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BY KRIS HILL

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As the city of Covington works to fulfi ll the recreation needs and wants of its residents, the search is on for a parks planner.

Scott Th omas, the city’s parks and recreation director, said that if Covington continues at its cur-rent rate of one new park every 16 years it will take quite a while to meet demand.

“If we look at the city’s 16 year history we haven’t reached our park acquisition and develop-ment goals, we’re actually not even all that close,” Th omas said. “We have to fi gure out a way to pick up the pace.”

To that end, Th omas said, he requested a half-time parks planner during

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For Rob Morrow, accepting the position of school superinten-dent isn’t something he’d do just anywhere, in fact, Tahoma is the only place he would be willing to take the job.

Morrow, the principal at Taho-ma Junior High, was announced as the next superintendent for the Tahoma School District earlier this month, eff ective next June when current superintendent Mike Maryanski retires. Morrow, who grew up in Burien and

has been with the district since the 1982-83 school year, has been principal at

Tahoma Junior High since 1999.

“I wouldn’t say specifi cally the superintendent position appeals

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A quartet of teen parishioners from St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Covington got a close look this summer at life in a third world country when they visited Guatemala on a missions trip.

Nichole Soepardi, a Black Dia-mond resident, along with Jalen Koon of Kent, Elizabeth Crans-toun of Maple Valley and Tatiana

Sigurdson of Covington spent 10 days of their summer break volunteering in Guatemala aft er planning for the trip for months. Th ey were the second group of teens to go with the church to the country.

Jim Tanasse was one of eight adults who went with the teens. He explained St. John’s got involved with a group of villages in Guatemala nearly two decades

ago. During the fi rst few visits, Tanasse said, the church members observed the core issues of the people they served in Guatemala, what he called “daily quality of life issues.”

“We built houses, put in stoves,” Tanasse said. “We’ve slowly through six trips started to get our arms around those things. You can bring adults, but, I am a fi rm believer that a teenager, any kid … they come at it with a pure thought and a positive attitude.”

Th e four students, who will be high school juniors this fall at Kennedy Catholic, Kentlake, Bellarmine Prep and Kentwood

Teens get close look at poverty in Guatemala

Elizabeth Cranstoun, left, of Maple Valley, and Jalen Koon, right, of Kent, spent 10 days in Guatemala with a group from St. John the Baptist Church. Courtesy photo

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Two new assistant princi-pals, Julie Frederiksen and Brixey Painter, are settling into their roles and diving into the community at Kentlake High School this fall.

Frederiksen, who is origi-nally from Amarillo, Texas and moved to Washington in 2005, will be oversee-ing ninth grade students this year as well as testing school-wide and a transi-tion to standards based grading.

“Probably the thing I am looking forward to most is that connection with ninth graders as they transition to high school,” Frederiksen said.

Frederiksen came to Kentlake from Kent-Merid-ian High School where one of her duties was overseeing the school’s International Baccalaureate program which sparked her desire to pursue working as an administrator.

“I really enjoyed work-ing with other teachers collaboratively, and I really enjoyed having the opportunity to benefit more students on a larger scale,” Frederiksen said. “Because one of our jobs (as adminis-trators) is to ensure quality instruction and to help teachers get to that point where they’re really deliver-

ing excellent instruction for every student every day … I wanted to be able to coach and mentor other teachers along the way.”

As for the shift to standards based grading at Kentlake, Frederiksen said that the system, which is based on a four point scale instead of a 100 point scale, allows greater clarity for both students and teachers when it comes to grading and reflecting what the students know how to do.

“It’s a popular movement in education right now,” Frederiksen said. “I think one of the things that’s nice about standards based grading is that you get a lot more depth as opposed to breadth. We’d rather have you be able to do 27 things very, very well than 56 things shoddily. It focuses the learning much more.”

Frederiksen said that she knew she wanted to be a teacher ever since she was in fourth grade. She saw pictures of Paris in a social studies textbook and made up her mind that teach-ing French was what she wanted to do. In her free time she enjoys traveling and spending time with her two dogs.

Frederiksen earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin in French language and literature and started as a high school French

teacher in 1994. When she moved to Washington she was hired to teach French at K-M and in 2008 she earned her master’s degree in curriculum and instruc-tion and earned her administra-tor’s certificate this year.

“I think that one of the things I’m most excited about is watch-ing Kentlake evolve with its own identity because we’re a very strong school academically and sports-wise but we can be a great school,” Frederiksen said. “We want to evolve from good to great and I’m look-ing forward to being a part of that.”

Painter will be overseeing 11th graders this year as well as the special educa-tion and social studies de-partments and professional learning communities.

Originally from Port Orchard, Painter came to Kentlake from Franklin Pierce High School where she taught social studies and last year was also the dean of students.

“My main passion is in-struction so I’m going to be in classrooms and excited to see the kind of learning that is going on in class-rooms and see how I’m best

able to use my expertise in that way,” Painter said.

Painter said that she was inspired to pursue a career in education by teachers she had that were there for her

as she was grow-ing up.

“It was prob-ably a very similar story to a lot of educators, but I had an educa-tor in my life, a couple, a couple of teachers in my life that really impacted me,” Painter said. “Had a couple of strug-gling moments as a kid and had

a couple of teachers that were there for me in a way that was very meaningful and impacted me to the point that I knew I wanted to have that same impact on kids.”

She earned her bachelor’s degree in history at Western Washington University and earned her master’s degree and administrator’s creden-tial in 2012.

Painter taught for 10 years, the first four of those as a special education teacher.

“I really liked it, so I stayed for four years before I decided to go back and start teaching history,” Painter said.

The idea to pursue becoming a school ad-

ministrator came from getting involved in campus leadership as a department head and being a part of committees.

“The more and more opportunities I had in leadership the more and more I realized what impact I could have on a different level, the behind the scenes level,” Painter said. “An impact on the adults that would trickle down to the students and so about year five I realized there’s a lot going on in education, it’s a really exciting time to be an educator, there’s a lot of change going on and I want to be a part of that change.”

When she has free time, Painter said she enjoys reading — she’s a big Harry Potter fan — and dancing as well as hiking and being outdoors.

“I cannot wait to get to know the students here at Kentlake and get involved in all of their daily activi-ties, sports, seeing how the school runs,” Painter said. “I’m really looking forward to working with teachers and helping everybody become better teachers and that will in turn have a sig-nificant impact on student achievement.”

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Students at Tahoma High School will get an extra lesson in geography this year when they welcome Lotta, an international exchange student from Finland.

Lotta arrived in Maple Valley on Aug. 26 to live with the Clark family and experience the American way of life for an academic year. Lotta is sponsored by Aspect Foundation, a nonprofit organization that strives to bridge cultures through international youth exchange.

Aspect Foundation is always seeking more families who want the unforgettable experience of hosting an international student like Lotta. Exchange students are aged 15 to 18, speak English, and have their own spending money and insurance. Volunteer host families provide room, board, and a loving home environment for a semester or academic year.

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I have had times when simple things make such a huge diff erence. You never know why, or how, but it does. And for me it usually is a lightening rod moment but I can never truly explain why.

Th e most recent for me came a few months ago when I randomly saw a public service an-nouncement for a new campaign called I Got Your Six. It hit me really hard since it is all about helping our veterans. I have always been very angry at how our men and women are brought back from war, or military enlistment, and we abandon them. I had tears running down my face as I watched this because I knew that I needed to do something but I wasn’t quite sure what. I felt that I didn’t have the opportunity to do anything right here. I didn’t know any veter-ans that needed help — at least acknowledged it — and I also wasn’t aware of any programs that were available right here in our community.

So, I had it in my mind as something that I wanted to have come in to my life. I kept that feeling with me all the time and I knew that putting it our there would bring it to my life. Th is fi nally happened a few weeks ago and I was blown away.

It started with a couple of messages via the Cash Mob page which introduced me to Always Brothers. To say I was excited when I read about the organization would be an understatement. I did interviews with Always Brothers Vice

President Dan Neilsen as well as retired Marine Storm McNeil, who participated in the run, which got me even more fi red up!

Always Brothers 100 mile ultra marathon, which started Aug. 10, went through Maple Val-ley Aug. 11 and other communities from Leschi down to Orting and back up to Century Link. I took my son Hudson to a few of the diff erent stops along the way and was so moved by the dedication of these Marines who were willing to give so much for our fallen. To watch them in the process of running 100 miles was awe inspir-ing to say the least. I couldn’t imagine doing it, but I came away knowing that I wanted to be a part of it. I am not sure how that will happen but I rarely know exactly how things will happen in

my life but I am always open to the doors, cracks and windows that seem to be opening up so much lately.

I gave Dan and Storm a few days to attempt to have their bodies recover before I sat down with them and Tanya Neilsen to discuss the success of the run, the impact they made and most impor-tantly their experiences over the 100 miles.

At this point Storm was still trying to recover from the knee injury he suff ered 11 miles into the run. He had a wonderful friend, Ric Holm, loan him a bike so he was able to continue with his fellow Marines through the rest of the 100 miles. Storm didn’t just ride a bike. His cycling

Th ere are certain community causes I will unabashedly throw my support behind pub-licly.

For example the Tahoma School District construction bond measure or the eff orts of Tina McDonough and her team the Valley Girls & Guys! that participates in the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s 3 Day Walk for the Cure. In 2012 the team was more than 150 strong and raised hun-dreds of thousands of dollars to fi ght breast cancer, a cause important to me because it aff ected a good friend.

Sticking with the pink ribbon theme is Kristi Blair, founder of Maple Valley-based Wings of Karen, who is wrapping up plans for the foundation’s second Bra Dash 5K walk and run. I am quite excited about this event.

Aft er interviewing Kristi Aug. 14, I am even more amped for the race. A year ago I was astonished that some 800 people showed up for a brand new event. Th at, my friends, is the power of the vision Kristi has for fi ghting breast cancer and searching for answers.

Her vision is big. She wants to raise $100,000 this year aft er the Bra Dash brought in $30,000 — all of which went to a researcher at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance who is looking for new ways to detect breast cancer, especially in younger women — but perhaps a more realistic number would be $50,000 to $60,000. I would not be the least bit surprised if 2,000 people showed up at the event and came close to raising six fi gures.

Kristi lost her mother, Karen, to breast cancer. She fought it, too. Not only is the event a chance to raise money, but it’s a chance to let survivors know how much support they have and how our community will come together to collectively battle the disease.

My friend Ilyse will run with me this year. She is a survivor. She has always inspired and challenged since I fi rst walked into her math class at Interlake High in the fall of 1994 aft er I was bumped out of a pre-calculus class because I was failing. I passed fi rst semester thanks to her. I earned a B second semester. She believed in me. Today she encourages me when we do training runs together or go race.

A year ago we walked the event. It was my fi rst 5K. Ever. I huff ed and puff ed my way through it.

Today, as I write this, I am less than two weeks away from my fi rst 10K run. Since the Bra Dash a year ago I walked two more 5Ks and ran six. My 10th race was the Torchlight 8K in late July.

Th is is because of two breast cancer sur-vivors. One who had a vision for an event to raise money to pour into research and fi nd answers while the other just wanted to see me

get healthy, I suspect because she just fought one of the toughest health battles of her life. It must be frustrating to watch someone not take care of her health aft er that. But, that is conjecture on my part.

In any case, Kristi told me when I inter-viewed her that was another purpose for the Bra Dash, to encourage people to get healthy. I didn’t know it at the time, not until aft er I wrote a column about my experience at the event. She helped me change my life and it had a ripple eff ect on others around me. I am sure there are hundreds of other stories like mine. And there will be hundreds more.

Th is year will be awesome. Next year will be amazing because Kristi hopes the Bra Dash will spread to other like-minded communi-ties, though we agree no one has as wonderful a setting for an event as Maple Valley does in Lake Wilderness.

I look forward to seeing the families decked out in costumes, decorated bras, dads, broth-ers, sons, sisters, moms, embracing the pink warrior spirit to support the cause. I look forward to running with my friend, my inspi-ration, who won’t have to coach me through the two little hills — Kristi said those are at the start then it will be nice and fl at — like last year because now I can run fi ve miles or more. I look forward to watching other people do Zumba to warm up. I look forward to chatting with all the people I know from the commu-nity and maybe meeting some ones.

Most of all I look forward to being part of Kristi’s grand vision to raise enough money to fi nd answers to the puzzle that is breast cancer. It is a powerful thing to be part of.

D I D Y O U K N O W ? : Each year it is estimated that over 220,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40,000 will die.

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home in Indonesia,” Soepardi said. “I’ve never really seen it first hand. Just going somewhere and knowing you’re able to change someone’s life (appealed to her).”

Koon said he recalls first hearing about the trip two years ago sitting in church. He immediately turned to his father and said he wanted go. At first, he may have been only half serious about it, Koon said, but the more he thought about it the more he wanted to go.

“I’ve always been into community service and helping people,” Koon said. “I’ve actually been a part of the group wanting to go to Guatemala for two years.”

Cranstoun twice went with a group from church to Bellingham on a weeklong mission trips to volunteer with migrant workers. That experience piqued her interest in Guatemala.

For Sigurdson, like Koon, she enjoys helping others and also enjoys travel. She also took Spanish at Kentwood which gave her some background about the culture as well as work-ing knowledge of the language.

All four raised money for the trip. There was a pancake breakfast at church. They sold handmade Guatemalan items such as bracelets, place mats, and table runners, just to name a few items. Other times they would announce during mass they would be taking donations after the service. They sent out letters to family and friends seeking financial support.

It was an eye-opening trip for all four.Each teen remembered something differ-

ent about it that was particularly impactful for them as individuals.

“Going to the first school that we went to, the really impoverished one,” Koon said. “They get up and they work for three hours then they go to school then they work for five hours after that. These kids have a whole eight hour work day plus school. Some of the teach-ers will walk an hour and a half just to teach. They know what education can do for these kids.”

For Sigurdson, seeing stacks of boxes in the back of a classroom was quite a moment.

“We went to this school, this was the coolest thing,” Sig-urdson said. “TOMS (shoes) has this thing where you buy a pair of shoes, they donate a pair of shoes. But, you never see it. Then we saw a couple kids wearing TOMS and in the back of the classroom, there were boxes and boxes. It was cool to see that.”

Cranstoun said she taught a little boy some English thanks to their shared love of sport.

“We were working at the houses,” Cranstoun said. “I play soccer and this kid had a ball. I don’t speak Spanish. I told him to kick it and we were just playing with it back and forth. I taught him to say soccer and I taught him to say hello and thank you. There is a language barrier but you can get past it. I was playing soccer for a good hour with this kid, I was teaching him how to head the ball, and it wasn’t even a soccer ball but we were still having a good time.”

During their time in Guatemala the group from St. John’s helped build houses, simple cinder block homes for those who lost their adobe houses in an earthquake in November.

While they helped, Soepardi said, she met a woman whom she will never forget.

“The thing that sticks with me is the story of the first family that we helped,” Soepardi said. “This woman whose house that we were building, she had eight kids but she only has two now because the first three died of malnutrition, there were a few that just died of sickness and she had two mis-carriages. The baby she has now is sick and dying because she doesn’t have the nutrients to be able to breastfeed her child. Her house is being rebuilt and so all her money is going toward that.”

There were plenty of other sobering moments such as men armed with high powered rifles, sawed off shotguns or other military weapons throughout the country.

Or how young Guatemalans are when they start families.

“The second thing that sticks with me is all of the people who are walking around Guatemala who are our age, who are like 16, already have two kids,” Soepardi said. “They were asking us where our kids were and we told them we don’t have

kids.”Koon recalled watching men building houses with noth-

ing but simple steel blades.“Those guys building the house was amazing, their

handiwork is amazing,” Koon said. “All they had was a machete and it was incredible what they could do with a machete.”

Cranstoun didn’t have words for what they saw at a dump.

“We walked through a cemetery and if you don’t pay your rent, if your family doesn’t make the payments, then they dig up your body and throw it in the dump,” Cran-

stoun said. “People don’t live in the dump anymore but people still go through it.We saw villages right along the edge of the dump and it’s just nasty, that’s where they all went to make money.”

It was disgusting, Cranstoun said, because used toilet paper is thrown in the trash.

There were fun moments, too. Or the kinds of memories the teens can laugh about now.

“The driving,” Koon said. “All the signs are suggestions. The stop signs, if you want to stop here, you can.”

Then there was the hike up to an active volcano called Pacaya.

“We roasted marshmallows over an open lava vent,” Sigurdson said.

Cranstoun also thought the coffee was delicious. Koon said that because coffee is a major export, it was mostly sugar and water with some coffee mixed in, so it is different than what Americans drink.

The water, though, has to be boiled before it’s consumed so they drank hot Kool-Aid. Showers while out in the vil-lages were not of much use as the water came out at just a trickle.

What they experienced changed their perspectives.“There was a big culture shock when we got back to the

U.S.,” Sigurdson said. “People were not friendly.”When Soepardi shops now, she thinks twice about

spending the money because of how far it could go for a family in Guatemala.

Education past the third grade, Cranstoun said, is unusual while going to high school is practically unheard of there. Though she is not excited about the start of a new school year she said she is grateful she can go especially to a school such as Bellarmine.

In the end, all four said 10 days wasn’t nearly enough, and they would all like to return to Guatemala.

“We all want to go back and stay as long as it takes to build a house from start to finish,” Sigurdson said.

Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054. To comment on this story go to www.covingtonreporter.com.

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The end of August is when the garden begins to change outfits, preparing for the cooler season ahead with warmer colors and a slower me-tabolism.

This is when you need to savor the last weeks of the sum-mer season. Don’t just dutifully perform yard chores, decide to enjoy the process as well. Remind yourself that in just a few months when it Is raining and cold, you’re gonna miss this.

Tasks to Enjoy this WeekWater: Go outside on

a hot night and take your time watering your thirsty plants with the hose.

Yes, it is more water ef-ficient to use a soaker hose or drip system, especially in vegetable gardens, but there

is something so satisfying about watching water soak into dry soil.

You can sometimes see a parched plant perk up right before your eyes.

August is when the roots of full-grown con-tainer plants are smashed

into containers, leaving little room for storing mois-ture in the potting soil.

Pots that were fine at the beginning of summer with a cool drink once every few days may now need a drink twice a day.

Indulge those heavy drinkers and admire how they’ve put on weight over the summer.

Harvest: Pluck a very ripe tomato right from the vine and eat it while standing in the garden. Lean over if you don’t want the juice to

dribble down your chin. Sun-warmed, home-grown tomatoes have much more flavor than tomatoes that must be shipped to the grocery store. I

f your tomato crop is still in the dream stage, visit a farmer’s market and cel-ebrate home-grown flavor from a local grower.

Not everyone can grow vegetables but everyone can support local vegetable growers.

Arrange: Snip a vase of cut flowers from your gar-den and share the blooming bounty.

You don’t even need to grow traditional cut flowers to compose a small bouquet of summer beauty. It is now fashionable to add everything from blackberry vines, grassy seed heads and laurel foliage to any vessel that holds water and call it a “contemporary design.”

Even your most annoy-ing weeds can be used as

”structure” in a vase of cut flowers.

Place a few stems of horsetail around a cluster of weedy grasses and you’ll have an arrangement that may gladden your heart as you watch the contents slowly die.

Display your flower arrangement of volunteer plants outdoors so the neighbors will think you are growing weeds on purpose – just to be trendy when if comes to flower arrange-ments.

Stake: Use metal rebar stakes to corral and support your huge dahlias, delphini-ums, anemones and other tall, late-summer bloomers.

The flowers of fall often fall over themselves and past history proves that perennials tipped over onto the lawn can end up as con-fetti in the mower blades.

Plants should be staked before they need it – but staking a wayward bloomer

in late summer can mean an autumn encore of color.

Season: Harvest fresh herbs on a summer morn-ing after the dew has dried from the foliage.

Place stems of cut mint, basil, oregano and parsley in a glass near the kitchen counter.

Using fresh herbs instead of salt and pepper to season foods is another reason to celebrate the summer season.

To flavor sauces and stews, tie the stems of fresh herbs together with a thick thread and let the herbal bouquet simmer in the sauce. The string allows the chef to remove all the herbs just before serving and to skip the dicing, chopping and slicing.

Photograph: Take some pictures of your garden. Late summer photos tell the visual story of what plants you need to move and which color or vegetable

combinations worked well. Garden photos are a

great way to add inspiration to a winter indoors spent dreaming and scheming about the plans for your garden next summer.

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In the late 1990’s, Cynthia Ostermann began volunteering at the Arboretum, quickly filling the ranks of the board as second, then first vice president and budget and finance chairman.

Now, as docent co-chairman, Ostermann says she’s learned to appreciate what a dedicated group of volunteers can accomplish, and what a lasting, positive contribution she’s made to the community.

“The Arboretum’s contributions are diverse, from serving as a beautiful place for people to enjoy, to housing valuable collections like the Smith-Mossman Azalea Garden, to enhancing learning experi-ences for preschoolers through college students,” Ostermann said.

What Arboretum events do you enjoy?The Hellebore Tea, which gives us the opportunity to ditch our gardening chores and attend a high

tea fundraiser at Lake Wilderness Lodge. The tables are beautiful and creative, and there are plenty of buying opportunities at the raffle and silent auctions.

Tell us something interesting about the gardens.The Volunteer Garden contains a Japanese maple that is as old as our Foundation: 48 years. The Peren-nial Garden is bursting with color and beauty spring through fall.

Upcoming eventsThe next free docent tour takes place on September 21.

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I have mixed feelings about summer homework. When teachers assign stu-dents summer homework, they also assign the home-work to the parents. In or-der to get the kids to do it,

we have to bug them about it, remind them where we are in the summer so they plan ahead, and as it

was this year, we may have to take them somewhere to complete the homework.

I know a mom who refuses to let her kids do summer homework. Her

reasoning is, “If the teach-ers are not contractually obligated to work during the summer, the students should not have to work either.”

I asked my sister, who is a teacher, what she thought about it. She said, “Every place I’ve worked has given out summer homework. Th ere is good research out

there that shows that the long break is detrimental to memory.

”As a teacher, I don’t like the long break because kids do forget a lot. I also don’t like the sudden onslaught of grading that comes in right at the beginning of the school year when kids turn in their summer assignment. Do I think it is necessary, yes, and more so now in the age of electronics where kids are less likely to read all summer, or play outside, or work, or do chores, or be involved in true projects, or go to a camp or art class or something, or be busier than using computers and gaming equipment.

”I’m not sure about the thinking that it cuts into family time because kids spend a lot of the summer

laying around when the adults in the family are working and running lives. I always suggest that the students set up either a 45 minute window of time ev-ery day to get the summer work done or one portion of a day once a week to ad-dress it.

”Th e question I always ask parents in matters like this is what they want for their children and if they are willing to guide their children’s learning year around.”

So with both positions fi led in my head, I pulled on my best parenting panties and came to a conclusion of my own: It won’t hurt you, do it anyway. I even off ered to be the parent to drive the kids around on a kind of city scavenger hunt assignment. It’s a class on

human geography and they were assigned to fi nd diff er-ent unique places of history and infrastructures that binds us as a society. Th ey had to have a picture of one of their team members in front of each place.

It turned out to be a lot of fun. And we weren’t alone. As we pulled into a gated community and asked if we could take a picture, the attendant told us they’d had an onslaught of students doing the same thing all week.

Even though we had fun doing this project with her friends, my daughter complained about the re-mainder of the homework packet and how the social studies teacher gave them fi ft y pages, while the Eng-lish and science teacher had only given a couple. I tried

to explain to her it probably wasn’t fi ft y pages of actual work, but just reading.

She wouldn’t hear it, the teacher was just mean. Th en when she fi nished the remainder of the packet, she said, “Mom, you were right. It was mostly just reading.”

I was right? I don’t know about you, but my summer is complete.

Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She is still and always will be right. section. You can also read more of her writing on her website livingwithgleigh.com.

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GREEN RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO HOST GATOR FESTGreen River Community College will host Gator Fest from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sept. 21.

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superintendent position appeals to me,” Morrow said. “I’d say the superintendent position in Tahoma appeals to me, if you understand the distinction there. I think we’re a unique school system with unique challenges and unique needs and I’ve grown up with it for the last 32 years. I think I’ve been part of the leadership team in our system that’s created what I think is a really quality environment for kids and teachers to go to school. And so the opportunity to support that and maintain it and improve on that is what appealed to me. I wouldn’t be applying for a superinten-dent’s job in Kent, for example, that wouldn’t have inter-ested me. But in Tahoma it does. Bottom line is I believe in who we are and what we do. And there are some significant challenges ahead for our system that I think will be inter-esting to take on.”

Morrow earned his bachelors degree in kinesiology at

the University of Washington and, later, his masters in education at Western Washington University.

“I had a mentor, Rod Sivertsen, who was the former athletic director in the Tahoma School District and kind of mentored me into the idea of being an educator,” Morrow said of how he developed an interest in education. “That’s kind of how it got started for me, in fact coaching was an avenue to help make that happen.”

Morrow’s first job in the district was as an assistant bas-ketball and assistant football coach and also as a substitute teacher.

“Then the next year I got hired as a teacher and went from there,” Morrow said. “Back then Tahoma was an awfully small school district. There was a nine through 12 high school with maybe 750 kids.”

Morrow spent time as an assistant principal at Tahoma High School before becoming the principal at TJH.

The biggest challenge Morrow said he sees the district

facing in the immediate future is space for students. “Without question the number one need in our system is

housing, so passing the bond Nov. 5 is the highest priority because that will then determine what the next three to four, five years are going to look like in our system,” Mor-row said.

Other challenges Morrow knows he will have to deal with in coming years include implementation of the Com-mon Core State Standards and helping students achieve the new benchmarks, and the new teacher and principal evaluation program the district is implementing. Should the bond pass, making sure that the projects funded by it are done correctly and responsibly would also be a top priority, Morrow said.

“We’re going to have to do that (implement Common Core and TPEP) either way. How we do that is going to be predicated on passing the bond,” Morrow said.

Whatever happens with the bond, Morrow said the district will have to start planning the day after the election for the district’s next steps — whether that is building a new high school or preparing for other alternatives like multi-track and year-round schooling.

“One pathway is challenging but is energizing in a real positive way,” Morrow said. “The other pathway is chal-lenging but is a little more negative. I’m talking about having to inform families that your child is going to have to be on a year-round school or double shifting or whatever that might be. And that will be a multi-year process, either one of those.”

This school year is going to be one of transition for both Morrow and the school district.

Morrow will split his time between Tahoma Junior High, where he will remain principal this year, and being men-tored by Maryanski.

“A little bit of this is an unknown what it’s going to look like but I’ll be spending as much time as they need me to at the district office, I’ll be at all the board meetings, attend-ing elementary principal meetings, middle school princi-pal meetings, that kind of thing,” Morrow said. “It’s a real advantage for me to transition in this way and I have the opportunity to work with the 20 year superintendent for a year, Mike Maryanski … I think it’s a nice transition for the system so when Mike leaves there shouldn’t be a learning curve relative to what’s happening in the system and what the goals are and that sort of thing.”

Morrow said that the sense of camaraderie and collabo-ration are just some of the reasons he believes that Tahoma is different.

“It’s real unique in that way and fosters a lot of the col-laboration that we have and Mike has done a really good job over a lot of years fostering collaboration between teachers and administration and working on a collabora-tive decision making model that I think has helped lend itself to that unique feeling,” Morrow said. “I’m taking this job for no other reason than I want to do a great job for the community and the staff here at Tahoma. I have no politi-cal ambitions. This is the last job I’ll ever have.”

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Th is season on the foot-ball fi eld in the South Puget Sound League 4A North ex-pect a battle for the top spot as Kentwood, Kentlake and Tahoma all look to rebound from tough playoff losses in 2012 to make deep runs.

KENTWOODIf Kentwood learned any-

thing a year ago from the upset loss against Arlington in the fi rst round of the playoff s it’s not to look past anyone.

Senior wide receiver Terrance Grady said the Conquerors were thinking about the next game. Bran-don Sytsma, a senior tail-back who plays safety and cornerback, too, explained he already broke down fi lm of the next opponent he thought Kentwood would get aft er beating Arlington.

“We defi nitely took the Arlington game as fuel,” Grady said. “It was defi -nitely a slap in the face.”

Grady explained that Kentwood’s players started working hard in the off sea-son in January and pushed through all summer to get

better. And it didn’t hurt that the Conks got to take on the Eagles again at a camp this summer at the University of Puget Sound to exact a bit of revenge even if it didn’t count.

Kentwood won the SPSL North last year with a per-fect regular season record. Th en Arlington stormed into French Field in the fi rst round of the playoff s and sent Kentwood home in a shocking upset.

Since then, Grady said, one thing has come through about the 2013 squad.

“We’re a really hard working team,” Grady said. “We had a speed coach come in and do a speed camp with us. He said in the 10 years he’s come to Kentwood, we’re the hard-est working group. Th at re-ally puts no limits on what we can do. With that hard work, that brings cohesive-ness.”

Th e team also bonds with what Sytsma described as an annual tradition, a team hike to the summit of Tiger Mountain.

“I feel like it really brings the team together,” Sytsma said. “Th e smaller, quicker guys can get up the moun-

tain quicker and as we get to the top we go down and help the bigger guys. It re-ally brings us together. We learn to rely on each other and trust each other to get the job done.”

Knowing his teammates can push through on that hike helps Sytsma learn, he said, to trust they will have the mental toughness during games when that is needed most.

Trust is key, too, Grady said on the off ensive side of the ball as Kentwood will look to a new quarterback, a sophomore.

“One of the thing I’ve had to work on as a receiv-ing is gaining his trust and be able to have confi dence in him and just have that comfort with each other,” Grady said.

Sytsma said the team as a whole has focused on trust and cooperation and learning to play together, especially with several new players on the off ense.

Grady added that the de-fense this season, which has a fair number of returning starters, will have some new looks to it.

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some new things into our defense to make it even better than last year, even though it was pretty good,” Grady said.

Both Grady and Sytsma said they see the SPSL North being a four-horse race between Kentwood, Tahoma, Kent-lake and Auburn.

“There’s always some fire in that Kentlake game,” Grady said. “I know that Auburn wants to get back at us for the beating we put on them last year. Tahoma, at the UPS camp, was looking pretty strong.”

Sytsma said one thing Kentwood will bring into this season from 2012 was a high level of confidence.

“We’ve come off a couple years of really good records and we’ve kind of carried that through,” Sytsma said. “We’re not always the biggest team with the strongest, fastest guys, especially last year, we went against some sturdier opponents that were a lot bigger than us but we had a lot of confidence … I hope to carry that into this year knowing that we may not be the biggest but we’ll play like we are.”

And the Conks take the knowledge that they can’t look past any opponent. Sytsma said they learned not to let a situation like the Arlington game push them to a point where they down on themselves but also not to become overconfident.

“We should take each team seriously and go week to week and stay positive throughout the game,” Sytsma said. “I’m confident that we’ll compete and match up with what any team has to throw at us.”

Grady can’t wait for the season to start. For Kentwood it kicks off Sept. 6 when it hosts Auburn at French Field.

“I’m feeling ready,” Grady said. “I’m feeling like Kent-wood football is ready. I feel like there’s blood in the water and we’re hungry.”

KENTLAKEThis year the Falcons are stacked with seniors who are in

their fourth year of playing for head coach Chris Paulson and that experience could pay dividends.

Those seniors experienced an undefeated league season in 2011 but lost four games in 2012 despite having the top ranked offense in the state.

Mason Johnson, one of the seniors returning, said there is plenty of upside to his class. Of the 22 starters this sea-son, 19 are seniors.

“I feel like anytime a lot of your guys have been in the same system for four years it will run efficiently,” Johnson said.

Since the season ended last November Kentlake has focused on improving its defense explained Johnson, an all-league selection at lineman on both sides of the ball a year ago as a junior.

Everybody hit the weight room the week after the play-offs, Johnson said, and working on improving cardio fitness levels with running.

Before practices began Aug. 21, Johnson explained, the team was already putting in some work.

“The summer training program was like what we were doing but amped up,” Johnson said. “Everyone’s trying to thin down on the line. Last year I felt like we were too big. I feel like now we’re leaner and faster.”

John Morasch, a senior wide receiver who caught eight touchdown passes in 2012, said he is pleased with the im-provements the defense has made after it struggled last season.

“We kind of a took a new mentality to take an extra step on defense and really focus on that,” Morasch said.

“Our summer conditioning program was more rigorous. We’re trying to take a step toward being better conditioned than the other team in that regard.”

Though there is a new quarterback, senior Jake Summer, Morasch is confident about the offensive side of the ball.

“Our primary strength is our offense still,” Morasch said. “We have a really good system that coach has imposed, so we just run it into the ground.”

At a recent practice, the Kentlake offense ran more than 60 plays in 20 minutes.

“We play fast,” Morasch said. “We’ve been practicing a real uptempo pace.”

Last year, Morasch said, they would take time to read the defense before calling plays. This year it may feel more like the Blur offense Chip Kelly ran when he was the coach at the University of Oregon, where Paulson’s younger brother played.

This year, Johnson said, they want to win the SPSL North and then go after a state championship.

That doesn’t mean Kentlake will look past anyone, especially after suffering an upset to Kent-Meridian early

in 2012.“You always want to take it one game at a time,” Morasch

said. “But, we have our rivalries that everyone gets excited for in Kentwood and Tahoma.”

TAHOMAThis year the Tahoma Bears are focused on speed.

They’re running a no-huddle offense, much like last year, and also focusing on speed where they lack size on defense.

“We like to play physical, fast offense,” said senior quar-terback Shane Nelson.

Key returners for the Bears this year are Nelson, senior receiver Deshon Williams, senior inside line backer, and senior offensive linemen Aaron Vaughn and Nick Kinney.

Top newcomers are senior defensive lineman Seonte Kong who will be playing as a starter for the first time this year, junior inside line backer Blake Donohue who played on the junior varsity team last year, senior wide receiver and safety Denham Patricelli who played as a starter his sophomore year but missed last year due to injury, and junior defensive back Aharon Lutgen-Jarmon who also played junior varsity last year.

Williams said that in preseason practices the defense has been focusing on speed and swarm-

ing to the tackle.“We’re more about effort this year,” Suka said.Many of the Bears’ starters have played together since

junior high, giving them an edge on team-building and a sense of camaraderie.

“We’re closer as a team, especially on offense,” Patricelli said of team unity this year compared to years past.

Last year the Bears finished 5-5 overall, going 5-3 in league play and made a run at the playoffs where they were eliminated in the district playoffs by Jackson.

Coaching the Bears this year are head coach Tony Davis who is returning for his 20th season with Tahoma, and assistant coaches Chris Williams, Tyrone Williams, Steve Bodwell, Walt Howard, Dan Nelson, and Anthony Bogan.

Sukra, Williams, Nelson, and Patricelli said that they’re looking forward to playing the Kent schools and especially playing —and beating— Kentwood and Kentlake at French Field and their goal this season is to bring home the divi-sion title.

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“I’m feeling ready. I’m feeling like Kentwood football is ready. I feel like there’s blood in the water and we’re hungry.” Terrance Grady

“Our summer conditioning program was more rigorous. We’re trying to take a step toward being better conditioned than the other team in that regard.” John Morasch


FROG FROLIC SET FOR SEPT. 14 NEAR MAPLE VALLEYThe annual Frog Frolic is set for Sept. 14 at the Save Habitat and Diversity of Wetlands on Shadow Lake near Maple Valley.

Visitors can tour the bog, enjoy envi-ronmental education activities, visit the beer garden, check out items in

the silent auction, enjoy the potluck and more. Other nonprofit organiza-tions partner with SHADOW to bring other activities to the event.

SHADOW has preserved natural lands in King County for nearly 20 years. To date the nonprofit has obtained pro-tection for 100 acres of land including a 5,000-year-old peat bog, one of the

few remaining in the area.

Peat bogs provide habitat for wildlife as well as help protect water quality by filtering out pollutants in storm water.

The preserve is open to the public

Tuesday through Saturday. Reserva-tions are recommended for a tour.

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Kent Youth and Family Services will open a new Head Start preschool site at Jenkins Creek Elementary School this fall.

The Head Start program, which serves children ages three through five years old who come from low income families, focuses on helping kids be ready for kinder-garten.

This year will mark the first time Head Start and ECEAP programs are back in Kent schools since com-munity agencies took over operating the programs, which used to be run by the schools until a levy was passed that reduced class sizes and meant that the schools didn’t have the space to run the preschools, according to Theresa LaR-onde, the Head Start and ECEAP program director for KYFS.

“We’ve always had, in South King County, a really high unmet need,” LaRonde said. “A lot of kids that are eligible but don’t receive service because we fill up.”

LaRonde said that the programs’ priorities are meeting the needs of low income families. She ex-plained that priority goes to children who are homeless, foster kids, or have IEPs. LaRonde said that every application receives a point total and the kids with the most points are enrolled in the program.

Jenkins Creek will be home to four classes of 19 students with two morning and two afternoon classes.

“In the past the families from (the) Covington area have been transported, bused, to our Kent Family Center location in the Birch Creek public housing,” LaRonde said. “So our big building is out there, but it’s a substantial bus ride, so we might as well cut down on having to do that.”

LaRonde also pointed out that having students from the Covington area at Jenkins Creek will allow more students to be served through freeing up space at the Kent Family Center. The classes at Jenkins Creek will be funded through the

Head Start program, pre-school that is funded by the federal government. LaR-onde explained that ECEAP is essentially the same thing but it is state funded.

“When the state re-ceived Head Start slots, or funding for slots, the state determined that it wasn’t filling the need of the state so they put extra money in and started the ECEAP, and that’s through the depart-ment of Early Learning,” LaRonde said.

The program at Jenkins Creek will focus on prepar-ing students to be school ready, as well as on nutri-tion and health.

“And then we have a family support staff person that works with the families and helps the families with resources and setting goals from themselves and help-ing support them attaining their goals,” LaRonde said.

She also said that they are looking forward to partnering with the district at Jenkins Creek.

“We’re very excited,” Jenkins Creek Principal Cathy Lendosky said. “We’ve made a lot of moves around the building to get everything to work and get everything to fit and have it be wonderful.”

In addition to the child

piece, the program also works with families to help them achieve their goals, LaRonde said.

“One of the things I pride myself in is that I have parents that volunteer in the classroom and then they may become a bus monitor and they like it and they may become an as-sistant teacher and teacher,” LaRonde said. “About 50 percent of my staff are past

parents, and I think (that) speaks to the program.”

Parents who are interested in the Head Start and ECEAP programs can contact Kent Youth and Family Services, located at 13111 SE 274th Street in Kent, or at 253-630-9590 for an application or pick up an application at Jenkins Creek.


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away on August 15, 2013 at the Auburn Medical Center at the age of 51. Sarah was born on March 14, 1962 in Kansas City, Missouri to Robert and Joan Catron. Throughout her childhood, she lived in Midwestern states up until her freshman year of high school when her family moved to San Diego, California.

On January 28, 1989 she married Gary Clyatt and became Mrs. Sarah Clyatt; the same year they moved to Maple Valley, WA. In January 2013, the couple celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary.

Sarah was a stay-at-home mom for 21 years; raising her two children. She was president of the family business for 24 years. She was also an active member of the Tahoma School District and the City of Maple Valley. Every year, she would volunteer in her children’s classroom at least once every few weeks as well as chaperone all of their field trips. She also volunteered for all the bake sales and charity events that the school put on. Sarah also attended the City of Maple Valley council meetings where she would voice her opinion about some of the upcoming events that were going on in Maple Valley. She will be remembered for her infectious laugh and beautiful smile and her willingness to help others.

She is survived by her husband Gary Clyatt; a son and daughter-in-law, Brandon and Amanda Clyatt, who live in Fayetteville, North Carolina; a daughter Alexandra Clyatt; a sister Alicen Catron-Schneider, of Los Angeles, CA; and two brothers, Chris Catron, Florida and Rob Catron, San Diego, CA. She was preceded in death by her mother, Joan Catron in 1992 and her father, Robert Catron in 2009.

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MAPLE VALLEY FIRE TO ACQUIRE STEEL FROM WORLD TRADE CENTERMaple Valley Fire and Life Safety officials announced Aug. 16 that the department will acquire a piece of steel from the World Trade Center in New York City but could use help in covering the costs of shipping to get it here.

Firefighter Ryan Carpenter helped the department secure the piece through a partnership with the New York Fire Department and the World Trade Center steel program during the past few months.

The department will receive a piece of steel from the remains of the buildings which were attacked by terrorists Sept. 11, 2001.

The piece of steel I beam weighs about 100 pounds and is about 18 inches in length. According to in-formation provided by Maple Valley Fire, it will eventually be displayed in a public space in Maple Valley

as the center piece of a memorial which will pay tribute and serve as a reminder of all those who were killed — including more than 300 firefighters — in the terrorist at-tacks.

A committee of personnel from the city, police and fire departments as well as community members to work on the memorial. Maple Valley Fire officials anticipate it will be a lengthy process which will require a significant amount of fundraising.

Once the steel beam arrives, it will be displayed at Station 80. Thanks to the help of YRC Freight, FDNY and the WTC Steel program, Maple Valley Fire will get 75 percent off the ship-ping costs but still needs to cover nearly $500 in freight charges.

Anyone interested in making dona-tions to cover the cost of shipping can send them or drop them off at Station 80, 23775 S.E. 264 St., Ma-ple Valley. Checks should be made payable to Maple Valley Firefighters — WTC.



The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority (RFA) is accepting sealed bids for the Fire Station 71 roof replacement project. The deadline for sealed bids is September 12, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. For information about the bidding process or to obtain a copy of “Instruction to Bidders”

please contact the Kent Fire Department RFA at 253-856-4405. Published in Kent & Covington/ Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on August 30, 2013. # 863584.

2013-0339METROPOLITAN KING

COUNTY COUNCILNOTICE OF HEARING

Proposed Ordinance2013-0339

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Metropolitan King County Council (Council) will hold a public hearing in the Council Chambers on the 10th Floor of the King County Court- house, 516 Third Avenue, Seat- tle, WA, on Monday, September 9, beginning at 1:30 p.m. The purpose of this public hearing is to consider adoption of Proposed Ordinance (PO) 2013-0339, (hereinafter “subject legislation”) authorizing the King County Ex- ecutive to enter into an interlocal agreement for the City of Maple Valley’s annexation of 156 acres located within the city limits of Maple Valley and commonly referred to as the “Donut Hole.” Public Hearing:King County encourages public comment at the September 9th public hearing. Testimony is limited to two minutes per speaker. If you wish to submit written materials for the Councilmembers’ review, please provide 15 copies to the Council Clerk. Testimony sign-up will begin prior to the start of the Council meeting, in the lobby outside the Council Chambers. Please call the Coun-

if you need directions to the Courthouse. If you prefer to call, write, fax or e-mail your comments to Councilmembers, please call 206-296-1000 for ad- dresses and/or numbers.Summary:This legislation would authorize annexation by interlocal agreement of the Donut Hole. The Transportation Economy and En- vironment committee forwarded the legislation to the Council with a “do-pass” recommenda- tion. The complete text of the subject legislation is available in the

1200, King County Courthouse, 516 Third Avenue, Seattle, WA. A copy will be mailed to you upon your request to the Clerk at (206) 477-1020. Complete pub-

lic review copies are also available on the Internet at http://mkcclegisearch.kingcounty.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=1457464&GUID=4B71957E-62C1-418F-8B89-33A68DC5B22F&Options=ID|Text|&Search=2013-0339Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 30th day of August, 2013.

METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY COUNCILKING COUNTY, WASHINGTONAnne NorisClerk of the Council

Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on August 30, 2013 and Septem- ber 6, 2013. #862925.

NOTICE OF OPEN RECORD APPEAL HEARING

APPEAL OF THE VILLAGES MPD PHASE 1A – SCHEDULE A CLEARING/ GRADING PERMIT CITY OF BLACK DIAMOND HEARING EXAMINER

9:00 AM, SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

BLACK DIAMOND CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS25510 LAWSON STREET, BLACK DIAMONDFILE NUMBERS: PUB13-0009: The Villages MPD Phase 1A – Schedule A Clearing/Grading PermitPLN13-0015: TV MPD Phase 1A – Schedule A Clearing/Grad- ing Permit AppealPROPONENT: BD Village Partners, LP; 10220 NE Points Drive, Suite 310, Kirkland, WA 98033PROPERTY LOCATION: A portion of the area located on the south side of Roberts Drive, from its intersection with Lake Sawyer Road west to the western city limits and southerly approx. 1/4 mile.DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL: Clearing, grading and TESC plans for the initial development of a portion of The Villages MPD Phase 1A Prelimi- nary Plat.STAFF CONTACT: Andy Williamson, Executive Director Eng Svcs & Econ Dev, awilliam- [email protected] and Stacey Welsh, Community Development Director, swelsh@ ci.blackdiamond.wa.us or 360-886-5700. In accordance with BDMC 2.30.090, the staff report will be

days prior to the scheduled hear-

for public review during normal business hours at the Community Development Department, 24310 Roberts Drive. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on August 30, 2013. #863362.

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CITY OF COVINGTON NOTICES

ORDINANCE NO. 07-13

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COVINGTON, WASHINGTON, TO EXTEND THE MORATORIUM ON THE ESTABLISHMENT, LOCATION, OPERATION, LICENSING, MAINTENANCE, OR CONTINUATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES, PRODUCTION FACILITIES, PROCESSING FACILITIES, COLLECTIVE GARDENS, AND RELATED BUSINESSES WITHIN THE CITY OF COVINGTON FOR SIX MONTHS; PROVIDING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE MORATORIUM; ADOPTING FINDINGS OF FACT SUPPORTING THE MORATORIUM ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE NOs. 08-11, 12-12, and 01-13; AND PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY.

Passed by the City Council of Covington, Washington, at the City Council meeting of August 27, 2013 to take effect five days after publication.

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2013 AQUATIC CENTER RENOVATION CALL FOR BIDS

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the City of Covington until 2:00 PM September 12, 2013, at which time bids will be opened and publicly read aloud.

Bid proposals may be sent by mail to City of Covington, 16720 SE 271st Street, Suite 100, Covington, WA 98042, or hand delivered to the City Reception Desk prior to the opening. The envelope shall be plainly marked with “City of Covington – 2013 Aquatic Center Renovation and shall clearly indicate the name and address of the bidder. The bid opening will take place at City Hall on the date and time first listed above. Proposals received after the time fixed for opening will not be considered.

Bids are requested for the renovation of the Covington Aquatic Center. Items include: re-roofing the existing facility; addition of a multi-purpose room; reconstruction of the entry plaza; installation of a flagpole; and miscellaneous landscape and exterior improvements and other appurtenances.

Project manual, including plans, may be viewed, and downloaded for $10, non-refundable, from the city website at www.covingtonwa.gov/rfp.html or www.qwestcdn.com, eBidDoc #2882489.

Each bid shall be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check or bid bond (with authorized surety company as surety) made payable to City of Covington in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the amount bid.

The City of Covington reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive irregularities in the bid or in the bidding.

No bidder may withdraw their bid after the hour set for the opening thereof or before award of contract, unless said award is delayed for a period exceeding sixty (60) days.

Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on August 30, 2013. #863957.

planner during the 2013 budget process last year. He also wants to update the city’s parks capital improvement plan which was originally adopted in 2005.

“The city has goals about how many acres of parks we want, how many trails, how many ballfields,” Thomas said. “This is a plan for meeting those goals. We need a plan to deliver the parks system the community wants.”

Thomas said he wants to request funding and staff time for project oriented work as well as for a consultant to study a park impact fee. Though the city received a com-merce grant to help pay for the second phase of Covington Community Park, Thomas will need to find additional cash for that part of the project, so he also will seek funding through grant applications.

As for the parks planner position which was advertised in late July, interviews began Monday.

“We got quite a few qualified candidates,” Thomas said. “I was excited to read the applications.”

The plan is to conduct interviews through the end of this month with the goal for the person to start in late Septem-ber or early October. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture, according to the job post-ing on Covington’s website, with at least two years of work experience with increasing responsibility. The posting said the city “is seeking a creative and highly motivated Parks Planner to assist in the development of a parks system (parks, natural areas, open spaces, wildlife habitats and other recreational projects, facilities and trails) that meets citizen needs in a young and growing city.”

Thomas explained there are two immediate needs for the

parks planner to tackle when that person starts.“We have to get the (parks) CIP updated to be ready for

the city’s comprehensive plan update,” Thomas said. “The parks CIP needs to be incorporated into that comp plan update.”

Covington updates its comprehensive plan, which is a blueprint for the city’s long term growth and development, every few years. The parks CIP Thomas refers to is the list of projects which have yet to be built that would add to the city’s recreational options in terms of parks, open spaces and trails. That parks CIP needs to be updated, Thomas said, because it doesn’t provide the kind of guidance neces-sary as staff move forward with those kinds of projects.

“We also have timelines that we have to meet for Cov-ington Community Park phase two, including getting to a certain level of design for grant applications at the state level next spring,” Thomas said. “If we don’t hit those deadlines … then the project is in trouble. When that (new parks planner) starts, they’re going to be focused on diving in and understanding our capital needs.”

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ended up providing a very useful purpose: he rode ahead of the group to ensure that the roads and trails we were on were prepared for us to go through, especially for the ATV that we had.

They had so many inspiring moments along the way. Multiple people came out to thank them and tell them how much they appreciated their dedication to shedding light on the issues of brain disease and what our veterans go through. One mom gave them pictures of her children to run with who had suffered from PTSD while the owner of the Red Dog Saloon came out to thank them because she had to watch her boyfriend suffer. Ralph and Marlys, who ran 65 miles and are both in their 60s, a man run-ning on his titanium leg, Bob Derga whose son was part of Lima company that Always Brothers supported last year and so much more. Multiple bonds were created on this run. People became members of the family and lives were forever changed.

To see the appreciation from many and the support that multiple communities offered was phenomenal. I couldn’t help but laugh to see the videos that came out of Auburn and Pacific from the middle of the night.

In the pitch black they had cheering stations and sent competition videos back and forth to see which commu-nity supported them more. It was such a huge momentum boost for all of these brothers who ran. At this point they had run close to 18 hours and were exhausted, in pain, battling cramps and more. Regardless, they moved on and like Marines do in the middle of a battle, no one was left behind.

They started this run and finished it together in Seattle with an escort from the Seattle Police Department. SPD personnel said it was satisfying to be able to escort them in because of all that the organization represents. Although the run came to an end, the battle for finding cures and answers for PTSD and TBI is far from over. Always Broth-ers will continue to run every year to help raise money and awareness for our fallen veterans.

My hope is that we can get them back here next year. They have not repeated runs yet, but we can be the first! There is a huge push to have them back during Marine Week. This would be such a wonderful experience for these Marines to run, but also our active and retired Marines will have the opportunity to see the amazing outpouring of love and support that I witnessed first hand.

If you would like to see Always Brothers return please send emails of support. You can find out all the informa-tion about this amazing organization at www.alwaysbroth-ers.org

I have been talking to Dan, Storm and Tanya about different ways that we can carry this momentum through out the year. We will keep you posted about what our next steps are. We are also excited to talk to Serenity Equine Rescue who wants to help our veterans through horse therapy.

If you are part of an organization that is interested in helping our veterans please let me know.

We will also be looking at local and national resources that may be available to bring to our community.

I truly cannot say thank you enough to Always Brothers for what they did right here. It was an honor and privilege to see your willingness to help our veterans and a testi-mony to your belief that a brother or sister should never be left behind.

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Applicants who successfully process through the selection procedure will be required to attend and complete an approved Reserve Police Training Academy (schedule and dates to be determined) held on some weekend days and some alternating evenings per week.

An official King County Sheriff’s Office Reserve Officer Application is required for all positions. The application pro-cess begins when applicants sign-up and take the National Testing Network written and physical tests.

Test dates can be found by visiting www.nationaltestingnetwork.com or http://www.kingcounty.gov/safety/sheriff/Careers.aspx.

The King County Sheriff’s Office does not accept emailed applications.

You may also email questions about the process or about the application materials to [email protected].

Interested candidates are invited to attend a question and answer session that will be hosted by the Maple Valley Police Department from 6 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6 at the Lake Wilderness Lodge, Maple Room.

COMMUNITY MEAL COUNCIL, HOBART BLAST AND GREATER MAPLE VALLEY AREA COUNCIL CHOSEN TO RECEIVE COMMUNITY SERVICE AREA GRANTSMetropolitan King County Councilman Reagan Dunn announced that the Community Meal Council and Hobart Blast—both located in the Hobart neighborhood—and the Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council in King County Council District 9 were selected to receive Community Service Area Grants.

“The good work of these community groups cannot be overstated,” said Dunn. “I am very pleased to see this grant money go to such worthy organi-zations that help strengthen communi-ties and bring people together.”

The Community Meal Council that is affiliated with the Hobart Community Church was awarded a $3,000 grant. This grant will be used to help pur-chase a new refrigerator and or freezer to help them better serve the members of the community that depend on the meals they provide. The Community Meal Council provides approximately 100 meals on a weekly basis and is in dire need of a larger working freezer and refrigerator.

“We are overjoyed to receive this grant,” said Les Dawson of the Com-munity Meals Council. “These funds will help us purchase new equipment and Velcro will no longer be needed to keep our supplies properly frozen.”

Hobart Blast in conjunction with the Hobart Community Church and the Hobart Store were awarded $1,000 to help with their community Labor Days celebration. The grant will aid in the purchase of food for the large commu-nity gathering.

The Greater Maple Valley Unincorpo-rated Area Council was awarded $2,750 to help aid with their newsletter and a second grant of $2,800 to help assist with their yearly model train show that

draws residents from throughout the community.

The King County Community Service Areas offer expanded ways for the County to engage with the 255,000 county residents who live outside city boundaries of which over 70,000 reside in King County Council District 9.

A total of $60,000 will be reimbursed for projects in 2013. The King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks Community Service Areas Program will provide funds to selected projects through a letter of award. Amounts will be limited to less than $5,000 per project.

The grant programs within the CSA’s are available through a competitive application process. The grants must be used to fund community projects that offer unincorporated area residents in the Community Service Areas an op-portunity to participate and be more connected in their communities.

RAINIER YOUTH CHOIRS TRYOUTS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 4Singers grade four through 20 years-old are invited to schedule an informal audition for Rainier Youth Choirs.

Rainier Youth Choirs includes three choirs: Bella Voce for treble singers in grades 4 and up, no training needed, Colla Voce for experienced treble boys and girls in grades 6 and up, and Con-sonare for experienced soprano, alto, tenor, and bass singers. Each choir rehearses weekly at Cedar Heights Middle School in Covington.

RYC’s seventh season theme is Con-nections, with Home for the Holidays concert 3 p.m. December 14, Threads of the Past dinner and show 6 p.m. Febru-ary 28, and Time and Travel concert at 3 p.m. June 1. Each season begins with a fall retreat for singers and welcome concert for families and ends with a family picnic in June.

Auditions are being held now through Sept. 4. Visit www.rainieryouthchoirs.org to learn more about the program and to request an audition by complet-ing an online application.

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