Kent-Tahoma Middle School League standings for girls, boys varsity track and field
The Boeing Employees Choir Benefit Concert is 7 p.m. June 1 at Kent United First Methodist Church, 11010 SE 248th St.
Big boat teams and drivers appeared at the inaugural H-1 Season Kickoff Party last Saturday at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum.
Kentridge and Kentwood will open the Class 4A baseball state tournament with games on Saturday.
The high school fastpitch softball teams from Kentridge and Kentlake will compete in the West Central District tournament on Friday and Saturday at Sprinker Field in Tacoma with shots at advancing to the Class 4A state tournament.
Regional Animal Services of King County (RASKC) is partnering with Pasado's Safe Haven and South County Cats to bring Pasado's Mobile Spay Station to the Pet Adoption Center in Kent twice a week.
The recent article "Kent City Council searches for 256th Street funding options" (published May 10) is one-sided with no attempt to report the opinions of the tax-paying citizens that would be burdened with this unfair Local Improvement District (LID) assessment.
The Kent City Council needs a class on Civics 101. When the property owners near 256th got together, following the council's rules, and submitted the required number of signatures (for the umpteenth time) to stop the Local Improvement District (LID) assessment, the council didn't like it and decided that the rules don't apply because they want to assess these few property owners with the burden of paying for that street's improvement.
Again, the administration is trying to combine the Cedar Valley Elementary Support Center to become K-6 due to low enrollment. This is a disappointing decision to make for our students with special needs.
In the April 26 edition of the Best of Kent 2013, the following were not properly identified: physician, winner – Bob Smithing, MSN, ARNP, FAANP, FamilyCare of Kent; and finalist – Kathy Kleiver, MSN, ARNP, FamilyCare of Kent.
Local Improvement Districts (LIDs) are the city of Kent's out-of-date and unfair method of funding road improvements. They use LIDs to provide some of the finances needed to pay for road improvements.
Kentridge High School senior Max Meaker took won third place in an international engineering competition. Meaker placed in the Art & Architecture category of the annual Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge sponsored by Stratasys, a manufacturer of 3D printers that create prototypes directly from 3D CAD files or other 3D content.
Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas will speak about how to be Safe and Secure in downtown Kent at the Kent Downtown Partnership Breakfast Hour from 7-9 a.m. Friday, May 17 at the ShoWare Center club lounge.
The Kent East Hill Boxing Club will present the East Hill Youth Benefit event at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 16 at the Kent Parks Department Community Center at the Kent Phoenix Academy, 11000 S.E. 264th St.
Nihal Dhillon, a homeschool student from Kent, spent the final week of the regular legislative session working as a page for the Washington State Senate at the Capitol in Olympia. Sen. Joe Fain (R-Auburn) who represents the 47th District that includes Kent, Auburn, Covington and Renton, sponsored Dhillon.
This past legislative session, the Senate 2013-15 operating budget proposed diverting more than $15 million in 911 revenue to fund non-911-related programs. This proposed fund sweep could not only result in the loss of federal funding, but also could delay the implementation of "Next Generation" 911 by several years.
The Kent School District has scheduled a meeting May 22 for parents of children who receive special education services. The meeting is slated for 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Mill Creek Middle School Project Room, 620 N. Central Ave., Kent.
Sharon Pfeiffer of Kent was recently elected as Washington State PTA Region 9 director for a two-year term beginning June 1.
Kentridge High School senior Karanbir Singh was just awarded the prestigious National Merit Scholarship.
The Urban Forestry Restoration Project, administered by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources Urban and Community Forestry Program (DNR), has provided Kent with an opportunity to improve the health of trees and forested sites in several urban settings around the city.
