As the opening of the third season of the Maple Valley Farmers Market approaches there are many new pieces falling into place.
Victoria Laise Jonas, president of the market’s board, said in an e-mail interview that this year a market day supervisor will be hired to assist her with “operations of the market, with set up and take down, supervising our student interns, etc.”
Change is a good thing.
Just ask the Tahoma High track and field team, which has a new throwing coach in Keith Eager and a new distance running coach, about the value of change.
And yet, there’s a level of stability in the girls program that could make the team even more formidable than it was last year, when the girls won the West Central District title then finished third overall at state.
Slowly but surely Tahoma High School is embracing green practices that are good for both the environment and the school district’s bottom line.
Adults who are watching the trends of teen drug and alcohol use are alarmed.
According to the 2008 Healthy Youth Survey results, nearly two-thirds of students in Washington state who are high school seniors had tried alcohol by the time they were in 10th grade.
More than 7,000 of the state’s seniors, who were sophomores at the time, participated in the survey. At the time there were 11,732 students in 10th grade.
Spring time means getting the word out for the organizers of the Relay for Life of Black Diamond-Covington-Maple Valley.
Thus far, there are 16 teams, explained committee co-chair Laura Hiner along with $12,000 raised.
The goal, Hiner said, is to have at least 25 teams total signed up for the event and to raise $40,000.
Tahoma High’s fastpitch team wants to pick up right where it left off in 2010 minus the disappointing playoff losses that found it just short of a state berth.
Senior co-captain Emily Miller said she is looking forward to the season starting because the team will turn up the intensity.
Kentwood beat Kentridge, Tahoma defeated Kent-Meridian 10-0 while Kentlake held off Thomas Jefferson 12-7.
Kathy Hilde used to go to the Greater Maple Valley Community Center when her children were small to enjoy Toddler Time.
Now her kids are teenagers who volunteer through the community center and giving time has been extremely rewarding for her 18-year-old son Michael.
The good news is the city of Maple Valley still has money in the bank, new police officers and it is clearing lingering issues off its plate according to Mayor Noel Gerken who gave his state of the city speech on Friday.
Gerken spoke before the Maple Valley Rotary, explaining what’s been going on in the past year, what is working, what has been challenging and what the city will be tackling in the coming year.
“Our No. 1 priority is public safety,” Gerken said. “To that end, this year we added three new police officers, another detective. We want to say ahead of the curve in terms of public safety and police.”
Kentlake knocks off Bothell 6-1 in first game of the season.
Educators have their own language and during this school year I’ve been learning it as best I can. In August…
Mitch Fund could have been a mathematician or a physicist. Ultimately he realized he was a musician.
But he’s not the kind of musician — his first instrument is drums but he plays piano, as well — who wants to get up on arena stages night after night and play for tens of thousands of people.
Fund, 20, is the kind of musician who wants to teach the next generation while continuing to be a student of his craft.
Hundreds gathered at Tahoma High’s gym Thursday night for a community rally in support of a construction bond measure on the April 26 ballot.
A meeting of the Covington Rotary could well be the start of a beautiful partnership between the club and local schools.
Rotarians invited principals from all of the Covington schools, which are part of the Kent School District, to lunch on Friday — a development day in the district which gave students the day off.
Tahoma Lacrosse Club’s high school mens team is loaded with experienced players.
Co-captains Brody Lundquist, Justin Hanson and Justin Ross lead a team that lost just three players to graduation last year.
Practices began for the spring season on Feb. 28 at Wilson Field. The Bears are coached by Vern Smith, who is in his 13th year at the helm.
Data, oh, how I love data.
If done right, it doesn’t lie, it doesn’t hedge, it gives you a straightforward answer in black and white or, if it’s in graph form, lovely primary colors.
That’s one thing I love about Kentlake High Site Council meetings, Principal Joe Potts gives us plenty of data to chew on, usually it’s done well and gives me significant insight on what’s been going on at the school.
Maple Valley resident Paul Clark brings together his pastime with a new career in partnership with Wild Birds Unlimited in Covington franchise.
This Sunday hundreds of mountain bikers will descend on Real Life Church’s property on the edge of Black Diamond.
It is an event that is part of BuDu Racing’s Singletrack Cycles West Side mountain bike series. BuDu has run the series for seven years, explained Deanna Muller, who is an event manager for the organization that coordinates the series.
Shelby Bryant’s senior project is really just the start of a life long mission.
Bryant, a senior at Tahoma High, founded a nonprofit called Girls Integrating Relationships and Leadership Skills (GIRLS) in September with the goal of helping young girls become strong young women.
There likely could not be a better fit than Gretchen Wulfing to teach civics classes at Tahoma High so it should come as no surprise she was named by the Washington state Legislature last week as the Civics Educator of the Year.
