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Dream center makes impact BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
When Rick Cameron, lunch in hand, paid a cold call on the Auburn motel room that day, he didn’t know what he would find on the
other side of the door. Turned out to be a small, 6-yeargirl, in dirty rags. And in the room beyond, her mother, unable even to answer the door. The 35-year-old woman showed the ghastly gray pallor and rotting teeth of a hard-
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core meth addict. Cameron, executive director of the South Sound Dream Center at 1420 Auburn Way S., an outreach organization, offered mother and daughter lunch. [ more CENTER page 3 ]
Larry Doll holds a sketch of himself as a young GI who survived the early days of the Korean War more than 60 years ago. MARK KLAAS, Auburn Reporter
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Korean War veteran survived ambush, early battles, and returned home BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@auburn-reporter.com
Knot easy
Valley Regional Fire Authority firefighter Johan Friis shows Cub Scout Brandon Black how to tie a knot during last week’s second annual Scout Night at Fire Station 33. Boy and Girl Scouts from the Auburn, Pacific and Algona area joined firefighters to tour the fire station and learn fire safety lessons, basic first aid training, pet first aid, knot tying and information on how to prepare for a disaster. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
Lending a voice to ‘theater of the mind’ Radio personality Riemer grew up, got his start in Auburn BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com
For more than 30 years, Marty Riemer has brought a smooth, comfortable and steady voice to radio stations throughout the Puget Sound.
Riemer began his on-air career as a precocious teenager on Green River Community College’s KGRG 89.9 FM. He has gone on to sustain a presence as a popular personality on local stations, including stints at
KZOK, KJR, KXRX and most recently, KMTT The Mountain 103.7 FM, where he occupies the 2-6 p.m. drive-time slot. Along the way, Riemer has witnessed the changing face of the medium, from the decline of AM [ more RIEMER page 10 ]
It was a lost battle in The Forgotten War. Yet Auburn’s Larry Doll remembers the horrific, frontline firefight all too well. Even now, more than 60 years later, he struggles to describe the carnage. “The 6th crack division of North Koreans was there, and they just sucked us into a tunnel,” Doll recalled of the fierce battle played out on the Korean Peninsula on July 27, 1950. “It was (hell). … It was an ambush.” Doll – a wide-eyed, frightened teen in the U.S. Army infantry – somehow survived
An Auburn tradition – the nationally recognized Veterans Day Parade – returns to the streets Saturday. Flags, families and thousands of veterans will line Main Street for the mile-long parade, which begins at 11 a.m. It will proceed west on [ more VETERANS page 4 ]
the skirmish and fought his way out of the South Korean village. Many of his buddies did not. Historically, the Hadong Ambush is a neglected footnote in the early chapters of the Korean War. Unprepared for combat, American forces – specifically the Army’s undermanned [ more DOLL page 4 ]
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