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AUBURN WELCOMES NEW ANIMAL SHELTER
Kelley Durham, executive director at the Auburn Valley Humane Society animal shelter, talks to Girl Scouts about the new facility. Below right, Dr. Emily Purvis, veterinarian board member at the shelter, shows Tyger, a cat who is available for adoption.RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
By SHAWN SKAGER
Citizens of beleaguered Pacific got a New Year’s Eve reprieve when the City Council voted unanimously to approve payment
for a new insurance policy.The City will pay more than
$227,000 in 2013 for the policy through the Lexington and Land-mark insurance companies. The new policy provides the City with $5 million of coverage.
“I am very relieved that we’re able to keep the City intact and move forward,” Council President Leanne Guier said. “It’s going to cost us some money, but it will get us through.”
With Pacific’s old insurance
policy set to expire at midnight Dec. 31, the City was facing the possibility of heading into the new year without liability insurance. Without it, City workers, police and elected officials would be
Leanne Guier
Crisis averted: Pacific acquires insurance
[ more PACIFIC page 3 ]
By ROBERT WHALE
The King County Prosecutor has charged an Auburn man with second-degree murder in the stab-bing death of 26-year-old Oliver Quinn in the early morning hours of Dec. 24.
Bradley Percy Courville, 24, also faces one count of disarming the law enforce-ment officer guarding him, one count of third-degree assault for attacking the officer and, as a convicted felon, one count of first degree unlawful possession
of a firearm.Courville waits in King
County Jail on $2 million bail.
Police were called to 4023 Auburn Way S. for a stabbing shortly after 1 a.m. When officers arrived, Quinn was unconscious and bleeding from a stab wound to the neck. Offi-cers and medics tried CPR but pronounced him dead at the scene.
According to the Au-burn police department’s affidavit of probable cause, which forms the basis for
Prosecutors charge man in fatal stabbing
[ more STABBING page 3 ]
By ROBERT WHALE
It’s not enough to say the dog caught the eye – from the first moment Patricia Cosgrove saw her, she filled it.
When you’re a black Great Dane as big as a Buick, it’s hard to pass un-noticed – even if you’re lost and all on your own.
“I saw her long before Thanksgiving at the fire-
works stand on the hill, and two weeks later I saw her in Les Gove Park,” Cosgrove said of the huge dog.
The last sighting was Sunday evening, when Cosgrove saw the dog trot-ting alongside busy traffic on Auburn Way South.
“It’s driving me nuts,” said Cosgrove, director of the White River Valley Museum.
Friends looking to find, secure home for Great Dane
[ more DOG page 2 ]
By ROBERT WHALE
Auburn’s community animal shelter opened right on schedule Tuesday at its new home on A Street Southeast.
That means that in addition to the shelter on A Street and Auburn once again having its own
animal control officer, all pet licenses are now issued through the City, not King County.
On Dec. 28, the Auburn Valley Humane Society cel-ebrated with an auction and ribbon cutting at Emerald Downs, punctuated by a night of live mu-sic and hors d’oeuvres to celebrate
and honor the charter members and the new facility.
[ more SHELTER page 2 ]
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Movie NightSustainability
January 17, 2013 6:00* - 9:00 PM Auburn Riverside Theatre, located at Auburn Riverside High School501 Oravtez Rd., Auburn
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This event is presented by the City of Auburn’s Solid Waste & Recycling Division and funded through the City of Auburn Water & Storm Divisions and a Coordinated Prevention Grant from the Department of Ecology.
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Watch for postcard with program details and guidelines coming in mid-December. Businesses with a
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Residents who live within the city limits of Auburn may be able to recycle their Christmas tree and organic wreaths at their curbside for no additional cost. For more information call 253-931-3038, option #2.
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VFW Post 1741 members, from left, Auburn Councilmember Bill Peloza, Mayor Pete Lewis and 2009/2010 VFW Commander-in-Chief Richard Eubank, take a break during a recent reception in Auburn at the Post 1741 home for the former commander-in-chief. Eubank was on a Northwest recruiting trip and stopped off at the 2011/2012 All American Post 1741 accompanied by VFW state officers. COURTESY PHOTO.
Special visit
The dog has picked up a limp, and after at least two months on her own, is looking mighty bedraggled and down on her luck.
The bright news is that one of Cos-grove’s dog-loving friends has agreed to take the Great Dane, so Cosgrove has put out a reward for anyone willing to catch her.
“It’s not easy with a Great Dane,” Cos-grove said. “She’s big, and shy and nearly impossible to catch. I can’t imagine how she’s managing with the little winter coat a Great Dane has.”
And how will people recognize her?“She creates a huge black silhouette.
She’s pony sized for Pete’s sake,” Cosgrove said.
For details, call Cosgrove at 253-261-6547.
[ DOG from page 1 ]
The event raised more than $9,000 for the shelter.
Shelter Director Kelley Durham said there will be an open house from 12 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 19. The ribbon cutting is at 11:30 a.m.
The doors will be open from 12 to 4 p.m. until Jan. 5.
Even though the doors are open, Durham said, there are still needs to be met.
“We mostly need dog and cat food, cat litter, dog toys, cat toys, bleach and stainless steel food bowls,” Durham said. “As for volunteers, we need foster homes, volunteers to answer phones, dog kennel cleaners and cat condos cleaners.”
In February 2010, Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis, Councilman John Partridge, a community veterinarian and a con-cerned citizen met to talk about the future of animal care in the Auburn. For more than 30 years, the City had contracted the sheltering of its homeless animals with the services of the regional program provided by King County Animal Control (KCAC).
In 2010, budget short-falls forced KCAC to change its service model and shift administrative costs to the participating member cities.
The change produced unsustainable costs and resulted in reduced services.
The initial conversa-tion that occurred in 2010 led to today’s Auburn
Valley Humane Society. The group has grown over the past two years, with a board comprised of Auburn veterinarians, area business owners and citizens. The primary goal was to establish an independent local animal shelter aimed at caring for Auburn Valley’s lost, stray and abandoned pet population.
The shelter also will serve as a community education center where pets and people can come together and where people can expect pet-related seminars from lo-cal veterinarians and staff on topics ranging from grooming to diabetes.
For more information or to help, visit auburn-valleyhs.org.
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AubuRn CiTy COunCiLmEmbER biLL PELOzA has been appointed as vice chair of the National League of Cities’ Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee in 2013. Peloza’s appointment was announced on Dec. 18 by NLC President Marie Lopez Rogers, the mayor of Avondale, Ariz. The committee is responsible for developing policy positions on issues involving air quality, water quality, energy, national wetlands, noise control, and solid and hazardous waste management.
Welcoming party: Girl Scouts joined the public, volunteers and staff to usher in the new Auburn Valley Humane Society community animal shelter on New Year’s Day. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
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Sen. Joe Fain (R-Auburn) recently hosted the Leadership Institute of South Puget Sound for a behind-the-scenes tour at the state Capitol. Fain organized information sessions, a speaking panel and tour for 23 current and future business and government leaders from South King County. This is the second year Fain has hosted and organized a day in Olympia for the Leadership Institute. “I was pleased to take a group with passion and interest in our community through the lawmaking process,” Fain said. “Knowing about state government will help them become more involved and effective when working on behalf of residents and businesses in South King County.” The legislative session begins Jan. 14. COURTESY PHOTO.
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personally liable while on the job, effectively halting City services.
“Personally, if we would not have had insurance, I would have resigned tonight,” Councilman Joshua Putnam said after the meeting.
In addition, the council was considering such drastic long-term measures as disincorporation or annexing into neighboring Auburn. Resolutions regarding those possibilities have been tabled permanently.
Pacific’s new insurance costs the City about $80,000 more than the previous policy and provides about half the liability coverage.
“It’s not something we want to have long term, but realistically it’s the best we can get in our current situa-tion,” Putnam said.
The City’s previous insur-ance policy through the Cities Insurance Associa-tion of Washington (CIAW) was cancelled effective midnight on Dec. 31.
On July 2, the CIAW provided the City with a letter canceling its member-ship in the CIAW effective at the end of 2012, “due to the instability of Pacific’s government operations,” CIAW Chairman Wes Crago wrote.
“In that letter the board stated that it would recon-sider its decision if ‘swift, concrete and verifiable deeds’ evidenced a more stable and professional environment with the City of Pacific,” Crago wrote. “One indicated example was the board’s de-sire to see key staff positions filled by Pacific.”
At the time of the July letter, every department head in the City had either resigned or been fired by Mayor Cy Sun.
And although Sun eventu-ally began filling positions at City Hall – including being mandated by a civil service commission to reinstate Public Safety Director John Calkins and hiring a city clerk – it was simply too little, too late, according to Crago’s statement.
“No personnel were hired until Oct. 28, 2012, and only then following a court order,” he wrote.
Sun is facing possible recall, with the State Su-preme Court set to make a decision on whether to put a vote in front of residents this spring.
Despite the controversy swirling around Sun, how-ever, Guier said the council was committed to working with him.
“He has told us that he realizes that he has made some mistakes and that he wants to do it differently,” Guier said. “I’m hoping that he sticks with that, but we’ve heard that before.”
“It’s going to require co-operation between the may-or and the council, whether it’s the current mayor or a new one,” Putnam said. “It’s going to require a func-tional city government. We cannot have one branch totally disconnected from another branch.”
Despite the recall cam-paign and calls for his resig-nation, Sun was upbeat about the City’s future on Monday.
“My message for the peo-ple of Pacific is not to worry at all,” Sun said. “We’ve got a bang-up team going.”
[ pacific from page 1 ] the charges, a woman at the scene told police that Quinn had come into the residence from outside after being stabbed and told her that “Red Cloud,” Quinn’s cousin, Coure-ville, had stabbed him.
Shortly afterward, Courville emerged from some bushes and identi-fied himself to officers.
According to the affida-vit, when detectives later asked Courville what had happened, he said that he had been experiencing a spiritual moment when he took a butcher knife from the residence and went outside. While outside, Courville allegedly said, Quinn had called him a
“bitch,” so he stabbed him in the neck.
While detectives were interviewing Courville at the Auburn Police Department, according to the affidavit, he tried to escape from the interview room by assaulting the officer guarding him, and that during the struggle he removed the officer’s gun from its holster. The officer, however, disarmed Courville before he could do any more harm.
“The defendant ad-mitted to stabbing the victim in the neck simply because the victim called him a name,” Deputy Prosecutor John B. Castle-ton Jr. told the court in asking for the high bail.
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State Sen. Pam Roach (R-Auburn) hosts five 31st District town hall meet-ings prior to the upcom-ing legislative session.
The first meeting is 10 a.m. Saturday at the Auburn Library, 1140 Auburn Way N.
“I look forward to hear-ing from citizens in our district. Any issues are fair game. The upcoming budget, education con-cerns, CPS violations, tax restraints, and so forth,” Roach said.
“This session I will be chairing the Senate Governmental Operations Committee and I will discuss some of my pri-
orities for the committee,” Roach said.
Roach can be reached at her Olympia office during session at 360-786-7660 or through email at [email protected].
Other meetings scheduled: 1 p.m. Jan. 5, Enumclaw Library, 1700 First St.; 10 a.m. Jan. 12, Edgewood City Hall, 2224 104th Ave. E; 10 a.m. Jan. 19, Bonney Lake Fire Station 11, 18421 Veterans Memorial Drive E.; and 1 p.m Jan. 19, South Prairie Community Center, 121 NW Washington St.
The legislative session begins Jan. 14.
Sen. Roach hosts 5 town hall meetings
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An Auburn child mo-lester convicted 19 years ago of molesting a young child is behind bars once more for allegedly asking a 12-year-old girl to strip to use his computer.
Jeremy J. Schade, 36, tried to get the girl, a neigh-bor, to take off some of her clothes Nov. 4, according to charging documents in King County Superior Court.
King County Prosecutors are charging Schade with immoral communication with a minor.
Schade was arraigned Thursday morning and pleaded not guilty. Case set-ting is scheduled for Jan. 10.
In asking for $200,000 bail, Deputy Prosecutor Richard L. Anderson said
that Schade had admitted his crime to the girl’s family.
“The defendant acknowl-edged that he ‘messed up’ to the victim’s family and subsequently admitted to investigators that he asked the victim to remove her clothes.
“The state has concerns that the defendant poses a risk for future criminal behavior given the allega-tion and the defendant’s prior history of offending,” Anderson said.
According to court documents, the girl had just cleaned Schade’s apart-ment for extra cash and asked to use his computer. Schade agreed but allegedly added she could use it if she removed her clothing. She removed her shirt, covered herself with a blanket, used the computer and went home.
Later that evening, according to the affidavit, the girl’s mother checked through her text mes-sages and found a message apparently from Schade’s son asking the girl to delete her texts so that his father would not get into trouble. When the girl’s mother asked what the text was referring to and learned of the incident, she and the girl’s stepfather went to Schade’s apartment to confront him and his son.
Schade wasn’t there, but the son stated that his father had actually sent the text.
Auburn officers ar-rested Schade shortly after learning of the allegations. Schade is alleged to have admitted to police that he told the girl “to do something inappropriate” but suggested he was only kidding.
CRIME alERtThis week’s…
Police Blotter
Fire & Rescue Blotter
the Valley Regional Fire authority re-sponded to 207 calls for service between Dec. 24 and Dec. 30, among them the following:
Dec. 24Aid call: 12:23 p.m., (Pacific). Firefight-ers evaluated an older man complaining of weakness and found possible internal bleeding. a private ambulance whisked the man off to MultiCare auburn Medical Center (MaMC) in stable condition.
Dec. 25Vehicle fire: 10:57 p.m., (lakeland Hills). Firefighters snuffed out a vehicle fire in a carport, limiting the fire to the car.
Dec. 26 Aid call: 8:27 a.m., (lea Hill). Firefight-ers examined an older fellow suffering with back pains before arranging for a
private ambulance to transport him to MaMC.
Dec. 27Aid call: 12:39 p.m., (auburn). Firefighters responding to a car versus semi-truck accident at the 4100 block of a Street Southeast found a single person in the car, whom they released at the scene with a minor injury. Nobody else was hurt.
Dec. 28 Aid call: 8:48 a.m., (auburn). Firefight-ers treated a man who was having difficulty speaking, showing signs and symptoms consistent with a stroke. a private ambulance transported the man to MaMC.
Dec. 29 Automatic fire alarm 10:55 a.m., (auburn). Firefighters responding to a fire alarm at a restaurant within the Supermall learned from mall security that grill cleaning had set off the alarm. Mall maintenance replaced the detector and reset the system.
Dec. 30Residential fire: 3:31 p.m., (Bonney lake). Firefighters responded, as mutual aid, with East Pierce Fire and Rescue to a residential fire. the firefighters from the Valley Regional Fire authority helped East Pierce Fire and Rescue until the fire was out. the fire caused only minimal damage to the home.
auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between Dec. 27 and 29:
Dec. 27Vandalism: 10:50 a.m., 28900 124th avenue SE. a vending machine at Mountainview High School was vandalized.
Vandalism: 6:56 p.m., 12401 SE 320th St. a bus was sitting sta-tionary at a stop and somebody shot out its windows.
Assault with a knife: 11:50 a.m., 801 auburn Way N. an adult male made threats to an-other adult male at Fred Meyer, stating he would “put him in the
ground” while holding a knife. the suspect was taken into cus-tody for felony harassment.
Agency assist with warrant: 2:55 p.m., 340 E. Main St. adult male arrested on a warrant.
Vandalism: Overnight, 601 Oravetz Road SE. an outhouse at a local park was destroyed.
Dec. 29Vandalism: 6 a.m., 300000 block of 127th Place Southeast. a rear window and right tail light were damaged.
Shoplifting: 7:30 p.m., 762 Supermall Drive SW. an adult male was arrested for shoplifting three bottles of hard alcohol. It was discovered that the male had also shoplifted three bottles of alcohol the previous day.
Vehicle theft: 10 a.m., 6100 block of South 296th Court. a ve-
hicle was stolen from a driveway.
Auto theft: 9 a.m., 5800 block of terrace View lane Southeast. a car was stolen from the Belara apartments.
Burglary: Overnight, 31317 124th avenue SE. a commercial burglary occurred at a church.
Shoplifting: 1:15 p.m., 762 Supermall Drive SE. a female and male were arrested for shoplift-ing at Walmart.
Shoplifting: 3:45 p.m., 102 Cross St. SE. an adult male shoplifted a beverage from the Grocery Outlet.
Shoplifting: 6:30 p.m., 1101 Supermall Way. an adult female was arrested for shoplifting from Nordstrom Rack.
Shoplifting: 10:31 p.m., 801 auburn Way N. a female was arrested for shoplifting.
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Firefighters from the Valley Regional Fire Authority put out a house fire in Auburn Tuesday, displacing five adults.
There were no reported injuries to civilians or
firefighters.At 11:06 a.m. the VRFA
responded to a report of smoke coming from roof vents of a residence in the 300 block of Park Avenue Northeast.
Firefighters evacu-ated one elderly female
resident. Four other adults who lived in the residence also were safe and assisted by the Red Cross.
The fire was contained to the attic area.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Convicted sex offender faces new charges
Attic fire displaces 5 adults in Auburn
the Puget Sound Clean air agency has issued a Stage One burn ban for Pierce County. Until further notice, no wood burning is allowed in fireplaces, uncertified wood stoves, or outdoors – including recre-ational fires such as campfires or bonfires.the only exception to the ban is for houses where the only adequate source of heat is a wood stove.Wood burning during a ban may result in a fine of up to $1,000.
Burn ban in effect in Pierce County
Shots fired toward Pacific residence
Pacific Police reported that several shots were
fired at a house in the 500 block of Blueberry Street in Pacific on Sunday.
According to police, a pedestrian shooter fired four shots into an upstairs bedroom at the house.
Although the bedroom was occupied, no injuries were reported.
A K-9 unit was called to the scene but was unable to locate the shooter.
There is no suspect informaton at this time.
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Driving with an attitude
It is only a snapshot, a gauge of self-report-ed driving behavior on our roadways.
But some things are clear from a recently released Washington Traffic Safety Commis-sion (WTSC) survey.
For one, we are honest with ourselves when it comes to how we act behind the wheel. And second, we need to do a bet-ter job of steering away from hard-to-kick, unsafe driving habits.
Data was collected at select Department of Licensing (DOL) locations throughout the state. DOL patrons were approached and drivers aged 18 years and older who were
renewing their driver’s licenses were asked to complete the brief survey while they wait.
To summarize, the survey said:• Three-quarters of
Washington drivers thought they were likely
to get a ticket for going 68 mph on a freeway posted for 60.• Three-quarters of drivers surveyed
thought they were likely to get a ticket if they did not wear their seat belt.• More than 90 percent thought they were
likely to get arrested if they drove drunk.• More than three-quarters of all drivers
surveyed reported talking on a cell phone or sending or receiving a text message while driving. Cell phone and texting behavior varied substantially with age. “There are some things that are alarming,
surprising … cell phone use … and reported drinking and driving behavior,” said Staci Hoff, WTSC research manager.The National Highway Traffic Safety
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?Question of the week:“Are you optimistic about a brighter, better 2013?”
Vote online:www.auburn-reporter.comLast week’s poll results:“Do you always fulfi l l your New Year ’s resolutions??”No: 94% Yes: 6%
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The 2012 election has set the direction for America’s health care system. The Af-fordable Care Act (ACA), or ObamaCare, will continue to be implemented until it is fully in place in 2018.
What will this mean for Washingtonians?
Everyone will pay more for health care in the form of either money or time. Sixty percent of the $1.76 tril-
lion cost of ObamaCare will be funded by 22 new or expanded taxes. These taxes will be placed on health insurance premi-ums, insurance and drug companies and medical device manufacturers. For these businesses to
remain solvent, the taxes will have to be passed on to anyone who uses health care.
The “rich” – defined as anyone earning more than $200,000 per year – will have to pay an addition-al 0.9 percent payroll tax and a new 3.8 percent tax on unearned in-come such as dividend and capital gains. The $200,000 income level is fixed and will not increase over the years with inflation. That means as wages increase, more workers will find themselves pushed into the “rich” category.
The remaining 40 percent of funding for ObamaCare will come from a $716 billion cut in Medi-care. Most of these cuts will result in less pay for providers, who already have a difficult time paying for their overhead with Medicare’s low reimbursement rate. Fewer doctors will be able to treat Medi-care patients.
It is anticipated that one out of seven hospitals will be forced to close for financial reasons. These cuts will have a severe impact by limiting medical access for the
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Congress must reinstate ban on assault weapons
We live in a politically polarized and divisive time. But surely, in the wake of the horrific school shooting in Connecticut that killed 20 children and six adults, we can come together to force our leaders to ban all semi-automatic assault weapons and high-capacity ammuni-tion magazines.
We can no longer simply grieve from the sidelines – after the fact – for far-away victims. We fool ourselves by thinking that tragedies like the one that visited Sandy Hook Elementary only happen “somewhere else.”
Congress must reinstate the assault weapons ban – the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994 – which was allowed to
expire in 2004.We can no longer allow the
National Rifle Association (NRA) or other special inter-ests to use political extortion and pressure tactics to prevent us from enacting common-sense legislation.I’m not naïve. Nothing can
keep us absolutely safe. But we must do what we can to minimize the likelihood that weapons designed solely for mass killing are no longer available.
And let’s be clear: few are advocating for a ban on handguns or hunting weap-ons. The slippery slope argu-ment that the NRA espouses is a canard used to prevent reasonable legislation that even numerous NRA mem-bers favor.
What will it take for our po-litical representatives to finally take action – a mass murder at a day-care facility, a hospital, an old-age home? Let’s hope not.
To locate your congres-sional representatives, visit www.votesmart.org. Contact them and demand action now.– Aaron Halabe
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residents annually for their opinions about driving and their awareness of enforcement campaigns.
The WTSC uses the sur-vey results to track trends and evaluate the effective-ness of programs, particu-larly with drivers involved in fatal crashes.
“Evaluating drivers’ attitudes and awareness is very important to us,” said Darrin Grondel, direc-tor of the WTSC. “This information shows us the best ways we can reach our goals in Target Zero.”
Target Zero is the state’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan with a vision of no traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030.
For the most part, more than half of all Wash-ington drivers reported knowledge of enforcement campaigns. Wearing seat belts in the Evergreen State continues to be a big success story for traffic
and safety leaders.A newly-released
federal report shows that Washington had the high-est seatbelt use rate in the nation in 2011 at 97.5 per-cent. It marks the seventh consecutive year Washing-ton’s seatbelt use rate has been above 95 percent.
But Hoff admits more work needs to be done in other areas, notably cell phone abuse behind the wheel.
“It’s a lot higher than we would like it to be,” Hoff said of the numbers.
Hoff is working on tracking trends. That year-to-year report is due in several months and may reveal more information and insight.
In the meantime, some government, policymakers and industry officials are making changes.
The Metropolitan King County Council voted Nov. 5 to create the traffic offense of “inattentive
driving.” The state already prohibits most forms of electronic distracted driving, but the county law adds activities such as wrangling children, putting on make-up and eating.
The King County law calls for secondary enforcement and fines of $124. It goes into effect with the new year.
Distracted driving killed 122 people in King County between 2004 and 2008, safety researchers reported.
The WTSC intends to do its part to put the word out, design marketing campaigns to target drivers and unsafe habits. It wants to make an impact. This is a never-ending quest.
If anything, more driv-ers are aware of what they are doing – and not doing – behind the wheel.
The 2011 Washington Driver Survey Report is avail-able at www.wtsc.wa.gov.
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Time for state action on guns
Washington’s recent votes on marriage equality and marijuana use have finally pressured the federal gov-ernment and U.S. Supreme Court to review how these issues are dealt with at a national level.
I would urge every-one who is appalled and concerned about the recent violence and the regular stream of gun-related violence in this country, to put pressure not only on our federal representatives, but also our state represen-tatives.
Our state could and
should have among the strictest gun laws in the country, yet the continual lack of response from both representatives and citizens suggests that we are content to leave weapons in the hands of fragile human be-ings. Washington could and should, be at the vanguard of meaningful change.
In 1996, a similar school shooting at Dunblane in Scotland, prompted the UK government to quickly ban all handguns.
This is what a capable, effective and representa-tive government can do. It’s time for our lawmakers to stop talking the game and start acting.– Lyndon Heywood
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900,000 recipients of Medicare in our state. As the Baby Boomer genera-tion retires, combined with fewer doctors, this access problem and longer waiting lines will become much worse.
After removing 5 percent for administrative costs to pay for the 160 new govern-ment agencies, the remain-der of the $1.76 trillion will be spent on an expansion of Medicaid and for subsidies for individuals to purchase health insurance in the state exchanges.
An additional 350,000 to 500,000 people will be added to the 1.2 million individuals in the existing Medicaid program in our state. Medicaid is in even worse financial shape than Medicare and provider reimbursements are even lower.
Consequently our existing Medicaid patients find it difficult to find a doctor and access health care services. Government officials are pleased that thousands of new patients will be put into Medicaid. It will appear to reduce the number of uninsured, but in practice access to health care will be severely limited for these new enrollees.
Washington is one of only 15 states that have already established a health insurance exchange. The exchange will duplicate the role of an insurance broker at an estimated cost to state taxpayers of at least $50 million per year. The exchange will provide taxpayer subsidies to indi-viduals earning less than
400 percent of the federal poverty level ($92,000 for a family of four last year) to help them purchase health insurance.
It is likely many middle-class families will be forced into the state exchange, as employers cancel their health coverage.
Benefits and pricing for the plans in the exchange will be determined by the government. There will be very little competition in the exchange and consum-ers will find very little choice in insurance plans.
Premium prices will increase until government regulators set limits. Private insurance companies will at that point become public utilities, like energy com-panies.
Exit polls in Washington done by Edison Media Research for the Associ-ated Press reveal that 50 percent of state voters wanted some or all of the ACA repealed with only 40 percent wanting the law to stay intact. These percents mirror national figures of 49 percent favoring repeal and 44 percent wanting the law to stay in place.
ObamaCare will soon control one-sixth of our national economy and will affect everyone’s health care. Although outright re-peal is now unlikely, radical changes are needed in this complex, centrally planned and unwanted law.
Dr. Roger Stark is a retired surgeon and a health care policy analyst with Washington Policy Center, a nonpartisan independent policy research organization in Washington state. For more information, visit washingtonpolicy.org.
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DONATe TODAY: Auburn Food Bank, 930 18th Place NE. For more information or to volunteer, call 253-833-8925 or visit www. theauburnfoodbank.org.
AuburN’S WhiTe river buDDhiST TempLe hosts the 66th Northwest Buddhist Convention on Feb. 15-17 at the DoubleTree Suites Hotel at Southcenter
in Tukwila. The public is encouraged to attend. Registration is open until Jan. 6. More information: www.nwconvention.com or www.wrbt.org.
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By ROBERT WHALE
Kid Savvy Consignment in downtown Auburn has just expanded.
The store, 121 E. Main St., sells new and gently used babies’ and children’s clothing, furniture and toys.
“Our third anniversary, which was Nov. 12, we went from 900 square feet to 1,800 square feet, so we doubled our size,” said Lynessa Dobbins, co-owner of the store with her mother, Melanie Dobbins. “Basically, we were
just busting out of the seams, and we wanted to create a more friendly and shoppable envi-ronment for our customers.”
A bright store with colorful items every-where, often ringing with the cheering sound of small children. Photos of each her four kids line the west wall.
“We sell anything kids, newborn to size 14 clothes, toys, furniture, books. I mean, the sky’s the limit.” Lynessa Dobbins said.
Store hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Mon. - Fri. and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.
KID SAVVY IS GROWING UP
Lynessa Dobbins’
store has a wide variety of clothing,
furniture and toys for babies
and children.ROBERT WHALE, Auburn Reporter
FOR THE REpORTER
Eight Auburn Riverside High School student-musicians have been selected into the All-State Honor Groups sponsored by the Washington Music Educators Associa-tion (WMEA) and the Na-tional Associa-tion for Music Education.
The students are: Sumner Brock (bari sax); Kristina Brockett (clarinet); Marissa Brookhart (bass clarinet); Doug Berry (euphonium); Kyle Johnson (trum-pet); Ariana Kupai (trombone); Jacob Hil-lard (tuba); and Aaron Howard (percussion).
Additionally, three ARHS student-musi-cians – Austin Bastrom (oboe), Adam Benabid (trombone) and Steven Summers (trombone) – have been selected to participate in the 2013 NAfME All-Northwest performing groups. This is the first year ARHS has had students selected for the honor.
Students will join more than 1,000 other high school student-musicians during the 59th WMEA State and NAfME Northwest Division Conference in Portland on Feb. 14-17. Student-musicians
in each of these musical genres will rehearse together under the direction of
world-renowned conductors and
present a gala concert at the end of the weekend.
Well-known Wash-ingtonians who have participated in All-State and All-North-west conferences in-clude trumpeters Doc Severinson and Allen Vizzutti, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey, 2008 National Teacher of the Year An-drea Peterson, and jazz saxophonist Kenny G.
ElsewhereThe Evergreen
State College recently honored Auburn
Mountainview’s Jana Thomas with a Teacher of Excellence Award, which honors instruc-tors who have made a difference in the lives of their students. Sara Fiksdal, one of Thomas’ former students at Auburn Mountainview who now attends Ever-green, nominated her. “Ms. Thomas makes class fun and exciting, and accepts everyone with welcoming arms and a warm heart,” Fiksdal said. Thomas is one of 50 elementary, secondary-school or college teachers from 10 U.S. states and two countries to receive the award. Each teacher receives a certificate and a window decal.
The following students from Auburn made the honor roll for fall term at Oregon State University: (3.5 GPA or better) Megan B. Mc Bride, senior, sociology; peyton E. prothero, sophomore, pre-public health; Laura N. Rayfield, freshman, university exploratory studies.
Auburn Riverside student-musicians earn prestigious state, regional honors
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be drawn down to $4.3 million by the end of 2014.
Since 2006 the number of employees at the City of Auburn has dropped from 488 to 395 today. At the same time, the City’s resi-dential popula-tion increased from 48,955 to 71,240. The Po-lice Department has the highest number of em-ployees, with 115 or 38% of the to-tal General Fund Budget dollars.
But police officers are not the only em-ployees delivering public safety. There are 35 employees in the Water Division, 23 in the Sanitary Sewer Division and 27 employees in the Storm Water Division. They are in separate enterprise funds paid by ratepayers. The Street Division adds another 13 employees in that criti-cal area of Quality of Life/Public Safety for a total of 213 or 55% of your city em-ployees.
Over the last six years we’ve asked your city employees to do more with less, including taking mandatory 40 hour furloughs without pay in 2011 and 2012. They are a dedicated, talented group of public servants and I am proud of the work they do for this city. The ser-vice provided by city employees is more
than police service, more than water, sewer, trash and flood. It is about hav-ing someone on the other end of the phone when you are in need. It is about children laughing in a park and a place for the seniors to gather to share a meal or a memory. A city is a place of arts and entertainment and attracting new business and tourists, while being re-sponsible to you to make sure a street, a home, a building is built correctly in your neighborhood.
Approximately 80% of General Fund revenues are derived from taxes, includ-
Just like you do at home your City Councilmembers have been monitoring the City budget every month for the last two years. They’ve also been working hard to craft the City’s budget for the next two years. Under state law, the City Council must pass a balanced budget by January 1st. They completed the task a month ahead of schedule on Decem-ber 3rd. The City of Auburn’s 2013-2014 Operating Budget is a tight budget, but it is a balanced budget that allows the City to keep our public safety services at current levels, while maintaining the value and quality of life of our commu-nity for the next two years. The Council has also committed to set aside a rea-sonable reserve at the current level of spending.
The Operating Budget comprises the General Fund Budget, the Budget for Enterprise Funds and the Capital Bud-get.
The General Fund Budget will be capped at $54 million and has been re-duced each year since 2008. With the drop in property values and sales tax revenue, we as a city will receive less income in 2013 and in 2014. And with the increasing costs of everything from paper to insurance benefits, the City will see an ongoing increase to your government’s expense line. However, the Council has prudently managed re-sources over the 24 month biennium, despite pressures of a prolonged and slow economic recovery and continued financial pressures from the State of Washington.
The City has a minimum fund bal-ance policy of 8% of expenditures. Af-ter meeting this reserve policy, we will have approximately $8 million left at the end of 2013. The City Council made the decision to use this one time money to maintain current public safety staffing levels through the end of 2014. Council members also approved moving all debt payments and some other payments for services to be funded through the Cu-mulative Reserve Fund. This fund will
The Making of Your City Budget Meet Animal Control Officer George Winner
January 4, 2013
George Winner knew he wanted to become an animal control officer even as he “scooped poop” part time at an Ellensburg animal shelter while at-tending Central Washington Univer-sity. After graduation with a degree in biology, Winner worked as an Animal Control Officer for the City of India-napolis. He began his new job here at the City of Auburn on January 1. One of the first things he plans to do is help Auburn citizens understand why pet licensing is important. Under City or-dinance, pet owners must license their cat or dog every year. The revenue from pet licenses will go directly to support animal services at the Auburn Valley Humane Society Shelter.
“Owners do a lot to try to find their pets when they are missing. They post flyers, ask neighbors and they’ll check the local shelters,” Winner said. “The city’s license program is a system that can do that for you. A pet tag links that animal specifically to an individual, an address and a phone number and helps us notify the owner when we find the dog or cat.”
Winner will be stationed at the Au-burn Justice Center and will be dis-patched when citizens call 9-1-1 for help with problem animals.
“I’m here. I’m in Auburn. I’m local,” he said. “It’s going to be a much quicker response time than what’s happened in the past.”
The public is invited to meet Officer Winner at an opening event at the Au-burn Valley Humane Society Shelter, 4910 A St. SE, on January 19th from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Together as a city we are responsible to each other to ensure that we continue in our conservative approach to budgeting.
ing property taxes, sales taxes, utility taxes, and other taxes such as admis-sions and gaming taxes. We monitor these revenue streams on a monthly ba-sis throughout the year to make sure we are living within our means.
The Total Operating Budget of the City of Auburn, including the ratepay-er Enterprise Funds of Water, Sewer, Storm, Airport, Cemetery, Golf Course and the Capital Projects will be $226 million in 2013 and $213 million in 2014. The General Fund is only 24% of the To-tal Operating Budget that includes all of those funds plus grant funded projects of the city. The reason for the decrease in the Total Funds Budget from 2013 to 2014 is because grants have not yet been secured for projects that need to be completed by your city. And as you probably know, there’s more to grants than filling out challenging application forms. City councilmembers work hard promoting and explaining our projects to officials at the regional, state and fed-eral level. Their work brings value back to our community.
We usually have more than 30 ma-jor capital projects in planning or under construction in any given year. Because capital projects are so expensive, we must prioritize and meticulously plan for them. It may take many years between planning and completion. The M Street grade separation project is a good ex-ample. The planning for the project took nearly 10 years before we actually start-ed building it in 2011. You’ll be happy to know we are on track to complete the project by the summer of 2013.
Funding infrastrucure maintenance is always a challenge. Major arterials that serve commerce and commuters, are particularly costly to preserve, while the price tag to rebuild them is anywhere from three to seven times more. Ironi-cally, there are competitive grants avail-able that help to rebuild arterials once they have failed completely, but there are no federal or state funds to maintain them. Cities all over the country struggle to fund maintenance of local streets and arterials. With dwindling revenues and more demand for services, we do what we can to prioritize and maintain our streets.
Together as a city we are responsible to each other to ensure that we continue in our conservative approach to budget-ing. Your City Councilmembers have worked on this two year budget all year long. They conducted five budget review sessions and hearings on the budget, all of which were open to the public. They put out the word about all the meetings in the newspapers, on the website, in handouts and flyers during the year. Please do thank your Councilmembers and your city employees for their efforts and back them in their desire to keep a fiscally sound budget into the future.
The City’s 2013-14 Operating Budget is posted online at www.auburnwa.gov/fiscal_reports.htm.
The following is a budget update from Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis:
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It has been my honor to be your Deputy Mayor for the past year, and I look forward to an exciting year ahead. A position on the Auburn City Council is consid-ered to be a “part-time” position, but I can assure you
that it is so much more. I have the op-portunity to work with six fellow coun-cilmembers whom I admire greatly, and I think we make a great team. I would like to share with you my im-pressions of my teammates:
Rich Wagner is an Engineer by pro-fession, and I rely on his wisdom for all things Public Works related. He will read over every spec and will question anything he thinks to be inaccurate or not in the City’s best interests. I have to admit, I was a bit intimidated by him when I first joined the Council, but he has proven to be a trusted friend and advisor for me. He also has a strong interest in the arts and an undying passion for building our Community Center.
Bill Peloza is a hardworking and ded-icated man. He has embraced his posi-tion and takes his work very seriously. He has become our expert on all things Solid Waste, and while we sometimes joke about it, his work truly benefits Auburn in tremendous ways, and I ad-mire his dedication.
John Partridge is in his first term and devoted to the creation of the Au-burn Valley Humane Society (AVHS). He was our Council liaison to AVHS as it was getting established and has spent numerous hours at meetings and events to promote the humane society. Our community has really come to-gether to support our pets, and John has played a key role in that. I appreci-ate his work.
Largo Wales has just completed her first year, and what a year it has been! I don’t think I have ever seen anyone more enthusiastic about their role than Largo. She has immersed herself in lo-cal, regional and national committees and issues. She’s an accomplished edu-cator and picks up on issues so quickly. She keeps me on my toes and challeng-es all of us to do and be our best.
Wayne Osborne has also completed his first year, but was attending Council and Committee meetings for well over a year before he was elected. Wayne is also my neighbor and would read the Council packets - sometimes before I could - and then he’d come over to the house to discuss items on the agenda. Always prepared, Wayne is willing to dig into issues and ask the pertinent questions. His interests are varied and I enjoy our friendly “debates.”
John Holman, also in his first year, has a background in Public Safety, and has so much great information to share. I am constantly amazed by his ideas and vision. John is a dedicated advocate for Auburn on local, regional and national committees. I am proud to serve with him.
Hopefully, you agree that our var-ied backgrounds bring diversity to the Council and a voice to your concerns. I enjoy serving on a team with so much heart and dedication.
CITY OF AUBURN QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER
City of Auburn25 West Main StreetAuburn, WA 98001
253-931-3000www.auburnwa.gov
Mayor Peter B. Lewis253-931-3041
[email protected]/auburnmayor
Auburn City CouncilNancy Backus, Deputy Mayor
John HolmanWayne OsborneJohn Partridge
Bill PelozaRich WagnerLargo Wales
Below are highlights of City Council action taken from Oct-Dec. 2012:• Accepted a grant from the
Washington State Department of Transportation for safety improvements for traffic signals citywide
• Approved an interlocal agreement with Valley Special Weapons and Tactics to provide VSWAT services on an as needed basis
• Authorized the city to enter into an agreement with PetData, preparing for the transfer of animal services from King County to the City of Auburn on Jan. 1, 2013
• Held a public hearing on the 2013-14 Preliminary Budget
• Amended Title 6 of the Auburn City Code to reflect the City of Auburn taking over Animal Services from King County
• Set the City of Auburn gaming tax to 4% without a sunset clause
• Passed a resolution detailing how the City of Auburn and the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe interacts with each other during development of new residential properties on the Reservation
• Adopted the 2013-14 Biennial Budget• Authorized the Mayor and City
Clerk to execute a Memorandum of Agreement between the City of Auburn and King County for pre-design services of a Regional Training Facility
• Accepted a grant from the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board for the Auburn Way South and M Street - 17th St. SE intersection improvements
• Authorized a services contract with the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health for reimbursement of funds related to 2013 Local Hazardous Waste Management Program activities
For more information about City Council meetings, minutes and agendas, visit www.auburnwa.gov.
Council HighlightsDeputy MayorNancy Backus
Animal services program comes back home to Auburn
Animal licensing and animal control are being managed by the City of Auburn as of Jan. 1, 2013. A new animal shelter is being managed by the City’s partner, Auburn Valley Humane Society (AVHS). The transition from the King County program to City of Auburn’s new animal services program has been in the works for several years, according to Mayor Pete Lewis.
“At the end of 2010 King County’s animal services fees increased from $100,000 to $600,000 while the area coverage of the County’s animal control officer went from 30 square miles to 300 square miles,” said Lewis. “We knew that our contract with King County was expiring at the end of 2012 so we began to look at a more eco-nomical model that would be more responsive to our community needs.”
Under a contract with AVHS that was finalized in September 2011, the City agreed to lease its building at 4910 A St. SE to AVHS for a minimal fee to be used as an ani-mal shelter. AVHS has been working to raise funds to remodel the interior. Animal licensing fees will pay for the shelter’s operation. The City also provided $417,000 for tenant improvements and maintains ownership of the building.
“We’re very excited about bringing our Animal Services program back home to Auburn,” said Lewis. “It was a true community effort that took a lot of hard work to come to fruition. Now we’re calling on all pet owners in the city to license their cats and dogs and to help sustain the program.”
Pet licenses can be purchased online at www.petdata.com or in person Monday-Friday at Auburn City Hall; at the City’s Customer Care Counter on the 2nd Floor of the City Annex at One Main Street; at the Parks, Arts & Recreation Administra-tion Building located at 910 Ninth St. SE; or at Auburn Valley Humane Society at 4910 A St. SE. Any pets licensed through King County will be honored by the City of Auburn through the license expiration date. Dogs and cats within the city limits (both King and Pierce County) must be licensed by their owner each year, according to city ordinances.
Support of the arts could mean much more than you imagine
In 2012-13 the City’s Parks, Arts and Recreation Department programmed over 70 events through the BRAVO Performing Arts Series, featuring music, dance, com-edy, film, theater and kids programming. Most of the events were held at the Auburn Avenue Theatre, an historic building, renovated and operated by the City of Auburn.
“Despite the economic downturn, participation in Auburn arts programs has in-creased dramatically,” said Maija McKnight, City Arts Coordinator. “This increase is partly due to additional programming choices and individuals choosing to stay closer to home for quality entertainment rather than traveling to Seattle or Tacoma.”
The Auburn Performing Arts Center (APAC), owned and operated by the Auburn School District, had an attendance of 43,120 for its 52 events held last year which included the Auburn Symphony, Lyric Opera Northwest and Evergreen City Ballet.
“Throughout the United States, arts activity creates thousands of direct and indi-rect jobs and generates billions in government and business revenues,” said Mayor Pete Lewis. “This is true in Auburn when symphony patrons go to dinner in local restaurants, when a portion of ticket sales generate sales tax, when local galleries sell goods made by local artists. This helps to make Auburn a vibrant, livable city.”
You’re invitedKick off of Auburn’s New Animal Services Program and
Auburn Valley Humane Society Animal Shelter Dedication & Open House
Saturday, January 19, 2013 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM
AVHS Animal Shelter | 4910 A St. SERefreshments • Prizes
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Auburn hosts All SPSL tourneyAuburn’s Tyson Gaillac, right, grapples with Tahoma’s Cruz Velasquez during the 132-pound title match at this past weekend’s South Puget Sound League Championships. RaCheL CiamPi, Auburn Reporter
Davis looks to help lead Trojan gymnasts
Team Washington found itself on the losing end against Team Utah this past Saturday at the third annual Tanoa Bowl at
auburn memorial Stadium. Despite strong performances from local athletes such as auburn mountainview quarterback Domenic Rockey (above right), Team Washington fell 38-20. in other action, Oregon outscored alaska 28-20, but lost the game by forfeit. in the junior game the Washington Warriors defeated the Tri-Cities elite 22-20. RaCheL CiamPi, Reporter
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RainieR PlaTeaU RUgBy hoSTS fRee mini-camP
The Rainier Plateau Junior Rugby Club hosts a new player mini-camp
for males and females aged 14-18 interested in playing rugby.
The camp is from 3:45 to 5:45 p.m. Jan. 8-10 at Sunset
Chev Stadium in Sumner. The club welcomes players from
all areas, including auburn, Pacific and algona. For more info,
visit www.rainierjuniorrugby.com or contact andy Ramsey at
[email protected] or 253-330-6816.
By SHAWN SKAGER
Auburn’s Bailie Davis was golden as a freshman in 2010-11.
In her first year of high school gymnastics com-petition she punched her ticket to the state 4A meet in the floor exercise.
Now a junior, Davis is looking to help lead the Trojans and earn another berth at the state champi-
onships.Davis embarked on her
gymnastics career at the age of 3, joining Auburn Gymnastics before switch-ing to Gymnastics Ex-press, which is now Hart Gymnastics (in Kent).
For the next decade, Davis devoted much of her time to gymnastics, practicing up to 20 hours a week and reaching
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Auburn wrestlers posted an eighth-place finish at the All South Puget Sound League Championships Dec. 28-29 at Auburn High School.
The Trojans tallied 121 points behind 132-pound junior Tyson Gaillac’s second-place finish in his weight class. Gaillac went 3-1 in the tournament, his only loss – a 5-3 decision – com-ing against Tahoma’s Cruz Velasquez in the title match.
Gaillac is a returning 4A state qualifier.
Auburn’s Drew Aplin fin-
ished third in the 106-pound division, winning his final match, 4-2 over Enumclaw’s Levi Norton.
Also earning placings for the Trojans were returning state qualifier and senior James West, who took fifth in 195. Mario Luevano finished sixth at 220 and Sam Lindsay finished seventh at 182.
The tournament – featur-ing 28 teams from the SPSL 4A, 3A and 2A divisions – Tahoma won the tournament – with 251.5 team points. Enumclaw was second with 200 points and Decatur third with 176.5.
Auburn resumes its SPSL
North 4A dual schedule at Jefferson at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
ALSO: Auburn Riverside junior Larkin Williams finished fourth at 285 pounds after losing in the final in a 4-0 decision to Decatur’s Kyle Gleed. The Ravens’ Keaton Dalfrey snagged an eighth-place finish at 145. The Ravens were 21st in the team competition with 56 points. Auburn Riverside resumes its league dual schedule Friday at Kentlake. … Auburn Mountainview’s Dylan Foley finished sixth at 113 pounds, helping the Lions to a 58-point, 19th-place finish at the tourney.
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“I quit club when I was in eighth grade,” Davis said. “I just wasn’t feeling it anymore.
“It was different to go from practicing four days a week for four hours to not doing anything,” she added. “It was weird be-cause I had so much free time; I didn’t know what to do without it.”
In her freshman year, Davis parleyed her gym-nastics tumbling skills into a spot on the Auburn varsity cheer squad.
“(Cheer) just seemed really interesting,” Davis said. “I’d never done it before. Me and a friend wanted to try it and see if we’d make the team.”
Although some of the physical demands of her cheer routines were simi-lar to what she’d been do-ing in gymnastics, Davis said the team aspect was a new experience for her.
“It’s pretty different,” she said. “If one person is missing (in cheer) it affects the whole squad. In gymnastics, it’s an individual sport where you’re mostly competing by yourself.”
After her fall cheer commitment, Davis de-cided to return to the gym for the Auburn gymnas-tics team.
As a freshman on the Trojan squad, Davis put together an impressive regular season and surged through the postseason meets, earning a spot at the state championships, where she notched a 9.15 floor routine, good for
36th place.As a sophomore in
2011-12, Davis did not make it out of the district meet.
This season, however, the junior looks to get back on track.
On Dec. 5 she helped lead the Trojans to a second-place finish against Jefferson, Tahoma and Kent-Meridian, scor-ing a second-place 32.3 in
the all-around and win-ning the floor with a 9.25 routine.
“It’s my most powerful event,” Davis said of the floor routine. “And it’s my favorite. I really like the tumbling and flipping.”
Davis also enjoys the artistic nature of choreo-graphing and selecting music for the floor.
Individually, Davis said, she hopes for a return to state and just getting bet-ter every meet.
“I want to work on my tumbling and add some harder skills,” she said.
For the team, which includes standouts such as senior Michaela Zerr and junior Ashley Bechard, the goal is to “be positive and work hard,” Davis said.
“We’ve got a lot of good tumblers on floor and a lot of good freshman,” she said.
The Trojans resume competition at 7 p.m. Jan. 9 with a quad meet against Bonney Lake and Emerald Ridge at Sumner.
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auburn junior Bailie davis runs through her balance beam routine at a meet earlier this season. rachel ciampi, Auburn Reporter
Gymnastics: auburn at a Glance
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COaCH: Kristie Wilson, 11th year
RETURNERs: 11 returners. ashley Brown, junior; emelia Wilkinson, senior; april Klamke, senior; halle perry, senior; shaniah Farrell, junior; Bailie Davis, junior; marianna anaya, junior; ashley Bechard, junior; jordan lee, senior; michaela Zerr, senior; and Desiree magill, senior.
NEWCOMERs: macie nelson, sophomore; Kayla marzatti, freshman; emma sidorenko, freshman; priscilla sanpraphet, freshman; and jenny cruz, freshman.
OUTLOOK: according to Wilson, the ravens will rely on a strong core of seniors who “have molded into strong, confident gymnasts.” Wilson added that the team has been bitten by the injury bug, and that has led to some lower-than-hoped-for scores in the opening meets of the season. “if the whole squad is healthy and hits a meet, we will be a very refined team based on the veterans as well as the new additions,” Wilson said. The team looks to Davis, Bechard and perry to set the tone in the all-around. Zerr is expected to lead the team on the beam and Klamke on the floor.
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EventsAuburn Tourism: For special events in the Auburn area, visit the website: www.auburntourism.com.Miss Auburn and Miss Auburn’s Out-standing Teen Scholarship Program: 7 p.m. Jan. 25; 6 p.m. Jan. 26, Performing Arts Center, 700 E. Main St., Auburn. Con-testants vie for the crowns. The program is sponsored by the Auburn Noon Lions Club. Official preliminary to the Miss Washington and Miss America Scholarship Pageants. For more info: www.missauburn.org.Uniquely Auburn: 2 p.m. Jan. 27, Performing Arts Center, 700 E. Main St., Auburn. A free community-sponsored celebration of cultural diversity recogniz-ing people, places and events that make Auburn unique. Following the program in the theater, there will be a complimen-tary “sit-down” dinner featuring Greek/Mediterranean food and trivia with prizes. Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Soroptimist International of Auburn, City of Auburn Arts Commission, Auburn School District, and Trillium sponsor the 18th annual event. For more information, please call Janice Nelson at 206-349-3061. Find us on Facebook or visit www.uniquelyauburn.org.Seventh annual Daddy Daughter Date Night: 6:30-9:30 p.m. Feb 22, 23, Auburn Senior Activity Center, 808 Ninth Street SE. For girls ages 4-10 years old. Op-portunity for fathers, grandfathers, uncles, or big brothers to take their special little girl out for a night she will never forget. The night will begin with a couples photograph, followed by dinner, dancing and dessert. Each child will receive a portrait and a party favor. $45 per couple ($10 each additional girl; non-resident fees apply). Pre-registra-tion is required. To purchase advance tickets, visit the Parks, Arts & Rec Office, 910 Ninth Street SE or call 253-931-3043.
BenefitsHoliday Styrofoam Recycling: 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Jan. 3-4, City parking lot, South Division and First Street. SW (NE corner), Auburn. Recycle your clean, white Sty-rofoam Blocks (look for a No. 6 or EPS in the recycle symbol). Bend the material. It should snap and release loose beads. Site will be open during daylight hours. Please do not bring packing peanuts, cups, food trays, foam sheeting, plastic wrap, or other plastics. Questions: call the Solid Waste & Recycling Department at 253-931-3047.
Cupid in the Library with an Arrow: 6:30-11:30 p.m. Feb. 9, The Landmark Event Center, 23660 Marine View Drive S., Des Moines. Soroptimist International of Auburn presents 19th annual Cupid’s caper event with a clue theme. This year’s “raise the paddle” beneficiary is Auburn Youth Resources offering shelter and services for youth in crisis. Funds raised by Soroptimist of Auburn support women and children throughout South King County through various charitable organizations. Sponsor-ships available from $250-$5,000. Sponsors receive recognition and brand awareness to just under 200 guests as well as other benefits according to level. Tickets are $65 per person. Reserve your spot by Jan. 9. Register online at www.siauburn.org/cupid. For more information, call event chair Sue Singer at 253-939-6180.
HealthCascade Regional Blood Center drives: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jan. 5, Lakeland Hills Community, 1408 Lake Tapps Parkway E., Auburn. For more information, call 1-877-242-5663 or visit www.crbs.net/home.
Puget Sound Blood Center drives: 10 a.m.-noon, 1-4 p.m. Jan. 5, The Outlet Collection, 1101 Supermall Way, Bus By Burlington Coat Factory; 1-3 p.m., 4-7 p.m. Jan. 14, LDS, church gym, 625 M St. NE; 9-11 a.m., noon-3 p.m. Jan. 16, Zones, Inc., mobile in parking lot, Auburn; -3 p.m., 4-7 p.m. Jan. 21, Messiah Lutheran Church, 410 H St. SE, Auburn; noon-2 p.m., 2:45- 6 p.m. Jan. 22, Auburn Adventist Academy, 5000 Auburn Way S.; 9:30-11:30 a.m., 12:30-3:30 p.m. Jan. 22, Boeing Auburn, 700 15th St. SW; 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 23, Green River Community College, Glacier Room, Lindbloom Student Center, 12401 SE 320th St. For more information, call 253-945-8667 or please visit www.psbc.org.
Clubs Striped Water Poets: Meet every Tues-day, 7- 9 p.m., at Auburn City Hall, 25 W. Main St. A roundtable critique and welcom-ing of new poets. Auburn Morning Toastmasters: Meet every Thursday morning, 6:30-7:30, Rainbow Cafe, 112 E. Main St., Auburn. Learn the fine art of communication and public speaking in a friendly supportive atmosphere. Visitors are welcome. For more information, call 253-735-1751.
Programs, classesShowmanship Activity Workshop: 9 a.m.-noon, Jan. 12, Green River Com-munity College, 12401 SE 320th St., Auburn. Join the staff of Heavier Than Air Family Theatre for a workshop designed for scouts. Learn about puppetry, tour backstage, learn a skit and a song or two. Hands-on, fast paced workshop designed to help you complete the Showman pin. Cost: $25 per
person and includes a ticket to “The Wizard of Oz” for March 23. Registration deadline for the workshop is Jan. 8. Space limited. For more information, call 253-833-9111, ext. 4966 and leave a message, or visit www.heavierthanair.com.
Faith66th Northwest District Buddhist Convention: Feb. 15-17, DoubleTree Suites Hotel at Southcenter, 16500 South-center Parkway, Tukwila. Auburn’s White River Buddhist Temple, a member of the Buddhist Churches of America, hosts a weekend full of workshops, seminars and keynotes from some of the most renowned experts of Buddhism in the country. The public is invited. Registration open until Jan. 6. More information at: www.nwconven-tion.com or www.wrbt.org.
NetworkAuburn Area Chamber “Connecting for Success” Networking Breakfast: 8-9 a.m., the first Wednesday of every month. Sponsored by the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. Cost: $5, includes continental breakfast. Auburn Area Chamber Board Room, 108 S. Division, Suite B. 253-833-0700.
Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce Partnership Luncheon: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., the third Tuesday of every month, Emerald Downs, Emerald Room (fourth floor), 2300 Emerald Downs Drive. Register online through the chamber.
SeniorsAuburn Senior Activity Center, 808 Ninth St. SE. 253-931-3016 or www.auburnwa.gov. Senior activities include:
• Senior Coffee Hours with the Mayor and Councilmembers: 10-11 a.m. the second Thursday of the month.
• Lunch: Monday-Friday, Salad bar begins at 11:30, Main meal is served at noon. Cost:
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• Movie Screenings: Wednesdays, 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. 50 cent suggested donation for refreshments.
• Monday Supper Club: 4:45-6 p.m. One Monday a month. Call 253-931-3016 for date and menu. Cost: $6 for all ages.
• Meals on Wheels: Senior services’ program offers home-delivered meals to home-bound seniors. For more information, call the center at 253-931-3016.
EntertainmentClassic Kid’s Movies Series Package: 2 p.m. Saturdays, Auburn Avenue Theater, 10 Auburn Ave. • Jan. 12: “An American Tail”; • Feb. 2: “Babe” ; March 2: “Hey There It’s Yogi Bear!” Series package: $10. Call Auburn Parks, Arts and Recreation at 253-931-3043, Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.- 9 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to noon. Order online at www.brownpapertickets.com.
January Comedy at the Ave: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18, Auburn Ave Theater, 10 Auburn Ave. Recommended for ages 18 and above. Tickets: $17, $15. Call Auburn Parks, Arts & Rec at 253-931-3043, Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-noon, or online at www.brownpapertickets.com.
Ave Kids, “Never Forgotten”: 2 p.m. Jan. 19, Auburn Ave Theater, 10 Auburn Ave. Based upon a children’s book of the same title by Patricia C. McKissack, Never Forgot-ten is a lyrical story-in-verse that details the experiences of an African boy who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Tickets: $6. Call Auburn Parks, Arts & Rec at 253-931-3043, Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-noon, or online at www.brownpapertickets.com.
Tingstad & Rumbel: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19, Auburn Ave Theater, 10 Auburn Ave. Grammy Award winners Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumbel have performed, recorded and toured together for more than 24 years with 19 albums to their credit. Tickets: $17,
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Auburn Symphony Orchestra, “The Beauty of Brahms”: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19; 2:30 p.m. Jan. 20, Auburn Performing Arts Center, 700 E. Main St. Brahms’ “Symphony No. 3 in F”; Mozart’s “Horn Concerto No. 3” with soloist Rodger Burnett; Kodaly’s “Pea-cock Variations”. Free pre-concert lecture begins 45 minutes prior to performance. Tickets: $34 adults; $27 seniors (55 and older); $10 students. To order, call 253-887-7777 or visit www.auburnsymphony.org
Auburn Symphony Chamber Concert, “Romantic Organ Treats”: 4-6 p.m. Feb. 24, St. Matthew Episcopal Church, 123 L St. NE, Auburn. Joseph Adam, organist at St. James Cathedral, Seattle, joins Brittany Boulding, violin, and Brian Wharton, cello, in a concert showcasing the beautiful organ sounds found in the romantic Suite by organist and composer Joseph Rhineberger to the fireworks of Handel-Halvorsen’s Pas-sacaglia. Tickets: $17 adults; $10 students. To order, call 253-887-7777 or visit www.auburnsymphony.org
Poetry at The Station Bistro: 7-10 p.m., first Mondays of each month, Bistro, 110 Second St. SW, Suite 125, Auburn. Poets featured at the open mic venue. Presented by The Station Bistro, the Northwest Renaissance, Auburn Striped Water Poets. Open to poets of every age and skill level. • Jan. 7 program: Celebrating the one-year anniversary of Auburn’s first Poet Laureate, Dick Brugger. Also featured is Michael Magee. For more information, contact [email protected].
Zola’s Cafe: Live music every Friday, 7-9 p.m., 402 E. Main St., Suite 120. Open mic on the last Wednesday of the month. For information, contact Sonia Kessler at the cafe at 253-333-9652.
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Jack U. BoutietteFebruary 5, 1936 - December 20, 2012
Born: Seattle, WA Passed: Auburn, WASurvived by children, Lisa Russell (Greg), Kathleen Boutiette, Jack
Boutiette (Dynna); Grandkids, Justin Pedersen and Alex Russell; brother, Donald Boutiette. Preceded in death by Urbin and Flora Boutiette (parents), Delores Brown (Sister), Adam and Julie Edwards (Grandchildren).
Services: December 29th Hillcrest Buriel Park, Kent, WA. In lieu of flowers: Seattle Childrens Hospital, 206-987-2153 (Donation Information),
In Memory of Adam and Julie Edwards.723244
Alice Virginia “Mann” AndersonBorn February 8, 1924 in Kalama,
Washington and passed away December 26, 2012 in Auburn, Washington. She was a longtime resident of Auburn.
She enjoyed bowling, being involved in the Lady’s Auxilary at the Auburn Eagles.
Alice was preceded in death by her husbands Arthur Mann, and Richard Anderson Sr. She is survived by her sons; Robert Mann, Raymond Mann, and daughters: Judith Masterson, and Deanne Almquist as well as 10 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren as well as her sister-in-law Helen Nicholsen of Kalama, WA and numerous nieces and nephews. She will be dearly missed.
A service will be held for Alice in Kalama, where she was born. Online sentiments may be journaled at www.priceheltonfuneralhome.
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John (Jack) E. MillerBorn June 14, 1942 in Harrisburg, PA to Ray and Alda Miller,
Jack passed away December 20, 2012 in Federal Way, WA at the age of 70.
Jack graduated from Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill, PA and held several Football records until recently. He went into banking and retired from Wells Fargo Bank as a manager and vice president in Auburn, WA.
He married Patricia in 1968 and they enjoyed travel, family gatherings, and attending grandkids’ sports and performances. He was a past president of Kiwanis, and of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. He volunteered for the Auburn and University Place Food Banks as well as worked at the Puyallup Fair for 12 years.
Jack and Pat bowled every week, but his favorite was softball. He played every season for nearly 50 years. Pat was his biggest fan.
He is greatly missed by his sister Atha Scott, brother Ray and Kathy Miller, Connie Miller, Wendy and Dirk Post, Lynn and Bill Gibson, David and Toni Schartow, John Miller, 16 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his daughter Terri Cheney.
A celebration of his life was held on December 26, 2012. Memorial contributions may be made to the Huntington’s Disease Society of America or to Messiah Lutheran Church. Online sentiments may be left at price-heltonfuneralhome.com.
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DeathsObituary list, Public Health – Seattle and King County vital statistics
AUBURN AREAAnderson, Jessie L., 78, Nov. 24Andreasen, Frances A., 89, Nov. 26Beshara, Debra J., 59, Nov. 18Butcheck, Leonard J., 61, Nov. 25Carlson, Chad L., 37, Nov. 18Chan, Ken S., 80, Nov. 14Cloud, Verna L., 84, Dec. 11Coons, Marvalene J., 74, Nov. 25Cruz, Scott J., 26, Nov. 29Crisp, Michelle M., 46, Nov. 28Davidson, Donald D., 84, Dec. 11Dickinson, John D., 80, Dec. 4Dluhosh, Miriam H.B., 88, Nov. 25Ellis, Michael J., 77, Nov. 19Eversole, Timothy K., 56, Dec. 14Ferrell, Esther D., 76, Nov. 16Fletcher, Frederick E., 71, Nov. 27Foster, Linda J., 61, Dec. 10Fuzzell, Betty L., 83, Dec. 7Garrison, Ethel M., 89, Dec. 10
Gibler, Paul J., 58, Dec. 5Goodman, Carl R., 89, Nov. 28Hadley, Cassee L., 23, Nov. 26Hernandez, Evelyn E., 59, Dec. 16Jenkins, Adrian L., 78, Dec. 12John Sr., Michael, 37, Dec. 19Jones, Jean E., 85, Dec. 12Kaufman, Kalman, 71, Dec. 11Khattiya, Bounlat, 52, Dec. 12King, Charles R., 83, Nov. 23King, Lois K., 85, Dec. 13Kinnan, Walter M., 66, Nov. 22Kumar, Larry, 65, Dec. 17Lively, Walter H., 89, Nov. 28Malilis, Consuelo S., 102, Dec. 10McCubbin, Josephine E., 92, Nov. 18McGuire, Kevin R., 51, Nov. 25McMullen, Mary M., 94, Nov. 14Meason, Deborah A., 64, Nov. 29Moore, Bernice E., 64, Nov. 27Murray, Kathryn N., 61, Dec. 6Neigel, Linda J., 71, Dec. 6Nelson, John W., 79, Dec. 18Nolan, Bob J., 85, Dec. 13Oliver, Quinn L., 26, Dec. 24Orel, Olga I., 80, Dec. 17Peterson, William R., 75, Nov. 25Poltaveva, Maria, 76, Nov. 21Pruden, Alben M., 85, Dec. 6Rasul-Chiono, Nafisha, 60, Oct. 24Ray, Helen L., 95, Nov. 17Roberton, Clifford J., 88, Dec. 6Schmidt, Herbert G., 74, Nov. 14
SOROPTIMIST INTER-NATIONAL OF AUBURN presents its 19th annual Cupid’s caper event with a clue theme.
The fundraiser, Cupid in the Library with an Arrow, runs 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. Feb. 9 at The Land-mark Event Center, 23660 Marine View Drive S., Des Moines.
This year’s “raise the paddle” beneficiary is Auburn Youth Re-sources, which offers shelter and services for youth in crisis.
Nearly $500,000 has been raised through past Cupid’s Caper benefits. Funds raised support women and children throughout South King County through various chari-table organizations.
Sponsorships are available from $250-$5,000.
Tickets are $65 per person. Reserve your spot by Jan. 9. Register online at www.siau-burn.org/cupid.
For more informa-tion, call event chair Sue Singer at 253-939-6180.
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY is recruiting more than 600 volun-teers to manage and operate 17 free tax sites throughout King County from Jan. 15 to April 15.IRS trained and certified volunteers will help clients complete their tax returns and ensure that clients secure all refunds and credits they
are eligible for. Volunteers will help lower income families keep more of their hard earned money and help them avoid unnecessary fees and loans. For more information and to volunteer, please visit www.uwkc.org/taxvolunteer or email [email protected].
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CITY OF AUBURN PARKS, ARTS & RECREATION
Online Registration: www.auburnwa.gov/playPhone Registration: 253-931-3043
MORE THAN YOU IMAGINED
Fitness Options:Beg. Pilates ages 14+: Mondays, Jan 7-Feb 11 | 5:30-6:30pm | $62/$78
Intermediate Tai Chi ages 18+: Mondays, Jan 7-Feb 25 | 6:15-7:15pm | $44/$55*
Zumba Gold ages 18+: Tuesdays, Jan 8-29 | 8:30- 9:30am | $26/$33*
Continuing Pilates ages 14+: Tuesdays, Jan 8-Feb 12 | 5:30-6:30pm | $62/$78
Beg. Fitness Boot Camp ages 16+: Tues & Thurs, Jan 8-Feb 14 | 5:45-6:45pm | $86/$107
Adv. Fitness Boot Camp ages 16+: Tuesday & Thursday, Jan 8-Feb 14 | 7-8pm | $86/$107
Self Defense Training ages 18+: Tuesdays, Jan 8-Mar 12 | 7-8:30pm | $54/$68
Yoga in Viniyoga Tradition ages 16+: Wednesdays, Jan 9-Feb 27 | 6-7:15pm | $68/$85*
Bellydance ages 14+: Wednesdays, Jan 9-Feb 13 | 6-7pm | $50/$63*
Modern Square Dancing All Ages: Tuesdays, Jan 15-Mar 26 | 6:45-8:45pm | $62/$78*
Introduction to Tai Chi ages 18+: Mondays, Jan 28-Feb 25 | 7:30-8:30pm | $38/$48*
Adult Sport Leagues:Polar Bear Flag Football Tourney ages 18+: Friday-Sunday, Jan 25-27 | $300
Dodgeball All Ages: Wednesdays, Feb 6-Apr 10 | 8-9:30pm | $195
Coed Volleyball ages 18+: Fridays, Feb 8-Mar 29 | 7-10pm | $130
Women’s Volleyball ages 18+: Fridays, Feb 8-Mar 29 | 7-10pm | $130
Adult Flag Football ages 18+: Sundays, Feb 17-Mar 17 | $650
Basketball - Continental League ages 18+: Tuesdays, Apr 2-Jun 5 | 6:30-10pm | $175
Basketball - National League ages 18+: Mondays, Apr 8-Jun 5 | 6:30-10pm | $175
Softball ages 18+: various levels of play | mid-April to mid-June | $820-$975 based on league
Youth Fitness Options & Sport Leagues: Baton; Junior Jazzercise®; Youth Fitness Boot Camp; Ballet/Jazz; Gymnastics; T-Ball; Baseball; Girls’ Fastpitch; Track & Field
The second fee listed is the regular fee.
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