Thank you for the amazing article written by Erick Walker about the Tahoma High School gymnastics team’s car wash. Thanks to the article and the help of many others, the car wash was a great success. The team washed over 20 cars and raised more than $400. As a surprise, the Millwork Outlet matched our earnings, which gave us a grand total of $825. Again, I would like to thank the Reporter for helping make this event a huge success. Thank you for all you do in our community.
Election day is still a couple months away, but I’m ready to make some predictions on how our state will vote. I think Washington will cast its votes for Democrat Barack Obama for president and Republican Dino Rossi for governor. Here’s why:
The most heated local contest this election season is between state Rep. Geoff Simpson and Mark Hargrove. Here’s an example.
Education is the lifeblood of a free and democratic society. In today’s global, competitive economy, we must provide children access to education that prepares them to succeed in a world where technology evolves each and every day.
George Kelley’s letter (“Like oil and water,” Aug. 27, Reporter) demanding that the American public pressure congressional representatives to begin immediate offshore (and land) drilling in order to lower the record high gas prices is perhaps well-intentioned, but very misguided and prone to oversimplification.
What’s the future hold for the local AARP chapter?
If politics were boxing – and sometimes it certainly seems that way – then we have finished with the sparing and its now time for the main event. In other words, the general election will be nothing like the primary.
Gone are the days when the common man or woman was ashamed to take a handout It was with downcast eyes that men stood in line at the soup kitchens. Back then, there were understandable reasons for someone to experience hard times. The stock market crash, the drought and resulting Dust Bowl, and war to mention a few.
When the early vote totals were announced after Aug. 19’s primary election, it looked like good news for the Democrats. Governor Gregoire was beating Dino Rossi by about four and a half percentage points and heading toward 50 percent of the total vote. Darcy Burner was running just a couple of points behind the 8th District incumbent Congressman Dave Reichert and gaining ground fast.
Satterberg, bringing to a meeting of the Greater Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce the good crimebusting news he’s been sharing with similar audiences countywide, noted the Legislature finally wised up to a state law that required a car thief to be convicted of the crime seven times before being sent to jail. And even, a six-month sentence was the norm. The law has been rewritten so it now packs sentences of at least 17 months behind bars after three convictions and longer terms for subsequent convictions.
Summer isn’t over yet. But what the heck, let’s have an end-of-summer closeout on column items.
Seems like oil is connected to about everything. The cost associated with growing and delivering our food. The cost of driving to work, the cost of delivering goods and clothing from overseas or the cost of exporting our goods from Washington growers and manufacturers..
The community lost a local drag racing pioneer, competitor, businessman and good friend in 67-year-old Bill Kost, who died Aug. 3 because of medical issues.
The Jade Greens Women’s Club and Jade Greens Golf Course held the second annual fund-raising “Tee It Up For Our Troops” golf tournament on July 9. All proceeds from this tournament go directly to support the gym therapy patients with equipment at American Lake Veterans Hospital, which is a regional hospital near Tacoma treating our returning and current veteran population of the Northwest.
“The oldest and strongest emotion in mankind is fear.” H.P. Lovecraft
Covington had a nice problem to solve last week: One open seat on the City Council, and five people who wanted to fill it.
Last month, Kenneth Demone Sims, a convicted sex offender from Renton, was charged with three counts of rape.
Let’s hear from people in power
Judicial elections are different from all other elections in Washington. First, if one of the candidates gets more than 50 percent of the vote in the primary, he or she automatically wins the race and won’t appear on the November ballot. And second, most people don’t learn as much about the candidates as they want to know.
Thumbs up to the Covington City Council and the officials at City Hall for their attentiveness and diligence on a subject that most people only think of in retrospect: How the downtown should grow and eventually look.
