INSIDE | Kentlake students charged with firearm possession [3] R EP O RTER .com FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012 A DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING NEWSLINE 253-872-6600 KENT Sports | Tess Manthou shines on the court for Kentwood [13] Caitlin Brown takes her dog, Dexter, for a walk along the Green River Trail lined with sandbags. STEVE HUNTER, Kent Reporter BY MARK KLAAS [email protected]Faced with opposition from a concerned community, a pro- posed homeless shelter is no longer a possibility for one down- town Kent location. Based on feedback from focus groups examining the idea of a proposed shelter, Kent city officials will not proceed with a request to use the former city Re- source Center at 315 E. Meeker St. for any specified capacity for now. “ere was a consensus that we would not be going on to an RFP (request for proposals),” said Den- nis Higgins, city council presi- dent. “e outcome of the focus groups is that the recommenda- tion is not to proceed with an RFP … for any purpose at this time.” e City Council at last week’s workshop received broad feedback from the focus groups, a commu- nity outreach effort the city used to gauge ideas and concerns from various sectors, including the faith and business communities. e Seattle’s Union Gospel Mis- sion and the Kent Homelessness Partnership Effort (KentHOPE) proposed to transform the two- story, 5,700-square-foot publicly owned building on East Meeker Street into a day center and over- night homeless shelter. [ more MEASURE page 3 ] Jeromie Heath, teacher and sometimes pirate, shares a game/ lesson with his bullion- possessing students. SARAH KEHOE, Kent Reporter Firm finds Kent STAFF REPORTS Ingenium, a full-spectrum innovative environmental services company, has opened a new facility in Kent, with the capability to serve the Pacific Northwest. The company provides creative, sustainable solutions for regulated waste manage- ment. Corey Johnson, an environ- mental science professional with more 12 years in the industry, heads operations. Focus groups say no to homeless shelter [ more SHELTER page 5 ] BY STEVE HUNTER [email protected]Let the marijuana petition drive begin. Sensible Washington, which filed an initiative last month with the city of Kent to let voters decide whether the city should make marijuana offenses the lowest enforcement priority by Kent Police, received the go-ahead from Kent City Attorney Tom Brubaker to start to col- lect signatures. Brubaker told the group in a letter that they are “free to prepare, format and circulate your petition at any time.” e initiative would “make the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of non-violent marijuana of- fenses, where the marijuana was intended for adult personal use, the lowest law enforcement priority.” Initially, it appeared based on Kent City Code that the group would need to go through several steps before collecting signatures from Kent voters. Brubaker, however, deter- mined the city code needs to be changed when it comes to petitions in order to fall in line with the state petition process. “Our code has extra steps in the petition process that are not consistent with the state code,” said Brubaker during a phone interview Tuesday. Low-enforcement marijuana petition drive can start King County considers funding to move them by fall BY STEVE HUNTER [email protected]Caitlin Brown walks along the narrow path Tuesday of the Green River Trail only imaging what it might be like without the giant sand- bags covering most of the surface. “It’s an awesome trail,” said Brown, as she took her dog, Dexter, for a stroll along the paved path near her Kent condo. “I just wish the bags weren’t in the way.” It appears the sandbags could remain along the trail until fall as city of Kent, Auburn, Tukwila and King County officials try to figure out how to pay for the estimated $7.6 million cost to remove the giant sandbags and Hesco barriers that line 26 miles of Green River levees. When will sandbags be removed? [ more SANDBAGS page 4 ] BY SARAH KEHOE [email protected]Fiſth-graders at Pine Hill Elementary School have a classroom full of treasure, pirate flags and games. For the past month, their teacher, Jeromie Heath, has transformed himself into a pirate and teaches all classroom subjects around a pirate theme. Heath believes the kids will retain infor- mation better if they are entertained. “It keeps them inter- ested and their behavior in check,” Heath said. “If they break a rule or act out, I tell them they won’t be able to participate in our learning games or I’ll go put on nor- mal clothes and they stop right away.” is isn’t the first theme Heath has come up with to promote learning. He incor- porates a different theme in his room every six weeks. [ more TEACHER page 5 ] AARGH! PIRATE TEACHER MAKES LEARNING FUN [ more INGENIUM page 8 ]
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Caitlin Brown takes her dog, Dexter, for a walk along the Green River Trail lined with sandbags. STEVE HUNTER, Kent Reporter
Faced with opposition from a concerned community, a pro-posed homeless shelter is no longer a possibility for one down-town Kent location.
Based on feedback from focus groups examining the idea of a proposed shelter, Kent city offi cials will not proceed with a request to use the former city Re-source Center at 315 E. Meeker St. for any specifi ed capacity for now.
“Th ere was a consensus that we
would not be going on to an RFP (request for proposals),” said Den-nis Higgins, city council presi-dent. “Th e outcome of the focus groups is that the recommenda-tion is not to proceed with an RFP … for any purpose at this time.”
Th e City Council at last week’s
workshop received broad feedback from the focus groups, a commu-nity outreach eff ort the city used to gauge ideas and concerns from various sectors, including the faith and business communities.
Th e Seattle’s Union Gospel Mis-sion and the Kent Homelessness
Partnership Eff ort (KentHOPE) proposed to transform the two-story, 5,700-square-foot publicly owned building on East Meeker Street into a day center and over-night homeless shelter.
[ more MEASURE page 3 ]
Jeromie Heath, teacher and sometimes
pirate, shares a game/
lesson with his bullion-possessing
students.
SARAH KEHOE, Kent Reporter
Firm finds KentSTAFF REPORTS
Ingenium, a full-spectrum innovative environmental services company, has opened a new facility in Kent, with the capability to serve the Pacifi c Northwest.
The company provides creative, sustainable solutions for regulated waste manage-ment.
Corey Johnson, an environ-mental science professional with more 12 years in the industry, heads operations.
Sensible Washington, which fi led an initiative last month with the city of Kent to let voters decide whether the city should make marijuana off enses the lowest enforcement priority by Kent Police, received the go-ahead from Kent City Attorney Tom Brubaker to start to col-lect signatures.
Brubaker told the group in a letter that they are “free to prepare, format and circulate your petition at any time.”
Th e initiative would “make the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of non-violent marijuana of-
fenses, where the marijuana was intended for adult personal use, the lowest law enforcement priority.”
Initially, it appeared based on Kent City Code that the group would need to go through several steps before collecting signatures from Kent voters.
Brubaker, however, deter-mined the city code needs to be changed when it comes to petitions in order to fall in line with the state petition process.
“Our code has extra steps in the petition process that are not consistent with the state code,” said Brubaker during a phone interview Tuesday.
Low-enforcement marijuana petition drive can start
King County considers funding to move them by fallBY STEVE HUNTER
Caitlin Brown walks along the narrow path Tuesday of the Green River Trail only imaging what it
might be like without the giant sand-bags covering most of the surface.
“It’s an awesome trail,” said Brown, as she took her dog, Dexter, for a stroll along the paved path near her Kent condo. “I just wish the bags weren’t in the way.”
It appears the sandbags could
remain along the trail until fall as city of Kent, Auburn, Tukwila and King County offi cials try to fi gure out how to pay for the estimated $7.6 million cost to remove the giant sandbags and Hesco barriers that line 26 miles of Green River levees.
Elementary School have a classroom full of treasure, pirate fl ags and games.
For the past month, their teacher, Jeromie Heath, has transformed himself into a pirate and teaches all classroom subjects around a pirate theme. Heath believes the kids will retain infor-mation better if they are entertained.
“It keeps them inter-ested and their behavior in check,” Heath said. “If they break a rule or act out, I tell them they won’t be able to participate in our learning games or I’ll go put on nor-mal clothes and they stop right away.”
Th is isn’t the fi rst theme Heath has come up with to promote learning. He incor-porates a diff erent theme in his room every six weeks.[ more TEACHER page 5 ]
Secretary of State Sam Reed has a few things he wants to fi nish before his retirement in January.
Th ings like returning to school, encouraging the younger vote, and promot-ing the importance of civil-ity in politics and society.
And long aft er he leaves offi ce, Reed said, he hopes to continue to share a piece of state history.
Reed one day would like to establish the Washington State Heritage Center in Olympia, a personal priority for the 71-year-old man, who has devoted a lifetime to public service. Its goal would be to preserve archives and documents as a state territorial library and museum, creating a learn-ing center for children and future generations of voters. Despite delays owing to the sour economy, the program has attracted funding.
“It’s very important for people who are going to be voters, who are going to be engaged in the political process, to have some sense of historical context of how we got here from there,” Reed said during a recent visit to Kent, part of his statewide farewell tour. “It’s a passion of mine.”
Engaging younger voters is important to Reed. About 68 percent of registered voters ages 18-24 voted in the 2008 general election, compared to just 45 percent in 2000. Reed considers that a positive sign.
“Younger voters are just as impacted by what their government does as older gen-erations,” Reed said. “I want them to understand that the best way to bring about change is through their ballot.”
To support the cause, Reed embarks this month on his annual, statewide civics tour of college campuses, where he’ll encourage students to vote and strengthen their community ties.
Reed will visit 45 cam-puses stretching from Bell-ingham to Vancouver, from Aberdeen to Pullman, in April. It is the largest num-ber of schools he’s visited since 2006, when he began
the springtime tradition.“With so many key races
and issues on this year’s ballot, students need to understand why voting is important, and they need to realize their collective voice is powerful when they exercise it through voting and being involved in their community,” Reed said. “A major reason why I do this tour is to explain to stu-dents why their vote makes a diff erence and tell them simple ways to be more civically engaged.”
Reed has endured an event-fi lled, sometimes turbulent ride in his 12 years as secretary of state. In 2004, he saw the state through one of its most scrutinized gu-bernatorial elections in history – when Gov. Chris Gregoire beat
Republican Dino Rossi by a mere 133 votes aft er two re-counts and a court challenge.
Under his watch, there have been 146 election re-forms. Reed’s offi ce cleaned up voter rolls, requiring new checks and balances for counties and reviews of elections.
What’s more, Reed sup-ported the state’s current top-two primary system, where the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affi liation, move on to the general election. State Republican and Democratic parties opposed the system.
“Parties don’t agree, but the people in the state do,” Reed said.
Reed also helped to usher in the vote-by-mail system in Washington, making it only the second state in the country to adopt one, ac-cording to his offi ce.
Th roughout the changes in this period, some of them controversial, Reed and his offi ce have striven to hold the middle ground, especially during diffi cult, heated elections.
Reed supports a Re-publican candidate as his successor. Th urston County Auditor Kim Wyman, Reed says, is qualifi ed.
State Sen. Jim Kastama, D-Puyallup, also wants the job, as do Greg Nickels, a Democrat and former Seattle mayor, and Kathleen Drew of Olympia, an analyst in the governor’s offi ce and a former Democratic state senator.
Th e state Attorney Gen-eral’s Offi ce has charged a Kent businessman with four counts of fi rst-degree theft and one count of forgery for allegedly receiving $19,459 from the state for a job injury claim even though he had returned to work.
Mark Lee Owen, 39, the son of state Lt. Gov. Brad Owen, pleaded not guilty to the charges Tuesday in Th urston County Superior Court in Olympia.
Owen fi led an industrial injury claim Nov. 9, 2009 with the state Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) aft er being shot in the arm at work at Kent Body, Paint and Fabrication by Carlos Fernandez, the owner of the
business. Fernandez then shot himself and died two days later. Th e shooting reportedly occurred because of a business dispute be-tween the two men as Owen had partial ownership of the shop.
Owen received medi-cal services and time loss compensation from Nov. 13, 2009 through May 5, 2010, according to charg-ing papers fi led March 21.
But a state L&I investi-gation determined Owen returned to work within a couple of days of the injury. Owen withheld that information from the state. He would not have been entitled to time loss com-pensation had he properly reported his actual return to work date.
Th e state started an investigation aft er Owen
left a message in February 2010 for a vocational spe-cialist out of the Tacoma L&I offi ce. Owen left a message but failed to dis-connect the call as the an-swering machine recorded a conversation Owen had at work with a co-worker. On the recording, Owen states he was planning on receiving more time loss from the L&I then he was entitled to.
Investigators then conducted surveillance at Kent Body, Paint and Fabrication over several days in February 2010 and observed Owen working at the company. Th e work activities were observed and documented by per-sonal observation as well as photographs and video, according to charging papers.
Investigators served a search warrant in July 2010 at the business and determined through inter-views with co-workers that Owen returned to work within two weeks aft er the shooting.
Owen told investiga-tors in March 2011 that he had collected time loss compensation while work-ing at the Kent company. He indicated he returned to work two days aft er the shooting. Owen had signed and completed six worker verifi cation forms in order to collect payments from the state because of his work-related injury.
Owen also allegedly assisted co-worker Steve Fernandez, the son of Car-los Fernandez, to illegally obtain benefi ts from L&I.
State charges Kent businessman with theft of L&I benefits; man is son of lieutenant governor
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“We had not looked at it in years because we had no petitions sent to us.”
Brubaker will present an amended city ordinance about initiatives to the City Council at its April 17 meeting.
“We’ll present a similar ordinance that follows the process authorized by state law,” Brubaker said.
Brubaker sent a letter to Sensible Washington to let it know about the change.
“Th e net eff ect of these changes will be to simplify the process for initiative and referendum petition-ers,” Brubaker wrote. “For example, petitioners will no longer be required to fi le initial petition copies with the city clerk, the city attor-ney will not be required to prepare an initiative state-ment and petitioners will not be required to submit their petitions within any specifi c time frames.”
City code currently re-quires the city attorney to re-view the initiative and within 14 days from the fi ling date to formulate an impartial statement that describes the purpose of the initiative.
“Giving the city a chance to rewrite seemed wrong to me,” Brubaker said.
No one has presented an initiative to the city since supporters of a juvenile curfew in 1997, Brubaker said. Th e council ended up passing a curfew ordinance and voters never considered the proposal.
Sensible Washington, however, plans to make sure the marijuana petition goes to a vote of the residents. Th e group will need approxi-mately 7,500 valid signatures of registered voters to get the measure to a vote.
“We feel very strongly in the base of volunteers and support that we have from the city of Kent,” said Anthony Martinelli,
a spokesman for Sensible Washington, in an email. “Kent is certainly an ambi-tious city (likely requiring around 15,000 signatures when all is said and done to assure the valid total of approximately 7,500) but we have confi dence in our ability to gather the proper signatures to put this on this November’s general election ballot.
“Once on the ballot we will run an election campaign in the city, and as well have full confi dence that the voters of Kent are ready for reform, and will vote yes.”
A signed petition would be given to the city of Kent which would then send the signatures to King County for verifi cation. If enough valid signatures are collected, the city council would come up with the ballot question and present the initiative for an election.
Kent City Attorney Tom Brubaker let the Sensible Washington group know it could start collecting signatures for its marijuana initiative. REPORTER FILE PHOTO
Two Kentlake High School stu-dents who allegedly brought a gun to school on April 3 were charged
by the King County Prosecutor’s Offi ce on April 6 with unlaw-ful possession of a fi rearm in the second degree as well as unlawful possession of a deadly fi rearm at school.
According to the probable cause documents provided by the pros-ecutor’s offi ce, Kentlake administra-tors learned around 10 a.m. that a student was suspected of bringing a gun to school.
Because both boys are juveniles, the Reporter is not identifying them.
According to Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the prosecutor’s of-fi ce, the sentence range for the two
charges is up to 60 days in Juvenile Detention, or up to 30 days per count.
School security offi cers briefed a deputy on what they knew be-fore Kentlake Principal Joe Potts provided additional information. Deputies removed one boy from his classroom.
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A two-alarm fi re de-stroyed a recycling facility for carpeting and carpet padding in downtown Kent last Saturday.
Firefi ghting crews from Kent and nearby depart-ments responded to the fi re at approximately 4 p.m. First-responding crews found heavy black smoke and fl ames from the structure in the 700 block of Central Avenue North.
Kent Fire Department investigators were waiting this week to enter the facility to determine the cause of the fi re.
Th e building is a total
loss with structural col-lapse of exterior walls and parts of the roof complex. Th e building was unstable, preventing crews from entering the structure, the Kent Fire Department said.
Th ere were no employ-ees in the building at the time the fi re began. Th ere were no injuries to fi re-fi ghters or civilians, Kent fi re offi cials reported.
Crew fought a stubborn fi re, primarily because it had deep piles of carpet-ing and carpet padding and because access to the fi re was limited.
Th ere is no damage estimate available.
Two-alarm fire destroys facility
Forum to discuss public records, open meetings laws
Learn about the public’s right to access govern-ment information at a free forum Wednesday, April 18 at the Kent Se-nior Activity Center.
Th e Washington Coali-tion for Open Govern-ment (WCOG) and the League of Women Voters of Seattle/King County present a special program focusing on Washington’s Public Records and Open
Meetings laws from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the center, 600 E. Smith St.
A panel of expert presenters will fuel the discussion on securing and preserving the pub-lic’s legal right to access the records and proceed-ings of the government agencies created to serve the people of the state, according to a WCOG media release. Public of-fi cials are urged to attend to reinforce their knowl-edge of their obligation to observe these laws.
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Francis Irwin KendallFrancis I. Kendall Age 91,
passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, on March 30, 2012 in Renton, WA. He was born July 9, 1920, to Leone and Victor Kendall and raised in Kent, WA. Francis attended Kent High School, leaving school in 1937 to serve as a Medic in the Army during WWII in the South Pacifi c. He also fought in the Korean War and served in Japan. After returning to the States, he met Frances (Frannie) L. McKee, and they were married on May 9, 1945 in San Francisco. They had 3 children, Mary, Greg, & Scott. Francis was stationed abroad and several places around the U.S. working as a Radar and Radio Maintenance & Repair Technician for the Army. Francis had served 22 years in the military when he retired in 1962. He then went on to work for Boeing and Aerojet for several years before retiring completely.
Francis was a very giving man, always happy, usually whistling as he worked. He loved to cook, work in the yard, and tinker with his electronics in the garage. He and Frannie loved to dance, and could be found down at the Eagles every Saturday night, usually closing the place down. Francis was very patriotic, and always had his fl ag fl ying in front of their home. Family was the most important thing to Francis, and he would do anything for them.
Francis is survived by his loving wife of 67 years, Frannie of Renton, daughter Mary Andersen (Gordy) of Kent, his son Greg (Kim) of Ferndale, and son Scott (Connie) of Renton, grandchildren Carianne Roorda, Jamie Kendall, Julie Monk, Andrew Clouse, William Kendall, Alex Kendall, and fi ve great-grandchildren.
Memorial Services will be held Saturday, April 14, 2012 at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 4519 112th Street East, Tacoma, WA 98446 at 1 p.m. In Lieu of fl owers, donations may be made to Disabled Veterans of America; you can donate online at http://www.dvnf.org. Please share your memories of Francis by signing
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Charles Allen Ptolemy, Sr.Doris S. Ptolemy
The lives and deaths of Doris and Charles “Allen” Ptolemy, Sr. will be honored by friends and family April 12, 2012. Allen passed away on March 31 at age 98. Doris at age 99 has been gone almost a year: April 2, 2011. They were married for 64 years.
Allen was born May 31, 1913 in Seattle, first son of Hugh and Mary Ptolemy. He served in the Army Air Corp during WWII. His work years were at several local wholesale paper companies.
Doris was born in South Dakota and graduated from Roosevelt HS in Seattle. She worked for Group Health for 28 years. Doris and Allen were married February 21, 1947. He brought a son and a daughter into the new family; she brought two daughters.
They both retired and spent many happy years in their travel trailer and wintered in Hemet, California and Yuma, Arizona. Several winters were also spent in Kona, Hawaii.
The Ptolemy’s are remembered by their children: Shirley (Jim) Groom; Charles Ptolemy Jr., Judi Raymond, and Jean (Larry) Bonzer. They have 11 grandchildren, many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Memories will be shared on April 12, 2012 at the Tahoma National Cemetery at 2:45 p.m.
Remembrances may be made to Group Health Hospice Foundation at P.O. Box 34015, Seattle, WA 98124.
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The removal cost in Kent is estimated at $3 million.
“I would think it would be safe to say by fall,” said Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke during a phone interview about when the bags might be removed. “That will give us the summer.”
The sandbags have lined the trail for nearly three years for extra flood protec-tion because of damage three years ago to an abut-ment next to the Howard Hanson Dam. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced last fall it can operate Hanson Dam at full capacity, which means the sandbags are no longer needed.
Cities now face the prob-lem of paying to remove the bags. None of the cities has extra millions sitting around to pay contractors for the expensive job.
That’s why the King County Flood Control District Advisory Com-mittee, a 15-member body
composed of mayors and council members from eight cities, has recom-mended the King County Flood District Board pay for 75 percent ($5.7 mil-lion) of the removal cost with the cities of Kent, Auburn and Tukwila paying 25 percent ($1.9 million) over a six-year period.
The flood district board is composed of the nine members of the King Coun-ty Council. It is a special-purpose government that funds and oversees flood protection projects and programs.
The board is funded through a county-wide property levy of 10 cents per $1,000 assessed value or about $40 per year on a $400,000 home. That brings in about $36 million a year for projects. The King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks carries out the ap-proved flood protection projects and programs.
The advisory committee
proposal would delay spe-cific projects planned by the flood district board in the Green River basin in order to pay for removal of the sandbags. Each jurisdiction in the county also receives a small portion of the flood district property levy to pay for any flood control projects within each city. Under the proposal, Kent, Auburn and Tukwila would use that money to help pay for sandbag removal rather than other projects for the next six years.
“We have to get the sand-bags out of there,” Cooke said. “We’ve discovered certain industries (includ-ing Boeing) will not remove their sandbags until the city does because it will show a sign of security. The sandbags still there makes it look like we’re still at risk of flooding.”
King County paid for the installation of the sandbags in the fall of 2009 through the flood control district by delaying planned projects.
Kent received $2.59 million from the county to place nearly 17,000 sandbags along 12 miles of levees to heighten the levees and help protect the city from flooding in case the then-damaged Hanson Dam could not hold back enough water.
No heavy rainstorms struck since the January 2009 storm that damaged an abutment next to the dam, so the bags were never tested.
But while King County paid for the placing of the sandbags, part of its agreement with the cities was the cities would have to pay for the removal of the bags.
“The flood control dis-trict agreed to pay for the placement of the sandbags because they thought like we all did that we would get funding back from the federal government,” Cooke said.
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A majority of downtown business owners voiced strong opposition to the idea, saying a shelter would have a negative impact on the area.
Undaunted, the pro-shel-ter group plans to pursue another location.
“While we are very disap-pointed in the decision resulting from the focus groups, we will continue to work toward the estab-lishment of a day center/shelter in Kent,” Pat Gray, of KentHOPE, said in a statement. “We realize that our request of the city has resulted in much good conversation about the nature of homelessness in Kent, and for that, we are grateful.”
Higgins says many posi-tive things have come from the discussions.
“Th ey already had a posi-tive impact in that regard,” he said. “My greatest con-fl ict in this is we need to do more (for the homeless).”
From the workshop, city offi cials are willing to pursue better ways to serve the homeless. Th ey intend to establish a task force “to identify, examine
the wants, gaps in current services and work to fi nd collective solutions,” said Jeff Watling, city parks, recreation & community services director.
Th e city is willing to do its part.
“We are dealing with and continue to deal with it,” Watling said. “We have been dealing with how to best provide services for the homeless for years, decades. We certainly will continue
to do so.”Despite the loss of one
possible location, the Union Gospel Mission stands committed to fi nding an-other site in the area.
“Th is is an issue, a problem that is not going to leave Kent anytime soon,” said Terry Pallas, shelter director for Union Gospel Mission. “As a matter of fact, if anything, we … proj-ect that it is just going to get worse.”
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Pat Gray, of KentHOPE, speaks at a recent forum about the importance of establishing a downtown shelter for the homeless. The group received a setback when it learned the East Meeker Street site will no longer be an option for a proposed shelter. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
He started off incorporating a Mario theme for math and now has done Dr. Suess and mad scientist themes. He deco-rates his classroom around each theme and devel-ops centers with learning games for each subject.
“Honestly, I do this because it makes it fun and interesting for me too,” Heath said. “Just reading out text is boring for them and boring for me. When the kids are happy, I am.”
Th e kids are engaged in the classroom because they enjoy the themes and are retaining the information better, Heath says.
“I’ve seen drastic im-provements in students’ grades since I started doing this,” Heath said. “My fi ft h-graders started off with 40 percent passing in math and now it’s 80 percent passing.”
Fift h-grader Kai Fuga says
he has never been in a class-room like this one before.
“Mr. Heath makes sub-jects interesting,” Fuga said. “My grades are better than they’ve ever been.”
Jaelynn Ramsey says Mr. Heath is her favorite teacher.
“I learn better because he teaches us in a fun, amazing way,” she said. “My favorite part of the theme is reading pirate books and playing the math games.”
Andrew McCain enjoys the centers Heath creates.
“I like how we get to use
coins to count for math,” he said. “I am actually excited to come to school.”
Heath hopes walking around in costume will remind teachers that their jobs are supposed to be fun.
“It’s so easy to get stressed and caught up in the lesson plans and the things we are required to teach our students,” Heath said. “If we let that go and focus on having fun with our jobs and our students, the academics will follow. I’ve got proof this works, I’ve got the scores.”
Pirate Room: Jeromie Heath and his fi fth-graders are accelerating the learning process with an entertaining theme. SARAH KEHOE, Kent Reporter
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A BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER on May 10 in Kent will help support Willow’s Place, which feeds and provides basic needs to families and individuals. The breakfast runs from 7:30-9 a.m. at the New Beginnings Church, 214 Washington Ave. N. Down Home Catering, Golden Steer Steak ‘n Rib House and Maggie’s on Meeker are providing breakfast at no cost. Call Sally Goodgion at 253-852-0880 to become a sponsor. Checks can be sent to: Willow’s Place, c/o HomeStreet Bank, 505 W. Harrison St, Kent, WA 98032, Attn: Oriana Pon.
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Th e Green Kent Partner-ship began in 2009, and received initial funding through a $95,000 grant from the King Conserva-tion District.
Th e funding allowed the city to begin the process of assessing the ecological health of our publicly-owned natural spaces, and developing a 20-year plan to restore and actively manage these areas.
Why? Because of the very real threat that with-in our children’s lifetime our urban tree canopy will be taken over by English ivy, Himalayan blackber-ries, scotch broom and other aggressive, non-
native species. Natural areas in urban settings are under pressures that more remote wild areas are not, and they need regular atten-
tion in order to fi ght back against those pressures.
Having natural areas near where we live provide all sorts of ben-efi ts to us. Trees and natural areas are public assets that clean our air, buff er noise, retain stormwa-ter to reduce fl ooding and help fi lter our water, increase property values, provide habitat to birds and animals and recreational benefi ts for residents. So, it is in everyone’s
interest to keep them healthy.Since we began implementing
the plan, more than 700 commu-nity volunteers have participated in Green Kent Partnership restoration events and over 1,000 are on the monthly electronic newsletter mail-ing list. However, many residents still do not know what “Green Kent” is all about.
Green Kent Partnership: after one year on the ground, how are we doing?G U E S T E D I T O R I A L
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A missed opportunity over shelter
With the City Council’s decision to reject a proposal from Union Gospel Mission to establish, operate and fund a homeless shelter in downtown Kent, an opportunity was allowed to pass largely on the opinion of the business community’s negative reaction.
A subject with so much potential for polarizing various sects of the commu-nity must be evaluated with a wide-angle perspective. Where there are many who would consider themselves interested parties, it is imperative that none of the interested parties be seen as more im-portant, and certainly should be no more infl uential, than any other.
Th e recent reactions from a couple of Kent business owners, whose implica-tion of representing the opinions of the majority of busi-ness owners was
not substantiated, should not have been allowed to reduce the issues at hand to merely questions of money, industry and their view of progress.
I too am a longtime resident of Kent. I have owned a business in Kent, have many commercial clients on whom my liveli-hood depends that are based in Kent, and I have long been involved with working with two of the fi ne organizations that serve the homeless in Kent.
I disagree with Mike Hanis’ statement that we are “all warriors in the battle against homelessness.” Sadly, some of the initial reaction to this very attractive proposal to improve the service levels to our least fortunate indicated that many are reluctant spectators willing to pretend that Kent does not already suff er the nega-tive consequences of homelessness.
In evaluating the proposal, it was criti-cal to acknowledge that, simply put, the population of homeless on the streets of Kent exists right now, and according to
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We still need to address homeless issue
Over the last two months the Kent Chamber of Commerce and the Kent Downtown Part-nership have held countless meetings examining the issue of a potential homeless center located in downtown Kent. It was with feedback from our membership that the Kent Chamber of Commerce de-cided to oppose the use of the Resource Center, in downtown Kent, as a homeless shelter.
At the City Council work-shop and council meeting on April 3, the city of Kent honored our request and denied the use of the Resource Center as a homeless shelter. Th is does not mean the issue is over and we can disengage. Going forward, the City Council instructed that a task force be formed immediately to identify services for the homeless that we are lacking,
where the greatest gaps are and how we can address those gaps in service.
Th roughout our meetings with the business community, there was an overwhelming support and recognition of the problem of homelessness in Kent. We, as the business community, are committed to helping in regards to this issue. We look forward to working in collaboration with KentHope, city of Kent, businesses, resi-
dents and individuals passion-ate about this issue.
– Andrea Keikkala, executive director, Kent Chamber of Commerce
Maintaining hope in pursuit of a shelter
KentHOPE has responded with renewed energy and vigor aft er the Kent City Council denied the use of the city Resource Center as a day center/shelter. We are moving forward with our partner, Seattle’s Union Gospel Mis-sion, toward our vision of establishing a day center, and eventual overnight shelter to provide hope and assist those who are homeless in path-ways to stable housing and a more secure future.
We are presently searching for another site for a day cen-ter. We are widening our
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network of support by contacting and enlisting more local congregations, businesses, service providers, and professional organizations.
We are improving our communi-cations network through Facebook and widely distributed weekly email updates, as well as the development of
a KentHOPE website. We are actively soliciting donations and planning a community fundraising event in the fall.
Our executive committee, which includes representatives from several local churches, the InterFaith Task Force on Homelessness, and SUGM meets weekly in strategy sessions.
We are compiling a list of current
local volunteer efforts that serve the homeless, with contact information, for anyone who desires to help now.
We are looking forward to joining the Homelessness Task Force as soon as it is established by the Kent Human Services Commission.– Pat Gray, of KentHOPE
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leaders through the Green Kent Steward program. Free training is available to stew-ards, who adopt a park or natural area and host their work parties to help other volun-teers get involved. Current stewards range in age from students to retirees and include corporate executives, young mothers and neighborhood advocates.
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Numerous emergency vehicles and personnel were in the park-ing lots of Kent’s ShoWare Center
of a mass casualty incident drill.
media release from the Kent Fire Department.
Fire departments from throughout South King County participated in the drills as well as the Redmond Fire Department and King County Medic One.
help emergency responders prepare for incidents where the number of victims exceeds the re-sources initially responding, said Kent Fire Department spokesman Kyle Ohashi.
“In years past, a typical mass casualty incident would be a school bus full of children
involved in a vehicle crash or employees of a company be-ing exposed to a chemical leak,” Ohashi said. “Currently, we see in the news stories of mass shoot-ings or explosive devices placed near a crowd of people.
“While mass casualty incidents do not happen often, they do hap-
other emergency responders of South King County are working to ensure that they are as ready as possible to deal with them.”
During the drills, a scenario where multiple people have been shot is used to simulate a real
high schools, CERT programs, and Explorer Scouts play the part
paramedics respond to their calls
designed to test and practice King County’s new mass casualty incident plan and will not involve a police response.
Emergency response drills at Kent’s ShoWare Center
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“It’s a smaller company but it’s their initial presence in the Northwest,” said Josh Hall, economic develop-ment specialist for the city of Kent. “They are looking to grow and expand.”
Ingenium’s Kent opera-tion, at 8206 S. 192 St., is expected to bring new jobs to the area and help businesses that produce hazardous, biomedical and radiological waste find solutions that go beyond disposal.
Company officials hope to have a workforce of 30-40 employees within two years.
“We are proud to be in the vanguard of regulated waste management in Cali-fornia and other Western States Ingenium currently serves,” Gary Lundstedt, executive director of Inge-nium, said in a news release. “With Washington and other Pacific Northwest states commitment to going ‘green,’ it’s a natural move for us to expand in this area.
“Our planned expansion was even further expedited when we were able to bring Corey on board,” Lundstedt said, “and we look forward to serving the region’s busi-nesses with all the latest in sustainable procedures and processes.”
Ingenium, based out of Escondido, Calif., is the
latest “green” company to discover and help diver-sify Kent. Lundstedt better classifies his company as a “greener” one committed to the sector of environmental services that support busi-ness.
Kent is Ingenium’s third market, joining the San Diego and San Jose areas.
In preparation for the move, Ingenium became a member of the WBBA (Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Associa-tion), www.washbio.org. The company’s goal is to assist WBBA life science mem-
bers with information and support for the latest techniques in minimizing waste production, carbon
footprint and reduc-ing costs.
Ingenium was recently recognized by Inc 5000 as one of the fastest growing environmental services companies in the United States.
More information about the company, visit www.pureingenium.com.
ElsewhereMurray’s Collision, of
Kent, has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Angie’s List Super Service Award, an honor given annually based on consumer reviews.
“Only a fraction of the businesses rated on Angie’s List can claim the sterling
customer service record of being a Super Service Award winner because we set a high bar,” said Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks. “The fact that Murray’s Collision can claim Super Service Award status speaks volumes about its dedica-tion to consumers.”
Award winners have met strict eligibility require-ments, including earning a minimum number of reports, an exemplary rat-ing from their customers and abiding by Angie’s List operational guidelines.
Service business ratings are updated daily on Angie’s List, but members can find the 2011 Super Service Award logo next to business names in search results on AngiesList.com.
Staples stores of Kent, on 104th Avenue and East
Valley Highway, are col-lecting three-ring binders in partnership with TerraCycle, a recycler and upcycler of traditionally non-recyclable goods. Customers can bring any binder into the stores for recycling and receive $2 off the purchase of a new binder.
The program is the first of its kind, and is exclusive to Staples.
Other Staples locations around Seattle also are col-lecting binders.
TerraCycle also runs free, local fundraising pro-grams in Kent and across Washington. Schools and community organizations can sign up to recycle non-recyclables with TerraCycle (including drink pouches, chip bags, pens, tape dis-pensers, wine pouches, and candy wrappers). For every item they send in, they earn money toward their school
or a charity of their choice.Coldwell Banker
Bain Kent Station office has earned the 2011 Coldwell Banker Top Company Recruiting and Retention Award for the U.S. The national award recognizes the company in the Cold-well Banker U.S. network demonstrating the highest net growth in company size last year.
“Debra Snoey, principal managing broker, has exceeded expectations for growth in the last year and set a standard of excellence for all others to aspire to,” said Jim Gillespie, CEO of Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC.
Added Snoey: “This award belongs to every broker in the office as each contributes to the energy, integrity and success this office has achieved.”
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Kent Station adds 2 more ‘quick-serve’ restaurants
Kent Station continues to build on its shopping, dining and entertainment experience for customers, adding two new restaurants later this year.
Extreme Pita, specializing in a large selection of fresh and nutritious pita wraps – opens this summer. Naked Pizza, which offers natural and healthy choices, opens soon thereafter.
“We already have an excellent collec-tion of dining options that are primarily focused on sit-down service,” said Kent Station General Manager John Hinds.
“Extreme Pita and Naked Pizza will add two more quick-service dining choices for our customers, and they are both a great compliment to our anchor tenant, AMC Theatres.”
Extreme Pita offers a “no rules” menu that customizes every rolled pita to suit individual tastes.
It has more than 250 locations in the U.S. and Canada,
Naked Pizza features all-natural in-gredients. Vegan and gluten-free options also are available.
With 25 stores across the U.S. and overseas, this is the first of several locations coming to the Puget Sound region for Naked Pizza.
BY SARAH KEHOE
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Many stores around Kent are looking to sell hard liquor once privatization takes full effect on June 1.
Since the passage of Initiative 1183 by a 60-percent margin on Nov. 8, the city of Kent has received numer-ous applications from local retailers requesting changes to their licenses to allow them to sell liquor.
In the past 30 days, several busi-nesses in Kent have applied for a hard liquor license. The applicants include Quality Food Center and four Rite Aid stores.
The state will cease operations at its stores on May 31, but private operators can run them, pending the results of an online auction. Washington’s 167 state-run stores, including two in Kent, are up for auction, with the highest bidder
earning the right to sell liquor at the locations beginning June 1.
New owners have to negotiate leases at the locations – the state does not own any of the buildings – and restock the inventory.
This is not likely the final list of who’ll be selling liquor in Kent – sales can’t start before June 1, and qualifying businesses can apply at any time. Meanwhile, the fate of the current state liquor stores remains
unsettled. Before private retailers can begin
selling liquor on June 1, I-1183 must pass through a few legal chal-lenges.
The state Supreme Court will hear arguments on May 17 in a lawsuit aimed at invalidating the initiative. A second lawsuit in King County was filed by unions whose members will lose their jobs if the state’s liquor stores close. The state liquor board expects to lay off about 900 of its 1,400 employees.
For more information, visit www.liq.wa.gov/transition/overview.
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estimates, in significant numbers. Services cur-rently providing evening meals have no provision or resources for providing ser-vices during the day. Our homeless population is left to wander the streets, often in retail centers or in the library. Loitering is prohibited, but moving a person does not make the person any less real in their next location.
Inadequate public rest-room facilities present an
obvious problem, leading to the necessity of using city park and retail restrooms, and of course inappropri-ate places. People without shelter add a burden to police and other public services both in time and resources.
The Union Gospel Mis-sion proposal addressed these concerns. What’s more, they offered to pay for it, proposing to fund all operating costs of the facility in return for rent-free use of the space.
UGM mandates that
overnight guests are drug and alcohol free, dispel-ling speculation that those guests would be a threat to neighboring businesses at night. The shelter would provide meals and rest-room facilities that would reduce panhandling and using our outdoors as bathrooms. The shelter would provide a place for the homeless to go by day, reducing the burden on the library and other public facilities.
UGM provides drug and alcohol programs.
And although I am loathe to engage in the type of speculation that opponents of the pro-posal demonstrated, it does stand to reason that sheltering the homeless at night reduces the burden on police services.
It is not imperative that we even discuss so-called “warm fuzzy” as-pects of a day/night shel-ter to see its value. Cer-tainly there is a significant humanitarian aspect to the proposal, perhaps best dealt with by those who see a city as more
than just a conglomera-tion of money-generating businesses. But evaluation of the proposal revealed more practical benefits.
The negative issues of a significant homeless population exist in Kent now. The strain on public facilities and services is real. The quality of life in Kent can be improved when citizens are not faced with their fellow citizens urinating on their front lawn and clogging the library because they have nowhere else to go.
And finally, a significant
portion of the homeless population is in transition; homeless by misfortune and needing a safe place to rest and set their belong-ings as they seek work and permanent shelter.
In meetings regarding the proposal, it was sug-gested more than once that, where a shelter is in theory a good idea, the impact on immediately surrounding businesses would be too great and that this particu-lar location was not desir-able. This view was often expressed by the owners of those businesses in close proximity to the proposed shelter. Sympathetic though we can be that necessary services might impact some businesses more than others, it raises the ques-tion of whether a location that adequately serves the purpose can be found that would not affect surround-ing businesses.
I submit that any location in proximity to necessary services for the homeless will be likewise in proximity to some lo-cal businesses. It is easy to say that the idea has merit, just not right here. It will be more difficult to identify a location that effectively serves the purpose while negatively affecting no one.
We can only hope that Union Gospel Mission is resilient in attempting to revive this concept, and that another suitable loca-tion can be found that will somehow satisfy citizens and the city council. This proposal was attractive, well conceived and pre-sented by an organization with the infrastructure and experience to manage the facility and perform as excellent city partners.
A city is a living com-munity, dedicated to the welfare of all its citizens in a dynamic array of intercon-nected relationships, where the good for one should benefit the many. Kent has to face all of the issues of a growing city, and cannot avoid or procrastinate on the negative issues hoping they will solve themselves.
Eric Greiling is a Kent resident who has owned a business in the community.
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The second week of April is a great time to add trees, shrubs and perennials to the garden. Rhododen-drons, azaleas and flower-ing trees are also in bloom this week and easy to find at local nurseries.
If you notice a lovely plant growing in some-one else’s garden but both you and the neighbor are unsure of the name, just snip off a small piece and carry it to a nursery or Master Gardener clinic for identification.
The April showers and warmer weather makes this a good time to be adding trees, shrubs and peren-nials.
You won’t be barking up the wrong tree is you’ve noticed a lot more dogs be-ing walked in the neighbor-hood.
Americans love their pets but as the size of the average back yard shrinks, the size of the family dog and number of family pets seems to grow.
Planning a dog-friendly landscape goes together with training a garden friendly dog.
Dog-friendly garden1. Beware of using fertil-
izer, moss killer or even lime on your lawn if you have pets.
Some pets lick the pads of their feet if they become irritated from soil amend-ments and ingest the prod-
uct. Many moss killers contain iron and when this gets tracked indoors on the feet of your pets it will leave rust stains on carpet and furniture.
Either water in any appli-cation of fertilizer, pesticide or lime or wait at least 48 hours so the product can dissolve in the rain if you are concerned about what your pet is walking on.
2. Place borders around beds to keep out the dogs.
Raised beds made from
stacking stone or timbers not only look good but also make it less likely that your pets will trample your plants.
You can take supple tree limbs
from spring pruning and bend these whips into “U” shaped forms by sticking both ends into the soil so you’re framing the beds with a twiggy fence. For puppies and big dogs you may need to install tempo-rary wire fencing around beds while your pets estab-
lish roaming habits.3. After seeding or plant-
ing an area with new plants lay thorny branches (got roses that need pruning?) on top of the soil. You can also try sprinkling the soil with red pepper flakes to teach your pets not to dig.
4. Use a thorny hedge of barberry or roses to discourage or redirect pets from entering an area or
taking a shortcut into a garden bed. Landscape designers use this trick with humans as well.
5. If you can’t beat them or retrain them, then provide a pathway of paw-cushioning cedar shavings in the area where your pet has beaten down the grass or destroyed the plants.
Cedar not only repels fleas but lasts for years when spread on top of a weed-blocking layer of newspaper or cardboard. Border the new cedar chip pathway with rocks or tree
limbs and you’ll have a natural woodland look in the garden instead of a path worn down to mud.
Garden-friendly dog1. One of the most
important things you can do for your pets is to train them to use one area of the yard to do their busi-ness.
Pick a spot out of site and cover a 4-foot by 4-foot zone with drainage gravel. Have a covered waste can
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Tess Manthou’s father inspired her to take up pick up a tennis racket when she was a child.
“My dad started me and my brother in tennis lessons when we were young to stay active and I started to really love it,” Manthou said. “I took lessons for a few years and then started playing competitive tournaments when I was about 9.”
She is now a senior at Kentwood High and playing her fi nal year for the Conquerors. Last year, she fi nished second at state in doubles with Eliana Spero, who gradu-ated a year ago, and the year before Manthou took third in doubles.
“Individually, I don’t know about playing singles or doubles yet but I’m focusing on my own game and getting better at every practice,” Man-thou said. “I’m looking to have fun and enjoy my
last year.”Manthou has been
playing tennis com-petitively for years, participating in USTA tournaments until she was 15 years old. She stopped playing tennis year round so she could play club volleyball.
Manthou played club volleyball for six years and all four years on Kent-wood’s team. She was a libero, a defensive special-ist, and helped the Conks to a second place fi nish at the 4A state tournament in November.
“Tennis has kept me very active and taught me many skills beyond the court like how to be competitive, how to have determination, and how to fi ght for what I want,” she said. “I also saw many skills from tennis transfer into vol-leyball like how to stay composed and how to perform under pressure. Aside from playing tennis,
Kentwood senior Tess Manthou is heading into her fi nal season of high school tennis for the Conquerors. She made it to the state doubles championship match a year ago. SARAH KEHOE, Kent Reporter
Kentwood senior Tess Manthou looks to make the most of her last season of high school tennis
READY TO CONQUER THE COURT
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CONKS NAME SOLOMON AS BOYS HOOPS COACH
Kentwood promoted Blake Solomon to be its next
boys basketball coach. “I’m most looking forward to
building relationships with the players and making their
experiences the best that I can make them,” he said.
Solomon, who graduated in 2005 from Kentwood, knows
something about what it’s like to make memories as a
Conqueror – he was a junior when the Conks won the
fi rst title in school history in 2004. Solomon also serves as
a paraeductor at the school, though he has a teaching degree and is certifi ed to
instruct health and physical education classes.
Kentwood’s Skyler Genger tossed a complete-game victory on April 4 against Kentlake. The Conquerors won 12-0. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
As teams in the South Puget Sound League North approached the midway point in the league schedule, Kentwood continued to roll, Kentlake split its games for the week and Kentridge strug-gled while Tahoma bounced back from a three-game losing streak.
Kentwood picked apart Kentlake in a 12-0 victory on the road April 4.
Skyler Genger got the complete-game win on the mound allowing three hits. He also fi nished the game 1-for-3 at the plate with an RBI.
Th e Conquerors jumped on the Falcons pitching in the top of the second, scoring six runs, and never looked back.
It started with a Kade Kryzso single, then another single by
Jarrett Retz with Cash McGuire following that up with a bunt single.
Genger then singled to center fi eld
and drove in a run. Reese McGuire stepped
up to the plate next and ham-mered a double to the right center fi eld gap.
Lucas Gately then got a double of his own when he ripped it to center fi eld. Gately fi nished the game 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs.
Kryzsko went 1-for-3, Cash McGuire was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Taylor Jones was 2-for-5 with a double and two RBIs, Dalton Cryderman was 1-for-1 with a double while Reese McGuire was 2-for-5 with four RBIs and a pair of two-baggers, Retz fi nished 1-for-3 at the plate and Kyler Kenney made the most of his plate appearance by smacking a double late in the game.
Th e Conks followed that up with a 12-2 defeat of the Rams from Mount Rainier at home on April 6.
Kentwood broke the game wide open with an eight-run inning in the bottom of the
Kentwood remains unbeaten
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I have met many lifelong friends from around the Pacific Northwest that I otherwise wouldn’t have encountered from tourna-ments and I also met many wonderful girls from the high school seasons as well.”
Manthou says she has overcome many challenges in tennis.
“Tennis is such a com-
plete game, it’s challenging to put all the parts together sometimes as far as the physical and mental com-ponents,” she said. “I’m glad I stuck with it because play-ing tennis in high school has been amazing and some of my fondest memories have been from the various league, district and state tournaments.”
Kentwood’s tennis team lost to Tahoma in the first
league match of the season, but was able to bounce back and defeat Kentridge the next week.
“I think this showed a lot of determination from us,” Manthou said. “My goal for the season as a team would be to play our best at every match and learn to keep mentally focused because of the crazy schedule some-times, which is due to all the rain cancellations.”
[ MANTHOU from page 13 ]
fourth to win the game in five innings.
Gately finished the game 2-for-3 at the plate while McCord was 1-for-2 with two RBIs, Cash McGuire was 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI, Kryzsko was 1-for-3 with an RBI, Genger was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs, Reese McGuire was 3-for-4 with two RBIs and Tanner Wessling was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs.
Michael Parrott got the win on the mound for the Conks, throwing a complete game, scattering three hits, allowing two runs and striking out three
while not allowing a walk. He improved to 3-0 on the season.
FalconsKentlake recovered
from the tough loss to Kentwood with a 10-2 victory on April 6 over Kent-Meridian.
The Falcons scored four runs in the first three innings then put the Royals away with a five-run fifth.
Kentlake followed that up with a 4-2 victory over Mount Rainier on April 7.
With those wins the Falcons improved to 6-3 in league play and moved into second place.
ChargersKentridge struggled
on April 4 against Mount Rainier losing 13-9 after giving up seven runs in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Two days later, Kentridge traveled to Bellevue to take on Newport in a non-league game but lost 5-2.
In the game against Newport, Zach Beatty went 1-for-3 while Joe Wainhouse went 2-for-3 with a double and Sheldon Stober went 2-for-3 with a double.
Through April 6 the Chargers were 3-4 in the SPSL North and 4-5 overall.
Kentwood’s girls track and field team dominated the Kent All-City Meet on April 5, while the Kent-Meridian boys put together a strong performance thanks to their sprinters and relay team.
The Conqueror girls were led by senior Madelayne Varela who took first in the 100 and 200 meters, crossing the finish line
at 12.68 and 26.62 seconds, respectively. She also finished first in the long jump with a leap of 17 feet, 4½ inches.
Sophomore Sarah Toeaina won the 300 hurdles with a time of 47.09.
The 400-meter relay team, comprised of Mykala Benjamin, Toeaina, Malea Munoz and Varela also took first with a time of 50.59. The 800-meter team,
made up of Malea Munoz, Amari Bradley, Megan McNally and Benjamin, won in a time of 1:50.71. The 1,600 team, with run-
ners Bradley, Carly Horn, McNally and Tessa Carlin ran
a winning time of 4:13.54. In field events, senior Alyx
Toeaina won the shot put and the discus (42-1) and the discus (126-4). Senior Kacie Seims took first in the javelin (128-7). Junior Beth
Parrish won the pole vault after clearing the bar at 10 feet.
Conks senior Danny Lunder took first in the 800 with a time of 2:00.25, as well as the mile, finish-ing at 4:28.52.
For the Kent-Meridian boys, senior B.J. Phillips took first in the 100 and 200 with a time of 11.54 and 23.45, respectively. Fellow senior Teddy Besrat won the two mile after finishing at 9:58.89, a new personal record by more than a half-minute.
Junior Abu Kamara won the 110 hurdles at 15.16. In the relays, the Royals’ 400 team comprised of Jarey Suiter, B.J. Phillips, Tyler
Hammer and Abu Kamara took first at 44.51. The Royals’ 1,600 relay team, made up of Cartez Green, Jarey Suiter, Phillips and Henry Hammond, also took first after finishing at 3:34.67.
Senior Ronald Faagia won the shot put (42-7½), and discus (122 feet).
K-M junior Stephanie O’Hara won the 400 in 1:02.11. Alexia Martin took first in the 3,200 at 11:30.16 for the Royals.
Kentridge senior Reggie Col-lins took first in the 400 (51.82). Senior Kaid Tipton won the 300 hurdles (40.2).
Chargers senior Molly Shiroishi won the mile (5:27.96).
Kentwood girls dominateTRACK AND
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DISTRICT #350CITY OF KENT
Construction of an 8” sanitary sewer system in and near the “Big K” Addition of the City, with side sewer stubs and related improvements, as provided by Ordinance 3397. Notice is hereby given that the tenth (10th) installment of the assessment levied for the above named improvement, comprising Local Improvement District Number 350 under Ordinance 3597, is now due and payable and unless payment is made on or before April 29, 2012, said installment will be delinquent, will have a penalty of nine (9) percent added, and the collection of such delinquent installment will be enforced in the manner prescribed by law.Dated this twenty-ninth (29th) day of March, 2012.R. J. NachlingerFinance DirectorCity of Kent, Washington Published in the Kent Reporter April 13, 2012 and April 20, 2012. #595510.
VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
District Healthcare SystemNOTICE OF
BOARD MEETING Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees will be held on Friday, April 27, 2012 at 11:30 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center, Renton WA.
Regular meetings of the Valley Medical Center Board of Trus- tees will continue to be held on the 3rd Monday of each month at 4:00 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center, unless changed by public notice.BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra SwardExecutive Assistant to the Board of TrusteesPublished in Kent, Renton, and Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on April 6, 2012 and April 13, 2012. #608048
KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 415
CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY HVAC
CONTROLS REPLACEMENT 2012INVITATION TO BID
The Kent School District ex- tends an invitation to qualified General Contractors to bid the construction project hereafter identified as the Crestwood Elementary HVAC Controls Replacement 2012.PROJECT SCHEDULED BID DATE Sealed construction bids will be due at, or before, 2:00 PM, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The said bids will then and there
be publicly opened and read aloud. Bidders and other proper- ly interested individuals are invited to be present at the bid opening. Bids received after the time fixed for opening cannot be considered. Bid opening location is:KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 415ADMINISTRATION CENTER – BUILDING “B”12033 SE 256TH STREETKENT WA 98030-6643PROJECT SCOPE The Kent School District wishes to contract services to Crestwood Elementary HVAC Controls Replacement 2012.PROJECT DOCUMENTS A maximum of two project drawing sets will be made available to each prime contractor and prime sub-contractor bidders free of charge from the Kent School District Facilities & Construction office located at the above address. MANDATORY PRE-BID WALK THROUGH A manda- tory pre-bid walk through shall begin at 2:00 p.m. on April 17, 2012 in the Crestwood Elemen- tary School at the site located at:CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL25225 – 180 Avenue SECovington, WA 98042BID SECURITY REQUIREMENT Bid Security, in the amount of 5% of the bid sum shall accompany each bid. Security shall be made payable to the Kent School District either by certified check or bid bond issued by a surety company licensed to conduct business in Washington State. The Kent School District re- serves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any irregu- larities or informalities.No bidder may withdraw his bid after the hour set for the opening thereof, or before award of contract, unless said award is delayed for a period of sixty (60) days.Dated this 4th day of April, 2012.Lee Vargas, Ph.D.Secretary to the BoardPublished in the Kent Reporter on April 6, 2012 and April 13, 2012. #608111
INVITATION TO BID The Kent School District ex- tends an invitation to qualified General Contractors to bid the construction project hereafter identified as the Meridian Middle HVAC Replacement 2012.PROJECT SCHEDULED BID DATE Sealed construction bids will be due at, or before 1:00 P.M. Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 at the following location:KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 415ADMINISTRATION CENTER – BUILDING “B”12033 SE 256TH StreetKent, Washington 98030-6643PROJECT SCOPE
The Kent School District wishes to contract services for HVAC replacement at Meridian Middle School.PROJECT DOCUMENTSEach bid shall be in accordance with the Contract Documents as prepared by HARGIS ENGINEERS 600 Stewart Street Suite 1000. Seattle, Washington, 98101. “Drawings, specifica- tions, addenda, and self-regis- tered bidders list for this project are made available through the Kent School District’s on-line plan room March 26th 2012. Free of charge access is provided to Prime Bidders, Subcontrac- tors, and Vendors by going to: “http://bxwa.com” and clicking on: “Posted Projects”; “Public Works”, “Kent School District”, and “Projects Bidding”. Bidders are encouraged to “Register” in order to receive automatic email notification of future addenda and to be placed on the “Bidders List”. This on-line plan room provides Bidders with fully us- able on-line documents; with the ability to: download, print to your own printer, order full / par- tial plan sets from numerous re- prographic sources (on-line print order form), and a free on-line digitizer / take-off tool. Contact Builders Exchange of Washing- ton at 425-258-1303 should you require assistance.MANDATORY SITE INSPECTION Site Inspection: General Contractors intending to submit sealed bids must attend the mandatory site inspection conference held at the school. Meet at the school main en- trance, outside the school admin- istration office entrance::April 24th, 2012 at 2:30 P.M.Site: MERIDIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL 23480 120nd Ave. SE Kent, WA 98031Bidders arriving after 2:30 p.m. may not be admitted. Subcon- tractors and vendor attendance is welcome.BID SECURITY REQUIREMENT Bid security, in the amount of 5% of the bid sum shall accompany each bid. Security shall be made payable to the Kent School District either by certified check or bid bond issued by a surety company licensed to conduct business in Washington State. Published in the Kent Reporter on April 13, 2012 and April 20, 2012. #610900.
INVITATION TO BIDKENT SCHOOL
DISTRICT NO. 415Kent-Meridian High School Science Renovations Phase 2
INVITATION TO BID The Kent School District extends an invitation to qualified General Contractors to bid the construc- tion project hereinafter identified as the Kent-Meridian High School Science Renovations Phase 2.
PROJECT SCHEDULED BID DATE Sealed construction bids will be due no later than 2:00 PM, Wednesday, May 2, 2012, and then opened at the following location:KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 415ADMINISTRATION CENTER – FACILITIES BUILDING “B”12033 SE 256th StreetKent, Washington 98030-6503PROJECT SCOPE The Kent School District wishes to contract all services required to remove hazardous materials, de- molish selected areas of existing rooms, construct 3 new science and associated rooms in area of existing science rooms. Work includes new partitions, doors, ceilings, HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems and new finishes. The work will need to be done during the summer vacation.PROJECT DOCUMENTSPlans, specifications, addenda, and bidder’s list for this project is available through Kent School District’s on-line plan room. Free of charge access is provided to Prime Bidders, Subcontrac- tors, and Vendors by going to: “http://bxwa.com” and clicking on: “Posted Projects,” “Public Works,” “Education,” and “Kent School District.” Bidders are encouraged to “Register” in order to receive automatic email notifi- cation of future addenda and to be placed on the “Bidder’s List.” This on-line plan room provides Bidders with fully usable on-line documents; with the ability to download, print to your own printer, order full/partial plan sets from hundreds of reprographic sources (on-line print order form), and a free on-line digitiz- er/take-off tool. Contact Build- ers Exchange of Washington at 425-258-1303 should you require assistance. Drawings and specifications may also be examined at the Architect’s office at 7231 91st Place SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040, (206) 624-7515 and at local data centers in the Puget Sound Region as listed below.McGraw-Hill Construction Plan Center200 SW Michigan Street, Suite 100BSeattle, Washington 98106(206) 378-4715
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce83 Columbia Street #200, PO Box 11050, 98111Seattle, Washington 98104(206) 622-8272
Builders Exchange of
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MANDATORY SITE INSPECTION General Contractors intending to submit sealed bids must attend the mandatory site inspection conference held at the school office: Thursday, April 26, 2012, at 3:00 PM. (Meet in the main school office in the SW corner of the school.)Site: Kent-Meridian High School10020 SE 256th Street Kent, Washington 98030-2899BID SECURITY REQUIREMENT Bid security, in the amount of 5% of the bid sum must accompany each bid. Security shall be made payable to the Kent School District either by certified check or bid bond issued by a surety company licensed to conduct business in Washington State. Published in the Kent Reporter on April 13, 2012 and April 20, 2012. #611076.NO. 11-3-06143-8 KNTNOTICE TO CREDITORS OF
RECEIVERSHIP Superior Court of Washington FOR King County In the Receivership of: SEA COIN LAUNDRY, a Washing- ton Sole Proprietor business of Ly Suymeng & Chankaknica Chea. TO: CREDITORS OF SEA COIN LAUNDRY AND OTH- ER PARTIES IN INTEREST PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on March 29, 2012, the King County Superior Court appointed Turning Point Consulting (“Re- ceiver”) whose address is 918 Horton Street, #704, Seattle, WA 98134, as general receiver as de- fined by RCW 7.60.015, over the assets of Sea Coin Laundry whose address is 24437 Russell Rd, Suite 101, WA 98032-1786. Pursuant to the Order Appointing General Receiver, the Receiver has assumed control over the assets and business operations of
Sea Coin Laundry (“Sea Coin”)pursuant to RCW 7.08.030(3)and RCW 7.60.025(1)(j). Corre-spondence to the Receiver maybe sent to the Receiver in care ofthe address set forth below. CLAIMS: The Receiver current-ly is not able to predict whetherany particular class of creditorscan expect to receive payment onclaims for pre-receivership debtsowed to them. Nonetheless, allpersons and businesses who believe they are owed money bySea Coin on account of any goods, services, or credit provid-ed to Sea Coin before March 29,2012 or who claim to have any other obligation enforceableagainst Sea Coin on account ofany transaction occurring beforethat date, should fill out a Proof of Claim form in order to sharein any distribution of assets tomembers of the claimant’s classof creditors. The Proof of Claimform may be obtained by sendinga request to the Receiver at theaddress listed below or by e-mailto [email protected] Proof of Claim form must bereturned to the Receiver at theaddress listed below no later thanMay 13, 2012. The bar date forclaims arising from the rejectionof an executory contract or unex-pired lease is 30 days after thedate of rejection. The bar datefor state agencies or taxingauthorities is October 10, 2012. Creditors who fail to submit a proof of claim prior to the bardate will not share in any distri-butions, should any fundsbecome available for such distri-bution. The claim form must be mailedby the bar date to the Receiver atthe following address: Sea Coin Laundryc/o Alan Chaffee Turning Point Consulting LLC.12505 Bel-Red Road, Suite 110Bellevue, WA 98005 The form does not need to befiled with the Court. Request forspecial notice. Pursuant to RCW7.60.190(2), any person interest-ed in the receivership as a partyor a creditor may serve upon theundersigned and file with the clerk of the Court a written no- tice of appearance stating thathe/she desires special notice ofany and all proceedings in theadministration of the receiver-ship. Dated April 5, 2012. TURNING POINT CONSULT- ING, LLC By: ALAN CHAF-FEE Court-appointed Receiverfor Sea Coin Laundry.Published in Kent Reporter on April 13, 20, 27, 2012. #611114
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