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Kent-Meridian High School substitute Shelly Falkner patrols her IB Spanish classroom to keep students on task and encourage study time. While Falkner knows little about Spanish, she’s needed at least to be an adult in the room and be there to answer questions students have about assignments. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
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Kent’s Sharon Carter just wants to feed people despite the fact her food bank is in violation of city code.
STEVE HUNTER, Kent Reporter
BY STEVE HUNTER
Sharon Carter scrambles up into a pickup to help unload produce boxes of spinach, lettuce and celery for the food distribution she
does the next day for anyone who is hungry.
“If they come in with a lot of bling-bling or come in all muddy, I’m not here to judge, I’m here to feed people,” Carter says about the
Wednesday and Saturday morning food bank she’s run since 2008 out of her home on Kent’s East Hill.
But the 64-year-old woman ran into a problem this month when the city of Kent sent her a fi nal notice of a code violation for
Woman wants to keep her food bank goingBut the city says private operation violates code
[ more CARTER page 2 ]
SUBSTITUTE SHORTAGEBY STEVE HUNTER
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke still hasn’t paid Meridian Valley Country Club condo association fees and assess-ments that have reached more than $25,000 for new roofs and painting, according to a condo owner in the same complex.
But Cooke told the Kent Reporter on Tuesday that she
hasn’t paid any fees and assess-ments because the condo isn’t hers.
“It’s not my condo,” she said. “It belonged to my husband and his estate. He leveraged the condo for his business and the estate is bankrupt. …It now belongs to the mortgage company.”
Dispute continues over mayor’s condo fees
Cooke
[ more COOKE page 5 ]
School districts scramble to fi ll the gaps, and empty classroomsBY ROSS COYLE AND ROBERT WHALE
Reporter newspapers
As the economy continues its upswing, school districts in South King County are seeing a decline in substitute teachers.
Since the beginning of 2014, the Kent School District has managed to fi ll an average of 78 per-cent of its needs for substitute slots, according to
district spokesman Chris Loft is. According to a Northwood Middle School teacher in Kent, who spoke about the issue anonymously, that number may be even smaller.
On any given day the Auburn and Kent school districts may each need as many as 300 substitute teachers yet be able to fi nd only half that number, he said.
What that means, the teacher says, is that too oft en the district has to pull teachers away from their break periods or combine classes.
[ more SHORTAGE page 4 ]
BY STEVE HUNTER
If the city of Kent operated an FM radio station, would anyone listen to it?
Th at’s a question city offi cials would like to know the answer to as they try decide wheth-er it would be worth starting up a radio station. Th ey also want to know whether spon-
sors can be found to fund the operation.
Mayor Suzette Cooke, who proposed the idea for the radio station, has asked the City Council for up to $50,000 in the 2015 budget to hire a consultant to study the
issue.“I have to admit it made
City considers starting up FM radio station
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excessive client trips in viola-tion of her home occupation license.
A code enforcement officer recently counted 16 people in line at her home, which violates the city code of no more than four vehicle or pedestrian trips in and out of the home per day, according to the letter sent to Carter.
“The reason for this limi-tation is to ‘…help preserve the residential character of the city’s neighborhoods
from commercial encroach-ment while recognizing that certain selected business activities are compatible with residential uses,’” said city building official Bob Hutchinson, who oversees code enforcement.
If Carter fails to correct the violation by Nov. 21, she will be subject to a $500 fine.
“I just want them to leave me alone and let me serve people,” Carter says.
A next-door neighbor first complained to the city about four years ago against Carter’s food bank and all of the vehicles and people it attracts
to the residential neighbor-hood. Carter started the free food giveaway out of her driveway. She now has several large tents or sheds in her backyard where she stores and distributes food.
A handful of volunteers help her pick up surplus food from about five warehouses and stores, but most of it comes from one food distribution warehouse in Kent. All of the food is donated.
Carter says about 3,000 people are fed each month by the food she gives away for families, many who
need additional supplies than what they can get from the Kent Food Bank. As many as 40 vehicles arrive during the two-hour period on Saturday. She doesn’t advertise the food bank but news has spread through word of mouth. People come from Kent, Renton, Tukwila, Seattle and other cities. The hungry are of many ages and nationalities, including refu-gees from Pakistan, Afghani-stan, Iran and Iraq.
“It’s only two hours and they come and go,” Carter says. “In two hours it goes back to being the same old
boring neighborhood.”Carter, who has lived in
her house since 1985, de-scribes it as “poetry in mo-tion” as people file through the tents to pick up their food. She doesn’t ask make them show identification or answer a bunch of questions to get food.
“The only criteria is do you get hungry?” she says. Of course. You’ve met the criteria.”
She just wishes the city would be as easy on her.
“If I was dealing drugs it’d be one thing,” Carter says about the city’s crackdown.
“I don’t know why they can’t make me exempt. It’s not a bad thing I’m doing.”
Mayor Suzette Cooke visited Carter’s home after Carter asked to meet with Cooke in an effort to allow the food bank to continue. Carter said the mayor seemed to like the setup.
“It was clear she doesn’t meet the code for the traffic it generates in the neighbor-hood,” Cooke said during a phone interview. “As good as her heart is and as good as the operation is, it’s not in the right location in a resi-dential neighborhood.”
Carter had hoped Cooke could do more.
“She liked it, she hugged me,” Carter says.
Cooke said city officials had not noticed the food distribu-tion, partly because the opera-tion sets up behind her house.
“We responded to a neighbor’s complaint, which is what the city does,” Cooke said.
Because of the city’s notice to shut her down, Carter is in the market for a small passenger bus that she hopes would get her around the city code. She hopes people com-ing to the food bank can use the River of Life Fellowship Church parking lot and take a shuttle bus to her home.
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BY STEVE HUNTER
It appears any confl ict between a Kent woman who runs an African hair braiding salon and the state Department of Licensing could soon be coming to an end.
Salamata Sylla fi led a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in June that she should be allowed to operate her business without a cosmetology license. State inspectors had told Sylla in 2013 that she needed such a license to keep her Kent shop open although state offi cials later claimed
it was all a miscommunication. Th e Kent Reporter published a story about the dispute in May.
Lawyers for Sylla announced on Nov. 14 that the lawsuit had been put on hold aft er state offi cials agreed to adopt a new administrative rule to exempt hair braiders from the cosmetology license. Braiders would have to spend 1,600 hours in cosme-tology school, where not one minute is spent learning hair braiding.
“We actually settled the case last week when we agreed to formally adopt a statement that hair braiding does not require a cosmetology
license,” said Christine Anthony, spokeswom-
an for the DOL, during a Monday phone interview. “We will formally adopt it as a rule.”
Th e rule-making process goes through the state Offi ce of the Code Reviser. Th e state will hold a public hearing in the next month or so before adoption of the rule.
“Th e department is not chang-ing its stance,” Anderson said. “We are just formalizing the rule. Hair braiders have always not needed a cosmetology license.”
Sylla, who is represented by the
Institute for Justice, wants the law to be clear.
“All I want is for the department to keep its word to me and Washington’s other braiders,” Sylla said in a media release. “I’m proud that my case has convinced the department to try and fi x its policies once and for all.”
Lawyers fi led a similar suit against the state in 2004 on behalf of Seattle hair braider Benta Diaw.
Sylla opened her own shop on Kent’s East Hill in 2012 aft er work-ing several years in Seattle. Her shop is in a small strip mall across from Kent-Meridian High School.
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Th e King County Flood Control District’s Board of Supervisors approved on Nov. 3 a 2015 budget of $55.6 million to pay for work underway along the Green River, Cedar River, White River and the Sno-qualmie River basins.
Th e district is funded by a property tax of 13 cents per $1,000 assessed valuation.
By doing this important work sites like the Boeing 737 production facility at the Renton Municipal Air-port will be protected from fl ooding events.
Th e city of Kent and the Green River Valley benefi ts from this budget as ongoing projects in and around the city will continue. Projects such as the Briscoe-Desim-one levee improvements and the Russell Road upper levee improvements – which will reconstruct the
existing system of levee and revetments along the right (east) bank of the Green River between South 212th Street and South 231st Way.
Th e levee work will provide long-term fl ood protection and improve ri-parian and aquatic habitat.
Th e committee also sent to the full Board of Supervisors the 2015, work program, six-year capital improvement program, oversight budget, water resource inventory area funding, fl ood reduction fund grant funding, and sub-regional opportunity fund project list.
Th e projects include the gravel removal in the Cedar River, which is being led by the city of Renton. Th e $5.3 million project will remove approximately 125,000 cubic yards of accumulated sediment from the river channel in 2015.
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Over the past two years, with substitutes finding better work in an improv-ing economy, and teachers taking more time off for sick days or for training, the shortage has begun to bite.
The teacher said the shortage has forced his school to bring in other teachers or staff members to cover classes.
“The substitute pool is very small now,” he said, “small enough that on any given day, someone in the school is having to cover for someone else’s class.”
Kent is not the only district grappling with this problem. In fact, it is afflicting school districts throughout the Puget Sound Region.
“Oh, there’s definitely a shortage,” says Adam Couch, principal at Dick Scobee Elementary School in Auburn. “Every week we have a number of sub jobs that go unfilled, and from my building one or two. We’re on the low end, but that’s really impactful.”
Debbie Leighton, director of human resources for the Auburn School District, says the new teaching standards and the training required for them, the new teacher evalu-ation system and the training required for it, and the new class-size initiative have helped to create the vacuum.
“There were people in the sub-pool that were looking for jobs, and they’ve gotten hired. Those things are just continuing to be a pull on staff, and of course it’s flu season from now until April,” Leighton said.
The Northwood teacher suspects the issue may be about more than wages and benefits; he said it may turn on another district concern — rotating education pro-gramming and, as Leighton said above, more teacher training days.
Part of the difficulty, he suspects, is the Kent School District’s practice of constantly introducing and changing educational programs, leading to more days when teachers are out of the classrooms and in training. Given the wealth of available substitutes in previous years, that was not a problem. But now that the pool has dried up, it’s become a daily struggle.
“We have teachers, and I’m one of them, (and) my stress and anxiety level has gone through the roof,” he said. “From what I under-stand, the district hasn’t been actively seeking subs.”
Beth Raines, in her 27th year of teaching and today a support specialist for the Auburn School District, teaches, she says, “the gam-ut” at Scobee, first, second, fourth grades and more.
“Day to day, it’s a scramble,” Raines said. “Within this building, we’re very committed to having other’s backs. So we’ll adjust to kids. We have cancelled teacher’s planning times and paid them to be in the building during their planning time to cover a classroom even at a differ-ent grade level.
“We’ve also divided kids up, and that has an impact on other classrooms, espe-cially if it’s a different grade level, trying to get things that will be powerful for their learning but then also you now have 30 or 32 stu-dents inside your classroom that you’re trying to juggle with your other class.”
“Their ability to do their original plan is really messed up,” Couch said of teachers.
For instance, a teacher teaching an English-as-Second Language writing assignment tailors it strictly to his or her class and each student’s needs, depending on his or her abilities.
“If I am teaching fourth grade and I have six first-graders coming in, I am all of a sudden forced to juggle and find something that’s mean-ingful for the first-graders and the four fourth-graders’ needs,” Couch said. “It can be dispiriting, especially if it’s last minute. If a teacher gets the flu in the middle of the day and can’t get a substitute, that’s just something we do, and we all kind of rally around that person.”
From the Northwood teacher’s perspective, the Kent School District must do more to deepen its pool of substitutes. Some teachers at Northwood, he says, have already covered another classroom 16 to 18 times this year.
A staff member at North-wood, who asked not to be named, also suggested that a low number of substitutes
in the pool may relate to a bias that considers substi-tutes unprofessional.
Shelly Falkner, a teacher at Kent-Meridian High School, left a sales and marketing position 15 years ago and began a second career as a substitute teacher. Over that interval, she says, the work has been consistent but not terribly lucrative.
While Falkner agrees that many of the explanations offered for sub shortages are valid, for instance, pay, respect, and time commit-ment, she also suspects that the problem could be how people see the substitute’s role.
“I don’t know that the perception of the substi-tute’s job is as professional as it should be,” she says. “It really is another career.”
“It gets really busy after the introduction of the school year,” says Falkner, “because of colds and flus. Kids are notorious for shar-ing in that regard. So the need is there every day.”
Nevertheless, Falkner says, it’s a perfect job for people like her in “semi-retirement.”
“You’re not in it for the pay, you’re in it for the passion of the kids,” Falkner says. “It’s the perfect job if you’re look-ing at being an educator and want to see if you’re good at it. It’s a good part-time job while you’re going to school. I went and got my masters while I was doing this. If you are impatient and like everything perfect, it’s not the job for you.”
Part of the problem, Falkner says, is when substitute availability is low and teachers are thrown into any class. While she is a talented teacher for mar-keting and communications classes, she feels she is less useful in a foreign language class where a teacher simply prepares a student-centered lesson plan. To this end, Falkner suggests the district should recruit more indus-try retirees and people with the time and the skills to provide the missing links and lessons when a teacher has to leave the classroom.
“I think of all the Boeing engineers who are good at math ... and the kids love to hear about what you used to do in the real world and what’s out there,” Falkner said.
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Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of second-degree robbery after he allegedly stole a wallet with more than $1,000 cash in it from a man in the 1400 block of West Smith Street.
A man told officers he was walk-ing outside of an apartment com-plex at about 12:55 a.m. on Nov. 9 when another man shoved him to the ground, ripped his wallet out of his back jeans pocket and took his cellphone, according to the police report.
Witnesses saw the man running through the parking lot. A witness then saw the man hiding in bushes near the apartment complex. An officer ordered the man to the ground and handcuffed him after other officers arrived.
Police found $1,007 in cash in the man’s pockets, similar to the amount the attacked man had reported stolen. He said he had just recently cashed a check for more than $1,000. Officers returned the cash to the man and transported the other man to the city jail.
AssaultOfficers arrested a woman for
investigation of fourth-degree assault and malicious mischief after she reportedly punched and slapped her husband as well as threw and broke several items during a dispute at about 5:39 p.m. on Nov. 10 at a home in the 27100 block of 36th Lane South.
The wife accused her husband of not wanting to work to fix their
relationship, started to punch him in the back and later slapped him 15 to 20 times in the face as she called him, “A little boy,” accord-
ing to the police report.The woman also threw a
ceramic vase at her husband and later threw several drinking glasses at her husband’s motorcycle after he told her he wanted to end the rela-tionship. She said she wanted half of everything. The husband called 911 after she threw the glasses at the motorcycle.
The wife admitted to police that she hit her husband, broke items and threw glasses at the motorcycle. An officer noted he could smell the odor of intoxicants when the woman spoke. The husband found his wife sleeping on the couch when he came home from work. She woke up a couple of hours later and the dispute
started.
Reckless drivingPolice arrested a man for inves-
tigation of reckless driving after he allegedly hit speeds of 80 mph in a 45 mph zone at about 2:08 a.m. on Nov. 8 in the 21200 block of 84th Avenue South.
An officer spotted two vehicles at a high rate of speed going northbound along 84th Avenue South followed by a pack of about 30 other vehicles, according to the police report.
The officer noted that North Kent often attracts illegal street racers on weekends. The officer pulled out his vehicle to pursue the two cars and saw a Honda Civic with no rear lights. He eventually pulled over the Civic in the 19600 block of 84th Avenue South.
The driver told police he was driving fast to keep up with his friend in another car. He then told the officer he didn’t want to say anything else until he contacted his lawyer.
ObstructingOfficers arrested a man for
obstructing police and possession of drug paraphernalia on Nov. 8 outside of the EZ Smoke shop, 26022 Pacific Highway S.
Officers responded to a call about unwanted subjects who were bothering customers outside of the store, according to the police report. Police found two men standing outside the store.
One of the men initially gave police a false name. Officers identi-fied him by using a mobile finger-printing device. The man also had a glass pipe in his jeans.
Police let the other man go. Both men were banned for life from the store.
Officer arrests man for taking wallet with $1,000 cash
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Cooke moved out of the complex the end of March and now lives with her mother in Kent. Cooke received notice in May from the Meridian Valley Condo Five Association that her payment for the $4,071 painting fee was 30 days late, according to docu-ments obtained for a May 9 Kent Reporter story. Cooke declined to comment to the paper for that story.
Now the fees and assess-ments have reached more than $25,000, said Susan St. Clair, a condo owner in the six-unit complex, who spoke last week to the Kent Re-porter. The other condo own-ers picked up Cooke’s share of the cost, which included roof replacements as well as new lighting. The condo complex sits along the No. 5 hole fairway at the Meridian Valley Country Club golf course.
“She’s out of the condo but she still has stuff in the garage,” St. Clair said. “My household alone has paid out in excess of $5,000 this year to cover our portion of Mayor Cooke’s condo as-sessments and fees.”
Cooke said she turned over foreclosure notices to those handling her husband’s estate. The property remains in the name of her late husband David Cooke, who died in 2009. Suzette Cooke filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011 because of the high costs of dealing with her husband’s estate. He was in deep finan-cial debt.
Cooke also found out everything they owned was only in her husband’s name. The property taxes for the condo are being paid, according to King County property tax records.
“We’re trying to get the money,” St. Clair said. “But we’re probably resigned to the fact that we are not get-ting the money.”
But St. Clair hasn’t given up yet.
“I am personally ex-ploring avenues to have her wages and or pension garnished if it takes that long and believe I will be part of a long list of people looking for reimbursement,” she said.
St. Clair said she has not seen any foreclosure notices posted on the condo. St. Clair said she has tried to
contact Cooke to see what the mayor plans to do.
“She has not submitted a written document to me explaining her plan of action or an apology for putting seniors and a veteran on the hook for her financial problems,” St. Clair said about fellow condo owners. “Mayor Cooke has not re-sponded to any of my emails sent to her office.”
Cooke said she received the emails from St. Clair.
“She has not tried to reach out,” Cooke said. “She sent allegations to me and threats that she was going to go the newspaper. … She has never met me. She is still angry over her situation and I’m sorry.”
St. Clair said she went public last spring with the financial dispute because Cooke is mayor and helps set the city budget each year. Cooke makes an annual sal-ary of $102,192 and recently requested the City Council look into raising the salary by $31,000 per year to put it more in line with peer cities, including Renton and Auburn.
“I find it disgusting and deplorable that an elected official just walks away with
no explanation and dumps her financial garbage on our household,” St. Clair said. “With the money that we have spent on Mayor Cooke (her condo assessments) this year, we could have purchased a more energy ef-
ficient furnace this winter.”A realtor told St. Clair last
year when she was looking at a Kent condo to buy that Cooke lived just a couple of houses down the street.
“Little did he know that was not an asset but a liabil-
ity,” St. Clair said.Cooke said she’s tried
dealing with the mortgage company about the condo.
“The bank will not talk to me because I’m not David Cooke,” she said. “It’s a crazy legal conundrum.”
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Fans watching a transitional shift in gears for horsepower
A change in leadership looms for fol-lowers of Th oroughbred and motorsports racing.
New ownership is coming soon to Emerald Downs, as the Auburn racetrack prepares for its 20th season next April, its fi rst meet without Ron Crockett at the helm.
Th e track’s landlord, the Muckleshoot Tribe, will take control once the sale be-comes offi cial in the next few months.
Change also is on the horizon for Pacifi c Raceways, the historic multi-track facil-ity between Auburn and Kent. Th e Fiorito
family put the 320-acre motorsports venue up for sale in September, with the intention that a racing savvy soul would buy and take the track to the next level.
At Emerald Downs, the transition should be
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Despite the anxiety of any change at the top, life will go on for the thousands of re-silient people who work in the state’s horse racing industry.
In retrospect, the industry survived the closing of storied Longacres, waited four years for the emergence of Emerald Downs and overcame the eff ects of the Deep Recession.
Despite all that, the track remains rel-evant in a crowded market competing for the entertainment dollar.
“Th e mood is very good. People are happy,” said Bob Fraser, vice president of operations at Emerald Downs, aft er meeting with managers and employees last week when the sale was announced. “As far as the transition … it only makes sense the land-lord takes over operations. Th ey are already in the gaming industry. Th ey are strong in economic power in South King County, so this acquisition makes a lot of sense in many diff erent levels.”
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I’d like to thank every-one who voted to support Proposition A, a bond measure that would have allowed the construc-tion of new public safety and training facilities for Kent’s growing police force.
While the election results came up short of the needed 60-percent threshold, I’m pleased the majority
of Kent voters supported this eff ort.
Th e No. 1 priority of the police department is to keep our community safe, and my job as the police chief is to support our offi -cers and staff in achieving this goal.
Proposition A would have provided the following tools, and unfortunately, the need remains.
• Consolidating our police force to one location would improve the communication that’s critical to intelligence-led policing - our strategy to focus resources on high crime areas and high impact criminals.
• Adequate space would help increase victim privacy.
• Realistic training facilities would better prepare offi cers to ad-dress critical, and oft en dangerous,
incidents.• Additional crisis cells would
allow us to serve our mentally ill inmates with more respect and dignity.
Th e men and women of the Kent Police Department truly care about this community. Th ey should have the most eff ective means and tools possible to keep Kent safe.
Despite Prop A’s failure, police will continue to provide strong public safety
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Not the time for a mayor’s pay bump
I read in the Kent Reporter that Mayor Suzette Cooke desires a raise of $31,000 to ap-proximately $133,000 a year.
I oppose this raise for a several reasons:
1. When Mayor Cooke sought reelection as mayor she was aware what the position paid. If she wanted a higher salary, she should have run as mayor of one of the higher paying cities like Renton or Everett.
2. Giving such a raise at this time in the city’s history is ill-advised since the city does not have enough money to even underwrite the annual losses of the ShoWare Center, and the city is still deciding on the sale of the Riverbend par 3 golf course.
3. In addition, to grant a raise to a Mayor Cooke seems incongruent with the eco-nomic condition of the city
as a whole at this time. Many of our city’s families are on the precipice of having their homes foreclosed on since they are either unemployed or underemployed and when businesses seem to be vacating their shops in downtown Kent.
Maybe at a diff erent time in a more prosperous Kent, a raise for the mayor might be
deemed appropriate, but not at this time when many families and businesses are strug-gling. Th e family’s breadwin-ners don’t have the luxury of increasing their wage base or the businesses can’t raise prices without threatening the loss of customers.
Again, I oppose any pay raise for Mayor Cooke at this time.– Mark H. Ekern
Kent needs ‘right stuff ’ mayor
I agree with Suzette Cooke that $101,000 a year is not suit-able for the position of mayor. In fact, I think $150K would be acceptable for the position.
If the salary were $150K prior to the previous may-oral election, it would have at-tracted a greater pool of “right stuff ” candidates.
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Lieselotte (Lottie) DanielsLieselotte (Lottie) Daniels was born
February 20, 1927, in Munich, Germany. Lottie passed away November 10, 2014.
After travelling the world as an Army wife she settled in Kent, WA, and worked at “The Bon” (Macy’s) for more than two decades. She loved Mt. Rainier, nature, reading and knitting for her family, friends and newborns at Valley Medical Center.
Lottie is survived by her children, Harold, Paul Michael, Rosemarie Pierce, Sonia and Barbara; her grandchildren, Lisa Daniels Bishop, John Bradley, Lindsey, Christopher, Luke and Krystal Daniels, Natasha Pierce Norregaard, Nickolas Pierce; great-grandchildren, Sumner, Brooks and Caroline Bishop and Cameron Norregaard.
A Celebration of Life will be held at noon, November 22, at Marriott Residence Inn, 16201 W. Valley Hwy, Tukwila.
Memorial donations may be made in Lottie’s name to the Disabled American Veterans, POB 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301.
Loved by so many, Lottie will be greatly missed.1184162
Melanie Ann McKnight Melanie Ann McKnight passed
away peacefully at home with family on November 13, 2014, after a two year battle with cancer. She was born September 27, 1972 in Ogden, UT., the daughter of Lyle and Dawn (O’Rourke) McKnight.
Melanie lived in Utah and Colorado prior to moving with her parents to Kent, Washington where she graduated from Kentwood HS and actively participated in the Kent Parks special needs programs.
After many years in Kent she moved with her parents to Spokane where she has resided for the past 7 years. While in Spokane, she attended Spokane Falls Community College and is a member of St. Charles Catholic Church. Melanie was a special person that loved people and saw the good in everyone she met. She loved the outdoors, family get-togethers, taking pictures, singing, eating out, going to the Mall and her weekly latte.
Melanie will always be missed and lives on in our hearts. Melanie is survived by her parents; her brother Michael (Colleen); nieces Brenslie and Shealan; as well as many aunts, uncles and cousins.
Vigil services will be Friday, November 21, 2014 at 5pm and will take place at Holy Cross Cemetery and Funeral Center Chapel, 7200 N. Wall St. Funeral Mass will be Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 11am and will be celebrated at St. Charles Catholic Church, 4515 N. Alberta, Spokane, WA. Inurnment will take place at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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The forecast for Emerald Downs appears much clear-er than Pacific Raceways.
Crockett has built a first-class operation. But at 75, and having spent consider-able time and money to maintain the sport he loves, Crockett simply wants to step aside and enjoy the trackside view. He wants others to give it a shot.
Intensely competitive, Crockett will remain at the track, no doubt with a few good horses in his stable.
Not everyone has sup-ported Crockett’s ways, but the millionaire business-man has been the primary personality behind the survival of Thoroughbred racing as we know it here.
We should be thankful for his many contributions.
The tribe, meanwhile, should be commended for its support. The Muckleshoots have owned the land under Emerald Downs since 2002 and have invested more than $11 million in purse enhancements at the track to stimulate the racing industry.
But the track has to settle its debt at some point and turn a profit. Business is down, necessitating a new approach.
The tribe intends to study the track’s performance and make improvements as staff continues to market to young families and the next generation of fans. Atten-dance was up 6 percent last season, track officials said, but the challenge remains to generate more revenue
streams.Slot machines, more con-
certs at the track? Perhaps. The tribe, a sovereign na-tion, isn’t revealing its hand, but all options are on the table as they pursue state sales-tax exemption status on revenue gaming.
Thoroughbred racing will stick around, and the tribe will make it work – just as it has with a popular casino and amphitheater on the plateau.
The industry must resolve other problems – breeding and building Thoroughbred racing popu-lations. Horse numbers are down nationally as tracks compete to fill race cards.
Pacific Raceways also has its share of challenges. Wanting to expand within the boundaries of its cam-pus, it has met resistance from bordering residential neighborhoods and envi-ronmentalists.
For a family passionate about racing, it has been a tough fight, and one requir-ing deep, deep pockets. Like Crockett, the Fiorito family has taken it as far as it can.
There are few, if any, Bruton Smiths around. The billionaire promoter and NASCAR track owner has built a successful empire.
Finding the right succes-sor is crucial to the many generations of families and racers who call the track home. Pacific Raceways is the state’s fifth largest outdoor spectator venue, offering a road course, a drag strip, a motocross track, a go-karting center and 22,500 permanent seats.
“My family has held this asset and done an admirable job of maintaining it at a club level, and we’ve worked very well with King County to title the place and get it ready for commercial development, but we simply don’t have the resources to develop this property,” said Jason Fiorito, track president and owner. “We’ve teed it up very well for someone to come in and take over. After 54 years of ownership, we recognize that we have taken the project as far as we could.”
The track is trying to come up with a list of local, national, and international prospects. No asking price has been posted.
The property is zoned industrial and has legisla-tion that will allow the
commercial development of a certain portion of the racetrack surrounding real estate. The property has secured King County legislation and a master planned development that calls for 1.2 million square feet of commercial space for technology-based and racing related industry.
It has appeal. Now it’s a matter of time to find the right buyer willing to im-prove the track and appease those who share its borders. A compromise can and must be reached.
Without a big commit-ment from the track’s next owner, the region stands to lose a valuable motorsports venue and its ties to many sanctioning bodies, includ-ing the lucrative NHRA.
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would reside in Kent, pay property taxes and have a decent credit score. In addition, a fiscally responsible, “right stuff ” mayor would not leave his or her home in the middle of the night and dump a load of debt on seniors and veterans.
A “right stuff ” mayor would communicate with their constituents, no matter how painful the subject and not just say no comment.
Yes, Suzette Cooke is correct, the mayor’s salary is low, and that is perhaps why we have attracted the person that is in office now.
At $150K a year, the city of Kent can do a better job of attracting “right stuff ” candidates in the next election.– Susan St. Clair
Wanted: an affordable facility
I agree with the writer last week that our police need a modern and usable facility, but the costs per square foot are completely out of line with reality.
One facet of the prob-lem is that architect and design fees are set as a per-centage of the project cost. So where would a thinking person imagine that drives the cost of a project, par-ticularly a public building such as a school or public safety facility?
Not at all difficult to
connect the dots and figure that out.
With over 25 years of experience in heavy construction supervi-sion, project management and estimating in heavy construction, I have more than a passing knowledge of how these things go … and it is not a pretty scenario for the public.
I’ve done some research online and construction costs for new hospitals in April 2013, and they were coming in at under $300 per square foot, not including A&D fees. In my estimation, hospitals would be at the high end of construction costs due to the increased piping, air conditioning and monitor-ing systems required. It follows that a public safety building, a pretty basic office building should realistically come in at less than that figure, no more than double, and present-ing that price to the voters as realistic is malfeasance at its worst.
Kent is a working-class community, and we just need a very usable, low-maintenance facility that will do the job, not an ivory sheathed palace at a cost that amounts to a fleecing of the citizens.
Appealing to the public’s desire to support their police to enable wastage of funds of this magnitude from City Hall is uncon-scionable. Small wonder that the ShoWare Center is such a white elephant with this sort of malfeasance.– Paul Nickelson
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Superior Court of Washington County of King
In re: Evelia Torres Petitioner, and
Martin Zambrano Respondent.
No. 14-306863-1KNTSummons by Publication
(SMPB)To the Respondent: The petitioner has started an action in the above court request- ing: that your marriage or domes- tic partnership be dissolved. The petition also requests that the court grant the following relief: Dispose of property and liabilities You must respond to this summons by serving a copy of your written response on the per- son signing this summons and by
of the court. If you do not serve your written response within 60
publication of this summons (60 days after the 24th day of October 24, 2014), the court may enter an order of default against you, and the court may, without further notice to you, enter a de- cree and approve or provide for other relief requested in this sum- mons. In the case of a dissolu- tion, the court will not enter the
serve a notice of appearance on the undersigned person, you are entitled to notice before an order of default or a decree may be en- tered. Your written response to the summons and petition must be on form WPF DR 01.0300, Response to Petition (Marriage). Information about how to get this form may be obtained by
by contacting the Administrative
page: http:/www.courts.wa.gov/forms
of an attorney in this matter you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time. One method of serving a copy of your response on the petitioner
return receipt requested. This summons is issued
the State of Washington.Dated: August 10, 2012Petitioner:Virgilio Aguilar AvilaFile Original of your Response
401 Fourth Avenue North,
on: PetitionerEvelia Torres23240 88th Ave S #KK202
Published in the Kent Reporter on October 24 & 31, 2014;
CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF ORDINANCES
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
The following is a summary of the ordinances adopted by the
18, 2014:ORDINANCE NO. 4129 - AN ORDINANCE
reference new infractions and misdemeanor crimes enacted by the state Legislature during its 2014 regular session for applica-
of Kent, to adopt additional laws
criminal code to revise referenc-
felony crimes that may be used as a basis to support the crime of criminal attempt or criminal con- spiracy, which is punishable as a gross misdemeanor.
thirty (30) days from the date of passage and publication, unless subjected to referendum or vetoed by the Mayor, or unless otherwise noted. A copy of the complete text of any ordinance will be mailed
Published in the Kent Reporter
20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY.
INGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to media- tion if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help.
ing counselors and legal assis- tance may be available at little or
assistance in determining your
your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclo- sure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors
mers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_
hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=
wide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other
housing counselors and attorneys
site: http://nwjustice.org/what- clear I. GIVEN that the undersigned,
S.E. 36th Street, Suite 100, Mer-
auction to the highest and best bidder, payable, in the form of
of sale, the following described real property, situated in the
ington, to-wit: LOTS 1 AND 2,
OF SAID LOT 2, IN KING
subject to that certain Deed of
WIFE, as Grantor(s), to FIDEL-
Trustee, to secure an obligation
NOMINEE FOR MERITAGE
TION, under an Assignment
II. No action
of the Deed of Trust or the
tion secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The de- fault(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: PROMISSORY NOTE INFOR- MATION
Date: 10/1/2011 PAYMENT IN- FORMATION FROM NO.PMT TOTAL
$43,403.04
TOTAL BPO $100.00 TIONS
ESTIMATED
TOTAL
lication of Notice of Sale $600.00 Record Appointment of Successor Trustee $14.00 Record
$133,824.10 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal
with interest as provided in the Note from 10/1/2011, and such other costs and fees as are pro- vided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, posses- sion or encumbrances on
to in Paragraph III must be cured by 11/24/2014, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discon- tinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and termi- nated if at any time before 11/24/2014 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the
Payment must be in cash or with
a State or federally chartered
ed any time after the 11/24/2014 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower
successor interest or the holder of any recorded junior lien or en- cumbrance by paying the princi- pal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pur- suant to the terms of the obliga- tion and/or Deed of Trust and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was
Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following ad-
proof of which is in the posses- sion of the Trustee; and the Bor- rower and Grantor were person- ally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trus- tee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by,
through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-de- scribed property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain
61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invali-
X.
TENANTS – The purchaser at
possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the grantor under the Deed of Trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not ten- ants by summary proceedings
tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance
a servicemember or a dependent of a servicemember, you may be entitled to certain protections un- der the federal Servicemembers
of foreclosure. If you believe you may be entitled to these protec-
AND ANY INFORMATION
additional information or service
Suite 100 Mercer Island, WA
NAME ADDRESS
SWSTEVENS ST SEATTLE
WEST STEVENS STREET
VENS ST SEATTLE Washing-
STEVENS ST SEATTLE
Published in the Kent Reporter on October 31, 2014 and Novem-
INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that the
2, 2014 up to 11:00 a.m. as
4th Avenue South, Kent, Wash- ington. All bids must be proper-
dance with this “Invitation to
regardless of delivery method,
will be opened and read publiclyaloud immediately following
project named as follows:Briscoe-Desimone Levee
ImprovementsReach 1 RM 14.47 to 14.64Project Number: 09-3011.5
The project consists of the
Levee adjacent to the GreenRiver between S. 182nd St./West
sheet piles and reinforced con-crete and will be approximately1,000 feet long. This project willalso include approximately 3,000
lot reconstruction.
for this project is approximately
may be obtained by contacting
questions, please call Kelly
ject on the outside of the enve-
220 4th Avenue South, Kent,
bids will be accepted. No facsim-iles or electronic submittals willbe considered. Each bid shall be in accordance
and other contract documents
and Kent Special Provisions maybe purchased at a non-refund- able cost of $50.00 for each set.
also be downloaded at no charge at www.kentwa.gov/procurement.
are available
bid is required.
right to reject any and all bids on any or all schedules or alternatesor to waive any informalities in the bidding and shall determinewhich bid or bidders is the mostresponsive, satisfactory and re-sponsible bidder and shall be the sole judge thereof.
shall be available to the bidderfor the recovery of his/her depos- it or as a defense to any action based upon the neglect or refusalto execute a contract. Bidders must submit with theirinitial bid a signed statement asto whether they have previously
11246. No bidder may withdraw his/herbid for a period of sixty (60) daysafter the day of bid opening. Dated this 13th day of Novem-ber, 2014.
Published in Kent Reporter on
PUBLIC NOTICES
That’s why I will ask our city leadership to bring this measure back to the voters for a sec-ond look. I am committed to help the public understand the need and move forward.
In the meantime, we will, to the best of our ability, provide the superior public safety ser-vices that Kent residents have come to expect.
Reach Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas at 253-856-5800 or [email protected].
[ THOMAS from page 6 ] Auburn Symphony Orchestra to perform chamber series in Kent
The Auburn Symphony Orchestra presents Old World Masters, its first chamber concert in Kent, on Friday.
The concert begins at 7 p.m. at The First Christian Church of Kent, 11717 SE
240th, Kent.The concert is sponsored in
part by the Kent Arts Com-mission.
Four members of the Auburn Symphony will offer standard works that are at the core of the chamber reper-toire. Also known as “The American Quartet,” Dvorak’s String Quartet in F Major was
written when the composer was in the United States in the early 1890s. Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major is primarily referred to as The Lark because of the violin’s high bird-like melody at the very beginning. And Mo-zart’s String Quartet in B Flat Major is known as The Hunt because the music in the first
movement was said to evoke the sound and the mood of the chase.
The orchestra is led by internationally-renowned conductor Stewart Kershaw.
Festival seating is $17 for adults, $10 for students. Call 253-887-7777 or purchase online at www.auburnsym-phony.org.
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Kent man meets, thanks those who saved his lifeBY MARK KLAAS
In the company of family and friends, strangers and paramedics, Ron Jarvis realizes just how fragile life can be – his very own life.
It’s because of their quick actions that the good-natured, 72-year-old Kent man is living today.
At his request, Jarvis reunited with the people re-sponsible for saving his life only a month ago, meeting the fi rst responders for the fi rst time at an impromptu gathering at Kent Fire Sta-tion 74 on Sunday morning.
It was his opportunity to say thank you.
Jarvis suff ered a heart attack at a local gun range on Oct. 16, but through the help of others, defi ed the odds, survived and made a swift recovery.
Th e semi-retired fi nan-cial planner, a longtime Kent resident, is back to full strength, and lives to tell about it.
“I thank you,” an appre-ciative Jarvis told the group of family, friends, fi refi ght-ers, paramedics and other trained staff from the Kent, Renton and Tukwila fi re departments. “Th e EMTs
in the Seattle area are the best in the country. And the main reason they are is because they never give up. ... Th at holds true with you guys, so thank you.”
Jarvis was shooting at the Champion Arms Gun Shop & Indoor Shooting Center off East Valley Highway in Kent, when he suddenly collapsed. He was dropping to his knees, holding the separation wall between the lanes before his friend, Mike Sanderson, who was in the next shooting lane, responded, carefully lower-ing Jarvis to the ground and hollering for the range offi cers to immediately call 911.
Another shooter, Mark Th ompson, of Federal Way, stepped forward, and together with his wife, Judy, initiated CPR.
“Glad to do my part,” Mark Th ompson told Jarvis aft er meeting him Sunday for the fi rst time since the incident. “Th at’s what neighbors do.”
Firefi ghters and para-medics from Renton and Tukwila soon responded – dispatched out of the same 911 call center, Valley Com.
According to Kent Fire Capt. Kyle Ohashi, the CPR performed by the Th omp-sons was a critical step, one of many in a “chain of survival” sequence that ulti-
mately saved Jarvis’ life.Th e CPR performed
prior to the arrival of fi re-fi ghters, Ohashi explained, kept an oxygen supply going to Jarvis’s brain and heart, a necessity to have any chance of reviving him. Th e CPR also increased the chances of a posi-tive outcome by allowing fi refi ghters an opportunity to apply electrical shocks to the patient’s heart.
“King County has the highest save rate from wit-nessed cardiac arrest in the country and this incident is a perfect example of why that is,” Ohashi said.
According to paramedics, it took about 45 minutes of CPR and 12 shocks from the defi brillator to get Jar-vis’ heart going again. Once stabilized, Jarvis was sent to nearby Valley Medical Center for emergency care.
For Jarvis, the incident remains a bit fuzzy, even to this day.
“Th e last thing I remem-bered anything was parking my car at the range, and then I woke up three days later coming out of an induced coma,” he said.
But good friends and quick actions enabled Jarvis to pull through.
Jarvis appreciates all their work.
“I love them. Nice guys,” he said. “For me, it means a new life.”
Kent’s Ron Jarvis meets paramedics and fi refi ghters for the fi rst time Sunday since his heart attack a month ago. Jarvis requested the gathering so he could personally thank those who revived and tookcare of him. MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
‘For me, it means a new life’Best Western Plus Plaza by the Green honoredFOR THE REPORTER
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Th e Best Western Plus Plaza by the Green – at 24415 Russell Road on the Riverbend Golf Course – was one of only 112 hotels out of more than 2,100 properties in the U.S. and Canada to receive the designation this year.
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Kent Winterfest: 3:30-7:30 p.m., Dec. 6, Town Square Plaza, downtown Kent. Produced by the Kent Lions and Foundation. Events include: Santa’s House, live music, cookie and ornament decorating. Christmas card making at Down Home Catering start-ing with registration at 1 p.m. followed by a holiday reading at the Kent Library read by the Kent Library children’s librarian. Mayor Suzette Cooke will present Santa with a key to the city, and the Kent Station Santa House will be open at that time for the remainder of the season. Local choirs and school bands will perform. Christmas tree lighting ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Free. For more information, visit www.kcdays.com/winterfest.
32nd annual Christmas Rush Fun Run: Dec. 13, Hogan Park at Russell Road, 24400 Russell Road, Kent. 10K run starts at
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Wreaths Across America: 9-10 a.m. Dec. 13, Tahoma National Cemetery, 18600 SE 240th St., Kent. Green River Composite Squadron honors those who have served. As a key partner in the nationwide Wreaths Across America program, CAP annually adorns memorials and veterans’ graves with evergreen wreaths to ensure the sacrifices of our nation’s soldiers are never forgotten. Your $15 donation places a wreath on the grave of a fallen hero this winter, and a por-
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Benefits“Toy ‘N’ Joy” drive: Nov. 16-Dec. 13, Bartell Drugs, 12946 SE Kent-Kangley Road, Kent. Bartell Drugs partners with the Salvation Army to provide holiday gifts for children in need by collecting new, unwrapped toys. Toy donations accepted at Bartell Drugs locations throughout King and Pierce counties. Options: • Choose a “gift request tag” from the “Toy ‘N’ Joy” display in the store and return the gift to the donation barrel with the tag affixed to it. • Donate new, unwrapped gifts appropriate for children up to 14 years-of-age. For more information, visit www.bartelldrugs.com.
Big Give: 9 a.m.-noon, Nov. 22, Riverview Community Church, 4135 S. 216th St., Kent. The church will be handing out 400 complete family-sized meals, socks and hats. Free haircuts. For more informa-tion, visit www.rcckent.org.
Holiday Bazaar & Kid’s Craft Sale: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 22, Emerald Park Elementary School, 11800 SE 216th St., Kent. Sponsored by the PTSA. More than 40 commercial and handmade vendors. Free.
Kent Commons Holiday Bazaar: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Dec. 5; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 6, Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Avenue N. City of Kent bazaar features more than 100 vendors with handcrafted gifts, musical entertainment, food and beverages. Free.
HealthShoWalk: 9-11 a.m., Mondays and Wednesdays, ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St., Kent. Outdoor walking enthusiasts can get out of the dark and the rain by participating in ShoWalk. Presented by Kent4Health and sponsor Transdev Services, Inc., ShoWalk is a free indoor walking opportunity. While there is no charge to participate, registration is appreciated at www.webreg.KentWA.gov or at the door on walk days. More information is available at www.Kent4Health.com or by calling 253-856-4968.
Puget Sound Blood Center drives: 12:30-2:30 p.m., 3:30-6:30 p.m. Dec. 2, Kent Covenant Church, 24611 116 Ave. SE. 8-10 a.m., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 10, City of Kent, 400 W. Gowe Ave.; 8-10 a.m.. 10:45 a.m.- 2 p.m. Dec. 10, Kent-Meridian High School, small gym, 10020 SE 256th St. For more information, call 253-945-8667 or please visit www.psbc.org.
Family Health & Fitness Night: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Dec. 4, Daniel Elementary School, 11310 SE 248th St. Hosted by the Hope Heart Institute and Molina Healthcare. The event will teach students and their families about healthy eating, active living and heart health. Evening includes dinner, games, prizes and health tips. To get involved, contact Carlee Don-nelly at [email protected]
TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly): 6 p.m., Thursdays, Swanson Court Club-house, 12200 SE 207th St., Kent, near Kentridge High School. Nonprofit weight loss support group. For more information, call 253-709-5098 or visit www.tops.org or www.whywelovetops.com.
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me feel a little outdated when it hit me on the head that some people say, ‘Who lis-tens to the radio anymore?’” Cooke said to the council at a Tuesday budget workshop. “That appears to be a basic question whether to even continue this pursuit. That’s when during discussions that (City Chief Administrative Officer) Derek (Matheson) suggested to hire a consultant to see the viability of having a radio station.”
City staff last year applied for the FM radio frequency license from the Federal Communications Commis-sion (FCC) and received the license for a public infor-mation station. The station would reach about 156,000 people in the Kent area.
Cooke said the station could be used for public safety programs such as what to do during a fire, windstorm, flood or earth-quake as well as emergency
alerts. Other programs could be police amber alerts, sex offender notifi-cation information, street closures and traffic reports.
“Most of us don’t get that when we listen to Seattle-based stations,” Cooke said about a potential Kent traf-fic report.
The mayor also sees the station as a way to reach out to the city’s diverse com-munity.
“It’s an opportunity for some of the organizations who don’t have English as their language to commu-nicate (in their language) at certain times of the day,” she said.
Council President Dana Ralph agreed with Cooke about concerns of who will listen to the station.
“That’s my biggest strug-gle,” Ralph said. “Having teenagers at home and their music and information all comes from streaming not from the radio. I wonder where the audience is and how long that audience will exist. So even if we are talking about the senior population is this an invest-ment that we’re making that in a period of years would not be relative.”
Cooke initially proposed starting up the station next year at a cost of $209,000, with $115,000 of that for capital startup costs and $94,000 for a multimedia coordinator to run the station. She proposed it be funded through sponsor-ship dollars. The $50,000 for the consultant would
come out of the general fund next year while the other potential costs would be pushed to 2016.
“My view is to find an avenue where it is self-supporting,” Cooke said. “If there’s not enough value to generate the sponsorships then one has to question even pursuing. …This is a potential gem. And the ques-tion is, is it a valuable gem or is it going to be a rock we want to throw back?”
The council will have another workshop Tuesday when it plans to start figuring out what to add or cut from the 2015-16 budget. The council plans to approve a budget either at its Dec. 9 meeting or on Dec. 16 at a special meeting if it needs more time to craft a budget.
[ RADIO from page 1 ] AUBURN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHAMBER SERIES
Old World Masters: 7 p.m. Nov. 21, The First Christian Church of Kent, 11717 SE 240th, Kent. Four members of the Auburn Symphony Orchestra perform: Dvorak, String Quartet in F Major (The American Quartet); Haydn, String Quar-tet in D Major (The Lark); Mozart, String Quartet in B Flat Major (The Hunt). The concert is sponsored in part by the Kent Arts Commission. Festival seating: $17 adults, $10 students. Call 253-887-7777 or purchase tickets online at www.auburnsymphony.org
KENT ARTS COMMISSION SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Tickets at kentarts.com, by calling 253-856-5051 or at the Kent Com-mons, 525 Fourth Ave. N. Hours for phone and in-person sales are Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The box office is closed on Sunday.
The Four Bitchin’ Babes present “Jingle Babes!”: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5, Kent-Meridian PAC. Original tour de force musical comedy theatre troupe. These accomplished musician-actress-come-diennes fill the stage with whimsical songs, hilarious shtick, and luscious girl group harmonies. Tickets: $25 general, $25 senior, $15 youth
CHANCEL ARTS CONCERTS
Starry Night String Quartet: 3 p.m. Nov. 23, Kent Lutheran Church, 336 2nd Ave. S. Featured performers: Sharyn Peterson, violin; Blayne Barnes, violin; Leslie Johnson, viola; and Mannfried Funk, cello. An intermission provides refreshments, including free coffee. General admission is $12.50 at the door or from www.BrownPaperTickets.com or 253-520-1033. $5 for students with ID and seniors in groups of 10. For more information, www.chancelarts.com for more information.
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“Little Shop of Horrors”: 7 p.m. Nov. 19-22; 3 p.m. Nov. 22, Kentridge Performing Arts Center, 12430 SE 208th St. Tickets are $8-$10 and available at www.kent.k12.wa.us/Page/1641 beginning Nov. 1. For more information, contact director Jennifer Grajewski at [email protected] or 253-653-2626
“Oliver!”: 7 p.m. Dec. 12, 13, 19, 20; 3 p.m. Dec. 13, 14, 20, Green River Community College, Performing Arts Building, 12401 SE 320th St., Auburn. Heavier Than Air Family Theatre presents the award-winning musical that vividly brings to life Charles Dickens’ timeless characters with its ever popular story of the orphaned boy who asked for more. Tickets: $10 advance, $12 at the door. For more information, call 253-833-9111, ext. 2400, or visit www.heavierthanair.com.
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Kent Valley Rainiers’ goalie Erik Garber defends against a shot on goal during a tournament Nov. 7-9 in Chicago. COURTESY PHOTO, Kent Valley Rainiers
FOR THE REPORTER
Th e surprising Kent Val-ley Rainiers’ ages 16-Under AAA Tier-1 hockey team went undefeated in prelim-inary-round games at the Bauer World Invitational on Nov. 7-9 in Chicago before losing in the Sweet 16 round.
Th e Rainiers fi nished 2-0-1, earning a second-place fi nish in their pool aft er losing out on the tie-breaker for fi rst by a goal.
“Aft er having a tough weekend in Kelowna (B.C.) two weeks ago, our guys are starting to buy-in to what we are trying to do,” said Rainiers coach Danny Lorenz. “It’s a process. Th e results are clear, and we look forward to continuing to develop our young team
into better hockey players.”Th e Chicago tournament
is one of the largest in the world with AAA teams from throughout North America and Europe competing in the Squirt 10U through Midget 16U age brackets. Th e tournament included 438 teams from 30 states, seven Canadian provinces and eight countries.
It was a good showing for Kent Valley, its roster made up of a majority of players who are 15-year-olds, fi rst-year Midgets.
In the Rainiers’ 3-3 tour-nament-opening tie against the New Jersey Junior Titans, Andrew Bell scored two fi rst-period goals, including one at the end of the period to knot the score at 2-2. Aft er the Rainiers fell behind in the second period, Kyle
Katras scored the game-tying goal in the third to salvage an important point in the standings.
Calen Randall and Nick Snyder each had two assists in the game. Erik Garber made 12 saves on 15 shots.
AP Tremblay’s two goals powered the Rainiers past the Phoenix Firebirds in the second game, 5-0.
Dylan Moriarty and Michael Morrison each had a goal and an assist, while Ran-dall chipped in with a goal.
Katras and Elliot Plourde had two assists each.
Ben Jarvis earned the shutout making 19 saves on 19 shots.
In their third game, the
22 players walk out on Seattle Impact FC because of ownerBY ROSS COYLE
Th is wasn’t the opening season that Seattle Impact FC owner, play-er and coach Dion Earl envisioned when he fi rst announced the debut of the Major Arena Soccer League
(MASL) team in June. First a sexual harassment re-
straining order against Earl, then a class action lawsuit against him and the league. Now 22 players have walked out on the team on the heels of a Nov. 8 loss to the San Diego Sockers. Th e team’s website on Wednesday showed just seven players on the roster. Th e walkout wasn’t over the loss, the players say, but because of Earl’s leadership.
“Th is is not an easy decision to
make as we have all made a com-mitment to help build this franchise and have waited so long for this opportunity,” the players said in their resignation letter. “We wish to continue playing in the MASL and grow the brand in the Northwest but cannot do so as long as Dion Earl is a part of this organization.”
Ian Weinberg, Taylor Jackson, Brayton Knapp, Steve Mohn, Jeff Bader, Micah Wenzel, Eli Gordley, Mark Lee, Kellan Brown, Kaymran
Tairov, Collin Rolfe, Nathan Salveson, Michal Mravec, Marshall Reese, Derek Johnson, Gustovo Bermundez, Franisco Cisnernos, Vince McClus-key, Evan Denmark, Jameal Cox, Ty-ler Bjork, Craig Th omlinson have left the team in protest of Earl’s conduct.
“Th ere is a certain level of integ-rity and professionalism that we, as players, take very seriously,” the players said in their resignation [ more IMPACT page 13 ]
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T-BIRDS GO 2-4 ON ROAD TRIP
The Swift Current Broncos
beat the Seattle Thunderbirds
2-1 on Sunday at the Credit
Union i-plex in Swift Current,
Saskatchewan.
The T-Birds fi nished
the six-game road trip to the
Western Hockey League East
Division 2-4.
The T-Birds are back home for a
7:35 p.m. game Friday against
the Spokane Chiefs at the
ShoWare Center.
Seattle (9-10-2-1) took a
1-0 lead at 18:48 of the fi rst
period. Alexander True cycled
the puck to Ryan Gropp in the
left corner. Gropp centered the
puck to Ethan Bear coming
down the slot. Bear took a slap
shot that beat Swift Current
goalie Landon Bow.
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letter submitted to the MASL. “We feel that with the daily chaos, firing of our coaches, firing of staff, release of the dance team, poor treatment of players and the polluted media surrounding Dion’s sexual assault, bullying, and ha-rassment charges, our repu-tations are being tarnished and compromised.”
According to the let-ter, family members and friends have questioned their continued association with the team.
“We are constantly bombarded by family, friends and work colleagues wondering how we can play for such a poor role model,” the letter said.
Gordy Gurson, a Seattle forward and director of operations, said that the walkout was more attrib-uted to the players being angry with team selections and placement.
Earl called the walkout a “mutiny,” which followed him releasing several play-ers. The Impact is conduct-ing tryouts to replace the missing members.
League commissioner Kevin Milliken declined to comment on the lawsuit or Earl’s continued ownership of the team, stating that he had passed it on to his legal team without reviewing it after the league and King County Sheriff’s Office background checks, and that commenting on the issue was “above my paygrade.”
Meanwhile, the Impact is off to a 1-2 start. They beat the Sacramento Surge 12-8 and lost to the Turlock Express 11-5. They are in fifth place in the six-team Pacific Division.
Seattle plays Turlock at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 28 at the ShoWare Center.
Rainiers handled the physi-cal Pittsburgh Selects, 4-2. Plourde scored two goals, including the game-clinching empty-netter. Tremblay and Randall each tallied for the Rainiers, while Snyder and Moriarty each had two as-sists, and Katras one. Garber made 22 saves on 24 shots.
In the Sweet 16 elimina-tion round, the Rainiers lost 3-1 to the Total Package Hockey Thunder (Nash-ville, Tenn.) of the Tier One Elite League, which had given up only two goals for the tournament.
Jarvis made 18 saves on 21 shots.
The Rainiers play out of the Kent Valley Ice Centre.
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The Kentridge High School girls soccer team lost in overtime to Gig Harbor 2-1 in the opening round of the Class 4A state tourna-ment on Nov. 12 at French Field.
It was a frustrating defeat for coach Sherri Rolfs, whose teams
have lost in the first round four straight years. The Chargers fin-ished the year 13-4-2.
“Do I sound disappointed?” Rolfs said. “I am. We had a ton of chances right in front of the net, but couldn’t finish. We have a great team, but alas, we are out.”
She attributes the loss to part
nerves, part frustration from what she said was to an inferior team.
“First round is the hardest … nerves are super high. They were determined to get past first round. Driven. And they deserved it. ”
The defeat left Rolfs a bit de-pressed.
“To be honest, I am very down
in the dumps. I throw my heart and soul into it,” Rolfs said.
“To be knocked out by a scream-ing coach, who yelled, ‘Boot It! Kick it!’ was unbearable,” she said. “She has no concept of the game, just two fast players up front.”
The silver lining, she said, is Kentridge only loses three seniors.
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It is the third week of November and if you have not cut back and protected tender plants such as dahlias, cannas, bananas and glads, then this is your last chance to save these summer bloomers before a deep freeze turns their roots to mush.
Th ere are also some plants not to cut back at this late date. Do not chop hardy fuchsias, sage or salvias, hebes, roses or any other rather tender plant material now. Pruning al-ways stimulates growth and this is the month you want your plants to go fast asleep.
Th is week is also a time to give thanks. If you are lucky enough to live in Western Washington, you probably realize we can grow a wide range of plant material in our mild, moist climate. What you may not realize is that we have a wide range of nurseries in our zone as well.
Th is week, consider what gardeners in other parts of the country must deal with and take a moment to bow down to Washington:
Be thankful you don’t gar-den in Texas
Drought, dust storms and intense summer heat means you won’t fi nd many
fuchsias or ferns but you will fi nd Texas rattle snacks and horny toads. Besides that you’re expected to wear cowboy boots outdoors – not nearly as comfortable as the plastic garden clogs we
get to slip on before weeding or watering.
Be thankful you don’t garden in New York City
Prices are higher and people move
more quickly but what would really drive a gardener mad is the price of any outdoor space in the Big Apple. Th e skyscrapers of any large city block sunlight from plant life and create wind tunnels that suck the life right out of tender fl owering plants. Th e extra noise, crime and litter are signs that NYC could benefi t from more gardens and less traffi c but this big city is one place you won’t fi nd a cheap source of moo doo – or even a moo.
Be thankful you don’t gar-den in Los Angeles
Talk is cheap but water is expensive in Tinsel Town. Gardens may get plenty of sunshine but gardeners must use plenty of sun block and also invest in multiple pairs of sunglasses. If the heat doesn’t
wilt your plants the spider mites will. Th e soil is sandy in LA and not naturally acid so gardeners struggle to grow a decent azalea, rhododendron or camellia. Yuccas grow great all over California – and yuccas come equipped with a pointy barb at the end of each leaf just waiting to infl ict pain on unsuspecting gardeners.
Be thankful you don’t garden in New Orleans, Florida, or Alabama
Th e Deep South may be rich with the scent of garde-nias but you won’t be welcom-ing spring with tulips and daff odils – unless you store these spring blooming bulbs in the refrigerator for a few months. Gardeners also battle June Beetles, spider mites, cinch bugs and snails that make the pathways crunchy aft er a rain storm.
Be thankful you do garden in Western Washington
Th ere is no place in the world that grows more beau-tiful rhododendrons, fuchsias, delphiniums, or ferns. We also enjoy fall color, winter wonderlands and spring fl ow-ering bulbs that will return year aft er year. We also grow the best-tasting blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. And we can harvest several crops of lettuce and spinach in a single summer.
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