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The Tahoma School Board voted on Aug. 6 to put a $195 million school bond to voters in the fall.

The main project included in the bond is the construction of a new Tahoma High School. Other projects are related to restructur-ing the district’s other schools as well as security and to make schools warm, safe, and dry for students

The district is anticipating receiving $20 million in matching funds from the state,

bringing the total available for projects

to $215 million.The new Tahoma High School

is proposed to be built on 35 acres in the Donut Hole, 156 acres of property located of Southeast Kent-Kangley Road and 228th Street Southeast. The Donut Hole is currently home to nine holes of Elk Run Golf Course, a 13-acre county transportation mainte-nance facility and a large stand of trees. The Donut Hole is currently

Tahoma bond to go to voters in November

by KRIS HILL

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Roads, parks and economic development were the prevail-ing themes in conversations with Covington City Councilman Jim Scott and his challenger Zbigniew G.Tomalik.

These candidates are running for Position No. 6.

Scott, who is seeking his second full term, has worked in the investment arena for 28 years. He began his career in Tacoma. Four years into his career he was promoted. The job moved him to Albany, N.Y. Then he moved to Aus-tin, Texas. After 11 years away, he returned to the Pacific Northwest. His parents owned a home on Lake Sawyer and that drew him and his wife Sharon to Covington.

Sharon Scott injured her back while working for American Cancer Society. Her search for a job which didn’t require so much heavy lifting — those boxes of shirts for Relay for Life partici-pants get heavy — she landed a position with the city of Coving-

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Dave Gordon jumped out to an early lead in the Black Diamond mayor’s race primary on Tuesday.

Early returns on Tuesday night showed Gordon with 567 votes, or almost 66 percent.

Incumbent Rebecca Olness was in second with 157 votes, or 18 percent, closely followed by Keith Watson with 135 votes, or

15 percent. According to the King

County Elections website, 894 ballots were returned from Black Diamond as of Tuesday night.

Gordon has lived most of his life in Kent and moved to Black Diamond seven years ago. He holds a bachelor of science degree from ITT Seattle and works for Boeing.

Gordon told the Reporter in June that he doesn’t think proper analysis was done of

the proposed Master Plan Developments of Yarrow-Bay which call for residen-tial and commercial growth in Black Diamond.

The top three priori-ties Gordon said he would focus on are public safety, the city budget, and the processes of managing the MPDs.

Olness has lived on Lake Sawyer for nearly 40 years and was elected to City Countcil in 2005. Currently she is serving her first term

as mayor. Last November voters rejected a change of government election that would have removed Olness from her post.

Olness earned a masters degree in education from the University of Wash-ington and worked as an educator in the Kent School District.

Olness’ top priori-ties include public safety, management of the MPDs, and providing services for residents during tight

financial times.Keith Watson has lived

in Black Diamond the majority of his life and is currently serving the city as the chair of the Planning Commission. In addition, Watson is president of the Black Diamond Historical Society and the Black Dia-mond Community Center.

Watson told the Reporter in June that his top priori-ties would be community unity, city finances, and leadership of the MPDs.

The top two vote-getters will move on to the Nov. 5 general election. King County will certify Tues-day’s election results Aug. 20.

King County Elections will be updating election results daily at the official elections website, www. http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/2013aug-primary/results/.

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KentlaKe set to begin offering Medical career Pathways PrograMKentlake High School will begin offering classes as part of the Medical Career Pathways program this fall in partner-ship with Renton Technical College.Students at the school will be able to take College in the Classroom courses and students and community members will be able to take evening classes taught by Renton Technical College at Kentlake in the evening.

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The Tahoma School District announced late Tuesday afternoon that Rob Morrow, current principal at Tahoma Junior High, will replace Superintendent Mike Maryanski when he retires in June 2014.

Morrow will begin transitioning to the super-intendent position during the 2013-14 school year. The announcement was made to admin-istrators and teachers at the end of the district’s annual leadership retreat Tuesday afternoon.

Tim Adam, the Tahoma School Board president, made the announcement and said the board and district staff are committed to con-tinuing Tahoma’s direction and mission.

Morrow, 55, agreed to a three year contract and will continue as junior high principal for the

upcoming school year, which starts Sept. 4.“There are a lot of challenges over the next

three or four years, challenges that really ener-gize me for the job,” Morrow said in a statement released by the district.

According to the statement, those challenges include the passage of the construction bond on the Nov. 5 ballot, eliminating overcrowding in the district, implementation of the new teacher-principal evaluation system, and maintaining on the district’s Classroom 10 learning philosophy.

Morrow began at Tahoma as a substitute teacher and coach at Tahoma High School in 1981. He later became an assistant principal at Tahoma High School and accepted the position of principal at Tahoma Junior High in 1999.

Morrow was the only candidate interviewed by the board, whose members decided to forego a public search.

“With all the potential change coming to the dsitrict, we wanted someone already familiar with all of the issues,” Adam said. “As a board, we felt that stability during this key time period of Tahoma’s history was important in order to keep moving forward with the momentum we have already achieved.”

Adam went on to say that the board is confi-dent Morrow will be able to lead the district in the years to come.

Maryanski, 65, served as Tahoma’s superin-tendent since 1993 and has been with the district since 1970.

Tahoma School District names next Superintendent

Two of the best children’s hospitals in the country are lo-cated right here in the Northwest – Seattle Children’s Hos-pital and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Both of these facilities consistently rank among the best pediatric medical institutions in the United States. Both also support and bene� t from state-of-the-art re-search organizations that are leading the way in pioneering new treatments and � nding cures for many vexing child-hood ailments. � ese two hospitals are making a huge dif-ference in the lives of thousands of children from Wash-ington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska every year. Seattle Children’s Hospital and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital are our Charities of the Month for August.

Seattle Children’s goal for every patient and their family can be summed up in three words: hope, care, cure. O� er every patient hope and care, and do everything possible to a� ect a cure. Whatever medical problem a child arrives with, there will probably be an expert doctor to treat it. Seattle Children’s can call on the expertise of physicians in nearly 60 pediatric subspecialties who can provide in-patient, outpatient, diagnostic, surgical, rehabilitative, behavioral, emergency and outreach services. Patients also bene� t from the wide-ranging research that is part of Seattle Children’s. As noted on Seattle Children’s website, “Seattle Children’s Research Institute has nine major cen-ters, and is internationally recognized for its work in can-cer, genetics, immunology, pathology, infectious disease, injury prevention and bioethics. It is among the top � ve pediatric medical research centers in terms of National In-stitutes of Health grant funding. In its quest to cure child-hood disease, the research institute brings discoveries to

the bedside in partnership with Seattle Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s Hospital Foundation.” � e Founda-tion helps assure that every child from the geographic re-gion that Children’s serves can count on being cared for, regardless of the family’s ability to pay.

Like Seattle Children’s, Doernbecher Children’s Hospi-tal combines patient care with cutting edge research. Do-ernbecher is part of Oregon Health & Science University. � is nationally ranked research institution has more than 4000 research studies underway and is involved more than 80 active pediatric clinical trials and databases. Doern-becher o� ers a broad range of pediatric care and treatment including:

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Because of its stellar reputation, more than a quarter of all physicians in the U.S. pursuing pediatrics apply to Do-ernbecher each year as interns and residents.

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ton where she has worked the past 13 years.After they found a house in Covington, Scott

said, he started going to City Council meetings. It wasn’t long before the opportunity to serve opened up.

“The city manager at the time approached me about getting on the Planning Commission because of our growth and my financial back-ground,” Scott said. “He figured we would need to get some bonds to build the infrastructure for Costco.”

He joined the Planning Commission in 2002. He was the chairman of the commission from 2004 to 2006 before he was appointed to the City Council.

Tomalik, on the other hand, grew up in Po-land. He moved to the Puget Sound region when he was 17. A few years later he bought his first home in Covington in 1983. He volunteered in the 1990s with the effort to incorporate Coving-

ton into a city, which was successful in August 1997.

His first brush with politics on a small scale was after he moved into the Woodcreek neighborhood. Tomalik made a speech to the members of the Homeowners Association, who then elected him president, a position he has held ever since.

“I enjoy helping with the neighborhood and helping the neighbors,” Tomalik said. “I just keep getting re-elected.”

In 2007, Tomalik applied to fill a vacant posi-tion on the City Council, but was not selected.

“No hard feelings whatsoever,” Tomalik said. “This year I decided to throw my name in. I’ve been around Covington for a while. I probably petitioned somewhere to get the Costco built. We’re just sort of married to Covington in vari-ous ways. We really enjoy the quality of living in Covington.”

Tomalik remembers when he first moved to the area in the early ‘80s — cows, pastures and

horses were the dominant use of property then. When he was a student, Tomalik took courses

in engineering and architecture, though he didn’t earn a bachelor’s degree. Now he is the vice president of a small division of a French com-pany. His office of 10 employees is in Kent. He also has three children. His daughter, who is 27, is now an engineer living in Honolulu, Hawaii. His sons, ages 17 and 11, still live at home.

Both candidates say they don’t have an agenda. They just want to continue the good work done thus far by the council and city staff.

Scott said he is proud of what has been accom-plished since he started on the City Council.

“There’s just lots to be done,” Scott said. “In the last seven years, it’s been a lot of behind the scenes work. Then this year we had the ribbon cutting for Covington Community Park and I have to say I just felt so much pride that I was part of that. I want to have some more moments

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write the pro statement. A volunteer committee

of no more than three people is needed to write

a con statement. If you are interested in participating,

please contact Kevin Patterson, Tahoma Public

Information Officer, by calling 425-413-3409.

Deadline to participate is Aug. 9.


What do you think when you see terms like PTSD or TBI? For me the response it always elicits is a combination of anger and frustration — then I get sad. Sad for the men and women, some only 18, heart broken for the families and sick to my stomach for the bright futures that were lost. Then I flip back to anger and frustra-tion.

We send the best and brightest out to do the ul-timate task, defending our country and freedom, and then we forget about them. We, as Americans, shove them in corners, tell them to snap out of it, go pick up the pieces, you’re too strong to fall apart and so much more. Then maybe we tell them to go to the VA. Here is this hospital just for you. It’s amazing, it will fix you, it will make you normal, you can re-enter society.

But first, I need you to fill out this form, get me some letters and go sit..and sit...and do it some more...just keep sitting...and our service men and women do. For some that is all they can do...sit...and hear the sounds of war, screams of pain, horrible thoughts running through their heads, and then they reach out. This time they are not reaching out for help. They are still sitting and waiting for that. No, this time they reach for a gun and point it at their heads — 22 veterans do this every day and the number is rising. Now there is no more sitting, no more waiting, the pain is finally gone, or is it? No, the pain just transferred to their families and friends who watched them sit and could do nothing to help. Until now.

Now we have hope and opportunity to help the families of the fallen and those still suffering thanks to Always Brothers which was founded in 2011. It started as a challenge on Facebook, and as anyone who knows a Marine they never say no to a challenge.

On Aug. 11, 2011 they had a memorial run for one of their fallen brothers, Capt. Tyler B Swisher. Part of the mission was to raise funds for his family. They ran 100 miles to his grave-side at Arlington National Cemetery. After this run they reflected and decided there was a bigger issue. The issue was the lack of support from the government for military families that

have lost someone in the line of duty. Those who committed suicide in response to military experience are considered line of duty deaths for Always Brothers. They held their second run in the spring of 2012 for Lima Company. Saturday and Sunday is their third run and they are doing it right here.

We are so lucky to have the opportunity to support these runners and most importantly the families of the Fallen Soldiers. This years run will honor the fallen US service men and women from Washington state.

In talking to Dan Neilsen, a lawyer who lives in Maple Valley, a Marine and vice president for Always Brothers, we struggled with nam-ing each individual because we did not want to exclude those who lost their lives as a result of the invisible wounds. Consequently, Always Brothers reached out to the Gold Star Mothers of Washington and other media outlets to inform the communities that Always Brothers would run in honor of their fallen loved ones so they would know that we have not forgotten about their sacrifice.

Instead of creating a separate list of those indi-viduals, we invite you to take a look at the names and the biographies of the men and women we will honor on the Time of Remembrance web-site: http://www.timeofremembrance.org/

The beneficiary of this years fundrais-ing efforts is One Mind for Research,

http://1mind4research.org. This is a nonprofit organization dedicated to coordinating funding and research for the treatment of brain disease. If you are interested in donating or cheer-ing this amazing group on please visit www.alwaysbrothers.org. They do leave from Leschi at 0600 — that’s 6 a.m. — and anticipate arriving at Cedar River Trail head across from Foley’s around 12:30 p.m. They are also in need of water and Gatorade along the route and those dona-tions can be dropped off at Thrive Community Fitness.

It truly was an honor to talk to and receive information from Dan and Tanya Neilsen and Storm McNeil who are all local residents and will be participating in the run. I look forward to cheering you and all the other runners on and cannot thank you enough for all that your organization does to help our fallen military personnel. One of my greatest hopes is that we will not have another soldier, airman, sailor or marine die because she or he was not able to get the help they deserved because they could not sit and wait any longer.

For additional Information on PTSD and TBI please visit http://maketheconnection.net/symptoms/all.aspx and remember, PTSD is not just associated with Veterans. It can affect us all.

Contact Megan Sheridan at 253-223-1593 [email protected].

Hi, my name is Kris and I’m a Type 2 dia-betic. For many years I wasn’t very good about taking care of myself — before and after my di-agnosis in March 2002.

Then this horrible week happened in June 2012. And to cope with it, I started walking my dog five days a week. This time last year I was able to walk about three miles in about an hour. When I decided to start walking my friend Ilyse, who is a breast cancer survivor, challenged me to walk the Torchlight

Run. I didn’t think I would be ready for it as the event was a month out from that conversa-tion. Instead, I walked the inaugural Bra Dash 5K, and she walked it with me. By that point I decided I wanted to be a runner and when we walked at Lake Wilderness I told Ilyse I wanted her to run my first 5K with me, likely in December.

Then I did something I never thought I would do in my life: I became a runner.

Somewhere along the way on this journey I became an inspiration to others, particularly women, to start exercising. I don’t understand it. Honestly, I just started walking out of guilt and grief over the death of my first dog last summer. I felt like I neglected her and our other dog. I started walking just to deal with it but then it became something else.

When I signed up for the Bra Dash 5K I knew I had to train. I had to be serious. And as I trained, I started researching how to eat like someone training for an athletic event. I

started out simply. I started cutting back on my carbohydrate intake. See, I lost about 15 pounds before this all started, but not in the best way. I’ll be honest. In the fall of 2011 when I started covering more fall sports, particularly football, I started skipping meals and my medications to manage my diabe-tes. It was a really messed up way to develop portion control. I do not recommend it. But six months later I could only eat about half as much as I did before high school fall sports season started. One good thing came out of that bad series of decisions. But, I still ate a lot of crap.

I love pizza. I love wings. I love pasta. I love chocolate. I really love chocolate. And Red Vines and doughnuts and pastries and cake and bread. Oh, and I like beer, not the cheap mass-produced domestic stuff. No. The expensive craft microbrews which have a ton

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of calories and carbs. I don’t drink much at one sitting, one or two at a time, but that’s a lot of calories.

At that time I probably ate out for lunch at least three times a week at Red Robin, Trapper’s Sushi, Applebee’s and the Rock, just to name a few of my favorite spots. I ate out fairly frequently on weekends, too.

That had to change. At some point I decided I would eat out once a week for lunch at one of those favorite places, the rest of the time I would be much more care-ful about what I ate. I decided I would eat out dinner once over the weekend. I am lucky my husband likes to cook. And he is understanding. For five months I cut out desserts, pasta, pizza, all alcohol and began slowly removing most other types of beverages from my diet.

By the time I was ready to shift into the Couch to 5K running program, I had lost another 10 pounds. Unfor-tunately despite all the hard work, I still wasn’t making the best choices as a diabetic. My doctor switched up my medications and told me to test my blood sugar regu-larly then adapt my dosages accordingly. I didn’t do that. I just went off the medication she wanted me to stop taking and just took the new one she gave me in July.

Then I went back to the doctor in early October and everything looked good until the labs came back. My A1c, which is a measure of the average number of my blood sugar levels, was 8.8 percent. That was bad. Very, very bad — and I was upset. Somehow, that didn’t derail me. I was four months into a series of better habits and lifestyle changes. I kept going. This time, though, I started tracking my blood sugar levels. I got my num-bers under control within a week and at that point I was a few weeks into the Couch to 5K running plan, which lasts nine weeks. It’s worth noting that I get up and workout first thing in the morning. That’s when I have to do it. I make time for it. You can’t make excuses. That is the quickest way to sabotage yourself. Don’t do it. Don’t be your own worst enemy.

The extra weight kept coming off, fat was replaced with muscle. I ran my first 5K Dec. 9. I decided to run five more by the end of June. In January, I saw my doc-tor again. My A1c was a beautiful 6 percent. I lost eight more pounds, inching my total fat loss to 38 pounds,

I think. I was starting to put together the idea that exercise plus the right fuel and hydration for my body, which is a runner’s body, was the key to my success. That thinking like an athlete rather than focusing on weight loss and deprivation was the key.

I kept running. I felt better all the time. I discovered that on days I ran I could eat a little bit more carbs and take a little bit less medication. I ran three days a week, so nine to 10 miles total, then in late December added a cross training workout so I was back to four days a week of exercise. During the next few months I started cut-ting out other things. I quit drinking diet Snapple iced tea. I quit drinking Vitamin Water Zero. I quit drinking anything other than one cup of coffee with breakfast in the morning and water the rest of the day. The biggest victory was quitting soda. I weaned myself down to one small can of Coke Zero on weekends after my run on Saturday. A hectic weekend in mid-March led me to drink too much diet soda and it took me an entire week to recover.

No more soda for me which is no small feat. My soda habit began when I was in middle school, more than 20 years ago, and it took me two years of effort to quit.

Sometime in the past seven or eight months I decided to have at least one day a week where I don’t eat meat. I did this because I started reflecting on my eating habits and realized I was, at most, eating meat once a day and sometimes I would go two or three days straight without meat. My sister is a vegetarian, a vegan really but she likes chocolate and ice cream, so eating vegetarian dishes were a part of my life since I was 6 or 7 years old — she’s almost 12 years older than me and quit eating meat or consuming most animal products when she was 18, if I remember right.

One thing I decided to do early on, if I remember right, is allowed myself a cheat day. Typically Saturdays I would eat whatever I wanted, especially at our lunch or dinner out as a family, which helped avert the feeling of deprivation though that’s not really an issue because this is all about thinking of myself as an athlete so I fuel and hydrate accordingly.

That means I don’t eat most fast food. Once a month I may eat at Ivar’s or Taco Time. But their ingredients are

better and a few pieces of fish with coleslaw on the side is considerably healthier than anything you could get at one of the big national chains no matter what they may say is in their healthier or low-calorie options.

As I get deeper into this running journey I have also started eating more organic foods. I don’t like every organic food I eat and doing an all-organic diet is chal-lenging but I figure the fewer chemicals I put into my body the better. This is a choice I made for me. I won’t judge you if you don’t shop exclusively at Whole Foods. I sure don’t. Not everything in my shopping cart is organic. But, I try.

At my last appointment with my doctor in early June I was down 46 pounds from my highest weight at the end of my pregnancy. I had just run my sixth 5K a few days earlier. I was eating four or five small meals a day. At that point I lost eight inches off my chest, 13 inches off my waist and another eight inches off my hips. My A1c was 5.9 percent.

When I met with Pam Kramer, who is a registered di-etician and diabetes educator at MultiCare, a few weeks ago to talk about the Summers End Fun Run I caught her up on all I accomplished since October. She’s a run-ner. And she works with diabetics just like me. Kramer told me I needed to write about what running has done for me because other diabetics need to see my story.

I am absolutely not here to pat myself on the back. I am not trying to inspire anyone. I am trying to add years to my life. I want to watch my daughter grow up and maybe have another baby. I want to be healthy. But I do want everyone to know, whether they are a type 2 diabetic like I am or not, they can get healthy.

You have to decide to start when you know you can form those healthy habits. You have to accept it will take time. It will take work. It will require patience.

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VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

District Healthcare SystemNOTICE OF

BOARD MEETING Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Valley Medical Center Board of Trustees,Finance Facilities & Audit Com- mittee will be held on Tuesday, August 13 at 10:00 a.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center, Renton WA. Regular meetings of the Valley Medical Center Board of Trus- tees, Finance Facilities and AuditCommittee will continue to be held on the 3rd Monday of each month at 2:30 p.m. in the Board Room of Valley Medical Center, unless changed by public notice.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES(District Healthcare System)By: Sandra SwardExecutive Assistant to the Board of Trustees

Published in the Kent, Renton, Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond on August 2, 2013 and August 9, 2013. #838249.

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98065-9266NOTICE OF PERMIT APPLICATION RECOMMENDATION & HEARINGRequest: Formal SubdivisionFile # & Name: PLAT13-0005 Sugarloaf Mountain WestApplicant: 9700 Partners LLCLocation: South side of SE Kent-Kangley Rd btwn 309th Ave SE & 320th Ave SE (approx.) postal city RavensdaleProposal: Re-subdivide existing legal parcel, 286.74 acres, zoned RA-5 into 40 lots for S/F detached residences, tracts for

open space, trail corridor & critical areasProject Manager: Kim Claussen 206-477-0329Hearing Date and Time: September 10, 2013 @ 10:00 amLocation of Public Hearing: DPER Snoqualmie Room 35030 SE Douglas St Ste 210 Snoqualmie WA 98065-9266Dept. Recommendation toHearing Examiner: Approve subject to conditions.Comment Procedures: Comments on the above file are now being ac-cepted by King County DPER, at the address listed above. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on August 9, 2013. #832384.

PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE OF HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Kent School District No. 415 will meet for the purpose of adopting the District’s budget for the fiscal year 2013-2014 at 7:00 p.m. on August 28, 2013, at the Administration Cen-ter, 12033 SE 256th Street, Kent, Washington. Any person may ap-pear at said meeting and be heard for or against any part of said bud-get. A budget has been prepared by the board and will be filed at the office of the district superintendent from whom any person may obtain a copy upon request.Dr. Edward Lee VargasSecretary of the Board of Directors Published in Kent and the Coving-ton/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporters on August 9, 2013 and August 16, 2013. #856312.

CITY OF BLACK DIAMONDNOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Black Diamond City Council will be conducting a public hearing regarding the Department of Ecol-ogy’s required and recom

mended changes to the City’s Draft Shoreline Master Plan (SMP). The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Black Diamond City Council Chambers, 25510 Lawson Street, Black Diamond, WA. The purpose of the hearing is to hear public testimony on those required and recommended changes received from the Department of Ecology on the City’s’ Draft SMP. Writ-ten comments may be submit-ted to the Clerk’s office at 24301 Roberts Drive, PO Box 599, Black Diamond, WA, 98010 no later than 5:00 p.m. on August 15, 2013, otherwise they must be submit-ted at the hearing. Information is also available on the City’s website www.ci.blackdiamond.wa.us un-der “Public Notices”. For further information please contact Aaron Nix, Natural Resources/Parks Di-rector at 360-886-5700. Dated this 5th day of August, 2013 Brenda L. Martinez, CMC Asst. City Admin/City ClerkPublished in the Covington/Maple valley/Black Diamond Reporter on August 9, 2013. #856316.

CITY OF BLACK DIAMOND,WASHINGTONCITY COUNCIL

ORDINANCE ADOPTED On August 1, 2013 the City Coun-cil of the City of Black Diamond, Washington adopted the following ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 13-1007 An Ordinance of the City Coun-cil of the City of Black Diamond, King County, Washington, relating to sanitary sewer utility charges; amending section 13.24.010 of the Black Diamond Municipal Code; implementing an annual inflation-ary increase in charges to meet sanitary sewer service obligations; providing for severability and establishing an effective date. Copies of the ordinance are avail-able for review at City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, on the City’s web-site www.ci.blackdiamond.wa.us, or by contacting Brenda L. Marti-nez, City Clerk at 360-886-5700. Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond on August 9, 2013. #856317.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held before the Metropolitan King County Council, Room 1001, King County Courthouse, Seattle, Washington, on the 19th day of August, 2013 at 1:30 p.m., to consider adoption of Proposed Substitute Ordinance 2013-0302, authorizing the executive to sell a portion of the Calhoun Gravel Pit.

SUMMARYThe Soos Creek Water & Sewer District is purchasing 42,184 square feet of land located at the northeasterly corner of the intersection of S.E. 272nd Street and 156th Place S.E. in the City of Covington. The King County Council will consider an ordinance on August 19, 2013 approving the sale of the property. A copy of Proposed Substitute Ordinance 2013-0302 will be mailed upon request to the Clerk of the Council, Room 1200, King County Courthouse, 516 Third Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, telephone 206-477-1020. It is available on the Internet at http://mkcclegisearch.kingcounty.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=1447908&GUID=EBB344C1-CE03-4DD1-B47F-77963731941D&Options=ID|Text|&Search=2013-0302 DATED at Seattle, Washington, this 9th day of August, 2013.

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owned by King County and the district leaders are in talks with King County to purchase 35 acres for the high school.

“We have met with the county and are talking to the county about the purchase of the property,” Maryanski said. “I think I can sum up the county’s attitude: one gentle-men that we’ve met with for over a year said, ‘we’ve been given our marching orders to make this happen.’”

The vote by the board was postponed

from the week before, primarily due to higher costs than expected for preparing the Donut Hole site for the high school. The proposal before the board Aug. 6 was for $175 million, which was short of the top figure of $243 million that had been estimated for all of the projects the district hoped to do. The district had a list of areas to potentially cut, including warm-safe-dry projects among others, to get to the $175 figure.

“We can’t really know, with the kind of

process that we’re forced to go through, what things are going to cost until we actu-ally get going in construction. Even a bid doesn’t guarantee what things are going to cost.” Maryanski said.

The board spent over an hour consid-ering which projects the district should prioritize before settling on the $195 mil-lion figure.

“This for us, it wasn’t driven on what we think the community will support because we don’t have good data,” Maryanski said during the meeting, in reference to the $175 million figure. “We have no data on the community with the high school as the focus, compared to what we were offering last time.”

With the motion and approval by the board at $195 million — to include the warm-safe-dry projects — which were a stated priority of board members, district administrators now must revise the final project list. District Spokesman Kevin Pat-terson said that administration will create a list of projects that are considered must have projects and a second list of desired

projects to complete as funding allows.At $195 million Patterson said that the

bond is projected to cost tax payers an additional $1.67 per $1,000 in assessed value. For the owner of a home valued at $300,000 the estimated monthly cost would be $41.75, or $501 per year.

“Having lived through bond measures for many years with the school system we have never run a bond measure, that I’m aware of, that we actually asked the com-munity to support what we think we need-ed to move into the future, ever,” Maryanski said. “It’s always been driven by somebody making decisions on what they think a cer-tain percent of the people will vote for and the we always end up in the same situation we are now...We make it work. We always make it work, that’s probably part of our problem because it’s not visible to people in the community.”

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

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The ciTies of covingTon and Maple valley To hosT business recycling evenTThe cities of Covington and Maple Valley will be hosting a business recycling collection event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 15 at Cedar Heights Middle School.Accepted materials include cardboard, CDs, floppy disks, cell phones, computer components, scrap metal, and toner and print cartridges. Some fees will apply for computer monitors, TV sets, and refrigerators/freezers/CFC units.The school is located at 19640 Southeast 272nd Street in Covington.See www.covingtonchamber.org for more information

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Tomalik said he doesn’t see things that need to be fixed.“The city of Covington has been very fortunate to have

really good people,” Tomalik said. “They’ve done a really good job as far as current and previous council members. They have a great city manager. I am impressed with a lot of what they’re doing. There is always an opportunity for improvement. I am very well aware of the fact that when a new person comes in they can see things that people who have been in place for a long time simply cannot see.”

Both agree the city needs to bring in more revenue. Scott is in favor of the transportation benefit district proposal, which goes to the voters in November. If approved, it would increase Covington’s sales tax from 8.6 percent to 8.8 percent, which city staff say can bring in as much as $750,000 a year to help stabilize the city’s street fund and put money back into its general fund. This could enable the city to do road work it has deferred and possibly hire more police officers.

“I think when the citizens have that information about why that (budget priorities advisory) committee came up with the sales tax, they’re going to vote to approve that in November,” Scott said.

Tomalik is not as enthusiastic about the TBD.

“I don’t like to see tax increases,” Tomalik said. “I’m still not entirely sure about how I feel about the new proposed transportation tax and therefore tax increase. I think roads should be improved. On the one hand, I see that as a neces-sity. On the other hand, is that a Band-Aid?”

Parks are also a high priority for both candidates.Scott said now that the Legislature allocated $2.1 million

toward the second phase of Covington Community Park it is time to plan for the rest of it.

“We need to free up some of that general fund which that new revenue would allow us to do and not only allow us to get phase two and phase three of that park but to make sure the Aquatic Center (is maintained and im-proved),” Scott said. “And acquiring more park property. We know we need more parks because we have what I call red areas where the community is underserved by parks.”

Scott pointed to the need to fix the bridge in Jenkins Creek Park.

“You can definitely make that another beautiful park to enjoy walking in and other activities,” Scott said.

As a dad, Tomalik said, it is important for families in the community to have places to play. He likes to ride his bicycle with his children.

“We’d like to see those trails connect, to be a little safer,” Tomalik said. “Let’s finish some of that. We have a lot of good stuff going on in Covington, so, it’s about finding ways to fund opportunities for kids and adults. Especially kids, I’m really big on kids (recreation and activities).”

As for economic development, Scott said, he is pleased with what the council has done thus far.

“I would have to say our vision for the downtown plan, sort of like a Kent Commons, but different, I’m pretty proud of that,” Scott said. “But, the downtown, that’s going to be a long, long process.”

With the potential revenue from the TBD and more economic development, which builds on the openings of several big boxes such as Home Depot, Kohl’s and Costco, of which Scott is particularly proud the city was able to accomplish, there is considerable potential for Covington’s future.

That growth is also an important issue to Tomalik.“I support growth of the city but it should be done in a

strategically intelligently planned,” Tomalik said. “I don’t want to see runaway growth. I want the city to able to attract the type of business that would make it (grow) … but more of a boutique city. Part of it is having three kids you end up going to hundreds of sporting events so you end up having dozens and dozens of conversations with parents. Why can’t we attract the kinds of businesses to the city so that we don’t have to drive downtown Seattle or the Eastside?”

Scott points to his experience on the Planning Com-mission and the City Council as reasons voters should consider re-electing him.

“I listen when people come to the council and speak,” Scott said. “I follow through with staff to get their issues resolved. My only agenda is a pursuit of unmatched quality of life for residents of Covington.”

Tomalik explained having a fresh perspective on the council would be valuable and that’s something he pro-vides. His experience in business as well as his interest in providing more for families in the community are among the reasons he said voters should consider him.

“I’m big on family,” Tomalik said. “I’m big on kids.”

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

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Public meeting set on ProPosed zoning for marijuana-related businessesFollowing the voter initiative creating a state licensing system for production and sales of recreational marijuana, a King County agency has developed proposed standards for the zoning of marijuana-related businesses that would be regulated by the state and located in unincorporated King County, outside of cities.The agency will hold a public meeting in Maple Valley from 6 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 12 at the Maple Valley Library. An open house will take place the first hour with King County staff available to answer questions. The public com-ment period will begin at 7 p.m.Among the elements of the proposed ordinance that will be discussed:

Indoor growing and processing of marijuana would be allowed in areas zoned as Community Business, Regional Business, and Industrial.Outdoor growing would be limited to the Agriculture and Rural Area zones.Retail sales would be allowed in the Neighborhood Business, Community Business, and Regional Business Zones.All recreational marijuana businesses operating under the system created by voters through Initiative 502 would require a valid license from the State of Washington. The initiative prohibits the siting of those businesses within 1000 feet of youth-oriented facilities such as parks, libraries, schools, child care centers, and game arcades. Proposed rules under consideration by the state would require fencing and other security measures for all licensed facilities, including outdoor growing.The proposed King County ordinance would also codify standards existing in

state statute for medical marijuana uses, by allowing individual growing and collective gardens authorized for qualifying patients under that state law. The proposed ordinance would prohibit collective gardens within 1000 feet of youth-oriented uses, the same as with recreational marijuana facilities.Voters enacted I-502 in November to establish a regulatory system for the growing, processing, sale of marijuana for recreational purposes. The Wash-ington State Liquor Control Board was charged with responsibility for imple-menting the regulatory system of recreational marijuana, and is expected to adopt final rules in September for the licensing of recreational marijuana businesses. Once the state rules are adopted, the WSLCB will begin accepting applica-tions for licenses. Licensees will be required to identify the location of the business and the WSLCB will issue licenses for a specific location.With input from the four public meetings, the County Executive is expected to submit a final proposed ordinance to the Metropolitan King County Council by the end of August.

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Vincent Nobile scored his second consecutive win in Pro Stock Sunday at the 26th Annual National Hod Rod Association’s North-west Nationals at Pacific Raceways near Covington.

All three professional class winners won at the track for the first time.

Funny Car points leader

Matt Hagan picked up his fourth Wally of the season with his win over Bob Tasca III in the final round while scoring his first win at the Seattle event, which capped off the three-race Western Swing.

Meanwhile, Morgan Lucas was emotional in the winner’s circle after he de-feated David Grubnic in the Top Fuel final. Lucas not only picked up his first win

of the season but the first Wally since he found out his wife, Katie, is expecting a baby in mid-December, a little boy they plan to name Hunter.

“Realistically, to win here in front of these fans with the amazing team that I have — and the fact that this is the first win since my wife and I found out we’re pregnant — is probably as cool and as big as any win

I’ve ever had,” Lucas said in a release. “I wish my mom and dad could be here to experience it. I can’t even begin to tell you how proud I am of my team.”

Seattle is a special place for Lucas to race already. He made his national event debut here in Super Comp in the sportsman ranks in 2000. Two years later he made his debut in Top Alcohol Dragster at

Pacific Raceways, known then as Seattle International Raceways.

This was Lucas’ second straight final round ap-pearance. He lost to Shawn Langdon in Sonoma July 28. Lucas is solidly in sev-enth place right now and in position to make a run in post-season races.

On his way to the event

A trio of first-time Northwest Nationals winnersMorgan Lucas launches the Geico Top Fuel dragster at Pacific Raceways during the NHRA Northwest Nationals Aug. 2-4. Lucas picked up his first win the the class in nearly a year as well as his first event victory at Seattle. With the win he solidified his spot in the Top 10 in Top Fuel with two races left before the post-season Countdown to the Championship. Courtesy photo

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The win was significant for Hagan, too, in that he clinched a spot in the NHRA’s post-season, the Countdown for the Championship, which begins in two races. The top 10 driv-ers in each of the pro classes — Funny Car, Top Fuel, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motor-

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The NHRA takes the week off before heading to Minnesota Aug. 16-18.

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Just a few weeks after Cassidy Meyers graduated from Kentwood High she helped the Women’s Junior All Ameri-can rugby team make history July 17 when it beat England for the first time in more than 20 years.

“That was a huge accomplishment,” Meyers said. “We ended up taking second overall at the Nations Cup which is a pretty big deal.”

Not only did the American team beat England, they did it in the United Kingdom, with a final score of 27-17 after taking a 19-0 lead into halftime.

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Her love of rugby will take her to American Internation-al College in Massachusetts.

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What drew her to American International was the coaching staff, particularly the head coach, Melanie Den-ham.

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Meanwhile Meyers will do her best to support her two younger brothers — she is the fourth of six children — in their Kentwood athletic careers.

Dalton will be a senior this year. He plays soccer and wrestles. The youngest of the Meyers clan, Walker, will be a junior. Both boys placed at Mat Classic in February as did their sister.

“I plan to come home in the winter for the holidays,” Meyers said. “I plan to come home and some point to try and support them.”

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Saturday, August 17, 10 am – 2 pmCovington Clinic South, 27500 168th Place SE (across from Costco)

Covington ServicesThe caliber of talent and technology we offer leads to remarkable results at every level across our healthcare system. We are very proud to share the latest in care delivery in an innovative, private and healing environment.

Covington Clinic North, 16850 SE 272nd St: Rheumatology, Cardiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology

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