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Police investigate possible murder/suicide STAFF REPORTS
The Auburn Police Department is investigating a possible domestic murder/suicide in the 900 block of 12th Street Southeast. According to Auburn Police Commander Jamie Sidell, officers
were sent to the apartment on Tuesday after someone called 911 to report seeing a body inside the residence. Police arrived at 1 p.m. and found a deceased older couple of Asian descent, their names have not been released.
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Sidell said the police are not actively pursuing any suspects in the case. “A warrant was served and we’ve collected our evidence,” Sidell said. “There are no suspects [ more POLICE page 3 ]
Buena Vista develops close ties with South Korean students BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@auburn-reporter.com
An Auburn school has reached far to forge a close friendship with students from South Korea. A “sisterhood” – an exchange of educational and cultural opportunities – has brought together administrators, teachers and students from Buena Vista Elementary
Don Gardner has come full circle as a longtime fixture in the music business. SHAWN SKAGER,
Collection Curator Hilary Pittenger ponders what to do with this horse-drawn sleigh, one of the seldom-seen artifacts resting in the storeroom at the White River Valley Museum. ROBERT WHALE, Auburn Reporter
MUSEUM’S MANY MISFITS WRVM collects its share of odd thing-a-ma-jigs BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Here an old wooden wheelchair, there a child’s sewing machine, way up there a farm gizmo, and that … uh, dunno what that did. In the White River Valley Museum’s storeroom are stowed the riches of Auburn’s ages, bits
of flotsam and jetsam cast up on the shores of time by the people who came before. The collection includes oddities the public hardly ever sees because they don’t easily fit into exhibits. Granted, a can of oil for a Hammond organ is historical, but is it something people are eager to come and see? Is there an audience for a can of Acme brand embalming fluid? Yet, there they are. What to do with them? Step into the collective attic of the community, Collection Curator Hilary Pittenger’s domain, a kingdom of old furniture, stiff
crinoline dresses and shelves crammed with curios of bygone days. First stop – testimony to the city’s colorful railroad past – a cart bearing beautifully wrought Northern Pacific dining car china. Not a whole set. “We don’t really know where it was used,” Pittenger said. Next to the cart is a fullyequipped Northern Pacific first-aid kit, graced with an unlikely yin-yang symbol. Nestling nearby are railroad semaphore [ more ODDITIES page 15 ]
Adventist School and Youngnam Sahmyook Academy in Daegu, South Korea. The relationship has had an immediate, positive impact on young lives. “It broadens their understanding of the diversity of the world they live in,” said Buena Vista Principal Ron Trautwein, who was part of an Auburn delegation that visited South Korea in late September. “They see that diversity and have a greater appreciation for it.” Trautwein joined student ambassador, Connor Hubin, [ more BUENA VISTA page 4 ]
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Music store man stays in harmony with customers BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com
For 35 years, Don’s Green River Music has been a constant in Auburn. From its meager beginnings on Auburn Way in 1976 to its heyday in the 1990s, when the “big store” on West Main Street was the largest retailer of musical instruments in South King County, owner Don Gardner has provided local musicians instruments, service and more. “One of the elements I really
enjoy about the business is just having conversations with customers,” he said. “Having been here for as many years … there’s rarely a day that goes by that I don’t have somebody come in here and say hi.” Gardner, 67, and the store have come full circle, having moved back to its original location on Auburn Way. It started for Gardner in the late ‘60s, when he was working at the Boeing plant in Everett, [ more GARDNER page 5 ]
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