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It’s by no means Auburn’s carmageddon, but motorists are advised to avoid a wellused section of the West Valley Highway in the many weeks ahead to make way for a longawaited improvement project.

Prep work already is under way for a $4 million project to reconstruct the worn roadway, a longtime alternative route for commuters and commercial traffic.

The section of the two-lane highway from State Route 18 to West Main Street is expected to close between Monday, Aug. 29 and approximately Friday, Oct. 21 to allow for the upgrade of a new, expanded and safer roadway.

The intersection at West Valley Highway and West Main Street will remain open during the reconstruction period to accommodate business and the delayed flow of detoured traffic. But the intersection will be subject to intermittent lane restrictions and closures.

West Main, C Street Southwest and 15th Street Southwest will be signed detour routes.

Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series looking at diversity in the Auburn community.

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“Maria,” her husband and their kids moved from village to village in war-ravaged Guatemala, looking for work.

When Maria’s husband died, she was left with five children. Leticia, the youngest, was 18 months old. The young widow had never held a Emerging formal job. In GuateAuburn: mala, the woman keeps A Diverse the house and cares for Community the children, the man provides.

Guerillas had killed many members of her family.

Relatives urged Maria to give up three of her children for adoption and keep two. She refused. Ultimately, she and her kids made the deadly trek over the burning furnace of the Mexican desert to the United States.

Today she is a naturalized U.S. citizen well on her way to full citizenship. Leticia Ostos spoke with pride of the mother who gave so [ more DIVERSITY page 5 ]

Chalk talk Gabrielle Abbott describes her chalk portrait to onlookers during ArtRageous at Les Gove Park last Saturday. The festival invited the public to create and celebrate art in the park. It included hands-on art-making activities, local art organizations, professional artist demonstrations, art vendors, food booths and music.

SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter

Sicilian Salvatore Cascone came to Auburn about 30 years ago without an education. He said the community has afforded him a good life. REPORTER PHOTO

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Low turnout: School district suspends Auburn High marching band program

BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

The Auburn School District has suspended the marching band program at Auburn High School for the 2011-2012 school year.

District Superintendent Kip Herren said Monday that too few students have

signed up for the program at the oldest of the district’s high schools.

Changing demographics, even the increasing number of students for whom marching band is not a part of their cultural heritage, might be partly responsible, Herren said Monday. [ more BAND page 8 ]

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City park makes way for leash-free dog area

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Horsepower Anna Phillips, above, guides Bo over a jump during the Save a Forgotten Equine’s fifth annual Benefit Horse Show last weekend at Auburn’s Donida Farm Equestrian Center.

Competitors of all ages competed in different classes over the two-day showcase.

Competition also featured special classes open to rescued horses. Genny Geiger and Tiny Trix, right, compete in barrel racing. The team posted the fastest time of 20.44 seconds.

The horse show included a dinner and a silent auction. Proceeds benefited the Monroe-based SAFE, a nonprofit organization that rescues and rehabilitates horses that have been starved, neglected or abused. To learn more, visit www. safehorses.org. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

Good Ol’ Days returns

Auburn’s downtown comes to life this weekend with the annual Auburn Good Ol’ Days – a diverse festival celebrating the city and its people.

The three-day festival features a grand parade at noon Saturday on Main Street.

The weekend includes a street dance,

continuous entertainment, food booths, a community barbecue, crafts, a classic car, truck and cycle show, a model boat exhibition and juried art shows.

Literary Adventures snuggles into the Auburn Avenue Theater to perform throughout the weekend.

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Dog lovers eager to see areas in City parks where Fido could slip his leash and express the full spectrum of his doggie nature have woofed about it for years.

The City’s Parks Board listened and liked.

By mid- to late-September it opens, just shy of two acres inside Roegner Park north of Auburn Riverside High School, the City of Auburn’s first offleash dog park.

OK, for the moment it’ll be strictly a “let’s see how it goes” sort of off-leash affair, but still.

“There’s going be this one for now because this is all the money we have in the budget to do at the moment,” said Daryl Faber, director of Auburn Parks, Arts and Recreation. “We’ll look at the success of that because there’s another two that we are hoping to institute next year.”

To find the future site, just look for a large area between the Auburn Riverside High school softball fields and the white river trail walking path. The site, Faber said, offers river access, bathrooms and is expandable. Plus, many dog owners already use the White River Trail to walk

their dogs. On the other hand, parking is limited.

The total cost of bringing the long, linear strip of land up to snuff for Spot and his pals will be about $9,500, mostly for fencing.

“Basically at this one, we chose a rounded fence post system like King County and the City of Renton have used to keep costs down,” Faber said.

“There will be separate areas for small and for large dogs. We’ll bring water to it, and there will be parking within a couple hundred yards.”

City crews will install the fencing, but Faber is looking for volunteers to spread mulch and help with the upkeep.

Park hours will be dawn to dusk.

Faber emphasized that this is not about building a dog park from scratch because the City doesn’t have the land for that.

“The City of Victoria (B.C.) did this four or five years ago,” Faber said. “They tested sites for a year to see how they worked, analyzed the sites, and if things didn’t work, they could potentially go to another site and so on. We’re not building an off-leash dog park where a City gets 10 new acres, and it’s just built by design to be a park. We didn’t find any of those opportunities.

What we found were areas of parks that were under used and we thought had some real strengths in relation to off-leash areas.”

Other potential sites are as follows: • Auburndale Park on Lea Hill: Not only is the area under used it’s also buffered between the offleash area and the nearest neighbor. But it lacks bathrooms and would require additional parking. The neighborhood would also have to buy into the idea.

• Isaac Evans Park: The City is looking at an area on the south end of the park near the pump station. On the plus side, there is neighboring property to worry about, it is also expandable to more than an acre, and there is a restroom at the north end of the park. But the parking lot would have to be expanded.

• Lakeland Hills Park: It would serve the entire Lakeland Hills community and use an underdeveloped bit of property. There is also only one adjacent homeowner to work is with. On the down side, it only about a half-acre site, there is no room to expand, it offers limited parking and there are no bathrooms. more story online… auburn-reporter.com

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Construction, weather dependent, is expected to continue until the end of the year, project coordinators said.

The highway is expected to reopen after Oct. 21, but reconstruction will continue and motorists can expect delays.

Motorists are advised to avoid the area.

“It will be (an inconvenience) but the improvements are needed simply because the roadway has deteriorated to the point where it has to be replaced,” said Jacob Sweeting, a project manager and engineer for the City of Auburn Public Works Department.

Significant rainfall and runoff from the hillside essentially have made the road unstable, Sweeting added.

The worn roadway surface is prone to cracks, potholes, wheel ruts and damage caused by surface drainage and groundwater seepage, City officials said.

The highway project is about 16 years in coming, Starting Monday, Aug. Mayor Pete 15 through approximately Lewis said.

Sept. 30, the contractor of The City’s wait the South Division Street Promenade project will ended when close the following streets the Washto through traffic for ington State construction activities: Transporta• West Main Street from tion ImproveA Street Southwest to ment Board South Division Street kicked in the • South Division Street grant money from Main Street to 1st to make it Street Southwest possible.

Signed detour routes “People will be posted. Pedestrian have asked for access to local businesses this to be fixed will be maintained. for so long, but now that we are doing it, it will create a temporary inconvenience,” Lewis said. “We sat in line for the project … and we finally got the funds from the state to do it.”

The goal of the project is to make the highway corridor an efficient and safe arterial street, City officials said.

The City’s plans call for rebuilding and widening the 1,870-foot section of West Valley Highway South from Highway 18 to West Main Street, as follows: • Adding two bike lanes, a sidewalk built of pervious concrete along the southbound lane and fill slopes.

• Relocating 1,070 feet of existing ditches.

• Installing 2,351 feet of storm drainage piping, 63 feet of culvert, bio-retention swales in the roadway median and 36 linear feet of new retaining wall.

• Making room for a center median and extended turn lanes.

• Relocating a water main.

• Replacing the signal at the intersection of West Valley Highway and West Main Street. The intersection will be fitted with a new signal system. The existing traffic signal is over 50 years old and does not meet current standards, officials said.

Furthermore, trucks and large vehicles periodically have hit the signal poles at the intersection corners. New poles will be set back from the corners that will be widened to accommodate turning vehicles.

Highway improvements were needed to improve traffic flow.

During peak traffic times, northbound traffic backs up at the signal near the SR 18 overpass and blocks the turn pocket that serves traffic turning east onto the eastbound SR 18 onramp. The City has determined that the congestion and delays can be alleviated by extending turn pocket lengths and adding a center median.

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www.auburn-reporter.com [ DIVERSITY from page 1 ] much for her children.

“People really don’t understand how hard it was for people like her,” Ostos said. “Her dream was to provide for her children and have her family together in the United States.

She did what she had to do.”

Ostos and her Mexicanborn husband, Jay Ostos, manager of the Continental Village at 560 21st. St. SE., a central gathering place for the city’s Hispanic-Latino population, are part of a recent wave of immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America, from Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, the Marshall Islands, Somalia and India and Africa and, it seems, everywhere else, dropping new roots in Auburn.

Ralph Ibarra, diversity liaison for the City of Auburn, described how “diverse” Auburn has become.

“We have a significant Hispanic-Latino community, we have a significant Russian-Ukrainian community, we have a significant Asian community that has its distinct individual groups – Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Vietnamese Americans,” said Ibarra. “But if you look at immigration from different countries in Asia, then you have the South Asian source like Indians, meaning from India, particularly the Sikh community from Punjab, and you have lots of European immigrants.

And we have a significant contingent from Italy, the Sons of Italy.”

Rise of races According to U.S. Census data, between 1980 and 1990 roughly 72 percent of Auburn’s population growth was Caucasian.

In the following decade, those numbers flipped: only 33 percent of Auburn’s newcomers were Caucasian and 67 percent were people of different races and ethnicities. Between 1990 and 2000, Latinos and Hispanics passed African Americans as the principal ethnic racial group in the country.

Census data show that of the 4,504 foreign born persons who entered the city between 1990 and 2000, 946 had come from Europe. Before 1980, there were only 282. In 2000, there were 1,462 people of Asian ancestry living in Auburn, 787 of whom had entered between 1990 and 2000, up from the 370 who had arrived between 1980 and 1989.

Wherever they come from, they are changing the city just as previous generations have done.

Their stories differ, but a common thread links them – a shared belief that a better life for them and for their children is still possible, here and now.

They are the Russians and Ukrainians in downtown Auburn west of City Hall and shopping at Marvel Grocery on C Street Southwest, the women with their hair tucked neatly under colored scarves that mark them as members of a Ukrainian Pentecostal church. They are the younger generation that likes to frequent the Harvey Road Starbucks, pondering their next move on a chessboard.

They are the janitors, maids and office cleaners, some holding advanced degrees but unable to work within their field of expertise here because of their poor English skills. They are South Korean parents, fretting over a colicky baby at 4 a.m., wondering where to go, who to turn to for help.

They are business owners like hair braider Elizabeth Foday-Dodge, not far removed from the days of dodging rape gangs in civilwar torn Liberia on the African continent.

‘Pastor Viktor’ And they are people like “Pastor Viktor” who leads the Russian-Ukrainian Parousia congregation at the foot of Lakeland Hills.

Viktor Krushenitskiy and his wife left the Black Sea City of Odessa in Ukraine in 1994 because he was close to retirement. They wanted to join their daughter in Auburn.

Today his congregation, a mix of older and younger immigrants, fields a band called Hope that plays at local events throughout the area.

Krushenitskiy, whose church faced persecution in his native land, praises America, as “a land of religious liberty.”

Of course, making a new life is not easy. The newcomers must learn a new language, find a job, and feed their families, all while navigating the untold, baffling features of life here that the native born take for granted.

“My experience with immigrants locating to this area is that whatever attracted them here was in part preexisting relationships in their country of origin,” said Michael Hursh, director of commu-

‘Pastor Viktor’ Krushenitskiy conducts his band of RussianUkranian musicians, all members of the Parousia congregation.

The band, called Hope, plays throughout the area. COURTESY PHOTO nity services for the City of Auburn. “They come into a very tight-knit, typically family-oriented environment, where the understanding and the routines of life have been developed, and not always accurately.

It’s bewildering to them, and without that strong link to a preexisting group or family, they come on the radar of needing resources pretty quickly. My concern is with how many of the resources are available and ready to really serve them and what they need to create appropriate living conditions,” said Hursh.

Complicating things is a common, deep-rooted suspicion of police, the press, and local government, the byproduct of corruption in authoritarian homelands.

An unwillingness to turn to police makes it easy for bad people to exploit them, for instance, unscrupulous landlords.

Medical care is a constant concern. For instance, pregnant women of Latin origin are used to a much lower level of health care in their native countries and have no idea of the quality of care they can receive here.

Domestic violence is a major issue. One South American immigrant became a virtual slave to her boyfriend, who had threatened to turn her name and that of her little daughter over to authorities as illegal immigrants unless she did everything he told her to do.

“The double-edged sword is that if you are here without having gone through the proper process of immigration, there is a fear that by inviting a police response, this other part of your life will be found out,” Hursh said. “This allows abuse to continue because it has the upper hand.

Domestic violence is a big problem among all communities here, long standing or not. “… If it’s a woman or children in need of help, I will send them to the City’s Domestic Violence Victims Support Team. If there is an issue related to any kind of need for police involvement or advocacy, or if there is an abuse situation, we have people skilled in diverse languages to help. I send a lot of folks to the Health Point Clinic. I would say

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“Finances and housing are hard. Food is easy. The City through Community Services and the work and focus on the Nutrition Program, has attempted with the YMCA and the Auburn Food Bank and the Senior Center to take what food is typically available at no cost and teach populations that aren’t familiar with that food how to cook it in a healthful way. … Money is difficult, actual benefits require applications and a lot of evidence in order to access them on an ongoing basis. Housing is always scarce for folks who don’t have it. You end up with … six to seven people living in a unit that’s built for two or three, then you have deterioration of the unit that makes it uninhabitable,” Hursh said.

There are 1,000 untold shocks, as Jiji Jalley, part of Auburn’s thriving Marshallese community, related with wry humor. One of the first objects to jolt her was something called an escalator. She had never seen the like, had no idea what it did.

“School was humongous compared to where I came from,” Jalley said. “And there were so many more people. In some places where I come from, we didn’t even have electricity.

With myself, I was just another person trying to make it through everything. Now that we are more involved with our community, I see a lot of people having a hard time finding work because

of the language barrier and just getting out of their old customs and getting along with what’s happening in the United States.”

When the Marshall Islands – the United States conducted atomic testing over its coral atolls and white sand beaches – became autonomous in the 1980s, the United States signed a compact that grants the people “nonimmigrant status,” meaning they can come to this country and stay as long as they want without having to acquire a Visa.

But their special status doesn’t eliminate all problems.

“There’s a lot of things we’re figuring out that we are not qualified for. A lot of people are having difficulties with medical who are not citizens. The main thing I see we’re having a problem with right now is substance abuse. Alot of our young people have a problem with that and don’t follow up with the court system,” Jalley said.

‘Lucky man’ Salvatore Cascone came to Auburn from Sicily more than 30 years ago with his late wife, Rosa, without much formal education and barely able to make himself understood in English. But life has been good for Auburn’s ambassador of bocce ball. This country and city have afforded him a good living, allowed him to own his own house, raise his daughters and enjoy a life that would not have been possible had he not come.

“I’m a lucky man,” Cascone said.

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Man pleads not guilty to casino shooting King County prosecutors say a jealous Cesar Chaparro-Vielma, 42, shot his estranged wife, Blanca Arroyos, her boyfriend, Marco Hernandez-Maradiaga his wife’s two sisters and three bystanders in the early morning hours of July 24 inside the crowded Galaxy nightclub at the Muckleshoot Casino.

On Tuesday, the Covington man pleaded not guilty to seven counts of first-degree assault. Each count includes a firearm sentencing enhancement.

Chaparro-Vielma could spend from 89 to 101 years in prison. He remains in jail, with bail set at $1 million.

Auburn Police Detective Aaron Williams’s account,

based on video surveillance and witness interviews, is as follows: Chaparro-Vielma first came to the casino at midnight to confront his estranged wife. The two argued, he grabbed her, shook her and left.

At about 1:09 a.m., Williams’ account continues, Chaparro-Vielma returned and made his way across the dance floor to where his intended victims were dancing and allegedly began firing.

According to Williams’ account, surveillance video shows ChaparroVielma first approaching Hernandez-Maradiaga. He pulled out his gun with his left hand and fired at least two rounds at HernandezMaradiaga’s head. Some-

how Hernandez-Maradiaga only received grazing wounds to the back of his head and fell down.

According to Williams account, Chaparro-Vielma gripped the gun with both hands and fired at his wife, then standing near her fallen boyfriend.

She ducked and her sister, Etelvina, standing behind her, was shot in the face and fell to the ground.

According to Williams’ account, Blanca could be seen on the video on her knees in front of her husband, apparently trying to grab him, but he allegedly squeezed out a single shot, striking her in her right chest. more story online…

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Police Blotter Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between Aug. 3 and Aug. 7:

Aug. 3 Vandalism: 9:12 a.m., 10 block of R Place Northeast. Unknown egg chuckers chucked eggs at somebody’s house.

Traffic offense: 2:11 p.m., 2000 block of A Street Southeast.

Police arrested two kids for racing on A Street Southeast.

Twisted theft: 5 p.m., 1101 Supermall Way SW. When the hard working pretzel makers at Auntie Ann’s at the SuperMall handed a guy his treat, he not only took back the bill he had just handed over, he took the pretzel, too.

Arson: 6:40 p.m., 5960 Terrace View Lane SE. Persons unknown entered an empty apartment at Belara on

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An Auburn man is among 72 people federal prosecutors have charged with taking part in an international child pornography network called Dreamboard that allegedly promoted pedophilia and traded thousands of images of sexually abused children.

Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle, said the unnamed Auburn

man was arrested in April.

A Redmond man was arrested in July. The cases are being prosecuted in Shreveport, La. According to the Associated Press, Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said last week at a news conferenece at the Justice Department that the 20-month law enforcement effort, Operation Delego, targeted more than 600 Dreamboard members throughout the world for

Weapons offense: 5:30 p.m., 2500 M St. SE. An unknown passenger of a green Chrysler flashed a silver revolver at a pedestrian as he walked south on M Street Southeast near Cedar Lanes Park.

Theft: Overnight, 11000 SE 291st St. Thieves stole a camera, a GPS and a laser tool from two vehicles. Police did not disclose a value for the missing items.

Theft: 4 p.m., 1101 Supermall Way SW. Somebody stole a Visa card from a victim, gender and approximate age undisclosed, at the SuperMall, then used it many times to coax goodies from vending machines.

Aug. 4 Theft: 11:51 a.m., 2200 block of O Place Northeast. Somebody stole an undisclosed amount cash from a cigarette box at a private residence.

Driving under the influence: 6:47 p.m., 4100 Kersey Way SE. An of-

ficer stopped a car after learning that its occupants had thrown pop cans at oncoming traffic. Three young men ran from the car, but police caught up with one guy, arresting him for obstructing and resisting arrest. Police arrested the young woman behind the wheel for DUI and for driving with a suspended license.

Aug. 5 More trespassing at the casino: 10:20 p.m., 2402 Auburn Way S. A man told to beat it from the Muckleshoot Casino and never come back just the night before found the bit about “never again” too tough to grasp or couldn’t stop his feet from carrying him there because thither he went and got himself arrested.

Aug. 7 Driving under the influence of something: 1:19 p.m., 200 block of East Main Street. Police arrested a woman for DUI after stopping her for driving with a couch on top of her vehicle, which had not been adequately secured.

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According to court papers, many network members sexually abused children ages 12 and under, produced images and video of the abuse and shared it with other club members.

Holder called the criminal activity a “nightmare” for the children.” more story online… auburn-reporter.com

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Fire & Rescue Blotter The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 181 calls for service between Aug. 1 and Aug. 7, among them the following:

Aug. 1 Aid call: 8:34 a.m. (Auburn). Firefighters responded to Emerald Downs racetrack for a jockey who had been thrown to the ground from his horse and remained unconscious for an undetermined amount of time. Firefighters evaluated the jockey and a private ambulance transported him to Valley Medical Center, just to be safe.

Aug. 2 Brush fire: 8:07 p.m., (Pacific).

Valley Com dispatched firefighters to a brush fire insidiously creeping toward a home. Firefighters arrived and discovered that residents had already put out the fire. The South King County Investigation Task Force investigated the fire.

Aug. 3 Aid call: 10:38 p.m., (Lakeland Hills).

Firefighters helped a man who had sustained multiple dog bite wounds to his leg, and a private ambulance whisked him off to Auburn Regional Medical Center.

Aug. 4 CPR: 1:15 p.m., (Auburn). Firefighters and King County Medics responded to a man unconscious and unresponsive

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Nobody was hurt, and the property suffered no damage other than to the roodside vegetation.

Aug. 7 Aid call: 9:40 a.m., (Auburn). Firefighters responded to a boy who had fallen off his bike and hurt his head.

Firefighters took the opportunity to educate the kid on bike helmet safety before transporting him to ARMC.

Drive Hammered, Get Nailed patrols return Aug. 19-Sept. 5

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Extra officers will look for DUI drivers between Aug. 19 and Sept. 5 during the annual Drive Hammered, Get Nailed campaign.

A new law called “Hailey’s Law” went into effect on July 22. Now all DUI arrestees’ cars will be towed and impounded for at least 12 hours. Only a registered or legal owner who was not in the car at the time of arrest is allowed to get the car out of impound before the mandatory 12 hours.

Auburn, many city police forces and the Washington State Patrol will join nearly 10,000 other agencies nationwide in the campaign.

The King County Target Zero Task Force organizes and supports this enforcement effort.

For more information, visit www.wtsc.wa.gov.

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Diversity is here, and growing Auburn is changing in many ways.

Ethnically, culturally, socially, economically.

As the community continues to grow and take shape, its neighborhoods, schools and businesses reflect a widening melting pot of diversity.

Where it was predominantly white Caucasian with a large influence of Native American and Japanese American communities, Auburn now reflects a greater mix of races – a growing, global influx of Asian, Hispanic, Latino, Polynesian, Middle Eastern, Russian, Ukraine and Eastern European people.

The Auburn Reporter examines the growing, changing and diverse population with a three-part series that begins today.

The series explains the migration, what drew people here and how they are adjusting to their new home. The series also takes a look at how the business climate has changed with the migration and what challenges face the new generation of the ethnicmixed Auburnites.

King County is growing and has a diverse multitude of residents, based on the 2010 Census. The data also confirms the growing diversity of the county’s population: persons of color now make up more than one-third of the population.

Seeking more affordable living, moderate income and a better quality of life, the wave of people of color have left the bigger city to settle into South King County during the past decade. The latest Census shows that even as the percentage of minorities in Seattle remained essentially unchanged, it erupted in the county’s southern suburbs.

The white population overall declined by more than 14 percent in South King County, while the number of people – those who identified themselves as Asian, Hispanic, African American, Native American or belonging to two or more races, increased 66 percent.

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● Q U O T E O F N O T E : “It’s a melting pot. It brings in a new, diverse attitude, new ideas, and also a work ethic.

It makes for a strong, working community.” – Doug Lein, economic development manager for the City of Auburn, on the changing demographics.

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Osborne is right man for the job Wayne Osborne is an excellent choice for Auburn City Council Position 7 because of those things that he is and those things that he is not.

Wayne Osborne is not another tired old man that thinks he knows everything and should be elected to tell you how it should be. The hair that Wayne has is white and from this you would properly assume that the fire department does not allow lighting of the proper number of candles on his birthday cake, but that would be the only fact that you could assume.

Wayne is young at heart while being blessed with the knowledge that experience brings. He is healthy and active in his life, engaging in sports

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that require quickness of mind and sustained attention to detail.

While Wayne does have opinions born of deliberate consideration of issues, he is willing and able to listen to the opinions of others.

But more than these personal qualities, Wayne Osborne brings to the Auburn City Council those things that most

often lead us to vote for incumbents. We vote for incumbents because they have done the job and have already learned how to work with the other elected officials. We vote for incumbents because they do not have to learn the proper paths to take in getting accomplished those things that we as citizens want our elected officials to accomplish. Those are pretty good reasons for voting for someone if we want efficient government.

Wayne Osborne has served the Auburn community by attending hundreds of City Council meetings and becoming known by the City Council members we have elected. He has gained their respect and endorsement.

Wayne Osborne has served the Auburn community by [ more LETTERS page 8 ]

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Vote yes on Proposition 1 to help vets and the poor Times are tight, the economy – again – is in trouble and no one knows what to do. It couldn’t be a worse time to ask for money.

Nevertheless, an issue on the Aug. 16 primary ballot does just that.

King County Proposition No. 1 – the Veterans and Human Services Levy – asks voters to approve a tax

levy of 5 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value to to support a wide variety of services to those who need them most.

Please say yes.

This isn’t a new tax; it replaces a similar measure that is expiring. If approved, it will continue the same tax rate for another six years. So, you say, what’s the bottom line?

Here in the Auburn area, the average homeowner will pay about $17 a year. That’s a year.

And what do we get for this tax?

A lot.

These days more and more of our military are returning to civilian life after experiencing two gruesome wars. They come needing help and services. For example: 90 percent

of Iraq/Afghanistan solders have experienced trauma; the veterans’ suicide rate has increased 26 percent since 2005 and more than 20 percent of recently returned veterans are unemployed.

While the federal Veterans Administration does a fine job [ more PROP 1 page 8 ]

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band, but it may be a different kind of band than Indeed, Herren noted, marching band,” Herren the marching programs said. at Auburn Riverside and Herren appointed a Auburn Mountainview committee last spring are going great guns. to study ways to boost “We only have a handenrollment in music ful of kids who are signed programs throughout the up for marching band, district. a handful,” Herren said.

Joey Tillotson, who “The opening of two new played percussion in the high schools and the marching band in its heyexpansion of other band day from 1985 to 1988, opportunities” might play found the news depressa part in what’s ing. happening, Her“Being a kid ren said. who was in band Looking at the myself for eight low enrollment years in the numbers, the Auburn School district arranged District, marching for students who band was huge, had signed for Herren and it’s just been marching band really sad to watch at Auburn to over the years how small participate in Auburn the AHS band has gotten,” Mountainview’s band Tillotson said. “When I camp in March while the was in school, our band district continues to work director was really into get AHS’s numbers up. the marching band and Herren said the state of motivated us all to be in it.

Washington also keeps He even started programs raising the number of academic requirements to to get kids involved that had never been in band. graduate in science and math, leaving fewer elec“I see that other tives for students. districts have managed to grow their programs “So, we’re trying to while I watched ours figure out ways that shrink. Makes me wonwe can have kids meet der if you just don’t have core class requirements, a director that’s focused because our kids want to take music every year, not on the marching band or don’t have involved just a couple times a year. parents, because we had There’s a complex thing such huge support from that’s working where we our parents,” Tillotson actually may have many more kids participating in said.

[ KLAAS from page 7 ] The Latino population doubled, even tripled, in some cities.

Auburn is part of that suburbanization of the minority population.

They have arrived to adopt Auburn as their home to build a family and make a living. They have joined a congregation and become actively involved in the community. Some have established a business.

“I like it here,” said Ivy Chen, who recently opened a Chinese bistro on Auburn’s West Main Street. Chen and her family left China for a new start in the United States several years ago.

“We decided to do this … to work for ourselves and to provide a better life for my children.”

Elizabeth Foday-Dodge left civil war-torn Liberia 10 years ago for the U.S. She eventually landed in Auburn where she owns and operates a downtown hair braiding salon.

“What I have learned is that in America you can achieve, but you’ve got to work hard for it. You’ve got to do things right,” she said.

For many like Foday-Dodge, Auburn represents the doorway to pur-

[ PROP 1 from page 7 ] meeting many of their needs, it doesn’t provide everything. This levy helps.

Because of it: 84 percent of the veterans served have improved their housing, employment or income; 95 percent of veterans receiving treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder were able to reduce their symptoms; 88 percent of veterans served in the Veterans Incarcerated Project have not reoffended within a year of receiving services the levy provides.

The levy doesn’t just benefit veterans. It also helps our community’s

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he knows how to get things done within the system that is Auburn city government.

Wayne Osborne knows these things without being a “yes man” to long-term local politicos. And isn’t that what you want in a new City Council member … someone who knows how to get things done yet has an independent, reasonable mind?

I am going to vote for Wayne Osborne because of all the things that he is as well as because of all the things he is not. I am going to vote for Wayne Osborne because he is organized, open-minded, optimistic and outgoing and because

sue dreams left unfulfilled elsewhere.

“Our diverse population is growing, particularly a large increase in our Hispanic population, as well as other populations … from African nations and our Russian, Ukrainian populations,” said Duanna Richards, neighborhood programs manager for the City of Auburn. “There have been changes. The (2010) Census bore out what we are seeing. … We have definitely become more diverse in the past 10-year period.”

The new wave of immigrants has brought change and challenge. They have diversified a once white, working-class community, forcing city, church and community leaders, as well as longtime residents, to welcome and grasp change.

In the Auburn public classroom, more than 50 foreign languages are spoken.

Auburn leaders and ethnic groups face the challenge of overcoming cultural and language barriers to build lasting, trusting relationships.

No easy task.

Many cultures distrust government.

And many other ethnic groups don’t know where to begin to establish

themselves in a new place. City officials are working to bridge those gaps, providing the tools to get started.

“I honestly believe our diverse population is a real plus,” said Doug Lein, economic development manager for the City of Auburn. “It’s a melting pot. It brings in a new, diverse attitude, new ideas, and also a work ethic. … It makes for a strong, working community.”

Auburn has much to attract diversity.

Change is here. A global Auburn is here. It can be found in the neighborhoods, in schools and business. It is here to stay, to grow and ultimately, change again.

An Auburn willing to accept, live and thrive with diversity is a matter of a community finding a common ground of people with so many characters, colors and influences.

“The future holds our ability to connect with one another for a number of different purposes,” said Ralph Ibarra, diversity consultant and City of Auburn diversity liaison. “It’s an opportunity to learn from one another and support one another … and that’s all we can hope for.”

poor who often have nowhere else to turn for help.

For example: 93 percent of at-risk families who received one-time mortgage or rent assistance were able to prevent homelessness and stay in their homes; a mobile medical van has been funded and, as a result, more than 2,800 isolated and chronically homeless people were able to receive health or behavioral health services; it has funded 1,200 new housing units.

That means 1,200 households now have a roof over their heads.

In a perfect world, the taxes we already pay to government would

take care of these needs. But, as we all know, such a world doesn’t exist.

We can choose to walk away and ignore the issue. Or we can pay a bit more to assist our veterans and others who desperately need our help.

This levy has support from members of both political parties, business and nonprofit groups, and many community leaders. There is no organized opposition.

Now we need to do our part. Vote yes on King County Proposition 1.

Water bill is too high

to me and all the residents of Auburn. He needs to give back some of his exorbitant salary and quit taking trips and eating meals on the City’s dime. Maybe Mayor Lewis, City Council members and department heads need to start disclosing all of the perks they get and have been getting for years.

Mayor Lewis spends our money on foolish, ridiculous things. Like the water feature at City Hall is benefitting anyone. Again, give me a break.

I want to see water bills reduced. I want some justice.

he is not out-dated, ornery, obstinate and overbearing.

I am voting for Wayne Osborne because he has done all the things we want a City Council member to do and he wants to continue to serve our community. Isn’t that what we all want?

I ask my fellow Auburn residents to join me by giving their votes to Wayne Osborne for Auburn City Council, Position 7. I ask this as a family man, a business owner and a person that has been a City Council member in another community. Give Wayne Osborne your vote.

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I have not had to water my yard this summer except for very little, yet my current bill from the City is $95.

Give me a break.

Next to natural gas, water is one of our most plentiful resources. I don’t care what Pete Lewis has said about maintenance costs, I think he’s all wet. He is spending our money on much more than just maintaining the pipes and pumping systems.

What is he actually spending our money on?

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Optimist Club awards local students The Auburn Optimist Club Dollars for Scholars recently selected five Auburn seniors for $500 scholarships. They are: • Cameron Nelson, Auburn High School. A hearing impaired graduate with a 3.0 GPA, Nelson plans to attend Green River Community College. He is interested in environmental and natural resources study and wildlife conservation. Activities include baseball, vocational class work, woodworking, welding, small engine repair and building energy-producing windmills.

• Chris Weber, Auburn High School. Accumulated a 4.0 GPA.

Plans to attend Reed College in Portland, and one day become a financial analyst/manager, consultant/economist. His interests are soccer, tennis, music (band) and business classes. Worked for the Auburn Parks, Arts and Recreation Department. Enjoys tutoring and AP classes.

• Michael Wong, Auburn Riverside High School. Graduated with a 3.7 GPA. ASB president. Plans to attend Chapman University (Orange, Calif.) and major in business administration and marketing.

He hopes to enter the hospitality industry and be employed at Disneyland in guest relations. Wong is a self-taught magician who performs his own entertainment program. Comes from a singleparent family. Enjoys DECA activities, making films, participating in baseball, basketball, cycling,

fencing and martial arts.

• Kylee Brown, Auburn Mountainview. Graduated with a 3.16 GPA. Completed AP and Running Start classes. Plans to attend GRCC to begin her studies in dental hygiene and complete them at Eastern Washington University.

She has held a part-time job in a dental office for three years.

Comes from a family of eight children, two of whom are disabled. Her interests are playing the piano and flute, singing and playing basketball.

Kids’ stuff Members of Theater Simple’s ‘Wonderland’ rabbitt horde interact with children at the ArtRageous Festival at Les Gove Park last Saturday.

The award-winning, internationally acclaimed touring troupe performed its newest interactive, all-ages park escapade, ‘Wonderland: Alice Adventures.’

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• Jaime Shoop, West Auburn.

Plans to attend Clover Park Technical College in Tacoma.

Presented with a certificate for perfect attendance. Cited for her good writing skills on the school newspaper. Interests are photography and reading to children.

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...GOING GREEN Summer care essentials help your trees look their best Article 1 of a quarterly series True or false?

Summer is the best time to heavily prune your trees?

False. Summer pruning should be limited to very selective pruning of branches no bigger than your little finger or that can be cut with hand pruners. This light pruning should only be done after the majority of new growth is completed; late July or early August.

Summer pruning The goal of summer

pruning should be limited to lightly enhance the tree shape and eliminating broken, dead or crossing limbs. Rarely should an entire tree be pruned deep into the primary branches. This usually causes extreme sucker shoots and/or weakens or kills the tree.

You will notice these trees that look worse than ever after the sucker shoots emerge en masse and thereafter, pruning becomes an ongoing battle for the tree owner. It can rarely be fixed, and the tree will probably never achieve a desirable shape and will always look chopped and disfigured.

If you cannot safely and properly prune

your own trees it is best to hire a professional certified arborist to assist you. Hiring a person that does not understand tree growth and the consequences of pruning can cause serious and permanent damage that usually cannot be reversed.

Remember, more is not better when pruning.

A good arborist will only select the branches and limbs that will achieve the optimum results for your type of tree and situation. A good job requires more than a truck and a chainsaw.

Winner

Nickole Evans, vice president of the Auburn Valley Kiwanis Club, displays the winning golf ball from the estimated 650 pledged balls dropped from the sky during the service organization’s 26th annual fundraising tournament last Friday. A helicopter dropped the balls onto a temporary pin positioned in the middle of the par-4 No. 6 fairway at Auburn Golf Course. No ball bounced into the hole, but the closest ball to the pin belonged to Shirley Smith, who won $500 for her $5 purchase of entry No. 478. Proceeds from the Kiwanis’ “Helping Kids Out of the Rough” event support the club’s many family and children’s community service programs offered through supporting organizations. The tournament attracted 17 teams. To learn more about the club, visit www.kiwanisclubofthevalley.org.

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Install a rain sensor. Cascade offers free rain sensor installation. #5 Use a broom.

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Auburn names new wrestling head coach

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before he revved his boat past his competition, moved inside and claimed lane one.

John Aiken has resigned his position as head wrestling coach at Auburn High School and will be replaced

by Dennis Herren for the 2011-2012 season, according to Auburn Athletic Director Bob Jones.

In an email, Jones said Aiken resigned his position to accept an assistant principal position at Olympic Middle School.

“John did a wonderful job in his time as our coach and will be greatly missed,” Jones said.

After taking over the Trojan program in 2006, Aiken led the team to a second-place finish at the Mat Classic state championship. In subsequent years, Aiken helped Auburn grab two third-place finishes, a fourth and a fifth at state.

The Trojans were 11th at state last season.

Herren is no stranger to the Auburn wrestling scene.

In 1994, he won the state 178-pound title, helping the Trojans to capture the team title.

After graduating from Auburn, Herren went on to wrestle at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where he was a two-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics All-American. In 1999, Herren was the NAIA national champion at 174, the first American to win a national title for a Canadian university.

In 1999, Herren returned to Auburn, where he helped coach the Auburn Riverside wrestling team until 2003.

In addition, he also coached abroad for Sports Scotland.

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John Force and his Castrol Funny Car head up the lineup before the start of the Northwest National quarterfinals last Sunday at Pacific Raceway. In addition to the pros, several Auburn area drivers participated in the NHRA sportsmen races. SHAWN SKAGER, Newspaper

UEDGE/TANOA BOWL HOST FOOTBALL CAMPS UEdge Sports, the organization behind the TANOA Bowl, will host a pair of youth football camps Friday and Saturday at Auburn Memorial Stadium.

From 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. the inaugural TANOA Youth Camp will be conducted, featuring position, 1-one-1 and 7-on-7 drills. Registration begins at 3:30 p.m. and the cost is $30 per player. Team (14 players) rates are also available on request. Beginning at 9 a.m.

Saturday at Auburn Memorial Stadium, a high school camp will be conducted. Cost is $60 for walkups. Lunch and T-shirts will be provided for players. Participants of both camps are asked to bring cleats and workout gear.

For more information, contact Simi Strickland at 253-293-1704 or e-mail simi@uedgesports.com.

Contact and submissions: Shawn Skager sskager@auburn-reporter.com or 253.833.0218 ext. 5054

NW Nationals take over Pacific Raceways

BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

Thrills on the track at last weekend’s NHRA Northwest Nationals were in short supply for Auburn Competition Eliminator driver Aaron Strong.

Starting with a devastating first run in the qualify-

ing rounds on Friday at Pacific Raceways, Strong, the defending Division 6 Comp Eliminator champ, was unable to overcome mechanical problems and reach Sunday’s elimination rounds.

In his first run, Strong struggled from the starting line, posting a disappoint-

ing 13.263-seconds elapsed time at a paltry 66.06 miles per hour.

Although he was able to coax a little better performance from his 2005 Cavalier in the next two rounds, posting an 8.766 at 123.56 mph on Friday and an 8.335 elapsed time in the first round of elimina-

tions, it was not enough to move Strong on to Sunday’s main event.

“We just kept driving through the clutch,” Strong said after the race.

Despite his car woes, Strong was buoyed by a surprise visit by an NHRA [ more NHRA page 12 ]

Auburn’s Villwock third in Seafair’s Albert Lee Cup

BY CHRIS CHANCELLOR Port Orchard Independent

No one has won more races in the Unlimited Hydroplane circuit than Dave Villwock.

And in that time no one has challenged his dominance at home more than Steve David, driver of the U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto.

David used the new starting rules on the Air National Guard Series this season to his advantage as he easily won the final heat of Sunday’s Albert Lee Cup at Seafair for a second consecutive year.

Drivers are allowed to fight for the coveted inside-lane position this season instead of having them prearranged. Several pilots, including Villwock, slowed to a near standstill

Dave Villwock pilots the U-96 Spirit of Qatar over the surface of Lake Washington during Seafair’s Albert Lee Cup H1 Unlimited Hydroplane final on Sunday. CHARLES CORTES, Reporter to position themselves for the inside lane, which is the shortest on the two-mile course, as they approached the one-minute buoy.

But David elected to hang back

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Pro Stock legend to his trailer on Friday night.

“We had Warren Johnson come in and help us,” Strong said. “We actually had ‘The Professor’ in my trailer helping. It was an honor.”

Mike McKeigue won Sunday’s Comp Eliminator final, posting a 7.392 final run, just edging out Casey Plaizier, who ran a 8.191.

Strong looks to get back on the winning track at Pacific Raceways on Aug. 17-18 in a Northwest Division 6 NHRA event.

ALSO: Auburn’s Dino Kost also found himself the victim of the mechanical gremlins at the Northwest Nationals. Kost, whose car was operating on its third rear end in 18 races, failed to move out of the Super Stock qualifying rounds.

Jody Lang won the class with a finals run of 11.139, beating Rick McKinney. …

Auburn’s Stephen Schwab also was unable to progress

[ hydros from page 11] “He leapfrogged right around us,” said Scott Liddycoat, who finished second in the U-7 Valken.com.

“That was a pretty good move on his part. I was kind of surprised he pulled it off, actually. Once you see

Two-wheel excitement!

Super Gasser Curtis Geise at the starting line for his quarterfinal run during this past weekend’s Northwest Nationals. shawn skager, Reporter out of the qualifying rounds, jumping the light in his final round. … Auburn’s Curtis Geise drove his 2004 Trans Am to Sunday’s Super Gas fourth elimination round before narrowly losing to Kevin Kleinweber by 0.0354 seconds. … Auburn’s Gary Ermish was knocked out in the Super Street elimination round four, narrowly losing to Allen Mecham by a 0.0039 margin of victory. … In the pro classes, Top Fuel Dragster driver Del

Worsham posted a 316.38mph run in the finals to edge out Tony Schumacher. … Tim Wilkerson finished first in Funny Car, and Jason Line, the 2008 Pro Stock champ, knocked off teammate Greg Anderson by three feet with a 6.553 time. … Joey Severance finished first in the Top Alcohol Dragster class with a 5.439 final run, and Alex De Joria was first in the Top Alcohol Funny Car division with a 5.611 final run.

it coming, there is nothing you can do about it.

“I really didn’t think he was going to have the time to do it, but he pulled it off.”

David conceded his strategy, which was devised with his crew before the final heat, was risky.

“It was a Hail Mary,” he

said. “We were either going to win or get last.”

Villwock, a 1972 South Kitsap High School graduate who entered Seafair with two consecutive victories, had no problems with David’s strategy.

“I was going to do what Steve did,” he said. “Then

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Sounds of the Past will conduct their 16th annual motorcycle racing weekend at Pacific Raceways Aug. 13 and 14. Sponsored by the Washington Motorcycle Road Racing Association (WMRRA) the event will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A full schedule of events can be viewed at www.wmrra. com/event6.html. General admission is $10, $8 for active duty military personnel with ID.

[ herren from page 11] After finding out he had the Auburn job, Herren said he was “awed and excited.”

“And there was an awareness of the amount of responsibility involved, which is tremendous,” Herren said.

“Auburn has a great legacy, and it’d be nice to help the school make another mark.”

Already, Herren said the season looks promising with the possibility of a large turnout for the program. everybody got in the way, so I had to stop and do the crazy troll thing again, and then Steve made a great move.”

Villwock was able to win from the outside a week earlier in the Tri-Cities, and he initially made a move past Liddycoat, who was between him and David, in Lake Washington. But the Seattle course is a half mile shorter than the one on the Columbia River. That makes a strong start even more important.

“I think we have over 60 kids turning out,” he said.

“One of the things I always appreciated about Auburn, wrestling as a kid, was that you didn’t have to be a state champ to get something out of it. One measure of success is being able to have big numbers of kids who draw different things from the program.”

After his stint at Auburn Riverside, Herren temporarily left coaching to help care for

his daughter, who was born three months premature.

Herren also owns a local business – American Ability – which helps veterans and people with disabilities find employment.

Herren is the son of Washington State Wrestling Hall of Fame coach and Auburn School District Superintendent Kip Herren, who was Auburn High School’s head coach from 1979 to 1992.

“Villwock has the topend speed on me, but he couldn’t blow the legs out on this water,” David said.

But David said he made certain that would not happen through his own maneuvering.

“Basically, I’m trying to push them to Kirkland and then out to Kingston,” he said.

Villwock, who was the top qualifier Friday and won all three of his qualifying heats, said the escape hatch at the bottom of the cockpit

caved early in the final.

“It started blowing water all over the inside,” he said.

Because of that, Villwock said he decided to back off and finish the race.

He has a 1,200-point lead in the standings with two races remaining, which puts Villwock in position to win his 10th national title, which is a record.

There are two more stops on the circuit this season, including Sept. 16-18 in San Diego and Nov. 17-19 in Doha, Qatar.

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Brynne Geiszler plays Zombina, a buxom alien aviatrix determined to obtain he-specimens to re-populate her planet.

David Allen Ellis, right, plays a Space Center aid in Summer Alumni Theater’s “Zombies From the Beyond.” MARK KLAAS, Auburn Reporter

‘Zombies’ to invade stage in SATC benefit Auburn’s cast from the past is at it again.

The Summer Alumni Theater Company presents a fun-filled spoof lampooning 1950s sci-fi in “Zombies From The Beyond,” James Valcq’s musical comedy celebration of American ideals and foibles in the Eisenhower era.

The curtain opens for the first of six performances at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday at the Theatre at Auburn Mountainview, 28900 124th Ave. SE. Evening shows are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, and resumes Aug. 18, 19, 20.

Tickets are $10. Proceeds benefit the high school drama students scholarship fund.

The SATC is comprised of actors, actresses and artists who graduated from Auburn-area high schools. The diverse cast, under director Paul Fouhy, assembles each summer to perform a benefit show.

“And raising money for students is what it’s all about,” Fouhy emphasized.

A child of the “Fabulous ‘50s,” Fouhy decided to produce a genuinely satiric musical comedy, which closely follows the structural form of grade-B space paranoia films that were popular during the era.

“Zombies From The Beyond” is SATC’s second consecutive Valcq production. Fouhy’s camp revived the musical theatre [ more ZOMBIES page 14 ]

Inaugural Wine & Music (WAM) Festival: Aug. 27-28, downtown Auburn. Hours: 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Aug. 27; 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Aug. 28. Presented by The Auburn Downtown Association (TADA) and Auburn Wine & Caviar. Sponsored by

Benefits Fundraiser for Alzheimer’s Association: Aug. 17-19, Auburn Regional Medical Center, atrium, through the main entrance

by Tully’s, 202 N Division St. Proceeds from the event, put on by the Auburn Regional Medical Center’s Behavioral Health Unit, to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.

Raffle tickets will be available for purchase for many of the select items up for bid in a silent auction. The public will have a last chance to bid and buy raffle tickets from 9 a.m. to noon on Aug. 19, with the announcement of the winners expected at 1 p.m.

Auburn Police Officers Association’s 12th annual Charity Golf Tournament: 2 p.m., Aug. 20, Washington National, 14330 SE Husky Way. Four-player scramble. Entry fee is $100 per person and includes golf, cart, box lunch, dinner with non-alcoholic beverages. There will be individual contests, team awards, a silent auction and raffle. For more information on sponsoring or playing in the tournament contact APOA secretary Jamie Heslin at jheslin@auburnwa.gov.

Barbers Against Hunger 4th annual food drive: 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Aug. 20,

Submissions: mklaas@auburn-reporter.com Auburn Valley Barber Shop, 316 E. Main St., and Salon Edwards, 29100 Pacific Highway S., Suite 6. Accepting all non-perishable food times. Proceeds benefit the Auburn Food Bank and Multi-Service Center of Federal Way. “See Ya Later” Tour: 10:30 a.m., Sept. 12, Indian Summer Golf and Country Club, 5900 Troon Lane SE, Olympia.

Noon shotgun start for four-man scramble, followed by silent auction at 4 p.m., dinner at 6, evening festivities and oral auction at 7. Proceeds benefit the “See Ya Later” Foundation. Join the tournament as a golfer, sponsor, in-kind donor or inner guest. Pre-registration deadline is Sept. 1. Basic player package, including lunch and dinner, is $150; or premium player package at $275. Register online at www.SeeYaLater.org or make checks payable to: “See Ya Later” Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 8, Auburn, WA 98071. For more information: www.SeeYaLater.org, Brian.Williams@SeeYaLater.org, 253332-5144.

Scramble for Safe Families Charity Golf Tournament: 1:30 p.m. Sept. 17, Washington National, 14330 SE Husky Way, Auburn. Events include a four-person scramble, a hole-in-one contest, a putting contest, banquet, silent auction, raffles and awards. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Jennifer Beach Foundation, which provides education, advocacy and assistance to the community addressing issues related to child abuse and domestic violence. Entry: $120 for individual players, $480 for a four-person team. Sponsorship opportunities are available for companies and individuals who would like to support the event. For information, to download a registration form, make a donation or to be a sponsor, please call 253-833-5366 or visit www.jnbfoundation.org.

Soos Creek Botanical Garden and History Center: 29308 132nd Ave SE, Auburn. Summer hours: 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday. As the docent program is developed, visitors may take self-guided tours of the 22 acres, with a map in hand. There is no charge to stroll the gardens, but donations are gladly accepted.

No pets or food are allowed on the property.

Info: 253-639-0949 or SoosCreekBotanicalGarden.org.

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Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra summer concert: 7 p.m., Aug. 12. The camp – themed “The Good, The Band, The Ugly” – features movie music of favorite heroes, villains and monsters.

For more information, call 425-358-1640 or visit www.mvyso.org.

The Coats: 7 p.m., Aug. 12, Les Gove Park, 910 9th Street SE, Auburn. Free concert, part of Auburn’s Summer Sounds & Cinema.

Following The Coats’ performance, Auburn offers a screening of “Big” (PG), staring Tom Hanks.

Cherry, Cherry, a Neil Diamond Tribute: 7:30 p.m., Sept. 27, Auburn Avenue Theater, 10 Auburn Ave. Tribute artist Steve Kelly and his eight-piece band present the music of the legendary singer and songwriter. Tickets: $20 general, $15 students, seniors. To order, call 206-707-6862 or email tickets.comstockproductions@live.com.

Dance Children’s Dance Theater: Hosting an open house for new clients 1-4 p.m., Aug. 13. Free demo classes, crafts and activities and registration gifts while supplies last. New location at 122 W. Main St. Visit www.auburnchildrensdancetheater.com or call 253-887-8937 for program information.

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“Hats and Heels, A Shopping Event and Night at the Races”: 5 p.m., Aug. 12, Emerald Downs, 2300 Emerald Downs Drive, Auburn. Shopping begins at 5 p.m., first race at 6. Shop, bet and celebrate fashion at the races. Access to the shopping event is free with gate admission, and ladies are encouraged to dress in their finest, fashionable racing attire. A portion of each ticket sale benefits the Children’s Therapy Center. To purchase tickets, call 253-288-7704 or order online at www. emeralddownshatsandheels.com/. Tickets also can be purchased in-person at the track.

Auburn Good Ol’ Days: Aug. 12-14, downtown Auburn. Parade, live entertainment, street dance, car show, food, art show, crafts, activities, fun run. Information: 253-939-3389 or www.auburngoodoldays.com.

Poets on Parade and other Literary Adventures: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Aug. 14, Auburn Avenue Theater, 10 Auburn Ave..

Part of Auburn Good Ol’ Days, hosted by Auburn’s own Striped Water Poets. From Kingston through Tacoma, poets, authors and small press publishers will flock to the theater to take part in the literary event. Open mic poetry contest from 3-5 p.m., Cash prizes. Auburn participants include: Robert Blevins (Adventure Books); Marjorie Rommel (reporter, teacher, poet); Laurie Kizziah (teacher); Mark Ricca (author); Len Elliott (the crossword puzzle guy); Gerald A. McBreen (coordinator, Striped Water Poets).

Auburn International Festival: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Aug. 13, Plaza Park, 2 W. Main St., right across from City Hall.

Features music, singing and dancing from some of the many cultural groups represented in Auburn. Free to the public.

Iron Horse Casino, Trade Route Brewery and eight wineries. Festival includes an art show, Downtown Trivia Treasure Hunt, the Pirates of Treasure Island and a giant chess set. Rae Soloman, Gray Sky Falling, The Paul Marcus Band, Streetlight, Phil Slater, Mike Nelson Jazz Trio, Jim King & the Southsiders, Texas Roadhouse Blues and Juke Joint Boogie Woogie will perform. Tickets for the wine tasting are $20 for five tastes ($15 in advance). For more information call 253-939-3982 or 253-887-8530.

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...obituaries David D. Stone

David D. Stone, 55, of Kent,WA passed away at his home on July 26, 2011 after a long battle with cancer. David (known in the family as Tony or Bo) was born in Seattle on May 30, 1956. He lived his entire life in the South County area, and recently retired from the Boeing Co. after 33 years.

David was an enthusiastic and accomplished golfer and a lover of all sports. He was at his happiest when challenging a golf course.

He is survived by his father, Douglas Stone of Seattle; mother, Andie Grams of Sequim, WA; sisters Kathleen Wright (Rob) of Maryland; Terry Canfield of Edmonds; and Patricia Hansen (Doug) of Edmonds. Also by nephews Tim Hiddle and Jerry Hiddle (Cassie), both of Indiana; Kai Kosonen of Seattle; Lee Grams of Yakima; Jason Wright of Maryland; and niece Miana Kassis (Nic) of Seattle. He also leaves 11 great-nieces and nephews, and a host of friends.

There will be no service. A celebration of his life for friends and family will be held at a future date. Remembrances may be made to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, 825 Eastlake Ave. E, Seattle, WA 98109.

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[ ZOMBIES from page 13 ] a pack of singing, dancing composer’s “The Spitfire Grill” last summer to good reviews.

Fouhy – Auburn Mountainview High School’s arts, literature and drama instructor – decided to pass Valcq’s way again in “Zombies From the Beyond,” which was the composer’s first Off-Broadway production. The crazy, enchanting satire caught Fouhy’s imagination as a boy. Fouhy wanted to bring it to life on the local stage.

“It’s a charm of the ’50s in a sense,” Fouhy said of his selection. “Looking back, even though there was turmoil (in the decade), it was a much more light spirited era.”

In “Zombies From The Beyond,” a small group of scientists and townspeople have to save Milwaukee from

Verney (Vern/Fitz) W. Fitzgerald Vern was born St. Patty’s Day in 1934 in Spottswood Virginia.

Vern left this world peacefully on July 29, 2011 at the age of 77, at his home in Auburn, Washington with his loving family and friends by his side.

As a tough Irishman he began winning a 28 year battle over four types of cancer that began with pancreas cancer at age 48.

God decided this last cancer (liver) would be the one which takes him to the everlasting mountain trails where he can ride his favorite horse for eternity.

He is survived by his loving wife of 57 years Margaret, his son and hunting buddy Jesse and his great granddaughter Kayla Hampel which he helped raise. He also leaves behind lifelong friendships he treasured over the years, along with those he touched and inspired in his years as a police officer and detective in the Auburn Police Dept. He is preceded in death by his daughter Lydia Hampel.

Per Vern’s request he will be cremated and there will be a military honors service at the Tahoma National Cemetery on Friday, August 12, 2011 at 1:30. Remembrances may be made to your favorite charity.

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Claude W. Lee

3/13/1915 - 7/30/2011 Claude William Lee was born March 13, 1915, in Colfax, Washington.

After graduation from Colfax High School he built the home his parents lived in until their deaths. He served with the army in Europe in WWII and on his return moved with his wife and children to LaGrande, Oregon and then to Enterprise in Eastern Oregon, where he established a painting and remodeling business.

In the early 1950s he moved to Hawaii where he built a church and remodeled some of the most beautiful beachfront homes there. He returned stateside in 1961 and worked as a general contractor remodeling homes. After living in Portland for several years, he settled in the Greater Seattle area, where he spent his last years making friends of everyone he met. Always a vital and out-going man, one of his joys in later years was crafting tiny wooden animals and giving them away free to “the older folks” in a local home, and most recently to children having Sunday breakfast at a local restaurant.

Claude was a member of Messiah Lutheran Church in Auburn.

He is survived by his three children, Claudia Lee Palmer, Jerry Lee (Rosemary), and William Lee (Vicki); He leaves 9 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held at 1:00 pm August 13th at Messiah Lutheran Church in Auburn. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the church.

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zombies from outer space.

Songs, dances and laughs abound in the unlikeliest of settings as the Cold War and space race paranoia threaten the good folks at the fictional Milwaukee Space Center in 1955, where the staff is all abuzz at the arrival of rocket scientist Trenton Corbett.

The budding romance of Trenton and Mary – the daughter of Space Center commander Major Malone – is jeopardized when a flying saucer lands in Milwaukee. The craft is piloted

by Zombina, a buxom alien aviatrix bent on procuring he-specimens to re-populate her planet.

“It’s fun and ridiculous,” said Brynne Geiszler, who plays Zombina. “She’s fun, an absolutely over the top diva.”

Showtime • Production: “Zombies From The Beyond,” presented by the Summer Alumni Theater Company.

• Performances: 7:30 p.m., Aug. 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 • Venue: Theatre at Auburn Mountainview, 28900 124th Ave. SE • Admission: $10 per ticket. Proceeds to benefit the high school drama students scholarship fund.

• Cast: Madeline Slettedahl (Charlie Omanski); Jeffrey Row-

Geiszler welcomes the chance to work again with Fouhy, her instructor at Auburn High.

“I just love working with Mr. Fouhy … and I like helping students get scholarships,” said Geiszler, a 2003 Auburn High and Cornish College of the Arts

den (Trenton Corbett); David Allen Ellis (Rick Jones); Brynne Geiszler (Zombina); Lauren Slettedahl (Mary Malone); John Tague (Billy Krutzik); Dave Cox (Major Malone); Rachel Everson, Savanna Taylor, Tony Silivay, Jake Cossio, Tabitha Lovell (Zombettes).

• Support: Musicians (Natalie Vermilion, keyboards; Marigaie Slettedahl, piano; Taylor Kartic, drums; Aaron Speildenner, bass).

Stage manager (Molly Whittaker).

Choreography (L. Slettedahl).

Musical director (M. Slettedahl).

graduate who has performed regularly in musicals at the Tacoma Musical Playhouse and elsewhere.

“It’s really nice to work with people who just want to put on a show,” she added.

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PUBLIC NOTICES SUMMARY OF ORDINANCES NO. 1804 City of Pacific, Washington On the 8th day of August, 2011, the City Council of the City of Pacific, Washington, passed Ordinance No. 1804. A summary of the content of said ordinances, consisting of their titles, provides as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 1804 AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PACIFIC ADOPTING A MORATORIUM ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA COLLECTIVE GARDENS, DEFINING “MEDICAL MARIJUANA COLLECTIVE GARDENS”; PROVIDING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING; ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE, AND PROVIDING THAT THE MORATORIUM, UNLESS EXTENDED, WILL SUNSET WITHIN SIX (6) MONTHS OF THE DATE OF ADOPTION. The full text of these ordinances will be mailed upon request, in accordance with the City’s fee schedule.

Dated the 8th, day of August, 2011 Jane Montgomery, City Clerk Published in Auburn Reporter on August 12, 2011. #516651.

SUMMARY OF ORDINANCES NO. 1805 City of Pacific, Washington On the 8th day of August, 2011, the City Council of the City of Pacific, Washington, passed Ordinance No. 1805. A summary of the content of said ordinances, consisting of their titles, provides as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 1805 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PACIFIC, WASHINGTON AMENDING PACIFIC MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTERS 16.16.040, 20.06.080, 20.40.020, 20.44.020, 20.48.020, 20.50.020, 20.51.020, 20.54.020, 20.56.020, 20.58.020, 20.60.020, 20.64.020 AND CREATING PACIFIC MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 20.76 RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE INFRASTRUCTURE

The full text of these ordinances will be mailed upon request, in accordance with the City’s fee schedule.

Dated the 8th, day of August, 2011 Jane Montgomery, City Clerk Published in Auburn Reporter on August 12, 2011. #516659.

CITY OF PACIFIC NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Pacific will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday September 6, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. during the regular City Council workshop meeting regarding Ordinance No. 1804 an interim Ordinance of the City of Pacific adopting a moratorium on the establishment of Medical Marijuana Collective Gardens. The City Council of the City of Pacific is setting this public Hearing for the purposes of taking public testimony and to consider adopting further findings justifying the imposition of the moratorium. Public testimony or written comments are invited related to the Moratorium at the Public Hearing. The Public Hearing will be held in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 100 3rd Avenue SE, Pacific, WA 98047.

Jane A. Montgomery City Clerk City of Pacific Published in Auburn Reporter on August 12, 2011 and August 19, 2011. #516839.

NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington, Chapter 61.24: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Trustee’s Sale scheduled to be held on FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the Administration Building, 500 4th Avenue in the City of Seattle, State of Washington, on the following described real property, situated in the County of King, State of Washington, to wit: Parcel A: Lots 10 and 11, Auburn 400 Corporate Park Division No. 1, according to the Plat thereof recorded in Volume 128 of Plats, at pages 97 through 99 in King County, Washington.

Parcel B: Lot 9, Auburn 400

Corporate Park Division No. 1, according to the Plat thereof recorded in Volume 128 of Plats, at pages 97 through 99, in King County, Washington.

Parcel C: Lot A of City of Auburn Lot Line Adjustment No. LLA-0012-91, recorded July 23, 1991 under recording No. 9107230386, records of King County, Washington.

Tax Account No.: 0 3 0 1 5 0 - 0 1 1 0 - 0 2 , 030150-0090-06, and 030150-0280-06 With street addresses of: 1700 “O” Street and 1450 15th Street SW, Auburn, WA 98001 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated March 9, 2007 and recorded March 19, 2007 under King County Auditor’s File No. 20070319001149 records of King County, Washington, from TERHUNE-BARRIER, LLC, a Washington limited liability company, as Grantor, to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of PIERCE COMMERCIAL BANK, as Beneficiary.

All of PIERCE COMMERCIAL BANK’s beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust was assigned and transferred to HERITAGE BANK on November 5, 2010 pursuant to Purchase and Assumption Agreement.

The sale is hereby postponed until August 19, 2011.

Dated this 17th day of June 2011 RICHARD T. HOSS, Member SOUTH SOUND TRUSTEE SERVICES, LLC Published in Auburn Reporter on August 12, 2011. #516693.

NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington, Chapter 61.24:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Trustee’s Sale scheduled to be held on FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the Administration Building, 500 4th Avenue in the City of Seattle, State of Washington, on the following described real property, situated in the County of King, State of Washington, to wit: Lots 16 through 19, Block 71, Hillman’s C.D. Pacific City Division No. 6 according to the plat thereof recorded in Volume 14 of Plats, at page 30, records of King County, Washington.

Tax Account No.: 335640-0090-07 With street addresses of: 305 11th Avenue N, Algona, WA 98001 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated June 12, 2008 and recorded June 17, 2008 under King County Auditor’s File No. 20080617001762, records of King County, Washington, from WW, LLC, a Washington Limited Liability Company as Grantor, to STEWART TITLE is the Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of PIERCE COMMERCIAL BANK, as Beneficiary. All of PIERCE COMMERCIAL BANK’s beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust was assigned and transferred to HERITAGE BANK on November 5, 2010 pursuant to Purchase and Assumption Agreement. The sale is hereby postponed until August 19, 2011.

DATED this 17th day of June 2011.

RICHARD T. HOSS, Member SOUTH SOUND TRUSTEE SERVICES, LLC Published in Auburn Reporter on August 12, 2011.#516676.

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Auburn School District Closes the Achievement Gap: All Students Improve

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tudents in the Auburn School District made exceptional gains in mathematics, reading and program participation by diverse populations during the 2010-11 school year. Spring 2011 achievement scores indicate: all students improved; more students of diverse populations participated in honors programs; and more students graduated on time. The 2009-2012 district strategic improvement plan is working.

Students in kindergarten through fifth grade dramatically improved in reading from fall 2010 to spring 2011. The percent of kindergarten through fifth grade students meeting proficiency increased more than 10 percentage points from fall 2010 to spring 2011. In first grade, only 23 out of 1,068 students tested at-risk and over 85% of all first graders met the reading target.

Other reading accomplishments include: • African-American kindergarten students increased proficiency by 25 percentage points • American Indian first grade students dramatically increased proficiency by 44 percentage points • Hispanic second grade students significantly increased proficiency by over 13 percentage points

Students in third through ninth grade significantly improved in mathematics and reading according to spring 2011 achievement scores. The percent of students meeting proficiency increased 4.04 percentage points in mathematics and 3.60 percentage points in reading from fall 2010 to spring 2011.

Other outstanding accomplishments include: • African-American third grade students increased reading proficiency by 13.75 percentage points • White fifth grade students increased math proficiency by 10.95 percentage points • Asian sixth grade students increased math proficiency by 11.44 percentage points • Hispanic seventh grade students increased reading proficiency by 6.9 percentage points

Beyond Proficiency Auburn School District provides a wide array of Advanced Placement (AP), advanced Career and Technical Education (CTE), and honors courses. These programs provide students with learning opportunities beyond the state proficiency standards. During the 2010-11 school year, course enrollments and participation of diverse populations in these programs increased dramatically: • Advanced CTE course enrollments increased 8 percentage points in diverse population participation • AP course enrollments increased 6 percentage points in diverse population participation • 100 more AP exams were administered in 2010-11 as compared to 2009-10 • 194 more middle school and 115 more high school honors course enrollments in 2010-11 as compared to 2009-2010 • Middle School honors course enrollments increased 3 percentage points in diverse population participation • High School honors course enrollments increased 5 percentage points in diverse population participation On-Time Graduation On-time graduation reached a high of 85.5%, while extended graduation rates increased from 86.2% to 91.4%. Additionally, the high school annual drop-out rates decreased from 4.4% to 3.4%.

Looking ahead to the 2011-12 school year, Auburn School District will continue to focus its efforts on increasing student achievement through collaboration for student learning. For more detailed information about the spring 2011 achievement scores, please visit the district website at: http://www. auburn.wednet.edu/Academics/ StudentAchievement.html.

Voting Is Freedom’s Answer On Tuesday, August 16, the Primary and Special Election will be taking place. You should have received a ballot in the mail.

If you are not registered to vote, you can register online at: https://wei.secstate.wa.gov/osos/ secure/Pages/OnlineVoterRegistration.aspx.

Voter registration forms can also be obtained from school offices or at the James P. Fugate Administration Building.

More 2010-11 Celebrations • Auburn School Board recognized as a WSSDA Board of Distinction • Two schools nationally recognized in mathematics and reading • Three schools earned Washington Student Achievement Awards • District awarded record $2.7 million in grants • Business Office received 23rd consecutive Excellence in Financial Reporting Award • Transportation Department earned perfect score in Washington State Patrol Bus Inspection • District-wide conservation efforts saved $400,000 in resources

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Thank you Auburn for participating in America’s Night Out Against Crime

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Sue Hoffman & Ben Davis

Palisades Mobile Home Estates

Kay Rutherford & Marie Baker

Country Chase Townhomes – Lea Hill

Lori Britton

Wesley Homes – Lea Hill

Crystal West & Krissy Lindlief

Mallard Pointe Apartments

Kelli Northrup & Becky Reiter

Riverwalk

Brianne Heiner & Paula Johnson

River Park – Lea Hill

Debbie & Dennis Stebly

East Portofino – Lakeland Hills

Tracey Silver & Sabrin Kassem

The Seasons Apartments – Lea Hill

Christopher & Kim Mugler

O St. SE

Ann Waybright

10 & 11th St NE

Tammy Miller

2nd & K St SE

David Syverson and Jon & Heather Johns

Aaby Drive – West Hill

Leslie Hagen

Evergreen Park Apartments

Kathy Kier

22nd St SE

Wanda Granquist & Yoland Trout

Forest Villa

Rachel McQuade

55th Pl S – West Hill

Jim & Terry Brass

Landmark Properties

Pat Carter

Vintage Hills – Lea Hill

Jamie Marsh & Connie Higginbotham

2nd St SE

Bobbie Frink

Leisure Manor Manufactured Home Park

Pattie Marshall & Tiffany Olguin

Sierra Meadows Apartments

Kevin & Danielle Hassinger, Larry Miller, Lois Anke

Sunny Brook Place – Lea Hill

Elaine Koga

Shadow Park Condos

Ken Harmon & Bob Baggett

Riverpark Estates Townhomes

Debbie Maguire

B St NE

Jay & Latifica Ostos

Continental Village Apartments

Diana Johnson

22nd St SE

Linda Prellwitz

The Meadows Apartments – Lea Hill

Aaron Schuler & Brian Norwood

Vistara – West Hill

Michele Herman

Verona North – Lakeland Hills

Kelly Jensen & Denise Amer

Foxwood – Lakeland Hills

Mat Kwartin

Willow Park – Lea Hill

Brittny Piper

Dick Scobee

Jodi Riker-Yap

Skylark Village I Manufactured Home Park

Kathy Jackson & Debra Sweeney

G & 17th St SE

Marge & Darrel Gordon

35th Ct SE

Tai Family

Rainier Ridge – Lea Hill

We also especially want to recognize and thank the following businesses/organizations and individuals for their support of this year’s National Night Out events: • Auburn Youth Council & Stephanie Luka • Auburn Police Department & Volunteers • Valley Regional Fire Authority • Fred Meyer • Sam’s Club • Waste Management 516211

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