Hit the ball hard but work harder — that is Brad Habenicht’s winning approach.
Habenicht may be able to hit a golf ball a long way, but he is more proud of his work ethic because that’s a big part of what got him to the World Long Drive Championships for the fifth time. The competition is set for later this month in Mesquite, Nevada.
In August I sat down with Joe Potts, the new principal at Kentlake High, as part of a story I was writing about new principals in Covington area schools — he is one of four new principals this year.
Potts and I talked about how he got into education, his experience, where he’s been, what his philosophies are and where he thinks Kentlake can go in the future.
I have three dogs and they are always insisting on one thing or another. Having a dog is like having…
The after life. The
oh so sought after
life eternal paradise,
the perpetual light
that beckons us to Zion.
Kentwood celebrated homecoming Friday at French Field during halftime of the Conks game against Kent Meridian.
Cecily Gray was crowned homecoming queen for 2010.
A group of students at Tahoma Junior High know what to do with rain water – build a rain garden.
Peter Donaldson from Friends of the Cedar River Watershed put the project together for the students.
Todd Baker, a teacher at the school, gathered a group of students to build the project.
Maple Valley Police Chief Michelle Bennett talks with the host of King 5 “New Day Northwest”about how to stop bullying behavior.
It was party time at The Leaf in Maple Valley Saturday, Oct. 9
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Center presented the second anniversary party of the Open Mic event at the Leaf.
During our more than four years of publishing this column we’ve shown you a number of poems about motherhood. Here’s…
The closing day of the Maple Valley Farmers Market featured doughnut art for kids and it hit the sugar mark. George’s Bakery of North Bend donated the doughnuts.
Rockridge Cider of Enumclaw donated cases of apple cider for the final day of the second season of the Maple Valley Farmers’ Market.
The 17 weeks of the market featured a wide variety of vendors and entertainment.
So ya’ wanna’ play a musical instrument do ya’? You say you went down there to the big guitar store and got yourself the prettiest and shiniest little red electric guitar you could find and a sweet looking amp with all the blinking-red-and-green-light-adorned knobs to go with it? Or maybe you went down to the neighborhood instrument shop and bought that cool looking acoustic; the one that looks just like the one Jimmy Page played on Stairway to Heaven.
Brandi Carlile spends much of her time on the road touring these days but her home is never far from her mind.
Carlile, who released her first album little more than five years ago at the tender age of 23, is now on the road playing music from her third album, “Give Up the Ghost,” and living her dreams.
There’s only so much we can do to better ourselves, and once we’ve done what we can, it still may not have been enough. Here’s a poem by Michelle Y. Burke, who lives in N.Y., in which a man who does everything right doesn’t quite do everything right.
Dace Anderson and Arielle Young think the music school they run is the best kept secret in Maple Valley and they’re all for sharing this secret with anyone who will listen.
Ed Wynn’s Variety Show starts at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center, 23220 Maple Valley Highway S.E., Maple Valley.
This month is about breaking the control of abusers and ending the power of secrecy.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It is observed nationally by those who work to help victims, support survivors and make efforts to prevent domestic violence — a phenomenon described by experts as a pattern of coercion and assaultive behaviors that one person uses to gain power and control over an intimate partner or family member.
I’ve spent my seventy years on The Great Plains and have lived all that time amidst vivid and touching stories about the settlement of our area, lots of them much like this one, about a long ago courtship and marriage, offered to us in a poem by James Doyle, who lives in Colorado.
For seven years, Angela Jones lived in fear, trying to stay alive.
She is a survivor of domestic violence who even 10 years after her divorce is still struggling with the manipulative behavior of her ex-husband.
Jones met her ex-husband, James, when she was barely out of high school.
I love to sit outside and be very still until some little creature appears and begins to go about its business, and here is another poet, Robert Gibb, of Pennsylvania, doing just the same thing.
The Corner of Love Christian organization located in Maple Valley is planning its fifth annual Nica Dinners fundraiser for Sept. 24.
The dinners cost $10 and can be ordered by e-mail at nicadinners@corneroflove.org or by calling 425-432-0433.
