For business owner Julie Foster the question is never paper or plastic, for her, the answer is always plastic. Foster, owns a boutique business called Bag to Bags. The business recycles plastic bags and various fabrics and reconstruct them into custom made bags of different shapes and sizes.
Author Erik Korhel, who grew up in Covington, has published his first children’s book, “My Tooth Fell in My Soup.” Korhel expanded his understanding of the rich variety of literature that wasn’t available to him in high school by using libraries.
A little more than a month from now shouts of joy, cries of sorrow and the laughter of hope will be heard coming from the grounds of Tahoma Junior High school, as participants of the 2010 Relay For Life of Maple Valley, Black Diamond and Covington circle the quarter-mile track for 18 hours to raise money in the fight against cancer.
Local entrepreneur Nicki Fromel, owner of Chelane’s, has taken her childhood passion for cooking and turned it into one sweet business. She’s mixed together recipes from her grandmother and husband, stirred in some changes, to perfect a delicious natural product for the jam connoisseur.
Many will trek to the Lake Wilderness Arboretum in Maple Valley for the annual Mother’s Day plant sale.
Vendors, Master Gardeners, arboretum staff and volunteers will be there in support.
Yasaman Azodi and Sarah Harvey are this year’s one-two punch from Kentwood High School as the Washington State delegate and alternate-delegate to the National Youth Science Camp held near Bartow in the eastern mountains of West Virginia’s Potomac Highlands.
Former tagger turned graffiti artist Tyler Clark used to spray-paint the sides of buildings, fences and walls, or ‘tag’ in Covington, until he got caught.
Now Clark helps to clean up graffiti around town, working part-time for the city’s maintenance department while he goes to college.
When asked about his views on tagging he said he hadn’t realize what pain and trouble his graffiti had caused others.
