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Council candidates face off By ROBERT WHALE
rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Four candidates for Auburn City Council met Tuesday night at the Auburn Avenue Theater for a debate co-sponsored by the Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce and the Auburn Reporter.
Presenting sharp contrasts between each other yet sometimes finding common ground, incumbent Virginia Haugen squared off with her challenger John Hayes Holman in the race for Position 5, while retired air traffic controller Wayne Osborne and locksmith Frank Lonergan described their qualifications
Frank Lonergan, a candidate for City Council Position No. 7, gestures while making a point during the debate. CHARLES CORTES,
and ideas for Position 7. The candidates answered prepared questions about their plans for funding street repair and construction, presented their ideas for economic development, their opinions about red light photo [ more DEBATE page 5 ]
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Rottle reflects on close call at Reno air tragedy By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com
Door to door
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Starbucks shift supervisor Daniel Peterson, left, and Pioneer Elementary employee Cameo Warner paint classroom doors last Saturday during a volunteer community service day. More than 40 volunteers, including Starbucks employees, managers, customers, teachers, parents and former students worked together to beautify the school campus. Story, page 19. CHARLES CORTES, Auburn Reporter
Man charged with attempted murder in stabbing of wife
By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Joan Goodwillie said her husband told her he had met someone else, wouldn’t divorce her because he “wanted the money” and was going to kill her. According to court papers, the 78-year-old man then picked
up an ax handle, smashed his 67-year-old wife on the head several times with it, seized a knife she’d been holding to defend herself and cut her throat. Court papers say that Jerold Goodwillie pursued his bleeding wife outside and stabbed her three times in the back where she’d col-
The crash happened in the blink of eye, too quick for an awestruck spectator to react. “I yelled, ‘My God, he’s going to crash,” Don Rottle said. In a matter of seconds, Rottle – the retired general manager and owner of Auburn’s Rottles Department Store – went from being an onlooker at just another Reno, Nev., air race to being a witness to a tragedy that claimed 11 people, including the pilot, and injured dozens more on Sept. 16. “I was in the box seats with my friends and I watched the airplane above me, but he was
lapsed on the lawn. The King County Prosecutor’s office on Tuesday charged the Auburn man with second-degree attempted murder for what it alleges was a premeditated attack. He will be arraigned Oct. 18 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. His wife, who
erratic and somewhat out of control,” said the 85-year-old Rottle, a private pilot for more than 60 years who has attended the Nevada air championships on 32 occasions since 1969. “(The plane) immediately made him go almost vertical and consequently he probably blacked out and rolled over, heading out over the grandstands, not meaning to do that, of course.” One moment the “Galloping Ghost” – a World War II-era P-51D Mustang – was racing around the course, banking into a steep left turn and heading toward the home pylon, which was directly in front of Rottle’s box seat. [ more ROTTLE page 6 ]
sustained life threatening injuries in the assault, is recovering. Auburn police detective Aaron Williams’ account, the basis for the charge, is as follows: About 1:30 p.m. a neighbor called 911 to report having seen a man drive down the street in [ more STABBING page 6 ]
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