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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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This little piggy went to charity By Brian Beckley Staff Writer
For the past several months visitors to Bonney Lake Police Chief Mike Mitchell’s office have been greeted by a large, blue pig with a Seahawks logo painted on the side, wearing a scarf.
“It’s drawn a lot of question,” Mitchell said with a laugh. “I think it would have been invited to several tailgate parties this year.” But the chief has other plans for the giant plastic porker: He is
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Bonney Lake police chief Mike Mitchell poses with the pig he bought at a fundraiser for the mayor and donated to Seattle Children’s Hospital. Photo by Brian Beckley
Sumner teachers start year without contract
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Jaden Kent, 11, checks out the size on her Sumner Middle School gym uniform at a student check-in day Aug. 31 accompanied by her mother, Stacie, wearing pink. Left, science teacher Martina Scheerer serves a hot dog to an incoming student at the back-to-school barbecue at Daffodil Elementary School. Classes begin today, Wednesday, in the Sumner School District.
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School started Tuesday, business-as-usual. Teachers welcomed students into their classrooms to begin another year of education. But there was an important difference, sight-unseen: those teachers were not working under contract. The most recent employment contract between teacher representative Sumner Education Association and the Sumner School District expired with the close of August, after being drafted three years before. It’s a story not-at-all unique to Sumner after state lawmak-
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