Valley creative types turn to crowd funding for ambitious projects

BY SETH TRUSCOTTEditor

The clock is ticking for Jerry Mader.

He’s got an ambitious goal, less than a month left to meet it. And he’s depending on friends and strangers to invest in his latest book, that helps and documents people they’ll prob-ably never meet.

Crowd funding is a new thing for this Carnation author, photographer and musician, working on his fourth

book, “A Gathering of Stories.”

He’s self-pub-lished histories of Carnation and local farms, but is now one of sev-eral Valley creative types to turn to Internet inves-tors to bankroll a project. He’s using a company called Indiegogo to con-nect with would-be investors interested in seeing artistic projects come to life.

As an artist, “you’re always trying to find funding sources,” says Mader, who was tuned into crowd funding through his visual artist wife, Steph, and their artistic friends.

With the gradual erosion of fund-ing for various arts agencies, and the explosion of the Internet, it’s getting harder for artists and writers like Mader to break through the static.

“The publishing world is crazy,” says Mader, who self-publishes. “You can get it out there. Will anybody pay attention?”

Home business ban on tattoo parlors passed in emergency ordinance

BY CAROL LADWIGStaff Reporter

Tattoo parlors are not allowed in North Bend, except in an employment park zone on the extreme eastern edge of the city. At least, that’s what North Bend plan-ning staff t h o u g h t until tattoo artist David H e r m a n , currently of Redmond, made plans to move to North Bend.

Herman, owner of Ambrosia Tattoo Gallery (www.tatguy.com), had planned to open his shop April 1 in a building on Ballarat Avenue, squarely in the city’s Downtown Commercial zone, where such businesses are prohibited.

However, he also planned to live in the building, mak-ing his business home-based, and legal, according to the city’s code.

“The main problem here is that the underlying zone did not allow it,” said Gina Estep, North Bend’s economic devel-opment director.

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For people who use North Bend’s homeless shelter,

it’s a rare havenBY CAROL LADWIG

Staff Report

Problems brought this group of people together, the guests of the Snoqualmie Valley Winter Shelter. Unemployment, mental or physical illness, disability and addiction all

contributed to one or more of the 30-plus guests’ showing up in the North Bend Community Church’s dining room on this blustery February night.

Debbie, a mom with a teen and adult daughters and a volunteer at the Mount Si Food Bank, lost her job when she needed reconstructive surgery to repair the damage to her jaw from a mis-fit pair of dentures.

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Jesse and Tiffany share a hug after dinner at the Snoqualmie Valley Winter Shelter. The couple comes to the shelter often for the hot meal, but like about half the diners, they don’t sleep under the shelter roof, unless its extremely cold outside.

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Art, 58 and often seen rid-ing his bicycle around town, works for several area people, taking care of their property and their animals. He doesn’t earn enough to afford a place for himself and Dutch, a friend so close he says they’ve become brothers, even with Dutch’s mil-itary retirement benefits. He’s hoping that when he can start earning Social Security, they’ll have enough money for both food and rent, without having to choose like they do now.

Max is in his early 20s, and, like Art, wasn’t sure about coming to the shelter at first. Fellow homeless people told him about it and encouraged him to come, but he preferred solitude while he wrote—he said his actions and his writing have been guided by a series of “nifty dreams prophesying it,” which led him to North Bend last fall. What made him come that first night was losing his tent, in the area blocked off by Search and Rescue volunteers in February when a skydiver went missing.

Tiffany, maybe 20, came to North Bend three years ago to be with family, and when her great-grandmother died, she was left alone. She and her boyfriend Jesse, found out about the shelter from North Bend deputies and from some of their friends. They come to eat each night, but they don’t often sleep there, unless it’s really cold outside.

“He’s my security right now, because I don’t have any more fam-ily here,” Tiffany explains. At the shelter, men and women sleep in separate rooms—so far, there have been no families with children in

need—and Tiffany can’t sleep without him. “I don’t feel safe without him.”

Jesse and Tiffany are like a lot of guests at the shelter. They come to eat what nearly all of them consider “amazing food every night,” Jesse says, but they leave before the doors close at 10:30 p.m., to find a place to sleep for the night.

From its opening night, Dec. 23, through Feb. 4, the shelter served between 20 and 40 meals each night, and hosted an average of a dozen people, for 561 meals and 348 bed nights.

Kevin, another military veteran, has been staying at the shelter every night, and says it takes a lot of stress off his mind, just knowing it’s there.

“It’s not as cold,” he says, “and they don’t have showers, but they do have bathrooms.” Another plus for him is “They have staff staying up all

night so there’s no trouble. Preventing trouble is the job of the supervisors, Linda Beckvold

and Andre Starks, the paid staff members—always at least one man and one woman—who stay overnight, coordinating the meals, cleanup and packaging up leftovers to send out with shelter guests in the morning after breakfast.

“I’ve started drinking coffee again,” says Beckvold, to help her stay awake through the night. She is experienced with shelter work from her job at House of Hope, and initially began volunteering at the North Bend shelter, just to help.

A half-hour before the shelter opens, Beckvold is busy prepping the kitchen, which is soon overrun by tonight’s dinner, enchiladas in all varieties, plus salads and fixings, prepared and carted in by engaged couple Heidi Houser and Mark Lowe, owners of Stanton Plumbing.

Houser is busy explaining to Beckvold which meats and sauces are in which pans while Lowe starts arranging pans and plates.

“This is going to be a good one tonight… they’re going to be happy tonight if they eat” Lowe says, adding, with a pause after each word, “Heidi can cook it!”

Houser loves to cook, and said she was thrilled to find out about the shelter’s need for dinner volunteers, because it may be her niche. “I just had a dinner party with a bunch of my friends,” she said, and one of them encouraged her to find a niche in cooking. Then she found out about the shelter’s need for volunteer cooks, and signed up immediately.

“We just think it was such a great thing, and for such a group in need,” she said.

Beckvold says every single dinner volunteer has been enthusiastic about the task, which at first glance may seem daunting: Cooking dinner and breakfast for 40 people in entirely portable and dispos-able containers.

“You’d be amazed,” Beckvold says “They’re just so happy to be giving.”

That spirit is also what appealed to Starks, Beckvold’s frequent shelter partner. He was a Seattle resident, well acquainted with the problems of homelessness and the joy of serving others, until mov-ing to North Bend in December with his new wife Valerie, a 20-year North Bend resident. Both volunteered at the shelter before Andre was offered a staff position.

“We just got in it to support the community,” said Starks. “It blows me away to see this community, seeing the love you’ve got here.”

Giving choicesTiffany’s boyfriend, Jesse, was extremely skeptical that the shelter

would ever come together, or last, so he is also pleasantly surprised.“I’m blown away. I thought they were going to shut it down,”

he says, frankly. “People don’t want us here,” he said, something he thought was made clear with North Bend’s new anti-camping ordi-nance. “They basically don’t want us to exist.”

Other shelter guests have shared his view, including Art, who, in early December, wasn’t even sure he would use a shelter, if it opened. For starters, he and Dutch had things pretty well figured out in their particular neighborhood.

“I consider myself the godfather,” Art said, only half-joking. At his and Dutch’s camp, he laid down the rules for others who wanted to stay there, including no littering, and no cursing. He’s friendly to the people he meets, and they’re friendly back, he says. He keeps order, and because of that, “a lot of them are happy that we’re out there.”

On this night, though, Art is happy to be inside, where it’s warm. Usually, he admits, he stays warm by drinking, but he knows that really won’t help him.

“When you have a home to go to, you have no concept of what it’s like for people who don’t have a choice,” he says.

The shelter is well on its way to giving local homeless a choice, however. In February, shelter supervisor Steve Miller reported to the North Bed City Council that three shelter guests had recently celebrated getting jobs, and one man was slated to leave the shelter and move into transitional housing. A few others had decided to seek help for their addictions, too. Using drugs, including alcohol, in the shelter is strictly prohibited, and so is the sale of drugs, alcohol and weapons on shelter premises. Since the shelter opened, three people received season-long bans for violating the shelter’s code of conduct, and a few others got shorter-term bans.

Like the food bank, the shelter also helps to connect its clients with services that might help them, such as, in the veteran Kevin’s case, bringing in a King County Veterans’ Services representative to help him with his benefits. “Sometimes he helps,” says Kevin.

It’s a start, at least, which is all many people really need. Paula Matthysse, a shelter director and media contact for the

group, explains it simply. “It’s a place to eat, a place to stay… we’ve got guys that go to work, and it’s helpful to get a good night’s sleep.”

Matthysse and the rest of the shelter advisory board, however, have big dreams for the future of the shelter. The group has obtained enough money to operate the shelter through March 30, and eas-ily transitioned the shelter to its new location, Mount Si Lutheran Church on Feb. 15. King County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, who attended planning meetings for the shelter in November, has offered to donate a retired Metro van to the shelter to help solve transportation problems. However, it’s unlikely the van will be avail-able until the fall of this year.

Most of the operating budget for the shelter this year came from private donations, Matthysse said, but she hopes that a larger com-munity will get involved in planning next year’s shelter season.

“It’s going to take some brave conversations, and brave conversa-tions from elected officials,” she said, but is not in the least discour-aged. “I still have faith in the Snoqualmie Valley.”

Faith is where it begins and ends for the Snoqualmie Valley Winter Shelter, and not just because churches can move more quickly to meet the needs of the homeless than a government agency can.

Lambert, at the conclusion of one planning meeting, may have summed it up best. “I love the idea of the churches doing this, because to me, that’s the only way we’re going to get people whole again.”

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Winter Shelter volunteers Linda Beckvold, Heidi Houser and Mark Lowe ready a dinner meal.

PUBLIC NOTICE #752233 Habitat for Humanity, Seattle – King County, 560 Naches Ave. SW, Suite #110, Renton, WA 98057, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Con- struction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, Carnation Cottages, is located at East Entwistle Street at 326th Avenue S.E. in Carnation, in King County. This project involves 1.7 acres of soil distur- bance for residential construction activities. Stormwater will be discharged to an on-site under- ground infiltration chamber system (groundwater). Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State Department of Ecology regarding this application, or interested in Ecology’s action on this application, may notify Ecology in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publi- cation of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest ac- cording to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173- 201A-320.Comments can be submitted to:Department of EcologyAttn: Water Quality Program, Construction StormwaterP.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Published in Snoqualmie Valley Record on March 13, 2013 and March 20, 2013.

PUBLIC NOTICE #752213CITY OF NORTH BEND

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND

NOTICE OF SEPA DETERMINATION OF

NONSIGNIFICANCE (DNS) Project Name: Proposed amend- ments to North Bend Municipal Code Chapters 18.10.030 Table of Permitted and Conditional

Uses, 18.10.040 Table of Bulk and Dimensional Standards, and 18.10.050 Table of PerformanceStandards regarding Cottage HousingDNS Issuance Date: March 13, 2013Notice of Hearing and DNS Publication Date: March 13, 2013Public Hearing Date: March 28, 2013Applicant: City of North Bend Location: City wide.Description of Proposal: The language of the amendments is available on the City’s website at www.northbendwa.gov, fol- lowing the link to public notices. NBMC 18.10.030 Permitted and Conditional Uses is currently un- clear regarding the allowed mix of housing types permitted with- in the CR District, specifically regarding standard sized single family homes is allowed within the CR District. This ambiguity continues through, 18.40.040 Bulk and Dimensional Standards, and 18.10.050 Performance Stan- dard and which are vague as they could be read to permit standard sized single family residential housing units within the Cottage Residential district.The proposed amendments are intended to clar- ify the restriction of standards sized single family within the Cottage Housing District.Public Hearing:On Thursday, March 28, 2013, 7pm at the City Hall Conference Room (211 Main Avenue N.), the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to receive public comment on the amend- ments described above. Written comments may be accepted until 4:30pm, March 28, or in person at the hearing. Email or deliver comments to the contact below. Responsible Official: Gina Estep, Director of Community and Economic Development Threshold Determination: The City of North Bend (lead agency for this proposal) has de- termined that this proposal does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environ- ment that cannot be mitigated

through compliance with the conditions of the North Bend Municipal Code and other appli- cable regulations. An environ-mental impact statement (EIS) is not required under RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c). This decision was made after review of a com- pleted environmental checklist on file with the lead agency. This information is available to the public on request at the offices of the North Bend Community and Economic Development Depart- ment located at 126 E. Fourth St., North Bend, Washington.This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2); the lead agency will not act on this proposal for 14 days from the date of publica- tion of this notice, allowing time for public comment. The issuance of this DNS should not be interpreted as acceptance or approval of this proposal as presented. The City of North Bend reserves the right to deny or approve said proposal subject to conditions if it is determined to be in the best interest of the City and/or necessary for the general health, safety, and welfare of the public.For More Information:Please contact Gina Estep at the Community and Economic Development Department at (425) 888-7640 or via email to g e s t e p @ n o r t h b e n d w a . g o v. Email or mail written comments for either the DNS or the Public Hearing to the North Bend Com- munity and Economic Develop- ment Department, PO Box 896, North Bend, WA 98045. Published in Snoqulamie Valley Record on March 13, 2013

PUBLIC NOTICE #753339City Of Snoqualmie

King County, WA 98065 Notice Is Hereby Given That the Snoqualmie City Council, on the 11th day of March 2013 passed the Following Ordinances:

Ordinance No. 1111Ordinance Authorizing Assess- ment of the Actual Cost of Recording and/or Releasing Wa- ter Liens and Amending Section 13.12.040 of the Snoqualmie Municipal Code.

Ordinance No. 1112Ordinance Extending the Allow-

able Hours for the Discharge of Fireworks on the Fourth of July, Amending Section 8.30.090 of the Snoqualmie Municipal Code. Copies of these Ordinances in complete text are available at the City Hall located at 38624 SE River Street between 9 AM and 5 PM, Monday through Friday, on the city website www.ci.snoqual- mie.wa.us, or by calling the City Clerk at 425-888-1555 x 1118.ATTEST: Jodi Warren, MMC City ClerkPublish/Post : 3/13/2013Effective Date: 3/19/3013Published in Snoqualmie Valley Record on March 13, 2013.

PUBLIC NOTICE #752203LEGAL NOTICE

CITY OF NORTH BENDKing County, Washington

Notice is hereby given that the North Bend City Council at its March 5, 2013 City Council Meeting adopted the following Ordinances. The summary titles are as follows:

Ordinance No. 1481AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NORTH BEND, WASHINGTON, ESTAB- LISHING INTERIM ZONING CONTROLS RELATED TO PERMITTED USES IN THE COTTAGE RESIDENTIAL ZONE, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, DECLAR- ING AN EMERGENCY, AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFEC- TIVE DATEOrdinance No. 1482AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NORTH BEND, WASHINGTON, ESTAB- LISHING INTERIM ZONING CONTROLS RELATED TO HOME OCCUPATION BUSI- NESS LICENSES, PROVID- ING FOR SEVERABILITY, DECLARING AN EMER- GENCY, AND ESTABLISH- ING AN EFFECTIVE DATE

The full text of the above Ordi- nances may be viewed on the web at http://northbendwa.gov, at the North Bend City Hall, 211 Main Ave., N. or to request a copy by mail please contact the City Clerk at (425) 888-7627.Posted: March 6, 2013 Published in the Snoqualmie Valley Record: March 13, 2013

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