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Al Francisco of Maple Valley Big Band plays at the Maple Valley Farmers Market June 22. The Farmers Market opened June 15 and runs through Oct. 5 at Rock Creek Elementary School. Each week features performers by diff erent musicians or groups, many of whom are based in the area. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter To view a slideshow go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com

Big Band And Blue Skies

BY KATHERINE SMITH

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As the Black Diamond mayoral race kicks off , YarrowBay’s master planned developments and the city’s survival are hot topics for the candidates.

Th ree candidates, incumbent Mayor Rebecca Olness, Keith Watson, and Dave Gordon, will be on the ballot in the August pri-mary, two of whom will go on to the general election in November.

THE INCUMBENTOlness, who remained in offi ce

aft er a change of government measure was rejected in No-vember, feels that the city needs someone with experience in gov-ernment and familiarity with the MPDs to see them through.

“Knowing what could happen I just decided I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t try to see every-thing through and stop what I’m

YarrowBay hot topic for mayoral candidates

BY KRIS HILL

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Todd Hulbert found out a year ago that opening a bookstore wasn’t easy but he discovered keeping it open is harder.

Hulbert, owner of Finally Found Books in Black Diamond, announced June 17 the store will relocate to Auburn. Hulbert took over aft er Bob Charles decided to retire from bookstore ownership. Charles operated Baker Street Bookstore in the same location for 17 years.

Th e deal to buy the store from Charles came together just days before the doors were to shut for the last time.

In a release sent out June 17, Hulbert said he posed a two-pronged question to newsletter subscribers in May: Should Fi-nally Found Books move or close and is there still a need for locally owned, independent bookstores?

Bookstore will move from Black Diamond

BY KATHERINE SMITH

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In a lab in Philadelphia doctors are re-engineering 9-year-old Ra-chael Weinstein’s T cells, teaching them to eradicate her leukemia from within.

In a few short weeks Rachael will receive an infusion with her new, stronger cells and then the wait will begin.

She is only the 18th patient in the world to participate in the

CART19 trial, but the results have been so promising, her parents Angelique and Craig are hopeful that this will be what will defeat their daughter’s cancer once and for all.

If all goes well Rachael could even be in school on the fi rst day of class this fall.

“Our goal is to have her in school Sept. 3,” Angelique said.

Rachael was fi rst diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leu-

kemia in February 2012 aft er she complained of foot pain.

“From there we just started with the standard treatment for leukemia as every child does,” An-gelique said. “Aft er a months time they recheck to see where the chil-dren are and Rachael was not at the numbers that they like which put us in a high risk category.”

Th e standard treatment for ALL is two and a half years of intense chemotherapy or a bone marrow transplant.

“We were fortunate that Rachael had a lot of potential matches for her and a lot of families don’t have that option,”

Rallying for Rachael in the race for a leukemia cure

Rachael Weinstein, 9, is the 18th child in the world to participate in the CART19 study at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to treat leukemia. Courtesy photo

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In the early 1980s when Shannon Henderson fi rst started at a brand new Kentwood High she taught shorthand, typing and busi-ness machines.

Today Henderson teaches computer programming.

“It’s really changed a lot since I fi rst worked there,” Henderson said. “Technol-ogy has really changed my career, but for the good, it’s been fun.”

In order to be on the cut-ting edge, Henderson ap-plied for and earned a spot at the Cyber Security Boot Camp at James Madison University June 10-14, one of just 20 teachers selected from across the country.

Th e importance of ensuring students had the opportunity to learn the latest technology has led Henderson on many an educational adventure.

Henderson started at Kentwood in 1981 the year it opened then took 16 years off when she started a family. She returned to the school in 2000.

When she began teach-ing again, the school had a programming teacher who left and aft er the position was still open aft er a couple of school years, Henderson made a decision.

“I said, ‘It’s not fair for the kids to not have any computer programming (classes),’” Henderson said. “I thought, ‘It can’t be that diffi cult, I’ll just learn it during the sum-mer.’ It’s been a such a great challenge. I’ve continually learned. It’s been a cool journey and one that I wouldn’t change for the world.”

In addition to computer programming, Henderson teaches business law and accounting, but her desire to teach kids about pro-gramming in a way which is engaging and relevant has led to that course growing considerably.

During the fi rst se-mester of the school year she teaches a beginning programming courses using Java and the second semes-ter she teaches about game programming.

“Th ey learn all the criti-cal skills they need to have when they graduate from high school,” Henderson said.

So when the opportunity arose to apply for the Cyber Security Boot Camp, Hen-derson applied, knowing it would be another tool in the toolbox for her as well as her students.

“I thought, ‘Gosh, this is something I know ab-

solutely nothing about,’” Henderson said. “Kids need to know about this for their future job opportunities.”

Henderson spoke to the Reporter June 12, three days into the program, and by that point the 20 educa-tors learned a signifi cant amount about how people break into computer sys-tems through lectures and hands-on work.

“At this point we’ve been dealing with, talking about and using some of the soft -ware hackers use to crack passwords, to determine what ports are available in diff erent systems,” Hender-son said. “We’ve been learn-ing a lot of hacking but not for that purpose. You have to understand that to go at the defenders side. It’s been fascinating.”

When she spoke to the Reporter by phone, Henderson said, that day they had practiced cracking passwords so they under-stood how to defend against it in the activities planned for the next day.

“We’re using a virtual program, a virtual operat-ing system on top of the operating system on the computers,” she said. “We’re using pretend stuff , but, even with the pretend stuff we were able to get into the systems. And that’s just

with the free soft ware you can fi nd on the Internet.”

While it wouldn’t be pru-dent to teach students about hacking, Henderson said, there are many applications for the knowledge she’s gained in the classroom and not just with her program-ming students.

“Th is is something I can talk about in my business law class,” she said. “Th is kind of career path might interest them, so, I want to educate them on what’s in-volved here and the kind of opportunities they have and how much money they can make. Th ere’s hardly a niche in our society that doesn’t have a need for cyber de-fense. Th ere’s so much that isn’t even addressed that’s vulnerable.”

For Kentwood Principal Doug Hostetter, the kind of approach Henderson is tak-ing to her own professional development and teaching is vital for students.

“Th e workforce and the technology skills required are changing faster than schools can update their curriculum,” Hostetter wrote in an email interview. “Teachers such as Shannon want to stay close to the ‘cutting edge’ of technology as required in our work-force. Attending this Cyber Security Boot Camp is a

great example of teachers wanting the most current and relevant information possible to share with their students. Our students therefore, will learn infor-mation that will give them a competitive edge over other students who are not privy to such up-to-date informa-tion and skills.”

Henderson described the professors at James Madi-son who ran the program as “brilliant.”

Th e Cyber Security Boot Camp was funded by the United States Department of Defense.

Henderson looks forward to sharing with her students and pursuing this area of technology further on her own.

“It’s been fascinating, I’ve learned a lot. My brain is full,” Henderson said. “Th is has just opened up my eyes to a whole other area I need to do some more explora-tion in and incorporate into my classes so that kids can benefi t. Anything I can do to help kids and open up their eyes to options is worthwhile I believe.”

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Finally. Bring on the sun! School is out for summer.

Crestwood Elementary students along with others are bathing in the sun, years may be ahead of them for that wonderful school. But for us class of 2019 sixth graders, we are out forever from elementary. Th at school was amazing. We learned so much and I made so many friends. Seven years I was there, I would never have thought it would have gone so fast. Neither did my parents.

Like most schools, our last day was a half day. Kids were yelling their way home at 12:08 p.m. on a beautiful June 19. Th e day though, was pretty great, too. Most of the day was consumed by an end of the school year assembly. All the school groups were recognized somehow by the lead authority of that bunch. Some groups like student council and track were recognized by standing in the middle of a sea of kids so you stuck out like a sore thumb, and most of the clubs were noticed by their name being called up and receiving a certifi cate on stage. Some groups were very small such as lunch helpers or offi ce helpers but some were large, for example safety patrol or library helpers. Th at cluster was up to 50 plus people!

Next was the actual memories of 2012-2013 slideshow. Th at was created by moi, along with supervision and help of a few others. Th at was the hype of the day. Th ere was hip music like “Gangnam Style” by Psy and “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction. Everyone was sing-

ing, clapping, and laughing while enjoying their fi nal moments of school. Funny pictures really helped that situation.

From there school was not even school. We were dismissed to a 20 or 30 minute recess, and that was basically it! I was stuck on safety patrol on my last day of elementary school, but it was sort of fun getting to see everyone leave. My ears were blaring, the buses and cars were honking like crazy. Kids were screaming and teachers were saying goodbyes to their students. It was a very good way to end elementary.

Next, Mattson. I’ve been there twice and both times I had a tour. Most of the sixth graders have some information on a few places like the library and gym, but I will defi nitely need some practice

when the orientation comes around. Other than seeing a few rooms the only thing I know is that the school is huge. Most of the kids that went to Crestwood with me are going to Mattson along with many other schools in the area. I’m hoping to keep my friends but I’m going to see a few new faces. Actually, a lot of new faces.

Change is good though, and I think Mattson is going to be great. Yes, I have a fusion of emo-tions, but excitement overpowers my fear. Some kids are petrifi ed to be moving to middle school, but I am so excited to be ‘stangin up.

Annie Livengood of Covington is an aspiring journalist and will be a seventh grader at Mattson Middle School in the fall.

I always knew City Perk was at Four Cor-ners, sold locally roasted Java! Java! coff ee and I could get free wi-fi and earn free coff ee.

Th e basics you want in your neighborhood coff ee shop, but I never took the time to chat with any of the staff , probably because I had not had enough caff eine in my system to hold a coherent conversation.

I decided it was time to change that.

I met the owner Connie at a couple of diff erent events so I randomly called her and asked if she would chat with me for a couple of minutes. Little did I know what a blast I would have!

I’m now sitting here writing this article still laughing and smiling! I had so much fun spending a couple of hours chatting with Connie and her amazing customers and “her girls!” Th is is how she lovingly refers to her award winning staff — yes, you read correctly, award winning!

Our community has voted Connie’s girls the best baristas in town for the past three years, which is no surprise.

Heather and Katie have worked for Connie for a combined 11 years and know all of their

regular customers by name and drink. In fact, I always feel guilty when I drive through in the morning because I always screw up their rhythm.

As a regular you just pull in and your coff ee is handed to you with this amazing smile and thank you.

It doesn’t matter which one is working at the window they all feel the same, that their cus-tomers should feel this is their second home. Grabbing one of their coff ees shouldn’t make you feel like you now have a status symbol when you walk in your offi ce, head to school, etc.

Every time you see their cups they want you to smile and think of it as your home away from home. It truly does have the feel of being at home when you can curl up in front of the fi re place with a book and a great cup of coff ee, or on our hot summer days enjoy their home made granita, smoothies and fresh strawberry lemonade while you sit outside and relax.

Since 1991 when Connie fi rst opened City Perk — originally called Austin Chase — she wanted to provide the best in customer service, have customers become part of her family, and most importantly be a supporting force for the community.

She has done just that and her customers absolutely love her! I was witness to many of these conversations Tuesday morning.

I loved seeing the smiles on peoples faces when Connie was sitting with me. Th ey could come up and give her a hug, thank her for allowing them to use her shop for a baby shower, or Jason the barber who came in to show us this funny picture he took of us sit-

ting there and just laughing! It truly is such a great place to just hang out

and shop, of course! I love the jewelry, the soaps, pictures, candles, decor and more.

I think I am most excited about the new project we just created for her husband Steve. He is the one that makes the beautiful bird houses you will see in there. But now he is go-ing to be creating pallet jar chandeliers.

Connie and Steve make a point of support-ing causes that are close to their hearts.

One of them is our local Susan G. Komen Foundation 3 Day Walk for the Cure team. She works with Tina McDonough, founder of Val-ley Girls & Guys!, to determine what the team needs each season.

Currently you can go in and see this breath-taking wine barrel that will be part of the auc-tion that is coming up next month.

Th roughout the year they continually sup-port the Maple Valley Food Bank along with their customers to provide families with back-packs, Christmas presents, turkey dinners and so much more.

She also opens her doors to anyone who needs a place to do a fundraiser, bible study, Bunco events and more.

During construction at Four Corner Square, where City Perk is located, enter between Dairy Queen and the City Perk building off of Kent-Kangley or come thru from the new Johnson’s building.

City Perk is open Mon. thru Fri. 5 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sat. 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sun. 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Q U O T E O F T H E W E E K : ”Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English langauge.” -Henry James

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CELEBRATE THE FOURTH SAFELYThe Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority reminds residents that the Fourth of July, while a time to celebrate, is also a day of potential injuries and fires.

Here are some tips to help you have a safe Fourth of July:

1. Go see one of the area’s many free firework displays, including the Fourth of July Splash at Lake Meridian. The Splash entertainment begins at noon and the fireworks show is at 10 p.m.

2. Only purchase and discharge legal fireworks. Keep in mind that many of the fireworks bought on Reservations are not

legal in Kent, Covington, and other cities.

3. Always have a garden hose, bucket of water, or fire extin-guisher nearby while discharging fireworks.

4. Always discharge fireworks under adult supervision. Remember that fireworks and alcohol consumption do not safely mix.

5. When lighting fireworks, wear eye protection and only discharge one firework at a time. Place discharged fireworks in a bucket of water.

6. Do not discharge fireworks where ground conditions are dry and the danger of fire is higher.

Also remember:

1. Fireworks go on sale June 28 but can only be discharged on July 4.

2. The City of Covington and unincorporated King County allow fireworks to be discharged between 9 a.m. and mid-night.

3. Safety emphasis patrols by the Kent Police and Fire De-partments will be out and illegal fireworks confiscated. Fines for illegal discharging/possession can exceed $1,000.

4. Illegal or unwanted fireworks can be dropped off at any Kent Fire Department fire station without penalty or fine.

5. Discharging fireworks on Kent and Covington city property (including parks) as well as on Kent School District properties is prohibited.

6. Be a good neighbor and clean up any debris from fire-works.

7. Safely store any matches and lighters so children do not have access to them.


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What I didn’t know about Tahoma schools

I have never written a let-ter like this before but I feel compelled to share because I, like many others, moved my family to Maple Valley because of Tahoma School District’s stellar reputation. Now after being here for less than a year that excite-

ment has turned to frustra-tion and downright fear.

I had no idea the hornet’s nest we moved into! Yes, the teachers are amazing but I have become aghast at the overcrowding, sub-standard facilities, lack of community support, lack of funding.

I now worry about my children’s health — they attend Lake Wilderness Elementary with a myriad

of structural and mechani-cal issues as well as known mold problems.

I worry about them socially — some of their friends are already being redistricted out of LWES because of overcrowding.

I worry about their future in this school system — which elementary school will they end up at next year? Or the year after that?

We moved here from out

of state and bought a house site unseen as to avoid moving our children twice and ease their transition.

What do I tell them when they are involuntarily uprooted again? And what happens when that school becomes overcrowded?

From what I hear we’re nearly there already which has prompted talks about rotating year round sched-ules.

This doesn’t even take into account the teachers! How many of our amazing teachers are going to stick around under such poor conditions?

I am beside myself. This is not what we read about when we were doing our research on area school districts.

Where was this info beforehand? Sadly what I hear after talking to many

families and neighbors is that far too many of us have no idea the state our schools and school district as a whole is in.

Regretfully, I doubt people would be moving here in droves if they did.

Jaime ShackfordMaple Valley

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Hulbert pointed out the closure of several Puget Sound area independent bookstores in recent months as discouraging, yet, the response from fans of his store was positive.

“Thanks to the outcry and support of our patrons, we still believe that inde-pendent bookstores are necessary and that a few will survive,” Hulbert said in a statement. “Although

we are saddened to leave our historic building and town, the current issues fac-ing the book industry have mandated that we needed to move or close. With e-readers, the Internet, big box stores, and Amazon’s discounting, our customer base has dwindled and the small community here simply can no longer sup-port a larger independent bookseller. In fact, many communities across the

nation are losing many of their local businesses due to a lack of support. If people don’t get out and frequent them, they will die or in our case, move away.”

Hulbert said the site in Auburn — 3705 Auburn Way N. — fit the criteria for the right building based on information about competi-tion, market demographics, input from patrons as well as the fact it is located 20 minutes from an existing

retail site, is convenient in many ways and had favor-able lease terms. All those factors made the decision easier, he said in the release.

Finally Found Books will close July 14 in Black Diamond and re-open Aug. 20 in Auburn.

Hulbert, who owns an online clothing and apparel business, told the Reporter in June 2012 he had books but no place to put them. In fact, he had more than

150,000 used books he had acquired, sitting in storage.

Most of them are now lining shelves in Finally Found Books.

Hulbert’s task now is to move them to the new location. It was a challenge to get the Black Diamond store set up, he told the Reporter in 2012, describ-ing it as “the most demand-ing task of my life, trying to sort these books.”

That, however, is what

awaits.“Although we don’t look

forward to relocating our 100,000 plus tomes, we are excited at the prospect of a healthy business, support-ing our community, and offering a great space for gathering, socialism, and a love of books,” Hulbert said in the release. “In return, we hope the community will support us during the next month and in our new location.”

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afraid could happen,” Olness said of why she de-cided to run for re-election. “I’m worried about contin-ued stalling on YarrowBay’s project. I’m worried that if we don’t get some businesses in town and some tax rev-enue that the city is going to die.”

Olness has lived on Lake Sawyer for nearly 40 years, has a masters degree in education from the University of Washington, and worked for the Kent School District for more than 30 years. She was fi rst elected to the Black Dia-mond City Council in 2005 and was elected to her fi rst term as mayor in 2009.

“I really want to see this thing through and I believe that the city needs some-body with my experience to carry it through because I was there when the MPDs were going on and I feel I’ve been through all of this,” Olness said.

Should she be re-elected, the top three issues Olness would focus on are com-munity safety, seeing that the MPDs are carried out, and continuing to provide

services to residents despite the city’s tight budget.

“Funding police and fi re is number one,” Olness said. “You can only do that out of the general fund and until we get a tax base we are in

big trouble.”Olness expects

that long term the infl ux of residents from the MPDs and the resulting commercial growth will solve the city’s revenue and budget problems. In the short term she is

working with city staff to pursue grants to help fi ll the vital services funding gap.

“What usually happens with those grants is they usually happen for three years and then the city is obligated to take over and I do believe that if Yar-rowBay breaks ground, and if we start having some construction, that within three years we will be able to be OK fi nancially and we will be able to take that over because we do desperately need police and fi refi ght-ers.”

As for YarrowBay, Olness feels that making sure the growth is done according to the development plans

will be a key concern for the city.

“Th e thing that I think people don’t realize is that everything is incremen-tal,” Olness said about the MPDs. “Th ey build a cer-tain number of houses and there’s a checklist that if this impacts traffi c more than they said it would, or what-ever, or if they don’t use the design guidelines then the city issues no more permits until they fi x everything. It’s really a safeguard.”

Providing services for residents now is something Olness sees as a major challenge for the city in the short term.

“Again, I think we’ll be OK in two or three years,” Olness said. “I believe that if we are very, very careful we can maybe tread water for two or three years until we get some revenue. And that has to be through businesses and through growth.”

Th e city is currently engaged in a funding agreement with YarrowBay which should help the city stay afl oat until the growth materializes.

“YarrowBay decided to do that (the funding agreement) so that when they were doing they’re applications there would be adequate staff to take care of things,” Olness said. “Now YarrowBay funds, I believe, 19 out of 21 (city staff positions).

When it comes to the city’s fi nancial problems Ol-ness said, “We don’t expect

to really recover until we start to get some growth.”

PLANNING COMMISSIONER RUNS FOR MAYOR

For candidate Keith Watson, YarrowBay is a necessity, not something to look forward to.

“Do I like having a whole bunch of growth here? Not really,” Watson said. “But as time goes on the city fi nds itself needing more funds and that (the MPDs) is the envisioned way to get them.”

Watson sees the bright side in the upgrades Yar-rowBay will do for the city.

“I think how the Yar-rowBay plan is diff erent from some of the surround-ing communities is in the plan they have to upgrade a lot of things outside of the property which I think is good for the city,” Watson said.

Watson has lived most of his life in Black Dia-mond, fi rst coming to the city with his family when he was 2-years-old and, aft er moving away before he started school, he came back in the early ‘50s. He holds a degree in education from what was then Seattle Pacifi c College.

Currently Watson is the president of the Black Diamond Historical Society and the Black Diamond Community Center as well as chair of the Planning Commission.

“Th e last four years have been very tumultuous and in talking with citizens, both pro and con (growth), everything you can imagine — the unity just isn’t there.” Watson said of his decision to run. “My plan is to bring

unity to the govern-ment so that we can set goals and plans that encourage people’s input.”

Watson said the top three issues he would focus on, should he be elected, would be unity, city fi nances,

and leadership and vision related to the MPDs.

“Unifying the govern-ment itself is a huge task,” Watson said. “I think ev-erybody needs to be heard and joint decisions made involving all of the govern-ment…that’s what I’ve done at the Historical Society and the Community Center. Bring people together with diverse ideas and come up with solutions that work.”

One area of concern for Watson in the city fi nances is rate hikes for utilities.

“We really need to exam-ine that (the city’s fi nancial situation) and recently we had to raise water fees by 15 percent this year and 15 percent next year,” Watson said. “Th e reason for that is that our projected bud-get, our fi ve year budget, thought that we would have the build out for the (Yar-rowBay) project by now.”

Watson said the next key step for the city in the

MPDs will be enforcing the comprehensive plan.

“Th e city is the authority as far as making sure they follow the comprehensive plan and we have the ability to stop it if they aren’t fol-lowing the comprehensive plan and we can use that authority if need be,” Wat-son said.

GORDON JOINS MAYORAL RACE

Candidate Dave Gordon feels the city is relying too much on the YarrowBay projects and that more research needs to be com-pleted.

“I don’t think the proper analysis has been done,” Gordon said. “I think it’s something that sub-ject matter experts need to be listened to. I think that there’s a tremendous amount of resources willing to donate for free their time and the subject matter experts, from the council meetings I’ve been reviewing, don’t seem to be listened to.”

Gordon also feels that the environmental review that was done was inadequate and a critical review wasn’t completed.

Gordon spent most of his life in Kent and moved to Black Diamond about

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seven years ago because he loved how peaceful the area was and the community. He holds a bachelor of science degree from ITT Seattle. Gordon designs and builds computers that monitor flight testing for Boeing.

He decided to run for mayor because he said his friends and neighbors asked him to.

“When so many people approached me, asking me, I felt obligated — that they feel I have the skills and could do a better job,” Gordon said.

For Gordon, the top three issues he would focus on, should he be elected, are safety, the budget, and the processes of city

hall in managing the MPDs.A top safety concern for Gordon is that

in the last year the city laid off two police officers.

“As you delve deeper into this thing, safety is not the priority of the current administration,” Gordon said. “When you start laying off police officers, that’s the last thing that you should be doing. Public safety has to be number one.”

Gordon also feels that the city needs to review its budget and thinks that the city could better live within its means.

“I don’t think City Hall is run efficiently enough,” Gordon said. “It really comes down to stimulus versus austerity…I swing

toward austerity. We need to live within our means. We need to stop the dependence on the developer growth. It’s great, it’s there, we’re gonna leverage it. However, we shouldn’t be dependent on it.”

Gordon thinks that the city could better support local businesses by cutting the

red tape and could potentially imple-ment things like temporary tax breaks to attract new business.

“We need to promote the current growth. We have this enormous

amount of growth — that’s in the future. Between now and the future is a

gap,” Gordon.Gordon said it is important to him that

the MPDs are handled well by the city government, something he believes he can

help with.“What I can bring to City Hall is an

in-depth knowledge of technology…the sophisticated modeling for future risk, sophisticated modeling for growth, those types of tools just aren’t used.”

To find more information about the primary election visit the county’s elections website at www.kingcounty.gov/elections.

Reach Katherine Smith [email protected] 425-432-1209 ext. 5052To comment on this story go towww.maplevalleyreporter.com.

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Th ese days Kentwood graduate and swimming standout Courtney Erone-mo can be found coach-ing on the pool deck or in class at Pacifi c Lutheran University where she is the assistant swim coach and is studying for her second degree.

Eronemo competed at the 2004 U.S. Swimming Olympic trials when she was 16 and graduated from Kentwood in 2006 aft er winning six swimming state titles in six diff erent events. She then attended the University of California at Berkley where she studied biology and nutrition and swam for the Bears. Her main events were the indi-vidual medley and butterfl y. She also competed at the 2008 Olympic trials.

“When I went on my recruiting trips it was just the place I felt completely at home,” Eronemo said of how she decided on Berke-ley. “Th e coach wasn’t try-ing to sell anything and she

really believed in making the swimmer better people, not just faster swimmers. I saw a lot of growth op-portunity.”

In all the experiences she had at Berkley, Eronemo said, the best part was the day-to-day life of school and training.

“My favorite moment is just the daily experi-ence,” Eronemo said. “Just the waking up early every morning and walking to practice and 20 girls jump-ing in the pool and training our butts off .”

Eronemo gravitated toward studying science because it intrigued her more than English or his-tory courses.

“I knew I loved health and I loved science, that was the kind of the brain I had,” Eronemo said. “I wanted to be involved in health and fi tness but on a more scientifi c level, so nursing was the ultimate goal.”

Aft er fi nishing her career in the pool and graduating from Berkeley, Eronemo

returned home to Wash-ington while she worked on hammering out the details of what she wanted to do next.

“I didn’t know what exactly I wanted to do and I knew I had a home and parents who were willing to support me until I fi gured out what I wanted to do,” Eronemo said.

Th e answer to that question came in pursuing a second bachelors degree, this time specifi cally in nursing at PLU. Right now she’s a year and a half in with a year and a half to go.

“I’ve always loved kids so pediatrics is probably the most appealing to me, but every rotation I’ve done so far I’ve loved and could see myself doing,” Eronemo said of what area of nursing she’d like to pursue.

Eronemo got into coach-ing at her dad’s suggestion aft er she knew she would be attending PLU.

“I applied to PLU for school and I just got in right

away and I was at a family dinner at my house and my dad was like, ‘I think they have a swim team, you should look up if they need any help.’,” she said. “So I just Google searched PLU swimming and emailed the

coach and by the next week I was on the coaching staff .”

Th is fall will be Eronemo’s third season coaching for the Lutes.

“Th is year at conference we had a phenomenal (meet),” Eronemo

said. “Our men and our womens team, anyone who was walking on deck with PLU, was telling everyone how great they did.”

Th e best part of coaching for Eronemo is seeing the pride and excitement the swimmers have when they achieve their goals.

“I love, love, watching their faces when they touch the wall,” Eronemo said. “I don’t even look up at the scoreboard. I love to watch their faces and just, like, they can’t even believe what they did. Th at is the most

memorable thing, their expressions.”

While Eronemo loves what she’s doing and the chance to give back to the sport that has been such a big part of her life and has meant so much to her, she sees graduation from PLU and pursuing a nursing career as what will likely be her exit from the sport.

“I think when I swam in high school and college I got so much from swim-ming and so coaching is giving me an opportunity to give that back,” Eronemo said. “I love that right now I’m able to help the swim-mers that I coach fi nd the love of swimming that I have found but I think that’s the end of the road. I’m giving back right now and then I’m ready to move on. I want a family and a nurs-ing career.”

One of the biggest lessons Eronemo learned from her years involved in swimming is the value of relationships and doing what you love.

“I love swimming and the people that I’ve met through swimming are people that I’ll have in my life forever,” Eronemo said. “And then also that if you love something and put everything into it that you have you can get whatever you want (out of it). Th ere are so many opportuni-ties within something like that. I’m putting that into nursing now. I love what I’m doing and that passion and compassion I have for patients I can tell, it’s the same emotions I had in swimming.”

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The new program, which was implemented this spring, assesses proficiency of

students who already speak another language. The assessment allows them to earn high school credits for their current language skills.

This year students had the chance to test their skills in Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, and Italian, in addition to Spanish, French, and German. In year two, KSD hopes to expand the options to other languages in which many Kent students are likely to be literate, such as Vietnamese, Russian, Somali, and Punjabi.

This spring 75 students participated, and 74 of them earned high school credit. Next year assessments will be open to eighth-grade students for credit. Earning these credits allows students to focus on English as a Second Language classes, new languages, or other classes.

“Kent School District serves students who reflect the workforce of the future. With over 138 language systems represented, it makes sense that we recognize the

languages our young people bring to the classroom,” said Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas. “Languages that will serve to strengthen America’s competitiveness in a global economy.”

Kent School District is the fourth largest school district in Washington State and its most ethnically diverse district. It is a Microsoft International Demonstration Site and is known for its technology in the classroom and educational innovation.

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Three candidates are running to replace Tim Clark for Position No. 5 on the Kent School Board.

Maya Vengadasalam, Carmen Goers and Bruce Elliott will clash in the Aug. 6 primary election with the top two vote getters moving on to the Nov. 5 general election. Clark is running for Kent mayor against incumbent Suzette Cooke.

School Board member Agda Burchard is running unop-posed for the Position No. 4 seat.

Vengadasalam, a 22-year resident of Kent, will host a campaign kickoff from 6-8 p.m. Friday, June 28 at Kona Kai Coffee, 124 Fourth Ave. S. in downtown Kent across from City Hall.

Vengadasalam has volunteered for more than 10 years at Kent schools, according to her media release.

“Serving my community has been an important prior-ity all my life,” Vengadasalam said. “Teaching the kids the importance of developing good work habits, staying in school and lifting young people up to believe that they can accomplish their dreams through hard work, a good educa-tion and community support - this is the essence of why I’m running for the Kent School Board.”

Vengadasalam emphasized communication as the key to accomplishing tasks.

“I believe in collaborating and building solid relation-ships with stakeholders to effectively link and improve policies, processes, and practices,” she said.

Vengadasalam works as a business and community affairs consultant and is a former marketing and internet solutions director at DeviMedia. Her current volunteer ex-perience includes membership on The Seattle Foundation Small Grants Funds Advisory Team, City of Kent Mayor’s Advisory Team, and Community Center for Education Results.

Goers, who has lived in Kent for 13 years, believes she can apply the experience as the mother of three girls who

went through the Kent school system to the district.“What I’ve noticed is a repetition of challenges and a cir-

cular approach to addressing concerns of the students and parents,” Goers said. “I want to apply a systematic business approach to addressing the challenges facing the district and positioning our students as life-long learners and ac-complished contributors to society.

“As the fourth largest school district in the state, Kent has an opportunity and an obligation to impact a great number of our future leaders. Forward thinking from elementary through high school with clear, measurable goals outlined in the strategic plan is the first step in positioning the dis-trict for ongoing sustainable growth.”

Goers is an assistant vice-president and senior relation-ship manager with a community bank. She resides on the East Hill with her husband Allan. Her adult daughters all reside in Kent as well.

Goers had a kickoff campaign June 8 at a gathering hosted by Paul and Debbie Willis.

Elliott was raised in Renton and has lived in Kent since 1978. He is a Kent cattle and crop grower and a board member of the King-Pierce Farm Bureau.

“I am a candidate because I want to help insure that Kent schools continue to provide a quality education to our children,” Elliott said in his candidate statement. “I am not convinced that administrative decisions like increased short days are the best for our students. We must focus the bulk of our resources in the classroom, where learning occurs.

“We need to maintain local control of this process, not hand it over to Washington, D.C. The duty of our schools is to teach our children core subjects and help them gain practical life skills. The future of our work force and a prosperous community depends on this. We face modern challenges, but that is no excuse to fail in providing this generation with the educational foundation they need.”

Elliott and his wife raised two children in the Kent school system, both graduates of Kent-Meridian High School.

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ORDINANCES ADOPTED On Jun 20, 2013 the City Coun- cil of the City of Black Diamond, Washington adopted the following ordinances:

ORDINANCE NO. 13-1002 An Ordinance of the City Coun- cil of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to controlled substances; amending BDMC 9.90.020 and 9.90.170 and adding new section 9.90.200 BDMC to conform to amendments to state law resulting from passage of Initiative 502; providing for severability; and establishing an effective date.

ORDINANCE NO. 13-1003 An Ordinance of the City Coun- cil of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to civil infractions; amending BDMC 1.12.010 to establish authority for issuance and enforcement of civil infraction notices; amending BDMC 2.36.020 granting jurisdiction to the Municipal Court to hear and determine civil infraction viola- tions; providing for severability; and establishing an effective date

ORDINANCE NO. 13-1005 An Ordinance of the City Coun- cil of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, amending the budget for calendar year 2013 as adopted by Ordi- nance No. 12-994 means of appropriations, adjustments and transfers within various funds in accounts in the 2013 budget. Copies of these ordinances is available for review at City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, on the City’s website www.ci.blackdiamond.wa.us, or by contacting Brenda L. Martinez, City Clerk at 360-886-5700. Published in the Covington/ Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on June 28, 2013. #815112.

The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority (RFA) is accepting sealed bids for the purchase and installation of projection equipment, sound system, and system controls for the Kent Emergency Coordina- tion Center (ECC). The deadline for sealed bids is Friday, July 12, 2013 at 4:00 pm. Bids will be opened at 10:00 am on July 15, 2013 at 24611 116th Avenue SE, Kent, WA 98030. For more information about the bidding process or to obtain a copy of the “Scope of Work (SOW)” please go to our website at rerfa.org or contact the Kent Fire Department RFA at 253-856- 4440 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on all regular business days. Published in the Kent and Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on June 28, 2013. #815136.

CITY OF BLACK DIAMOND

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Black Diamond City Council will be conducting a public hearing regarding the proposed 2014-2019 Capital Improvement Plan. The hearing will take place at a Special Council meeting scheduled for Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Black Diamond City Council Cham- bers, 25510 Lawson Street, Black Diamond, WA. The purpose of the hearing is to hear public testimony on the above

listed subject. Written commentsmay be submitted to the Clerk’s

PO Box 599, Black Diamond,WA, 98010 no later than 5:00p.m. on July 11, 2013, otherwisethey must be submitted at thehearing. Information is alsoavailable on the City’s websitewww.ci.blackdiamond.wa.us un-der “Public Notices”. For furtherinformation please contact DaveGray, Deputy Finance Director at360-886-5700. Dated this 25th day of June, 2013 Brenda L. Martinez, CMC Asst. City Admin/City Clerk Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black DiamondReporter on June 28, 2013 andJuly 5, 2013. #815116.

COVINGTON WATER DISTRICT

NOTICE OF HEARING ON

PETITION FOR STREET LIGHTING

NOTICE IS GIVEN that a Peti-tion for Street Lighting withinthe following area has been pre-sented to the Board of WaterCommissioners of the CovingtonWater District:Within the Plat of HamptonGrove, (a.k.a. Shanlemar Mead-ows). A hearing on this Petition forStreet Lighting will be held at the

300th Place, King County,Washington on the 3rd day of Ju-ly, 2013 beginning at 6:30 p.m.All persons interested in or af-fected by the creation of a light-ing district to pay the cost ofpower for these street lights thatdesire to voice approval or disap-proval thereof will be heard andtheir views considered. If the Board of Water Commis-sioners determines that the pro-posed street light district will beformed, the cost thereof will bemet by future monthly chargesadded to the water bills of the

Secretary Jeff ClarkBoard of Water Commissioners Published in the Covington/Ma-ple Valley/Black Diamond Re-porter on June 21, 28, 2013.#812860

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Have a Safe & Enjoyable Fourth!The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority encourages everyone to have fun and to be safe this holiday.

When discharging fireworks, please follow these simple suggestions to minimize the chance of injuries and fires:

1. Always have an adult present when lighting fireworks.2. Keep a bucket of water and a garden hose or fire

extinguisher close by.3. Only discharge fireworks in a clear area.

4. Wear eye protection when lighting fireworks.5. Move quickly away from fireworks once lit.6. If a firework does not work, wait 30 minutes before

approaching.7. Dispose of all discharged fireworks in a bucket of water. Do

not dispose of unused fireworks in water.8. Call 9-1-1 to report illegal fireworks or ones being used in

an unsafe manner.

Fireworks LEGAL to possess June 28–July 4

Novelties SmokeSparklers Morning Glory

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Reloadable Mortars (1¾" or less)

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The following are NOT LEGAL to possess in Kent, Covington, and unincorporated King County

Firecrackers Missiles & RocketsBottlerockets

Legal fireworks are permitted but can only be discharged on July 4th from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. in Kent and until midnight in Covington and unincorporated King County. Police and Fire Investigators will be conducting patrols and confiscating any fireworks being discharged prior to July 4th, as well as any illegal fireworks.

Discharging fireworks on any school district property or in city/county parks is strictly prohibited.

THE LAW:It is not legal to possess any fireworks before noon, June 28th.Fireworks may be discharged only on July 4thViolation of fireworks law is a misdemeanor and can lead to a $1,000.00 fine and up to 90 days in jail.

Drop off unwanted fireworks at any Kent area fire station. If the fireworks look altered or are homemade call 9-1-1 and request assistance in disposing of them. No police action will be taken if you request disposal of illegal fireworks.

WE WANT YOU…to have a safe and injury free 4th of July

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Be a considerate neighbor and clean up any debris from fireworks you have discharged

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