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Top 2012 images: Top left, Kentridge’s Kennedy Anson, left, dribbles the ball while Kentwood’s Elizabeth Roller marks up during the fourth annual Kicks for the Cure game. Bottom left, Danielle Nielsen, 12, sleds at Lake Wilderness Golf Course in January. Right, Rae Solomon sings at the inaugural Covington Summer Concert Series. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
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BY DEAN RADFORD
A King County Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the validity of the strategic alliance between UW Medicine and Valley Medical Center Dec. 28.
Judge Michael Hayden listened to oral arguments for about 45 minutes before ruling that the al-liance between two public entities is permitted under state law. At-torneys for both sides had already submitted written briefs for him to consider.
Valley Medical Center, located in Renton, serves Covington as well as part of Maple Valley.
Hayden alluded to the possibil-ity of an appeal — the lawsuit was brought by the Public Hospital District No. 1 commission.
Dr. Paul Joos, the commission chairman, declined to com-ment on the ruling, but he said the commission would discuss
Judge rules in favor of hospital alliance
BY KRIS HILL
Roads, parks and economic development are at the top of the city of Covington’s legislative priorities.
Covington’s lobbyist, accord-ing to documents provided by City Manager Derek Matheson, will focus on a joint legislative agenda in partnership with Black Diamond and Maple Valley to encourage lawmakers to fi nd money, both state and federal funds, to make improvements to state routes 169 and 516 as well as for transit alternatives in the three cities.
In addition, the city will lobby to retain state shared revenues such as liquor license fees and taxes as well as funding requests for specifi c projects with the highest priority being the Jenkins Creek to 185th Avenue Southeast improvement project on South-east 272nd Street followed by the
City focuses legislative priorities for 2013
BY KRIS HILL
Kathy Taylor had a plan — go to Whitworth, play volleyball, earn a degree in education then go to graduate school.
Taylor, a 2008 graduate of Kentlake High, realized recently her plans for life aft er college have changed thanks to a longtime friend who encouraged her to spend some time teaching in Ghana.
“I went into college knowing I wanted to do special education,” Taylor said. “I have a brother who went through the special ed pro-gram in Kent. By the time I was a junior in high school, I knew what I wanted to do. I got lucky in happening to fi gure out what I wanted to do early.”
So, she went to Whitworth in Spokane, played volleyball and earned a degree in elementary education and special education.
During her time studying, she spent 300 hours in public school classrooms learning the ins and outs of special education, an endorsement which qualifi es such teachers to work with children and adults up to age 21.
Because the classroom time required for the program, which then rolled into student teaching, took up so much of her life, Taylor chose to leave the volleyball team her fi nal year at Whitworth.
Her plan had always been to take the summer between graduation from Whitworth and graduate school to spend in Africa. Well, at least that was the
Kentlake High graduate finds perspective in Ghana
Kathy Taylor is surrounded by students during the school’s Family Fun Day in October. Taylor is a 2008 graduate of Kentlake High and is teaching in Ghana. Courtesy of Kathy Taylor
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In the Tahoma School District students aren’t the only ones who are learning.
Teachers are encouraged and challenged through Classroom 10 and an array of profes-sional development opportunities to constantly learn and to refine their teach-ing. For some that means becoming a National Board Certified Teacher, a process that can take up to three years.
Across the district there are 47 teachers who have earned the NBCT creden-tial, seven of whom completed the certificate this year. The teachers who earned their cer-tification this year are: LaRae Keeney, Gavin Lees, Shelby Cail and Nathalie Norris of Tahoma High, Felicie Freeman from Tahoma Junior High, Kath-
ryn Strojan from Cedar River Middle School and Melissa Morlock from Lake Wilderness Elementary.
“I wanted a chal-lenge,” said Norris, who teaches French at Tahoma High. “You had to explain the why and think about everything you do. All the pieces of my lessons go together now.”
National Board Certification is an advanced certifica-tion for teachers with at least three years of teaching experience and requires between 200 and 400 hours of work and a mini-mum of one year to complete, accord-ing to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
To certify, teach-ers must complete multiple tests and a portfolio of work that includes
writing papers, answering questions related to student learning, and showing
student growth. Many of the district’s teachers also choose to participate in cohort groups with other teachers who are pursuing certification.
“I have two big take-aways,” Strojan said. “Everything must always come back to student learning. How do I know the students learned? What is my evidence? Those are the questions I need to ask myself after every lesson. The second is the power of collaboration. I could not have completed this process with-out the cohort groups.”
The district’s Classroom 10 philosophy fo-cuses on the way students learn in the 21st century and how teachers can harness that, maximizing learn-ing and preparing students for a rapidly changing world. An understanding of students, their skill levels, and how to build on them is also a cen-tral theme in the National Board Certification process.
“I wanted to do a profes-sional development that
was meaningful and would have a meaningful impact on my teaching,” Freeman said. “It (the certification process) makes you think critically about the deci-sions you are making in your classroom and why. It has helped me to be even more intentional with my teaching.”
Teachers who become NBCTs receive a bonus from the state, don’t have
to renew their teaching creden-tial for 10 years and are eligible to teach in other states.
Dave Wright, a math teacher at Tahoma High, became a National Board Certified Teacher in 2003. He be-gan the effort to inform Tahoma teachers about the program and encourage them through the pro-cess after joining
the district in 2006. Wright believes the
certification is a valuable experience and wanted other teachers to have that opportunity.
“It was professional development that was pow-
erful,” Wright said. Wright approached Terry
Duty, the Tahoma High principal, about starting a facilitation program and was encouraged by the level of support he received.
“Terry was completely on board,” Wright said. “Terry and the district supported us.”
Wright trained as a facilitator and the first year, only teachers from the high school participated in the program.
Interest grew quickly as word spread, Wright said, and soon the program grew beyond him.
The program now exists at a districtwide level with teachers from all grade levels participating.
“It’s a very reflective process,” said Morlock, a teacher at Lake Wilderness Elementary. “It increases your knowledge of students; really knowing them, what they need and where they’re at.”
Reach Katherine Smith [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to www.mapl-evalleyreporter.com.
Tahoma teachers join ranks of nationally certified
Felicie Freeman
Nathalie Norris
Kathryn Strojan
BY TJ MARTINELL
Phyllis Ermey found out just how generous the community can be at a time of need.
After her son’s Christmas present, an electric dirt bike, was stolen off their front porch, an anonymous donor provided Ermey with the necessary money to replace the dirt bike after a story was published in the Reporter’s Dec. 21 issue.
The present arrived in time for Ermey’s son to open it on Christmas. Ermey had saved up for months to buy a dirt bike for her son for Christmas.
“He’s been wanting a dirt bike since he was three,” she said. “He’s fascinated (with them). We felt he was old enough this year to have one.”
After the original bike was purchased online, it was delivered by FedEx Dec. 10 at around 1:30 p.m.
Ermey said she got home at around 4:30 p.m., but the bike was not there. At first she thought the delivery had been late until FexEx confirmed the delivery on Tuesday.
Ermey filed a police report, but doubts the thieves will be caught.
Her son was unaware that the bike was stolen, as Ermey told him his father’s gift had been taken when the police arrived at the house to investigate.
Anonymous donor brightens family’s Christmas
National Board program challenges teachers, encourages reflection
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Phil Talmadge, a former
state legislator and former state Supreme Court justice who argued the case for the hospital district, indicated in an interview that he would recommend the commission appeal directly to the state Supreme Court.
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second phase of Covington Community Park and the Covington Town Center eco-nomic impact and infrastructure cost study.
Covington’s fourth priority of active lob-bying will focus on supporting “increased funding for cities’ infrastructure design and construction needs.” This includes the surface transportation program, land and water conservation fund at the federal level, the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program, public works trust fund, street utility concept and transportation package discussions at the state level.
City officials will throw their support be-hind several other efforts by others to lobby a number of other issues.
For example, Covington will support constitutional amendments as well as leg-islation which creates pure tax increment financing, funding to expand on existing economic development tools designed for cities as well as efforts to make those tools
easier to use and more flexible.Other items the city will support include
tax exemptions for municipal capital projects from sales tax as well as exempt utility and enterprise revenues from the state business and occupations, legislation to change the threshold for passing local government bond and levy elections from a supermajority, or 60 percent, to a simple majority, or 50 percent, as well as oppose unfunded mandates.
Another issue of significance for Cov-ington is the effort to provide cities time to annex neighboring land after a county classifies it as urban but before property is developed.
Finally Covington will support the legislative programs of the Association of Washington Cities and Suburban Cities Associations when consistent with other legislative priorities.
The Covington City Council adopted its legislative priorities list at its Dec. 11 meeting.
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plan from sophomore year at Kentlake on.
A friend of Taylor’s whom she went to school with from Pine Tree El-ementary through Kentlake went to New York Uni-versity. While a student at NYU, this friend chose to spend a semester studying abroad, and she went to Ghana where the university has a campus.
“She came to me in April (2011) and said, ‘I’m here, I’m working for this orga-nization, I love them and you would love them and you have to come,” Taylor said. “She just happened to get placed with City of Refuge as part of one of her classes. She had name dropped me to them while she was there. That was re-ally when Ghana came into the picture.”
Still, though, the position Taylor considered with city of Refuge was a volunteer teaching job and it would be a one-year commitment.
“I spent a year wondering why would I spend a year doing something for free that I could get paid for (in the United States),” Taylor said. “I spent a year trying to talk myself out of it.”
Then in January she was in San Francisco where she was able to meet the founders of the program as well as the principal of the school where she was considering working.
“I went there and met them on a whim and was so
excited about it,” she said. “Then I got on the train and was like, ‘This is for a year, what am I thinking,’ and I tried to talk myself out of it.”
But as graduation ap-proached in May, Taylor knew she didn’t want to work in a public school just yet.
“I figured there was no time better than now,” she said.
She came back to West-ern Washington and lived in the University District while she worked for Seattle Parks during the summer.
A week before she left for Ghana, her friend who connected her with City of Refuge got married and Taylor served as her friend’s maid of honor.
“That week before I left was pretty emotional,” Taylor said.
In early September she flew to Ghana, a country of about 23 million people in West Africa. School there was about to start after a month-long break in the year-round schedule.
“I got to Ghana Sept. 5 and staff training had started a week and a half before,” she said. “I got there on a Thursday and we were starting school the next Tuesday.”
The day before she was to start teaching at the school the principal went to Taylor and told her the second grade teacher couldn’t come to school because of a fam-ily emergency.
With about 24 hours notice, Taylor was asked to teach second grade, when she had expected to work in a resource room with special needs students or children who were behind and needed additional sup-port to catch up.
For three weeks she taught second grade, but Taylor said she had a co-teacher who was tremen-dously helpful especially as she learned to decipher the accents of the children.
After the second grade teacher returned, Taylor moved into the resource room which was still used as a carpentry room at that point, so she taught around library shelves waiting to be mounted. For a while les-sons were conducted in the hallway or on the basketball court, Taylor said, wherever it made the most sense that day.
There are 185 students who attend the school, 35 of whom live there full time because they were orphaned, abandoned or sold into slavery by their parents.
Despite some of the traumatic backgrounds the children have and the cor-poral system of punishment that is commonplace in the culture — Taylor explained caning is the traditional way parents and teachers at other schools get kids to behave — the youngsters are full of joy and are eager
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other schools get kids to behave — the youngsters are full of joy and are eager to learn.
Plus, they see so few white people, Taylor is fas-cinating to her students.
After adapting to the different food, the heat and sleeping with a mosquito net over her bed nightly, Taylor saw the joy of life there. She was surprised at how easy it became for her to feel at home there out-side of the country’s capital, Accra.
“Their culture is a very hospitable culture,” she said. “They are very commu-nal in that they will share things.”
Taylor says part of what keeps her going when she feels challenged is her faith.
“Part of it, if I’m being honest, is God,” she said. “I feel like that has been a huge part, finding joy in Him and in kids.”
When she walks to the school, the children will sprint toward her and ask if they can carry her books, with an exuberance which can be contagious.
“The kids, they love being loved and they love to love,” Taylor said. “When it’s that easy to do every day, it’s hard to say no.”
In the time Taylor has worked in Ghana, she has gained perspective on many aspects of life. She said she has realized not everyone is called to serve, much less to do so in a country like Ghana, and that though it was not an easy decision to take this on, she knows it
was the right one to push herself way out of her com-fort zone.
“The thing that I had to come to terms with was that college community that I loved was gone, no matter where I went,” she said. “I could have easily stayed there and figured out things but I knew that wasn’t where I was supposed to be. Perspective, more than anything, is what I can gain from this. Hopefully I can give more than I can gain.”
Part of that perspective has been learning how to deal with living off the grid, so to speak. She has Inter-net access, but it is slow and somewhat frustrat-ing. Taylor communicates primarily via email. She has a cell phone but because of the time difference it can
be challenging to chat with folks.
There has been some-thing freeing about that, though, Taylor said. Now that she’s home until mid-January for a break, she has realized just how much American culture relies on technology, while in Ghana her tablet and computer are something of a novelty, especially for the children who live at the school.
When she goes back to Ghana, Taylor will teach until early June, at which point she plans to return to Washington state and find a job. Her plans no longer include going to graduate school right now, though eventually she would like to earn her master’s degree at the University of Washington. Her hope is at
some point to work in the private sector with autistic children.
For the rest of the school year at City of Refuge in Ghana, Taylor will continue to work with children out of the resource room, pulling out students for one-on-one work or groups of up to six. She will help them improve their skills and catch up to their peers.
When she’s done in Ghana she’d like to work in her own classroom in a public school. The plan is to do that for five years to take care of her student loans.
While her plans changed, so has her view of the world. She doesn’t want anyone to think that because life is different in Ghana that it’s a life of despair.
“The kids that I’m work-ing with are happy,” Taylor said. “They live the life they know how to live and do what they can with it.”
In the meantime, she’s learned to see her own culture differently.
“It’s perspective, more than anything, and an understanding of what it means to find something you’re excited about,” she said. “Just seeing how much success that brings when you’re doing something that you love, no matter where it is, and an understanding of a global lens and how im-portant that is because it is so easy to get caught up in everything that’s happening here, the good and the bad.”
Taylor’s plans may have changed but she is exactly where she needs to be.
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I was in junior high when “Gilmore Girls” started airing on Tuesday nights. One of my sisters — I’m the youngest of three girls — came home and said there was a new show we had to check out. To say that the character Rory had an impact on me would be an understate-ment. Over the seasons I watched as Rory grew as a writer and a journal-ist. I saw how her love of books, learning and infor-mation lent itself to such a path. I was hooked.
I like to credit Rory with giving me the push into journalism, but there is a lot more behind it than that.
Looking back, the fi rst indication of this path I was heading down came in elementary school when I wrote in a school journal that when I grew up I was, “going to write stories.”
A forever curious child, I was perpetually pep-pering my parents with questions and constantly lost in a book.
I began to follow national and international news with increasing interest as Operation Iraqi Freedom unfolded. I wanted to know and to understand what was going on.
By the time I graduated from Kentridge my mind was made up — I was going to be a jour-nalist.
Th e next leg of my journey took me to Biola University located on the LA-Orange County line in La Mirada, Calif. I thrived in classes like philosophy of journalism, investigative report-ing, theology of gender and IRIS (a three week, six unit course where we studied the relationship
between literature, fi lm, art, theology and the way in which we view the world).
Over the three and a half years I spent at Biola my passion for journalism and for telling people’s stories only grew. I was involved in a va-riety of on-campus media including writing for the student newspaper and magazine. I also con-tributed to a book about a local nonprofi t. Some of my favorite college memories come from the semester I took 18 units and interned in media relations by day and was a Jungle Cruise Skipper at Disneyland by night. Bad puns and all.
I graduated with a bachelors degree in print journalism and a minor in biblical studies in December 2010. Little did I know the journey I was embarking on when I shook the hand of
Biola’s president and accepted one of those black folders. In an instant I had gone from being a college student to another college educated, unemployed 20-something. I knew journalism was hurting, but I didn’t know hard it was going to be to break in. A year and a half and countless job and internship applications later I accepted an internship with the Tahoma School District. I worked on a project related to the district’s sustainability curriculum and covered news and features across the district. Th ose months reminded me how much I love what I do and re-enforced my desire to make it as a reporter.
I have dreamed about working for a newspa-per and 727 days aft er graduating I am fi nally living it.
A few months ago I experienced an interest-ing enlightenment, an epiphany you might say.
It’s beyond cliché to talk about how technol-ogy has changed the way we communicate.
My epiphany, however, was that technology changes the way we communicate, but not what we communicate.
In other words, Twit-ter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Plus are new, but what they do is not new.
One comment I hear frequently from people, particularly those too old to care or bother to use social media, for reasons I am perfectly in sympathy with, is that people tend to post extremely personal and intimate information about themselves out of a sense of narcissism or desire for attention.
Th is is true. I’ve seen Facebook profi les that read like diaries, except nobody has an incen-tive to lie or exaggerate in their diary.
Th e fascinating thing is that this is not new at all. While doing research for my series on three historical events in the area, I went to the Maple Valley Historical Society gathering documents and background material. Th ere, I
also looked at the fi rst Maple Valley newspa-per, the Maplevalley Messenger, which came out in 1921.
A quick glance told me how much things have changed for newspapers. For one, even in a tiny community, the newspaper cost money, albeit three cents, or thirty seven cents today.
But what struck me were the stories pub-lished in it. None of them seemed old-fash-ioned in terms of what they wrote. In many cases, they appear identical to the posts people publish on Facebook and Twitter. Th e only diff erence is the writing style and where they published it.
In other words, the concept of Twitter and Facebook are not actually new in that people like to write about themselves. As newspapers from the early 1900s show, people merely did so in another manner and published it diff er-ently.
Technology hasn’t changed people as much as it has changed how they do what they have always done. I’ve observed this with people who grew up writing letters as a means of personal correspondence who have a diffi cult time transitioning over to email, particularly with how they view chain mail.
For example, publishing a marriage or birth announcement in a newspaper is a very traditional practice. But I’ve noticed more and more people use Facebook, which is easier, more personal, and is guaranteed to be seen by their friends and family (at least those with Facebook accounts).
In a strange way, Facebook is merely an individualized, private newspaper publica-
tion, their personalized account of record you might say.
Whether or not you fi nd it comforting that people haven’t changed is another matter entirely.
Here are a few sample stories from the Messenger I thought were worthy of re-publi-cation.
“Our friend Dan Lagesson has recently show great interest in infants. His mother was kept waiting six hours the other day, and when Dan returned he declared he had been visiting a baby. More information may be obtained from Dan himself.”
“Frank Johnson went to Seattle the other day and tried to climb a street car with his Ford with the result that he had to be towed to a garage.”
“A number of young folks attended a birth-day party in honor of Miss Merle Onstine on Wednesday evening at the home of W. D. Gibbon.”
“Mr. and Mrs. Clay Emmerton spent a couple of days in Tacoma for their Christmas shopping.”
“Miss Ann Ryan, formerly a teacher in the Crosson school, visited friends in Maplevalley on Saturday and Sunday.”
And for those of you who complained about the lack of ball fi elds, you might enjoy this one:
“Baseball season will be opening in Mapl-evalley. Mr. Seeling and the school boys are busily engaged in clearing up a diamond on
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“We, the undersigned, being classmates of Wil-liam Carey and the pupils of Mr. Bennett, do hereby and hereon most sincerely protest the action taken by our teacher, Mr. Bennett,
in suspending indefinitely our classmate, William Carey. We ask in the name of fair play that the dis-crimination practised (sic) against our classmate by his teacher, Mr. Bennett,
be stopped at once and his re-instatement effected.”
Lastly, I couldn’t resist printing this one:
“Editing a newspaper is no picnic. If we print jokes, folks say we are silly — if we don’t, they say we are too serious. If we publish original matter, they say we lack variety —
if we publish things from other papers, they say we are too lazy to write. If we don’t go to church, we are heathens — if we do, we are hypocrites.
If we stay in the office, we ought to be rustling for news — if we are rustling news, we are not attending to business in the office. If we wear old clothes, we
are slovenly — if we wear new clothes they are not paid for.
What in the thunder is a poor editor to do anyhow?
Likely as not, someone will say we swiped this from exchange. We did.”
Some things never change. We haven’t.
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WHAT TO DO WITH HOLIDAY WRAPPING PAPER AND PACKING MATERIAL IN MAPLE VALLEYUsed holiday gift wrapping paper is not recyclable or compostable in Maple Valley’s curbside collection program. It should be dis-posed of in the curbside garbage cart. Unused rolls of wrapping
paper can be re-used or donated at the Goodwill store in Maple Valley.
Expanded polystyrene is the rigid material in block or molded form that is used as protective packaging or for hot cups and ice chests. EPS is not biodegradable. It is 98 percent air but it’s bulky and takes up space at the regional landfill. EPS is commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as Styrofoam® which is a trademark of the Dow Chemical Company. EPS is recyclable but not in the curbside
recycling program at this time.
EPS can be dropped off for free at Styro Recycle LLC located on the west end of the Ikea Building at 800 S.W. 43rd St., in Renton. Styro Recycle is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Any tape, labels, or aluminum on the EPS should be removed first. Styro Recycle also accepts bagged packing peanuts, flattened cardboard boxes, clear plastic stretch wrap and bubble wrap. All material must be clean and dry.
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of December is a time for resolutions, reviews and renewals so resolve to start a garden notebook, mark up your calendar or take more garden photos if you want to chart the improvements and failures of your gardening experi-ments.
Here’s a few ideas for ways to make 2013 a cel-ebration of all things green and growing:
1. Resolve to start grow-ing your own food.
This one act can be as simple as buying a pot-ted rosemary plant for the kitchen counter and using more fresh herbs in your everyday life. Here in West-ern Washington it is simple
to grow cool season crops like lettuce, peas, cabbage, kale and Swiss chard. You don’t even need a patch of ground
as many edibles do just as good in pots as they do in the ground. Beginners should start with cherry to-matoes, basil, and zucchini.
2. Resolve to leave the clippings on the lawn.
In our cool climate leav-ing the grass clippings to decay on the lawn will help improve the water-holding capacity of the soil by add-ing organic matter and add nitrogen by returning green material to the soil. The trick is you must mow more often and choose a mulch-ing mower so that the clippings are tiny enough to
slip in between the blades of grass. Mowing your lawn every seven days during the growing season fits in nicely with the most popular of all New Year’s resolution: The vow to loose weight and get more exercise.
3. Resolve to add more houseplants to clean your indoor air.
We all need plants to breathe easier so this winter replace your holiday orna-ments with a few green and growing plants known to absorb and clean indoor pollutants. I vote for the attractive and hard-to-kill peace lily or spathiphyllum because this houseplant adapts to low light and will bloom with white, flag-like spaths or leaf bracts. If you go away for a few weeks and your peace lily looks limp and dead on your return, cut it back, add some water
and it will revive and keep growing. Other air cleaning houseplants to add to your home include heart leaf philodendrons, English ivy, spider plants, dracaena and snake plant.
4. Resolve to cut back on your garbage – start a compost pile.
You don’t need a lot of room to recycle a lot of garbage. Just find a four foot space on the ground and dig in. Set aside a pile of soil and layer your kitchen waste and prun-ing crumbs into the hole, covering with a few shovels of the soil from the nearby pile. Composting is as easy as layering green material (vegetable trimmings, grass clippings, faded flower blooms) with brown mate-rial (soil, sawdust, brown leaves) then letting it sit and rot. In six months or less
you’ll have compost.5. Resolve to rebel from
convention – and bring back the bees.
Becoming a flamboyant, rebellious and adventur-ous gardener has many benefits but the latest buzz is about what your experi-ments in growing can do for the birds, bees and the butterflies. The more diverse the plant material we grow in our gardens the more likely our local wild life will survive. This year, promise to try a new climbing vine, plant a tree, add more perennials and buy a blooming baskets filled with flowers you’ve never grown before. We need gardens full of early bloomers, late bloomers, trees, shrubs, native plants and exotic new comers that will provide nectar for bees, homes for birds and foliage
for the caterpillars that turn into butterflies and moths.
Life began in a garden, so celebrate the New Year and just keep growing.
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saries, production and processing facilities and collective gardens, according to city documents. During the hearing, written and oral comments will be received regarding the ordinance.
A one year moratorium was originally passed by the City Council in August 2011. The moratorium was extended in 2012.
This issue arose when Gov. Chris Gregoire vetoed portions of a bill in April 2011 that was passed by the Legislature which amended state law to allow the use of medical marijuana.
Initiative 692, passed by state voters in 1998, allows a defense for possession of marijuana for qualifying patients or designated providers.
In spite of the recent legalization of recreational use of marijuana in Washington state, a conflict remains between state law and federal law that lists marijuana as a Schedule 1 narcotic. There is no provi-sion for medical marijuana in federal law.
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Dallas Glenn had quite a bit to be grateful for the
week of Th anksgiving.A Kentwood High
graduate who grew up in Covington, Dallas Glenn was off ered his dream job Nov. 20 then went to Las Vegas and went 23-4 in the Bracket Nationals drag race at Th e Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
“On Th anksgiving, that was one of the best races I had,” Dallas Glenn said. “I got the call to go and work for this team over in North Carolina, so, I thought, ‘Th is is going to be my last race, I fi gured I’d go out with a bang.’”
He went to the sixth round on the fi rst day, won Nov. 23, got to the fi nals Nov. 24 before going out in the second round the last day. Dallas Glenn said he won the most rounds that weekend driving a 1994 Camaro. In one round he fl ew down the quarter-mile drag strip at 185 MPH and crossed the fi nish line in 7.48 seconds.
“It was a good race,” Dal-las Glenn said.
A weekend which, at least for now, capped off a racing career which began in earnest in 2005 when he became enthralled with it as he helped his father, Steve Glenn, with work under the hood on a 1955 Chevy 210 Handyman Wagon.
Dallas Glenn won the fi rst time he got behind the wheel of the wagon in 2006 as part of the high school drags at Pacifi c Raceways, which is one exit away on state Route 18.
His father knew right away his son had the talent behind the wheel to go with his ability to work as a mechanic on the car.
In recent years he’s driven for Shane Th ompson, who lives in Las Vegas, but Dallas Glenn’s passion has always been the Pro Stock class raced in the National Hot Rod Association’s pro-fessional ranks.
“Th roughout the years he’d say, ‘I want to go work on a pro stock car,’” Steve Glenn said. “So, at races he’d hang out in the pits and say, ‘Hey, I want to work on a pro stock car.’ Meanwhile,
he’s racing and living the life.”
Whenever the opportu-nity came along for Dallas Glenn to hang out in the NHRA pro stock pits, whether at Pacifi c Raceways or when he was racing at other tracks in the Lucas Oil Series, his father said he always knew where to look for his middle son — just head for the pro stock cars.
Starting Jan. 2, that’s where Dallas Glenn, who turned 22 Dec. 26, will spend his time. He’s moved
to North Carolina where he will work on the crew for two of the most successful Pro Stock drivers of the past decade at Ken Black Racing.
Rob Downing, the crew chief for drivers Jason Line and Greg Anderson, told Dallas Glenn when he looked at the young man’s resume he jokingly said, “It looks like you’re sick and twisted like the rest of us and really love the sport.”
All of his time hanging out in the pits had paid off . He was approached by
someone from KB Racing during the NHRA AAA Auto Club fi nals in Pomona the weekend before Th anksgiving. Dallas Glenn was encouraged to submit his resume because there were some crew members who were going to leave the team aft er the season ended.
He got the call with the job off er while he was working on cars for Th ompson.
Kentwood graduate lands drag racing dream job
TAHOMA BOYS HOOPS THIRD IN HOLIDAY
TOURNAMENTTahoma’s boys basketball team
placed third in the Bothell Holiday Hoops tournament
Dec. 27-30.Tahoma started off with a
106-74 win over Kamiak that set up a showdown with
tournament host Bothell, a top ranked 4A team. The Cougars
got the better of the Bears in that game with an 84-61
win. Tahoma bounced back in the third-place contest with a 76-65 victory over Edmonds-
Woodway. Tahoma improves to 7-3 overall.
League play starts again Thursday.
Dallas Glenn of Covington hired to work for crew of NHRA pro stock drivers
Dallas Glenn of Covington with his collection of drag racing trophies at his parents’ home in April 2011. Glenn landed a new job with the crew of pro stock drivers Jason Line and Greg Anderson. FILE PHOTO
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James Wallace GradJames Wallace Grad, born
March 11, 1930 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, passed away on December 17, 2012 in Renton, Washington after a long life dedicated to his family, friends and the service of others.
Jim joined the US Navy during the Korean War. His time in the Navy allowed him to see the world. He spent time stationed on each of the Iowa-class battleships—the Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, and New Jersey. After the Navy he returned to South Dakota where he married Caroline Shillingstad. Together they moved to the Seattle area and Jim went to work for the Union Pacifi c Railroad as an Engineer.
During his long career he was a highly active member of Peer Support, a program dedicated to promoting safety on the railroad and helping his colleagues cope in the aftermath of traumatic accidents in the workplace. While with the Union Pacifi c and after his retirement, Jim was a strong supporter and advocate for his union, the United Transportation Union (UTU). In 2010 he was honored with a lifetime award for volunteerism from the UTU.
Jim’s volunteerism was also generously spread throughout his community. He could be found donating time and energy to help others through the Catholic Church as a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus. His charity also extended to dedicated work with the Kent Food Bank and the Kent Men’s Homeless Shelter where he off ered not only assistance but compassion and dignity to those facing hard times. He helped raise funds to feed the men of the Homeless Shelter and could often be found cooking breakfast for them at the area churches.
Upon retirement he committed more time to his volunteerism, he followed Mariner’s baseball, enjoyed his grandchildren, and splitting his time between his homes in Washington and Trail City, South Dakota.
He is survived by his beloved wife Caroline, their fi ve children and their families: daughter Laurie (Curt) Johnson, grandchildren Stacie and Tyler, and great-grandson Anthony; daughter Carol Nave and grandchildren Christopher, Brandon, Alexis, and Danielle; son Dennis (Lori) Grad and grandchildren Katie, Ireti and Cameron; son Darrel (Pam) Grad and grandchildren Lindsey and Samantha; and son James. He is preceded in death by son-in-law Greg Nave, mother Agnes and father Alois.
Jim will be buried at Tahoma National Cemetery. A memorial will be held on January 14, 2013 at St. John the Baptist in Covington. In lieu of fl owers, remembrances in Jim’s name can
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U.S. Masters Swimming returned to Covington this week with coaches and swimmers who hope the program will thrive here.
Blue Wave Aquatics, a team affiliated with U.S. Masters and formerly known as Federal Way Masters, began a new workout group at Covington Aquatic Center Wednesday. The team had a group in Covington prior to the pool renovation that was completed in 2009. During the renovation the group moved to a pool in Kent, where it remained until the end of 2012.
“The (Covington) pool is in great shape and the staff take great care of it,” said Eric Durban, who is a Blue Wave member and the pool representative for the Covington group. “We will have more lanes in Covington
— you don’t have to feel like you are running over anybody, or being run over.”
Sharon Wright, who joined Blue Wave in 2009 and has coached swimming in the area off and on over the last 22
years, is the coach at the new location.Wright has known Wendy Neely, the head
coach for Blue Wave, for years through the swimming community, Wright said. Wright started an adult swimming group in Fairwood over the summer but the location proved pro-hibitive for continuing into the fall.
“We had tossed the idea around of growing the program and the (new) location was the final thing that made me say yes,” Wright said. “I would like the group to grow and have every-one’s needs met — whether that is getting faster,
improved technique or having a group to train with that makes it fun.”
Wright, who coaches boys and girls swim at Kentwood, expected six to eight swimmers on the first day, and hopes to grow the group to 12 regulars.
The team is open to anyone 18 and over and the Coving-ton group meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 5:30 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. New swimmers can sign up for a free one week trial.
“There’s not anybody who isn’t good enough,” Neely said. “We get a little bit of everything.”
For Durban it is a love of the sport and the team camara-derie that he enjoys the most.
“It’s good to have a group to go to and know they’ll inspire you to come back,” Durban said.
Reach Katherine Smith at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To comment on this story go to www.covingtonreporter.com.
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“I was excited,” Dallas Glenn said. “I was real ex-cited. I was thinking, ‘I have to move to North Carolina.’ So, I started researching North Carolina. I found out the state food is barbecue pork, which is all I eat. And the state sport is NASCAR.”
Though it’s the first time he’s really lived away from home full time, Dallas Glenn has lived out of his suitcase for the better part of the past two years, so moving away and traveling from mid-February to mid-November won’t be too hard of a transition.
“I think it’s going to be easier for me than for him (his dad),” Dallas Glenn said about leaving home.
Steve Glenn said he got a text message from Thomp-son congratulating him when his son was hired. Though he’s a proud father, he said he’s torn.
“It’s what we’ve always dreamed of for him,” Steve Glenn said. “He’s going to be a nine hour flight away. He’s the first one to leave. My other son (Dana) lives four blocks away.”
Dallas corrected his father, though, saying it’s more like a six hour flight. Still, the elder Glenn said, “It’s a long ways away.”
The Glenns plan to get in the motor home during the 2013 NHRA MelloYello Drag Racing Series and go to as many races as they can to see their middle son follow his dream.
“As a dad, I could not have asked for any more,” Steve Glenn said. “I remem-ber the spark in his eyes the first time we took him racing. Pro stock racing was always his dream.”
Dallas’ girlfriend, a capable driver in her own right, lives in Oregon.
While he said she’s not looking forward to the lon-
ger distance, she knew the opportunity he had, Dallas said, and that she would kick his butt if he hadn’t taken the job.
To start with, Dallas Glenn will work on the back half of the car dealing with everything from the
rear end, wheelie bars, shocks, chutes, gear changes to wheels and tires.
“I’m really excited to learn everything about pro stock,” Dallas Glenn said. “You’re going to the cutting edge of technology. I want to learn all of that.”
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Tahoma won the All SPSL Wrestling Tournament with 251.5 points with defend-ing 3A champion Enumclaw coming in second with 200 points in the all-classifi-cation meet for South Puget Sound League grapplers Dec. 28-29 at Auburn High.
The Bears put five wrestlers into the finals with Edwin Torres winning the 285 pound bracket with a 5-2 victory in the final over Trent Nivala of Puyallup.
Cruz Velasquez put together a 5-3 decision in the final of the 132 pound weight class against Tyson Gailac of Auburn. Tim Whitehead made it to the 126 pound final before losing to Colton Tracy of Bonney Lake. Tucker Mjelde lost to Trevor Anderson of Bethel by a 4-2 decision in the final at 152. Matt Hopkins lost in a high scoring 220 pound final to Matt Voss of Puyallup. Meanwhile Garret Autrey finished fourth in the 170 pound bracket.
Brandon Schieber of Tahoma beat Logan Bearss of Kentwood for fifth at 145. Austin Perry tallied a fourth place finish for the Bears at 195.
Nick Smith of Kentlake beat Alex Davidson of Federal Way in the 106 pound bracket.
Dalton Meyers of Kentwood finished third in the 138 pound bracket. Jamiel Jack-son won a major decision, beating his opponent from Enumclaw 17-9, before losing in the third-fourth match to another foe from Enumclaw at 152. David Park finished sixth in the 170 pound weight class for the Conquerors.
Zach Seibel of Kentridge defeated Zach Harris from Kentlake in the third-fourth match in the 182 pound bracket.
In the 220 pound weight class Kentlake had two top eight finishers: Evan Ander-son, who took seventh, and John Yarbrough, who finished fifth.
Kentlake’s Tyler Deskins finished fifth in the 285 pound bracket.
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I needed a new calendar, which would sound easier to acquire than it is. I have specific needs for my calendars: they have to have a pocket, but only one pocket, and they have to have decent sized squares. I don’t need name categories; I use wall calendars like a date book and put the morning events on the top of the square and the evening events on the bottom. I’ll let you figure out where I put the after-noon events.
So I knew what I must do: I had to head to the mall to a calendar store and fast. Janu-ary’s schedule was gearing up. I personally try to avoid the
mall during the Christmas season. I get my Christmas shopping done before the crowds get whipped into a frenzy with the rush of the approaching day.
We had gone to see Rise of the Guardians at the theater. Then we went next door to the Super Mall in Auburn. The Auburn
Super Mall is in the shape of an oval and like trying to figure out a shortcut from one highway to the next in Westport, it’s impossible to quickly and easily move from one store to the next at the Super Mall. So unless you know where to park when you arrive at the mall, you just have to walk all the way around the oval until you get where you are go-ing; it’s a mile total.
It’s not a bad thing to get a mile or so walk in, because not only is it the season for shopping, it’s also the season for eating. I really only went in for a calendar, but when we got
to the mall, my youngest wanted to spend her $25 Hot Topic gift card she had gotten back in September, my oldest daughter and husband needed shoes, we walked by my favorite clothing store and went in so I could find a nice blouse for Christmas day.
I have to admit, it was a nice family time to be at the mall shopping and seeing the Christmas festivities as we put in the mile. It made me think of other Christ-mas activities my family and I like. So as my Christ-mas gift to you, I will share a few of them; remember, even though Christmas day
is upon us, these events last through New Year’s:
A Christmas movie always tops our list and we highly recommend Rise of the Guardians; it’s a good one to see on the big screen.
We always try to find a great place for Christmas lights. This year we went to Zoo Lights at Point Defi-ance Zoo and Aquarium. I hear Woodland Park now also has a zoo light display. We’ve also been to Clam Lights at Gene Coulon Park (this one is free) and Bel-levue Botanical Gardens.
So I hope you find Christmas joy this week with your family and
friends. And from my fam-ily and me, we wish you a Merry Christmas!
Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She is commit-ted to writing about the humor amidst the chaos of a family. You can also read more of her writing and her daily blog on her website living-withgleigh.com. Her column is available every week at mapleval-leyreporter.com under the Lifestyles section.
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