YELM — The Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Yelm is suing another Thurston County spiritual growth teacher, accusing “Art of Life Coaching” leader WhiteWind Weaver of stealing concepts.
She denies it. Trial is scheduled to start March 10 in Thurston County Superior Court in Olympia.
The lawyer for the Ramtha School, Tacoma attorney Rick Creatura, says Weaver is a Ramtha “wannabee” who violated terms of an agreement she signed when she attended the Ramtha school in 2005.
Weaver taught her own five-day workshop in 2006 in Rainier. She’s accused of borrowing Ramtha phrases, such as the salutation “So Be That!” and a hand gesture similar to a military salute.
JZ Knight set up her school 20 years ago to hold sessions where she channels the spirit of an ancient warrior named Ramtha.
Olympia: Oversight of prison agency mulled
For the second year, Sen. Jim Kastama of Puyallup has sponsored a bill to establish an independent agency to investigate prison complaints.
It would create an ombudsman’s office to identify problems within the Department of Corrections and recommend solutions. Kastama says it would report directly to the governor.
Department of Corrections Secretary Eldon Vail says it has a system that processes 28,000 complaints a year, mostly from inmates. Of those, 4 percent make it to the executive level of review, and one-fifth of those result in a compromise.
Olympic National Park: Fishers return
Wildlife officials have reintroduced the weasellike fisher into Olympic National Park.
Six females and five males were released Sunday at various locations. They are equipped with radio tracking devices so biologists can watch where they travel.
The fisher is a predator in the same family as badgers. It hunts rabbits, squirrels and other small animals.
Fishers were eliminated from Washington about 80 years ago by trapping and loss of habitat.
The fishers that were released in Olympic National Park had been trapped at Williams Lake, British Columbia.
State and federal agencies plan to trap at least 100 British Columbia fishers over the next three years and release them on the Olympic Peninsula.
Seattle: Coyote will be trapped, not shot
A federal agency will trap — rather than shoot — a coyote that has attacked a cat and chased a dog near Navy housing in Seattle’s Discovery Park.
The Navy asked the Agriculture Department Wildlife Services to kill the coyote. The agency’s Ken Gruver, says it’s losing its fear of humans and could be a threat.
Gruver says traps will be set near the housing and not on park property.
A neighbor who opposes the killing, Julia Allen of the Discovery Park Advisory Council, previously alerted the city parks department to remove leg traps that had been set for the coyote.
Allen says coyotes are part of the urban wildlife in Seattle.
Mount Vernon: Firm eyes Baker’s potential
The heat of the Mount Baker volcano could be tapped to generate geothermal power.
The Forest Service has began an environmental impact study of an application from the Vulcan Power Co. of Bend, Ore., to lease 10,000 acres of land for a possible power plant that could generate electricity for about 100,000 people.
The plant would use underground heat to turn turbines. If Vulcan’s application is approved test wells could be drilled next year.
Associated Press
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