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Park opening a celebration of community Tahoma BY KRIS HILL khill@covingtonreporter.com
Editor’s Note: To read more about the park opening, see Annie Livengood’s column on page 4. Tiny soccer players dribbled, scrimmaged and passed the ball around on the field at Covington Community Park as city officials celebrated the grand opening June 8. Opening the first phase of the park — the soccer field, a parking lot and trail system to name a few features — marks a significant milestone for Covington. “This is a really special occasion for the city,” said Covington’s Parks and Recreation Commission Chair, Steven Pan. “It has the ability to impact our entire community. This is the largest and first active use field park that we have and that’s wonderful.” Phase one is vital because it fills a critical need which is one of the highest priorities for residents according to research the city has done in preparing its Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Plan. Scott Thomas, the city’s parks and recreation director, told the Reporter in December there is a significant need to provide a Annabelle Cabrera, 4, kicks the ball around with Courtney Crocker, a Kent-Covington Youth Soccer Association board member at place for children to play sports. the Covington Community Park grand opening event June 8. The park was more than a decade in the making. KRIS HILL, The Reporter [ more PARK page 5 ] To view a slideshow go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.
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Norm Holcomb is excited to teach patrons of the Maple Valley Farmers Market about bees this summer. Holcomb, owner of Bees in the Burbs in Maple Valley, will bring a demonstration beehive to the market, which kicks off its 17week season Saturday at 9 a.m. at Rock Creek Elementary.
“I took it to the Kent Market last Saturday, and boy, it was a big hit,” Holcomb said. “I would say over one-third of our sales were due to that beehive. People would see the beehive then stop and talk about it, especially the kids.” The educational opportunity is hard to pass up, Holcomb said, and he plans to bring the demonstration hive to the market as long as the bees can handle it and he
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Officials from Tahoma School District and King County recently resurrected discussions related to the district’s purchase of 35 acres in the Donut Hole. This comes after both parties walked away from a years worth of negotiations in February. Recent developments in the state Legislature helped bring the parties back together, specifically the approval of Senate Bill 5417, which will allow the city to annex the property. Not long after that came about, the county lowered its asking price, according to information Tahoma Superintendent Mike Maryanski provided to the Maple Valley City Council during a joint meeting of the council, the Tahoma School Board and Maple Valley Fire commissioners May 29. In addition, state senators Joe Fain, R-Auburn, and Mark Mullet, [ more TAHOMA page 6 ]
can keep them healthy. Market Manager Victoria Jonas wrote in an email interview that the demonstration beehive is a perfect fit for the market. “It will become one more added and important attraction that makes our Farmers Market so special,” Jonas wrote. “It will become a natural conversation piece, I can only imagine the buzz of curiosity and conversations that will occur around the beehive! Bringing a live beehive to our market embraces the core foundation of our Farmers Market’s mission of providing a avenue for educational learning on the [ more BEES page 5 ]
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Homeowners still underwater as market rebounds BY KATHERINE SMITH ksmith@maplevalleyreporter.com
In recent weeks a statistic has surfaced at Maple Valley City Council meetings that 43 percent of homeowners in Maple Valley and Covington are underwater. Essentially what that means is those homeowners have no equity in their homes and owe more than their homes are worth. While that sounds alarming, it doesn’t necessarily paint the truest representation of the housing market in the two cities according to Sam Price, South King County housing specialist with the Seattle King County Realtors, and Tina McDonough, a Re/Max agent in Maple Valley. The percentage was initially mentioned at a Maple Valley City Council meeting in May after City Manager David Johnston attended the annual housing issues briefing that South King County Realtors host for local officials and those running for office. The number comes from Zillow.com, a website that is a database of informa-
tion on homes, real estate, presented at the meeting mortgages and home Johnston attended was improvements according to from the fourth quarter of the website. 2012. Current numbers on Price cautioned that the Zillow still reflect the 43 data from Zillow is only up- percent estimate. dated every three months “Those with higher and that the marnumbers generket is constantly ally have newer “I think people’s changing. construction perception is “It (Zillow) is with recent sales,” not what reality not especially Price said. “People is. Reality is accurate but it’s who bought and actually much a starting point,” better right now.” haven’t had the Price said. “It (the time to pay down Kim Emmons market) is very the mortgage.” dynamic right That describes now.” Maple Valley He also explained that perfectly. Zillow is the only compre“Some of that is because hensive source of data on people financed a large porthe percentage of hometion of the purchase price, owners that are underwater. then the market dropped The data is created by and it hasn’t caught up with estimating the value of the where it was,” Price said. property and then Zillow Price also explained that works with TransUnion, while the Seattle area is seeone of the major credit reing an increase in sales and porting agencies, to gather skyrocketing prices as the information on the total number of properties on amount of debt against a the market is low and thereproperty. fore increases competition, “They aggregate that data the farther you get from the so it can be searched (on job centers the longer the the website) by zip code or recovery takes. by city or by county,” Price McDonough said that said. there are many factors that The data that was go into the market.
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BICYCLE SAFETY RODEO TO BE HELD JUNE 15 The Maple Valley Bicycle Safety Rodeo will be held at Rock Creek Elementary on Saturday. The rodeo creates a fun and safe learning environment for children to develop rider safety skills. The course has been designed to teach children proper street bicycling techniques and features a real stop light, street signs and a helmet and bike fitting station. Award certificates will be provided to all participants along with other giveaways. The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon.
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The city of Maple Valley plans to approve $500,000 for the Ravensdale Park Foundation to help fund phase two of the Ravensdale Park project. City Council members decided to give the go-ahead for contributing to the park at the council retreat in May. The plan approved by council includes partnering with King County in a dollarfor-dollar match through an interlocal agreement that will fund the first $1 million of phase two at Ravensdale Park. The city attorney is currently drafting the agreement according to Maple Valley City
Manager David Johnston, who expects the completed agreement to be presented to council next month. “I think we need to have sports facilities for our citizens and I’m fully supportive of doing anything we can with the resources we have,” said Maple Valley City Council member Layne Barnes. “I think that (Ravensdale Park) will be a wonderful addition to the greater Maple Valley area and city of Maple Valley.” The phase, which will have a total cost of $6 million and will include two multipurpose fields, onsite parking, restrooms, a concessions stand, play structures, an open area and trails as well as a maintenance facility according
to the Ravensdale Park Foundation website. Members of the foundation approached the Maple Valley City Council about helping to fund the project last fall and the city created a parks commission to vet the idea and offer its recommendation. The commission presented its report to council in which it recommended that the city give $2 million to the project. Other sources of funding the foundation is seeking include $2 million from the county, and approximately $650,000 from the state legislature. They’ll then need to raise the roughly $1 million left elsewhere, according to Rob Nist, board member of the Ravensdale Park Founda-
tion. Johnston said that he expects the $500,000 that the city has committed will come from the city’s real estate excise tax funds and park development funds. “The intent is for the city to match the county with $2 million each,” Nist said. “I’m pleased to see that the council recognizes that something needs to be done.” The funding from King County is dependent on the county’s parks levy passing later this summer, Nist said. “There is capital money in the state budget for us, for the park,” Nist said. “We don’t know what it’s going to be until its signed, but both sides have money in the capital budget.”
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Six months out from treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Tahoma High junior Allie Duven is back in the pool, preparing for her senior swim season in the fall. Duven was diagnosed last summer after her doctor noticed swelling in her glands which didn’t re-
spond to a course of antibiotics. When tests came back negative for mononucleosis and all other common causes life became a flurry of appointments and tests for Duven, and the diagnosis of Stage 2B Hodgkin’s lymphoma was made after a lymph node biopsy. “I’m doing OK,” Duven said of how she feels currently. “It’s just kind of a slow process…getting your
strength back and back into school and all that.” Duven has participated on the Tahoma girls swim team since her freshman year and was voted captain for her junior year but had to sit out the season last fall while she underwent surgery, chemo and radiation. She can’t wait to get back in the pool with her teammates and contribute to the team in the fall and
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If you didn’t know, there was an opening ceremony June 8 for the new Covington Community Park. I always thought the field next to Tahoma High School was just a horse pasture. Never would I have thought that there was an idea to have a park there for almost 10 years. Around 2002, the city of Covington purchased the land that used to be a farm. Reserving it was one of the only ways to keep it from being turned into just another housing development. By 2008 Covington’s parks and recreation department completed the master plan. The next step was to make it happen. When I came onto the field I was awakened with a bright, concrete platform and shiny new bleachers. There was one full size soccer field, grass cut to the quick. A large black, chain-link fence surrounding the perimeter, and goals big enough for older kids to play with. I was greeted by Scott Thomas, the director of Covington Parks and Recreation, and also by Margeret Harto, Covington’s mayor. To start the ceremony, Mayor Harto spoke at the podium in front of a large ribbon that separated the crowd from the field. First she introduced some individuals in the crowd, and then she told a story about how the park came to be. She also informed us on new things to come, other than a soccer field and a trail. Additions to Covington Community Park include tennis courts, basketball courts, more soccer fields, more parking, additions to the trail, play areas, a concession stand, a community stage and more! This park is going to be a slam dunk! This field and trail was only part one. “It’s like building a quilt. You put one square Guest Columnist
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to another, and before you know it, you’re done,” Harto said. Next was the actual ribbon cutting. A Covington Community Sports team sat underneath the ribbon, and Mayor Harto along with a few others cut the ribbon with these gigantic, wooden scissors the size of a small dog. Once the ribbon had fallen, the kids soccer team ran onto the field and started practicing, while everyone else was free to roam. If you went to the Covington Parks and Recreation tent — the same one I saw at Relay For Life June 1 — you could get snacks, beverages, or souveneirs like a soccer ball key chain. Also somebody near the field was making balloon animals for kids! At every special event there has to be something fun! You could also walk down some steps to the beginning of a paved trail that led into the trees. I didn’t get a chance to walk it — I was in heels — but I did go over to another stand, which had
some maps that included things to be added to the park in phase two. I was amazed to see what is planned and can’t wait for the next phase to come. For some of you who are excited to come down here and check the park out, the fields aren’t officially open to the public until sometime in September. Covington Parks and Recreation wants to get a head-start on the grass field before it gets stomped on by a billion people. Also if you want to go see the trail, I heard you’re welcome to bring a dog if it’s leashed. So, I really hope to see many people next time I’m at the park. This is only the beginning. Covington Community Park is going to be one of the best additions I’ve seen to Covington so far.
Annie Livengood of Covington is an aspiring journalist and sixth grader at Crestwood Elementary.
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Advanced Placement Statistics is not at all what I thought it would be and given that math is never my strongest skill, the presentation of a project by a group of Tahoma High students left me impressed, but also a little dizzy at the formulas. This group — Donica Delia, Sarah Herman, Shanan Hopp and Marcelle Verkruse — met with me earlier this spring as part of a final project for Dave Wright’s AP Statistics class. Wright sent me a message in April asking if the staff at the Reporter had any questions the students could investigate. Given the phenomenal growth in Maple Valley in the past decade or so, I thought it would be interesting to see if there was any impact on voting patterns. I also asked if they could check out patterns in Covington, but, I think that made the project too broad for them. Instead, they focused Kris Hill Assistant Editor
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on Maple Valley, and it was quite well done. The quartet brought me a lovely printed report with graphs, scary looking — to me, at least — math formulas and well-composed summaries of the conclusions of the varying tests they did to investigate my question. They also put together an awesome Power Point presentation replete with excellent graphics, much of the same information as the printed report, as well as the scary math, which in the end left me feeling a bit fuzzy. On the other hand, it was kind of like an episode of Mythbusters, except with more math than explosions. The group did a series of tests, confirmed their results before moving on to the next test, then drew conclusions based on the data they collected. What impressed me most, though, was the fact they went to QFC in Maple Valley and the King County Library branch off Witte Road, then asked every third adult walking into either building to take the survey. I know that’s not easy. Years ago when I was a student at the University of Washington, I worked for the Eastside Journal as a news clerk, and for six months I had to do a man-on-the-street question every week. This was a small feature which I believe ran in the opinion section, so, it typically was a question about some kind of hot-button topic at the time. Now, people are always willing to share their opinions, but the
kicker was I also had to take a headshot photo of everyone I interviewed. It could take up to two hours at times to get four responses as required to fill the space. I hated it and I was getting paid to do it. One of my favorite places to do this was outside of the Bellevue Regional Library. So, I know exactly what the students were talking about when people declined to take the survey for all sorts of reasons including they didn’t want to talk about politics. Still, Delia, Herman, Hopp and Verkruyse surveyed a significant number of people over the course of a few weeks in May. They asked them who they voted for in the past three presidential elections. They also asked how long they lived in Maple Valley to see if newer residents tended to vote for Democrats more than residents who have lived here for nine years or longer. Now, their initial data showed that hypothesis of mine regarding newer residents might be true, but what surprised me is their data also indicated Maple Valley does not skew as conservatively as I thought and may even be evenly split down the middle. For anyone who followed the legislative elections in 2012, this would explain some things. But, the group determined they just didn’t have enough data to make any definitive [ more HILL page 5]
www.covingtonreporter.com • www.maplevalleyreporter.com [ PARK from page 1] This new field, which has been in use since a soft opening May 9, is versatile because it can be broken into mini fields for multiple games at once or the full field can be used by older soccer players. The grass field, which was planted in early October, spent the entire winter growing and developing its root system. Weather was ideal over the winter for the field to grow on a site which was formerly a pasture — the soccer field takes up about half of that field. Covington Community Park is located at 180th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 240th Street. The site is about 30 acres and is a collection of four parcels purchased by the city in 2003 and then brought into King County’s urban growth boundary in 2004. It was annexed into the city in 2008. It is a short walk from Tahoma High School. Construction had a $1.6 million price tag while the total project cost comes in at $2.26 million. “It took us 10 years to build to this point,” said Mayor Margaret Harto. Funding came from a variety of sources including grants as well as city dollars, with the City Council approving an increase to the utility tax in 2012 to ensure funding to cover the costs of maintenance. Harto told the crowd who gathered for the ribbon cutting June 8 that partnerships were a key element in getting funding for the park. Years ago 47th District Rep.
[ BEES from page 1] neighborhood beehive. “I was comfortable with it already,” Holcomb said. “I decided about six years ago I wanted to teach my kids about it. I have about 40 to 50 hives now, some here at the store and some at home. I’ve been an ironworker my whole life, so, I’ve always done something on the edge anyhow.” This will be the third season for Bees in the Burbs at the Farmers Market, which is in its fifth year, where he sells raw, all natural, locally made honey. He may even have some freshly harvested honey in the first week or two of the Maple Valley market. Bees in the Burbs is a small family business,
[ HILL from page 4] conclusions. So, when the Mythbusters can’t conclusively confirm or bust a myth, they say it’s plausible. And, so, my hypothesis about voting patterns is plausible based on what the students determined through their data collection but they would need to collect more data to either confirm or bust my theory. I asked them if given more time, would they be interested in pursuing the question to a point where they could gather enough data and perhaps even tweak their methodology to confirm or bust my theory, and they said they would. Unfortunately for me they graduate Tuesday so, this is where the investigation needs to stop.
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Holcomb explained, run by comb is passionate about: himself, his wife and two teaching people how to get daughters, who do a fair started. amount of demonstrations “My main thing is to help and educational talks. The people get through (startplan this year is to vend ing a beehive) a lot easier at the Maple Valley and than I did,” he said. Kent markets, which Jonas wrote that the Holcomb said should demonstration hive keep them pretty may just entice cusMAPLE busy. tomers to try their Another element hand at beekeepof beehives for the ing. In any event, Maple Valley market the experience adds this year will be a beeso much to the market, hive box. she wrote. Holcomb gathered the “Last year when Norm materials together and donated a beehive box to donated it to the market our Farmers Market and so it can be decorated then then this year, when he displayed for some time suggested that we partner before it goes to a farmer in in bringing a demonstrathe region who will use it to tion beehive to the market, start a hive. I was eager to make it That’s something Holhappen,” Jonas wrote. “I
was thrilled to offer up this amazing experience to our Farmers Market customers and particularly to our younger generation of customers. As our market season quickly approaches, we will have a new handpainted beehive box for an added visual effect just as we have Mrs. Utter-Butter, our cow mascot. We are thankful to local artist Nicole Notch for painting the beehive box.” Having a business like Holcomb’s is an important element of the Farmers Market, Jonas wrote. “Whether it be apiarists like Norm, ranchers, orchardists or farmers, supporting the sustainability of our local farmers enables us as a community
Ultimately, it was clear this group of students were able to take everything they learned during the course of the school to do work relevant to a real-work situation — voting patterns are a critical part of understanding how elections turn out as a journalist because we often need to analyze results, especially in situations when certain candidates lose or certain measures fail — which also required them to go well beyond the classroom walls to get the work done. It required interacting with the public, working with someone in the community
they could consider a client, presenting results to me as well as a panel of judges and demonstrating a level of higher order thinking skills that will serve them well not just in college but throughout the rest of their lives. If it were up to me, I’d give them an A on the project. But, that may just be due to the fact all those equations made me feel a little light-headed.
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connect up with another trail that is, at least temporarily, known as the Jenkins Prairie Trail, which will connect with other trails in the region which could take people from Lake Wilderness through Covington down to Lake Meridian. That portion of the trail is paved and is capable of handling BPA’s heaviest work trucks, Thomas noted. Other portions of the trail on the site will have interpretive signs. School field trips or small groups could make use of that feature of the trail, Thomas told the Reporter in December. There are additional phases planned for the park which means the city will again seek out support from the state as well as community partnerships to make that happen. There are plans for tennis courts, an open field, a play area, a place for a stage for community events and much more. As of the time Harto was talking about future phases, the state Legislature was working to finish its special session and finalize budgets. She explained there was money included in both the House and Senate budgets for the second phase. It’s just a matter of what happens when everything is finalized likely this week or early next week. “We still have a long ways to go with this park,” Harto said. In the meantime, phase one is open, something Pan said was rewarding for all the people who worked on the project as commissioners or city staff. “To see it come to life is just wonderful,” Pan said.
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Pat Sullivan, a former Covington councilman, told the city he wished there was someplace for his daughters to play soccer. “Rep. Sullivan agreed to help us get state money if we agreed to put it at the top of our priority list,” Harto said. “I’m happy to say both sides kept their parts of the agreement.” Finding funding was not easy, though, Harto explained, especially because the efforts began in 2009 after the recession took hold yet Covington found a number of partners to get grants and money from the state legislature to make it happen. “Over half of the development costs of this park have been paid for by grants and through partnerships,” Harto said. “I want to say thank you to the community for being involved since the beginning.” Considerable thought was put into the trail design at Covington Community Park. Designers and contractors have worked to preserve as many of the big trees on the property as possible. The trails were built so they are ADA accessible with gentle, curving slopes so those with walkers or in wheelchairs can safely enjoy them. The trails were also designed with extensive sight lines and awareness of escape routes for greater safety. One piece of the new trail system was built along a Bonneville Power Administration power line easement on the southeast portion of the property. It will eventually
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[ TAHOMA from page 1] D-Issaquah, of the 47th and 5th legislative districts respectively, have partnered with Rep. Pat Sullivan, a Democrat from Covington who represents the 47th, to try and get $4 million for the purchase funded through the state’s capital budget. The House included the money for the Tahoma project in its budget and Fain and Mullet are working to add it to the Senate’s version. That $4 million would go toward the purchase price for the property in the Donut Hole which the district envisions as the future home of a new high school which could help alleviate the districts overcrowding issues. “Basically the day after we got the Donut Hole bill passed then I shifted gears to the $4 million capital request,” Mullet said. “It
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basically will guarantee you can site the new high school there. It makes no sense to have the high school out on the edge of the city.” The Donut Hole is 156 acres of county-owned property located off Southeast Kent-Kangley Road and 228th Street Southeast. It is designated rural and unincorporated yet is wholly surrounded by the city of Maple Valley. It is home to nine holes of Elk Run Golf Course, a 13-acre county transportation maintenance facility and a large stand of trees. The district’s last construction bond measure failed in April 2011 and administrators started considering their options. One option was to site a new school on property the district owns adjacent to Tahoma Junior High, which is located outside the urban growth boundary — a line that separates urban development from rural spaces. At the same time county officials began to change county policies on school construction outside the urban growth boundary. Initially Maryanski floated the idea of a land swap — the 30 acres next to the junior high for a chunk of land inside the Donut Hole — but the district and the county moved beyond that to negotiations to sell the property to TSD. After the county and district discontinued negotiations in February, the School Board began to consider its options for grade realignment as it prepared for a possible construction bond measure in November. At the same time, district staff searched within the
urban growth boundary for another potential site for a new high school. In February, the board got a report which offered six options of grade alignment, which it then narrowed down to two: • Glacier Park, Rock Creek, Shadow Lake, Cedar River and Tahoma — the latter two are currently middle schools for sixth and seventh graders — would serve as elementary schools for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Tahoma High and Tahoma Junior High would then become middle schools for students in grades six through eight. This option would then shift students from Lake Wilderness Elementary, which would no longer be used as a school, with 500 students who would need to be housed in portable classrooms across the district by 2020. • Building A of Lake Wilderness, which was built in 1986, would be expanded so it would continue to be used as a K-5 elementary along with Glacier Park, Rock Creek, Shadow Lake, Cedar River and Tahoma. Meanwhile, the original portion of the building which was constructed in 1959, would be demolished. Using Lake Wilderness would not require putting students in portables. This would add about $15 to $17 million to the cost of the bond, making it potentially $135 million to $140 million. District spokesman Kevin Patterson said the board would, ideally, make a decision before the end of June regarding a construction bond. A new
high school would cost sion marched on. anywhere from $90 to $110 One thing which could million, based on the price help persuade legislators in tags for similar projects in the Senate to support the $4 the area recently such as million allocation, Mullet Auburn High, which voters said, is the fact he crossed approved a $100 million the aisle to work with Fain. construction bond measure “It’s a bi-partisan deal, to renovate. which is really nice,” Mullet Patterson wrote in an said. “People realize it’s not email that if the state Senate a partisan favor, this is imincludes the $4 million in portant to a community.” its capital budget “and the Still, as of Monday governor signs the budget, afternoon, there is still a fair then we will use it and amount which needs to be our own funds settled. to resume our “We need efforts to purchase to come to a property from the consensus about county. We don’t the size of the have a formal overall general agreement yet fund before we with the county can start plugging but they are very projects into the interested.” capital budget,” Mullet said the Fain said. “But key to getting the “We need to come I think there’s money into the real life in that to a consensus Senate’s capital project and there’s about the size of budget is going to the overall general great bi-partisan talk to legislators fund before we agreement that it’s face-to-face and can start plugging the right project persuade them on projects into the for that piece of the merits of the capital budget. But property.” allocation. Fain said he I think there’s real “Lake Wildersupports the life in that project ness is the largest vision for a new elementary in the and there’s great bi- high school in partisan agreement the Donut Hole state, they have that it’s the right the three largbecause it will project for that est in the state, achieve so much piece of property.” more than proso, that’s what Joe Fain I point to, the viding additional sheer capacity space for Tahoma issues,” Mullet students and said. “They’re still he supports the producing the results but project, even though it is the rally is: it’s time to pass not in his district, because a school bond and improve he believes it’s best for capacity. This $4 million al- children. location is going to be a big “It’s clear that we’re seepart of passing the school ing more and more families bond this fall.” choose southeast King Mullet said this allocaCounty as a place to raise tion is high on his list of their families which means priorities, which has grown we’re seeing more and more shorter as the special sesovercrowding,” Fain said. “We know there’s a growing sentiment in the community that we can’t have our
students living in portables all day long. Also the type of project that the district is considering, having a skill center bent to it, engaging with local businesses, trying to do public-private partnerships to not only benefit the students they’re bringing through the district but for the businesses who are looking for that pipeline of skilled employees. It seems like this type of a concept is a win-win-win.” Fain said Maryanski and the Tahoma School District did it right by approaching businesses experiencing a shortage in skilled employees to find out what it needs to do to help students connect with those career options. Thanks to the passage of the annexation bill, Fain said, he won’t have to explain the situation to state senators as he pitches them on the upside of the $4 million allocation for Tahoma. “While that Donut Hole bill is not an end-all, be-all solution on how that land develops in the next few years, it was a good first step,” Fain said. “There is probably no legislator in Olympia that doesn’t know what we’re talking about when we say Donut Hole which is … something people in the CovingtonMaple Valley community can take great appreciation in the fact that every legislator is well-versed on what is going on in that part of the community.” Time will tell — sometime between now and the start of the new fiscal year July 1 — if the $4 million makes it into the state capital budget but that could make all the difference when it comes to Tahoma School District’s vision of the future.
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King County Park levy top issue at monthly Area Council meeting gional open space, improve regional trails, and make parks more accessible. The property tax levy lid lift is 18.77 cents per $1,000 of assessed value – an estimated $56 per year for the owner of a home valued at $300,000. The levy proposal is consistent with county’s practice to end the use of General Fund monies on regional parks, trails and
open space, and on local facilities in the rural unincorporated areas. For more information on the Parks levy visit www. kingcounty.gov/recreation/ parks/about/levy.aspx. Following the Area Council’s recent Citizens’ Survey Tahoma High School students volunteered to catalogue and evaluate the results. Joseph
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Hydrangeas a staple of Western Washington gardens New hydrangeas stand up well to cool, wet summers and provide beautiful blooms all season long phlox, basket-of-gold and candytuft that have finished blooming. If foxgloves or delphiniums have bloomed, cut back the main stalk now and the plants will send up side shoots for an encore of color. And now, some good news: New Hydrangeas work like magic in Western Washington gardens. Cool, wet summers are perfect for the new reblooming hydrangeas and the fact that you can harvest and enjoy the first June blooms and be rewarded with even more flowers all summer long makes hydrangeas a shrub of incredible value. No other plant will give a landscape more flower color in shaded areas year after year without replanting. The breeding break
through that made hydrangeas the comeback kids of the summer scene is the fact that once you remove one of the balls of bodacious blooms it tells the entire shrub to get busy and make more flowers. All this snipping and picking also keeps these new hydrangeas more compact so they can be enjoyed in containers and close to the house without blocking the light from first floor windows. Check nurseries this week for the new dwarf hydrangeas, pee gee hydrangeas and re-blooming hydrangeas. Do and Don’ts for Happy Hydrangeas: Do choose from the re-blooming varieties. “Endless Summer� is the brand name that started it all but you can also find Big Leaf hydrangeas recommended by Proven Winners with names like “Let’s
Dance� (buds are extra cold tolerant), “CityLine� (compact plants for smaller yards) “Edgy� (variegated or bi-colored blooms) and “Abracadabra� (magical black stems) Do choose a location protected from the hot afternoon sun. Heat will wilt these shrubs even if there is plenty of moisture in the soil. Do harvest or remove the blooms if you want more new growth and late summer color. Don’t fret about the confusing choices and varieties of hydrangeas. They all do well in our climate. Bigleaf hydrangeas or hydrangea macrophylla give the most color. Don’t forget that hydrangeas can be used for a summer screening hedge. Choose one of the “bracted� hydrangeas such as “Little Lime� or “Limelight� with pale green and white
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Visitors to the Lake Wilderness Arboretum can learn interesting facts about plants and also the history of this lakeside area by taking a free docent-led tour of the gardens. “The sunny warm weather, mixed with occasional periods of cool rain in recent weeks has resulted in swaths of colors and fragrance in the Arboretum,� said Docent Co-Chair Cindy Ostermann. “Why not take a stroll along the paths to view the plant collections and the forest in June, and enjoy all that this public garden in Maple Valley has to offer?� Free to the public on the third Saturday of each month through October, the next tour takes
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ALSO SELECTED IN THE DRAFT... Among the players selected in the first year MLB player draft were two other young men from the Kent School District. Austin Voth, a right handed pitcher who graduated from Kentwood in 2010, was drafted out of the University of Washington. Kentlake senior Jordan Cowan was drafted by the Seattle Mariners. Cowan is a shortstop.
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eese McGuire experienced what it’s like to be a superstar on a whole new level the day after he was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round of the 2013 MLB first-year players draft June 6. McGuire, a senior at Kentwood High, went to school the next morning and found himself signing autographs. “Friday was awesome,” McGuire said. “So many friends and classmates were coming up to me in the halls… people were taking pictures with me and getting my autograph. To know that people were supporting me, even people that I don’t really know, it was just a good feeling.” Still, it was a little odd for McGuire who despite the numerous baseball accolades he’s accumulated just in the past month alone, is a quiet guy who is grounded. It’s not in his nature to seek the spotlight. He lets his
hard work off the field, his bat and his skills on it do the talking. And ultimately, he just wants to play baseball. “I’m doing all those showcases (last summer) and whatnot, trying to get closer to my goal to be a first-rounder,” McGuire said. “I knew I could just play my game and everything would turn out all right.” Mark Zender, head baseball coach for Kentwood, credits McGuire’s parents for that attitude. “They have done a great job keeping him grounded,” Zender wrote in an email interview. “Quite simply, they raised him right and it showed each day no matter how many scouts were at a game or practice, or if we were playing in a big playoff game. In the end for Reese, it is all about excelling at the game he loves, not the other things that surround it.” McGuire is thankful for all his parents have done for [ more FIRST page 11 ]
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go pro but he didn’t take it seriously then. To have that opportunity, now, McGuire said, is, “pretty cool.â€? And this comes after he was offered a scholarship to play for the University of San Diego. When McGuire spoke to the Reporter in August, he said he wasn’t sure which direction he would go if he were selected, but in the days since he was drafted he said he is leaning toward going pro now. While it was no surprise he was drafted, the selection went a bit differently than he was expecting, and it was still a huge moment for him. “With the draft, going into it you never really know (what could happen),â€? McGuire said. “Some guys went earlier so that really threw things off. Once the Pirates first came up with the ninth pick and then I saw my buddy was drafted ‌ once they passed 10, 11, 12 and 13, I had a gut feeling (the 14th pick) was going to be the one. I felt like the Pirates were going to take me and I saw my name come up and I got a little teary-eyed and emotional. It was so amazing to hear my name called and everyone was yelling [ more FIRST page 12 ]
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yourself and others,â€? Duven with cancer Duven was said. “I think patience has interested in going into been a big thing. You have the medical field, maybe to be patient and know that becoming a pediatrician, what you’re doing is going and she said that cancer has to work and now it’s, like, only made her more deterwaiting for hair to grow, mined to pursue medicine being patient with that‌ and help others. being patient with myself, “At first I just said pemy family being patient diatrician and it was just with me, being patient with kind of general a year ago, teachers, all those kinds of but then after a year ago I things — being patient with started thinking, ‘What if I the recovery.â€? worked at Children’s? That Duven also gave credit to would be cool,’â€? Duven said. her family and friends, for “And then I found out I helping her through treathad Hodgkin’s and now I’ve ment and healing. seen all the different little “We’ve all become really departments or fields you close,â€? Duven can go into and I’m “I think patience said of her fam- has been a big thinking pediatric ily. “We were oncologist and I thing. You have close before but to be patient and think being a nurse now we’re really practitioner would know what you’re close.â€? be really interesting doing is going to Duven said there (at Chilwork, and now it’s, dren’s).â€? she’s become especially close like, waiting for With an eye on with her sister, hair to grow, being a bright future patient with that.â€? Duven is looking Bridget. “She’s become Allie Duven forward to her sereally protecnior year and being tive, she was a normal teenager just a really good helper again while holding on to during treatment,â€? Duven what her experience with said. “My parents have been cancer has taught her. really helpful with correOne of her goals for sponding with teachers and next year is to incorporate managing everything else.â€? the community of cancer Before she was diagnosed patients and survivors into
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easier than chemo but it was still kind of tough, it was still every day,â€? Duven said. “I had a really bad sore throat and my taste buds went away, water tasted really bad and really random things tasted strange, and it (the radiation treatments) smelled really bad which I didn’t really expect.â€? This spring Duven concentrated on keeping up with school and staying on track to graduate next year. “It (school) is good, it’s stressful,â€? Duven said. “But, I think it’s just managing expectations is the hardest part. Teachers see me come to school and I look fine and my attendance is much more regular‌at times I have to check myself and expectations and I have to remind myself and remind teachers that it’s going to take a while. That I’m still recovering.â€? Duven had her first follow-up CT scan and barrage of bloodwork as well as other tests like an echo cardiogram in April and much to her relief everything came back clean. “That was encouraging to know that everything was going the way it was supposed to,â€? Duven said.
The future prognosis for Duven is excellent, she said that doctors told her there is less than a 5 percent chance of recurrence. “It was very treatable,� Duven said. “They always say that if you had to get cancer it’s the cancer to get.� This summer Duven is swimming for Fairwood Swim Team, a Midlakes summer league team. “It’s going good,� Duven said. The season kicked off with practice May 21 and dual meets began this week. Duven said she’s looking forward to connecting with old friends who also swim for Fairwood and enjoying the slower pace of life without constant doctor appointments. Duven is a sprint and middle distance freestyler, focusing on the 50, 100, and 200 yard freestyle events. Duven said the 200 is her favorite event, but she joked, “that depends on the day.� One of the biggest take aways for Duven through the entire experience of fighting cancer has been the centrality of patience. “I think it (cancer) teaches you a lot of things and you learn a lot about
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Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, A follower of Jesus Christ. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award me on that day. 2 Timothy 4:7-8 This past May 28, 2013, Ruth went into the presence of her loving Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ where she was reunited with her husband, Jack, of 50 years who preceded her in death in 1990. Ruth was born on February 15, 1917 in Bellingham WA. She attended Bellingham Normal School (now WWU) and began her teaching career in Lynden WA. In 1976 Jack and Ruth moved from their longtime home in Seattle to Shady Lake in Renton. Ruth was a committed Christian. With her love of music, she served her Lord over the years as a choir member, a choir director and a church organist. Mrs. Reeves was the first choir director at Maple Valley Presbyterian Church and was a charter member of that church. As an avid reader, she used this passion as an English tutor, a trainer of tutors as well as being the president of the Valley Literacy Council. Survivors include sons John Reeves and Mark Reeves; daughters Judy Meyer and Cindy Solvie; and 13 grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren. A memorial service will be held at Wesley Homes Lea Hill on Wednesday, June 19 at 11a.m. at 32049 109th Place SE, Auburn. In her memory, contributions may be made to the Wesley Homes Lea Hill Health Care Center. 811198
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Please be aware that summer rates will be in effect June 1, 2013 through September 30, 2013. Holiday Closure: The office will be closed in observance of Independence Day on Thursday, July 4, 2013
Senior Citizen low income and/or disabled low income discount The District offers a discount that is equivalent to our standard residential flat fee to qualified low-income Senior Citizens and lowincome Disabled customers. To qualify as low-income the total household income must be 50% lower than HUD’s standard Median Income for King County. A single applicant’s adjusted gross income (AGI) cannot exceed $30,350. Married applicants or co-applicants adjusted gross income (AGI) cannot exceed $34,700. The standard median income is updated annually by Housing and Urban Development. Person(s) applying must be a Senior Citizen age 62 or older. If under age 62, the person(s) applying must be disabled and provide proof of disability. Applicants receiving the discount will be required to renew their application each year, providing their most current income tax return to determine continuous eligibility. Renewal forms are mailed out every year by April 15th and must be returned by May 15th. New applicants can apply any time during the year.
Covington Water District Chooses Electronic Delivery Option for the 2012 Consumer Confidence Report The Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) is an annual water quality report that the Safe Drinking Water Act requires all community water systems (CWS) to provide to its customers. The purpose of the CCR is to raise customer’s awareness of where their drinking water comes from, the quality of their water, what it takes to deliver the water to their homes and the importance of protecting drinking water sources. The CCR Rule requires each CWS to mail or otherwise directly deliver one copy to each customer annually. Within the last few years CWSs and other stakeholders, noting the increase in the number and type of communication tools, have asked EPA to allow for electronic delivery of the CCRs. The CWSs pointed out that electronic delivery would reduce mailing costs and promote environmental stewardship. It may also improve readership of the CCRs. In response, in October of 2011 the EPA began a retrospective review of the CCR Rule. It looked for opportunities to improve the effectiveness of communicating drinking water information to the public, while lowering the cost by taking advantage of the newer forms of communication. To support this review, the EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water convened a workgroup to evaluate stakeholder input, held stakeholder outreach meetings and analyzed all available information on
CCR delivery. EPA concluded that the existing CCR Rule language of “mail or otherwise directly deliver” allows for a variety of forms of delivery of the CCR, including electronic, so long as the CWS is providing the report directly to each customer. Therefore, in January of 2013 EPA clarified the CCR delivery requirements to include electronic reporting. Consequently, an overview of acceptable electronic delivery options and described approaches was provided to CWSs in order for them to implement electronic delivery if they chose to do so. The District, in an effort to improve readership, save money and optimize staff time has elected to deliver its 2012 CCR electronically this year. However, recognizing that not all customers have access to computers or other electronic devices, such as smart phones, tablets and laptops, the District will still make paper copies available to any customer who requests one. Paper copies of the CCR will also be available at the District’s front office and other public locations such as the King County Public Library in Covington. The District will be providing a direct link to the CCR within the message box on all customer bills starting in May and on the District website at covingtonwater.com. Look for the 2012 CCR to be available on July 1, 2013.
PLANNING AHEAD
If you have any questions, please call our Customer Service team at 253-631-0565, extension 0.
Preparing For The Impacts of Natural Disasters
What’s In the Box? In residential areas, your water meter is usually located between the sidewalk and the street, in your front yard area, or in the sidewalk. The water meter box serves two functions. It allows you and Covington Water District to easily access the water meter and the shut-off valve. It also serves to protect the water meter. The District utilizes an automatic meter reading (AMR) system to read your water use. The AMR mobile system has a transmitter located at each meter that transmits water usage readings to a radio receiver when it is within range of the transmitted signal. When a meter technician drives within signal range, customer usage data is collected and then uploaded to our billing system. For ease of access, please remember to: Keep items off of the meter box such as trash cans, potted plants, vehicles and debris. Trim the grass around the meter box. Keep shrubbery and other landscaping from obstructing clear access to the meter box.
The District has joined King County and a coalition of King County cities, towns, tribes and special purpose districts to update plans preparing for the impacts of natural disasters. The District’s last update in the Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan was in 2009 and the new plan update is scheduled to be updated in late 2014. Responding to federal mandates in the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, the coalition was formed in order to pool resources and create a uniform hazard mitigation strategy that can be applied consistently throughout King County. The 2013 planning coalition, or planning partners, is made up of King County, 26 cities and towns, 1 Tribe and 31 special purpose districts, including the Covington Water District. The planning process will take approximately 12 – 14 months.
solicited via a multi-media campaign that will include public meetings, web-based information, questionnaires and updates on plan’s progress. This process will be overseen by the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, from 1:30 to 3:30, at the King County Office of Emergency Management facility at 3511 NE 2nd St. in Renton. An informational website on the plan and planning process is coming soon to the King County Government website. This website will serve as the primary means for the public to gain information on the plan and to find out how they can participate in the planning process. The public is highly encouraged to provide input on all phases of the Plan’s development.
District staff participates in the Steering Committee that is directing the planning process. The Steering Committee serves as an oversight body and assumes the responsibility for many of the planning milestones prescribed for this process to help reduce the burden of time required by each planning partner.
District staff will present the updated Hazard Mitigation Plan to the Covington Water District Board of Commissioners for adoption at a public meeting in late 2014. The District will publish the meeting notification, time and location on its website and in the Covington/Maple Valley Reporter a few weeks before the meeting is to occur. District customers are invited.
During this planning process, the public will be asked to contribute by sharing local knowledge of an area’s vulnerability to hazards based on past occurrences. Public involvement will be
Any questions or comments regarding this process are encouraged and should be directed to Bob Taylor at the Covington Water District at 253-867-0940 or btaylor@covingtonwater.com.
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