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30 years at the helm
Rich Roodman stops to visit while walking through Valley General Hospital in June 1983. Archival photo
Rich Roodman still innovating at Valley Med By DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com
Nate Wuethrich, 11, leads a trio of performers from the International Lion Dance and Martial Arts Team during a martial arts demonstration at Uwajimaya Sunday for an audience of parents and children of all ages. The team then performed a traditional Lion Dance as part of the Lunar New Year celebration to welcome the Year of the Snake, 4711. Brian Beckley, Renton Reporter MORE PHOTOS online… rentonreporter.com
Thirty years ago, Rich Roodman set foot in Valley General Hospital. He was 34 years old and even then his pay was controversial. Today, Valley General is Valley Medical Center, an expansive center of healing that intends to take medical care for the people of South King County to the next level with its affiliation with UW Medicine. Roodman is 64 and the hospital once known as “Death Valley” is an award-winner with its staff and patients. When he was hired, Roodman was charged with four things: Innovate, evolve, implement and be successful. “Sure, I can do that,” he told Morton Hardwick, then the chair of the hospital commission, during a job interview in fall 1982. Hardwick told Roodman about Valley’s “image problem.” Roodman has kept his promise, although it wasn’t done without controversy, political fallout or trips to the woodshed. A relaxed Roodman spoke with candor, his trademark humor and pride about his 30 years at the helm of [ more roodman page 12 ]
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Law elected to second term as head of cities group Renton Mayor Denis Law has been elected to a second term as president of the Sound Cities Association (SCA), which represents 35 cities in King County. “SCA creates opportunities for me to better serve the needs of Renton residents and to create results that improve our entire region,” said Law. “It gives our cities a powerful regional voice, provides members an opportunity to connect and network, and
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and other public policy issues. SCA, formerly the Suburban Cities Association, was established more than 40 years ago to help county cities Denis Law act locally and partner regionally to create vital and thriving communities through advocacy, education, leadership, mutual support and networking. “Our county is no longer dozens of bedroom communities surrounding a single city, but a network of bustling urban centers that together define a larger metro area and regional economy, and this new name
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Mary Kimsey of Renton and Jack Swenson of Renton have won the Renton Reporter’s Valentine Topsy Turvy Contest. They each will receive a $50 gift card to Vince’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria. They were chosen from the ballets that were returned with the correct words formed from scrambled letters. The Renton Reporter thanks everyone who entered the contest. But that’s not all. The Renton Reporter is encouraging everyone to vote online or using the ballot in the newspaper in our annual Best of Renton contest, beginning March 8.
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Renton Civic Theatre’s 25th Anniversary rolls on this week with the opening of “The Foreigner,” part of a season’s worth of shows selected by season-ticket holders. “This year is all shows we’ve done before,” said Managing Artistic Director Bill Huls, adding that the one exception is “The Diary of Anne Frank,” set for April. Huls called “The Foreigner” a classic “door-slamming comedy” about a man pretending he can’t speak English while at a fishing retreat in Georgia. In between he helps teach someone else the language and even has a run-in with the Ku Klux Klan. “It’s hard to explain the show, but it’s a lot of fun,” he said. The show is also a homecoming of sorts for director Alan Wilkie. Not only is Wilkie from Renton, he starred as one of the two leads the first time the theater put on the show. Huls has been with the theater for 17 years and has been the artistic director for the past six. He called Renton Civic a “family friendly theater” that does a lot of classic plays, with a few new ones thrown in here and there, usual in the April slot. This year, for the silver anniversary, the season opened with “Grease” and will end in June with “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” which were the
Managing Artistic Director Bill Huls works to adjust the lights on the set of ‘The Foreigner,’ opening Friday at Renton Civic Theatre, 507 S. Third St. brian beckley, Renton Reporter two top picks from season ticket holders. The Renton Civic Theater was built as a movie house in 1924. It showed movies until the theater group bought it in 1987. Huls said there’s a magic in the old art deco theater that one can feel as soon as they enter the lobby. “It’s got an aura about it,” he said. “When you walk in the door, you can forget about what’s going on out there.” Renton Civic Theatre operates as a 401c3 non-profit organization. This year, as part of the 25th An-
niversary celebration, the theater is hosting a dinner and auction on March 9 to help raise money. According to Auction Chair Diana Kain, it’s the first time the theater has hosted an auction since 1998. Actors from prior shows will be on hand to entertain and there are several top-level auction items to grab attention, including a five-night ski package in Sun River, Ore., a Torker three-wheeled bicycle and an autographed copy of Michael Jackson’s classic album “Thriller.” And if the King of Pop is not
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The Renton Fire Department honored its 2012 award winners during Monday’s Renton City Council Meeting. From left to right, they are Civilian of the Year Kathy Michelsohn, administrative secretary I; Firefighter of the Year Al Koskovich; Officer of the Year Lt. Stephen Rawson; EMT of the Year Firefighter Dave Laha, and Fire Chief/EM Administrator Mark Peterson. brian beckley, Renton Reporter
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Renton: Not my hometown yet, but I’m working on it I have to admit, when last week’s Renton Reporter landed in my driveway, I quickly grabbed it and made a joke to my wife about the goodlooking new assistant editor on page 3. I, of course, also re-read the story about me, but when I got to the quote about working at my “hometown paper,” I cringed a bit. I had meant to say something about working for my local paper but used the word “hometown” and that’s not fair to either my actual hometown or folks who have grown up in or lived in Renton longer than I have. Truth is, I have only lived in Renton for about a year, though to be fair, it was the best year of my life. Someday my children may refer to the city as their hometown, but I didn’t want to come off as some sort of claim jumper or panderer. My actual “hometown” is Whitney Point, N.Y. It’s a tiny rural community in Upstate New York, north of Binghamton. It’s about 45 minutes south of Syracuse and an hour north of Scranton, Pa. (I don’t know why everyone seems to know where Scranton is, but for some reason, that’s the city most folks can mentally locate the quickest.) But, to be fair, even that is not my “hometown,” though it is where I graduated high school and my parents still live today, so I consider it such. I spent my first six years or so in Philadelphia (GO PHILS!) and then moved to Endicott, N.Y., a suburb of Binghamton in New York’s Southern Tier, before my folks bought the house out in the Point. I went to college in Albany, where I majored in American history and minored in journalism. I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2002, when the girl I was with at the time got a job offer too good not to take. It worked out better with the area than with the girl, however, as we went our separate ways a year later, her to Manhattan, me to, of all places, Tacoma. I had gotten a job covering Bonney Lake out in East Pierce County for a paper in Puyallup and Tacoma was the closest actual city to the office. I didn’t expect to be in that apartment for particularly long, so much so that I didn’t even want to sign the year-long lease as I feared it was too long. But time has a way of getting away from you, and before I knew it eight years had passed. I Brian Beckley
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had even begun to develop the “Tacoma gets a bad rap” chip on my shoulder. When it came time for The Girl, who lived and works in Seattle, and I to move in together, we, like thousands of other residents and businesses, immediately recognized Renton was the place for us. Location, location, location; right? Not only was Renton a good middle ground, it provided me easy access to the highways and byways I need to get to both my office in Enumclaw (State Route 169) and my beat in Bonney Lake (State Route 167), as well as not being too far from Girl’s work. We also loved the downtown and the more urban feel it provided and when we stumbled across our little Birdhouse (it’s a They Might Be Giants reference, for the record) in North Renton, we immediately fell in love with it. We officially moved in Jan. 31, 2012. I proposed that night and we were married in September. And within the year, I had accepted the position as assistant editor at the Renton Reporter. Like I said, best year of my life. Thanks, Renton! And while Renton may not be my hometown, it is certainly my home now and I plan to be here for the foreseeable future. Admittedly, I did not spend the last year doing too much exploring in the city, as The Girl and I had other things on our plate, as well as my stupid long commute. So, of course, we are looking for suggestions about things we absolutely must see/do/try in Renton. I am sure I will have many years to discover all of the great things this city has to offer, but I’d
love to get some advice on where to start. For example, one resident called last week with a lunch spot suggestion and I will absolutely check out that burger place very soon. Thanks for the tip. I will be trying to bring some fresh eyes to the paper and the city and hope to share with you all what Emily and I find and do as we further invest ourselves in our neighborhood and community. As reporters, we often get more invested in the communities and cities we cover than where we live, since we spend so much time getting to know the players and issues in our beat. It often means our actual communities see less of us – and our involvement – than our beat cities. I certainly know that was the case with me. I easily spent more time and energy in – and was more invested in – Bonney Lake than Tacoma. I am excited to now be investing all of my energy in the place where I live, for a change. But as I said, I am still learning and am by no means any sort of Renton expert yet. So send in your suggestions and news tips. What should we see? Who should I meet? What do I absolutely need to know about Renton? This may not be my hometown yet, but give me some time. I’ll get there. I promise. And if you see me out in the stores or at a park or riding my bike along the Cedar River Trail, please don’t hesitate to say hello. To paraphrase Bogie, I hope this is the start of a beautiful friendship...
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New accessible playground designed to tear down fences By Brian Beckley bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
A new playground being designed for the Renton Highlands will literally and figuratively pull down fences and allow a wider range of play for a wider range of students. Co-located on land owned by the City of Renton and the Renton School District, the new accessible playground will offer play options for children of all ages and developmental abilities. Designed to foster an inclusive environment where all children can play, the approximately one-acre playground will be built on the spot where two playgrounds currently sit, literally split down the middle
by a fence. “The new facility will be co-located,” said Renton Parks Planning and Natural Resource Director Leslie Betlach, adding there will be no exchange of land between the city and the school district, but an interlocal agreement, which will include issues like maintenance of the new facility, is being drawn up. Betlach said the idea for a fully accessible and inclusive playground began about three years ago. Betlach said all of the City of Renton’s playgrounds are accessible to disabled children to some degree, but the new one will take that to new levels, making sure each piece of play equipment is fully
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The caterpillar located in the early childhood play area and seen here in an artist’s rendering is set to become the new accessible playground’s signature piece. Image courtesy City of Renton accessible, no matter the child’s physical or mental disability. “It’s a playground designed to stimulate the physical, mental and senses and promotes working and playing alongside people who are fully able-bodied,” she said. As designed, Betlach said the playground
would be the first of its kind in Renton and the largest fully accessible playground in the South Sound. Carol Henry, landscape architect for Design Concepts, the firm responsible for designing the new playground, agreed. [ more playground page 9 ]
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A fence literally divides the two playgrounds presently located where the accessible playground will be built. Photo courtesy City of Renton
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Henry was on hand at the City Council’s Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night to provide an update on the project. “It will be like no other that you have,” she told the council. Henry said it was not enough to create a playground that students with disabilities could get to, but that there needed to be a place for all children to play “side by side.” “We’re trying to make this not just an accessible playground, but an inclusive one,” she said. To that extent, the designers have incorporated a series of themes into the new facility, including developmentalbased features and equipment that can accommodate a broad range of age groups and abilities and encourage interaction between children of varied abilities. “We’re not just getting some swing sets and four square,” she said. The new playground will be interconnected by paths but split into multiple play areas, including an early childhood section, a nature play area, an area for older children with a climbing wall and even a “wavy walk” and music area. “We don’t have music in any of our playgrounds,” Betlach said. The early childhood area will also contain what Henry called the playground’s “signature piece,” a giant caterpillar for children to climb on and around. Betlach said the caterpillar is a one-of-a-kind specialty item being made for the park. Also in the playground will be swings designed specifically for a wheelchair so children who cannot walk will still be able to swing. While the playground has not yet been put out to bid, Betlach said the cost estimate is between $1 million and $2 million. The city has lined up several community partners, including many that gave six-figure donations for the facility. The Renton Community Foundation’s Custer Fund donated $200,000 for the playground. Another $150,000 came from the First Financial Northwest Foundation and an additional $124,000 came from the Renton Rotary.
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Betty Kuhlmann Deymonaz, 81, a former Renton resident, died on Sunday, February 3, 2013, in Olympia. She was born on October 18, 1931, in Oriska, North Dakota to C.B. and Mary McCann. Betty will be remembered as a kind and gentle soul whose generosity and love touched all she met. Love you heaps, Mom. In 1950, she married Dorhn Kuhlmann in Wimbledon, North Dakota. He died in 1987. Betty attended college, earned her teaching certificate and later became an outstanding nurse’s assistant. She had been an important part of the Burn Unit team at Valley General Hospital in Renton, Washington. Betty Kuhlmann married Leon Deymonaz in 1990 in Renton. He died in 2009. She attended Saint Anthony Catholic Church in Renton and donated her quilts for church fund raisers. Betty is survived by her sons, David (ChayLim Son) Kuhlmann, Don (Dielda) Kuhlmann, and Doug (Gail) Kuhlmann; her daughters, Margaret (Don) Guymon, Debbie Suver, Ginny (Randy) Walls and Karen Kissler; her three step-sons, Richard, Robert and Eugene Deymonaz.; her brothers, Leroy McCann and Robert McCann; her sisters, Barbara Huber and Donna Gainsforth; ten grandchildren; five great grandchildren. A Rosary will be said at 10:30 am followed by a Memorial Mass at 11:00 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013, at St. Paul Catholic Church, 833 SR 105 in Westport, Washington 98595. A reception for family and friends will be in the church social hall following the Mass. A graveside service of inurnment will be at 10:00 am, Monday, February 18, 2013, at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Renton, Washington. This will be followed by a reception at Bethlehem Lutheran Church 1024 Monroe Ave. N.E. Renton, Washington 98056. Arrangements are by the Coleman Mortuary in Hoquiam. Please take a few moments to express your thoughts to the family by signing the on-line register at www.colemanmortuary.net. 739627
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Renton shop Common Ground Coffee and Cupcakes, has the sweets to extend your Valentine’s Day into the weekend and beyond. Owner Heng Woon makes about 10 kinds of cupcakes daily, all with buttercream. This week, staff served special Valentine’s cupcakes, including Woon’s Red Velvet, Have a Heart and Maple Bacon cupcakes. The Red Velvet Cupcake is made with cream-cheese frosting. The Have a Heart
Cupcake, made with green tea cake and frosting with a fortune cookie on top. Common Ground is a popular meeting place for friends, dates and workers looking for Wi-Fi or a low-key setting to conduct informal meetings, said Woon. She finds that a lot of people stop in after work to catch up with others. The shop will mark its seventh year in Renton in March. The downtown shop, located at 900 S. Third St., is open 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Friday; 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday.
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Renton athletes are well represented at all of the postseason tournaments this weekend including the Mat Classic in Tacoma, the gymanstics meet and the district basketball tournaments, which finish up Monday at the ShoWare Center. Be sure to check www.rentonreporter.com for all the latest postseason scores and updates.
Hazen swimmers take second, head to state meet By Brian Beckley bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
The Hazen swim team continues to make waves with a second-place finish at the 3A championships this past weekend at the Hazen pool. Nine Hazen boys earned second swims during Saturday’s championship finals and the team finished with an impressive 201 points and scored 14 swims at this weekend’s state championships in Federal Way. According to an email from coach Rick Wertman, Hazen’s performance in
two events - the 500 yard freestyle and the 100 yard butterfly - perfectly characterized the team’s season. In the butterfly, three of the six finalists wore Highlander blue with Hazen swimmers taking the second, third and sixth-place spots on the podium. Junior Malcom Mitchell finished second after his best swim of the year while senior co-captain Kyle Nelson followed in third, dropping an “amazing” 3.5 seconds off his best time. Freshman Derek Wei finished sixth in his first district championships.
In the 500, the Highlanders finished first and second with “super sophomore” Connor Broughton taking the lead over fellow Highlander Mitchell at the 300 yard mark and finishing in a season’s best time to win the championship. According to Wertman, two other individuals had stand-out meets for Hazen. Sophomore Turner Englehart had two great swims and earned himself two trips to the state meet. In the 200 freestyle, Turner dropped more than 2.2 seconds and placed third overall. In the 100 backstroke, he raced to
Renton girls keep season alive; Lindbergh falls in first round By Brian Beckley bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
The Renton High School girls basketball team kept their season alive with a big win Tuesday night over Kingston, 53-26, in a loser-out game in the opening round of the district tournament. The Indians came out hot, dropping 17 points in the first quarter and 13 in the second to take a 30-16 lead into the half. The girls tacked on another 15 points in the third and eight in the final frame while continuing to hold the Buccaneers to single digits. Taylor Farris again led the way for the Indians with 24 points to lead all scorers. Natajia McMillan added another 14 of her own. The win means Renton moves on in the district tournament and will play
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Renton boys earn top seed By Brian Beckley bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
The Renton boys basketball team’s magical season rolls on to the district tournament this weekend after the Indians bested White River 65-60 Feb. 9 to win the 2A sub-district tournament and earn the No. 1 seed. Jonathon Patterson set the pace for the Indians with 22 points to lead all scorers. White River went out fast, outscoring Renton 17-10 in the first quarter, but the Indians did not panic and turned it around in the second to take a 32-30 lead into halftime. The Hornets again came out strong to open the second
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Successful man knows what to do when something goes wrong: Roodman Center. He stepped down from that position in November 2011 to become CEO of Valley Medical Center under the strategic alliance with UW Medicine. At 29 he was CEO of a not-for-profit hospital in Oklahoma, the youngest CEO in the Southwest for a hospital of that size. Roodman wasn’t familiar with the workings of a public hospital district – including the highly public process to hire a new superintendent requiring not one, but two meetings. He had a letter offering him the job in Renton and he had already resigned his job in Oklahoma. But he was worried after getting a call from a reporter; he was on the phone to Hardwick.
[ roodman from page1] of Valley Medical Center in a wide-ranging interview with the Renton Reporter. It wasn’t an exit interview; Roodman still has work to do. And he’s having fun. “My fingerprints are all over this place,” he said. “At some point, some days, I come in here and it feels like it was yesterday that I started.” During the hiring process back in 1982, he learned what it meant to go through a public hiring process and the controversy that was brewing over his pay. In fact the hospital board had to move its meeting to the cafeteria to accommodate the expected large crowd and TV crews to consider his hiring. Roodman’s first day was Monday, Jan. 3, 1983. He called his first meeting – with the union stewards. The unions were mad, he said. Then he ran to meetings with physicians and then community members. He had dinner with administrators the night before. Communications and marketing became a hallmark of his administration. And he formed a Consumer Advisory Council, not unlike the President’s Advisory Council, convened in 2010 to study the future of health care in South King County, helping to mold the criteria for a strategic alliance. In the interview with the Renton Reporter, Roodman talked about his accomplishments and mistakes.
The annexation His biggest mistake? “Well, that’s an open door,” he said, laughing. “Oh, I would say that [he paused for a few seconds] I would say that our most colossal mistake was thinking that there may be a chance to annex to the southeastern part of the district,” he said. In 2006 the hospital district placed a measure on the May ballot, asking for voter approval to annex Maple Valley, Black Diamond and part of Enumclaw into the hospital district. It was an unprecedented loss – 94 percent voted against the measure, which had stirred intense community opposition. “That was a terrible mistake, because only 6 percent of the people voted in favor of that and I’ll bet you that more than 6 percent of the people think that the sun comes up in
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Hardwick, the commission chairman, kept reassuring Roodman that the commission was just taking care of details. He did tell Roodman the board was going to have to move a meeting to the cafeteria because the board room was too small to hold a big crowd. Roodman asked why he was expecting a big crowd. “He said, ‘I think we’re going to have a whole bunch of people show up and they are going to protest’,” Roodman said. “And the KKK is coming.” Roodman asked Hardwick to explain that reference: KOMO, KING and KIRO, the Seattle TV stations. There were protests about Roodman’s salary; commissioners hired Roodman at an annual salary of $95,000, which at the time made Roodman the highest paid official overseeing a public facility in the county, according to media reports. “We swallowed hard and decided the hospital deserves an administrator that’s worth that much. That’s the least we could get this man for,” commissioner Leo Powers said in an interview at the time. Today, Roodman’s salary is about $1.2 million, including a base salary of $745,000. The rest is his retention payment [ more roodman page 13 ]
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and performance award. He remains in the upper tier of pay for hospital administrators. Does he think he’s worth the money? “I think you generally get what you pay for,” he said. After he was hired, Roodman and his staff got down to work, building partnerships with the City of Renton, the Renton School District, Renton Technical College and the Renton Chamber of Commerce and reaching out to the community. And he began to build the medical center campus as it exists today. In 1984 Valley started the Valley Family Medicine residency program, affiliated with UW Medicine, with one or two residents. It was a way to grow Valley’s own physicians and the idea had worked in Oklahoma. “Well, like just about everything along the way that became significant over the 30 years, at its first introduction it met with a tremendous amount of resistance,” Roodman said. Current family practitioners feared the competition; but specialists saw this as a source of new referrals.
A place for docs It’s the same philosophy that helped drive the formation of the strategic alliance with UW Medicine. Valley Medical Center has a network of primary care clinics that feeds local specialists at the hospital, but now patients have easy access to the extensive specialties at the University of Washington.
“You gotta have docs in order to grow health care,” Roodman said. Of course, the hospital needed a place for those doctors to practice. In 1989 the Talbot Professional Building opened as a joint venture between the hospital district and physicians. “We created a win-win situation with physicians to invest in a facility on campus,” Roodman said. The hospital district owns the land and the parking, which are leased to the physicians who borrowed the money to build the medical building. Southlake Clinic is in the building and Dr. Paul Joos, an eye surgeon and president of the hospital commission, “That’s the secret has his offices at the sauce. It’s the people.” Rich Roodman, main entrance to the building. CEO, Valley Medical “Any significant Center medical center throughout the country has medical office buildings on campus,” Roodman said. Two years later the hospital district worked with another group of physicians to develop the Medical Arts Building next door. And the North Professional Building houses Valley Family Medicine; it was being built privately when Roodman arrived in 1983. Two years ago, in February 2010, Valley opened its new seven-story, $115 million Emergency Services Tower – the Margarita Prentice Trauma Center. Today, Valley every year sees about 75,000 visits in its ER – more than Harborview, which sees more trauma patients than Valley. Valley’s urgent-care clinics see about 50,000 visits a year. And then there are the babies. Lots of
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