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New principal Fritz Grere
New principal back where he started
By Kris Hill • August 29, 2008 1:38 pm

Taking on the principal’s position at Rock Creek Elementary School is like coming home for Fritz Grere.

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Attention, class
Attention, class
August 29, 2008 1:38 pm

As it prepares for the start of the 180-day, 2008-09 school year next Tuesday, the Kent School District:

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A free rose for you, 11 to give away
A free rose for you, 11 to give...
August 29, 2008 1:36 pm

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.

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Rainier Christian, GRCC get started next month
Rainier Christian, GRCC get started next month
August 29, 2008 1:36 pm

• 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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Officials and public talk transit
Officials and public talk transit
August 28, 2008 1:21 pm

By KRIS HILL The Reporter How people get around, as well as how much it costs, was the topic of…

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David Lucavish has added Covington City Council to his list of public and community roles
David Lucavish brings his open-community ideals to Covington...
August 27, 2008 12:00 am

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.

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Charity’s turn for kindness
Charity’s turn for kindness
August 27, 2008 12:00 am

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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CALENDAR
CALENDAR
August 25, 2008 7:50 pm

Submitting items: Calendar, a listing of community events and activities, is published Wednesdays and Saturdays on a space-available basis. Items for the Wednesday edition must be submitted by noon the previous Thursday. Items for the Saturday edition must be submitted by noon the previous Tuesday. Submit calendar items to calendar@reporternewspapers.com.

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2,700 kids join ranks of those with health insurance
2,700 kids join ranks of those with health...
August 25, 2008 7:46 pm

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.

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Iowa firm to help pick Kent schools superintendent
Iowa firm to help pick Kent schools superintendent
August 25, 2008 7:45 pm

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.

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Price of being a slob: $100
Price of being a slob: $100
August 25, 2008 7:44 pm

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.

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Johnny Hill casts a shadow as he kick-flips onto the pyramid at the skate park in Covington. It’s a summer pasttime that will end next week when students in the Tahoma and Kent school districts head back to school on Sept. 2.
Shadow jumping
August 25, 2008 7:42 pm

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King County Prosecutor Satterberg out to reduce auto theft
King County Prosecutor Satterberg out to reduce auto...
August 25, 2008 7:42 pm

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.”

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‘We have to make cuts’
‘We have to make cuts’
August 23, 2008 12:00 am

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.

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LDS Stake hosts blood drive Monday
LDS Stake hosts blood drive Monday
August 22, 2008 2:08 pm

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.

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Donations support troops overseas
Donations support troops overseas
August 22, 2008 2:08 pm

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.

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Maureen Carney (left) visits Henri Ann Buford every Tuesday as a volunteer chore worker with Catholic Community Services. Carney runs errands or cleans Buford’s apartment
Help for the elderly and disabled
August 22, 2008 2:07 pm

“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.”

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The South King County group of PUPS2C4U will explain to prospective volunteers how to become involved as a volunteer puppy raiser or puppy sitter for Guide Dogs for the Blind during a presentation Aug. 26 at Maple Valley Library. The recruitment session
Good guide dogs
August 22, 2008 2:07 pm

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Chalkboard
Chalkboard
August 22, 2008 2:07 pm

All but youngest start classes Sept. 2

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In one of the last in a string of hot summer days before the weather tuok a turn for the worse in the past week
Those lazy, hazy days
August 22, 2008 2:06 pm

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  • King County’s new prosecuting attorney announces task force units
  • Washington pickleball fans may may soon have special license plate
  • Effort begins to lower the legal limit for driving drunk
  • Housing costs, homelessness among top issues in WA, survey says
  • While many were found, work remains to protect Indigenous people

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