Army Private David Esparza has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
Western Washington University student Tatia Davis, daughter of Brian and Sharon Argetsinger and wife of Michael Davis of Kent, received a $1,200 Corinne Werder Special Education Scholarship and a $1,500 Max and Priscilla Higbee Special Education Scholarship for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Air Force Airman Anthony J. Hembree graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.
Kristie Chung of Kent has been named to the Dean's List of Davenport University for the summer 2010 semester.
Connie Collins of Kent recently graduated from Whitworth University, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree.
The Washington CPA Foundation, the benevolent arm of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants awarded Megan Garber of Kent an accounting scholarship for the 2010-2011 academic year. Garber, a Kentwood High School alumnus, is attending the University of Washington Foster School of Business in Seattle, and anticipates a 2011 graduation date.
Kent resident and Azusa Pacific University student Morgann E. Green made the academic Deans' List at APU. Green is honored for a spring semester 2010 academic standing of a 3.5 or better grade-point average.
Army Private Antonia Elena Navejas graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla., as an honor graduate and received a Letter of Commendation.
Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Tamara T. Ledoux graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
The Kent Sunrise Rotary Club recently awarded two $1,500 scholarships to graduating seniors Nicole Schreiber from Kentwood (middle) and Erin Shedd from Kent-Meridian (right, pictured with Fergus Prestbye, club president, left).
Jamal Crawford of the Atlantic Hawks, a Rainier Beach High alum, took time out participate in a local Youth 180 program at Kentridge High School Aug. 8, talking to kids about staying in school and out of trouble. Crawford, recently named the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year, proved pretty popular with students and staff alike.
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna is the guest speaker for the second annual Friends of Scouting luncheon and fundraiser to benefit the Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts of America Oct. 26 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
The first day of school for the Kent School District this year is Wednesday, Sept. 1.
Unlike last year, which saw the unfolding of a teacher's strike starting in August, this year teachers will be reporting to work as usual, with the backing of a labor contract that was hammered out and approved following last year's strike.
Investigation continued Tuesday into the cause of a fire Monday night in the 26100 block of 114th Avenue Southeast, Kent.
The blaze was first reported at 10:22 p.m. When Kent firefighters arrived on scene they found smoke and flames coming from the second story of the small two-story, single-family residence. According to the owner, who was contacted and came to the scene, the home was not in use. The last occupants moved out approximately one month ago.
The ShoWare Center fairly hummed with excitement this past weekend, as dozens of young, earnest athletes strapped on skates and pads, hoping for a coveted slot on the Seattle Thunderbirds hockey team. The Western Hockey League franchise was conducting its annual training camps - the wellspring of flying pucks and dented boards from which the team's 2010-11 season squad will emerge.
Sheriff's detectives are looking for help from the public to solve a 2001 homicide. The crime occurred on Aug. 28, 2001, just slightly over nine years ago.
Specifically, they at least hope to find the White Center house where the suspect took the victim and her sister prior to fatally shooting one of them on a street corner.
King County prosecutors charged a 31-year-old Renton man Aug. 27 with two counts of vehicular homicide in connection with the deaths of two Des Moines women Aug. 24 in a three-car accident in Kent.
A 55-year-old Auburn man who had a medical emergency Aug. 24 while in custody at the King County jail in Kent, died Aug. 26 at Valley Medical Center in Renton.
Ronald Smail was booked into the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle Aug. 21, and transferred to the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent the following day, according to a county Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention media release.
Summer, it seemed, wasn’t ready to be over.
With temperatures hovering in the high 80s Tuesday, the sun beat down as if it were the Fourth of July weekend.
But at Mill Creek Middle School, there were obvious signs summer was on its way out.
The parking lot was full and the grounds buzzed, with students as well as teachers.
Walk your dog, ride your horse or simply just walk in The Bark and Ride for Life, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, Aug. 28-29 at Kent’s Reber Ranch, 28606 132nd Ave. S.E.
