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BY TJ MARTINELL [email protected]e city of Maple Valley is cur- rently working on plans to replace the Lake Wilderness Dock, ac- cording to Parks and Recreation Director Greg Brown. e decision was made at the Dec. 5 meeting as the result of a survey by an engineering firm was presented to the council. In August, the city contracted Reid Middleton, an engineering firm, to conduct a survey of the dock’s condition. In its final report, Middleton concluded that various sections of the dock, including the floats and wooden piles, are in need of repair or replacement. In the meantime, however, Brown stated the dock is currently safe to use. “e dock is in a state of dis- repair,” he said. “But it’s not in an unsafe condition. It still floats. It’s not in any danger of disconnect- ing from it safety points. at’s why we hired the engineering corps. ey said, ‘We recommend you replace it sooner or later. By BY KRIS HILL [email protected]Covington is ready for the 2012 legislative session. In early November the City Council adopted a legislative agenda that tackled a range of is- sues from transportation to state- shared revenues to commuter and passenger rail to unfunded man- dates to economic development funding. Covington officials will actively lobby on four issues. First, in cooperation with the cities of Black Diamond and Maple Valley, Covington will “continue to advocate jointly for federal and state funding for state Route 169 and state Route 516 improvements and for transit alternatives in the three rapidly growing communities,” stated the city’s legislative agenda document. Second, city staff will work with the legislature on discussions of state-shared revenues, particularly the retention of revenues includ- ing liquor profits and taxes. ird, Covington has a trio COVINGTON MAPLE VALLEY A DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING MARIANNE BINETTI | Monthly resolutions for your garden in 2012 [page 10] KID CALLED RUDY | Kentwood High graduate reflects on his improbable run at the 2005 state wrestling tournament [11] FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012 NEWSLINE 425-432-1209 COVINGTON | MAPLE VALLEY | BLACK DIAMOND R EP O RTER City has a full legislative agenda Lake Wilderness dock needs repairs Ted Strand, organizer of the Polar Plunge, cheers on the crowd as the swimmers prepare to jump into the 40 degree Lake Sawyer water on New Year’s Day. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com and to buy photos go to the website and click on the photo reprints tab. Ready To Take The Plunge Victor Oywak of Covington with the flag of South Sudan. He works as a manager for the Sudan Microfinance Institute to help businesses. CHARLES CORTES, The Reporter BY SARAH KEHOE [email protected]Vincent Oywak fled from a war-torn Sudan to make a better life for himself and his family in the United States. “I leſt because of the war; it was mainly about safety,” Oywak said. “Staying put was just not an option for me, but leaving was just hard. I travelled alone a lot.” Oywak, who now lives in Cov- ington, travelled by foot, train and plane to many places including Egypt, Italy and Iraq. He arrived in Washington state in 1998. “I love living in the United States because I get peace and the opportunity to grow in an atmosphere where my kids have access to good schools, healthcare and a free society where they can grow up in and explore their own opportunities.” Oywak just returned from the Republic of South Sudan. He is a manager for the Sudan Microfinance Institution (SUMI) stationed in South Sudan and he works there for six months every year. “Sudan Microfinance Institu- tion’s objective is to offer financial services on a self-sustaining yet efficient basis to micro-entrepre- neurs living in southern Sudan, with emphasis on the agriculture sector, women, returned refugees, and internally displaced persons,” Oywak explained. “I am honored to be a part of it because I think it is essential to help rebuild our newly declared country.” Making a home in Covington and Sudan [ more HOME page 5 ] WEBSITE | Check the website for breaking news stories and weather updates. maplevalleyreporter.com or covingtonreporter.com [ more DOCK page 4 ] [ more AGENDA page 4 ]
Th e city of Maple Valley is cur-rently working on plans to replace the Lake Wilderness Dock, ac-cording to Parks and Recreation Director Greg Brown.
Th e decision was made at the Dec. 5 meeting as the result of a survey by an engineering fi rm was presented to the council.
In August, the city contracted Reid Middleton, an engineering fi rm, to conduct a survey of the dock’s condition. In its fi nal report, Middleton concluded that various sections of the dock, including the fl oats and wooden piles, are in need of repair or replacement.
In the meantime, however, Brown stated the dock is currently safe to use.
“Th e dock is in a state of dis-repair,” he said. “But it’s not in an unsafe condition. It still fl oats. It’s not in any danger of disconnect-ing from it safety points. Th at’s why we hired the engineering corps. Th ey said, ‘We recommend you replace it sooner or later. By
Covington is ready for the 2012 legislative session.
In early November the City Council adopted a legislative agenda that tackled a range of is-sues from transportation to state-shared revenues to commuter and passenger rail to unfunded man-dates to economic development funding.
Covington offi cials will actively lobby on four issues.
First, in cooperation with the cities of Black Diamond and Maple Valley, Covington will “continue to advocate jointly for federal and state funding for state Route 169 and state Route 516 improvements and for transit alternatives in the three rapidly growing communities,” stated the city’s legislative agenda document.
Second, city staff will work with the legislature on discussions of state-shared revenues, particularly the retention of revenues includ-ing liquor profi ts and taxes.
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Ted Strand, organizer of the Polar Plunge, cheers on the crowd as the swimmers prepare to jump into the 40 degree Lake Sawyer water on New Year’s Day. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com and to buy photos go to the website and click on the photo reprints tab.
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Victor Oywak of Covington with the fl ag of South Sudan. He works as a manager for the Sudan Microfi nance Institute to help businesses. CHARLES CORTES, The Reporter
Vincent Oywak fl ed from a war-torn Sudan to make a better life for himself and his family in the United States.
“I left because of the war; it was mainly about safety,” Oywak said. “Staying put was just not an option for me, but leaving was just hard. I travelled alone a lot.”
Oywak, who now lives in Cov-
ington, travelled by foot, train and plane to many places including Egypt, Italy and Iraq. He arrived in Washington state in 1998.
“I love living in the United States because I get peace and the opportunity to grow in an atmosphere where my kids have access to good schools, healthcare and a free society where they can grow up in and explore their own opportunities.”
Oywak just returned from
the Republic of South Sudan. He is a manager for the Sudan Microfi nance Institution (SUMI) stationed in South Sudan and he works there for six months every year.
“Sudan Microfi nance Institu-tion’s objective is to off er fi nancial services on a self-sustaining yet effi cient basis to micro-entrepre-neurs living in southern Sudan, with emphasis on the agriculture sector, women, returned refugees, and internally displaced persons,” Oywak explained. “I am honored to be a part of it because I think it is essential to help rebuild our newly declared country.”
Making a home in Covington and Sudan
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Covington has found a solution for code enforcement: Brian Bykonen.
“Our former code enforcement offi cer left in August,” said Community De-velopment Director Richard Hart. “So, we’ve been trying to fi gure out how to provide code enforcement services.”
Bykonen, who was already working part-time for the city, seemed to be a natural choice aft er the City Council asked for a report on how code enforce-ment works in Covington.
It was particularly important to have someone managing code enforce-ment, which ranges from dealing with residents building garages or decks without proper permitting to excess trash in a homeowner’s yard, since the Timberlane Homeowner’s Association went through a major change earlier this year.
“Th ey’ve become more active and they’re policing more of their code violations,” Hart said. “And we’re responding to that. So
Robert Meyers, the building offi cial, and I have ben working to revamp and change our code enforcement process with the limited resources we have.”
Having a part-time position for code enforce-ment is challenging, Hart said, but Bykonen seems to be a perfect fi t.
“Brian has done an absolutely fantastic job and taken a caseload in the upper 50s and gotten people to comply and brought that case-load down by almost half,” Hart said. “He’s really man-aged a lot of the new cases that Timberlane has brought to us and is working with their board members … I think every-body’s been very pleased.”
Bykonen explained he has helped implement new programs to stream-line code enforcement.
“We’re doing a new fi ling system and it’s going to mirror what we’ve been doing with the other develop-ment services,” he said. “We keep a temporary fi le as the cases are open and as they’re close out we keep a pa-per trail of them. Th ey’re a little easier to track.”
When a case comes in, Bykonen said, it is evaluated to determine if it is a high, moderate or low priority issue.
Fire and life safety cases are high priority and
dealt with as quickly as possible.“Th en we have what we call a moderate prior-
ity which are other building issues, somebody may be building a deck or a garage, not a habitable space but people are going to use it,” Bykonen said. “If we don’t have anything active that’s a high priority we try to get to the moder-ate cases. Th en we have low priority… things we can deal with when we have the time.”
And time management is important because Covington provides code enforce-
ment services for Black Diamond as part of a interlocal agreement to cut costs.
In the coming weeks, Bykonen will have a new tool at his disposal that will al-
low him to know at a glance what cases are going on, so if he happens to be in a neighbor-
hood dealing with a high priority case and is just a few blocks from another case he can take care of it while he’s nearby.
Streamlining code enforcement is critical, Hart added.
“It improves our ability to track and it im-proves our ability to respond to someone who asks two or three weeks later about how the case is going,” Hart said. “It will allow us to be more effi cient and manage our hours better.”
Reach Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.coving-tonreporter.com.
Starting in February King County Metro will replace Route 149, which serves Maple Valley and Black Diamond, with DART 907.
At the same time, the King County Council is also considering elimi-nating Route 912, which goes from Covington to Enumclaw.
Th e decision to convert Route 149, which goes through Maple Valley, Black Diamond and Enumclaw,
was announced by David Hall from the King County Department of Transporta-tion at the Maple Valley City Council’s Dec. 5 meet-ing.
“We’re looking at ways to do what we see as the right size for the service,” Hall said in a phone interview.
Hall cited several factors which contributed to the decision, one of which was fi nancial.
“We’re able to operate that service cheaper,” he said. “It’s a service that we contract with a private pro-
vider, so the rate is cheaper than our in-house rates.”
According to Hall, DART 907 will have what he called a “fi xed route with devia-tion.”
Although it will have regular stops and specifi c time schedules, the van will also have various areas where it can deviate from its route in order to pick people up closer to their homes so they don’t have to walk all the way to the bus stop. Riders would call the service provider in advance in order to be picked up.
Hall stated this fi xed route with deviation is on a fi rst come, fi rst service basis, and that the vans will not always be able to make the deviations because of time constraints.
Overall, however, he
said it should be easier for residents who currently use the bus route.
“We’re trying to make it more convenient for seniors,” he said.
At the same time, an ordinance has recently been sent for approval by the County Council which would eliminate Route 912.
Hall explained that Metro has begun to use a new service guideline which emphasizes the productivity of a bus route. Aft er study-ing the bus routes at peak hours, they determined that a Route 912 bus carried 1.92 people per platform hour and took each passen-ger .64 mile for every mile the bus traveled. Addition-ally, the route also had a 90 minute interval.
Hall added there would
not be much change since the new DART 907 route replaces much of the 912 route.
“Th ey’re duplicating one another today,” he said.
According to Hall, the County Council is expected to vote on the ordinance by the end of January. If passed, the service change would be eliminated in June.
For more information about the current changes and proposed ordinance, go to metro.kingcounty.gov/have-a-say/get-in-the-know/projects/reinvest-ments/june2012/.
Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to covingtonreporter.com.
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extremely lucky that so many constituents, regardless of
party affi liation, felt as though it was important to be engaged and have helped in many ways
with all the issues I’ve been called on to deal with over the
years,” Anderson said in a press release.
First elected in 2000, Anderson served as the leading
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of project-specifi c fund-ing requests, and will look to retain, enhance or seek money for the Covington Community Park soccer fi eld as well as for improve-ments from Jenkins Creek to 185th Avenue Southeast east on Southeast 272nd and for a Covington Town Center Impact and Infra-structure Cost Study.
Fourth on the city’s list of issues it will actively ad-vocate for is infrastructure funding, specifi cally “sup-port increased funding for cities’ infrastructure design
and construction needs,” in a variety of areas.
Covington offi cials will support the eff orts of others to lobby the legislature on a variety of other issues such as legislation enabling medical marijuana use, proposed state con-stitutional amend-ments and/or legislation to create pure tax increment fi nancing as well as “state funding programs that are simpler, more fl ex-ible and user-friendlier” for economic development, the legislative agenda stated.
Covington also sup-ports the eff orts to replace the current supermajority threshold for local gov-ernment bond and levy elections, which currently require a 60 percent ‘yes’
vote to pass, with a simple majority, of 50
percent plus one for approval.
Th e city will also support eff orts to
oppose unfunded and under-funded mandates
on local government.In addition, Covington
will back eff orts to provide cities time to annex land
aft er a county classifi es it as urban but before develop-ment may occur.
Covington also backs Auburn’s work to secure an Amtrak stop, as well as sup-ports other “rail advocacy eff orts when helpful to Southeast King County’s rail and transit advocacy ef-forts,” the document stated.
Reach Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.
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the time you get through the permitting and design and constructing, you should just start the process now.’”
Middleton presented two possibilities for the city: Repair the existing dock by reusing sections which are
still functional or replace the fl oats entirely in kind. In kind means that only necessary parts would be replaced and no additional improvements or additions would be included in the project.
Th e City Council chose to go with second option of replacing the fl oats in-kind,
which is estimated to cost $515,000.
It is a choice which both Middleton and Brown have recommended due to its cost eff ectiveness over the long term.
“I would agree with what the council did,” Brown said. “Th e engineers came back and said if you want to reuse the fl oats, the expected life span will only be 10-15 years. Th e fl oats are already 40 years old. Th ey said, “Yeah, they’ll last a little longer. Th e cost benefi t analysis showed it (replace in kind) is much more cost effi cient. If you replace the fl oats now…you’ll get 40 years or more of life in the fl oats if you replace them all now. If you look at the number of years and divide it by the costs of
the project, it is much more cost effi cient.”
Among the proposals was the addition of a new boat rental pier which had originally been include in the city’s 2007 park master plan for Lake Wilderness Park. With a price tag of $140,000, however, the City Council decided to have it included as an alternative when they put the project up for a contracting bid.
Brown explained that this would allow them to either add the pier into the fi nal project or remove it based on the winning bid.
“It’s a pretty typical pro-cess for a construction proj-ect,” he said. “When you don’t know if you can aff ord it, you can have individual items priced separately. Normally this would be a
lump sum bid. Tearing off a piece of this rental boat pier gives you a separate price for that. We can include it if the bids come in lower than we anticipate. If the bids don’t come in as anticipated and the council doesn’t want to throw any more money at it we’ll just keep it at No. 2 (replace in-kind).”
Th e project was not origi-nally included in the 2012 city budget and was added at the Dec. 5 meeting, ac-cording to Brown.
“Th at was the reason we talked about it (on Dec. 5), because the Council needed to know so they could adjust the budget,” he said. “At that point in time we said the total project would be around $400,000. We would have been under that amount if the council had
decided to go with alterna-tive one, which means they would have reused the old fl oats.”
Brown said the contract with Middleton will need to be amended to include the remaining work, as well as the permitting and design process, which is expected to take six to eight months months. Th e city hopes to have a bid in early Sep-tember and have the dock repairs completed by the end of next year.
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The Republic of South Sudan became an inde-pendent country on July 9. Oywak was working in South Sudan when he heard the news.
“It was so exciting, just a historical and emotional event to see,” he said. “Our parents and generation of family members waited for this moment to happen, so it is so great to see it happen in my lifetime.”
Although the Republic of South Sudan is now independent, it is still a conflicted country in need of assistance. Oywak be-lieves SUMI is a great step in providing help to the people.
“It is essential to provide the people with financial education and help,” he said. “Providing micro-loan knowledge to people has the potential for them to establish their own busi-ness, eliminate poverty and become self-sufficient.”
Given the lack of infra-structure, few businesses, no legal or regulatory framework, and a culture of heavy dependence on relief aid brought on by a quarter century of war, few thought a microfinance institution could be developed.
“Despite everything, I had no doubt it would be a
great benefit to our country and a great success,” Oywak said. “Our country relies almost 100 percent on imports right now. This is something we need.”
Created with USAID support in 2003, SUMI is performing above inter-national standards and growing. Through solidarity groups and salary loans in three southern Sudan branches, the total value of loans disbursed by February 2005 was close to a half million dollars to more than 1,600 clients, above the targets set in their business plan.
SUMI’s repayment rate is over 98 percent with a portfolio-at-risk rate of less than 6 percent, according to USAID’s website.
“In five years, I see this business helping our coun-try become stable,” Oywak said. “I want us to develop infrastructure, health ser-vices through building a lo-cal credit union model that promotes local ownership.”
The population of the Republic of South Sudan is around 12 million, which is small in comparison of the land mass, Oywak said.
“Our country is actually
blessed with an abundance of resources, so there are many opportunities ready for people to take,” Oywak said. “There is considerable interest for people to return from the United States, however, the lack of basic
services is an im-pairment for mass return. Many problems are related to poor infrastructure, high illiteracy rates, high mor-tality rate, malaria and waterborne diseases.”
Oywak thinks that if the country becomes stronger, many refugees will come home.
“If people know they can comfortably live here, or can help our country, they will return,” he said. “The challenge of building our country is enormous, but we hope to learn from other places on what to do, including the United States.”
Reach Sarah Kehoe at [email protected] or 253-872-6600 ext. 5056.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.
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“In five years, I see this business helping our country become stable. I want us to develop infrastructure, health services through building a local credit union model that promotes local ownership.” Victor Oywak
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The best way to start this column is a line from Roman Polanski’s 1974 fi lm “China-town.”
Noah Cross says to J.J. Gittes, “You may think you know what you’re dealing with, but believe me, you don’t.”
Oh yeah.Th at pretty well sums
up my Christmas and as a result I have decided to be little more careful when I write my columns.
One never knows who is reading.
I recently wrote a col-umn whining about smartphones and vowing to keep my dumb phone “no matter what.” I am so happy I said “no matter what.” Th at was brainy.
Th ere is a word I oft en hear tossed around at government meetings — hubris. It is the Greek term that I spent a pile of time in college writing very boring papers about.
A Greek guy named Herodotus a couple of thousand years ago wrote a history book about hubris, or nothing to excess.
In Herodotus’ view, if a guy wins a war and gets all smarty-pants about it, things will go wrong. Th e gods may wait a while and take it out on your great-great grandson, but not to worry. Th e bad day is coming.
I was going to write a column about folks using the term for all sorts of goofy reasons to sharpen their agenda knives when Christmas suddenly fell on my head.
Here is the short version.I had just fi nished making breakfast for the
kids. I served baked French toast stuff ed with cream cheese and cherries topped with whipped cream. I cooked a rasher of bacon, little pigs and eggs over easy.
I, of course, got all snooty and decided to text a friend who is the smartest woman I know. She loves to heckle me about eating weird things like tofu and pickles.
As I was texting her to show off that I could cook real food, I dropped my stupid, dumb phone and broke it. I’ve dropped it a million times, but this time the phone decided it would
be a dandy time to break the screen to smither-eens.
As I was picking up the phone I heard a dis-tant, odd hissing sound.
I thought to myself, “Th at’s funny.”Not really.At fi rst I tried to ignore the hissing and con-
centrate on moping about my broken phone. I knew this meant a trip to the cell phone store and a direct path to who knows what kind of hard hell.
I was planning on making a Chicago-style, deep-dish pizza with a cheese stuff ed crust for the aft ernoon. I started the dough and set it to rise, then I decided I had better check on the hissing — you know just in case.
Th at darn God sure has a fi nely honed sense of humor.
It was my water heater. It decided Christmas was the best day of the year to break. I certainly couldn’t agree more.
Th ere is nothing like celebrating Christmas under a house, wallowing in water, singing cheery Christmas carols like “Th e Twelve Days of Christmas” and “Please let this house fall on me and kill me.”
Aft er spending nearly forever soaking wet and covered in mud, I patched things up enough to get through.
Aft er fi xing the water heater, I schlepped to the cellphone store and immediately become incoherent. A very nice young woman helped me aft er I used my fake limp to get sympathy. She showed me a cheap phone I could get while I wade through all the hard stuff about smart-phones, which are just dandy and all the other zippy things I am supposed to say so I don’t get whacked again.
In conclusion, while lying under the house I did have a couple epiphanies.
First, not only did I not know God had a smartphone, I didn’t know he liked it so darn much. Sorry I exploded.
Commit hubris and you are going to get it, sooner or later. Apparently, God has all the time in the world to get his point across and he can be as funny as he wants.
Th e second under the house epiphany came when I thought about John Huston’s 1948 movie “Th e Treasure of the Sierra Madre.”
At the end of fi lm, when all the gold and fancy dreams are lost, there is only one thing to do: laugh, a lot.
Huston was on to something. I have a funny feeling my saga with the smart-
phone is far from over.
Have a happy and very safe new year.
I have decided my new year’s resolution this year will be focused on my daughters. For their benefi t I am resolving not to be the perfect wife and mother.
I mean what kind of a role model would I be if I were the perfect wife and mother? I don’t want my daugh-ters to have the stress of being perfect wives and mothers when they are adults just because I was. Or at the very least, if I’m not the perfect wife and mother, they will have room to improve on my skills, or lack thereof.
So in this new year I will not keep the perfect house. I will back off on my cleaning schedule and leave some dust and dirt behind when I do clean. I won’t make people take their shoes off when they enter my house and I’ll only
vacuum from time to time. Th e dust will gather until my kids can draw in it and I’ll only dust before we have company.
I will let things stack up on the kitchen table and shove stuff around to making little eating spaces or stack it all on the coff ee table. Some-times when the table is too full, we’ll eat in front of the TV.
Dinner will occasionally consist of subs and chips. I’ll buy three family size bags of potato
chips and not care if my family eats them all at once. Sometimes I’ll run out of fresh fruit and veggies and will have to use canned. Or better yet, we won’t have a fruit or veg-etables with our dinner meal.
I won’t cook dinner as oft en, when my kids ask me “What’s for dinner?” I’ll tell them we’re having cereal. Some days I’ll let my husband “cook” (fast food anyone?) I’ll let the milk
run out and the cupboards get bare every once in a while. I’ll leave things off the shopping list so the item has to wait until the next shopping day.
From time to time I’ll wait eight days instead of seven to do the laundry and the kids will
have to wash a load of their own clothes if they want clean jeans. Sometimes I won’t take the line dried clothes down and fold them until it’s time to do laundry again. If my kids or husband need to wear them in between laundry days they can go get them off the line themselves. If they complain, I’ll suggest they fold them all them-selves (but they won’t). I’ll put off changing the bedding for a month and suggest my kids wash their own sheets.
I will lose track of our schedules and be late to pick them up off the bus every once in a while. I will get lost in my thoughts and miss the turn to their bus stop a few times a month. And some-times I’ll run late and have to drive them all the way to school.
I’ll forget their lessons or appointments on occasion and have to reschedule or I’ll just be too tired to go. I’ll make my husband run my kids around just so I can put my pajamas on and stay home.
I’ll let my garden go a bit so it looks a little shabby around the edges. And I won’t mow the lawn until it’s ankle deep. I certainly won’t rake
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up the mowed grass; I’ll just let it sit on the lawn so dogs and people track it in the house. In fact, I’m not going to water the lawn in the summer.
I won’t monitor my kids’ grades and homework, but I will expect them to do their homework on their own and still get good grades,
only off ering up moral support.
So those are my New Year’s resolutions – Oh wait. I already do all that stuff . But this year I won’t feel guilty about it. What kind of a role model would I be if I felt guilty about not being a perfect wife and mother?
What we’ll do for our kids.
Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She is commit-ted to writing about the humor amidst the chaos of a family. You can read more of her writing and her daily blog on her web-site livingwithgleigh.com.Contact Covington Re-porter Columnist Gretchen Leigh at [email protected].
Th e King County Sher-iff ’s Offi ce has started to move in to its new satellite precinct offi ce in Coving-ton.
Staff fi rst began moving offi ce supplies in on Dec. 20.
According to King Coun-ty Sheriff ’s spokesperson Sgt. Cindi West, they are aiming to have the precinct offi ce up and running this
week.Covington City Council
agreed to lease the 1,000- square-foot space to the Sheriff ’s Offi ce aft er Sheriff Sue Rahr decided to close the East Precinct Head-quarters in Maple Valley due to budget constraints.
Th e new precinct satellite offi ce will house 30 to 50 offi cers who patrol unin-corporated areas of King County. Although they are able to do much of their work on their in-vehicle
computers, they will need to use the precinct offi ce in order to update their com-puter soft ware and publish their reports.
Th e lease, which was ap-proved by the City Council at its Aug. 9 meeting, is expected to save Covington approximately $32,000 an-nually in contract costs for its police department.
Th e sublease agreement is for six years plus two possible fi ve-year extension periods.
Deputies move to Covington
UNINCORPORATED AREA COUNCIL MEETING JAN. 9The Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council regular monthly meeting is scheduled for 7-9:30 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 9 at the Maple Valley Fire Station at South-east 231st Street and State Route16.
All members of the public are invited to attend. The coun-cil is locally elected and represents all unincorporated area residents living in the Tahoma School District.
For more, visit www.greatermaplevalleyareacouncil.org.
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COUNTY RECYCLING CHANGES
Beginning February 1, 2012, King County is eliminating the collection of standard curbside recyclables at the Cedar Falls, Enumclaw, Houghton, Renton, and Shoreline transfer stations. These include: glass bottles and jars, tin and aluminum cans, plastic bottles, mixed paper, newspaper, and cardboard.
Providing this service at the transfer stations costs solid waste rate payers $400,000 each year. Collecting these materials at the transfer stations is duplicating a service that is available to 99 percent of King County residents through their curbside garbage collection which includes, at no extra cost, the collection of recyclables. Extra material that does not fi t in your bin can be placed curbside in clearly marked containers, also at no extra cost.
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HOLIDAY RECYCLE PROGRAMGot old cell phones or video games and don’t know what to do with them?
If you have old cell phones, chargers, empty printer cartridges, laptops, video games, digital cameras, calculators, iPods or DVD’s, bring your donations to Covington City Hall Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and support the Covington Domestic Violence Task Force. These items will be recycled and the proceeds will be used to provide direct services to victims of domestic violence. Thank you for your support.
01/10 – City Council Special Meeting, 5:30 p.m.01/10 – City Council Regular Meeting, 7 p.m.01/12 – Human Services Commission Meeting, 6:30 p.m.01/12 – Arts Commission Meeting, 6:30 p.m.01/16 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – City Hall Closed01/18 – Parks Commission Meeting, 6:30 p.m.01/19 – Planning Commission Meeting, 6:30 p.m.01/24 – City Council Joint Meeting, 6 p.m.01/24 – City Council Regular Meeting, 7 p.m.01/26 – Economic Development Council Meeting, 6:30 p.m.01/28 – City Council Summit Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
For More Information on any of These Events, please ContactKarla Slate at (253) 638-1110 x2234 or [email protected]
JANUARYCALENDAR OF EVENTS
PUBLIC WORKS 101ENGINEERING DIVISION
President Herbert Hoover once said, “Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a fi gment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life.”
It is the desire of the Engineering Division to operate in a manner that always improves and elevates. Some of those areas were already discussed in previous articles within this series, including traffi c operations (dealing with traffi c signals), road construction projects and surface water management. However, there are several other areas where engineering supports public works.
Six Year Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)Each year, the Engineering Division evaluates
the transportation infrastructure and develops a prioritized plan that addresses those needs for the next six years. The TIP not only helps local agencies begin an implementation strategy, it is also one of the key elements in securing grant funding for the various projects. This annual process is required by all state, regional and local transportation agencies in order to develop a statewide list of needs to which state and federal funds can be allocated. The Engineering Division also annually reviews the numerous grant programs to determine which projects on the TIP will compete well for the limited funds.
Street Asphalt Overlay ProgramAnother important program within public works is the street asphalt
overlay program. The City of Covington currently has about 73 miles of asphalt streets that it is responsible to maintain. These 73 miles vary in age and condition -- from newly installed to over 30 years old. They also do not all wear the same due to the fact that not all roads have the same thickness of asphalt, nor do they bear the same amount of traffi c on them; they have differing amounts of heavy truck traffi c and the soil conditions differ under the asphalt. In order to assess the true condition of the roads, a periodic survey (all roads every three years or a third of the roads every year) of every road section is needed as a baseline in recommending what repairs and/or overlays are needed on the various street segments. The maintenance of the asphalt is imperative to maximize the life of the roadways. If the overlays and repairs are delayed, then more costly measures are needed to restore the roadways.
Design and Construction StandardsThe Engineering Division also works with the Community Development
Department in creating and maintaining design and construction standards. This ensures that there is uniformity in construction within the different developments throughout the city. It is important that the standards remain current and in compliance with all state and federal regulations. They are also reviewed and updated to refl ect the vision of the city.
Although the above are not inclusive of all the tasks within Public Works, they do give a representation of the varying aspects of engineering associated within the department and refl ects the desire to make Covington’s motto “unmatched quality of life” a reality.
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VALLEY MEDICAL PROJECT TO BEGINValley Medical Center is beginning to
prepare its site behind Safeway for construction
of a new free-standing 24/7 Emergency
Department. Valley Medical received approval
to construct the new 24/7 Emergency
Department on their site after the City held a
public hearing. At this hearing, surrounding
property owners were notified and encouraged
to attend to submit verbal and written
testimony.
Residents may notice trees being removed
and land being cleared during this time. The
approved plans have been reviewed against
all existing city and state requirements for
environmental regulation and control, including
the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). All
environmental laws must be met and will be
followed and enforced.
In addition, the City recently adopted a tree
ordinance and Valley Medical has met the
conditions of that ordinance. Valley Medical
hired a certified arborist to inspect, evaluate,
and locate on a map every tree over four inches
in diameter. Many of the trees suffer from
a disease known as “root rot” which affects
the health and stability of trees of that size.
Many new trees and other landscaping will be
required as part of the development proposal.
If you have any questions or would like more
information, you may contact Senior Planner
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COVINGTON AQUATIC CENTERNEWS-SPLASHPARTY AT THE POOL FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY! Fun play features at the Covington Aquatic Center make birthday parties a
blast! In addition to water basketball and springboard diving, the pool offers extras such as “Big Red” the inflatable octopus, the floating “Magic Carpet,” the rope swing, and the waterslide. A small rental room is also available for those that want to bring a birthday cake and open gifts. For children, it is instant entertainment; for parents, it is a great place to host a party (you don’t have to clean-up your house afterwards!). For more information, contact the Covington Aquatic Center.
REGISTRATION FOR SPRING ACTIVITIES NOW OPEN! Swimming lessons, lifeguard training, swim instructor training, Aquatic
Volunteer Academy … it is all happening at the Covington Aquatic Center this spring! Space is limited – register today!!!
STAY FIT WITH YOUR OWN UNLIMITED USE MEMBERSHIP! Get your swim on with these great low prices for unlimited use memberships at the Covington Aquatic
Center. Memberships entitle the holder to attend public, family, and lap swims at no additional cost during the valid period. It is an excellent way to keep active indoors during the winter months.
* Covington discounted rates available for Covington residents with proof of residency.
FOR MORE INFORMATIONFor more information about the Covington Aquatic Center or to register for activities, visit www.covingtonwa.gov/cac, call 425-413-POOL(7665), or visit us at 18230 SE 240th St, Covington WA 98042 (Next to Tahoma High School).
HEATING AND ENERGY ASSISTANCE
With the winter months just beginning, help with energy assistance will be one of the most requested needs coming to the human services specialist for the City of Covington. The city does not provide direct financial assistance but works with a variety of non-profit organizations that do provide energy assistance to income-qualified residents of Covington.
Navigating where to find help and who to call can be difficult, especially when one is under stress and facing a shut-off notice. The city’s Human Service Specialist, Victoria Throm, is there to help with resources and referrals to guide families through the process. She can be reached by calling 253-638-1110 x2237 from 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
Funding is provided by the Federal Heat and Energy Assistance Program known as LIHEAP or the Puget Sound Energy HELP programs. Other small grants may be issued from emergency assistance programs in several non-profit agencies.
These programs include payment for all kinds of home heating sources (gas,
electricity, oil, firewood, etc.). For eligible clients, assistance is available once per year from each funding source. Shut-off notices are not always required.
Maple Valley Food Bank & Emergency Assistance - administers the Federal LIHEAP & PSE HELP programs. Assistance is available with gas, electric, and other heating cost emergencies. Photo ID and proof of address, disconnect notice, and income required. Call 425-432-8139. Mon-Thu 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Multi-Service Center - Administers the LIHEAP & PSE HELP program. Call the toll free, 24-hour Energy Assistance Line to schedule an appointment, Mon-Fri 9-11 a.m. 1-800-348-7144. Phone line automatically makes a specific number of appointment slots each day. Call every day until offered an appointment time; there are no fees.
Salvation Army - Covington residents may call the Black Diamond Community Center at 360-886-1011 or the Kent Office at 253-852-4983 M-F, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. They will help with the power bill for families with children, seniors, or disabled.
Catholic Community Services Emergency Assistance Program - Kent Office 253-850-2523. Provides limited financial assistance for electric and gas heating bills. Call and listen to recording for upcoming screening dates and instructions.
The first week of January means it is time to make some promises to your garden. These resolutions mean less work and more beauty so mark your calendars now so each month you’ll hold yourself accountable:JANUARY
Resolve to knock the heavy, wet snow from the
brittle branches of your prized shrubs. Rhodo-dendrons and Japanese maples are most likely to break a limb when tackled by snow.
FEBRUARY Time to bust slime. Tiny
baby slugs are hatching this month and feeding on the first shoots of new spring growth.
MARCHWin the weed wars. Cool
season weeds like shot weed and oxalis are beginning to flower and if you let them go to seed you’ll have bil-lions of weeds popping up all summer. If your weedy colonies are too thick to pull by hand, smother the young weeds with a mulch now. Lack of sunlight will kill small weeds. For larger weeds use several sheets of newspaper beneath a mulch
or just dump a load of wet grass clippings on top of a weed patch.APRIL
Improve your soil because this is the month hungry young plants are looking for nourishment. Dig compost into your beds and borders and then turn the soil to increase aeration. If you have lichen, molds and mosses growing on top of your soil then add bark chips, lime and a bit of sand to lighten the soil and increase drainage.
May: Make this the year you don’t plant warm-season plants like tomatoes and petunias too soon. Cool nights plunge heat-lovers into a depression they never outgrow. It is not just a frost that upsets
heat-loving coleus, mari-golds and cucumbers, but even a nighttime drop to 45 degrees will send them into a downward spiral. You can plant cool season crops and plants that go into contain-ers.JUNE
Don’t forget to fertilize, especially container plants that are grown in quick-draining potting soil. Even if the potting soil has fertil-izer included, they still need more food before summer is over.JULY
Resolve that this summer you will host a picnic, gar-den party or patio dinner. Nothing else gets garden maintenance done like company coming. Just edg-ing the lawn, cleaning the
pathways and weeding the beds is enough to turn any homeowner into a proud gardener.AUGUST
2012 should be the sum-mer you don’t desert your garden when you vacation. Home alone can be murder on potted plants, especially hanging baskets. Hire a neighbor to water while you are gone; there really are at least two more months of color from blooming annu-als if you remember to keep them well hydrated during dry August.SEPTEMBER
Lawn renovation has been put off long enough. Promise to take these four steps for a lush new lawn:
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It wasn’t too long ago when chants of “Rudy, Rudy” came spilling out of the French Field bleachers during Kentwood High football games.
Fans wanted to see the diminutive kid, who was given the nickname for his likeness in stature and drive to Daniel “Rudy” Ruetigger, a Notre Dame football player made famous by the 1993 movie of the same name.
They wanted to see Jarrett Tomalin. It has been nearly six years since Tomalin, a
2005 graduate, has heard those chants. His drive to succeed and his passion for athletics, however, have not changed. And though locally Tomalin is often referred to by his nickname, he also has picked up another label in the past year — Band-Aid.
The alias has little to do with Tomalin’s multiple-sport success at Kentwood, and every-thing to do with his ability to juggle multiple tasks and responsibilities at a single time. From 6 to 10 a.m. in the morning on 106.1 KISS FM, Tomalin was an on-air personality and assistant producer for the Jackie & Bender show. Toma-lin’s job involved camera work, gathering stories, marketing and filling in wherever there is a need.
The nickname “Band-Aid” stemmed from Tomalin’s willingness to fill in anywhere needed.
“When I stepped in, somebody had left and I told Bender that I’d do anything, just give me a chance,” recalled Tomalin, who has also done on-air work and promotions for KUBE and KJR AM among other radio outlets. “He told me it was nothing permanent and that I was just heal-ing a wound until they hired someone.”
Few wrestlers during the past decade of the state tournament have delivered a more improb-able run on the year’s biggest stage. For those who love underdogs, Tomalin’s three-week burst that ended in a second-place finish at state proved unforgettable.
“It was unbelievable,” Kentwood coach Ken Sroka said of Tomalin, who was competing at 125 pounds. “I remember talking to Jarrett be-fore the postseason about figuring out his style. He was full of energy, strong, and compact. He was a brawler.”
A brawler who never had qualified for state tournament before. A kid who, for all his talent, desire and drive, was the third-best wrestler that year in his weight class — and that was just in the South Puget Sound League North Division.
State? Tomalin?The kid known as “Rudy” believed.“I remember in the fifth grade seeing the walk
at the Tacoma Dome,” remembered Tomalin, noting the march of champions that is an annual event before the title round at the Mat Classic. “I remember seeing (Luke) Hetherington, (Ste-phen) Folden, Chris Smith. I was like, ‘I have to make this.’ “
ODDS WERE AGAINST HIMTomalin was a long shot at best in 2005 — the
undersized 125-pound kid whose motor never stopped. From football to wrestling to baseball and rugby, Tomalin made room for all of it dur-ing high school. Yet, Mat Classic traditionally is a place where the year-round wrestlers thrive,
and the seasonal competitors are weeded out on the first day.
The Kentwood kid, however, wouldn’t be weeded out.
After winning his opening match at regionals, Tomalin fell to a star from Cascade High of Ev-erett’s, Jonny Gilbertson, 14-8. Gilbertson, who improved to 36-0, was by all accounts a favorite to win the state title.
“I realized at the time that he was just another guy,” said Tomalin, who barely escaped the re-gional tournament, earning the fourth and final seed to state. “At that point, win or lose, I wanted to make sure nobody ever wanted to wrestle me again.”
Sroka hasn’t forgotten that turning point.“I vividly remember the look on Jonny’s face
after that match,” Sroka said. “He didn’t want anything to do with Jarrett at the end of that match.”
The chances of the two meeting up again, however, remained slim. To do so, Tomalin would have to pull consecutive upsets in the first two rounds of the state tournament against higher-seeded opponents. All Gilbertson had to do was what was expected of the weight class’ top-ranked wrestler: win.
Gilbertson held up his end of the bargain, cruising into the state semis to improve to 40-0 for the season.
Tomalin, on the other hand, scrapped and fought his way to a 9-8 decision in the opener to improve to 27-12. He then had to come back from a six-point deficit in the quarterfinals to upend Ferris High’s Taylor Yonago, the weight class’ fourth-ranked wrestler in the state.
A year after watching the state tournament from the sidelines, Tomalin found himself in the semifinals.
THEY MEET AGAINThe rematch with Gilbertson proved to be the
pinnacle of Tomalin’s wrestling career, an indel-
ible moment that Sroka also considers among his coaching highlights. Tied 4-4 with a minute remaining in the final round, Tomalin recorded a takedown, then hung on for an improbable 7-5 win.
It was Gilbertson’s first loss of the year.“It hurts bad,” Gilbertson told the Everett
Herald that day. “I didn’t wrestle that good of a match. (Tomalin) came at me with nothing to lose, and I had everything to lose.”
As the match wore on, Sroka could feel the momentum shift.
“(Jarrett) just kept going and going and going,” Sroka said. “(Gilbertson) couldn’t handle the pace or the physicalness of the match. It was like (Gilbertson) was in a war and he didn’t like it. It was great, little Jarrett Tomalin with a heart as big as the Dome goes out there and beats him. I was floored. All three of the guys he beat at the state tournament had more experience, wrestled better during the year.
“He put it all together at the right time.”Tomalin’s rise ended with a 3-0 loss to Central
Valley’s Lucas Chesher in the championship match.
But that hardly took away from Tomalin’s state run.
“I had been a stress ball all year, so it was such an accomplishment for me,” he said. “It was about waking up before school and going run-ning. About not having the food I wanted just so I could make sure I was ready to go.
“I was not the most skilled wrestler,” Tomalin said. “I didn’t have the most technique and, re-ally, I wasn’t supposed to be in the state finals.”
“But conditioning- and strength-wise, I could not be beat.”ºº
Erick Walker is a former staff writer for the Reporter who now teaches in the Kent School District.To comment on this story log on to www.covingtonreporter.com.
The kid from Kentwood they called Rudy
Jarrett Tomalin, left, waits as former Cascade High star Jonny Gilbertson prepares to start wrestling again in a 2005 125-pound state semifinal match which Tomalin won. File photo
Jarrett Tomalin, 2005 graduate, reflects on his improbable run in the Mat Classic tournament
AT SHOWARE High school basketball fans will get the chance to check out two boys and girls tournaments in January at Kent’s ShoWare Center.The Valley Medical Center Showcase on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 16, features five boys games and two girls games.Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students with ASB, $5 for senior citizens and $7 for students without ASB cards.All four Kent schools will participate in the Les Schwab Shootout in Kent on Jan. 27.Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for students with ASB, $5 for senior citizens and $7 for students without ASB.Here are the schedules:
2012 SHOWARE SHOWCASEMonday, Jan. 16At ShoWare Center10 a.m. Auburn Riverside vs. Bellarmine Prep girls11:30 a.m. Cascade Christian vs. Auburn-Mt. View boys1 p.m.Kentwood vs. Federal Way girls2:30 p.m.Kennedy vs. Clover Park boys4 p.m.Mount Rainier vs. Benson (Portland) boys6 p.m. Kent-Meridian vs. Kentridge boys 7:30 p.m. Jefferson vs. Kentwood boys2012 LES SCHWAB SHOOTOUT IN KENTFriday, Jan. 27At ShoWare Center2 p.m.Jefferson vs. Bethel boys3:30 p.m.Kent-Meridian vs. Kentlake girls5 p.m. Kentlake vs. Kent-Meridian boys7 p.m. Kentridge vs. Kentwood girls8:30 p.m. Kentwood vs. Kentridge boys
prep wrestling
BLACK DIAMOND
Dec. 26
SPEEDING CAR: 23600 block of SE 288th Street. An offi cer observed a vehicle speeding and confi rmed this through the use of radar. The motor-ist was traveling at 51 mph in a 35 mph zone. Upon stopping the ve-hicle the offi cer identifi ed the adult female driver by her driver’s license. A record check showed the female driver had an outstanding misde-meanor warrant out of Renton on Driving with a Suspended License charge. The woman was arrested and booked into jail.
Dec. 20
SON ATTACKS DAD: 28900 block of 220th Place Southeast. Offi cers were dispatched to a suspicious cir-cumstance call at a residence where an adult male subject was armed with a sword. Upon arrival offi cers
observed the adult male subject fi ghting with his father over the sword.The scene was secured and upon investigation it was learned the adult male subject became agitated and attacked his father with the sword. The father was able to fi ght off his adult son to keep him from being seriously injured. The adult son was booked into King County Jail on Domestic Violence/Assault-1st Degree charges.
COVINGTON
Dec. 29
FAKE RETURN: 17000 block of Southeast 270th Place. A woman stole shoes from Kohl’s then at-tempted to return the shoes to the store using a fraudulent receipt.
BURGLARY: 26900 block of 164th Avenue Southeast. The suspect crawled through a large dog door to get into the garage then stole a purse from the home.
NEED A COFFEE FIX: 16200 block of Southeast 256th Street. Someone broke into an espresso stand using a prying tool of some kind and stole
an espresso machine.
Dec. 28
ROBBERY: 17000 block of South-east 272nd Street. Four suspects attempted to rob a jewelry store at gun point and pistol whipped an employee in the process.
Dec. 25
AWAY IN THE MANGER: 25300 block of 168th Place Southeast. A nativity set in the victim’s front yard was knocked over by unknown suspects who also apparently broke two ceramic pots.
THREATS: 17600 block of South-east 261st Street. The suspect threatened to kill the victim via phone and text messages.
Dec. 23
FREE RIDE: 27200 block of Coving-ton Way Southeast. Someone drove onto the lot of the Airstream dealer-ship and stole a 31-foot trailer. The suspects drove off the lot with it.
SMOOTH CRIMINAL: 17400 block of 270th Place Southeast. After getting arrested for shoplifting, the
suspect was later to be found in possession of prescription medica-tions as well as crack cocaine.
Dec. 22
GOT MILK (AND TOBACCO)?: 17600 block of Southeast 272nd Street. Two unidentifi ed men stole “smokes and milk,” according to the police report, from a convenience store.
UNDER AGE DRINKING: 27100 block of 164th Avenue Southeast. The suspect was arrested for minor in possession at the Covington Library and fought with police.
Dec. 20
CHECK CARD FRAUD: 17400 block of Southeast 270th Place. The victim lost his wallet on Nov. 25 in the Walmart parking lot. Since then his debit card was used fraudulently multiple times for a total of nearly $3,000 in charges.
Dec. 19
UPGRADE BY FORCE: 17100 block of Southeast 270th Place. The suspect walked into the T-Mobile store, took a cellphone and when
confronted by employees when he started to leave, “stated multiple times he had a gun,” according to the police report which elevates the crime to robbery.
Dec. 16
INDECENT EXPOSURE: 16700 block of Southeast 272nd Street. A man was loitering in the restroom and used a hole in a partition to observe the victim. He masturbated while observing the victim through the partition.
MAPLE VALLEY
Jan. 1TRAIL ROBBERY: Southeast 265th Street and 236th Avenue Southeast. The suspects took the victim’s back-pack by force while the victim was walking along the Lake Wilderness Trail near the Katesridge neighbor-hood.
Dec. 31IMPERSONATING COPS: 26800 block of state Route 169. Suspects used a public address system mounted on a car to impersonate police by yelling, “Stop, police,” and “Pull over, police,” near Four Corners. One suspect was identifi ed and released, the other remains at large.
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TRIMETHYLAMINURIATrimethylaminuria, or TMAU, is a big word for a big
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Trimethylaminuria is diagnosed by a simple urine test in which the urine is tested for increased levels of trimethylam-ine.
For more information, please call Southlake Clinic at (253) 395-1972. Our primary care providers are part of a multi-specialty physician network and are also available on Saturdays. Our multi-specialty group has a clinic in Coving-ton at 27005 168th Place SE.
First AME ChurchRev. Dr. Carey Anderson, Senior Pastor
South CampusWorship Service: Sundays, 9:30 A.M.
Emerald Park Elementary School, 11800 SE 216th St. Kent, WA
1st Sunday is Communion Sunday: with the FAME South Praise Team Accompanied by Shirley Lacy
2nd Sunday is Youth Ministry Sunday: with New Revelation Choir led by Donald Hurd
3rd Sunday is Women’s Ministry Sunday: with the Chancel Choir led by Sandra Smith-Jackson
4th Sunday is Men’s Ministry & Family and Friends Sunday: with FAME Choir led by Sandra Smith-Jackson
5th Sunday is Praise & WorshipMinister & Coordinator, Rev. Dr. Tom Carpenter
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Add lime, aerate, top dress with compost and level out the low spots, then reseed to enjoy a new lawn before winter arrives.OCTOBER
Buy bulbs. Remember to plant them this year.NOVEMBER
Start a compost pile. Why send all your garden clippings out with the garbage? You can save a lot of money by making your own compost.
DECEMBERMake a list of improve-
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January 12, Chamber Luncheon
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We have a unique chef-inspired menu. Starting January 9th we’re bringing back our Lobster-and-Seafood Salad sub, and the popular fresh Lobster Seafood Chopped Salad. This sub features our signature lobster and seafood salad with lettuce on butter-toasted artisan bread with a lemon wedge.
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Jenny and Mike Berg have owned the Covington Quiznos for over two years. It’s a family affair with both sons Nathan and Collin work-ing in the business. Stop in soon – we look forward to seeing you! Order online at deliverybyquiznos.com.
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