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DECEMBER 2, 2020

VOL. 101, NO. 49

Decorating for a good cause Queen Anne Scout Troop 72 hosting annual tree sales

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By Jessica Keller

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Queen Anne residents didn’t let a little rain get in the way of their plans to celebrate the Christmas season when they flocked to the opening day of the Queen Anne Scout Troop 72 annual tree sale, Saturday. This year’s tree sale will take place through Dec. 21 or until the merchandise runs out. It is the primary fundraiser for the scout troop for the year and helps pay for outings, scholarships and other expenses. A portion of the proceeds also benefits the Queen Anne Food Bank. Queen Anne Scout Troop 72 Scoutmaster Jeff Coombs predicted early Saturday afternoon that the scout troop would have one of its better opening days. “People were in line at quarter to 9 this morning,” Coombs said. “It’s a family thing.” Sunday evening, he confirmed in an email what he suspected from the day before. The Scouts set records, collecting about 10 percent more than their best-ever weekend. About 5 percent more people bought trees, but they were very generous. During each sale, buyers were asked if they wanted to make an additional donation to the Queen Anne Food

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Photo by Jessica Keller Queen Anne Scout Troop 72 Assistant Senior Patrol Leader Eric Coombs carries a Christmas tree for sale to be displayed with the others at the troop’s annual Christmas SEE SCOUTS, PAGE 7 tree lot next to Safeway on upper Queen Anne, Saturday.

County budget reflects 2020 priorities Budget Chair Jeanne Kohl-Welles pleased how council met challenges By Jessica Keller

QA&Mag News editor Reflecting back on her first stint as the King County Council Budget Committee Chairwoman Jeanne Kohl-Welles cannot guess how many meetings she has attended. This is the first biennial budget cycle Kohl-Welles chaired the

King County Council Budget Committee, and she said it was much more challenging than she had anticipated. “When I agreed to become budget chair last January, of course I had no idea we would be facing a pandemic,” she said. The pandemic, however, dictated much of the King County Council’s decisions and priorities

in 2020, long before it approved the $12.48 billion budget for the 2021-23 biennium in November Kohl-Welles “The biggest success for me was that we were able to pass eight budgets in

the last eight months,” KohlWelles said. In addition to the 2021-23 biennial budget, the County Council approved two supplemental budgets for 2019-20, which made adjustments to the existing budget, and five COVID-19 budgets appropriating federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief Emergency Stimulus Act funds, and at one point, the County Council was working on three different budgets at once.

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