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Charges filed in casino shooting ARTIST DISCOVERS,

BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

King County Prosecutors last week filed seven counts of first-degree assault against a 42-year-old Covington man they accuse of going on a jealousy-fueled shooting

rampage in the early morning hours of July 24 at the crowded Galaxy nightclub in the Muckleshoot Casino.

According to charging papers, Cesar Chaparro-Vielma shot his estranged wife, Blanca Arroyos, her boyfriend, Marco Hernandez-Maradiaga, and his

wife’s two sisters, Etalvina MoralesArroyos and Veronica Arroyos.

Prosecutors claim the alleged shooter also struck three bystanders with stray bullets. [ more SHOOTING page 4 ]

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Local author to present D.B. Cooper case slideshow at Good Ol’ Days

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Despite recent FBI claims that it has evidence that could determine the real identity of legendary skyjacker D.B. Cooper, local author Robert Blevins remains convinced that Bonney Lake resident Ken Christiansen was Cooper.

Blevins will present three slideshows detailing the evidence that led to his recent book “Into the Blast – the True Story of D.B. Cooper,” published by Adventure Books of Seattle, at the Aug. 13-14 Good Ol’ Days at the Auburn Avenue Theater.

Blevins co-wrote the book with New York City private investigator Skipp Porteous.

It alleges that Christiansen – a former employee of Northwest Orient Airlines and a U.S. Army paratrooper – was the famous fugitive who hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727-100 passenger jet and parachuted

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Kyle Maxwell soars during his routine at the Battle of the Bowl in Auburn’s Brannan Park last Saturday.

The fifth annual competition drew some of the area’s best skateboarders to vie for prizes in beginner, intermediate and advanced divisions. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

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For some, the idea of collage as art conjures up notions of hastily-slapped-together-secondgrade school projects, whole images clipped from magazines and pasted onto a piece of construction paper.

One look at Auburn artist Carol Chen Lord’s collage pieces, however, and those images quickly vanish. Although the basics are the same – magazine paper cut or torn and glued onto another piece of paper – the finished product is nothing like those elementary school projects.

Rather than snip whole images, Carol Chen Lord demonstrates Chen Lord’s art her collage technique on an uses the base colors in the clippings, image depicting flowers called melding them into ‘Sun Bathing.’ SHAWN SKAGER, Reporter whole images and landscapes, with subtle shadings and light, result• What: City of Auburn’s free ing in a finished festival invites the public to create and celebrate art. Fair piece that bears includes hands-on art-making no resemblance to activities for all ages, local art original magazine organizations, professional artpages. ist demonstrations, art vendors, “Collage is a food booths and music. challenge,” Chen • When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Lord said. “You Saturday don’t want to use • Info: 253-931-3043, the image, you www.auburnwa.gov/arts. want to use the color.”

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Chamber warns of fraudulent phone calls in the Auburn area The Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce reports that several Auburn businesses and residents, including the Chamber offices, have been contacted by phone callers saying that they are from “Card Services” and want to update their information on victims’ credit card/bank accounts.

The phone number comes up as “Unavailable” on the caller ID. This appears to be a “boiler room” operation, an attempt to gain access to credit card information to make unauthorized purchases.

Man charged with indecent exposure in mall parking lot

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King County prosecutors have charged a 54-year-old Seattle man and registered sex offender with indecent exposure for allegedly masturbating in the Auburn SuperMall parking lot June 2.

Prosecutors claim Kenneth R. Libke committed the felony while he was parked in the lot.

Libke’s arraignment was Thursday in Kent.

According to Auburn Police Detective Anna Weller’s certification for determination of probable cause – the basis for the single charge – a mall security officer had been monitoring a surveillance video feed of the parking lot at 12:15 p.m. when she saw a grey Jeep suspiciously parked outside of Nordstrom Rack. The man at the wheel seemed nervous, as though he were preparing to shoplift, the officer said.

The officer trained the camera on the Jeep as it moved to the front of the store then zoomed in for a closer look. Through the windshield she saw a man in the driver’s seat, right arm and hand pumping up and down in a highly suspicious manner.

At this point according to Weller’s account, a

Auburn officials are warning the public to not give out any information to these people.

They are asked to immediately call their bank or credit card company with the number they provide on statements for verification. Legitimate banks and credit card companies do not randomly call to update or verify account information, nor should any personal information be given to anyone over the phone.

Please report suspect phone calls to the State Attorney General at 360-753-6200, or contact the Chamber at 253-833-0700.

person walked past the Jeep, the vehicle moved forward and then turned, giving the officer a clear view into the front passenger compartment. There sat a man, naked from the waist down.

And in a wave of nausea, the guard knew exactly what the man was doing.

The officer told police she nearly threw up at that point but pulled herself together, according to Weller’s account. Concerned that others might see what she had witnessed through the Jeep’s untinted windows, she called police.

In the meantime, Weller’s account continues, another security officer found a second witness. This second witness later told police that over the previous six months he had seen the same man cruising the parking lot, as though searching for something. That something the witness believed to have been women, whom the man would drive toward before slowing his vehicle.

The witness wrote down the Jeep’s license plate number, and according to Weller’s account, he later positively identified Libke from a photo montage.

Libke, in jail on $50,000 bail, has a long history of sexual crimes, including convictions for public indecency in 2010, lewd conduct in 1993 and 1997, and indecent exposure in 1980, 1981, 2002 and 2006. In 1981, he was convicted of battery on a peace officer.

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Prosecutors have tacked a firearm sentencing enhancement onto each charge, and with the enhancements ChaparroVielma is looking at 89 to 101 years in prison. He remains in jail, with bail set at $1 million.

Chaparro-Vielma was be arraigned at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Courtroom GA at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.

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about 19 minutes before he made his way across the dance floor to where his intended victims were dancing and began firing.

According to Williams’ account, surveillance video shows ChaparroVielma first approaching Hernandez-Maradiaga. He pulls his gun with his left hand and fires at least two rounds at Hernandez-Maradiaga ‘s head. Somehow Hernandez-Maradiaga only receives grazing wounds to the back of his head. He falls down.

surveillance and witness interviews, forms the basis for the charges, as follows: According to Williams, Chaparro-Vielma had first come to the casino at midnight to confront his estranged wife. The two argued and he grabbed and shook her and left.

At about 1:09 a.m., Williams’ account continues, Chaparro-Vielma returned, disappearing into a bathroom for a few minutes. He then walked straight to the Galaxy, where he stayed for

struggles with ChaparroVielma for a split second before releasing him, turning and starting to run.

Chaparro-Vielma raises his gun and fires once, possibly twice, hitting her in the back, according to Williams’ account.

According to Williams, Chaparro-Vielma puts the gun to his left temple and begins to walk out of the club. A casino security officer meets him, tackles him and wrests the gun from his grip.

Medics transported Hernandez-Maradiaga , Blanca Arroyos, Etalvina Morales-Arroyos and Veronica Arroyos to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Doctors released Hernandez-Maradiaga later that day with non-lifethreatening injuries. Blanca Arroyos and her sister, Etalvina Morales-Arroyos,

were listed in critical but stable condition. Veronica Arroyos was released from the hospital several days later.

Bystanders Taniela Niutupuivahai, Crystal Dandridge-Jackson and Kristen Anderson were transported to Valley Regional Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. Doctors treated and later released them all.

According to Williams’ account, Chaparro-Vielma later admitted to police that he had followed his estranged wife and her new boyfriend to the casino. He said he “couldn’t stand it” any more, so he walked up to the couple and opened fire.

According to Williams’ account, Chaparro-Vielma said of the shooting, “I think I made a mistake.”

for about 10 years – added that the FBI is investigating other leads. out of the plane over “It’s a matter of vetting Southwest Washington with the information,” Gutt told $200,000 in ransom. the seattlepi.com. “Some of The slideshow falls a few the vetting we have done, months shy of the 40th anand it corroborated the niversary of D.B. Cooper’s initial lead. hijacking on Nov. 24, 1971.

“There are also The Telegraph other leads we’re newspaper in pursuing,” Gutt London reported continued. “Some last weekend that the of the other names FBI is sifting forensic have been out in evidence to try to the public, some of match the fingerthe names have not prints to a suspect come out.” in the hijacking. The Blevins FBI did not name Christiansen, the suspect. the suspect named On Monday, seattlepi. in Blevin’s book, died of com reported that the cancer in 1994. Gutt told FBI could not obtain seattlepi.com that Chrisfingerprints from an item tiansen was not a top belonging to the suspect, so suspect in the case. it could not make a match Blevins however, remains to fingerprints it had previconvinced that Christiansen ously obtained from the was Cooper. And he says he hijacked plane. knows how to prove it.

“The nature of the “I’ve suggested that they material was not good for should just compare Kenprints,” agent Fred Gutt told ny’s Army induction papers seattlepi.com. with the 66 prints they Agent Gutt – who said pulled from the plane,” he the suspect has been dead said. “They haven’t checked

Kenny’s prints yet.”

Blevins continued: “The main excuse they use is that Kenny doesn’t quite resemble Cooper,” he said. “That ignores all the other evidence. They’re going entirely on eye witnesses, and they can be unreliable. Gutt first told the PI that Kenny was eliminated as a suspect and then a day later he said that he was not.

That does not give me any confidence in them.”

Blevins has appeared on the Comcast Sports Net show “Adrenaline Hunter” with host Bethany Rossos to discuss the case, and the book was the subject of a recent episode on History Channel’s Brad Meltzer’s “Decoded.”

A giveaway of a limited number of free books, some on Cooper, and others for children or science-fiction fans from the Adventure Books catalog, follows the slideshows.

Slideshow times are 11 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 13 and again at 3 p.m. Sunday’s slideshow is at noon.

According to Williams account of the surveillance video, Chaparro-Vielma then takes a two-handed grip on his gun and fires at his wife, standing near her fallen boyfriend. She ducks, and her sister, Etalvina, standing behind her, is shot in the face. She falls to the ground.

Shot to the chest According to Williams’ account, Blanca can be seen on the video on her knees in front of her husband, apparently trying to grab him, but he allegedly aims his gun down with one hand and squeezes out one shot, striking her in her right chest.

As that is happening, Williams’ account continues, Veronica Arroyos can be seen on the video trying to grab the gun. She

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“This situation has the potential to escalate into a full war. Prosecutor (Dan) Satterberg and Sheriff (Sue) Rahr need the resources to prosecute gang-related crimes to the fullest.”– King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn on asking for funds from the Criminal Justice reserve to fight gang violence in South King County.

Doing his duty half a world away Situated in a remote desert area, far from population centers, the base runs four miles long by two miles wide.

It includes an airstrip, a field hospital and full accommodations for the 2,000 military men and women stationed there.

Camp Bastion is the main British military base in Afghanistan, with plenty of U.S. personnel to go around, fulfilling their duty, however long and arduous.

For instance, the airfield handles some 600 fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft movements every day, operating combat, medical and logistics flights.

Lance Cpl. Devon L. Beers makes sure such sophisticated aircraft take wing each day. It is his job, and one that is challenging and, at times, difficult.

Such is his duty.

“Why the Marines?” he was asked of his decision to join the Corps.

“They are the best, sir.”

The 21-year-old Auburn native is an avionics technician with the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 267, deployed in the heart of a hot, arid and war-plagued country. Beers – who is three months into a seven-month tour, his first as a young Marine – works on the AH-1W Cobra, a two-bladed, single-engine attack chopper, and UH-1Y Huey, a twin-engine, medium-size utility helicopter. He works specifically on avionics, overlooking and maintaining the attack helicopters’ electronic components and systems.

Plenty can go wrong, but Beers keeps the blades spinning when ground forces need air support at a moment’s notice.

“Some of the equipment is old,” he admitted, “but a lot of it is new and sophisticated.”

And vital to combat operations as the U.S. continues to maintain a strong presence in the war on terror. Camp Bastion remains a logistics hub for operations in the Helmand Province.

The main military effort in Afghanistan is expected to shift next year from Helmand

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Show of respect, compassion Thank you for your coverage of the ceremony that recently took place at the Auburn Pioneer Cemetery to commemorate the inurnment of Maki and Mae Yamada (Auburn Reporter, July 29).

Although neither were direct descendants of people already buried in the cemetery, both were related, by blood and marriage, to several individuals buried there. To deny their final wishes to rest among family members and their extended community would have been bureaucratic at best.

I’m very proud the City and the Cemetery Board instead took a more reasoned approach that showed the compassion and respect that the Yamadas and their surviving family members certainly deserve.

Letters policy The Auburn Reporter welcomes letters to the editor on any subject. Letters must include a name, address and daytime phone number for verification purposes.

Letters may be edited for length. Submissions may be printed both in the paper and electronically.

The inurnment in the Auburn Pioneer Cemetery was undoubtedly the right thing to do.

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Focus on your job Superintendent Mary Alice Heuschel should be spending her time on Renton schools, not a hospital commissioner

(District No. 1) campaign.

With one failing school, a large budget deficit and a large salary, clearly her priorities should remain with the schools.

She says her contract requires her to do community service. That is great, but those obligations should be completed on her time, not the kid’s time. The Hospital Board meetings will be held during the school day when she should be working to improve schools. The job she is being paid to do.

Overall, Renton schools have done well under Heuschel’s leadership; as long as she holds the position of superintendent, that is where her focus should remain.

The children, school district employees and the school district voters deserve her full attention.

– Erin Williams

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Let county voters decide the Metro Transit-saving car-tab issue The King County Council plans to vote by Aug. 15 on a proposal to institute a $20 car-tab fee to bail Metro Transit out of a $60 million hole. When that vote comes, the final decision should be left to the voters.

Metro’s problem is like many other firms and institutions: costs are rising faster than revenue.

In Metro’s case, revenue is down

because most of it comes from the sales tax and people’s spending has declined. The transit agency says if it can’t find more money, it will have to cut service by 17 percent, which means reducing some transit trips or eliminating routes altogether.

Metro says it has made strides in reining in costs. It has cut 100 jobs, but this isn’t much in terms of

percent of employees, given the size of the operation. It has increased fares, but while that brings in more revenue, it does so on the backs of mostly those on the bottom rung of the economic ladder. It has tapped its reserves, sometimes necessary, but always perilous. And employees have made pay concessions that have or will save Metro about $17 million.

Metro now is turning to the cartab fee after state lawmakers earlier this year gave county officials the OK to charge an extra $20 for the tabs. Metro says that the fee would give it $50 million over two years and, combined with its reserves, allow it to keep transit service relatively intact. [ more TABS page 6 ]

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Wall for all First-time participants challenge the new climbing wall at the Auburn Park and Rec Gym in Les Gove Park.

The wall officially opened to the public last week.

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Auburn residents are generally

pleased with police, parks and recreation and Internet access, but the City of Auburn could step up its game as far as street and sidewalk conditions and repair.

Those are among the findings of a recent phone survey measuring resident’s opinions and behaviors, the City’s latest effort to figure out what people think of City services and the overall quality of life in Auburn.

Elway Research, Inc. conducted the baseline survey in 2005 on behalf of the City, and the latest

survey follows up from the 200609 results.

From June 2-8, 2011, Elway Research, Inc., called a total of 500 heads of households, picking residents from listed households and tapping a database of residents with listed numbers to randomly select them.

Each respondent had to be the head of the household and a current resident of Auburn.

According to the survey, quality of life indicators stayed generally positive, people rating natural environment the shiniest facet of their quality of life and job and economic opportunities the dullest.

[ TABS from page 5 ] That sounds good, but we don’t want just six members of the County Council to make that decision, especially when the burden will fall on nearly everyone in the county. If the vast majority of us are going to pay the fee, we at least should have a say.

As of now, the council doesn’t have the six votes needed to impose unilaterally. The five votes they do have only would send the issue to the ballot.

Councilmembers have indicated that there may be ways to wring more

money from Metro’s operations, thus lowering the need for as much additional revenue. If that happens, a sixth vote may be found for adding the fee.

How about this instead?

Members of the County Council work to find more efficiencies and savings in Metro’s operation.

If successful, it lowers the amount Metro needs to keep its service intact.

Now, put that more reasonable fee on the ballot.

Voters might be impressed enough to say “yes.”

Heat is on “It can be 120-130 degrees,” he said. “It’s pretty hot, but I make sure I stay busy and drink plenty of water all day.”

Staying busy has been the key. The experience at a military camp in the middle of nowhere is all about staying busy.

“It’s pretty much what I expected,” said Beers, who likes to play guitar or work out at the gym in his spare time. “Time has really gone fast by staying busy. And we don’t see too much of the country or the people because of where we are located.”

Born and raised in Auburn, Beers decided the Marine Corps was the place for him after graduating from Auburn Mountain-

“We repair a septic system only when we know why it failed.”

Lance Cpl. Devon L. Beers, an Auburn native, is an avionics technician with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 267 deployed to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. Beers works on the AH-1W Cobra and UH-1Y Huey.

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He did his basic training at Camp Pendleton before he got his orders to go overseas.

Just where he will go next is uncertain, but he stands to honor his four-year commitment.

Beers, son of Dondi and Wendy Beers, hopes to one day get married, raise a family and parlay his military training into a civilian career in avionics, perhaps with a helicopter company.

He misses home, his family and the opportunity to hike and camp in the great Northwest. But, for now, he is all about doing time and sacrifice for his country.

“Things are going well,” he said. “This is something I wanted to do entirely on my own.

“It was pretty hard, but you just do what you are told and get through it. … You just do your hardest.”

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and the other southern province of Kandahar, where U.S. and Afghan forces have acquired some measure of fragile security gains over the last year, to the east, where the Taliban insurgency remains strong.

President Obama plans to announce a troop reduction in Afghanistan that Pentagon and other administration officials say should bring home about 10,000 personnel by the end of the year. Obama is planning to give leeway to military commanders about the pacing of a planned withdrawals and the types of forces to be pulled out, officials said.

All of which means little to Beers, who carefully goes about his business without complaint. His responsibility comes with the discomfort of applying his craft in the searing heat of the day.

It is by no means a picnic.

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attempts to draw boundaries and borders. In both the public and private corners of my life, my anxiety abides.

When the party is over, the lights are out, the doors are locked, and the people have all gone home, my anxiety abides. It waits for me like a pestering friend whose insecurities require a private conversation after every public event.

It’s a conversation I don’t want to have.

It’s a moment I don’t want to feel. So often, when I’m alone, my anxiety abides.

So what are the answers?

Medicine … meditation … prayer … scripture … counseling … companionship … and other worthy solutions come to mind. To be sure, I’ve found many ways to stem the tide, push back the urge, and live a very full life in the face of genuine struggles.

Even so, today I prefer another path. Today I choose to simply write and speak about this little struggle of mine. I Doug Bursch

Save a Forgotten Equine (SAFE) presents its fifth annual Benefit Horse Show on Saturday and Sunday at the Donida Farm Equestrian Center, 16600 SE 376th St., Auburn.

Competitors of all ages will compete in different classes.

There will be a number of rescued horses at the show who need permanent homes, and showgoers will have the chance to meet and interact with special equines.

Entry to the show grounds is free both days. A full slate of competition and shows begins at 8 a.m. each day.

For more information, visit www.safehorses.org or contact Bonnie Hammond at bonnie@safehorses. org or 206-331-0006.

My anxiety abides within my gut, within my skin, within countless compromises and desperate attempts to be accepted. My anxiety abides.

My anxiety abides within my biology, within my earliest memories, within restless sleep and twisted dreams, within racing thoughts, shifting eyes, fidgeting legs, and perpetual foreboding anticipations. My anxiety abides.

My anxiety is a tide ebbing and flowing, or maybe it’s a moon waxing and waning. Then again, maybe it is more like an ill-trained beast continually regressing. Regardless, my anxiety is more than a feeling, it is a substance that I wade through every single day of my life. My anxiety abides like breath, like heartbeat, like thought and flesh.

My anxiety seeps through partitions and resists all attempts at compartmentalization. It does not take vacations, nor honor truces.

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However, even though Doug loves his life, he still struggles with anxiety. He still has areas of his life that feel broken, undone, incomplete, and marred by the weight of living in a fallen world.

The good news is rather simple. You and I are not defined by our faults, struggles and weaknesses.

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Couple host free folk concert

BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

It’s the first time Charlie and Kathy Clarke have done this sort of thing.

But it may not be the last.

Last Saturday the Clarke’s hosted folk duo Reilly and Maloney – featuring singer/guitarists Ginny Reilly and David Maloney – for a free concert in their Auburn home’s backyard.

Charlie Clarke said he and his wife jumped at the opportunity to host the duo.

“We’ve followed them for about 35 years,” he said. “We’ve seen them many times and saw them at the Auburn Avenue Theater a couple of years ago and talked to them after the show.”

Clarke explained that after perusing Reilly and Maloney’s website, they found out that the duo often played house shows between engagements.

After contacting the duo’s associate Wes Wendell, the Clarkes were informed that Reilly and Maloney would be able to perform on July 30.

“So we just emailed all of our friends and invited them,” Clarke said. “And all of the people in the community that appreciate music.”

Close to 50 people packed in their lawn chairs into the Clarke’s back yard to watch Reilly and Maloney, backed by Wendell on the mandolin, perform several original songs and covers.

“We’re very pleased with it,” Clarke said. “The weather was great. It couldn’t have been nicer really.”

4. Use it or lose it.

Challenge your mind on a regular basis. Take a class in a new subject. Play “brain teaser” games like Sodoko, crossword puzzles, or solitaire.

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Folk duo Ginny Reilly, right, and David Maloney, performed a free concert in the back yard of Charlie and Kathy Clarke’s Auburn home.

It is not normal to lose your memory as you age.

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7. Eat a healthy diet. Specific nutrients are known to stimulate brain function.

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Antioxidants such as vitamin A, C, and E, help prevent free radical damage, and can improve the flow of oxygen in the body.

Examples of foods rich in antioxidants are nuts (almonds), brightly colored

fruits (i.e., blueberries, cantaloupe, apricots) and vegetables (i.e., tomatoes, sweet potatoes, squash).

Be sure to see a doctor promptly if you experience a sudden memory change, with or without a severe headache, blurred or double vision, fever, speech changes, balance and/or coordination problems.

Dr. Linda Petter is a weekly feature on KOMO TV/News Radio (1000 AM & 97.7 FM) every Sunday live at 7:45 a.m., and a columnist for the Auburn Reporter.

Dr. Petter is chief of the Department of Family Practice at St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way. She is a consumer healthcare advocate, and her books, “Healthcare On a Budget,” and “Common Medical Sense,” are available on Amazon.com. Please visit her website, www.DocForAll.com, or call her office at 253-568-0841.

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NW PREMIERE FC GIRLS SECOND AT STATE SOCCER TOURNEY The Northwest Premier FC Girls G’97 U14 girls notched a second-place finish at last weekend’s Dos FC Washington Games Soccer Tournament at the Starfire Soccer Complex in Tukwila. The girls amassed nine goals during the tourney, but fell 1-2 to the Sun City Club from Yakima in the championship game.

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BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

This weekend’s National Hot Rod Association’s Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways is like a homecoming to Auburn’s Aaron Strong.

“I have been going out to this race since 1993 or 1994,” said Strong, 33.

Even though Strong has been in the stands for the Northwest Nationals on nearly 15 occasions, this year marks the third time he’ll be flying down the quarter-mile in the Competition Eliminator class.

Strong – the defending NHRA Northwest Division 6 Comp Eliminator champion – is no stranger to the track or national events, but he said racing there is always a little intimidating.

“You always get a little nervous when you go up for the first round, but the national events are just a bigger race than a standard bracket or divisional race,” he said.

Strong got his start on the racetrack as a junior at Fife High School His first run was behind

BY CHRIS CHANCELLOR Port Orchard Independent

Aaron Strong, the defending NHRA Northwest Division 6 Comp Eliminator champ, makes his third appearance at the Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways this weekend. SHAWN SKAGER, Reporter the wheel of his dad Wayne Strong’s 1993 Mustang, a souped-up former cop car.

“We both did runs in it,” Strong said.

Soon, Strong was scorching local strips in his own 1963 Chevy Nova.

“I raced that a lot,” he said. “Did a lot of bracket racing and some points racing. I did all right in that for years, then I wanted to start going faster.”

Traditionally, drivers

move on from bracket racing to Super Stock or other intermediate levels of racing. Not Strong.

“I kind of jumped the next step,” he said. “I kind of went to the class that I wanted to race in, which was Comp Eliminator.”

Spurred on by his brother and fellow Comp Eliminator racer Brandon Huhtala, Strong set about buying a car in 2005.

Selling off one of the dump trucks from his trucking company – Strong Trucking – he acquired a 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier,

formerly owned by Pro Stock racer Ron Krisher.

“They traded it in to the chassis builder who builds the car,” he said. “So I bought it from the builder, Jerry Bickle. I had it for a couple years, painting it and getting it ready to run in this class.”

“The car itself is about $55,000 rolling, used,” he continued. “That’s not even motor, tranny, race pack or ignition. One of these cars turn-key is about $150 grand for a Comp Eliminator. [ more STRONG page 11 ]

A conversation with Unlimited Hydroplane racer Dave Villwock is about as diverse as a buffet.

He uses a lot of metaphors to compare his craft to the accomplishments of others.

“One thing you never do — at least in a military setting — is take a hill you Dave Villwock can’t hold,” Villwock said. “A guy runs to the inside and doesn’t have the boat speed to defend it. He usually gets a worse result than he would have if he picked a place he could defend. A lot of it’s strategy to be played.”

Faulty planning has not been an issue for 57-year-old Villwock, who enters Sunday’s race at Seafair as the circuit’s winningest driver. He earned that distinction July 10 with [ more VILLWOCK page 11 ]

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www.auburn-reporter.com [ villwock from page 10] “Now we can focus on the his 63rd career victory, passing Bill Muncey.

For 10 years, dating back to Villwock’s time behind the wheel of the Miss Budweiser, there’s been a lot of talk about his pursuit of the record.

He’d prefer not to talk about it.

“When the media surrounding the race was always (discussing) the record and what I was doing, that probably was not the best thing for the sport,” Villwock said.

[ strong from page 10] It’s just one level below Pro Stock.”

Strong set about adjusting the car from its Pro Stock set up.

“The only difference between Comp Eliminator and Pro Stock is really the motor,” Strong said. “This car has a 280-cubic-inch motor that gets about 800 horsepower.

Pro Stock runs 500-cubic inch motors that get close to 1,450 horsepower. They’ll do 6.50-seconds at 210 milesper-hour.”

Although he had a car, Strong still needed to get his license to race.

“It was kind of hard at first,” Strong said of the licensing process. “That first run you make, you don’t know what the car is going to do, you don’t know if it’s going to go left or right, up or down or straight. So it’s really hard.”

“The car went straight though. I was comfortable, although it took a little while to get used to the speed,” he said.

sport again.”

This year Villwock, at the helm of the U-96 Spirit of Qatar, is first in those standings, having garnered 4,300 points, with two races remaining in San Diego and Doha, Qatar.

He attributed his inability to win the high points championship in recent years to poor luck, noting some crashes he said others caused and officiating decisions that went against him.

He has not been quite as successful under Ellstrom Used to pulling 12-second times at about 100 mph in his Nova, Strong said it was quite a step up to the 7.90-second, 170 mph times he pulled in his new ride.

“It was nice, but it took 30 or 40 runs to get used to it,” he said. “You just have to respect these cars. You’re just along for the ride, so you can’t overdrive them.”

With license in hand and car ready, Strong made his Division 6 debut in 2008.

“I did OK, I went to three or four divisional races,” he said. “I went to the Northwest Nationals for the first time. I think I finished 11th that year.

I just kind of got my feet wet.”

In the following seasons, Strong became more and more comfortable behind the wheel of his car, and last year he finished the season as the Northwest Division 6 Comp Eliminator champ.

“We were really fast last year at the beginning,” he said. “I found a lot in the car, just in suspension, chassis set up. I didn’t spend a dollar on anything, just kept refining

as he was for the late Bernie Little, former owner of the Miss Budweiser. After his boat blew over and landed on its back in the first turn of the final in 1997 in the Tri-Cities — an accident that nearly killed him and resulted in the loss of his right pinky and ring fingers — he became the sport’s most dominant racer.

He won the national championship every year from 1998 to 2004, placing first at Seafair six times.

While rivals have never questioned Villwock’s knowl-

edge of hydroplanes — he has worked on them since he was a boy riding the foot ferry to Bremerton to help his uncle, Al Villwock, with his 136 hydroplane — some competitors have dismissed his success as more of a byproduct of superior resources.

Ken Muscatel, who drives the U-25 Superior Racing and has competed on the Unlimited Hydroplane circuit since 1991, disagrees with that sentiment.

“Dave is winning because Dave is great,” he said. “He’s a

great driver and he deserves everything he’s got. I’m very proud of him.”

But Muscatel said Villwock will have to be better in Seattle than on Sunday in the Tri-Cities, where he trailed for half the race before passing David to win the Columbia Cup. “He’s got a super speedway boat,” he said. “This is a smaller track, and he can’t afford to let what happened in the Tri-Cities happen here. Otherwise, he’ll lose the race.”

“It’s not going to be predetermined by who’s got the fastest boat,” Muscatel said.

“It’s fight, fight, fight all the way. I know the driver likes it.”

Not Villwock.

“I’m not a big fan of the start,” he said. “If we were going to run Daytona with 42 cars, we would put a clock up and tell them, ‘Just go get your lane.’ You never, ever would get a decent start there, so they learned a way to do it orderly.”

The Albert Lee Cup gets underway Friday at 2:45 p.m.

everything that was already there, just learning how to make it work better.”

This year, just six events into the divisional season, Strong said he’s not quite where he wants to be.

“This year we’ve been fast, but we’ve had some parts failures,” he said. “We blew a clutch at a race in Canada and then had some races where we got rained out, following the clutch explosion. We didn’t have time to get the

new clutch figured out and lost a race in the first round.”

Although the year has not been great for his divisional standings, he’s found success at the National events, grabbing fourth at the Winter Nationals in Pomona, Calif. and making it to the semifinals at the Las Vegas Nationals.

Currently, Strong said he’s happy running Comp Eliminator, but eventually hopes to move up.

“Pro Stock would be my

ultimate dream, but you definitely need some corporate sponsorship,” he said. “You can’t run there without lots of money. It’s a lofty goal.”

For now, however, he’s just concentrating on getting the car ready and enjoying the weekend.

“It’s just a good positive environment,” he said. “I look forward to it, getting to see

people I’ve come to know on the weekends that I only see every once in awhile. In our division, everybody is friends, if you need a part or help, we’re in each other’s trailers helping out. There is definitely a camaraderie there.” “(The Northwest Nationals) are definitely a cool thing that people should go out and see,” he said.

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oil and acrylic, Chen Lord prefers collage because of the artistic challenges, as well as its reduced impact on the environment. “This is very inexpensive, very affordable and very green,� she said. “Anyone can do it. You don’t even have to buy paint or brushes or canvass. You don’t even need scissors, just your hand and glue. I want to show people how I do it.�

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ing resulted in her first-ever sale of an original art work. “The manager bought my first one for $75,� she said. “My ego got really big, I got big-headed and thought, 'Wow, someone will pay me for a print. Hey, I’m going to make it.'�

By 2010, Chen Lord was experiencing such success with her work, she decided to focus on her art, selling her company and getting a booth at the Pike Place Market in Seattle, where she sells her art.

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Memorial services to be held 3 pm, August 9th, at the Auburn Senior Center 808-9th Street S.E. Auburn 98002. In lieu of flowers, Bernice requested donations be sent to Auburn Senior Center.

began to do collage.

Chen Lord’s first project was a Christmas card, but she quickly moved on to bigger pieces.

She soon was given an opportunity to show her work at a local Starbucks.

Her art was an instant hit with patrons and employees at the coffee house. “I was very surprised,� she said. “You don’t see people, because they come for the coffee and then leave.

But they (store employees) said the response was very positive.�

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