December 21, 2012 edition of the Covington/Maple Valley Reporter
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A DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING LOCAL | New holiday tree lights up Don Henning Roundabout [page 2] BUZZ ABOUT THE BEARS | Tahoma High’s boys basketball off to a hot start to the 2012-2013 season [9] FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012 NEWSLINE 425-432-1209 COVINGTON | MAPLE VALLEY | BLACK DIAMOND R EP O RTER BY DENNIS BOX [email protected]A handful of legal decisions were issued recently related to YarrowBay’s master planned developments in Black Diamond, e Villages and Lawson Hills. Superior Court Judge Patrick Oishi granted a YarowBay motion to dismiss the appeal of the development agree- ments for the developments Dec. 5. In the court documents Oishi wrote that the petition- ers, Toward Responsible Development, missed three court ordered deadlines — Oct. 10, Nov. 2 and Nov. 26 — to pay the city’s cost for preparing the record. In the conclusions Oishi wrote, “TRD in its response to the third motion (to dismiss by YarrowBay), concedes that dismissal is warranted to allow issues to be resolved by the Court of Appeals.” TRD can appeal the dismissal to the Court of Appeals. Still pending before the Court of Appeals is the Land Use Petition Act, or LUPA, appeal of the master planned development permits. Oishi ruled in favor of the city and YarrowBay in August dismissing the LUPA appeal petition. e ruling was appealed by TRD to the Court of Ap- peals. A hearing date has not been set, but TRD’s opening brief is due Jan. 10. In another legal decision regarding the developments, the city’s hearing examiner issued a recommendation of approval on YarrowBay’s preliminary plat. A plat is a map which shows the divisions of a piece of land shown to scale. According to a release from YarrowBay, the plat in- cludes “782 residences, 190,000 square feet of commercial development, two large parks, trails, open space and one elementary school site for the Enumclaw School District. e plat is designed to accommodate single family, multi- family, commercial, retail and school uses.” Reach Dennis Box at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5050. To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyre- porter.com. Progress in legal cases against YarrowBay BY KRIS HILL [email protected]Mario Andretti, a racing legend whose resume includes wins in NASCAR’s Daytona 500 as well as the Indianapolis 500 among many others, helped open the new Firestone in Covington Dec. 14 and broke the ceremonial scissors in the process. e racing legend signed the broken scissors. Turns out he wasn’t the first one, according to staff from the Covington Cham- ber of Commerce. It was a light moment dur- ing what was a joyous grand opening for a new Covington business. Andretti, whose relationship with Firestone since he started racing decades ago, has helped open eight Firestone stores this year including the one in Covington. He explained the company is selective about which stores he makes appearances at, so, it’s something special for him to visit. “ese stores are fabulous,” Andretti said. “It’s all about trying to create some aware- ness that they’re here. Firestone, they’re a very good neighbor. When they come into the com- munity, they become a part of it. ey’ll be a good asset.” He commended the design of the store, describing it as “efficient,” while Firestone will provide a full line of tires and services for cars. Andretti added that Firestone selects locations like Covington because the company sees value in communities that are invest- ing in development. During the grand opening ceremony, Firestone donated $500 each to Meals on Wheels and the Covington Rotary Club, demonstrating what Andretti explained about the company’s involvement in the community. It’s something that city of- ficials are pleased about as well, as Covington Mayor Margaret Harto noted. “We are excited to have Fires- tone come to Covington,” Harto said. “ey’re not just sitting on this corner trying to get your business. ey’re involved in this community.” With the addition of Fires- tone, Harto said, it enhances the city’s mission to make Coving- ton a great place to shop, work and play. is wasn’t his first trip to the Pacific Northwest or the Coving- ton area. Andretti raced once at Pacific Raceways on the road course. “I have a faint memory of it,” Andretti said. “I think it was back in the late ‘60s, could be ‘68 actually. I remember that I finished second … other than that, the closest I’ve raced in Racing legend helps open new business Isabella Jocz, 6, asks Mario Andretti to sign her pink fedora during Covington Firestone’s grand opening event Dec. 14. Fans of all ages waited for Andretti, who has won races in a variety of cars, to sign hats, posters, programs and die cast model cars. KRIS HILL, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com. COVINGTON BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected]With the approval of the 2013 budget two positions were elimi- nated from Maple Valley’s payroll: city attorney and community development director. e Maple Valley City Council approved the 2013 budget at its meeting Monday. Before the council approved the budget, it first approved an em- ployment sepa- ration agree- ment with City Attorney Christy Todd. As part of the agreement, Todd will be given six months sever- ance pay and benefits. “It was my sincere pleasure to serve the city of Maple Valley for the past five years,” Todd wrote in an email. “Maple Valley is truly a unique City and I treasure the op- portunities I was given here.” Maple Valley will seek contract legal services, something cities like Covington have done. Steve Clark, the city’s public works director, will take on the duties of Ty Peterson, who has been com- munity development director for the city for nine years, as both de- City Council approves budget for next year [ more BUSINESS page 3 ] Firestone celebrates with Mario Andretti [ more BUDGET page 3 ] MAPLE VALLEY WEBSITE | Check the website for breaking news, sports and weather stories. maplevalleyreporter.com or covingtonreporter.com
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A DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING
LOCAL | New holiday tree lights up Don Henning Roundabout [page 2]
BUZZ ABOUT THE BEARS | Tahoma High’s boys basketball off to a hot start to the 2012-2013 season [9]FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012
A handful of legal decisions were issued recently related to YarrowBay’s master planned developments in Black Diamond, Th e Villages and Lawson Hills.
Superior Court Judge Patrick Oishi granted a YarowBay motion to dismiss the appeal of the development agree-ments for the developments Dec. 5.
In the court documents Oishi wrote that the petition-ers, Toward Responsible Development, missed three court ordered deadlines — Oct. 10, Nov. 2 and Nov. 26 — to pay the city’s cost for preparing the record.
In the conclusions Oishi wrote, “TRD in its response to
the third motion (to dismiss by YarrowBay), concedes that dismissal is warranted to allow issues to be resolved by the Court of Appeals.”
TRD can appeal the dismissal to the Court of Appeals.Still pending before the Court of Appeals is the Land
Use Petition Act, or LUPA, appeal of the master planned development permits.
Oishi ruled in favor of the city and YarrowBay in August dismissing the LUPA appeal petition.
Th e ruling was appealed by TRD to the Court of Ap-peals. A hearing date has not been set, but TRD’s opening brief is due Jan. 10.
In another legal decision regarding the developments, the city’s hearing examiner issued a recommendation of
approval on YarrowBay’s preliminary plat. A plat is a map which shows the divisions of a piece of land shown to scale.
According to a release from YarrowBay, the plat in-cludes “782 residences, 190,000 square feet of commercial development, two large parks, trails, open space and one elementary school site for the Enumclaw School District. Th e plat is designed to accommodate single family, multi-family, commercial, retail and school uses.”
Reach Dennis Box at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5050.To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyre-porter.com.
Mario Andretti, a racing legend whose resume includes wins in NASCAR’s Daytona 500 as well as the Indianapolis 500 among many others, helped open the new Firestone in Covington Dec. 14 and broke the ceremonial scissors in the process.
Th e racing legend signed the broken scissors. Turns out he wasn’t the fi rst one, according to staff from the Covington Cham-ber of Commerce.
It was a light moment dur-ing what was a joyous grand opening for a new Covington business.
Andretti, whose relationship with Firestone since he started racing decades ago, has helped open eight Firestone stores this year including the one in Covington. He explained the company is selective about which stores he makes appearances at, so, it’s something special for him to visit.
“Th ese stores are fabulous,” Andretti said. “It’s all about trying to create some aware-ness that they’re here. Firestone, they’re a very good neighbor. When they come into the com-munity, they become a part of it.
Th ey’ll be a good asset.”He commended the design
of the store, describing it as “effi cient,” while Firestone will provide a full line of tires and services for cars.
Andretti added that Firestone selects locations like Covington because the company sees value in communities that are invest-ing in development.
During the grand opening ceremony, Firestone donated $500 each to Meals on Wheels and the Covington Rotary Club,
demonstrating what Andretti explained about the company’s involvement in the community.
It’s something that city of-fi cials are pleased about as well, as Covington Mayor Margaret Harto noted.
“We are excited to have Fires-tone come to Covington,” Harto said. “Th ey’re not just sitting on this corner trying to get your business. Th ey’re involved in this community.”
With the addition of Fires-tone, Harto said, it enhances the
city’s mission to make Coving-ton a great place to shop, work and play.
Th is wasn’t his fi rst trip to the Pacifi c Northwest or the Coving-ton area.
Andretti raced once at Pacifi c Raceways on the road course.
“I have a faint memory of it,” Andretti said. “I think it was back in the late ‘60s, could be ‘68 actually. I remember that I fi nished second … other than that, the closest I’ve raced in
Racing legend helps open new business
Isabella Jocz, 6, asks Mario Andretti to sign her pink fedora during Covington Firestone’s grand opening event Dec. 14. Fans of all ages waited for Andretti, who has won races in a variety of cars, to sign hats, posters, programs and die cast model cars. KRIS HILL, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.
With the approval of the 2013 budget two positions were elimi-nated from Maple Valley’s payroll: city attorney and community development director.
Th e Maple Valley City Council approved the 2013 budget at its meeting Monday.
Before the council approved the budget, it fi rst approved an em-ployment sepa-ration agree-ment with City Attorney Christy Todd. As part of the agreement, Todd will be given six months sever-ance pay and benefi ts.
“It was my sincere pleasure to serve the city of Maple Valley for the past fi ve years,” Todd wrote in an email. “Maple Valley is truly a unique City and I treasure the op-portunities I was given here.”
Maple Valley will seek contract legal services, something cities like Covington have done. Steve Clark, the city’s public works director, will take on the duties of Ty Peterson, who has been com-munity development director for the city for nine years, as both de-
City Council approves budget for next year
[ more BUSINESS page 3 ]
Firestone celebrates with Mario Andretti
[ more BUDGET page 3 ]
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Th anks to generous sup-port from businesses and community members, the Covington community tree lights up the Don Henning Roundabout again.
During a second tree lighting ceremony Dec. 12 with about 50 specta-tors on the sidewalk near Fred Meyer on 168th Place Southeast, Covington Mayor Margaret Harto counted down from 10 before Santa Claus hit the switch to light up the tree, a 25-foot Mountain Hemlock which was planted Dec.
7 to replace the 35-foot Spruce which had to come down aft er a vandal fatally damaged it Dec. 1.Harto told the small crowd who showed up for the second lighting of the tree that Fred Meyer in Covington as well as Valley Orthopedic Asso-ciates donated $2,000 each to help cover the costs of re-placing the tree. Addition-ally, Clements Construction chipped in another $1,000, and residents of the city from the very young to the elderly donated small amounts from the pennies in their piggy banks to $5 bills which added up to
more than $400.“It affi rms my believe
and my passion about this city,” Harto said. “We’ve been lighting this tree since we became a city in 1997. We weren’t going to let one person ruin this. Isn’t it beautiful? And it’s going to stay that way all through the holidays.”
Th e tree which was vandalized was planted in 2008. It replaced a tree on the corner of 168th and Southeast 272nd Street which the city had been lighting up for years during the holidays. Th at tree came down in part to make way
for construction of the road expansion needed to carry traffi c to Costco but also because it was diseased and dying. Once the round-about, which was named aft er Covington Council-man Don Henning who died in 2007, was complete in October 2008 the new tree was placed. At the time it was 25 feet tall. Accord-ing to information provided by the city, it cost $4,000 for the tree, transportation, planting, warranty and ser-vice. Tack on to that $1,800 for the string lights, $650 for the star on top as well as $1,500 for the equipment
needed to string the lights along with staff time.
Covington staff are also working with Crime Stoppers, which will off er up to a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the vandal. To report tips anonymously, con-tact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or provide a web tip at www.crimestoppers.com.
For more information send email to [email protected] or call Community Relations Coordinator Karla Slate at 253-480-2402.
City officials light up new holiday tree
KING COUNTY SELLS $31 MILLION IN BONDS AT LOW RATESKing County sold two series of bonds this week, totaling $31.4 million, at near-zero
interest rates. Part of the bond proceeds will be used to fund relocation of Southeast District Court to the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. In addition funding went toward several technology improvement projects that include upgrading the county’s telephone system, migrating from a mainframe to a
modern computing environment, and making improvements to the county’s wide area computing network. King County received 13 bids to purchase the fi rst series of tax-exempt bonds totaling $25.4 million. The winning bid was from Fidelity Capital markets at an interest cost of 1.16 percent for bonds that mature in stages during the next
15 years. The county also received fi ve bids to purchase a second series of taxable Qualifi ed Energy Conservation Bonds (QECB) totaling $6 million.The winning bid was submitted by BMO Capi-tal Markets.
Community Note
CLARIFICATION In a story in last week’s issue
about Maple Valley’s property tax levy, it was stated there
was a .9 percent increase. The actual increase was 11 percent.
The .9 percent referred to a fi nancial statistic ultimately
omitted for the sake of clarity.
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partments will merge into a single group in City Hall.Todd and Peterson will remain in their positions until
the end of the year. These two changes are expected to save the city $120,000
and $85,000 per year respectively.The decision to eliminate the positions was made in
order to help close a gap in the city’s budget. In a letter to the City Council in November, Maple Val-
ley City Manager David Johnston wrote that a change in development projections knocked the budget balance out by $568,000.
This shortfall occurred, according to Johnston, when staff realized the city’s projection of 150 single family permits per year for six years, a total of 900, was impossible
given that the city only has 559 plats left. This caused staff to readjust their projections to less than
88 permits per year. While $148,000 of the shortfall will be covered by the newly enacted transportation benefit district, it still left $420,000.Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To com-ment on history go to maplevalleyreporter.com.
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the Pacific Northwest is Portland.”
In fact, Portland has some special memories for Andretti, who beat his son Michael by seven one-thousandths of a second on Father’s Day in 1986.
“I nipped him right at the
end,” Andretti said. “He was so pissed then he realized it was Father’s Day, then he said, ‘Happy Father’s Day.’”
Andretti, who is 72, was happy to return to Coving-ton to support the latest Firestone store. His rela-tionship with the company goes back to the mid-1960s
when he raced on the tires and became a tester of the product.
“My relationship with them helped me tremendously to develop my skills,” he said. “I won some major races with Firestone tires, so, the
relationship continued.”During the grand open-
ing ceremony, Andretti told the crowd that
even though it’s unlikely most drivers won’t need tires that can handle
speeds in excess of 200 mph, the testing
and development he’s been involved with ensures that those tires can handle that which enhances their safety on the roads.
“When I have the op-portunity to make these appearances, I have the ability to talk with some authority,” Andretti said.
“It’s one of those win-win relationships.”
Reach Assistant Edi-tor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.
A new mural for the Black Diamond Miners Memorial has been set at the future site outside the Black Diamond Historical Society’s building.
According to Gomer Evans, a member of the historical society and whose father was a fire boss in the mines, stated the mural is intended to help potential donors get a sense of what will eventually be con-structed there. As a way to raise funds, the historical society is selling bricks to
be laid on the walkway.“Hopefully, it will pique
someone’s interest in buy-ing a brick,” he said.
Currently, the granite is being quarried and the platform for the pedestal the statue will stand on top of has been installed.
The project is estimated to cost around $80-100,000. A big meter placed next to the mural out-side the museum indicated the society is about halfway to reaching its fundraising
goal. Evans said the society
and community volun-teers have helped keep the project cost low by contrib-
uting either time or resources. The mural, painted by Mira Hoke, is one example of this, as it was done free of charge.
“Without the help of volunteers there’s no way we could get this done,” he said.
“We’ve had the generosity of a lot of people.”
President Keith Watson
said the statue is expected to be completed by Febru-ary. Before it is placed on the pedestal which is four feet tall, however, he said they intend to display it in the museum.
They also plan to create a miners honor garden on a small slope behind the ped-estal and wall. In addition, there will be several granite benches opposite of the memorial statue, adjacent to the old fire house.
The historical society first conceived of the idea for a memorial during the sum-mer after members visited the coal mining town of
Roslyn near Cle Elum.There, they were
impressed by the town’s memorial statue and wall dedicated to its miner population.
With Black Diamond’s wall however, they intend to have not just the names of miners who worked in the Black Diamond mines, but all coal miners killed in the state.
The reason for this, he said, is because miners often moved around to find work and consequently ended up in different towns such as Franklin, Lawson and Ravensdale.
The historical society was able to obtain the names from Palmer Coking Coal Company, which had ac-quired them from the state.
The hope, Evans said, is to have the wall and the statue completed for the opening of Miners Day in July. Ellensburg artist Paul Crites is working on the statue.
Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To comment on this story go to covingtonreporter.com.
Mural installed at site of miners memorial statue
“Without the help of volunteers there’s no way we could get this done. We’ve had the generosity of a lot of people.” Gomer Evans
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About the only thing as low as stealing an 8-year-old’s gift from under the Christmas tree is stealing it off the front porch.
This is what happened to Maple Valley resident Phyl-
lis Ermey after her family saved up for months to buy a dirt bike for her son for Christmas.
“He’s been wanting a dirt bike since he was 3,” she said. “He’s fascinated (with them). We felt he was old enough this year to have
one.” After ordering the bike
online, it was delivered by FedEx last Monday at around 1:30 p.m. Ermey said she got home at around 4:30 p.m., but the bike was not there. At first, she thought the delivery
had been late until FexEx confirmed the delivery on Tuesday.
Ermey said she has filed a police report, but has little hope of the thieves getting caught. What is most troubling, Ermey said, is the fact that the bike came
in a hefty package weigh-ing almost 50 pounds that would have required at least two people to carry away. Her son is still unaware that the bike was stolen, as Ermey told him his father’s gift had been taken when the police arrived at the
house to investigate. But with Christmas
almost a week away, Ermey said the bike is too expen-sive to be replaced.
“I didn’t know what to do (when she found out),” she said. “I still don’t know what to do.
Child’s Christmas gift stolen from front porch
This year marks the 30th anniversary of writing this weekly column. That’s more than 1,500 columns, most inspired by readers that once mailed in questions but now use email to ask for answers to a multitude of gar-dening questions.
One Christmas, years ago and home with small children, I penned this poem as a tribute to Santa at Christ-mas. It still remains the most
requested reprint of any other column. So thanks to the gar-den clubs, nurseries and green
thumb friends that pass it on year after year, and the news-papers that continue to print a local garden column. As
is my tradition, anyone that wants to can reprint this column without my permis-sion or copy write restrictions.
You can also go to my website at www.binettigarden.com to download an email or print-able version of the gardener’s take on Christmas:
T’was the week before Christ-mas, 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 dia-mond, 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 night-gowns, 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 better 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 garden-ing high.
Elves plant in the spring, pull weeds merrily 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.
So ask the big guy for garden gifts this year,
Seeds, plants and tools, Santa holds them all dear.
You see malls may be crowded, vendors hawking their ware, but visit a nursery, stress-free shopping is there.
Now Santa’s flown off, to the nursery he goes, and his voice fills the night with loud Hoe! Hoe! Hoes!
Merry Christmas from Mari-anne Binetti.
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Th ose of us who live out here in Covington, Maple Valley and Black Diamond or even Ho-bart or Ravensdale, surely at times feel like we live out on the edge of civilization especially this time of year when we’re trying to get our holiday shopping done.
OK, maybe it’s just me.Still, while there are
some great shopping options around such as Costco, Kohl’s, Fred Meyer, several dollar stores, just to name a few examples, there are simply some options that you have to drive to Southcenter or Bellevue or possibly Federal Way in order to complete one’s holiday gift acquisition missions.
Th ere are, however, some things many resi-dents of this area do to avoid the 40 minute drive to any of those bastions of consumerism.
What I did was take a week off earlier this month to get as much as I possibly could on weekdays to avoid the crush of shoppers at Southcenter or Bellevue Square.
Another option which is particularly popular is to shop online. Amazon can cover those gift s, though if you’re still shopping online this close to Christmas you’re probably paying quite a bit extra for shipping, but given that you’re likely a procrastinator as it is you’re probably used to paying for the convenience of putting things off .
Speaking of the famous online retailer, Ama-zon Fresh also delivers in this area now, a recent development which could make last-minute holiday gathering grocery shopping easier.
Th ere are other options for that, too, such as delivery by Full Circle Farms or Smith Brothers Dairy — a personal favorite — to off er a couple of other examples.
And for you brave souls who commute to the Eastside, the Kent Valley or even Seattle for work, there is always the option of getting shop-ping done during lunch hour or leaving work early to knock it out.
Or, you could get craft y and make gift s for family as well as friends. Th ere’s something special about a handmade item that shows a certain kind of thought and love went into it that perhaps other gift s may not. A great photo in a nice frame can fall into this category, maybe will a decorated, personalized matting to make
it extra special. Th at way you’re spending time working on the gift , not stuck in traffi c in the pouring rain trying to get home or in a line with other harried shoppers who are barely hanging onto their sanity.
Another option, which I would be remiss not to mention as well as would draw the ire of our local chambers of commerce, is to shop at all the awesome local businesses we have in the area. I would suggest going to the websites of the Covington Chamber or the Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber to look at their listings be-cause you could defi nitely fi nd just what you’re looking for without having to leave town.
I assume most of you have read about what happened in Newtown, Conn., by now, due in no small part to the 24-hour news cycle that has swarmed over it like vultures, so I won’t revisit it in detail here.
I do want to address a few things, however.
Like most of you, I’m sure, what most aff ected me, aside from the age of the victims, was a description I read of Newtown by one of its na-tives in a column.
More or less, it was Maple Valley by another name. Same town. Same com-munity. Same schools and teachers.
As I watched the coverage online, witnessing in despair at how the national media has quite literally repeated the same patterns as they did during the Colorado theater shooting, I tried to envision what that sort of situation would look like here. It’s not something a normal person wishes to imagine, but it was one which I thought of in order to understand and empathize with those in Newtown.
While attending several events that same day, one of them at Cedar River Middle School, it was impossible for me to avoid contrasting the peaceful environment I found against the sheer chaos occurring 3,000 miles away in a similar
location.Ultimately, I came away with two thoughts.
One, I pray as a reporter I never, ever, ever have to cover this kind of event — the death of children — in any manner whatsoever, whether by accident or not. Of all the stories a reporter might have to write, those are on my verboten list. If I never have to, it will be one of the many blessings of my career.
Second, as a reporter, I can’t begin to de-scribe what it would be like for Newtown’s local newspaper. Not only did they have to contend with covering a scene of appalling evil commit-ted against their own neighbors and friends, but they had to do so while out-of-town reporters descended in with their reckless, sensationalist behavior, devoid of any sense of ethical or moral standards.
It’s important to be fi rst to report a story of this magnitude. But getting it right, and writing about it tactfully, is most important. It is never acceptable to exploit a victim of a heinous crime for a story, especially the youngest and most vulnerable among us. Th e idea that a reporter would interview a child in that context, as if a 6-year-old has even the slightest capacity to convey the trauma and emotions that will haunt him for the rest of his life, begs questions I don’t feel comfortable enough to discuss yet.
Th ere will be plenty of debate in the coming weeks about how we as a society should respond and prevent such acts of murder in the future. I do have to say, three hours aft erward and when the dead are still not yet buried is not the time to make a misinformed, political statement on Twitter with the same moral insensitivity as the murderer.
Th e issue is extremely complicated, and there
are innumerable theories, possibilities, causes and solutions. But I think it would be better for us to give our two cents, or more if you have the money, to the families who lost their little ones a week before Christmas. For example, you can donate to My Sandy Hook Family Fund at www.everribbon.com/ribbon/view/10076.
Frankly, our society would be better off if people spent less time arguing with each other on Facebook and Twitter and used that time instead, as I intend, to write a letter to one of the victims’ families. It would certainly encour-age more healing than contributing to ongo-ing debates since Columbine which are, for all intents and purposes intellectually, politically and spiritually dead.
Unless we start from the premise that this was an act of murder by a man who of his own free will chose to do evil and is solely responsible for his actions, all possible solutions are futile.
If these murders have demonstrated anything, it’s that we as a society have not progressed or learned from the past in terms of how we should behave in response to them. Ironically, our cultural reaction to crimes like these actually reveals the fragility and ambiguity of our own moral values.
If we are to preserve them, we need to decide what they are, why we have them, and then actually act on them. Perhaps the whole discus-sion can start with the ways in which we, both as individuals and as a culture, can react with a higher moral standard when evil inevitably ap-pears in our midst.
Because in Newtown we recognize our own hometowns, our own friends, our own families, our own schools and it’s hard to look at that refl ected in our collective mirror.
● Q U O T E O F T H E W E E K : ”No, my dear, you have a cultivated conscience, a most carefully trained one. Man has no moral instinct.” - Starship Troopers
In principle, I guess, one can get addicted to anything. I’m not just talk-ing about drugs, alcohol, caff eine, nicotine or food. People can develop addic-tions to other people, their work, shopping, television or the Internet. Th e latter seem especially prone to cause addictive behavior. In this past year, the media outlets of every kind have been selling us “the news” like junk food, thereby creating yet another addic-tion. “News junkies suff er from withdrawal symptoms aft er the election,” I read the other day in the paper. I wonder why?
Certain addictions are hard to avoid in our culture
where more is always considered better. We take it for granted to think of progress exclusively in terms of “growth.” So we fi nd ourselves in a never-ending chase of things that supposedly make our lives more comfortable and more exciting. We live in larger homes, drive bigger and faster cars and surround ourselves with more posses-sions than any generation before us and yet, there remains this nagging feeling that we don’t have enough to be content.
Inevitably, our relent-less “pursuit of happiness”
comes at a steep price. It’s called stress. True, most people suff er from stress
and anxiety at one time or another. Th at’s life, some would say.
Yet, what we are seeing today seems somewhat diff erent. More and more people ex-haust themselves,
just by trying to keep up. Th ey are reaching the end of their rope.
Doctors and psycholo-gists have already come up with new terminology to describe the stress symp-toms they fi nd in their patients with increasing frequency, using terms such as “time stress,” “chronic overscheduling” or “time poverty.”
To be sure, having goals and ambitions does not automatically make anyone sick. Th ere is such a thing as “good stress” where people can thrive on a cer-tain amount of pressure and even derive pleasure from it. But being constantly pressed for time without re-lief is not healthy, no matter how we may rationalize it.
Th e holiday season is supposedly a time when we stop the rat race and focus on family, friends and all the good things that really matter in life.
Of course, most of us end up doing the exact same thing as last year and the year before.
We get caught up in the holiday rush, no matter how much we wish it was diff erent this time.
Th ere are better ways to deal with our perpetual time crunch – there must be! Merely wishing life was diff erent is not enough. All lifestyle changes, great and small, require will power and determination. Here are a few ideas that may help things along:
First, let’s establish some rules! No matter how much pressure we may receive from the outside, let’s not forget that we are respon-sible for the ways we spend our time. Only we can fi nd ways to organize our time better and use it more wisely. Instead of running around like crazy trying to put out fi res all day, let’s set up a healthier routine and stick to it.
Second, let’s set priori-ties! Let’s ask ourselves what value we get in return for our time and eff ort. Is our only reward more money to buy more stuff ? So what if we don’t have all the latest fads? Th ose will be outdated and obsolete tomorrow. Instead, let’s focus, perhaps with a sense of gratitude, on what we already have – and not just in material terms.
Th ird, let’s include regu-lar down-time in our sched-ules, so we can recover and recharge our batteries.
Th ere are benefi ts in do-ing nothing once in a while. Allowing ourselves to slow down should not make us feel guilty.
So, let’s switch off the cell phone, get off the Internet, stop listening to the News. Instead, let’s go for long walks, fi nd a quiet place where we can spend time alone, meditate or write a journal – these are the gift s we can give to ourselves that will make for a truly happy holiday season.
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Ultimately, the extra work folks who live out here have to do this time of year is worth it consider-ing the trade offs that come along with it.
This is a great place to live and it gets better every year.
And someday it won’t feel like the edge of civilization at all.
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KENTWOOD FOOD DRIVE GENERATES MORE THAN 50,000 POUNDS OF FOODKentwood High School students collected more than 55,000 pounds of food for the Kent and Maple Valley food banks in their annual Munch Madness canned food drive.
This is the fifth year of the Munch Madness canned food drive. Each third period class was a separate team trying to raise more cans than their opposing class in a March Madness style bracket. They collected cans by going door to door in local neighborhoods, standing outside grocery stores to accept donations, and soliciting donations from corporate sponsors like Winco Foods. Every week, third period classes brought food to be weighed and recorded. The members of Kentwood ASB would then come in after school to pack the cans in boxes, and then place them on pallets to be picked up by the school district. In many cases, they had to finish weighing cans after school as well.
“Several times, there were so many cans, we didn’t have enough time during the [55 minute] period to weigh all the cans,” said senior Meagan Araki, ASB Treasurer. “We had to come in after school to finish weighing them all and then place them on the pallets.”
The winning class was the second year French class, taught by Marilyn Henderson. Her dedicated group of 30 students collected more than 12,000 pounds of canned food alone. Kentwood High School also partnered with the Solid Rock Community Church to provide more than 500 Thanksgiving
meals for families in need. Classes were required to bring in a bag of basic Thanksgiving staples for the first round of the competition.
TEXT-TO-911 SERVICE AVAILABLE NATIONWIDE IN MAY 2014The new rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission followed an announcement by AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and two national 9-1-1 associations that they will begin major deployments of text-to-911 service in 2013, with nationwide availability by May 2014.
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Community Notes
ELIZABETH R. STEELE-MILLER-REED
Elizabeth R. Steele-Miller-Reed, formerly of Covington,
was born May 2, 1943. She was the daughter of Floyd and Ruth Steele.
Elizabeth at-tended schools in Seattle and Kent. She graduated
from Kent-Meridian High School in 1962. She married Edward Miller with whom she had four children.
She later married and spent her fi nal years with David Reed.
She lived in Coving-ton for many years and later moved to Land Yacht Harbor in Olym-pia.
Her memorial is scheduled for 1 p.m. Dec. 29 at the Land Yacht Harbor clubhouse at 9101 Steilacoom Road S.E., Olympia, 98513.
It will be a potluck, please bring fi nger foods, salad and dessert.
Her family would like to thank everyone in ad-vance for their presence at the memorial.
Th ere’s something diff er-ent about the Tahoma boys basketball team this year.
Ethan McCormack, one of four seniors on the Bears squad, said classmates and teachers are talking to him about their games.
“Th e biggest diff erence is there a buzz, a sense of community,” McCormack said. “Coach (Brian) Davis contributed to that but this group has played together for a while. It’s all meshing and clicking, so it’s nice.”
Davis, who is in his fi rst year at Tahoma aft er spend-ing the previous two season at Kentwood, can’t say enough good things about this group of players.
“People have got to understand how fun it is to watch a group of great guys that play basketball together,” Davis said. “Th ey share the ball and they really understand what playing for each other is all about — that’s special.”
Evidence of the dif-ference about this team was clear when Tahoma destroyed Kentwood on
the road in the South Puget Sound League North opener Nov. 30.
“It was defi nitely big for all of us knowing they’re our cross town rivals,” said senior point guard Dominic Smith. “I think it told the rest of the league … we’re here and ready to take it to you in your own home.”
Smith said he’s noticed the diff erent vibe around the Tahoma boys hoops team, too.
“It’s our new attitude,” Smith said. “We defi nitely have a new outlook on what we can do this year, our outlook as a family and as a team.”
Senior center Paul Loranger, who is 6-foot-11, explained his take on the changes which have propelled Tahoma to a 4-2 record in league heading into winter break.
“Th e approach that we have this year is far diff er-ent than previous seasons,” Loranger said. “I think we’ll be more successful this year. Our chemistry is better. We’ve always been skilled on the court but we’ve never been this close
That buzz around the BearsTahoma’s boys hoops squad making a lot of noise in the SPSL North division
Tahoma’s Paul Loranger battles with Kentwood’s Terence Grady Nov. 30 in a contest the Bears ran away with to start league play. Tahoma looks to have a memorable season. JAMES KIELLAND, Kent Photo Survey[ more BEARS page 10 ]
WINTER SPORTS TAKE BREAK FROM LEAGUE
Prep sports take a break from South Puget Sound League
North action starting this week while students are on winter break. Basketball for
boys and girls will start up again Thursday, Jan. 3, while
wrestling resumes league duals Jan. 4 and gymnastics hits the
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we’ve never been this close off the court.”
This new feel to the program was also evident in the way the community supported the team in that first game against Kent-wood. Hundreds of Tahoma fans showed up sporting blue and gold, bursting with Bears pride, who chanted “Tahoma Power” as time expired, over the Kentwood fans who also showed up en masse to pack the gym.
Smith said the Bears can’t take that for granted, though.
“It feels really good espe-cially to know that people are coming out to support us,” Smith said. “But, it just means that we’ve got to work hard to give them something to watch.”
Loranger said Kentwood beat Tahoma in the first summer league game. A week later, Tahoma won, and that victory was sweet. That’s when the Bears began to understand what they had. Then beating Kent-wood in the first league game was all the better.
“It was good winning at Kentwood,” Loranger said. “That’s my favorite memory of high school basketball so far.”
Still, there’s quite a bit of basketball left to be played, and Tahoma had a pair of tough losses to Mount Rainier and Kent-Meridian that brought the Bears back to earth.
“I just don’t think we were all ready,” Loranger said of the Kent-Meridian game. “We responded in the second half.”
The Royals won that game on a buzzer beater tip in by Martel Taylor-Barone in what was a frenetic fourth quarter. The Bears fought back from a halftime deficit with a 9-0 run to start the third quarter, but, it may have been too late.
Tahoma’s players learned from that experience.
“We didn’t start very well,” McCormack said. “It looked like it took us a little bit of time to get into a rhythm. You’ve got to come out with your A game from the tip.”
McCormack had five three-pointers in that loss, including a late game trey which tied it up at 51-51 with less than 10 seconds on the clock.
Smith said Tahoma was flat in the first quarter. From then on, he said, they realized that couldn’t hap-pen again.
“We win in the first
quarter, not the last two minutes of the fourth quar-ter,” Smith said. “It’s making sure we come out strong and staying consistent. We know what we’re capable of.”
With the chemistry Tahoma has, Smith said, all five guys on the floor can be on the same page, can dance with moves only they know which then leads to success — points scored, defensive plays made and ultimately, wins.
That could translate to the most successful season
the Tahoma boys have had in a while. The Bears haven’t gone to state since 1997. This group wants to change that, Smith said.
“As a senior, I would like to see us win the league title,” Smith said. “If we bring what we brought against Kentwood, I think we can do that. And I’d like us to make a run at the state title in the Tacoma Dome in March.”
Loranger said it’s impor-tant to focus on the here and now.
“We just don’t need to
get ahead of ourselves,” Loranger said. “Right now, my goal is just making the playoffs.”
McCormack said if the team prepares one practice and one game at a time, works on the little things, that big goal of getting to state will come.
“We’re looking at the short term,” McCormack said. “We want to become better at every practice and every game. You can’t look at it big picture. You’ve just got to take it one step at a time.”
Still, McCormack wants other teams to take note of what’s going at Tahoma this year.
“We’re here for real this time,” McCormack said. “It’s real this year. It’s differ-ent. You can feel it. There’s something in the air.”
Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyre-porter.com.
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POLICE SEARCH FOR BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTPolice are searching for a suspect believed to have robbed a Covington bank Dec. 13.
According to King County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Cindi West, the suspect entered the U.S. Bank at 17601 S.E. 272nd St. around 6 p.m. just before the bank closed with a handgun. The suspect left the bank with an undisclosed amount of money, West said.
The suspect is described as a white male wearing a blue, gray and black ski coat along with a black ski mask.
Police attempted a canine track, but were not able to find anybody.
If you have information about this crime please call the King County Sheriff’s Office at (206) 296-3311.
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