1374593 206-949-1696 [email protected]Your Residential Specialists www.MarcieMaxwell.com UP AND COMING | Renton’s Gluten Free Studios is ready to make their mark. [8] Skyway | The Skyway and West Hill communities are working on a community action plan. [Page 3] R EP O RTER .com RENTON FOUNDED 1995 FRIDAY, AUG. 21, 2015 NEWSLINE: 425.255.3484 State, district reviewing scores and refusals on state tests BY TRACEY COMPTON [email protected]e Washington State Board of Edu- cation has set the minimum scores for graduation on several state assessments, including the state’s new Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA). e board was required by state Legisla- ture to set a score on the new assessments as well as the transition Math End-of- Course and the WA-AIM tests before the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year. e minimum score for the English Lan- guage Arts and math SBAs has been set at Level 2.6, with Level 4 being the highest. e State Board of Education met this week to determine the minimum score, in light of the fact that many 11th graders opted out of the SBA. Originally, the board was going to use 11th graders’ scores to determine the new standard. However, the board had to use a different methodology. As reported earlier, the Office of Superin- tendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) stated in early July that only 47 percent of state 11th graders took the SBA. ere were 27.4 percent confirmed parent refusals and 28 to 53 percent potential refusals in the 11th grade this spring. OSPI is still confirming the numbers to see, for example, if a student simply did not show up on test day or was refusing the assessment. e Renton School District had 256 confirmed parent refusals for the Eng- lish Language Arts SBA and 217 for the math portion among students in the third through eighth grades and 11th grade. ose numbers account for 3.3 percent of the total of students who took the English Language Arts SBA and 2.8 percent of those that took the math assessment. Choosing a different methodology, “e City hoping dispensaries get a license BY BRIAN BECKLEY [email protected]Everyday at Life’s RX Holistic Apothecary, a medical marijuana dispensary on Northeast Fourth Street in Renton, they serve between 40 and 75 clients, providing medical marijuana to patients with a variety of conditions. But with the passage and signing of a new state law this year and a move on the horizon by the Renton City Council and administration, that could all change in the very near future. “We’ll see what it looks like,” co-owner Konner Rose said this week. “I hope we can continue to help people.” Life’s RX is one of a handful of medical dispensaries presently open in Renton, though because of SB5052, passed and signed into law in the this year’s legislative session and designed to merge the unregulated medical industry with the recreational stores created by Initiative 502, they are now technically illegal. Because of that, many other municipalities in the area, such as King County, have begun shut- ting down the medical facilities. In Renton, the City Council on Sept. 14 is ex- Book it: New library ready to be checked out BY TRACEY COMPTON [email protected]At long last Renton will have back its beloved downtown library over the Cedar River as open- ing day is Saturday, Aug. 22. With the new building’s long journey nearing completion, officials at both the King County Library System and the City of Renton reflected on the process that ultimately saved the iconic facility. KCLS expects the project to come in at or under budget, but some financial information is still forthcoming as final details of the construc- tion are still being reconciled in the budget. e overall budget was $11.8 million, with the City of Renton paying $10.4 million and KCLS paying $1.4 million. When asked if anything suffered in the city’s budget as a result of doing this renovation, Mayor Denis Law said that once the renovated High- lands and downtown libraries are paid off, the money will revert back to the general fund for other city projects. “In terms of the budget, the city agreed that we would dedicate the amount of money we were spending annually for limited library services to build two new facilities, if voters decided to contract services with KCLS,” which voters did in 2010, Law said. It’s also been three years since 76 percent of Renton residents voted to keep the downtown library over the Cedar River in a renovated New city policy states all marijuana shops must be licensed by state, but enforcement not aggressive Workers put the finishing touches on a colorful art piece that hangs above the reading area at the new downtown Cedar River Library. TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter [ more MARIJUANA page 9 ] [ more LIBRARY page 5 ] [ more TESTING page 11 ]
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State, district reviewing scores and refusals on state testsBY TRACEY COMPTON
The Washington State Board of Edu-cation has set the minimum scores for graduation on several state assessments, including the state’s new Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA).
The board was required by state Legisla-ture to set a score on the new assessments as well as the transition Math End-of-Course and the WA-AIM tests before the
beginning of the 2015-2016 school year. The minimum score for the English Lan-
guage Arts and math SBAs has been set at Level 2.6, with Level 4 being the highest.
The State Board of Education met this week to determine the minimum score, in light of the fact that many 11th graders opted out of the SBA. Originally, the board was going to use 11th graders’ scores to determine the new standard. However, the board had to use a different methodology.
As reported earlier, the Office of Superin-tendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) stated in early July that only 47 percent of state 11th graders took the SBA. There were 27.4 percent confirmed parent refusals and 28 to 53 percent potential refusals in the 11th grade this spring.
OSPI is still confirming the numbers to see, for example, if a student simply did not show up on test day or was refusing the assessment.
The Renton School District had 256 confirmed parent refusals for the Eng-lish Language Arts SBA and 217 for the math portion among students in the third through eighth grades and 11th grade. Those numbers account for 3.3 percent of the total of students who took the English Language Arts SBA and 2.8 percent of those that took the math assessment.
Everyday at Life’s RX Holistic Apothecary, a medical marijuana dispensary on Northeast Fourth Street in Renton, they serve between 40 and 75 clients, providing medical marijuana to patients with a variety of conditions.
But with the passage and signing of a new state law this year and a move on the horizon by the Renton City Council and administration, that could all change in the very near future.
“We’ll see what it looks like,” co-owner Konner Rose said this week. “I hope we can continue to help people.”
Life’s RX is one of a handful of medical dispensaries presently open in Renton, though because of SB5052, passed and signed into law in the this year’s legislative session and designed to merge the unregulated medical industry with the recreational stores created by Initiative 502, they are now technically illegal.
Because of that, many other municipalities in the area, such as King County, have begun shut-ting down the medical facilities.
In Renton, the City Council on Sept. 14 is ex-
Book it: New library ready to be checked outBY TRACEY COMPTON
At long last Renton will have back its beloved downtown library over the Cedar River as open-ing day is Saturday, Aug. 22.
With the new building’s long journey nearing completion, officials at both the King County Library System and the City of Renton reflected on the process that ultimately saved the iconic facility.
KCLS expects the project to come in at or under budget, but some financial information is still forthcoming as final details of the construc-tion are still being reconciled in the budget. The overall budget was $11.8 million, with the City of Renton paying $10.4 million and KCLS paying $1.4 million.
When asked if anything suffered in the city’s budget as a result of doing this renovation, Mayor Denis Law said that once the renovated High-lands and downtown libraries are paid off, the money will revert back to the general fund for other city projects.
“In terms of the budget, the city agreed that we would dedicate the amount of money we were spending annually for limited library services to build two new facilities, if voters decided to contract services with KCLS,” which voters did in 2010, Law said.
It’s also been three years since 76 percent of Renton residents voted to keep the downtown library over the Cedar River in a renovated
New city policy states all marijuana shops must be licensed by state, but enforcement not aggressive
Workers put the finishing touches on a colorful art piece that hangs above the reading area at the new downtown Cedar River Library. TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter
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The City of Renton is offering a $2,500 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for breaking windows at the new Renton Highlands Library.
“We are very disheartened by this sense-less act of vandalism that not only targets the library but is an outrage against the community,” Mayor Denis Law said.
There had been no new incidents and no suspects had been arrested as of Wednes-day.
Over three nights starting Aug. 7, van-dals shattered 19 windows at the High-lands Library that’s under construction with high-powered BBs or pellets.
The damage is estimated at about $100,000 and it will take at least a month to reorder the glass and have it shipped and installed and may delay the scheduled opening of the new facility.
The Renton Police Department will have extra patrols in the area. Anyone with information is asked to call 425-430-7500.
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Skyway and West Hill residents are tired of not being given resources and amenities as an unincorporated area of King County. They hope, as voiced through surveys and a new community report, to change the dynamic in their neighborhoods.
According to Andra Kranzler, the Skyway West Hill Action Plan, to be incorporated with the King County Comprehensive Plan later this year, is all about the revitalization of the Skyway, West Hill communities.
“We want to prevent displacement; we want resources to come, but we want to show it is possible for majority-minority communities to thrive,” said Kranzler, who is the community
and economic manager of the nonprofit group Skyway Solutions.
The group is respon-sible for coordinating the efforts of a community-wide survey, the Skyway West Hill Action Plan (SWAP) and the Com-munity Engagement and Progress Report. Organizers have been
busy since October, hosting open houses and stationing themselves at different points within the communities to get feedback through the surveys. The surveys were even translated into Vietnamese, Somali and Spanish.
Residents will tell you the community lacks gathering spaces. There are no places to seek community outside the library and the schools. Skyway Park is underutilized, they say, situated deep inside a residential corridor with no front-age access to Renton Avenue Extension, the closest busiest street.
“The Skyway West Hill Action Plan is just the community’s voice really saying, ‘Look, we’re here,” she said. “We’re a working-class com-munity; we’re diverse. We want to honor our diversity; we want to have resources and ameni-ties that other neighborhoods have.”
What Kranzler is hearing from other residents is that they want to feel safe in their community, find the resources that they need in their community and not be pushed out be-cause someone has more money than they do.
Since 1994, the community has been trying
to create attractive, livable neighborhoods instead of sprawl by linking land use, trans-portation, green spaces and people, according Skyway Solutions’ website. However, the com-munity still lacks a vibrant economy.
The Skyway bowling alley is no longer a space for people to come and do family activi-ties, said Kranzler.
Where there was once a pharmacy, multiple grocery stores and a hardware store, there are only a few shops today.
“So I think people are really feeling the ef-fects of no investment for 20 years and I think people are feeling even a little nostalgic about what was because those things have gone away,” she said.
To date, the organization has had close to 1,700 surveys turned in for the effort. The SWAP was submitted to the county on June 30. The group plans to have more intensive discussions with the King County Executive Office and council members on the needs of the community and projects identified in the action plan between now and Nov. 30. The King County Executive Office is expected to recommend that the council amend or deny the action plan on Dec. 1.
Included with the action plan and com-munity report was a 2008 parks plan that the community did as well as 2009 visioning plan
and a community center visioning plan that was developed in 2012.
“So it’s not just about a plan, but it’s re-ally about the individuals who are living in this community and a guide for them,” said Kranzler. “And if annexation comes up again, hopefully this will be a tool to help the com-munity stay focused on what its priorities are to make sure that the city that annexes Skyway is going to be responsive to the needs of the community.”
Rachel Ramirez calls the Skyway/West Hill community King County’s “forgotten place.” She is an 11-year resident of the area and a board member of Skyway Solutions.
In the time that she’s been in the community, there’s been a real grass roots movement to turn things around, but there are no places for the community to be one together, she said.
There are no restaurants or coffee shops and the library isn’t conducive for groups to meet because they have to be quiet.
“So, we’re not meeting each other in our community, which is what we need to do,” said Ramirez.
She looks forward to doing the work with her fellow residents to get the community where it needs to be.
To learn more about Skyway Solutions, visit their website at buildskywaywesthill.org.
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“We’re a working- class community; we’re diverse. We want to honor our diversity; we want to have resources and amenities other neighborhoods have.” Andra Kranzler, Skyway Solutions
The ARTFarm chicken coops are a new feature at Skyway Park on West Hill, where residents are working with King County to meet the social and economic needs of their community. TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter
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U.S. Rep. Adam Smith was in Renton this past week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the start of community health centers with representatives from HealthPoint Renton.
Smith joined State Sen. Karen Kaiser and HealthPoint Chief Strategy and Development Officer Lisa Yohalem on Aug. 13 for a brief ceremony and cake in honor of the anniver-sary.
“Healthcare is the toughest public policy problem I face,” Smith said, adding “It starts with access.”
He went on to praise the work that community health centers like HealthPoint provide in their communities.
According to Yohalem, health centers began in response to the War on Poverty and the civil rights movement and have grown into the largest network of primary care in the country.
In Renton, HealthPoint is celebrating its 44th year in the community. It is one of nine HealthPoint centers across King County. Last year, HealthPoint totaled more than 270,000 visits.
“At HealthPoint, we believe everyone deserves great care,” Yohalem said.
Congressman helps celebrate 50 years of community health centers
State Sen. Karen Kaiser, HealthPoint Chief Strategy and Development Officer Lisa Yohalem and U.S. Rep. Adam Smith pose for a photo at the event. BRIAN BECKLEY, Renton Reporter
Annual Day of Service and Remembrance is set for Sept. 12 in Renton
The City of Renton will celebrate the Na-tional Day of Service on Sept. 12, followed by a picnic at Liberty Park.
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This year’s Day of Service event will be from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 12, followed by a celebration of service picnic at Liberty Park from noon to 1:30 p.m. with entertainment provided by Ian Dobson, sponsored by KCLS.
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building. It was originally expected to complete in late 2012 or early 2013 at a site near the Renton Piazza. But that decision by the City Council sparked much controversy in the com-munity and eventually led to the Aug. 7, 2012, special election, which decided the location of the library.
In hindsight, KCLS Director Gary Wasdin said the project “is the perfect example of slowing down a project for good reason.”
Although Wasdin took over as the library system’s director in 2015, he still has insight on the project. He replaced former Director Bill Ptacek, who weathered all of the downtown Renton Library issue since the city annexed into the KCLS system in 2010.
“The concerns of residents were clear leading up to a public vote that overwhelmingly wanted the library to remain in its cur-rent location,” Wasdin said. “This added significant time to restart the planning and design process and to locate a temporary site to use while the library was closed for renovation.”
Although Wasdin notes that the timeline is later than originally planned, he said, “it was certainly worth the delay to ensure that this beautiful library will con-tinue to serve Renton for many many years to come.”
Law is also pleased with the results, although look-ing back he said there are things the city would have done differently.
“When a case was made for a downtown location and we were wrestling with predictions that build-ing a new library over the river could cost much more based on shoreline regula-tions, the council opted to move the facility,” he said. “Today, I would encour-age a much wider public process to determine the wishes of the residents while
also seeking some defini-tive costs for the public to consider.”
“Even though the process was controversial, the city council ultimately made the decision to maintain the li-brary at its current location to meet the desires of our residents,” he said.
The mayor went on to remind that there was similar controversy when the library over the Cedar River was proposed with the teardown of the popular Carnegie Library down-town.
“Residents understand-ably get very attached to their libraries and deserve to play a big role in the decision-making prior to making significant changes,” Law said.
He likes what he’s seen of the newly renovated downtown Renton Library, remarking on the views it now offers of the river and surrounding area.
“This will be a wonderful public amenity for genera-tions to come,” Law said.
So what did Renton get for the $18 million worth of bonds issued to con-struct the Highlands - also expected to open soon - and the downtown libraries?
First and foremost the views of the Cedar River and Liberty Park have been enhanced. There is now floor-to-ceiling glass windows on the majority of the building, capturing the view, which was deemed important to area residents. Shelving and furniture has also been configured in a way as not to block the views.
“There’s lots of furniture along the windows for people to just find a really nice space and sit down and read or use a computer,” said John Sheller, library cluster manager.
Speaking of computers, there are expected to be between 46 and 48 total new computers for public use. That’s more than double the previous amount. There are
also more power outlets and USB ports for patrons to bring their own devices.
Getting power and data throughout a building that spans a river was one of the biggest challenges of the project, according to Sheller.
“In a different setting, we’d run the power just right up through the floor,” he said. “With this set-up, we actually ran more of it through the ceiling.”
Library designers and staff are hoping patrons will “ignore” the conduit tubes for the power cords that hang from the ceiling, allowing it to fade into the background.
But the electrical was not the only challenge presented due to the project’s unique location over the river.
“I wasn’t involved in the project early on, but just the whole working with so many entities to make the project come together; being over a salmon-spawn-ing river added layers of
oversight and agencies that had to approve the project,” Sheller said.
Also among the new fea-tures inside, teens now have dedicated space and there is a fish bowl-like public meet-ing room, which offers even more views of Liberty Park. There is also a new section that will feature Renton history materials, includ-ing microfilm of historical copies of newspapers, where visitors can read and print materials.
One percent of the construction budget is also dedicated to public art, including the colorful glass pieces over the children’s section by artist Benjamin Moore.
There are more oppor-tunities for kids to get ex-cited about picture books as shelving has been designed to face more of those books outwards for young patrons to see, according to Sheller.
“It will be pretty spec-tacular right when you walk
in,” he said.Area residents will get
their chance to decide what they think of the new space Saturday at the ribbon-cutting ceremony and celebration. The event begins at 9:30 a.m., with a barbecue scheduled for 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in Liberty Park, hosted by the City of Renton.
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The new library features floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Cedar River. BRIAN BECKLEY, Renton Reporter
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Public schools are not just underfunded by the state as Washington’s Supreme Court has made abundantly clear.
Most of them are also failing, according to the federal government.
Parents of elementary and secondary stu-dents across the state are receiving letters this month explaining why their child attends a school deemed failing by the U.S. Department of
Education. These letters offer parents a chance to transfer their child to a non-failing school in their district, if one exists, and to obtain tutoring if their family qualifies.
Roughly 90 percent of the state’s 2,300 schools must send out these letters. It’s
punishment for not complying with a provision in the federal No Child Left Behind Act requir-ing every student meet state standards in math, reading and English language.
This was all kind of a big deal a year ago and has not made as much a stir this summer.
Remember Washington began 2014 with a waiver from the federal education law’s stringent rules. It then lost it. U.S. Secretary of Education
Arne Duncan had warned he would revoke the waiver unless state law was changed to require the use of student test scores in evaluating teach-ers.
That set off a fierce fight involving lawmakers, Gov. Jay Inslee and Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn.
Most Democrats and a few Republican lawmakers opposed the change. So, too, did the Washington Education Association, the power-ful statewide teachers’ union.
Inslee and Dorn met with Duncan in Wash-ington, D.C., to gauge his resolve. They returned with determination to preserve the waiver, craft-ing what they hoped to be a compromise bill. It never earned a vote.
After Duncan kept his word and yanked the waiver, 1,916 schools sent out the so-called failing school letters. Only 260 schools didn’t because their students met the standards.
The letters are attracting less attention this year.
That’s partly due to the commotion caused by the Supreme Court’s $100,000-a-day fine against the state for lawmakers not turning in a plan to ensure ample funding for schools by a 2018
The political racing season opened Aug. 5 with very few fireworks.
There are a handful of challenged city council races in the cities I cover, but most candidates made it to the ballot without a battle.
Deciphering the message in the plethora of unchallenged seats is similar to reading tea leaves soaked in succotash and out-of-date buttermilk. We can call it complacency, euphoria or a TV show about lying teenage girls was on and couldn’t be missed to sign up for an elected office. Platitudes are easy, truth likes to hide.
In challenged races I avoid forecasting the winners, losers and whiners. I never predict the future of anything unless it involves a horse race.
I could handicap a political race if I could get reliable past performances from the Daily Racing Form like I do with the Longacres Mile or Ken-tucky Derby.
Past performances or PPs are charts and notes
describing how a horse ran in earlier races. PPs from the Form are not given the happy guy spin. They are facts and observations – straight, no chaser.
Here are some examples of PPs I dreamed up for political races:
• Fell down at the half-mile pole because it was too darn hot and the sun was in his eyes;
• Finished last because he ate two Big Macs and three orders of fries last night (Mmmm – those were the days);
• Ran off the track at the far turn because he wanted his peanut butter and jelly and cheese sandwich with the crust cut off like his grandma always did;
• Got really tired and started whimpering when the gate opened because he stayed up too late watching Book TV (that would be me, in fact they all could be me).
Figuring out who wins and who loses in city races is a roll of the loaded bones.
In the years I have covered races I have only seen one or two candidates with mo-tives that were less than straight and cheery.
I believe most local candidates think they can do good and they want to help their community. The question for a voter is: does a candidate’s vision of good line up with your vision – and more importantly, do you have an idea what is best for your community?
Many people, including me, kvetch about the various elected bodies and officials. Run-ning for office to fix the kvetch is often not the zip-a-dee-doo-dah day most imagine, and once on the inside elected officials find our government, by design, moves like a crabby iceberg.
So for all our kvetching it is best to remember, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars….”
Local races may seem uninspired com-pared to the Trumpmobile, but a city council race affects a community where it lives,
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drives and plays Yahtzee. The happy news is the Constitution was crafted
by the founders to protect us from the worst – and it has done its job well for a couple of hundred years.
Alexis de Tocqueville in his two-volume “De-mocracy in America” adroitly described the politi-cal system he observed in 1840.
“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by
their friends…. Each partisan is hurried beyond the limits of his opinions by the excesses of his op-ponent, until he loses site of the end.”
OK, I am not sure how that fits in with my ram-bling, but I like what Big Al wrote and I don’t have a better way to end this column other than – vote.
Dennis Box is editor of the Enumclaw Courier-Herald. He can be reached at [email protected].
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schools chief did not battle as long or as loudly on getting the waiver back in the long legislative session.
Sen. Steve Litzow, R-Mercer Island, did push a bill to re-vise the teacher evaluation system. It never gained traction as complying with McCleary grabbed his colleagues’ focus.
Then interest waned as a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law drafted by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., made its way through the Senate. As written it would do away with waivers – and the letters would stop – if it reaches the president’s desk.
Still, sending out the letters really torques Dorn.On Monday, when Dorn released results of Smarter Bal-
anced Assessments, he declared that while there continues to be gaps in achievement among ethnic groups at each grade level, overall “learning actually went up. The rigor actually went up.”
Those letters express a different message and one that can cause unnecessary confusion and worry for parents, he
said.But like underfunding, they’re a burden borne by public
schools until those making the laws figure things out.
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Phillips 66 Renton Terminal Site Proposed Agreed Order for Cleanupand Environmental Documents Available for Comment
Public Comment Period: August 21 - September 21, 2015
The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) requests your input on the environmental investigation and cleanup planning documents for the Phillips 66 Renton Terminal site, also called the ConocoPhillips Renton Terminal Site. A draft Agreed Order to conduct the proposed cleanup and related documents are available for review.
The site is generally located at 2423 Lind Avenue Southwest in Renton, Washington. It contains an active petroleum distribution terminal and several above ground petroleum storage tanks. A large petroleum groundwater plume exists beneath the terminal and surrounding area. Ecology will make available the following documents for public review and comment:
• Draft Agreed Order between Ecology, Phillips 66 Company, and ExxonMobil Oil Corporation for the proposed cleanup. • Draft Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) report. • Draft Cleanup Action Plan (DCAP). • State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) checklist, and Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) for the preferred cleanup alternative. • Updated Public Participation Plan.
Please mail your written comments to Jerome Cruz, site manager, Washingston State Department of Ecology, 3190 160th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98008, or send an email to [email protected] by September 21, 2015.
Panahon ng Pagbibigay ng Komento ng Publiko Tungkol SaPhillips 66 Renton Terminal: Agosto 21 – Setyembre 21, 2015
Upang makakuha ng higit pang impormasyon tungkol sa paglilinis na ito sa wikang Filipino o pagsasalin ng iba pang mga materyales, mangyaring makipag-ugnayan kay Jerome Cruz sa numero ng teleponong (425) 649-7094, o mag-email sa [email protected]. Dapat kayong sumangguni sa Phillips 66 Renton Terminal site.
El Terminal de Phillips 66 en Renton Periodo de Comentario Público:
21 de agosto al 21 de septiembre, 2015
Para obtener más información en español sobre esta limpieza o para obtener traducciones de otros materiales, favor de comunicarse con Gregorio Bohn al número telefónico (509) 474-4174, o por correo electrónico [email protected]. Debe hacer referencia al Sitio el Terminal de Phillips 66 en Renton.
Documents can be viewed at:
Renton Public Library 100 Mill Ave SouthRenton, WA 98057(425) 226-6043
Washington State Department of Ecology Northwest Regional Office3190 160th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98008Call for an appointment at (425) 649-7190
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Renton has a new video production com-pany near the shores of Lake Washington in Gluten Free Studios, a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Omelet, an ad agency.
The firm offers a stripped-down version of full-service marketing without the fluff, but with a lot of heart and talent.
The Renton Reporter caught up with Rob Poznanski, president of Gluten Free Stu-dios, on a recent afternoon in their offices in the business park just outside of Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park. The vibrant studio has been home to a staff of nine for about a year now, officially.
Their in-house production team consists of film editors, cameramen, a creative director, producer and account services. Gluten Free also hires independents such as grips or gaffers to complete their team when needed for different projects.
“We can scale up or we can scale down just depending on what the job size is,” said Poznanski.
You might have seen some of the firm’s work in a series of videos for Microsoft’s Surface in the “Click It and Do More” campaign. Microsoft is one of Gluten Free Studios’ main clients and the firm was in-strumental in launching the Surface brand with their production capabilities, accord-ing to Poznanski.
Farther afield in Los Angeles, the com-pany has also worked with Pivot Media on environmental and social campaigns. The studio does everything from live event documentation, scripted content, live content to creating 2D and 3D animated projects for clients.
Storytelling is the studios’ main emphasis and helping clients craft their message to the folks who want to hear it.
“We take a complex problem, turn it into a very simple story and then tell that story-line all the way through,” said Poznanski. “People relate to brands; they relate to it in a humanistic way, an authentic way vs. a very scripted content way.”
Gluten Free gets consumers to relate to brands by focusing on what the product can do for consumers, not so much just the product.
The company has helped clients with budgets of $2,500 to a million dollars. Glu-ten Free staffers often wear many hats and bring to the table a host of tools to make projects work for a client’s budget.
“My team cares about anything they touch, anything that I bring in they want to care about it,” Poznanski said. “They want to handle (it) with care, so they will put their heart and soul into it.”
Poznanski has a background in the music industry and used to be a creative director at Microsoft. After downsizing there, he left to take a job with Omelet. He opened
Omelet’s Seattle office about three years ago and then closed it to create a different busi-ness model to suit clients’ price points.
“We were finding out that a lot of the services that we were offering were being farmed out to other companies that we could have done,” he said. “But they were farmed out because they could offer a lower price point. They could do a quicker turn on it.”
After breaking a few eggs to make some things happen, Gluten Free Studios was hatched, a streamlined production agency.
“We can streamline a lot of the efficien-cies that need to happen in a production without having the extra bodies that it takes to pull that off,” Poznanski said.
He had been eyeing their present loca-tion at 1133 Lake Washington Boulevard in Renton for three years. He chose Renton because it had the vibe he wanted that set the firm a part from the “sea of noise” and clamor of other agencies in Seattle, even though he loves that city too.
“I know (Renton’s) had its share of per-ception, but I think Renton in this area that we’re in now – especially with the VMAC (Virginia Mason Athletic Center) and the Seahawks down the road – I think we’re in a great spot,” said Poznanski.
To learn more about Gluten Free Studios, check out their website at www.glutenfreestudios.com.
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Rob Poznanski, right, and the team at Gluten Free Studios in Renton work on creating a campaign for their next client. TRACEY COMPTON, Renton Reporter
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pected to approve a new ordinance that would require any and all marijuana retailers in the city to have a state-issued license, which medical facilities presently do not have. All current businesses will have to apply for one of the new retail licenses - a lottery for which is expected to open this fall - at the earliest opportunity, with a legal deadline of July 1, 2016.
“We’re basically saying we’re not permit-ting it now and we’re certainly not going to permit it henceforth,” City Attorney Larry Warren said, but added that any business that first gets a state license - and then obeys all city zoning - will be issued a city business license.
“We expect the businesses in Renton to follow state law,” Mayor Denis Law said. “We are not going to sanction any kind of illegal business.”
However, Law said he is sympathetic to the medical marijuana cause and said his personal feeling is that the shops provide a benefit to their customers and should be accessible, as the voters wanted.
“Legitimate medical marijuana pro-viders have been providing a valuable service,” he said.
However, because of “helter-skelter approach” by the state, the current system lacks checks and balances and is a “recipe for all kinds of problems.”
Because of that, though the city has not officially sanctioned or licensed any medical marijuana business, they are also not pursuing an aggressive enforcement policy.
Councilman Randy Corman, who chairs the city’s Planning and Develop-ment Committee, also called the matter a state issue and while he said there was “compelling testimony” last year during a public hearing on a moratorium on medi-cal dispensaries, he said the Renton City
Council was not the place to re-argue state law.
Corman called the city’s approach “sensible” and reiterated his view that this issue will have to once again be addressed by the state legislature and that anything they do now may end up changing again in the near future.
“Given how the state’s been wrestling with this … I wouldn’t be surprised if the state Legislature came back around again,” he said.
Corman also said that he understands there are differences in the chemical make-up between various strains of recre-ational and medical marijuana and their effects and hopes any new laws passed by the legislature takes that into consider-ation.
Councilman Armondo Pavone agreed that this was not an issue for the Renton council and approved of the policy that all businesses be licensed in the state.
“I think we should line up with the state,” he said. “Medical right now is just a way to skirt the law.”
As of now, the city is not issuing any let-ters to dispensaries or taking any action to close those businesses already open, hop-ing they will either get a state license or close down. But they are leaving the door open following the council’s review and decision on the policy, expected as part of the next meeting Sept. 14.
Up at Life’s RX, Rose said he has been in contact with the city and his shop will hope to get one of the new licenses, prefer-ably with one of the newly created medical endorsements so they can continue to help their patients.
“That’s where out hearts are at,” he said of the medical endorsement.
Reach Editor Brian Beckley at 425-255-3484 ext. 5050.
Two men from Renton believed to be involved with the murder of a 21-year-old man in Skyway on Aug. 12 surren-dered to detectives on Monday.
A 23-year-old, who is alleged to be the shooter, and his 27-year-old brother turned themselves into detectives this morning. The two Renton men were booked into the King County Jail on charges related to the shooting and rendering assistance to the shooting suspect.
At approximately 8:11 p.m. on Aug. 12, deputies responded to a report of
a shooting in the area of South 112th Street and Renton Avenue South. The 21-year-old man was transported to Harborview Medical Center and later died at the hospital as a result of several gunshot wounds.
The victim was part of two groups of people who had begun fighting in a parking lot. It is unknown what started the fight, the relationship between the two groups of men, or if this is gang-related.
Detectives do not believe any addi-tional suspects are at large but urge any-body with additional information related to this shooting to call the King County Sheriff ’s Office at 206-296-3311.
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VALLEY MEDICAL CENTERDistrict Healthcare System
NOTICE OF BOARD COMMITTEE SCHEDULES
Notice is hereby given that the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees Executive Committee will be held on Tuesday October 13, 2015 and Tuesday December 8, 2015 from 11:30-12:00 p.m. in Conference Room B of Valley Medical Center. BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)
By: Sandra SwardExecutive Assistant to the Board of Trustees
Published in Kent, Renton, Cov- ington/Maple Valley/Black Dia- mond Reporter on August 14, 2015, August 21, 2015 #1393020
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COMMITTEE MEETING Notice is hereby given a com- mittee meeting of the Valley Medical Center Board of Trus- tees will be held as follows: Compensation Committee will meet on Monday, August 24, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. in Conference Room B at Valley Medical Center, Renton WA
BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra SwardExecutive Assistant to the Board of Trustees
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Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King
In re the Estate of: ERNEST POPULUS, Deceased.NO. 15-4-04625-7 KNT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal 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 or the Personal Representative’s attor- neys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the No- tice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is for- ever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate assets and nonprobate assets.Date of first publication: August 14, 2015.PR: KIM MOSHIERRuth A. Roti WSBA #19495Of MOGREN, GLESSNER, ROTI & AHRENS, P.S. Attor- neys for Personal Representative100 Evergreen Bldg.; PO Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542King County Superior CourtCause No. 15-4-04625-7 KNT Published in the Renton Report- er on August 14, 2015, August 21, 2015 and August 28, 2015. #.1393417.
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Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King
In re the Estate of: JOHNNIE EMOGENE BAKER, Deceased.
NO. 15-4-04555-2 KNTNOTICE TO CREDITORS
The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal 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 or the Personal Representative’s attor- neys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the No- tice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is for- ever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate assets and nonprobate assets.Date of first publication: August 14, 2015.PR: ALBERT A. BAKER, JR.PETER W. MOGREN WSBA #11515 Of MOGREN, GLESSNER,ROTI & AHRENS, P.S.Attorneys for Personal Represen- tative100 Evergreen Bldg.;PO Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542King County Superior CourtCause No. 15-4-04555-2 KNTPublished in the Renton Report- er on August 14, 2015, August
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CITY OF RENTONPUBLIC NOTICE
MUNICIPAL ARTS COMMISSION
MEETING TIMEThe Renton Municipal Arts Commission has changed its meeting time for monthly meet- ings. The Renton Municipal Arts Commission will meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:00 pm. The Renton Municipal Arts Commission meetings are held in the Conferencing Center on the 7th floor of Renton City Hall, 1055 South Grady Way, Renton WA.The Municipal Arts Commission meetings are open to the public.For further information, please contact Elizabeth Higgins at 423- 430-6581.Jason Seth, City ClerkPublished in Renton Reporter on August 21, 2015.#1395578.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON
COUNTY OF KINGIn re the Estate of:JUNE M. BLANK,Deceased.NO. 15-4-04816-1 KNTNOTICE TO CREDITORSThe Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal 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 or the Personal Representative’s attor- neys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate pro- ceedings were commenced.The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the No- tice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is for- ever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the de- cedent’s probate assets and non- probate assets.DATE OF FIRST PUBLICA- TION: August 21, 2015.PR: JANIS G. ANDREWSRuth A. Roti WSBA #19495 Of MOGREN, GLESSNER,ROTI & AHRENS, P.S.Attorneys for Personal Represen- tative100 Evergreen Bldg.; P. O. Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542King County Superior CourtCause No. 15-4-04816-1 KNTPublished in the Renton Reporter on August 21, 28, September 4, 2015.#1395468.
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The following information was compiled from Renton Police De-partment case reports.
Renton Police officers searching a house on 84th Avenue South for burglars July 27 found a 6-foot-2, 200-pound Renton man hiding in a refrigerator.
The man tried to flee but the officer immediately closed the refrigerator door, pinning him
inside. The of-ficer “escorted him to the kitchen floor” and handcuffed him.
The other suspect, also a Renton man and weigh-
ing 190 pounds (but nearly a foot shorter), almost managed to escape detection. While the officer went left into the kitchen, a second one went right into the laundry room, finding no one. But a second officer checking again found the suspect hiding behind the clothes washer and hot-water heater. He was handcuffed.
Police were called to the house
at about 8:30 a.m. after a nearby resident saw two men kick over a board at his neighbor’s house. They then ran to another house the neighbor said has been vacant for more than a year.
The officers tracked down the vacant-home’s owner in Illinois after finding certified mail in the mailbox but couldn’t reach her. The house is in foreclosure; a property management company was to secure the property.
The two men were released. The bank that owns the vacant house didn’t want to pursue the matter, but prosecutors were reviewing charges the two men trespassed at the first house.
NOT WORTH IT: The 53-year-old Seattle man admitted all of “this” – stolen milk and diapers from Safeway and a string of hit and runs – wasn’t worth it.
The man fled from the Safeway on South Second Street at about 4:30 p.m. July 25 after stealing the milk and diapers and hitting two other cars in the parking lot as he fled, an officer in pursuit.
He came to a stop when he hit a Dodge Durango at Southwest Langston Road and Earlington Av-enue Southwest. Medics checked
the children inside the Durango; they were OK.
An officer found the suspect hiding in bushes near a house.
He was booked into the SCORE regional jail for investigation of a number of charges. He insisted he was OK medically and was ac-cepted at the jail.
However, jailers changed their minds after they learned the suspect had been diagnosed with cancer. The officer drove him to Valley Medical Center, but with no officers available to watch him there because of traffic calls, dropped him off at the doors to the ER and notified him citations were being sent to prosecutors.
TEENS ROB PIZZA MAN: Kids in their mid-teens robbed a pizza-delivery man of four pizzas at about 11:30 p.m. on July 28 near downtown Renton.
It was the second such rob-bery in recent weeks in which the pizza was ordered from the same phone number; in this incident the pizza was delivered to a different address.
The delivery man determined he was given a bogus address on Williams Avenue North, but he was flagged down by the teens who indicated they had ordered the pizza.
He handed over the pizza and waited while a teen made a show of looking for money. The teen then
fled with the pizza. The rest fled; one slipped the grip of the victim.
The pizza cost $37.
EIGHT VEHICLES BROKEN INTO: Eight vehicles were broken in to just after 1 a.m. on July 28 in the 1800 block of Grant Avenue South.
The thefts were discovered after one of the victims was awakened by the car alarm on his Mercedes Benz. Someone took his sunglass-es, backpack and keys.
The responding officer found seven more vehicles with smashed windows and left a case number for each of the victims. The officer didn’t wake them because of the lateness of the hour.
SHE FILLS STROLLER WITH MERCHANDISE: A 30-year-old Seattle woman carried her 7-month baby boy through Fry’s Electronics on Garden Avenue North on July 28 so she could hide electronic gear inside his stroller.
She picked out a Phonesuit Elite 6 cell phone, an LG HBS800 bluetooth headset and a Spring LG Tribute cell phone, all valued at nearly $320.
Store security stopped her when she walked out without paying for the merchandise. She told the of-ficer, “I made a mistake.” A citation for third-degree theft was sent to prosecutors; she was trespassed from Fry’s for a year.
It’s OK his trail goes coldTwo Renton Police officers,
Matthew Hohensee and Scott Barfield, took life-saving measures July 24 on a 94-year-old Renton man who was lying on his bedroom floor.
His daughter-in-law had called 911 and was starting chest compressions when Barfield came inside after grabbing his AED – Auto-mated External Defibrillator – from the trunk of his patrol car.
Barfield took over CPR and continued until Ho-hensee arrived. Hohensee activated the AED and cut off the man’s shirt to apply the AED pads. Just then, medics and firefighters arrived and took over medical care.
The man was taken to Valley Medical Center for further treatment, according to a Renton Police Depart-ment case report.
All patrol cars have AEDs and all commissioned of-ficers, whether in uniform or not, are trained in their use, according to Renton Police Commander Dave Leibman.
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Winning the Legends Cup in front of the home crowd on Sunday would be an ideal way for Danika Brace of the Seattle Mist to wrap up her sixth season in the Legends Football League.
The Mist (5-1) take on the Chicago Bliss (6-0) at 3 p.m. Sunday at Kent’s ShoWare Center in the women’s indoor championship game.
Brace, who plays tight end and linebacker, said playing a championship game at home will be a first in the LFL.
“It (the championship) has always been down in Las Ve-gas,” Brace said. “Vegas (the Las Vegas Sin) never played in it, so there has never been a home team in a home arena.”
Sunday’s game will be the first appearance in the Legends Cup for Brace and the Mist.
Brace said knowing that the championship game would be played at the ShoWare gave the team extra motivation to win in their Western Conference playoff game against the Los Angeles Temptation last Saturday. The Mist beat the Temptation 28-24 in Bridgeview, Ill., near Chicago.
“We are either going to be in these stands watching or playing,” Brace said. “Playing was obviously the idea and we made it happen.”
Brace, a Seattle-area native, grew up on Queen Anne Hill and graduated from Inglemoor High School in Kenmore before receiving a degree from the University of Washing-ton. She lives in Renton.
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Danika Brace of Renton will play this weekend for Seattle Mist as they take on the Chicago Bliss for the LFL title at the ShoWare Center in Kent. COURTESY IMAGE
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Brace joined the Mist in 2009 when the league formed and played two seasons for Seattle before playing three seasons with Las Vegas. She returned to Seattle this year.
She was excited to play again under coach Chris Michaelson.
“He truly does believe in us as football players,” she said.
Brace said it also was nice to come back to the support of the fans.
“The football atmosphere in Seattle is like none other,” she said.
Brace didn’t have much experience playing foot-ball before trying out for the LFL, aside from the occasional backyard game with her father, but has always loved the sport. She played basketball grow-ing up and said she has always been competitive.
“I used to get in trouble in my basketball games because I would run people over for a loose ball,” she said. “I never shied away from contact.”
But it still took Brace time to get used to full con-tact tackling in the LFL. She said after being tackled for the first time she was shocked but quickly got over it.
“My adrenaline just took over,” she said. “That is when I knew I was going to be in the sport for a long time.”
Brace, known as one of the hardest hitters in the league, considered not playing this year.
“I was thinking it was maybe time to hang up the cleats,” the 27-year-old said.
During the off-season, Brace played football in Australia with KK Matheny, who became the Mist’s quarterback this season.
Matheny, who had played for the Jacksonville Breeze, which suspended operations this year, wanted to play another season, Brace said. The two became friends while playing in Australia and agreed to play together for the Mist.
Brace credits a lot of the team’s success this sea-son to Matheny’s leadership.
“She is just a natural-born leader,” Brace said. “She came into this organization, new to the orga-nization, and provided that leadership role.”
The Mist also had a handful of all-fantasy team players return this season, the league’s version of an all-star team.
“I knew we really had an opportunity to be a con-tender for the championship this year,” Brace said.
Brace said she and her teammates are confident they can deliver the Bliss their first loss of the sea-son on Sunday.
“We are not worried about them being undefeat-ed,” she said. “Their conference is a lot easier than the western conference. They played one good team and they barely beat them.”
Brace said whether she will come back for another season will depend on the outcome of Sunday’s game.
Playing football, on top of having a full-time job, is time consuming, Brace said.
“I train two to three hours a day outside of every-thing else we do,” she said.
Winning the Legends Cup would be a great way to leave a long-lasting legacy, Brace said.
“I would liked to be remember in this league,” she said. “Having a championship is one of the key ele-ments. It does define your greatness in your sport.”
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Renton resident Danika Brace sprints down the field at the ShoWare Center during a Seattle Mist football game. COURTESY IMAGE
