in 1997, she married widower Cory Gunderson in 2000 who was an unknown neighbor until they met to attend their 60th Missoula High School Reunion. Cory’s children were also 5 boys and 1 girl with 10 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Together they enjoyed traveling throughout the USA, the Holy Land and France as well as many cruises to the Caribbean, Hawaii, Norway and Alaska.Preceding Lucile in death are all 3 of her husbands, all siblings except David, her parents and grandson, Paul Shelton IV.Lucile was a very strong, willful, smart, fun loving, creative and loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, auntie and friend. She has left a large void in the lives of all who knew and loved her.Her memorial service will be held on January 16, 2016 at time 11 am at Steel Lake Presbyterian Church at 1829 S 308th St., Federal Way, WA. There will be a gathering of family and friends downstairs in the Fellowship Hall immediately after the service.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to go to Lucile’s favorite charitiesof Steel Lake Presbyterian Church or World Vision.

Robert Dean LaBounty Robert Dean LaBounty was born at Burien General

Hospital on September 18, 1961. He died at his home in Federal Way on December 7, 2015. Dean attended North Hill Elementary School, Olympic Junior High School and Mount Rainier High School and graduated in 1980. He

worked for the Boeing company for 35 years.He is survived by his former wife, Colleen; children,Preston and Vanessa; parents, Robert and Mavis

LaBounty; sister, Susan and family; and brother, Jeffand family in Chandler, Arizona.

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Johnson, Backus named to Sound Transit boardFROM STAFF REPORTS

With Sound Transit making major decisions this year on a regional proposal for expansion of light rail, King County Ex-ecutive and Sound Transit Chair Dow Constantine made two new appoint-ments and three reappoint-ments to the Sound Transit

board of directors.He appointed Seattle

City Councilman Rob Johnson to a four-year term and Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus to a two-year term.

“As the longtime direc-tor of the Transportation Choices Coalition, Rob brings exceptional knowl-edge and experience to the important decisions the Sound Transit Board must make this year,” Constan-tine said. “My thanks to Se-attle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien for his years of service and his contribu-tions to mobility in the city and the region.”

“Having strong lo-cal board representation from South King County is crucial as we work to extend light rail south to Federal Way and Tacoma, and Mayor Backus has proven herself to be a solid advocate for transit for the people of the region,” he added. “As the nominee for incoming president of the Sound Cities Association, Nancy will provide the leadership to build consen-sus among our partners in the region.”

The executive also reap-pointed Metropolitan King County Councilman Joe McDermott and Redmond Mayor John Marchione to new four-year terms.

He also appointed board member Claudia Balducci, whose current term expires in 2017, to a new four-year term that expires on Dec. 31, 2019.

Ten of the 18 seats on the Sound Transit Board are assigned to King County on the basis of popula-tion. State law sets specific requirements for the distri-

bution of appointments – among them the inclusion of an elected official from the largest city within each county, and proportional representation from other areas within the boundar-ies of Sound Transit. To promote integration of regional and local transit services, state law also requires that at least half

of appointees from each county also serve on the governing authority of a local public transportation system.

The Metropolitan King County Council must confirm the executive’s appointees. The first Sound Transit board meeting of the new year is set for Jan. 28.

Pastor, author releases self-help book for believers in Christ

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This week marks the nationwide release of “Be You,” a motivational new study book by author Casey Treat.

In “Be You,” Treat re-veals the moment he real-ized he could change was

the moment he realized he didn’t have to live the way he had been living.

“I didn’t have to be miserable, I didn’t have to hate my job, and I didn’t have to struggle every day to get through,” he said.

Treat encourages readers to join him for

the next 30 days on this journey to find answers to questions and hope to doubts. His book states God wants to move read-ers forward and to lift them up in every realm.

Each day, Treat’s book looks at what the Lord says about readers, how to make it practical and powerful and how to see real change in life. Treat said when, “you can be the person he designed you to be and love your-self as he does, you’ll be on your way.” In 30 days, readers can start a new habit and move to a new place in destiny.

Published by Winters Publishing Group, the book is available through bookstores nationwide or by visiting barnesandno-ble.com or amazon.com.

Treat is the founder and senior pastor of Christian Faith Center, a multi-cam-

pus, multicultural church in Federal Way that serves thousands of attendees each week. Treat is also an author and a global motivational speaker.

He reaches millions through his television program, “Your Unlimited Life.” He and his wife, Wendy, live in Washing-ton and have three adult children.

Sleep Train hosts Pajama Drive for Foster KidsFROM STAFF REPORTS

During chilly winter months, a cozy pair of PJs is so comforting – espe-cially for foster children who might be entering a new and unfamiliar home.

To help ensure local foster children have this essential item for a better night’s sleep, Sleep Train

(formerly Sleep Country USA) is hosting its Pa-jama Drive for Foster Kids through Feb. 28.

Drop off new pajamas in all sizes – infant to teen – at any Sleep Train store. The two Federal Way locations include 31610 Pacific Highway S. and 35105 Enchanted Parkway S., Suite 101.

People may also donate online at www.sleeptrain-fosterkids.org or host their own drive at work, school, or church – ad-ditional information can be found here: http://bit.ly/1xCFUu8.

All donations go to Sleep Train’s local non-profit foster organiza-tions for distribution to children in need.

For more information on the Pajama Drive and the Foster Kids program, visit www.sleeptrainfos-terkids.org.


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Verbal fisticuffs erupt over how to deal with climate changeA not-so-funny thing

happened on the long march to

save Washington from the damaging undulations of climate change.

A fight broke out among the warriors.

A little jawboning in the summer escalated this week with a flurry of verbal punches directed at the campaign to create a car-bon tax with Initiative 732, as its leaders turned in the last of 350,000 signatures gathered in support of the measure.

“It’s the culmination of a long journey this year and the start of a new journey next year,” said Yoram Bau-man, co-founder of Carbon Washington, the group behind I-732. “We’re super excited about what comes next.”

That’s going to be months

of campaigning to educate voters on their measure to tax carbon emissions from gasoline, natural gas and fossil fuels. It also would lower the state’s retail sales tax, trim the business and occupation tax and give low-income families a tax rebate. The claim is it will be “revenue neutral” for state coffers.

There’s going to be opposition. But the loudest opponents may not be in the ranks of climate change deniers but among those in a coalition of environmen-tal, labor and progressive groups.

Leaders of the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy, with a 30-person steering committee and roughly 150 groups as members, had been trying for months

to get I-732 supporters to stand down and join them with a different approach they think will fare better with voters.

That approach would involve capping emis-sions, collect-ing a fee from emitters and spreading that dough around to clean energy and community-

building projects.CarbonWA supporters

decided not to join them partly because their offering had not been fully refined.

“Our approach was to come with a great policy and bring people together to support it,” he said. “Their approach has been to bring a bunch a people around the table and come up with a policy they can all

agree upon. And they are finding that to be challeng-ing.”

The alliance brain trust is now debating — and poll-ing — their options.

Three stand out: Do nothing, craft a measure to complement I-732 or push ahead with a competing measure.

Not going forward is an absolute possibility, if there is no clear and surmount-able path to winning, alli-ance members said.

When voters are faced with competing items on a ballot they tend to turn both down. Alliance members are frustrated I-732 forces don’t see the potential damage to their cause in losing as much as they do.

If the alliance proceeds, its members would need to spend as much time talking

up their proposition as they have been talking down I-732.

That won’t be hard, as they’ve been lobbing verbal jabs for awhile. And this week, they latched onto a state Department of Revenue analysis they claim shows the initiative won’t be “revenue neutral” but actually cause the state to lose money over time.

Adam Glickman, secre-tary-treasurer of Service Employees International Union Local 775 and an alliance steering committee member, called it a “poorly written” and “deeply flawed” initiative that will drain valuable dollars from the state treasury without forcing major polluters to reduce carbon emissions.

“Big Oil is dancing in the streets over this,” he said.

Bauman offered a robust

rebuttal to the economic analysis, saying the model and assumptions used by legislative staff didn’t ac-curately reflect the measure.

“We believe that further analysis by the state will show that the measure is revenue neutral, or very close to it,” he said.

“We think I-732 is a ter-rific policy,” he said. “Fossil fuels will cost a little bit more and everything else will cost a little bit less and that’s how we’re going to save the world.”

We’ll see what Washing-ton voters think about that next fall.

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Director discusses economic growth with leadersFROM STAFF REPORTS

Working together to build a strong eco-nomic region, South King County leaders met with Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council Ex-ecutive Director Dr. Steve Lerch to discuss Wash-ington state’s Economic and Revenue outlook at the monthly “Good Eggs” breakfast meeting spon-sored by Councilman Pete

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Tattoos – with all their complexity, color and size – can often ap-

pear on the human body like works of art.

But for about 25 percent of the American popula-tion, the thought of living with a tattoo for a lifetime is undesirable.

Sound Tattoo Removal, a division of Sound Vas-cular and Vein in Federal Way, is now giving people with tattoos the power to get rid of them, utilizing Cutera Enlighten, a new dual wavelength and dual pulse duration laser technology.

“We acquired the machine in July,” said Tim Lehan, clinical manager at Sound Vascular and Vein. “We saw the technology at a seminar in Seattle last March. And that was enough for us. It came down to securing the capital funds to purchase.”

Sound Tattoo Removal, with locations in Federal Way and Bellingham, is the

only tattoo removal option using this laser technology along the I-5 corridor in Washington state.

“You can find cheaper, but not better,” Lehan said.

Those who desire to shed themselves of their tattoo or tattoos are welcome to con-tact Patty Huesers, Sound Tattoo Removal’s master aesthetician, for a free con-sultation. Huesers will take a look at the tattoo or tattoos and with the client, come up with a treatment plan.

“My happy place for people would be four treat-ments,” Huesers explained.

Compared to older laser technology still in use by competitors in the industry, Huesers and Lehan said the laser’s precision and speed and the ability to gauge the depth and penetration of the laser into the skin allows clients to say goodbye to their tattoo in 40-50 percent less treatments.

“You can arrive at a better result,” Huesers said. “Being in a vascular clinic with our

doctors, we can offer the best comfort.”

Each treatment, which in some cases takes as little as several minutes, is performed by Huesers and is supported by a team of licensed medical doctors under the supervision of Dr. Peter Gregory.

Huesers said doctors do an injection of lidocaine into the skin to numb the affected area before treatment begins. Doctors also help with post-care following treatment.

“We encourage clients to buy in treatment packages,” Lehan said.

Lehan said if a client purchases a package of six treatments, for example, but it’s found that a seventh treatment is needed, then the client will not be charged for that additional treatment.

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ROTARY: Rotary’s motto is “Service Above Self,” and Jeanne truly embodies that motto. She is active in the Community Service Committee and has served on the Scholarship and Auction Committees. “I continue to enjoy the fellowship of Rotary, and the joint work toward worthwhile goals, both locally and internationally.” INTERESTS: Besides community service, Jeanne loves reading, music, nature, a good drama, playing tennis and skiing, as well as spending time with her husband, taking a walk, and visiting with friends.FAMILY: Jeanne is married to retired dentist, Dr. Jim Burbidge. The couple has three adult children—two in Seattle and one in Boston—and one grandson.

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Assured Home Health among nation’s top 500 ‘HomeCare Elite’

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Assured Home Health was ranked among the na-tion’s Top 500 home health providers in an independent rating of home health quality

and performance. The Fed-eral Way home health pro-vider was named to the 2015 HomeCare Elite list, a recog-nition of the top-performing home health providers in the United States.

This is the fifth year that Assured Home Health has been named to the presti-gious HomeCare Elite list. Assured Home Health is part of LHC Group, a national provider of post-acute care services with 10,000 employ-ees operating more than 300 locations in 29 states.

The award is sponsored by OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation, the leading provider of home health and hospice metrics and analytics, and Deci-

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The market-leading review names the top home health care locations in the country based on a variety of performance measures. Out of 9,718 agencies considered, 2,431 are elite.

“LHC Group is proud of Assured Home Health and its achievement of 2015 HomeCare Elite status, and we commend them on their exemplary performance,” said Keith G. Myers, LHC Group’s chairman and chief executive officer. “With this latest accomplishment, this team of healthcare

professionals continues to demonstrate its commitment to excellence. We continue to raise the bar across our company and the health-care industry as a whole. I couldn’t be more proud – or privileged – to lead such a team of high performers.”

Celebrating its 10th anni-versary, the HomeCare Elite identifies the top 25 percent of agencies and highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall. Winners are ranked by an analysis of publicly available perfor-mance measures in quality outcomes, best practice, implementation, patient experience, quality improve-ment and consistency, and financial performance.

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Girls bowling hasn’t existed as a sanctioned sport in the Federal Way School District for very long. Three of the schools are finishing their third season, while Decatur finishes its second and the growth has been

tremendous.All four Federal Way

teams call Secoma Lanes home. On Tuesday, they played their penultimate regular-season matches; Thomas Jefferson and De-catur faced off while Federal Way played Rogers of Puyal-lup and Todd Beamer went up against Curtis.

High fives were common-place and the team chants before and after games were boisterous throughout the afternoon.

The four Federal Way schools have grown from pushovers to legitimate teams in their short exis-tence. In the case of Jef-ferson, they’ve grown into

league title contenders.“From last year to this

year you can see so much improvement from all of the young ladies across the board in the Federal Way schools,” Jefferson coach Joseph Townsend said. “Last year when you went out and bowled against Bethel, Spanaway Lake or Graham-

Kapowsin, they didn’t take us seriously. It was just like a practice day for them. This year we’ve opened some eyes. It’s not an easy, com-fortable bus ride over to this side of town.”

The Raiders currently sit in a second-place tie with Bethel and Curtis in the South Puget Sound League. At 7-2, they are one game behind the league’s leader, Graham-Kapowsin.

Wins and losses are usually most im-portant to those

participating and watching sporting events. Wins and losses took a backseat to the love of wrestling at the Japa-nese Cultural Exchange meet held at Curtis Junior High School on Monday.

The Japanese Under-18 national wrestling team faced off against some of the best wrestlers the South Puget Sound League has to offer. Three of the competi-tors hailed from Federal Way high schools.

The Japanese team consists of some of the highest ranked wrestlers in Japan and at least one world champion.

Since 1964, Japan has had its national team travel the West Coast of the United States, facing high school teams in events like the one at Curtis.

The Japanese team had already been busy the past week. The team wrestled at Royal High School on Wednesday and won the Gut Check Tournament at the Kitsap Pavilion during the

past weekend.Six of the team’s wrestlers

won individual titles at the Gut Check Tournament. All but one of the wrestlers placed in the top eight of their weight class.

On Monday, competi-tors from Curtis, Kentridge, Kent-Meridian, Kentwood, Orting, Tahoma, Enumclaw, Washington, White River, Decatur and Todd Beamer high schools competed against the Japanese team.

Prior to the matches, gifts were exchanged between the wrestlers, team leaders and coaches.

The wrestling matches were contested under freestyle rules instead of the usual folkstyle wrestling seen in high schools and middle schools in the United States. Freestyle wrestling is usually the more action-packed ver-sion of the two.

Once the action began, the Japanese team was

dominant.Decatur’s Leviticus Arizpe

was the first of the three wrestlers from Federal Way to wrestle. He is currently one of the favorites to win the state title in his weight class.

His match was the seventh of the night. The SPSL all-star team had not registered a point in any of the matches prior to his.

Arizpe faced off against Yamato Ui. Both wrestlers

countered a couple of early takedown attempts, but it was Ui who would be the first to gain control with a takedown. Ui scored eight points, but Arizpe’s defense was too good for Ui to finish the match.

The wrestlers restarted in a standing position and Arizpe capitalized with a quick maneuver and take-down to become the first SPSL wrestler to score in a match.

Ui was able to counter shortly after the takedown and finished the match with a couple of gut wrench rolls for the 12-2 victory.

Arizpe would celebrate being the first SPSL wrestler to score by exclaiming, “two!”, while holding up two fingers as he left the mat, bringing the sizable crowd to cheers and laughter.

Todd Beamer’s Sean Van Earwage wrestled in the second-to-last of the 14 matches. He took on Tsuyoshi Nakamura at 145 pounds.

Both wrestlers put on a showcase of defense as both blocked numerous takedown attempts to start the match.

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Decatur, Federal Way, Thomas Jefferson and Todd Beamer

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They will be joined by schools from the Kent School District

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Auburn School District (Auburn, Auburn Riverside and Auburn

Mountainview), Tahoma, Kennedy Catholic, Hazen,

Mount Rainier and Enumclaw. The NPSL has been dormant

since 1990. The league will be a 4A league and 12 of the 16

members are opting up for the 2016-20 classification period.

The NPSL will be split into divisions that have yet-to-be

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Tsuyoshi Nakamura raises the arm of Todd Beamer’s Sean Van Earwage after their match went the full time limit. Nakamura defeated Van Earwage by a score of 6-0. TERRENCE HILL, the Mirror

[ more WRESTLING, page 16 ]

Federal Way schools embrace growth of girls bowlingBY TERRENCE HILL

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[ more BOWLING, page 16 ]

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Jalen McDaniels dunks during the first half of Federal Way’s 78-62 victory over Kentwood. TERRENCE HILL, the Mirror

Not even South Puget Sound League Northeast

leading Kentwood could put a dent in Federal Way’s undefeated record as the Eagles rolled to a 78-62 victory on Tuesday night.

The Conquerors came into the game with an 11-2 record and a one game lead over Kent-Meridian in the SPSL Northeast.

Jalen McDaniels scored early and often for the Eagles as they built their lead. By the end of the first quarter, the senior already had 13 points as the Eagles led 20-14.

“We recognized tonight that they just couldn’t stop Jalen,” Federal Way head coach Jerome Collins said. “They had no answer for him. We ran some set plays and guys did a good job getting him the ball in the proper places and he finished.”

McDaniels had 19 points at the half and finished with 32.

Federal Way would take a 36-29 lead into the half.

Despite having a com-fortable lead, not every-thing was going the Eagles way. They were 0-9 from

3-point range in the first half.

“We didn’t shoot par-ticularly well,” Collins said. “Yet we were still in control.”

Federal Way pushed their lead to 13 points midway through the third quarter, but the Conquer-ors fought back. Kent-wood went on a 14-4 run late in the third to cut the Federal Way lead to three points.

Kentwood focused on getting into the lane during the run. Darius LuBom scored nine of his 23 points during the run, which he capped off with a three-point play by converting his layup as he was fouled driving to the basket.

“I thought we did a pretty good job of execut-ing up until that point,” Collins said. “They’re a good team and there’s going to be some runs in a game. I called timeout and settled our guys down. We clamped down and stopped the layup drills.”

The Eagles would regain momentum going into the fourth quarter with a steal by McDaniels that led to him finishing the quarter with a dunk.

Federal Way’s defense clamped down at the start

of the fourth quarter and the team went on a 13-3 run.

LuBom would end the Kentwood scoring drought with another three-point play, but D’Jimon Jones responded with a three-pointer. It was the only three-pointer the Eagles made as they went 1-12 from beyond the arc.

Ferron Flavors was second in scoring for the Eagles with 13 points. Christian Jones was third with 11.

Rayvaugh Bolton and Davonte Sanchez each had 13 for Kentwood.

Federal Way (14-0, 4-0)

returns to league play against Todd Beamer (11-4, 3-1) at 7 p.m. tonight at Federal Way High School. The Eagles previously defeated the Titans 72-65 on Dec. 8.

“We’ve had a tough schedule,” said Collins. “Out of our first 10 games, eight of them were on the road. We’ve prepared our-selves. We’re in conference play now and it’s always a challenge because the SPSL is what it is. We just have to stay focused, work hard and continue to improve. I’m not satisfied with where we are. I’m a perfectionist.”

The only blemish to Graham-Kapowsin’s record in league play came at the hands of Jefferson, who beat them 4-1 on Dec. 1.

The improvement to the other Federal Way schools may not yet have translated to the numbers in the win column, but when you take a deeper look at the numbers, you can see other signs of improvement.

Instead of constant 5-0 losses to the non-Federal Way schools, they are starting to get some points against top programs like Bethel and Graham-Kapow-sin.

Decatur head coach Kath-ryn Graham said that her

team recently had their best game against Bethel. While their scores would have put a scare into most teams in the league that day, Bethel just happened to bowl around a 900 as a team.

While Federal Way, Deca-tur and Todd Beamer have slim chances of sending their entire team to the district tournament, they will have an opportunity to send some of their top bowlers there.

“I’m hoping at the SPSL tournament next week we can send somebody to districts,” Federal Way head coach Joe Haworth said. “We did that last year with Caro-line Vadino, so we’re hoping her or one of my other var-sity girls can have a great day

and can move on to districts to keep bowling.”

Both Federal Way and Beamer are senior-laden squads.

“We’re going to lose six seniors and I’m coaching my last few matches here,” said Beamer head coach Stacy Stewart. “Next year they’re going to be doing a little rebuilding, but there is talent there.”

Between the players, coaches and numerous fam-ily members in attendance, it’s hard to find someone without a smile on their face at the games.

Secoma Lanes owner, Mike Martin has also noticed of the growth of the programs in their short time

there.“I think the first year

they might have had about 25 girls between the three schools,” Martin said. “You can see it today, there’s around 80 girls involved now. No matter what their ability is, they can par-ticipate. It’s a really great program.”

Bowling is not a sport that garners many headlines, but that does not slow down just how competitive the girls who participate are. The teams quickly moved on from having the sport as just something to do to something they were ready to win at.

“I tell the girls that from the beginning that it’s a sport that people go out and have fun playing with their friends on the weekends,” Townsend said. “But there’s more to this game. There’s scholarships to be had that people don’t even know about. It’s a game where

if you put the time in and practice, you never know what can happen. It’s a great opportunity to further your education through a sport.”

Sports like bowling and wrestling have given girls in the district more opportuni-ties during the winter. Until a few years ago, basketball and gymnastics were all the district offered.

“All of these girls are enjoying the moment,” Townsend said. “You see all of the laughing and smiling

and enjoying it with their teammates. Because of the excitement, they’re going to want to get better. My girls are eyeing the chance to go to districts as a team, which would be huge for them.”

All four teams played their final regular season games on Thursday after the Mirror’s publishing dead-line. Next Thursday at 12:30 p.m., the teams will travel to Pacific Lanes in Tacoma for the SPSL Tournament.


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[ WRESTLING from page 14] Nakamura finally scored near the halfway mark of the first round, but he could not control Van Earwage for long.

The two battled back and forth for two rounds. Nakamura would take the match 6-0 after the two would go the full two rounds.

After the match, Nakamura raised Van Earwage’s hand as a show of respect. They were the only two wrestlers to go the full time limit.

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To promote the positive educational en-vironment, Campbell committed herself to visiting classrooms, meeting with families and partnering with the board to establish the “Good News” announcements during board meetings to “celebrate the success of students and staff.”

Critical issues did not go ignored as Campbell reviewed department project plans for critical work in the 2015-16 school year, which included analyzing the budget and making adjustments in response to feedback.

“One thing we did right away is we launched the English Language Arts adop-tion because so many people said we did not have reading and writing curriculum,” she said. “That was so overwhelming that we knew we needed to act on that right away so our student scholars had the instruction they needed.”

During her 100 days, Campbell received a lot of feedback from families and staff.

“When I asked [what’s working well] of families and the community, most of them talked about this overwhelming posi-

tive feeling about the school their child attends, and it’s not uncommon,” she said. “When you look at the… research, most people feel good about their local school.”

The community also agreed they felt staff members cared for children and they appreci-ated the family liaisons at elementary schools.

But many also had con-cerns.

According to Campbell, eight out of 10 families listed that academic achievement is an area the district should focus on. Other top con-cerns included late start days impacting learning and par-ents’ ability to work (which the district has changed to early dismissal), school lunches being unhealthy, communication and online grades not being maintained on a more regular basis.

Principals, teachers and classified staff also gave feedback, citing the need to provide updated and high quality instruc-tional materials for students.

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ers shared the negative impact of having to ‘recreate the wheel’ in writing curriculum when they should be focusing on teach-ing their students,” Campbell said of their concerns, noting that the themes she saw

in the feedback will be used to inform strategies in the strategic planning process.

“I’m very impressed,” said Board Director Carol Gregory after Campbell’s presentation was finished. “I think that some of that we probably knew intuitively but to see the rigor you put forward to bring the com-munity and staff together to think about this and to give some direction is really go-ing to benefit us as we look at the strategic plan and be-

yond, and when people can see themselves in a process, which these results provide, I think really, that’s a strong message of what your commitment is to the commu-nity and the students.”

Board Director Hiroshi Eto said he likes the idea of gauging how individual students are doing, engaging early and col-

laborating with teachers to assess that.“When my kids went to school here,

they were truly the minority and today it’s really a much more diverse popula-tion,” Eto said. “So if we had a system, if we change this to minting coins, we had a system that was all set up for brass and now we have aluminum, tin, silver, gold, the process has to change. So, before it was OK with just a predominant type of student coming through to get a particular outcome and that’s not working anymore.”

Board President Geoffery McAnalloy said it was hard to believe it had been nine months since Campbell was chosen to be the new superintendent.

“I have to commend you to the work that’s been done,” he said. “I have to com-mend you to the dedication and commit-ment to all levels of this organization from the student up. The students are at the top, really, so student down, I think. Because we have to hold them up. Your student-centered focus around every decision and everything you do is clear…”

To learn more about Campbell’s 100-day entry plan and the strategic planning go-ing forward, visit www.fwps.org.

Kilworth is not in the middle, it’s on the edge.”

Convenience and travel time aside, closing the camp will impact more than just the Boy Scouts or Cub Scouts.

“I think the council is set in their ways but they need to understand it’s going to hurt the council altogether to lose this wonderful Cub camp,” said Jerome Drazkowski, the program director at Camp Kilworth for the last two years. “It’s used by the Rotary, it’s going to affect multiple groups of people.”

Shailyn Drazkowski, Jerome Drazkowski’s wife, said she understands where the council is coming from in terms of the fi-nancial difficulties but hopes that closing the camp was a last resort and that there wasn’t another way

around it.The Drazkowskis’ son Dayton

is a Cub Scout with Cub Scout Pack 318.

The pack has fixed up the Chalet, had windows donated, fixed the deck, cleared brush, pressure washed and re-painted parts of the camp and had several truckloads of gravel donated from Miles Sand and Gravel for the Pinewood Derby. They’ve also fixed the archery range, donated BB guns and built 24 benches for the camp.

“It’s teaching them to work together,” Shailyn Drazkowski said. “I really believe in seeing the reaction of the scouts taking pride in their work and commu-nity, fixing it up. So many are so upset finding out that it’ll close.”

Jerome Drazkowski said he also uses the camp’s features as a

selling point for membership.“One of my best tools I use for

recruiting is Camp Kilworth,” he said. “What gets the kids so excited is knowing they have a camp right here.”

He said, since he first started recruiting, he’s grown the pack upwards of 40 kids with it consis-tently between 30-40.

And Bergman points out that the camp is used more than a week over the summer and a couple of scattered weekends.

“A lot of people on the board or council don’t know much about the camp and don’t understand the value of the camp itself,” Bergman said. “They also repeat-edly claim under-use but that’s not the case. The camp does get used.”

But Voelker said there’s about 340 Cub Scouts in the Federal

Way area and less than half use the day camp at Camp Kilworth, which is down 15 percent from last year.

“That area is a big loss of mem-bership and it’s translated into a lack of user-ship at the camp,” he said. “There’s more people signed up for the petition than Cub Scouts signed up in the district.”

Voelker said it’s nice to know that people care, which can be read on the petition’s many com-ments, but the only way the camp would have a chance at staying open is through a major donation of some sort.

Voelker acknowledged the 20-25 volunteers who donated time on the camp’s maintenance, and the 200-300 people who attended the Comcast Cares days, which “made a huge difference,” but he “wishes there was three times as

many” volunteers.“One main issue is, what is the

solution?” Bergman said. “People have put forth ideas repeatedly but, basically, to be shut down.”

Some of those ideas include how to make the camp more profitable, which includes better marketing.

While the Pacific Harbors Council will not sell Camp Kilworth because of a longtime deed requirement that the prop-erty must be used for scouting purposes, closing the camp, and therefore doing away with main-tenance obligations, will save the council thousands of dollars.

For more information, visit www.pacificharbors.org. To sign the petition to keep Camp Kilworth open, visit www.thepetitionsite.com/395/918/364/keep-camp-kilworth-open.-

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“When I asked [what’s working well] of famlies and the community, most of them talked about this overwhelming positive feeling about the school their child attends.” Tammy Campbell

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In conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness month, all company restaurant locations, including Federal Way, featured a special Drink Pink menu with $1 from each purchase being donated to help finish the fight. RAM mixologists created three new cocktails including Soco Sangria, a Pink Shandy with their own fresh and local Hefe-

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All Puget Sound RAM locations also sold Drink Pink commemorative shirts and pink bracelets with a portion of the proceeds also being donated to the Ameri-can Cancer Society.

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The following is a sample from the Federal Way police log:Store robbed by two men: Between 3 and 4 p.m. on Jan. 10 in the 31000 block of Pacific High-way South, police responded to a report of a robbery. An employee stated that two men worked together to steal cigarettes from the store. When they entered the store, one male began talking on his phone. The employee told him to do it outside and the suspect began berating him. The other suspect concealed beer at this point.The employee took the beer back and started making a pizza. The first suspect then reached over the counter and took cigarettes. When the employee tried to stop them, they pushed him and threw the store’s mobile phone at him. One of the suspects also stole sandwiches from the refrigerator. They left on foot in an unknown direction. A K9 track was unsuc-cessful. The employee told police he would provide them with surveillance footage when the manager came in.Man dies after overdos-ing: At 2:10 a.m. on Jan. 8 in the 28700 block of 18th Ave. S., police responded to a call about an unresponsive male who had possibly overdosed. After further investigation, officers found that the victim had died from apparent drug use.

Fence vandalized: At 10:59 a.m. on Jan. 8 in the 100 block of S. 361st Place, during the night, an unknown suspect spray painted a cedar fence. The owner of the fence could not make out the symbol or word that was painted in white. There are no leads at this time. The damages were estimated at $100.Duo steals mail: At 1:22 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the 31300 block of 39th Court SW, a victim reported that an unknown female who was the passenger in a car with an unknown male stole two items of mail from her. The mail included a personal check for $100. The suspects fled the scene to an unknown location. The victim believed that the suspects cased her mailbox earlier in the day. The check was later canceled by the victim.Student threatens shoot-ing: At 1:59 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the 33900 block of 19th Ave. SW, police were dispatched to Sagha-lie Middle School for a suspicious text message a student received earlier in the day. The student stated she got a message from a juvenile male saying that there was going to be a shooting at Pat-tison’s West later that day. School staff searched the male and found no firearm on him. He was issued a permanent trespass from Pat-tison’s West.Brother assaults sister: At 3:00 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the 100 block of S. 331st Place, a female reported that she and her brother were involved in a dispute. The brother punched the victim in her head and her back. There were no visible injuries to the victim, but she complained of pain as she

is on medication for numerous medical conditions. The suspect was not at the house upon police arrival, but returned at a later time and was arrested.Home burglarized: At 4:19 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the 33300 block of 10th Court SW, a man called police to report that his home had been burglarized. The suspect gained entrance by breaking the glass on the back sliding door of his home. Nearly $4,000 worth of jewelry, shoes, cologne and elec-tronics were stolen. There is no suspect information at this time.Man assaults family mem-ber: At 9:08 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the 29000 block of 28th Place S., police responded to a report of an assault. Police determined that the suspect, who was the cousin of one of the victims, assaulted her by punching her repeatedly. He also destroyed a television belonging to the other victim. The assault took place in front of 3-year-old and a 6-year-old cous-ins of the suspect. The suspect was located and arrested.Man brandishes weapon at family member: At 7:22 a.m. on Jan. 7 in the 35700 block of 16th Ave. S., a man threatened a family member and displayed a handgun. The man was located by Kent police and arrested. He was booked into SCORE jail. His vehicle was impounded for processing. Around 4:24 p.m. that same day, a witness to this incident was threatened by another witness. The suspect told the victim she would kill the victim and her kids via text message. The victim stated she was in fear for her and her kids’ lives. The suspect was not located.

Student arrested for drugs: At 12:52 p.m. on Jan. 7 at Todd Beamer High School, an officer was working at the school when he saw three males near 359th and 16th Ave. S., near Todd Beam-er High School. As he approached them, the three males ran away. One male was caught by the officer. He was a Todd Beamer student who was skipping class. The student was taken back to school. He was searched by school officials and a prescription pill bottle of marijuana was found. He was arrested.Suspected drug dealer ar-rested: At 5:43 p.m. on Jan. 7 in the 28700 block of Military Road South, an officer was conduct-ing a traffic stop on a vehicle for switched plates. The driver did not have ID but provided the officer with his name. He had a warrant out for driving with a suspended license. A pistol was recovered from his shoulder holster. The of-ficer also found heroin, meth, pills and other drug paraphernalia in the vehicle. The suspect was also carrying $2,444. He was arrested and processed at the station.Women caught stealing: At 10:18 p.m. on Jan. 7 at the Com-mons Mall, two women conspired to steal approximately $1,600 from the Macy’s store. One of the suspects had a previous trespass from the mall stemming from another theft case at the Kohl’s store. Both women were arrested.Man assaults mother with water jug: At 10:36 a.m. on Jan. 6 in the 30900 block of 1st Avenue South, police responded to a report of an assault. When they arrived, an elderly woman told them she had been assaulted

by her son. She told police that the son had thrown a full, gallon-sized water jug at her foot, which caused bruising. The son denied this allegation. Police arrested the son. They found that there had been three previous domestic violence events at that address since 2012.Stolen items found at home-less camp: At 11:59 a.m. on Jan. 6 in the 2400 block of S. 315th Lane, a victim called to update a report from a burglary that took place between Jan. 3 and 4. The victim told the manager of the apartments about the burglar breaking in through her sliding door, but the manager reported it as vandalism. The victim told police about the discrepancy and a new report was created. An area check of a nearby homeless camp resulted in police finding some items that belonged to the woman. The items were returned to the victim.Man collapses after assault: At 3:41 a.m. on Jan. 5 in the 31000 block of Pacific Highway S., an officer responded to the 7-11 store in the area to a report of an assault. The employee stated the victim walked into the store and collapsed. Police talked to the victim in the store as he lay on the ground. The victim had a wound on the back of his head and the side of his face. The victim could not remember what happened and was taken to St. Francis Hos-pital by ambulance. The victim declined to sign a medical release and declined to provide a state-ment. There were no witnesses or suspects at the time of the report. No surveillance was available. The case was closed pending further leads.Man involuntarily commit-ted: At 11:16 p.m. on Jan. 5 in the 31800 block of Pacific High-

way S., a man was found lying on the ground in a parking lot. He was able to stand, but could not speak. He walked to the side of the building and attempted to sit on a blanket/sleeping bag, but fell onto his side. He rolled onto his back and stared straight up, seemingly unable to speak. He appeared to have urinated in his pants. He was involuntarily committed.Boyfriend assaults girl-friend: At 12:25 a.m. on Jan. 4 in the 1800 block of SW 308th Place, a woman reported that while arguing with her boyfriend, he became very angry and hit her on the left side of her face. Police found visible injuries on her. She had blood in her ear. She had found that her boyfriend of six years had cheated on her over the summer and confronted him. After striking her, the man fled in a vehicle. The victim told police that she had been assaulted by him before but never called po-lice. She told police that she was done letting him assault her. Her mother picked her up and took her to a safe location.Checks stolen from mailbox: At 10:00 a.m. on Jan. 4 in the 2300 block of SW 339th St., a man saw a small, cream colored sedan parked near his mailbox. The victim saw a white female passenger reach into a mailbox and drive away. The victim went to investigate and determined the female had stolen three pieces of his mail that were scheduled to be mailed out. There were three checks inside the mailed out. The account number and check numbers were listed in the report. Victim was advised to notify the bank to call back if subjects at-tempted to cash the checks. Police were unable to locate the vehicle during an area check.


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In accordance with RCW 35.21.157, the City of Federal Way provides this notice of upcoming solid waste rate increases for Waste Management of Washington customers serviced in Federal Way.The City of Federal Way regulates a contract with Waste Management of Washington that establish- es solid waste and recycling collection services and pricing. This contract permits annual rate adjustments tied to Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, and to periodic adjustments of King County’s disposal fees.Individual refuse collection fees generally consist of two components: ‘Disposal’ + ‘Service’ = Cur- rent Rate.‘Disposal’ is based on average container weights, factoring in disposal fees set by King County, which for 2016 continues to be $120.17 per ton, plus applicable taxes and surcharges. There will be no change related to this rate component for 2016. Disposal fees only apply to the ‘Disposal’ component of rates, which covers the cost of transferring solid waste delivered to King County facilities to the County’s Cedar Hills Landfill for disposal. For

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Rainier Audubon Society: The Rainier Audubon Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 18, at Federal Way United Methodist Church, located at 29645 51st Ave. S. Presentation entitled “Bluebird Reintroduction Program” will be delivered by Gary Slater.

Jan. 19Teachers’ Tea and Social: Brookdale Foundation House would like to honor all those teach-ers that have worked passionately teaching youth of all ages from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at Brookdale Foundation House, lo-cated at 32290 First Ave S. Retired teachers and friends welcome. For more information or to RSVP, con-

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Jan. 20Anime Club for Teens: Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Wednes-day, Jan. 20 at the Federal Way Library, located at 34200 First Way S. Some anime titles may be rated PG-13. For more information, call 253-838-3668. The Cultural Grooming of Our Youth: The Federal Way Coalition Against Trafficking will hold their fifth annual all city forum from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 20 at Federal Way City Hall, located at 33325 Eighth Ave. S.

Jan. 21Ayurveda, Lymph Drainage and Gut Health: Nutritionist Susan Blake will share a video presentation from the acclaimed Ayurvedic practitioner, John Douil-lard from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Thurs-day, Jan. 21 at Marlene’s Market & Deli, located at 2951 S. 38th St., Tacoma. Class will include group discussion and tips for implemen-tation. For more information, con-tact Susan Blake at 253-839-0933.

Jan. 23Brooklake Christian School Open House: Brooklake Christian School will host a new student open house from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 23 at the Brook-lake Christian School campus,

located at 629 S. 356th St. Families can visit the campus and meet the teachers. For more informa-tion, contact Kyle Ferguson at [email protected] or call 253-517-8247. Federal Way Little League Signups: Boys and girls ages 5-15 can sign up for T-ball, baseball and softball from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.on Saturday, Jan. 23 at the Federal Way Library, located at 34200 First Way S. Participants may also reg-ister online at fwnll.org. For more information, contact Deah Gabe at [email protected].

OngoingDiscovery Day at MaST Center Aquarium: Enjoy free science lectures, a 3,000 gallon open-flow aquarium, live virtual scuba dives, and more from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday at the MaST Center Aquarium located next to Salty’s on Redondo Beach. Great for kids, ADA compliant, and dog-friendly. Admission is free. For more information, contact Rus Higley at [email protected], call 941-321-9430 or visit mast.highline.edu.Talk Time Classes: Practice speaking English with other Eng-lish language learners at 7 p.m. on Wednesday evenings at the Federal Way Library, located at 34200 First Way S. Learn about American culture and meet people from around the world. Classes are free, participants can join anytime. For more information, visit www.kcls.org or call 253-839-3668. Federal Way Domestic Vio-lence Task Force: Meets from 12-1:30 p.m. the fourth Friday of every month at City Hall in the Hylebos room. The organization works toward ending domestic violence. For more information,

contact Lana Mathew at 253-232-8096.Freedom From Tobacco Sup-port Group: Group meets from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Thursday at St. Francis Hospital, oncology wait-ing area. For more information, call Heidi Henson, at 253-426-6746.Study Zone: Drop-in during scheduled hours for free homework help from volunteer tutors at the Federal Way Library, 34200 First Way S. and the Federal Way 320th Library, located at 848 S. 320th St. For more information, visit www.kcls.org or call 253-838-3668 or 253-839-0257.

Join the clubTwin Lakes Toastmasters Club: Club meets from 6:30 to 7:55 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at Twin Lakes Golf and Country Club. For more information, contact Don Everly Smith at [email protected] or call 425-241-4888.Town Criers Toastmasters Club: Polish your public speaking and leadership skills at this weekly meeting, which runs 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. Thursdays at Panera Bread restaurant, 2107 S. 320th St. Con-tact [email protected] or call 253-735-5749.The St. Francis Hospital Auxiliary: Group meets at 6:30 p.m. with meeting beginning at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month in the Medical Office Building, located next to St. Francis Hospital. Call Andrea at 253- 944-7960.

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