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A break-in at their food bank on Dec. 11 left the folks at Vision House wondering how they were going to make ends meet for their clients during the holidays.

But then, when word began to spread of the crime and the need, the donations began to flow from ev-erywhere and all of sudden the talk began to change into that most elusive of all holiday plot twists: the Christmas Miracle.

“Yes, we’ve been tossing that word around,” said

Vision House Development Manager Venetia Vango last week.

Vision House is a nonprofit organization that provides transitional housing to homeless women and families. Most stay at the facility and supplement their incomes through a small food and clothing bank, known as the “resident store,” located on the property. Presently, 23 families live at the Renton facility.

On the morning of Dec. 11, Vango and her staff arrived to find that someone had stripped the shelves

Vision House food bank robbed, restocked by donors within a week

BY TRACEY COMPTON

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For the 45th year Renton’s First Savings Bank North-west donated a tree full of knitted mittens, gloves, scarves and booties to the Salvation Army.

“Forty-five years is a long time…this is something that’s deeply rooted in Renton as First Savings Bank is,” said Carol Janssen, marketing vice president. “We’re 91 years old and just being a part of the community for that long and giving back to the community is important.”

The tradition started in 1969 when Tom Ross, a lending officer, suggested the giving, family themed tree to H.A. Blencoe, the CEO at the time. Every year since the company has placed a large tree in its lobby and watched as donations came from all over the community and country to fill its boughs from customers and non-customers alike.

“This is like nothing I’ve ever seen before,” said Major Kris Potter of the Salvation Army. “This is an incredible work of labor and love and effort from a whole assortment of people.”

Potter was amazed at the amount of color, shapes and sizes packed on the tree.

“It’s a work of love,” he said. “They call it a Knitten-Mitten Tree, but it’s really a tree of love is what it is.”

45 years of warmth and giving from the Mitten Tree

The Salvation Army’s Major Kris Potter and helper collect mittens, gloves, hats, scarves and booties from First Savings Bank Northwest’s Knitten-Mitten Tree.TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter

Venetia Vango, Development manager for Vision House stands in the recently restocked food bank that was robbed a week earlier. BRIAN BECKLEY, Renton Reporter

Teachers grow more unhappy with Common Core changes

BY TRACEY COMPTON

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Teachers and staff in the Renton School District are expressing their frustrations about a lack of support for aligning curriculum with the new national reading, writing and math standards adopted by Washington state.

At a recent school board meeting on Dec. 10, four teachers spoke during the comment period, one near tears, addressing problems with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. The standards are aca-demic benchmarks for reading and math that lay out what students should know and do at each grade level and after high school.

Fighting back tears, Katie Thorleifson, a teacher at Campbell Hill Elementary, reported that 11 out of 14 teachers informally surveyed at her school said they have thought about quitting.

School board hears complaints about lack of teacher voice in decisions that affect their jobs

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Some McKnight Middle School students got a hands-on introduction to animal brains in an attempt to better understand how their own brains function in teacher Dave Huff ’s technol-ogy education classes.

The assignment to dissect sheep brains is part of the new Medical Detectives module students are studying at the school. It is hands-on labora-tory practice to gain knowledge of the parts of the brain and how the brain works.

Students said things like “It wasn’t as gross as I thought it would be” and “I learned so much in this unit.”

Medical Detectives is a one-semester course that is part of the Gateway to Technology cur-riculum, provided by Project Lead the Way, a U.S. non-profit organization that develops STEM curricula for use by elementary, middle and high schools.

Medical Detectives is very similar to tradition-al science classes. Emily Seaman, former PLTW teacher and current sixth-grade science teacher at McKnight, was quoted as saying, “Traditional science classes are lab-based similar to Medial

Detectives, although the content in MD appears to be more challenging.”

Students get to do genetic testing for heredi-tary diseases and DNA crime-scene analysis, making them real-life medical detectives. There are many hands-on projects and labs that ex-plore the biomedical sciences and allow students to solve a variety of medical mysteries.

“Students investigate medical careers, vital signs, diagnosis and treatment of diseases as well as human body systems such as the nervous system,” said Huff in a email.

The course is being provided at all district middle schools and is an in-depth approach to learning that provides students a fun and unique way to use math and science skills, a district release stated.

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The REACH Center of Hope and the city’s cold weather shelter got the gift of 100 blan-ket from Waste Management Dec. 18.

The effort was started by employee David Della and Waste Management’s Operations Team, who organized quickly to round up all 100 blankets for the city’s two shelters. Lead Renton drivers Jason Lange and Russell Ruhle organized their fellow drivers to donate the blankets. There were also cash donations to purchase blankets from other drivers in the region. The company supports a nationwide campaign called “Blankets Across America” at the corporate level.

“It’s important because we’re part of this community,” said Alan York, senior district manager, about the donations. “We need the community to succeed and we have to give back to the community that we live in, that we work in and that’s what we’re doing today.”

The donations were presented to Center of Hope Director Dr. Linda Smith and Mayor

Denis Law. Smith said she saw a Waste Management truck on her way into work and said she has a new respect for the company, calling the blankets life-giving and much-needed for the city’s needy.

“This is really amazing, we are so thankful for this part-nership,” she said.

Waste Management serves more than 20 million customers in the U.S. and Canada and has about 30 to 50 drivers in Renton.

City shelters receive 100 blankets

Waste Management drivers Jason Lange, left, and Russell Ruhle, right, present 100 blankets to Center of Hope Director Dr. Linda Smith and Mayor Denis Law. TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter

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After more than 30 years of writing a garden column, this is still my most-requested encore column for reprints. So as a gift to readers, you can visit my website at www.binettigarden.com and download this Christmas poem for newsletters or other use with my copyright permission.

T’was the week before Christmas, and all through the yard, not a gift was given, not even a card.

The tools were all hung, in the carport with care, with hopes that St. Nicholas soon would repair,

The shovel with blade all rusty and cracked, the pitchfork still shiny, but handle it lacked.

When out on my lawn, (it’s brown and abused) I could see poor old Santa, looking confused.

No list had been left for Santa to see, no gardening gifts were under the tree.

But wait there’s still time, it’s not Christmas yet, and gardening gifts are the quickest to get.

You can forget the silk tie, the fluffy new sweater, give something to make the garden grow better.

If she wants a gift shiny, then don’t be a fool, it’s not a dumb diamond, but a sparkling new tool.

If fragrance is listed you can forget French perfume, it’s a pile of manure that’ll make gardeners swoon.

Give night crawlers, not nightgowns, the type of hose that gives water. (Anything for the kitchen is not worth the bother.)

Give a great gift that digs in the dirt, it’s bet-ter than any designer-brand shirt.

Now look quick at Santa, this guy’s not so dumb, Under his glove, he hides a green thumb.

His knees are so dirty, his back how it aches, his boots stomp on slugs, (he gives them no breaks).

Santa only works winter, you can surely see why, The rest of the year it’s a gardening high.

Elves plant in the spring, pull weeds mer-rily all summer, in fall they all harvest, but winter’s a bummer.

And so Christmas gives Santa a part-time employment, ‘Till spring when the blooms are his real life enjoyment.

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Parking garage sits there empty

I am a Renton resident who makes the dreaded commute to Bellevue in rush hour. I’d love to work closer to home or travel on off-peak hours, but this is not an option for me.

I was greatly concerned to read that the commuter park-ing spaces at the Renton City Center parking garage will be reduced from 200 to 150 stalls. This will not provide enough parking spaces. Residents of Renton will have to drive past an empty parking garage because two publicly funded organizations are not working together for the good of the people.

There aren’t other parking options. Ideally I’d park at the South Renton Park and Ride, as it is closer to my home. The information provided by King County Metro states that this parking facility is “usually full by 9 a.m.”; however I can confirm that the South Renton Park and Ride is usually full by 7:10 a.m.

I have driven around it many times, just to have to continue on my way to the Renton City Center parking garage. Once downtown I drive up four nearly empty floors to get to the commuter parking area. I’m there by 7:22 a.m. and the only spots available are only the very top floor. There is not a surplus of 50 commuter

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Renton City Center parking garage is owned by the city and managed by Diamond Parking Services. There is no addi-tional revenue to be collected by reducing the number of spots available to commuters. I’m sure that the garage gets additional use during the day that I don’t see, but I’m highly doubtful that there is full use of the over 300 (soon to be 350 plus) spots that are off-limits to commuters.

I know that the City of Renton needs to collect money from the garage, but pushing out commuters is not the solu-tion. The result of this action will be that the bottom floors of the parking garage will be even emptier than before and there will be less public commuters. Nobody wins.

I’m hoping that the City of Renton and King County Met-ro will be able to work together on a creative solution. Please find a resolution that will allow the taxpayers of Renton to use a public facility instead of it sitting there empty.

Leshell Bergan,Renton

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“They are at the tipping point; there’s so much piled on them that they are at their last straw,” said Cami Kiel in an interview Dec. 16. She is the president of the teacher’s union, the Renton Education Association. Kiel also offered her testimony at the school board of what she’s hearing from teachers.

Teachers have expressed concern about their colleagues and there’s minimal and very limited tools to align the Common Core Standards, she said.

“When we finally do adopt the curriculum, there’s no time for teachers to sit down and learn it,” said Kiel.

A substitute teacher shortage is also contributing to these issues as teachers can’t break away from their classrooms to get the training they need on the new standards. However, the district administration is aware of the problems and interested in listening to the concerns, Kiel said.

“They are really interested in problem-solving, but there are so many problems where do we begin,” she said.

The district has been working with teams of teachers for many months to adjust Renton’s curriculum and to provide updated classroom learning materials to align the Com-mon Core Standards and the Smarter Balance test that measure the standards.

“The work to adopt new curriculum and learning mate-rials is a lengthy process that requires the groups of teach-ers and district staff to be careful and thorough in choosing what we provide our teachers to present to students in classrooms,” said Randy Matheson, district spokesperson.

The work is daunting. One recent group of educators and staff were working to adopt elementary-school reading curriculum and after their review, they didn’t think the materials were good enough for their classrooms. So they started the process over with new materials.

Last year, teachers, principals and staff were expressing a positive and optimistic view of the new national stan-dards. Now, the mood seems to have soured as the process to align the standards to curriculum and do the required assessments clunks along.

“Most of all teachers are tired,” said Becca Ritchie, a sixth-grade computer teacher at Nelsen Middle School. “Many comments were made by my colleagues that October felt like May. Their workloads keeps them busy and along with that, now they have to prove they are good teachers. They do not have the energy to show up at a school board meeting or write an op ed piece. They can’t fit in one more meeting and because they are not there, neither are their voices.”

Ritchie has taught for 24 years at Nelsen and said that in recent years the school has been losing teachers in the double digits every year.

“I have experienced meetings where we are told ‘teacher voice’ is wanted,” Ritchie said. “I attended to find that all of the key decisions have already been made and basically the meeting is to rubber stamp those decisions and to be able to say ‘we had teacher voice.’ But it wasn’t authentic, true teacher voice. This is disheartening.”

Kiel called the district’s response to the disconnect in teaching materials a “crash course.”

“The district understands they need teachers’ voice, but how loud can a teacher’s voice be? I think there’s a legiti-mate rush to get things on the table, to get things done,” she said. “It’s a crash course rush instead of being really thoughtful and having the teachers’ voice that’s necessary.”

District administration maintains that they are com-mitted to doing better and providing teachers with the curriculum and teaching materials they need to continue to improve student learning.

“Our teachers are hard-working, caring, committed professionals who demand a high level of service from the district so that they can do their best in classrooms,” said Matheson. “We are committed to providing them with those materials and the support they deserve.”

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almost entirely clean.“What was left was just

a few cans of vegetables,” Vango said.

There were no signs of a break-in, however, and nothing was broken, so Vango is not sure how

the burglars got in. But, she said, she and her staff have decided not to press charges because someone robbing a food bank is ob-viously someone in need.

But that didn’t change the fact that as the holidays

approached, their cup-boards were now bare.

So the staff sent out an email to her staff and donors to let them know what had happened and the response was swift.

“Honestly, this is one of those years where financial

donations just haven’t kept up with the needs of home-less families. This makes it difficult for us. We have 575 people on our wait-ing list, 373 of whom are children,” it read in part.

“It just started the ball rolling,” she said of the email. “Pretty soon we had calls and emails coming in.”

Within a week of the break-in at their facility, Vango said stocks had been replenished due to a “significant response” from individual and corporate donors alike, including QFC and Fred Meyer, both of which donated truck-loads of supplies, and both did so almost immediately.

“We were truly astound-ed,” Vango said. “It was pretty amazing.”

On Friday, the Soropti-mist International Se-attle South Club donated $10,000 from funds raised at their annual “Christmas in October” lunch and fashion show. The group had received the email and wanted to respond.

Now, Vision House’s shelves are full again (and a new security system has been installed) and it looks like there will be a merry Christmas at Vision House indeed.

“A bad thing happened, but God meant it for good,” Vango said.

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The homeless man wanted a fresh start, so he walked into the New Life Church Nov. 30 and placed his backpack with all his worldly possessions inside on the stage.

About six hours later, after the Port of Seattle bomb squad detonated the back-pack, he was free to go with his possessions, including a Civil War-era knife.

The church provided him with hot meals and put him up in a motel for two nights.

The 34-year-old man walked in to the church on the Renton Maple Valley Highway at about 1:20 p.m., and placed his backpack on the stage. He told a security officer it was for the pastor.

The church was evacuated.The man left but then returned. He was

talking with Pastor Ricardo Quintana and security guards when Renton Police officers

arrived.“Everything I own,” he answered, when

asked what was inside the backpack. He was offering his belongings to God, so he could start over, get a fresh start.

Officers asked whether he had anything inside the backpack that could harm any-one. There was the Civil War knife and the rest of his belongings.

He didn’t feel suicidal, but he needed some help. He was talking and acting strangely, according to the Renton Police Department case report.

“There was enough lack of clarity of why he was doing it that we felt protocol needed to go to the next level,” said Quintana in an interview. He had several conversations with the man during the day.

The Port of Seattle bomb squad was called in. Although he was free to leave, the man stayed.

A technician spent about 40 minutes

searching the bag with x-ray, which revealed a couple “suspicious” items. The decision was made to implode the back-pack using water, which caused minimal damage, according to Quintana.

The blast slightly damaged the stage;

there was still something suspicious in the bag. The man was detained. Using a robot, the technician determined at about 5:15 p.m. that there were no explosive devices in the backpack.

Now the man could leave.

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KING COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICTREQUEST FOR PROPOSALSFACILITATORThe King County Flood Control District, is requesting proposals to contract with a facilitator to work with relevant parties to de- velop an alignment and concep- tual design solution for the Low- er Russell Road Levee project. The contract will be effective from approximately January 12, 2015, through March 30, 2015. Deadline for Submittal of Proposals: 2:00 p.m. January 6, 2015Information is available at: http://www.kingcountyfloodcontrol.org/default.aspx?ID=26All proposals should be sent to:Mark Hoppen, Executive DirectorKing County Flood Control DistrictKing County Courthouse516 Third Avenue, 12th Floor, W1201Seattle, WA 98104-3272(206) [email protected] Published in the Auburn, Kent and Renton Reporters on Decem- ber 26, 2014.#1206966

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The City of Renton, 1055 S Grady Way, Renton WA 98057, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Storm- water NPDES and State Waste Discharge Permit. The proposed project, Sunset Terrace Regional Stormwater Facility Project is located on the property bounded by Sunset Lane, Harrington Avenue NE and NE 10th Street, including work within the public rights-of- way on Sunset Boulevard, NE 10th Street, Sunset Lane, and Harrington Avenue NE, in Renton, in King County. This project involves 1.0 acres of soil disturbance for utilities and stormwater treatment facil- ities. The receiving water is Johns Creek, a tributary to Lake Wash- ington at Gene Coulon Park, in Renton. This project is funded in part by the Washington State Depart- ment of Ecology’s 2012 Storm- water Retrofit and LID Competi- tive Grant Program, Grant No. G1200544. Any person desiring to present their views to the Department of Ecology regarding this application may do so in writing within thirty days of the last date of publication of this notice. Com- ments shall be submitted to the Department of Ecology. Any person interested in Ecology’s action on this application may notify the department of their interest within thirty days of the

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In the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for

the County of KingIn the Matter of the Adoption: Of: Kayden Miller A person under the age of eight- een No. 14-5-01150-5KNT Sum- mons and Notice by Publication of Petition/Hearing re Termina- tion of Parent-Child RelationshipTO: Skyler Goetz nonconsenting father. You are herby summoned to appear within thirty (30) days after the date of first publication of this summons, to-wit, within thirty (30) days after the 19th day of December, 2014 and defend the above-entitled action in the above-entitled court and serve a copy of your answer upon the petitioner at the address below stated; if you fail to do so, judg- ment may be rendered against you according to the request of the Petition for Adoption and the Petition for Termination of Par-

ent-Child Relationship which has been filed with Clerk of the said court. You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed with the Clerk of the above requesting that the parent-child relationship between you and above-named child be terminated. The object of the action is to seek an order terminating the parent-child relationship between you and the child and a Decree of Adoption declaring the petitioner(s) to be the legal parent(s) of the child. The child was born on April 18, 2004 in the City of Olympia, State of Washingotn. The name of the child’s mother was Rachell Ann Sackrider at the time the child was born. The name of the child’s mother is now Rachelle Ann Miller. You have been named as the father or a possible father of the child. The court hearing on the Petition for Termination of Parent-Child Relationship shall be on the 30th day of January, 2015, at 1:30 pm in Room 1-J of the Regional Jus- tice Center, 401 4th Ave N, Kent, WA 98032. Your failure to appear at this hearing may result in a default order permanently terminating all of your rights to the above-named child. You may respond to this summons and notice by filing a written response with the Clerk of the Court and serving a copy of your response on the Petitioner whose name and address appear at the end of this summons and notice. If you do not serve your written response within thirty (30) days after the date of first publication of this summons and notice, the court may enter an Order of De- fault against you permanently

terminating all of your rights to the above-name child. The court may, without further notice to you, enter an order terminating your parent-child relationship and approving or providing for the adoption of the above-name child. You are further notified that you have the right to be rep- resented by an attorney, and if you are indigent and request an attorney, an attorney will be appointed for you. You are further notified that your failure to respond to this termination action within thirty (30) days of the first date of publication of this summons and notice will result in the termination of your parent-child relationship with respect to the child. You are further notified your have a right to file a claim of paternity under Chapter 26.26 of the Revised Code of Washing- ton. You are further notified that your failure to file a claim of paternity under Chapter 26.26 of the Revised Code of Washington or to respond to the petition for termination of parent-child relationship which has been filed herein, within thirty (30) days of the first publication of this summons and notice is grounds to terminate your parent-child relationship with respect to the child. You are further notified that if the child is either: (A) A member of an Indian tribe or (B) Eligible for membership in an Indian tribe and the biological child of a member of an Indian tribe and if you acknowledge paternity of the child or if you paternity of the child is established prior to the termination of your parent-child relationship, your parental rights may not be terminated, unless

(A) You give valid consent to termination or (B) Your parent- child relationship is terminated involuntarily pursuant to chapter 26.33 or chapter 13.34 of the revised code of Washington. Note: “Indian Tribe” is defined in 25 U.S.C. 1903. It refers to Ameri- can Indians or Alaska Natives. One method of filing your response and serving a copy of the petitioner is to send them by cer- tified mail with return receipt request. Dated this 1st day of December 2014 T. Lambeth, King County Superior Court Deputy Clerk. File Response with: Clerk of the Court, Regional Justice Center, 401 4th Ave N, Kent, WA 98032Serve a copy of your response on: Petitioner, Rachelle Mill- er/Andrew Miller, 4105 254th Ave NE Redmond, WA 98053. Published in Renton Reporter on December 12, 2014, Decem- ber 19, 2014 and December 26, 2014. #1203700

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3. Dif� culty breathing is also a problem that should not wait. Dif� culty breathing may be a severe cough, but more commonly it is exaggerated effort in breathing, with pets often using their abdominal muscles to help them breathe.

4. If there is active hemorrhage, of course, the pet needs to be seen by a veterinarian right away. If there are just a few drops of blood from a minor wound, it is probably OK to wait for your regular veterinarian.

5. If your pet has its � rst seizure, particularly if it lasts more that a couple of minutes, should be examined immediately.

6. If your pet ingests a toxin, particularly antifreeze, they should be taken to the emergency hospital as soon as possible. The doctor may induce vomiting to try to eliminate the absorption of the toxin, so time is important.

7. If your pet is pregnant, and is having dif� culty having the babies, it should see the emergency veterinarian. If sever, this problem may require an emergency caesarean section.

Of course, there are many other problems that pets can have.

If you need advice on whether your pet’s symptoms should have immediate attention, call your Veterinarian or the local Emergency Hospital for advice. They will be happy to discuss your pet and their problem.

right away. Glaucoma, corneal ulcers, and foreign bodies beneath the eyelids are very serious and may lead to

2. Profuse vomiting is another sign that needs immediate attention. It does not take very long for a pet, particularly a small one to become dangerously dehydrated.

3. Dif� culty breathing is also a problem that should not wait. Dif� culty breathing may be a severe cough, but more commonly it is exaggerated effort in breathing, with pets often using their abdominal muscles to help them breathe.

4. If there is active hemorrhage, of course, the pet needs to be seen by a veterinarian right away. If there are just a few drops of blood from a minor wound, it is probably OK

5. If your pet has its � rst seizure, particularly if it lasts more that a couple of minutes, should be examined

6. If your pet ingests a toxin, particularly antifreeze, they should be taken to the emergency hospital as soon as possible. The doctor may induce vomiting to try to eliminate the absorption of the toxin, so time is important.

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Renton Rotary has selected its Decem-ber Teachers of the Month.

Molly Dundon is a preschool teacher at Meadow Crest Early Learning Center.

She attended Gonzaga University in Spokane where she majored in special education with endorsements in early childhood special edu-cation and elementary education. She plans to continue her education to earn a master’s. Be-fore working in Renton,

Dundon student taught in Spokane at a school for students with autism. She has been working in Renton for two years.

Jodi Hall is an integrated kindergarten teacher at Renton Park Elementary School. Hall attended City Univer-sity where she earned a bachelor’s degree with dual endorsement in elementary education and special education. Before becoming a teacher, Hall worked

in a daycare and worked as a paraedu-cator. This is her sixth year teaching in Renton.

Jessi Traughber is a 7th/8th grade communications and Spanish teacher at McKnight Middle School. Traughber

attended the Univer-sity of Idaho where she earned a bachelor’s in English and Spanish. She is currently enrolled in a master’s program with an emphasis on teaching English Lan-guage Learners. Before becoming a teacher, Traughber worked as a

substitute teacher in Shoreline and taught private Spanish lessons. This is her fourth year working in the Renton School District.

As part of the recognition, teachers attend Rotary’s Teacher of the Month recognition luncheon held at the Maple-wood Golf Course. Each teacher is in-troduced, makes a brief comment about their school and classroom, and receives $200 to be used for classroom supplies, or instructional materials.

Molly Dundon

Jodi Hall

Jessi Traughber

Renton RotaryTeachers of the Month

Metro announces holiday schedule

King County Metro Transit reminds riders that buses will operate on Sunday and reduced weekday schedules during the holidays, including the final week of the year.

Using a limited schedule over holiday periods from November through January is estimated to save Metro about $1 million each year.

Reduced weekday service offers more service than on weekends, but somewhat less service than on normal weekdays. Some commuter and school-ori-ented routes do not oper-ate, and other routes have individual trips canceled. Also, some trips and routes serving the University of Washington are canceled when the university is not in session.

Sunday schedules will be in effect on the follow-ing holidays:

• Thursday, Dec. 25 – Christmas; and

• Thursday, Jan. 1 – New Year’s Day.

The reduced weekday schedule and no UW will be in effect on:

• Wednesday, Dec. 24 – Christmas Eve;

• Friday and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 29, 30, 31 – winter holiday period, weekdays only

• Monday, Jan. 19 – Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Day

Many routes will have no changes.

An overview of all Metro holiday service is online. Visit Metro Online for more transit information, or call the Customer Infor-

mation Office at 206-553-3000.

Metro offices, including the Customer Informa-tion phone line, and Lost and Found and Pass Sales counters, will be closed on holidays.

The following information was compiled from Renton Police Department case reports.

BY DEAN A. RADFORD

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Officers found them asleep in the front seat of the sedan at about 8:30 a.m. on Northeast 16th Street, a glass pipe on her lap and aluminum foil covered with burn marks on his lap.

The officers stood there for several min-utes; the car was idling in park. The glass pipe is typically used to smoke narcotics. There were plastic bags inside a pouch on

his lap.There were a Stihl blower and a Stihl

trimmer in the back seat.They startled awake when an officer

tapped on the window. The man started to cry when he was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia. The drugs weren’t his. The woman tried to push the drug para-phernalia off her lap.

She was arrested; the officer found what appeared to be heroin. But she told the officer it was brown sugar made to look like heroin. A girl had given her the fake heroin (bunk) to sell if she needed money.

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They had already smoked all the real heroin.Then there were the blower and trimmer in the back

seat. She had driven the man and two others to an apart-ment complex on Maple Valley Highway, where the tools and other garden tools were stolen.

The officer called dispatch; the apartment manager was calling 911 to report the stolen tools which all had owner-ship markings.

The two Renton residents were allowed to leave; the vehicle was seized as evidence. Both are known from prior contact with officers.

THIS IS NOT THE DRIVE IN: A silver Toyota Camry caught the attention of a resident on South Tobin Street Dec. 1 at about 9:30 p.m. after it hadn’t moved for about two hours. She called police.

An officer found a man and woman inside, watching a movie on a cellphone.

The officer checked for warrants, dis-covering the man was wanted on one in Pierce County. A meet was arranged to turn over the 28-year-old Renton man to a Washington State Patrol trooper.

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