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Cleanup continues after costly storm BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Storm over, mess lingers. Getting out from under the debris will take time, Auburn Public Works Director Dennis Dowdy said Monday as he briefed City leaders on where things stand with recovery efforts from the storm that started Jan. 17.
JEREMIAH’S JOURNEY
Then and now: Ann Worden’s crowning moment as Miss Auburn was captured in the Auburn Globe-News in April 1963. MARK KLAAS,
Auburn teacher hopes to walk again after paralyzing fall SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter
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tree, on a 40-foot ridge by Buck Creek Campground off state Route 410 near Crystal Mountain, Carter volunteered to climb up and cut the tree down. “It didn’t really seem dangerous, the way the hillside was,” Carter said. He recalls cutting the tree and watching it tumble down the hillside to where the cars were parked. He doesn’t remember falling. “The next thing I remember, really, is lying on the ground
with my hands crossed on my chest,” he said. “And my uncle and my cousin talking to me. There was a lot of pain.” After the tree fell, Carter slipped and followed it down the rocky hillside, sustaining four broken ribs and shattering vertebrae around his spinal cord. Although he was in searing pain, Carter said he realized one thing instantly: he couldn’t feel his legs. “I knew right away when I was laying there on the hillside, I knew I couldn’t feel or move my legs,” he said. “They just kept telling me not to move, don’t do anything. I was in so much pain that was pretty easy advice to take.”
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First Miss Auburn recalls shining moment BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@auburn-reporter.com
As a young, idealistic and naive teenager, Ann Worden didn’t expect much to happen when she stepped onto the bright stage in the spring of 1963. A beauty pageant wasn’t exactly a fitting court of play for an athletic, 18-year-old girl, who preferred swinging a swift tennis racket to moving gracefully in a chiffon dress.
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But the congenial, pretty Auburn High School senior surprised everybody. “I didn’t expect to win at all. I (signed up) to get out of a class,” Worden said with a smile, followed by a burst of laughter. [ more WORDEN page 8 ]
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It was an ordinary trip, a quick jaunt up into the mountains the day after Thanksgiving to get a Christmas tree for his cousin. Just like Mount Baker algebra teacher Jeremiah Carter, 36, had been doing for years. “We just go out and find a tree every year and cut it down,” Carter said. “That’s just the way it goes.” An avid outdoorsman, skier, snowboarder and hiker with hours of experience outdoors, Carter – who hiked Mount Rainier’s 94-mile long Wonderland Trail as a teen – is no stranger to potential danger when climbing. After finding the perfect
With my legs not working, I guess I haven’t come to a point of acceptance. – Jeremiah Carter
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“We are still in the accounting mode, trying to come up with how much the storm cost us. But we are beginning to get a good handle on that, and I anticipate that we’ll be in recovery for at least one more week, recovering storm debris,” Dowdy said. As of Monday, Dowdy said, [ more CLEANUP page 3 ]