A DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING LOCAL | Maple Valley family copes with death of son [page 3] FULL TANK | Water polo team reboots at Kentwood High after combining with Kentridge in 2011 [10] FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012 NEWSLINE 425-432-1209 COVINGTON | MAPLE VALLEY | BLACK DIAMOND R EP O RTER Reygann Light, 8, holds 5-month-old Dachshund/pug puppy Snooki in front of Guardian One, King County’s search and rescue helicopter. Guardian One landed at Glacier Valley Community Park Aug. 7 as part of the neighborhood’s National Night Out event. KRIS HILL, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com Puppy Love BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected]If the primary election is any indication, it is the year for in- cumbents in the 47th Legislative District as the candidates head to the general election in November. In Washington’s top two sys- tem, only the top two candidates in the primary election appear on the general election ballot. In the Legislative District No. 47, challenger Bud Sizemore, a Democrat, took 46.65 percent of the vote, while incumbent Re- publican Mark Hargrove received 53.26 percent in the race for Rep- resentative Position No. 1. In the Position No. 2 race, Pat Sullivan carried a strong majority of 58.96 percent compared to Republican Andy Massagli’s 40.93 percent. In District No. 5, Mark Mullet, running as a Democrat, took 52.72 percent for the empty Incumbents maintain lead in primary BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected]Although the Maple Valley City Council has yet to vote on a pro- posed business license ordinance, several significant amendments have been made. Among the changes was the fee, which the council agreed to drop down from $50 to $25 aſter sev- eral council members expressed interest in keeping the cost for businesses low while recouping some of the staff costs as well. e discussions also clarified various aspects of the proposed license. City Manager David Johnston stated that essentially if an organi- zation needed to get a state license to operate they would need to get a city license. No business, however, would need to get a city license that didn’t also need a state license. Proposed business license gets makeover BY DENNIS BOX [email protected]Flaming Geyser State Park was topic of discussion during a legis- lative tour of the park July 31. State Sen. Pam Roach and Rep. Zack Hudgins attended the event. Daniel Farber from the Washing- ton State Parks and Recreation Commission, Ranger Jeff Vassallo and Larry Fairleigh, assistant director with State Parks led the tour. Located south of Black Dia- mond on Green Valley Road, the 520-acre park was purchased by the state in the late 1960s, Vassallo said. Farber and Vassallo pointed out the park has fallen on some tough times with budget cuts to all state parks since the recession of 2008. Fairleigh said prior to the re- cession the state parks were “two- thirds tax supported and now it is essentially a public enterprise…. We can’t maintain parks by just writing a check anymore.” State parks officials are trying to expand recruitment of volunteers, according to Fairleigh, but there are issues with providing staff to oversee volunteer programs. Vassallo and Farber outlined some of the specific problems with Flaming Geyser and the plan to bring the park up to desired standards. Vassallo said the electrical system failed in 2010 and an es- timate from Puget Sound Energy to make the system meet today’s standards came in at more than $500,000. ere are also problems with the outdated sewer system and water and the lodge currently has neither water or bathrooms. A concept plan for improving the park was discussed during the tour, which includes electrical, sewer and water improvements. e proposal calls for a tram or transit vehicle to transport park visitors during peak-use periods. Current projects in the works are a water treatment system and construction of a picnic shelter. Roach said it is important for area residents and those directly affected by the park improve- ments be involved in the progress and planning of the projects. “We have to realize there are 6,000 homes going in Black Dia- mond,” Roach said. “I am asking for a larger community discussion (regarding the park plan.)” Roach said the park will be a Flaming Geyser struggles with outdated systems State Sen. Pam Roach talks over plans for Flaming Geyser Park near Black Diamond with State Rep. Zack Hudgins and his son Sebastian during a tour July 31. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter [ more ELECTIONS page 4 ] [ more LICENSE page 4 ] WEBSITE | Check the website for breaking news, sports and weather stories. maplevalleyreporter.com or covingtonreporter.com [ more GEYSER page 4 ]
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Reygann Light, 8, holds 5-month-old Dachshund/pug puppy Snooki in front of Guardian One, King County’s search and rescue helicopter. Guardian One landed at Glacier Valley Community Park Aug. 7 as part of the neighborhood’s National Night Out event. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com
If the primary election is any indication, it is the year for in-cumbents in the 47th Legislative District as the candidates head to the general election in November.
In Washington’s top two sys-tem, only the top two candidates in the primary election appear on the general election ballot.
In the Legislative District No. 47, challenger Bud Sizemore, a Democrat, took 46.65 percent of the vote, while incumbent Re-publican Mark Hargrove received 53.26 percent in the race for Rep-resentative Position No. 1. In the Position No. 2 race, Pat Sullivan carried a strong majority of 58.96 percent compared to Republican Andy Massagli’s 40.93 percent.
In District No. 5, Mark Mullet, running as a Democrat, took 52.72 percent for the empty
Although the Maple Valley City Council has yet to vote on a pro-posed business license ordinance, several signifi cant amendments have been made.
Among the changes was the fee, which the council agreed to drop down from $50 to $25 aft er sev-eral council members expressed interest in keeping the cost for businesses low while recouping some of the staff costs as well.
Th e discussions also clarifi ed various aspects of the proposed license.
City Manager David Johnston stated that essentially if an organi-zation needed to get a state license to operate they would need to get a city license. No business, however, would need to get a city license that didn’t also need a state license.
Flaming Geyser State Park was topic of discussion during a legis-lative tour of the park July 31.
State Sen. Pam Roach and Rep. Zack Hudgins attended the event. Daniel Farber from the Washing-ton State Parks and Recreation Commission, Ranger Jeff Vassallo and Larry Fairleigh, assistant director with State Parks led the tour.
Located south of Black Dia-mond on Green Valley Road, the 520-acre park was purchased by the state in the late 1960s, Vassallo said.
Farber and Vassallo pointed out the park has fallen on some tough times with budget cuts to all state
parks since the recession of 2008.Fairleigh said prior to the re-
cession the state parks were “two-thirds tax supported and now it is essentially a public enterprise…. We can’t maintain parks by just writing a check anymore.”
State parks offi cials are trying to expand recruitment of volunteers, according to Fairleigh, but there are issues with providing staff to oversee volunteer programs.
Vassallo and Farber outlined some of the specifi c problems with Flaming Geyser and the plan to bring the park up to desired standards.
Vassallo said the electrical system failed in 2010 and an es-timate from Puget Sound Energy to make the system meet today’s
standards came in at more than $500,000.
Th ere are also problems with the outdated sewer system and water and the lodge currently has neither water or bathrooms.
A concept plan for improving the park was discussed during the tour, which includes electrical, sewer and water improvements. Th e proposal calls for a tram or transit vehicle to transport park visitors during peak-use periods.
Current projects in the works are a water treatment system and construction of a picnic shelter.
Roach said it is important for area residents and those directly aff ected by the park improve-ments be involved in the progress and planning of the projects.
“We have to realize there are 6,000 homes going in Black Dia-mond,” Roach said. “I am asking for a larger community discussion (regarding the park plan.)”
Roach said the park will be a
Flaming Geyser struggles with outdated systems
State Sen. Pam Roach talks over plans for Flaming Geyser Park near Black Diamond with State Rep. Zack Hudgins and his son Sebastian during a tour July 31. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter
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Maple Valley Food Bank and Emergen-cy Services is requesting new school supply donations by Aug. 22 to help local children in need start the school year prepared to learn.
Each summer they fill new backpacks with new, grade-level appropriate sup-plies for preregistered children, grades K – 12. Over 600 requests for supply packs are expected this year from
families in Covington, Hobart, Maple Valley, Ravensdale and within Tahoma School District boundaries.
See www.maplevalleyfoodbank.org for needed supplies and convenient collection sites around the community. Supply drives are also being sponsored by KinderCare of Covington and Maple Valley, La Petite Academy, Wilderness Village Apartments and a number of
area churches.
Monetary donations are always wel-come to support the bulk purchase of needed supplies. D onate on their secure website, mail to P O Box 322, Maple Valley, WA 98038, or get Backpack Bucks at City Perk Coffee, El Caporal, Surfrider Coffee Co. or Village Coffee. Registration for School Sup-ply Backpacks will continue through August 23 at MVFB&ES, 21415 Maple Valley Hwy during food bank hours.
SPAY STATION TO BE IN COVINGTON AUG. 28 AT
Pasado’s Spay Station will return to south King County on Tuesday, Aug. 28 hosted by Petco in Covington.
This will be a cat only event and reservations are required.
For more information or to make a reservation please email [email protected] or call 206-910-4495.
Anyone arrested in Maple Valley may end up going to jail in Kent if the City Council approves a proposed interlocal agree-ment.
Additionally, the city of Kent would provide court services for Maple Valley
under the interlocal agree-ment.
Currently, Maple Valley uses Enumclaw’s municipal court through a similar agreement which will ex-pire at the end of the year.
Under the proposed interlocal agreement, Maple Valley would rent Kent’s municipal court facility while retaining its current
judge. It would be consid-ered a separate municipal court apart from Kent. In addition to Enumclaw’s jail services, Maple Valley also has agreements with King County, Issaquah and Okanogan County for jail services, although the new agreement would only affect its agreement with Enumclaw.
One major difference between Kent and Enum-claw, however, would be an additional $85,000 in costs. While Enumclaw charges $60 per day for the use of their jails, Kent would charge $110 per day.
City Manager David Johnston told the council at its Aug. 6 meeting the reason for the discrepancy in costs is not because Kent is charging more, but that Enumclaw’s agreement was underpriced.
“The issue that we need to understand is we that we should have been pay-ing a heck of a lot more to Enumclaw,” he said. “We had that clause that no one from Enumclaw ever exercised saying we should review it every year. They chose not to do that, so we skated along with this no inflationary cost for court services and so I think the cost you see from Kent is probably more realistic to what we should
have been paying.”He also said that Kent is
cautious about not losing money, which is what hap-pened with Enumclaw.
“It may be an increase of $80,000 but it’s a fixed cost, a fundamental cost and particularly if we’re relying on another jurisdiction to provide the facility and staff-ing,” he said. “In talking with John, their city administrator, some of the sides I had away from them, and they said ‘This is new to us we want to make sure we get our cost down and recoup what we can.’ We say ‘Hey we appreci-ate that but if you’re going to have us be a customer be very sensitive with your price point.’ I think that message was embraced by all people at the negotiating table.”
The search for a new courthouse and jail began last year, when the City Council authorized Johnston to sign a new one-year inter-local agreement with Enum-
claw to use its municipal courthouse and the hourly rate for use was changed from $612 to $654.
Johnston told the Re-porter in November 2011 that Maple Valley’s use of Enumclaw’s courthouse was costing the city money.
“They’ve expressed some concerns that the volume of their business is getting bigger than the facilities can handle, and they’re cor-rect,” Johnston said. “With the volume of business that our growing community is sending down there it is really tough on their small lobby and small facility. We empathize with Enumclaw and respect their concerns.”
An in-house committee was then formed to look into possible options.
After looking at other cities, including Issaquah, Auburn and Tukwila, the committee recommended Kent as the most viable op-tion.
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Anderson Brautigam went down for a nap at day care May 1 and never woke up.
He was 18 months old.After seven weeks of
investigating, the medical examiner apologized to his mother Lisa Brautigam, and told the Maple Valley family the official cause of death was Sudden Unex-plained Death in Childhood (SUDC).
Brautigam, who is an environment and land use attorney for a local Native American tribe, got the call that day while she was mov-ing into a new office after someone had retired.
In the months since Anderson’s death, the Brautigam family has started a non-profit called On the Songs of Birds to help raise funds and awareness of SUDC.
The name was inspired by the little boy’s love of birds. At night when Brautigam would rock Anderson to sleep he would sometimes resist thinking he’d heard birds chirping or singing outside his window.
“All I think of is the squealing, ‘Birrrrrddddsss!,’” Brautigam said. “He was re-ally squealy about birds and we have a lot of birds in our yard. There’s a poem that I read, it’s on the (founda-tion’s) website, when I was in high school (a classmate) …
died of leukemia. They put this poem in our yearbook.”
A friend who had lost a child gave Brautigam a book of poems about grief and loss of children. The first page she turned to in the book was that same poem that was place in the yearbook in tribute to her classmate.
It also seemed so appro-priate for Anderson and his love of bird songs.
The organization was started for two reasons, Brautigam said.
“There’s the practical side of it, and maybe the fact it helps me maybe not deal with the grief side of it,” she said. “The practical side of what we’re trying to do and the purpose that we have is that I was struck really early on by what happened to us that evening on the first responder side.”
She credited Maple Valley Fire Chaplain Pat Allison with providing crucial sup-port to them as parents as medics responded to the scene then the investigation began.
“The other thing that hit me … when my son first died, a friend of ours on Facebook put out a post, ‘Please pray for this family, their son just died, they think it’s SIDS,’” Brautigam said. “So, I started looking into support groups for SIDS, but, because he was 18 months old, I was told he wasn’t in the parameters.”
Though she tried to find some services among the SIDS resources for parents, Brautigam found it wasn’t the right fit, and she got frustrated as she tried to find something to help her deal with as well as under-stand what had happened to Anderson.
She also discovered that because SUDC is rare, many parents with toddlers aren’t aware of it, and she felt like her family could do some-thing to help another family deal with the same tragedy hers went through.
“When you lose a child, I doubt there’s anyone who’s prepared for that,” Brauti-gam said. “Everyone started contacting me about making a donation somewhere and we had no idea.”
Initially she considered suggesting donations to SUDC.org but until they were sure that would be the official cause of death, Brautigam didn’t want any-thing in her son’s memory to go to the wrong place, “I wanted to make sure it was perfect.”
In getting to know Al-lison, the fire chaplain, and his wife, Brautigam realized there is a need to support first responders both on a national and local level so they started there.
The Brautigams also wanted to, once SUDC was the established cause for lack of a better term, support the national SUDC foundation.
“We wanted to sup-port the research because research is wonderful and it will provide answers in the future,” Brautigam said. “But, there are so many po-tential causes there’s always going to families grieving and unexpected loss.”
Setting up the organiza-tion, which she said is in the process of becoming an full-fledged non-profit, was one way Brautigam dealt with her fresh grief.
Brautigam’s older sister flew out from Atlanta and
stayed for three weeks dur-ing which they spent time building a garden. In part it was a memorial to Andersonbut in part it was a coping mechanism. She tackled the project with a pick axe.
“It started off with brought these hydrangeas home that we wanted to plant in the yard for my son,” she said. “Then in turned into this huge project with a bird bath and all these flowers.”
Family starts nonprofit in memory of son
Anderson Brautigam on Easter Sunday this year. His mother described him as a funny little boy. Photo courtesy of the Brautigam family
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HUMANE SOCIETY TO BE AT FARMERS MARKET AUG. 18
The Seattle Humane Society will be bringing their bright yellow,
38-foot, custom built mobile adoption bus to the Maple Valley
Farmers Market Saturday, Aug. 18, arriving at 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
The Max Mobile visits local stores, shopping malls, schools, festivals and farmers' markets every week
full of dogs, cats and critters ready for on-the-spot adoption.
The Maple Valley Farmers' Market is held at Rock Creek Elementary
School.The school is located at 25700
Maple Valley/Black Diamond Rd. SE.
The Humane Society of Seattle/King County, founded in 1897,
is a private, nonprofit animal welfare organization. Services
and programs include adoptions, veterinary services, dog training
classes, a pet food bank, and education.
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“huge draw” and an increase in traffic would affect Green Valley Road.
“We have to consider what we are doing to this road,” Roach said. “I love this park and 95 percent (of the concept plan) I am
very much in favor.”Farber said there are
no plans to increase the parking spots for the park and the plan went through the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) process with public meetings.
Farber described the
plan as improvements and upgrades, “not an expansion.”
Hudgins said state parks no longer receives revenue from the state general fund.
“The bright light for parks is it is the one
thing in the legislature that both sides work on
to find a common solution,” Hudgins said. “No general fund (revenue) is a huge shift for parks.
All revenue will be from the Discover Card
and internal fees.”
According to the parks website, the Discover Pass is a “vehicle-access pass” allowing access to Wash-ington state-managed recreation lands.
An annual pass costs $35 and a one-time pass is $11.50.
According to an execu-
tive summary document from state parks, more than $17 million in gen-eral fund revenue and $4 million in Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account will go away in 2013.
The gap is to be filled by Discover Pass revenue and other fees.
Exemptions for real estate dealers were also added to the proposed ordinance Johnston said in a follow-up interview that the city will only require business licenses from real estate agencies that are based in the city limits. Real estate agents coming into the city from other cities will not have to get a business license. While most of the council seems to support the proposed ordinance, Councilwoman Linda Johnson, who has spoken critically of the
business license at previous council meetings, repeated her concerns: the license is both poorly timed and would be costly for the city to enforce.
“I’ve got 670,000 reason why this should not be taking place at this time,” Johnson said. “We have never shown the benefit to the business community. This council is notoriously known for being business unfriendly. We don’t have the staff to enforce it. If we enforce it then we’ve got…more legal fees and we have no control over that.”
Johnson also said that
forcing home-based busi-nesses to get a license would create the wrong type of atmosphere.
“I think we need to be look-ing at this in a couple of years as we see the economy turn around. I don’t think it make any sense to do this now,” Johnson said. “They’re not going to go in for a business license anyway, so then we’re going to be turning neighborhood against neighborhood. It
already feels like a Gestapo city to me… I understand
that the time is going to come when business licenses are probably go-ing to be nec-essary. I don’t think now is the time to do it. I think we’re going
to break the camel’s back, meaning our city staff that is overworked already and we’re not going to be able to enforce this ordinance. It is just going to sit there or
it’s going to take resources from other things. This is not the time to be doing this.”
Council member Layne Barnes stated that cities like Sammamish and Covington have voluntary systems and yet also have a high rate of compliance, which vari-ous council members said would be how Maple Valley would handle its license, if approved, as well.
“I think that in terms of economic development and in terms of public safety and in terms of just general public good, I’ve heard a lot from citizens around town;
they are interested in us having a business,” Barnes said. “I think the time is now. I don’t think it has to be onerous. I certainly think we need to keep the fee as low as possible. I think this is the time for a business license.”
During the public com-ment section, Sue Van Ruff, executive director of the Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce, stated concerns about a section of the pro-posed ordinance that would allow the city manager to revoke a business license from anyone “who shall fail to comply with any ordinance or regulation of the city.”
“Once a business is interrupted… that busi-ness never recovers revenue from the interruption of business…it can be revoked for any city ordinance,” VanRuff said. “That’s a little concerning….I agree with Council member Johnson. This isn’t the time to do it.”
Johnston stated that a business would be able to remain open during an ap-peal process, which would be conducted through the hear-ing examiner, if the owner’s license was revoked.
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senate seat vacated by Cheryl Plfug. Brad Toft, a Republican, garnered 47.13 percent of the vote. For Representative Position No. 1, incumbent Jay Rode, a Republican, ran unopposed and took 96.57 percent of the vote.
In the governor’s race, Democrat Jay Inslee held a strong lead over Repub-lican Rob Mckenna, with 47.19 and 42.97 percent of the vote respectively.
In the attorney general race, Bob Fer-guson and Reagan Dunn advanced, while Stephen
Pidegon was eliminated. Ferguson, who is running as
a Democrat, took home the most votes with
51.76 percent, while Dunn took 38.33 percent. Pidgeon took 9.91 percent.
Both Ferguson and Dunn are council
members on the Metropoli-
tan King County Council. In other primary races of
note:
of state, Kim Wyman, 39 percent, and Kathleen Drew, 21 percent, advanced to the November ballot.
auditor, James Watkins took 46 percent of the primary
vote; also advancing was Troy Kelley with 24 percent.
appear to offer little in the way of drama, as incum-bents took more than half the popular vote. Breath-ing fairly easily are Insur-ance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy
Dorn and Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark. Incumbent Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen received 49 percent of the vote in a five-person race and incumbent state treasurer Jim McIntire is running unopposed.
The general election will be held Nov. 6.
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“I think in terms of economic development and in terms of public safety and in terms of just general public good...I think the time is now. I don’t think it has to be onerous.” Council
member Layne Barnes
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Th e political season has offi cially broken out the gates with the fi rst round of truth-or-dare coming about 8:30 the evening of Aug. 7, the day of the primary election.
Some of the best “I lost but I didn’t really lose” press releases fl oated across my computer screen the following morning.
Th e tortured syntax involved in these political high-wire acts goes some-thing like “I won, I won… kind of… (I got my head handed to me on a plate but I think my mom still likes me… maybe).”
Don’t count on it. Harry Truman was right. If you want a friend
get a dog – a little one – preferably one that can’t consider you a Lunchable if you lose the race for the big tuna.
Next comes the great debate by the self-ap-pointed truth tellers.
Th is is a wonderful time to be a very good listener and very discerning thinker. It is essential all voices are heard.
Th is is critical. It is equally im-portant for all to think indepen-dently and question… ourselves as well as each other.
Group think tanks abound nationally and at home.
I hear folks in the communi-ties I cover tell my how tired they are of this activist or that agenda.
I understand the frustration, but political activists must use high-altitude rhetoric.
If an activists sound like a diplomat negoti-
ating breaks on buttermilk tariff s no one will listen, or care.
In American politics, at both a national and community level, there is a place for hyperbole and hysteria.
Th e discerning listener is the key to this equation.
Because someone is angry and throws fi reball verbs, doesn’t make that person right… or wrong.
Anger is oft en used to justify poorly-posited positions, but I have found every once in a while that annoying angry guy is right.
I believe in language; what is said and how it is said matters.
I do not romanticize about the ideals of the
power of the people or the evil state or other rhetorical nonsense. In politics and life, people are complex in their motivations. What they say and how they say it, if listened to carefully, will reveal what they mean.
Th e beating heart of political action is all too oft en simply revenge by other words.
Th rough many years of covering and observ-ing political races at all levels I have learned our Constitution can withstand the best we have and the worst.
Not because it was written by God, but be-cause it was written by thoughtful, independent thinkers, who oft en did not agree on the shade of the sky, or anything else.
But they came up with a system that can withstand the worst and excel with the best. One vote, one woman, one man… it means just that.
Seeing the words socialism, liberals, and fascists in letters to the editor irritates me. Th ey irritate me because the way they are used is incorrect in their historic context.
Labeling people by using these terms puts individuals into boxes and diminishes their humanity—making them something less than human.
Labeling someone by using these terms turns the object of these attacks into two-dimensional caricatures, rather than complex humans that we all are.
As a high school social studies teacher I oft en had to deal with this labeling issue when I taught the political spectrum to my students; the political spectrum refers to a range of political ideas from diff erent parties.
I’d like to explain these three terms from a social science perspective.
Socialism: All societies have to deal with balancing competing values: What’s good for the individual versus what’s good for society—socialism.
Healthy societies are those that allow for both
individualism and socialism. As an example, unions were formed to fi ght
the abuses of big business, and the legalization of unions eventually evened the playing fi eld.
Unions helped to raise wages for all workers, creating a large stable middle class.
Because of socialistic laws we now have state and federal highways, public schools, police and fi re departments, Social Security and Medicare.
For most Americans, these “socialistic” pro-grams are popular and accepted because they give to society what individuals cannot do for themselves.
On the negative side, unions can be selfi sh and grasping, driving some companies out of busi-ness, and raising costs.
Also, communism, a more extreme form of socialism, controlled society too much in the Soviet Union and took away freedom and incen-tives to produce, eventually causing the collapse of the nation in 1991.
Liberal: Liberals are those who want to bring improvement for the masses—to lift them from their oppression by the wealthy. In that sense Jesus Christ was a liberal, as were Republican presidents Teddy Roosevelt, and William Taft , and Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. Th e way the word is used today has twisted its meaning to almost a swear word.
Th at’s why those who are liberals now call themselves progressives, reminding people of the good they did the nation in the early 20th cen-tury when industrial monopolies like Standard Oil and the railroad trusts were controlling the
nation’s economy and government. It was a time where workers slaved 70-80
hours a week being paid pennies per hour in very hazardous working conditions. It was an era when children as young as 5 worked in facto-ries and mines. Progressive newspaper journal-ists, called “muckrakers” by Teddy Roosevelt, revealed these evils to the public, causing laws to be passed that ended or limited these abuses.
Liberal policies also stifl e business and encourage people to rely upon the government rather than themselves, creating higher taxes, and excessive government controls on freedom.
Fascism: Th is is a term that came out of Italy in the 1920s and Germany and Japan in the 1930s.
It is a system of government where right wing dictators like Hitler, Mussolini, or Tojo ruled with the support of the big industrialists in capitalistic states.
Th is system of government was very aggres-sive and bullying and brought about World War II. Calling someone a fascist means that person supports a right wing military dictatorship sup-ported by big business.
In conclusion, using these emotional words, socialism, liberal, and fascism, in letters to the editor is a misunderstanding and misuse of the true meaning of the words.
Th ey are being used as shorthand for evil, where, historically speaking, their meanings are entirely diff erent.
My response to such words is to fi gure that people who use them as epithets really do not understand their origins or their true meanings.
● Q U O T E O F T H E W E E K : ”I doubt too whether any other Convention... may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices... and their selfi sh views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected?” - Benjamin Franklin
“Through many years of covering and observing political races at all levels I have learned our Constitution can withstand the best we have and the worst. Not because it was written by God, but because it was written by thoughtful, independent thinkers, who often did not agree on the shade of the sky or anything else.” Dennis Box
PARKIINSON’S SUPPORT GROUPThe Southeast King County Parkinson’s Disease support group will meet at 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 28 at St. John The Baptist Catholic Church.
The church is located at 25810 156th Avenue SE, Covington.
Tami Kapule, Incident prevention coordinator from the Kent Fire Depart-ment will be talking about program offered to prevent incidents and when to call for help.
Carrie Key, ACSM will give instruction on at home exercises.
The meeting will include a break out
session for caregivers.
Monthly lunches will continue to be the second Tuesday of the month at Auburn Senior Center 808 Ninth Street SE.
The next lunch is Sept. 11.
For more information contact Stepha-nie Lawson 206-579-5206
MAPLE VALLEY SEES RISE IN BURGLARIES IN JULYMaple Valley experienced a spike in residential burglaries and vehicle larcenies in July, according to statistics provided by the Maple Valley Police Department.
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I have been intensely watching the Olympics for the last couple weeks. But I have to admit, I had to cut back my viewing time the beginning of the last week. I hadn’t been sleeping well because I was going to sleep too late after watching TV, my muscles were atrophy-ing from sitting too much, and the suspense of want-ing our teams to win was keeping me on a constant, nervous edge.
Heck, I’ve avoided driv-ing with my daughter while she is learning to drive because I can’t stand the suspense of the outcome; that is an Olympic event for which her father is much more suited.
I’m not the type of per-son to watch suspenseful movies, so watching some of my favorite Olympic events was unnerving me. I mostly enjoy swimming, the women’s team sports and gymnastics. I can handle watching gymnas-tics and track without too much angst, they are over fairly quick; it’s the team sports that make me grind my teeth.
So when I sat down to watch the semi-final beach
volleyball match with the US’s Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh against China, I caved: I looked up the outcome online. This is unusual for me, because although I don’t like sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation, I won’t even look ahead to the end of a sus-penseful book. But I have to say it was rather enjoyable knowing the outcome of that volleyball match and watching how it played out.
One morning I woke up stiff and sore like I’d been playing beach volleyball myself. I decided turning the TV off earlier and look-ing up medal results online wasn’t quite enough for complete sleep restoration. What I needed was to get some exercise of my own before I sat down to watch athletes compete for gold. So two mornings in a row, I took a 30 minute walk. Then the next morning I decided I needed to get out into the garden. The morn-ing was overcast and cool and my garden was in dire
want of weeding, plus I had to take advantage of cool days before summer real-ized it wasn’t over yet.
As I was out in the gar-den working and sweating I wondered why gardening
wasn’t an Olympic event. While I was weed-ing away, I thought of all the tasks that often take Olympian
endurance and how they could be judged:
Weed pulling: judged by number of weeds pulled or by area covered.
Pruning: judged by speed, neatness, precision and accuracy.
Slug handling: I like throwing my slugs into the street. The slugs and I have a deal: if they stick the landing and can crawl back into the garden without getting run over, they get another chance. I also know people who cut them in half and throw them in the compost, or just throw them in the compost whole. Can be judged by distance if you chuck them into the
street or by ability to endure disgust (salt is not allowed); maybe it should be a glove-less event.
Bee endurance: judged by how fast you run away, how few stings you get when weeding around a bees nest, or for the tough-est of gardeners, ability to weed in spite of bees. Planting technique: judged by speed of placing plants, fertilizing and watering.
Garden design: judged by artistic placement, differ-ent textures, how viable the plants are for the climate, spacing, shape, and overall
esthetic balance of the design.
Finding hand tools in a compost bin: judged on speed and how many tools you find (points off for be-ing the one to lose them in there).
Noxious weed attack: judged by technique and knowledge of the best way to get rid of each type of noxious weed for the coun-try in which the Olympics are held; because one country’s noxious weed is another’s prized plant.
Hole digging: judged by depth and speed.
Composted dirt spread-ing (or putting your garden to bed for the winter): judged by preci-sion and balance around plants and amount of earth moved. I use bags of steer manure/compost blend, so this event could either have a truck load of loose dirt or be judged by number of bags emptied.
Raking: judged by weightof leaves gathered. Dead-heading flowers: judged by speed, neatness and area covered. So I’m going out to practice more. I’ll see you in Brazil in 2016.
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As they enter retirement age, baby boomers are once again at the center of the attention of marketers and industry. I speak from experience. Hardly a day passes by on which I don’t receive a letter, brochure or magazine in the mail, inviting me to go on a trip to far-flung places, continue my adult education, or join a community of like-minded, active seniors.
Aging has never been so much fun and so full of promise, it seems. Take, for example, the movie “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” which turned out to be one of the longest-running box office hits this year. In it, a group of retirees from England goes off to India (of all places) to start a new life that appears to be easier and more enjoyable than ev-erything they’ve left behind.
There is affordable health care, cheap housing, and, surprisingly enough, even job opportunities open up for those who have the cour-age to seek them. Some things may be a little chaotic, but that’s all part of the fun when you no longer need to stress over small stuff.
Unlike for its for-bearers, retirement for this generation – so we are told – is a new beginning rather than a move closer to the end.
The defining word now is “adventure,” which, of course, comes from the Latin term for “arrival.” Instead of fading away, this is the time to (finally) come into one’s own.This unprecedented optimism about the prospects of old age is also big business. Just
look at the self-help industry that thrives on people’s willingness to change their lives and start over again and again. Instead of the
twilight zone, the later stages in life are now called the “Power Years” (to quote one title among countless best-selling books on the subject), a time to break with traditional roles
and an opportunity for rein-vention and creativity.
“Due to longer life spans, economic uncertainty, and the mass rejection of yesterday’s model of old age, yesterday’s model of retire-ment is being transformed,” wrote the two lifestyle gurus and bestselling authors of “Power Years” (Wiley, 2005), Ken Dychtwald and Daniel J. Kadlec. “Instead of
viewing the years ahead as a time of decline, retreat, and withdrawal, we are coming to see this as a terrific new opportunity to reevalu-ate our lives, consider new options, and chart new courses. The next chapter in our life’s journey can be one of personal reinven-tion, financial liberation, career innovation, new relationships, and social and spiritual fulfillment.”
The authors suggest that the new retirees should con-sider themselves as “ageless explorers” who travel the world, start businesses and live life to the fullest at every moment they have left. Americans are especially receptive for messages like these. The idea that our best days are always ahead of us is an important part of our fabric, both individually and as a nation. But is all this
actually achievable or just wishful thinking? A much different, one might say, pessimistic, take on aging comes from Susan Jacoby, author of “Never Say Die – The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age” (Vintage-Books, 2011). Jacoby agrees that baby boomers have many advantages that were unheard of in the past.
“Many old people today – if they are in sound financial shape, if they are in reasonably good health, and if they possess functioning brains – can explore an array of possibilities that did not exist even a generation ago.” However, she continues, “at some point, nearly every baby boomer will have to cope with the shattering of vanity and self-delusion about the capacity to remain, as the song goes, forever young.”
To be sure, there is noth-ing wrong with trying one’s utmost to stay physically fit, mentally sharp, socially engaged and curious about the world. But we must also remain realistic about our natural limitations. More importantly, we must be aware that our aging process starts at birth. While this may sound a bit dramatic, it is undoubtedly true that taking care of our well-being is equally important at every stage in life.
The healthier we eat and the more we exercise, the better in shape we are, the better we can deal with life’s challenges, the more intact we come out at the other end. Life is what you make it, as the saying goes.
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While On the Songs of Birds is still in the early formation stages, there are plans for fundraisers in the coming weeks.
Brautigam, an avid triath-lon participant, said the first is a family fun walk set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 25 at Road Runner Sports at Kent Station. There will be food, a two-mile walk, giveaways and more. It seemed like the perfect tune-up for the Lake
Meridian Triathlon slated for Sunday, Aug. 26.
Beyond that, the Brauti-gams are looking for other ways to use the non-profit to help benefit children and families in the area.
“We’re looking for child enrichment projects,” Brautigam said. “There are thousands of kids in Maple Valley and we have two other kids. We’ve been working with and commu-nicating through the website
and my blog with parents throughout the country.”
There are also plans for a silent auction fundraiser in late January, but, Brautigam said, they haven’t found the right venue for the right price yet.
The family also hopes to help with the Maple Valley Firefighters Benevolent Fund’s golf tournament later this year.
Brautigam also said that if there is a family in need dur-
ing the holiday season that is grieving over the loss of a child, she wants to be there to help, especially if the loss is more recent.
“We’re so fortunate to have the services that we had in that horrible, horrible tragedy,” she said. “And we want to help anyone else who might go through this.”
Ultimately, as Brautigam, her husband Jeremy and their two girls who are 3 and 6, work through the grieving
process in their own and sometimes very different ways, she said that their experience is an important story to tell.
“There’s been a lot of good that’s come from this,” she said. “When all this happened it shows you that you’re not alone. We have friends that have been amaz-ing, friends that I knew were good friends, but it took on a whole new meaning.”
Anderson’s short life
did make a difference and Brautigam will continue to work to ensure that he will continue to make a differ-ence in the world.
Though the little boy, whom she described as hys-terically funny, didn’t wake up from that nap she will always think of him when she hears birds singing.
For more information about the Brautigam’s foundation, log on to http://onthesongsofbirds.org/.
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Water polo is growing in the Kent School District.
A game that will look familiar to fans of a number of sports ranging from soccer to hock-ey to basketball has been played for more than a decade at Kentridge.
Th is year Kentwood will have a boys team again in the fall for the fi rst time in nearly a decade.
Last season Kentridge’s boys team was allowed to have Kent-wood players on varsity for a sea-son, with the idea that Kentwood would recruit enough players to fi eld a full team this year, according to Sharon Wright, whose son Brian is an avid water polo player.
Sharon Wright is also a counselor at Kentwood who coaches both the boys and girls swim teams. Brian will be a junior at Kentwood this fall.
“Brian, my son, was an eighth grader when he opted to play with the Kentridge team,” Wright said. “As a freshman he had recruited more guys and we advertised it around the school because Ken-tridge had graduated a bunch of guys.”
Mike McKee, a Kentridge parent who coaches the Chargers water polo squad, said it was great having Kentwood players on the team a
year ago. “Th e league gave us this chance
last year,” McKee said. “Th e more people involved in the sport the better. It’s a great activity.”
But both he and Wright noted that other schools in the South Puget Sound League which fi eld teams — the sport is not offi cially sanctioned by the WIAA but is still popular in South King County —
were concerned that if a multi-school Kent team continued to play it would end up as an all-star type of team of players from throughout the district.
“Th e goal aft er last year was to be able to stand on our own two feet,” Wright said. “It’s an uphill battle in terms of advertising the sport and getting people interested in the sport as well as funding because
we have to pay for pool rentals and equipment.”
Kentwood and Kentridge water polo teams can’t get the kind of support from the schools they would get if it were an offi cially sanctioned sport.
“We have an uphill battle because both schools are not really sup-ported like other schools in terms of fi nances … they treat it like a club activity,” McKee said. “We don’t really have the big push from the schools to help us out, so, it’s a daunting task to make sure we get enough players.”
So that means it’s a little bit trickier because they are last in line for pool time, which especially hard because the Kent-Meridian pool and the Covington Aquatic Center are both booked solid in the fall.
It’s also more expensive for play-ers.
Luckily, Wright was able to get a $3,000 grant from the Seattle Th underbirds Foundation to help Kentwood get started.
“It’s helping us buy equipment because we literally had nothing,” she said. “So, we’re getting balls and luckily we’ll be able to use the goals at Covington. Hopefully we should be up and running for our fi rst game Sept. 11. We just need the boys interested in playing.”
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Kentwood’s Brian Wright, 19, keeps the ball away during a boys water polo match a year ago. Kentwood has its own team this year. Photo courtesy of Tracy Arnold
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High school fall sports have begun in the Kent and Tahoma
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to take a ride in a super gas car with an instructor from Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School Aug. 1 but I couldn’t go through with it.
As soon as I realized I couldn’t do it I felt bad because Jason Fiorito, who is president of Pacific Race-ways where the ride was
supposed to happen, had personally invited me.
It was a lead-up event prior to the National Hot Rod Association’s 25th Annual O’Reilly Auto Parts North-west Nationals Aug. 3-5.
I arrived at the track at
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Both cars go in excess of 140 MPH. Now, I drive a 2000 Ford Mustang, which has 190 horsepower stock and tops out at 120 MPH. I’ve pushed it to that limit in the past when some punk kid tried to pass me in the right lane in an early 1990s four cylinder Honda Accord on state Route 18 when I was driving, um,
more than the legal speed limit of 60 MPH.
Amazingly, enough, I have not yet gotten a speed-ing ticket in my Mustang. Knock on wood.
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Practices for both teams start Aug. 20, the same time tryouts for all WIAA-sanctioned fall sports begin at the high schools.
“We went from one player to nine in one year,” Wright said. “So thank goodness they let us (combine teams) because that allowed my guys to experience some tough games tough situa-tions than if they had just played junior varsity. We are really fighting an uphill battle but so far we’re doing really well.”
There are at least 10 boys who have committed to play for the Conquerors, Wright said, with a handful who are still on the fence.
Anyone who is interested can come and check it out. At Kentridge, McKee said, the first week is free.
At Kentwood, Wright said, they have two weeks to decide if they want to play. She suggested that boys who want to check it out ought to
go to the pool and watch. If they really want to get their feet wet, they can, literally get in the water to see if they like it.
“The first two weeks is teaching kids how to tread water,” Wright said. “Soccer players tend to make the best transition because it seems like the way the game is played is similar, except it’s in the water. And probably wrestlers, because it’s pretty violent under the water. The guys are tough, man.”
The game is playing in four quarters that last seven minutes at the varsity level. There are six players plus a goal per side. Unlike soccer, basketball or hockey, there are no set positions. Each player is expected to play on offense and defense. Like hockey, if a player breaks a rule, fouls, then he can be pulled out and there is a situation similar to a power play also known as ‘man-up.’
Like any other game, the team with the most points at the end wins.
As a swim coach, Wright likes to see her athletes play water polo in the fall because boys swim is in the summer, while the girls can play in the spring which could lead into summer swim league. Overall, it helps kids get into or stay in shape for other sports.
“It is cardiovascular, and it’s probably cheaper than joining a club swim team,” she said. “Plus the guys just love the game.”
Even with having late practice times around 8 or 9 p.m. with games around the same time, Wright said, the players “convince their parents they’ll get their homework done and they will get up in the morning for school.”
McKee said he sees quite a transformation in kids who were new to the sport.
“You see the kids before they started and after, even though it’s only a two month season, their cardiovascu-lar and endurance go up extremely (high) and often they dovetail it into their swim season,” McKee said. “Last year six or seven of our kids went to state in swimming. It’s a team sport so the kids have a lot more fun with it. I think the kids like that aspect of it. Usually most kids seem to love it once they commit to it.”
From his perspective, it’s good for Kentwood to have its own team in the interest of growing the sport in the Kent School District.
“From our perspective, it gives us a rivalry, but it’s a friendly rivalry,” McKee said. “We want them to succeed because we’d like the whole Kent area to consider adding this to our varsity sport list. Maybe this can be a ground-swell of something in the future for the Kent School District to consider.”
He gave Wright credit for putting in the work to help get the Kentwood team going by working with the coaches from the other teams in the SPSL to allow the combing squad to play last season.
“It’s really hard to get a new team going,” McKee said. “I’m hoping they are
successful this year.”There are plans for ad-
ditional recruiting, Wright said. She hopes to see more girls play, too.
“If we just get 10 girls who say, ‘Yeah, let’s do this, we can make it happen,’ and there’s so much more pool time in the spring,” she said. “As a coach, it’s a win-win for me, because they’re in the water in the spring when they might not be other-wise.”
For more information on Kentridge’s water polo team, log on to kentridgewaterpolo.com. For more information on Kentwood’s team, visit its Facebook profile or surf to kwswim.com/waterpolo.
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Kent School District No. 415 will meet for the purpose of adopting the District’s budget for the fiscal year 2012-2013 at 7:00 p.m. on August 22, 2012, at the Adminis- tration Center, 12033 SE 256th Street, Kent, Washington. Any person may appear at said meet- ing and be heard for or against any part of said budget. A budget has been prepared by the board and will be filed at the ofñce of the district superintendent from whom any person may obtain a copy upon
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Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Kent School District No. 415 will meet for the purpose of adopting the District’s budget for the fiscal year 2012-2013 at 7:00 p.m. on August 22, 2012, at the Adminis- tration Center, 12033 SE 256th Street, Kent, Washington. Any person may appear at said meet- ing and be heard for or against any part of said budget. A budget has been prepared by the board and will be filed at the ofñce of the district superintendent from whom any person may obtain a copy upon
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Pursuant to Section 10.4.2 of “The Villages Master Planned Development” Development Agreement (TV DA), approved on December 12, 2011, you are hereby advised that the Mayor of Black Diamond has approved a Minor Amendment to the Agreement. Application Number: PLN12-0018 Requested by: BD Village Partners, 10220 NE Points Drive Suite 310, Kirkland, WA 98033 Summary of approved Amend- ment: The approval amends Table 4-1, which contains an incorrect phase designation for Development Parcel V22-S. Parcel V22-S is labeled as Phase 2 instead of Phase 1A. The correction is necessary so that Table 4-1 accurately reflects the approved Villages MPD Phasing
Plan as set forth in Exhibit K ofTV DA. Parcel V22-S is a 2.5 acre optional expansion parcel for theEnumclaw School District origi-nally identified on the MPD SitePlan that was included as ExhibitA to TV DA. Pursuant to theComprehensive School Mitiga-tion Agreement dated January24, 2011, the Master Developer has agreed to reserve a portion of parcel V22 equaling 2.5 acresand to convey it to the District ifthe District decides to build alarger elementary school. This2.5 acre expansion area is referred to as DevelopmentParcel V22-S. Location: The Villages projectconsists of two subareas, theMain Property and the North Property. The Main Property islocated south of Auburn-Black Diamond Road (Roberts Drive) and west of SR 169. The North Property is located on the westside of SR 169, approximately two miles north of the MainProperty and north of SE 312th Street (if extended). The NorthProperty is south of and adjacent to the North Triangle propertythat is part of the Lawson Hills MPD. There is no administrative appeal of this decision. This decision may only be appealed by filing a land use petition in Superior Court and complying with the requirements of RCW 36.70C.040. For further information, please contact Steve Pilcher, Commu-nity Development Director, 360-886-5700 or spilch- [email protected]. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on August 17, 2012. #664590
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Jean R. RichardsJean R. Richards passed away August 6, 2012. She was born in
St. Paul, Minnesota on June 7, 1926, and grew up in Wisconsin. She moved to Washington State, and met her beloved husband of 61 years, Jim. Jean leaves behind her daughters Linda (Dan) Thompson, Sandra (James) Lawrence and Tammy (Steve) Kilgore. Also surviving are her brother David Schindeldecker, and sister Bernice (Schindeldecker) Nichols. Jean’s youngest daughter Kimberly and husband Jim preceded her in death. She will be truly missed by her six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
There will be a celebration of Jean’s life on August 19, 2012 at the Lake Sawyer Community Club from 12-4:00 p.m.
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The Jennifer Beach Foundation is hosting a pair of fundraiser events in August. The first is at 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Tacoma Rainiers game in Tacoma and is $15 per person, which includes reserved seats and a meal, while the second, the Scramble for Safe Families charity golf tournament, is set for 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15,
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The foundation, started by Covington resident Keith Beach, is a local non-profit direct service agency serving families affected by child abuse and
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To allow the Jennifer Beach Foundation to provide services and classes free of charge to clients, it will host two fundraising events in the near future.
Its name sake Jennifer Beach was a high school student who befriended a little girl that had suffered abusive behavior at the hands of a parent.
Jennifer wrote a poem “Bruised Inside & Out,” from the perspective of this little girl she met. Soon after the poem was written Jennifer was killed in a car accident.
The poem has helped others to feel the pain of those affected by child abuse and domestic violence.
In honor of Jennifer’s passion for helping others her family started the Jennifer Beach Foundation.
Our mission is to provide practical tools tovictims to help them get to a safer, healthier place in life.
The Jennifer Beach Foundation pro-vides services to adults, teens, and children.
Programs include Hope & Power, a financial literacy program for adult
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Teen dating violence education provides awareness and safety skills for this at-risk group. Kid’s Club is a program designed to help children that have been raised in a domestic violence environment learn there is healthier behavior thanto hurt some-one when they get angry or frustrated.
The foundation also provides advoca-cy-based counseling and emergency funding for shelter, clothing, food,
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