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Learning circle: Shaun Bush, lower left, helps Gloria Park with Latin, while Rachel Kistler, lower right, and Jared Wallace, upper right, go over chemistry during the CORE/Choice period at the Auburn Mountainview library. MARK KLAAS, Auburn Reporter
MAKING THE GRADEBY MARK KLAAS
Call it innovation, or, more fittingly, intervention.
A strategic program is mak-ing a difference for students at Auburn Mountainview High School.
It’s called CORE (Count On Reaching Excellence)/Choice, a plan designed to support all students with an emphasis on helping those who struggle in the classroom.
Students receive more per-sonal attention and instructional
time during bustling mornings to reconnect with teachers, com-plete assignments, retake tests, cram for exams, boost grades or catch their breaths.
A 25-minute session, wedged between second and third period
Program helps boost student performance at Auburn Mountainview
Jockey Jennifer Whitaker prepares to exercise Curvitude, a Howard Belvoir-trained gelding.COURTESY PHOTO, Reed Palmer, Emerald Downs
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emDowns ready for another strong runBY ShAWN SKAGeR
The sound of thundering hooves returned to Emerald Downs on Feb. 1 with the official start of winter training at the Auburn track.
Although opening day is less than two months away – April 13 – the mood at the track is already optimistic for the season, both in the stables and front office.
The bright outlook can be traced to Emerald Downs’ 82-day meet last year. Attendance numbers soared and wagering held strong, bucking national trends at other tracks.
“I think part of it was we were really efficient in our marketing,” said Adrian
Buchan, the track’s director of marketing. “Our ad campaigns were very successful, as well as our partnerships with media outlets.”
One example of that success was Emerald’s participation in a Groupon deal-of-the-day campaign.
Through Groupon, sub-scribers received an email message, Facebook notifica-tion or reminder from Twitter, offering discounts at the track. Subscribers were able to share them with friends through so-cial media or email, then print or present the offer electroni-cally at Emerald Downs for a deal.
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New Pacific mayor’s changes jolt city hallBY MARK KLAAS
Cy Sun vowed last fall that if voters made him mayor of Pacific, change would come to City Hall.
True to his word, Pacific’s new chief executive is shaking things up. But recent sackings and resignations of prominent officials six weeks into his term have raised hackles throughout the small community.
Jay Bennett, the public works and community development director,
BY RoBeRT WhALe
Voters said yes Tuesday night to the Auburn School District’s four-year educational programs
levy, but the Auburn High School construction bond failed to pick up enough steam to get it over the hump known as the 60-percent supermajority.
Proposition 1, the educational
programs levy, stood comfortably above the required 50-percent simple majority in the first tally shortly after 8 p.m. In the com-bined results of King and Pierce counties, it gathered 58.54 percent
of the vote.The replacement levy will
maintain for all children current educational programs and ser-vices, including small class size, instructional programs, special
education, athletics and activities, transportation, and maintenance and custodial services. It is not a new tax. It replaces the expiring
Levy passing, high school construction bond failing
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[ more PAciFic page 4 ]The all-school drive has been a big boost to the food bank. COURTESY PHOTO
BY RoBeRT WhALe
[email protected], pass it along.Word is that Auburn School
District might be the only one in the country that does an all-school food drive to benefit a local food bank.
So mark your calendars be-cause the annual drive, Feb. 27 to March 9, is coming up fast.
Within each school level – elementary, middle and high school – schools compete to
All-school food drive coming up
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According to Buchan, more than 10,000 people took advantage of the Groupon offer last season.
“We offered admission, a program and $10 in dining for just $10,” Buchan said. “It’s the second year that we’ve done that, and it’s something we’ll do again because it was very successful for us.”
Considering signs of an improving economy, Buchan foresees another successful year for the track.
“Generally, horse racing nationwide has been ex-periencing a little bit of an
uptick,” Buchan said. “The stabilization and improve-ment of the economy bode well for us.”
This season’s slate runs 81 racing days and features the 77th running of the $200,000 Longacres Mile (Grade III) on Aug. 19.
Also back this season will be last year’s Horse of the Meet, Noosa Beach.
Noosa Beach not only became the first to repeat as Horse of the Meet at Emerald Downs but also became the all-time leader in stakes wins with 11, capturing three of the four stakes in 2011.
Noosa Beach, a 6-year-old
Washington-bred gelding, has 14 career wins, with earnings of $520,722.
According to trainer Doris Harwood, Noosa Beach has fully recovered from a bruised foot sustained last September.
“He’s excited and happy to be back to work,” she said.
The 17th season runs until Sept. 23. Races are on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with Thursday racing added for six consecutive weeks beginning July 19.
Post times will remain 6 p.m. on weeknights and 2 p.m. weekends and holi-days.
[ DOWNS from page 1 ] KEY DATES‘12 EMERALD DOWNS MEET• May 13: First stakes, $50,000 Hastings Handicap (3 year olds & up, fillies and mares) 6 furlongs.• June 17: $50,000 Budweiser Handicap (3&UP) 1 mile.• Aug. 11: $65,000 Washington Oaks (3YO F) 1 1/8 M.• Aug. 12: $65,000 Emerald Downs Derby (3YO) 1 1/8 M.• Aug. 18: $50,000 WTBOA Lads Stakes (2YO, C&G) 6½ F.• Aug. 19: $65,000 Emerald Distaff (3&UP F&M) 1 1/8 M.
• Aug. 19: $200,000 Longa-cres Mile (Grade 3, 3&UP) 1 M.• Sept. 9: Washington Cup X includes: • $35,000 Diane Kem Stakes (2YO F, WA) 6 F.• $35,000 Dennis Dodge Stakes (2YO C&G, WA) 6 F.• $35,000 John & Kitty Fletch-er Stakes (3YO F, WA) 1 M.• $35,000 Chinook Pass Stakes (3YO C&G, WA) 1 M.• $35,000 Belle Roberts (3&UP F&M, WA) 1 1/16 M.• $40,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic (3&UP, WA) 1 1/16 M.• $65,000 Gottstein Futurity (2YO) 1 1/16M.• Sept. 23: Closing day
New traffic signal installedThe City of Auburn has
incorporated flashing yellow arrows for the left turn move-ments as part of the traffic signal improvements at West Main Street and West Valley Highway.
The installation of the new signal in Auburn was activated this week.
Rep. KAtRiNA ASAy, R-Milton, holds town halls in the 30th District on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Federal Way City Council Chambers, 33325 8th Ave. S., and at 1 p.m. at the Pacific City Council Chambers, 100 3rd Ave. SE. People also can contact Asay in her Olympia office at 360-786-7830 or [email protected]
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collect the most weight in food and dollars.
At the end of the two-week competition, the Au-burn Food Bank weighs it all. Every dollar that comes in counts as one pound of food. The winning school in each category gets the Traveling Trophy. Within each elementary school, classrooms compete to bring in the most items. The prize – the classroom’s own in-school traveling trophy.
Competition can be fierce. Last year Hazel-wood Elementary School Principal Sally Colburn promised her students that if they could collect a certain amount of food, she would take her desk and would work out on the lawn for one day. They came through - and so did she.
“The message that we hope filters down, in addi-
tion to the competition, is that you are helping your community,” said Debbie Christian, director of the Auburn Food Bank. “This is a way for the kids to try to understand that their com-munity needs their support.”
Last year students gathered 53,607 pounds of food and collected $13,270 in donations.
But does it really make a difference? Boy, does it ever, Christian said with a laugh.
“Oh my, that amount of food, supplemented by what we get on a regular basis, will take us clear through June,” Christian said. “So yeah, it’s a big deal to us to have this all-school food drive happen.”
Former Food Bank Director Jack Laverty and former Food Bank board member Jeani Rottle started it all eight years ago. Rottle, a member of the advisory board, coordi-
nates the drive. “It is a two-week food
drive during the non-holiday season because by this time the food bank’s shelves are pretty empty,” Rottle said. “And we do it the last week of Febru-ary and the first week of March because we can get matching funds from the Feinstein Foundation in New York.”
That is, the food bank becomes eligible for a proportional grant from the foundation. All the food poundage that comes in can be listed in a report and sent to the foundation. That could help the food bank pick up more dollars. Last year it meant an extra $1,200.
“They’ve got some kind of proportional scale they use,” Christian said of the foundation. “It’s not a
dollar-for-dollar match, but it’s definitely very helpful.”
Rottle approached her contacts in each school last year and asked them to go out into the community and find a business, organiza-tion or church to sponsor a school during the food drive and do a bit of a drive of their own. Christian will deliver barrels to whomever sponsors the school, weigh what’s collected and pick it up. What that organization brings in will be credited to the school it sponsors.
“My goal, some day, is to bring in 100,000 pounds of food. I know we can do it, but it is going to take the community’s help,” Rottle said. “I want this to become a whole commu-nity effort.”
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By ROBERT WHALE
Police have been issuing fewer citations to drivers caught by the lidless eyes of the red-light photo enforce-ment cameras.
Indeed, since last July, the cameras’ vendor, Arizona-based RedFlex, has spent more operat-ing the cameras than the City has taken in fines. That’s critical because the City uses the fine revenue to pay RedFlex for the cameras.
At the same time, the City allocates money from its general fund to pay for equipment and staff time, including a judge. It is no longer being reimbursed for that money.
Upshot: the program is running a deficit.
But as City Attorney Dan Heid reminded members of the Municipal Services Committee Monday, that is exactly where he and other officials had one day hoped to be when the first cameras went operational on June 30, 2006.
“We contemplated from the very beginning that this is what we wanted to have happen, where the results would show some reduction in the number of citations. And we are seeing that,” Heid said.
“It’s a good thing to see this, although I under-stand that we’re not paying for all the City’s costs,” said Public Works Direc-tor Dennis Dowdy. “There
are still a lot of benefits that the program has brought us.”
Committee Chairman Bill Peloza wanted to know where the City was pulling money from to make up the deficit, which is averaging about $15,000 a month.
“It’s coming from some-where, is it not?” Peloza asked.
The answer – it is not.City Finance Director
Shelley Coleman said that if the revenue in a given month exceeds the fixed amount in the Red-Flex invoice, the revenue would be applied toward the running deficit.
The deficit is left on the books as a negative until the City has the positive to pay for it. And if the City never gets the positive, it doesn’t pay.
“Basically, we’re run-ning a deficit on both the RedFlex account and on the City account,” said Coun-cilman Wayne Osborne. “And since we owe money to RedFlex, we will have to pay that back at some time – if we have the money to pay it back.”
Police Chief Bob Lee said the benefits exceed the costs.
“The cost savings to citizens and the city overall with the whole spectrum of collisions and injuries rollovers is far greater than the cost,” Lee said.
City’s red-light photo enforcement running in the red – and working
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2008 levy and is required to maintain current in-structional programs and services.
The Auburn High School construction bond was fail-ing as of Tuesday to reach the supermajority state law requires for the passage of bond measures. In the combined election results of King and Pierce counties, it collected 55.32 percent of the vote.
District officials put the bond forward to replace
the aging high school with a three-story brick struc-ture facing East Main and extending north to the Per-forming Arts Center. The present school was to have been leveled and replaced with a parking lot. All of the community activities were to have been clustered on the north side of the campus.
Supporters who’d gath-ered in the Auburn School District Board room to catch the results were happy about the levy, and while disappointed with the bond
results, optimistic about how far the measure had come on the district’s sec-ond attempt in four years.
Superintendent Kip Her-ren was hopeful about what such progress might mean for the future.
“We were 43 percent last time regarding this bond proposal, so we’re a good 12-percent higher,” Herren said. “And we’re going to finish higher, too. It’s re-ally indicative of the kind of turnaround for a good idea, a needed idea.”
Herren added that sev-
eral thousand votes remain to be counted.
“We’re not completely out of it with these numbers,” he said.
“I’m very happy about the levy, because it was very important that we pass that,” said school board member Janice Nelson. “Thank goodness for a simple majority. … I would have liked the
numbers to be higher on the bond, but 56 percent is pretty significant. I’ve seen them much lower. It’s a good sign though, because we can work with that in the future. It’s a little easier to go from 55 to 60 percent than from 45 percent to 60 percent.”
Auburn High School Principal Richard Zim-
merman, who is well acquainted with the infra-structure issues presented by a 62-year-old facility, had hoped for a different outcome.
“We were really hoping that we would be able to start moving forward right away. But we’ll have to wait a bit longer to see more of the results come in,” Zim-merman said.
[ election from page 1 ] Proposition 1: educational Programs levy
Yes no total %
King county 5,192 3,934 9,126 56.89
Pierce county 784 298 1,082 72.46
total 5,976 4,232 10,208 58.54
Proposition 2: Auburn High School Bond
Yes no total %
King county 4,926 4,223 9,149 53.84
Pierce county 733 348 1,081 67.81
total 5,659 4,571 10,230 55.32
resigned Nov. 30. City Engineer James Morgan resigned Jan. 23.
Sun decided not to renew the contract of City Attor-ney Al Abuan but gave him a 30-day notice, effective Jan. 17. Sun said Abuan will help the City during the transition to a new attorney.
Police Chief John Calkins, meanwhile, has been placed on paid administrative leave for misconduct stemming from an argument over the back-order purchase of new police vehicles after the Jan. 3 City Council meeting, Sun said.
On Feb. 6, Sun dismissed Community Services Direc-tor Linda Morris.
And that, he said, is just for starters.
“My job is beginning, the cleanup is only beginning,” said Sun, 81, a write-in
candidate who unseated two-term incumbent Rich Hildreth by 70 votes in the Nov. 8 general election. “Restaffing is in progress. I want people out there doing their jobs, not sitting behind desks shuffling papers.”
Fight is onSun had vowed to “kick
out” overpaid City employ-ees if elected. Now that he’s in office, however, the fight is on.
Critics claim Sun is forcing out well-qualified officials to advance his own political agenda.
Nothing of the sort, Sun responds. He wants change, greater efficiency and less spending.
“I have opposition,” he said. “The people want me out. They want to recall me.”
Despite the public outcry,
Sun is moving ahead with the business at hand while City staff remains in flux.
Morris was stunned by the notice. She said she and Sung had never discussed her position.
“A lot of seniors are upset on how all this went down,” said one Pacific senior citizen, who asked not to be identified. “Many are heartbroken on what the mayor has done to the (community) center.
“He has no idea of what he’s doing,” she said. “The mayor is doing whatever he wants to do right now, and he’s screwing up the city. It’s a mess. He’s listening to some very bad advice.”
Sun insists he had wanted to work with the preexisting staff, but differences made that impossible.
“I have my way of doing things,” he said. “I want to take things head on.”
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Clad in leather, clutching furry friends, Laura Garvin smiled at the large gather-ing.
And well she should smile — after all, Gavin’s partly responsible for that crazy Sunday afternoon every February when Auburn Regional Medical Center suc-cumbs to motorcycle madness.
Last weekend the 14th annual Teddy Bear Run attracted some 300 riders from 20 area clubs to ARMC. Rugged bikers, easy riders and motorcycle mamas, they all brought something soft and meaning-
ful for patients young and old to enjoy.
Collection bins brimmed with stuffed animals, dolls and other toys.
“We need these animals for the kids,” said Garvin, 64, the
big-hearted personality and primary coor-dinator of the annual event. “It makes all the difference in the world when they are scared or not feeling well … to be able to give them something to get better.”
The good medicine comes from caring motorcycle riders who rally for fun, cama-raderie and charitable causes.
Some of the most engaging and charm-ing people are those who tool down the road on Yamahas, Harley-Davidsons and Suzukis. Ordinary people, professionals and housewives, machinists and garden-ers, full-time students and part-time caregivers, coming together for a worthy cause.
The Teddy Bear Run shows what a dif-ference people can make for others.
The stuffed animals go to children who are seen in the hospital’s emergency
G U e S t e d I t O R I a l
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For the Auburn Reporter
Auburn has a history of investing in its future generations. Among the great examples are the Auburn Performing Arts Center, Game Farm Park, Auburn Symphony Orchestra and the Miss Auburn Scholarship Pageant.
Can you imagine a city without beautiful parks for our many youth and adult sports leagues to play? Or imagine an Auburn School District without the proper educational facilities to teach our children for tomorrow’s jobs? These timely and
necessary investments in the past are a true reflection of Auburn’s values.
This willingness to invest in Auburn was not built overnight. It’s a process respected by our community in only asking the taxpayers of Au-burn to address needs that preserve or enhance the fabric of our commu-nity. It’s the citizens leading and our government responding.
From this respected and trusted process, we ask this generation of Auburn to address our severely deteriorating roads. The roads that we are talking about are not the ones included in the Save Our Streets
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Auburn invests in future generations Timothy Kosaka participated in the Senate Page Program during the third week of the legislative session. Sen. Pam Roach, Auburn-R, sponsored him. Kosaka, a home-schooled freshman, is the son of Mark and Kongkwan Kosaka of Auburn. Students interested in the program should visit www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Administration/PageProgram/.COURTESY PHOTO
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Farewell, and thank you
It has been my great honor to serve the City of Pacific as community services director for these past two years.
I want to the thank the City Council, especially my Human Services Committee – Leanne Guier, Gary Hulsey, Tren Walker and Clint Steiger – and former mayor Rich Hildreth who supported the many new programs, services and projects that were added to better serve you. Their support helped the Community Center navigate through some rough spots.
A big thank you goes to all of the volunteers – about 60 peo-ple who serve 2,000-plus hours each quarter – who facilitate the amazing work that it takes to provide the services you are
receiving. Your participation has increased dramatically, but the budget did not.
Under my responsible stewardship, we created new programs and expanded exist-ing ones to meet your needs in spite of these tough financial
times. The credit really goes to the extraordinary team – Tina Callanan, community services assistant, and JoAnne Futch, Youth and Family Services coordinator.
Through collaboration with Pacific Partnerships, the City of Pacific’s primary community service organization, and the Community Center’s umbrella nonprofit organization, a vari-ety of exceptional services and products are available to you.
Together, we also have built a fun, enriching place at the Senior Activity Center.
Thank you, Algona Pacific Library, which sponsored Cas-par Babypants, a concert with 150 kids and family members singing and dancing in our gym, part of your expanded
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“They are so gener-ous,” said Joyce Glavish, director of marketing for Auburn Regional. “Some of the bikers are insane, but it’s so fun to see them.
“It’s so very important to have this event,” Glav-ish said. “It’s one of the special things in Auburn, where a community comes together to help kids this way.
“Over the past 10 years, the bikers have been very generous with their many donations. This year, we collected more than a thousand stuffed animals that hospital staff can give to kids to make them feel better if they need surgery, or emergency care, or simply need some
reassurance when they’re at the hospital.”
Bikers took a short, scenic ride, beginning at the South King Alano Club on Harvey Road, continuing through Au-burn and finishing in the hospital atrium, where lunch was served.
The Seattle Cossacks Motorcycle Stunt Team performed.
Garvin and others
have made the successful event possible. Garvin, a licensed practical nurse and stress test specialist at ARMC, asked hospital administrators years ago if they could host such an event. They said yes.
The inaugural event drew 35 bikers. Today, it averages between 200 and 300 riders.
“We love people, we love kids, and we love these causes and being active in our community,” Garvin said of the Teddy Bear Run.
Garvin is a latecomer to the motorcycle com-munity. A girlfriend invited her to try riding. At 52, she was hooked.
“I never thought I could ride a bike because I never knew anything about front brakes,” she said. “But let me tell you, it was amusing (repeated-ly falling off). I broke so many mirrors, I couldn’t tell you.”
Garvin eventually got past the jitters, not to mention the motorcycle safety course, to discover the open road.
She has travelled throughout the country on two wheels, sharing the ride with family and friends. She has made cross-country trips on her own.
Garvin belongs to a local chapter of Alky Angels, a clean and sober motorcycle group that sponsors the Teddy Bear Run. She also is part of other motorcycle organi-zations.
“I’m a front-seat girl,” said Garvin, who rides a Yamaha. “It’s heaven … pure serenity.
“I guess, maybe I am (fearless). I wanted to do it, really bad,” she said of riding. “I wanted to be a part of the motorcycle community because they are such a great bunch of people.”
[ KLAAS from page 5 ] dedicated funding, but are the ones that connect all of us to our jobs, goods and services, schools and busi-nesses throughout Auburn. We know that many of you have witnessed and expe-rienced these streets first hand, recognizing the need and the risk to public safety.
A citizens-led Arte-rial Streets Task Force was formed to look for solutions to address the problem and the best way to finance the solution. The task force was stunned to learn that nearly none of the state and fed-eral transportation-related taxes and fees that we pay as citizens and businesses come back to our city to help pay for the preserva-tion and maintenance of our major connector roads.
The task force agreed that a voter-approved bond measure would be the way to go because it
would immediately begin repairing our streets and be equitably placed upon the citizens and business community. Our proposed bond measure addresses 31 miles of our most critical connector streets through-out economic centers and neighborhoods that need to be rebuilt, patched and overlayed for these roads to stay open, safe and provid-ing for the needs of our community.
This April we will be asking you for your support to Keep Auburn Moving. This is the next investment in our future generations so that Auburn will stay open for business, our children will be safe on the roads and there will be jobs for generations to come.
Pete Lewis is mayor of Auburn. Michele Oosterink is chair of the Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce. Terry Davis is chair of the Arterial Streets Task Force.
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I encourage you to let your voices be heard. I am proud of what we built together. It is with a heavy heart, I say farewell as I get ready for my next adventure. – Linda Morris
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Mark Lovell, Washington’s Preci-sion Collision Auto Body marketing director, worked tirelessly over the past year to find a repairable van for Valley Cities’ homeless veterans supportive housing program at Valley Cities Land-ing in Auburn.
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T’s Auto Repair of Auburn, Abso-lute Mobility of Woodinville, Industry Graphics, Valet Detail and Goodyear Auto Service Center were among those who contributed to the van’s restoration.
According to Lovell, it is the first wheelchair van nationally that has been donated through the National Auto Body Council Recycled Rides Program.
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Building on its long tradition of successful PWY fundraising, the Auburn Valley Y has set an ambitious goal of $160,000.
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By SHAWN SKAGER
It was a simple statement, but it meant the world to first-year Auburn wrestling coach Dennis Herren.
“Assistant Coach (Tony) Vacca said to me that we will not be able to fit all our state qualifiers in one car,” Herren said. “And I smiled at that.”
With eight wrestlers – seven boys and one girl – moving on the Mat Classic XXIV cham-pionships Friday and Saturday at the Tacoma Dome, it looks like a bus ride is in order for the Trojans.
Auburn finished third in the team competition with 122.5 points at last Saturday’s 4A Region III meet at Thomas Jefferson High School.
The Trojans got regional championship performances from 106-pound senior Brian Alonzo and 152-pound senior Tilden Sansom.
For Alonzo, a team captain who finished fifth in the state at 103 pounds last year, the district title was vindication for his rocky start to the season.
“I was just trying to get down to my weight. I wasn’t too good at the beginning of the year,” Alonzo admitted.
Coming into the season, Alonzo tipped the scales at 120 pounds, 14 over his normal weight. Alonzo said it was his poor performance, a two-and-out showing at the Tri-State Tournament in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, that inspired him to turn it around.
“After a talk with coach, I just started building my self back up,” Alonzo said. “He told me that I’d have to wrestle harder, that I needed to stop acting like I deserved it.
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Auburn’s Tilden Sansom on his way to a 15-0 technical fall over Kentridge’s Daniel Crouch at the Region III wrestling tournament at Thomas Jefferson High School. RACHeL CIAMpI, Auburn Reporter
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Cameron Lindsay in the water at the 3A district swim meet at the Hazen pool. COURTeSY pHOTO, Tracy Arnold
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Lion swimmers win pair of district titlesBy SHAWN SKAGER
For Auburn Mountainview boys swimming coach Justin Pritchard, the West Central District III 3A 200-yard freestyle finals was as thrilling as it gets.
“We’d never won a district relay title before, and that race is kind of fun because it’s so fast,” he said. “I would say this was one of the most exciting races we’ve had.
“Luke (Lavine) goes into the water first and leads after a half-lap. And with the next two guys (Stephen Creed and Colin Lempert), we find ourselves maybe a stroke behind,” Pritchard said. “Then Cameron (Lindsay) goes in and had his best flip turn of the year. He went in behind and came out a stroke ahead. That was very exciting.”
At the end of the race, the Lions’ foursome posted the fastest time at the meet, with freshman Lavine, senior Creed, sophomore Lempert and junior Lindsay posting a school-record effort of 1 minute, 33.88 seconds. It was the program’s first-ever district title and it propelled the Lions into this weekend’s state championships at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.
“It was really cool. We just had a great sense of ac-complishment,” Creed said. “We were just hoping to get
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So I fixed a bunch of stuff, like my stance and just being into it more mentally.”
Now, on the eve of the state meet, Alonzo says he’s ready to compete for a 106-pound title.
“I want to win it,” he said.Alonzo’s teammate,
Sansom, who was seventh in the state at 145 last year, also returns to the Dome. And like Alonzo, Sansom says he weathered a rough stretch after the meet in northern Idaho.
“I lost two matches I shouldn’t have,” he said. “I don’t know if I was just thinking, ‘I was the man and had it made,’ but I was just feeling too good.”
Sansom went back to the basics and regained his focus.
“I’m feeling pretty good about where I’m at right now,” he said.
In addition to Sansom and Alonzo, the Trojans advanced three regional run-ner-ups in junior Josh Tate (152 pounds), junior Seth Mizoguchi (160) and junior James West (182).
Also earning state berths were senior Stephen Heinze (fourth at 170 pounds) and sophomore Tyson Gaillac
(fourth at 126).In girls action, defending
state champion Katrynia Todd swept the 137-pound bracket at the Region II meet at Emerald Ridge to return to the Mat Classic.
Pleased with the team’s performance at district, Her-ren is eager to see how his wrestlers respond at Tacoma.
“I know they’re good kids,” he said. “I’m glad to see them work toward their potential and show that. What’s really surprising is that they didn’t just move on, they made the finals and, in some cases, won the champi-onship.
“Mizoguchi is a league champion. James West is a two-time finalist. Even though they’re all doing surprisingly well, I still have higher expectations because I want them to fulfill their potential,” Herren said.
Mat Classic XXIV begins at 10 a.m. Friday and contin-ues at 10 a.m. Saturday.
ALSO: Auburn Riverside senior Nate Mead earned a spot at Mat Classic with a fourth-place finish at 145 pounds. Sophomore Larkin Williams also will compete at state, courtesy of his fourth-place finish at 285 pounds.
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a top four to make it to state. But then everybody just put together their best times. I guess we all wanted it.”
In addition to the relay team’s performance, Lindsay captured the 100 backstroke district title with a 52.98 finish.
Lindsay also was second
in the 200 individual med-ley with a time of 2:00.36, shaving more than four seconds off his preliminary time.
Also moving on to state is the Lions’ 200 medley relay team, which finished sixth at the district meet with a 1:47.20. The relay – Lindsay, Lempert, Lavine and junior Paul Whisman – snagged a wild-card spot for the state
meet.“Every year we get a little
more depth and a little bit stronger,” he added. “One thing about the boys is they never stop thinking they can go faster. They just love breaking any records that are on the board or each other’s records.”
The state 3A meet gets un-
der way at 9:45 a.m. Friday and continues Saturday.
ALSO: The Auburn Riv-erside 200-yard freestyle relay team, with Michael Baber, Mitch Bredl, James Marshall and Daniel Waller, competes in the 4A championships beginning at 2:30 p.m. Friday and continuing Saturday.
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The injury-beset Auburn Mountainview gymnastics team grit-ted out a second-place finish at the West Central District III/Southwest District 3A meet, earning a spot at this weekend’s state championships at the Tacoma Dome Exhi-bition Hall.
The Lions scored 158.425 points at Mount Rainier High School despite injuries to Sara Fiksdal (hyper-extended
elbow), Kelly Watrous (concussion) and Hanna Houch (pulled groin).
Enumclaw won the team title with 173.750 points.
“Considering all the injuries to the team, I feel we did great,” coach Jayme Hostetter said.
Fiksdal, who was 10th in the all-around with a 33.325, took second on the balance beam with a 8.950.
Cassie Hunt and Houck finished 17th and 18th all-around, with scores of 32.300 and
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Lauren Brudvik, Delaney Ralph, Vasha McQuarrie, Kristen Scott and Emily Morgan also contributed to the Lions’ finish.
Enumclaw’s Olivia Bannerot was first in the all-around field with a score of 37.200.
“What continues to surprise me the most is that all of the girls stepped up and did their best,” Hostetter said.
State competition be-gins Friday at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall.
“If we can keep the kids healthy the next week and just do what we do well, we should come home with a trophy, hopefully,” Hostetter said.
ALSO: Auburn Riverside senior Latia Coburn was fourth on the uneven bars at the district meet, earning a spot at the state 4A championships. Coburn scored a 9.025 on the bars.
Auburn Mountainview gymnasts on to state meet
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NO. 1818City of Pacific, Washington
On the 13th day of February, 2012, the City Council of the City of Pacific, Washington, passed Ordinance No. 1818. A summary of the content of said ordinances, consisting of their titles, provides as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 1818AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PACIFIC, WASHINGTON AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1814 THE CITY’S 2012 ADOPTED BUDGET ORDINANCE ATTACHMENT “A” The full text of these ordinances will be mailed upon request, in accordance with the City’s fee schedule,Dated the 13th day of February, 2012 Jane Montgomery, City Clerk Published in Auburn Reporter on February 17, 2012.#585819.
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NO. 1819City of Pacific, Washington
On the 13th day of February, 2012, the City Council of the City of Pacific, Washington, passed Ordinance No. 1819. A summary of the content of said ordinances, consisting of their titles, provides as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 1819AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PACIFIC, WASH- INGTON, AMENDING PACIFIC MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 14.48.110 AND 14.88.060 REGARDING WATER AND SEWER UTILITY LEAK ADJUST- MENTS FOR RESIDENTIAL AND NONRESIDENTIAL The full text of these ordinances will be mailed upon request, in accordance with the City’s fee schedule,Dated the 13th day of February, 2012 Jane Montgomery, City Clerk Published in Auburn Reporter on February 17, 2012.#585831
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NO. 1821City of Pacific, Washington
On the 13th day of February, 2012, the City Council of the City of Pacific, Washington, passed Ordinance No. 1821. A summary of the content of said ordinances, consisting of their titles, provides as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 1821AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PACIFIC WASH- INGTON, AMENDING PACIFIC MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 14.01.010 UTILITY BILLING TO ELIMINATE CUSTOMER DEPOSITS, ADD LIEN LANGUAGE, UPDATE THE ORDER IN WHICH UTILITY PAY-
MENTS ARE APPLIED, AND MODIFY LANGUAGE IN SECTIONS D, F, G, AND H. The full text of these ordinances will be mailed upon request, in accordance with the City’s fee schedule,Dated the 13th day of February, 2012 Jane Montgomery, City Clerk Published in Auburn Reporter on February 17, 2012. #585839.
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NO. 1822City of Pacific, Washington
On the 13th day of February, 2012, the City Council of the City of Pacific, Washington, passed Ordinance No. 1822. A summary of the content of said ordinances, consisting of their ti- tles, provides as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 1822AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PACIFIC, WASH- INGTON AMENDING PACIFIC MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 14.48.050 SEWER, 14.88.030 WATER, 24.16.050 STORM WATER, AND SECTION 8.04.235 GARBAGE REGARDING REDUCED UTILITY RATES FOR LOW INCOME SENIOR CITIZEN AND/OR LOWINCOME DISABLED CUSTOMERS The full text of these ordinances will be mailed upon request, in accordance with the City’s fee schedule,Dated the 13th day of February, 2012 Jane Montgomery, City Clerk Published in Auburn Reporter on February 17, 2012.#585852
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NO. 1823City of Pacific, Washington
On the 13th day of February, 2012, the City Council of the City of Pacific, Washington, passed Ordinance No. 1823. A summary of the content of said ordinances, consisting of their titles, provides as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 1823AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PACIFIC EXTEND- ING THE MORATORIUM ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA COLLECTIVE GARDENS, ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE, AND PROVIDING THAT THE MORATORIUM WILL SUNSET WITHIN TWELVE (12) MONTHS OF THE DATE OF ADOPTION. The full text of these ordinances will be mailed upon request, in accordance with the City’s fee schedule,Dated the 13th day of February, 2012 Jane Montgomery, City Clerk Published in Auburn Reporter on February 17, 2012. #585855.
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Doug was born in Pasco, WA on May 18, 1940, the second of five children to Marion and Martha Colley. He grew up on a wheat ranch in Connell, WA and graduated from Connell High School in 1958. He was an accomplished athlete playing football, basketball and was an All-State baseball player. After a semester at Washington State University, Doug joined the Army in 1959 and served five years in the 17th Artillery Division. Four of those years were spent in Korea and Germany. During that time he was selected to serve in President Eisenhower’s Honor Guard.
Doug then became an inspector for the Washington State Department of Agriculture where he worked for over 25 years. In 1982 he married his loving wife, Linda. Together they made a home in Auburn, Washington where they raised their three grandchildren.
Doug had a contagious laugh and a love for life that will be missed by all who knew him. He was most happy when spending time with his family, fishing, or working in his flower and vegetable gardens.
Doug was preceded in death by his parents, his brother, David Colley, and his step daughter, Heather Salsman. He is survived by his wife, Linda, of Auburn, grandchildren Jacob (Kayla) Salsman, Rebekah Salsman, and Joseph Salsman and three great grand-daughters all of Auburn. He is also survived by siblings Marilyn (Charles) Actor of Sherwood, Oregon, Patricia (David) Jones of Graham, Washington, Timothy (Faye) Colley of Hermiston, Oregon, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Interment was at Tahoma National Cemetery February 15th. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
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Laurie J. (Holz) StraightBorn on January 29, 1954 in Fargo, ND, she was a long time
resident of Auburn, WA. Passsed away February 1, 2012 at her home in Lilliwaup, WA. She lost her battle with pancreatic cancer. She is survived by her loving husband, Mike Straight; brothers, Howard, John, Steve and Jay Holz. Sisters, Patrice Fernandez and Janine Merryfield and many family and friends. She is preceded in death by father, Howard Holz; mother, Therese Holz; brother, Terry Holz; and sister, Rosanne Holz. She will always be remembered for her patience, kindness and
Loving Heart. A family memorial will be held at a later date.585485
The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 157 calls for service be-tween Feb. 6 and Feb. 12, among them the following:
Feb. 6Aid call: 8:05 a.m., (Pacific). Firefighters and King County Medics helped a man suffering a possible diabetic problem, and medics drove him to Auburn Regional Medical Center.
Feb. 8Aid call: 6:47 p.m., (South Auburn). A vehicle hit a teenage boy as he was crossing a street. Firefighters treated the boy at the scene for hand and foot injuries, and a private ambulance drove him to ARMC in stable condition.
Feb. 9Aid call: 11:53 a.m., (Lea Hill). An Auburn Mountainview High School student fell and sustained a chest injury. Firefighters examined the girl, and a private ambulance drove her to ARMC for further evalu-ation.
Feb. 10Passenger vehicle fire: 3:12 p.m., (Auburn). Firefighters responding to a passenger vehicle fire at an Auburn auto sales dealership arrived to find that, with the exception of the still-smoldering, charred front passenger section, employees had just about put out the fire.
Feb. 12Service call: 8:03 p.m., (Lea Hill). Firefighters shut off a broken water line in an apartment, limiting the damage.
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Auburn police responded to the fol-lowing calls for service, among many others, between Feb. 8 and Feb. 12.
Feb. 8Burglary: Overnight, 1015 24th St. NE. A person, or persons, unknown pulled costumes through the open window of room 306 at Cascade Mid-dle School then dumped powdered poster paint over them and onto the ground. Officers found several broken Old English brand beer bottles on the ground by the window. The intruders also used the poster paint to write “MK” on the outside walls of the school and on the grass.
Feb. 9Theft of services: 1 p.m., 801 Auburn Way N. Apparently dissatisfied with her ‘do, a woman refused to pay for services Third Dimension Hair Salon had ren-dered to the hairs upon her head.
Trespassing: 5:08 p.m., 1346 6th St. NE. Somebody at a home for sale ren-dered him or herself so obnoxious that he or she got the scramola.
Feb. 10Shoplifting: 3:30 p.m., 1101 Super-mall Way SW. A man stole jackets from an undisclosed business at the Super-Mall on Feb. 6. Employees recognized the man upon his return four days later when he selected several coats from displays and fled with the goods. Police arrested the man in a vehicle as he was trying to make his getaway. Police also arrested the driver for motoring with a suspended license and possessing drug paraphernalia, and busted a passenger for a warrant.Marijuana: 5:26 p.m., 1424 Supermall Way SW. Somebody found a small bag containing a suspicious, green leafy substance on the floor of The Men’s Wearhouse.Credit card / ATM fraud: 11:30 p.m., 1000 block of 6th Street Southeast. Somebody slithered into an unlocked car and stole a woman’s purse. Some-body, maybe the same person, maybe not, later used the woman’s debit card at three separate locations.
Feb. 12Disorderly conduct: 3:08 a.m., 2802 Auburn Way N. A fellow beat so vigorously upon the windows and directed such a stream of colorful, exotic phraseology at shocked patrons of the Sports Page Bar and Grill that police showed up and arrested him.
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Teachers, students and parents are convinced it is a worthy tool. They give it a genuine thumbs-up.
“It’s a wonderful pro-gram,” said Chantal Balda-cci, an English Language Learners and French teacher. “It raises their grades. It gives them the help they need.”
For some students, CORE/Choice participation deter-mines whether they meet standards, pass or fail a class.
Alarmed at the initial high number of D and F grades students recorded in early
2010, school officials de-cided to step in. They wanted exclusively to target high apathy, low attendance and additional underperform-ing pupils, especially among sophomores.
“We were a little shocked at first,” Principal Terri Herren said of the high failure rate. “We needed to do something … and we couldn’t wait.”
Looking for answers, Auburn Mountainview found an applicable inter-vention program that had worked elsewhere. School leaders decided to adapt to models used successfully at Enumclaw and Tumwater high schools.
“We found it does impact student productivity and success in school,” said Steve
DuBay, assistant principal. “We have a segment in our population that does need some intervention, needs some extra time in the day. And it’s not necessarily instructional time, it’s time in which to make up work and consult with a teacher.”
Since the program’s launch last fall, the high number of below-average grades has begun to dwindle.
“It seems to be working. It’s still not perfect,” Herren admitted. “It will be a long process, but we need the kids to know that we care and that we’re here to sup-port them.”
The morning period fits most kids’ schedules.
“We used to try and do after-school tutoring,
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And many students are occupied with extracurricu-lar activities after school, like club events, music, theater and sports.
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Attendance is up, and discipline problems are down.
Feedback has been posi-tive.
“It’s like catch-up,” said Heena Kumar, a junior. “I use the extra time to prepare. You see, I have a Spanish test coming up.”
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