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Black Diamond’s history and heritage was celebrated July 6 with the city’s annual Miner’s Day Festival which culminated with the unveiling and dedication of the Black Diamond Coal Miners Memorial.

Th e honor garden includes a 13-foot bronze statue of a coal miner sculpted by Ellensburg art-ist Paul Crites and a 28-foot gran-ite wall, engraved with the names of miners who have died in mines throughout Washington state, and engraved bricks at the base of the statue and wall. Surrounding the memorial and historical museum is a landscaped garden.

According to Black Diamond Historical Society President Keith Watson, the idea for the memo-rial began years ago, but started in earnest about two years ago when he and former Black Diamond Mayor Howard Botts and their wives made a trip to Roslyn, Wash. Th ere they saw a memorial

Community ranks top desires in May surveyBY KRIS HILL

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Covington residents told surveyors in May they want more entertainment as well as recre-ation and they believe the police department is the most essential city service, among other things.

From May 14-26 Elway Research conducted phone interviews, explained Karla Slate, the city’s community relations co-ordinator. In addition, thanks to a grant, Elway sent out invitations in the mail to participate in a web survey. Phone interviews were conducted with residents who listed a phone number on their voter registration.

A majority of the questions were similar to those asked in the city’s last survey conducted in 2009, Slate said, to measure how Covington was performing on those benchmarks according to residents.

“We had previously done sur-veys and it’s a best practice,” Slate said. “It allows us to see how our

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A high school interest in robotics has turned into a career path for Tahoma High graduate Sean Messenger, one he hopes to continue to build on as a Robert Day Scholar.

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at Tahoma was a launching pad for Messenger, who will start his junior year at Harvey Mudd Col-lege in Southern California in the fall. He is pursuing a double major in engineering and computer science. Th e college specializes in math, science and engineering degrees with a liberal arts twist. It is a part of Th e Claremont

Colleges – an association of fi ve undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate schools.

Th e Robert Day Scholars pro-gram is off ered by the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College, one of the partner schools. Th e program for students attending one of the fi ve undergraduate schools focuses on preparing students to be leaders in business, government, fi nance and non-profi ts.

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Passions and learning collide for Tahoma grad

Sean Messenger, a 2011 graduate of Tahoma High School and student at Harvey Mudd College works on the fi nal assembly of a robot. Photo courtesy of Sean Messenger

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Editor’s Note: this is the first of a two part series examing school safety in the Kent and Tahoma School Districts.

BY KATHERINE SMITH

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The scene is chillingly real: in a hallway at Tahoma Junior High, students’ screams and pleas for help

reverberate off the walls and their class-mates lie on the floor with fake blood stains on their clothes and fake blood on their faces, one student has a black tag affixed to their wrist — the color that means in this simulated scenario they’ve died — the victim of a school shooter.

That was the scene I observed Oct. 3 when the students and staff at TJH as well as district administrators, the King County Sheriff ’s Office, Covington and Maple Valley police departments and Medic One participated in an orchestrated scenario where a pretend active shooter entered the school. The large scale drill that takes place annually at the junior high is one of a kind and provides learning opportunities for both the school and first responders.

The idea was to find out what collectively worked and what didn’t, for both those inside and outside the school. It also gave all involved the chance to go through the motions and practice the head knowledge they already had.

Exercises like these are both proactive and reactive — a prepare for the worst, hope for the best mentality — developed from an increased awareness in school safe-ty in light of tragedies at Columbine High School in April 1999 and, more recently, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.

PROACTIVE AND REACTIVE RESPONSESThe shootings at Columbine High

School, carried out by two students, changed the face of school safety.

“Back at that time, that was one of the initial pushes and recognition of, things can happen on campuses,” Tim Kovich, the safety manager for the Kent School District, said. “With that, original pushes of putting those officers in schools and being there all the time. That built a very strong founda-tion for some of the things that are going on (now).”

Kovitch explained that a large part of that initial push was putting officers in every one of the district’s high schools and middle schools. The district also has two school resource of-ficers, law enforcement officers from the Kent Police Department who are specifically designated to work with the district.

Over the years the district also began to add video surveillance of common areas at schools to help monitor the campuses. Currently the district has 294 cameras.

Around the 2009-2010 school year, the district looked at its security and decided to overhaul the department, and begin to emphasize relationships with students and staff, Kovitch went on to explain.

“That drive behind that (the overhaul) was a look aback at that heavy, policing style of security model, and things that were be-ing accomplished and that time, and to look at how our officers get more involved.” Kovitch said. “We wanted to try to prevent things from actually coming to that point (security needing to react to a situation). We were trying to look at…how can we look and when we see it coming how can we direct those services or how can we direct that before ever having to be in that bad discussion with that student?”

The district even changed the titles of

security guards at the schools to safety officers.

Kovitch said that also at that time the de-partment became a part of the technology department to help connect the district’s resources.

“Which is a great thing that has hap-pened…to see where those things can come together again and to have that response — real-time viewing and provide a better service for everyone in the Kent

School District,” Kovitch said.In the Tahoma School District

that attitude toward school safety and security is much the same as it is in Kent in terms of taking a relational approach, accord-ing to TJH School Safety Officer and district Safety and Security Coordinator Sean Kelly.

Tahoma has a school safety officer at the two middle schools, junior high, and high school as well as a part-time school resource officer from the King County Sheriff ’s Office.

“The school is no different then a town,” Kelly said. “You’re going to have some students who make poor decisions, just like out in the real world, and you have to in-vestigate those, get the truth, and then instill some discipline there so they can learn from it.”

Kelly said that knowing the students is key to helping keep students and staff safe. He esti-mated that 70 percent of what he

hears about he hears from students, 20 per-cent comes from staff and 10 percent comes from parents or community members.

“The proactive side is to get out there and to get to know the kids,” Kelly said. “The students and the parents call me Sean. It’s so we have a little bit more rapport with the students. When the students have a little bit

more rapport with you they’re more apt to tell you what’s going on in the building.”

The school resource officer program for Tahoma began after Columbine on a federal grant and the funding was taken over by King County, the district, and the city of Maple Valley. Kelly said that when funds got tight the county and the city both cut the funding from their budgets and the district was able to keep the program going until 2010.

“Every time we had a problem with something we had to wait hours to get a sheriff ’s dep-uty here (at the school) because we’d call 911 and they prioritize such things,” Kelly said. “If there’s an accident somewhere, or anything going on, and we’ve got a kid in here with drugs, that’s kind of a low priority. To us that’s a high priority, it’s totally opposite, which I understand, totally — you know the kid’s not doing anything.”

Kelly said that he views the SRO program as a key piece of the school safety puzzle because it gives the district a designated go-to person in the Sheriff ’s Office and helps with the relational component. The district re-instituted the SRO program on a part-

Collaboration, communication key to keeping schools safe

“The proactive side is to get out there and get to know the kids...When the students have a little bit more rapport with you they’re more apt to tell you what’s going on in the building.” Sean Kelly

School districts in Washington: 295

According to the Office of the Superintendent of Instruction during the 2011-2012 school year there were 1,947 incidents involv-ing weapons in Washington public schools. The breakdown of that number is:

Handguns: 20

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Other firearms: 59

Multiple firearms: 1

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Other weapons: 565

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Covington voters will decide this November whether to increase the city’s sales tax rate by 0.2 percent, or 1 cent on every $5 of taxable pur-chases, to pay for street maintenance and other improvements.

Th e city’s street fund which pays to maintain city streets, has a budgeted shortfall of $56,000 this year, and reserves are expected to run out in 2017. Among the causes are statewide ballot mea-sures, the Great Recession, higher gas prices, and infl ation.

Th e city’s general fund, which pays for public safety and other city services, is also tight. Every year $250,000 has to be transferred from the general fund to the street fund just to keep the street fund afl oat.

Th e city currently doesn’t build street proj-ects unless it gets grants, doesn’t overlay streets without grants, and does only limited pavement repair. Existing maintenance programs are fac-ing further reduction, as well.

Th e number of Covington police offi cers per 1,000 residents is below the King County average. Covington has 0.88 offi cers per 1,000 residents. Th e average is 0.93 in cities that contract with the King County Sheriff for police services and 1.41 in cities with their own police departments, excluding Seattle. Th e city hasn’t added police offi cers since 2008 despite signifi -cant commercial and residential growth the past fi ve years.

Th e city has a half time code enforcement offi cer who addresses quality of life issues like homes in disrepair. Th e position was full time prior to the recession.

Th e Covington City Council appointed a Budget Priorities Advisory Committee in early 2012 to study the city’s mix of taxes and services. Th e group’s 15 members were chosen for their diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Th ere were men and women, residents and businesses owners, veterans and newcomers, supporters and critics, diff erent points on the political spec-trum, and diff erent professional experiences and personal interests. Th e group’s expectation was that it needed to identify and cut waste. Its fi nal

impression was that Covington is a “very well run city with an excellent corporate culture” and city government is “lean and mean.”

Th e group’s core recommendation was to form a transportation benefi t district and ask voters for a 0.2 percent sales tax increase as soon as possible. A TBD is a separate govern-ment entity with the same boundaries as the city. It’s governed by the City Council acting as a separate board and supported by city staff under a contract between the city and TBD.

TBDs have revenue authority cities don’t have, such as a 0.2 percent sales tax and a $100 license fee per vehicle per year. Many cities have formed TBDs and most have chosen to impose a $20 vehicle license fee without voter approval. Th e Covington City Council formed a TBD in April and the TBD Board chose to let voters decide whether to impose a 0.2 percent sales tax in November. A 0.2 percent sales tax would boost the rate in Covington from 8.6 percent to 8.8 percent — some purchases, like restaurant food, would continue to have a diff erent rate. At 8.8 percent, the rate would still be 0.7 percent lower than in Renton, Kent, Auburn, and other com-munities to the west.

Th e sales tax would be paid by everyone who shops in Covington and uses Covington streets and services, not just Covington residents. It

would generate roughly $750,000 per year and expire in 10 years.

Th e TBD Board has committed to use the money to sustain existing maintenance pro-grams, reinstate annual street overlays, enhance pavement repair, provide for small capital proj-ects, and provide matching funds for federal and state grants. Th e City Council has committed to use the general fund money it wouldn’t have to transfer to the street fund anymore to hire another police offi cer and increase code enforce-ment by 10 hours per week.

Th e city’s 2013 resident survey, conducted in May 2013, showed that 76 percent of Covington residents ranked street maintenance an essential or high priority, and 69 percent strongly sup-ported or were inclined to support higher taxes for improved streets and traffi c fl ow. Ninety-three percent ranked police an essential or high priority and 76 percent strongly supported or were inclined to support higher taxes for ad-ditional police offi cers.

More information is available on the city’s website at www.covingtonwa.gov/TBD.

Derek Matheson is Covington’s city manager. His intent is to provide factual information in accordance with state election laws.

From time to time I post on Facebook about how I’m trying to come up with an idea for a column. Th is time a friend suggested writing about community service. Given that I live in Maple Valley, work in Covington and spend time in Black Diamond, I know quite well the kind of service-oriented nature that is the backbone of all three cities.

I knew I could work with that idea. And as I pondered that I realized the time my husband and I have lived in Maple Valley marks the lon-

gest I’ve lived anywhere. Ever. Th ere are reasons for that among which is the fact I live in a great community and cover two others.

Growing up, both my parents were somewhat nomadic. My mother drift ed up here aft er grow-ing up in Southern California. I don’t know my dad’s story, but, I am told he landed here aft er living and working in Alaska but grew up in north central Pennsylvania. I can only confi rm the latter portion of the tale via documents I have and genealogy searches. My dad died when I was in second grade, so, there is more I don’t know about him than I do but I know neither of my parents were the type to stay in one place long.

To that end, I went to four diff erent elemen-tary schools and lived in three diff erent apart-ment complexes while I was in middle school. Finally, at 12, I begged my mother to stay in one place at least until I fi nished high school. Th ough a socially awkward seventh grader at Highland Middle School in Bellevue, I generally liked where we were and my classmates, and I just

wanted something sort of normal. My mom agreed to my request. And then

she moved out shortly aft er I fi nished my fi rst semester at Gonzaga University in 1996. Th at’s a long story for another time and not one for the newspaper. In any case, we lived there about six years. Th at was the longest I lived anywhere until we settled in Maple Valley. I spent two years in Spokane then some time in Bellevue then another year or so in Redmond while I fi nished at University of Washington. Aft er that we spent two and a half years in Las Vegas while my husband fi nished his bachelor’s degree. Finally aft er another 18 months in Bellevue saving up, we bought our home in Maple Valley.

All the same things that appeal to people moving in for the past decade appealed to us: a nice, quiet neighborhood that was safe, would be a great place to start a family and the Tahoma School District was highly rated.

Th en as we have lived here all the other great

D I D Y O U K N O W ? : According to Covington’s recent survey of residents conducted by Elway Research, 67 percent of participants who responded said they get their information about the city from the Covington-Maple Valley-Black Diamond Reporter.

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Black Diamond at critical point

As the election for Black Diamond’s mayor quickly approaches I have some noticeable concerns as I re-view the candidates. I think we can all agree that this city is at a very critical point in its evolution. Growth and development are here and they are not leaving and our city is on the verge of financial collapse. So the obvious question would be why would we trust such an important time and process to candidates who have never held a publicly elected position?

Two of these candidates want to be mayor but have no political experience or deep understanding of how our city government works. One has never attended a city council meeting until just a couple of weeks ago. I don’t want a mayor who is learning the job on the fly under extreme pressure and in the position of being

unknowingly manipulated or taken advantage of by City Council or political groups. While I applaud their passion and interest I think it would be better served in a position of City Council where they can learn the process as a team member rather than a stand alone position with such great responsibility.

I want someone who will treat it as a full time job with the dedication it deserves. I want a mayor who works normal business hours and is accessible. Two of these candidates have jobs, one full time and one part time.

Do they plan on quit-ting if elected so they can properly address the city’s issues or are they going to treat the position as a part time obligation outside of work?

Furthermore, what hap-pens if these inexperienced individuals decide to quit midterm because they feel they are in over their heads

or it requires more time than they can give? I am not about to let this City Council appoint a replace-ment like they have for two of their own positions, something that has chafed many citizens as we got no input to their appoint-ments.

I want someone who understands accounting practices and municipal budgets. Each candidate says that public safety is high on their list of priorities but only one understands how the bud-get actually works. It took many of our newest council members a while to under-stand you just can’t cut this and slash that and move funds around to create a budget and cover shortfalls. Black Diamond’s (budget) is complicated because three quarters of the city staff is funded by Yarrow-Bay through an agreement for the purpose of conti-nuity during the process. There are state accounting

practices that must be met and the general fund is the only controllable fund. The police department makes up the largest portion of it and is usually the most visual casualty of cuts in the form of officer layoffs. There are things like cuts in maintenance and services. How do we increase the general fund? Raise your taxes or find new revenue streams.

Controlled growth will bring this along with a

solid police and fire budget. Without it this city will die. Simply promoting business development has proven ineffective and won’t work as businesses won’t survive without a growing popula-tion base to support it.

There is only one candi-date experienced and quali-fied for the position. Mayor Rebecca Olness is the only one capable of continuing to work with YarrowBay, to see they follow every detail of the agreement

they signed which includes many checks and balances and assessment points along the way to protect the city and its citizens.

This is an agreement she helped draft as both a City Council member and Mayor. This is where her experience shines. We need to maintain this continuity for the proper execution of the agreement and for a solid economic futureJason BrealeyBlack Diamond

Olness is most qualified

Black Diamond Mayor Olness is the most experienced and qualified candidate. Rebecca Olness is a remarkable

individual with a lifelong commitment to public service and volunteerism. As an experienced Black Diamond elected official, both as a council member and as a mayor Rebecca understands the complexities of city government operations and

consistently demonstrated effective leadership and initiative to keep Black Diamond moving forward in the right direction.

She has been fiscally responsible during trying economic times, maintain-ing a balanced budget and

preserving cash reserves. Recognizing that controlled and incremental growth is vital to the city of Black Diamond, she continues to make sure that the MPD conditions of approval and the development agreement are followed. She serves on several King County and

Sound City Association committees and task forces and is respected by her fel-low elected officials.

Rebecca is a team player, fighting for all of us in South King County on a number of issues, not just for Black Diamond. Rebecca is a highly capable

elected official and I am honored to endorse her candidacy for re-election as Mayor of Black Diamond.

Victoria JonasDeputy Mayor

YarrowBay not the answer

My husband and I joined the festivities at Saturday’s Black Diamond’s Miners Day. We had a chance to see the candidates for mayor of Black Diamond, and hear the buzz about the effects of YarrowBay on our community. It was

a surprise to hear so many citizens voicing this was a done deal.

We also read your recent newspaper article on the topic. It is astounding to us that the incumbent mayor and the planning commis-sion chair actually think YarrowBay housing is going to be some kind of cure all for budget needs of our town. The real estate taxes

are years away and we will be paying for most, if not all the new services and infrastructure that will have to be put in place.

But of course, the two candidates from the old regime are going to defend YarrowBay’s monstrosity of a development plan. It hap-pened on their watch and they are responsible for the looming disaster.

Things will not get better when YarrowBay starts building. Their first clear cut will hurt our local prop-erty values.

The thousands of fill trucks will damage not only our roads but our peaceful and quiet surroundings. As our forest goes down, so goes the wildlife, and the purity of the streams and our lake’s water. The

ultimate insult is the idea that the inevitable traffic gridlock will be solved by no less than nine traffic signals on 169!

What we need are some new people representing us in the Mayor’s office and on the City Council.

A plan to progress us as a community, but one that will work for not only for the budget, but for our fel-

low residents. Even if the impending

court ruling is mixed later this year, we need a mayor that stands up for us against a huge and powerful land developer.

Dave Gordon is running for mayor because he can handle the job. Dave Gor-don has our vote!Richard and Linda LaConteBlack Diamond

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BLACK DIAMOND CANDIDATE FORUM TO BE HELDA candidate forum for mayoral and council candidates in Black Dia-mond will be held at 7 p.m. on July 16 at the Black Diamond Commu-nity Center in Black Diamond.

The forum will be hosted by the Greater Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce so voters can be informed on a variety of issues that Black Diamond faces.

A candidate meet and greet will be held at 6:45 p.m.

Candidates for mayor are incumbent Rebecca Olness, Keith Watson, and Dave Gordon. Candidates for Council Position 1 are Erika Morgan and Bill Roth, candidates for Position 2 are Patrick Nelson and Janie Edelman, and candidates for Position 3 are Shawn Oglesbee and Carol Benson.

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TIME EQUALS LIVESColumbine forced law enforcement to rethink how they

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Rankin explained that since Columbine police tactics and priorities have changed.

“The tactics were surround it (the school or other loca-tion where an incident was happening), wait for the SWAT team to come in,” Rankin said. “(Police) realized that deploying an entity like that (SWAT) takes way too long.”

Rankin said that now the mentality is to get there and get in as quickly as possible to stop the incident.

“We have recognized that time equals lives,” Rankin said. “Therefore we’re going to send smaller groups in as many ways as we can.”

Rankin said that officers know the dangers associated with such actions but that officers know danger is part of the job and that if it means stopping someone from harm-ing students, that is what matters.

“Everyone is sensitive to the idea that if we as a society can’t protect our children, we fail,” Rankin said.

Then there was Sandy Hook. It was a cloudy Friday morning in December, days before Kent and Tahoma schools were to let out for the winter break, when the news

began to trickle in. It was a trickle that became a flood as the media flocked to the small-town suburb of New York City where a lone gunman shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary and killed 20 students and six adults.

Next week’s piece will look at the initial reaction within Kent and Tahoma schools and how the approach to school safety has changed as a result of Sandy Hook.

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

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things about the communi-ty were discovered. Service is part of the lifestyle and not just in Maple Valley. Look at Vine Maple Place, Real Life Church, Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Valley Girls & Guys!, the Black Diamond Historical Society, Wings of Karen, Relay for Life, the Mayor’s Day of Concern for the Hungry, Make a Difference Day, all three of the high schools we cover where students do incredible service projects every year right under our collective noses and on and on and on. I’m sure I forgot something. Feel free to let me know.

People in these commu-

nities have raised thousands of pounds of food for those in need, taken care of fami-lies during the holidays, replaced gifts stolen from a front porch, chased down would-be purse snatch-ers, generated hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight cancer from walking around tracks to going door to door in their neighbor-hoods, taken care of survi-vors of domestic violence as well as homeless families, helped students who wish to pursue higher education and raised a generation of kind, caring human beings who will not only contrib-ute to society but lead it toward a brighter future.

You get a sense of the spirit of the communities

when you go the parades at Maple Valley Days or Covington Days or Miners Days or stop at the farmers markets — I haven’t scoped out the one in Black Dia-mond yet, but it’s on my to do list — or swing through the summer concert series hosted by Covington or Maple Valley or run in front of a pack of a few dozen people walking from Taho-ma High to raise awareness of suicide and prevention. Or that moment I’ll never forget in September 2012 when I walked the Bra Dash 5K at Lake Wilderness, the first time I did anything like that, with about 800 of my closest friends and neigh-bors on the way to raising $30,000 for breast cancer

research in the Puget Sound Region.

Or the day I found out swimmers from Kentwood and Kentridge passed the swim cap around to raise money for Tahoma High student Allie Duven who was out of the water because she was battling cancer this past fall. The money was used to help pay for a wig for Duven while she went through treatment who then turned around donated the extra cash for someone else in need.

Then there’s the email I got from the Covington Chamber of Commerce recently about putting together goody bags for new Kent School District teachers — there are 10

KSD schools in Covington — to welcome them to the community.

I could go on and on. There are so many great things happening because we have so many people from all walks of life in all three cities working to make not just our com-munities a better place but trying to change the world. There must be something about this part of the state which draws people with this kind of initiative, you know, they see a problem and tackle it rather than sit back waiting for invitation to help out.

There are many reasons I love living as well as working here and what’s incredible about it is that as

the communities grow they only get better. This attitude spreads.

That’s what happens when you do the right thing, even when no one is looking, because it’s the right thing to do. People catch on, see the vision and embrace it.

Keep serving the com-munity and changing the world. This kind of approach to life is what makes me never want to live anywhere else. It’s why I have lived here so long. It’s why so many have chosen, as my family has, to put down roots here.

And with those kinds of roots the community will continue to grow strong. It’s nice to settle down finally.

through the Robert Day School that most students don’t get to,” Messenger said in a phone interview. “They’re mas-ters level courses.”

Approximately 40 students were selected to be Robert Day Scholars in the class of 2015.

While at Tahoma, Messenger was also president of the school’s math team, Mu Alpha Theta, coached by teacher Malinda Shirely. Shirley met Messenger when he was in eighth grade and watched him grow in his academic and leadership skills throughout his high school years, as well as his determination.

“It is easy to lead when everything is going smoothly, but Sean was able to ride the waves of tough times and not be distracted by momentary setbacks,” Shirley wrote in an email interview. “He led with his heart and his mind — what a wonderful combination of characteristics!”

Shirley also described Messenger as inquisitive, talented, and committed.

“He continued to stretch the limit and show me and oth-ers how capable he was,” Shirley wrote. “His word is good — when he says he will do something, he sees it through to the end.”

Messenger stayed in Southern California this summer to continue to pursue his passion, namely robotics. He’s working as a student researcher in a lab, helping to design robots that can go into locations, like caves, that humans can’t get into.

“I want to go into some field of robotics — so either research and development or application,” Messenger said.

Messenger has also worked in the machine shop at

Harvey Mudd, spent a summer as a design engineering intern and has continued to be involved in FIRST Robotics in California. The same organization affiliated with Bear Metal.

In addition to access to higher level classes, the scholars also have access to the Robert Day Schools’ advisors and networking opportunities.

Messenger described being named as a scholar as, “an honorary award to get into a really nice academic track.”

One of the things Messenger has enjoyed most about studying at Harvey Mudd is the hands-on learning, small class sizes, and the opportunities for getting involved in the research happening on campus.

“Harvey Mudd is very small and there are a lot of benefits that come with that, most notably the student to faculty ratio,” Messenger said. “The research opportunities during the summer are (for) undergraduates…. I knew I wanted to do something during the summer rather than be a lab monkey.”

Messenger said he believes that being a Robert Day Scholar in addition to his regular studies at Harvey Mudd will help prepare him to be a leader in the field by help-ing him gain a greater understanding of the big picture of economics and how it affects peoples’ lives.

“Everyone mentioned that it (Harvey Mudd) was a great place to go to study, and all this is true I’ve discovered,”

Messenger said of his first two years of college. Messenger gives a lot of credit to Tahoma for helping

him find his interest in math and science, and of course, his interest in robotics.

“To me Harvey Mudd is Tahoma, but on steroids,” Messenger said. “Everyone is here because they want to learn and it is definitely reminiscent of my time in AP (Advanced Place-ment) courses (at Tahoma).”

Harvey Mudd has been a continuation of the idea of not learning what to think and the black and white answers to questions, but rather, how to learn and how to use what you do know to solve problems.

“The most valuable thing I’ve developed so far would be how to learn,” Messenger said.

“We’re not really here to learn stuff that we’ll learn in in-dustry or in internships…. It’s more we’re learning how to learn stuff and apply it later.”

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


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“That is what we wanted to do but we wanted it to cover the entire state,” Watson said.

Watson said a large donation in the beginning and vol-unteers from around the region brought the vision to life.

“It’s amazing how everything fit together,” Watson said. “The number of volunteers that stepped up to the plate, it was amazing.”

Watson gave an example of a Black Diamond woman, 94-year-old Katherine Daniels, who did the flower gardens for the memorial and donated a deer statue.

“She is probably there today,” Watson said Monday.

Former Mayor Gomer Evans Jr., a lifelong Black Dia-mond resident, was another of the guiding forces behind the project. Evans’ father was a fire boss in the mines. At the unveiling ceremony Evans told the story of how his parents met, married and raised a family of nine children in Black Diamond.

His father came to America from Wales in 1910. The senior Evans was promoted to fire boss when he was 18. The fire boss was the first worker to enter the mines at the beginning of the shift and ensure it was safe.

Evans said his parents met and married in 1916. His fa-ther was living in a “single men hotel, the Barkley Hotel in Black Diamond, and my mother was working there. That’s how they met.”

The sculptor, Crites, who is 71, was present at the cer-

emony. Watson said Crites came up with the idea of chang-ing the patina to black on the bronze sculpture, because miners were always covered in coal dust in the mines.

Crites started as a cartoonist more than 40 years ago for Western Horseman and other magazines. He also worked as a logger and miner through the years, which has inspired his art.

“It’s all part and parcel of what I do,” Crites said.Now that the memorial is complete, Evans’ next project

is to restore the town’s first fire engine, a 1947 Ford that was headed for the scrap heap.

The memorial event drew a large crowd that included Mayor Becky Olness, Covington Mayor Margaret Harto, Black Diamond City Council members Janie Edelman and Carol Benson, Botts and Dino Rossi.

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“To me Harvey Mudd is Tahoma, but on steroids. Everyone is here because they want to learn and it is definitely reminiscent of my time in AP courses.” Sean Messenger

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With the results in hand at the end of May, Slate said, staff presented the report Elway Research prepared to the City Coun-cil at the first meeting in June.

“What’s not too exciting about it is that pretty much all of our benchmarks that we had from 2009 to now were pretty much

the same,” Slate said. “The public pretty much thinks we are doing the same job as we were doing in 2009 which is excellent given the budget and the economy that we’ve been able to maintain our levels of service. It was good to see that the results mirrored the 2009 results.”

With 75 percent of the questions the same as the survey done four years ago, the remaining questions focused on other

topics such as parks and recreation as well as taxes. There were 448 respondents to the survey, according to the report prepared by Elway. Slate said it didn’t seem like the results surprised the members of the City Council but they seemed pleased with the number of participants as it was an increase over previous surveys.

“When you look at the demographics of the respondents they felt like it was a better representation of our citizens,” Slate said. “By doing the mixed method we were able to get a better cross section of our resi-dents.”

Key findings, according to the report, were that nine out of 10 respondents believe Covington is safe and a good place to raise a family, that many pay attention to city government and that the majority would be willing to consider tax increases for eight of 10 city services listed including police officers, street improvements, and a pedestrian friendly town center being at the

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“I’ve been told by all of the department heads that they use this information when they’re setting their goals and meeting with their staff,” Slate said. “It’s a good tool for the departments to use. It gives us the proof we need to say if we need to do something to maintain or cut we know what is important to residents. We need to know, City Council doesn’t want to make assumptions.”

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Inspired by wacky public-ity stunts performed by radio disc jockeys of the past, Dace Anderson and Arielle Young plan to stay up for 24 hours to raise money for their nonprofit music school.

“We don’t have money for advertising,” Anderson said. “We put our money into tuition assistance. We try to get into the com-munity and work with the community to get our name out there and to let people know that we exist. So, we’re always trying to think of new things.”

A simple idea led to the concept of a 24-hour webathon set to start at 10 a.m. July 27 and end at 10 a.m. July 28 to raise money

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what could they do that was a little bit crazy like the kind of publicity stunt that involves sleeping someplace strange like a billboard yet could involve the com-munity. It started off the with the idea that he and Young, who together run Dace’s Rock ‘n’ More Music Academy in Maple Valley and Redmond, would stay awake for 24 hours and stream it live on the Internet.

“Then as soon as I got that idea then maybe we could have some of our bands play,” Anderson said. “Then there was this explo-sion of an idea where we could get all these people that we know, that we have come into contact over the years and have become

friends with (help them).”So, the idea was to start

in the morning with Stacy Loftis who would lead ev-eryone through some yoga to warm participants and views up, as well as talk about her business as well as her experiences with Rock ‘n’ More.

Anderson noted that would naturally lead into bringing in a local coffee company then it just snow-balled from there.

“Then our mental Rolodexes were spinning,” Anderson said. “It turns out we know a million interest-ing people who do a million interesting things.”

The purpose of the whole enterprise is to raise money for the music school, with the first $15,000 generated going directly to the tuition assistance program, then

additional money would go toward other initiatives the pair have brainstormed.

There will be perfor-mances by bands such as Eclectic, who offered to take the 3 a.m. slot, and Heat which is a group of youngsters who will also do a tae kwon do demon-stration. Young’s sister is going to offer up a cooking segment and Mitchell Fund, the drum instructor for the school, is putting together a video on mining crystals while the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra pre-recorded a segment, in addition to video lessons for a variety of instruments and Maple Valley Deputy Mayor Victoria Jonas has a time slot, too. In the middle of that, Young said, she and Anderson will break in much like PBS telethon

emcees to talk about how awesome Rock ‘n’ More is and encourage viewers to donate to the cause.

There is no need to wait to donate, Anderson ex-plained, as those who wish to support Rock ‘n’ More can make donations now.

“You’d think the most dif-ficult part about this whole thing would be booking 24 hours of entertainment,” Anderson said. “But that’s been easy. It’s the next gen-eration of fundraising for non-profits.”

Young said another rea-son this event is important is it demonstrates how Rock ‘n’ More is carving out its own niche in the music school business.

“One of the other reasons that we’re doing this whole thing, too, is what differen-tiates us from other places:

we like to bring people together,” Young said. “And we’ve really been spoiled by the local business com-munity in Maple Valley. It’s awesome to give back.”

To view the webathon log on to www.rocknmore.org.

Ultimately, Anderson said, the event is a celebra-tion of the community and the people they’ve con-nected with since Rock ‘n’ More opened.

“It came from just that little seed of an idea,” Anderson said. “It sort of worked its way into a 24 hour long party with all of our friends and doing things that are entertain-ing and they’ll tell all their friends and their friends will tell all their friends. Basically coming together for what I think is a pretty cool purpose.”

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Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She is fasci-nated that Google is now a verb. You can also read more of her writing and her daily blog on her web-site livingwithgleigh.com or on Facebook at “Living with Gleigh.” Her column is available every week at maplevalleyreporter.com under the Lifestyles section.

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ANNUAL KIDS FESTIVAL SET FOR JULY 20Maple Valley’s annual Kids Festival is set for Saturday, July 20 at Lake Wilderness Park with is even more to do than before. All children ages toddler to twelve years old will fi nd tons of free things to do including live music and comedy shows, face painting, children’s crafts, the candy cannon, model airplanes, infl atable toys, interac-tive exhibits, and much more.

Come hungry and purchase a hot dog from the food booth. Even warm up your throwing arm and take your revenge on the life-guards at the dunk tank.

While you’re at the Kids Festival check out the annual Bike Chal-lenge hosted by Maple Valley Police Department and the Parks and Recreation Department. The entire course is contained within Lake Wilderness Park. Racers will fl y up and down hills, dodge trees along the course and should keep an eye out for bears! Registration and warm-ups begin at 8:30 a.m. and the race begins at 9 a.m. Rac-ers will be divided into separate age divisions and fi rst, second, and third place honors will be awarded.

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SAVE THE DATE TO CELEBERATERainier Christian Schools, which has a school on the same site as

Real Life Church in Covington, will celebrate its 50th anniver-sary in October.

The schools will celebrate with a banquet to be held at Grace

Community Church in Auburn at 6 p.m. on Oct. 25.

For more information on Rainier Christian Schools visit www.rainiercsd.com.

COVINGTON STILL ACCEPTING VENDOR APPLICATIONS FOR FESTIVALThe city of Covington is still accept-ing vendor applications for arts and crafts vendors at the Covington

Days festival July 20 and 21.

Arts and crafts booth spaces are $75 and a discount is available with the donation of products for the use as contest prizes.

Covington Days is a SeaFair-sanctioned event and will be held

on the Kohl’s property at Southeast 270th Place.

For more information visit www.covingtonwa.gov, email [email protected], or call 253-480-2402. The late fee for submitting an application after June 5 will be waived.


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MUSIC IN THE PARK CONCERT SERIES AT LAKE WILDERNESS TO BEGINMusic in the Park at Lake Wilder-ness Park, hosted by the city of Maple Valley, kicks of at 6:30 p.m. Thursday July 18.

Families are welcome to pack a picnic, spread out on the lawn in the park’s natural amphitheater and enjoy the music or purchase concessions which will include grilled hot dogs or hamburgers.

Boneyard Band kicks off the con-cert series July 18 playing popular rock, R&B and blues.

Next up is the Sammy Steel Band, performing country and southern rock originals, Aug. 1.

Darren Motamedy, a former Kent School District teacher and locally renowned jazz saxophone player, returns to play Music in the Park Aug. 8.

The Burgers and Blues concert is set for 5:30 p.m., Sunday Aug. 11, featuring soulful blues music to go along with burgers throughout

the show.

Finally, the series wraps up with a movie and a show.

Creme Tangerine, a Beatles tribute band, will perform at 6 p.m. with the movie set to start at 8:30.

For more information call 425-432-9953.

MAPLE VALLEY KIDS HEADED TO TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPSBrian Martinez, 10 years old, and Faith Martinez, 9 years old, of Maple Valley competed in the Jr. Olympic Regional Championships on July 6 and 7 in Seattle where

Washington, Oregon, and Idaho where represented.

Both Brian and Faith qualified to the National Jr. Olympic Track and Field Championships in North Carolina the week of July 22.

Faith was the Regional Champion in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:46 and the 1500 meter run with a time of 5:34.

Brian hit the podium with a 3rd place finish in the 1500 meter run with a time of 4:58 and also qual-ified in the 4x800 relay where his team won the Regional title.

They will represent Washington

State in North Carolina as they match up with the best runners in the nation.

BLACK DIAMOND ELEMENTARY STUDENTS GRADUATE FROM DARE PROGRAMStudents from Black Diamond Elementary celebrated their graduation from the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program with a ceremony Monday, June 10.

In all, 58 students graduated from the program. Students were led into the gym at their school

by Firefighter Jon Crain of the Buckley Fire Department as he played the bagpipes.

The keynote speaker at the event was 16 year old Matt Metschan, who graduated from the DARE program four years ago. Metschan spoke about how DARE has helped him through middle school and his freshman year at Enumclaw High School.

The ceremony was attended by Officers from Black Diamond, Auburn, and Enumclaw Police Departments, as well as the Washington State Patrol, and Fire Fighters from Fire District 44.



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Denham Patricelli knew he could hit his goal with the right throw at the 4A state championships even though he hurled the jav-elin far enough on his third try to win the crown.

But, little more than a year aft er undergoing Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, Patricelli had something to prove to himself.

“I was feeling it, I wanted to throw 200 (feet), that was my goal and the very next throw I threw 205 and that was my (personal record) and that was the throw I won state on,” Patricelli said.

It was also a good 25 feet farther than the boy who took second place.

Patricelli fi nished in ninth as a freshman as he fi nished his fi rst season of throwing the javelin. He said he evaluated his fi eld event options and decided to try the javelin. Th rowing far was a skill he devel-

oped early in his foray into athletics so it seemed like it could be a good fi t.

By the time the fi rst South Puget Sound League North meet rolled around Patricelli had picked up on how to throw the javelin straight, which takes prac-tice and understanding of technique.

“I fi gured it out by the fi rst track meet and I threw it farthest in the meet,” Pa-tricelli said. “As the season went on I kept throwing farther and farther and farther.”

At state his freshman year, Patricelli threw 172 feet then continued work-ing on technique then put up a mark of 189 feet at the Junior Olympics that summer.

Patricelli did not know going into track season he would fi nd this talent which would lead him to training and competing in the sum-mer, but, thanks to Tahoma throwing coach Keith Eager he spent his break doing just that.

When Patricelli won his age group at the Junior Olympics by 20 feet on the fi rst throw, he knew there was something diff erent about what he could do with a javelin in his hand.

But, Patricelli is a self-described football fanatic with talent to match on the gridiron. He started on off ense and defense as a sophomore, something Tahoma head coach Tony Davis explained in an email interview is virtually un-heard of in the 19 years he’s coached there.

“He is an outstanding receiver and linebacker,” Davis wrote. “Very instinc-tive player. He missed all of last season due to the elbow surgery and his return will have a big impact on our team.”

Davis described Patri-celli as competitive and the football coach supports his players who choose to par-ticipate in multiple sports. But Davis was particularly impressed with how Patri-

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Tahoma High’s Denham Patricelli returns from Tommy John procedure to hurling the javelin 205 feet

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Tahoma’s Denhma Patricelli stretches prior to competing at the Youth World Trials. He won his age group and set a record. Courtesy photo


celli handled running sprints this past spring while waiting to be cleared to throw again.

“He’s elite in the javelin, and can compete with any javelin thrower in the coun-try, but running the sprints brought out the competitor in him as well,” Davis wrote. “Many kids who are strong in an area or event, don’t show the desire Denham has demonstrated in the running events. Some refuse to do events beyond their specialty.”

In fact, Davis recalled two specific races of Patri-celli’s which further demon-strated the athlete’s level of competitiveness. Patricelli ran the 400-meter sprint as well as legs on the Bears 400 and 1,600 relays.

“In one of the 1,600 relays he had the lead, and you could see the other runner planning his charge coming out of the last turn,” Davis wrote. “When Denham felt him coming, he dug down and fought off the charge to hold the lead. In the other example, he was behind and he battled to close a gap of roughly 15 yards. He caught and passed the other runner in the back stretch with yards to spare.”

All that in something Patricelli admitted he didn’t enjoy much: running sprints.

But, he did it and excelled at it, as Davis pointed out.

Those anecdotes about Patricelli describe meets in the final weeks before he could throw again.

On the first throw of the first meet of the 2012 season, Patricelli tore the ligaments in his elbow, an injury comparable to when football or basketball play-

ers shred the ACL in their knees trying to cut or plant on the field or the court.

“My elbow just popped,” Patricelli said. “I was very mad. I was pacing around the throwing area and my parents were telling me to calm down. We didn’t know how serious it was. I threw again after that and I set my own PR while my elbow was torn. It hurt like crazy, so, we decided to stop.”

Patricelli saw a num-ber of doctors. The first diagnosed a partial tear. The second diagnosed a complete tear.

“I was in denial about it, we all were, so we went to a bunch of other people,” Patricelli said. “There’s three (treatments), you could try to let it heal naturally. I feel like that’s pointless because it’s a big thing. Or, you can get a PRP injection. That’s

supposed to help it heal properly and faster. Or you can get Tommy John surgery which is proven. It has a 90 percent success rate, but it’s like a yearlong recovery.”

Due to that, he missed the rest of his sophomore track season and his junior season of football, but Patricelli felt like it was the best course of action because he wanted to heal up and get back to throwing so he could pursue a college scholarship.

In his first league meet back throwing the javelin, about a month before the postseason this spring, Patricelli hit a mark of about 160 feet but his elbow

hurt a little bit. He decided to go to physical therapy

to work on the issue three times a week.

“Part of my thought process for when I was throwing javelin, when you’re go-ing out you don’t know what it looks like, what your future holds when you suffer

the injury,” Patricelli said. “I wanted to win state, I was hoping to win state if I was healthy.”

Then Patricelli had a dis-appointing training session with his throwing coach Duncan Atwood, who competed three times in the Olympics in javelin, and it caused him to step back to reflect.

“It was one day a month before, like the post-season, I told myself after a Sunday morning practice with Duncan, it wasn’t good at all, it was frustrating,” Patricelli said. “I’m not used to this, so, this is the time where I’m going to strive from here on out, this is when I set my goal, I’m going to win state. It was really that last month of the season where it all kicked in.”

Then he worked hard and won state while nailing his goal of hitting a throw of 200 feet.

Patricelli followed that up with a win in his age group in the 700 gram javelin at the Youth World Trials near St. Louis, tossing it 67 meters or just over 219 feet, winning the event by three meters or about 10 feet.

That win is getting him some attention from col-leges as he recently got a message on Facebook from a Pac-12 throwing coach. Add to that his grades — typically a high B average bolstered by a 3.8 GPA second semester thanks to a push to get better a math — and Patricelli has a shot of achieving his goal of earn-ing a throwing scholarship at a Division I school.

In the meantime, he’s planning for his senior year of football and track at Tahoma.

“I missed my junior year (of football),” he said. “So, this is my senior year and I have a chip on my shoulder and I’m really looking for-ward to it. For javelin I set my standards pretty high. Right now going into next year … I want to repeat as state champ and go for the state record and also the national record because they’re pretty close.”

Patricelli loves the com-petition and it would come as no surprise that even if he didn’t need to throw the javelin more than 227 feet, 11 inches — the current state record — to win his second straight 4A title, he probably would if he believed he could do it.

“Denham is a special kid,” Davis wrote in an email. “Strong academically, great physical tools, moti-vated. Winner. Add to that, his accomplishments in the javelin are after Tommy John surgery. He’s going to have a great senior year.” Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054. To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyre-porter.com.

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Patricelli sprints down the runway during the 4A state track and field championships in May at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. He placed ninth as a freshman then sat out his sophomore year after injuring his elbow and came back to win the javelin this spring as a junior. Courtesy photo

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“For javelin, I set my standards pretty high. I want to repeat as state champ and go for the state record and the national record because they’re pretty close.” Denham Patricelli

Meet board members of the Lake Wilderness Arboretum Foun-dation at Maple Valley Farmers Market on Saturdays.

Continuing its tradition of supporting community events, the Arboretum sponsors an educational booth at select Farmers

Markets during the season, which runs through Oct. 5 at Rock Creek Elementary School on Maple Valley-Black Diamond Road Southeast.

Meet Board Member Diane Barnes at the Arboretum’s booth July 27.

Also taking place July 27 is the All American Fresh Berry Pie Con-test, sponsored by Always Best Care Eastside Master Gardeners.

Treasurer Holly McHugh will be on hand to answer questions Aug. 24 about membership, volunteering and donations.

Meet President Noel Paterson and Board Member Scott Jonas

Sept. 21 and learn about the Arboretum’s storied history in preparation for its 50th anniversary.

During the End of Season Celebration Oct. 5, Patterson, McHugh and Jonas will once again be available to educate the public about the Arboretum’s annual plant sales and other events dur-ing the year.

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The middle of July brings questions on summer maintenance. This is your last chance to control the size of some fall and au-tumn blooming perennials so get snippy with mums, phlox, sedum ‘Au-tumn Joy’ and delphiniums.

Continue to dead head or remove the faded flowers from annuals and perennials to encour-age more summer blooms.

Lawn mowing should change a bit during the warm summer months.

Even if you love a close-cropped lawn, this is the time of year to gradually al-low the grass to grow taller between mowings. Just raise the mower each week until it is at the highest setting.

The taller grass blades will help shade the soil and conserve moisture plus they will create shade that dis-courages clover and other sun-loving weeds.

Q. I am very upset. I have a new clematis vine

called Nelly Moser and I was so excited to see many buds on the plant.

One of the buds opened up to reveal lovely purple

striped pet-als on a huge flower.

Then, shortly after I fertilized the plant the buds fell off! I used a 20-20-20 plant

food that I also use on my fuchsias. (My fuchsias are fine so I know I did not mix it up the plant food incor-rectly.) What do you think? P.L. Longview

A. I think your clematis

just had a hizzy fit because you dared to push a big meal right as she was get-ting ready for her grand performance.

Clematis can be divas when it comes to the flower show.

They do not like be-ing fertilized or moved or having their skinny stems knocked or damaged.

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ing? Clematis are also sus-

ceptible to a disease called clematis wilt that strikes suddenly and there is no cure.

If your buds fell off but the vine looks otherwise healthy just water but don’t feed.

I have a feeling you’ll be forgiven and old Nelly will be singing “this buds for you” in another few weeks once she recovers from being fertilized while in bloom.

Q. I have a great new

plant called Scabiosa ‘Mari-posa’. You told me it would attract butterflies and you were right!

I love the round purple blooms but after a few weeks these flowers start to turn brown - but I see new buds emerging.

Is it okay to cut off the brown flowers? Do I cut off the stem as well as the flower heads? Do I need to fertilize this plant? Will it come back next year? I am a beginning gardener.

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A. Congratulations on your butterfly garden – Sca-biosa, also known as pin-cushion flower due to the round shape of the blooms is a nectar-rich perennial that attracts both humming birds and butterflies and it is a perennial so it will come back next year after going dormant this winter.

The new variety you have is called ‘Mariposa’ because this is the Spanish word for butterfly and the flat flower heads make it easy for but-terflies to sit on the blooms as they sip up the nectar.

As for deadheading, yes you should follow the stem of the faded flower all the way to the base of the plant and cut out the stem and faded bloom with one snip.

This variety of scabiosa will continue to bloom all summer, behaving like a free-flowering annual plant if you continue to remove faded flowers.

You do not need to fertil-ize scabiosa all summer long as you would a con-tainer garden or hanging basket of annuals.

Many perennial plants

will grow leggy and flop over if constantly fertilized.

Use a slow release plant food in the spring when you see signs of new growth.

Another growing tip is to try and keep the foliage dry when you water.

Scabiosa loves full sun and soil that drains quickly – yellow leaves at the base of the plant means it may be getting too much water.

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You can shorten any rose plant by one third of its height in July and always remove the three D’s any time of year – that would be anything dead, diseased or damaged.

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or landscape roses that are multi-branching such as the Flower Carpet or Drift rose this is the time of year to prune back with confidence removing all the faded blooms.

Give your newly- pruned roses a shot of fertilizer and you’ll be rewarded with a late summer flush of flowers and color that will continue until October.

Marianne Binetti has a degree in horticulture from Washington State University and is the au-thor of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and sev-eral 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 garden-ing information, she can be reached at her website, www.binettigarden.com.

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Application Names & File No: Soos Creek Water and Sewer District (SCWSD) Short Plat, LU13-0014/0002 SCWSD LS 46 Major Tree Removal Permit. LU13-00011/0002

Primary Contact: Rebecca Saur Roth Hill, LLC 11130 NE 33rd Place, Suite 200 Bellevue, WA 98004 425-289-7373

Application Submitted: June 6, 2013

Date of Complete Application: June 20, 2013

Notice of Application: July 12, 2013

Project Location: The subject property is located at 27110 160th Ave SE, Parcel No. 262205-9016, and is situated in the SE Quarter of Section 26, Township 22N and Range 5E in the City of Covington, King County, WA.

Project Description: The property owner, King County, is proposing a 2 lot short plat on 22.75 acres. The short plat is associated with the purchase and sale of a portion (.97 ac) of the site to SCWSD for the purpose of constructing Sewer Lift Station No. 46. On-site construction will include a new single story control building and associated underground pumps and vaults. The site contains critical areas that will be mitigated in accordance with the city’s critical area ordinance. Off-site improvements will include the removal of trees to

accommodate construction equipment and easements and construction of new sewer main to service the downtown zoning districts. SCWSD has applied for various permits associated with the construction of the on-site facility and off-site improvements, Project 13-0002. A SEPA MDNS was issued on March 6, 2013. SCWSD acted the SEPA Official.

Comp Plan/Zoning Designation: The short plat is located within the Urban Separator (US) R- 1 zone. The overall conveyance system will be located within public right-of-way and private easements throughout the Downtown (DT) zoning districts.

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, Commercial Building Permits (compliance with the International Building, Fire, Mechanical and Plumbing Codes); 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: July 12, 2013 – August 2, 2013

This is a Type 2 Application in accordance with CMC 14.30.040, whereas the City of Covington Community Development Director issues the final decision for the applications, which is appealable to the Hearing Examiner. 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 August 2, 2013. 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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Here we go with another round of election races. Th is one probably will not draw the heavyweight fi ght crowd like the presidential battle of 2012, but there are always a few intriguing races and initiatives to watch.

Aft er covering political races for longer than I care to admit, I still try to follow one rule. I never call a race

before the votes are count-ed. I oft en have a sense how

a race will break, but I have been sucker punched enough to give up the practice of reading birdie inners to predict the future.

I do believe when the voters of our country pay attention to a race, usually the best choice is made, although I may not agree with it at

the time. Oft en when I look back it makes more sense, or it is at least understand-able why the voters made a choice that seems goofy. Sometimes it is goofy and I think that is usually a lack of paying attention or worse, paying attention to self-appointed arm wavers with the world’s best inter-est at heart. My advice is to check the facts and fi gures of anyone, candidate or campaigner. Many of the most shrill like to hold a

candidate to the truth, but their hair catches on fi re when someone challenges their tilted universe of truth. Truth can be a mov-ing target in campaigns.

Elections are about pay-ing attention and critical thinking by voters. It is a responsibility and certainly eating s’mores and sauer-kraut is probably more fun.

Th e political arena can be an unfamiliar environment for many. Candidates run with notions of community

service dancing in their heads and suddenly they are nailed between the eyes with a hostile campaign. It can be a shock to the system.

Most candidates I have covered run for pretty good reasons. Th ey really do want to help build a community. Sometimes, I admit, when I hear a can-didate’s vision of building the community I want to hit myself in the head with a big rock. Th at comes from

too many campaigns and too many arm wavers with fi ery hair.

Ronald Reagan was cor-rect about one thing: “Trust but verify” – although I probably fall into the category of “don’t believe anything until it is verifi ed” and even then be careful.Dennis Box can be reached at [email protected]. To comment on this story go to www.covingtonreporter.com

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MAN RESCUED FROM GREEN RIVER BY STRANGERA thirty-year-old man was an arm length away from possibly drowning on the Green River but was able to make it out of the river with help from a stranger

Brian Freitas was fl oating on an inner tube down the Green River when the current took him directly into a downed tree in the river, known as a strainer. The current pushed the inner tube under the strainer and pinned Freitas in the cold current for about ten minutes.

Freitas had to continuously kick to try and stay afl oat so he could breathe since he did not have a life jacket. A stranger saw Freitas strug-gling in the water and was able to reach him and grab his hand. Once Freitas had help he was able to touch the bottom of the river and get out without injury.

The rest of Freitas’ party quickly noticed that he was missing and feared the worst. Katie Prohaska fl oated to a tree so she could hold on while they looked for Freitas but quickly learned how powerful the current was when it took her inner tube. She was able to hang onto the tree and get to the shore uninjured and began to search for Freitas. She yelled for him but didn’t get a reply so she quickly found the closest person with a cellphone to call 911.

Washington State Parks, King County Sheriff ’s Offi ce, and Mountain View Fire and Rescue quickly began a search only to fi nd Freitas safely

on the shore.

The warm summer days attract people to the water but it is important to take precautions. Local rivers are cold and fast from snow melt, have dangers from downed trees, and loud to make communication diffi cult. It is important for anyone that goes in the river to wear an appropriate life jacket, know the water, and know their limits.

COVINGTON, MAPLE VALLEY, AND BLACK DIAMOND RESIDENTS ENCOURAGED TO TAKE ONE LESS BAG CHALLENGEMake taking out the trash a little easier with King County’s One Less Bag challenge. To help reduce the amount of waste headed to Cedar Hills Regional Landfi ll, King County is asking residents to reduce their garbage by one less bag per month.

By taking the online pledge, you can get a free recycling kit and fi nd ways to recycle more, reuse more and waste less.

More than half of what ends up in our landfi ll is easily recycled. By tak-ing the challenge, you can help save valuable resources from going to waste and save money on your garbage bill by shrinking your garbage cart size.

Here are some tips to help you reduce by one bag of garbage a month:

- Discover one new thing that you didn’t know you could recycle and start recycling it.

- Put food scraps and food-soiled paper in your yard waste cart. Begin with your veggie and fruit trimmings or those leftovers that got lost in the back of the fridge. Then move onto meats, fi sh and poultry scraps and bones, plate scrapings, egg shells and coff ee grounds.

- Remember all junk mail, envelopes, catalogs, magazines, offi ce and craft paper of all shapes, sizes and colors can go in your recycling cart. Food-soiled paper such as dirty paper napkins, paper towels, and pizza delivery boxes go in your yard waste cart. See King County’s Residential Quick Guide to Recycling to learn which types of paper go in the recy-cling cart and which go in the yard waste cart, and reduce junk mailat its source.

- Choose one disposable item that you typically use at home and switch to a reusable alternative. For example, paper coff ee cups, clean-ing wipes, plastic storage containers, and shopping bags can all be substituted with a reusable alternative.

- Black Diamond residents that take the One Less Bag Pledge on King County’s website, will be sent a free kit that includes a spatula for hard-to-clean recyclable containers, a recycling guide with fridge magnet, and 10 compostable bags for food scrap and food-soiled paper recy-cling.



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Hudson always asks for ice cream. It doesn’t matter if we are in the grocery store or driving by the golden arches or other drive throughs, I always get the begging question. Thank-fully he has now learned to ask for it from Marble Slab so Steve and I are more willing to say yes, we will go

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For Theresa she said that Maple Valley always made sense. She liked the com-munity and at the time she opened there were not any sit down dessert locations.

She liked the vision of the city and most importantly enjoyed spending her time here.

That has ended up being a really good thing since she works every day and al-most always open to close. She knows the only thing that keeps her going is her customers.

“They are the best of the best and we are so lucky to have them,” Theresa said.

Many times Theresa has looked at her overhead, her

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She wants to stay here and continue to give back.

Working with our schools and helping kids like Rachael raise money to fight through their illnesses is what keeps her going.

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The month of July is a great time to visit. On Mondays you can get $1 scoops and Tuesday-Friday you can receive happy hour specials between the hours of 12-2 p.m.

Theresa, thank you again for taking the time to talk to me. I appreciate your love for our community and the commitment to staying here through the hard times. Not to mention giving us a place for real ice cream when Hudson starts screaming that song!

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CITY OF COVINGTON TO OFFER SUMMER DANCE CAMPSThe city of Covington is offering themed summer dance camps for kids and teens this year.

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The camps will be held in July and August and cost $120.

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