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Cole Tanner grabs some pizza during the HSPE breakfast at Tahoma High March 14 in preparation for the state test. The PTSA fed students all three mornings of the test with the help of Garlic Jim’s, Grocery Outlet and Fred Meyer which donated food and supplies. Each morning the school served 75 pizzas, grilled cheese sandwhiches and yogurt. KATHERINE SMITH, The Reporter
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BY KRIS HILL
Mention Covington, particu-larly to residents of neighboring cities, and two things spring to mind: traffi c and shopping.
Knowing the city has more to off er, the city’s Economic De-velopment Council partnered with the Covington Chamber of Commerce to develop a brand which would help make the city more recognizable to those from outside the region.
As the pro-cess — which began in the fall — has progressed city and chamber offi cials have recognized what the city’s image is now and want to refi ne it to communicate what Covington has to off er beyond traffi c and shopping.
Process to redefine city’s image continues
BY KATHERINE SMITH
Maple Valley City Manager David Johnston will recommend a one month extension of the city’s contract for short term legal services with the Lighthouse Law Group when the City Council meets March 25.
Johnston cited the city’s in-volvement in supporting Senate Bill 5417 and its companion bill, House Bill 1539, as taking away time from the process of hir-ing long term legal services.
“I haven’t been able to give it (the search for legal representation) the attention I’ve wanted to,” Johnston said in a phone interview March 18. “We’re going to be recommend-ing a month long extension to the
Search for legal services extended
BY KATHERINE SMITH
Th is year Kentlake will host the annual Kent Area Cherry Blossom Festival, an event that celebrates Japanese culture and welcomes exchange students from Japan who will spend 10 days with host families from the Kent School District.
“I love sharing my culture, especially with children,” said Risa
Wright, a junior at Kentlake who is in her second year studying Japanese at school and president of the school’s Japan Club.
Th e festival is a chance for stu-dents from the diff erent Kent high schools to work together and col-laborate to create an event for the community and the students from Japan. Th e event is sponsored by all four of the Kent high schools, the judo team and the schools’ PTSA organizations.
Th is year students have orga-nized a martial arts demonstra-tion, talent show, karaoke, Taiko drummers, a break dancing dem-onstration and a variety of booths that will showcase a variety of Japanese foods and activities.
Kei Higaki, the Japanese teacher and club advisor at Kentlake, esti-mates more than 500 students are a part of organizing the event with about 120 of those from Kentlake. Higaki said the event usually draws between 1,500 and 2,000 community members.
Wright has helped with the festival for years — she got in-volved when her older sister was a
Japanese culture blooms at cherry blossom festival hosted by Kentlake
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Tammy Unruh, principal at Mattson Middle School, believes Jim Ulrich could teach anything.
“He says he teaches metal and wood shop, but, I say he teaches kids,” Unruh said. “He is a true profes-sional.”
Ulrich was recognized March 14 as the Coving-ton Chamber of Com-merce’s Teacher of the Year. Educators at the 10 Kent School District buildings in Covington were eligible for nomination. He has taught at Mattson since it opened in 1981.
“I love what I do and that’s an elegant thing to say
about a job,” Ulrich said. “Th ank you for honoring me with this award. I was truly caught off guard.”
Unruh sent Ulrich a message to come see her. He wasn’t sure if that was a good thing. Th en Unruh congratulated him and gave him the good news.
“I believe that the most important thing I can con-vey to (students) is a quality relationship between stu-dents and teachers,” Ulrich said. “Once I establish that
relationship … we end up with a quality product. Th e kids learn. Th ey enjoy what they’re doing and they walk away with success. When they walk away with success it builds to other classes and their future.”
Ulrich is the glue, fi gura-tively and at times literally, which holds Mattson to-gether, Unruh said. During the course of a school year students will come to her and off er their opinion on teachers.
“I’ve never heard any kid utter anything but kind words and praise for Mr. Ulrich and that’s tricky because we teach middle school, because you can be their best friend one day and their enemies the next,” Unruh said. “He is an ab-solute delight to work with and we are so fortunate to have him at Mattson.”
Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.
Jim Ulrich more than just a shop teacher
Man arrested in alleged domestic violence incident
Th e King County Sher-iff 's Offi ce SWAT team responded to a call from the parents of a 27 year old
man at 25800 Landsberg Road SE early in the morn-ing on March 17.
"According to the parents the son came home around 5 a.m. intoxicated," Ser-geant Cindi West, public information offi cer for the
Sheriff 's Offi ce, said in an email interview Monday.
"He assaulted them and would not allow them to leave the house. He also threatened to kill
them. Th e parents were able to fl ee to a neighbors
house for safety and to call the police."
West also added that, "we were given
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the suspect said he would not go to jail."
Th e SWAT team and hos-tage negotiators responded to the scene.
Th e standoff ended when the suspect gave himself up just before 1 p.m.
KENTWOOD JROTC BRINGS HOME AWARDSKentwood Junior Reserve Offi cers’ Training Corps participated in the JROTC drill championship at Graham-
Kapowsin High School on March 16.
Kentwood took fi rst place in the Armed Drill category. The team commander, Chris Salois, was also awarded the fi rst place plaque for best
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Hayden Lasher fi nished a strong third in the Individual Armed Drill category.
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Educator from Mattson Middle School recognized by Covington Chamber
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Vegas, L.A., New York City, Seattle — these are all pretty popular cities.
Now, what makes Covington one of those? I grew up in Covington, 12 years of seeing it grow. Costco, Th e Rock, Home Depot. I saw it all. Covington already has so many amazing things in it. Th ank goodness for Foss! I love the Red Robin and Game Stop. My friends Kylie Carlsen and Devon Nyberg both think that the Puerta Vallerta and U-top It are big hits! Devon thinks it would be great for all of us sport gurus to have a Sports Author-ity in the area. Also, Devon would totally come back to Covington later on in life if there were some more sit-down restaurants, like Ristorante Isabella and Red Robin.
“I would like to see a little bowling alley,” Devon said.
I told him I stink at bowling so I could prac-tice more with one close by. Great idea huh?
Kylie enjoys a lot of things in the vicinity also, including the Jamba Juice and Cold Stone. But if you knew her like I do you’d know she loves to shop at the store Justice. Girls would love to see one of those! Something she loves even more is swimming at the Tahoma Aquatic Center.
“I want like, an outside swimming pool,” Kylie said.
Are we talking seasonal pool or mini water park? Look at what Henry Moses Aquatic Center
did for Renton! Either would be great. Now, something I would love to see but don’t
now, is a dog shelter. All us dog lovers want to see a no kill — yes, I emphasized no-kill — adoption center that takes care of all those homeless little pups. It would make me feel better when I see those ASPCA commercials. I know I am not the only one that bawls at those. Just thinking about it is heartbreaking.
So, Covington has a ton of cool things in it, but I don’t see many tourists. We don’t need to be a Washington D.C. or anything, but a little
memory recall from some people would be nice. It’s wonderful to be proud enough to say, “I grew up in that town.”
Covington, we’re almost there. Just look at all the things that have been built and all the new stores. Lets keep going that way. All these ideas could continue us in the right direction. Tee hee! Th at makes me think of One Direction.
Annie Livengood of Covington is an aspir-ing journalist and sixthgrader at Crestwood Elementary.
More than seven years ago I had a vision of what I wanted the Covington-Maple Valley Reporter — we didn’t plan to cover Black Dia-mond right away — to be as a newspaper.
I wanted it to be a place where readers could fi nd stories they wouldn’t see anywhere else in the region. And I believed a community journalist should write stories about our read-ers, their friends, their neighbors, their kids and things which impacted their wallet. Since we started this paper in Sep-tember 2005 that vision has not changed.
Th ere were times this vision has been evident in the paper but I think what we off er now fulfi lls that ideal generally. I did realize over the weekend, however, that what I believe our mission is as a community newspaper has expanded.
Now, between you and me, the lessons I’ve learned about what our newspaper’s role in the communities we cover have come from Dennis Box. But, don’t tell him I said that, he may start telling people he’s the likable one and some other nonsense about being a deity. Trust me, you don’t want to go down that path.
Still, one of the most important things we
do here never leads to a story or photographs for the paper. Instead, it’s about community goodwill. Th at’s when we host Cub Scout groups who need to take a tour of some kind of media business. Everything I know about hosting this kind of group and making it engaging as well as eff ective I learned from Dennis. Again, don’t tell him that, it will only cause more trouble than it’s worth.
As a business in this community, however, it’s important for us to give back. Hosting a Cub Scout Den every few months is part of that role. On the surface, it may seem like the newspaper gains nothing from it, but that’s not the point of service. And it turns out our local Scouts sometimes have hard time fi nding a media business — they can choose from newspapers, radio or TV stations, from what I understand — to host them or that makes sense logistically. We’re right here in down-town Covington and we love teaching children about what we do. It’s a part of being a con-tributing member of the community we serve.
Another element of service involves hosting job shadow students from Tahoma, Kentwood and Kentlake. I love doing this. It took me four years to fi gure out how to do it right. What I like to do is bring students in on Tuesdays when we lay out the paper so they can see the process. I also ask them to help come up with headline ideas — it’s good for teens to see what happens when I get stuck and how I get unstuck — or pick a photo for the front page or proofread the pages when we’re done with layout. Th e other approach is to set up a job shadow experience so a student can come with me to cover sports. I like to take kids to football games or the district volleyball tour-nament. I’ll hand them my camera or notepad
and ask them to help me out. It gives them a sense of what it really takes to multitask when covering an event.
In the past few months I’ve hosted two special needs students, one from Tahoma in December and more recently a teen from Kentwood. Both times the adults who ar-ranged the job shadow experience thanked me profusely for helping them out because it was hard to fi nd someone who would host these students.
Th is infuriates me. If special needs students are capable of — and therefore expected — to complete a job shadowing experience then businesses in the community should make it happen when asked. We have high expecta-tions for the schools our students attend, whether the kids are in all kinds of rigorous courses or struggling in core classes or doing the best they can in the Adapted Services Cen-ter, so we should hold ourselves as leaders in the community to the same standards.
Anyone who doesn’t fi nd a way to host job shadow students, regardless of the kid, is missing out. Th e young woman we hosted from Kentwood High was awesome. She had plenty of questions, she was ready to off er suggestions and help pick out photos. She was attentive when we explained how we did things and asked what she would need to do to get a job with this company. Katherine and I thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, it wouldn’t have happened had Katherine not fi lled in for me at the Job Shadow Expo at Kentwood a few weeks ago. She connected with a staff member from the school who in turn called me to set up the job shadow experience. I’d do it again
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Residents value protecting parks
Thank you for highlight-ing the current events going on at Cedar Creek Park. Lisa Parsons and Middle Green River Coalition have been instrumental in improving and expanding the trail network by bring-
ing King County Parks, Outdoor Academy, WTA and REI together in our backyard.
Hopefully, these efforts will help to protect the open space park from damages caused by improper use. But, community engage-ment is needed to ensure that Cedar Creek Park stays
protected. Lisa and MGRC created
Friends of Cedar Creek Park to be the voice for this open space and to represent the people’s desire for local outdoor recreation oppor-tunities as well.
To find out more about Friends of Cedar Creek Park and the other projects and events MGRC is work-ing on, visit www.mgrc.org.
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Understanding levy is simpleDear Editor,
There have been a lot of letters in your respective newspaper over the last few months regarding the levy vote for Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety.
After taking responsibil-ity to understand how it is that I will be impacted, I’ve found some interesting information that I think my fellow citizens not only have the right to be made aware of but also fully understand in much simpler terms.
Here’s what I’ve found: For a home that is as-
sessed at $250,000, the taxes
go up $7.92 per month. That’s the price of 2 half-gallons of ice cream.
For a home that is as-sessed at $300,000, the taxes go up $9.50 per month. OK, fewer Tuesday night pizza specials.
For a home that is as-sessed at $350,000, the taxes go up $11.08 per month. That’s one fast food drive through trip for two people.
I wanted to make sure that I fully understood the impact of this levy and also, in turn, ensure that my fellow citizens are aware as well.
If I vote YES; I stay safe, my children stay safe, my home stays safe, my cho-
lesterol goes down, and my pants will fit better.
This seems so simple, why would anyone (and quite frankly, how COULD anyone) vote against this?
I guess I need to thank Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety for keeping it simple in the upcoming levy vote.
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During the first phase of the process there were work-shops that gathered the input of Covington depart-ment heads, CEDC, cham-ber members and others. The second phase is nearing completion and Karla Slate, along with Derek Gillette, who is consulting on the project pro bono, brought the chamber membership up to speed at its monthly luncheon March 14 at Real Life Church.
“We’re trying to make it a win-win situation here,” Gillette said. “We’re here to get your valuable input and feedback.”
Slate, community relations coordinator for Covington, said during the luncheon the idea is to build on the momentum of the Destination Covington event in October 2011 that helped city officials get the message out to companies and developers about what the city has to offer.
Since then, Slate said, they’ve worked with several different focus groups and have gathered data from a number of sources.
In those groups they discussed who the target audiences are for a brand-ing campaign, who the city is competing with for the attention of developers, and what do those groups want as well as what makes Cov-ington unique, what sets it apart from other cities in the region and the country.
“We can talk about short term fixes: a new logo, website,” Gillette said. “But we want to talk about long term results. We have to find that perfect balance between logical and emo-tional response.”
In order to do that, dur-ing the second phase of the branding process, Gillette said it was important to learn about Covington’s his-tory to understand its iden-tity, both how it is perceived and what is true. Decades ago it was a railroad stop.
“When we talk about identity, it was a place to pass through but, not to stay for any period of time,” Gillette said. “What we’re trying to do is change the idea that we’re a pass through or a short cut. With the addition of a large amount of retail, that idea
was cemented.”Another element of
Covington’s identity is a connection with nature, but, that’s on the other end of the spectrum from the concept of the city as a short cut, a place to shop or the city people drive through to get to Maple Valley. In order to develop an identity for the city those two elements need to be unified somehow.
“That’s really what the branding strategy is about,” Gillette said. “A branding strategy is not necessarily changing the plan of the city. A branding strategy just finds a way to com-municate that (identity) in a better way. It invites people to the party and to partici-pate.”
During the second phase of research and data gather-
ing, Gillette said, they de-fined three main audiences for the branding message: those who live in Coving-ton, those who do business in the city and those who are visiting Covington.
To that end, a working tagline, “Growing To-wards Greatness,” has been developed for the city. And a name for the town center area of downtown, which is meant to be a pedestrian friendly place for residents to gather, live and shop, could be called The Stop at Covington.
“The most important stage we’re at now is to make sure everyone feels accurately represented,” Gillette said. “Have we cap-tured the heart of Coving-ton and its future.”
The goal is to complete the branding strategy pro-
cess by the end of the third quarter.
As the city, the chamber and CEDC work toward the third phase, the effort now is to define the brand. Input from chamber members was solicited to help accom-plish that.
“That’s what we’re com-ing to the community for: what is that one, single most important thing you want us to convey … to the world about Covington,” Slate said.
Once the feedback from the business com-munity has been gathered and analyzed, city staff will get together with CEDC to respond to that informa-tion and strategic changes made as a result, then take that to the Covington City Council.
“From that, we’ll create a
strategic brand project … then look at how to bring that to life,” Slate said. “One city which recently did this in house … is the city of Sumner. They went back to their roots of being the rhu-barb capital of the world. I think what they’ve done is pretty spectacular.”
Jeff Wagner, who is mayor pro tem of Coving-ton and CEDC co-chair, reiterated the purpose of the branding campaign.
“What Karla, Derek and Jeff are doing is getting community buy-in so (resi-dents) can own it,” Wagner said. “If you give them something they can buy into, they can own it.”
Once that brand has been defined it could change the image from a place to pass through to a destination.
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in a heartbeat.After thinking about this job shadow
hosting experience and the most recent group of Cub Scouts I hosted from Maple
Valley, I realized that what we do as com-munity journalists goes way beyond that vision I’ve long held for this newspaper. And I believe we’re all better off for it. In fact, I get much more out of giving back to the communities I live and work in
than anything else I do in this job.So, if you want Katherine or I to come
give a presentation at your school about journalism, or want to bring your Cub Scouts for a tour of the office or need a business to complete a job shadow ex-
perience or someone to come help judge at the school science fair or your child wants to write for the newspaper, just as a few examples, get in touch with me. I will find a way to make it happen. What we do here is about community. Period.
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extension to the contract with Lighthouse Law Group through the end of April.”
The current three month contract with Lighthouse
expires March 31. Maple Valley is searching for new legal services after the city parted ways with its at-torney in December in an effort to close a gap in the
2013 budget. The city received 11
responses to the request for qualifications for legal services when it was adver-tised.
“That kind of pleasantly surprised us,” Johnston said
in a phone interview March 1. “All of them were in King County or Pierce County.”
Johnston will make the first cut and decide which firms to interview, then a team of department heads and council members will
interview the candidates and make a recommenda-tion to the council.
Johnston said that he hopes they will be able to make a recommendation to the City Council by its meeting set for April 22.
Reach Katherine Smith [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To com-ment on this story go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.
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student at Kentlake. Senior Jordan Gormeley, vice president
of the Japan Club, got involved because she was taking Japanese at Kentlake and then joined Japan Club because she wanted to learn more about the culture.
“(I’ve) always been interested in Japanese
culture,” Gormeley said. Gormeley also loves the challenge of
organizing such a big event and working with the other students. Gormeley said she has learned a lot through working on the festival the past few years.
“Time management, making sure every-thing is prepared, being on top of every-thing, (being) more aware of what’s going
on around me,” Gormeley said. Higaki is proud of the way the students
dive in every year and take on planning the festival. One of the most meaningful parts of the experience for her is, “seeing how much ownership the students (take) and the excitement they have.”
Gormeley said the event is about broad-ening horizons and learning something
new. “All are welcome,” Wright said. “Even if
you don’t know the culture you can always come.”
Reach Katherine Smith [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052. To comment on this story go to www.covingtonreporter.com.
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Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety has scheduled three public meetings to answer questions from the community about the maintenance and operations
levy on the April Special Election ballot.The public meetings will feature a brief presentation on the levy by the fire chief, followed by a question
and answer session with attendees. All meetings will be held at Station 81 located at 22225 SE 231 Street in Maple Valley. The meeting times are:3 p.m., Saturday, March 30Noon, Tuesday, April 2
5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 4Contact Chief Brad Doerflinger at [email protected] or 425-432-0200 with questions.
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March is the best time to fertilize established roses, lawns, and small fruits like blueberry, raspberry and strawberry plants. The longer days are waking up these plants and the new foliage tells you that these plants want food now!
March is also the month
to evaluate your front land-scape and create a plan for curb appeal. A welcoming front entry, colorful flowers
and a cared for landscape does more than just raise property values. There is intrinsic satisfaction in being
welcomed home with a bit of beauty.
You don’t need to own your own home to liven up your entry. Even the darkest basement apartment can benefit from a portable pot of living plants. Add some life to the dark side with foliage plants that stay evergreen all year long and don’t mind the full shade. Acuba, Fatsia japonica, variegated ivy or the mag-nificent large leaves of an Acanthus or Bear’s breeches are all plants that will live for years in a pot despite a lack of sunshine. In the
summer months you can add shade tolerant annuals such as impatiens, lobelia, begonias and coleus. White and light-colored bloomers stand out in the shade.
Next, consider painting the front door a vibrant accent color or at least light up the space with a fresh coat of white. A new door mat, upgraded light fixtures and dusting the cobwebs from the corners will turn any first impression from poor to positive.
Many homeowners rarely use their own front door — so it is easy to forget about the overgrown plants, slippery sidewalk and other hazards that make the walk to the front door less than welcoming. Take the route your guests must use and then determine if walkways need pressure washing or if there are overgrown plants in need of pruning.
A great design idea to widen a narrow walkway is to add pavers alongside the
existing walkway creating more surface area. Install-ing outdoor pathway lights is another bright idea to improve curb appeal. Don’t forget about the impact of blooming plants as you re-think your front walk. Pots aren’t just for the porch. Set a trio of container gardens into the planting bed, keep-ing the pots level by setting them on top of stepping stones or a grouping of pavers. Pots in beds raises the blooming plants closer to eye level and creates an instant focal point in a boring landscape. The deep blue, deep red, rich purple and other highly glazed and shiny pots sold at lo-cal nurseries are frost and crack resistant and can be left outdoors all year long to add structure and color.
Control the chaos with some repetition.
Adding curb appeal to your front landscape can be as simple as repeating a plant, color or form in
at least three spots. Plant different sizes and shapes of containers with the same variety of purple petunia, repeat the rounded form of a clipped boxwood or repeat an evergreen signa-ture plant such as Nanina (Heavenly Bamboo) or Dwarf Alberta Spruce. You can group the same plant material in clusters of three to five, in a staggered hedge, in the center or corner three different beds or even as the focal point plants in container gardens.
The reason that repeti-tion works to calm the cha-os in a front yard landscape is because it gives the eye a familiar place to rest when your home is viewed from the curb or street. Repeti-tion is like a melody that re-appears throughout a song or the repeating patterns that Mother Nature designs when rolling hills, fields of wild flowers or ocean waves repeat to calm and delight the human senses.
Don’t Forget the Obvi-ous: Maintenance Matters
Improving your home’s curb appeal can be as simple as mowing and edg-ing the lawn, clearing away the clutter and weeding and mulching the beds. Repair the gutters, get rid of the moss on the roof and keep your driveway free of fallen leaves and debris.
A well-kept home does more than improve the real estate values in your neigh-borhood – it welcomes the homeowner as well as the guest, calms the mind and raises the spirit. We humans get spring fever for a reason – feather your nest, clean up your cave and create a buzz about your home hive.
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Maple Valley City Manager David Johnston has been elected to the 2013 Board of Directors of the Sound Cities Association which represents 35 cities in King County and provides a regional voice for nearly
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SCA represents cities with populations under 150,000.
“Our county is no longer
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As a wife, stay-at-home mom and self-employed, work-from-home woman, I spend a lot of time in my kitchen. Wheth-er I’m just mak-ing another cup of coffee with my espresso ma-chine, loading the dishwasher, getting my lunch or making dinner for my family, I am in and out of my kitchen all day.
As I observed my messy kitchen one morning, I realized that everything I know about life, I learned while in the kitchen:
You can’t hide a messy kitchen, you just have to clean it. Piles happen, you just have to deal with them.
When you plan meals ahead, it saves time and money. Pots and plastic
bowls are a two-year old’s best toys. The best conversa-tions are had over a hot cup of coffee or tea. You can solve any problem with a sink full of soapy dishwater.
Some of your kids’ best memories happen in the kitchen. Cookies and milk will dry anyone’s tears. Plastic containers work to store anything. A bright kitchen window cheers up any day. Some of the best recipes I’ve made up myself. Eating around the kitchen table brings out the best in my family. Visitors
are more comfortable in the kitchen than sitting in a living room. Games are more fun when baked goods are added. The sound of a dishwasher can lull a heated conversation. Don’t leave stoneware sitting on top of the stove, if you turn on the wrong burner it will break and two-year olds are not discreet. A plastic sheet, a bucket of cornmeal and a toddler is a winning winter activity. Cornmeal is slick when on a linoleum floor. Cornstarch with a bit of water is just plain cool. Freshly ground espresso beans should be one of the wonders of the world. Hot chocolate is good dur-ing any season; so is ice cream. Your day will go better if you cleaned the kitchen the night before.
Kids gain self-esteem when you allow them to cook by themselves. Don’t wait for someone to unload the dishwasher at the end of the day when you can do it at the beginning. Kids open up when you cook with them. A sink full of soapy water and a stool can keep a toddler busy for hours. Did I mention baked goods? Sometimes you have to let the kitchen get wrecked just to have the pleasure of cleaning it up. Dirty floors are memories of happy times past. The right kitchen tool for the right kitchen job, don’t settle. Healthy meals are important, but sometimes we need brownies too. It’s a great week when we haven’t wasted any food. Leftovers can be a meal too. Don’t
worry about the walls, everything can be cleaned. Your kitchen should make you feel happy, fill it with things that do. Don’t ever tell anyone they are doing something wrong, they might never do it again. Multi-tasking is over rated. A watched pot doesn’t boil over. Remember to set tim-ers, or bad things can hap-pen. Make sure you don’t push too many zeros on the microwave, bacon only needs one minute not ten. Keep track of your plastic containers or your family will blame you. Make sure you don’t burn popcorn or the smell will linger for days; same with fish. Cooks are creative people. Thank the chef. There are some food items you can’t run out of or life as your family
knows it will stop. Make a list and cross is off as you go. Include your family by having a list they can add to. You have to tell your family to look beyond their nose, what they’re looking for may be there all along. The cook controls the incoming food. Moms don’t have to always give up the best bite. Mistakes happen, that’s what pizza is for. If they don’t like it, tell them to eat it anyway. Every meal is a blessing for you and your family. The best days start and end in the kitchen.
Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. You can also read more of her writing at livingwithgleigh.com.
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BY STEVE HUNTER
Th e pilot who crashed a Cessna 172 plane last year into Mount Si in North Bend that killed himself and both passengers, including Kentlake High School swim coach Seth Dawson, was intoxicated, according to a factual re-port issued by the Na-tional Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
Pilot Rob Hill, 30, swim coach at Federal Way’s Decatur High School, had a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent, according to the
report issued last month. Th e Code of Federal
Regulations prescribed by the Federal Aviation Ad-ministration prohibits civil aircraft pilots from fl ying if their blood alcohol level is 0.04.
Th e FAA’s Civil Aero-medical Institute in Oklahoma City, Okla., performed toxicology tests on Hill.
NTSB investigators de-termined that “the on-site examination of the airframe and engine revealed no evidence of a mechanical malfunction or failure with
the airframe or engine prior to impact,” according to the factual report.
Elizabeth Redling, 29, of Federal Way, also was killed in the Feb. 15, 2012 accident.
Th e three were on a “per-sonal sightseeing fl ight,” according to the report.
Th e plane crashed at about 1:54 a.m. aft er leaving the Renton Municipal Air-port at about 1:35 a.m.
Th e three went to a Se-attle Th underbirds hockey game earlier in the night at the ShoWare Center in Kent and then out to dinner, ac-
cording to the report.Th e NTSB issued a pre-
liminary report a few days aft er the accident and the factual report last month.
A fi nal probable cause report is expected to be issued later this month, according to the NTSB website.
“Th e airplane fragmented upon impacting trees and up-sloping mountainous terrain, which resulted in substantial structural damage,” according to the report. Th e fuselage was found upside down.
Hill had a commercial
pilot certifi cate and a fl ight instructor certifi cate. He had accumulated 991 hours of fl ight time.
Dawson, 31, was in his second season of coaching the Kentlake boys swim and dive team. He coached the Kentlake girls team in the fall of 2011.
Hill had been the De-catur swim coach for fi ve years.
According to the report, Christiansen Aviation, Inc., of Wilmington, Del., the plane’s registered owner, leased the plane to Acu-Wings, a Renton fl ight school.
Th e fl ight originated from Renton Municipal Airport, but no fl ight plan was fi led. A NTSB crash investigator said there is no law that requires a fl ight plan for a sightseeing per-sonal fl ight.
A review of FAA re-corded radar showed the aircraft had an initial climb out of Renton to 2,400 feet mean sea level as indicated by its altitude encoding transponder.
“Initially, the aircraft proceeded in a northeast-erly direction,” according to the report. “However, as the
aircraft approached Sno-qualmie Falls, it descended to 1,500 feet and proceeded on an east-southeasterly course.
Th e last radar hit oc-curred at 1:46 a.m., at which time the aircraft was about 1 mile southwest of the falls, and about 1 mile north of Interstate 90. During the last minute of recorded fl ight, the aircraft ’s ground speed decreased from about 112 to 106 knots.”
Dawson grew up in Vancouver, Wash., where he was a state championship swimmer at Hudson’s Bay High before competing on scholarship at California State Bakersfi eld.
In 2009, Dawson was coaching boys and girls high school swim in Cor-bett, Ore., but decided he wanted to move closer to home and took a position with Valley Aquatics, a club team that uses pools in Federal Way, Auburn and Puyallup. Hill also coached at the club.
Contact Steve Hunter at [email protected] or 253-872-6600, ext. 5052.
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Kentwood’s baseball team has a target on its back and the
players are doing their best to ignore it.
Being the defending 4A state champions can come with some pressure espe-cially aft er losing two of the best pitchers to graduation — Taylor Jones and Skyler Genger, both of whom are now playing Division I ball — but the Conquerors are doing their best to manage this season.
Catcher Reese McGuire, who has signed to play for the Univer-sity of San Diego, said Kentwood is focused on com-ing together as a team.
“Kentwood has always had a target on our back,” McGuire said. “Not just in baseball, but, as a school, people maybe look at Kentwood, they hate us but at the same time they wish they went here.”
As one of fi ve seniors on the team, McGuire is work-ing to be the kind of leader the younger players on the team can look to as the
Conks prepare for league play which started Tuesday aft ernoon against Auburn Riverside.
“We’re just being com-municative with the young guys and letting them pick our brains a bit,” McGuire said. “It’s pitch by pitch.”
Or as head coach Mark Zender tells them, they’re “one pitch warriors.”
Kellen Wilson, senior third baseman, said the seniors have worked to help the younger members
of the team feel comfortable and prepare for the season so they can handle the pressure of de-fending the title.
“We just love it because we know everyone’s com-ing out with their best and it makes us give our best,” Wilson said. “We
go out and we play hard.”Besides, they know what
got them to the state title game a year ago, McGuire said, they need to try and do the same things again this year.
For McGuire, Wilson and right fi elder Tanner Wessling, there is only one goal this season: win a state championship.
“Th at’s what we focus
on,” Wilson said. “It’s all about being able to execute our plays. Th rough execu-tion we’ll win games. As long as we work together as a team, we’ll make it to the state championship.”
Th us far, there have been a few surprises for McGuire. Th e pitching has been better than expected as have the new players to varsity.
“Th e young guys step-ping up and not being nervous, the typical fresh-man or sophomore starter and dealing with the jitters,” McGuire said. “Everybody has played well all their lives, it’s just a matter of jell-ing as a team.”
Ultimately, it’s a mat-ter of enjoying the game, Wessling said.
“We tell the younger guys to relax and have fun,” Wessling said. “Don’t think about the targets on our backs. Just have fun and play baseball.”
South Puget Sound North league play came on fast, McGuire said, but the fi rst two games of the season — a 9-2 win March 12 against SPSL South opponent Rogers followed by a 5-4 win on the road against Redmond March 14 — have shown him what
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Days start early for the Tahoma dance team with 6 a.m. practices, long before the first bell rings.
All the early mornings and hard work paid off — the 24-member team scored high enough at the district competition to qualify for the state competition Friday and Saturday at the Sundome in Yakima.
“It’s a really cool accomplishment to go to state with all those teams who have been practicing year round,” said Justyne Snyder, a senior and one of the team’s co-captains.
Unlike many of the local high schools dance teams, Tahoma doesn’t begin practicing until November.
The team, led by co-captains Snyder, Haley Alderson, Maddie Williams, Brooke Proctor and Kaylee Meadows, usually competes in four or five regular season events.
At those competitions a point total of 195 or greater will qualify a routine for districts. At the district competition scoring more 210 points will punch a ticket to state.
Tahoma’s hip hop and military routines both qualified
for state this year. For Snyder, being on the squad is just as much about
team bonding and having fun as it is earning high scores and making it to the state competition.
“We’re really going to have fun,” Snyder said. “Qualifying for state, that’s the victory.”
Lara Lindersmith, who teaches language arts at Tahoma High, is in her 12th year of coaching the dance team.
Lindersmith is excited to see the team grow as perform-ers while the program attracts more dancers and have the chance to compete with the top teams from around Washington.
“We have a huge group of sophomores, which is excit-ing because the team is growing,” Lindersmith said. “I’m excited that they’re going to get to go (to state), and see the other teams.”
Lindersmith said one of the things which most impresses her about the team is that they all work hard to excel at academics as well as dance.
“They’re all good students,” Lindersmith said. “I’m very proud of them.”
The team earned the WIAA Distinguished Scholastic Award this year for having a team grade point average between 3.0 and 3.49.
For assistant coach Andrea Hicks, one of the notable things about the team is the camaraderie among the girls.
“It’s awesome that they are all good friends,” Hicks said. “There’s no drama or catiness.”
The team will travel to Yakima on Friday and will watch other teams compete Friday night before performing on Saturday.
In addition to the two routines the team will be perform-ing, seven girls from the team will be competing individu-ally in the drill-down competition.
Drill-down focuses on individual skills and memory — the dancers have to perform moves as it is called out to them, remembering the sequence and performing the moves correctly.
“We’ve come such a long way since the beginning of the season,” Snyder said. “I’m very thankful for the team we have because we’re all so crazy. It has made my last year so much fun to be on a team with these girls.”
the Conks are capable of this spring.
“I feel like we’re getting in season shape,” McGuire said. “The talent is a little down this year around the league. There’s not as many power pitchers who can
shut people down. I think we have a good chance of going back (to state).”
Wessling said the nonleague games helped Kentwood learn the little things it needs to work on as a team and what’s work-ing. Hitting is strong again
this season, for example.“Our pitching is bet-
ter than I think a lot of people thought it would be,” Wessling said. “The talent we always get (is helpful). We always seem to come together as a team. I think we’ll be pretty good.”
It’s all about working on the little things, Wessling explained, which will help them with the big goal: another 4A state champion-ship trophy.
Wilson said mental preparation is key all season long.
“The biggest strength (of the team) … is just our overall attitude,” Wilson said. “Everyone has the same approach.”
Do the little things and ignore the target on their backs on the way to another
state championship.Reach Assistant Edi-tor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.covingtonre-porter.com.
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There is overwhelming evidence that our four-legged friends are a real health benefit for seniors – helping them live healthier and happier lives! As one can imagine, pets need attention and help keep one active (whether we want to or not!). Dog’s help seniors establish a routine such as getting outside and going for a small walk, feeding, grooming and playing. Cats are great for those who are a bit more limited mobile wise, but can still give them the companionship and responsibility just as dogs do.
Seniors can benefit greatly from the uncon-ditional love of a pet, and also give them a sense of self-esteem since the pets need and rely on their owners for their caretaking. Studies have shown that pet-owning citizens have lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels than non-owners! Additionally, some studies have suggested that pet owners have a better chance of long term
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RAINIER YOUTH CHOIR TO PERFORM SATURDAYSouth King County’s Rainier Youth Choirs will perform during their Earth, Wind & Fire concert 7:00 p.m. on March 23 at Kent United Method-ist Church.
Most selections in this concert deal with one aspect of the theme, Earth, Wind & Fire, and represent a wide variety of genres and styles.
“I’ve lost count of the number of times singers and adults have said how much they love the slate of songs we’re performing this time,” commented RYC Artistic Director, Leora Schwitters. “New audience
members will be incredibly impressed with the artistry displayed by each of the groups. I imagine that when most people think of kids singing, they don’t expect much actual musicality to be evident. Those people will be in for a pleasant surprise!”
Bella Voce, the youngest RYC group, opens the program with a couple of upbeat contemporary pieces. Colla Voce, the RYC mid-level group, has several songs from different countries showing off their musicality and great part singing. Consonare, the mixed voice high school and college age ensemble, has the most diverse set, including selections by Grieg and Schumann, contemporary songs,
a traditional spiritual song, and a rousing rendition of “Hail Holy Queen” from Sister Act. The concert finale combines all groups on Harry Bela-fonte’s “Turn the World Around,” made famous on the Muppet Show.
Tickets purchased in advance at www.RainierYouthChoirs.org are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students. Tickets are also available at the door for $15/$12.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for the 7 p.m. concert. Attendees are also encour-aged to bring nonperishable food donations for the Kent Food Bank.
Kent United Methodist Church is located at 11010 SE 248th St.
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