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BY KRIS HILL

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Families in Covington and Maple Valley can celebrate this week as the ink dries on the state budget thanks to several million dollars set aside for the Tahoma School District and parks projects.

As part of the state budget, Tahoma will get $4 million to go toward the purchase of 35 acres inside a King County-owned prop-erty in Maple Valley nicknamed the Donut Hole, which could be the future home of a brand new Tahoma High School.

Tahoma Superintendent Mike Maryanski thanked a number of people for help per-

suading legislators to approve adding the $4 million to the state’s capital budget in a post on his blog, “Seeking Shared Learn-ing,” Monday morning. Maryanski thanked the Tahoma School Board, Maple Valley Mayor Bill Allison and City Manager David Johnston, as well as county staff members.

“Not knowing how exactly our request

made it through the diffi cult interactions we have witnessed with two special ses-sions, I know that without the leadership and support of Senators (Mark) Mullet and (Joe) Fain and Representatives (Pat) Sul-livan and Dunshee success would not have been possible. Also in the House, Represen-

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Th e city of Maple Valley recent-ly stepped up enforcement of its sign code much to the frustration of business owners.

“Th e last two weeks I’ve had my signs down I’ve gone from $300 to $400 days to $40 days,” said Norm Holcomb, who owns and operates Bees in the ‘Burbs. “It’s to the point where it’s very concern-

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to try to survive, but it’s not good. Th ey’re not helping small

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fi rst saw a city truck out by his sign and then received a letter stating that he was in violation of the sign code and that he had to remove his sign.

“People are trying to get creative but it’s going to be very tough,” Holcomb said.

Th e city’s attention was drawn to the issue of out of compliance A-boards and other non-compli-ant signage throughout the city’s commercial areas aft er several complaints were received, City

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BY KRIS HILL

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Partnerships work well for Cov-ington and it recently formally extended its agreement with Black Diamond to continue one such relationship.

Covington, thanks to an interlocal agreement approved by the council members of both cities, provides building offi cial services to Black Diamond. Th is partnership began in 2011 as part of a larger con-versation at the 2010 tri-coun-cil meeting between Coving-ton, Black Diamond and Maple Valley which laid the groundwork for such partnerships.

Covington’s Community Development Director Richard Hart explained in 2011 that Black Diamond hired Robert Meyers to do consulting work. Meyers, who worked for the city once before, is now Covington’s building offi cial.

Th e ILA worked so well, Black Diamond asked Covington earlier this year to extend the agreement for a variety of building safety services, according to documents

Partnership extended for building services

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With the decision to include Lake Wilderness Elementary in a proposed construction bond mea-sure at its June 25 meeting the Tahoma School Board moved one step closer to putting the issue to voters.

Asking for community support of the construc-tion bond measure — the amount has not yet been determined — is critical said Tim Adam, president of the school board.

“The schools are over-crowded,” Adam said. “Class size is getting to the point where we don’t want it to effect the quality of the education. We’ve found ways to make do over the years because we have to.”

It’s time, though, Adam said, for Tahoma to stop making do with what they have and support students as well as teachers with school buildings which support all the good things happening in the district.

“We can do better than this,” Adam said. “We have to do better than this and it’s for the kids. That’s what

it’s all about, and for our collective future in the community.”

In order to make an Aug. 6 King County Elections deadline for filing the construction bond measure for the November ballot, the board would most likely vote to put a bond mea-sure to voters at its July 23 meeting, explained district spokesman Kevin Patterson in an email interview. If not, a special meeting would need to happen prior to the county elections deadline.

A final decision on the amount of the bond has not been made, Patterson noted, though the board did decide to go with the option that would keep Lake Wilderness Elemen-tary in use. The board was initially presented with six options which were then narrowed down to two. At its June 25 meeting, the board members chose what was known as Option D, which would make Glacier Park, Rock Creek, Shadow Lake and Lake Wilderness elementary schools kinder-garten through fifth grade schools along with Cedar River and Tahoma middle

schools. Students at the middle school level would be sixth, seventh and eighth — currently the two district middle schools serve sixth and seventh graders while eighth and ninth graders go to Tahoma Junior High — while a new Tahoma High would be home to ninth through 12th grade students.

Adam said it was obvi-ous after a joint meeting with the Maple Valley City Council and Maple Valley Fire Department in May that the community wanted to keep Lake Wilderness Elementary an active school. Adam said dur-ing the meeting the board wanted to get input from the community and was flooded with emails shortly thereafter.

“To keep Lake Wilder-ness, we heard loud and clear,” Adam said. “So we made the decision at the last meeting to include Lake Wilderness in the bond measure.”

By the time the July 23 board meeting comes along, Patterson wrote, dis-trict staff could have more information about what the

various elements of the pro-posed construction bond measure would cost.

“The board is still await-ing information from our architects on the estimated cost, so that we can set a bond amount,” Patterson wrote. “By including Lake Wilderness Elementary as part of the project, the cost will be increased by about $15 million to pay for improvements to the 1986 portion of the school — including a new heating and ventilating system — and to add six classrooms. We would demolish the 1959 portion of the school — and remove portables — except for the gymnasium. The school would have a capacity of 550, compared to the 1,100 currently at (Lake Wilderness).”

As of June 27, Patterson wrote, the bond amount could range between $125 million and $150 million. The cost would depend on the level of matching funds the district would be eligible to receive from the state.

A significant chunk of that cost would be for the construction of a brand

new Tahoma High School. District officials are hopeful resumed talks with King County to purchase about 35 acres in the property known as the Donut Hole will solve the issue of where to build it. Rough estimates on the cost of constructing a new high school are in the $90 to $110 million range.

Tahoma last passed a construction bond in 1997, which generated about $45.5 million in revenue plus an addition $30 mil-lion in state matching grants, and was spent over the course of eight years with the money used to remodel Tahoma High and build Tahoma Junior High, among other projects.

The school board put a $125 million bond measure to residents who live within the district boundaries in April 2011 but it failed to garner the 60 percent supermajority approval required. Instead, about 52 percent of voters ticked the yes box on the ballot. That was a tough year for such measures across the state. A dozen similar measures,

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When people think of the USO (United Services Or-ganizations) many oft en think of the entertainment tours they sponsor for our troops in combat zones or the care packages they send out. Th ese important services are ac-tually just a small part of the wide-ranging work the USO is doing to support our U.S. military service personnel and their families. In fact, while many of the USO’s ser-vices are focused on supporting our troops in the fi eld, a growing number of services are targeted at supporting the troops returning home and their families. QFC is proud to support the work the USO does to support our troops. Th e USO is our Charity of the Month for July.

Th e USO was created in 1941 and has been continu-ally active since 1951, but it is really only within the last decade that it has experienced a profound growth in the services it off ers to pursue its mission, which is: Th e USO lift s the spirits of America’s troops and their fami-lies. Among the programs and services of the USO are:

• USO centers for troops and families that include:– “USO in box” for troops in isolated combat areas– USO on wheels also for troops in the fi eld– USO Day Rooms in hospitals and medical facilities– Th e Wounded Warrior Center in Landstuhl, Germany– Two USO Centers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to support the families of fallen soldiers

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that pairs soldiers against professional athletes• Health and Recreation Programs including:

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• Family Strengthening Programs such as: – A program featuring entertainer Trevor Romain to support military children as they adjust to a “new normal” with a wounded parent– Oxygen Couples Seminar to help work on and strengthen relationship issues– Healing Adventures Camps for families with a wounded or ill parent

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COVINGTON STUDENT ON DEAN’S LIST

Timothy Charles of Covington made the Dean’s list this

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When Kris Hill and I started talking about potential series ideas that I could work on my thoughts immediately jumped to schools and school safety.

Keeping students and staff safe on school grounds has been a hot topic this year, a discus-sion that was thrust upon us in December aft er the tragedy at Sandy Hook El-ementary in Connecticut.

I was interning at the Tahoma School District that Friday in December and the shift in the mood and the solemnity at the district offi ce was palpable as the news of the tragedy broke and the media was fl ooded with fi rst reports and then the ongoing coverage.

We’re over six months out from that now and I found myself wondering what, if anything, had changed in Kent and Tahoma schools as a direct result of Sandy Hook. I also wondered just what exactly school safety looks like these days. I felt like I had a pretty good idea, aft er all I went to Kent Schools, I graduated from college not all that long ago, and last year I was at Tahoma. But even still I found myself learning new things about our schools as I sat down with heads of security and other members of school security teams.

Aft er such tragedies talk inevitably shift s to things like banning backpacks, installing metal detectors and having more armed security on school campuses. Do those things really help make our schools safer? What can be done, real-istically? What are we OK with as a community and what measures do we really want to take? How do we make those decisions?

Over the next two weeks we’ll be running two pieces on school safety — a look at what school safety eff orts have looked like historically in our two districts, at what has driven change, how the philosophy of school safety in the districts has evolved, and where they stand today including district partnerships and what is done to prepare students and staff for a host of situations from fi res and earthquakes to shelter in place and lockdown drills.

A couple themes I’ve come across in talking to folks for these stories is the importance of con-

stant vigilance and community awareness – that is the power of knowing our own community and creating a culture of saying something when something feels amiss, not letting it go by.

Th at very well may be one of the greatest tools we have as a wider community for keeping our schools safe.

Look for part one of the series, Gun Free Zone, in the July 12 issue of the Reporter.

Reach Katherine Smith [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.

Here it is. Th e great Fourth of July. Th e day we celebrate our inde-pendence in America. Fireworks are one way to symbolize our joy, but one thing that gives America our own pride, is our fl ag. My late great-grandfather Claude L. Rickard was a wonder-ful poem writer, among many other things. My dad owns a book of fun poems, all written by Claude himself. One of them is about our American fl ag, written around 1975. I would like to share this poem simply because it refl ects on today, Indepen-dence Day.

Your Flag is Proud of You

What does old glory mean to you,Just so much red white and blue?Just a banner fl oating there,A bit of bunting in the air?

Or do you think “Th at is my Flag”And do you revere every rag?

Th at was a symbol of our land,Clutched by dying heroes’ hand

Can you watch our fl ag go by,No lump in the throat, no moist of eyeCan you hear our anthem played,Without a private prayer said?

Or do you think the same as me,And in your mind see things I see?And let that old fl ag represent,Th ings both earned and heaven sent?

Our Constitution gives the right,If conscience dictates, not the fi ghtIt also guarantees each one,Th e same as those fought and won

Th at old fl ag that waves up there,Whispers soft ly in the airAnd sends a message on the breeze,“Hear me, hear my memories”

“I was born of freedoms womb,And I shall never know the tombAs long as men love liberty,As I am now I’ll always be”

“I was a youth at Valley Forge,Th ere I met a man named GeorgeWith his help along the way,I knew that I was here to stay”

“A lot of heroes of this land,

Off ered me a helping handPoliticians, fi ghting men,Some with deeds and some with pen”

“But I recall a lot of things,Each time the bell of freedom rings,I’m just as proud that I stand forMany things not won in war”

“I like to think of pioneers,Railroads, cowboys, longhorn steers,And I recall the Model T,A preview of what was to be”

“I made the fi rst trip to the Moon,I plan to go to Mars, and soonI feed the hungry, nurse the sick,I’m tough as concrete, steel and brick”

“I represent the greatest land,I bear no monarchs name or brandI suff er no invaders’ scars,I’m thirteen stripes and fi ft y stars”

“Two hundred years I’ve been around,Two hundred more I’ll still be soundAnd why am I so arrogant?Because it’s YOU I represent!”

Claude L. Rickard

Annie Livengood of Covington is an aspiring journalist and will be a seventh grader at Mattson Middle School in the fall.

D I D Y O U K N O W ? : The Interagency Hotshot crews of the United States Forest Service are elite wildland fi refi ghters. The deaths of 19 mem-bers of the 20-man Granite Mountain Hotshots crew this week made the fi re they were fi ghting in Arizona the deadliest wildfi re for fi refi ghters since 1933.

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MAPLE VALLEY ONCE AGAIN RANKED NUMBER 1A consumer advocacy website, Nerd-Wallet, has ranked Maple Valley as the top city in Washington to raise a family.

Contributing factors included the high rating of the Tahoma School District, median home value, cost of living, median household income, and popu-lation growth over a ten year period.

To learn more about how Maple Valley made the list, check out the link below, which includes a detailed methodol-ogy. http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/2013/best-towns-washington-state-raising-kids/

RAINIER YOUTH CHOIR HOSTS SUMMER DAY CAMP Youth entering grades four through eight are invited to Rainier Youth Choir’s Summer Day Camp August 19-22 on the Kent East Hill. Campers will learn music with fun activities between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. each day and perform a free concert for their family and friends August 22 at 7 p.m.

The $25 camp fee includes all clinic materials, a camp T-shirt, and daily lunch. To learn more and to register visit www.RainierYouthChoirs.org.

COVINGTON STUDENT NAMED TO GRINNELL

COLLEGE DEAN’S LISTMacKenzie Higgins has been named to the Grinnell College Dean’s list for the spring semester. Higgins is one of 236 students honored for outstanding academic achievement this semseter.

To make the Dean’s list, students must have a grade point average of 3.75 or above.

Higgins is the daughter of Anthony Denise Higgins of Covington.

NEW KENTWOOD PRINCIPAL

ANNOUNCED BY KENT SCHOOL DISTRICTJohn Kniseley was selected as the new principal at Kentwood High School according to the Kent School District website. Kniseley was previously the principal at Hazen High School in the Renton School District. He holds de-grees from the University of Southern California and City University.

At other schools, Mike McCarthy was named principal of Covington Elemen-tary, Travis Smith was named principal

at Crestwood Elementary, Brixey Painter was selected as an assistant principal at Kentlake High School, and Emrie Hollander was selected as an assistant principal at Kentwood.

The district’s Board of Directors ap-proved the appointments June 26.

SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY TO HOST VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLChildren from Covington and Maple Valley ages preschool through grade

six are invited to a vacation Bible school at Shepherd of the Valley Lu-theran Church.

The church is located at 23855 SE 216th St. in Maple Valley.

The program will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 5 through 9.

Online registration is available at www.SVLCommunity.org.

The cost for the camp is $25 and $15 for each additional sibling before July 10. After that the cost is $30 and $20.

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PANCREATIC CYSTSThe pancreas is a relatively large organ that sits behind

the stomach. It is in charge of producing the hormones and enzymes that help to digest the food we eat. Pancreatic cysts are pockets, similar to sacs, that are filled with fluid and located on or inside the pancreas. Most of the time, pancreatic cysts are not cancerous. As a matter of fact, they aren’t actually even cysts in the true sense of the word, meaning that the pockets are made up of scar tissue or inflammatory tissue rather than the tissue that is found in true cysts. However, because some pancreatic cysts can be cancerous, the doctor may want to sample the fluid found inside.

For most people, the appearance of a pancreatic cyst is a one-time event, but some types can reoccur after they are removed. Advances in imaging technologies such as CT and MRI have dramatically increased the number of small cysts that are detected in the pancreas.

To schedule an appointment, please call Southlake Clinic at (253) 395-1972. Our primary care providers are part of a multi-specialty physician network and are also available on Saturdays. Our multi-specialty group has a clinic in Covington at 27005 168th Place SE.

Tahoma Junior High Principal Rob Morrow described to the board June 25 the two scheduling options the district will have if voters do not approve the bond measure.

“These are the same choices that were reviewed two years ago: double-shifting and year-round multi-track,” Patterson wrote. “Scheduling is critical because we would need to notify parents, students and staff a year in advance so they could begin planning for it. We would also have to discuss and negotiate the schedule changes with our labor organizations. Budgets would have to be adjusted to reflect increased operating costs that would occur, especially on a year-round schedule.”

These alternatives may be considered scare tactics by some residents of the district based on the Tahoma’s his-tory after such measures failed.

“We can’t turn a blind eye to what happens if it doesn’t pass,” Adam said. “We’ve started looking at a track system. We don’t want to go that direction but we can’t ignore that we just can’t squeeze more of these kids into some of these classrooms. We want to at least have a backup plan if the bond measure fails.”

All this discussion went on while the state Legislature was in its second special section to hammer out a budget before the fiscal year ended. Part of the capital budget included $4 million for Tahoma which would be used to put toward the purchase of property in the Donut Hole. Having a site selected, particularly one that is highly desir-able for the district, could help those who campaign on the district’s behalf. Tahoma is not allowed to use district re-sources to encourage voters to approve the bond measure, instead it can only provide information on what it would do with the money raised.

Adam said the bond measure can pass if those who campaign for it appeal to those who aren’t registered to vote to get them signed up to cast a ballot, to make their voice heard, as well as provide information to those resi-dents.

“That’s where we really need to concentrate our efforts, younger voters and new people moving into the commu-nity,” Adam said. “We have world class teachers here, we have a world class curriculum so I think we need world class facilities to support that.”

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

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Black Diamond needs a mayor that will listenDear Editor and citizens of Black Diamond,

The most important may-

oral election in the city’s history is coming up soon in Black Diamond. The big issue is YarrowBay’s massive development. Dave Gordon is the candidate who will do the best at preventing this development from literally

ruining the whole area.We need a mayor that

will represent and listen to the people of this town. The present mayor has ignored the people. In a recent newspaper article about the three candidates, the mayor

and the planning commis-sioner stated that they are clearly in favor of the Yar-rowBay development.

In contrast, I liked Dave Gordon’s statements about promoting local business. He is willing to stand up

to YarrowBay. Other cities have done it, and Black Diamond should also.

Dave Gordon will not fall for false promises and or mislead us with opti-mistic tax revenue projec-tions from new growth. He

will do his utmost best to control growth responsibly. It is so important to vote for him in this up-coming pri-mary and general election.

Bill McDermandBlack Diamond

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Manager David Johnston said. “We’ve never not enforced our sign ordi-

nance,” Johnston told the Maple Valley City Council at the June 10 Council meeting.

Johnston went on to explain that in the past, approximately once a month a crew would go out on weekends and col-lect signs that were in violation of the code.

“Of late, unfor-tunately, we’ve had more and more infractions,” Johnston told the council. “We’ve had to step up enforce-ment during the week.”

The area of the city municipal code at the center of increased enforcement relates to the use of A-board or A-frame signs, which according to the code are banned in the city.

Section 18.5 of the Maple Valley Munici-pal Code states, “A-frame or A-board signs, except for civic event or community service signs subject to a temporary sign permit,

offsite real estate signs, religious institution and garage sale and yard sale signs...” are prohibited.

Steve Clark, the city’s public works and community development director, said in an interview Monday that when the city incorporated the sign code was created through collaboration with business and property owners.

There was one attempt to update the code in the mid 2000s but that effort stalled in 2008.

At the council meeting Monday, Clark explained that currently the city is working to educate business owners as to the code and give them a chance to comply.

After those steps are taken if business owners are still displaying the signs, then signs are confiscated and citations are is-sued.

Clark told council that while he has a stack of violations approximately six inches high on his desk, the city has issued 10 fines or less.

City code states the fine for a first time violation is set at $100.

With one previous violation the fine jumps to $500, and with more than two previous violations the fine is double the

rate of the previous penalty. To reclaim a confiscated fine costs $25.“I think you need to take time to let the

sign code work,” Clark said Monday at the council meeting.

Also at the meeting this week, Johnston noted that a multitude of A-boards can cause safety and aesthetics issues while explaining the sign code exists to control the amount and types of signs and business owners can’t just do whatever they want.

“Where you’re seeing the angst is, ‘We should be able to do what we want to get our business to succeed,” Johnston said.

Councilwoman Erin Weaver said she agrees with Clark.

“There’s always going to be a dissonance,” Weaver said of perspectives on the sign code. “I think education (about the code) is a huge issue.”

At the meeting Monday Clark also told council that city staff simply don’t have the time to work up changes to the code at this time.

Clark said that the two big projects on the staff ’s proverbial plates at the moment include revising and updating the compre-hensive plan and updating the zoning code.

“What you’re seeing, what’s being asked

is reflective of what Maple Valley wants,” Clark told Council. “It’s not as onerous as it seems.”

It isn’t just A-boards but also things like signs in windows that the city is stepping

up enforcement on. Shawn Beresford

of Shawn’s Quality Meats and Smoke-house has heard talk about the signs in his windows.

“I have not been sent a warning about it (his signs), nor

have I been fined,” Beresford said. “I don’t know if it’s the truth or if it’s a threat, but a lot of the businesses are very concerned.”

Beresford is concerned about what the signs, or lack of signs, will do to small busi-nesses in Maple Valley.

“I understand what the ordinance is and so forth because if you’re making a home-made A-board it can look pretty tacky,” Beresford said. “But if you have one that’s professionally made and so forth, it can be really good…I understand what they’re trying to do, but these guys are just trying to conduct business.”

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Talks have begun to re-open Precinct 3 of the King County Sheriff ’s Office, also known as the East Precinct Headquarters, which was closed in late 2011 due to budget cuts.

At the Maple Valley

City Council meeting June 24 City Manager David Johnston told the council the precinct, the building for which is located at the corner of state Route 169 and Southeast 231st Street, is expected to reopen the end of this year or early next year. Johnston told

the council the reopened precinct is expected to be smaller but that it may also be home to the sheriff ’s of-fice special operations unit.

Sgt. Katie Larson, who was filling in for spokes-woman Sgt. Cindi West last week, said in an email that reopening the precinct is

still in the planning stages and that the King County Council will have to ap-prove its reopening.

With the closure of Pre-cinct 3 the Sheriff ’s Office moved into a smaller office in Covington City Hall.

“I had the terrible choice of cutting deputies or shut-

ting down stations,” King County Sheriff Sue Rahr told the Reporter in Aug. 2011.

That year Rahr was directed to cut 3 percent of the Sheriff ’s Office budget. Other cutbacks included laying off 12 deputies and the Kenmore station also

closed.

Reach Katherine Smith [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To com-ment on this story go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.

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provided by Hart.“The revised ILA is very similar to the (first) ILA, except

for the removal of code enforcement services currently provided, a slight reduction of the minimum hours from 56 hours to 45 hours a month, and a $3 per hour increase in hour rates for our services,” the document, dated March 26, stated.

This agreement will generate about $40,000 in revenue which will cover the costs of the building safety services hours provided to Black Diamond as outlined in the agreement, the document states.

From Covington’s perspective, Hart wrote in an email interview, the agreement is mutually beneficial for all involved.

“Covington believes this is a great benefit to us because it allows us to supplement our revenue a bit from our charges to Black Diamond for the building administration and plan review services we provide,” Hart wrote. “That way we can maintain our building official and plans examiner as full-time employees in an economy where we might not be

able to sustain them full-time 100 percent of the time due to a lack of work or reduced building permit revenues in Covington.”

Meanwhile, Black Diamond doesn’t have to suffer be-cause of its current limitations due to being a smaller city, explained Stacey Welsh, the city’s community development

director, in an email interview.“At this time with our low level of permit activity

we don’t have a workload or budget for full time building staff,” Welsh wrote. “To provide quality building services to our citizens, continuation of

the ILA with Covington was the best choice.”It’s an agreement that also makes sense from Hart’s

perspective.“And for Black Diamond they often don’t have the

demand for a full-time position involving building ad-ministration and plans examinations services so they can request and pay for only the amount they need whether it’s half-time or quarter-time,” Hart said. “Plus the hourly charges we have for Black Diamond are less that they could find on the open market with outside consultants. So, it’s a win-win for both cities. And the building codes that both

cities enforce are the same, the ones adopted by the state. That makes the application of building code standards the same in both cities.”

Welsh agreed with the idea of the agreement being a “win-win.”

“We are really fortunate to have access to certified staff with their knowledge and expertise,” Welsh wrote. “They provide on site counter service to our citizens and do building plan review here in our office. We would be hard pressed to find anyone with their experience level will-ing to work only 12 hours a week. The ILA gives us good customer service, plan review, inspections, and a certified building official with our limited budget, which is a great benefit for Black Diamond.”

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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KENTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL GAME PROGRAMMING STUDENTS SWEEP 2013 VISFEST AWARDSKentwood students monopolized the stage for the 2013 VisFest Game Programming awards.

Zach Nawar and Evan Brossard won Best of VisFest in the Code Written Division for their game, “Missile Defense,” and Derick Salamanca won Best of VisFest in the Code Written Division for his game, “Drop.”

Austin Hoffman and Wayne Humble received a Special Recog-nition award in the Graphical User Interface Division for their game, “Trail Maze for Heroes.”

Austin Ingraham also earned a Special Recognition award in the Graphical User Interface Division for his game, “AV-003.”

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REGIONAL WATERWAYS STILL COLD DESPITE HEAT WAVESunny skies and summer tempera-tures typically draw more people to local rivers, lakes and even Puget Sound to cool off, but officials caution that water remains very cold. River temperatures can still be in the 40-degree range due to snow melt – and lakes aren’t that much warmer.

What’s more, as rivers begin to drop in the summer, branches, wood and rocks that were moved around by winter storms are ex-posed, creating additional hazards.

King County, Public Health, and the King County Sheriff’s Office remind kayakers, boaters, rafters, swim-mers and other river users to check conditions and scout rivers thor-oughly for hazards before entering

the water.

“Rivers are dynamic systems and are inherently dangerous places to play– and the combination of hot weather and cold water creates added safety risks,” said Christie True, director of the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks. “It is important that everyone thinking about going out on the water be aware of these conditions and always wear a life jacket.”

For more information on river safety and drowning prevention, visit the King County river safety web page at www.kingcounty.gov/riversafety.

PUGET SOUND MASSAGE ENVY CLINICS HOST TEDDY BEAR DRIVE, PROVIDE FREE MASSAGES FOR POLICE, FIREFIGHTERS AND EMTSMassage Envy clinics throughout Puget Sound will host a teddy bear drive July 15 to 19 for children in

trauma situations.

During the same week the clinics will give one free one-hour thera-peutic massage session to actively employed police officers, firefight-ers and EMTs at any Puget Sound location.

All teddy bears collected will be donated to fire stations, police stations, and hospitals within each clinic’s community.

The program, Thanking our Com-munity Heroes, offers a way to thank each community’s first responders by providing beneficial stress relief through therapeutic massage, as well as collecting teddy bears for use in the field.

Free massage sessions for EMTs, police officers and firefighters are by appointment only.

Participants are encouraged to book as soon as possible as the spots fill up fast.

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tatives (Jay) Rodne and (Chad) Magendanz provided sup-port in their caucus as did others we did not meet with.”

Fain told the Reporter in June that thanks to the lob-bying Allison and Maple Valley city officials did to earn support for a bill which would allow the city to annex the Donut Hole property when it came time to garner sup-port for the district’s capital allocation, every legislator was well-versed on the situation. The Donut Hole is 154 acres of unincorporated land within the urban growth bound-ary off Kent-Kangley Road Southeast and Southeast 228th Street that is home to nine holes of Elk Run Golf Course, a stand of trees and the county’s 13-acre roads maintenance facility.

King County Councilman Reagan Dunn, who represents Maple Valley, wrote a letter May 21 to State Sen. Andy Hill offering support for the allocation and urging the Senate — the House had included the money in its capital budget — to include the money for Tahoma.

“I would like to thank the Legislature for the capital ap-propriation which was included in the final budget,” Dunn said in a release Monday. “This appropriation will aid in the purchase from King County of property inside the Tahoma School District. This is win-win project for all involved and I look forward to working with the school district and the city of Maple Valley to see this project get underway.”

This is a significant step for the district, which is poised to put a construction bond measure on the November ballot. If approved the bond would help build a new high school, which Maryanski envisions as not just a state-of-the-art flagship building for the district in the heart of Maple Valley, but also as a regional learning center which could serve the entire community’s educational needs.

Considering that in February the district and the county amicably parted ways to end discussions of the property purchase, Maryanski wrote that it was a complex process which has led to a positive end result, one he wasn’t sure would happen just a few months ago.

“We can now move forward and answer the question in the minds of many,” Maryanski wrote on his blog. “Where will this school be built? In what we in our community have come to call the Donut Hole. So, I guess its time for even me to celebrate.”

While school funding was a significant part of the agenda for the legislature during the past six months, local parks projects were a priority for representatives from the 47th and 5th Districts, as well.

Also receiving money from the state legislature, accord-ing to Fain’s office, is the city of Covington, which will get $2.1 million for the second phase of Covington Com-munity Park. Covington’s Parks and Recreation Director Scott Thomas wrote in an email that city staff was, “deeply appreciative of the support Covington residents and the surrounding community received from our 47th District legislators, Sen. Fain and Reps. Sullivan and Hargrove.”

Thomas said this funding allocation is a significant step toward accomplishing one of the city’s major goals — which was also identified during the citizen-driven Budget Priorities Advisory Committee process as a priority — of finding money to pay for the next phase of the park. City officials celebrated completion of the work of the first phase in June with the trails open and the soccer field nearly ready for use.

“The phase two project provides important local facili-ties including the community event stage, group picnic shelter, tennis courts, extended trail system and outdoor exercise stations, so families and youth don’t need to travel

to neighboring cities for recreation,” Thomas wrote. “This funding, which will be managed as a grant through the Washington State Department of Commerce, is about 80 percent of the estimated project cost, so we will need to seek city matching funds and grants before we go to construction. Depending on how much city and additional grant funding we receive, we may be able to expand the project to include more elements such as a playground.”

Next up on the to do list for the second phase of the park is get the grant money under contract, Thomas wrote, find a landscape architect and begin design, raise the additional cash needed then proceed to construction with plans to start the design phase during the second half of this year then compete for grant funding in 2014 with design docu-ments and cost estimates in hand. If Covington can raise the rest of the money it needs, construction could begin in 2015.

“Upon completing phase two we will set our sights toward finishing the park with phase three construction, which would include the lighted turf baseball and soccer fields, the Teen Zone and associated parking,” Thomas wrote. “Elements in the Teen Zone include a social plaza, basketball court, sand volleyball court, outdoor concrete ping pong tables, restrooms, and concessions.”

Families with children near Maple Valley also had some-thing to celebrate as the budget came in as $650,000 was earmarked for Ravensdale Park.

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

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One night, many years ago, I sat bolt upright in bed. What was that strange sound? Th e toilet fl ushing? Not an unusual sound, but as I observed my husband next to me sound asleep, very odd. Th e only two adults in the house were still in bed.

Th en I realized we had children. But these children were very young and had never gotten out of bed in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. At that very moment, I realized we had entered a new epoch. I use that word purpose-fully because it means the

beginning of a long period of history considered par-ticularly signifi cant. A child

getting up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night when she never had before was a step towards inde-pendence.

Okay, she was only about four years old,

but as I attempted to fall back to sleep that night, I couldn’t help but dwell on its impact in my life. It was all I could do to not wake my husband up and tell him, “Our daughter went to the bathroom.” He would’ve thought I was crazy, because the child was well

past potty training. But I’m a mother and those kinds of things weighed heavily on my mind. What did this mean? What next?

I thought of that night as my now graduated daughter walked out of the house, got into her car and went off to a friend’s house for the evening. Th ough she is 18 years old, she still asked me if she could go. She’s well aware of her teenage dependence on her parents — graduated, but not able to function without us – yet. Besides, though we call it “her car,” it’s in my husband’s and my names and we have rules about the car.

But it was all I could do not to jump out of my

chair and run aft er her; take one last look, warn her of the dangers of the world, tell her to drive safely (the whole three miles), caution against stopping to give strangers directions, worry-ing that she’d go somewhere else without telling me and I’d never see her again. I know, this is all very hys-terical, that’s why I stayed in my chair, told her I loved her and prayed to myself.

Her father heard the front door open and close. Not knowing she had come to me to tell me what she was doing, he shot out off the couch, ran to the front door, declaring loudly that he heard the front door open and close. He fl ung the door open and watched

his daughter walking to the car and yelled out to her, “Are you leaving?” She told him goodbye, then climbed into her car and drove off .

He came to me, some-what perplexed, with the hang dog look of a rejected puppy, “Did you know she was leaving? Where is she going?” I told him, but still determined that I wouldn’t make a big deal didn’t get up and grieve the reality of how much our daughter has grown up. It had happened before, our daughter going somewhere on her own. He went back to the family room with a sigh.

Th is morning I laugh at myself for my crazy senti-ment. She came back safely, didn’t get in trouble, didn’t

go anywhere she wasn’t supposed to go. I know, the next time she walks out of the house to go some-where, I will have the same reaction and I will keep it to myself. But still – I oft en long for the days when the most bewildering part of my life was the sound of the toilet fl ushing.

Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She is still sentimental whenever the toilet fl ushes. You can also read more of her writing and her daily blog on her website livingwithgleigh.com or on Facebook at “Living with Gleigh.”

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COVINGTON CITY COUNCIL NAMES CITIZEN AND HONORARY CITIZEN OF THE YEARBryan Higgins was named Covington’s Citizen of the Year and Julie Stein was named the city’s Honorary Citizen of the Year at the Covington City Council meeting on June 25.

Bryan Higgins, served on the city’s parks commission for 10 years and also

served as chair of the commission for two years.

Higgins served on the commission during the time when there was no Parks and Recreation director and worked to keep the city on track with aquatics, recreation, park maintenance and park development.

He also worked with the city throughout the stages of the Covington Com-munity Park design process, development and construction. Higgins was committed to making sure the park came to fruition.

Honorary Citizen of the Year, Julie Stein, has been involved in two of Covington’s biggest annual events for several years – the Covington Days

Festival and Covington Hollydaze – as the Covington Days Parade coordi-nator and the Hollydaze bazaar coordinator. Stein’s eff orts on these two events has helped bring fun, family-oriented events to the residents and surrounding communities.

The Citizen and Honorary Citizen of the Year will be honored at the July 9 Regular Council Meeting at 7 p.m. and at the Covington Days Festival on Saturday, July 20 at noon.

For more information, contact Community Relations Coordinator Karla Slate at [email protected] or 253.480.2402.



It’s time to celebrate all things red, white and blue as July marks the return of summer to western Washington.

That means your garden wants to sparkle with color, color and more color.

If you are hosting for the Fourth of July, or just want to add some summer sizzle to your landscape, start the fireworks with these amaz-ing plants that add patriotic color as well as easy care: RED

The color of geraniums, roses and salvia, red is also a foliage color that can of-

fer some respite from our evergreen and ever-boring

landscapes. Visit a nursery this month to pick out a red-leaf Japanese maple and you’ll enjoy years of care-free beauty. Japanese

maples do well when grown in large containers, making them perfect patio pets or small trees for a deck or balcony. You’ll also find huecheras with a deep red tint to their leaves as well as summer-flowering hardy fuchsias with dainty red and purple flowers. Hardy fuchsias are happy close to the house where they can be protected from the

afternoon sun. WHITE

There’s a new hydrangea on the market that loves our climate – it is called “The Blushing Bride” hydrangea and it displays pure white petals in mid-summer, fad-ing to a soft pink in the fall. Unlike most hydrangeas, Blushing Bride flowers on new wood so you can prune this lady back to short stumps in the spring and still enjoy blooms the same summer. Blushing Bride is another great plant that will be happy in a large con-tainer and this bride will celebrate many anniversa-ries with blooms year after year.

Other white flowers that can be used to fill in a small

container or garden bed include geraniums, lobelia, phlox and begonias. BLUE

A deep true blue was once rare in garden flowers but with new lobelia and some very impressive new salvia, your garden can hap-pily sing the blues. The deep blue new salvia is called Salvia Black and Blue as the deep blue petals are ar-ranged on deep black stems. For carefree shrubs look to Ceanothus or Califor-nia lilac and the perennial garden can be planted with delphiniums, monkshood and lavender plants.

The ultimate shrub for adding blue to summer gardens is the old fash-ioned hydrangea – in our

naturally acid soil the big leaf hydrangea will bloom blue. The everblooming Endless Summer hydrangea can provide an encore of blue blooms as the more you clip and harvest the flowers from this hydrangea the more blooms the plant will make.

July is an excellent month to use hydrangeas as cut flowers in arrangements or even fresh in a wreath for the front door. ALL TOGETHER NOW

Celebrating the trifecta of patriotic blooms is as easy and gathering flowers from the plants above and adding them to a vase of water – but here are some tips to extend the bounty when you’re missing one or more

of the colors: • Place one red gerani-

ums in a blue pot and add a white candle for a practical centerpiece.

• Float red and white roses in a bowl of water – tinted with a bit of blue food coloring.

• Tie blue hydrangeas to an outdoor or indoor chandelier using red and white ribbon.

• Decorate the top of cherry pie with edible blue and white pansies

Who says plants can’t be patriotic?

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Just before classes ended for the summer in June the arboretum hosted educational field trips for all seventh graders in the Tahoma School District.

“Using the arboretum as an outdoor classroom is a wonderful opportunity to introduce the kids to the benefits of a healthy forest,” said Susan Goodell, garden manager .

This is the third year the arboretum partnered with teachers at Cedar River and Tahoma middle schools, leading student learning activities such as identifying plants, noting native vs. non-native species, measuring tree canopy and forest restora-

tion.

“Kids created slash piles in the forest, which become a habitat for small forest animals,” Goodell said. “Some planted sword ferns and cleared out lamiastrum, a noxious weed in King County.”

Because the Tahoma School District is growing, the arboretum needs additional volunteers to assist with student field trips, encouraging kids to learn more through the experience. The next opportunity to volunteer takes place this fall, for the second graders field trip sponsored by the master gardeners. Contact [email protected] or 253-293-5103 if interested.

The member newsletter, Branching Out, is back in publication. The arboretum is sharing the current issue with the public. Visit LakeWildernessArboretum.org to read it, become a member or donate.

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MAPLE VALLEY TO HOST OPEN HOUSE TO DISCUSS IMPROVEMENTS TO WITTE ROADThe city of Maple Valley will host an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. on July 17 at Lake Wilderness Lodge to discuss improvements to Witte Road.

The city is updating the Witte Road Corridor Plan for the sec-tions of road from state Route 516 to Southeast 249th Place and from Southeast 240th Place to state Route 169.

The basis for the update will be the 2001 Witte Road Corridor Study, the Maple Valley Non-mo-torized Transportation Plan which is currently in draft form, and the 2011 Transportation Plan.

The plan update will focus on providing pedestrian, bike, and intersection improvement as well as reflecting the character of the community.

The revised plan will identify priority projects for future con-struction.

The Lodge is located at 22500 Southeast 248th Street in Maple Valley.

To view the project webpage and participate in an online question-naire visit www.maplevalleywa.gov.

REGISTRATION OPEN FOR WINGS OF KAREN BRA DASH 5KIt is not too early to sign up for the Wings of Karen Bra Dash 5K

run and walk set for Sept. 15 at Lake Wilderness Park.

The event last year raised $30,000 that Maple Valley-based nonprofit Wings of Karen donat-ed to a researcher at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

This year organizers of the race expect more than 2,000 partici-pants.

This year’s goal is to raise $100,000.

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Synergy Volleyball is a growing club in need of more practice space.

Now in its third year, the Maple Valley-based youth club could use a gym to play in, even if that means converting a barn, said Jeff Potter, who started the program.

“Because of the fact it is a struggle for us year in and year out to get gym time we’re looking for other opportunities,” Potter said. “We worked a deal with a local church to install the equipment in the fl oor so we could practice in their gym … so that helped us stay local. But that doesn’t give us all the time we need (in the gym). We were thinking as a club, ‘What other opportunities are out there?’ We’re looking for a gym that doesn’t necessarily have to be a gym, a ware-house, or a pole building, a barn.”

Th e club needs some-place they can install equip-ment, put down a sport court and pad that’s 50-feet-by-80-feet with a ceiling which has a clearance of at

least 25 feet.Th is kind of facility

would allow Synergy to do more as well as build on the success its teams had dur-ing the fi rst three seasons.

Th is past season, the U-11, U-12 and U-14 teams were competitive in the region, Potter said.

Th e season runs from November — tryouts are typically shortly aft er the high school season ends — through May. When the season ended, the U-14 fi nished ninth as did the U-12s, while the U-11s were developing as a team which had to play up against squads a year older.

“Th e Puget Sound region is pretty big, there’s proba-bly close to 100 U-14 teams in the region, so when you look at that (ninth place fi nish), not too shabby for a small club based out of Maple Valley,” Potter said. “Our U-12 team ended up ninth in the region, as well. Th ey were very competitive in the top levels.”

Synergy is part of a larger vision Potter has for growing volleyball in Maple Valley.

It started more than a de-cade ago when Potter began

a volleyball program for elementary school students in partnership with Tahoma Learning Communities. It’s off ered every spring for six weeks.

Synergy Volleyball was started in 2010 to build on the success of that elemen-tary school program and off er local players the op-portunity to train as well as play close to home.

A year ago, that elemen-tary program fed into Synergy, Potter said.

“Last year there was a group of fourth grade girls who seemed to enjoy it, they were very athletic and I asked the parents if they’d be interested,” Potter said. “So they showed up at tryouts in the fall, 12 of them. I told the parents and the players this is a develop-ment year. We’re not going to win tournaments neces-sarily, we’re going to learn the game, we’re going to learn the skills.”

And learn they did, Potter said, including a sophisticated off ense which will look familiar to them if they continue on at the high school level. But, more

Club finds synergy on the court

Zvezdi Krasteva goes up for the kill in a U-14 match for Synergy during the club’s third season. Photo courtesy of Jeff Potter [ more SYNERGY page 11 ]

TAHOMA STUDENT SETS AMERICAN RECORDTahoma High’s Denham

Patricelli won the javelin event at the Youth World Trials in St. Louis, setting a new American

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than that, Potter said, the U-11 team developed a level of resilience.

“The players, I think now, understand,” he said. “If all the players (from U-11) return next year, they’ll be a U-12 team that will have a year under its belt and they’ll be very competitive. So, that was an exciting year for the club in that respect.”

Potter said it’s nearly a miracle how Synergy was able to draw competitive, athletic players for three teams while many clubs based in larger communi-ties can’t do that.

“That’s a big statement about Maple Valley and what we have here,” Potter said. “Maple Valley is a community that’s sports

oriented. There are a lot of girls out there who may not have found their sport.”

Volleyball could be just what girls in the area — players don’t have to be from Maple Valley — are looking for in terms of a new sport. And unlike other athletics or activities where the best players start as early as pre-school, vol-leyball players do start later, even middle school.

And Synergy is a club, Potter said, that is about more than learning how to play the sport. He wants players to walk away having grown as people not just as athletes.

“Wins will come, depen-dent on the players com-mitment and the coaches efforts, but personal growth is really what we’re looking

for … on the court and off the court,” Potter said. “Vol-leyball … is a tool for you to deal with life better, get a little tougher, discover what you can accomplish and have friends around you while you’re doing it. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback that we’re doing the right thing. We’re excited for next year.”

And what could make the season better would be more gym space.

“With all the great fami-lies and all the people out

here who do want to help the youth … this is another opportunity to help a non-profit youth program for lo-cal girls,” Potter said. “If we can bounce around all these gyms and still achieve the level we’re getting, imagine what we could do if we had one gym that we could use. One of the missions of this program is to keep the costs down and this will help that if we’re not paying other people for gym space.”

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