By JOHN CARLSON At year’s end, an intriguing political irony has emerged: The Democrats won the national and local elections,…
As a mother-owned business, I know what a new, warm pair of pajamas can mean to any child during winter. But for a foster child who may be in a brand new situation during the holiday season, with none of his or her own belongings, it means tremendously more.
Some end-of-the-year, start-of-the-new-one column items:
Girl Scouts Troop 2321 would like to take this opportunity to thank the many volunteers and vendors who helped our Make a Difference Day project come to fruition.
My partner and I saw a report a couple of days ago on the impact of the Green River Bridge closure at Black Diamond on the Krain Corner Inn on the corner of Southeast 400th Street and Black Diamond-Enumclaw Road in the outskirts of Enumclaw. KING 5 TV reported that Krain Corner Inn is struggling to survive, as their customers have dropped to a quarter of normal. We live in Maple Valley and had the idea for our community to put together a morning “Save the Inn” breakfast adventure to Krain Corner Inn. Twenty-five people from our community caravanned over the Black Diamond detour (a beautiful drive going past Flaming Geyser Park) and had a wonderful time socializing and enjoying the wonderful breakfasts at the Inn. We will make it a regular outing now and would like to suggest to the people of Covington and Maple Valley that the detours set up to go around the bridge outtage take you right past the Inn, and it is a great way to help save the Inn.
Pat Jenkins, publisher/editor
The first annual Covington Hollydaze holiday festival Dec. 5-6 came and went with a frenzy of events and activities that left the citizens of Covington looking forward to next year.
The students of Kentwood High School are used to setting lofty goals and then taking the steps necessary to meet them. In the case of this year’s annual food drive, the trend continued.
On Nov. 16, the Seattle Times launched a three-part investigative series, titled “Culture of Resistance,” regarding the protocols of Washington hospitals to control MRSA – Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, an antibiotic-resistant form of the common staph germ.
Law enforcement is vital to the public’s sense of security, not to mention in those hopefully rare occasions when an individual actually needs an officer at a moment’s notice. And a county fair is important for its own unique reasons.
I would like to comment on a stretch of our road between State Route 169 and Southeast Wax Road and…
By CHRIS DAVIES and DEBBIE STRAUS Our state’s education funding system is broken, woefully archaic, and in need of dramatic…
How fast a swimmer is Chelsea Bailey? Just maybe fast enough to be in the Olympics in the not-too-distant future….
No one can claim that development of the Legacy Site in Maple Valley has gone too fast. In fact, it…
There are several ways to look at the currently losing struggle to keep State Route 169’s Green River Bridge near Black Diamond open to traffic. One is more important than all the rest combined, and that’s the public’s safety.
In recent weeks there has been a lot of talk about King County’s $93 million budget deficit and County Executive Ron Sims’ “life boat” strategy. Mr. Sims has proposed that some essential programs, such as public safety and human services, be funded for six months with the hope that the Legislature will grant new taxing authority to bail out King County.
Item: For the second time in four months, voters reject Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety’s levy request.
Why are old expressions old? Because human experience keeps validating them. A few timeless slogans explain why what happened, happened in the 2008 elections:
By JASON MERCIER Imagine the following scenario: It’s the day after the election and you open the morning paper to…
By BOB ROEGNER Nationally, the Democratic blue wave of change proved to be real as it swamped everything Republican in…
