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S. 228th St. to become major traffic connectorBY STEVE HUNTER

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Drivers will see major changes in another decade or so traveling along South 228th Street between the Kent Valley and Seattle.

Th e $16.1 billion statewide transportation package passed this year by the Legislature includes $15 million for a railroad-vehicle grade separation along South 228th Street at the Union Pacifi c tracks as well as the funds to fi nally fi nish the extension of State Route 509 from SeaTac to Kent at Interstate 5.

“You won’t see the full potential of 228th until 509 is built,” said Tim LaPorte, city of Kent public works director. “When 509 is built, it’s going to be amazing. Th at will be-come the center spine (for Kent). Th at’s why it’s so attractive to the state grant. With 509

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BY HEIDI SANDERS

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Two Green River College programs will be shut down in a cost-saving eff ort, and more cuts could follow as the col-

lege faces a $2.5 million to $3.5 million budget defi cit.

College offi cials announced on July 15 the elimination of auto body technology and geographic information systems, while

carpentry, which had also been on the chopping block, will continue to operate.

As a result of the program cuts, two full-time instructors – one from auto body and one from geographic informa-tion systems – will lose their jobs.

Green River still faces budget woes

[ more COLLEGE page 4 ]

Two college programs cut in budget-defi cit decision

Council to seek voters’ opinions about potential fi reworks banBY STEVE HUNTER

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Kent voters will advise the City Council about whether they want personal fi reworks use banned on the Fourth of July.

Th e council decided at a Tuesday work-shop to put a referendum on the Nov. 3 general election ballot to get the opinion of voters about a fi reworks ban.

Results of the vote will help the coun-cil decide whether to adopt a law to ban fi reworks on July 4. Kent city code allows people to purchase and possess legal fi re-works from June 28 to July 4 but fi reworks can only be discharged from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on July 4. Violators of the code must pay a $250 fi ne.

[ more FIREWORKS page 4 ]

BY HEIDI SANDERS

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ployees will get a 5.5 percent pay raise for the upcoming

school year. Th e school board approved the increases at a special meeting Tuesday night.

Th e increases will cost the district an additional $11.6

million. Th e pay increase includes

a 3 percent cost-of-living increase set forth in the state budget for K-12 employees.

As a part of negotiations with the Kent Education As-sociation in 2013, the board

Kent School Board OKs 5.5 percent pay raise for employees

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the question wasn’t if it would be built, but when it would be done. Veteran’s Drive (228th) will connect right into 509.

“You will be able to go from Central Avenue at (South 224th) and go all the way to Safeco Field without getting on I-5. You will be on the connector and then on the 509 freeway.”

Th e city already built a railroad-grade separation along South 228th at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) tracks. Crews will start work next summer on the Union Pacifi c separation, with the same style as the BNSF separation of the road going over the tracks or what LaPorte says will be like a double-ski jump. Kent will use a $3 million federal grant and a $3 million state Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board grant along with the $15 million from the state transportation package to pay for the two-year project expected to be done by 2018.

Kent also built the Joe Jackson Bridge across the Green River and Veteran’s Drive up the West Hill to connect with the State Route 509 extension, a project that’s been on the planning stages for decades.

Chad Bieren, city engineer, said the state won’t complete the State Route 509 extension for about another decade be-cause of the number of right-of-ways to purchase as well as permitting and then actual construction, which could take from three to fi ve years.

Th e state will purchase Poulsbo RV, which sits right at the top of Veteran’s Drive (previously known as South 231st Way) along Military Road South, because that’s where the road will connect with the new State Route 509 connector lanes. City staff is working with the Poulsbo RV owners to fi nd a new location in Kent, Bieren said.

Drivers will pay for the state’s transportation package with an 11.9-cent per gallon increase in the state gas tax, including a 7-cent jump on Aug. 1 and another 4.9-cent hike next July.

City Councilman Dennis Higgins sees the gas-tax increase as a good thing for Kent and the state.

“People will pay the extra gas tax and nobody will feel

good about that sitting at the pump paying, but when the projects are being built and people can see the result of that extra gas tax they pay at the pump, I hope people can make that connection,” Higgins said at the council’s Public Works Committee meeting on Mon-day. “Th ese are actual projects that will be built and there will be new roads and sidewalks and bike paths.”

City offi cials had tried to fi nd other ways to fund the South 228th railroad grade separation, including a proposal to form a local improvement district (LID) to pay for separations along South 212th Street as well. But protests against a LID from business property owners last year caused the council to drop that plan.

Meanwhile, city offi cials, staff and its paid lobbyist Doug Levy worked with local state senators and rep-resentatives to help get the

Legislature to include Kent projects in the transporta-tion package.

State leaders recog-nized a major corridor such as South 228th Street shouldn’t have any train tracks that interrupt the fl ow of traffi c, LaPorte said.

“We are absolutely delight-ed,” LaPorte said. “It will be a major way into the heartland of Kent, the manufacturing center and take you all the way to the Central Avenue and 167 location.”

LaPorte said the extension of State Route 509 also will ease traffi c on Highway 167 in Kent and I-5 as drivers will have an alternate route.

“It will relieve traffi c on 167 when 509 is built because 509 is basically an unused freeway,” he said. “Having that spine come into the middle of Kent is huge. We’ve only been working on it for decades, so we’re delighted.”

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The massive project, when completed, will fi nish the extension of State Route 509 from SeaTac to Kent at Interstate 5. COURTESY MAP, WSDOT

KENT SAW A CONTINUED DECLINE in the supply of homes for sale in June, according to the latest Redfi n Hous-ing Market Tracker. The city had only 1.9 months of supply in June, down from 3.6 months the same time last year. A balanced market has a six month supply. As a result, homes are selling two weeks faster than they were in June

2014. Kent homes spent a median of 11 days on the mar-ket last month. And home prices jumped 8.9 percent from last year to $305,000. A total of 189 homes sold in June. The data is from June only and refl ect an unvarnished, timely snapshot of the market. Read the full report on the Redfi n blog at redfi n.com.

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State PDC to fi ne Stober for council campaign violations in 2011, 2013BY STEVE HUNTER

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Kent City Council candidate Bai-ley Stober says he has agreed to pay a fi ne to resolve campaign viola-tions found by state Public Disclo-sure Commission (PDC) investiga-tors when he ran unsuccessfully for the council in 2011 and 2013.

Stober is on the Aug. 4 primary ballot in a race against Tina Budell

and Hira Singh Bhullar to replace Councilwoman Deborah Ranniger, who decided not to seek re-elec-tion. Th e two candidates with the most votes advance to the Nov. 3 general election.

Stober’s case appeared on the July 23 agenda of the PDC in Olympia for alleged violations of failing to timely and accurately fi le reports of contributions and expenditures during his 2011 and 2013 cam-paigns for the council and by failing to make his campaign books open for public inspection during the 2013 campaign. Th e commission’s decision about Stober’s possible fi ne were not yet announced by the Kent Reporter’s press deadline.

Th e PDC staff began an investi-gation in January 2014 aft er Kent resident Don Mason fi led a com-plaint in November 2013.

“I accept full responsibility for the rule violations,” Stober said in an email on July 17 to the Kent Reporter. “I have accepted this responsibility publicly since Day 1 and have never denied it. But let me be clear – these are paperwork violations. Th ese aren’t criminal allegations.”

Lori Anderson, PDC communi-cations offi cer, confi rmed Stober’s case would be heard next week but wouldn’t say whether an agreement had been reached between staff and Stober.

“My coworkers don’t share those details with me … or anyone else,” Anderson said.

Anderson explained cases are oft en settled before a PDC hearing.

“Once these cases are sched-uled, the staff tries to negotiate a stipulated settlement, which can include penalties,” she said. “If staff is able to negotiate a stipulation, it is presented to the commission instead of putting on the hearing. Th e commission has the ability to accept or reject the stipulation.

“Th e commission can make revisions, but both the staff and the respondent have to agree with the [ more STOBER page 5 ]

City names new Financial Sustainability Task ForceBY STEVE HUNTER

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A newly formed volun-teer task force will help the city of Kent determine how to be fi nancially sustainable.

Th e Kent City Council approved the 15-member Financial Sustainability Task Force on Tuesday night. Mayor Suzette Cooke, with consultation from three council members, recom-mended the 15 members. Th irty-four people applied to be on the committee.

Th e council in April ap-proved the formation of the group to provide detailed recommendations to the mayor and council about the city’s needs and the community’s priorities as far as what services should be funded and how to pay for them. Th e task force will evaluate services and

revenues in Kent compared to other cities.

Th e task force must prepare a draft report by next May 1 for public review and comment, followed by a fi nal report to the mayor and council by June 30, before it disbands. Th e group is antici-pated to meet once a month with dates and times to be determined by the members.

Th e task force members are:

• Lamont Williams: lives near Daniel Elementary on the East Hill and works as a pastor for Restoration Life Church. Williams will chair the task force.

• Tom Smith: works as a Renton Police offi cer.

• Ricki Robinson: em-ployed by the King County Housing Authority.

• Andrew Hough: resides on East Hill and is an IT (information technology) professional at EMC.

• April Santa Rosa: co-owner of Valley Floor Co., in Kent.

• Delores Christianson: owns the property and [ more TASK FORCE page 5 ]

THREE VIE FOR HOSPITAL BOARD

Dr. Terry Block, appointed in January to fi ll a vacancy on the

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Aug. 4 primary election to retain his seat.

The two challengers are Savannah Cliff ord-Visker of

Renton, an early learning teacher in the Renton

School District, and Lawton Montgomery of Kent, a captain with the Kent Fire Department

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Th e program closures, along with other savings proposed by faculty – including not fi lling va-cant or temporary positions and increasing math and English class sizes – will save about $300,000.

“In order to zero the bud-get balance, further programs and services on campus will be reduced,” said Allison Friedly, Green River’s executive director of college relations.

Decreased enrollment and changes in state allocations of higher education funding have led to the budget defi cit.

Th e college is developing a new prioritization process to deter-mine the viability of instructional services, student services and institutional support on campus, Friedly said.

“We are going to seek the assis-tance of the community to make that happen,” she said. “Th at was one of the primary complaints about this process, so we are plan-ning to involve everyone in this decision.”

Faculty were notifi ed in April of the potential cuts. Th e college cited low enrollment in the auto body and geographic information systems and high program costs for carpentry as reasons for the cuts.

Faculty members claimed the potential cuts targeted members of the Union Faculty and were an act of retaliation.

Parent-child education also was originally on the list of programs facing elimination but was spared aft er faculty came up with a solution to cut the program’s costs. Per union contract, faculty members had the opportunity to come up with suggestions to keep the programs.

Friedly said the carpentry program was spared through an agreement with Renton Technical College that will allow students to join an apprenticeship program through the carpentry union that is off ered at Renton. Renton Tech-nical College students can take some of their carpentry classes at Green River prior to entering the apprenticeship program.

“Th is will increase enrollment,” Friedly said. “We will have a whole new pool of students.”

Green River will help students enrolled in auto body technology and geographic information sys-tems fi nd ways to complete their programs, Friedly said.

Th e 34 geographic information systems students will go through a teach-out plan, which will allow them to fi nish their degree or certifi cate at Green River.

“Until all students who have

credits in the program have com-pleted the program, we will make sure all of the students are taken care of,” Friedly said.

Th e 35 students in the auto

body program can meet with academic advisers to discuss com-pleting the program at a nearby college. Renton Technical College, Pierce College and Bates Techni-cal College in Tacoma off er auto body technology courses, Friedly said.

Mark Millbauer, auto body pro-gram head and union president, is concerned about his students’ futures.

“Th ere were a lot of tears, mine included, when I had to tell them (the students that the program had been cut),” he said.

Transferring for trade program students is not as easy as for aca-demic programs, Millbauer said.

“Th ere are no standards be-tween programs,” he said. “When students transfer to me, it is not a simple transfer. Th ey don’t get credit for every class.”

Friedly said the Green River students who are close to com-pleting their degrees would not be transferring to the other colleges but would instead be taking the needed classes to complete the degree, which would be conferred by Green River.

“Th ey won’t get their degree from a diff erent college,” she said.

Millbauer said he is disap-pointed he and his students will not get to use the new trades building that is set to open in the

fall. Auto body technology was one of fi ve programs slated for the new facility.

“Th at was going to be the most state-of-the-art auto body train-ing facility in Washington,” he said.

Building to be occupiedFriedly said the space in the

new building left vacant by the program closure will be used by another program, possibly robot-ics welding, which the college recently received a grant to off er.

“It will still be a trades build-ing,” she said. “We need to make sure we are putting in trades that students can be ensured they are getting jobs, that are profi table for the college and that the demand is there.”

Under faculty contract, faculty whose positions are eliminated by reduction in force have 10 days to request a hearing to have the decision reviewed. As of Wednes-day, neither Millbauer nor Sabah Jabbouri, the geographic informa-tion systems instructor, had fi led an appeal with the college.

Millbauer said he was exploring his options.

“I will avail myself of every op-portunity to make this situation right,” he said.

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Because of so many complaints from residents the last few years about nu-merous fi reworks going off in their neighborhoods, city offi cials are trying to fi gure out how to resolve the issue. Kent Police used emphasis patrols this year to crack down on fi reworks use. Offi cers cited 38 people and arrested three for fi reworks violations.

“We’ve come through with a process to look at the potential of a fi reworks ban,” Council President

Dana Ralph said. “Th is item will be placed as an advi-sory measure on the November bal-lot. It will be going out to voters to let the council know: are you in support of a (fi reworks) ban or not in the city? And that will guide this council’s further decisions and discussions regarding fi reworks.”

Th e council will have a special meeting next week in order to meet the King County Elections deadline to get the referendum on the ballot. Th e costs for the city to the county to place the issue on the ballot will be close to zero dollars because the city already has fi ve council races on the ballot, city Chief Admin-istrative Offi cer Derek Matheson said. A special election for the advisory vote would run more than $100,000.

“To me, it’s all about the will of the people, right?” Councilman Bill Boyce said. “I will feel better if we let the people vote and I will go with the will of the people. It’s their city and

they should have a say about their city.”

Councilman Jim Berrios also wants to hear from the people through a vote.

“If we have an oppor-tunity that would be my preference to allow the will of the people to make that decision,” Berrios said. “I get it that it’s a recom-mendation they are coming back with, but I would be very comfortable with that and it would really help us understand the general feel-ing out there.”

If the council approves a ban before next July, the ban would not go into eff ect until 2017 because state law requires a one-year notice.

According to Kent Fire De-partment offi cials, fi reworks vendors asked and received that one-year protection from the state because they must order fi reworks from China far ahead of July 4 and if cities where they sold fi reworks suddenly banned them, they would be left with a lot of extra inventory.

Th e council has no plans to ban the city’s Fourth of July Splash fi reworks display at Lake Meridian. Any ban would target the neighborhood gatherings where numerous legal and illegal fi reworks are discharged.

City staff will seek people to write pro and con state-ments about a fi reworks ban for the November vot-ers’ pamphlet.

“Now that we know the cost is negligible, I’m very comfortable and very happy to see this going to the referendum of the people,” Councilman Dennis Hig-gins said.

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Mark Millbauer, Green River College’s auto body program head and Union Faculty president, is upset about his program’s demise and concernedabout how his students will transfer to continue their education. HEIDI SANDERS, Kent Reporter


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A late-night house party with nearly 150 juveniles led to complaints to Kent Police about loud music, fi reworks, underage drink-ing, vehicle racing, marijuana odor and littering.

Offi cers cited a woman who rents the home for investigation of public disturbance aft er about eight 911 calls in con-nection with the home in the 24300 block of 119th Avenue Southeast, accord-ing to the police report. Th e fi rst complaint was called in about 1:46 a.m. on July 4.

Offi cers noted in the report that the same house had caused complaints on other nights because as many as 200 people attend parties at the home. Police arrived at the home to fi nd about 150 juveniles on the streets and around the house. Th e residential street normally has few cars but vehicles were parked along the sides of the street and fi lled it up.

Police ordered the juveniles to disperse, which most did reluctantly, ac-cording to the report. Police

later received more noise complaints about the home and returned to the address. Th e streets were littered with broken beer bottles, cigar wrappers and other garbage. About 40 juveniles scattered to their vehicles

when offi cers arrived.An offi cer

knocked on the door of the home but nobody an-

swered. Police called the landlord to contact

the renter, but the woman wouldn’t answer her cell-phone. Police received eight calls complaining about the house party during about a three-hour period. Th e landlord told police he would evict the woman.

Man on meth punches girlfriend

Police arrested a man for investigation of fourth-degree assault aft er he alleg-edly punched his girlfriend during a dispute on July 4 at a house in the 26800 block of Avon Court South.

Offi cers found the wom-an on the front porch being attended to by witnesses. Th e woman had a black eye, cut knee and a cut on the back of her head, according

to the police report.Th e woman told police

that she and her boyfriend of about one year had bought baby rabbits the previous day and went shopping to get food to feed the rabbits. When they re-turned home, the woman’s cat had killed the rabbits, which upset the boyfriend. He got verbally abusive toward his girlfriend and locked her out of the house. She said he had used meth and was high.

Th e boyfriend later let the woman back into the house, where she fell asleep. But the woman said she woke up when her boy-friend pushed her head into a fl oor vent and began to hit her with his fi sts and a chair.

Th e man told offi cers his girlfriend had attacked him with keys and a chair and he had to defend himself. Th e offi cers noted the man had no visible injuries.

Man caught with illegal fi reworks

An offi cer cited a man for investigation of illegal fi reworks possession aft er he reportedly had fi recrack-ers and bottle rockets he

planned to shoot off on the Fourth of July.

An offi cer on patrol saw a group of people in the 21500 block of 121st Place Southeast discharging fi reworks at about 9:14 p.m. on July 4, according to the police report.

When the offi cer got out of his vehicle, he talked to a man and saw fi recrackers, which are illegal to possess under state law, sitting on top of a vehicle in the drive-way. Th e man admitted the fi recrackers were his. Th e offi cer asked him if he had any other fi reworks, so the man showed him what he had in the garage.

Th e man had more fi recrackers and had bottle rockets, which are also ille-gal to possess. Police seized the illegal fi reworks for later destruction.

Man drives stolen car

Police arrested a man for investigation of possession of a stolen vehicle aft er an offi cer pulled over a 2003 Chrysler Concorde at about 3:38 a.m. on July 4 near 120th Place Southeast and Southeast 208th Street.

Th e offi cer initially pulled

over the vehicle because it didn’t have its headlights on, according to the police report. Th e car also was near a residential alarm that had gone off .

When police ran the plates of the car, it came back as stolen in Kent on July 3. When the offi cer started to approach the car, he saw the driver slam his hands against the steering wheel and begin to thrash around. Th e offi cer pulled out his gun and ordered the man to get out of the car and on the ground. Th e man complied.

Th e man told police a friend had left the car at his house. He said the friend told him he had taken it from a downtown Kent gas station when the owner went into the store but left his car running. Th e man said he planned to dump the car somewhere so it wouldn’t be sitting in front of his house.

No jail, pleaseA man pulled over by

police for driving with a cracked taillight told an offi cer he gave him a false name because he had a war-rant and didn’t want to go to jail on the Fourth of July.

An offi cer spotted the vehicle at about 2:48 a.m. on July 4 near West Meeker Street and Russell Road, ac-cording to the police report.

Th e offi cer activated his overhead lights, but the driver went through sev-eral parking lots before he pulled over. He then gave police an incorrect fi rst name.

Police arrested the man for investigation of ob-structing an offi cer for lying about his name. Th e man later admitted to lying in an eff ort to avoid going to jail. Police also cited the man for not having insurance and for expired vehicle tabs. Th e man had a warrant for no valid operator’s license.

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revisions. In the case where the com-mission wants to revise a stipulation and the parties do not agree, then there would be a hearing.”

Fines can be as high as $10,000, Anderson said. Th e commission will decide what fi ne between $0 and $10,000 is appropriate for the viola-tions in a particular case.

“I have worked with the PDC staff on a stipulated agreement which will settle this matter once and for all, the agreement will be avail-able to the public on July 23 and it stipulates that I pay a monetary fi ne,” Stober said.

Stober apologized for the cam-paign violations and hopes voters still choose him.

“I am sorry to the voters and resi-dents of Kent who are disappointed in me for not closely following these rules and I will work even harder to regain your trust and support,” he said.

In its notice of administrative charges aft er a nearly 18-month inves-tigation, PDC staff says Stober failed to amend a C-1 candidate registra-tion form in his 2011 race against Ranniger that listed Janet Stebbins as

his campaign treasurer on 17 reports even though she no longer performed treasury du-ties. Testimony from Stebbins and Stober to investigators in-dicated Stober fi led the reports.

Stober also failed to preserve records from his 2011 city council campaign. He told PDC staff he had no banking records or other records of

contribution or expenditure activity in 2011. He said he was not aware the law required him to keep such records for fi ve years and that he had discard-ed the records following his campaign.

In Stober’s 2013 race against Ken Sharp, Stober failed to disclose contribution and expenditure activity electronically. Stober told PDC staff he encountered technical diffi culties but thought he successfully fi led the reports by the end of his campaign.

About one-third of his reports were disclosed on paper rather than elec-tronically. Staff also discovered that 100 percent of his campaign expen-ditures ($10,306) for 2013 were dis-closed six months aft er the election, between 148 and 362 days late.

Also in 2013, Stober failed to make or honor campaign books inspection appointments, according to PDC staff investigators. Mason requested in phone calls and emails to inspect the campaign books. Stober agreed to show Mason but then said he couldn’t make an appointment they had set up at the Kent Library.

Meanwhile, last week, Stober said the fact the PDC fi nally set a hearing for his case didn’t warrant any media attention.

“Th is isn’t news,” Stober said. “Th e Kent Reporter has mentioned this in at least half a dozen stories since the investigation was opened over a year and a half ago. I also would like to add that the PDC opened 40 other investigations during the same month. Unfortunately, the PDC has been used as a tool of political revenge.”

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business and was a fi nance manager for Central Av-enue Mini Storage.

• Richard Wilkinson: retired IT manager.

• Ross Hardy: works as a

senior analyst for Starbucks. • Jerry Coupe: retired

from fi nance and IT. • Michael Johnson: re-

tired from Boeing where he worked in engineering and management.

• Atama Anand: em-

ployed as a senior fi nancial analyst for Providence Health & Services.

• Dennis Manes: general manager of Republic Ser-vices and president of the Chamber of Commerce.

• Lew Sellers: retired

from IT and serves on the Kent Public Facilities Dis-trict board.

• Alan Gray: owns a CPA business in downtown Kent.

• Mohinder Sohal: owns several businesses and is a tax preparer.

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Th ere was a time when wine connois-seurs looked with disdain on wines produced in the United States. Th en, when California wines gained popularity, those made in Washington were viewed with skepticism. Wines fermented in Chile, Argentina and

Australia were dismissed for years before fi nally being stocked on store shelves.

Well, in the years ahead, you may see Chinese wines appearing in America, and they may compete with Washington’s award-winning fi ne red wines.

Surprisingly, some wines pro-duced in China are getting good

reviews, wine expert and author Karen MacNeil told CBS news.

“I’ve been to every other wine region in the world, and I thought, ‘Wine near the Gobi Desert, impos-sible, right? Unthinkable.’ But, boy, wine near the Gobi Desert – it is a reality, and it’s a big reality. Our grandchildren will probably know this like they’ll know any other wine region in the world.”

Th e idea that a barren area of China might be the world’s next great wine region is mind boggling, but converting a vast desolate tract to fertile crop land is possible with water.

Th at’s just what happened in Washington starting with the completion of Grand Coulee Dam in 1942. Th e dam’s reservoir now supplies water to irrigate 671,000 acres of cropland, including wine grapes.

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Troubling violence strikes close to home

Our streets, sidewalks and trails have turned violent, bloody, even deadly in recent days and months.

Just ask Pamela Andrews.Her son was stabbed to death in Auburn

on July 8. Now the grieving mother is de-termined to fi nd answers to this despicable, inexplicable crime.

Michael Bippes. a second-generation iron-worker and the divorced father of four sons,

all of whom live in the Auburn area, was found dead of multiple stab wounds around 5 a.m. Wednesday, July 8 on the Interurban Trail, south of West Main Street.

Auburn Police have determined that Bippes,

three weeks shy of his 51st birthday, was at-tacked sometime aft er midnight.

As of this week, the offi cial investigation has turned up neither suspects nor motives.

So Andrews, a retired U.S. Postal Service worker from Covington, and her friends have launched a campaign to turn up any bit of information, however small, that could lead to the capture and conviction of whoever is responsible. Th ey began distrib-uting fl iers to the community, urging anyone with information about Bippes’ death to call Auburn Police (253-931-3080).

“I want justice,” said Andrews, 71, her voice resolute. “Th is has been such a shock, an absolute shock, a horrifi c shock. It’s awful. I can only sleep so many hours at night. … I’m trying not to focus on the horror of it to keep myself sane.

“But how can someone do something like this? I don’t know. … I just hope that person is found.”

Th e homicide is the latest in a rash of local murders in Auburn, Kent and Renton.

A man and a woman were gunned down at Les Gove Park three days before the stabbing.

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Brighter future for roadway

Regarding: "Kent gets $717,255 grant to help with Green River fl ood protection, salmon habitat" (Kent Report-er, July 17):

I was glad to read about the subject grant and see the plans for Downey Farmstead Restoration.

I retired at the end of April 2013, and since then I began to ride my bike more and along the Green River Trail almost every day. With the rerouting of Frager Road for the Downey Farmstead Restoration I look forward to a new section of roadway that will initially be free of litter. Th e litter along this section of road is particu-larly bad, especially before the grass gets tall.

Currently this section of Frager Road is supposedly un-der an “adopt-a-roadway” litter

program. Th ere is a sign that says this section of road has been adopted by the “WITH Church.” Well, aft er months of never seeing anybody from the “WITH Church” picking up litter along Frager Road, I did a Google search and found no record what so ever of a

“WITH Church” in our area? So I hope aft er the Downey Farmstead Restoration is completed that the city of Kent will fi nd a real organization to adopt this section of Frager Road.

When the new section of road is built I hope there will be dedicated bike lanes marked on the road also.– Reese Dengler

Put pay raise to public vote

I hope I am getting this straight. We need a petition fi led, requiring 8,361 registered voter signatures to put Mayor Suzette Cooke's 35-percent raise on the ballot; and these are voters who pay taxes to fund that raise. But as it is now, fi ve commission members – appointed/chosen by Mayor


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Investigators say the two crimes are not connected.

An Auburn man was beaten to death just after attending a Kenny Chesney concert in Seattle on June 27. Benito “Benny” Enriquez, a 31-year-old father of two young girls, and a public health nurse in Auburn, sustained fatal head injuries during a fight with another man. There have been no arrests.

In June, police found step siblings dead in a murder-suicide at an Auburn home.

In June, prosecutors charged an Auburn woman and her boyfriend with second-degree murder for the alleged fatal beating of the woman’s 3-year-old daughter.

Auburn is not alone.Unsolved, killing sprees

have also rocked the cities of Kent and Renton.

One incident was espe-cially disturbing – a drive-by shooting that killed a 1-year-old baby girl on April 16 in Kent. Somebody shot Malijah Grant in the head while she was riding

in a carseat in the backseat of her parents car, with her mother at the wheel and her father in the front pas-senger seat.

Two men recently were involved in a shooting death on the West Hill.

A Kent man faces a charge of first-degree mur-der in an East Hill car theft death.

A 24-year-old Kent man faces charges of two counts of first-degree murder for the alleged shooting of his grandmother in Skyway and the shooting of a 21-year-old woman in Renton. Both killings were on July 7.

Next month, Aug. 20 to be precise, marks the one-year anniversary of two shooting deaths at a Shell service station in Kent. The alleged shooter remains in county jail, awaiting trial.

It just doesn’t seem to end.

On a national scale, deadly shootings and sense-less murders have become all too commonplace. The first 10 minutes of your nightly TV newscast are predominately “death and

destruction.”Several major American

cities have seen a dramatic surge in homicides during the first half of this year.

And why? Weak gun laws? Tighter budgets for police and investigations? Gang and transient prob-lems?

Do we really know?Where does it all end?“I don’t know,” Andrews

said. “It’s become crazy. The violence. Too much violence, right here.”

Andrews is all too famil-iar with sorrow.

Her other, younger son died in a one-vehicle acci-dent in 1988, leaving “a hole in (Michael’s) soul.”

And now the Auburn mother has been left to cope with the loss of two sons – buried side-by-side.

“I just saw him on Monday (before his death),” Andrews recalled. “We had a good visit, then he got up and said, ‘OK, see ya.” And that was it.

“All I want is justice,” Andrews continued. “I do not want my son to be forgotten.”

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network of dams on the Co-lumbia, Yakima and Snake rivers has transformed our state into one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions producing some of the world’s most prized wines.

Similarly, the dry lands in Ningxia, about 500 miles west of Beijing, have had an infusion of fresh water from government-sponsored wa-ter projects. It is now home to more than 50 wineries.

There are about 80,000 acres of vineyards under cul-tivation in Ningxia, and they plan to expand to 160,000 acres by 2020. That will be more than three times the acreage in wine production in the entire state of Wash-ington, our nation’s second leading wine producer.

China is the fifth largest producer and consumer of wine. As the country’s standard of living continues to increase and people have more disposable income, they are drinking more fine

wine. While the history of

Chinese grape wine dates back more than 4,600 years, the renewed taste for wine has grown rapidly over the last decades with China’s economic boom. Because domestic production could not keep pace with demand, China has relied on imports – including wine from Washington State.

In 2014, China’s wine imports from Washington took a 25 percent nosedive. China’s economy slowed down, and the Chinese gov-ernment’s austerity programs left its citizens with less money to spend on wine. However, the long-term outlook is brighter, even as China increases it acreage in grape wine production.

Ningxia vineyard owners are rapidly expanding. As MacNeil noted, it took the Napa Valley growers in California a century to build a market, something China’s Ningxia region has done in a decade.

The wildcards for Ningxia

growers are the frigid win-ters and harsh Gobi winds. Vineyard owners must bury their vines after the fall harvest to protect them from the extreme cold. Then they carefully uncover them at the right time to encourage the grapes to grow again.

Washington wines can be competitive in China, but China’s growing presence in the wine business is some-thing we should watch care-fully as they start to compete for shelf space in the USA.

With more than 200 million Chinese now in the middle class, the market for fine wines is growing. As the quality improves, as MacNeil pointed out, Washington winegrowers now need to pay attention to Chinese labels.

Don C. Brunell is a business analyst, writer and columnist. He recently retired as president of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s oldest and largest business organization, and now lives in Vancouver. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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SEN. JOE FAIN, R-Auburn, recently received the Arc of King County Family Coalition Budget Champion Award for his efforts to protect historic investments in services for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.

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The award was presented at the King County Parent Coalition summer picnic and follows the passage of a budget in the state legislature that protects services for 4,000 families in need of respite care and employment support for 1,000 indi-viduals with developmental disabilities.


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Mary Ann PatersonMary Ann Paterson, 86, of Kent,

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Born in 1929 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Mary was the wife of late husband Ian Gavin Paterson who was born in Helston, England. The Paterson family lived in a number of towns stretching from Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Quebec before moving to the United States and settling in Aberdeen,Washington in

1972. The family moved to Kent, Washington in 1983 where Mary lived the remainder of her lifetime.

While Mary enjoyed travel, gardening, and bird watching, her priority was being a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She is survived by her son Gordon Paterson, wife Katherine and grandchildren Bobby and Grace of El Dorado Hills, California and daughter Helvi Winter, husband Mark and grandchildren Ian and Eric of Kent Washington.

At Mary’s request, a private family memorial will be held. In lieu of fl owers, the family suggests donations be made in Mary’s name to the American Heart Association at https://donatenow.heart.org/

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Barbara D. HallockLifelong Kent resident Barbara was born at home on Meeker

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Cooke and council mem-bers – can approve hers and their raises, but they do not fund the raise.

Any raise, especially one of this magnitude, should always be put to a vote of the people who pay for it.

Is this a great city or what? It seems so easy for these fi ve “commissioners” to squander other people’s money.– Richard Schurk

Wrong message, mentality with fi reworks

Regarding: “Stop the whining, enjoy fi reworks” (July 17, Kent Reporter):

Th e message from Mr. Sobolik in the last edition just confi rms what the thinking people of this city have already concluded: Th e yeehaw mentality of years gone by are neither productive, nor safe.

If Mr. Sobolik wants to come clean up my own neighborhood, I will give him the address. If he wants to volunteer to fi refi ght my nearby emergencies, I’m fi ne with that, too. If he wants to come to my house to comfort my dog that I don’t want to be drugged to get through Mr. Sobolik’s holiday, I welcome it.

Otherwise, Mr. Sobolik, please be more respectful of those around you.– Doug Wakefi eld

Fireworks’ havoc on others

Aft er reading the thought-ful and spot-on letter from Carrie Stark, I fi nd it a shame that the Kent Reporter had to publish the opposing letter from Perry Sobolik.

Th e downsides of the fi reworks activities are visited on others … the fi re danger, the abysmal noise environment and the trash that many of the users feel no obligation to clean up themselves.

My neighborhood has several such examples, some who refused to clean up even when asked to do

so two days later, requir-ing my family to do it for them because we prefer not to live in a trashy environ-ment, thank you.

Just what the logic is that Mr. Sobolik is invoking to justify the imposition on others is not quite clear. I learned better than that in grade school (your right to swing your fi st ends where another’s chin begins).

Let’s ban this uneven “rights” allocation in the city of Kent just as other enlight-ened communities already have. Let the hoons fi nd some place beyond settled areas to create their havoc. I doubt that many of them are really celebrating Indepen-dence Day anyway, they’re likely just celebrating the opportunity to somehow be heard, and maybe do some damage along the way.– Don McMeen

My vote goes to Stober

As former legal counsel for a state agency I had the opportunity to work with Bailey Stober. I immediately was impressed by what I saw. He has a work ethic that never gets tired, a passion for helping people and is always looking forward to the next project. He helped lead sev-eral large statewide initiatives that have had lasting impacts.

When he announced he would be running for City Council this year I was ex-cited. Politicians all seem to have the same talking points and are full of hot air, but I have seen Bailey actually put in the work. He is dedicated to the Kent community and in Olympia he made sure South King County re-mained on everyone’s radar.

He was vocal for his Kent community and worked hard for them and for all Washingtonians.

I am proud to see what amazing things he can do for the city of Kent. His experi-ence, skills and determina-tion are unparalleled by any of his opponents. He will be a great addition to the Kent City Council. I hope you consider him when you get your primary ballot.– Amanda Migchelbrink

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approved a 4.75 percent increase for teachers in 2013, a 3.6 percent pay hike in 2014 and a 2.5 per-

cent raise for the upcoming school year.

Th e board decided to give the 5.5 percent increase across the board, including to employees not

represented by a union. Th e board unanimously

approved the increases for the KEA and Kent Prin-cipals’ Association, but the vote was 3-2 in favor of the pay hike for non-repre-sented employees.

Board president Karen DeBruler, vice president Debbie Straus and board member Agda Burchard voted for the increases, while board members Russ Hanscom and Maya Vengadasalam voted against the pay hikes.

Hanscom and Ven-gadasalam said they felt the increases for non-represented employees further income inequality, since many of the non-represented employees are among the district’s top paid employees.

“To give 5½ percent to the most well paid in the district while those with

the lowest paying jobs struggle, I just don’t sup-port it,” Hanscom said be-fore the vote. “Th e income gap has gotten greater and greater and greater. Th ere is a lot more wealth in fewer folks’ hands, and for me this a microcosm of that when I have an oppor-tunity to close a huge prob-lem in our society where the wealthy continue to get wealthier and those that are struggling continue to struggle. … It is a missed opportunity for me and it stings and it hurts.”

Vengadasalam said the money could be used in other areas in the district

“We are not paying at-tention to our programs and our buildings and what is missing in middle schools,” she said. “Th ere are important issues that are not addressed.”

Straus said the across-the-board increases made the most sense.

“To single out one group would not be fair,” she said.

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Th e Daughters of the American Revolution, Lakota Chapter of Auburn, recently presented the National Defense Army ROTC Bronze Medal to Roxana Garnica, left , a cadet and student at Kentwood High School.

Garnica was honored for her loyalty, patriotism, and military and scholastic achievement.

Hilda Meryhew, National Defense chairman for NSDAR, Lakota Chapter, right, presented the award. COURTESY PHOTO

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Becka Gately’s love of fi t-ness inspired her to organize and promote a health and fi tness night at Kent’s Panther Lake Elementary School.

Th e 17-year-old was recognized for her eff orts with the Girl Scout Gold Award, the organization’s highest achievement, at the Gold Award Gala at the Tacoma Art Museum last month.

Th e Gold Award, open only to Girl Scouts in high school who have re-ceived their Bronze and Silver awards, challenges candidates to improve their communi-ties.

Gately, who starts her senior year at Kentwood High School in the fall, has been involved in Girl Scouts since she was in kindergarten and completed her Bronze and Silver projects with her friends who were in her troop.

“I like to make an impact and like to lead, so I decided to pursue it,” Gately said of her decision to take on the Gold Award project.

At the time Gately began researching her project, her mom, Kelley Gately, worked at Panther Lake Elementary, and connected Gately with Coleen Schlichte, physical eduction teacher at Panther

Lake. Schlichte had been interested in organizing a fi tness night for the school, and Gately decided to help lead the project.

Gately said she knew she wanted her Gold Award project to involve helping

kids and as a soccer player, she was interested in promot-ing fi tness and healthy living, so organizing Panther Lake’s fi tness night was a perfect fi t.

Schlichte, who is a former Girl Scout and a troop leader, agreed to be Gately’s project adviser. Gately started plan-ning the event in the fall of 2013. She worked with the Hope Heart Institute and Mo-lina Healthcare to put on the fi tness night in June 2014.

Gately recruited vendors and volunteers for the event, which featured more than 25 booths about nutrition, physi-cal exercise and cardiovas-cular health. More than 400

students, families and com-munity members attended.

Gately said she was pleased with the turnout.

“A couple of the booth vendors that had done other events said this was one of the best they had ever been at,” she said.

Gately said organizing the event taught her a lot about leadership.

“I can lead a group of members that aren’t neces-sarily younger than me but still get the respect from them that I need to be a successful leader,” she said.

Schlichte said Gately’s proj-ect will leave a lasting impact on Panther Lake Elementary. Th e school hosted its second fi tness night this year and plans to make it an annual event.

Schlichte said Gately did a great job planning and executing the event.

“It is wonderful opportu-nity to fi nd out what happens for real when you are plan-ning an event this size this is a real life experience,” Schlichte said.

Receiving her Gold Award basically wraps up Gately’s Girl Scout career, but she said she might look into leading a troop aft er college.

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Graduate makes diff erence on prison populations

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Kent’s Brandon Hoggans is launch-ing eff orts to improve the prison system from a diff erent perspective.

Hoggans, a psychology major who recently graduated from Marylhurst University, a private liberal arts university just south of Portland, is applying to graduate programs in social work and to a fi ve-year doctoral programs in psychology.

His purpose, he says, is to expand on the philosophies and goals of the agency his father founded before he passed away: that is, to establish a foundation specializing in counseling, creating and implementing re-entry programs for the growing population of men and women exiting prison and attempting to become productive members of society.

Hoggans’ passion and purpose stem from his personal experience.

At 18, he was sentenced on a rob-bery charge, serving seven years in prison. He found that as a young man with a felony not only did he lack experience and skills to successfully turn his life around, society had sev-eral obstacles that made re-entry even more challenging.

It was then that he became deter-mined to create some of the lacking services for this population. He knew the importance of higher education – so he completed his associate’s degree at Portland Community College, and now a bachelor of arts in psychology from Marylhurst.

“I wake up each day to obstacles I have to overcome because of decisions I’ve made in my past,” Hoggans said. “If my story, my experience, my ser-vice and my education can help create productive members of society, then I have achieved my goal.”

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“Th ere were a lot of AAU and club teams playing in Las Vegas and California this weekend, but we’re pleased with what we had here,” said Steve Turcotte, tournament director.

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EventsKent Farmers Market: 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturdays, June 6-Sept. 26. Fresh produce, flower, vendors. Kent Lions program. For more information, visit www.kentfarmersmarket.com.

BESC Performance Horse Show: 7:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. July 25, Reber Ranch, 28606 132nd SE, Kent. Open to the public of all ages as riders or specta-tors. English classes in the morning; Western classes in the afternoon; Halter classes between English and Western. Free lead line event for children under 6 years of age. Registration opens at 7:30, show starts at 8:30. Food concession open for breakfast and lunch. Proceeds go to Mounted Mischief 4-H Club. Cost: $9 per class for riders; $6 arena fee; stall rental not required, but available for $30, event free to specta-tors. For more information: Crystal Creson Carter, 253-569-4804, [email protected]

MVCF Community Craft & Flea Market: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. July 25, Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellow-ship, 19001 SE 272nd St., Kent. Collectibles, flea market fare, kids’ fun zone, quality crafts and more. Free parking. For more information, email mvcf.events @gmail.com or call 206-304-3752.

BenefitsSleep Country’s School Supply Drive for Foster Kids: Now through Sept. 6. Donations of new school supplies can be dropped off at any Sleep Country store. For more information or to find the nearest location please visit the store locator at www.sleepcountry.com or call 888-887-5337. Store hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Cash donations can also be made online and Sleep Country representatives will shop on your behalf. All contribu-tions are distributed among Sleep Country’s foster care partner organizations. For more information, visit www.sleepcountryfosterkids.org.

Central Avenue Mini Storage Garage Sale: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 8, 1407 Central Ave. S., Kent. Free refreshments provided by Two Men And A Truck. Start-

ing at 11 a.m., hot dogs and soft drinks to all shop-pers. If you are interested in selling your stuff, signup fee is $12, with proceeds supporting KentHOPE. For more information, contact Bernadette Thormahlen at 253-859-7155 or [email protected], or visit ww.centralavenueministorage.com.

Kent Senior Lunch Program Dessert Concert: 6 p.m. Aug. 20, Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St. Proceeds benefit the Kent Parks Deli and Cafe. Rock ‘n Roll Choir SilverSounds Northwest performs nostalgic tunes. Co-sponsored by Stafford Suites. Theme is “Get your Kicks … “ based on the Rock ‘n Roll song “Route 66”. Other ‘50s and ‘60s era music will be featured. Advanced tickets are available for any size donation beginning July 14 in person at the center or with MasterCard/Visa by calling 253-856-5150.

HealthBloodworks Northwest drives: 1-3 p.m., 4-7 p.m. July 28, Kent Lutheran Church, 336 2nd Ave. S.; 12:30-3:30 p.m. July 29, Expeditors International, 21318 64th Ave. S.; 8:30-11 a.m. July 29, Flow International, 23500 64th Ave S.; 1-3 p.m., 4-7 p.m. Aug. 11, River Of Life Fellowship, 10615 SE 216th; 8-10 a.m., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 12, city of Kent, 400 W. Gowe Ave.; 9-11 a.m., noon-3 p.m. Aug. 13, Recre-ational Equipment, 6750 S. 228th St. Appointments can be made by calling 1-800-398-7888, or visit www.bloodworksnw.org.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly): 6:45 p.m., Thursdays, Swanson Court Clubhouse, 12200 SE 207th St., Kent, near Kentridge High School. Nonprofit weight loss support group. Cost: $32 to join and $7 monthly. For more information, call 253-709-5098 or visit www.tops.org or www.whywelovetops.com.

BEPC Conscious Wellness Expo: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 25, Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N., Kent. Boeing Employees Parapsychology Club (BEPC) invites the public. Expo features a variety of vendors, healers and readers. Free admission, free parking, hourly door prizes. For more information, visit www.bepcweb.org

FaithVacation Bible School, Journey off the Map: 9 a.m.-noon, Aug. 3-7, Sequoia Baptist Church, 26025 111th Ave. SE, Kent. Children who have finished kindergarten through sixth grade can hear Bible stories, play games, learn songs, do crafts and have snacks. Free. 253-852-4242, sequoiabaptistchurch.org

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625 W. James St., Kent. 253-856-6777. Order at www.tickets.showarecenter.com. Events include:

Hello Kitty Supercute Friendship Festival: 7 p.m. July 24; 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m. July 25; noon, July 26. Hello Kitty and her friends in multi-stage live performances, DJ-driven dancing with dance group KRU HK, interactive exhibits, animation, art, fashion, photo opportunities, event-exclusive collectibles and more. Tickets: $20-$30.

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Live music ballroom dances: 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday, Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St. Open to all ages. Cover charge: $4 at the door for all ages, dancers and listeners. Refreshments served at 8:30 p.m. Program schedule: • First Tuesday: 17-mem-ber Big Band Kings of Swing, 7:45 to 9:30 p.m. Refreshments by the Lakeshore or Radcliffe Place; • Second Tuesday: Randy Litch, ballroom dance music, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Refreshments by the Weatherly; • Third Tuesday: Andy Burnett, rock ‘n roll music, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Refreshments by Stafford Suites; • Fourth Tuesday: Randy Litch, ballroom dance music, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Refreshments by Farrington Court; • Fifth Tuesday (when occurring): Randy Litch, ballroom dance music, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Refreshments by Judson Park. For more information, call 253-856-5150 or visit kentwa.gov/SeniorActivityCenter/

“A Maze”: 8-10 p.m. Thursdays, Friday, Saturdays, July 23-Aug. 1, Theatre Battery at Kent Station, 438 Ramsay Way, Suite 103. Northwest Premiere Produc-tion of Rob Handel’s play, under the direction of Logan Ellis. There are two kinds of mazes: The kind where you try to get through and out the other side, and the kind where you try to get to the center. It’s fragmented at first – you have to allow things not to make sense and trust that all will be revealed. Two rock stars struggle to regain their art after rehab, a

young kidnapping victim finds her voice, and the King and Queen of a distant land protect their unborn heir. Tickets: $15-$25. For tickets or to learn more, call 206-419-1675 or visit www.theatrebattery.com

“Annie”: 7:30 p.m. July 30, 31, Aug. 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15; 2 p.m. Aug. 1, 8, 15; 4 p.m. Aug. 2, 9, Kentridge Performing Arts Center, 12430 SE 208th St. At the Ridge Theatre (ART) presents one of the best-loved family musicals. Tickets: $10. Proceeds are awarded to the actors in the form of college scholarships. ART, a nonprofit community theater, celebrates its 15th year, with more than $300,000 in scholarships awarded. Tickets can be purchased online at www.showtix4u.com and at the door. For more information, visit attheridgetheatre.org

KENT SUMMER CONCERT SERIES

Take Out Tuesdays. Performances noon to 1 p.m., Kent Station Plaza, 417 Ramsay Way.

William & Mary: July 28. Classic folk and bluegrass favorites from “The American Songbook.”

Republic Services Wednesday. Performances noon to 1 p.m., Town Square Plaza, 2nd and Harrison

Tickle Tune Typhoon: July 29. Dancing vegetables, larger-than-life robots and award-winning music. Northwest favorite delivers positive messages and educational topics cleverly disguised as silly fun.

Wednesday Family Date Night. Performances 6-8 p.m., Kent Station Plaza, 417 Ramsay Way. Sponsored by Republic Services.

The Senate: July 29. Guitarists Nick Drummond and Oliver Franklin’s distinctive songwriting styles showcase inspirations ranging from dusty and shim-mering West African guitar to the grit and raw power of American rock.

Thursdays at the Lake, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Lake Meridian Park, 14800 SE 272nd St. (shuttle bus service available)

Stooges Brass Band: July 30. Band consistently delivers a high energy show, engaging audiences with its innovative blend of traditional New Orleans brass sounds, contemporary jazz and hip-hop beats.

ReunionsKentridge High School Class of ‘85, 30-year reunion: 5-10 p.m. Aug. 15, The Thirsty Fish, 9041

Holman Road NW, Seattle. First 90 classmates only please due to capacity. $20 admission. No refunds. Register at PayPal.com or [email protected]. Include maiden name please. On Aug. 16, pick your favorite horse for the Longacres Mile. Reserve your grandstand seating with the class at Emerald Downs. $15 per seat regardless of age. Due July 28. Register at PayPal.com or [email protected].

Galleries, studiosCentennial Center Gallery: 400 W. Gowe St., Kent. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Closed weekends and holidays. For more information, call 253-856-5050 or visit [email protected].

Michael Tolleson Savant Art Center: 205 1st Ave. S., Kent. Art studio and autistic art mentoring center. To learn more about the center and its programs, call 253-850-5995, visit www.Michael-TollesonArtist.com or email [email protected]. The center also can be found on Facebook.

MuseumsGreater Kent Historical Society: 855 E. Smith St., historic Bereiter House, Kent. Hours: noon-4 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday, and by appointment. Admis-sion: suggested $2 donation; no tickets are required for entrance. Parking is available behind the house off East Temperance Street. GKHS is a nonprofit organiza-tion that promotes the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge about the history of the greater Kent area. www.gkhs.org

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Experience Historical Kent: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Aug. 15; 1:30-4:30 p.m., Aug. 16, throughout the city of Kent. Celebration features special exhibits and bus and walking tours of the city’s oldest homes, businesses and cemeteries. • Enjoy walking tours in the Mill Creek Neighborhood and view turn of the century and great depression era homes kept in character from 72-106 years old. • Take as stroll with local historian Eric Reitan around historic downtown and hear stories from the past. • Wander through Neely-Soames Historic Homestead and get a glimpse of the way residents lived in 1885. For more details, call 253-854-4330 or visit KentWA.gov/Experience-HistoricalKent.


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Just two years aft er taking up rowing, Grace Herbert has her eyes set on one day making the women’s junior national crew team.

Th e 16-year-old Kent girl, who will be a sophomore at Holy Names Academy in Seattle this fall, took a step toward achieving her goal by attending a three-week ju-nior national team devel-opment camp earlier this summer in Connecticut.

Herbert was one of about 40 girls from throughout the country invited to attend the devel-opment camp aft er going to an identifi cation camp in Seattle earlier this year.

Herbert joined the Holy Names rowing team her freshman year.

“I needed a sport to do in the fall because I swim and swimming was in the winter …,” she said. “It (crew) is a no cut sport so anyone can try it.”

Herbert said she wasn’t very good at rowing when she fi rst began but has improved a lot and now

enjoys the sport. Th e development camp was benefi cial, she said.

“Th e problem with me isn’t really the raw power,” she said. “It is just technique and transfer-ring it in the boat. I think it (the camp) helped me a lot with that. Th ere were a lot of coaches and not that many athletes so they were really able to give you a lot of specifi c commentary.”

Th e training was inten-sive, Herbert said.

“Basically we just got up in the morning, had breakfast, rowed, came back, had lunch, worked out again, had a snack, rowed, had dinner, went to bed,” she said. “It was more work than I thought. I didn’t think it was going to be as challenging in terms of how much rowing we were going to be doing. I had never done the system of more than one practice a day so that took a little getting used to.”

Herbert had the fastest erg score at her develop-ment camp. Erg is short for ergometer, which is an indoor rowing machine. Erg scores are calculated based on the time it takes to complete 2,000 meters, which is the standard distance in rowing. Kent’s Grace Herbert, third from the front, trains with a four-person crew during her recent

three-week junior national team development camp in Connecticut this summer. COURTESY PHOTO

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Herbert hopes to be invited to the junior national team’s high perfor-mance camp next year and then to the selection camp the following year. Members of the junior national team are chosen from the selection camp. Herbert has two years of eligibility for the junior national team remaining.

Herbert plans to focus on crew this coming school year. In the past she has split her time between crew and swimming.

“I am going to focus on crew because I see myself getting further in that than in swimming,” she said. “A ton of people swim. It is not hard to fi nd fast swimmers in terms of col-leges and national teams but it is a lot harder to fi nd fast rowers just because not as many people are into the sport.”

She hopes to qualify for varsity this year.

Herbert enjoys the team aspect of crew.

“It (training) is so hard but it makes you so much better. Th ere are so many other people doing it with you because it just helps,” she said. “Some of the workouts we do are so hard. If I wasn’t sitting on the erg next to my teammates, I would probably just get off and be like, ‘I am so done. I can’t move. I am over it.’ Just having everyone else doing it with you, you are like, ‘I can’t stop because they are sitting next to me and they are doing

it so I have to do it.’”Herbert usually rows on an eight-

or four-person sweep boat. Sweep is done with one oar while sculling is done with two.

“I mostly sweep,” she said. “I have been learning how to scull. Sculling is easier generally for shorter people who have small arms just because it is harder to get both your arms in.”

At nearly 5-foot-10, some might consider Herbert to be on the tall side, but she said that is not the case in rowing.

“I am kind of on the shorter end,” she said. “Th ere are a lot of girls who are at least 6 feet tall and some that

were like 6-4 who were at selection camp.”

Herbert prefers racing in an eight-person boat.

“A lot of people hate eights but I like eights because having more people in the boat makes is more set and stur-dy,” she said. “I think it is more fun to have more people. Rowing is kind of the ultimate team sport because you literally have to do exactly the same thing as the person in front of you. I feel like it is more fun in eights because it is more satisfying when you all get going and you are going fast and you are going together because there are so many people.”

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Grace Herbert, back, who is relatively new to the sport of rowing, hopes to one day make the women’s junior national crew team. COURTESY PHOTO

CISK’s Fill The Bus school supply drive under wayFOR THE REPORTER

Communities In Schools of Kent hosts the third annual Fill Th e Bus school supply drive – now through Aug. 23.

Th e collection drive culminates in an event in partnership with Kent Sta-tion on Aug. 20 from 5 to 8 p.m., where supplies will be loaded on to a Kent School District bus in the parking lot.

Fill Th e Bus 2015 is a joint eff ort among Com-munities In Schools of Kent, the Kent School District, the Kent Kiwanis clubs, and Kent Station.

Suggested school supplies include, but are not limited to: spiral and composition notebooks; black and blue pens; No. 2 pencils; crayons; colored pencils; USB drives; calcu-lators; sturdy backpacks; 2-inch binders; index cards; erasers; pencil boxes and pouches.

For a complete list, visit www.ciskent.org.

Donated items can be dropped off at: Sweet Th emes Bakery; U’nique Stylez Salon; Naked Pizza; Down Home Catering; Golden Steer; the Boeing Employees Tennis Club; the Kent Reporter; Valley Medical Center, Kent Clinic; and Valley Medi-cal Center, Covington Clinic South. Churches participating are Zion Lu-theran Church, Highpoint Church, River of Life Fel-lowship, and Kent United Methodist Church.

All donated items will be distributed to Kent School District schools beginning Aug. 31.

Financial contributions are also being accepted and can be given in-person on Aug. 20 at Kent Station between 5 and 8 p.m. or mailed to: Communities In Schools of Kent, P.O. Box 62, Kent WA 98035.

Businesses, offi ces, and organizations interested participating can contact Katie Adams at [email protected] for more information.


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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF

WASHINGTON, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON

In the Matter of the Estate of DOROTHY G. BRISTER, De- ceased. Cause No. 15-4-00049-3

NOTICE TO CREDITORS, RCW 11.40.30.

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed

Representative of this estate. Per- sons having claims against the deceased must, prior to the time such claims would be barred by an otherwise applicable statute of limitations, serve their claims on the Personal Representative at

an executed copy of the claim with the Clerk of the Court within four months after the date of

within four months after the date

Notice with the Clerk of the Court, whichever is later or, except under those provisions included in RCW 11.40.011 or RCW 11.40.013, the claim will be forever barred. This bar is effective as to claims against both the probate assets and nonpro- bate assets of the decedent.

2015ELIZABETH I. QUAILPersonal Representative41 B So. Keel WayPort Ludlow, WA 98365Court Clerk where claims are to

Court ClerkJefferson County Superior Court1820 Jefferson StreetPort Townsend, WA 98368Cause Number 15-4-000-49-3 Published in the Kent Reporter

and July 31, 2015.#1369065.

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The following is a summary of the ordinances adopted by the Kent City Council on July 21,

ORDINANCE NO. 4157 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun- cil of the City of Kent, Washing- ton, amending section 3.25.040 of the Kent City Code relating to the project eligibility requirements of Chapter 3.25 entitled, “Multifamily Dwelling Tax Ex- emptions.”ORDINANCE NO. 4158 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun- cil of the City of Kent, Washing- ton, amending Chapter 14.09 of the Kent City Code, entitled “Flood Hazard Regulations.”ORDINANCE NO. 4159 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun- cil of the City of Kent, Washing- ton, amending Chapter 11.06 of the Kent City Code, entitled “Critical Areas.” These ordinances will take effect thirty (30) days from the date of passage and publication, unless subjected to referendum or ve- toed by the Mayor, or unless otherwise noted. A copy of the complete text of any ordinance will be mailed upon request of the City Clerk.

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courts.wa.gov/forms If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in these matters, you should do so promptly so that your written responses, if any, may be served on time. One method of serving a copy of your responses on the petitioner

return receipt requested.This summons is issued pursuant to RCW 4.28.100 and Superior Court Civil Rule 4.1 of the state of Washington.

Veronica Freitas, WSBA No. 19405File Original of Your Response

516 3rd Ave Seattle, WA 98104 Serve a Copy of Your Response

210 Summit Ave EastSeattle, WA 98102Published in the Kent Reporter

In the Superior Court of the State of Washington

in and for the County of Kitsap

GEORGE W. IRISH, Deceased .NO. 15-4-00594-3

NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner

by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the

ney at the address stated below a

original of the claim with the court. The claim must be present-

days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the Notice to Creditors as provided

publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the De-

assets.Personal Representative - Marlene L. HemmingAttorney for the Personal Repre- sentative - Ken L. KambichAddress for mailing or service - 600 Kitsap Street, Suite 202, Port Orchard, WA 98366DATED this 16th day of July, 2015.SHIERS LAW FIRM LLP

WSBA #28141 Published in the Kent Reporter on July 24, 2015, July 31, 2015,

INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that the City of Kent, Washington, will receive sealed bids at the City

August 11, 2015 up to 11:00 a.m. as shown on the clock on the east

4th Avenue South, Kent, Wash- ington. All bids must be proper- ly marked and sealed in accordance with this “Invitation to Bid.” Bids must be delivered

regardless of delivery method, including U.S. Mail. All bids will be opened and read publicly aloud immediately following 11:00 a.m. for the City of Kent

Kent Regional Trails Connector

Federal Aid Number: CM-0615 (008)

Project Number: 13-3006 The project consists of the con-

foot long multi-use trail that in-

walk, a 50 foot long concrete

signal system, 500 lineal feet of block wall, and trail lighting.

for this project is approximately $1 to $1.3 million. The DBE goal for this project is 18%. Bid documents may be obtained by contacting City of Kent Engi- neering Department, Nancy Yoshitake at (253) 856-5508. For technical questions, please

(253) 856-5524 or Mark Howlett at (253) 856-5523. Bids must be clearly marked “Bid” with the name of the project on the outside of the enve- lope, addressed to the City Clerk, 220 4th Avenue South, Kent, WA 98032-5895. Only sealed bids will be accepted. No fac- similes or electronic submittals will be considered. Each bid shall be in accordance

and other contract documents

City Engineer, City of Kent, Washington. Copies of the plans and Kent Special Provisions may

be purchased at a non-refundable cost of $50.00 for each set.

also be downloaded at no charge at www.kentwa.gov/ procurement. Copies of the

are available for perusal only.

bond in the amount of 5% of the bid is required. The City of Kent reserves theright to reject any and all bids onany or all schedules or alternatesor to waive any informalities inthe bidding and shall determinewhich bid or bidders is the mostresponsive, satisfactory and re-sponsible bidder and shall be the sole judge thereof. No plea of mistake in the bidshall be available to the bidder

it or as a defense to any action based upon the neglect or refusal to execute a contract. Bidders must submit with theirinitial bid a signed statement asto whether they have previouslyperformed work subject to the

11246.

bid for a period of sixty (60) daysafter the day of bid opening. The (Local Agency) in accor-dance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code ofFederal Regulations, Depart-ment of Transportation, subti-

Part 21, nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs of the Department of Transporta- tion issued pursuant to such

that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertise- ment, disadvantaged business

CFR Part 26 will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or sex in consideration for an award.Dated this 9th day of July, 2015.

Published in the Kent Reporter

PUBLIC NOTICES...Continued from

previous page

FOR THE REPORTER

Th e majority of Green Kent Partnership restora-tion events take place in the spring and fall, but some volunteer stewards con-tinue holding work parties throughout the summer season.

Still, summer can be a dif-fi cult time to schedule them in between vacations and other outdoor commitments. To ensure that invasive species don’t get the upper hand, interns are providing additional staff support.

Th is is the third year that a portion of King Conser-vation District grant funds have supported hiring a Green Kent Partner-ship college intern whose major is related to natural resources management.

Th e fi rst two interns were from Green River College.

Th is summer’s intern is a newly minted graduate of the environmental sci-ence AS degree program at Tacoma Community College. Andetrius Lee began July 1 and will be with the Parks department through October, giving him plenty of hands-on restoration practice and leadership experience.

“Several members of my family are in the military, and I have had the opportunity to see and live in many diff erent areas of the world. I decided to continue my education in the state of Washington pri-marily because of its beauty, and I am very happy to call this state home,” Lee said. “However, my continuing education has increased my awareness of the alarming rates that wildlife diversity is diminishing in urban natural areas. I believe that future

generations should be given the opportunity to fall in love with our area’s distinguished beauty just as I have.”

With funding from a State Farm Youth Advisory Board grant, Kent Parks was able to create a new summer internship oppor-tunity this year for fi ve local high school students. With oversight by park staff , the Green Kent college intern serves as their crew lead.

Selected from a strong candidate pool of local teens, the Youth Environ-mental Service (YES) Corps began its internships on July 13. Th ey are working at six forested parks, spending a week at each one, learning teamwork, native plants at the sites, how to give a thor-ough safety briefi ng and record progress on work logs, and best manage-

ment practices to control invasive species. Th e team is being given time each day for journaling so that they can report out on their experiences by preparing a

PowerPoint talk to present to Green Kent staff .

For more information, contact Victoria Andrews at [email protected] or visit GreenKent.org.

YES Corps members are, from left: Anh Ngo (Kentwood senior), Tasnim Hasan (Kentlake junior), Derek Ralph (Kentridge sophomore), Jalen White (Kent-Meridian senior) and Daemien Zarapkar (Science & Math Institute senior). COURTESY PHOTO

Summer Green Kent interns keep restoration going Greater Kent Area Annual Reunion set for senior center

The Greater Kent Area Annual Reunion (formerly known as Kent Old-Timer’s Reunion) is Sunday, Aug. 16, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St.

The name of the organiza-tion has been changed to re-fl ect the growth of Kent since the fi rst reunion in 1990.

A short program begins at 1:30 p.m. and will feature a tribute to longtime residents who have given their time and service to the Kent com-munity.

Honorees for this year are Marvin Eckfeldt, Kenneth and June Iverson, and Jack and Shirley Meredith.

There will be opportunity to visit with classmates and friends and also browse in the display room to view school annuals, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia.

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4 PLOTS SIDE BY SIDE located in the Garden of t he Good Shepherd . Section 12, block 40, Lot C. Des i rable Bonney Watson Memorial Park. Valued at $4,795 each. Selling for $1,500 each. or all 4 for $5,000. Call 425-572-6643.

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FEDERAL WAY.7/25 ANNUAL Neigh- borhood Garage Sale next weekend Sat . , July 25th, 9 am - 5 pm. Meadow Park; located between SW 349th and 12th SW, Twin Lakes area. Look for signs at all entrances. See you here! Don’t miss it!

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NATURE TRAILS Con- do Community Garage Sale! Saturday, July 25th from 9am to 3pm, corner of SE 256th Street and 132nd Avenue, East Hill.Lots of items from the inside and outside!

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Federal WayMULTI FAMILY SALE!Fri., Sat. & Sun., July 24th, 25th & 26th, 9am- 4pm. Furniture, books, too ls, c lo th ing , toys, bikes/scooters, pressure w a s h e r , g e n e r a t o r , s p o r t i n g e q u i p m e n t , frames/pictures, kitchen ware, cameras, computer items & yard. 29730 4th Ave SW, off Dash- point.

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AUCTIONJuly 29th, 2015

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

All roses appreciate more fertilize and extra water during the mid-summer cycle and if you deadhead or clip off the faded rose blooms, you’ll be encouraging more roses to bloom through the fall season.

Fuchsias that dangle from hanging baskets or those with large blooms are the annual type of fuchsia, and these suff er in hot weather. To keep your fuchsia baskets in bloom, keep pinching off any seed pods or “fuchsia berries” that form at the end of the stems once the faded fl ow-ers fall.

On hot days set ice cubes on top of the soil to pamper your hanging fuchsias and spray the foliage lightly with water. Fuchsia baskets do best in full shade.

Th ere are also hardy fuchsias that grow more like perennial shrubs with smaller blooms. Th e hardy fuchsias can handle more sun but add a layer of mulch on top of the roots to keep them cool and conserve moisture.

August is coming. Here are the top 10 tips for conserving water in your garden and landscape:

1. Water in the evening or morning so that you’ll lose less water to evaporation. Avoid run off or letting water hit the sidewalk or driveway.

2. Right plant, right place. Use sedums, succulents, plants with gray leaves or small leaves (think laven-der, potentilla and lamb’s ear) in the hot spots of

your landscape such as up against a west or south fac-ing wall.

3. Mulch. You can use wood chips, compost, hay, leaves or even marbles and seashells for a decorative look on top of your potted plants. A mulch will shade the soil to keep it cooler

and seal in mois-ture so you will need to water less oft en.

4. Let your lawn “go golden.” Th is sounds more luxurious than saying you have allowed the

lawn to go brown and dor-mant. Some gardeners even use a special lawn paint to dye the dormant golden lawn a shade of green. Don’t worry, once the rains return in the fall your lawn will green up again.

5. Recycle your kitchen water and use it to water your potted plants. Th is is the way most of Europe has watered their summer plants for centuries. Any rinse water or non-salted cooking water goes into a kitchen pitcher and at the end of the day instead of pouring your liquid assets down the drain use the recycled water on the patio plants. Bonus: some of the nutrients from cooking veggies will leach into the cooking water so you’ll get some free fertilizer.

6. Use a rain barrel. Col-lecting all the water that runs off the roof into one container means you can dip a watering can into the barrel and hand water the potted or extra thirsty plants.

7. Install a drip irrigation system to water vegetables and even potted plants. Sprinklers are not as ef-fi cient as drip lines. Bonus: When you target the water right at the root of a plant

the rest of the soil will stay dry – and you’ll have a lot less weeds.

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

9. Take a shower with some pots and pans. You will be surprised how much water you can collect before it runs down the drain. Use this sometimes soapy water (called “gray” water) to wash insects from roses or to soak the roots of thirsty hydrangeas and heucheras.

10. Finally, my favorite tip for conserving water – position a thirsty shrub or potted plant right under the drainage hole of a hang-ing basket or window box. Now you’ll be recycling the drainage water from your hanging basket by letting it drip from one plant into the root zone of another.

Marianne Binetti has a de-gree in horticulture from Wash-ington State University and is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books. For book requests or answers to gardening ques-tions, write to her at: P.O. Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022. Send a self-addressed, stamped en-velope for a personal reply. For more gardening information, she can be reached at her web-site, www.binettigarden.com.

See MarianneMarianne Binetti hosts “Dig In Seattle,” a garden and cooking show that is back on the air. You can watch the show via podcast at www.diginseattle.com or on Channel 22 KZJO TV at 12:30 p.m. Saturdays. The show focuses on local garden-ing tips and cooking demos from local chefs.

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RYC off ers Summer Choir CampFOR THE REPORTER

Rainier Youth Choirs again hosts its popular Summer Choir Camp for singers entering grades three through eight with a Jungle Cruise this year.

As campers use their imagination to navigate jungle waters, they’ll explore mu-sic reading, rhythms, percussion, move-ment, drama and singing.

Camp runs daily 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Aug. 17-20 on Kent’s East Hill and culmi-nates with a free concert by the partici-pants for family, friends and community members Th ursday at 7 p.m. Each camper

receives four, fun-fi lled days of adventures including lunch, workshop materials, craft s, dress-up days and a camp T-shirt for $85.

Th e Summer Choir Camp is funded in part by the City of Kent Arts Commission.

Experienced, certifi ed music teachers from Renton, Kent, Tahoma, Federal Way and Sumner school districts run the camp. An aff ordable, family-friendly organization with no religious affi liation, Rainier Youth Choirs off ers choral music education and performance opportunities.

For more information about attending the camp or auditioning to join RYC, visit www.RainierYouthChoirs.org.


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