23826 104th Ave. SE Kent 253-852-1144 1400471 JOIN US FOR OUR PROGRESSIVE KARAOKE CONTEST! SAT NIGHTS 9PM - MIDNIGHT THRU OCT. 10. FINAL CONTEST OCT. 17! INSIDE | Hotel developer wanted for West Valley Highway site [3] R EP O RTER .com FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 NEWSLINE 253-872-6600 KENT Culture | Kent School District hosts back-to- school powwow [9] GREEN RIVER COLLEGE CELEBRATES 50 YEARS Mel Lindbloom, Green River College’s first president, has left his legacy at the school. A new student union building on the main campus in Auburn, set to open later this year, will bear his name. HEIDI SANDERS, Kent Reporter School’s first president marvels at college’s growth, success BY HEIDI SANDERS [email protected]A lot has changed on the Green River Col- lege campus since the first time Mel Lind- bloom visited the place on Auburn’s Lea Hill more than 50 years ago. “It is amazing because at my first introduc- tion to this site, 124th Street ended in a big pile of sawdust,” said Lindbloom, who was the college’s first president for 16 years. “ere was nothing, nothing here other than forest.” Lindbloom, now 90 and living in Lyn- nwood, returned to the college last week to attend the First 50 Breakfast, a kickoff event to the college’s 50th anniversary celebration. He reunited with friends and colleagues, toured a changing campus and took in the new student life center that will bear his name. e Mel Lindbloom Student Union, which is scheduled to open later this year, will re- place the Lindbloom Student Center that was ‘You’ve come a long way, baby’ [ more LINDBLOOM page 4 ] Kent-Meridian High players celebrate after delivering a 41-36, come-from-behind victory over rival Auburn last Friday night in a nonleague football game. The Royals’ emotional road win enabled them to retain the Taylor Trophy and even the state’s second-oldest series at 50-50 with six ties. For more on K-M’s win, see sports, page 12. RACHEL CIAMPI, Reporter S WEET VICTORY more photos online… kentreporter.com City parks continue to crumble; more funds needed Kent man faces murder charge in downtown shooting death BY STEVE HUNTER [email protected]A Kent man allegedly chased, shot and killed a 42-year-old Kent man last week near downtown because he claimed the man disrespected his mother. A man who knew both men said it might have been a dispute about a drug debt. King County prosecutors charged Matthew Charles Chancellor, 37, with second-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm on Tuesday in connection with the Sept. 10 shooting death of James C. Knowlton as he sat in his car along East Saar Street just west of Central Avenue South. Knowlton died at the scene. Knowlton died from a single gunshot wound to the chest, ac- cording to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Chancellor, who has a felony conviction for burglary, remained in the county jail in Seattle with bail set at $500,000. He is sched- uled to be arraigned on Sept. 28 at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, according to the King [ more SHOOTING page 4 ] BY STEVE HUNTER [email protected]e city of Kent’s reputation for outstanding parks is chang- ing to outdated parks. Park amenities such as boardwalks, picnic shelters, docks, playgrounds, restrooms, ballpark lights and other features are old and in need of repair or replacement. But the city budget for parks includes only about $500,000 per year for repairs when nearly $5.2 million per year is needed. City Parks Director Jeff Watling told the City Council at a Tuesday workshop a similar message he’s delivered the last few years that many parks are nearing a critical stage in need of repairs. “We are not able to address the majority of needs - not for growth of our system - but needs within our existing system,” Watling said. “e result is a sys- tem that is declining at a much faster rate than we can address …. Performance of our public spaces as the safe, comfort- able, modern, vibrant gathering spaces that we need them to be [ more PARKS page 8 ]
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Mel Lindbloom, Green River College’s fi rst president, has left his legacy at the school. A new student union building on the main campus in Auburn, set to open later this year, will bear his name. HEIDI SANDERS, Kent Reporter
School’s fi rst president marvels at college’s growth, successBY HEIDI SANDERS
A lot has changed on the Green River Col-lege campus since the fi rst time Mel Lind-bloom visited the place on Auburn’s Lea Hill more than 50 years ago.
“It is amazing because at my fi rst introduc-tion to this site, 124th Street ended in a big pile of sawdust,” said Lindbloom, who was the
college’s fi rst president for 16 years. “Th ere was nothing, nothing here other than forest.”
Lindbloom, now 90 and living in Lyn-nwood, returned to the college last week to attend the First 50 Breakfast, a kickoff event to the college’s 50th anniversary celebration. He reunited with friends and colleagues, toured a changing campus and took in the new student life center that will bear his name.
Th e Mel Lindbloom Student Union, which is scheduled to open later this year, will re-place the Lindbloom Student Center that was
‘You’ve come a long way, baby’
[ more LINDBLOOM page 4 ]
Kent-Meridian High players celebrate after delivering a 41-36, come-from-behind victory over rival Auburn last Friday night in a nonleague football game. The Royals’ emotional road win enabled them to retain the Taylor Trophy and even the state’s second-oldest series at 50-50 with six ties. For more on K-M’s win, see sports, page 12. RACHEL CIAMPI, Reporter
SWEET VICTORY more photos online…kentreporter.com
City parks continue to crumble; more funds needed Kent man faces murder charge in downtown shooting deathBY STEVE HUNTER
A Kent man allegedly chased, shot and killed a 42-year-old Kent man last week near downtown because he claimed the man disrespected his mother. A man who knew both men said it might have been a dispute about a drug debt.
King County prosecutors charged Matthew Charles Chancellor, 37, with second-degree murder and unlawful possession of a fi rearm on Tuesday in connection with the Sept. 10 shooting death of James C. Knowlton as he sat in his car along East Saar Street just west of Central Avenue South. Knowlton died at the scene. Knowlton died from a single gunshot wound to the chest, ac-cording to the King County Medical Examiner’s Offi ce.
Chancellor, who has a felony conviction for burglary, remained in the county jail in Seattle with bail set at $500,000. He is sched-uled to be arraigned on Sept. 28 at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, according to the King
Th e city of Kent’s reputation for outstanding parks is chang-ing to outdated parks.
Park amenities such as boardwalks, picnic shelters, docks, playgrounds, restrooms,
ballpark lights and other features are old and in need of repair or replacement. But the city budget for parks includes only about $500,000 per year for repairs when nearly $5.2 million per year is needed.
City Parks Director Jeff Watling told the City Council at
a Tuesday workshop a similar message he’s delivered the last few years that many parks are nearing a critical stage in need of repairs.
“We are not able to address the majority of needs - not for growth of our system - but needs within our existing system,”
Watling said. “Th e result is a sys-tem that is declining at a much faster rate than we can address …. Performance of our public spaces as the safe, comfort-able, modern, vibrant gathering spaces that we need them to be [ more PARKS page 8 ]
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For Lizeth Garcia, a 2009 Kentlake High School graduate, becoming a Fulbright award recipient is an accomplishment she only dreamed possible.
Th rough the Fulbright program Garcia will spend a year in Brazil begin-ning in February.
“I will be an English teaching assistant at a local university helping students that are planning to become English teachers,” she said.
Garcia, 24, is a fi rst-gen-eration Mexican-American and the fi rst in her family to complete high school on time and graduate from college. She graduated from the University of Washing-
ton Tacoma’s politics, policy and economics program in the School of Interdisci-plinary Arts and Science in 2013, aft er receiving an as-sociate’s degree from Green River College.
“Both of my par-ents didn’t make it far with education,” Garcia said, adding that her mother fi nished third grade and her father com-pleted sixth.
“It is crazy some-one with my back-
ground would have this opportunity,” Garcia said of the Fulbright program. “I never thought I would reach this point. “
Th e Fulbright Program for U.S. students is the fl ag-ship international educa-tional exchange program sponsored by the U.S.
government and awards about 1,900 grants annually. Garcia is the fi rst UW Ta-coma student to be named a Fulbright scholar.
“My mom thought that was very, very cool,” Garcia said. “It is just the feeling of accomplishment that I broke through that barrier. With this new mentality, I feel like I can do anything I set my mind to.”
Since graduating from UW Tacoma, Garcia has worked as a legislative aide for King County Council-member Pete von Reich-bauer. While in college, she interned for Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn. Garcia also volunteers for several organizations, including Para Los Niños, Boys & Girls Clubs of King County and the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle.
Garcia applied to the Fulbright program to go to Mexico. Aft er a lengthy ap-plication process, including submitting written state-ments and letters of refer-ence, a language evaluation and interviews, she was ac-cepted as an alternate for the Mexico program. In July, she was given the opportunity to go to Brazil instead, which she happily accepted.
Garcia said she is looking forward to exploring Brazil, learning more about the culture and making new friends. A fl uent Spanish speaker, Garcia said she plans to spend the next few months immersing herself in Portuguese.
Garcia said she hopes to volunteer with a non-governmental organization (NGO) while in Brazil. She plans to pursue a master’s degree when she returns to the U.S. and hopes to work for a nonprofi t or NGO.
“I have always had a pas-sion for helping people,” she said. “I just wasn’t sure what I wanted to do.”
Kentlake, UW Tacoma graduateBrazil bound with Fulbright grant
Garcia
THE KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT will add a King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce (KCSO) School Resource Offi cer to serve its unincorporated schools, begin-ning in 2016.
Primary services will be provided to Kentlake High School, and Grass Lake and Sawyer Woods elemen-tary schools.
For the three months that school is out of session,
the deputy will provide patrol service in the unin-corporated KCSO precinct area.
The shared service, with the school district paying for nine months and King County picking up the tab for the three months that school is out of session, is an arrangement that has operated successfully in other King County school districts for many years.
“As a parent, I know fi rsthand the anxiety and heart-
ache we feel when faced with the countless trag-edies that have occurred in our nation’s schools,” said Councilmember Reagan Dunn. “The safety of our children, schools, and communities is a top priority. I’m proud to have worked to make this possible.”
School Resource Offi cers (SROs) are deputies located on school properties, assigned to specifi c schools or school sites.
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A new hotel might pop up someday along the West Valley Highway across from the Boeing Kent Space Center.
Kent city offi cials are looking into persuading a hotel developer to potentially build in the park-ing lot of the Centerpoint Offi ce Park, a 26-acre site between South 204th Street and South 212th Street on the east side of the West Valley Highway.
“We are exploring putting a ho-
tel in the parking lot of this offi ce complex to help drive business,” said Ben Wolters, city economic and community development director, during a Sept. 1 report to the City Council. “We are do-ing a site and marketing analysis for a hotel in partnership with (developer) Fountainhead. We are bringing in hotels that have been eyeing Kent, and we are looking at potential zoning changes to make this happen.”
Fountainhead Northwest, a commercial and real estate devel-opment fi rm, owns four proper-
ties within the park, including two, eight-story offi ce towers and a four-story building.
Boeing originally built the complex in the 1980s as part of its space and defense program before selling off the property aft er two decades of use. Boeing still has its large facility on the west side of the West Valley Highway.
“It’s one of most attractive of-fi ces in Kent but still has higher than we would like to see vacancy rates,” Wolters said about the idea of a hotel to help bring in more activity to the complex. “A lot of
research shows the need for mul-tiple activities in a business park.”
• Wolters also updated the council about the former Top Food & Drug store that closed more than a year ago and remains empty on the East Hill near South 260th Street and 104th Avenue Southeast.
Part of the problem with fi nd-ing a new occupant has to do with the grocery site is owned by a diff erent company than the rest of the shopping center, Wolters said.
“It also is too large for a lot of diff erent formats out there for
retail,” he said. “And that site is kind of tucked away which is not very attractive in the marketplace. Th ey want a more visible site.
“Ownership is in no hurry to lease, but willing to sell. But (the owner) has large portfolio of properties around the country and it is not a priority for them. We are trying to make it a priority for them.”
Wolters expects the former grocery store will eventually be divided into several retail spaces.
Kent seeks hotel developer for West Valley Highway office park
[ more REPORT page 8 ]
Two men die in vehicle crash in KentBY STEVE HUNTER
A driver and his passenger were killed in a single-car accident Wednesday morning in Kent just south of the intersection of South-east Kent Kangley Road and 124th Avenue Southeast.
Kent Police have not released the names of the two men. Th e driver is a 25-year-old Federal Way man and the passenger a 25-year-old Auburn man.
A passerby noticed a vehicle deep in the woods on the west side of 124th Avenue Southeast and called 911 at about 6:53 a.m., just at daylight, according to Kent Police spokeswoman Melanie Robinson. Th e exact time of the crash is unknown.
Offi cers found two men inside a heavily damaged vehicle. Th e Kent Fire Department also responded and declared the driver dead at the scene. Th e passenger sustained life-threatening injuries and paramed-ics transported him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he later died.
An initial investigation shows that alcohol and speed may have been a factor in the accident, ac-cording to a police media release. Police closed 124th Avenue Southeast between Kent Kangley Road and Southeast 270th Avenue to conduct an investigation of the accident.
Sing it loud: The Marshallese United Church of Christ Sunday School Choir performs during a celebration in the park last Saturday. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
State food aid restored for many in needBY MARK KLAAS
Gail Yamasaki smiled as children sang in the park on a sun-kissed aft ernoon.
It was a small but grand celebration for Yamasaki, her family and the Marshallese com-munities of Auburn, Kent and elsewhere.
A vital state program has been fully restored – thanks to a bud-get agreement signed by Gov.
Jay Inslee this summer – that will help put food on the table for many struggling, dependent immigrant families.
For fi ve years, families, local leaders and anti-hunger advo-cates fought deep cuts in the State Food Assistance program, claiming those cuts unfairly burdened immigrant families.
But those families spoke up. Th e Children’s Alliance – a stra-tegic organization working for families and children – stepped in, as did other agencies, organi-zations and legislators.
“Without the Alliance, we would not have been able to get this done,” said Yamasaki, of Auburn, celebrating the victory
at Veterans Memorial Park with family and friends, and local and state leaders last Saturday. “It looks like it’s really paid off . We really appreciate what they’ve done for us.”
People from the Marshall Islands are governed by an ar-rangement between the U.S. and their country that allows them to live and work in America, generally without a visa. But under changes to welfare laws in the late 1990s, Marshallese im-migrants couldn’t receive federal food stamps.
Th e state came up with the food program to support the
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built in 1971 in his name. Stu-dents voted last spring to name the new center in his honor.
His work on behalf of the col-lege began in 1962 when he was an assistant superintendent in the Auburn School District under Superindendent Hayes Holman.
“One of my jobs was to do the work to get the college going,” Lindbloom said. “Hayes had already developed a citizens’ com-mittee of people interested in the college. There was a matter of that committee and others to convince the Legislature to allow more community colleges to be built.”
Under state law, community colleges, then called junior col-leges, could not be built in a county where there was already a four-year university. In 1961, that law was changed, effectively paving the way for colleges like Green River. In 1962, the state authorized Green
River Community College to open in the fall of 1965.
Tough go at firstLindbloom, who was named
president of the college in 1964, said getting the college started was no easy task.
“Ray Needham (the college’s first dean of instruction) and I, along with one of the architects, tramped through brush and found the corners of the build-ings on the original master plan,” Lindbloom said. “I just didn’t think it is was going to happen. There was so much to do.”
Lindbloom recalled his opening comment to faculty: “Now what do we do?”
Since the college opened its doors 50 years ago, it has served thousands of students and con-ferred about 64,000 degrees.
“I say to Green River College, ‘You’ve come a long way, baby,’” Lindbloom said during the break-
fast. “The expansion of the college has just been amazing. I attribute that to the leadership of the college.”
Lindbloom is most proud of the college’s commitment to serving students. One motto he took seri-ously during his presidency was “think student, then decide.”
“The element that I am really proud of is the commitment to the worth and dignity of students, and that has been proven over and over,” he said. “It is a great place, and I am very proud of it.”
Lindbloom, who served on a Navy destroyer in the Pacific during World War II, advocated for students during the Vietnam War. Students could defer military service if they were attending col-lege full-time.
Lindbloom recalled that one mother from Kent whose son had been killed in the Vietnam War, donated his $10,000 life insurance payout to the college’s scholarship fund.
Needham served as Lind-bloom’s “right-hand man” during the creation of the college and for its first few years.
Needham and Lindbloom met when they were students at Wash-ington State University, Lind-bloom working on his doctorate, Needham on his master’s degree.
“We were just a few doors apart in the dorms together. I used to see Mel every morning when we were shaving,” Needham said.
A few years later they reunited in Auburn.
Needham left Green River in 1970 and went on to serve as president at colleges in Oregon and North Carolina before retir-ing from Tacoma Community College. He attributes his success as a college president to what he learned from Lindbloom.
“I think I did a lot of things like he did,” Needham said. “He believed in people. He believed in students. He believed in being
honest in the way he worked with the board. I watched him all the time that I was here.”
Lindbloom adhered to a hands-on leadership style, Needham said.
“One technique he taught me was administration by walking around, so I spent a lot of time during my presidencies just visit-ing faculty, going to the student center, listening to what students had to say …,” Needham said. “He (Lindbloom) usually taught a class in education, and I did that.”
Lindbloom retired as Green River’s president in 1980. James Chadbourne was the college’s second president before Rich Rut-kowski took over the post in 1984. Rutkowski retired in 2010 and was replaced by current president Eileen Ely.
The college’s golden anniversary celebration continues with events throughout the school year. For more information on upcoming events, visit Greenriver50th.org.
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County Prosecuting At-torney’s Office. Chancellor claims the gun went off accidentally.
Chancellor told detec-tives that he had issues with Knowlton. Chan-cellor claims Knowlton disrespected Chancellor’s mother who works at a local store, according to charging papers. He did not go into details about how Knowlton supposedly disre-
spected his mother.He said he had been
trying to talk to Knowl-ton about the matter, but Knowlton runs away from him every time.
On the morning of Sept. 10, Chancellor, who drives a white box truck with red flowers painted on it, said he saw Knowlton stand-ing out front of a friend’s house in the 100 block of East Willis Street and yelled at him as he pulled up in
his truck. Knowlton took off running, so Chancellor parked the truck, retrieved a 9 mm pistol from under the driver’s seat, placed the gun in his waistband and chased Knowlton down a nearby alley.
As Chancellor rounded a corner, he saw Knowl-ton backing his car out of it where it was parked. Chancellor said he drew his gun in an effort to get Knowlton to stop so they
could talk and that the gun accidentally went off. He said he heard Knowlton make a moaning sound, so he ran back to his friend’s house, woke up the friend, told him Knowlton had been hurt and took him to the location of the car.
Chancellor then returned to his box truck and drove to the First Presbyterian Church parking lot at the intersection of 94th Avenue South and South 248th Street. He reportedly was known to park sometimes at the church and a friend told police that he might have driven there.
The friend also said the dispute between Chancellor and Knowlton might have had to do with $50 Knowl-ton owed Chancellor, a debt possibly related to drugs.
Police surrounded the truck at the church parking lot the night of Sept. 10. Officers ordered Chancel-lor from the truck. He exited the truck but wasn’t cooperative, according to charging papers. He told police to “just shoot him.” After further resisting
arrest, officers took him into custody. Detectives interviewed Chancellor at a hospital because of minor injuries he suffered during the arrest.
Police served a search warrant on the box truck and found a 9 mm hand-gun in a bag in the back of the truck along with a magazine with nine rounds, a box of 49 bullets and a holster.
Outside of the friend’s house along East Willis Street, detectives found a 9 mm spent shell casing in the gravel near where Chancellor had parked his truck.
A video surveillance camera from a neighbor’s house recorded a white box truck with red flow-ers on it parking in front of the home at about 10 a.m. on Sept. 10. The video also showed a man exit the truck and appear to reach under the driver’s seat, remove an item and place that item into his waist-band. He then ran across East Willis Street and out of the camera’s view.
The 911 call on Sept. 10 came in at about 10:16 a.m. with the report of an unconscious man in a car, said Kent Police spokesman Jarod Kasner. Witnesses started to perform CPR on Knowlton in the street. Officers and paramedics arrived a short time later and continued CPR before Knowlton was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers then saw that Knowlton had a single gunshot wound in the upper body, Kasner said.
Chancellor has a criminal record including felony convictions for second-degree burglary in 1999 in Pierce County, first-degree burglary in 2002 in Oregon and numerous misdemean-or convictions including drug charges in 2005 and 2007, unlawful possession of a firearm in 2008, viola-tion of a no-contact order three times in 2010, fourth-degree assault in 2009 and 2010, displaying a weapon in 2011, possession of a dangerous weapon in 2010 and possessing a weapon on school grounds in 2015.
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It is appalling the ruling against charter schools was made three weeks into the school year.
Th e state Supreme Court had this case for almost one year, and that they waited until everything was in place and the kids were in class to announce their decision is shameful.
It is tragic to pull these kids out of their school for political reasons. Th e schools need to stay open until a special ses-sion of the Legislator is called or until the next regular one in January, so this can be settled in Olympia.
Th is school isn’t just about a STEM-based college prep education, it’s about kids who didn’t fi t into a traditional school system. Listen to the other parents’ stories and you will hear many of them talk about their child being bullied, having continual illness to avoid school, being angry or withdrawn.
And now at Excel in Kent,
they are happy striving schol-ars.
What do you think will happen to these kids if their school is suddenly closed? How will they feel to return to a school that wasn’t working before, especially aft er being at a school that felt so good?
My intention is not to argue the merits of charter schools. Th is situation was set up in 2012 and the schools were allowed to open. It is only fair and right they be given a chance to regroup. It is hard
hearted to close them so abruptly without consideration to the eff ects on the families and the staff .
I encourage Gov. Jay Inslee to ask for a special session to be called to settle this matter with our elected offi cials and allow the schools to remain open until then. – Janet Hickling
Keep the light on for charter schools
I am a father of a sixth-grader who is attending Excel Public Charter School.
Every day he can’t wait to tell me what he’s learning in class. He wakes up early and is so hyped up to get ready to go to school. He is so thank-ful all his teachers have put in long hours to teach and care for every student.
Excel has just opened in Kent this fall. It has created an equality of educational opportunity for students who want to attend. Th e school is the light in our children’s education.
LEARN ABOUT a proposed King County Charter Open Space Amendment update to add 4,000 acres of County-owned property to its High Conservation Value Property Inventory at two area public meetings – Sept. 22: 6-7:30 p.m. – Muckleshoot Public Library, 39917 Auburn Enumclaw Road SE (Council District 7); and Oct. 6, 6-7:30 p.m. – Maple Valley
Public Library, 21844 SE 248th St.,Maple Valley (Council District 9)
The acreage that would be added in this proposed update is already owned by King County Parks and no new land would be purchased as a result of the proposed action.
In 2009, King County voters adopted
a charter amendment to preserve the
conservation and passive recreation uses
on 155,000 acres of King County-owned
property interests that have high ecologi-
cal value.
The meetings are in the King County
Council districts where proposed additions
to this inventory list would take place.
Parties jockey, size up 2016 race for governor
Th e decision of state Sen. Andy Hill not to take on Gov. Jay Inslee in 2016 has forced the Democratic Party attack machine to brake hard and return to the shop.
Its operators had invested much time into manufacturing salvos to launch at the Redmond Republican whom they presumed would be the Democratic governor’s op-ponent next fall. In recent months, these
Democratic operatives even test-fi red a few in Hill’s direction.
Now they need to restock and reload for what appears to be a battle with a man they’ve mostly ignored – Bill Bryant, a mild-mannered and widely unknown
member of the GOP mainstream, who is an elected Seattle Port commissioner.
As elated as the Democratic muscle is with not having to tackle Hill, it’s hard not to imagine them – and maybe Inslee, too – suf-fering a bit of a letdown as well.
Th ey expected the governor would face as tough an election in 2016 as he did in 2012. Yet one-by-one, those with the seeming potential to mount such a challenge have chosen not to do so.
Rob McKenna, who lost to Inslee in 2012, signaled he wasn’t seeking a rematch. State Sens. Bruce Dammeier of Puyallup and Steve Litzow of Mercer Island have also said no.
Congressman Dave Reichert is still talking himself up for the race but seems unlikely to talk himself into it.
If Bryant winds up the Democratic Party’s chief target, it means he’s also the Republican Party’s torchbearer.
Th at’s going to take some getting used to for GOP leaders. Unseating Inslee is a top priority but they, much like Democrats, had kind of counted on having a better known personality taking on the governor.
Republican leaders must decide how much the state party will invest in a Bryant bid. Th ere’s a risk that anything perceived to be less than all-in will be deemed a conces-sion that they don’t believe Bryant can win.
In 2012, the party contributed $2 mil-lion directly to the McKenna campaign and another $500,000 of in-kind contributions, according to campaign fi nance reports fi led with the Public Disclosure Commission.
Nearly all of that arrived in the general election, so there’s plenty of time to watch how Bryant’s campaign evolves and political events unfold.
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Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of resisting arrest and tres-passing after he reportedly crawled into bed with a woman he didn’t know at her apartment before the woman fled the room unharmed.
The man later tried to fight off a police dog in the same bed.
Officers initially responded to a potential bur-glary call with the suspect still inside at about 4:31 a.m. on Sept. 5 at an apartment in the 12200 block of Southeast 233rd Street, according to the police report.
Kent officers showed up at the apartment with assistance from the Tukwila Police K-9 unit. Officers released the dog inside the apartment as a prelimi-nary search after nobody responded to verbal com-mands to exit the apart-ment. Police then heard a man scream at the dog.
When officers went inside, they saw the man standing on a bed and grabbing at the dog. The
man refused orders to stop grabbing at the dog. Police pulled the man down and rolled him onto his stomach so they could place him in handcuffs.
The woman who called 911 said she was asleep in her apartment and the man must have entered through an unlocked door. She woke up to find herself next to a man she didn’t know.
She said the man didn’t assault or harm her. When the man got up to use the restroom, she fled the apart-
ment and called 911.The man told police
he thought his girlfriend lived at the apartment, but the woman said she had never heard of a woman by the name referred to by the man. Both the woman and officers said they could smell intoxicants coming from the man.
Lewd conduct report turns into drug case
Officers cited a man for investigation of posses-sion of drug paraphernalia after initially responding to a lewd conduct report at about 7:07 p.m. on Sept. 4
near a convenience store in the 10600 block of South-east Kent Kangley Road.
A witness called 911 to report a man had urinated and defecated in the bushes and then left the area on a bicycle, according to the police report.
Police stopped a man matching the description given and riding without a helmet near 104th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 256th Street. When an officer asked the man if he had been near the 7-Eleven store and why somebody would call 911 about him, he replied probably because he had been using drugs.
When asked if he had any drugs on him, the man said he had used heroin and still had a bit of heroin in a plastic container in his pocket. The man also had a hypodermic needle in his backpack. He told police he sometimes used heroin and meth.
Man punches
store clerkPolice arrested a man for
investigation of fourth-degree assault after he alleg-edly punched a clerk in the
face at about noon on Sept. 6 at a store in the 24000 block of 104th Avenue Southeast.
A clerk told officers the man stole a lighter and hit him in the face before flee-ing on foot, according to the police report. Officers noted the clerk had a red mark on his forehead.
Officers spotted the man matching the description given by the clerk inside a nearby Value Village store. The man told police he had been in the 7-Eleven store and the clerk was really rude. When an officer asked him if he had anything else to say about the incident, the man replied, “No, take me to jail.”
Cousin clocks cousinOfficers arrested a
woman for investigation of fourth-degree assault after she reportedly punched her female cousin in the face during a dispute at about 1:33 a.m. on Sept. 5 at an apartment in the 2500 block of South 252nd Street.
The 911 call came in as a fight among women, ac-cording to the police report.
The woman who threw
the punch said the dispute started when she asked her cousin to borrow money for gas and her cousin refused to give her any money. She said they argued and her cousin hit her in the face. The woman said she had come from Seattle to visit her cousin in Kent.
But a witness backed up the other cousin’s statement that the dispute was about the woman smoking crack in the bathroom. When the cousin confronted her about the drug use, an argument started and punches were thrown.
Man steals jeans from Goodwill
Police arrested a man for investigation of third-degree theft and possession of drug paraphernalia after he allegedly tried to steal a pair of blue jeans at about
6:45 p.m. on Sept. 5 from the Goodwill store, 23313 Pacific Highway S.
A loss prevention officer at the store reported that the man had worn blue jeans into the store, took three pairs of jeans to a dressing room, and then came out wearing a black pair of jeans, according to the police report. The man put back three pairs of jeans, including the pair he wore into the store, and exited the store without paying for the jeans.
The store employee had the man put his original jeans back on before police arrived. The man told po-lice the black jeans were his and he didn’t take anything.
Officers discovered the man had a syringe in his jeans as well as surgical tub-ing, which police noted in the report is often used by people to assist with inject-ing illegal narcotics.
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Meanwhile, those guiding the Republican Governors Association are hashing through the same kinds of questions.
In 2012, the RGA made its presence felt in Washington when it shelled out roughly $9 million in ads and mailers against Inslee. RGA officials have yet to signal a willingness to expend that much again.
They, too, want to see if Bryant’s campaign can raise money and build an organization capable of taking on – and taking down – an incumbent governor in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican governor in 35 years.
Bryant on Monday picked up the endorsement of Dan Evans, a former three-term Republican governor. Backing from another venerable Republican is due to be announced next week.
Bryant’s aides say the campaign is exactly where it is supposed to be at this stage.
Still, this is not how leaders of the Grand Old Party envisioned the cam-paign would be playing out.
Neither did the Democrats.Political reporter Jerry Cornfield’s
blog, The Petri Dish, is at www.herald-net.com. Contact him at 360-352-8623; [email protected] and on Twit-ter at @dospueblos
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Donald Linus GoodaleDonald Linus Goodale, born to Grant and Nellie Goodale
on October 8, 1934, passed away Saturday, September 12, 2015 in Enumclaw.
Don was a lifelong resident of the NW, graduating from Enumclaw H.S. and going on to Central Washington College of Education to major in Music.
It was at Central that Don met his wife Joyce and following their graduation they married and he started his career as a music teacher in Washougal. While in Washougal Don directed the Church choir at Camas Christian Church for eleven years, where he also held many offices including Elder. From there he and Joyce moved to Kent and Don took a teaching job at McKnight Middle School in Renton. He became very active at Kent First Christian Church, holding many positions over the years, including Elder Emeritus. Don retired from the Renton SD in 1982, and afterwards he and Joyce traveled extensively. He was an avid trombone player all through his life.
He is survived by his wife Joyce of 59 years, daughters Cathy Baird (Joel), Karen Grigg (Don), Connie Wong (Roman), and son Donald (Jeffrey); 7 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
A celebration of his life will be Saturday, September 19th, at 1:00pm at the First Christian Church of Kent at 11717 SE 240th
St., Kent, WA 98031. Memorials can be made to the church.
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Yan Fong1929 – 2015Yan Fong passed away September 5,
2015 at the age of 86. Born August 5, 1929 in Canton, Kwangtung Province, China.
Yan graduated from Mapua Institute of Technology, Manila, Philippines with degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering. Upon moving to the United States, Yan began a career with Boeing in 1956 until his retirement in 2008. An
accomplished and respected electrical engineer, his career with Boeing refl ected his technical and professional abilities. Yan worked on projects that ranged from the development of the 747 to defense systems. In 2004, Yan, a lifelong student, earned a master’s degree in engineering from Central Washington University at the age of 74.
As notable as his professional career was, Yan will be remembered by his family, friends, and colleagues for his dedication, compassion, and kindness. His greatest legacy is his family, and the love and support he bestowed. A fi rm believer in the importance of education, hard work, and a respect and appreciation for the outdoors, Yan led by example.
Yan is survived by his wife of 56 years, Thelma V. Fong, his fi ve children, Cecilia (Barry), Beatrice (John), Anthony, Albert, and Patricia (David) and his grandchildren Lianne, Isabelle, Andrew, Kai, Keats, Annika, Caitlin, Patrick, and Matthew. He is also survived by his brother, Eddie. He was preceded in death by his brothers Gene and For, his father Fong Cheuk Kwun, and his mother Tse Koon Wah.
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Examples of the decay-ing parks include a closed boardwalk at Lake Fenwick Park; a 40-year-old rest-room with plumbing prob-lems and grandstands in need of repair at Kent Me-morial Park; a popular slide removed from Springwood Park; a staircase closed at Earthworks Park; a dock in need of replacement at Lake Meridian Park; and closed tennis courts at Garrison
Creek Park.Kent voters in 2012
turned a down a property tax levy that would have raised money for street and park repairs. Now the coun-cil must determine whether to submit another measure to voters for parks, possibly sell off excess city property to raise money for parks or some other ideas to fi x up the parks.
“Kent’s a city that’s been known for its park system for as long as I can remem-ber,” Council President Dana Ralph said. “Th ere’s a
lot of things there that we can’t be proud of that we should be able to be. Th ere’s a lot of work that’s gone into the system to build it up and we need to fi gure out a way to take care of it.”
It hasn’t been all doom and gloom for the parks. Watling said grants and city funds have enabled staff to renovate drainage systems at Earthworks Park; install new synthetic turf at Wilson Playfi elds; and in-stall new play equipment at Lake Meridian Park, Tudor Square Park, Turnkey Park and Green Tree Park.
Th e city also received three grants of $500,000 each this year from the Legislature to put toward the expansion of Morrill Meadows Park (at a cost of $2 million) in an eff ort to bring in a new YMCA; to help pay for a new dock
(cost of $1.75 million) at Lake Meridian Park; and to help fund new synthetic turf (cost of $1.9 million)
for a fi eld at Hogan Park at Russell Road.
Watling pointed out that even with its outstanding parks reputation, Kent has fewer acres (8) of developed parks per square mile (about 640 acres) than the peer cities of
Bellevue, Everett, Federal Way, Auburn, Renton and Kirkland. Kent also has just 2.28 acres of developed parks per 1,000 residents, the lowest among the seven cities. Kent has a popula-tion of about 120,000.
“We may have been large when we were a population of 50,000, and we probably were, given most of our parks are of an age when we were a smaller city,” Watling said. “But now in land mass and population when we look at our comparable
cities we are not in a state of being the biggest by any means.”
It’s repairs, however, that the parks need now.
“We have gone out to the voters before and asked them if they wanted to invest,” Councilman Dennis Higgins said. “It may be time to look at something like that again.”
Higgins added that voters need to be made aware of the city’s struggles to main-tain its parks before the council refers any measure to them.
Ralph said the council doesn’t know yet what it’s going to do to fund the park repairs but it needs to do something.
“Th is is what’s good about Kent is we have an amazing park system,” Ralph said. “I want to challenge myself and my colleagues as we go into not only mid-biennial budget conversations but going forward that we take a hard
look at some of the options that we may have as a coun-cil to make some changes.
“We had this conversa-tion regarding streets and we went from almost zero funding to at least partial fi x because we had that really diffi cult conversa-tion and took some really diffi cult votes,” Ralph said. “But we are starting to see the payoff , and I feel we have those same kind of op-portunities here to build the park system …. We owe it to the community to make this better and to have an answer and a solution.”
Th e council approved a new business and occupa-tion tax (B&O) in 2012 that brings in about $5 million per year for street repairs. Th e council hasn’t voted on any new taxes or fees for parks in the last three years besides the property tax measure in 2012 that voters turned down.
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“We are in the process to identify developers or leading retail tenants of at least 20,000 square feet in size to help spur what we think is the likely future of the site, which is to split it up into more manage-able size retail property,”
he said.• Th e former site of
Panther Lake Elementary School, at the southwest corner of Southeast 208th Street and 108th Avenue Southeast, remains an-other piece of property city offi cials would like to see developed.
City staff is working with
the Kent School District on potential redevelopment of the property, possibly in-cluding a mix of retail, offi ce and restaurants.
• Kent also has a con-taminated site that city staff would like to see a devel-oper take over, the former Maralco aluminum facility at 7730 S. 202nd St.
“We continue to make slow but steady progress on this large multi-acre site, 12 acres that has sat undeveloped, which is very uncharacteristic for developable land in our low vacancy rate indus-trial valley,” Wolters said.
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Marshallese and other groups who hadn’t been in the country long enough to qualify for food stamps. Th e program strategically leverages resources to make sure food stamps reach thousands of children in immigrant families.
But given program cuts of the past, especially those in the throes of the Great Recession, area families struggled to eat and meet basic needs.
But that changed with the 2015-17 state operat-ing budget, which makes signifi cant investments in children and families.
Northwest Harvest and the Auburn Food Bank were among the many advocates that joined the campaign.
Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, and Rep. Pat Sullivan, D-Covington, among others, made a push in the Legislature.
Sullivan applauded the eff orts but said more work needs to be done for strug-gling families throughout the state.
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Th e Kent School District’s Native American program hosted a back-to-school powwow last Saturday at Kent-Meridian High School. Th e powwow featured Native American dancing and drumming, as well as vendors and artists.
Th e inaugural even was aimed at raising awareness about the district’s Native American program, said Th eresa Lockrem, the district’s Na-tive American Academic and Cultural liaison.
Lockrem encourages Native American students and families to contact her at [email protected] to get involved in the Native American program. For more informa-tion about the program and upcoming events, visit kent.k12.wa.us/Page/356.
Clockwise from top: The back-to-school powwow included Native American dancers and drummers. Theresa Lockrem, Kent School District’s Native American Academic and Cultural liaison, welcomes guests to the powwow. Abriel Johnny-Rodriguez, left, and Marvin Hannah lead dancers during the powwow.
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South King County Pride raised and donated money to charitable causes and honored supporters in the Kent community at an awards program at Down Home Catering on Saturday.
Kent Food Bank and Emergency
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In addition, several individuals from agencies and organizations were honored for their support of SKC Pride.
Among them:Dinah Wilson, Community Devel-
opment block grant coordinator/Kent Cultural Diversity Initiative group
facilitator for the city of Kent; Merina Hanson, Human Services manager for the city of Kent; Rano Joshi, of Invenio Works; Mike Heinisch, executive director of Kent Youth and Family Services (KYFS); Greg Haff ner, attorney at Curran Law Firm; Kent Morrill, of Nashville’s Sports Bar & Grill; Frankie June and Brandy Dol-larhide, of Down Home Catering; Dan Ashford, of AC Tavern; Oriana Pon, of HomeStreet Bank; Dana Dougherty; and Nathan Box, KYFS.
South King County Gay Pride raised money to support three local nonprofi ts. Billy Walters, second from the left, of SKC Gay Pride, was on hand at a ceremony to give the donations to, from left: Jeniece Choate, Kent Food Bank and Emergency Services; Offi cer Autumn Majack, Kent Police Department, Cops With Cancer Foundation; and Nathan Box, Kent Youth and Family Resources, on behalf of the Kent Rotary Club, Backpacks Buddy program.
MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
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Neighborhood pride is im-portant to a Kent-Meridian High football program that has played in the shadow of its rival in recent seasons.
Just ask coach Brett Al-len, whose big-play Royals overcame Auburn 41-36 last Friday night to retain the Taylor Trophy.
“It’s a pretty big deal ever since we got competi-tive again the last couple of years,” Allen said as his jubilant players hoisted the storied trophy aft er their last-minute win at Auburn Memorial Stadium. “Th e games have been good, so the rivalry has been re-energized a little bit.
“To be able to walk around with your chest out a little bit has been good,” he said. “It’s great for our community, it’s huge for our school and for our kids, our seniors especially, to be able to win it two years in a row.”
Kent-Meridian had endured a 15-game losing streak to Auburn in the state’s second-oldest series before snapping that skid with a 42-39 overtime win at French Field last year.
Th e Royals (1-1) over-came another drama in the rivalry last week, evening the series, which began in 1908, at 50-50 with six ties.
Behind a quick-strike off ense and Shamar Malik Woolery’s powerful run-ning, the Royals are poised to compete in the South Puget Sound League North-east 4A race.
Not too many folks are talking about the Royals and their playoff chances this fall.
“Th ey defi nitely should be,” said junior quarterback Ben Woods. “We beat an unbelievably good Auburn team.”
Woods passed for 290 yards and a pair of touch-
downs to Emmanual Daigbe from 56 and 69 yards out.
Woolery, a jitterbug of a running back, did his part, rushing for 90 yards and a personal-best four TDs. Th e 5-foot-8, 155-pound senior blasted up the middle from 25 yards out with 57.3 sec-onds left in the game as the Royals survived a penalty-marred, nonleague aff air.
Woolery overcame cramps, bumps and bruises to give the Royals’ spread off ense some ground sup-port. He also scored earlier from 6, 17 and 33 yards out.
“You can’t go down as a running back. Th at’s your job … to stay up,” he said of taking the pounding.
Allen said of Woolery: “Pound for pound, he’s our strongest player.”
Auburn (0-2) had taken a 36-35 lead on Caden Borden’s 23-yard fi eld goal
with 1:31 left in the game before the Royals countered quickly, with Woods direct-ing the show.
Woods found Woolery for one reception that covered 26 yards to Auburn’s 40-yard line. He then hit Daigbe for 14 yards to the 25. On the next play, Woolery vaulted up the middle to score the game-winning TD.
“I believe in Ben. We were never worried,” Woolery said of the late drive. “Th ese guys, right here? We’ve been working all summer,” he said of the Royals’ no-quit demeanor. “No matter what, we pull through. When we get tired, when we get hurt, we keep pushing through because that’s what we’ve been doing all summer in preparing for this.”
Woods had good protec-tion to deliver from the pocket.
“I have to give my team-mates the credit,” he said. “You don’t understand how easy it is when you have so much time (to throw) … to sit there and pick people apart.”
Daigbe, a big target, fi nished with seven catches for 215 yards. He also came up with the game-ending interception.
Auburn’s playmaker shone.
Malik Williams returned a kickoff 95 yards for a touch-down, ran for one score and caught another. Quarterback Justin Ioimo ran for 120 yards and two TDs.
“We just ran out of time,” said Auburn coach Gordon Elliott. “(K-M’s) a very
good team. It’s tough to outscore that kind of team because they have weapons. We got into that kind of match with them. Nor-mally, that’s not our style of football. Our style is to keep the ball away from them and pound the ball and move the ball. We got into a situation where we had to outscore them. We almost got it done.”
K-M, which travels to Federal Way to take on Todd Beamer on Friday, has room to grow before begin-ning league play.
“It’s a tough division. If we can stay healthy and keep improving each week … we can win our division,” Allen said.
League Overall
W L W L
Kent-Meridian 0 0 1 1
Kentlake 0 0 1 1
Kentridge 0 0 0 2
Kentwood 0 0 1 1
Tahoma 0 0 2 0
SPSL Northeast 4A
Last week’s games
Kent-Meridian 41, Auburn 36
Kentlake 42, Decatur 0
Kentwood 42, Emerald Ridge 32
Mercer Island 37, Kentridge 14
Tahoma 44, Rogers 17
Thursday’s game
Jeff erson at Kentwood, 7 p.m.
Friday’s games
Kentlake at Mount Rainier, 5 p.m.
Kent-Meridian at Todd Beamer, 7 p.m.
Decatur at Kentridge, 7 p.m.
Federal Way at Tahoma, 7 p.m.
Kent-Meridian’s Malik Woolery breaks free for one of four touchdowns last Friday night in Auburn to help the Royals beat the Trojans 41-36. RACHEL CIAMPI, Reporter
K-M rallies to edge Auburn for Taylor Trophy
CONKS OUTLAST JAGS, 42-32 | PREP FOOTBALL
Chavez Kalua-Fuimaono ran for 194 yards and
four touchdowns, leading Kentwood to a 42-32
nonleague football win over Emerald Ridge at French Field
last Friday night.Kalua-Fuimaono’s 31-yard
run with 1:51 remaining in the game sealed the win for
the Conquerors (1-1) over the Jaguars (0-2).
Brian Campbell threw for a pair of TDs for Kentwood.
Kentlake 42, at Decatur 0: Andrew Dixon ran for three TDs, leading the Falcons (1-1)
to a nonleague rout of the Gators (0-2) at Federal Way.
Cody Faulkner returned an interception 47 yards for a TD
and Trey Helgeson threw 21 yards to Austin McBryde for
another score.At Mercer Island 37,
Kentridge 14: Mason Glover threw one TD pass and Sam Mullins recovered a fumble
for another score in the Chargers’ nonleague loss to
the Islanders.Glover found Jordan Omatsu
from 19 yards out for Kentridge (0-2). Mercer Island
(1-1) led 30-0 at halftime.
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Net workKentlake High junior Ryleigh Burdick attempts to block a hit by Kentwood during Monday’s match. The Conks remained undefeated with a 3-0 record after beating the Falcons 3-2. Kentlake is 0-2 overall. SARAH BRENDEN, Reporter
Stryker Phd wins thriller in Washington CupFOR THE REPORTER
Stryker Phd was handed a tough assignment Sunday in the $60,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic at Emerald Downs.
But once again, the cham-pion would not be denied.
Tested the length of the stretch by Noosito, Stryker Phd showed his mettle with a hard-fought three-quarter length victory in 1:40.75 for 1 1/16 miles. Ridden by Leslie Mawing at 124 pounds – six more than his four rivals – Stryker Phd paid $2.40, $2.10 and $2.10.
Noosito, ridden by Juan Gutierrez, took a brief lead while three-deep into the stretch, but was immedi-ately tackled by Stryker Phd and the two Washington-breds locked horns to the
wire, with Stryker Phd a tad better. Noosito paid $2.40 and $2.10.
With the victory, Stryker Phd tied Stopshoppingdeb-bie’s track record of eight straight stakes wins, a streak that began two years ago with a victory in the Muckleshoot Tribal Classic, and includes the last two Longacres Miles.
A 6-year-old gelding by Bertrando-Striking Scholar, Stryker Phd is 9-5-5 in 22 career starts, and earned $30,000 to leapfrog Captain Condo into No. 8 all-time among Washington-breds with $515,651. Larry Ross is the winning trainer for owners Jim and Mona Hour of Bellevue, Wash.
In his last eights starts at Emerald Downs, 8-8-0-0 with $386,180 in earnings.
“He’s a very special horse, no doubt about it,” a tearful Sharon Ross said in the winner’s circle. “(Today’s race) was totally not his
style, but he did it.”Noosito stalked the pace
as Until You and Westley led through fractions of :23.76, :46.68 and 1:09.88. Gutierrez pushed the but-ton on the last turn, and Noosito rallied to a slight lead at the quarter-pole. But Stryker Phd, a bit closer than usual, unleashed a four-wide bid under Maw-ing and collared Noosito at the eighth-pole. It was a match-race from there, and Stryker Phd proved best.
“I’m so familiar with Stryker PhD’s running style, and I know he’s got a kick, especially around the turn, so I wasn’t too concerned,” Mawing said. “I knew Noosito was going to give me a hard time, but once I get the lead, Stryker PhD’s heart just gets bigger and bigger.”
Gutierrez said Noosito, bidding for a third straight Washington Cup victory, lost nothing in defeat.
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The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority (RFA) is accepting sealed bids for the Fire Station 76 and Fire Gar- age roof replacement project. The deadline for sealed bids is September 30, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. For information about the bid- ding process or to obtain a copy of “Instruction to Bidders” and
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VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER
District Healthcare SystemNOTICE OF BOARD
COMMITTEE MEETING Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees, Com- pensation Committee will be held on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in Conference Room B of Valley Medical Center, Renton WA.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra SwardExecutive Assistant to the Board of Trustees
Published in the Kent, Renton, Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on September 18, 2015 and September 25, 2015. #1417778.
In the Superior Court of the State Washington in and for the
County of KingNationstar Mortgage, LLC, Plaintiff, v.JORGE DE LA ROSA, an individual, DefendantNo. 15-2-08627-8 KNT
SUMMONSTO: THE DEFENDANTS A lawsuit has been started against you in the Superior Court
In the Superior Court of Washington County of King
In re the Estate of: Sylvia L Birdwhistell, Deceased.NO. 15-4-05105-6 KNT
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
(RCW 11.40.030) The Personal Representative named below has been appointed
Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise appli- cable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative at the address stated below a copy of
of the claim with the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1); or (2) four
lication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise pro- vided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the de- cedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.Date of First Publication: September 11, 2015Personal Representative:Robert Birdwhistell13211 SE 189th PLRenton, WA 98058 Published in the Kent Reporter on September 11, 2015, Septem- ber 18, 2015 and September 25, 2015. #1415481.
of King County by Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, Plaintiff. Plain- tiff’s claim is stated in the written Complaint, a copy of which is served upon you with this Sum- mons. In order to defend against this lawsuit, you must respond to the Complaint in this action by stat- ing your defense in writing and serving a copy upon the under- signed attorney for the plaintiff within 20 days after service of this summons and complaint within the State of Washington or 60 days if service is effected by personal service outside the State of Washington or by publi- cation, or a default judgment will be entered against you without notice. A default judgment is one where plaintiff is entitled to what it asks for because you have not responded. If you serve a Notice of Appearance on the un- dersigned attorney, you are enti- tled to notice before a default judgment may be entered. If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time. this is to remove a party from ti-
ownership; and for such other re-
proper. This Summons is issued pursu- ant to Rule 4 of the Superior Court Civil Rules of the State of Washington. DATED this 30th day of March, 2015.RCO LEGAL, P.S.By: Kathleen Allen, WSBA #19655Attorneys for Plaintiff13555 SE 36th St.,Ste 300Bellevue, WA 98006425-458-2121 Published in the Kent Reporter on August 28, 2015; September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015; October 2. 2015. #1398806
In the Superior Court of the State Washington in and for the
County of KingPNC BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, v.MARTIN L. KOTZKE, JR.,
an individual, Defendant.No. 15-2-09728-8 KNT
SUMMONSTO: THE DEFENDANT: A lawsuit has been started against you in the Superior Court of King County by PNC Bank, N.A., Plaintiff. Plaintiff’s claim is stated in the written Com- plaint, a copy of which is served upon you with this Summons. In order to defend against this lawsuit, you must respond to the Complaint in this action by stat- ing your defense in writing and serving a copy upon the under- signed attorney for the plaintiff within 20 days after service of this summons and complaint within the State of Washington or 60 days if service is effected by personal service outside the State of Washington or by publi- cation, or a default judgment will be entered against you without notice. A default judgment is one where plaintiff is entitled to what it asks for because you have not responded. If you serve a Notice of Appearance on the un- dersigned attorney, you are enti- tled to notice before a default judgment may be entered. If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time. this is an action reform the Man- ufactured Home VIN on the Mo- bile Home Title Elimination; and for such other relief as the court
This Summons is issued pursu- ant to Rule 4 of the Superior Court Civil Rules of the State of Washington. DATED this 13th day of April, 2015.RCO LEGAL, P.S.By: Kathleen Allen, WSBA #19655Attorneys for Plaintiff13555 SE 36th St, Suite 300, Bellevue, WA 98006Main: 425.458.2121
Published in Kent Reporter on September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015; October 2, 9, 2015. #1400058.
CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF ORDINANCES
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
The following is a summary of the ordinances adopted by the Kent City Council on September 15, 2015:ORDINANCE NO. 4168 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun- cil of the City of Kent, Washing- ton, approving the consolidating budget adjustments made be- tween April 1, 2015 and June 30,
budget increase of $3,405,773.ORDINANCE NO. 4169 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun- cil of the City of Kent, Washing- ton, repealing Chapter 2.58 of the Kent City Code, entitled “Independent Salary Commis- sion.” These ordinances will take effect thirty days from the date of passage and publication, 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 of the City Clerk.
Ronald F. Moore, MMC, City Clerk
Published in the Kent Reporter September 18, 2015. #1418311.
Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for the
County of KingGREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, Plaintiff,
v.BRIAN L. NELSON, an individual; and BOEING EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION, Defendants.No. 15-2-13620-8 KNT SUMMONSTO: THE DEFENDANTS A lawsuit has been started against you in the Superior Court of King County by Green Tree Servicing LLC, plaintiff. Plain-
tiff’s claim is stated in the writtenComplaint, a copy of which isserved upon you with this Sum-mons. In order to defend against this lawsuit, you must respond to the Complaint in this action by stat- ing your defense in writing and serving a copy upon the under- signed attorney for the plaintiff within 20 days after service of this summons and complaint within the State of Washington or 60 days if service is effected by personal service outside the State of Washington or by publi- cation, or a default judgment will be entered against you without notice. A default judgment is one where plaintiff is entitled to what it asks for because you have not responded. If you serve a Notice of Appearance on the undersigned attorney, you are entitled to no- tice before a default judgment may be entered. If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time. This Summons is issued pursu- ant to Rule 4 of the Superior Court Civil Rules of the State of Washington. DATED this 3rd day of June, 2015.RCO LEGAL, P.S.By: Kathleen A. Allen, WSBA# 19655Attorneys for Plaintiff13555 SE 36th ST., Ste.300Bellevue, WA 98006425-458-2121Published in Kent Reporter on September 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015:October 2, 9, 2015. #1413679.
EventsKent Farmers Market: 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturdays, June 6-Sept. 26. Fresh produce, flower, vendors. Kent Lions program. For more information, visit www.kentfarmer-smarket.com.
Washington State Fair: Sept. 11-27, 110 Ninth Ave., SW, Puyallup. Gate hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 9 a.m.- 10 p.m. Sunday. Concerts, rides, food, vendors, rodeo, animal exhibits, art and culture, interactive fun, special attractions. Admission: $12.50 adults; $9 students (ages 6-18) and seniors (62 and older); kids 5 and under free. Pre-fair discounts available online through Sept. 10. Parking: $10 Monday-Friday; $12 Saturday, Sunday. For more information: www.thefair.com or 24-hour hotline at 253-841-5045.
Downtown Wine Walk: 6-9 p.m. Sept. 18, Down Home Catering, 211 1st Ave. S, Kent. Presented by the Kent Downtown Partnership. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. at Down Home Catering. Hosting 12 wineries in 12 downtown shops. Tickets: $25 per person and available at downtownkentwinewalk0815.brownpaper-tickets.com. For more details, contact Kent Downtown Partnership, 253-813-6976, or [email protected].
Surviving Domestic Violence – Then and Now 25 Years Later: 6-8 p.m. Sept. 30, Federal Way City Hall, Council
Chambers, 33325 8th Ave. S. Presented by the City of Federal Way Domestic Violence Task Force. Host: Lana Matthew, chair, Fed-eral Way DV Task Force. Speakers: Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell; Police Chief Andy Hwang; Beth Hollis, victim/survivor; Laron Burris, batterer treatment; Mac Macdonald, author, “Lighting your own Fuse” and actor, “Apocalypse – 1979”. Refreshments will be served.
Kent Chamber of Commerce Business Expo: 3-7 p.m. Oct. 20, ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St. Featuring 90 business booths, more than 10 restaurants for the Taste of Kent; do-it-yourself presentations, games and prizes; and giveaways. Network and create business connections. Free.
BenefitsKent Friends of the Library Annual Book Sale: Sept. 18, 19, 20, Kent Library, 212 Second Ave N. Hours are: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 1-3 p.m. Sunday (bag sale). Proceeds support library pro-grams for children, teenagers and adults. Multimedia and children’s materials also available.
Strides 5K Fun Run: 8 a.m. Sept. 19, Foster Park, S. 259th and 74th Ave. S., Kent. Support the South Sudan Community and Neighborhood Huse of King County. Entry fee. For more information, contact Debbie Hunt at 253-852-2057 or [email protected].
Outpatient Physical Therapy Sum-mer’s End Fun Run: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 19, Kentwood High School, 25800 164th Ave. SE, Covington. Eighth annual run includes 5- and 10-kilometer distances, and a 2K for kids. Medals for top finishers. Food, music, farmers market and vendors. Pro-ceeds benefit MultiCare and the Coalition for a Healthy Community. Cost: $35 day of the event. multicare.org/summersendrun
GKHS Dinner Gala: 5:30-9 p.m. Oct. 3, Kent Senior Center, 600 E. Smith St. Major fundraiser for the Greater Kent Historical Society. Program features filmmaker Steve Edmiston with “Tales of Adventure from Old Military Road,” with a focus on the Nike mis-sile bases on Kent’s West Hill. Evening also includes dinner by the Golden Steer, a gift basket raffle, wine raffle and desert dash. Cost: $65 before Sept. 1, $75 after Sept. 1. For more information, email [email protected] or visit gkhs.org/dinner-gala/.
Clubs, programsRoll and Read: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 19, South King County Family Resource Center, 212 Fifth Ave. S., Kent. Presented by Chil-dren’s Home Society of Washington. Parents and children can walk, bike, pull a wagon or push a stroller through downtown Kent while enjoying various reading activities along the way. Cat in the Hat, Waldo and other literary characters will be present. Walks begin every 15 minutes at the center. 253-854-0700, childrenshomesociety.org.
VolunteersFall community projects: 9 a.m.-noon, Sept. 26, Burlington Green, downtown Kent, West Meeker and Railroad Avenue North. Kent Parks invites volunteers of all ages and abilities to help create a winding gravel trail. The project is done in observance of National Public Lands Day. Other events: Oct. 10, “ReLeaf” at Clark Lake Park; Oct. 17, Arbor Day at Riverview Park; Oct. 24, fourth annual Green Kent Day at the Green River Natural Resources Area. All events are Sat-urday mornings, 9 until noon, rain or shine. Tools, staff and light refreshments provided. Volunteers encouraged to bring their own personal water bottles to refill from a cooler and reduce landfill waste. Register to volunteer by noon three days before each event at KentWA.gov/ComeVolunteer. For more information, contact Victoria Andrews at 253-856-5113.
SeniorsKent’s World Dance Day: 6:30-10 p.m. Oct. 2, Kent Senior Center, 600 E. Smith St. Free. Interactive dance from around the world. 253-561-5508.
EntertainmentSHOWARE CENTER
625 W. James St., Kent. 253-856-6777. Order at www.tickets.showarecenter.com. Events include:
The Experience, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly: 7 p.m. Sept. 19. A night of R&B and soul. Special guests: R&B Diva KeKe Wyatt, Kelly Price, and local favorite Mycle Wastman. Known for their hits
“Happy Feelin’s”, “Can’t Get Over You” and other hit singles, Maze and Beverly have put their stamp in the R&B/Soul music for over three decades. Tickets: $49.50-$119.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus “Built to Amaze”: 7 p.m. Sept. 24, 25, 26; 11:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. Sept. 26; 1 p.m., 5 p.m. Sept. 27. Among the shows: King Charles Troupe brings a spirited and comedic basketball competition, featuring 10 whirling unicyclists; Crossbow Casanova presents an insanely accurate crossbow act; Supersonic Skyscrapers; trapeze act; daredevil motorcycle stunts; hand-balancing duo; fast-paced equestrian acrobatic riders; and the world-renowned Asian elephants. Tickets: $20-$70.
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Live music ballroom dances: 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday, Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St. Open to all ages. Cover charge: $4 at the door for all ages, dancers and listeners. Refreshments served at 8:30 p.m. Program schedule: • First Tuesday: 17-member Big Band Kings of Swing, 7:45 to 9:30 p.m. Refreshments by the Lakeshore or Radcliffe Place; • Second Tuesday: Randy Litch, ballroom dance music, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Refreshments by the Weatherly; • Third Tuesday: Andy Burnett, rock ‘n roll music, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Refreshments by Stafford Suites; • Fourth Tuesday: Randy Litch, ball-room dance music, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Refresh-ments by Farrington Court; • Fifth Tuesday (when occurring): Randy Litch, ballroom dance music, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Refreshments by Judson Park. For more information, call 253-856-5150 or visit kentwa.gov/Senio-rActivityCenter/
Rock The Green: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 3, Green River College, 12401 SE 320th
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1985 JEEP CHEROKEE 260449 ...............................767LCL WA 18R3621993 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE259662 ..............................340YKM WA 18R3631991 LEXUS LS40 258084 ............................ AGS9286 WA 18R3641979 LINCOLN TOWN CAR 259016 ............................ C24426D WA 18R3651999 LINCOLN TOWN CAR 258095 ............................. 8468700 WA 18R3661997 MERCURY COUGAR 260508 .......................... AMW9807 WA 18R3671990 NISSAN PICKUP 260514 ............................ B74175R WA 18R3681996 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX 259653 .............................ATY6055 WA 18R3691996 SATURN SL1 259601 .............................. 239ZXH WA 18R3701987 TOYOTA PICKUP 26044................................C47659C WA 18R371
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1978 SL 450, excellent condition. Ivory exteri- or/tobacco interior. New seats, hard top with new black conver t ible top, automatic, A/C, power b ra ke s & w i n d ow s, h e a t e d s e a t s , o n l y 104,000 miles. Garage kept , Car and Dr iver Feb. 2014 issue values SL 450 between $17,00- $21,000. Haggerty val- ues 450 SL at 12,800. $9,500/OBO Call Bill at (253)350-3764
Dogs
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Adorable Micro Mini Pigs For Sale In Redmond WA. We breed and sell m ic ro min i p igs. Our breeders are top of the line with great tempera- ments, small in size, and pass this on to their ba- bies. Please vis i t our website for more infor- mat ion www.min ip ig - ranch.com
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AuburnEs ta te /Mov ing /Wood shop Sale. Sat. & Sun, Sept. 19th & 20th, 9am - 4pm. Fu r n i t u re , co l - lectibles, tools. 5215 S 310th St., off 55th.
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Automobiles
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1941 BLACK CADILLAC $17,000 Price Slashed from $29,999. Driveable 4 Door Classic Car. Fully restored, and driveable. Winner at car shows! Estate sale; Call Rich at 253-455-3851. Can be viewed at Pioneer Auto- motive Services in Oak Harbor, ask for Doug or Kevin, call 360-679-5550
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Get thee to a nursery this week because as fall settles in the prices on trees and shrubs goes down.
Fall closeout sales are a good investment, especially for larger trees and shrubs. Fall is best for planting trees and shrubs because the soil is still warm from the summer, encouraging new root growth. But the autumn rains mean you can let nature take over your watering chores.
Th is is also a good week for buying spring blooming bulbs. Tulips, daff odils, crocus and other spring bloomers are planted in the fall but will sprout and bloom in the spring. Buy bulbs as soon as you see them for sale for the best selection. If you can pick them from an open bin reach for the largest bulbs you can fi nd. Bigger bulbs bear more blooms.
Q. I am going to buy more tulip bulbs this fall, but I have been disappoint-ed in the past as very few of the 50 bulbs I planted actually bloomed. Why?
A. Tulips need to be a mature size to fl ower so make sure you invest in full-size bulbs that are fi rm with no signs of rot. Tulip bulbs at least 12 centimeters in diameter are considered superior. Tulips also need soil that drains quickly so pick a raised bed or area with sandy soil.
Mice and voles will eat tulip bulbs and deer will nip off the buds before they bloom. Try planting tulips in a large container to keep them safe from rodents. You can even plant groups of tulips in recycled plastic nursery pots that can be set into the ground when in bloom and then easily
removed when the tulips fade.
Q. Are there any spring bulbs that the deer will not eat? What about bulbs that will survive in dry shade? My idea is to plant a host of yellow daff odils under a maple tree that I can see across our fi eld. I have seen deer in this area, however. L.P., Yelm
A. I like your idea. Daf-fodils are natu-rally rodent and deer resistant and they will thrive even in the dry shade of a tree. Th e min-iature or dwarf daff odils are
the earliest to bloom and easiest to plant as you need only dig down a few inches before popping in a dwarf daff odil and covering it back up with soil and fallen leaves. Look for the variet-ies Tete a Tete, February Gold, and a sweet smell-ing mini daff odil called “Minnow.” Dwarf daff odils also have the advantage or returning year aft er year and spreading into larger colonies.
Q. I want recommen-dations for an evergreen shrub that can handle dry shade. I need to screen off a compost pile and other unattractive sites in my landscape. Please don’t rec-ommend rhododendrons. I tried a row of large leaf rhodies and then watched them slowly die because I never remembered to water. W. R., Email
A. At least you fessed up about never remembering to water your rhododen-drons. No tree or shrub will do well if the soil is allowed to dry out before a new root system has had time to spread out and fi nd moisture. Th is can take one
to two years.Rhododendrons suff ered
tremendous stress from the high temperatures this past summer and fall is the time when the rhododendron is setting fl ower buds for next year. Everyone with rhodo-dendrons should remember to water them in late sum-mer. Give up on growing rhodies in your dry area.
Instead of adding a shrub, you may want to consider a screening fence. Th is will take up less room than a hedge, and you won’t have to remember to water. If you do want a living green hedge, add compost to the soil before you add the new plants, mulch the top of the soil with two to three inches of bark chips and then next summer lay a soaker hose at the base of the hedge so that it will easier to keep the new planting watered. A few evergreens that can adapt to dry shade include yews, viburnums, laurel, nandina and aucuba.
Marianne Binetti has a de-gree in horticulture from Wash-ington State University and 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 en-velope for a personal reply. For more gardening information, she can be reached at her web-site, www.binettigarden.com.
See MarianneMarianne Binetti hosts “Dig In Seattle,” a garden and cooking show that is back on the air. You can watch the show via podcast at www.diginseattle.com or on Channel 22 KZJO TV at 12:30 p.m. Saturdays. The show focuses on local garden-ing tips and cooking demos from local chefs.
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THE KING COUNTY COUNCIL has approved a new plan to help restore salmon habitat along the Green River.
Named “Re-Green the Green,” the program will use several existing sources of funding to plant shade trees along the Green River to help maintain lower water temperatures during periods of extreme heat.
“Our iconic king (chinook) salmon are dying in the Green River because the water is too warm,” said King County Councilman Dave Upthegrove, whose District 5 includes Kent. “These salm-on need cool water, food and shelter to survive. The most aff ordable way to help cool the water in the Green
River is to plant large trees along the river to provide shade and shelter.”
The council approved the program on Monday as part of unanimously adopted changes to the county budget. Through the plan, King County will work with the cities of Kent, Auburn and Tukwila, as well as the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and private property owners to identify stretches of the Green River where large trees can be planted to provide shade. The program will build upon mapping work already completed by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.
The King County program will then use voluntary, non-regulatory ap-
proaches, such as grants, incentives and technical assistance to work with local governments and private prop-erty owners to plant trees to provide needed shade.
“People know that salmon are threatened, and I have talked with hundreds of people who want to help,” Upthegrove said. “Re-Green the Green will coordinate these eff orts so we can make the most of scarce resources to provide shade and habi-tat for the salmon.”
The Green Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Habitat Plan calls for the plant-ing of native shade trees to cool the river and improve the water quality.
