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Kent Police arrested six gang members in connection with the July 23 shooting at a West Hill car show that injured 12 people.
Th irty-fi ve offi cers on fi ve teams from several agencies made four arrests Sept. 13-14, said Kent Police Chief Ken Th omas at a press conference Sept. 15 at the La Plaza strip mall, 23311 Pacifi c Highway S., the site of the shooting.
Members of the U.S. Marshals Service picked up two more men Sept. 16 at a home in the Pacifi c area of South King County. Both men were wanted by the Kent Police for reportedly fi ring shots at the car show.
“We believe there were a total of at least fi ve shooters,” Th omas said. “We expect ad-
ditional arrests in the near future.”King County prosecutors last
week charged the six men in con-nection with the shooting. Th e men are scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 29 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
“All of the arrests have gone with-out incident,” Th omas said. “We are trying to track down additional suspects. It is an ongoing investigation.”
All of the suspects have gang ties, Th om-as said. Th e six men charged in connection with the shooting are part of the Playboy Surenos gang.
Th e six arrested and their charges are:
charged with fi rst-degree assault for fi ring shots that injured people at the car show.
Bail set at $750,000.
charged with drive-by shooting for driving a vehicle that carried another gang member who fi red shots. Bail set at $250,000.
criminal assistance for helping to hide a vehicle or gun connected
with the shooting. Bail set at $100,000.
brother of Patrick Auble, charged with rendering criminal assistance for helping to hide a vehicle or gun connected with the shooting. Bail set at $100,000. Shea Auble is the same man who was a victim in a recent gang-related attack by another inmate at county jail at the Regional
Justice Center. Anthony Archuleta, 20, of Auburn, has been charged with fi rst-degree assault in that case.
Federal Way, and Nicholas Moreno, 21, of Auburn, each charged with fi rst-degree assault for fi ring shots that injured people at the car show.
King County Prosecutor Dan Satter-berg praised the police work in a state-ment he released about the arrests and charges against the men.
“Detectives navigated a sea of chaos at the crime scene, hostile and uncoopera-tive witnesses and victims and a tangled web of gang hostilities to build a solid case against these individuals,” Satterberg said.
Car-show shooting gang members arrested
BY DENNIS BOX
A few sparks fl ew dur-ing the Kent City Council public hearing on the 2012
it may not be the last time before the budget is passed.
Members of the Kent Chamber of Commerce and residents have been asking the council during the past few months to not levy nearly $5 million in property taxes for the 2012 budget. Th e money would come out of the general fund.
Some council members, including Councilwoman Elizabeth Albertson, have
argued the city must col-lect this money to provide essential services.
around the Kent RegionalFire Authority which was established in April
2010 following a
fire authority merged the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37 into a single government entity with its own tax-ing authority.
general opera-tions levy in 2010 was for about $2.36 per $1,000 of taxable property.
City budget hearing draws a few fireworks
BY DENNIS BOX
reading pays – a lot of reading.Th e 10-year-old Soos Creek
Elementary student completed the King County Library sum-mer reading program by reading more than 1,000 min-utes.
Once she completed the program her name was entered into a drawing for a laptop, and Anna won.
Anna opened her new Acer Aspire ONE D255-2520 laptop Saturday as her friends, teach-ers and family cheered and took pictures.
Summer reading pays off with a new laptop
Ken Thomas
Anna Voloshina, 10, opens her laptop package Saturday at the Kent Library that she won for reading more than 1,000 minutes this summer. DENNIS BOX, Kent Reporter
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According to Anna’s mother, Svetlana Voloshina, she read much more than 1,000 minutes during the summer and is reading at a high school level.
“I can’t get her to go to sleep sometimes,” Svetlana Voloshina said. “She keeps saying ‘just one more chap-ter, just one more chapter.’”
Anna said she enjoys fairy tales and many other types of books.
“My house is kind of bor-ing on rainy days so I like to read,” she said. “On sunny days I can go out and play on the trampoline.”
Along with reading, Anna participates in gym-nastics and plays the piano.
Th e King County Library has winners in the reading contest from the north, cen-tral and south part of the library system.
Laurin Linscott, chil-dren’s section supervisor at the Kent Library, said this was the fi rst time a child from Kent has won.
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The Rotary Club of Kent Sunrise is planning a fundraising event for several important causes close to the hearts of the members.
The fall Harvest for the Community event is scheduled from noon until 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 1
The club is hosting a family-friendly Kent Oktoberfest. The event will take place rain or shine under tents at Town Square Plaza in downtown Kent.
The $25 admission ($20 in advance) includes a German stein fi lled with the fi rst beer (wine and soft drinks also available).
Admission includes entertainment and entry to the Family fest.
The club will donate 50 percent of the proceeds to benefi t returning veterans in the south King County region.
The club will be working with the Kent Armory and Valley Cities Coun-seling and Consultation to provide services to the veterans.
Marge Williams, the program chair for club, said the title of the program is “All gave, some gave all.”
She said the club members are com-mitted to helping returning veterans and would like the community to join in the cause.
“The military can’t ask for money, but we opened the door by asking how we could help,” Williams said.
She noted one of the most important areas of concern is jobs for returning veterans. Many left jobs that are longer available when the veterans return.
“People want to help, but they don’t know how,” she said.
One of the ways is to join the rotary for the Harvest of the Community
event.
The club will have a booth and be selling tickets at the “Find it in Kent Expo” Sept. 28 at the ShoWare Center.
Also visit www.OktoberfestKent.com to purchase tickets.
COMMUNITY NOTES
School and Kyle A. Woo of Kentlake High were named Sept. 14 as semi-fi nalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.
About 16,000 students nationwide were notifi ed that they are semifi -nalists for merit scholarships.
National Merit program offi cials will notify semifi nalists in February if they have advanced to fi nalist standing.
Family Dog Training Center is off ering a free Disaster Preparedness Workshop for pet own-ers at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25.
The center is located at 1515 Central Ave. S. in Kent.
The center is sponsoring this event as a public service in support of respon-sible dog ownership.
Kent School District is the recipient of the Best of the Web 2011 award from The Center for Digital Education in the category K-12 District Education Website.
The district website, which was revamped and launched last year, was judged in several categories including uniqueness, innovation, accessibility, functionality and security.
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BY MELANIE HOPE
For The Kent Reporter
This Saturday friends, family and others who loved Evi Stratton will join Team Hope Walking in the fourth annual Seattle Brain Cancer Walk. The walk is part of a national event to raise awareness about brain cancer and fund research and patient care for those who have been diagnosed with all types of brain cancer.
Last January my mother, Evi Stratton, com-plained of having headaches and vision problems.
She thought it was a sinus infection, but it just wouldn’t go away. After a seeing an optom-etrist, who determined nothing was wrong with her eyes, she was referred to a specialist. A scan revealed a 2-centimeter mass on the left side of her brain. Within hours of finding the mass,
Mom was whisked away to brain surgery to remove as much as possible. After the biopsy, she was diag-nosed with glioblastoma multiforme – a very ag-gressive brain cancer that is known for swiftly spreading, usually killing the patient within one year of diagnosis. Because of the size and location of my mom’s tumor, she was given three months to live, even with treat-ment. While we reeled with the news, mom’s stubborn determi-nation kicked in and she simply told the doctor that she had no intention of dying any time soon. Mom believed with all her heart that she could beat it.
For a year, we all thought that
she just might.While she went through chemo
and radiation, Mom also became a vegan, took many natural sup-plements, did acupuncture, drank alkaline water and launched an
all-out war on her cancer.I moved in for a while to
care for her and we formed a team determined to learn everything we could about anyone who had ever beat it. There isn’t much out there that is positive, but we kept looking.
Overall, Mom was exceptionally healthy, except that her tumor took away the func-tionality of the right side of both her eyes. Because of this, she lost many of her freedoms, including horseback riding and reading, her first love. Mom was an avid reader and writer. She wrote five novels, of which four are published under
the pen name Evange-lynn Stratton. She also wrote children’s stories and songs. When I was a little girl, she would tuck little stories she wrote into my school lunches. She also painted illustrations for these stories, some of which I still have today. Mom once told me that
losing her ability to read was the most difficult part of her illness. It frustrated her so much that she even took a black pen to her reading glasses and colored out the right sides, hoping it would enable her to read. While it did help a little, she still always had a stack of things she wanted me to read to her each day.
For the most part, Mom looked and felt great, though she never regained her vision and did have some difficulty speaking. The doc-
tors were proud of her progress and even had trouble finding the tumor site for several months – it looked like it had actually shrunk! Throughout the whole ordeal, mom did her best to keep her fabulous sense of humor. She con-tinued to sing with her church’s praise team and she inspired everyone who knew her.
At the beginning of 2011, while still undergoing the same treat-ment that had worked so far, mom began to have severe diffi-culty in communication. She said that she knew what she wanted to say, but just couldn’t seem to get the words to come out. A new scan showed that the tumor had, in fact, reappeared – with a ven-geance. These types of tumors are known to “hop” from one site to another, causing all sorts of men-tal and physical issues as it affects other areas of the brain. The doc-tors also said that the reason these tumors come back so quickly is that they seem to “figure out” the treatment and work around it.
Mom’s curse was that she was fully aware the entire time, mean-ing she knew what was happening and that there was nothing she could do. Mom’s final days were like a toboggan ride. She went from being my mom to being disoriented, afraid and childlike. This amazing woman, who had always been so gifted musically, poetically and in so many other creative ways wanted to commu-nicate, but she couldn’t form the words. We could only watch as one day she could walk and the next she was bedridden. Within days of invoking hospice care, my dad, sister and I held her hands as mom slipped away on April 2.
Mom would have been 61 this August. I was grateful to get the
chance to honor her on Aug.18 in a speech that took me all
the way to the semifinals of the World Championship of Public Speaking. To see the transcript (and the original blog post upon which the speech was based – including my mom’s comment), visit http://hopespeaking.com and look for “The Snuggie Speech.”
Mom loved the outdoors and we took walks every day that weather permitted right up until her last days. Mom walked with us in the Seattle Brain Cancer Walk last year. This year, she will float above us as we walk in her honor.
Brain cancer does not discrimi-nate. It affects men, women and – yes – children all over the world. According to the National Cancer Institute, 22,340 new cases have been diagnosed and
13,110 have died just this year. Up until recently, very little was known about brain cancer as it was considered very rare. We hope that with awareness and funding from events like the walk, more people will be given a better chance at longer lives after diagnosis.
The fourth annual Seattle Brain Cancer Walk will take place on Saturday, Sept. 24 at
Seattle Center’s Founders Court and 100 percent of the proceeds go to patient care and research. This year, you may stretch your dollars even further as a donor has anonymously offered to match all donations up to $500,000! Please do not miss this chance to offer hope and help to the sufferers and survivors of brain cancer and the families who love them.
To donate and/or join Team Hope Walking, please visit: http://commu-nity.swedish.org/.hopespeaking
Walking in memory of her mother
Melanie Hope
Evi Stratton
BY STEVE HUNTER
Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of fourth-degree assault after he allegedly
smashed his mother-in-law’s face into a dresser when she tried to break up a dispute between he and his wife.
The wife called 911 at about 5:25 a.m. Sept. 13 to report that her husband had assaulted her mother at a home in the 25300 block of 121st Place Southeast and then fled the scene, accord-ing to the police report.
Officers noted that the mother-in-law had a swollen, red knot on her forehead.
The husband reportedly was upset at first that his wife had not ironed his work uniform. He then accused her of spending time with her “lover.” The couple had argued for the previous two days about the wife’s social networking account.
The mother-in-law, who lives with the couple, heard the argument and started to argue with her son-in-law about why he was talking to her daughter like that when the man allegedly grabbed her by the shoulders and shoved her face into a dresser before he left the home.
Police arrested the man later that day at his workplace in Seattle.
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State law designated the city must reduce the levy by what the RFA would levy, $1 per $1,000.
The group asking for the taxes to not be collected contend that about 38 cents per $1,000 was kept by the city that would have been used for fire department operations. This adds up to about $4.9 million.
Other residents noted their property tax bill increased although they thought it would decrease when the RFA was formed.
According to Bob Nach-linger, city finance director, “it is inaccurate to say taxes went up. (A property own-ers) tax bill went up, but the property tax did not.”
Nachlinger said a prop-erty owner’s tax bill would have increased for the first half of 2011 because of voter-approved bonds and levies, including school and library measures. Also add-ing to the bill was the new fire benefit charge that was added by the fire authority, not the city.
The fire benefit charge varies by the home or busi-ness and is dependent upon
assessed fire risk. Nachlinger also said that
when the fire department was part of the city, the property tax collected for police and fire covered only 60 percent of the operat-ing budget. The remainder came out of the general fund and was paid for with sales taxes, fees and other revenues collected.
During the public hear-ing, one of the more testy exchanges came when Kent Chamber of Com-merce Executive Director Andrea Keikkala testified.
“The Kent Chamber of Commerce requests the city of Kent does not build the 2012 budget with additional money generated from the property tax regarding the fire benefit charge,” Keik-kala said. “The chamber un-derstands the amount to be $4.94 million per year.... We request here again tonight the city of Kent reduce the property tax in the city by reducing the city’s tax rate by the agreed upon $4.94 million.”
Albertson asked Keikkala if she had a list of sugges-
tions for “program cuts.”Keikkala said she did not
have a list of program cuts, but she referred to the rec-ommendations for voter-approved bonds and car-tab fees from the Transporta-tion Master Plan Citizen Committee as options for raising funds.
“The Kent Chamber has asked for this multiple times to be explored,” Keik-
kala said. “And we have offered our support
for an educational campaign regard-ing the two funding
options.”Albertson replied
that was “helpful for fund-ing transportation, but that doesn’t help us with general fund revenue. So would you be comfortable with the council cutting nonessen-tials such as the money we use to support the chamber of commerce?”
Keikkala responded, “I don’t think that is a very fair question to be asking right now.”
The director stated the chamber has had difficulties like many in the communi-ty including reducing staff and delaying work “while
we weathered the economic storm.”
Albertson continued the exchange with Keikkala.
“So you don’t have any concrete ideas this eve-ning,” Albertson said. “I look forward to a list being generated by the chamber in the future.”
As the public hearing was closing Albertson stated, “The property tax rate is actually lower. The rate the city of Kent is collecting is actually lower and saying that the rates are higher over and over again does not make it true.”
Albertson went on to add the city could have col-lected at a higher rate, “but we realized that everyone is hurting.... To say that we didn’t feel it is hurtful for me to hear, but I can take the swings and I can take the arrows. That’s the job I signed up for.”
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke will present a preliminary budget Oct. 4 to the council. A second public hearing is set for Oct. 18.
The council is scheduled to adopt the budget on Dec. 13.
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We are considering a new series of enterprise reporting written by TJ Martinell who works out of the Covington-Maple Valley-Black Diamond Reporter offi ce.
Th e subject is online dating.I was hoping I could do the research and write
the series, but, certain staff members think the story is too much fun for me.
Fine.Th e idea for the
series came from me. Despite what some think, I’m really Mr. Happy.
Th e online dating issue caught my atten-tion when TJ told me that guys his age, in their mid-20s, are going online to fi nd dates.
I always thought the folks clicking the online dating buttons were sitting around on locked wards sipping red liquid and watching Jack Nicholson in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Now I fi nd out everyone is using online dating. I did a brief survey of folks in my offi ce and found out most had friends and relations of all ages using the various online dating services.
No one ever tells me anything.Th e whole world changed and no one told
me. I’ll bet God is up there in heaven saying,
“Online dating? What’s that? Why didn’t any-one tell me about this? I’m God, I get to know things.”
Apparently, people looking for a date fi ll out screening surveys online and some computer nerd matches you up with a breathing entity who has the same answers.
Th at scares me. Th ere is even some quasi-scientifi c study
I read somewhere that said most men think they look like Greek gods even though a knuckle-dragging cave man is staring back at them in the mirror. It’s a special male talent.
Th e only thing I can fi gure is there must be a very good lie detector on the man side of the screening survey. I bet that lie detector is a girl sitting at a terminal with a fi nely honed sense of humor.
“Right, 150 pounds. Yeah when you were 2.”“Sure, 6 feet 2, on a ladder.”When I was young I don’t remember any
screening devices beyond a six pack of beer, which may be the best argument for online dating and screening surveys
Th e truth is every boy I have ever known was a major fumbling loser when it came to girls. All of us were trying to get some girl
to like us, and all we heard were, “not in this lifetime, dip.”
I have a scientifi c theory that women are genetically designed to be impervious to all the dopey girl catching tactics males try.
Th ere is one small caveat that allows for marriage.
I call it women’s Achilles’ heel. Females are completely invincible except
for that one moment of weakness. At the right moment, if a male specimen is lucky, he gets a girl to believe his lies for a very short time. If he doesn’t hesitate, he may fi nd someone to share his life and believe his lies until death do them part, and there is nothing in this world like it. It has happened.
Based on my observations of watching hopeless guys try to get a date, online dating may be the best way to fi nd that special girl.
It can’t be any worse.
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since my daughter Lyla arrived almost two years ago, but still it’s not a color I have in abundance in my wardrobe.
But, on Sept. 16 my Facebook feed was fi lled with pink as friends and professional contacts posted photos from the Susan G. Komen 3 Day Walk for the Cure.
And I didn’t mind the pink.First of all, I’ve known Tina Mc-
Donough for two years now, at least I think so. McDonough is the founder and amazing leader of Valley Girls & Guys, a team she founded a few years ago to walk in memory of a close friend, Michelle.
McDonough’s friend may have lost the battle with cancer — and since then, she has lost other loved ones — but she continues to fi ght on.
As a result, Valley Girls & Guys has grown beyond even McDonough’s wildest dreams, becoming the largest team in the state and the highest fundraising, as well. In fact, it’s quite likely this group raised more money than any
other team in the country.Th is year more than 150 walkers — nearly
double the number on the team last year — raised more than $320,000.
I am friends with McDonough on Facebook. I also liked the Valley Girls & Guys Facebook page so I could keep up with everything the team was doing as it prepared for this year’s walk.
Every time a new person joined the team, and sometimes they came in twos or threes, she posted. And I celebrated.
Th ere are times when I don’t have to be objective to tell someone’s story. And I won’t lie. I am absolutely biased when it comes to Valley Girls & Guys.
Th ey are an example of how awe-some this community is and I am proud to say I live here, to say I know McDonough but I also feel lucky that I get to write about this group’s ac-
complishments.I must confess that while I have always
thought this was awesome, I didn’t quite get it, I didn’t understand why anyone would walk 60 miles on a weekend in September when they could very well be watching football or play-ing outside in the sunshine.
Now, though, I get it.But, this year, it was a bit more personal for
me. It was more than just pride as a journalist and as a member of this community.
For the fi rst time in my life cancer hit close to home. In April I got an email from a close friend, someone who is like a big sister to me, saying we wouldn’t be able to meet up for lunch soon as we had planned because she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
My friend Ilyse has been in my life since I was 16 years old. She was my math teacher. But, more than that, she was an advocate for me and my own personal cheerleader. She helped me with homework. She helped me get into college. She went above and beyond the call of duty.
We’ve stayed in touch over the years. But, she’s always been an important part of my life, not just someone I talk to now and again.
Ilyse was at my graduation from the Univer-sity of Washington as proud of me as my own family.
Two weeks before that she was at my wed-ding where she read out of Songs of Solomon.
I got to meet all her kids when they were newborns and I’ve watched them grow up, mostly through photos, but now they are all in grade school.
Her family is amazing. I could tell all kinds of stories about how lucky I am to have her in my life.
One of the fi rst people I contacted when I found out about Ilyse’s diagnosis was Tina McDonough.
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If anyone knew what I was going through, it would be her.
I asked her to add Ilyse to their list of people they were walking for at the 3 Day.
So, when I saw all the photos of pink on Sept. 16 on Facebook, I was so proud.
I didn’t mind all the pink.
Heck, I’ve even got a
little pink on now. As I was heading out
of McDonough’s office on Monday I asked her what the pink rubber bracelet on her wrist said. “Faith Courage” with a ribbon between the two words.
She immediately took it off and handed it to me. Normally I would decline such a gift but I took it from her.
That bracelet was on her wrist while she did the 3 Day. It looks a little worn
and is faded.It may have been a small
gesture, just a way to get me wearing some pink, but it means a lot to me.
I immediately put it on. Now I am wearing pink
for McDonough, for the battle she’s fought on behalf of those she’s lost to breast cancer, but also for my friend Ilyse, who is a survivor.
Maybe I don’t hate pink so much after all.
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[ ARRESTS from page 1] Twelve people were
injured at the lowrider car show attended by about 250 people. Another person was injured later that night in a retaliatory shooting at a Kent East Hill apartment. Of the 13 victims, seven were gang members, Thom-as said. None of the injuries were life threatening.
Detectives and crime analysts from 14 local, county, state and fed-eral agencies are part of the shooting investigation. They interviewed more than 150 people, reviewed hundreds of hours of video and still images and ana-lyzed records from more than 70 cellphones.
“The initial success is due to the cooperation of regional partners and the assistance Kent received
from local, federal and state partners,” Thomas said.
Thomas explained at the press conference what police believed happened at the car show.
First of all, the prop-erty managers, the city of Kent and Kent Police were not made aware that the car show and rap concert were lined up for that day. A business at the strip mall that helped organize the show has since been evicted from the complex by the property managers for setting up the show without any notice. The group also was required to get a city permit for the show, but did not even seek a permit.
At the show, rappers in a band started to make comments to the crowd to
“show your flags,” Thomas said. That’s a term for gang members to flash gang signs.
“Members started to show signs, which led to verbal arguments, physi-cal altercations and then turned into a shooting,” Thomas said.
Detectives are pursuing potential arrests of band
members as part of the ongoing investi-gation.
Cellphone calls were made shortly
after the fight broke out and additional gang
members showed up at the event.
When police arrived, gang members had fled the scene. The followup investi-gation proved difficult and took time because many gang members did not want
to cooperate with police and other witnesses feared what might happen to them if they cooperated, Thomas said.
“We know of at least three gangs that were involved in the fight and shooting,” Thomas said.
The gangs have sub-
sets and conflict develops among the gang members that leads to violence, said Kent Police Lt. Pat Low-ery. Some of the tensions released at the car show shooting could have been simmering over a long period of time.
“These arrests are just the
first round and we antici-pate additional arrests will be coming in the next few weeks,” Lowery said.
Reach Steve Hunter at [email protected] or 253-872-6600 ext. 5052.To comment on this story go to www.kentreporter.com.
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BY KRIS HILL
In this new age of instant gratifi cation in cyberspace, most young people don’t realize the lasting eff ects their virtual lives can have on their real lives, and it’s a lessons many are learning the hard way.
Educators and cybersafety experts are working with kids to teach them the importance of taking a moment to think about what may happen if they put every thought that pops into their head out on the Internet.
What kids see as funny could be viewed as everything from cyberbullying by teachers to irresponsible behavior by parents or potential employers or even something that raises the eyebrows of an admissions offi cer at a college.
THINK BEFORE YOU SENDTh ere’s a saying fl oating around about the permanence of
cyberspace: posting something to the web is like writing it on a wall in pen.
Michelle Bennett, Maple Valley police chief, did her doctoral dissertation on cyberbullying.
“Th e Internet is permanent,” Bennett wrote in an email interview. “Th ere are archive websites who take a sort of ‘screenshot’ of web and data media sites and warehouse store every image and post. Careful what you post on your Facebook or MySpace or other social media site.”
Future employers, college admissions offi cers and other infl uential decision makers do view Facebook profi les and Twitter accounts, Bennett stated.
“Kids should know that future employers and college admission folks do look at your MySpace or Facebook page,” she wrote. “If a youth is posting pictures of himself underage with a bunch of beer cans, illegal drugs, partying – they will probably not be the fi rst to be hired.”
Instead, use social media as the ultimate public relations profi le, to create a brand for yourself and develop a positive image.
Bennett suggests posting photos of yourself doing good things and involved in activities.
Heidi Maurer, principal at Cedar Heights Middle School in Covington, is bringing in an anti-bullying expert to her school, Stu Cabe, on Sept. 12.
In her second year at the middle school, Maurer is working to change the culture there among students, and something that is crucial from the fi rst day of class to deal with bullying both online and in real life.
During the fi rst month of school, Maurer said, Cedar Heights won’t be on its usual schedule. One day a week students will be immersed in lessons about the school’s core values while the rest of the week there will be discus-sion about technology.
“We’re going to do technology lessons so we can develop a common foundation about technology and we’re going to go over what’s appropriate and what’s not appropriate,” she said. “We’re going to teach them basic skills that we assume they already know.”
An important lesson, Maurer said, is for her students to learn to think before they send an email, a message on Facebook or a text.
Even with the problems that have come from the ability to communicate electronically, it’s not all bad, Maurer said.
“In that increased communication there’s an upside,” she said. “Students feel like they can share things they other-wise wouldn’t share.”
Kush, of wiredsafety.org, said the most eff ective program his organization has come across is its Teen Angels group.
“It’s a peer to peer type of thing where teenagers... they set up chapters much like you would any school based group,” Kush said. “Th ey have what we call den mothers, adult leaders, and they work to impart this information in their schools. We’ve found for the most part kids are more receptive if they have one of their own giving them this in-formation than if we have school assembly and some gray hair like me gets up and harangues them about how stupid they can be online.”
He encourages kids to remember the Golden Rule.“Don’t post something online about somebody that you
wouldn’t want to have posted about yourself,” Kush said. “If you’re mad at somebody think about it for a day before you post.... think before you post anything.”
He also urges parents to limit their kids use of technol-ogy, which while he knows it may not be popular, it is the best way because just monitoring a child’s Facebook profi le and Twitter account is only scratching the surface of their virtual lives.
Jason Krafsky said there is some basic etiquette parents and kids should be aware of when interacting with one another.
“Parents and kids should have common respect for one another on Facebook,” he wrote. “Don’t embarrass one
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It’s not far-fetched to think that optimistic people are not only happier but also healthier.
Some scientists now be-lieve that keeping a positive attitude may even reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.
“Past research has linked optimism with a range of health benefi ts, including cardiovascular outcome,” Eric Kim said, a doctoral student in clinical psychol-ogy at the University of Michigan and lead author of a study that was recently published in the medical journal, “Stroke,” a pub-lication of the American Heart Association. What always remained a mystery is exactly how a sunny tem-perament aff ects a person’s health.
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“Th is doesn’t mean that all optimistic people will have a lower risk of stroke,” Dr. Joseph Broderick said, a professor of neurology at the University of Cincinna-ti. “Optimism can also work against making healthier decisions – you can be optimistic and feel like ev-erything will work out, and so you don’t change your behavior for the better.”
Still, Kim and his col-leagues are convinced they have found solid evidence for a strictly biological impact of positive thinking. For the study, a group of more than 6,000 adults over the age of 50 were rated on a 16-point scale in terms of their general outlook on life. Th e researchers mea-sured optimism levels with a modifi ed “Life Orienta-tion Test,” a widely used assessment tool in which participants rank their responses to a question-naire on a numeric scale. Th e results showed for each point increase in optimism a corresponding 9 percent decrease in acute stroke risk over a two-year follow-up period.
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“Optimism seems to have a swift impact on stroke,” wrote Kim in a press release aft er the publication of his report. “In a similar way that depression can impact functioning, we think opti-mism can as well.”
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A year ago Tahoma and Kentlake’s girls
soccer teams battled it out for the top two spots in the South Puget Sound League 4A North Division but in the end Kentwood hoisted the state championship trophy.
This year, it may be a bat-tle for the top again among those three squads, as the Bears and the Conquerors are atop the North Division standings while the Falcons are looking to break out of a slump.
DEFENDING CONQUERORSBeing defending state
champions can mean high expectations.
As of Sept. 19, the Conquerors were 3-0, but midfielders and co-captains Reilly Retz and Megan McNally felt like the team could be playing better.
McNally said that while winning state again is the ultimate goal, Kentwood has to deal with the pres-
sure it faces in defending its title, but “it just makes us work harder.”
“We’re obviously coming off a big win last year,” Retz said. “But, we’re trying to put last year behind us. It’s a new year.”
Retz noted that while on paper Kentwood seems to
be fine, on the field there’s something missing right now.
“We have a lot of individ-ual talent,” she said. “Some players, we can play well together, but we have to get there as a whole team. We don’t have a rhythm and we’re not connecting as a
team, but, we’re working on that.”
And it’s not like the team doesn’t get along off the field, Retz said, they just “need to connect on a soc-cer level.”
Kentwood started off with a 3-0 victory over Thomas Jefferson, a 1-0 de-
feat of Kentlake and 2-1 winagainst North Division foe Kentridge before squaring off against Mount Rainier on Tuesday.
Every individual player is strong in her position, Retz said, but there’s room for improvement.
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Kentwood’s Megan McNally, right, defends Tahoma’s Sarah Jeric during the 2010 4A girls soccer state title game. Kentwood won the crown 1-0 in a shootout. The division rivals will square off on Oct. 1 at Tahoma High. FILE PHOTO
Kentwood, Kentlake will again battle each other and Tahoma for the top spot in the SPSL North Division
KENTWOOD BOYS SOCCER PLAYERS NAMED TO
ALL-STATE SOCCER TEAMSA handful of Kentwood players
were among the athletes selected by coaches in a poll
for the 2010-2011 4A All State teams. The poll was voted on
by Washington State Soccer Coaches Association members and otherhigh school coaches
across the state.
Coach of the Year – Aaron Radford, Kentwood
First TeamDefenders – Cody Crook and Eli
Peterson, Kentwood.Second Team
Midfielders – Stefan Bangsund, Kentwood.
Honorable MentionMidfielders – Jared Fuller,
Kentwood.
BY STEVE HUNTER
Right wing Burke Gal-limore wants playoff fever to start now for the Kent-based Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team.
Seattle has missed the Western Hockey League playoffs the past two years.
That helped lead to the firing of coach Rob Sumner after last season and the June hiring Steve Konowal-chuk, a former NHL player and Colorado Avalanche assistant coach.
“Everyone has to believe we can do it,” Gallimore said about making the
playoffs. “I know the last couple
of years not being very suc-cessful there’s always doubt. But this year, having a new coaching staff, a couple of new faces in the room and a different leadership group, we are gelling together pretty well so far.”
The T-Birds open the 2011-12 season against the rival Portland Winterhawks at 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24 at the ShoWare Center.Portland won the Western Conference and the U.S.
T-Birds prepare to end playoff drought
Dave Sutter takes a shot on goalie Michael Salmon during practice Tuesday at ShoWare Center. CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter [ more T-BIRDS page 14) ]
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Division titles last year be-fore losing to the Kootenay Ice in the WHL Finals. The Winterhawks are the top-ranked WHL team this season.
“We expect to make the playoffs,” said Konowal-chuk, who started his junior hockey career with Port-land. “We have a good core coming back. We have four
of our leading scorers and brought in a couple of more defensemen. We expect to make the playoffs and I know the players do. Obvi-ously, it’s a tough division. There are very good teams in this division but we have high expectations and play-ers who can achieve that.”
Gallimore led the T-Birds with 34 goals and 70 points last season. They
also return Marcel Noebels (54 points), Luke Lockhart (48) and Colin Jacobs (44). Second-leading points man Brenden Dillon, who played four years with the T-Birds, is now with the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League after sign-ing a three-year contract in March with the Dallas Stars.
Seattle features nine new players, including four rookies, on its 25-man roster. Rookie defenseman Jared Hauf looms as one of the rookies to keep an eye on.
“He’s competitive and he seems to be a smart player and has the skills to go with that,” Konowalchuk said about the 6-foot-5 Hauf. “He’s a young kid who still has to learn how to play a little bit in different situa-tions and still work on his speed and get stronger to play with 19 and 20 year olds. But for 16 years old,
he’s a very good player and should have a good future.”
The T-Birds finished with a record of 27-35-5-5 last season. They placed ninth out of 10 teams in the Western Conference. The top eight teams advanced to the playoffs.
“The U.S. Division is the toughest so it’s harder for us to make it,” Noebels said. “We were a young team last year and we’re still young this year.”
Noebels just returned Tuesday from two weeks at the Philadelphia Flyers training camp. As of Tues-day, goalie Calvin Pick-ard, Jacobs and Lockhart remained at NHL training camps and their availability for Saturday’s opener re-mained uncertain, although all are expected to eventu-ally return to the T-Birds.
Konowalchuk likes his mix of veteran and young players. He noticed during the second half of train-
ing camp that the players are working hard but still having fun, something he wants them to continue to experience all season.
“You’re going to see a team that’s passionate and playing with a purpose and determined to get the results,” Konowalchuk said.
Players have been in-spired by the new coaching staff.
“Those guys bring fresh air in here,” Noebels said. “We keep almost everyone from last year. We know how we play. The guys learned a lot from last year after we lost eight or nine in a row after Christmas. We have to find a playoff spot right away from the first game to the last game.”
Playoffs definitely domi-nate conversations among the T-Birds because of the two-year drought.
“We’re trying to tell the young guys that it’s not fun losing,” Gallimore said. “You might miss home and stuff but you don’t want to go home when the (regular) season ends. You want to be here playing after that in the playoffs. We’ve got to get that in everyone’s heads
earlier and we shouldn’t have any problems this year.”
That playoff drive starts Saturday against the Win-terhawks.
“It’s going to be tough playing them all year,” Konowalchuk said. “They are one of the best teams. They have built that reputa-tion up the last few years. We have to come out and be on top of our game and make them work for every-thing they get. It gets back to puck management, wear them out and stick to the game plan.”
A game plan the T-Birds expect to lead them to the playoffs for the first time since the 2008-09 season.
“You want to be in the Super Bowl in football and you want to be in the playoffs in hockey,” Noebels said.
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The Thursday, Sept. 15 Kentwood and Tahoma football game was a tale of two halves with the Conks stopping the Bears in the closing minutes of the fourth to take a 24-17 vic-tory at French Field.
Both teams came into the game with a loss and a vic-tory and plenty to prove.
Tahoma had beaten Thomas Jefferson 38-31 in the opening game of the South Puget Sound League 4A North schedule and lost a nonleague match the next week at South Kitsap, 42-35.
Jefferson went on to upset Kentwood 24-7 the second week of the season which made the Tahoma game carry even more weight for the Conquerors.
The Conks came out swinging in the first frame posting 10 points.
Matt Hubbard scored on a 30-yard run and Mitchell Cox booted a 34-yard field goal.
In the second quarter Chance Kalua-Fuimaono broke a 44-yard run for another six. Cox kicked the
extra point.The two teams went into
the locker room at the half with Kentwood up 17-0.
The second half proved to be a different story as Tahoma began to put drives together and chipped away at the Conks lead.
At the beginning of the fourth David Stoecker hit a 26-yard field goal for the Bears.
The next possession for the Bears was pay dirt when Shane Nelson hit Jason Smith in the corner of the end zone on a 19-year pass.
Stoecker nailed the extra point and it was suddenly a seven point game.
Kentwood got busy and Kalua-Fuimaono broke a run for 22-yards and six points with Cox adding the extra point.
The closing minutes of the quarter got very inter-esting.
Nelson hit Dallin Wil-liams on a 9-yard pass and the extra point made it 24-17.
With about 90 seconds remaining, Tahoma at-tempted an onside kick that appeared to work for few seconds, but Kentwood controlled as the clock
ticked away with no more scoring.
Week four has Kentwood hosting a nonleague game against Puyallup at 7 p.m. Saturday. KENTLAKE 55, MOUNT RAINIER 0:
Kentlake started scoring right away and didn’t stop
until the third quarter, put-ting South Puget Sound League 4A North Division rival Mount Rainier away 55-0 Saturday night at French Field.
On a rainy, cool night, the Falcons jumped out to a 13-0 lead on its first two possession of the game
and never looked back.Junior running back Ca-
leb Mathena made it 20-0 to start the second quarter on a 16 yard scamper.
Next up Steffin Church, who started again at quarterback, tossed a 15-yard touchdown strike to Jordan Seffens with 6:38
left in the third to make it 27-0.
Scoring was spread out among the running back corps as sophomore Riley Higgins made it 34-0 with his dash for the end zone.
Kentlake travels to Thomas Jefferson Friday. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
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“We need to connect between each line,” she said. “We need to move to the ball a little quicker. We still work hard and we’re still aggressive to the ball.”
Once the Conks can connect the way the want to on the field, McNally said, then they can start focusing on larger goals.
“The first thing we want to worry about is winning league and we can worry about state from there,” McNally said. “To get through the regular season, every game you have to be ready to work hard because we do play in a tough league. You have to be looking to improve every single game. If we’re doing that, just getting better and better, I think that’s going to carry us through league.”
Coach Aaron Radford gave the team a binder filled with information about the role of each player on the team, McNally said, with an expectation that they become students of the game.
It will build on the fact many of the girls have known each other and played together for a long time as well as help them understand how to take all the individual talent the Conks have and put it together to work as a whole.
“We have strengths all over the field,” McNally said. “Our midfield is very strong but I think we have a lot of speed up top and our back line is really strong. We have so much depth. We have so many players who are really skilled all over the field.”
And while the team is taking it one game at a time, McNally said, she is definitely looking forward to the re-match of the 2010 state title game with Tahoma on Oct. 1 at Maxwell Stadium.
“That’s the first thing I looked for when the schedule came out,” she said. “When are we playing Tahoma and where are we playing. Everyone is always going to have that game they’re look-ing forward to ... that’s a huge deal for us, that could decide if we win league or not and if we stay undefeated. We’ve always had such a strong rivalry with Tahoma. I’m excited to see how they are this year.”
Kentwood knows it al-ready has a target on its back, McNally said, being the de-fending state champions and top rated team in the state.
“A lot is expected of you but I think we can step up to the challenge,” she said. “Who doesn’t want to beat
the No. 1 ranked team? Who doesn’t want to beat the defending state champions? We’ll have to really come out
with intensity.”
KENTLAKE PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER
Losing to Tahoma in the first round of the play-offs was tough for Kentlake to take, but, captains Laura Rayfield and Carli Pogson said they’re over it now.
Well, mostly over it.
“It was bittersweet,” Ray-field said of the end of last season. “I have friends on the Kentwood team and I know how hard they work, so, they deserved it. We knew we could’ve gone further.”
Pogson pointed out that Kentlake did not lose to divi-sion rivals Kentwood during the regular season. Still, it was a little bit tough to see the Conks beat Tahoma in the state title game.
“We knew we were good enough, “ Pogson said. “It was especially bittersweet because Tahoma knocked
us out of the playoffs. We moved on. It’s a new year.”
Right now, though, the Falcons need to refocus after starting off 1-2-1 in league play.
“The first couple games have been a little rocky,” Ray-feild said. “But, we’re really starting to come together as a team. We’re willing to not only put in the work off the field as far as team bond-ing but we’re putting in the work on the field.”
Pogson stated the team, as it does every year, has come up with three terms to focus on this season.
“Character, effort and attitude because those are three things we have control over,” she said. “Our goal is not just to achieve that on the field but off the field and this year we want to make it further than last year.”
Kentlake has the talent, Pogson and Rayfield ex-plained, it’s just a matter of putting all the pieces of the puzzle into place.
“I feel like it’s coming
together,” Rayfield said. “It’s exciting. Our biggest thing is our mental game. Without a doubt we have the talent to get (to state).”
Rayfield noted the team has to be will-ing to play unselfish soccer, to be willing to sacrifice for each
other during games.“When you get down in
a game, you always have to keep your head up and fight back,” she said.
Both captains feel like the defense and the front line are solid. As the season progresses Pogson said, they should find a balanced approach to games, and that balance is something the
Falcons are working on.“It’s about focusing on
the big picture,” Pogson said. “We treat every game like it’s a playoff game.”
Once it all comes togeth-er, Pogson added, it could be really awesome to watch Kentlake girls soccer.
“When we put passes together on the field, it’s beautiful,” she said.
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CITY OF KENTNOTICE OF ORDINANCES
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
The following is a summary of ordinances passed by the Kent City Council on September 20, 2011:
ORDINANCE NO. 4003 AN ORDINANCE of the City
Council of the City of Kent, Washington, amending Title 15, Kent City Code, specifically Section 15.04.170, Section 15.04.190, Section 15.05.100, Section 15.08.020, Section 15.08.040, Section 15.08.050, Section 15.08.100, Section 15.08.160, Section 5.08.205, and Section 15.09.055 (ZCA-2011—01(A)). Effective Date: October 20, 2011
ORDINANCE NO. 4004 AN ORDINANCE of the City
Council of the City of Kent, Washington, amending Chapter 9.34 of the Kent City Code entitled “Corrections Facility”, authorizing alternatives to incar- ceration of convicted misdemea- nants.Effective Date: October 20, 2011
Each ordinance will take effect 30 days from the date of passage, unless subjected to referendum or vetoed by the Mayor, or unless otherwise noted. A copy of the complete text of any ordinance will be mailed upon request to the City Clerk. Brenda Jacober, CMC, City Clerk
Published in the Kent Reporter on September 23, 2011. #528173
In the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for
the County of LewisIn the matter of the estate of WINIFRED PETTETT Deceased.NO. 11-4-00216-6
PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS
RCW 11.40.030 The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise appli- cable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate pro- ceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020 (1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first pub- lication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise pro- vided in section 11 of this act and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is ef- fective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non- probate assets.Date of filing copy of Notice to Creditors August 23, 2011Date of first publication September 16, 2011/s/ Sue McDonald Co-Personal Representative/s/ Vicki AldrichCo-Personal Representative%OLSON, ALTHAUSERSAMUELSON & RAYAN, LLP114 W. Magnolia; P. O. Box 210Centralia, WA 98531Telephone: 1-360-736-1301 Published in the Kent Reporter on September 16, 2011, Septem- ber 23, 2011 and September 30, 2011. #526619.
Superior Court of Washington County of King
In re the Marriage of: Tamara Maria BaileyPetitioner, and Matthew Richard Schantz Respondent.No. 11-03-05749-0SEA
Summons (SM)To the Respondent: The petition- er has started an action in the above court requesting: that your marriage be dissolved. You must respond to this summons and petition by serving a copy of your written response on the person signing this sum-
mons and by filing the originalwith the clerk of the court. If youdo not serve your written re-sponse within 20 days (or 60days if you are seved outside ofthe State of Washington) afterthe date this summons wasserved on you, exclusive of theday of service, the court may en-ter an order of default againstyou, and the court may, withoutfurther notice to you, enter a de-cree and approve or provide forother relief requested in this peti-tions. In the case of a dissolution,of marriage or domestice partner-ship, the court will not enter thefinal decree until at least 90 daysafter filing and service. If youserve a notice of appearance onthe undersigned person, you areentitled to notice before an orderof default or a decree may beentered. Your written response to thesummons and petition must be onform WPF DR 01.0300,Response to Petition (Marriage). This form may be obtaned bycontacting the clerk of the courtat the address below, by contact-ing the Administrative Office ofthe Courts at (360)705-5328, orfrom the Internet at the Washing-ton State Courts homepage: http:/www.courts.wa.gov/forms If this action has not been filedwith the court, you may demandthat the petitioner file this actionwith the court. If you do so, thedemand must be in writing andmust be served upon the personsigning this summons. Within 14days after you serve the demand,the petitioner must file this actionwith the court, or the service onyou of this summons and petitionwill be void. If you wish to seek the advice ofan attorney in this matter youshould do so promptly so thatyour written response, if any,may be served on time. One method of serving a copyof your response on the petitioneris to send it by certified mail withreturn receipt requested. This summons is issuedpursuant to RCW 4.28.100 andSuperior Court Civil Rule 4.1 ofthe State of Washington.Dated: 08/20/11Petitioner:Tamara Bailey File Original of your Responsewith the Clerk of the Court at:Attn: Ex Parte Dept., Rm W325King County Superior Court516 Third Ave, Rm W325Seattle WA 98104-2386206-296-9300Serve a Copy of your Responseon: Petitioner Tamara BaileyPMB 5549PO BOX 257 Olympia, WA 98507
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Superior Court of Washington County of King
In re: Lau Anani Valencia Petitioner, and Miguel Maldonado Respondent.
No. 11-3-03821-5KntSummons by Publication
(SMPB) To the Respondent: Miguel Maldonado, the petitioner has started an action in the above court requesting: that your mar- riage or domestic partnership be dissolved. You must respond to this summons by serving a copy of your written response on the per- son signing this summons and by filing the original with the clerk of the court. If you do not serve your written response within 60 days after the date of the first publicaton of this summons (60 days after the 16th day of Sep- tember, 2011), the court may en- ter an order of default against you, and the court may, without further notice to you, enter a de- cree and approve or provide for other relief requested in this sum- mons. In the case of a dissolu- tion, the court will not enter the final decree until at least 90 days after service and filing. If you serve a notice of appearance on the undersigned person, you are entitled to notice before an order of default or a decree may be entered.
Your written response to the summons and petition must be on form WPF DR 01.0300, Response to Petition (Marriage). Information about how to get this form may be obtained by contacting the clerk of the court, by contacting the Administrative Office of the Courts at (360)705-5328, or from the Inter- net at the Washington State Courts homepage: http:/www.courts.wa.gov/forms If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time. One method of serving a copy of your response on the petitioner is to send it by certified mail with return receipt requested. This summons is issued pursuant to RCW 4.28.100 and Superior Court Civil Rule 4.1 of the State of Washington.Dated: 06/07/11Petitioner Lau Aqnani ValenciaFile Original of your Response with the Clerk of the Court at:King County Superior Court401 - 4th Ave N. Rm 2CKent , WA 98032Serve a Copy of your Response on: Petitioner Lau Anani Valencia2919 S 252nd StKent, WA 98032 Published in Kent Reporter on September 16, 23, 30 and Octo- ber 7, 14, 21 2011. #526232.
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In re: The Marriage of DICKSON V. LEE, Petitioner/Husband,and KWAN CHEONG AU, Respondent/Wife. CASE NO.: 2011-DR-003352-0000-0 Division: G
NOTICE OF ACTION FOR DISSOLUTION OF
MARRIAGETO: KWAN CHEONG AU 26318 127th Avenue, Kent, Washington, 98030 YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on DICKSON V. LEE, whose counsel’s address is 716 E. Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32803 on or before October 19, 2011, and file the original with the clerk of this Court at Seminole County Court at 301 North Park Avenue, Sanford, FL 32771-1243, before service on Petitioner or immediately there- after. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request. You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office noti- fied of your current address. (You may file Notice of Cur- rent Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers
in this lawsuit will be mailed to the address on record at the clerk’s office. WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of docu- ments and information. Fail- ure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings.Dated September 14, 2011MARYANNE MORSE, CLERKBy: Debra A. Wykes Deputy Clerk Published in Kent Reporter on September 16, 23, 30, 2011 and October 7, 2011 #526894.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS,
OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTION AND
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
The Department of Veterans Af- fairs (VA), Office of Construc- tion and Facilities Management (CFM) seeks public comment on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Tiered Environ- mental Assessment documents for a proposed project in Kent, Washington. The project consists of the phased development of approximately 15 to 20 acres within the existing boundaries of the existing Tahoma National Cemetery, in general accordance with the Master Plan for the entire 159-acre cemetery which originally opened in 1997. The Draft Tiered EA has been prepared in accordance with the regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of the Na- tional Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA), (Public Law 91-190, 42 USC 4321-4347 January 1, 1970), amendments, and VA’s Implementing Regulations (38 CFR Part 26). VA intends to is- sue a “Finding of No Significant Impact” (FONSI) following a thirty day comment period in ac- cordance with the Council on En- vironmental Quality Regulations for Implementing NEPA, Section 1508.13 providing there are no substantive comments which warrant further evaluation.
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY Copies of the document are available for public review and comment until October 24, 2011 in the Government Documents Section at the Kent Branch of the King County Library System, lo- cated at 212 2nd Avenue North, Kent, Washington, (253) 859-3330 and at the Taho- ma National Cemetery, located at 18600 SE 240th Street in Kent, (425) 413-9614, or at h t t p : / / w w w . c e m . v a . gov/wn/EA.asp Please send written comments to: Robert Klipfel, Project Manager, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Construction and Facil- ities Management, 425 Eye Street NW, Suite 6W.417D, Washington, DC 20001, or by e- mail to: [email protected], with the subject line: “Tahoma EA Comments.” Published in the Kent Reporter on September 23, 2011.#528071. WestPac Development Kent 36-1 LLC, 7449 West Mercer Way, Mercer Island WA, 98040 is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of
Ecology’s Construction Storm-water NPDES and State WasteDischarge General Permit. Theproposed project, Hansen/Good-win Short Plats is located at12013 SE 192nd St/19220 120thAve SE, Kent WA, 98058 inthe City of Kent, King County.This project involves 4.2 acres ofsoil disturbance for a residentialdevelopment construction activ-ities, roads, utilities and single-familyresidences.Stormwaterwill be discharged to an unnamedtributary to Big Soos Creek, thento Big Soos Creek . Any persons desiring to presenttheir views to the WashingtonState Department of Ecology re-garding this application, or inter-ested in Ecology’s action on thisapplication, may notify Ecologyin writing no later than 30 daysof the last date of publicationof this notice. Ecology reviewspublic comments and considerswhether discharges from thisproject would cause a measur-able change in receiving waterquality, and, if so, whether theproject is necessary and in theoverriding public interest accord-ing to Tier II antidegradationrequirements under WAC173-201A-320.Comments can be submitted to:Department of EcologyAttn: Water Quality Program, Construction StormwaterP.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696Published in the Kent Reporteron September 23, 2011 andSeptember 30, 2011. #528108.
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