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A Meridian Valley Country Club condo association plans to sue Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke for failing to pay a condo assess-

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When Danielle left Mill Creek Middle school, the bullies followed her. Th ey fol-lowed her to the Kent Library, they followed her to the top fl oor of the Kent Station park-ing garage. Th ey beat her until she almost blacked out.

She came to as a woman at the top of the parking garage called 911, and she was rescued by a Kent Police offi cer. While

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According to Whitman, school offi cials said that because the fi ght happened outside of Mill Creek’s juris-diction, the school has little power over the students. But when the students posted

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At the April 30 school board meeting, the board discussed their review of the survey results and gave the administration recom-mendations as to its restorative priorities for the upcoming school year.

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Kirkland-based Sno-King Ice Are-nas could become the new owner of the Kent Valley Ice Centre, which serves numerous youth hockey play-ers and off ers recreational skating.

Sno-King, which owns arenas in Renton and Kirkland, reached a purchase agreement in March with Urban Landmark Corp., the owners of the facility that opened in 2001 and sits a mile west of the city-owned ShoWare Center. But any sale remains tied up in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

“At this point the property owner has fi led chapter 11 (bankruptcy) and we will be waiting to see what happens with that,” said Gordon Brown, executive director of the Sno-King Amateur Hockey Associa-tion, in a Tuesday email.

Th e nonprofi t Sno-King group owns and operates the Renton and Kirkland ice arenas and has off ered youth hockey and skating since 1964 in the Seattle area.

Sno-King plans to proceed with its purchase of Valley Ice Centre subject to feasibility, fi nancing and court approval.

“Th e Board of Directors, staff members, and I are thrilled to add Kent Valley Ice Centre to our portfolio of rinks,” Brown said in a notice on the Sno-King’s website. “It’s an excellent, established facility with an active and loyal customer base, a solid revenue stream and a supportive partnership with the city of Kent.”

Th e city owns the property oc-cupied by the arena next to Rus-sell Road Park. Th e property and parking were obtained on a 40-to 50-year lease from the city that includes providing the city’s Parks, Recreation & Community Services Department two hours per weekday for instructional use, according to the city website.

Tom Brubaker, city interim chief administrative offi cer, said the site has a complicated recent past as it has fl ipped back and forth between bankruptcy and receivership.

“Th e bankruptcy court is in con-trol at this point,” Brubaker said in an email. “If the new operator (who could still be the current operator) seeks an amendment to the lease, the city will perhaps gain some leverage to impact who the next operator is and what conditions the city might require in exchange for the lease extension.”

Brown said he will work with the Kent Valley Hockey Association, which oversees youth hockey pro-grams at the Valley Ice Centre, “to continue to grow Kent into a thriv-ing and aff ordable hockey program for years to come.”

Lew Sellers, president of the Kent Valley Hockey Association (KVHA), said his group hasn’t met yet with Sno-King as it waits to see whether the sale goes through or not.

“We really don’t have any idea what they might have had planned for Kent Valley Hockey Association,” Sellers said in an email.

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Kids monkey around on a sculpture at the Arbor Heights 360 Park during the recent stretch of sunny spring weather. While the Kent park is a ghost town during the winter, skaters and climbers come out by the dozens to get some sun during the warmer days of the year. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter

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Applicants at those three sites received the top three spots for potential Kent outlets aft er the state Liquor Control Board posted its statewide lot-tery results on Friday.

Th e trade names and loca-tions of the three in order are:

• Giving Tree, 8504 S. 228th St.

• Phat Sacks Corp., 534 Central Ave. S.

• Soo P Hong, 604 Central Ave. S.

Just three retail stores are allowed in Kent under state law and nine applicants met preliminary rules out of an ini-tial list of 18. Each of the top three applicants must pass the rest of the licensing process or the liquor board will withdraw the application and move to the next applicant on the list, according to a liquor board media release

Th e liquor board plans to issue the fi rst licenses in July, when stores would be able to open.

In Kent, however, the City Council in April unanimously passed another six-month mora-torium on any marijuana businesses. Th e city's

ban applies to recreational marijuana businesses that vot-ers approved statewide in 2012 when they passed Initiative 502 as well as medical mari-juana collective gardens. Th e council opposes marijuana

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“If it turned out that Sno-King had succeeded in purchasing the Ice Centre, we would have been eager to meet with them and discuss how we could work together while retaining our identity as Kent Valley Hockey Associa-tion, a Kent community based youth hockey association.”

Th e hockey teams from the two groups compete in the North Puget Sound Hockey League and have been rivals for years.

Th e Valley Ice Centre has been in foreclosure for several years, Sellers said. He sent a notice last Friday to KVHA members to update them about fi nancial issues at the facility.

Sellers said the center has been operated by the Doner and Grauer families since it opened and that when fi nancial deals are fi nalized the facility, “will remain a community asset and home to the Kent Valley Hockey Association for many years to come.”

Th e Ice Centre has long been trying to resolve its fi nancing issues with its bank, Sellers said in his letter to members.

“When the Ice Centre was built in 2001, its original loans were on 14-year amor-tization schedules, creating a fairly aggressive repayment

schedule on the operations,” Sellers said. “For a variety of reasons, the Ice Centre has never been able to renegotiate the loans on better terms.”

Lexi Doner, one of the owners, didn’t return an email from the Kent Reporter for comment about the potential sale of the arena.

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Kent Valley Ice Centre, which serves numerous youth hockey players and off ers recreational skating, may soon have a new owner. Sno-King, which owns arenas in Renton and Kirkland, reached a purchase agreement in March with Urban Landmark Corp., the owners of the Kent facility that opened in 2001. COURTESY PHOTO

businesses because the drug remains illegal under federal law and it wants some control about where the businesses might locate if it decides to allow them.

City staff will present potential zoning code changes for marijuana businesses later this year to the city's Land Use and Planning Board, which then will make a recommenda-tion to the council about where businesses might be allowed in the city. Th e land use board or council also could decide to ban the businesses.

If Kent applicants receive a recreational marijuana license from the liquor board, the city won't issue them any permits because of the ban, said Pat Fitzpatrick, acting city at-torney. If the business opens anyway, he said the city will take action. Th e liquor board will issue licenses to applicants even if a city bans recreational marijuana businesses.

Th e liquor board's next steps for the top three applicants in Kent is to make sure they pass a criminal history and fi nancial inves-tigation as well as have a location that is not within 1,000 feet of a school, park or other area specifi ed in I-502 as places where children congregate.

Licensing staff also continues to process producer and processor applications, which will provide the marijuana for the retail out-lets. As of April 30, the liquor board had issued 25 producer and processor licenses.

Th e other six Kent applicants for retail out-lets in order of their lottery ranking are:

• Odyssey Smoke Shop, 24816 Pacifi c High-way S.

• Heaven Bound 420 Cannabis Boutique, 1734 Central Ave. S.

• Hazy Days, 534 Central Ave. S.• Herbal Choice Caregivers, 19011 68th Ave. S.• Happy Highway, 534 Central Ave. S.• Twisted Greens Corp., 534 Central Ave. S.

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fi nancial obligations,” said Susan St. Clair, a condo owner in the six-unit complex and spokeswoman for the association, during a phone interview. “She’s not returned any calls or mes-sages. She doesn’t say anything.”

Cooke, in a Tuesday interview at the mayor’s offi ce, said she hadn’t received any notices, calls or memos from the association. When shown a copy of a May 4 memo that said the association planned to take legal action, Cooke said she had only one thing to say.

“No comment,” the mayor said as she declined to answer any further questions about the dispute.

Cooke said prior to ending the interview that she hadn’t paid the as-sessment fee.

Cooke is in the fi rst year of her third four-year term as mayor. She is paid an annual salary of $102,000.

St. Clair said she decided on behalf of the association to go public with Cooke’s failure to pay.

“I think people should know that this woman is managing a $200 mil-lion (city) budget and she can’t even manage her own personal fi nances,” St. Clair said. “She had committed to the painting and the lighting last year.”

Th e mayor presents the city budget to the City Council but the council oversees and adopts the budget, said Council President Dana Ralph in response to whether Cooke’s personal fi nancial issues could impact the city.

“Her personal business is her personal business at this point,” Ralph said during a phone interview. “It has no impact on the fi nancial health of the city.”

As far as the condo fee, Cooke made a motion at the April 19, 2012 homeowners association meeting that each homeowner would be assessed their portion of the painting cost at the time of the painting, according to an April 24 memo to Cooke. Th e memo also stated that Cooke signed a sheet this past March 3 that the fee for the painting cost would be due April 1 along with the fi rst 2014 quarterly dues payment of $750.

Cooke said she paid the dues fee of $750. St. Clair confi rmed that Cooke had paid that amount.

Another memo sent by the asso-ciation describes that the other fi ve owners must pay the $1,067 to cover the lack of payment by Cooke. Th at amount includes the painting as well as new fees for lighting and legal costs.

St. Clair said the legal costs were for rewriting the association’s rules and regulations so if anyone leaves without paying fees or goes through a bank-ruptcy, the association is fi rst in line for payments.

“We’ll pay it but we will take legal steps to get the money because she committed to it last year,” St. Clair said.

It’s unfair to the other condo owners that Cooke didn’t pay her assessment, said St. Clair, who recently moved into the complex aft er purchasing a condo in December.

“We have a neighbor in his 80s and a couple in their 90s and I feel bad for these people because she’s dumping her fi nancial obligations on all of us and trying to get away scot-free and I just think it’s wrong,” St. Clair said.

Cooke previously served as presi-dent of the condo association. Th e condos were built in the 1970s.

“I expect payment and don’t want to be bullied around because she doesn’t want to pay her assessment,” St.Clair said.

Cooke said during a phone inter-view last week about the April 24 memo that she had moved out of the condo and now lives with her mother in Kent. She said she had received foreclosure warnings from the bank but not a fi nal notice.

Th e mayor said she has had to start over fi nancially since her husband David Cooke committed suicide in June 2009. Cooke found out aft er her husband’s death that he listed their possessions only in his name, includ-ing the condo that he used as leverage for his Kent business ESP Printing, Inc. Cooke thought she owned part of the business but did not.

ESP Printing fi led chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in 2009 with debt of $6.45 million, including $4.7 million to HomeStreet Bank. McCallum Print Group bought the business in November 2009 for $3.3 million with all of that money used to pay off debt.

Suzette Cooke said she fi led for chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011 because of the high costs of dealing with her husband’s estate. David Cooke did not have a will. She said her mother lost money in the printing company as well.

According to U.S. Bankruptcy Court documents, Suzette Cooke had 11 creditors, including fi ve banks, two attorneys, a dentist and the estate of David Cooke.

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THE CITY OF KENT is honoring those employees who provide and maintain the community’s public facilities and services during National Public Works Week May 19-23. Residents can learn about public services fi rsthand by attending an open house Tuesday, May 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the parking lot

between City Hall and Centennial Center at 400 W. Gowe St. The free event features climb-on displays of public works equipment, including a backhoe, excavator and snowplow. Other highlights include interactive and informational displays in the Centennial Center lobby.

KENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL’S marketing students will display their skills as they promote a wide variety of companies at its 17th annual trade show May 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the school, 25800 164th Ave. SE.

Students will promote a wide variety of companies such as Starbucks, Jersey Mikes, Grav-ity Sports, and more than 80 others.

Local companies also will be on display.

The show attracts more than 2,000 children, students and adults from the surrounding community.


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“You have to have a sense of humor,” said the 76-year-old Colin, taking a break from her work at Kent’s Northwest Kidney Center last week. “Laughter is good.”

It also helps assuage the challenges, the responsibilities of working closely with those from all walks, patients who visit the center as many as three times a week for exten-sive dialysis. The Kent center serves 104 patients.

“You have to be a very unselfish person to do this type of work,” she said.

Colin, who was among the first RNs to establish guidelines and procedures for home dialysis care, retires Friday after 51 years of continuous service in the profession. She leaves her craft with a sense of fulfill-ment and lasting memories.

“It’s amazing. I never thought of it (being that long),” Colin said of her

career. “It does not seem that long.”

The Northwest Kidney Center was established in 1962 as the world’s first outpatient dialysis treatment center. Colin came aboard a year later, and has been a part of the forefront effort ever since.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Colin is the youngest – and today, the last survivor – of nine children. Her father was a plumber, her mother a homemaker.

Colin, who trained to become an RN in Brooklyn, soon was persuaded to try something new. When Lou-ise Colin earned a scholar-ship for a master’s degree in nursing at the University of Washington in 1962, she asked if her sister would come out to Seattle.

“I said, ‘What would I do there?’” Colin recalled. “She said, ‘They’re doing dialysis.’ And I said, ‘I have no idea what it is and what to do.’

“She said, ‘No one else does either.’”

The Pacific Northwest needed nurses for a novel idea at the time – outpa-tient dialysis care. Such a move in the 1960s brought significant change to how patients were treated, but it also shifted the dynamics and functions of doctors and nurses. Nurses began to take on a more independent role in the judgment, treatment and supervision of patients. At the time, Colin and her cohorts set standards that remain in place today for dialysis centers throughout the world.

The Northwest Kidney Center continues to educate the public about kidney health and collaborates with UW Medicine in the Kidney Research Institute.

All told, the Northwest Kidney Center’s staff of 590 delivers more than 250,000 treatments a year in 15 nonprofits’ dialysis centers and 10 area hospitals. It also

maintains one of the coun-try’s largest training and support programs for people who wish to give themselves dialysis at home.

Home dialysis, Colin said, is the biggest change in the industry. Patients feel better when they receive dialy-sis more than three times a week. “They feel much better. Infections are down; complications are minimal,” Colin said.

But sadly, according to Colin, in-center dialysis treatment has made little progress.

“Dialyzers have become smaller and machines have become more automated, but the best treatment is eight hours overnight,” Colin said.

But not everyone should receive dialysis, she said. Dialysis is not always the right option for patients with failing health.

Despite the challenges, the work in outpatient dialy-sis will continue but without an impactful personality behind it.

In retirement, Colin plans to make her third trip to

Italy in September. She plans to spend time with family and friends, feed her vora-cious appetite for reading and play Bridge.

She looks back at a career that has witnessed many happy and sad endings for her patients.

“Overall, it’s been happy,” she said.

Linda Sellers, public rela-tions director for the center, best summed up Colin’s time at the clinic.

“She has touched count-less staff members, patients and family members.”

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a video of the beating at school and laughed about it in front of teachers and students, Whitman wondered why the school couldn’t at least follow up by penalizing them.

“They recorded this beat-down and then they brought the fight back to (Mill Creek),” Whit-man said. She has yet to receive a response.

Danielle’s story isn’t unique. The girl has asked the Kent Reporter to remain anonymous, choosing a different first name and not using her last name.

According to another student, Alexander Long, there have been as many as seven fights at Mill Creek this year. One of the most recent fights left a girl uncon-scious and was broken up by se-curity officer Roberto Fuller and

two Kent Police officers. Students threaten other students with assault, attack teachers and bully other students both in school and online.

“Kids will be kids,” the old adage goes, but people want to know at what point does typical teenage behavior cross the line into violent and dangerous actions that threat-en students and teachers alike?

Mill Creek has a strong positive public image, an award-winning school featuring innovative pro-grams. But the newly renovated school at the base of the East Hill is dealing with a second, and much seedier face. Bullying, violence and disciplinary problems are rampant in the school, according to teachers and students.

“It’s hardcore, it freaks me out,” said an eighth-grader, who wanted to remain anonymous. “It’s taken to a level that no situation should

be taken to for any reason.”The student said that the school

has an anti-bullying campaign, but feels that most of the time it falls on deaf ears.

According to the student, stu-dents videotape fights on smart-phones in the school and post them to social media outlets such as Facebook.

Veronica Peters removed her daughter from the school over concern for her safety. The girl received a litany of threats and harassment on Facebook, say-ing that she was going to “get jumped” and “get your ass beat.” When they asked the school what they planned on doing about the problem, they got silence, Peters said.

“We went to the school, they said their hands are tied. We spoke to the vice principal and she said that they would look into it and

give us a call at the end of the day. They never did,” Peters said.

“It’s a school full of thugs, they have no discipline and they don’t seem to care to want to discipline anything,” she continued.

While one student said others like herself at the Kent Technol-ogy Academy at Mill Creek are insulated from the bullying, it isn’t as easy for other students such as Danielle.

Despite the stories of harass-ment and fights at the school, Mill Creek senior staff have done little to curtail the problems, say several teachers who asked to remain anonymous.

“Kids know there’s no boundar-ies,” said one teacher, “the kids run the school.”

The teacher explained that fac-ulty who send too many students to the office are talked to by the vice principal and told to refer the

students less. “As the year pro-gressed we would get in trouble for writing up too many referrals,” said a teacher.

The teachers continued to say that around two months ago, Mill Creek Principal Sherilyn Ulland told her staff that if they couldn’t handle the discipline problems, they should find work at another school.

Ulland denied the allegations that she had discouraged reporting or told her staff to be more lenient on disciplinary write ups.

“I’ve never asked a teacher not to report an incident,” she said.

Kent School District officials could not address specific claims and responses to bullying due to student privacy concerns. They did reassert their stance on the issue though.

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Q U O T E O F N O T E : “Billy was a champion of tribal rights, of the salmon, and the environment. He did that even when it meant putting himself in physical danger or facing jail.” – Gov. Jay Inslee on the death of Billy Frank Jr., a Nisqually elder and tribal fi shing activist.

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Editor’s note: Billy Frank, Jr., a Nisqually elder who fought for treaty rights, died Monday at age 83. Th e Kent Reporter is running Frank’s latest column in his honor.

Our environment, health, safety and communities are at risk from decisions being made

now to transport and export trainloads of coal and oil through Western Washington.

If coal export ter-minals proposed for Cherry Point near Bell-ingham, and Longview

on the Columbia River are ap-

proved, hundreds of trains and barges would run from Montana and Wyoming every day, spreading coal dust along the way. Th at same coal will continue to pollute our world when it is burned in China and other countries thousands of miles away.

Now that threat is joined by

proposals to use mile-long crude oil trains to feed massive new oil terminals in Grays Harbor. Safety is a huge concern. Since 2008 nearly a dozen oil trains have been derailed in the U.S. In December, a fi re burned for over 24 hours aft er a 106-car train carrying crude oil collided with a grain train in North Dakota. In July, an oil train accident killed 47 people and leaked an estimated 1.5 million gallons of oil in Quebec, Canada.

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Support the eff ort for a nonprofi t health center

We are writing in regard to the April 25 article: “Campaign in full swing to gain support for health center at Wesley Homes Lea Hill” (Kent Report-er, April 25).

Seven years ago we lost our mothers to lengthy illnesses. Although facilities were avail-able, our families found that skilled-nursing senior care centers were limited. As with many in our generation, we are beginning to recognize our population is aging and that there are still many needs that must be addressed to support our seniors in Kent, Coving-ton, Auburn, Maple Valley and all of South King County.

We are concerned that there is no not-for-profi t skilled-nursing and rehabilitation center in South King County. In our experience, this type of nonprofi t nursing home facility provides the best and trusted care for our loved ones.

It is needed now as well as in the future.

However, an exciting oppor-tunity is developing in South King County. It is time for us to start supporting the eff ort to build a skilled-nursing center for rehabilitation and long-term care – a critical part of the health care delivery system. A group of community civic and business leaders are doing

something about this. Th ey are volunteering their time and ef-forts to support building such a center on the Wesley Homes Lea Hill campus.

Th is Medicare- and Medic-aid-certifi ed center will have 36 private rooms with bath-rooms, providing privacy and dignity for residents and rehab patients. More than 80 percent of the rooms are projected for community-wide usage.

More than $1 million has been raised toward the $2 million goal to help build the $6.6 million health center. Th e City of Auburn, civic leaders, community service groups, businesses and a number of committed individuals are generously supporting the campaign. Interested parties may contact the Wesley Homes Foundation at 206-870-1126.

As lifelong South King County residents, we are blessed to be a part of this wonderful and generous community, and we need to continue to recognize and

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Seventh grade and fake limps

Th e subject this week is the seventh grade.I remember seventh grade as the time the

world ended. In the seventh grade, girls suddenly de-

cided I was surreptitiously swallowing snot. I immediately defended myself and said,

“No, no, it’s lumpy buttermilk.” Th en I would limp and throw my right arm backward and claim I had been gored by a cow. Maybe if I had said a Spanish bull ran over me in Ar-gentina I would have gotten their sympathy.

Th e great limp-cow gore whine always failed, no matter how many times I tried it.

Th e girls ran away and pointed.Th at still happens

when I enter a room, but it’s not girls anymore. It’s government offi cials – and everyone else.

Speaking of govern-ment offi cials and the seventh grade, aft er years of covering and following

many city councils, commissions and gov-ernment hopscotch, the images of seventh-grade cliques with pointing and giggling from across the dance fl oor keep returning to me.

With the 2014 political season offi cially breaking out of the gates, I have been trying to fi gure out the best method to choose a candidate for offi ce.

If the candidates are new to the elected positions, most of the ideas they put forward will fall off the cliff once they take a seat.

Government is designed to be slower than a teenager cleaning his room and about as transparent – despite all the grand statements about being open.

If the candidate is an incumbent and states that he or she is not a politician, become nervous and check for a rash.

Ask the candidate if an alien with furry hands fl ew in from the planet Make Believe to pound signs into the ground.

I thought maybe the test should be to fi nd out if the candidate has graduated beyond the seventh grade.

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Since I haven’t, I thought it would be nice if elected officials are at least beyond fake limps, arm throwing and claims of cow goring.

I considered trying to

interview some seventh-graders to come up with a multiple choice quiz, but they would likely use big words I don’t know.

The best course may be to practice my limp

again and check for furry aliens discreetly pounding in political signs for not-politicians.

Reach Dennis Box, Coving-ton Reporter editor, at [email protected] or 425-432-1209, ext. 5050.

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Community to honor Prothero

A celebration of Mark Prothero’s life is Saturday at the Kentwood High School Commons, 25800 164th Ave. SE, Covington. The open house is from 1 to 5 p.m.

Prothero – prominent criminal defense attorney, civic leader, community volunteer and coach – died April 19 at his Kent home with family at his side.

Prothero, who had waged a two-year battle with lung cancer, was 57.

Prothero is best known as one of the lead defense attorneys in the high-pro-file case against Ridgway between 2001 and 2003. As co-counsel, Prothero brokered a plea deal that spared Ridgway the death penalty in exchange for the Auburn man con-fessing to 49 counts of aggravated murder.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any donations be sent to either the www.Kent-ParksFoundation.org or www.HuskySwimming-Foundation.com.

It’s clear that crude oil can be explosive and the tankers used to transport it by rail are simply unsafe. These oil trains are an ac-cident waiting to happen to any town along the route from the oil fields of the Midwest to the shores of western Washington.

Plans for shipping crude oil from Grays Harbor also include dredging the Chehalis River estuary, which will damage habitat needed by fish, shellfish and birds. Large num-bers of huge tanker ships moving in and out of the harbor would interfere with Indian and non-Indian fisheries and other vessel traffic.

The few jobs that the transport and export of coal and oil offer would come at the cost of catastrophic damage to our environment

for years. We would have to live with that damage for many years.

Everyone knows that oil and water don’t mix, and neither do oil and fish, oil and wildlife, or oil and just about everything else. It’s not a matter of whether spills will happen, it’s a matter of when.

Thankfully, the Quinault Indian Nation is taking a stand.

“The history of oil spills provides ample, devastat-ing evidence that there are no reasonable condi-tions under which these proposed terminal projects should proceed,” says my friend, Fawn Sharp, president of the Quinault Indian Nation. “We op-pose oil in Grays Harbor. This is a fight we can’t afford to lose. We’re in it to win. Our fishing, hunt-ing and gathering rights are being jeopardized by the immediate and future

impacts of these proposed developments.”

Right now public hear-ings are being held and Environmental Impact Statements are being developed for these oil export schemes.

You can send comments to Maia Bellon, Director of the Department of Ecol-ogy, 300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503-1274.

I urge you to join the Quinault Indian Nation and the many others who are battling Big Oil on this issue. Email [email protected] or more information.

“We have a responsibil-ity to protect the land and water for the generations to come. Together, we can build a sustainable economy without sacrificing our envi-ronment,” Sharp says.

She’s right.Billy Frank Jr. was chair-

man of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission.

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reward the contributions our seniors have provided through the years. Now is the opportunity for us to give back by supporting this needed community resource.– Bud and Jan Battles

Reform? Send back illegal immigrants

In regards to Debra Harmann’s letter (“Immigration reform needed”, Kent Reporter, April 25), I wonder where she gets her infor-mation or her facts.

She says that Washington residents overwhelmingly support the passage of comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship. This statement is so wrong it is almost laughable. Ninety percent of the people in Washington do not believe in undocumented laborers, they are illegal aliens. They have entered our country illegally and should

be deported as soon as possible. They cost the taxpayer millions of dollars for health care, education and take jobs away from people that will do them regardless of the money they make.

My grandkids would love to work at McDonald’s for mini-mum wage just for extra spending money while in school, but they are being beat out by the illegals with or without valid papers who will do the job for less. The Mc-Donald’s by their neighborhood is like walking into a Mexican restaurant. I can hardly under-stand the help when they attempt to take my order.

She goes on to say, “We need real reform that balances border security and a path to citizenship here at home.” I agree with this because we already have these laws, but nobody follows them. If they were being followed, we would not have 12 million illegals in the United States and the fed-eral government wanting to give them amnesty, just for the main

reason that they will get reelected with this bigger voting base.

No, it is time to round these illegals up and send them back to their homes and give us our country back, both politically and economically.– Joseph Jacoby

Committed to the full term

I read Virginia Amato’s Auburn Reporter announcement of can-didacy for King County District Court Judge, Southeast Division, Position 5, wherein it stated the current judge, Richard Bathum, was retiring and endorsing her.

Now it appears that Judge Bathum may not retire as he too has filed paperwork with the PDC.

While I respect whatever deci-sion he may ultimately make, I am unequivocally certain I want to be elected King County District Court judge. Further, I can as-

sure voters that if elected, I will strive to serve my entire term. My commitment to my King County constituents is unwavering.– John M. Torres Jr.

Marijuana has its usefullness

I am a 66-year-old man who has worked hard all my life.

Three years ago, I lost my left leg four inches above the knee. A short time later, I started having what is called phantom pains. Pain from a part of you that is no longer there, but your mind feels as well as you. Horrible pain like you have never felt.

I told my doctor, and he gave me a medical marijuana prescription. I tried it to see if it could help. It has taken away the worst of the pain.

But you, the mayor and Kent City Council, are saying no the people that elected you. How and what gives you so much self-power? It’s not the people. How

did you decide you are the rulers over the people? You are elected and also can be removed.

You need to reconsider your thoughts.– Roddy Lee Orr

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PEOPLE DROPPED OFF 304 pounds of unwanted pre-scription drugs during a special collection day on April 26 by the Kent Police.

The collection was part of the DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.

“Thank you to all who dropped off all of your unwanted medications on Saturday,” the Kent Police posted on its Twitter account. “We collected 11 boxes for a total of 304.4 pounds. That is a huge step towards safe disposal and keeping medica-tions out of the hands of those that misuse.”

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EventsSpring WBCA Antique Bottle & Collectible Show: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 17, Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N, Kent. The Washington Bottle & Collectors Association presents its spring Antique Bottle, Insulator & Collectible Show & Sale. Great old bottles, jars, glassware, insula-tors, advertising collectibles, breweriana, photos, pottery and much more. Early buyer admission $5 on May 16; Free admission on May 17.

17th annual Kentwood High School Trade Show: 6-8 p.m. May 21, Kentwood High School, 25800 164th Ave. SE, Cov-ington. Marketing students display their skills as they promote a wide variety of companies such as Starbucks, Jersey Mikes, Gravity Sports, and more than 80 others. Local companies also on display. For more information, contact Austin Reynaud at 206-734-7399 or [email protected].

Sixth annual Kent International Festival: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. May 31, ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St., Kent. “Learn from Each Other” is a celebration of cultural diversity. Generations walking together, ethnic food, cultural and crafts booth, cheer hand carried float con-test and new festival finale in the evening. Free admission. For more information, visit www.kentinternationalfestival.com.

BenefitsKent Meridian Co-op Preschool Rum-mage Sale: 7 a.m.-2 p.m. May 10, Kent First Presbyterian Church 9425 S. 248th St. Proceeds to benefit the preschool. Children’s apparel, toys, books, household items, adult clothing and accessories. www.kmcoop.org

Breakfast For The Kids: 7:30-9 a.m. May 22, Kent Phoenix Academy gymna-sium, 11000 SE 264th St., Kent. Proceeds benefit Communities In Schools of Kent con-tinuing services in the Kent School District. Last year’s breakfast raised more than

$24,000 for CISK, a nonprofit agency sup-porting programs for at-risk students. Kent Schools Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas is guest speaker. Other speakers include Sen. Joe Fain (R-Auburn, District 47). The Windermere Foundation, Umpqua Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Omaha Woodmen Life Insurance Society Chapter 35, Kiwanis Club of Kent, Kent Station, WCP Solutions, Kent Police Employee Benevolent Association, and Kent Lions Club are sponsors. The Gold-en Steer is catering the event. The event is free but registration is being take online. For reservations and sponsorship opportunities, call 253-867-5637 or email Katie Adams at [email protected]. Free, but please order tickets at www.eventbrite.com/e/breakfast-for-the-kids-2014-tickets-9561058383. For more information, visit kent.ciswa.org or www.facebook.com/ciskent.

St. George International Food Fair: 1-8 p.m. June 7, Maple Valley Community Center, 22010 SE 248th St. Sponsored by St. George Episcopal Church. Admission: $10 adults, $20 family. For more informa-tion, call 425-432-5481, email [email protected] or visit midd.me/LSTQ

HealthPuget Sound Blood Center drives: Noon-2 p.m., 3-6 p.m., May 14, Zion Lutheran, 25105 132nd Ave. SE. For more information, call 253-945-8667 or please visit www.psbc.org.

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly): 6 p.m., Thursdays, Swanson Court Club-house, 12200 SE 207th St., Kent, near Kentridge High School. Nonprofit weight loss support group. For more information, call 253-709-5098 or visit www.tops.org or www.whywelovetops.com.

Southeast King County Parkinson’s Disease support group: Meets on the third Tuesday of the month, 10:30 a.m., St. John The Baptist Catholic Church, 25810 156th Ave. SE,Covington. Group’s monthly lunches are on the first Tuesday of the month at the Auburn Senior Activity

Center, 808 Ninth St. SE, Auburn. For more information, contact Stephanie Lawson at 206-579-5206.

Faith“The Making of a Champion”: 7-9 p.m. May 10, Calvary Chapel South, 1340 W. Smith St., Kent. Join us for a life-changing, inspiring night with guest speak-er, the Seattle Seahawks’ Clint Gresham, and special musical guest Brandon Bee. Free. For more information, contact Joe Monto at 206-234-8331 or [email protected].

VolunteersTeam Up 2 Clean Up Kent: 8 a.m.-noon, May 17. Three locations: Trinity Community Church parking lot, 3807 Reith Rd. (West Hill); Kherson Park, 307 W. Gowe St. (down-town); Golden Steer Steak & Rib House parking lot, 23826 104th Ave. SE (East Hill). Residents, neighborhood and faith-based organizations, civic groups, schools, youth organizations, businesses and families are encouraged to get involved. Volunteers can pick up free gloves and trash bags and get directions to the “hot spots” by meeting at 8 a.m. at one of three locations. Trash bags can also be dropped off at the same locations that day until noon. This event is sponsored by the City of Kent in partnership with the Kent Chamber of Commerce, Kent Downtown Partnership, Kent Station and Republic Services. Please register by 5 p.m. May 14 at KentWA.gov/TalkingTrash. For more info: Gina Hungerford at [email protected] or 253-856-5549.

Camps Resident Camp at Waskowitz infor-mational meetings: 6:30-7:30 p.m. May 14, June 11, July 9, Kent Commons, 525 4th Avenue N. Opportunity for parents and campers to meet the camp director and staff. Kent is one of the few cities to offer a summer resident camp for boys and girls entering the fifth, sixth or seventh grade this fall. The Aug. 4-8 camp, now in its 35th year, offers a wide spectrum of activities and professional management. Eighty-five percent of the camp counselors return. The camp, at the base of Mount Si in the Cascade foothills, is four miles east of North Bend. It is nestled in the woods on 360 acres of land. Cost for the camp is $320, which includes transportation, cabin accommoda-tions, supervision and all meals, field trip and camp shirt. Scholarship monies are available for Kent residents on free-and-reduced lunches. For more information or to register, please call 253-856-5030 or visit www.kentwa.gov.

Clubs, programsHeaven Account Explored: 7 p.m. May 12, Lifetree Café, Community Room, First Christian Church, 11717 240th St. SE,

Kent. An exclusive filmed interview with Todd Burpo, author of New York Times best seller “Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, will be screened. For questions about Lifetree may be directed to Bob Brooks at 206-653-6532 or [email protected]. More information is available at Life-treecafe.com.

American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Kent: 6:30-8 p.m., May 22, Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St. Team meetings. Open to anyone who has been on a relay team or would like to know more about the relay. Relay For Life enables a community to come together to celebrate those who have survived cancer, support those who are fighting it, and remember those who have been lost. This year’s Relay For Life of Kent is May 30-31 at Kent-Meridian High School’s French Field. To become a community sponsor, contact Lance Goodwin at [email protected] or 253-740-2363. Visit www.RFLKent.org for additional information and team regis-tration. Follow the relay at www.Facebook.com/RFLKent.

Community garden p-patch: Season runs April 1-Oct. 26, corner of James Street and 64th Avenue South. Gardeners may rent a 20-by-20-foot plot for the season for $45 plus a refundable $25 deposit. There are 44 plots available, assigned on a first-come, first-served basis once the rental fee has been paid. Returning gardeners are allowed a maximum of two plots per household. Open registration. For more information, call 253-856-5110.

Kent Black Action Commission Action Up Meeting: 3-6 p.m., every fourth Saturday from September through June. November and December meetings are on the third Saturday, Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N. Welcome all who live, work, or attend school in Kent or the South King County region to join us. For more in-formation, call 253-852-0614 or visit www.kentblackactioncommission.com.

Kent Evening Toastmasters: 7 p.m., Wednesdays, The Lodge, Arbor Village Retirement Center, 24004 114th Place SE, Kent. Are you interested in practicing and improving your public speaking skills? Boosting your self-confidence? Making yourself heard in that weekly meeting at work? Come practice your oratory skills with a friendly and informative group of people. With members ranging from begin-ners to experts, Kent Evening Toastmasters welcomes people of all skill levels. For more information, visit www.kenteveningtoast-masters.net.

Autism Support Group: 6:30-8:30 p.m., second Wednesday of the month, Kent Covenant Church, main conference room, 12010 SE 240th St. Share resources and encouragement. Childcare available with 72-hour advance reservations by calling Fa-biana Steele at 253-631-0222, ext. 325. For more information, visit www.kentcov.org.

NAMI Support Groups: 6:30-8 p.m., every second and fourth Tuesday of the month, 515 W. Harrison St., Kent. Friends and family support group for family members and friends who are affected by mental illness. Free. For more information, call 253-854-6264 (NAMI)

or email [email protected], or visit www.nami.org.

Valley Mothers of Multiples Club: First Christian Church of Kent, 11717 SE 240th St. Free. Inviting new and established parents/guardians of mul-tiple order children to attend monthly meeting for support, resources and social activities. Club has monthly speakers and group sharing sessions. 425-445-7845. www.valleymomc.org

NetworkThe Kent Chapter of Business Net-work, Int’l (BNI): Meets every Wednes-day morning at 7 at the Old Country Buffet, 25630 104th SE, Kent. Chapter is growing. Currently have 38 members. Do you want excellent, personal, word of mouth referrals for your business? Then come join us. For more information, contact Dr. Allan McCord at 253-854-3040.

Speed Networking: 5-7 p.m. June 19, Meridian Valley Country Club, 24830 136th Ave. SE, Kent. Presented by the Kent Chamber of Commerce. Free to chamber members, $20 for nonmembers. Register at www.kentchamber.com, by calling 253-854-1770 or by email at [email protected].

Reunions Kent-Meridian Class of 1959: 5 p.m. Aug. 15, 16, Hilton Garden Inn, 1800 NW Gilman Blvd., Issaquah. 55th reunion. Events on Friday and Saturday. Contact Reunions Unlimited at 360-866-8842 or www.reunionsunlimited.com for details and to pay.

EntertainmentSHOWARE CENTER

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

Reebok CrossFit Games Northwest Regional: 9 a.m. May 16, 17, 18. Semifinal round for the CrossFit Games season. The ultimate proving grounds of the fittest athletes on Earth. Tickets: $50 (three-day pass); $20 (general admission); kids under 12 free.

Sonu Nigam – Klose to My Soul: 8 p.m. May 30. Sonu Nigam is an Indian singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi and Kannada movies. He has also sung many songs in other lan-guages. Tickets: $39-$500.

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‘The Wedding Singer’: 7 p.m. May 7-10, 2 o’clock matinee on May 10. Kentridge High School Performing Arts Center, 12430 SE 208th St. Kentridge Players presentation. Based on the hilarious 1998 romantic com-edy starring Adam Sandler. The Wedding Singer is the story of New Jersey’s favorite wedding singer, Robbie Hart, whose life takes a turn for the worst when his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. That is, until he meets Julia, who is already engaged

to Glen Guglia, a Wall Street shark. Under the direction of Kentridge artistic director Jennifer Grajewski, music director Catherine Robinson, band director Tarik Abouzied and choreographer Eia Waltzer. Tickets go on sale April 16 at www.showtix4u.com.

Live music: Reds Wine Bar @ Craft Beers, 321 Ramsay Way No. 110 Kent Station, across from the parking lot. Tuesday jazz jam (6-9 p.m.); Thursday bluegrass jam (6-10 p.m.); Saturday rotating local musi-cians (8-11 p.m.); Sunday open mic (4-7 p.m.). 253-277-1852, www.redswine-bar-kent.com.

Theater campHeavier Than Air Family Theatre: Five-week camp begins June 23 and runs Monday through Thursday each week, Performing Arts Building, Green River Community College, 12401 SE 320th St., Auburn. For youth ages 3-17. Opportunity to experience the entire musical theatre experience, from the audition process to final performances. Camps culminate in live stage performances complete with costumes, music and choreography. Times, dates and cost vary by age group. For details and a registration form, visit www.heavier-thanair.com.

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: 25524 74th 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.MichaelTolleson-Artist.com or email [email protected]. The center also can be found on Facebook. EVENTS

Monthly Open House and Community Art Club: noon-2 p.m. May 17. Featuring a step-by-step group art project taught by Kerri McKeighen. For ages 10 and older. 3D painting projects available for younger students. By donation. Suggested donation: $5. Hosting the event in partnership with Aryal’s Gymnastics, which will have open gym with trampoline, bars, and mats avail-able for all students. $3 for gym members; $5 for nonmembers.

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

“We have zero tolerance for it,” said Chris Loftis, the school district’s communi-cations director. “We have procedures in place. Every report of bullying is taken very seriously.”

Ulland said that bullying has actually decreased dur-ing previous months.

“Our discipline percent-ages have gone down,” she said. “We have been looking at our discipline rate each month and the last two months all referrals to the office have reduced, so we are actually in a very posi-

tive trend.”She says that there are

a number of different counselors and support staff available to children. They include mental health services on campus and an AmeriCorps “mentor.”

Ulland was unable to comment on the situation with either Danielle or the Peters’ daughter because of privacy concerns.

“Everybody wants the best for their children,” Loftis said in reference to the withdrawals, “so when people take actions to get what they perceive is a better situation, that’s

something that we’re always supportive of.”

The district also faces a difficult situation with find-ing the appropriate penal-ties for problem students. Suspending a student for too long can cause them to fail out of school all together and “change the trajectory of their life,” said Loftis, while being too le-nient won’t get the message across.

The reality of Danielle and the Peters’ situations is that ultimately, unchecked bullying at Mill Creek can deprive good students of good teachers, instead

of getting rid of the bad students.

“Why does she have to go through the pain of this?” Whitman said. “Her protec-tion, and not having to hide is more important than staying at Mill Creek.”

While it can reflect posi-tively on a school’s report card to have a minimal amount of expulsions and suspensions, an under-reporting of incidents could prolong a problem that can eventually have serious consequences. Sooner or later, Whitman said, these students will grow up and trade the fists for knives.

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The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority (RFA) is accepting sealed bids for an

project. The deadline for sealed bids is

7525, for a nonrefundable fee of $40.00 per set. There will be an optional walkthrough of the project on May 15, 2014 at 11:00

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Kent, Washington. Any person

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VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

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Center Board of Trustees,

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unless changed by public notice.

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of applications for conditional

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OF KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON

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NOTICE OF HEARING FOR SALE OF PROPERTY

. In accordance with RCW 70.44.

Valley Medical Center hereby

real property belonging to the

declared this property surplus to the District. Prior to such sale, the Board shall conduct a public hearing and will consider any

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CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF APPLICATION

A Project Permit Application

application and the process for

Kent, WA.

May 9, 2014

The

Variance and a Critical Areas

a well within a wetland buffer

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tural.

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Kent Regional Trail Connector

gional Trail Connector, is located at the intersection of Puget

tinuing north along the west side of 64th before turning east to a

and ending at the Interurban Trail. in Kent, in King County.

trian and bicycle trail to connect two existing regional trails: the

tained throughout the course of

Creek. Any persons desiring to present

thirty days of the last date of

their interest within thirty days of the last date of publication of this

ity, and, if so, whether the project

public interest according to Tier

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A Kent Police officer shot a flee-ing bicyclist with a Taser dart after the man refused to stop during a pursuit.

The officer arrested the man for investigation of obstructing an officer and possession of drug paraphernalia after spotting two bicyclists riding without helmets at about 7 p.m. April 26 along 104th Avenue Southeast near Southeast 240th Street, according to the police report. City law re-quires bicyclists to wear helmets.

The officer pulled his patrol vehicle into a parking lot to stop the two bicyclists for not wear-ing helmets. One of the bicyclists stopped, the other one pedaled away.

After a short search, the officer saw the bicyclist who pedaled

away near the Chevron at 10715 S.E. 240th St. The officer activated his vehicle’s overhead lights and siren and used the vehicle’s public address system to order the cyclist to stop.

The bicyclist looked back at the officer but then started pedal-ing faster, riding southbound on 108th Avenue Southeast toward a footpath at the end of a road. The officer exited his vehicle at the muddy path and started to chase the man on the bike.

The cyclist ignored further orders to stop. The officer then pulled out his Taser and shot the man with a dart. The man fell off the bike. Police ordered the man to stay on the ground. A second officer arrived and the two hand-cuffed the man.

The man told police he kept riding because he feared cops after police had used excessive

force against him during a previ-ous incident.

Police transported the man to the city jail. Officers found a syringe and glass smoking pipe, which often is used to smoke meth or crack cocaine.

AssaultOfficers arrested a woman for

investigation of fourth-degree assault after she reportedly scratched her boyfriend on the face during a dispute at a bus stop on April 25, near 64th Avenue South and South 240th Street.

A passerby called 911 to report a man who had a woman in a headlock near the bus stop, ac-

cording to the police report. The two were last seen boarding a Metro Transit bus.

An officer went to the down-town bus transit center on Rail-road Avenue and spotted a couple getting off a bus who matched the description from the caller.

Police stopped the couple walking through the transit center and talked to them. The woman admitted to police they had a fight and that she scratched her boyfriend’s face. She said she was upset because he left her at home and went out with friends.

Officers also arrested the boy-friend because he had warrants out of Des Moines for operating a vehicle without an ignition interlock device and failure to appear for a driving while license suspended.

Officers noted the woman had no cuts, bruises or scratches on

her. The witness said she did not see either the man or woman hit each other.

False statementPolice arrested a woman for in-

vestigation of giving a false state-ment after she allegedly made up a name at about 1:48 a.m. April 29 in the 3600 block of South 241st Street.

Officers responded to a call of a suspicious pickup parked in a high crime area.

Police found a woman and a man near the pickup. The woman gave a false name to police because she had many warrants against her. Officers discovered the woman had warrants for theft 2 out of Seattle, failure to appear out of Fife and driving while license suspended out of Des Moines.

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ABOUT THE DOG TROTTh e Auburn Parks, Arts and Recreation

Department continues to accept registra-tions for the Dog Trot Fun Run at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 17, at Auburn’s Game Farm Park, 3030 R St. SE.

Advanced registration is $23 per per-son; on-site registration is $25 per person. T-shirts are included while supplies last.

Dog Trot is a family-oriented fun run/walk event that takes place in conjunction with Petpalooza.

Participants may choose between the 3K or the 5K routes. Th e course is fl at, easy and enjoyable for all ages and abil-ity levels. Strollers are welcome on the course; participants may walk/run with up to two dogs. Visit the City’s website, www.auburnwa.gov/petpalooza, for a complete list of rules.

Th e City of Auburn has contracted with BuDu Racing, which handles the day-of, ‘chip’ timing. Awards will be dis-tributed to the top participant in six age groups: child (8 and under); tween (9-12 years); teen (13-19); adult I (20-35); adult II (36-54) and senior (55+). In order to be eligible for an award, participants must compete with a dog.

Participants may register at the Parks, Arts & Recreation Offi ce, 910 Ninth Street SE, fax to 253-931-4005 or mail to 910 Ninth St. SE, Auburn, WA 98002. Th e

registration form and complete event rules/information are listed on the city’s website.

ABOUT PETPALOOZAIt’s an event for pet lovers and a special

day for your four-legged family member or other furry friend. Auburn’s inter-nationally award-winning Petpalooza festival is at Game Farm Park on May 17 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. It kicks off with the Dog Trot 3K/5K Fun Run.

Th e free event features live entertain-ment including, among others, Roving Reptiles, Radio Disney Seattle and Th e Parrot Lady. Petpalooza includes pony rides, the ‘Unleashed’ Pet Contest, an agil-

ity area, demonstrations, a hands-on bug zoo, more than 150 vendors and much more.

Vendors include non-profi t organiza-tions and rescues, such as the Auburn Valley Humane Society, Wolf Haven International and Greyhound Pets of America. You’ll also see a variety of local and regional hand-craft ed artists featur-ing an assortment of animal-related items. Also to be seen are service vendors, such as veterinarians, groomers and trainers, such as Family Dog Training Center and All Dogs Training Services. Attendees will also see a variety of commercial ven-dors such as Pet Pros, Well Pet and Blue Buff alo Co.

Also off ered throughout the event is a local competition of the 2014 Hyperfl ite Skyhoundz Disc Dog Championships. Hyperfl ite’s sponsorship of the Skyhoundz Canine Disc World Championship series is the largest disc-dog series in the world. Th ere is no entry fee for competitors, and admission is free for all spectators (www.hyperfl ite.com/competition.html).

Back again is the widely popular 20’ x 40’ petting zoo, a Kids’ AG-Ventureland Activity Area, GASCAR Crazy Animal Racing and Farmyard Follies Shows, all contracted through the Great American Animal Entertainment Co.. Th is petting zoo is a diff erent kind of petting zoo. Th ere are no barriers once inside the

enclosure, and all the animals run freely with the public. Th e zoo includes a wide variety of animals, such as wallabies, llamas and exotic goats. Th e AG-Ven-tureland includes goat and cow milking, corn and bean play boxes, pony sad-dling and more. Th e exciting GASCAR races is inter-species animal racing like you’ve never seen before. Goats, sheep, chickens, pigs and other surprise animals wear racing silks as they hoof and waddle their way around, and sometimes, over the track. Finally, the Farmyard Follies is a delightful show that includes animal behavior, hilarious antics and interesting facts.

New to this year’s festival are zebra and camel rides.

Th ere will be plenty of activities to keep humans and animals entertained at Auburn’s seventh annual Petpalooza festival. Petpalooza is sponsored by Green River Veterinary Hospital and Laser Sur-gery, Banfi eld Pet Hospital, Del’s Feed & Farm Supply, Reber Ranch, PetSmart and Petco. Media support courtesy of 100.7 Th e Wolf, Radio Disney Seattle and Pet Connection Magazine.

Complete event information may be found at www.auburnwa.gov/petpalooza. Find us on Facebook at AuburnPet-palooza. For more information, please call Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation at 253-931-3043.

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Petpalooza: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., May 17, Game Farm Park

Schedule highlightsMain stage entertainment – presented by Banfi eld Pet Hospital:

• 10-11 a.m. – Mark Wayne

• 11-noon – Matt Baker’s Comedy & Stunt Show

• Noon – Dog Trot Awards

• 12:05-12:50 p.m. – “Unleashed” Pet Contest (Sign up for contests at the event between 10 and 11:30 a.m. – until available)

• 1:00-1:45 p.m. – Roving Reptiles

• 2:00-2:15 p.m. – Full Tilt Extreme Disc Dog Show

• 2:30-3:00 p.m. – The Parrot Lady

• 3:15-3:45 p.m. – Reptile Isle

• 4:00-5:00 p.m. – Radio Disney’s Rockin’ Road Show

Other entertainment and activities:

• 9:30 a.m. – Dog Trot 3K/5K Fun Run (Free goodie bags to fi rst 100 early registrants)

• 10-5 p.m. – Event vendors – various sales, services and information available

• 10–5 p.m. – Kids activities, pony rides, face painting, petting zoo, bug zoo, shows

• 10–5 p.m. – Disc Dog Activities (Field B); Skyhoundz, freestyle demo, toss & catch

• 10–5 p.m. – ArtRageous Hands-on Art Zone (Field C)

• 10:15-noon – (Field C); Seattle Flydogs Demo, GASCAR crazy animal races, Farmyard Follies Show

• Noon – Pet Parade – everyone’s welcome – costumes encouraged

• 12:30-5 p.m. – (Field C); Seattle Flydogs Demo, GASCAR crazy animal races, Farmyard Follies Show

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Paul DeLean goes for a header in Kentridge’s soccer match May 1 against Tahoma. Kentridge lost to the Bears 1-0. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter

BY ROSS COYLE

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Th e Tahoma High School boys soccer team knocked Kentridge down to third in the South Puget Sound League North on May 1, as the Chargers struggled to pick up a single goal aft er Tahoma scored in the fi rst half for the 1-0 victory.

As the game wore on, a visibly frustrated Kentridge off ense made several key mistakes as it brought the ball downfi eld. Coach Glenn Walrond attributed some of that frustration to referee calls that distracted his players.

“Calls were made and we let that get into our heads, in-stead of just playing through it,” Walrond said. “You’re gonna have good calls and bad calls and instead of just focusing on if it’s a mistake or if it’s a call you don’t agree with, you gotta play.”

Th e loss of focus also

diminished the Chargers’ ability to make any shots on a goal, and gave Tahoma possession of the ball several times.

Tahoma and Kentridge each had four shots on goal, but the Chargers were only able to save three of those shots to Tahoma’s four.

“Th ere was no consis-tency, no fl ow to the game,” Walrond said.

“Th e frustration level is just way too high,” Walrond continued, “the game of soccer is supposed to be about fl ow, and you can’t get into a fl ow if you don’t know what to expect.”

Walrond chalks both teams performances up to a lack of motion in the game. Instead of a steady rhythm, the teams off ensive pushes were broken up by penalties and lapses in concentration.

“I don’t think that either team played great, and I think that it’s indicative that you have a game that

doesn’t have fl ow,” he said.Walrond feels his team,

while young, is where it needs to be and plans to place in districts. “We’re get-

ting where we need to be.Kentridge tied Mount

Rainier 1-1 on Saturday and lost 2-0 to Kentwood on Tuesday. Th e Chargers

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Tahoma blanks Kentridge in SPSL North

Kentwood’s Weaver returns home with Seattle SoundersBY ERIC MANDEL

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A traumatic injury oft en marks the end of a high school soccer player’s career. For Cam Weaver, though, it was the impetus for his suc-cess.

Th e Kentwood star stood on the sidelines with crutches following an ankle injury in the second game of the Conks’ 2002 state tournament run. Weaver was a fi rst team all-league selection, but had lost some interest in the game, quitting the club teams that are so crucial to elevating within

the sport. He had no defi nitive plans to play in college.

But as he watched his high school teammates limp to a third place fi nish in state, he couldn’t help but feel he was missing out on something.

“I had this strong feeling that if I would have been there playing we would have at least got to the championship game and been able to com-pete for a state championship,” Weaver said. “I was so bummed that I didn’t get to do that. I was like, ‘I can’t be done playing now.’ So I just de-cided to keep playing. I called the coach at Skagit Valley and told him I was going to try out.”

Weaver wowed at the nearby community college and eventually moved on to lead Seattle University in goals and the 2004 NCAA Division

II national championship. His pro career started in 2006 with the United Soccer League Seattle Sounders, where he was the league’s co-leading scorer and Rookie of the Year.

Aft er scoring 21 goals in 51 matches for a club in Norway’s top division and playing a role in two MLS Cup fi nals trips for the Houston Dynamos, the Kent native has returned home as a veteran reserve for the MLS’s Seattle Sounders, who currently sit atop the league standings.

Th e 30-year-old joined the Sounders on a try-out basis and has only seen action in one regular season game, but says he couldn’t be happier to be home.

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Th e second week of May has nurseries and garden centers full of fl owers just in time for Mother’s Day, brides and June grads.

Here are some green ideas for gift ing on these special spring occasions:

For moms who garden on the cutting edge:

Skip the traditional fuchsia basket or pots of ge-raniums and look for plants that are a bit unusual in-stead. Consider a vine like chocolate akebia with sweet scented puff y blooms, or an annual climber such as Black-eyed Susan or thunber-gii. Th ere are lots of new petunias available at garden centers this year including more of the bi-colored mini petunias or calibrachoa. If in doubt, look for plants labeled “Proven Winners,” and you’ll impress mom with your savvy shop-ping. Plants that earn the “Proven Winner” name are those that have been tested, evaluated and oft en times new and unusual. Cool new plants are aff ordable luxu-ries – that last longer than a cut fl ower display.

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now available planted in contempo-rary square containers, mixed in Tuscan-style pottery bowls or planted in

cubes or frames to hang on a fence or wall. Th ere are also popular perennials that come back year aft er year with very little attention or water demands. Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ is a summer blooming plant with fl at panicles of blooms that turn from green, to pink to rust as the summer turns to fall. Th e golden groundcover se-dum “Angelina” will crowd out weeds and turn into a living mulch that looks good even in the winter. Sedums and succulents will give any Mom a hand with developing a green thumb.

For moms who love color:

Wave Petunias for the sun:

If you want the most blooms for your buck I nominate the Wave petunia. Th is fast growing ground-cover petunia splashes across any sunny spot with oceans of bloom. You will need to loosen the topsoil, add some slow release plant food and water the young plants until they are established but in Western Washington these tough petunias have proven wind, rain and drought resistant. Th is year you can fi nd “Wave” petunias in bright shades of purple, pink and lavender. In hanging bas-kets or window boxes the Wave petunias also do well as long as you keep them fertilized and don’t allow the soil to dry out.

Hydrangeas and begonias for the shade:

Th e new hydrangeas that fl ower repeatedly all sum-mer include “Endless Sum-mer” hydrangeas in various colors and forms. You don’t need a lot of space to grow the more compact rebloom-ing hydrangeas such as Pistachio, Blushing Bride. In containers on a shaded patio look for the tuber-ous begonias with large rose-like blooms called ‘Non-Stop’ begonias. Th ese really do fl ower non-stop all summer even in the deepest shade. For morning sun or areas that are mostly shaded and then blasted with hot aft ernoon sunshine, look for the vigorous and viva-cious “Bonfi re Begonia.” Th is is a hardier angel wing begonia with numerous smaller blooms in bright orange or red that attracts humming birds from miles around.

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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 enve-lope for a personal reply. For more information, visit www.binettigarden.com.

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A lot has changed since Weaver left his home more than seven years ago, includ-ing the unconditional love for the Seattle soccer club, which averages more than 38,000 fans for home games, and the fact that Covington is considered a town.

“Nobody referred to it as a city when growing up,” he said. “Used to just be an area.”

Aft er signing with the Sounders, Weaver and his wife, Estrella, moved in with his parents, Bill and Julie Weaver, who still live in Kent. Th e pair eventually found an apartment in Capitol Hill and he is in the process of remodeling a home with his dad in Renton — roughly half way between home and the city.

Th e return home has predictably led to friends and family asking for Sound-ers gear, but Weaver loves how the city has embraced the team and is surprised to fi nd friends from school who are now diehard fans.

“It’s not something I would have predicted when I was growing up around here,” Weaver said. “It’s not something I’d have even thought about.”

Aft er years of playing heavy minutes, Weaver has taken on the role of mentor and veteran presence for the Sounders. Sounders head coach Sigi Schmid said Weaver has done well and provides lead-ership and depth at the center-forward position. Schmid said and he expects Weaver’s 6-foot-4 inch frame could be useful as the season progresses.

“He’s diff erent than our other forwards because he’s a big target in the air who is very dangerous in the air, which is

diff erent than what (Obafemi Martins) is or (Clint) Dempsey, or some of the other guys we have up there,” Schmid said. “Th ere are still going to be times going forward in the season and in the Open Cup where that aerial presence is going to be important to us.”

Weaver knows injuries happen and that it’s hard for the starters to play every minute of every game. He says he will be ready when called upon.

“Everyone needs to contribute at some point during the season,” he said. “You always have to be ready. It’s something I know and it’s something I’m trying to tell all these other younger guys.”

Th e Sounders dish nearly $6.7 million, plus bonuses, to Dempsey, their star player. Meanwhile, Weaver will earn just more than the veteran league minimum of $49,004 for his role this year. Weaver said he didn’t return to Seattle for the money and that pay diff erential is not a concern.

“Th e way (Dempsey’s) been playing lately he’s sure been earning it,” Weaver said. “He is a world class player. He’s been a good guy. I’ve been impressed watching and hanging out with him.”

Weaver suff ered a knee injury earlier this year but has fought through, just like he decided to do with the Conks 12 years ago.

Kentwood soccer head coach Aaron Radford, who was the JV coach in 2002, remembers Weaver’s squad as likely the most talented in school history. He said he recently ran into Weaver and they reminisced about what could have been.

“We both agreed it was one of those tailor-made, picture-perfect teams,” Rad-ford said. “Th ere’s something to be said about not being able to fi nish your senior year the way you want. It still leaves a little empty spot inside you.”

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T-Birds take Tyszka in WHL Bantam Draft

Th e Seattle Th under-birds junior hockey team selected defenseman Jerret Tyszka in the fi rst round, 16th overall, in the 2014 WHL Bantam Draft on May 1 in Calgary, Alberta.

Th e 6-foot-1, 165-pound Tyszka played for the Lang-ley Eagles in the PCBHL this past season. He played

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8 Kent schools earn state’s highest honor

Eight schools in the Kent School District have been awarded 2013 Washington Achievement Awards. One school, Martin Sortun El-ementary, won four awards.

Award winners are selected from indexes and data the state collects from standardized tests. Schools are recognized in several categories, including overall excellence, high progress, reading and math growth, extended graduation rate

(awarded to high schools and comprehensive schools only) and English language acquisition.

The Office of Superinten-dent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Edu-cation sponsor the award.

Schools who received special recognition in read-ing growth include: Car-riage Crest; Grass Lake and Martin Sortun elementary; and Kentridge High School. Schools qualified for the award when they are in the top 5 percent based on median growth percentiles (MGPs) in reading. MGPs summarize student growth.

Schools who received awards for high progress are: Kent Mountain View Academy; Kentwood High School; Mattson Middle School; and Martin Sortun. They qualified for the award by being in the top 10 percent of schools making the most progress in the performance of all students over three years.

Kent-Meridian High School received special recognition in English lan-guage acquisition. K-M is in the top-5 percent of highest performing schools based on the median point gain on the Washington English

Language Proficiency As-sessment.

Martin Sortun received additional awards: overall ex-cellence and special recogni-tion in math growth. Schools qualify for honors when they are in the top 5 percent based on MGPs in math.

“We are proud of these schools and honored to be recognized by Washington state for exceptional student achievement,” said Superin-tendent Edward Lee Vargas.

To more information and a list of all winners, visit: www.k12.wa.us/Educa-tionAwards/Washington-Achievement.

ElsewhereKent-Meridian’s Kate Khazoyan

and Kentridge’s Tracy Tran have won Boeing-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards. Khazoyan’s prob-able career field is biomedical engi-neering, Tran’s computer science. …

Fairwood Elementary School has been recognized by the King County’s annual Earth Heroes at School program. The award honors students, parents, teachers and other school employees who have shown a strong commitment to the environment

through ongoing actions in and out of the classroom. At Fairwood, through multiple projects, students and staff have reduced waste, increased the recycling rate and improved energy conservation. The school recycling rate went from 29.8 percent in 2011 to 45 percent in 2013. The school downsized from an eight-yard to a six-yard Dump-ster. …

Kent School District’s Parent Academy for Student Achieve-ment (PASA) recently graduated its largest class –300 – since its inception one year ago.

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