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Kristen Ward, a Tahoma Junior High student, places fl ags at Tahoma National Cemetery before Memorial Day as part of an annual project to beautify the resting place of veterans. TJ NARTINELL, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.
Honor those who served
BY TJ MARTINELL
Business owners stop, look around your store or offi ce and take note of what’s not nailed down because it can be taxed ac-cording to state law.
If you aren’t aware of this tax, don’t worry. Th e King County Council thinks you aren’t the only one.
Th e County Council recently passed a ordinance which pro-vides an amnesty period through July 1 for business owners who have not yet reported business personal property. Th ey will have until Sept. 1 to pay the taxes owed.
King County Tax Assessor Lloyd Hara stated that a reason for the amnesty is the fact that many small business owners who aren’t able to aff ord a professional accountant are unaware of the tax, and that it is more eff ective and fair to them to give them the op-portunity to comply, rather than penalize them.
Short term tax relief offered for businesses
BY TJ MARTINELL
Th e King County Prosecu-tor’s Offi ce position on collective gardens is very clear according to Deputy Chief of Staff Ian Good-hew.
Unless there is “evidence beyond a reasonable doubt” that a person is violating the state law, the prosecutor’s offi ce will not pursue charges.
What’s not so clear to the pros-ecutor’s offi ce, however, is what state law says.
A 2008 memo obtained from the prosecutor’s offi ce provides an explanation of its stance on medi-cal marijuana collective gardens.
“Th e law is extremely murky, as you can see from the memo,” Goodhew said in a telephone interview. “Th ere have been multiple changes in which medi-cal marijuana is to be used, who’s supposed to grow it, distribute it and how the police are supposed to treat medical marijuana.”
The county prosecutor and medical marijuana
BY KRIS HILL
Not long before the ribbon was cut in front of Fred Meyer at Ma-ple Valley Town Square, Victoria Laise Jonas and Peter Powell were chatting in front of the entry.
“History is being made in Maple Valley as we speak,” Jonas said to Powell.
For the city, the arrival of the big box retailer was a sign of the shift in attitude toward economic development in the past three years.
Fred Meyer had been interested in locating a store in Maple Valley for a number of years but the city had an ordinance on the books since incorporation that pre-vented big box stores coming in that had footprints of more than
60,000 square feet.Th at’s not an unusual tactic,
Powell told onlookers during a groundbreaking ceremony nearly a year ago, and in other cities such an ordinance has been called ‘Th e Walmart Clause.”
During the ribbon cutting ceremony, Powell who owns Powell Development which was respon-sible for bringing the Fred Meyer-anchored project to Maple Valley, described the process.
“Th is has been a labor of love,” Powell said. “Th is wouldn’t have happened without the Morris fam-ily (who owned the property).”
Historic moment when doors open at Fred Meyer
Mayor Bill Allison and Deputy Mayor Victoria Laise Jonas celebrate the ribbon cutting of Fred Meyer in Maple Valley Town Square on May 24. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
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BY TJ MARTINELL
Green Society Group has filed a notice of appearance with the Maple Valley Hear-ing Examiner to contest the city’s stop work order and unsafe notice.
Jay Berneberg, the attor-ney for GSG owner Chris Schoonover, had initially threatened the city with an emergency injunction, but now is seeking to have the hearing examiner overturn the citations.
A date for the hearing has not yet been determined.
“Hopefully, com-mon sense will prevail,” Berneberg said in a tele-phone interview. “We’re going to work with the city first. Nobody wants to be hostile here.”
The dispute between GSG and the city arose after the business opened on April 20 without obtaining
a tenant improvement per-mit. The permit is required whenever an occupant makes certain changes to the interior, such as adding walls, modifying exits or adding windows.
Both Schoon-over and Berneberg have claimed that when Schoon-over attempted to bring in the necessary paper-work to the city, it was refused.
“They ask him to submit plans,” Berneberg said. “When he did, they said ‘We don’t recognize you as a business,’ and then (they) closed them down for not submitting plans.”
Schoonover told the Re-porter for a previous story that when his permit was rejected he thought the city official was joking at first.
“He said, ‘We’re not rec-
ognizing any permits until the moratorium is lifted,’” Schoonover said. “I thought things were going to come to a resolution.”
When asked about the conversation Schoonover
described, Community Development Ty Peterson declined to comment. He stated, however, that while GSG submitted a permit, they
failed to respond to several requests by the city for fur-ther information concern-ing a description of use.
The city then placed stop work order and unsafe notices on the front door of the business May 3.
In spite of the stop work order, GSG has continued to remain open for busi-ness, which has resulted in several additional citations.
Berneberg said he plans to appeal all of them.
Gary McLean is the city’s contracted hearing examiner.
Unlike a court case, an examiner hearing, accord-ing to Peterson, is based on the preponderance of the evidence presented.
For the city’s citations to be overturned, GSG would have to prove the city acted in an “arbitrary and capri-cious” manner — terms which were also used by Berneberg used to describe the city’s actions — or that it simply never happened at all.
“Most of the time when we issue these, people ask for a mitigation hearing to explain themselves,” Peter-son said. “They’re not going to dispute that the violation occurred (in such cases). It’s not an appeal. They’re not going to argue a decision of the city.”
GSG, on the other hand, has to make the case that the city acted unlawfully or without regard for any facts, or that it acted in a biased or vengeful man-ner, according to Peterson.
The city passed a moratorium on collective gardens and dispensaries in July 2011. Both Schoon-over and Berneberg have argued that Green Society Group does not fall under the moratorium.
The City Council is currently considering an ordinance that would ban collective gardens.
A public hearing before the Planning Commission for the proposed ordi-nance is set for June 6.
Beneberg stated that the stop work order, as well as the collective garden ban proposal, are based on misperceptions the city holds of the businesses like GSG.
“The city’s concerns are based on misinformation about what medical mari-juana facilities and co-ops are,” he said. “There are some (facilities) out there that I think fuel the fire for their worst fears. But there are also groups out there that are medical, that are clean facilities that help patients access medicine. GSG is one of those places. I don’t think they know those places ex-ists. I think they think it’s Woodstock all over again. I think their fear is based on ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity. Ignorance can cured. Hopefully it will play out that way.”
Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to maplevalleyreporter.com.
GSG appeals to hearing examiner on citations
“The city’s concerns are based on misinformation about what medical marijuana facilities and co-ops are.” Jay Berneberg
Two Tahoma students’ artwork will be featured at the Maple Valley Farmers.
Every year a contest is held at the high school to select the featured artwork. In previous years one poster was selected as the official winner.
This year the judges decided to allow two top artists, Dani Skeldon and Bethany Skerritt, to design a single poster.
The Maple Valley Farmer’s Market is held each Saturday from June 16 to Oct. 6 at Rock Creek Elementary School.
The school is located at 25700 Maple Valley-Black Diamond Rd. The market features 35 weekly vendors, a new theme each week and a wide variety of weekly entertainers.
Find out more at www.mapleval-leyfarmersmarket.org.
Community Note
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MAPLE VALLEY AREA COUNCIL TO MEET
JUNE 4
The Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council
regular monthly meeting is scheduled for 7-9:30 p.m.
Monday, June 4 at the Maple Valley Fire Station (NE corner
of intersection of SE 231st St & SR-169).
All members of the public are invited to attend.
Members of the public can address the area council on
any local issue during the open comment period at
the start of the meeting. The area council is locally elected
and represents to our local government, King County, all
unincorporated area residents living in the Tahoma School
District.If you live in the Tahoma
School District outside the city of Maple Valley, you are
eligible to become a member of the area council. Citizens
interested in applying can mail a brief letter of interest to
GMVUAC, P.O. Box 101, Maple Valley, WA 98038 or e-mail
BY KRIS HILL
Any minute now South Sound Critter Care is going to be inundated with sick, injured and abandoned animals.
Th e non-profi t located off 216th Street South-east between not far from Covington-Lake Sawyer Road will play host to birds, kittens, raccoons, squirrels and more throughout the late spring and summer.
To handle the load, explained veterinarian Jan White and veterinarian technician Tigger Birch, South Sound Critter Care is in need of volunteers — lots and lots of volunteers.
Especially since SSCC received its federal wildlife license for birds a year ago.
“Th is is our fi rst year where we’re really going to get hit with baby birds,” White said. “So, we’re really going to need volunteers.”
White, who operates SSCC on the lower level of the building which also houses her veterinarian practice, has worked in wildlife rehabilitation for a number of organizations up and down the west coast from California to Alaska.
Birch had previously spent a number of years with PAWS.
“Both of us came into this venture with lots and lots of experience,” White said. “When we set up the veterinary practice we real-ized we had a whole bottom fl oor that’s 1,800 square feet that we could use for rehabilitation.”
Birch said they will take pretty much any wildlife with a few exceptions such as eagles and adult raccoons “because we’re doing short term care.”
Lake Sawyer Veterinary Clinic was started in 2009 and the pair began off er-ing rehab services through the separate non-profi t,
South Sound Critter Care, in 2010.
Domesticated animals such as cats, kittens, chick-ens and geese come in the hundreds altogether.
“If you fi nd an animal and you go (Washington state’s) Fish and Wildlife’s websites, all you have to do is put an address in and the information about the local rehabilitation center will show up,” White said. “Th at’s how people get here.”
Th ere’s also referrals.Other vets as well as
animal rehab centers will send well-intentioned souls who have found creatures in need of care to SSCC.
“Th ings have been a little diff erent this year because the biggest wildlife center in the state has reduced its numbers, so, we’re going to have more pressure here than before,” White said. “In particular there’s a defi -nite need for someone who has property in a rural area who has room to work with us on raccoons.”
Typically by July 1 every animal rehab center stops taking raccoons because there’s no room.
It would be nice to fi nd someone to partner with, White said, to house rac-coons but deer fawns as well simply because there isn’t space at their facility.
“Last year it was like playing a game of musical chairs,” White said. “Th e day that PAWS stopped taking (Eastern Gray squir-rels), that Sarvey stopped taking them … we had 20 squirrels on our doorstep by noon. Everyone was referring them to us. It was pretty crazy.”
In 2011, SSCC took in 1,026 animals including 96 species of birds, 16 species of mammals and fi ve spe-cies of reptiles.
“We received 584 birds and 48.6 percent survived and were either released
back to the wild or placed in approved institutions if they were not releasable,” White said. “Th is year with Sarvey (Wildlife Center) unable to take the usual numbers of animals we are up in numbers. Last year in mid-May we had received 157 animals and this year we are at 490. Th us, we are heavily impacted by the fact that the path for these animals is right to our door (instead of Sarvey).”
Busy, as a concept, seems to be an understatement for what SSCC has dealt with so far this year.
White emailed with ad-ditional information.
“Our daily census is running about 130-140 in May,” White wrote. “Right now, the baby mammals are keeping us busy. We have 51 baby possums and a steady stream of cottontails. As we go into late May, it is now time for the baby birds to start getting into trouble and we are starting to get them in now. We even had a clutch of eggs brought in that we incubated and hatched. People seek help
for all manner of creatures. am never shocked but oft en surprised what animals or embryos come our way.”
White noted that there is a need for a cadre of volunteers. Th ey ask that people are willing to give six hours a day, one day a week, and volunteers must be at least 16.
With a new volunteer co-ordinator, White said, along with Birch’s help anyone who wants to help will get general training then more specifi c training depending on what they want to do.
And while the animals are cared for, Birch said, they don’t become pets nor will they be on display for the public as it’s against the rules of the permits which allow them to rehabilitate creatures.
“Th e whole point is we want it to be wild when it leaves here,” Birch said.
In the future, White said, she hopes to develop a docent program where vol-unteers can speak at events, go to schools and provide programs to raise awareness about animal rehabilitation.
Beyond that, South Sound Critter Care will eventually need to expand.
“We’ve had lots of suc-cessful results with minimal downstairs staff and volunteer pool,” Birch said. “Ultimately the goal is we’re going to need a permanent location on some acreage to develop a full blown rehabilitation center.”
For now, though, volun-teers who wish to help out would work wonderfully. And volunteers don’t have to work with animals, Birch said, nor do those who wish to help need to volunteer.
SSCC accepts donations, is able to recycle cell phones and ink cartridges, even accepts cars which can be turned over to another non-profi t for cash.
“For in-house volunteers, we have a strongest need forSunday aft ernoons,” Birch said. “We have plenty of people on Saturday aft er-noons.”
For information, contact South Sound Critter Care at 360-886-8000.
Animal rehabilitation clinic needs volunteers
Veterinarian Jan White hand feeds a bird in an incubator at her clinic near Maple Valley, which is also home to South Sound Critter Care, a non-profi t animal rehabilitation facility. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
COVINGTON AREA PETS GO ONLINE
Left Behind K-9 Rescue, Covington, recently has joined other animal welfare organizations in the area that list their homeless pets on Petfi nder.com, the oldest and largest database of adoptable animals on the Internet. The site currently has more than 294,500 homeless pets listed, and it is updated continuously.More than 13,500 animal welfare organizations in the U.S., Canada, and other countries post their pets on the site. Left Behind K-9 Rescue pets may be viewed at http://www.petfi nder.com/shelters/WA555.html.
A potential adopter enters search criteria for the kind of pet he or she wants, and a list is returned that ranks the pets in proximity to the Zip code entered.
Adoptions are handled by the animal placement group where the pet is housed, and each group has its own policies. Petfi nder.com was created in early 1996 as a grassroots project by Jared and Betsy Saul to
end the euthanasia of adoptable pets.
Since its inception, the site has facilitated approximately 20 million adoptions, making it the most life-saving initiative in animal welfare.
Sponsors include The Animal Rescue Site, BISSELL Homecare, Inc., a manufacturer of home cleaning and fl oor care products, PETCO, a national pet supply retailer that sponsors in-store adoptions and provides coupon books for new adopters, PetFirst Healthcare pet insurance and Merial, maker of the number one veterinary-recommended fl ea and tick preventative FRONTLINE, and heartworm preven-tative HEARTGARD.
PERTUSSIS VACCINE AVAILABLE TO UNINSURED ADULTS
King County Public Health is posting frequent updates about the status of the pertussis (whooping cough) outbreak in Western Washington, including how uninsured adults can obtain vaccinations.
Go to the King County Public Health web site at http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/communicable/diseases/whoopingcough.aspx for more details.
Community Notes
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According to the memo, the prosecutor’s office will “de-cline to prosecute legitimate patients who qualify under the law if they reasonably adhere to the dictates of the statute.”
The memo, dated, Oct. 7, 2008, and revised on Aug. 22, 2011, was distributed to law enforcement agencies throughout King County.
“The official state policy on marijuana in Washington continues to be that qualify-ing patents or providers to patents may legally grow and
possess a reasonable amount of marijuana for medical purposes,” the memo said. “Careful investigation by law enforcement is the only way to distinguish between those persons authorized to pos-sess and distribute marijuana for medicinal purposes and those persons who are non-patients or selling the drug in illicit markets for the purpose of profit.”
Like many law enforce-ment and city officials, Goodhew said, the state’s Medical Cannabis Law has been a headache for them to understand.
“The problem is the law does a very poor job of spelling out for law enforce-ment and prosecutors who is legally allowed to possess grow and distribute medical marijuana and who’s not, and in particular who’s allowed to grow it and distribute it,” he said. “The original law didn’t say anything about how to distribute medical. Should the state do it? Should private citizens? All it said is a provider can provide it for a patient at any given time.”
Lack of specificity, he added, has created a lot of legal loopholes.
For example, under the state law, up to 10 people can run a collective garden together. But, the law doesn’t address how members join and leave or how it affects how they collect their por-tion of the medical mari-juana grown.
“There’s no time restric-tions on how many people can be in a collective gar-den and the issue of how many collective gardens can you have on one piece of property,” Goodhew said. “There’s no way for cities to regulate that. And the answer people want is for
police officers to bust ev-erybody. The problem is we can’t do that when the law gives a very good argument that the activity is legal. Prosecutors are very used to being told in black and white (what the law says).”
In an effort to inform local law enforcement agen-cies, the memo states that the Prosecutor’s Office will assist in any investigation regarding the violation of the Medical Cannabis Law.
The memo contains an Office Policy section, which includes various stances the KCPO has taken.
“The PAO does not intend to prosecute those indi-viduals who are truly ill,” the memo states. “Our office will look with a very lenient eye towards those medically ill people who have reasonably tried but failed to have their medical marijuana paper work in order.”
The memo also states that they will not prosecute collective gardens, “as long as it is clear that qualifying patients are distributing to other qualifying patients and that those in the operation can produce the proper documentation.”
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“A part of it I think the business owners aren’t aware, I’m sure,” he said. “At least that’s what I’ve been picking up. Instead of penalizing people, I think we need to do another campaign to make sure people are aware they have to report. We’re trying to make sure everybody has an opportunity, that they’re fully aware.”
Hara said it is not certain how much more revenue the amnesty will provide.
“We’re not sure at this point,” he said. “We can probably give you a better figure at around July 1.
The Washington business personal property tax is a self-reporting system. Businesses that have personal property subject to taxation are required by law to report that property
to the county assessor. For example, in a restaurant, anything that can be moved in and out of the build-ing would be considered taxable.
“It’s everything that isn’t structurally tied to the building itself,” Hara said.
Corporations are required to pay taxes on taxable personal prop-erty, including machinery, equipment, and supplies of
businesses and farms, state-assessed commercial boats, and most operating prop-erty of public utilities. Items that are exempt include household goods, intan-gible personal property, and business inventories. Farm machinery is exempt from the state levy but subject to local levies. Owners of busi-ness personal property are required to list the items, their acquisition cost, and
the year acquired with the county assessor each year. The assessor then deter-mines the current assessed value. The assessor can col-lect back taxes for up to three years on unreported personal property.
With the passage of this ordinance, personal property staff from the Assessor’S Of-fice will be visiting random businesses in-person to provide information about
personal property taxes and to work with business own-ers not currently paying to come into compliance with the law. Businesses that do not self-report their personal property are subject to a pen-alty of up to 25 percent.
Hara said before the amnesty could be imple-mented by the County it first had to pass through the state Legislature, where it received bipartisan support.
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Or, he noted, without a great deal of time and energy by the city’s community devel-opment staff.
In 2009 the City Council adopted an ordinance that would allow for stores the size of Fred Meyer after close to three years of discussion.
“We had to figure out how to keep the value of this city,” Powell said. “We’re talking about a lot of work. It was a total team effort.”
He also credited Fred Meyer and its parent company, Kroger, for their persistence.
“If it weren’t for them sticking with us for seven years, this would not have happened,” Powell said.
Eric Georgia, the store director who took on the job Jan. 31, likened the efforts to a sport.
“We look at this like a relay race,” Georgia said. “This is the next leg. We get to pick
up where you left off.”Nearly 15 years ago, said
Mayor Bill Allison, when Maple Valley incorporated the city was a small com-munity away from the hustle and bustle of Seattle and the Eastside.
“But the popularity of our community, our school system and our way of life has drawn residents from all over the nation to Maple Valley,” Allison said. “As we grew in number the real-
ity and necessity to provide services to meet the needs of our families grew as well. We all understand that change is difficult, with the growth of a community comes the pains of knowing our community will be ever evolving in looks but never in feel.”
In addition to Fred Meyer, a number of other businesses will open surrounding it including a 10,000-square-foot MultiCare health center, a Chase bank branch, a Sprint
store, two restaurants in Far-relli’s Wood Fired Pizza and Hop Jacks, as well as Burger King, a Sprint store, a gelato shop called Nutty Squirrel, and more.
Allison noted that he was recently at a conference that focused on shopping plazas and that “this was on the radar” among those who attended.
As Jonas said before the ribbon cutting, it was a historic moment in the city.
For Allison, it is just the beginning of many more such moments to come.
“The opening of Maple Valley Town Square with Fred Meyer as its anchor store is one step in the process of improv-ing the quality of life here in Maple Valley,” the mayor said. “What you see here today and what is yet to be finished will become a gathering place for families to shop, eat and be provided with some of the services they desire.”
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Th ank you cards are an interesting thing in my world.
I get them from students I’ve hosted for job shadow experiences.
I get them from people I’ve written about.Recently I even got one from a gentleman who
wanted a photo I took of his grandson playing soc-cer for Kentlake High.
Today, Th ursday, May 24, I received a thank you card from Elena Stowell.
I’ve known of Elena since April 2007 when I wrote a story about the death of her daughter, Carly, with my former colleague Carly McElligott who had covered the Kentlake freshman during winter sports that year. Carly Stowell had been the point guard for the Falcons girls basketball team.
We didn’t talk for the fi rst time until October 2009 when I interviewed her about a fundraiser for the Carly Stowell Foundation, a non-profi t she and her husband Chuck started to help kids do what they love, whether it was play music or sports.
It followed naturally with something Carly used to say: Do what you love and love what you do.
Elena has that saying tattooed on her calf.When I interviewed her for the story which
ran in the May 18 issue of the Reporter, “How jiu jitsu helped a grieving mom recover,” Elena was wearing capris so that was actually the fi rst time I had seen the tattoo.
What’s interesting about our relationship is that fi rst interview happened when I was just weeks from my due date when I was pregnant with my daughter. It gave me a whole new appre-ciation for what Elena has been through.
And like Elena, I have a tattoo that honors my daughter, my fi rst-born. Diff erent reasons, of course, diff erent kind of tattoo.
Still, since that fi rst conversation in the fall of 2009, I’ve felt a kinship with Elena even though I can’t fully understand what she’s been through.
Naturally when the email came through on May 3 from Elena to the [email protected] address that she had written a book I replied immediately to try and set up a time we could talk about it.
Last time I saw her was on Senior Night for the Kentlake boys basketball team. Her son Car-son was on the team. Th at night I brought my daughter, Lyla, whom Elena and I have talked about but she had not yet met my kiddo.
It was sweet to watch the game, talk about parenting, basketball, and see Elena run her fi ngers through Lyla’s curly hair. Maybe a wistful moment… I couldn’t say but I loved it.
Th at was in late February. Our interview about the book in mid-May was a long conversation that covered far-reaching topics.
It was a moment in time which makes my job worthwhile.
And I think the resulting story was awesome, not because I’m a great writer or teller of stories, but because Elena has a powerful message.
Honestly, it should be me sending her the thank you card.
Th ank you, Elena, for sharing your story with me even though I know there have been times when we’ve talked about the foundation that must have been a struggle.
And from all those who I am sure you will be touched, I will be presumptuous and thank you for telling your story, because I know it will have an impact.
Of all the thank you cards I’ve gotten lately this is one I will be sure to keep.
● Q U O T E O F T H E W E E K : ”At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitudeof those who have lighted the fl ame within us.” Albert Schweitzer
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Let’s face it; we humans make political deci-sions based largely on emotions.
We like to think we’re rational and logical, but in reality three emotions really govern our politi-cal decision-making: trust, fear and hope.
Being aware of these three emotions and how they interact can help us make better decisions when we vote this fall.
Trust is believing the candidate will keep his/her promises. Part of what we weigh when we determine whether we trust is to ask ourselves whether the candi-date really cares about us.
Th is was a hard lesson I learned as a high school teacher for 31 years: “Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” It’s the same with candidates for offi ce. We want to know that they
care about us and our needs. Candidates usu-ally try to show this by pointing out their past record – showing where they have accomplished what they promised in the past, either in or out
of politics.Trying to destroy trust in their opponent is
also a vital part of this, because we humans tend to remember the negatives about a person more readily than we remember the positives.
Candidates and political handlers know this. Th at’s why there are so many negative ads – be-cause they work to destroy trust in the opposi-tion.
Candidates oft en try to create trust by acting like they are just like the voters. It’s called “Plain Folks.” Th at’s why candidates don’t wear ties in front of some groups, or they kiss babies, or they talk about their spouses and kids. Th at helps them relate to potential voters.
Th e more candidates can make themselves appear to be like their constituents, the more likely their constituents will vote for them. Like attracts like. On the other end, the more the can-didates can make their rivals look “out of touch” or “elitist” the more eff ective their campaigns will be.
Fear is a powerful emotion to tap. Both Democrats and Republicans use this to sway voters. In the 1870s, Southern Democrats used fear created through violence and intimidation to win elections.
Republicans in our time use the fear of the loss of American values, the fear that our freedom will disappear through excessive government regulation and the fear that our money will be taken away through higher taxes.
Fear hijacks reason. Th at’s why it’s used so
oft en. If the candidates can generate enough fear against their opponents in the eyes of the public, it is likely they will win.
Fear plays on a desire for security and certain-ty, something we all want in some degree, but security and certainty are hard to attain because we don’t know the future.
Hope is the belief that conditions will improve (or stay the same) if a particular candidate is elected. Th is emotion is extremely powerful, especially in diffi cult times. (And when haven’t we had diffi cult times?)
Voters will be roused out of their apathy by hope that their lives will be better – they’ll have more money, a bigger house and more happi-ness. It will stir people who oft en do not vote to vote. Th is particular issue is especially true with Democrats who are greater in number but also more apathetic as voters unless stirred up by the emotion of hope.
Eff ective candidates play these emotions during elections. How well they play them and which emotion they elicit at just the right time with just the right group will help determine their success at the polls in November.
Since we are creatures who usually make polit-ical decisions based upon these three emotions, wouldn’t it be in our best interest to understand how candidates use them to play upon our feel-ings, hijack our reasoning and get us to act in ways that are not always in our best long-term interests? Shouldn’t we start attuning our ears to the words of trust, fear and hope?
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“Just a little bit.” Th ose are four words every mother wants to hear from her teenage daughters on a beautiful spring day in answer to the question “Do you have homework?” Th ose were the words I heard this bright and beautiful Sunday morning, which meant they had time to do something else today. My garden was calling to
me and because of some current health issues, I needed some able bodies out there to do what I couldn’t.
Last summer I dug a small trench under and outside of my front garden’s fence, lined it with plastic and laid concrete
pavers to create a mowing bar-rier. Th e grass had invaded my garden and I decided the best defense was an of-fense; thus the mowing strip. Aft er that labor
intensive project, I set out to eradicate several large
clumps of sedge (ornamen-tal grass) I’ve had in my garden for several years. It can be invasive over a pe-riod of time and I was tired of trying to manage it.
Th inking it would be easy, I tackled the fi rst plant shortly aft er I put in the mowing strip; probably late spring, early summer. Not only was the sedge one of the most diffi cult plants I’ve ever tried to remove, each clump took several days to completely pull out. I got sick of the process, but with each consecutive plant, my rage grew. I became obsessed over it and was determined to be the victor. Even the bees living in one of the plants did not detract from my mission.
At the end of summer I had successfully removed all the clumps of sedge. But I realized I had spent the whole summer getting rid of these plants and ac-complished nothing else; I hadn’t done any normal garden maintenance.
So as this spring has been too slow in coming and the rains have been excessively heavy, I’ve been watching the grass that invaded my garden last year get worse and the undisturbed weeds take hold with a vengeance. I started to despair that I would never get control of
the garden again and felt derailed and helpless when my health issue reared its ugly head.
But sometimes when one has a weighty issue to resolve, one oft en needs to look outside themselves for the solution. Seventeen years ago, I birthed my fi rst solution. Two and a half years aft er, the second part of my solution made her appearance. So when they told me, all these years later, they only had a little bit of homework, I rejoiced.
I got them out of bed, told them to eat and report to me in the garden. I fi gured getting them out there before the heat of the day was smart; there would be no excuses of it being too hot. Also, since they only had a “little bit” of homework, working in the garden fi rst kept them from “suddenly” having more homework than they thought.
As I was unable to do the digging, I introduced them to two of my best friends: the shovel and the pitchfork and pointed my daughters to the grass that was inch-ing its way through the front part of my garden.
In the past I’ve had mixed results from having my daughters help me in the garden. It has always
been my domain as it’s my hobby, so I’ve never made them help me with it on a regular basis. When I have gotten my daughters outside, it is usually under duress. Once they were in trouble and I made them dig a new section for me as their punishment, once I was trying to fi nish a big project before the rain hit and the few times I’ve of-fered to pay them for help-ing in the garden, they’ve opted out.
Today they grabbed their shovels and got to work without complaint. I don’t know if it’s because they are showing compassion towards me because of my health or if it’s because spring has sprung and they are crawling out of their caves. Whatever the reason, you won’t hear me complaining; a little bit of homework goes a long way in the garden.
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 read more of her writing and her daily blog on her web-site livingwithgleigh.com.
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PLANT SALE TO BE HELD JUNE 2
A Plant and Wish is having their annual plant sale 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 2 in front of Wilderness Village QFC.
There will be a variety of perennials, fl owers and shrubs for purchase. Most plant prices range from 50 cents to $4.
Come support Plant and Wish-one of the longest running garden clubs in Maple Valley.
Proceeds from sales in the past have been donated to Maple Valley Food Bank and Emergency Services, Sarvey
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ORDINANCES PASSED AT COVINGTON CITY COUNCIL’S MAY 22 MEETING
Ordinance No. 07-12 provides exemptions to the hours for nighttime construction and noise provisions for govern-mental entities and utility companies or districts.
Ordinance No. 08-12 enacts a tax on the gross revenues of the surface water utility operating within the city to pro-vide revenue for city services and capital requirements.
The ordinance takes eff ect on May 27.
Community Note
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Chamber LuncheonJune 14, 2012, 11:30 - 1:15pm
Guest Speaker:
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Location:
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Business After HoursJune 21, 2012, 4:30 - 7:30 pm
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Chamber’s 20th Anniversary Community BBQJuly 12, 2012, 4:00 - 7:00pm
Held at Covington Christian Fellowship
6th Annual Covington ChamberGolfTournamentAugust 24th, 12:30pm
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By the end of May, the soil has warmed and it is time to seed
cucumbers, squash, carrots, and other warm-season crops directly into the soil.
You can also plant seeds of flowering plants like nas-turtiums, sunflowers, mari-golds, cosmos and iberis now for flowers that will be blooming this summer.
If you haven’t edged the lawn, then set some bound-aries now and sharpen the blades of your mower for a crisp, clean cut all summer.
Roses, perennials and potted plants need fertil-izing this week but don’t go flinging fertilizer around rhododendrons, camellias, azaleas and most other blooming shrubs.
Trees and shrubs do fine without additional plant food and too much fertil-izer can encourage soft new growth that is weak and attractive to disease and insects – just like over-feed-ing humans can make them less healthy.
Use a compost or organic mulch around trees and
shrubs or a slow-release plant food.
You can continue to add new trees, shrubs, perenni-als and annuals to the garden, making sure you soak the root ball of new plants before you remove them from the pot and add them to the planting hole.
If you haven’t pruned your roses and they are budded up or blooming, enjoy the flowers in June but cut back the longest canes after the first flowers fade.
You can always remove anything dead, diseased or damaged from a plant no matter the season.
Q. My lilac is done blooming. Do I have to prune off the faded flowers? Also, the leaves are curling with some silky threads. Help! D.F., Renton
A. You can get snippy with the faded blooms of li-lacs to promote new growth
and better blooming. Li-lacs also need to have their suckers or new growth coming from below ground removed to keep them
from reverting back to wild plants. Shorten the longest branches of your lilac by at least a third to encourage new growth.
The curling leaves and silky webs are from the banded leaf roller insect. If you have just a few leaves infected, remove them im-mediately and squish the little caterpillar hidden in-side the rolled leaf. If more than a third of the shrub is infected you can spray with an organic spray called BT or Bacillus thuringiensis two or three times during the next few weeks to kill off the worms before they mature into moths. Clean
up fallen leaves and debris around your lilac, especially in the fall, to keep this in-sect from hiding out in the root zone.
Q. I have a spirea “Mag-ic Carpet” variety growing in a large container. It does very well and blooms most of the summer. My question is, how long can this shrub grow in a pot? S.D., Olympia
A. You don’t need to contain your enthusi-asm for this happy shrub because potted spiraes have bloomed happily in containers on my patio for almost a decade.
Like Japanese maples, they seem to adjust to the potted lifestyle but, unlike Japanese maples, spiraes look better when pruned back hard early in the spring.
I have found that all the dwarf or compact varieties of spirea do well in contain-ers including the spirea Limemound, the Golden Sunrise, the Goldflame and
the beautiful and carefree spirea Magic Carpet.
Q. What shrubs will do well in the shade? I have some large trees in my backyard and very little full sun. C.C., Maple Valley
A. Filtered shade from tall trees is perfect for grow-ing rhododendrons, azaleas, hydrangeas, leucothe, viburnums, euonymous, yews, even blueberries and nandina along with hun-dreds of other native and new plant introductions. The important thing is to improve your soil by adding organic matter and mulch so the plants don’t dry out.
All new trees and shrubs will need water the first few summers they are in the ground.
My personal favorite for summer color in the shade is the hydrangea. There are now so many new hydran-geas available that creating an outdoor room using hydrangeas that rebloom like the Endless Summer and Blushing Bride varieties
is very rewarding. There are also some new
dwarf hydrangeas that are perfect for pots on a shaded porch or patio.
You’ll pay more for a patented new hydrangea but these hardy shrubs are long-lived and carefree – you’ll have it made in the shade.
Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture from Washington State University and is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books. For book requests or answers to gardening questions, write to her at: P.O. Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022. Send a self-ad-dressed, stamped envelope for a personal reply.For more gardening information, she can be reached at her Web site, www.binettigarden.com.
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Taylor Jones felt just fi ne against Puyallup May 26 in the 4A baseball state cham-
pionship game at Gesa Stadium in Pasco.
Before the title game, there were two options Jones explained on Monday – either he started or Mark Dewall would get the call. It just depended on how Jones felt.
“We prepared for either one of us to start, me being the fi rst op-tion, him being the second,” Jones said. “I started warming up in the bullpen. I felt alright. Initially I was only supposed to go three innings of four innings … but, I felt good, good enough to keep going, so, I just fi nished strong.”
Jones drove in two runs and struck out eight while walking just two batters in a complete game vic-tory for Kentwood to lead the Con-querors to their second state crown in three years despite a pulled groin suff ered in a state tournament game a week earlier against Redmond.
On May 21, just two days aft er initially pulling the muscle, Jones said the injury wasn’t bothering him at all but at that point he was day-to-day.
And while Jones may have moved a little slow during the week leading up to the fi nal four in Pasco, he found his groove against Puyallup.
“It was great,” Jones said. “It was one of those dream moments. You’re waiting for a stage like this. I think when it comes to me, when I’m on big stages, when I’m playing in big games, I tend to almost relax more and kind of have that adrena-line going, but, at the same time … it feels smoother and less like I have
to force eff ort.”Aft er Kentwood put together an
8-5 victory over Todd Beamer in the semifi nal in a game where Sky-ler Genger struggled on the mound, Jones got the call to throw by fi rst-year head coach Mark Zender.
Jones, a Gonzaga University-bound senior, gave up four hits and one run to Puyallup in the title game.
Genger, who played fi rst base in the state championship, said the other guys on the team checked up on Jones during the week.
“If you asked (Jones), you could tell he was confi dent,” Genger said. “We were all very confi dent in
Taylor.”Th at confi dence proved to be
well-founded as Jones went 2-for-4 at the plate as well as his stellar performance on the mound.
“He had a day, he had a day,” Genger said. “You could see it in his eyes, he was ready to go. Just know-ing Taylor and playing with Taylor since we were little kids, there was no way he was saying he wasn’t ready to go in the state champion-ship this year.”
Before heading to Pasco, Jones told the Reporter on May 21 that in order to win a state crown the Con-querors needed to just keep doing what they’d been doing all season,
which led them to a perfect league record and the second seed out of the district tournament.
“Th rough the year, we’ve found so much success doing what we did,” Jones said. “Other teams in big situations try to press more and do more than what they’re capable of. We keep doing what we’ve done and maybe the other team will try to change things and maybe they’ll falter. We tried to keep our mind set on doing what we’ve done and it showed.”
Plus there was the added motiva-tion of beating Puyallup, which handed Kentwood its fi rst loss of the season in the league playoff game in early May.
“Th ey won one, we won one,” Jones said. “I think it kind of helped us, it gave us more motivation to go out there and get it done.”
Genger said he was also proud of some of the younger players on the team like sophomore Kade Kryzsko, who plays short stop, that stepped up and played with a remarkable level of poise as well as maturity in the post-season.
“Kade Kryzsko came out and had one of the best games I’ve ever seen, going 3-for-3 in the state champi-onship, which is pretty incredible for a sophomore,” Genger said. “He’s grown so much as a player and I expect big things coming from him.”
Still, Genger said, it was impor-tant for the seniors to help the team stay relaxed during the game since the Conks took the lead early they had to make sure they didn’t let up.
Aft er every inning they met in front of the dugout, Genger said, and told them to keep calm as well as maintain the same attitude that
Kentwood wins third meeting of season against Puyallup for state baseball championship in Pasco
Kentwood’s baseball team celebrates its 4-1 victory over Puyallup in the 4A state championship game on May 26 at Gesa Stadium in Pasco. Photo courtesy of the McGuire family
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BY KRIS HILL
Tahoma and Kentlake had their share of ups and downs at the 4A state fastpitch tournament May 25-26 at Merkel Sports Complex in Spokane.
Kentlake struggled to get the bats going in both games and was eliminated on the fi rst day with a 7-4 loss to Monroe in the open-ing round followed by a 4-3 loss in extra innings to Central Valley.
Tahoma bounced back from a 3-1 loss in the fi rst game to Richland, which went on to beat Th omas Jeff erson 13-3 for third place at the end of the tournament, to put together a 10-4 win over Inglemoor in the second game on May 25 then propelled into the second day of play with a 10-5 victory over Bothell in the third game of the fi rst day of action.
In an eerily familiar second day experience
reminiscent of the 2011 tournament for Tahoma the squad played on the same fi eld where it was elimi-nated a year ago.
One bad inning against Monroe on the morning of May 26 ended Tahoma’s hopes of bringing home a trophy when the Bearcats scored nine runs in the bot-tom of the second inning aft er the Bears took an early 1-0 lead. All things con-sidered, however, Tahoma coach Tom Milligan said that while the fi nal chapter on the season did not end the way he hoped overall the story of this year’s team was much better than any-one might have anticipated.
A year ago the Bears graduated six seniors who led the team to back-to-back South Puget Sound League North co-champi-onships and its fi rst appear-ance at the state tourna-ment in nearly 20 years.
“When we started this year … we were replac-ing six seniors,” Milligan
said. “We never thought we could (get back to state) in one year even though we had a couple of seniors who were part of that group who did it before. I thought it was going to be a year where we were going to have to teach the how to do things.”
Right out of the gate, though, Tahoma beat Jef-ferson which was favored to win the division, “and things snowballed from there,” Milligan said.
Little more than a month ago Milligan was refl ecting on what the team could ac-complish in the post-season in a conversation with his wife.
“Th is is a good group of kids,” he said. “I said to my wife, ‘I want to take these kids to state.’ Th is has been a really great past couple days.”
Milligan refl ected on his two seniors, Hayley Beckstrom and Jordan Wal-ley, who had played varsity since they were freshmen.
Four seasons ago Tahoma was playing an early season game against Auburn. Em-ily Miller, who graduated in 2011, was a sophomore starting at shortstop at the time and Beckstrom was at second base.
A decision was made to fl ip them to see what Beck-strom could do at short.
What she did was noth-
ing short of impressive, Milligan said.
“She dives for the ball … then from her knees, throws it and it’s a bang-bang play, as a freshman,” Milligan said. “Th at defi -nitely has been a constant for us, rock solid. Th is year she just continues to get better. She’s our MVP and she showed that in the league.”
Walley played fi rst base, she pitched and she hit the ball hard.
“She had more extra base hits than singles this year,” Milligan said. “No matter what you throw her, she’s going to get her pitch, she’s going to get hold of it and put it somewhere. You put a couple of quick left ies in front of Jordan and boom, instant off ense.”
Th en with Beckstrom — who smacked six home runs this season and put up a three run shot for Tahoma against Bothell at the state tournament — hitting be-
hind Walley it was a lethal combination.
Th ose two have helped teach the younger players who will return next year what it means to build a new tradition. Tahoma fi nished second in the divi-sion, eighth at districts and eighth at state with a 21-11 record.
“Now we’ve got a basis, a groundwork that we can build on,” Milligan said. “Th ey’re going to have big goals next year.”
Bears make it to second day at state
Tahoma senior Haley Beckstrom prepares to swing at the 4A state faspitch tournament at Merkel Sports Complex in Spokane. Tahoma eventually lost to Monroe. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
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BY TJ MARTINELL
Kentwood girls lead the Kent and Tahoma track and field teams after taking third at the 4A WIAA State Championship meet last week at Mount Tahoma High in Tacoma.
The Conks girls, who were last year’s state champs, scored 45 points, the highest of any Kent and Tahoma team, losing only to Auburn Riverisde and Curtis, who scored 55 and 62 points respectively.
Coach Steve Roche stated in a telephone interview that although they had hoped to win state again, he was pleased with how they performed.
“If you look at how they did across the board, you can’t help but be happy for them,” Roche said. “That’s pretty exciting. Any team in the state would love to have that.”
Roche added the level of competition was signifi-cantly increased from last year’s state meet.
Conks girls senior Mad-elayne Varela, for example, placed second in the long jump at 19 feet, when last year the winner jumped only 17 feet, nine inches.
“This is just a banner year for track and field in the state,” he said. “If you were to compare the times to
other years, it would blow you away.”
The Kent-Meridian girls placed 22nd with 12.5 points, tying with Monroe. Kentridge ranked 28th with eight points, while Tahoma placed 33rd with five points.
Although the boys teams struggled due to an unusu-ally high level of competi-tion, particularly in long distance running events, Kentridge was able to place the highest at 16th with 13 points, tying with Eisen-hower.
Kent-Meridian placed 23rd with 10 points, while Kentlake ranked 45th with 2.5 points. Tahoma placed 48th with one point, tying with Rogers-Spokane, A.C. Da-vis and Edmons-Woodway.
Senior Aaron Davis for Tahoma, placed eighth in the shotput, throwing it a distance of 51-06.
Bears girls junior Olivia Ranft placed sixth in the 400 meters, crossing the finish line at 58.84. Fresh-man Delaney Tiernan placed eighth in the 800 meters and the mile, run-ning times of 2:17.25 and 5:10.21 respectively.
Conks girls Varela placed second in the long jump and fourth in the 100 me-ters, jumping 19-00.25 and running a time of 12.41,
breaking her personal record in both events.
Senior Mykala Benjamin took seventh in the 200 meters with a time of 26.27. Her preliminary time in that event, 25.65, broke her previous personal record.
Junior Carly Horn placed seventh in the high jump with a vertical leap of 5-02. Junior Beth Parrish placed third in the pole vault after vaulting a height of 11 feet.
Senior Alyx Toeaina took second in both the shotput and the discus after
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Chargers boys senior Kaid Tipton took second in the 110 hurdles with a time of 14.87. He also placed
fifth in the 300 hurdles, crossing the finish line at 38.60, a new personal record. Senior Reggie Col-lins placed eighth in the 300 hurdles, finishing at 39.86.
Chargers girls sopho-more Lexi Klinkenberg took seventh in the 100 hurdles and third in the 300 hurdles, running times of 15.84 and 45.21 respective-ly. Her 300 hurdles time is a new personal record.
Royals boys junior Abu Kamara took fourth in the 110 hurdles with a time of 14.87. Junior Josh Smith placed fourth in the pole vault, vaulting a height of 14-00.
The Royals girls 400 me-ter relay team, comprised of junior Deedra Patterson, sophomore Kariona Micks, junior Stephanie O’Hara and sophomore Jenica Rog-ers, took fifth with a time of 49.66. Juliana Adams took fifth in the pole vault after vaulting 10-06. Reach TJ Martinell at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To comment on this story, go to covington-reporter.com
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Kentwood girls take third at state track meet
Kentwood senior Mykala Benjamin sprints in the 100-meter race at the state championship meet at Mount Tahoma. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter
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got them to the game and got them ahead because Puyallup is a good team who could fight to get back into it.
“As the last few outs came along, you could see Puyal-lup tense up,” Genger said. “In the last inning everyone
was ready and excited be-cause we knew we had done it. It was pretty awesome.”
Genger knows what it’s like to win a state title be-cause he came off the bench his sophomore year for the boys basketball team which won it all.
In that game he was on the floor at the end at the
bottom of the dog pile as the group celebrated.
This time, though, it was different.
“Right when we got on the bus and we turned on all our phones, our Facebooks and Twitters were just exploding,” he said. “I don’t want to say at Kentwood we expect to win, we just have a bunch of people, that’s the only thing we want to do. Coach Zender said of the start of the year
our goal was to win a state championship.”
Kentwood’s tradition of winning state titles was a motivator, especially since
Genger is not the only one in the fam-ily with that experience, as his older sister Jessie was on the 2009 girls basketball team that won
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to win one that’s bigger. It’s pretty cool now that I’ve finally accomplished what I’ve been wanted to do since I was a little guy running around the school with Cash (McGuire).”
It’s a moment that he shares not just with fellow senior Cash McGuire, but, with the entire team which has a level of chemistry which Genger said was unreal.
“What I texted my coach … was that I’ve never been more sad and happy at the same time after a season because
this team, it’s ridiculous, there’s no better team that I’ve played on … that’s hada team bond like this one,” Genger said.
For Jones, winning state meant everything, the ultimate way to finish his senior season as a student-athlete.
“Your last year of high school you always want to go out on top,” Jones said. “We have such a good group, a lot of talent, a lot of great players. We jelled. We played very relaxed. With that, it kind of made it more special.”
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Notice is herby given that the Board of Directors of Kent School District No. 415 will meet for the purpose of revising the District’s Capital Projects budget for the fiscal year 2011- 2012 at 7:00 p.m. on June 13, 2012, at the Administration Center, 12033 SE 256th Street, Kent, Washington. Any person may appear at said meeting and be heard for or against any part of said budget. A budget exten- sion document has been prepared by the board and will be filed at the office of the district superin- tendent from whom any person may obtain a copy upon request.Dr. Edward Lee Vargas Secretary of the Board of Directors
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FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the City Clerk, Black Diamond City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, Black Diamond, Washington 98010, until 2:00 p.m., June 13, 2012, for the construction of Roberts Drive Sidewalk Im- provements. The bids will then be opened and publicly read for the construction of improvements in the Public Works Conference Room, unless otherwise posted. Proposals received after the time fixed for opening will not be considered. The work to be performed under this contract includes the construction of sidewalks, storm- water facilities, and pedestrian lighting along 900 feet of Rob- erts Drive in the City of Black Diamond. Other elements include signage, walls, utility
adjustments, and other work as required to complete the project. The Engineer’s opinion of prob- able cost is between $200,000 and $275,000. Contract documents including plan drawings, specifications, addenda, and plan holders list for this project will be available for viewing and downloading on-line through Builders Exchange of Washington, Inc. (BXWA) at http://www.bxwa.com. To view the documents on BXWA’s website, select the following links: “Posted Projects”; “Public Works”; “City of Black Diamond”; “Projects Bidding”. Bidders are encouraged to “Register as a Bidder” in order to receive automatic e-mail notifi- cation of future addenda and be placed on the “Bidders List”. Contact the Builders Exchange of Washington at (425) 258-1303 should you require further assis- tance. Contract Documents, including plan drawings, specifications, addenda, and plan holders list for this project will be available for review at Daily Journal of Commerce Plan Center, www.djc.com. Informational copies of the plans and specifications are on file for inspection at the Public Works Department located at 24301 Roberts Drive, Black Diamond, Washington. All bid proposals shall be accompanied by a bid proposal deposit in cash, certified check, cashier’s check or surety bond in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the amount of such bid proposal. Should the successful bidder fail to enter into such contract and furnish satisfactory performance bond within the time stated in the specifications, the bid proposal deposit shall be forfeited to the City of Black Di- amond. The City of Black Diamond reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive irregular-
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The Kent School District No. 415 (the Agency) has issued a Determination of Non-signifi- cance (DNS) under the State Environmental Policy Act Rules (Chapter 197-11 WAC) for the adoption of its 2012 Capital Facilities Plan and inclusion as an amendment to the Capital Fa- cilities Plan element of the King County Comprehensive Plan and the Comprehensive Plans of the Cities of Kent, Covington, Renton, and Auburn. This is a non-project action which may also involve the amendment of the Capital Facilities Plan element of the Comprehensive Plans of the Cities of Maple Val- ley, SeaTac and Black Diamond. After review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file, the Agency has determined that this proposal will not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. Copy of the DNS is available from the Business Dept. at 12033 SE 256th St. Kent, WA 98030. The public is invited to comment on this DNS by submitting writ- ten comments no later than 4:00 pm on June 12, 2012 to Dr. Rich- ard A. Stedry - 12033 SE 256th St. #A-600, Kent, WA 98030. Publishedc in Kent, Covington/ Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters June 1, 2012.#629976
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The purpose of the Public Hearing is to receive comments on the proposed Six-Year Transportation Improvement Plan 2013 - 2018. A list of possible projects is available from the Public Works Department at Covington City Hall. Questions may be directed to Don Vondran, City Engineer.
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