Did we elect the Kent Chamber of Commerce to the City Council?
To the city of Kent Public Works, regarding a very serious safety hazard on 240th Avenue between 144th Avenue Southeast and 148th Avenue Southeast:
Par 3. A done deal? Unfortunately the mayor and City Council have transferred their responsibility to a paid consultant who in turn will give his opinion.
I've read several articles and letters to the editor regarding the proposed sale of Kent's Riverbend Par 3 Golf Course. I've also attended a Kent City Council meeting and the open house held by the Parks Department at the par 3 clubhouse. I have spent considerable time discussing the situation with several golfers.
Put Russell Wilson's $500,000 salary on every seat on every professional football stadium and you might visualize the enormity of just the last $1.1 trillion federal spending bill. And that is for only through September.
We must act now. Kent residents, golfers far and near, environmental advocates and nature lovers, wake up. The Kent City Council is about to decide the fate of Riverbend's par 3 course. If they do, it will be sold to developers.
No child should go hungry. Yet next month, new federal food stamps cuts will kick in, affecting nearly a quarter-million Washington households.
The article in the Kent Reporter ("Let's save Municipal Golf in Kent", Feb. 14) is at best misleading and poses more questions than answers.
As a senior and retired, one of the highlights of my time is my weekly Ladies League at the Riverbend par 3 golf course. I also enjoyed the times spent with my brother and other family members on the par 3.
It is amazing how little attention we pay to things we take for granted until they are gone.
When I moved to Kent in 1998, this city had nothing but the two golf courses. No Kent Station. No ShoWare Center.
I remember growing up in a low-income, single-parent household. My mom would work long days and weekends to be able to make ends meet and put food on our table.
Vote no on the Proposition 2 technology levy. Do not throw your ballot away as I hear some people are doing. Vote. Your taxes will be much higher as there are very few $250,000 homes as used in their example.
A few days ago my wife and I received a really nice oversized postcard promoting the upcoming school levy from the Citizens For Kent Schools.
Voters in the Kent School District are being asked to approve two ballot measures in the Feb. 11 Special Election – an educational programs and operations levy, and a technology levy.
It's been a long, bumpy road since May 2013 when the city of Kent announced its intentions to possibly sell Riverbend's Par 3 Golf Course.
On Jan. 20, an article was published in the Kent Reporter titled "State gives Kent another $5 million for 224th Street project." The project will extend 224th Street over Highway 167 from East Valley to Benson. Cost estimates range as high as $31 million.
Notes from here in Canada – where Mike Buckingham (a Kent Police and Kent Fire supporter who died Jan. 2) was often a part of our messaging at the Ontario Students Against Impaired Drive (OSAID), Students Against Drinking and Driving (SADD) or Canadian Youth Against Impaired Driving (CYAID) conference – he was a fabulous man – and he brought a lot to the issue.
My name is Reby Helland and I am a fifth-grade teacher at Lake Youngs Elementary in the Kent School District. I am not a community member of Kent; therefore I do not get to vote for this levy on Feb. 11. So, I am writing not to influence your decision, but as the voice for my students.
Fore! This is the sound you don't want to hear on the golf course. It's a warning following an errant shot that is heading in your direction.
