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BY KRIS HILL
Baker Street Bookstore was on the verge of closing when just days before the iconic Black Diamond business was to shut its doors a white knight rode in to save it.
Patrons gathered on Sunday to mourn its closure, celebrate the joy the business had brought to the community as well as its owner, when it was announced that Kent resident Todd Hulbert was the white knight who had purchased the business from owner Bob Charles.
Charles explained that when he made the announcement on Sun-day those in attendance cheered and applauded.
The deal was sealed just days before the store was to close, Hulbert said.
Hulbert, who owns an online clothing and apparel business, said he had books but no place to put them.
“My speciality is in Internet marketing,” he said. “Books fit so beautifully into that. I wanted to get into the online book business, so, I started buying very large lots of books all up and down the West Coast.”
Charles and Hulbert were able to come to an agreement, Hulbert said, and now the store will be home to 150,000 books he’s acquired.
After months of thought, Charles said, he decided in Febru-ary to close the store and made the announcement March 1.
“I had been thinking about it the past six or seven months, business had been going down be-cause of the economy and people switching to ebooks,” Charles said. “Then on March 8 I took a tumble and fell on my back. I like to joke that the bookstore was get-ting even with me.”
He woke up 12 days later at Harborview Medical Center with screws and rods in his back “and a whole bunch of nurses and doc-
Baker Street Bookstore owner’s farewell
Doug Ostgard plays a solo on the saxophone with By Committee during a going out of business party for Baker Street Bookstore in Black Diamond on Sunday. KriS Hill, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com
BY TJ MARTINeLL
Let the legal wrangling over medical marijuana begin.
A new business called Green Soci-ety Group opened up in Maple Valley on April 20, run by Chris Schoonover and his business partner, Jon Hofer. A dispute has arisen between the city of Maple Valley and Schoonover as to whether or not Green Society Group is violating the city’s moratorium on medical marijuana.
Schoonover described
his business as specializing in “palliative care and net-working solutions,” which includes medical marijuana
collective gardens.GSG, located at
22210 S.E. 272nd Street in Fron-tier Square, is designed with a
more welcoming environment than most
business dealing with medi-cal marijuana, according to Schoonover. The main room resembles a medical office with a security door through which someone with an authenticated med-
Green Society Group now open
BY KRIS HILL
Hidden between the Tall Timbers and Timberlane neighborhoods in Coving-ton and Cedar Downs in Maple Valley is Cedar Creek Park.
The 115-acre property borders Maple Valley, a portion of it is in unincorporated King County and finally a small chunk is in Coving-ton.
For more than a decade the Middle Green River Coalition has worked to
preserve the property for future development as a regional trail connector between Maple Valley and Covington.
During the past two years, however, it has be-
come a playground for owners of all terrain
vehicles and more recently the snow and ice storms of mid-January
brought down so many limbs of the mature
growth forest onto the trail there are sections which are virtually impassable,
Coalition works to clean up park site
Store closing party for Bob Charles also a chance to celebrate a new beginning
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By TJ MarTinell
Tahoma High senior Anthony Yun took first place at the Future Business Leader of America State Conference.
It’s a far cry for the 18-year-old Washington state FBLA officer, who admitted that he used to be extremely shy.
That changed after he attended the Washington Business Week program at Pacific Lutheran University his freshman year. There, he was given a men-tor and a team to work with. When it came time to select a “CEO” for the team, they decided to select Yun, which he found ironic.
“They picked the shyest kid, me,” he said. “Since then I have become completely enamored with the concept of business.”
Before he attended the week-long program, Yun met student officers from DECA, a not-for-profit student organization that helps emerging leaders and entrepreneurs prepare for their careers, when they gave a presentation at the Greater Maple Valley Com-munity Center.
Yun couldn’t help but be impressed by the nice clothes a female student officer wore, as well as her professional demeanor.
“Seeing high school students in suits really in-trigued me,” he said. “I had never seen someone speak so articulately. She was my role model. I wanted to be just like her.”
As Yun involved himself more and more, he said he
slowly began to develop confidence speaking and addressing people publicly.
“When you’re excited about something and you’re passionate about it you make long-lasting friend-ships,” he said. “I broke out of my comfort zone.
In addition to the FBLA, Yun also is involved with the Math Team, the As-sociated Student Body, the National Honor Society and the Maple Valley Youth
Council. In February of
last year, Yun par-ticipated in a Young Entrepreneurs event, in which he worked with a team of high school students to write a business plan for a wristwatch alarm that wakes up the user based on their sleeping patterns, an idea Yun was inspired by from his AP Psychology class. Yun later held a mock presenta-tion of the plan for investors.
“It solidified my desire to pursue
business,” he said. As part of the FBLA
state conference, Yun had to undergo a 100 question exam, as well as an inter-view, the hardest of which he said were the accounting questions. Then, finally, the awards were announced on the stage, until there was only himself and the state FBLA president on the stage.
“I thought he was going to win,” Yun said. “But they called his name for second. I had the biggest smile on my face when they called my name for first.”
Much of the prepara-tion for the conference Yun credited to his teachers at Tahoma, including his busi-ness teacher Deb Wood.
“She had to look at my resume a dozen times be-fore I submitted it to state,”
he said. As part of winning first
place, Yun has also been accepted into the Foster Business School at the Uni-versity of Washington, as well as a position of student leader for Bank of America.
Yun said he intends to use his skills to start a non-profit organization, which he feels uses many of the
education tools designed for business.
“A business doesn’t have to just be a business,” he said. “It can be a nonprofit, too. You can use the skills you acquire to help others.”
Yun said if he started a nonprofit it would be youth-directed, as a way of helping other students like himself.
“I think my time in ASB showed me high school students can make a dif-ference and they should be supported,” he said.
His student leader position at BOA, he said, will involve an eight-week internship with a nonprofit.
“I will see what it’s like and if it’s something I’d like to pursue,” he said.
Tahoma student wins business award
“Seeing high school students in suits really intrigued me. i had never seen someone speak so articulately. She was my role model. i wanted to be just like her.” anthony yun
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tors looking at me.”His prognosis is good,
though, and he is looking forward to retirement after owning and operating the store for 17 years.
Charles started the store in the north half of the building in 1985 after looking for the right place he settled in the small community because “Black Diamond seemed like home to me.”
As the business grew, Charles explained, he even-
tually took over the entire building which is 3,000 square feet.
One of the features of the business that many patrons at the going away event — which Charles described as a wake but everyone else called a party — said they would miss would be the live jazz performances on Friday nights.
That began with a simple conversation, Charles said.
“About six years ago one of my good friends, Doug Ostgard, he would come in and buy books, and we
were talking about mu-sic,” Charles said. “I was complaining that the only kind of music you could get out here in southeast King County was country western. Not that there’s anything wrong with coun-try western. He asked me what kind of music I liked and I said, ‘Well, I like jazz myself.’”
It just so happens that Ostgard is a jazz musician — he’s a saxophone player — and knew quite a few jazz musicians in the area.
Pretty soon musicians
were playing twice a month. Word got around among the jazz artists in the area, Charles said, and before he knew it there were three performances a month by “a whole litany of different groups and performers.”
Bob Jay, a Maple Valley resident, while perusing “The Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze” on Sunday afternoon said he would go to all the gigs on Friday nights over the years.
Fred Davis, a horn player with the group of Enumclaw musicians who performed at the beginning of the event, said “this is a great event to celebrate all the great things Bob’s done for jazz over the years.”
Maple Valley resident Ed Monger, who taught music for 30 years in the Tahoma Schools, said the free jazz performances in a corner of the bookshop were something the community enjoyed.
“People were free to drop in and listen,” Monger said. “More importantly it brings jazz musicians to the area that we ordinarily wouldn’t get to hear.”
While the music may not continue at the store, Hulbert does have plans for other ways to make customers feel at home, and the building will be his ef-fective May 1, Charles said.
Hulbert said the plan is to close the store for 60 days in order to make a few upgrades around the shop as well as stock it with the thousands of tomes he’s
purchased. The plan is to re-open under a new name, Finally Found Books, in July.
There is one, part-time employee, Hulbert said, whom he plans to retain and someday he may hire one additional part-time staff members.
Given the history of the business and the fact it’s the only bookstore within a 15-mile radius which serves not just Black Dia-mond, but Maple Valley, Covington and surround-ing unincorpo-rated areas, it was important to preserve it, Hulbert said.
“Bookstores are integral to
any community,” Hulbert said. “Having a bookstore within any community is important. Books are so important. This particular store is an icon within the community because it’s been around so long.”
And Baker Street Book-store can continue to be a gathering place in the era of e-readers.
“People are losing their connection to the com-munity,” Hulbert said. “It’s important to have a place like this where you can get out and meet people, where you can enjoy yourself for a while.”
Hulbert said he wants the store to be inviting for patrons to sit down, read a book and enjoy a cup of coffee as well as a gather-ing place for community groups to meet, plus he plans to offer signing events with authors as well as
space for artists to display and sell their works.
“We’re going to try and get local artists to bring their stuff in on consign-ment,” he said. “We will try to rotate it every 90 days. They have a hard time find-ing places to sell so here’s a new venue.”
Hulbert will also work to encourage youngsters to read by offering a free book from a special section to children under 10 as well as providing coupons to local school districts for teachers to give to students.
Charles plans to watch baseball, as much as he can of the Seattle Mariners and the Tacoma Rainiers, as well as get outdoors to fish and hike which will be easier once the back brace comes off on June 3.
“I’m a big walker, I like to go walking and hiking,” Charles said. “We live in a great part of the country to go hiking and walking, so, I’m going to take advantage of that, especially down in Enumclaw where I live.”
And he can retire know-ing the bookstore will continue on.
“I was relieved that someone had come for-ward to continue the book-store in Black Diamond,” Charles said. “That was one of the things I agonized over and that’s why it took me so long to make the decision. I’m just tickled pink that there’s going to be a bookstore here for the community, not just for Black Diamond… but for all of my patrons from all over the Puget Sound area, that it will still be a place where they can come and browse books.”
“I’m just tickled pink that there’s going to be a bookstore here for the community, not just for Black Diamond... but for all of my patrons from all over the Puget Sound area. It will still be a place they can come and browse books.” Bob Charles
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according to Lisa Parsons, executive director of the Middle Green River Coali-tion.
“I hadn’t been there in a while, so, I went there in July 2010,” Parsons said. “It was getting absolutely decimated by off-road vehicles. After doing all that work, to have it decimated by off-road vehicles was devastating.”
In the late 1990s as Cov-ington and Maple Valley were working toward incor-porating as cities, Parsons said, the coalition began working to preserve the Cedar Creek property with an eye toward eventually developing it into a park.
“This park could be a focal point for the com-munity sentiment that they needed to have a say in how their communi-ties developed,” Parsons
said. “We basically asked the county and the depart-ment of natural resources who owned the land at the time... to make the whole 84 acres of department of natural resources land into a park instead of a (hous-ing) development.”
There were public meet-ings, Parsons said, local and regional politicians were lobbied.
Members of the coali-tion met with Ron Sims, who was the King County executive at the time, and discussed a land swap. Once that swap was com-pleted the 84 acres were set aside as open space.
“It was a huge victory for the community,” Parsons said. “This is a huge success story especially in how it brought the communities together.”
There is a trail that was once a road bed which is a mile and a half long that
Parsons described as a safe alternative to get from Maple Valley to Covington and vice versa while walk-ing or cycling.
As work progressed, Parsons said, in 2005 the coalition worked with the city of Covington, which purchased two properties from private parties, with a grant from King County Conservation Futures money and a special city fund for park acquisition.
An elderly couple which lived on the edge of the Cedar Creek Park site had planted more than 300 species of rhododendrons, Parsons said, and they wanted to see the property preserved for future genera-tions.
“One of the reasons I worked on making this a park is one of the few places left in King County
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Beyond the door is an “informative table,” which Schoonover said is part of his plan to maintain strong communication with the city and remove any skepti-cism about the nature of his business.
He stated he intends to have the business open to the public once a month in order for people to come in with any questions they have.
According to Schoon-over’s attorney, Jay Berneberg, the business manages collective gar-dens, yet does not act as a dispensary or a collec-tive garden, and therefore does not violate the city’s moratorium or state law on medical marijuana.
According to state law, up to 10 people can grow a collective garden together. A person is also allowed to individually possess up to a 60 days worth of medical marijuana, which is defined as up to 24 ounces or 15 plants.
Berneberg stated in a telephone interview that businesses such as GSG manage the collective gardens for the medical patients, something which the state doesn’t regulate. He also said that only those who are documented
members of a collective gar-den managed by GSG are given access to the medical marijuana. GSG, he stated, keeps documentation on members who enter or leave the collective garden, as well as store the medical marijuana.
“They’re (GSG) hired by the collective garden to do it,” Berneberg said. “We have a management company in Maple Valley and that’s where people can go and access their medi-cine. They come there, they obtain the medicine and they leave. Nobody’s using the medicine there. People come up like they’re going to the pharmacy. There’s not any partying going on. They don’t have a vapor room.”
LEGAL LOOPHOLE Confusion due to the
ambiguity in state law, as well as the exact intentions of GSG, has left the city at a loss of what actions to take, said City Manager David Johnston in a telephone interview.
“They’re (GSG) saying that they don’t fall under the moratorium,” he said. “We know what our mora-torium states and through the discussions it says we believe it falls under the moratorium. We’ll do what we have to do to enforce any action that may have to happen. It’s unfortunate
that there is no clarity in this issue. You still have the federal, state law issue. It’s not clear. Some of these actions can be illegal under federal law but it’s allowed under state law. So I think our hope would be the state would clear up any ambigu-ity, but they got caught in their budget issues.”
Johnston added that this dispute was “not a matter of if but when.”
The moratorium was passed by the City Council in July 2011. At its Feb. 21 meeting the City Council voted to support a let-ter signed by Gov. Chris Gregoire asking the DEA to consider reassigning medical marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II drug, which would make it legal for medicinal pur-poses.
Meanwhile, Schoonover said, he has no intention of letting the business get shut down.
“I won’t quit,” he said. “As long as I’m breathing air I’m going to fight this fight.”
Due to the dispute between the city, Berneberg advised Schoonover not to sell any medical marijuana until the issue has been cleared up. Even though he ultimately chose not to have any medical marijuana in the business during its grand opening, Schoonover said, he was determined to
open on April 20.“I made a promise that
they would be able to speak to me,” he said of clients. “I was very adamant about that. Being the guys we are, this was an opportunity to prove that I am who I say am.”
It is unlikely at this time, however, that any action will be taken by the city against GSG, according to Johnston, who said at the Maple Valley City Council’s meeting on Monday that the King County prosecu-tor’s office will dismiss any charges the city may bring. He also discussed a meeting he had had with Berneberg earlier that day.
“What we are in is an assessment process because first of all, the thing came as a shock to the city staff,” Johnston said. “We’re going to take our time. So, we’re looking at all our legal review on the situation that we have. We’re dealing with some interesting interpreta-tion of current state law. We’re trying to figure out if they’re valid or not. When we have more informa-tion to talk about, we will. We have to digest that. It’s an unfortunate, ambigu-ous situation that we face because of what happened with the governor’s line item veto last year.”
Johnston said, “they are being very open and they
have a desire to be follow the rules and regulations and the laws.”
REMOVING THE ‘BLACK EYE’ Schoonover said he did
not intend to open up his business in Maple Valley originally, but, changed his mind after the lease at Frontier Square became available.
“Quite honestly my path stumbled in here,” he said. “I didn’t want to open here. I’m a firm believer in fate and destiny, so when the door’s wide open you’d be foolish not to at least try it.”
One of his intentions, he said, is to improve the reputation of businesses that deal with medical marijuana.
“Certain individuals in this industry have done things incorrectly,” Schoon-over said. “They have given us this black eye. We’ve tried to take the grey area out and take the black eye away. But we have to have a symbolic relationship with the community. You’ve got to.”
Schoonover stated he op-poses Initiative 502, which if passed, would legalize small amounts of recre-ational marijuana.
Although he believes GSG does not violate the moratorium, Berneberg stated a moratorium on col-lective gardens and dispen-
saries is still the incorrect way to deal with the issue.
“Whether anyone wants to admit it or not there are already quite a few col-lective gardens in Maple Valley,” he said. “It goes on all over the place because it’s allowed under state law. They can put their head in a deep dark place. They can say it’s not happen-ing because they’re got a moratorium. Prohibition is a terrible way to regulate medical marijuana. They lose revenue. They lose knowledge. They wash their hands of it and actually have the complete opposite effect of what it was intend-ed to do. It says, ‘As long as you can keep it out of sight that’s OK.’ It’s a way for city to avoid responsibility.”
A medical marijuana dis-pensary, Covington Holistic Medicine, has remained open due to Covington’s moratorium being passed after it was in operation.
Last year, several medical marijuana dispensaries in Kent were shut down in July and then reopened several weeks later, which Berneberg said is proof that the law is on their side.
“It was like a gang came in and trashed the place,” he said. “It was an ugly show of force. So they send it over to the King County pros-ecutor and he says they’re not violating state law.”
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CONGREssIONAL ART COMPETITION TO BE HELd MAY 1
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Council will host Rep. Dave Reichert and his local staff at the judging competition to be held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1 at the Creative Arts Center
The Center is located at 23220 Maple Valley Highway SE, Suite 15. The public is welcome to attend.Refreshments will be served. If you are unable to attend, May 1 will kick off a week long exhibit for public viewing. Go to www.maplevalleyarts.com for special exhibit hours. Since 1982, the winning selection from the 8th District has graced the House of Representatives’ Cannon Building Tunnel in Washington, D.C., for a year.
Community Note
Black DiamonD liBrary hosts plant sale may 5The 46th Annual Black Diamond Library Plant Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 5 at the Black Diamond Community Center.The Center is located at 31605 Third Avenue, Black Diamond. Friends of the Black Diamond Library will sell native plants and garden books.Proceeds from the event support the library’s children and youth programs. To volunteer or donate plants please
call Diane Olson at 360-625-8739 or Joe Mascis at 360-886-7206 or e-mail Linda Stanley at [email protected].
new meeting scheDule for maple valley councilThe Maple Valley City Council will meet three times a month — in-stead of four — starting May 1.There will be two business meetings and a study session monthly. The council will continue to meet at the Tahoma School District Administra-tive Services Center, 25720 Maple Valley Highway.For more information log onto www.ci.maple-valley.wa.us.
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BY KRIS HILL
Boxes distributed through the food pantry at Black Diamond Com-munity Center will be fuller thanks to donations from Cenex.
Donations were col-lected at Cenex gas stations
in Black Diamond and Auburn through its second annual Harvest for Hunger campaign which ran March 1-16. Doug Ernst, a full-time volunteer who man-ages the food pantry, said the donation of 358 pounds of food and $2,262.81 will go far.
“It means we can put
more food in the boxes,” Ernst said. “Sometimes there’s not a lot of food and other times the boxes are full.”
Boxes are filled with non-perishable stables such as canned vegetables, pasta and instant potatoes, the kinds of items that keep people from starving said Cheryl Hanson, executive director of the community center. Ryan Strong, a certi-fied energy specialist for Cenex, explained that par-ent company CHS is a large
agriculture business and produces a lot of grain so it places significant emphasis on helping out those who might otherwise go without food.
“This year they doubled the expectations,” Strong said. “They raised enough (food and cash donations) for 2.4 million meals in this region.”
According to a letter Strong provided, the CHS Auburn Group collected $3,583.11 for Food Lifeline which the company part-
nered with in Harvest for Hunger, with $4,720.23 in matching contributions along with 685 pounds of food which were distrib-uted to the Auburn Food Bank, Black Diamond Community Center, among several others in the region.
Strong, along with Black Diamond Cenex assistant manager Julie Burlison and manager Betty Scheetz, presented Hanson a check on Monday.
“Today we are present-ing you with two checks
of CHS matching contri-butions, $1,262.58 from CHS County Operations match plus $1 for every five pounds of food,” the letter said. “And an additional $1,000 from CHS Auburn, rewarding the Black Dia-mond community for their extraordinary efforts which resulted in more donations collected than any of our six participating locations.”
Hanson said she couldn’t be more pleased with the ongoing partnership with Cenex.
Cenex makes donations for Harvest for Hunger
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A huge warehouse space with concrete floors and props from previous shows shoved in every corner.
When we walk in for music rehearsal for “Tu-randot” every Tuesday and Thursday we all head to a big chorus rehearsal room with things that look like mattresses on the walls.
There must be at least six of them on each wall that towers above us. These are
sound proofers so that the singers aren’t relying on the echoes to carry out and project their sounds, and so they are prepared to project out when they enter the few rehearsals we have in the actual theatre.
In this room we do everything. We ‘block’ — which means to plan out each movement of where we will go and what we will look like.
We practice on the pro-nunciation of Italian. And we do warm-ups.
Speaking of warm-ups, you would be surprised how ridiculous we sound
in rehearsals. I mean I don’t realize it at the time but when I look back on it, the things we have to say always make me laugh.
We have to do things like say the alphabet as fast as we can and do a sort of horse mouth where we let out the air and if we support correctly our lips
vibrate and we have to hold that as long as we can.
Other than how silly we feel doing warm-ups, we kids are just naturally silly as well.
We are all super great friends already and like
to hang out with the staff and each other during our breaks.
However when we get back to singing all eyes have to be on the Chorus Master, singing at all times and working as hard as we can to get the Italian said right.
Last rehearsal we worked mostly on how to say the Italian words and we also assigned harmony parts, which is where we split into two groups and we all sing the same words but on dif-ferent notes.
The end of the last bit of music we get to do is my favorite — everyone joins together and we sing really high. Most of the kids in the
youth chorus are sopranos which means we are more comfortable at the higher notes, but we do have some altos mixed in with us too, which means they are more comfortable with the mid-range notes.
So far, “Turandot” has been an amazing experi-ence and I am loving every second of it, just as I did “Carmen.”
The music is running through my head already and I could break out into song any moment just like in the movies but I might get some weird looks for that.
If you’re still look-ing for that big lady with
the Viking hat and two braids running down her neck with the oval shaped mouth, that’s too bad, be-cause that’s not opera.
Opera is another way to tell stories.
My friend Alban Dennis, whom I did the play “A Christmas Carol” with, said this to me just the other day – “That is what we are after all, those of us on the stage, storytellers.”
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At the Maple Valley City Council’s April 16 meeting, Mayor Bill Allison did something that you rarely see a politician do.
Very frankly and candidly, he addressed several business owners who own property within what’s known as the northwest quadrant who were in the audience, telling them that he hopes they are eventually bought out and different types of businesses replace them.
The City Council is set to vote on the zoning code for the northwest quadrant, which is part of a larger long-term planning piece called the Four Corners Subarea plan, in May. In the meantime, there has been a debate over whether certain businesses such as automotive repair should be classified as conforming, with a possibility of a 50 percent expansion, or whether they should nonconforming.
The Planning Commission has recommended that businesses be nonconforming, which means they will be allowed to remain in operation but will not be able to expand. Some of the business owners, such as Leslie Westover, have insisted their businesses will have a much harder time getting a loan if they are nonconforming.
Allison’s remark, however, revealed what’s re-ally at the heart of the issue.
The squabble over zoning and land use is actu-ally a debate over the different visions people have for the city’s identity.
It’s a predicament many cities have grappled with, but Maple Valley’s situation is unique.
Traditionally, a city has an original street, a main street, from which growth and expansion stems from.
Bellevue and Issaquah, for example, were once rural bedroom communities like Maple Val-ley, yet they both had main streets which acted as the center of town. I grew up on Bellevue’s second Main Street, located on the east side of Interstate 405, and drive through Front Street in Issaquah where the historic district is located as a part of my daily commute.
In some ways, however, Maple Valley more closely resembles an ancient Irish settlement than small town America. Before the cul-tural influence of the Danes, the Anglos or the Normans, the bucolic Irish had no town center, per se, but a collection of farms and homes which formed the local community. Dublin, for
example, was created by the invading Danes and introduced the concept of a town center to the rest of the country.
Maple Valley has other attributes which dis-tinguish it from other former small towns.
State Route 169 runs down the middle of the city and has been there since before it was incorporated, effectively preventing its use as a main street. It’s a problem the city of Sultan also suffers from due to U.S. Route 2.
Essentially, Maple Valley is looking to create a main street to define its future identity, which is unusual. Typically, a city looks to its main street or historic district as a source of inspiration and history. For Black Diamond, it’s (the other) Baker Street, where the old railroad station and now home to the Historical Society stands.
When I was a student at Eastern Washington University, there was a big push to renovate and revitalize downtown Spokane, which had acquired a reputation for being a hub for the homeless population.
This included changing the name of the Clem-mer Theater in 2006 to the Bing Crosby Theater.
One of the best examples of a town redefining itself is Leavenworth, which transformed from a dying logging community into a Bavarian tourist attraction.
But with all of these cities, there was a “main street” or district to start with. That’s where Maple Valley starts to run into problems. Due to its decentralization, there is no “heart” of the community.
Maple Valley High School, where the His-
torical Society is located, is not even within the city limits but remains in unincorporated King County.
It’s hard to have a city’s source of civic pride come from a place that’s technically not even a part of the city or in a convenient location.
Someday, Maple Valley may be the next big city, and another small rural town will act as the bedroom community.
But before that, it’s going to need a main street. The Legacy Site, located in the Four Corners Subarea Plan, is intended to be the town center the city never had.
And this is where a second problem comes into play. There is not a single, unified vision for what residents want Maple Valley to look like in 10 years, which has resulted in a bloodless war between separate factions with competing visions.
There are those who want to preserve Maple Valley’s former rural culture and sense of com-munity, which might be affected by both growth and changes due to the Subarea Plan.
They’re afraid that these changes will cause the city to lose many of the appealing qualities and traditions that they have come to cherish.
Then there are those who feel Maple Valley has outgrown its rural identity and must move beyond merely acting as a bedroom community. There are also people who want to bring in the conveniences they had to give up to move here.
Next month, the council will decide whether the businesses in the northwest quadrant are a part of the city’s “main street” vision or not.
Now that the fog has lifted from the three special sessions in November/December, March and April, and the regular leg-islative session that ran January 9 to March 8, I’d like to offer my thoughts on the final operating budget and government reforms passed this year.
On Feb. 17, House Republi-cans offered the first balanced budget solution during the 2012 regular session.
Our budget funded education first, in a separate budget, then prioritized services for the most vulnerable and public safety. We made tough decisions, but if we want to get our budget under control, programs we cannot afford today or tomorrow need to be reformed or eliminated.
While minority House Republican budget solutions were rejected by the majority party, I believed that in the absence of a House or Senate Democratic budget, it was important to start the dialogue about how we craft a balanced, sustainable budget.
When the House and Senate Democratic budgets finally appeared, there were serious flaws, including pushing $330 million in de-lay of payments to schools, which ultimately would have led to a $2 billion deficit in the
next biennium’s budget.The good news is that,
in a rare development, a bipartisan coalition formed in the state Senate.
This philosophical majority forced the debate on how we responsibly reform govern-ment to address long-term fiscal stability and balance the budget within reasonable tax col-lection expectations. Because of this coalition, we were able to enact several much-needed, long-overdue government reforms, including:
Senate Bill 6378: is a pension reform policy that only applies to newly-hired employees beginning in 2013.
The state’s pension system is among the biggest cost-drivers in state government. This reform is expected to save public employers and taxpayers approximately $1.3 billion over the next 25 years.
Senate Bill 6636: This legislation requires
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I’ve always known that medical marijuana is an emotionally charged issue. But I never expected to see a grown man cry about it. And I certainly never thought I’d see two different men crying about it in the same week. It started on Wednesday morning. I was volunteering at a medical marijuana dispensary in the Seattle area when in walked a fairly nondescript, middle-aged man. The receptionist checked the man’s paper-work, called his doctor’s
office and verified that he was a qualified patient. As soon as the patient was alone with me, he began to bitterly weep because he had no money to buy any. I was immediately taken aback because, even in my line of volunteer work, I am unaccustomed to seeing grown men break down in near hysterics. Still shaken up about it a bit later, I sat down and nervously
flipped through the pages of the magazine when the shopkeeper nodded at it
and asked, “What do you think about that?” I looked down and really focused for the first time on the glossy, full-page advertise-ment I’d only been pretending to read
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dispensary would be open-ing in two days, on April 20.
I checked the ad more
closely and, sure enough, the listed address for the new shop was in Frontier Square, just three miles from my doorstep, in my beloved, cozy, little town of Maple Valley, Wash., USA.
I decided I had to inves-tigate this new shop for my-self. So, the next morning, I went to Frontier Square to snoop around. But, as it turned out, absolutely no snooping was necessary.
Because, when I arrived in Frontier Square all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on
Thursday morning, I was given a grand tour of the new dispensary.
The shop is called Green Society Group, or GSG.
As a volunteer myself, I’ve done a lot of work in a lot of dispensaries but I’ve never seen one that looks as good as this one. Of course, one thing I didn’t see anywhere on the premises that morn-ing, was any marijuana of any kind, but still desperate-ly wondered, among other things, how on earth GSG could open their doors on
Friday and dispense medi-cal marijuana in flagrant violation of Maple Valley’s moratorium.
I called GSG’s owner, Chris Schoonover, right away and he invited me to visit him at the grand open-ing of GSG the following day.
Of course, Friday morn-ing, I was there. So were the local press, the cops and the city building inspectors, a slew of other volunteers and
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budgets to balance across four years, meaning the current two-year cycle plus the next two years, before they are adopted.
This requirement, thought to be the first of its kind in the nation, will force legislators to con-sider the long-term costs of their spending choices.
This practice will stop
budget writers from using gimmicks, such as the delayed school payment Democrats proposed, to balance the current budget by pushing the problem to the next two-year budget.
While my seatmates, Rep. Pat Sullivan and Sen. Joe Fain, and I supported these reforms, I could not support the final budget. My two main concerns
with the final budget were the low ending reserve balance and the lack of additional reforms to rein in spending. The House Republican budget would have left more than $600 million in ending fund reserves to help our state weather a downturn in the economy. The final budget passed leaves just $318.9 million in reserve, $238
million of which is simply a one-time accounting change that doesn’t actu-ally change the amount of money coming in or going out. This leaves just $80.9 million in actual reserves. To me, that isn’t a responsible reserve given the fragile nature of our economic recovery. The budget that passed was far better than the starting
product, but tough choices were not made to reform programs that continue to make our budgets unsus-tainable.
A frustration is that when one party had com-plete control, this problem wasn’t fixed, causing us six special sessions in two years. It was only when the Senate coalition forced bipartisan negotiations
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Tahoma’s boys and girls track teams continued a double undefeated league meet streak with wins against Kent-Meridian on the Bears home track April 19.
The Bears boys defeated last year’s 4A state champi-ons 78-67, while the Bears girls won 105-44. Both Tahoma teams are currently undefeated in league meets.
Tahoma Head Coach Gary Conner stated in a telephone interview that he expected it to be a close meet.
“They were good wins for both teams,” Conner said. “It turned out to be in our favor. I knew we were going to have to perform really well just to win. For us, we had to do well in all our areas.”
Conner said the meet against Kentwood on
Wednesday would give more of an indication of where Tahoma stands in the league.
“What we’re hoping is to get through Kentwood,” he said. “If we can get through Kentwood (Wednesday)…hopefully (Tahoma has a shot at a) league title. Tomorrow’s meet is going to be tough for both boys and girls so it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
Bears senior Aaron Davis took home two first places in the 100 meters and the shot put, running a time of 11.53 seconds and throw-ing a distance of 48 feet and a half inch. His 100 meter time tied his personal record.
Junior Jacob Larsen won the 800 meters with a time of 2:04.11.
Senior Tyler Ward took first in the mile with a time of 4:45.99, a three-second improvement over his pre-vious personal record from
the March 21 meet against Mt. Rainier.
Sophomore Riley Camp-bell won the two mile with a time of 9:55.50.
In field events, junior Dallas Hayes won the
discus after throwing it 128 feet, two inches. Senior Joshua Benson won the javelin after throwing it 138 feet, seven inches. Sopho-more Deshon Williams won the high jump after
jumping a height of five feet, 10 inches, while fellow sophomore Tucker Mjelde won the pole vault at 11 feet, six inches.
Tahoma track team at the top
Tahoma junior Elizabeth Oosterhout runs alongside Kent-Meridian senior, Alexia Martin, in the two mile. Martin took first with a time of 11:19.20. TJ MArTinEll, The Reporter
kentLake hires new boys hoops coach
Kentlake has hired Godfrey Drake to take over as head boys basketball coach according to Bruce rick, the
school’s athletic director, who made the announcement Wednesday.
Drake has worked as an assistant coach at Green river Community
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coached AAU basketball in his home state.
He played college hoops at Southern Mississippi University, a Division i program, followed by a
short stint in the European league. [ more track page 13 ]
Bears girls and boys teams remain undefeated in SPSl north division
Leading the Bears girls was Olivia Ranft, who won the 400 meters, the long jump and the triple jump. She ran the 400 meters in 1:00.42, a one second improvement from her previous personal record. She long jumped 15 feet, 7.5 inches and triple jumped 32 feet, six inches.
Junior Elizabeth Oost-erhout won the 800 meters with a time of 2:25.07, a three second improvement over her personal record from the March 29 meet against Kentlake. Junior Paige Hammock took first in the 100 meters with a time of 13.22. Freshman Abby Atchison won the mile with a time of 5:35.30.
Junior Savanna Hav-erfield won both the 100 hurdles and the javelin, with a time of 16.01 and a throw of 103 feet, 11 inches respectively.
Senior Cassidy Rich-mond won the 300 hurdles with a time of 49.56. The 1,600 relay team, comprised of Cheyenne Haverfield, Madeline Smith, Ranft and Richmond, won with a combined time of 5:30.21.
In the field events, junior Kylie Eager won the shot put after throwing it a dis-tance of 33 feet, four inches. Senior Nadine Hyde won the discus after throwing it 113 feet, one inch.
Senior Chelsea Muskelly won the high jump after a vertical leap of five feet.
Royals senior Jarey Suiter took first in the 200 meters, crossing the finish
line at 23.23. Sophomore Quincy Carter won the 400 meters after running a time of 52.84, a new personal record.
Junior Abu Kamara took first place in the 110 hur-dles and the 300 hurdles, crossing the finish line with a time of 15.38 and 42.20 respectively.
The 400 relay team, comprised of B.J. Phillips, Henry Hammond, Kamara and Suiter, took first with
a time of 44.20, a mere .55 second ahead of the Bears team. The 1,600 relay team also won, with Suiter, Ham-mond, Phillips and Carter running a combined time of 3:38.87.
In field events, Tyler Hammer won the long jump with a leap of 20 feet, six inches. Hammond won the triple jump flying 39 feet, six inches.
Royals sophomore Kariona Micks won the 200
meter race, crossing the fin-ish lone at 27.18.
Senior Alexia Martin won the two mile, crossing the finish line at 11:19.20.
The 400 relay team, comprised of Micks, Jenica Rogers, Deedra Patterson and Stephanie O’Hara, took first with a combined time of 51.34.
Junior Juliana Adams won the pole vault after vaulting eight feet, six inches.
BY KRIS HILL
The battle for the top spot in the South Puget Sound League North division continued among Tahoma, Kentwood and Kentlake’s fastpitch teams in the past week.
On Monday Thomas Jefferson knocked off Kentwood in a 10-inning thriller while Tahoma put together a 6-1 victory on April 18 over Kentlake for the Falcons first league loss of the season.
Jefferson scored early and held onto a 1-0 lead until the bottom of the seventh when Rachel Burr hit the
ball between first and sec-ond base that drove in the tying run for Kentwood.
But, the pitching duel between Conqueror fresh-man Kendall Goodwin and Raiders hurler Rocky Hale continued, as the Jefferson defense was able to hold Kentwood.
The Conks struggled to put down bunts in the bottom of the 10th when international tiebreaker rules come into play — a runner is on second base at the start of the inning — while an errant throw to third base at the top of the 10th pushed the Raiders into the lead.
Bailey Rundle’s bunt
moved Michaela Patton over to third base for Jef-ferson. Katie Jackson, who pitched the final inning in relief for Hale and picked up the win in the circle, bunted and was able to reach when a throw to third base went over Bailey Mar-shall’s head which allowed Patton to score.
While everything came together for Jefferson it all fell apart for Kentwood, ex-plained Conks head coach Jason Wisor in an email interview.
“I think yesterday was the perfect storm of what has been the perfect storm season,” Wisor wrote. “With all the rainouts and in game cancelations this team has been frustrated that more games have not gotten in. The girls are working hard and getting better, it just so happens that yesterday we could not execute.”
He credited Hale and Goodwin for pitching well. Wisor said with nine games left on the schedule the team will need to focus.
“Yesterday both pitchers
pitched well and both teams struggled to adjust to the zone established by the um-pire,” he said. “Our goal will be to continue to play the best game we can. We need to eliminate the errors and execute in situations when they happen. Our goals are still in reach and we fully intend to accomplish them.”
Kentwood hosted Ta-homa Tuesday and weather permitting the Conks were scheduled to get in five games this week.
Meanwhile, through Monday, Tahoma had won three straight including a tough game against Auburn and a major morale booster in beating Kentlake on April 18.
Kentlake’s only lead of the game came in the first inning against Tahoma when Kellie Nielsen scored on an error.
In the bottom of the first, Tahoma tied it up when Hayley Beckstrom hit a long single to drive in Halle Elliot, then the Bears locked down defensively while their bats got hot in the
third and fourth innings.Jordan Walley and Beck-
strom drew back to back walks. Morgan Engelhardt’s single drove Walley in to make it 2-1 Tahoma in the bottom of the third then Beckstrom scored when Lauren Maulden reached first on an error to make it 3-1.
Elliott ripped a single through the middle infield then stole second base. Walley stepped up two batters later and send the ball to the center field fence for a double that drove in Elliott.
Beckstrom dropped a
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Project Description: The developer is requesting to vacate a portion of 176th Pl SE between SE Wax Road and SE 270th St. Specifically, the proposed vacation includes the southern portion of the street and the option for the full eastern portion of the ROW. The properties adjacent to the street vacation areas are owned by the developer and the city. The remaining western portion of 176th Pl SE, adjacent to Parcel Nos. 3780400110 and 3780400110, is not proposed to be vacated at this time and will remain to provide access to those properties.
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This Contract provides for Phase 1 Improvements to the 30 acre Covington Community Park located on the SW corner of the intersection of SE 240th Street and 180th Ave SE in Covington, WA. This contract provides for the construction of a natural grass soccer field, parking for 39 cars, asphalt and crushed rock surface trails, planting and wetland mitigation. The required work of the project includes but is not limited to: stripping, earthwork and grading; cast in place concrete walls, curbs and pavement; erosion and sediment control; crushed rock bases and asphalt pavement; wood and chain-link fencing; wood kiosk with metal roof; site furnishings; water service and drinking fountain; electrical service and outlets; storm drainage, including natural grass field under-drainage; irrigation; planting preparation and planting; maintenance through final inspection; all in accordance with the contract documents and the Standard Specifications.
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The Engineer’s opinion of probable construction cost is $1.6 million.
Complete digital project bidding documents can be accessed on April 27 from www.covingtonwa.gov/rfp.html.
The City of Covington hereby notifies all respondents that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit a proposal in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or sex in consideration for an award.
Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on April 27, 2012. #616046.
BY KRIS HILL
While Kentwood’s baseball team has conquered the South Puget Sound League North division there is a battle going on between Tahoma and Kentlake for second place.
Kentwood’s winning streak continued with vic-tories over Auburn, Thomas Jefferson, and Kent-Meridian.
On April 20 Kentwood put together a 6-2 win over Auburn, scoring two in the bottom of the second and four in the bottom of the third, pound-ing out eight hits.
Kade Kryzsko was 1-for-3 with a two-RBI double, Taylor Jones finished 1-for-2 at the plate, Skyler Genger went 2-for-3 while Jarrett Retz was 1-for-2 with an RBI.
Tanner Wessling made his hit count with a two-RBI
double on a 1-for-2 batting performance.D.J. Vallala hit a two-RBI double in his single plate ap-
pearance.Michael Parrott pitched a complete game, walking one,
striking out three while allowing six hits.Kentwood followed that up the next day with a double digit win over Jefferson.
It was a 9-6 Kentwood lead after two and a half innings before a few errors and lot of hitting led to a 10-run third inning for the Conquerors, who tal-lied a total of 22 hits in five innings, as they cruised
to the win on April 21.On Monday Kentwood hosted Kent-Meridian.
The Conks scored nine runs on 12 hits against the Royals while Kentwood sent four different pitchers to the mound in the 9-0 victory.
Lucas Gately was 1-for-2 at the plate with a double and
an RBI, Cash McGuire was 3-for-3 with a double and an RBI, Dalton Cryderman was 1-for-2 with a double and an RBI, Reese McGuire was 1-for-3 with a triple and an RBI, Wessling was 2-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored, Retz was 2-for-2 with a run scored and an RBI and Kellen Wil-son was 1-for-1 with a run scored and two RBIs.
With those wins, Kentwood was 13-0 in league play, and all alone atop the SPSL North.
Tahoma was breathing down Kentwood’s neck, though, putting together a pair of wins through play on Monday.
It started with a come from behind win against Thomas Jefferson.
With two outs and John Bodenhammer on base rep-resenting the winning run for Tahoma, Tanner Anthony stepped into the batter’s box and ripped the first pitch over the center field fence, propelling his team to an 8-6 win
Kentlake and Tahoma fighting it out for secondKentwood has SPSL North baseball crown wrapped up while the Falcons and the Bears square off this week for the No. 2 seed
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over Thomas Jefferson on April 18.
First pitch. Fastball. All the Bears needed was the ball to go deep enough to drive Bodenhammer in.
“I was hoping the run would just score,” Anthony said. “Then it picked up again and I could tell that it was gone.”
With the win, Tahoma improved to 9-4 in South Puget Sound League North play, and it helped the Bears post-season aspirations.
“Just one game closer to the playoffs,” Anthony said. “Ultimately that’s where we want to be.”
Tahoma tied the game in the bottom of the sixth when Connor Cloyd dropped a single into center field that drove in Nate Brown, who earned the win on the mound for the Bears.
The win was also im-
portant for Tahoma after a 5-1 loss to division leader Kentwood on April 17.
Tahoma followed that up with a 3-0 victory over Kentridge on Monday.
The Bears scored all three runs in the first inning and held the Chargers scoreless despite giving up seven hits.
Sheldon Stober led Kentridge at the plate going 2-for-3 with a double while Devin Riley hit 2-for-4.
Reed Johnson was 2-for-2 for Tahoma while John Bodenhammer drove in all three runs with another longball, his sixth of the season.
Brandon Fokkema got the complete-game victory on the mound for Tahoma which improved to 10-4 in league play.
Kentlake was on a roller coaster with a win over Auburn on April 17, a loss to Kentridge the next day, a
win over Mount Rainier on April 20 then a loss to Au-burn Riverside on Monday.
Against Auburn on April 17 Kentlake had a two run lead after the fourth inning then tacked on two more runs in each of the last two innings on nine hits.
Dylan Wright got the win on the mound for the Falcons, striking out nine, while allowing just three hits and walking four.
Jarred Mulliken led Kentlake offensively with a 2-for-2 performance including a double and two RBIs while Morgan Jones finished with a 2-for-4 day at the plate with an RBI and three runs scored and Ryan Archibald went 1-for-3 with a triple and DJ Elmer was 1-for-4 with an RBI.
Kentlake struggled against Kentridge and while the Falcons nearly came back — they scored two
runs in the top of the sixth to close the Chargers’ lead to one run — they couldn’t put together the win.
On April 20 Kentlake found its rhythm offensively and got things started early, scoring five runs in the bottom of the first, putting together an 11-5 win on nine hits.
Down 3-1 in the bottom of the fourth to Auburn Riverside on Monday, Kentlake cut the lead to one when Elmer was able to drive in Jarred Mulliken.
But that was all the Falcons could muster against the Ravens down the stretch.
Kentlake had opportuni-ties to score in the bottom of the fifth and sixth in-nings but couldn’t manufac-ture runs.
Riverside scored three insurance runs in the top
of the seventh after the first three batters hit singles and the fourth walked.
Conner Powell came in to close out the game and struck out the final two bat-
ters he faced.Kentlake played Kent-
wood Tuesday and finishes the regular season against Tahoma at 7 p.m. Thursday at Kent Memorial Park.
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single into shallow right field behind first base and Walley scored to make it 5-1.
Tahoma tacked on one more run in the bottom of the sixth when Amanda Allison’s single brought in Molly Lathrop, who slapped a single by the short stop then stole second base, to make it 6-1.
Lathrop finished the day going 2-for-3 at the plate with a run scored and two stolen bases, Walley was 1-for-3 with a walk, two runs scored and an RBI while Beckstrom was 2-for-3 with a single, a double, a run scored and two RBIs.
Engelhardt went 1-for-3 with an RBI, Lauren Maulden was 2-for-3 with a single and a double, and
Elliot was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and a pair of stolen bases.
Mariah Hill got the win in the circle, pitching a complete game, giving up five hits — all singles — and one walk.
A day earlier Tahoma’s defense saved a close win against Auburn.
Center fielder Jena Waler hurled a perfect throw to
home plate to get the run-ner for Auburn coming in for the tying run in the top of the seventh to seal the 4-3 victory.
Lathrop was 1-for-2 in the game with a single, a walk, and a run scored while Walley was on fire at the plate on April 17 going 2-for-3 with both hits long balls accounting for three RBIs.
Tahoma followed that up with a 15-0 spanking of Mount Rainier on Monday to improve to 10-1 in league play and at that point the Bears had sole possession of first place in the North division.
West was 2-for-3 with a pair of triples and two RBIs while Walley was 2-for-3 with a single , a double, three runs scored and
two RBIs, with Beckstrom following suit at the plate going 2-for-3 with a double, a triple and two RBIs, and Engelhardt having a 2-for-3 day as well, chipping in a single, a double, two runs scored and an RBI.
Tahoma traveled to Kentwood on Tuesday and hosted Jefferson Wednesday after the Reporter’s press deadline.
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all of the volunteers’ moms. GSG, it seems, is quite the family affair. Also, a phalanx of patients were coming and going all day long.
Ah, but here is the rub: the patients were coming in curious and going out with
empty bottles. That’s right, empty, as in, not filled with any marijuana of any kind.
I was able to sit in on Chris Schoonover’s inter-view with the press.
During his interview, Chris was pressed to answer why he feels so passionately about medical marijuana that he is willing to test
Maple Valley’s moratorium. He answered by talking about his own loved ones that had wasted away with cancer and without access to medicine that could have eased their suffering as they passed. At this point, Chris Schoonover broke down in tears and the interview had to pause for a few, awkward
moments. And that was the second
grown man I’d seen crying about medical marijuana in the same, three-day stretch.
As I drove the three miles home that day, I thought of my weeping patient and the crying President of GSG.
My mind was filled with far more questions than
answers. But, the most burning question I have is for the Maple Valley City Council.
And that question is this: If grown men are literally crying out for this medicine, and other grown men are literally crying out to be able to dispense this medicine, can’t the city of Maple Valley
find a path right now to allow dispensaries that are safe, secure and tastefully done?
If I had the prescience to answer to that question, I’d figure out a way to put that in a bottle and sell it.
Or, maybe I’d give it away free, for a small donation, of course.
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green Sweet Caroline sweet potato vine would make a great contrast to the deep purple tones. If you use petunias with bicolored blooms the solid color of a foliage plant provides a stunning backdrop for the big show.
Color Punches to Fight
off the DarknessWe do have a lot of gray
days in our gardens and our beautiful evergreens can cast dark shadows onto the landscape. Use white and silver plants to sneak in a knock out punch of color:
Use white impatiens, white lobelia and white be-gonias for a planting bed in
deep shade. The color white next to any bright color will amp up the intensity of the hue so be sure to include white bloomers in your mixed displays for more vivid brights.
For sunny areas plant drought-resistant white alyssum or any silver-leaved annual such as Dusty
Miller. White geraniums planted in black pots make a fine impression that says “simple elegance.” An all-white flower garden can be dramatic and will show up best against a dark ever-green hedge or house color.
Covering the Ground with a Grand Display of Color:
Make this the year you cover a sunny slope with drifts of hot pink petunias or vast stretches of bright red verbenas. New varieties of groundcover petunias and spreading verbenas make sensational swaths of blooming color more affordable than even before. You only live once and hav-
ing a yard that really does stop traffic should be on ev-eryone’s bucket list. Or you could take that bucket, add some drainage holes and contain yourself, along with your petunias and verbenas. Planting more flowers is a gift to the neighborhood, the bees and butterflies and your beauty-seeking soul.
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with mature growth forest,” Parson said. “It has not been disturbed since the 1930s, which is pretty rare in this area because we have mostly third and fourth generation tree farms. It has a large wetland system which is part of the Jenkins Creek system which still has salmon spawning in it.”
All that effort could be undone if the damage from the off-road vehicles and January storms aren’t fixed,
Parsons said.First, she approached the
city of Covington, working with Parks and Recreation Director Scott Thomas.
Thomas credited Parsons for advocating to preserve Cedar Creek Park.
“Lisa and the Middle Green River Coalition are visionary,” Thomas said. “Lisa’s advocacy has helped focus our attention on the issue.”
Thomas said much of the work that has been done
has been in Cedar Downs Park so he has worked to support the coalition’s part-nership with the county.
Parsons explained what Covington has been able to do to help during the past two years.
“They went in and they put up barriers at the park entrance, they posted signs, they started to try and deter the off-road vehicle use,” Parsons. “There’s less of it but there’s still access points. We realized the only
way to save it is to develop the park.”
To save it, Parsons said, means partnering with Covington and King County to create a steward-ship program for the park.
“We’re really encouraging local homeowners to get involved with stewardship of the park,” Parsons said. “We’re going to develop a stewardship committee to work with King County to decide how the park should be developed. We need to
get community input. We need park stewards, we need people to be the eyes and ears, people to make sure there’s not illegal activ-ity.”
Residents of Cedar Downs in Maple Valley, people who live off of 204th Street Southeast and Kent-Kangley Road, near Pipe Lake, in Tall Timbers and Timberlane.
Thomas said the trail is in much better shape than when he first started work-
ing for Covington in July 2008. The park and the trail have considerable potential to benefit those who live near it including Covington residents.
“The three cities (Cov-ington, Black Diamond and Maple Valley) are actively working with King County to do trail feasibility plan-ning right now,” Thomas said.
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