covington/maple valley reporter, august 24, 2012
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Madden Clark, 2, looks down at a python as it slithers across his leg during Covington Kid’s Day at Kohl’s Aug. 18. To view a slideshow from Covington Kid’s Day go to covingtonreporter.com. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter
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BY TJ MARTINELL
Th e Maple Valley Hearing Examiner upheld the city’s stop work order to a medical mari-juana business, but dismissed nine others.
According to the fi nding of fact released by Hearing Examiner Gary McLean, all but one of the citations issued against Green So-ciety Group — which concerned the stop work order — “failed to establish violations of the specifi c codes” dealing with a do not oc-cupy notice.
Concerning the stop work order, “Th e City of Maple Valley proved by the preponderance of the evidence that the specifi c vio-lation…occurred at the property leased by the GSG appellants. In short, GSG had substantial tenant improvement construction work performed on its leased space
Hearing examiner examines citations
BY TJ MARTINELL
If you wake up to see helicop-ters in the sky Wednesday and fi re engines blaring outside your home, just know it’s only a drill, a really big one.
Th e Kent, Maple Valley and Black Diamond fi re departments will all participate in a large scale regional exercise in the Maple Valley area on Aug. 29.
Th e exercise will simulate a breach in the Howard Hanson Dam, which would cause the Green River to fl ood the sur-rounding areas. Th e exercise will utilize a mobile State DEM Air Branch to coordinate the deploy-ment of all regional aviation assets in support of anticipated local mission requests.
Kyle Moore, a spokesman for the Seattle Fire Department, said the exercise is part of the Urban
Don’t panic, it’s just a big disaster drill
BY TJ MARTINELL
Maple Valley fi refi ghters raised $8,000 as part of their annual Fill the Boot fundraiser campaign Aug. 17 for the Muscular Dystro-phy Association.
Th e fundraiser, which brought in $2,000 more than last year’s campaign, had fi refi ghters walk-ing up and down Kent Kangley Road and state Route 169 at Four
Corners, asking drivers for spare change in-between lights.
Jason Fox, a Maple Valley fi refi ghter and coordinator with Local 3062, said he hoped to raise roughly $10,000. Still, compared to last year’s amount, he said he was pleased.
“Th at’s kind of always our goal to get $10,000,” he said. “I had a little more help this year than I did last year. Other than that, nothing has changed (in terms of
how we run it). In that intersec-tion we can make a lot of money if we have the help…It depends on who how many people we have out helping.”
Fox stated that not only did they have a few individuals donate hundred dollar bills a girl carrying a sign for Great Clips donated her entire day’s pay.
Th e Maple Valley fi refi ghter’s Fill the Boot fundraiser fi rst started in 2004, when Fox held it in the Safeway parking lot. Initially, it raised $2,000. Th e next year, they decided to bring the fundraiser out onto the street, which brought in $5,000.
Boots overflow in firefighter’s fundraiser
Maple Valley fi refi ghter Ken Goll accepts a donation Aug. 17 during the annual Fill the Boot fundraiser at Four Corners. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter
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The last week of August means the start of autumn maintenance and fall propagation in the garden. This is the time to cut back, take cuttings, dig and divide early blooming perennials and start filling up the compost bin. Continue to harvest herbs, veggies and cut flowers from the garden and keep all your beds weeded so that the summer weeds
don’t get a change to flower and go to seed.
Watering is the most important task this week es-pecially if you want a land-
scape that will continue to look great all season. Remember to water slowly and deeply to train the roots of trees, shrubs and
perennials to grow deep in search of moisture rather than stay at the surface of
the soil. Drip lines, soaker hoses and improving your soil with compost and or-ganic matter are all ways to cut back on the water bill.Q. Is it safe to use
“gray water” to water my container gardens? By this I mean the left over water from cooking or washing? I live in a town with high water bills and my summer water bill is a shocker. R.T., EmailA. Shades of gray when it
comes to reusing water can be a bit dirty - but never recycle water that has soap
suds unless you are sure the soap is mild with no phosphates. This means if you hand wash you dishes with Ivory soap and then occasionally use the water in the dish pan to water your pots you’ll be fine.
Don’t try to recycle water from washing clothes. A practical way to cut back on wasted water is to recycle the water from cooking vegetables. Just don’t salt the water and let it cool before using it to water houseplants, hanging bas-kets and container gardens. As a bonus the nutrients that leach from the boiled veggies will help to fertilize the potted plants.
If you hand boil eggs, this cooking water is an excellent source of calcium for tomatoes and bloom-ing houseplants. Again, remember not to add salt to the cooking water if you recycle it onto your plants.Q. My raspberries have
borne fruit and now the branches are turning yellow. When do I cut these back? C.C., OlympiaA. This is a good time
to cut back the canes of June-bearing raspberries that have already given you a harvest. When you see that the foliage has turned yellow and brown than get snippy all the way to ground level. Cutting back the canes now will allow the new growth coming up from below to take over.
Don’t prune back the new fall-bearing raspberries or everbearing raspberries as you can still enjoy a late harvest this fall. In general for all plants this time of year, if the leaves are green, let them be, it it‘s brown cut it down.Q. I have bearded iris
plants that have grown ugly with age and now have less blooms. I suspect I need to divide them. I have read you should do this in the fall. My question is what month is considered the best for dividing iris? M.K., EmailA. Dig in now as late
August and the entire month of September are the perfect time to divide early-blooming perennials like iris, poppies, pulmo-
narias, and hosta. Don‘t divide hellebores and wait until the weather cools in late September or October if you must divide or move peonies.
The tip for happy bearded iris is to make sure you don’t plant the thick and knobby roots too deep. You can cut back the tall and spiky foliage to just six inches tall when you replant and toss out the older, center section of the iris corms. Iris need full sun and well-drained soil - and don’t forget the slug bait.
Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture from Washington State University and is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books. For more gardening information, she can be reached at her Web site, www.binettigarden.com. Copyright for this column owned by Marianne Binetti.
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In the nearly four years since members of Real Life Church discovered mountain biking trails on its property near Black Diamond an unlikely num-ber of partnerships have formed.
Rick Heinz, the property development lead for RLC, was with a work party which included Joan Burl-ingame of Friends of Rock Creek that was eradicating Scotch broom.
“I was there the day that the pastor and I and a couple others went out and found this are area on the church property where there were all these wooden structures and spikes in tress,” Heinz said. “It looked like someone had torn the place up. I was one of those bad guys who tore every-thing up.”
What a difference four years makes.
When Pastor Steve Mur-ray started the church, he hadn’t envisioned mountain bike trails being a part of the ministry, much less on the property when the church bought it in 2007.
Instead Murray saw the land as a place for Real Life to have a church build-ing to call its own — the congregation of 400 meets at Kentlake High for now — and the rest of the property could be used for recre-ational purposes and be open to the community.
After some time and thought, any resistance on the part of church leaders melted away, and a meeting of the minds was set up at a
bike shop in Black Dia-mond.
From there, things hap-pened quickly, faster than anyone had anticipated.
And as the work on the property between the mountain biking commu-nity as well as other trail users has progressed, it’s changed Heinz’s life in ways he couldn’t have imagined.
“There’s a lot of people in Real Life Church who don’t really get it,” Heinz said. “But, I’ve become consumed with it where I’ve developed really good rela-tionships with the guys at King County Parks. I’ve re-ally got some great relation-ships with the guys that ride and I even run with some of the guys on the trails.”
In April 2011, the church property was the site for a
BuDu Racing Series event that brought hundreds of mountain biking enthusi-asts to the land.
“This year, we got hooked up again with BuDu Rac-ing, so we did another mountain big racing event,” Heinz said. “Last sum-mer we did a trail running event. In the first part of June we did Mountain Bikepalooza, which was more of a fun, non-compet-itive event.”
With nine miles of trails on RLC’s land that is part of a larger trail system that covers 50 to 60 miles from Four Corners to the church property to Lake Sawyer, there is plenty of opportunity to partner with the county as well as with Friends of Rock Creek, the Evergreen Mountain Biking
Alliance and the Backcoun-try Horsemen.
And as Plum Creek Timber Co. prepares to sell off land near the church’s property, Heinz sees an op-portunity to work with the new owner.
“I’ve been in contact with the potential new owners hoping that once everything goes through and they do their clear-ing, we’ll be able to form a partnership with them and re-establish a legitimate trail system,” Heinz said.
Heinz has also worked with EMBA, the Back-country Horsemen, cycle cross enthusiasts and King County staff to see if there might be a way to create mountain bike park un-derneath some power lines near state Route 169.
“The cycle cross guys had been looking for another place where they could set up a course to practice and do races,” Heinz said. “The county has offered this spot … for a bike park. Things kind of got slowed down a little bit (due to lack of funding). So, we’re looking for some funding sources from investors who would be willing to come in and help us develop that area.”
Heinz said he has found a great deal of support from bike shop openers in the area, particularly Ron Flores, who owns Bike Masters & Boards in Maple Valley.
Flores and Heinz envi-sion the bike park under the power lines as a destina-tion ride center.
“You can come out and spend the whole day or even the whole weekend
and ride your mountain bike because there’s such a large trail system,” Heinz said.
In the near term, Heinz noted, King County is working to put in parking on both sides of SR 169 near the church’s property. It will add more than 100 parking spots.
“We’re still hoping that parking will get knocked out before winter,” he said. “That was something Joan and myself felt was important. With the usage you need the infrastructure to back up the activities out here. We were concerned about safety.”
Another unexpected re-sult of the relationships he’s formed with King County Parks staff has been offer-ing opportunities for Boy Scouts to use RLC’s prop-erty to complete projects in order to earn the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank a Scout can achieve.
“The county guys will get a hold of me and they’ll connect me with kids,” Heinz said. “It’s been cool to see the kids getting out there. It’s been fun for me to get involved with that.”
Through all of this, an in-formal group Heinz called the Black Diamond Trail Coalition has formed, with about 100 people involved.
“It’s really just trying to pull together the folks who use the trails out here all the time, who appreciate them, stay connected and make sure we don’t lose this,” he said. “It’s this great connector to go out and be in the woods, kind of be a kid. I feel like it’s a hidden treasure in our community.”
Partnerships between church and mountain bikers grow
This map shows the expansive trail system surrounding Real Life Church’s property in Black Diamond. Image courtesy of Real Life
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without first obtaining any city permits.”Five others citations McLean ruled he did not have jurisdic-
tion over. GSG first received a stop work order and do not occupy notice in May. Jay Berneberg, attorney for its owner Chris Schoonover, appealed to the hearing examiner later that month. Meanwhile, the business remained open. The hearing examiner proceedings were in late July. GSG is located at 22210 S.E. 272nd Street in Frontier Square near the intersec-tion of Kent-Kangley Road and Witte Road.
Although the city’s motion to include an additional citation failed, McLean wrote “the evidence presented at the hearing was sufficient to establish a prima facie case for violations of specific city codes and orders not specifically cited in the defective citations.” This means the city will be able to amend or reissue citations with correct city code.
City Manager David Johnston stated the city intends to reissue the citations.
“We’re fairly pleased with the hearing examiner decision upholding our stop work order and his decisions on most of the citations,” he said. “We felt it was good…that the third party said we did our job well. So now we got to this stage we are looking at our criminal and civil options and all that. It’s really nice the stop work order is valid and they should not be open.”
Johnston added, “there are some criminal options that I am not privileged to talk about this time but we are seeing if we should do this as well. We were just waiting to get this finding from the hearing examiner so we could examine which ways to proceed.”
In a statement sent via email by Berneberg Tuesday, the attorney for GSG said a decision from a second hearing ex-aminer proceeding is still pending and there are a number of other issues which still need to be sorted out.
“My client is happy that GSG prevailed on all but one of the citations filed by the city so far,” Berneberg wrote. “But, we still have a long way to go — one case pending with the hear-ing examiner, an injunction case pending in Superior Court, potentially an appeal from the first hearing and a potential lawsuit against the city based upon facts which we know but which have yet to be proven in court.”
DO NOT OCCUPY NOTICE UPHELDRuling in favor of the city in regard to the do not occupy
notice, McLean concluded that although the city refused to accept GSG’s permit applications for a short period of time, GSG had the time before it opened to obtain the necessary permits and only afterward attempted to comply.
“The preponderance of the evidence supports the Building Official’s determination that the GSG offices were/are ‘Unsafe’ and that the space should not be occupied and/or open for business,” he wrote.
According to the findings, $35,000 of construction work was done prior to its April 20 opening. On April 20, several city staffers, including Building Inspector KC Ellis, visited GSG and “through discussions and observations learned of the extensive tenant improvement work that had been per-formed on the site without permits or inspections.”
On April 23, according to the findings, Berneberg, several of GSG’s owners and city staff met at City Hall to discuss the situation. On April 30, Community Development Director Ty Peterson sent an email to his staff telling them not to “accept any applications for development review or building permits from or for gSg Gardens.”
“While there was testimony from city witnesses as to the in-tent of this email…the common sense reading of the message and its subject must be recognized,” McLean wrote. “In this case, testimony provided by the city witnesses established that the message was read to say what it means and mean what it says….city staff read the message to mean that they should not accept permit applications from GSG. Whether that was Mr. Peterson’s intent is irrelevant.”
According to GSG owner, Schoonover, an official from the city posted the unsafe, do not occupy and stop work order no-tices to the entrance of his business May 3 after his permit was allegedly denied by the city due to the moratorium on medical marijuana gardens and dispensaries.
In his findings, McLean concluded city staff did in fact reject permit application materials from Schoonover when he tried to file them May 1. During the hearing, Schoonover stated that he had attempted to turn in his materials April 30, the day before, but no one was available to accept them.
McLean, however, concluded that Schoonover’s account of the events were “imprecise, inconsistent and not as credible as his other testimony.”
According to the findings, Peterson sent out another email May 8 instructing staff to accept an application from GSG, but that it would need to be reviewed for compliance with city requirements. On May 9, the materials were submitted and accepted by the city. During the hearing, Ellis testified that
building permits take three to four weeks to be issued and another week for other departments to review them. Based on that, McLean wrote that even if Peterson’s emails impacted GSG’s ability to file a permit, it lasted only a week, an impact he considered to be “small” compared to the overall amount of time needed. Additionally, McLean wrote GSG received a contractor bid on March 9, and based on that it had sufficient amount of time to submit its plans for improvement permits and comply with city code before its grand opening on April 20.
“There is nothing in the record to show why GSG did not or could not have initiated their permit application process long ago. If they intended to comply with the law, they should have had no reservations in submitting their application.”
STOP WORK ORDER CITATIONS DISMISSED With the stop work order violations, however, McLean
dismissed all the citations, writing that the city failed to prove GSG had continued improvement work after the order had been posted, the exact text of the order was too ambiguous and the subsequent citations referred to a separate municipal code violation.
The stop work order notice was posted after it was found GSG had not filed for tenant improvement permits for work done inside the premises. According to the findings of fact, the stop work order notice forbade GSG from “any work or activity that is causing or contributing to the violation on the property where the violation has occurred or is occurring.”
Only one of the subsequent citations did not stem from the original stop work order. Although McLean wrote that it was clear GSG offices were occupied by GSG staff and owners and conducted business during the time when the citations for vi-
olating the stop work order were issued, he added that the order “says nothing about occupant or continued operation of a business open to the public. Instead, it appears to only address ‘work’ that would be considered ‘tenant improvement,’ i.e. construction work.”
During the hearings, the city attorney argued the stop work order was intended to prohibit continued occupancy of the space and conducting of businesses in the GSG offices. Berneberg, on the other hand, asserted that the order inferred that only improvement work should cease at GSG and did not state specifically which work it referred to.
McLean ultimately sided with GSG, writing, “clearly the city could have crafted a better Stop Work Order, such that the terms of any order and the notice issued and posted with the tag were sufficient to place the Persons Responsible on notice as to precisely what sort of ‘work’ and/or ‘activity’ that they should immediately stop or cease. A simple explanation…should have been included. It was not.”
In the end, McLean wrote the order was open to “broad interpretations” or “extremely narrow reading.”
“Even though there was testimony that ‘boiler-plate’ lan-guage works most of the time, this is a case where it does not,” McLean wrote.
A writing is considered ambiguous if it is susceptible to two different, reasonable interpretations. McLean ruled that the citations also referenced the do not occupy notice, rather than stop work order.
“None of the follow-up Stop Work Citations describe any allegations of construction work at the GSG site,” he wrote. “Instead, they only describe circumstances where the GSG offices continued to be occupied.”
McLean did rule, however, that the city’s actions were not “arbitrary and capricious.”
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While I was on vacation the week of Aug. 13 a letter from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association arrived.
I found it on my desk the morning of Aug. 18 — yes, I stopped by the offi ce on a Saturday morning while on vacation, I left something at the offi ce that I needed, anyway — and was quite pleased with the news it brought.
“Dear Publisher: Congratulations! Your newspaper has won one or more awards in each of the following divisions of the 2012 Better Newspaper Contest:
News, Photography … Staff members whose entries placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd are: Kris Hill, TJ Martinell.”
A little background, fi rst, though.I hate newspaper contests. It stems, of course,
from not winning the fi rst couple times I entered while watching others whom I considered of lesser ability take home awards for articles I thought were, well, inferior to my work.
What can I say, I was in my mid-20s, I thought I was hot stuff . When I became a parent I realized I wasn’t and I knew nothing.
Another reason I am leery of contests is that for some reason I was asked to judge a similar contest when I was a cub reporter working in Las Vegas. Barely 22, I had been on the job as an intern at a daily newspaper for six months, so my qualifi ca-tions at that point were lacking.
My supervisor asked me to help judge the con-test I think so I could learn from the experience. I just hope I did a decent job.
Finally, contests are a royal pain the butt. It is incredibly time consuming pulling together entries then submitting them even though we can do quite a bit electronically. Essentially it makes me want to bang my head against a wall and hire a high school kid, pay her minimum wage to cut out pages or convert InDesign documents to PDFs just so TJ Martinell and I don’t have to do it.
In this process, Dennis Box is largely unhelpful, only chiming in to tell me to make sure we enter some stuff and then once more to tell us we did it all wrong.
Anyway, I fi nally won my fi rst award last year
for my series about teen drug and alcohol abuse called “Under the Infl uence.” Th ird try is the charm, I suppose.
Th is year’s WNPA contest is the third time we’ve entered any of TJ’s work, so, I guess that old axiom rings true for him, as well.
Th is is actually the third time in the past year I’ve received notice I’ve won an award — in the spring I took second place for best schools or edu-cation coverage for my series of columns about my participation on the Kentlake Site Council in a national contest — so I guess now I’m just used to winning.
No, no, I’m being sarcastic. Really, for me it’s much more rewarding to
see that TJ has won his fi rst award. Considering he’s been in the newspaper business for roughly 18 months — it took me 10 years to win my fi rst award, OK, I stopped entering contests for a while, like eight years — this is a tremendous accomplishment.
As I told him Aug. 20 when I returned from a week off , I am extremely proud of him. TJ’s work has come a long way since we fi rst hired him in April 2011 and it really shows in the pieces he’s written, particularly in the past six months.
As someone who has been responsible for men-toring him, yes now is an appropriate time to la-ment his fate, along with Dennis, this means more to me than another certifi cate with my name on it.
We aren’t sure yet what either of us have won
and we won’t fi nd out until Sept. 28. Neither of us will likely be at the award ceremony which is part of a larger WNPA conference set for that weekend in Yakima. We will both have a lot on our plates by late September between the Tahoma and Kent school districts, coverage of three cities, as well as fall prep sports along with all the other stuff we do around here that you see in the paper as well as up on the web.
Th ing is, we win awards not because we have our eye on that kind of prize, but because we try every week to give you the best community newspaper possible fi lled with stories about your friends, your neighbors, your kids, and how your tax dollars are being spent by entities of all sizes.
Awards are nice. Th ey look good on the cur-riculum vitae, especially for a young reporter like TJ who will surely outgrow us here and move on to bigger and better things someday, but ultimately what’s most important is the fact that those are byproducts of fulfi lling our mission as a newspaper.
As legendary UCLA men’s basketball coach John Wooden used to say, “It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things hap-pen.” It’s the little things that TJ does around here that has led to this fi rst award (or awards). I suspect it won’t be the last.
Th at letter was defi nitely a good way to end my week off . Hope you are as excited as I am about the news. We’ll keep you posted.
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In all the meetings that I have attended re-garding the YarrowBay Master Planned Devel-opments in Black Diamond there is one thing that all vocal residents on both sides of the issue agree on. Th ey are not against growth in Black Diamond.
Th e complaint as I understand it is not that people don’t want Black Diamond to grow, but that the plans are so large and far reaching that
many residents feel they will be stripped of the opportunity they are used to having of weighing in on each little change that happens to our little town, fully controlling it’s destiny on a year by year basis.
I see this in a diff erent light. Th e residents of Black Diamond have before them a one of a kind opportunity precisely because of the size and scope of the YarrowBay Master Planned Developments, to plan the look and feel of a city fi ve, 10 15 years down the road and be a model for City development planning all over the northwest.
Our city staff has worked diligently in prepa-ration for this, to update all the building codes that will regulate the construction that will take place in Black Diamond.
Some things are not a matter of city code. Due to urban growth regulations cities are required to increase population in the city limits to pre-serve rural lands.
Concerns over traffi c and schools at this point are a bit of hyperventilating over the “what ifs.” If Black Diamond, as it grows, develops a problem
with traffi c or schools or water quality or safety, all these factors are researched by potential home owners and business investors and Black Diamond will simply not grow until what ever problem we encounter is addressed. What I am saying is the speed of growth will be governed by how the public views the quality of life in Black Diamond. Why wouldn’t you have a master plan for as far out as you can make your mind think?
Harvey SenecalBlack Diamond
Lake Wilderness Golf Course story well written
I would like to express my opinion on one of the articles in the Aug. 3 edition of the Cov-ington Reporter. Th e article was called “Lake
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BUBONIC PLAGUEThe bubonic plague, also known as “The Black
Death,” is an illness caused by a bacterium. Most famous for killing tens of millions of people over the course of two centuries beginning in the 1340s, many people mistakenly believe that bubonic plague no longer exists. The disease does still exist, however, and if it is caught early and treated with a course of antibiotics, hospitalization, and medical isolation, a person can recover. Symptoms include swollen lymph glands, fever, chills, headache, and extreme exhaustion. The bubonic plague is a very serious illness, and if it is allowed to multiply in the bloodstream or travel to the lungs and cause pneumonia, it can be fatal.
Our main defense against bubonic plague is hygiene. Our modern sewage systems and health care practices keep the plague to a minimum.
If you would like an appointment at Southlake Clinic, please call us at (253) 395-1972. We are located at 27005 168th Place SE in Covington. Saturday appointments are now available.
Wilderness Golf Course may break even.” I wanted to express my opinion about the great news for the golf course in Maple Valley. I’m very excited for them and feel great about the fact that now they can maybe have the opportu-nity to gain profit for their golf course. I am a fan of the game of golf which is why this article made me want to express my opinion about it. The article was very well written by TJ Marinell. The writing had great details and made me feel like I knew every detail about the situation. I also appreciated that the article was not biased in any way which made me believe that the details and facts in the story were very believable and true.
Nick CreasiaCovington
MPD concerns are reasonable
I understand Boston, Sorci, Bowie and Hanson, who are past and replaced Black Diamond City Coun-cil persons are desperately attempting to continue to propagate a biased oversim-plification of the facts so their official decisions while on the BDCC don’t seem so egregious.
These are folks who have a proclivity for seeing the glossy YarrowBay adver-tisements as truth. They ignore fact when it con-tains “pesky grit” requiring critical thinking, study and fact checking. Their hope is to dazzle with wishful thinking. As if ignoring facts can ease overwhelm-ing disasters which are not addressed responsibly, and completely mitigated, in any agreement or contract
made with Yarrow Bay or any developer. PROUD forgot their awesome responsibility as lawmakers to complete understand-ing of the real actual worst possible consequences, before making promises to a developer.
These promises will be paid for by the good citizens of BD they were pledged to represent and sworn to protect from poor decisions.
PROUD also has a bias toward “saving” money for YarrowBay on the backs of Black Diamond citizens by not requiring the more ex-tensive and vitally necessary studies, as described by the Hearing Examiner. These studies are required under Black Diamond’s comp plan, with the language “best most current proven science”.
YarrowBay is financially responsible for these studies under our written munici-pal code. PROUD is wish-ing to live in an imagined world of best and most promised rosiest outcomes. The pragmatist citizens among us understand that the wished-for will never be the reality; unless every one of the environmental issues
is addressed in the most aggressive and comprehen-sive way down to the real minutia. This must be done to preserve both the natural and the built environment, for both Black Diamond itself and its neighbors, near and downstream in the various systems that will be impacted.
Erika Morgan,Black Diamond
Zoning changes increases traffic
Think the commute through Maple Valley is tough now? Wait until the city of Maple Valley ap-proves their latest “good” idea. This idea is being put forth with very little public input.
We in the immediate neighborhood found out quite accidentally. The surrounding community was not notified, nor was this possible zoning change posted on the property as is typical.
The city is planning to change zoning on 50 acres in the heart of Maple Val-
ley; changing 36 acres from its current mixed use to strictly commercial, allow-ing 100 foot tall/10 story tall buildings. This area is known as the Brandt prop-erty and is along Highway 169 across from Key Bank, very close to Wilderness Village.
This will essentially cre-ate an industrial park in the heart of our residential community. Imagine how many cars will be clogging the Maple Valley corridor when multiple buildings of this size are built? The “of-ficial” traffic impact study shows minimal impact. How can that be?
Our morning commutes will be complicated by other drivers coming into the area.
While some local people will find work here and have a short commute, total volume HAS to increase.
I am not against indus-try in our city, but there are options for this to be in less impactful areas. In our small community we already have quite a bit of development and major traffic issues in the main highway corridors. Should we be adding to traffic inside the heart of our
city, clogging our roads? It already takes 15 minutes to drive 1-2 miles thru town at some times during the day.
May we question the wis-dom in the haste to approve this change?
Donna and Bob PirogMaple Valley
Thank you to fire department
I was visiting the Lake Wilderness Park on Sat-urday with my very elder mother and we ran into some trouble. She fainted and panic ensued.
The lifeguards were right on it and helped us with her while the Maple Valley Fire Department and local aid unit arrived. All these won-derful people saved her and I want to commend your community on having such great support services.
These fire, aid and life-guard folks are real public servants.
God bless them.
Gerty Coville,Shoreline
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The Jennifer Beach Foundation is offering a new Kid’s Club class at a confidential location in south King County starting Sept. 11.
The 10 week class is for kids who have been affected by domestic violence to
help them break the cycle of abuse. The free class will meet once a week from 6-8 p.m., beginning Sept. 11.
To register for the class call the Jen-nifer Beach Foundation at 253-833-5366. Children who witness domestic
violence learn that it is OK to hurt or be hurt by someone that you love, especially if they make you angry.
As a result these children tend to be more prone to anger and physical violence in their behavior.
Kid’s Club is a safe place where the children can heal from their exposure to domestic violence and learn health-
ier behaviors than to hurt someone when they get angry or frustrated. Children are given age-appropriate information about abuse, have oppor-tunities to talk about their experiences and have a chance to express their feelings.
The goal of the program is to decrease a child’s sense of isolation and teach
skills that will help them break the cycle of violence.
Parents will gain a better understand-ing of the impact of domestic violence on their children and find ways to not only talk to but listen to their children about their feelings and experiences.
Classes are facilitated by a licensed mental health therapist and a domes-
tic violence advocate.
Food and transportation assistance will be provided.
The Jennifer Beach Foundation is a community based agency that provides education, advocacy, and assistance to the community address-ing issues of child abuse and domestic violence.
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Walking the street, Fox said, gives them better access to potential donors.
“You catch people going to work,” he said. “It just seems like a good time to have the collections. You just make so much more in the street. It’s spontaneous and easy which is really exciting.”
Fox added that the “fill the boot” fundraiser concept originated in South Boston in 1952, when firefighters helped raised
money for a high school friend whose son dealt with a muscular disorder and couldn’t afford medical treatment. Also present at Four Corners during the fundraiser were local ben-eficiaries who suffer from muscular dystrophy.
Sarah Kleiver, a regional coordinator for MDA said the funds helped pay for summer camps, patient services, equipment repairs and research. MDA offers treatment for those suffer-ing from 43 different types of muscular disorders, in-
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“The firefighters have been one of our biggest sponsors,” Kleiver said. “I feel like it’s been a little harder (to raise money) with the economy.” Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To comment on this story go to maplevalleyreporter.com.
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Moore explained that the UASI is made up of cities where potential disasters, either natural or terrorist attacks, would require the response of multiple agen-cies on a very large scale.
“This all came about because of Sept. 11.,” Moore said. “The federal govern-ment decided this is some-thing where the federal government can’t save ev-eryone, especially early on in a disaster. They realized the regions have to be able to handle it themselves…so they set up a system of cities or regions considered areas where they wanted to give money to to train, test give equipment, resources
to ... what it requires is each jurisdiction got a different piece of equipment or ma-terial. One agency cannot handle it all itself. It’s going to require all these agencies to work together.”
One such example, Moore pointed out, is coor-dinating air support. While the SFD has a helicopter rescue team, it doesn’t have a helicopter and thus relies on other agencies, such as the King County Sheriff ’s Office, to carry out rescue operations.
With the exercise happening all over King County, Moore said people should know in advance so they don’t misinterpret it as an actual natural disaster or emergency.
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fighters and aircraft in the air,” he said. “We don’t want people to be alarmed or people jamming 911.”
Each agency will have its own unique scenario within the exercise. Ac-cording to Capt. Ken Whitmore, firefight-ers from the Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety will assist in the evacuation via airlift of a victim swept down the Green River that managed to get on shore but is unable to walk.
Unable to access the vic-tim due to the hypothetical “flooded” roads, firefight-ers will use a helicopter to airlift the victim from an area off of Cedar Grove Road and transport him to Tahoma Junior High.
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Moore said, keep the exact nature of the scenarios secret from the participants in order to gauge their response.
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have been multiple agen-cies working on the same scenario. It depends on how the agency wants to train their personnel.”
Moore stated that dur-ing a drill in Bellevue that simulated a shooter at Bellevue High School, the firefighters were told what to expect, but the Seattle Police were not.
Whitmore said the exercise also gives the fire departments that don’t have helicopter rescue teams the opportunity to practice calling in air support dur-ing emergency or disaster situations. They will also know what information to provide so the best aircraft with the appropriate equip-ment is sent. He added that aircraft use UHF radios, while most fire departments utilize 800 megahertz radio. This requires “patching” through for the aircraft to communicate with the ground crews, which will be done through Valley Com-munications Center.
“All of it is testing systems so when a real disaster occurs that this will be more automatic and it won’t be chaos and
we’ll know how to work together,” Moore said. “We know who they are and what radio signals to work off of and how to form an incident command. That’s something that needs to be practiced so it becomes second nature.”
The exercise will be utilizing a variety of fixed wing aircraft, rotary wing aircraft, unmanned aerial systems drones and ground support units. To prepare for the exercise, the agen-cies participated in a day-long training event, practic-ing operational procedures with air assets July 30 near Auburn. Crews were air hoisted into helicopters and trained on the use of the an airborne tactical extrica-tion platform, also called an AIRTEP.
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Reese McGuire stands in the on deck circle Aug. 12 at Petco Park in San Diego before the Perfect Game. Photo courtesy of Robin McGuire
BY KRIS HILL
Reese McGuire didn’t have much time to enjoy Kentwood’s
4A state baseball title in the spring.
McGuire, who is a catcher and left -handed batter, had to make sure he got all his school work done as well as his fi nal exams because he had to leave school a week early to play more ball.
“I had to cram all my homework and fi nals in so I could head out to the showcase,” McGuire said. “I haven’t really gotten that much time to spend as a high school kid in the sum-mer going out and doing things.”
Days away is the start of his senior year at Kentwood High but McGuire will miss the fi rst week of his last year as a Conqueror because he was picked for the 20-man roster of the United States 18U national team.
But, that’s how his sum-mer vacation will end.
It started a week early with trips to play in show-case games. McGuire, who is listed at 6-foot-2 and 180 pounds, went to Minnesota to play in the Perfect Game showcase for the top 40 players in the country.
“Th at was basically a try out,” McGuire said. “Going into it, I think I was kind of
pre-picked. I still went out there and played 100 per-cent, not taking anything for granted. It was defi nitely a really good opportunity for me to see the compe-tition from around the country, size myself up, see what I could work on.”
From Minnesota he went to North Carolina to play for a spot on the 40-man roster of the national team from a pool of the top 160 players in the U.S.
“You play in front of a ton of scouts,” McGuire said. “It’s basically a tourna-ment. From that we all stayed and trained with the USA coaches and played some games against each other. We actually mixed in with the college guys. Th at was a cool experience because you were play-ing against the top college guys.”
McGuire, who has ver-bally committed to play at the University of San Diego, said it was an opportunity to learn about what playing college ball is like from athletes doing it now.
At the end of that experi-ence, he made the 28-man roster, then got home in time for the Fourth of July.
Next up was the Area Code Games where he played on the Northwest team in early August in Long Beach, Calif. Before he left for that tournament, McGuire said he expected
there to be hundreds of col-lege and professional scouts there to see some of the best baseball players from around the country.
While the opportunity to play college ball, like his older brother Cash who will be at Seattle University this fall, is a great option McGuire and his family have been told by experts the Conqueror catcher has a shot to be selected in the fi rst round of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft right around the time he is slated to graduate from Kentwood.
Th at’s why traveling all over the country playing ball right now is important, to get whatever exposure he may need to land in the best spot possible in the 2013 draft .
“It’s every kid’s dream, everybody wants to be a professional baseball player,” McGuire said. “I just want to go out and play the game. If there’s a possibility of getting draft ed early and have a chance to go out and work my way up, then I would defi nitely choose that route. Being on the national team right now, the 28-man roster, and the All American game, the writing is on the wall that I’ve got this great opportu-nity and I’m one of the top catchers in the nation.”
What Kentwood’s Reese McGuire did during summer vacationMcGuire, a senior-to-be, played baseball all over the country showing why he’s a top big league prospect
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Kent voters could face a proper-ty tax levy measure in November to help pay for city park and street projects.Th e Kent City Council also is considering a possible business tax as part of a package to help pay to fi x up deteriorating streets
and parks.“We know this is a diffi cult process but we’re only trying to preserve infrastructure we have so it does not deteriorate further,” said Council President Dennis Higgins during a phone interview. “We hope the community recog-nizes that and gets behind it.”No decisions have been made
yet by the council. But in order to get a property tax levy measure on the Nov. 6 ballot, the council must submit the measure to King County Elections by Aug. 7.“We may need to set a special meeting for Aug. 2 about whether to put it on the ballot in Novem-ber,” Higgins said.Th e council did not have the
proposal on its agenda Tuesday and does not meet again until Aug. 7 unless it calls a special meeting.Th e council formed citizen committees earlier this year to come up with recommendations for parks and street funding and to help prioritize projects. Th ose recommendations went to an
ad-hoc committee of council members Higgins, Dana Ralph and Elizabeth Albertson.Th at three-member committee recommended to the full council a six-year property tax levy lid lift of 37 cents per $1,000 assessed property value or about $111 per year on a $300,000 home.
City mulls property tax levy to pay for parks, streets
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Lisa Hicka, Princess Rider for the ’Colors of Hawai’i Kau Lio Pa’u Riders Hawaiian Equestrian Group’ of Lake Stevens,
waves to the crowd as they march during the Cornucopia Parade on Sunday. The group won the festival’s Best of the Best
parade category. The community came together to celebrate the 41st Kent Cornucopia Days. More story, photos,
pages 17-18. CHARLES CORTES, Reporter Newspapers
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BY MARK KLAAS
[email protected] lingering strike is taking its toll on 85 Davis Wire mill employees in Kent and their families who joined labor and religious leaders and elected offi cials to voice their dismay with the impasse at an emotion-al community rally Tuesday.Union workers went on strike May 21, claiming poor
working conditions and inad-equate compensation. Recent negotiations have gone nowhere, union leaders said, and workers are prepared for a long fi ght.Earlier Tuesday, striking workers converged at the King County Courthouse in Seattle, where 60 employees offi cially fi led individual lawsuits, alleg-ing the company has created “sweatshop-like” conditions by working employees off the
clock and denying them rest and meal breaks in an unsafe environment. Th ey also claim the company is failing to pay them statutorily required over-time wages.“What we are asking for is very modest in our contract,” said Robert Bruner, a 15-year Davis Wire employee who is among the original plaintiff s
Robert Bruner, a Davis Wire
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MARK KLAAS, Kent Reporter
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7 injured in fight near middle school
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Details remain sketchy as Kent Police investigate a fi ght among numerous men Sunday near Meridian Middle School in Kent that left seven injured with non-life threatening injuries.A Kent man who wit-nessed the fi ght contacted the Kent Reporter by email Tuesday and estimated as many as 60 men and a dozen or so cars showed up at the school parking lot. He said two groups showed up to fi ght and many of them were carrying bats and sticks.Police have not made any arrests, according to an email Monday from Sgt. Jarod Kasner. Offi cers are trying to fi gure out what started the fi ght at about 2:26 p.m. in the school [ more FIGHT page 3 ]
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Chiropractor Greg Blackburn is taking his fi rst vacation in almost 19 years.Blackburn was selected by the U.S. Olympic Committee Sports Medicine Team to come to the Olympic training center in Chula Vista, Calif., to help get Olympic ath-letes ready to compete in the Olympics. Th e prestigious opportunity only comes to those who possess certifi cation and medicinal credentials, such as a post-doctoral certifi cate and a certifi cation by the Council of Extremity Adjusting. “I was so excited when I heard I was selected, but I was torn because I wasn’t sure I could leave my patients and my life here in Kent,” Blackburn said. “But I
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Titus, violinist for The Side Project, plays July 12 in the fi rst Music in the Park summer concert series
at Lake Wilderness Park. The Side Project played for two hours. The next concert is July 26 featuring
the band Shaggy Sweet. DENNIS BOX, The Reporter To view a slide show of the concert go to www.
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Copper thieves have been on the prowl since May in Coving-ton in parking lots for churches, schools and businesses, according to the Covington Police Depart-ment.Covington Police Chief Kevin Kla-
son stated in a telephone interview that the theft s are a part of a statewide trend where thieves steal copper wiring from light poles and then sell them at scrap metal yards in order to pocket the cash, which typically is then used to buy drugs. “Th ese dopers seem to have their own network,” Klason said. “Once one tries it and has some success for a while. Where it
Copper wire thieves go on a spree in the city
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For years the city of Maple Valley has relied on single family residential permits as a signifi -cant revenue stream. Although it continues to run strong, city offi cials say it is within a few years of drying up. During a
presentation to the City Council May 14, Finance Director Tony McCarthy stated the city has seen revenue estima-tions well above what was bud-geted for the year. Th is includes single family permits (SFP). City staff projected they would receive 70 SFPs this year. According to McCarthy, how-ever, the city has issued 112 per-mits as of July and that number could possibly rise to 162 by the
Budget bolstered by permits for homes
BY KRIS HILL
[email protected] Rae Solo-mon, who lives in Covington, will soon play a show right in her backyard.
Solomon will kick off the inau-gural Covington Summer Concert Series July 27 at Kentwood High.A former rodeo queen turned country singer originally from Enumclaw, Solomon has been touring extensively in the past
year, including opening up again for Blake Shelton as well as fi lling in for Tanya Tucker as Crystal Gale’s opening act.“We’ve been playing a ton,” Solomon said. “Right now I’m just putting the fi nishing touches on our EP. We’re having our CD release party the day aft er we play the Covington show.”Karla Slate, community rela-tions manager for Covington, said the city is off ering the concert series in response to feedback
provided during the development of the Parks, Recreation and Open Space plan in 2009.“For the past couple years, they’ve been fi ne tuning the programming they already have (for recreation), and now they’ve been able to add a couple more programs,” Slate said. “From a city perspective we’re trying to create more of a sense of a community on all levels, not just by providing events, and we want to provide things for people here in the city of Covington so they don’t have to go elsewhere.”Th e concerts will run three Fridays in a row with SWAY fol-
Rae Solomon kicks off new summer concert series with country flavor
Rae Solomon, a rising country star, sings with Blake Shelton. Solomon will open up
the inaugural Covington Summer Concert Series July 27 at Kentwood. Courtesy photo
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Mark Zender, head baseball coach for Kentwood, who has coached for nearly 30 years and played at Seattle University, said McGuire is the kind of rare talent who brings more than just a big bat and exceptional skills behind the plate to a team.
“First of all, I think he’s just a tremendous talent,” Zender said. “Most coaches and teams just don’t get talent like that. Reese is just at a different level. He certainly has the raw God-given skills to play at any level. He’s a catcher, that probably has a bigger effect on the game than if he were a pitcher. He affects the ability to score. When Reese is playing, it’s just difficult (for opponents to score). It’s a huge benefit for our team to have that.”
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“He’s not a prima donna,” Zender said. “Kids with that talent are told by a lot of people that they’re talented. He’s pretty grounded. A lot of people want to hitch their wagon to kids like that. So, he’s resisted all of that.”
Plus, McGuire’s talented older brother being just a year ahead of him in school has helped the middle boy — there’s another McGuire son, Shane, also a left-handed hitting catcher who will be an eighth grader at Mattson Middle School this fall — stay humble, Zender added.
Next spring, Zender said, he hopes to see McGuire step up now that Cash, Taylor Jones, Skyler Genger, to name a few, have gradu-
ated from a team that has won two state titles in three season.
As for his summer ball, Zender said whenever his players get the opportuni-ties to play in showcases and compete against top talent it helps the high school team, but the coach also knows where this could lead for McGuire.
“He’s do-ing a lot of neat things,” Zender said. “He’s playing in these differ-ent things with other kids that are gifted like he is and he’s getting higher competi-tion and that’s only going to help his confidence. He’s getting some exposure to major league scouts. They
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“I do a pretty good job fram-ing pitches, but, it’s the
certain way I turn my glove as the pitch is coming,” McGuire said. “I have to turn my glove a little bit (so it’s in the right spot). With the pitchers throw-ing harder, it’s a little bit harder. I’m the type who likes to be involved in every
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Zender said he plans to advise McGuire to take a break sometime before high school ball starts in the spring and just enjoy his last year at Kentwood.
McGuire said he did get a little bit of time off this summer, but, he had just a week before heading back to make the 20-man USA 18U roster this week.
It’s no surprise McGuire eats, sleeps and breathes baseball. His father played as do both his brothers. That’s what the family does
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A future filled with baseball that could well take up the rest of his summer vacation and McGuire’s first week of his senior year to go to Taiwan to play for the national team.
He wouldn’t want it any other way.
REESE MCGUIRE’S 2012 KENTWOOD STATSBatting average: .388
Runs batted in: 34, led the team
Runs scored: 27, led the team
Home runs: 4, led the team
Struck out just 10 times in 80 at-bats
Source: Kentwoodbaseball.com
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