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Betty Richards, left, the original owner of Center Coiffures, gets a regular Friday morning style from her daughter Judy Ford, who has owned the salon on Rainier Avenue since 1998. The salon is marking its 50th anniversary this month. DeAn A. RADFoRD, Renton Reporter

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The fight is on to gather more signatures for a petition designed to keep the downtown Renton library where it is over the Cedar River.

Stuart Avery, the spokesperson for the citizens group effort, received word March 2 from Renton City Clerk Bonnie Walton that the group was short 1,442 valid signatures.

The group needs 6,375 valid signatures to certify the petition.

The petition asks that any library improve-ments for a downtown library must occur at the existing library location and not at any other location unless the alternate proposed location for a downtown library is approved by a simple majority vote of Renton voters.

The petition group had submitted 7,263 signatures. More than 900 signatures were from

people not registered to vote. Almost 900 signatures were also invalid because they were from people who didn’t live in Renton.

This weekend the citizen group of volunteers will at-tempt to collect the addi-tional signatures required in what they are calling a “Super Saturday” canvassing drive.

Volunteers are asked to meet outside the library at 100 Mill Ave. at 9 a.m., Saturday, March 10.

Several people in the all-volunteer group met Monday night and decided that asking people whether they are registered to vote in the City of Renton would be key in their renewed efforts.

“The canvassing campaign will be going to residential neighborhoods within city limits, so that should help with a better ratio of valid sig-natures as opposed to retail venues, which have a mixed traffic and less control,” said Avery.

The group intends to collect about 2,000 signatures by Monday to be safe.

Renton resident Richard Bray found out about the petition just three weeks ago. He and his family, which includes five children, have

Library petition falls short; big push Saturday to reach goal

By DEAN A. RADFORD

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For 50 years the news – and the gos-sip – of Renton has been told and retold from the hairstyling chairs at Center Coiffures.

“If you want to know what’s going on in town, come get your hair done,” says Mike O’Connell, a longtime stylist and

one-time owner of the salon.Center Coiffures is marking its an-

niversary this month, even though its lineage goes back a little earlier, to when Betty Richards started her career at Renton Beauty Salon at the Renton Center on Rainier Avenue.

The year was 1960 and Renton Center was still a work in progress. But it had the beauty salon and a barber shop a

couple doors down. Richards walked into the salon, looking for a job, fresh from graduating from Bennett’s Beauty School on Main Avenue in Renton.

“I got the job,” said Richards, who was 30 when she enrolled at Bennett’s. “It’s the only place I’ve ever worked.”

But the salon ran into financial trou-ble. She arrived one morning to find the front door padlocked. The developer of Renton Center, Robert Edwards, worked out a deal that allowed her to manage the shop. In late 1962, she bought the salon outright. She built a flourishing business and gave a generation of hairstylists a start.

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After 52 years overlooking the Renton Municipal Airport, the Renton Chamber of Commerce has found a new home.

Three chamber officials, John Galluzzo, Jason Parker and Bill Tay-lor, signed the final paperwork on Monday for the $840,000 purchase of the historic train depot down-town from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.

An initial agreement was signed in November and since then the chamber and Burlington Northern have worked out the final details.

For years, the depot on Burnett Avenue was the home of the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train and the kitchen where catered meals were prepared for the Spirit of Washington Event Center, now the Renton Pavilion Event Center at the Piazza.

The move is “exciting,” Taylor said Tuesday, but there is still a lot of work ahead, including repairs – replacing 11 broken windows – and new paint.

The chamber’s 50-year lease with the City of Renton, which owns the airport, expired at the end of 2010. Since then, the chamber has scoured Renton for a new home, mostly in the downtown area.

“For 52 years, the chamber didn’t need to concern itself about its home,” Taylor said. “The main rea-son we wanted to buy and not lease is that so we could deliver to future

chamber folks the same feelings.”The purchase includes two

buildings, the main building and a second one that houses the kitchen. The chamber plans to sell that building and launch a major capital campaign to reduce the debt on the new chamber headquarters and visitors center.

When will the chamber move?”“When we’re ready,” Taylor said.“There is so much to do,” he said.

“It’s not in move-in condition.”Work has already begun on

installing phones and data sys-tem and getting the heating and air-conditioning systems started.

Taylor has met with representatives of Certified Folder Display Service Inc., which will supply for free the displays for brochures at the new visitors center.

The chamber and its guests will leave behind at the headquarters on Rainier Avenue the iconic view of Renton airport and the almost daily view of 737s making their maiden voyages.

It will, however, have a new con-nection to Renton’s most famous export. Fuselages for the 737 pass by the train depot on their way to Boeing’s 737 production plant in north Renton.

Chamber gets new home downtown

Bill Taylor, president and CEO of the Renton Chamber of Commerce, was at the chamber’s new headquarters, the former train depot on Burnett Avenue, Wednesday to begin cleaning up the interior. With the purchase, came teak benches from inside and outside of the depot. dEAn A. RAdfORd, Renton Reporter

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The Renton Chamber of Commerce is planning several key events in the next several weeks.

State of the City LuncheonMayor denis Law will present his

annual State of the City at 11:30 a.m. March 21. The speech highlights the state of the city, a recap of the previ-ous year and what’s on the horizon for this year.

Register online at www.gorenton.com or call 425-226-4560.

Ahead of the Class AwardsThe chamber will host this annual

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Bob Bridge has turned over the keys to his Toyota Scion dealership to longtime friend, Michael O’Brien.

The sale of Bob Bridge Toyota Scion to O’Brien, owner of a number of high-end dealerships in Washington and Oregon, was announced in December, but the deal was signed last week.

Under O’Brien’s ownership, the dealer-ship will be known as Toyota Scion of Renton. In an interview O’Brien said he names his dealerships after the franchise and the city where they’re located.

The business will get its new sign sometime soon. In the meantime, the OB remains from the Bob Bridge Toyota sign.

Workers thought that was fitting, as OB is O’Brien’s nickname.

O’Brien expects to retain all existing employ-ees while adding more jobs in 2012. The new jobs include 10 to 15 sales positions; within the next 30 days or so, he plans

to open a retail used-car lot on Rainier Avenue.

Like Bridge before him, O’Brien says he’ll become involved in the community, especially Renton’s schools.

“Over the past 31 years, Mr. Bridge has built one of the most-respected dealerships in the country and been a great champion for the Renton community,” said O’Brien, owner of O’Brien Auto Group, in a news

release announcing the final deal.The O’Brien Auto Group is the largest

auto dealer in the Northwest.“We look forward to building on that

tradition under the O’Brien brand and are committed to making a positive impact within the Renton community,” he said.

Last week Bridge and O’Brien each made donations to the Friends of Renton Schools, with Bridge donating $25,000 and O’Brien $25,500, at an informal VIP luncheon Renton High School.

“We are extremely fortunate to have the support of these two men and their compa-nies,” said Friends of Renton Schools Chair Pam Teal. “Mr. Bridge and Mr. O’Brien are two outstanding business people who understand the value of giving back to the

community. The money they contributed this week will be put to use in the programs that have a proven track record of directly impacting the achievement of students in the Renton School District.”

The Friends of Renton Schools is holding its annual fundraiser on April 30.

Bridge has said he will dedicate more of his time to philanthropic efforts. O’Brien’s history of community involvement was a key factor in his decision to sell.

“Over 30 of the nation’s most prominent auto retail organizations were interested in buying the dealership,” said Bridge. “With this type of interest I was able to select the best fit for the Renton community. It’s only by coincidence that the best auto retail organization to replace Bob Bridge was in Seattle. That was just amazing.”

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In an unanimous vote, the Renton School Board decided Feb. 29 to put the “Building for a Lifetime of Learning School Construc-tion” bond measure on the April 17 election ballot.

Board members said they did not want to lose momentum after the bond measure failed by a little more than 300 votes in the Feb. 14 special election.

Also, the other possible election dates did not look favorable for the successful passage of the bond mea-sure, board members said.

The $97 million bond measure includes plans to build a new junior high and make improvements to the pool at Lindbergh High School.

The other possible elec-tion dates would have been Aug. 7 and Nov. 6 of this year.

Superintendent Mary Alice Heuschel didn’t see either one of those dates as viable for the bond to pass.

School is out in August, and November would mean competing with the presi-dential and gubernatorial elections as well as other measures, she said.

Had the school board not voted to proceed with the April 17 ballot, it could delay the construction of a new junior high by two years if the measure passed on a later ballot in 2013.

Grace Whiteaker, a parent and Hazelwood Elementary School PTA member, was happy the board decided to move ahead with the April elec-tion.

She had canvassed neigh-borhoods for support of the levies and measure for the Feb. 14 election and found voter confusion.

“The message that I got from a lot of people, as I was talking to them, was they had a very big misun-derstanding of what (the bond) was going to mean in terms of taxes,” Whiteaker said.

Others at the school board meeting Wednesday night at Campbell Hill El-ementary School agreed the message could have been clearer.

The levy approvals at 60 percent and the failure of the bond issue by just 300 votes were proof that voters support Renton schools, said John Galluzzo, the chair of the Citizens for Renton Schools Committee.

“Really what that says is we need to fine-tune that message and go back out,” he said.

The super majority rule was probably partly to blame, Galluzzo said.

The super majority rule required that this bond get 60 percent voter approval and have a minimum voter turnout of 10,582 voters.

Vot-ers were confused about that, but also there was the confu-sion vot-

ers had on how to calculate the tax, Galluzzo said.

“I think we go out and we clear that up for a lot of people and I think that eas-ily gets us votes,” he said.

The district estimates the cost of the bond will be 18 cents per $1,000 of assessed property valuation for the average home valued at $257,100. That would be about $46 a year.

At the meeting John Knutson, district assistant

superintendent, gave a presentation on the Feb. 14 election results.

The Maintenance and Operations levy passed at 61.71 percent and the Technology levy passed at 60.48 percent. The bond, even though it had a 58.08 percent approval, failed.

Knutson’s slide depicting over-crowding at the dis-trict’s three middle schools brought gasps from the audience.

McKnight Middle School, with 1,152 students, is the third-largest middle school in the state, Nelsen is ninth and Dimmitt is 24th.

Whiteaker has a kinder-garten student and second-grade student at one of the 14 elementary schools that feed into the three junior high schools.

She requested a copy of the visuals from the school board to make the same point to neighborhoods when she goes canvassing for support of the bond in the April election.

Sam Seid, a senior at Lindbergh High School, at-tended the meeting to voice his support of the bond and pool improvements that could come with the bond’s

passage.He is the swim captain of

the Lindbergh team.“I started off with basical-

ly the knowledge of how to swim and I ended this year being able to place at state in two different events,” Seid said. “So, the pool is a really big part of my life.”

The pool improvements at Lindbergh and the con-struction of a new junior high at the site of the old Hazelwood Elementary are two of the bigger issues on the ballot.

Over-crowding in the interim is still a concern the district is trying to work through.

“There’s no more room for any portables,” Heuschel said. “It’s a very unfortunate situation. And, yes, we have talked about many many scenarios, because we have to prepare for the future.”

Options in the interim could include convert-ing elementary or high schools to a middle school, which then could make the elementary become over-crowded, Heuschel said.

The ballots for the April 17 election should be in homes by March 28, ac-cording to the district.

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Mary Alice Heuschel


Dear Renton community,On behalf of almost 15,000 students and 2,000

staff, thank you for your support of and confi-dence in the Renton School District. You once again approved our Maintenance and Operation Levy and our Technology Levy with overwhelm-ing support. Approval of these measures enables the district to better address individual student needs, offer district-wide programs to ensure student success, and maintain safe learning

environments, thus prepar-ing our students for their roles in the 21st century and beyond.

I want to particularly thank the members of the Citizens for Renton Schools Committee for their hard work in this effort. We are blessed to have leaders

throughout our community who are making a difference, and who are clearly committed to making Renton a great place to live, learn, work and play!

A high-quality education is perhaps the most essential solution to our national economic recovery and the best insurance possible for preparing our students for fulfilling lives. The welfare and safety of our community depends on a quality public education system. As our community continues to grow, your enduring support sustains Renton’s good work on behalf of the next generations of citizens. Our staff is committed to meeting the needs of each and ev-ery student and, with your outstanding support, we can help students reach their full potential

and pursue their dreams.Schools and districts do not accomplish these

critical outcomes alone. The Renton community is an outstanding example for our country of how, working together through strong partner-ships, public education can make a difference for our future as a nation.

I am proud to be the superintendent of school

in this great community. I commit to you our continued focus on our primary purpose - student success. The Renton School District will maintain and build on its record of excellence in responsible stewardship of your taxpayer dollars.

With gratitude, Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel is superintendent of the Renton School District.

When you write commentary, you often get advice from others on what to write about. This column was inspired by our adult children.

March Madness usually brings to mind the NCAA Basketball tournament. But my thoughts turn lovingly to my mother and her obsession with spring cleaning.

Under her direction, my brothers and I would spend countless days cleaning walls, ceilings, floors, doors and windows. Everything in the closets, dressers, cupboards and pantries were scrutinized for cleanliness, usefulness and order-liness.

These “Reluctant Kids” could out clean any “Merry Maid,” although at the time we were al-most certain some kind of child labor laws were being broken.

But, as I get older, it’s hard to follow this spring ritual with the same vigor. I tend to ignore its importance and benefit. In particular, the purging part is more difficult because of what it implies.

Things make their way into our lives and cling to us like lint. We place value on these things – most are needed, useful, memorable, or bring us emotional comfort.

But there is much, outside those parameters, that over the years lost its luster or usefulness, yet never found its way out the door – what you might call “stuff.” For seniors, especially, elimi-nating stuff is complex for several reasons.

First, we have the mistaken belief our adult children will want our things and put the same value on them as we did. Shocker! No they won’t.

They have their own tastes and a limited capacity to absorb more things.

Secondly, sometimes the ability to control our own life takes a sudden turn, like moving into smaller living arrangements, poor health, dementia or moving up. Our concern is now focused on more important things, rather than the importance of things. Inertia takes over and

our things stay at rest until someone moves them.

And that usually is our adult children, who are busy working and raising fami-lies. It falls to them to sort, clean, prepare, conduct es-tate sales, donate unwanted items and make numerous

trips to the dump – a burden even more difficult for those who live out of the area.

Judging by their comments at estate sales, they are not only overwhelmed, but resentful at having to drop everything to deal with our stuff. “Why couldn’t they have done something with their things while they were able and not leave it to us?” is their complaint, as well as plea.

Finally, we subconsciously believe that as long as we have things, we have life. Falsely equating downsizing with “end of life,” we put it off until we no longer have the strength, or will, to handle our own affairs.

So if our children could convey a simple mes-sage to us, it would be this: Listen, mom and dad, you’ve been responsible all your lives. Don’t stop now. Deal with your things while you still

have the time and health to properly deter-mine their fate. Free yourself from all that unwanted “stuff ” that clogs up your life, so that it won’t eventu-ally clog up ours.

Admit-tedly, finding a home for everything is difficult, long and sometimes emotionally painful. But we shouldn’t get discouraged if it takes several seasons to reduce our footprint and organize our lives.

If you’re over the age of 65 and haven’t started this process, determine what is holding you back from hearing your children’s pleas. There are plenty of resources to help, like local chari-ties and the City of Renton. Listed are several upcoming events to get us started on our spring cleaning chores.

Tish Gregory is a free lance writer. You can contact her at: [email protected].

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Here are some ideas about what to do with no-longer-needed possessions.

• March 31, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m., electronics recycling, Briarwood Market Place

• April 21, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Community Garage Sale, Renton Community Center

• May 5, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Spring Recy-cling Day, Renton Technical College

• May 5, 9 a.m.-noon, Shred-a-thon, Sam’s Club parking Lot

• June 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Stop and Swap recycling event, Renton Memorial Stadium

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The following information was compiled based on City of Renton Police reports.

By TRACEy COMPTON

[email protected]

A Renton man was arrested for disorderly con-duct for laying in front of a bus on Feb. 16.

Police found the 41-year-old man laying in front of a Metro bus about 9 a.m. at Southeast Carr Road and 108th Avenue Southeast.

The man had apparently gotten on the bus, did not pay his fare and started a commotion by banging on the doors.

The bus driver let him out and he laid down in front of the bus and did not move.

The man was cleared medically and then ar-rested.

While police were trying to arrest him, he lunged at an officer trying to bring him down.

The man was handcuffed and faced possible charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful transit conduct.

A daytime car burglary

A Seattle woman expe-rienced a car burglary in

broad daylight on Feb. 16.The 20-year-old woman

contacted police around 1:40 p.m. from Walmart, 743 Rainier Ave. S.

She reported that she parked her 1997 blue Mazda in the lot around 1 p.m. When she returned to the vehicle she saw that her car stereo was missing.

It is valued at $200.Also, she couldn’t move

the shift out of park. It isn’t known how the

suspect got in her vehicle because it was locked.

Man attacked in burglary try

A Renton man was at-tacked after interrupting a burglary on Feb. 1.

The 60-year-old man told police he interrupted what he believed to be a burglary. He observed two males looking in cars in the neighborhood in the 1000

block of South 22nd Court. Then he watched them walk behind his next-door neighbor’s home.

The man went to retrieve his camera. He then walked toward the subjects, ask-ing if he could take their picture.

The two males knocked him to the ground, knock-ing his camera out of his hands.

The suspects fled with the 60-year-old in pursuit for a few seconds. The man called police.

Police did not locate the suspects.

They are both described as black, with short dark hair and in their 20s. One was light-skinned wearing a light grey hooded sweat-shirt, baggy blue jeans and grey sneakers. The other

was medium in skin tone, wearing a light bluish-grey hooded sweatshirt, baggy blue jeans and sneakers.

Intoxicated man detained

A 19-year-old Renton man was detained for being extremely intoxicated on Feb. 17.

Police first arrived at the man’s house in the 2900 block of Northeast Fifth Place at 5 p.m.

His mother requested a welfare check because he has a history of using heroin. That night she sus-pected her son was “high” on something else.

No one was home.Police eventually caught

up with the man at a busi-ness on Sunset Boulevard.

He had entered a Preci-sion Tune, sat down and refused to leave just before the shop closed.

Police determined the minor was under the influ-ence of some unknown drug.

After some resistance, the man was transported to Valley Medical Center for treatment.

An assault at local bar

An assault occurred at a local bar on Feb. 18.

A 33-year-old Seattle woman was at Homerun Tavern, 423 Airport Way, with friends sometime before 2:15 a.m.

The father of the woman’s toddler son was also at the bar. They have an on-again, off-again relationship.

The 33-year-old woman got into a confrontation with another woman she believed was sleeping with the father of her child.

The other woman got angry and smacked the

33-year-old. Police investigated and

discovered the man had a warrant for his arrest. They also cited the 24-year-old woman for fourth-degree assault.

Woman’s home tampered with

A Renton woman had a mysterious and unwanted visitor on Feb. 19.

When the 45-year-old woman returned to her residence in the 200 block of Shattuck Avenue, she found that someone had attempted to remove the door hinge from her back door. Previously, she has come home to suspicious happenings, such as her front door being unlocked. Screws have also been miss-ing from her back screen.

Police have no suspects. Tracey Compton can be reached at 425-255-3484.

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Three people were injured in a head-on, four-vehicle collision Tuesday night on Martin Luther King Jr. Way on West Hill, according to the Washing-ton State Patrol.

The driver of one of the cars involved, a 34-year-old Renton man, was booked into the King County jail for investigation of vehicu-lar assault. He was one of those injured.

According to the state patrol, the Renton man was eastbound in the westbound lanes of Martin Luther King Way near 57th Avenue South at about 10:30 p.m. when his 1993 Toyota Camry collided head-on with a 2002 Honda Civic driven by a 27-year-old Seattle man.

The Seattle man was taken to Harborview Medi-cal Center in Seattle for treatment, as was a 27-year-old Seattle woman who was a passenger in his car.

After the collision, the Camry continued east-bound, colliding with a 1999 Toyota 4Runner, ac-cording to the state patrol. The 4Runner then collided with a 2005 Mazda MPV driven by a 26-year-old Renton man. Neither driver was injured.

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About a week after the theft of more than $10,000 worth of recording equip-ment from Cry Out!, the youth were back to record-ing music and staff was still assessing the damages.

The youth organization was burglarized on Feb. 28 and police still have no leads.

Celestine Ezinkwo, executive director of Cry Out!, gave police evidence he believed had fingerprints on it, but police weren’t able to lift any prints.

Staff members are mak-ing changes in the security system so they don’t have random strangers in the building, Ezinkwo said.

Located in the Haram-bee Center, Cry Out! is an escape for youth into the visual and performing arts as well as an after-school hangout.

Cry Out! hosts about 30 to 40 teens in its programs currently.

Although some of the teens lost music that was stored on computers in the burglary, they were back to recording music

by Wednesday. The teens now have to use Ezinkwo’s personal equipment.

He discovered the theft Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 29.

Surveillance equipment revealed the crime occurred

at about 11:26 p.m. March 28, when two men ap-proached the building and one entered while the other stood lookout.

The alarm did not go off, Ezinkwo said, because one of his friends was

rehearsing elsewhere in the building.

The studio is located in a lower section of the building; Ezinkwo believes the suspect used a chair to break the studio door and steal the equipment.

Ezinkwo has reviewed the security tapes and said he might recognize one of the suspects, but he isn’t sure yet.

“If it’s a kid in my pro-gram, I’ll be heart-broken just because that’s the worst that could happen,” he said after the theft.

A theft by one of his pro-gram participants would be hard to deal with because of the kind of environment he has tried to create at Cry Out!, he said.

The suspects could just as easily be people in the community, Ezinkwo said, because he has heard of a lot about recent thefts.

With no leads in the case, Ezinkwo is waiting to hear what his insurance company can do before he figures out how to replace the stolen equipment.

He has heard from com-munity members, some of whom have offered prayers.

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Burglars stole about $10,000 worth of recording equipment from the Harambee Center on Feb. 28. traCey Compton, Renton Reporter


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A two-alarm fire dam-aged a paper-shredding and recycling company Tuesday night at 710 Thomas Ave S.W. in the south Renton’s warehouse district.

An employee of DB Secure Shred called 911 and the alarm company re-ported the fire at just after 7 p.m. The worker attempted to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher.

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It occasionally happens that a spark from some source will ignite shredded paper, Flora said. The fact the paper caught fire was not intentional, he said.

The sprinkler system kept the fire under control. Fire crews then used hoses to fight the remain fire; equip-ment was used to move paper around to search for embers.

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By ADAM McFADDEN

[email protected]

The work for this Hazen boys soccer team started last May.

On the bus ride after a season-ending loss to Au-burn Mountainview, coach Ken Matthews spelled things out for the team.

“I laid down the law at that point,” said Matthews, who took over as head coach of the team mid-season. “They all know I have very high expectations.”

Hazen finished 7-7-2 overall last year and tied with Evergreen for second place in the Seamount. The team made the sub-district playoffs before the loss to Auburn Mountainview.

“We flushed that down the toilet,” said senior Conner Hall. “It’s the start of a new season.”

The team’s cap-tains are Hall and junior Sam Bunnell. Hall, a defender, is a three-time, all-league player. Bunnell, a forward, has made two all-league teams.

Other key players are senior outside back Frankie Johnson (three all-league mentions) and junior goal keeper Freddy Jeronimo.

Matthews said the team has several players

who are just a notch

below and will emerge as the season progresses.

“The team is looking great this year,” Bunnell said. “It’s young and show-ing a lot of promise.”

A newcomer to watch is

freshman forward Jorman Gonzalez.

The team’s transition from a defensive style to an offensive style built around passing under Matthews should be more complete this season since he’ll have

By ADAM McFADDEN

[email protected]

There's little doubt Lindbergh senior Jimmy Keum knows how to step up when it counts. Keum led the Eagles to fifth place at the 2A state basketball tournament and the team's first-ever state tournament win.

Keum scored 33 points in Lindbergh's (16-14) early win against Clover Park. He scored a combined 21 points in the Eagles final two state games as teams started to adjust their defenses around him.

"They were really double and triple team-ing him," said Lindbergh coach Robert Graham. "Clover Park decided to play him heads up, and you just can't do that. He's too good."

Playoff heroics are nothing new to Keum, who scored 49 points in a double-overtime playoff loss against Port Angeles last season.

Keum averaged 19.3 points per game this

season, second best in the Seamount. This despite most teams orienting their defense around him. While that strategy was

frustrating at times this season, Graham said Keum

won't have as much of a problem with that at the next level.

"When he gets to the next level teams aren't going to be able to do that because of everybody else on the floor," he said. "I think he's going to be very effective at the next level."

Graham said Keum has interest from Seattle University and Western Washington University.

After the opening win against Clover Park March 1, Lindbergh came up just short against White River March 2. The

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Keum leads Eagles to fifthLindbergh’s Jimmy Keum looks to pass inside against White River in the 2A state basketball tournament at the Yakima Valley SunDome. kipp RobeRtSon, North Kitsap Herald

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Hornets edged the Eagles 43-40 in overtime, the second time this postseason White River has beaten Lindbergh by three points or less.

Graham said the loss seemed to wear the team out.

"Fatigue set in after losing that heartbreaker Friday," he said. "They wanted that one really bad."

The Eagles took on Kingston March 3 in the third place/fifth place game. Lindbergh led by one point at the half, but a 17-8 Kingston run in the third put the game away. Austin Franklin led Lindbergh with 12 points in the game.

Lindbergh's road to fifth was certainly not easy. Kingston earned third place with the win. White River finished second. Clover Park took fourth. The Ea-gles edged 18-4 Squalicum 67-64 in double overtime in the regional round of state.

Graham lauded his assis-tant coaches for their work this season.

"Overall it was a great experience for the team,

administration, cheerlead-ers, student body, everyone involved," Graham said. "For not being there in a long time coming out of there with fifth was a great accomplishment."

The Lindbergh boys had only been to state once before, in 1991 when they lost twice.

Keum was named to the 2A state all-tournament first team.

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He said several boys players came out to watch him coach the girls team in the fall. It helped the players realize the message Matthews is spreading.

“He definitely came into it very prepared and the guys have matched that,” Hall said. “We started conditioning a month and

a half ago. … There’s a lot of excitement through the whole school.”

Hazen had a coaching change early. Assistant Ryan Johnson took over as head coach of Lindbergh. Matthews added Bre Vanden Bos, who has been his assistant with the girls team at Hazen.

“All the tools are there,” Matthews said. “It’s just a matter of if we can put it together in a short period of time.”

Lindbergh coach Robert Graham watches his team play against Kingston March 3 in the 2A state basketball tournament. Kipp robertson, North Kitsap Herald

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Brad was a lifelong Seattle area resident. His early school years were in Kenmore, WA, and he graduated from Snohomish High School in 1989. He joined the Navy for one tour in 1991.

He graduated from PIMA Medical Institute in 2006. He was hired as a pharmacy technician by Rite Aid in Bellevue. He enjoyed this field so much he went back to PIMA and received and associate degree in 2010, of which he was very proud. His hobbies included buying, selling, and collecting items on the internet. One of his favorites was old keys and locks. He also liked to write poetry. One of his statements was: “My mind is an opal and the world is the setting.”

Brad is survived by: his father John Dale (Janae) of Sandpoint, Idaho, two brothers, Brent Dale of Burien, WA, Brian Dale of Sandpoint, ID, two stepsisters, Leah Mathers of Silver Spring, MD, Mikelle Breaux of Leavenworth, WA, and long time friend and partner, Shane Cozwith of Kent, WA.

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“I’m invested in this community and I would like to see that landmark stay,” Bray said.

He will be a part of the “Super Saturday” rally to collect signatures.

“We’ve got some real drama going on to get 1,400 signatures by Monday,” Bray said. “That’s a real challenge.”

For Bray, the fight is personal; he said he wouldn’t forgive himself if he didn’t make

an effort to keep the “wonderful” and “ac-cessible” landmark at its present location.

Avery is also trying to rally volunteers to help him gather signatures.

“For Super Saturday, the petitioners are asking community members to volunteer three to five hours of their time to walk in groups through designated neighborhoods, going door to door,” Avery wrote in an email.

The volunteers will be grouped in small parties, equipped with petitions, signs, clip-boards and supplies and assigned neighbor-hoods to canvas.

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She changed the name to Center Coiffures, heralded by a sign made of wood. An important event had hap-pened months earlier. On March 6, 1962, the Renton Center held its grand open-ing, featuring a Market Basket grocery store, a Sears store and an interior open-air mall with a stage and fountain.

Now 84, Richards enjoys being a regular Friday morning customer at her salon, now owned by her daughter, Judy Ford.

Ford and O’Connell are marking the date Renton Center held its grand open-ing to celebrate the 50th an-niversary of the hair salon.

The 1960s were a time of big hair, bleach and hair pieces, a “stylish time,” said Ford. Women had their hair

done every week, a standing appointment, much like many do today.

A shampoo, style and set was $3.50, plus a 50-cent tip. Men’s haircuts were $3.

The price today is about $20.

There were lots of “specials” along the way. In 1989 during a 48-day strike Boeing workers could get a haircut for $7.47, if they showed their badge.

In those 50 years, styles have changed and Rich-ards, Ford and O’Connell and their co-workers have adapted. Working beside them are Jeana Mar, Carol Braunschweig and Georgia Pine.

They offer cuts for kids and trick colors and foils.

“We have had to conform to each younger group, which keeps us alive,” Ford said.

O’Connell likens Center Coiffures to that famous TV show “Cheers,” a bar where everyone knows your name. But “All in the Fam-ily” also works.

Richards sold the salon to O’Connell in 1979, when she moved with her late husband Bill to Arizona.

“It was March when you finally hung up your comb,” O’Connell said, during a morning of reminiscing.

O’Connell owned the salon when it moved to its current location in October 1990, a few years before Renton Center was turned into an enclosed Fred Meyer store.

And, in 1998, Ford bought the salon from O’Connell.

“It just keeps going back and forth,” said Ford.

It’s easy to see why.“Mike is like a son to me,”

said Richards.“I’ve worked with him for

40 years,” said Ford.They’re “like brother and

sister,” said Richards. She

hired O’Connell right out of beauty school, after he cut her hair on a Sunday.

They swear they should write a book. Of course, they would have to write about the horse manure that piled up under their chairs.

Center Coiffures was probably the closest salon to Longacres racetrack. So it attracted a lot of horse owners, trainers and their wives. The chairs had small

foot rests.“The horse manure and

the straw would just pile up under there,” O’Connell said.

The Seattle PI took a picture of Richards braiding a horse’s tail at the track in the early 1960s. Beside her was her sister Peggy Bevan, one of the first female horse trainers in the state.

The memories constantly go back to the relation-ships the three have made

with their customers. It’s a relationship that extends all the way to death.

In the back of the shop is a wall filled with obituaries of customers. “They mean something to us,” O’Connell said.

At a family’s request, they’ll come to a funeral home for a final styling.

“It’s the last favor we can do for their loyalty, com-ing to us all these years,” O’Connell said.

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Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King

In re the Estate of: EDWIN C. HOLDEN, Deceased.NO. 12-4-00785-1 KNT

NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorneys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the Notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is for- ever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate assets and nonprobate assets.Date of First Publication: February 24, 2012.PR: SYLVIA B. HOLDENRonald E. Glessner WSBA #11832 Of MOGREN, GLESSNER & ROTI P.S.Attorneys for Personal Representative100 Evergreen Bldg.;P.O.Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542King County Superior CourtCause No. 12-4-00785-1 KNTPublished in the Renton Reporter on February 24, 2012, March 2, 2012 and March 9, 2012. #587781

VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

District Healthcare SystemNOTICE OF BOARD

COMMITTEE SCHEDULES Notice is hereby given that the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees Executive Committee will be held on the second Tues- day of every month from 11:00-12:00 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center. Notice is hereby given that the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees Joint Conference Com- mittee will be held on the second Tuesday of every month from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center. This meeting is excluded from the Open Public Meeting Act pursuant to RCW 42.70.510 and RCW 43.41.200.BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra SwardExecutive Assistant to the Board of Trustees Published in Kent, Renton, and Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on March 2, 2012 and March 9, 2012. #589729.

King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks Notice of Industrial Waste Discharge Permit Application No. 7881-01

Take Notice: That Shasta Bev- erages located at 1227 Andover Park East, Tukwila, WA 98188 has filed an application for an industrial waste discharge permit to discharge industrial waste into South Treatment Plant from its food processing-soft drinks manufacturing operation in the amount of 90,000 gallons per day following treatment and in-plant control and in compliance with rules and regulations of the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks; Washing- ton State Department of Ecology; and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The approximate point of dis-

charge is 1227 Andover Park East, Tukwila, WA 98188. Any person desiring to express their view, or to be notified of the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks’ action on this application, should notify the King County Industrial Waste Program at 130 Nickerson Street, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98109, in writing, of their interest within 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice. Published in Renton Reporter on March 9, 2012 and March 16, 2012. #592385.

CITY OF RENTONCITY COUNCIL

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special public meeting will be held at the regular Renton City Council meeting on the 19th day of March, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the seventh floor Council Chambers of Renton City Hall, 1055 S. Grady Way, to consider:

Taking a position in support of or opposing the Issaquah School District April 2012 Construction and Maintenance Bond measure. This ballot measure before Is- saquah School District voters is for bond dollars to cover future capacity and learning environment improvements, rebuilds of the oldest schools, maintenance and repairs for all fa- cilities, and increased usability and safety.

Pro and con speakers have been invited to the public meeting. City Hall is fully accessible, and interpretive services for the hearing impaired will be provided upon prior notice. Call 425-430- 6510 for additional information. Bonnie I. Walton City Clerk Published in Renton Reporter on March 9, 2012. #594756.

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of commissioners

of Soos Creek Water and Sewer District will hold a Special Meeting on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. the meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., and will be held at the Marriott SeaTac Airport Hotel, 3201 S 176th Street, SeaTac, Washing- ton. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss: Financial Reporter – Operations Budget-to-Actual Results for 2011, financial Sum- mary History, Debt Payoff Schedule, Consultants, Delin- quent Accounts; capital Improve- ment Program complete in 2011 – DE”s & value of Systems, Contracts; 2011 Water & Sewer Inventory; Water & Sewer ERU History; Average cost of Whole- sale Water; Unaccountable Water History. The Board will make no decisions at this meeting, and there will be no public input or comment. THE NEXT REGULAR MEET- ING WILL BE HELD AT 4:30 P.M., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE SOOS CREEK WATER & SEWER DISTRICT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 14616 SE 192ND STREET RENTON , WA 980528 Published in the Renton Report- er on March 9, 2012. #593119.

Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King

In re the Estate of: LORRAINE C. ROBERTS, Deceased.NO. 22-4-01140-8 KNT

NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorneys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the Notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is for- ever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate assets and nonprobate assets.Date of First Publication: March 9, 2012. PR: Michael Gerard RobertsPeter W. Mogren WSBA #11515Of MOGREN, GLESSNER & ROTI P.S. Attorneys for Personal Representative100 Evergreen Bldg.;PO Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542

King County Superior CourtCause No. 22-4-01140-8 KNT Published in Renton Reporter on March 9, 2012, March 16, 2012 and March 23, 2012. #593952.

CITY OF RENTONCITY COUNCIL

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special public meeting will be held at the regular Renton City Council meeting on the 19th day of March, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the seventh floor Council Chambers of Renton City Hall, 1055 S. Grady Way, to consider:

Taking a position in support of or opposing the Renton School District April 2012 Building Improvement Bond measure. This ballot measure before Renton School District voters is for bond dollars to cover new middle school construction, swimming pool renovations, school building improvements, safety & security improvements, and energy conserva- tion.

Pro and con speakers have been invited to the public meeting. City Hall is fully accessible, and interpretive services for the hearing impaired will be provided upon prior notice. Call 425-430- 6510 for additional information. Bonnie I. Walton City ClerkPublished in the Renton Reporter on March 9, 2012. #594784.

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The Department of Ecology is seeking public comment on a set of proposed projects that would con-tinue an ongoing process to clean up contamination at the former Barbee Mill site in Renton.

Ecology and Barbee Mill Co., Inc. (Barbee Mill) have negotiated amendments to a 2009 legal agree-ment, called an agreed order, under which the company has carried out several steps that build on earlier work performed under the ecology department’s Voluntary Cleanup Program, according to an ecology department press release.

A lumber mill – and at times, ship-building – occupied the 22-acre site at 4101 Lake Washington Blvd. N. until 2006. The property had un-dergone redevelopment as a residen-tial community.

Barbee Mill has previously con-ducted studies of soil, groundwater and nearby lake sediments.

The company’s past cleanup ac-tions include removed soil con-taminated with petroleum products, arsenic, zinc and wood preservative;

installed a below-grade barrier that filters arsenic from groundwater that moves toward the lake; operated a system to extract and treat ground-water contaminated with metals; and removed wood debris and other material from the lake bottom, just offshore.

The company also has filed deed restrictions to permanently protect and properly operate environmental controls that have been or will be installed.

The amended order continues ongoing interim cleanup activities identified in the original order.

These activities include: addi-tion of a gravel layer to a stormwater detention pond now lined with sand; a study on information still needed about contamination in the lake-bottom sediments; sampling of wells to monitor groundwater flowing off the site and evaluate the groundwa-ter treatment system; reports that provide additional needed data and evaluations.

These efforts are considered “interim action” and are not the final

cleanup. The new amendments to the order

include plans for Barbee Mill to gather more data, evaluate cleanup options and develop a final cleanup plan. Ecology will seek public com-ment in the future before approving the site’s final cleanup plan.

The draft amended agreed order is available at:

• https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/gsp/Sitepage.aspx?csid=2368

• Renton Public Library, 100 Mill Ave. S.

• Department of Ecology, North-west Region – by appointment only, 425-649-7190 – 3190160th Ave. SE, Bellevue

Comments or questions may be directed to Ching-Pi Wang, Ecology site manager, 425-649-7134; email [email protected].

The comment period ends on April 2.

A fact sheet with further back-ground on the Barbee Mill site and the amended order is available at:

https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/gsp/DocViewer.aspx?did=6379.

More Barbee Mill cleanup plannedDemolition crews are

gearing up to take down the old Evergreen Point Road overpass above State Route 520 in Medina, which re-quires closing the highway and floating bridge between Seattle and Bellevue this weekend.

During the closure, driv-ers will have to find another way across or around Lake Washington from 11 p.m. Friday, March 9, until 5 a.m. Monday, March 12. All lanes and ramps will be closed between Montlake Boulevard in Seattle and Interstate 405 in Bellevue. Alternate routes could see traffic delays midday Satur-day and Sunday.

The narrow two-lane overpass was built in 1962 to carry local Medina traffic over SR 520. Crews estimate they will stockpile

and later haul out up to 50 dump trucks of concrete overpass debris to the Cadman recycling yard in Redmond.

During this weekend’s construction about 100 construction workers will focus on demolition and other highway work. Once the Medina overpass is gone, crews will shift gears to build new concrete sup-ports for the new Evergreen Point Road lidded overpass, which will be completed during the next 18 months.

While SR 520 is closed for the weekend, traffic is expected to be heavy mid-day Saturday and Sunday on I-5 and I-90 heading into Seattle and on I-405 approaching I-90. The express lane schedules will change this weekend on I-90 to maintain traffic flow.

Overpass demolition shuts 520 this weekend


Since Saturday, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified seven likely overdose deaths from heroin, possibly due to an increased potency of the drug or mixture with other substances, according to a health department press release midweek.

This is a notable and rapid rise in deaths; King County saw 32 heroin overdose deaths in total over the first six months of 2011, according to Public Health - Seattle and

King County.Because of this sudden increase in deaths, health officials

are issuing a public alert about the overdose danger; they are working with partners to analyze the heroin and iden-tify possible reasons for the sudden increase in deaths.

“The best way for injection drug users to prevent overdose is not to use heroin, but for those who do, they need to be aware of the overdose risks,” said Dr. Charissa Fotinos, medical director for Public Health – Seattle & King County.

Key ways to reduce the risk of overdose include:• Never inject when you’re alone• If you got heroin from someone new or it looks differ-

ent, use less.• Don’t use heroin in combination with other “downers,”

such as benzodiazepines (i.e. benzos), alcohol or prescrip-tion-type opiates such as OxyContin or methadone. It is also dangerous to use with stimulants such as cocaine or

methamphetamine.The seven who likely died from overdose were from

areas across King County, ranged in age from 17-61 years of age, and included experienced and inexperienced users.

If someone is with a person who is overdosing on heroin, they can help by immediately calling 911. The Washington state Good Samaritan law took effect in 2010 and provides immunity from criminal charges of drug possession for both the witness and the person experiencing the overdose.

The new law also expands access to Narcan (generic name naloxone), an opiate antagonist that reverses the effect of overdose from heroin and other opiates. Public Health – Seattle & King County has recently initiated a Narcan program at its downtown Seattle needle exchange to dispense Narcan to heroin users and train them on how to use it in an emergency. For more information on the Good Samaritan law, see http://stopoverdose.org/index.html

Public Health is also working with community partners to alert members of the public who use heroin that there appears to be an increased risk of death from using heroin currently being sold.

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3 GORGEOUS VIEW Plots at Washington Me- morial in The Garden of Communion. Well kept, l ove l y & yea r r ound maintenance included. Fr iendly, helpful staff. Section 15, block 232, plots B; (2, 3 & 4), near Veteran section. Asking below cemetery price at only $9,000! 206-246- 0698. Plots located at 16445 International Blvd.

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