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Kentwood High choir members Nicole Cortines and Alyssa Gurr, both juniors, prepare to perform at at the B Sharp Choir Boosters holiday vendor fair Nov. 16. Choir members performed at the end which was a fundraiser. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter

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BY KATHERINE SMITH

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A group of moms from Maple Valley have formed Maple Valley Family Circle to continue Toddler Time and Family Movie Night at the Greater Maple Valley Com-munity Center on a short term basis while they search for a long term solution.

Th e moms — Farinaz Barker, Christie Cummings, Tonia Mosieur, Laura Skobin and Joy St-ramer — came together aft er the Community Center announced in early October that at the end of the month the Children’s and Family programs at the center would be discontinued due to budget cuts.

“We didn’t even plan it (to become a group), we just came together and kept going,” Mosieur said.

Mark Pursely, executive direc-tor of the community center, explained in an interview with Th e Reporter in October that more than 70 percent of the Com-munity Center’s annual budget comes from various grant funding sources. Th e rest comes from program fees, fundraising, facility rentals, program sponsorships

Moms unite to continue community programs

BY KRIS HILL

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Covington Aquatic Center staff celebrated a major milestone Nov. 15 when the 100,000th in-water customer of 2013 came through the doors.

Linda Lee of Covington was the patron who hit the lucky number and was surprised with a free one-year aqua family membership for the Covington Aquatic Center.

Attendance has been a particu-lar focus for pool staff for more than a year. A new marketing plan was implemented, a restructured fee schedule was put into place last year which increased some fees and reduced others which in conjunction with a signifi cant increase in patrons created a considerable bump in atten-dance, according to information provided by Karla Slate, the city’s communications and marketing manager.

In fact, the staff set a goal of 93,000 in-water visits for this year but surpassed that goal in Octo-ber. If the current rate continues, the attendance will be close to 110,000 program participants by the end of the year. Th is would constitute an increase of 25 per-

Covington pool hits swimming milestone

BY KRIS HILL

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Just because the Susan G. Ko-men Foundation’s 3 Day Walk for the Cure in Seattle has come and gone, that doesn’t mean Tina Mc-Donough quits working to raise money to fi nd a cure for breast cancer.

McDonough, along with her husband Cory, own One.7, Inc., an environmental equipment and

street maintenance dealership in Ravensdale. Th is year marks the fourth the McDonoughs have pinked out one of the machines One.7 off ers — this year a Vactor 2100 combination sewer cleaner — and sold it to donate a portion of the proceeds to the Komen Foundation.

A truck came to pick it up from the One.7 shop Nov. 13. Th e Vactor 2100 was covered

in pink ribbons, the symbol for breast cancer awareness, as well as McDonough’s 3 Day team’s Valley Girls & Guys logo, and even a specially-made 1,000-foot pink Piranaha Hose Products high-pressure sewer hose mounted on the front of the truck — the hose was donated by Piranha aft er they let Tina McDonough pick out the color. She said it was the fi rst time they made a hose in that color.

“When Tina called to ask if Vactor Manufacturing would sup-port One.7, Inc’s, plan to (detail) a used Vactor truck for the Susan G. Komen event, I was very interested,” said Sam Miceli, the

McDonough never stops raising money for a cure

A Vactor 2100 truck is loaded onto a trailer Nov. 13 after Tina and Cory McDonough pinked out and sold it to donate a portion of the proceeds.. KRIS HILL, The Reporter

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BY KRIS HILL

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This year Vern Heinle did not make as many wooden toys for the Forgotten Chil-dren’s Fund as he hoped.

Heinle was working in his shop behind his home in September when his left thumb was caught for a moment in the table saw

blade. The injury kept him out of his workshop for six weeks after it was surgically repaired.

“It was a sad day,” said Heinle, who has spent 40 years as a carpenter. “I had high hopes of doing more toys this year.”

A year ago, Heinle made 300 cars, planes, tanks and trucks out of wood. This

year he cut back his output to 200 cars.

“Last year was a good year,” Heinle, 80, said. “Ev-erything went well. I’ll have to push harder next year.”

This is the sixth year he is building toys to give to needy children at Christ-mas. Heinle, who lives in Kent, will donate the handmade wooden toys

to Seattle-based Forgotten Children’s Fund this year. He often enlists the help of his grandsons — two of whom graduated from Kentlake High in June while another graduated a few years ago Kentwood — in the process or delivery of the toys.

Heinle first became involved with the holiday drive when Jim Pelletier, the former manager of the Shari’s on 132nd Avenue Southeast and South-east Kent-Kangley Road, asked him. Pelletier, who moved from Covington to Enumclaw in 2012, is now the manager of the Shari’s on Russell Road in Kent so now Heinle drops off his toys there.

While in his workshop Nov. 14, Heinle was work-ing on the last batch of toy cars, listening to country music though he also enjoys listening to Elvis Presley’s renditions of gospel music.

“Just cars (this year) be-cause they’re easy to make, they’re fast,” Heinle said. “Most of the kids in the 4, 5 and 6 year old range, they don’t get much. I do what I can do.”

His thumb has a long white scar on it, but, the carnage suffered in Septem-ber is undetectable. Heinle said it works well thanks to the fantastic work the surgeon did to repair the

damage.Next year he will try to

make more toys. In the meantime he is trying to encourage others to contribute handmade items while also teaching the younger generations of his family about what it means to help others.

“I’ve taught my children how much joy there is in giving,” he said. “Now I’m trying to teach my grand-sons and granddaughters and they seem to be recep-tive.”

His wife, Caroline, point-ed out that their youngest grandchildren who are 9 and 10, understand it is im-portant to be generous. She believes today’s generation of children grasp what it means to give back to those less fortunate.

“We hope to finish, that will be my grandsons and some of my sons and I, the weekend after Thanksgiv-ing,” Heinle said. “On (Dec. 14) my grandsons and I will give out little toy cars to kids 10 years old and under.”

That day he’ll drop off the toys at the Shari’s on Russell Road in Kent. With his white beard and a red hat, Heinle may be mistaken for Santa Claus. Toys will be handed out from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Heinle is particularly grateful to those who do-

nated cash or materials to his effort this year, spe-cifically to Jennifer Tingey, Mathew Croft, Henry Kosteleky, Bryan Heinle and Terry Sullivan.

He encourages anyone who wants to support the Forgotten Children’s fund — a nonprofit which has been doing this since 1975, when a letter to Santa land-ed in a restaurant, where a group of people decided to ensure that needy children and their families would not go without at Christmas — to drop off donations at any Shari’s location in western Washington.

As Heinle gets older, he would like to see other artisans help out.

“To all the woodworkers and craftspeople, the op-portunity this time of year to make toys,” Heinle said. “You will get a lot of joy out of it because they’re going to people who have a need. Next year I plan to do more, but, again, I don’t know. There are a lot of older people over the age of 65 and retired who might have the time on their hands. Building toys is rewarding.”

Reach Assistant Edi-tor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054. To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.

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COVINGTON ARTIST PARTICIPATES IN ART SHOW AT AUBURN’S WHITE RIVER VALLEY MUSEUMLocal artist Elinor Maroney has work on display at an area art

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Community News and Notes

BY KRIS HILL

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As Covington Ro-tary members work to help more hungry children in the community they are cementing more partner-ships.

During the summer Jo Blyth, a member of the Covington Rotary Club, connected with Greg and Jessi Powell, the owners of Grocery Outlet in Kent. The Powells live in Maple Valley.

In October Blyth began shopping for items at the Kent Grocery Outlet for its Backpack Buddies program, which provides packs full of food on Fridays to students in need at Covington, Jen-kins Creek, Cedar Valley, Crestwood and Grass Lake. On Mondays the children bring the empty packs back to school.

“It’s pretty unique, truth-fully,” Greg Powell said. “Jo, she’s a great customer of ours. In speaking with her throughout the months, she had talked about this program. We’ve supported their auction in the past. So, we just began to build

a relationship. Late this summer she spoke to me specifically about how we could help, what they cur-rently do and what retailers they utilize.”

In an email in September, rotarian Carol Judd said the club now feeds 250 children in Covington area elemen-tary schools, so partner-ships such as the one with the Powells are critical.

And stretching the dollars raised at the club’s annual auction is vital as well, which is another benefit of the connection with Grocery Outlet. Powell described Blyth as a cost-conscious shopper.

During the first shopping trip in October, Powell said, Blyth and another woman who is the coupon clipping expert, purchased nearly $3,000 worth of groceries for about $1,700.

“It goes for a great cause,” Powell said. “They were able to put additional items in the backpacks because of our pricing. It also allows them to bring more youth on into the program. Then they didn’t have good trans-

portation to get the product to the church where they store it so I deliver it two days in a row. That’s just part of the thing that makes us unique, being indepen-dently owned and operated it gives us that personal touch.”

Powell and his wife bought the Kent Grocery Outlet location in July 2011 when it relocated to a shop-ping center of 240th and 104th. Having come from a large retail company prior to purchasing a Grocery Outlet franchise, Powell said, one of the things he likes about this business model is the approach the company has in terms of community service.

“It’s just culturally dif-ferent,” Powell said. “This organization is so family oriented and driven to help each community that we serve. It makes my wife and I to feel very good to be part of communities.”

Powell said the partner-ship does not stop with the shopping at Grocery Outlet. After attending a Rotary meeting the Powells

donated $500 cash to the cause as another way to show their support for the program.

This all began when past president Kevin Holland came up with the idea and pitched it to the club. He first heard about a pro-gram in Texas like this and thought it would work well here.

Now different groups go to the Storehouse during the week and fill backpacks. Girl Scout troops, church members, Rotarians, teach-ers, to name a few. And the packs are filled with apple-sauce, boxed juices, peanut butter cracker sandwiches, and other items. It is impor-tant the backpacks are filled with items that are easy to open, prepare and eat since children as young as 6 years old take them home.

Children who take home backpacks on Fridays may not otherwise have food at home and a vicious cycle continues. When students are hungry, they struggle in school, but if they have food throughout the week-end and then eat at school

during the week those is-sues seem to dissipate.

In the beginning, the rotary club worked with the Maple Valley Food Bank as well as The Storehouse, which is supported by a consortium of churches in the area. Both had facilities where they could pack and the staff at both food banks knew how to shop to get the most bang for Rotary’s buck.

With the addition of Grass Lake this year, the need is larger and the abil-ity to stretch the money raised is critical, which is why the partnership with the Powells is so important.

“Their dollar stretched so much further which all goes to the kids,” Powell said. “And Jessi and I’s personal donation, as well, and we have full intention to con-tinue that, as well, to show our personal commitment. We’re very energized and excited to continue to build our relationship with them, stay in communication and go to as many Rotary meet-ings as we can possibly go to, help in any way.”

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So it hasn’t been all that terribly long since I was in high school myself, but in the last year and a half or so that I’ve been writing about schools in Maple Valley and Covington I’ve defi nitely noticed a shift .

Th is week as I was writing about the food drives at Kent high schools I had a ‘kids these days’ moment. But not of the traditionally thought or expressed exasperated eye-rolling ‘kids these days, back in my day we knew better/acted better’ variety.

More like, ‘wow, kids these days, we didn’t used to do cool things like this.’

In the time I’ve spent in schools and the students I’ve talked to and the things I’ve seen them do, they’re just so much more aware.

By that I mean that the awareness of helping people and actively looking for ways to make a diff erence.

When I was in high school there was the an-nual food drive, but that’s the thing that stands out to me the most.

Raising money to fi ght various types of cancer seems to be the dominant theme now.

I’ve lost count of all the fundraisers I’ve heard about in the last year and a half. Everything from raising money for specifi c students and staff members who were diagnosed with cancer — last year the Kentwood girls swim team collected money and made a blanket for a Tahoma swim-mer who had just been diagnosed and last spring Kentlake held a silent auction to raise money for one of the school’s administrative assistants who found out she had cancer — to raising money

for the Susan G. Komen Foundation or Maple Valley-based Wings of Karen or the American Cancer Society through established third party events or students creating their own like turn-ing a football or soccer game into a fundraiser and having a show of support by pinking out a stadium.

And there are other topics students have undertaken to raise awareness about. Students tackled a tough topic with Domestic Violence Awareness Week at Kentlake and the envi-ronment through Tahoma students who are involved with the Watershed Report come to mind.

It’s neat to see so many students driven to help others and to make that diff erence. To take the time to learn.

Personally and selfi shly for me it’s cool to see all these things happen and I love getting to

write about them. I’m a big fan of sharing the things we hear about here in Th e Reporter offi ce. So oft en it seems like students get a bad rap and they all get lumped together with their peers who make bad decisions. I remember how it felt to have that happen to me, and while, yes, that is small potatoes in the big scheme of things, it mattered to me then, and it bothered me. And a belief that people’s stories matter is one key part of why I do what I do.

Students are getting outside themselves and their high school worlds. Th ey’re interacting with the community and the region and giving of their time and talents and passions. And that’s a pretty cool thing to see.

Reach Katherine Smith [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.

Thanks to votersI would like to take this opportunity to

thank the voters of the city of Black Diamond for their confi dence in retaining me on the City Council. I look forward to continuing to work with the Council and Staff to be more accountable to the citizens and work to restore faith in our local government.

Janie EdelmanBlack Diamond City Council

Public safety top priority for city going forward

Congratulations to the mayor-elect and council members-elect for their victories. Each of them will have a share of the future of Black Diamond in their hands. Please remem-ber that our public safety is their number one priority.

On Nov. 7, the (Black Diamond) City

Council held a public hearing on the proposed establishment of a community facilities dis-trict that will allow the construction of eight infrastructure projects for road improvements, water and sewer facilities. Th ese infrastructure improvements will be built and paid for by YarrowBay but will benefi t all of the current residents. Th ere will be no cost or risk to the city. Th e costs of the projects will be borne in the cost of new homes in the new develop-ments.

One project to be built and paid for by Yar-rowBay — only if the council passes the CFD — is a satellite fi re station, including emergen-cy response vehicles, located in the main part of the city, perhaps in the Lawson Street area. Th e station would be staff ed 24 hours, seven days a week. Th is would give the central part of Black Diamond much needed fi re protec-tion and life saving services.

Th e Lake Sawyer area has excellent response from Fire Station 98 on Lake Sawyer Road. I live near this station. My father-in-law had a heart attack while visiting our home. I called 911 and we had emergency personnel, vehicles

and fi re trucks in our drive way in 2 minutes. He received the fast, excellent response that all residents of Black Diamond deserve.

Mayor-elect Gordon is opposed to the CFD as it taxes residents in the new developments diff erently but that is not uncommon. Th e city has multiple school districts and three diff erent utility districts all taxing us diff er-ently. Th e diff erent valuation of homes means a diff erent amount of taxes are paid by current residents. Th e safety of our citizens should be the priority.

Th e city council has the resolution to accept or reject the CFD formation on the Nov. 21 agenda and must act to either approve or deny the CFD application by Dec. 8. Th ey have a chance to give equal protection to all areas of Black Diamond by approving the CFD. Let the City Council members know that your home and life are your priority by signing the on-line petition at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/petition-to-provide-life-saving-

D I D Y O U K N O W ? : Kentwood High School’s Munch Madness has raised tens of thousands of pounds of food since it began in 2008, when more than 28,000 were brought in by the school community. In 2012, Kentwood students, staff and parents donated more than 55,000 pounds to area food banks.

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The day was Monday, Oct. 28. I had just dropped off my car for tire service at the Four Corners Les Schwab. It was beauti-ful and sunny day so I decided to spend my wait time going for a walk. The route I chose took me on the east side of the Safeway shopping center. As I was walking west on

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eyes. She then spotted a MultiCare Medical Clinic in the Town Square Shop-ping Center on the north side of Kent-Kangley. She held my arm and guided me across the street to get medical attention.

A second gentleman stopped traffic so that we could cross safely. I thanked her again and again as we walked and she said something like “this is what people do to help others.”

When Linda and I left the medical clinic and headed to the emergency room in Covington, all the people that had helped me were gone. I don’t know their names and I prob-ably wouldn’t recognize them if I saw them again BUT I will never forget their kindness and their assistance in a time of need.

There are Good Samari-tans in our community.

God Bless them all.

Jerry LawsonMaple Valley

City needs other fire station

The City Council of Black Diamond has an opportunity to have a desperately needed fire station in the older part of the city paid for by Yar-rowBay.

Why is this station desperately needed, you ask. Two years ago the fire chief made a presenta-tion to the City Council that gave response times for all parts of the city and most of the old city is substandard. Substandard means the time for a fire apparatus to arrive is eight minutes or more. In eight minutes your house would

be fully involved in flames and God forbid someone was trapped inside, rescue would be very difficult.

Yarrow bay has agreed to pay for this fire station now. All it takes is for the city council to stop playing politics and put the safety of the residents — 2,500 of us — in the original part of the city first. The process can start immediately — all it takes is for the city council to pass the CFD that Yar-rowBay has asked for that applies only to their prop-erty. Please do not keep us at risk any longer. We deserve the same type of response that the residents of Lake Sawyer get — two to six minutes. Pass the CFD and don’t play poli-tics with peoples lives.

Mario SorciBlack Diamond

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Covington, Maple Valley and Black Diamond were named among the best in Western Washington by King 5.

Finalists from Covington include The Rock Wood Fired Pizza and Spirits which won for Best Pizza, Kentwood High School Cheer was ranked No. 5

Best Cheerleading Squad, and Kent-wood High School was ranked No. 4 High School with the Most Spirit.

Finalists from Maple Valley include Dog Spaw 2 Hour Grooms which won in the category of Best Grooming, Dazzled Dame which was ranked No.

2 for WOmen’s Accessories and No. 4 for Women’s Boutique, Valley Girls and Guys which was ranked No. 3 for Favorite Local Charity, Nutty Squirrel Gelato which was ranked No. 4 for Best Ice Cream Shop, and Farrelli’s Wood Fired Pizza which was ranked

No. 4 for Best Pizza.

Finalists from Black Diamond included Taphouse Ink which was rated No. 2 for Best Neighborhood Bar, and Mama Passarelli’s which was rated No. 3 for Best Italian.

Each year Western Washington con-sumers join together to vote for their favorite local businesses on the KING 5 Best of Western Washington. Winners were announced Nov. 8.

For more information visit www.best.king5.com.

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and other small donations. Much of the grant funding, Pursely said, is designated for specific programs and the money has to be spent on those programs. Pursely attributed the need to make changes to the offerings at the center to years of run-ning a budget deficit and using reserves to make ends meet.

The moms, as well as others, met with Pursely after the announcement and began attending Maple Valley City Council meet-ings and Commu-nity Center Board meetings.

“The more we looked into it, the more we looked to council members, we just found out it was a really complicated situation and not an easy solution,” Cummings said.

Maple Val-ley Family Circle natu-rally came together as the women continued to talk about options and brain-stormed ideas.

Those ideas included asking the city of Maple Valley to provide short term funding to continue the programs through the end of the year, and then asking the city to earmark a part of the funding it provides for the Community Center specifically for Children’s and Family programs.

“All we’ve been able to work out so far is that we are volunteering,” Cum-mings said. “We had to create a new group.”

Skobin explained that the group is allowed to use the

space at the Community Center for free and they are continuing to run both Toddler Time and Family Movie Night on a volun-teer basis at least through the end of the year. In mid December they will reassess and go from there.

“We’ve been assured that it isn’t their intention to start charging us,” Skobin said. “They are currently letting us use the facilities free of charge. We don’t have it in writing that is going to continue, but they have given us their word.

We also are now simultaneously pursuing working hand in hand with the Commu-nity Center Board of Directors in fundraising ef-forts.”

Addition-ally, Maple Valley Presbyterian Church, which had been the

site of two days of Toddler Time, is continuing to run Toddler Time two days a week, now independently of the Community Center.

The long term hope of the group is that the Com-munity Center will again be able to fund and run the programs.

“We are more than happy to work as volunteers in the interim, but our main goal, in the future, is to have the programs be ran by the Community Center again,” Barker said. “That is what we believe the Community Center is about, serving the needs of the majority of the community. They (Board members) said at that meet-ing (with Board members) that yes, they are willing to,

if we can come up with a plan or a number as to how much it would take to run the programs again. So then that’s what we’ve been doing at this point is meeting and coming up with how much we think the staffing would cost and supplies.”

The women all said that they stepped up to fight for the programs and decided to get involved because they believe they are vital programs of huge benefit to the community.

“Having somewhere where so many of their gross motor, fine motor, pretend play, linguistic needs are met, in an indoor, enclosed, warm place is amazing,” Skobin said of the importance of Toddler Time.

The women also spoke about what Toddler Time has meant to them and how it helped them connect, make friends, and how the group also offers support to the moms, and to all the different caregivers, who come.

“It’s not just for toddlers or kids, but this is how I met friends,” Cummings said.

Barker added that a big reason she wanted to get involved was because of what the programs mean to her own children.

“That, I think is one of the main reasons we want to continue for now, is because we didn’t want to tell our own kids that it was done,” Barker said. “That was the hardest thing.”

Barker said after the initial tension between them and the Community Center staff, the working relationship between them has improved.

“I would like to say personally, I can’t speak for everyone, since we’ve assumed this volunteer role, we’ve had a lot of great re-ception from the employees at the Community Center,” Skobin said. “They’ve been helpful, accommodating, and I really do feel that they’ve kept their word and done their part to provide the facilities and be helpful to us in that way. It’s nice that we’ve reached a point of good communication and it feels like collabora-tion.”

Skobin said she hopes they can even reach new families who have never been involved at the Com-munity Center before and that families continuing to come to the programs will be a vital part of the groups’ success going forward.

“That people believe in it enough to keep com-ing even though the faces have changed a bit, means a lot,” Skobin said. “We can show up every Tuesday and Thursday and let our four kids play together, but the fact that the community still wants it really makes it worth while.”

The next Family Movie Nightis scheduled for Dec. 13 at the Greater Maple Valley Commu-nity Center where “Despicable Me 2” will be shown. The cost is $5 per person.

Reach Katherine Smith [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyre-porter.com.

[ MOMS from page 1] MAPLE VALLEY’S ANNUAL HOLIDAY LIGHTS CELEBRATION DEC. 4The annual city of Maple Valley Com-munity Lighting and Holiday Party is set for 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

Fred Meyer and Good Chevrolet are the title sponsors of this year’s event at Lake Wilderness Park, Lodge, and Arboretum and invite all of Maple Valley to come and experience the thousands of festive lights, creative displays, refreshments and those familiar sounds of the holidays.

Holiday musical entertainment for the evening will be provided by roving Dickens Carolers and our own Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Parking will be available in the lighted lower main parking lot by the beach with a lighted walkway to the activities happening in and around the Lodge.

Canned food, new toys and cash donations for the Maple Valley Food Bank will be accepted during the event. For more information visit www.maplevalleywa.gov.

From Alaska to Southern California, something is killing the West Coast’s sea stars — the ubiquitous, child-friendly favorite of tide-pool explorers everywhere — and nobody knows why.

Yet.Benjamin Miner, as associate professor of biology at

Western Washington University, has received, along with his colleague Ian Hewson, a geneticist at Cornell Univer-sity, a one-year research grant from the National Science Foundation to begin to explore the potential reasons for the region’s dramatic loss of sea stars due to what is known as Sea Star Wasting Disease. Undergraduate biology stu-dent Warren Kohl from Black Diamond will be working alongside Minder during the project.

“Getting a chance to work on research like this as an undergrad is just a phenomenal opportunity,” Kohl said.

Miner said his part of the research involves going into the field, surveying 30 to 40 sites throughout Washington state in search of samples to bring back to his lab to collect samples to send to Hewson.

Sea Star Wasting Disease can sweep into an area and within a week or two, turn healthy colonies of dozens of sea stars into dead zones where the only thing left are mats of bacterial ooze — the remains of the stars after the

disease has run its course.“You’ll start to see lesions ‚ white, open sores on the sea

stars. Then they’ll begin losing their legs, and before too long they have been reduced to this white mat of goo,” Miner said.

Miner said the disease seems to affect five or six of the 20 or so local varieties of sea star, although varieties that live in deeper water or are rarer may also be affected.

Miner and Hewson will soon begin to seek answers to some of the basic questions about this epidemic. First and foremost, what is causing it? There is almost no published research on this topic, so they will be starting almost from scratch. Is it one disease or a so-called perfect storm combination of illnesses? Can sick sea stars infect others by touch, or is it spread through the water column? Can it be passed to other sea stars of different species?

“We don’t have any of these answers yet, but hopefully within a year, we will,”Miner said.

Miner will be sampling both intertidal areas on foot and near-shore sites by diving. The sites are both in the Pacific Ocean and inside the Salish Sea, and he will compare the populations he finds there with historical records.

Given the prevalence of the disease, if there are no sea stars in areas historically known to have robust popula-

tions, he can assume that the disease has swept through the area already.

Other areas, he said, have seemed to remain untouched, with normal, healthy sea star populations. What about these areas is different from the areas that have been af-fected?

“It’s a fascinating question, and an important one,” Miner said. “Sea stars are ravenous eaters of shellfish like mussels. If there is no predation of mussels, their populations will explode, crowding out other species and dropping biodi-versity. Mussels can take over an ecosystem, and sea stars are the check-and-balance that prevents that.”

Moreover, what worries Miner even more about the sudden onset of this disease is that it hasn’t done what sick-nesses usually do: appear in one place then leapfrog its way into new areas. Sea Star Wasting Disease has arrived along virtually the entire North American West Coast almost simultaneously.

“The geographic scale of this disease outbreak is espe-cially alarming and, frankly, almost unheard of,” Miner said.

For more information on the grant or his Sea Star Wast-ing Disease research, contact Ben Miner at (360) 650-3640 or [email protected].

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Parts started arriving at the One.7 shop shortly after that conversation, Mc-

Donough said. A significant portion of the items used on the truck were donated.

In the past, three other machines were auctioned off, but this year Tina and Cory McDonough decided to sell the Vactor 2100 then donate a portion of the proceeds.

A Canadian company purchased the truck, which

was displayed at Marymoor Park in Redmond where walkers could see it as they completed the Seattle 3 Day in mid-September,

“Our company donated 20 percent of the sale (of the truck) which equals $33,000,” McDonough wrote in an email. “With that $33,000, the $10,000 from the Good Neighbor

Award and the $28,480.18 (donated by) Trapper’s Su-shi we have broken the $1.5 million mark.”

In six years, the Valley Girls and Guys team raised $1,561,859 and change.

Pick up of the Vactor 2100 truck happened the day before McDonough flew out to San Diego with nine others to participate

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cent over the previous year.“Our special events like spooky swims

and float in movies have been selling out,” said Interim Aquatics Supervisor Rachel Bahl. “We have added a lot of popular programs and even the participation in our established programs increased dramati-cally this year.”

With a greater revenue stream and increased patronage, pool staff expanded programing in areas of need for seniors, water safety and drowning education.

Running a public pool is an expensive proposition, and there were times in the past nine years, Slate wrote in an email earlier this month, that discussion sur-rounding the Aquatic Center’s budget was difficult because it was not self-sufficient. The attendance increase is significant, then, not only because it surpassed the number

of in-water patrons of 2012, but it also blew by the goal the staff set for the year. One of the goals for 2012, as stated in the city’s budget document for last year, was to achieve 70 percent cost recovery. In 2011, there were just shy of 82,000 in-water visits and in 2012 there were 92,949.

The Covington Aquatic Center first opened its doors as a King County-owned facility March 3, 1977. Ownership was transferred to the city of Covington in 2004.

It is home to the Kentlake High School swim and dive teams, the Tahoma High School swim and dive teams, Kentridge High School’s water polo teams, a KING Aquatic Club swim team as well as Raise the Bar’s triathlon team.

Covington Aquatic Center is also used by the Tahoma School District, Kent School District, King County marine/dive unit, Kent Fire Department swift water rescue,

local churches, scout groups, kayak groups and more.

In 2006 and 2007, the city invested in improvements for the Covington Aquatic Center that have given the facility a much needed facelift and extended its lifespan so the community can continue to enjoy aquatic recreation.

This project earned Covington Aquatic Center the 2008 Washington Recreation and Parks Association Spotlight Facility and Park Award.

Another renovation project is under-way at the pool. The Aquatic Center is in need of a new roof. There are several other features of the project such as art installa-tion, a recreation rental room addition and conversion of the current rental space back to a storage facility in the building. Fred French was hired in October 2012 to serve as a part-time, as needed project manager and Taproot Architects designed and devel-

oped concept drawings. The cost of the work is covered by a

$400,000 Washington State Commerce Grant.

When the work is complete in early 2014, according to information provided in September by Scott Thomas, the city’s parks and recreation director, it will only increase the Aquatic Center’s ability to serve patrons, whether they are Covington residents or not. This could lead to even greater attendance and revenues.

“It is going to be fabulous to be able to have birthday parties or other kinds of functions,” Thomas told the Reporter in September. “This new room is going to be associated with the plaza … so the aquatic center is really going to be able to provide a lot more service to the community than we have in the past. It’s really going to be great. It’s going to make the aquatic center a lot more versatile.”

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That many people’s waist-lines expand during the holiday season is a well-es-tablished fact. But, as a new study found, the reason why most of us overindulge at this particular time may not be so much the count-less opportunities for extra munching but rather the need for extra comfort due to heightened stress.

The study, which was conducted at the University of Konstanz, Germany, showed that participants who had a tendency to reach for food when stressed did not continue to do so after they were more relaxed, even though they were given equal access to the comfort foods they craved when they felt tense.

Other participants had reverse reactions. They ate less or stopped eating alto-gether in acutely stressful situations and compensated — or often overcompen-sated — for the depriva-

tion afterwards when the tension ebbed. In either case, eating was connected to their stress experience rather than the availability of food.

Stress eating, or emotion-al eating as it is sometimes called, is not yet fully understood by scientists. In fact, the expression “stress eating” itself should be a contradiction in terms. Acute stress as a short-term response supposedly blocks the desire for food due to hormone releases in the brain that suppress appetite. But when high stress levels persist, as with chronic stress, cortisol, an appetite-stimulating hormone, secretes in the adrenal glands and remains elevated until the stress period ends, which may be indefinite.

Some foods seem to be more effective for stress relief than others. Comfort foods, which are typically highly processed and filled with fat and sugar, are among the favorite choices

of the chronically stressed. These are also the kinds of food that one can easily snack on, often mindlessly.

Overeating, of course, is not the only widespread response to stress. Because of its energy-draining and exhausting effects, both physically and mentally, stress prevents many people from exercising and often from getting enough sleep. Alcohol and drug use, not unheard of among stress sufferers, add to the likelihood of unhealthy weight gain and other body dysfunctions.

So, what makes us so much more vulnerable and so inclined to succumb to our cravings during the holiday season? The fact is that this is no holiday at all for most people who find themselves burdened with many additional tasks and obligations while their everyday lives still must go on as usual. Thus, stress sources multiply. That, at least, may be one reason.

Still, whatever we do to cope with those chal-lenges, it is important to understand that we are not helpless when it comes to controlling our impulses.

For example, do you have a sweet tooth? If so, you can limit your access to your fa-vorite treats. Do you easily forego exercising and make excuses for staying seden-tary? You can draw up a fitness plan and join in with likeminded people who can hold you to it. Are you chronically sleep-deprived? You can make a point of increasing your sleep time. The list can go on and on.

It would be naïve to think that all this can be accom-plished with a quick resolu-tion. Instead, I recommend to start with one thing, something concrete you can take on right now. It doesn’t matter what exactly you choose to do. Read a book, go for a walk, meditate, whatever. Stay with it, and that gift might just keep on giving.

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Brooke Bailey of Tahoma, above, swims the breaststroke leg of the 200 medley relay during prelims at the state championship meet at King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way on Nov. 15. Kentlake’s Kyndal Phillips fi nished second in the 100 butterfl y and third in the 100 backstroke. KATHERINE SMITH, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.

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Swimmers from Kent-lake, Tahoma and Kent-wood fi nished the 2013 season by placing in the top 16 at the state champion-ship meet and breaking school records at King County Aquatic Center on Nov. 15 and 16.

Kentlake’s Kyndal Phillips fi nished second in the 100 butterfl y with a time of 57.12 seconds, and third in the 100 backstroke with a time of 55.63.

Other top fi nishes included the 200 medley relay from Kentlake of Alessandra Losacco, Laura Williams, and Avalyne Peters which came in

eighth, Natalie Lesnick of Kentwood who fi nished tenth in the 200 freestyle, and Williams who fi nished seventh in the 200 indi-vidual medley. Also, Jessica Miller of Tahoma fi nished 10th in the 50 free and set a new Tahoma High record in the event with a time of 24.68. In the same event Jill Collins, also from Tahoma,

fi nished 15th with a time of 25.15. Hanger and Collins fi nished 12th and 16th, respectively, in the 100 free, with Hanger setting a new Tahoma record with a time of 54.53.

Th e 200 free relay from Tahoma of Collins, Hallie Mazick, Hanger and Miller placed sixth and the relay from Kentlake of Peters,

Losacco, Williams, and Phillips placed eighth. Wil-liams also placed eighth in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:06.59.

Th e Tahoma 400 free relay team of Miller, Col-lins, Mazick and Hanger wrapped up the meet with a seventh place fi nish and

School records fall at state swim meetKentlake girls fi nish seventh overall while Falcons swimmer Kyndal Phillips brought home top fi nishes

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KENTWOOD VOLLEYBALL FIFTH IN STATE

Kentwood brought home the fi fth place trophy at the 4A state

volleyball tournament Nov. 15-16 at St. Martin’s University.During the course of the

tournament Kentwood lost just one match, a 3-0 defeat in the

quarterfi nal at the hands of Curtis, which made it to the championship

contest.Kentwood beat Bothell 3-1

(25-22, 25-13, 21-25, 25-18) in the opening round when the

Conquerors played in one of three 8 a.m. matches that kicked off the

tournament.After the loss to Curtis, Kentwood

bounced back the second day with a 3-1 victory over Central

Valley then held off Camas in a 3-2 victory, winning 16-14 in the fi fth set to claim the fi fth place trophy.

The Conks did not play in the state tournament a year ago, which

snapped an eight-year appearance streak which included a second-

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new Tahoma High record time of 3:42.08.

In diving, Kentlake’s Lizzy Reichlinger finished 10th with a score of 299.5 points.

Other swimmers who swam in prelims on Friday morning included the Tahoma medley relay of Ol-ivia Halbert, Brooke Bailey, Allie Duven and MacKen-zie Dress which finished 23rd, Hannah Lesnick of

Kentwood who finished 22nd in the 200 free, Miller who finished 22nd in the 100 fly, Natalie Lesnick who finished 19th in the 500 free, and Katherine Beliveau of Kentlake who finished 18th in diving.

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Kentlake’s Kyndal Phillips swims in the 100 yard butterfly final at the 4A state championship swim and dive meet Nov. 18 at King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way. Phillips, a senior, finished second in the event. The Falcons finished seventh as a team. RACHEL CIAMPI, The Reporter

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Time for the annual Thanksgiving column so that gardeners in Western Washington can once again be grateful for our mild climate, abundant rainfall and beautiful gardens.

This year you’ll also get to be thankful for the garden chores you don’t have to do this week:

Be thankful you don’t have to go outside and prune your roses.

Roses can be pruned back anytime from Febru-ary until March so don’t fret if you haven’t yet gotten snippy with them.

While you’re thinking of roses, be thankful you don’t have to battle June bugs like they do in the South or

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Be thankful you don’t have to mow and trim the lawn.

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time of the year that the ground is not frozen or so wet that it feels mucky.

We have just enough cold weather to keep most lawns dormant until April so homeowners get a break from mowing – without a winter of snowing.

In Chicago they just change lawn mowers for snow blowers. At least um-brellas are easier to operate.

Be thankful you don’t have to prune your fruit

trees. Applies trees, plum trees

and cherries all produce fruit without annual prun-ing.

If you want to prune to shape the tree or to increase fruit production than go ahead. We have a choice about pruning in our state.

In Hawaii and Florida they must hack back the explosion of plant growth all year long as the plants never go dormant.

Plus in the tropics you must watch out for giant reptiles with sharp teeth and poisonous fangs. At least our slugs are easy to stomp.

Be thankful we can enjoy locally grown Christmas trees and deck the halls with local boughs of holly and local swags of cedar.

In warmer climates the Christmas trees sit on paved lots, dropping

needles as they gasp in the heat.

Fake tinsel trees stand in for our native evergreens but without the natural fra-grance of pine and cedar.

Communities in Califor-nia pay to bring in piles of snow so local kids have a chance to wear mittens. Pity the poor Santa dressed in fur from head to foot.

In our climate a fallen branch from a fir tree can be poked into an empty pot and displayed outdoors for months – needles still intact.

Be thankful we have real mountains.

In Western Washington our dramatic snow-capped mountains make the perfect backdrop for any photo – I am so embarrassed for those poor folk in other parts of the world that call their modest green hills “mountains.”

Only in Switzerland did the local mountain range earn my respect – but they can’t grow rhododendrons, Japanese maples and fuch-sias in Switzerland the way we can.

Be thankful you are read-ing a local newspaper.

Weekly newspapers and daily papers printed by local publishers have been struggling for years to adjust as the internet took over.

Finally it seems that citi-zens respect the credibility of the printed word when it is written by a local journal-ist – paid to be subjective and report on local news instead of depending on a internet news site – often with writers paid to create publicity for attention-seeking celebrities.

The world and the media is changing all around us – but this is the week to be

thankful for those changes as well.

Just like a garden, change challenges us to keep grow-ing.

Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture from Washington State University and is the au-thor of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and sev-eral other books. For book requests or answers to gardening questions, write to her at: P.O. Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022. Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a personal reply. For more gardening information visit www.binettigarden.com.

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Once your pile starts decomposing to create that rich organic substance known as humus, you’re composting! Now, you can replace the layering process with burying materials in the center and incorporating them when you water and turn the pile.

This spring, spread your compost on the lawn, garden patch, flower beds and container plants, too.

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