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athletes makes it all worthwhile.� Ruston Police Chief Jeremy Kunkel, University Place Police Chief Mike Blair, Fife Police Chief Brad Blackburn and yours truly will lead a contingent of over 100 law enforcement officers plunging Saturday but without good citizens like you, the event won’t achieve the goal of $75,000!

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We REALLY need you to join us Saturday for the Special Olympics Washington Polar Plunge in Tacoma at DAVID ROSE Owen Beach/Point Defiance presented by Waste Connections, Inc. Almost 300 plungers, including 100 Pierce County Law Enforcement Officers, will brave the frigid water in support of Special Olympics Washington. There will be live music, Taco Time and a post-event festival. Pledge, plunge and win prizes, including roundtrip Alaska Airlines tickets, in support of 10,000 athletes across the state. Too chicken to plunge? Cheer on Polar Plungers from the sidelines in the “Chicken Coop.�

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)999 Washington’s Most Wanted host David Rose takes the plunge.

Chickens can still raise money and support Special Olympics‌ all while not getting wet! Fircrest Police Chief John Cheesman surprised Pierce County Detective Ed Troyer last year when he pushed him into the water from a boat

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as they checked to see how cold it was. You can expect some payback this year. Troyer says, “It’s all in good fun and even though it’s called the Polar Plunge, the wonderful feeling you get afterward knowing how much it helps the

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Shoplifting cases are fairly rouTacoma in tine aroundWeekly the 253,is asinterested some Tacowhat is apparently happening have in oursticky community. mans fingers Please your to news and storystores. ideas whensend it comes department toBut news@tacomaweekly.com. some shoplifting cases are just sad. This is one of those stories. Officers responded to a call from a loss prevention officer at the 23rd Street Target store concerning two people who had been caught trying to steal clothes and DVDs by first tearing off the tags of a backpack and filling it with items as they walked through the aisles. The man-and-woman team used the woman’s 8-year-old sister as a pack mule to carry the backpack while the couple stuffed items into the bag. Security officers watched them through cameras the entire time. At first, the couple gave false names to avoid getting arrested for warrants and told security officers that they were homeless. The grandmother and legal guardian of the woman and her young sister arrived, and the truth came out. The man had an extensive record, including gang membership. The females went home with their grandmother. The man went to jail. By Steve Dunkelberger

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9,(+05. The downtown library is the closest branch to Hilltop ever since the Martin Luther King Jr. branch was sold in 2012.

MLK community seeks library options By Steve Dunkelberger Stevedunkel@tacomaweekly.com

More than two dozen community leaders from various businesses, churches and civic groups in Hilltop gathered last week to brainstorm how to provide books and literacy programs to the neighborhood’s children in the wake of the Martin Luther King Jr. library branch’s closure two years ago. More community meetings are in the works, but this first meeting marked the beginning of the journey ahead. “It was a great meeting of community leaders,� organizer Al Nurse said. “We were able to

tap into some great resources.� The community has lacked a library since the Martin Luther King Jr. branch of the Tacoma Public Library at 19th and Cedar was sold to a medical center in 2012. The closest branch now is the Main Library in downtown, which would require children to walk along busy streets and run the gauntlet of homeless people that often congregate outside its doors. “It’s more than just about the books,� Nurse said. “It’s about the reading comprehension and the literacy programs too. A library is an essential part of a community. When

you don’t have a library, you are telling kids that they don’t matter.� Ideally, the current effort would like to have the return of a library and its educational programs, specifically for early readers from kindergarten to third grade. But with library budgets being what they are these days, all sorts of options are being examined to provide educational programming, resources, computers and reading materials to the youth in the Hilltop. “We are open to any suggestions,� Nurse said. “It might not be a brick-and-mortar library.� The effort could begin as

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a lending library with donated books as a way to provide the foundation of things to come and add literacy programs as volunteers step up and other resources are found and added. The next meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Feb. 26 at the Peace Lutheran Church, 2106 S. Cushman, with a third meeting planned for 6 p.m. on March 6 at the Hilltop Regional Health Center, 1202 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. A spaghetti dinner will be provided at both events. For further information, contact Bil Moss (253) at 7591437 or Al Nurse at (253) 3071660.

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3%2)!, Pierce County Sheriff’s detectives need your help to identify the suspect responsible for a series of robberies in the Parkland and Spanaway area. On February 10th, 2014, the pictured suspect robbed a Twin Star Credit Union located in the 13500 block of Pacific Ave. S. The suspect entered the bank, presented the teller with a robbery note, then took the cash and fled on foot. The same suspect is believed to be responsible for forcibly stealing cash from a register on December 31st at a Denny’s restaurant located

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in the 10800 block of Pacific Ave. He is also believed to be responsible for a robbery on December 5th at a Key Bank located in the 13800 block of Pacific Ave. S. in Spanaway.

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The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 50 years old, 6’ tall, slender build, with graying hair and thick black rimmed prescription eyeglasses.

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