March 14, 2018 Edition 3 Issue 17 PO Box 349 Lake Stevens, WA 98258 LakeStevensLedger.com SEWER RATES Where does your sewer money go each month? The Sewer District explains. Read more on page 16 HOST FAMILIES Students from around the world are looking for host families in Lake Stevens. . Read more ON PAGE 13 WASHINGTONAIDS Washington State is seeing and end to AIDS after decades of the disease. What has changed? Read more on page 5 The map of where the new Lake Stevens Police Station is going to be built.The city is currently requesting bids from design firms. SEE LITERACY ON page 2 pam stevens Sunnycrest PrincipalTim Haines reading with Millie the Beagle and student Samson Degolier. Contributed Photo pam stevens Money for roads After beating Issaquah and Graham- Kapowsin, the Lake Stevens Vikings are headed into the semi-finals at the Tacoma Dome. Read more page 5 SEE POLICE ON page 3 NOW SERVING AMERICAN BREAKFAST! Friday, Sat and Sun 8am-2pm 9302 N. Davies Rd. • Lake SteveNS • 425-903-4069 1909 Hewitt ave. • eveRett • 425-249-2812 Now Serving Breakfast! FREE ENTREE Buy one breakfast or lunch entree and two drinks and get a second entree (Up to $6 Value) free. Buy one Dinner entree and two drinks and get a second entree (Up To $8 Value) free. MADE FROM SCRATCH DAily Gift Certificates! One coupon per table. Not valid with any other offer, daily special or lunch special. www.papasmexicangrill.com CAliFORniA STylE GRill & CAnTinA A Special Supplement to the Lake Stevens Ledger Published March 14, 2018 YOUR NEIGHBORS IN BUSINESS Spring 2018 WHO DO YOU KNOW? FIND IT INSIDE With the growth of Lake Ste- vens over the past decade, Lake Stevens’ need for more police officers has grown as well. A once small community back in 2005 when the current, 5,000 square foot police station housed just six officers. Our lo- cal police force now services over 30,000 people with 38 of- ficers plus eight non-commis- sioned staff. The need for a new building and a more centralized loca- tion is apparent. “[The current building] does not support the needs of a mid-sized police agency,” Lake Stevens Police Chief John Dyer explained. “The new building will meet these needs going well into the future. As the city grows, we will also add person- nel and services to the down- town area, as the city builds out city services.” The city has just sent out a Request for Qualifications to hire a design and engineering firm. The request is asking for, “professional architectural and City in works to hire design, engineering firm for new police station engineering services to design a new police station with asso- ciated site improvements such as a storage building, park- ing and stormwater. The city’s primary objective is to build a new Police station in a central- ized city location to deliver po- lice services effectively.” Construction on the build- ing, which will be built near Frontier Village on the corner of Chapel Hill and 99th Ave. NE, could start as early as 2019 but no construction budget is on the city’s books at this time. “Currently there is $1.5 mil- lion in this year’s budget for design.  Council has taken no action to date on how to pay for the building construction,” Lake Stevens City Administra- tor Gene Brazel said. Once the building is built, police officers will be housed only in that building, not in downtown Lake Stevens. “We will not have a physi- cal address downtown for the short term,” Chief Dyer said. “As the city builds out city ser- vices in the downtown area, Witty characters and inter- esting poetry are what sets beloved children’s author Dr. Suess apart from most authors of today. However, Eastern Washington author Kenn Nes- bitt is also known for his hu- morous poetry and books. The late Dr. Suess and Nesbitt came together, of sorts, at Sun- nycrest Elementary School’s Literacy Week the week of Feb. 26. Each year the school cel- ebrates Dr. Suess’s birthday, March 2, by encouraging stu- dents to read more and invit- ing authors and community members to their school. This year Nesbitt agreed to spend three days at the school meeting with every classroom and leading an assembly for the entire school. “I don’t want to lose sight of One fish, two fish, READ fish, blue fish Sunnycrest Literacy week brings students closer to local authors the love of reading and writ- ing,” Sunnycrest teacher and chair of Sunnycrest’s Literacy Week Jillian Sorenson said. “It’s a passion of mine to do Litera- cy Week. I want to remind the kids that reading is fun.” The whole school took part in preparing for the week by reading Nesbitt’s poems and teachers decorated their doors using his books as inspira- tion. Many had students create drawings to add to their door’s décor. “One teacher focused on Nesbitt’s book, One Minute Till Bedtime, with a child in bed with their favorite bed- time stories floating around them. Students drew pictures of their favorite book covers which were used as the float- ing books. Another enjoys the Nesbitt poem, “Ferret Soccer” and had students drawing pictures of ferrets playing different soc- cer positions. There were even three dimensional doors. Nesbitt showed up on Mon- day, Feb. 26 and the kids were ready to hear how and why he writes. “We did three assemblies, starting with an introduction assembly and the rest of the time he spent in classrooms doing workshops,” Sorenson said. “It was an intimate setting where they could work with the author. It was an overarch- ing about him and his poems.” Kindergarteners enjoyed Nesbitt’s poetry reading while first, second and third graders got a quick poetry lesson. The fourth and fifth grade students actually held a work- shop with Nesbitt and started poems with his guidance. Sev- eral students have since com- , OCR Text: March 14, 2018 Edition 3 Issue 17 PO Box 349 Lake Stevens, WA 98258 LakeStevensLedger.com SEWER RATES Where does your sewer money go each month? The Sewer District explains. Read more on page 16 HOST FAMILIES Students from around the world are looking for host families in Lake Stevens. . Read more ON PAGE 13 WASHINGTONAIDS Washington State is seeing and end to AIDS after decades of the disease. What has changed? Read more on page 5 The map of where the new Lake Stevens Police Station is going to be built.The city is currently requesting bids from design firms. SEE LITERACY ON page 2 pam stevens Sunnycrest PrincipalTim Haines reading with Millie the Beagle and student Samson Degolier. Contributed Photo pam stevens Money for roads After beating Issaquah and Graham- Kapowsin, the Lake Stevens Vikings are headed into the semi-finals at the Tacoma Dome. Read more page 5 SEE POLICE ON page 3 NOW SERVING AMERICAN BREAKFAST! Friday, Sat and Sun 8am-2pm 9302 N. Davies Rd. • Lake SteveNS • 425-903-4069 1909 Hewitt ave. • eveRett • 425-249-2812 Now Serving Breakfast! FREE ENTREE Buy one breakfast or lunch entree and two drinks and get a second entree (Up to $6 Value) free. Buy one Dinner entree and two drinks and get a second entree (Up To $8 Value) free. MADE FROM SCRATCH DAily Gift Certificates! One coupon per table. Not valid with any other offer, daily special or lunch special. www.papasmexicangrill.com CAliFORniA STylE GRill & CAnTinA A Special Supplement to the Lake Stevens Ledger Published March 14, 2018 YOUR NEIGHBORS IN BUSINESS Spring 2018 WHO DO YOU KNOW? FIND IT INSIDE With the growth of Lake Ste- vens over the past decade, Lake Stevens’ need for more police officers has grown as well. A once small community back in 2005 when the current, 5,000 square foot police station housed just six officers. Our lo- cal police force now services over 30,000 people with 38 of- ficers plus eight non-commis- sioned staff. The need for a new building and a more centralized loca- tion is apparent. “[The current building] does not support the needs of a mid-sized police agency,” Lake Stevens Police Chief John Dyer explained. “The new building will meet these needs going well into the future. As the city grows, we will also add person- nel and services to the down- town area, as the city builds out city services.” The city has just sent out a Request for Qualifications to hire a design and engineering firm. The request is asking for, “professional architectural and City in works to hire design, engineering firm for new police station engineering services to design a new police station with asso- ciated site improvements such as a storage building, park- ing and stormwater. The city’s primary objective is to build a new Police station in a central- ized city location to deliver po- lice services effectively.” Construction on the build- ing, which will be built near Frontier Village on the corner of Chapel Hill and 99th Ave. NE, could start as early as 2019 but no construction budget is on the city’s books at this time. “Currently there is $1.5 mil- lion in this year’s budget for design.  Council has taken no action to date on how to pay for the building construction,” Lake Stevens City Administra- tor Gene Brazel said. Once the building is built, police officers will be housed only in that building, not in downtown Lake Stevens. “We will not have a physi- cal address downtown for the short term,” Chief Dyer said. “As the city builds out city ser- vices in the downtown area, Witty characters and inter- esting poetry are what sets beloved children’s author Dr. Suess apart from most authors of today. However, Eastern Washington author Kenn Nes- bitt is also known for his hu- morous poetry and books. The late Dr. Suess and Nesbitt came together, of sorts, at Sun- nycrest Elementary School’s Literacy Week the week of Feb. 26. Each year the school cel- ebrates Dr. Suess’s birthday, March 2, by encouraging stu- dents to read more and invit- ing authors and community members to their school. This year Nesbitt agreed to spend three days at the school meeting with every classroom and leading an assembly for the entire school. “I don’t want to lose sight of One fish, two fish, READ fish, blue fish Sunnycrest Literacy week brings students closer to local authors the love of reading and writ- ing,” Sunnycrest teacher and chair of Sunnycrest’s Literacy Week Jillian Sorenson said. “It’s a passion of mine to do Litera- cy Week. I want to remind the kids that reading is fun.” The whole school took part in preparing for the week by reading Nesbitt’s poems and teachers decorated their doors using his books as inspira- tion. Many had students create drawings to add to their door’s décor. “One teacher focused on Nesbitt’s book, One Minute Till Bedtime, with a child in bed with their favorite bed- time stories floating around them. Students drew pictures of their favorite book covers which were used as the float- ing books. Another enjoys the Nesbitt poem, “Ferret Soccer” and had students drawing pictures of ferrets playing different soc- cer positions. There were even three dimensional doors. Nesbitt showed up on Mon- day, Feb. 26 and the kids were ready to hear how and why he writes. “We did three assemblies, starting with an introduction assembly and the rest of the time he spent in classrooms doing workshops,” Sorenson said. “It was an intimate setting where they could work with the author. It was an overarch- ing about him and his poems.” Kindergarteners enjoyed Nesbitt’s poetry reading while first, second and third graders got a quick poetry lesson. The fourth and fifth grade students actually held a work- shop with Nesbitt and started poems with his guidance. Sev- eral students have since com- , Lake Stevens Historical Society,Newspapers,Lake Stevens Ledger,2018,March 14, 2018.pdf,March 14, 2018.pdf Page 1, March 14, 2018.pdf Page 1