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BY DEAN A. RADFORDD R A D F O R D @ T U K W I L A R E P O R T E R . C O M

Th e frigid weather in early De-cember forced the closure for a day of Cascade View Elementary School while crews repaired the sprinkler system.

Th e bitter cold also disrupted classes at Tukwila Elementary School, where a pipe and sprinkler heads broke, spewing water over school in-teriors.

However, Tukwila Elementary was able to house third-graders from Cas-cade View in temporary classrooms. Th ey were bused to and from the school.

Gunman killed in robbery attempt

An armed gunman who attempted to rob a store on Andover Park East Dec. 7 was shot and killed by Tukwila Police offi cers as he left the store, ac-cording to the Tukwila Police Depart-ment.

Tukwila offi cers surrounded the Cash and Carry store in the 200 block of Andover Park East at about 7:30 p.m., aft er an employee inside the store called 911 to report a masked man armed with a pistol was attempt-ing to rob the store, according to Of-fi cer Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the Tukwila Police Department.

As the man came out, still armed with a gun, shots were fi red and the man was hit, according to Murphy. No offi cers or bystanders were in-jured.

Offi cers rendered fi rst aid to the man until medics arrived; the man died at the scene.

As of the Tukwila Reporter’s print deadline, the man’s name had yet to be released.

Detectives from the Valley Inves-tigation Team, a multi-agency team that investigates offi cer-involved

shootings, is investigating. Th e Tuk-wila offi cers were placed on admin-istrative leave until cleared to return to duty, which is standard procedure, according to Murphy.

City, Segales open South 184th Street

Th e new South 184th Street that replaces the steep South 178th ris-ing from Southcenter is getting great reviews, says Mayor Jim Haggerton, who offi cially opened the new road-way with a ribbon-cutting last month.

South 184th Street, which connects to Southcenter Parkway just south of South 180th Street, opened to traffi c in early November.

Th e new roadway and the already-extended Southcenter Parkway are key transportation pieces of Segale Properties’ plans for Tukwila South, a 10 million-square-foot development on roughly 500 acres that will bring thousands of jobs to the city.

Th e city plans to build a new fi re station at the former alignment of

South 178th Street – once the hillside is removed.

Mark Segale, son of company founder Mario Segale, joined offi cials in offi cially opening the new roadway.

With the steep roadway gone, the plans calls for removal of the hillside that will create more space for devel-opment on the west side of Southcen-ter Parkway – and create an unob-structed view, he said.

Tukwila South will develop over time, with campus-style research and offi ce space, along with such uses as retail, residential and hotel space. It won’t have any warehouses.

Rotary club honors students of month

Ardo Hersi and Edgar Lopez are the Tukwila Southcenter Rotary’s Stu-dents of the Month for November.

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3 goswimThe single-gender swims at the Tukwila Pool don’t violate any laws, continue with strong support from the community

4 themayorCollaboration with the city’s neighbors and among its residents is a key reason why the Tukwila community is moving forward with success

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BY LOUISE JONES-BROWNT U K W I L A H I S T O R I C A L S O C I E T Y

Christmas in the late 1800s and early 1900s was a simple celebration including traditional activities such as bak-ing and cooking as well as visiting in each other’s homes. Th e fi rst Duwamish River pioneer Christmas celebration in 1851 was celebrated by settlers Henry Van Asselt and Samuel Maple, who joined their new neighbors at Alki, with the men providing wild game so everyone could en-joy a feast.

Most local residents set up a Christmas tree between Dec. 20 and 24. If you were fortunate enough to have a covered front porch, the tree was put outside since candles were used to light the tree. Electric tree lights fi rst used in 1895 were not readily available until the mid-1900s. A bucket of water and rags were kept nearby just in case the tree caught fi re.

Gift s were handmade or inexpensive and simple items with emphasis on practical. Most family gift s such as toys were given as a group gift to be shared, such as sleds and ice skates.

Th e winter is unpredictable in the Duwamish Valley; but in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the weather was very cold and snowy, as demonstrated in the photo shared by Mabel Nelson. Th e 1915-circa photo is the Nelson girls and Big-elow boys ice skating on Codiga Pond. Bonfi res burned for light and warming during night skating. Local resident Roy Henderson would set up a hot-dog stand for the skat-ers.

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Th e single-gender swim times at the Tukwila Pool continue, following an emotional Metropolitan Park Dis-trict board meeting in November in their support and dismissal of a hu-man-rights complaint against them.

Th e state’s Human Rights Commis-sion has determined that the single-gender swim times at the Tukwila Pool are not discriminatory.

“Th e legal issues involved are rath-er complex,” said Brian Snure, gen-eral legal counsel to the Tukwila Pool Metropolitan Park District.

But, he said the district concluded the single-gender swims at the Tuk-wila Pool “survive scrutiny under the legal restrictions imposed by the Washington State Law Against Dis-crimination and Article XXXI of

the Washington State Constitution, which is Washington’s equal-rights amendment,” he said.

Th e commission issued its decision on Nov. 21 aft er investigating a com-plaint submitted by Tukwila resident Christine Neuff er on Nov. 7.

Th e complaint helped spark an outpouring of support for male- and female-only swim times Sundays that culminated with lengthy testimony at a recent Metropolitan Park District board meeting. Th e board is com-prised of City Council members.

Th e state commission issued a No Reasonable Cause fi nding, which means there was insuffi cient evidence to show that discrimination occurred, according to Laura Lindstrand, a commission policy analyst.

Neuff er wrote that in her complaint that she and her son went to the pool on Sunday, Oct. 27, at about 6 p.m.

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Th e Tukwila Pool next to Foster High School began off ering single-gender swimming programing in June aft er requests were received from dif-ferent community members to off er such a program, said Kimberly Matej, a City of Tukwila spokeswoman.

Th e Tukwila Pool off ers the swims on each Sunday for males, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m., and females 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.

“Th e intent of the single-gender swim program is to provide an op-portunity for all members of the com-munity to be able to enjoy swimming as a healthy living option and to enjoy the benefi ts of learning to swim,” said Matej.

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Th ere’s nothing more telling than reality and nothing more real than high school students.

Aft er they warmed to the challenge – and with some encouragement from City Council member Joe Duffi e – about 40 articulate Foster High students spoke their minds, about life near a troubled highway, run-ins with police offi cers and their place in the Tukwila community.

For two hours they spoke to and with members of the Tukwila City Council and the Tukwila School Board at a Socratic Seminar organized and

led by school Superintendent Nancy Coogan.Th e dialogue was sometimes intense, always revealing,

and at times heart-breaking. And I couldn’t get my head around this: Last spring

some members of the football team were in handcuff s and on the ground for painting the Foster rock, a time-honored tradition!

Th e idea behind a Socratic Seminar is to put all the cards on the table, ask questions that lead to understand-

ing and fi nally come up with positive solutions.Because this is a column, I am taking some liberties in how I tell the story

of what we heard during those two hours in Andrea Gamboa’s social-stud-ies classroom.

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Happy holidays, Tukwila community!No matter what your faith or background, this is the season for

family, friends, and thanks. My own family had signifi cant tradi-tions growing up, and more than anything — looming bigger in memory than even the giant Macy’s Day Parade balloons — I re-member an overwhelming sense of love and comfort.

Th at’s what I want for every one of our children in the Tukwila School District, and I am once again humbled to be part of a com-munity that wants the same, that reaches out with abundance to support those in need. Th rough the many giving programs and ser-vice organizations here, hundreds and hundreds of homeless and impoverished children have received gift s, food, warm clothing, shelter, and much more. Th ank you. Giving is a noble endeavor.

What makes me even prouder is the spirit and mindfulness in which our community gives. From speaking with many of our fami-lies, I realize that charity, even in its best and well-intended forms, is

never free of humiliation for the recipients; it is diffi cult for them to have to ask for and receive help. Th ese families need dignity just as much as food or gift s. So when I see giving programs that are designed to be as painless as possible for the recipients and people donating without the need for recognition, I know this is what giving is all about. It’s simply providing for the need

without showcasing the charity. We are in service to others. We are approaching our work in schools with the same fi lter. Fun-

damentally, the Tukwila School District’s mission is to educate chil-dren, but there are oft en social and emotional needs that get in the way. How do we give every child an equal footing while preserving their dignity? Here are few examples: We are looking for better ways to provide food to all children. We are exploring options to provide meals during breaks and aft er school, and we are piloting a Breakfast in the Classroom program that removes the stigma associated with showing up early to school to eat (would you be willing to single yourself out as impoverished at your workplace?). I am also thrilled to partner with Providence Health & Services to start a mentoring program that will bring consistent, positive, caring, career-oriented role models to Foster High every week.

Ultimately, I am blessed to work in a district where I can make decisions based on what is best for all children, surrounded by com-munity members and colleagues who want and do the same. Th ank you for being dedicated to this mission. Every child wants laughter, compassion, and love, and I believe that we as a school district are on the forefront of modeling what it looks like to create a commu-nity that works for everyone ... not just some. We are striving to create a society that’s free of charity, free of second-class citizenship.

So let’s continue to support our neighbors this season and throughout the year. More importantly, let’s remember they are just that — our neighbors, human beings who want your friendship and respect as much as any handout.

From my family to yours, happy holidays! In service,

Dr. Nancy Coogan

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City discriminating at Tukwila Pool

Th e City of Tukwila crossed over a line it should not have when it converted a program for a group that was renting the pool, exclud-ing men due to a combination of cultural and religious restrictions, from a private program to a public one. Instead of the renters enforcing segregation against non-renters, the government enforces and legitimiz-es their practices, imposing them on others! Government employees look at a customer, determine their gender, and exclude the wrong gen-der from entry to the building. Th e excluded gender is not only denied access to the pool, but also to the bleachers, lobby and bathroom. Fe-male customers have greater mod-esty standards imposed on them than men.

Due to this program, our son has now experienced the eff ects of seg-regation twice! In one episode, he was denied access due to his gen-der. In the second, he witnessed

discrimination against his mother. Our son has a disability where he needs a caregiver to be in ear/eye shot to ensure his safety. Single par-ents and caregivers of the disabled do not need more barriers.

When residents are denied ac-cess to government services on the basis of gender, it denies us access to hold our government account-able. It is absurd to think separate times for each gender is an accept-able solution. If this is acceptable, then the government can now set up separate times for other services. Shall women have access to the per-mitting offi ce between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. and men from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.? How will we know if one gender is being provided separate unequal services compared to the other? Who is left out in the cold?

We urge the City and the Metro-politan Park District Commission-ers to stop using taxpayer money to implement and legitimize gender segregation.

Christine and Robert NeufferTukwila

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I was helping my mom the other night close up the store on the Pac. Like I always do, I took out the garbage. I learned the highway was dangerous.

A man approached me, asking for drugs. I haven’t told my mom about that, but I am more aware now when I am walking out there.

That’s not the first time I’ve been scared. I’ve seen guys with guns in their pockets. I’ve seen drug deals. I had to ask for help when I was walking by the strip club. It’s an easy way to earn money, but it’s not right.

I’ve got friends who aren’t allowed to walk on the Pac. Their parents say it’s too dangerous.

We’d all live better lives if we could just make a change in the community. Why does our environment attract these kinds of people? I worry we’ll get pulled into that lifestyle. We don’t want our intelligence to go to waste.

I wonder why the police aren’t going after the drug dealers and prostitutes, rather than me or my friends. They’re profil-ing us, just because we wear a hoodie or our skin is dark.

My sister was walking down the street. She was stopped by an officer. She was thrown to the ground and taken to the police department for resisting arrest. That’s happened to a lot of us.

Some of my friends tell me the cops are just doing their jobs, that we criticize them for doing their jobs.

I’ve given this a lot of thought and I have some ideas about what we can do.

I wouldn’t have to be scared or have nothing to do if we had a community center or boys or girls club nearby to hang out at. Someplace safe and off the streets. I can’t walk to the community center now because it’s too far away and I don’t have a car.

I want police officers to get to know me, to learn how to talk to me, to know the difference between the good and the bad. Maybe hire more diverse officers.

We have no one to go to, no one to talk to. Give us some-thing to do, help us connect to people in Tukwila.

Yes, honesty is sometimes disheartening, but there is a blueprint not so hidden in their words to move forward. The students were asked to talk openly about Tukwila In-ternational Boulevard and race relations and that’s what they did.

Duffie assured them Tukwila International Boulevard and public safety is the city’s top priority.

The right people were at the seminar to make a differ-ence, not just the city leaders, but the students themselves. That’s buy-in. More importantly, the conversation will continue about such ideas as a youth advisory council, an ombudsman and a question box where students can make their concerns known.

And Coogan continues to press ahead on a draft of a strategic plan to help guide the district, which she will present to the community early next year.

Dean A. Radford can be reachedat 425-255-3484, ext. 5150.

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Disheartening, yes, but a way forward

School official takes Redmond HR jobMellody Matthes, the Tukwila School District’s assistant

superintendent of teaching and learning, has been hired as the City of Redmond’s new human resources director.

Matthes was also a candidate for the superintendent’s job in the Tukwila district, where she served as the interim superintendent after Ethelda Burke resigned.

Her hiring was announced by Redmond Mayor John Marchione. She’ll start her new job in Redmond on Jan. 2.

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2013 has been a busy and productive year for the Tukwila City Council, and we take pride in our accomplishments.

Following extensive outreach to different community groups and staff, the City of Tukwila created its first Strategic Plan which was adopted in December of 2012. The Council and City Administration were committed to the fact that, once adopted, this Plan would not just sit on the shelf. In March of this year, the Council had its first ever joint meeting with Executive Staff to develop an Implementation Plan that would establish priority areas for 2013 and beyond.

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During the spring, the Council engaged in a hiring process for a Council Analyst to replace Kimberly Matej, who moved into a new position in the Mayor’s Office. In May, Laurel Hum-phrey joined our staff, bringing her expertise from working with the Seattle City Council. Besides handling the day-to-day responsibilities of her job, Laurel has been busy assisting us with drafting, revising and updating the Council’s operating procedures and guidelines. The process of revising Council policies and adding some new ones will continue in 2014 until completed, with future updates to be addressed as needed.

At the beginning of this year, we began identifying goals and work plans for our four Coun-cil sub-committees: Community Affairs & Parks, Finance & Safety, Transportation, and Utilities. This has been a great way to assist the Council in the proactive shaping of policy. For example, the Finance and Safety Committee worked diligently to create consistency in

Tukwila GreenWorks recipientsThe King County Housing Authority, located at 600 Andover Park West, has been selected as a Tukwila GreenWorks member for 2013. Tukwila GreenWorks is the City of Tukwila’s recycling rec-ognition program for businesses. The program identifies a select group of Tukwila businesses who practice excellent recycling, waste reduction and resource conservation techniques. 2013 is the second year that KCHA has been a GreenWorks member.

You can find more business recycling information atTukwilaWA.gov/recycling/BusAssistRecog.html

Holiday miracles made possible The compassion and support coming from the Tukwila community to make the 2013 Holiday Giving Program a success is amazing. Each year, Tukwila’s Parks and Recreation Department, along with the Tuk-wila School District and the Tukwila Children’s Foundation, coordi-nate the Spirit of Giving program to provide local children and fami-lies with gifts, food, and a lot of hope going into the holiday season.

We thank the businesses, community organizations and local citizens for their generosity in helping make this program possible. Because of their contributions, we were able to help 300 local children have a wonderful holiday. Our special thanks go out to those identified here, and the countless volunteers, citizens and anonymous donors!

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Winterizing water pipesFollow these tips to prevent water damage during our cold weather:

Turn off outside faucets and disconnect the hoses from them.

Protect vulnerable water pipes with insulation or a faucet cover.

If you have exposed plumbing in an attached garage,

keep its doors shut.

Leave open cabinet doors which have exposed pipes (such as

under sinks). This allows house-hold air to keep plumbing warm.

If your home will be vacant for several days, keep the thermo-

stat set above 55 degrees. If vacant for several months,

properly winterize your home.

For properties within the City of Tukwila’s water jurisdiction, a bro-ken water pipe may qualify for a credit on the water bill. However, it qualifies only on pipe break-age between the meter and the house, and is subject to other lim-itations. You’ll find the City’s Leak Adjustment Policy on the City’s website at www.TukwilaWA.gov; select “Utility Information” under the gold “Residents” tab.

Citizens helping governmentThe City of Tukwila is assisted in its op-erations in several areas by our citizen Boards and Commissions. Residents of the City serve an important function by volunteering their time and expertise as members. Citizens interested in serving on a Board or Commission can com-plete an application and submit it to City Hall. Applications are reviewed and appointments are made by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council. There are currently vacant positions on the following Boards and Commissions:

Information about the City’s Boards and Commissions along with the Boards and Commissions application form can be found on the City’s website at www.TukwilaWA.gov/Mayor/Boards.html.

Volunteers take on environmental restoration This past summer and fall, dedicated individual and corporate volunteers worked at several Tukwila sites to restore degraded habitats and improve them for people, fish and wildlife. Among these volunteer efforts are:

restore small wetlands in the park.

Puget Sound Stewards (sponsored by Earth Corps) continued their work to maintain the restored shoreline plantings at Codiga Park.

monthly work parties and special events led by the Restore the Du-wamish Shoreline Challenge partners (BECU, Forterra, City of Tukwila and other businesses). In addition to individuals, groups pitching in to help included Starbucks, Microsoft, CBRE, Pepsico, Up With People, Seattle Central Community College, and the US Air Force.

remove invasive plants at the Restore the Duwamish Shoreline Chal-lenge site.

Puget Sound Stewards were trained for the Restore the Du-wamish Shoreline Challenge and started work during the summer.

Learn more about: Restore the Duwamish Shoreline Challenge, visit www.RestoreTheDuwamish.org

Puget Sound Stewards Program, visit www.EarthCorps.org/PugetSoundSteward.php

If your business (or you as an individual) would like to help out on any of these ongoing projects, please contact Volunteer Superintendent Tracy Gallaway by calling 206-767-2305, or email [email protected].

Angela Wallis and Jenna Higgins of King County Housing Authority receive the Tukwila GreenWorks certificate.

our financial policies, and worked with the Finance Department to enhance the clarity of our budget documents.

During 2013, the Council and the Mayor’s Office renewed their efforts to collaborate with the Tukwila School District on shared issues. An item addressed at a joint School Board/City Council meeting was the desire to increase student involvement in our city govern-ment processes. As a result, we are creating more opportunities for Tukwila youth to participate on the City’s advisory boards and commissions.

School superintendent Nancy Coogan, along with the Foster High School Civics class, hosted a Socratic Seminar in November. Elected officials were invited to come to the classroom and listen to students voicing their experiences and opinions on the topics that were of importance to them. It was an enlightening and informative session, and we look forward to the process continuing.

Another shared concern was traffic around school properties, especially at the start and end of each school day. City staff is now working with the school district administration to address these issues.

In addition to working with the schools, City administration is partnering with Local to utilize various community representatives. These liaisons will facilitate broader and more effective outreach within the richly diverse communities of our city. Using these resources, the Council seeks to increase our involvement in these communities in 2014.

These are just some of the highlights of the past year. As I finish up my tenure as the 2013 Tukwila City Council president, I am thankful to have had the opportunity to serve in that capacity. These are exciting times for Tukwila. We live in an area that is changing rapidly and that has great potential. I am proud to be part of a Council who is committed to the City’s Vision Statement: Tukwila – the City of Opportunity, the Community of Choice.

Looking back at a year of moving forward

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Monica Davalos of Tukwila wanted to make a change in what her family ate to help them stay healthy and fi t.

She found that help, along with many other Latino families living in Tukwila and SeaTac, at Global to Local Initiative healthy-cooking classes off ered in native lan-guages.

Besides the cooking classes in Spanish, Global to Local is off ering classes for the Burmese, Somali, Eritrean and Arab-speaking communities, and a class in English for those managing diabetes.

Global to Local Initiative is a private and public part-nership that brings basic health services and economic opportunities to underserved communities in SeaTac and Tukwila.

Part of program is the distribution this week and in early January of holiday food bags fi lled with the ingre-dients – and the recipes – to make a healthy meal to the initiative’s diff erent community groups.

Davalos has a head start. She’s participated with Global to Local programming for more than a year. She’s a liai-son to the Latino community.

She was drawn to the cooking classes to change her family’s eating habits.

“My motivation is to do a change. A change in my life, in my family, too, because our culture, sometimes it’s dif-ferent,” she said. For example, she said, the Latino com-munity will use more oils and eat fewer vegetables and fruit.

Th at change started in the kitchen. She’s using sea salt, rather than table salt. She’s found a new oil to use in her cooking. She and her family are drinking more water and there are no sugar drinks.

And she’s exercising. She’s lost 12 pounds.Th e four children in her home are changing what they

eat and her young son and daughter have embraced the exercise routine, oft en suggesting they do some exercise or go for a walk instead of watch TV or go to a movie.

She’s learning how to make side dishes, using vegeta-bles and fruits, in a variety of ways. “Th ey say, ‘Oh, I like that’,” she says of her children and grandchildren.

“We know how to make a salad, a really good salad. We know how to do healthy rice. I think this is great,” she said.

Samantha Kunze Garcia, the Global to Local commu-nity health promoter for the Latino community, has seen

coverstory healthy recipesBURMESE

Burmese Rice SoupIngredients:

• 1/4 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breast

• 2 cups of water

• ½ cup cooked rice

• 3 cloves garlic, minced

• 1 tbsp. olive oil

• 1 tbsp. low sodium soy sauce

• 1 tbsp. salt

• 1/4 cups chopped fresh cilantro for garnish

• 1 cups cook rice

Directions:

1. Place chicken breast in a large pot, cover with water. Bring to a

boil and cook for 45 minutes.

2. Once the chicken is cooked, remove from the pot and shred. Add

both the chicken and ginger root back to the pot along with 3 cloves

of minced garlic.

3. Add rice into the pot.

4. Add oil, soy sauce, and salt. Cook for 10 minutes on medium.

5. Lastly, add the fresh cilantro and cook for 5 minutes longer.

Burmese Raw Cabbage SaladIngredients:

• 1 cup cabbage, fi nely cut

• ¼ cup tomato, sliced

• ¼ cup cucumber, fi nely cut

• ¼ cup onion, sliced

• ¼ cup cilantro, fi nely cut

• 1 tbsp. olive oil

• 1 tbsp low sodium soy sauce

• 1 tbsp lime (optional)

• 1 tbs Sriracha hot sauce (optional)

Directions:

1. Mix cabbage, tomato, cilantro, onion, and cucumber in a salad

bowl.

2. Add oil and soy sauce over the mixer and mix well.

3. Squeeze lime and put Sriracha hot sauce if desired.

LATINOTilapia TacosIngredients:

• 1 tilapia fi llet

• 1/4 tbs olive oil

• 1/4 teaspoon, sea salt and black pepper

• 2 white corn tortillas (mission)

• 1/2 cup of each kind cabbage (green and purple)

• 1/2 cup, thin sliced carrots

• 1/4 cup, fresh cilantro, chopped

• 1/2 lime

Directions:

1. Get a large sauté pan and add the olive oil

2. Cut in half the fi llets, add the sea salt and black pepper

3. Sauté fi sh until done and then heat up the tortillas

4. Lastly, chop the cabbage into very thin slices

ERITREANChicken Breast, stuff ed with Ricotta CheeseIngredients:

• 1/2 chicken breast skinless

• 1/4 cup of ricotta cheese

• 2 leafs of fresh sage (chopped)

• 1/4 cup leeks (diced)

• 1/8 tsp. sea salt

• 1/8 tsp. black pepper

Directions:

1. Start by taking the chicken breast and with a knife make a pocket

2. Sauté the sage with the leeks and put it to the side to cool down

3. Grab the cheese and mix it with the leeks and sage when they are

cool and add sea salt and pepper

4. Then put the mixture into the chicken breast

5. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees

6. Let the chicken bake for 25 minutes or until cooked

7. When cooked, cut the chicken into slices onto your plate.

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P’Lae Say mixes together the ingredients of Burmese raw cabbage salad at her home in Tukwila. Dean A. Radford/Tukwila Reporter

Healthy spoken hereGlobal to Local Initiative helping Tukwila’s diverse

communities cook nutritious meals, keep fit

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Th e City has worked diligently to collaborate with re-gional and local partners to benefi t our residents and busi-nesses. Th e South Correctional Entity (SCORE) jail in Des Moines serves the confi nement needs of seven mem-ber cities and a number of contract agencies, providing a much-needed service to Tukwila and neighboring juris-dictions.

Th e Cascade Water Alliance, a municipal corporation comprised of seven municipalities (including Tukwila), has become a regional leader in establishing joint munici-pal utilities, allowing entities to come together to provide cost-eff ective, essential public services, and have helped bring attention to the need for fi re hydrant water and pro-tection in every community.

Our membership and participation in the National League of Cities (NLC), Association of Washington Cities (AWC), and Valley Cities has been invaluable in creating and developing relationships that give all of us a bigger voice and presence with our state and federal legislators regarding common issues and concerns, bearing out the belief that there is power in numbers. Sound Cities As-sociation (SCA) is an organization of 35 cities involved in King County Regional Committees to address areas of im-portance to all of our cities.

Th e South King County Fire Training Consortium (SKCFTC) is comprised of multiple fi re departments and one law enforcement agency located in South King Coun-

ty. Th e consortium shares training resources in order to reach common goals that they might be unable to reach separately.

It takes time and commitment to participate in the na-tional, state and regional organizations but the results and benefi ts gained for our residents and businesses are huge.

Collaboration and partnerships are an integral part of our day-to-day activities as we work to streamline process-es and deliver services across our community, and they are woven throughout our Strategic Plan:

• “Build a broad and collaborative approach to prevent-ing crime and increasing the sense of safety.”

• “Partner with organizations that help meet the basic needs of all residents.”

• “Strive for excellent education, vocational supports and personal growth opportunities through eff ective part-nerships and City services.”

• “Strengthen the City’s engagement and partnership with the business community.”

• “Advance Tukwila’s interests through participation in regional partnerships.”

Our elected offi cials and staff across the City work close-ly with the Tukwila School District, the Chamber of Com-merce, a wide range of service providers and many others as we strive toward our vision of becoming the City of op-portunity, the community of choice.

Building trust and developing eff ective relationships takes time, but we know from fi rst-hand experience, sig-

nifi cant results can be achieved by working together to solve common issues. Our Strategic Plan challenges all of us to develop and expand existing partnerships and seek new opportunities to work together, both internally and across our region.

On a more personal note, as we say goodbye to 2013 and welcome the new year, I hope you will also embrace op-portunities to partner with others and by doing so, you can make a positive diff erence in someone’s life. Being a vol-unteer in a local or regional non-profi t group, the Veterans Administration, local churches, food banks, schools, and others is a great way to be part of something bigger.

In closing, I would like to compliment all of our City employees for their generosity and eff orts, especially at this time of year, to help address the needs of children and families in Tukwila.

Wishing you a very happy holiday season!Sincerely,Mayor Jim HaggertonTukwila Mayor Jim Haggerton can be reached at mayor@

tukwilawa,gov.

the diff erence the cooking pro-gram makes.

“I have seen the changes when they tell me that they have lost weight, or they feel much bet-ter or now they are eating more vegetables, drinking more water, walking more. So that’s very nice.”

Salt is also a health issue for the Burmese community in Tukwila.

Linda Po is the community health promoter for the Burmese families of Tukwila and SeaTac.

Th e cooking classes teach the participants how to choose better ingredients and to use diff erent cooking methods, as well as how to live a healthier lifestyle.

Many Burmese community members eat “a lot of salt,” Po said, and also have high blood pres-sure. Th e classes teach them how to choose food low in sodium and how to reduce the amount of salt they use in cooking, she said.

P’Lae Say and her niece Ke Ke demonstrated at home in Tukwila how to make a Burmese raw cab-bage salad, which they shared. Besides the vegetables, the salad uses olive oil and low-sodium soy sauce and Sriracha hot sauce that added a nice kick.

Sriracha is named aft er a city

in eastern Th ailand; it’s main in-gredient is sun-ripened chili pep-pers.

Po translated Say’s explanation of how the cooking classes have benefi ted her and her family.

Say learned about the diff erent types of meats, such as chicken, fi sh and beef – and which ones are lower in cholesterol and fat. For example, it’s better to take the skin off chicken before cooking to reduce the amount of fat.

It’s better to use fi sh instead of beef, because it has good choles-

terol instead of bad cholesterol.In the Burmese community,

“the mom cooks and the kids eat it. So if the mom cooks the healthy food, then the kids will eat the healthy food,” Po said.

Global to Local has also reached out to residents who are managing their diabetes – some-times not very well.

Th e Mobile Health Program was launched last summer, using iPhones that are preprogrammed to upload regular glucose read-ings, what they’re eating and their

exercise routine. In turn they receive customized educational material.

Fareeha Siddiqui, Global to Local’s director of research and innovation, views all the data on her computer as the program’s case manager. She’s already seen that participants in the cooking classes have changed their shop-ping and eating habits.

Th e number of diabetes-relat-ed deaths in SeaTac and Tukwila is 1.5 times greater than the King County average.

Aft er the months working with her patients, Siddiqui learned they didn’t have much nutritional background. Th e cooking classes were expanding to include reci-pes that are diabetic friendly and stress nutritional guidelines.

Th e classes are in English.“Th ere was a group we were

essentially missing, which was the English-speaking community that lives around here that doesn’t necessarily require language-spe-cifi c classes,” she said.

Global to Local has off ered the healthy-cooking classes for about 18 months, said Alma Villegas, the community programs man-ager. Similar programs have been off ered by agencies elsewhere.

“What’s more unique about our

program is really the language specifi c, that we actually do the cooking classes in people’s own language and we incorporate them in the development of the recipes,” she said. “Th e health promoters are really a key part of that.”

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Chef Fabio Leyva, left, teaches a cooking class to the Latino community. With him is Latino community health promoter Samantha Kunze Garcia. Dean A. Radford/Tukwila Reporter

[ HEALTHY from page 8] about global to local

Global to Local Initiative is a partner-

ship of the cities of Tukwila and SeaTac

and HealthPoint Community Health Clin-

ics, Public Health Seattle & King County,

Swedish Health Services, and the Wash-

ington Global Health Alliance. Global to

Local is using initiatives that have proved

successful around the world to improve

the health and provide for the economic

well-being of residents of the region.

Anyone interested in participating in a

Global to Local Initiative activity can call

206-359-0536 or email info@global-

tolocal.org. The website is globaltolo-

cal.org.

On the coverMonica Davalos has gone from be-

ing a participant in the Latino healthy-

cooking classes off ered by the Global

to Local Initiative to being a Latino

community liaison. She participated

in a recent class where the participants

learned to make a tilapia taco. Dean A. Radford/Tukwila Reporter.

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tukwilasports


Foster boys basketball Coach Isaac Tuck-er has his players sized up.

They’re not particularly tall but they’re quick.

They’re talented in many ways, making it possible to assign specific roles to specific players.

This is Tucker’s second year as coach of the Foster boys. He grew up a coach’s son and played basketball for two years at a community college. He “left the sport alone for years,” he says.

Then he spent several years coaching youth teams in Renton and was involved with Next Step Athletics, where he coached his step-son’s AAU team. Khalfani Carter is now a freshman on Foster’s JV team.

“It wasn’t until I was sitting at the state tournament at the Tacoma Dome with my Dad six years ago that I realized I wanted/needed to coach high school basketball,” he said.

His father Rich is a volunteer assistant coach; David Montoya is his assistant coach. Coach of the junior varsity team is Joel Green.

He sees his team as a family.The Bulldogs had an intense practice to

prepare for the Wednesday league opener against Lindbergh on Dec. 11, losing 78-67.

They’ll resume league play after the Christ-mas break.

Tucker is shaking off the loss of two key players from last year’s team, scoring threat Adem Suta and top defender Tyerel Brown who earned Tucker’s “Glove” award last year.

“On any given night he was easily the best shooter in the gym and competed ev-ery time he stepped on the floor,” said Tuck-er of Suta.

He’s still hunting for a replacement for Brown, who didn’t show up in the stats in every game but “was my lock-down de-fender all season long,” Tucker said.

Four varsity players are returning but only two spent much time on the court, he says. Only two players play basketball year round, which means the Bulldogs have to work to catch up with other teams in the Seamount, he says.

Foster boys find their high gear


Foster High’s new girls basketball coach has his dream job and his players are excited about the season.

“Foster is a dream job for me,” said new Foster Coach Eric Smith. “I plan to be here for a while and I’m 100 percent sure two years from now Foster will be a powerhouse.”

He’s building this year’s team around three seniors with plenty of experience.

Bre Mills joins fellow seniors Mar-quis Daniels and Eunica Serafica as the team’s captains. She’s played four years for the Bulldogs.

“I am really excited about this sea-son,” said Mills, a post and wing on the team. “I feel like we have a lot of really good girls on the team.”

Before Foster, Smith coached boys basketball for five years at Chief Les-chi High School in Puyallup, where his teams won a league title and appeared in three state playoffs.

Girls coach has dream

job, talented seniors

Foster boys basketball Coach Isaac Tucker stands amid the conditioning as his Bulldogs prepared for the Seamount League opener against Lindbergh Dec. 11. Dean A. Radford/Tukwila Reporter.

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night and I have no doubt they’ll be re-warded come the end of January,” says Tucker.

And then there is 5-foot-7 Isiah Lewis, whom Tucker calls his “dynamic freshman guard.”

“He could easily be a four-year starter and I expect great things from him as we progress through the season,” said Tucker.

Tucker said his main returner from last season is junior Ronnie Roberson, who led the Seamount League in rebounding, but for some reason, he says, didn’t make an all-league team.

“He’s got a nose for the ball, quick off the floor and plays with energy most people can’t match – Ronnie never takes a play off,” he says of his 6-foot-4 forward.

The team is still a bit “height-chal-lenged,” Tucker says. As of early this week, Roberson still needed to meet the mini-mum number of practices to play and ju-nior Dzenan Cosic, a 6-foot-3 forward, was still out with a knee he injured at the first practice.

But senior forward Randy Tippins, at 6-foot-1, was cleared to return from a con-cussion he suffered this past fall, according to Tucker. Tippins was the starting quarter-back for the Bulldogs’ football team.

“Our first two games we’ve had to put wings down on the blocks and play a lot of zone defensively,” Tucker said. “Hopefully over the course of the season our quickness will pay dividends for our lack of height.”

In the season opener, the Foster lost to Kentwood High School, 70-31. Senior Ra-shad Sang led he scoring with 11 points.

The next game Dec. 6 was much closer with Chief Sealth edging Foster 66-62. Senior Cory Covarrubia was the leading scorer with 14 points

What’s new this year is a “clearer mix of talent” compared to last year, when play-ers were similar (with Roberson the ex-ception) and interchangeable, Tucker said. Roles and style of play were “very general,” he said.

But with that clearer mix, he can define specific roles for individuals, such as point guard, shooting guard and forward, “that I think will make us a stronger team in the long run.

“There were a lot of gray areas last sea-son, but I think this year the kids will ben-efit from knowing exactly where they fit in, and what’s expected of them, on the court,” he said.

All that boils down to this:“I still expect our overall playing style to

be defense-oriented, relying heavily on be-ing quicker than the other team,” he said.

The Bulldogs will play a predominately man-to-man defense, but Tucker says there is always “a time and place” for a zone de-fense.

“I like to mix things up as needed so the other team never gets too comfortable on offense,” he says.

On offense, the Bulldogs will primar-ily run a continuity/motion offense in half court.

“But if I can get them to kick the ball ahead and get shots up quickly, that will be our preference,” he says.

All that boils down to this:“Work hard on defense, have fun on of-

fense,” he says.

[ BOYS from page 10]

In his first year he was named SeaTac 2B League coach of the year.

He coached girls AAU basketball for DAP Sports in Olympia for three years and was a volunteer coach for Grays Harbor College.

The girls opened the sea-son with a 63-17 loss Dec. 3 against Seattle Christian but came back the next day to beat Rainier Beach 63-18.

“We had first-game jit-ters. Things like that,” said Smith. “The second game, they were more comfort-able and came to play. We played the way we are sup-posed to play.”

The girls kicked off their league play Dec. 11 against the Lindbergh Eagles, los-ing 68-30. They’ll resume league play after the Christ-mas break.

In a pre-season interview Smith said the team so far “has been looking strong defensively. What we lack in size we try to makeup in speed.”

The nucleus of his team, he said, is his three senior captains, Serafica, Daniels and Mills.

“They are at practice and set the tone everyday by working hard and have made my first year really easy with their leadership so far,” he said.

His varsity team is young: a lone junior, five sophomores and two fresh-men join the three seniors.

“I expect them to make lots of mistakes from inex-perience, but hope with the energy and hard-nosed de-fense, they can make up for the mistakes,” he said.

The team’s strength is its defense, he said.

“We will try to be a head-ache for any team we play,” he said. “We plan to play four quarters of pressure defense.”

Offensively, the team will “basically read and react” and push the ball back up the court.

He hasn’t discovered the team’s weaknesses “and hopefully I won’t,” he said.

Foster’s new assistant coach is Brandi Travess, who was the girls varsity head coach at Tyee High School. She’ll coach the JV team.

“I’m lucky to have her working with the JV team, because I know that will help our future,” he said.

He thanked Athletic Di-rector J.D. Hill for “trusting me with the job” and the Foster staff that has sup-ported him.

Dean A. Radford can be reached at 425-255-3484,

ext. 5150.

Senior Bre Mills is focused on the ball at a recent practice of the Foster High girls basketball team. Dean A. Radford/ Tukwila Reporter

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Tukwila School District #406

www.tukwila.wednet.edu 206.901.8000

4640 South 144th StreetTukwila, Washington 98168

Board of Directors:Mark Wahlstrom, President

206.243.9855

Steve Mullet, Vice-President 206.244.7553

Mary Fertakis 206.767.6053

Dave Larson 206.244.2313

Alicia Waterton 206.248.4302

Superintendent:

Dr. Nancy Coogan 206 901-8006

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Food for Every ChildA monthly column by Craig L. Huck-

ins, Food Service Director, Tukwila School District

The Tukwila School District’s philos-ophy believes in food for every child—we help curb hunger in our commu-nity and to provide free, healthy, and nutritious foods to as many students as possible. We took another big step toward this goal last month when we started a new-and-improved version of our after-school snack program.

These new “Power Snacks” are served up Monday through Thursday to students enrolled in one of the many after-school programs in our schools. Power Snacks feature full servings of locally grown fruits and vegetables that many kids may not consistently get at home. They also include a serving of protein, grain and milk.

Superintendent Nancy Coogan explains that “the Power Snack is an expansion of the after-school snack program that we previously off ered where all students are off ered addi-tional, balanced snacks. It is impera-tive that we provide these off erings since many of our students remain

after school engaged in academic and enrichment opportunities. I commend our Food Service Department and its work getting this program up and run-ning. Bottom line...food for all!”

The Power Snacks introduce stu-dents to proper nutrition and help their hungry stomachs get through that period between lunch and din-ner—the time when many kids reach for the most convenient, high-calorie junk foods they can fi nd such as chips, candy, fast foods, and sugar-loaded sodas and artifi cial juices.

The program is paid for by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and is part of a much larger federal children’s food program that was expanded by Congress with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.

It’s back to school for 25 employees of Providence Health & Services! They have been training—including taking a personal skills inventory—throughout December to pilot a new mentorship program that will pro-vide consistent, positive, caring role models at Foster High School on a weekly basis. The partnership was born out of Providence’s mission to support local communities in need and Foster’s goal to support every at-risk student through graduation and beyond.

City and student leaders came together Nov. 19 in aSocratic Seminar at Foster High to discuss community issues such as race rela-tions and crime on Pacifi c Highway. A Socratic Semi-nar is a collaborative, intel-lectual dialogue with open-ended questions designed to move a group toward

critical reasoning, deep un-derstanding, and solutions. All participants read a study about Critical Race Theory beforehand to guide the discussion. Students talked about their personal experi-ences living in Tukwila and the need for more positive police/student interactions, structured after-school

opportunities, drug/crime prevention, and more. Both sides agreed to continue the conversation with a follow-up meeting soon as well as opportunities that could include a youth advisory board to the City Council and joint service projects.

Student and City leaders meet in Socratic Seminar

Have you ever seen a more perfect holi-day tree for a library? Foster students Martin Franco and Seizi Yada created this literary masterpiece to remind everyone there’s some-thing we can be universally thankful for this season: Reading!

HappyWinter Break

There is NO SCHOOL for students Dec. 23 - Jan. 3. The district offi ce will be closed Dec. 23-25 andJan. 1, 2014

Please note: The printed calendar incorrectly listed the last day before break, Dec. 20, as an early release day; it is actually a full day for students and staff .

Documents

Tukwila Reporter, December 20, 2013