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Eva Rochex, 6, and her sister Helen Rochex, 8, protest KCLS plans to alter the downtown Renton library Tuesday at the KCLS board meeting at the Newcastle Library. KCLS is hosting an open house March 26 in Renton. BRiaN BeCKLey, Renton Reporter
By TRACEy COMPTON
Renton residents packed Tuesday night’s King County Library System Board of Trustees’ meeting respectfully, then forcefully laying out their frustrations with renovation plans for the downtown Renton library.
About 20 people, including Renton City Council mem-ber Marcie Palmer, who was representing herself, spoke out during the public comment period at the Newcastle Library.
When all had spoken, the meeting broke down and audi-ence members demanded to know the trustees’ responses to the testimonials. Then KCLS staff and trustees broke
meeting protocol to answer some of the questions that were being asked of them.
Some Renton residents are upset with the KCLS project team and the City of Renton for not acknowledging or representing what they feel the community wants in a renovated library over the Cedar River.
Those concerns have been voiced repeatedly by the citi-zens group, Save the Renton Library Again!, which staged a sign-carrying protest outside the meeting.
Among their biggest concerns are conceptual drawings that have been submitted to the City of Renton that show
Residents express library frustrations
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By BRiAN BECklEy
When Richard and Lori Randquist Chung first saw the house on Davis Street, they knew it was probably out of their price range but decided to look anyway.
As they walked in, Richard said he and his wife were elbowing each other, reminding themselves not to fall in love with what they were seeing.
But it didn’t quite work out that way.
Not only was the house beautiful, it was less than one mile from their business, had quick access on and off the highways and had a beautiful view of Lake Washington.
“It was perfect,” Richard Randquist Chung said this past week, remembering seeing his fam-ily’s home for the first time.
“As soon as I came in I was getting giddy,” Lori Randquist Chung said.
It was only the second home they looked at, but that was it, they were sold. They made an offer and by last summer, Richard, Lori and their three young chil-dren moved in and began to build their life.
All was well until a Friday evening a few weeks ago. Richard was doing some shopping when his cell phone rang. Seeing his real estate agent’s number, he picked up but immediately knew something wasn’t right.
“She’s crying on the phone,” he said.
The agent had just found out that the home the Randquist Chungs had been in for less than a year was in the way of the Interstate 405 expan-sion project and would have to be torn down, probably sooner rather than later.
The agent forwarded Richard an email that was sent to the builder of a new house across the street, tell-ing him to stop building because the freeway was coming through.
The Randquist Chungs were stunned. They planned to spend the rest
of their lives in their house. And in an instant, that was gone.
WSDOT confirmed for them that, yes, the freeway was coming through their neighborhood and, yes, their house would have to come down. A retaining wall was slated to go right through what was now their living
room. It was devastating.“We wouldn’t have purchased this
house if we knew we were going to be displaced,” Lori said.
“Nobody notified us,” Richard said. “It completely blindsided us.”
But the Randquist Chungs were not the only ones surprised.
WSDOT surprised, tooIn 2002, WSDOT officials com-
pleted a master plan for all 30 miles of Interstate 405. The freeway would be widened through the entire length of the corridor and the inter-change between state Route 167 and I-405 would be rebuilt.
The interchange is a well-known mess among engineers and planners – and travelers.
“It’s one of the worst interchanges in the state,” said Ross Fenton, proj-
lori and Richard Randquist Chung, seen here with Christian, 7, ariana, 5 and Moriah, 2, bought their house last year and just found out they have to move due to a long-planned highway expansion project. BRiaN BeCKLey, Renton Reporter
New homeowners were not told of plans to expand the freeway through their neighborhood
Surprise! They’re losing their home to 405 project
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“We wouldn’t have purchased this house if we knew we were going to be displaced.” lori Randquist Chung
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The Society of Pro-fessional Engineering Employees in Aerospace technical unit Monday overwhelmingly approved the latest contract offer from Boeing, ending months of negotiations between the union and the company.
When the votes were all tallied Monday evening at SPEEA Headquarters in Tukwila, the vote came to 4,244 to accept and 654 to reject, an approval rate of 86.6 percent.
The contract the unit approved was the same contract it rejected by a narrow margin last month. The union’s pro-fessional unit approved the contract during that vote, but the technical unit rejected it.
The major sticking point was the company’s move to place all new
hires into a 401K program instead of the company’s pension plan.
When negotiations picked up again between the two sides, Boeing put forth the same offer.
But the new contract extends the terms of the previous contract, includ-ing 5 percent annual salary increase pools, no increases to employees for medical coverage and an
increase to the retirement benefit.
By the end of the new agreement, SPEEA repre-sented technical workers and engineers will have received eight straight
years of 5 percent salary increase pools, with guar-anteed minimum wage increases each year of the contract.
The decision to accept the contract averted a potential strike, because in February the technical unit voted to give nego-tiators the right to call a strike if they saw fit.
Boeing president Ray Conner said in a state-ment the company was pleased to hear the out-come of the vote.
“We’re pleased to have settled a contract that rewards SPEEA-represented employees for their contributions to the company’s success while maintaining a superior package of retirement and health care benefits,” Con-ner’s statement read.
Technical workers have been without a contract since Nov. 25. The new contract will remain in place through 2016.
SPeea technical unit Oks contract
lynn Burow, left, and Sandy Hastings count ballots Monday at the SPEEA headquarters in Tukwila. BriAn BEcklEy, Renton Reporter
The annual Flashlight Egg Hunt is 8 p.m. Thurs-day, March 28 at Lib-erty Park, Houser Way and Bronson Way North.
This event is free and open for youth ages 7 to 14 years. Bring a flashlight and a basket.
For more information call 425-430-6700 or visit the City of Renton website at rentonwa.gov.
The Flash light egg Hunt is for kids ages 7 to 14. City of Renton
Flashlight egg Hunt is March 28
The King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) plans to be vocal this April, bringing attention sexual assault prevention.
As part of the organiza-tion’s “BE LOUD” cam-paign, KCSARC will host events as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April.
At 7 a.m. April 18 the community is invited to attend the “BE LOUD for Safe Communities” Break-fast. The event will take place at the Renton Pavilion Event Center, 233 Burnett Ave. S., in Renton.
Attendees will learn about what they can do in their families and commu-nities to spread the sexual assault prevention message, with those in leadership positions. The “BE LOUD” Breakfast is also a fundrais-ing event.
For breakfast event infor-mation, visit http://www.kcsarc.org/SAAM. Those interested in table spon-sorships can contact Alix Compton at [email protected] or 425-282-0331.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Sgt. Cindi West, public information officer for the King County Sheriff ’s Office, recently talked with Melanie Taylor, the daughter of Robert and Norma Taylor of Fairwood, and the mother of Michael Chadd Boysen, who is the suspect in their deaths on March 9.
The family has asked the media
and public to respect their privacy during this difficult time but said there were some things she wanted to say about her son, her parents and the detectives involved in the investigation.
First, we talked about Chadd. She and her former husband adopted Chadd when he was a baby. Melanie said she “loved him from the minute he was put in my arm.” Chadd was a very loving boy that did not mind showing her affection when she dropped him at school. Because adoptions were “closed” at the time, she never had any medical history of his birth parents. Regardless of what that may have been she still would have loved him.
Chadd and his grandparents had a very special close bond. They were like “second parents” to Chadd. When he was little his grandparents would pick him up from daycare and he would spend the afternoon with them until Melanie got off work. Bob and Norma loved Chadd “more than life.”
She said Chadd was a good stu-dent. He attended high school and did the Running Start program at a local college.
Melanie said as Chadd grew up his addictive behavior came out. Everything he would do, would be to the extreme. She said Chadd started hanging out with “the wrong people” and “lied to her like addicts do, but he never threatened the family and the family never felt threatened by him.”
Melanie said she was the one that turned him in for a series of robberies after she found prescrip-tion bottles in her house that did not come from the pharmacy the family used. She said she “loved him, but he needed to obey the law.” Chadd was convicted of multiple robberies at 18-19 years of age and spent five years in prison.
During Chadd’s five years in prison, she and her parents visited him every other week. She said they also sent him letters of support and care packages. She said it was during these visits in prison that she could tell he was changing. He became
more “rough” which she felt he needed to do to survive in prison.
Toward the end of his five-year prison sentence she told him that he needed to “make changes and make wise choices when he was released.” She also told him she would not visit him if he was imprisoned again.
Sometime after Chadd was released from prison he severely in-jured his back playing soccer. He had surgery to repair the back and had to have a second surgery when the first one didn’t take. Chadd ended up with a serious infection which re-quired more hospitalization, another surgery which, of course, meant drugs. Soon his drug problems and the lying started again.
Chadd eventually had more run-ins with the police and eventually was arrested and imprisoned for burglarizing a home. He spent nine months in the Monroe prison before being released on Friday, March 8.
Melanie said it was very painful to have “tough love” and not visit Chadd in prison as she had earlier warned him. She said she wrote him and sent him care packages wanting “him to know she still loved him but did not agree with his choices.”
As the time drew closer for Chadd to get out of prison an aunt made arrangements for him to go into a six-month treatment program through the Salvation Army. His
grandparents said he was excited to get out and start the program.
The day he was released Bob and Norma picked him up and spent about six hours of the day, run-ning errands with him to get him things he needed to start the rehab program.
Melanie said that same evening they had a dinner at her parents’ house to celebrate his release. “Chadd was upbeat and talked about the wonderful day he had with his grandparents.” He never showed any signs of aggression that night.
Bob and NormaMelanie’s parents Robert (Bob)
and Norma celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary on March 5. Her father wanted to dress in a suit and take Norma to his favorite restaurant, Red Lobster. However, Norma did not want to dress up, so they decided to take-out KFC and celebrate at home with their dog “Princess.”
Bob and Norma always opened their house up to friends and family. Melanie said when she was a kid they would invite friends over and decorate the house for Halloween. Her parents were always loving and giving.
Norma worked at a bank for 25 years and Bob was the co-owner of a cabinet business. She said her dad
had a woodshop behind the house and every Christmas they would do a craft project for friends and family. Last year her parents made wood cut-out snowmen. Family and friends each got one unfinished and would paint their own. This year Bob and Norma had been working on cut-out reindeers.
Norma lost her hearing about 30 years ago. Even though she couldn’t hear she would attend the grand-children’s school program. It was something she really enjoyed.
Melanie said of her parents, “when it came to Chadd, they saw the good in him and were forgiving of his choices.”
Melanie said they were like “sol-diers and gave their lives for him. If they were given a choice to die and save others they would.” She said her parents “valued Chadd” and she believes other lives were saved because of her parents deaths.
Melanie finished by saying it is “hard to lose them both,” but she is “glad they are together.” She said regardless of what “switched” in Chadd, “they still love him and I do too.” “They were warrior spirits fighting for a cause and that cause was Chadd.”
Melanie closed by talking about the investigation. She said “as stressed out as I am I have grand support from the police. The investigation has been orchestrated and played out as best as possible and done with profes-sionalism and compassion.”
“Our family would like to ex-press our humble gratitude for the outpouring of love, support AND prayers both locally AND nationally.
“Our parents requested in lieu of a service or flowers that donations be made to hearing impaired/deaf research or LDS (Mormon) mission-ary fund.”
The family also wanted to remind people that the effects of drugs and alcohol doesn’t only hurt the person taking the drugs but others that sur-round them.
Taylor family talks about tragedy
Robert and Norma Taylor. Family photo
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Michael “Chadd “ Boysen, suspected in the murders of his grandparents Robert and Norma Taylor is in the custody of the state Department of Corrections. As of mid-week, charges had not been filed against the 26- year-old. Complete coverage of the tragedy is on rentonreporter.com.
Boysen in state custody
County offers Composter training
King County is looking for individuals to teach others
to reduce waste and recycle more, pointing out that more
than half of what goes to Cedar Hills Regional Landfill could be
recycled.Volunteer training in the 2013
Master Recycler Composter program would teach the do’s
and don’ts of curbside recycling, including food scrap recycling, and then put training to work
through volunteer outreach.This free training is open to
King County residents outside of Seattle only. Two options for training are available: in
Renton, Thursday evenings from 6:30-9 p.m., April 25-May 16; or in Kent, Saturdays from 10 a.m.
– 4 p.m., May 4 and May 11.for more information, visit
http://your.kingcounty.gov/solidwaste/mrc/index.asp.
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“I’m looking anywhere — is there anyone out there to support my cause?” Kevin McPherson said recently. Though I didn’t know him well, he wore a determined expression tinged with mild bewil-derment – a “does-not-compute” look.
Kevin’s urgent plea sounded des-perate — but not without hope — like a distress call sent across the airwaves of a destroyed landscape in some dystopian movie featuring aliens or zombies.
Thankfully, Kevin and I were just talking about kids and art in Renton, something he is knowl-edgeable and passionate about.
And I was sitting com-fortably on a couch watching my 9-year-old Amelia finishing up her weekly art les-son in Kevin’s
art studio that also doubles as the family home.
I had come to know Kevin from a referral. I was looking for one-on-one art instruction for Amelia.
As it turns out, Kevin was a perfect match — talented artist meets PTA dad who understands and respects the importance of kids and art. The Kennydale home that he shares with his wife and three kids, Vivian, 11, Olivia, 9, and Wesley, 4, is a brightly colored space filled with light and warmth. Amelia loved going there.
Kevin’s daughters Vivian and Olivia are both students at Ken-nydale Elementary School, an elementary school that was in the news recently for academic excellence, and Kevin has been a volunteer art docent at Kennydale for seven years.
“I believe the art program we have created at Kennydale has a lot to do with Kennydale Elementary’s
success and recognition and some-thing I’d like to bring to all Renton elementary schools,” Kevin said.
As the PTA Art Docent chairperson at Kennydale, Kevin oversees Kennydale Elementary School’s very successful volunteer art-docent program.
“What exactly does a volunteer art docent at Kennydale do?” I asked.
“Volunteers are assigned to classes where they introduce a well-known art print, facilitate a conversation with the students about the print and provide an art project associated with the print. One art docent is needed for each teacher and the commitment is one to two hours each month. Students learn art history, art ap-preciation and art concepts and
elements which help improve criti-cal thinking, problem solving and social skills. High school students who take one or more years of art produce higher scores on the SAT,” Kevin said, as he turned his atten-tion back to Amelia.
“You did a really great job today, Amelia,” Kevin said, as he began collating Amelia’s work.
Surrounded by the framed art of Kevin and his children, it wasn’t hard to see where Kevin’s passion for the art-docent program comes from.
Art’s effect on kids cannot be measured in widgets and quantita-tive data.
I can see its effects on my own kids and as a mom to four who has spent a lot of time volunteering in elementary schools I have seen its
effects on their peers and I can re-member how art of all genres had a lasting effect on me as a kid.
I vividly remember the art I cre-ated in elementary school: ripping old newspapers into strips and slathering the strips with sticky goo onto a blown-up balloon and when it dried, we painted the “globe.” I didn’t know I was learn-ing about geography – I was just having fun. Or gluing macaroni to a paper plate and spraying it with silver and gold spray paint. Having the freedom to create my own story on brightly colored construc-tion paper. Art and creativity were the things I looked forward to in school.
“Currently, there are just three of 14 elementary schools in the Renton School District with a volunteer art-docent program, creating a need to promote and implement the art-docent program throughout the district,” Kevin explained.
This past November, with a little help from an Allied Arts grant, Kevin submitted a proposal to the Renton School District detailing a plan of action to provide an art-docent curriculum for all the other 11 Renton elementary schools that currently don’t have an organized volunteer program. The proposal includes a request for funding to create a part-time position for Kevin to facilitate this process.
“I believe we need to create equal access to art education for all students and I am excited to spearhead this effort. I’ve enjoyed my time as a volunteer. But this position is bigger than a volunteer position. I want to grow it into what it really deserves, so all kids in Renton have access to art.
Kevin is still optimistically awaiting a response from the Renton School District to his proposal.
“Honestly, how do you keep the
passion going?” I asked. “My passion for kids and art
comes from the artist in me. The early years of child development are critical for forming long-last-ing skills in art and understand-ing the value of self-expression. I believe that I can pass on my knowledge of art and make a dif-ference in their lives. As for my persistent pursuit, the more kids I can reach the better because every kid deserves the chance to discover their talent!”
“See you next week Mr. McPher-son!” Amelia said, holding on to her art portfolio.
“Mommy, I just love working with Mr. McPherson and doing art,” Amelia exclaimed, as we headed home. The smile on her face was a million miles long and full of promise.
We live in a city known for its amazing force of volunteers.
Given Kevin’s patience, talent and tenacity, I have no doubt one day soon all elementary school kids will have access to an art-docent program like Kennydale’s.
There’s a place for art in all Renton elementary schools
Kevin McPherson, left, is helping Amelia Ossorio expand her art horizons in weekly lessons. Carolyn Ossorio
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Kevin McPhersoninstructor is offering art camps in July
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King County Metro Transit has revised the scheduled launch dates for the RapidRide E and F lines, allowing time to complete needed construction on facility upgrades and features that will make future service more reliable.
Before launching service, construction is needed on over 100 bus stops and stations and upgraded transit signals at more than 60 intersections – which stretch across two cor-ridors, 21 miles and six cities.
Metro reviewed and revised the construction timelines with cities to reflect the complexity of the work needed to launch service on these two lines, said Kevin Desmond, Metro Transit general manager.
“Our customers will agree that it’s better for us to re-schedule the launch of service until everything is complete
and the technology is tested and working,” Desmond said. Rider amenities needed before launching the service include next bus arrival signs and ORCA card readers at stations, as well as coordinated traffic signals for buses.
“We learned clear lessons after the rocky launch for the C and D lines last year and are taking these steps so things go smoother for our customers with these lines,” Desmond said.
Both RapidRide E and F lines previously were sched-uled to launch September 2013. Under the new schedule, RapidRide E will begin service in February 2014, replacing the existing Route 358 which carries nearly 12,000 weekday riders between Shoreline and downtown Seattle. RapidRide F now is slated to launch in June 2014, replacing Route 140 between Burien, Sea Tac, Tukwila and Renton. Route 140 carries about 3,500 weekday riders.
By revising the launch schedule, RapidRide service will better be able to provide the speed and reliability riders expect. The F Line is planned to travel on corridors where a handful of major street and regional transit projects are un-der way. Those projects are scheduled to wrap up in spring 2014. Waiting to launch RapidRide F Line until after that work is complete avoids reroutes that would have added time and delay to service. The E Line will face similar challenges with construction in Shoreline and Seattle along the Aurora Avenue corridor. However, that construction, while it will create some delays, will not result in alternate routing.
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A trial date may be in sight for the man who is charged with murdering 17-year-old Jessica Scholl last May.
Jarod Lane is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson in Scholl’s death.
Lane is the former boyfriend of the slain Lindbergh High School junior.
Earlier this month a continuance was requested by the attorneys for suspect Lane and granted. Lane was arraigned in June 2012 and a spokesman for the King County Prosecutor’s Office said a delay in a trial date is not unusual for cases like this.
“(It’s) not unusual for those case set-tings to get continued several times,” said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the prosecutor’s office.
There have been several continuances since Lane’s June arraignment. The May 8 case-setting hearing is the next opportunity for a trial date to be set, although Donohoe has received feedback from Don Raz, the senior deputy prosecutor on the case, that Raz is unclear if a trial date will actually be set on May 8.
On the morning of May 25, 2012, prosecutors allege Lane, 19 at the time, murdered Scholl in her family home in Renton by injuring her head and neck multiple times and then he set fire to a couch in the residence. Emergency crews responded to a fire at the home and discovered Scholl’s body.
Lane went on the run after and was arrested 2,000 miles away in Oklahoma City on May 28. He is being held at the King County Jail in Seatlle.
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As I was growing up, there seemed to be a mil-lion movies that involved characters getting lost in the desert, roaming about, trying desperately to find food and water. Some of the movies were comedies – some were adventure films. But they were all just movies and not real life.
In today’s world, however, something similar exists for real all across this country. They are called “food deserts.” Food deserts are large geographic areas where people don’t have access to stores with fresh and affordable food. This isn’t a problem for most of us with cars. But for the disadvantaged among us, it’s a real problem.
Imagine for a moment that you needed formula for your baby, but the closest store was
more than two miles away. Now imagine that you don’t have transportation. How would you get there? Perhaps you have a bus line close by. Would it drop you (and the baby) off at the front door? Or would you have to take two or three buses to get there?
Would you have to pay a taxi? Ask a friend? Walk?
Let’s take it a step further. Maybe you have a doctor’s appointment for a chronic health prob-lem. Or a job interview. What if you had been unemployed for six months and finally landed a job, but didn’t have transportation to get there? How long do you think you’d keep that job?
Last year, the Renton Community Founda-tion held a series of community roundtables to assess the need for human services in the greater Renton area. A common theme we heard was the “lack” of transportation. It crosses all boundar-ies: the hungry, the homeless, at-risk kids.
You might ask, “What’s wrong with this pic-ture?” How can we get people back to work in this country if they don’t have a way to get there? How can we guarantee that kids go to school with a full stomach if their parents can’t get to the store to buy food? How can we expect strug-gling kids to get off the streets if they can’t get to
their counseling appointments?Here is one simple solution. We’re calling it
the Car Tab – Bus Pass Program. For the next 18 months, King County Metro
is promoting riding the bus. They will send you eight free bus passes when you renew your car tabs, hoping you will use the passes to actually ride the bus. But you must request them first (one set per household). Tucked in the envelope with your new car tabs will be a yellow notice. You can have the bus passes sent directly to you, OR you can donate them to a “pool” for regional nonprofits. To access this pool, however, the nonprofits have to pay 20 percent of the cost.
A better solu-tion is to have the bus passes
sent directly to you. Then, if you don’t plan to use them, you can do one of two things. 1) Give them directly to a local nonprofit, OR 2) send them to the Renton Community Foundation. We will immediately distribute them to local organi-zations that will put them to good use.
Take action! Help us get people out of the “food” desert – or any other kind of desert - and to where they need to go. Give them a bus pass. If you do, you’ll be giving the gift of transporta-tion to someone who may desperately need it.
Lynn Bohart is executive director of the Renton Community Foundation. She can be reached via email at [email protected].
Bus pass will help those in need traverse ‘food desert’
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Rarely do you see an injustice hit so close to home – literally.
But think about Richard and Lori Randquist Chung. They found the
home of their dreams, at a price they could afford, for themselves and their three kids, Christian, Ariana, Moriah, on Talbot Hill.
They saw the closeness of Interstate 405
as an advantage.Now I-405 is what’s going to force them
from their home. The state is building a new interchange, with a flyover, at that awful meeting of 405 and State Route 167. The plan has been studied for years. Now it’s a reality and it’s a shame that the Randquist Chung family wasn’t at least given a heads-
up that a freeway was headed their way.They have little recourse now, other than
to find a new home. But those who had a hand in the planning, permitting, building and selling of their home and at least one other in the new development need to think long and hard about what they should have done differently to protect them from such
an outcome.Certainly we need to improve our free-
ways in the region. And those improvements are going to impact people and their homes and businesses and their fortunes.
The sad story of Richard and Lori and their kids is a reminder we need to move openly as we develop our region.
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Joseph Frederick CoveyFebruary 17, 1918 - January 13, 2013
Joe began his career in Renton as partner in Covey Bros. grocery store and was working there prior to his entering into the US Army in 1942. Joe served honorably from 1942 to 1945 during WWII and was stationed in the U.S. and Europe. Upon returning from the war Joe resumed work at Covey Bros. and remained in the grocery business until his retirement.
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West Hill residents will finally have their own supermarket again, starting this week.
A Grocery Outlet store is opening at the Sky-way Park Shopping Center at 11656 68th Ave. S., at the corner of Renton Avenue South.
A ribbon cutting was Wednesday. A pallet of groceries was donated to Seattle’s Miracles Food Bank and Outreach and St. Stephens the Martyr Catholic Church in Renton.
A free grand opening celebration is 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, March 23, and will include prize giveaways. Additional festivities include family activities, free morning coffee and treats, and a $1 hot dog and beverage sale, with proceeds benefiting VFW Skyway Post 9430.
Erin and Jeff McNeil, the owners and opera-tors of the new store, also own a Grocery Outlet
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have not had the luxury and convenience of a local supermarket,” said Jeff McNeil. “With the opening of our new Grocery Outlet in Skyway, no longer do these residents need to travel miles away to get fresh produce, organic goods, USDA-certified meats and everyday essentials, all at a bargain price. ”
Grocery Outlet stores offer with prices up to 50 percent less than conventional supermarkets and retailers, according to the company.
The McNeils, who have more than 50 years of combined experience in grocery retail, will cus-tomize the store’s décor to reflect the local com-munity’s history. The retro, musically themed design and décor will fully debut in mid-April.
The McNeils are involved in the West Hill Business Association, the West Hill Community Association, and the Renton Chamber of Com-merce.
At approximately 15,500 square feet, the new Grocery Outlet will feature an expanded natural, organic, specialty and healthy (NOSH) section, as well as fully-stocked produce, milk, meat, specialty cheeses, wine and vitamin departments.
“In addition to offering our customers deeply discounted prices and quality products, we strive to create a very personal, comfortable, neighborhood shopping experience for our customers, atypical from the usual discount atmosphere,” said McNeil.
Boeing on Monday rolled out the first Next-Generation 737 built at the new production rate of 38 airplanes a month.
Panamanian customer Copa Airlines will take delivery of the 737-800 in early April.
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They call it The Crucible.For a Marine Corps recruit, it
is the final test, the last chance to prove he has the physical and mental tough-ness to become a United States Marine.
For 54 hours, recruits make their way through The Crucible. Operating on just four hours of sleep a night and three meals, they will march more than 40 miles to con-front physical and mental tasks conceived
to simulate the rigors of combat.
At issue — whether the recruit has absorbed the extensive training he has received in the past 11 weeks.
“This is it, this is every-thing they
have learned, and they are tested on it,” said Col. Robert W. Gates, Chief of Staff for Ma-rine Corps Recruit Training San Diego. “It all goes toward determining if the recruit has the mental toughness to become a Marine.”
The final task of The Crucible is a nine-mile hike with 80-pound pack and 8-pound M16A4 service rifle. At the end The Reaper
awaits, a 700-feet peak in Camp Pendleton, a Marine base 49 miles north of San Diego.
At the top waits the ultimate prize — the Marine Corps emblem, the Eagle, Globe and Anchor. It is bestowed in a ceremony that marks the completion of The Crucible and the first time the recruit is officially called a Marine.
“When I reached the very top my senior drill instructor told me to control my emo-tions,” said David Gubarik, a Marine from Auburn. “I kept a straight face but inside I had tears of joy in my heart. It was an incredible feeling like nothing I’ve ever felt before.”
Although every male Marine recruit west of the Mississippi begins his training at the Marine Corps
Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego – females and males from the east go to MCRD Parris Island in South Carolina – the actual jour-ney begins when they sign their enlistment papers at the local recruiting office.
Because of the small size of the Corps, just over 200,000 active duty Marines currently serving, that means most join on a deferred basis.
For Shane Rogers, a recruit from Enum-claw, that meant several months between his enlistment and his actual reporting day in January to prepare for the mental and physi-cal requirements of Marine training.
Led by recruiters from the Marine Corps
recruiting office in Coving-ton, Rogers used his time wisely.
“They got me pretty physi-cally fit and taught me all my general orders and rank structure before I left,” Rog-ers said. “They prepared me pretty well.”
In January, Rogers caught a plane from SeaTac Airport bound for MCRD San Diego.
Soon the new recruits were on the road, heading for MCRD and the yellow footprints, the starting place for every Marine who joins the Corps.
“We got on the bus and had to sit with our heads between our legs,” Rogers said. “Then we got there, got yelled at and got lined up on the yellow footprints. Then we took off our regular clothes, put on camo bottoms and PT tops. We got our heads shaved and started all looking the same and split up into different platoons.”
Soon the shock of being a recruit wears off and the real business of training begins.
By the time recruits become Marines after 13 weeks of boot camp, they are honed to a fine edge physically, able to sprint 880 yards wearing boots in less than 3 minutes and 48 seconds. They are able to lift a 30-pound ammo can from the chest over the head 45 times in 2 minutes. They can perform the maneuver-under-fire event – a 300-yard shuttle run where recruits carry two 30-pound ammo cans for more than 100 yards and simulate a rescue of a wounded comrade all while zig-zagging and crawling through a marked course – in under 3:29.
They will have spent hours training in the Marine Martial Arts Program and become proficient in unarmed combat.
Hours will be spent on a rifle range, learning how to fire the M16A4 service rifle accurately out to 500 yards.
More importantly, however, they will
learn how to think like a Marine and gain a self-confidence cultured by drill instructors over the past 10 weeks.
“I don’t wake up thinking I want to go home,” Rogers said. “I just wake up thinking about what’s next.”
After The Crucible, the newly minted Marines will graduate with the rest of their recruit company. They will march at the cen-tral parade grounds in dress uniform for the first time. After retiring the platoon guidons, the flags they have carried for the past 13 weeks, the Marines will be dismissed.
After a 10-day leave to return to home and visit family and friends, it’s off to Marine Combat Training at Camp Pendleton where they become a combat ready infantryman.
Then they will attend a school to learn their job in the military and be assigned a duty station where they will serve as an active-duty Marine for the next four years. After that, it’s four years as a reservist.
For many, the Marines are an opportu-nity to serve their country while bettering themselves.
That holds true for Stormy Starkey, a recruit from Kent.
“I’m grateful for the opportunity,” Starkey said. “I don’t regret it at all. You don’t really see any kids here who do. It’s a life-changing experience. I can already feel myself chang-ing for the better as far as growing and be-coming disciplined. I’m definitely changing as a person.”
Reporter Shawn Skager spent a week observing the U.S. Marine Corps during recruit basic training in San Diego.
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By DEAN A. RADFORD
The Seattle International Film Festival is looking for a few filmmakers, experienced or not, who want to learn how to strip away the “mystery” of making a film.
The famed festival, which for the third year is showing about two dozen films in Renton in May, is now bringing its Crash Cinema to Renton on Saturday, March 30.
The basic concept is that the filmmakers will take a three-minute film from concept to screening at the Renton Civic Theatre – all in one day.
“The Crash Cinema is for everyone, that means some-times professional filmmakers show up with all their gear or someone shows up who has no idea where to begin and that is how we like it,” said Arianne Garden Vazquez, the SIFF Film Center education coordinator.
Earlier this week there were five confirmed participants, including one who competed in the Renton FilmFrenzy.
“Since there is no fee and deadline to participate, at least twice that number is expected,” said Preeti Shridhar, a spokeswoman for the City of Renton.
The city has mailed information to previous FilmFrenzy participants and the Renton School District is promoting the event through the film and video program.
The filmmakers provide their own equipment. Individu-als and teams can sign up.
Teams will assemble at 9 a.m. March 30 at the Renton History Museum, 235 Mill Ave. S., where the five Crash elements will be chosen randomly. Crash elements must be incorporated into the films and all teams will have the same elements.
The biggest challenge is time management, said Vazquez. “To avoid time crunches, we offer a schedule to teams at the start of the event,” she said.
At 5 p.m., after a day of filming, each Crash film will be turned in on a flash drive to event coordinators at the Renton Civic Theatre, 507 S. Third St., where a Crash Cin-ema Wrap Party and Screening will take place until 7 p.m.
Vazquez says her interest as the SIFF education coordi-nator “is rooted in democratizing the creative process and building a community of cinema lovers. We want to engage
our audience in a more meaningful way with film.”An effective way to do that, she says, “is to demystify the
filmmaking process by challenging the audience to make a movie.”
SIFF offers Crash Cinema as a monthly community event through the area. There are Crash Cinemas for those 20 and older and one for ages 9-19 geared toward kids.
To sign up for the Renton – SIFF Crash Cinema, visit www.RentonFilmFrenzy.com. For technical questions, contact Arianne Garden Vazquez at [email protected].
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The Hazen boys soccer team is beginning to turn it around and after a couple of rocky matches, the High-landers now have their first two wins under their belts.
This week, Hazen tied Newport 1-1 on Thursday and then beat Evergreen 2-0 Friday in their Seamount League opener and then easily handled Renton 6-1 Tuesday.
Against Newport, Hazen scored first, but Newport rallied in the second half to knot the game at one
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Bunnell also led the team to victory Friday night at Renton Memorial Stadium where Bunnell picked up both goals for the High-landers. Assisting Bunnell were senior defender Angad Singh and junior mid Ryan Wong. Sophomore keeper Jaime “Chino” Martinez also got his first high school shutout Friday.
Bunnell, got his first goal at the midpoint of the first half. The Highlanders had been pressing up to that point, but passes weren’t finding feet. Singh drove a through ball to Bunnell who one touched it past the Wolverines keeper. Four minutes later Wong and Bunnell teamed up on the second goal.
Bunnell stayed hot Tues-day against Renton, picking up two goals and an assist in the Highlanders 6-1 win over the Indians, with all six goals coming in the first half.
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Zach Hasson scored Renton’s only goal, unas-sisted.
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The Hazen fastpitch squad is looking to improve on last year’s 8-8 record and make their way into this spring’s playoffs.
Despite the loss of all-league first teamer Ali Terzopolis and teammate Kayi Kniseley to graduation, Coach Kurt Brandel has high hopes.
This year, he expects seniors Megan
Bridgman, Lauren Goss, Joanna Penner and Arianna William to help lead his squad, along with junior Kristina Holm and sophomore Isabel Teppner, both of whom are returning from last year’s team.
In addition, Brandel called freshman Monica Cleary a player to watch.
So far, the Highlander fastpitch squad is 0-2 to open the season and is next sched-uled to host Renton at 3:30 p.m. Friday.
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Renton Rotary Club has selected their Youth of the Month for March:
Dale Schrock is a senior at Hazen High School. He holds a 3.9 grade point
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Alicia Thomson is senior at Lindbergh High School. She holds a 3.5 G.P.A. Thom-son has been a member of Key Club, Lind-bergh Chris-tian Association, Freshman Mentoring and Duct Tape Club. She has received Na-tional Honor Society and Japanese National Honor Society awards. Thomson works part-time teaching others how to play the vio-lin and she volunteers with the Renton Lions Club, Renton Clothing Bank and Deathly Hallows Haunted Forest. She hopes to attend either the University of Washington or Western Washington University to earn a master’s degree in accounting to become a certified public accountant.
Brian Shelton is a senior at Renton High School. He holds a 3.1 G.P.A. Shelton is involved in Poetry Club, ASL Club as treasurer,
Ignite Mentoring, Leader-ship, A Cappella Choir as president and varsity football. He has received the Student of the Month Award, department award, solo and ensemble superior certificates, a a cappella let-ter and varsity football let-ter. Shelton volunteers with Renton Leadership Daycare and at Sartori Fitness Day.
He plans to attend a four-year university to earn a doctoral degree in mechani-cal engi-neering.
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a smaller library, with the main entrance moved from the pedestrian bridge over the Cedar River to near the parking lot.
Words like “sham,” “adding insult to injury” and “please” were repeated over and over again in the testimony. They were used to describe the contentious relationship that’s
developed between the project team and some community members and to convey their desperation to be heard.
Richard Bray of Renton compared the library over the Cedar River to Seattle’s Pike Place Market in his comments to the trustees.
“It’s our icon place,” he said, describing how Renton would lose its place “ahead of the curve” without the library’s distinct features. “A good business listens and
responds to its customers; will you listen to us?”Trustee President Lucy Krakowiak and Trustees Robin
McClelland, Jessica Bonebright, Rob Spitzer and Library Director Bill Ptacek were present. Some took notes during the public comments.
Palmer, the Renton City Council member, shook her head in agreement as residents made their case.
“Welcome to my world; this is what we get every Mon-day night,” Palmer said about council meetings, when she took the floor.
She described the unhappy marriage that has existed with KCLS and the community since Renton annexed into the system in 2010 in a narrow election. Palmer also re-layed that citizens are pursuing a process to de-annex from KCLS, which was announced at a City Council meeting.
“I don’t think it has ever happened, but I don’t think you know Renton,” Palmer said. “This is too important to our community.”
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A proposed new entry-way and smaller size for the downtown library over the Cedar River are angering community residents.
The conceptual plans for the downtown library have been presented by the King County Library System, which include moving the main entry from the pe-destrian bridge to near the parking lot.
The bridge would remain, but it would be suspended away from the library build-
ing, not allowing for direct access from the bridge into the library. The proposed space has also shrunk from some 22,000 square feet to 15,400 square-feet.
The KCLS project team will give a design presenta-tion Tuesday, March 26, at
the downtown library. In a conference call with
the Renton Reporter, KCLS staff responded to the com-munity’s concerns about certain design elements.
Now KCLS officials are urging caution when talking about the design elements of the downtown library because they say it’s too early in the process. The project team is now in the schematic design phase, which means they actu-ally have sketches of ideas. Those sketches reveal some drastic changes to the pres-ent design.
“When we say the design, we mean the schematic design of the library,” Julie Brand said. She is KCLS’ community relations and marketing director. “People keep using this word ‘design’ and we’re nowhere near the design phase.”
KCLS Library Director Bill Ptacek expressed eager-ness to get feedback from the community and see how the project team might accommodate individuals’ concerns.
He recognizes the unique-ness of the original design of the library over the river.
“Our goal is to make this library function so future
generations can say the same thing,” Ptacek said about community attach-ment to the building. “I don’t know that there will be another library built over a river in the U.S. We’ve got to get it as right as we can with the construction constraints that we’re dealing with.”
Those constraints have dictated some design deci-sions the project team has had to make, Ptacek said.
“We had no idea where the entrance was going to be, but we do know there are such things as ADA (American with Disabilities Act) requirements, opera-tions issues and on top of
that how do we do it in such a way that maximizes the space,” said Ptacek. “Where do the utilities come into the building? That dictates where the staff elements come into the building.”
The smaller building foot-print is the result of issues with the current columns and crossbars.
“In order to make this building stay within budget, we have to use the columns and crossbraces that exist in the current building,” said Ptacek.
The caused the overall square footage to shrink to a smaller floor plan.
The internal operations
and factors such as utilities forced the project team to relocate the main entry next to the parking lot, he said.
“In a sense we really don’t have a choice,” said Ptacek.
The proposed design has ignited a new debate between residents, who have been closely following the project’s progress and the project team.
Members of the citizens group Save the Renton Library Again! have regu-larly attended the library briefings and are review-ing project documents and work through requests for information.
They are skeptical KCLS and the City of Renton will build the library that citizens have asked for at the present location, they say. The group has about 25 members.
“I just think if people knew that they have not kept faith with us, they would be furious,” said Beth Asher, member of the citizens group.
Asher and other members are seeking multiple avenues to address their concerns. The group believes the com-munity wants a redesigned library with at least the same square footage and the
entrance where it’s presently located.
At the last library briefing in February, tension spilled over. Members of the public expressed frustration at the preliminary direction of certain design elements as they understood them.
Although some design elements are a given that the project team can’t do much about, there are still deci-sions to make about space planning, Ptacek said.
He said that in the past KCLS has received feedback from the community that’s caused them to go back to the architects to revise plans.
“We’re excited about it,” Ptacek said about moving forward. “We think that this has the chance of being that library for the next couple of generations.”
He did say that now they are a little over budget, but he thinks they can work with it. Ptacek wants to get the project to bid as soon as possible because construc-tion costs are going up.
Ptacek said there is no formal document the design team has crafted yet, because the team is just now starting to conceptualize what the new downtown library will look like.
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The meeting room at the Newcastle Library was filled to overflowing as Renton residents tried to convince KCLS trustees to not make any changes to the downtown library entry. BRiAN BeCKLey, Renton Reporter
threatens the Renton taxpayer,” said Keyes. “It threatens a resource we own.”
Asher said her group has been given partial information, no information and at times outdated information by KCLS. She said she has evidence KCLS has overcharged the City of Renton for work done on the previous downtown library location, the former Big 5 site.
Asher also stated that different plans were presented to City Council members at a February council retreat than plans that have been proposed for the actual demolition of the library over the Cedar River. Asher said there are discrepancies in what the project team is planning and what they are presenting to people.
When asked by audience members to respond, Ptacek said all the concerns would be addressed at a public meet-ing on March 26. Greg Smith, KCLS facilities director, also tried to quell the audience, saying “You don’t know all the facts.”
After Ptacek tried to step in, the audi-ence directed its questions to the trustees instead for a response. People requested a delay of the March 26 presentation by KCLS and asked the trustees to carefully consider Tuesday night’s testimonies.
Krakowiak attempted to reel back in the audience, saying she would attend the meeting next week. Trustee Spitzer also acknowledged the group, saying he is not informed about all of this and would think it through. McClelland
said she was aware there was a problem in Renton from her experience on the Board of Trustees. She said she will at-tend the open house, as did Bonebright.
After the exchange and outside of the meeting, Palmer expressed some satisfaction for how things transpired. She said she is feeling more positive that trustee members are going to show up next week.
“Because my initial reaction was let’s just not come,” Palmer said. “Because if they’re just going to get up and tell us what they’re going to do, which is all they’ve done in the past, why waste our time. I will go because it sounds like the trustees are open to give and take and that’s what we need to have.”
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ect engineer and lead de-signer on the project.
To correct the problem of freeway traffic merging with local traffic throughout the confusing clover leaf of an exit, the state made plans to completely revamp the entire interchange, includ-ing the addition of a direct connector between 167 and 405, to make it easier for the large number of cars that use that stretch of roadway every day.
The new flyover would require some expansion of the freeway and would have to cut into the Talbot Hill neighborhood, but the location of the road and retaining wall would have only cut through what was then a single large parcel of land with a single owner.
But because the entire corridor project was so ex-pensive – about $1.5 billion – the project was divided into “logical constructible pieces” with plans to work first on the worst sec-tions of the road and the interchange project sat on the shelf.
Funding began to arrive in the form of the 2003 and 2005 approvals by the leg-islature to increase the gas tax to go toward roadwork and work began on several stretches of 405. However, there was still no fund-ing approved for the interchange project, so it sat on the shelf again.
“There’s been this dry spell,” said Deputy Program Director Denise Cieri.
In 2008, the environ-mental assessment on the interchange project was approved, allowing the engineers to take a closer look at exactly where the freeway would go.
According to Cieri, at that time WSDOT went back to the neighborhood, where they had begun outreach in 2002 because of the planned need to take some land in the area.
But even in 2008, the area was still a single empty parcel with a single owner and seemed to pose no real problems to construction.
As projects along the 405 corridor came in early and under budget, the legis-
lature in 2012 agreed to roll over the addition-al money to allow WSDOT to begin design work and right-of-way acquisition for the connector project.
So earlier this year, WSDOT
officials “dusted off ” the environmental document and were out surveying the Talbot Hill area and instead of finding a single empty parcel, they discovered a brand new, single-family neighborhood.
“They were surprised,” Cieri said. “They weren’t there looking for that, but they ran into it.”
A quick look at the plans showed that two of the
new pieces of property that had been created since they were last there were going to be impacted by the construction. The first was a house under construction and the engineers imme-diately advised the builder that they might want to stop as the house they were building would likely be torn down soon anyway.
The second parcel was the Randquist-Chungs.
Cieri said WSDOT did not know the neighbor-hood had been built and called it “very unfortunate.”
“It complicates things,” Cieri said. “We weren’t ex-pecting it when we started searching out detailed information for design.”
Usually during the design phase, WSDOT can work with property owners to move the roadway a bit here and there, but Cieri said that in 25 years with the de-partment “such an unusual situation” as this had never happened.
“In this situation, un-fortunately, I can’t work
around them,” she said.
‘Shaken up, stirred and mixed around’
The news about their house hit the Randquist Chungs like a brick. They had worked hard and done things the right way. Their business, Dojo 3 on Grady Way, was growing, their family was growing and they had settled into the house they expected to be in the rest of their lives.
Now all of that was up-side down.
“Our life has been to-tally shaken up, stirred and mixed around,” Richard said.
After several frantic days where Richard said the couple could not sleep or go to work out of worry, they finally began to accept that they would have to move.
Soon after the news came down, Richard and Lori received a visit from the
original property owner, Louis Malesis. According to Richard, he sat at their kitchen table and explained that he had known of the project, but since there was no funding, he did not worry about it. He offered the Randquist Chungs another lot at a reduced price, but the family is not interested.
They simply kept asking how this had happened.
“I felt anger because I didn’t think we should’ve have been able to purchase this house,” Lori said.
Real estate agent Kim Mazzuca, who is handling the homes in the neigh-borhood for John L. Scott Realty of Renton, was also surprised to find out about the highway.
“I was really upset,” she said.
Mazzuca was about to close on another home in the neighborhood when the news came from the builder.
Since then, not only has she had to tell the Randquist Chungs the news about their house, the deal on the next home up the hill fell through when the buyers learned about the freeway project.
Mazzuca said she had asked the seller and devel-oper about the freeway and was told that WSDOT had decided against the expan-sion and the homes could be sold without a problem.
Mazzuca said calling
Richard and Lori was “one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do” and said she was also shocked and embarrassed by the news.
“I would have never been up there selling those houses if I thought this was going to happen,” she said. “I’ve been doing this for 25 years. This has never hap-pened.”
But what struck Richard and Lori, as well as Maz-zuca, most was the surprise of it. How was it no one had mentioned the freeway expansion?
“Just tell me I’m buying a house that potentially going to be acquired,” Richard said.
But in reality, the Randquists Chungs were caught in something of a legal gray area.
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“It’s been a high priority for the city for decades now because of the fact that the most-congested interchange in the state is 167-405,” said
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WSDOT plans to rebuild the entire SR167-I405 interchange, seen here in an artist’s rendering provided by the state. At right, Richard Randquist Chung demonstrates where in his living room the retaining wall for the new connector is scheduled to be built. BRIAn BeCkley, Renton Reporter
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Public Works Administrator Gregg Zimmerman.But even though the city knew of and supported the
project, with no funding, technically the $335 million con-nector project was still not happening. It may have been on the books for “years and years and years,” but without funding, the city was not in a position to tell the landown-ers to not use their land.
“We legally can’t stop people from exercising their right to use their property,” Zimmerman said. “By law we are constrained.”
In 2007, prior to the approval of the WSDOT environ-mental document but after the work was completed and submitted, the city received, processed and approved the Lake View Short Plat, as the Talbot Hill neighborhood is officially known.
Even after the environmental document was approved in 2008, the city still could not tell people not to build on their land, as without funding it literally could have been decades before WSDOT got around to the project.
There was extensive outreach in the early part of the decade, as well as right around the environmental project’s approval, but then “everything goes quiet for a couple of years” while the state waits for funding, Zimmerman said.
“There’s this period of time between 2008 and now where we, as government agencies, have to be very quiet about things,” Zimmerman said, adding again that the city was legally prohibited from talking about potential projects. “Even as we speak, WSDOT doesn’t have money for that project.”
It was in that time period that the plat was approved and the homes began to be built.
“If we denied the property owner the right to subdi-vide or to build houses, we are basically denying use of that property,” he said, adding “I really feel bad for those people.”
Relocation and recourseIt’s only been a few weeks, but the Randquist Chungs
have accepted that they will have to move. The funding released last summer allows the state to begin purchasing right-of-way and that means it will soon be moving day again for the family of five.
“We’ve written off the house,” Richard said. The next step, according to everyone involved, is
working with WSDOT’s relocation team to agree on “fair market value” for their home and to work to find the Randquist Chungs a “comparable house.”
For Richard, the focus now is finding a new home, one that he knows will probably not be as nice as the one they found, or at the price they found it.
“I found a diamond in the rough,” he said. Along with the close proximity to work – which keeps
gas money low for the couple who take multiple trips to and from the business each day in order to check on and spend time with their kids — Richard said every “com-parable house” they have looked at — four-bedroom, three-and-a-half baths, three-car garage, fireplace, “bonus room,” triple-paned windows, wood trim — are all coming in at least $250,000 more than they paid for their home
and none of them are anywhere near work.“Am I going to have a lesser quality of life for my chil-
dren just because of a 405 expansion that I should have been told about?” Richard asked.
While WSDOT officials have been “cordial” and “re-sponsive,” the couple are still worried they are not going to be able to replace the house they expected to be their home. Their two oldest children cried when they heard they were going to have to move.
“It’s not the house that’s the matter, it’s the home we’re building here,” Richard said.
The Randquist Chungs have requested to be moved before the beginning of the next school year, so as to cause as little disruption as possible to the kids.
The officials at WSDOT feel their pain.Cieri said WSDOT will follow the federal Uniform Re-
location Assistance and Property Acquisitions Policies Act and the Randquist Chungs will get a fair value for their home, though she realizes that is not the only concern.
“I totally get that it took them three years to find that house and they’re not going to find it again,” Cieri said. “We’ll do the very best we can.”
The Randquist Chungs are also looking into their legal options and questioning who should have told them what and when regarding their home, though Richard said again the couple is caught in a strange limbo, since techni-cally speaking, nothing has happened yet.
The Renton Reporter made attempts to contact Malesis, but he did not respond in time for this story.
For now, the Randquist Chungs are going on with their lives and spending their time searching for a new home and this time they have some advice for themselves and anyone else in the market for a house: search the internet for upcoming projects in the area, and if all else fails:
“Don’t move close to the highway,” Lori said.
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Ecology’s Construction Storm- water NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project is located adjacent to the Boeing property in Renton in NE ¼ section of Section 7, Township 23N, Range 5E., King County parcel number 0723059105 in Renton, in King County. This project involves 3 acres of soil disturbance for shoreline restoration and storm- water outfall construction activities. Stormwater will be discharged to Lake Washington. 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 pub- lic comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measur- able change in receiving 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 Renton Reporter on March 15, 2013 and March 22, 2013. #753286.
Superior Court of WashingtonCounty of King
In re the Estate of: JAMES RONALD SMITH, Deceased.NO. 13-4-01453-7 KNT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise appli-
cable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attor- neys at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Represen- tative served or mailed the Notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as other- wise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effec- tive as to claims against both the decedent’s probate assets and nonprobate assets.Date of First Publication: March 22, 2013.PR: MIRIAM E. SMITHPETER W. MOGREN WSBA #11515 Of MOGREN, GLESSNER & ROTI P.S.Attorneys for Personal Representative100 Evergreen Bldg.; PO.Box 90Renton, WA 98057-0090(425) 255-4542King County Superior CourtCause No. 13-4-01453-7 KNTPublished in the Renton Reporter on March 22, 2013, March 29, 2013 and April 5, 2013.#755002In the Superior Court of the State
of Washington in and for the County of King
FIRST NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, a Washington insurer, Plaintiff,
vs.MEWDAD EQUBAY, BRYAN TRUJILLO, ANU ENKHTAIZAN, DANIEL POWERS,
LOGAN HACKMAN, and JORDAN BIRD, Defendants.No. 12-2-35510-0 SEA
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The State of Washington to the said BRYAN TRUJILLO: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty days after the 22nd day of March, 2013, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff First National Insurance Company of America, and serve a copy of your answer upon the under- signed attorneys for plaintiff, at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the de- mand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. This an interpleader action in which the Plaintiff has paid into the registry of the court the liability limits of its insured’s insurance policy and asked the court to allocate those funds among those individuals who have a personal injury claim against the insured, Mewdad A. Equbay.Dated this 15th day of March, 2013John M Silk, WSBA#15035WILSON SMITH COCHRAN DICKERSON901 Fifth Ave., Suite 1700Seattle, WA 98164(206) 623-4100(206) 623-9273 [email protected] for PlaintiffPublished in the Renton Reporter on March 22, 2013, March 29, 2013, April 5, 2013, April 12, 2013, April 19, 2013. and April 26, 2013. #775240.
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