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Rehmat Pannu and Manveer Kaur were among students who performed during an assembly that celebrated the legacy of Marting Luther King Jr. at Kentlake High School Jan. 18. The assembly also included a video showcasing students’ hopes for the school.KATHERINE SMITH, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.covingtonreporter.com.

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Th e city of Maple Valley is tak-ing the next steps in securing legal representation on a contract basis aft er eliminating the staff city at-torney position late last year.

At the beginning of January the city entered into a three-month agreement with two attorneys from Lighthouse Law Group, Jeff Taraday and Patricia Taraday. Th at contract allows the city approximately 60 hours of services per month at a cost of about $11,000 per month, David Johnston, Maple Valley city man-ager, said. Th ose hours include attendance at City Council meet-ings, offi ce hours on Tuesdays and additional time as needed, Johnston said.

Th is year the City Council has been faced with trying to close a $550,000 defi cit in the general fund. Council members

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Dale Hoover wants to bust one of the biggest myths about Meals on Wheels: it is not just for poor seniors.

Hoover, an outreach specialist for Meals on Wheels, has worked in the program off ered by Seattle-based nonprofi t Senior Services for seven and a half years. In that time he’s seen the good it can do and wants people to know more about it as well as the cities and agencies it supports.

“Money has nothing to do with it,” Hoover said. “We are here as a service for you. We provide more meals for seniors in King County than anyone else.”

Meals on Wheels partners with the Greater Maple Valley Com-munity Center — which serves seniors in Covington, Maple Valley and in surrounding unin-corporated areas — as well as the

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Rae Solomon has planned to move to Nashville, Tenn., since she was 10 years old.

Solomon, who has lived in Covington for several years, is making good on that plan Jan. 27 when the former rodeo queen of Enumclaw is driving a loaded U-Haul with her husband to the heart of the country music record-

ing industry.At the tender age of 7, Solo-

mon wrote her fi rst song, and she knew then she wanted to be on country radio. To make that aspiration happen she needs to be in Nasvhille.

“I wanted to make sure I was ready for it and prepared for it,” Solomon said. “It feels like a really good time. We had a really great year last year. We opened for Blake Shelton and played Water-

shed at the Gorge.”She released her fi rst album in

2010. Her single off that album, “Country-Fied Chick,” got local country radio airplay. In July 2012 Solomon followed that up with her self-titled extended play, which she spent the rest of the year touring and promoting.

Since she started touring with her band a few years ago, Solomon said, she has generated a large following in the region and she’s ready to build on that with the move to Nashville.

Solomon and her husband, Bill Snickers, have an apartment picked out that they found online.

Timing is right for move to Nashville for Solomon

Rae Solomon performs at the Watershed festival at the Gorge Amphiteater in August. Her next big career move is to Nasvhille, Tenn., in a few days. Courtesy of Rae Solomon

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Alicia French, a senior at Tahoma High School, knows the darkness of suicide too well.

Her experience with suicide includes the deaths of family friends, a friend’s brother, and during her freshman year, her best friend.

“Th at (the death of her best friend) was what changed who I was as a per-son,” French said. “Literally right aft er he killed himself I said, ‘Th is is my chance to make a diff erence.’ I knew I had to make a diff erence.”

For French, making a dif-ference means reaching out to her peers and working to raise awareness for suicide prevention.

“Feeling the way I did aft er my best friend com-mitted suicide, I don’t want anyone to feel that,” French said. “I want people to feel like there is someone they can talk to.”

For her senior project French is organizing a 5K walk called Out of the

Darkness, an event to raise awareness and fundraise for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Th e walk will be at Taho-ma High School on Feb. 23. Check-in will begin at 9 a.m. and the walk will start at 10 a.m.

French said that all of the funds raised through the event will go toward providing counseling and other services for teens and young adults who are strug-gling with suicide and/or depression.

“I wanted to fi nd some-one who was helping,” French said. “Reaching out to them (the local chapter

of the American Founda-tion for Suicide Prevention) was easy.”

French has been working to raise awareness of suicide prevention and of the walk

by post-ing fl yers, talking to school admin-istrators and starting a Facebook page.

“It (suicide) is some-thing that needs to be talked about,” French said.

Ac-cording to the Washing-ton State Depart-

ment of Health, suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth and young adults ages 10-24 in Wash-ington state.

Based on a 2010 survey the department determined that, “18 percent of 10th graders (about 15,000 students) seriously thought about attempting suicide during the 12 months prior to the survey. Seven percent of 10th graders (about 6,000 students) reported making a suicide attempt in the 12 months prior to the survey,” according to the department’s website.

Monica Robbins, stu-dent assistance program counselor at THS, said that questions surrounding why someone decides to take their own life are oft en hard to deal with.

“Th at’s what makes suicide diff erent than other kinds of death, Robbins said. “Th e questions that come aft erward.”

French agreed and said that for her that was one of the biggest challenges she faced.

“You don’t always know why, not everyone leaves a note,” French said. “I felt like I didn’t do enough, but, honestly, I put a lot into try-ing to help him.”

For French, coming to terms with her friend’s death and grieving him was a long process.

“I was angry for the longest time,” French said. “Th en I looked at myself in the mirror and said, ‘you gotta stop, you’re not help-ing anyone.’”

French said she realized that in her anger she was tearing her relationships down, instead of building them up, and that choice was up to her.

“I have so much posi-tive going on, so much to look forward to,” French said. “Th e biggest thing to remember is to let yourself have time to adjust.”

French hopes that by raising awareness through the walk the stigma around suicide can be diminished and young adults can get the help they need.

“I want to help other people,” French said. “Th ere are other options.”

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We’ve fi nally crossed the line this time.Th ere’s an imaginary line that exists in most

issues today. It’s the line that separates behaviors we will tolerate and those that we won’t. Th is line is so important we should offi cially capitalize it as Th e Line.

Take steroids in baseball for example. Th ree of the greatest baseball players in history were denied entry into their hall of fame due to suspicion of steroid use. Steroids weren’t against baseball rules at the time, but they were illegal under federal law.

Th e fact that the behavior was illegal isn’t where Th e Line exists. Th at’s because the gate-keepers who denied entry to the possible steroid users ended up awarding the 2012 Most Valuable Player award to a ballplayer who was arrested the previous year for drunk driving and resisting arrest.

Instead, Th e Line was crossed when the al-leged illegal behavior might have given them an edge over their opponents. Drunk driving and fi ghting police offi cers? No problem — here’s your trophy. Might have used steroids a few times, resulting in an extra 10 home runs in one year? You, sir, are a disgrace to the game for crossing Th e Line.

Cigarette smokers are used to seeing Th e Line move on them every few years. For a long time, you could smoke anywhere — in motel rooms, at work, even on an enclosed airplane.

First, Th e Line was drawn across the middle of the airplane. You can’t smoke in row 15, but it is acceptable in row 16. Th en, you couldn’t smoke in the lavatory either. Finally, all airplane fl ights are non-smoking, with violators subject to arrest. Sometime I wonder if fl ight attendants are required to try to capture the smoke in a bag as evidence.

What was once perfectly acceptable on air-planes in 1985 was outright prohibited in 1995, but the location of Th e Line on smoking has largely disappeared from national headlines.

Th is month, we’re looking at Th e Line on gun control.

Th e hysterical fringe on either side plays tug of war with this line, spending lots of resources trying to convince the public that their side is the rational one.

Th e politicians who solicit campaign contribu-tions from the fringes oft en have to move the line more subtly. Our Congressman, Dave Re-ichert, has been fairly silent on the national stage until his party leaders needed a former sheriff to say, “Th e assault weapon ban, the magazine limitations, does not solve the problem of crime: I think you really have to add the mental health issues and that’s the fi rst and foremost issue.”

I don’t recall him bringing up that point dur-ing his seven years as King County’s top crime problem solver, but he does say that he was once stabbed by a mentally ill person, so I’m sure he means it.

What we’re really talking about on gun control is where Th e Line should be. Its current location has worked for a while — we’ve tolerated about 82 gun related deaths per day without too much of a fuss.

But we have little tolerance for gun murders when they happen in mass killings of children, so it’s time to move Th e Line again.

Th e latest proposals by Democrats are dozens of tiny measures: some red tape, some restric-tions, and a ban on the meanest looking weap-

ons. I think even they would privately admit that this is like handing a pack of fi rst aid bandages to someone who really should be having surgery.

Th ese eff orts are only meant to pacify public opinion by getting a single digit reduction on the gun murder rate. None of the rule makers expect to make any real progress in getting us to stop killing each other.

Instead, we have these ridiculous single issue solutions: proposals for even more guns, out-right bans on guns, bans on violent video games, and be sure to lock up them crazies.

We can help some of the mentally ill, but that takes money. Money to lock up the dangerous ones, money to pay counselors, money to pay for drugs to keep them pacifi ed.

Th at doesn’t jibe with today’s Republican “you’re on your own” policies, so don’t look for any serious legislation to address this problem. Th e Line on how we address mental illness is staying right where it is.

We’ll always have murder. A ban on guns wouldn’t have saved Abel from death at the hands of Cain. We can increase the deterrents to violence and reduce access to the most dan-gerous weapons, but we have made very little progress on stemming the desire to kill.

Th e bigger question is, will you be satisfi ed by simply moving Th e Line again?

Monday morning as I was mak-ing my coff ee I received an email to my work account on my phone that took me a little bit by surprise.

It was a statement from King County Executive Dow Con-stantine regarding the sale of the Sacramento Kings to a business group led by Chris Hansen, a man well-known now for his eff orts to build a new bas-ketball and ice hockey arena.

Th e news of the sale wasn’t sur-prising to me, the fact that a press

release from Constan-tine’s offi ce about it this morning was what caught me off guard. Rumors that the sale was all but fi nalized had swirled for close to two weeks. When they

fi rst began circulating I thought for sure that we were a mere 24

hours away from the of-fi cial announcement.

Instead, on Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Day, a holi-day for students in public schools, anyone who is in government or works for a bank, which we celebrate to honor the accomplish-ments of a civil rights

leader, one of the fi rst things on my mind as I head out the door to work is the Seattle SuperSonics returning.

Kind of crazy, right?First of all, I know the heart-

break for the fans of the Kings. I became a Sonics fan at the age of 10. I remember two or three members of the team coming to Lake Hills Elementary School when I was in fi ft h grade. I will never forget sitting on the fl oor in the gym, wearing my Girl Scout uniform because we had a meet-ing that night, then standing up to answer a question one of the very tall basketball players asked. As a reward for getting it right, I got a Sonics team poster autographed by the guys who were there that day.

From that moment forward I was a loyal fan. Th at same year I became a Mariners fan. Th at was the year Ken Griff ey Jr. began playing.

Th rough my years at Highland

Middle School and Interlake High in Bellevue, I watched as many Sonics games as I could.

As a teen, I recall watching Detlef Schrempf train on the track at my high school during the off season. I remember leaping to my feet and shouting when Shawn Kemp would dunk, especially when the Sonics were playing the Lakers.

I was inspired by the play of Gary Payton, aka the Glove, for his ability to step into passing lanes, poke the ball away from unsuspecting opponents then score in transition. And when the Sonics made it to the NBA fi nals my senior year of high school, which was nine months aft er the Mariners miraculous comeback in the last month of the season to

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beat the Angels for the AL West and earn a spot in the playoffs, it was a glorious time to be a sports fan here.

And at the same time the Sonics were playing the Bulls in the championship series, I had just started dating my hus-band. One of the first tokens of affection he gave me was a Sonics t-shirt we saw one afternoon while shopping at Bellevue Square. He noticed how much I liked it and found a way to get it for me without my knowing.

Our love for our local sports teams is one of the cornerstones of the foundation of our relationship. No. Seriously.

So, when Clay Bennett moved the team to Oklahoma City as we all knew he would, it was like losing a part of my childhood. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to share those memories with my daugh-ter at a game, who will likely roll her eyes at that someday, but I would rather have that than not at all.

And I know that the collective misery we felt as a region must have flowed from similar places in our shared experience as fans.

Unfortunately, I know all too well what Kings fans are going through.

But, I’m petty and selfish in some respects, and I want the team that thrilled me for most of my life to return. I wanted it not just for myself but for all the fans here who felt scorned by so many involved in the Sonics debacle.

The pain of the heartbreak suffered in 2008 has diminished. What helps me more is that this is happening before NBA Commissioner David Stern retires little more than a year from now.

I was convinced we would not see the NBA return to Seattle until after Stern stepped down given the vast array of statements he’s made on the matter, particularly the more desirable way, in

my view, of bringing a team back: league expansion.

Trust me, no one wanted to see us take a team from another city after what hap-pened to us. It’s the ripple effect of taking the Sonics to OKC. But, this is what has happened, I am not part of Hansen’s own-ership group nor can I control the Maloof family’s actions. All I can do is celebrate

the return of my beloved SuperSon-ics to Seattle, the building of a new arena, and the idea that a little piece of my childhood will always be there.

If you’re reading this and don’t understand why this is important,

go watch Sonicsgate. It made me angry. It made me want my team back.

I don’t know that I’ll be able to af-ford to buy season tickets, but, I will go watch the Sonics again at KeyArena and anywhere else they may play. I will buy jerseys. I will get my daughter Sonics apparel.

And every day I will continue to glare at Clay Bennett, Nickels, and Howard Schultz while praying for Sacramento to get its team back.

Maybe I’ll even root for the Thunder a little bit, but, I wouldn’t count on it.

I will also think kind things about Hansen and the members of his owner-ship group. Bringing the Sonics back is not just about having another pro sports team in our town.

It’s about jobs, the economy, but most significantly to me, it’s about families and community.

Welcome back, Sonics. My inner 10-year-old is jumping up and down.

Reach Assistant Editor Kris Hill at [email protected] or 425-432-1209 ext. 5054.To comment on this story go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.

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until after Father’s Day to add these warmth-seeking plants to my garden.

3. Peas need to be planted in early spring because they fade quickly in hot weather. Pre-soak your pea seeds or wrap them in a damp dish towel so they are partly-sprouted before you plant. This helps prevent sweet peas and garden peas from rotting in the cold, wet soil.

4. It takes skill and lots of heat to grow Amaranth, the ancient grain now being sold as a complete protein and the darling of the heirloom seed companies. Stick with seeds that do well in cool soil — carrots, broccoli, cabbage and kale are crops to start with for beginners. (Want to learn more about heirloom seeds? Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds has great information and fresh seeds for sale: www.rareseeds.com)

5. Crops in pots are the answer for beginning gardeners. Patio tomatoes,

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6. Plastic pots and lightweight foam contain-ers (some look just like terra cotta and stone) keep the soil cool and do not release moisture. Garden-ers in western Washington have better luck growing vegetables by using clay or ceramic containers that absorb heat and release excess moisture. If you do use plastic pots, don’t overwater.

7. Most potting soils are sterile or made from what is known as a “soil-less” mix of peat, sand and perlite. This makes the potting soil lightweight and quick draining and excellent for preventing disease. But this also means that most pot-ting soils have no nutrition for the plants. You must fertilize container gardens.

8. Berries are easier to

grow in western Washing-ton than fruit from trees. This is because apples, pears and cherries are more prone to disease in our cool climate. Raspberries, strawberries and blueber-ries grow better here than almost anyplace in the world. Easiest of all, harvest native blackberries and huckleberries and reap the health benefits without planting a thing.

9. Perennial herbs from Mediterranean climates like rosemary, thyme and oregano will return year after year but only if grown in a raised bed, rock garden or container with excellent drainage. Fresh herbs can be grown indoors but after a few months the plants will weaken from lack of sunshine. Most herbs do well in poor soil — they are great plants for beginning or busy gardeners.

10. Some crops grow too well. Mint will take over in a garden with damp soil

and horseradish, hops, and kiwi have all generated lots of complaints about invasive growth from local gardeners. Just a reminder that growing your own food is not that difficult in our climate. So plan to plant something this spring — and eat fresh!

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She said she’s looking for-ward to exploring the city once they arrive in early February.

“I’ve been to Nashville, but, every time I’ve been there I’ve been in a studio,” she said. “Most of my time has been spent there in a vocal booth, so it’s going to be an adventure.”

Once they arrive — Solo-mon said they’re shooting for Feb. 1 — she plans

to get in touch with the connections she’s made in Nashville and hope those folks can help her build her network.

“For the most part, I’ll be going out at night, showing up to songwriting sessions, handing out my business card, making my way and trying to make connec-tions,” Solomon said. “Nashville is different. You don’t play gigs like you do here. You go to songwriting sessions and you play a few

songs.”And she’s looking for-

ward to settling in, taking a deep breath, then plunging into song writing again be-cause she hasn’t had much time to do so since the EP came out.

“I’m excited to get there and start writing again, maybe connect with some songwriting partners … and hopefully expand on that EP,” she said. “I’m kind of a perfectionist, I like to have time to work with it.

There’s no rush, so, I’d really like to take advantage of that.”

This doesn’t mean she won’t come back to Puget Sound to play to her fan base here. Solomon said there are plans to return in April and August, possibly November, with the details of the dates still to be final-ized. They will be posted on her website, raesolomon-music.com, as well as her Facebook profile.

In the meantime, a going

away show is planned for Saturday, Jan. 26, at Bour-bon Jack’s in Kent.

“I’m so excited,” she said. “We should have a lot of friends and family who are coming to send us off.”

Then the next day, the journey to country radio

begins with a road trip to Nashville.

“My husband and I, we’re both excited, we’re young, we don’t have any kids so we’re ready for this adven-ture,” Solomon said. “It’s going to be a lot of work but it should be worth it.”

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realized that legal services was an area costs could be trimmed, according to Johnston.

“We used other cities as models,” Johnston said. “We looked at Covington and Sammamish – they contract with the King County Sheriff ’s Office, have separate fire districts, have no water or sewer utilities, they’re non-union and they contract legal services.”

The base budget for the city attorney position in Maple Valley, which was eliminated, was $260,000, Johnston said.

The city determined it could contract legal services for $175,000, saving the city $85,000 per year.

Johnston added that savings the first year would only

amount to approximately $40,000 due to the severance package for the former city attorney.

In addition, the new contract will buy the city a set num-ber of hours of services per month, should the city ever need to exceed the contracted amount, extra cost would be

incurred.“In a retaining contract you are buying access to

their time, whether you use it or not,” Johnston said.

Johnston expected that the city would publish a request for services, advertising the search for an

attorney to enter into a long term contract with, this week.

Next steps would then include receiving bids and interviewing firms. Johnston hopes to be able to make a

recommendation to the City Council by the end of March, at which point the council will vote on whether or not to enter a contract with the recommended firm.

“If the marketplace didn’t say we could save money we wouldn’t have made the change,” Johnston said. “Before we cut services to our citizens we should show that we are doing what we can internally.”

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

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Tahoma learned the hard way early in the season to come out

from tip off at top speed and that lesson paid off Tuesday night in a 80-56 victory over fi rst place Auburn in a South Puget Sound League 4A North boys basketball match up.

Th e Bears raced out to a 22-9 lead by the end of the fi rst quarter and never looked back against the Trojans.

Th at doesn’t mean Tahoma had any plans to let up just because it had a double digit lead.

“Th e fi rst time (against Auburn) we had a 25 point lead going into the second half,” said Tahoma center Paul Loranger. “We got cocky. We wanted to make sure we won the next two minutes.”

Dominic Smith, one of four seniors on the Tahoma squad, said it was important to keep up the pressure.

“When you build a lead like that, you keep doing what you’re doing, you don’t change anything,” Smith said. “Make sure you fi nish the game strong. We just made sure we kept

moving the ball and playing as a team. It’s just important to fi nish games like that.”

Not only were the Bears aggressive off ensively — DeShon Williams, for ex-ample, went to the foul line seven times in the game on drives in the paint while fellow junior Coleman Wooten led all scorers with 27 points — they crashed the glass.

Tahoma pulled down 48 rebounds, of those 22 were off ensive boards, while Au-burn collected 25 boards of which fi ve were off ensive.

In addition, eight dif-ferent players scored for Tahoma including all four seniors on Senior Night, and had four players score in double digits: Wooten, Smith with 12, Williams with 15 and Loranger chip-ping in 11 points.

With the victory, Tahoma pushed its winning streak to six since Jan. 5, improved to 11-3 in SPSL North play.

Tahoma also moved into fi rst place in the division thanks to its hot streak along with Auburn’s two game skid.

Tahoma has two games left in the regular sea-son but already it is the most successful and most memorable for its seniors,

who played on a team as freshmen which won just two games.

A year ago the Bears were knocked out of playoff con-tention in a series of play-in games.

“It’s really cool, seeing us work hard in practice and

seeing it transfer to games, especially being seniors,” Smith said.

Next up for Tahoma in league play will be Ken-tridge at home with tip off set for 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 29.

Loranger noted that the

Bears need to keep up the pace as they wrap up the regular season.

“We’re gaining lots of momentum right now which we need to sustain going into the last two games of league,” Loranger said.

Tahoma dismantles Auburn at home

Tahoma’s Dominic Smith dribbles while Auburn’s Demontra McNealy works to defend him during the game at Tahoma Tuesday night. Smith fi nished with 12 points. JAMES KIELLAND, Tahoma Photo Survey

With the win, Bears move into fi rst place in the South Puget Sound League North with two games left

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Kentwood wouldn’t give up, despite being down by double digits more than once against Mount Rainier Saturday night at home.

The Conquerors fell a lit-tle short in the South Puget Sound League 4A North game against the Rams, who held on to win 63-61 to remain undefeated.

Still, to come that close against a team multiple me-dia outlets have ranked No. 1 among 4A girls teams in the state, was a tremendous accomplishment, Kentwood coach Lisa Ashley said.

“It’s huge,” Ashley said. “This just goes to show if they’re ranked No. 1, we can play with anyone.”

It was the narrowest win of the season for Mount Rainier, who only have one other single digit win this season with its 68-61 victory in the first game over non-league opponent Eastlake Nov. 27.

Mount Rainier raced out to a 17-8 lead in the first quarter and was up 26-10 early in the second quarter

when Kentwood went on an 11-0 run to close the gap to just five points.

Then the Rams junior standout Brittany McPhee scored six straight points followed by a three from Jordan McPhee to push the lead back out to 14 heading into halftime, 35-21.

Ashley said the low-scoring first quarter hurt Kentwood but how the team came back from that showed how much the team has improved since the beginning of the season.

“They’re much better as a team,” Ashley said. “We just all came together and really gelled.”

Early in the third, the Conks were down 16, but cut the lead down again to single digits by the end of the period which set up a frenetic fourth quarter as the game came down to the wire.

Kentwood junior Sarah Toeaina scored 12 of her 15 points in the fourth quarter as she created turnovers which led to points or put her head down and drove the lane.

With just under two

minutes left on the game clock, Toeaina hit a jumper to cut the lead to two, but the Conks couldn’t quite find the shot to pull even with the Rams. With 4.4 seconds left Toeaina had three chances at the free throw line but missed the first before making the other two to make it a one point game.

On a wild play after Mount Rainier got the ball in bounds following those free throws, Brittany McPhee was fouled in the battle for the loose ball which sailed away from an-other Rams player toward the sidelines.

Brittany McPhee made one of two, finishing with a game high 28 points, helping the Rams hold onto the win.

Ashley was pleased Kentwood held Brittany McPhee to below her scor-ing average.

“One of the things we had to do with her, when-ever she got in the paint, we had to double her up,” Ash-ley said. “The big key was communication on defense.

If you break that down … you don’t know where those key players are.”

Kate Kramer led the Conks in scoring, tallying 17, while Jenny Johnson added 14 points and Kylee Ashley added eight.

It was a game Kentwood had looked forward to since the teams met for the first time in league play Dec. 13 when Mount Rainier came away with a 27-point victory over an injury and illness-plague Conquerors squad.

Kentwood’s only league losses this season have been to Mount Rainier.

With the loss, Kentwood fell to 10-2 in league with four games remaining on the SPSL North schedule and was 11-3 overall before play Tuesday night.

Next up for Kentwood was a non-league contest against Jackson. Kentwood beat Jackson 61-43 to avenge the state regional playoff loss from February 2012. That game was played Monday morning at ShoW-are Center in Kent as part of the King Showcase event. Tuesday night Kentwood lost to Auburn Riverside in a boys-girls double header at home.

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this week up with a game at Kent-Meridian at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

City of Black Diamond, Public Works Department

24301 Roberts DrivePO Box 599

Black Diamond, WA 980105th Avenue Water Main Replacement

(King County CDBG Project No.C12226)

RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed Bids will be received by the City of Black Diamond until 10:30 am (as determined by the clock in the Clerk’s office) on Thursday, February 7, 2013. Bids may be delivered to City Hall, 24301 Roberts Drive, Black Diamond, Washington 98010 or mailed to the mailing address of P.O. Box 599, Black Diamond, Washing- ton 98010. Bids mailed to the address set forth for delivery of Bids will not be delivered by the postal service. Any Bids received after the specified time and date will not be considered.OPENING OF BIDS: The Bids will be publicly opened and read at 10:35 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at the above mentioned office of the City of Black Diamond.COMPLETION OF WORK: It is the intent of the Contract that all physical work be performed within a single time period of not more than 40 consecutive calendar days, beginning no earlier than April 1, 2013 and ending no later than September 30, 2013. The Contractor shall substantial- ly complete all physical Contract Work not later than the earlier of September 30, 2013 or forty (40) working days following the first working day when on-site Work begins. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The proposed project primarily consists of replacing approximately 950 linear feet of 8-inch AC and 1.25-inch steel water main with 8-inch DI water main in 5th Avenue. The project will include replacing existing fire hydrants, water services, and connections to City water mains and installing hydrants at new locations.The project will include associated restoration of street

asphalt pavement and gravel road. This project is financed through the King County Con- sortium Community Develop- ment Block Grant Program with funds obtained from the U.S. De- partment of Housing and UrbanDevelopment. The contract will be subject to regulations of the Departments of Labor and Hous- ing and Urban Development.SITE OF WORK: The Project is located in the City of Black Dia- mond, Washington, on 5th Ave- nue, between Lawson Street and the south end of the gravel road.OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: Plans, specifications, addenda, and a plan holders list for this project may be viewed or ordered on-line by going to www.bxwa.com and clicking on “Posted Projects”, “Public Works”, and “City of Black Diamond”. Any addenda to the contract documents will be posted on the Builders Exchange website; it is the bidder’s respon- sibility to ensure they have acquired all addenda prior to submitting a bid.BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the total Bid price for a period of 90 calendar days from the date of Bid opening.PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All communications relating to the Project shall be directed to the following Project Representa- tive prior to the opening of the Bids:

Seth Boettcher, Public Works Director,

24301 Roberts Drive (delivery) PO Box 599 (mailing)

Black Diamond, WA [email protected]

mond.wa.usOWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The City of Black Diamond reserves the right to re- ject any or all Bids and to waive informalities in the bidding process. The Agreement will be awarded to the lowest respon- sive, responsible bidder as it may best serve the interests of the City of Black Diamond.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY: The City of Black Diamond is com- mitted to a program of equal em-

ployment opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, sex, age, national origin or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability. Attention is called to Federal provisions for Equal Em- ployment Opportunity, HUD Section 3 requirements, and the minimum wages as set forth in the contract documents.SUPPLEMENTAL RESPON- SIBLE BIDDER CRITERIA Supplemental Responsible Bid- der Criteria will apply to this project, and are included in the 00100 Instructions to Bidders section, Item 17. Up to 5 calendar days prior to bid opening date, Bidders may request, in writing, that the City modify the supplemental criteria. The City reserves the right to modify or not modify the supplemental criteria in its discretion. The City shall issue an Addendum, prior to the Bid Due Date, should it modify the supplemental criteria. The City shall not modify the supplemental criteria after the Bid Due Date, therefore, Bidders are encouraged to discuss with the project manager immediately, no later than 6 calendar days before the Bid Due Date, the relevancy of the supplemental bidder criteria. Any bidder determined to be not responsible based on these supplemental criteria may appeal the City’s determination by submitting a formal written appeal to the City of Black Diamond’s Ex- ecutive Director of Engineering Services, within three 3 business days following receipt of the City’s written determination that the bidder was determined not responsible. The appeal shall be hand delivered to the office of the Executive Director of Engi- neering Services and shall be accepted and signed for by an employee of the City of Black Diamond. The appeal shall provide relevant information that counters the findings of the disqualification. The Executive Director of Engineering Services will consider the information submitted in the appeal and will then issue a final written determination.

PRE-BID MEETING A pre-bid meeting will not be held; however bidders should visit the Site and examine thoroughly the Site and surrounding area so as to become familiar with any conditions at the Site, and other local conditions, that may affect cost, progress or performance of the Work. Published in Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on January 25, 2013 and Febru- ary 1, 2013. #732138.

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Request for Qualifications (RFQ)On-Call Engineering Services

The City of Covington solicits interest from consulting firms with expertise in civil and transportation engineering for on-call services.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONThe work to be performed by the consultant may include, but not be limited to: project design, preparing environmental documentation consistent with NEPA/SEPA, evaluating right-of-way concerns and preparation of ad ready Plans, Specifications, Estimates and Construction Management for roadway and stormwater projects in accordance with Local Agency Guidelines.

The specific projects have not all been identified that may be part of these on-call services, however, the following projects have funding that the City is seeking support:

1. Citywide Safety Project – Federally Funded2. 156th Ave SE Rehabilitation – Federally Funded3. SE Wax Road and SE 240th Street Overlay – TIB Funded4. Stormwater Design Project – Local Funds5. Stormwater Rate Fee Analysis – Local Funds

The services will be provided on an as needed basis through a task order on-call process. The Task Order process will consist of the City contacting the Consultant and requesting services related to an individual project. The Consultant will then prepare a detailed scope and budget for each individual Task Order. The Task Orders will be agreed upon between the City Representative and the Consultant.

The City of Covington encourages disadvantaged, minority and women-owned consulting firms to respond.

The City of Covington, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federally-assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all respondents that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises as defined at 49 CFR Part 23 will be afforded full opportunity to submit a proposal in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or sex in consideration for an award.

Submittals must be received by 5 PM on Friday, February 8, 2013.For more information and submittal requirements, contact: Don Vondran, PE, Senior City Engineer, [email protected]

Published in the Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond Reporter on January 18, 2013 and January 25, 2013. #729392.

Black Diamond Commu-nity Center to help spread the word and connect with potential clients.

According to statistics collected by the organiza-tion, Meals on Wheels served 3,005 meals in Covington and Maple Val-ley combined in 2012 while 977 meals were served to clients in Black Diamond.

Hoover wants people to know that the cities they live in as well as King County work hard, in his view, to support social services programs such as Meals on Wheels. He has made an effort to commu-nicate better with the hu-man services departments in the cities the program serves and has made partic-ular headway in Covington and Maple Valley. He also said improved communi-cation has led to stronger partnerships which has led

to greater access for seniors in need.

All the food provided by Meals on Wheels locally is paid for through donations only. Donations such as the one made during the grand opening of Firestone in Covington Dec. 14. Because each meal costs $4.50, that $500 check from Firestone will go a long way, Hoover said.

MOW spends between $2 million and $2.5 million to provide meals to seniors in the county. The program has 23 satellite centers through King County. At each center is a freezer where the meals are kept. Drivers, many of whom volunteer, pick up the food from a satellite center and deliver them weekly, as few as seven meals a week per client with a maximum of 14 meals.

The number of clients who use Meals on Wheels in the county has increased,

Hoover said, particularly locally.

Mark Pursley, the execu-tive director of the Maple Valley Community Center, described the partnership as “a perfect fit.”

“In terms of need, if you just look at the demo-graphic shift in South King County, I was looking at the 2010 census compared to the 2000 census, the populations has just exploded,” Pursley said. “The income levels are more diverse than they’ve been and there’s more Section 8 housing out here. And our population is aging. There is a definitely a need.”

He is also happy MOW meals are designed to fit into the dietary needs of seniors whether that’s because of diabetes, high blood pressure or other issues which impact them, because it complements

what the Community Cen-ter is doing.

“The crux of our program lies in preven-tion because it’s so much cheaper and so much easier than intervention,” Pursley said. “The research shows that the longer we can keep a senior independent in their own home, the longer they’ll live, the healthier

they’ll be, the less reliant they’ll be on social services.”

Meals on Wheels helps seniors re-main independent,

Pursley said, and by keeping them healthy, it

has a wide ranging positive effect on everyone.

“It’s a tightly knit dance,” Pursley said. “We have to look at all components of the family. And it affects society as a whole.”

This complementary service hits the areas the Community Center doesn’t, Pursley said.

“It’s an extension of what we’re doing as we see it,” Pursley said. “We’re doing senior lunches Monday, Wednesday and Friday. But, what do they do in the eve-nings? Especially in an area as rural as this one is, so, the fact that these services are being delivered right to their home is amazing. And it just piggybacks on what we’re trying to do here with our own senior nutrition program.”

Hoover encourages se-niors such as those who go to the community centers in Maple Valley and Black Diamond, as well as anyone who lives in the area, to think about those who may be in need of the support MOW provides even if it’s a short-term solution.

It can ease the mind of adult children who have brought their parents into their home, it can be there for a senior who needs a little help after surgery or a

broken hip, Hoover said. “Not everybody has

somebody to help them out,” Hoover said. “Our vol-unteers … those people are oftentimes more important than family members (to clients).”

Pursley does worry that services like Meals on Wheels may lose support because of the challenges non-profits have dealt with since the recession began in 2008.

“(Meals on Wheels) just goes hand in hand with exactly with what we’re doing and we could not be happier or prouder to be partnered with such an efficient, well run program,” Pursley said.

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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The group was founded by Tina Mc-Donough of Ravensdale. More than 150 walkers on the Valley Girls & Guys team participated in the 2012 Susan G. Komen 3 Day Walk for the Cure in September. The event covers 60 miles in three days. The team raised more than $300,000 in 2012 and more than $1 million since it was founded more than four years ago.

The meeting is open to all past, present and future walkers, supporters, donors and anyone thinking about walking. Contact team founder Tina McDonough at 206-793-3175 or [email protected].

TAHOMA MUSIC FACULTY CONCERT ON JAN. 25The Mary Lou Harting Memorial Concert is an opportunity for students, parents, staff and the public to wit-ness the talents of the Tahoma School District’s music faculty. Each teacher will sing or play instruments as solo or ensemble performers.

The concert will be Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Tahoma Middle School Theatre located at 24425 SE 216th St. in Maple Valley. Admission is a suggested $5 donation, $3 for students and seniors, $10 families. Proceeds will be donated to the Mary Lou Harting scholarship fund to be awarded to two graduating THS seniors in May. Donations to the scholarship fund may also be mailed to the Maple Valley Creative Arts Council at 23220 Maple Valley Hwy. SE., Suite 15, Maple Valley, WA 98038.

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