Taking on the principal’s position at Rock Creek Elementary School is like coming home for Fritz Grere.
As it prepares for the start of the 180-day, 2008-09 school year next Tuesday, the Kent School District:
Carol’s Maple Valley Floral wants people to meet and make or renew friendships, and the business has free roses to help make it happen.
• Classes in the 2008-09 school year will begin Sept. 2 for Rainier Christian Schools, which has campuses in the Maple Valley, Covington, Renton and Auburn areas. The private system was founded in 1994, and in recent years it has averaged a total enrollment of about 915 students, including about 160 in high school.
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David Lucavish remembers growing up in Tacoma in a neighborhood without fences where everyone knew each other, and he’d like to use that open-community concept as the cornerstone of his approach to serving on the Covington City Council.
It’s been a long time since Kelly Carroll hasn’t had to get up at 5 a.m. to get started on her work delivering food and clothing for R. Place of Refuge, the charity organization she runs out of her Kent East Hill-area home.
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Nearly 3,000 children in King County are registered for health insurance and have access to doctors and dentists through a county program for uninsured families, and there’s room for more.
The Kent School Board has selected a firm from Iowa to aid with the search for a new superintendent to replace Barbara Grohe, who is retiring at the end of the 2008-2009 school year.
Money would be taken from the pocket of the offenders and given to the victims in cases of illegal dumping if King County enacts a proposed law.
Dan Satterberg, King County’s prosecuting attorney, has a transportation policy.
“Transportation. First, I’m in favor of it,” he said. “Second, I think you should get to drive your car whenever you want. And third is no one else should get to drive your car.”
The School Board last week got its first look at the Kent School District’s latest proposed budget, which is designed to meet a projected $2.6 million gap between expected revenues and expenditures.
The Maple Valley Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will host a blood drive for Puget Sound Blood Center Aug. 25 from 1 to 7 p.m.
Donations for U.S. military troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan will be accepted in Covington today as part of a drive organized through Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church.
“This is my angel on earth here,” says Henri Ann Buford as she puts an arm around Maureen Carney. “I don’t know what I’d do without her.”
All but youngest start classes Sept. 2
