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City to get 19,500-square-foot library over Cedar By DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com

The Renton City Council has approved the design concept for a 19,500-square-foot library over the Cedar River. King County Library System

Ending months of debate, the Renton City Council voted Monday night to move forward with a 19,500-square-foot library over the Cedar River. The schematic drawings the City Council accepted from the King County Library System also include a new entrance at the library’s southeast corner, which will feature a small plaza.

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The council asked KCLS to consider adding another doorway in the entryway that would more directly connect the library to Liberty Park via the pedestrian bridge over the river. The budget for downtown library construction was set at $10.4 million. That’s about $1.5 million more than currently budgeted for the project, so the city will look at ways to raise that

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The Hazen High School baseball team secured a Seamount League championship with a 10-0 victory over Tyee Friday. The Highlanders were presented with a small trophy and will move into the postseason as the No. 1 seed. For more, see page 12. brian beckley, Renton

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City shuts marijuana dispensary By Brian Beckley bbeckley@rentonreporter.com

The city of Renton has ordered the owners and operators of the Tranquility Holistic Center to cease business operations due to the lack of a valid business license. Tranquility Holistic Center is a private, members-only, medical marijuana facility

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that opened in April on South Third Street downtown. Jay Berneburg, attorney for Tranquility Holistic Center, said his clients have a business license and are appealing the decision. “They have a business license,” he said in a phone interview last week. “The city’s wrong.” City Attorney Larry Warren reiterated in an

interview that the Tranquility Holistic Center had no business license and said if the group received one, it was “no doubt” because they were not forthcoming and honest about what would be happening at the business. Warren said city policy is to deny business licenses for any business that is in violation of [ more Marijuana page 15 ]

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The fourth annual Friends of Renton Schools breakfast raised more than $167,000 for the school district on Monday. Breakfast donations totaled $28,000 and event sponsors previously contributed more than $139,000. Pam Teal, chair of the nonprofit foundation, said this year’s total amount, raised four months into the year, already surpasses the same benchmark last year. From January to June last year, Friends of Renton Schools raised $11,000 in addition to breakfast-event funds at that point in the year. As of April 30 this year, the group has raised $11,500. “While, of course, I’m disappointed that we didn’t make as much money as last year, I’m ecstatic that we’re growing in many ways,” said Teal.

additional money. Options include extending the debt year by one year to 2022 for the bonds used to build the library, or finding money within the existing city budget by changing priorities. Those bonds also pay for the new library in the Highlands. The City Council also decided to hire an independent auditor to review the preliminary project budget and audit construction costs,

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‘Mom and Me’ photo contest is under way at The Landing The Renton Reporter, The Landing and click 98.9 Modern Music are sponsoring a photo contest at The Landing, with proceeds to benefit the Friends of Renton Schools. The “Mom and Me” professional portraits are being done by ToMi Photography in Renton. There were two sessions last weekend and two sessions this week. The session Saturday is 1-4 p.m. at Creative Mom Toys, 840 N. 10th Pl., Suite A, and the one Sunday is 1-4 p.m. at c’est la Vie, 911 N. 10th Pl., Suite C. Already under way is voting at rentonreporter.com on the “Mom and Me” portraits. There are prizes for the top five photos with the most votes. The portrait cost is $5. To make an appointment, call 206-388-3940 or go to www.thelandinginrenton.com.

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Renton seniors celebrated National Pretzel Day at the Renton Senior Activity Center last week with a shuffle-board-like game of pretzel bingo and mounds of chocolate, almond, Heath Bar and M&M covered pretzels. The specially themed lunch hour was part of a new effort to draw seniors to the center’s nutrition program. “I call them fun things,” said Terri Panajotoff of the special event. She was the winner of the bingo contest to slide three pretzels across a table into a tic-tac-toe board. The activity had seniors lined-up through the dining room. When it became clear that Panajotoff was the winner, everyone cheered. After bingo, the seniors snacked on pretzels at their tables before lunch. After lunch, they got to pick which kind of chocolatecovered pretzel they wished for dessert from a tray full of treats provided by Merrill Gardens. “I think it’s great; I like pretzels,” said Irene Marrow. Marrow comes to the center every Wednesday and Friday to exercise and enjoy the company of other ladies there. National Pretzel Day is just one of many special activity days the Renton

Senior Center is hosting in an effort to engage residents in their nutrition program. Seattle-based Senior Services and the City of Renton have partnered to provide the hot-lunch program to senior citizens age 60 and older. The purpose is “to keep them active, to keep them socializing and to get them a third of their nutrition requirement,” said Cherilyn Williams, Senior Services site coordinator. “We don’t want them to be isolated.”

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Twenty high school students from across Washington will compete in the state finals Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition for thousands of dollars worth of scholarships and a chance to advance to the National Finals. The state competition will be held at Renton Technical College, 3000 N.E. Fourth Ave., Automotive Quad (building K), 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 7. Students from Kentridge High School are among those participating. Awards ceremony will follow. The Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition is targeted to support students looking to jumpstart a career as an automotive service technician. The winning two-student team will advance to represent Washington state at the national finals at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., June 9-12. Qualifiers will compete for scholarships, prizes, tools and an experience that could help shape the future of their careers. Each two-student team in the state finals competition will race each other and the clock to correctly identify and repair “bugs” installed in 2013 Ford Focus SE vehicles.

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Nitsa Kalasountas, now 18, can barely remember a time before Susan Hopkins was in her life. The two are not family, but ever since first grade, Hopkins has been mentoring Kalasountas as part of the Communities In Schools of Renton’s Mentor Program, and that has forged a bond between them that is just as strong. “It’s a family within itself,” Nitsa said of the program. There are presently about 100 mentors in the program, which has been active in Renton schools since 1995. The mentors agree to commit one hour per week for a year with students who are at the greatest risk of dropping out or having trouble in school. “The idea is to give the mentees a stable, supportive person in their lives,” said program manager Mara Fiksdal. “Mentoring has been shown to really keep kids in school.” It has worked for Nitsa, but back when she and Susan first met, Nitsa was going through some difficult times. Her father had just passed away and her mother had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. A month later, Nitsa was in the program and met Susan. “It was kind of weird at first,” she says now, adding that a complete stranger showed up to talk with her and take in interest in her. But relatively quickly, the two began to bond as Susan provided an ear for young Nitsa’s issues and a stable, non-family adult presence in her life. “I really didn’t have much counseling,” Nitsa said. “I had her.” Nitsa said over the years, she grew to really appreciate her meetings with Susan, who became “like an aunt” to her. Susan said overall working with Nitsa has been “easy,” but admitted to being a little overwhelmed in the beginning, but connected with Nitsa early on. “I just sort of felt drawn to a young child going through that particular experience of losing a father,” she said. Drawing on the program’s training, Susan often brought an activity to the meeting to “evoke conversation” with young Nitsa. “It worked,” Nitsa said with a

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ing,” Susan said. Some weeks they would play games or do homework, others they would just talk. Some weeks Susan would have to work to draw her out, some weeks Nitsa led. The pair said the greatest challenge to their relationship came when Nitsa made the transition to middle school and Susan said she had to change as Nitsa grew into a young woman, often meaning the two would spend their time talking, or in Susan’s case, listening. “It’s not you, it’s about them,” she said of the mentees in the program. “It’s been so rewarding.” Nitsa said having Susan around helped her deal with the stresses of school and home life and helped her learn how to handle those issues on her own. “She’s like my bowling bumpers,” Nitsa said with a broad smile and a glance toward Susan. “She kind of keeps me between the lines.” But Susan also learned some things from Nitsa during their meetings, things like popular cultures, as well as how to let relationships evolve without having to constantly define them. “When I think of Nitsa, it brings a smile to my face,” she said. According to Finksdel, the pair-

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Renton High honored nationally for journalism By TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com

Renton High School student journalists exhibited their school’s motto of “pride, tradition and excellence” this week receiving top honors at a national journalism convention, according to their adviser, Derek Smith. Six students and the school’s ARROW news magazine received top honors in San Francisco last weekend. The student publication won third and fourth place in the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association “Best in Show” competition, a school release stated. ARROW received third place in the literary magazine category and fourth place in the special edition category. The staff chose to submit an issue that explored the topic “school lunch” for the special-edition category. “I’m proud of the way the ARROW reporters approached the topic of “school lunch” from a variety of angles,” said Derek Smith via email. He is Renton’s ARROW adviser and a teacher. “The special edition contains an interview with a district food service manager, a humorous first-person point-of-view column about chocolate milk, a graphic comparing rates of freeand-reduced lunch across Washington state, and information about Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” fitness campaign, which lowered the number of allowable calories in school lunches.”

Renton High School student journalists and their news magazine won national honors in San Francisco last weekend. (Right) Eliseo De Los Santos, Emma Collier, Vy Nguyen, Alex Kalinin, Banyon McBrayer, Alicia Quarles, Queneshia Le, Mirjam Amstutz, Vanessa Abenojar, Ksenia Ivanova. submitted Smith was impressed by the amount of information his students gathered, disseminated and the great lengths to which they did it. “They also collected bags of garbage from the cafeteria after lunch one day and analyzed the contents,” he said. “I thought that was creative.”

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“When judges announced us as winners in the literary magazine category, I almost cried. I was so happy to have won something, I started taking photos with the award,” said Vanessa Abenojar. She is the editor-in-chief. “But when they announced that we placed in the special edition category as well, I couldn’t breathe.” She felt the judges liked the diversity of Renton High’s population and perspectives presented, she said. “Our work is produced by individuals who care about their community,” Abenojar said. “We go outside of our circles of friends for stories and even outside our own school.”

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Gypsy moth spraying starts The state started treating gypsy moth caterpillars Wednesday morning along Interurban Avenue South near Fort Dent Park in Tukwila. The Washington State Department of Agriculture will treat about 10 1/2 acres from the ground with a biological agent sprayed on trees, shrubs and other foliage that may hide gypsymoth caterpillars. This summer, the state will spray a much larger area, about 180 acres, from the air with a chemical agent that disrupts adult European gypsy moths from mating.

The aerial spraying will include a small part of Renton. Gypsy moths if left unchecked can defoliate entire forests. They are found mostly in 19 states in the eastern United States; the state agriculture department keeps a watch for the moths by placing small green traps that catch adult moths. Genetic testing shows that the moths found in Tukwila are related to those found in the eastern U.S. They likely arrived in the area on a vehicle or carried in someone’s personal belongings. This is the only effort in the western states to eradicate gypsy moths this

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inally, thanks to the Renton Way – talking things through openly and honestly and compromising when necessary – the city has a plan for a beautiful new library over the Cedar River. Let’s not forget that that equation included the dogged persistence of residents who fought for the best possible design for the Cedar library. And they wanted the right size. The King County Library System redesigned an original concept for 15,400 square feet over the Cedar River. But at an open house in March, residents made it clear that was too small. KCLS then went back to the drawing board, coming up with a 19,500-square-foot library the Renton City Council approved Monday night. That compromise comes with a cost. The city will have to find an additional $1.5 million to pay for a library that size. But that’s OK. It’s what citizens want and there’s only one chance to get this right. The library over the Cedar will continue to serve Renton families for decades to come, with the space to take advantage of tomorrow’s library, which undoubtedly will have new ways to preserve and share information. It seems to make sense to extend the life of the bonds to get that additional money, rather than adversely affect other city budgets. Again, this is an investment in the future.

CLS has shown patience as the city and its residents worked through the democratic process of settling on the broad-brush design of a new library. KCLS designed a library to fit the budget given to it by the city; increase that budget and you get something bigger. There’s still some disappointment that the entrance to the library has moved. But KCLS worked within budget to offer an appealing alternative entryway that accommodates the structural needs of the new building. That’s a logical compromise, too. Monitoring construction costs with an independent auditor was a wise council decision and a recommendation of the city administration. Now KCLS can move forward. And there are still questions to ask. What happens to library services while the Cedar library is rebuilt? There’s potentially a cost associated with that. Should there be political fallout from this lengthy debate, especially as council elections approach? We don’t think so. The city had agreed to build two new libraries. Council members wanted to honor the city’s obligations. But the city and KCLS compromised and, again, KCLS showed patience. And what’s most important, Renton is getting what it deserves and always deserved – a library over the Cedar River.

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To comply, employers must follow a few simple rules: • Employers must track the hours of “occasional basis” employees to determine if the employee meets the 240 hours and track the employee’s accrual and use of covered leave. • “Occasional basis” employees, once covered by the ordinance, remain covered for the current and following calendar year. • Covered leave may only be used in Seattle (or for time the employee is scheduled to perform work in Seattle). • Employers must provide to “occasional basis” employees conspicuous and accessible physical or electronic notice of the entitlement to paid sick/safe time, the amount and terms of use, the prohibition of retaliation against employees who request or use paid sick/safe time, and each employee’s right to file a complaint if paid sick/ safe time is denied or if the employee is retaliated against.

• Employers must retain records of employee time in Seattle, accrued paid sick/safe days, and used sick/safe days for a minimum period of two years. Just reading the rules is confusing enough. Imagine trying to comply with them. One wonders why, if this was such a good idea, the Seattle ordinance allows labor unions to request waivers to exempt their employees? To determine if a policy makes sense, try this simple exercise: transplant the policy to another environment. What if your landlord charged you a different amount of rent each month based on how much time you, your spouse and your kids spent in each room of your house? Chances are you’d think your landlord had a screw loose. Seattle officials see nothing wrong with their policy, but one wonders how they’d feel if another city turned the tables. Imagine their reaction if a neighboring city passed an ordinance exempting Seattle companies from their paid leave obligations while their employees were working in that neighboring city. Seattle officials would likely see such a policy as an outrageous intrusion. Exactly. Fortunately, the legislation to expand Seattle’s overreaching paid sick leave policy statewide didn’t make it to a vote. However, a bill to restrict such policies passed the state Senate. Senate Bill 5726, known as the “city limits” bill, would prevent cities or counties from applying paid sick leave policies unless the employer is physically located in the jurisdiction and covered employees work there at least 85 percent of the time. The measure passed the Senate March 22 but didn’t survive the cutoff in the House. Lawmakers should take up this common sense limitation again next year or, better yet, reconsider it in the upcoming special session. After all, what happens in Seattle should stay in Seattle.

Don Brunell is the president of the Association of Washington Business.

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Hundreds of residents turned out Saturday to volunteer at the May Creek Trail as part of the city’s eighth annual Arbor Day/Earth Day Celebration. This year, volunteers planted more than 1,500 trees and shrubs at the park and were treated to hot dogs and sausages afterward. Left, Lacey Blackburn, Vicki Lamp and Harim Montiel plant a shrub while right, Malick Hutton, 4, digs a hole for the next shrub. Photos by Brian Beckley

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Also new this year was a program in which Renton School District staff could elect to contribute portions of their payback back to the foundation. “The breakfast was a great celebration of our partners,” said Teal. She sees it continuing to be that way in the future. “We’re just one more organization out there, targeting money for successful programs into the classroom,” she said. About 230 people attended Monday’s breakfast, at which former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice was the keynote speaker. Rice spoke on behalf of the The Seattle Foundation, of which he is the president and CEO. His group funded a million dollars to an academic liaison project in the Renton School District. The project is run through [ more schools page 11 ]

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Hazen soccer wins Seamount title, top seed

In the 79th minute senior midfielder Devin Sando connected on a corner kick from freshmen Reyes Garcia for the goal The Hazen boys soccer team wrapped up that gave Hazen the championship. Senior captain and forward Sam Bunnell a second consecutive Seamount Championscored both goals on Tuesday for the Highship and No. 1 seed in the playoffs Friday landers on assists from senior Angad Singh with a 1-0 win over Kennedy Catholic at and forward Marcelo Castro. Renton Memorial Stadium. Hazen finished the year 11-0-3 in the Then, on Tuesday the team survived a Seamount League and 11-1-4 overall, with scare from upstart Tyee, but walked away the only loss coming on the first game of with a 2-2 draw to remain unbeaten this the year. year in league play. The Highlanders are idle until May 8 “I know every coach probably says this; when they will host a playoff game against but we do have a special group of guys in our program this year. You see it at practice the second seed from the South Puget and during games,” Matthews said in an T:4.8”Sound League at 7 p.m. at Renton Stadium. email after the Kennedy game. -Brian Beckley

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Lindbergh softball aiming for postseason By Brian Beckley bbeckley@rentonreporter.com

The Lindbergh High School softball team kept their postseason hopes alive with a pair of wind this week, including a 10-2 victory Friday over the intradistrict rival Hazen Highlanders. Lindbergh then beat Orting 11-5 on Monday. In Friday’s matchup, Danielle Danao picked up the win for the Eagles, throwing all seven innings

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locked facility. “There’s a big difference between what we do and what a lot of the dispensaries in Seattle do,” Aab said, adding, “we’re not trying to make a party spot.” Aab also said in the short time the garden was open, he saw a definite need for a facility like this in Renton, with most of the potential members being older than 40. Aab also said he was unsure why his group would need a different license since his business is a locked facility and not really a storefront. According to Berneburg and Aab, Tranquility operates as a 10-member garden under state law. Qualified patients join up as members, receive their medicine, make their donation and then resign their membership, which allows another person to take their spot. The group keeps detailed records for this purpose, Berneburg said. “Pick a time and I will show you we have less than 10 members,” he said. According to Berneburg, the practice is “100 percent compliant with state law” under the Division III Court of Appeals case “State vs. Shupe.” Berneburg said the city is “wrong” in choosing federal law over state law and said emphasized that the U.S. Attorney’s opinion that federal law is supreme in this matter was just an opinion. Berneburg called states the “laboratories of social change” and said until the federal government sued the State of Washington for being out of compliance, the state and cities should follow state law until the courts decide. In a rare case of agreement between Warren and Berneburg, Warren also said the city is caught in between the state and federal governments, making it confusing to navigate this issue. He too said he would like to see the two governmental entities get together and figure out how the state and cities should respond. “Just tell us which way to go,” he said.

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The Renton Youth Symphony Orchestra will present its spring concert 3 p.m. May 5 at Carco Theatre. It’s the symphony’s 26th season. The concert features the works of Sousa, Danzi, Vaughan Williams, Berlioz, Bizet, Suppé and Tchaikovsky. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for students and seniors. Carco Theatre is located at 1717 S.E. Maple Valley Highway, Renton.

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Indian jazz fusion created in Renton By TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com

Renton resident and jazz pianist Terry McCaw, known to many as Yogi McCaw, has found himself at the center of a new world music movement, with the success of The Yoginis Indian Jazz Project, his band. McCaw, who formed the band around 2003, plays Indian jazz fusion music with a diverse group of musicians in the states and in India. They make up The Yoginis. The band was invited to play at a concert in New Delhi in March by the popular Indian fusion band called Advaita. Advaita’s lead singer, Ujwal Nagar, originally

“That band, in the intervening years, has become the singular most best-selling band in India. So people are like, ‘Oh, you’re using Advaita’s singer’ and I’m like, Well, he was in my band first.” Terry “Yogi” McCaw

sang on The Yoginis’ first album and has gone on to superstar success with his Indian band. “That band, in the intervening years, has become the singular best-selling Indian fusion band in India,” said McCaw. “So people are like, ‘Oh, you’re using Advaita’s singer’ and I’m like, ‘Well, he was in my band first,’” he says laughing. McCaw doesn’t mind being associated with his friend’s Indian band. Advaita received “Best Album” at the 2013 Jack Daniels

Rolling Stone (India) Rock Awards. Now, McCaw is working on a full album of Indian jazz fusion. The Yoginis first album, “Terra Shivaiya” features six Indian jazz fusion songs from his band in India, including Nagar’s vocals, and six Latin jazz tunes from his U.S. band. Eventually, he wants to bring both bands together to create one multicultural band. McCaw is a trained jazz pianist, who’s dabbled in classical music over the years, but is also influenced by world music. Born in Massachusetts, McCaw lived in Seattle for a long time and moved to Renton in 2010. He played in rock-n-roll and rhythm and blues bands growing up in the ‘70s and discovered Indian classical music when he was young through meditation. His nickname, Yogi, comes from his Indian spiritual master. McCaw calls his late father a “career soldier,” who advised him to approach the world through a different path. Heeding his father’s advice, McCaw embraced music and opened himself up to the world. “People are like, ‘I see you with a hip hop band; I see you playing rhythm and blues,’” he said. “‘I see you with the Indian guys; I see you with the African guys. What the hell?’ For me, it’s just all one thing. It’s just music, you know, the universal language.” McCaw has always been a fan of Indian classical music for its “sense of melody and improvisation,” he said. He’s quick to point out it has rules and scales like

The Yoginis Indian Jazz Project includes Nawal Singh, Bob Antolin, Brandon McIntosh, George Sadak and Terry “Yogi” McCaw. McCaw is a Renton resident and creator of this Indian jazz fusion band. Below he sits at his piano. tracey compton, Renton Reporter

other types of music, but he likes the in-the-moment aspect of creating something new. McCaw is fascinated by India’s on-going population growth and what he sees taking place in that country. “There’s a whole new wave of young people in India right now and they’re transforming everything,” he said. “They’re restructuring the society; they’re restructuring the music. It’s a very exciting time over there.” The music of the West is coming together with the music of the East because young people in India are discovering American classics like Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix and creating something new with the music they grew up with, McCaw said. He challenges anyone in the states to go out and find music that sounds similar to the new genre he plays in

with his Indian jazz fusion. Most recently his band played at World Rhythm Festival at Seattle Center earlier in April. To hear The Yoginis, check out their You Tube

video of a house party concert they performed April 14: http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=UxR-8GPFRfw Tracey Compton can be reached at 425-255-3484.

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Julia Patterson to retire from County Council By DEAN A. RADFORD dradford@rentonreporter.com

Julia Patterson of SeaTac, who has represented parts of Renton and Tukwila on the Metropolitan King County Council for 12 years, will not run for a fourth term on the council. Patterson’s political career goes back nearly a quarter century, when she was elected in 1989 to the first City Council of the newly incorporated City of

SeaTac. For nearly a decade she served in the state Legislature, representing the 33rd District. Patterson last week wouldn’t rule out running for political office again someday, but she won’t run for county executive. Dow Constantine, a Democrat, finishes has first term as executive this year. Patterson, 60, wants to “spoil her family” and enjoy

nature, which during her long career she has tried to protect. Julia Patterson “I am truly making a passage,” she said. “I am truly moving on.” There are many lenses to look at life, she said, and that’s what she plans to do.

Patterson will remain active in the community. She is serving as an appointed trustee on the board overseeing the strategic alliance between Valley Medical Center and UW Medicine and is on the board of directors of the Highline YMCA. “I will allow doors to open,” she said of future opportunities. Patterson and her husband Pat have three grown

children and four grandchildren. “I will have time to spoil my family,” said Patterson who has been a “working mother and grandmother for many years.” She’s wanted to spend “a great deal more time in nature. It revives me,” she said. Patterson, a Democrat, was elected to the King County Council in 2001, beating Republican Pam

Roach with nearly 60 percent of the vote. “Serving as a city, state, and county representative has been a great life experience and honor,” said Patterson. “I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. And above all, I’ve enjoyed meeting so many wonderful people in our communities. I give thanks for their willingness to express their hopes and dreams; their beliefs and their fears. Most of all, I give thanks for their goodness and desire to make this a better world.” She has served in every major leadership role on the County Council, including as budget chair during the Great Recession. She has also served in leadership roles on regional commissions and boards, including the Puget Sound Regional Council’s Transportation Policy Board, the Sound Transit Board of Directors, King County Board of Health and the King County Flood Control District. In South King County she helped lead the successful decade-long development of the “Lakes to Sound Trail,” a 16.9-mile pedestrian and cycling trail. When complete, the trail will run from Renton through Tukwila, Burien, SeaTac, and eventually connect to the Des Moines Creek Trail.

Rep. Upthegrove to run for Julia Patterson’s seat State Rep. Dave Upthegrove, D-Des Moines, said Tuesday he is running for for King County Council Position 5 to replace Julia Patterson, who announced last week she will not seek re-election after 12 years on the council. Upthegrove is currently Chair of the House Environment Committee and also serves on the Local Government and Transportation Committees. “I’ve spent 12 years now working in Olympia learning the ins and outs of the laws that govern our region,” Upthegrove said. “ Council Position 5 serves the communities of Kent, Des Moines, Burien, Normandy Park, Renton, SeaTac, Tukwila and parts of unincorporated South King County.