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Stefano Langone, a Kentwood High graduate who competed on American Idol in 2011, sang the Star Spangled Banner before the Kentwood-Kent Meridian football game Sept. 21 at French Field. Langone smiles up at the crowd before he starts singing. KRIS HILL, The Reporter

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Th e state Court of Appeals is the next exit on the legal highway for Toward Responsible Devel-opment’s Land Use Petition Act appeal of the YarrowBay master planned developments that was denied by Superior Court Judge Patrick H. Oishi Aug. 27.

Toward Responsible Develop-ment (TRD) fi led the appeal in October 2010 following the approval of the permits for the Th e Villages and Lawson Hills in September 2010 and the fi nding by city hearing examiner, Phil Olbrechts, the Final Environmen-tal Impact Statements were legally adequate.

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Mergers can be tricky whether it’s two businesses or two church-es.

Somehow, though, the joining of Real Life Church and Coving-ton Christian Fellowship could be an example of how smoothly a merger can go.

Th ough it won’t be offi cial until a vote is taken at CCF Oct. 14, explained longtime Senior Pastor Kevin Holland, the response from his leadership team as well the congregation has largely been positive especially once the fl ock learned he would be staying with the church.

Th is merger actually would not have happened, in fact, had Real Life’s eff orts to purchase Lake Re-treat Camp in Ravensdale hadn’t worked out.

Steve Murray, senior pastor at RLC, said his church had to give up the purchase camp in August.

Churches plan to merge in November

BY TJ MARTINELL

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Haley Larson’s winning shoe design speaks loudly on the topic of bullying.

Larson, a soft -spoken senior at Kentwood High, created a custom kick using an orange Converse Chuck Taylor All Star as her canvas as part of an anti-bullying campaign.

A student in Leslie Armstrong’s

art class, Larson’s shoe was chosen by Th e Swanx Footwear company and can be purchased for $119 with $5 from each shoe sold going to Kentwood’s art program.

For Larson, who has enjoyed drawing since was she was a kid, it was a nice way to return to the art room aft er putting the class on hiatus for two years due to a full schedule.

“I really want to expand my technique,” she said.

Th e idea fi rst came about when Swanx shoe company asked Armstrong to help come up with a logo design for an anti-bullying campaign. Armstrong suggested they turn it into a contest and have students submit their own designs for a Chuck Taylor All Star. Th e one thing they had in common was the use of the color orange, which Armstrong said is the color for bullying prevention.

For the competition, Armstrong said she divided her classes into 30 teams. Each team created their own slogan to go on the shoe, as well as a logo to harmonize it. To help provide some inspiration

Kentwood senior designs an anti-bullying fashion statement

Kentwood senior Haley Larson works at her table in Leslie Armstrong’s art class. Larson’s shoe design promotes prevention of bullying. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter

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Tough Mudder course designer Nolan Kombol thinks there’s no better place to have a mud-laden obstacle course than in Black Diamond, where there is always mud.

For the 10,500 people who will be participating in the Tough Mudder event Sept. 29-30 there will be plenty of mud to crawl and run through.

Tough Mudder, which creates 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by Brit-ish Special Forces, tries to provide the same grueling physical training as military obstacle courses. Th e course also varies from each loca-

tion, taking advantage of the region’s geography and natural terrain.

Kombol, who is the head of course design and opera-tions for Tough Mudder, began searching for a city to host a new event. Aft er making several site visits in both Washington and Oregon, Black Diamond presented numerous advan-tages.

A Enumclaw native who grew up in Black Diamond, Kombol had ties to the community, including at Palmer Coking Coal Company, where he had formerly worked for his uncle Bill Kombol.

Kombol was able to ob-tain permission to use the

company’s privately owned land, including a large pit and backwoods area behind Lake Sawyer, ideal loca-tions for an obstacle course. Th is was crucial, as much of the problem they had encountered when scouting for a location in the Pacifi c Northwest were environ-mental restrictions that prevented them from using land, which can be roughed up a bit during an event.

“To be honest, running 8,000 people through a mud path will do damage to the earth,” Kombol said. “Th e pit has a lot of private land, the earth is already disturbed, so it’s not really an issue.”

Also, having grown up

in the area, Kombol was able to put his knowledge to good use when designing the course.

“It’s a great place to do it,” he said. “I’m connected to it. Being on the design team of Tough Mudder I knew exactly how to make it work and fi t like a glove.”

As a part of the obstacle course, one of the main features includes a run up a large coal slag pile, which had gradually been covered with vegetation. In an appropriate tribute to the city’s coal mining heritage as well as a nice challenge to feature, Kombol had the pile cleared and a trail placed on it.

“I said, ‘We have to climb

that pile.’ Palmer Coking Coal has been great to work with,” he said. “Th ey’ve been a great partner. Th ey’ve been good to make sure we develop a safe course.”

In addition, Kombol also tests each course designed to ensure it meets the Tough Mudder reputa-tion for being as physi-cally demanding as military training.

“I think it was (original-ly) designed to give people the ability to test themselves in the way the British SAS test themselves,” he said. “It’s really a way to chal-lenge yourself without hav-ing to join the British SAS.

Getting tough in the Black Diamond mud

BY TJ MARTINELL

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A Black Diamond El-ementary student received the Hometown Hero Award from the Black Diamond City Council for saving a boy from drowning last year.

Garret McGann, 10, was with his family at the Great Wolf Lodge im September 2011. While his mother, Tina, swam with his 7-year-old twin brothers in the shallow part of the wave

pool, Garret swam into the deeper end. Th ere, Garret observed a younger, smaller boy around 5 or 6, swimming in a life preserver much too large for him. As he watched him attempt to swim, Garret saw the boy’s arms slip out from the life jacket, which caused his head to go underwater.

Reacting quickly, Garret swam over to the boy and

attempted to keep him afl oat so he could breathe.

Meanwhile, Tina Mc-Gann looked over and saw Garret. From where she stood, it appeared as though he was struggling to swim as well.

“I actually thought (at fi rst) Garret was the one drowning,” she said. “All I could see was Garret’s head

going up and down. I was all ready to go over there. I didn’t know exactly what

happened until it was all over.

Fortunately, Garret’s father, Jack, as well as the lifeguards, were able to spot them. Th e lifeguards immediately jumped into the water and were able to bring the young boy out. Th ere, it was discovered he was deaf when his father began to communicate with him via sign language, which meant the boy was unable to call for help.

“It was a great time to be there,” Tina McGann said.

“He has always been a great swimmer.”

According to Tina Mc-Garret, Garrett is only the fourth person to receive the award since 2000.

“We’ve proud of him, of course,” she said. “We per-sonally don’t teach our kids to do things to get recog-nized. We teach them to do things for our community.”Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to covingtonreporter.com.

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TAHOMA ROBOTICS COMPETITION

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school year.Qualifying matches will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lunch will

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It’s quite an accomplish-ment for people who do do it, but it’s not strict military training.”

For those brave enough to participate, the Black Diamond course will be 11 miles long and include nu-merous mountain climbs, hills, back trail running — and yes, plenty of mud pits, which in Black Diamond was easier to create than in states like Arizona or Texas, where rain is less than plentiful.

“You pick up the dirt from the ground and you’ll fi nd mud,” Kombol said. “We’ve come across problems in Arizona trying to come up with mud. We’ll have to become very creative to create mud on the course. Here’s it’s a breeze. Mud is in our brand.”

At the same time, they decided to hold the event in September because weather is generally milder and drier.

While every course has its own unique aspects, Kombol said they design each course to fi t specifi c standards in terms of dis-tance, usually 11 miles, and average time to complete it, around three hours. Th e distance can be longer or shorter, depending on the elevation and terrain.

Another benefi t of Palm-er Coking Coal’s gravel pit was it worked well as a parking lot to accom-modate the thousands of athletes who will participate — 7,500 on Saturday and 3,000 on Sunday — which will be needed for the 4,000 vehicles organizers antici-pate will need parking.

Th e runners primarily come from the Seattle and

Portland area, although Kom-bol said they expect runners from all over the country, which he sees as a testament to the popularity of the event.

“You tell people and they understand,” he said. “You’re out

there and you really have to push it. As a male in my late to mid 20s I looked at that sort of stuff and said, ‘Th at is a lot of fun.’ Even if you go to a military base and see their obstacles courses you look at it and say ‘Wouldn’t it be great to give it a shot.”

Th e Tough Mudder on Saturday will start with a fi rst wave at 8 a.m. Waves will begin every 20 minutes until 1:30 p.m.

Sunday will start start at 9 a.m. and last wave will be at 11 a.m.

Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.

“You tell people and they understand. You’re out there and you really have to push it. As a male in my late to mid 20s I looked at that sort of stuff and said, ‘That is a lot of fun.’” Nolan Kombol

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for the designs, Armstrong had class discussions about bul-lies, the diff erent kinds of bullying, and how art could send a message.

“We had a lot of conversations about bullying, how it made us feel so they could have a sense of ownership,” she said. “We didn’t focus on the negativity of it.”

As the contest was held around Sept. 11, one of the dis-cussions involved the diff erences and similarities between bullies and terrorists. Th e conclusion, Armstrong said, is bullies kill their victims one day at a time.

Another way to help the students brainstorm was to evaluate various examples of product logos and slogans, such as Nike’s “Just Do It,” and how the logos help people

identify the product easily.Rather than work on a team, however, Larson chose to

work alone on her shoe, something which she said she wasn’t certain she wanted to do.

“I wasn’t sure if I was going to try it or not,” Larson said. “I just started brain storming. I sat there and thought and thought about it. I like to doodle so it’s something I thought would be easy to design on a shoe like Converse when they already do it.”

At the same time, Larson said, she wanted a slogan that wouldn’t sound too similar to another company’s, nor did she want it to sound like a commercial, either.

Larson fi nally decided to create a shoe logo featuring a chain broken or separated by a heart, with the slogan “Stop the pain, break the chain.”

Th e slogan, she said, dealt not only with bullies who were bullied themselves, but victims who might become bullies. She also made another design for the low top version.

Th is, she felt, would address the issue of bullying preven-tion while also appealing to anyone, rather than one party involved.

“I had diff erent versions of it, but the one that stuck, it was easy to come up with a logo and it could be interpreted in many diff erent ways,” she said. “(Th ere are) not specifi c examples. I think any kind of bully would fi t and that’s why it worked.”

Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to covingtonreporter.com.

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PURPLE LIGHT NIGHTS KICKOFF SATURDAYThe Covington Domestic Violence Task Force will kick off its Purple Light Nights campaign Saturday with a tree lighting at 6:30 p.m. in the Fred Meyer plaza parking lot in front of Los Cabos.

This is the third annual tree light-ing to kick off the campaign which runs through the month of October, National Domestic Violence Aware-ness Month, to raise awareness of the impact domestic violence has as well as honor victims.

Covington Community Parks and Rec-reation Department staff are handling the tree lighting.

For more information log on to www.

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CARLY STOWELL FOUNDATION SPONSORS CONCERTThe Carly Stowell Foundation is sponsoring a guest appearance by the Seattle Women of Jazz at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11 in the Kentlake Performing Arts Center at Kentlake High.

This concert is free and open to the public.

The Carly Stowell Foundation was formed in 2007 in memory of Carly Stowell, a Kentlake freshman who died in April 2007, and helps students pursue their interests in music and sports. Stowell was an accomplished musician and started as the point

guard her freshman year for the Kentlake girls basketball team.

The Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra features many of the fi nest female jazz artists in the region. Showcasing high intensity jazz, tight harmonies, and lush dynamic sounds, the band performs with a fresh energy stem-ming from more than 10 years of thrilling audiences on two continents.

More information can be found at www.swojo.org or at carlystowell-foundation.countmein.com.

MAPLE VALLEY TOWN HALL SET FOR OCT. 3The city of Maple Valley will host its annual Town Hall Meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Lake Wilderness Lodge.

The meeting will be an opportunity to learn about the Tahoma School

District’s eff orts to prepare its students to successfully face the next chapter in their life, be it college, to the work force, or both.

The evening will begin with birthday cake and ice cream, celebrating the city’s 15th anniversary of its incorpo-ration as a city on Aug. 31, 1997.

The Mayor and council members will be scooping up the ice cream and serving up the cake.

Tahoma School District Superinten-dent Mike Maryanski will speak about the School District’s “Future Ready” program.

Executive Director Tom McLaughlin will speak about the work of the Center for Advance Manufacturing Puget Sound (CAMPS).

Council and guest speakers will be on hand to answer questions about the

exhibits.

The evening will conclude with the traditional open fl oor session where council members will respond to citizen questions.

STUFF THE BUS SATURDAY IN QFC PARKING LOT Tahoma School District classifi ed employees want to give back to the community and ask for help to Stuff the Bus from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the QFC parking lot in Maple Valley.

Bring canned and packaged food, personal hygiene products, household cleaning supplies, new and gently-used children’s books as well as school supplies.

For more information call Barbara Roessler at 425-457-9292.

REAL LIFE CHURCH’S OIL CHANGE DAY SATURDAYReal Life Church will host its annual free oil change day from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday.

The event is set up to help single parents, the disabled, elderly adults, those in need and widows.

Guests are also provided with a com-plimentary lunch and clothing bank set up for this special day.

Due to support from more than 90 volunteers, the outreach team is targeting 80 cars.

For an appointment, please call 206-370-9054 by Sept. 24 to schedule a time and get the location of Oil Change Day.

If you want to help, volunteer, donate products or fi nancially contribute, call the church offi ce at 425-413-7325.

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“In our due diligence process, the more we dug into the camp, the more we liked the camp, the more we could see how we could use it,” Murray said. “Then toward the end of the process we discovered some issues that would make it financially unreasonable for us to pursue. Some of the improvements and adjust-ments to the property, the cost started going up. “When the costs had ex-ceeded a threshold beyond our ability to responsibly purchase the camp our board decided unless an outside source comes to help us purchase this that there is no way that we can put the church in the camp and run the camp in a way that financially makes sense.”

It proved to be frustrat-ing for Murray, members of the church as well as the owners of Lake Retreat, Converge NW.

Not buying the camp was particularly difficult because Murray felt that it could fulfill a vision he’s had since RLC began 14 years ago of providing not only a place for members to worship but also being a greater asset to the com-munity.

Add to that the fact there was considerable time and energy put into the process, Murray said, which included taking 250 groups to tour the camp includ-ing investors, work parties at the property, repaired buildings and equipment as well as hosting the church’s Fourth of July picnic there.

For as long as Real Life has existed, it has been a mobile church, in recent years meeting Sunday mornings at Kentlake High. Finding a place to call home was appealing.

During the time the

church staff was research-ing the costs of purchasing the camp, Murray said, they were looking at possibly doing a second service because of the size of the chapel at Lake Retreat and for those who weren’t interested in doing church at the camp.

“That’s when Kevin and I renewed an old conver-sation about doing some things together,” Murray said. “I’d always known Kevin liked doing commu-nity stuff and international work, so, for the last two years we’ve been exploring ways to do joint ventures.”

And, over the years, the two pastors have sort of jokingly discussed merg-ing their churches because their congregations have so much in common as Mur-ray and Holland are alike in how they lead as pastors.

“There’s always a bit of truth in humor,” Murray said. “We’ve basically come from the same church tradition. We have the same heart. We’re both basically community guys that don’t take ourselves too seriously. At he same time we both have a love and a passion for the church and what the church can do for the com-munity and the community can do for the church.”

That idea, though, went up on a shelf again in December 2010 when Real Life was initially ap-proached to purchase the camp. Murray didn’t want to have the focus of the church split in two quite different directions.

In the meantime, though, they did begin working together on international projects in countries such as Bulgaria, Ghana, Turkey, India, to name a few.

“We realized this was bigger than either one of us individually,” Murray said. “It was going to need

some focus and time. It had some great potential for us as churches but for us as individuals, as well.”

At the same time, Murray said, he wasn’t ready to talk about who would have what role if they did merge their churches.

“I wasn’t ready yet to not be a senior pastor and I didn’t want to assume that I would be the senior pastor,” Murray said. “Neither of us wanted to assume it. But, when (Kevin) made that decision, I thought, ‘OK, I can see a path forward with this.’”

Holland said he knew he had to address the issue, “the elephant in the room,” so to speak of who would lead the church.

During his time with CCF, he spent his first 10 years as an associate pastor and the past 24 as senior pastor, so it was time for him to let someone else lead.

“In February I began feel-ing strongly that it was time for me to step aside for new leadership because I want our church to stay young,” Holland said. “I shared it with my leadership team. We began talking and praying about our options. The two strongest options would be that my son Na-than would take the church or we would approach Real Life Church about merg-ing.”

In April, not long after RLC had made an offer on Lake Retreat, Holland’s board of directors suggested he speak with Murray.

But, it wasn’t the right time.

Eventually, though, Mur-ray went back to Holland to resume serious discussions about merging.

Both sides decided to take the summer to think it over, pray about it then talk again.

“Nathan, my son, and his wife Tiffany, said, ‘We don’t think it’s ours to take,’” Hol-land said. “From our side we believe merging with Real Life as a church is the way to go and everybody on our leadership team and agreed with them. All that went through my head, two great churches are even better together. For both of us it expanded our area of potential impact.”

Holland said church mergers don’t work if two weak congregations join or if a weak one becomes part of a strong one but in this case, both bring many strengths to the table which means all the ingredients are there for a successful partnership.

Members of both church-es had questions, of course, regarding the continuation of events, the existence of The Storehouse, which is a food bank located on CCF’s property and operated by Holland’s wife, Meg, just as a few examples.

Once the merger is com-plete and official, the plan is to begin to hold services at CCF in November, though the new church will be called Real Life.

Murray said they are working on the logistics of that because fitting close to 600 people in that building could be a bit snug.

But, Murray said the way the two churches do things separately so similarly it should be an easy transi-tion.

Plus, nearly 40 percent of his congregation lives in Covington anyway so it be a shorter commute to ser-vices on Sunday mornings.

“They’re really excited,” Murray said. “The biggest thing, they’re excited to have a place to call home.”

In the end, Holland said, “We’re going to be much better for it.”

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Harp and Cindy Proctor.The attorney representing TRD, David

Bricklin with the Seattle firm Bricklin & Newman, stated in a Sept. 10 email there will be an appeal filed of Oishi’s decision.

“Our briefs demonstrated numerous problems with the MPDs,” Bricklin wrote in the Sept. 10 email. “The city’s own study showed that the project would have a nega-tive impact on the city’s budget, contrary to city code requiring these mega projects to keep the city in the black.”

The argument before the three-judge ap-peal court could be set for early 2013.

BACK AND FORTHBricklin and Bob Sterbank, from Kenyon

Disend representing the city, sent responses via email concerning some thoughts on the next step in the appeal process.

Bricklin wrote, “Judge Oishi was not required to explain his decision, but the absence of any explanation or analysis

leaves the decision with little intellectual or persuasive force. It doesn’t serve to persuade the citizens that they were wrong to challenge the city’s decision. It doesn’t serve to persuade the citizens that a further appeal would be in vain. It assures that his decision will have no persuasive impact on the Court of Appeals.”

Sterbank wrote, “This comment is ironic, and seems to blame Judge Oishi for a decision petitioners had already made. Mr. Bricklin’s own proposed order stated that, ‘Because appellate review, if any, is of the city’s decisions, not the Superior Court’s decisions, entries of findings of fact and conclusions of law are not necessary.’ Given the petitioners’ awareness that detailed or narrative findings and conclusions were not necessary, it seems unlikely that the level of detail in Judge Oishi’s order played any real role in petitioners’ decision to continue fighting against the City Council’s deci-sions. Judge’s Oishi’s order included all of the findings and conclusions required, and

certainly all those necessary to withstand appellate review.”

Bricklin wrote, “We demonstrated that the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was inadequate for implementing projects and that vital information had not been provide.

“You may recall that the city and Yarrow-Bay defended the EIS in part on grounds that more analysis would be provided later. We doubted that was the case. Our concerns have been validated now that the City has approved proceeding with the first project subdivision without a supplemental EIS, contrary to Yarrow Bay’s and the City’s arguments that the EIS was ‘programmatic’ and that further detailed analyses would be done for implementing projects.

Sterbank wrote concerning Bricklin’s comment about the programmatic environ-mental review.

“This is a misdirection, of course, be-cause any appeal is limited to the record, which does not include the Phase 1A

plat,” Sterbank wrote. “More to the point, programmatic environmental review is not limited to an SEIS, (supplemental envi-ronmental impact statement) but includes multiple options for subsequent phases of environmental review. These include issuance of an addendum, which contains additional environmental information or analysis, but which is not appealable, and review of a new environmental checklist, analysis, and issuance of a mitigated deter-mination of nonsignificance (MDNS). Mr. Pilcher testified about these options during the MPD appeal hearings, and petitioners never disputed it. For the Phase 1A plat, the city chose the MDNS route, a perfectly legitimate option.”

APPEAL COSTS AND FEESAccording to Sterbank the petitioners

“will have to pay both the city and Yarrow-Bay’s attorneys’ fees on appeal.”

Sterbank stated the fees for the appeal

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ACCIDENT INVESTIGATEDA three-car accident near Jones Road on Maple Valley Highway Tuesday involved two men from Maple Valley, a 46-year-old driving a KIA Rio and

a 30-year-old driving a Ford Crown Victoria.

According to the WSP report, the 46-year-old driving a KIA Rio struck the back of the 30-year-old man’s

Ford Crown on Jones Road in Renton Highlands after coming to a stop at a traffic light.

The Ford then struck the back of a Peterbilt semi-truck and trailer.

Both Maple Valley men were injured and transported to Valley Medical

Center in Renton.

The 56-year-old man driving the semi-truck was reportedly unharmed and able to drive the truck from the scene.

The influence of drugs or alcohol could have contributed to the accident, according the WSP report.

PEDESTRIAN HIT BY CARA 15-year-old pedestrian was struck by a vehicle last night at around 9 p.m. near the Shell gas station on state Route 169.

According to Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety, the pedestrian is believed to be from Maple Valley, but wasn’t

confirmed Tuesday morning.

The pedestrian was transported to Valley Medical Center and released Monday night.

The sequence of events which led to the accident were not immediately clear to investigators Tuesday morning.

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BY TJ MARTINELL

[email protected]

A 30-year-old Des Moines man has been charged by the King County Prosecu-tor’s Office with two counts of first degree robbery for allegedly robbing banks in Maple Valley and Des Moines. A third count of first degree robbery for the robbery of a bank in Kent is expected to be filed, accord-ing to the charging papers.

According to the charging papers, Bruce William Gorr, III, allegedly entered the Bank of America in Maple Valley Aug. 24 and handed a teller a note that read “Give me all that.”

When the teller asked what he meant, he “nod-

ded and pointed to the cash drawer.” The teller then complied with his demands and gave him a stack of cash from her drawer, along with a tracking device.

The charging papers stated the teller called police after the defendant took $2,100 in cash and left.

The King County Sheriff ’s deputies who responded to the call attempted to track the GPS device and later found the battery about half a mile away from the bank.

According to the charging papers, “the male (defen-dant) made no attempts to disguise his face or wear gloves. In several instances, the suspect looked directly into the camera.”

On Sept. 8, video surveil-lance video and photograph stills from the robbery were broadcast on Western Washington Most Wanted. The next day, investigators received seven tips in regard to the broadcast, all of which identified Gorr as the suspect. After investigators obtained a photo of Gorr’s driver license, according to the charging papers, they “immediately recognized the face as the same one in the surveillance video.”

According to the charging papers, Gorr also allegedly robbed two banks Sept. 6, one in Des Moines and Kent.

At the Des Moines Key Bank located on Marine

View Drive, the charging pa-pers state Gorr approached one of the tellers and told them he wanted money.

The charging documents state the teller was “confused on what he wanted.”

He then allegedly took a bank business card and wrote a note demanding money and that it was a robbery. The teller complied and gave Gorr $1,500 in cash, along with a dye pack. According to the charging papers, when Gorr at-tempted to leave the bank with the money, the dye pack exploded and was later recovered by police.

Later that day, Gorr allegedly entered a Chase Bank in Kent on West Smith

Street and handed the teller a handwritten note. According to the charging papers, the teller couldn’t read what it said and asked what he wanted. The teller then locked the drawer and notified the manager. When the manager tried to contact Gorr, he apparently left “in a hurry.”

Surveillance videos from both robberies were reviewed compared to the video surveillance from the Bank of America robbery. The suspect is all three instances were identified as Gorr, the charging papers state.

Gorr was located and arrested in his parents’ home in Maple Valley. When asked

if he wanted to waive his rights he said that he wanted to talk to investigators first and then an attorney.

According to the charging papers, Gorr acknowledged it was him in the video surveillance footage.

The charging papers state Gorr told police he has a heroin addiction and re-quired three grams or more per day and committed the robberies to pay for heroin.

Gorr’s last known address was in Des Moines.

He was arrainged Thurs-day at the Regional Justice Center in Kent.

Bail has been set at $10,000. The state has requested bail be set at $50,000.

Man charged in Maple Valley bank robbery

BY TJ MARTINELL

[email protected]

A 15-year-old former Tahoma student was arrest-ed for allegedly punching a King County Sherrif ’s deputy Sept. 21 at the Ta-homa High football game

at Bill Maxwell Field.According to Sheriff ’s

Office spokeswoman Cindi West, the former student confronted a King County deputy who was assisting a staff member while escort-ing a student off school grounds.

The former student de-manded to know why the student was escorted off school grounds.

According to West, the former student became “extremely verbal” with the deputy when he declined to give an explanation.

He allegedly continued to rant at the deputy until the deputy informed him he would have to leave school grounds.

West stated a crowd then formed as the former student allegedly refused to leave after being told

several times. When the deputy

grabbed his arm to escort him off the property, the former student allegedly attempted to punch the deputy, but missed.

He then swung again and struck the deputy in

the face. The former student then tried to run away but was eventually tackled and arrested. He was booked at the King County Youth Center for Investigation of Assault and the case was forward-ed to detectives for review.

Community Notes

Former Tahoma student allegedly punched deputy at football game


What is the point of an education?Is it for intellectual enlightenment? Is it to help

us make better decisions in life? Is it to learn the basics skills necessary to not only survive but succeed?

Or, is it, as Forrest Gump remarked of the Army, “to do exactly what you tell us to do”?

I’ve heard people speak of education in a religious, reverent tone, as if a col-lege graduation ceremony was the equivalent of achieving nirvana. To them, obtaining a four-year degree from a uni-versity is absolutely vital and a refl ection of one’s self-worth and capabilities.

Fortunately, the Tahoma School District no lon-ger suff ers from this belief. A committee consist-ing of 50 members has proposed a new approach called “future ready,” which would help not only students who do not plan on attending college, but those who do to eventually graduate.

As Tahoma superintendent Mike Maryanksi told the Reporter, the previous approach of em-phasizing college was not serving the needs of most students. Th e harsh, but revealing statistics might tell you why:

Sixty percent of Tahoma graduates go to a two-year or four-year college. Less than half of that 60 percent fi nish col-lege in six years.

Th at means only 24 percent of Tahoma gradu-ates will also graduate from college in six years. And according to a recent story by the Seattle Times, only one in four public school students in Washington state from the class of 2009 will fi nish college by 2015.

At the same time, many companies have job openings they are unable to fi ll due to a lack of qualifi ed applicants. Th e Career and College Readiness Committee, which will be giving a pre-sentation at the Maple Valley City council Town Hall meeting Oct. 3, believes a diff erent approach to educating students might help them learn these skills. And maybe it won’t require a degree.

Teaching students relevant skills should be the true purpose of an education. It is comforting to see a school district capable of admitting mistakes and willing to change to achieve that goal.

For too long, education has been seen as the end to a means, rather than a means to an end. And high school has been treated as an institution designed to prepare or transition students to a university or college regardless of their own as-pirations. Th e main concern, however, is making sure mandated state test scores remain high and AP tests are taken in droves. A student contrib-

utes to this by getting good grades and jumping through all the necessary hoops.

Th e “everyone should go to college” and “col-lege is the end-all, be-all” myth is beginning to lose followers, especially in this current economy Having graduated from college almost three years ago myself, I observed a few things about higher education.

One, the costs have skyrocketed. When I started my freshman year at Eastern Washington University six years ago this same week, tuition per quarter was $1,426 or $4,200 for a full year. Now, it is $3,581.50 per quarter, $10,743 per year — and EWU is one of the least expensive public universities in Washington.

It’s easy for many students to see the emperor has no clothes, i.e. a college degree and $55,000 in debt while being underpaid at a job they’re over-qualifi ed for makes them no better off than a high school diploma with roughly the same wages and no debt. If they’re going to have poorly paid jobs, at least they won’t have to worry about student debt which, unlike other loans, aren’t included in a bankruptcy unless you can show it’s an “undue hardship” on you, your family and your depen-dents. I’ll bet the defi nition for that is narrow.

Second, higher education is called “higher” education for the same reason Advanced Place-ment Calculus has the words “Advanced Place-ment” in front of it. It isn’t designed for everyone. It’s for a small group of people who fi t the criteria for the institution or course.

Saying everyone should go to college is like say-ing everyone should take AP English — the whole point of the course is for exceptional students to have a more rigorous curriculum than regular students. When you try to incorporate everyone, the standards are automatically lowered to accom-modate. I benefi ted from this mentality when I took a biology course in college; I did terrible, but still earned a 4.0 because the grading was curved,

which meant I was an excellent student only when compared to a narrow sampling of my peers.

Additionally, college isn’t for everyone because not everyone learns well from the university-style education system. Some people are highly profi cient in one area, but not as much in others, thus they perform well at a technical college or institute. I myself did mediocre academically in high school, where my classes were an hour and a half long, but did much better in college, where my classes only ran 50 minutes and were better structured for me.

Having no social life to speak of also helped.Th is doesn’t mean only smart people should

go to college or not going means you’re dumb. It means college isn’t necessarily the best path for students and adopting a “one-size-fi ts-all” ap-proach hurts not only high school education but students who don’t fare well in that educational environment. It also inadvertently sends the wrong message to the majority of students who don’t go to college — that they can’t be success-ful as the students who do go to college. As Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have shown, you don’t need a college degree to make it in life. You still need to be educated, but that education shouldn’t have to include college, especially with the Internet, where online classes are available for a fraction of the cost, as well as troves of websites that provide free information ranging from economics and history to mathematics and philosophy.

In a world with cheap and easy access to knowledge, the question has to be asked: What do students go to a school for, to get an education where they actually learn job-related skills, or a certifi cate they can put on their resume to qualify for a job? What’s the point of an education if you can’t get a job with it? It’s a question Tahoma has asked itself and is trying to provide the right an-swer for. If other school districts want to help out their students, they will do the same.

Vote no on Proposition 1 in November

More than a few years ago, the council and I, as mayor, looked at the possibility of changing to

a council-manager form of government. We had advisers from the Association of Washington Cities and others talk to us about pros and cons of such a change.

We, the mayor and council, weighed all the information and found there was no reason to change a form of government that is utilized in over 80 percent of the cities in Washington state. Th e mayor-council form of government gives the city the checks and balances that need to be in place for a fair government.

Although the council-manager form can work well, it has its problems. If a city manager, who is the person in charge and is hired to run the city, is undesirable, it takes a majority of the council to fi re that person and usually occurs aft er con-

siderable community strife. Oft en times, the city manager is hired with a fi ve-year contract.

To fi re a city manager before the contract ends usually comes with a high cost to the taxpayers. Washington cities are currently experiencing dif-fi culty in hiring good, experienced city manag-ers, especially when a city is exhibiting any kind of turmoil.

Th e price tag for someone to take the position here could approach $200,000 per year.

Where will that money come from? What city services will need to change or be cut to pay for the manager? Th e police? Fire protection?

A large portion of the salary would come from the general fund.

● Q U O T E O F W E E K : ”Much education today is monumentally ineff ective. All too often we are giving young people cut fl owers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John W. Gardner

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...obituariesNancy Anne Sullivan Griffith Ms. Nancy Anne Sullivan Griffith of

Kent, WA died on Thursday, September 20, 2012 from complications related to metastatic breast cancer.

Nancy was born on December 3, 1968 in Sedro Woolley, WA. She attended Mount Vernon High School and graduated from Central Washington University, with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.Nancy spent many years working with children in preschool settings. She also spent a better part of her career managing collection activities for various companies.

In her spare time, Nancy enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. She spent countless hours volunteering and raising money for cancer research and other causes. She attended church at Lake Sawyer Christian Church.

Nancy is survived by her two children; Katelyn Griffith and Samantha Griffith, and her siblings Dorothy Rajcich (Aberdeen, WA), Lorraine Hellum (Seattle, WA), George Sullivan, III (Indianapolis, IN), Mary Pittman (Manson, WA), Daniel Sullivan (Seattle, WA), Patricia Froelich (Indianapolis, IN) and Peggy Jayarama (Tumwater, WA), and numerous nieces and nephews. Nancy was preceded in death by her mother Vera Sullivan in 2010, and her father George Dewey Sullivan Jr. in 1993.

Services will be held on Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at Lake Sawyer Christian Church in Black Diamond, Washington.

In lieu of flowers, Nancy has requested that donations be made to St. Vincent de Paul: SVDP Case Management Program, 5950 4th Ave

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CELIAC DISEASECeliac disease is a condition that causes damage to

the lining of the small intestine. The damage prevents the body from being able to absorb certain parts of food that are important for good health. The problem comes from a reaction that occurs when the afflicted person eats gluten, a substance found in wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats. The cause of celiac disease still remains a mystery, and the disease can develop at any time during one’s lifetime, from infancy all the way into late adulthood. People who have a family history of celiac disease are more likely to develop the disorder, which affects more Caucasians as well as more women than men. There is no cure for celiac disease; however, a gluten-free diet can eliminate symptoms.

Symptoms of celiac disease can range from diarrhea, weight loss, and malnutrition, to latent symptoms such as isolated nutrient deficiencies but no gastrointestinal symptoms. Because of the broad range of symptoms celiac disease presents, it can be difficult to diagnose.

To schedule an appointment, please call Southlake Clinic at (253) 395-1972. We are a multi-specialty medical group with a clinic at 27005 168th Place SE in Covington. We are also open on Saturdays.

With Proposition No. 1, we have an attempt to change what has worked well in Black Diamond for over 50 years. The posi-tion of mayor is an elected position. If people do not want the mayor in office, then at the next election they simply vote the person out of office. The same is said for council members. It works well and citizens get to exercise their right to vote for the people who run their city.

If we are not satisfied with this new form of government, it cannot be changed back for six years.

An elected mayor has close ties to and is a neigh-bor in the community. A city manager could live many miles from here. It

is a job to them, not a way of life. An elected mayor is invested in the community.

Make certain that your vote this election is for the right reason. Changing the form of government will not stop YarrowBay. Those projects are vested. This is bigger with more consequences than any one mayor or a disagreement over how Black Diamond will grow.

Do not lose your right to vote for the city execu-tive. Do the wise thing in the next few months, find a worthy candidate to run for mayor in 2013. Find worthy citizens to run for the two council positions in 2013. That is how it is done.

As your former mayor for 26 years I am asking you to vote “no” on Proposition No. 1.

Howard Botts Black Diamond

Vote yes for Prop. 1

I want to thank all the citizens and business that rallied to support the fund-raising efforts for Sabre the K-9 dog. Three generations of our family including my daughter and grand-daughter all participated in making the event a success. I am proud to stand up for what I believe is important as a community member.

However, the real reason I am writing is to convey my disappointment in the Black Diamond mayor, once again putting her

personal and professional goals before the citizens and the community that she was elected to serve by cancel-ing the city-sanctioned K-9 event due to her incorrect belief that the business location supported a group that differed in political position. She followed this arbitrary decision with an unsanctioned letter to the editor dated Sept. 5; this re-flects poorly on our city and demonstrates how out of touch with the community the city administration is.

The mayor’s sole deci-sion to politicize the police department and the K-9 fundraiser should make us all stop and reflect. A gov-ernment’s primary role is to provide safety to its people. Canceling this event and disallowing police officers from attending — even on their private time— puts all

the police officers in a dif-ficult position in our com-munity, undermining the critical support and trust that is required for effective and positive policing.

Even though politics doesn’t have a direct impact on the daily decisions of police officers on patrol, the political culture of a com-munity determines the style of law enforcement.

Form of government (commissioner, mayor/council, city manager) makes a difference in the extent to which politics shape policing. It has been shown that politics seep into police departments in cities that employ a mayor/council type of government. By contrast, a professional city manager makes politi-cal intervention into polic-ing less likely.

The city attorney was

required to create a new law in order to accept the funds raised by private Black Diamond citizens to sup-port our law enforcement. One of the basic tenets of America has always been individual rights and par-ticipation in government.

We must preserve and defend those strengths and freedoms. We as a coun-try have fought against dictatorships in all forms throughout our history.

We are all responsible to maintain our freedoms, and it all begins on our indi-vidual and local level.

VOTE YES Prop 1!

Susan F. BallBlack Diamond

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GREATER MAPLE VALLEY UNINCORPORATED UPDATEThe Greater Maple Valley Unincorpo-rated Area Council (GMVUAC) held its regular monthly meeting Sept. 10.

The guest speaker was King County’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks (DNRP) Dennis Burgart who discussed recent acquisition of land on the east side of the state Route 169 and Cedar Grove Road intersection to develop a parking lot to support Cedar River recreational users.

Cedar Grove RoadDennis Burgart of King County DNRP provided details on the recent acquisi-tion of 2.28 acres of land east of state Route 169 and south of Cedar Grove

Road, adjacent to the county’s Cedar Grove Road Natural Area. A 30-40 ve-hicle parking lot is planned to support water-based recreational users on the Cedar River.

The plan calls for informational signage, an entry gate, and an access trail to connect the parking lot with the existing traffic signal at the inter-section of Cedar Grove Rd and state Route 169. River users currently have to park along the narrow shoulders of Cedar Grove Road and along adjacent Byers Rd which pose safety hazards for users and often congest a local road obstructing traffic.

Area Council members expressed several safety concerns for pedestrians crossing Cedar Grove Road and state Route169 and encouraged KC Dept. of

Transportation conduct Traffic/Pedes-trian Safety Analyses.

To improve habitat a future Levee Re-moval project at a nearby bend on the Cedar River may require periodic river closure, which would mean increased use of this site as a take-out point.

A State Recreation Conservation Office Grant is being sought, but project funding has yet to be secured. For more information please see: http://www.rco.wa.gov/prism/projectsnap-shot.aspx?projectnumber=12-1272.

Community ServiceThe Area Council decided to submit two Community Service Area (CSA) Grant applications to King County: (1) Bi-Annual Election and Survey and (2) Annual Train Show.

It is expected that King County will award Grants by the end of October.

Assistance also offered to citizens in the Green Valley area in organizing under the new Southeast King County CSA which comprises the unincorpo-rated rural area south of the cities of Maple Valley, Covington, and Black Diamond, east of Auburn, and sur-rounding the City of Enumclaw.

Citizens SurveyLater this year the council will once again conduct its popular and infor-mative citizens’ survey to give unincor-porated area residents an opportunity to voice their concerns on a variety of local and regional issues.

The last survey resulted in nearly 800 respondents. More details will be available in future articles and on the web site.

For well over 10 years the council has been conducting these surveys to gain and maintain an understanding of

citizens and their opinions on issues of importance to the rural area.

A summary of responses from the past three Surveys can be found on our web site.

Results of all surveys are shared with county and state officials.

King County UpdateThe King County Council is in their final review of the 2012 KCCP Update. The council provided both oral testi-mony and detailed written comments on several revisions of the update in December 2011 and April 2012.

The King County Council is now hold-ing public hearings on the final ver-sion, as well as several Amendments sponsored by County Councilmembers (see: http://www.kingcounty.gov/council/issues/comprehensive_plan.aspx.

One such amendment dealing with land in Ravensdale currently owned by Reserve Silica would change the zoning for some parcels from forestry to rural residential, removing them from the forest production district, and for other parcels from mining to rural residential.

The council consistently has advocated for these lands to not be converted to residential. Should this amendment be adopted, it would result in an “island” of residences on the Reserve Silica land, surrounded by Maple Ridge Highlands Open Space, Black Diamond Natural Area, and Forestry Production District lands.

GMVUAC meetings are held the first Monday of each month.

A public comment period at the beginning of each meeting provides citizens an opportunity to voice issues of concern to Area Council members.

Community Note


...senior resources

You just returned home from visiting your parents with the horrifying realiza-tion that Mom or Dad needs help. You kept quiet in front of your parents, not to disrupt the good time, but when you get back home, settled into your routine, Mom’s forgetfulness or Dad’s clumsi-ness haunts you. You and your siblings don’t agree on the severity of the prob-lem. You’re panicked. Unsure. How are you supposed to know if Mom or Dad needs help and to what degree?

That’s why Senior Helpers, one of the

largest in-home senior care companies in the nation, has created the Senior Help-ers’ Stay At Home Score quiz. It’s a quick, eight question quiz adult children take to help determine whether their parents can live independently in their own home.

The quiz was created for Senior Help-ers by Dr. John Bowling, a professor at Southern Oregon University and an expert on senior care and positive aging. After you take the quiz, you have a good indicator if Mom or Dad needs help.

Senior Helpers’ Stay At HomeScore Quiz

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[email protected]

New Quiz for Guidance with Aging Parents

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Estate planning is an important component of your overall fi nancial plan, regardless of your age, income or size of your estate. If you own property and have heirs, you need to think about estate planning. To do the job well, you’ll need the help of a team of professional accredited estate planners such as a certifi ed public accountant, a lawyer, insurance professionals and fi nancial planners, and trust offi cers.

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On behalf of the Kent School District Board of Directors, welcome back to school.

With the start of the new school year, more than 27,000 students are walking through the doors of our 41 schools and academies.

It’s an exciting time of year as each student brings their own story, dreams,

challenges and goals. Our job in school leadership is to make sure we un-derstand their stories so we can help each student meet their challenges and reach their goals.

The Kent School District team is dedi-cated and committed to providing your children

with the best education possible. To achieve this, I

want to empha-size the critical roles of parents, guardians and family members in student suc-cess.

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students as a partnership among school, parents and community. Please accept our invitation to visit your school and get to know the teachers and princi-pals. Your involvement is needed, welcomed and appreciated.

While parents were busy this summer getting their kids ready for school, we

have been busy getting our schools ready for the kids. The Information Technol-ogy staff worked dili-gently updating classroom technology to help teachers provide the best education possible to our students. Staff members from the Maintenance, Operations and Facilities Departments made repairs and upgrades to schools to make sure buildings were cleaned and ready for this academic year.

The Transportation Department prepared the bus fleet to travel another 1.6 million miles during the school year to transport students. Our Nutrition Services Department served thousands of meals in our summer meals programs and is now serving almost 20,000 nutritious meals every school day. And, of course, human resources has been busy ensuring all our classrooms are staffed and ready to go.

We also have a new school. The iGrad School opened in June and is ac-cepting students who left their high schools and now

want to graduate. KSD is partnering with Green River Community College to help students complete this important step in their education and continue with higher education class-es and degrees. For many of these students, it is a second chance and for all of them, it’s a great chance.

With 100 percent of our classroom teachers being rated as “Highly Qualified” by the state of Washington, we have a great opportu-nity and amazing respon-sibility to help each of our young people prepare for successful and positive futures. Our mission in the Kent School District is to “Successfully Prepare All Students for Their Future” and we want to partner with you to help each child succeed, every day, no mat-ter what.

Again, welcome back to school. Together, we are go-ing to have a great year.

Reach Edward Lee Vargas, superintendent of the Kent School District, at [email protected].

Kent School District ready for great school yearSeptember 28, 2012[12]

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A percentage of the proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The tent sale will run from 1-7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday with a vari-ety of items available for purchase including Merino wool jackets, polar fleece vests and jackets as well as silk linen and separates.For more infor-mation, call 206-595-5554.

SINGER TOP FIVE FINALIST Rae Solomon, an up and coming country artist who lives in Covington, has been named a Top Five finalist to be Digital Rodeo’s Next Country Star.

The winner gets a three-song record-

ing package, custom website and a VIP trip to the CMA’s. The winner will be chosen by fan votes which ends Oct. 1. Voting online for Solomon is quick and easy. Just follow the link and click the “Demand It” button next to Solomon’s name, the fourth one down. To vote go to http://eventful.com/competitions/digital-rodeo2012.

LECTURE STARTING OCT.2St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Covington invites those inter-ested to join them for a series of five presentations on the impact the Second Vatican Council has had on the church.

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The fourth week of September celebrates cool nights and the end of warm afternoon sunshine – perfect weather for transplanting, digging and dividing perennials and fertil-izing the lawn with a slow-release, fall and winter lawn food.

If you only fertil-ize your grass once a year, make it an autumn feeding. A lawn fertilized in the fall with an organic or slow release fertilizer will have an advantage over the weeds in the spring. This is because the winter rains can move the nitrogen down into the grass roots where it will be avail-able immediately in Febru-ary when the lawn wakes up from winter dormancy.

Now here’s the secret to more grass and less weeds: a lawn that has nitrogen at root level in early spring can outgrow and overcome the shallow rooted weeds. A thick lawn is your best weed defense. You still have time to aerate, add an inch of topsoil and overseed your old lawn before winter sets in. Tackle these fall field goals now and you’ll be scoring great yard-age all year long.

Q. When should I apply lime to my lawn? I know my soil is acid because I have a lot of moss in the lawn. I do have hard-packed, clay soil and I have read that lime will help break up clay soil. True? S.T., Sumner

A. First congratulations on knowing the benefits of lime. Adding lime is the least expensive way to improve your lawn. You can add lime to your lawn any time of the year but do not lime on the same day you add fertilizer. You could cause a chemi-cal reaction that binds up some of the nutrients in the fertilizer. Instead, fertilize first then wait a few days until rain washes the fertil-izer down into the soil and then apply the lime. It is true that if your soil is heavy lime helps to break up the clay and allow air and moisture to penetrate. Our soils in West-ern Washington are naturally very acid due to the rain. This low pH or acidity binds up nutrients in the soil. Lime is

not a fertilizer but it helps to unlock phosphorous and ni-trogen in our wet soils so that lawns can green up quickly. You can buy lime in a quick

acting or pel-leted form or as powdered limestone and it is some-times sold under the name “Soil Sweet.” Follow the dosage

amount on the package, but in general you will need fifty pounds of ground limestone to 1,000 square feet of lawn to raise the pH a full point. A simple soil test sold at garden centers can tell you the pH of your soil, but mossy, damp soils in our area are almost always very acid. Lime is the cheap and easy answer to a better lawn.

Q. I planted a gorgeous ‘Black Lace’ sambucus or chocolate elderberry a few years ago and love the dark chocolate foliage, pink spring flowers and autumn berries. My problem is this shrub has grown too big and is now a tree! I must prune it. Would fall be a good time to cut it back? R.S., Tacoma

A. Patience and some persistence will keep your “Black Lace” Sambucus under control. Wait until early spring , in the month of March to sharpen your shears and cut your sambucus down to size. A severe pruning always stimulates growth and now is not the season to encourage tender new leaves. Another reason to wait is so that the birds can enjoy those berries all winter. You can cut back all the new growth to one inch stumps or you can saw down the trunk and start all over. This is one tough shrub so don’t be afraid to be severe in the spring. Elder-berry is native to our climate, has edible berries and does great with our wet winters. I’ve found elderberry even survives and blooms a little in a deeply shaded bed where the dark, chocolate leaves make a lovely background for variegated shrubs. A colorful couple to share a shady bed with no drinking prob-lems would be Black Lace Elderberry getting cozy with

‘Mr. Goldstrike’ Aucuba. The gold-splattered leaves of Au-cuba have a broad and bold texture that makes a pleasing contrast with the fine texture of the chocolate elderberry.

Q. I have a compost pile and am not sure what to do with it. I’ve been adding grass clippings and garden waste for a few years and under the newer layer of clippings I do see dark soil so I think I have compost. When do I spread

this onto the garden beds? In the spring or in the fall? How deep do I apply the compost and must I dig it into the vegetable bed? C., Email

A. What a wonderful gift you have for your garden. You can add compost to your vegetable and flower beds this month and let the winter rains help mix in the organic matter. If you have small weeds, fork the compost right on top of them now in a layer

up to six inches deep. The heavy compost will smother those weeds and then you can work it into the soil in the spring.

Use a very thin layer of compost - less than one inch deep near the stems or crowns of shrubs and peren-nials if you apply it in the fall. Compost in our climate can hold so much moisture over the winter that it can encour-age crown rot. Don’t worry

if the newer grass clippings and garden debris on top of your compost pile are not yet well-rotted. You can add this half-done compost to an empty bed or vegetable plot and not dig it into the soil until spring.

Winter is the season when all things rot and in a few months that chunky organic matter will be dark and soft, ready to work into the topsoil.

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This column has frequently showered considerable praise on Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. Justifiably so. This rambling story-teller has never run across another farmer’s market quite as im-pressive anywhere in the U.S.

But there are, of course,

many other worthwhile open-air markets all over western Washington. And just in case you haven’t heard about or visited the one in Maple Val-ley, it’s highly recommended if you’re into such places. It’s on the campus of Rock Creek Elementary School, a few blocks north of Four Corners, and it’s open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday, from the middle of June until early

October, so you still have a few weekends to stop by. Be-ing rather slow to pursue local rumors about the operation, I went there for the first time last week. It was a splendid, sunny day, the vendors were out in force, and Bob Dylan’s “I’m so much younger now” washed over the entire venue from a couple of large speak-ers. (Unfortunately, someone complained about the “loud”

music, so they turned it off.) For an hour or more I walked through the market, talked with various vendors and admired their stalls.

The place has a broad and wonderful selection of produce, crafts, flowers and other delightful displays. For instance, the Hayton Farm from Skagit Valley of-fers a collection of certified organic, seasonal berries of

all types, whether strawber-ries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc. --- some I’ve never heard of --- and many verities of specific berries, like seven types of strawberries. There are several flavors of honey at the Bees In the Burb stall; a splendid and wide selection of produce from the Bautista Farms in Yakima; custom-made cupcakes, cookies and brownies from The Cupcakery; blooms from Lavender Valley Farm in Maple Valley (the fragrance will knock your socks off); hand-crafted silver and pre-cious stone jewelry by Angela Ramsey; Chelane’s jellies and jams from Black Diamond; Gradwohl’s all-natural, or-ganic beef; Ms. Margie’s Sweet Potato Pies (the first sweet potato pies I’d seen since I

was in New Orleans 10 years ago); and various flavored Straus Bavarian nuts. Emily’s Sunshine Room specializes in unusual, hand-crafted thread work; Corey Markus makes beautiful wooden bowls, cups and bottle-stoppers; and Elva Thompson offers her embroi-dered work. There’s food from Eric Elmer’s Catering Service and, of course, an espresso bar.

And finally, there are the flowers. My God, you won’t believe how incredibly color-ful and gorgeous the bouquets are. It’s worth a trip through the market just to see them. All in all, it’s a marvelous little event. But I might sug-gest they crank up the music again.

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before Oishi fell under RCW 4.84.370 that calls for “rea-sonable fees and cost.” The total bill for that proceeding before Oishi came to $1,148.53. Sterbank said if the petitioners lose at the court of appeals the fees could be considerably higher.

“If the city wins on appeal, the petitioners must pay the city’s attorneys fees and costs, as well as YarrowBay’s, because the city and Yarrow-Bay prevailed in the prior judicial proceeding before Judge Oishi,” Sterbank wrote. “On the other hand, if the petitioners were to somehow win, the city would not have to pay petitioners’ attorneys’

fees, because petitioners did not prevail in all prior judi-cial proceedings (e.g., before Judge Oishi).”

TRD, the city and Yarrow-Bay were back in Superior Court before Oishi Monday concerning a LUPA appeal of the development agreements for The Villages and Lawson Hills. The development agreements were approved in December 2011 by the City Council. In the court proceedings Monday, Oishi issued an order denying a motion by TRD for a stay of the proceedings, granted a motion to dismiss certain claims and limit issues by YarrowBay and schedule for the case was set. A review hearing-trial date was set for Feb. 1, 2013.

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My mom oft en saves articles she fi nds in various print media for me and my family. So it wasn’t surpris-ing the other day when she handed me a large envelope full of articles and a magazine for my husband.

It took me a week to fi nally open the enve-lope and dole out the articles to their respec-tive owners.

Th is time most of them were for me and they were from 2007. Th en I remembered my mom said she was cleaning out her fi les.

On the plus side, the articles were about local authors and that meant she was thinking of me; it’s nice to be thought of. On the negative side, that meant they were now in my court and I had to do something with them.

I do have a physical fi le that is labeled “articles,” but it contains all of fi ve things that have really resonated with me in the past 20 years. I can Google local authors, so for me saving such articles is not worth the space they take up.

So I read them all, was grateful for the thought, then tossed them; not because I didn’t appreciate them, but because the junk stops here.

I am regularly on the re-ceiving end of things people are getting rid of: with my sister it’s teacher gift s she can’t use; plus-sized clothes from my neighbor who is

no longer plus-sized; coupons from an-other neighborhood friend, just to name a few.

It’s inherently easier to give some-one else stuff you are no longer using than to sort it, make decisions about it

and disperse it to various donation or recycle loca-tions, I’ve done it myself. But when I do it, it seems to backfi re, as I oft en get back what I’ve given, making it once again my problem.

Of course, my daughters also consider me the cast-off receiver. But it’s a diff er-ent story with them. Th ey are of the mindset that if you give it to mom the stuff magically disappears. What they haven’t learned is mom sorts through it all, makes a list for tax purposes and donates it to Goodwill.

When my kids were little and it was time to clean out old, forgotten toys, I would dutifully take them into their rooms so they could make the decisions about what to get rid of. It was an exhausting exercise for me, because rather than them ever being ready to get rid of things, I had to try and

talk them out of things. I chose my battles,

though, and focused on the toys that drove me the most nuts.

I remember my young-est had a big Blue’s Clues pillow (Blue’s Clues is a blue cartoon dog on PBS). She really didn’t pay much mind to the pillow. It was big and in the way; it always got stepped on and tossed aside.

When I tried to get her to let it go, she was adamant about keeping it.

So I pulled out my next strategy: I dropped the subject and observed over the next month how much attention that pillow got. When I determined she didn’t play with it or use it in any way, I donated it.

She never noticed; although six months later she went looking for that pillow. I suggested to her she must’ve misplaced it and should go fi nd it.

But we know how it is when kids have to look for something (even when they are teens), they make do with something else and forget about it.

I do keep some sentimen-tal items, but as I get older, the sentiment of some items has passed. What I valued as a teen is old and dated now that I have teens.

Th ere are items from my twenties I don’t even rec-ognize. I’ve organized my

daughters’ elementary art work into large scrapbooks; someday they’ll make the decision whether to keep them or not.

However, I have to admit I am oft en tempted to hold on to aspects of my daugh-ters’ childhoods.

When my 15-year old daughter decided she was fi nished collecting frogs and purged much of

her collection, my heart dropped into my stomach as I looked at the Goodwill box and saw her childhood.

But I took a deep breath, sorted them, and donated them.

It was her collection, not mine and she did keep the more sentimental pieces.

I have trained her well, but still, the junk stops here.

Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She is commit-ted to writing about the humor amidst the chaos of a family. Read more of her writing and her daily blog on her website livingwithgleigh.com. Her column is avail-able every week at coving-tonreporter.com/lifestyles.

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IN PINK OUTKentwood’s football game

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new meaning as the stands will be fi lled with pink.Kickoff for Kentwood’s

third annual Breast Cancer Awareness Game, a South

Puget Sound League North 4A showdown, is 7 p.m.

The Kentwood cheerleaders, coached by Kim Kawachi and

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Tara Radford knows that if she needs anything she can

go to the Kentwood High community and ask.

Students, parents, staff , they always step up.

“If I ask the kids at Kentwood to do something, they do it,” Radford said. “I’ve learned at Kentwood they do what’s good for the community.”

Th at’s especially impor-tant because since 2009 she’s organized a fundraiser called Kicks for the Cure, tying it into her husband Aaron’s job as the girls soccer coach — he also coaches the boys in the spring — with the Oct. 13 South Puget Sound League North matchup against Kentridge the culmina-tion of the project.

It all began when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. Radford wanted to raise money that would go to help patients and she proposed the idea in August 2009 to her hus-band of putting together a pink game.

“Th en it just snowballed,” Radford said. “It happened to be Angy (Mathena) at Kentlake, it was her fi rst

year coaching there and her mom had breast cancer, so it was a natural connection. We decided to just let the snowball roll.”

Supporter T-shirts were printed, the soccer players washed cars, sold baked treats at the fi rst Kicks game in October 2009 and raised $4,000 that fi rst year.

Th at money has gone to the MultiCare Mammo-gram Assistance Program in Covington, she said.

Radford did it for her mother who died three weeks aft er the fi rst Kicks game.

“My mom came to the fi rst Kicks game in a wheelchair because the

chemo had knocked out the feeling in her legs,” she said. “But, she didn’t want it to be about her. We don’t just celebrate fi ghting breast cancer. Even though we’re wearing pink we honor anybody

who has fought the battle and hopefully won.”

Th e week her mom died was tough because the Conquerors girls made it to the state Final Four for the fi rst time in school history just days later. Before the game, the players wore their pink Kicks for the Cure shirts before the semi-fi nal against Eastlake.

Radford said her mom went to many Kentwood

soccer games so it was be-yond emotional for her not be up in the stands.

“Aaron and I decided that this would be an annual event as long as we’re at Kentwood,” she said. “It boils down to raising as much money as I can for MultiCare.”

So far fundraising this year has gone well for Kentwood’s soccer players. Th ey washed cars again on a Saturday two weeks ago and raised $1,200.

“Th e Kentwood girls busted their butts that day,” Radford said. “We do enough fundraising, the kids feel involved, they feel a sense of purpose.”

Radford set up a table and sold supporter T-shirts at Kentwood during lunches recently — 150 were purchased at $8 each.

Many of the students don’t know her but bought shirts because they support the soccer team.

Last week, the Conks girls went out to area busi-nesses and asked if owners would be willing to pay $20 for a business card sized ad in the Kicks for the Cure game day program.

Th is year is the fi rst time Kentridge is involved in the eff ort.

Sherri Rolfs, the Chargers head coach, had previously been an assistant coach at Kentwood when Kicks for the Cure began.

“Now that I am at Kentridge we thought it would be a good oppor-tunity to spread the Kicks game to Kentridge to get more people involved and raise more awareness and money,” Rolfs wrote in

an email interview. “Our players have an opportu-nity to get involved in their community and give back to the world. Th is gets them outside their bubble.”

It is still a soccer game and with Kentwood beat-ing Kentridge in the fi rst matchup of the season Sept. 13 there is defi nitely an element of league rivalry in the game. As of Monday Kentwood was atop the division standings at 5-0 but has just three seniors on the squad.

“It will make the dynam-ics diff erent as we work together toward a com-mon goal and then have to switch gears to compete against each other’s goals,” Rolfs wrote. “It is a chal-lenging transition for any-

THINK PINK Kicks For the Cure, now in its fourth year, an opportunity for Kentwood and Kentridge girls soccer to give back

Members of Kentwood’s 2011 girls soccer team present a check to the MultiCare Mammogram Assistance Program at the Covington location in December 2011. KRIS HILL, The Reporter

Tara Radford wears a shirt in memory of her mother who died in 2009. KRIS HILL, The Reporter

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The fundraising aspect is new to the Chargers, Rolfs said, but the team is learning.

“Kentridge is just getting its feet wet on the event by selling T-shirts for the cure,” Rolfs said. “We hope to have a car wash in early October to contribute even more to the cause. Kentwood is taking the lead on the event and we are supporting in any way we can.”

Radford hopes to raise $3,000 this year. Admission to the game is free so she encourages anyone who attends to make a donation to Kicks.

In addition, programs will be sold and proceeds from concessions will also go to the Kicks for the Cure cause. And there will be a bake sale at the game.

Radford said the money can make a difference. A mam-mogram, if a patience doesn’t

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“I like that it stays right here in the community,” Radford said. “I’m just trying to help somebody else because I couldn’t help my mom.”

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Kentwood continues to roll, Kentlake hung on while Tahoma fell to Auburn and Kentridge put together a blow out in the fourth week of South Puget Sound League North divi-sional football play.

CONKS ROLL ROYALSJackson Huerta had

things happen in pairs for him Sept. 21 in Kentwood’s 45-3 win over Kent-Me-ridian.

He snagged two intercep-tions and two touchdown receptions to help the Conquerors improve to 4-0 in league play.

Kentwood quarterback Dane Manio first found Huerta just 2 minutes, 42 seconds in the game, hurl-ing a 34 strike to the senior wideout.

Josiah Bronson, a sopho-more defensive lineman,

was in the right place at the right time at the end of the first quarter to get the first of what turned out to be a number of Kentwood interceptions against K-M quarterback Quincy Carter. Bronson came down with the ball after it bounced off the hands of a Royals player.

Kent-Meridian’s lone score came on a 21 yard field goal with 8:42 on the clock in the second quarter after botched snaps and penalties pushed the Royals back. Huerta wasn’t the only Conk to grab two touchdown passes from Manio. Terence Grady, who like Huerta is a member of the Kentwood boys basketball team, hauled in a 55-yard bomb to make it 14-3 less than 20 seconds after the K-M field goal.

With 14 seconds left in the third, Kentwood was able to capitalize on another

bad snap which Carter tried to cover on his own 2, but the ball squirted away from him and into the end zone where a trio of Conks defensive players chased it then recovered it for the score, making it 21-3.

Little more than three minutes into the fourth quarter, Huerta hauled in his second scoring recep-tion of the evening with a 33-yard touchdown recep-tion. Chance Kalua-Fuim-aono got in on the scoring action late in the game with an 8-yard touchdown run to make it 38-3 while Grady got his second touchdown, this one coming on a 56-yard bomb from Manio, to make it 45-3 with 11:22 left in the game. That was set up by Brandon Sytsma’s second interception of the night with 24 seconds left in the third. Kentwood takes on Kentridge Friday at 7 p.m. at French Field.

FALCONS COME BACK AGAINST RAVENS

What a difference a week makes on the gridiron as Kentlake went from setting records in week three to struggling to move the ball against Auburn Riverside week four. Kentlake gutted out a 14-10 victory over Auburn Riverside Sept. 20 to improve to 3-1 overall

and 2-1 in South Puget Sound League North play.

After scoring 76 points against Puyallup a week earlier, Kentlake didn’t score in the first half against Riverside, which took a 10-0 lead into halftime. The Ravens drove 48 yards be-fore settling for a field goal with 4 minutes, 48 seconds left in the second quarter, to get on the board first.

Riverside’s Adam Hanes then picked off Kentlake quarterback Steffin Church after the Falcons started their next drive deep in their own territory. Hanes returned it to the two yard line and two plays later the Ravens punched it in from two yards out to take a 10-0 lead less than a minute after kicking the field goal.

Kentlake junior wide-out John Morasch set up Kentlake’s first score in the second half when he hauled in a pass from Church. A defensive pass interference call on Riverside put Kent-lake deep in the red zone.

Falcons running back Riley Higgins put Kentlake on the score board with 3:25 left in the third quarter when he took the handoff from Church on second and goal from the 1-yard-line to cut the score to 10-7.

Morasch followed up that big play with the go-ahead

touchdown on a 55-yard bomb from Church with seven seconds left in the third to give the Falcons their first lead of the game at 14-10. After giving up 55 points to Puyallup Sept. 14, Kentlake’s defense showed up in a big way late in the game against Riverside.

After Kentlake’s special teams muffed a punt return which Riverside recovered on the Falcon 20, the de-fense came in for a critical goal line stand after the Ravens drove to the 1.

Kentlake got the ball back and drove past midfield us-ing the ground game to run out the clock to celebrate homecoming with the vic-tory over Riverside.

Kentlake travels to Auburn Thursday for a 7 p.m. showdown at Auburn Memorial Stadium.

TAHOMA FALLS TO AUBURNIt was all about Auburn’s

Harold Lee Sept. 21 as the Trojans beat the Bears 42-7 at Tahoma. Lee piled up 333 all-purpose yards and five touchdowns. The 5-foot-9, 160-pound returner, defensive back and running back scored on interception returns of 72 and 45 yards, returned a kickoff 85 yards,

notched a 28-yard reception from junior quarterback Brier Atkinson and ran one in from 45 yards. Defen-sively the Trojans contained the high-scoring Bears, who were averaging more than 40 points per game, to just one touchdown in the contest, a 40-yard Patrick Ota reception from A.C. Gasero in the third quarter. Tahoma, which fell to 2-2 overall and 2-1 in league, travels to Mount Rainier and plays at 8 p.m. Friday.

KENTRIDGE STEAMROLLS MOUNT RAINIER

The Chargers hosted the Rams Sept. 22 at French Field and sent the newest member of the SPSL North home with a 40-0 defeat.

Kentridge bounced back from a 45-0 loss to Auburn a week earlier by scoring 26 points in the second quarter en route to the shutout.

Jimmie Davis started the scoring off with a 37-yard touchdown run, the first of his three rushing touch-downs on the night.

With the win, the Char-gers improved to 2-1 in conference and 2-2 overall.

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CITY OF BLACK DIAMONDNOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given that the

Black Diamond City Council will be conducting a public hearing on the proposed Stormwater Management Program. The hearing will take place on Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the Black Diamond City Council Chambers, 25510 Lawson Street, Black Diamond, WA. The purpose of the hearing is to hear public testimony on the above listed subject. Written comments may be submitted to the Clerk’s office at 24301 Roberts Drive, PO Box 599, Black Diamond, WA, 98010 no later than 5:00 p.m. on October 4, 2012, otherwise they must be submitted at the hearing. All documents related to the hearing are available for inspection or purchase at City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, or on the City’s website at http://www.ci.blackdiamond.wa. us.Dated this 14th day of Septem- ber, 2012

Brenda L. Martinez, CMCCity ClerkPublished in Covington/Maple

Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on September 21, 2012 and September 28, 2012. #678186.

COVINGTON WATER DISTRICT (CWD)

NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL REAL PROPERTIESBIDS DUE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2012

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CWD intends to sell the following described real property as surplus: (1) Riddell’s Lake Lucerne Tracts, Lot 1–Parcel No.

729660-0005-00 which is an undeveloped lakefront parcel subject to an access easement for beach access (with an appraised value of $49,000); and (2) Lot 36–Parcel No. 729660-0178-01 which is a small parcel not devel- opable under current zoning reg- ulations (with an appraised value of $9,000). Both properties are being offered for sale separately by way of public sale. The public is invited to submit sealed bids in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in an invitation for bid package which may be obtained at the CWD office, 18631 SE 300th Place, Cov- ington, WA 98042. ALL BIDS must be filed with the District by 1:00PM, Friday, October 19, 2012. By law, surplus real property cannot be sold for less than 90% of its appraised value. The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids for good cause. Contact Karen Smith at (253) 867-0901 for further information. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on September 28, 2012 and Oc- tober 5, 2012. #680543.CITY OF BLACK DIAMOND,

WASHINGTONCITY COUNCIL

ORDINANCES ADOPTED On September 20, 2012 the City Council of the City of Black Di- amond, Washington adopted the following ordinances:

ORDINANCE NO. 12-978 An Ordinance of the City Coun- cil of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to duration of site plan approvals; amending chapter 18.16 of the Black Diamond Municipal Code; adding new

section 18.16.060 BDMC; de- claring an emergency; providing for severability; and establishing an effective date.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-979 An Ordinance of the City Coun- cil of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to appeals of preliminary plat approval; amending section 17.16.040 of the Black Diamond Municipal Code; clarifying that a preliminary plat approval by the hearing examiner is not subject to administrative appeal; providing for severability; and establishing an effective date.

ORDINANCE NO. 12-980An Ordinance of the City Coun- cil of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to development impact fees; updating chapter 3.50 of the Black Diamond Municipal Code; implementing a fire impact fee; providing for severability; and establishing an effective date. Copies of these ordinances are available for review at City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, or by contacting Brenda L. Martinez, City Clerk, at 360-886-5700. Pulbished in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on September 28, 2012. #680904

KENT FIRE DEPARTMENT REGIONAL FIRE

AUTHORITYNOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARINGNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority Board will hold a public hearing to:

Review revenue sources for the Regional Fire Authority’s 2013 expense budget including property taxes and possible increases in property tax reve-

nues per RCW 84.55.120, and Review and establish the Re- gional Fire Authority’s benefit charge to be imposed in 2013, per RCW 52.26.230(2).

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Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond and Kent Reporters on September 28, 2012 and October 5, 2012. #681206.CITY OF BLACK DIAMOND

Determination of Non-significance (DNS)

File No. PLN12-0020Description of proposal: City of Black Diamond General Sew- er Plan, which defines an overall concept for collecting sewage, projects the amount of expected growth in sewage, identifies major implementing projects, assess financing of those projects and includes policies relating to operation of the system and City sewer fund. Proponent: City of Black DiamondLocation of proposal: City of Black Diamond sewer service area, which includes all of incorporated Black Diamond and the Lake 12 unincorporated UGA, excepting the Lake Sawyer area (northwest portion of the city). Lead agency: City of Black DiamondThe lead agency for this proposal has determined that it does not have a probable significant ad- verse impact on the environment. An environmental impact statement (EIS) is not required under RCW 43.21C.030 (2)(c). This decision was made after review of a completed environmental checklist and other information

on file with the lead agency. This information is available to the public on request.Responsible official: Steve Pilcher, AICPPosition/title: Community Development Director Phone: 360-886-5700Address: P.O. Box 599, Black Diamond, WA 98010Date: September 28, 2012 This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2); the lead agency will not act on this proposal for 14 days from the date below. Comments must be submitted by October 12, 2012. You may appeal this determination at the Community Develop- ment Department 24301 Roberts Drive, Black Diamond, no later than 5:00 p.m., October 12, 2012 by completing the proper appeal form and paying an appeal fee of $250.00. You should be prepared to make specific factual objec- tions. Contact the Community Devel- opment Department at 360-886-5700 to read or ask about the procedures for SEPA appeals. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on September 28, 2012. #681550CITY OF BLACK DIAMONDPLANNING COMMISSION

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

ON PROPOSED TEXT AMENDMENTS

TO THECITY OF BLACK DIAMOND

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN The City of Black Diamond Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on Tues- day, October 9, 2011 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council

Chambers, 25510 Lawson Street,Black Diamond. The public isinvited to provide testimony onproposed amendments to the textof the City of Black DiamondComprehensive Plan. The pro-posed amendments include: 1) a new General Sewer Plan; 2)defining how residential densitiesshould be determined; 3) estab-lishing concurrency testing forSR 169; and 4) recognizing theexistence and potential expansionof the Bryant airstrip alongRoberts Drive. Copies of the proposed amend-ments are available for review on the City’s website (www.ci.blackdiamond.wa.us) and at the BlackDiamond Community Develop-ment Department, 24301 RobertsDrive. For further information, contactSteve Pilcher, Community De-velopment Director, (360) 886-5700 or spilch- [email protected]. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on September 28, 2012. #681544

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Kentwood’s boys cross country team took first place at the Three Course Challenge at the Seaside 3 Course in Oregon Sept. 22.

The Conquerors took first with 181 points, while Kentridge boys took second with 250.

Conks senior Dasan Telford placed highest for the team in the 4,500 meter easy course at 10th place with a time of 15 minutes, 50 seconds. Junior Robin Cheema took third in the 5,000 moderate course, fin-ishing at 19:12. Sophomore Jared McMeen placed 37th in the 5,000 meter hard course, crossing the finish line at 21:22.

Chargers senior Sterling Bath placed highest indi-vidually on the boys team in the easy course with eighth place with a time of 15:48.

Junior Endalkachew Abebaw took 14th in the 5,00 moderate course with a time of 20:06. Senior Grant Wilson took 30th in

the 5,000 hard course with a time of 21:09. CONKS RACE AGAINST RAVENS, RAMS

Kentwood boys and girls cross country raced against Mount Rainier and Auburn Riverside Wednesday, Sept. 19.

Conks boys senior Dasan Telford took second with a time of 17 minutes, three seconds. Junior Robin Cheema took third at 17:04. Junior Kris Angus placed fifth at 17:39. Sopho-more Jared McMeen took eighth with a time of 17:57. Senior Galen Kornokwske placed 10th with a time of 18:04.

Conks girls junior Nicole Charlton took fourth with a time of 21:40, while sopho-more McKeena Johnson placed seventh at 22:37. Se-nior Megan Lee took 10th with a time of 23:44.

BEARS COMPETE IN BOB FIRMAN INVITATIONAL

The Tahoma boys and girls cross country teams

participated in the Bob Firman Invitational on Saturday at Eagle Island State Park in Boise, Idaho Sept. 22.

Bears boys senior James Dagley took 36th place at 16:30, while Junior Riley Campbell came in 37th less than a half a second behind Dagley. Senior Brendan Newell took 75th with a time of 17:05. Senior Jacob

Larsen placed 88, finishing at 17:19, while senior Merritt Kropelnicki took 91st with a time of 17:22. Senior Travis

Scacco placed 105th with a time of 17:47, while

freshman Tristan Houser came in close behind, tak-ing 106st place with a time of 17:48.

Bears girls senior Elizabeth Oosterhout took 41st with a time of 19:41. Sophomore Delaney Tiernan placed 48th with a time of 19:48. Sophomore Abby Atchison took 68, crossing the finish line at 20:26. Freshman Abby Oosterhout took 73rd with

a time of 20:30, while junior Cheyenne Greenside placed 77th, running at 20:34. Sophomore Amada Kiefer placed 91st with a time of 20:58. Junior Maddy Den-nis took 92nd, finishing at 20:59. Their next race will be the Curtis Invitational this Saturday at Chambers Creek Properties Central Meadow, University Place.

BEARS WIN MEET AGAINST FALCONS AND TROJANS

The Tahoma boys and girls ran to victory against Kentlake and Auburn Sept. 19 at Lake Wilderness Park.

Bears senior James Dagley led the boys with a time of 16 minutes, 42 seconds.

Fellow senior Riley Campbell placed third at 17:14. Senior Brendan Newell placed fifth with a time of 17:20, while senior Merritt Kropelnicki took sixth at 17:22.

Senior Jacob Larsen placed seventh, finishing at 17:24. Senior Travis Scacco took eighth at 17:45. Fresh-man Tristan Houser placed

ninth at 17:56. Falcons sophomore Ryan

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Bears senior Elizabeth Oosterhout took first with a time of 20:50. Sopho-mores Abby Atchison and Delaney Tiernan came in right behind at second and third with times of 20:51 and 20:52 respectively. Sophomore Amanda Kiefer took fourth, finishing at 20:52, while junior Chey-enne Greenside took fifth at 20:53.

Junior Maddy Dennis placed seventh at 21:02, while Abby Oosterhout took 10th with a time of 21:38.

Falcons girls senior Terra McGinnis took eighth with a time of 21:23.

ROYALS AND FALCONS LOSE TO RAIDERS

Kentridge and Kent Meridian boys and girls cross country teams lost to Thomas Jefferson at a meet Sept. 19.

Chargers boys beat the Royals 19-44, but lost to TJ

23-34. The Royals boys lost to TJ 19-40. Royals girls beat the Chargers 20-41, but lost to TJ 25-30. Char-gers girls lost to TJ 21-34.

Chargers boys senor Sterling Bath took second with a time of 17 minutes, 26 seconds. Junior En-dalkachew Abebaw took fourth with a time of 17:41. Senior Grant Wilson placed ninth with a time of 18:18.

Royals boys senior Edson Zalidivar took third with a time of 17:38.

Royals girls junior Ruby Virk took second with a time of 21:38.

Junior Brianna Funk placed sixth, crossing the finish line at 22:48. Senior Stephanie O’Hara placed seventh with a time of 22:52, while fellow senior Jessie O’Hara took eighth, finishing at 22:54.

Chargers girls sopho-more Kyra Kaiser placed third with a time of 22:02. Junior MacKenzie Tucker took ninth at 23:07.

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Girl Scout Troop 41468 members at the Covington Petco Sept. 22. Front row, Hailey and Celeste, second row Brenna, Sarah and Emma, back row Emma and Bailey. Photo courtesy of Tari Sheffer

Girl Scout Junior Troop 41468 of Maple Valley presented a donation to PUP Dog Rescue at an adoption event Sept. 22 at the Covington Petco.

The event was an opportunity for the public to adopt dogs and cats from the rescue organization. The Girl Scouts met with representatives from PUP to make their donation, and also got to cuddle some of the pets whose care their donation will help fund.

People United for Pets (PUP) Dog Res-cue is a Western Washington non-profit

specializing in rescuing small-breed dogs, giving them medical care, atten-tion, and love in the homes of volun-teers until they can be adopted.

Since PUP was established in 2006, the organization has successfully placed more than 1,000 dogs and cats into

loving ‘forever homes’ where they can lead full and happy lives.

For the fourth and fifth-grade girls of Troop 41468, scouting means learning the joy of giving back to their com-

munity.

Their donation to PUP was largely earned from last year’s sale of Girl Scout cookies, though one scout con-tributed money saved from her allow-ance, and another asked guests at her birthday party to bring PUP donations instead of gifts.

Besides their donation to PUP, the troop voted to donate some of the money from their cookie sales to a neighbor in need due to illness, and some to the Maple Valley Food Bank.

Girl Scouts donate to PUP

FUNDRAISER FRIDAY FOR FAMILY OF MAPLE VALLEY WOMAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT SEPT. 8There will be a raffle to raise money for the children of Constance Rankins at 7 p.m. Friday at Gloria’s Lounge, 23220 Maple Valley Highway.

Rankins was a single mom who was killed in a motorcycle accident Sept. 8.

The proceeds from the event will go to Rankin’s family. Donations can also be made at any Wells Fargo bank branch to the Constance Rankins Memorial Fund.

KENTWOOD AND MATTSON CHEERLEADERS SUPPLY BACKPACKS FOR COVINGTON ELEMENTARY STUDENTSKentwood High and Mattson Middle School cheer squads supplied more than 600 school backpacks with school supplies for every student at Covington Elementary Sept. 9 as par tof National Community Service Day.

They also volunteered at the carnival, helping with ice cream, playing with the kids and helping teachers.

Among the events were field games, face painting, story time with specially made bookmarks from Kentwood and Mattson to promote “Read to Succeed” as giveaways, school spirit where cheerleaders taught cheers designed for Covington Elementary and talked about the importance of school spirit and being leaders for their school.

More than half of the student body was present at the carnival.

The rest of the backpacks were delivered to the students who weren’t in attendance by Covington Elementary staff.

ROAD WORK STARTED WEDNESDAY IN MAPLE VALLEYCrews started prep work for Maple Valley’s annual overlay program on Wednesday on 228th Ave. S.E., between Kent Kangley Road and SE 281st.

The contractor will be grinding up the road and re-grading for the new asphalt scheduled to be placed the following week. Traffic will be allowed through during the work zone but expect delays from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Motor-ist’s patience is much appreciated.

For more information call Tom Bowen at 425-413-6645.

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Question: I’ve seen Covington Water District staff hook up hoses to something at the end of my street and fl ush water out of it. Why are they doing this and isn’t it a waste of water?

Answer: The District has an active Flush-ing Program to keep the water in the mains fresh. The program helps improve the water quality in the dead-end mains.

Most drinking water distribution systems contain “dead-end mains or pipes” that don’t feed into a loop system and that only fl ow in one direction to an end point. Dead-end mains often occur at pressure zone boundar-ies or in residential confi gurations such as cul-de-sacs. Unfortunately, dead-end mains are unavoidable in water system design and distribution systems. They can cause water quality problems, such as loss of disinfectant re-siduals, increased turbidity, mineral sediment and taste and odor problems.

In most cases, each dead-end main in the District’s distribution system is equipped with what is called a blow-off. It is installed solely for the purpose of displac-ing or fl ushing the water in the main for water quality maintenance. Frequent, scheduled fl ushing of these mains assures that the water quality in the dead-end mains is just as good as it is in areas of the distribution system where the water mains are looped and water fl ows more freely.

Flushing water in order to maintain good water quality isn’t a waste. It is an industry standard best manage-ment practice for assuring safe drinking water in public water system distribution systems.

Even though the District’s dead-ends are fl ushed routinely, water quality issues can occur, before the next scheduled fl ushing. If you are experiencing water quality problems related to taste and odor issues or sediment, please do not hesitate to call the District. We will do our best to repsond to your service request within 24 hours.

It is important that every fi re hydrant be installed per the local fi re code spacing requirement. It is also im-portant that every fi re hydrant be installed at the proper height above the sidewalk or fi nished grade. In a fi re event it is crucial that fi re personnel be able to quickly attach the fi re hoses to the hydrants by spinning the hose connection wrenches in full circles or rotations. The wrong height of hydrant could mean unnecessary reaching to connect the hose.

Proper break-away is another reason the height of a hydrant is important. Most hydrants are designed to break-away or snap off at ground level upon impact. If a vehicle accidently hits a hydrant, the break-away feature can reduce injury to the occupants, reduce damage to the vehicle and also reduce damage to the hydrant. This will only result if the hydrant is properly installed just above the sidewalk or fi nished grade.

Covington Water District has over 2,100 fi re hydrants within its water system. Even though only a small percentage will be used in fi res or be hit by vehicles, having the hydrant at the proper height matters!

The District stores water for its distribution system in 9 steel tanks located primarily on the east side of the District, where elevation tends to be highest. The tanks are all above ground and situated at elevations to provide gravity fl ow to three pri-mary pressure zones. As the District turns 52 years old, six of the tanks are approaching the midpoint of their useful life. Measures to extend their life are being undertaken now, with replacement of coatings for steel surfaces or use of cathodic protection to prolong life, slow deterioration and manage costs more effi ciently.

The storage tanks are steel and, therefore, susceptible to corrosion if not properly coated, both inside and out. Cathodic protection is also being incorporated with new repair and maintenance of the storage tanks. The simplest form of cathodic protection for the interior is accomplished by placing anodes, often referred to as “sacrifi cial anodes”, inside the water storage tank. These anodes are attached to cables that are suspended inside the tank extending the full height of the tank and can be pulled and replaced as needed. The term “sacrifi cial” is appropriate because anodes are comprised of material

that attracts corrosion and deteriorates in place of the steel. Applying cathodic protection has a relatively mod-est cost compared to recoating or replacing a steel tank.

Exterior corrosion is primarily controlled by the coating system. However, maintenance of the coating is necessary to continue to control corrosion.

Interior corrosion occurs when the coating has weak spots where adhesion of the coating material to the steel fails. It is critically important that the steel surfaces be properly prepared for the coat-

ing to adhere; the preparation and coating address all surfaces exposed to the humidity and submerged water atmosphere in the tank. Inspection of the interior of District tanks occurs on a 5-year rotation.

In the last three years the District has taken steps toward preserving its steel storage tanks and strengthening them for seismic standards. The coating system of one of the oldest tanks in the District was almost completely lost. As a result, the District is installing cathodic protection (anodes) along with new interior and exterior coatings to defer failure for 15-20 years until a new reservoir meeting seismic standards can be sited and constructed. The interior coating for an additional tank has also been rehabilitated for preservation of the storage. A third tank is currently being improved with seismic upgrades and recoating both interior and exterior. A fourth tank will not be rebuilt because it is more cost effective to replace it.

A program to preserve the District’s steel storage tanks is costly and planned to occur over the next 20 years to make sure adequate and reliable water storage is avail-able for the next 50 years. Steps of prevention are much less costly than tank replacement.

Last spring Tahoma High School inquired about potential district projects for advanced statistics students work. Two sets of teams were sent to the District for analytical projects.

One team worked with our Business Services depart-ment to determine if there is a higher level of ac-curacy in the District’s new radio reads compared to the older manual read meters. The analysis of meter data shows no signifi cant difference between the two meters.

Another team worked with our Water Quality division to create a graphic presentation of the upward and/or downward trends of the chlorine residuals in each tank. They also compared the chlorine residuals in two tanks with newly installed active mixers, to the remaining tanks without mixers, to determine the effectiveness of the mixers in maintaining residuals at higher levels. The mixers proved to be effective in maintaining chlorine residuals for longer periods and at higher levels in the tanks where they were installed, compared to the tanks without the mixers.

Once the students completed their analysis, they presented their fi ndings. The students did an amaz-ing job, and District staff was impressed with the level of professionalism and determination exhibited by each of the students.

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