BY REBECCA GOURLEY

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King County voters will decide whether to add an average of $4 per month in property taxes to their bill this fall.

Th e King County Council voted 8-1 in favor of putting King County Executive Dow Constantine’s “Best Starts for Kids” initiative on the Nov. 3 ballot. District 9 Councilman Reagan Dunn voted no.

Th e proposed levy would be for six years and is aimed at funding early intervention programs and early childhood development for kids in King County, according to a release from Constantine.

Th e release also stated the levy would generate ap-proximately $58.3 million in 2016. Th e majority of those funds (50 percent) would go toward early childhood development programs for children up to age 5. About 35 percent would go to programs that assist kids and adults ages 6 through 24, 10 percent to commu-

nity programs that “improve health, social and economic outcomes,” and 5 percent would be used for “evalu-ation, data collection and program improvement.”

Constantine stressed the importance of investing in kids’ health early on to pre-vent future problems.

“We have the means, the shared commitment and now the opportunity to put every child in King County

on a path toward life-long success,” he said. “Th anks to (the) action by council members, voters will have the

option to invest earlier in the development of our

children and youth, when we have the greatest chance to help them reach their full potential.”

According to a Univer-sity of Washington study published in April of this year, there is a “causal” link between early home envi-ronments and kids’ stress response systems.

In an article published the same day of the study, UWToday writer Deborah

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Th e doors of the 2015 legislative session opened Jan. 12, and 176 days later the battle-scarred lawmakers left Olympia – sine die.

Th e budget gymnastics beat the former high-water mark of 163 days set in 2001 by 13. In a few years the session may be little more than a foggy question on some high school senior’s history exam, or back-ground for a reporter’s story about another legislative battle royal, but this year it left many lawmakers staggered like punch-drunk pugilists in the 15th round.

For the record the lawmaker met for the initial biennial budget session of 105 days. Th e work spilled over into three special sessions with the end coming on a Friday – July 10.

Th e operating budget, which created most of the trouble in River City, was settled in principle aft er 163 days. Th e next 13 were spent fi nishing the transportation budget and wrestling for the votes to delay by four years implementation of Initiative 1351, the class size initiative. Suspending the initiative took a two-thirds majority in both chambers. Th e math to balance the operating budget was based on suspending the initiative, which saved $2 billion.

INSIDE THE ROOM A week aft er the close of the session,

47th District Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, discussed the session and his role in the budget battle.

Fain said the lead play-ers on the Senate side who craft ed the budget were Sen. Andy Hill, R-Red-mond from the 45th, Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia, 20th and himself. Fain said his role was generally in the back offi ce off ering “quality control” and a “reality check.”

He said the process began as bipartisan but the minority party representatives left

Behind the state Senate budget doors

BY SARAH BRENDEN

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Come Saturday, Lake Wilderness Park will be bustling with people bumping, setting and spiking a

volleyball.For the second year in a row, the Digs for

Denise volleyball tournament will begin at 9 a.m. Aug. 1 and ends around 4 p.m.

Th e tournament is in honor of Denise Th om, a Fairwood resident, who died in September 2014.

Th om was diagnosed with triple negative

breast cancer in October 2012.Erinn Cassidy, Th om’s friend, said

friends and family hosted the fi rst tourna-ment last year “in an eff ort to lift her spirits and bring all of her loved ones together for a day of fun and opportunity to visit with her.”

A volleyball tournament seemed the best fi t because one of Th om’s daughter plays volleyball and Th om and her husband also played on a rec team, Cassidy said.

“Volleyball is also a great activity for people of all ages to participate in,” she added.

Last year’s inaugural Digs for Denise raised around $7,000.

Cassidy said they hope to meet or exceed that number this time around.

“But ultimately, it is also a day about re-membering and celebrating Denise as well as bringing awareness to breast cancer,” Cassidy said.

So far, 100 participants are registered and she anticipates there will be roughly 200 spectators.

Th e tournament is broken up into six age divisions.

Digs for Denise returns to Lake Wilderness Park

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Th e Maple Valley City Council is turning to citizens to weigh in on a potential city-wide fi reworks ban.

Th e council is considering placing an ad-visory note on the Nov. 3 general election ballot to ask citizens if they would support a fi reworks ban. Th e result of the advisory vote is nonbinding.

Deputy Mayor Sean Kelly said the council will discuss the ban aft er the results are in and decide what to do based on the citizens’ choice.

Kelly also said King County Elections needs the information for the ballot by Aug. 4, the day aft er the next slated special council meeting, so this process “has been moving fast,” he said in an interview Tuesday morning.

According to Kelly, city staff and the city’s attorney, Jeff Taraday, are working on an offi cial resolution for the council to vote on during next week’s special City Council meeting, Monday, Aug. 3. Th e resolution would authorize the advisory note to be placed on the ballot and for the informa-tion to be sent to the county.

In addition to a resolution, the city also needs to appoint two people to write the pro and con statements for the advisory note and voter’s pamphlet.

City Clerk Shaunna Lee-Rice said two citizens showed interest in writing those two statements, Clark Davis and Linda Olson.

Davis, who runs several fi reworks stands in the area and is also an insurance agent in Maple Valley, was interested in writing the con statement, or the one that is not in favor of a ban.

Olson showed interest in writing the pro statement. She spoke at Monday

night’s meeting during the public comment portion, stating noise from fi reworks poses a problem, not just fi re danger. At a previous

council meeting, Olson also stated her concern for veterans enduring the

loud bangs of fi reworks during Indepen-dence Day celebrations.

“It isn’t just the fi re danger,” Olson said in a phone interview Tuesday. “It’s beyond that.”

Olson said she wants help writing it if she does get appointed by the council to do so, but said she wanted to make sure not just fi re danger was mentioned in the statement.

Th e pro and con statements are due to the county by Aug. 13, said Lee-Rice.

Th e special City Council meeting is set for 7 p.m., Aug. 3 at Lake Wilderness Lodge.

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Th e Maple Valley Public Library, in association with the Lake Wilderness Arboretum Foundation and Greenplay Coop-erative, present children’s story time in Lake Wilder-ness Arboretum at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 5 and Wednesday, Aug. 19.

Th ese free family events for children of all ages ac-companied by adults take place in the arboretum’s meadow by the gazebo. Th ey feature stories and

songs with children’s li-brarian Sharon Chastain.

Families can also enjoy a nature-craft ing booth sponsored by Greenplay Cooperative, a non-profi t organization dedicated to play-based, nature-in-spired learning for young children and their fami-lies, and live music to in-spire garden explorations or walks on the Tribal Life Trail, where kids can learn how the native cultures of the Pacifi c Northwest used their natural resources.

Farm fresh snacks will be provided and families are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch. Free parking is available at the arbore-tum and Lake Wilderness Lodge.

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Atrial fibrillation is the most common form of irregular heartbeat. Even so, the number of people who have visited the hospital with atrial fibrillation has almost doubled in the past few years. One factor of this alarming increase may be a greater awareness of the condition, which is what transpires when the heart’s upper two chambers become disorganized and rapid in their beating rhythm. Atrial fibrillation may have any number of causes including high blood pressure, heart attacks, abnormal valves, infections, and exposure to stimulants. Sometimes the origin of atrial fibrillation is never discovered. The symptoms include racing heart or palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, and sweating. If you have any symptoms of atrial fibrillation, see a doctor. If you have chest pain as well, seek emergency medical assistance.

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King County’s 920-acre Cedar Hills Regional Landfi ll located near Maple Valley takes in about 800,000 tons of solid waste a year off the trucks hauling compacted residential and commercial solid waste from transfer stations, and buries it.

But Pat McLaughlin, King County director of Solid Waste, said 78 percent of the stuff could be recycled, so Cedar Hills is fi lling up much faster than need be.

By 2030, he said, barring drastic action, Cedar Hills will run out of room. When that happens the county, according to its 2001 Solid Waste Management Plan, will have to contract with an out-of-county landfi ll for long-term disposal, for $10-to-$15 million more than it costs today. Higher costs that it will pass on to its customers.

“We are consuming the very, very valuable air space at the landfi ll unnecessarily, and our only other option is more expensive,” McLaughlin said. “And so, as we are endeavoring to keep our rates low and competitive and our services sup-ported with value, we’re really challenged to fi nd a way to work boldly and collaboratively on a plan that will ensure we don’t unnecessarily raise our costs.”

McLauglin went to Auburn to talk about a plan for achieving higher recycling rates, as outlined in a program called the “Roadmap to 70 percent.” With him was Jeff Gaisford, King County’s manager of Recycling and Environ-mental Services.

King County built up the bones of the plan from successful practices already in use else-where in the country. Th at includes Northern California, which, McLaughlin noted, has achieved recycling rates 10 percentage points higher than King County has.

County offi cials have distilled their fi nd-

ings into fi ve core actions, keyed to “diverting resources instead of burying them.”

Action one calls for the county to adopt the following:

1. Separation of resources. Th at is, beyond the existing curbside programs, high subscription rates and successful recycling practices, custom-ers have to stop contaminating the recycling resource stream with garbage.

2. Mandatory separation of resourc-es from waste. Customers already have the containers, and the county’s hauling partners have said they can manage this part of the waste stream.

3. Establishment of a robust enforcement program. Th is calls for customer education, and at the same time expecting residents and busi-nesses to play by the rules should provide the incentives for business partners to support the eff ort, McLauglin said. If all the county gives its business partners is a contaminated waste stream, he said, the program won’t get far.

“We can’t simply divert resources and force them onto these private haulers and process-ing companies if there’s no market or plan for them. Th ey won’t do that. Th ey’re smart business people, and they need to know that there’s a system in place to process, sell and move these market goods. Th ey’re not going to warehouse them for us,” he said.

And because 78 percent of what’s being brought into the system is resource rich, the solid waste division needs to be able to harvest the resources instead of burying them.

“We’re a safety net. We’re a last resort. Th e best thing we could do is educate people not to create the waste in the fi rst place,” McLaughlin said. “We need to partner with businesses through product stewardship programs to get smarter

packaging and end-of — the line ownership. Obviously, we also need to work through our business partners to educate them on proper recycling at the curb. But we’re doing that now, and we are still getting 78 percent resources brought into our facilities. We can’t turn our head from that. We need to be able to harvest those resources as well.”

Gaisford said the county could take incre-mental steps toward achieving its goals, such as mandating that businesses and schools separate their food from the waste stream and put it into the compost cart. If businesses and schools were

required to do this, he said, the county would see an increase of 4½ percent in its recycling rates county wide.

Among other steps: recovering mate-rials like paper, metal and food that can be recycled today and which already have markets; and taking maximum advantage of existing infrastructure such as carts, which haulers like Waste Management already provide to the

cities.“You’ll see that there are no silver bullets. We

need to increase recycling for all four of our key waste generators: single-family, multi-family, non residential and self hauling … As we’re able to rebuild our transfer stations into new facili-ties, we’re able to separate more of the materials and provide more recycling services to our self haulers, which is a huge component of this — need to increase their recycling rate as well,” Gaisford said.

“… We don’t need to do all of this tomor-row. Th ere’s some of these that are more ripe for action, such as single-family. Th ey already have high participation rates, we just have to maximize the food recycling because we know that not a lot of food recycling is going on. As for multi-family, there are some issues going on. We need to know they have the right containers and space,” Gaisford said.

County warns Cedar Hills Regional Landfill to be full by 2030

King County Director of Solid Waste Pat McLaughlin says 78 percent of the material at Cedar Hills Regional Landfi ll could be recycled

“We’re a safety net. We’re a last resort. The best thing we could do is educate people not to create the waste in the fi rst place,” Pat McLaughlin

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During that fateful summer aft er graduating college, before locking down my career path, I found myself strapped for cash as friends more fortunate than I wanted to go out and celebrate their newfound status in society.

So to keep up with the Joneses, I did what any reasonable post-college graduate would do. I went back to my pre-college food vending job.

I dug down deep and worked the trenches at the Capitol Lake Fair in Olympia, serving roasted corn to thousands of hot and sweaty fair-goers, who, apparently, have ravenous appetites for butter-slathered zea mays.

Not that I blame them – if I was shipwrecked on an island where only corn grows, and my ship was delivering an unlimited supply of cayenne pepper, garlic powder and Johnny’s Seasoning Salt, I would be a very happy Chuck Noland.

And yes, on long summer days I would draw faces on my new starchy friends.

I didn’t realize how soft and squishy my col-lege life had let me become until I stepped back into that yellow and green booth.

I worked a 12 hour shift my fi rst day and a 16 hour shift the second.

In front of me, I faced hot asphalt and clear blue skies that allowed the sun to constantly as-sault my sensitive ginger skin.

And behind me, I’ve got a roaring corn roaster that the devil himself would think twice about sticking his hands in to grab a delicious cob.

So maybe it was the heat, or the blisters run-ning the length of my foot or the lack of sleep I

had during this venture back into the blue collar world, but I found myself barely holding back the urge to enact a “mandatory tipping fee” ev-ery time a customer deviated from proper food vendor etiquette.

So if you enjoy those large fairs with rides that spin so fast they make you sick, drinks so large they make you sick, and where you can eat as much corn as your want until you make yourself sick… please consider these tips when you order your food.

1) Look at the stand you’re ordering food from. Th is seems like a no-brainer, but if I had a dollar for every time someone stood under-neath the awning of the booth that advertises our roasted corn in green letters as large as my forearm and ask me if this is where everyone is getting their corn, I’d never need to shuck another cob again.

2) Know what you want. If it’s a slow day,

please come ask us what an Arnold Palmer is and what sort of free samples we have of those yummy crunchy cinnamon glazed nuts we carry. It’s a great way to break out the monotony and I get to perform my well-rehearsed spiels about the food we serve. But if it’s a busy day and you are at the front of a line 20 people deep, please tell us what the beast in your stomach is craving and step to the side.

3) Give us your order all at once. Don’t parse out your order in three or four separate sen-tences, because it makes it hard for us to keep a running total of corn and drinks to serve.

4) Have your money ready and out of your wallet. You’re about to partake in one of life’s greatest, albeit messiest, treats. Even if you pay with a $100 bill, just have it out in your hand and put your change in your pocket so you can grab

What do we know about the Islamic State? We know that I.S. came from al-Qaida and then broke off to form its own jihadi organization. How do the strategies of these two Islamic orga-nizations differ? Are the differences important?

Understanding the dif-ferences between the two will help us understand their motives, actions and futures. My source is Stratfor’s Scott Stewart in a series of articles in the “Security Weekly” beginning June 11, 2015.

In his first article, Stewart argues that while al-Qaida has been beaten down by U.S. air-strikes and drone attacks and much of its lead-ership has been killed, including Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaida is down but not out.

According to Stewart, I.S. has taken some of al-Qaida’s support away because I.S. was able to take large chunks of territory in Iraq and Syria and proclaim a caliphate—a new nation with a new leadership of all Muslims. These victories have brought both money and jihadis (holy war-

riors) from all over the world to fight for I.S. Because the Islamic State has grabbed the

headlines, pressure against al-Qaida has dimin-ished. Recent successes in eastern Yemen have also given them a base of operations. Additionally al-Qaida has worked to rebrand itself as the “more moderate form of jihadism.”

Bin Laden, understanding geopolitics better than the leaders of I.S., was strongly against grab-bing territory and then proclaiming a caliphate. He knew that the U.S. and its allies would bring destruction on such a state and declaration. Bin Laden counseled patience by first weakening the United States coalition, making them unable or unwilling to attack before proclaiming either a caliphate or an Islamic state. This approach is one of the key differences between al-Qaida and I.S.

According to Stewart in his second article, Bin Laden, shortly before his death in May 2011, warned in a memo to the leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula: “We should stress on the importance of timing of an Islamic state…We have to continue with exhausting and depleting them (the U.S. and its allies) until they become so weak that they can’t overthrow any state that we establish. That will be the time to commence with forming the Islamic state.” 

Previous proclamations of Islamic states under a caliphate were soundly defeated in Somalia by an international coalition and in Mali by French forces. Boko Haram also lost most of its captured territory in northeastern Nigeria after proclaiming itself allied with I.S.

While Boko Haram in Nigeria has claimed alle-giance to the Islamic State, there is no evidence of any support from them – not money or weapons or recruits or direction. I.S. is too busy fighting for its own survival to aid Boko Haram.

Apparently, having an address invites destruc-tion. It is what Stewart calls “the trap of place.” I.S. has lost land because of U.S. airstrikes and victories by allied ground troops. Obama’s strategy is work-ing, despite the criticism he received, although his plan will take years to bring to completion.

Stewart predicts that I.S. will eventually fol-low in the footsteps of the Afghan Taliban, of al-Shahaab in Somalia, of al-Qaida in the Magreb (northwest Africa), and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen).

In order to survive, I.S. will have to return to amorphous statelessness, as it did after the U.S. surge in Iraq drove I.S. to war-torn Syria to regroup and heal before returning again to take over parts of Syria and Iraq last year.

Thus we can see the major differences between al-Qaida and IS: al-Qaida is the more patient jihadist group while I.S. is the impatient upstart. Al-Qaida has branded itself as the more moderate of the two jihadi groups, playing the long game. According to Stewart, al-Qaeda is more likely to survive than the Islamic State.

It seems Bin Laden understood the U.S. and her allies much better than I.S. does. The United States does better when it has a concrete enemy to attack. We don’t do as well against a stateless foe.

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• On July 20 officers to responded to Wal-greens due to the report that an unknown female had taken 16 bottles of perfume and cologne without paying for it.

• On July 24 officers responded to Walmart to reports that the victim left his backpack outside near his bike and when he came back outside the backpack was missing.

• On July 26 officers responded to reports of two juvenile males run-ning out of the QFC with three cases of alcohol in their arms.

• On July 26 the victim reported her purse and contents were stolen from her vehicle by an un-known suspect.

BURGLARY• On July 22 it was

reported that an unknown subject broke into the victim’s RV and broke the rear blinds. The police report didn’t state if any items were taken from the vehicle or not.

• On July 24 officers responded to the victim’s home to reports that their

garage had been broken into. The police report stated items totaling $1,300 were missing.

VANDALISM• On July 20 officers

responded to reports of a verbal argument. The ar-gument resulted in a hole being punched in a door. One subject was arrested for malicious mischief.

• On July 22 officers were called to investigate graffiti under a Highway 18 overpass. According to the police report, graf-fiti included some devil worship images as well as Nazi symbols.

• On July 24 officers responded to reports of the victim hearing vehicles near her house early in the morning. Ac-cording to the report, she was unable to see any-thing but when she went outside later she noticed tire marks in her yard.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES• On July 22 around 5

p.m. officers responded to reports that an un-known male tried to enter the reporting party’s home without their per-mission.

DISTURBANCE• On July 22 officers

responded to the scene of a verbal argument be-tween two former friends. It was stated that the incident happened in the front yard of a residence. No crimes were commit-ted, the police report was written for informational purposes only.

ATTEMPTING TO ELUDE• On July 23 around

12:45 a.m. officers re-ported a subject attempt-ing elude them on foot. The police report stated the officers were attempt-ing to stop the subject while they were driving because their motorcycle did not have headlights or tail lights.

HARASSMENT• On July 23 officers

responded to reports of the victim’s driveway being covered in shav-ing cream. According to the police report obscene words along with im-ages were found drawn in shaving cream at the victim’s location.

BOMBING• On July 23 officers

were called to the vic-tim’s home where they reported their mailbox had been destroyed using fireworks. According to the police report, there are no known suspects.

ASSAULT • On July 23 officers

responded to reports of a father punching his son in the stomach.

CRIMINAL WARRANT• On July 25 officers

arrested a subject after a welfare check because he was reportedly walk-ing in the middle of the roadway. The subject was arrested and booked into King County Jail for mis-demeanor warrants out of Maple Valley and Kent.

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By Kevin HansonSenior Writer

As the King County Fair was preparing to launch its four-day run two weeks ago, good news arrived in the simplest of forms – cash.

The historic fair – which was operated for the first time by a local, nonprofit group – received a financial shot in the arm from King County. An agreement was announced that the county will contribute $50,000 to help fund the fair. The news was shared by King County Councilman Reagan Dunn and King County Executive Dow Constantine.

The funds, which will be funneled through the city of Enumclaw and distributed during the next two years, aim to strengthen fair opera-tions and help to ensure the continued success of the long standing summer event. The King County Fair first greet-ed guests in 1862, making it the oldest fair west of the Mississippi River.

Dunn, whose district includes the Enumclaw area,

expressed appreciation for all the fair represents.

“Besides providing great entertainment, the King County Fair plays a vital role in preserving King County’s agricultural roots, which is especially important as we as a region work to increase the amount of food produced locally,” Dunn said.

Dunn wasn’t the only elected official weighing in on the financial contribution.

“By supporting 4-H and its youth education programs at the fair, we celebrate our rich agricultural heritage and 152 years of the County Fair,” Constantine said. He termed the Enumclaw event a “trea-sured summertime tradition for families.”

Enumclaw Mayor Liz Reynolds was appreciative of the county’s cash disburse-ment, as was Richard Corella, who heads the nonprofit Enumclaw Expo and Events Association.

“Your continued support of the King County Fair is a wonderful collaboration that will assist in reenergiz-ing the longest running fair

west of the Mississippi…and keep a slice of history alive and strengthen the economy in our rural communities,” Reynolds said.

The King County Fair sports an up-and-down his-tory, particularly in recent years. After many decades of success, the county continu-ally whittled its financial sup-port, most notably with the onset of the recession. Finally, in 2009, operations were handed over to the city. That eventually led to an arrange-ment with a Tennessee-based company that operated the fair for several years.

With the coming of 2015, the city handed operations of the Expo Center to the non-profit Enumclaw Expo and Events Association, which opted to run this year’s fair, which wrapped up Sunday.

The $50,000 in funding is in addition to the $10,000 in funding for the fair to assist with costs and operating expenses that was adopted as part of the county’s 2015-16 biennial budget.

The Black Diamond Community Center is tak-ing donations for its “Back to School Supplies” pro-gram that helps low-income families in the greater Black

Diamond area.Needed are backpacks,

three-ring binders, spiral notebooks, paper packs, folders, calculators, scissors, glue sticks, ball-point pens,

markers, colored pencils, pink erasers, No. 2 pencils, pencil boxes and pouches.

Anyone wishing to donate can call or stop by the Community Center at 31605 Third Ave. (state Route 169) in Black Diamond.

Supplies should be dropped off by Aug. 17.

Anyone with questions can call 360-886-1011.

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about “half way through” when there were demands to not compromise.

Fain credited Hill and Democratic leader Sen. Jim Hargrove, Hoquiam, with keeping communication lines open so the process could move ahead.

“They continued to bounce ideas off each other,” Fain said. “Andy Hill is the best public servant we have.”

Fain said he expected there would be a special session this year.

“It’s tough in 105 days when there is this much to get done,” he said “(But) I was surprised it came to the edge of the diving board.... Yes it was frustrating, but it is sup-posed to be. There are 7 million wildly dif-ferent opinions distilled into action.... There are thousands of personal issues. It was never designed to be an easy job. Dictator-ships are easy, democracies are not.”

For budget writers, the job comes down to priorities and choices according to the senator.

“There is a lot of diversity (in the Leg-islature) that is not easily seen,” Fain said. “It ranges from individuals who are really connected to social conservative values to those who are hard line on taxes to those who are not social conservatives but fiscal

conservatives. There is every match you can imagine. We do go at it from our personal perspective. Diversity can be difficult, it’s part of the frustration, and it is part of the joy of the job.”

OPERATING BUDGET The operating budget is typically a

struggle in Olympia, but this year it became a MMA cage fight when the state Supreme Court found the state of Washington in contempt for not complying with the Court’s Jan. 5, 2012 McCleary v. Washing-ton order, which directed the Legislature to fulfill its funding obligation as stated in Article IX of the state Constitution.

“The operating budget is the most dif-ficult because it has to happen,” Fain said. “There are no options. You have to have an operating budget. A transportation budget is not constitutionally necessary.”

Fain said the “partisan side” of him feels the problems were created by the “hard lines drawn in the sand that made it hard to come off of, (like) massive tax increases. Our side was more flexible and not dug in.”

The senator said no budget is perfect and, “the goal is not perfection. If it were then July would be early (to adjourn).”

Although the budget process was long

and difficult, Fain noted Washington is the first state in the nation to reduce college tuition. He added the investment in educa-tion was the largest in decades.

Fain, who is an attorney, did not specu-late on how the Supreme Court would rule on the contempt ruling. Although the Legislature invested $1.3 billion in K-12 education with pay hikes for teachers and money for all-day kindergarten, Fain said he is frustrated the legislative body has been unable to resolve the inequities in funding basic education between districts.

“The state is now paying for what the state is supposed to pay for, (including) books, buses, all-day kindergarten,” Fain said.

According to Fain the next step is the heart of McCleary, which is addressing the funding inequities between districts. Fain said there is a bipartisan plan in the Senate that did not make it through the hoops this year.

Fain is a member of the Nine Commit-tee working with the state Office of the Attorney General to write a response to the court.

More will be reported on this issue when the Supreme Court considers the case again.

DOING THE JOB RIGHT Writing a $38 billion state operating bud-

get has never been listed as one of the top three fun things to do on a vacation.

From the first days of the session when Gov. Jay Inslee released the executive branch budget, to the final signatures, the bill works its way through countless hours of who wants what, for whom, why and where is the money.

Fain said the core of building a budget and the hard part of the job is prioritizing. According to the senator the governor is supposed to provide a Book One or basic budget, but Inslee sent in a Book Two “with additional revenue he wanted. The value of prioritizing a budget is saying I can’t afford everything. What is the most important.”

Fain said the $800 million in unexpected revenue that came in May as the state cof-fers rebounded from the recession, “solved a lot of problems.”

In the end the budget has to come to the chamber floor for a vote and be signed by the person living in the mansion.

“I would say if you do the job right, you recognize it is a team sport,” Fain said. “You need to grow your team bigger and party preference has less to do with it than who is on your team.”

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5) Don’t fold your bills. This may be the cardinal sin of vendor shoppers, even worse than not having your money ready. Every time I have to un-fold or un-wad a mess of one dollar bills, I want to club you with the corn that should rightfully

be used as nourishment, not a tool for corporeal punish-ment.

6) Don’t ask for special treatment. I can’t roast the corn differently, shave the corn into a cup or MacGyver some sort of holding instru-ment for your food when I have a line of famished corn-ivores behind you. And if I do help you, because your kids are extra cute or you ob-viously need the help, keep us happy by putting your change into the tip jar. A dollar or two goes a long way in mak-ing sure everyone who needs special treatment receives it.

7) Be polite. Being a cus-tomer doesn’t mean you’re entitled to any sort of service or product, and I’ll gladly re-fuse to serve you if you bark orders at me or my cowork-ers. The corn will keep roast-ing, no matter who you are.

8) Don’t ask us where another food vendor is. Just don’t.

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Working any sort of food vending job is hard. It’s intense work with long hours and little pay, so please, when you’re enjoying your next street fair, keep these tips in mind, and we will gladly re-ciprocate your kindness and genteel manner with the most delicious piping hot buttered up corn on the cob we can.

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The Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council will hold its monthly meeting 7-9 p.m. Monday at the Maple Valley Fire Station on the southeast corner of the intersection of Southeast 231st Street and state Route 169.

The guest will be John Taylor from the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks who will discuss the King County Council’s recently approved Rural Economic Strategies.

Members of the public are invited to attend and can address the council on any local issue during an open comment period at the start of each meeting.

The council is locally elected and represents all unin-corporated area residents living in the Tahoma School District.

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BY HEIDI SANDERS

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Jimmy Shane spends his days during the week

working as an integration engineer for Blue Origin in Kent, but on summer week-ends, the 29-year-old pur-sues his lifelong passion of racing hydroplanes as driver of the H1 Unlimited Oberto’s Miss Madison.

“It has always been a pretty large passion starting as young as I did,” Shane said.

Shane began racing hydroplanes at the age of 8. His father began racing in 1969, and Shane’s mother and sister also took up racing. Shane said the family raced against each other during his teenage years.

“We all traveled together as a family,” he said. “It was fantastic.”

Shane was named Ameri-can Power Boat Association Region 4 Rookie of the Year in 2001. He drove in the limited classes before enter-ing Unlimited competition as a substitute driver in 2007. He raced his first full season in the Unlimited series in 2012 and joined the Oberto team in 2014.

Shane’s passion for hydroplanes also includes their construction. He built his own boats when he first started racing.

“My family owned a custom metal fabrication business,” he said.” I grew up in the industry of metal fabrication.”

Shane said his back-ground in metal fabrication

and experience building boats, led to his job build-ing rockets at Blue Origin, a privately funded aerospace manufacturer set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.

Shane started working at Blue Origin about two years ago, when he moved

to Covington from his native Maryland with his wife, Bian-ca, who is originally from Sammamish.

“She got her way and we ended up here in Seattle,” Shane said.

Shane said he is able to balance his

job at Blue Origin with rac-ing by using vacation time to go to races during the season.

“They (Blue Origin) knew hiring me about the hydroplane racing,” Shane said. “They have been abso-lutely great to work with.”

Shane said his wife and 2-year-old son, Colton, often travel with him to the races.

“We like to do that as family,” he said.

Shane said he will let Colton decide when he gets older if he wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and pursue racing.

“If he is anything like me it is going to be really hard for him not be somewhat involved growing up in that environment,” he said.

Racing has taught Shane a lot of life lessons, such as trying new things and learning from failing.

“Setting goals and trying to achieve to the highest you can is one of biggest

life lessons I have learned,” he said.

Shane said his goals for this season are to win the Gold Cup and a national title, both for the sec-ond year in a row. Shane achieved the first of his two goals on Sunday with a win in the Tri-Cities. The win, Shane’s ninth career win in H1 Unlimited Hydroplane series racing, puts Oberto in the lead for the National High Points Title. Shane said winning the National High Points Title not only comes with the U1 number for the boat but gives the team bragging rights for an entire season.

Shane said winning the Gold Cup last year, in his first season with the team, was a big deal, since it had been 43 years since Miss Madison had won the Gold Cup.

Shane said Oberto has been one of the boats to beat for a while, with five National High Points Titles in the past seven years.

“Everyone knows when Oberto shows up we are there to win races,” he said. “We go into season know-ing that everyone is shoot-ing for what we have.”

Shane said he is fortu-nate to work with a team like Oberto. He said it took some time for the team to adjust to Shane as the boat’s new driver last year.

“They were a team that was very experienced with their driver and crew chief for last 10 years,” he said. “It threw a loop into the operation.”

Shane will take to the waters of Lake Washington this weekend for the Albert Lee Appliance Seafair Cup. The course can be challeng-

ing, Shane said. “Seafair is a very unique

course,” he said. “It is a smaller course being a two-mile track.”

He said the logboom makes for a choppy waters, not allowing the boats’

waves to dissipate. “When the wind gets

blowing it throws an-other toughness to the race course,” he said. “It is very unpredictable and changes every single lap.… It is ex-citing for the fans but tough for the race team to win Seafair and keep the boat in one piece.”

Shane said hydroplane racing has struggled in the last few years, but seems to be on the upswing, gaining popularity.

There will are five races in the circuit this year, but two will be added next year, bringing the total closer to days of 12 unlimited races each season.

Shane said hydroplane racing has a good following in the Pacific Northwest, with Seafair and the races in the Tri-Cities drawing a couple hundred thousand spectators.

“If we can get some new areas to have that same market, we will be in really good shape,” Shane said.

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Ailen Rosales appeared comfortable as she walked the hospital wing, station to station.

She stood bright as a job shadow on a busy morning.

“It’s more than what I expected,” said Rosales, pausing between patients in the intensive care unit at the MultiCare Auburn Medical Center last week. “It’s inter-esting to see how it works. … It’s always unpredictable. You’re always on your feet.”

Rosales was one of 109 high school students from throughout the South Puget Sound who got a hands-on look at careers in nursing at MultiCare Health System’s 12th annual Nurse Camp July 20-24.

During the fi ve-day camp, students tried out medical devices, performed “Skittlectomies” on man-nequins, practiced suturing on pig kidneys and shad-owed professional nurses and other health care professionals in various departments at MultiCare’s fi ve hospitals – Auburn, Tacoma General Hospital, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Center in Tacoma, Good Samari-tan Hospital in Puyallup,

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Th e camp was everything and more to Rosales, 16, a junior-to-be at Kent-Meridian High School. Th e process is competitive, and this year the camp chose 109 of the 250 teens who applied.

“I didn’t want to go in with high expectations, nor low expectations, but I know that it’s defi nitely

been something very eye opening for me,” Rosales said. “Now I know, ‘Oh, Th is is probably something that I will be doing.’ I feel more certain and confi -dent.”

Rosales, the elemen-tary school girl, wanted to become a doctor one day. But the teen had a change of heart aft er a Nurse Camp promo on her high school bulletin board caught her

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She has come up with a new plan. She begins a two-year pre-nursing degree program through Running Start at Highline College in the fall. She intends to pursue a four-year degree and preferably work as a

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The Washington state Legislature included $1 million in funding for the statewide 211 system in the fi nal budget. Funding will support the seven 211 regional call centers that make up the Washington Informa-tion Network 211 (WIN211).

211 is a free, confi dential, and easy-to-remember phone number that serves as a lifeline for over a half million people across the state each year. With a single phone call to 2-1-1, those in need receive information and referrals to essential health and human services such as:

• Where to go for food and shelter

• What to do if utilities are turned off

• Where to get free or low-cost health and dental care services

• How to get rent or mortgage as-sistance

• Where to fi nd job assistance and employment resources

• How to get help with civil legal issues

• Where to fi nd services for Veterans

People in search of critical services often don’t know where to begin looking for help and can get overwhelmed when searching for assistance.

“It usually takes 8 to 12 calls before someone is able to fi nd the right agency to help them. By calling 211, they can get that information with a single call,” said Madelyn Carlson, Administrator for WIN 211.

Information and referral services like 211 streamline the process by assessing each caller’s unique needs and referring them to agencies best equipped to assist them. 211 is much more than directory assistance. Callers also get useful information about how to access services in a complex system that is often diffi cult to navigate.

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AUGUST 6Music in the parkLake Wilderness Parkwww.maplevalleywa.gov

AUGUST 7Concert in the park6:30 p.m.Covington Community Park

AUGUST 13Music in the parkLake Wilderness Parkwww.maplevalleywa.gov

AUGUST 14Outdoor family concert7 to 8 p.m. and 8:30 to 10 p.m. www.covingtonwa.gov

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Th ere are four junior age brackets along with an adult rec and an adult competitive division.

Cassidy said the tourney will begin with pool play in each age group.

Once pool play is over, single elimination play will begin until a winner from each age division is determined.

Th e volleyball tournament itself is not the only activity people can participate in on Saturday.

Cassidy said there will be a KidsZone that includes a bouncy house, face painting and other games hosted by the Phoenix Montessori.

Th om was co-owner of the Montessori that is located in Fairwood.

Food will also be available, Cassidy added, along with a raffl e and auction.

From restaurant gift certifi cates to sports memo-rabilia will be available in the raffl e and auction.

One hundred percent of the proceeds from the tournament, Cassidy said, is donated to Wings of Karen, a nonprofi t in Maple Valley.

In turn, Cassidy added, Wings of Karen then donates proceeds to breast cancer research at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, UW Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research.

Th is year, Wings of Karen donated to triple nega-tive breast cancer research in Th om’s name, Cassidy said.

Digs for Denise doesn’t seem to be going any-where, anytime soon.

Cassidy said Th om helped plan last year’s tourna-ment and was “adamant that this become an annual event.”

When asked to share a little about Th om, Cassidy said it was the hardest question to answer.

“It is so hard to encapsulate who she was,” Cas-sidy said.

She did say that Th om was “the most likable and generous person you could ever meet, not a mean bone in her body.”

Registration for the volleyball tournament ended at midnight Th ursday but there are other ways for the public to participate, Cassidy said.

People can attend the event and participate in the raffl e and auction or donations are accepted via EventBrite (http://www.eventbrite.com/e/digs-for-denise-grass-volleyball-tournament-tick-ets-16552721636) or by contacting the Digs for Denise group via Facebook (www.facebook.com/digsfordenise).

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The Digs for Denise volleyball tournament held at Lake Wilderness Park raised nearly $7,000 last year. Saturday, the second annual tournament begins at 9 a.m. and is expected to last until 4 p.m.DENNIS BOX, File photos

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Former Kentwood Conqueror and Washington State University graduate Kent Hagen advanced to play in the 89th Washington State Amateur Championship.

Th e championship run Aug. 4 to 6 at the Suncadia Resort Rope Rider golf course in Cle Elum.

Hagen took home fi rst place aft er winning the East qualifi er round on July 21 at the Wine Valley Golf Club in Walla Walla.

He shot a 66, six-under par 72,

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Th e amateur championship will consist of 120 players.

Last year, Tyler Salsbury from Enumclaw won the amateur cham-pionship with a one stroke lead over the other participates.

For more information on the upcoming tournament visit www.thewsga.org.

Former Kentwood golfer advances to championship

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Rosales figures that when she graduates from college, the demand will be great for registered nurses.

According to RN recruit-ers at MultiCare, there is a need for nurses now. The size and nature of the RN work force fluctuates, runs in cycles, they explained. Retirements and other fac-tors play a part at any given

time at what’s available to those breaking into the spe-cialized nursing profession.

“There currently is a great demand for nurses. We are in the early stages of another nursing shortage,” said Kim Giglio, director of talent acquisition programs for MultiCare. “A lot of it has to do with demograph-ics. When people went into nursing there was a pe-riod of time when nursing wasn’t at the top of the list of professions that people were choosing. They were choosing high tech or other fields.

“And then, here in Pierce County we did a really good job of building visibility for the career of nursing through events like Nurse Camp, working with the schools, educating students about the fact that nursing is a great career choice,”

Giglio said.As RN recruiters point

out, today’s nurse needs to be well organized, customer-service oriented, empathetic, flexible, and have good time-manage-ment- and problem-solving skills.

RN recruiters say many Nurse Camp participants go on to careers as RNs, some decide to become spe-cialists, like imaging techni-cians or physical therapists and others choose medical school.

Options like that intrigue Faatihma Nasheed, 17. The senior-to-be at West Au-burn High School wanted to see for herself what Nurse Camp was all about.

“I like fast-paced things. I’m outgoing and get along with everybody. I care about people. I didn’t know there were so many fields

in the medical profes-sion,” said Nasheed, who is exploring the possibility of becoming an obstetri-cian. “My grandmother was a midwife, and I’ve seen many births of my cousins and family. … I just think it’s beautiful.”

Avry Freaney, a junior-to-be at Kentwood High School, is debating be-tween careers in medicine or nursing. The camp has provided a great opportu-nity to see if nursing is the right fit for her.

“It’s really great expo-sure,” she said. “It gives you an idea of what you might like to do before you go into college.”

MultiCare has long recognized the need to encourage a more diverse and well-prepared health workforce. It began its first Nurse Camp in 2003,

graduating 30 students. Every year since, the camp has grown in popularity, with an increasing number of young men considering nursing careers, too.

“The experience was phenomenal,” said Jared Luna, a Nurse Camp grad-uate and volunteer. “I was pretty sure I was going to go into nursing. … (The camp) was a great final stepping stone to confirm (my interest in) nursing.”

Luna, of Tacoma, volunteers weekly in the emergency department at St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way. He begins a four-year nursing degree

program this fall at Pen-sacola Christian College, Fla., and has his sights set on a career as an advanced practitioner nurse.

“I’m looking to special-ize in either emergency or trauma (department nursing),” Luna said. “You’ve got to be flexible. You don’t know who or what’s coming in (for im-mediate nursing care).”

More than 250 Multi-Care staff members and volunteers, and more than 20 sponsors from the local community, made this year’s Nurse Camp possible.

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Bach summarized the results of the research and stated early intervention methods can help mitigate children’s responses to stress later in life, “but only if that happens before age 2.”

The lead author in the study, Katie McLaughlin, is a UW assistant profes-sor of psychology.

She is quoted in Bach’s article saying, “The early environment has a very strong impact on how the stress response system in the body develops…. But even kids exposed to a very extreme negative en-vironment who are placed into a supportive family can overcome those ef-fects in the long term.”

The levy would be at a rate of 14 cents per $1,000 of assessed prop-erty value.

For the average Maple Valley homeowner, that would mean an annual increase to property taxes of about $42.60 (based on $304,300 average assessed value). The average homeowner in Covington would see an increase of approximately $34.88 (based on $249,200 aver-age assessed value). The

average homeowner in Black Diamond would pay an additional $51.94 per year in property taxes (based on $371,800 aver-age assessed value). Aver-age assessed values were based on the improved parcel summary data from the King County Department of Assess-ments.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

CITY OF COVINGTON NOTICES

COVINGTON CITY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

TUESDAY, August 11, 2015 – 7:00 PM

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Chapter 35A.63.220 of the Revised Code of Washington the Covington City Council will a hold a public hearing on a proposed ordinance to extend the current moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries, productions facilities, and collective gardens for an addition six months, at their regular meeting on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, at 7:00 p.m., to be held in the Council Chambers at Covington City Hall, 16720 S.E. 271st Street, Covington, WA.

The purpose of this public hearing is for the City Council to receive comments from the public, both written and oral, regarding a proposed ordinance to extend the current moratorium within the City of Covington on the establishment, location, operation, licensing, maintenance, or continuation of medical marijuana dispensaries, production facilities, processing facilities, and collective gardens.

All persons desiring to comment may do so in writing to Sharon Scott, City Clerk, at 16720 SE 271st Street, Suite 100, Covington, Washington, 98042 or by appearing at the public hearing on August 11, 2015.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that agenda information will be posted the Friday prior to the above meeting at Covington City Hall, and on the City’s web site: http://www.covingtonwa.gov/. For further information, please contact Richard Hart, Community Development Director at rhart@covingtonwa.gov or by phone at (253) 480-2441.

Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on July 31, 2015. #1375876.

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