Mountain View Fire and Rescue fire calls for the week ending Dec. 28
The Maple Valley city staff will be in a new home for the New Year.
The staff will be moving from the current City Hall location at Hagen Plaza, 22035 S.E. Wax Rd., to the Dynamic Computer Services Orgnization/Windermere building at 22017 S.E.Wax Rd. next to the Post Office.
What’s your biggest challenge for the New Year? Cutting costs? Writing that report? Updating your resume? The information you need is available at your library.
Laure Iddings, mayor of Maple Valley for the past 12 years, informed City Manager David Johnston today (Monday) she will resign her City Council seat effective Jan. 1.
Capt. Kyle Ohashi, public information officer for the Kent Fire Department, reported the Sunday morning fire in the 12000 block of SE 196 St. is being investigated as a suspicious fire caused by an incendiary device.
Scouts from Covington Cub Scout Pack 517 will be picking up Christmas trees for recycle in the Jenkins Creek area near Cedar Valley Elementary School up to 11 a.m. Saturday.
The Kent Fire Department responded to a 2:21 a.m. call in the 12000 block of SE 196 Street to find a building fully engulfed in flames.
A King County Fire Investigator is looking into the cause the fire.
The fire was thought to be at a local elementary school, but turned out to be a structure on a property containing several barns or sheds, a mobile home and a house.
Senior New Year’s party, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Dec. 29 — Purchase your tickets in advance, only $3. The menu is pork tenderloin roast, twice baked potatoes, gingered carrots, rolls, salad and pineapple upside-down cake.
Join an online study zone classroom to get help in math, science, English and social studies from a volunteer tutor.
Local public health officials have learned of a confirmed case of
measles
in a King County adult female who was exposed during international travel.
Train to become a volunteer advocate for abused and neglected children in court. Help make the legal system work toward a safe, permanent home for these children.
Burn permits for 2009 expire on December 31. Burn permits are $5 for most citizens that live within King County Fire District No. 44. The burn permits allow residents to burn natural brush for the entire year unless a burn ban is in effect.
Mountain View Fire & Rescue/Black Diamond Fire Deptment will be on hand for the annual Polar Bear Jump at noon Jan. 1 at Lake Sawyer.
The Peace Lutheran preschool completed a stocking stuffer drive for the Storehouse in Covington. The Peace Lutheran Preschool students are 4 and 5 years old and attend afternoon classes.
Pet adoptions at the King County Animal Shelter in Kent are up 10 percent over this time last year, and the shelter population is down by more than one-third, even as the County continues on two parallel paths – preparation for the emergency evacuation of animals in the event of flooding from the federal Howard Hanson Dam, and planning for a new regional model for animal care and control as mandated by the County Council.
Black Diamond Elementary School students McKenzie Johnson, Victoria Shearer and Savannah Norton were first-place award recipients in the Maple Valley-Black Diamond Post No. 5052 Veterans of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy contest.
Covington received a report card for the holiday season, and the marks were good.
The city hired Seattle-based Elway Research to provide a report to the Council. The city was looking for information regarding perceptions of quality of life, city government priorities, satisfaction with various departments, support or opposition for a list of projects that would require taxation, and sources used and desired to get information about the city.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety offers winter driving tips to keep everyone safe. The Three P’s of safe winter…
• BURGLARY ATTEMPT
An attempted burglary was reported Dec. 19 at 184th Court Southeast.
• THREAT
Someone at 156th Place Southeast reported Dec. 19 they received a threatening message on their cell phone.
Cedar Valley Elementary will be hosting Mobile Ed Productions’ presentation of “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” at 1:45 p.m. Jan. 12.
The show is a one-man production introducing students to the civil rights advocate and how this American hero helped to transform our society. The program explores the life of King, beginning with his childhood, the peak of his career and ultimately to his death.
