Seattle & King County will offer free flu vaccinations for adults and children at special clinics in Des Moines and Shoreline from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 20. The clinics are an opportunity for people who do not have health insurance to cover the cost of flu vaccination.
Kent City Council members voted unanimously to defer a planned annual increase in storm drainage rates originally scheduled to take effect January 1, 2011.
Kent’s drainage system alleviates potential flooding following a rain storm. The rates charged fund the operations and maintenance of that system which includes the Green River levees, creeks, retention ponds, and 300 miles of pipe systems and storm water pump stations.
Who knows someone who has attempted suicide?”
A forest of hands rose upward.
“Who knows someone who has died from suicide?”
A number of hands slowly rose for a second time.
For activist Heather Carter, the audience at the Saltwater Universalist Unitarian Church in Des Moines Tuesday night was highly responsive. And that was critical – for Carter, 38, was there to speak about suicide in the teenage gay, lesbian, transgendered and questioning community (a demographic known by the acronym LGBTQ.)
Lynn Pittier wants other elderly drivers to know about her experience with Kent Police that she said left her "humiliated."
Pittier, 65, of Burien, believes police went too far when they handcuffed her and arrested her Aug. 23 for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Police initially pulled her over along Pacific Highway South for using her high beams and driving too slowly.
An estimated 3,000 customers were without power in Kent after a windstorm blew through town Monday night.
Many of those customers were still without power Tuesday morning but most had power restored by Tuesday afternoon.
As recent news headlines have shown, bullying can happen in any school and any community. This school year, Kent Phoenix Academy is taking proactive steps to stop and prevent bullying by adopting the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. This research-based, school-wide “systems-change” program has been used successfully in schools nationally and internationally.
Kent Police are investigating the circumstances of an early-morning traffic accident Monday that sent a pedestrian to Harborview Medical Center. The victim, a 54-year-old Kent man, is being treated for serious injuries.
The Kent Sunrise Rotary Club will recognize six people for their contributions and/or volunteer work in the community at its annual Harvest for the Community dinner auction Nov. 6 at the ShoWare Center.
A fundraiser for 10-year-old Cullen Steele, a Kent boy needing a double lung-heart transplant, will run from noon to dusk Nov. 21 at TOP Food & Drug in Lakeland Hills.
Kent Deputy Police Chief Mike Painter is one of five finalists to be the new Olympia police chief.
Olympia City Manager Steve Hall plans to make a job offer to one of the five men by the end of November, according to The Olympian newspaper.
Kent firefighters and King County Paramedics treated and transported three patients early Sunday morning after a stove-top pan fire flared up in the 24400 block of 64 Ave. S. shortly after midnight (12:34 a.m.)
On Monday, Nov. 22, the Kent Social Security Office will move to 321 Ramsay Way, Suite 401, in the Kent Station Shopping Complex.
Mark Young, Kent District Manager, said the move into the new space was to meet the demands of the growing population in the South King County area.
The Budget Leadership Team of the Metropolitan King County Council on Friday released a preliminary 2011 county budget that reflects "painful choices" made to produce a balanced budget, but restores funding for some vital criminal justice services and programs that assist survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Devin Topps leaned over to Alex Tyson, his best friend and Kentridge High School football teammate. So many people congratulated them after one of their victories that Topps wanted to put the moment in perspective.
"Alex, we're all-stars," Topps said.
Tyson told that story as he joined a church full of friends and family Thursday to turn a funeral service into an emotional celebration for their fallen all-star. They honored the 18-year-old with a tribute of music, poems and stories.
Aegis of Kent will be honoring its veterans today with a champagne/cider reception at the memory-care facility, located at 10421 S.E. 248th St., Kent.
(This is the first in a several-part series about Kent’s recently passed traffic-impact fees, and the balance that must be struck between bringing in development and the cost for expanded infrastructure.)
Kent resident Dennis Stoddard was certain he had his paperwork in order, on one of his last visits to the Kent Permit Center this summer. He was about to start improvements to the retail space for his new business, Black Dog Brat Haus & Creamery.
But as he stood at the City Hall counter that day, Stoddard was given something that made him “just kind of explode inside.”
It was a bill for $103,000.
U.S. SenatorDino Rossi (R) – 1,123,107/47.93%Patty Murray (D) - 1,220,331/52.07%U.S. Rep., 8th DistrictSuzan DelBene (D) – 136,030/47.51%Dave Reichert (R) – 150, 312/52.49%Initiative 1098(Imposing an income… Continue reading
(Editor's note: This story is an updated version of one that ran last week. The nature of the service has been changed from a memorial service to a funeral service. The location, New Beginnings Christian Fellowship Worship and Family Life Center, remains the same. There will be a viewing from 9-10 a.m. at the church, followed by the closed-casket funeral service at 10 a.m.)
Eight children ages 13-17 were taken into protective custody Nov. 5-7 in Kent as part of an FBI-organized nationwide sting to recover youngsters involved in the sex-trafficking trade.
Kent Police joined with other local and federal law enforcement officers to target the adults and children involved in child sex trafficking and exploitation, according to a Kent Police media release.
Jim Funston tossed a few peanuts at a squirrel on a recent afternoon last week, as he stood in his driveway along a quiet Auburn residential street. One of Funston's cats peers at the squirrel from underneath the back of a pickup.
"They get along; they never bother each other," Funston said.
That also goes for the neighbors along D Street Northwest.
"It's very quiet around here," said Mike Nelson, an eight-year resident of the neighborhood as he stands in his doorway. "People watch out for each other."
But nobody saw or heard anything on a Friday evening nearly six months ago.
