THREE LITTLE MONKEYS

Olivia, Mimi and Halli were singing "Three little monkeys sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G......." then we heard Olivia say "Ewwww, I don't wanna kiss Naomi!!!" Julia and I were LOA's off.

The sun was trying to come out. Whenever the sun is out even for just a bit, us Washingtonians try to take every advantage of it. We eventually worked our way down to the neighborhood park and we moms got a chance to visit while the kids played. The topic of discussion was the latest Tahoma School Bond Measurement that we were trying desperately to get passed and the sad part is........it did not pass. Julia asked if we would be able to put it on the ballot again in the future and Katrina who is on the PTSA board says that most likely it will not as our district payed over $60,000.00 to get it on the ballot this time. They both said that the Snoqualmie District had the same thing happen to them. For my out of state friends.......this means that Elsie and Emma's school (Lake Wilderness) will remain the same. They were to get a whole new school built for them. Shadow Lake, Rock Creek and Mimi's school, Glacier Park will not get the remodeling jobs done that they so badly need. I found out today that there are several classrooms at Mimi's school that doesn't have air conditioning or heat. The air conditioning is not so bad but we really do need the heat especially during our looooong winter months. There were a couple of snow days that were called because of no heat. Then there are the roof repairs. We also lost out on a new high school that was to be built as a result of over crowding. Our district has 4 elementary schools, 1 middle school, 1 junior high school and 1 high school. They were also slated to do improvements on our existing high school. Tahoma High School does not even have a gym for the high school gymnasts to practice so they have been coming to Summit Gym to practice in the early hours of the morning and for a while they were coming after school along the Summit gymnasts. Some of our team members were complaining because they said that the high schoolers were not nice to them. It was a problem for a while. Not sure what is going to happen now. Also what has happened is that there was a ground breaking ceremony for the new Fred Meyer's that is going up on Four Corners. Lots of people not happy about that either cuz we like our small town the way it is. The funny thing is....is that where the new Fred Meyers is going up.....well, it's not part of Maple Valley at all. It's the small part of Kent that is surrounded by Maple Valley. The bigger part of Kent is about 10 miles down the road.