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Rapper Ginuwine performs on stage at the ShoWare Center last Friday as part of HOT 103.7’s HOT House Party that included Bobby Brown, Tony! Toni! Toné!, and Rob Base. Ginuwine’s half-hour set had crowds on their feet. The radio
station brought in the old school lineup of artists to help celebrate its one-year anniversary.ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
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City to lobby state for property tax limit liftBY STEVE HUNTER
It is time for the Legislature to raise the 1 percent annual limit on property tax increases, the Kent City Council says.
Th e council asked city staff to add that item to a list of priorities of what Kent offi cials want from the Legislature, which opens its 2015 session on Jan. 12.
“Th e 1 percent cap on property tax increases is an artifi cial limit that doesn’t refl ect infl ation,” Councilman Dennis Higgins said at a council workshop last month. “I would prefer to see it indexed with infl ation which I think honors the spirit of the Tim Eyman initiative that the voters passed. I would like to see it listed because it’s fundamental I think to getting the city budget to be more sustainable.”
Eyman, who has led several initiatives for lower taxes and
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Susana Ramirez, left, of Kent prepares her
Mole Verde, as classmate Angelica Hernandez
looks on in the Project Feast kitchen-basics class at the Tukwila Community Center.
DEAN A. RADFORD, Tukwila Reporter
PROJECT FEAST REACHES OUT TO THE COMMUNITYBY DEAN A. RADFORD
Mom knew what she meant.She took a pinch of this and a bunch of that – and
the food always turned out perfectly.But that doesn’t measure up in a commercial
kitchen, where cooks follow a recipe to ensure the food consistently tastes the same day in and day out – and just as the chef, like Mom, intended.
Students in Project Feast’s six-week Commercial Kitchen Basics Program are learning how to hold true to Mom’s recipe by getting it in writing so they can
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BY STEVE HUNTER
City property taxes will go up 5.5 percent next year as the Kent City Council unanimously approved its 2015-16 biennial budget.
Th e council voted 7-0 on Tuesday night to adopt an $81 million general fund budget for 2015 that includes the controver-sial property tax increase but no business and occupation (B&O) tax increase and no vehicle
license tab fee.Prior to the budget vote, the
council voted 6-1 to approve the property tax increase that goes beyond the 1 percent state cap by using what’s called banked ca-pacity. Councilman Les Th omas
voted against the tax jump.“Last month it was told to us
that we had a little bit of excess (in reserve funds) of around 15 percent and it’s been our goal
Council approves budget, property tax hike
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Groups weigh in on search for next superintendentBY ROSS COYLE
Inviting community input on the Kent School District’s search for a new superintendent re-vealed a number of things about the district from what it does well to what it could do better.
Th e fi ve- to six-person focus groups provided input from teachers to parents to community members. It is part of the process to help the district search for a successor to Edward Lee Vargas who resigned his position in October.
While the groups praised the
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The annual Christmas Rush Fun Run once again drew crowds from around the Puget Sound region and beyond to run as reindeer, Santa Claus and even a full-sized Christmas tree.
Starting and finishing at Hogan Park at Russell Road, the city of Kent holiday tradition featured a 10K run and 5K run/walk.
Overall 5K top finishers were Michael Cinchar of Seattle (16:05), Tristan Houser of Maple Valley (16:25) and Jacob Fullen of Kent (16:26). Top finishers in the women’s division included Megan Rogers of Kent (19:05), Daryl Phill (19:13) of Tacoma and Chloe Hobson of Black Diamond (20:43).
Top overall 10K finishers were Uli Steidle of Seattle (31:53), James Roach of Auburn (33:46), and Keegan Fitzpatrick of Maple Valley (35:45:). Somer Kreismann of Seattle (37:16), Trisha Steidl of Seattle (39:00) and Mary Hatcher of Puyallup (40:58) grabbed the top three women’s finishes.
Above left: Jeff Weimar and Monika Katona of Renton prepare to walk the course. Weimar’s costume didn’t encourage running. Above: Michael Cinchar of Seattle comes in first place at the Christmas Rush Fun Run. Below right: Brenden and James Mutschler of Kent prepare for their 5K runs. Below left: Crowds gather for the 5K loop run at the annual Christmas Rush.
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A city street project to reha-bilitate Central Avenue South is scheduled to get $3 million next year from Kent’s business and oc-cupation (B&O) tax.
Th e City Council approved a list of street projects for 2015 to be paid for by the tax at a Dec. 9 meeting. Th e tax is projected to bring in about $5 million next year.
“I think that’s going to be a great
project,” Councilman Dennis Hig-gins said at a Public Works Com-mittee meeting. “It’s much needed and we’ve heard many comments from the community through the years about the condition of that road so it will be wonderful to have it fi nally repaired.”
Th e street has many cracks, rutting and patches and requires reconstruction and an asphalt over-lay. Crews will do the work between Willis Street and South 262nd Street, about a one-mile stretch.
“Th at is the major project we would accomplish for 2015,” City Public Works Director Tim LaPorte said at a budget workshop. “Th e diffi culty for South Central is we have to make sure we get all of the utilities out of the way. We hope we can get all of the utilities out of the way so we can accomplish that this summer.”
LaPorte said the work is expected to be spread out over two years. He asked the council for early approval of the list in order to notify utility
companies that they will need to relocate wires and cables.
Th e project’s total cost estimate is about $5 million. Kent has received federal grants of $1.8 million to help pay for the work along with the B&O tax.
At the request of the council’s Public Works Committee, LaPorte distributed the project list to the Kent Chamber of Commerce prior to approval. City offi cials didn’t get any negative feedback about the proposed list so the committee and council voted to approve it.
Th e project list also includes $455,000 for asphalt overlay for 71st Place South, 72nd Avenue South, 132nd Avenue Southeast, Southeast 216th Street, South 228th Street, South 234th Street, Reith Road and West James Street.
Th e other projects include
Central Avenue repairs lead Kent’s B&O street project list
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BY STEVE HUNTER
A decision by the Kent City Council about whether to call a ShoWare Center $18 million debt a loan or a subsidy won’t be made until at least March.
Th e council voted 7-0 on Tues-day night to defer any change to a loan agreement to call $18 million of city payments to the Public Facilities District (PFD) debt service a loan or a subsidy. Th e city set up the PFD through the state to help build the $84.5 million city-owned arena.
City staff recommended the change in the loan agreement with the PFD aft er a recent state Auditor’s Offi ce preliminary report found the fi nancial statements misrepresented the loan because the PFD cannot generate enough money to repay the loan to the city. City offi cials set up the repayment counting on the ShoWare Center to make money but the $84.5 million arena has lost more than $3 million since it opened in 2009.
“Since 2009 we’ve paid $22 mil-lion in debt service on ShoWare Center and the city has contributed $18 million or about 82 percent,” City Finance Director Aaron BeMi-ller said to the council. “Over the
next several years the debt service will increase the next 15 or 20 years and the Public Facilities District’s revenues we believe will remain more or less fl at.”
Th e PFD brings in about $700,000 per year in revenue through a state sales tax rebate program. City offi cials created the PFD in 2007 and issued
$63.3 million debt for con-struction of the arena. Th e city and PFD signed a loan agreement that stated any city monies contributed toward PFD debt service is a loan to be repaid with interest.
“Staff is asking for this council to change the language of the agreement from a loan to a subsidy,”
BeMiller said. “One of the tenants of generally accepted accounting principles is a loan payment made with no expectation of repayment is not a loan and shouldn’t be treated as a loan on our fi nancials.”
Councilman Dennis Higgins asked city staff prior to the vote about the impact of delaying a decision.
“What it means is that the city’s and PFD’s 2014 fi nancial statements will need to report it on both sides of the ledger,” City Chief Admin-istrative Offi cer Derek Matheson said. “So for example on the city’s
Council delays ShoWare loan agreement decision
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Police and paramedics respond after a Kent Police motorcycle offi cer crashed his bike Tuesday night along Central Avenue North after hitting a median. Paramedicstook the offi cer to a hospital for precautionary treatment of undisclosed injuries. COURTESY PHOTO, Kent Police
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Paramedics transported a Kent Police motorcycle offi cer to a hos-pital for precautionary treatment aft er he struck a median along Central Avenue North and was ejected from the motorcycle.
Th e accident occurred at about 7:44 p.m. Tuesday in the 900 block of Central Avenue North.
Preliminary reports indicate that the offi cer was responding to a dispatched call with his emergency equipment activated, according to a Kent Police media release. As he moved left to avoid traffi c, he entered the center turn lane and
struck the median. Th is caused the offi cer to be ejected and propel the motorcycle into the roadway.
Police were on scene within minutes of the collision and found the motorcycle offi cer off of his motorcycle, conscious and lying in the roadway. Fire person-nel stabilized the offi cer and he was transported to a nearby hos-pital for precautionary treatment.
Kent Police have not yet re-leased the name of the offi cer.
“He’s a seven-year veteran of the department and still hospital-ized with non-life threatening injuries,” Kent Police spokesman Jarod Kasner said.
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an incident with a fl eeing stolen vehicle last Saturday morning that nearly hit an
offi cer. At about 4 a.m., Federal Way Patrol units attempted
to stop a stolen vehicle in the 31200 block of Pacifi c Highway
South. A set of spike strips were placed out in an eff ort to
disable the vehicle, whereupon the vehicle instead drove
directly toward the offi cer, intending to hit the offi cer, Kent
Police reported. Fortunately, the offi cer was able to move
out of the way prior to impact. The offi cer responded by fi ring
several rounds at the vehicle. The vehicle and those inside
it were able to evade capture. Detectives are following up
leads to try to track down the suspects, who remained at large as of Tuesday. “This is another reminder of how
dangerous an offi cer’s job can be,” said Kent Police
spokeswoman Melanie Frazier. Police found the stolen vehicle,
a 2002 silver Mercedes SUV, on Monday. It had been stolen
in Kent. Police are asking for the public’s help for any
information that would help them identify any suspects that may be involved. Call 911 or the Kent Police Department tip line
at 253-856-5808.
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fees, doesn’t want the mea-sure touched and couldn’t believe the council wants the Legislature to change what voters approved in 2001 and the Legislature upheld in 2007.
“Th at’s despicable,” Ey-man said during a phone interview last week. “Th e 1 percent initiative in 2001 passed by one of the widest margins of any initiative I’ve done. I think it’s proven over the years to be eff ective and strikes a reasonable balance.”
A lot of cities and counties are expected to ask the Legislature for the change, said Doug Levy, state lob-byist for Kent, at the workshop.
“I think the point being made is that 1 percent was an adjust-ment from what had been 6 percent,” Levy said. “So the pendulum swung and I think the concern is maybe it swung so far that all of you who manage budgets on a yearly basis are seeing your costs go up by a few percent and one of your key revenue staples go up by 1 percent.
“So is it now time 13 years later to sort of right size how that works? Th at is what is being brought to the Legis-lature.”
Councilman Jim Berrios agreed with Higgins that the council needs to support the lift ing of the property tax limit.
“Th ere are other cities and counties looking at this and there’s a reason for that,”
Berrios said. “We should stand up and say we want to recognize this.”
Th e council’s statement about the property tax on its legislative agenda reads:
“Strongly support adjust-ing the 1 percent annual lim-it on property tax increases to better refl ect the cost of providing critical services: Sustainable funding op-portunities that keep up with the rate of infl ation and/or growth must be explored so cities can meet their own service needs.”
Cities used to be able to jump property taxes as high as 6 percent each year prior to voters approval of the 1 percent cap.
Th e Kent City Council recently ap-proved using what’s called banked ca-pacity to get around
that limit for 2015 and will raise property taxes by 5.8 percent next year.
State law allows local governments to levy less than the maximum increase in property taxes allowed under law without losing the ability to levy higher taxes later if necessary.
Kent has saved about $7.5 million in banked capacity because the city reduced its property tax levy by $1.00 per $1,000 assessed valua-tion in 2011 aft er voters in 2010 approved the formation of the Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority (RFA), which levies a prop-erty tax of $1.00 per $1,000 assessed valuation, said City Finance Director Aaron
BeMiller.Eyman couldn’t believe
the council made that move.“If they need more rev-
enue they should go to their own voters,” Eyman said. “Th ey disregarded voters and exploited a loophole to go above the 1 percent. It’s very sneaky and under-handed.”
Kent voters earlier this year defeated a proposed city property tax increase to build a new police headquar-ters. In 2012, voters defeated a property tax increase to pay for street and park im-provements.
“Th ey should take a hint from voters who voted two things down,” Eyman said.
• Other key issues city offi cials plan to take to the Legislature include protect-ing the streamlined sales tax mitigation program that brings in about $5 million per year to Kent; restoring shared liquor revenues with cities worth about $1.2 mil-lion to the city; and approve $600,000 to complete a bi-cycle trail connection along South 228th Street.
Th e streamlined sales tax measure passed by the Legislature changed the state in 2008 from an origin-based system for local retail sales tax to a destination-based system. Th at cost Kent a lot of tax money with so many businesses in the city that ship or deliver goods to other areas of the state. Th e sales tax is now collected where the buyer purchases merchandise rather than where the product shipped from.
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$595,000 for concrete sidewalks replacements; $300,000 for traffi c island rehab along Pacifi c High-way South; and $226,000 for line striping along streets.
About 11 planter islands along Pacifi c Highway South on the West Hill need to be replaced, LaPorte said.
“Th e planters were not put in correctly they’ve been trashed by trucks riding over the top,” La-Porte said. “We need to start over with topsoil. Th e irrigation has been busted up by trucks.”
Councilman Jim Berrios asked LaPorte if the city is required to put plantings in those traffi c islands.
“Th ere isn’t a requirement but it
looks very attractive,” LaPorte said.Council President Dana Ralph
said the highway needs to look better.
“It’s an economic development issue,” Ralph said. “Th at stretch of road is all commercial and all businesses. Th e quality of that streetscape is subpar at best.”
Berrios said he just wanted to make sure similar replacement
work didn’t have to be done again.“My thought is it’s not good use
of money if we have to fi x it up again with another $300,000 in six years from now,” Berrios said.
A new design that would make it tougher for trucks to drive over the islands is under consideration, said Derek Matheson, city chief administrative offi cer.
Councilwoman Brenda Fincher
added the traffi c islands need to be attractive.
“If you think about businesses coming to the area, if it is not attractive you are not going to at-tract businesses,” Fincher said. “So not only are trucks driving over them, which is dangerous, but it also is something that will help bring in more business because you don’t want to move into an area that doesn’t look nice.”
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to have a safeguard around 10 percent,” Th omas said. “Th ings are looking good. I felt that if the money is there available it would be better used to not have the citizens of our commu-nity pay a higher property tax. We could increase property taxes by 5 percent or use some of this extra money and I felt we’d be better off using our own money.”
Th e property tax increase will bring in an estimated $999,170 in 2015 and $1.1 mil-lion in 2016, according to city documents. Th e city would use about $1 million of its $7.5 million banked capacity.
Kent has saved its mil-lions in banked capacity because the city reduced its property tax levy by $1.00 per $1,000 assessed valuation in 2011 aft er voters in 2010 approved the formation of the Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Author-ity (RFA), which levies a property tax of $1.00 per $1,000 assessed valuation.
Th e tax jump will cost the owner of a $300,000 home about $25 more per year in city property taxes. Th e increase would have been about $5 with just the 1 percent hike.
Kent resident Eric Bernard told the council during a public comment period before the budget vote that he and his wife this year paid $321 in city
property taxes and paid another $389 in taxes to the Kent RFA.
“We pay over $700 for those two combinations, the city and the fi re, two separate taxing entities,” Bernard said. “You keep turning the screws on us and our piggybanks are empty… We now bear the burden of two monster tax entities. Will you please reconsider and not increase the property tax? No more property tax. Can you give the citizens a break?”
Councilman Den-nis Higgins said it’s not an ideal budget but the council needed to take some steps to bring in more revenue. He said the property tax impact will hit him as well.
“We’re looked on as outside actors on the city,” Higgins said. “We live here and are taxpayers in this city. We walk out our front doors and meet our neighbors and they ask us, ‘What the heck is go-ing on down there?’ We have to be able to look them in the eye and say we’re doing the best we can do and trying to fi nd the least expensive way to keep the services going in this city.
“We’re not trying to stick it to anyone….We have fully funded public safety in this budget and continued our plan to grow our police depart-ment (three new offi cers for 2015) so that in sev-eral years we will be at the
average of our peer cities.”Higgins and other
council members plan to form a citizens budget committee early next year to help fi gure out city priorities in services and how to pay for those services or where to make cuts.
Th e council changed the budget a lot from what Mayor Suzette Cooke proposed in September. Th e council shot down her proposal to increase the B&O tax to raise about $3 million in general fund revenue. Council mem-bers also turned down the mayor’s plan to start up a city FM radio station and didn’t consider her unfunded request for a pay raise. Th e council delayed any decision about Cooke’s proposal to charge a $20 vehicle license fee in 2016 to help pay for street repairs.
“Th is is not an easy process,” Council Presi-dent Dana Ralph said about adopting a budget. “Th is is the stuff that keeps you up at night. Th is budget as Council-member Higgins pointed out is not perfect. Th is is a compromise on so many levels for each and every one of us. Th ere is the need to move this city forward and continue to meet our obligations but not because it’s the ideal way to do that.
“As a city we are limited in the options we have to pay our bills and provide our services.”
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Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of fourth-degree assault and third-degree theft after he allegedly hit a taxi cab driver with a cane during a dispute and didn’t pay for the ride.
Officers responded to a report of a man with a cane hitting the driver at about 9:48 p.m. on Dec. 6 in the 3800 block of Reith Road, ac-cording to the police report.
The passenger told police the driver wanted to hurt
him and stopped sud-denly while driving along Reith Road and told him to get out. He said he didn’t know why the driver wanted to hurt him.
The driver told officers he had picked the man up at a gas station in SeaTac and the man wanted to go to South 260th Street. But when the driver neared the street, the man wouldn’t give him a spe-cific address. He also didn’t answer how he planned to pay for the ride.
An argument started and the passenger yelled at the driver and called him a racist name. The
driver then stopped the car and told the man
to get out. The man used his cane to hit the man about three times.
Police noted that the fare totaled $41.60. The passenger denied he had hit the driver.
Vehicular assaultPolice arrested a 53-year-
old woman for investigation
of vehicular assault after she reportedly crashed into another vehicle and injured a passenger in that car after a night of drinking at a bar.
Officers responded to a two-car collision at about 12:53 a.m. on Dec. 6 in the 1600 block of West Meeker Street, according to the police report. The woman alleg-edly drove westbound on the Meeker Street without her headlights on after leaving the nearby Blinker Tavern, 206 Washington Ave. N. The woman told police she forgot to turn her lights on after
leaving the bar.The woman drove a black
Mazda SUV and collided with a silver Audi that had exited a driveway. A pas-senger in the Audi suffered two spinal fractures. The Audi had severe damage to the driver’s side, according to police. The Mazda had front-end damage.
During an interview with an officer, the woman said she had been drinking since about 7 that evening and had three mixed drinks of whiskey and 7 Up. She said she stopped drinking
alcohol at about 11 p.m. and switched to water.
Officers could smell intoxicants coming from the woman. She declined to take a field sobriety test or a preliminary breath test. An officer later that night got a King County District Court judge to approve a warrant to take the woman’s blood at the Valley Medical Center in Renton. The toxi-cology results to determine the woman’s blood-alcohol level were not yet available. The investigation remained open.
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A large fight among nearly 500 people broke out last month at a Kent bar on Pacific Highway South after a last-minute cancellation of a concert.
Kent Police needed assistance from multiple other agencies to get the fight under control at about 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 22 at the
El Parral bar, 26122 Pacific Highway S., said detective Melanie Frazier, Kent Police spokeswoman.
Police did not make any arrests. One man later called to report he was injured during the fight but he declined medical attention.
“Apparently, a ‘big name’ musician was scheduled to
play and tickets sold at $40 per customer and a higher rate for VIP customers,” Frazier said.
A police investigation revealed that when the musician arrived and began to set up audio equipment, El Parral management attempted to re-negotiate the contract to pay the musician less money. The
musician refused to play for a lesser amount than they had previously agreed to.
“People tried to get refunds and patrons began throwing bottles and turn-ing over tables,” Frazier said. “The club’s security subsequently sprayed pep-per and attempted to escort everyone outside in order to shut down the club.”
BY STEVE HUNTER
The woman who died in a vehicle fire last month in Kent has been identified as Meike Foster, 76, of Kent, by the King County Medi-cal Examiner’s Office.
Foster died from smoke inhalation during a vehicle fire on the East Hill, accord-ing to the medical exam-iner. Foster lived in the Meridian Valley Country Club community.
Firefighters from the Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Author-ity responded to several reports of a fire at about 10:46 p.m. on Nov. 26 in the 13200 block of Southeast 247th Street, according to the Kent Fire Department. Firefighters discovered a
parked black SUV on fire.After extinguishing the
fire and opening the ve-hicle’s doors, the firefighters found the body of Foster,
who was dead. Investigators ruled the fire as accidental, said Kyle Ohashi, spokes-man for the Kent Fire Department.
Kent Police didn’t inves-tigate the case because there was no evidence that a crime occurred, said police spokes-woman Melanie Frazier.
500-person fight breaks out at Kent bar
Kent woman who died in vehicle fire identified
Taxi rider refuses to pay fare, attacks man with cane in dispute
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Some gift ideas to bring plenty of zing to the season
Christmas is a time of joy and many zippy yippees, except for boy-men who have to buy gift s for their wives or girlfriends.
Th e solution for this Christmas conun-drum has arrived – from me.
I have decided to give the hapless males of the world my time-honored wisdom on buying the perfect package to express those queasy things inside that men never say out loud because all the words start with “F” and that is not allowed (except for exceptions).
Let me begin with a few “do not” pointers.• Do not buy anything incredibly cool like
cordless drills with every attachment known to humanity and speeds from slow to faster than “Space Balls” fast.
Th e excuse, “Honey-bunch, I will hang the new medicine cabinet that has been sitting in the bathroom for seven years.”
• Do not buy a pneumatic nail gun and compressor set with three guns and extra hose. Th e excuse, “Sweetiepie, this will also work as a home protection device. If an evildoer comes near the house, I will shoot framing nails at him. And think of all the great storage boxes I can build for all your useless junk.”
Th e above “do not” tips are examples of near-death Christmas morning experiences. A good rule of thumb is, if it seems like a great gift and really fun – run away.
Because I have earned the self-appointed title, “Most Sensitive Male-like Creature,” I will pass my danger-dodging advice to the bucko dummies of the world. What follows is the formula for Christmas harmony and balance.
• A real treasure your special girly will love is an eight-track cassette player. Th ese are top Christmas gift s and are sure to show your true inside things we don’t say out loud because the word starts with “F”.
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When the sales are an-nounced and the wallets come out, there’s always one safe bet: Tis’ the season for theft s and scams.
“Th ere are a lot of vul-nerable people out there,” said Covington Police Chief Kevin Klason.
Crimes typically increase
throughout the na-tion during the holiday season. Th e mix of alcohol, depression, heavy shopping and family obligations can produce a piteous blend. Large and small cities alike face this increase
in nefariousness, be it bank robber-
ies and murders or mail theft and phone scams. Area law enforce-ment offi cials say the spike locally is centered on the latter of those crimes – specifi cally scams.
Th e Federal Trade Commis-sion says thousands of people lose money to phone scams every year, from a few dollars to life savings.
Th e Bonney Lake Police De-
partment warned its residents of a phone scam reported by several citizens that involved an automated phone call falsely identifi ed as be-ing from the city of Bonney Lake. Th e recording tells the resident that he or she has an outstanding unpaid balance for bills through the city and asks for credit card information to settle the bill. Bon-ney Lake Police Offi cer Daron Wolschleger said the city of Bonney Lake will never call or send
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Enough with property tax increases
Our property taxes are increasing faster than infl ation without a rate increase because of ever-increasing tax valua-tions.
City Council member Dana Ralph can be assured that not only will any tax increase be passed on to renters, the cost of goods sold or warehoused in Kent will also increase to cover higher taxes on business property. We would be better off with the car tabs or just a personal tax for the privilege of living here.
Th e city needs to prioritize its spending and get done what it has the money to get done. Stop hiring more people and increasing the size of govern-ment every time there is a spare dollar. My wallet is not a bottomless pit.
Kent should be a place where people and businesses want to be. But it is just "in line" with our neighboring cit-
ies in taxes and fees. Let's make it "better than" our competi-tion and make Kent inviting for families and business.– Kristy Herrick
A matter of faithIncrease property taxes.
Increase sales taxes. Rendering to Caesar makes for energetic responses.
Property owners can grow veggies, fruits, some bushes of berries. Share with some neighbors and friends.
When the big food stores see the net result of increased sales taxes, customers will buy less, throw less food away. Shoppers may experience more dissatis-fi ed store employees who are aware "sales are dipping … will I lose my job also?"
We will want our cities to be safe places where cleanliness is evidence by everyone. Citizens will sacrifi ce for others up to a point.
Th e incomes of many citizens are not increasing. Rendering to Caesar is a no-brainer. Rendering to God is what makes anyone more hu-man, more generous and more grateful, that the best things we give to ourselves and our neighbors is given to us freely.
Sit down with your family and friends and think about faith in God.– Karen Wittgens
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package up a set of eight-track cassettes of “Th e Greatest Hits from Cowboy Cody and his Sagebrush Singers.” Very sentimental and every song will show her your true inside things. A few of Cowboy Cody’s big hits were, “Ridin’ and Ropin’ and Mama Cooking Squirrel” and the unforget-table, “My Sweetie Fixed a Hole in the Roof to Stop the
Rain from Comin’ in” – you will remember that one for their sort of White Album.
• Th oughtfully selected cookbooks can put you on the road to yippee-yahoo. Try a gold-bound haute´cuisine cookbook based on Granny’s gummy goodies from the Beverly Hillbillies. You will fi nd pictorial features like pos-sum pizza with caramelized onions, fresh mozzarella with a hint of garden basil.
Another yummy in the tummy is buttermilk and rodent fricassee - tastes like chicken, only better.
• My last tip is a special secret, in case all else fails. I have put together a magic elixir that will smear away her wrinkles and make her hair fl at.
Get a carton of butter-milk and wait about two months past the date on the top. Maybe leave it in a hot car until it feels heavy and
chunky. Pour the whole thing into a bowl and have the love of your life stick her head into it. It will fi x her hair and face, all in one swoop.
My sincere hope is these time-honored tips will keep all the boys out of the bad house for boneheads.
Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Reach Dennis Box, Coving-ton Reporter regional editor, at [email protected] or 425-432-1209, ext. 5050.
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Sen. Joe Fain (R-Auburn) hosted the Leadership Institute of South Puget Sound on Dec. 10 at the Capitol in Olympia, where attendees heard from elected offi cials and legislative leaders, toured the capitol campus and experi-enced how an idea becomes a law.
Th e program prepares local busi-ness people, government offi cials and community members for civic and
professional leadership opportunities throughout South King County.
“Every year I’m impressed by the many talented people who are interested in sharing those talents and passion to better our community,” said Fain, who represents District 47th District. “Whether they’re involved in a com-munity group, business or serve in local government it’s helpful for them to know and be able to teach others how to
navigate state government.”During the morning session the group
heard from Fain, who was hosting the group in Olympia for the fourth consecu-tive year. Th ey also had the opportunity to visit with offi cials who oversee the steps required to pass legislation.
During the aft ernoon session the group listened to Secretary of State Kim Wyman and Washington State Trea-surer Jim McIntire.
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Members of Machinists Union District Lodge 751 raised more than $322,000 for its favorite charity, Guide Dogs of America, this year.
Th e recent announce-ment was made by IAM 751 President Jon Holden at the annual Guide Dogs of America charity ban-quet in Las Vegas, where Holden presented a check for $322,266.50.
District 751 remains the No. 1 fundraiser for Guide Dogs of America across North America.
Over the past six years, the union has donated nearly $1.8 million to the California-based charity, which provides service dogs and training in their use free of charge to people who are blind or have impaired vision from across the United States and Canada.
Holden said he was proud of the union mem-
bers, offi cers and staff who had organized a dozen diff erent fundraisers throughout the state.
In South King County, the union held a char-ity go-kart race at PGP Motorsports Park in Kent, along with its annual “Dog Days” charity event at Pacifi c Raceways. It also held a horseshoes tournament at the Red Dog Saloon in Maple Val-ley and a benefi t sporting clays shoot at the Sumner Sportsmen's Club.
Th is year’s success speaks volumes about the skill and dedication IAM 751 Machinists bring to their jobs and their communi-ties, Holden said.
District Lodge 751 of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers represents more than 33,000 working men and women at 51 employ-ers across Washington and California.
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an automated call over the phone to ask for money or credit card info to settle an unpaid bill.
“We ask that if you get one of these calls to not provide any personal or financial information, immediately hand up the phone and then call the police to report it,” Wolschleger wrote in a press release. “We also ask that if you are unsure if you owe money to the city, please contact the city of Bonney Lake directly to verify.”
Wolschleger said other area phone scams involve a supposed utility company employee asking for a pay-ment. There is also the na-tionwide scam that claims the victim has an outstand-ing arrest warrant and that financial information is needed to avoid arrest.
These potential dupes are also seen in Black Diamond. Sgt. Brian Lynch, with the Black Diamond Police Department, said the scams range from fraudu-lent claims of winning money, to alleged charitable organizations asking for credit card information, to someone from the IRS claiming he needs a social security number.
“You’d think if someone’s calling from the IRS, he would already have your social security number,” Lynch said. “I always tell people you can’t identify people over the phone un-less you call the agency.”
Although the primary targets for scams are typi-cally the elderly, that’s not always the case.
A Covington woman was recently bamboozled out of hundreds of dollars in
an internet scam, sending money via wire transfer to an individual posing as a potential love interest, ac-cording to Klason.
Klason said the female was online dating at sugardaddy.com. Klason said the woman sent money on at least four occasions and “will never see the money again.”
“This person was in need of help,” Klason said. “She claims there was no love interest on her part but this person managed to con her and gain her trust. She start-ed to fall for the individual to the point where she sent quite a bit of money overseas … to a charity I’m sure does not exist.”
The Covington woman was not alone.
A report released in July by Ulstrascan Advanced Global Investigations that looked at the infamous Nigerian SCAM - or, more technically, Nigerian 419 Advance Fee Fraud statistics, concluded that smart people are easier to scam. The report stated that high-achieving profession-als are the most likely to be defrauded and that losses from Nigerian scams to-taled $12.7 billion in 2013. These scams account for $82 billion in losses to date.
Klason said the main principal to remember when dealing with scams is if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
“There’s a lot of variations that are out there,” Klason said. “They’ll try anything. These people don’t have any kind of scruples. Whatever it takes to convince some-one to send money. They will say anything they think will work.”
TheftsBesides the anonymous
swindles, there are a num-ber of in-person thefts that pick up near Christmas time.
Package thefts are typical this time of year in Bonney Lake and Black Diamond, according to officials. The number of UPS and Fed Ex packages stolen from front porches typically spikes this time of year, thanks to the pro-liferation of online holiday shopping, Lynch said. In an attempt to stifle those thefts, Lynch said day time officers will spend extra time patrolling neighbor-hoods. Still, he said police need the public’s help.
“We all know who lives here and who does not fit,” he said.
When asked about the potential for profiling and safeguarding against it, Lynch said the 911 dispatch screeners do a “great job” of asking callers why the indi-vidual seems out of place.
“We tell people it’s better to err on the side of cau-tion,” Lynch said. “Even if it’s nothing at least we know it’s nothing.”
Lynch suggested contact-ing neighbors when pack-ages will be sent.
Maple Valley Police Detective Jason Stanley said that even though the city’s median income sits in the upper-middle class, the city sees its fair share of holiday packages stolen from front porches and shoplifting.
“It seems like criminals get kind of desperate, may-be to fill their own holiday obligations,” Stanley said.
ShopliftingAccording to the Maple
Valley Business Watch newsletter, shoplifting costs U.S. businesses approxi-mately $16 billion every year, with about one out of every three new businesses failing because of the effects of shoplifting.
Experts estimate that the average family will spend three hundred dollars every year to subsidize the cost of what shoplifters steal.
Although Maple Valley has seen an increase in adult shoplifting, according to the newsletter, teens are often the perpetrators of shoplifting.
When a store owner or law enforcement has reasonable cause to suspect that a person has shoplifted, they usually have the legal right to detain them. When a teen commits theft their parents will be contacted, they will have to return the items and they probably will not be allowed to enter that store for at least a year.
Klason said there are instances where the shop-lifters and thieves are found to be desperate parents with limited resources and want to do something for their kids. He said police try to steer those individuals to social services and food banks. But, by and large, Klason said, these thefts are for selfish gain.
“A majority (of thefts) are for themselves or to turn it around – pawn electronics for cash,” Klason said.
Ray Still contributed to this story. Reach Eric Mandel, Covington Reporter staff writer, at [email protected].
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The King County Youth Sports Facilities Grant program recently awarded a $75,000 grant to Kent Parks' Kent Memorial Park Play-ground and Wiffleball Field.
The county's matching grants totaled $745,250.
The grant program evaluates
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The grants, some as large as $75,000, must be matched by local community organizations and are administered by the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks.
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King County has awarded more than $12 million in grants since the program's inception, creating more than 300 new or renovated youth sports facilities throughout the county.
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books as a loan due but also a doubtful account. And on the PFD’s books as a loan payable but not likely to pay. You would decide in 2015 how to handle the 2015 statements.”
Higgins then asked if the delay could put the city’s bond rating at risk.
“Were we to go through a bond rating that certainly is a question that we would be asked and we would have to answer,” Matheson said. “Whether it would put our rating at risk I can’t say for the bond agencies.”
Higgins said he would like to eventually see the language changed.
“If any bond agencies were to look at the books I’d prefer they’d see a budget that reflects reality over a fantasy,” Higgins said about the PFD’s lack of ability to repay the loan.
Councilman Jim Berrios sup-ported to delay a decision.
“Six years ago we sold this as it’s going to be a moneymaker,” Berrios said. “We’re six years down the road saying it’s never going to be a moneymaker. I’m not willing to give up. I’m not willing to say that even if we ever get to a point where it’s mak-ing money that we wouldn’t be willing to pay back some of that loan.”
Councilman Bill Boyce agreed with Berrios.
“I think we really need to try, pay $10 a month or something, you’ve got to show some type of obligation,” Boyce said. “I’m not at a point where we can say it’s OK to write this debt off. I have a hard time with that.”
Council President Dana Ralph offered up a final comment prior to the vote.
“ShoWare is a building that is here and is an asset to the city there’s absolutely no question about that,” Ralph said. “We just need to be responsible about how it’s paid for and how our budget and books reflect that. I’m not comfortable with chang-ing the language at this point to a subsidy.
“This contract was put in place originally for a reason. It’s not something we’ve been talking about for the last five years. It’s come to light because of the au-dit finding. I believe it deserves additional attention and I’m comfortable with the notation on the budget that we are ac-knowledging we don’t anticipate this money coming in so it’s not making our budget projections any better than they are but it’s also calling out the reality this debt is out there.”
In a separate issue, the council agreed last month to use extra reserve monies in the city’s gen-eral fund budget to pay off the ShoWare Center’s operating debt of $2.7 million.
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district’s diversity and inclusive-ness, others felt that it has unre-solved issues the new superinten-dent will need to be aware of.
“It’s a combined community here,” said Sina Siliga, whose child attends school in the dis-trict. “We are combined together and work together as well.”
Paul Singh, a Kent business-man, echoed the sentiment that Vargas’ leadership in the district had helped advance cultural inte-gration and cooperation.
“We all have different cultures, values, languages and morals,” Singh said. “It’s very difficult when you have to put a goat and a lion in the same cage.”
The committee also provided input for skills the next superin-tendent would need to bring to the table. In addition to the same kinds of cultural competency that Vargas displayed, they said they wanted the new leader to have a vision for the district in the future.
“Where do I see the KSD in five or 10 years?” was the ques-
tion that Dalicia Miller, who is pursuing a master’s degree in ad-ministration and whose nephew attends school in the district.
A second group of parents further discussed how to look for a new superintendent.
They agreed with the dis-trict’s cultural diversity as a big strength, but added the technol-ogy edge that Kent possesses in relation to other schools. They also said that, following the teacher strike in 2009, KSD lead-ership has been more responsive to problems in the school district.
When pressed for qualities they would want to see from the leadership at the district, com-munity members had their own suggestions.
Honesty and accountability were paramount to Steve Klem.
“If you say you’re gonna do it, do it,” he said.
Alan Sutliff agreed that be-ing accountable and honest about shortcomings as much as achievements is important.
“So many people who make it to the position of superintendent
do so by covering things up,” Sut-liff said. “With all the groups that play out in a position this big, you gotta be honest or you’re gonna get caught.”
But the group’s biggest and most important need was to have the superintendent capable of discussing the multiculturalism and racial issues in Kent’s many communities and how they relate to the schools.
“South King County is the new America as far as representing diversity,” Sutliff said.
They were looking for a leader who can have the difficult discus-sions and start to further bridge the gaps that Vargas began. “Courageous conversations” is the buzzword du jour.
“It could be a person of color, it could not be a person of color. They just need to have those skills,” Ray Lee said. “They need buy-in from the community and staff or they’ll get nowhere. You can have some surface level cou-rageous conversation, but you’re not putting on your diving gear and getting in.”
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DAWN (Domestic Abuse Women’s Network), a nonprofit agency serv-ing South King County families whose lives have been touched by the national epidemic of domestic violence, recently received a HopeLine from Verizon grant of $20,000 to expand its work.
Verizon Wireless’ HopeLine program supports domestic violence prevention and awareness programs in South King County and nation-wide.
DAWN’s mission is to lead and support efforts in south King County communities to end domestic violence. Since 1980, an estimated 390,000 survivors of family abuse and their children have found safety and new violence-free beginnings with the help of the continuum of community-based resources offered by DAWN.
DAWN is the primary provider of free services, including emergency confidential shelter and a 24-hour crisis line, to victims in the area.
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Kentridge High returns only four players from last year’s boys basketball roster, leaving coach Dave Jamison’s work cut out for him as he tries to fi nd the play style and strategies that will work best to the team’s strengths.
In his 15th year of coaching at Kentridge, Jamison looks to get his team back to the Class 4A state playoff s and hope-fully a championship. Th e team suff ered back-to-back losses in its appearance last year. Th e 2014-15 team sees a plethora of new talent to join several dedicated senior veterans.
Newcomers Micah Simmons, Ethan Walker, Braiden Beckman, Rick Ziegenhagen, Matt Fleming and AJ Chappell will join last year’s team of Deon Th omas, Nick Hopson and brothers Jordan and Elijah
Ticeson. “AJ’s a good shooter, he’s
quick, he’s gotten much better defensively since the season started, he played freshman team last year and
JV all summer, he’s been starting for us every game so that’s a pretty quick pro-gression,” says Jamison.
Th e coach also has his eye on Simmons as a scor-
ing player.“Micah had a solid off
season, he’s a little bit big-ger, a little bit longer, he shoots the ball real well so when we get him back that’s
gonna help a lot too.”Th e new players present
both an obstacle and an op-portunity to Jamison, who has to spend much of try-outs getting his new players caught up on the more competitive varsity play.
“Last year I had a lot of guys coming back and had to incorporate a couple of new kids in, this year has been a lot more fundamen-tal teaching and trying to get guys up to varsity speed, and it’s easier to say than do,” says Jamison.
To get to the state tournament, Jamison feels he’s going to have to work on the defensive game to prevent giving up points to free throws.
“Th e kids just gotta con-tinue to play hard,” he says. “We have a lot of trouble now defensively fouling guys. I think if we take some of that away it will help a lot.”
Kentridge aims for return to state tourney
Kentridge girls seek state basketball tripBY ROSS COYLE
[email protected] e Kentridge High girls basket-
ball team returns to the court aft er a successful season that included a fi nal 16 state showing.
Coach Bob Sandall, now in his fi ft h year, expects the Chargers to do even better this season.
In addition to his eight vet-eran deep team, Sandall adds junior LaDrea Ford, freshman Morgan Gary and sophomore Taylor Jenkins.
Th e newcomers provide depth that has allowed Sandall to round out the team.
“Th e four younger kids we have are all solid contributors,” says Sandall. “Th e key is the roles. Th e kids are starting to understand that they’ll be able to contribute diff er-ently at diff erent points of the year.”
Gary, the only freshman on the team, has already shown potential as a standout player.
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Kentridge sophomore Bronte Fougere goes for a layup during a recent practice with the Chargers who hope to return this season to the Class 4A state playoff s. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
Ultimately, having a new team is as much an opportunity as it is a challenge. Hav-ing new players that aren’t restricted to a particular style of play allows Jamison to reinvent the Chargers.
“It’s new, it’s kinda fun not starting all the way over, but retooling and reinventing ourselves,” he says.
“We’ve had to do that a number of times over the years, to fi gure out ways to give your team the best chance to win.”
but tweaking and fi ne-tun-ing the performance.
“Like every team, you always want to shoot a little bit better, you want to handle the ball better,” says Sandall. “You have a game where you turn the ball over 10 times and you wish it had been fi ve or a game where you turn it over 20 times you wish it had been 10. We don’t have any glaring weaknesses to overcome, we just need to get better all around.”
Th e Chargers are off to a 5-1 start and have taken down some of their heavier rivals in the South Puget Sound League North Divi-sion. Th ey are tied for fi rst place with Kentlake.
It was a defeat to Kent-lake on Dec. 9 that exposed the biggest issue with their play, Sandall says. Th e girls are good at running their positions and executing when they’re not under pressure, but when another
team pushes back, they run in to trouble.
“Being able to be better at running our off ense and running our sets when we get stopped. Teams can
square you up defensively and make you work for the baskets, can you execute when you have to do that,” says Sandall. ”Good teams, they’re very unforgiving
when you make mistakes.”Overcoming that adver-
sity and getting everyone working together will be the key factors this year for the Chargers.
[ GIRLS from page 11 ]
[ KENTRIDGE from page 10 ]
BY ERIC MANDEL
Aft er four seasons without a playoff berth, one might as-sume a 4-1 start would please Kentlake High girls basket-ball coach Scott Simmons. But that’s not the case.
“We haven’t played up to what we are capable of,” said Simmons, in his 10th season at the school. “We haven’t even come close.”
Simmons and the Falcons are dreaming big these days thanks to a strong ensemble of youth that includes talented freshman Aniston Denckla, who Simmons said might already be the squad’s best player.
“She does everything pretty darn well,” Simmons said. “She’s going to be a
massive building block for us.”
Th e Falcons beat Ken-tridge on Dec. 9 and see an opportunity to jump to the top of the South Puget Sound League Northeast conference. Simmons said that overcoming Kentridge’s strength, talent and experi-ence, as well as Tahoma’s talent, depth and organiza-tion, will be key.
“We need to understand that defense wins cham-pionships and it’s the little things that make the big things,” Simmons said in an email. “How well we de-velop and grow defensively will defi ne how deep we go into the playoff s (should we make it).”
Simmons led his group
to fi ve straight playoff appearances before the recent four-year draught. He called his team “deep,” despite only 20 students making up the varsity and junior varsity squads — with 12 of those 20 being underclassmen. Simmons called this one of the top two most talented groups he’s coached.
Meanwhile, Kentwood, coming off a 20-8 season, is also starting fresh with just one returning starter. Th e Conks have started the sea-son 0-5, as of Monday, and head coach Lisa Ashley said in an email that the biggest obstacle for her group is “being young and believing that we can play with the more experienced teams.”
Kentlake girls hope youth movement turns team around
T-Birds win fi nal game prior to breakFOR THE REPORTER
Th e Seattle Th under-birds defeated the Victoria Royals 5-4 Tuesday night at the ShoWare Center in their last game before the holiday break.
Th e T-Birds are 14-15-2-2 while Victoria falls to 17-17-2-0 in the Western Hockey League.
Taran Kozun made the start for Seattle and got his 13th victory of the season, improving to 13-10-2-2. Kozun stopped 22 of 26 shots.
Justin Hickman gave Seattle the lead with the game’s fi rst goal at 1:25 of the second period.
Lane Pederson took a shot from high in the zone that blew past a diving Victoria defenseman and
made it over the goalie’s outstretched glove to make it 2-0.
Th e T-Birds added a third goal soon thereaft er, scoring on the power play once again. Ethan Bear took a point shot through plenty of bodies that ended with Keegan Kole-sar tipping the puck in.
Victoria scored to make it 3-1 at 6:15. Th e Royals cut the defi cit further as the period wound to its close, scoring at 18:47.
Victoria tied the game at 11:49.
Another goal came for the Royals just eight seconds later, giving the visitors the lead for the fi rst time in the game.
Donovan Neuls tied the game with 3:45 left , mak-ing it 4-4.
Seattle scored on a de-layed penalty to take the lead. Ryan Gropp cut to the net, where he was able to tip in a shot to make it 5-4.
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share it with others – or serve it at their own cafe someday.
Go ahead and take a pinch of seasoning, for example, but immedi-ately measure it. Th en write down the amount. Repeat with all the ingredients learned at Mom’s (or Dad’s) side in the kitchen.
“I forced myself to mea-sure everything,” Project Feast volunteer Archana Verma told the fi ve students in the commercial kitchen at the Tukwila Community Center.
Th e kitchen basics class is Project Feast’s core program designed to help recent immigrants build a com-munity through ethnic food and fi nd a job in the food industry. Th e nonprofi t started in January 2013 and until about a year ago, its training kitchen was just south of downtown Seattle.
Talks began with the City of Tukwila, which reached out to Project Feast, to move its training program to the community center, which turned out to be a perfect fi t for Project Feast.
Th e kitchen is “so amaz-ing,” said Alanna McDon-ald, Project Feast’s program and events coordinator, and there’s offi ce space to use.
“And we’re closer to the communities that we are trying to serve. It makes a lot more sense,” she said. For some, transportation to Sodo was “kind of diffi cult,” she said.
Project Feast also runs classes in local community centers. Besides the kitchen basics class, the organiza-tion off ers the three-hour training to obtain a food-handler permit, which everyone needs to work in the food industry, and an apprentice program.
Graduates also staff the food-catering business that helps support its pro-grams. Two Project Feast interns, Taghreed Ibrahim and LemLem Kidane, are preparing lunches the Du-
wamish Curve Cafe at the Tukwila Community Cen-ter, off ering sandwiches, soups and salads and oft en something special.
Project Feast’s programs are free to the participants. It receives fi nancial support from United Way of King County, SVP Fast Pitch and the Women’s Funding Alliance. Donations are ac-cepted, too.
Th e core program is the Commercial Kitchen Basics Program.
Most of Project Feast’s students arrive as “excellent home cooks,” McDonald said, but they need the skills expected in a commercial kitchen – such as using measuring cups rather than their memory. Safety is im-portant in a busy kitchen, so they learn to hold a knife straight down when walking.
Th ey learn to read and write a recipe and how to use kitchen equipment. Th ey are learning the lan-guage of the kitchen.
Each student has a chance to share his or her culture’s cuisine with fellow students, and, at the same time, lead them through preparing the meal.
“I want to taste some-thing your ancestors made,”
said Chef Daniel “Buck” James, who was helping Malena Veliz select ingredi-ents from her native Peru. He’s the chief instructor and mentor to the students.
Susana Ramirez of Kent is preparing Mole Verde, a traditional Mexican dish. As a child, she cooked with her mother and grand-mother in Puebla, Mexico. She immigrated to the United States in 1999.
Ramirez is using her family’s recipe for Mole Verde.
“My grandma tell me how much, how long, how to do that. Everything,” she said.
Susana assigns tasks, from cutting green onions to washing the chicken, which she does. McDonald asks her how many cutting boards she’ll need. One for the vegetables. How many frying pans? One for the rice and one to fry the mole.
Th e students learned quickly that sometimes you need to adapt quickly in a commercial kitchen or while catering an aff air. Th ere wasn’t a key ingredi-ent for Susana’s the Mole Verde in the kitchen – the Mole Verde sauce. McDon-ald seized upon that as a
teachable moment.“Th is is what happens in
a professional situation. You need a solution,” McDonald said.
Do you change recipe or make something entirely diff erent? An another op-tion was to fi nd the sauce. Smartphones were checked for the nearest stores that might carry the sauce. Someone suggested the store on Tukwila Inter-national Boulevard but couldn’t remember the name.
But Chef Buck, as he’s known, found the store: Saars Super Saver Foods had the sauce they needed.
Th e fi ve students work together, asking Susana
questions if they’re unsure of something. She brings it all together near the end of class with the plating – and everyone sits down for lunch.
Th e mole verde is good. “It’s spicy but not too spicy,” says Susana, who hopes to start her own business someday.
Victoria Cole was the fi rst student to present her culture’s cuisine. She was born and raised in Sierra Leone, West Africa, and now lives in Des Moines.
She started cooking at age 11, in her family’s restaurant. Aft er she gradu-ates from Project Feast, she wants to cook for a restau-rant, then maybe someday open her own restaurant, where she’ll serve her native country’s foods.
“Th at is my dream,” she says.
Victoria prepared Acheke, a traditional West African dish, with the class, served with tilapia and fried plantains. It’s main ingre-dient is garri, made from cassava tubers, that’s similar to cornmeal.
“Th e one I made in class was a special dish in my country,” she said. “For a month every household makes it.”
Working as a team, the fi ve students prepared traditional dishes for their graduation on Nov. 5, attended by friends and family. Each introduced her own dish, telling its story and how it’s prepared.
Project Feast programs
Th e Food Handler Permit sessions meet twice a month with each session lasting three to four hours. Th is class is designed to help refugee and immigrant students understand the safe food handling and hygiene requirements that exist in Washington State and then prepare them to take the online test to receive their Food Handler Permit.
Th e Commercial Kitchen Basics Program is a six-week program to prepare participants for a job in the food industry, while also setting them up for success in other areas of life in the United States. Graduates can then apply for an ap-prenticeship.
Th e Apprenticeship Program gives for graduates of the Commercial Kitchen Basics Program the chance to work for Project Feast to get paid job experience. Each apprentice is matched with an assignment that is available in Project Feast’s food service, catering, or other programs.
For more information, visit projectfeast.org or www.facebook.com/pro-jectfeast or email: [email protected].
Program teaches cooking, commercial kitchen skills[ PROJECT from page 1 ]
Chef Daniel ‘Buck’ James gives Victoria Cole of Des Moines a helping hand preparing her dishes for the Project Feast graduation. DEAN A. RADFORD, Tukwila Reporter
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In the Superior Court for the State of Washington
County of KingEstate of LIESELOTTE DANIELS, Deceased.No. 14-4-06797-3KNT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:The above Court has appointed me as Personal Representative of Dece- dent’s estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must present the claim: (a) Be- fore the time when the claim would be barred by any appli- cable statute of limitations, and (b) In the manner provided in
original of the claim with the foregoing Court, and (ii) By serving on or mailing to me at the address below a copy of the claim. The claim must be pre- sented by the later of: (a) Thirty (30) days after I served or mailed this Notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020(1)(c), or (b) Four (4)
lication of this Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time period, the claim will be forever barred except as provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective for claims against both the Dece- dent’s probate and non-probate assets.Date of First Publication:December 5, 2014Personal Representative:HAROLD F. DANIELSAddress for Mailing or Service:6301 S. 242ND Pl., #7-301Kent, WA 98032Published in the Kent Reporter on December 5, 2014, December 12, 2014 and December 19, 2014. #1191484
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASH- INGTON CHAPTER 61.24 ET. SEQ. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY.
CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTOR- NEY LICENSED IN WASH- 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. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Hous- ing counselors and legal assis- tance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclo- sure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission Telephone: 1-877-894-HOME(1-877-894-46
wa.gov/consumers/homeo w n e r s h i p / p o s t _ p u r c h a s e _ counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Telephone: 1-800-569-4287 Web
hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webL i s t A c t i o n = s e a r c h & s e a r c -
statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 Web site: http://nwjustice. org/what-clear I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, CLEAR RECON CORP., 9311 S.E. 36th Street, Suite 100, Mercer Island, WA 98040, Trustee will on 1/2/2015 at 10:00 AM at AT THE 4TH AVENUE EN- TRANCE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING LOCATIONED ONE BLOCK EAST OF THE KING COUNTY COURT- HOUSE, 500 4TH AVE, SEAT- TLE, WA 98121 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable, in the form of cash, or cashier’s check or certi-
State chartered banks, at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County of King, State of Wash- ington, to-wit: Lot 3 in Block 2 of Lowe’s Terrace, as per plat re-
corded in Volume 38 of plats, Page 25, records of King County Auditor; Situate in the City of Sea-Tac, County of King, State of Washington. Commonly known as: 16817 37TH AVE S SEATAC, WA 98188-3146 APN: 4435000115-09 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 9/21/2007, recorded 9/26/2007, as Auditor’s File No. 20070926002160, records of King County, Washington, from ALBERT O VOSBERG AN UNMARRIED MAN , as Gran- tor(s), to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPA- NY, A CALIFORNIA CORPO- RATION, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB, ITS SUCCESSORS AND/OR ASSIGNESS, as Bene-
which was assigned by N/A, un- der an Assignment recorded un- der Auditor’s File No N/A. II. No action commenced by the Bene-
now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obliga- 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 Note Dated: 9/21/2007Note Amount: $165,000.00Interest Paid To: 10/15/2010Next Due Date: 11/15/2010PAYMENT INFORMATIONFROM THRU NO.PMTAMOUNT TOTAL11/15/2010 11/15/2010 1 $863.02 $863.0212/15/2010 10/15/2011 11 $833.25 $9,165.7511/15/2011 10/15/2012 12 $836.69 $10,040.2811/15/2012 10/15/2013 12 $843.20 $10,118.4011/15/2013 10 $833.71$8,337.10ADVANCES/LATE CHARGESDESCRIPTION TOTALAccrued Late Charges $829.56Corporate Advance $4,870.56ESTIMATED FORECLOSURE
FEES AND COSTSDESCRIPTION TOTALTrustee’s Fee’s $750.00 Posting of Notice of Default $125.00
Compliance $15.00 Record Sub- stitution of Trustee $15.00 T.S.G. Fee $889.14 Title Date- down Fee $50.00 Mailings $21.92 TOTAL DUE AS OF 8/21/2014 $46,122.41IV. The sum owing on the obli- gation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $168,297.88, together with inter- est as provided in the Note from 11/15/2010, and such other costs and fees as are provided by stat- ute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obli- gation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 1/2/2015. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 12/22/2014, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontin- ued and terminated if at any time before 12/22/2014 (11 days be- fore the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in
checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 12/22/2014 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the or the Grantor’s successor interest or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust and curing all other de- faults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the
Borrower and Grantor at the fol- lowing address(es): SEE AT- TACHED EXHIBIT “1” by both
3/28/2014, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if appli- cable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspic- uous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee 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- described 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 the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invali- dating the Trustee’s sale. X. NO- TICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to 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 under chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. If you are a servicemember or a dependent of a servicemember, you may be entitled to certain protections un- der the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and any compar- able state laws regarding the risk of foreclosure. If you believe you may be entitled to these protec-
immediately. THIS IS AN AT-
TEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBTAND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USEDFOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: 8/24/14 CLEAR RECONCORP., as Successor Trustee Foradditional information or serviceyou may contact: Clear ReconCorp. 9311 S.E. 36th Street,Suite 100 Mercer Island, WA98040 Phone: (206) 707-9599 EXHIBIT “1” NAME ADDRESS ALBERT O VOS- BERG 16817 37TH AVE SSEATAC, WA 98188-3146 AL- BERT O VOSBERG 3158023RD AVE S APT 337 FEDER- AL WAY, WA 98003-5542 Published in the Kent Reporteron Decembe 5, 2014 and Decem-ber 19, 2014. #1121611. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASH- INGTON CHAPTER 61.24 ET. SEQ. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THEFORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recordingdate on this notice to pursue me- diation. DO NOT DELAY.CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTOR- NEY LICENSED IN WASH- INGTON NOW to assess yoursituation and refer you to media-tion if you are eligible and it mayhelp you save your home. Seebelow for safe sources of help.SEEKING ASSISTANCE Hous- ing counselors and legal assis-tance may be available at little orno cost to you. If you would likeassistance in determining yourrights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact thefollowing: The statewide foreclo-sure hotline for assistance andreferral to housing counselors recommended by the HousingFinance Commission Telephone:1 - 8 7 7 - 8 9 4 - H O M E (1-877-894-4663) . Web site:
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EventsChristmas Tree Recycling: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. Jan. 3, Service Club Ballfields, 14608 SE 288th St., Kent. Boy Scout troops col-lecting and recycling Christmas trees in neighborhoods around Kent for a suggested donation of $5. To ensure pickup, trees must be placed outside by 8 a.m. Saturday morning. If you prefer to deliver your tree yourself, scouts will help unload the trees and accept your donation. Trees with tinsel and/or flock cannot be accepted. If you would like to mail your donation, send it to: Attn: Christmas Tree Drive, P.O. Box 5094, Kent, WA 98064. For more information, contact the Kent Lions & Foundation at 253-852-5466 or check the city’s community calendar at KentWA.gov.
“Coffee with the Chief”: 9 a.m. Jan. 7, Golden Steer restaurant, 23826 104th Ave. S.E. Get-together with Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas and other police department members. Come join the chief to discuss police and community issues. No RSVP is necessary.
BenefitsNew Year’s 2k/5k Fun Run and Walk: 10 a.m. Jan. 1, Meridian Valley Country Club, 24830 136th Ave. SE. Walk or run the scenic cart paths of the country club. Leashed pets welcome. Coffee, hot cocoa and snacks provided. Warm, dry buildings
will be open for gathering and watching. Net proceeds donated to the American Lake Veterans Golf Course in Lakewood. Cost: $20 for 2K and under 18; $25 for 5K and over 18. Registration available at the country club’s front desk or online at Active.com.
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 op-portunity. ShoWalk continues through May 20. 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.Ken-t4Health.com or by calling 253-856-4968.
Puget Sound Blood Center drives: 9-11 a.m., noon-3 p.m. Dec. 22, Centerpoint Corporate Park, Mount Baker Room, 20809 72nd Ave. S., Kent; 9-11 a.m., noon-3 p.m. Dec. 23, Recreational Equipment, Smith Commons, 6750 S. 228th St.; 1-3 p.m., 4-7 p.m. Dec. 30, Kent United Methodist, Fellowship Hall, 11010 SE 248th. For more information, call 253-945-8667 or please visit www.psbc.org.
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.
Southeast King County Parkinson’s Disease support group: Meets on the third Tuesday of the month, 10:30 a.m., St. John The Baptist Catholic Church, 25810 156th Ave. SE,Covington. Group’s monthly lunches are on the first Tuesday of the month at the Auburn Senior Activity Center, 808 Ninth St. SE, Auburn. For more information, contact Stephanie Lawson at 206-579-5206.
Gamblers Anonymous: For meeting times and locations, call toll free the Gam-blers Anonymous Hotline 1-855-222-5542. Visit www.gawashington.org or www.gamblersanonymous.org for additional information.
Clubs, programsResolving Family Turmoil Explored: 7 p.m. Dec. 29, Lifetree Café, First Christian Church, Community Room, 11717 240th St. How families torn apart by conflict can find hope for healing will be discussed. The program, Family Do-Over: Is It Ever Too Late?, features a screening of the award-winning short film, “The Ride.” Admission free. Snacks and beverages available. Lifetree Café is a place where people gather for conversation on life and faith in a casual coffeehouse-type setting. For more
information, contact Bob Brooks at 206-653-6532 or [email protected], or www.Lifetreecafe.com.
Kent Evening Toastmasters: 7 p.m., Wednesdays, The Lodge, Arbor Village Retirement Center, 24004 114th Place SE, Kent. Are you interested in practicing and improving your public speaking skills? Boosting your self-confidence? Making yourself heard in that weekly meeting at work? Come practice your oratory skills with a friendly and informative group of people. With members ranging from begin-ners to experts, Kent Evening Toastmasters welcomes people of all skill levels. For more information, visit www.kenteveningtoast-masters.net.
Autism Support Group: 6:30-8:30 p.m., second Wednesday of the month, Kent Covenant Church, main conference room, 12010 SE 240th St. Share resources and encouragement. Childcare available with 72-hour advance reservations by calling Fa-biana Steele at 253-631-0222, ext. 325. For more information, visit www.kentcov.org.
NAMI Support Groups: 6:30-8 p.m., every second and fourth Tuesday of the month, 515 W. Harrison St., Kent. Friends and family support group for family mem-bers and friends who are affected by mental illness. Free. For more information, call 253-854-6264 (NAMI) or email [email protected], or visit www.nami.org.
NetworkThe Kent Chapter of Business Net-work, Int’l (BNI): Meets every Wednes-day morning at 7 at the Old Country Buffet, 25630 104th SE, Kent. Chapter is growing.
Currently have 38 members. Do you want excellent, personal, word of mouth referrals for your business? Then come join us. For more information, contact Dr. Allan McCord at 253-854-3040.
South Sound Chamber of Commerce Legislative Coalition: 7:30-9 a.m. Jan. 9, Emerald Downs, 2300 Emerald Downs Drive, Auburn. Breakfast, preview of 2015 legislative priorities. Register at business.auburnareawa.org.
LibrariesKent Public Library: 212 2nd Avenue N., Kent. 253-859-3330. Hours: 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday; 1-5 p.m., Sunday. Library events include:
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Play & Learn: 10:30 a.m. Dec. 19 and 26; Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30. Kaleidoscope Play & Learn is an organized play group for new-borns to age 5 and people who take care of them. Have fun learning while we play, sing songs and create art.
Kids Movie of the Month: 3:30 p.m. Dec. 26. Family program, all ages welcome. Enjoy a family friendly film with a light snack.
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Teen Zone, Movie Time: 3:30 p.m. Dec. 23. Call the library to find out what’s showing.
Gingerbread House Party: 2 p.m. Dec. 20. Build your own gingerbread house on a graham cracker base. Decorate with
candy doodads, icing and cookie pieces. A special event for ages 8 to 20. Supplies are provided. Please register.
ADULTS
Talk Time: 5 p.m. Tuesdays. Improve your speaking and listening skills in this English conversation group.
Citizenship Class: 7 p.m. Tuesdays. Get help with the citizenship interview process, including civics and government questions, reading and writing English and practic-ing your interview skills. Registration not required.
English as a Second Language (ESL): 6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays. A formal class to learn English grammar, reading, writing and conversation skills.
Drop-In to Learn about eBooks: 10 a.m. Dec. 20, 27. Get started with KCLS eBooks! Bring your eReader, tablet, phone or just your questions.
SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives): Free counseling for small businesses. Please call 206-553-7320 for appointments.
Computer Classes: Registration required beginning two weeks before each class, 253-859-3330.
MAKE 2014: All ages. Unleash your creativity and strengthen your science and technology skills at the same time with KCLS’ MAKE events, the new fall season of STREAM-based programs. If you can imagine something, you can learn to make it at the library.
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States Department of Housing and Urban Development Tele- phone: 1-800-569-4287 Web
torneys Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 Web site:
I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned, CLEAR RECON CORP., 9311 S.E. 36th
WA 98040, Trustee will on 1/16/2015 at 9:00 AM at KING COUTNY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, 500 4TH AVE- NUE, SEATTLE, WA 98104
est and best bidder, payable, in
situated in the County of King, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT(S) 10, KENT RIDGE ES- TATES DIVISION NUMBER 5, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN VOLUME 131 OF PLATS, PAGE(S) 59 THROUGH 62, IN KING COUNTY, WASHING-
27900 123RD PL SE KENT, WA 98030 APN:
King County, Washington, from JEAN R. TAYLOR, A SINGLE PERSON, as Grantor(s), to TI- COR TITLE COMPANY, as
in favor of MORTGAGE ELEC- TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMI- NEE FOR SEATTLE PACIFIC MORTGAGE, INC., ITS SUC- CESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as
US BANK NATIONAL ASSO- CIATION, under an Assignment
20130802 000019. II.
of the Deed of Trust or the
the obligation in any Court by
Trust/Mortgage. III. The de-
is made is/are as follows: PROMISSORY NOTE INFOR-
MATION Note Dated: 12/7/2009Note Amount: $254,375.00 Inter-
Date: 7/1/2013 PAYMENT IN- FORMATION FROM THRUNO.PMT AMOUNT TOTAL7/1/2013 7/31/2013 1 $1,762.38$1,762.38 8/1/2013 7/1/2014 12$1,752.09 $21,025.08 7/2/2014 9/1/2014 2 $1,777.73 $3,555.46ADVANCES/LATE CHARGESDESCRIPTION TOTAL
Property Preservation $220.00
MIP $193.06 ESTIMATED FORECLOSURE FEES AND COSTS DESCRIPTION TOTAL
$14.00 T.S.G. Fee $1,069.82 Ti- tle Datedown Fee $100.00 Mail- ings $10.90 TOTAL DUE AS OF 9/8/2014 $32,371.58 IV. The sum owing on the obligation
$240,426.69, together with inter- est as provided in the Note from
and fees as are provided by stat- ute. V. property will be sold to satisfy
Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without
regarding title, possession or en-
defaults referred to in Paragraph
(11 days before the sale date) to
ued and terminated if at any time before 1/5/2015 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth
ed any time after the 1/5/2015 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower
suant to the terms of the obliga- tion and/or Deed of Trust and
VI. A
Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following ad- dress(es): SEE ATTACHED EX-
sion of the Trustee; and the Bor-
rower and Grantor were person-
Paragraph I above, and the Trus- tee has possession of proof of
VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting
fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. 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-
IX. Anyone
on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be
they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW
a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invali-
X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR
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
After the 20th day following the
with RCW 61.24.060. If you are
immediately. THIS IS AN AT- TEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: 9/11/14 CLEAR RECON
Corp. 9311 S.E. 36th Street,
98040 Phone: (206) 707-9599 EXHIBIT “1” NAME AD- DRESS JEAN R. TAYLOR27900 123RD PL SE KENT, WASHINGTON 98030 Published in the Kent Reporter
ary 2, 2014. #1139377.
CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF ORDINANCES
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
The following is a summary of
16, 2014:ORDINANCE NO. 4133 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun-
2016 biennial budget for the City of Kent.ORDINANCE NO. 4134 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun-
ORDINANCE NO. 4136 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun-
of the Kent City Code, entitled “Limitation of revenue re-
ORDINANCE NO. 4137 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun-
ton, relating to budgets and
2015-2016 biennial budget.
vetoed by the Mayor, or unless otherwise noted.ORDINANCE NO. 4135 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun-
ton, amending the Kent Compre- hensive Plan and its Capital
(CPA-2014-3).ORDINANCE NO. 4138 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun-
of the Kent City Code to adjust
(CPA-2014-2).ORDINANCE NO. 4139 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Coun-
ton, amending the Kent Compre- hensive Plan and its Capital
Kent, Federal Way, Auburn and
(CPA-2014-2).
Ronald F. Moore, MMC, City
Published in Kent Reporter on
CITY OF KENTPUBLIC NOTICE
SEPA THRESHOLD DETERMINATION
Pursuant to KCC 11.03, Envi- , the City of
Kent has issued a threshold de- termination for the following:Determination of
REDEVELOPMENTENV-2014-34, KIVA #RPSW-2143409
1822059355. The property is zoned GWC, Gateway Commer-
Comments are due for the above 4:30 p.m., January 2,
2015, to City of Kent Planning
Fourth Avenue S., Kent, WA 98032, Telephone: (253) 856- 5454. Any person requiring a
of Kent at (253) 856-5725.Charlene Anderson,
Published in Kent Reporter on
Superior Court of Washington County of King
In re: Leila A Ramero Petitioner, andRamon Aldaco Mariscal Respondent.No. 14-3-07494-1KNT
Summons by Publication (SMPB)
To the Respondent: The petitioner has started an
ing: that your marriage or domes-
You must respond to this
your written response on the per- son signing this summons and by
your written response within 60
(60 days after the 28th day of
enter an order of default against
other relief requested in this sum-
the undersigned person, you are
tered. Your written response to thesummons and petition must be onform WPF DR 01.0300, Response to Petition (Marriage). Information about how to getthis form may be obtained by
(360)705-5328, or from the Inter-net at the Washington StateCourts homepage: http:/www.courts.wa.gov/forms
of an attorney in this matter youshould do so promptly so thatyour written response, if any,may be served on time.
of your response on the petitioner
This summons is issuedpursuant to RCW 4.28.100 andSuperior Court Civil Rule 4.1 ofthe State of Washington.Dated: November 13, 2014Petitioner:Leila RameroFile Original of your Response
401 Fourth Avenue North,Kent, Washington 98032Serve a Copy of your Responseon: PetitionerLeila Ramero1101 S 38th St Unit G
Published in the Kent Reporter
ber 5, 12, 19, 26, 2014; January2, 2015. #1186888.
PUBLIC NOTICES...Continued from
previous page
To place a Legal Notice,
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Tickets at kentarts.com, by calling 253-856-5051 or at the Kent Commons, 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 offi ce is closed on Sunday.
Marc Cohn: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22, Kentwood Perform-ing Arts Center, 25800 164th Ave. SE, Covington. After winning a Grammy for his soulful ballad “Walking in Memphis,” Cohn solidifi ed his place as one of this generation’s most compelling singer/songwriters, combining the precision of a brilliant tunesmith with the passion of a great soul man. Tickets: $28 general, $25 senior, $15 youth
Broadway’s Next Hit Musical!: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6, Kent-Meridian PAC. Every song is fresh. Every scene is new. Every night is diff erent. It’s all improvised and it’s all funny. The New York Times calls Broadway’s Next H!T Musical “Hilarious!” Master improvisers gather made up song suggestions from the audience
and create a full blown improvised musical - com-plete with memorable characters, witty dialogue, and plot twists galore. Tickets: $25 general, $22 senior, $15 youth
“Fairy Tales & Fantasy” presented by BYU Theatre Ballet: 7 p.m. March 12, Kentwood PAC. Selections from classic ballets such as Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Don Quixote, and more bring magical stories, beautiful music, and graceful dance to the stage for all ages to enjoy. Tickets: $22 general, $20 senior and $15 youth
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“Oliver!”: 7 p.m. Dec. 19, 20; 3 p.m. Dec. 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 charac-ters 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.
Kent Valley Figure Skating Club Winter Re-cital: 6:15-9:15 p.m. Dec. 21, Kent Valley Ice Center,
6015 S. 240 St., Kent. Enjoy the holiday season at the annual ice skating extravaganza. Free. www.kentvalleyfsc.org
CHANCEL ARTS AT KENT LUTHERAN
Jazz: 8-10 p.m. Jan. 24, Feb. 21, March 21, Kent Lutheran Church, Fellowship Hall, 336 Second Ave. S., downtown Kent. Jazz for listening and dancing. Centerpiece Jazz Band from Music Center Northwest in Seattle performs. Admission: $12.50 adults, $5 senior citizens in groups of 10. Refreshments and drinks available. For more information, call Fergus Prestbye at 253-520-1033.
MuseumsGreater Kent Historical Society: 855 E. Smith St., historic Bereiter House, Kent. Hours: noon-4 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday, and by appointment. Admission: suggested $2 donation; no tickets are required for entrance. Parking is available behind the house off East Temperance Street. GKHS is a nonprofi t organiza-tion that promotes the discovery, preservation and dissemination of knowledge about the history of the greater Kent area. www.kenthistoricalmuseum.org
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20,882,921SQUARE FEET
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(2) 10’x12’ Permastalls w/split opening wood Dutch doors, 3’x6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 2’ poly eavelight, 18” eave & gable overhangs, 10’ continuous fl ow ridge vent.
2 STALL HORSE BARN 24’x30’x9’
10’ x 10’ Metal framed split sliding door w/cam-latch closers, 3’x6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steellockset, 2’ poly eavelight, 10’ continuous fl ow ridge vent.
$21,997$23,998 $316/mo.$16,349$17,984 $235/mo. $16,199$17,819 $232mo.
MODIFIED GRID BARN 30’x30‘x10’ MOTORHOME GARAGE 30’x36‘x12’ConcreteIncluded!
4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (1) 10’x12’ & (1) 8’x9’ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3’ x 6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 5/12 scissor truss, 10’ continuous fl ow ridge vents, 2’ poly eavelight along one eave.
DELUXE BARN 36’x 24‘x10’
$16,699$18,369 $240/mo.
12’x9’ Metal framed split sliding door w/cross hatching & cam-latch closers, (2) 4’x8’ split opening unpainted wood Dutch doors, 3’ x 6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 4’x3’ double glazed vinyl wndow w/screen, 18” eave & gable overhangs, 10’ continuous fl ow ridge vent.
4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (2) 9’x8’ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3’ x 6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 10’ continuous fl ow ridge vent.
2 CAR GARAGE 24’x 24’x 9’
$12,854$13,905 $185mo.
ConcreteIncluded!
4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, 9’x9’ raised panel steel overhead door, 3’ x 6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, (2) 3’x4’ & (4) 3’x2’ double glazed vinyl windows w/screens, 10’x4’ Portico, 18” eave and gable overhangs, (2) 12”x12” gable vents.
GARAGE w/PORTICO 20’x 24’x 9’
$18,322$20,063 $263mo.
ConcreteIncluded!
4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (2) 10’x8’ & (1) 12’x11’ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3’ x 6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 18” eave & gable overhangs, (2) 12’x12’ gable vents (not shown).
RV GARAGE & SHOP 28’x 24’x 9’ & 28’x 14’x 12’
$24,362$26,555 $350mo.
ConcreteIncluded!
4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, 16’x7’ raised panel steel overhead door, 3’ x 6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, (2) 3’x2’ double glazed vinyl cross hatch windows w/screens, 18” eave & gable overhangs, 10’ continuous fl ow ridge vent.
$21,369$23,922 $307mo.
L-SHAPE 2 CAR GARAGE & SHOP 20’x 40’x 8’ w/20’x 10’x 8’ConcreteIncluded!
ConcreteIncluded!
4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (2) 10’x8’ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3’ x 6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 3’x3’ double glazed vinyl window w/screen, 10’ continuous fl ow ridge vent.
2 CAR GARAGE & HOBBY SHOP 24’x 36’x 9’
$16,583$18,158 $238mo.
4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (1) 10’x12’ and (1) 9’x9’ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3’ x 6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, 2’ poly eavelight along one eave, 10’ continuous fl ow ridge vent.
RV GARAGE 24’x 38’x 14’
$20,287$22,113 $291mo.
ConcreteIncluded!
4” Concrete fl oor w/fi bermix reinforcement & zip-strip crack control, (1) 10’x14’ & (2) 10’x7’ raised panel steel overhead doors, 3’ x 6’8” PermaBilt door w/self-closing hinges & stainless steel lockset, (4) 4’x3’ double glazed vinyl windows w/screens, 24’x12’ 50# loft w/L-Shaped staircase, 3’ steel wainscoting, 18” eave and gable overhangs, 10’ continuous fl ow ridge vent.
DELUXE GARAGE w/LOFT 24’x 36’x 16’
$29,976$32,874 $430mo.
ConcreteIncluded!
Cash Discount Coupon**$ 10,000 - $ 17,999 ........$ 300 OFF$ 18,000 - $ 24,999 ........$ 400 OFF$ 25,000 - $ 31,999 ........$ 550 OFF$ 32,000 - $ 39,999 ........$ 650 OFF$ 40,000 - $ 47,999 ........$ 800 OFF$ 48,000 - $ 54,999 ........$ 900 OFF$ 55,000+ ..................$ 1,000 OFF
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**Price refl ects the contract price, excluding tax and permits. Not valid on other offers or prior sales, excludes Denim Series Bldgs., 1 Coupon per building. Must present at time of sale. Coupon expires 1/12/15.
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