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Ken Raner, of Kent, waits in line with his son to sign up for the Kent Station’s costume contest last Friday. Merchants participated in trick-or-treating and prizes were awarded to winning costumes. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
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Timm Lovitt, a former Army infantryman, now serves veterans in his role at Green River Community College.
MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
VETERANS DAY OBSERVANCE
HELPING OTHERS FIND THEIR WAYBY MARK KLAAS
From soldier to civilian, the transi-tion can be a diffi cult one for today’s veteran.
Timm Lovitt should know. He
completed the mission, going from the battlefi eld to the working world, and now uses his experiences to help veterans help themselves.
“I’m trying to help them be suc-cessful … to help them explore and
understand what’s available to them,” said Lovitt, a former Army infantry-man, now the director of campus veteran resources and services at
INSIDE: Columnist Don Dinsmore thanks veterans for their sacrifi ces, page 7
Auburn, K honors veterans with parade, events. Area events, pages 8, 11
[ more LOVITT page 10 ]
BY STEVE HUNTER
Kent voters appear to be failing to give the necessary 60 percent bond measure approval to build a new police headquarters.
Proposition A received 8,080
(53.73 percent) yes votes to 6,958 (46.27 percent) no votes, accord-ing to results released Wednesday aft ernoon by King County Elec-tions.
“I was a little bit surprised,” said Kent Police Chief Ken Th omas at a gathering of bond measure sup-
porters at the Mexico Lindo restaurant across from City Hall. “I’m encouraged and optimistic but I thought the numbers would
come in a little bit higher.”If approved, the $34 million
bond measure would pay for a new police headquarters as well as improvements to the city jail and fi rearm training range for offi cers. Th e property tax rate would be 19 cents per $1,000 assessed value or
about $57 per year for a $300,000 home.
Th omas asked the City Council at an April workshop to send the measure to voters. Kent has 144 offi cers and is expected to have
Bond measure for new police hub coming up short
[ more VOTE page 5 ]
INSIDE: Early election returns, page 5
ShoWare Center operating losses growingBY STEVE HUNTER
It appears Kent's ShoWare Center could be on a record-setting pace for operating losses this year.
Although arena offi cials expect a strong fourth quarter with numerous events at the city-owned facility, the losses hit $764,473 through the fi rst nine months, according to the ShoWare Center's income statement. Th e arena had expenses of $2.05 million and revenue of $1.28 million.
Th at would rank as the biggest annual loss since the arena opened in 2009 and send the six years of losses to more than $3 million. Th e facility has lost money ev-ery year, with a high of $707,541 in 2012 and low of $370,874 in 2013.
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INSIDE: City Council OKs con-tract extension for ShoWare operator, page 3
City Council approves increase in garbage taxBY STEVE HUNTER
Garbage taxes will go up next year in Kent to help pay for residential street repairs.
Th e Kent City Council voted 6-1 on Tuesday night to raise the solid waste tax rate to 18.3 percent from 7.8 percent on each bill. Th e increase will bring in about $3 million per year for street maintenance in neighborhoods.
Single-family residents who pay $18.37 per month for garbage, recycling and yard waste service plus taxes, will see a new rate of $20.75 per month for
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BY STEVE HUNTER
The Kent City Council will consider whether to spend $400,000 next year for a new irrigation well at the River-bend Golf Complex.
Parks Director Jeff Watling asked the council for money
to replace or re-drill the well during an Oct. 28 budget workshop. He said Riv-erbend’s budget included nearly $150,000 this year to buy water from the city for irrigation and has averaged about $100,000 per year in water expenses in each of the last three years because the well is inoperable.
“It’s a one-time request and a key part of fixing our operating budget is ad-dressing the well,” Watling said. “This is a budget request that will allow us to do the capital work needed to get our well back into a functional system that we can rely on for an irriga-tional system and not have to spend money every year
on irrigation.“If we spend about
$150,000 a year on water, we could spend $400,000 to rebuild the well we’d get that back in a two-to-three-year time period.”
Funds for the well would come out of the Riverbend budget, which the city has set up as an enterprise fund, meaning it’s supposed to cover costs through revenue.
But the city-owned complex that includes an 18-hole course, a par 3 course, driving range and merchandise shop, faces a $2.6 million debt, capital investments of at least $6 million and operating deficits of about $300,000 per year.
City officials hope to sell the par 3 course next year to a residential and commercial developer to cover the debt as well as the capital improvements needed on the 18-hole course. The debt is owed to an interfund loan, money that the city borrowed from its water and fleet funds to help pay off the bond for the golf complex.
“It would be an addi-tional hit to debt the first couple of years,” Watling said about paying for the new well. “If we sell the par 3 the proceeds from that sale would address paying back the debt.”
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A Foster Farms turkey rests on a crate next to other pallets of turkeys at the Northwest Harvest Food Bank in Kent. Northwest Harvest received a delivery of 750 donated turkeys, approximately 13,500 pounds, from Foster Farms on Wednesday. The turkeys will be distributed in the coming weeks to Northwest Harvest partner agencies to help feed Washington families this Thanksgiving. According to
the USDA, Washington ranks 23rd in food insecurity. Northwest Harvest reports turkey donations are low this year, and the Kent agency hopes that Foster Farms’ donation will help encourage other companies and the community to join in providing turkeys to help families in need enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
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Set for 4-7 p.m. at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E.
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BY STEVE HUNTER
Th e Kent City Council voted 7-0 on Tuesday night to approve a con-tract extension with Philadelphia-based SMG to market and operate the city-owned ShoWare Center.
Th e agreement will pay SMG $135,000 a year to run the $84.5 million arena that seats 6,024. Th e extension could run for as many as 10 more years.
SMG manages the day-to-day operations of the arena, includ-ing event booking, the budget,
vendor selection, public relations and marketing, and event staffi ng. Th e company also has the food and beverage contract.
SMG received the council’s unanimous vote despite the arena losing $3 million since it opened in 2009. Th e city covers those losses with money out of its general fund.
“I think ShoWare is a good asset for the city,” Councilman Bill Boyce said prior to the vote. “It’s pretty clear it’s not where we want it to be from a fi nancial standpoint, but I think that is on the table now. As the council and working with the
administration and the mayor, our focus is to someday turn that red into black. …I strongly believe we will get where we want to go. We will get there.”
Th e contract includes two fi ve-year terms. Th e city will have the option to end the agreement aft er year three in each of the fi ve-year contracts. Th e previous contract was for three years.
“ShoWare is a tremendous asset to this community,” Council Presi-dent Dana Ralph said. “It provides benefi ts across the board whether it’d be to support Kent Station, local
businesses or just a place to go with your family. …But it doesn’t take away from the fact that we need to fi gure out how to run the building in a way that it generates revenue.”
Th e deal includes SMG pay-ing $500,000 upfront for capital improvements to the facility. Th e city agreed to pay $50,000 annually to repay that $500,000 loan. Wolters said those changes could include updated and refreshed concession stands to create more revenue and possibly the addition of a pizza oven in the kitchen.
ShoWare operator gets contract extension
BY STEVE HUNTER
A 57-year-old Kent man faces federal charges of two counts of possession of child pornography for allegedly videotaping a young girl in a bathroom at his home.
James Christopher Rivers already had been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor by King County prosecutors.
Rivers, a former instructor at the Art Institute of Se-attle, had a hearing Oct. 30 in district court prior to his release. Federal prosecutors wanted Rivers to remain in custody but U.S. District Court Judge Mary Alice Th eiler granted his release with conditions. Rivers is scheduled to return to district court Nov. 7 in Seattle.
Rivers is accused of hiding his cellphone in a bath-room to videotape a young girl in the shower and bath, according to charging papers.
An FBI offi ce in Ohio notifi ed Kent Police that a computer forensics agency had discovered child pornography on a laptop Rivers sent to the company to remove all pornography because he did not want his wife to divorce him over the pornography, according to charging documents. Th e FBI took custody of the laptop.
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A cancelled concert in July kept the revenue lower for that month, said Arletta Voter, ShoWare finance di-rector, at an Oct. 30 Public Facilities District meeting. The board helps oversee arena operations.
“The year to date actual is quite a bit over budget significantly due to the un-expected capital expenses of $182,373,” Voter said.
Those expenses are for the repairs to the ice plant equipment at the $84.5 mil-lion facility. Without that expense, the losses would be $582,100. City officials are pursuing reimburse-ment of those costs from contractors and subcon-tractors because the system failed after such a short period.
“It was a complete over-haul and recommissioning of the ice plant system,” said
Ben Wolters, city economic and community develop-ment director, who helps oversee the arena. “It was substantial replacement of key parts. Any part showing any sign of wear and tear was replaced. The system was reset and restarted from ground zero.”
Wolters said the ice plant system that produces the arena ice for the Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team is working well after repairs by PermaCold Engi-neering out of Oregon.
“PermaCold has a firm handle on it,” Wolters said. “We’re really pleased with the direction. They have some further recommen-dations we’re evaluating for changes to the system which they think will opti-mize its performance and further reduce the risk of any problems with the sys-tem. We’re likely to do that
and those will be expenses we will see next year, about $30,000 for design changes.”
Tim Higgins, ShoWare general manager, said the repairs have worked.
“The system is running the best it has been in the six years we’ve had it,” Hig-gins said.
As far as a strong final quarter this year, Higgins said many events are sched-uled for the arena.
“We are looking at 45 events between now and the end of the year,” Higgins said. “That’s pretty strong. It’s been quite active. I wish we could be doing 60 days, we’d like to fill everyday possible.”
The center will host 179 events by the end of the year.
“That’s right in the ballpark of what we’ve been doing,” Higgins said.
Events coming up in-
clude Disney On Ice Nov. 12-17 with 10 performances that average about 2,000 people per show; The Wolf Hometown Holiday concert on Dec. 10 that has sold more than 2,500 tickets; the 103.7 Hot House Party con-cert featuring Bobby Brown on Dec. 12; and 20 Seattle Thunderbirds hockey and Seattle Impact FC soccer games.
The fourth-quarter numbers also will include the more than 5,000 people who attended the Espinoza Paz concert on Oct. 12 and the more than 4,000 who went to the Lecrae Anoma-ly tour on Oct. 19.
The City Council sets aside $500,000 each year in the city’s general fund to cover operating losses at the arena. ShoWare officials will release the final 2014 income statement for the arena in January.
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a customer who has a 32-gallon weekly garbage pickup and up to a 96-gal-lon recycling and 96-gal-lon yard waste containers pickup every other week.
“We don’t have funding to repair these roads in residential areas,” Council-man Dennis Higgins said prior to the vote. “I see a direct connection between the garbage utility tax and repairing these streets. I think it’s important for many different reasons not the least of which is main-taining the property value for homeowners.
“As people are buying and selling property the condi-
tion of the neighborhood is certainly a factor in the value of the property. And a road that is falling apart and has chunks and potholes coming out of it is going to affect that property value. This council can’t continue to defer that maintenance.”
Councilwoman Deborah Ranniger cast the only vote against the tax.
“What concerns me is this council is wrestling with a variety of different revenue shortfalls and options and funding streams,” she said. “What I am hearing from folks in the community is a lot of negativity around being hit from all sides in terms of increases. This is not the only increase being proposed and
we are still wrestling with the budget. I feel this is not the right time to be passing this when we have not made decisions about everything else yet.”
Kent has about 26,000 garbage customers served by Republic Services. About 24,000 of those are residen-tial customers. City officials rationalize the tax increase because of the damage gar-bage and recycling trucks cause to roads. The council asked city staff to come up with proposals about ways to raise more money for street repairs.
At least 19 neighbor-hoods have cracked roads that need to be repaired, Public Works Director Tim
LaPorte said. He added most of the roads are close to 30 years old and residen-tial streets last an average of about 25 years. He said the cost to repair streets in all 19 neighborhoods is about $35 million.
“It would take us 11 years to address these neighbor-hoods,” LaPorte said about the utility tax that will bring in $3 million per year. “We would never catch up but we certainly can make a dent in fixing these streets.”
Kelly Peterson, Public Works special projects manager, emphasized Kent has the lowest rates in the area and even with the increase only Tukwila will have a lower rate.
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160 by 2016. Th e current station was remodeled in 1991 to handle about 75 offi cers. Employees are scat-tered at four diff erent sites.
City offi cials want to tear down the current police sta-tion next to City Hall along Fourth Avenue South. Th e 19,000-square-foot facility would be replaced by a two-story, 48,000-square-foot building. Offi cers would be housed at temporary loca-tions during construction, which could take 12 to 18 months.
About $800,000 of the bond would be used to pay to rewire and re-plumb
the city jail along Central Avenue and add a couple of new cells to handle inmates with mental health issues.
“I’m holding out hope until they say it’s not pos-sible,” Th omas said about whether the approval rating could reach 60 percent as more votes are counted from the mail-in election.
Supporters who joined Th omas at the restaurant were encouraged about the majority of voters approv-ing the measure and agreed if it fails they want to try again to get voters to ap-prove a new police station.
Mayor Suzette Cooke told the campaign crowd they have made an impres-
sive showing.“Since I’ve been mayor
this is the fi rst time I have seen a concerted eff ort for a city issue,” said Cooke, elected last year to her third term. “We had the parks and streets bond issue a few years ago but it started out a failure when you had a split council on it. We were unifi ed on this one. I think what gives me the greatest hope on our fu-ture in this city is the people in this room who came to-gether along with the council members to be unifi ed in a direction. I am very encour-aged not just by the positive vote we have heard so far but particularly by you.”
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General election results(Kent-area races, measures through Wednesday)
KENT MEASURE
• Proposition A (new police headquarters)Yes: 8,080 (53.73 percent)
No: 6,958 (46.27)
Note: Requires 60 percent approval
STATE RACES
Legislative District No. 33• State Senator
Karen Keiser (D): 11,859(62.71 percent)
Martin Metz (R): 7,025 (37.15 percent)
Write-in: 28 (0.15 percent)
• Representative Position No. 1
Michael J. Siefkes (R): 6,705 (35.77 percent)
Tina Orwall (D): 12,010 (64.08 percent)
Write-in: 28 (0.15 percent)
• Representative Position No. 2
(short and full term)Mia Su-Ling Gregerson (D): 10,240 (54.88 percent)
Jeanette Burrage (R): 8,384 (44.93 percent)
Write-in: 35 (0.19 percent)
Legislative District No. 47• State Senator
Carol Barber (D): 8,083(36.31 percent)
Joe Fain (R): 14,159 (63.61 percent)
Write-in: 18 (0.08 percent)
• Representative Position No. 1
Mark Hargrove (R): 12,157 (56.02 percent)
Chris Barringer (D): 9,809 (43.90 percent)
Write-in: 18 (0.08 percent)
• Representative Position No. 2
Pat Sullivan (D): 12,460 (56.01 percent)
Barry Knowles (R): 9,771 (43.92 percent)
Write-in: 17 (0.08 percent)
CONGRESSIONAL RACES
• District 8 - U.S. Representative(Results from Secretary of State offi ce)
Jason Ritchie (D): 45,474 (37.03 percent)
Dave Reichert (R): 77,328 (62.97 percent)
Write-in: Not available
• District 9 - U.S. RepresentativeAdam Smith (D): 70,554 (69.83 percent)
Doug Basler (R): 30,488 (30.17 percent)
Write-in: Not available
STATE MEASURES
• Initiative Measure No. 1351(Concerns K-12 education)
Yes: 624,695 (49.51 percent)
No: 637,015 (50.49 percent)
• Initiative Measure No. 591(Concerns fi rearms)
Yes: 570,567 (45.02 percent)
No: 697,280 (54.98 percent)
• Initiative Measure No. 594(Concerns background checks for fi rearm sales and transfers)
Yes: 767,614 (59.98 percent)
No: 512,199 (40.02 percent)
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Show of Steele: Boy fights back from surgery
Colleen Steele remains hopeful that her resilient son, Cullen, gains the strength to come home.
It won’t be in time for Th anksgiving, she says, but maybe for Christmas.
Aft er receiving a heart and double-lung transplant three months ago, the Kent boy is slowly on the mend.
Cullen, who turns 15 on Nov. 17, suff ers from pulmonary hypertension, a rare, debili-
tating disease of the lungs that aff ects the function-ing of the heart and can lead to failure. His deteriorating condition, a six-year battle, neces-sitated a last-hour surgery at Stanford University’s Lucile Packard Children’s
Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.At 6 a.m. on Aug. 6, Colleen got the phone
call she had long been waiting for. Doctors had fi nally found a donor.
She accompanied Cullen on the urgent fl ight down to the San Francisco Bay Area, where the following morning, surgeons stood ready to perform a six-hour transplant opera-tion to save the boy’s life.
Defying odds, Cullen pulled through.“He was declining rapidly, and those life-
saving organs didn’t come a moment too soon,” Colleen said of the excruciating ordeal. “Th e surgeon told me aft er the transplant that when they did the operation, his old heart and lungs were barely functioning. His old organs were wounded warriors.”
As Cullen Steele continues his recovery, Colleen Steele remains by her son at a Palo Alto, Calif., hospital. COURTESY PHOTO, Steele family
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Who is really teaching your kids?
Th e Kent School District trains its teachers through sev-eral means, but the most con-troversial right now is during instructional days. Th is means taking the teacher away from the classroom and providing a substitute. Or it should.
Kent is currently having a sub shortage. Th is is caused by several factors: lower sub pay and benefi ts than surrounding districts; no student teacher program/pipeline; turnover in our human resources depart-ment that leaves applications for subs withering in cyber-space; and a lack of respect given to substitute teachers by schools and students.
Th ere is becoming a state-wide shortage as well.
When a sub is not avail-able to cover for a teacher in staff development sessions, the teachers in the building are pulled from counseling, libraries, P.E., music and other important programs or other classroom teachers give up their time to communicate with parents, review data, plan lessons.
In classrooms, this could mean a new teacher for students each 50 minutes, or more. It means students have to deal with a lot of change, a lot of diff erent management styles and teachers who are fi lling in and have to read through lesson plans and may not be familiar with the materials or even grade level. It means lack of continuity for
kids and programs. It means a teacher can’t answer a question in the hallway, or they leave 33 other students waiting for their temporary substitute. It means parent communication suff ers.
Kent’s administration changes a lot of programs and has a lot of training each year. In our building this week we had fi ve less subs than we needed to cover, and this is one out of 40 Kent schools. On Tuesday alone, we were short three subs. Many buildings have less dedicated subs and are always short more subs than our numbers refl ect.
What will happen when fl u season hits and teachers are ill? Th e real reason we have subs. Th is also puts stress on princi-pals and offi ce staff who devote an extraordinary amount of time rounding up teachers to cover classes, fi lling out paper-work and trying to bridge the gaps in coverage themselves.
Staff development is oft en
grouped so that a classroom teacher is out multiple days in a row, meaning the impact to students is cumulative. With all the days/lessons missed for all the testing we now do, teaching and learning are already compressed and learn-ing is slowed when the regular classroom teacher who knows the kids and the curriculum is not doing the teaching.
Th e current teacher contract calls for staff development to be canceled and for teachers to return to buildings when there are no subs for their class-rooms. Th is is not happening, even when the district knows they are short dozens of subs over 48 hours in advance.
Is this really best for our students?– Donna Pirog
The $500,000 a year question
Moody’s downgraded the city of Kent twice – sending the clear message that Kent City Hall has not managed the city’s fi nances in a responsible way.
You might think that the economy is solely responsible for the city’s negative revenues. It’s not.
ShoWare Center is costing the city more than $500,000 a year to sustain, but the city keeps supporting this trophy arena while cutting social ser-vices and other vital programs. Now the ice machines are defective, so another $500,000
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is needed to cool the white elephant in the room.
Is there some magic number, say a billion dol-lars, that will motivate City Council members to talk seriously about closing this monument to civic vanity? It’s clear that the council is loath to do anything that off ends business interests (e.g, the fi ght against a B&O tax). But it’s incom-prehensible that the council continues to fl ush millions of dollars down the drain
just so Kent Station busi-nesses (e.g., restaurants and theater) can benefi t from ShoWare event traffi c. Th is is an entertainment venue that Kent can’t aff ord.
When going through the budget process, the arena seems to be off limits for any drastic action to remedy the year-aft er-year defi cit. Moody’s is likely to downgrade Kent’s fi scal health as long as the City Council doesn’t acknowl-edge the problem and do something about it instead of dithering over “innova-
tive thinking” to stimulate attendance and hiring consultants to tell them the obvious: It’s a money loser.– Sandra Gill
Time to raise wagesCould you survive on
$9.47 an hour? Th at’s next year’s state minimum wage.
It may be the highest in the country, but it’s still not enough for workers to sup-
port themselves, aff ord the basics, and contribute to the economy.
Raising wages is good for workers striving for a better future. It’s also good for our economy. Aft er all, more people with more money means more customers for more businesses.
Th at’s why I think it’s time to raise wages, raise up Kent workers, and raise up our whole state.– Beatrice Shimirimana
Cullen, ever the fi ghter, now is on the mend, but his recovery has been rough. His new organs are in “minor rejection,” which is normal in the fi rst year of recovery, and anti-infl amma-tion medications have led to seizures, migraines and other complications. But doctors are optimistic that Cullen will respond to treatment.
Th e transplant center, led by Stan-ford medicine faculty, is considered one of the nation’s fi nest facilities, sup-porting some of the highest survival rates in the country for children.
“He’s had some bumps in the road, but he’s doing well. Basically, his doc-tors say he’s doing well,” Colleen said. “Th ere’s a lot to be fi gured out, but there’s so much hope. I mean, they’re going to fi gure this out. It’s just going to take time.”
To be near her son, Colleen left her secretarial job at Auburn’s Holy Family Catholic School and rented a studio apartment not far from the transplant center. Th e hospital is pick-ing up the costs.
As mom stands by her son’s side, the rest of the family is staying back, more than 800 miles away. Brian, Cul-len’s father, is a senior systems admin-istrator. Aidan, 13, Cullen’s brother, attends school.
Despite the long distance, the fam-ily has reunited at the hospital.
“(Aidan) has given up so much over the years and has worried without end about his brother,” Colleen said. “Th is journey has been very hard on him as well, yet he rarely complained. He’s an amazing young man, and Brian and I are so proud of his strength as well.”
Between treatments, Cullen tries to
keep busy with books. He graduated from the eighth grade at Holy Family last spring but has spent his freshman year taking classes at a school in the hospital.
“Th ey’ve been very understand-ing,” Colleen said of the instructors at Kennedy Catholic, Cullen’s high school. “Th ey even have sent him care packages and encouragement. Th ey are really looking forward to the day when he can fi nally walk through their doors.”
Community at workGiven the high medical costs, the
Steeles are doing their best to make ends meet. Family and friends from Auburn, Kent and surrounding com-munities have organized creative fundraising events.
Amy O’Donnell Riley and COTA (Children’s Organ Transplant Associa-tion) have been instrumental raising money to cover the cost of Cullen’s operation.
Colleen cannot thank the many supporters enough.
“We are fortunate to have amazing family and friends,” she said.
Colleen also is overwhelmed by the great gift of life that Cullen received by the donor and his family.
“We are so grateful to them, and our prayers are always with his fam-ily,” she said.
Colleen intends to write a letter and send a photo of Cullen to the donor’s family. By careful arrangement, families have the option to read each other’s let-ter. Th ey also have the choice to meet in the future. Colleen is entertaining that probability.
For Colleen, it’s been a tough go,
but even more so for her son.“It’s been hard in a sense that a
transplant really shouldn’t be the cure for PH (pulmonary hypertension). You’re really trading one disease for another,” said Colleen, pointing out that November is PH Awareness Month. “It’s been really hard watch-ing Cullen struggle, which is to be expected. It’s hard seeing him in pain and watching him go through the process of recovery. … Knowing that a transplant is a roller-coaster ride in itself, he will always have challenges.”
Cullen’s plight has been an emo-tional experience, testing the resolve of those around him.
“For a mom, the heartbreak never ends. It’s heart wrenching in many ways, but I also have so much hope for Cullen’s future,” Colleen said. “I try to take it a day at a time. I’ve learned to appreciate the small things. Th ere’s no taking things for granted when you’re going through things like this.
“I look at Cullen now and, despite his current challenges, he looks so much healthier than he has in years,” Colleen said. “Day by day, he is getting stronger, and I can’t wait until he feels well enough to live life to its fullest. Every day I wake up and want to hug him and never let go because I’m so grateful he is still with me.”
To learn more or help the Steele family, visit cota.donorpages.com/PatientOn-lineDonation/COTAforCullenS or www.caringbridge.org/visit/cullensteele.
To learn earn more about PH or to make a donation, visit www.PHAssocia-tion.org.
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I drove up Veterans Memorial Drive the other day, as I do every so oft en, just to remember.
Th e city of Kent was very thoughtful when they planned that drive for us, the vets. One end is on Military Road at the top of what was formerly 228th.
Military Road, as my dad told me when I was a boy, was the path that the Army used to convoy weapons, ammunition and other items during World War II, from Fort Lewis to Fort Lawton, now dubbed Discovery Park.
Th e Memorial Drive consists of going down a steep hill from Military Road to the beginning of the fl at where it promptly turns back to 228th. I was traveling up the long steep hill, which is so appropri-ate for we who served.
Most of the American public has no idea what it means to be a vet. One day is certainly not enough to honor what sacrifi ces they have made for us. Let me give you a quick overview of what your son or daughter, father or friends have endured.
To be a vet is a lifetime of commitment that begins with the fi rst day of shocking reality in training, like boot camp. “What have I done?” could be heard within the brain of the new recruit if hard exhaustive breath-ing and the need for sleep weren’t yelling louder.
Th is is the beginning of learning to pull together as a team of future vets. Th e one main purpose is protecting their families, protecting our way of life with values, with honesty, integrity and the freedom to raise our children to follow decency as our founding fathers in-tended.
Th en reality sets in and the training ground becomes overseas. “Th e Bush,” Th e Sand Box,”
“Down Range,” “Boots on the Ground,” loud noises, looking back over your shoulder and watching for bumps in the ground. Th e
places and times where all that training keeps you alive, or someone who you trained with does, by off ering his own life for you. People who are “oh, so special” left behind where the great ques-tion also lies, why wasn’t it me? Tuck that in your Ditty Bag and live with it for the rest of your life.
News comes from home, how Americans are objecting to me being over here, objecting to us fulfi lling our intense team training, fi ghting for gas or money or corruption of some kind is what they may be saying. How do I deal with this? How do I digest this and ignore this attitude while I look at the devastations of my friends who have become closer than my brothers? Th ey are my brothers.
Veterans, thank you for my freedom
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Superior Court of Washington for King County
Estate of EILEEN S. MORRIS, Deceased.Case No.14-4-05737-4KNT
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
(RCW 11.40.030)The above Court has appointed BERNARD A. GAVINO and ANDREA G. GRELL as Co- personal Representatives of Decedent’s estate. Any person having a claim against Decedent must present the claim: a. Before the time the claim would be barred by an applicable statute of limitations, and b. In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070 i.
with the above Court, and ii. By serving on or mailing to the Co- personal Representatives and/or their attorney at the addresses listed below, a copy of the claim. The Creditor’s Claim must be presented by the later of: (a) Thirty (30) days after the mailing of this Notice to you as provided in RCW 11.40.020(1)(c), or (b) Four (4) months after the date of
the claim is not presented within the time period set forth above, 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 Decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.
Notice: October 24, 2014GRAHAM LAW GROUP, P.C.By: Jack Graham, WSBA No. 43511 Attorney for Co-personal RepresentativesCO-PERSONAL REPRESEN- TATIVES: Bernard A. Gavino,29951- 23rd Ave. S. Federal Way, WA 98003 Andrea G. Grell, 793 Meadow- lawn Dr. SE Salem, OR 97301ATTORNEY FOR CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTA- TIVES: Jack Graham, WSBA No. 43511 Attorney for Co-per- sonal RepresentativesGraham Law Group, P.C.401 Ratcliff Dr. SE, Suite 10Salem, OR 97302Telephone: (503) 364-1117FAX No.: (503) 391-4269E-mail:Jack@GrahamLawGroup PC.com Published in the Kent Reporter on October 24, 2014, October 31, 2014, November 7, 2014. #1162591.
Superior Court of Washington County of King
In re: Evelia Torres Petitioner, andMartin Zambrano Respondent.
No. 14-306863-1KNTSummons by Publication
(SMPB)To the Respondent: The petitioner has started an action in the above court request- ing: that your marriage or domes- tic partnership be dissolved. The petition also requests that the court grant the following relief: Dispose of property and li- abilities You must respond to this summons by serving a copy of your written response on the per- son signing this summons and by
of the court. If you do not serve your written response within 60
publication of this summons (60 days after the 24th day of October 24, 2014), the court may enter an order of default against you, and the court may, without further notice to you, enter a de- cree and approve or provide for other relief requested in this sum- mons. In the case of a dissolu- tion, the court will not enter the
serve a notice of appearance on the undersigned person, you are entitled to notice before an order of default or a decree may be en- tered. Your written response to the summons and petition must be on form WPF DR 01.0300, Response to Petition (Marriage). Information about how to get this form may be obtained by contacting the clerk of the court, by contacting the Administrative
(360)705-5328, or from the Inter- net at the Washington State Courts homepage: http:/www.courts.wa.gov/forms If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time. One method of serving a copy of your response on the petitioner
return receipt requested. This summons is issued pursuant to RCW 4.28.100 and Superior Court Civil Rule 4.1 of the State of Washington.Dated: August 10, 2012Petitioner:Virgilio Aguilar AvilaFile Original of your Response tiht the Clerk of the Court at:Maleng Regional Justice Center401 Fourth Avenue North,Kent, Washington 98032Serve a Copy of your Response on: PetitionerEvelia Torres23240 88th Ave S #KK202Kent, WA 98031Published in the Kent Reporter
on October 24 &31, 2014; November 7, 14, 21 &2 82014. #1162225
KENT LANDMARKS COMMISSION
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER
LANDMARK NOMINATIONDATE, TIME, AND PLACE:Thursday, November 20, 20147:00 p.m.Kent Senior Activity Center Social Hall600 E Smith StreetKent, WA NAME/LOCATION OF NOMINATED PROPERTIES:Mill Creek Historic District, roughly bounded by Clark Ave N on the west, Hazel Ave N on the east, Smith St on the south, and Cedar St on the north, all within the city limits of Kent, Washing- ton.LEGAL DESCRIPTION/ BOUNDARIES OF SIGNIFICANCE: Block 1, Lots 9-13; Block 3; Block 4, Lots 1-24 of Clark’s First Addition to Kent; and Block 2, Lots 7-8; Block 3; Block 4, Lots 7-12 of Clark’s Second Addition to Kent; and legal parcels 1612500314, 1922059035, 1922059135, 1922059155, 1922059139, 1922059138, 1922059144, 1922059140, 1922059344, 1922059116, 1922059124, 1922059106, 1922059105, 1598600130, 1598600120, 1598600110, and including all bounding roads and alleys to their centerlines.HEARING PROCEDURE: All proceedings to review the Land- marks Commission’s action at the hearing on approval of designa- tion will be based on the record at this hearing. No further right to present evidence on the issue of designation is afforded pursu- ant to Kent Municipal Code Chapter 14.12. Questions, writ- ten comments and requests for copies of the proposed district map or Kent Municipal Code 14.12 may be directed to Todd Scott at 206-477-4545.Published in the Kent Reporter on November 7, 2014. #1179416
CITY OF KENTOFFICE OF THE
HEARING EXAMINERNOTICE OF
PUBLIC HEARINGSTEARNS RESIDENCE
SHORELINE VARIANCESMV-2014-1 / RPP3-2141292
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Hearing Examiner for the City of Kent will hold a public hearing to consider a request sub- mitted by Dillon Stearns seeking a Shoreline Variance to construct
a two-story single family home, a
in a wetland buffer and within the 150-foot shoreline setback from the Green River. The sub- ject parcel is vacant, but entirelyencumbered with a wetland and its buffer. The proposed develop- ment footprint, including the
proximately 11,528 square feet of wetland buffer. The applicant proposes approximately 26,817 square feet of wetland buffer en- hancement, to include removal of invasive plants and replacement with native trees and shrubs, in order to mitigate for the buffer impacts. The property site con- sists of 5.65 acres, is located at 24519 Frager Road South, and is
number 2222049030. The zoning is SR-1, Residential Agricultural. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Hearing Examiner will hold the public hearing on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2014 at 10:00 AM in Cham- bers West, Kent City Hall, 220 Fourth Avenue South, Kent, WA 98032. If you have any questions concerning this proposed appli- cation, please contact Senior Planner Erin George in Kent Planning Services at (253) 856-5454 or by Email at [email protected]. Any per- son wishing to submit oral, written or electronic comments on the item listed above may do so prior to the hearing or at the hearing. Send all written respons- es to Planning Services, 220 Fourth Avenue S., Kent, WA 98032. All interested persons are requested to be then and there present at the meeting. One free copy of the staff report will be available by Wednesday after- noon, November 12, 2014, in Planning Services. If you wish
information, contact Kent Plan- ning Services at (253) 856-5454
Gowe, Kent, WA 98032. Any person requiring a disability accommodation should contact the City in advance for more information. For TDD relay service, call 1-800-833-6388 (hearing impaired) or 1-800-833-6385 (Braille) or the City of Kent at (253) 856-5725.
Charlene Anderson, AICP, Planning Manager
Published in the Kent Reporter on November 7, 2014.#1179447
CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF ORDINANCES
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
The following is a summary of the ordinances adopted by the
Kent City Council on November 4, 2014:ORDINANCE NO. 4127 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the city of Kent, Washington, amending Chapter 7.14 of the Kent City Code, entitled “Illicit Discharges,” toestablish penalty provisions that apply should an individual vi- olate the illicit stormwater dis- charge code provisions, to clarify existing code provisions, and to make other changes consistent with federal law. This ordinance will take effect thirty (30) days from the date of passage and publication, unless subjected to referendum or vetoed by the Mayor, or unless otherwise noted.ORDINANCE NO. 4128 - AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the city of Kent, Washington, amending Section 3.18.020 of the Kent City Code to increase the solid waste utility tax to 18.4% and allocating the increase beyond the existing tax rate to be applied to the mainte- nance of residential roads. This ordinance will take effect
passage and publication, unless subjected to referendum or vetoed by the Mayor, or unless otherwise noted. A copy of the complete text of any ordinance will be mailed upon request of the City Clerk.
Ronald F. Moore, MMC, City Clerk
Published in the Kent Reporter on November 7, 2014. #1179618
GrandView Apartments, LLC, Jack Hunden, 10900 NE 8th St, Ste 1200 Bellevue, WA 98004, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Storm- water NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, GrandView Apartments, is located at North- west corner intersection of S. 231st Way and Riverview Blvd. S, City of Kent in Kent in King county. This project involves 9.63 acres of soil disturbance for Residential, Utilities construction activities. Stormwater will be discharged to Roadside ditch. Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State Department of Ecology re- garding this application, or inter- ested in Ecology’s action on this application, may notify Ecology in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measur- able change in receivi ng water
quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest accord- ing to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173-201A-320. Comments can be submitted to: Department of Ecology Attn: Water Quality Program, Construction Stormwa- ter P.O. Box 47696, Olympia,WA 98504-7696 Published in the Kent Reporter on November 7, 2014 and No- vember 14, 2014. #1166884
Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of Kitsap
In the matter of the estate of AMELIA S. BLOOM, DeceasedNo. 14-4-00677-1
PROBATE NOTICE TOCREDITORS
RCW 11.40.030 The persons named below have been appointed as Personal Rep- resentatives of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mail- ing to the Personal Representa- tives or the Personal Representa- tives’ attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim
claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the lat- er of: (I) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the credi- tor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months
of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, ex- cept as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s pro- bate and non-probate assets.Anticipated Date of First Publication: October 24, 2014Personal Representatives: J. Paul Adams and J. David AdamsAttorney for the Personal Representatives: Michelle Bacon Adams, WSBA #25200Address for Mailing or Service:
PLLC623 Dwight StreetPort Orchard, WA 98366DATED this 16th day of October, 2014.MICHELLE BACON ADAMS, WSBA #25200 Attorney for Per- sonal Representatives. Published in the Kent Reporter on October 24, 2014, October 31, 2014 and November 7, 2014. #1162495.
PUBLIC NOTICES
Vets returning to families who don’t understand why they have changed, how they have trained, how they have lived and watched brothers and sisters become crippled in one fraction of a sec-ond. Nobody understands how their emotional insides torn out can never to be fully replaced, as they were in a happier time.
In some wars the vets have returned to rejection, but thank-fully the American public has stepped up and changed that for today’s returning warriors.
But the American public can never understand what the vet lives, every day. And because of the lifelong sacrifi ce, beginning
with that fi rst training day to the “dearly beloved,” the vet is a very special person. He has lived a dedicated live, for what? He has lived for you, so when you enter the grocery store you can feel safe. Lived for you, so when you drive down the street, tanks and armed people from another country will not control your day. Served for you, so that you can feel as safe as possible.
Th e veteran’s life has been changed forever, so that yours can stay free.
Veteran, thank you for your service … but more, thank you for my freedom.
Don Dinsmore, a Navy veteran, regularly contributes to the Kent Reporter.
[ DINSMORE from page 7 ] Tahoma National Cemetery presents Veterans Day ceremonyFOR THE REPORTER
Tahoma National Cemetery cel-ebrates it 17th Veterans Day program with an hour-long ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11.
Keynote speaker is Col. Anthony J. Davit, deputy commander of Joint Base Lewis-McChord and the 627th Air Base Group. Also speaking will be state Rep. Mark Hargrove (R-Covington).
Th e Allegro Women’s Ensemble and the Enumclaw Concert Band, under conductor Jack Prindle, will perform.
Th e ceremony is open to the public.
Tahoma National Cemetery has organized a program for veterans past and present on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. COURTESY PHOTO
Th e cemetery is at 18600 SE 240th St., Kent.Parking at the cemetery is limited so please arrive early.
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Students at Kent-Meridian High School were given a free pass out of school on Thursday, Oct. 30 after re-ports of a threat at the school.
Principal Wade Barrin-ger posted a message on the school’s website saying that, while the threat was not deemed credible after investigations, he would allow parents to keep their students home.
“We had too many stu-dents who were concerned even at rumors and then they scared their friends and their friends and so on to the point that kids were texting parents in the after-noon. We had to show we understood their concern but that it was unfounded but not to take away from their students emotional state or feeling of safety,” said Barringer in an email.
According to district spokesman Chris Loftis, the
threat wasn’t written but instead was a rumor that had grown through several days after the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting.
“The recent tragedy in Marysville added a great deal of emotional wind to
the sailing of those rumors,” Loftis said.
When the district gets wind of rumors, it works with students, family mem-bers, safety officers and law enforcement to find the threat’s credibility.
After talking to several
classrooms and more than 30 students, Barringer and his staff decided that the threat wasn’t credible.
Because of the preva-lence of the rumors on social media and the ease of which they disseminated from children to parents,
the school decided to close for the day.
In the event that a threat is deemed credible, the school works with various public safety agencies to develop a plan of action for the situation. If the threat comes before a school day, the school can close, but in other events officials will evacuate or lockdown a school.
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Green River Community College.
Lovitt found his way, but it wasn’t easy.
He saw combat with the Army Airborne’s 10th Mountain Division in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2002-05. His patrol withstood many nerve-jarring suicide bomb attacks and surprising episodes with improvised explosive devices.
One attack in particular stands out.
His unit was on a 12-hour patrol outside Baghdad on Sept. 14, 2005, when a car bomb explosion scattered the group. The blast shook the Humvee carrying Lovitt and three other soldiers like a “box of marbles.” It damaged the fortified truck, engulfed it in flames and left a crater in the ground.
Luckily, no one was killed in the explosion, but plenty of heads were left ringing.
Lovitt absorbed a concus-sion, one of several he says he sustained on two lengthy tours of duty, and was later
diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury.
After serving five years in the Army, Lovitt came home with invisible wounds. He struggled with migraines, memory loss and other cognitive problems.
“I would read a page, and by the time I got to the bot-tom of it I’d lost what I was reading,” he said. “At that point, I knew something was wrong.”
So Lovitt found treat-ment, eventually regaining his memory and rebuilding his cognitive skills.
Unsure of his future, Lovitt returned to school.
Peter Schmidt, a Veterans Training Support Center project director at Edmonds Community College, en-couraged Lovitt to deal with his struggles and connected him to the right people and resources.
“He was encouraging and empowering,” Lovitt said.
Lovitt excelled in the classroom and began work-
ing with student veterans. He chartered two student clubs.
“My experiences with campus activities helped me realize that, although my time in the military had ended, my service to my nation and those around me had not,” Lovitt said.
After graduating from Edmonds, Lovitt earned his bachelor’s degree in public affairs from Seattle University and a master’s in business administration from Western Governor’s University.
Part of the first cohort of the Washington Depart-ment of Veteran Affairs, he later became its first traumatic brain injury field coordinator.
Today, 32-year-old Lovitt – husband, father of two and proud veteran – plans to pursue a doctorate degree while continuing his work with students at Green River.
Lovitt enjoys the chal-lenge of getting veteran students back on their feet.
Green River has a long history of supporting veter-ans and continues to ensure student success through comprehensive educational programs and support services.
“A good day for me is when somebody learns about our resources … and we’re able to help them,” Lovitt said.
Lovitt encourages student veterans to reach out, estab-lish relationships and find the necessary help. Veterans often can’t make it alone.
“People will guide you during your journey, give you a shoulder to lean on and help you laugh when you need it,” he said.
Veterans need help in many ways, Lovitt said.
“The reassimilation is really quick. The general public’s understanding or expectation is that the men and women who come out of the military go through this long, detailed transi-tion process and that they are retrained and given the right tools to be successful. That’s not what’s happen-ing,” Lovitt said.
“The everyday Joe who comes out of the military doesn’t know how to write a resume. They don’t know how to do a job interview. They kinda know how to network, but not effec-tively for careers,” Lovitt explained. “Most of them have never explored what they want to do. Now that they are out, they don’t real-ize the options.”
Lovitt says the college has stepped up. Green River keeps growing with a healthy infusion of return-ing veterans ready to redis-cover the classroom. The college served more than 500 student veterans last
year, and has helped more than 300 VA-supported student veterans so far this year, Lovitt said.
The GRCC Foundation is doing its part. Its Veterans Educational Transition (VET) Fund covers gaps in student veterans’ education benefits.
Auburn’s VFW Post 1741 and the Kent Rotary Club are among those organiza-tions that have contributed greatly to the college’s vet-eran fund programs.
There are many other resources in place to help veterans, including programs that help ease the transition from combat to campus. The Washington State Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs developed the new GI Bill education benefits programs for post-9/11 veterans, providing a supportive environment and easier access to other benefits, such as academic advice, financial aid, career counseling and peer support.
Lovitt is determined to succeed and lead the college’s efforts to help more students find their way. Much more work needs to be done.
“My professional goal is to have the highest reten-tion and completion rates of our student veterans in the state,” Lovitt said. “To move the needle … to have more student veterans graduating here.”
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Remembrance Ceremony and Light-ing of the Flame: 9:45-10:15 a.m. Nov. 8, Veterans Memorial Park, 411 E St. NE, Auburn. Wreath placement, rifle salute, prayers and taps encompass the ceremony.
49th Veterans Day Parade: 11 a.m. Nov. 8, Main St., Auburn. One of the larg-est Veterans Day parades in the country. The parade is paying special tribute to the Military Order of the Purple Heart. The parade features nearly 200 units and over 5,500 parade participants, including over 25 high school marching bands, military vehicles, veterans’ units, honor guards and more. Call Auburn Parks, Arts & Rec at 253-931-3043 to volunteer with the event or receive an official event packet at www.auburnwa.gov.
28th Veterans Day Marching Band Competition: 1-9:30 p.m. Nov. 8, Auburn Memorial Stadium, Troy Field, 800 4th St. NE. Hosted by the Auburn High School Band and Choir Parents. More than 30 of the finest high school marching bands from the Northwest compete in parade and field show competition. Tickets for all-day admis-sion: $15 adults; $12 students (ages 6-18); $12 seniors (62 and older); $12 military with active ID. For more information, visit auburnveteransday.webs.com/.
Veterans Day Remembrance: 11 a.m. Nov. 11, Tahoma National Cemetery, 18600 SE 240th St. Kent. Day of remembering vet-erans past, present and those in harm’s way. Keynote speaker is Col. Anthony J. Davit, deputy commander of Joint Base Lewis-McChord and commander of the 627th Air Base Group. Also speaking will be state Rep. Mark Hargrove from the 47th District. Park-ing at the cemetery is limited. More parking available at Tahoma High School.
Benefits28th Annual Holiday Craft Market: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 7; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 8, Kent Senior Activity Center. City of Kent hosts large, creative gift boutique. Juried show features 70 booths of hand-crafted gifts. Figgy Pudding Café and Bake Sale, hourly door prizes compliments of the Craft Market artists and live entertainment by Tammy Davenport (Friday) and John Ansotigue (Saturday). Free parking. No admission charge. Sponsored by Farrington Court, Judson Park, Stafford Suites, and Regence. Proceeds benefit the programs and services of the senior center. For more information, call 253-856-5162.
Novemberfest Bazaar: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 8, Lutheran Church of the Cross, 23810 112th Ave. SE, Kent. Quality crafts and gifts, tasty homemade goodies and coffee. 253-854-2961
P.E.O. Holiday Marketplace & Bazaar: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 8, Kent First Presbyteri-an Church, 9425 S. 248th St. Kent. Bake sale, homemade items, plant sale, raffle baskets, new and gently used items. All proceeds to benefit scholarships for women. P.E.O. is a nonprofit organization that focuses on furthering education for women. Contact email: [email protected].
Benson Hill Cooperative Preschool Multi-family Garage Sale: 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. Nov. 14; 9 a.m.-noon, Nov. 15, First Christian Church of Kent, 11717 SE 240th St. Raising money to support the school. bensonhillcoop.org
Kent Commons Holiday Bazaar: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Dec. 5; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 6, Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Avenue N. City of Kent bazaar features more than 100 vendors with handcrafted gifts, musical entertainment, food and beverages. Free admission. For more information, visit www.kentwa.gov/kentcommonsholiday-bazaar/
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: 8-10 a.m., 10:45 a.m.-2 p.m., Nov. 6, Kentlake High School, 21401 SE 300th St.; noon-2 p.m., 3-6 p.m. Nov. 7, Kent Station, 417 Ramsay Way. For more information, call 253-945-8667 or please visit www.psbc.org.
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Seattle Impact season opener: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8. Kent’s new indoor pro soccer team takes on San Diego. Tickets: $9-$39.
Disney On Ice presents Let’s Cel-ebrate!: 7 p.m. Nov. 12. It’s one colossal party on ice, with all your favorite Disney friends. Join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse as they celebrate a Very Merry Unbirthday Party with Alice and the Mad Hatter. Tickets: $22-$65.
100.7 The Wolf – Hometown Holiday: 8 p.m. Dec. 10. Starring Randy Houser, Lee Brice, David Nail, Craig Morgan. Special acoustic concert with music from some of countries biggest stars. Tickets: $38.50-$114.
1964 The Tribute: 8 p.m. Dec. 11. Tribute band brings back the sound of the legendary. Tickets: $20-$75.
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Old World Masters: 7 p.m. Nov. 21, First Christian Church of Kent, 11717 SE 240th, Kent. Four members of the Auburn Sym-phony Orchestra perform: Dvorak, String Quartet in F Major (The American Quartet); Haydn, String Quartet in D Major (The Lark); Mozart, String Quartet in B Flat Major
(The Hunt). The concert is sponsored in part by the Kent Arts Commission. Festival seating: $17 adults, $10 students. Call 253-887-7777 or purchase online at www.auburnsymphony.org
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Starry Night String Quartet: 3 p.m. Nov. 23, Kent Lutheran Church, 336 2nd Ave. S. Featured performers: Sharyn Peterson, violin; Blayne Barnes, violin; Leslie Johnson, viola; and Mannfried Funk, cello. Peterson has been featured with several symphonies in the Northwest and is concertmaster/director of the orchestra, which frequently accompanies dance and choral organiza-tions. General admission is $12.50 at the door or from www.BrownPaperTickets.com or 253-520-1033. $5 for students with ID and seniors in groups of 10. For more information, www.chancelarts.com for more information.
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“The Twilight Zone:” 7 p.m. Nov. 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center stage, 10020 SE 256th St., Kent. The Kent-Meridian Drama Department cast, under the direction of Jay Thornton, performs three episodes, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, “Time Enough At Last” and “Living Doll”. Tickets, $6 for adults and $3 for 12 and under, available at the door.
“Little Shop of Horrors”: 7 p.m. Nov. 12-15 and Nov. 19-22; 3 p.m. Nov. 15, 22, Kentridge Performing Arts Center, 12430 SE 208th St. Award-winning Kentridge Players present comedy horror rock musical. Tickets are $8-$10 and avail-able at www.kent.k12.wa.us/Page/1641. For more information, call 253-653-2626.
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BY ROSS COYLE
He throws for 25, he throws for 35, he throws for 45. Kent-Meridian High quarterback Ben Woods has made a name for himself in his fi rst varsity season as a reliable and precise thrower, with more than 1,700 yards and 17 touchdowns.
But when it comes to his game, the sophomore doesn’t like to think of himself as shoehorned into a single style of play.
“I’m not one dimen-sional, but for what I need to do for the team,” Woods says. “I’m comfortable do-ing both, but I think I’m a better passer than a runner.”
Woods leads the Royals (6-3) into a West Central District playoff game on the road against Gig Harbor at 7 p.m. Friday. Th e winner advances to the Class 4A state tournament.
His interest in football started with the Madden video game when he was 8, he says. Instead of playing backyard pickup football with his brother, Sam, they picked up a copy of the popular football video game, which inspired his brother to play football in middle and high school. Woods simply followed suit.
“It’s been an up and down
roller coaster,” he says.Woods picked up the
K-M quarterback’s mantle from 2013’s Quincy Carter, who signed to Central Washington University as a running back.
He says that he hasn’t been nervous about taking on the role, but he has been eager to do right by his fellow players.
“I wouldn’t use the word nervous, but the fact that I wanted to live up to the expectations of what a
starting QB should be, and what he should be able to do for his team,” he says.
Much of what he’s learned about being a good quarterback came from Carter, who helped coach him in the off -season before leaving for college.
“Quincy was an amazing athlete and he helped me out during the off -season. I would use the term mentor to describe him. He’s a fun guy but when things get to
business. When you get that from an athlete like him, there’s not much you can say.”
In a sense, the training has come full circle as Sam Woods was one of Carter’s biggest mentors when he played for the Royals.
Woods is quick to acknowledge that his suc-cess has come from his teammates as much, if not more than, his own work. He believes that it’s the entire off ensive line, from
his blockers to his running backs, who have made it possible for him to put the ball in a receiver’s hands.
“Th ose guys are just crazy good. I go on and on about Manny, Kyle, Marc, all the things these guys do to help me out,” he says, “it’s incredible.”
It’s about trust, he says. Knowing that he’ll have a solid pocket to work within, or knowing that his receiv-ers will be able to pick out his passes.
“We focused on that over the summer, getting that trust down that I’m com-fortable with it,” he says. “Th ose guys, they make me look really good, but they don’t get as much credit as I think they should.”
He says that he just wants to make his teammates look good as well, and that encourages him to play as best he can.
“I’m not really focusing on myself ‘oh I want to get a scholarship to this school or I want to get a scholarship to this school,’” says Woods. “I want to help my team-mates get those scholar-ships and make them look good, and if this is what I got to do, this is what I want to do.”
T-BIRDS EDGE RED DEER 3-2 IN SHOOTOUT
The Seattle Thunderbirds defeated the Red Deer Rebels
3-2 in a Western Hockey League shootout Tuesday
night, getting the win before heading out on a 17-day
Eastern Conference road trip.Seattle improved
to 7-6-2-1, tied for third in the U.S. Division with 17 points.
Red Deer falls to 8-7-1-1 after suff ering its fi rst shootout loss
of the year.Taran Kozun got his 14th start of the year and stopped 37 of 39 shots. The win was Kozun’s
seventh of the year, putting his record at 7-4-2-1.
Justin Hickman scored the only goal of the shootout
for Seattle.
Woods leads Royals into district playoffs
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The teamwork and coordination the o-line used was most visible for him in the fourth quarter of the game against Tahoma, when the Royals came back from a touchdown deficit to win 42-36.
“Something changed and throughout the fourth quarter we were just dominating. That was a big game, that was a playoff spot on the line, so that’s one thing that I’ll remember.”
But Woods also says one of his most memorable experi-ences during the season was when, during K-M’s match against Auburn, when he accompanied offensive coordina-tor Andy Romine into the field box when he was injured. Being up in the box gave him a different perspective on how his team played, and it stuck with him ever since.
“I got to see the game from a whole different angle,” he says. “I still play seeing things from the box.”
BY ROSS COYLE
Seattle Impact FC coach-es Jason Dunn and Todd Haley have left the arena soccer team just days before the team’s season opener at the ShoWare Center.
The change will leave Dion Earl as the team’s owner, coach and star player.
Earl declined to com-ment on the abrupt
changes.The Impact, the new-
est member of the 23-team Major Arena Soccer League, open the season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday against San Diego, 14-time indoor soccer champion.
According to Dunn, Earl hadn’t paid either coach for their work when they asked for their checks on the contractually obli-gated Oct. 25 deadline.
Dunn said that Earl re-leased him over email, but then left several messages asking him to return to the team on Monday, Oct 27. By then, Dunn had final-ized his choice.
“To have him come out and do this to me, really just shows me the type of character he actually is,” Dunn said. “He still has
a great work ethic. He’s working his butt off trying to make this thing work. But he’s a totally different person than he was 24 years ago.”
Dunn and Earl go back more than 20 years when they played together at Seattle Pacific University.
“He was a great guy at SPU, we played on the U23
state team,” Dunn said.Dunn said that his depar-
ture was unrelated to Earl’s sexual harassment protec-tion order that recently was filed in King County Superior Court. He’s at-tempting to get his job back with Lowe’s Hardware.
“I’m trying to get back in good graces with the job I was in,” Dunn said. “He
(Earl) put me in that situa-tion, and he doesn’t care.”
Ultimately, Haley said he’ll be staying away from the Impact because of how he was treated by Earl and that it wasn’t acceptable to him as a person.
“The mistreatment of human beings … you don’t treat people like that,” Haley said.
Seattle Impact FC soccer coaches gone from team
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Chico McClatcher ran for 354 yards and six touch-downs, leading Federal Way High past Kent-Meridian 77-21 in a South Puget Sound League 4A crossover seeding game at Federal Way Stadium last Friday night.
The Eagles (7-2) host Mariner in a regional play-off game this week. K-M (6-3) travels to take on Gig Harbor (8-1), the Narrows League champion, in the district playoffs at 7 p.m. Friday.
McClatcher, one of the state’s top running backs, broke free on scoring runs from 59, 55 and 54 yards out for Federal Way. The Eagles exploded for 35 fourth-quarter points.
Shamar Malik Wooleiry returned a kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown and added scoring runs from 1 and 2 yards out for the Royals.
Elsewhere:At Kentwood 31, Beamer
21: Isaiah Williams ran for 185 yards and two touch-downs and Brian Campbell threw for two more as the Conquerors (8-1) defeated
the Titans (6-3) in an SPSL crossover seeding game at French Field last Friday night.
Kentwood struck early and often with a rushing and passing touchdown in the first quarter. The first score was a 33-yard run by Williams. The second came on a 68-yard pass from Campbell to wide receiver Connor Benson.
The Conquerors open the district playoffs at home against Bellarmine Prep (6-3) at 7 p.m. Saturday at French Field.
If Kentwood wins, it will advance to the first round of the state tournament that begins Nov. 14.
At Kentlake 47, Decatur 24: Danstan Kaunda and Tino Wells each ran for a pair of touchdowns as the Falcons (4-5) beat the Gators (1-8) at French Field on Oct. 30.
Trey Helgeson threw one TD and ran for another for Kentlake.
Kentridge 7, at Mount Rainier 6: The Chargers (1-8) avoided a winless season with a narrow win over the Rams (1-8) at Highline Stadium on Oct. 30.
Federal Way cruises past Royals 77-21
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Th e beginning of Novem-ber means there is still time to add winter color for you and berries for the birds to your landscape.
You can add or transplant trees, shrubs and hardy vines in the landscape as long as the ground is not frozen.
Here are some of the trees and shrubs that will provide a natu-ral food source for the birds this winter.
Maple Trees (Acer Family) used by fi nches, nuthatches, warblers, woodpeckers
Not only do maples add fall and summer color but they will also attract insects that will feed the birds all year round. In our climate, the smaller leaf maples like the Japanese maples and the larger leaf maples like the spectacular Sunset maple will thrive despite hosting a population of aphid, borers or beetles that are natural protein sources for the birds. Maple trees also off er seeds, nesting sites and nest build-ing material.
Oregon Grape (Mahonia) used by cedar waxwing, robins, towhees
Th is native plant is now easy to fi nd at local nurser-ies and there are several new varieties with larger blooms and more robust growth. Oregon grape is an excel-
lent evergreen for dry shade and the holly-like leaves off er a safe winter haven for birds while the berries provide nourish-ment.
Snowberry (Symphoricarpos) used by cedar waxwings, grosbeaks, robins, thrushes, towhees
Showy white berries stand out on the bare branches all winter long and this native plant thrives on rainfall alone making it a great choice for a landscape with-out a sprinkler system. Th e fruit is not as tasty as other options so the birds will save this meal until the dead of winter when not much else is hanging around. Snow-berry has the added bonus of small spring blossoms that provide nectar for the humming birds. Early bloomers are important for humming birds as we oft en
forget to fi ll and clean feed-ers during cold weather.
Honeysuckle (Lonicera): used by chickadees, fi nches, robins, cat birds and thrushes
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Viburnums: used by cardinals, grosbeaks, robins, sparrows, thrushes and towhees
Viburnums are a wide ranging family of shrubs that come in evergreen and de-ciduous forms and they love to grow in the naturally acid soil and wet winter weather of Western Washington. All but the snowball type of viburnum will provide winter berries and the evergreen viburnums off er dense foliage for winter shelter.
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