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SHOWARE CENTER: BOOM OR BUST?

A small group gathers outside the Ram Restaurant at Kent Station before the start of the Thunderbirds game Tuesday night. Businesses benefi tted from customers who took in ShoWare events in 2011, according to a study. CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter

STUDY SAYS CENTER AIDS BUSINESSDespite its own fi nancial woes, ShoWare added $25 million to Kent economy in 2011

BY STEVE HUNTER

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Th e city-owned ShoWare Center brought in an esti-mated $25 million to the local economy in 2011, according to an economic impact analysis presented to Kent City Council members.

Th e independent study, by Community Attributes, Inc. of Seattle, concluded that the arena “is a regional magnet, attracting more than one million visi-tors to Kent for sports events, entertainment, conferences, civic events and more. All told, ShoWare Center patrons spent an estimated $12.1 million at

local businesses with a ripple eff ect of $25.1 million in 2011.”

Mark Goodman, a Commu-nity Attributes planning analyst, told the council at its Nov. 20

workshop that the numbers are “a rough estimation but fairly accurate.”

BY STEVE HUNTER

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Th e ShoWare Center op-erator recommended to the Kent City Council that the city charge $5 to park, add a $1 facility fee to each ticket sold and kick in hundreds of thousands of dollars as a self-promoter to attract higher-caliber concerts and shows.

SMG, the Philadelphia-based company hired by the city to run the 6,100-seat arena, discussed the pro-posals Nov. 20 at a council

workshop and distributed a 14-page report about how to raise revenues over the next few years at the fi nancially struggling city-owned arena.

“Th ese recommendations all have the potential to add money but the programming (concerts, shows) drives the others,” said Steve Tadlock, SMG California-based regional general manager, at the workshop.

Th e arena brought in an estimated $25 million to the

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Operator recommends ways to boost revenue

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BY STEVE HUNTER

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A mandatory machine re-count will decide the outcome of the tightly contested legisla-tive race between State Rep. Mark Hargrove, R-Covington, and Kent Democratic chal-lenger Bud Sizemore for the State House District 47 Position 1 seat.

Th e recount will be on Friday, said Kim van Ekstrom, King County Elections spokes-woman.

Hargrove, a Boeing instruc-tor pilot and Air Force veteran, has a 157-vote lead through Tuesday’s tally by King County Elections. Hargrove has 50.08 percent (27,101 votes) while

Sizemore has 49.79 percent (26,944 votes). Th ere were 70 write-in votes for .13 percent.

“I trust the system will work and affi rm the count of today (Tuesday),” Hargrove said in a phone interview. “Th e machine recounts are pretty reliable so we should end up with a win.”

Hargrove’s lead dropped to 134 votes through Monday’s

Mandatory recount to decide winner in House District 47 race

Hargrove Sizemore

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Th e holiday season offi cially kicks off in Kent with the 31st annual Kent Winterfest on Saturday.

Th e parade and tree lighting ceremony is expected to draw about 5,000 people to the heart of the city.

“Every year it’s been grow-ing,” said Bill Westcott, event organizer. “We’ve had excellent weather in the past years.”

Th e Kent Lions presents the celebration to the community each year. Foul fall weather has made it diffi cult to prepare for this year’s festivities.

“We cut the tree down on

Nov. 19, which was a really windy, nasty, rainy day,” West-cott said. “So it was fun getting that tree erected in the park

Kent to bring in holiday season with Winterfest

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A Kent tradition: Santa Claus returns Saturday to greet the children at Winterfest. REPORTER FILE PHOTO

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Th e spending of $25 million contributes an estimated $609,700 in tax revenues to the city of Kent annually, according to the consultant’s report.

“Th e study shows that our investment in ShoWare Center, while its opening couldn’t have come at a worse time, on the brink of the recession, has benefi tted our city in general,” Mayor Suzette Cooke said in a city media release. “Th e events themselves, coupled with the recreation dollars spent on dining, shopping and other services, have really boosted the bottom lines of our downtown businesses during the recession.”

Th e council voted 5-2 in April to approve a $36,400 consultant contract with Community Attributes to perform the economic analysis on the 4-year-old arena. Council members Bill Boyce and Dana Ralph opposed spending money on the study.

“We all knew the ShoWare was going to be good for Kent Station, we just didn’t know the numbers,” Boyce said at the workshop about the study.

In the analysis, Commu-nity Attributes combined fi nancial and survey data with “IMPLAN” modeling, a well-established method for measuring the ripple ef-fect of business-to-business and employee spending on the local economy.

Th e economic impact analysis notes that Kent Station restaurants report a 20 percent increase in foot traffi c on event nights.

According to the study, the ShoWare Center produces an estimated $609,700 in tax revenues to the city of Kent annually. Of this, $403,000 comes from patron spending at Se-attle Th underbirds hockey games and other ShoWare Center events, including dining and shopping during trips to the arena.

Th e additional $206,700 includes tax revenues that come from indirect and induced impacts estimated

and derived from economic models that refl ects busi-ness to business spending and employee spending of personal income, with an assumption of 75 percent of indirect and induced impacts captured locally.

Goodman said the con-sultants gathered data by interviewing about 130 to 150 people at a graduation at the arena and another 150 or so at a concert. Th ey received more than 1,400 email responses from surveys sent to people who attended events at the ShoWare as well as T-Birds season-ticket holders. Th ey also conducted 18 inter-views with local businesses, mainly restaurants.

Responses from patrons were combined with atten-dance fi gures provided by SMG to help fi gure out the economic impact.

Ben Wolters, city eco-nomic development director, said the ShoWare Center has been instrumental in helping to put Kent on the map as a regional destination and helps make up for the annual fi nancial operating losses at the arena.

“Th e national recession and the negative impact it’s had on the event industry has caused an operating loss of $1.3 million over the past three years,” Wolt-ers said about the arena. “Despite this loss, ShoWare Center has been helping our local economy recover.

“We’ve attracted hockey, ice skating and other sports fans, thousands of meeting attendees and families for shows like Disney and the Ringling Brothers Circus. We’ve attracted music fans from around the region and have an even better event lineup for next year.”

Operated by SMG, ShoWare Center employs 30 full-time employees, 150 part-time event employees and created 560 jobs during its construction.

Th e analysis is available at www.KentWA.gov.

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King County will help Kent pay for a new play-ground, walking path and

landscaping at Green Tree Park.

Kent will receive a $60,000 matching grant through the county's Youth Sports Facilities Grant (YSFG) program.

Th e YSFG Program has provided $12 million in matching grants county-

wide since the program started in 1993.

Kent annexed Green Tree Park, 120th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 216th Street, from the county as part of the 2010 Panther Lake annexation.

Th e 1.5-acre park features a playground and

half basketball court. Th e program will lever-

age nearly $2.1 million for local parks and recreation projects through partner-ships with cities, schools and local community organizations.

Th e county awarded more than $530,000 in matching fund grants for youth sports facilities throughout the county.

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Volunteers served about 450 people at the annual Thanksgiving feed at the Golden Steer restaurant in Kent. This was the 14th year the restaurant has off ered the free meal to people who receive dinner vouchers through the Kent Food Bank. BRIAN BECKLEY, Reporter

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Th e National Labor Relations Board has found that Hytek Fin-ishes, a Boeing supplier based in Kent, has violated federal labor law.

Th e NLRB has notifi ed the Ma-chinists Union that Hytek managers committed nine separate violations of the National Labor Relations Act over the past 14 months, during negotia-tions with the union on a contract for hourly workers at the plant.

Hytek Finishes is a subsidiary of Bellevue-based Esterline Corp. Th e 175 hourly workers at Hytek do metal fi nishing and etching with hazardous chemicals to produce high-quality aircraft parts for the world’s biggest airplane manufacturers.

Among their fi ndings, NLRB investigators determined Hytek

managers improperly withheld information from the union neces-sary for fair bargaining, improperly withheld important information about chemical releases at the plant that impacted the health and safety of both workers and the public, and failed to bargain with the union prior to changing working condi-tions.

As a result of the fi ndings, NLRB prosecutors will try to negotiate a settlement with Hytek manage-ment. If that fails, the prosecutors would fi le a formal complaint and move to a trial before an adminis-trative law judge.

Because NLRB prosecutors take on only the most serious and clear-cut violations of labor law, the agency wins its cases more than 90 percent of the time, legal experts say.

Th e board is still investigating other charges against the company.

Th e union hailed the fi ndings, which came aft er months of inves-tigations.

“For more than a year now, Hytek managers have dragged their feet and refused to follow the law,” said Kevin Cummings, the union’s lead negotia-tor. “Maybe now they’ll get serious about negotiating a fair contract with our members. Th ey’ve had their lives on hold long enough.”

Hytek’s customers include Boe-ing, Lockheed Martin and Bell Helicopters. Hytek is the primary supplier of parts used on Boeing 787s, 747-8s, 777s and 767s. Hytek is also an important supplier to the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

“Th ere’s not another company that does what Hytek does,” Cum-

mings said.Hourly workers there voted in

August 2011, by a 2-1 margin, to join Machinists Union District Lodge 751. Talks for a contract that would create safer conditions and increase workers’ pay started in October 2011, but quickly bogged down when Hytek refused to bring proposals to the table or engage in fair bargaining.

Th e two sides are scheduled to meet again with the mediator on Dec. 18, Cummings said.

“Now that the NLRB has ex-plained the laws to them, it’s my sincere hope that Hytek manage-ment will quit playing games with our members’ lives and come to this session ready to work toward a fair contract,” he said. “Th at’s all I want for Christmas.”

Boeing supplier violates federal labor law

BY STEVE HUNTER

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One of fi ve military veterans, who reportedly worked with a Kent man to falsify travel claims as part of a conspiracy to defraud the Veterans Administration, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to one year in prison, three years of supervised released and $22,511 in restitution for making false claims.

Aaron Adams, 50, of Seattle, defrauded the Veterans Administration by claiming reimbursement for travel from Pullman to the VA Hospital in Seattle, when in fact he lived in Seattle and was not entitled to signifi cant travel funds, according to a U.S. Attor-ney’s Offi ce media release. Adams pleaded guilty in August.

According to records

fi led in the case, two work-ers, including a Kent man, in the VA Travel Benefi ts Offi ce allegedly recruited veterans who were receiv-ing health care at the VA to lie about their travel to the medical facility. Adams fi led vouchers claiming he traveled from Pullman to Seattle for appointments at the VA on Beacon Hill.

Adams claimed he made 96 trips, with a mileage reimbursement from Pull-man of more than $262 per trip. In fact, Adams never traveled from Pullman, and on 23 of the dates he did not even have an appoint-ment at the VA.

Aft er collecting the travel reimbursement, Adams reportedly would split the ill-gotten funds with two workers - Nick B. Hall, 46, of Seattle and Keishjuan Daniels, 32, of Kent. Hall and Daniels are scheduled for trial in January 2013.

Military veteran sentenced for travel fraud

CHRISTMAS RUSH FUN RUN AND WALK

SET FOR DEC. 8A Kent tradition, the popular Christmas Rush Fun Run and

Walk, returns Dec. 8, with the MultiCare Health System

serving as the title sponsor.The Rush returns to its former

starting location at Russell Road Park, 24400 Russell Road.

The 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) run is scheduled to start at 9:50 a.m., followed by the 5K at 10.

The event celebrates 30 years of running in Kent.

Kent’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services welcomes

MultiCare as the new title sponsor. Entry fees are $10

or $25, including a technical T-shirt, before Nov. 30.

Entry fees go up to $20 or $35, including a technical T-shirt,

on Dec. 1.Participants age 13 and under

run for free, and receive a complimentary T-shirt,

courtesy of MultiCare.Registration forms are

available at the Kent Commons and many Puget Sound athletic

stores. Online registration is available at www.active.com.

Participants can avoid the lines on race day by picking up shirts and bibs at RoadRunner Sports

at Kent Station on Dec. 5 from 3 to 7 p.m.

Race-day registration and packet pickup also are available

near the start/fi nish line at 8 a.m.

For more information, call 253-856-5050.

‘So You Think Kent Has Talent’ sets 2013 dates

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Contestants compete for cash prizes. All contestants are required to be Kent resi-dents, students in the Kent School District or employees within the city limits.

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local economy in 2011, according to an economic impact analysis done by a Seattle consultant hired by the city.

But the ShoWare Center has lost more than $1.3 mil-lion in its fi rst three years of operation. Th at fi gure could go over $2 million by the end of this year. Th e arena lost $451,723 in 2009, $398,013 in 2010 and $457,480 in 2011. SMG estimates a pro-jected loss of at least $631,000 in 2012.

City offi cials set aside money each year in the city’s an-nual capital budget fund to cover the anticipated losses at the arena. If not needed for the arena, that money could be used to help pay for im-provements to city streets, parks, facilities and other capital projects.

With such large fi nancial losses at the 4-year-old arena, the council and Mayor Suzette Cooke asked SMG for recommendations about how to raise revenue.

SMG manages the day-to-day operations of the $84.5 million center, in-cluding event booking, the budget, vendor selection, public relations and mar-keting and event staffi ng. Th e company also has the arena’s food and beverage contract.

A parking fee of $5 per space could bring in an es-timated $50,000 to $75,000 per year, according to SMG. Parking is now free at the 550 spaces in the center’s lot.

“Many venues charge in the area so it’s something we want to look at,” said Tim Higgins, ShoWare general manager.

ShoWare adds a $2 facil-ity fee to each ticket sold. A $1 increase in the fee to $3 per ticket could bring an additional $100,000 per year.

SMG also wants the city to consider creating a fund (possibly partially funded with revenue earned through parking and facil-ity fees) to try to “buy” as many as four to eight high

profi le concerts or shows per year. Th e city’s self- or co-promotion of events could bring in more than $100,000 per year.

Councilwoman Jamie Perry asked SMG how much the city would need to put up to attract one concert.

“It’d be anywhere from $100,000 to $200,000 per event,” said Higgins, who added that’s what the cost to the city would be if not one ticket was sold. “It would

guarantee that show that amount of money. It would be mitigated through ticket sales and concessions.”

Other venues, including Comcast Arena in Everett, put money up front to attract concerts,

Tadlock said. Or venues fi nd a promoter to help put up some of the money to attract a concert.

“In most cases, it’s $50,000 or less risk,” Tad-lock said.

Tadlock said such a pro-motion if successful could bring in anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 in reve-nue per high profi le concert for the ShoWare and maybe as much as $80,000.

Tadlock emphasized that when shows go on the road it’s no longer possible for a venue to simply charge a rental fee and be able to attract events.

“Th e world has changed with how you attract events and when a show goes on tour how they select ven-ues,” Tadlock said. “Nowa-days there’s a tremendous risk for tours to go on the road. Th ey look for partners to share the risk. And there are a lot of choices in the Seattle area. Th ere are aggressive buildings that buy talent directly or fi nd a promoting partner to at-tract shows.”

If a promoter cannot be found to partner with the city, the city could be the sole promoter.

“If you do it multiple times you can meet the de-mand to increase the cali-ber of programming and that drives suite sales and other revenues,” Tadlock said. “It puts more money

in the pot.”Th e term used in the

arena industry is a venue needs to have “skin in the game,” Tadlock said.

Councilman Bill Boyce said if the city put up money to attract shows, he wants to make sure there’s bang for the buck.

“Where is the ac-countability?” Boyce asked about the potential losses of hundreds of thou-sands of dollars. “If you use taxpayer money and put it at risk for two or three shows, the worst-case scenario is nothing comes out of it.”

Ben Wolters, city eco-nomic and community development director who helps oversee the ShoWare Center, said the account-ability comes with the city’s contract with SMG and whether to extend that con-tract if revenues improve or not. Th e council extended SMG’s contract in 2011 for three more years. with an expiration date of Dec. 31, 2014.

“I’m willing to do something diff erent, but it needs to be solid,” Boyce said about the potential to increase revenue by self-promoting.

City offi cials also asked offi cials from the Seattle Th underbirds junior hockey team, the anchor tenant of the arena, for recommen-dations about increasing revenue.

Russ Farwell, T-Birds general manager, didn’t of-fer specifi c ways to increase revenue, but said the team continues to market ticket sales and sell advertising. He said hockey attendance has increased each year since the team moved in 2009 to the ShoWare from KeyArena in Seattle with an average of 4,206 fans per game during the 2011-12 season.

Th e T-Birds noted in a written report to the city that the free parking at the ShoWare “is a signifi cant part of the extra value that patrons of the ShoWare feel they are getting when our venue is compared to others in the area.”

Farwell said city offi cials

can help by putting a more positive spin on the arena.

“We need to be get-ting focused on talking positively and selling the building every chance we get,” Farwell said. “We need to talk about the quality of the venue and the success of

the events.”In its written re-

port to the city, the T-Birds said “the sooner the city and all involved can be-come ambassadors for the positives that the ShoWare brings to our com-munity the sooner

and better the bottom line will look each year.”

Farwell agreed, however, that a higher quality of concerts would help bring more people and revenue to the arena.

Councilwoman Elizabeth Albertson told Farwell she agreed the city needs to be more positive about the ShoWare.

“People are proud of the building and love going to graduations and other events and going to Kent Station,” Albertson said. “If we keep yelling that the ShoWare is awful and a big drain, we help create a negative image. We have debt but we have bonded debt across the city, including Kent Station. We need to be a cheerleader for this facility and not put out a name as if this is a goose egg in town. Th is is a good thing for Kent.”

SMG also proposed other revenue ideas, including ice time rental to bring in about $20,000 per year; hiring a third party to sell unsold arena advertising for an estimated $50,000 revenue per year; and sell-ing VIP Club memberships to non-hockey events with certain parking and food perks to bring in about $40,000 per year.

Now the council must fi gure out whether to go along with any of the recommendations. No timeline has been set for any decisions about changes at the ShoWare.

“We need to continue this discussion and decide what to do next,” Council President Dennis Higgins said to conclude the work-shop. “Th is has been a very productive discussion about a topic that a lot of us have lost sleep over.”

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Who will our charter schools serve?

Among other things charter schools in

this election were touted as being good for students who are not doing well in regular public schools.

We know that highly diverse/high poverty schools generally have proportionately higher numbers of students not making the grade, with black and brown students most oft en performing the worst.

If it is true that charter schools help low-performing black and brown students, one would have expected the community leaders and parents of black and brown students to

be overcome with joy because charter schools would help to reduce their children’s propor-tionately high numbers in the pipeline from schools to prison.

Th e reason “if it’s true” is being raised is because Oscar Eason Jr., presi-

dent of Alaska/Oregon/Washington State Area Conference NAACP, and Estela Ortega, executive director El Centro de la Raza, helped prepare the argument against charter schools. With these two heavyweights having lined up against charter schools it should send a message to those who care about black, brown, poor white and other students in the pipeline from schools to prison to ex-amine the potential eff ects of charter schools very carefully.

As one advocate in the region frequently notes, your children’s education is not a spectator sport.

We need only go to the “Waiting for Superman” movie to visualize what is meant by “not a spectator sport” for parents. One mother in the documentary cried when the lottery number wasn’t called that would allow her child to enter the charter school. Obviously this was a parent who was highly motivated and therefore a strong supporter for her child’s education.

Th is parent had to be interested enough in her child’s education to be aware that there were other choices for her child; she might have investigated the possible choices to

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Recently in the news cycle, I’ve noticed more than a few accidents have involved senior citizens and their vehicles.

Now, before I am del-uged by streams of abuse, little old ladies driving their “Hoverounds,” running into my ankles at Target, let me state unequivocally that I

believe senior citizens are some of the safest driv-ers on the road. Th ey are certainly safer than Jerrad, driving his 1997 Civic in a sideways drift at 55 mph, while auditioning for “Fast and Furious, Th e Kent Edition.”

Or Lindsay, while driving her dad’s Grand Cherokee, decides to

squeeze into the smallest space possible at the store, while texting her friend, Ashleigh, and putting on her newest lip gloss.

We’ve all seen the little old ladies behind the wheel, however. And they don’t provoke a lot of good vi-brations from me as a fellow driver. She can barely see over the steering wheel, while wearing the sunglasses from the Roy Orbison Fan Club.

It’s not even a sunny day and she’s wearing glasses that must block out every lumen of light, or she just had cataract surgery and shouldn’t be behind the wheel at all.

And the older gentleman backing up in the parking lot, doing 30 mph scares the bejesus out of me. You’ve seen him too, the white haired guy, saying to himself, “I’ve lived on this Earth for 75 years, fought in two wars and have dodged danger all my life. I’m backing up now, you watch out for me!”

Certain types of people drive me crazyG U E S T E D I T O R I A L

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Let’s accept,work with our newly elected

It’s been just weeks since the elections, and I imagine many of you welcome the reprieve from campaign advertising. You may have been disappoint-ed regarding the ballot box results. However, I encourage you to accept the voice of the people and to become more engaged in the process.

Washington elected to retain single-party rule for at least another term. It remains to be seen, though, if our new elect-ed leaders will change course from a path that brought us declining quality of public edu-cation and fi scal uncertainty. In representative government, we must articulate the citizens’ priorities to our leaders. Th at task knows no rest, both in and out of election season.

Leadership in Olympia must steer another course and place governing ahead of games.

Rather than managing Wash-ington’s citizens, the new gov-ernor and legislature should strive to serve the people.

Private enterprise must have the confi dence to invest and hire employees, and it’s time for elected leaders to take this seriously. Th at must be im-mediately followed by fully-funding our public education

system with the already-exist-ing dollars in the budget.

While speaking of educa-tion, I am pleased that public education leaders will be charged with bringing more fl exibility to our system with the implementation of charter schools.

Finally, the Legislature must honor the voters’ wishes in requiring a two-thirds majority to raise taxes. Th is necessitates bipartisan support for future budgets and requires govern-ment to live within its means. If Olympia tries an end-run, we must hold them account-able.

In the aft ermath of an elec-tion like 2012, it would be easy for cynicism to set it. It has been said that cynicism is full of naïve disappointments that cause people to disengage from government and politics. But we can ill aff ord the citizenry’s decoupling from its govern-ment.

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There are still millions of people in Washington State who believe as you do. So now is not the time to succumb to doubt. Rather, it is time to remain both involved and informed so that you can speak with a reasoned voice.

I am committed to work shoulder to shoulder with those who choose this route. I hope you are, too.– Brad Toft

Winging it, carrying a half-full glass

Using council members’ clever quotations, the canary in the coal mine should not worry us be-cause the glass it is carrying out of the disaster-prone area is half-full of water (or optimism).

Instead of adopting Mayor Suzette Cooke’s original inclusive plan to shore up the city’s shaky infrastructure, the business owners (and those inor-dinately influenced by the Chamber of Commerce) on the council effectively used the chamber’s clout to ram through a pathetic busi-ness & occupation (B&O) tax with Swiss-cheese loopholes, exemptions and escape clauses.

License fees of a mere $82 were even rejected. Those funds would have been used toward the implementation and execu-tion of the B&O tax assess-ment and collection – over and above the $300,000 out of the $5 million estimate of revenues that was allotted for implementation. Now the city may be stuck with paying some of those costs if the “half-glass-full” strat-

egy doesn’t work.Even the study paid for

by the city to get creative ideas on revenue, which recommended pushing for higher B&O tax assess-ment, was brushed aside. So that was a waste of money because the business-prone council members didn’t like what the report concluded. No more studies, please.

The council members have adopted a “wait and see” posture about all this, so we won’t know the final fallout results until 2014. Even if the $5 million revenue estimate is reached, that won’t fully cover the amount needed for upkeep and refurbishment of Kent’s streets and roads. Note: Kent homeowners are already paying taxes for infrastructure, and refused to pay more when busi-nesses were paying zero B&O. Now that they will be paying next to zero, we’re still not impressed.

As for the parks, I think Kent homeowners would be more amenable to a tax strictly related to park improvements. There’s no doubt that Kent parks need funds to restore, maintain and enhance parks and trails. So, a “save our parks” initiative might well pass. The big hitch in the last ballot proposition was the “streets and roads” issue. The business commu-nity’s callous refusal to take responsibility for road damage (a stand it contin-ues to take) raised the ire of homeowners and created a backlash over the entire proposition.

With the council bench being occupied by so many intransigent business advocates, it will be difficult to get B&O taxes elevated to the average paid by other cities. If business is to pay its rightful share to repair

heavy-truck-caused dam-age, the council will need to have members less bound to business special-interest groups.

So I think that should be an important campaign is-sue as existing and potential council members come up for election/re-election. As we realized after the onset of the recession, too much power in the hands of busi-ness (and its influence on legislators) is not a good thing.

The adopted (revised) resolutions for the B&O did nothing to increase rev-enues from this B&O tax. It only exempted license/reg-istration fees and solidified its minimal-contribution fine print. The business community thinks it has created a suitable facade of participation.

The canary is no reason for alarm if you believe that denial fixes things. Just close your eyes and think good thoughts.– Sandra Gill

Join the effort against domestic abuse

The month of October was dedicated to domestic abuse awareness. It also was the month dedicated to the memory of those who have died and those that con-tinue to endure this crime.

Domestic abuse contin-ues to be one of the most devastating issues affecting the modern family.

Our city of Kent is not immune. In 2011, there were 1,370 incidents of domestic abuse reported.

It is time to call our elect-ed officials and ask them to re-authorize the Violence against Women Act. This is the act that was first

authorized in 1994. VAWA is due for reauthorization by Congress before the end of 2012. Funds from VAWA are administered by the Justice Department and Human and Health Services.

There is evidence that a lot of work has been done by agencies across our state to eradicate this problem even though the crime con-tinues to cause havoc.

Research shows that the majority of victims are women, with children as unintended victims. Some schools of thought con-tend that men are victims, too. While this argument may be true, women who are victims of this crime are far too many for us to invest much energy on men victims.

Most of all, it is impor-tant to hold perpetrators accountable whether they are men or women. Inti-mate partner violence takes place behind closed door. This makes it very difficult to track all incidents.

It is also reported that many incidents go unre-ported to law enforcement for fear of retaliation by the perpetrator. In some instances, women fail to report the abuse as the Mandatory Arrest Laws result in the only breadwin-ner going to jail leaving the family without economic means.

When all is said and done, it is once again important to hold all perpetrators of the abuse accountable.

The next step is for all of us to do your civic duty and take part in the campaign to re-authorize VAWA. Join the campaign on Facebook and log into PassVAWA2012. – Josephine Karanja

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We all know people who have been driving for years and are a potential threat

to themselves or others on the road. My stepfather, a lovely guy, is the best. But I wouldn’t get in a car with him. He tends to drift into other people’s lanes.

My mother-in-law, whose age I won’t reveal here, is the nicest, sweet-est person in the world, and occasionally will come home from a pinochle game with a new scratch on her bumper. Apparently those barriers around fire hydrants will just jump right out at you.

So what’s the solution? Ever since you were 16, driving a car was the great-est freedom since your Schwinn. Taking away someone’s keys, especially someone you love and respect, is difficult. But

sooner or later it has to be done.

So, if you have to have that discussion with mom or dad, good luck and hopefully it won’t be too late. Also be prepared to be their chauffeur, just like when they had to drive you at 6 a.m. to Little league practice across town. Be prepared to drive them to Olympia for that stamp collection festival. And be prepared to drive them to another early bird special at the restaurant.

They drove you all over for 16 years to take care of your needs, now it’s your turn to do the driving.

Paybacks are a bear aren’t they?

Todd Nuttman is a regular contributor to the Kent Reporter.

DONATE TODAY: Kent Food Bank, 515 W. Harrison St., No. 107. For more information or to volunteer, call 253-520-3550 or visit www.skcfc.org/kentfoodbank.

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and enjoy refreshments. The GKHS supports the Kent

Fire Department’s Toys for Joy program. Donations

of unwrapped toys are appreciated. Admission is by a

suggested $2 donation.

Michael Haley leans to pick up a plastic bottle, all part of his cleanup of streets and parking lots in Kent. Haley lost the use of his legs in a motorcycle accident, but it hasn’t deterred him. COURTESY PHOTO

KENT, THE CITY THAT SMILES

Th ere is a Branding in Kent that everyone seems to be promoting lately, or maybe everyone suddenly realized that it has been here all along.

Some cities have tried to capture cute little sayings that will encourage visitors to want to come and spend the day, or more in their quaint little burg.

Th e problem has been that there are just so many catchy phrases to go around.

If you visit a town, because of their “fi sh on the river” verbiage, you might run smack dab into a mall with nary a minnow on the menu. Some may fi nd themselves in the wrong town that has the same branding and may accidentally spend their money at the wrong shop.

Now, I keep running smack dab into Kent’s branding without even trying. It happened again on Smith Street just east of Kent-Meridian High School. I was driving toward Smith Hill and out

of the corner of my eye I saw it, or rather him. I had to circle the block to see if I was really seeing what I thought that I

saw, but there is no block to circle. I had to go half-way down Smith turn right come back up Benson and right again, slowing to fi nd that “Branding” that couldn’t really be there.

No way. But there he was. He was in a wheel-chair with a fi ve-gallon bucket on his lap and a picker in his hand, pok-ing in the bushes and on

the edges of the walkway for pieces of paper and garbage and anything that caused his part of the city to look dirty. I parked, got out of my truck and approached him. As I did, he looked up and there it was, “a great big smile” on his face.

He is Michael Haley. Michael went down on his motorcycle 10 years ago and lost the use of his legs. He says that he has made

his job the daily clean-ing up of the area up and down the streets, so that the kids will have a better environment on their way to school.

Michael says that kids have it tougher now then it used to be and he can do his part to help them get through it.

“Th e most important part is that it gives me an opportunity to pray for them,” Michael said. “Th ey

have so many obstacles in their way, so all the time that I’m picking up junk, I am praying for the kids.”

It shook me to the core. I found myself patting my legs, realizing some of the little things that I worry about aren’t so important, and being thankful for running into another rea-son that I love this town, “Kent, the city that smiles.”

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Th e Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority, Kent Fire-fi ghters Local 1747, and the Kent Firefi ghters Foundation are once again sponsoring and supporting the Toys for Joy program.

Toys for Joy is an annual event

where new, unwrapped toys are collected, sorted, wrapped and delivered to the Kent and Coving-ton Food Banks for distribution to needy families in our community. Nonperishable food and monetary donations will also be accepted.

Economically, 2012 has been another tough year for families. Many have to dedicate their money to the basics in order to survive and do not have the fi nances to buy

gift s during the holidays. Th e Toys for Joy program was created to help these local families.

Toy wrapping parties are sched-uled for Dec. 10 and 19, and are open to the public. Last year the public wrapped more than 5,500 gift s.

Th e Toys for Joy program can only exist with the generous dona-tions and support of local residents and businesses. Collection barrels

are at the eight Kent fi re stations and City Hall.

Th e program organizers would like to thank USF Reddaway for their support and donation of a semi-truck to help store and trans-port the toys, as well as Door to Door Storage of Kent.

For further information on the Toys for Joy program and to get involved in a wrapping party, call the Toys for Joy Hotline at 253-856-4485.


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with all the gusty winds.”Th is year’s 40-foot

holiday tree comes from Berrydale Forest Christmas Tree Farm in Covington. Kent-based Mowat Con-struction brought a fl at-bed trailer and crane and hauled the tree from Covington to downtown Kent. It took a day to assemble. It also took one full week to put up

the 70,000 lights in Town Square Plaza.

Th e parade begins at 4:30 p.m. from Fourth Avenue and Ramsey Street and goes down Ramsey, stopping in front of the AMC Th eater. Th ere, Miss Cornucopia Kelli Sheldon will escort Santa and Mrs. Claus to a house at Kent Station. Mayor Suzette Cooke will welcome them to Kent.

Th e whole procession then will continue on holiday fl oats down Ramsey Street to Smith Street and Second Avenue, terminat-ing at Town Square Plaza.

Th e parade includes the guests of honor, Santa and Mrs. Claus, Cooke, Sheldon and Bradon Davie, Kent Lions Club president.

Musical entertainment will be provided by the

Kentwood Marching Band, Tahoma High School Drumline and the Kent Me-ridian Marching Band. Th e entire Kent Meridian Cheer Squad will be in the parade, as well as Relay for Life Marchers and representa-tives from Heavier Th an Air Family Th eatre.

Th ere will be a fl oat of 88 Girl Scouts, llamas and the city of Kent motorcycle brigade.

All parade participants will have some sort of lights or glow-sticks.

Merchants on First Avenue will be joined by members from community group Project Uth to help children create letters to Santa, cookies and orna-ments from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Free popcorn, apple cider and hot cocoa will be available from 4 to 7 p.m. at Town Square Plaza.

Following the tree lighting will be an aerial fi reworks display.

Cedar Heights Middle School Band, Mill Creek Middle School Choir, Kent-lake High School Choir and the Soos Creek Elementary Choir will perform in the

parade and aft er the tree lighting ceremony.

Winterfest has been well attended in the past, West-cott said.

“We have a hard time keeping up with the good-

ies,” he said. “Th e line just snakes around the whole park for that stuff . As long as the weather cooperates it should be the same this year.”

Winterfest scheduleSaturday, downtown Kent

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Celtic Yuletide Concert returns to Kent on Sunday

Th e Boulding Family’s musical celebration of the holiday season is a trea-sured tradition in Kent.

Once again, Pam and Philip Boulding are joined by their chil-dren, grandchildren and guests for an af-ternoon of enchant-ing Yuletide music at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Kent-Meridian Per-forming Arts Center, 10020 S.E. 256th St.

Th e Magical Strings 26th Annual Celtic Yuletide Con-cert features the Bouldings performing on harps, ham-mered dulcimers, whistles, strings, percussion and harp-like instruments from around the world. Guests add Irish step dancing, drumming and storytelling for a festive and memorable performance.

Tickets are $22 for general admission, $20 for seniors ages 55 and older and $16 for youth ages 25 and younger.

For tickets, go to www.ci.kent.wa.us/arts/.

ElsewhereBartell Drugs is once

again partnering with the Salvation Army to provide holiday gift s for children in need by collecting new,

unwrapped toys during its ninth annual Salvation Army “Toy ‘N’ Joy” drive through Dec. 14.

Bartell’s Kent location is 12946 S.E. Kent Kangley Road.

Th e toy donations will be accepted at all 58 Bartell Drugs locations in King, Pierce and Snohomish

counties. Toys will be distributed to low-income children and youth the week before Christ-

mas through the Salvation Army’s “toy

warehouses.”

mas with the holiday spirit, PODS of Seattle, a moving and storage company, has teamed up with Walgreens and the Starlight Children’s Foundation to support the “Starlight Toy Drive” in Seattle and Bellingham.

The drive runs until Dec. 31.During the toy drive,

PODS of Seattle will donate PODS containers to collect toy and book items and play a role by serving as the main collection point at Walgreens stores.

Th e public is encouraged to drop off donations at any of the PODS containers onsite at participating Wal-greens locations, including one in Kent at 27112 132nd Ave. S.E.

Once the toy drive is complete, PODS will de-liver the donated toys and

books to the local Starlight Children’s Foundation. Th e items will be distributed to Starlight families and to local hospitals.

Willow’s Place, which provides help and support to local struggling families, is looking for donations.

Anyone who brings new or gently used sleeping bags, jackets, gloves, hats or socks can get lunch for $5 at noon Dec. 6 at the Golden Steer Restaurant, 23826 104th Ave. S.E.

Checks made payable to Willow’s Place or cash donations also will be ac-cepted at the luncheon.

RSVP by Dec. 4 to Sally Goodgion at 253-852-0880 or email her at [email protected].

Santa’s Cottage on the Foun-

tain Stage in front of AMC Th eatres for holiday wishes and photos. Th e mall is at 417 Ramsay Way.

Photo packages range from $20 to $45 with dis-counts when you bring in a nonperishable food item or new unwrapped toy for the Kent Food Bank.

Santa’s hours are: Friday, Nov. 30, 4-8 p.m.; Dec. 1-2, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Wednes-day-Friday, Dec. 5-7, 4-8 p.m.; daily, Dec. 8-23, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.


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determine that a charter school might be better for her child; she had to get an application and take the time to fill it out; she had to submit the application and monitor the selection process; and she waited with great anticipation and hope for her number to be called.

We can just about guar-antee that a parent who does that much for her child’s education will find a way for her child to get the best available education in whatever education system she finds herself.

It is these parents that are more likely to be the ones who leave public schools and go to charter schools in many instances. Why wouldn’t a charter school or a regular public school succeed with that kind of parent support for educa-tion?

This is not an opinion to discredit the many great achievements of “some” charter schools. However, as Diane Ravitch puts it in “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” subtitled, “How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education,” oftentimes charter schools take the cream off the top of public schools, she said. In a manner of speaking, by removing the highly motivated parents and students from the regular public schools, along with the money, the strongest supporters of education are taken from public schools.

Charter schools re-ally help black, brown and poor white students who struggle, if they select the lowest performing students in the most highly diverse/high poverty school dis-tricts in the state. Create the selection process with the understanding that the least

motivated parents having the neediest students will generally not opt into a charter school.

Therefore, create a pro-cess whereby students will automatically be placed in the charter school if their grades are below a certain point. They will then have to opt out in order to be removed from the charter school. This approach will clearly indicate whether a given charter school is really trying to help low-performing students or simply exploiting the

low-performing black and brown student data to achieve some other goal.

Another heavyweight is Thelma Jackson, a Ph.D., on the Steering Commit-tee for the Black Education Roundtable, and former president of the Wash-ington Alliance of Black School Educators (WAB-SE). She helped prepare the argument to vote for charter schools in Washing-ton State.

It’s advocates like her who we can count on to be sure that public charter schools

get to and address issues leading students into the school to prison pipeline. Otherwise, what Washington public charter schools may become are more equal op-portunity schools, which are often not equitable.

Rather than scraping the cream off the top, public charter schools will have the opportunity to address equity issues; something that hopefully the Gates and Waltons are looking for as they pay to help improve public schools.

If public charter schools

selected the lowest per-forming students and found creative ways to help them become successful then regular public schools and the public charter schools could be great partners. Is that possible?

Just in case they need a little help, we might want to wake up some folks and help them get involved. As parents/guardians/ family you are the only real “Su-perwoman” and “Super-man” for your children.

Melvin Tate is a regular con-tributor to the Kent Reporter.

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tally before going up slight-ly Tuesday. His lead had been more than 300 votes until dropping to 284 votes on Nov. 19, 241 on Nov. 20 and to 134 on Nov. 26.

Hargrove is seeking a second, two-year term after defeating Democrat Geoff Simpson in 2010.

Sizemore, a Kent firefight-er and former Covington City councilman, is making his first run for a state office. He expects Hargrove to hold on to the lead.

“Generally, it does not change when there is a 150-

vote separation,” Sizemore said in a phone interview Wednesday. “We’re hopeful but we expect when the recount is done it probably will be the same results.”

Sizemore said out of the 54,000 ballots, it would take about 80 votes credited to Hargrove that would need to change to him in order for the outcome to change.

“We need to let the pro-cess work and see the final count,” Sizemore said.

House District 47 covers the East Hill of Kent as well as Covington, Black Dia-mond and parts of Auburn.

Any office must be re-counted by machine when the difference between two candidates is less than 2,000 votes and less than .50 percent, according to the King County Elections website at www.kingcounty.gov/elections.

During a recount, only ballots included in the race will be pulled for the recount. Observers from political parties are invited to observe all recounts.

In machine recounts, the tabulating equipment is programmed to examine votes for the specific race being recounted. Some bal-lots are identified for closer inspection by Elections staff to confirm that the original results were correct.

After all ballots have been recounted, the Elec-tions Canvassing Board reviews and approves the amended results. The board members are Sherril Huff, director of Elections; Kevin Wright, Prosecuting At-torney’s Office representa-

tive; and Anne Noris, King County Council representa-tive. The board set the date of the recount.

Hargrove said he will attend legislative meetings Friday in Olympia so he will not be at the recount at the Elections Office in Renton. Sizemore said he will have a representative at the recount and may stop by himself as well.

Despite the long wait to decide the outcome and up-and-down leads, Hargrove expected a victory.

“I felt confident all along,” Hargrove said. “It’s kind of like waiting for Christmas.”

Hargrove led by just 91 votes over Sizemore when the first results were released on election night Nov. 6. A week later, Hargrove had built that lead to 369 votes before the Sizemore comeback began.

Hargrove figures he will remain ahead after the recount.

“It’s time to get to work,” he said about heading to Olympia.

[ RECOUNT from page 1 ] KING COUNTY ELECTIONS certified the results of 2012 general election Tuesday. Voters returned 993,908 ballots for a final turnout of 85 percent, with 978,377 of those ballots tabu-lated in the final results report. “Voters responded to our mes-saging this year and returned their ballots early,” said Sherril Huff, director of elections. “We counted a record high of 556,000 ballots on election night and the number of ballots received too late to process was down over 200 percent.”

Company hosts Pay it Forward Hiring Drive

The Express Employ-ment Professionals office in Kent is hosting a Pay it Forward Hiring Drive to put 350 unemployed people to work this holi-day season.

The Kent office, 841 Central Ave N., C-100, is accepting applications.

For more information, call 253-850-1344 or visit www.expresspros.com.

The goal of the drive is to help give encourage-

ment and purpose to as many job seekers as possible by providing them the opportunity to earn a week’s worth of pay and help provide for their families during the holidays.

By joining Express in the hiring effort, employ-ers gain a qualified worker and give the gift of em-ployment to an individual who would otherwise not be working during the week of Dec. 10-16.

Express associates are screened and evaluated be-fore being placed in short- and long-term jobs in a

variety of administrative, professional and commer-cial positions.

“Pay it Forward to us means working with local businesses to help find jobs for unemployed workers in our commu-nity, so they can earn a paycheck and help support their families this sea-son,” said Dawn Colston, of Express Employment Professionals.

“Our vision is to lock arms with businesses in Kent to bring hope to local families for the holidays.”


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Kent Police cited a woman for investigation of child neglect after she reportedly left her 3-year-old son alone in a vehicle for more than 20 minutes while she gambled at the Great American Casino, 20500 108th Ave. S.E.

The incident occurred at about 12:02 p.m. Nov. 17 after a casino employee spotted the boy alone in a Toyota 4Runner with a window partway down, ac-cording to the police report.

When police arrived, an officer talked to the boy who said he was cold. The boy pointed toward the casino when asked where his mother had gone.

The mother walked out of the casino a few minutes later and initially told officers she was only inside for about five minutes. She said she was out of gas and gas money and decided to spend her last $5 to get more money.

Officers looked at casino video surveillance and de-termined the woman played Spanish 21, a variation of blackjack, at a table. She had entered the casino at about 11:40 a.m., cashed $25 worth of chips and didn’t leave until

shortly after noon.When told about the

video, the woman admitted she had spent $25 to gamble. Officers also noted that the gas gauge showed full on the 4Runner. The woman claimed she lived in Tacoma and had come to Kent to visit a friend. A casino employee told officers the woman was a regular customer.

Officers told the mother that Child Protective Ser-vices would be contacted about the incident. CPS conducts family assess-ments, separate from the criminal investigation.

Police also cited the wom-an for driving while license suspended. The woman told police she knew she had a suspended license but she still needed to get around.

Assault

Police arrested a man for investigation of fourth-de-gree assault after he report-edly punched his girlfriend in the face during a dispute at about 3:10 p.m. Nov. 19 in an apartment parking lot in the 10900 block of Southeast 256th Street.

A witness called police

after the man reportedly struck the woman in the parking lot of the apart-ment complex, according to

the police report.Anther witness

said she later heard a man and woman yelling from inside the apartment, in-

cluding a yell of “help” from the woman.Police knocked on the

apartment door three times, but no one answered. They saw someone moving inside. The officers got a key from the apartment man-ager to open the door.

Four officers entered the unit and found the man and woman inside on a bed. The couple said they did not hear the knocks on the door.

The woman had a swol-len eye that she told officers she hurt at work. The man had scratches on his hand that he said happened at his work. The man and woman each denied any dispute between them.

Reckless endangerment

Officers cited a man for investigation of reckless endangerment after he al-legedly smashed his vehicle intentionally into another

car at about 11:33 a.m. Nov. 18 in the 24000 block of 109th Ave. S.E.

The man contacted of-ficers to stand by as he tried to get his vehicle back from a former girlfriend, accord-ing to the police report.

When the man knocked on an apartment door,

another man answered and said the woman was not at home. Officers then left because the man had a civil order to get the car back.

About one hour later, police returned to the scene after a report of a traffic ac-cident. Officers found two cars with bumper damage.

The first man looking to get his car back reportedly rammed his car into an-other vehicle to stop it from leaving the apartment com-plex parking lot. The man said he also owned that car, a Honda Odyssey. He had showed up at the apartment to claim a Mercedes Benz.

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Kentlake swimmer Em-ily Tanasse has signed a National Letter of Intent to join the Boise State Univer-sity swim team.

Tanasse specializes in backstroke, butterfl y and freestyle events.

“I have been recruiting from King Aquatics in the Seattle area for the last few years, and fi nally we have not one, but two of King’s swimmers coming to swim with us,” said Boise State swimming and diving coach Kristin Hill in a Nov. 15 press release. “Emily really had a breakthrough this last sum-

mer in her 200 back which was exciting to see, but really her strengths in fl y, back and free will all help us. Emily is a great student who is most interested in studying engi-neering, and it was great to show her the strengths of our program here and watch her excitement grow as she saw that she could really excel as

a student and an athlete at Boise State.”

Tanasse is coached by Tommy Hannan at King Aquatic Club, where she has qualifi ed for junior nationals and has been a fi nalist at se-nior sectionals. King Aquatic teammate Felicity Cann also signed with the Boise State.

Tanasse is a two-time team

captain at Kentlake, help-ing the Falcons tie for third at the 2011 WIAA 4A State Championships.

Kentlake took seventh this year, highlighted by the 200-yard medley relay team, led off by Tanasse, fi nishing second.

Individually, she advanced to the championship fi nal at

the state meet in the 100 but-terfl y and the 100 backstroke each of her four seasons. Tanasse’s best fi nish came as a sophomore in the 100 but-terfl y, taking third place in 56.69 for All-America con-sideration. She also posted fourth-place fi nishes in the 100 butterfl y as a senior and the 100 backstroke as a junior and senior.

Tanasse is a member of the National Honor Society and a USA Swimming Scholastic All-American. She also spent time in Guatemala in August on a mission trip.

“It just felt right com-mitting to Boise State,” Tanasse said in a press release. “Th e coaches were great throughout the whole recruiting process and when I took my trip I felt so welcomed by the team. I can see myself being suc-cessful in and out of the pool at Boise State and I am so grateful for the opportu-nity to be a Bronco.”

BY KRIS HILL

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Godfrey Drake wants to put the Kentlake boys basketball program on the map.

More than that, though, he wants his players to be successful, not just on the court but in life long aft er

they stop playing the game.“People don’t really view this as

a basketball school,” Drake said. “I like the challenge of that. I’d like to give this school the visibility it deserves.”

Drake, a native of Jackson, Miss., had a meandering journey from

playing as a swingman for the basketball team at Murrah High School in the late 1990s to planting roots in the Puget Sound.

He describes Murrah as one of the top basketball high schools in his home state. Drake played with Mo Williams, who is the point

guard for the Utah Jazz. Williams is one of fi ve boys basketball players from Murrah to go on to play at top tier college programs. Aft er gradua-tion, Drake had the option of going to Wisconsin as a guaranteed walk-on to the men’s basketball team or a

Drake sets high goals for Kentlake boys

Kentlake swimmer to BSU

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BOXING EVENT AT SHOWARE CANCELEDPromoters have canceled The

Soul of Boxing competition scheduled for Friday, Nov. 30 at

the ShoWare Center in Kent.“We didn’t get the ticket sales we were hoping for,” said Jim

McTaggart, spokesman for The Soul of Boxing in a Tuesday phone interview. “It looked

like we were going to have a real good show. But when the

numbers don’t work out, you can’t go forward.”

Anyone who bought tickets can return to the point-of-purchase

for a refund, according to the ShoWare Center website. Credit card purchases will be refunded

automatically.More than 20 amateur boxers were expected to compete in

the event.


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scholarship to University of Southern Mississippi.

“I went to Wisconsin for the first couple of weeks and it just wasn’t for me,” Drake said. “It was too cold for me.”

For a young man who had grown up in a place where it’s in the upper 60s and low 70s in mid-November, for it to be in the 50s in August, well that just didn’t work for Drake.

Unfortunately, he had taken too long to make his decision to leave Wiscon-sin. He left the chilly city of Madison, Wisc., and went to Southwest Mississippi Community College for a year and a half. When he finished there, he got a second chance.

“After that I did well enough for Southern Miss to come back into the pic-ture again,” Drake said. “I played there for two years.”

He graduated from Southern Mississippi in 2004. Drake, who is 6 feet 3 inches tall, played on a couple of traveling semipro teams before he suffered a severe back injury.

“I ended up having to get a lot of work on my back and was never really the same after that,” Drake said. “That’s when I ended up in Seattle. I saw that they had an air traf-fic control program at Green River (Community College). I decided on a whim to just come up.”

Tim Malroy, the men’s basketball coach at Green River, was looking for an assistant coach at that time. Drake got the job then spent five years as the lead assistant coach.

Drake’s coach at South-ern Miss knew he had po-tential to become a leader on the sidelines someday.

“My college coach, James Green, always told me he knew I was going to be a coach because I was the player that questioned ev-erything and had to watch film for hours and hours,” Drake said. “I was in (the

film room) longer than they were. The coaches had to kick me out.”

Drake said Malroy af-firmed that in a discussion they had about Drake’s future.

“He thought I was really ready to take over my own team, whether it be a college or a high school team,” Drake said. “After that the Kent-wood job came open, the Tahoma job came open and the Kentlake job came open all at the same time. When I got here and met (Kentlake principal) Dr. Potts and talked with him I knew this was the place for me because he made me feel like this is the place to be.”

Bruce Rick, Kentlake’s athletic director, wrote in an email that Drake was the right man for the job, because he is a “man with the character, integrity, and work ethic that we think can take (Kentlake) basket-ball to a higher level.”

Kentlake’s boys basketball team has struggled in re-cent years. In the 2011-2012 season the Falcons made it to the playoffs but had to win a play-in game to get there.

And the Falcons have not been to the state tourna-ment since the school opened its doors in 1997.

“We could start a new tradition here and that’s what excited me the most, the possibilities are end-less here,” Drake said. “The thing I would like to have happen, you know, you’ve watched ‘Hoosiers.’ You want that feeling of the Lake Sawyer Grocery store shut down, signs in the windows, ‘Gone to the game.’ This commu-nity out there could be that community. I feel like this community could support everything the kids here can do because the kids here deserve that attention.”

Drake does have some challenges ahead of him in this first season. He has one returning player from last year’s team that stepped foot on the court, sopho-

more Carson Stowell.His young team is mostly

juniors and sophomores with a couple of seniors who have played football but not played high school hoops.

Still, Drake has confi-dence in his players.

“I have a bunch of scrappy guys, though,” he said. “They are willing to get down and get dirty, they are not afraid to get down on the floor. I’ve got some guys who will set some hard screens and get after it. That’s exactly who I am, that’s how I played so we fit together.”

Drake plans to take advantage of the scrappiness of his players. He played tough defense and coached tough defense when he was at Green River, where the Gators had top five numbers in several defensive catego-ries such as steals, turnovers forced and points allowed.

Expect the same at Kentlake.

“We like to play up and down, we like to press, we like to tire teams out,” Drake said. “We want to see if your team is deep enough.”

On offense, Drake said, he believe in balance. When an opponent scouts the Falcons, he said, he wants them to have a profile on every player because they can all contribute.

Offensively, the style is inspired by the Princeton system.

“There’s a lot of passes and cuts,” he said. “There will be a lot of movement going on.”

Drake knows experts and other coaches in the South Puget Sound League expect the Falcons to finish near the bottom of the North division.

“That excites me. People are doubting us or forget-ting about us,” Drake said. “We have some guys are willing to change the out-look. I’m just about getting better, game in and game out. The SPSL is one of the toughest leagues around. You can’t overlook anyone.”

Drake, however, isn’t just about basketball at Kentlake.

“I wanted to be here and visible,” Drake said.

He is a mentor in the Check and Connect program. He spends time in classes working with stu-dents taking intervention courses. And he started a club called Men of Excel-lence.

“We’re establishing a culture particularly with the Men of Excellence club, job training, how to do job interviews, how to treat women, how to treat themselves … just to help them be well-rounded young men,” Drake said. “I want our guys to be viewed as respectable young men in the community before they’re viewed as athletes.”

And while he looks

forward to transforming Kentlake into a basketball school, starting with chang-ing the perspectives of the members of the school community, he also has high expectations for his players off the court and be-yond their days at Kentlake.

“I want all of my guys to be able to leave here and go to college whether it be if they’re playing or not,” Drake said. “The next

step is that everybody that plays for me, I want them to graduate and go on to a two-year or four-year col-lege. That’s what we’re try-ing to change as well is that our athletes are student-athletes first and foremost.”

Drake met his wife here, with whom he has a 3-year-old daughter and a son who is nearly a year old.

“I love what I’m doing right now,” Drake said.

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T-Birds raise more than $13,000 for Kent schools

The Thunderbirds Com-munity Sports Foundation and the Seattle Thunder-birds raised $13,752 for Kent School District ath-letes and athletics through the inaugural Support A Sport Event.

“We are excited about the funds raised for local athletes and athletics as well as the start of the Support A Sport Program,” said

foundation board member Brenda Farwell. “We look forward to next year and working with the schools in the Kent School District to expand this program.”

The event is a fundraising opportunity for the school district. Students, teachers, staff, parents and friends of Kent high schools and middle schools purchased Thunderbirds tickets to the Nov. 21 game against the Kootenay Ice to earn fund-ing for the school of their choice.


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As November comes to an end gardeners are oft en thankful that the growing season is over and it’s time to take a break from water-ing, weeding and worry-ing about every blooming thing.

Be grateful for all the outdoor chores you don’t have to do in the garden – at least until spring.

Do not prune back your hardy fuchsia plants now.

Pruning can stimulate growth and fuchsias grow-ing in the ground as shrubs that return year aft er year will only survive if you leave them alone and do nothing all winter.

Do not spray your plants for insects.

Winter is coming and those white fl ies, aphid and leaf chomping green worms are going to die. Let Mother Nature take care of the bugs.

Do not put rock salt on your pathways to keep

them free of ice.Salt on path-

ways will wash off into fl ower beds killing all living things. When ice coats your walkways and you expect holiday guest

use sand or kitty litter to provide traction under foot, not rock salt.

Do not seal cut branches with pruning paint.

Removing a tree branch and covering the cut with black pruning paint is so old school – and the new university studies prove it is not necessary in our climate.

Do not prune Salvia “Hot Lips” or any other tender perennials now.

Wait until you see new

growth coming from the base of your salvias in the spring and then shorten them to just above the joint where the growth is sprouting.

Do not fertilize your roses, your rhodies, your lawn or your perennials.

Th is is the dormant sea-son. You want your plants to sleep through the worst of it and feeding them now would not only be a waste of money but could keep them awake.

Do not water the lawn, the shrubs or the potted plants – unless they are stuck under the eaves of the house.

We get enough winter rain to keep every living thing hydrated.

Do not cultivate, rototill or spade the soft wet soil in your vegetable or fl ower garden.

When the soil is saturat-ed with water it has a frag-ile structure and should be left alone to avoid damag-ing air pockets. Th is means keep your big heavy boots

off the soil as well. Do not park your heavy

cars, trucks or power equipment on the winter lawn.

You may get away with compacting the lawn a bit in the summer months but during the wet winters you can ruin a lawn when you weigh it down.

Do not forget to appreci-ate how lucky we are to live in Western Washington.

We may have slugs and moss, but very few torna-dos, blizzards, scorpions, alligators, rattle snakes, or days that are below freez-ing or above 100 degrees. We live in a gardeners’ paradise.

Marianne Binetti is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books. For book requests or answers to gardening ques-tions, write to her at: P.O. Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022. Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a personal reply. For more gardening informa-tion, she can be reached at her website, www.binettigarden.com.

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nation with King County Parks host large restoration event. Tools, drinks and snacks provided. Bring work gloves. For more info, contact Mark Johnston: 253-639-3862 or [email protected]

Th e sound of metal crunching against metal is, unfortunately, a dismal sound most of us will hear at some point during our “driving careers.”

Th ere are no fast and easy solutions to the myriad of issues that can arise subsequent to the “crash.” But there are a few very general guidance steps that individuals injured in acci-dents can take to make the inherently painful process as painless as possible.

Call 911Aft er any col-

lision, no matter how small, call the police. Immediate assistance from emergency personnel is critical to assure that any injuries are appropriately handled. Furthermore, the police will investigate the circum-stances surrounding the accident which enables you, the injured person, to have the best possible informa-tion available when making a claim.

When being questioned by emergency personnel, do not say that you are “fi ne” and do not refuse off ered medical help, to do so may undermine a future claim. Provide only specifi c answers to questions asked by the police offi cers and resist the urge to go “on and on.” If you do not under-stand a question, do not answer it.

Remain calmTh e aft ermath of an ac-

cident can be unnerving. Even the smallest of colli-sions can feel horrifi c both emotionally and physically. In short, take a deep breath, relax and remain calm. Do not, for example, begin jabbering away to the other driver(s) or passengers about how the accident is

“your fault.” In short, say as little as possible to everyone involved while fully coop-erating, as set forth above, with emergency personnel.

Obtain medical treatment immediately

If you are not transport-ed by ambulance to a medi-cal facility, go immediately to the emergency room for

treatment. Ensure that you are fully checked out by medical person-nel, including requesting X-rays of injured body parts. Follow up the day aft er the

accident with your Primary Care physician. Always tell your health care provider all symptoms you are expe-riencing as now is not the time to be stoic.

Cooperate with your insurance company

Call your auto insurance company and make a claim under your Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage, if available. If your insur-ance company says you do not have PIP coverage, ask your insurance company to send you a letter confi rm-ing your waiver, in writing, of said coverage. You will need a PIP waiver letter to obtain coverage under a health insurance policy.

Do not talk to the adverse driver’s insurance carrier.

Consult a personal injury lawyer

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CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF ORDINANCES

PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL

The following is a summary of ordinances adopted by the Kent City Council on November 20, 2012:

ORDINANCE NO. 4054 AN ORDINANCE of the

City Council of the City of Kent, Washington, repealing Ordinance No. 4052 and adopting a new Chapter 3.28 to the Kent City Code entitled “Business and Occupation Tax Gross Receipts” and establishing an effective date.Effective Date: January 1, 2013

ORDINANCE NO. 4055 AN ORDINANCE of the

City Council of the City of Kent, Washington, repealing Ordinance No. 4053 and adding a new Chapter 3.29 to the Kent City Code entitled “Business and Occupation Tax – Administrative Provisions”. Effective Date: January 1, 2013

Each ordinance will take effect 30 days from the date of passage, unless subjected to referendum or vetoed by the Mayor, or unless otherwise noted. A copy of the complete text of any ordinance will be mailed upon request to the City Clerk.

Brenda Jacober,CMC, City Clerk

Published in the Kent Reporter on November 30, 2012. #708676

In the Superior Court of the State of Washington

In and for the County of KingMARIKA KAJARI, a married woman, and JACK JOHNSTON, a married man, individually, and the marital community composed of MARIKA KAJARI and JACK JOHNSTON, Plaintiffs,

vs.A&C GLASS, INC., a Washing- ton for profit corporation; A & C GLASS SERVICE CO., a Wash- ington for profit corporation; A&C GLASS SERVICE, INC., is believed to be a Washington for profit corporation; A&S GLASS, a company of unknown character but believed to be a Washington for profit corporation; A&C GLASS SERVICE CO., is believed to be a dba of A&C GLASS, INC., believed to be a Washington for-profit corporation; A&C GLASS SER- VICE CO., is believed to be a dba of A&C GLASS, a business of unknown character but believed to be a Washington for- profit corporation; DOE BUSI- NESS ENTITIES 1-10, of unknown business character; DAN- IEL LUPASTEAN and “JANE DOE” LUPASTEAN, individually, and as husband and wife, and the marital community composed thereof; and DANIEL LULPAS-

TEAN and “JANE DOE” LU- PASTEAN, individually, and as husband and wife, and the marital community composed thereof, Defendants.Case No. 12-2-29347-3 KNT

SUMMONS The State of Washington to the said A&C GLASS, INC.; A & C GLASS SERVICE CO.; A&C GLASS SERVICE, INC.; A&S GLASS; A&C GLASS SER- VICE CO.; A&C GLASS; DOE BUSINESS ENTITIES 1-10; DANIEL LUPASTEAN and “JANE DOE” LUPASTEAN, individually, and as husband and wife, and the marital community composed thereof; and DANIEL LULPASTEAN and “JANE DOE” LUPASTEAN, individually, and as husband and wife, and the marital community composed thereof: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty (60) days after the 26th day of October, 2012, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiffs Marika Kajari and Jack Johnston, individually, and the marital community composed of Marika Kajari and Jack Johnston, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiffs Marika Kajari and Jack Johnston, at their office below stated; and in case of your failure to do so, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. This cause of action arises fromnjuries Plain- tiffs suffered following a motor vehicle collision, cause number 12-2-29347-3 KNT. DORE DEUTSCHER LAW GROUP, PLLCRiley S. Lovejoy, WSBA #41448James J. Dore, WSBA #22106Ann R.Deutscher,WSBA #16872Attorneys for Plaintiffs1122 West James Street Published in Kent Reporter on October 26, 2012, November 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2012. #694875

CITY OF KENTPUBLIC NOTICE

SEPA THRESHOLD DETERMINATION

Pursuant to KCC 11.03, Environmental Policy, the City of Kent has issued a threshold determination for the following: Determination of Nonsignifi- cance (DNS) for:

Amendments to Kent City Code 15.07, Landscaping Requirements#ENV-2012-34, KIVA #RPSA-2123780

The City of Kent has initiated a non-project environmental review for this project which

proposes to amend the City of Kent Zoning Code to address regulations for landscaping requirements. This project includes a) some minor amendments to Title 15.07, Landscaping Re- quirements that provide clarity where there is confusion; and b) more substantial potential amendments such as: - Soil Amendments: at the

recommendation of Public Works, staff is proposing that all new landscape areas incorporate soil amendments to allow for better drainage and plant life. The soil amendments require that the top 12” of existing soil be tilled and 2” of compost be incorporat- ed into the tilled soil.

- Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): crime prevention techniques are to be incorpo- rated into the development and landscape plan to ensure that the opportunity for criminal activity is reduced.

- LID (Low Impact Develop- ment): staff is proposing language that encourages the use of LID techniques by allowing required landscaping to be integrated with LID stormwater management facilities.

- Reorganization: the general landscape requirements section has been reorganized into three new sections for better use, and the regulations for specific districts section have been integrated into a chart, which also includes the types of landscaping that are required for each landscape area.

- Types of Landscaping: the requirements in this chart have been revised to allow more time for plants to create solid screens (three years instead of two), require mini- mum plant sizes at time of planting, and require plant spacing to be dependent upon the species.

- Maintenance: language has been added that provides the option of obtaining a landscape maintenance bond.

In addition, related amendments to definitions in 15.02.086, 15.02.172 and 15.02.274 are also proposed. Comments are due for the above project by 4:30 p.m., December 10, 2012, to City of Kent Planning Services. For more information, contact Kent Planning Services at 220 Fourth Avenue S., Kent, WA 98032, Telephone: (253) 856-5454. Any person requiring a disability accommodation should contact the City for more information. For TDD relay service, call 1-800-833-6388 or the

City of Kent at (253) 856-5725.Charlene Anderson, Responsible Official

Dated: November 26, 2012Published in the Kent Reporter on November 30, 2012.#708687

SHOWARE CENTER – REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL-

HOUSEKEEPING/CLEANING SERVICE

Opportunity: The ShoWare Cen- ter is soliciting proposals from contractors to supply cleaning services for the ShoWare Center, a 7,500 seat multi-purpose venue owned by the City of Kent and managed by SMG.Overview: The ShoWare center is located at 625 W. James St Kent WA 98032. The ShoWare Center is home to the Seattle Thunderbirds and hosts approximately 175 events per year. Cleaning services will consist of all post event cleaning, and daily housekeeping duties along with special projects, carpet cleaning service and window cleaning. Cleaning service will also consist of policing the exterior parking lot to the fence line on a daily basis.Submittal: Each entrant should submit one (1) original proposal and 2 copies. At SMG’s sole discretion, the selection commit- tee reserves the right to request additional information.Selection schedule: While not mandatory, a pre submittal conference will be held on-site at 10:00am on Dec. 10, 2012. The site is located at 625 w. James St. Kent WA 98032 All communication with Sho- Ware Center in regards to this RFP is permitted only through [email protected] 253 856 6713(fax). Written questions may only be delivered by email, facsimile, U.S. mail or hand delivery and are due by 5pm on Dec. 12, 2012. Submittals should be delivered no later than 4pm on Dec. 17, 2012 to the ShoWare Centers address attention Josh Holmes. Submittals not delivered by this day and time may be rejected. Please provide adequate time for the submittals to arrive at the ShoWare Center. Submittals delivered by email or facsimile are disfavored and may be subject to rejection by ShoWare Center. Published in the Kent Reporter on November 30, 2012. #710135.

SHOWARE CENTER – REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL-

CROWD MANAGEMENT/ SECURITY SERVICE

Opportunity: The ShoWare Cen- ter is soliciting proposals from contractors to Crowd Manage- ment Services for the ShoWare Center, a 7,500 seat multi- purpose venue owned by the City of Kent and managed by SMG.

Overview:The ShoWare center is located at 625 W. James St Kent WA 98032. The ShoWare Center is home to the Seattle Thunder- birds and hosts approximately 175 events per year. Security Crowd Management services will consist of all event, and daily 24 hour building security. Submittal: Each entrant should submit one (1) original proposal and 2 copies. At SMG’s sole discretion, the selection commit- tee reserves the right to request additional information.Selection schedule: While not mandatory, a pre submittal conference will be held on-site at 10:00am on Dec. 11, 2012. The site is located at 625 w. James St. Kent WA 98032 All communication with Sho- Ware Center in regards to this RFP is permitted only through [email protected] 253 856 6713(fax). Written questions may only be delivered by email, facsimile, U.S. mail or hand delivery and are due by 5pm on Dec. 12, 2012. Submittals should be delivered no later than 4pm on Dec. 18, 2012 to the ShoWare Centers address attention Josh Holmes. Submittals not delivered by this day and time may be rejected. Please provide adequate time for the submittals to arrive at the ShoWare Center. Submittals delivered by email or facsimile are disfavored and may be subject to rejection by ShoWare Center. Published in the Kent Reporter on November 30, 2012. #710158

CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF APPLICATION

A project permit application was filed with City of Kent Planning Services. Following is a description of the application and the process for review. The application and listed studies may be reviewed at the offices of Kent Planning Services, 400 W. Gowe Street, Kent, WA.DATE OF NOTICE OF APPLI- CATION: November 30, 2012APPLICATION NAME/NUMBER: SMITH BROTHERS TENANT IMPROVEMENTENV-2012-33/KIVA #2123758SMA-2012-6/KIVA #2123760PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The applicant is proposing improvements in order to support the relocation of Smith Brothers Farms milk processing and distribution facility to this site. Im- provements include the addition of an 18’ x 30’ canopy over a tanker truck unloading station on the west side of the existing building; construction of two new 35,000 gallon milk tanks on the west side of the building; widening and lowering of the drive-up ramp on the south side of the building; addition of new

pervious pavement along thewest property line to provide more room for truck maneuver-ing; and replacement of onepersonnel door on the south side of the building with a loadingdoor. A portion of the property and improvements are locatedwithin 200 feet of the GreenRiver, a Shoreline of the State.Accordingly, a Shoreline Sub- stantial Development Permit wassubmitted with this application.The zoning for this property isM1, Industrial Park. The location is 26401 79th Avenue South, King County tax parcel number3462800040.OPTIONALDETERMINATION:As the LeadAgency, the City of Kent hasdetermined that the proposedproject is unlikely to have a significant adverse impact onthe environment. Therefore, aspermitted under the RCW43.21C.110, the City of Kent isusing the Optional Determinationof Nonsignificance process togive notice that a DNS is likelyto be issued. Comment periodsfor the project and the proposed DNS are integrated into a singlecomment period.A 14-day appealperiod will follow the issuance ofthe DNS.OTHER PERMITS AND PLANS WHICH MAY BE REQUIRED: Shoreline Substan-tial Development Permit, CivilConstruction Permit, BuildingAlteration Permit, MechanicalPermitPUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: November 30, 2012 – December 31, 2012All persons may comment on this application. Comments must bein writing and received in KentPlanning Services by 4:30 P.M., Monday, December 31, 2012 at 220 4th Avenue South, Kent WA 98032. For questions regarding this project, please contact Katie Graves at (253) 856-5454.TENTATIVE HEARING: A public hearing is not required for this applicationDATED: November 30, 2012Published in the Kent Reporter on November 30, 2012. #710331.

CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF APPLICATIONand Proposed Determination

of Nonsignificance A project permit application wasfiled with City of Kent Planning Services. The City of Kent expects to issue a Determinationof Nonsignificance (DNS) for the proposal and the OptionalDNS Process is being used. This may be the only opportunity tocomment on the environmentalimpacts of the proposal and asso-ciated mitigation measures. The

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!proposal may include mitigation measures under applicable codes, and the project review process may incorporate or require mitigation measures regardless of whether an EIS is prepared. A copy of the subsequent threshold determination for the specific proposal may be obtained upon request. Following is a description of the application and the process for review. The application and listed studies may be reviewed at the offices of Kent Planning Services, 400 W. Gowe Street, Kent, WA.APPLICATION NAME/NUMBER: HORSESHOE BEND LEVEE I ALIGNMENTMODIFICATIONENV-2010-8(m-2)/KIVA #RPSA-2123731PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The applicant proposes to construct a sheet pile flood wall north of South 259th Street, between the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) tracks and 3rd Avenue South. The proposed flood wall will serve as a setback levee to protect nearby properties, and will meet FEMA certification standards for 500-year flood protection. The existing Green River levee located south of South 259th Street will remain. On April 30, 2010 a Determina- tion of Nonsignificance was issued for the original design of the Horseshoe Bend levee, which included a setback levee berm beginning at SR 167, raising a

portion of South 259th Street and ending at 3rd Avenue South. On March 28, 2011 a Revised Deter- mination of Nonsignificance was issued for the project to add a stormwater pump station at the corner of South 259th Street and 74th Avenue South. The applicant decided to construct the project in two phases. Phase one construction of the berm was completed between SR 167 and the UPRR tracks, and the pump station was constructed as well. Phase two encountered property acquisition issues, so the alignment has been shifted north from South 259th Street to between two parcels. In order to reduce property impacts, the design has been changed from a berm to a sheet pile flood wall. While the original levee design was permitted via a Shoreline Conditional Use permit and Shoreline Substantial Develop- ment permit, the new alignment of phase two will be outside shoreline jurisdiction, with no additional shoreline permitting required. The zoning for this project is M-2, Limited Industrial District. The location is North of South 259th St, between UPRR tracks to 3rd Avenue South, King County parcel numbers 2611000020, 0006600028, -0029, -0102, and -0083.OTHER PERMITS AND PLANS WHICH MAY BE REQUIRED NPDES Permit, Section 401 and 402 permits, Hydraulic Project Approval, Building PermitOPTIONAL DETERMINATION:As the Lead

Agency, the City of Kent has determined that the proposed project, as regulated by the City’s development codes and standards, is unlikely to have a significant adverse impact on the environment. Therefore, as permitted under the RCW 43.21C.110, the City of Kent is using the Optional Determination of Nonsignificance process to give notice that a DNS is likely to be issued. Comment periods for the project and the proposed DNS are integrated into a single comment period.A 14-day appeal period will follow the issuance of the DNS.PROPOSED MITIGATION MEASURES: NonePUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: November 30, 2012 to December 14, 2012 All persons may comment on this application. Comments must be in writing and received in the Kent Planning Division by 4:30 P.M., Friday, December 14, 2012, at 220 4th Avenue South, Kent WA 98032. For questions regarding this project, please contact Erin George, Senior Planner at (253) 856-5454.DATED: November 30, 2012Published in the Kent Reporter on November 30, 2012. #710345

CITY OF KENTLAND USE &

PLANNING BOARDNOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARINGDECEMBER 10, 2012

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Kent Land Use and Planning Board will hold a

Public Hearing on MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2012 at 7:00 P.M. in City Council Chambers, 220 S. Fourth Avenue, Kent, WA 98032. The Hearing Agenda will include the following item(s):

[ZCA-2012-3] Kent City Code Chapter (KCC) 15.07 Landscape Regulations

This is a public hearing to consider amendments to the Landscaping Regulations Code with related amendments to definitions in KCC 15.02.086, 15.02.172 and 15.02.274. Any person wishing to submit oral or written comments on this proposal may do so at the hearing or prior to the hearing by e-mail to Katie Graves at: [email protected]. The public is invited to attend and all interested persons will have an opportunity to speak. For further information or a copy of the staff report or text of the proposed amendment, contact the Economic & Community Development Office at (253) 856-5454. You may access the City’s website for available download documents pertaining to the Land Use and Planning Board at: http://kentwa.iqm2. com/citizens/Default.aspx?DepartmentID=1004. Any person requiring a disability accommodation should contact the City in Advance for more information. For TDD relay service for Braille, call 1-800-833-6385, for TDD relay service for the hearing impaired, call 1-800-833-6388 or call the City of Kent Economic & Commu-

nity Development directly at (253) 856-5499 (TDD) or the main line at (253) 856-5454.DATED: November 27, 2012

Charlene Anderson, AICP, Planning Manager

Published in the Kent Reporter on November 30, 2012. #710354

CITY OF KENTPUBLIC NOTICE

SEPA THRESHOLD DETERMINATION

Pursuant to KCC 11.03, Envi- ronmental Policy, the City of Kent has issued a threshold determination for the following:Determination of Nonsignifi- cance (DNS) for:

7-ELEVEN CONVENIENCE STORE# E N V - 2 0 1 2 - 2 3 / K I V A #RPSW-2122775

The applicant proposes to construct a 2,700 square foot convenience store with associated parking and landscaping. Access to the site will be from right-in, right-out only driveways located on 104th Avenue SE and SE 240th Street. The property is located at the southeast corner of 104th Ave- nue SE and SE 240th Street and is identified as King County tax parcel number 7366600005. Zoning of the property is CC, Community Commercial. Comments are due for the above project by 4:30 p.m., December 14, 2012, to City of Kent Planning Services. For more information, contact Kent Planning Services at 220 Fourth Avenue S., Kent, WA 98032, Telephone: (253)

856-5454. Any person requiring a disability accommodation should contact the City for more information. For TDD relay service, call 1-800-833-6388 or the City of Kent at (253) 856-5725.

Charlene Anderson, Responsible Official

Dated: November 30, 2012Published in the Kent Re-porter on November 30, 2012. #710656.

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Saturday, December 1stA gift to the community of Kent from the people who bring you the nationally recognized and

Award Winning Kent Cornucopia Days. The Kent Lions present the 2012 Kent Winterfest Kids Mini Santa Parade, the

official Kent Christmas Tree, and the Tree Lighting Ceremony at Town Square Plaza.

Holiday Reading 3:30pm at the Kent LibraryKids who attend this reading and craft making event will also receive VIP seating

and treats at the Tree Lighting immediately following.

Santa Parade4:30pm at the Kent Station

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from Mayor Suzette Cooke. Local school bands and fl oats will escort him to this reception and then bring him to the

Town Square Plaza for the Offi cial Kent Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.

Tree Lighting 5:30pm at the Town Square Plaza, across from Kent LibraryLocal Choirs & Bands will sing & play Christmas songs leading up to the lighting. Santa will arrive and a light show

synchronized music will begin throughout the parade during which the offi cial lighting of the real 40 foot Christmas tree

will take place. Free hot apple cider, hot chocolate and popcorn and other goodies will be provided.

Other ActivitiesCandy Cane Lane - 11:30 am-3:30pm, Dec 1st, on 1st Ave between Gowe & Titus. Join Project Uth and the 1st Ave merchants

for more family fun with Letters to Santa, cookie & ornament making, hearty home cooked food & hot cocoa, kid games &

prizes. And don’t forget the City of Kent’s Christmas Rush 5k/10k Fun Rush on Dec 8th, call 253-856-5057 for more info.

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