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BY KATHERINE SMITH
Th e Maple Valley City Council will reconsider their support of House Bill 1128 at the March 25 Council meeting.
Th e bill relates to the public records act and would allow government agencies to seek court injunctions to block public records requests under some circumstances. According to the language in the bill, those circumstances include requests that were, “made to harass or intimidate the local agency or its employees…will ma-terially interfere with the work of the local agency…likely threaten the safety or security of any per-son named in the record or likely assist criminal activity.”
Other factors outlined in the bill that the court would be al-
Council to reconsider support of HB 1128
BY KRIS HILL
Dozens of Tahoma High sophomores tromped through the damp woods of Cedar Creek Park March 7 with shovels, saws and other tools in hand to work on a trail.
Th e teenagers, who are in the school’s Outdoor Academy, can oft en be found out working on such projects but typically they are outside of the city. Th is time, the students got to help build a trail which can be accessed from Cedar Downs, a neighborhood off Witte Road in Maple Valley.
It’s a chance for the teens to be stewards of the environment as well as ap-ply what they’ve learned in science class. Dan Nist, an Outdoor Academy student, said there is a signifi cant community service element to the class which is team taught by three educators in health and fi tness, science and English.
“Th is is a great example of how we’re helping out the community by building a trail,” Nist said. “It’s great to give back. It defi nitely feels
good. You feel really pro-ductive. You feel like you’ve accomplished something.”
Plus, the trail they worked on clearing March 7 had examples of soil and plant life they studied in the classroom.
“With the soils, the really mushy soil … we’ve learned about that in science,” Nist said. “So, we want to clear that top layer off so it doesn’t get muddy and we can get to the mineral layer.”
Jack Anderson, a class-mate of Nist’s in Outdoor Academy, explained how they’ve learned about endangered plant life as well as endangered species in school. Anderson said he could recognize the dif-ferent plants they’d talked about in Cedar Creek Park as they worked.
“It’s nice that we get experience out here instead of just sitting in a class and looking at pictures,” Anderson said. “It’s really cool. I’m going to take my parents here and show them that I worked on this.”
Outdoor Academy’s work
BY KRIS HILL
Dace’s Rock ‘n’ More quarterly Rockcital March 23 will be part concert, part community gather-ing thanks to the venue.
With performances by students in the nonprofi t music school’s Rockology class set up at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Cen-ter, which is next door to Rock ‘n’ More, those who attend the
Rockcital will be able to step away from the show to chat and learn more about the programs off ered in the music school.
Arielle Young, who helps run Rock ‘n’ More’s locations in Maple Valley and Redmond, explained the concept.
“We’re going to open up these two (lesson) rooms so we can have a green room for the bands,” Young said. “We used to do a lot of the Rockcitals at clubs and
there would be a green room where the bands could meet and talk to one another. Th ey’re all in the same boat. Th ey’re all nervous.”
At other venues in the past such as the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle, there wasn’t a green room where that kind of band bonding could go on, nor was there really a way for those who attended the event to really get to know each other.
“Also, we’re trying to build the same kind of community we have here in Maple Valley in Redmond,” Young said. “We have a band coming down from Redmond. It’s important to show
Rockcital to showcase music and community
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Trail work progresses at Cedar Creek Park
Tahoma sophomore Dan Nist saws a branch as part of the Outdoor Academy’s work party March 7 at Cedar Creek Park to clear trails on the 115-acre property. KRIS HILL, The Reporter
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Work has begun in earnest to organize this year’s Covington Days festival.
With Covington staff taking on a leader-ship role there will be some differences in the city’s annual summer festival yet it should feel familiar in many ways.
The Covington Days parade, for ex-ample, which has grown in popularity in recent years will continue with the help of Julie Stein, who is the executive assistant for MultiCare administrator Hugh Kodama. She has worked for several years coordi-nating the parade, explained Covington’s Community Relations Director Karla Slate.
This year, though, the parade will have a different route. During the past few years when the festival was at Cedar Heights Middle School the parade began at Jenkins Creek Elementary, went out to Southeast 272nd Street then headed east to Cedar Heights. There are three potential parade routes and it will still likely march down 272nd, Slate said, but it just depends on what works best in terms of traffic impact and safety.
That portion of the festival, Slate said, costs the most in terms of staff time with it equaling about $8,000 in 2012.
With the event set for July 20-21, it will be a bit smaller then last year with the loca-tion of the festival proposed for two sec-tions of the Kohl’s parking lot in downtown Covington.
“We’re not changing the format of the festival dramatically but we’re working harder to make sure all of the elements
complement each other and nothing gets left out because there’s not enough money,” Slate said. “We want to be consistent so people know what to expect when they get there. We want to get back to the fam-ily oriented focus of the festival and that means looking at the spectrum of enter-tainment and activities that cover the entire age range of the population.”
One element which will not change, Slate noted, was the festival’s affiliation with the region’s largest summer festival, Seafair.
“It will still be a Seafair sanctioned event and because of that we will be able to participate in Seafair meetings,” Slate said. “Not only will that help us with mar-keting and contacting vendors, it will also help us with learn-ing about Seafair’s background. The first Seafair meeting is on marketing and sponsorship, which is awesome.”
Vendors who participated in last year’s event will be contacted while some who signed up for booths this year have called the city to see what the next steps would be thanks to notifications of the change in leadership by the Covington Lions Club, which organized the event from 2005-2012. The Lions voted to step away from the fes-tival and the City Council approved a staff recommendation a few days later to take Covington Days on.
Slate said the 14 staff members who are involved in organizing the festival began meeting March 7. They are working on craft vendor applications. This will be restructured so that the arts and crafts fair vendors fit with the theme of that portion of the event. There will be a set percentage
of craft vendors, likely the majority of per-mits issued, along with other vendors who will complement the theme, Slate said.
“We’re going to work really hard to get a diverse set of vendors that focus on the hand crafted items,” Slate said. “I’d like to encourage anyone in this community, Covington or Maple Valley, who are arts and crafters who didn’t think they could get a space because it was too expensive … to apply.”
Sponsorship opportunities will change, too, Slate explained. Previously there were different levels of sponsorship for the entire event. This year the goal is to get sponsors
for each specific area or event to help cover costs of the festival.
“We’re really just going to focus on how the sponsors will get the best exposure,” Slate said. “We’re
not going to go out asking for large amounts of money. I think we’ll also
offer multi-event or multi-year events, so, if someone wants to sponsor all the entertain-ment for all the events (the city offers).”
With multi-event or multi-year sponsor-ships in place, Slate said, that will allow the city to plan more efficiently by eliminat-ing the guesswork and unpredictability of short-term sponsorships.
City staff also hope to bring in service clubs, church groups and even local student service clubs or groups to provide activi-ties which would serve as fundraisers for the group while providing a benefit to the festival.
Another critical element of the festival which is changing this year is shortening it from three days to two, with events and activities offered Saturday and Sunday.
“That way we can pool our resources rather than spread them out,” Slate said. “The core elements are entertainment, shopping, food and activities for kids and the family.”
This is what members of the community have asked for, Slate said, and the city will work to provide those elements.
On the entertainment front, Pat Pat-terson will work on the lineup as he has for years for the city, but he’s finalizing the Summer Concert Series first.
“He’s done a really good job of lining up entertainment the past couple years,” Slate said. “We shouldn’t line up all bands, we should do other things, whether it’s an il-lusionist or a comedian. We definitely want to mix it up.”
At this point, Slate said, the first prior-ity is to get information out to potential vendors because this is the time of year when those folks are considering what fes-tivals to sign up for. The next priority is to address the sponsorship strategy, get out in the community and develop relationships with potential sponsors. At the same time, Slate said, Stein is working on the parade logistics.
Once those elements fall into place, the city can begin to heavily promote the festival as well as notify those who will be impacted by the parade route.
Slate said she is excited for this year’s Covington Days festival.
“It’s very time consuming and it’s very hard work but it’s easier in the sense that we’re all here in one building … we can communicate on a daily basis and it makes it so we can focus more on the content of the festival,” Slate said.
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Forget all those precon-ceived notions about how knitting is just for little old ladies. This isn’t your grandmother’s knitting group.
Mishell Cash, a Coving-ton area resident, took up the challenge of learning to knit this winter and now she’s starting a fiber art group that will meet twice a month at Ristretto’s Coffee and Wine.
This winter wasn’t the first time Cash had tried knitting. When she and her husband first moved to the area from Spokane in 2005 she picked up some yarn and a pair of knit-ting needles but soon grew frustrated.
“I didn’t even make it two weeks,” Cash said.
Then last year Cash was work-ing at an RV dealership and she met a couple who would both knit while they waited for their RV to be serviced. Cash struck up a conversation with Tim and Louise Brown and commissioned Tim to
create a scarf for her. Soon she was inspired to give knitting another try, she now fondly refers to Tim and Louise as her knitting mentors.
This time Cash was de-termined to learn and not give up like she did before. She began visiting local yarn shops and soon signed up for knitting lessons in December.
“I took a lesson every week in the evening, then I would go to the coffee shop (across the street from the yarn shop) and study my knitting books and practice my stitches,” Cash said.
Cash often has her yarn bag in tow — a large purple bag with yellow polka dots, in which she carries everything she might need,
from yarn and needles to smaller tools and books on knitting. Cash loves to visit yarn stores and knitting groups, getting project ideas, mak-ing new friends and improving her knitting skills. So far, she has visited yarn shops as far
away as Snohomish and Ocean Shores.
“I think what got me hooked was the portability,”
Cash said.She was previously a quil-
ter, a hobby that she had taken up in high school. Cash eventually gave up quilting in her 30s, she said it was taking up to much space, getting too expen-sive and she found she was having to choose between quilting and doing other things like traveling with her husband.
“My husband and I do tons of outdoor travel,” Cash said. “I can knit on
the way to our adventures. I even knitted in a Nordic yurt…I can still mountain-eer and hike and snowshoe and knit. I don’t have to choose.”
A desire to connect with other knitters and the fact that there aren’t many yarn stores in the immediate area for knitters to gather at inspired Cash to start her own group.
“The theme of the fiber art group is social knit-ting, keeping it fun,” Cash said. “It’s male and female, knitters and crocheters…I just want to find people
who like to knit and like to travel.”
Cash envisions grow-ing the group, and hopes someday the group could do some traveling.
The group meets at Ris-tretto’s, a perfect location according to Cash, because of the atmosphere, the food and the fact that it is open later in the evenings.
“I really wanted a place with wine and food and it’s five minutes from my house — and I hang out here
New fiber art group not your grandma’s knitting club
Mishell Cash, a Covington area resident, undertook learning to knit this winter. Now she is starting a fiber art group that meets at Ristretto’s on the first and third Tuesday of the month. Photo courtesy of Mishell Cash.
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“I can knit on the way to our adventures. I even knitted in a Nordic yurt...I can still mountaineer and hike and snowshoe and knit. I don’t have to choose.” Mishell Cash
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Football, best sport ever. I don’t mean the sport where you massacre each other so you can run an oblong shaped ball into a special spot in the grass. I mean football where you actually use your feet the whole time. Th is is known in only the U.S. as soccer. And trust me I’m not hating on football — I love to root for the Hawks and I can throw a pretty nice spiral while passing in the front yard with my daddy but soccer, that’s my pas-sion.
You know, there aren’t many places to go practice! I play for Maple Valley Marauders Premiere League and Rachel, my coach, you’re awesome! But anyway, we play out at Ravensdale Park, which is a pretty awesome fi eld. Here’s the catch: it’s private so you can’t just go down there anytime and play. Sad face!
And Tahoma High School’s stadium isn’t just open for grabs on weekends, it’s locked when teams aren’t practicing there on weeknights. Also, I don’t know how many times I’ve gone down to Wilson Fields and every goal has been taken. Petrovitsky Park is pretty nice too, but I think your spot has to be reserved there for practicing and, as you can see most of these aren’t actually in Covington.
Now when I was in CCS, I was there from age 5 to 10, and let me tell you, there is a pretty large age span for CCS. I think it’s ages 2 through 14. Furthermore, every game I had was either at Kentwood High School, or Mattson Middle School. I only had a couple games at Kentwood, and there is only one fi eld so it was a little diffi -cult when there were multiple teams all sched-uled to play there. Th en there was Mattson. Do
you remember that one season where the whole fi eld was mud? Shudder. I remember that season.
But you know, there should be a few fi elds here in Covington! I mean we don’t have all but a couple schools to practice and have games at! Th ere could be two or so full sized turf fi elds and maybe one or two that can be downsized since there are so many little kids in CCS. With goals on each side, sizes may vary, a walk way to each fi eld, a few of those huge light posts that come on when the darkness falls over the sun rays, some bleachers, and a little fence around the premises so balls don’t go rolling into the street!
Just imagine it now, fi ve minutes away. And when you get home you don’t have to worry about mud, just those cute little round, black,
rubber beads that just magically appear that you have to keep vacuuming up! Th is would be great so coaches don’t have to fi ght for a spot on an elementary school’s fi eld! Games also wouldn’t have to consume all of Mattson’s space! And you know, Covington is a great town. Also soccer has really taken off over the last decade, I mean it is booming!
What would make Covington 10 times more awesome, would be a public soccer fi eld close by! Now the only question is, can we aff ord to do it?
Annie Livengood of Covington is an aspir-ing journalist and sixth-grader at Crestwood Elementary.
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Crime rates going down
I take issue with Mr. Noel Gerken’s asser-tions and exhortations in the March 8 issue of Th e Maple Valley Re-porter. His assertion that, “gun violence and deaths in our society are increasing at an alarming rate” is patently false, ac-cording to the Crimes Statistics Report on U.S. Crimes.
Both property crimes and violent crimes have been
decreasing - dramati-cally so since 2003 for the former and less so since 2006 for the latter. Yet even if his assertion were true, I take um-brage that his remedy is to contact selected members of the state legislature and let them know we are “tried” (sic) of par-tisan politics prevent-
ing common sense solutions to improve our safety.
If these “partisan” representa-tives are protecting our Constitu-tional rights to safeguard ourselves and our families, I say more power to them.
Why not contact the opposing party’s members in Olympia — equally
partisan and more prone to knee-jerk reactions based on false assumptions and baseless allegations — and urge them to support the Constitu-tion with respect to self-protection?
While I don’t expect many to heed Mr. Gerken’s advice or my own, I could not let this assertion and so-called remedy remain unchallenged.
Dennis FletcherMaple Valley
No, the sky isn’t falling
I hold elected of-fi cials to a higher stan-dard to support their statements regarding policies and political partisanship claims.
As published in your letters to the editor last week City Councilman Noel Gerken asserted that, “Gun violence and deaths in our society are increasing at an alarming rate.”
I believe the second half of the sentence
means to state that the increasing deaths are a result of gun violence. Th e FBI statistics are that murder rates, including gun crimes, have been trending downward since 1993 - 24,526 vs. 2011 - 14,612.
Whether you are for or against new gun laws the debate de-serves to be centered on facts not chicken little rhetoric.
Larry GiampapaCovington
“If these “partisan” representatives are protecting our Constitutional rights to safeguard ourselves and our families, I say more power to them.” Dennis Fletcher
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Tahoma High’s PTA has changed its focus when it comes to scholarships in the same way the district is working to change its emphasis strictly on preparing students to be college-ready.
Kim Walley, chair of the Tahoma Com-munity Partner Scholarship program, said it was time to make some changes. First, she reached out to the community and businesses to form a committee for the program.
Next was changing the approach to off er-ing scholarships.
“We took the words ‘university’ and ‘college’ out of the scholarship program be-cause not every kid is going there,” Walley said. “We’re really trying to encompass ev-ery student’s pathway and support whatever they’re trying to do.”
Part of that process, Walley said, was to put together a scholarship for fi rst-genera-tion college students. Diane Fox, assistant principal at Tahoma High, brought up the idea of providing support for those kids whose parents didn’t navigate that process.
It’s important for every student to feel like he is on equal ground with his peers, whether he’s going to a top tier university
to study engineering or a technical college to enter the health care industry, Walley ex-plained, and this dovetails with the Tahoma School District’s Future Ready initiative — the focus is not a question of what college you plan to attend aft er graduation, but instead, what is your path aft er high school and how will you get there?
Walley said the revamped scholarship program is intended to support the concept behind Future Ready.
“What we’re trying to do with the schol-arship program is make it inviting no mat-ter who you are,” Walley said. “Can scholar-ships be a full time job? Absolutely. Th at’s why those table top conversations have been encouraged. Where do you want to go and how much is that going to cost? Having those conversations as a family early on, your sophomore year, your freshman year, you can plan and there’s no surprises, you know your path.”
Walley has personal experience with the process. She has two daughters, Jordan, who graduated from Tahoma High in 2012 and Kendall, who is a junior this year. Her girls are diff erent people with diff erent paths, she said, with her elder daughter playing soft ball on scholarship at Western Washington University while Kendall is a member of the dance team who will likely
go her own direction.“As a community, we have to tell our
kids, ‘Th at’s OK,’” Walley said. “Th ose kids are our future. We need every single one of them. Th ey’re all important. Th at’s the biggest thing that we’re trying to get across. Just because you choose something that is way diff erent from your best friend doesn’t mean it’s the wrong choice. We need to make them all feel like they’re equal.”
Th e PTA’s Scholarship program has grown signifi cantly since it began, Walley said. In 1992 there were four scholarships given for a total of $1,400. In 2012 they handed out 55 scholarships totaling more than $55,000.
Walley wants to see it grow further by bringing in students who have a wide range of post-secondary plans.
“Th ere’s a lot of new scholarships this year,” she said. “We’re actually going to have a fundraiser so we can bring in more mon-ey for scholarships. I’d like to encourage the business community to make a donation. It’s completely tax deductible. A thousand dollars goes a long way to help a student go toward the next step in their lives.”
One of the new scholarships is a memo-rial fund for Tahoma High graduate and Maple Valley businesswoman Sandi Sutton, who was killed Feb. 21 in Las Vegas. Th is
year anyone can donate to the scholarship which will bear Sutton’s name, Walley said, but in the future the Greater Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce will likely support it.
Th is year, a new feature is the ability to fi ll out the application completely online, Walley said. Not only does it save paper, it allows students to complete the applica-tion at their own pace as they can work on it, save it then go back to it later. One application puts kids in the running for many scholarships and in 2012 every single kid who submitted a complete application received a scholarship.
“We’d love to see those number go up,” Walley said. “My goal is when I walk out and graduate with Kendall in 2015 is to raise $150,000. Th at’s a loft y goal. Bottom line for me is that this is all about the kids so they can be successful for the future and the rest of their lives. When they’re in high school that’s the time to wrap our arms around them so that when they’re seniors they’re prepared, they’re ready to go.”
Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054. To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.
Tahoma scholarship committee embraces Future Ready
anyways,” Cash said. Cash said all ages and
skill levels are welcome, even those who are just curious about learning to knit or crochet.
“You don’t have to be 5 or 18 to learn,” Cash said. “If you didn’t have a mother or a grandmother who taught you, you can learn later in
life.”Th e group, K2, P2, W2,
meets at 7 p.m. on the fi rst and third Tuesday of each month at Ristretto’s. Cash is blogging about her adventures in knitting at mishellmybell69.blogspot.com.
Reach Katherine Smith ksmith@covingtonreport-
er.com or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.
COMMUNITY PARK NEEDS NEW NAMEThe city of Covington’s new park located at the southwest corner of 180th Ave S.E. and SE 240th Street, across from Tahoma High School, is ready to receive its offi cial name.
The park, which has been under construction since July 2012, is nearly complete and it features a full-size grass soccer fi eld, paved parking lot and portable-style toilets. Over a mile of paved and soft surface trails, most of which are wheelchair accessible, wind through the pasture and 15-acre forested area. Little Soos Creek runs through the southwest corner of the property.
The city’s Parks and Recreation Commission is leading the park naming process by asking the public for ideas. Sug-
gestions must be received by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, and should include a short explanation of why the name is appropriate for the park. The park name should include a reference to its neighborhood or geographical identifi cation; historical or cultural signifi cance; natural or geological features; groups who contributed signifi cantly to the acquisition or development of the park; or to an individual who provided an exceptional service in the interest of the park system as a whole or of historical signifi cance. However, names of living persons will gener-ally be avoided.
Suggestions may be made in writing and can be mailed to Covington City Hall at 16720 SE 271st St., Covington, WA 98042, posted on the city’s Facebook wall, submitted by email to [email protected], or given in person at the commission meeting on March 20. For questions or more information, please call 253-480-2400.
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A new diet has become all the rage in Britain and is now making landfall on our shores as well. It’s called the Fast Diet and millions of weight loss candidates already swear by it.
Like all com-mercial diet programs, this one promises quick results without much eff ort and little changes in established eating habits. Followers can eat anything they want for fi ve days but then have to undergo a fasting period of 48 hours where they cannot consume more than 500 to 600 calo-ries per day.
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Th e idea of submitting oneself to periods of food deprivation is noth-ing new, of course.
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors
did it, although perhaps not voluntarily, and many religions recommend it as a ritual for cleansing, both physically and spiritually.
“Voluntarily abstaining from eating for short peri-ods of time will allow you to eat what you like, most of the time, and get slimmer and healthier as you go,” the authors proclaim on their website, thefastdiet.co.uk.
“Th e joy of the Fast Diet is that the side-eff ects are all good,” they say.
But are they?Even if its true that our
bodies are genetically pro-grammed to endure periods of famine, as our forbearers were forced to with regular-ity when food supplies ran scarce, that doesn’t mean it is a good idea to disrupt your metabolism every so oft en just to shed a few extra pounds in a hurry.
For example, when the body is subjected to severe calorie restriction, it goes into a diff erent metabolic mode where it switches from burning carbohy-drates, its preferred fuel, to burning fat.
Th is may at fi rst sound like a good idea since body fat is what dieters want to get rid off . However, if this process continues for too
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When fat stores become the primary source for fuel, weight loss will occur – but not without side eff ects. During ketosis, the body builds up substances known as ketones, which can cause a number of health problems.
Loss of appetite, nau-sea, dizziness, irritability, tiredness and bad breath are among the milder symptoms. More serious consequences include dehy-dration, gout, kidney stones and even kidney failure.
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Many followers of weight loss diets are plagued with one or more of these condi-tions.
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Last but not least, there are the long-term implica-tions to be considered. Are we to believe that a fi ve-day period of no dietary restric-tions followed by two days of disciplined fasting is a viable option for most people?
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For Dace Anderson, founder and president of the school, it’s an opportu-nity to do something a bit different with the Rockcital program.
The two lesson rooms that will be cleared out will offer ways for people to go beyond the typical concert experience.
“We’re going to … have art supplies so they can really graffiti up the wall,”
Anderson said. “The infor-mation about us is going to be there, but we really want people who come to the concert to communicate with each other, to get to know each other, to provide a gathering place for people coming to the show.”
The idea is to make it about bringing people together because a gather-ing is fun.
“We want to invite every-body around to come hang out with us, have some fun, eat some food, listen
to some music,” Anderson said.
And since the Redmond location opened last year, Anderson said, they’ve dis-covered other private music schools don’t offer this kind of event.
Unlike in Maple Val-ley, Anderson said, Rock ‘n’ More has competition in Redmond. Some of the schools are great but others have different intentions when it comes to the ser-vices they provide.
“The for-profit schools
give you lessons for money and the non-profit schools do it for the community,” Anderson said. “So, there’s some differences that are subtle.”
It will be a good time, Anderson and Young said, especially since the typical Rockcital crowd is filled with the good people from around here.
“Everywhere we go people are impressed with how nice our crowd is from Maple Valley,” Anderson said.
[ ROCKCITAL from page 1] on the trail is a bit of a change compared to the service the students have done for the class previ-ously.
“It’s really cool because when we do the work out at Log Cabin Reach we don’t see the impact right away,” Anderson said. “But this will be some-thing people in Maple Valley will be able to use right away. This will be awesome.”
It was also exciting for Lisa Parsons, executive director of the Middle Green River Coalition, which has worked to preserve the 115-acre property for future de-velopment as a regional trail connection between Maple Valley and Coving-ton. A portion of the park is in unincorporated King County while a chunk of it is in Covington. It also can be accessed from the Tall Timbers and Tim-berlane neighborhoods in Covington.
In recent years the space had become a playground for owners of all terrain vehicles. Cedar Creek Park also suffered in January 2012 when the snow and ice storms the area experienced brought down so many limbs of the mature growth for-est that sections of trail
were nearly impassable, Parsons told the Reporter in April 2012.
Parsons approached the city of Covington first to begin work to repair the damage done by ATVs and winter storms. Covington staff supported the coalition’s efforts and put up barriers at the park entrance, posted signs and worked to deter off-road vehicle use.
When Parsons first moved to southeast King County years ago she saw the potential. Now she hopes the coalition can make the most of the potential of Cedar Creek Park. It starts with the efforts of work parties such as the students from Tahoma High’s Outdoor Academy.
“It was a great day for me to see the vision finally becoming a reality,” Parsons wrote in an email interview. “I realized today that most of those kids were not even born when I started the work of conserving the area. I think it really made me realize how important the work is to future genera-tions. There aren’t many forests like that left in the Puget Sound region. People will be able to take their kids there to learn about what forest should look like.”
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This is the week to plant cool season vegetables and add some instant color with early blooming perennial.
Vegetables that sprout best in cold soil include peas, car-rots, lettuce, onions, beets, radish, spinach and Swiss chard. The secret to early planting depends more on how quickly your soil drains than it does on the calendar date.
If you have sticky, slow-draining clay soil you will need to wait another month to seed even the cool season veggies listed above. Clay soil means wet feet and no vegetable likes to have wet feet on a cold night.
Gardeners with raised beds, containers filled with potting soil, or that enjoy soil that has been improved with compost over the years have fluffy, loose soil that
drains quickly. They can seed directly into the soil now and enjoy fresh greens in six to eight weeks.
If instant color is what you dream about during
your spring fevers than take thee to a nursery and choose from the blooming inspiration such as prim-roses, hel-
lebores, pansies, violas and sprouted bulbs of daffodils, tulips and hyacinths. You can plant any of these flow-ers directly into the ground or into container gardens now and enjoy months of color before replacing these early bloomers with sum-mer annuals or bedding plants.
In our cool summer climate some of the spring bloomers will continue to flower all summer long.
Q. I am confused about when to plant seeds into
my vegetable garden. You say to read and follow the seed pack, but what I read is “plant as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring.” I have no idea what that means! Why can’t they just print a planting date on the seed pack? P., Email
A. Gardeners have been gambling on when to plant for generations and out-guessing the weather is part of this daring game of chance. There is no exact planting date for seeds because gardening is more of an art than a science and knowing your soil and predicting the weather de-termines when to plant. The simple answer is to grab a fist full of soil and squeeze. Now open your hand. If the soil stays formed into a ball or if water drips from between your fingers then your soil drains poorly or contains a lot of clay and it cannot be “worked” or dug up. Working wet soil destroys the structure or
air spaces and this will result in seeds that are more likely to rot. Well-drained soils that crumble and fall apart after a good squeeze allow air and water to pass through and seeds can more easily sprout and send down roots. In Western Washington the planting date for cool season crops (leaf crops, peas, beets, and carrots) is anytime from mid-March until mid May.
Q. I would like to fill my empty porch contain-ers with flowers that will be blooming for Easter. I would like to use the potted tulips and daffodils that I see for sale at the nursery. My question is: how long will they stay in bloom? T.S, Maple Valley
A. Hop right in and celebrate Easter early by investing in pre-sprouted tulip, daffodils and other spring-blooming bulbs. If you choose bulbs that have tight buds and no blooms you can be assured of color
for the next three to four weeks. This color flash will only last if you keep the plants cool and moist. I like to leave the bulbs in the plastic nursery pot and sink the entire pot into a larger container. Add pansies and primroses around the sides of the center pot and be sure to water both the center container and the side plantings.
Then, in a few months when the spring bulbs are done you can lift the pot, spent bulbs and all right out of the container and replace with summer bloomer. You can even reuse the spent bulbs by tapping them out of the plastic nursery pot, separating the clumps of bulbs and replanting them into well-drained soil with the fading foliage still at-tached.
Q. I am going to re-plant a sunny slope using boulders to create a rock garden. I saw a photo of a spectacular display of color
and the plants listed were pink and lavender creep-ing phlox, basket-of-gold, deep pink aubrietia and white candytuft. Will these plants survive here, where can I buy them and how easy are they to grow? N.G., Olympia
A. Yes, these rock stars will all thrive, you can find creeping phlox, candytuft, aubrietia and basket-of-gold at local nurseries now and they are simple to grow but only if you provide them with great drainage on a sunny or partly-shaded slope and remember that even drought-resistant rock garden plants need moisture the first sum-mer so they can establish a root system. You can tidy up these spring bloomers by shearing them back by half once the flowers fade — often this early sum-mer crew cut will persuade these colorful characters to give a summer-long encore performance.
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Senate Bill 5417 and its companion bill, House Bill 1539, have made it to the floor of their respective chambers and are awaiting action.
If signed into law, the bills would raise the threshold for the amount of land that can be annexed by a city from 100 acres to 175 acres and would remove a stipulation that the property in ques-
tion must contain residents. This would allow the city of Maple Valley to begin the annexation process for Summit Place also known as the donut hole. Annexation would shift control of zoning the property from King County, which also owns the property, to the city.
Mayor Bill Allison met with King County Executive Dow Constantine as well as Rep. Pat Sullivan, Sen. Mark Mul-let, King County councilman Reagan Dunn and Tahoma School District Superintendent Mike Maryanski on March 8. According to Allison, one of the main talking points
during the meeting was the issue of valuation — the city’s appraiser valued the property at approximately $15 million, significantly lower than the county’s valuation, Allison said.
“(We’re) allowing it to be market driven, they aren’t,” Allison said. “They believe it can support
1,700 homes, a third of those being low income.”
Allison said the problem he sees with the vision to build so many homes, and so many low income homes is that the city doesn’t have the infrastructure to support the resi-dents those homes would bring. He cited a lack of jobs, a decrease in transit services offered by the county in the city, and the already overtaxed school system.
“I understand they (the county) need to get money for it,” Allison said. “We need to work to make this a win for the city of Maple Valley, the Tahoma School District and King County.”
Allison said the city is more than willing to continue to work with the county.
To that end, the county and the city have agreed to get the appraisers together to discuss the issue of valuation.
“Our goal is to get the appraisers together this week,” Al-lison said. “That will get us to a common understanding of what it (the donut hole) is worth.”
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-lowed to consider would include other records re-quests by the requestor, the type of records, the purpose for the request, the volume of records requested, the agency’s effort to accommo-date the request, the impact of disclosure and the deter-rence of criminal activity.
The bill also specifies that if an injunction is sought, the requestor must have the chance to respond and be notified of any hear-ing dates. Before a request for an injunction is filed the agency must give the requestor a chance to revise their request, and the agency must continue to fulfill the request until an injunction is granted.
Cases that are found to
be “frivolous” or “in bad faith” by the court can result in the court awarding attorney’s fees up to $15,000 to the requestor.
The bill also specifies that the new act would not ap-ply to the media.
“Requests made by news media for the inspection or copying of any public record may not be enjoined under this section,” the bill reads.
The bill is being sup-ported by the Association of Washington Cities, a nonprofit that represents Washington cities and towns in the state legisla-ture, of which Maple Valley is a member.
The bill was discussed in the House Local Govern-ment Committee on Jan.
25. The committee ex-pressed concerns about some of the vague language in the bill and also heard testimony from representa-tives of various agencies who cited examples of vague and excessive records requests.
One example that is often cited when the bill is discussed is the city of Gold Bar which considered un-incorporation last year due to the high costs of public records requests.
“What it (the bill) is supposed to do is to protect from the erroneous re-quests,” Maple Valley Mayor Bill Allison said. “It’s simply there to protect the city.”
The Maple Valley City Council decided at its meet-ing March 11 to revisit the
city’s support of HB 1128 at its March 25 meeting after receiving comments from the public and the issue being raised by council members Layne Barnes and Linda Johnson.
“I think there are other ways to deal with it other than that particular bill that is too over-reaching,” Barnes said at the March 11 meeting.
According to informa-tion provided by the Maple Valley city clerk, there were 150 records requests filed through the city clerk in 2012.
“We all have the right to request information from a government organization,” Councilman Sean Kelly said in a phone interview on March 4. “It is a little vague
but I think that should be in there, some kind of limit. I agree with council member Johnson, we need to discuss it more.”
At the March 11 meet-ing Johnson was in favor of continuing the discussion and amending the current law rather than having a new piece of legislation.
“It needs refinement, but I’m supportive of it,” Allison said. “I’m supportive of the heart of 1128.”
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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Sen. Mark Mullet5th Legislative District415 Legislative BuildingPO Box 40405Olympia, WA 98504360-786-7608
Rep. Jay Rodne5th Legislative District430 John L. O’Brien BuildingPO Box 40600Olympia, WA 98504360-786-7852
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Superintendent Mike Maryanski discussed plans for potential school sites to alleviate the district’s ongo-ing capacity shortage at the March 4 meeting of the Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council.
Maryanski specifically mentioned the unsuccessful negotiations with King County concerning 35 acres within the 156-acre donut hole along the south side of SR-516.
Despite not reaching agreement with King County to purchase land in the donut hole, the district is moving ahead with plans to design a regional learning center that would include a new high school.
The plan would involve collaboration with Renton Technical College, Green River Community College, and private businesses to offer students more learning opportunities. It would serve both students and the greater Maple Valley community by offering college learning opportunities locally.
The city of Maple Valley, through its sub-area plan, hopes to shed some of its bedroom community aspects by envisioning the Donut Hole as a technology sector with light industry to create jobs for local residents.
TSD owns land adjacent to Tahoma Junior High on Summit-Landsburg Road S.E. in Ravensdale. However, Maryanski indicated little desire to site a new school there, as it is not centrally located, and does not fit
TSD’s goal to site a new school within the urban growth area.
Also at the meeting, Tom Carpenter, a Four Creeks Unincorporated Area Council member, discussed a grant FCUAC recently received through the King County CSA program to develop mapping tools.
The FCUAC is working with schools, property owners, and local commu-nity organizations to develop and use mapping skills.
In 2010, the FCUAC began purchasing Geographical Information Systems services from Green River Community College.
All services funds are used for student scholarships and internships or for equipment purchases that benefit the FCUAC and GRCC GIS students.
The FCUAC has since partnered with GRCC on the Atlas mapping program, whose purpose is to provide residents access to King County’s geographic and demographic information in an easy, reusable way. For more informa-tion go to MySpatialHome.org.
During the recently completed 2012 Update to the King County Comprehensive Plan the Area Council repeatedly voiced opposition to the proposed zoning change of Reserve Silica land in Ravensdale from Mining to Rural Residential.
The Area Council voiced our opposi-tion both orally and in writing to the
King County Council, supporting the King County Executive’s proposed zoning change to Forestry, compat-ible with the surrounding Forest Production District lands.
Unfortunately, during final KCCP Update deliberations the King County Council approved an amendment introduced by Reserve Silica calling for a demonstration project to be considered this year.
The Area Council opposes this and considers it to be a backdoor way to obtain residential zoning of con-verted resource land.
We also do not approve of such Urban Growth Boundary changes in off-year KCCP updates and the precedent that could be set in degrading citizen’s property rights.
The Area Council approved a letter to the King County Council specifically calling attention to our concerns with both the so-called demonstra-tion project for reserve silica and the change in policy to allow major updates to the KCCP on an annual basis.
The letter was submitted to the King County Council, as well as the King County Executive and department directors, on March 5.
Area Council meetings are held the first Monday of each month. The next meeting will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m on April 1 at the Fire Station at 231st St & SR-169.
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Tahoma High’s boys soccer team is ready to battle with Kentwood and Thomas Jeff erson in the South Puget Sound League North division to get into the playoff s. The Bears were eliminated in the fi rst round of state in 2012 but the senior captains hope off season workouts will lead them to a top-four fi nish. Courtesy of Boomer’s Photography
BY KRIS HILL
Mac Henderson, Billy Miller and Nik Owens were likely in diapers the last time the Tahoma boys soccer team won a trophy in the state soccer tourna-ment.
Th e trio are senior
co-captains for this year’s Bears boys soccer squad who hope to help bring home hardware to Tahoma’s trophy case. Th e last time the Bears placed at state was when they fi nished third in the 3A tournament in 1996 before the 4A classifi cation was introduced. Since then,
Tahoma has made six ap-pearances at state — 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2011 and 2012 — but fallen short of the trophy round.
All three of the captains said their intensity in train-ing will lead to success on the pitch this season, which looks to be a fi ght again between Th omas Jeff erson, Kentwood and Tahoma for the top spot.
“Every training we bring the highest intensity that
we can,” Miller said. “Our intensity and eff ort are the two key things in how we’re getting ready every day. I would say as a whole, our strength is dedication from C team to JV (and up to varsity). Th e coaches, all of them, hold us to high standards.”
In fact, the seniors coordinated a weekly informal practice which started before winter break in December and contin-
ued until tryout began Feb. 25. Th e idea, Owens said, was to get a jump on the season because so many players graduated from a team which went to the fi rst round of the state tourna-ment in 2012.
“Th is year we weren’t sure what the team was going to be like because we lost so many seniors,” Owens said. “We wanted to
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KENTWOOD GRADUATE QUINN ALL-AMERICAN
Cody Quinn, who wrestles at 165 lbs, earned All-American honors
and fi nished in third place at the NCAA Division II Wrestling
Championship. A sophomore at Minnesota State
Quinn, who graduated from Kentwood High, opened day two
with back-to-back fi rst period pins over Justin Samora (Adams
State) and Blake Ridenour (Newberry). The falls came at 1:47 and 1:53, respectively. In the third-place match, Quinn
continued his dominating ways, downing Chris Watson (Central
Oklahoma) in an 11-2 major decision.
With his three pins in 5:21, Quinn earned the Gorriaran Award at the championship. The award, named
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Tahoma’s boys soccer team counts on hard work and faith in each other
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Doing that has created a level of closeness among the players that has led to better practices and enabled the captains, Owens said, to lead more effectively on and off the field. Plus it helped the recovery after winter break — which can be tough given the time off and all the food that comes with the holiday season — and midwinter break so they will go into the season strong.
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Faith in each other is an integral part of team bond-ing, Henderson said.
“We didn’t have to worry about building chemistry (at the start of training),” Henderson said. “We can work on learning plays — there’s not a guy on this team I wouldn’t take a bul-let for — so you can spend time doing more construc-
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Miller explained the team wants to go undefeated on their home field at Bill Maxwell Stadium and not allow any goals when host-ing other teams. There will definitely be a different fla-vor to the matches against Jefferson and Kentwood, too.
“When we come out we try to win always, plain and simple,” Miller said. “We have friends on each team. It’s amazing when you step
across the line how quickly you become enemies. Nobody likes losing to their friends.”
Henderson noted it will be important for Tahoma to take the season one game at a time even against rivals such as Jefferson and Kentwood.
“The work ethic is going to be the big difference,” Henderson said. “The 80th minute we’re not going to be tired because in training we didn’t stop. You have to go into it ready to have fun. If you don’t, you over think it and if you do that, you’re done.”
And by the time players have moved up to the varsi-ty level, they’ve experienced those rivalry games on the C team and junior varsity so, Henderson said, they’ve prepared mentally for those matches since they first put on a Tahoma soccer jersey.
At the end of the season, though, Miller explained,
there’s so much more to wearing that Bears uniform.
“The way the coaches build the program … each and every year they try to instill that effort piece,” Miller said. “It’s changed me as a person and as a soccer player. This program makes better soccer players and kids in general.”
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SUMMIT GYMNASTICS COMPETES AT CHARITY CHOICE INVITATIONAL AT THE TACOMA CONVENTION CENTERThe Summit Gymnastics Artistic Boys Gymnastics Team competed at the Tacoma Convention Center in the Charity Choice Invitational on February 8-10.
The motto for this meet is “Together We Make a Difference!” Each participating gym chooses a charity, and based on a point system, the charities chosen by the three top gyms get money donated directly to their cause. Over 1,500 athletes from fifty-three gyms and six different states participated.
The Summit boys had a great showing and by competing, helped contribute to the $8,000 donated to the Auburn Humane Society, Seattle Children’s Hospital and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Awards earned by Summit athletes, each according to his age group and level include Zachary Klobutcher, Thomas Richmond and Antonio Lim.
Klobutcher took first on parallel bars, second on vault and pommel, and fourth in the all around competition. Richmond took first on pommel and parallel bars, second on rings and vault and second in the all around. Lim took first on floor, rings, and parallel bars. He also took second on both high bar and vault and second in the all around.
SOUTH PUGET SOUND SALMON DISCUSSION SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 19The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has scheduled a public meeting March 19 in Olympia to discuss this year’s salmon returns and potential fishing seasons in southern Puget Sound.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra Sward Executive Assistant to the Board of Trustees
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NOTICE OF LAND USE PERMIT APPLICATIONREQUESTS: Critical Areas Alteration ExceptionFile: CAEX13-0002Applicant: Marina SavitkaiaSite location: 19616 Maxwell Rd SE HobartProposal: Nonlinear alteration of a Category II Wetland & a Class N Aquatic area buffers to construct S/F houseProject Manager: Fereshteh Dehkordi 206-477-0375COMMENT PROCEDURES: DPER will issue a decision on this application following a 21-day comment period ending on April 15, 2013, written com- ments and additional information can be obtained by contacting the Project Manager listed above. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on March 15, 2013. #752748.CITY OF BLACK DIAMOND,
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ORDINANCE NO. 13-999 An Ordinance of the City Coun-cil of the City of Black Diamond,King County, Washington,relating to establishment andadministration of public cemeter-ies; repealing and re-enactingChapter 12.12 BDMC to re- establish a Cemetery Board andto conform this chapter to appli-cable state law; providing forvested rights and right of descentand survivorship; providing fortransfer of ownership; providing for severability; and establishingan effective date. Copies of this ordinance areavailable for review at City Hall,24301 Roberts Drive, on theCity’s website www.ci.blackdia-mond.wa.us, or by contactingBrenda L. Martinez, City Clerk,at 360-886-5700. Published in Covington/MapleValley/Black Diamond Reporteron March 15, 2013. #752764.
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For information Stephanie Lawson at 206-579-5206.
SOLDIER FROM MAPLE VALLEY RETURNS FROM DEPLOYMENTArmy Spec. Garrett A. Daily has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base to serve in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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