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No explosive devices found at either school; students wanted to get out of going to class
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Weather Today, Wednesday, should bring mostly clouds with a chance of showers and highs in the mid40s. The weekend looks partly sunny with highs in the low-40s. For details go to: www.blscourierherald.com click on weather
Coming Up The holiday season brings early deadlines to the offices of The Courier-Herald, so news items will need to be submitted a full week in advance of publication for the Dec. 28 and Jan. 4 editions. Things will return to normal in early January, meaning weekend events, including sports, will appear in the print edition.
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Crime analyst Laura Miller shops for Christmas gifts with a student Dec. 10 at Target as part of the 2011 Shop With A Cop program. This year, the Bonney Lake Police Department was able to take 21 local kids shopping, thanks to more than $2,500 raised through community donations. This year was the largest Shop With a Cop event in the history of the program. Photo courtesy David Wells.
The Sumner School District this past week had to lock down two schools following bomb threats made at Bonney Lake High School Dec. 13 and Mountain View Middle School Dec. 16. No explosives were found during searches of the schools and no one was injured. Two Bonney Lake High School students were arrested after
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New Year’s Eve event supports Nepal orphans By Brian Beckley Staff Writer
For her first trip out of the country, Laura Handy-Nimick of Lake Tapps visited the mountainous Asian nation of Nepal to volunteer at a home for orphans. During her time there, HandyNimick lived at a hostel, staying with the children at the Nepal Orphans Home, many of whom had been rescued from slavery.
“I shared a room with 14 8- to 16-year-old girls,” she said. But even when she left Nepal, she found that the images of the poor children she met never left her. “When I came home, I couldn’t get it out of my mind,” she said of the region’s poverty and need. Handy-Nimick, a teacher in the Bethel School District, said the
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Laura Handy-Nimick and her husband Justin Nimick pose among students at the Nepal Orphans Home. Photo courtesy Laura Handy-Nimick.
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