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Nora Langdon, 8, reacts to a magic trick done by Xakary The Magician at the Maple Valley Library April 10. Xakary lives in Kenmore and has been performing magic since he was in High School. REBECCA GOURLEY, The Reporter

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BY REBECCA GOURLEY

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Aft er making the decision to close Russell Ridge Center and notifying parents March 13, Tahoma School District re-leased an analysis of the school March 31, which outlines its reasons for the permanent closure.

STANDARDSRussell Ridge Center is

classifi ed as an Alternative Learning Experience school and thus must meet certain standards set by the state and district, just as any school in the district.

Th e closure analysis states the school is not preparing students to graduate and is not meeting those state and district standards.

However, parents of Russell Ridge students disagree.

Larry Baldwin, who has two daughters that currently attend the school, planned to speak at the Tuesday, April 14, school board meeting. Th e meet-ing took place aft er the press deadline.

In a statement made to the Reporter April 10, Baldwin

said comparing students in Alternative Learning Experi-ence programs like Russell Ridge to traditionally educated students is not “an apples to apples comparison.”

Baldwin said, “If students truly aren’t meeting perfor-mance standards, closing this school won’t help. Helping will help.”

NEW LAWSDuring the 2013 legislative

session, lawmakers approved legislation (ESSB 5946) intended to stimulate more ac-countability and transparency in ALE programs all across the state.

Th e bill, which is now law, directs the State Auditor’s Offi ce to conduct biennial fi nancial audits and measures of student outcomes for ALE programs, for which the dis-trict has to pay for.

Th e Auditor’s Offi ce is cur-rently working on a perfor-mance audit of ALE programs. Th e offi ce will publish its fi rst in a series of audit reports later this year. Th e second report is scheduled for late 2016 and the fi nal report will come out in

Tahoma releases data behind closure decision

BY REBECCA GOURLEY

Reporter

She took her fi rst drink at the age of 12.

By her senior year in high school, the teen (whose name will not be used for privacy reasons) had tried nearly every drug out there. From the outside, she seemed like the average high school student – good grades, close friends, outgoing personal-ity.

She managed to keep her addic-tion mostly to herself by keep-

ing her grades up so her parents wouldn’t suspect anything was amiss.

Today, April 17, marks six months of sobriety for the teen.

She said she’s glad she got sober when she did.

“I didn’t hit rock bottom, and I don’t think I ever want to see me hit rock bottom,” she said in an interview.

She sought out help from school counselors, Monica Rob-bins and Shelly Veazey.

Robbins, who has been a counselor for 21 years and the

Intervention-Prevention Program counselor for the Tahoma School District for six years, said in a phone interview the teen is not a typical case of drug and alcohol addiction.

“She’s very high-functioning,” Robbins said. “She was able to maintain a very high GPA.”

But, aft er two years of ongoing communication with the teen, Robbins said she was concerned enough to call the teen’s parents.

Students can expect a great deal of confi dentiality when they talk to school counselors, Robbins

said. But, if the student starts in-fl icting self harm or are being hurt by someone else, then parents or authorities are brought into the picture.

With the 17-year-old senior Robbins has been working with, it was diff erent. Robbins said it was just time. She fi rst told the teen of her plan to tell her parents, and then made the call.

“She understood,” Robbins said.Th ree days aft er Robbins called

the teen’s parents, she checked in to Sundown M Ranch, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center

in Selah, Wash. Aft er spending nearly two months at the center, she came back to Maple Valley.

She said she thought about tell-ing people she was doing college visits for two months. Instead, she decided the easiest part about coming back was admitting where she went.

“It’s part of me,” she said. “It’s going to be part of me for the rest of my life. And I just need to own up to it.”

She said she now wants to help people with chemical dependency

Teen celebrating six months of sobriety to speak at info night

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During the March 24 Cov-ington City Council meeting, the City Manager Regan Bolli announced the city will be put-

ting up a new banner sign.

Th e preferred location for the banner is near the Applebee’s on SE 272nd Street.

Poles for the banner will be placed on

either side of the street and the banners will hang above the road

“(The) hope is to have them in time for Covington Days,” he said. “But no promises yet on when they will arrive.”

Th e ideal use will be to hang banners announcing festivals, recreation activities and other city functions, Bolli said in an email.

Covington announces plans to raise a banner

Regan Bolli

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I first experienced kidneyfailure when I was 19. I had surgery and some micro-scopic bleeding went unno-ticed, which then led to liver failure, kidney failure and chronic anemia. Once the surgery was reversed and the bleeding was under control, I made a full recovery.

Then, when I was 30, newly married to my hus-band, Rick, and living in California, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lym-phoma, Stage 4. I under-went chemo treatment that put my cancer in remission. However, I was warned that my treatment had probably severely damaged my kid-neys and that they would most likely fail. Nine years later, they did.

More commonly, people get chronic kidney disease as a complication of diabe-tes or high blood pressure. Inherited conditions can lead to it, too.

Unfortunately, I didn’t

have a good doctor and because my husband had lost his job we didn’t have insurance. Meanwhile, my kidneys were failing and I was getting sicker and sicker as I waited for Medicare to kick in so I could get medi-cal care. I tried to educate myself about kidney disease by reading about it and the more I read, the more scared I got.

On the verge of dyingWhen I finally went to

the doctor, he said, “What have you done? You’re on the verge of dying.” He put me in the hospital right then. That was the beginning of my life on dialysis. I was scared to death.

Luckily, the crew at that dialysis unit was wonderful. My husband had gotten a job in Washington and I stayed in California with my sister because we were remodel-ing two houses to sell. I knew eventually I’d move to Washington so I started researching dialysis provid-ers. I found that Northwest

Kidney Centers is one of the best in the country. I picked the Renton loca-tion, nearest to where I lived, and found Dr. Teresa Rattazzi. At the time her husband had to quit his practice because he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. We shared information and

hit it off. She saved my life and got

me back to being healthy and taught me how to take care of myself. She taught me how to eat a kidney-healthy diet, especially to avoid salt in preserved and processed foods.

I did self-dialysis at home

with the center’s supervi-sion for a year. But since I didn’t know anybody here I thought, well, I will go back to the dialysis center to meet people and get a chance to visit. I was there when Northwest Kidney Centers opened dialysis centers both in Auburn and Enumclaw. The nurses and techs could not be better. I really like it – and the Enumclaw clinic is prob-ably the only dialysis center in the country where they saw a calf being born (across the street)!

It’s a good thing to be sur-rounded by friendly people since dialysis takes a half-day three times a week.

Making an effortto stay positive

I try to stay positive. I’m currently recovering from another gastric bleed and am doing very well getting my strength back. My husband has Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) and has been given six months to live. Emotionally it’s a roller coaster, but we’re surviving. My daughter and her daughters, ages 13 and 8, live with us.

When I had the cancer, my daughter was only 5. I thought, I have to make it.

I can’t not make it, that’s all there is to it. I made up my mind I was going to, and now the family is the major motivator.

I tell new dialysis patients that if they have no fam-ily support, to join a support group that can encourage them to go on. You can have an active life with a chronic health problem. I used to go tubing down the river after dialysis every time. You have to keep pushing yourself for-ward. The thing that’s kept me going all these years is positive thinking.

Understandingthe disease

Understanding kidney dis-ease is a way for everyone to keep their kidneys as healthy as possible.

Here are some tips:• Know if you’re at higher

risk. Your risk is greater if you have diabetes or high blood pressure, are related to someone with kidney dis-ease, are African American, Native American, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, are obese, or over age 60.

• If you are at risk, get test-ed. Your doctor can check easily and inexpensively. It takes a blood sample, urine sample and blood .

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The 2015 Washington NW Regional competition of the annual Wash-ington State Envirothon is hosted by the King Conservation District, Lake Wilderness Arboretum and the city of Maple Valley, and takes place Thursday, April 30 at Lake Wilderness Park. Arboretum volun-teers will set up stations at the lodge and the arboretum.

The Envirothon is a natural resource-based competition where high school students throughout the United States and Canada dem-onstrate their hands-on knowledge and problem-solving skills of aquatic ecology, forestry, soils and land use, and wildlife. Winning regional teams move on to the state event May 27 and 28, where the winning team will represent Washington at the national NCF Envi-rothon in Missouri starting July 27.

“Through this competition, students are motivated to learn about real-world problems and solutions,” said Kristen Reichardt, Educa-tion Program Coordinator for the King Conservation District. “Today’s Envirothon participants will become tomorrow’s leaders in steward-ing Washington State’s natural resources.”

In addition, free educational tours of the arboretum led by trained volunteers called docents start Saturday, April 18. Free to the public, docent tours leave from the gazebo at 10 a.m. on the third Saturday of each month through October.

Plan special group tours by emailing [email protected].

Lake Wilderness Park to host Envirothon April 30

I just got home on Saturday from California. My husband, youngest daughter and I went down there for spring break to visit a college she is interested in. Since we were there, we also went to Disneyland and Universal Studios.

It was a success-ful trip as trips go; also seeing as how the whole idea of the trip was to look at a college in an-other state. I’m not super excited by the thought of my baby mov-ing away, but I understand kids grow up and must go where the wind takes them. She has another year of high school, so if that’s where she ends up, I have a year to get used to the notion.

All that being said, it’s not the part of our vacation I want to write about. Th e most standout part for me was that I didn’t take my computer. Sure, I had my cell phone, but I had no computer; so no convenient way to write. Paper and pen come to mind, but I haven’t used those primitive methods of writing since high school, nor did I have paper with me. I’m not even sure I could write fast enough by hand to get out all the thoughts that come to me

before I forget them.Th at means all last week I

did not write my daily blog or my newspaper column. Leav-ing my laptop behind was not

an agonizing issue for me. Although I’m attached to it in general, being the lifeline to my writing career, I didn’t miss it. Th at may have been because I was too busy to notice, but was also nice not to have the task of

coming up with something witty to write every day.

However, when I got home, the gravity of what I may have missed kind of descended upon me. I have to say, I had bit of a panic attack just thinking of what awaited me. It wasn’t even a matter of “missing” some aspect of life, it was more of the thought that I would have a lot to take care of that felt overwhelming.

Although we got home by noon on Saturday, I was reluctant to face my demons, so I didn’t. I spent the rest of that day unpacking and play-ing Words with Friends on my cell phone.

Sunday dawned and I de-cided I couldn’t put it off any longer. I opened my personal emails fi rst. It wasn’t too bad;

there were only around fi ve that had anything of impor-tance in them; the rest were junk and I deleted them. Th en I tackled my business email – nothing; meaning no one was jumping on the bandwagon to publish my book. Sigh.

Next up, phone messages, blinking away on my answer-ing machine like an annoy-ing child calling my name (“Mom, mom, mom”). We are one of those families who like people to leave messages on our land line when we’re away and not track us down like dirty dogs by calling our cell phones. Not too bad. Five messages, only one junk (po-litical, I think, same thing), an appointment reminder, the ones that needed a response were businesses, so I had to wait until Monday morning to deal with them anyway.

All in all it really wasn’t worth the energy I spent fretting over what I may have missed. I have to admit, it kind of defl ated me thinking no one needed my attention as much as I thought they would. It’s a lesson on the importance we place on our electronic devices; life goes on whether we check email or not.

I guess I wasn’t missing anything aft er all.

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Th e city of Black Diamond and Lake Sawyer Park Foundation are teaming up April 25 – Earth Day – to clean up Lake Sawyer Park.

Volunteers are needed to help with the clean up projects, which include clearing and removing

underbrush and invasive plants and limbing trees.

All ages are welcome to join. Work clothes and gloves are recom-mended.

Meet in the gravel parking lot at 31500 Lake Sawyer Road SE, Black Diamond.

Email [email protected] for more information and to let them know you’re coming.

Lake Sawyer Park clean up on Earth Day

FUTURE OPENINGS FOR COVINGTON

COMMISSIONS AND COUNCILS

Covington Economic Development Council will have openings in

July. Planning Commission will have openings in

August. Applications being

accepted for all. Interview dates will be

determined.

Life with kidney disease tough, but possible

Enumclaw resident Debbie Graves took part in the grand opening of the Northwest Kidney Centers facility in Enumclaw.

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Why have so many young men and women from the West fl ocked to join ISIS? What is the attraction of such a violent and brutal regime in Syria and Iraq?

Since I will be teaching a continuing education class in May at Green River College on “Cults in America,” I’ve been reading up on the topic of mass movements. Th e best book I’ve found on the topic is Eric Hoff er’s “Th e True Believer,” written in 1942.

Hoff er, having analyzed the rise of Hitler, Musso-lini and the Japanese, had deep insights into human nature that help ex-plain the modern day phenomena we see in the Middle East today, and in Europe and America. Th e common links are: deep frustration, a sense of meaninglessness, the desire for change and a tunnel vision focus on the future.

Muslim youths, especially if unemployed, suff er from frustration with themselves. Joining a mass movement like ISIS appeals to them. It gives meaning to their existence.

Hoff er summarized it this way: “Th e less justi-fi ed a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.” Hoff er also states, “Faith in a holy cause is in some ways a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.”

Hoff er continues: “For men to plunge head-long into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the pos-session of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power. Th ey must also have an extravagant conception of the prospects and potentialities of the future. Finally, they must be wholly ignorant of the diffi culties involved in

their vast undertaking.”Hoff er’s insights into human nature and mass

movements clearly summarize the thoughts and feelings of thousands of idealistic and naïve young Muslim youth who journey to Syria and Iraq to fi ght for ISIS.

Th ese youth also desire change since their own situations in Western Europe and America give them a sense of helplessness.

“Th e men who rush into undertakings of vast change usually feel they are in possession of some irresistible power.” Power and control are what these youth are craving.

“Th ey (these youth) also crave to dissolve their spoiled, meaningless selves in some soul-stirring spectacular communal undertaking – hence their proclivity for united action.”

Joining ISIS aft er watching its phenomenal rise last year must have inspired many youths to travel to the Middle East to start a new life with a new mission.

True believers also ignore the past and the present and look solely to the future. Any suff er-

ing they may feel in the present is swept away by their hope of the bliss to come.

Th e present can be wrecked if necessary, because the future is all that matters. Th ese at-titudes aptly describe the young who join ISIS. Th e bloody, gruesome murders of captives only more clearly demonstrate to these impression-able youth the clear, single-mindedness of ISIS’ goals and the rightness of the cause.

Human nature has not changed much since the insanity of World War II that Hoff er ob-served 73 years ago. Youth are driven to end the sense of meaninglessness and frustration in their lives. By joining a mass movement like ISIS, their individuality, doubts and failures can be ab-sorbed by a cause that is larger than they are.

True believers can become the anonymous members of a great cause – the restoration of Islam to its rightful place in history. Th eir identi-ties can be absorbed in the change they seek to bring about. Th inking only about the future, death and destruction do not matter to them. All that matters is the future bliss to come.

Fuel that adventurous boy spirit

Hello my name is Brett Easter. I am 14 and take fl ying lessons at Crest Airpark in Coving-ton.

I have a deep passion for aircraft . My father is a pilot and my great-grandfather had an unfor-tunate incident during WW II when he was shot down in a US Navy aircraft . Regardless, there is an undoubted connection between aviation and my family.

I am not sure if you are familiar with Kern and Rinker Buck,.Th ey were the youngest pilots to fl y coast to coast. Th ese brothers are my role models and I try and live the adventurous lives they were fortunate enough to live. Th ey too had a pilot for a father, and had the teenage instinct to fi nd adventure and pursue it.

Although I have to be 17 to earn my private pilots license, I can legally fl y an ultralight under

Federal Aviation Regulation 103. I hope to take advantage of this regulation and purchase myself an ultralight. Th ese wonderful machines are not expensive to the average American adult, they are to a 14-year-old boy. One of my goals on this journey was to facilitate and execute this project on my own.

I hope you can join me on my project of self recognition and adventure. Aft er all, boyhood doesn’t last forever.

I currently have a GoFundMe website setup for my campaign (https://www.gofundme.com/brettsultralight). Th e photograph is a ultralight currently for sale in Seattle. Th is is the ultralight I hope to purchase. Please spread my word as this may be a historic event to some degree. Most youth don’t commit to a campaign like this. I thank you dearly for your support and the support you may bring upon me.

Brett EasterCovington

Prop 1 just makes good senseI know very few people who want to pay more

taxes. I am no diff erent and want to make sure that any taxes I must pay are used eff ectively. Th ere is no free lunch when it comes to a safe, vibrant community and fi xing our roads falls under this old adage. Gas tax money is simply not keeping up with demand and funding from the state and federal governments has fallen drastically. Th e basic fact is that we do not have enough coming in through existing taxes to keep up with simple road maintenance, much less make improvements. We must have a new source of funding. Proposition 1 is the right way to do it.

As a former council member, I swear that your tax dollars are used very eff ectively by your city government. Even a large citizen’s committee we appointed affi rmed this fact and recommended the tiny sales tax increase in Proposition 1 is

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• Around 5:30 p.m. on April 8 officers responded to the report that a 7 year old hit a 12 year old with a stick at an apartment complex’s playground.

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sponded to the report of two subjects stealing plumbing parts from Home Depot. The two admitted they stole the

parts because they were broke and hungry, according to the police report. They claimed it was not to be used for heroin. They were released from the scene and the plumbing parts were returned.

• On April 9 around 8 p.m. officers responded to Kohl’s where the subject was being detained by the loss preven-tion for exiting the store without paying. The report

stated the subject concealed the items in a purse from the store and in their own bag. The subject was arrested and charged with third degree theft. A friend with the subject was also arrested for an outstanding warrant and booked into SCORE.

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King County Sheriff’s Office investigators suspect distracted driving is respon-sible for a fatal collision Monday night in unincorpo-rated Kent.

It is believed a 25-year-old Maple Valley man looked down at his phone as his vehicle drifted into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on into another car, whose driv-er, a 25-year-old Federal Way woman, died at the scene, according to a Sheriff’s Office media release.

The accident occurred at about 7:50 p.m. in the 20200 block of 148th Avenue South-east near Lake Youngs when a Ford sedan crossed the centerline and collided with a Honda Civic coming the opposite direction. The Ford driver was alone in his car.

Two passengers in the Honda were seriously injured and transported to Har-borview Medical Center in Seattle. The Sheriff’s Office

said the two passengers were each in their 20s but it has not released their sexes or hometowns.

The driver of the Ford, who investigators believe took his eyes off the road to look down at his phone, had no reported injury. The Sher-iff’s Office major accident response and reconstruction detectives are investigating. No arrest has been made at this time.

“We at the Sheriff’s Office

urge drivers to minimize distractions while driving, as this sad incident reminds us of the potential cost,” the Sheriff’s Office stated in its media release. “No text message, phone call or social media update is worth the damage done by taking your eyes off the road.”

The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority, King County Medic One and the Renton Fire Department also responded to the accident.

One dead, two injured after head-on collision

Firefighters check the Honda Civic involved in a head-on collision Monday night in Kent. The woman driver of the Civic died at the scene. COURTESY PHOTO, King County Sheriff’s Office

BY RAY STILL

Reporter

The Bonney Lake commu-nity is reeling from a tragedy Monday when a concrete wall fell from the state Route 410 overpass onto the road below, crushing a truck and the family inside.

Josh and Vanessa Ellis, with their 8-month old son Hudson, were driving north on Angeline Road when the concrete wall, which was as long as the road is wide, fell onto their vehicle around 10:15 that morning.

Josh and Vanessa Ellis were youth pastors at the Eastpointe Foursquare Church, which currently operates out of Cascade Christian Schools in Sumner.

“To see such promising lives cut short - a father, mother, and young son - lives serving and loving the youth of our community gives us deep sorrow,” Bonney Lake Mayor Neil Johnson said in a press release Tuesday. “We trust God that they are in a better place.”

The construction project

underway on SR 410 is to widen the overpass and install a sidewalk for pedes-trians and bicyclists to cross the overpass safely, according to Bonney Lake City Clerk Woody Edvalson.

Edvalson said the city is not aware of why the con-crete wall fell, and said the city will learn more after the police finish their investiga-tion.

Edvalson also said police interviewed workers on the scene.

According to Edvalson, there was no anticipated danger to motorists on An-geline road, which is why the road remained open during construction.

“They did have flaggers on site. They anticipated that later in the day, the work they would be doing then to remove the barrier would require some temporary alternating lane closures on Angeline,” Edvalson said. “So they had flaggers on site, but they weren’t active because it wasn’t anticipated by the contractor that the work they were doing would result

in anything that - certainly nothing like what happened now - that there was any danger to passing motorists.”

The sidewalk project, which was awarded to WHH Nisqually Federal Services on Dec. 13, 2014, started construction after Feb. 7.

WHH Nisqually Fed-eral Services hired several sub-contractors, including Staton Companies Inc. out of Portland, Ore.

The Washington Depart-ment of Labor and Industries is investigating all the sub-contractors involved with the SR 410 project.

The Washington Depart-ment of Labor and Industries issued Staton Companies three violations in 2012 for workplace safety and health violations.

Two of the violations were for not ensuring a fall protec-tion plan was developed and implemented, and there were no fall restraint or arrest systems in place at the work site.

The third violation was for not using US Coast Guard approved life jackets while workers worked over water.

Although each of the violations were deemed “seri-ous” by Labor and Industries, two of the three violations carried a small $100 fine, and

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In the school board’s viability update, which was revised in May 2013, it states Russell Ridge has not been operating on a cost-neutral basis “recently.” This, according to the report, is due to enrollment decreases, apportionment per student from the state

has decreased and require-ments for tracking and monitoring students has increased. Since then, the apportionment per student has gone back up, said Kevin Patterson, spokesper-son for the district.

FUNDINGThe state appropriates

funds to school districts based on the number of full-time equivalent stu-

dents, not the total number of students enrolled.

Patterson said the district receives the same amount of money per full-time equivalent student for Russell Ridge students as students in the traditional neighborhood schools. There’s also no difference in revenue received for Russell Ridge students that live within the Tahoma School District and those that do

not.According to the closure

analysis released by the dis-trict, the amount of revenue received from the state for the 2013-14 school year was about $317,000. Subtracting expenses outlined in that report, the end result was a negative $6,000, approxi-mately.

According to a Jan. 28 report from the Office of Superintendent of Public

Instruction, the total appro-priation given to Tahoma School District for kin-dergarten through eighth grade ALE students was about $329,000, a $12,000 difference from the district’s numbers.

Nate Olson, communica-tions manager for OSPI, confirmed this was the amount apportioned, unless the school district sends a revised FTE enrollment

number to them. Lori Cloud, assistant

superintendent and director of financial services for Tahoma, said that’s exactly what happened.

Cloud said an audit of the ALE programs was completed in March of this year, and the number for FTE enrollment decreased slightly as a result of the audit.

Due to this change, the district’s revenue for Russell Ridge changed to about $319,000 of the 2013-14 school year, which is still $2,000 over what the dis-trict reported. Cloud said that difference is due to an adjustment made to the previous year’s apportion-ment from the state.

ENROLLMENTEnrollment at Russell

Ridge over the last seven years peaked in the 2009-10 school year with an average of 103.5 students. The aver-age was calculated based on enrollment numbers from October and May for that school year.

A dip in enrollment occurred in the 2011-12 school year when the aver-age reached 82.5 students. Since then, enrollment increased to an average of 95.5 in 2012-13 and was at 93 at the end of the 2013-14 school year. Current enroll-ment is 91 for the school.

Despite the decrease, the state Auditor’s Office stated in their performance audit description that statewide enrollment in ALE pro-grams is on the rise. Last school year, ALE programs served more than 32,000 students across the state according to the Auditor’s Office.

Reporter Rebecca Gourley can be reached via email at [email protected] or by phone at 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.

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Tahoma High School’s head custo-dian, Rick Bergum, is a fi nalist for a nationwide Janitor of the Year contest. Sponsored by Cintas Corporation, the contest aims to recognize the best-of-the-best. Bergum is one of 10 fi nalists competing for a $2,500 cash prize along with $2,500 in Cintas products and services for his or her school.

Bergum has worked for Tahoma 16 years and takes great pride in doing his part for students by ensuring that the building is clean, warm and safe.

“Th e job is challenging but enjoy-able,” he said. “Every day has unique situations that must be assessed and solved. Th ere’s always something new to learn.”

Bergum was nominated for the contest by a former student.

“I have a good rapport with teach-ers and administrators and try to care for requests they have within just a few days if possible,” Bergum said.

“I enjoy working with the staff and helping them when needed as well as working with the students when the need arises.”

Th e online contest will run until May 1, with the top vote-getter being honored as Janitor of the Year. Last year’s winner, from Nevada, attracted more than 30,000 votes. To cast your vote and to read more about the other nine fi nalists, go here: http://www.cintas.com/customer_applications/JanitorOfTh eYear2015/.

Bergum said he works on every-thing from plumbing and electrical systems to checking motors, changing fi lters and replacing lights, in addition to a wide array of other issues.

“I work with our crew of seven at diff erent times during the day and interact with each of them personally one day a week to provide one-on-one training and help so that we are all a better crew,” he said. “I love work-

ing with the Tahoma School District and am proud to be part of a district whose achievements in academics and student success have reached national status.”

Tahoma custodian in nationwide contest

A total of 401 schools earned Washington Achievement Awards for 2014. Award-winning schools were notifi ed last week via email by State Su-perintendent Randy Dorn and State Board of Educa-tion Chair Isabel Muñoz-Colón.

Schools in Covington, Maple Valley and Black Diamond received awards – Covington Elementary, Martin Sortun Elementary,

Mattson Middle School, Sawyer Woods Elementary, and Tahoma High School.

Th e Washington Achievement Award recipients are the highest performing schools in the state based on three years of academic information as reported in the Washington Achievement Index.

Th e index was approved for use in 2014 by the State Board of Education.

“Honoring success-

ful schools is one of the most important things we do,” Dorn said. “We know schools are doing great work and are getting bet-ter at serving all students every day. We may not be where we want to be, but we are making progress. Th ese awards celebrate both achievement and growth.”

Schools are recognized in six categories:

• Overall excellence• High progress• Reading growth• Math growth• Extended graduation rate • English language acquisition“Th e achievement awards

are an opportunity to acknowledge the school communities who have made the greatest diff erence in the lives of Washington students,” Muñoz-Colón said. “Th e state board hopes to use this opportunity to share schools’ results and their stories so that we can replicate their great work in other areas of the state.”

Th e schools will be honored during an award ceremony on April 28 at Spanaway Lake High School in Bethel School District.

Th is is the sixth year of the Washington Achieve-ment Awards.

Area schools receive state-level recognition

Custodian Rick Bergum from Tahoma School District. Courtesy photo

Stephanie Bolinger, a math intervention specialist and response to interven-tion (RTI) coordinator, at Martin Sortun Elementary School has been selected as Kent School District’s 2015 Teacher of the Year.

Interim Superintendent Tony Apostle and other district leaders made a surprise visit to Martin Sortun before classes began last Tuesday morning to announce the honor.

Bolinger has worked at the school for the past 14 years, fi rst as a third grade teacher, then teaching grades six and four, and English language learn-ers before becoming the school’s math interven-tion specialist in 2009. In 2012, she added the role of response to intervention coordinator to her duties, coordinating instructional interventions for students who are struggling for various reasons in reading, writing, or math.

“Stephanie provides visionary leadership and serves as an inspiration to her colleagues,” said Principal Gregory Kroll.

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On the door of the Fleet Feet running store in Bonney Lake hangs a sign that says, “Don’t worry about being slow, only worry about standing still.”

This quote is adapted from a Chinese Proverb and could be interpreted in a few different ways. On one level, it speaks to not getting stuck, that any movement is better than no movement and that we need to make things happen in our lives rather than let life happen to us. The more literal interpre-tation of this quote is about physically moving and it aligns with the purpose of this article, to encourage you to adopt the habit of regular physical activity.

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Why is this tiny tax in-crease (0.002 percent retail sales tax) such a good deal for Covington taxpayers? Simply because it leverages our large retail customer base. Under Proposition 1, every person who buys anything in Covington, not including food, will help pay for Covington streets and sidewalks. Our regional draw of customers is over 100,000 people, while

Covington is under 19,000. The result will be that all those other people using our streets to shop here and pass through to work will now, for the first time, start paying for their fair share. In fact, I expect it to be the far greater share. So, unless you want only Covington citizens to pay for every-thing, this is a great deal for us and deserves your vote.

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Th e season is nearing the halfway mark and the Tahoma Bears soft ball team is sitting in the top spot of the South Puget Sound League 4A North division.

Th e Bears are undefeated with a 7-0 league record and a 9-0 overall record.

Tahoma faced the now-second place Todd Beamer Titans Wednesday in a match up of the undefeated teams.

And the Bears won the battle.

Tahoma won 4-3.Th e Bears had 10 hits

during the win and a team high three hits came off the bat of Emily Bishop.

Carley Nance not only helped the Bears on the mound but she also had three runs batted in (RBI).

Th e next game for the Bears was scheduled for Tuesday against Kentlake.

Due to the weather, the game was postponed with a new date and time still to be determined.

Tahoma was scheduled to face the Kentridge Chargers at 4 p.m. Th ursday at the Kent Service Club Ball-fi elds.

Th e game was scheduled aft er the press deadline and it is unknown if it would have been played depend-ing on weather conditions.

If the game was played, scores and updates can be found online at mapleval-leyreporter.com.

Th e next home game scheduled for the Bears is at 4 p.m. Monday, April 20 when it hosts the Th omas Jeff erson Raiders.

Tahoma sits alone in top spot, undefeated

Tahoma senior Maddie Scott, above, swings for a pitch during the April 8 game against Todd Beamer. Junior Carley Nance looks to home as she throws a pitch during the 4-3 win against the Titans. Nance fi nished the game allowing three runs on eight hits. She walked three and struck out eight. SARAH WEHMANN, The Reporter

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Marianne Binetti will be mak-ing the following appearances:

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• noon April 22 at Windmill Gardens in Sumner. “The Renovated Garden” is a tea thyme talk. Register at www.windmill-garden.com. Fee is $5.

• 1 p.m. April 25 at The Barn Nursery in Olympia. Topic is “Pocket Gardening – in pots and in the Landscape.” Visit www.the-barnnurseryolympia.com for more information.

The third week in April is a good time to weed, feed and add plants

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Various pests are begin-ning their annual feasts as new growth emerges on our landscape trees and shrubs.

If a homeowner wishes to attempt to control a pest, there are three rules that must be followed: 1) Have

the pest properly identified; 2) Determine the appro-priate treatment by asking nurseries and reading pes-ticide labels; and 3) Apply the recommended treat-ment at the proper time and at the recommended rate.

If these rules are not fol-lowed, the treatment will be

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Group plants, create garden pocketsTheCompleat Home GardenerMarianne BinettiColumnist

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landscape will eliminate guesswork and will be the best chance for a proper diagnosis.

The following are signs of some of the more common insects and diseases that will be visible. Please note - most of these pests do not kill their hosts.

Insect DamageColorado blue spruce: old dead brown tops. Pest: white pine

weevil larvae have been feeding on the top leader in the past. Other branches may have turned up to form new tops. New growth that is under attack will soon begin to wilt. Treatment: if reachable, cut out the drooping top below where the larvae are feeding and destroy them. Sprays are not practical.

Various spruce species: severe loss of interior needles and sections where branches have died. Pest: most likely the spruce aphid – a tiny green insect that does its damage in late winter. Treatment: tap the foliage to dislodge insects onto an index card. If very tiny green spots begin to slowly move, you’ve got them! Hose small spruce trees with high-pressure water or spray larger trees with insecticides. Note: any fast-moving insects are likely beneficial predators.

Flowering plums and cherries: curled or wrinkled leaves. Pest: most likely aphids visible as tiny, light-colored insects when the infected leaves are uncurled. Treatment: they can be sprayed but generally are not worth worrying about.

Alpine or subalpine fir trees: ugly, deformed branches often curled like a bird’s claw. Pest: balsam woolly adelgid – a dev-astating insect pest of Fraser, alpine and sub-alpine fir trees.

Visible when new growth begins as tiny white cottony tufts on the undersides of branches or on the trunk. Treatment: difficult to control, but can be sprayed for as the new growth expands and the tiny crawlers begin to hatch. Badly deformed trees should be removed.

Disease ProblemsFlowering cherries: infected blossoms will die and persist

on the branches; small cankers may produce gumming and kill small branches that will be visible this summer. Pest: most likely brown rot, a common fungus on cherries. Treatment: can be ignored or fungicides can be applied beginning when blossoms begin to open, at full bloom and during petal fall. Very difficult to control.

Flowering plums and cherries: leaves with several small holes, sometimes premature heavy loss of leaves. Pest: Coryneum blight or “shothole” fungus. Treatments: rake and destroy leaves. Fungicides can be applied at leaf fall in late summer and in the spring when flower petals have fallen and the leaves begin to emerge.

Dogwoods: new leaves wrinkle up and have brown splotches; can have premature

heavy loss of leaves. Pest: most likely dogwood anthractnose – a very common fungus that infects many native and non-native dogwoods. Treatment: rake and destroy fallen leaves. Fungicides can be applied at bud break and continued at 10- to 14-day intervals until weather dries out. Resistant varieties are available at nurseries.

Japanese and lace-leaf maples: suddenly wilted foliage that hangs on the branches; may start with a single branch dying and spreading to others. Pest: possibly verticillium wilt – a soil-

borne fungus that affects roots and spreads upward through-out a tree. Infected trees may be killed outright or may tolerate the fungus for several years. Treatment: prune out and destroy infected branches. No controls are recommended. This is a highly contagious disease of maples and several other hosts. Dig out as many of the roots as possible if removing a diseased tree that has become unsightly.

Personally, I am not anti-pesticide. But I choose to live with most of the pests unless they threaten the health of a plant or cause it to become an eyesore.

Dennis Tompkins is an ISA Certified Arborist, ISA Qualified Tree Risk Assessor and Master Gardener from the Bonney Lake-Sumner area. He provides pest diagnosis, haz-ardous tree evaluations, tree appraisals, small tree pruning, and other services for homeowners and businesses. Contact him by email at [email protected].


Notice of Public HearingTitle VII

Indian Education ProgramPlace:

Enumclaw School DistrictAdministration Building2929 McDougall AvenueEnumclaw, Washington

Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015Time: 6:30 p.m.

Enumclaw School District will hold a public hearing for the purpose of gathering input and approving the Title VII Indian Education Program Grant for the 2015-2016 school year. For more information contact Terry Parker,

Title VII Grant Manager, at (360) 802-7124. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on April 17, 2015. #1296407.

SCHNEIDER HOMES, PAT SHEA, 6510 Southcenter Blvd Tukwila WA 98188, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Dis- charge General Permit. The Pro- posed project, WYNCRES II is located at S 300th & 64th Ave S in Auburn in King County.This

project involves 10.85 acres of soil disturbance for Residential, utilities construction activities. The receiving water is Mill Creek Outfall. Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State Department of Ecology re- garding 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 publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measur-

able change in receiving waterquality, and, if so, whether theprojet is necessary and in theoverriding public interest accord-ing to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC173-201A-320.Comments can be submitted to:Department of Ecology Attn: Water Quality Program,Construction Stormwater P.O. Box 47696, Olympia WA 98504-7696 Published in Covington/MapleValley/Black Diamond Reporteron April 10, 17, 2015.#1297127.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION

Application Name: Maple Hills Division IV Subdivision & Major Tree Clearing Permit

Application File Number: LU14-0003/0013 & LU15-0008/0013

Primary Contact: Matt Hough, PE CPH Consultants 11431 Willows Road NE, Suite120 Redmond, WA 98052 425-285-2390

Application Submitted: March 2, 2014

Date of Complete Application: March 25, 2015

Notice of Application: April 10, 2015

Project Location: The subject property is located at 20714 SE 260th St (Parcel No 2922069134), and is situated in the NE Quarter of Section 29, Township 22N and Range 6E in the City of Covington, King County, WA.

Project Description: The developer is proposing to subdivide 3.53 acres into 14 single family residential lots. Main access to the property will be via the Maple Hills Development to the north. Emergency fire access will be provided via a controlled access gate at SE 260th St. Transportation Concurrency was granted pursuant to the Settlement Agreement and Settlement Agreement RE: Traffic Concurrency signed December 14, 2010 and amended January 14, 2015. Water service will be provided by Covington Water

District and sewer service will be provided by Soos Creek Water and Sewer District. Emergency services will be provided by the City of Covington and the Kent Fire Department, Regional Fire Authority. A major tree clearing permit will be reviewed concurrently with the development application. The site contains critical areas.

Comp Plan/Zoning Designation: The zoning designation is Low Density Residential, R-4

Consistency with Applicable City Plans and Regulations: This proposal will be reviewed for compliance with all applicable City of Covington ordinances; including Title 18-Zoning, Title 12-Design and Construction Standards, Title 14-SEPA Environmental Review, Title 13-Surface Water regulations, and applicable design requirements.

Other known permits not included in this Application: Engineering Phase Review, Clearing and Grading Permit, Single Family Residential Building Permits (compliance with the International Building, Fire, Mechanical and Plumbing Codes); Certificates of Water and Sewer Availability; applicable Right-of-Way Permits from the City; issuance of other permits required by separate jurisdictions (i.e. Qwest, Puget Sound Energy, etc.); and any other permits as deemed necessary.

Comment Period: April 10, 2015 – May 1, 2015

This is a Type 3 Application in accordance with CMC 14.30.040 whereby a Public Hearing before the City of Covington’s Hearing Examiner is required. Notification of the public hearing will occur at least 14 days prior to the scheduled hearing. The Hearing Examiner will issue the final decision that is appealable to King County Superior Court. The Community Development Director is the SEPA Official for the project. To make written comments, please mail, email, or hand-deliver specific comments to City Hall, Community Development Department, 16720 SE 271st Street, Covington, WA 98042, no later than May 1, 2015. Please contact Permit Services at 253-480-2400, or via email at [email protected] should you have any questions or comments pertaining to this proposal.

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Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture from Washington State University and is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and several other books. For book requests or answers to gardening questions, write to her at: P.O. Box 872, Enumclaw, 98022. Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a personal reply.For more gardening information, she can be reached at her Web site, www.binettigarden.com.

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school counselors, Monica Rob-bins and Shelly Veazey.

Robbins, who has been a counselor for 21 years and the Intervention-Prevention Program counselor for the Tahoma School District for six years, said in a phone interview the teen is not a typical case of drug and alcohol addiction.

“She’s very high-functioning,” Robbins said. “She was able to maintain a very high GPA.”

But, after two years of ongoing communication with the teen, Robbins said she was concerned enough to call the teen’s parents.

Students can expect a great deal of confidentiality when they talk to school counselors, Robbins said. But, if the student starts in-flicting self harm or are being hurt by someone else, then parents or

authorities are brought into the picture.

With the 17-year-old senior Robbins has been working with, it was different. Robbins said it was just time. She first told the teen of her plan to tell her parents, and then made the call.

“She understood,” Robbins said.Three days after Robbins called

the teen’s parents, she checked in to Sundown M Ranch, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Selah, Wash. After spending nearly two months at the center, she came back to Maple Valley.

She said she thought about tell-ing people she was doing college visits for two months. Instead, she decided the easiest part about coming back was admitting where she went.

“It’s part of me,” she said. “It’s going to be part of me for the rest of my life. And I just need to own up to it.”

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people with chemical dependency and she plans to go to college to get the education she needs to pursue that. Since admitting her addiction to her friends and peers and sharing her story of sobriety, she said she has already had people reach out to her about getting help.

The teen’s advice to parents or friends of people who are going through addiction is to have patience.

“It took me a while to real-ize that not everybody is open minded yet,” she said. “You can’t help everybody. Be patient with them. You can’t force them to do anything that they don’t want to do.”

However, Robbins said parents are often in denial and don’t see the warning signs of their child’s addiction.

“Parents are usually the last people to see what’s going on because they don’t want to see it,”

she said.A few warning signs of drug

and alcohol abuse to look for include slipping grades, change in friends, dropping sports or other extracurricular activities, personality changes, depression and problems at school or in their social life.

TRENDSIn general, Robbins said she

doesn’t think there has been an increase in teen drug use, but there’s been a “shift.”

That shift, she said, is with the type of drugs teens are using and their availability.

Dabbing, she said, is one of two drug trends she’s currently seeing among teens. The other is e-cigarettes.

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cannabis or marijuana. Dried marijuana – which is

usually smoked – has a THC concentration of about 5 percent according to United Nations Of-fice on Drugs and Crime. Dabs, which are made from hash oil and butane, can contain upwards of 60 percent THC concentration.

Robbins also said the legaliza-tion of recreational marijuana has made it more available to teens.

“The message they are getting from the community is that it’s OK now,” she said. “It’s much more acceptable (and) more avail-able.”

Wednesday, April 22, Robbins will host a parent information night on teen drug use trends. The teen mentioned in this article will tell her story, as will a parent. Maple Valley Police Chief DJ Nesel will also give a presentation. The event is free and will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at The Den at the Maple Valley Community Center.

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On April 18, extra Maple Valley police officers will be out around the city in an effort to reduce the instances of teen drinking parties in connection with the Tahoma High School prom.

The Maple Valley Police have histori-cally included emphasis “party patrols” during Tahoma High homecoming dances and proms. The extra officers will be responding to party complaints called into 911 and will also be focusing on impaired drivers.

The police generally respond with a zero tolerance on these emphasis nights to juveniles consuming alcohol and in-cidents of driving under the influence of alcohol. Police officers will also arrest and

prosecute adults who furnish teens with alcohol or provide a premises for teen drinking, both violations of Washington state law.

When asked about Party Patrol, Maple Valley Police Chief, DJ Nesel, replied, “We believe in party patrol because it’s a direct way for the police to help protect our teens from the temptation to consume alcohol and potentially get behind the wheel of a car. Party patrol saves lives.”

Increased patrols for prom parties

The Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council’s next monthly meeting is from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, May 4 at the fire sta-tion on the southeast corner of the intersection of SE 231st Street and state Route 169. Meetings are the first non-holiday Monday of each month. A public comment period at the beginning of each meeting provides an opportunity to voice issues of concern to area council members and government officials in attendance.

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When the new Tahoma High School opens in Sep-tember 2017, the existing high school and junior high buildings will be converted to middle schools and will be renamed.A volunteer committee will

meet soon to consider what to call the two schools. The school district is asking the community for ideas that meet the following guide-lines:Area names; events or areas

geographical landmarks; voting precincts; major arte-rial; persons who contributed to the district’s early years; directional names.Naming ideas can be sent

to Kevin Patterson, director of communication, by email at [email protected], or by phone at 425-413-3409.

School board asks community to take its surveyEvery 5 years, the Tahoma

School Board formally reviews its current goals and determines whether changes are needed.An important part of this

process is getting input from parents, community mem-bers, staff and students. The board invites community members to participate in a short survey evaluating the current goals and prioritiz-ing potential needs in the system. Access the survey by visit-

ing the Tahoma web page: www.Tahomasd.us

Middle school name ideas needed

The construction company in charge of building the new Tahoma High School is looking for Tahoma High grads who are currently pursuing a college degree in construction management or engineering. The contractor, Skanska

USA, wants to hire an intern to work at the high school site during the summer. Students interested in the position should contact senior project manager, Dan Curtiss: [email protected]

THS contractor seeks intern

June 5 groundbreaking set for new THSTahoma School District is inviting the com-

munity to be part of a groundbreaking cer-emony for the new Tahoma High School and regional learning center on June 5.Festivities begin at 2:30 p.m. at the site of

the new school, 27500 228th Ave. SE in Ma-ple Valley, on what was the second hole at Elk Run Golf Course. The building contrac-

OAC, are providing refreshments as part of the event. The ceremony marks the end of the design

phase and the start of actual site preparation and construction of the school, which is the biggest project funded by a $195 million bond measure approved by Tahoma voters

in November 2013. When it is completed, the school will be the largest high school in Washington state, with 315,000 square feet of instructional space. It will have an enroll-ment capacity of 2,400, which allows 9th grade to be moved into the high school. The current Tahoma High has more than 1,600 students in grades 10-12.Completion of the school is scheduled for

May 2017, which allows time to prepare the school to open that September. At the same time, Tahoma’s existing schools will be gearing up for the biggest restructuring in district history. Late spring and summer of 2017 will be spent converting four schools to new grade alignments and getting started

on one school’s renovation:• Old Tahoma High School and Tahoma

Junior High will become middle schools for grades 6-8;• Cedar River Middle School and Tahoma

Middle School will become elementary schools;• Lake Wilderness Elementary School

will begin a major renovation to eliminate portable classrooms and older portions of the main school campus while adding new classrooms.The realignment is designed to ease over-

crowding across the district and will result in six elementary schools, two middle schools and one senior high school.

Placing a large marshmal-low on their tongues, then turning to their

neighbor, more than 70 fourth-graders simultaneously tried to communicate what they had for dinner the night before. Giggling, head-shaking and shrugging ensued, as the stu-

to talk when your tongue won’t cooperate.This activity was just one

of the methods used recently to help Rock Creek students understand one another’s differ-ences in an effort to eliminate bullying and exclusion.Tahoma parent Allison Bureau

called the I.D.E.A. (Interactive Disability Education Aware-ness) Project after seeing these types of explanations and

Helped by PTA and community volunteers, Bureau piloted the I.D.E.A. project last month in Rock Creek all-day kindergar-ten, second- and fourth-grade classes. Students started out in the library, talking with Bureau about differences, disabilities and feelings.“Having a difference is OK.

Not one of us is the same. That’s called being unique,” she explained. “We are the same

in one way: We all just want to have friends and be under-stood.”Students watched a video

called “What if,” showing children with disabilities doing activities such as paddleboard-ing, wrestling, swimming, basketball, skiing, cheerleading, mini-golf and wakeboarding.“Those kids in the video could

do lots of things that you guys can do,” said Bureau, who has a son in special education at Rock Creek. “It might take them a little bit longer, but they still get there.”Tailoring the conversation

according to the class age, she explains more terms and con-cepts at the kindergarten level and adds in other elements at the fourth-grade level, such as sharing a long list of celebrated and accomplished celebrities and athletes with disabilities.Then, students had the chance

to try activities that simulate elements of what it’s like to live with a disability, such as the marshmallow activity described above.After eating their marshmal-

lows, the kids turned their atten-tion back to Bureau.“Was that hard? Kind of,

right?” She explained how for some children, tongue and

mouth muscles develop dif-ferently, making speech more

“It’s really frustrating some-times for students who have things they really want to tell you,” Bureau added. “Just be a little bit patient with them.”Before last week’s interactive

presentations by the I.D.E.A. project, an individual teacher invited Bureau to talk with her students about similar topics because one student in the class was being picked on about a disability. The teacher reported back to Bureau that the bullying essentially disappeared once the class better understood their fellow student.After the initial talk in the li-

brary, Rock Creek students had the chance to try other activi-

simulate doing schoolwork with a sensory disorder; communi-cating with a speech disorder;

reading with a learning disabil-ity; completing a maze with a processing disorder; and putting

At the sensory station, for example, students were asked to wear headphones playing white noise and try to follow direc-tions while volunteers tickled them with dusters and gloves covered in velcro.“All of the stations were really

hard, but I think the sensory sta-tion was the hardest because of all the distractions and every-thing that was going on,” one student said afterward.Another student described the

experience as “fascinating,” and added: “It’s kind of cool to hear how people with disabilities do things.”

out about scheduling Bureau to present at their school may contact her at [email protected].

Dean of Students Jerry Gaston has been chosen to lead Shadow Lake Elementary School when Principal Chris Everett retires in June.Gaston said he feels extremely lucky to

be chosen as the next principal of Shadow Lake.

“It is an incredibly humbling experience to be chosen as the leader of such a deep-

that is busy every day serving amazing students with great care and support of a community any principal would love to have,” he said.

Program helps students learn about disabilities

Students attempt to follow directions while listening to white noise and being distracted by parent volunteers who tickled them with dusters, learning a bit about what it is like to try to do school work with sensory sensitivities.

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