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spectators to raise money for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. The fi eld included Porsches, BMWs, Alfa Romeos, Ferraris, MGs and other classic cars that took to the raceway’s 2.25-mile road course. Story, page 14. SHAWN SKAGER, Reporter
ROAR FROM THE PAST
City seeks levee funds from flood districtBY STEVE HUNTER
Kent city offi cials hope to persuade the King County Flood Control Dis-trict board to transfer money saved in a couple of Green River levee projects to help fund other city levee projects along the river.
Mike Mactutis, city environmen-tal engineering manager, gave the Kent City Council an update about levee projects and potential funding by the fl ood control district at a July 2 council workshop. Th e fl ood control district is in the process of adopting its 2014 Capital Project list that includes projects through 2017.
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Cornucopia Days are hereBY MARK KLAAS
It’s a longstanding tradition, a festival like no other in the area that brings out the best in Kent while sup-porting many nonprofi t organizations.
Bill Westcott knows as much.A tireless volunteer worker for Kent Cornucopia
Days for more than 20 years, Westcott joins his fellow
[ more FESTIVAL page 2 ]
BY STEVE HUNTER
Sound Transit offi cials are trying to fi gure out in the next few years where to build light rail
tracks when they extend the line along Kent’s West Hill by 2023.
Aft er numerous studies and public input, Sound Transit has narrowed the options to fi ve
potential routes, mainly along Pacifi c Highway South or Inter-state 5, as it aims for a decision on a preferred route by 2015 with a fi nal selection in 2016.
Light rail is funded to be built from South 200th Street in SeaTac to Kent/Des Moines near High-line Community College, just north of South 240th Street.
But transit offi cials are design-ing a route to South 272nd Street in Federal Way, including
Sound Transit seeks best light rail route through Kent
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BY ROSS COYLE
Life rarely goes as planned, and even the best training doesn’t prepare us for everything. If there’s one lesson Michael Sealfon learned during his
yearlong tour in the Vietnam War, and the 40 years since, it’s that.
Sealfon, who recently self-published a book on his experiences in Vietnam, says the tour shaped his perspec-tive on life and problem solving, and aff ected him in the subsequent years
as a reservist and working in private practice.
A retired colonel and Ph.D who lives in Kent, Sealfon began his career at Penn State’s ROTC department, and commissioned into the Army Medical Service Corps, which encompasses everything not related to immedi-ate patient care. Laboratory work, logistics and supply and aviation are a few examples of the MSC’s talent pool. Originally, the young lieutenant chose
Learning on the flySealfon recalls skills he learned in Vietnam after Army training
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Th e Greater Kent His-torical Society Board of Directors chose sisters Lilly and Amy Kato and their sister-in-law, Rosie Kato, as Old-Timers Royalty for this weekend’s Kent Cornucopia Days.
All three were born in
Kent in the 1930s and grew up in the O’Brien area when it was a town.
Th ey each married, raised families and contrib-uted to the community.
Th ey called Kent home, returning here aft er serving four years at an internment camp during World War II.
“Th is has been our home,” Lilly said.
As for being honored as royalty at this year’s festival?
“We really don’t deserve this, but it just came about,” Lilly said.
Added Amy, modestly: “We don’t deserve such an honor.”
Kent Lions, the festival’s producers, to keep a good thing going.
“It’s one of the larg-est events in the state of Washington now. We get upward of 300,000 people at it,” said Westcott, volunteer festival coor-dinator. “It brings a lot of people into Kent who don’t normally come here, especially into downtown historical Kent.
“I do it because it’s a fundraiser for the Kent Lions (and the Lions Foundation),” Westcott said, “but it also benefi ts upward of 250 nonprofi t organizations who depend upon raising money at the event.”
Th e 42nd annual festival, the oldest and largest of its kind in South King County, opened Th ursday and con-tinues through Sunday.
Originally known as the Kent Lettuce Festival in the 1930s, Kent Cornuco-pia Days has grown in size and scope.
Th e event features a full-size carnival, a street fair of more than 600 booths off ering a variety of items from food to craft s, live entertainment, exhibi-tions, games, shows and,
of course, the traditional grand parade on Sunday aft ernoon. Hours vary with festivities beginning at 10 a.m. each day.
Th e festival has diversi-fi ed over the years, and now off ers a 5-K run/walk, dragon boat races on Lake Meridian, a soccer tournament sprinkled over seven area pitches, and a skateboard tournament.
It might be symptomatic of an improving economy, but participation and sales have picked up, Westcott said.
Carnival operators have reported improved sales for rides, above last year’s clip.
“People are willing to spend money now,” West-cott added.
Organizers also have run out of room for ven-dors. Some organizations were put on standby, wait-ing for the likelihood of a last-minute opening.
“We’ve got more ven-dors than we have spaces for,” Westcott said. “We have all the spots taken.”
Anywhere between 150 and 200 volunteers will work this weekend, ensur-ing the festival’s safety and success.
“It’s just a ton of work,” Westcott said. “It’s not
getting easier as time goes by … there are more rules, more regulations, more insurance costs.”
But it’s all worth it, considering it benefi ts the Kent Lions and other nonprofi ts.
“We work well with the city of Kent. Th ey do a great job for us,” Westcott added.
Notes Th e Kent Cornucopia
Days 5K Fun Run and Walk turns 10 this year. Th e run begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at Th ree Friends Fishing Hole Park, 20025 Russell Road. Parking is available at Iron Mountain Storage. Th e 3.1-mile course is U.S. Track and Field certifi ed and fl at. For those who haven’t signed up yet, race day registration and packet pickup are available near the start/fi nish line at 7:30 a.m. For more information, visit KentArts.com or call 253-856-5050. …
New this year is a children’s activity area in the parking lot of the downtown Wells Fargo Bank, 204 W. Meeker St. … Admission is free. An information booth is at First and Meeker streets. … For more information, visit www.kcdays.com.
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BY STEVE HUNTER
Th e developer who planned to build the city of Kent’s fi rst cottage housing development has dropped out of the project.
Bill Ruth, president of Kent-based W.E. Ruth Real Estate Inc., said in a June 12 letter to City Planning Director Fred Satterstrom that the company will abandon plans for the Blueberry Cottages development for “many and varied” reasons.
Th e city had approved plans for 30 housing units to be built on 4
acres on the East Hill at the north-west corner of Southeast 240th Street and 116th Avenue Southeast. Cottage-style housing develop-ments feature small, detached single-family homes clustered around a common open space with garages and parking located away from the homes.
Ruth listed many reasons in the letter for dumping the cottage housing.
“History of cottage developments in the greater Seattle and Puget Sound areas is that very few have
even gotten off the ground, most never left the planning stage,” Ruth wrote in the letter. “Th e scattered few that came out of the ground suff ered poor sales, minimum prof-its and usually showed large losses. Th ey sound good but end up bad.”
Th e City Council approved cot-tage housing in 2008 under a dem-onstration ordinance in an eff ort to give buyers more options and get away from the cookie-cutter style of homes that dominate many devel-opments. Th e recession delayed the project but Ruth Real Estate earlier
this year tried to get the project go-ing again but couldn’t fi nd fi nancial backing from banks.
“A short but sad analysis is that banks, large, small, traditional and hard money lenders in total say no under any circumstances,” Ruth wrote. “Lending on cottage projects has ultra bad history.”
Ruths said cottage homes are very expensive to build per square foot.
“Builders then cannot be com-petitive with other projects,” Ruth wrote.
Developer drops plans for cottage housing
BY ROSS COYLE
Controversy over the use of the North Park district took center stage at a Mon-day night public hearing at City Hall concerning the further development of Kent through the down-town urban plan.
“To have a vibrant down-town, we need housing for all types of people,” said Alan Gray, who echoed the concerns of fellow Land Use and Planning Board members Barbara Phillips and Randall Smith regard-ing keeping low income housing available in the area.
Th e existing plan, designed by city planner Gloria Gould-Wessen, would streamline downtown zoning by sectioning the area into six distinct regions based on their pedestrian and commercial character-istics: North, South, East and West districts, as well as Central Avenue and Historic districts. Th e zoning in these regions would be adjusted to more align with the goals for the downtown plan as well
as encouraging specifi c types of growth and development in each.
Th e plan also calls for the rezoning of a half block between Fourth and Fift h Avenues, south of Cloudy Street to a commercial use space, and rezoning several blocks between First and Fift h Avenues from single family low income housing to multi-family townhouse use.
Several board members feared that the rezoning would push low income and single family housing out of the area in favor of more expensive townhouses and commercial enter-prises.
During her public ad-dress to the board, Tina Budell, with the North Park Neighborhood Association, laid into the plan, saying that it would irrevocably damage the neighborhood’s community.
“Changing the designa-tion of our neighborhood to MCU (Mixed Use Core Urban) will kill our neigh-borhood,” Budell said.
North Park residents criticize downtown Kent urban plan
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Th e city of Kent hosts a free training workshop on the city’s new business and occupation tax (B&O) on Th ursday, July 18 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.
Interested parties are asked to regis-ter online at KentWA.gov/CityTaxes.
According to city auditor Robert Goehring, CFE, CPA, the workshop is designed to help fi lers understand the city’s B&O tax reporting respon-
sibilities. “Participants will learn about B&O
tax reporting classifi cations, exemp-tions, deductions, gross receipts and square footage tax and how to fi le online,” said Goehring. “Besides fi ling online, taxpayers will soon be able to make payments online and set up taxpayer accounts.”
Slated to go live in mid-July, a new B&O Tax Return System will allow fi lers to submit B&O tax returns
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“We’ve made some excellent technology upgrades to make fi ling very simple for the taxpayer. We’re pleased to provide these new options in advance of the July 31 due date for second quarter taxes,” Goehring said.
For more information, call 253-856-6266.
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“One of the challenges is to get new projects on the budget and whether there are other places in the county to put funding from the transfers,” Mactutis said.
The flood district is funded by a property tax assessment of 10 cents per $1,000 assessed valuation to fund projects. That tax brings in about $40 million per year to help pay for projects along six county rivers, including the Green, Tolt, Snoqualmie and Cedar.
About $10 million pays for operating costs per year with $30 million going to fund capital projects, Mac-tutis said. About $7 million
goes annually to the Green River basin.
City staff wants the flood control district to include four levee projects in its 2013-18 capital projects budget in addition to the $18 million Briscoe-Desimone levee approved earlier this year by the King County Flood Control Dis-trict Board of Supervisors after a dispute between the city and county about the best repair method for the 2.5-mile levee.
Kent staff has proposed $9.5 million for the Lower Russell Road levee; $8.4 million for the Russell Road Upper levee; $6 million for the Milwaukee No. 2 levee; and $400,000 for the Myers Golf levee.
King County staff had budgeted $32 million for the Briscoe levee under its more extensive plan that the board voted down. That project will now cost an estimated $18 million, with construction starting this year.
The county also has $5.8 million budgeted for the Horseshoe Bend levee that city staff says no longer is needed because the levee meets federal standards.
County staff wants to keep $2.6 million in the budget for potential property pur-chase near the Horseshoe Bend levee.
The county has budgeted $500,000 for the Lower Russell Road levee and $3.7 million for the Russell Road Upper levee.
Decision timeThe Flood Control
District Advisory Commit-tee will consider the capital projects budget at its July 18 meeting. The Flood Control District Executive Commit-tee is expected to consider the capital projects at its
Sept. 16 meeting before the budget goes to the full board, which is composed of the members of the King County Council.
“We need to revisit this,” said Council President Dennis Higgins about stay-ing on top of the flood con-trol district budget process. “If we don’t participate, we’ll be on the losing end of the bargain.”
County staff also wants to do a System-wide Improve-ment Framework (SWIF) to aid in the development of a framework to address key flood risk reduction issues on the Lower Green River. The SWIF study has
a deadline of February 2015 and will prioritize capital projects to repair levees.
Kent has already spent money to study the levee repairs needed in the city and city officials don’t want those projects delayed be-cause of the SWIF study.
“We do not object to SWIF but we’ve done the studies and don’t want to wait in the case of Kent because we’ve done the work,” City Public Works Director Tim LaPorte said to the council.
The city’s projects are aimed to have the entire levee system within city limits accredited by the
Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency in order to remove properties behind the levee from FEMA flood maps to reduce develop-ment restrictions and flood insurance requirements in the Kent Valley.
Councilwoman Elizabeth Albertson said it might be better to delay projects until the SWIF study is com-plete so cities can work on projects in tandem that help each city.
“We need to make sure we spend wisely and are we putting money in the right place for the whole system?” Albertson said.
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The King County Flood Control District has three levee projects it is helping to fund this summer along the Green River in Kent.
All three projects when completed are designed to meet the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s insurance standards for 100-year flood accreditation, according to county officials.
The projects include:• Hawley Road levee: Construct
approximately 835 feet of levee on the east bank of the Green River, between Washington Avenue/West Valley Highway and SR 167 along the approximate alignment of Haw-ley Road.
• Boeing levee: Construct a secondary levee and levee-wall combination behind a portion of
the existing Boeing levee. The levee is along the east side of the Green River between South 200th Street and South 212th Street.
• Briscoe-Desimone levee: Con-struction of one of four flood walls on the right bank, landward side of the existing levee between South 180th Street and South 200th Street. Construction will reinforce existing levees with flood walls.
Flood district levee work under way this summer[ LEVEES from page 1 ]
Ruth wants city staff to approve a more traditional housing development for the property.
“Our team has spent $100,000 trying to make Blueberry work,” Ruth said. “We shared this vision with many on the Kent City Council. Had we known what we know now, we would not have applied for the possible granting of this demonstration project.”
Satterstrom, in a letter to Bill Ruth, said the city will honor his request to with-draw from the project. He said city staff will help Ruth find a suitable alternative plat design for the property.
Satterstrom said the
council will look at options that may include a revision of the ordinance, wait-ing for a period of time or abandoning the notion altogether.
“Cottage housing had worked successfully in other communities and the city wanted to test the waters here,” Satterstrom wrote in the letter. “Your experience, even though it was unsuccessful, has given us insight to certain market and development conditions that will help the city to evalu-ate the merits of continuing to pursue this unique form of housing.”
The council’s Economic and Community Devel-opment Committee will discuss cottage housing at a future date.
[ COTTAGE from page 3 ] While the area discussed is only half
a block, Budell fears that it will follow a progression seen over the past several years of slowly pushing low income hous-ing out of downtown Kent. Budell says that the association provided Gould-Wes-sen with a number of ideas for develop-ment of the North Park area, but didn’t see any of those suggestions in Gould-Wessen’s presentation.
Gould-Wessen denies that the idea has been in any part of her proposal, and that the rezoning of the block was made more with consideration of ShoWare Center’s proximity to the half block than a desire to move out the low income housing.
In addition to the complaints regarding North Park, other residents voiced their opinions on focused methods for improv-ing the atmosphere downtown.
Wade Schwartz, who owns the Blanc n’ Schwartz Salon on Meeker Street, raised
concerns that other businesses would be pushed out of downtown, or would take their stores elsewhere if costs became too high. As a recent example, he cited a fruit store which moved to the East Hill due to high costs of operating downtown.
“It’s kinda sad when we see more businesses moving out than moving in,” Schwartz said.
“It’s a tough row to hoe,” said board member Jack Ottini, after reminding the board and audience that as a 73-year resi-dent of the city, he’s also seen the down-town footprint expand and that there’s no easy answer to managing the growth.
Whichever choice the planning board picks, one fact is inevitable, as put forth by a 40-year Kent resident. “Growth is inevitable, you either grow or you die,” the man told the board.
The board decided against voting on the plan Monday, instead tabling the issue until its next meeting at 7 p.m. on July 22 at City Hall.
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$8 million in the 2013 budget for project development. Of-fi cials want the route designed to Federal Way in case money becomes available to build the line that far.
Cathal Ridge, South Corridor development manager of Sound Transit, presented an update about the project July 2 to the Kent City Council at a work-shop.
“By late 2016 the board will select a project (route) to build,” Ridge said to the council.
Here are the options:• Interstate 5 westsideTh is route along the west side
of I-5 could cause problems because the state Department of Transportation (DOT) has limited right-of-way north of 240th Street. Th e DOT also may want to use the right-of-way to add toll lanes, Ridge said.
• I-5 mix Part of the route along the
west side of the freeway and part of it down the freeway median. Sound Transit is uncertain if the median is available if DOT wants to expand freeway lanes.
• State Route 99 (Pacifi c Highway)
Tracks could be elevated and go down the median of SR 99, also known as Pacifi c Highway South. Th is would cause mini-mal impact to existing vehicle lanes and businesses but would be an issue at crossing intersec-tions and where the highway doesn’t have a median.
• 30th Avenue SouthElevated along the west side of
the street that runs east of Pacifi c Highway South. Could be dif-fi cult to transition the track from Pacifi c Highway to 30th Avenue.
• State Route 99 (Pacifi c High-way) hybrid
Track would run along west side of street in some areas; down the median in some areas and along the east side in other areas. Track would be elevated in most areas, at-grade in others.
“I’ve been tracking this for a couple of years and the hybrid (option) looks like the more elegant solution I’ve seen,” said Councilwoman Elizabeth Alb-ertson in response to the propos-als listed by Ridge.
“We looked at all of the con-fi gurations and screened out a lot,” Ridge said. “It was not good to go all on the east side or all on the west side. It (the hybrid) is kind of the best of all worlds. But this is out there for consid-eration, it’s not how it has to be. Th ere may be questions about why it’s on the east side or the west side (at certain spots).”
Sound Transit also needs to determine where to put stations and how many stations to have. Right now the primary stations are expected to be at Kent/Des Moines near Highline Commu-nity College and at South 272nd Street (either along I-5 or SR 99).
Light rail currently runs from Sea-Tac Airport to downtown Seattle. Sound Transit has started construction on a new 1.6-mile line from the airport south to
South 200th Street in SeaTac that is expected to open in 2016. Th at route will run on an elevated guideway primarily along 28th Avenue South and is budgeted for $72 million this year.
Sound Transit gets the major-ity of its funding through sales taxes, vehicle licensing fees, fed-eral grants and fare box revenue.
Voters initially approved funding light rail in 1996 and approved a sales tax increase in 2008 to fund expansion projects through 2023 to Southwest King County, Overlake and Lyn-nwood.
Ridge said once a route is picked, it will take until 2014 to compile a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and until 2016 to get a fi nal EIS. Design of the project takes another two to three years. Construction takes three to four years, with a projected start of construction in 2019. Th at pushes the project completion date to 2023.
Councilman Bill Boyce asked Ridge if Sound Transit had heard any strong opposition to the project.
“No, not yet,” Ridge said. “I don’t know if that’s good or bad. Maybe people don’t know about the project. But we sent mail-ings to everyone in or near the corridors.”
For more information and to comment about Sound Tran-sit’s light rail plans, go to www.soundtransit.org/Projects-and-Plans/Federal-Way-Transit-Extension.
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Every great cause requires a person to stop forward and make that dream a reality. Several years ago I had the pleasure of work-ing with a leader in our town who underes-timated her ability to make the dream of a critically ill young man come true.
In 2008 Cullen Steele was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, a disease that requires the Kent boy to take a battery of drugs, including wearing a backpack that administers medication intravenously at six-minute intervals. Cullen, then a third-
grader at Holy Family School in Auburn, was told he would eventually need a heart, double-lung transplant.
But before the special-ists at Stanford University would put him on the transplant list, his family
had to raise $75,000 to help pay for expenses that wouldn’t be covered by his medical insurance.
Fortunately for the Steele family, there is an organization called the Children’s Organ Transplant Organization, COTA, that exists just for this purpose. Th e people at COTA met with the family and local volunteers to help organize a one year fundraising campaign. At this point, Amy O’Donnell-Riley stepped in to be the coordinator to help make Cullen Steele’s dream come true.
Amy had a worthy cause and dedicated volunteers to help. But the path was rough. Th ere were people who questioned why the focus on one kid, when there were plenty of people in need. Her pitch to a group of local government employees was turned down in favor of another charity. And as the year progressed it looked more and more unlikely that we were going to achieve the $75,000 goal.
At one point of great frustration Amy was talking to me about whether or not she was the right person to lead this eff ort.
Golf course poses danger to those using sidewalk
I was walking east on the public sidewalk at Meeker Street toward the Riverbend Golf Complex, carrying my 3½-pound dog when a golf ball hit her in the eye. It has caused serious damage to her eye, causing the eye to be removed and a loss of sight.
My sister was with me and yelled at the golfers, but they did not come. We rushed her to the vet, who hospitalized her for several days, and we have made several followup trips.
Th e incident was reported to the city of Kent. We fi led a liability report with the city, advising the injury along with our vet bill and pictures, which in turn were forwarded to claims management. Th ey have replied, advising they attempt-ed to locate the golfer, but no one admitted it was their ball
that hit my dog. Th ey advised that the city of Kent is not responsible for the negligent acts of golfers and denied our claim.
Th ere is no fence where we were walking and no warning signs to protect injuries from happening.
I believe someone should look into this safety issue for
the public. We also want to make people aware of the dan-ger to pedestrians walking on this public sidewalk to prevent this from happening to anyone else.– Marion Reed
Fireworks out of control
When my neighbors on the East Hill in Kent started the Fourth of July fi reworks on the evening of the third, I called 911. What I found was very disturbing.
You can legally torture my dog from 9 a.m. until 11 p.m., but as no one does anything about it, you can illegally continue to torture him for several more hours and begin the torture again on July 5 and July 6.
Th is is barbaric. When will we grow up and ban fi reworks in Kent altogether?– Dolores Early
Now that the intermi-nable journey of Wash-ington’s 147 lawmakers is over, what is remarkable is how predictable every-thing turned out.
Veteran observers of life under the Capitol Dome said in January that a divided Legislature, a rookie gover-nor, a court order to boost school
funding and a slowly re-covering economy created a perfect storm for bitter impasse and grudging compromise.
In the aft ermath of a regular session and two extra sessions spanning 153 days, that’s pretty
much what happened.As expected, most of the signa-
ture initiatives put forth by Demo-crats, Republicans and Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee wound up on the editing room fl oor. Th ose which survived were watered-down or made the subject of further study.
Democrats couldn’t pass a uni-versal background check for pri-vate gun sales, the Reproductive Parity Act to ensure health insur-ance plans cover abortion services
or the Washington Dream Act to make undocumented immigrants eligible for state fi nancial aid for college.
Th ey were thwarted on a trans-portation funding package and that brought down the contro-versial Columbia River Crossing project.
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She said, “I must be the world’s worst COTA coordinator.”
I lamented with her, off ered encouragement, and remembered the com-ment.
Amy and her band of believers stayed the course. Auburn pastor Don Stevenson walked 1,200 miles throughout the state of Washington to raise money for the cause. A Buddy Holly tribute concert at the Auburn Avenue Th eater brought the community together, raised money, and spread the word about Cullen. Friends and classmates “donated their birthdays” by asking for support for COTA instead of gift s. A Brownie troop donated their part of cookie sales to the cause.
And during one par-ticularly low point, Leon Sanders, the father of one of Cullen’s classmates, walked into an organiza-tion meeting with three checks totaling more than $6,000 – the results of scrap metal contributions by local businesses.
As the good news piled up, I frequently had the chance to kid Amy by tell-ing her, “Not bad for the ‘world’s worst COTA coor-dinator.’ ” But as the year wound down it looked like we would fall short of the $75,000 goal.
Amy rallied her team. Pastor Stevenson talked a local choir into a ben-efi t concert that raised more than $10,000. Leon organized a community scrap drive, and in the end the “World’s Worst COTA coordinator” raised more than $79,000. Because we beat the one-year deadline, COTA added $15,000 in matching funds for a total
of nearly $100,000.Sometimes success
is showing up, recruit-ing fellow believers, and persevering through tough times. Fortunately for Cul-len Steele and his family, Amy O’Donnell-Riley was there to do that.
Dennis Brooke tells stories about life, leadership and sometimes Auburn at www.dennisbrooke.com.
At play: Cullen Steele, third from left, and friends at a Fabulous Murphtones benefi t concert. COURTESY PHOTO
You can help CullenCullen Steele is now 14 and a priority candidate for the transplant
list. He now carries two backpacks to deliver critical medication on an around the clock basis. Getting on the transplant list depends on his ability to have transportation from his Seattle area home to San Francisco in four hours or less – on a moment’s notice.
If you can help in that area please contact me at [email protected]. If you’d like to make a tax deductible contribution to Cullen’s COTA fund go to cota.donorpages.com/PatientOnlineDona-tion/COTAforCullenS/.
You also can go to www.COTA.org and search for Cullen Steele. Keep in touch with his progress at his Caring Bridge Site: www.caringbridge.org/visit/cullensteele.
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As anticipated, the ses-sion’s signature achieve-ment could be seen coming months in advance.
Lawmakers triumphantly poured an additional $1 billion into the basic educa-tion of the state’s 1 million public school students. But it had to be done as they were under the duress of a Supreme Court mandate to pay the full price of the education the state prom-ises rather than make local districts cover the tab.
And lawmakers of both parties pretty much never hesitated at expanding Medicaid to cover as many as 300,000 more children and adults. With the federal government covering the additional costs, it wasn’t all that hard a decision.
On taxes, neither party could claim total victory. House Democrats and Inslee could not get the $1.3 billion tax package they wanted and Republicans could not completely block all tax increases as they
vowed to do. In the end they agreed on measures closing a loophole in estate tax law and ending a break for users of landline tele-phones.
Tension on this front eased aft er a June report on future tax collections predicted the state would take in $231 million more than forecast in March. Th is battle will fl are up again.
Inslee wanted to crack down on serial off enders of the state’s drunken driv-ing laws by locking them up for longer prison terms aft er fewer convictions. Th e House and Senate found the idea too costly. Th ey did agree to other changes aimed at keeping drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel aft er their arrest and getting enrolled in recovery programs.
In retrospect, it’s easy to understand why so much failed or faltered.
Liberal Democrats controlled the House and the fi rst-term governor is a liberal Democrat, too. Th e Senate, meanwhile, was
under the management of the Majority Coalition Cau-cus made up of 23 mostly conservative Republicans and two pretty conservative Democrats who decided to join their GOP friends late last year.
Such power-sharing hadn’t occurred around Olympia for a while. Certainly everyone knew what to expect from House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle. No one was certain if the Senate marriage could hold together and operate under pressure. Neither did many know how Inslee would operate at all given his inexperience as an ex-ecutive.
Fair to say, everybody knows a lot more today.
Maybe enough to predict they won’t need 153 days or nearly shutting down the government to get their work done next year.
Political reporter Jerry Corn-fi eld's blog, Th e Petri Dish, is at www.heraldnet.com. Contact him at 360-352-8623 or jcorn-fi [email protected].
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Seventy area facilities that met or exceeded wastewater discharge permit requirements this year earned environ-mental compliance awards from King County’s Industrial Waste Program.
Each year, the Industrial Waste Program, which operates as part of King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division, honors local facilities whose business practices contribute to regional pollution prevention goals.
The Industrial Waste Program presented a Gold Award to 46 facilities – eight from Kent – for compliance with
wastewater discharge regulations every month in 2012 with no violations.
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Th e program has three levels which involve students and staff in learning about and practicing conservation of natural resources.
Crestwood Elementary was among fi ve schools honored this spring as a Level Th ree King County Green School. Schools that
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Kent Mountain View and Kent Phoenix academies were among 21 schools that completed Level One by expanding recycling prac-tices and focusing on waste reduction strategies, such as decreasing paper use.
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Th e Green Schools Pro-gram off ers a website, www.kingcounty.gov/Green-Schools, with helpful tools and resources.
ElsewhereMIND Research Institute wanted
to know how students were suc-ceeding at their interactive game for “ST Math,” and they invited schools to submit photos demonstrating students’ success. Kent’s Daniel Elementary’s third and fourth grades won the national contest and were rewarded with a pizza party on June 11 and a visit by Jiji, the real-life, human-size penguin that appears as a character in the interactive game. …
Kentwood High School Sewing and Fashion students created 15 beauti-ful quilts to donate to the Pediatric Interim Care Center over the past
school year. Kelsey Newcomb, along with her teacher, Lynette Hansen, delivered the quilts on June 27. They were treated to a tour of the facility and learned about the Walk for Babies that will be held on Sept. 7. A plan was developed to have the Family and Consumer Sci-ence classes participate in the event next fall. …
Nicole Madsen from Kent been selected to participate in the DO-IT Scholars Program. About 45 college-bound high school students with disabilities will come together on the University of Washington (UW) Seattle campus to participate in the program. DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) is funded by the state of Washington, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Depart-ment of Education.
Seven elementary schools in the Kent School District recently were awarded funding by the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture for their Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP).
KSD schools participating for the 2013-14 school year in the FFVP program are Daniel, Kent, East Hill, Scenic Hill, Meadow Ridge, Park Orchard, and Springbrook elemen-tary schools. Fresh fruit or vegetable snacks are served to all students in participating schools four to fi ve days per week.
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Sen. Joe Fain (R-Auburn, 47th District)) is pleased with what the state Legis-lature’s new two-year op-erating and capital budgets mean for Kent students and their families.
“Aft er a diffi cult stretch the local economy is start-ing to recover and for the fi rst time in years we were able to drastically increase funding for public schools,” said Fain, who serves on the Senate Early Learning and K-12 Education Com-mittee. “Because of a shared focus and recognition that education is not only our constitutional duty but our ethical imperative
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Th e state’s overall operating budget provides $15.2 billion for K-12 education. Based on cur-rent budgets that means the Kent School District, which educates about 27,000 students per school year, could see as much as a $1,200 per student fund-ing increase during the next two school years.
“One of our main focuses this year was increasing our high school graduation rate and clos-ing the opportunity gap,” Fain said. “By making strategic enhancements in the Learning Assistance Program and programs for bilingual students we can make sure that more students are successful.”
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“Who do you know that likes chemistry? Nobody, right,” Sealfon said. “So if you want to get promoted without much interference, you chose biochemistry.”
But aft er a week of medi-cal school at Walter Reed Hospital in Virginia, he was sold on lab science and the study of virology. As a laboratory offi cer, Sealfon analyzed diseases found in soldiers and provided his fi ndings so doctors could eff ectively treat them.
Sealfon knew that it wasn’t a question of if but when he would be sent to Vietnam, and Uncle Sam called his number in March of 1970 while working as the senior laboratory of-fi cer at Fort Knox’s Ireland Army Medical Center. He arrived in the country on June 8, 1970 and began his real training overcoming a number of obstacles there.
“You have a basic skill set,” Sealfon said, holding his hands roughly six inches apart. He then widened the gap to 12 inches. “Here’s your job.”
Th ere were a number of jobs that needed to be done that none of his training had prepared him for, and he had to work out as good a solution as he could with the resources he was given.
His fi rst task involved weeding out soldiers that would adversely aff ect his organization, including al-coholic and over-managing sergeants and a neurotic, obsessive major who he relied on for additional lab
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Beyond building an eff ective and loyal labora-tory team, Sealfon also had to improvise solutions for disposing of lab waste and fi nding weapons.
Seafl on’s lab hired a Vietnamese citizen to help dispose of the trash and laboratory bio waste, but he soon learned that she had also spent time sift ing through the trash for any-thing of use. Th e practice was gross under normal cir-cumstances and downright lethally dangerous in the context of medical waste.
“She’s gonna bring stuff back to the village, they’re gonna get contaminated, we’re going to have an epidemic on our hands,” he said.
To further complicate matters, the Army hadn’t provided him with any other manner of disposing of his trash, so he cre-ated his own with half of a 50-gallon drum, wire mesh and a gallon of isopropyl alcohol.
And he started as he meant to go on, taking advantage of situations as they were presented to him and improvising solutions for other problems.
In another instance, when his compound came under attack one evening, he used a parachute fl are to provide light aft er the power was cut. When he needed to acquire weapons, he negotiated an under-the-table exchange of services with an offi cer that wanted to be tested for gonorrhea (offi cers could face disci-plinary action for presence
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Th e lessons Sealfon learned while in Viet-nam – be it team molding, improvisation or negotia-tion – continued to serve him through his time in the civilian world and the reserves.
“Maybe of all things it was the ROTC training, as an offi cer,” he said. “Th ey always would stress: make a decision. It may not be right, it may not be wrong, you can’t sit back and think what to do, you have to be decisive, and I guess that stuck with me.”
Michael Sealfon’s book, “A Lab Warrior: Th e experi-ences of a medical technologist in Vietnam”, is available by request at [email protected].
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Th e middle of July brings questions on summer maintenance. Th is is your last chance to control the size of some fall and au-tumn blooming perennials so get snippy with mums, phlox, sedum “Autumn Joy” and delphiniums.
Continue to dead head or remove the faded fl owers from annuals and perennials to encourage more summer blooms.
Lawn mowing should change a bit during the warm summer months. Even if you love a close-cropped lawn, this is the time of year to gradually al-low the grass to grow taller between mowings.
Just raise the mower each week until it is at the high-est setting. Th e taller grass blades will help shade the soil and conserve moisture plus they will create shade that discourages clover and other sun-loving weeds.
Q. I am very upset. I have a new clematis vine called Nelly Moser and I was so excited to see many buds on the plant. One of the buds opened up to reveal lovely purple striped petals on a huge fl ower. Th en, shortly aft er I fertilized the plant the buds fell off . I used a 20-20-20 plant food that I also use on my fuchsias. (My fuchsias are fi ne so I know I did not mix it up the plant food incorrectly.) What do
you think? P.L. Longview
A. I think your clematis just had a hizzy fi t because you dared to push a big meal right as she was get-ting ready for her grand
performance. Clematis can be divas when it comes to the fl ower show. Th ey do not like being fertil-ized or moved or having their
skinny stems knocked or damaged.
Is the entire plant wilting? Clematis are also susceptible to a disease called clematis wilt that strikes suddenly and there is no cure. If your buds fell off but the vine looks otherwise healthy just water but don’t feed. I have a feeling you’ll be forgiven and old Nelly will be singing “this buds for you” in another few weeks once she recovers from being fertilized while in bloom.
Q. I have a great new plant called Scabiosa “Mari-posa.” You told me it would attract butterfl ies and you were right. I love the round purple blooms but aft er a few weeks these fl owers start to turn brown - but I see new buds emerging. Is it okay to cut off the brown fl owers? Do I cut off the stem as well as the fl ower heads? Do I need to fertilize this plant? Will it come back next year? I am a beginning gardener.
R.B., Tacoma
A. Congratulations on your butterfl y garden – Sca-biosa, also known as pin-cushion fl ower due to the round shape of the blooms is a nectar-rich perennial that attracts both humming birds and butterfl ies and it is a perennial so it will come back next year aft er going dormant this winter. Th e new variety you have is called “Mariposa” because this is the Spanish word for butterfl y and the fl at fl ower heads make it easy for but-terfl ies to sit on the blooms as they sip up the nectar.
As for deadheading, yes you should follow the stem of the faded fl ower all the way to the base of the plant and cut out the stem and faded bloom with one snip. Th is variety of Scabiosa will continue to bloom all summer, behaving like a free-fl owering annual plant if you continue to remove faded fl owers.
You do not need to fertilize Scabiosa all sum-mer long as you would a container garden or hanging basket of annuals. Many perennial plants will grow leggy and fl op over if constantly fertilized. Use a slow release plant food in the spring when you see signs of new growth. Another growing tip is to try and keep the foliage dry when you water. Scabiosa loves full sun and soil that drains quickly – yellow leaves at the base of the plant means it may be get-ting too much water.
Q. I have some shrub roses that are growing out of control. Can I prune them back now? How far back can I go? Th anks. P. Email
A. Th ere is still time to get snippy with your roses but don’t delay because once the month of August arrives roses do not like to be cut down to size. You can shorten any rose plant by one-third of its height in July and always remove the three D’s any time of year – that would be anything dead, diseased or damaged.
If you have a shrub roses or landscape roses that are multi-branching such as the Flower Carpet or Drift rose this is the time of year to prune back with confi dence removing all the faded blooms. Give your newly pruned roses a shot of fertilizer and you’ll be rewarded with a late summer fl ush of fl owers
and color that will continue until October.
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 enve-lope for a personal reply. For more information, visitwww.binettigarden.com.
Meet Marianne Marianne Binetti
appears at 11 a.m. Saturday at Macadam Winter Garden, S. 144th St. and Mac-adam Road, Tukwila, as part of the Tukwila Garden Tour. You can get tickets to the gar-den party and tour by calling 206-767-2305 or visiting the Tukwila Community Center.
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Public invited to park dedication
While it may still look like a construction zone, Turnkey Park’s transforma-tion is nearly complete.
On Friday, July 19 at 4 p.m., Mayor Suzette Cooke, city offi cials, Parks staff and partnering organizations will celebrate the end of renovations that began in 2010 with a shelter, parking
lot, fencing and landscap-ing.
On June 7, KaBOOM!, Disney and more than 200 community members as-sembled a new playground along with picnic tables, benches and a learning garden.
Turnkey Park is at 23312 100th Ave. SE.
Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, call 253-856-5113.
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Spectators get a close look at the Porsche 917K that was driven by actor Steve McQueen in the 1971 fi lm “Le Mans.” The car was just one of many attractions at the 25th Pacifi c Northwest Historics Vintage Races, hosted by the Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts (SOVREN), at Pacifi c Raceways last weekend. The event raises money for Seattle Children’s Hospital. SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter
BY SHAWN SKAGER
For 25 years, the Society of Vintage Racing Enthusi-asts (SOVREN) has hosted the annual Pacifi c North-west Historics Races.
Every year the charitable event attracts hundreds of cars and thousands of enthusiasts and specta-tors to Pacifi c Raceways in Kent to raise money for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. To date, the event has raised more than $9 million for the hospital.
Th e annual event is a smorgasbord of automobile fun for spectators, with some of the region’s fi nest Porsches, BMWs, Alfa Romeos, Ferraris, MGs and more exotic road iron vying for the checkered fl ag on Pacifi c Raceway’s 2.25-mile road course.
In the paddock and pit areas, which are open to the public, fans can shop for auto parts and memorabilia and get close up to racing cars most people only dream of seeing in real life, such as the Porsche 917 driven by Steve McQueen in the 1971 movie “Le Mans”.
For Auburn’s Tana Bryan, known as “Th e Datsun Lady,” this year’s event is the 18th she has volunteered at.
In that time, Bryan said, she’s done everything from fl agging on the track to guiding people around the massive three-day event.
“I wouldn’t miss this for anything,” she said. “I’ve always been into old cars and it helps Children’s Hos-pital. It’s also a lot of fun. I bring one of my own cars
to the car show every year. Every year I let somebody else drive my own car. Th is year I did the parade lap in somebody else’s car follow-ing my car.”
Bryan, who runs a Dat-sun parts supply business, said she fi rst caught the car bug in 1976.
“I got my fi rst (Datsun) for free in 1976, and I still have it,” Bryan said. “It’s a 1968 Datsun Fairlady and it has about 600,000 miles on it. I drove that as my daily driver for many years and I started buying parts cars for it. People wanted parts so I started selling parts and I’ve sold them all over the world since then. So I’ve been running that for about 25 years and I’m the president
of the NWDE (Northwest Datsun Enthusiasts) club.”
In addition to being able to get her classic car fi x and show off her Dat-suns, Bryan said she has a personal reason for coming every year.
“My daughter was a pa-tient at Seattle Children’s,” she explained. “She has a very rare disease, scleroderma, an auto immune disease.”
For Erica Lange, secre-tary for SOVREN, the event is still new to her.
“I love the raising money for Seattle’s Children Hospi-tal part,” Lange said, clear-ing spectators out of the way of McQueen’s Porsche as it took to the track. “I’m not as up on all the racing stuff .”
Still, she said, she enjoys the event and the opportu-nity to help lure in the next generation of car enthusi-asts.
“It’s great for the families to get out and just look around,” she said. “We want the public to learn about racing. We need to build interest because we want people to learn about these cars and vintage racing and get involved.”
Among the several classic cars on display at the track was Jack and Bobbie Berg’s 1956 MGA convertible roadster.
“It’s basically all original,” said Berg, an Auburn resi-dent. “It’s been painted but it’s never been restored.”
As he buff ed the car’s paint
into a higher level of shine with a cloth, Berg shared how he and his wife became the second owner of the British-made gem, which has just 55,778 original miles.
“Th e original owner is a friend of mine, we sail to-gether,” Berg said. “And we were at his house for dinner one night, a whole group of us, and he hauled this out and said, ‘Is anybody in-terested?’ Of course, I said, ‘yeah.’ My wife said no.”
Berg said aft er a year of persuasion and an outing to a MG Northwest Centre car club meeting, he fi nally got the go ahead from his wife.
“Now if I was to leave her or something like that, which wouldn’t happen because we’ve been married 41 years, she’d take the car and give me everything else,” Berg said. “She loves the car that much.”
Berg said he and his wife attend several car shows and events every year, but this one is special.
“Th is is a charity event, all the profi ts go to Chil-dren’s Hospital and that’s why I’m here,” Berg said. “I love to go to car shows and talk to car people. I don’t want to say car people are the friendliest people in the world, but as a rule they are. I’ve taken this to hot rod shows and been accepted, with all the big chrome V8s with 400 or 600 horse-power. Th is one though, is a neat event with all the money going to the hospi-tal. It’s really important.”
Vintage cars draw fans to Pacific Raceways
Seattle Mist cruises to win in Legends Football LeagueREPORTER STAFF
Th e Seattle Mist clinched a women’s Legends Football League playoff spot with a 38-0 win over the Minne-sota Valkyrie last Saturday night at the ShoWare Cen-ter in Kent.
Seattle quarterback Laurel Creel received game most
valuable player honors, according to the Legends Football League website.
Creel threw a 35-yard touchdown pass on Seattle’s fi rst play of the game.
Th e Mist improved to 3-0 in the Pacifi c Division with one regular season game left on July 20 in Las Vegas. Minnesota dropped to 0-2.
In three games, Creel has completed 30 of 56 passes for 362 yards with 11 touchdowns.
Th e Mist beat Green Bay and Los Angeles earlier this year.
REPORTER STAFF
Seattle Th underbirds assistant coach Darren Rumble has accepted the head coaching position with the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
“Darren did a very good job for us, and we wish him all the best with his new team as a head coach,” said Seattle Th un-derbirds general manager Russ Farwell in a July 5 media release.
It was a diffi cult decision for Rumble, who was an assistant coach with the T-
Birds for the past two seasons. He joined the T-Birds on June 28, 2011.
“Russ and Steve (head coach Steve Ko-nowalchuk) are two of the fi nest people I have ever had the privilege to be associ-ated with, both personally and profes-sionally,” Rumble said. “Th is was not an easy decision as the T-Birds are on the upswing and there are going to be some exciting times ahead for the team. Profes-sionally, though, this was an opportunity to be a head coach I couldn’t pass up. I would like to thank all the T-Birds fans for their support the last two years .”
T-Birds assistant takes new job
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The entry deadline is Saturday, July 20 for the fourth annual
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lot in Kent.The event is South King County’s premier 3 on 3 basketball event
featuring age divisions for men, women, seniors, kids and
wheelchair. Teams of all ages and sizes and genders are invited.
Courts will be set up in the parking lot with games all day,
each day.The entry fee is $75 per team for
any division. Entry fee includes a guarantee of four games, a
T-Shirt, and extra T-shirt if your team wins the championship
game of the division. The schedule will be emailed 2-3 days before the fi rst round of
games and tournament brackets will be on site.
Each division will play on its own court with a main court hosting
the top divisions. Main court will be set up in the middle of the
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EventsKent Farmers Market: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays, through Sept. 28, Town Square Plaza Park, corner of Second and Smith. Kent Lions community service project. Vendors offering a variety of fresh locally grown farm-based foods, hand-crafted items, live entertainment and more. Free admission. Information: 253-486-9316, www.kentfarmersmarket.com.
42nd annual Kent Cornucopia Days: July 12-15, Town Square Plaza and through-out downtown Kent. General hours: July 12 – 3 p.m. until closing for the carni-val; July 13 – 10 a.m.- 8 p.m. for the festival and street fair, 2 p.m. until closing for the carnival; July 14 – 10 a.m.-8 p.m. for the festival and street fair, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. for the dragon boat races, 10 a.m. until about 6 p.m. for the skateboard and inline tourna-ments, noon until closing for the carnival; July 15 – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. for the festival and street fair, 2 p.m. for the parade, noon until closing for the carnival. South King County’s oldest and largest festival features a full-size carnival and street fair with more than 600 booths offering a variety of items, including tastes from more than 35 food booths. Entertainment, beer garden, carnival with rides, Kent Youth Soccer Association Cornucopia Cup tournament, parade, skateboard tournament, dragon boat races at Lake Meridian Park and more. The Kent Lions produces the event, a com-munity service project that benefits more than 250 charitable organizations. Free admission. Info: 253-852-LION (5466), www.kcdays.com.
Open house on possible sale of River-bend Par 3 golf course: 6-9 p.m. July 15, Riverbend Par 3 Club House, 2030 W. Meeker St., Kent. Kent residents can weigh in as the city determines whether or not to sell its par 3 golf course. A 20-acre component of the Riverbend Golf Complex, the city is exploring the sale as a way to put the facility on stable financial footing, as well as reinvest in the 24-year old facility, which also includes an 18-hole course, driving range, retail shop and restaurant. Interested parties unable to attend the open house are encouraged to provide feedback online at KentWA.gov/par3survey. For more information, visit KentWA.gov.
Speed Candidating: 5-8 p.m. July 18, Kent Senior Center, 600 E. Smith St. Meet City Council, mayoral and King County candidates. Tables of 8-10 people will be set up. You will have a new candidate at your table every 10 minutes. Food and drinks will be served. Cost: $10.
Goodguys 26th Wesco Autobody Supply Pacific Northwest Nationals: July 26-28, Washington State Fairgrounds, 110 Ninth Ave. SW, Puyallup. (Enter at Blue, Gold or Red Gate). Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. More than 2,500 hot rods, customs, classics, muscle cars and trucks through 1972; exhibits; swap meet; enter-tainment, activities for kids. Admission: $8 general admission $18; $6 children 7-12; 6 and under free. Information: 253-841-5045, www.good-guys.com
Fourth annual ShoWare Shootout: July 27-28, ShoWare Center parking lot, 625 W. James St. Kent. Presented by Republic Services. South King County’s premier 3-on-3 basketball event featuring age divisions for men, women, seniors, kids, wheelchair. Teams of all ages and sizes and genders are invited. Entry fee: $75 per team, includes a guarantee of four games, a T-shirt and extra T-shirt if your team wins the championship game of the division. A portion of the proceeds from the event will be given to Kent Youth and Family Services. Entry deadline July 20. For more information, call 206-240-9029 or go to showareshootout.com.
Inaugural EmD3-ON-3: Aug. 10-11, Emerald Downs, 2300 Emerald Downs Drive, Auburn. At least 30 side-by-side halfcourts to be placed in the parking lot north of the grandstand, Open to teams and players of all ages and abilities. Cost per team: $120 with each team guaranteed at least three
games. Information: www.emd3on3.com or www.facebook.com/emd3on3
BenefitsInaugural Kent-Meridian High School Football Classic: 8 a.m. Sept. 14, Foster Golf Course, 13500 Interur-ban Ave. S., Tukwila. Powered by the Na-tional Charity Golf Association. Fundraising event to support much-needed equipment for the Kent-Meridian High School football team. $100 entry fee includes green fee and cart. Registration begins at 7 a.m. Format: 2-person scramble. More information and registration can be found at www.golfncga.com/KMF.html or email [email protected] or call Rich Murchinson at 425-770-6459 or Chris Carter 206-714-5309.
HealthKent4Health Outdoor Walk: 9-11 a.m. and 6-7:30 p.m., every Wednesday through Sept. 4. Get outside and enjoy your local park trails. For schedules, locations and more info, visit www.kent4health.com.
Southeast King County Parkinson’s Disease support group: Meets on the third Tuesday of the month, 10:30 a.m., St. John The Baptist Catholic Church, 25810 156th Ave. SE,Covington. Group’s monthly lunches are on the first Tuesday of the month at the Auburn Senior Activity Center, 808 Ninth St. SE, Auburn. For more information, contact Stephanie Lawson at 206-579-5206.
Gamblers Anonymous: For meeting times and locations, call toll free the Gam-blers Anonymous Hotline 1-855-222-5542. Visit www.gawashington.org or www.gamblersanonymous.org for additional information.
Clubs, programsAutism Support Group: 6:30-8:30 p.m., second Wednesday of the month, Kent Convenant Church, main conference room, 12010 SE 240th St. Share resources and encouragement. Childcare available with 72-hour advance reservations by calling Fa-biana Steele at 253-631-0222, ext. 325. For more information, visit www.kentcov.org.
NAMI Support Groups: 6:30-8 p.m., every second and fourth Tuesday of the month, 515 W. Harrison St., Kent. Friends and family support group for family mem-bers and friends who are affected by mental illness. Free. For more information, call 253-854-6264 (NAMI) or ermail [email protected], or visit www.nami.org.
Valley Mothers of Multiples Club: First Christian Church of Kent, 11717 SE 240th St. Free. Inviting new and established parents/guardians of multiple order children to attend monthly meeting for support, resources and social activities. Club has monthly speakers and group sharing ses-sions. 425-445-7845. www.valleymomc.org
VolunteersSoos Creek Botanical Garden: Soos Creek Botanical Garden, 29308 132nd Ave. SE, Auburn. If you love plants, gardens and gardening, the 22-acre garden wants you. Volunteers are asked to dedicate 3-10 hours a week in either garden maintenance, docent tours or marketing. Volunteers need not be master gardeners. Soos Creek Botanical Garden is a nonprofit organiza-tion. Information: 253-639-0949, www.SoosCreekBotanicalGarden.org.
Green Kent Work Party: 9 a.m.-noon July 27, Springwood Park, 12700 SE 274th St., Kent. Meet near the big slide
on the northwest corner of the park.
Register at kentwa.gov/GreenKentEvent.
aspx?id=23534.
The Royal Revamp: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Aug. 23, Kent-Meridian High School,
10020 SE 256th St., Kent. Volunteers needed
to work with students, parents, alumni and
staff to weed, clip and bark the campus.
Carpinito Brothers donating bark. Join the
effort any time with shovel, rake, wheelbar-
row and tools. Community barbecue at
3 p.m. Information: Debbie Theisen, K-M
campus manager, 253-373-7416 or Debbie.
EntertainmentSHOWARE CENTER
625 W. James St., Kent. 253-856-6777. Order at www.tickets.showarecenter.com. Events include:
American Idol Live!: 7:30 p.m. July 19.
The 40-show concert tour comest to Kent.
Tickets: $66, $46, $33.50.
ELSEWHERE
“Beauty and the Beast!” : 7:30 p.m.
July 25-27, Aug. 1-3, Aug. 8-10; 2 p.m. July
27, Aug. 3, 10; 4 p.m. July 28, Aug. 4, Ridge
Theatre, Kentridge High School Perform-
ing Arts Center, 12430 SE 208th St., Kent.
Tickets and more information available at
www.attheridgetheatre.com.
Beauty and the Beast Musical
Theatre Camps: July 29-Aug.2. pre-K-
fourth-grade camp; Aug. 2-6, fifth-eighth
grade. Ridge Theatre, Kentridge High School
Performing Arts Center, 12430 SE 208th St.,
Kent. If your child qualifies for free/reduced
lunch in the public schools, then you can
receive a reduced price for this day camp.
At the Ridge Theatre (housed at Kentridge
High School Performing Arts Center).
Registration details at www.attheridgeth-
eatre.com.
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District Court, Pierce County, Washington
Regarding the Name Change of Christopher Edward Odenthal Minor
by Deedra P. Moseley Parent
No. 3Z801516CNOTICE OF HEARING FOR
NAME CHANGEThe State of Washington – Directed to NICHOLAS JOHN ODENTHAL
suant to RCW 4.24.130, the mother of the above named
Edward Moseley.The hearing on this matter shall
be on August 1, 2013, at 9:00 AM at the courthouse located at: Pierce County District Court 930 Tacoma Ave S. Rm 127Tacoma, WA, 98402 Failure to appear at this hear- ing may result in the name change of the above listed minor. Dated 6/26/2013
Pierce County District Court
on July 5,12, 19, 2013. #817879.
CITY OF KENTLAND USE &
PLANNING BOARDNOTICE OF
PUBLIC HEARINGJULY 22, 2013
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Kent Land Use and Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on MONDAY, JULY 22, 2013 at 7:00 P.M. in Kent City Council Chambers, 220 S. Fourth Avenue, Kent, WA 98032.The Hearing Agenda will include the following item(s):1. Downtown Subarea Action Plan (CPZ/CPA-2012-1)
Downtown Subarea Action Plan-Zoning Districts & Comprehensive Plan Map Amendments (CPZ/CPA-2012-1)
Draft Downtown Subarea Action Plan (DSAP) Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS)
Mixed Use Overlay Regula- tions Code Amendment (ZCA- 2013-2) (GGW) The Land Use & Planning Board will continue
ument that contains actionable
vision for downtown Kent; to consider zoning and land use
come comments on the analysis
in the Downtown Subarea Further, the Board will consider
Kent City Code (KCC) Title 15,
tions, as well as 15.04.190, 195, 200, 205 and 15.09.046 related to the mixed use overlay in the
ing district, and correcting a code reference to design guidelines
2. ZCA-2013-1 Residential Facilities Regulations Code Amendment (KG) To consider
Kent City Code (KCC) Title 15,
tions, as well as 15.04.020 & .030 related to residential
living facilities. oral or written comments on
(KG) at: or
(GGW) at:
ed to attend and all interested
For further information or a
the City’s website for available
to the Land Use and Planning Board at:
. Any person requiring a disabil- ity accommodation should con- tact the City in Advance for more information. For TDD relay service for Braille, call 1-800-833-6385, for TDD relay service for the hearing impaired, call 1-800-833-6388 or call the City of Kent Economic & Com- munity Development directly at
(253) 856-5499 (TDD) or the main line at (253) 856-5454
Planning ManagerDated July 9, 2013
on July 12, 2013. #830574.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Services on June 24, 2013.
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Services, 400 W. Gowe Street, Kent, WA.
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sewer connections and franchise
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(7250 S 228th St). A small area on the eastern side of the site is
on the site, however a wetland
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containing Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF). DEF is used to lower nitrogen oxideconcentrations in the exhaust emissions of diesel
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PUBLIC NOTICES
“Little Mary Sunshine”: 7 p.m. Aug. 2-3, 3 p.m.
Aug. 3, Performing Arts Building, main campus,
Green River Community College, 12401 SE 320th St.,
Auburn. Brought to life by Heavier Than Air Family
Theatre, “Little Mary Sunshine” is a musical that
gently spoofs old-time favorites with lighthearted
humor, while showcasing a personality all its own.
From Colorado Rangers to the lovely Mary Sunshine;
a chorus of giggling schoolgirls to the benevolent
Indian chief; hearts are won and lost and won
again in this delightful, laugh-filled and charming
stage production. A show you won’t want to miss,
Little Mary Sunshine features local teens from the
company’s popular musical theatre camp. Tickets
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KENT SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
KENT STATION TAKE-OUT TUESDAYS
Performances Noon-1 p.m., Kent Station Plaza, 417 Ramsay Way. Free.
Keith Knight: July 16. Considered by many to be one of the finest finger picking guitarists in America, Knight breathes new life into Appalachian, ragtime and delta blues and Americana music.
Scott Cossu: July 23. A mix of jazz and classical music with ethnic influences from this acclaimed musician, composer and recording artist.
Bottomline Duo: July 30. Best described as light humor with serious music, this husband and wife team combines the warm depth of the double bass with the melodic beauty of the cello. Their perfor-mances are masterful, charming and entertaining.
Reilly and Maloney: Aug. 6. The enormously popular duo of Ginny Reilly and David Maloney are together again, delivering their signature brand of acoustic, contemporary folk.
Rod Cook and Toast: Aug. 13. Blues, rock, country, Americana, surf and American roots music.
REPUBLIC SERVICES WEDNESDAYS
Performances noon-1 p.m., Town Square Plaza, Second and Harrison. Free.
Roberto the Magnificent: July 17. He rides very tall unicycles, bounces on industrial strength pogo sticks, and juggles sharp knives, flaming torches and spinning hand saws – all while keeping audiences in fits of giggles.
Doktor Kaboom! “Look Out! Science is Com-ing”: July 24. An interactive one-man science variety show, Doktor Kaboom! creatively blends theatre arts with the wonders of scientific exploration.
Shókoto: July 31. A family-friendly mixture of tra-ditional and contemporary African and world music that is sure to make your soul sing. Shókoto offers a dynamic fusion of rhythms from Ghana, Brazil, Cuba, Peru and the Deep South.
Recess Monkey: Aug. 7. Kids and parents love rockin’ to Recess Monkey. This trio blends various musical influences with clever and comical lyrics. There are hints of pop, folk, zany surf rock and swamp-tinged country.
Caspar Babypants: Aug. 14. Caspar Babypants puts on a fun, simple, sing-along show for kids age 0-5 and their parents to enjoy together. Old folk songs and good time rock and roll mix together to make the show a timeless treat for all ages.
THURSDAYS AT THE LAKE
Performances 7-8:30 p.m., Lake Meridian Park, 14800 SE 272nd Street (shuttle bus service avail-able). Free.
Tommy Castro and the Painkillers: July 18. Castro’s signature brand of rocking rhythm and blues has garnered him numerous Blues Music Awards and nominations. His sound is funky with soulful vocals and inspired blues-rock guitar.
Men of Worth: July 25. Irish Scottish folk music duo combines humor, exciting tunes, and soulful, heartfelt ballads to bring to life the musical heritage of Scot-land’s outer islands and Ireland’s west.
Cedric Watson and Bijou Creole: Aug. 1. Spear-heading the emerging generation of Cajun and Creole musicians, Watson is a fiddler, vocalist, accordionist and songwriter of enormous talent. He moves with ease between fiddle and accordion and adds his strong blues-inflected vocals.
Bill Coffey and His Cash Money Cousins: Aug. 8. High-energy, roots-rock and retro-country singer/song-writer’s songs swerve from upbeat, jangly country pop to the darker, more lonesome side of Americana.
The Changing Colors: Aug. 15. Hailing from the tiny hamlet of Manitou Springs, Colo., The Changing Colors is a band led by twin brothers Conor and Ian Bourgal. Using the simplicity of acoustic guitar and the melancholy tone of lap steel, they sing of longing and beauty, hope and regret.
GalleriesCentennial Center Gallery: 400 W. Gowe St., Kent. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Closed weekends and holidays. For more information, call 253-856-5050 or visit [email protected].
MuseumsGreater Kent Historical Society: 855 E. Smith St., historic Bereiter House, Kent. Hours: noon-4 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday, and by appointment. Admission: suggested $2 donation; no tickets are required for entrance. Parking is available behind the house off East Temperance Street. GKHS is a nonprofit organiza-tion that promotes the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge about the history of the greater Kent area.
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Each year the Kent Fire Department Re-gional Fire Authority responds to calls for ruptured natural gas lines as people work on sprinkler systems, install fence posts, or do other common below-ground projects.
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What can residents do to protect them-selves and their property? Call before you dig.
Any time you plan on digging more than 12 inches deep, you must first call 811 or 1-800-424-5555. By making this call at least two business days before you dig, you will alert utility companies in your area of your intent and allow them to mark their under-ground lines on your property.
This call is required by state code RCW 19.122. There is no charge for the marking of utilities to homeowners. The cost is paid for by the utility companies to help prevent damage to their buried lines.
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